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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1918
Jackson Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
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 be charged
at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 wards and less; above 50
words will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cash must accompany
copy in all instances.
Plant a war garden and keep a pig.
Despite the sugar shortage, there is
still plenty of political taffy.
Labor riots in Germany sound
good on this side of the water.
Judging by the number of mules
sold in the Jackson market this sea
son there is no scarcity of labor here
abouts.
Save all the food you possibly can,
and poduce more than you have ever
produced before. That is a sensible
way to face the problem.
If you favor an ordinance that will
keep chickens off the streets and
thereby allow every citizen to have a
good garden this year, let Ccouncil
know your position on the matter.
The mayor of Ocilla, Ga., recent
ly donated his salary of S3OO to the
Red Cross, and the councilmen gave
their salaries of $24 a year, each, to
the same cause. That was splendid
patriotism.
The grand jury presentments of
Spalding county reveals the fact that
the county had a balance in the treas
ury the first of the year of $5,301.19.
That is a good showing and reflects
credit upon the systematic manage- j
ment of the county’s affairs.
Straight from the shoulder chain
gang sentences for those convicted
of the liquor traffic will do more to
break up the practice than anything
else. And moonshining and bootleg
ging ought to be broken up and the
prohibition law enforced or repealed. >
Why is a newspaper like a pretty,
woman ? To be perfect it must be the
embodiment of many types. Its form
is made up. It is always chased,
though seldom inclined to be giddy.
It enjoys a good press; the more rap
id the better. It has a weakness for
gossip. Talks a great deal, can stand
more praise, and is awfully proud of
anew dress. —Lithonia Journal.
The Griffin Daily News and Sun
celebrated its forty-seventh anniver
sary on February 1. The Progress-
Argus desires to offer its congratula
tions and best wishes and to hope for
our contemporary many years of use
fulness and service to the community.
The news nnd Sun is one of the old
est newspapers of Middle Georgia
aind has served its county, city and
State well and worthily.
I
We saw a very patriotic lady the
other day wearing a short skirt, boots
that didn’t quite reach, two boxes of
talcum powder and a gorgeous knit
ting bag, as she was going to the city
to knit a pair of ten-cent socks for
the soldiers. As she left the front
door the cook went out the back door
with two bushels of rations, easily
worth $6.98. Spectacular patriotism
comes too high. Self-sacrifice is what
counts.—lrwinton Bulletin.
STREET WORK NEEDED
There is nothing that can be said
in defense of Jackson’s streets. They
do passably well for a part of the
year, but at this season the city's
highways are a positive disgrace.
Jackson, with all its wealth, its
commercial importance, its prestige
as a marketing center, should have
beter streets —streets that one can
travel with ease and safety. If the
streets were properly soiled and grad
ed it would help wonderfully. The
taxpayers expect some returns for
their money, but in the matter of
street work they do not get it.
Council would do well to look after
the streets. They should be worked
and that immediately. It is a season
of heavy hauling. Farmers are mov
ing fertilizers, and just at the time
when the streets should be render
ing service, they are almost impass
able, in many places.
Nothing helps a city or county more
than good streets and good roads.
Trade follows the avenues of least
resistance. Jackson can very well af
ford to have good dependable streets,
even if the business men are taxed
for paving. Something should at least
be done to remedy the present de
plorable condition of the towns main
thoroughfares.
A NEEDED ORDINANCE
Just at this time the people are be
ing told and warned and urged to use
every available inch of ground for
gardens, and to make the garden
count for more than it ever has
counted for. So far as we have no
ticed people are in a mood to do that
very thing, and if conditions are fav
orable there will be some mighty
promising gardens a little later on.
Town people face one serious hin
drance in gardening, and that is the
pesky, roving, übiquitous chicken. It
is almost impossible to have a garden
in town with chickens roaming at
large, seeking what they may devour.
With chickens properly penned up,
there would be more gardens and bet
ter gardens—Us well as flowers.
The mayor and council of Jackson
should fix some rules looking to the
control of chickens. Every owner
should he required to keep his chick
ens on his own premises. They should
not be a menace to gardens, particu
larly now when everybody is urged
to plant a “war” garden.
Pen up the chickens. They have
done enough devilment already. A
good garden filled with fresh veget
ables is more important in war times
than the freedom of Sir Chaunticleer
and his mates.
This is a matter that council should
take up at an early date. Any action
the city officials may take looking to
the restriction of chickens will be
abundantly backed up by public sen
timent.
OUR SUBSCRIPTION RATES
The subscription price of The Pro
gress-Argus which went into effect
January 1, is not the first time in the
history of the paper that the $1.50
rate has prevailed. In the 80’s, when
W. F. Smith was editor of the paper,
then published at Indian Springs, the
subscription price was $1.50 a year.
At that time The Middle Georgia Ar
gus was a four-page paper, half “pat
ent,” half home print.
Cotton was then 10 to 13 cents a
pound.
Cotton is now 32 cents a pound.
Instead of a four-page paper, The
Progress-Argus is now an eight to
twelve page paper, and more than
ten times as much local news is print
ed than in the earl struggles of the
paper. If the paper was worth $1.50
then, with cotton and everything else
cheap, certainly it is worth $1.50 now
with cotton and everything else high.
