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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Card# of thanks will be charged
at the rate of fifty cent#, minimum
for 50 words and less; above 50
words will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cadi must accompany
copy in all instances.
Will you buy a bond or do you pre
fer a tax receipt?
Cotton is falling about as fast as
stock of the kaiser.
Keep the home fires burning by
buying Liberty Bonds.
s
Maybe the fellows who fail to buy
Liberty Bonds are waiting for kaiser
Bill to levy his indemnity.
It is not too late to plant food crops
Large food crops are just as neces- [
sary to defeat the kaiser as Liberty,
Bonds.
This is the last week of the Liberty
Bond campaign. Get your name on
the roll of honor and let’s “go over
the top.”
While cotton is tumbling it is a
good time to put in a few more acres
in food crops. You can’t have too j
much food and feed
This is the week for Butts county
to win glory by going over the top with'
her allotment of bonds or be disgrac- j
ed by failing to do her duty. What!
will your answer be?
The movement to fix the price of
cotton has raised a storm of protest
in the South. Many agencies are busy •
and the congressmen are hearing
from the folks back home.
The senatorial candidates are
crowding: that “administration” and
“loyalty” plank. Bunk Cooper seems
to be the most truthful candidate in
the lot. lie says he is runih .>• because
he wants the office.
Our boys are already in the trench
es. Others are going. Others are
ready to go. Let’s back them up by
furnishing the money, food and am
munition. Buy Liberty Bonds and
show your heart is in the struggle.
People who have money and espec
ially those v.'io have made money out
of the war must give an account of
their stewardship. Invest in Liberty-
Bonds and help keep the country safe
for liberty, freedom and the pursuits
of happiness.
Any man not absolutely a paViper
ran afford t o buy one or more Lib
erty Bonds. The terms of payment
are easy. You will get real satis
faction and pleasure out of helping
the country. Get your name on the
roll of honor.
Tom Hardwick is reported as wil
ling to debate with his opponents if
his loyalty is not brought into ques
tion. That is the very thing his op
ponents want to discuss. His record
is one he can’t defend and nobody
knows that nny better than Hard
wick.
Buy Liberty Bonds
THE JACKSON PROORESS-ARCUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA. FRIDAY, MAY 3, 1813
CLOSE UP THE POOL ROOMS
A number of citie3 in Georgia are
making war on the pool rooms, dur
ing the war. This is a step in the
right direction.
It is estimated there are enough
idlers lounging around the pool rooms
in the small towns and cities to fur
n:sh all the labor needed on the farm
•mi in the industries. Asa rule, the
pool room lounger is the last man
who will answer his country’s call or
respond to the appeal for labor to
keep the wheels of industry turning.
There are thousands such in the
larger cities. They toil not, neither
do they have any visible means of
support. They should he rounded up
as loafers and made to go to work.
While the war is in progress it
would be a good thing if every pool
room in the entire country were clos
ed up. This is no time for frivolities.
The country can very vrdl get along
without pool rooms, carnivals, danc
ing schools and such other so-called
amusements. While the best blood
of America is on the altar in France,
the idlers, loafers and loungers should
be put to work at something useful.
There is work for every man—rich
and' poor, white and colored. We ail
have a vital part to play in helping to
win the war and every man should be
at work at something worth wriile.
A SPLENDID EXAMPLE
In raising her full quota and more,
Flovilla has set other sections of Butts
county a fine example to follow in the
purchase of Liberty Bonds. While
Jackson and other communities have
lagged behind, Flovilla went “over
the top” in a single effort. The pa
triotism and loyalty of the progressive
citizens of that community stands out
as a striking illustration of what can
be done once the decision is made.
Selling Liberty Bonds of the third
j issue should be the easiest matter in
j the world. It should not be necessary
Ito lag and dally and argue. Every
right thinking person knows the bonds
must be bought. The money must be
raised and every man must dig in his
pocket and bring up a Liberty Bond
or hold a tax receipt for an income
tax. Uncle S am is going to have the
money. Debating the question is not
worth while. It is just a matter of
deciding which is best, a Liberty Bond
or a tax receipt.
