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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYI..K JONEB, Editor and Pub.
Subscription $1 a Year
Entered as second-class matter at the
post office at Jackson, Ga.
Telephone No. 1 Gf>.
Official Organ Putts County
And the City of Jackson.
NOTICE
Cards of thanks will be charged at
tin- rate of fifty c< nts, minimum for f><)
words and less; above BO words will
he charged tit the rale of 1 cent a word.
'Obituaries will be charged for at the
rate of 1 cent a word. Cush must ac
company copy in all instances.
SPECIAL NOTICE
Don’t come in and ask for a free
copy of the Progress-Argus. 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 registered?
Buy at home and you’ll feel better.
Not long left in which to shop
early.
The tax man is on the job and also
urges early shopping.
Are you going to shop with home
merchants this Christmas?
Congress is again in session. Watch
for some more “investigations” to
follow.
Prof. Snider says December will
be a rough rider. Must be in league
with the coal trust.
With eggs jumping pver the moon
and Georgia dry the outlook is for a
nogless Christmas.
The J. P. election is over but there
is one more, the city election. There
is no end of elections.
A writer who has just returned
from Europe says the nations at war
can go on fighting indefinitely. It
looks that way.
Why not some beter school houses
in Butt county? Do you know of
anything more important than the
educational interests of the county?
Georgia is infested with as many
fakes and fakers as any state in the
Union. Lot of smooth guys trying to
make a clean up on some 20 cent
cotton.
If a fellow said what he thought
about the paper trust, the coal
trust, the food trust and other
thieves he would have to print his
paper on asbestos.
Governor Harris has been out to
the border hobnobbing with the
Georgia soldiers. If it had been left
with the soldier vote Governor Har
ris would have remained in Atlanta
two years longer.
ORIGIN OF "PRINTER S. DEVIL”
In early days printing was styled
the "black art,” and printers were
supposed to be in league with Satan.
But it was in the time of Aldus Man
utius, in Venice, that matters took a
serious turn. This was the famous
printer who first published the Greek
and Roman classics. He took into
his employ a negro boy who was
homeless on the streets in Venice.
The people supposed the boy was an
imp of Satan and helped in the print
ing. Mobs collected and were about
to wreck the building when the boy
was brought forward and exhibited,
and it was showrn that he was flesh
and blood; but he still was called
"the printer’s devil,” and every boy
in his position since has been so
called.
THE FOOD THIEVES
Dalton Citizn.
It is difficult to be temperate in
one’s speech or writing when one at
tempts to handle or discuss the ope
rations of the food thieves of this
country. They operate in the large
centers, and have imitators all the
way down to and through the small
villages. It is the middle-man who is
causing so much distress among the
poorer classes of people.
In Chicago a cold storage dealer
purchased, during the summer
months, seventy-two million eggs at
24 cents a dozen, and is now offer
ing them at 52 cents a dozen. But he
is experiencing some trouble in sell
ing them because of boycotts. Boy
cotting is beginning to be a very se
rious menace to food thieves. They
have on hand this morning (Thanks
giving) enormous puantities of
dressed turkey, butter and eggs that
they had expected to sell at fabulous
prices in New York and other large
centers. But their calculations seem
to have gone awry.
All of this brings up the point
that eventually something will have
to be done to curb the avariciousness
and greed of the food thieves. In
many cities of the country It is the
municipal markets that are afford
ing relief to the people, and we be
lieve this method will eventually
spread over the entire country, even
to the towns the size of Dalton. And
why shouldn’t it? Combinations are
formed in towns to hold up prices.
It is practically a monopoly, and
there is absolutely no competition.
These facts are becoming so well
known that the people are not going
to stand for it much longer. The mu
nicipal market is a sane remedy.
As the Chattanooga Times so
forcibly says: “Men who will profit
by the misfortunes of the poor and
needy are entitled to no considera
tion whatever, and they should have
no rights in the courts of equity.
They are entitled to reasonable prof
its and no more, pending the re
stocking of markets by on-coming
crops.”
The Times does not know whether
or not an organized boycott is the
proper way to deal with the situa
tion.
It occurs to us that most any way
is the proper way to deal with the
situation, so long as violence is not
indulged in, if it will succeed in
bringing down the illegitimate prices
charged for food stuffs, and hasten
the end of the operations of the
greedy scoundrels whose hoggish
profits bring hunger and misery to
countless thousands.
ACIDS N STOMACH
SOUR THE.FOOO AND
CAUSE INDIGESTION
“Pape’s Diapepsin’’ fixes
sour, gassy, upset stom
achs in five minutes
If what you just ate is souring on
your stomach or lies like a lump of
leald, refusing to digest, or you belch
gas and eructate sour, undigested
food, or have a feeling of dizziness,
heartburn, fulness, nausea, bad taste
in mouth and stomach, headache,
you can surely get relief in five min
utes.
