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him.—Benjamin H. Hill.
Are you doing anything to help the
common cause?
America for Americans is a darn
sight better than America for Ger
mans.
In some respects Harris and Hard
wick are alike They are both skillful
wire-pullers. Neither is a statesman
worthy to represent Georgia in the
United States senarte. They pulled
the wires at the Macon convention,
but thia time they will have to let the
people settle <the issue.
The two Big Drives are about to be
gin. One is the drive of the armies in
France, >the other the drive of the
American farmer. Each of these
drives is us important as the other,
and if the soldiers in France are to
continuo to light we must back them
up at home with the sinews of war.
Ever notice that a lot of the fellows
who were whooping ’em up for Rufe
Hutchens two years ago are now tear
ing their shirts for Hardwick? Also
a lot of men who bolted the primary
and voted for Hutchens as an indepen
dent, are now back in the party yell
ing for the junior senator. Funny,
isn’t it?
! The only way to reach the great
mass of people is through the country
press. Yet the government refuses to
spend a cent w’ith the wekly newspa
pers. At the same time the govern
ment officials have multiplied like lo
custs—and they are not working for
nothing either. In the face of such
treatment it is a tribute to the loyal
ty and patriotism of the country press
that they are supporting the govern
ment unitedly and heartily.
Thank God, the people of this
country are thoroughly aroused over
the perils of indiscriminate immigra
tion. When this war is over the gut
ter-snipes of all the world must be
kept out of America. It is the for
eigners who are doing the devilment,
burning buidings, bombing plants,
wrecking bridges, causing strikes,
spreading socialism and anarchy. Yet
a Georgia governor once went to Ger
many to secure more immigrants for
the South. Have the people forgot
ten?
THE DUTY OF LANDLORDS
In the present crisis when calls are
being made for largely increased food
crops, it i Bthe duty of landlords to
put the matter squarely before their
tenants in The strongest manner pos
sible. Many of the largest farmers in
the county have already done this.
Every farmer should do it.
This is a time when tenants should
be told of the true state of affairs.
They should be told to raise every
ounce of cotton possible, because the
world needs all the cotton that can
be produced, but at the same time
raise all the food crops that the land
will yield. They should be informed
that if they do not raise the necessary
food crops to feed themselves and
their livestock that they will probably
have to do without. This is a condition
forced on the country by war and ev
ery man who operates a farm should
face the fasts as they exist.
The time to act is now. Don’t wait
until the crops have been planted.
Nobody is going to plow up cotton to
plant food crops. If you are a land
lord it is your patriotic duty to tell
your tenants the whole truth about
this food crisis.
GET READY TO BUY BONDS
The next Liberty Bond issue will
be launched sometime soon. It is the
duty of every man who can do so to
subscribe for some of these bonds.
The war must be financed, and if the
government cannot raise the money
through the sale of bonds it will raise
it through taxation. Excessive tax
ation will cripple the country indus
trially. Better to take some of the
bonds, an absolutely safe investment,
rather than have the government
take the money out of your pockets
through taxatoin. Money raised
through taxation is money gone for
ever, with nothing to show for it. On
the other hand the Liberty Bonds
bear interest and provide a safe and
sound investment.
Think this matter over. The crops
of <the country the past year amount
ed to about twenty billion dollars.
The United States can absorb all the
bonds offered without anybody being
hurt. An effort will be made, it is an
nounced, to plaee a large amount of
the next bond issue among the farm
ers of the country. We have enough
faith in the patriotism and loyalty of
the farmers to believe they will sub
scribe liberally and cheerfully when
the matter is explained to them in
the right way.
LIQUOR MUST GO
Such affairs as the recent shooting
at Indian Springs are a disgrace to
Butts county. The trouble was direct
ly traceable, we are informed, to li
quor. Analysis wlil show that most
other crimes are traceable to liquor.
The law-abiding, self-respecting citi
zens of Indian Springs should rise up
in their might and demand thait traffic
in liquor in their community be stop
ped.
There is a remedy. The man who
traffics in liquor now violates several
laws.
