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VOLUME XXV.
THOMSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 192y-
NUMBER 6.
RULES ADOPTED BY DEMOCRATIC EX.
COM. TO GOVERN PRIMARY ELECTION
1. That the Democratic Primary
Election, ordered by the State Demo
cratic Executive Committee to be held
in the several counties of Georgia for
the purpose of expressing a prefer
ence as to the nominee of the Demo
cratic Party for President of the
United States/ shall be held in Mc
Duffie county on the 19th day of
March, 1924, this being the same
date as announced by the State Com
mittee for choosing a presidential
candidate, and that on the same date
a Democratic Primary Election shall
be held for the purpose of choosing
county officers for McDuffie county,
which said electioft shall be held in
accordance with the laws of this
State and the customs of the party.
2. That all white electors who are
Democrats and qualified to vote in
the general election, and who in good
faith will pledge themselves to sup
port the Democratic nominees for
all offices to be filled this year, shall
be qualified to vote in said primary
election, the act of voting in the
same to constitute the aforesaid
pledge.
3. Each candidate for sheriff, or
dinary, clerk, tax collector, school
commissioner is hereby assessed the
sum of $10.00; each candidate for
tax receiver and surveyor the sum of
$5.00, and each candidate for coro
ner the sum of $1.00, these assess
ments made to defray the expenses
of holding the said primary election,
and such assessments shall be paid
by each candidate to the Chairman of
this committee by 12 o’clock noon
of the 1st day of March, 1924. The
name of no candidate will be placed
on the official ticket who fails to pay
the said assessments by the time
specified.
4. Qualified voters shall register
on the Registration Book, kept in the
office of the Tax Collector of McDuffie
county, on or before 12 o’clock noon
of the 1st day of March, 1924.
5. A new county executive com
mittee shall be elected by the voters
participating in said primary who
shall serve two years. Each militia
district shall be entitled to elect one
committeeman.
6. On the 20th day of March, 1924,
the present committee shall meet at
the court house in Thomson and de
clare the results of said primary
election as shown by the returns
made by the various election manag
ers; and the chairman of this com
mittee shall certify the result and
transmit the same immediately to the
Secretary of the State Committee,
except in case of contest as herein
after provided.
7. Should any candidate desire to
contest the result of said Primary
Election, he shall file with the chair
man of this committee written notice
of contest, and then it shall be the
duty of this committee to proceed
on three days notice to all parties
to such contest to hear and deter
mine the same, and the chairman
of this committee shall certify the
j returns and results as soon as such
contest is determined.
8. Qualified voters residing in the
independent school system of Thom
son, Ga., that is, within the corpor
ate limits of the City of Thomson,
shall not vote in the election for
County School Superintendent, but
separate ballots will be provided for
those who may reside outside of said
limits. This rule is made to conform
with Section 147, Georgia School
Laws of 1921.
This 26th day of January, 1924.
THE DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE
I COMMITTEE OF McDUFFIE CO.
! By J. Q. WEST, Chuirman.
The DIGEST
Washington, D. C., Jan. 30.
TAXES RUN HIGH.
Figures furnished for the National
Government show that for the year
ending June 30, 1922, there was col
lected $3,630,215,000, making an ag
gregate of taxes collected of $7,859,-
163,000, or an average per person of
$72.29. These special revenues for
the National Government increased
from $667,038,000 in 1913 to $3,630,-
215,000 in 192, or 444 per cent.
THOMSON ATHLETIC CLUB ORGANIZED;
OCCUPIES 2 FLOORS IN WILSON BLDG.
The Thomson Athletic Club, organ
ized by Mr. Harold Trimble and oth
ers associated with him, is an insti
tution that is much needed in Thom
son. The club now has twenty-three
members and prospects of becoming
a strong organization are good.
The club has rented the entire up
stairs, second and third floors, of the.
Wilson building, also the lot in the
plying recreation appliances and
amusements for the members.
On the second floor will be located
shower baths, library, lounging room,
and athletic paraphernalia of various
kinds, such as indoor croquet, trapeez,
etc., while the third floor will be used
for basket ball, volley ball, hand ball,
etc.
