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VOL.. 69—No. 9
March 7 Designated As ‘MacArthur
Day’ For Collection of Scrap Metals
ALL SCRAP METAL IS BADLY
NEEDED BY GOVERNMENT
TO KEEP STEEL MILLS RUN
NING, CHAIRMAN DECLARES
Every farmer in Butts county will
rise up and “Scrap to Slap the Jap’”
on Saturday, March 7, in a united
tribute to General Douglas Mac-
Arthur, it was reported this week
by Chairntan J. L. Bailey of the
Butts County USDA War Board.
“MacArthur Day” will be highlight
ed by the gathering and sale of
scrap iron and steel, “now sorely
needed to speed our war produc
tion machines,” Mr. Bailey said.
The day, exactly three months af
ter Pearl Harbor, was chosen by
the state and county USDA War
Boards in honor of the man whose
armed forces have borne the brunt
of the Philippine invasion, and who
have received, in the form of deith
dealing shot and shell and bomb,
the scrap metal sold by Americans
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to Japan in past years.
Every individual and every or
ganized farm group in the county
has been urged to give full assist
ance to the whirlwind scrap collec
tion drive on “MacArthur Day,”
and indications are that hundreds
of thousands of pounds of scrap
iron and steel will be moved into
industrial channels from Butts
county alone.
“It’s estimated,’’ Mr. Bailey said,
“that at least three billion pounds
of scrap metal now lie idle on Amer
ican farms. That’s enough, if com
bined with other materials of course,
to build 139 modern 35,000-ton bat
tleships—more than all nations
combined now possess.
“That scrap has lain idle too
long. America needs it. Numbers of
our steel mills are now idle for lack
of it. They must be put to work by
putting our scrap to work. Every
farm person, man, woman or child,
should sell or contribute to the
cause whatever scrap the farm will
yield, even if only a pound.”
Chairman Bailey urged that ev
ery farm resident of Butts county
devote time during the next few
days to combing the barn-lot, the
fields, and all old mill sites for
scrap metal which may serve the
nation’s needs.
Receiving stations will be set up
at convenient points on “MacAr
thur Day,” the War Board Chair
man said, and arrangements are be
ing perfected whereby payment may
be made for scrap metal as it is
brought in.
A price of 50 cents per hundred
pounds will be paid for scrap and
the successful bidder is A. E. Da
vis of Jackson.
GUS GRAY CABLES HE IS
WELL IN PACIFIC AREA
His family has received a cable
gram from Gub Gray, United States
Navy in the Pearl Harbor area, that
he is well. This is the first news
received since the attack on Pearl
Harbor December 7. Friends of
Mr. Gray and his family are glad to
know he is safe and well.
WANT ADV MAKES QUICK
SALE OF REAL ESTAfE
“The Progress-Argus adver
tising gets results and the re
cent want advertisement about
property for sale at Jenkinsburg
resulted in a sale almost before
the ink was dry on that edition,”
declared O. E. Smith, real es
tate agent. Only one insertion
of a small advertisement was
necessary to close an important
real estate deal.
Butts People
Asked To Play
Night at Gym
FIRST OF MONTHLY MEETINGS
FOLLOWING RECREATION IN
STITUTE SLATED FOR NEXT
THURSDAY, MARCH FIFTH
First monthly play night follow
ing the recent recreation institute
is scheduled for the Butts county
gymnasium Thursday night, March
5, beginning at 8:30.
At that time there will be games
and stunts and people of the entire
county are invited to attend and en
ter into the recreation. There is
no admission and the more people
who attend the greater will be the
interest and inspiration.
Other communities in the county
will probably have these play nights
and become more recreation minded,
now considered a vital part of na
tional defense.
A large attendance is expected.
Other play nights will be held on
the first Thursday in each month.
Checks Arrive
In County For
Soil Practices
FIRST BATCH OF CHECKS RE
CEIVED LAST WEEK AND
OTHERS EXPECTED TO FOL
LOW IN SHORT WHILE
Soil conservation checks for 1941
practices have begun to arrive in
Butts county and others are expect
ed to -follow within a short while.
, Payments of $2,166.78, repre
senting 44 farms, were made last
week through the AAA office.
I Another lot of checks, 81 in num
ber, representing 49 farms, for $2,-
976.70, was received at the AAA of
| fice Wednesday morning.
I No announcement has been made
as to the year’s total, but it is
thought this will run between $30,-
000 and $35,000. The rate of pay
ment is 1.37 as against 1.55 last
year.
| At the triple-A office it was said
that forms are being completed and
forwarded to state headquarters as
rapidly as possible, and payment will
follow as soon as necessary details
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can be completed.
