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VOL. 62—No. 5
1934 FEBRUARY 1934
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SEVERAL CWA PROJECTS
APPROVED FOR COUNT!
COUNTY HIGHWAYS, STREETS
IN TOWN AND SCHOOL PROP
ERTY LISTED AMONG PRO
JECTS FOR ATTENTION
Several projects involving work on
county roads, town streets and
schools grounds, have been approved
for Butts county by the state CWA
director, Miss Gay B. Shepperson.
Among these projects are:
Rock Creek road in Indian Springs
district.
beginning at Indian Springs Baptist
church and leading through the old
Lawson property.
Mt. Vernon church road.
Towaliga church road, extension.
Street improvements in Jenkins
burg, extension.
Improvements of Tussahaw school
grounds.
Clerical assistant in court house.
Improvement of Jackson school
grounds, additional $1,872 grant.
Improveemnt of Pepperton streets,
$614 grant.
Owing to the extremely cold wea
ther prevailing the first of the week
the CWA workers were unable to
carry on in the Jackson projects, but
this time was to be made up later in
the week, it was announced.
LAWYERS CAN AID
IN CURBING CRIME
fJUDGE OGDEN PERSONS DE
CLARES UNSCRUPULOUS LAW
YERS AID GANGSTERS AND
HELP CRIME RACKET
Griffin, Ga. —Judge Ogden Per
rons, of the Flint Circuit, speaking
here Saturday night at a meeting of
the Griffin Circuit Bar Association,
tojd members that the quickest way
tq stamp out gangs and end organiz
ed crime was for the bar itself to
clean house and get rid of Jhose law
yers who “forget their duty to then
government and by the use of habeas
corpus, professional bondsmen, and
other tricks of the trade” get guilty
men,off or delay trials and slow up
the law.
Every gang has its “mouthpiece,”
who with unlimited money behind
them and in many instances political
influence, is able to keep cirminals
from being gven sentences they de
serve. Such lawyers, he stated, are
unworthy of the profession and are
a reflection on the ethical attorney
at law who practices law as it should
be practiced.
Too often lawyers put the rights
of their clients before the rights of
society, Judge Persons stated. We
must clean house in every section of
the country. Of course conditions
are not as serious in Georgia as they
are in such crime centers as Chicago
and New York, but the gangsters are
beginning to come into the South
*and the best w-ay to nip their activi
ties in the bud is for the bar asso
ciations to eliminate those attorneys
would represent them when they
do come. If they know they cannot
get a “mouthpiece” they will not op
erate, he said.
Yellowstone National Park covers
3;438 square miles of territory, of
which 257 are in Montana, 25 in
Idaho and- -in Wyom
ing.
COTTON CAMPAIGN
DRAWS TO CLOSE
THROUGH SATURDAY 448 CON
TRACTS HAD BEEN SIGNED.
BETTER SHOWING MADE THAN
DURING LAST SUMMER
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With Wednesday as the deadline
in the cotton acreage reduction cam
paign, Butts county, with figures al
nady in hand, was over the top
with flying colors.
Through Saturday 448 contracts
had been approved, it is reported by
County Agent B. M. Drake.
This represented 39.5 per cent of
the base acreage. The department
asked for approximately 40 per cent
reduction.
Last year it is estimated the coun
ty had approximately 13,000 acres
in cotton.
The showing through Saturday was
much better than during the plow-up
campaign last summer, Mr. Drake
states. With the exception of a few
scattered farmers, who grow only a
small amount of cotton, farmers have
signed almost 100 per cent. Practi
cally all Large cotton growers have
come in on the campaign, the an
nouncement said.
Mr. Drake will assemble all the
figures and forwasd these to Wash
ington. If the county is accepted a*
to percentage of reduction and pro
duction per acre, then the individual
contracts will be sent in. This will
not be done, however, until the coun
ty as a whole is passed, Mr, Drake
states.
The clerical force is still busy mak
ing out contracts arid winding up de
tails of the campaign. The main work
of the cotton acreage reduction cam
paign is over and committees had a
meeting in Mr. Drake’s office Satur
day and considered the reports in
hand.
The whole campaign has met with
wonderful spirit and co-operation on
the part of the public. As has pre
viously been pointed out, the county
agent and clerical force and the sev
eral committees have all done hard
and unselfish work to put over this
important movement.
