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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a . Year,
Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Da.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
GIVE IT A TRIAL
The new prohibition laws, which
went into effect Monday, are the
most drastic ever passed by any
state and should make Georgia
dry as a bone.
There is no room for evasion,
quibbling or compromise. If the
officers do their duty Georgia will
be a dry state.
Regardless of your convictions
in the matter, regardless of
whether you approve or disap
prove of the new measure, it is
the duty of every citizen to up
hold the law. Enforce the new
prohibition laws without fear or
favor. Georgia should give the
new lnw a fair, thorough, strict,
rigid and uncompromising test.
We believe that the officers in
Butts county will enforce the law
to the letter. Nothing more could
be asked.
How’s vour thirst?
Throat parched yet?
The day will now start off with
out any morning’s morning.
At any rate Jim Smith had a
long connection, it not a good
one.
Prof. Snider’s April showers
fell short. They didn’t reach
here.
Forty thousand persons paid
$91,000 for grand opera in Atlan
ta. But that’s their business.
Savannah says she will act just
like the rest of Georgia and go
dry. There’s room for reform.
If Jim Smith could wake up
and hear all that has beeh said
about him he’d probably faint.
How’s the blackberry crop?
This is another important ques
tion that looms up large just now\
There’s this consolation to the
leap year girls: It is better to
have proposed and been refused
than never to have proposed at
all.
The opinion has been advanced
that the letter “e” is the most un
fortunate letter in the English
alphabet, because it is always out
of cash, forever in debt, never
out of danger and is in hell all
the time. It is fortunate in that
it is never in war and always in
peace. It is the begin ing of ex
istence. the commencement of
ease and the end of trouble. With
out it. there would be no meat,
no life and no heaven. It is the
center of honesty, and makes love
perfect. It also starts off in error,
and printing, publishing, typo
graphy and lithography can get
along without it. although it is
necessary in electrotyping, en
graving and typefounding. It is
the beginning and end of edito
rial existence. —American Print
er.
Progress-Argus Places Subscription
on Cash Basis, Beginning June 1
On account of the sensational advance in the cost of paper, The
Progress-Argus will, beginning June 1, 1916, adopt the strictly
cash-in-advance system for all subscriptions. We wore forced to
either do this or raise the subscription price to $1.50 a year. Un
less conditions in the paper market improve it may yet become nec
essary to advance the subscription price to 81.50.
Because, it is said, of the European war print paper of all kinds
has advanced in price from 50 to 100 per cent. Newspapers have
been hard hit; the country journals most of all. Self preservati6n,
the survival of the fittest are forcing the weekly newspapers to
place their subscription on a sounder basis.
The credit system, bad for any business, has nearly put weekly
papers to the wall. The cash system is best for the subscriber and
best for the paper. The paper can put forth greater effort, can is
sue a larger, better paper, can serve the community more faithful
fully when it has the cash to put into the business. The subscriber
can pay for what he gets and get what he pays for It is a game
two can play and nobody loses.
Subscribers, under the present haphazard, .run-down-at-the
heel system, are divided into several classes. Some pay promptly,
some pay when reminded of it, some get as mad as a wet hen when
they receive a statement, some get a year or two in arrears and
mark the paper “refused,” and some never pay. The editor knows
them all. He has them indexed and catalogued.
Under the cash system everybody will be on an equal footing.
Every man must toe the mark.
We don’t doubt any man’s honesty. It is simply a matter of
cold, hard, common, horse sense to collect newspaper subscriptions
in advance. A dollar in the bank helps to buy paper, oil the ma
chinery, repair rollers, replace worn out type, meet payrolls—but
a printer’s dollars, scattered from Yucatan to Maine to Hong Kong,
as per the present system, are about as valuable as a last year’s
bird nest.
The subscribers themselves will like the cash-in-advance plan
better. A large number have so stated. In fact a considerable
percentage of our readers now pay in advance for their paper, but
it is the fellow who doesn’t pay that will be affected by the cash plan.
The Progress-Argus is putting forth every effort to serve this
community better than any newspaper has done before. We want
the paper to be representative of Jackson and Butts countv. Ev
ery issue put out stamps the community for what it is. A town or
county is judged by the newspaper it turns out. We want the co
operation of the citizens, and we would hate to lose a single sub
scriber but after June 1 The Progress-Argus will enforce the cash
subscription plan rigidly, honestly and impartially.
If your subscription is not paid it will be to your advantage to
investigate this matter.
FOR HOME BAKING
ROYAL
BAKING POWDER
Absolutely Pure
THE GREATEST BAKE-DAY HELP
No Alum —No Phosphate
If Hugh Dorsey runs for gov
ernor he may not be elected, hut
he will at least put some ginger,
pep, snap and interest in the cam
paign.
Mayor Jim Woodward says a
lot of people in Atlanta don’t
know B. from bull’s foot about
grand opera. The old man may
not be far wrong at that.
A WORD FOR MOTHERS
It is a grave mistake for motile/* to neg
lect their aches and pains and suffer m
sileuev —this only leads to chronic sick
ness and often shortens life.
If your w rk is tiring; if your nerves are
excitable; if you feel languid, weary or
depressed, you should know that Scott’s
Emulsion vercotnes just such conditions.
It possesses in concentrated form the
very elements to invigorate \he blood,
strengthen the tissues, nourish the nerves
and build strength.
Scott’s is strengthening thousands of
mothers— and will help you. No alcohol*
Scott it Bowne. Bloomfield. N. I.
The careless s,niter is a pul no
danger.
COLORS LIKELY TO FADE
WHEN ONE SETS WET
Atlanta, Ga., May 4. —If you—
man or woman —get caught in the
rain and find that the color runs
or tades in your new suit be a
sport and don’t complain to the
tailor or merchant you got it
from. It can’t be helped—it’s
the horrors of war. The national
association of clothiers has just
sent out a statement, which has
been received in Atlanta, warn
ing all purchasers that colors in
garments can no longer be guaran
teed, and “they must learn to
accept the situation as one over
which no mill, manufacturers or
retailer can exercise control.”
The American output of aniline
dyes is still far too small to sup
ply the lack of german dyes.
And some of the Amercan ani
lines. because of the undeveloped
state of the industry and the
haste with which manufacturers
have tried to meet the demand,
are inferior to the “fast” German
Consistency
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For 365 days in the year you’ll find our
store
A Dependable Store
Quality Drugs, Reliable Goods,
Prompt Service, Honest
Dealings
Prescriptions
Filled by Experts
Full Line of
Toilet Articles, Drugs, Cigars,
Tobacco, Stationery and
Drug Sundries
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Parts of an Automobile
with the same skill as we restore
the heavier portions of the car. Our
dyes.
Eventually the trouble will be
ended bv the renewal of imports
or bv the adequate response of
the American dye industry.
Meanwhile there’s nothing for
the consumer to do but grin and
bear it.
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Tells What She Thinks
Anna Hawn, Cedar Grove. Mo.,
writes: “We think Foley Carthartic
Tablets are the best liver pill we ever
got hold of, as they do not nauseate or
grille, but act freely on the liver.”
Recommended for constipation, bloat
ing. sour stomach, bad breath, clogged
or irregular bowel action. The Owl
Pharmacy, adv.