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Jackson Progress - Argus PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY J. DOYLE JONES Editor and Pubdrher Entered as second-class matter at „ J. ' J ’ , 'ice at Jackson, Ga. TELEPHONE NO. 166 OFFICIAL ORGAN BUTTS COUN TY AND CITY OF JACKSON SUBSCRIPTION RATES Oh Year * ISO Ska Months Sit(la Copies *°® IN ADVANCE NOTICE Cards of thanks will be charged at sEo rata of fifty cents, minimum fa* 50 words and less; abore 50 words will be charged at the rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must accompa ny s|>y in all instances. 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 *• 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, • S 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. - - - - ■ - 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.