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JACKSON NEEDS
Paved Streets.
A n Ice Factory.
A New School Building.
The scarcity of houses is country
wide. This is really a very serious
problem, as it will hinder growth and
development. So far, however, there
is no relief in sight.
Never before in the history of the
South has there been so many land
sales as are now taking place in
Georgia. New high levels for prop
erty are being recorded every day
and the end is not in sight. Real es
tate is the best and safest investment
on earth and the people nov. realize
this.
As important right now as bond
issues for road building is the ques
tion of labor for road building. Con
vict labor is fast passing. There is
not a convict camp in the state that
could net use from one-third to one
half more men. If the present condi
tions continues it is only a matter
of time \ .hen roads will have to be
built by contract.
It is unfortunate for the South
that the strike situation should have
bobbed up just when it did. The
same is true of the investigation of
living. Both of these movements
have depressed the price of cotton.
It is earnestly hoped that everything
will be adjusted satisfactorily before
the new cotton crop begins to move
On a large scale. The farmers of the
South are entitled to a good price for
the present cotton crop.
Congress is stirring up a lot of
amoke in the investigation concern
ing the high cost of living. The de
partment of justice is making raids
and threatening others. When the
amoke of the battle has cleared it is
very much to be feared that the high
cost of living will be with us still.
the government has ever
investigated has gone up in price,
but perhaps this will be an exception
to the rule. Here’s hoping.
The grand jury failed to make a
recommendation for a bond issue in
Butts county. We still believe a bond
issue offers the best means of ob
taining good roads in every district
in the county. Sooner or later Butts
county is going to vote bonds, reduce
her tax rate, and build a system of
god roads in every district. Until
that time arrives it is the duty of
every citizen to\ assist in every possi
ble way in securing creditable high
ways.
A NEEDED ORDINANCE
The city of Jackson should have an
ordinance fc'1 uirinjr all automobile
repair work to be done inside of a
building. At present the streets are
used pretty largely for repairing au
tomobiles and as a consequence there
is a lot of unnecessary noise and
blocking of the streets. This should
not be permitted, it is not fair to
traffic to block the streets with dam
aged cars,
City council could do the citizens
a real service by requiring automo
biles to be run inside of a garage
before they are repaired.
Ha* Ice Occasionally
Jackson is after an ice plant. Cov
ington needs one under local manage
ment.—Covington News.
Well, who is bossing your plant,
anyway? Jackson proposes to own
and operate her own ice plant and
be forever free and independnt of
the ice trust.—Jackson Progress-Ar
gus.
The Covington plant >s owned and
operated by the Atlantic Ice and
Coal Corporation, of Atlanta. Some
times we have ice.—Covington News.
All of which is interesting. Jack
son and Butts county citizens have
been put to enough trouble an incon
venience i nsecuring ice and novi they
propose to get out from under the ice
monopoly. An ice factory owned by
home capital, managed by home peo
ple, operated for the benefit of the
community offers the only solution.
THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
The world war electrified the whole
earth and advanced the cause of ed
ucation in America twenty years.
People that read little before the
war were aroused from their lethar
gy. The demand for more education,
for more thorough training, for
skilled minds and hands, has gripped
the nations of the earth and the is-
ands of the seas.
This enlarged education program
will be reflected in the school work
the coming fall. Our schools face ai
opportunity for enlarged usefulness.
They must supply the information to
quickened minds and hearts, to a
youth aroused and eager and willing
to learn.
The desire for deeper knov.’edge
and broader culture is shown in the
tremendous activities of the denomi
national schools and universities. A
program of expansion and growth
has been mapped out that will mean
great things for the entire country.
State insitutions will be hard put to
it to maintain the pace set by the
ambitious church schools. All of this
is shown by the large amounts being
raised for educatinal purposes. The
Methodists, Baptists and Presbyte
rians have put on extensive cam
paigns for funds for school enlarge-
ment.
A tremendous stimulus was gven
to education in Georgia by the re
cent general assembly which enacted
notably helpful legislation. Every
county, under the new law, will be
required to vote a local tax to sup
plement the state funds. This will
write anew and glorious chapter in
the educational progress of Georgia,
and in time, veil wipe illiteracy off
the map.
Jackson is proud of her public
schools. The best traditions of the
entire community is wrapped up in
the accomplishments of this institu
tion which has been training boys
and girls for many years. Our most
successful business men and our most
prominent women leaders were train
ed in this school. The hope of the
future lies in the school room.
It is of more than ordinary inter
est, therefore, that we come to anew
year’s work in the school room. The
term which begins next week will be
one of far-reaching importance.
