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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
VOL. 46—NO. 47
DEMOBILIZATION
STARTS AT ONCE
200,G00 Troops Will Be
Mustered Out Soon
30,000 DAY AFTER THAT
FIRST TROOPS WILL BE DISMIS
SED WITHIN NEXT TWO
WEEKS—WOUNDED FIRST TO
BE MUSTERED OUT
Washington, Nov. 16.—Demobiliza
tion orders already issued, will care
for the discharge of 200,000 men
within the next two weeks in this
country.
As the machinery develops the
army can discharge 30,000 men a day.
No more trdops will be sent overseas.
Demobilization orders already out,
contemplate demobilizing troops in
this country in this order:
First, development battalions, 71
in number, containing 98,199 men;
second, conscientious objectors not
under sentence; third, spruce produc
ers; fourth, central training schools
for officers; fifth, United States
guards, 135,000 on paper; sixth, rail
road troops; seventh, depot brigades;
eighth, men in replacement camps;
and ninth, men in combat divisions.
General Mach said there are 1,-
700,000 men in the United States
camps and that it will take some time
to muster them Out, as physical ex
aminations must be made and records
sent to the war risk and other bureaus
SENATE ORDERS TAX
BILL REVISED DOWNWARD
Washington, Nov. 16.—Secretary
McAdoo's recommendation for down
ward revision of the revenue bill to
about $6,000,000,000 was formally
adopted today by the senate finance
committee. Only tw> or three mem
bers, Chairman Simmons stated, fav
ored a higher tax levy.
INFLUENZA MORE FATAL
THAN THE GREAT WAR
FORTY-SIX CITIES REPORTED
DEATHS NUMBERING 78,000
—DISEASE HAS TAKEN HEAVY
TOLL ALL OVER COUNTRY
Washington, Nov. 17.—The recent
epidemic of influenza in the United
States caused more deaths than occur
red among the American expedition
ary forces from the time the first
unit landed in France until hostilities
ceased.
This announcement today by the
census bureau was based on unoffic
ial statements of the total casualties
among the overseas forces and reports
fro mforty-six cities having a combin
ed population of 23,000,000, which
showed 82,306 deaths from influenza
and pneumonia from September 9 to
November 9.
Normally these cities would have
had four thousand deaths from these
causes during this period, it was said,
leaving approximately 78,000 as the
number properly chargeable to the
epidemic.
“The total casualties in the Ameri
can Expeditionary forces,” said the
announcement, “have recently been
unofficially estimated at 100,000. On
the basis of the number thus far re
ported, it may be assumed that the
deaths from all causes including dis
ease and accidents, are probably less
than 45 per cent and may not be
more than 40 per cent of the total
casualties. On this assumption the
loss of life in the American Expedi
tionary forces to date are about
40,000 or 45,000.”
The total of deaths due to the in
fluenza epidemic in this country is
not known, the announcement said,
as only the forty-six cities for which
figures were given, report vital sta
tistics to the census bureau. The
great mortality due to the epidemic,
in proportion to population was 7.4
per thousand in Philadelphia, and the
iItJU gxcatest, C. 7 per thousand was
reported from Baltimore.
UNION THANKSOIY'NG SERVICE
AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
A service including the churches of
Jackson to which the people of the
community are cordially invited will
be held at the First Baptist church
on Thanksgiving at 11 a. m.
Rev. M. McN. 'McKay, pastor of
the Presbyterian church, will preach
the sermon. The music will be fur
nished by the churches of the city.
An offering of Thanksgiving will
be taken for the local Red Cross work.
The people of our city and county
are invited to attend this service and
to offer our praise to Our Lord who
has given peace to the world.
“WORK OR FIGHT” ORDER
AUTOMATICALLY SUSPENDED
Washington, Nov. 14.—The “work
or fight” orde rhas been automatically
suspended, it was pointed out at the
provost marshal general’s office today
as long as draft calls are held up.
Should calling of draftees be un
expecttedly resumed, it was explain
ed, the “work or fight” ruling would
again automatically become operative
INDUSTRIES GOING
ON PEACE BASIS
Ban Partially Lifted oh
Passenger Cars
OTHER LINES AFFECTED
BUSINESS BANS BEING LIFTED
• BY WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD—
AUTOMOBILE BUSINESS TO BE
75 PER CENT NORMAL
As the first step in national indus
trial readjustment from a war to a
peace basis, the war industries board
has announced modifications in re
strictions against non-war construc
tion and manufacturing.
All industries whose peace time
output has been curtailed in the in
terest of the nation’s war program
may now increase their output 50 per
cent of the amoutn of restriction im
pose by the board.
Forty-two specific industries, chief
among them the passenger automobile
industry, are affected by the modifica
tion of curtailments imposed on man
ufacturers and farm operating eqrip
ment, including trastors.
