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Jackson Progress - Argus PUi. .iSHED 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 BO werde and less; above 50 ererds will be charged at the rate of 1 eent a word. Cash must accompany aopy in aH instances. LEGAL ADVERTISING MUST BE PAID IN ADVANCE Effective immediately The Prog- Tess-Argus will not accept legal ad vertising except when cash accom panies the copy. This is the lavi 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. UNWISE MEASURE Any measure that interferes with production in this country is an un wise step. This is true with regard to food crops, ns well as livestock, and the products of factories and mines. The world needs every ounce of food, including meat, wheat, corn, oats, hay, lard, sugar, cotton and other staples that can be produced. It is ■entirely likely that the world will be on short rations for some time to come. When it became evident that there was to be a scarcity of wheat it was the logical thing to do something to •stimulate production to the last notch. This is as important, if not more so, than conservation of the ex isting supply. So now when there is a scarcity of sugar efforts should be re doubled to increase the supply of ■crops from which sugar is made. Great interest has recently been shown in livestock raising in all parts of the country and the number of hogs, particularly here in Georgia, has increased enormously. To meet the emergency upon us we must both produce more and save more. Die restrictions being thrown around th esale of a number of neces sities are all the time being drawn tighter. This cannot have a tendency £o stimulate production. Those in au thority should use the utmost discre tion in promulgating regulations con cerning the essential articles of food. Had not the recent order of the food administration concerning wheat grown by Georgia farmers been chan ged, it is doubtful if there would have been much wheat planted in this state juncther season. The state and national authorities should in every legitimate way en •courage production. At the same time a modem marketing system should be devised that will give the producer a fair return for the products of his la bor. The present marketing system is behind the times. To too large an •extent the producer is at the mercy <of the wholesaler. Though we are in war and living under war conditions we must be governed by wise, just and fair meas ures. '“WHY IT WILL PAY” - One of the simplest and yet most •elective statements of the advertis ing question is printed in the Swains boro Forest-Blade under the above THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 1918 caption, as follows: “This paper issues 2,000 copies ev ery week and is read by approximate ly 10,000 people. No less than $5 is spent on each one of these readers a year, making $50,000 spent with mer chants by people reading this paper. Now any wide-awake business man cannot fail to see the advantage in keeping his name and business be fore this number of people, who trade in the county where he is do ing business. Even if you could draw one-tenth of that trade by ad vertising, which is a very low esti mate, you would be drawing five thousand dolars worth of business your way. There is no use to stop boosting business just because prices are high and some goods cannot be had at all, this is the very time to boost your business. This war and the present price conditions cannot last always, and you are going to need business after it is over with. If you keep your business before the people now don’t you think that you will be able to hold it after the war. Advertising cannot always be traced to immediate results, but the results keep on coming in, long after you be gin advertising. If you think that you have all the business you can do anyway and that you are going to keep this business, the first thing you know you are going to be a dead mer chant, in fact you are about dead now but just don’t know it.” SPEAK TO YOUR FELLOWMAN It’s a funny thing when you come to think of it—this holding of one’s nose high in the air when somebody passes who is considered not worth speaking to. Some people never know others they meet daily for years just because they were never properly in troduced. Other people may sell you goods for years, or buy goods from you for years, and never know you v.’ien you meet on the street. Some wise old man has said that a special place has been reserved in heaven for the snobs, where they will never come in contact with the angels whose feathers may be a little ruffled. One thing is certain, and that is that this war has kocked out a lot of snobbery from most of the English people and is knocking some of it out of the American people. A smile, a bow, or a pleasant word is worth more than money, and will make a nation and its people great, where snobbery would cause its downfall. Riches do not always make snobs. Some of the worst sobs are the imita tors, the ones who want others to imagine they are rich in money or blue blood. Sometimes it is the bank er who has a smile or pleasant word for everyone, while the insignificant employe, who is puffed up with a lit tle authority, passes by with never a look at those he comes in contact with daily. It’s a mighty small world after all and little room is left in it for snobs.