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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.” Consistency Is what counts most in a drug For 365 days in the year you’ll find our store A Dependable Store Quality Drugs, Reliable Goods, Prompt Service, Honest Dealings Prescriptions FTlled by Experts Full Line of Toilet Articles, Drugs, Cigars, Tobacco, Stationery and Drug Sundries Get PURE TANLAC Here SLATON DRUG CO. Jackson, Georgia ~he Store lie Guarantee Luzianne Coffee will satisfy 7.11% you in every respect. We WiT yzUjiM further guarantee that one \ J pound of Luzianne will go as 'A / JjM far as two pounds of cheaper w coffee. If, after using the en- 4 ~ tire contents of one can ac- pfg cording to directions, you are not absolutely gg|| satisfied on both these points, throw the empty can away and get your money back from the grocer. 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