With the educational campaign that
has been carried on through the news
papers of the country, with speakers
out of the trenches telling the people
their duty, with the mightiest battle
of all time thundering in one’s ears,
there should be no delay in buying
Liberty Bonds. People should not even
wait to be asked. The third Liberty
Bond issue should have been a spon
taneous response to the call of the
nation.
In spite of all these efforts, howev
er, there are those who sleep on.
Some are indifferent; many are ignor
ant; some can’t get profiteering out of
their minds, and others think more of
their money than they do of the soul
of mankind.
When a county or community
arouses itself and discharges its full
duty, as Flovilla has done, it is a re
freshing oasis in a desert of common
place indifference and stupidity.
WELL NAMED
While we all recognize there is
something the matter with the man
or woman, able to buy T bonds but fails
to do so, it remained for Governor
Dorsey to apply the right name. It
customary to refer to them as
“financial slackers.” In an address
at Marietta Saturday Governor Dor
sey referred to the bond slacker as a
skunk.
That just a bout sizes up the situ
ation.
Here is a report of Governor Dor
soy’s speech:
“The man who falsifies as to his
age, the man who flees the country,
the man who dodges military service
—is a slacker. But the man who is
not expected to serve in the armed
forces of the country, who stays at
home and makes money off the emer
gencies of the war—while the sons
of his neighbors are dying on the
fields of France—and is so much of
a miser that he will not buy Liberty
Bonds—is worse than a miser.
He is a skunk.”
THIS WIDOW WAS HELPED
Mrs. A. Walden, -160 Glenn Ave.,
Fresno, Cal., writes: “I had a fever
and it left me with a cough every win
ter. Foley’s Honey and Tar helps me
every time. 1 am a widow fifi years
old.” Nothing better for bronchial,
grip and similar coughs and colds that
harg on. Just fine for croup and
whooping cough. The Owl Pharmacy,
adv.
OUR BOYS “OVER THERE” EN
JOY TOASTED CIGARETTES.
Through the patriotism of the citi
zens of this country thousands of
smoke kits are being distributed to
American soldiers in France. Author
ities agree that men in the trenches
ncec. cigarettes almost as much as
food and munitions.
Doctors, nurses, and commanding
officers all join in the demand which
has awakened in this country a great
movement to keep our boys supplied
with smokes.
Millions of the famous LUCKY
STRIKE Cigarettes are “going over”
all the time. There’s something
about the idea of the toasted ciga
rette that appeals to the men who
spend their time in cold, wet trenches
and billets.
Then, too, the real Kentucky Burley
tobacco of the LUCKY STRIKE ciga
rette gives them the solid satisfaction
of a pipe, with a lot less trouble.
LIEUT. MILES HELPS TO
BOOST LIBERTY BONO SALES
Lieutenant Miles, of the Canadian
army, was a visitor in Jackson Sun
day and delivered a short talk at the
First Baptist Sunday School. Later
he made a talk at Jenkinsburg. Lieut.
Miles has recently returned from the
trenches. He was wounded in action
last September and was sent back to
the states to aid the Liberty Bond
campaign and other war activities.
He talks interestingly of life in the
trenches and gives first hand informa
tion of the great struggle going on in
western Europe.
Lieut. Miles also remained over
Monday and spent part of the day, in
company wth Mr. Baxter Jones of
he Liberty Loan field force, in talking
with the business men in the interest
of the bond sale.
fie was one of the speakers at the
rally at Flovilla Saturday.
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MOTHER! DON’T TAKE
CHANCES IF CHILD’S
TONGUE IS COATED
If Cross, Feverish, Sick, Bil
ious, Clean Little Liver
and Bowels
A laxative today saves a sick child
tomorrow'. Children simply will not
take the time from play to empty
their bow r els, which become clogged
up with waste, liver gets sluggish,
stomach sour.
Look at the tongue, Mother! If
coated, or your child is listless, cross,
feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn’t
eat heartily, full of cold or has sore
throat or any other children’s ail
ment, give a teaspoonful of “Califor
nia Syrup of Figs,” then don’t worry,
because it is perfectly harmless, and
in a few' hours all this constipated
poison, sour bile and fermenting
waste will gently move out of the
bowels, and you have a well, playful
child again. A thorough “inside
cleansing” is ofttimes all that is nec
essary. It should be the first treat
ment given in any sickness.
