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FRIDAY, JUNE 27, 1919
Jackson Argus
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JACKSON NEEDS
Pared Street*.
An Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
“Beat the boll weevil with peach
es,” is a timely suggestion for the far
mers of Butts county.
July will witness two great cele
brations—the first bringing on na
tional prohibition and the Glorious
Fourth, the day all patriotic Ameri
cans observe.
No where on earth can finer peach
es be grown than right here in Butts
county. All needed to make.the in
dustry an important and successful
one is a start.
The legislature ought to do some
thing to safeguard charitable insti
tutions. The people should be pro
tected against humbugs. Nothing like
the Cobb county case ought to ever
happen again.
The peach industry will give the
farmer s of Butts county money the
year round, will makf trade hum, will
bring an ice factory and other indus
tries and will be a safeguard against
the boll weevil.
If it is as hard to grow cotton un
der boll weevil conditions as the re
ports state, the wonder is that the
farmers do not turn to other crops.
It is a pretty good job to keep cotton
clean of grass, but when it come s to
picking off boll wevils every feva days
—well that is something else.
According to the reports of return
ing visitors, Confederate money was
no good in Dawson during the recent
state reunion. The veterans were
most royally entertained and they
were not allowed to pay for anything.
That speaks well for the hospitality
of Dawson and Terrell county citi
zens.
Now that the war is over it is a
mighty good tme for the small towns
to center all their energy and activity
on building up local enterprises.
Unless this is done the large cities
will grow and prosper at the expense
of the small towns. Home support of
home nstitutions is a good motto to
adopt right now
A lot of politicians are ready at
any time to tamper with the consti
tution of Georgia. They are willing
enough to further any scheme that
will 'bring in more taxes—providing
•these taxes come out of the other fel
low. It is about time somebody took
a stand for good, old fashioned, com
mon sense economy for Georgia.
It is proposed to build on tho Uni
versity of Georgia campus at Athens
a monument to Joseph E. Brown, who
thirty-five or forty years ago (rave
$50,000 to the University for the ed
ucation of poor boys. This gift pro
vided that only the interest or. the
$50,000 was to be available. The fund
has now grown to about $212,000,
and more than one thousand deserv
ing Georgia boys have been the bene
ficiaries of Joseph E. Brown’s far
sighted and public spirited gift to ed
ucation. A monument would be a fit
ting mfmo ial to this great Georgian.
AN IMPORTANT INDUSTRY
That Butts county offers opportu
nities for growing peaches ®n a large
scale there can be no doubt. This is
an important industry that only needs
to be developed. Peach culture will
beat the boll weevil, will fill the grow.
era’ pockets with money at a season
when money is scarce, will open up
new lines of business and will result
in greater activity for the whole
county. This, in a few words, is what
peach growing will do for Butts coun
ty-
The Progress-Argus is heartily in
favor of the coun embarking upon
peach culture on -irgo scale and
will lend any assistance in its power
to make the movement a success.
A SCHEME TO LET ALONE
The general assembly of Georgia,
now in session, would do well to let
alone Georgia’s present system of tax
ation. Under the present system the
- state ha s grown and prospered. The
new system would be an experiment,
the result of which no man can fore
tell.
The people of Georgia, in common
with those of the entire nation, are
already pretty largely tax-ridden.
The government spent huge sums of
I money during the war, and the pub
lic debt is now $25,000,000,000. To
meet its obligations the government
has been forced to resort to income
taxes, amount in some instances to
high as 80 per cent. There are
taxeg on almost every article that
one buys, including everything from
v.earing apparel to a glass of soda
water.
The one thing that Georgia is most
in need of at the present time i.s econ
omy in public affairs. Enough reve
nue is raised under the present scheme
of taxation, providing the money is
wisely spent. The legislature would
do well to stop spending money reck
lessly, to stop the creation of new of
fices and new commissions. Let the
people alone. They are already pay
ing enough taxes.
Economy in the public business
should be the watchword in Georgia
right now.
THE “PATENT”
The American Medical Association
is endeavoring to secure the passage
of legislation barring the sale of pat
ent medicines. This action has
brought on a lively discussion and the
matter will probably come before the
Georgia legisature at the present ses
sion.
To knock out all proprietary medi
cines would be a blow at the common
people. A great many of these prepa
rations possess merit and are house
hold favorites and have been for
generations. The price is within reach
of the ordinary man, v.hereas a pre
scription from a physician woud prove
more expensive, to say nothing of be
ing inconvenient.
It is no longer possible to put over
“fake cures” on the people. Proprie.
.tary medicines sold now must meas
ure up to certain standards, must cer
tainly conform to the pu.e food and
drug act. Thi s within itself is a safe
guard fo the public. I'he day of cure
alls and humbugs in proprietary med
icines is pretty largely n thing of the
past
Vot i'll t'e patent medicines on the
market are wh t they should be pos
sibly. B'( many of them possess mer
it and eve ™ome to b„ family insti
tutions, and The Progress-Argus is
against any legislation that will in
terfere with the sale of these house
hold remedies.
WON BY EVERY TEST
About tile only argument the op
ponents of woman’s suffrage can bring
against that measure is the plea of
state’s rights. At least that i s the
argument most commonly advanced.
If for no other reason, the work of
the women of America during the
war with Germany won for them the
right of suffrage. In every sphere of
activity, at home, abroad, in knitting,
sev.mg, nursing, in Bed Cross work,
the women did a work as important
as that of the men. The soldiers them
selves did not acquit themselves more
creditably than the women who re
mained at home and served as the sec.
ond line of defense. Much of the
credit for winning the war must go
to the patriotic and self-sacrificing
women of the United States.
