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Don’t you feel proud of the way
Butts county cleared the bars in the
Liberty Loan and Red Cross Drives?
Candidates for governor, United
States senator and state house officers
have a little more than three months
in which to present the issues to the
voters —providing the voters can hold
out that long.
The people appear to be in no hu
mor for politics this year and the can
didates are having a hard time arous
ing enthusiasm. As yet the voters in
this section don’t seem to be much in
terested in the senatorial race.
Since the first of May there has
been a sharp advance in the price of
newsprint paper. On the first of July
the advance in the second class pos
tage become effective. The only silver
lining to the cloud is the fact the
newspaper fraternity will not have to
work overtime figuring an income tax
The Progress-Argus is following
the boys to the trenches. A large
number of parents and relatives of
the boys at the front are sending
them the paper regulrly. A copy of
the home paper in the trenches in
France will be genuinely appreciated
and will keep the men infomed of
developments at home.
Butts county farmers will harvest,
this year one of he largest and best
wheat crops grown locally in many \
years. This is a hopeful sign. It
moans that there vail be home raised
biscuits in spite of the food restric
tions. With our farmers planting an
increased acreage in wheat there
ought to be a good wheat mill in the
>county.
It will be hard to convince the av
erage man that there is not a vsthole
lot of profiteering going on among
the big corporations of the country.
The man running a small business, or
the man working on a small salary
must dance to the music of the big
fellows. Possibly in time the kinks
will be straightened out, but it is
pretty tough while it lasts.
Following every lynching in Geor
gia the big city dailies give a lecture
to the people on the evils of lynching.
These lectures are no doubt well
meant, but they have little effect.
Lynching will continue as long as the
crimes which cause lynching are com
mitted. Georgia is no worse than any
ether state, North or South. The peo
p’e are determined to uphold Anglo-
Saxon civilization and society at any
(cost, and as long as brutes so far
forget themselves as to comm t un
speakable c rimes on white women,
just so long will Judge Lynch hold
sway. Lynching is a bad thing and
ought to be stopped. So likewise
ought the crimes against defenceless
women be stopped. Stop one and you
stop the other.
INVEST IN W. S. S
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1918
MR. MOORE’S PASSING
The death of Mr. John W. Moore
removes from the stage of action one
of the best known, most widely belov
ed and useful members of the Georgia
bar. In the twenty years that he had
practiced law Colonel Moore had es
tablshed a reputation that will long
live after him. He had handled some
of the most celebrated cases known
in Georgia in a generation. He was
stricken down at the time of his great
est usefulness. His loss is a blow. to
the entire bar of the state.
Mr. Mooire was aver lovable char
acter. He was true to his friends and
steadfast in all things. The soul of
honor and knightly courtesy, he was
held in the very tenderest affection
by those who knew him best. He nev
er berayed a trust or violated a
pledge.
Though for many years a resident
of Atlanta, Mr. Moore never ceased
to be interested in the affairs of his
native county. He was ever ready to
bestow a favor and grant a kindness
to any citizen of his old home. His
carer at the bar had been watched
with pride by the people of Butts
county, and his success was a matter
of concern to all. That he should have
been cut down at the zenith of his
usefulness and when the future beck
oned with bright promises is one of
the saddest features of his going.
He lived not long but well. His
fame and place ais one of the foremost
attorneys of his day is secure. There
is a touch of personal loss to many
in the passing of this splendid charac
ter, and the family have the consola
tion that many friends and admirers
share their grief.
MR. MOORE AT REST
(James B. Nevin in Atlanta Georgia)
cannot trust myself here and now
to write the tender things that are in
my heart to say of John Moore—dear
old John Moore, who passed on at
noon yesterday, after many weeks of
patient suffering and distress of
body and mind. He was so dear to me
—so very, very dear, and so intimate
ly and unselfishly my friend.
For some time, I have known that
John had to go. He knew that—and
!he knew that I knevi it. I could feel
I it in the grip of his handshake, many
I long, long weeks before he went home
I to his last illness.
I have been along the wayside a
while with John —along the wayside
when the flowers were abloom and the
fields were green, and again when the
flowers were abloom and the fields
were green, and again when the way
was dark, and the landscape drear and
the end of the road uncertain.
I think I knew him—l know I loved
him. And if I had too great an appre
ciation of him, that was a child of the
great love I bore him.
