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THE JACKBON PROGRESS-ARGUS
Vol 46—No. 39
RELIC TRAIN IN JACKSON OCTOBER 8
Band And Parade to Start Bond Campaign
CHAIRMAN ANNOUNCES
READY FOR BIG DRIVE
Stores to Close During Hours
Relic Train Here —Gala Event
Butts county will stage her Liberty!
Bond push the middle week of the
campaign—from October 6 through
the 12.
Preparations for the drtVe are rap
idly being brought to a focus, and
from present indications the county
will end the campaign in one week
and go over the top with a whoop and
whirl.
The campaign begins here on Sun
day, October 6, which will be “Liberty
Loan Sunday,” when all preachers in
the county /will make special an
nouncement from the pulpit and pos
sibly touch on the drive in their ser
mons.
On Monday night, October 7, there
will be an address in the auditorium.
A French, Canadian, British or re
turned American officer will be secur
ed for that occasion if possible. At
any rate there will be a speech by a
prominent speaker and the citizens
will be prepared for the drive proper
which begins on October 8.
Tuesday, October 8, the Relic Train
will be in Jackson for two hours, from
1:15 to 3:15. The business houses
wall close during that time and the
event will be made the biggest occa
sion in the history of the community.
A military band has already been se
cured arid there will be a parade, led
by the band and participated in by
the school children and Boy Scouts.
The parade will wind up at the de
pot where the Relic Train will be stia
toned. There will be British, French,
Canadian and American officers in
charger of the train and the interesting
relics will be explained to the citizens.
At tfLS* depot a committee of eight
ladies wall assist the men in selling
bonds, the subscription list being
thrown open then. The ladies will
wear Red Cross uniforms and will be
an important part of the meeting.
To win an honor flag this time
Butts county must not only raise the
quota assessed against her, the
amount of which i sto be announced
later, but at least 20 per cent of the
taxpayers must participate in he loan.
The bonds will be dated Oct. 24,
1918 and will bear interest at the
rate of per cent. The bonds will
be non-taxable up to $30,000. Persons
may subscribe for bonds of all issues
up to $45,000 without being taxed.
Frequent meetings of the executive
committee and the advertising com
mittee are being held and the plans
are being whipped into shape for the
greatest whirlwinr campaign for the
sale of these securities the county has
ever known. Chairman W. O. Ham
states tha he has secured many vol
untary assurances of support from all
parts of the county and there is seem
ingly an intention to raise the coun
ty's full quota in the shortest ime pos
sible and not only win the Honor
Flag, but new laurels for public spirit,
loyalty and patriotism.
County Organization
County chairman —W. O. Ham.
Vice Chairman—J. H. Carmichael.
Executive Committee —R. N. Eth-
eridge, chairman; 13. P. Nichols, Dr.
A. F* White, J. D. Jones, J. B. Settle,
•W. E. Watkins, E. L. Smith, J. P.
Etheridge, Dr. Robert VanDeventer,
Rev. S. R. England, Hugh Mallet, L.
P. McKibben, R. P. Sasnett.
Publicity Committee —J. P. Ether
idge, chairman; J. D. Jones, W. E.
Merck. .
Speakers Committee —W. E. Wat
kins, chairman; H. L. Daughtry, F. S.
Carmichael.
Automobile Committee —L. P. Mc-
JACKSON, GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 27, 1918
TWO COMMITTEES
ON COTTON NAMED
One to Control Purchases
For Present
OTHER TO INVESTIGATE
FURTHER PERIOD OF UNCER
TAINTY AHEAD WHILE COT
TON SITUATION IS BEING
PROBED
Washington, Sept. 23.—First steps
looking to the fixing of prices for
standard grades of raw cotton were
take ntoday by the government in the
naming of two committees, one to in
vestigate the entire cotton situation
and the other to control during the
period of this inquiry the distribution
of cotton by purchasing all of the sta
ple needed by the United States and
the allies at prices to be approved by
the president.
Last Tuesday representatives in
congress from cotton growing states,
headed by Senator Smith, of South
Carolina, protested to the President
against fixing of any price for cotton.
