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- - t s>r •* r\r- ir\ 1 n Smarfesi New Styl. es ) /Wk ) v 7// Advance Easter Showing /cMu. Easter is rapidly approaching. Are you ready? We are. '\§li tftf \\ 1 Jaifr ie SeaS ° n S S^°e St^CS are Cre 1 Wdm Remember the usual rush that precedes Easter. No doubt ft Js|l . \j 1 pi you too have made hurried Easter selections in other years, I V firJls only to regret it later. And possibly you have been one of \ M flj die I^ r esolved to ta^e advantage of the advance |p l\ HSwi For you this early exhibit has been arranged. Never have we ' | \Wj had more pleasing styles. Never have we been so able to jj Mill AN thoroughly satisfy the Easter footwear needs of our patrons. Hill Wifaf 1 To hundreds of men and women we need only say: The / Selz Superior Styles are here. But to you who do not yet A a w assortments are complete and fitting service is at its best. / I mJ J. ARENSON Uja JENKINSBURG The Juniors entertained at a beau tiful reception Friday night in honor of the Seniors. Fifty guests were present, the prize being awarded Miss Florence Stallworth for the highest score in the contest. Annie Q. Taylor, Lafon Bankston and Laura Belle Ben son assisted in serving. IJr. J. A. Sharp, of the Wesley Me morial church in Atlanta, who for seventeen years was president of Young Harris College, will deliver the commencement sermon at 11 o’clock Friday, May 3. Dr. M. Ashby Jones, of the Ponce De Leon Baptist church, who is known throughout the state as an “orator-minister” will de liver the Literary Address at the Methodist church Friday evening at 8 o’clock. Ugly, Unsightly Pimples Are Signals of Bad Blood Give Heed to the Warning. Pimples on the face and other parts of the body are warnings from Nature that your blood is sluggish and impoverished. Sometimes they foretell eczema, boils, blisters, scaly eruptions and other skin disorders that burn like flames of fire. They mean that your blood needs S. S. S. to purify it and cleanse it of these impure accumulations that can cause unlimited trouble. This remedy is the greatest vegetable blood puri* Misses Lucile Aiken and Odelle Moore ,of Shorter College, who were graduates here of 1917, were visitors to chapel Monday Miss Ruth Middlebrooks, of Wes leyan College, visited her parents last week. Corporal Ed Bankston, of Fort Og lethorpe, formerly of the Philipine Islands, is vistng relatves here. Messrs. Ernest Sours and Willie Ratchford, of La Fayette. Ala., were the guests Sunday of Misses Sallie Ruth and Lillie Thurston. Mr. Tommie Joe Hammond, Misses Jane Hammond, Julia Pettigrew and Mary Manning motored to Social Cir cle Sunday where they were guests of Miss Ollie Mae Stanton. fier known, and contains no minerals or chemicals to injure the most deli cate skin. Go to your drugstore, and get a bottle of S. S. S. today, and get rid of those unsightly and disfiguring pimples, and other skin irritations. And it will cleanse your blood thor oughly. If you wish special medical advice, you can obtain it without charge bv writing to Medical Direc tor, 29 Swift Laboratory, Atlanta, Georgia, rttr i a rt'CAM onA<Dr pc A orije BIG COTTON DEAL IN JACKSON LAST WEEK HOLDINGS OF LAST SEASON SOLD BY BARKLEY BROTHERS FOR OVER $28,000 PRICE WAS 35 CENTS POUND A cotton deal involving more than $28,000 was closed here last week, when Barkley Brothers disposed of their holdings to J. H. Carmichael & Cos. There were 155 bales in the lot, 5 bales of long staple, which sold for 40 cents, and 150 bales of upland cotton which netted 35 cents per pound. All this cotton was grown by Barkley Brothers last season. The price paid and the amount involved has attracted considerable attention. Messrs. Barkley disposed of their entire lot. This is the first time they have been entirely without some cot ton since 1913, it was said. They had previously sold all their old cotton. While other large deals have been reported during the saeson, this is the firstlarge lot of cotton that brought 35 cents per pound, the high est p rice paid since immediately af ter the civil war. Piles Cured In 6 to 14 Days Your druggist will refund money if TAZO OIUTMENT fails to cure any case of Xtc'nug, Biiuu, Bleeding orFrotrudlw Tiles iui to Wua*s. Tlie first application gives Ease and Rest. Sor “CASCARETS” BEST IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS, SISK, CONSTIPATED Best For Liver and Boweis, Bad Breath, Bad Colds, Sour Stomach 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, fermenting food