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“Over the top!”
Butts county went over the top.
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If you didn’t buy Liberty Bonds
buy War Saving Stamps.
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At last Uncle Sam has his coat off,
his sleeves rolled up and is in the
fight in earnest—and to the finish.
While you are helping to swat the
kaiser remember the fly needs swat
ting too. Disease is as deadly as bul
lets.
In view of the shortage of labor, it
might be well enough to draft the
candidates along about cotton chop
ping time.
Some tightwads cling on to their
money just as if they thought they
would take it with them when they
shuffle off the mortal coil.
As between Harris and Howard the
press of the state seems to be pretty
well divided. If Hardwick has any
newspaper support we haven’t been
able to hear anything about it.
Butts county has today three auto
mobiles for every one a year ago. Not
only more automobiles but a better
class of cars. It will be interesting to
see how they are returned for taxes.
Since the Democratic Executive
Committee of Butts county has decid
ed in favor of an early primary, the
candidates will have rather a short
time for the baby-kissing, handshak
ing stunt.
The Liberty Bond campaign was a
success and everybody who had any
part in the work is entitled to credit.
The newspapers of the nation did a
man’s part and have nothing to be
ashamed of.
That William Schley Howard is the
candidate of the Atlanta politicians
for the United States senate there can
no longer be any doubt. With the At
lanta politicians and a bag of cam
paign money behind him Howard
stands a mighty good chance to be
the next senator.
Have you bought your coal yet? If
not, now is a mighty good time to
place your order. By doing so you
are assured of a supply of coal this
winter. Otherwise there may be more
than the usual amount of suffering
in the cold winter season
Never before in the history of the
world has the man with money had
such a splendid opportunity to use it
for noble and unselfish purposes as in
the present crisis. The man with
money, whether he got it by any of
the three well known methods—inher
ited it, married it or earned it—
should his wealth at the disposal
•f the government. And the individ
ual who fails to do that will feel
mighty small in the final reckoning.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 10. 1918
OVER THE TOP!
The fact that Butts county oversub
scribed her quota of the third issue
of Liberty Bonds is most gratifying.
There was a feeling all along that
the people would do their duty, when
once the issue was clearly explained
to them. In going over the top the
citizens of Butts county have written
their name high on the roll of honor.
There is glory enough for all. E% r
ery man, woman and child, white and
black, rich and poor, who had a part
in putting the bond sale over may
well feel proud. It was the combined
work of the people who made the
showing possible. The people who
subscribed small amounts, according
to their means, are just as patriotic
and loyal as those who subscribed
larger amounts. The thing that is
particularly pleasing is the fact that
so many people bought bonds, show
ing the widespread interest in the
campaign.
The war has witnessed growth and
development of patriotism. Sentiment
has changed and is changing every
day. When the first issue of bonds
wis put forward there was only a few
subscribers. The banks and larger
property owners bought bonds. This
was true to a certain extent of the
second issue. But there was general
response to the third issue, and hun
dreds of people are represented in the
of bond purchasers in the cam
paign just over. It is well that this
patriotic feeling is spreading over the
country. It augurs well for patriot
ism and loyalty. It demonstrates the
people are willing to back up the
country when once their duty is made
plain.
The success of the Liberty Bond
drive again demonstrates that Butts
county is entitled to take rank among
the most loyal, patriotic and progres
sive communities in the state.
“PATRIOTEERING”
(James Calloway in Macon Tele
graph)
The following are excerpts from
the speech of John Sharp Williams de
livered recently in the Senate:
“Now, Mr. President, I am getting
a little tired of this ‘patrioteering’
business. I love patriotism, but I
have been reading the last two num
bers of The Saturday Evening Post
and a couple of poems on patrioteer
ing that I have found there, and if
any senator has not read them he
ought to read them. Men go out and
exploit themselves about ‘meatless
Tuesdays’ and wheatless Thursdays,’
and they seem to think they are do
ing something very patriotic. The
whole Confederacy lived without
wheat at all for I do not know how
long—about three years, at least, in
the coast and southwest department;
I as a boy in the Confederacy did not
see anything made out of wheat from
the early part of 1862 until the sur
ender, except now and then we would
plant a little patch of wheat and grind
it on a com mill and sift it as best
we could in the kitchen for the pur
pose of making Christmas and birth
day cakes
“Then we were confronted with the
fact that we did not have any sugar
for the cakes, and then we had to
make them witl\ molasses for ‘sweet
ening.’
“What is the use of talking about
the ‘hardships’ of the American peo
ple? You have not put your front toe
into the ante-room of Mars. You have
thus far done nothing but complain,
and to complain again, and to repeat
complaints about the efforts of those
vsho are as patriotic as you or I in
attempting to do what they can to
win the war.
“It requires just two things to win
a war. Prsidential proclamations can
not do it. It takes men and guns and
food and transportation; men and
guns and food constituting one side
of the proposition and transporta
tion the other. When I say food I
mean for soldiers and sailors. The
men and women at home will find
food enough. No trouble about that.
