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Jackson Progress - Argus PUbLISHED EVERY FRIDaY J. DOYLE JONES Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year __sl.so 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 Cards of thanks will be charged at the rate of fifty cents, minimum for SO words and less; aboTO SO words will be charged at the rate of 1 eont a word. Cash must accompany copy in all instances. “Over the top!” Butts county went over the top. f I, - T If you didn’t buy Liberty Bonds buy War Saving Stamps. / 1 , - - - 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. •0* * 358 a 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. Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up SyiUa The Old Standard general strengthening lonic. 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