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Jackson Progress - Argus PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY U-... .... ■■■ 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 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. ° RULES GOVERNING NEWS PAPERS Issued by the War Industries Board The Priorities Board of the War Industries Board has listed paper mills as an essential industry and has rated them in fourth class for priority for coal on the distinct understand ing: that the greatest possible economy in the use of paper be exercised and that the reduction in the use of paper by the newspapers shall be 15 per cent on week-day editions and 20 per cent on Sunday editions. Paper mills will be put upon the priority list for coal conditional upon their signing: a pledge that they will furnish no paper to any customer who will not sign a PLEDGE IN DUPLI CATE THAT HE WILL EXERCISE THE GREATEST POSSIBLE ECON OMY IN THE USE OF PAPER AND WILL OBSERVE ALL RULES AND REGULATIONS OF THE CONSER VATION DIVISION OF THE PULP AND PAPER SECTION OF THE WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD. These pledges are now being prepared and will be furnished shortly. One copy vrill be left on file with the mill and the other will be sent to this office. Effective immediately. 1- Discontinue the acceptance of the return of unsold copies. 2. DISCONTINUE SENDING PA PER AFTER DATE OF EXPIRA TION OF SUBSCRIPTION, UNLESS THE SUBSCRIPTION IS RENEWED AND PAID FOR. (This ruling to be effective October 1, 1918.) 3. Discontinue the use of all sam ple or free promotion copies. 4. Discontinue giving copies to anybody except for office working copies or where required by statute law in the case of official advertising (Signed) THOS. E. DONNELLY, Chief Pulp and Paper Section, War Industries Board. This rule forces newspapers to stop all subscriptions that are not paid in advance on October 1, 1918, and pro hibits newspapers extending any eredit on subscriptions. Let's have that ice factory. What has become of the time-hon ored straw ballot? It must be great to have a corner on all the loyalty. Lucky dog! Being 21 and wearing no man’s collar, the voters of Butts county re sent any man telling them how to vote After the election maybe W. J. Harris can get to be chaplain in the army. The more one sees of the senatorial race the more he wants to viash his hands of the whole business. Let the light continue. Let the candidates cover each other in mud. The weath er is too hot to get excited. We will whip the war in time and regardless of who is elected the state will sur vive. Keep cool! THE JACKSON GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 23^1918 CHOOSING CANDIDATES r""" t the pfop.: respert mander m chief of the army .and J WUson ig one of the greatest “ d n of n modt™ttee‘. He has handled the country’s business in these per- Uous times in masterly fashion. We all honor and respect the man and admme hB qualities of leadenhip- dictator js anothcr matter. The peopie of" believing in State’s Eights as one of the bed rock prm ciplcs of our government, believe they ore capable of choosing their own officers without outside interference. _ . x . Two years ago Mr. Wilson was largely responsible for the nomination of Thomas W Hardwick. He advocated Mr. Hardwick as a man to carry out the administration’s policies. These things are a matter of record Xow it is the Hon. W. J. Harris that has been selected as the candidate to lead the people of Georgia along the paths of righteousness and rectitude. But the people of Georgia have a way of doing their own choosing of their own officers in their own way. The fall of the ballots on September 11 will tell the story. A COMMUNITY NEED Citizens of Jackson should not lose a day in preparing to install and have in operation by early next spring an ice factory and cold storage plant. Jackson has been peculiarly unfortunate this year in regard ti ice. While other communities have had more or less ice all the year, Jackson has not been so fortunate. The plants in the big cities have all they can do to take care of the government orders. Establishment of the cantonments in Macon and At lanta creates anew and largely increased demamd in these centers. The consequence is that inland towns, those without ice factories of their own, have to do without ice. This has been Jackson’s experience. Business, as well as patriotic reasons demand that Jackson install a plant. There is a market right here at home for all the ice that can be manufactured. The enterprise should be owned by citizens of the com munity, who will then feel a direct interest in the success of the plant. By having a plant at home citizens can rely on ice when they need it and at the same time can get it at a reasonable price. Let our business men speak out. The Progress-Argus is willing to do its share to encourage the enterprise both financially and morally. FORTY WASTED DAYS It is hard to be temperate in speech in talking about the Georgia leg islature. By the narrowest sort of a margin was an extra session aevrted. Two extra sessinos were held during the administration of former governor Nat Harris, and but for the firm stand of Governor Dorsey there would have been an extra session this year. It is time for the people and the press of the state to “talk out in meeting” concerning the general assembly of Georgia. Nothing should be left unsaid to let this bunch of time-killers know just what the people at home think of them. The real sentiments of the people would not look good in print, however. The general assembly has fallen into the habit of appropriating money when there is no funds in sight to meet these immense bills. Just what is ic be gained by such a procedure is hard to explain. It shows an utter lack of business ability, a total disregard for the office of governor, who must pay out the money, and a lack of consideration for the taxpayers who must foot the bills. As supposed leaders of the people, the members of the leg islature should be very careful in making appropriations. There should be a dollar in sight for every dollar appropriated. Anything else is mere child’s play and is no credit to the men responsible for it. For forty days the legislature goes on a jaunt, attends barbecues here and picnics there, wasting the people’s money, and showing a total lack of business ability, r. hen comes the real wok of the legislature, the