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“They shall not pass.”
“Neither shall Germany win.”
Swat t! • Germans with your dol
lars.
Brain the kaiser with a Liberty
Bond.
Let’s go over the too in a rush with
our quota of Liberty Bonds.
Germany must he beaten to her knees.
Put in a lick by buying Liberty Bonds.
The new time schedule is not a re
quest. It is a law. Fall in line and
observe the new time.
The war has definitely separted the
sheep from the goats. Which side of
the fence are you on?
A financial coward is just as con
temptible as a physical coward. Make
your money talk for liberty.
THE FOE WE FIGHT
Except in rare instances the peo
ple understand why we v< i nt to war
with Germany. First of all we enter
ed the fight to save our own land
from invasion. World democracy may
follow the war. America is fighting
for liberty and freedom, and to save
the country from the horrors that
have followed German conquest in
other countries.
That Germany had designs on this
country there can no longer be any
doubt. Listen to the following from
German exponens of kultur:
“Some months after we finish our
work in Europe, we will take New
York and probably Washington.”—
Count von Goetzen.
“Not only North America but the
whole of America must become a bul
wark of Germanic kultur. *** the
lands will be settled upon by people
of Germanic blood, the non-German
inhabitants being driven into reserva
tions, or at best to Africa.”-—Klaus
Wagner.
“The German race is called to bind
the earth under its control.”—Ludwig
Woltmann.
“The German soul is God’s soul; it
shall and will rule over mankind.”—
Pastor W. Lehmann.
“There is but one sort of right—
the right of the stronger.”—Adolf
Lasson.
“Might is right, and right is de
cided by war.”—Friedrich Bemhardi.
“God calls us to murderous battles,
even if worlds should thereby fall to
ruins.” —Pastor Francke.
"We are compelled to carry on this
war with a cruelty, a ruthlessness,
and employment of every imaginable
device unknown in any previous war.”
—Pastor Baumgarten.
“War is the mother of all good
things.”—Prof. Haase.
"War is the noblest and holiest ex
pression of human activity.”—Jung-
Deutschland.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 12, 1918
FORCE THE FINAL ARBITER
The opinion has too long prevailed
in diplomatic circles that soft talk
and reiteration of war aims could
settle the war. A lot of valuable time
has been wasted in stating war aims,
in going over ground that has been
thoroughly covered before. Efforts
to arouse the German population
against their tyranical war-lords, to
separate Austria and Germany are
mere waste of time and energy.
Though the United States hud been
at war more than a year, the co.untry
as a whole was not thoroughly arous
ed to the danger and peril that
threatens us, until a short time ago.
The big campaign on the western
front did more to shake up this coun
try, to touch off the electric spark
needed to vivify the nation than all
else that has gone before.
President Wilson now sees the situ
ation clearly. He has accepted the
-man challenge. Force must settle
the war. Force, to the last dollar in
the treasury, force to the last man
able to bear a gun. Force until the
black bandits of Potsdam are beaten
to their knee?, and beg for mercy and
pity.
In his Baltimore address Saturday
President Wilson said:
“I accept the challenge, I know that
you accept it. All the world shall
know that you accept it. it shall ap
pear in the utter sacrifice and self
forgetfulness with which we shall
give ail that we love and all that we
ve to redeem the world and make it
lit for free men like ourselves to live
in. This now is the meaning of all we
do. Let everything that we say, my
fellow countrymen, everything that
wo henceforth plan and accomplish,
ring true to this response until the
majesty and might of our concerted
power shall fill the thought and utter
ly defeat the force of those who flout
and misprize what we honor and hold
dear. Germany has once more said
that force, and force alone, shall de
cide whether justice and peace shall
reign in the affairs of men, whether
right, as America conceives it, or do
minion as she conceives it, shall deter
mine the destinies of mankind. There
is therefore, but one response possi
ble from us; force, force to the ut
most, force without stint or limit, the
righteous and triumphant force
which shall make right the law of the
world and cast every selfish dominion
down in the dust.”
Spoken like a man and a Christian
patriot.
That our armies will do their duty
we need have no fear. Our armies
have alwiys risen equal to every emer
gency. Our boys are trained to do or
die fighting to uphold the right. The
only question is, will the people back
home do their duty by the men at
the front? Will they save the food so
necessary for our own soldier’s and the
soldiers of our Allies? Will they con
tinue to supply the sinews of war in
a steady, never-ending stream?
Your dollars will answer. Your
subscription to the third Liberty
Loan will tell the story.
What will your answer be?
It is a Jong lane that has no turn
in.tr. The kaiser is about to get his
Your dollars will help do the job.
Snider is about as successful with
his weather predictions as the average
man is in predicting the end of the
war.
Hardwick misrepresents Georgia
in the senate. The people want a real
man to represent them in the upper
house of congress.
Douglasville has recently voted
$45,000 for a ne\u school building.
Jackson, it seems, can have neither a
new school building nor any streets
worthy of the name.
The kaiser, bloody braggart that he
is, is at a safe distance behind the
lines. His swaggering sons also are
at a safe distance. Yet the German
soldiers, like slaves, are being driven
to the slaughter.
