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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. 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