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FRIDAY, JUNE U.
Jtekson Progrsss-Argos
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JACKSON NEEDS
Paved Streets.
An Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
Did you observe clcan-up week?
Use your influence for better
streets in Jackson.
Bevo will possibly be thp official
drink of the Georgia legislature.
Peaches and blackberries have ar
rived. Watermelons next at bat. Can
you beat it?
A national debt paying week, in the
place of so many drives, would fill a
long-felt need.
If the boll weevil is as bad in
South Georgia as reports declare, the
price of cotton ought to take another
jump.
The long “drouth” sets in July
first. On that date nation-wide pro
hibition becomes effective. But the
moonshines still.
Why doesn’t somebody designate a
“driveles s week,” during which time
it shall be unlav.ful to put on any
kind of campaign?
Burleson has enough of the wire
service. The wire service has enough
—and too much—of Burleson. Let’s
hope for better things.
Being as how the government didn’t
lose but sr>B,ooo,ooo on the railronds
in April let's be thankful. Think how
much more could have been lost.
Old General Green is very much on
the job these days and the farmers
are rolling up his wings, attacking hi s
center and crushing him from the
flanks.
When it comes to calling a spade
a spade and preaching a good old
fashioned gospel sermon, Bishop Can
dler is right there with the lick and
the kick.
In the death of his wife, Senator
Hoke Smith has the sympathy of the
entire state. Mrs. Smith was a native
Georgian and belonged to a distin
guished family.
Georgia has the opportunity to be
one of the first states to ratify the
national suffrage amendment to the
constitution, What is Georgia going
to do about U?
The boll weevil is said to be on a
rampage in South Georgia. Before
the season is out the boll weevil may
be a factor to be dealt with in this
part of the state.
Congress has enacted the suffrage
bill, giving the women the right to
vote. Before this measure becomes
effective it must be ratified by two
thirds of the stats.
President Wilson is coming home,
it is announced. He is needed over
on this side more than he is in Paris.
Maybe he intends to wield the big
stick over congress.
Alvin York, the Tennessee youth
who captured and killed a whole bat
talion of Germans, will be a real
hero if he can stand all the publicity
he is getting without having his hat
band enlarged.
Florida has enacted a law pension
ing mothers. Why not go a step fur
ther and pension father? Poor father
gets it from all sides. He pays all
the bills, gets all the kicks and no
body has any pity or mercy on father.
The schools and colleges of the
state are closing a great year. De
spite the war, edpidemics and othc’ -
hindrances, the colleges and schools
have m ade progress the past term.
Now that the war is over the country
ought to embark on a greater period
of expansion in education, from the
common schools through to the uni
versities.
FOR BETTER STREETS
It is now customary to speak of the
“good old days before the war,” when
prices were low, when everything wag
in harr ny and the world had its
balan"-. Jackson’s streets are about
the only thing that have not under
gene a change. They are still on a
pre-war basis. The war left them un
touched, unscathed, unworked.
There should be something done
about the streets of Jackson. They
are out of tune vJth this progressive
age. Even around the court house
square there are deep ditches, washes
and holes. The streets of the city do
not compare at all favorably with the
roads of Butts county. When all the
state has gone on record as favoring
better roads it does sem that Jackson
should do something to make her
streets better.
The Progress-Argus i s not criticis
ing the administration. Probably they
are doing the best they can with the
means at hand. But something should
be done. If it take 9 higher taxes to
have decent streets, let the taxe3
come. If takes a raise in street taxes,
let the raise be made. The people
will not complain at higher taxes if
they get something for their money.
The city would do well to provide
itself with some adequate machinery
for working the streets, and depend
less on the county, which already has
more work to do than it can reach.
Enough money hag been spent in
hauling cinders and filling up holes as
a temporary makeshift to give Jack
son some permanent streets. The
way to do a thing is to do it right to
begin with.
Give Jackson good streets, and if
it takes a raise in taxes to do it no
body will complain.
WINNING THEIR SPURS
If the newly organized Woman’s
Club never did anythng else than pro
mote the clean-up campaign in Jack
son, the organization would be abun
dantly justified. Of course the or
ganization veil have other work to do
and will fill a long-felt want in the
social and club life of the community,
but a good start was made when the
clean-up work was projected.
More strength and power to this
progressive band of women. May
clean-up week result in anew birth of
civic pride and greater growth for
Jackson.
EARNED SUPPORT
The campaign from June 8 to 14
in behalf of the Boy Scouts, the most
notable of all boys organizations, is
not n campaign for membership to in.
crease the roll of the boys, but is a
campaign for associate members.
The campaign, therefore, is largely a
financial one. The funds received will
be sent to national headquarters of
the organization and will be used in
equipping new troops, in providing
uniforms, equipment and furtKbring
the cause of this patriotic organiza
tion.
The Boy Scouts have proved their
worth on hundreds of occasions. The
organization teaches discipline, im
presses patrotism, stresses self-reli
ance, teaches those things that will
make better citizens. So, any person
who desires to become an associate
member of the Boy Scouts may do so
by paying one dollar or up The in
vestment is one involving better citi
zenship and Higher standards of
American manhood.
