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Jackson Progress - Argus
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J. DOYLE JONES
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Keep your weather eye on farm
land* and don’t kick yourself later on
if you refuse to take advantage of
real bargains now.
Prof. Snider who has been hiber
nating in his storm pit, comes out
acd makes bold to predict that April
will be a month of much fine wea
ther. Go to it, professor. We are all
tor you.
Rumblings of impending political
battles this summer are being heard
from Atlanta. It now appears likely
tl>ere- will he opposition all along
the line and some hectic struggles
are. in the offing.
Alas and alack, national adver
tisers still believe in the free and
anlimited use of free space in the
county newspapers. And the pity of
it smc of the editors are fools
eoough to fall for the scheme.
Yfw substantial, property owning,
taxpaying people of this country are
catching merry hell in the way of
taxes. The sentiment of the public
is to pay the politicians back with
interest.
Secretary of Agriculture Hyde
does not favor the government loan
ing money to farmers for crop pro
duction. His nose is so deep in the
jHrk barrel that he probably thinks
u all right for the government to
dish out billions to big business.
Now thut the monthly co-opera
tive poultry sales are to be resumed
i’r Butts county, it would be a good
plan to pay more attention to poul
tt y and bring in more cash in this
way. The chicken dollar is as good
as the cotton dollar.
Every man, woman and child in
the United States who eats, wears
■clothes, shoes, hats, rides or indulges
iu amusements will pay a substantial
portt<n of the billion tax proposed
b\ congress. These so-called luxurv
V>xe- will turn out to be nuisance
taxes before the bill is paid in full.
Thousands of Georgians will he
jnad of an opportunity to honor Lu
cian P. Goodrich by voting for him
as judge of the court of appeals. If
there is an abler, saner, more con
structive Georgian than Judge Good
rich the writer does not know him.
The chances are Judge Goodrich will
fee given an overwhelming majority
si* his present race.
Following the lines of least resis
tance, as- all legislative bodies do,
congress has “balanced the budget”
by taxing the ultimate consumer to
the tune of a billion dollars and
more. Yet it is ali wrong to reduce
federal payrolls. The consumer must
pay and pay. We believe the Demo
crats with Franklin Roosevelt as
leader will sweep the country and
change this sort of thing.
Economy will be shouted from a
thousand platforms by a thousand
e&adidates this year. The state and
nation savers will endeavor to con
*riae the votertsHfcat all it necessary
to bring good times an£ reduce ex
penses is to elect these favorite sons
to office. The taxpayers should be
on guard and do some investigating
on their own account.
By the time the consumers of
America finish paying that billion
dollars in taxes they ought to be in
a frame of mind to demand economy
in the public business. If not, then
a second billion ought to be piled
on. The people will get cheaper gov
ernment when they demand it and
not a whit sooner. It is certain the
politicians are not going to do any
thing constructive until it is forced
on them.
One of the most vital questions
lacing the South is finding new uses
for cotton. If cotton is to remain the
main cash crop, more cotton must be
consumed. Why not wear more cot
ton clothes? Why not use cotton
bagging for wrapping cotton? We
live in a cotton country and should
be interested in promoting this great
industry that gives employment to
millions of people. Why not cut out
some of the silk and get down to
common sense and use more cotton
goods?
You, Mr. Taxpayer, may not real
ize it but in a short time you will
be a stockholder in a railroad sys
tem. Just as surely as the govern
ment is taking over farms through
the federal land banks, just so will
the government take over railroads
a little bit later on. The railroads,
which are borrowing milions and mil
lions of dollars, do not intend to pay
it hack, and to protect itself the gov
ernment will soon find itself owning
several railroad systems. The tax
payers are footing all the bills and
a good time is being had by all.
HOW THE TAXPAYER FARES
The statement has been made that
at the present time taxes consume
22.1 per cent of the national income.
In 1913 taxes ate up only 6.5 cents
of every dollar of national income.
The high water mark after the World
War was 16.7. It seems that under
present conditions this matter of
running the figures up to 22.1 last
year was a mighty poor exhibition of
being the servants of the people. We
need a great deal more economy in
government and in order for that
to come to pass the people will have
to become more stingy in the foolish
demands that they make upon the
government. As long as you will al
low them to do so, the politicians
are going tu continue to buy your
votes and pay for them out of your
own pockets by means of - various
forms of appropriations.—Monroe
Advertiser.
