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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918
Jackson Progress - Arps
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J. DOYLE JONES
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The cold weather hangs on like a
heart-sick lover.
Grime is on the decrease in Geor
gia. One reason it is too cold to lin
ger in jail.
W. J. Harris announces that he will
not resign to run for United States
senator until next spring. If W. J. is
wise he will hold onto that fat govern
ment job.
The county unit system is blamed
for the congressional deadlock in the
Fourth district. A man who was not
a candidate at all, never spent a cent
campaigning and did not ask or the
office was nominated. Such is poli
tics. -Jackson Progress- Argus.
And it is crooked polities, too. —
Griffin News and Sun.
The farmer is not bothered about
coal shortage, or lightless nights or
meatless days. ~He is independent of
the cofil barons, the railroads or the
packing houses. He is his own boss
now, as sure as you are born.—Win
der News.
All of which is true, but the labor
problem is causing him to sit up and
take notice, and it may he necessary
for the government to furnish the la
bor to run his farm. Gridin News
and Sun.
If it be true that food will win the
war it seems that it is just as neces
sary to have an army of farm labor
ers as it is to have an army of fighters.
There is a growing sentiment in favor
of putting the convicts to work in the
coal mines and on the farm, that the
country may have an adequate fuel
supply and plenty of provisions.
READ THE COUNTY PAPER
(From The Moultrie Observer)
Every citizen of the county should
read the county newspaper. This is
not an advertisement, or a bid for
more business, it is an expression in
behalf of what we believe to be the
best interest citizens of the county.
The county paper may have the
amount of news in it that you think
it ought to have, or it may not have.
It may have news of the character
thnt you like, or the kind you dislike.
You may approve the editorial policy
of the paper or disapprove it. These
art> questions that will effect different
people in different ways. Hut there
is one thing about the county paper
that affects everybody alike. It is its
value as a public gazette. There is
information in the paper that you
should have and that your family
should have. You may get informa
tion from the paper that will mean
more to you in a day than the paper
would cost for life time.
Yesterday there was a citizen of
this county who was taken from his
home, from his wife and from his
five small children, and carried to the
army cantonment for service. He
goes because he has not been a sub
scriber or a reader of his county pa
per.
Patriotic citizens went to the great
trouble-and expense to keep married
men with dependent families from be
ing sent to the war after they had
failed to get exemption papers. The
case was finally re-opened and half
a hundred men with wives and chil
dren who had been certified for ser
vice in the army were given another
chance to make a showing,, and given
every opportunity to get exemption.
The 00-erver canmd notice after
notice of this n , bea , ’ng. Gr ..t pans
were gone to in giving the time in
which the application must be made
and how it had to made for exemp
tion. Time after time warning was
given through The Observer that ail
applications for exemption must be
made on or before Nov. 23rd. De
spite all of our efforts there were a
half dozen or more men of families
who failed to get exemption because
they failed to apply in time. They j
failed to read the county paper and j
for this economy or indifference they
are taken from their homes and fam
ilies and sent to the army, and will
probably be sent to France before
many months.
We could not give the number of
people who have come in and sub
scribed for the paper after they had
been put to great expense or loss
through failure to read public notices
published in the paper. 1 hey have
said that they would have been saved
many fomes the cost of the paper if
they had been regular readers of it.
An individual subscription to the
paper amounts to very little with the
management of the paper. It costs
more to produce the paper and send
it out than the subscription price
amounts to, but it may mean a lot to
the man who subscribes for it. It
often results in great disappointment
and loss to the man who does not
read it.
Since we have been preparing this
editorial a gentleman from the coun
try has come into the office to give
the address of two boys in the army
(one his son and the other a neigh
bor’s son) in order that they might
receive Christmas kits from the Red
Cross chapter. A notice was put in
the paper that the kits were ready to
go, but-the addresses of many boys
were nob in hand. Except for the
fact that this man was a reader of the
paper the two boys would probably
have failed to receive their Christmas
kits. As it is they will receive them,
and they will be worth to them many
times the subscription price to the
paper.
The county paper should be in ev
ery home.
