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Help Make It Better!
VOL. 47—NO. 27
GOVERNOR DORSEY
BEGINS 2ND TERN
In Address Be Scores
Lynch Law
IN FAVOR TAX REFORM
SWORN IN SATURDAY FOR SEC
OND TERM. RECOMMENDS THE
BUDGET SYSTEM AND TAX RE
FORM TO LEGISLATURE
Atlanta, June 28.—Enforcement of
the law and observance of proper or
der and respect of humanity to the
end that lynchings be stopped, and
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the necessity of reformation of the
taxing system of the state, were the
two particularly outstanding features
fein the inaugural address of Gov.
pfugh M. Dorsey to the joint general
today, when he entered on
his second term as chief executive of
the state.
The hall of the house vns filled
when Bishop Warren A. Candler in
voked divine blessing on the adminis
tration, and Chief Justice Fish, of
the supreme court, administered the
oath of office.
A second keynote in the inaugural
was the congratulation which the gov
ernor extended to the legislature on
having had done for it, by commis
sioners heretofore created, a vast
amount of investigation and prepara
tory work, on which has been based
recommended measures now in or
shortly to be put into the bodies for
consideration and action. His refer
ence, of course, was to the state bud
get and efficiency commission, which
has gone through the entire list of ap
propriations, spent the better , part of
a year on the work, and made up a
model appropriation bill; and to the
state tax commission, which proposes
the refermation of the system.
He reviewed the work done by the
budget commission, the hearings and
personal investigations made by it,
and outlined its reasons for making
up the kind of appropriation bill it has
offered.
More at length he dealt with the
matter at tax reform and the work of
that commission, saying in reply to
critics of the commission’s recom
mended method of collecting taxes
that these critics, in declaring the sys
tem of classification and segregation
of property will mean the creation of
classes in the state, if a careful study
is made it will be found that this act
ually exists under the present ante
quated system.
He also pointed out the necessity
for revising the constitution of Geor
gia.
, He showed that real estate*contrib.
Aite s 53 per cent of all revenues col
lected by the state, while. money,
\ notes and accounts only 6 per cent
Discussing lynching, Governor Dor
sey declared that unless steps are
taken to prevent so many outbreaks
by mobs that the fedeal government
will take jurisdiction. He declared
the state should have an officer and
officers whose duty would consist in
making a definite and specific investi
gation of lynchings, and that all local
officers found to be derelict should
immediately be removed from office;
that the participants i nmob violence
should be arraigned before a spcial
state traverse jury and the expense
of such a trial should be paid by the
county where the violence occurred.
FLOVILLA CHAUTAUQUA
PROVED ENJOYf *'E
Success Despite Rain Which Held
Bown Attendance
The Chautauqua held at Flovilla
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday of
last week proved an enjoyable and en
tertaining affair. The attendance
while large, was not as great as would
"have been the case had not rain fallen
almost every day.
The chautauqua was put on by the
Ttadcliffe association afld the talent
was even better than former years, it
men of Flovilla underwrote the assem
bly and went into the enterprise with
the idea that the instruction would be
worth while even if the financial re-,
wards,-'ere not great.
Mr. W. A. a public spirited
young business man, was secretary
and treasurer of the Flovilla chautau
qua.
Peach growng on a commercial
scale win make Butts coutny better
and richer. This is an enterpnse
worth trying.
THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS
BUSINESS WILL SUSPEND
FOR NATIONAL HOLIDAY
Glorious Fourth Will Be Observed in
Sane Manner
Friday, July Fourth, will be observ
ed in a safe and sane manner by the
people of Butts county No public
demonstration will be held, but the
thoughts that the war is over and
peace has returned will be uppermost
in the minds and hearts of all citi
zens.
Business will be at a standstill for
the day. The banks and stores will
be closed. The post office will observe
a holiday, as will the rural carriers
who will not make their rounds until
Saturday.
Many citilens will seek entertain
ment and amusement in the cities. A
large delegation of local Shriners will
go down to Macon for the ceremo
nial of Al-Sihah temple. The Pepper,
ton Cotton Mills will be closed from
Thursday night to Monday morning
and the team representing the mill
will play a game with the Juliette
nine.