“I am sometimes afflicted with the
utmost pessimism when I hear men
talking about lack of certain supplies
o accompany soldiers to France, when
I hear men complaining of this and
that, even that soldieTs and sailors
had no sleeping cars to ride on when
being transported to the point of
duty.
“What you want is men in France
—men in France. What you want to
iut them there is ships, and take along
something that will shoot. So far as
the Southern people are concerned
they are acquainted with hardships
and sacrifices. They certainly under
stand 'hardship, suffering, endurance,
fortitude, standing to the bitter end
so long as a man could stand. The
boys of the country are ready to do
their duty. They will put up with
hardships and not except waffles or
buckwheat cakes for breakfast.
“People suffering on account of the
war! Labor suffering! Labor never
had as much money in the life of the
world, here or anywhere else. They
never made as much money out of
their cattle and corn and oats and
wheat and cotton and hogs since ag
riculture came into existence, here or
anywhere else, as they are making
no vs.
“There are employees of the gov
ernment ‘suffering’ and howling for
an increase of pay, ‘all on account of
the war.’ Howling for an increase for
an increase while objecting to work
ing eight hours a day—the dream of
carpenters and operatives, while most
Senators work not less than twelve!
Everybody is howling for increased
pay ‘on account of the war.’ It is said
prices are charged you for a mutton
chop this big (indicating) that would
fit the market value of a lamb in a
New York or Washington restaurant,
and we are told it is all ‘on account
of the war.' We have got to have ne
gro women suffrage, ‘all on account
of the war’; we have to have nation
wide bone-dry prohibition, ‘all on ac
count of the war.’ Such another ver
bal display of patriotism and such an
other lack of real hardship or suffer
ing or sacrifice was never witnessed
by any great people engaged in a
great war as is witnessed right now
in our own land.
“Where is the spirit of the men
that lived and starved and froze with
George Washington at Valley Forge?
Has it disappeared? Where is the
spirit of the men who ate rats and
mice and mule meat at Vicksburg?
Has it gone? Where is the spirit of
the men who suffered at Petersburg,
and even upon the day before the sur
render won the last brilliant little
skirmish of the war? Are their sons
degenerate?
“Suppose we here and now center
ourselves upon winning the war, and
suppose we center ourselves upon the
idea of putting men in France, letting
the men carry ammunition, carry am
munition. Danton said, ‘What is the
first way to win the French Revolu
tion?’ First, audacity. What is the
next? Audacity, audacity. What is
the third? Audacity—‘encore l’au
dace.’ So it is with this thing. The
way to win the war is men in France
with guns, more men n France with
more guns, more men in France with
more guns, as well trained as you can
get them; if you cannot get them
trained to suit a West Point graduate,
then trained well enough to do their
part, at any rate.”
WILL FOOD CARDS BE COME AN
AMERICAN NECESSITY NEXT
WINTER
That the food situation may grow
to be a great deal more serious than
anybody now thinks likely, is one of
the probabilities. Only within the last
day o rso we have witnessed a cut to
the bone in the amount of sugr that
may be sold. Other lines may follow,
it is the part of foresight and wisdom,
therfore, for the people of the South
to produce every ounce of food pos
sible.
A large flour house writing to the
trade has the following to say, and is
produced, in part, for the benefit
of reader*: i
“The Food Card system may be used
next winter as a precaution. It seems
to me easy to vision an abundance of
‘safety first’ and other compelling log
ic in its favor. The Food Card, how
ever, enforced by urgent and national
necessity as the sole, rigid route by
which one’s food may be obtained,
would be a food card rather tragically
contrasting with one prompted by
caution.
“Since the range between their pos
sible and probable use lends itself
strongly to speculation, let’s play
neither the Bull nor the Bear side, but
‘hedge’ for safety of food abundance
md keep on hedging every day until
nature calls the game ended, in our
favor, with the first killing frost of
late autumn.
“The following outfield plays, if
nut over the home plate, would con
tribute a right wholesome mite or
percentage toward winning the game.
“If every wild blackberry or other
wild berries, not consumed this sum
mer, wer canned, hovi many miles
long would be the shelf necessary to
hold them? (Put every pickaninny
to picking ’em, including all golf cad
dies, white and black.)
“If every hickory, walnut and ches
"ut unused by the squirrels could be
gathered in for human food as a meat
substitute, how many cargoes of meat
would thus be released for the Euro
Put on the Eevo Glasses
when you set the table for the bite ycu are going
to enjoy with your guests of the evening.
Here is a lunch menu worth remembering: Cream
cheese and chopped olive sandwiches (on brown
bread)—dill pickles—shrimp salad—ice cold Bevo.
Itself a nutritive, Bevo adds an appetizing flavor
to any meal —hot or cold, light or heavy.
Served everywhere —families supplied by grocers,
druggists or dealers.