Jackson citizens must see to it that
the high standard of the school is
maintained, that the leaders lack for
nothing that will hamper them in the
training of our most priceless posses
sions—the boys and girls—the lead
ers of tomorrow.
To this enlarged educatioanl pro
gram opening up before the country,
and to the Jacksn public schools in
particular, The Progress-Argus pled
ges anew its unstinted support and
every resource at its command.
THE LABOR SHORTAGE
We hear much about the so-called
labor shortage these days. No doubt
v.' will continue to hear this ques
tion discussed for some time to come.
So far nobody seems to have offered
a solution to a vexing problem, one
that vitally effects business, industry
and our whole system of living.
The most logical explanation of the
labor shortage i the eight-hour day.
This has had a greater effect on the
labor situation than any other one
factor. During the stress and strain
of the highly wrought war days the
labor unions demanded and obtained
an eight-hour day. This reduced the
available labor supply of the country,
so far as union labor is concerned,
twenty per cent. That was a cut in
production that was bound to be felt
the length and breadth of the land.
Suppose the farmers had reduced
their output twenty per cent, just at
a time when the world was naked and
half starved? The result would have
been tremendous. A troubled world
would have knov.u sufferings un
dreamed of. The farmers, however,
be it said to their everlasting renown
and credit, have remained on the job.
in season and out of season. When
the world sent up a cry for more
foodstuffs, the farmers responded
with increased acres of wheat, corn
and oats and all the staples that sup
ply man with food and clothing. The
farmers of America have written a
new chapter in history that will be
to their credit as long as tme lasts.
Organized labor has gone far and
seems bent on going still further.
Instead of an eight-hour day we now
hear clamorings for a six-hour day,
five days to the week. This is a re
duction of fifty per cent. Is there
any vender that there is a labor
shortage? Isn’t this just about an
explanation for the most of all our
troubles, higH living costs, unrest and
strife?
If America adopts such a radical
program as a six-hour day, five days
to the week, we are bound to be out
stripped in business, iudnstry and
commerce. The nations of Europe,
smarting under heavy war debts,
half starved and almost naked, are
going to work almost day and night
until they regain their former place
in the sun. Germany is already at
work with feverish energy. In a few
years the thrifty Huns will pay their
war debt and will set about new con
quests in world trade.
While all this is going on in Eu-
THE JACKSON PROCRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
rope, over here we are bickering and
dickering about shorter hour3 and
more pay. Every cut in vorking
hours adds to the labor shortage.
There would be no labor shortage
in America if every able bodied man
and woman would go to work and do
an honest day’s work. Until we do
more work and talk and strike less
the country is bound to be faced with
labor troubles, high cost of living
and social unrest.
JUDGMENT
(Rome Tribune Herald)
One of Georgia’s strongest charac
ters and most famous statesmen,
Hon. Joseph Emerson Brown, was
noted everywhere among his friends
for his frequent use of the expres
sion “judg-ment”—with a strong ac
cent on the second syllable. Ar.d, by
the way, it was “Old Joe Brown’s”
strong common sense and judg-MENT
that brought him both fame and
wealth.
When quite a young man Joe
Brown drove a wagon drawn by a
couple of bull yearlings from South
Carolina into Georgia, settled on a
farm in Cherokee county, and by his
energy and judgment became judge
of the superior court, four times gov
ernor of Georgia, chief justice of the
supreme court, and served two terms
In the United States senate. But he
was not only a successful politician
and able statesman; he v.is a first
rate business man. He invested his
money with good judg-ment, and
handled his affairs with such sagac
ity that when he died at a ripe old
age he was one of thewealthiest, if
not the wealthiest, man in Georgia.
At that time he was reputed to be
worth three million dollars, and it’s
safe to say that most of it was due
to his good judgment.
Judgment, coupled with energy
and sagacity, is a .-are combination,
hard to beat, and almost sure to
bring success. Why not stop to think,
why not exercise better judgment
before entering into any kind of bus-
iness or speculation? Get your wits
togetherand use them to the best ad
vantage, make every ounce of energy
count, and you will likely get value
received for every lick you make.
Joseph E. Brov.n is known in the
history of Georgia as a genius of
cqmraon sense. He was perhaps the
most succesftful man that Georgia
ever produced. He gathered wealth
and fame with ease—he furnished an
example that the youth of the state
would do well to emulate.
JACKSON TOOK JULIETT’S
SCALP SATURDAY P. M.
Local Team Shut Out Home Boys in
Hard Contest
With Fears and Nutt as the battery
for Jackson, the locals von over Ju
liette on the latter’s grounds Satur
day afternoon 2 to 0. The game was
well played, errors allowing Jackson
to put over two runs in the last in
ning. These teams are old rivals and
always put up a hard fight.
