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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.” A Texas Wonder The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, dissolves grav el, cures diabetis, weak and lame backs rheumatism, and all irregular ities of the kidneys and bladder in both .men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO. One small bottle is two months’ treatment, and seldom ever fails to perfect a cure. Send for testimonials from this and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by druggists, advt. 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