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OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN
i TY AND CITY OF JACKSON
NOTICE
Cards of thanks will be charged
at the rate of fifty cents, minimum
for 50 words and less; above 50
words will be charged at the rate of
1 cent a word. Cash must accompany
copy in all instances.
Red Cross campaign May 20-27.
Get your name on the Red Cross
honor roll.
Before it is too late place an order
for your coal supply.
Georgia politics is just one senato
rial candidate after another.
The blackberry crop will soon re
lieve the food shortage for a while.
Campaign camouflage will be the
order of the day until September 11.
If everybody would go to work
there wouldn’t be so much talk about
a shortage of labor.
“Georgia going to Mexico for la
bor,” says a headline. Hope that no
body will make the mistake of im
porting Villa. /
Being as how the boll weevil and
cattle tick came from Mexico, laborers
from that country ought to be dipped
before being brought to Georgia.
The funny part of it is, all the sen
atorial candidates—except Hardwick
—are trying to corner on all the loy
alty and patriotism in the country.
Shipment of peaches from Fort Val
ley and other large fruit growing sec
tions has already started. The crop
this year well be a large one, it is
stated.
The individual who hasn’t sacrificed
anything or given anything to the va
rious war demands and still centers
all on selfish pleasures must feel
mighty little and insignificant.
All of the candidates in the senato
rial race have fired their “opening
guns,” but the voters don’t appear to
be very much excited. Probably the
right man hasn’t announced yet.
If the kaiser still thinks the United
States is bluffing, after putting more
than a half million men in France and
floating the third Liberty loan, he
had better go out in the garden and
eat worms.
The Hon. Joe Hill Hall, “The gen
tleman from Bibb,” is a candidate
for attorney general against Clifford
Walker. Mr. Hall has the reputation
of being an able constitutional lawyer
and would sen e the state with ability.
The government admits the weekly
newspapers are a tremendous factor
in making the Liberty Loan a com
plete success, but yet the government
refuses to spend a cent with the coun
ty papers for advertising. The gov
ernment, however, has no hesitancy in
paying so-called carpenters unheard
of wages. We still hope that in spite
of all the red tape that the officials
in Washington will see the light.
Red Cross Drive May 20-27
s JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1013
THE FLAG OF OUR COUNTRY
I have seen the glories of art and
architecture, and of mountain and
river. I have seen the sun set on the
Jungfrau and the full moon rise over
Mt. Blanc, but the fairest vision on
which these eyes ever looked was the
flag of my own country, in a foreign
land. Beautiful as a flovaer to those
who love it, terrible as a monster to
those who hate it; it is the symbol of
power and the glory and honor of
over 100,000,000 Americans—Geor
ge F. Hoar.
THE AMERICAN CREED
William Tyler Page
(A prize of SI,OOO was offered by
the city of Baltimore and w r as award
ed for the creed below, selected by
the judges as the best out of hun
dreds of contests.)
I believe in he United States
of America as a government of
the people, by the people, for
the people; whose just powers
are derived from the consent of
the governed; a sovereign nation
of many sovereign states; a per
feet union, one and inseparable,
established on those principles of
freedom, equality, justice and
humanity for which American
patriots sacrificed their lives and
fortunes.
I therefore believe it is my
duty to my country to love it, to
support its constitution, to obey
its laws, to respect its flag, and
to defend it against all enemies.
NEEDED LEGISLATION
The general assembly of Georgia,
which convenes for a fifty day session
on the fourth Wednesday in June,
could do no more importnt work than
pass legislation regulating the driving
of motor vehicles on the public high
ways of Georgia.
Automobiles have multiplied by the
hundreds of thousands in Georgia
va'thin the past few months. A large
percentage of the high priced cotton
crop has gone North and auomobiles
have come South. Cars are getting
•o numerous that reckless driving is
getting to be a serious problem. Al
most every day one reads of fatal ac
cidents, due in the main, to speeding
or careless driving.
What laws we have on the subject
are not enforced. In town like Jack
son, for instance, the speed law is
flagrantly violated every day. The
speed limit is not observed in one
case out of ten.
Automobiles are great things and
have come to stay. But the public
roads belong to the people. The roads
were built by taxation levied on all
the people, rich and poor, and drivers
of automobiles have no moral or le
gal right to monopolize them to the ex
clusion of pedestrins and drivers of
horse drawn vehicles.
A reasonable speed limit should be
enforced, not only in the towns and
cities but on the public, highways as
well The safety of all concerned de
mands that this be done. The driver
• who has no respect for the rights of
J others should be made an example of.
He should be protected from himself,
if he hasn’t discretion enough to ob
serve a reasonable speed.
| A law that will regulate the licens
ing and running of automobiles at a
safe speed will mean fewer accidents
and deaths and a greater safety for all
. who travel the public roads.
TEST FOR CANDIDATES
This is campaign year and we again
call attention to our suggested score
card for candidates, as follows:
Character maximum 33 1-3 per cent
Ability, maximum 33 1-3 per cent
Sound and progressive
policies, maximum 33 1-3 per cent
Total 100 per cent
In other words, it is important to
know how a candidate stands—that
[ his political ideas are all right. But
jit is just as important to know that
he has character so that he may be
trusted and ability so that he may
make his ideas prevail.—The Progres
sive Farmer.
Red Cross Drive May 20-27
Following the close of the Liberty
Loan drive comes the Red Cross cam
paign. The cause is a worthy one and
every citizen who can possibly do so
should help this great work. The Y.
