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FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1921
Jackson Progress -Argns
PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY
J. DOYLE JONES
Editor and F abliiher
Entered as second-class matter at
the post office at Jackson, Ga.
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IN ADVANCE
Whoever it was that started out
to squeeze the water out of business
mot only squeezed the water but the
blood as well.
This is a year that will reward
workers. Quitters v.'ll never get
anywhere. Get busy and quit com
plaining. Things will adjust them
selves in due time.
Unless public sentiment changes
very materially the voters will even
up scores with the- railroad commis
sioners who vote if to fasten higher
telephone and gas rates on the
people. This is not the time for
higher rates.
The present panic -or “depres
sion” if you like that better—will
stop when it runs its course. Noth
ing else v.'ll stop it. There is not
much consolation in this fact but it
is the truth, however. It is up to
you to adjust yourself to conditions.
What is the truth about the carry
over of cotton? That is a question
that many people would like to have
answered. The Progress-Argus is
this week publishing an article from
Col. Shackelford, of Athens, that
throw's considerable light on the
subject.
Co-operative marketing is one. of
the greatest needs of the country.
Not only cotton but other crops as
well can be marketed to advantage
through co-operative organizations.
The producers are entitled to the
cream. At present the other fellow
is getting it.
Well, i fthe country is not run to
.suit you now you can blame Hard
ing. Wilson has had his day and is
down and out. Not a single South
ern man was chosen for a cabinet
place and the South need not ex
pect any special favors from the
Republican administration.
A number of cities in Georgia are
raising a protest over the increased
telephone rates recently allowed.
The Progress-Argus has believed all
along that the raise was not justi
fied. The trouble has been that the
patrons do not get together and
make their kick at the right time.
After an increase hhs been fastened
on the people it is hard to shake
loose from It.
Changing from cotton cannot he
done all at once. Surely and stead
ily the farmers of this country are
getting on a basis of diversification.
This year will see move potatoes
planted,,more food crops, more live
stock, while truck crops will be
largely planted and a creamery will
likely be established during the year.
We are making progress in’the right
direction.
The time is ripe in Butts county
for a federal farm loan bank. At
present many farmers who need
money to improve their farms can
not obtain it. Even if they could
the rate of interest is prohibitive.
One cf these banks is needed here
and The Progress-Argus will lend its
hearty support and encouragement
to such a movement.
Last year many farmers in Butts
county relied solely on cotton and
failed to gro\> much food or feed
crops. One result of this is a scarc
ity of feedstuff's which is reflected
in the live stock. Never before were
there so many half starved mules
and horseb in this section. The
man who fails to properly feed his
live stock is committing a crime and
ought to be punished for it.
Had you thought of the fact that
Butts county is not making the pro
gress it should in educational ad
vancement? The trouble is too
many little, weak, struggling
schools. What the county needs is
school consolidation, better schools
and better teachers. The people who
are paying the good money to run
the schools ought to wake up and do
some real thinki£r along this line.
The railroad union employees may
strike all they please but they will
wake up to the fact that public senti
ment is against them. Railroad la
bor has been petted and pampered
too long now for the good of the
country. Freight and passenger
rates are too high and business is
suffering as a consequence.* The daj
of the striker is about over. It is
time for workers.
A great many business men over
the country are patting- themselves
on the back on their ability to
“work out” from under their pres
ent stocks. About the best woy to
work out is to advertise and tell the
buying public what you have to sell
and quote prices. Business is at a
standstill today because the public is
on a strike and this strike may con
tinue until the merchants take the
people into their confidence.
The Progress-Argus has never
possessed the superior wisdom nec
essary to advise the farmers what
to plant, but this newspaper does
believe that the farmer who puts
his main reliance on cotton this
year, at the neglect of food and feed
crops and live stock, will make a se
rious mistake. Not only is cotton
cheap now but it is bound to be
cheap this fall. Then the boll weevil
must be reckoned with. Taken alto
gether this is a mighty good time to
plant plenty of food crops.