There are many of them “Over
There” now—many that I knew in
the days gone by. And I know that
John MUST know at this time some
thing of the loneliness and the sadness
his going away has caused me.
May his gentle, fine and manly soul
rest in peace “Over There.”
MR. JOHN W. MOORE
(Atlanta Journal)
To all who knew* him as a friend,
and they are legion, the death of Mr.
John W. IVloore has brought a heart
ache of personal sorrow. His fellow
members of the Atlanta bar admired
his talent and integrity. The public
esteemed him for his useful though
unobtrusive citizenship. Those who
knew him most intimately found him
a deep as well as versatile student,
not of law alone but of some of the
rarest provinces of literature. But
from whatever point of view John
Moore’s personality was regarded, he
impressed one first and last with the
fine, rich humanness of his spirit. He
made friends among all sorts and
conditions of men, made them without
effort and perhaps unconsciously.
There was nothing of the professional
“mixer” in his manner. He never af
fected cordiality or w r ore his heart
upon his sleeve. No man ever lived
more thorougly the proverb, “Best be
thyself, imperial, plain and true.”
It was this very simplicity and gen
uineness, combined with an instinc
i tive readiness to help others, that
made him so widely and so deeply
beloved. His passing leaves a keenly
felt vacancy in the community’s life
| and a sense of painful loss in every
heart of the hundreds into which he
. entered.
Georgia raised in 1917 72,000,000
Mshels of corn. That is a splendid
showing, and unless all signs fail the
state will duplicate the yield this year.
i The boys com clubs have been a won
-1 derful help to increased corn produc
tion the country over.
STOP THE CAUSE
(Waycross Journal-Herald)
Governor Dorsey prescribed a little
Homeopathic treatment to cure the
lynching fever that seems to be prev
alent in Georgia just now. The Color
ed Welfare League of Augusta, pass
ed resolutions declaring against lynch
ing, and calling upon the Governor to
put a stop to it. In acknowledging
receipt of the resolutions Governor
Dorsey frankly told the colored breth
ren that the best and surest way to
stop the lynching of their race was to
stop the crime that causes the lynch
ing.
If you go to a Homeopathic physi
cian for medical treatment he asks
you about one hundred questions,
trying to find out the real cuse of the
trouble, then he prescribes medicine
to remove the cause, and allows na
ture a free hand to make the cure.
This is what Governor Dorsey pre
scribes, and we most heatily agree
with him, and we believe that the in
formed and better classes of the col
ored race will likewise agree vuith the
governor.
Governor Dorsey’s letter to the col
ored League reads in part as follows:
“The resolutions were silent con
cerning the unspeakable outrages ap
| parently committed by members of
your race, and which udoubtedly pre
cipitated the lynchings complained of.
“It is my strong conviction, that
enlightened and self respecting mem
bers of your race are not in sympa
thy with the commission of crime.
Unfortunately, your resolutions and
similar protests heretofore emanating
from represntative organizations of
your race, dealing with kindred sub
jects, are silent concerning this su
preme outrage upon law and civiliza
tion, which too often provokes com
munities to substitute summary ven
geance for the form by law. I trust
your organization will, by concerted
action with similar organizations of
your race, disseminate ths doctrine.
That personal outrages and violence,
especially against helpless women and
children v.iill not be tolerated by any
civilized community, but will provoke
prompt retaliation of community ven
geance which is difficult, if not im
posible, to contol, and that the surest
way to discourage lynchings is to con
vince the lawless element that such
provocative outrrages will not be tole
erated, palliated or shielded by good
citizens of any race, but that all races
will join in rebuking the offense with
the same zeal which characterizes
their criticism of those citizens who,
in the wrong exercise of of natural
indignation, wrongfully unite to per
sonally punish the originar offense
and offenders.
“I am confident of the failure of
your resolutions to incorporate this
doctrine was inadvertent and I am
equally sure tyou will be prompt to
avail yourself of the only practical
method by which they can be of real
assistance to the executive depoart
ment of this state in its efforas to
discourage lynchings and maintain
supremacy of our courts.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
If you want anything done
quickly appoint a board of three
of the busiest men you can find.
If you want it done instantly, let
two of them resign.—Atlanta
Georgian.
Which is another way of say
ing the man who hasn’t any
thing to do hasn’t time to do
anything.—Dalton Citizen.
