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BOOS T GEORGiA All "The Time VOL. 60—No. 17 APRIL 1932 IWN MOM TUt WED THU FRI SAT I 2 3456 7 S 9 10 1112 1314 1516 17 1819 20 21,22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 50 FELTON WILL SEEK TO RETAIN SERVICE POST RUSSELL APPOINTEE SERVING UNEXPIRED TERM WILL BE CANDIDATE IN YEAR’S PRIMA RY FOR FULL TERM Jule W. Felton, of Montezuma, serving by appointment of Governor Russell the unexpired term of the late Calvin Parker, has announced that he will be a candidate for the full term on the Georgia Public Ser vice Commission. ' Col. Felton, who married Miss Wary Julia Sasnett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Sasnett, of Jackson, is well known here where he has many friends. He is a well known young Georgian and has served in many places of trust and responsi bility, having been mayor of Monte zuma for several years. He is editor of newspapers at Montezuma and Reynolds. Since taking a place on the board Mr. Felton has been active and regu lar in attendance on all board meet ings. It is predicted he will have strong support from all sections of the state. In a recent editorial in the Griffin Daily News, Quimby Melton, state commander of the Georgia American Legian, wrote of Mr. Felton: “The election of Juie Felton to the Public Service Commission is in line with an unwritten law in the Demo cratic party—of giving a faithful servant a second term without oppo sition. “Mr. Felton was appointed to the commission by Governor Richard B. Russell, Jr., to fill out the unexpired term of the late Calvin Parker.. When the party primary is held next fall he will have served less than a year. “With these facts in view we be lieve that Mr. Felton should have no pposition Jn the party primary. “But even should this unwritten law of the party not be sufficient to keep Mr. Felton from having op position there are other reasons why he should be allowed to serve at least another term. “First of all one must consider the fact that with his year’s experience he will be better qualified to fill the post than anew man. For regardless of what office a man may be electeu :o he must learn, the duties of his position before he can be of much use to his constitueifts. “Then too, he is admirably fitted by training to be continued on the moard. He is well educated, reliable, trustworthy and as clean a young man as lives in Georgia. He is equip ped both morally and mentally to fill rhe position to which the givernor appointed. “Then there’s another angle that should be considered. This young man has given a year from his prac tice of law to serve his state when called on by his governor. It would be unfair to him, after a year, to tell him to step aside for another man. We believe that Democrats in Geor gia believe in fair play and will agree that he is entitled to at least a full term in the office. “It is to be hoped that Jule Fel ton will not have opposition in the party primary this year.” BANKS WILL CLOSE NEXT TUESDAY ON MEMORIAL DAY Banks of Butts county will be qlosed Tuesday, April 26, Confed erate Memorial Day and a holiday i the southern states- THE JACKSON PROGRESS-ARGUS SENATOR HARRIS TAKEN BY DEATH SENIOR UNITED STATES SENA TOR FROM GEORGIA DIES AF TER LONG ILLNESS. ABLE AND POPULAR GEORGIAN i The death of Hon. William J. Har ris, senior United States senator from Georgia, which occurred in ' Washington late Monday afternoon, j came as a shock to citizens of the ; state. Death came after an illness of several weeks, and while not unex pected, brought sincere sorrow to people of his native state and the en tire country. Senator Harris had been ill for more than two months and recently underwent an operation. He suffered from a complication of diseases but a heart trouble was given as the im mediate cause of death. Senator Harris had a long, active and distinguished public career, serv ing in many places of honor and re sponsibility, always with credit to himself and his constituents. Born at Cedartown, Ga., February j 3, 1868, the late senator was educat-; ed in tlve public schools of his native city and later was graduated from i the University of Georgia. He first embarked upon a business career, but soon devoted his attention to politics. He represented his district in the state senate and served as sec retary to the late Senator Clay. He was a former chairman of the Demo cratic state executive committee ami served as director of the census bu reau and was appointed to a place on the federal trade commission and was later acting secretary of com merce. In 1918 Mr. Harris was