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Jackson Progress - Argus Published Every Friday. J. DOYLE JONEH, Editor and Pub. Subscription $1 a Year Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Jackson, Ga. \ - Telephone No. 166. Official Orpan Butts County And the City of Jackson. NOTICE ; Cards of thanks will lie charged at the rate of fifty c nts, minimum for 50 worths and less; above 50 words will he 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. Did you shop early? Did you shop with home mer chants? Judge 0. H. B. Bloodworth sounds well enough. After the Christmas shopping comes the bills . Indications point to a nogless, jagless Christmas. Merry Christmas and Hnppy New Year to everybody. The election's out of the way and there is a clear road to Christmas. Greeting to the new city fathers - Santa Claus’ gift to the voters of Jackson. The boll weevil that can stand this sort of weather is no sort of gentleman. i The Savannah Press is raising a Christmas fund for the poor. That’s fine business. Play Santa Claus to some poor or unfortunate family and increase your Christmas happiness. The eighth district is not lacking in favorite sons who would succeed the late Congressman Tribble. If peace in Europe will bring dow-n the price of paper, then we’re for peace first, last and all the time. Butts county remembered the Jackson Rifles with a large, luscious Christmas box. Bet the soldiers wish they were at home, but the next best thing to being at home is to be re membered with a fine Christmas box. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Beginning January 1, 1917, The Progress-Argus will not be sent to anybody on credit. The paper will be strictly cash in advance. We are forced to pay cash for pa i per, inks, printing materials, rent and poyrolls and cannot afford to send the paper on a promise to pay “in the fall.” Our paper bill alone will cost three times more in 1917 than it did a year ago. The newspapers of the country are facing the most serious situation they have ever faced in their history. A large number of country week lies have advanced their subscrip tion price to $1.50 per year. The Progress-Argus has kept its sub scription at the same old price. Daily Newspapers everywhere have advanced their subscription price. Under present conditions we can not afford to pay cash for all our materials and send the paper on a credit. It takes economy of the most rigid sort to get along at all. We’d hate to lose a single sub scriber. If our subscribers will co operate with us they can make our burden lighter, and we will be en abled to give them a better paper. If you want to receive the paper during the next year see that your subscription is paid. Look at the la bel on your paper. Unless subscrib ers renew their paper will be discon tinued upon date of expiration. If you are already paid in advance this notice does not apply to you. If you are in arrears—and you can tell by looking at the label— thia meant you. Forsyth is to have a Ham Show. Why not a Sausage Show for Jack son? We’d like to be the official taster. The Metter Advertiser, The Spar ta Ishmalite and The Telfair Enter prise all issued splendid Christmas editions. Old Santa Claus is liable to be afflicted with frost bite if he peram bulates around much this sort of weather. Be as particular in covering your hor: e as you are your automobile and the poor dumb animals will not suffer so much this cold weather. Stocks weren’t the only things that broke in Wall Street Saturday. Some speculators also experienced the feeling, says the Macon News. According to the Atlanta Journal, the Fifth regiment, from Atlanta, is now conceded to be the best on the border. That body has evidently im proved a whole lot since it left Ma con.—Macon News. Of course the Second regiment is the best, and the Jackson boys are on top. TOO MUCH POLITICS The Progress-Argus is convinced that Jackson, as well as a number of other small towns, has too much politics. Once a year the town is tom and rent asunder by a heated political campaign, and unfortunately, in many instances, the wounds do not heal before another campaign is on. So far as we have ever been able to ascertain the campaign does not involve issues and principles, but personalities. Too much personal feeling is allowed to be injected into the contests for the good of the town. Jackson ought to get out of this rut. Bitter, factional political fights do not help the town. Just when everybody ought to be pulling to gether, working together for a big ger, better town, factional politics is allowed to set the community backward. Every man ought to set his shoul der to the wheel and push the old tow-n along. There are things more worth striving for than factional politics. Small towns, especially, should stand together and work together. Better schools, better churches, paved streets, civic improvements, a progressive municipal spirit—these things are worth all the political contests. Let’s get together and stand to gether and pull together! 