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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918
Jacksen Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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Planned your spring cleaning yet?
There is money in hogs. Get it out
by raising some pigs.
Now is a good time to latch on to
some War Saving Stamps.
Wow that Germany has made peace
with the Ukrainians, what will she do
with it?
Teddy, who was recently sick, can
not be accused of having a tongue
disease.
Mr. Ground Hog has Prof. Snider
backed off in a corner, so far as Feb
ruary weather is concerned.
Some people just naturally growl
because Uncle Sam hasn’t time to
warm their feet and put them to bed.
We believe if the kaiser could be
induced to spend a few days in the
feud section of Kentucky the war
would soon be over.
Blackmailers seem to think that
Uncle Asa Candler of Atlanta is an
E-Z mark, but notice none of them
have gotten any coin off of him yet.
It is announced that tho next Lib
erty Bond issue will be a whopper.
The people are willing to pay as long
as the kaiser’s scalp is in prospect.
Uncle Sam is entirely too lenient
with some of the traitors and spies in
this country. Use the firing squad ear
ly and often would be a good motto.
The war is bad enough at best, but
the man who tries to prove by the Bj
ble that the war will end at a certain
time generally makes a hopeless mess
of it.
Do not be afraid of an over-pro
duction of foodstuffs. The world is
short on something to eat and every
thin): you raise can be sold at attrac
tive prices.
Now is a pood time to do a lot of
planning. Plan for your garden, plan
the annual spring clean-up campaign,
plan to do some w orth while service
for your country.
“Food will win the war,” “ships
will win the war,” “aeroplanes will
win the war.” Now who’s right? All
these things taken together make a
combination the kaiser cannot beat.
While urging the farmers of the
South to plant more food crops, it is
well enough to supply cash markets
for their products. The marketing
system in Georgia is woefully behind
the times.
We are perfectly willing at all
times to do our bit and our best by the
government, but until the size of this
paper is enlarged ten fold we cannot
begin to print all the free publicity
sent in. i
PRODUCE—OR GO HUNGRY
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dictum. Hunger may settle the present war—settle it m a way that will
be best for civilization and human liberty. ,
Forty million persons have been withdrawn from the paths of produc
tion and have been turned into destructive forces. Italy, f T rance th all United
land must be fed or their soldiers cannot go on fighting. Upon the United
States, largely, depends the task of feeding herself and her allies.
It is a time for serious thought, if our farmers could be brought to see
the situation as it is. Unfortunately, high priced cotton has turned the
heads of many, and there is danger of a large cotton acreage this year to
the exclusion of food crops. The South has not been feeding herself. Sn®
has not been producing enough meat, lard, hay, com, cattle, wheat, oats,
potatoes. These supplies have been bought largely from other sections ana
paid for out of the cotton crop. As long as the country was at peace it was
all right, but now conditions are changed.
First of all, the government is going to feed the soldiers. As long as
there is any food in the country the government will buy it, and when food
gets scarce the government will take it, if necessary. So it is up to evrry
community to be self supporting in so far as is humanly possible.
Railroad congestion is another factior that should be considered. Gran-t
ing that there are abundant food supplies in other section* and the govern
ment eannot furnish trains to haul them, that would leave the South m a
■orry plight. The recent rouble in securing coal ought to be a lesson and a
warning to our farmers.
“Food will win the war,” is not a catch phrase. It is the litreal truth.
Every community ought to start the year with a determination to raise ev
ery article of food possible. The South ought to measure up to her full
duty in the present c risis.
The farmer'is the man of the hour. He holds in his hands the destiny
of the world. Upon him rests a great responsibility and a sacred duty. He
is as patriotic as any other citizen. His sons and his neighbor’s sons are
in the fight, and they must be fed. He should listen to the dictates of com
mon sense and reason and let alone the politician and the demagogue, many
of whom are trying to cloud the issue.
Were it not for England’s mastery of the seas, cotton would today be
a drug on the market, selling for probably six to eight cents a pound aei in
the first days of the war. The sea is and should be as free as the wind that
bloows, open to the commerce of the world. Yet there are little white-liver
ed, self-seeking politicians and demagogues who would have the people be
lieve that we should have kept our ships at home, thereby keeping out of
the war.
In this issue we are printing a letter from Clarence Ousley, assistant
secretary of agriculture. Mr. Ousley is a southern man and what he says
in regard to raising more food and feed crops, should be pondered seriously
by every southern farmer.
AN APPEAL TO FARMERS
“If the South neglects this year to provide her own food and feed, she
is likely to suffer serious privation, and she will put a burden upon the Na
tion which may prolong the war and even imperil our victory,’’ says Clarence
Ousley, assistant secretary of agriculture.
“I am aware that these are strong words,” continues Secretary Ousley,
“but they are nonetoo strong. I am not expressing an alarmist personal opin
ion. I am seeing through the eyes of 48 agricultural colleges and of county
agnts in nearly every agricultural county. I have recently crossed the conti
nent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. I have sudied the reports gathered
by the deparment’s 18,000 representatives and as many more employees of
the agricultural colleges. I have considered the conclusions of the Interna
tional Institute of Agriculture at Rome which has reports from all the world.