elected to the United States senate, defeating T. W. Hardwick and William Schley Howard. He was elected again in % 1924, again defeating Hardwick, and in 1930 defeated former governor J. M. Slaton. In the senate he was the highest ranking Democratic member of the appropriations committee and was a member of the commerce committee, committee on immigration, the mili tary affairs committee and the com mittee on territories and insular af fairs. Senator Harris was devoted to the interests of his constituents and he was faithful and active in working for the good of the people of his na tive state. He was held in the most affectionate esteem by the people of Georgia, as was attested be his elec tion in several heated campaigns. While not an effective orator, Sena tor Harris was a hard worker and was able to obtain many appropria tions for the people of his section. Senator Harris was well known and widely beloved in Butts county. In 1930 he delivered the address at the unveiling of a marker to Robert Smith, Revolutionary soldier. He was scheduled for an address before thd Kiwanis club here the past fall, but was forced to cancel the engagement because of illness. A state funeral was ordered for Senator Harris and the impressive rites were held in the senate cham ber Wednesday, with high govern ment officials attending. The body was taken to Cedar town, the senator’s home, where fun eral services were to be held Thurs day afternoon. Committees from the senate and house of representatives were named to attend the rites. Gov ernor Russell and other officials at tended the services. Interment was in Greenwood cemetery in Cedar town. Although Arabia is five times the size of France its population is smaller than that of New York City. More than 150,000 tank cars are in petroleum service, most of them leased .by oil companies. . JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 22, 1932 1,288 Pounds of Poultry Sold Here Friday For $lB7 Considering the low prices and the fact that it has been several months since a similar sale was held here, the monthly co-operative poul try sale held Friday turned out as well as had been expected. Butts county poultry raisers sold 1,288 pounds for the sum of $187.49. In the loading were included 969 pounds of heavy hens, $104.23; 45 pounds Leghorn pounds fryers, $75.46; 25 pbunds turkeys, $3.45; 6 pounds roosters, 30 cents. The car was bought by the Ten nessee Egg Cos. At Hawkinsville and Cochran 1 about 5,000 pounds were bought and about 2,500 at McDon ough. It is planned to hold these sales monthly until further notice. DISTRICT SCHOOLS COMPETE IN MEET HIGH SCHOOLS OF THE FOURTH DISTRICT WILL HAVE LITER ARY AND ATHLETIC EVENTS IN GRIFFIN DURING WEEK Plans have been completed for the annual meeting of the Fourth Dis trict High School Association to be held in Griffin Thursday and Fri day. The Jackson high school will send teams to compete in both the literary and athletic events and de spite the keen competition the local contestants stand a chance to win honors. The first event will be Thursday night when the district debate will be held with Spalding high school. The hour is 7:30. The events scheduled for Friday include: 9:3o—Cooking and essays, Spald ing high. 10:00—Reading, a tSpalding high. 1:00 P. M.—Athletic events at Lightfoot park. 7:00 P. M. —Music and declama tion at Spalding high. More than thirty schools will take part in the meet and a large atten dance is expected. Jackson and Butts county will be well represented at the meet. The debating team of Jackson high, which won over Griffin high and Spalding high, includes Evelyn Hodges and Huliette Ridgeway, Jim mie Watts and Nettie Lou Godsey. ’ The school will be represented in other literary events by Elwyn Pa trick in declamation; Elizabeth Mc- Miehael in piano; Anne Lester in i reading; J. L. Fletcher, Jr. in boys’ essay; Anne Lester in girls’ essay. Members of the athletic team in elude: Douglas Coleman, shot put; M'ike Allen, pole vault; Allison Fu qua, 100 yard dash, Arthur Gilmore, broad jump. “THE RANGE FEUD” WILL BE SHOWN AT THE LYRIC Buck Jones, who plays the lead ing role in “The Range Feud,” show ing Friday and Saturday at the Ly ric Theatre, had no stage or screen experience previous to his memora ble debut as star rider in a rodeo 1 t show in England. It was after he had been discharged from Uncle Sam's fighting air force at the close of the war. Since that time he has appeared | either as star or featured player in about fifty pictures and he is de stined for many more. The Monday and Tuesday show has been discontinued until further