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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and I’ub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter at the
post otlice at Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. IG6.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
notice
Cards of thanks will be charged at
the rate of fifty c* nts, minimum for 50
words and less; above 50 words will
lie charged at the rate of 1 cent a word.
Obituaries will lx; charged for at tin*
rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac
company copy in all instances.
Girard, Alabama certainly be
lieved in liquid preparedness.
It’s not boosting some towns
need, but funerals, funerals.
It is hinted that the moonshine
will be steadier, if not brighter,
this season.
This seems to be a good year
for solicitors to prosecute politi
cal ambitions.
With four candidates in the
field it ought not to be hard to
start something.
Governor Nat Harris is holding
his own even with four candi
dates in the field.
We have plenty of candidates
for governor but where’s the gin
ger and snap that was promised?
Harris, Hardman, Dorsey, Pot
tle—any other gubernatorial can
didates waiting to be heard from?
A race for congress between
Walter Wise and Judge Bartlett
would add considerable interest to
the political situation.
The fate of Verdun, the end of
the European war, the Mexican
crisis, the Japanese menace, pre
paredness, the tariff, the next
president—these questions have
been settled with entire finality
toy the young commencement de
baters and essayists.
Save your voice and stop pound
ing the typewriter, you state road
sale and anti-sale advocates.
There is a mighty able commis
sion handling the entire matter
of the W. &A. road. Keep cool.
Don’t get excited or lose any
sleep over the question—not at
least until the commission makes
a recommendation, dies or quits.
SOME PROHIBITION TIPS
It's against the law to “set a
fellow up” to anything that has
more than one-half of one per
cent of alcohol in it—except in
the sacred precincts of one sown
home. It is also against the law
to have in possession more than
two quarts of whiskey posses
sion is prima facie evidence of ti
gering. Nor can one receive li
quor in pint bottles—tnere must
be quarts—one or two quarts, no
more, and it must be in full quart
bottles. Four pints is evidence
of violation of law and means
conviction of tigering if the case
fa triql
THE CASH SYSTEM BEST
The Progress-Argus. of Jack
son. Ga., edited by J. Doyle Jones
has just announced that they will
place Iheir subscription on a cash
basis beginning June Ist. The
evidence of progress shown by
this paper not only in this an
nouncement which no doubt wili
prove successful in placing this
splendid paper on a much better
business basis, but the support
given to it by the wide awake
merchants of Jackson is a splen
did evidence of their civic enter
prise and co-operation with the
medium that should always mean
much to a community.—Cochran
Journal.
THEPRINTER’S TROUBLES
Just a little over a year ago,
the metal used for casting such a
line of type as you are now read
ing cost 8 cents a pound. The
Gazette office unpacked a lot to
day invoiced at 17J cents.
Newspaper is S2O a ton higher
i than it was in May, 1915. A blue
i ink used in job printing, which
j cost $3 a pound, less 25 per cent
i one year ago, is now $4 a pound,
! net.
And these are only samples.
This prosperity we are having in
war-time is certainly expensive
to the printers. And so far no
newspapers except a few of the
weeklies that were too cheap to
begin with, have raised their pri
ces, either for subscription or ad
vertising. The difference comes
out of their profits—and many of
them were not making money be
fore the war began.—Tifton Ga
zette.
HIGH COST OF 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, movement or
propaganda. The matter has
reached the point where it is
not only a burden but a nui
sance. Some better method
for handling charity ought
to be devised. For one thing,
every community ought to
take care of its own charity
and not shift that burden to
some other section. Every
city should have a central or- 1
ganization, an associated
charities, supported by thepeo
ple, to whom all cases should
be referred for examination.
If found worthy, help should
be extended; if not, help
should be withheld.
It is a big problem. But
something should be done.
The business element would
welcome a solution of the
question. —Jackson Progress-
Argus.
Brother Jones, this is hammer
ing on the right line. Few peo
ple have an adequate idea of the
immense amount of misdirected
charity dispensed by our people
who are generally responsive to
the appeal of the apparently dis
tressed. Fake beggars have been
driven out of many of our larger
THE OLD RELIABLE
ROYAL
BAKING POWDER
Absolutely Pure
MADE FROM CREAM OF TARTAR
cities to be scattered throughout
the country. Our little city has
been infested with them- No
doubt some are genuine, but
there should be some well organ
ized system prepared to take care
of all worthy distressed and in
digent people, so that every dol
lar given should be properly util
zed and none misdirected. There
is more than enough real distress
for every cent dispensed. — Coch
ran Journal.
METHOD FOR FIGHTING
THE BOLL WEEVIL
On account of the advent of
the foil weevil and the serious
situation that confronts the Geor
gia farmer, especiallyjin the south
ern portion of the state this year,
we are profiting by the experience
of others and hand you herewith
some valuable information, says
the Georgia Department of Agri
culture, which we think is the
best and easiest method to com
bat the boll weevil that we have
seen. This information is copied
in part from a letter issued by
the Alabama department of agri
culture, which department has
for years been studying condi
tions along this line:
The boll weevil will begin to
appear upon small cotton plants
in South and Middle Georgia
about the middle of May.
“From early morning until the
hot part of the day, the weevil will
be found sitting on the bud of the
plants. Occasionally the bud is in
jured or the leaf punctured, turn
ing black resembling frost bite.
This is a sign that the weevil is on
the plant or has left it and is on
another plant near by. This is the
time to annihilate the weevils by
picking them from the buds of the
plants and destroying them while
the plants are small, affording no
hiding places, while the weevils
are then fewer in number, and no
squares are present to be infected
and the work can be done at least
cost. This is called an ounce of
preventative and the phychological
moment to accomplish the greatest
amount of good w ith the least labor
and cost.
“While chopping cotton, labor
should be instructed to watch care
fully the buds of the plants and
destroy any weevils they may find.
Children are even grown people
may be employed to go over the
fields, one row at a time, looking
straight at the bud of every plant
and a small premium may be offer
ed for the capture of the weevils by
the hundred. This should be done
when the cotton has about four to
six leaves. For every weevil de
stroyed you can save a hundred or
more squares and in the long run
probably thousands of squares are
saved that this one weevil or her in
crease would have destroyed. This
weevil picking should be done at a
cost of alxmt 25 cents per acre, if
done at the proper time.
“When the first blooms begin to
appear the few weevils not found
at the time you picked weevils will
have infested a few squares that
turn yellow and fall to the ground
in spots here and there. These
squares contain larvae and will
hatch out weevils. To pick up and
burn this first small crop of fallen
squares will cost from 25 to 50 cents
per acre if done at the proper time,
but saves the entire crop. It puts
the weevils so nearly out of busi
ness that it will take until the mid
dle of August for them to multiply
in sufficient numbers to do much
damage, bv which time a good crop
will be safely in boll. The cost of
picking the weevil and picking up
the first crop of fallen squares need
not exceed 70 cents per acre, if done
at the proper time, shallow, fre
quent cultivation should be extend
' ed until the middle of August.”
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