This action came after the president
had explained the purposes for which
the two cotton committees would be
appointed. The purpose of the com
mittee of inquiry, the president said,
would be to broaden the channels of
distribution so that use could be made
of the great stock of low grades of
cotton which now practically are un
marketable; elimination of hoarding
and speculation and apportioning of
foreign orders. He added that it
might be a part of thi3 committee's
duty to recommend basic prices on
cotton.
Kibben, chairman; S. H. Thornton, A.
A. Howell.
Church Committee —Dr. Robert
VanDeventr, chairman; Rev. S. R.
England.
School Committee —Hugh Mallet,
chairman; W. P. Martin, W. F. Hud
dleston, J. B. Childs.
Local Finance Committee —R. P.
Sasnett, chairman; B. K. Carmichael,
R. P. Newton.
Special Sales Committee —E. L.
Smith, chairman; S. P. Nichols, Dr.
A. F. White, H. C. Childs, J. M. Gas
ton, R. J. Carmichael, J. C. Jones, B.
A. Wright.
General Sales Committee —R. N.
Etheridge, chairman; J. B. Settle, H.
0. Ball, S. O. Ham, J. H. McKibben,
H. M. Fletcher, C. M. Compton, T. A.
Nutt, W. H. Mallet.
Clearing House Committee —Miss
Pauline Mallet, chairman; Miss Lur
line Lawson, Miss Mary Newton, Miss
Rosa Newton, Miss Helen Carmichael,
Miss Hattie Buttrill, Mrs. Harold Mal
let, Mrs. H. 0. Ball, Miss Jessie Jones,
Miss Annie Kate Ham.
BUTTS COUNTY TO SEND
20 NEGROES CAMP HANCOCK
Order* Received to Entrain Men on
Friday
The Butts county draft board has
received notice to entrain 20 colored
registrants for Camp Hancock Friday.
The names of the men are now being
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SOLDIERS TO GET
CHRISTMAS BOX
Only One Parcel Will Be
Allowed This Year
TO BE MAILED BY NOV. 1
WAR DEPARTMENT ISSUES ORD
ERS AS TO SENDING CHRIST
MAS PACKAGES TO MEN OVER
SEAS—ONE PACEL IS LIMIT
Washington, D. C., Sept. 21.
Christmas packages for the two and
a half million or more American sol
diers who will be in France during
the holiday season thi s year will be
delivered under an arrangement with
the Red Cross it was announced to
day by the war department.
In order to control the flood of
gifts that otherwise would make the
handling of them impracticable, the
department hag decided that only one
parcel will be accepted for each man.
General Pershing is forwarding cou
pons bearing the name and address
of each member of the expeditionary
force to be distributed to the next of
kin.
These coupon 3 must be attached to
standard containers, 9x4x3 inches in
size, which will be provided by local
Red Cross Chapters upon application.
All packages must be mailed before
November 15.
JUDGE SEARCY COMES OVER
TO DRAW THE NEXT JURY
Judge W. E. H. Searcy, Jr., and So
licitor E. M. Owen were visitors in
Jackson the past Thursday afternoon,
when Judge Searcy drew the jury for
the February, 1919, term of Butts
cou* v.
SOUTH FIGHTS PRICE-FIXING
OF THE 1918 COTTON CROP
Butts County Citizens Protect —
Mills And Brown to Washington
LEADERS DENY
25 CENTS RUMOR
Secretary Houston S&ys
He Was Misquoted
PRICE FIXING NOT SURE
STATUS OF PRICE FOR COTTON
SEEMS TO BE IN DOUBT AC
CORDING TO STATEMENT OF
SENATOR SMITH
Washington, Sept. 23.—Senator
Smith, of South Carolina, today is
sued the following statement:
“The story sent out by the press on
Saturday that at a meeting Tuesday
with the President and Southern sen
ators and representatives that he (the
President) definitely stated that he
would fix the price of cotton is incor
rect. The President made no such
statement at the meeting Tuesday.”
Senator Smith is chairman of the
Congressional group appointed to dis
cuss the subject with the President.”
The dispatch to which Senator
Smith refers vias founded upon infor
mation received from participants in
the conference who reiterated today
that the President made it perfectly
clear to them that he intended to fix
a fair price for cotton. For obvious
reasons they declined to permit the
use of their names. It was agreed,
however, that the President had not
“definitely stated” that he would fix
the price.
