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Jackson Progress - Argus PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY f— —— 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 •t the rate of fifty cents, minimum for 50 words and less; abore 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must accompany eopy in aH instances. LEGAL ADVERTISING MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE Effective immediately The Prog ress-Argus will not accept legal ad vertising except when cash accom panies the copy. This is the law, which will be followed without ex ception hereafter. Attorneys and others interested will please take no tice of this ew rule. The rate for legal advertising is fixed by law and is 75 cents per 100 words for the first four insertions and 35 cents per 100 words for sub sequent insretions. Speaking of triple plays, hov> does this one stack up? Baker to Persh ing to Foch. Our American soldeirs are the lads who will extract the “germ” out of the Germans. With a big fight going on in France the Georgia legislature has a hard time trying to get in the limelight. The “work or fight” measure, like the prohibition law, will probably work best when applied to the other fellow. The war has had one beneficial re sult—the number of book agents and tramps has been materially lessened. As soon as W. J. Harris wears out his “loyalty” plank he will fall through. And that time is about at hand. If the members of the Georgia leg islature could be conscripted to help out the labor shortage there would be no kick. Bunk Cooper has opened law offices in Atlanta, which is about as close to Washington as he will ever get as a senator. If sugar gets much scarcer the food administration had as well make but termilk the national drink and let it go at that. Georgia’s taxable values this year will amount to a billion dollars, it is said. Almost every county is report ing good gains. > Now that baseball has been out lawed during the war, let Mr. Baker go a step further and corral the street spielers and cheap shows. W’hile the French and Americans are frailing the everlasting stuffing out of the Germans ask yourself if you have bought any stamps and bonds. Not content with riding the press to death, congress seems determined to dehorn and hamstring the newspa pers. Which is all right if it will help win the war. Somebody ought to whisper in the kaiser’s ear that America has several million more just as good as the troops his soldiers have been going up against lately. THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS. JACKSON. CEORCIA. FRIDAY. JULY 26, 1918 A FAMILY OF FIGHTERS When war vns first declared against Gerr 17 former President Theodore Roosevelt volunteered hi services to the country and offered to raise a division to take to Trance. The offer was declined by the war department. Col. Roosevelt has four sons in the service. Quentin Roosevelt, who was attached to the aerial service, was killed in a fight with German airships several days ago. Two other son3 have been wounded. The Roosevelt family is a family of fighters. They come of Georgia stock, Col. Roosevelt being a descen dant of Archibajd Bulloch, one of Georgia’s colonial governors. Colon el Roosevelt is a man of dynamic energy and force and is every inch an American. The family is upholding in a splendid manner the best tradi tions of American fighters. TRUE TO FORM The way the Americans are fight ing in France b rings a thrill to ev ery loyal American citizen. The boys are fighting true to form, fighting as they have always fought—to win. Big developments are taking place in Europe. The French and Ameri cans have won an important victory over the Germans. The offensive will soon pass forever from the Germans to the Allies and then big things wall happen. In this hour of national rejoicing every patriot should resolve to do a little more, support the war more enthusiastically and uphold the hands of the boys in the trenches to the end that peace may sooner be obtained. It is a time for optimism tempered with high courage and a steadfast re solve to fight until a righteous vic tory is won. Let’s back up the boys at the front. They are doing their part heroically, bravely, splendidly. Let’s do ours and meet every demand the govern ment imposes upon us. FREE Senator Hardwick is clamoring for a free press and free speech. A free press is against him, and free speech he has already; and free postage to send his speech es, delivered in the senate, all over the country. Besides that he has the use of a free printing office to print his free speeches that he sends free from postage all over the country.—Gaines ville Herald. And after the fourth of next March he will be free to go where he washes without any fear of interference with “my official duties in Washington.” —Savannah Press. Mr. Hardwick gets $7,500 a year as senator, 20 cents per mile for transportation to and from Washing ton and gets all his speeches printed free. Yet he has the unmitigated gall to abuse the newspapers because they protest at the increase in second class postage rates. Why should he kich as long as he is riding a free horse? A NEEDED REFORM Prompt enactment by the general assembly of a law to eliminate local legislation would do more to abolish peanut politics and politicians than anything that has been done in a gen eration. There are at present members of the state law making body who have never given as much as a moment’s consideration to matters of state wide interest and importance. They have centered their whole time and attention to local issues. Petty jeal ousies, factional spites and insignifi cant differences are remembered while the state’s business is forgotten. Nearly everybody hereabouts be lieves in local option in matters of government. The respective counties and communities should settle their affairs in their own way. And having settled them, a lot of dirty linen should not be aired before the legis lature. The present system of hav ing the legislature waste tvn-thirds of its time on local legislation is about as consistent as it would be to have a convention of justices of the peace to pass on matters that ought to come before the supreme court. Such system is wrong, harmful and wasteful. Let the general assembly conserve the people’s time