MACON MEN BUY
WIGWAM HOTEL
Deal Consummated This
Week
EFFECTIVES TUESDAY
FAMOUS RESORT HOSTELRY TA
KEN OVER BY JACOBS AND
HOOKS OF MACON. SAME
MANAGEMENT THIS SEASON
f .■
That the Wigwam Hotel at Indian
Springs has been sold by Mr. L. W.
Scoville to Mr. E. G. Jacobs, capital
ist, and Mr. T. W. Hooks, proprietor
of the Hotel Lanier, of Macon, -was
the announcement Tuesday. This an.
nouncement will be of wade interest
over the state, as all of the principals
in the deal are well known and the
Wigwam is one of Georgia's finest re
sort hotels.
The change in ownership became
effective Tuesday, July 1, it was stat
ed. Mr. J. Mote Watts, who has been
manager of the Wigwam this season
and connected with the 1 hotel for sev
eral seasons,- remains as manager.
The personnel of the hotel also re
mains the same, it was stated.
Mr. Scoville has been connected
with the Wigwam Tot fifteen years
and has made a great success of the
business. He is also proprietor of the
New. Morris hotel in Birmingham and
will devote his entire attention to that
property in future. Mr. Scoville has
a large number of friends in Butts
county who regret that he has dis
posed of his interests at Indian
Springs.
Mr. Jacobs is a prominent business
naan of Macon and recently disposed
of his interests in' a large drug firm
there to engage 1 in the hotel business.
Mr. Hooks as manager of the Lanier
Hotel is well known over the state
and has had Temarkable success in
the hotel business.
The consideration was not given,
though it was understood to be some,
thing less than $50,000. The deal in
volves the Wigwam Hotel, the casino,
garage and all niher buildings on the
state reservation.
It was stated that the deal has
been pending for some time but the
final details were only closed Monday.
$14,000,000 WORTH OF GEOR
GIA PEACHES BEING MOVED
Most of Them on Line of Central of
Georgia Railroad
Macon, Ga.—lt is estimated that
sl4/000,000 worth of peaches are
being moved from tbe peach belt
by the Central of Georgia and other
railroads. This estimate is based on
r.f) 'rads, varied $2,000
each. Two thousand dollars a car
is considered high, but are being
moved by trucks as well as railroads,
and so the $14,000,000, according
to railroad officials should not be
an overestimate.
The movement so far has not been
as heavy as last year up to this time.
Until today 1,372 cars had been mov
ed, while last year 1,787 cars had
gone forward. The crop this year is
expected to go well over 8,500 can,
and may reach last yew** mark of
7,000 cars.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY JULY 4, 1919
PEACE TREATY
SIGNED AT LAST
World War Came to Eud
Saturday
HUNS AGREE TO SIGN
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GERMANS HUMBLED BY HAVING
PEACE FORCED ON THEM.
CONFLICT LASTED NEARLY
FIVE YEARS
Versailles, June 28.—Germany and
the allied and associated poders sign
ed the peace term here today in the
same Imperial hall, where the Ger
mans humbled the French so ignomi
nously forty-eight years ago.
This formally ended the world war
which lasted just thirty-seven days
less than five years. Today, the day
of peace, is the fifth anniversary of
the murder of Archduke Francis Fer
dinand, at Serajevo.
The ceremony of signing the peace
terms was brief. Premier Clemenceau
called the session to order in the Hall
of Mirrors of the Chateau of Versail
les at 3:10 o’clock. The signing began
when Dr. Hermann Mueller and Jo
hannes Bell, the German signatories,
affixed their names. Herr Mueller
signed at 3:12 o’clock and Hell Bell
at 3:13 o’clock. President Wilson, of
the allied delegates, signed a minute
later. At 3:45 o’clock the momentous
session was concluded.
Asa contrast with the Franco-Ger
man peace session of 1871, held in
the same hall, there were presnet to
day grizzled French veterans of the
Franco-Prussian war. They replaced
I the Prussian guardsmen of the pre
vious ceremony and the Frenchmen
i today watched the ceremony with
grim satisfaction.
The conditions of 1871 were exact
ly reversed. Today the disciples of
Bismarck sat in the seats of the lowly
while the white marble statue of Mi
nerva, goddess of war, looked on.