—Athens Herald. INFORMATION ABOUT SOLDIERS Any information about Butts county soldiers in France or in training camps at home, as well as sailors and marines, will be gladly received. The movement of troops cannot be anticipated, advance information be ing forbidden by the government, but new locations of troops may be given. In case of accident or injury to agy Butts county man now in the sendee, The progress-Argus will appreciate a prompt report of same. The paper desires to keep in close tuuch with the boys, and is always glad to 1 do anything that will add to the comfort or convenience of the men at the front. A great many of the boys are al raedy receiving the paper every week. After you have finished reading your copymail it to some boy at the front and show that you are interestedaan the welfare of the men fighting your battles. POLITICIANS AND THE PRESS Whenever you see a politician turn against the newspapers and begin to abuse them you may be dead sure that he has either unwittingly blund ered or gone wrong—maybe both— and that he realizes he is losing out with the people. His mistakes or sins have found him out, and he lays all the blame on the newspapers, whose business it is to print the news and tell what public men do or don’t do. We have two such men in Georgia to day. One is at present a United States senator and wants to be re-elected, and the other is a member of the low er house of congress and wants to be senator. Both are going over the state abusing the n ev*?paper s and denouncing them as liars and slander- ers. And all because their own re cords have bee nheld up to the public through the newspapers' The news papers haven’t made these records. Each of these men has made his own record; the newspapers have merely been the medium through which the records have been laid before the public.—Albany Herald. WITH THE EXCHANGES Bouquet for Hoke Senator Hoke Smith fought the pro hibition in the senate a few days ago. He fought it to the last in the state. Atfid he Is the knan that had the gal at the fountain.—Commerce News. Yes, and he is the same man who wanted to stock Georgi a with a flood of German immigrants.—La Grange Graphic. “Still” Waltz A young lady demanded of her sweetheart that he dance with no oth er than herself. She objects to him hugging any other girl. There is a serrmon in this demand made by the young lady. Hugging is hugging, whether with or without music. We have never been able to see the dif ference.—Meriwether Vindicator. W. J. Is A Good Claimer If W. J. Harris would run on his merits instead of clinging to President Wilson’s coat tail he would make more headay. The voters of Georgia are capable of electing their own sen ator and they propose to do so this year.—Jackson Progress-Argus. If W. J. Harris would run on his own merits he would never get any where. He had to tie on President Wilson’s coat-tail to ever attract any attention. Even hanging on the ap pendage of the President’s coat, W. J. has failed completely to arouse any enthusiasm among the voters of the state. Politician s can promulgate plans and put out candidates, but it takes the votes of the people to elect .them to office.—LaGrange Graphic. LElffl JUICE IS FRECKLE REMOVER Girls Make This Cheap Beauty Lotion to Clear and Whiten Your Skin Squeeze the juice of two lemone into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white, shake well, and you have a quarter pint of the best freckle and tan lotion, and complex ion beautifier, at very, very small cost. Your grocer has the lemons and any drug store or toilet counter will supply three ounces of orchard white for a few cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant lotion into the face, neck, arms and hands each day and see how freckles and blemishes disap pear and how clear, soft and white the skin becomes. Yes! It is harmless advt. NEGRO BLIND TIGERS ARE FLUSHED BY OFFICERS In an effort to capture Dave Wise and Tom Belchum, two negro men suspected of having liquor in their possession, officers Lavender and Thornton fired sveeral shots to fright en the men, on Benton street Friday night. Wise was caught, and the mule and buggy used by the pair were also taken by the officers after a hard chase. Belchum made his escape. PREPARE FOR THE HOT WAVE The hot sun is doubly dangerous if there is a mass of undigested food in the stomach, causing distress and auto intoxication, casting congesting fioisons throughout the system. Fo ey Cathartic Tablets give prompt and sure relief. They act gently but do their work thoroughly. They cleanse the bowels, sweeten the stomach and benefit the liver. Rec ommended for indigestion, bilious ness, bad breath, bloating, gas or con stipation. Carmichael Drug and Book Company, adv. HENRY NEWTON, NEGRO MAN, ARRESTED NEAR JACKSON Henry Newton, a negro man, was arrested Friday on the J. S. Ham place on a charge of making liquor. The outfit was destroyed and the de fendant lodged in jail. No Worms In a Healthy Child All children troubled with worms have an un healthy color, which indicates poor blood, and as a rule, there is more or less stomach disturbance GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC given regularly for two or three weeks will enrich the blood, im prove the digestion, and act as a General Strength ening Tonic to the whole system. Nature will then throw off or dispel the worms, and the Child will be in perfect health. Pleasant to take. 6Cc per bottle. “TJUST want to thank you for Dr. -I Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin. It is fine. I use it for my baby, my husband and myself, and simply