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FRIDAY, JUNE 20, 1019
Jackson Progross - Argus
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JACKSON NEEDS
Paved Streets.
An Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
Listen for a howl when the legis
lature attemps to tax dogs.
Now is a mighty good time to push
that ice plant for Jackson.
In these days of high prices try
paying cash and see if it doesn’t help
conditions.
If Woodrow can’t put it over “over
there" he ought to come home and
put it over “over here.”
After this probably Villa und his
greasers will have greater respect for
the American fighting men.
If for no other reason, President
Wilson should come home and go af
ter the senate with a big stick.
Government control of the rail
roads has proved a costly failure and
no manner of explaining can get
around that fact.
Sooner or later the United States
is going to have to clean up Mexico
and one is prompted to wonder why
not now?
If the Georgia legislature can de
vise some means for paying the teach
ers promptly—and paying them what
they are worth—it will have done a
great vwrk.
Why not enforce the speed law in
Jackson or repeal it? The law is vio
lated every day by autoists who take
delight in seeing how fast they can
4, rnake her go.”
President Wilson is coming home
and tour the country for the league
of nations. (Had that he’s coming
home, even if it takes the league of
nations to bring him.
Jackson needs and ought to hnve a
competent board of health. A lot of
sickness and suffering could be elimi
nated bv the enforcement of proper
methods of sanitation.
One thing we like about Alvin
York, who beat up and killed sc many
Huns, is that he hasn’t (rone on the
stage yet. He seems to be made of
the right kind of stuff.
The merchant who declares a holi
day during the hot summer season and
fails to go out afer trade, usually
gets what he goe* after. Advertising
should be a year-round business.
July 1 will witness the return of
cheaper postage. The two cent stamp
on first class letters and one cent
postal cards will come into their own
on that date. But Burleson didn’t do
it.
The sleeping members of the con
gregation no doubt thought Gabriel’s
trumnet had sounded when the San
dersville preacher step; t 1 bis sermon,
secured a shotgun and killed a " . y
jaybird.
How about building so.'<* ;e:rto|
storage houses in Butts roun*' ? 1
would be a fine thing. A large par*
of the sweet potato cror is no'* Ist
through lack of proper means of cur
ing and storing.
Whether we have bonds for roads
or not, we will heln pay the taxes to
build good roads for other counties
Butts county oueht to <*et he** s'-a’v
of this Hond money the government
is spending.
It is announced that the meetin" of
the Georgia Press Association thi s
year will be strictly for ne’-. n*nr
men. This is as it should be Too
many conventions are ruined bv trav
eling men with something to >r
by politicians with axes t'- ’.
Keep ’em out. The newsoape '"\e
had enough advice and been ridden
enough for the present.
A LOT OF PIFFLE
The Confederate veterans returned
home in 1865 ragged, almost naked,
half starved, property destroyed,
homes burned—everything lost save
honor. The boys from the world war
came home fat and sleek and well
clothed. Never in the history of the
world ha any nation done as much
for its fighting men as the United
States did for its sailors, soldiers and
marines in he vir against Germany.
In spite of all this certain politicians
want to make still further raids on
the public treasury to give the soldier a
tv* rive months’ pay, set them up in
business or something of the kind.
The soldiers themselves do not want
this. All they ask is to be brought
home, turned loose, be let alone and
given a fair chance to make an honest
living.
The Progress-Argus yields nothing
to any man or set of men in its devo
tion to the soldiers, living and dead,
who left home and country to fight
out common battles. But the people
at home did not escape lightly. They
suffered too.
We believe we voice the sentiments
of the majority of our fighting men
when we say stop all this piffle and
sob stuff about the government tak
ing care of the soldiers the rest of
their lives, and give them a chance
and a job. That is all they ask and
all they want.
WATCH THE FUR FLY
From this angle it anpears that the
general assembly which convenes in
annual session on June 25, will have
one of the most hectic sessions held
in years. There is a mass of legisla
tion in the offing—and the leg’siators
will have only Bevo and Coca-Cola to
cheer and inspire. The days of the
deep inspiration are gone -unless it
comes down again from the foothills
and mountains of North Georgia.
Pet bills and favored schemes ga
ore are waiting to b"e dumped into the
legislative hopper. The state highway
bill, which, according to authors will
solve Georgia’s road problems., is ex
pected to prove a live issue. A good
deal of aciioi. propaganda has been
carried on for soma tii.io n behalf of
this measure.