and money by eliminating local legislation. There are enough important business mat ters to occupy the attention of the I legislature without giving a minute’s | consideration to purely local matters. A general law by which all local matters could be handled would be a blessing to the entire state. Georgia is urged to raise a large wheat crop this fall. Having wrestled with flour certificates for a season, our farmers are in a mood to raise a bumper wheat crop. One can name off hand a score of non-essential articles the railroads find time and room to transport. Which makes one wonder why the railroads have no time to haul coal. Having gained valuable experience from the census bureau, W. J. Harris should be able to tabulate his vote without trouble. But when he says he will carry 125 counties he has his wires crossed. German submarines are persistent and pesky annoyances and are likely to bob up almost anywhere at any time. But the U-boats have utterly failed to stampede, frighten or intim idate the people of the United States. Hon. John T. Boiffeullet has an nounced that he will not be a candi date for senator this year. He is to be congratulated on this action. What we really need is for some of the “non-essentials” already in the race to get out of the way. Southern cotton farmers should get together at once and back up their congressmen and senators in the fight for fair treatment for the c ot ton crop. Unless there is concerted action and a determined fight, cotton is likely to be cheaper this fall. Secretary Baker has decreed that baseball is a non-essential and the major leagues are preparing to quit until after the war. This action should have been taken months ago. The people can very well afford to do without baseball until the Huns are whipped. A suggestion has been made that the schools not open this year until November, thus releasing thousands of school children for harvest work. The people will not submit to any measure that w.ill permanently cripple the schools, but in the present emer gency the suggestion is worthy of se rious consideration. The senatorial race, from the best information obtainable, is fast set tling down to a contest betvusen How ard and Hardwick. Bill Harris has al ready torn the tail off of President Wilson’s coat and the former census enumerator is slipping fast. Howard is gaining every day and he is the one best bet to defeat Tom Hardwick. While consuming vast quantities of watermelons, peaches and making se rious inroads on the chicken crop of Johnson county, the Georgia editors at their annual meeting in Wrights ville last week transacted a consider able amount of important business. Politic and politicians were shut out and the association confined itself almost strictly to business matters. GIRLS! ITS YOUR STEP THAT ATTRACTS Says Women Pay Too Much Heed to Their Face Instead of Their Corns Watch your step! A brisk, lively step is what charms more than a lovely skin, but your high heels have caused corns and you limp a little. That’s bad, girls, and you know it. Corns destroy beauty and grace, be sides corns are very easy to remove.- Rid your feet of every com by ask ing at any drug store for a quarter of an ounce of freezone. This will cost little but is sufficient to remove every hard or soft corn or callus from one’s feet. A few drops applied directly upon a tender, touchy corn relieves the soreness and soon the entire com, I root and all, lifts right out without ; pain. This freezone is a gummy sub stance which dries instantly and sim -1 ply shrivels up the com without in flaming or even irritating the sur rounding skin. Women must keep in mind that comless feet create a youthful step which enhances her attractiveness, advt. The Postal Censorship board, post office department, announces that translators of Spanish are in demand at New York and other port cities. These positions are open to women who can translate accurately and quickly. Fresh Beef Travels on a Rapid Schedule Fresh beef for domestic mar kets goes from stockyards to retail stores within a period of about two weeks. Although chilled, this meat is not frozen; hence it cannot be stored for a rise in price. A steer is dressed usually within twenty-four hours after purchase by the packer. The beef is held in a cooler at the packing house, at a temperature a little above freezing, for about three days. It is then loaded into a refrig erator car where a similar tem perature is maintained, and is in transit to market on an aver age of about six days. Upon arrival at the branch distributing house, it is unloaded into a “cooler”, and placed on sale. Swift & Company requires all beef to be sold during the week of arrival, and the average of sales is within five days. Any delay along the above journey means deterioration in the meat and loss to the packer. Swift & Company, U. S. A. VICTOR CARMICHAEL GETS LIEUTENANT’S COMMISSION Friends of Victor Carmichael will be interested to learn that he has been awarded a commission as second lieu tenant in the quartermaster’s corps. STOMACH TROUBLE Mr. Marion Holcomb, of Nancy, Ky., says: “For quite a long while I suffered with stomach trouble. I would have pains and a heavy feeling after my meals, a most disagreeable taste in my mouth. If I ate anything with butter, oil or grease, I would spit it up. I began to have regular sick headache. I had used pills and tablets, but after a course of these, I would be constipated. It just seemed to tear my stomach all up. I found they were no good at all for my trouble. I -heard THEDFORD’S black-draught recommended very highly, so began to use it It cured me, I keep it in the house all the time. It is the best liver medicine made. Ido not have sick headache or stomach trouble any more.” Black-Draught acts on the jaded liver and helps it to do its important work of throwing out waste materials and poisons from the sys tem. This medicine should be in every household for use in time of need. Get a package today. If you feel sluggish, take a dose tonight You will feel fresh to morrow. Price 25c a package. All druggists. ONE CENT A DOSE U ra He has been attending the officers training school at Camp Johnston, Jacksonville, Fla., and has been trans ferred to Camp Meade, near Wash ington. Enroute to his new station he visited his family here several days