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FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1919
Jackson Progress-Argos
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JACKSON NEEDS
Paved Streets.
An Ico Factory.
A New School Building,
Even the boll weevil is profiteering
on the farmers’ cotton.
Even the weather is unsettled.
But everythin;? will adjust itself bye
and bye.
If you want an ice factory in Jack
eon support the enterprise by buying
some stock. b
We must have more houses to
take care of our growing population.
Who will build them?
A hew school building. This is a
standing challenge to Jackson’s pub
lic spirit and enterprise.
Old Man Ultimate Consumer now
knows how it feels to come out of
the little end of the horn.
More public spirit will ‘do Jackson
good—a spirit of co-operation, of
pull-together, of boosting everything
that will help the community.
The grand jury which convenes in
Jackson on the 17th should make
some definite recommendation about
good roads and a bond issue.
“Plain living and high thinking”
was a very popular slogan a few
years back. Seems that now is a
good time to resurrect this fad.
To the extent that the legislature
has refused to enact a mass of new
legation, we think that body is en
titled to the thanks of the state.
The government is warning con
sumers to buy their coal now. This
may be good advice and doubtless is.
but what the average citizen wants
right now is a little piece of ice.
It requires a man with u good liver
and a clear conscience to be an op
timist in these days of unrest, prof
iteering, strikes, ice famines, riots,
lynchings, investigations, etc.
One good bill enacted by the leg
islature is that providing for uni
form time throughout the state
There have been too many “times,”
all of which has added to the confus
ion of the people.
Jackson is going to have her ice
factory in operation by another sea
son. Then we will be independent
of the ice trust. If you have not
bought stock in the ice plant you
should do so at once.
Atlanta may be able to keep the
people of the state from voting on
the removal of the capital, but one
thing is as sure as fate and that is
it will be a long time before the pres
ent- capital is enlarged or the govern
or's mansion improved. So if this is
any consolation to Atlanta let her
make the most of it.
The Progress-Argus would like to
see a military company in Jackson.
It is needed for the protection of
life and property. The old Jackson
Rifles had a long and honorable ca
reer of usefulness and service. We
belive a military company would re
reive better support from the busi
ness men now than ever before.
Young negroes, those who served
as soldiers as well as those who re
mained at home, would do well to
heed the level headed, sober advice
of the older members of their race.
Nothing will stir up trouble in this
country quicker than for a few hot
headed young negroes to get out of
their place. The two races can get
along together all right as long as
each keeps in his own sprere. The
remnant of the "old time negroes"
—who hold a warm place in the
hearts of the South—as v*ll as the
teachers and preachers and acknowl
edged leaders of that race, should
give the young negroes good counsel
mlong this line.
QUIET AND WORK
(Nashville Banner)
The labor people, who are starting
so many strikes, do so mainly because
of the high cost of living. At least
that in most instances is the alleged
reason. They really contribute meas.
urably to the problem. They force
higher v.ages, which enters into the
cost of production, but beyond that
they create unrest and produce
alarm and that is very detrimental
to the public welfare and interferes
| with business.
Whut the world needs now more
than anything else is quiet and hard
work. The plague of the day is the
agitator. He is at the root of most
of the evils that have come to the
latter-day humanity.
Strikes mean enforced idleness
and create contention and class hat
red. They produce alarm, and con
servative people put their savings
into secure places. No one wishes to
venture into new enterprises. Cap
ital gets into a shell and waits for
the storm to pass.
The condition is feeding on what
those who most complain themselves
produce.
Quiet and work both in Europe
and America would soon bring sanity
where there is nov; hysteria and pro
duce enough for everybody to live
on in comfort- The times are de
manding much work. There is a great
deal of reconstruction to be done,
business should be unusually brisk.
Capital is eager for investment if
conditions are made safe.
The world will come right when
sanity and depedable industry are re
stored. Quiet and work are the real
solution of the whole problem.
