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FRIDAY, JULY 11, 1919
Jackson Progress - Argos
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J. DOYLE JONES
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JACKSON NEEDS
Paved Streets.
An Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
Well, at any rate, Macon has At
lanta scared over the removal of the
capital.
Good roads in eve.",' district of
Bi tts courty. This is tin kind of good
road work The Progress Argus favors.
It might be that Georgia could have
n worse tax system than the one now
in force, but it would be hard to
imagine.
“Make the United States safe for
prohibition,” is the slogan of the paid
agitators. Remove the money and
these gentlemen will shut up like a
clam.
One potent reason why Georgia
does not pay her school teachers a
living salary is due to the tn>: dodger.
Tax dodging has become a fad
throughout the state.
Reckon how the legislator who
voted to increuse his pay to $7 per
day feels when he reflects that the
average pay for school teachers is
not more than SSO to S6O per month.
The legislature has voted to in
crease the per diem of the members
from $4 to $7 per day. This is more
than some of them ever made before,
hut in this day of high living costs
possibly it is all right to increase the
pay-
All country weekly newspapers
that have the honesty and courage to
tell the truth, to cal' a spade a shov
el, to hew to the line regardless of
where the chips fall, have a great
work to do. When the rural sections
of Georgia, which the'Weekly nows
papers serve, become as rotton as the
cities it will he a bad day for the
state.-
In beginning his second term as
chief executive of Georgia, the peo
ple of the state vvsh Governor Hugh
Dorsey mighty well. Judged by every
standard of honesty and efficiency
he has made a most excellent official.
He has not been ns “showy” and
'‘flashy” as some governors the state
has known, but he has administered
the affairs of his office in a quiet,
dignified, sane and progressive way.
Present indications point to a great
meeting of the Georgia Press,Associa.
tion in Monroe next week. Most of
the editors will declare a week’s holi
day and uttend this meeting, which,
it is announced, will be strictly a bus
iness session, with the politicians shut
out. Georgia is second to no state in
the matter of bright, progressive
weekly newspapers and certainly ev
erybody hopes the editors will have
a successful and profitable meeting.
While the war was in progress the
people of the United States had their
minds and hearts centered on victory
and they gave to every cause worthy
of support. Seeing this liberal atti
tude .of patriotic Americans, fakirs
and schemers of various and sundry
stripe have taken the cue and are
trying to separate the people from
their money. It is high time to call a
halt to such foolishness. Some of
these paid propagandists should be
put to work—forcibly if needs be.
And this goes vihether it is a profes
sional labor agitator or a paid pro
hibition schemer.
The Final Test
“Don’t judge a man by his clothes.
God made one and the tailor made
the other. Don’t judge a man by his
family, for Cain belonged to a good
family. Don’t judge a man by the
house he lives in, for the lizard and
the rat often inhabit the grander
structure. When a man dies they
who survive him ask what pro|>erty
there is left behind; the angel who
bends over the dying men asks what
good deeds he has sent before him.”
i—Exchang.
POLITICIANS AT WORK
The League of Nations has been
hurt immeasurably in this country by
nolitics. This is a bone of contention
which the Democrats and Republi
cans are chewing with great gusto.
The voter has been so muddled that
the man who is willing to learn, who
wants to know the real merits of the
issue, is wondering just “where he’s
rt.” This will possibly be the main
issue before the country in the next
election.
The Republicans have damned the
League of Nations before it got a
start. The Democrats are boosting it
lustily. The average man doesn’t
know much about it one wa y or the
other, but is willing to learn and be
shown.
It is unfortunate that the League
of Nations has been made the foot
ball of politicians to be kicked about.
It would be much better if the peoole
could have time to study the ques
tion, to deliberate upon it and form
a real, unbiased opinion. But such is
the course of politics and politicians.
VALUABLE TIME WASTED
Just now when the people of Geor.
gia are turning their thoughts and
energies to reconstruction and re
building. nothing could be more un
fortunate than the capital removal
agitaton. For several years the Geor
gia legislature has wasted much valu
able time wrangling over the prohibi
tion question and more than one ex
tra session was held because the legis
lature failed to pass appropriation
bills in the allotted time of fifty days.
The capital removal issue is a repe
tition of the prohibition question.
This matter has been pending for sev
eral years. It is a live issue now. It
veil continue to bob up with more or
less regularity until it is finally dis
posed of —that is, until the people are
given a vote on the measure.
Right now the general assembly
should be directing all its energies
upon highway legislation, tax equal
ization and other constructive meas
ures. Instead of this, however, these
issues of state-wide importance are
side-tracked while the wrangle over
the capital goes merrily on.
Settle this question once and for
always. Stop this waste of time and
expense. Let the people vote on the
question. This will stop the eternarl
wrangle and agitation, regardless of
the outcome of the election.
