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FRIDAY, MARCH 22, 1918 Jackson Progress - Argos 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 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. UNDERTAKING, LICENSED EMBALMER Full Line of Caskets and Robes to select from My careful personal attention giv e i to all funerals entrusted to me A .L CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY DAY OR NIGHT DAY PHONE 174 NIGHT PHONE 193 000 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 Women with backache, rheumatic pains, sore muscles, stiff joints or ouh 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.