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VOL. 61—No. 25
Cotton Acreage Reduction Drive Sweeping The South
Small Crop Means More Money
In connection with the campaign for reduction of cotton acre
age it is interesting to note that a small crop brings farmers of the
South more money than a large crop.
Figures have been compiled showing that a cotton crop of 10,-
000,000 bales will bring vastly more than a crop of 15,000,000
bales.
This is one of the compelling arguments for a reduced acreage.
The southern states, from Virginia to Texas, are engaged
this week in a campaign to take at least ten million acres planted
to cotton from production and devote the land to food and feed
crops.
The success of the plan, which has the backing of President
Roosevelt and other national leaders, depends upon the support
accorded by cotton growers.
Farmers will be paid and paid well for growing a smaller cotton
crop this year.
Here are the figures as compiled by a recognized authority:
C rop, Bales Price Total Value
15,000,000 7.36 cents $525,000,000
14,000,000 8.46 cents 592,200,000
13,000,000 10.19 cents 662,350,000
12,000,000 12.39 cents 733,400,009
1 1,000,000 14.51 cents 798,050,000
10,000,000, 16.49 cents 824,500,000
FORESTRY BOYS
BRANDED "BUMS”
GOVERNOR IN ATLANTA AD
DRESSES CALLS BOYS IN FOR
EST CAMPS “LOAFERS AND
BUMS.” HITS COTTON
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Atlanta, Ga.—Severely criticising
•the government policies with regard
to forest conservation camps and
cotton acreage reduction, Governor
Eugene Talmadge in a brief speech
Spiiday noon before the Atlanta Post
of the American Legion, referred to
the enlisted personnel in the forest
camps as “loafers and bums.”
“They’re sending these fellows out
in the woods to cut down bushes in
the summer and plant trees in the
V/inter,” he remarked, “and they’re
paying United States soldiers in
charge of the camps just hslf of
what they are paying these loafers
and bums.
“They have cut the compensation
of disabled veterans and yet they
have appropriated millions of dol
lars to let a lot of young fellows
run around in the woods.”
The governor spoke in critical
terms of the government proposal
that the 1933 cotton crop be reduced
by plowing up a certain percentage
of the cotton now developing in the
fields.
flovTlla planningfor
BIG DAY JULY FOURTH
HOME COMING FOR ALL FOR
MER TEACHERS AND PUPILS
OF FLOVILLA HIGH SCHOOL.
SERVE BASKET DINNER
• Flovilla is planning to observe the
Fourth of July with a home coming
celebration and reunion of all for
mer teachers and pupils of the Flo
villa high school. The committee on
arrangements has sent out a large
number of invitations and the re
sponses indicate a large attendance,
it is stated.
In acnmiG.. me reminiscences
and fellowship that will be afforded
by a gathering of former pupils and
teachers there will be other features
to add to the occasion. A basket din
*j<er to be served at the noon hour will
be one of the headlights of the day.
The occasion holds promise of be
ing one of much interest and pleas
ure for all fortunate enough to be
present.
JULY FOURTH WILL
BE OBSERVED HERE
BUSINESS HOUSES WILL BE
CLOSED FOR DAY. POST OF
FICE AND CARRIERS TO OB
SERVE THE HOLIDAY
July Fourth, which comes on Tues
day this year, will be observed as a
holiday in Butts county and through
out the country.
Business houses here, in carrying
out a custom established many years
ago, will be closed for the day. The
post office will be closed and mail
carriers will have a holiday. Banks
all over the country will observe the
nation’s birthday by suspending bus
iness.
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Jenkinsburg plans a barbecue and
home coming, while Flovilla will
have a reunion and home coming for
all former pupils and teachers of the
Flovilla high school. The fourth and
sixth district rural letter carriers will
have a joint meeting at Indian
Springs on that day. The Pepperton
Cotton Mills will observe the holiday
and a barbecue will be given for all
employees. The Pepperton and Ju
liette baseball teams will meet in a
double header, both morning and af
ternoon games being scheduled.
The races in Atlanta, picnics, fam
ily reunions, fishing and other di
versions will provide entertainment
for various groups.
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MIDDLE GEORGIA GOLF
LEAGUE ANNOUNCES
SCHEDULE FOR SUMMER
The Middle Georgia Golf League,
composed of Jackson, McDonough,
Covington, Social Circle, Monroe and
Stone Mountain, announces the fol
lowing schedule:
Jackson—Stone Mountain, July
19; Social Circle, Aug. 2; Monroe,
Aug. 9; Covington, Aug. 16.
McDoflough—Covington, July 5;
Jackson, July 12; Social Circle, July
26; Stone Mountain, Aug. 23.
