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Here’s hoping the Allies celebrate
the Glorious Fourth in Berlin.
This is the week to line up and
sign up for War Savings Stamps.
This is the week in which Butts
county must go over the top in the
W. S. S. drive.
The boll weevil and the legislature
in operation in the state at the same
time is a severe affliction.
“War Widows” are among the new
industries that have sprung up as a
result of the conflict “over there.”
As freight and passenger rates of
the railroads are increased service is
cut down. Now that’s funny, ain’t it?
The war gardner who stills retains
his enthusiasm in the face of weather
conditions is a sure enough optimist.
While other movements are being
put forward w.hy not have one for
the elimination of government red
tape?
Jackson needs an ice plant and a
flour mill. These two enterprises
should have the hearty support of all
citizens.
With labor already scarce farmers
do not care to lose much time listen
ing to joint debates from the senato
rial candidates.
A War Savings Stamp is a baby
bond. If you felt unable to purchase
a Liberty Bond you can at least afford
to buy War Savings Stamps.
The elimination of barbecues, pub
lic dinners and the serving of refresh
ments at public and social functions
has resulted in a great saving of food.
The war will cost the United States
$31,000,000,000 for the next twelve
months. All w? hope is that this sum
will be sufficient to get the kaiser’s
goat.
If Prof. Snider of weather fame
could speak a word to Jupiter Pluvius
and induce that worthy to start an of
fensive it would be right smartly ap
preciated.
Municipal wood yards wr.ll be much
in favor this wnter. Jackson ought to
prepare now to have one, in order
that the poor may be furnished fuel
at actual cost.
Some of the rambunctious senato
rial candidates who are so anxious
for joint discussions ought to get a
phonograph and amuse themselves in
that way, while sparing the voters.
Here’s hoping Washington will
soon speak the word that will turn
loose several million Japanese troops
on the Germans and Austrians. That
fe .one quick and effective way to end
the war.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 1918
DOING A MAN’S PART
The farmers of the country are do
ing more than their “bit.” They are
doing their best, their earnest, dead
level best, and The Progress-Argus
wishes to make due acknowledgment
of this fact.
The farmer—an dthis includes his
wife and children as well—is on the
job early and late. No eight hour law
for him. No strike if things don’t go
exactly right. No bluff nor bull doz
ing methods.
The farmer is the man of the hour
and the country is under a debt of
everlastin ggratitude to the man who
tills the soil. If the farmers were to
get strikes and continual boosts of
salary in their heads, as other classes
have and are doing, and were to fall
down on the job, the war would be
over mighty quick by means of the
starvation route .
A liberal share of the man power
has been furnished by the farmer. He
has bought Liberty Bonds, War Sav
ings Stamps, helped the Red Cross,
Y. M. C. A., and all other demands
and to make sure that he is doing his
duty is feeding the whole crowd.
TOWNS SHOULD ORGANIZE
It becomes increasingly evident that
the small towns have a hard job cut
out for them during the war and in
the period following. The same is
true of the rural districts. The man
power of the country is being moved
from the country to the great indus
trial centers. Already before war was
declared thousands and thousands of
laborers had left the South to seek
employment in the great manufactur
ing centers.
The location of army camps and
cantonments in the big cities mean
the gi’owth and expansion of these
centers at the expense of the country
districts and small towns. Business
should be good at these places. The
citizens of Macon, Atlanta and other
army centers should help all war
movements, for they have the means
to do it with.
Butts county is a typical agricul
tural county. Every time a man is
drafted into the army the county is
made that much poorer, both from the
standpoint of labor and production,
and the big centers that much richer.
If this draft on the man power of the
country should keep up for several
years the country communities would
be in a serious condition.
The small towns should organize
for self-preservation. Not that they
can stim the tide of immigration un
til the war is over. But there a num
ber of worth while things they can
accomplish. They can through effec
tive organization, deal with these
problems as they arise. A strong or
ganization of business men could do
effective work now in every town.
