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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
Wo\ 46-No. 25
iOWARD-SMITH
ISPOKE SATURDAY
■ote-Wianing Address by
I Atlanta Congressman
Barge crowd was out
■fsiTORS CORDIALLY GREETED
W BY BUTTS VOTERS-MR. SMITH
LAUDS RECORD OF W. J. HAR
RIS—SAYS WAR SERIOUS
Citizens of Butts county were
reated to two political speeches Sat
urday afternoon, when Hon. William
Ichley Howard spoke in the interest
f his candidacy for the United States
enate, and Hon. John R. L. Smith,
f Macon, appeared in behalf of Hon.
J. Harris’ campaign for United
tates senator. Though the two speak
rs appeared the same afternoon it
ras not a joint debate. Mr. Smith ar
anged the date for Saturday at 11
. m., but later changed the time to 3
. m. Mr. Howard later made an en
;agement for Saturday afternoon at
t o’clock.
Mr. Howard by agreement spoke
irst, being presented to the audience
,y Hon. C. L. Redman. A crowd that
jomfortably filled the superior court
■oom was present to hear the speech
's. The speakers were given a re
spectful and attentive hearing and
ioth made a fine impresion, frequent
ipplause puncturing their remarks.
Was Urged to Run
Mr. Howard said he did not an
lounce for the senate until it appear
'd certain that a strong man was
leeded to insure the defeat of Tom
Hardwick. More than 2,800 letters
urging him to run were received, he
stated. He reviewed his own record
of 18 years of public service, and de
clared he had always stood by the
President and the country. The
speaker paid his complments to his
opponents, particularly Harris and
Hardviick. He declared he would
deal with H. H. Dean later and after
the two joint debates scheduled have
been completed he said he thought
Dean would have no more appetite
for joint discussions.
Harris, the speaker charged, has no
record to entitle him to the nomina
tion. He said that Harris has done
nothing but follow in the shadow of
President Wilson, and was running on
the strength of the appointments he
made while a member of the federal
trade commission and census enumer
ator. He challenged Harris to pro
duce proof that President Wilson had
advised him to run or had promised
him his support.
IWaht Hardwick Defeated
Tom Hardwick, on account of his
disloyal stand, should be defeated, the
speaker declared. Though he himself
knight go down in defeat on Septem
ber 11, he pleaded with the voters to
also take the political life of Tom
Hardwick at the same time.
Mr. Howard is a most entertaining
speaker and he wion votes by his visit
to Butts county.
Mr. Smith Speaks
Hon. W. E. Watkins introduced
Hon. John R. L. Smith, of Macon,
formerly of Butts county. In begin
ning his address Mr. Smith declared
he had never been in politics and was
only appearing nowi because of the
grave situation in Europe. The war
situation is grave, he said, and it is
a time when all loyal, patriotic Geor
gians should eliminate politics and
renter on a clean, able man for the
nited States senate. On account of
ls past record and the confidence of
resident Wilson, cabinet members
and other national leaders, W. J. Har
ns was the most suitable man for the
place > said Mr. Smith.
1* Significant
h r - Smith declared it is significant
t r t men °f the type of Judge An-
J. Cobb, former congressman
M. Howard, Judge Whipple, John
• Bennett, and other prominent
e °rgians, are taking the stump for
' • Harris. In reviewing the record
1 Harris the speaker pointed out
res i accom Phshed worth while
.** ’ n every capacity he has serv
: taal be io a elean, pUCOcoofu! bUS
COUNTY TO GET $1,405.78
FROM AUTO TA6 ROAD FUND
GEORGIA HAS 80,110 MILES OF
ROAD AND A TOTAL OF $225,-
000 WILL BE DISTRIBUTED
AMONG 152 COUNTIES
The apportionment of the state
raod fund, a total of $225,226.55, de
rived from the automobile tag re
ceipts and covering a total road mile
age of 80,110, was completed by Sec
retary of State Strange Monday.
Under the apportionment Butts
county will receive $1,405.78.