THERE IS STILL A DIXIE
(George M. Bailey in Houston Post)
“Is there still a Dixie?” asks Life
in its “Dixie Number.” Yes there is
still a Dixie. A Dixie in the hearts
of some of the older ones, and in that
realm of the spirit fancy may sjummon
visions of the most beautiful of
scenes, the loveliest faces and days of
cloudless blue! Dixie, the East to
which those of us who stand on the
rim of the fading day turn in devo
tion, while the shadows creep! Dixie,
the glory land of the past, the golden
bourne of memory’s silent rambles,
the hallowed solitude in v.hose cool
depths the lost chords of life breathe
their music into the soul! Dixie,
Love’s shadowland, people with the
unfettered pirits of the noble and the
greut, redolent of memories that do
not die because they cluster about
things immortal, templed with the
dream fabrics of a nation that drew
from out God’s boundless deep and,
after four years of romance, poetry
and glory, turned again home! Dixie,
the beautiful and glorious, the sweet
est chapter of history, the noblest
epic of the ages, the light of the yes
teryears whose effulgence gilds the
crest of time’s swift onward tide!
Dixie, the stainless mother of the na
tion, the indestructible kingdom of
the twilight—Dixie, the incomparable
South of our dreams. Yes, there still
is a Dixie.
With the new and quickened inter
est in agriculture and fruit growing
und diversified farming, no depart
ment of the state is more important
than the Department of Agriculture.
Under this department comes a large
number of heads, all of which are
seeking to serve the fanning classes
of the state. Georgia is fortunate in
having as Commissioner of Agricul
ture a man of the intelligence and
progressive ideas of J. J. Brown.
The Department of Agriculture, un
der Mr. Brown’s direction, is doing a
great work for the whole state and is
certainly deserving of the most liberal
support.
Thin Excuse*
It is har'd to figure how a politician
figures that he must oppose woman
suffrage in order to keep negro wo
men from voting, with the negro dis
franchisement law already on our
books. But this is the reason some of
them actually give.—Carroll Free
Ibress.
Our white primary would certainly
orotect us if the women voted, just
ns it does now. Politicians can always
find an excuse for whatever they do,
r ' ** do not do.—Marietta Journal.
’ > me of the old hogs don’t want to
up the practice of liquor-drink
and vote-buying. They know
. when women vote it will mean better
conditions and a purer ballot.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-A RGUS, JACKSON, GEORGOA
SABOTAGE AND BENNING
(Macon Telegraph)
The wishes and hopes of every
Georgian worthy of the name goes
with the committee Columbus has
sent to Washington in an effort to
save Fort Benning. No project ever
undertaken by the government has
been subjected to so much uncalled
for and dishonest sideswiping out of
sheer malice of a lately victorious ma
jority party as this one. Resolved that
there shall be no more money spent in
the South because it is a Democratic
territory, the Republican majority in
congress would junk all the money
the government has already spent in
projects such as Fort Benning, lose
the people millions from their treas
ury in adjustment and settlement of
claims on vwrk already contracted
for—merely to rap a Democratic sec
tion.
If the Fort Benning project had
been political in any phase it might
have been different. But that site was
chosen by army experts from all over
the United State's, after examination
in many states, as the best that could
possibly be gotten for the work. It
was designated and approved and the
property bought in a state then rep
resented by two senators hostile and
resented by the administration, and
by a congressman who didn’t even
have his seat warm. Jn fact it was
reallv '•hosen : *i spite of political ends
'lly would
have worked against it and in favor
of some other community.
The Chattahoochee valley land and
range area bought by the government
was absolutely the best spot in the
opinion of soldiers and small fire and
supply experts that could be found.
And for no other reason was it chos
en. But because it is in a Democratic
state Republican interests have decid.
ed it shall never be built. To serve
this end they would even sacrifice and
throvi to the winds the money already
spent—huge sums on peace bases.
The Columbus committee may be
able to do something. The shameful
waste of tax money wrung from a
people already complaining and
groaning, and in the Republican camp
more loudly than anywhere else,
against their tax levies will not bear
the light of day if it can in the right
way be brought before the country
and the government generally. That
is a hard job because they don’t pay
much attention to committees in
Washington now; but maybe it can
be done.
In the meantime there is no doubt
the President has something of a fund
left and that can order this work to
proceed regardless of the guerilla
warfare and reprisal policy of the
Republican majority. If he can do
it we may be sure he will. All the
Republicans needed to do to assure
Fort Benning through presidential
mandate was to make it impossible to
get it any other way. And this they
have done.
Progress-Argus Standard Size
The Jackson Progress-Argus has
enlarged its size from a 5 column to
a standard 6 column newspaper. The
day of the 5 column sheet is passing.
Press work and the increase in the
volume of display advertising, to
gether with the use of type-setting
machines renders the 5 column paper
unable to meet modren demands.—
Commrce Observer.
Work for Everybody
All this bunk about unemployment
is disgusting to sensible people. There
is work for everybody. The trouble is
a considerable percentage of the com.
plaining class don’t want to work.