NEW GROCERY NOW OPEN
IN OLD BANK BUILDING
Morris and Standard Name of New
est City Business
Messrs. Joe Morins and E. W.
Standard announce the opening of a
r.ew grocery and meat market on
the west side of the court house
square in the building formerly oc
cupied by the Jackson Banking Com
pany.
The formal opening of this new
enterprise is scheduled for February
1. The building is already stocked
with anew and select line of quality
groceries and choi e nvats and the
equipment is new and at ractive.
Mr. Standard has for several years
teen connected wicli the firm of Paul
Tyler & Company and enjoys the
confidence and goodwill of a large
number of friends. By his tact and
courtesy he has established himself
as one of the city’s progressive young
business men. - ,
Mr. Mori-is, until recently connect
ed with Armour & Company as tra
veling salesman, has years of ex
perience in the meat and grocery
tiade and comes to Jackson with
high recommendations as to experi
ence and business integrity. Mr. Mor
ris will probably move his family to
Jackson for permanent residence.
Friends of these young men wish
them success in their venture.
The Panama Canal realized the
United States $20,000,000 profit last
year and it is the only business run
siderable profit.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1934
5,216 Bales of
Cotton Ginned
In Butts County
There had been ginned in Butts
county prior to January 16, a total
of 5,216 bales of cotton. This com
pares with 5,411 bales to the same
date the year before, showing a de
crease of 195 bales.
Total production from the crop of
1932 was 5,434 bales.
While the crop of 1933 was ap
parently smaller, it is recalled that
farmers plowed up the past summer
3,697 acres in accordance with the
government acreage reduction cam
paign. That accounted for from 1,-
200 to 1,500 bales, which would make
the 1933 crop about equal that of
1931. In that year the county pro
duced 6,325 bales.
In 1930 the county produced 7,-
809 bales, and in 1929 the crop
amounted to 5,941 bales.
TEACHERS PAID IN
FULL TO JANY. 1
RECORD IS ONE OF WHICH THE
COUNTY IS PROUD. TAX COL
LECTIONS HELPS TO DIS
CHARGE OBLIGATION
The salaries of all Butts county
teachers have been paid in full up
to the first of January, 1934, it is
announced by Superintendent Van
Fletcher.
When the fall term opened there
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were soma obligations from the
spring term that hadrto be met. These
obligations were paid in full and
arrangements made to pay up to and
including December, 1933. The rec
ord is one of which the county is
proud.
The county was able to make thi3
showing largely by the collection of
local taxes. State money, except the
equalization fund, has not been flow
ing very freely of recent months.
However, it is expected the governor
will negotiate a loan in the next few
weeks and this will help tide the
schools over a tight place.
The recent epidemic of measles
has cleared up and the attendance
in all schools is back to the fall
average.
Butts Included
In CWA Safety
Project For State
Atlanta, Ga.—Miss Gay B. Shep
person, state civil works administra
tor, Saturday announced a statewide
program designed to reduce acci
dents and to teach safety in genera!
on CWA projects would be launched
next week.
j The campaign will be directed by
J. E. Scott, safety director, and will
include courses in accident preven
tion and first aid to be given one
worker from each courily. Upon com
pleting the course the workers will
return to their counties as safety in
spectors and first aid attendants.
The work was authorized in Butts
county. Sponsored by the American
Red Cross the course will be given
in several of the state’s larger cen
ters.
JACKSON STUDENT ON DEAN’S
LIST AT STATE UNIVERSITY
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Athens, Ga.—Miss Sara Arm
strong Slaton, of Jackson, daughter
of Dr. and Mrs. H. R. Slaton, is in
cluded on the Dean’s List of the
University of Georgia for the cur
rent quarter, it was revealed by
Dean L. L. Hendren. The Dean’s
List is made up of all students who
have an average of 87 per cent or
more in all work for which they are
enrolled.
JAIKSUN JOINS IN
TRIBUTE TO CHIEF
PROCEEDS OF BALL WENT TO
WARM SPRINGS FOUNDATION.
WHOLE COUNTRY PAYS TRIB
UTE TO THE PRESIDENT
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Jackson joined with thousands of
other communities in paying tribute
to President Roosevelt Tuesday or
the occasion of his fifty-second birth
day. Roosevelt Balls, the proceeds ol
which went to the Warm Springs
Foundation for the treatment of
cripple# children, were held in five
or six thousand cities and towns in
the nation.