Ask your pharmacist to show you
the formula, plainly printed on these
fifty-cent cases of Pape’s Diapepsin,
then you will understand why dys
peptic' troubles of all kinds must go,
and why it relieves sour, out-of order
stomachs or indigestion in five min
utes. “Pape’s Diapepsin” is harmless;
tastes like candy, though each dose
will digest and prepare for assimila
tion into the blood all the food you
eat; besides it makes you go to the
table with a healthy appetite; but
what will please you most, is that you
will feel that your stomach and intes
tines are clean and fresh, and you
will not need to resort to laxatives
or liver pills for biliousness or con
stipation.
This city will have many “Pape’s
Diapepsin” cranks, as some people
will call them, but you will be enthu
siastic about this splendid stomach
preparation, too, if you ever take it
for indigestion, gases, heartburn,
sourness, dyspepsia, or any stomach
misery.
Get some now, this minute, and
rid yourself of stomach misery and
indigestion in five minutes, advt.
Lumber of all kinds for
sale. See J. T. or L. A.
Atkinson.
WANTED TO BUY
Chicken*, eggs, corn, peas and
country produce. See me in rear
of First National Bank.
11-10-tf E. O. HUSON.
Compulsory Attendance Bill
AN ACT to require school attendance of children for a minimum period, and to provide for enforcement of
the same, and for other purposes. , ~
Section 1 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State ofGeorgia, that every parent, guardian
or other person having charge and control of a child between the ages of eight and fourteen years, who is not
exempted or excused as hereinafter provided, shall cause the said child to be enrolled m and to attend contin
uously for four months of each yeara public school of the district or of the city or town in which the child
r es ides; which period of attendance shall commence at the beginning of the first term of said school in the
y e a r. Such attendance at a public school shall not be required where the child attends for the same period
some other school giving instruction in the ordinary branches of English education, or has completed the
fourth grade of school work as prescribed by the State Board of Education, or where, because of poverty, the
services of the child are necessary for the support of a parent or other persons standing in parental relation
to the child are unable to provide the necessary books and clothing for attending school, and the same are not
otherwise provded, or wherie the mental or physical condition of the child renders such attendance imprac
ticable or inexpedient, or where the child resides more than three miles from the school house by the nearest
traveled route, or where, for other good reasons (the sufficiency of which shall be determined by the board
of education of the county or of the city or town in which the child resides) the said board excuses the child
from such attendance, such boards being authorized to take into consideration the seasons for agricultural
labor and the need for such labor, in exercising their discretion as to the time for which children in farming
districts shall be excused. Provided, that no guardian shall be compelled to send such child or children to
school out of any other than the funds belonging to said ward or wards. Temporary absence of any child en
rolled as a pupil may be excused by the principal or teacher in charge of the school, because of bad weather,
sickness, death in the child’s family, or other reasonable cause.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That any parent, guardian or other person who has charge and control
of a child between the ages aforesaid, and who willfully fails to comply with the foregoing lequirements
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on coviction thereof shall be punished by a fine not to exceed ten dol
lars for the first offense, and not to exceed twenty dollars for each subsequent offense, said fines to include all
costs; but the court trying the case may, in its discretion, suspend enforcement of the punishment, if the child
be immediately placed in attendance at a school as aforesaid, and may finally remit the same if such attend
ance has continued regularly for the number of months hereinbefore prescribed for attendance. School at
tendance may be proved by an attestted certificate of the principal or teacher in charge of the school. No per
son shall be prosecuted for violation of the foregoing requirements unless the board of education of the
county or municipality in which the person accused of such violation resides shall have caused to be served
upon the accused, at least ten days before such prosecution, a written notice of the charge with the name of
the child to whom it refers. Any person so notified, not previously convicted of violation of this Act as to
the child referred to in said notice, may prevent prosecution on the charge set out therein, by giving, at any
time before such prosecution is instituted, a bond in the penal sum of fifty dollars payable to the ordinary of
the county, with security to be approved by the ordinary, conditioned that the said person shall thenceforth
faithfully comply with the requirements of this Act as to said child. Each day’s willful failure of a parent,
guardian or other person in charge and control of a child as aforesaid, after the expiration of ten days from
such notice, to cause the child to attend school, when such attendance is required by this Act, Shall consti
tute a separate offense. In prosecutions under this Act the exemptions and excuses herein provided for shall
be matters of defense to be established by the accused, and need not be negatived in the indictment or ac
cusation.
Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the county and municipal board of educa
tion to investigate as to attendance and non-attendance of children required by this Act to attend the schools
under their supervision, and it shall also be their duty to institute or cause to be instituted prosecutions
against persons violating this Act. Itshall be the duty of the principal or teacher in charge of any public
school, in which pupils between the ages of eight and fourteen are instructed, to keep an accurate record of
the attendance of such pupils, and at the end of each month to make a written report of same to the board of
education having supervision of the school, and to note therin excused absences and the reasons therefor.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That all fines imposed hereunder and all sums required to be paid as
penalties under bonds given under this Act, shall, after payment of the costs of prosecution and of recovery
thereof, be paid into then:ounty treasury and become a part of the school fund of the county.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That the provisions of this Act shall become operative on the first day
of January, in the year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the board of education of each county, at
least four weeks before the first dayof January following the adoption ofthis Act, to cause this Act to be pub
lished in the newspaper of the county, if there be one and to cause copies of this Act to be posted at the
court house of the county and at the public schools thereof.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same
are hereby repealed.
Approved August 19, 1916. N. E. HARRIS, Governor.
HOW TO FIGHT THE BOLL
WEEVIL
The Tifton Gazette says that an
Irwin county man wrote to a relative
in Texas and asked him the best
method of fighting the boll weevil,
and this w r as his reply:
You wish to know how to make
cotton in boll weevil country. First,
plant only about one-third of ordina
ry crop and commence picking up the
punctured spuares as soon as they
begin to fall from the stalks and
burn them up and I will guarantee a
crop of cotton. Keep this up every
week for six or eight weeks, and any
body can make cotton. This is the
only course to pursue. They are a
great deal worse on sandy land than
black land.
It is evident from what this Texas
farmer says that if the farmers in
boll weevil sections wish to raise any
cotton worth while they must reduce
the acreage and prepare to fight the
pest with all their might and main.
They should also bear in mind what
he says about sandy land and try to
avoid it as much as possible when
planting coton.
Because the price of cotton seed
is high ought not to induce the far
mers to sell their seed so low that
they will not have enough for plant
ing next spring. A safe rule is to
save enough seed for two plantings.
—J ackson-Progress-Argus.
Above all, beware of the man who
comes to you with the seed which he
says is immune to the boll weevil.
If you get out of seed, go to the rep
utable seed dealer.—Augusta Chron
icle.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children
In Use For Over 30 Years
Always bears
Signature of fyl&Jui&C
COMPETING ON EVEN TERMS
Manufacturers Record
Official standing is given by Dem
ocratic campaign managers to an ut
terance of Henry Ford that “if we
cannot compete on even terms with
any country on earth, then we ought
to quit.”
This is suggestive of the historic
attitude of Bob Toombs. At the be
ginning of the war he asserted his
conviction that the south could lick
the Yankees with cornstalk guns.
When in retirement at the close of
the struggle he was reminded of the
boast. “Yes, but damn ’em,” he re
plied, “they wouldn’t fight us with
cornstalk guns!”
How are we going to compel other
nations to compete with us on “even”
terms?
Can we force Germany, for in
stance, to abandon her paternalism,
her subsidies, her cartels and other
features of the government aid with
which she snatched a world monopo
ly of the dyestuff industry arid se
cured for herself a lead in many oth
er lines?
Can we wrest “even terms” from
China and Japan or any other coun
tries w T here the wage scale and the
standard of living among working
men is totally different from ours?
A man set out once to get hold of
a bibulous friend and sober him up,
himself fell by the wayside. “His
plan evidently was to get so drunk
himself that the other fellow seemed
sober by comparison,” a witness re
marked.
If we can’t compel other nations
to meet us on our terms, will we be
advised to lower the standards of
wages and living here so that we will
thus be on “even terms” with nations
elsewhere?
Bring me your speckle peas. Will
pay market price in cash. J. A.
Joyner.
GEORGIA’S COMPULSORY
SCHOOL LAW
Atlanta Journal
“Judged by its positive virtues
rather than by negative limitations, ■*
measure passed at the recent ses
sion of the legislature is a prasewor
thy and servceable law. Its terms are
not as far-reaching' and stringent as
those prescribed in parts of New
England and the West—and wisely
so, for if reforms of this character
are to be permanent they must be
temperate and gradual. . . .
The measure provides in sub
stance that children between the
ages of 8 and 14 shall attend school
for not less than four months
year. Exceptions to this require
ment apply to those children who
have completed the fourth grade of
the grammer (elementary) school,
those whose parents or guardians
are in destitution, those whose ser
vices are needed in farm emergen
cies, and those who are mentally or
physically incapable. Violators of the
law are subject to adequate penal
ties.”
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FOR RENT
I have 150 acres 2 miles from In
dian Springs, 1 mile from Cork, a
new 3 room house, for 4 bales; bot
toms, woods and most in cultivation.
Mrs. Julia Freeman, 760 Elliott st.,
Atlanta, Ga. 12-l-2tp