DOOMED TO FAILURE
The present strike of the railroad
v.irkers as represented by the “Big
Four” brotherhood is doomed to fail
ure. It was doomed before it sarted.
The reason is simple. The strike is
without cause or justification and is
not backed up by public sentiment.
Public sentiment comes pretty near
being the ruling power in this coun
try. The strike cannot succeed in the
face of a hostile public sentiment,
and when the strikers find out the
people are against them instead of
being with them they will return to
work.
The people of this country know
the government, which has had con
trol of the railroads for several"
months now, has been liberal with
the railroad employes. In fact they
are the best paid clasess of workmen
in the country. When the war v.is
in progress, when interest was at fe
ver heat, when every atom of energy
was centered on victory, the railroad
men asked for and came pretty near
getting what they wanted. The pub
lic was silent then, even if it did
not give its assent to these raises.
Now things are different. The
country has stopped fighting and is
trying to readjust itself to peace
time conditions. A further raise in
the pay of railroad employees will
not be tolerated by the masses of the
people without the sternest kind of
a protst, a protest that will wake up
Washington and made the politicians
take notice.
That the railroad men have their
grievances, many justified no doubt,
is certain. But v;j all have burdens
to bear, grievances to smother, but
must “carry on.” So it is the duty
of every loyal citizen, be he railroad
employee or not, to stay o nthe job
and let these differences be adjusted
by orderly process instead of resort
ing to violence and strikes that inev
itably cause business stagnation and
sutfering.
After all it is the public that suf
fers most in strikes. Public senti
ment haa’stood about all the hardships
from strikes it cares to stand just
now •
MAKE THE PROBE DEEP
Spurred on by a nation at last
thoroughly aroused over the high
cost of living, congress has turned
its attention to the problem of trying
to reduce prices. In many quarters
there is a feeling that this investiga
tion should have been started months
ago, but President Wilson was so
journing on foreign shores and this
acute problem was allowed to grow
from bad to worse. The people them
selves at last forced the issue.
The strike of railroad men is but
one of the rumblings. There is a lot
of subdued noise and protest on the
part of those who are not organized.
At last the storm has broke and the
people are looking to congress for
relief from present day living condi
tions.
Now that congress has tackled the
cost of living problem, the inves
tigation should be thorough, deep
and searching. If it is found that
profiteering has been going on—and
there are abundant evidences that
the people have bee n and are being
robbed—then congress should make
an example of the guilty parties. If
the present laws are inadequate to
deal with the illegal combinations
that are extorting money from the
public, then laws with teeth in them
should be speedily enacted. The
j country needs laws to deal with prof.
1 iteers, big and little, the same as it
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
deals with the man who steals a pos
tage stamp or manufactures block
ade liquor. This has not been true
heretofore, and the men sharp
enough* to put over illegal deals in a
big way have been immune from
punishment. The guilty profiteers
should be made to feel the power of
the law. They should be dealt v.’th
as criminals of the worst type. Noth
ing less than this will satisfy the peo
ple and if congress fails to punish
the guilty parties the investigation
will amount to little.
The high cost of living has grown
to be a national menace. Just at the
time when the country should be en
joying a period of unheard of expan
sion, growth and prosperity, profit
eering has sprung up, stifling trade,
putting a halt to needed building op
erations, paralyzing business and
strikes, mutterings and grumbling
are heard on every hand. Action,
swift and sure, is all that seems to
stand in the way of disorganization,
stagnation and chaos. All because
some people are trying to take by
illegal methods what does not belong
to them.
Congress can restore confidence
to the people in no surer way than
to make a thorough job of the cost
of living investigation.
THE UNIVERSAL TROUBLE
(Ohio State Journal)
Everybody in this country, or most
everbody, is trying to get the big
end of the bargain. Nearly all the
trouble we are having socially, in
dustrially, commercialy may be trac
ed to hat fact. Most men want to do
60 cents’ worth of service for a dol
lar bill, most men want to get 75
cents for what they paid 30 cents
for; the tumult of the age is caused
by seeking a big margin. A man will
charge as much as the traffic will
stand. The question is not vihat a
man is entitled to, but what by a
threatening demand he can get.
