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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918
Jacks*! Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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Entered as second-class matter at
the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Cards of thanks will be charged
at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 words and less; above 50
words will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cash must accompany
copy in all instances.
Is there a little War-Saving Stamp
in your home?
Two Sundays a week ought to suit
the lazy man fine.
Be sure that there is a little pig in
your pen this year.
Wouldn’t it be fine if some Georgia
boy could spot the kaiser?
Buy a War-Saving Stamp now and
you will be proud of it later.
Guess warm weather will solve the
fuel problem for a time, at least.
If you favor a modem flour mill
now is a good time to let it be known.
At any rate the war has disposed
of the boll weevil and the hookworm
for the present. I
The fuel administrator has the con
solation that he can catch up with his
work next July.
% -- -
Reckon the food administrator is
taking all the medicine he is prescri
bing for others?
Constructive criticism often really
helps. Much of what is passing for
criticism is mostly nagging and belly
aching.
With the coming of warm weather
politics may begin to sizzle, but there
is mighty little interest felt at this
writing.
Teddy is showing his teeth again.
One way to dispose of Teddy would
be to put him in the Front line
trenches.
About the time a fellow begins to
think of gardening, along comes an-j
other blizzard and knocks out all the
•nthusiasm.
How about that roller mill for
Jackson? All agree that it is needed.
Let’s get busy and build it during the
presentyear.
While everything else is being con
served, maybe it wouldn’t hurt any for
congress to cut out some of the wind- ,
jamming and get down to business. i
Since the income tax man announ
ced his itinerary some people have
figured that they didn’t make as much
money last year as they first thought
they did.
The government announces that it
will make a big drive against the
dew boys operating around the army
camps. One way to see if prohi
bition does prohibit.
Can any of the well-informed
brethren tell us what has become of
John D. Walker, Rufe Hutchens and
Burton Smith, who were erstwhile
very much in the limelight?
THE CURSE OF IGNORANCE
The saddest thing in this world is
a person without the fundamentals of
an education. The recent draft has
afforded a striking illustration of il
literacy. Many and many of the young
men, between the ages of 21 and 31,
called up for service can neither read
nor write. Men of our blood and kin
dred—Anglo-Saxons, the cream of
civilization. Many of these men own
broad acres and much wealth, too.
What a commentary on our boasted
progress! What a commentary on
the inefficiency of our public school
system! A shame and disgrace to
Georgia and the South!
Speaking of this matter The Wal
ton Tribune says:
“J. O. Adams, a Gainesville lawyer,
says the informatin contained in the
questionnaires from Georgia will be
a disgrace to the commonwealth. Mr.
Adams especially refers to the alarm
ing amount of illiteracy in the State
and appeals for an educational sys
tem that will revolutionize conditions
in the rural districts. It is rther an
unpleasant reflection that while Geor
gia is rolling in wealth she is at the
same time steeped in illiteracy. The
number of people who can neither
read nor write is astounding, while
the number who have never had the
benefits of the simplest common
school education almost staggers be
lief. The educational system of this
State is and always has been a farce
and travesty. Compulsory education
twenty-five years ago would have
wrought different conditions for to
day. Georgia and the South must
wake up if /they are to keep pace
with the balance of the nation. In
dustrially and commercially we are
giants, educationally we are pig
mies. The Tribune longs for a
brighter day in educational condi
tions for this section.”
THE PROFITEER
Editor James B. Nevin of The At
lanta Georgain, speaking of the prof
teer, has the following to say:
“The most contemptible creature
in all the world after this great war
is over and the nation begins to bind
up its wounds is going to be the man
who has taken advantage of his fel
low-men during their distress and en
forced *acrifices to enrich hmself at
ther expense. He will not be able to
hide himself; he will not be permitted
to cloak himself in even a mantle of
semi-respectability. He will be mark
ed as a loathsome thing.”