First, he violates <the state prohibi
tion law.
Second, he violates the federal law
against the manufacture and aale of
liquor in dry territory.
Third, he violates the federal law
against the use of grain for making
liquor.
Fourth, he violates a moral law.
He violates the law of decency and
aelf-reapect. He puts a tax on crime,
which must be paid by the common
people. He helps to clog the courts
with murder, araon, rape and all man
ner of miademeanora. He helps to
fill the insane asylums, institutions
that must be supported by the taxpay
ers. He puts a premium on ignorance
—and God knows there is enough ig
norance in this country. He helps to
debauch and debaae, when he should
be trying to uplift and strengthen.
In another part of this issue we are
publishing a letter from the Internal
Revenue Department, showing that
the government is anxious and ready
*to co-operate with the state and coun
ty officials in breaking up bootlegging
and moonshining. Any community
can be rid of the liquor business by
appealing to the authorities for help.
The bootlegger and moonshiner
should be made to know 'that we have
no place for him. The prohibition law
should be enforced and it can be en
forced when the people of any given
community show their willingneu to
help enforce it.
JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
ROUND UP THE VAGRANTS
Another drive that should be made
is the drive against the vagrant.
Georgia, and the country in gener
al, was never faced with such an acute
labor shortage. It is interesting to
speculate where all the labor, in a
farming community like Butts county,
has gone. Statistics show that less
than three per cent of the men have
been called to the colors. True, many
men have found work with the gov
ernment, and several thousand Geor
gia negroes have gone North within
the past year or two.
Yet this fact does not explain the
scarcity of labor. Butts county ha3
sent less than twenty colored select
men to the army camps. It is not
known just how many have left for
other sections
Never has it been so hard to get a
little work done. Attractive wages
have no effect on the labor market.
Many local plants are seriously crip
pled and in some instances the super
intendents and foremen are having
to do the work ordinarily done by ne
gro helpers. Farmers complain that
they cannot obtain the labor needed
to make a crop.
Investigation shows that there is
plenty of labor in the country, but
the laborers refuse to work. The ex
planation is that they have enough
money from last year’s cotton crop
and don’t have to work.
The authorities should catalogue
every man in the community. If he
refuses to work, he should be made to
work There is now a job for every
man, woman and child in the country,
rich and poor, white and colored. A
vigorous and determined drive against
the vagrants would go far toward
-elieving the labor shortage. It would
at the same time decrease potty
crime, stop card playing and crap
shooting and have a wholesome effect.
Lot the drive begin.
QUESTIONS TO THE POINT
(Albany Herald)
A correspondent of the Philadel
phia Record who signs himself “Plain
Man” manages to say a good deal in
a hundred words or so. This is what
ha writes:
Editor of The Record:
Why, in the name of all that is reas
onable, should your son and mine be
liable to conscription to fight, and if
need be give his life, for S3O a month,
and the man who can, but will not,
work a saw be free to interrupt war
work and to demand an exorbitant
wage and closed shop? It is quite
right that our boys should be subject
to the nation’s call at any wage what
soever or at none, but why not the
other fellow?
PLAIN MAN.
Philadelphia, Feb. 18, 1918.
It would be interesting to hear the
answers of President Hutchenson, of
the Ship Carpenters’ Union, to those
questions. They are not impertinent
questions. They do not muddle mat
ters or set up imaginary facts, but go
straight to the point.
Many a “plain man’s” son has had
to join the army. Thousands of young
men have gone into the navy, and we
have no means whereby we may know
now how many more thousands will
be drafted.
As the Philadelphia paper’s corres
pondent points out, it is no more than
right that these men should go. The
country needs them, and thart is
enough. The private soldier’s pay is
S3O a month, though his father may
be a millionaire and though he himself
may have earned ten thousand a year
in business or a profession. But
whether the government proposes to
pay him a nominal sum every month
or pay him nothing at all, it is his
duty to go.
But to what greater extent is it
the duty of the drafted manto face
Hun bullets than it is the duty of the
man employed in building ships, i
which are just as important as sol
diers, to weild the tools of his trade
that his country may win its battles?
