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Jackson Progress - Argus
Published Every Friday.
J. DOYLE JONEB, Editor and Pub.
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Official Organ Butts County
And the City of Jackson.
NOTICE
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Obituaries will be charged for at the
rate of 1 cent a word. Cash must ac
company copy in all instances.
Don’t forget to put in a good
word for the county fair.
Ask an editor v’hat is the great
est town in the state, and he’ll
tell you Decatur, of course.
What has become of the old
fashioned fellow that took his
bath only on Sunday mornings?
Felder and Eichelberger are
calling each other names and for
once they are both probably right.
You help yourself, you help the
community, you help everybody
when you patronize home institu
tions.
All candidates for governor
have opened up headquarters.
Now let them open up some pep
and ginger.
It is nothing short of remark
able how quick Carranza cooled
off after the “Fighting Fifth”
got warmed up.
The Georgia editors are testing
the capacity of their stomachs
and the hospitality of Decatur
this week. Both are ample.
Nothing is too good for the
boys at the front, and the folks
back home will see to it that they
are remembered in a substantial
manner.
Now that it is a five-legged
institution, isn’t it about time that
Commissioners Howell and An
derson quit kicking the Dixie
highway ’round?
The “Dollar Dav” edition of
The Statesboro News is one of
the best put out this season. The
paper was full of timely informa
tion about the “State of Bulloch.”
and reflected credit upon the
progressive editor.
We’re in favor of conscripting
an army of those who sneer at
'the national guard, and let these
stay-at-home “patriots” have
their inning with the greasers.—
Jackson Progress-Argus.
That’s business.—DeKalb New
Era.
It would at least cure a lot of
sore heads.
One of Uncle Sam’s laws re
quires a barrel to hold three bush
els. The law was made to keep
swindlers from sending out two
and a half bushels of potatoes,
apples or other truck and calling
it three bushels. A law ought to
be made to make the woo 1 deal
ers deliver a full cord of wood
when they take pay fer a eerd.
—Valdosta Times.
PROPOSED NEW CIRCUIT
The bill recently introduced by
Senator E. M. Smith, of McDon
ough, to create anew Superior
Court Circuit composed of the
counties of Monroe, Butts, Henry
and Clayton, and to be christen
ed the “Indian Spring Circuit,’’
seems to have met the strong
approval of the Henry County
Weekly and the Forsyth Adver
tiser. But the Griffin News and
Sun says that they are just nat
urally “agin it,’’ and so are we.
The business of the Stone
Mountain Circuit appears to be
moving along in a smooth, just
and business like manner under
the present Judge and Solicitor.
And, speaking for Clayton,
the dockets are comparatively
clean and it requires less than a
week twice a year in which to
hold our court, and we cannot
see wherein it would benefit the
county to have four sessions.
We feel at home where we are
we thank you. So please count
us out of the new circuit. Jones
boro News.
THE DIXIE HIGHWAY
Bulloch Times:
One institution that has occu
pied the public attention almost
incessantly for the past year or
longer is the Dixie Highway com
mission. Originating in the mind
of somebody somewhere, the
Dixie Highway seemed to assume
definite shape so far as Georgia
was concerned when Gov. Slaton,
before retiring from office, ap
pointed Editors Howell and An
derson, of the Atlanta Constitu
tion and Macon Telegraph, re
spectively, to represent Georgia.
Then the wire-working began.
Hither and yonder meetings were
held to select the route through
Georgia of the great highway,
and the commissioners were fe
ted and banqueted until their
sides fairly bulged. Finally, af
ter a season of suspense never
before witnessed, two sets of
twins arrived, when eastern and
western routes were recommend
ed both north and south of Macon
by the commissioners. Then
came the task of selecting the
eastern prong of the route be
tween Macon and Jacksonville,
and it was necessary to bring an
other twin—naming a route by
Waycross and one by Savannah.
Thus Georgia was blessed with
five Dixie Highways. Having
been thus favored, the question
arose, “What are you going to do
with it?” The answer generally
has been “Nothing.” Asa re
sult of this answer, as well as
due to lack of judicial fore
sight on the part of the Georgia
commissioners at the outset, the
weeding out process has com
menced. Mention was made last
week that the eastern prong of
the North Georgia route, which
leads through the city of Jackson,
had been abolished bv action of
the Highway commissioners. So
far as we are aware, all the routes
could be abolished without detri
ment to any community, and
without greatly disturbing the
minds of the people who pay to
build and maintain the public
roads of the state of Georgia.
Commenting on the abandon
ment of the route through the
town of Jackson, the Progress of
that city says:
“The announcement does not
occasion surprise or alarm, how
ever, for the same amount of
travel will be secured over this
route as heretofore. Butts coun
ty has the good roads and the at
tractions to offer and the tourist
travel will continue to be large.
