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rom sv u oru a iai e - - • * -* ' J Jackson Progross - Arps 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 " p OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN TY AND CITY OF JACKSON NOTICE Cards of thanks will be charged at tba rata of fifty cants, minimum for 60 wards and lass; abora 60 words will ba charged at tha rata of 1 eent a word. Cash must accompany opy in all instances. SPECIAL NOTICE SUBSCRIBERS FAILING TO RE CEIVE THEIR PAPER PROMPTLY SHOULD NOTIFY THIS OFFICE AT ONCE. EVERY EFFORT IS MADE TO DELIVER THE PAPERS, AND IF YOU DO NOT RECEIVE YOUR COPY THE FAULT IS NOT ALWAYS OURS. YOUR CO-OPE RATION IN THIS MATTER WILL BE APPRECIATED. H who mtm bu country, imi all thing*; all thing* *avei do bias* him. Ho who lota hi* country dio, lots all thing* dio, and all thing* dying, curso 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.