It is planned to install a swimming
pool on the vacant ot to the rear of
the building.
Two contests are planned for next
week. On Tuesday night a boxing
match will be pulled off, and some
time later in the week a basket .ball
game will take place.
The need of such an institution in
Thomson is keenly felt. The young
men are at a loss for some place to
spend their idle time, and the recre
ation furnished by such a club is of
a wholesome nature. Besides the
athletic equipment, good books and
magazines will be kept on hand at
all times for the members. Nothing
but the best and most wholesome
amusements will be tolerated. The
rules and regulations forbid the use
of any unseemly language in the
club room, neither will drinking be
tolerated. It is intended that every
thing will he conducted in a manner
that no one will have cause for com
plaint or criticism.
BATHS AND TUBS.
The first bath tub in the United
States was built in Cincinnati, ac-
ording to the Washington Herald,
which prints the following: “The
bath tub was made of mahogany,
lined with sheet lead, and its far-
seeing owner installed it in his home
in 1842 and proudly exhibited it at
a Christmas party. The next day
the newspapers in Cincinnati de
nounced it in uncertain terms as
a luxurious and undemocratic vanity.
Then along came the medical men
and solemnly pronounced it a menace
to health. In 1842 Philadelphia un
dertook to prohibit by public ordin
ance bathing between November 21
and March 15. Boston, in 1845, made
bathing unlawful except when pre
scribed by a physician, and Virginia
was so wrought up that she taxed
bath tubs $30 a year. With all the
above opposition against it, the bath
tub today has become a vital neces
sity 'in our homes.”
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH MAKES
REPORT ON WATER SUPPLY FOR 1923
The State Board of Health has is
sued certifiatioq of water supplies of
the various cities and towns of the
state for the year 1923.
In this report is given the cooper
ation of each city in having monthly
analysis made, and also as to the
safety of the supply to use for drink
ing purposes.
It will be of interest to the people
of Thomson to know that our water
received an A-l classification. That
it is free of all impurities and abso
lutely safe for drinking and all other
purposes.
The officials of the city have been
dilligent in having samples of our
water analyzed every thirty days and
the reports of each analysis publish
ed in The Progress. As a result, we
find Thomson’s water supply classed
among the best in Georgia, in fact,
no city in the State received a higher
classification at the hands of the Di
vision of Sanitary Engineering.
CHEAP CRACKERS FOR CHAIN
STORES.
The National Biscuit Company and
the Loose-Wiles Biscuit Company, the
two largest biscuit and cracker man
ufacturers in the United States, have
been ordered by the Federal Trade
Commission to discontinue discrim
inating in prices between chain
stores and cooperative buying asso
ciations coriiposed of independent re
tail grocers when purchasing simi
lar quantities of the products of these
companies. The effect of the system
of discounts granted by these two
companies, the Commission found,
gives to chain stores an undue ad
vantage in competing with the inde
pendent retail grocers, which advant
age tends to substantially lessen
competition and to create a monopo
ly in the retail distribution of the
products of these two manufacturers.
Government’s plans were made pub
lic further than the statement that
ample credit would be given.
burning light on coal
PRICES.
A Federal Trade Commission bul
letin says that although a gross profit
of $2,00 per ton was reported for a
single car of anthracite bought from
the producer at $10 per ton f. o. b.
mine, large gross profits are disap
pearing and there is a continued de
crease in the proportion reported as
passing through the hands of two or
more wholesalers. Production con
tinues large, amounting to over 95
million net tons for the calendar year
1923 as compared with only 55 mil
lion tons for the strike year 1922.
The 1923 production was the largest
since 1918. This large production
has already let to a marked price
reduction for premium anthracite,
and it should soon eliminate all prem
ium prices. As states in previous
reports, the quantity of anthracite
sold by producers at prtemium prices
forms only a small part of the total
production, but it has been the main
cause of the high prices charged the
consumer. The Commission com
ments to the effect that the large
production of anthracite, increased
consumption of coke, bituminous coal,
and other substitutes, and the publi
cation of the facts regarding the
trade have already enabled the re
tailers to purchase anthracite at con
siderably lower prices, and adds the
statement: “Retailers should pass
these lower prices on to the consum
er.”