WHEN TO STOP ADVERTISING
When every man has become so
thoroughly a creature of ha'oii that
he will certainly buy this year where
he bought last year.
When younger, and fresher anii
spunkier concerns in your line cease
starting up and using the newspapers
in telling the people how nrtuch bet
ter they can do for them than you
can.
When nobody else thinks “it pays
to advertise.”
When population ceases to multi
ply and the generations that crowd
on after you, and never heard of
you, coming on.
When you have convinced every
body, whose life will touch yours,
that you have better goods and lower
prices than they can ever get any
where outside of your store.
When you perceive it to be the
rule that men who never do and nev
er did advertise are outstripping
their neighbors in the same line of
business.
When men stop making fortunes
right in your sight, solely through
the discreet use of this mighty agent.
When you can forget the words
of the shrewdest and most successful
business men concerning the main
cause of their prosperity.
When you would rather have your
own way and fail than take advice
and win.
When you want to go out of busi
ness with a stock on hand.
When you want to get rid of the
trouble of waiting on customers. —
Lexington (Va. Gazette.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS, JACKSON, GEORGIA
SPRINGTIME—REBIRTH
Spring in the valley! A touch of
heaven come down to earth. The
world is gayer and brighter and
lovelier in the spring. Hearts a’x- j
joyous in the spring. Hope springs
up with the first shoots of reviving
glass. Tulips bloom. In the spring the
songbirds come again with their little
melody. The air is filled with per
fume, the day’s afire with sunshine,
the blood runs fast. Heart turns to
heart and we dismiss w r ith a shrug
and smile the ephemeral, petty, sha
dowy things as we fasten our eyes
and minds upon the eternals. The
peach tree puts forth its buds and
the lilacs bloom. We realize in the
spring that the progress of man is
onward forever, that if the sun has
shone upon us in the past it will
surely shine again, that the thickest
clouds eventually roll away to leave
us dazzled by the endless blue. Un
consciously we assume our proper
place in nature, cast ourselves out of
ourselves and see ourselves, there
with all the rest of this universe’s
phenomena, floating along on the
stream. We ourselves as much
a legitimate part of the cosmic ar
rangement as the trees and lakes and
wind and birth and life and death. —
Omaha World-Herald.
PAY DAY HAS COME!
The billion-dollar tax of the na
tional house passes on to the people
the most stupendous bin den for
governmental support in the history
of the country in times of peace.
The new schedule of taxation
reaches into practically every source
of individual and corporate wealth
in the country.
Thus, having danced through years
cf frenzied spending—when hun
dreds of millions of dollars at a
time were tossed to the winds—we
must now pay the piper.
But, however much the new tax
shoe may pinch, there is nothing
for us to do save bobble along as
best we can until the deficit caused
by our departure from sanity is
cleared.
In the last analysis, the people
have only themselves to blame for
what has come to pass. Neither this
congress, nor its predecessor, can
be held solely responsible. The tax
payers of the country stood idly by
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while raid after raid was made on
the federal treasury for the further
ance of wild and radical schemes.
Billions t>f dollars of tax moneys
have been spent for “relief” while
those who pay the taxes were look
ing out the window. Instead of re
lief, conditions have been made
worse, and now we must tighten up
our belts another notch, open up our
pocketbooks and pay for our folly.
Nothing' will be gained by crying
over spilt milk of governmental
waste. We must follow the example
of Great Britain which, faced by
the most serious fiancial crisis in its
history, levied taxes which amounted
almost to confiscation, but which en
abled that country to come to the
end of its fiscal year with a small
surplus in the national treasury.
The only difference is that the
British crisis was the result of the
nation’s staggering contributions to
the World War, while we blindly and
unnecessarily threw countless mil
lions to the winds.
The only silver lining to the cloud
i: the hope that the people during
the months when they will have tc
pay as they have never paid before
will come to a realization of their ob
ligation and duty as citizens to keen
an eye on the doings of their govern
ment. —Atlanta Constitution.
