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THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
VOL. 46 NO. 49
(ICING OF PUBLIC WILL
NOT BE ALLOWED, SAYS SOULE
food Regulations to Be Enforced
\nd Prosecution For All Violation
liilanta, Ga., Nov. 29.—With the
ijj/ncement made fy the food
inistration of the removal of re
gions on the handling of sugar
;he wholesale and retail trade on
'after Dec. 1, it appears to have
sme necessary for a further de
ation from that office on the mat
0f continuation of, regulations,
he gradual relief of regulations
ing led up to the removal of sugar
rictions, which was undoubtedly
mo st commonly remembered of
lot, has given rise in some circles
the impression that “everything
be off” on Dec. 1, and that trade
isactions in the dealing in food
modifies are then going to be on
“go as you please" basis. This
given rise to a great deal of ex
ssed fear for wide profiteering
1 as a result, a sudden upjump in
id prices to the consumer.
Upon request the statement comes
mthe State Food Administration
'today that entertainment of any
h "hallucination” is calculated to
j up to really serious trouble with
;e who seek to put it into practice,
'here is in present force and ef
, it is stated by the food adminis
ion offices, a fixed policy and rul
which governs the “fair margin
irofits” which are to be charged in
lines of trade Ln all those food
modifies which come within the
sdiction of the administration,
that all county food administra
tors have instructions to see that this
regulation is enforced. The manu
facturer, the wholesaler, the jobber,
and right on down to the passing of
the package over the counter by the
retailer, there is a system fixed by
the Government for figuring “fair
profits,” and there remains in effect
the power of the food administration
to administer punishmnt for profiteeh
ing in either one of two ways, or
both.
The licenses under which specified
lines of business have been carried on
are still in force. Where the licensee
is a violator, his license can be re
voked, and prosecution brought
against him in the fedral court.
Where the violator is not a licensee,
the administration, after hearing, can
anA will issue a “stop order” against
hkw to all licensed manufacturers,
wholesale and jobbing dealers, there
by cutting off his supplies. At the
same time prosecution may be
brought in the federal court.
Jn the next couple of weeks, it is
' & ed, it is the purpose of the admin-
AS ation to quietly and systematically
™ke its own investigation of prices
for food commodities in the
*4ger centers of the state, and “to
govern actions accordingly.”
BSE E. CORNWELL A E, F,
SUCCUMBS TO FATAL DISEASE
Jesse Eugene Cornwell, 27 years of
of a ge, so n of Mr. G. (M. Cornwell, of
Jackson route 3, recently succumbed
to disease in France, according to the
list of casualties given out Saturday.
None of the particulars are known,
neither is the organization to which
r - Cornwell belonged given.
The young soldier left Jackson on
J nne 27 for Camp Gordon and after
a course of training there was sent
overseas. He was a native of Jasper
county but the family has resided in
Butts county for several years. His
Jjtoer now lives on Mrs. R. E. Car-
farm, near Jackson.
Besides his father, Mr. Cornwell is
survived by several brothers and sis
ters.
meeting board of education
was postponed for week
The regular meeting of the county
°ard of education, which was to ha * e
een held Tuesday, was postponed for
a week.
MASS MEETING
TUESDAY, DEC. 10
Under the auspices of the Farmers'
Union there will be a mass meeting in
the court house at 2 p. m. Tuesday,
Dec. 10 for the purpose of organizing
Butts county for holding cotton ac
cording to the plan worked out by the
Cotton States Official Marketing
Board. As important business of in
terest to every farmer and business
man of the county will come up at
that time a full attendance of the
citizens of the county is requested.
EVERY COUNTY
TO BE ORGANIZED
Cotton Holding Movement
to Be Pushed
35 CENTS AS MINIMUM
COTTON STATES MARKETING
30ARD ADVISES FARMERS TO
HOLD COTTON FOR 35c—ALL
COUNTIES TO ORGANIZE
Atlanta, Dec. 6.—The Cotton Stat
es Marketing Board does not propose
to let its efforts in behalf of holding
cotton for a living price, stop with
resolutions. Much work has been done
by the organization in support of its
appeal to the producers to bold cotton
for not less than 35 cents a pound,
and now the active work of organiz
ing each county in the cotton belt is
in progress.
President J. J. Brown of the Cotton
States Marketing Board has just writ
ten to well known and progressive
men in each county in Georgia, urg
ing them to issue at once a call for a
mass meeting with a view to forming
an organization to press the cotton
holding movement. It is suggested
that each county select a chairman
and a secretary, and appoint a com
mittee for each militia district which
will go actively to work and see to it
that no cotton is sold for less than
35 cents a pound, basis middling.
"Show the spinners of Europe that
you are not going to sell your cotton
for less than this figure, because it is
worth more,” urges President Erown,
and he continues:
"This same w<ork of organization is
going on all over the belt and this of
fice is securing the names of the dis
trict committees that your county or
ganization appoints, in order that we
can correspond with them and keep
their efforts stimulated.