Such a movement could help out in
the coal and ice situation; see that la
bor is properly distributed; see that
the poor are not allowed to suffer
through lack of fuel; help bring the
producer and consumer into closer
touch; find a market for the farmer’s
products and accomplish other desir
able things along this line.
Call such an organization a board
of trade, chamber of commerce, busi- !
ness men’s league or what not, but it i
is evident that the small towns should
organize their forces and be prepared
to grapple with the serious war time
problems as they arise.
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THE PROFITEER
The most diabolical fiend in human |
form, the worst rascal unhung, the 1
most shrivel-souled creature in the \
universe, too mean to die and too
sorry to live—is the profiteer. He is
worse than the German rapists and
assassins, more brutal than the turks,
a traitor to his country and in the
eyes of his Maker damned. He is a
vampire that robs his country and his
fellow man; that takes the widow’s
mite in the name of patriotism; that
sucks up the savings of the little chil
dren; that sqeezes the poor; that
crushes out life and hope for selfish
gain. This is true of the profiteer
who robs his government and leaves
a trail of graft among high officials,
as well as the firm or individual who
robs the people through exorbitant
prices.
Profiteering should be punishable by
death. This country has already had
too much of this sort of thing. It is
time a halt was called and the surest
way to break up profiteering is to in
flict the death penalty on those found
guilty.
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LET THE SOLDIERS VOTE
In fairness to the soldiers in the
trenches and those waiting to be sent
overseas, the Ctu/gia legislature
should enact a law giving these men
the right to vote. Several states, we
are told, have already enacted similar
laws.
Though away from home these men
are still citizens of Georgia. They are
interested in all public questions that
affect the state. They should be al
lowed to vote for such men and meas
ures as they deem proper.
Arrangements could be made, if the
legislature sees proper to pass such a
law, for the soldiers to cast their bal
lots in advance of the election, the
tickets to be mailed to l the clerk or or
dinary and be opened and counted on
the day of the primary on September
11th.
The men who have answered their
country’s call are entitled to the best
we can give them, and they are cer
tainly entitled to the right to vote
while away from home.
THE NEED OF AN ICE PLANT
The present ice famine has forced
home the need of an ice plant in Jack
son. In the very midst of the hot sea
son when ice is most needed the sup
ply has been w'holly inadequate to
the demand, and while there has pas
sibly been no actual suffeing, yet
there has been a great deal of incon
venience.
The trouble seems to rest with the
transportation companies. Most of
our troubles of recent days are due
to transportation, it seems. There is
plenty of ice in Atlanta, if reports
i are true, but the dealers are unable
I to have the commodity shipped. Pos
sibly the peach saving order has cov
ered a multitude of incompetency and
dont-care-ism.
i As the war drags along it becomes
more and more apparent that every
community must take care of itself.
This has been true as regards coal and
it is true as regards ice. There is so
much red tape mixed up in the gov
! ernment’s business, so many tangles,
so many things to be explained, so
many things that are inexplainable,
that individuals and country towns
i and communities must shift for them
selves or endure real hardships.
1 No time should be lost in organiz
ing a stock company for the manu
facture of ice in Jackson. It i possi
bly too late to get the plant in opera
tion this season, but the p lans can
be perfected in time for next season.
There is plenty of local capital to
build such a plant. The stock should
be w’idely distributed, so that the peo
ple, rather than a few individuals,
could own and operate the plant.
Ice has come to be a necessity, just
as feul is a necessity. Judging by
present conditions and looking to the
future no permanent relief is in sight
unless a local plant is erected. This
is the thing to do and we hope the
movement will assume definite shape
before many days have passed.
FACING A SERIOUS SITUATION
The newspapers of the country are
facing a serious situation. News print
raper is becoming scarcer and the
stocks are lower now than they have
eve rbeen before. The supply of pa
pei has been placed in the hands of a
committee for distribution, and possi
bly paper will soon be dished out like
coal and ice. The price, it need hard
ly be said, is also higher.
Newspapers must save paper. The
great city dailies as well as tax week
ly papers must reduce the size of their
publications. This will cut down their
advertising t enacity, and co.'cspond
ir.giv their income.