They love agitation; they revel in
making trouble and muddying the wa
ters, hoping to gain something by
ocial revolution in violent or modified
form. Manufacturers, building con
tractors, farmers and other classes
of employers are looking for em
ployees but in vain. There is a job at
a good wa*ge for every person who
wants to work and the agitators tell
a black lie when they say men are
idle because they cannot get work.—
Oommrece Observer.
Bright Country Editors
No state in the Union has any
brighter country newspaper men than
Georgia. We could name dozens of
the brethren who are holding down
weeklies that are as bright as the
noon-day sun. They are the pride of
the state and the admiration of all
who are able to appreciate brains and
character.
We read the dailies to get a glimpse
of what is happeinng on the outside
world of ours, but when we desre to
turn aside and get a picture of rural
life—that life which after all is the
backbone of the world—we open the
pages ot me country weeklies and
drink it in like old wine served in gol
den vessels.
Long live the glowing country ed
itor of Georgia.—Alpharetta Free
Press.
FAMILY* REUNION
Thaxton and Weaver reunion at
Liberty church the' last Wednesday in
July (the 30). Every one come bring
full baskets.
7-11-2tp A MEMBER.
H1 8 cents a package * s c *£ arette satisfaction —and, my T how n
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Turkish and choice Domestic
tobaccos in Camel cigarettes elimi
nate bite and free them from any
unpleasant cigaretty aftertaste or
unpleasant cigaretty odor.
Camels win instant and permanent
success with smokers because the
blend brings out to the limit the'
refreshing flavor and delightful mel
KEEP STRONG
As an aid to robustness, thousands
upon thousands use
SgoH’s Emulsion
as regular as clock-work the year
around. A rich tonic, Scott’s —
abounds in elements that con
tribute to the up-building of
strength. Be sure that you
buy Scott’s Emulsion.
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, ST. J. 19-3
BILL WOULD RELIEVE SOL
DIERS OF POLL TAX
A bill has been introduced in the
general assembly by Representative
Swift, of Elbert county, to relieve
all soldiers who served i nthe world
war of poll taxes for the years 1917,
J. 918 and 1919. He does not think
men who became delinquent by reas
on of their patriotism should be called
upon to make good back taxes they
may now owe.
received car of Stu
debaker Automobiles.
. A. A. HOWELL
R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY, Winston-Salem, N. C.
AN AMERICAN NEGRO WANTS
THE PEACE CONFERENCE TO
SETTLE NEGRO QUESTION
(Manufacturers Record, Baltimore)
“Self-determination” is what an
American negro wants for the ne
groes of this country, and why n6t, if
all other peopleware to have the same
privilege?
A dispatch from Paris under date
of June 24 to daily papers says:
“William Trotter, American negro,
is now in Paris seeking to have the
negro question in the United States
taken up by the Peace Conference,
along with the Irish, Jewish and other
‘radical’ questions.
“Trotteer is endeavoring to obtain
particularly the support of the Brit
ish, and has given British correspon
dents long lists of alleged atrocities
committed against negroes in the
United States. He citied instances of
negroes being lynched in support of
his plea for British aid in bringing
the matter before the conference.
“He is also seeking Japanese sym
pathy, explaining that Japan and the
negroes have mutual interests on the
grounds of racial equality.”
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especially well wiih light repasts,
buffet suppers, chafing dish dainties,
fish and lobster dishes, wild (fame,
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cheese or spaghetti. *• Bevo is the
friend of tood and fellowship.
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Vinton arc Inritod to impact out plant—
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Distributor* JACKSON, GA.
low-mildness of the tobaccos yet re
taining the desirable “body.” Camels,
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For your own satisfaction you must
compare Camels with any cigarette
in the world at any price. Then,
you’ll best realize their superior
quality and the rare enjoyment
they provide.
JULY FOURTH OBSERVED IN
SANE MANNER IN COUNTY
Barbecue and Family Reunions Made
Occasion Enjoyable
July Fourth was observed in a
sane and quiet manner in Butts coun
ty. Most of the business houses were
closed for *the day, while the banks
and post office had a holiday. So far
as reported there was no disorder in
the county.
)Many barbecues and family reun
ions were held and proved an enjoy
able feature of Independence Day!
Many citizen! sought recreation and
amusement in the cities, and alto
gether the day resembled a “blue
Sunday.”
ATTENDED MEETING OF RURAL
CARRIERS IN ATLANTA ON 4
The state convention of the Rural
Letter Carriers’ Association was held
in Atlanta on July 4. The Butts coun
ty carriers who attended the meeting
inc-luded: Messrs. J. B. Watkins, G.
H. Thompson, S. J". Watkins and H,t
B. Whitaker.
The convention was addressed by
Senator W. J. Harris and Governor
Hugh M. Dorsey. Officers were elect
ed and other business matters tran
sacted during the meeting.
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