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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 be Z m .Z x ci ~Z - SJ 50 c. C % ’> - REPRESENTATIVE „ u 1C 19 ., 9 . 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 FOR COMMISSIONER „ a .. „nM 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.” INVEST IN W. S. S Jackson Argus Established 1873 ( Butts County Progress Established 1882' „ .... 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. INVEST IN W. S. S