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Jackson Progress - Argns Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONES, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Jackson, Ga. Telephone No. 166. Official Organ Butts County And the City of Jackson. NOTICE • Girds of thanks will be charged at Ihe rate of fifty minimum for 50 words and less; above 50 words will 1* charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Obituaries will be charged for at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac company copy in all instances. Send both Eichelberger and Tom Felder to Mexico. Wonder what Prof. Snider has to say about a dry July now? Tanlac users are gaining about as much as the armies in Europe. Macon is causing cold chills to run up Atlanta’s spine over the capital removal. The devil was a knocker and that was the reason he was kick ed out of heaven. Dorsey may be down and out, but he is drawing the crowds and arousing the enthusiasm. Since the United States has 21.071,076 men of military age we don’t blamo Carranza for watching his step. “The Fighting Fifth” won its title fighting flies, mosquitoes and the hookworm and not by any real scrapping. The Anti-Saloon League is hav ing a row within its own ranks. This will hurt the cause of real prohibition tremendously. The Atlanta Constitution says there is no danger of Macon ever being the capital of Georgia. Well, we would like to see what the voters have to say about the matter. If the worst comes to the worst in Mexico, it will be the hillbillies who will bear the brunt of the fighting and not the “Fighting Fifth.” The people ought to elect their governor this year. If the nomi nation is made by the politicians in the convention there is no tell ing who will win. A new issue has appeared in politics. It is the tick. —DeKalb New Era. A little dipping now and then will help. A lot of beefing, bulling and bellyaching is mostly for political effect. Jackson Progress-Argus. We understand you. We have a few slices in good old DeKalb. DeKalb New Era. Valdosta Times. Over 12,000 head of cattle were dippedin Brookscounty duringthe month of April, and over 13.000 were dipped in June. These fig ures show that there are people over in Brooks who own cattle and who are not opposed to dip ping them to get rid of the ticks. The farmer who opposes tick eradication is the farmer who is not going to be prepared to deal with the boll weevil when the latter pest gets busy.—Albany Herald. He’ll be the farmer with a mortgage on his farm and on his crop, an empty smokehouse and THE NEW CIRCUIT The Henry County Weekly, published at McDonough. J. A. Fouche editor, is in favor of the proposed new judicial circuit to be known as the Indian Springs circuit. Here is what it says: So far as The Weekly hears, the only opposition to the bill comes from the Griffin News and Sun, which simply states it is tooth and toenail againstthe bill, seem ing not to know just what the said “tooth and toenail” opposi tion is—unless, forsooth, it only be to make the Flint circuit smaller. And this is exactly what would facilitate court business, thereby being for the public good of all counties in both circuits, as the calendars now remain clogged from term to term, with no pros pect of improvement. Indeed it is rarely possible to try a case promptly, and litigations are of ten worn out with continuances. If the News and Sun will take time to investigate (which it frankly states has not been done) possibly it will discover its mis take and get right. Present prospects for the new circuit are fine, It would simply tend to clear dockets, help busi ness and hurt no one. Let it come. ARE YOU WORTH WHILE? Are you merely existing in your community or are you living in it? Are you doing anything for its benefit or are you simplv making your living from it? Are you a builder or in you a parasite? * In other words, Are you worth while? Do you justify your existence by helping your fellow man ? Are you a church worker or a club worker or a civic welfare worker? Are you a worker at all? True, you are making a living. The mosquito and the flv do that. But they are not assets to the community. If you do more than make a living you are of no value, either. You are in the class with the fly and the mosquito. People swat the fly and the mosquito. If you do nothing, the day may come when they will swat you, too. And they will swat you hard. You won’t be able to “come back,” The only men and women for whom this planet has room are the people who do things. For them the choicest gift on earth and resolve. Honor and glory are theirs. They are the chosen of the world. Get busy. Step out of the class of the fly. Do something. Be worth while. —Houston Post. WHY HE DOESN’T ADVER TISE , (From The Cincinnati Enquirer.) “Why don’t you advertise?” asked the editor of the home pa per. “Don’t you believe in ad vertising?” “I’m agin advertising:,” replied the proprietor of the Hiyville Store. “But why are you against it?” asked the editor. “It keeps a feller too darn busy,” replied the proprietor. “I advertised in a newspaper one time about ten years ago and I never even got time to go fishing. ” TELEPHONE MANNERS If a person rings the front door bell he is not supposed to ask “Who are you?” of the one who answers the summons. Yet this is practically what is done when a telephone caller greets the res ponding “Hello” with “Who is this?” Thvre are so manv little annoyances in telephone usage, but this is perhaps