Covington—Monroe, July 12; Mc-
Donough, Aug. 9; Jackson, Aug. 23.
Social Circle —Covington, July 19;
Monroe, Aug. 12.
Monroe— jacKsor,, o - >'ri>on
ough, July 19; Social Circle, Aug.
23.
Stone Mountain—Social Circle,
July 5; Monroe, July 26; Covington,
Aug. 2; McDonough, Aug. 16.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 3<j, 1933
HEARTY SUPPORT GIVEN PLAN
TO CUT CROP AND BOOST PRICE
SOUND BUSINESS
PLAN INDORSED
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COUNTY COMMITTEE AND DIS
TRICT COMMITTEES ACTIVE
IN SUPPORT OF EFFORT TO
CUT ACREAGE
From the valleys of Virginia to
the plains of Texas, cotton growers
of the South are enrolled this week
in the most ambitious scheme to
boost the price of cotton ever un
dertaken in the history of the indus
try. This is cotton acreage reduction
week, so designated by the Secretary
of Agriculture, and the cotton grow
ing South is on trial before the na
tion and the world. A reduction in
acreage ol' ten million acres is the
goal aimed at.
In all the states that grow cotton
organizations have been set up. State
and county and district committees
have been formed to carry the mes
sage to the growers and to give help
in filling out the blanks. County ag
ricultural agents, supported by coun
ty and district committees, are en
trusted with the job of putting the
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plan before the growers.
Blanks have been supplied and the
plan has been carefully studied and
digested. In most epunties meetings
have been held and all angles of the
plan have been discussed. During the
week meetings will be held in all
militia districts and the people in
mass meeting will hear the plan out
lined.
An enthusiastic meeting was held
in the office of Mr. B. M. Drake,
county agent, Friday afternoon and
practically all committee members
were present. The plan was endorsed
and this week it will be carried di
rect to the people.
The schedule of meetings was an
nounced in The Progress-Argus last
week.
There are two options open to
growers: One is to purchase cotton
at 6 cents a pound and a cash settle
ment in addition. The other option
is a cash settlement. Both plans are
based on the production of the land,
the outlook for this year’s yield, and
all details will be handled by the
district committees.
If sufficient acreage is withdrawn
from cotton it is believed the price
of the staple will rise to the highest
levels in several years. Failure of
the plan may mean cheap prices this
fall.
Secretary Wallace has announced
that the acreage reduction plan will
not become effective until at least
ten million acres have been signed.
Daily reports will be wired to Wash
ington and the otucome of the plan
will be made known public as early
as possible.
It is the greatest co-operative ef
fort ever undertaken in the South,
The plan has the hearty support o£
President Franklin D. Roosevelt and
other national leaders.
Farmers and business men of
Butts county are showing much in
terest and it is confidently believed
that farmers here will support the
acreage reduction movement most
heartily.
Motorists in this country are now
said to waste from 27 to 32 days
a year waiting for traffic Tights to
change.
COTTON MEETINGS
ATTRACT THRONGS
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FIRST 4DF MEETINGS AT TUSSA
| HAW DRAWS LARGE CROWD.
GASTON, COMPTON, JONES ON
COMMITTEE
The first of a series of meetings
called to hear the cotton acreage rc
' duction plan outlined was held at
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consolidated school Mon
t day night and attracted a crowd of
| around two hundred farmers. Great
j interest was shown and the initial
meeting reflected the sentiment of
the county for the government plan.
Meetings will be held throughout
; the week, and all sections of the
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county will be given an opportunity
Ito hear the Wallace plan explained.
On Tuesday night a meeting was held
jat Towaliga school, on Wednesday
night at Jenkinsburg and there will
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be a meeting at Indian Springs school
Thursday night, and the meeting-,
will be Jbrought to a close with a
■meeting! at the court house in Jack
I son Satujrday afternoon at 2 o’clock.
; Messrs. J. M. Gaston, J. C. Jones
and C. IVJ. Compton have been made
members of the county-wide com
mittee. In addition to the county
i committee there are district commit
tees who are taking an active interest
in securing signatures of farmers.
Reports so far received show the
'acreage reduction plan is going over
in a big way. The West is showing
i p strong, reports indicate.
Asa result of the agitation for
acreage reduction cotton passed the
10 cent mark Monday.
The government hopes to retire
from production 11,732,700 acres.
The estimated acreage is 39,109,000
and 30 per cent of that acreage is
the amount set to be plowed up.
Georgia has an estimated acreage
or 3,115,000 and the acreage to be
destroyed is 934,500 acres. Texas is
g;ven an estimated acreage of 14,-
979,000 and the quota to be plowed
up in that state is 4,493,700 acres.
