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FRIDAY. JUNE 6. 191*
Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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JACKSON NEEDS
Pt*4 Street*.
An Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
Congress could do a good day’s
work by repealing the luxury tuxes.
A good many of the conventions
being held now are well mixed with
politics.
June brides, blackberries, red bugs,
Georgia legislature. Can you beat
this combination?
So many counties are voting bond
issues; for better roads that it is hard
to keep track of all of them.
Cliff Walker may not be elected
governor but he will tie with the best
of them a s a handshaking expert.
Have yo uever noticed that the in
dividual who is crooked himself
thinks everybody else is crooked too?
It is hard to find anything now
without a little propoganda mixed in
with it. The wpod s are full of men
vu'th axes to grind.
The Salvation Army is really doing
a noble work and it is gratifying to
know the people responded liberally
to the Home Service Fund.
Government control of the railroads
and wire systems has left a bad taste
in the mouths of the people, some
thing like green persimmons.
A clean, sanitary city is a good in
vestment in health. This is another
reaso n why everybody should co-ope
rate in the clean-up campaign.
A newspaper cannot hope to please
all the people. The best it can do is
to be fair and impartial and give the
news in an honest, straighforward
manner.
Quite an army of candidates are
threatening to run for governor.
There are Cliff Walker, “Bud” Bla
lock, Jim Flynt and John Holder.
Next?
Some*.* >dy has figured it out that if
tvorybody who advises others to go
back to the far.n should follow their
own advice, there would be no "back
to the farm’ movement.
The general assembly of Georgia
will convene on June 25 and the fel
lows who are planning a raid o„ the
treasury are now whetting their ap
petites and getting their schemes in
final shape.
The man who thinks President Wil
son is above making mistakes is as
bad as the man who thinks President
Wilson i s never right. There ought to
be a happy medium. All men make
mistakes, including the President.
It has be*'n pretty easy fov the gov
•rnment to that* the money tree as
long: a* the boys were over there, but
when ?11 the soldiers net home, it may
be another proposition to raise so
much money so easily.
There never was a live newspaper
without a live town behind it. In
these days of high operating: costs >t
takes the most liberal support from
the business men for a ncwpaper to
get along, to say nothing of making
money.
Unsettled conditions vvll prevail
for several years after the war. This
was true after the civil war and it
will be true now. The world has lost
its balance. Conditions will naturally
be bad enough without any efforts to
stir up tirife among classes . and
among the races.
Not many of the soldiers themsel
ves want twelve months’ pay from
the government. This is an adroit
piece of propaganda that should be
nailed fast and hard. It would put a
premium on loafing and idleness and
would penalise business Every re
turned soldier who really wants a job
can find one.
A NEW ERA IN DEVELOPMENT
That the people of Georgia are
thoroughly awake to the ir-oortance
of modern highways find abundant
proof i n the number of bond issues
that have been ratified for road im
provement. Nearly every day or so
some Georvia county forges to the
front by voting bonds for improved
highway construction. The good
roads sentiment has c me to stay and
nothing less than r system of perma
nent roads, good the entire year, will
satisfy the people.
I n voting bonds forroad improve
mentlhe taxpayers ought to be sup
plied vrth the fullest information.
They should know the cost per mile of
building permanent roads, the kind of
materials to be used, ho wthe work i a
to be done, where the money is to be
expended and al! other information
that has a bearing o n this importaht
subject. Given this information and
given the assurance that the money
would be equally distributed among
the various districts, there is hardly a
county in the state that would not
vote bonds if given the opportunity.
A net work of good roads, reaching
into every district and every nook and
corner of the county, we believe, is
more important right now than a few
“show roads” or highways connecting
with the county sites. Good roads
should be built, not for the tourists
primarily, but for the taxpayers
v.hose money makes such develop
ment possible. When Butts county
comes to vote on road bonds, The
Progress-Argus hopes that every dis
trict will receive a share of the mon
ey. We also trust that a bond com
mission will be created to handle the
expenditure of the funds.
There is a wide range of opinion
concerning the cost of building roads.
Some estimates place the construc
tion of permanent highways as low as
SIO,OOO to $15,000, while others go
as high as $30,000. The exact infor
mation should be collected and pre
sented to the taxpayers i nan intelli
gent manner. The people who pay
for good roads are entitled to know
everything about the cost, where the
roads will be built and how the money
is to be expended.
Sooner or later Butts county is go
ing to vote bonds to build permanent
roads. It may not be now but it will
come vvthin a short time. Right now
no more important work ca n be dona
than the collecting of full and relia
ble information about the cost of
building road? and the best typo of
roads to build.
A "SOFT SNAP"
If organized labor has been denied
any of their demands since the Unit
ed States entered th* war, we want
to see the record. They have won on
every point and on every eontentiou.
Uncle Sam, who s directing the larg
est corporations in the country— The
railroads, expres s e >i,t onies and wire
systems—has come to ha recognized
as a “soft snap.”
A threat to strike for more pay al
v.vys brings an increase. A threat to
tie up the transportation system or
wire systems or express business, is
met with a ready response by the
powers to be in Washington. The
railroad men have threatened to
strike, the telegraphers, the express
men, the telephone operators, the
coal miners and some do sen or so oth
ois. A threat is nil that is necessary.
The wage increase s given and the
common man draw* his belt a little
tighter and digs in his jeans a little
deeper and conies up with the price.
In addition to the threatened st* ik
es by the men with a real grievance,
there have oeen sympathetic
strikes.” The labor leaders have
threatened to strike on account of
the Mooney can', the Debs case and
others.
It has been a time of strike3 and
near-stiikcs and threatened stnkes.
But the man viu if “str.ck” hardest
is just tc ' plain, ordinary man who
has to ‘ dij up" the money for this
soft grry' 1 usineos.
