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FRIDAY. MARCH 4, 1921
Jtcksoa Progress - Argus
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and F ablither
Entered as second-class matter at
the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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IN ADVANCE
Keep pulling.
Step on the gas and let’s go.
Is there a little tag on your car?
Snider’s February weather predic
tion hit the mark.
What do you say about a cold
storage plant and creamery for
Jackson?
Banks that were forced to close
are reopening. Business is going to
get better.
If President Harding selected a
cabinet that suits him the rest of
the country will have to be satisfied.
The only excuse for a Southern
farmer to plant cotton this year is
because he has the habit and can’t
quit.
The new administration will go
into office on Friday. In this in
stance let’s hope Friday will be a
lucky day.
About the best thing to do is to
adjust yourself to conditions in
stead of trying to adjust conditions
to suit your own case.
If Mr. Hardwick as governor can
hold expenditures down and make
the state live within its income he
will win the lasting gratitude of all
Georgians.
St was impossible for business to
stuy good always. It is also impossi
ble for business to remain in the
present state very long. Better times
arc coming, Look on the bright side.
A federal farm loan bank would
be a good thing for the people of
Butts county. Such a movement was
started here a few years ago but
was abandoned. Now is a good time
to put it over.
If farmers will hold off buying
their fertilizers as long as possible
there is strong probability of them
saving a good bit of money. Ten
cents cotton and forty cents fertil
izers do not go together.
More potatoes and curing houses
in which to store them, more pigs
and corn to feed them, more peach
es, peanuts, peas and syrup and
more live stock v;ill soon make you
forgot about the low price of cotton.
Don’t be afrnid of raising too
much food stuffs and live stock.
The Soutli has never done that yet.
The trouble has been that millions
were setn to other sections for these
products. Make 1021 a live at home
year.
Enough meat is lost in Butts
county every year, through sudden
changes in the weather, to pay for
a cold storage plant. It is good
business to build and equip a plant
to take cure of all the meat pro
duced in the county,
Don’t try to cut expenses by re
ducing your reading matter. In
times like the present people should
read and study more than ever. In
fact much of the present troubles
are due to the failure to read and
study.
Governor-elect Hardwick is giv
ing out some timely advice in con
nection with Georgia’s financial con
dition. He promises that he vvll
pat the state on a cash basis. If
Mr. Hardwick can do that he will
win a secure place in the affections
c it the public.
If the Republican administration
takes hold of the country in such a
way as to bring about better condi
tions and relieve the distress of
Southern farmers, it is a safe bet
that Republicans will be as thick in
Georgia as boll weevils in a cotton
patch. The Republican party has
the opportunity of a life time to do
fcemcUung for the people, v
USE OF AUTOMOBILE MONEY
Dublin Courier-Herald
There are on deposit in Atlanta
banks approximately a million and
a half of the state’s automobile Ur
money which is not now being used
by the state for the purpose it was
collected for, namely on the high
ways of the state, but which appar
ently is available for use by the
banks in which it is deposited in At
lanta, or at least, a reasonable sup
position is that it is being used. Such
being the case there could be no
better use found for the money that
is not now being used for its legit
'mate purpose than to return it to
the banks of the counties in which
it was collected, until such a time
v.’nen it will have to become avail
able for use on the state’s highways.
Further than that, the license money
coming due on March 1, of this year
should also be permitted to remain
in the banks of the counties in which
it is collected until such a time as a
demand will be made on it by the
highway department. In this man
ner the various banks of the state,
in every county, who just now as
much as everybody else is made to
feel the stress of the times, would
receive on deposit sums ranging
from a few to tens of thousands of
dollars and which in many instances
would amount to sorely needed re
lief. Thus Laurens county banks
would receive in 1921 tag money
approximately $30,000, and if last
years tag money were to be re
turned also from Atlanta deposito
ries, an additional $25,000 in ready
currency. If the secretary of the
state should so direct the distribu
tion of this money—and he should,
since the money is tied up through
legislative pow-v.owing, for the
present he would indeed come to
the relief of many a Georgia county
which is now forced to tighten its
belt to a point where it is necessary
to punch new holes in it.
SHOULD LEARN FROM THE HEN
Commerce News
“The country advertiser stops ad
vertising v.'ien business gets dull.
The old mother hen never quits
scratching when worms get scarce.
She scratches harder and oftener.
Go to the hen, ye country mer
chants, and learn a lesson worth
while.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK?
It is a little absurd for the Amer
ican nation to be “busted” just now.
Isn’t it?
Labor has had four or five “fat"
years—high wages, short hours and
plenty of work.
If labor has created enough sav
ings to keep bread in the bread box
and ccal in the bin during the few
weeks of partial employment, it
doesn’t deserve much sympathy—
does it? That is what agriculture
thinks.
Agriculture has had some fat
years, too.
If agriculture hasn’t laid by some
thing for a rainy day—if it can’t
stand a slump in prices after its pe
riod of undisputed prosperity—why
Agriculture is a pretty poor busi
ness, isn't it?
That is what labor thinks.
Manufacturers and Wholesalers
havf* been piling up profits on a ris
ing market, and if they can’t take
their medicine now during the pe
riod of re-adjustment, it’s a queer
thing.
That is what the Retailers think.
And if the retailers, who have
worn out their pencils marking up
prices, can’t make the necessary re
ductions now without whimpering,
they would better shut up shop.
That is what the Manufacturers
and Wholesalers say.
You have been having a chance to
make and save a little money for
several years, and if you can't stand
a little hard times you’re either a
pretty poor sport or you’re a pretty
poor business man.