The Roosevelt Ball here was held
in the club house and was under di
rection of the Kiwanis club, with
members of the Jackson Club Cor
poration co-operating. The ladies
generously donated use of the build
ing for the ball.
Owing to the extremely cold wea
ther the attendance was not as large
as had been expected, but all who
attended enjoyed the evening’s pro
gram. Music was furnished by the
Jackson Orchestra, with Mrs. J. C.
Newton as pianist and W. H. Barnes
and Spec Brooks taking part.
During the evening the company
had the pleasure of hearing Presi
dent Roosevelt’s address over radio.
This was made possible by George
Deraney who installed a radio set
for thte broadcast. In this talk the
President thanked the people of the
nation for their support of the Warm
Springs Foundation.
Reports Wednesday morning esti
mated the total receipts from the
Roosevelt Balls in the nation to be
between one and two million dollars.
CURRENT DEBT AT
42 BILLION MARK
FEDERAL, STATE, COUNTY AND
CITY OBLIGATIONS PLACED
AT HIGH TOTAL FOR THE
PRESENT YEAR
Washington, D. C.—The public
debt of federal, state, county and
municipal governments was reported
Sunday by the census bureau to have
aggregated $39,171,587,000 for
1932. Since that time the federal
government’s gross debt increased
$3,051,622,000 to the end of June
last year, bringing the total to $42,-
222,249,000.
The gross debt reported for 1932
ol all public indebtedness of states,
counties, cities and all other sub
divisions with the power to incur
debt, amounted to $19,684,577,000,
or an average of $158.10 per each
person. Ten years ago the aggregate
debt was $10,255,458,000, or an av
erage of $94.32 for each person,
while twenty years ago it was $4,-
379,079,000, or an average of $45.11
for each person.
The federal government’s gross
debt on June 30 last was $19,487,-
010,000, or an average of $156.12
per person. In 1923 it was $22,349,-
an average of $200.10 per
person, and in 1913, before the
World War, it was $1,586,863,480,
oi $12.58 per capita.
Of the total gross debt, exclusive
of the federal government, state gov
ernments represented 14.7 per cent;
counties, 12.3 per cent; cities, towns,
villages and boroughs, 51.5 per cent;
school districts, 1J per cent; town
ships, 1.8 per cent; other civil divi
sions, 8.9 per cent.
The total for states was $2,895,-
845,000; counties, $2,423,306,000;
cities, towns, villages and 'boroughs,
$10,088,352,000; townships, $373,-
306,000; other civil divisions, sl,-
751,393,000.
Three Members
Board Education
Will Be Elected
For the first time in a number
of years there will be three places
on the Butts County Board of Edu
cation to be filled by the February
Grand Jury.
Hon. W. F. Huddleston president
if the board of education and long
and influential and stalwart mem
ber, will be eligible for reappoint
ment. His term has expired and
friends hope that Mr. Huddleston
will consent to serve for another
term. He has been a potent factor
in the upbuilding of Butts county’*
school system, giving largely of his
time and energies to the cause of ed
ucation and is recognized as one of
the leaders in education in Georgia.
The term of Mr. J. E. McMichaei
must be filled by the grand jury.
Mr. McMichaei has served several
years and is regarded as a strong
member of the board.
The vacancy caused 'by the death
of Hon. C. A. Towlris will be filled
by the grand jury. Mr. Towles served
only a few months but showed that
he was interested in education.
Much interest centers in the fill
ing of these places.
SUPERIOR COURT
CONVENES MONDAY
TWO WEEKS SESSION IS SCHED
ULED WITH HEAVY CALEN
DAR OF CIVIL CASES. JUDGE
PERSONS TO PRESIDE
The mid-winter term of Butts
County Superior Court will be con
vened here next Monday for a sched
uled run of two weeks.
.The calendar of civil cases, as
prepared by Clerk S. J. Foster and
printed in The Progress-Argus last
week, is a full one. Civil cases are
set for trial the first week.
Criminal business will be taken
up during the second week of court.
No important criminal cases are on
the calendar for this term.
