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FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 1918
Jacksen Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and Publisher
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TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
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•t the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 words and less; above 80
words will be charged at the rate of
1 eent a word. Cash must accompany
copy in all instancea.
Damn the kaiser.
To hell with the Germans.
There is but one progra mnow—kill-
Germans.
Now let’s Butts county “go over the
top” with her quota of Liberty Bonds.
The nation’s business is to win this
war. Everything else must take a
back seat.
A Baptist preacher in Atlanta has
announced for senator, but we have
forgotten the gentleman’s name.
Murphey Candler is a fine, clean
man and had he run for senator he
would have made a remarkable show
ing.
The big drive has made America
see red. At last we are aroused. It is
now war to the knife and knife to the
hilt.
German prisoners are to be worked
on military roads, it is stated. Be
careful that they don’t leave a bomb
to blow up traffic.
The sentiment of the people is for
a real man to run against T. W.
Hardwick for senator. The right man
has not yet announced.
When the right man announces for
senator, Hardwick, Cooper, Harris,
Upshaw, Shaw and the others will
have to take a back seat.
Ohio is treating pro-Germans just
like they ought to be treated. Every
hun-lover ought to be made to kiss
the flag or leave the country.
If the ku klux clan were in exist
ence now it could do some effective
work. And there seems to be need
lor just such an organization.
Old Hindenburg was a liar when he
said he would eat dinner in Paris on
April 1. He will eat brimstone in
hades a sight sooner than he will dine
in Paris.
There is a distant pleasure and
satisfaction in knovvng that every
Liberty Bond you buy is a lick at
the baby-killing, kaiser-worshipping
buns. Let’s go over the top.
The whole duty of our army now is
to kill Germans and more Germans.
The duty of the people back home is
to back up the government to the lim
it. How many bonds are you going to
buy?
The news from Europe for the last
few days has been eagerly devoured
by the American people. The great
battle on the western front has final
ly put our hearts into the struggle.
From now on there must be action
and more action. The people are in
no mood for quibbling, whether it
comes from congress or pro-German
agitators.
WATCH THE LINE-UP
(Macon News)
The Jackson Progress-Argus has a
way of speaking timely words of wis
dom on a great many topics of vital
interest, but nothing it has said re
cently is more truly like an apple of
gold in a picture of silver than its
warning against political influence in
getting the farmers’ boys sent back
home from the army to work the
crops.
The farmers are perfectly willing
to do their part in this war, and are
asking no special favors, as the poli
ticians of narrow vision seem to think.
' y resent the very suggestion of
being coddled.
The crops must be grown, of course,
if we are to win this war, but surely
there should be no useless shifting of
one set of men from the farms to the
army and another set from the army
to the farmrers.
Our contemporary says:
Efforts to have the farmer
boys in the army fucloughed
home to make a crop, while it
sounds good on the surface is a
proposition that is loaded.
The plan is full of cheap poli
tics of the rottonest sort. Schem
ing politicians are behind the
movement. If the plan is carried
out, there will be a stampede of
politicians claiming all the credit
for this legislation. Watch the
prediction.
Men in the army, who have al
ready received military training,
should stay there. Men needed
on the farms, or in other lines of
industry, should stay there until
they are actually needed. Why
send home the men who have al
ready had training and take
away from the farms and other
industries men vitally need
ed ? Such a plan will
not only disorganize the
army, but it will disorganize
what farm labor there is in the
country.
Men already on the farm, who
have their plans for the year
mapped out, should be allowed
to remain until it is vitally nec
essary that they be called to the
colors. Men taken out of the
army now are not in position to
make a crop, and any man vho
has given the question any
thought will admit it.
Farmers are just as loyal to
the country as any other class.
They have given their sons, their
money, their time to the nation’s
call. But the farmers of America
don’t want any special favors.
They are not even asking it.
Why send farm labor home
and let other classes of labor re
main in the army? Isn’t it a
fact that there is a shortage of
labor in every line of endeavor?
Not only is hard to get enough
farm labor to make a normal
crop, but it is hard to get
enough labor to keep vital in
dustries running.
The farmer feeds the world
and food will win the war. But
don’t disorganize the army by
taking away trained men, and
don’t disorganize the farms by
by taking away labor that can
bes pared.
Watch out for the negro in the
woodpile.
The general public will, indeed,
watch thi| process with vigilance.
There will be no useless waste of
man-povier if it can be helped, and
no favoriteism out of which the poli
ticians can make capital.
Some of Butts county’s progressive
farmers are buying Liberty Bonds in
advance of the campaign which opens
Saturday, April 6. Fine spirit. Let’s
i all buy bonds and more bonds and
help to kill the Germans.
With transportation tied up as it is,
I with all the food and fuel restrictions
I in force, there will be an iron ring
around Georgia next year. Unless
! you raise food you may not be able
to buy it. Ever thought of that?
_ _ _
. When a peanut politician wants to
make a sure enough ass of himself he
can do that to perfection by falling
back on the “constitution.” The
constitution is all right and democ
racy is all right. What we want is
speed in winning the war.
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The boys at Camp Wheeler and
Camp Gordon, and all the other
camps are eager to get a try at the
huns. And we have enough confi
dence in our soldiers to believe some
thing vvll happen when they do get
their hands on the throats of the baby
killing barbarians.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
THE GREAT W \R HAS MADE
CIGARETTES A NECESSITY.
“Our boys must have their smokes.
Send them cigarettes!” This is a
familiar appeal now to all of us.
Among those most in demand i9
the now famous “toasted” cigarette—
LUCKY STRIKE. Thousands of this
favorite brand have been shipped to
France. There is something home
like and friendly to the boys in the
sight of the familiar green packages
with the red circle.