busi ness of making appropriations to support the state’s institutions. This bus iness is usually transacted in ten days. If the business cannot be transacted in that time, then comes talk of ar> extra s-.tsion —with mon expense to the people of Georgia. It is time the legislature was taken to task . The business of the state should be attended to in the shortest time possible. There is no moral or legal excuse for these extra sessions and the men guilty of forcing such a condition should be held up to indignation and scorn. What Georgia needs is men in the legislature who first of all will look after the people’s interests and give the state an honest, straightforward, economical administration of the public affairs. WHAT’S UNDER COVER Unless we are very much mistaken there is something under cover that has not be6n brought to light in connection with the race of the Hon. W. J. Harris for the United States senate. That the negro will crawl out of the woodpile in due season we have every reason to believe. Two years ago Messrs. Harris and Hardwick were standing on the same plank. They were political bedfellows and slept in the same political bed at the Macon convention. The Hon. W. J. Harris is said to have pulled the wires that landed the Hon. T. W. Hardwick—“the administration candi date”—in the senate. Poor old John M. Slaton was led to the slaughter. He was a “reactionary” and unfit to represent Georgia in the United States senate. Mr. Hardwick was the annointed one and the Hon. W. J. Harris helped to put him where he is today. But in two years things have changed. The Hon. W. J. Harris has a corner on all the loyalty. He says—mark the words—that he has more in fluence in Washington than any twenty-five men. It must be glorious to be so great! The Hon. Clark Howell, national committeeman from Georgia, has whispered in the ears of President Wilson that the Hon. W. J. Harris is the man to beat the Hon. T. W. Hardwick. Now, a lot of us are wondering, where does the Hon. Clark Howell come in? Unless we are mistaken—and perhaps we are—ethings are shaping up for the race two years from now when the Hon. Hoke Smith will be a can didate. Governor Hugh M. Dorsey is being groomed—so the reprot goes— to bring about the defeat of the Hon. Hoke Smith. So, it seems, we are hav ing an echo of the old Joe Brown-Hoke Smith fight in Geergia. The Hon. Clark Howell will leave nothing undone to antagonize his old political rival, the Hon. Hoke Smith. Watch the line-up. Watch and see if the Hon. Clark Howell is not looking more to the defeat of the Hon. Hoke Smith two years from now than he is the election of the Hon. W. J. Harris. The Hon. Clark Howell is using the Wilson letter to build up political fences. Watch and see. There is something under cover. It will come out in due time. And in the meantime, granting that the Hon. Hoke Smith is not asleep, being the smartest politician of them all, it will not be surprising to see all the Hoke Smith faction stand solidly behind the Hon. William Schley Howard and insure his election in spite of the Hon. Clark Howell and his presidential letter for Harris. The issue is clear cut. William Schley Howard has the record, the ability, the statesmanship. Howard is the man to smash the Howell-Harris scheme into a thousand fragments. The voters of Georgia, resenting dictation from any source, should stand by Mr. Howard and break up the slate-makers. Howard is the man to do it. T)R Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin isfl that it is claimed to be and I always keep it in the house as it is all thatjl need for my children, and grown folks as w e || I do not hesitate to recommend Dr. Caldwell’l Syrup Pepsin to my friends.” /From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\ I Mrs. Esther Porter Harrelson, George-1 \ town, S. C. / Dr. Caldwell’s I Syrup Pepsin I The Perfect Laxative > [' Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. (ES) SI.OO A mild, pleasant-tasting combination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin that acts easily and naturally. Children like it and take it willing, ly. A trial bottle can be obtained by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washington Street, Monticello, Illinois. GET WOOD FOR WINTER The individual who lays in a supply of fuel now will be the man pre-l pared to stand the cold this winter. As time goes on it is becoming as plain! as daylight that there will be an acute coal shortage this winter. Condi-I tions will be every bit as bad, if not worse, than they were last winter. The government has its hands full. Transports must be kept moving be tween this country and France; war industries must run full time; the' railroads must be supplied with coal. After all these demands have been met there will be mighty little coal for domestic consumption. Take heed in time. Get some wood. Get all the wood you can secure. In this way and in this way only will you be prepared for the cold weather that is bound to come later on. Howard says he will remain in the senate race until the Lord removes him. Now, what have Shaw and Cooper to say? j Secretary Baker says when we get an army of four million men in Eu rope that we can break the German line at pleasure. That is reassuring. President Wilson opposed Congress man Huddleston in Alabama. The result was that Huddleston got twice as many votes as his opponents. It will be just like the voters of Georgia—rude things—to throw a monkey wrench in that Clark Howell- Woodrow-Baldy Harris political ma chine. We Have Just Received a Car Load of Studebaker Wagons Have some with extra wide tires, and deep bodies. If you need a wagon see us before you buy. WE CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. R. V. 6 R. T. SMITH Flovilla, Ga. Studebakers last a lifetime An extra session of the legislature I was prevented by a narrow margin. Governor Dorsey is due the thanks of the entire state for his firm stand in holding down appropriations and thus avoiding an extra session of the trouble-makers. Now is a good time to stock up on wood. Take warning from the bitter experience of last winter and also let the present ice situation remind you that every man must look out for himself in these war times. Unless the hot weather is responsi ble for the Georgia legislature acting such a fool, it is hard to explain some things that happened. For instance, appropriating money with nothing in sight to foot the bills.