CARRIERS TO MEET
AT INDIAN SPRINGS
FOURTH AND SIXTH DISTRICT
GROUPS TO HAVE GET TO
GETHER MEETING ON FOURTH
OF JULY
A social meeting for rural mail
carriers of the Fourth and Sixth dis
tricts will be held at Indian Springs
on July 4. This will be a holiday
for the carriers and the day will be
spent in fellowship and relaxation.
There will be no set program, but
an address will be made, the speak
er to be announced later.
A basket dinner will be enjoyed.
All who attend are expected to take
basket lunch.
The carriers and their families and
members of the Ladies Auxiliary are
invited to attend the meeting.
Gordon H. Thompson, state presi
dent of the Georgia Rural Letter
Carriers Association, will be in
charge of arrangements.
The sixth district formerly held
its annual meetings at Indian Spring 2
but when the district was divided last
year the carriers had to make other
plans. This year the fourth district
held its convention at Warm Springs
on May 30, while the sixth district
, met at Miiledgeville.
MR. COTTON-GROWER
BALE SURPLUS
I REDUCE^ROP
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JENKINSBURG TO
HAVE CELEBRATION
FOURTH OF JULY WILL BE
HOME COMING. BARBECUE
AND FIDDLERS CONVENTION
ON THE PROGRAM
Carrying out a plan that was start
ed several years ago, Jenkinsburg is
preparing for a big celebration on
July 4. This year the occasion will
take the form of a barbecue and
home coming, with a fiddlers conven
tion thrown in for good measure.
The celebration is sponsored by
the Jenkinsburg Parent-Teacher As
sociation. The proceeds will be used
for school improvement.
The program, which will be held
in the school auditorium, will begin
at 10 o’clock. Col. J. T. Moore, well
known Jackson attorney and former
pupil of the Jenkinsburg school, will
make the principal address. Everett
Milican, district manager of the Gulf
Refining Cos. and mayor protem of
of Atlanta, is also expected for a
talk.
At the noon intermission a bar
becue will be served at the cool
spring near the school building.
Plates of barbecue, with Brunswick
stew, tea, bread and pickle, will bo
served for 35 cents. Anybody who
has ever attended a barbecue at Jen
kinsburg knows the committee is on
the job and that hospitality is dis
pensed in a lavish manner.
In the afternoon, beginning at 2
o’clock, there will be a fiddlers con
vention. Prizes will be awarded to
winners of first and second places.
All who desire to enter this contest
are requested to see Miss Mae Childs,
chairman of the program committee,
or A. F. Taylor, director of the con
test.
The program is as follows:
Song.
Invocation, Rev. Roy Owen.
Welcome address, H. C. Childs.
Introduction of speaker, Mrs. Wal
ter Moore.
Song.
Address, Col. J. T. Moore.
Dinner—l 2 o’clock
Fiddling contest beginning at 2
o'clock.
Many manufactured articles and
lacquers are made from fish scales.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
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LADIES’ NIGHT STAGED
BY JACKSON KIWANIANS
PROGRAM OBSERVED IN CON
NECTION WITH INTERNATION
AL CONVENTION. FORESTRY
GROUP ON PROGRAM
The Kiwanis club of Jackson, in
nection with the convention of Ki
wanis International in Los Angeles
this week, obesrved All Kiwanis
Night Tuesday evening. It was also
Ladies’ night.
Vice President N. F. Land pre
sided in the absence of President
Lyons, who is in Chicago looking
over the Century of Progress Expo
sition. Mr. Land read a spelndid pa
per, outlining the accomplishments
of the organization and pointing to
the aims and objectives. He called
especial attention to the need of
service clubs in the present time of
stress and strain.
A group of boys from the Jackson
forestry camp appeared on the pro
gram and contributed much to the
enjoyment of the evening. Messrs.
Pruitt, Huff and McMichen contrib
uted delightful musical selections,
while Messrs. Burgess, Powell, Mich
ael and Mince appeared as comedians
and put on clever skits. Considering
the fact the boys have been busy
setting up the camp and have had
little opportunity to practice, the
entertainment was of a high order
and the program committee is in
debted to them for the various num
bers.
Singing and a drawing contest
were other features of the program.
The Jackson Club Corporation,
with Mrs. L. M. Crawford as chair
man, served a delicious dinner. Ou;
of town visitors included Mrs. S. P.
Nichols, of St. Petersburg, Fla., wife
of a former charter member of the
club, and Miss Glennis Thornton, of
Atlanta, who is visiting her parents.
More than a half million persons
j commute on suburban trains to New
York every day.