Under the new ruling passenger
autoombiles may henceforth beman
! ufacturd to the extent of 75 per cent
of the normal output. Last August
the automobile industry was required
to manufacture cars on a basis of 50
per cent of their annual output and
were warned to get on a 100 per
cent war basis by January 1, 1919.
This would have meant devoting their
entire plants to war essentiol work.
The priorities division of the war
industries board, it was announced,
will assist as far as possible industries
in procuring labor, transportation,
fuel and materials to eneable them to
get on a normal basis as rapidly as
conditions warrant.
Precedence will also be given food
and coal production, that of oil, nat
ural gas, textiles and clothing and
minerals.
CITY REGISTRATION BOOKS
OPEN FOR ANNUAL ELECTION
Town Politic* Will Probably Soon
Warm Up
The city registration books are now
open, having opened up Thursday, the
21, and will remain open up to 4
o’clock on December 12. All vuho de
sire to participate in the primary,
which the executive committee will
probably order for some time around
the holidays, must register.
So far there has been no talk of
town politics and it may be that on
account of the war atnd other things
that there will not be the usual
SC?am hie. However, there’s no telling
about politics.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER, 22, 1918
PRESIDENT NAMES
THANKSGIVING DAY
Thursday, November 28,
Is The Date
BE MEMORABLE OCCASION
♦
DAWN OF NEW DAY PRESIDENT
WILSON SAYS IN ISSUING PRO
CLAMATION MUCH FOR
WHICH TO BE THANKFUL
Washington, Nov. 17.—President
wilson in a proclamation today desig
nated Thursday, November 28, as
Thanksgiving day and said this year
the American people have special and
moving cause to be grateful and re
joice. Complete victory, he said, has
brought not only peace but the confi
dent promise of anew day as well,
in which “justice shall replace force
and jealous intrigue among the na
tions.”
The proclamation follows:
It has long been our custom to
turn in the autumn of the year
in praise and thanksgiving to
Almighty God for His many
blessings and mercies to us as a
nation. This year we have spe
cial and moving cause to be
grateful and to rejoice. God has
in His good pleasure given us
peace. It has not come as a mere
cessation of arms, a mere re
lief fromridie strain and tragedy
of war. It has come as a great
triumph of right. Complete vic
tory has brought us, not peace
alone, but the confident promise
of anew day as well, in which
justice shall replace force and
jealous intrigue among the na
tions. Our gallant armies have
participated in a triumph which
is not marred or stained by any
purpose of selfish aggression.
In a righteous cause they have
won immortal glory and have
nobly served their nation in ser
ving mankind. God has indeed
been gracious. We have cause
for such rejoicing as revives and
strengthens in us all the best
traditions of our national his
tory. Anew day shines about
us, in which ou rhearts take new
courage and look forward with
new hope to new and greater
duties. f
While we render thanks for
these things let us not forget to
seek the divine guidance in the
performance of those duties, and
divine mercy and forgiveness for
all errors of act or purpose, and
pray that in all that we do we
shall strengthen the ties of
friendship and mutual respect
upon which we must assist to
build the new structure of peace
and good-will among the nations.
Therefore, I, Woodrow Wil
son, president of the United
States of America, do hereby de
signate Thursday, the twenty
eighth day of November, next,
as a day of thanksgiving and
prayer, and invite the people
throughout the land to cease
upon that day from their ordi
nary occupations and in their
several homes and places of wor
ship to render thanks to God,
the Ruler of nations.
In witness whereof I have
hereunto set my hand and caus
ed the seal of the United States
to be affixed.
Done in the District of Co
lumbia, this sixteenth day of
November, in the year of our
Lord one thousand nine hundred
and eighteen, and of the inde
pendence of the United States
of America the one hundred and
forty-third.
WOODROW WILSON.
By the President:
ROBERT LANSING,
Secretary of State.
Friends of Mr. R. Troup Smith, of
Flovil’n, will be interested to know
that he has landed safely overseas.
RAINBOW DIVISION TO BE
PAID SPECIAL ATTENTION
In view <rf the fact that Butts coun
ty has a number of men in the Rain
bow Division, which encountered some
of the fiercest fighting on the western
front, and has come to be recognized
as one of the crack organizations in
the whole army, there is special inter
est in the announcement that the
Rainbow Division, upon its return
from France, will make a tour of the
entire country.
Practically every state in the union
has men in this division, and Chief of
Staff General March stated Saturday
that arrangements are being made to
give the Rainbow Division a special
reception.
When the Rainbow Division vault
overseas four Butts county boys, Joe
Watkins, Kirk Biles, Paul Byars and
Joe Norris, were members of a Macon
machine gun battalion. So far as
known Watkins was the only man
wounded, notice of which was given
several weeks ago.