No real and lasting progress will
be made along educational lines in
Butts county until better school
houses are provided and some of the
small schools abolished and good
central schools built. And what is
just as important is a better grade
of teachers. Good teachers and good
buildings go together. There are
too many weak, struggling schools
and not enough good schools. Thu
people of Butts county must get to
gether on this matter and make
Butts county occupy its rightful
place in educational matters.
Butts county as a whole is woe
fully behind on good barns. Many
barns are mere shacks, built to hold
only a sack or two of bought feed,
and a stall for a mule. This is a
result of the all-cotton folly. If
some farmers were to raise a big
crop of feed stuffs they v.ould have
no where to store it. There should
be more good barns in Butts
county. A good barn* is a sign of
prosperity and independence. The
Progress-Argus would like to see a
county-wide movement for more
ami better barns and farm buildings.
HOW NEWSPAPERS SURVIVE
Dawson News
No publisher could have v.ithstood
a jump from 100 to 623 in print pa
per cost and from 100 to 393 in la
bor cost with increases no greater
than from 100 to 136 in advertising
rates and from 100 to 150 in sub
scription rates had he not been
saved by the increased volume of
business that has gone through his
presses.
CREDIT BUSINESS OUT OF DATE
Greensboro Herald-Journal
The chief trouble with the aver
age Georgia merchant in the smallei
cities is that he has been conducting
a commissary instead of a real up
to-date store. The old time credit
end crop mortgage has been his one
idea in merchandising. Conditions
have changed, and the merchant
must now realize that he can’t do
business in the old-time way. The
country banks must also get out of
the crop mortgage business. In fact,
it was intended that a bank should
gamble on a tenant-mule-cow-crop
system. It is said that one negro
alone with nothing on earth to back
him, succeeded in getting something
like $2,000 on a credit in 1920 in
Greensboro, when really, on a bus
iness basis, the negro was not en
titled to a credit for 30 cents.
“GASCARETS" TONIGHT
FOR CONSTIPATION
Just think! A pleasant, harmless
Cascaret works v.hile you sleep and
has your liver active, head clear,
stomach sweet and bowels moving
as regular as a clock by morning.
No griping or inconvenience. 10, 25
or 50 cent boxes. Children love this
candy cathartic too. adv.
COAL COMPANY PAYS A
ISO PER CENT DIVIDEND
Larg* Cask Award Made by North
ern Coal Concern
New York.—-The Lehigh and
Wilkes-Barre Coal Company on
Monday declared a special cash div
idend of 150 per cent on its capital
stock of $9,210,000.
Of this dividend amounting to
$13,815,000, the Central Railroad
of New Jersey gets $12,734,000 on
the stock which it owns.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
A FARMER’S REVERIE
Last year I had wealth and happi
ness,
But now I am broke and blue.
For fortune has not dealt kindly
with me,
And friends once many are few.
I planted my acres in cotton,
I hired me an overseer.
I bought two ten-horse tractors,
And prepared to enjoy last year.
I sent my son to college*;
_.My wife I brought to town.
F'riends came up to greet me,
And happiness at last had been
found.
The banks wanted my business,
The merchants fought for my
trade.
I borrowed and spent money freely,
Rejoicing at the progress I’d
made.
But the boll weevil got my cotton,
And I’ve put my farm in loan.
To my creditors I have given
Everything in this world that I
own.
The banks say they cannot carry me,
The merchants sell for cash and
cash alone.
My friends say, “I’m sorry, old fel
low, ,
But I can hardly take care of my
own.”
This year I’ll raise feed stuffs and
cattle,
And I have no reason to fear
That when I have done all in my
power,
I .shall have need of my overseer.
I shall ask no man for credit,
I shall live within my means,
The money I make shall be precious,
And find a comfortable home in
my jeans.
For the sun will shine as bright to
morrow
As it did yesterday.
If a man can profit by his failures,
And let them show him the way.
L. W. FULLER.
Culloden, Ga.