Other counties of the sixth district
will receive the following amounts:
Bibb, $984.01; Clayton, $1,028.99;
Crawford, $975.57; Fayette, 1,-
065.54; Henry, $2,389.74; Jasper,
$1,481.63; Jones, $1,204.52; Monroe.
$3,514.32; Pike, $1,790.90; Spald
ing, $1,827.44; Upson, $1,405.73.
BOLL WEEVIL ON
A BUTTS FARM
Insect Found Said to Be
Genuine Weevil
FIRST SCARE OF SEASON
J. O. PRESTON OF IRON SPRINGS
DISTRICT BRINGS IN FIRST
BOLL WEEVIL—EXTENT OF
DAMAGE YET UNKNOWN
A boll weevil, the first to be re
ported in the county this season, so
far as known, was brought in by Mr.
J. 0. Preston, of Iron Springs district
Saturday. That it is a real genuine
Mexican boll weevil Mr. Preston is
convinced, as he has seen the bugs in
Texas. Farm Agent J. H. Blackwell
also declared it was a sure enough
boll weevil.
The pest was found by Mr. Preston
while plowing in hs cotton, the bug
being in the bud of the plant, where
it first appears, waiting the develop
ment of the squares. Mr. Preston
stated that he would pick his crop
within a few days and make every ef
fort to get off all the weevils.
The dry weather of this spring has
been an unfavorable time for weevils.
They thrive best in wet weather, it is
said.
To what extent the boll weevil will
be afactor here this season remains
to be seen. In South Georia reports
state that cotton knee high is being
plowed up and the land planted to
other crops, as the weevil has appear
ed in large numbers and the cotton is
being stripped of all foliage.
LOCUST GROVE INSTITUTE
ADOPTS MILITARY TRAINING
Same Faculty Elected for Another
Year by Trustee*
At the recent annual meeting of
the board of trustees of Locust Grove
Institute it was voted to adopt mili
tary training, and hereafter, begin
ning with the fall term, this will be a
regular department of the school. The
same faculty was Te-elected for an
other year. Miss Lucy Pace, a Jack
son girl, is teacher of expressio nand
domestic science in Locust Grove In
stitute.
iness man and would make a safe and
sane senator, and would be m har
mony with the administration.
Grave CrUi*
No effort was made to conceal the
fact that the sieuation facing the
country is a most serious one, and
people should be concemel about the
safety of the country, declared Mr
Smith Absolute unity, team work
and co-operation and sacrifices on the
part of the whole people are needed
to win the war. He said it is not •
time to play politics, but that every
man should put his shoulder to the
wheel to help bring about the defea
of the mighty German war machine.
Being a native of the county and
o well and favorably known here Mn
Smith was given a cordial reception
u* Ilia luany fiienuo.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, JUNE 21, 1918
DRIVE STARTS
NEXT FRIDAY
County Organized For War
Savings Stamps
MANY SPEAKERS COMING
CITIZENS WILL GATHER IN
SCHOOL CEN T E R S AND
PLEDGE COUNTY’S QUOTA OF
$284,000 IN ONE DAY
On next Friday afternoon at 2
o’clock the citizens of Butts county
will assemble in their respective
school centers for the purpose of
pledging the county quota of War
Savings Stamps. The amount to be
raised on that date is $284,000. To
date the county has raised some
SIO,OOO.
County chairman R. P. Sasnett is
now working out the details of the
campaign. Vice chairmen appointed
are W. R. Carmichael and W. H. Mal
let, and Misses Lucilc Elder and Lois
Biles. Directors of publicity are W.
O. Ham and R. N. Etheridge.
Each district will have two chair
men, a dstrict and school district
chairmen. Proclamatons have been is
sued by the President, Governor and
mayors calling upon citizens to as
semble at 2 o’clock for the purpose
of raising this money. The meetings
will be addressed by representative
citizens. A speaker from state head
quarters will be sent to Jackson, the
meeting to be hel din the court house.
Speakers from Jackson will address
the district gatherings.
