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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1013
Jackson Progress - Argus
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Breathes there a man with soul so
dead
Who never to himself hath said:
“This is my own, my native land?
Whose heart hath ne'er within him
burned
As home his footsteps he hath turned
From wandering on a foreign
strand?”
—Sir Walter Scott.
Keep the loafers moving
If you want to start something,
raise a pig.
Got the gardening fever? It's a
sure sign of spring.
May be what Russia needs is a
shavesky and a bathsky.
Make it so hot for the vagrant that
he will just have to go to work.
When in doubt the authorities
ought to make the vagrants get busy.
Now that Germany has Russia, the
question is what will she do with it?
The war has at least kncked out
the hook worm. At least we haven’t
heard of the crittur recently.
Every time Snider makes one of
those direful predictions Jiope the
weather will up and smite him.
The peach crop has not been killed
as often as usual this spring, and the
“official scares” are a little behind.
When the government takes a hand
in enforcing the prohibition law there
will be less moonshining and bootleg
ping. |
Come across with a prize and let’s 1
make the literary and athletic contest
of the Butts county schools a great
occasion.
Coal is to be cheaper, it is announc
ed. Every family should start right
now to lay in a supply of coal for an
other winter.
When it comes to staging revolu
tions and stirring up all round dev
ilment, Russia makes Mexico look
like an amateur.
Governor Dorsey speaks right o ut
about the vagrant. There is one place
for the vagrant—a job or the chain
gang. The soner the loafers are
rounded up and made to go to work
| the beter it will be for oil concerned.
WAR TIME ECONOMY
Round up the vagrants and put
them to work. Every man who does
not produce, or have some task in
helping to win the war, should not be
allowed to eat. Enforce the laws
against vagrancy and there will be
an adequate supply of labor.
Swat the worthless dog and keep
a pig. Georgia has at least 100,000
worthless dogs that ought to be killed.
They are consumers and produce
nothing. Many of these dogs are
a nuisance. Many of them develop
hydrophbia and the people are taxed
to support institutions for the treat
ment of rabies. You are paying a dog
tax after all and didn’t k now it. It
is more profitable to keep a pig than a
dog.
If chickens interfere with your
plans to have a garden, kill the chick-
I ens.
Don’t kick because you have to
j sign a card to get flour or some other
| food. If it were not for the govern
ment control you would be paying
double the present price.
The people of this country haven’t
given up the luxuries yet, to say
nothing of the necessities. So what
are you kicking about?
ALLIES EATING CORN
Somebody asks why we should deny
ourselves to send wheat to the sol
dies and the Allies—and asks furth
er, “Why can’t they eat corn meal
bread and substitutes bread? The
facts are that there is already going
abroad to the Allied nations from
America vast proportions of corn
meal and other wheat substitutes; the
bread of Britain is more than one
third substitute and the French loaf
is nearly one third something else than
wheat flour. The reason more corn
meal has not already been utilized by
the Allied nations is not so much that
they no not know how to use corn
meal—for they learning rapidly—but
only recenty has it been learned that
corn can be kiln-dreid so that it will
bear shipping. Hitherto the undricd
meal would not stand the shipment
conditions—but driers are being erec
ted every week to put American corn
n condition to be shipped—along with
the wheat flour. But there is shortage
even with all the corn that can be
shipped with wheat. The need is
pressing for the raising of more corn
and other bread-stuffs—and above all
just now, for the conservation of the
little wheat that is on hand in this
country.—Athens Banner.
The mettle of our fighting forces
in France has been tested and it rings
100 per cent true. Fritz will soon be
adder but wiser.
If it be true that we reap what we
sow—and Holy Wirt says so—then
the kaiser and his junkers are in for
one awful harvest.
Notice that Governor Dorsey and
Mayor Asa Candler had a plowing
contest in Atlanta. Wish congress
would take the hint.
Jack Patterson is the editor of two
papers, the Covington News and the
Conyers Times. He is getting away
with it in good shape, too.
The manufacture of automobiles is
to be cut 30 per cent, it is announced.
How does the government expect the
people to spend their money?
The man who doesn’t do something
to help along the Common Cause
will be a lonesome, loathesome crea
ture, when the war is over and peace
reigns again.
April 6 will markt he anniversary
of the declaration of war with Ger
many. It has been a year of prepara
tion. It is about time for Uncle Sam
to start somethin.
I
The farmers of Georgia did a splen
did part last year in raising food
and more meat. If they keep up that
good work during 1918 there will be
no empty cribs and smokehouses this
winter.
If the United States were to lose
this war your money would be worth
less. Better chip in and buy some
bonds and stamps and help crush Ger
many so you can live on in peace and
security.
There is a growing conviction that
every dollar spent for the V. M. C. A.
is a dollar that returns 100 per cent
profit. It means cleaner and'Wetter
living, wholesome and moral sur
roundings and all round efficiency.
t a rvrrv PROGRESS-AF.GUS
THE RED CROSS NURSES OF EUROPE
ARE GIVING TOASTED
CIGARETTES TO THE BOYS
To anyone who doesn’t know of the
wonderful advances that have been made
in the preparation of smoking tobaccos
in the last few years it may sound strange
to speak of toasted cigarettes.
Strictly speaking, we should say ciga
rettes made of toasted tobacco; the smok
ers of this country will recognize it more
readily by its trade name, “LUCKY
STRIKE ’’—the toasted cigarette.
