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NO MORE FREE CARDS
The Progress-Argus published last
week a letter and is publishing this
week two letters in connection with
the county commissioner’s office and
proposed local legislation. These are
the last cards this paper will publish
on this subject, without charge. The
paper is always more than glad
to give any citizen space for a hear
ing, but there is a limit to our re
sources, and faced with enormously
increased prices for material, labor,
paper, ink, etc., we are obliged to
refuse any more free cards. Any cit
izen wishing to put forward his views
on this matter can do so at our regu
lar advertising rates.
Let’s make quick work of our War
Savings Stamp quota.
You can’t afford not to invest in
your quota of W. S. S.
With six senatorial candidates al
ready in the race why doesn’t Rufe
Hutchens make it uftanimous?
Possibly one reason why all the six
candidates for the senate don’t en
gage in joint debate is because they
know the people can’t stand it without
wearing gas masks.
More than 1,500 students and alum
ni of the Univerity of Georgia have
enlisted in some branch of war work.
The University can be depended or.
to do its part in peace or war.
Four members of the general as
sembly have resigned and joined the
army. If the whole outfit would re
sign and join the army the State
would be in a whole lot better fix.
The war is teaching America many
lessons of thrift, economy and hardi
hood that will be worth untold bless
ings to all of us in the years to come.
Don’t whine. Your mettle is being
tested.
Says the Bremen Gateway: Some
men are bom fools, others go crazy
later in life, and there are those who
rear back in their flivvers and try to
beat a lightning express train to the
crossing. •
Butts county is always glad to have
the candidates visit her. The people
want to see and hear all the candi
dates and be in a position to judge in
telligently of their merits. Bring on
the candidates.
The Georgia peach crop this year
will be a whopper. Some 9,000 or
more car swill be shipped and the
groviers will receive about $12,000,-
000 for the crop. This is the reason
your ice is being cut down.
William Schley Howard says a
newspaper can take but little from a
strong man or add but little to a
weak man. Granted that W. S. H. is
right, yet he has never been accused
of refusing all the free publicity he
can secure.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 2L_UUB
NO HARDSHIP AT ALL
The recent order of the food ad
ministration curtailing the consump
tion of ice, temporarily, while the
peach crop is being moved, will work
no hardship on anybody. Millions of
people have lived and died without
using ice at all, for the manufacture
of ice by artificial methods is a com
paratively recent development. Our
fathers and their fathers before them
got along without ice and were happy,
healthy and contented. In fact, ice
has probably injured as many people
as it has benefitted. The taking of
large amounts of ice in the stomach
is certainly not an aid to better diges
tion and general health.
The ice order is one of the inci
dents of war to which we will all soon
become accustomed. Every one of us
can very well afford to do without
ice in our drinks. There is no crack
ed ice in the trenches “over there.”
r f we are made of as good stuff as
the boys in the trenches we will ac
cept the ice reduction order without
a whimper.
So the government can not only
save ice, but other commodities as
well and all patriotic citizens will
back up the order with cheerful com
pliance.
THE HANDWRITING ON THE
WALL
That Tom Hardwick is beat and
knows he is beat is becoming evident
to any person who has given the sen
atorial situation any intelligent
thought. In fact, it will be a surprise
if Hardwick does not withdraw' before
the nomination on September 11.
A man’s home paper is his best
friend. The average county paper can
be depended upon to size up the situ
tion with fair accuracy. The Sanders
ville Progress, published in Tom
Hardwick’s home town, has called on
Senator Hardwick to withdraw from
the race. This is significant. In seas
on and out of season the Sandersville
paper has supported the Washington
county candidate. It has the foresight
to realize that Hardwick is already
defeated, and therefore calls on him
to get out of the race.
If Tom Hardwick had any political
sense left he will get out of the way.
He used the senatorship as a gamble
and has lost. He threw dice with his
high office. He got on the wrong side.
He thought he was drawing a winning
hand, vuhen he opposed President Wil
son and his war policy, but the cards
are against him.
The United States is going to see
this war through to the bitter end.
Opposition on the part of the hard
wicks and other obstructionists will
not be countenanced. The state of
Georgia must be represented in the
United States senate by men of abil
ity, loyalty and unquestioned patriot
ism. Hardwick has had his opportu
nity. He abused it, and his political
doom is as sure as the ultimate defeat
of the kaiser.
It will not be safe, from a physical
standpoint, for Senator Hardwck to
come to Georgia and make his disloyal
utterances. Too many of our boys
are in France. Almost every family
is represented by a son, husband,
brother, and the people of Georgia
are not in a humor to listen to Hard
wick's anti-administration talk.
Hardwick should withdraw. His
own home paper has pointed the way.