Overhead on the frescoed ceiling,
were scenes from France’s ancient
wars.
Three incidents were emphasized
by the smoothness with which the cer.
emony was conducted. The first was
the failure of the Chinese delegation
to sign. The second was the protest
submitted by General Jan Christian
Smuts, who declared the peace unsat
isfactory. The third, unknown to the
general public, came from the Ger
mans. When the program for the cer
emony was shown to the German del
egation, Herr von Haimhausen, of
the German delegation, went to Col
onel Henri, French liason officer, and
protested. He said:
"We cannot admit that the German
delegates should enter the hall by a
different door than the entente dele
gates, noT that military honors should
be withheld. Had we known there
would he such arrangements, before,
the delegates would not have come.”
After a conference with the French
foreign ministry, it was decided, as a
compromise, to render military honors
as the Germans left. Otherwise, the
| program was not changed.
Secretary Lansing was the first of
! the distinguished diplomats to arrive.
He was followed shortly hy M. Clem,
enceau and General Bliss. Few of the
spectators recognized any of the dip
lomats as they came in, and there
were no demonstrations.
The delegates of the minor powers
made their way with difficulty
through the crowd to thdr places at
the table. Officers and civilians lined
the walls and filled the aisles. Presi
dent Wilson’s arrival ten minutes be
fore the hour of signing was greeted
by a faint burst of applause from the
feW persons who were able to see him.
The German correspondents were
ushered into the hall shortly before 3
o’clock, and were given standing room
in a window at the rear of the corres
pondents’ section.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
SUNDAY, JULY SIXTH
A Sabbath well spent brings a week
of content.
And health for the toil of the morrow:
But a Sabbath profaned, whate’er
may he gained.
Is a sure forerunner of sorrow.
—Sir Matthew Hale.
10 a. m. Sabbath School.
No service at eleven o’clock.
Preaching at Fellowship.
8:30 p. m. Preaching. “I am the
Life.” John xiv:B.
STATE EDITORS
MEET JULY 14
Convention Will Be Held
io Monroe
FLAN MANY FEATURES
PROGRAM OF INTEREST ARRAN.
GED. SESSIONS WILL BE DE
VOTED TO BUSINESS, WITH
POLITICS BARRED
The annual convention of the Geor
gia Press Association, which convenes
in Monroe jjn July 14 for a three days
session, promises to be the most large
attended in the history of the associa
tion. President Paul T. Harber has
already received assurances from
more than 180 editors who have signi.
fied their intention to attend.
The meeting v.ill be called together
Monday night and business sessions
will be held Tuesday and Wednesday,
both morning and afternoon. Several
features of entertainment have been
arranged, including open air recep
tions, a barbecue and a tour of Wal
ton county’s good roads. Wednesday
afternoon the visitors will make an
automobile trip to Athens where a
short while will be spent on the Uni
versity campus.
Thursday morning the editors will
leave for a trip through the moun
tains of North Georgia, the itinerary
including Mountain City and Clayton.
The program as sannounced by
President Harber is as follows:
“What Constitutes a Good Editorial
Page.”—John L. Herring, Tifton Ga
zette.
“Should the Government Buy
Newspaper Space for Certain Lines of
Propaganda.”—David Comfort, Mari
etta Journal
“How to Deicrmine the Price for
Display Advertising ” —Ralph Meeks,
Carrolton Free Press.
“Some Methods for the Develop
ment of Foreign Advertising.”—E.
W. Carroll, Athens Herald.
“The Zone Postal Law and Its Ap
plication to Newspapers.”—A. S.
Hardy, Gainesville News.
“Can One Man Successfully Act as
Editor and Business (Manager of a
Live Weekly Newspaper in These
Modern Days.”—Otis Brumby, Cobb
County Times.
“How to Get Advertising From
Home Business Enterprises.”—Mrs.
Edith O. Susong, Greenville, (Tenn.)
Democrat.
“Enlarging the Volume of Adver
tising and Increasing the Net Profit
to the Publisher.”—James O’Shaugh
nessey, Secretary American Associa
tion of Advertising Agencies.
“The Country Weekly From the
Advertising Agent’s Viewpoint,”—E.
E. Dallis, Atlanta.
The Aims and Status of the Select
Newspapers Association of Georgia.”