The American Tobacco Company are
producing millions of these toasted ciga
rettes and these are being bought in
enormous quantities through the various
tobacco funds conducted by the news
papers of the country and forwarded
through the Red Cross Society to the boys
in France.
This new process of treating tobacco
not only improves the flavor of the tobacco
but it seals in this flavor and makes
the cigarettes keep better.
The Red Cross nurse is always glad to
have a cigarette for the wounded soldier,
as, in most instances, that is the first
thing asked for.
Credit should always be given any
paper that prints anything -worth copy
ing. The editor who fails to do this
is guilty of pilfering. This paper al
ways gives credit for all the clippings
used.
This is every man’s war. The man
who pays nothing but a pole tax is
just as much interested as the captain
of industry. America has never worn
a yoke and we will not wear a Ger
man yoke if every man does his part.
Will the city order another election
to allow the voters an opportunity to
pass on the question of issuing bonds
for the new high school, or will de
velopments wait on the war? This is
the question, and there should be a
full and frank discussion of the mat
ter.
When a man wants something good
to eat now he has to go to he country
to find it. The farmer is very much in
the swim, and he is nearer on top
than he has been since the civil war.
There is nobody who envies the far
mer his prosperity, for he has had
many lean years.
Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System
The Old Standard general strengthening tonic,
GROVE'* TA.STKI.EB6 chill TUNIC, drives out
Malaria,enriches the blood,and btiihis np the sys
tem. A true tonic. For adults and children. 60c
Swift & Company
Publicity
At a recent hearing of the Federal Trade Commission there
was introduced correspondence taken from the private files of
Swift & Company,which showed that the Company had been con
sidering for some time an educational advertising campaign.
The need for this publicity has been apparent to us for sev
eral years. The gross misrepresentation to which we have
recently been subjected has convinced us that we should no longer
delay in putting before the public the basic facts of our business,
relying on the fair-mindedness of the American people.
The feeling against the American packer is based largely on
the belief that the income and well-being of the producer and
consumer are adversely affected by the packers’ operations,
resulting in unreasonably large profits.
Swift & Company s net profit is reasonable, and represents
an insignificant factor in the cost of living.
For the fiscal year 1917 the total sales and net profit of Swift
& Company were as follows:
Sales
$875,000,000.
Profits
$34,650,000.1
This is equivalent to a $3,465. profit on a business of $87,500.
H Swift & Company had made no profit at all, the cattle raiser
would have received only one-eighth of a cent per pound mow for his
cattle, or the consumer would have saved only one-quarter of a cent per
poun d on dressed beef.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
WOULD UNVEIL
SERVICE FLAG
In Honor of Butts County
Soldiers And Sailors
YOUNG LADIES FAVOR IT
GIRLS AT STATE NORMAL
SCHOOL WOULD MAKE AND
PRESENT COUNTY WITH FLAG
ON ANNIVERSARY OF WAR
Miss Bessie Compton, a student at
the State Normal School at Athens,
has written to Judge J. H. Ham, Or
dinary, for permission to make and
unveil a Service Flag on the Butts
county court house on April 6, the
first anniversary of the declaration
of war with Germany. The names of
all the soldiers and sailors from Butts
county are desired by Miss Compton,
who together with the other Butts
county girls at the State Normal, pro
poses to make the flag and present it
to the county.
The authorities will be glad to have
the flag unveiled. They are now busy
in trying to secure the names of all
the boys from Butts county who have
enlisted in the various branches of
the service. The exact number is not
known, though Butts county has done
a good part furnishing her quota of
men to fight the country’s battles.
The flag will have a star for each man
in the service.
Such a flag wuld be appropriate
just now. The exercises, in case all
the arrangements go through as plan
ned, will be patriotic and the occasion
will prove one of more than ordinary
interest.
ALMOST A YOUNG MAN AGAIN
E. R. Whitehurst, R. F. D. 1, Nor
folk, Va., writes: “I had been suffer
ing for more than a year, but since
tajring Foley Kidney Pills I feel al
most a young man again.” They
strengthen and heal weakened, disor
dered kidneys, stop sleep-disturbing
bladder ailments, banish backache,
rheumatic pains, stiffness, soreness.
The Owl Pharmacy, advt.
Progress-Argus want ads bring
results.
brio, Mt |!m rhwitjc Aches. As
application at Sloan’• Liniment brings
quick relief. No rubbing. It penetrates.
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At the last meeting of the Na
tional Educational Assoociation a
program was proposed to better rural
schools and asking federal aid to the
extent of $140,000,000. The plan
would be carried out in ten years, one
tenth of the money being spent each
year, the government to co operate
with the states and counties.
TAKE "CASCARETS” IF
HEADACHY, BILIOUS
AND CONSTIPATED
Best For Liver and Bowels,
Bad Breath, Bad Colds,
Sour Stoamch
Get a 10-cent box.
Sick headache, biliousness, coated
tongue, head and nose clogged up
with a cold—always trace this to tor
pid liver; delayed or fermenting food
in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach..
Poisonous matter clogged in the
intestines, instead of being cast out
of the system is re-absorbed into the
blood. When this poison reaches the
delicate brain tissue it causes conges
tion and that dull, throbbing, sicken
ing headache.
Cascarets immediately cleanse the
stomach, remove the sour, undigest
ed food and foul gases, takes the ex
cess bile from the liver and carry out
all the constipated waste matter and
poisons in the bowels.
A Cascaret to-night will surely
straighten you out by morning. They
work while you sleep—a 10-cent box:
from your druggist means your head
clear, stomach sweet and your liver
and bowels regular for months, advt-