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Voi 46—No. 15
enthusiasm
Many Subscriptions First Day
And Committees Encouraged
| The campaign to raise $161,800 as
rßutts county’s quota of the third
Liberty Loan issue is now well under
■way. A substantial number of sub
scriptions were received Saturday
through the banks, and a committee
of young ladies did good work in sell
ing bonds.
County chairman R. P. Sasnett and
the members of the committee are
actively at work placing the bonds in
the hands of purchasers. The start
made the first day was encouraging
and leads the committee to hope that
Butts county will “go over the top”
with her quota in a short time. To do
this, however, the committee must
have the co-operation of all classes of
citizens.
The names of those who buy bonds
will be published in The Progress-Ar
gus. The amounts will not be pub
lished, as that would hardly be fair.
An encouraging feature of the lo
cal campaign is the number of farm
ers who are buying bonds. Several
sales to colored farmers have been
reported through the banks.
Reports from over the country are
most gratifying. Several progressive
towns and counties in Georgia sub
scribed their quota first day. Sev
eral communities over-subscribed the
amounts assessed them.
It is so arranged that any person
who wishes to do so can buy a bond, j
The banks will carry the bonds at a
low rate of interest, thus enabling
any person to subscribe for a bond;
and help out the country in its great- j
est crisis.
The bonds bear 4% per cent in
terest.
They will run for ten years.
A cash payment of ten per cent is
required, the balance to be paid in
installments.
The following subscriptions are re
ported by county chairman R. P.
Sasnett:
The Jackson National Bank, R. P.
Sasnett, J. W. and A. C. Maddox, J.
E. L. Stodghill, T. B. Fletcher, S. J.
Watkins, M. A. McDowell, J. M. Gas
ton, A. A. Howell, J. D.
Jones, J. L. Barnes, J. W.
Moore, R. N. Etheridge, O. P.
Jinks, Angelus Genes, Paul Nolen,
W. H. Merritt, E. L. Smith, J. P. Eth
eridge, A. L. Bickers, J. M. Currie,
Geo. D. Head, W. A. Newton, R. P.
Newton, C. W. Buchanan, Miss Es
telle Thornton, Thos. E. Watkins,
Mrs. Tenella Moon, J. H. Pope, Miss
Lula Lawson, Mrs. Annie Lemon, Miss
Maggie Cu"rrie, E. P. Colwell, H. M.
Fletcher, J. M. Finley, L. L. Colwell,
P. B. Yancey, E. L. Pittman, J. R.
Hammond, E. L. Lawson, Miss Mar
guerite Fletcher, F. M. Lawson, W. F.
Stroud, C. L. Redman, Mrs. Nora L.
Byron, T. W. Vaughn, A. M. Watkins,
J. L. and W. M. Barkley, S. H. Thorn-
ton, Jno. M. Moore, Dr. Robert Van-
Deventer, L. L. Greer, T. 0. CavJthon,
J. E. Wallace, Jr., J. W. Hencely, W.
P. Wallace, Pepperton Cotton Mills,
Miss Nell Saunders, J. H. Patrick, T.
J- Thomason, Jackson Banking Cos.,
Newt Brownlee, L. P. McKibben,
Charlie Kimbell, W. E. Watkins, J. B.
Settle, H. L. Daughtry, Mrs. Ethel
Carmichael, S. M. Pope, Mrs. R. J.
Carmichael, Mrs. J. B. Settle, Mrs.
Emma Mallet, Mrs. M. J. Graves, Mar
lin Spencer, Hugh Mallet, Dr. J. B.
Hopkins, S. H. Mays, First National
Bank, Edgar McMichael, Gus Moss,
C- A. Pound, Rev. S. R. England, Mrs.