The country is full of that kind of
business, which is the same as saying
action and reaction are not equal
and that the Golden Rule is a wordy
vision. The country is in a bad fix,
because every man wants it all—the
laboring man wants it all; the farmer
wants it all; the capitalist wants it
all; the merchant wants it all; the
doctor and lawyer want it all; the of
ficer and teacher want it all, and
they all have some way of showing
that they are entitled to it all.
Things ought to be twisted around in
this world, so that man should want
only what is fair, but it is going to
require a pretty hefty twist to make
it so. In the meantime, let every
man make up his mind to take only
what he justly owns.
“Half-Baked Write-up'”
In Sunday’s Constitution appeared
what purported to be a write-up of
Oglethorpe county and several of her
towns, but at best it can be rated as
only a near write-up. The young men
who handled the matter got their
facts and figures, what few of them
the attempted to give, all -crossed,
placing Lexington business men in
Maxoys and Crawford and business
concerns of these towns in the other
centers mentioned. The most fla
grant let of the page, though, v. 13
giving the county credit for one of
the largest fields of tobacco in the
state, using a cut of a field that had
been considerably worked on other
counties, when in point of fact we
doubt if there is as many as a hun
dred tobacco plants growing in the
county all told. We hope at some fu
ture time the Constitution will re
cognize the vast amount of interest
ing past history as well as present
day facts connected with our county
and present them to its readers as
they really are.—Oglethorpe Echo.
Asa rule we consider the “half
baked” write up of a town by a city
paper as about the poorest advertis
ing a town can get. There is gener
ally a “mess" of poorly made pic
tures and a lot of “bull,” but as
Goldberg says “it does not mean
anything.”—Marietta Journal.
Jackson had one of these “half
baked” write-ups recently. The ef
fort was a miserable, outrageous
failure and an injustice to the busi
ness firms v.ho paid for the space.
After awhile business men will learn
that it pays to patronize the home
newspaper.
Helping The Editor
Here is a minister who appreciafes
the editor. At a recent editorial con
vention he offered the following
toast: “To save an editor from star
vation, take his paper and pay for it
promptly. To save him from bank
ruptcy, advertise in his paper lib
erally. To save him from despair,
send him every item of news of
which you can get hold. To save him
from profanity, write your corres
pondence plainly on one side of the
sheet and send it in as early as pos
sible. To save him from mistakes,
bury him. Dead people are the only
ones who never make mistakes.”
“Sucker" Every Minute
It is surprising how many people
are picked up by fakirs. Looks like
experience would teach some people
a lesson, but it doesn’t. By patroniz.
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(asant cigaretty after-taste or un
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garette satisfaction that makes yjg.’g.
unels so attractive. Smokers real
e that the value is in the cigarettes f
id do not expect premiums or cou
ompare Camels with any ciga
tie in the world at any price !
Camels are sold everywhere in scientifically
sealed packages of 20 cigarettes or ten pack
ages (200 cigarettes ) in a glassine-paper- "JCISc/ *T\
covered carton. We strongly recommend VIVAV
this carton for the home or office supply
J.REYNOLDS TOBACCO COMPANY pifl
Winston-Salem, N. C.
ing home industries, by doing busi
ness with those you know, you can
always get honest values and a guar
antee with every purchase. Let the
traveling solicitors alone.—Jackson
Progress-Argus.
But the “sucker” that is born ev
ery minute must have some foolish
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place to waste his money.—Marietta
Journal.
Jackson, in common with the rest
of the country needs more homes.
Every house in the city is filled and
not a vacant home is to be found
anywhere. To take care of the
growth of the community it is sim
ply imperative that more houses be
erected. Here is an opportunity for
property owners to serve their com
munity in a public spirited and pa
triotic way.
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