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Jackson Progress - Argus PUBLISHED 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 minimum for SO words and less; above SO 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 a 3 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 OB’ 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 will be left on file with the mill and the other will be sent to this olfice. 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 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. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW. “TX7E are never without Dr. CaldJ ▼ ▼ well’s Syrup Pepsin in our home and never will be as long as we can get it • We have used it for the past four years and it has saved us many a doctor’s bill. It is fine for the children and they love to take it” /From a letter to Dr. Caldwell written by\ I Mr. and Mrs. Harry Robbins, 2207 So. 1 \ A St., Elwood, Ind. / Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50 cts. Gfi) SI.OO Constipation makes children uncomfortable, cross and irritable, just as it does older people. Dr. Caldwell’s Syrup Pepsin acts easily and naturally and promotes normal regularity. A trial bottle can be obtained free of charge by writing to Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 458 Washing 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. PAY YOUR SUBSCRIPTION NOW.