no tice. Only three presidents—Washing ton, Jackson and Garfield—have been honored with statutes in Na tional Statuary Hall. LAWYERS OF FLINT CIRCUIT TO MEET ANNUAL SESSION WILL BE AT HOTEL ELDER, INDIAN SPRINGS, ON FRIDAY, MAY 13. JUDGE COZART WILL SPEAK Friday, May 13, is the date of the annual meeting of the Flint Bar As sociation, to be held this year at Hotel Elder, Indian Springs. Notice of the meeting is given by Hon. Wil-> liam B. Freeman, of Forsyth, presi dent. Hon. A. W. Cozart, of Columbus, a former president of the Georgia Bar Association, has accepted the invitation to deliver the main address of the occasion. Judge Cozart is one of the leading lawyers of the state and is an interesting and entertain ing speaker. Members of the association will be guests of Judge G. Ogden Persons, of Forsyth, to whom the association is so largely indebted for these an nual occasions. A full attendance of the members, including attorneys in the four counties of Monroe, Lamar, Henry and Butts, and court officers is expected. Editors of newspapers in the circuit and of Atlanta and Macon daily papers have been extended an invitation to be present. These annual meetings, always oc casions of interest and pleasure, are held at Indian Springs. The com plete program will be announced within a few days. The officers of the Flint Bar As sociation are: William B. Freeman, Forsyth, president; E. L. Reagan, McDonough, vice president; Claude Christopher, Barnesville, secretary and treasurer. BASEBALL PKAtiICE TO START DURING WEEK NEGOTIATIONS PENDING FOR PLAYING FIELD AND GRAND STANDS. BUSINESS MEN SUP PORT SUMMER BASEBALL Promoters of summer baseball in Jackson arc going forward with their plans to put a winning team in the field this season. A meeting of those interested in organizing a team was held the past Thursday and plans were gone over. Negotiations are now pending for a playing field, and it is hoped to se cure the grounds in rear of the Jackson athletic field for use this summer A grandstand will he built and other necessary equipment plac ed. It is likely that the first practice will be held Saturday afternoon. All boys and men in the county who have ability at baseball are invited to come out and try for the team. It is the plan to have the entire county represented on the team and the best possible players will be picked for the various positions. More than $200.00 have already been subscribed, it is stated, and the business men of the community arc showing interest ip having baseball here this summer. The baseball fund will be helped by a spelling bee to be held in the court house Thursday night. The ad mission price will be 10 cents for everybody and all are urged to come out and help the cause. The present plans call for a league composed of at least six cities, in cluding Covington, Porterdale, Mans field, McDonough, Ola and Jackson. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR SERVICE POSTPONED TO LATER DATE The church service planned for Sunday by Alexius Commandery of Knights Templar has been postponed until a date later in the year. An nouneeemnt of the date will be made later. Tax Receiver To Close His Books First Day of May Tax Receiver Edward Carmichael calls attention to the fact that his books will close on May 1, and all who have not made out returns of property for 1932 are requested to attend to that matter within the next few days. Mr. Carmichael has made his usual rounds of the county and will be in Jackson until May 1. On the first of May the Board of Tax Equalizers will take charge of the books and check all returns and endeavor to get all property on the digest. MEMORIAL DAY BE OBSERVED APR. 26 JUDGE MARCUS W. BECK TO DELIVER ORATION. DINNER WILL BE SERVED VETERANS AND THEIR FAMILIES The Larkin D. Watson chapter, United Daughters of the Confedera cy, is completing plans for observing Memorial Day, Tuesday, April 26. For many years the U. D. C. chap ter has had charge of the Memorial Day plans. The address of the day will be de livered by Justice Marcus W. Beck, of the Georgia Supreme Court. Judge Beck, a former citizen of Jackson and a former judge of the superior courts here, has many friends in the county who are interested in the an nouncement that he will deliver the oration this year. Judge Beck is a man of brilliant attainments and is descended from a family long noted for their culture and scholarship, lie has spoken here on previous occa sions and is regarded as one of the most forceful speakers in the state. At 10 o’clock the veterans will as semble on the court house lawn and be carried in automobiles