can’t do without a botde of it in the house.” /From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\ I Mrs. John W. Christensen, 603 So. 2nd 1 V East, Brigham City, Utah J Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin !The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. G>) SI.OO Quickly corrects disorders of the intestinal tract, relieves the congestion and restores nor mal regularity. It is gentle in action and’does not gripe. A trial bottle can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington St., Monticello, Illinois. NEWS OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO IN THE COUNTY (From Middle Georgia Argus, July 28, 1883) Mr. A. H. Smith has bought a fine lot in front of Col. Catchings’ and is building a fine residence on the same. A difficulty occurred on Wednes day nigght at Indian Springs between Wiley Rogers and Oliver Lyons, in which the latter was killed by a rock in the hands of Rogers. The coroner’s jury returned a verdict of justifiable homicide, and the prisoner was re leased. The editorial department of this paper will hereafter be conducted by Col. Marcus W. Beck. JMr. Beck is a fluent writer and will give the readers of the Middle Georgia Argus due in formation on the absorbing topics of the day, political and otherwise. We understand that if something is not done pretty soon our friend, Tom Bell of Towaliga, will have to be sent to the asylum. It’s a girl and Tom is about crazy with delight. Hon. James H. Blount and Mr. W. A. Juhan, of Macon, are spending a pleasant sojourn at the residence of Col. E. P. Catchings this week. The bridge over South River near Capt. Walthall’s is to be finished this viaek. Work has been commenced on the Flat Shoals bridge.' There has been going on at the Baptist church since last Friday a glorious revival. There is a deep and earnest work for the Master’s King dom. There has been some very ear nest and able sermons preached. The pastor, Rev. Wm. McMichael, assisted by several visiting ministers has done able work and lasting good. Rev. Thos. J. Beck, president of the semi nary at Tennille, brother of Prof. Beck of our city, has preached very able sermons. There will be a big barbecue and picnic at Juliette on Friday, 3rd day of August next. Col. Blount, Harde man and other distinguished orators will deliver addresses. A Texas Wonder The Texas Wonder cures kidney and bladder troubles, dissolves grav el, cures diabetis, weak and lame backs rheumatism, and all irregular ities of the kidneys and bladder in both _men and women. Regulates bladder troubles in children. If not sold by your druggist will be sent by mail on receipt of SI.OO. One small bottle is two months’ treatment, and seldom ever fails to perfect a cure. Send for testimonials from this and other states. Dr. E. W. Hall, 2926 Olive Street, St. Louis, Mo. Sold by druggists, advt. UNCLE SAM PRACTICES THRIFT BY PATCHING THE GARMENTS Methods of thrift now enforced in the Army Quartermaster General’s Office, including the repair of cloth ing and shoes, where possible, have cut down the issue of new clothing and shoes from 30 to 40 per cent in some instances. The plants where the mending is done are run in connection with forts and camps by the camp quartermas ter. When a soldier tears or rips a garment he turns it in to his supply officer. When the soles of his shoes DESERTER FROM BUTTS COUNTY CAUGHT IN ATLANTA Monk Jones Spikes, an alleged ne gro deserter from Butts county, was captured in Atlanta last week by dep uty sheriff W. F. Lavender. He is said to have failed to answer his questionnaire, and was working a few miles out of Atlanta, when nab bed by officer Lavender and turned over to the authorities. Wm: ■Hll 'SHH Your BABY ■ | Is the dearest thing on earth to II HI you. Its rosy cheeks, shining 111 HI eyes and laughing lips make IB HR life worth living and your house IS HI a HOME. To guard your baby’s IH HI HEALTH is your most sacred II ■ duty. IH BABY PERCY I ■A Medicine Hi will make and KEEP your baby IB ■ I healthy. Free from such baby ail- IH HI menta as Indigestion, Sour Stom- 19 H ach, Colic, Constipation, Diarrhoea, M Hill Cholera Infantum, etc. The tried ffH 911 and trusty prescription of an old 19 HI doctor. SAFE and pleasant to IH HR take. Sold at your drug store; or IH ■I will be sent on receipt of 50c by he IH 911 manufacturers. HI FREE BOOKLET: ''Helpful Hints IH HI for Mothers” sent on receipt of M 91 postal card requesting it. |H l| The Merrick Medicine Cos. &■ Sole Manufacturers 19 111 Waco, Tex. |H wear out or the heel runs down, the shoes go back to the same officer. These garments and shoes are taken to the repair shops managed by thwe conservation and reclamation officer. When repaired and put in order they are returned to the original owner if possible, and if the original owner can not be located they serve some other soldier. Hundreds of women are being em ployed by the War Department in the w'ork of repairing the garments of soldiers and in the laundries at camps and cantonments. Preference in this employment is given the waves, sis ters and mothers of men in the ser vice. By paying $1 a month a soldier is entitled to a weekly bundle of laundry in which the number of ar ticles is not limited. The women mend and repair all garments before they are laundered. Grove’s Tasteless chill Toole restores vitality and energy by purifying and en riching the blood. You can soon feel Its Strength ening, Invigorating Meet. Price 60c.