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FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1013 Jackson 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 thanks will be charged mt the rate of fifty cents, minimum for 50 words and less; above 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must accompany copy in all instances. ;j_ " ■ .' V r h " ~ 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. 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. Gww rf—4 Wtk. vSloajnV Limmeni •- It 1 ; :•> inis 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-