Each citizen will be called on to
to sign one of two cards, a pledge
card agreeing to raise a weekly or
monthly installment or a refusal card,
showing he does not propose to help in
the campaign. Citizens absent from
the meetings will be communicated
with later by the district chairman.
The amount subscribed can be paid
in weekly or monthly installments
during the remainder of the year.
The per capita quota is S2O.
The quotas by districts are:
Butt rill a. $40,860
Coody 27,080
Dublin 18,740
Indian Springs 33,460
Iron Springs 31,940
Jackson 89,560
Towaliga 30,420
Worthville 27,620
District and school district chair
men appointed, the district chairmen
being given first, follows:
Buttrill —H. C. Childs, Rev. C. C.
Heard.
Coody—W. M. Hammond, O. L.
Weaver.
Dublin—Frank Ogletree, Miss Ma
bel Smith.
Indian Springs—Dr. A. F. White,
Miss Lula Dozier.
Iron Springs—J. K. Sitton, Miss
Fannie Myrt Biles.
Jackson—J. P. Etheridge, W. P.
Martin.
Towaliga—Mr. an dMrs. W. F.
Huddleston, G. C. McKibben.
Worthville—J. O. Maddox, Mrs. I.
M. Wilson.
County Chairman R. P. Sasnett has
addressed the following card to citi
zens of the county:
“The people of this county ar e ex
pected to subscribe for and purchase
during 1918 War Savings Stamps to
the maturity value of $284,000. In
order to distribute this allotment of
War Savings Stamps equitably among
the various parts of the county, a
quota has been assigned each school
district which will be stated at the
opening of the meeting in each school
house on June 28th. In order to raise
the total amount from this county, it
will be necessary that each district
subscribe the amount allotted to it.
This will not impose any burdens on
any persons in the district if each per
son does his duty, and the persons
conducting the meetings in each
district have been instructed to insist
upon the total amount allotted to it
being subscribed before the meetings
are adjourned.
“R. P. SASMETT,
“War Savines Chairman for Butt3
County.”
DR. PICKARD QUITS AS
PRESIDENT OF MERCER
FRICTION AMONG TEACHERS
THE CAUSE—NEW PRESIDENT
TO SELECT HIS OWN FACUL
TY
Following friction in the faculty,
Dr. W. L. Pickard, president for the
past four years of Mercer University,
has resigned. The entire faculty has
also resigned. The new president
will select a faculty in harmony with
his ideas and it is hoped that in the
future this great Baptist institution
will move along smoothly.
It is announced that the trustees
have voted to include military train
ing as a part of the curriculum at
Mercer.
BAD WIND STORM
STRIKES COUNTY
Damage Done to Fences
And Trees
PEACH BELT HIT HARD
DUST STORM WAS FIERCE
WHILE IT RAGED SOME
DAMAGE DONE TO LOCAL
LIGHT PLANT
Butts county was visited by one of
the worst wind and sand storms in a
number of years, Monday afternoon.
The wind, which blew with the force
of a gale, reaching a velocity of from
40 to 60 miles an hour, swept oceans
of sand and dust before it and the
elements were almost obscured with
flying particles of dust. Some damage
was done to trees and fences, a con
siderable portion of fruit being blown
from trees. Very little rain accom
panied the storm.
In the region of Fort Valley and
other peach growing sections great
damage was done to fruit. It s esti
mated that from 20 to 50 per cent of
the fruit crop was blown from the
trees.
Considerable damage was done to
the electric light plant in Jackson and
power was cut off for about two
hours. A tree fell across the line be
tween town and the power plant.
Superintendent Merck worked till late
at night getting all the circuits in
working order.
The clouds swept out of the north
east and driven by a hard wind looked
threatening for a while. Fortunately,
however, the storm passed without
doing any great damage.
CLOTHING REPAIRS AT ARMY
CAMPS SAVES NEW EQUIPMENT
Through the operation of repair
shops for clothing and other articles,
a considerable saving in reissue of
ne equipment has been made at army
camps. One camp quartermaster esti
mates that the issue of new clothing
has decrased one-third, and of shoes
40 per cent.