PRICES IN BERLIN
(Moultrie Observer)
Butter is selling at $2.25 per pound
in Berlin, sugar at 56 cents per pound
and ham and bacon at $2.11 per
pound, and soap (five ordinary bars)
for $1.12. This information was re
ceived by the United States Food Ad
mnistration through a reliable source
from a responsible person, who per
sonally had charge of his own apart
ments in Berlin, as to food prices cur
rent in that city previous to his re
turn to this country about the first of
October. These prices are from four
to five times as high as those now ob
tainable in the United States.
WHAT THE DRAFT TEACHES
Of the 1,500.000 men in our new
army, so far as figures have reached
us, not a single illiterate man has
made a non-commissioned officer’s
plaice. Not one man with only an
elementary five months’ a year
schooling has Won a commission as an
officer. Every one of the 10,000,000
men of draft age has been asked the
same questions. What training have
you had? What have you been doing?
What can you do?
Each man by his training largely
before 21 years of age, has fixed his
own place in the army as he had al
ready fixed it, without knowing it
himself or it being recognized by oth
i ers, in the economic life of the people
It has been the college trained
men that have largely won the com
missions after the gruelling three
months training in the officers train
ing camps.
It is the college trained men that
have largely won leadership in the
training camps of life.
The war shows us how the educa
■ ted man comes to the forefront when
the test conies.
The war has developed a lot of
hogs. The food hog is one of the
worst specimems we have to deal
with. When you hear a man say “I
have a two years supply of flour
already bought,” you may know there
is something wrong in his make-up.
Such cases ought to be made examples
of.
JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
REBELLION IN HADES
(From An Exchange)
Big sparks flew from Satan s eyes.
“What’s this I hear,” said he. “They
say when the kaiser dies he will be
consigned to me. Old hell to me is
very dear; the place is very fine, but
if they send that guy down here —
believe me, I’ll resign! I’ll stand for
murderers and crooks, and I will not
disown that I have here, now on my
books, the worst thugs ever known,
but my boys would get sore, I fear, I
know they w r ould rebel. The kaiser
can’t enter here —he would corrupt
hell.
“Our sulphur is too clean or him;
our brimstone lake too pure; and if
in one he’d take a swim he’d ruin it,
I am sure. Our company is not so
swell, vile beasts we wont reject;
but keep the kaiser out of hell—we
have some self-respect.
What “We” Mean
Somebody has explained the signif
icance of the editorial “we.” It may
have a variety of meanings. For ex
ample, when you read that “we
expect our wife home today,” “we”
refers to the editor; “we are a little
late with our work,” it includes the
whole office force, even the devil and
towel; “we are having a boom,” the
town is meant; “we received over
100,000 emigrants last year,” embra
ces the nation; but “we have hog
cholera in our midst” means that the
man who takes our paper and does
not pay for it is ill.—Macon County
Citizen.
The sooner you throw yourself into
the war, the sooner will peace be de
clared. By pulling back and nagging
you are delaying the end of the war
ust that much. Ever thought of that?
Economy, while good and desira
ble, will not win the war. What this
country needs is to speed up produc
tion in every line—agriculture, man
ufactumg, mining and commerce.
The two issues of Liberty Bonds
proved a popular success. It is now
up to the country to get behind the
War-Savings Stamps and buy them
in large quantities.
H ■ . ■II Mi Ml ■■
There has never been a better time
for Jackson to have a modem flour
mill than right now. A first class mill
would stimulate wheat production, a
thing that is very much needed at the
present.
Up to this good hour the country
has not suffered any real hardships.
There has been a lot of criticism and
growling, but no real suffering. Some
people naturally love to holler before
they are hit.
Never in the history of its forty
five years existence has The Progress-
Argus had so many cash in advance
subscribers. New readers are being
added every week and it is our ambi
tion to have the paper in every home
in Butts county.
Secretary of War Baker says the
United States has a million men train
ed and ready to face the Huns. The
men are only waiting for ships to
take them over. Now will critics of
the administration find something
else to bark about?