SHORT SELLING
COTTON BANNED
Distributing Board Took
Action Last Week
WORLD NEEDS STAPLE
NEW YORK AND NEW ORLEANS
COTTON EXCHANGES WARNED
AGAINST SHORT SELLING—
CHM. BRAND’S STATEMENT
Washington, Nov. 14.—Announce
ment that all short selling of cotton
on the Neva York and New Orleans
cotton exchanges has been ordered
discontinued was made Wednesday
night by Charles J. Brand, chairman
of the cotton distribution committee
of the war industries board.
Excessive speculation following the
advent of peace and an era of recon
struction is given as the reason for
the radical step.
Chairman Brand’s statement ex
planatory of the drastic action reads:
“The signing of the armistice brings
us suddenly to the threshold of the
reconstruction era. Pending develop
ments fere of the utmost importance
to the entire cotton world.
“The consequences of unfounded
rumors that tend to promote vicious
speculative activity and cause unjust
ified demoralization must be avoided
as far as possible. In order that harm
ful violent price fluctuations may be
checked the committee on cotton dis
tribution has ordered all speculative
short selling of the New York and
New Orleans cotton exchanges stop
ped and to make this order thorough
ly effective, has required that no sell
ing orders except in liquidation of
long contracts be executed from any
foreign country.
“The stoppage of sinkings by Ü
boats, the monthly increase in new
ship tonnage and the releasing of
ships now engaged in supplying the
fleets of the allies, together with the
freeing of space previously used in
sending munitions to Europe, will
mean a large increase in available
tonnoge for cotton exports.
“The world’s requirements of cot
ton to meet its increasing demands
for clothing will henceforth be on a
continuously ascending scale. Based
on reports to this committee from
the various foreign countries, vue esti
mate their requirements and probable
imports of cotton under present con
ditions to be over two million bales
in excess of last season’s takings.
“Europe is almost denuded of cot
ton and cotton goods. The potential
buying power of the world which will
be aided and hastened by the estab
lishment of the rjpeessarv credits will
quickly assert itself.”
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
JESSE CASTON
MAKES SACRIFICE
Gas And Pneumonia The
Cause ol Death
WENT TO FRANCE JUNE
PARENTS OF, YOUNG SOLDIER
ADVISED SATURDAY THAT
DEATH OCCURRED OCT. 22
WAS WELL KNOWN HERE
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Caston received
a notice from the War Department
at Washington Saturday, Nov. 16,
announcing the death of their son,
Jesse L. Caston, w 10 was a private in
Cos. G, 148th Infantry, American Ex
peditionary Forces in France. Young
Mr. Caston left his home in Jackson
on April 2 for training at Camp Gor
don, from which place he left early
in June and sailed for overseas June
10.
The Washington dispatch said Mr.
Caston died on October 22 from
gas and broncho-pneumotnia. Jesse
L. Caston w'as 25 years old and an
excellent young man, w'ell beloved by
all who knew him and had numbers
of friends as well as relatives in Jack
son and Butts county, who mourn his
passing.
While but meager details were con
tained in the official notice of death
sent Mr. and Mrs. Gaston, it seems
evident that young Caston had been
in active service on the front, the dis
patch mentioning both gas and pneu
monia as the cause of death. It is
probable that fuller details of the
young soldier’s death will be received
within a few days.
Mr. Caston was a native of this
county and was quite V 4311 known to
most of the people of the community.
He has given his all on the field of
battle and his name will be cherished
as one who fell in a glorious and
righteous cause.
Among the surviving relatives are
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Cas
ton; five sisters, Mrs. Lucile Scarboro,
Mrs. Lois Wise, Mrs. Sallie Mae Wise,
Misses Clyde and Emma CasUm; two
brothers, J. B. and Wilsan Caston, all
of Jackson, who have the sympathy
of their hosts of friends and patri
otic citizens throughout the county.
HURLEY PREPARING
FOR ARMY’S RETURN
GOES TO EUROPE TO ARRANGE
FOR BRINGIN GARMY HOME—
CAN HANDLE 300,000 PER
MONTH FOR PRESENT
New York, Nov. 15.—Edward N.
Hurley, chairman of the United
States shipping board, announced
here tonight on the eve of his depart
ure for Europe that the gvernment in
tends to return to this country speed
ily a larre part of the American expe
ditionary forces. The purpose of Mr.
Hurley’s visit to Europe is to arrange
the details of their transportation.
Mr. Hurley said the shipping board
would be able to bring troops back at
the rate of 300,000 a month, “if the
war department wants them returned
as fast as that.” He would meet Gen.
Pershing at American field headquar
ters, he added, to discuss the details
of their home-coming.
Convalescent wounded, including
many who would have returned to the
battle front had th war continued,
would be the first brought out of
France, he said. They would be fol
lowed by units of various branches of
the service, following plans already
partly worked out by Secretary Baker
and the general staff.
There are 67 transports flying the
American flag, Mr. Hurley said, and
it is hoped that these, with German
and Austrian liners which he antici
pates using temporarily, will suffice
to brine American soldiers home as
rapidly as the authorities desire.