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FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1918
Jackses Pregress- Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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your subscription.
Shrinking of incomes is now a
prevalent complaint.
The boll weevil that is still able to
navigate is no sort, of a gentleman.
Even this weather seems to have
the “made in Germany” twang to it.
The man who is able to pay an in
come tax ought to be proud of it and
pay the tax with a smile.
There is no camouflage about the
weather we’ve been having—its the
real thing.
If it will help things any, hope
Prof. Snider cuts out his weather pre
dictions for a while.
A Jonesboro preacher advertisers
that he found some money in the de
pot. Come early and avoid the rush.
lee factories may not run next
summer. Good time to lay in a sup-j
ply of the icy stuff —if you have the
heart. j
If there were some way to get the
street carnival fakirs and movie he
roes in the war we would feel better
over it.
An exchange states the coal supply
of the United States is sufficient to
last five centuries. Why not tell the
fuel administrator?
Speed, speed. That is the thing
America needs most of all now in her
plans. Every day lost in wrangling is
both costly and dangerous.
Whether his charges amount to
anything else or not, the Rev. John
Ham has certainly thrown a scare into
the coal dealers in Atlanta. j
The banks of Butts county have de
posits of more than a million dollars.
Fine thing if some of this money were
invested in local enterprises.
The year 1918 is now’ under way,
and the farmers and business men of
Butts county are in better financial
condition than they have been in a
long time.
The Jackson Progress-Argus 1s for
ty-six years old, one of the oldest and
best weeklies in the State. The peo
ple of Butts county should appreciate
the efforts of editor J. Doyle Jones.—
Conyers Times.
Thunk you. Brother Patterson. We
are doing the best we can under ex
isting conditions.
THE SENSIBLE THING TO DO
If every senool in Georgia would
close for two months it would be the
sensible —and patriotic—thing to do
under existing conditions
Fuel conditions are still serious. If
there is any improvement it is hard
to find it. By closing the schools,Ahe
fuel on hand would go a long way to
ward relieving actual suffering among
a large number of people. It is a
hardship on both teachers and pupils
alike to keep schools running under
present conditions. There is danger
of contracting sickness'that would
prove more harmful than the knowl
edge gained would prove beneficial.
The time lost now could be made up
later in the season after weather
conditions become better.
There has never been a time like
this in the fuel situation. Conditions
are actually serious. The matter is
one that should have the very careful
consideration of school authorities all
over the country.
STRICTER SANITATION NEEDED
The presence of so much sickness
at the army camps has served to em
phasize the fact, it seems, that where
large bodies of people are drown to
gether sickness may be expected to
result. A f* riking example of this is
the public schools of the country.
Probably no other single agency
serves as such a liberal spreader of
diseases as the public school.
One reason of this is because the
proper sanitary rules are not always
observed. Enforcement of strict san
itary methods would no doubt elimi
nate a lot of sickness. There should
be individual desks, individual sani
tary drinking cups or automatic
fountains and other precautionary
measures.
j Fortunate, indeed, is the school that
! gets through a single term without
lan epidemic of measles, scarlet fever,
whooping cough, smallpox and other
diseases.
Our public schools are doing a
splendid work in imparting knowl
edge. Unfortunately, too, they dis
seminate a lot of sickness and disease.
Asa whole, the country is woefully
behind in matters of sanitation and
public health. There are some com
mendable public health measures on
the statute books, but they are not as
rijddly enforced as they should be.
There is no better place to teach
and stress the importance of good
health and proper methods of sanita
tion than in the public schools.
There should be an extensive cam
paign of education along that line. It
is cheaper to be healthy, well and
strong than it is to be sick, ailing and
incompetent.
More than ever right now, sickness
ought to be reduced to a minimum.
There is no better place to impart
this knowledge than in the public
schools. A campaign of education
against sickness and the spread of
disease and the proper co-operation
with city and county boards of health
will pay rich dividends.
WHAT OF THE PEOPLE
(Dawson News)
Present indications are that 100,000
members of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Firemen and Engineers will
join the 250,000 members of the
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
and the Order of Railway Conductors
in asking an advance in wages. The
latter have asked for an increase of
40 per cent.
The question of increased wage de
mands is becoming highly interesting.
The hard coal miners asked an in
crease, and the increase was promptly
saddled upon the public to the tune
of 35 cents a ton by the fuel adminis
tration. If the rail road men are
granted the increase they demand it
will, of course, be passed to the pub-
lie.