Now is a good time to provide your
fuel for another winter. By starting
early you will be sure to have fuel
when it is needed. Another winter
should never find the country unpre
pared for cold weather.
Somehow or other the prices given
out by the market bureau and the
food administrator do not jibe with
those prevailing hereabouts. Can it
be that the wires have become cross
ed, or what’s the matter?
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 kflneys and bld&r in
both .men and women. Regulates
bladder troubles in children. If not
sold by your druggist wfll 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.
The United States, importing be
fore the war as much as $10,000,000
worth of aniline dyes a year, in 10
months of last year exported dyes
valued at $12,5000,000.
HmANNE>ff ee
and Com Pong
lSg|N —Yum-Yum!
T T then you see your mammy, Honey,
j W bringin’ in the coffee and the pone, you
WS-mwC*. 5 can tell before you taste it that the coffee s
Luzianne— sure-nuf-by the whifs a-streamin
steaming in the air.
It’s the coffee —Luzianne —you remember
“ When It you hanker after it until you get another
Pours, It cup.
Reigns” Luzianne Coffee (your grocer has it) come 9
put up in tins. Try it tomorrow morning for
breakfast. If it isn’t all you expect, you can
get your money back.
Luzianne for aroma, fragrance and snap.
Try it
MR. C. A. GARR DIED IN
ATLANTA WEDNESDAY LAST
Funeral Was Held at Mt. Vernon
Church Saturday
The funeral of Mr. Columbus A.
Garr, aged 60 years, who died at a
private sanitarium in Atlanta Wed
nesday night, Jan. 23, was held at
Mt Vernon church Saturday after
noon at 2 o’clock. The services were
conducted by Rev. Mr. Oglesby.
Mr. Garr belonged to a well known
family of Monroe county. He is sus
vived by his wife; three sons, C. W.,
E. L. and C. A. Garr, Jr.; one broth
er, J. B. Garr, and his mother, Mrs.
S. E. Garr.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
C ASTOR I A
Under the new food regulations
Swiss people are allowed only one
fifth of a pound of butter per person
per month.
Four tons of shipping capacity are
required to transport a soldier, and
another ton is necessary for his equip
ment. In addition, it takes 50 pounds
of ship capacity a day to keep him
supplied with food, clothing and am
munition.
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THE LONG LffEOF A
from yoor xwt. Motet Logan, 37 Q
Ckir neighbor* Ktye worn out three
or four wagons of other makes since r
we bought our*. .
We hare oarer broken anything Gepps9
on the wagons and the hoba are pen
feet yet.
One is a lumber wagon, the other £l , 111 pm
“ 800d for otude baker o 7
Sandy Lake, Pa. years old — hubs I
imntuHJttttmmiMHmuiinnHHiiiißuiuuiiUHHUiiitHiiw perfect yet
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. Y. and R. T. j^oith
F'lovllla,
Half Your Living
Without Money Cost
We are all at a danger point. On
the use of good common sense in our
1918 farm and garden operations de
pends prosperity or our “going broke.”
Even at present high prices no one
can plant all or nearly all cotton, buy
food and grain at present prices from
supply merchant on credit and make
money. Food and grain is higher in
proportion than are present cotton
prices.
It’s a time above all others to play
safe; to produce all possible food,
grain and forage supplies on your own
acres; to cut down the store bill.
A good piece of -garden ground,
rightly planted, rightly tended and
kept planted the year round, can be
made to pay nearly half your living. It
will save you more money than you
made on the best three acres of cotton
you ever grew! *
Hastings’ 1918 Seed Book tells all
about the right kind of a money sav
ing garden and the vegetables to put
in It. It tells about the farm crops as
well and shows you the clear road to
real and regular farm prosperity. It’s
Free. Send for it today to H. G.
HASTINGS CO., Atlanta, Ga.— Advt
A million checks a month will soon
be going forward from the bureau of
war-risk insurance to safeguard
America’s fighting forces and their
families. Applications from soldiers
and sailors for insurance are near
$4,000,000,000.