O. W. Bassavant, Newnan Herald.
“Print Shop Labor Shortage and
How it May Be Remedied.”—M. L.
Fleetwood, Carterville News-Tribune.
“A Georgia Weekly Newspaper
Drive.”—Miss Emily Woodward, Vi
ennia News.
“Press Agent Propaganda.”—Jack
L. Patterson, Covington News.
“Is the Worth While Weekly News
paper Appreciated At Its True
Worth.”—E. A. Caldwell, Walton
News.
“Relations of the Daily and Weekly
Press.”—John S. Cohen, Atlanta
Journal.
“The Place of the Rural Press in
American Civilization j”—Wright A
Patterson, Editor Western Newspaper
Union, Chicago.
ROY W. MOORE NAMED
AS CENSUS ENUMERATOR
f lacon Man Will Name County Census
Enumerators This District
Announcement is made from Wash
ington that Roy W. Moore, of Macon,
has been appointed Census Supervis
or for the sixth congressional district.
The enumeration will begin January
1 and all of the enumerators wiii re
port to Mr. Moore, who in the mean
time will make All the plans for the
taking of the next census in the sixth
district.
The county enumerators will be
named later. It is expected there will 1
be a considerable scramble for these
places. So far as known there are no
contestants for the place in Butts
county, but something definite in this
connection will likely develop within
the next few weeks.
FARMERS INSTITUTE TO
BE HELD 111 BARNESVILLE
County Agents Arranging to Take
Large Party From Here
The two county agents, Mrs. Mary
E. Butner and Mr. J. H. Blackwell,
together with a considerable number
of boys and girls who are members
of the county clubs, will attend the
summer course and farmers institute
to be held at the Sixth District A. &
M. School in Barnesville July 8 to 12.
During the institute many topics of
interest will be handled in a thorough
and practical way by the county
agents and by experts from the state
college of agriculture.
Provision will be made to take care
of the boys and girls in the dormito
ries at the A. & M. school, or they
may come home at night if they pre
fer.
Those interested may sec Mrs. But
ner of Blackwell for full informa
tion.
$154,763 IS GAIN
IN TAX RETURNS
J
Good Showing Made The
Past Year
TOTAL D1GE5T12,399,482
NCREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES
LARGER THAN HAD BEEN EX
PECTED. MOST OF GAIN BY
WHITE TAXPAYERS
Butts county shows a gain of
$154,763 in taxable values for 191!)
over the preceding year. Of that
amount $117,30). is the gain of white
property ovsners and $37,402 of col
ored taxpayers.
The total amount of property on
the digest is $2,399,482. This is com
pared with $2,282,181 for 1918.
The increase in tax returns is very
gratifying, showing the growth and
prosperity of the county. Part of the
gain is due to the return of improve
ments separate form real estate
Tax Receiver J. P. Vaughn and his
assistants have just completed the di
gest. This will be submitted to the
comptroller general and if ratified
two other digests will then be made
up.
The returns by districts for white
property owners are a 8 follows:
Buttrill—sl7B,7s6.
C00dy—5123,266.
Dublin—s9l,294.
Indian Springs—s266,6s2.
Iron Springs—99,733.
Jackson—sl,39B,334.
Towaliga—s 149,777.
Worthville—s9l,67o.
Colored taxpayers returned the fol
lowing amounts:
Buttrill, $32,505; Coody, $15,923;
Dublin, $8,180; Indian Springs, $22,-
827; Iron Springs, $9,545; Jackson,
$49,098; Towaliga, $18,651; Worth
ville, $11,833.
RAW MATERIALS BEING RUSH
ED TO THE SUGAR REFINERIES
Thought That Present Sugar Shortage
Will Soon Be Over
Savannah, June 28. —The sugar
shortage, existing in many sections of
the state and threatened in others,
mainly due to heavy canning opera-
tions by housewives generally, and to
the fact that many fearing shortage
bought heavily at the beginning of
the season, is not affecting Savannah
much.
The secretary of the refinery com
pany here declared that conditions
are about as usual in regard to the
supply and that no difficulty i B ex
pected in shipping sugar to southern
points in quantities equal to those
forwarded for sometime past. Raw
materials are being supplied to the
refinery here a B rapidly as the plant
can handle them.