THE FARM LAND PANIC
The public has lost confidence
in farm lands. Farming has proven
unprofitable and people are turning
away from it and gone to the cities
to find a job. Now, the panic is woi-se
in the cities than it was on the farm,
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and the people are out of jobs and
out of homes. There is but one thing
tor these jobless folk to do and that
is to go back to the farm and work
out their salvation there. In discuss
ing this question, the Clarksville Tri-
County Advertiser says:
“This much sought-for prosperity
that we are talking about every day
will not return until the people give j
more attention to buying farms and j
building and improving homes. Real ,
estate is the foundation of all wealth.
Farming is th ri foundation of pros
perity. The people lost confidence in
real estate and farming and we have
the depression, over-crowded cities,
and ever-extending bread-lines.
There are thousands upon -thousands
of fine farm lands in Georgia calling
for the touch of cultivation and of
fering a good living and reasonable
profits to those who will answer the
call.
“Many people want prosperity who
are unwilling to pay the price of
hard and intelligent work to get it.
They are trying to escape the price
and, in the. meantime, remain on
wheels. These wheels can’t roll much
further until men and women go to
work in earnest in the task of own
ing farms and homes and giving
more attention to them than they do
to idleness and pleasure. The nation
must get to the fundamentals of
prosperity before we can have it.
Prosperity can’t be legislated into
a nation. It must be worked out by
the people. We want cotton to bring
a big price while we discard cotton
goods and support the silk industry
of a foreign nation. For food we
want the finest dishes without grow
ing the, foods to make those dishes.
We buy automobiles, radios and re
frigerators on future installments
and ignore the fundamentals of a
prosperity that will enable us to pay
off the installments.”
ENOUGH TO MAKE ANGELS
WEEP
It became noised abroad that ap
plication blanks for government
loans would arrive here Monday of
this week, and it wasn’t extensively
advertised either, but soon after sun
rise the spacious grounds of the court
house were surrounded with automo
biles and the corridors of the build
ing thronged with farmers of this
county assembling for the purpose of
securing loans from Uncle Sam with
which to make a crop in 1932. These
same farmers made a good crop last
yeai’—but got practically nothing for
it, and they were gathering for the
purpose of getting enough money
with which to make another crop.
The county clerk’s office was
crowded with investigators to ascer
tain what mortgages there might be
on record which might disqualify the
applicants, while the tax collector’s
office was busy looking up delin
quent taxes since 1929 in order that
the applicants might be relieved of
the handicap of unpaid taxes. In ad
dition to this it was noted that the
board of registrars was working over
time, making out a list of the voters
of the county who were to be per-
mitted to vote in the approaching
county primary—the qualification
being that all taxes up to and in
cluding 1930 must have been paid,
or the voter would be disfranchised.
Therefore the pandemonium that
reigned about this ordinarily quiet
“temple of justice” was all caused
by a scramble by citizens of the
county to borrow more money with
which to pay past due taxes and
with which to make another crop. It
differed from the average “bread
line” in that there was no evidence
of definite hunger, yet upon the
faces of many of hose present could
be seen unmistakable evidence of se
rious concern and undisguised anxie
ty-
This is the picture, and'we have
not overdrawn it. What is responsi
ble for it. and what it forecasts there
exists a wide difference of opinion,
but that such conditions exist there
is no question. Many and varied are
the remedies proposed for its cure,
and as it matters little, when the
shades have been drawn in the room
where dissolution of soul and body
“is taking place, what is responsible
for it, the problem that confronts
the country today is—the way in
which the present procession may be
halted.
“Good old Uncle Sam” seems to
be doing his very best—and it is up
to him to do that, for he is largely
responsible for the present situation.
The states, feeling perhaps less re
sponsibility, have passed the buck t*
Stronger Than He Was at Twenty
FIFTY-FIVE years old, and still
going strong!
Do you want the secret of such
vitality? It isn’t what you eat, or
any tonic you take. It’s something
anyone can and you can
start today and see results in a
week! All you do is give your vital
organs the right stimulant.
‘A famous doctor discovered the.
way to stimulate a sluggish system
to new energy. It brings fresh vigor
to every organ. Being a physician’s
prescription, it’s quite harmless.