A FRANK CONFESSION
(From The Lyons Progress)
In remitting his income tax a man
wrote to the internal revenue collec
tor:
"I have been help up, held down,
sand-bagged, walked on, sat on, flat
tened out and squeezed. First, by the
United States government for the
federal war tax, the excess profits
tax and the liberty loan bonds; for
the state, county and city highway
tax and the syntax. From the Society
of John the Baptist, the G. Ai R., the
Women’s Relief, the Men's Relief, the
Stomach Relief, the Navy League.
the Red Cross, the Iron Cross, the
Double Cross, and every other cioss
and by the Y. M. C. A., the Children’s
of all colors, until I am cross myself;
Home, the Dorcas Society and every
hospital in town. The government has
so governed my business I don’t know
who owns it. All I know is I am sup
posed to be an inexhaustible supply
of money for every known need, and
because 1 will not sell all I have and
go out and beg, borrow or steal money
to give away I have been cussed, dis
cussed, boycotted, talked to, talked
about, lied about, held up, hung up,
robbed and nearly ruined; and the
only reason 1 am clinging to life is
to see what is coming next.”
The Confederate Veterans are dy
ing at a rapid rate. Three of these
splendid men passed away in Butts
county last week, giving emphasis to
the fact that in a few years all of the
veterans will have crossed over the
river to rest vvth their comrades. We
shall not see their like again.
Ladies’ Suits and Dress
ing, some pretty models at
mid-summer prices.
The Busy Corner.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARCUS, JACKSON. CEORGOA
TIME TO HOLD UP
For the past several months the
people of the United States have bee n
called on to give to a large number
of organizations, all of which possess
more or less merit. Many of them
are entirely worthy and deserving of
help. Now that the war is over and
the country is endeavoring to settle
down to normal conditions, it is time
to call a halt on all of these “drives.”
There is a limit to the patience of
the people, to say nothing of the lim.
it of their resources. It is high time
to quit giving so much money to or
ganizations that have their headquar
ters thousands of miles from here.
Let’s do something for our own com
munity—build up our churches and
schools and town and county. Work
of this character is very much needed
and money raised for this purpose
will stay at home and be spent at
home.
HIGH CLASS
COMEDIANS HERE
Beit Show Viiiting Washington in a
Good Many Yeari
Beginning on Monday, May 19, our
town wes graced by the best show of
the season, The Melville Comedians,
whose tent is on the public square.
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
nights, the theatre attracted large
crowds, who after seeing the plays
were loud in their praise of the actors.
Several prominent people of Wash
ington, who are authorities on the
subject of plays, were loud in their
praise of this show and stated that
the Melvilles was the best that has
been in our city for many years.
According to one of the crew’s own
verdict, they are almost human. We
think they are more than human.
They are certainly different from any
show people we have ever seen. As
Mr. Jack Vinson, “the loud talk of
the plays,” says, perhaps the general
public hasn’t a very good opinion of
show people, but if the Melville Com
pany isn’t of the biggest exeeption
going we miss our guess. We are cer
tainly glad to have them with us this
week, and our only regret is that
they are not going to remain longer.
—Washington Reporter.
The Melville Big Tent Theatre will
show on the vacant lot opposite the
Star Store in Jackson Monday, June
16.
IT IS ALL GONE NOW
Samuel L. Kramer, Box 95, Sellers
villo, Pa., writes: “I had kidney trou
ble for two years and had a terrible
backache. That is all gene now after
using Foley Kidney Pills and I feel
well again.” When the kidneys are
overworked, weak or diseased, the
waste matter remains in the system
and causes pain in side or back, rheu
mat: 3m, lumbago, stiff joints, sore
muse'es, backache. Foley Kidney
Pills get result ouickly and aro toi-ic
in their healing and soothing effect.
Good for bladder trouble, too. Car
michael Drug and Book Cos. adv.
BOY SCOUTS ORGANIZED 1910
The Boy Scouts organization was
founded in England in 1910 and in
troduced in the United States the
same year. The object is to develop
patriotism, discipline, courage and
self-control in boys as well as to put
the Golden Rule into daily practice.
The unit of the organization is the
“patrol” of from six to eight boys; a
“troop” comprises two or more “pa
trols” and the scoutmaster is the of
ficer in charge of a troop. Lieutenant
General Sir Robert Raden-rov.ell was
the father of the Boy Scout move
ment in England and Ernest Thomp
son Seton in the United States.
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The number of convicts in Georgia
decreases all the time. It is only a
question of time when some other
method of working the roads will
have to be tried. Prohibition may not
prohibit but it is playing thunder with
the counties that have to depend on
convicts to work the public roads.
WHEN EVERY MOVE HURTS
Lame every morning, achy and stiff
all day, worse when it’s damp or chil
ly? Suspect your kidneys and try the
remedy your neighbors use.
Mrs! W. T. Burk. Oak St., Jackson,
says: “My kidneys always were weak
but gave me no serious trouble until
about five years ago when 1 had an
attack which caused me to suffer
something awful. My back ached and
throbbed with pain and my kidneys
felt as if they were swollen. I was
sore and lame and the least move
would send pains through my body.
My sight became blurred and little
black specks floated before my eyes.
Often 1 could hardly stand from diz
ziness and my kidneys didn’t act
right. I heard of Doan’s Kidney Pills
and began taking them as directed
and they soon entirelv cured me of
all signs of this trouble.”
Price 60c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
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ISN’T IT SO?
A man never feels as “raw” as
when his wife gives him a thorough
“roasting.”
Men of questionable character of
ten do not like to be questioned how
they acquired their money.
Women who cannot make up their
minds are able to make up their com
plexions.
People who boast that they “pay as
they go” never seem to get anywhere.
A woman may not be much of a
mathematician, yet s he can easily “fig
ure” in a divorce suit.
Although a woman loves to act
“kittenish,” she is in mortal dread of
f mouse.
Many a man claims to be a live wire
just because the charges against him
are shocking.
A woman is not necessarily ready
to report her life story just because
her eye-brows are “penciled” and her
figure is “padded.”—Cartoons Maga
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