Georgia is the pivotal state .in
southern agriculture. The nation is
looking to Georgia to feed her popu
lation and raise a surplus to sell the
rest of the world. This a great op
portunity for our farmers to show
their mettle.
Probably the only reason that the
war is not over is because there are
not enough French soldiers. While
the English and Canadians have done
great work, the French have demon-,
stmted that they are the best fighters
in the world. France is holding well
over two-thirds of the western front.
THE FLAG WE HONOR
Men fight best when they have a
symbol. Every nation, thereore has
a flag, which represents the courage,
the traditions, the aspirations of its
citizens.
The Stars and Stripes is not one of
the oldest flags, as the United States
is not one of the oldest nations, but
it has an honored and revered history 7.
It is the embleem of freedo mand lib
erty, the symbol of a nation that has
grown from thirteen original colonies
to forty-eight states.
This flag, one that we all love and
cherish, stands for the rights of the
individual citizen; for civil and relig
ious liberty; for equality and justice;
for honor in private and national en
deavors; for freedom and not oppres
sion; for the enjoyment of every
r : ght assured a free and untrammel
ed people.
This flag, the Stars and Stripes,
the symbol of everything highest and
best in the world’s civilization, has
; on hoisted against the black flag of
'erman piracy and rapine. It is a
flag that has never gone down in de
feat. At Yorktown, at New Orleans,
at Mexico City, at Manilla Bay and
Santiago, the Stars and Stripes have
always waved; in victory and triumph.
When the final chanter in the present
world conflict is written we may be
sure that Old Glory will wave over
Berlin and be hoisted in triumph over
American legions unterrified and un
afraid.
Such was the flag unveiled in the
Butts county court house Saturday,
in honor of the boys who have given
themselves to their country’s call.
The flag was presented to the county
by the Butts county young ladies at
the State Normal School. Denied the
privilege of enlisting in the front
ranks, these young ladies have
shown a zeal and patriotism no less
worthy than that of their brothers.
The flag is worthy of the devotion
and fidelity that inspired it, and the
brave boys in whose honor it was un
furled will never do anything to stain
the red, white and blue of it.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Notice, Hardwick et al
(DeKalb New Era)
People fighting a fire don’t
want anybody cutting the water
off. If you can’t help win the
war don’t pull back.
The political obstructionists are
about as dangerous as the enemy.
On The Way
(Griffin News and Sun)
Editor Patterson has always
believed that a satisfied Chris
tian was on the way to hell and
that a satisfied merchant was on
the way to bankruptcy, and
says there will be few regrets
when they arrive. Patterson has
sized ’em up pretty well.
Stagnation is dangerous to the mer
chant. The part of wisdom is to keep
an telling the public you want and
appreciate their business.
A Knockout Blow
(DeKalb New Era)
The man who wanted to vvut
till the Germans invaded Ameri
ca before he went to war would
be in a pretty 7 bad fix about the
time one of those hundred mile
shells tapped him in the pit of
his stomach.
We don’t want the huns to invade
America. Lets whip them in Europe.
The Way to Stop Crime
Some of the Georgia judges
are putting straight c hain gang
sentences upon violators of the
state prohibition law, which
is the most effective way of
breaking up lawlessness. When
ever the criminally inclined are
made to feel the effect of the lav*
they will treat it with more re
spect.—Louisville News and Far
mer.
If all the Georgia judges
would impose chain gang sen
tences for violation of the pro
hibition and other laws, there
would be considerably less crime
in the state. —Augusta Chronicle.
And there is no better time to start
than right now’.
A Back Number
And do you know’ what has be
come of the old time merchant
who depended on handbills for
his advertising?—Anderson Dai
ly Mail.
Why sure we do. He has mov
ed to a back street to make way
for his progressive competitor,
who tells the public thrnnph the
medium of-newspaper advertis-
month we make enough
jQ/Lucky Strike Cigarettes to reach,
end to end, from New York to China,
the long way around, That’s
Regular men like the Lucky Strike
Cigarette —good, colid Kentucky
Burley tobacco, fine for a cigarette
because — V
ITFS TOASTED
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INCORROPIATID
ing v<hat he has in the way of
special bargains.—The Augusta
Chronicle.
Experience has demonstrated, with
out question of dispute, that newspa
per advertising is the cheapest and
most effective means of reaching the
public.
Hoke The Explainer
One good thing the big battle
in Europe has done. It has
brought a lot of mush-bellied
Americans to their senses. Eiven
Hoke Smith, who, during the
first two years of the war did all
he could to discredit England in
this country, now says we must
fight and that we need a great
army. However, the prejudice
created in the minds of many
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people against our greatest ally
by Senator Smith will remain a
long time and seriously retard
the fighting spirit of this coun
try.—DeKalb New Era.
Hoke is the gentleman who raid
England was interfering* with our cot
ton and forcing down the price. Won
der what he has to say now that cot
ton is 36 cents a pound? Were it not
for the British navy cotton would
again be 5 and 6 cens a pound.
During the first year of the war the
army paid $60,000,000 for horse
drawn vehicles and harness; more
than $50,000,000 for horses, mules
and harness. Expenditures for the
fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, for
fuel and forage are estimated at more
than $500,000,000.