State Guard
Unit Recruits
Full Strength
TWO DRILLS PER WEEK IS NOW
ON SCHEDULE. MEMBERS TO
ATTEND MOTION PICTURES
AT GRIFFIN SCHOOL
The Buth county unit of the Geor
gia State Guard has been recruited
to full strength, it was reported
Wednesday by Capt. B. B. Garland.
The unit had a good drill at the
gymnasium Monday night and about
60 men were present.
Drills for the present are held at
the gymnasium Monday and Friday
nights from 7:30 to 9 o’clock.
Beginning the first Wednesday in
March the company is requested to
attend a series of military motion
picture shows in Griffin.
Capt. B. B. Garland, Lieut. Clyde
Walker have been ordered to attend
a State Guard officers meeting in
Atlanta Sunday afternoon at 2
o’clock.
It was nescessary for the local
unit to have an enlisted personnel
of 30 men before it was organized
on a wartime basis.
JACKSON, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1942
PAVE THE WAY
BMfer j .
Ireland Has
Religious And
Racial Problem
HARLAND TOLD KIWANIS MEM
BERS WHY NORTHERN AND
SOUTHERN PORTIONS ARE DI
VIDED ON WAR ISSUE
Racial differences and religious
questions figure in the split in Ire
land and explain why that kingdom
is not supporting Great Britain in
the present war, John H. Harland,
native of Ireland and now Atlanta
businessman, told members of the
Kiwanis club Tuesday night.
The speaker was introduced by J.
W. O’Neal, program chairman.
Six counties in northern Ireland
are pro-British, while the 26 coun
ties in the southern portion are op
posed to the British war effort, the
speaker said. In the northern por
tion of the country the people are
Protestant while the southern sec
tion is Catholic. . There are also
racial difference, it was explained.
Ireland has an area of about 30,000
square miles, about half the size of
Georgia, Harland said..
He related incidents to show the
agriculture and industry of the na
tion, and also recounted the long
fight for Irish freedom.
The program for March 3 will be
in charge of H. 0. Ball.. Dinner
was served by the U. D. C.., Mrs. J..
M. Leach chairman. . Visitors in ad
dition to the speakers were W. L.
Duncan and Ralph T. Bradberr Jr.
SIX WHITES WILL
BE CALLED SOON
FOR ARMY SERVICE
The Butts county Selective Ser
vice Board reports that six white
youths will be called soon for army
service. They are:
James Edgar Hilley, Charles Dan
iel Johnson, William Oxford Wise,
Carl Wade Patrick, Paul Wells, War
ren Leonard Evans.
The men will be sent to Fort Mc-
Pherson for induction.
One of Calvin Coolidge’s
trite sayings may come into
practice, with emphasis, in
these war days. It is:
“Eat it up.
Wear it out.
Make it do.
Do without.”
Knights Templar
Commended By
Visiting Officer
ANNUAL INSPECTION HELD FRI
DAY NIGHT. WORK OF MA
SONIC HOME LAUDED BY DR.
T. W. SEWELL, NEWNAN
At the annual inpection of Alex
ius Commandery No. 22, Knights
Templar, Friday night the order was
commended by the inspecting offi
cer, Dr. T. W. Sewell, Newnan, a
past commander of the Newnan
commandery. The number of mem
bers present and the general high
grade of work done throughout the
years was the subject of favorable
comment by the ranking officer.
Sir Knight Sewell devoted most
of his talk to the work of the Ma
sonic Home in Macon. He is a trus
tee of that institution and has rep
resented central Georgia Masons on
the board for several years. The
home is doing great work, he report
ed, and he called especial attention
to the fine dairy herd that supplies
the home with an abundance of
milk and a surplus for market. He
asked the members of the com
mandery to visit the home.
This is a work in which Dr. Sew
ell takes particular pleasure and he
has done outstanding work to redeem
and place the institution on a high
level of service to orphan children.
J. C. Newton, a past commander
of the grand commandery of Geor
gia, spoke briefly.
Preceding the inspection members
of the commandery were served a
steak supper at Lere’s restaurant.
ETHERIDGE SEED COMPANY
STRESSES USE GOOD SEED
Good garden and good field crops,
which come from good seed, are
stressed this week by the R. N. Eth
eridge Seed Company as a part of
national defense. This firm is using
space to advocate good gardens to
assist the war effort and to acquaint'
its customers with the type of ser
vice it renders in seeds, feeds and
groceries.