to the Jack son cemetery where the Children of the Confederacy will the graves of the Confederate dead. A detachment of the Jackson Rifles will fire a salute. The exercises in the court house will begin at 11 o’clock. The audito rium of the court house will be ap propriately decorated for the occa sion. Patriotic songs will be sung by a special choir. After the speaking the veterans, their wives and widows of soldiers will he entertained at dinner at the Jackson club house by the Daugh ters of the Confederacy. Preceding the exercises, the mem bers of Camp John L. Barnett No. 1114 U. G. V. will hold a business meeting in the court house. Election of officers to serve for the year and (he naming of delegates to the state and general reunion will be among the business matters to be considered. People of the entire community will unite in paying tribute to the men and women of the Confederacy and Memorial Day 1932 will be ob served in the usual interesting man ner. The following program has been announced for the exercises in the court house: Song. Invocation, Rev. A. J. Warner. Chorus by Jackson high school Glee Club. Roll call of veterans, J. A. Mc- Michael. Introduction of speaker, Col. W. E. Watkins. Address, Judge Marcus W. Beck, Atlanta. Song, Glee Club. Benediction, Rev. T. H. Williams. Women deposit and withdraw 85 per cent of the money handled by savings banks in America. Nearly 100,000 Japanese live in California. BOOST GEORGIA AH The Time $1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE EDUCATORS URGE CHANGE IN LAWS REFORM OF TAX PLAN PROPOS ED AT GEORGIA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION MEETING HELD IN MACON LAST WEEK Macon, Ga. —Resolutions urging drastic changes in the state tax sys tem and in the school laws under which the common schools of Geor gia operate were formally adopted by the Georgia Education Association Saturday in the closing session of the teachers’ sixty-seventh annual con vention. The resolutions include recom mendation of six specific changes in state school government. Incidental ly, most Ojf them were mentioned as desirable objectives by Governor R. B. Russell, Jr., in a speech Friday night during a convention session in the municipal auditorium. 1— A state-wide campaign to in form the public that Georgia ranks forty-ninth in school status, and to tell how this condition can be rem edied. 2 More money for school support —Georgia spends $34 per pupil; the U. S. average is $lO9 annually. 3 Gathering and distributing the state’s income on a more business-like basis, rather than increasing taxes. 4 Abandonment of the state ad valorem tax and substitution there for, of income, graduated and clas sified property, severance and sales taxes. 5 Proration of state funds ac cording to law, instead of allocation of specified taxes to specified pur poses. G—Revision of the state school system and re-codification of the school laws, with election of the state school superintendent by the state board of education instead of by popular vote, as at present; also elec tion of county school superintendents by county boards of education in stead of by popular vote. The resolutions were prepared by a committee headed by Superinten dent Ralph Newton, of Waycross, and were adopted unanimously on the convention floor. STATE ENTRIES TO CLOSE JUNE THIRD CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES WILL MEET MAY 6-7. AS. SESSMENTS LEVIED FOR THE STATE PRIMARY SEPT. 14 The Democratic state executive committee in a meeting held in Al bany Friday fixed the date for clos ing all entries in state races for Fri e.ay, June 3, at 12 o’clock noon, cen tral standard time. This applies to candidates for United States senator, governor, congress, judges and solic itors of superior courts, representa tives and state senators, and all .state house officers. The state primary will be on Wed nesday, September 14. Entrance fees for United States senator and governor were fixed at $250, and all other state house offi cers at $l5O each. Congressional district executive committees were called to meet on May 6 and 7 to fix rules for the congressional primaries, all of the meetings to be held on May 6 except in the seventh district. The district meetings are to be held in States boro, Albany, Americus, Warm Springs, Atlanta, Macon, Rome, Douglas, Canton and Athens, re spectively. Friday’s session proved a harmoni ous one. Following the adoption of rules, candidates for state offices are be ginning to announce and several iTsave already qualified. Indications point to a full field and a campaign filed with interest.