S. H. England, E. B. Freeman.
CHAPTER MASONS WILL CON
FER DEGREES ON THE 22
Jackson Chapter No. 54, Royal
Arch Masons, held a meeting Monday
ftight, when two applications for
membership were received. There
be work at the next regular com
!r*' nication, to be held on April 22.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, APRIL 12, 1918
BOYS TO DEBATE
MILITARY ISSUE
Seniors and Juniors Will
Clash on 19
KEEN RIVALRY SHOWN
PARADE WILL TAKE PLACE FRI
DAY AFTERNOON—THE EN
TIRE COMMUNITY INTEREST
ED IN ANNUAL DEBATE
The Jackson public schools are all
agog with interest over the annual
debate between the juniors and se
niors which will be held on Friday ev
ening, April 19. A subject of timely:
interest will be debated. It is: “Re
solved, That the United States should
have a compulsory system of univer-;
sal military training modeled after
that of Switzerland.”
The senior speakers, Joe Buchanan
and Pliny Weaver, champion the af
firmative; while the negative will be
upheld by the junior speakers, Tay
lor Buttrill Smith and Julian Turner.
The young debaters have put much
time and thought on the subject and
it will be interestingly discussed from
every angle, and those who attend
will not only be entertained but in
structed on a problem of nation-wide
interest.
The colors of the two classes have
been flying from the steeple of the
school building for several days.
There is the usual keen interest in the
yells and songs, and the judges will
pass upon the yells this year, as well
as the debates, in arriving at a de
cision.
This event is arousing much inter
est and the usual capacity audience
is expected to attend the debate.
The automobile parade will take
place on the afternoon of the 19 at
4 o’clock.
BUSINESS MEN HELPING
IN BIG BOND CAMPAIGN
PATRIOTIC DONATION TO BOND
CAMPAIGN BEING MADE BY
PROGRESSIVE FIRMS—ADVER
TISING WILL HELP SALE BONDS
I
The series of adve) tisements, in the
interest of the third Liberty Loan,'
appearing in The Progress-Argus, arc
a patriotic donation of the business
men of Jackson. Arrangements were
made b y the chairman of the adver
tising committee whereby one of
these advertisements will appear each
week during the campaign. The ad
vertisements are well written and are
attracting considerable attention and
will be a big aid in helping put over
the bond sale.
The government has not made pro
vision for paying newspapers for
their service in pushing the bond sale,
but the public spirited business men
in almost every town are co-operat
ing with the newspapers in placing
before the people facts in connection
with the Liberty Loan. While the
business men who are paying for this
series of advertisements may not de
rive any direct benefit from this ad
vertising, they will have the con
sciousness of knowing they are help
ing in a worthy cause and their patri
otic contribution to the country will
be appreciated by all patriotic and
loyal citizens.
The test is on — German autoc
racy breed better men'than American
democracy?
JUDGE A. J. COBB
FLAYS HARDWICK
Says He Should Be Flogged
For Utterances
SCATHING ARRAIGNMENT
ATHENS JURIST SAYS HARD
WICK IS DISGRACE TO STATE
AND MUST BE DEFEATED TO
SET GEORGIA RIGHT
One of the most terrific and scath
ing denunciations of a public man in
the history of Georgia was that of
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of Athens, in
speaking of T. W. Hardwick, at a
patriotic mass meeting of Clarke
county citizens in Athens Saturday.
Judge Cobb, one of Georgia’s most
distinguished citizens, handled the
junior senator with “gloves off.” He
also severely criticised Senator Smith
for his opposition to President Wilson.
He referred to Hardwick as a “regu
lar, persistent obstructionist, and op
nent of the President,” and declared
Senator Smith was subject to “spas
modic” attacks of the same ailment.
He said the issue is clear: “Loyal- 1
ty or disloyalty, and all not for us
are against us.” He said that every,
pulpit in Georgia, ordinarily quiet;
in matters of “politics,” ought to be j
bold and fearless in the righteous:
championing of patriotism, the op-;
posing of disloyal servants and the
Support of those who w*ill stand by the
Government in its war for right and
God. i
Judge Cobb read a letter from Sen-;
stor Hardwick, written just before
the Macon convention, in which the
senator gave as his reason for asking
for re-election, the fact that he was
in thorough accord with the President.
