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f Jackson Progress - Argus j Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter at the post oflice at Jackson, Oa. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. You butter vour bread when you boost for Butts. “SWEET CHARITY” -AND CHARITY The high cost of taxes and the high cost of living are not any more burdensome than the high cost of charity. Hardly a day passes but the merchants and business men are called upon to contribute to some cause, move ment or propaganda. The matter has reached the point where it is not only a burden but a nuisance. Some better method for handling charity ought to be devised. For onething, every community ought to take care of its own charity and not shift that burden to some other section. Every city should have a cen tral organization, an associated charities, supported by the people, to whom all cases should be re ferred for examination. If found worthy, help should be extended; if not, help should be withheld. It is a big problem. But some thing should be done. The busi ness element would welcome a solution of the question. Have you got any snake bite medicine in your little cellar? Now is a Rood time to walk in and help out with the county fair. Your help is needed. Jackson is a good town, and will be a better town when every body pulls together all the time. The convention in Macon was a harmonious affair, the steam rol ler having been absent this time. So Hugh Dorsey is in the race for governor. He may not be elected, but Mr. Dorsey will put life in the campaign. “Cellar preparedness” was very much in evidence, judging from some of the raids the offi cers are making in the cities. With the grand old buttermilk, the delicious potlicker and Indian Springs’ health-giving water to draw from, the dry law didn’t even hit us. From the information being brought out in Washington it ap pears that the L. & N. has its share of skeletons in the well known closet. Congressman J. W. Wise will be re-elected without opposition. The sixth district has a most able and active representative on the job at Washington. Great is the convention season. For the next few' weeks conven tions big, little and indifferent will be held in all parts of the state. Indian Springs, Butts countv’s famous health resort, win ciuerutin a targe nuiuOci ui gatherings this season. 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 cas’n-in-advance system for all subscriptions. We were 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 $1.50. 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 preservation, the survival of the fittest are forcing the weekly newspapers to place their subscription on a sounder basis. The credit system, bad for anv 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 pav 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 wiil 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. Royal Baking Powder Absolutely Pure Made from Cream of Tartar Derived from drapes From the way officers have been raiding blind tigers in va rious portions of the state, a pret ty sizeable supply of jag juice had been stored aw r ay against a dry day. Publicity will be one of the most effective aids in enforcing the new prohibition law. The fact that the records are open for pub lic inspection will make many a fellow hesitate before ordering his quota of booze, wine or beer. Great is publicity. RHEUMATISM ARRESTED ' Many people suffer the tortures of mie muscles and atiffened joints because i t impurities iu the blood, and each suc cding attack seems more acute until uinatism has invaded the whole system. To arrest rheumatism it is quite as im -1 • • tant to improve your general health as • urifyyour blood, ami the cod liver oil • ott’sßmulsionisnature’sfjreatblood • ;er. while its medicinal nourishment .•!);Athens the organs to expel the ■I rities ami upbuild your strength. firOruncr nU* ii day who could not find other relief. Refuse the alcoholic substitutes. After all, a white man with a tax receipt is all that is necessary to vote in the state primary. The “traitors” were not punished so you could notice it, Judge Reagan notwithstanding. Unless the war ends during the next few months there will be a lot of people disappointed. Every man has his own idea about it, and one man’s opinion is worth as much as another’s. It would have been a mistake, a serious mistake, to have forced a voter to subscribe to an oath to support the nominees of the party. [The state executive committee ! frowned down such an attempt, and it is well that it did. The Atlanta Georgian and the Atlanta Journal are against the sale of the state road. The Macon Telegraph and August a Chronicle want the state road sold. The weekly papers are pretty well di vided on the question. The fact that Statesboro and Bullcch county has raised $150,- 000 for a packing plant is a most progressive step and stamps that county as one of the state’s most wide-awake sections. The people of that section are preparing to fight the boll weevil with hog raising on a large scale. The Sunday observance laws are being enforced all over the state. Our idea is that if you enforce one law, enforce them all. It is just as much harm to sell gasoline on Sunday as it is to sell cifcais oi coca-cola. —Greensboro Herald-Journal. 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