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents —Try It!
Squeeze the juice of two lemons
into a bottle containing three ounces
of orchard white, shake well, and
you have a quarter pint of the best
freckle and tan lotion, and complex
ion beautifier, at very, very small
cost.
Your, grocer has the lemons and
any drug store or toilet counter will
supply three ounces of orchard white
for a few cents. Massage this sweetly
fragrant lotion into the face, neck,
arms and hands each day and see
how freckles and blemishes disap
pear and how clear, soft and rosy
white the skin becomes. Yes! It is
harmless and never irritates, adv.
MR. L. A. CAWTHON IS
ASSISTANT SCALESMAN
All of the otficers of the Farmers’
Union Warehouse Cos. have been
elected for the coming season, Mr. L.
A. Cawthon being elected assistant
sealesnian. The officers are:
J. M. Gaston, general manager.
Avon Gaston, scalesman.
L. A. Cav/hon, assistant scalesman
T. O. Cawthon, manager seed
house.
How’s This?
tVe offer One Hundred Dollars Reward
for any case of Catarrh that cannot be
cured by Hall’s Catarrh Medicine.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine has been taken
by catarrh sufferers for the past thirty-
Sve years, and has become known as the
most reliable remedy for Catarrh. Hall’s
Catarrh Medicine acts thru the Blood on
the Mucous surfaces, expelling the Poi
son from the Blood and healing the dis
eased portions.
After you have taken Hall’s Catarrh
Medicine for a short time you will see a
great Improvement In "your general
health. Start taking Hall's Catarrh Medi
cine at once and get rid of catarrh. Send
for testimonials, free.
F .1. CHENEY * CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by ail Druggists, 75c.
OARCTinii
want to know what rare and
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a never before got in a cigarette smoke! Yet
a Camels are so full-bodied and so full-of
-1 satisfaction you marvel that so much de
[ Smokers realize I light could be put into a cigarette!
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\ not expect premiums J and choice Domestic tobaccos makes them
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You will prefer Camels to either kind
of tobacco smoked straight!
You’ll realize pretty quick, too, that
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L e : is their fre edom from any unpleasant ciga- ;;•
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supply or when you travel. \JI~ICQ y Oil K.H.OW C scHTIQiS yOXI WOTI t
take much stock in premiums, coupons
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R. J. REYNOLDS TOBACCO CO., Winston-Salem, N. C. ~
FORSYTH WILL PLAY
HERE THURSDAY P. M.
Will Tackle Monticell-Hillsboro Team
in Jackson
The Forsyth baseball team will
play the Monticello-Hillsboro team
at the Butts county fair grounds
Opportunity
Knocks
Have you heard or read that OIL and GAS has been found in Wash
ington County, about fifteen miles below Milledgeville on the way to
Sandersville? Were you then, and are you still skeptical and do not be
lieve it? If you are an unbeliever, listen to this:
This seepage, or OIL, bearing sand, does exist and is a fact. I have
seen it, smelled it. and tasted it. I have investigated the testimony of
men who have visited this seepage and are authorities on OIL and GAS
indications and I am satisfied that there never was a brighter prospect
for the production of OIL in quantity.
The Middle Georgia Oil & Gas Company
owns the land upon which this seepage exists. I have investigated the
characters and financial standing of the officers and directors of this com
pany; have had access to the company’s books and plans; and am convin
ced that investors will receive a square deal.
„„ Having satisfied myself that the MIDDLE GEORGIA OIL & GAS
lUMrANY is operating on a sound, honest, square deal basis, and be
lieving that OIL will be produced in quantity upon its holdings, I have
associated myself with this Company as salesman.
You will be repaid by a visit to this seepage. Take the trip and if.
atter seeing it. you are convinced of the honesty of the seepage, I will
pay your expanses of the trip. If you do go, talk business to me and not
to the other fellow.
I invite your inquiries and will be glad to talk with you or write you.
I nis story is only begun. Watch for what I have to say in a later issue
of this paper.
Thirty-five dollars for each lot and an opportunity of par
ticipating with them in the profits.
J. Harry P. Thomas
Sales Manager
Butts County For
MIDDLE GEORGIA OILS GAS COMPANY
FLOVILLA OR LOCUST GROVE, GA.
Thursday afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Each of these teams has won six
games and this contest will be the
rubber game and will be hard fought
from beginning to end. Bloodworth
and Morgan will be the battery for
Forsyth.
The teams are meeting on neutral
ground to settle the deciding contest,
each having won six out of twelve
games staged.
If you want to sell your
Liberty Bonds see
• S. B. KINARD.