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Jackson Progress - Argos PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDaY J. DOYLE JONES Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES: One Year 1.50 Three Months 40c Six Months__ 75c Single Copies__sc IN ADVANCE Entered aa second-class matter at the poat 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 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. 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. INVEST IN W. S. S 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. INVEST IN W. S. S 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. INVEST IN W. S. S 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