The all-year-’round soft drink
Manufactured and bottled exclusively by
Anheuser-Busch St. Louis
McDowell groc. co.
Distributors JACKSON, GA.
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pean field?
“If all the persimmons, save those
wanted by ‘Brer Possum’ were con
sumed in many delightfully edible
ways by us, how many tons of sugar
would it release?
“If any and all the edible garbage
(there are thousands of families com
mitting the extravagance of having
it) were deposited in the safety vault
of the pig’s stomach, how many added
tons of pork would there be, or grain
released for human consumption?
“If every healthy, idle youth of
ages 12 to 18, were ‘fielded’ on the
farms, or farmed out on the fields,
what a compound difference, favoring
food plenty would result. (I refer to
the youth whose sole occupation will
be soon to follow his favorite summer
sport, flannels, tennis racket, camping
outfit, or the longest automobile with
lowest seat, to ‘joy ride’ the summer
through.)
“If every all-day pool player of the
cities, mumble-peg, checker players
and railway station loungers of the
villages, were put to work in the ship
yards, what a FOOD difference it
might make. The connection, of
course, between pool ploying, village
idling and ship riveting, with food,
being that given sufficient ships there
would immediately be bread surplus,
instead of bread shortage, since on
paper (meaning the abnormally huge
exporable surplus of wheat in the
Argentine, Australia and India) the
world today has a bountiful bread
supply.
“If every non-khaki clad American
had daily before him a picture enough
viciously vivid of what might be his
food privations in the coming winter,
their ingenuities and energies from
now until frost would perhaps put the
hurry and perseverance of the honey
bee to shame.”
Unless all signs fail Georgia will
raise an abundant crop of corn this
year. Some observers state that the
acreage in com this year is the larg
est since the civil war. Since we must
save wheat for the soldiers, it is up
to every farmer to raise his own com.
News print paper is becoming
scarce and newspapers may have to
reduce the size of the paper printed.
How they can cut down the size and
relieve the pain of all the press agents
who are sending out oodles of free
matter is a problem that may have to
be referred to a “Philadelphia law
yer.”
The United States treasury depart
ment has a list of all the property
owners in every county in the coun
try. If you failed to buy bonds and
think you are fooling anybody you
have another thought coming. Your
record is known, not only at home,
but abroad, and you may feel right
uncomfortable before it is all over.
Regardless of the war the schools
of the country should not be allowed
to suffer. The schools are the hope of
the future. The whole country should
begin anew drive to wipe out ig
norance and illiteracy and the best
way to do this is to keep the schools
running. In spite of war and the la
bor shortage the schools must not be
crippled.
THE DRAFT SYSTEM
(A. B. Culberson, Camp Gordon)
Systems of mobilization have been
debated in which discussions many
questions concerning the welfare of
every one and the immediate perpet
uation of appropriate plans in the
present need in the world-wide mili
tary struggle have arisen. The sha
dow of Prussianism is engulfing the
peace, happiness of the liberty-loving
vjorld; the call is far-reaching and,
to win, we must concentrate our ev
ery energy in a co-operative spirit
that will not only block, but rid the
world of European would-be kultur.
In demonstrating our willingness to
respond to our country’s call, we are
subject to confusion; and since our
cause is so far-reaching, and therefore
national and international unity ab
solutely incumbent, some scheme
must be used wherein every power,
energy, force, strength can be used to
advantage.
Out of this whirlpool of existence
has come the draft system, the great
est plan for raising an army at the
present time. It is already clearly
seen that the United States is rally
ing powerfully every force and en
trenching them against the demon of
Berlin. Young men are rallying
around the colors, for which they will
die; old men are propelling the wheels
of plants, shops, the machinery on the
farm, and the helm of state and na
tion and mothers, wives, sisters and
sweethearts are behind the flag with
heart and hand.
The past few months have develop
ed a lot of patriots. It has also
brought to the front a lot of naggers,
kickers and growlers. This, too, in
view of the fact that we are hardly
in the war yet and nobody has suffer
ed a single real hardship. We must
stop growling and nagging and get
down to business—the business of
winning the war.
We honestly don’t believe that Mr.
Hardwick will be in the race till the
election. We believe he has sense
enough to retire before the time
comes for voting. If he loses in pop
ularity till the election at the rate he
has been losing for the past few
months there will not be a militia dis
trict in the state that he will be able
to get a majority of votes in.—
Swainesboro Forest-Blade.
If there is any class of people un
der the canopy of heaven that ought
to be muzzled, gagged, shackeled, con
fined and put at hard labor on the
streets and public roads it is the pat
ent medicine vendors and spielers.
The country is full of sue trash, and
the people are being separated from
their money at a rapid rate. A black
face so-called comedian can draw a
larger crowd on the streets in ten
minutes than can be attracted to a
patriotic meeting in a whole day’s ef
fort. Why it is so is hard to
If the various towns and cities would (
refuse to grant permission to these
fakirs to ply their trade it would be
a measure for the common good.
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