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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONEB, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year.
Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Oa.
Telephone No. 166.
Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
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words and less; above F>o words will
be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word,
©bituaries will l>e charged for at the
rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac
company copy in all instances.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Don’t come in and ask for a free
copy of the Progress-Argu3. Paper
is getting too high. It is our business
to print them and sell them. That is
our only business —our living. This
has been a much abused custom
beating newspapers out of copies of
the paper. The ones who do it would
not think of going into a department
store and ask for a pair of socks or
a necktie free. The principle is the
same.
Copies of the paper may be had
at 5 cents each.
Are you boosting for that feed
mill for Jackson?
Wonder if there has been an ad
vance in persimmon beer?
Shop as early and as often as you
like—but shop with the home mer
chant.
Judge Thomas has upheld the
constitutionality of the cattle dipp
ing law.
The Savannah Press is twenty-five
years old and one of the South’s
brightest evening papers.
The emperor of Austria is dead.
He is said to have started the war,
tmt he was powerless to stop it.
Shop early and shop with home
merchants. It will make youhappy,
contented and better off financially.
Don’t forget that your co-opera
tion is needed to help make thel9l7
fair a success. Boost the fair every
day.
After the Methodists spent a week
in Griffin the chicken market over
that way is said to be decidedly bul
lish.
Just what Europe has to be thank
ful for one is unable t o find out.
It might be worse, but that would
behard to imagine.
Get saturated with the shop early
spirit. You win, and the tired, hard
worked salespeople win. If you have
never tried it, try it this year.
Hon. John T. Boifeuillet will grace
the State Railroad Commission. The
appointment is one of the best that
Cevemor Harris has made. But what
will the legislature be without Mr.
Mr. Boifeuillet?
Because the price of cotton seed
is high ought not to induce farmers
to sell their seed so low that they
will not have enough for planting
next spring. A safe rule is to save
enough seed for two plantings.
About the livest question that will
face the next session of congress is
the placing of an embargo on ship
ments of foodstuffs to Europe. The
consumer will welcome an embargo
if it will give him relief from present
high prices.
Another thing that seems queer
a why newspapers in Georgia are
forbidden, by act of the legislature
to publish whiskey advertisements,
yet the government permits mail
•rder whiskey houses for one cent
to flood the state with their circu
lars. Georgia is a long ways from
teal prohibition yet.
ROBBED BY SPECULATORS
A well known economist declares
that the people are being robbed by
speculation. That flour is selling now
at $lO a barrel is due more to spec
ulation in wheat than because of
scarcity of that product, he says. He
figures that on the basis of scarcity
alone flour should be worth not more
than $7.25 a barrel, so that all above
that figure is due to speculation.
There is no doubt much in what
this economist says. And robbing the
people in the price of flour is not all
the speculators are doing. It is true
of ] radically everything the people
use. Conditions are now abnormal,
affording splendid opportunity for
speculation, and scarcely anything
is sold at a legitimate profit.
What one does not understand is
why the government does not get
busy in this matter. —Dawson News.
The people are certainly being
robbed all right. The most the gov
ernment has done so far is to in
vestigate,” and a rise in price has
followed each investigation. This is
a land of the free, the home of high
prices and investigations.
UNCLE SAM ON EARLY SHOP
PING
The shop early idea has spread
throughout the country. Nobody
would benefit more by early shop
ping than the mail clerks and post
office officials. Uncle Sam urges
early shopping and early mailing, as
the following dispatch will show:
Washington, Nov. 21 —Early
Christmas shopping and mailing was
recommended by the National Asso
ciation of Assistant Postmasters
meeting here today.
Publicity campaigns will be insti
tuted in each city by local postal au
thorities to impress on the public
the needs of reducing the usual flood
of mail during the last week before
Christmas.
W. E. Schutt, of Cleveland, pres
ident of the association, declared
that postal business during the last
last few years has shown the effect
of early shopping campaigns, but
that greater improvement is de
sirable.
THE PRINTER’S TROUBLES
Some people are yet unable to un
derstand why printing is higher than
it used to be when paper sold for
S4O per ton and cotton for 8 cents
a pound. A year ago The Progress
paid S4O for a ton of paper. Four
months ago it paid SBO for a ton and
two weeks ago a ton cost $l2O. Still
some unthoughtful people seem to
think we are robbing them if we
charge more for advertising and
printing than we did a year ago.
Lyons Progress.
Newspapers are being compelled
to increase rates and to get to a
cash basis on subscriptions. Sensible
people appreciate the position of the
publishers.—Savannah Press.