The industrial army is not only just
as important as the army that must
fight beyond the seas, but the counry
has just as much right to order it into
action. The battle lines are not all in
Europe, and not all the country’s ene
mies wear the German uniforms. So
vast is the struggle we have entered, 1
so stupendeous are the demands,
which it makes upon the nation, that
every resource, every industrial or
ganization, every dollar of wealth
and every intelligent man who has as
sumed the obligations of citizenship
are subjeot to call to whatever extent
may be necessary.
The claims of the nation are su
preme. and the right of the nation to
draft into its service every citizen of
MEAT TASTES
BETTER COOKED
And tobacco now tastes much
better toasted
You’ll know this when you
smoke the famous Lucky Strike
cigarette, the real Burley cigarette
</<nhx£e<r<^.
Bunk Cooper, we take it, has ap
pealed his political case before the
people. Two years ago the voters
went against him, but he has asked
for a rehearing before the voters and
is now telling the people why he
should bo sent to the United States
senate.
Every man for his country, and ev
ery man for himself, is the motto our
farmers should adoprt. First he should
produce enough food crops for his
own use, and if has a surplus sell it
to the government. The government
is not going to help the man who
does not try to help himself. Let
that soak in.
LEMONS WHITEN UNO
BEHIITIFY THE SKIN
Make This Beauty Lotion
Cheaply for Your Face,
Neck, Arms and Hands
At the cost of a small jar of ordi
nary cold cream one can prepare a
full quarter pint of the most wonder
ful lemon skin softener and complex
ion beautifier, by squeezing the juice
of two fresh lemons into a bottle
containing three ounces of orchard
white. Care should be taken to strain
the juice through a fme cloth so no
lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion
will keep fresh for months. Every
woman knows that lemon juice is
used to bleach and remove such
blemishes as freckles, sallowness and
tan and is the ideal skin sortener,
whitener and beautifier.
Just try it! Get three ounces of
orchard white at any drug store and
two lemons from the grocer and
, make up a quarter pint of this sweet
;ly fragrant lemon lotion and mas
j sage it daily into the f ace* neck, arms
and hands. It is nfarvelous to
: smoothen rough, red hands. advt
■ whom it has need cannot be ques
|ioned.
Pro grew-Argus want ads bring
results.
BEAUTIFUL SPRING FILLS HIS
HEART WITH LOVE, TRA LA.
I wandered to the hills, Maggie,
where first the daisies spring, and
was so enraptured with Nature and
Nature’s God that I said I would just
call up central. And so I just put my
head up against a majestic oak and
said, “hello, central.” Tell every lov
er of art,' poetry and song to come
here, for I hear a squirrel bark in the
hammock, the sweet song of the blue
bird and the droaning waters of a
distant creek. Strawberries, peaches
and flowers are setting their fruit;
the honeysuckle is blooming on the
fence where lovers meet; the maple
trees are in bloom, the lilies are grow
ing along the pond and the bobolinks
are hovering over the low spots.
And so throw off your coats, shoul
der your garden hoe and invite your
wife into the garden and discuss with
her where to put the lettuce, sow
English peas, beets, etc., and the first*;
thing you know both will be talking
to each other as soft as the cooing of
a dove, and there in the garden walk
of happiness talk of love among the
roses.
If thes* beautiful spring days don't
make a man love his wife, work his
fields, orchard and garden there ain’t
much to him.
PLOW HANDLES.
A Short But Strong Statement
Women with backache, rheumatic
pains, sore muscles, stiff joints or oth
er symptoms of kidney trouble should
read this statement from Mrs. S. C.
Small, Clayton, N. M.: “Foley Kid
ney Pills have done me more good
than all other medicines.” They
strengthen weak kidneys and banish
sleep-disturbing bladder ailments. The
Owl Pharmacy, advt.
EVERY EXPRESS
BRINGS NEW
Suits, Dresses, Waists,
Skirts,, Millinery, Foot
wear, Silks, etc. You can
see new things here every
day.
Etheridge, Smith & Cos.