But what of the public? What of
the men whose wages have not been
increased since the beginning of the
war? Is it fair to saddle 35 cents a
ton on them? Is it fair to ask them to
carry the burden of the wage increase
which very likely will be given the
railroad men? Are the disorganized
masses of the people—the men and
women who have led the simple lives
in the past without strike or lock
out—to be the “goats” of the wage
movement?
Even worms have been known to
turn.
George Long, managing editor of
the Macon Teleraph. the most lion
hearted pro-ally of them all, has the
German measles. Which reminds us
that life is just one thing after an
other.
JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
WHY NOT A “WIN THE WAR”
CLUB?
The war has developed a lot of fads
and isms, from the idle rich who are
knitting because it is stylish to the
peanut politician who is trying to get
on the popular sde. It seems there are
enough clubs and organizations, but
we believe there is room for one more.
Why not a “Let’s Win The War”
club? Such an organization composed
of all patriotic, pure Americans who
are willing to sacrifice and help with
their time and money would do a lot
toward actually winning the war. The
idea now, the main thing, the thing
that counts, is to get the people of
the entire country interested in the
war and lined up solidly behind the
administration. In other words, it is
speed that is needed most of all right
now. The country ought to be run
ning in high gear, the throttle wide
open, with all obstructions brushed
out of the way.
It will be cheaper to win the war
in 1918 than it will be in 1919. And
America must win the war. That
much appears certain. The war is
now costing close around $100,000,-
000 a day. It will cost more thelon
ger the war lasts. Generations yet
unborn will feel the effect of the tax
es that will follow the war.
We must all give, sacrifice and help.
And what is more, we must do it now.
Delay is dangerous. After awhile the
peoole of all nations will grow tired
of war. The time will come when the
sentiment for peace will be over
whelming. If the war is to end in a
victory for the nations arrayed
against Germany no time must be lost
“Let’s Win The War” ought to
be the slogan of every liberty-loving,
red-blooded American. If you are
made of the right mettle no sacrifice,
no burden will be shirked. You will
give when you are called on to give;
you will pay when you are called on
to pay; you will serve when you ara
called on to serve. You will be pa
tient with those in authority. Mis
takes have been made and will con
tinue to be made by those in high
places. Probably you yourself
couldn’t have done better.
Victory, freedom and ultimate
peace, a peace that will last —these
are the things worth while. They are
worth fighting for, regardless of the
cost and the sacrifices.
If you have been lukewarm, get
right. If you have been indifferent,
wake up. Better a little inconven
ience now than the heel of the kaiser
and his set of infernal henchmen on
your neck and the neck of your chil
dren. If you have been criticising
the government, stop it. All humans
make mistakes. Put your shoulder to
the wheel, take a fresh grip and pull
for your country as you have never
pulled before.
Let’s win the war and let’s win it
quick. Let’s throw every- ounce of
our energy, every resource of the na
tion, every pulsation of our heart, ev
ery fibre of our being into the strug
gle. Time counts. Let’s take time
by the forelock.
One result of the charges of Rev.
J. W. Ham has been that more coal
has been moving in Atlanta for the
past few T days than at any time this
winter.
Jack Patterson is doing some good
work as editor of The Conyers Times
His paper is now in its tenth year
and faithfully serves the people of
Conyers and Rockdale county.
There is consolation in the fact
that the United States government has
enough red tape to hog tie all the
German leaders when they are captur
ed, says The Dawson News.
Bradstreet’s report shows that
eighty-five per cent of the merchants
who have failed are merchants who
did not advertise in their local news
papers.—Andalusia Star.
Their business was advertised
eventually, but the United States mar
shal or the sheriff of the county paid
the bill to the newspapers.—Savan
nah Press.
Advertising is always timely, but
it is particularly so when business is
dull. In the fall people will buy re
gardless of advertising. If the proper
advertising methods were employed
there would never be a dull season
with the merchants. At this time of
the year too many merchants get
faint-hearted and fight shy of print
er’s ink. And still a lot of business
| men wonder why so much money is
sent o ut of town to mail order
houses.
ONLY CHRISTIAN RELIGION CAN
SAVE WORLD
The following editorial from the
pen of Henry Watterson, written up
on the occasion of the fiftieth anni
versary of the Louisville Courier-
Journal, is timely. It is worth careful
reading and serious consideration:
And now after all these years, the
Courier-Journal faces the greatest
cataclysm, the most direful tragedy,
of all the ages. The world is tom up
by the roots. It is literally up-side
down. If, when we get “over there”
in the coming spring, we are not
able to end the war —if, for any
reason, the campaign dwadles as it
has been doing—each side just able
to hold its own, neither side able to
attain decisive advantage—through
the summer and autumn and into the
winter 1918-19 —something will break
loose in this country, and maybe, in
other allied countries as well.
