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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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credit on subscriptions.
Don’t forget to boost that ice fac
tory. Jackson must have this enter
prise.
The candidates are running now
under full steam. Hope none of them
explode.
It will not be surprising to see
William Schley Howard go “over the
top” on September 11.
Some of the extravagant claims of
the candidates will be severely ex
posed on September 11.
Now that the draft law has been
changed, the old man will have an op
portunity to show if he is as good a
fighter as the son who is the object
of his pride and affection.
The government has decreed that
the profiteer and his ill-gotten gain
shall soon part. It is a righteous ver
dict Let wealth pay its part of the
war expenses.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 1918
AS DEADLY AS THE HUNS %
While the attention of the world is
centered in the great war raging in
Europe we are prone to forget that
we have here at home machines of
destruction almost as fatal as poison
gas, shrapnel and bombs. It is the au
tomobile—in the hands of a fool,
drunk man or reckless driver.
Sooner or later the people are going
to wake up and demand that the
speed lav.is be enforced on the public
highways of the country. Nearly ev
ery day tells its story of disaster,
lives crushed out at railway crossings
or on public roads. In practically ev
ery instance these accidents are due
to reckless running.
The laws of the state has fixed 30
miles an hour as the speed at which
automobiles and other motor-vehicles
may be operated on the public thor
oughfares. This speed is cut down on
nearing crossings, bridges, curves,
dug-outs, etc. Surely 30 miles an hour
is fast enough for anybody to run a
motor vehicle.
The officials in every county ought
to begin now a crusade against speed
ing. Those found guilty of speeding
should be put on the chain gang at
hard labor until they learn better
sense. Nothing as mild as a fine will
ever do the work.
While we are fighting in Europe to
make the world safe for democracy,
let’s make our public roads safe for
little children, old people, and those
traveiing with horse-dravun vehicles,
as well as motor-vehicles.
HOWARD’S .GREAT RECORD
In a campaign featured by villifica
tion, abuse and mudslinging, it is sig
nificant that no candidate or newspa
ber has been able to attack the record
of Hon. William Schley Howard, can
didate for the United States senate.
Howard’s record stands unassailed
and unassailable. It has the political
strength of Gibraltar.
Howard and Hahdwick both have
positive records. Harris’ record is
negligible. It is a milk and water rec
ord. A record of pussy-footing tac
tics, of getting things through a
“pull.” W. J. Harris no more has a
positive record for constructive states
manship than a billy goat has wings.
He does not claim to have.
As solicitor general, member of
the Georgia legislature and as con
gressman from the fifth district, Wil
liam Schley Howard has always made
good. He has stood for something,
fought for something and achieved
results worth while. If a man were
to be elected on his record —and that
is the most important thing, after all
—then William Schley Howard is en
titled to the overwhelming vote of the
citizens of Georgia.
When the history of the present
campaign is written the most remark
able thing that will stand out is the
great fight Howard has made against
tremendous odds. He has been ridi
culed, abused and finally the great
president of the United States was ap
pealed to to give Howard a knockout
blow. In spite of all this Howard is
gaining strength daily. The voters of
Georgia like fair treatment. The
schemes and plots of the opposition
have helped Howard in the estimation
of the voters.
Every indication now points, to
William Schley Howard as a winner,
not only in Butts county but through
out the state.
WITH THE EXCHANGES
Plenty of Good Eats
With an abundance of com, vel
vet beans, peas, sweet potatoes,
peanuts and syrup that is being made
in Georgia this year, there is no dan
ger of our people suffering for the
essential things of life. The people
of this grand old comonwealth are
in mighty fine shape.—LaGrange
Graphic.
It begins to look like William
Schley Howard wall go “over the
top” on the 11th with a good major
ity over all. —Macon County Citizen.
Really and truly the administra
tion has done more for Bill Harris
than he has ever done for the admin
istration.—Dalton Citizen.
The Man The Editor Love*
Subscribers to a local newspaper
who neglect to pay-up without being
hounded show little appreciation of
their home publisher. If we owe a
store account, or if we are indebted
to a farmer for a supply of produce,
neither has to hound us to get the
money, and we have no right to
force it done. By the same token if
a pereon is indebted to a newspaper
for a subscription, the sum should be
willingly, gladly and promptly paid.
Some subscribers stil try to evade
paying just because they heard their
grandfather or fau.er say they beat
the editor out of a subscription. It’s
the easiest thing in the world to
evade the payment of a just debt if
a man’s conscience and sense of jus
tice permit him to do it. —Commerce
Observer.
According to the orders or the
government, the man who fails to pay
cash for his paper after October 1,
will have to do without a paper. It is
a good ruling, too.
“A man will take a bottle of Bevo
quicker than he will the salvation of
Jesus Christ,” said Bishop Candler in
a sermon at Macon the other evening.
