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Jacksen Progress - Argus PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. DOYLE JONES Editor end Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year _. $1 .HO Three Months 40c Six Months__ 75c Single Copies —sc 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 Cardr, of thanks will be charged at th rate of fifty cents, minimum for 50 words and less; above 50 words will charged at the rate of I cent a word. Card, must accompany copy in all instances. “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 1 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 [S. H. THORNTON JACKSON, GA. UNDERTAKING, LICENSED EMB ALMER Full Line of Caskets and Robes to select from My careful personal attention giv en to all funerals entrusted to me ALL CALLS ANSWERED PROMPTLY DAY OR NIGHT DAY PHONE 174 NIGHT PHONE 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.