THE SOUTH’S INCREASING CORN
YIELD
How fast the South is moving in
the matter of corn production is indi
cated by comparing our average acre
yields any ordinary year now with
yields fifteen or twenty years ago. In
1900, for example, the average yield
in Georgia and South Carolina and
Florida was less than 10 bushels per
acre. This year Georgia reports a 16
bushel average, Florida lfi and South
Carolina 19 bushels. In 1900 North
Carolina and Alabama averaged 13
bushels per acre; this year Alabama
reports 16 bushels and North Carolina
20. Neither Tennessee, Virginia, Ar
kansas nor Mississippi averaged 20
bushels in 1900, but this year Tennes
see averaged 28 bushels, Virginia 29,
Arkansas 24 and Mississippi 20. The
American average this year is 26.4
hqshels per acre. A little more push
ing and the South will be recognized
as really in the “Corn Belt.”—The
Progressive Farmer.
GETS GOOD RESULTS QUICKLY
These few lines from J. E. Haynes,
McAlester, Okla., deserve careful
reading by fevery one who values
good health: "I find no medicine
which acts so mildly and quickly with
good results as Foley Cathartic Tab
lets. They empty the stomach and
bowels, giving all of the digestive or
gans a healthy action.” The Owl
Pharmacy, adv.
Christmas mail this year wa/25 per
cent heavier than ever before, accord
ing to the Post Office Department.
The congestion was less, however, be
cause the packages were mailed ear
lier than in ormer years.
JACKSON PROGRE33-ARGUS
MISS HcCANDLESS GIVES
EXPERIENCE IN FRANCE
Intimate Glimpse of Life of Red Cross Nurse as
'Related by Former Jackson Girl
War time conditions in France as
viewed from the standpoint of a Red
Cross nurse, are interestingly related
by Miss May McCandless in a letter
to her mother. The writer and her
parents formerly resided here and
many friends will be interested in her
experiences with the Red Cross
“Somewhere in France.” The letter
was published in The Telfair (Mcßae)
Enterprise and is as follows;
2 a. m. Somewhere in France.
Dear Mother; —
Have I written you since I have
been on night duty? I think I must
have as I have been on ten days, or
rather nights.
Tonight is the first quiet night.
Almost every night I have had an
emergency and sometimes two and
three. East night was hectic. Four
fresh operation cases, two of these
running Dakins solution in gun shot
wounds, one an abscessed appendix,
and then I got in a boy who had had
his arm run over by a truck. It was
broken and badly torn and the hand
as cold as ice. A blood clot had
formed in the artery and stopped all
circulation. They held a consultation
of all the surgeons and they all said
that eventually the arm would have
to be amputated as there was prac
tically po hope of establishing circu
lation and it would become gangren
ous. However, they decided there
was one chance in a thousand and
they would give him the of it.
So the surgeon set the bone and the
blood vessel man removed the clot
and he was brought in here at eleven
o’clock p. m. with orders to watch for
hemorrhage. A tourniquet was left
loosely around his arm as I might
have to use it in a hurry. So I sur
rounded the arm withho t water bags
and felt those icy fingers about every
five miuntes and watched with my
flash light for bleeding. At. six this
morning I couldn’t believe it when
I felt them warm. Tonight they are
warm, a good color and the blood
circulating freely. Of course we are
pleased and naturally he is.
I have two wards and am generally
chasing myself all night. If I only
had all my ill patients in one ward,
but one with the broken back is in the
other ward, while my two sickest are
in this.
This is the coldest night we have
had, the snow is falling and a cold
fitful moonlight over everything.
The wards are quiet except for the
groanS of some wounded man, the
stoves have gone out as we have only
wet cold dust to bum in them. My
orderly has managed to keep a small
flickering fire in the office but that is
all. 1 have on flannels, two sweaters,
wool stockings, a trench co..' and a
fur cap and am deadly cold. Don’t
worry about it though for 1 am abso
lutely well. Sleep like a top and am
enjoying the work.
Everything is going on at rapid
rate around here, barracks every
where, men building roads, putting in
sewers, building warehouses, etc.
The village has many more Ameri
cans than French now. It is all much
changed from what it was when we
arrived.