TEXAS’ FIRST BALE IS
AUCTIONED FOR SI,OOO
Houston, Texas, June 30.
One thousand dollars was paid for
the first bale of 1919 Texas cot
ton here today, when it was sold
at auction on the cotton ex
change. The bale weighed 471
pounds and was sold at $2.12 a
pound to N, D. Namon, of Hous
ton. It was grown by Salvador
Cardenas, in HHdalgo county.
A Bond Issue Wisely
Expended will give Good
Roads in Every District
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
BILL GIVES ROAD
WORK A BOOST
Common Schools to Get
More Funds
WANTS "SUN TIME" HERE
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE GETS
DOWN TO WORK EARLY IN
SESSION AND TACKLE SCHOOI
AND HIGHWAY PROBLEMS
Atlanta, June 30.—Highway and
school legislation got started in the
house today. Bills were introduced
authorizing the state to issue bonds
for highways and spending 50 per
cent of all revenue received by the
state from all sources on the common
schools of the state.
The house passed a measure rais
ing the pay of the members of the
house and senate from $4 to $7 per
diem and allowing the presiding offic
ers of the two bodies $lO per diem.
Return of the railroads to their
owners in as good condition as they
were taken over by the government,
with just compensation for their use,
is asked in a resolution introduced by
Judge McCall, of Brooks county.
Continued retention of the railroads is
regarded as “unwise, undemocratic
and ungenerous” by the author of
the resolution.
Adoption of “sun time” as standard
time for the state is proposed in the
bill introduced today by Representa
tive Barnes, of Bibb county. The
minimum salary county school super
intendents in the state will be raised
from $450 to SI,OOO, and the annual
expense allotment from $l5O to $250
if the school revision bill by Mr. Hay
nie, of Oconee, passes.
Amendments to the motor vehicle
law, proposed in the bill introduced
by the Clarke delegaton, stipulate an
nual lieenses as follows:
. Each motorcycle, $5.
Passenger carrying motor vehicles,
seating 1.0 persons or more, SIOO.
Passenger carrying vehicles, not
exceeding 22 horse power, sls.
Each motor vehicle, exclusive of
non-passenger carrying vehicle or
truck, exceeding 22 horse power, per
horse power, 80 cents.
The scale of trucks continue as fol
lows: Itol Vi tons, S3O; IV4 to 2:
tons, S4O; 2 to 2Vi tons, SSO: 2Vi to.
3 tons, S6O; 3 to 3Vi tons, S7O: 3Vi
to 4 tons, $100; 4 to 5 tons, $200; 6
to 6 tons, $500; 6 to 7 tons, $1,000;
in excess of 7 tons, $1,500. Dealers
must register and pay a fee of SSO
for a dealer’s nlimber, which can be
used only on the make of vehicle re
ported to the secretary of rftate*
BUTTS COUNTY GETS $1,505.17
FROM AUTO TAG TAX 19IS
Money Has Just Been Apportioned by
Secretary of State
Butts county’s part of the 1919
automobile tag tax amounts to
$1,505.17. The total for the state is
$269,101.77, on an official mileage of
80,453. The amount is considerably
larger than last year, mar.y new cars
having been registered recently.
BAXTER WATKINS GETS
DISCHARGE FROM NAVV
Friends of Mr. Baxter Watkins are
glad to see him home after a service
of several months in the United States
navy. He was recently granted his
discharge and has returned home
GHAN6ES ANNOUNCED!!!
THE JACKSON POST OFFICE
Mors Clerk* and Shorter Hours for
Jackson Office
Effective the first of July, when the
Jackson post office was p'seed in the
second class, a number of changes be
come effective.
The postmaster, assistant postma.it
ter and clerks are now allowed to
work but 8 hour s per day.
n " f ormer city mail
carrier, has been appointed clerk,
with Clyde Mcßryant as auxiliary
clerk. Henry Allen succeeds Mr.
White as mail carrier. V
The money order and stamp win
dow will now open at 7:30 a. m. and
remain open until 6 p. m.
The general delivery window will
not be opened on Sunday and no mail
will be given out on that day. Qidy
box mail will be pot up and'dlstribut
ed Sunday. It ia also announced that
no R. F. D. mail will be given out oo
Sunday.