How about a bottle of Coca Cola,
Bish?—Dalton Citizen.
SIX DOLLARS A POUND FOR
SUGAR
(Tifton Gazette)
We talk of prices being giddily
high today. But turn back to the rec
ord of some fifty years ago. When
the Georgia housewifee of that pin
ching period went to buy a pound of
sugar she took from six to eight dol
lars and brought home no change.
She paid as much as two hundred and
twenty-five dollars a barrel for flour,
six dollars a dozen for eggs, and ten
dollars a pound for butter. She found
sweeping almost among the luxuries,
with brooms costing five or six dol
lars each; and candle light, she found
a dear indulgence, with tallow sput
terers priced at six dollars a pound.
She was glad to get calico at four
teen dollars a yard, and her children
were glad ta escape castor oil at one
hundred dollars a gallon. These and
a long array of other striking figures,
the Sandersville Progress reproduces
from a scrapbook handed down from
the days following Sherman’s march
to the sea. The extraordinary prices
were caused partly, of course, by
currency inflation, but that tos only
one of the contributing war-time cir
stances. Our parents and grandpar
ents bore them one and all with a for
titude well worthy of emulation in
these trying but incomparably hap
pier time‘s
One of the hardest jobs the news
papers have is to mind the hungry
politicians off from the free publicity
trough.
We imagine the speakers who take
the stump for W. J. Harris have to
strain their faculties to point out the
strong points in Harris’ record.
By this time the Germans are
no doubt looking for a hole to crawl
in and hide. They are beginning to
see the handwriting on the wall.
Unless the spiend fiends are curb
ed it will be as dangerous to travel
the public highways of Georgia ag it
is to enter the front line trenches on
the western front,
An investigation has been started
into the high cost of living. There
is danger of cpnsideilable inconve
nience and suffering, however, before
any relief is obtained.
How about a wood yard for Jack
son this winter? Fuel is going to be
hard to obtain and a wood yard would
provide a way for many people to se
cure wood at cost.
The people who stay at home and
dig up the money for the Liberty
Loan, the Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross
and other war demands, will have to
do considrable fighting themselves.
Advocates of government owner
ship are welcome to all the consola
tion they can get out of the fact that
the government has lost $290,000,-
000 in the operation of the railroads
the first six months of 1918.
If all the jobs W. J. Harris has
promised—the federal judgeships,
district attorneyships, census enu
merators, ‘ etc., —were brought to
light it would make an imposing ar
(ray and account large measure
for his support.
The reader who wants to continue
to get his favorite newspaper must
be prepared to pay for it promptly
and shell down the price cash in ad
vance. All the daily newspapers are
raising the price of their subscrp
tion. Newspapers are up against a
tough proposition and every day
they have to draw their belts a notch
tighter.
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ton St., Monticello, 111.
J. R. Smith, a Butts county man,
who is managing the campaign of
William Schley Howard, has an al
most unbroken record of picking the
winner. Keep your eye on William
Schley Howard.
BAD NEWS FOR BERLIN
The war news from the eastern
front these days is bad news for the
German people. Quotations from
German newspapers show the
gloom that overhangs the people in
the large cities. That the people in
the ijmall towns and country are
equally depressed is not to be doubt
ed
The Liberty Loan bond buyers of
the preceding loans have their share
in the success of the entente allies.
They furnished the sinews of war
not only to fight the U-boats and to
build ships, not only to raise, equip
and send our soldiers over there, not
only to qfupply them and ou rallies
with food and munitions, but more
than $6,000,000,000 of their money
has been loaned to our allies so that
they may prosecute the war with vig
or and strength.
We here at home have an oppor
tunity to send the Germans some
more bad news. The Germans have
great respect for -money; they know
its vital value in waging war. They
know, too, that the support the Amer-
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
ican people give a government loan
measures largely the support they
give their government, the moral as
as well as the financial support they
give their armies in the field.
A tremendous subscription to the
fourth JLiberty Loan will be as dist
ressing ho the German people as a
defeat for them on the field of bat
tle, and it will mean as much. It
s'pells defeat; it breaks their
morale; it means power to their en
emies. A subscription to the loan is
a contribution to German defeat and
American victory.
MEMO-RIAL SERVICES FOR SOL
DIER KILLED IN FRANCE
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Ridgeway and
little son, George, attended the me
morial exercises held at Milner Sun
day in honor of Frank M. Hunt, who
was killed July 28 in the fighting on
the western front. Mr. Hunt, who
was a former conductor on the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway, was a mem
ber of the Rainbow Division. He was
a nephew f>f Mrs!. G. R. Ridgeway.
There vas a large attendance from
Macon and Atlanta. Mr. Hunt was
well known in this county, having en
listed about a year ago.
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