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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
Voi 46—No. 23
GASTON AND MOORE WON
IN TUESDAY’S PRIMARY
SMALL VOTE
WAS POLLED
Election Passed Without
Special Features
RESULT KNOWN EARLY
Winners in Tuesday’s primary are
J, 0. Gaston, for Commissioner of
Roads and Revenues, and J. T. Moore,
for Representative.
Mr. Gaston received a total of 670
votes, and Mr. Bankston 417, making
Gaston's majority 253.
The vote for representative vns:
Moore, 718; Towles, 321, giving
Moore a majority of 397.
The returns show that Mr. Banks
ton carried Buttrill, Dublin, Towaliga
districts and Flovilla preceinct. Mr.
Gaston carried Coody, Indian Springs,
Iron Springs, Jackson, Pepperton and
Worthville.
Mr. Towles carried Dublin, Flovilla
and Indian Springs. Mr. Moore car
ried Buttrill, Coody, Jackson, Pepper
ton, Iron Springs, Towaliga and
Worthville.
The total vote cast for commission
er was 1,085, and for representative
1,036.
An unusually small vote was polled
in Tuesday’s primary. The registra
tion was about 1,500 and the total
vote was far short of the figure. This
is accounted for on account of the
busy season with farmers and the
small number of candidates.
The election passed off without
special incident. There was a lack of
interest compared with former elec
tions.
The polls opened at 9 a. m. and
closed at 4 p. m., standard time. Due
to the short ballot the result was soon
known. In Jackson district where the
largest vote was polled the votes were
counted before dark.
The executive committee met Wed
nesday morning and declared the re
sult. Mr. J. O. Gaston was declared
the nominee of the Democratic party.
Mr. Moore was declared the winner in
the preferential primary. He will run
in the state primary of September 11,
and is opposed, so far, by the pres
ent representative, R. W. Mays.
The following is the official vote as
declared by the executive committee:
CONSOLIDATED RETURNS'
Butts County Primary, June 4, 1918
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C. A. Towles 32 21 55 41 31 39 66 8 16 12 321
J. T. Moore 101 57 23 5 24 52 272 39 53 92 718 397
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VV. J. Bankston 88 19 41 42 16 3, 93 10 51 20U.
J. O. Gaston 53 59 38 10 39 63 259 44 21 84 670 253
JACKSON OBSERVED OAY
OF PRAYER APPROPRIATELY
In accordance with President Wil
son’s proclamation naming Thursday,
May 30 as a day of fasting and pray
er, the occasion was appropriately
, celebrated in Jackson. Interesting
were held at the First Bap
tist church, with Dr. Robert VanDe
venter and Rev. S. R. England mak
ing patriotic talks.
Most of the business houses closed
between 10:30 and 11:30 to give ali
an opportunity to attend the service.
GERMAN SUBS
SINK U. S. SHIPS
U-Boats Operating Near
American Coast
SEVERAL VESSELS SUNK
HUNS BRING WAR TO VERY
DOORS OF UNITED STATES—
MEASURES TAKEN TO DEAL
WITH SUBMARINE MENACE
New York, June 3.—Nine Ameri
can vessels were known tonight to
have been sunk by German subma
rines off the north Atlantic coast
since May 25.
The largest to fall prey to the raid
ers, which are seeking to prevent the
sailing of transports with troops for
the battlefields of France, was the
New York and Porto Rico liner Caro
lina, of 8,000 tons, which was attack
ed Sunday night about 125 miles
southeast of Sandy Hook. The fate
of her 220 passengers and crew of
130, who took to boats when shells
began to fall about the vessell, was
unknown tonight. Not a life was lost
in the sinking of the other ships ac
cording to late reports tonight.
Forty-eight survivors of vessels
sunk by German U-boats, brought to
port today by a coastwise steamship,
were landed tonight. About half of
them had been prisoners for several
days aboard the submarines.
Scores of United States warships
were ranging the waters off the north
Atlantic coast tonight in search of
the German submarines which made
their long-expected attack on Ameri
can shipping in home waters late yes
terday.
Women between the ages of 21 and
35 who hav had a high school educa
tion or its equivalent, will be eligible
for admission to the Army School of
Nursing, arrangements ffor whioh
were recently made by the War De
partment. It is intended to start sev
eral schools in selected military hos
pitals. Unless otherwise specified, ap
plications should be sent directly to
the Army School of Nursing, office of
the Surgeon General of the Army,
Washington, D. C.
Much interest was shown and the peo
ple of the entire community entered
heartily into the spirit of the occasion.