one of the most provoking. To be called to the phone and then asked to estab lish indentity is calculated to un balance the equanimity, especially of a busy person. Telephone practice is after alllargely a mat ter of manners, notwithstanding the separation in distance of the corn crib, with all the fences down, the gates off the hinges and the bucket in the well—and nobody home. —Cordtle Dispatch. Georgia Railroads Pay More Than Half Thtlr Grots Revenue to the People In Labor, Wages and Taxes It is atrfohitely imperative that the freight rates within the State of jffa be re/iMJa tt the hearing on August 17th so that they may be applied to intrastate crftmerct in a way which will not discriminate against in ten-two commerce. This in a requirement not only of the Interstate Commerce Commission, but in the Shftveport Cate relativo to the Texas rates, was required by the Su preme the United 9tates. The proposed Georgia revision contemplates an increase in some existiaf rates, but it atoo brings about a reduction in other rates. Should fbo revision Increase the revenue of the railroads it would not bo unretsonabife lor tho Georgia Railroad Commits ion to grant it and so permit too Railroads of (Georgia to maintain tho preoent high standard of sorvice ana ho improve an&oxtend thodr fedUtko. The RHlroads have already shown that they are operating on rates OhMitkUy loop* than fhoae promulgated hi 1880;.that tne average prfco of XJ necessary aitkks in daily we has increaoed more than 77 per cent since 19H: that the incased cost has not been offset by increased revenue or increaosi efficiency, IBf spite of every effort known to human ingenuity in connection with the edaomieal operation of railroads. The roMwmdo mv pveeeMt ACTUAL FACTS AND FIGURES relating to tho ■toady Havana in khoo, wages omd Saw. The inqreoaed labor coot to 23 repraoentative railroads of the South, indwA totf the railroads of Georgia, for 1914 over 1901 was as follows: deluding General Officers, 040,630,841.64, or 33.92 per cent Including General Officers 040,3 F3, 672.06, or 34.53 per cent And the increase has been equally as groat up to June 30th, 1916. The || Railroads PM out for labor in '***&&&* JW i• w • • •• . g • . 146,470,642^6 The Rtftoads paid HI PER CENT nm in laltor in 1915 than in 19M. The amountler labor nut of each dollar received by the Railroads in tOM was .39 cents; 6m anouat bereaved in 1915 to .46 34-100 cent*. The uMhnt of taxes paid by the Railroads increased 178 per eeat from 1901 to 19|K The increase in the value, gf railroad property has not been any thing like (Sesame ratio. .* •' /i * . * * ■ tt * The raflfoads paid for taxes in ’ • > iSh ....... 5,06*528.66 In U'Otfthe amount of taxes to each one dollar of revenue was .03 35-100 cents; in 1 90 the amount of taxes to each one dollar of revenue had increased to .04 53-lOOcents. In I9otthe Railroads paid .42 81-100 cents but of every one dollar of reve nue for laboWtnd taxes. In 1915 the amount had increased to .50 87-100 cento, or more thtoßhatf of 6m total gross revenue for those two items alone. Amouqffmkl for labor and taxes in mT. 3 65,153,735.78 155 159,895,584.67 In cthto ya>h, 6m Railroads returned to the people in wages and tans ALONE nq|| 6mh half of 6m gross revenue of the Railroads. Not onlyitM the Railroads of Georgia confined to rates actually lower than the 18#0 rates, but theg-mve sustained greatly increased cost in equipment, of which we shall have more to say fll a taler date. The above Ilgam relating to labor and taxes are actual. They are evidence that the Railroads are of substantial rains to the State of Georgia in paying towards the maintenance of the Government and in supplying lucrative employ ment to thousands of Georgia citizens. This does not take into account the service sol dered to traveler and shipper, and the creation of wealth through the development of wtoift would be. without railroad facilities, remote and unprofitable territory. The railroads of Georgia are just as much interested in the develqpment of the Stato and the prosperity of the people at are the people themselves, because the interests of dbs nulronds and tbs interests of tbs pseyts ass identical. It is not and will not be the policy of the Railroads of Georgia te propose any system of rates which would unjustly discriminate against the Georgia producer h favor of producers located at points without the state. Should this principle appear to be violated by any technical (construction of our petition, we five assurance that we will not pro pose, nor will we attempt to adopt in actual practice, any rata at va riance with the same. H is a matter of grave concern to the people of Georgia, interested in the growth tad development of the State, to which the Railroads of Georgia have contributed, and pd continue to contribute so materially, if given an opportunity, to see that the Railroads Mil granted a fair, a jus:, a reasonable revision of freight rates. THE RAILROADS OF GEORGIA persons who are talking. Prob ably the one who asks “Who is this?” on calling another is men tally off guard momentarily on hearing a voice other than that which is expected, but even so the effect on the person who is called is unfortunate. Telephone users should always hear in mind the fact that it is best to establish their own indentity first of all when the connection is made, so as to leave no question as to who is speaking from the initiating end.—Macon News. hhhhhhhh 1916 Servios at Lett This 1880 Rales