That is what everybody says to
everybody else.
And what everybody says must be
So!—Farm Life.
If cotton is going to ten cents
and below it is fortunate that it is
doing so around planting time. Last
year at the planting season cotton
was going up every day and the
prospect for 40 cents cotton made
the South wild. With cotton at pres
ent prices and fertilizer out of
reach, there shouldn’t be much ar
gument needed to make the average
man reduce his acreage.
Come to think of it this country
has survived quite a few severe
shocks vothin the recent past. There
was the war, which we helped to
win; then followed an epidemic of
Spanish influenza that took a toll
of several thousand lives; then there
was a scourge of profiteers. Hav
ing lived through all these things
surely we can pull through a period
of depression. The thing to do is
buck up and look on the bright side.
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THE JACKSON PROGRESS -ARGUS, JACKSON. GEORGIA^
THE RELATIVE GRAFT
(Dawson News)
A dispatch from Washington dis
closes that there are 114 congress
men who carry 133 wives, daughters,
sons, brothers, and others on the
capitol pay roll as clerks. There’s
nothing new about the facility of
congressmen in taking care of their
kin in this manner. Keeping the
clerk hire allowance in the family
might even be considered commend
able, provided the relatives actually
earn the salaries paid them.
In some instances the relatives
actually perform the vork assigned
to them, but in many others a clerk
is hired for $1,200, more or less,
and the remainder of the $3,200
clerk hire allowance is paid to the
relative, who does no work. Fre
quently, a canvass cf the situation
shows, the $2lO bonus paid to em
ployees receiving $2,500 or less
goes to the relative on the pay roll
as a congressman’s clerk. And by
the way of parenthesis it may be re
marked that what is true of mem
bers of congress is also true of some
officials in every state of the union,
in which there are many glaring in
stances of nepotism.
In view of the necessity of econ
omy in governmental affairs at this
time this is a matter that should
bear investigation. A congressman
gets a salary of $7,500 a year and,
in addition, the $3,200 clerk hire
fund. If clerks cost that much and
earn their money the transaction
leaves no ground for complaint.
But if a congressman gets a clerk
for $1,200 a year slips his relative
$2,000 easy money for which no
labor is performed the taxpayers of
the country ought to have a word
to say about that matter.
It would seem the first step should
be to determine the actua lvalue of
clerks. If any congressmen have
Shown they can get them for $1,200
and save $2,000 a year for a non
working relative, then a reduction
in the clerk appropriation would be
one means of stopping this species
cf graft. That this course would
strike at the heart of of the situa
tion is indicated by another phase
of the subject which shows that out
of the congressman’s combined sal
ary and clerk allowance, which
totals $10,700 a year, he often gets
a clerk or puts a relative to work
for around $1,200 and keeps the
rest for himself, thereby actually
drawing $1,500 to $2,000 more sal
ary' for himself than is appropriated
for his income as congressman.
If a congressman’s legal salary is
$7,500 a year he is not entitled to
more. If an allowance of $3,200 is
granted for clerk hire it should be
expended for that purpose, and not
divided as graft fov non-working
relatives or himself. A little light
on this subject should result in sav
ing some badly needed money to tax
payers.
Before Spring
Comes, Tone
Up Your Blood
Your Blood Need* the Help of Gude’s
Pepto-Mangan in Springtime to
Overcome Drowsy, Listless*
Fever”
PALE FACES CAUSED BY BAD
BLOOD
That Tired, All-Gone Feeling a Dan
ger Signal that Your Blood Needs
This Splendid Spring Tonic
The blood that courses through
your body in the arteries and veins
is of the most vital importance to
the healthy life of the body. The
little red corpuscles are what carry
life to the millions of cells that
make up your body. The blood is
also the vehicle that carries away
most, if not all, of the waste pro
ducts.
Springtime is the season when the
body adjusts itself from the rigors
of winter to the heat of summer.
You notice how much sickness there
is in the Spring? Perhaps there are
weeks when you feel drowsy and
listless, and you call it “Spring
Fever.” It is really your blood that
has become weak and thin, and it
needs help.
Take that goed blood tonic—
Gude’s Pepto-mangan. It vill give
the red corpuscles in your blood
new power to carry fresh oxygen to
the cells all over the body. You’ll
notice a change for the better in a
few days. It brings the color back
to pale faces and lifts you out of
tired, all-gone feelings so that you
enjoy full vigor.
Spring is the time for a good
blood tonic. Take Gude’s Pepto-
Mangan so that you can enjoy the
most beautiful season cf the year.
Get it at your druggist’s, but be sure
it is the genuine, with “Gude’s Pep
to-Mangan" printed on the package.
It is sold in both tablet and liquid
form. They have exactly the same
. medicinal value, adv.
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TOLLESON & TURNER, Agents
McDonough, Ga.
DOLLARS
Will Pull You To The Top Fas
ter Than You Can Climb Alone
No matter whether you dig ditches, practice medi
cine, drive a mule or conduct a store, money will
enable you to dress warm, eat well, sleep comfort
ably and keep in condition to do better work.
When money becomes the only aim in life, you are
better off dead and so is the world, but money is an
aid to better work in life, is a valuable and mighty
useful partner.
The savings account is the first step on your way
up. Get monep pulling for you and you soon pass
the “spenders.” And with each successive step up,
you will find that the pull gets stronger and the
climb easier.
5 Rer Cent All the Way Up
Begin An Account
And Keep It Going
We have Travelers Checks for sale.
Good any where in the World.
Jackson Banking Cos.
JACKSON, GEORGIA
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