800 PAPERS ARE FORCED TO SUSPEND San Francisco, Cal., Dec. 11 —Assertion that 800 country newspapers had suspended pub lication in tjie United States since the price of news print paper began advancing after the beginning of the European war was made today before the California Press Association by C. L. Day, a publisher of San Luis Obispo, Cal. The above dispatch shows to what extent the advance in the price of news print paper has affected the small papers of the country.- The Federal Trade Commission is “investigating” the increase in the price of paper. No relief is yet in sight, however. It has been brought out that the large publishers are paying from 2.15 to 3.19-cents per pound for their news print, while the small papers are paying from 6.50 to 7 cents per pound. Why this discrimination! against the small publishers? It is true the large papers buy in larger quanti ties, but it seems there ought not to be su'-.h a difference. A few more straws will break the camel’s back. The small papers can not stand many more advances in the price of news prtnt, inks, and everything that goes into the making of a newspaper. Asa matter of common sense newspapers are forced to get more for their advertising and put their subscription on a cash basis or quit. LOST OR STOLEN Collie bitch, right eye gla 11, whit* ring around nock, aniwtri to nam* of "L ueky.” Reward for information or return to C. M KF.LLEY, Jenlr iniburg, Ga 12 22 2lp Like getting back home they satisfy ! Thanksgiving with the old folks at home —it does satisfy 1 For your smoking, Chesterfields do the same thing —they satisfy ! But Chesterfields arc MILD, too —that’s the wonder of it. Don’t expect this new cigarette enjoyment {satisfy, yet mild) from any cigarette but Chesterfields, be cause no cigarette maker can copy the Chesterfield blend —an entirely new combination of tobaccos and the biggest discovery in cigarette making in 20 years. c (Sr, “Give me a package of those cigarettes that SATISFY. ” CIGARETTES THIS MEANS YOU (From The Way) Tuberculosis kills 160,000 persons each year in the United States—one every three and one-quarter min utes. It kills one-tenth to one-seventh of all our people. It kills one-third of all who die between the ages of 18 and 45. It costs in dollars and cents $500,- 000,000 a year in loss of life and labor to the United States. Not less than 1,000,000 people, it is estimated, in the United States are now suffering from it. More men die of tuberculosis than women, 63 per cent of all tuburcu losis deaths in New York city being males. The death rate for negroes in the United States is more than three to one than of the rate for whites (450 a* against 148 per 100,000 popula tion in 1910). Tuberculosis seems to be decreas ing in those cities where active anti tuberculosis campaigns are being waged. Death rate from tuberculosis in the registration are a of the United ha* declined from 200.7 per 100,000 111111 ijatSRMM jfe\ Ml-LD M population in 1904 to 146.8 in 1914. (Latest available figures.) After reading this, go purchase some Red Cross Christmas seals. It is an obligation you cannot afford to neglect. Don’t Have Catarrh One'efficient way to remove v nasal catarrh is to treat its cause which in most cases is physical weakness. The system needs more oil and easily digested liauid-food, and you should take a spoonful of scorn EMULSION after each meal to enrich your blood and help heal the sensi tive membranes with its pure oil-food properties. The results of this Scott'* Emulsion treatment will surprise those who have used irritating snuffs and vapors. Get the Genuine SCOTT’S 10 for Sc Also packed 20 for 1 Oc COODY Miss Jewell Mae Aiken, of Worth ville, spent the week-end with rela tives near Towaliga. Mrs. Clara Brooks spent Sunday with Mrs. J. T. Goddard. Misses Annie Lillian and Eva Mae Washington and Miss Annie Mae Thaxton were the guests Saturday of Mrs. J. T. Goddard. Misses Sallie Mae Brooks, Julia Hodges, Clifford Ridgeway and Nel lie Thaxton spent Sunday with Misses Lizzie and Alice Hale. Misses Ora Mae Brooks and Annie Mae Thaxton spent Sunday with Miss Hattie Lee Cooper. \ Mrs. Mattie Johnson, of Fincher ville, and son, Hubert, of Worth ville, were the guests of Mrs. Sallie Washington and other relatives near Towaliga Monday and Tues day. Miss Lizzie Hale complimented the young people with a singing Sunday afternoon. Misses Clifford Ridgeway, Annie Mae Thaxton, Lois Byars, Messrs. Walter Thaxton and Enoch Byars w-ere recent visitors to Atlanta. Mrs. W. M. Faulkner is on the sick list this week. Mrs. W. H. Hammond is much improved from her recent illness.