The majority of people are rea
sonable and fair when the high price
of all printing materials is explain
ed to them. Occasionally you will
find a fellow who t hinks it is all
right to charge more-much more
for his goods than he did a year ago,
but thinks the printer ought not to
raisehis rates. Apparently the situ
ation is one that cannot be helped,
for the present, at least.
FUNNY, ISN’T IT?
The people are being gouged, know
they are being gouged, but the gov
ernment has done little or can do lit
tle to help matters.
First it was the price of gasoline.
The investigators investigated at
great length and gasoline still soar
ed.
Then came the sensational ad
vance in the price of print paper.
Another investigation. The result
has been that paper is going up ev
ery day.
Then the cost of foodstuffs jump
ed over the moon. Have you felt any
relief yet?
Now there is a shortage of freight
cars and coal is doing some plain
and fancy high flying.
So it goes. One investigation fol
lows on the heels of another.
In the meantime the government
sleuths are able to go out in the
sticks and find a few moonshine
“stills.”
Which makes a fellow scratch his
head and wonder which is most im-
I portant, to break up a few illicit dis-
I tilleries or catch and throttle the big
speculators that are robbing the
American public out of millions
daily.
If the United States Internal Rev
enue department can catch an occa
sional moonshine still, why can’t, why
don’t the great government catch
and make disgorge some of the big
monopolists of the country?
If the government would cut out
so much “investigating” and get
down to business it would certainly
please the people better.
THE PERIL OF THE LOCAL
PAPER
In the following editorial The
Christian Index, the official organ
of the Baptists of Georgia, sizes up
the situation about as well as it
could be put. That the local paper is
treading on dangerous ground
there can no longer be any doubt.
News prin t paper has advanced
from 2 3-4 and 3 cents to 6 1-2 and
7 cents per pound, and 10 cents news
is now predicted. Ten cents a pound
for news print paper will paralyze
the small papers. That is no joke. No
doubt many small papers are al
ready debating the question,
“Whether to be or not to be.”
The Index editorial is given here
with:
The small weekly papers in Geor
gia are in serious peril on account
of the high prices of news printing
paper. It has been a struggle to keep
these papers in existence when news
“That’s just what I’ve
wished a
cigarette would do
The feature of Chesterfields is that they t
begin where other cigarettes leave off.
In other words, besides pleasing the
taste,Chesterfields go further—they satisfy!
Just like a long drink of cold water satis
fies when you’re thirsty.
And yet, Chesterfields are MILD!
It’s Chesterfields or nothing if you want
this new cigarette delight, because no
cigarette maker can copy the Chesterfield
* blend —an entirely new combination of
tobaccos and the biggest discovery in
cigarette blending in 20 years.
Car.
“Give me a package of those cigarettes that SATISFY! *
CIGARETTES
m -They
| SATISFY
-ana yet they're
f MILD /
print sold for less than three cents a
pound. The price has advanced to
more than seven cents. It is not
practicable to increase the subscrip
tion price, and an increase in adver
tising rates would mean decreased
patronage. But something must be
done to increase the revenue of these
papers, otherwise their publication
must be suspended.
Asa rule the value of the local
paper is not appreciated by the
counties in which they are published.
Directly and indirectly these papers
contribute to the material, moral, so
cial and religious welfare of their
respective communities and counties.
In most cases their subscription lists
are too small and the subscribers are
slow to pay their subscriptions; and
alas, a goodly number never pay.
The business men of the town adver
tise in their columns too sparingly.
Increased circulation, the prompt
payment of the subscription and in
creased advertising patronage would
help the local papers to tide over
these perilous times. If the citizens
of the communities in which they
are published do not come to the
rescue, they will be greater losers
than the editors and owners by the
suspension of the papers.
There is another way by which
the business men can help their lo
cal papers, and that is by giving
them their job printing. We knew
Y/f GtestecfTe/d
this from experience in the publica
tion of the Christian Index. We
have one of the most modern print
ing plants in the South. There is no
kind of printing and book making
we cannot do.We manufacture blank
books of every size and sort, and
our facilities for book binding are
ample to take care of increased bus
iness. Every order we get forprint
ing, and every Bible, song book and
other kinds of books and church and
Sunday School supplies we sell, helps
the Christian Index. In the same
way the job printing of the local
communities will help the local pa
pers. While we are anxious for print
ing patronage, we would not take
from these local papers the printing
that they can do.
We would urge a more liberal pa
tronage of the local papers, that
their intrinsic value to the common
good of their local communities and
counties may be preserved.
Fifty or more weekly papers
have advanced the price of their
subscription from SI.OO to $1.50 a
year. The Progress-Argus is still
SI.OO per year, but if everybody
would pay their subscription it
would help tremendously.
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