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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918
Jackson Progress - Argos
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Cards of thanks will be charged
at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 word* and less; above 50
words will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cash must accompany
copy in all instances.
What do you think of the fee sys
tem?
Brace up and smile. The worst may
be over.
Service is a badge of honor. What
are you doing to help?
Ask the candidates for the legisla
ture what they think about the fee
system.
You can knock out the high cost of
living by having a good garden and
keeping a pig.
If you prefer to buy bonds rather
than be taxed, support the next Lib
erty Bond issue.
Liberty is worth fighting for and
paying for. Buy some bonds and
stamps and swat the kaiser.
A plain old case of getting “fight
in’ mad" would help this country
about as much as anything else just
now.
John D. Rockefeller paid an income
tax of $38,000,000. But a little boost
in the price of oil will soon pay it
back.
Shoes are high and leather cheap.
The people are for skinning the prof
iteers that force such conditions on
the country.
The war can’t be won on paper.
That is a thing Washington ought to
realize. It takes blood and treasure
to win wars.
The labor shortage is bad enough
at the best. The situation is too acute
to allow vagrants in any community.
Put them to work.
Don’t you think the fee system is
about as much ouf of date in Georgia
as was the convict lease system? Tell
the candidates for representative what
you think of the fee system.
Yon haven’t done your full duty
until you have helped the government
in every way possible. Then you are
not doing as much as the boys in the
trenches. Quit kicking.
If some of the publicity “experts"
that flood newspapers with wagon
k>ads of stale, dry-as-bone copy were
put to work we have an idea there
would be less kicking about the labor
shortage.
In some respects Harris and
Hardwick are alike. They are
both skillful wire-pullers. Neith
er is a statesman worthy to rep
resent Georgia in the United
States senate. They pulled the
■wires at the Macon convention,
but this time they will have to let
the people settle the issue.—
Jackson Progress-Argus.
All of which is very true. Harris,
Newt Morris, and politicians of their
class, put Tom Hardwick in the sen
ate. As the Progress-Argus remarks,
the people are going to settle the is
sue this time.—Dalton Citizen.
THE FEE SYSTEM
While the United States as a na
tion is fighting' to make the world safe
for democracy, isn’t it about time the
citizens of Georgia opened their eyes
to the evils of the fee system?
Not one word has ever been said or
ever can be said in defense of the fee
system. The fee syste mis iniquitous,
moss-grown and out of date in any
progressive government.
A striking example of what the fee
system does was afforded in Butts
county superior court last week.
Fines aggregating two thousand, six
hundred and fifty-five dollars were
assessed for petty crimes. Every dol
lar of that amount was paid in cash
and the prisoners were taken out for
labor purposes. Butts county, which
pays all the court expenses, got one
lone p risoner to be vorked on the
county roads. He was given a straight
sentence. Had he been fined, no doubt
the fine would have been paid.
Is this the way to break up crime?
What does a bootlegger care for a
fine of, say one hundred dollars, when
he can sell fifteen quarts of liquor at
$7 per quart and pay the fine? Nev
er, as long as time lasts, will the whis
key business be stamped out as long
as fines are assessed, only to be paid,
and leave the prisoner ready to begin
business again. There is no reason
or logic in such a system. Whiskey
sellers and bootleggers do not fear
fines. They do fear straight sentences
at hard labor.
It costs the tax payers of Butts
county something like five hundred
dollars per day to operate the courts
of Butts county. This money must
be wrung from the citizens. The fee
system extracts its precious toll and
leaves nothing in return.
The grand jury of Butts county
indicts offenders for selling liquor and
othe rcrimes with the one idea of pun
ishing the offender and stamping out
crime. The grand jury acts in good
faith. But w hen the cases are called
for trial and if the defendants are
convicted and fined the very purpose
of the grand jury is defeated. The
succeeding grand jury has the same
ground to go over. In fact the whis
key evil seems to be growing worse in
stead of better.
The solicitor general of the Flint
circuit, as well as the solicitor of ev
ery other circuit in Georgia, ought to
be put on a salary. The fee system
ought to be done away with. The peo
ple are thinking about this as they
have never thought before. In fact,
it will not be surprising if the next
representative from Butts county is
not asked to introduce and have pass
ed legislation placing the solicitor
general on a salary.
WHY NOT PERMANENT STREETS
There is not a public road in Butts
county that is not better than the
main streets of Jackson.
While Butts county has spent thou
sands of dollars improving the public
highways, Jackson has done practi
cally nothing to better its streets.
Butts county today has the best
roads of any county in middle Geor
gia. Jackson’s streets are among the
worst to be found anywhere.
Isn’t it about time the citizens were
waking up and demanding some per
manent street work? The business
men of the town ought to come to-
gether on thi sproposition and through
a bond issue, or otherwise, pave or at
least improve the streets permanent
ly.
The streets in their present con
dition are a reflection on the pro
gressive spirit and wide-awake policy
of the city.
Let’s have some streets that will
stand up and render service every day
in the year. It is an investment that
will be cheap at any price.
Mr. A. P. Hilton, one of the veter
an newspaper men of the state, is
back in the game, having secured
control of the Dublin Tribune. Editor
Hilton and his associate, Mr. W. H.
Blinn, are making great improve
ments in the Dublin paper. Mr. Hil
ton is one of the best newspaper men
in the state.
In “Saturday Night Sketches” ed
itor J. L. Herring of the Tifton Ga
zette has written a true picture of
Wiregrass Georgia of fifty years ago.