The Hon. Joe Hill Hall, of
Bibb, wants to be attorney gen
eral of Georgia and has announc
ed his candidacy for the office.
Mr. Hall no doubt thinks there is
nothing unconstitutional about
the thing.—Darien Gazette.
A squad of hands cannot
chew' tobacco, tell jokes and hit
a lick of work every now and
then and keep public roads in a
good state of repair. It requires
modem machinery and trained
men to repair grades.—Com
merce Observer.
If you want to know how' to build
good roads in Jackson county, Broth
er Harber, come over to Butts, which
has the best roads of any county in
Middle Georgia. It takes modem
equipment and a lot of money, but
the people seem to want good roads
so they can travel fast. Butts county
roads are in a class to themselves, so
far as neighboring counties are con
cerned.
Of all the days in the week
Monday is the most acceptable
for shopping and trading. We
wonder why farmers put off their
The Fanner’s
Share
Live stock is marketed from
farmer to consumer at a lower
cost than almost any other farm
product.
The United States Department of
agriculture reported in 1916 that the
farmer gets for his cattle “approxi
mately two-thirds to three-fourths' * of
the final retail price paid by the con
sumer for the resulting beef.
Under normal conditions, the farmer’s
share of retail prices of various farm
products is approximately as follows:
Butter 71 per cent
CATTLE 66% to 76 per cent
Eggs 65 per cent
Potatoes 55 per cent
Poultry 45 per cent
Fruits 35 per cent
The difference between farmer’s price
and retail price represents the necessary
expenses of packing, freight and whole
sale and retail distribution.
Swift & Company not only performs
the manufacturing operations of pre
paring cattle for market in its well
equipped packing plants, but it pays the
freight on meat to all parts of the
United States, operates 500 branch
distributing houses, and in most cases
even delivers to the retail butcher. All
this is done at an expense of less than 2
cents per pound, and at a profit of only
about *4 of a cent per pound of beef.
/ )
Large volume of business and expert
management, make possible this indis
pensable service to the live-stock raiser
and to the consumer, and make possible
the larger proportion of retail prices
received by farmers.
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
trading till Saturdays when they
could get better store service on
some other day, particularly
Monday and Tuesday. Saturday
is a day of confusion, stir, noise,
hurry and trade mobs. Along
with other revolutionary changes
v.<® would like to see Monday
made a popular shopping day.—
Commerce Observer.
If half of the things Harris and
Howard are saying about each other
be true, then neither is worthy to rep
resent Georgia in the United States
senate. These candidates are inrulg
ing in entirely too much mud slinging
to suit the average voter.
It is said that H. H. Dean, of
Bainesville, who is a candidate for
United States senator, is a smart
corporation lawyer. He is attorney
for the Georgia Railway and Power
Company. A little “loyalty” or “pa
triotism” taffy is likely to cover up
a lot of corporation slush and also a
lot of incompetence. Let’s hear less
of loyalty, which ought to be taken
for granted, and more about the real
isues that face the country. A man
who has nothing but a “loyalty” plat
form to run on ought to be snowed
under by the voters.
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Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
About one of the best things the
war department has yet done is to is
sue an order to round up all loafers,
gamblers, etc., after July 1. This
genty will have to go to work or fight.
That’s right. There is no room for
drones now.
HERE AT HOME
Jackson Citizens Gladly Testify and
Confidently Recommend Doan’s
Kidney Pills
It is testimony like the following
that has placed Doan’s Kidney Pills
so far above competiters. When peo
ple right here at home raise their
voice in praise there is no room for
doubt. Read the public statement of
a Jackson citizen.
H. R. Hooks, prop, garage, Oak St.,
says: About four years ago I was
troubled with pains in the small of my
back. My kidneys were s o bad I
had to get up quite often during the
night to pass the secretions. The
worst symptoms of my complaint,
however, were rheumatic pains that
caught me in the hips. I would often
hold my sides, the pains were so bad
and I had a hard time getting around.
I knew I needed something for my
kidneys and when Doan’s K’dney
Pills were recommended to me, I got
a box and began tak'n gthero. Doan’s
entirely rid me of all these symptoms
and put my kidneys in good condi
tion.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
Mr. Hooks had. Foster-Milbum Cos.,
Mfgrs., Buffalo, N. Y. advt.
INVEST IN W. S. S