A POSITION WELL TAKEN
That politics of the meanest, rank
est sort was behind the plan to have
men furloughed out of the army to
work on the farm has been apparent
all along. The scheme was born of
politicians who are anxious, above all
else, to keep their fences i norder.
They care little about the real issue.
They are vote-catchers first, last and
all the time.
The offcer in charge of this depart
ment at Camp Gordon, we are inform
ed, has refused to grant a single fur
lough for men to work on the farm.
He takes the position that if the far
mers were raising food crops and
wanted labor for that exclusive pur
pose he would grant the furloughs.
But as long as the selectmen are de
sired for the purpose of making cot
ton, the officer refuses to listen to the
appeals. Several cases ha\e been taV
en up from Tutts county and not a
single man has been given a furlough
to date.
We commend the authorities at
Camp Gordon for their good sense
and sound views. It is a well known
fact that there is no shortage of la
bor so far as growing food crops is
concerned. Abundant food crops can
be grown with little labor. Corn,
wheat, oats, potatoes, peas, sorghum,
etc., can be grown without much cul
tivation. But cotton is a crop that re
quires abundant attention, from the
planting of the seed till the rcrop
is harvested and ready for market.
Another striking feature about this
furlough business is that fathers are
willing that their own boys go to
France to be shot at,maimed and killed
and not a protest is filed with the war
department. Almost in every instance
the furlough is sought for negro farm
hands. And for what reason? That
more cotton may be raised, for it is a
veil known fact that the negro is a
fine cotton grower. “Take my son,
but don’t bother my negro,” has been
the attitude of a surprisingly large
number of farmers. /
It is good to know the war depart
ment sees through this camouflage,
and has the good sense to promptly
knock out such a nefarious plan.
Along this line the following press
comment will be of interest:
It strikes me that there is a
tendency to overwork the agri
cultural idea by prominent Geor
gia politicians. We have been
told of a case of a furlough
granted to help out in crop pro
duction where the young soldier
lay around and slept while the
old standbys of the family did
the work. There is such a thing
as keeping your political fences
in repair and election times al
ways come around, and the farm
er vote is considerable in old
Georgia.—Winder News.
If you will keep your eye on
some of these agricultural ex
emptions, you will see them run
ning automobles and having a
good time in general. Ain’t it a
shame? Greensboro-Herald Jour
nal.
A MISTAKEN NOTION
The idea that a candidate has got
to be a good speaker to be a good rep
resentative of the people is a mistak
en notion. Many of our ablest public
men are miserable failures as speak
ers. Joseph M. Brown was one of the
safest, sanest, well balanced govern
ors Georgia has had in a long, long
while, and yet Mr. Brown made no
pretentions to being a public speaker.
He was an executive of the same
type as Governor Hugh M. Dorsey,
quiet, efficient, but thorough and ev
ery inch his own boss.
If the ability to speak glibly and
fluently were a substitute for rdal
statesmanship and brains, then the
lightning rod agent and the “blue
sky” promotor should be elected to
office.-
It is a well known fact that most
legislation nowadays is shaped in the
committee room. This is true from
the general assembly of Georgia to
congress. The fellows who make the
most noise and bluster are not always
the safest leaders. The day has about
passed when lawmakers are swayed
by brilliant and overmastering appeals
of oratory. The fact is we have no
orators of the John C. Calhoun, Dan
iel Webster, Henry Clay, Alexander
H. Stephens, Ben Hill, Robert Toombs
type.
Of course if a man has ability and
brains and is also a good speaker it is
an added asset. But no amount of
“flighty” oratory can make up for real
ability.
It would be well for the people of
Georgia to remember this fact in con
nection with the present senatorial
race. Pick your candidate for ability,
leadership and for the soundness of
his views, rather than the fellow who
“saws” the air and really says but
little when he gets hrough.
FRANCE’S NOBLE SACRIFICE
France has lost vastly more than
territory in the advance of the Ger
mans. She has lost 67 per cent of
her coal output, 90 per cent of hex
iron production, nearly half of her
metal-urgical establishments, 45,000
of her 55,000 looms employed for the
’ vieaving of wool, 4,475,000 of her
! 7,525,000 spindles for spinning cot-
I ton, 82,000 of her 140,000 power
looms, 500,000 of her 550,000 spin
dles for spinning wool, one fuorth of
her production of corn, 87 per cent of
her sugar beet production, 24 per
cent of the variety used for fodder.
In addition to these losses, 38 per
cent of her factories and 23 per cent
of all her houses are located in the
invaded territory. In taxes from the
invaded teritory she has lost 45,000,-
000 francs. The marvel of the ages
is the patriotism of France in the face
of these gigantic losses. She is bleed
ing at every pore in the defense of
what she has left, and the sympathies
of the whole world are with her ex
cept those of the Teutons.—Christian
Index.