IN thTspring
YOUR BLOOD
NEEDS A TONIC
Winter Weakens Blood, Makes Faces
Pale. Take Gude’s Pepto-Mangan_
THE BEST KNOWN BLOOD
TONIC
Drowsy Spring-Fever Feeling That
Comes from Sluggish Blood
Will Soon Leave You
As all growing; things on earth
shoot into new life in Springtime, so
do the billions of cells that make up
each part of the body renew thier
vigor.
As you ope nthe window, breathe
the Spring air, and let in the sun
shine, the redcorpuscles in your
blood should carry more oxygen to
the tiny cells. •
The red corpuscles are tiny disc
ehaped particles, swimming in enor
mous numbers in the blood. They
carry oxygen to cells in all parts of
the body, and they carry away
worn-out waste matter. Sometimes,
especially in tha Spring, after the
winter indoors and more or ledS
sickness, the red corpuscles themsel
ves need rebuilding. Gude’s Pepto-
Mangan contains just the ingre
dients to give them greater power
to absorb oxygen arid to distribute
it throughout the body.
That is why it is such a good
Spring tonic. It helps so much to
bring back color to the cheeks made
pale and wan by the necessary in
door winter life. It adds to the
number of red corpuscles. With
tine Spring days and Gude’s Pepto-
Mnngan you gain in vigor an dattain
good health.
Don’t go around drowsy this
Spring. Take that good tonic, Gude’s
Pepto-Mangan. You can get in tab
let form or in liquid form at your
druggist’s. Both forms have the
same medicinal value. Insist upon
genuine Gude’s Pepto-Mangan. adv
WIRELESS INVENTION TO
HELP GUIDE SHIPS
Liverpool.—Discovery of anew
wireless invention by which ships
may be guided during dense fogs
was announced here tonight by
William Marconi at the annual Brit
ish shipmasters’ dinner. This inven
tion, he said, is based on a principle
by which the electric waves may be
directed in a definite direction like
flashes from a lighthouse. He de
clared these waves would take the
place of leading lights in thick wea
ther, and would prevent collisions if
vessels during fogs,
m u i c k®
Si / Z//Ejj? Buick name is Buick’s best salesman. ,
Ancl Buick 1921 moclels have adc |ed
I m. prestige to that name. The new models
ftm " possess the known Buick reliability to
'np& meet every condition of travel. To that
f ® reliability there is added comfort result
d mN M y ing from improved seating arrange
i fe|gj l \ ment and spring suspension and easier ;
g i >\ control of mechanism. And the new
a lines are beautiful.
E Each car’s reliability is re-inforced by
B 181/4 ffl!\ Authorized Buick Service.
BJr'y: m Since January 1, regular equipment
ah all modi ds includes Cord Tires ■
WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT, BUICK WILL BUILD THEM
TOLIESON & TURNER, Agents
McDonough, Ga.
FIRST SESSION OF COURT
IS CONVENED IN LAMAR
Cadet Corps Escorts Judge Searcy
To Court House
Barnesville, Ga.—The fh'st session
of the Lamar county superior court
opened Monday morning, with a
majority of the attorneys of the
Flint circuit attending and a large
Reliable Progressive
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BUILT UP TO A STANDARD—NOT DOWN TO A PRICE
f
The American Agricultural Chemical Cos.
Atlanta, Georgia
Sold by
J. W. Carter, Jackson, Ga.
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Courteous Service
crowd of citizens of the new county,
every community being represented.
In celebration of the event the bat
tallion of Gordon cadets and the
faculty and student body of the
school met Judge W. E. H. Searcy,
Jr., as he arrived at 10 o’clock from
Griffin and escorted him to the
Masonic hall, where the court is be
ing held.
There are a number of important
ifAAji
REG. U S. PAT.OFF.
civil cases to be considered this
week. The criminal docket will he
taken up next Monday.
The term “upland” is applied to ail
cotton produced in this country, ex
cept sea-island cotton, and includes
the long staple upland varieties.
PHONE US THE NEWS.
BRADLEY
SEA FOWL