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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 80 words and less; above 80 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must accompany eopy in aH instances. 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. FLORENCa OIL COOK STOVES I The Fuel Administration authorizes usto say that I n _ it considers the use of Oil Cook Stoves and Oil 1 ZSAVE GOAL Heaters at this time a very important help in the . U necessary conservation of coal for war purposes, j Quicker Meals with Cheaper Fuel! You can offset the high cost of food with the reduced cost oil preparing it on a Florence. It bums kerosene, the cheap and plen-B tiful fuel. Come in and learn how simply and quickly this popular! stove works. No wick to fuss with, no messing, no trouble. You turn the! lever, touch a match, and get a clean, hot flame that cooks quickly! and heats water in a jiffy. The portable oven bakes quickly and! evenly and has a glass door through which you can watch your! baking. All Florence products are fully guaranteed. We’ll tell you all about Florence economies in a few minutes! when you come in. .... “Look for the Lever. NEWTON HARDWARE CO. I Phone No. 18 Jackson, Ga. 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. Drives Out Malaria, Builds Up Sy*^ Tli* Old Standard general streiigthune*®^ g | GROTS’S TASTELBSB chill TOaiC.drrr* Malaria.enrichea the blood.and builda i* tea. ▲ true tonic. Pot adults and childr** INVEST IN W. S.