The bugbear of woman suffrage is
that it will enfranchise the negro wo
men of the South. This is no more
true than that the fourteenth amend
ment of the Constitution of the. Uni
ted States enfranchised the negro men.
The Southern States through the white
Democratic primary, manages to keep
the negro pretty well out of politics.
So it will be v.'ien the right of suf
frage i s granted to women.
The state’s rights doctrine, about
which so much is said aril heard, has
been pretty well trampled under foot
already. That happened when he thir
teenth and fourteenteh amendments
to the federal constitu'ion were adopt
ed. Again the state s rights doctrine
was overridden ir (he national prohi
bition enactment, a s well as in the
amendment placing the election of
senators by direct cote of Ihe people
under the federal government. So,
really, the opponents of woman’s suf
frage haven’t a leg of the state’s
rights doctrine left on which to stand.
All the props have been knocked out.
Morally, women are entitled to the
ballot. As compared with men, \w>-
nen occupy a higher moral plane.
They are usually right on every oues
tion affecting the morals of the home,
the state and the nation.
Educaionally, women are as intel
ligent as men. Since the civil war
great progress ha s been made in the
education of women. Numbers of wo
men's schools and colleges have been
established, and women have forged
to the front ranks in matters pertain,
ing to education.
Large numbers of women are
property owners. In fact, the women
no doubt own as much property as the
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGOA
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men.
So, according to the moral, educa
tional and property clause women
should be granted the ballot.
Under the federal amendment to
the Constitution bestowing the right
of equal suffrage on women, vihich
must be ratified by three-fourth of
the states, women will still come un
der the election laws of the respec
tive states. They must register, pay
a tax when required and comply v.ith
all other laws demanded by the states.
When women vote in large numbers
it will mean better conditions for the
country. The man who bases his op
position to women voting on the
ground that women will have to min
gle at the polls v*th a crowd of drunk
en men; that suffrage will lower wo
manhood; that nergo women in the
South will have the same right to
vote as white women—that man
hasn’t much argument. You can
count on that.
Woman suffrage, like national pro
hibition, is enevitable.
Life Would Be Sweet
A national debt paying week, in
the place of so many drives, would
fill a long felt-need.—Jackson Prog
ress-Argus.
If there were no debts and no
drives what a beautiful country this
would be to live in!—Marietta Jour
nal.
Hard to Please
The number of convicts in Georgia
decreases all the time. It s only a
question of time when some other
method of working the roads v .ill have
to be tried. Prohibition may not pro-
hibit but it is playing thunder with
the counties that have to depend on
convicts to work the public roads. —
Jackson Progrss-Argus.
And we have actually heard men
talk against prohibition because it
caused so much crime, wh.i.'* at heart
they favpred whiskey because it fur
nished work for the courts and work
ers for the chain-gangs.—Marietta
Journal.
Another Reason for Suffrage
If the r.ewly organized Woman’s
Club never did anything else than
promote the. clean-up campaign in
Jackson, the organization would be
abundantly justified. Of course the
organization will have other work
to do and will fill a long-felt want
in the social and club life of the com
munity, but a good start was made
when the clean-up work was project
ed.
More strength and power to this
progressive band of women. May
clenn-up week result in a nevi birth
of civic pride and greater growth for
Jackson.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
This speaks in the right spirit and
we can see no objection to woman ex
tending her influence to some of the
other phases of government, and to
further add to her power by giving
her a vote.—Marietta Journal.
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Cause for Celebratin
A two-cent letter postage and a
liquor-free country are enough to
bring a joyous Fourth of July to the
homes of the land. —Marietta Journal.
Well, there vrill be plenty of cele
brations from one end of the country
to the other.
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AMERICA’S RICHES
(Savannah Press.)
Commerce and Finance, which is
an authoriy upon financial affairs,
says when Columbus discovered
America he little dreamed that he
was discovering the richest portion
of the globe’s surface. Figures giv
en in the table below are not merely
a prosaic enumeration of this coun
try’s resources. They are more than
that. To the person with imagination
the cold figures are pregnant with
life and illustrate the romance of our
huge national wealth.
The United States ha sonly 6 per
cent of the world’s population and 7
per cent of the world's land, yet the
country produces a s follows:
20 per cent of the world's supply
of gold.
40 per cent of the world's supply
of silver.
40 per cent of the world’s supply
of iron and steel.
25 per cent of the world’s supply
of wheat.
40 per cent of the world’s supply
of lead.
50 per cent of the world’s supply
of zinc.
52 per cent of the world’s supply
of coal.
60 per cent of the world’s supply
of copper.
66 per cent of the world’s supply
of cotton.
66 per cent of the world’s supply
of oil.
75 per cent of the world’s supply
of corn.
85 per cent of the world's supply
of automobiles.
These figures show that America is
the richest country in the world and
is able to meet all of its obligations.
A NEW ’IN-LAW
They were looking at the kangaroo
at the zoo l when an Irishman said:
“Beg pardon sor! Pwhat kind of a
crature is that?”
“That” replied the guard. “Oh,
that is a native of Australia.”
“Good hivins!” exclaimed Pat.
“An’ jny sister married wan o’ thim.”
—Cartoons Magazine.
IT IS ALL GONE NOW
Samuel L. Kramer, Box 95, Sellers
ville, Pa., writes: “I had kidney trou
ble for tw<o years and had a terrible
backache. That is all gone 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
matism, lumbago, stiff joints, sorej
muse’es, backache. Foley Kidnejr
Pill? get resiil l -? quickly and are tonic
in their hehling and soothing effect.
Good for bladder trouble, too. Car
michael Drug and Book Cos. adv.