M. C. A. looks after the welfare of
the men while in camp, but the
wounded, mangled, torn and bleeding
on the field of battle receive tten
tion from the Red Cros, and if you
did help the Liberty Loan and have a
dollar left the Red Cross needs it.
Red Cross Drive May 20-27
[the DEBTS OF THE WARRING
NATIONS
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j The London Economist for Febru
ary places the total gross debt of
Great Britain at
pounds, ($27,636,000,000.)
The French minister of Finance in
presenting the budget for 1918 esti
mated the public debt of France on
December 31, 1918, 115,166,058,000
francs ($22,227,000,000.)
The public debt of Italy at the end
of 1917 is estimated at about 35,000,-
000,000 lire ($6,676,000,000.)
The debts of the Central Powers
are estimated as fallows: Germany,
$25,408,000,000; Austria, $13,314,-
000,000; and Hungary, $5,704,000,-
000.
Our own public debt is now around
$8,000,000,000, but more than half of
this amout has been loaned to our Al
lies and vui! lbe repaid us. It is esti
mated that of the total net expendi
tures of the United States for the
fiscal year of 1918, exclusive of our
advances to our Allies, more than one
half will be defrayed by taxation.
NEWSPAPERS BEST ADVERTIS
ING MEDIUM
If all the money spent for posters
and costly lithographs advertising
liberty bonds was spent in newspaper
advertising, we firmly believe that the
results would be greater. More news
paper space has been used during the
campaign for the third issue than ever
before, and the result is easily seen.
This space is not paid for by the
government as are the posters and
litographs, but is paid for entirely by
patriotic citizens who believe in news
paper advertising, as the best means
of obtaining the desired amounts
through the sale of bonds or anything
else. If the government would try it
one time, leaving all poster and cir
cular advertising, using the newspa
pers exclusively, we belive the result
vould be much more easily accom
plished.—Swainesboro Forest-Blade.
The Red Cross is a splendid charity
and needs your financial help. Uncle
Sam feeds, clothes and equips the
troops, but the people back home must
care for the wounded. So it is the duty
of every man and woman to heed the
Red Cross call.
The man who thinks the war will
last ten years is welcome to all the
comfort he can get out of the thought.
We prefer to think it will end a great
deal sooner—if everybody gets on the
job and backs up the country with the
proper spirit.
Government reports state the wheat
crop is in excellent condition. The
same is true of the com crop here
abouts, and there is a big area plant
ed to com this season. Georgians fed
themselves during one war and are
preparing to do it again.
DEFENDERS OF “THE SECOND
LINE”
Plod on
Old faithful team—
Each step you take adown the field
Removes a nation just one step
From tyranny’s control—the yield
Of crops that follow in your wake,
A nation’s freedom helps to make—
Old faithful team,
Plod on.
Turn on
Old faithful plow—
Inanimate—yet what import
Your work is to a nation’s life
And liberty! You build the fort
Of food defense, while urgently
The furrow whispers—anxiously—
“ Old faithful plow,
Turn on.”
Toil on
Son of the soil—
With steady stride—with single heart
From morn’s pale light to setting
sun—
A privilege thus to do your part.
Grudge not the perspirtion’s flow;
’Tis part of freedom’s debt you owe—
Son of the soil,
Toil on.
—Exchange.
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by lssal application* as thsy cannot reach
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aad that la by s constitutional remedy
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toPamsd roe hare a rambling nomad or
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raelertd to Its normal aaadJttoa. hearts*
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to am ■all's Catarrh Caro seta V/rr the
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We will tov* Ose ■aad red Dollars far
aey aaae ef catarrhal fwfrw* that aaaaot
h* eared by Wall's Catarrh Care. Circulars
free. All rtowaatopa The.
r. J. emtiKVT A CO., Toledo, o.
If Swift & Company
Made No Profit
The cattle raiser would receive only
Vs cent a pound more for his cattle
So small is Swift & Company’s
profit on any single transaction
that if it were turned over to the
cattle raisers of the country, they
would receive only Vs cent a
pound more for cattle than they
receive now.
• \
Swift & Company pays for live cattle
about 90% of the amount received for
dressed meat and by-products. The
remaining 1096 pays for packing-house
expense, freight to market, operation
of distributing houses and profit Swift
& Company’s actual figures per head
for 1917 on over two million cattle
were as follows:
Receipts Payments
~. fC i.2 *1 Profit*
$8.61 2.*6 Selling
From g% j'Jg. .
By-products **
$ 24-09
26%
’ Phid
for
From Live
Meat Cattle
$68.97 $84.45
74% 91%
Total
$93.06 $93.06
♦Thi* net profit of $1.29 per head
averages Vq cent a pound live weight.
And out of this small net profit divi
dends must be paid to shareholders.
Year Book of interesting and
instructive facts sent on request.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
MARINE CORPS AGAIN
ASKS FOR RECRUITS
The Marine Corps has begun anew
drive for recruits to provide for the
recent authorized increase in the
corps. Recruiting has not been push
ed since August, when the Marine
Corps reached its full strength an-
FOR SALE
Several hundred bushels sound
white Georgia corn in the shuck,
80 lbs. to bushel. Closely slip
shucked.
Jackson Milling
& Feed Cos.
thorized at that time, but more than
2,000 men were enlisted in April.
In the Marine Corps Reserves and
National Naval Volunteers there are
now more than 40,000 men.
Tbe OdWne That Does Rot Affect the Head
Becanse of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXA
TIVE BKOMjO QDlnm is bettor than ordinary
Quinine and does not cause nervananses nor
■tvetog to head. Remember the fad name and
look for tbe signature of E. W. GROVE. 30c-