“That was what elected him,” declar- j
, ed Judge Cobb.
The speaker declared there‘are two
methods of impeachment, one is by j
the people sitting in judgement. Be-
fore that tribunal he declared he ar
raigned and impeached the junior sen
ator from Georgia, “in the name of
every sailor and soldier now in the
service; in the name of every soldier
who has given his life to the cause,
on the coast of Scotland, on the fields
of France, on the ocean or at home;
in the name of every American moth
er, viho has given her son to the
cause of the country, who waits at
home for his return, for those who
weep for the loss of their dearest
treasure given to the cause of right;
in the name of the people of the Uni-
ted Stats; in the name of the Consti
tution, which he has sought to violate
for his own selfish purposes; in the
name of humanity which will suffer
the longer for conduct of this young
man and those of his like disloyalty;
in the name of God who gave the ju
nior senator the talents which he has
used for unworthy purposes.”
In the usual time of crisis, the
Judge continued, there could be no
impropriety in calling attention to
the fact that this year this man asks
the support of Georgia for re-election.
The race on is greater than men—it
is one of principle, one of patriotism,,
he said, and he declared: “We cannot
afford to return the man with the ju
nior senator’s record to his ploce—to
confess the stigma and shame upon
Georgia and delight the enemies of
our country in the assurance that
Georgia, by returning such a man to
the senate, endorsed opposition to the
President and the Government.”
“I shall lend every energy, give
every talent I have,” he said, “to help
remove that stain and blot out that
disgrace.”
“From Rabun Gap to Tybee Light,”
he went on, “this young man should,
as the arch offenders of the old Brit
ish days were treated, be made to
v.ilk and flogged every step of the
way.”
Several hundred submarine chasers,
built since the war, have been deliver
ed to the navy by 31 private concerns
and 6 navy yards; many of these boats
have c rossed the Atlantic, some in se
vere weather.
SERVICE FLAG UNVEILED
IN JACKSON SATURDAY
t
Patriotic Exercises Marked Gift
of Colors in Honor Soldier Boys
WHEAT CROP TO
SHOW INCREASE
Condition Winter Wheat
Very Encouraging
850,000,000 BU. YIELD
FOOD ADMINISTRATOR PLEAS
ED AT SHOWING—SAVING
MUST STILL BE FOLLOWED TO
INSURE FOOD FOR SOLDIERS
Washington, April B.—Forecast by
the department of agriculture today
of a winter wheat crop of 560,000,-
000 bushels this year brought optim
ism to the food administration and
the prediction was unofficially made
that if the spring wheat crop main
tained the same ration the next har
vest will furnish sufficient wheat to
take care of the needs of "this country
and the allies next year.
Today’s forec:.st indicates an in
crease of 142,000,000 bushels of win
ter wheat over last year’s winter crop,
which was 418,000,000 bushels. As
suming the spring wheat crop will
yield the same ratio of increase, there
vjill be a total crop of 850,000,000,
or an increase of about 200,000,000
bushels over last year when the en
tire crop was estimated at 651,000,-
000.
In addition there is an increase of
26,000,000 bushels in the prospective
rye c rop or a total prospective in
crease over last year of about 225,-
000,000 bushels of bread grains.
There is also hope of an increase
of 100,000,000 bushels of wheat over
last year in Great Britain and Franco
and also an increase in India.
The necessity for rigorous saving
between now and the harvest time is,
however, in no way relaxed by har
vest prospects, he public is warned.
The department report estimated
the condition of the crop on April 1
to be 78.6 per cent of normal.
The condition of rye on April 1
estimated to be 85.8 per cent of a
normal.
Condition of winter wheat in the
important growing states follows:
Ohio 80; Indiania 88; Missouri 92;
Nebraska 75; Kansas 67; Oklahoma
63.
