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FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1918 Jackson Progress - Arps PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY ■■■ —' ■■ ■■ ■■■ "■ — 1 1 t ■ J. DOYLE JONES Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 A YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Jackson, Ga. TELEPHONE NO. 166 OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN TY AND CITY OF JACKSON NOTICE Cards of thanks will b charged at the rata af fifty cents, minimum for BO wards and lass; abora BO words will ba charged at the rata of 1 cent a word. Cash must accompany copy ia ail iastaacas. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Any person failing to receive promptly his copy of the paper will please report tho fact to the office. When ordering change of* address give the old as well as the new ad dress. Any change in address should be reported to the office at once. No tice the label on your paper, and if you are in arrears call in and pay your subscription. 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 ntmiiiimmimnmiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiuniiiiimituiiiimiuiHUUi 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