No wonder the peopU favor the re
turn of the railroads and wire sys
tems to private ownership.
A LONG-DRAWN OUT SQUABBLE
It has taken the powers that be
longer to make a treaty of peace than
had been generally expected. The ar
mistice was signed on November 11
ami nearly seven months have elapsed
since lighting stopped ar.d the peace
treaty is not yet concluded. Perhaps
it would have been better to have
concluded the treaty of peace with
out bringing in the league of nations.
Perhaps not.
At any rate the commissioners of
the Allied governments who are meet
ing in Paris to settle the fate of Ger
many. Austria-Hungary, Turkey and
Bulgaria have been in session for a
long time. The world has been mark
ing time, more or less, pending the
settlement of all questions to come
up at that momentoues gathering.
Business has been halted, commerce
is waiting for the word to go, the peo
ple are getting restless and impatient.
The suspense ha s been hard to bear.
President Wilson, we believe,
should come home at once. Big ques
tions are awaiting on this side of the
water to be settled. Congress is in
session and many vital problems of
reconstructs nmust be disposed of.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON, GEORGOA
Something must be done with the
railroads, express companies and varc
systems. These properties should be
returned tc their owners at the ear
liest date possible. Other far-reaching
questions are before congress for set
tlement.
The capital of the United States is
still in Washington, District or' Co
lumbia, United States of America.
The interests of the country are of
sufficient importance to justify the
early return of President Wilson.
THE TAX-RIDDEN CITIZEN
(Dawson News)
The Meriv.rther Vindicator has
joined The News in a plea for the tax
burdened citizen. The cry i a ever for
more tax money, and having gone to
the legal limit in exacting cash from
the citizen who, by hard work and
economy, has managed to accumulate
a little property the trend is now to
ward raising assessments. Nothing i B
ever heard of economy, and no effort
is ever made to reduce the tax bur
den, which is mounting higher year
by year—national, state and munici-
pal. It is high time more attention
was being given to the man who pays
the taxes and less to the spender. If
the present tendency continues it will
soon be so that no one can afford to
own property. Says the Vindicator on
this subject:
Just as little money ought to be ta
ken from the pockets of the taxpayer
as possible, having in view the best in
terests of the institutions of the state.
The trend of the times is to take just
as much as can be gotten, and spend
it and more.
Extravagance in individual affairs
hastens to individual bankruptcy. Ex
travagance in state affairs leads to the
same end.
Have some mercy on the man who
is tax-ridden.
Keep your taxes uniform and adva
lorem, and your expenditures in the
range of economy.
We would not for one moment ad
vocate the policy of starving the dif
ferent institutions of the state. Give
liberally, but at the same time re
member the burdens of those who
foot the bills.
NOTHING TO FEAR
A policy ot petty nagging is bad
at any time. But when the Republi
cans, who are now in control of con
gress, promise to go thoroughly into
the expenditures of the government
during the war and show by facts and
figures just where the people’s money
was spent, and how it was spent, the
country will no doubt look on approv
ingly.
Every man with sense enough to
get out of a shower of rain kno vis
that there wa s graft on a wholesale
scale during the war. A recently pub
lished account gave the number of
millionaires created by the war at
17,000. Somebody has fattened out
of the public trough. A lot of this
devilment was committed in the name
of patriotism and the flag. Now the
com non people axe called on to pay.
The government is catching at every
penny—a penny for this and a penny
for that—just like a drowning man.
If the people’s money had been wisely
expended we don’t believe it would
have.been necessary to tax the peo
ple almost to the point of exhaustion.
There was graft in the shipbuilding
plants, in the munition factories, in
the building of the cantonmerts, in
the awarding of contracts. Everybody
in position touched up your Uncle
Samuel to a fare ye v.Il.
What is wrong in bringing this
graft to light? What is wrong in let
ting the people know where their
money went? The people rule —or
are supposed to, at any rate—and are
entitled to the full facts
If the republican? can bring these
things to light through thorough and
searching investigations, let them pro
ceed with the investigations.
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O LETTERS FROM THE O
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Will the Negro Umpire the Game
Editor Progress-Argus: Standing on
the hill and looking at thnigs in gen
eral, l see that the negroes of Butts
county are filling the registration
book as they never have. Now there
is a cause for this and someone is
responsible for it. We are passing
through a very critical age just at
this time and euffie should not be
awakened from his long political
slumber. We have the young negro
soldier v.th uswho has been put out
of his class, due to his associations
in the army with the whites, and as
best we can do he will be a great fac
tor to be reckoned with in our social
and political life.
There has never come any good
out of the negro affiliating in politics.
He care® nothing for the moral side
of a question. His instinct is to tear
down, not to elevate. I as an humble
farmer and citizen of the county
want the people to consider deeply
what they are about to do. • If there is
any difference between us politically,
for God’s sake let’s fight it out
among ourselves and not let Cuffie
umpire the game.
Respectfully yours,
0. E. SMITH.
M| iMm. MSB
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During the wax the national guard
was dealt a death blow by the iegula.r
army clique. This in spite of the fact
that tfte national guardsmen did some
of the hardest fighting. All of the re
turned soldier s have had the love of
military knocked out of them, through
unfair treatment and unjust criticism
of the regular army and West Point
crowd The country needs the na
tional guard now more than ever be
fore and will cortinue to need mili
tary protection until conditions settle
down.
We believe it is fortunate for the
country that the opposition party is
in control of congress just now. Dur
ing the war there was reckless spend
ing and graft in many places. Let the
facts be dug up and brought to light.
The men who took advantage of the
country in its sore distress and rob
bed the people, often in the name of
patriotism, ought to be known. If
the Republican party can do this, let
them proceed.
Organized labor has been having its
way through threat of strikes and
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