SAYS GEORGIA IS PRACTICALLY 100
PER CENT M’ADOO FOR PRESIDENT
“FAVORABLE TRADE BALANCE.”
The “favorable trade balance” of
the United States, in the calendar
year 1923 was $376^)00,000 or a little
more than an average of a million
dollars a day, and in the single month
of December $144,000,000.
Augusta, Ga. ,Jan. 30.—Georgia is
going to line up practically 100 per
cent for her native son, Hon. Wil
liam G. McAdoo, in the presidential
preference primary on March 19th,
according to Thos. J. Hamilton, chair
man of the Georgia McAdoo move
ment, who has just returned from
Atlnata, where state headquarters
have been opened at the Kimball
House with Miller S. Bell, of Mil-
ledgeville, lifelong friend of Mr. Mc
Adoo, as headquarters manager.
Managers from over the state have
also been appointed and the McAdoo
organization is working like a well
oiled machine.
“The women of Georgia are going
to be practically 100 per cent for the
native Georgian, born in Cobb coun
ty, near Marietta, and a woman’s
committee, of which Mrs. Edgar Al
exander ,of Atlanta, is chairman, has
been named. Mrs. Alexander will
appoint an executive committee of
one prominent woman from each
Congressional District,” continued
Mr. Hamilton.
“Early in March Mr. McAdoo will
come to Georgia and a monster
home-coming is planned for him at
Marietta .where he willi view (his
birthplace and see again the old
black mammy who rocked him in the
cradle. Mr. McAdoo’s first wife was
Miss Sallie Fleming, of Lincoln
county, whom he knew when a young
man at Milledgeville, the McAdoo
family having moved from Cobb
county to Milledgeville while the dis*
tinguished candidate for the prefll*
dency was a lad.
“William G. McAdoo is being!
fiercely fought by Tammany Hall;
which organization is putting out
‘stalking horses’ in many of the
states, men whom Tammany knows
have no chance 'of the nomination.
Anybody to beat McAdoo is the slo*
gan, because McAdpo is a progres
sive democrat and a friend of the
people. He is the only candidate be
fore the people of Georgia today who
has any chance whatever to get the
democratic nomination and when he
is nominated he is going to be elect
ed.
“Georgia will go to the polls irt ,
almost solid phalanx on March 19th.
and do her part toward putting the
first Georgian in the White House
who has ever been president, and the
opportunity may not come again in
many years. ‘Georgia for a Geor
gian’ is our slogan!”
What the Public Should Know About Cancer
Prepared for Publication by^the Cancer Commission of the Medical
Association of Georgia and the Georgia Division of the Amer
ican Society for the Control of Cancer.
Warning No. 3.
Local Members McAdoo
Campaign Committee
Mr. J. Quinn West and Mrs. Ira
E. Farmer have been named as mem
bers pf the McAdoo Campaign Com
mittee.
This committee consists of 300
members, from which an executive
committee of fifteen members will be
selected.
Mrs. Farmer is a member of the
Executive Committee to represent the
women of the Tenth District.
DEATH OF INFANT.
Little Sarah Louise, infant daugh
ter of Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Wilkerson,
died Thursday night at 8 o’clock at
the home of Mr. and Mrs. O. B.
Morris; aged one week. Funeral oc
curred Friday afternoon, interment
taking place in the City cemetery.
Fire Loss In Thomson
For 1923 Slight.
Loss of property in Thomson by
fire for the past year was very slight,
according to Mr. Jim Adkins, Thom
son’s competent fire chief. In fact
the loss was so insignificant that it
is hardly worth noticing.
This condition is due to the splend
id fire fighting apparatus and the
vigilant efforts of the members of
the fire department. It has given
Thomson a lower insurance rate, to
say nothing of the saving to those
who might not have insurance.