in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the intestines, instead of being cast out of the system is reabsorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissues it it causes congestion and that dull, throbbing sickening headache. Cascarets immediately cleans the stomach, remove the sour undigest ed food and foul gases, take the ex cess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A Cascaret tonight 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, breath right, | complexion rosy and your liver and bowels regular for months, advt JUDGE SEARCY WRITES CARD In Accord With Paper on Fee System CITES LABOR SHORTAGE DISCUSSES IN INTERESTING MANNER EDITORIAL IN THE PROGRESS-ARGUS LAST WEEK —GEORGIA SALARIES LOW Griffin, Ga., March 23, 1918. Editor Progress-Argus: By your leave I want to say a word in reference to your editorial in this week’s paper commenting on the re cent term of the Butts superior court. What I shall say is in no sense con troversial spirit, because in the main I agree with your views, but solely “to keep the records straight.” I should perhaps, if the comment as made had eminated from a less influ ential and representative source have paid no attention to it, although it does appear to be somewhat critical. I believe with you that the practi cal and effective way to suppress traffic in intoxicating liquors is by imposing sentences at hard labor in stead of money fines. Under normal conditions this has been and would be my practice, but with courts as well as elsewhere “circumstances alter cases.” There is a distressing scarci ty of labor, especially on the farms, ,nd because of the increasing demands of our government (which ought to be our first concern) this scarcity is increasing. The result is the farming industry, and therefore the food sup ply for civilian and soldier, is imper iled. I did not believe this condition could be bettered by sending thirty two able bodied men away from Butts county farms into the chain gang. Of course these law breakers should not be turned loose. So to effect a two fold purpose, viz. Suppress viola tions of the law and punish offenders and relieve the labor situation on the farms, I adopted this course: Impose substantial fines with the distinct un derstanding that if the fine was paid and the convict obeyed the law in the future this would be the end of that case, but non payment of the fine or another violation of these or any pen al laws would immediately result in a chain gang sentence of 12 months in each Case —in every case the “record was left open” so that this sentence might at any time be imposed. So there stands this possible servitude staring each convicted person in the face. The result is the farmer gets his laborer, the law breaker is punished, the food stuffs are raised to feed citi zen and soldier and instead of mak ing a convict and maybe a hardened criminal of these men the opportu nity to reform and make good citi zens is held out to them, with an in evitable chain gang sentence for them if they break faith with the court, and this without the need of another trial. I believe, don’t you, that this is the better way, at this time, and under the conditions surrounding us, to deal with the matter? I have written you this fully be cause I feel that your editorial must have been written without a full knowledge of the facts here stated. Now so far as the “fee system” is concerned I have no quarrel wiih you or any person who favors abolishing it. I have always insisted that the pay men of fees for public service is wrong in principle. Every public of ficer should be paid a salary. And ev ery salary should be sufficiently large to insure and guarantee the very best men (or women) mentally and moral ly to fill these offices. Little salaries will result in getting little men. It is a false sense of economy. No success ful business man or corporation con ducts affairs on such a basis. They pay good salaries and demand and get in return good service. The public can do the same thing, but the public must provide salaries that will attract efficient and skilled men. Georgia is far behind every other state of which I have knowledge in this matter of paying salares—decent salaries. Very truly yours, Wm. E. H. SEARCY, Jr. Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up System The Old Standard general strengthening tonic, GKOVR'S 'i ASTisUtisia chiil TOKlC,drivts out Malax ia.eoricliea tit lUood.autiUuiitia up the sys tem. ▲ true tonic. Vox adults and children. 60c