R. N. Etheridge Seed Company is
one of the oldest seed stores in this
territory and now covers ten states,
according to the advertising mes
sage in this edition.
Mr. Etheridge, always a firm be
liever in advertising, says the ad
vertising he is running in the Pro
gress-Argus is getting good resulis.
Civilian Defense Will Be Organized
In County Following Meeting Tuesday
Third Selective
Lottery Will Be
Held March 17
MEN WHO REGISTERED IN FEB
RUARY NOT LIKELY TO BE
INDUCTED SOON, NATIONAL
BOARD EXPLAINS
The third national selective ser
vice lottery will be held in Washing
ton March 17 when order numbers
for registrants who enrolled in Feb
ruary will be determined, national
Selective Service headquarters, said.
In all probability approximately
eight or nine thousand-capsules will,
be drawn in this the first wartime
lottery since 1918 and the third since
enactment of the Selective Training
and Service act of 1940.
Under present plans, the order
numbers of the registrants who en
rolled February 1G will not be in
tegrated in the old master lists as
were the order numbers of the men
who registered on July 1, 1940. Con
sequently it is not expected that any
of the February registrants will be
inducted in the immediate future.
It is contemplated that registrants
in the third registration will not be
called until they have answered
their questionnaires and have been
classified, which probably will not be
before May. Prior to May, all war
department quotas necessarily must
be filled from men 21 to 36, who
registered in 1940 and 1941.
Workers’ Council
At Worthville
Church March 4
The Workers’ Council of the Kim
ball Association will meet at the
Worthville Baptist church March 4,
beginning at 10:30 a. m., and fea
tures will be an address by Rev.
Searcy S. Garrison, a playlet by the
Macedonia Training Union and a
demonstration led by Miss Ethel
Richardson.
For the forenoon session there
will be an address by Mr. Garrison,
pastor of the First Baptist church of
Barnesville, and a playlet. In the
afternoon Miss Richardson of Grif
fin will lead the demonstration.
The executive committee of the
association of which the Rev. G. A.
Briggs is chairman, will meet after
the lunch hour.
All churches in the association
are expected to send representatives
to the meeting.
NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS
Effective March 2, 1942, the following sub
scription rates will prevail:
One year $2.00
Six months 1.00
Three Months .50
One month .25
The increase in rates is made necessary be
cause of the advancing cost of paper, materials and
all things that enter into the publication of a news
paper.
The advance in subscription rates is less than
one cent per week on yearly subscriptions.
Until March 1 subscriptions will be received
at the present rate of $1.50 per year. After that
date all subscriptions will be at the new rates.
Your cooperation will be appreciated.
$1.50 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
POLICE, FIREMEN AND AIR
RAID WARDENS WILL HAVE
TRAINING AFTER FIRST AID
COURSES STARTING NOW
Civilian defense in Jackson and
Butts county was advanced Tuesday
night at a meeting in the clubhouse
attended by about forty interested
persons, and plans were made to
begin first aid courses this week
for policemen, firemen and air raid
wardens.
These courses will begin in the
courthouse Thursday night at 8
o’clock and there will be another
class Friday night at the same hour.
The classes will give 10 hours of
training.
Ralph T. Bradberr Jr., of the Ma
con civilian defense office, explain
ed the duties of police, fire and air
wardens and told of the recent
blackout in Macon. W. M. Redman
as mayor and chairman of the civil
ian defense committee presided.
The speaker outlined in detail the
duties of the thre main divisions—
police, firemen and air wardens.
Nutrition, nursing, collectiing met
als, etc., will be carried on as a part
of the general plan but under sepa
rate heads.
Beginning with Jackson as a nu
cleus civilian defense will be organi
zed on ward lines. Later this samo
method will be followed in organi
zing the entire county.
At a meeting to be held later in
the week workers will be assigned
to the various divisions and captains
elected to have active charge of
the three departments.
Mayor Redman said Butts county
has completed registration of 13
percent of the population, but ex
plained that more workers could be
used, particularly in Jackson.
PERMIT NECESSARY
FOR SOLICITING IN
CITY OF JACKSON
In this edition will be found an
ordinance originally passed April
14, 1941, and printed as informa
tion by the city, regarding the se
curing of permits for soliciting
funds with the city limits.
This ordinance forbids any per
son to solicit funds in the city with
out a permit from the city clerk.
It was passed in response to a gen
eral demand by business firms for
protection against a number and
variety of schemes for obtaining
money for charitable and other pur
poses.