Court will 'be convened at 9
o'clock, with Judge Ogden Persons,
ol Forsyth, judge of the Flint Judi
cial Circuit, presiding. Solicitor Gen
eral Frank B. Willingham, also of
Forsyth, will act as State’s attorney.
The Grand Jury will be organized
and charged Monday morning. This
body in addition to its other duties
will recommend three members of
the Butts County Board of Education
to fill vacancies existing or about
to exist.
Court officials have been busy
for several days preparing for the
February term.
Anew heating system has been in
stalled in the court house and this
convenience will 'be appreciated by
all citizens attending court.
THORNTON ADDS FUNERAL
HOME FOR COLORED RACE
Announcement is made by S. 11.
Thornton, Jackson undtertaker and
funeral director, of the opening of
a funeral home for colored people
on Second street. Anew building has
just been equipped for this service
and competent and reliable colored
help will be in charge.
753 POUND PORKER IS
RAISED BY S. J. FOSTER
The largest hog of the season, ac
cording to available records, was
slaughtered Monday by Judge S. J.
Foster. This Poland-China porker,
19 months old, weighed 753 pounds,
net. Last season Judge Foster had
a porker that weighed 733 pounds.
A hog that weighed 600 pounds
was recently slaughtered by Mr. W.
A. White, of Stark.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
RIVALRY SHOWN IN
BUILDING HIGHWAY
"TALMADGE HIGHWAY” WOULD
RELIEVE CONGESTION BE
TWEEN ATLANTA. MACON.
DELEGATION ASKS FOR ROAD
John W. Hammond, Atlanta staff
correspondent of The Macon Tele
graph, in writing of the movement
for a paved highway from Atlanta
to Forsyth on route 42, points out
that delegations have recently ap
peared before the highway board
asking that this road 'be named the.
“Talmadge Highway” and also points
cut there is a considerable bit of
rivalry in Clayton county. His arti
cle in The Telegraph of January 27
is as follows:
Atlanta, Ga. —There is a strong
road improvement rivalry on in cer
tain counties between Atlanta and
Macon. Some of the folks of Clay
ton, all the moving spirits in Henry
and Butts, are asking the state high
way board to provide right away for
completing the paving on route 42,
running from Atlanta via McDon
ough to Jackson, and thence con
necting with the main highway at
Macon, going on down into Florida.
Over in Clayton county some of
the" authorities want a strip out of
Atlanta, running alongside the Cen
tral of Georgia railroad paved to
ease up on the heavy traffic between
Jonesboro and Atlanta, and seem to
prefer that improvement over the
other one.
Henry county, however, claims
when the Atlanta-Macon route was
in process of construction they came
forward with financial aid and actu
ally paid for a part of the improve
ment through Clayton county. On the
theory of reciprocity they now lend
their support to the project through
McDonough and Jackson.
In the past few days one of the
moving spirits in the Henry county
group advanced the proposition that
this particular stretch be completed
as a paved road as early as possible,
and that it 'be officially designated
by the highway department as Tal
madge Highway. That’s in keeping
with the designation of the paved
road from Atlanta to Warm Springs
as Franklin Roosevelt Highway,” and
that one is liberally marked with out
standing signs all the way.
When the new paved road down to
Albany was opened up a few weeks
ago, one of the celebration features
was unveiling a handsome electric
sign at the intersection in Griffin,
which directs the southbound travel
away from the original all-paved
stretch through Macon, and shoots
it down through Thomaston. Below
Griffin the business people claim the
effect of that directing sign at Grif
fin can already be felt.
Now there is added this additional
argument: If the unpaved portions
of “42” are paved right away, it will
have the effect of taking much of the
over-load of traffic off one-half the
highway between Atlanta and Ma
con, with particular reference to
the rather rough stretch through
Spalding county. It wiil, also, divide
the southbound pressure as between
the Atlanta-McDonough-Jackson-Ma
con stretch and the route via Griffin
and Albany. If the petition is granted
by the highway authorities, there is
back of it a plan to erect electric
guide signs on the then new Tal
madge Highway.
FIFTEEN DAYS EXTENSION
FOR BUYING ’34 AUTO TAGS
Atlanta, Ga. — A fifteen-day ex
tension for buying automobile license
tags without penalty was ordered
Monday by Governor Talmadge. The
time would have closed Wednesday,
but has been extended to February
15.