Tell your druggist you want a bottle
of Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin. Get
the benefit of its fresh laxative
herbs, active senna, and that pure
pepsin. Get that lazy liver to work,
those stagnant bowels into action.
Get rid of waste matter that is slow
the national government. They had
their opportunity, but some of them
preferred to be called “lion hearted”
and “strong- willed” by a class whose
enmity they feared to invite, and
few of them, through their satellites,
have dared to even acknowledge the
seriousness of the calamity that has
befallen them. But this is water that
has also gone over the dam.
The brightest star of hope that wo
see is that for the first time the tem
ples of iniquity of the capitalistic
class have been shaken, and they
realize as never before that there
are limits of financial oppression be
yond which it is unsafe to venture;
that hoarded wealth can produce con
ditions which make profitable invest
ment impossible; that a country of
peons can not for long serve the
slavish purpose of wealth.—Millen
News.
SEASON NEARS WHEN POISON
OAK DAMAGE IS IMMINENT
Those Going Into Woods Urged to
Use Caution
The season is near at hand when
we begin having trouble from com
ing in contact with poison oak and
such other plants as give a dermati
tis that is anything- but pleasant.
Some individuals do not seem to
be very susceptible to the sap from
such plants or vines, while others
are extremely so. These poisons
should be avoided whenever possi
ble. If one is exposed, however, no
time should be lost in taking the
necessary steps to prevent an out
break from the irritant. To do this,
if one is coming in contact with the
poison, gloves should be used and
the face protected. After the contact
no time should be lost in taking steps
to prevent an outbreak. The derma
titis may sometimes be avoided even
after handling these plants by free
use of an alkaline soap and water or
alcohol containing a little sodium
hydroxide dissolved in it. The poi
son is soluble in alcohol and alka
lies. Gasoline may be used most of
our pleasure seekers and wild flow
er hunters go in automobiles and if
would be advisable to use gasoline
from the tank on the hands on re
turn to the car. Common baking soda
IX PAYS
To Cull Your Cotton Seed.
Our machinery is ready. Bring them
any time that is convenient to you.
Nutt & Bond
FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1932
poison so long as it is permitted to
remain in the system.
The new energy wen and women
feel before one bottle of Dr. Caldwell's
syrup pepsin has been used up is
proof of how much the system needs
this help.
Get a bottle of this delicious
syrup arid let it end that constant
worry about the condition of the
bowels. Spare the children those
bilious days that make them miser
able. Save your household from the
use of cathartics which lead to
chronic constipation. And guard
against auto-inloxicatioa a,s you
grow older.
Dr. Caldwell’s syrup pepsin is
such a well known preparation you
can get it wherever drugs are sold
and it isn’t expensive.
dissolved in water is a fairly good
remedy; it is not as effective as the
alcohol and hydroxide mentioned.
The washing must be done prompt
ly and thoroughly, or it will tend to
spread the poison over a larger sur
face.
Home-made lye soap is a good
remedy, followed with several rins
ings.
JASPER COUNTY PRIMARY
WILL BE STAGED FRIDAY
Jasper county’s primary for the
nomination of all county officers will
be held Friday, April 8. There are
thirty candidates contesting for the
several offices and an interesting
finish and large vote is predicted.
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Alabama has neither an income
nor a state inheritance tax; both are
i prohibited by the constitution.
Why Get Up Nights? I
Make This 25c Test
This easy bladder physic is needed to
drive out impurities and excess acid*
which cause irritation that results in
leg pains, backache, burning and get
ting up nights. BU-KETS, the bladder
physic, containing buchu, juniper oil
etc., works on the bladder pleasantly
and effectively as castor oil on the
bowels. Get a 25c box (5 grain size)
from your druggist. After four days, if
not relieved of getting up nights go
back and get your money. You ara
bound to feel better after this cleans
ing and you get your regular sleep.
J
Locally at Carmichael Drug Cos.
Notice
Change of
Schedule
Buses meet in Jack
son 9:05 A. M. going
north, south and west.
Buses meet in Jack
son 6:10 P. M. going
north, south and east.
Pace Bus Line
Jackson, Ga.