ERROR IN REPORTING RED
CROSS SUBSCRIPTIONS
The Progress-Argus was in error in
reporting the Red Cross subscription
of Judge H. M. Fletcher. Instead of
25 cents the amount should have
been $2.50. Judge Fletcher was one
of the team captains in Towaliga
district and did valuable work in
bringing the total of that district up
to the commanding figure it occupied.
The mistake is gladly corrected.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, JUNE 7, 1918
FARMERS TOLD
TO HOLD COTTON
Only Way to Obtain Fair
Price For Staple
FARMERS’UNION BUSY
POINTED OUT THAT COTTON IS
NOT HIGH IN COMPARISON
WITH THE MANUFACTURED
PRODUCT
Atlanta, Ga., June 6.—“ Hold your
cotton until the spinners are willing
to pay a fair price for it,” is the ur
gent advice of E. A. Calvin, special
representative of the Cotton States
Official Advisory Marketing Board
m Washington, contained in a com
munication just received by Commis
sioner of Agriculture J. J. Brown,
who is president of the board.
The official cotton board is compos
ed of the commissioners of agricul
ture, market bureau directors and
Farmers’ Union presidents of the
cotton growing states. It was organ
ized specifically to look after and pro
tect the interests of the cotton pro
ducers, and E. A. Calvin, of Texas,
was placed in Washington as its rep
resentative with that particular end
in view.
After calling attention to the break
in the cotton market for which sever
al factors have been responsible, and
which some attribute to an alleged
conspiracy to put down prices and
others to a combination of spinners,
Mr. Calvin produces evidence in the
sliape of the monthly letter of H. F.
Bachman & Cos., New York Bankers,
under date of April 25, in which they
advise their “spinner friends” to use
up their surplus stocks “down to the
lowest possible margin,” as they feel
certain a decline in price “is more
than probable.”
It appears the market did decline
following the Bachman letter, for
some days later New York papers
which Mr. Calvin quotes, stated that
“trouble with the market has been a
lack of support from the mills.”
These papers further stated:
“Spinners are doing a very good
business, with high prices for yams,
which have shared very little in the
decline of cotton. Mill men buy as
little actual cotton as possible. Every
day of waiting has meant an extra
nrofit for them for the last few
weeks.”
Thus Mr. Calvin show’s that while
the price of cotton has gone down be
cause the spinners have kept out of
the market, the price of goods has
kept up, and they are raking in their
extra profits.
Mr. Calvin quotes figures to show
that the spinners have taken the ad
vice of Bachman to the extent of
buying 760,172 bales less between
August 1 and May 18, than they
bought the previous year.
“Whether there is a conspiracy to
put down the price of cotton or not,”
Mr. Calvin says, “in the light of the
facts surrounding the case, the people
are going to believe there is such a
conspiracy.”
If cheaper cotton would help to v'n
the w r ar, Mr. Calvin says the cotton
farmers would gladly have consented
to a reduction in price to aid the gov
ernment; “but when they know that
cheaper cotton only means greater
profits for the spinners and other mid
dle men they cannot be blamed for
protesting.” Continuing he says:
“The Southern people are just as
patriotic and just as anxious to wrin
the war as any people in the United
States, and they do not want their
ability to aid destroyed by conspira
tors. They want to buy their pro rata
of Liberty Bonds, and subscribe their
share to the Red Cross, but they can
not do it if selfish interests are allow
ed to destroy a lorge part of the value
of their products..
“Spinners may be induced to buy
cotton sparingly or to stay out of the
market altogether for a time, but the
South is able to hold evey bale of cot
ton produced this season, and the crop
will be marketed only as the spinners
must have it.
“It is the duty of every patriotic
GEORGIA’S JUNE QUOTA
TOTALS 17,395 MEN
4,000 Colored Troop* Will Report on
June Nineteenth
Major Joel B. Mallet, in charge of
the selective service in Georgia, has
compiled the net current quota for
this state under the new regulations
effective June 1. The new quota
amounts to 17,395, of which 8,000
have been called to report on June
19 and 29th, respectively. The first
4,000 to report during the first five
days beginning June 19, are colored,
the second 4,000, beginning June 29,
are white.
Many changes in the selective ser
vice lists are to be made at once.
There will be ne wexaminations for
all normal class 1 men who have been
given deferred classification, and
closer investigation of all dependency
claims will be made.
280,000 MEN TO
BE CALLED OUT
Will Report to Camps on
June 24
LOCAL BOARD NOTIFIED
LARGEST CALL MADE SINCE THE
FIRST DRAFT—NAME OF THE
CAMPS WILL BE MADE KNOWN
LATER
Washington, May 31. —Official an
nouncement was made today that
280,000 men will be called to the col
ors during June. They will be ordered
to report June 24, but it has not
been determined to what camps they
can be assigned, so the lists for ap
portionments is for the present being
withheld.