The Progress hopes to give a de
tailed report of the fire department’s
activities for 1923, as it makes good
reading.
GROWTH OF CONSOLIDATED
SCHOOLS.
Consolidated schools are increas
ing in number, according to the Un
ited Stgtes Bureau of Education. One-
room schools are disappearing and
more money is being spent lor trans
portation of pupils each year. Data
on consolidated schools show that
1,628 were formed in the school year
1921-22. Fourteen States did not re
port the number of consolidations
that year. Among the 14 are Ohio,
Kansas, North Carolina, and Mary
land, known to be making consider
able progress in consolidation. The
most accurate figures obtainable
show that there were 11,890 consoli
dated schools in the United States in
1920. Estimating an increase of at
least 3,000 in the next two years,
there were approximately in 1922
15,000 consolidated schools. Louisi
ana, Indiana, and Ohio each reports
over 1,000 such schools; Texas, Vir
ginia and Missippi each more than
600. There were 187,951 one-room
schools reported in 1920. Two years
later the estimated number was 179,-
450, a decrease of 8,501. Most of this
decrease is due to consolidation. Some
of it is due to a natural growth of
small schools into larger two and
three-room schools. Replacing ap
proximately 4,000 little schools each
year by something better is a con
siderable achievement. The amount
spent for transportation was $14,-
514,544 in 1920 with eight States not
reporting. For 19^2 it was $20,624,-
805, an increase of more than six
millions of dollars, again with no
reports from eight States. Iowa,
Ohio and Indiana each spent over
two millions in this way; Minnesota,
North Dakota, Massachusetts and
New Jersey each more than one mil
lion.
EARTHQUAKES WILL BE
PREDICTED.
Dr. Thomas A. Jaggar, Jr., Direc
tor of the Hawaiian Volcano Observ
atory, which is connected with the
Weather Bureau of the United States
Department of Agriculture, says he
believes that with continued story of
earthquakes it will be made possible
to send out warnings in time to save
lives and, to some extent, protect
property j “Flood warnings on the
great river systems annually save
hundreds of human beings and thous
ands of dollars worth of movable
possessions,” he says. “Increased in
formation about these volcanic and
seismic disasters which Chave occur
red should furnish a better under
standing of the precautions in build
ing, and in community practices that
might be taken by those living in
regions subject to such disturbances.”
A little 26c ad tn the “Want
•olumn will se’’ that artlrl v
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AID FOR NORTHWEST BANKS.
President Coolidge^ and his Cabinet
have approved a plan for extending
the assistance of Federal Reserve
banks and the War Finance Corpor
ation to banks in the Northwest
wheat growing district whose con-
diU'-.i lias been strained by several
re...nt failures. No details of the
CLIMATE AND EARTHQUAKE.
The after-effect of a seismic of vol
canic disturbance on climate has not
been studied to any extent by the
world’s scientists. Dr. Abbott of the
Smithsonian Institute has stated that
the climate of the northern hemis
phere was affected for two years by
the eruption of Mt. Katmai. Quan
tities of volcanic dust in the atmos
phere tended to cut off solar heat and
the temperature was accordingly
lowered for many months.
“It is a serious thing to be a wo
man.” One woman in every eight
dies from some form of cancer after
the age of forty. Three times as
many women as men die. of cancer
between the ages of thirty-five and
forty-five and twice as many between
forty-five and fifty-five. Every wo
man who becomes a mother is left
in a condition that makes her more
susceptible to cancer.
Ten thousand women die annually
in America from cancer of the breust
and fifteen thousand from cancer of
the generative organs. The average
age at which these women die is
forty-nine years. Thousands of
young men and women are robbed
of their best friend at a time when
she is most needed.
If women will exercise a reason
able amount of care a large number
of deaths from cancer of the breast
may be avodided. The most promin
ent symptom is a single lump. Nine
times out of ten it does not give
pain. There is only one outstanding
symptom and that is “the lump..” A
lump in the breast of a woman under
twenty-five is not, as a rule cancer;
there is only one chance in a thou
sand that it is. If, however, the
patient is older the chances increase
materially and by the time she is
forty-five there are nine chances out
of ten that it is cancer or will be, if
not removed.