Beginning die first of July the in
crease in second class postage be
comes effective. This will add another
burden to the already heavily taxed
publishers.
In the meantime the government
and other free pubblicity bureaus con
tinue to ride the press hard. There
never has been such a demand for the
space of the papers. What the future
will bring the press of the country re
mains to be seen, though the outlook
is far from encouraging.
If war demands come thick and
fast, remember that yo uare helping
not to please Governor Dorsey or
President Wilson, but the boys them
selves who are “over there” represent-
I ing you and fighting for you and
yours.
The Italians are demonstrating that
they still have a punch left. If enough
troops could be concentrated on the
Italian frontier to put Austria out of
the running it would be a master
stroke. Germany would not
be able to go alonevery long.
BILLS
The Packer*s Bill
for Live Stock
For the first six months of our operations
under the Food Administration, ending
April 30, 1918, Swift & Company paid for
DRESSED WEIGHT LBS.
live stock - 1,558,600,000 $323,800,000
For the same
period in 1917 1,338,300,000 $210,400,000
in
Weight 16V 2 % 220,300,000
Increase
in cost 54% - • • $113,400,000
The Consumers
Bill for Meat
must necessarily have increased
correspondingly, as Live Stock
prices and meat prices fluctuate
together.
When the producer gets high
prices for his live stock, the con
sumer’s meat bill must neces
sarily be larger.
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
USELESS COMPLAINING
Dawson News.
There is too much senseless com
plaining. People who fret because
they cannot get some of the little lux
uries they used to enjoy before the
war mihgt do well to remember that
their forefathrs lived without sugar
and without coal till the fourteenth
century, without butter on their bread
till the fifteenth, without tobacco and
potatoes till the sixteenth, without
tea, coffee and soap till the seven
teenth, without umbrellas and lamps
till the eighteenth, and without trains,
telegrams and telephones until the
nineteenth century.
The Macon News is inviting sugges
tions from its readers as to what dis
poition should be made of the kaiser.
It looks like a case of catching before
hanging, but that case can be settled
mighty quick if The News will deliver
the kaiser in Butts county.
If the govenment would divert
some of the money being spent on
high priced posters to newspaper ad
vertising better results would be ob
tained in the various war demands.
A lot of time and effort, as well as
paper, could also be saved if some of
the publicity agents were put to work
at something useful.
There are a few yellow dogs, of
course, but the great body of citizens
in this country are intensely patriotic
and are ready to respond to any de
mand the government makes on them.
This is true in spite of the fact that
the government is often hamstrung
{>n account of red tape.
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Year Book of interesting and
instructive facts sent on request.
Address Swift & Company,
Union Stock Yards, Chicago, Illinois
Let’s not stop till we put Butts
county over the top in the W. S. S.
campaign. Pride in our home county
demands that this be done. We must
also buy the stamps for patriotic and
business reasons.
When it is understood that Ger
many has secured more than $30,000,-
000,000 of loot through seizure of
raw materials, manufactured products
and resources of conquered territory,
one can see why Germany has been,
able to finance the war so long and so
well.
In view of present conditions there
is a possibility that the time is com
ing when you will have to submit to
a rigid examination before you can
buy a railroad ticket. The operation
of automobiles for pleasure is almost
sure to be curbed a little later on.
DANGERS OF CONSTIPATION
Neglected constipation may cause
piles, ulceration of the bowels, ap
pendicitis, nervous prostration, paral
ysis. Don’t delay treatment. Best
remedy is Foley Cathartic Tablets.
Do their work surely, easily, gently,
without injury to stomach or intesti
nal lining. Contains no habt-forming
drugs. Fine for fat folks. Carmichael
Drug and Book Company, adv.
EVERYBODY IN JACKSON IS
ASKED TO MAKE A MONTHLY
CONTRIBUTION TO THE RED
CROSS FOR THE SUPPORT OF
LOCAL WORK. HAVE YOUR DO
NATION READY WHEN THE COM
MITTEE CALLS.
INVEST IN W. S. S