The new tax bill will woke up the
natives from the word go Everybody
almost is agreed that Georgia needs
some sort of tax reform, but there is
doubt about just where to begin. The
question of taxes is always a live is
sue and when it comes to raising taxes
—well, listen to the oratory.
The new suffrage amendment to
the federal constitution, giving wo
men the right to vote, will be up for
consideration. Georgiu has the oppor
tunity to be one of the first states to
rutify this amendment. This subject
will be discussed from the bed-rock
principles of Jeffersonian democmcv
to the new birth of freedom and world
wide democracy, et cetera.
Then there is the bill to give Gear,
gia soldiers three months’ pay.
This is just an outline of what will
happen when the lawmakers get to
gether for the fifty days grind. Bond
issues for roads, for schools, recon
struction legislation, legislation to tax
dogs, to create new offices, to in
crease salaries—these and a good
many other matters will make the
1919 session of the Georgia legisla
ture a memorable one. The war is
over and there will be an opportunity
for a great deal of spread-eagle ora
tory, and a ,- ,'rld cf caged-up enthu
siasm will be let loose upon a de
fenseless public.
Speaking of Swine
Here’s a fellow who smokes three
eigar s a day; that’s 24 cents. He
takes three cold drinks each day;
that’s 15 cents. Total - 39 cents. His
wife stays at home all day toiling
and scrubbing a fid gets nothing. The
man vh© does that thing is just a
common hog; that’s all.—Commerce
News.
All we got to say is there are a lot
of hogs around some ncn-pork-pro
ducing towns. —Marietta Journal.
The Public The Loser
The union heads of the telephone
and telegraph companies have orde r ed
strike throughout the whole coun
try, which may involve service to pa
trons everywhere. Our sympathy is
always with the laboring people but
the strike method of righting wrongs
i s nothing short of the mob method
and ought never to be re sort© 1 to.
. t, makes the public, who are ent- ;e'y
innocent, suffer the penalties in t.ie
effort to punish a few, vi'io may or
may not deserve to be pu"i hed
There are other methods which will
correct the evil complained of.—Bar
nesville News-Gar.ette.
Cruoks
Have you ever noticed that the indi
vidual who is crooked himself thinks
everybody else is crooked too?—Jack
son Progress-Argus.
Certainly. But that does not mein
I that every man who thinks another
crooked, is crooked himself. There
are plenty of straight men in the coun
try who not only think some other
fellow a crook, but know him to be
one and it is all right to say so.—Ma
rietta Journal.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGOA
ANOTHER TRIBUNAL NEEDED
The league of nations, a sort of in
ternational police protection, is de
signed t 0 prevent wars m the future
The purposi if the league s most
commendaole. How it vil wmlc in
piactical operation remains to be
seen.
While the United States is engag.d
in the laudable task oi trying to pre
vent future wars and make the world
safe for democracy, it seem s that
some sort of tribunal or could should
be established at home ti deal until
the frequent clashes between capita 1
and labor. At preneut the e is no pro
tection against strikes and the nublie
is at the mercy cf the strikers. Bu i
ness is tied up, traffic b ocked, stagna
tion results, inconveniences suffered,
and the public—an entirely innocent
bystander—suffers all the hardships
while capital and labor are thu a at
war.
Capital has rights. Labor has
rights. That it is admitted by all.
Both capital and labor are entitled to
justice and a fair deal. When these
disputes arise over salaries or work
ing hours or v*orking conditions, there
should be some tribunal to pass on
the merits of points involved. That
would be better than a strike. Most
anything w’ill be better than a strike,
for strikes, in the final analysis,
smack of mob rule and encourage law
lessness. .
•- oni-'' perform no greater
.ww „„ buntry than devise
some method of dealing honestly,
fairly and impartially with the dis
putes between capital and labor.
The strike tendency is a dangerous
one. Unless checked sooner or later
it will lead to serious trouble.
GOOD IN NAME ONLY
We talk a good deal these
days about “good roads,” when
there are no such thing, taken
as a whole. There may be good
stretches of road here and there
but throughout Georgia, notwith
standing the millions upon mil
lions of dollars expended for
good roads, what we speak of as
good roads are more nearly a
“disgrace to the state.” Nearly
everybody has about reached the
conclusion that there will never
be any real good roads under the
present system. Bamesville
News-Gazette.