Cancer of the breast is serious be
cause it spreads so early and so
quickly to other parts of the body.
Almost before the patient is aware
of the presence of the lump small
particles of it may have been broken
off and carried to the-lymph glandfl.
This materially lessens the chance
of recovery.
Some of the most important facta
the public should remember are that
cancer of the breast occurs most fre
quently between the ages of thirty-
five and fifty-five. It does not mat
ter whether or not the patient has
borne and nursed children. Heredity
has nothing whatever to do with its
occurrence. It does not cause pain.
It is not in any sense contagious. It
may or may not be caused by A
bruise. It may or may not be the
result of former abscess or inflam
mations. One thing we know. IT
IS A PAINLESS LUMP.
There occurs a most critical period
in the life of every woman by the
time she has attained the age of
fifty; sometimes it occurs earlier. A
great many unusual phenomena are
noticed and attributed to this period.
Some are natural; others are not.
What is normal for one may be un
natural for another. No one can
afford to take the risk. Many lives
have been lost because a very sick
woman was advised to let this or
that serious symptom alone “because
it is- only the change of life.”
We want to urge every woman who
has reached the “cancer age” to con
sult her family physician, make a
confidant of him, and insist that he
make a thorough examination. If he
will not, get some one who will!$
There may be no cause for alarm—
but—“it is better to be safe than
sorry,” for it is during this period
of life that most women die of can*
New County Agent Has
Arrived.
Mr. G. C. Daniel, from the State
College of Agriculture, has arrived
in Thomson and is ready to take up
his wor as agent for McDuffie county.
For the past Several years Mr.
Daniels has been connected with the
State Department of Agriculture,
and comes here with a ripe experi
ence in the work. He is formerly
from Danielsville.
AJ’POINTED FERTILIZER
INSPECTOR.
Mr. Harold Cliatt has been appoint
ed fertilizer inspector for the coun
ties of'McDuffie, Lincoln, Columbia
and Jefferson. This is a splendid ap
pointment and Mr. Cliatt’s friends
are congratulating him on his good
fortune.
Mr. Clatt left Thursday for Atlanta
to attend a meeting of the fertilizer
inspectors of the state, to be held
Friday.
THOMSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
SHOULD OFFER TAX EXEMPTIONS
There is a strong sentiment among
leading business men of Thomson to
do something to encourage manufac
turing enterprises to locate here.
Some of the more enterprising cities
offer tax exemption for a period of
years to encourage them to locate
there. Thomson could well afford to
do this, and some of the leading busi
ness men believe that a standing
proposition of this nature should be
made.
A town like Thomson, situated on
a splendid railroad like the Georgia
Road, with easy communication to
arteries of travel to all parts of the
I country, offers unexcelled advantages
; to manufacturing enterprises of vari-
j ous kinds. Taxes and upkeep in the
larger cities are burdensome, and a
little inducement offered by the small-
! er towns and cities might be effective
j in causing manufaturers to locate in
j them, inasmuch .as their output is
| usually shipped to all parts of the
j country and not confined to the local-
! ity immediately around them,
j The Thomson Chamber of Com-
J merce doubtless would be the proper
body to take up this matter and act
upon it should the members think it
proper.
Agricultural Speakers
Coming Feb. 12th.
Hard to Assemble.
mmii imentions and “do It now' 1
The Agricultural Extension De
partment at Athens is sending out a
corps of speakers during February
to visit several countiesr in the stdto
and make speeches on farming con
ditions.
Th speakers will be in Thomson
Tuesday, February 12th, and are as
follows:
J. K. Giles, whose subject will be
Farm Program for 1924.
F. C. Ward, Boll Weevil Control.
Elmo Ragsdale, Marketing Farm
Products.
Georgia Railroad Men, Crops of
Livestock.
PROMINENT VISITOR.
Hon. J. J. Brown, of Atlanta, State
Commissioner of Agriculture, was in,
Thomson Saturday calling on old
friends and making new ones.