Secretary Houston issued this state
ment respecting cotton price-fixing:
“A statement concerning cotton
price-fixing appeared in a Washington
paper on Saturday to the effect that
it was understood that Secretary
Houston has expressed the opinion
that 25 cents would be a fair price for
this year’s cotton. This statement and
any other statement that may have
been made purporting to represent
the views of Secretary Houston as to
a price for cotton, if any is to be fixed,
is utterly without foundation. The
secretary has expressed no opinion as
to a price for cotton.”
HON. W. J. HARRIS
TO HAVE OPPOSITION
That Senator-elect W. J. Harris will
have opposition in the November
election is the announcement contain
ed in a news dispatch from Dublin to
the effect that Hon. G. 11. Williams,
of Dublin, will run as an independent
Republican candidate.
|Mr. Williams was recently nominat
ed as state senator from the sixteenth
district. He has resigned that office
and has left the Democratic party and
will run against Mr. Harris as an in
dependent Republican.
Price fixing of cotton will be the
chief plank in the platform of Mr.
Williams, according to the statement
made public. Mr. Williams, who is
one of the leading business men of
South Georgia, states he lost $30,000
as a result of the slump in the market
caused by talk of price fixing. He
says the South will never receive any
recognition in Washington until she
breaks away from the old one-party
practice.
Consolidated July *,IW
No question has created wider dis
cussion and keener interest among all
classes of citizens in the South than
the proposed price-fixing for the 1918
cotton crop. Some citizens are
against price-fixing at all, while others
want a price of at least 35 cents for
middling cotton.
This matter has been before the
country for several days. Delegations
have gone to Washington to protest
against any price that will not be fair
to the cotton farmer. Members of
congress from the South have aligned
themselves solidly against any meas
ure that will prove unfair to the peo
ple of the South.
The consensus of opinion is that
cotton should not? be fixed at less than
35 cents per pound, basis of middling.
Whether the Southern congressmen
will be able to convince repersenta
tivcs from other parts of the country
of the justice of their position re
mains to be seen.
Representing the citizens of Butts
county, Mr. J. O. Gaston, County
Commissioner, sent President Wilson
the following telegram Monday:
“Jackson, Ga., Sept. 23, 1918.
"Hon. Woodrow Wilson, President,
"The White House, Washington, D. C.
“We most respectfully urge that
no price under 35 cents for middling
cotton be fixed. The South is just re
covering from the disastrous season of
1914. Anything less than 35 cents for
basis middling cotton will seriously
interfere with the Liberty Loan in
Georgia and the South. The South
yields to no section in patriotism and
loyalty and is heart and soul in the
war to win. but wants a fair price for
its great staple.
(Signed)
.“CITIZENS OF BUTTS COUNTY
"By J. 0< GASTON,
County Commissioner.’*
Hon. J. H. fMills, president of the
Georgia Farmers’ Union, and J. J.
Brown, commissioner of agriculture,
left Sunday for Washington to protest
against price-fixing for cotton. Be
fore their departure they gave out he
following statement:
To the Farmers and Business Men of
Georgia:
It is imperative, in the interest of
Georgia’s most important agricultural
crop, that no precipitate action be
taken in Washington on cotton price
fixing. It has cost above 30 cents to
make this crop and any thought of
25 cents is absurd and ridiculous.
This is an urgent request to the
business interests and farmers of
Georgia to immediately telegraph
President Wilson to take no definite
action in this rspect until the Cotton
States Advisory Marketing Board has
met in Washington next week, and
that he hear this board on he subject.
The telegrams to have effect must go
forward at once.
J. J. BROWN,
Commissioner of Agriculture.
J. H. MILLS,
Pres. Ga. State Farmers’ Union.
WILLIAM SCHLEY HOWARD IO
RUN FOR GOVERNOR IN 1920
In a Washington dispatch carried in
Sunday’s Atlanta Journal, William
Schley Howard announces that he
will be a candidate for Governor two
years from now to succeed Governor
Hugh Dorsey.
Mr. Howard is congressman from
the fifth district and w.is a candidate
for the United States senate in the
recent primary. He ran second to W.
J. Harris in both popular and county
unit votes.