FIELD MEET bYhELD
HERE NEXT FRIDAY
COUNTY SCHOOLS WILL HAVE
HOLIDAY AND LARGE CROWD
EXPECTED TO WITNESS THE
VARIOUS EVENTS
The literary and athletic contests
of the Butts county schools vuill take
place here on Friday, April 19. It is
said every school is practicing for the
events and there will be a large num
ber of contestants for the various
prizes.
The literary exercises will be i}eld
in the forenoon at the county court
house. In the afternoon the athletic
events will be staged, probably on the
Butts county fair grounds.
Prizes aggregating more than sixty
dollars have been donated by the bus
iness men of the community.
The exercises will begin at 10
o’clock. The various schools of the
county vvll have a holiday Friday, in
order that the pupils may attend and
take part in the program.
No doubt a large crowd will be
present to witness the contests.
Committees in charge request every
school to be present, and make of the
event a notable occasion.
Jackson Arcus Established 1875;
l>utts County Progress Kstublished 1882
| With appropriate ceremonies the
Service Flag in honor of Butts county
young men enrolled in the country’s
armies was unveiled in Jackson Sat
urday morning at 11 o’clock. The
flag, it will be recalled, was the gift
of the young ladies from Butts coun
ty at the State Normal School in Ath
ens.
Possibly due to unfavorable weath
er conditions, the crowd was not as
large as had been expected, still the
court room where the exercises were
held was fairly full. Dr. Robert Van-
Deventer acted as Master of ceremo
nies and introduced the speakers, as
well as offering the invocation and
benediction.
The flag contains 138 stars, one
for each boy who has enlisted in the
army, navy, marines, medical corps
or aerial service of the United States.
The flag contains two gold stars, in
honor of two deceased soldiers. The
stars, of blue, are on a white field
supported by a red background.
Hon. C. L. Redman delivered a
short but inspiring and patriotic talk,
extolling the patrioic motives that
led the United States to enter the
conflict, and predicting final victory
for the nations fighting for liberty
and freedom. The Butts county boys,
he said, could be depended upon to
uphold the splendid traditions of a
noble ancestry and would be found in
the thickest of every battle.
Miss Bessie Compton, a student at
the State Normal, presented the flag.
She declared that the girls, though
denied the privilege of enlisting in
the ranks, were still consecrating
themselves to service in a common
cause.
Judge H. M. Fletcher accepted the
flag in behalf of the county of Butts,
lie predicted the Butts county boys
would prove themselves worthy of
the flag and of the brave hearts and
fair hands that inspired the vwork,
and that when victory was finally
won over Germany the flag would be
a flag of honor and triumph.
Miss Ina McMichael gave a patriot
ic reading, which was well received
by the audience.
The audience sang “America” and
“The Star Spangled Banner.”
The people of the county appre
ciate the noble service of the girls at
the State Normal School who made
and presented the flag. Their patri
otic efforts are worthy of the highest
commendation, and the meeting, held
on the anniversary of the declaration
of war with Germany, served to kin
dle anew the fi res of patriotism in
the heart of every loyal and patriotic
citizen.
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O BURY THE KAISER BE- O
O NEATH AN AVALANCHE O
O OF AMERICAN DOLLARS O
O O
O This war is coming home to O
O us as the casualty lists grow O
O longer with each passing day. O
O American boys with eyes goug- O
O ed out and throats cut by beas- O
O tial foes who found them help- O
O lessly wmnded force us to real- O
O ize the truth and the horror of O
O the Belgium atrocities in which O
O non-combatant men, women and O
O children were tortured and mur- O
O dered in cold blood, deeds over O
O which the kaiser calls God to O
O share in his rejoicing. There O
O can be no safe or lasting peace O
O while the monstrous autocracy O
O that inspires such crimes cum- O
O bers the earth. O
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More than 70,000 acres of land in
this country has been planted with
castor-bean plants to produce oil for
aircraft.
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Consolidated July ), 191s