The quota is based on estimates of
the space available for the men in
camps and cantonments. If the rate
of shipment of troops across is again
raised, still more men may be called.
In any event the probabilities are
that enough men will be called for
special service to round the number
out t o 300,000.
The local board is expected to re
ceive this week the quota for Butts
county. As soon as the call is receiv
ed the men will be summoned for ex
amination and preparations made to
entrain the county’s quota on the
date named.
RED CROSS TOTAL HERE
NEARS $2,400 MARK
Small Contributions Continue to
Come in to Chairman Ham
Subscriptions to the second Red
Cross war fund continue to come in
to Chairman W. O. Ham and the total
reported last week was $2,367.37.
Since the publication of the list other
subscriptions have been received, and
before the camnaign finally closes it
estimated there wll be at least
$2,400 or over in the treasury, mak
ing an oversubscription of 20 per
cent.
The way in which citizens of the
whole county have responded to the
Red Cross appeal is naturally most
gratifying and shows there is deep
interest in the great mercy fund.
Southern man, whether he be farmer,
merchant of banker, to stand by the
cotton crop and see that it is not sac
rificed in order that a few already
overfed spinners and middle men may
still further increase their profits and
fortunes. Messrs. Theodore H. Price
and H. F. Bachman & Cos. should be
made to understand that their propa
ganda is about as disastrous to the
South as if they were agents of the
Kaiser.”
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Jackson Argus Established 1873 (
Butts County Progress Established 1882'
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Consolidated July 9. 1915
YOUNG MAN MET
DEATH IN BELT
Fatal Accident Occurred
Monday Afternoon
B. L. KINARD THE VICTIM
CAUGHT IN BELT WHILE
THRESHIN GWHEAT YOUNG
MAN SUSTAINED FATAL IN
JURIES
Mr. Barney L. Kinard, one of the
most prominent young men in Towa
liga district, was almost instantly
killed Monday afternoon at Head’s
shop in Spalding county while at
tempting to put a belt on a gasoline
engine used to run a threshing ma
chine.
Internal injuries were received and
the unfortunate young man lived but
a short time after the accident. He
was trying to put on the belt without
stopping the engine, when in some
manner he got caught in the belt and
vns badly mangled about the chest
and stomach.
The regrettable accident caused
widespread sorrow among the friends
of the young man. Mr. Kinard be
longed to a well known family of the
county and was a successful farmer
and merchant. He was 23 years of
age and is survived by his wife, who
before her marriage was Miss Minnie
Bell, and one child; his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Kinard; one brother,
Jimmie Kinard; two sisters, Misses
Doris and Mary Kinard. He was a
nephew of Messrs. S. B. and Davis
Kinard of Jackson.
The funeral was held at Fellowship
church Tuesday afternoon at 3
o’clock, and Dr. Robert VanDeventer,
pastor of the First Baptist church
conducted the impressive services.
The funeral was largely attended,
many friends and relatives attending
the last sad rites. Interment was in
the church yard.
The family have the sympathy of
many friends in their great sorrow.
REGISTRANTS JUNE 5
AT BOTTOM OF LIST
Young Men Just 21 Will Not Be
Called For Present
A feature in connection with all
young men who have become 21
years of age since June 5, 1917, and
who were required to register for
military duty Wednesday, Juno 5,
was the fact that they were placed
at the bottom of the respective classes
to which they were assigned by local
boads. This means that they will not
be called until all the present regis
trants have been called to the colors.
It is estimated that about 75 per cent
j of those who registered Wednesday
i will be placed in class A-l. This is
due to the fact that most of the young
men are single and without depea*
dents.
Provost Marshal General Crowder
figures that some 800,000 men will
be added to the number of eligibles
for military service through the reg
istration of Wednesday.
Local boards were instructed to ac
cept no excuses, except where men
are in actual military or naval service
of the United States. Opportunity
was given to men just becoming 21
to volunteer for service, however.
All men subject to registration
Wednesday were required to present
themselves in Jackson, as no other
registration office was permitted un
der war department instructions.
Butts county will probably have
some 100 men, including white and
colored, under Wednesday’s registra
tion. The full list of names will be
published in the next issue.
The two picric acid plants to be
built at Little Rock, Ark., and Brun
swick, Ga., contracts for which have
been completed by the War Depart
ment, will cost approximately $7,000,-
000.
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