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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1918 Jacksen 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 Card* of thank* will be charged at the rate ef fifty cent*, minimum for 50 werd* and le**j abore 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash mu*t accompany copy in all instance*. 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 Tl 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