These sketches, which have been ap
pearing in the Tifton Gazette for sev
eral months, have been printed in
book form. Editor Herring has done
the state a real service in putting in
enduring form conditions that existed
in South Georgia long ago. Wiregrass
Georgia is an empire within itself, and
Editor Herring has done a splendid
part in making that section great. His
book should find a place in every
Southern home.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
GOOD FOR THE WOMEN
(Savannah Press)
Senator Thomas W. Hardwick prob
ahly by this time knows wha ttne rep
resentative women in Macon th:nk of
him. And it can be safely asserted
that the views expressed by them are
those of the women throughout the
state.
At the meeting of the Mary Ham
mond Washington Chapter of the
Daughters of the American Revolu
tion, held in Macon Tuesday, these
resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, the Daughters of the
American Revolution were or
ganized, in the beginning, for pa
triotic reasons and on patriotic
lines; and,
Whereas, since this war began
we have pledged the govern
ment to stand with it on every
question and to assist it in ev
ery way possible and on any sub
jest, both as an organization and
as individuals;
Be it, therefore, resolved, That
we, the Mary Hammond Wash
ington Chapter, Daughters of the
American Revolution, regard
with abhorrence the utterances
of the junior senator from Geor
gia, in treasonably criticising
the government, and,
Resolved, That we detest the
manner in which he takes advan
tage of the position conferred on
him by the people of Georgia, to
represent himself and his treas
onable ideas, instead of those of
the people who elected him; and,
Resolved, That we feel Geor
gia has been humiliated and dis
graced by his words on public
both in the senate and
on the stump; and,
Resolved, That, in our opinion,
any one voting for him in the
coming election is, de facto, a
pro-German and should be treat
ed as such; and,
Resolved, That a copy of these
resolutions be given for publica
tion to the two Macon newspa
pers and a copy presented to the
next Daughters of the American
Revolution state conference to
be acted on by that body.
These utterances have the right
ring to them. They point to the en
evitable defeat of Senaor Hardwick
next fall. The women know when a
man indulges in treasonable utter
ances as well as do men, and these
Middle Georgia women have had lit
tle hesitation in saying so in this in
stance.
GREAT COUNTRY
(From An Exchange
We live in a land of high moun
tains and high taxes, low valleys and
low wages, big crooked rivers and big
crooked statesmen, big lakes, big
purnpkn hieads, silver streams that
gambol in the mountains, and pious
politicians that gamble in the nght,
roamg cataracts and roaring orators,
fast trains, fast horses, fast young
men and sharp lawyers, sharp finan
ciers, sharp toed shoes, noisy chil
dren, fertile plains that lie like a sheet
of water, and a thousand newspapers
that like that thunder.
THOSE BOLTERS
Ever notice that a lot of fel
lows who were whooping ’em up
for Rufe Hutchens two years
ago are now tearing their shirts
for Hardwick? Also a lot of
men who bolted the primary and
voted for Hutchens as an inde
pendent, are now back in the
party yelling for the junior sen
atoor. Funny, isn’t it?—Jackson
Progress-Argus.
Yes, and the same junior sen
ator did his best to have those
same men barred from partici
pating in a Democratic primary.
Yes, it’s funny, hysterical like.
Greensboro Herald-Journal.
Judge Reagan and Senator Hard
wick. we believe, had a plan on foot
to catalogue the bolters and prevent
them from ever taking part in anoth
er democratic primary'. The men who
bolted the party were referred to as
“traitors,” renegades” and other ap
pellations. How these men can new
vote for a man who would have dis
franchised them is more than we can
figure. Yet, that is part of Hard
wick’s record.
i The Daughters of the American
! Revolution, whose members are de
, scendants of patriots who fought and
! won the revolutionary war, are on
Tom Hardwick’s trail. When these
| patriotic ladies get after Hardwick
he will have to go in a hole and pull
the hole in behind him. Good for the
D. A. E.
LUCKY STRIKE
CIGARETTE
IN a year it has become
famous; the man’s cig
arette for the men who are
working over here, and
fighting over there.
The reason? Because
it’s made of Burley pipe J
tobacco and because —
y IT’S TOASTED
© H Guaranteed b
Tnju' c/crdracetr^a,
IN C O R POR ATBO y
AMERICAN AND ENGLISH IN
COME TAXES
In comparison with the tax levied
in England on incomes our own income
taxes are moderate, indeed.
In England the tax on incomes of
SI,OOO is 4% per cent, in America
nothing.
In England the tax on incomes of
$1,500 is 6% per cent; in America
nothing for married men or heads of
families, and 2 per cent on SSOO for
an unmarried man.
In England the tax on an income
of $2,000 is 7 7-8 per cent; in Amer
ica nothing for a married man or
head of a family, and 2 per cent on
SI,OOO for unmarried men.
The English income tax rate also
increases more rapidly with the
growth of the incme than ours, a $3,-
IS. H. THORNTON
JACKSON, GA.
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My careful personal attention giv
e i to all funerals entrusted to me
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000 income being taxed 14 per cent,
$5,000 16 per cent, and $15,000 25
per cent, while our corresponding tax
es for married men are respectively
two-thirds of 1 per cent, I x k pe*
cent, 3 % per cent and 5 per cent, |
and only slightly more for the Tin-1
married, due to the smaller amount g
exempted, the rate being the same.
A Short But Strong Statement
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