At a base repair shop for clothing
an average of 2,881 garments were
repaired daily during the first 18 days
of May. In addition to the work done
at base repair shops, many thousands
of garments are repaired at camp
shops, one shop being located at each
large camp.
During April nearly 170,000 pairs
of shoes were repaired in army repair
shops. At present practically all hat
repairing is done by contract,the price
varying from 50 to 90 cents per hat.
This work is in charge of the Con
servation and Reclamation Division of
the Quartermaster Corps, which has
been in operation only during the last
four months.
The 12-cylinder Liberty motor, ac
cording to a tatement by the war de
partment, weighsß2s pounds and de
velops 450 horsepower, or a weight of
1.8 pounds per horsepower. The gaso
line consumption is approximately
0.46 pound per horsepower per hour.
Jackson Argus Established 1873 J
Butts County Progress Established 1882 i
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Consolidated July 9. 1915
ARMY OF 3,000,000
DURING AUGUST
Proposed to Raise Age
Limit 18 to 45
HEAVY DRAFTCALLSI9I9
BY FIRST OF AUGUST U. S. WILL
HAVE 3,000,000 UNDER ARMS
—AGE LIMIT MUST BE CHANG
ED
Washington, June 15.—Three mil
loin Americans will be under arms by
next August Ist, the senate military
committee was told today by Provost
Marshal General Crowder.
Extension of the age limits in the
army draft will be necessary, General
Crowder said, if the present rate
draft calls is contnued. He estimated
that all the men in class one would
be exhausted soon after next Jan
uary Ist.
General Crowder said that 1,347,-
000 of the 2,428,000 men in class one
already have been called to the colors.
He estimated that some four hnudred
thousand additional men for the first
class will be secured from the men
who registered last June sth, and that
another 200,000 would be added by
the re-classification of men in the re
examinat?o|n of tthe questionnaires
now being made.
Requisitions from the draft to com
plete the 3,000,000 total by August
Ist, General Crowder said, have been
made. Of these 2,000,000 will be
draft registrants and other volunteers
adn national guardsmen.
“Everybody thinks there will be
heavy calls during the first six months
of 1919,” was a significant statement
made by General Crowder.
General Crowder approved the
general principles of the bill intro
duced by Senator France, of Mary
land, extending the registration ages
to from 18 to 45 years, thereby pro
viding additional men for military
and industrial service. He did not,
however, approve the age limits fixed
in the bill..
After outlining the plans of the
war department for additional calls,
General Crowder said that at the
present rate class one will be exhaust
ed by the end of the present year.
Unless the age limts are extended
and another registration held, it will
be necessary early next year to call
men in clas two, and probably soon
thereafter in class three.
Final figures of classification of the
first registration totalng 8,689,447
were given. The registrants were
shown to have been divided as fol
lows:
Class one, 2,428,729.
Class two, 509,666. •'
Class three, 427,870.
Class four, 3,483,326.
Class five, 1,839,856.
General Crowder submitted figures
showing the progress of the draft
this year. A total of 1,347,512 men,
all from class one, will have been
called by the end of July, divided by
months as follows: January, 23,288;
February, 83,779; March, 132,484;
April, 174,377; May, 360,230; June,
283,354; July 290,000.
FIRMS ARE PENALIZED FOR
VIOLATION FOOD SAVING RULE
Scores of firms throughout the Uni
ted States have been penalized for
violations of rules of the food admin
istration. In some cases licenses to
operate have been suspended; in oth
ers, contributions to the Y. M. C. A.,
Red Cross and other organizations
have been accepted in lieu of suspen
sion of license.
Among the more numerous viola
tions are sales of flour without sub
stitutes; refusal to accept foodsfuffs
previously ordered; operating without
licenses; excess sales of sugar; carry
ing more than a normal 30 days’ sup
ply of sugar; failure to use the prop
er amount of flour substitute in bread
making; and profiteering.
Asa Candler is not a Candidate to
succeed himself as mayor of Atlanta.
Probably the people expected too
much of the multi mi!!:entire.