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WHY NOT JAPAN
During the past few months, when
things have looked dark for the allies,
many of us have wondered why Japan
did not actively enter the war. Sever
al million Japanese soldiers, among
the finest troops in the world, fresh,
well' equipped, trained to perfection,
hitting Germany and Austria from
the rear would not only relieve the
tremendous pressure in France but
would, in the opinion of many, swing
the balance in favor of the allies
We believe it is time for Japan to
strike and strike hard. Up to this
time the United States has not given
her permission for Japan to strike
through Siberia and Russia. The oth
er allies are said to favor Japan’s ac
tive participation in the war.
Writing of Japan’s probable entry
into the war, Col. George Harvey has
the following interesting comment:
“Away over to the east, half way
around the world, the Allies have an
army of millions of as fine soldiers as
ever marched to victory—the splendid
army of Japan. And the army of Ja
pan is marking time. Resting abso
lutely motionless when its weight
thrown against that shaky back en
trance to the Hun citadel, with the
combined weights of the Italian, Eng
lish, French and Greek forces already
close to the Austrian border, would
smash through that frail barrier and
all Hundom, held in a grim life and
death deadlock in the west, could not
save it. Years and years of battering
at that stone wall the Huns have
drawn across their western front
would not do, if it ever did, what
weeks or days would do if the crush
ing military force of the Allies, un
fortunately so widely scattered, could
be brought to bear on that weak, wob
bling back And it is a layman’s
guess that it is through that back
door, or not at all, that the fingers of
the Huns Nemesis will find their way
to a strangle grip on the Hun throat.”
It’s a long ways to Berlin, but we
are on the way. Three million men
will be in service by August first and
more than 800,000 have already been
landed in France. Now it’s up to YOU
to buy your quota—and more—of
, War Savings Stamps.
The “work or fight” order cannot
go into effect any too soon. While
negro farm hands, as well as white,
are being taken fro mproductive oc
cupations and big buck negroes are
acting as chauffeurs the picture is
not a pleasing one. After July 1, the
war department has said, every man
of draft age must work or fight and
we say amen.
Along about 1908 Hake Smith
wihile governor of Georgia went to
Germany for the purpose of bringing
farm laborers to this country. But
we’ll bet the Senator is not proud of
this bit of history. There are too
many of the damn brutes over here
already.
INVEST IN W. S. S
THE FIGHT ON HEARST
y
In many sections of the country!
■organized fights are being wage!
against William Randolph Hearst anil
his various newspaper and magazinl
publications. In Georgia the fight il
being led by the Macon News, and ill
that city a number of news dealerl
have refused to sell the Hearst pub-1
lications in the future.
Hearst is charged with being pro!
German, and those who are waginyl
the fight are citing quotations from'
his publications to substantiate their*
■charges. In some quarters Hearst
believed to have been the cause ofl
the trouble in Mexico. It will be re-1
called that the big publisher wantell
this country to invade, conquer anil
annex Mexico. The Hearst family!
owns large holdings in Mexico.
Recently the Hearst publication!
have been supporting the war, thougl
when war first declared his attitude!
was far fro unsatisfactory to all pal
triotic Americans.
Hearst is rich and powerful ail
controls a string of newspayers fro*
Boston to Los Angeles, as well as|
number of magazines, and the fig*
will be watched viith interest.
And just to think that Hoke Smitl
was elected governor of Georgia ol
a platform of saving the peopl
$4,000,000 annually in freight rate*
Now comes the government all
boosts both freight and passengtl
rates tremendously.
The Progress-Argus has follows
the boys from the time they mobilii
ed for the Mexican border, goes
them in the various cantonments, af
in the trenches in France and will f o
low* them down the streets of Berlifl
singing the “Star Spangled Banner''
The people of this country ought to
be told the truth about the fuel situ
ation. We have been told to order
coal early and manypeople have don*
that, but the coal has not been delfr
ered. If the government does not ff*
tend to see that the coal is delivred
the people ought to know it, so al
- can be made to secure 1
supply of wood. For heaven’s sal*
let’s not have a repetition of 1917-
Little Joe Brown is mighty <I U!E ‘
these days. He must be going in
a bumper pumpkin crop. Little Jo e J
a giant compared to some of the P l ?'
mies parading themselves before
people.—Jackon Progress-Argus.
When Little Joe and Big Hoke
pitted against each other the w '; c!e
state sat up and took notice.
created more interest than all 1
candidates combined in the P r jr!j
senatorial race.— Hawkinsville
patch and News.
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INVEST IN W. S.