This is not printed as a defense of
the new rate of $1.50. The dollar
weekly 1 has passed, and apparently,
will never be seen again. The infor
mation is printed for the benefit of
readers of the paper.
So far, there has not been any
kicks on the new rate charged for the
paper. Subscribers seem to realize
that $1.50 is reasonable enough to
charge for any weekly newspaper that
makes any claims to serving its con
stituents faithfully’.
And what is furthermore, new
readers are being added all the time.
The Progress-Argus desires to con
gratulate Dr. Robert VanDeventer
upon the completion of ten years of
service as pastor of the First Baptist
church of Jackson, and to wish for
him many more years of labor in the
community. Dr. VanDeventer has
done and is doing a fine work with
the young boys of the town through
activities of the Boy* Scouts.
JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS
(The Dawson News)
Editor Doyle Jones is receiving
congratulations on the forty-sixth an
niversary of the Jackson Progress-
Argus. The News desires also to of
fer its felicitations. Brother Jones is
giving his readers a splendid paper.
(Griffin News and Sun)
J. Doyle Jones’ Jackson Progress-
Argus has recently celebrated the
forty-sixth anniversary of its birth
day, and the News and Sun desires to
extend its hearty congratulations.
Editor Jones is a man who regards his
business seriously and he is giving
Butts county a most creditable news-
PASSING OF THE DOLLAR
WEEKLY
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer
The dollar weekly will soon be an
institution of the past. One after an
other those rural publications are be
ing forced to raise their subscription
rates in order to meet their increas
ing costs. The stupendous height
which print paper has reached is the
dominating element in the problem,
but is only one of many ways in which
the newspaper publisher finds the cost
of his product increased beyond all
estimates.
It is claimed that more than 350
American weeklies have been forced
to suspend publication on account of
these increasing costs. For the great
er number, however, the other alter
native will be the one adopted—that
is raising the subscription price above
the time-honored flat-dollar per year.
The dollar was a convenient unit
for dealings between publisher and
patron and when for that sum one was
able to. secure 52 issues of a'- alert
publication it was a dollar profitably
spent. Some of the most constructive
journalistic work of the past century
was accomplished through the col
umns of the dollar weekly. Some of
the patron saints of the newspaper
profession accomplished their most
lasting results by means of it, and the
annals of newspaperdom would lose
much of their interest and charm had
the dollar weekly not thrived so long.
But no product helps itself in the
long run by operating at a loss. If it
costs more than a dollar to publish
the modem weekly the quicker the
situatioh is understood on both sides
the better. No one can properly pro
test when the price is increased and
value is given.
The dollar weekly has had an hon
orable history and the country owes
it more than it knows. No apology is
needed if the price that sufficed half
a century ago is now found inade
quate.
This is the season of the year when
the need for permanent road building
is forced home. Georgia has done
wonders in highway construction dur
ing the past few years, but few of our
roads are year-round roads. They are
all right as long as the weather is
good, but in the rainy season they
fail to render efficient service. Geor
gia has a lot to learn yet about road
building. Permanent roads, roads
that will stand up for twelve months
in the year, are cheap at any price.
The only sure way to have roads of
that character is through a bond is
sue. In the matter of building per
manent highways Florida is twenty
five years ahead of Georgia.
In spite of the boll weevil, war and
hell there is going to be a big cotton
crop planted this year. Indications
also point to a big acreage of food
crops and let’s hope it will be a ban
ner year for hog and hominy in Geor
gia and the whole South.
A wisely conducted newspaper is
like a banpuet, says an exchange. Ev
erything is served up with a view to
variety. Help yourself to what you
want and do not condemn the entire
spread because pickles and onions
may be included. If you do not relish
them somebody else may find them
palatable. Be generous and broad
enough t oselect gracefully such read
ing matter from newspapers as will
be agreeable to your mineral taste, j
You as an individual, are not com-!
pelled to swallow everything. We do |
not all think alike on every subject
and it is a good thing, as it makes;
more variety, and variety is the spice
of existence.
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The man who wittingly said, “Fame
is the result of being civil to newspa
per men,” spoke a solemn truth and
no men know it better than the mod
em politicians. The newspapers and
newspaper writers have built more
big men out of smaller timber and got
less thanks for the job when they got
through, than any other agency in
the world. Many an ordinary, but
cheeky nincompoop, has wormed him
self into the good graces of some
bright and vigorous writer, and he,
moved by the warm friendship of his
nature, has taken him upon the point
of his facile Faber, and in an incred
ibly short space of time puffed him in
to a position of prominence.—Ex-
change.
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If you don't think that this good old Luzianne
is worth what you paid, then tell your grocer
and he’ll give you back every cent.
ONE BUTTS COUNTY FARMER |
HAS SURPLUS CORN TO SELL
Shows That Cotton Is Not Only Prof
itable Crop Grown
While in town Tuesday Mr. A. H.
Pope, of Cork, stated he had several
hundred bushels of corn for sale. The
past year he raised something like
1,600 bushels, and has more than
enough for his needs. Mr. Pope owns
some rich river bottoms that produces
com abundantly, and at $2 per bush
el he finds that com is about as prof
itable as cotton at 32 cents. If Butts
county had a larger number of farm
ers with com to sell there would be
less worrying about Mr. Hoovers food
orders.