Since I began this letter all the
fires have gone out and I have had to
rebuild them * and not only rebuild
them but go out and steal wood from
the wood pile. My orderly was afraid
to go as the guards have told them
that they will shoot if they catch
them there at night. I knew they
didn’t dare shoot me so down I went
3 a. m. and got an armful and at last
they are burning again. This has
been some night. It is five o’clock
now and at six the lights come on.
All we have to work by at night is a
lantern and a mighty poor one at
that.
The great consolation in it all is
the conviction that we are fighting
the Germans just as much as the men
by sticking at it and making it possi
ble for these men to go back to the
trenches.
One of our boxes with instruments
and hospital supplies went down, but
those were things sent early in Sep
tember. The Red Cross have sent us
jersey dresses for unifonns, a sort of
taupe color. They will be nice and
warm and not show’ the dirt, but are
not much for looks. However, they
did sent us some marvelour trench
coats. They are canvass water proof
and lined with green wool material.
They are wonderfully warm and very
smart in appearance.
Most of this was written last night.
This morning is gorgeous cold, clear,
sunny an deverything covered with
snow. This is all mountainous around
here so you can imagine how lovely
it is.
Extract From Another Letter
I have been so very busy since I
came back from Paris and such un
comfortable patients.
One poor fellow, whose arm was
cut off by a train, another with a
terrific gunshot wound, whom we
haven’t been able to get in a com
fortable position and several just pep
pered with shrapnel. One boy h|d
a bullet go entirely through his head.
When ha came in his face was swollen
ill
| It Reigns
! P""" 1 /"AAN’T you just taste that cup of good
fyZIANNE j old Luzianne Coffee? Steaming hot
! and ready to give you a whole dayful
1 / JjA I of pep and go.
The flavor is wonderfully good and
J the aroma—get it? —oh, ma honey!
Ik Reify Better run quick and get a bright, clean
tin of Luzianne while it’s there. If you j
don’t like it—every bit of it—then your
grocer will give you back every cent you
paid for it. Try Luzianne today and see
"‘When It how mighty good it is.
ES HARNESS
THE LONG LIFE OF A Mjg
GOOD WAGON f
We bought our two Studebaker* '*/IVf ”iKVyll j L
from your agent, Moses Lodan, 37 i ,w
or four wagons of other makes since
we bought ours.
We have never broken anything tampais
on the wagons and the hubs are per- * j I**I** 1 *** 4
feet yet.
One is a lumber wagon, the other O , 1 | | A m
JoTyet. Both " e Bood for otuaebaker o /
Arthur Lake, Pa. years old hubs
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Not strange for the Studebaker— because the hubs are
of fine, close grain tough, strong and treated "with a
secret sealing solution that is weather resisting.
Notice the hubs on the next Studebaker you pass on the
road you’ll find they are not split or checked like the'
ordinary wagon.
And in these hubs are set the famous Studebaker slope
shoulder spokes.
i he Studebaker Farm Wagon Wheel is best made.
We sell the Studebaker because we believe it is the big
gest wagon value on the market. ,
R. V. and R. T. Smith 1
IFlovilla, Georgia
beyond any resemblance to a human
being and one eye, almost the size of
an egg, sitting out on his face. Now
the swelling has almost entirely sub
sided, the eyes nearly normal, was
shaved this morning and looks like a
person once more. Dr. H. op
erated on him. He is the surgeon in
charge of the ward and it is wonderful
to work for and with him. He has a
beautiful attitude toward his patients
and they simply adore him and his
work is marvelous.
The first thing my soldier wanted
was hot water and soap. Then later
he was bathed and rolled in a warm
blanket, I had hot cocoa, bread and
eggs for him. He simply devoured
it ,then looked up at me when I went
to tuck hint in and said, “Good night.
Nurse, this is the last of me, and
declared he slept three days.
Affectionately,
MAY.
For Indigestion, Constipation or
* Biliousness
Just try one 50-cent bottle of LAX-FOS
WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid Digestive
Laxative pleasant to take.- Made and
recommended to the public by Paris Medi
cine Cos., manufacturers ct Laxatiye Bromo
Quinine and Grove s ias .cl css chill Tonb.
Upon the recommendation of Gen
eral Pershing commissions have been
issued to several American citizens
who have seen service with the La
fayette Escadrille of the French Army