* • * The Dixie High
Freight Rate Discriminations
Do Exist in Georgia
The railroads of Georgia hare suggested for the consideration of the Railroad
Commission of Georgia, at the hearing on August 17, a system of rates that it is be
lieved will eliminate the discriminations now existing between the cities and towns in
Georgia.
There are approximately two thousand railroad stations (cities and towns) in
Georgia. About sixty of these cities and towns are accorded what are known as “bas
ing point rates,” which means that these comparatively few points enjoy lower rates
than the other nineteen hundred and forty points.
The rates between these comparatively few basing points are lower than the rates
between intermediate points and lower than for like hauls in other directions.
The basing point system has been condemned by the Federal Congress, the In
terstate Commerce Comission, the Railroad Commission of Georgia and the authorities
of other States.
In their desire to retain the advantage they have enjoyed, a considerable number
of these sixty favored larger cities and towns (basing points) are opposing a freight rate
revision in Georgia.
The railroads have been put on notice by the Supreme Court of the United States
and the Interstate Commerce Commission that they must harmonize state and interstate
rates.
In the Shreveport case, the Supreme Court of the United States held:
“The power to deal with the relations between two kinds of rates as a relation lies
exclusively with Congress. It is manifest that the State cannot fix the relation of a car
rier’s inter and intrastate chargee without directly interfering with the former, unless it
rim pi j follows the standrad set by the Federal authorities.”
The Interstate Commerce Commission, pursuant to an Act of Congress, has order
ed the elimination of the basing point system. T* conform to the requirements of this
order the railroads were compelled to make a radical revision of interstate rates.
Correction of interstate systems of rates in conformity with present legal require
ments, without correcting intrastate systems so as to conform to the same standard,
'would create situations repugnant to the laws against discrimination.
It is necessary to bring about a revision of rates m the entire Southeast in order
to harmonize intrastate rates with interstate rates.
A beginning in the matter of revision of intrastate rates must be made. The rail
roads first petitioned the Railroad Commission of Georgia for a revision because more
discriminations and inequalities exist in this State than in any other State in the South.
Petitions are now being prepared for presentation to the Railroad Com
missions of various States in the Southeast with this object in view.
What the railroads of Georgia now propose to the Railroad Commission of Georgia
is a revision of Georgia rates in conformity with the principles that the Interstate Com
merce Commission, pursuant to Federal law, has required them to observe in adjust
ing interstate rates.
We do not believe that the people of Georgia expect or require a preferential ad
justment of freight rates.
The real question involved is whether the proposed revision is just and reason
able from the standpoint of the railroads and the shippers, and such advances as are
proposed should not be condemned simply because they are advances.
It is not and will not be the pohey of the Railroads of Georgia to pro
pose any system of rates which wmdd discriminate unjustly agamrf die
Georgia producer in favor of producers located at points without the State.
Should the principle appear to be violated by any technical construction of
the petition wo give assurance that we will not propose, nor will we attempt
to adopt, in actual practice, any rate at variance with the same.
The interests of the people and the mtersts of Railroads are identical. Any sys
tem of rate making which works a hardship on the one works a hardship on the other.
The primary object in the proposed revision is to systematize Georgia freight rates so
that all cities and towns may be put ©n an equal basis and discriminations removed.
Some rates will be increased while others will be lowered. If, in the readjustment,
the railroads enjoy increased revenue it will not be unreasonable for the Commission to
grant it, because the railroads have heretofore shown the tremendous advance in the
cost of everything which enters into the manufacture of transportation.
Commisioner Daniel, of the Interstate Commerce Commission, in the investiga
tion of the 1915 Western Rate Advance Case, said:
“In the matter of rate regulation and fixation we have reached a point where one
of two courses ought deliberately to be chosen and clearly announced. If, despite in
creased costs not offset by increased revenue, increases in rates are 'to be denied, ex
cept where in individual instances gross injustice would be occasioned by their denial,
the carriers ought to be apprised of this policy, so that they may set their house in
order, if they can, against such a situation, if, on the other hand, we are to acknowl
edge in general, what we are perforce compelled to admit in detail, just and reasonable
increased rates should be permitted not grudgingly but with such fair measure of allow
ance as will indicate that the transportation industry is entitled in the interest of the
public to earnings sufficient to provide a service commensurate with public needs.”
THE RAILROADS OF GEORGIA
way was one of the biggest fakes
ever perpetrated on the public of
this section. The commissioners
absolutely lacked backbone
enough to designate a given route.
The people along the old ‘capital
route’ are welcome to all the hon
or and glory they can get out of
the alleged Dixie Highway.”
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER’S
CASTORIA
1 with the same skill as we. restore