"We ask you to act quickly and en
ergetically. Don’t lay this letter aside
thinking someone - else will attend to
it. This is a matter on which we
must all take a firm stand. Your
county’s action wil strenthen and en
courage others to act.
It is specifically requested by Pres
ident Brown that all correspondence
relating to the holding campaign, be
addressed to the State Bureauof
Markets, State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga.,
where it will be given attentmn by
Secretary L. B. Jackson of the mar
keting board.
FMBARGO is lifted
EMBAKuu cOTTO N SEED OIL
Washington, November
strictions upon C e °“°"
seed oil were modified by th
trade board tonight to permit the
shipment of 100,000 barrels to Eu
rope.
Do it now— SHOP EARLY
JACKSON, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 6, 1918
CATTLE TICK IS
BEING WIPED OUT
Twenty Georgia Counties
Freed December 1
LARGE AREA RELEASED
LAST YEAR WAS BAD ONE FOR
CATTLE PEST—WORK WELL
UNDER WAY ALL OVER THE
UNITED STATES
Washington, D. C., Dec. 5.—A
year in advance of the effective date
of Georgia’s new compulsory tick
eradication law, twenty counties of
the state were freed on Dec. 1 from
the federal quarantine against the
cattle parasite. The Georgia releases,
covering a total of 7,618 square miles,
result from the work that has been
pushed in the state this year, and are
formally announced in an order sign
ed by Secretary of Agriculture D. F.
Houston.
The December 1 releases will place
Georgia beyond the half-way mark in
tick-eradication, with 52 per cent of
its area freed from quarantine. On
that day 29,732 square miles of the
57,438 quarantined on July 1, 1906,
were opened to unrestricted shipment
of cattle. Counties released will num
ber 90. with 59 still infested and
quarantined.
Preparing for Final Drive
Reports reaching officials of the
bureau of Animal Industry of the de
partment of agriculture are that
Georgia is preparing for the final
drive against the insect enemy of the
cattle industry. Although the state
law requiring dipping of cattle in ev
ery county is not to be effective until
December 31, 1919, the people of the
state, and especially those who have
seen the practical benefits of tick
eradication, realize the big amount
of work ahead. Dipping vats are be
ing built in many localities and offic
ials are certain that with the steps
that have been taken there will be
no let up in the campaign until the
tick has been finally banished.
Greatest Anti-tick Year
This has been the worst year in his
tory for the cattle tick, and conse
quently a good one for the South’s
cattle industry. The releases author
ized for December 1 total 79,217
square miles in nine states—constitu
ting the greatest area ever released
in any one year since the co-operative
state and federal fight began in 1906.
On December 1 the released area in
the tick territory was 458,529 square
miles, 63 per cent of the 728,565
square miles quarantined in 1906.
The progress of the campaign indi
cates that the South will be tick-free
early in the nineteen-twenties.
That the tick always goes out when
the cattle dipping vat goes in is shown
by the records. This year, for in
stance, not only brings the greatest
releases in history, but it surpassed
all previous years in the number of
cattle dipped. Dippings in the calen
dar year 1917 28,931,504, but in the
first ten months of 1918 they num
bred 39,263,867.
World Needs Live Stock
The importance, in a national and
international sense, of the campaign
against the tick was indicated in a re
cent statement by Secretary Houston
to the farmers and agricultural forces
of the United States. He said:
“For a considerable period the
world vail have need of a larger sup
ply tha nnormal of live stock, and es
pecially of fats. We should not fail,
therefore, to adopt every feasible
means of economically increasing our
live-stock products. Asa part of our
program we should give due thought
to the securing of an adequate supply
of feed stuffs and to the eradication
and control of all forms of animal dis
ease.”
2,000,000 U. S. WOMEN
NOW IN WAR WORK
New York, Dec. I.—Approximately
2,000,000 American women are en
gaged in war work, according to an
estimate made public tonight by the
National War Council of the Young
Women’s Christian Association.
SOIL SURVEY OF
COUNTY ASSURED
The Extension division of the Unit
ed States department of agriculture,
co-operating with the state college of
agriculture, extension division, has
notified County Agent J. H. Black
well that a survey of the soils of the
county will be made. The only condi
tion is that the citizens of the county
show the men in charge of the survey
the proper co-operation.
This matter will be more fully dis
cussed at a mass meeting to be held
at the court house in Jackson next
Tuesday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
This survey is very important to
farmers of the county, as, it w r ill show
the kind of fertilizers best suited to
different types of soil.
TEACHERS AND
PUPILS DON MASKS
When Schools Resumed
Monday Morning
METHOD BEINGTRIED OUT
SEVERAL PUPILS AND THREE
TEACHERS OUT WITH ILLNESS
—HOPED THAT MASKS WILL
CONTROL THE DISEASE
When the Jackson public schools
opened Monday morning, after the
Thanksgiving holidays, all the teach
ers and pupils wore masks as a protec
tion against Spanish influenza. Wear
ing of masks is not compulsory, so far,
but every teacher and student com
plied with the request and the new
system works nicely, it is stated.