Beware of counterfeit fig syrups.
Ask your druggist for a bot
tle of “California Syrup of Figs,”
which has full direetions for babies,
children of ail ages and for grown-ups
plainly printed on the bottle. Look
carefully and see that it is made by
the “California Fig Syrup Company.”
advt.
FIVE NEGRO SELECTMEN GO
TO CAMP NEXT FRIDAY
The Butts county draft board w r ill
send to camp next Friday five colored
selectmen. The men have not yet
been selected, orders for their en
trainment having been received Tues
day morning. The men will be sent
to Camp Gordon. Atlanta.
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SHE GOT GOOD RESULTS
This honest testimony from a wo
man who has suffered should be heed
ed by all afflicted v; th backache,
rheumatic pains, or any symptom of
kidney and bladder trouble: “I have
got such good results from Foley
Kidney Pills that 1 sleep much better.
Mrs. Chas. Gray, 270, Sixth st., De
troit, Mich.” The Owl Pharmacy adv
Buy Liberty Bonds
With the cjfT
(Left) “Brothers in Arms” —an enlisted man’s conception of the servic*
rendered by the Army Y. M. C. A. secretary. (Upper right), Camouflaging
a Red Triangle hut in France. (Lower right), Army “Y” dugout under
shell fire.
"The leadership of a Y. M. C. A. hut
in France has bigger possibilities of
national service than most of the bank
and college presidencies and big city
pulpits in America.”
It was with the above cabled state
ment that E. C. Carter, director of the
overseas work of the American Y. M.
C. A. in France, emphasized the seri
ousness of his appeal for men sent out
from Paris headquarters. With all wel
fare, entertainment and physical work
and the conducting of the post ex
change stores among our soldiers in
France, England and Italy in charge
of the American Y. M. C. A. at Gen
eral Pershing’s request and the French,
Italian and Portuguese governments
appealing for trained American Y. M.
C. A. workers to perform a similar
service for their soldiers, it is obvious
that an enormous number of Red Tri
angle men are needed “Over There”
' —3,000 new recruits within the next
(ninety days, or more Y. M. C. A. sec
ire taries than have been sent across
the previous twelve months.
“It is imperative that we meet our
(obligations to the American and Al
lied armies,” continued Director Car-
Iter in his recent cablegram relayed
jto Southeastern War Work council
headquarters of the Young Men’s
| Christian Association at Atlanta, Ga.
j “There are ninety-six important posts
J here without sufficient workers. For
jty-seven of them are near the front
(and thirty-eight positions are under
| shell-fire.”
Pratt Offers $100,000.00
Herbert Pratt, vice president of the
Standard Oil Company, now in France
jas an American Y. M. C. A. worker,
cabled to New York City na
tional headquarters urging that hun
!dreds of men be sent at once.
“Carter and staff are doing remark
ably fine w'ork,” read Mr. Pratt’s ca
blegram, “but often are too tired be-
I cause of lack of assistants.” Mr.
Pratt has offered a personal gift of
$100,000.00 to defray the expense of
sending more secretaries overseas.
I To fill this crying need, special ef
forts are being made by the National
I War Work Council at home to enlist
| secretaries for service under the Red
, Triangle “Over There.” Every sec
jtion of the country has been especial
ly organized within the past few' weeks
forHhis purpose. Governor Whitman
of New' York, Governor Rye of Ten
nessee, Harry Lauder and Gipsy
| Smith, famous British evangelist, are
typical of the type of men heading the
campaign committees and speaking at
| mass meeiings to enlist Army and
(Navy Y. M. C. A. secretaries.
500 Men Southeast’s Quota
Within the next ninety days, from
the seven states of the Southeastern
, Department—Georgia, North Carolina,
South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Mis
sissippi and Tennessee—approximate
ly 500 secretaries must be recruited;
300 for service overseas and 200 addi
tional to fill up the gaps in the Army
and Navy Y. M. C. A. forces in the
I cantonments and training camps in
the southeast. Dr. W. W. Alexander
director of the Southeastern Depart
ment, war personnel board, is in
[charge of the campaign in this section
with headquarters at Atlanta, Gi Kc
icruiting committees have been ap
pointed in every state. 4
One of the reasons whv it is so dif
ficult to obtain men who' are satisfae
tory for service abroad is described
nv A. G. knebei, executive secretarv
for the War Personnel Board of the
Nat onal War Work Council, in a re
cen' interview.