This homelike, appetizing quality
of the LUCKY STRIKE cigarette is
largely due to the fact that the Burley
tobacco used in making it has been
toasted. “It’s toasted” was the “slo
gan” that made a great success of
LUCKY STRIKE in less than a year.
Now the American Tobacco Cos. is
making 15 million LUCKY STRIKE
Cigarettes a day.
A good part of this immense pro
duction is making its way across the
water to cheer our bovs ~
It the blatant mouthed politicians
were allowed to have their way the
United States would not raise an ar
my in fifty years. The idea of taking
men out of the army to make crops
and taking men from the farm to fill
up the ranks! The scheme is as rotten
as the politicians who started it.
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.—Jackson
Progress-Argus.
Why should we care? The fellovi
who is able to drive a benzine buggy
is able to pay the price.—LaGrange
Graphic.
The press has been a mighty fac
tor in selling Liberty Bonds, making
the Red Cross and Y. M. C. A. cam
paigns a popular success. With his
home paper to back him up, the mer
chant can whip the mail order houses
to a frazzle. Keep the advertising
fires burning. Don’t slow up or you
are lost.
Costly as it has been in blood and
treasure, the drive on the western
front has had beneficial effect in this
country. It has aroused America to
her peril and her duty. From this day
on there must be no quibbling and
wavering. We are in for a finish fight.
“Lay on Mac Duff, and darned be him
who first c ries, hold, enough!”
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If your meals don’t fit comfortably,
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Get from your pharmacist a fifty
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home, advt.
You’d jump at the chance to pay
50 per cent for fire protection if your
warehouse was burning. Today your
home, wealth and life are threatened
by German oppression. Liberty Bonds
are like insurance policies. Invest
now.
LETTERS FROM THE
PEOPLE
The Fee System
I have read your editorial on the
fee system in The Progress-Argus for
March 22. You are doing a great ser
vice in agitating this question.
I have been thinking along this
general line. One weak point in our
system is the fee the lawyer gets when
he defends a criminal. The effort of
the court should be to get at the
truth, and correct the criminal if pos
sible and if not possible to put him
where he can do no further harm.
This noble purpose degenerates into
a battle of two lawyers and their
friends to get fees. The criminal is
made a hero. Why not a Public De
fender for criminals whose duty shall
be to see that the accused gets a fair
hearing, who is paid a salary for the
sake of justice and not a lawyer who
is paid a fee to enter into a disgrace
ful contest like a rabbit hunt at pub
lic expense?
If a man is falsely accused he has
a right to be vindicated without ex
pense to himself. If a man is guilty
the lawyer should not be forced to
accept a fee from an enemy of his
country or lose his labor. Asa tax
payer I do not object to any system
that checks crime; but I hate like
thunder to pay for a system that
makes a hero out of the criminal, be
smirches the innocent, and degrades
the lawyer.
I am preparing a pamphlet on this
subject.
ALFRED AKERMAN,
Greensboro, Ga., March 30.
dtate of Ohio. City of Toledo,
Lucas County, ss.
Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he
is senior partner of the firm of F. J.
Cheney & Cos., doing business in the
City of Toledo, County and State afore
said. and that said firm will pay the
sum of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for
each and every case of Catarrh that
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CATARRH CURE. FRANK J. CHENEY
Sworn to before me anf subscribed
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BONO SUBSCRIPTIONS BE
PUBLISHED EVERY WEEK
Every week during the progress of
the third Liberty Bond Campaign The
Progress-Argus will publish the
names of those who have bought
bonds. The amounts will not be giv
en, as that would hardly be fair.
The names will be furnished by the
local banks, who will handle the
bonds.
This list of names will be a Roll of
Honor. Every individual who can do
so should buy at least one or more
bonds. The investment is as safe as
the government itself, and in buying
bonds one has the consciousness of
knowing he is helping his country in
its greatest crisis.
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Cough and Headache and works off the Cold.
Druggists refund money if it fails to cure.
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aft.
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JACKSON, GA.
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SCHOOL NEWS
The Demonsthenian boys society
enjoyed a “prom” party given by the
Phi Theta girls last Friday evening at
the home of Margaret McKibben.
About thirty couples participated in
the different kinds of games played
which were enjoyed by all.
The house was beautifully decorat
ed in ferns and cut flowers, and the
colors of the two classes were carried
out in the cards used. It was very no
ticeable to see how anxious the Se
niors were to get their colors, purple
and gold and the see Juniors get
theirs, the red and white.
The table which held the punch
bowl was decked with flowers and
this was indeed a very attractive
palce to the couples who made fre
quent visits after their “walks.”
After several hours of enjoyment
and fun an ice course was served.
The approaching debate is causing
enthusiasm throughout the entire
school. Not only are the Juniors and
Seniors looking forward to the even
ing of April 19th, but the outside
people as well as the school.
We will have our parade on Friday
afternoon of the 19th, which is al
ways a nexcitable time.
The songs and yells viill also be
judged thi syear as well as the de
bates. The Seniors are expecting
good results from their work in this
debate. They are enthusiastic and
their motto is “excelsior.” They were
first to have their flag waving above
the school house which indicates they
are determined to succeed in their ef
forts.
"MY NOT BE GOOD to YOURSELF
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suffering from indigestion o rconsti
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able in action. They are wholesome
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The sooner the irresistible might of
this great republic is organized and
put into full action the sooner the
mr will end. Every dollar invested
in government securities works to
shorten the war, to save the lives of
American soldiers and sailors.