There was an attendance Monday of
about 250, many pupils- being out
with sickness.
Three of the teachers are absent on
account of illness but their places are
being supplied by other teachers of
the county. Mrs. G. B. Carreker is
teaching the second grade in place of
Miss Biles; Miss Frances Barnes is
teaching the fifth, sixth and seventh
grades in place of Miss Riley, and
Miss Laßue Barnes is teaching the
fourth grade in place of Miss Good
man.
Prof. Martin states that the “flu”
situation is well in hand and it is be
lieved the wearing of masks will soon
have the disease under control in the
local schools.
THANKS PRESS FOR EFFORTS
DURING WAR WORK DRIVE
Progreti-Argu*, Record* Show, Gave
Liberal Co-Operation
The Progress-Argus is in receipt of a
letter from E. Y. Clarke, state direc
tor of publicity in the recent United
War Work campaign, thanking this
paper for the liberal co-operation ex
tended.
The letter, in part, is as follows:
“I have the pleasure to report that
the Progress-Argus, of Jackson, gave
complimentary, 176 inches of reading
matter and carried 397 inches of
paid-for advertising during the Unit
ed War Work campaign. I have had
the honor of being connected with
gjveral other state-wide publicity cam
paigns and wish to compliment the
Georgia newspapers for their exceed
ing generosity and patriotic support
of the campaign. To them is due
unstinted praise for their very liberal
contributions to the cause. It would
be impossible to calculate the value
they have been in the glorious re
sults, especially in view of the handi
cap of space conditions under which
the newspapers are operating today.”
P. S. The total number of inches
of news matter run by the entire
state press was 47,147. Advertising
41,497, which amounted to total col
umns as follows: News 2,357; adver
tising 2,078.
Mr. W. F. Huddleston was in town
Tuesday.
Do it sow—SHOP EARLY
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
2,345 REGISTRANTS
WERE CLASSIFIED
Board Inducted 427 Men
into Service
MANY IN CLASS FOUR
LOCAL BOARD DOES UNIFORMLY
GOOD WORK INTERESTING
FIGURE SHOWN BY STATIS
TICS OF CLASSIFICATION
Chairman J. H. Ham of the Butts
county exemption board has made up
a list of the men classified in the 1917
and 1918 drafts and the figures are
given because of their interest to cit
izens of the county.
The report shows that a total of
2,345 men, of the 1917 and 1918
drafts, were classified for service.
There were 1,110 men in the call of
June 5, 1917, divided as follows:
Whites, 473; colored, 637.
There were 85 men in th calls of
June 5 and Aug. 24, 1918, divided as
follows:
Whites, 48; colored, 37.
In the call of September 12, 1918,
there were 1,160 men, divided as fol
lows :
Whites, 658; colored, 492.
Number of men in service before
the draft, 33.
Number of men inducted and ac
cepted, 285.
Number of enlisted men, 21.
Number of men inducted in schools,
28.
Number of men inducted and re
jected, 60.
Making a total for the county of
427.
The number of men classified by
the local board shows the following:
In class 1, 698.
In class 2, 170.
In class 3, 137.
In class 4, 709.
In class 6, 95.
Number who failed to answer ques*
tionnaires, 16.
Number of men not classified, ages
36 to 46, 520.
Making a total of 2,346.
All men in service, 367.
Number of men remaining in class
1, 278.
Number df men remaining in class
2, 170.
Number of men remaining in class
3, 137.
Number of men remaining in class
4, 709.
Number of men remaining in class
5, 95.
Number of men who failed to re
turn qustionnaires, 16.
Number of men not classified, ages
36 to 46, 520.
Limited service men, 26.
Cancelled, 6.
Dead, 6.
Delinquents, 15.
Making a total of 2,345,
The local board, which has under
gone several changes, has been one of
the most faithful, conscientious and
active in the entire state and has been
warmly commended many times for
the good work acomplished. Filling a
difficult task, working under hard
ships and disadvantages, laboring
fro ma sense of duty and patriotism,
the local board has ddne its work well
and is entitled to much credit.
THANKSGINIVG GENERALLY
OBSERVED OVER COUNTY
Thanksgiving was generally ob
served in Butts county last Thursday.
All businesses houses in Jackson clos
ed for the day, the post office observ
ing Sunday hours and the rural car
riers enjoyed a holiday.
Union services were held at the
Baptist church in the morning. Dr.
M. McN. McKay, pastor of the Pres
byterian church, preached the sermon.
Several musical numbers added to the
interest of the service, which was one
of the most impressive ever held in
Jackson.
Tne weather was unfavorable and
the day passed without special inci
dent.