“Nothing Tarre About ‘Y’ Work”
“Thousands of applicants rejected
include many \ ho picked out the Y
M. C. A. as a nice soft branch of war
ser- -e. The thousands accepted are
tho-e vto are wiling to face hard
ship and danger-often uncer a rain
c! shrapnel and machine gun fire.
There is nothing tame about the Red
Triangle work in this world conflict.
It is no task for a man faint hearted
or of low physical vitality.”
Not every secretary who goes over
seas is sent to the front line trenches
—but he may be. The Army and
Navy Y. M. C. A. follows the flag and
the fighting men of the Allies every
where but over the top. The man
who goes up to the trenches pitches
a tent, erects a sheet iron hut or finds
a deserted building, cellar or dugout
in which to begin work.
Will Beat His Sons to France.
Most admirable are the ambitions
of many fathers of soldiers and sailors
to enlist for Red Triangle service, and
thus, perhaps, meet their sons in
France or on the high seas. The Per
sonnel Board has the record of a man
who recently sailed for France, who
has one son an officer and another an
enlisted man. He is very proud of the
fact that he will be “Over There” be
fore his sons.
Recruits for American Army and
Navy Y. M. C. A. service overseas
need be “only ordinary men and good
Christians,” as described by Dr. Alex
ander of the Southeastern Department
Personnel committee. Men of almost
any profession or vocation are accept
able, but they must he over the draft
age—thirty-one years—or have been
rejected as physically unfit because of
a noticeable defect, such as a deform
ity, loss of eye or limb, xvhich at a
glance will classify the secretary.
Absolute loyalty to the govern
ment and sympathy with the cause of
the Allies in our fight to the end for
a world safe for democracy, must in
spire the Red Triangle worker. A
man whose father or mother was born
in any of the countries with which we
are now at war cannot serve overseas.
A secretary cannot be accompanied by
his wife, no more than can an officer.
Recognized by Military.
Wearing the regulation United
States army or navy uniform distin
guished by the Red Triangle insignia
on the left coat sleeve overseas, but
on this side uniformed in olive green
of a cut not unlike the British uniform,
the A. M. C. A. secretary has been
recogn ; zed as a part of the military and
naval establishment vitally necessary
to the winning of the xvar. An Amer
ican officer recently home from the
French front said: “Three forces will
w'in this war on land, the army,
the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A.”
For full information, write to your
State Recruiting Secretary, care Army
and Navy Y. M. C. A. Recruiting Head
quarters, located as follow's:
NORTH CAROLINA, CHARLOTTE.
SOUTH CAROLINA, CHARLES
TON.
GEORGIA, ATLANTA.
TENNESSEE, NASHVILLE.
ALA BAMA, BIRMINGHAM.
FLORIDA, JACKSONVILLE
MISSISSIPPI, JACKSON.
‘tiean Up” Week For Red
Triangte Collections In Kay
Atlanta, Ga., April. “Clean Up”
week has been designated from May
Ist to Bth. This does not mean the
furbishing up of municipalities or the
date set for burning rubbish in back
yards. It is the date set by the second
Y. M. C. A. war work campaign fund
organization in the Southeastern mill*
tarv department for boosting collec
tions on the last campaign.
In a report by R. H. King, director
of finance in the Southeast, issued on
Ap'-'l 15th. it was showrn that 73 per
cent of tlie collections had been made.
It is his aim to make that percentage
climb t to 85 per cent by the end of
“Clean Up” week and local committees
will act accordingly.
Two states have already exceeded
the S6 per cent mark; Mississippi and
Florida. Georgia comes next with 711s
Per cent, the others are as follows:
Alabama, 70; South Carolina, 68;
North Carolina, 68; Tennessee, 60.
‘ The mobilization of dollars in di
rect gifts to be applied to national de
fense is a short-cut method of winning
the war.” said A. H. Whitford, na
tional financial campaign director,
when told of the “Clean Up" week plan
of pushing collections of subscriptions-