“The plain, hard truth is that with 40 million people withdrawn from
productive ndustreis and engaged in the business of destruction, it is not
humanly possible for producton on the whole to exceed normal demand., lne
question is wheteher production can equal necessitous demand.
“England, France and Italy must be sustained or their populations can
not stand the strain. They have been on scanty rations for more than three
years. The chief cause of Russia’s c ollapse wa shunger. Soldiers cannot
fight when their wives and children are starving.
“Secretary McAdoo has given warning that transportation may be lack
ing in 1918, to haul food and feed to states and communities that do not pro
vide for themselves. Many cattle have been sacrificed in the drouth regions
of the northwest and southwest during the last few months, because railroad
cars could not be obtained as needed. Military movements must have first
consideration, and military movements will be greater tn 1918 than in 1917.
The prime question for the farmer is not what product will bring the highest
price, hut what products will nsure food for his family and feed for his live
stock, and the answer is:, A vegetable garden, a milk cow, a brood sow a
poultry flock, ample com, oa,st peanuts, etc., and then as much cotton or to
bacco as he can cultivate well. .
“It is the highest demand of patriotism—it is the first requirement of
living—that n 1918 every state, every county, every neighborhood, every
farmer, be as nearly self-sustaining as possible.
“For (he Sooth to plunge on cotton or tobacco or any other speculative
crop and to depend upon the com belt for bread and meat will be for the
South to engage in a gamble which may cause privation to its people and
disaster to the nation. For any man now to determine his business opera
tions frm the standpoint of profit alone, without regard to the Nations needs,
is for him wilfully to profiteer in the blood of his fellows who are fighting m
France for the p reservaton of the republic. No man can be excused for not
taking his share of (he responsibility.
“My whole life has been spent in the South. I know the Southern farm
er. He will dQ his duty as he sees it. lam appealing to every man the
South to make known these facts—to consider it his business to make them
known—and I shall have no doubt of the results. If they are not made
known in a way to impress the crisis that c onfroonts us, there may be hun
ger in this bounteous land or hunger over yonder in Europe, where it will
spell ruin for all that is worth while in America.”
PEN UP THE CHICKENS
There is going to be more serious
attention paid to gardening this year
than was iever known beore. Every
person who has a garden or vacant
lot is going to try to make it produce
an abundant supply of vegetables,
thereby helping to cut down the
mounting cost of living. This is a
commendable spirit.
But little can be done at gardening
with chickens running rampant. The
need for a city ordinance requiring
chickens to be penned up is apparent.
Our city fathers, who so well admin
ister the affairs of the town, could
do no greater sendee than pass an or
dinance requiring chickens to be
kept off the streets and from running
at large.
The Progress-Argus has mentioned
this matter before and will mention it
again until something is done. The
exact status of the chicken is going
to Jae determined. Whether it is a “do
mestic” animal or not must be set
tled. One thing is certain: A num
ber of cities and towns have ordi
nances requiring chickens to be con-
fined to the owner’s premises.
Let’s make our war gardens count
for something this year, but before we
can do this let us insist that council
take some measures to stop the depre
dations of ehickns.
JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
HELP THE AGENTS
At considerable expense, Butts
county has employed a Farm Agent
and an agent in Home Economics for
the benefit of the pople of the county.
All phases of the club work should
receive more attention this year than
ever before, because war-time condi
tions demand more food and feed
crops.'
Last year Butts county led the state
of Georgia in Canning Club work, in
the Boys Pig Club and the Boys Com
Club. That is a record to be proud of.
Rut an even better record can be made
this year, if the proper co-operation
is shown the agents.
These agents are here to serve the
people. They are paid out of the
county’s and govmment’s coffers.
They are servants of the people. If
you fail to use them, to call on them
in any matter affecting farming, live
stock and poultry raising, and gener
al club work, you have nobody to
blame but yourself.
Now that a system of safe farming
is urgently needed, The Progress-Ar
gus would like to see the county
agents extended the co-operation they
so much need, and must have to make
their work a success.
Tto faWM Tint Does Not Aflwt fte Mad
tmk UMtiTt Lm.
Sr* BMMOQCUmm *• *•*■ *fcn ordinary j
4<x< not c*m*e nemuttit nor
***■*- HwMmfeac tie Ml une ned
*ot tke Mcaature at X. XT. QM7*. 30c.
AND NOW THEY ARE COOKING
TOBACCO TO MAKE IT BETTER
For a good many years The American
Tobacco Company have been conducting a
series of experiments having as their
object the improvement of smoking
tobaccos,
And it is interesting to know that one
of the greatest of their discoveries was one
of the simplest, and that was, that cooking
or toasting tobacco improved it in every
way, just as cooking most foods improves
them.