Heaven help the world if the war
issue gets into the tangled web of
American politics; though even worse
might come to pass. The Courier-
Journal is not a pessimist. It has been
always an optimist. Yet seeing that
the universe has gone into collapse
at least twice according to its record
ed story, why not once again?
It is not a stretch of fancy to con
ceive, even from surface indications,
an irrepressible conflict between cap
ital and labor, i. e., the rich and the
poor, to be possible. That may be
but a question of time in the Anglo-
Saxon part of it. How shall it be set
tled; as our sectional irrepressible
conflict was settled?
Human nature and character do not
seem to have changed, either for bet
ter or worse, with the development of
human ingenuities. Men and women
appear much the same as they ap
peared two thousand —five thousand
—years ago. With the manhood of
this generation depleted by war and
havoc, its womanhood unsexed and
degenerated by feminism, who in the
final test shall come to the rescue of
civilization?
These are ugly questions. And they
rise like lions across the highway.
Shall it be written that the nations,
having reached the apex of the ac
clivity—having arrived where Greece
was—where Rome was—wealth and
luxury able to go no farther —delib-
erately set themselves to annihilate
one another and to destroy the ac
cretions of the centuries? As mat
ters are who can say they may not be
for the third time on the down grade,
headed for another cycle of of what
we call the “Dark Ages?”
Surely the future oloks black
enough, yet it hold a hope, a single
hope. One, and one power only, can
arrest the descent and save us. That
is the Christian religion.
Democracy is but a side issue. The
paramount issue, underlying the is-
HARNESS
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or four wosoM of other make* since
we bought out.
We here error broken anything 3
on the wagons aid the hubs sure per
feet yet.
One is a lumber wagon, the other O m 111 , l>y
80^'0 ' btudebaker 37
Sandy 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.
The 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
FTovllla, Georgia
sue of democracy, is the religion of
Christ, and Kim crucified; the bed
rock of civilization; the source and
resource of all that is worth having
in the world that is, that gives prom
ise in the world to come; not as an
abstraction; not as a huddle of sects
and factions; but as a mighty force
and principle of being. The Word of
Go'd, delivered by the gentle Naza
rene upon the hillsides of Judea,
sanctioned by the Cross of Cavalry,
has survived every assualt. It is now
arrayed upon land and sea to meet
the deadliest of all assaults, satan
turned loose for one last final strug
gle.
The Kaiser boldly threw down the
guage of battle —infidel Germany
against the believing world —“Kul-
tur” against Christianity—the Gos
pel of Hate against the Gospel of
Love. Thus he is satan personified—
“ Myself and God” merely his way of
proclaming it—for his “God” is
bub, the Agent of Destruction, his
creed the devil’s own, his aim and end
a hell on earth. Never did Crusader
lift battle-axe in holier war against
the Saracen than is waged by our sol
diers of the Cross against the Ger
mans. The issues are indeed identical.
If the world i sto be saved from de-
struction —physical no less than spir
itual destruction —it will be saved
alone by the Christia nreligion. That
eliminated leaves the earth to eternal
war. For fifty years Germany has
been organizing and laboring to sup
plant it with “Kultur,” the genius of
infidelity. Her college professors
have been obsessed with it. Her uni
versities have seethed with it. In ac
claiming “Myself and God,” the Kai
ser has put the imperial seal upon it.
When our armies have run it to its
lair —when they have crushed —
naught will have been gained unless
the glorious banner of the cross is
hoisted —even as Moses lifted up the
serpent in the wilderness —and the
misled masses of Germany are bade
to gather about and beneath it as
sadly they collect the debris of their
ruin for the reconstruction of the
Fatherland.
Tom Hardwick says the newspapers
can’t fight with paper bullets. Little
Tommie will find that they can shoot
his political carcass full of holes when
the next election rolls aound, sajs
The Thomaston Times.
J. Doyle Jones steers his excellent
paper, The Jackson Progress-Argus,
into its forty-sixth year with flying
colors. Ws hope they will fly higher
every new day.—LaGrange Reporter.
Thank you, JoHnny Jones. When
The Progress-Argus is twice its pres
ent age we hope it will be as good a
paper as The LaGrange Reporter.