The above is eminently correct.
The present system of vrking the
public roads is pretty largely a fail
ure. The experiment has been expen
sive, the people have footed the bills,
but everybody is willing for a change
in road building.
The question of road buildingand
road maintenance is one of the great
est problems before the country to
day. It i s seriously doubted if the
counties that have voted bonds and
secured government aid will be able
to make any great progress in build
ing permanent roads. A few miles of
permanent roads can be built, but
thi s will not satisfy the public. What
is wanted and what is needed is a sys
tem of good roads for all the people—
touching every part of the country,
as good for the man with hauling to
do as for the automobile tourist.
The average rural county, with tax
able property worth from two to four
million dollars, cannot keep the pace
set by the larger and richer counties
having large cities and fast growing
tax digests. A small rural county that
votes, say $200,000 worth of road im
provement bonds, and builds, at a
cost of from $20,000 to $30,000 per
mile, a few miles of permanent roads,
i s out of the running for several
years. Time must elapse before more
bonds can be voted Not so with the
larger and richer counties. They can j
vote bonds almost any time and keep I
up the good road wor't.
Georgia’s system of so-called good
roads can never be stronger than the
weakest link. The large counties may
have almost perfect highways, but
how about the smaller counties that
have a real fight to keen their roads
in passable condition? It seems that
there should be a state-wide system
of road improvement—a system that
will gi**e the man in remote sections
as good a rond as the highways con
necting the county sites. Here i s the
rub and until something is done to
straighten out this kink Georgia will
never make any material progress in
improving her public highways.
Bloomed Out
Our neighbor, the Jackson Prog
ress-Argus. bloomed out in six-col
umn form last week. Brother Jones
is giving Jackson one of the very
best of Georgia’s splendid weeklies —
and here's congratulations and best
wishes—Henry County Weekly
The people of Butts county are
in-cat onro*'tnnitv to have a
system of permanent highways when
they fail to vote bonds. This question
ought tc be put up to the voters and
let them pass on the issues at stake.
The mails, under Burleson, are
clogged with free government public
ity matter. and tons of this class
of mail are hauled and the people
have to pay the freight. The franking
privilege ought to be cut out and ev
ery man who uses the mails ought to
pay his part of the cost.
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Capital and Surplus $106,000.00
The public, just the ordinary run
of men like Bill Jones and Sam Smith,
don’t care much about the telegraph
ers strike—except that it ig the pub
lic that suffers. The public always
bears the brunt of the suffering and
inconvenience in strikes. There ought
to be some way to settle disputes be
tween capital and labor without re
sorting to strikes.
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The United States would not for a
minute let a foreign nation tie up
traffic, destroy property, cause busi
ness stagnation and run amuck gen
erally. But that is just what happens
when a strike is declared. Can’t some
method be devised of dealing with
thi s situation.
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Q UALITY, not quantity, counts. The difference
between the size o| our P>ev:o bov.tle and the beer
bottle '.si.d by ethers is vv-o ounces —one swallow.
This slight difference in quantity is their only
talking point.
Many copied our bottle, others to in>>nte
our label and name, but none huve succeeded in
producing the quality of
Bevo is classified by the U. S.
Government as a soft drink.
ANHEUS r 1-BUSCH
ST. 1 IIS
THE B EVERAG H
RUTLEDGE CITIZEN WILL
MOVE TO JACKSON IN FALL
Mr. J. E. Lunsford, of ilutledge,
Ga., has purchased the home of Mrs.
Leila Kinsman on Covington street
and will move his family here in the
fall. Mr. Lunsford is coming to Jack
son to secure the advantages of a
good school. He will be welcomed to
the community.
IT IS ALL GONE NOW
Samuel L. Kramer, Box 95, Sellers
ville, Pa., writes: “I had kidney trou i
ble for two years and liad a territ J
backache That is ail gone now aftei
using Foley Kidney Pills n”d I fell
well again.” When the kidneys tw
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waste matter remains in the systems
and causes pain in Erie or back, rheu
mat'sm, lumbago, stiff joints, sore
muscles, backache. Foley Kidney
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in their healing and sooth'ng effect.
Good for bladder trouble, too. Car
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