They took a real Burley tobacco, grown
in this country; toasted it as you would
toast bread; moistened it to replace the
natural moisture driven off by toasting;
made it into cigarettes, called them
“LUCKY STRIKE, the toasted cigarette,”
and offered them to the public.
The result has been the greatest demand
ever created for any tobacco product in a
similar length of time.
The change produced by toasting is not
only most wholesome, but the flavor is
greatly improved, just as cooking improves
meat, for example.
Where The Politician* Are Training
(Irwinton Bulletin)
The patriots and politicians are
havng a hard time getting their can
didates in trim at the different train
ing camps to defeat Hardwick. They
have Cooper at Camp Appeal, run
ning for anew trial. Shaw at the av
iation school blowing air balloons, Up
shaw at Bessie Tift running on faith,
and Harris at Camp Administratation
running on one cylinder and official
endorsements. We are afraid the
race will be over before they become
first class privates. The man who
wins will train at Camp Voter. They
are talking of putting Dorsey at
Camp Frank, but even this camp has
lost its influence with the intelligent
voter.
Luzianne Coffee set before "a y
gentleman and a judge of fine coffee." \\ 1 1
A finer hot beverage than good, old ■ \gp=-
Luzianne never existed. . xT l oZ ffijK|
Luzianne tastes all the way down V
and you say “Set ’em up again." j i
Buy a can of Luzianne Coffee. 1£
you can’t honestly say that it's the ;
best cup of coffee that ever passed WtntfßatepC* 1
your lips, tell your grocer you’re not jySMSSSSSi*^
satisfied and he’ll give you back youf ~
money on the spot
Please try Luzianne. You’ll like
it, you will. In clean, air-tight tins. When It
EPZMMMII
V COFFEE
One effective way to give our sol
diers target practice would be to back
up some of the spies and traitors
against the wall and fill them full of
lead. The government has been too
easy with certain cattle.
NOTHING ELSE LIKE
IT IN JACKSON
There has never been anything in
Jackson with the INSTANT action
of simple buckthorn bark, glycerine,
etc., as mixed in Adler-i-ka. ONE
SPOONFUL flushes the ENTIRE
bowel tract so completely it relieves
ANA CASE sour stomach, gas or con
stipation and prevents appendicitis.
The INSTANT, pleasant action of Ad
ler-i-ka surprises both doctors and pa
tients. J. H. Turner, druggist. adv
With a labor shortage facing the
country, railroad congestion a serious
problem and a world wide food short
age, the Southern planter who pins
lis faith to all cotton and fails to
raise plenty of food and feed is mak
ing a serious mistake.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CAS TO R I A
If the farrmer had to p ay j®
for cutting wood that the count,®
to pay for cutting a tree f rora JJr
the road, he would have to payiM
dollars a cord. But steal f r ' o j®
county seems to be hom-st. - J
ton Bulletin.
The people of this county h aV{ ®
begun to make sacrifices yet,
soldiers and the soldiers of our,]®
need the wheat let them have it, J
are in water and mud up to ®
waist, fighting our battles. Let. J
have our wheat and anything®
they want and cut out the growl J
When cussing the kaiser don’t!®
get to damn the profiteers and stfl
ers. The body of men who delibe*
ly cripples war preparations fora®
tie more money, which must come®
of the pockets of the common peo®
have no patriotism in their gwissi
and are helping Germany. Strife
ought to be given their choice of!
turning to their work or be put ia
front line trenches.
The government has placed
country on probation by asking
people to save all the food possil
If this is not done a system of rati
ing will undoubtedly be put into
feet. The question is will you sa
food voluntarily or will you be fort
to do it?
Butts county needs a cold storai
plant and a potato curing warehoja
It ought to be possible to slaugit
hogs at any season of the year, ai
farmers need some system where
they can save their potato crop. Sm
enterprises of this character are and
tinctly worth while, particularly
during war times when nothing shoi
be wasted.
MANY NEWSPAPERS CASH IN
The year 1917 was not a
one for newspapers in the ’.'tS
States, according to the report :B>
American Newspaper Director; - ?Bl
lished by N. W. Ayer & Son. A t<B
of 560 newspapers were forced fl
of business on account of high prß
paper, ink, and printing material®
all kinds. Every since the war biß
out newspapers of the country hfl
been up against a serious situat oiß
Despite the handicap under '•'•'B
they are already laboring, the B
class postage rate will be iner-B
the first of July. Although th* B
ernment calls on the newspaper? ■
more free work than any oB
agency in the country, no special B
ors are shown the papers.
For Indigestion, Constipation I
Biliousness jg^
Just try one 50-cent bottle of LA -fßjj
WITH PEPSIN. A Liquid L
Laxative pleasant to take. Mare flfl
recommended to the public by Paris MB's
cine Cos., manufacturers of Laxative EiAl
Quinine and Grove’s ’ A'flH
Some people growl over a
like it was as big as an elepM'*- B
something else and let th- f
have the wheat, the mea: the
and anything else they war -s