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VOLUME XXV. Thomson, McDuffie county, Georgia, Friday, june r>, 192-1. MERCHANTS TO CLOSE STORES THURSDAY P. M. DURING SUMMER It has become customary in the larger towns and cities to close the stores one afternoon a week during the summer months. The merchants of Thomson, realizing that their em ployes need recreation from the long, not summer days, propose to adopt this plan, closing Thursday afternoon each week during the months of June, July and August at 1 o’clock P. M. The following petition was circu lated and the names of those partici pating affixed: “We, the undersigned merchants, agree to close our places of business each Thursday afternoon during the months of June, July and August, at 1 o’clock P. M., beginning Thursday, June 12th. On Thursday, July 3rd, it is proposed to remain open on ac count of the general observance of the day following, July 4th.” Arnold Chevrolet Co. H. E. Clary. First National Bank. Bank of Thomson. Thomson City Bank. A. P. Hancock. H. P. Schneider. C. A. Farmer. T. R. Reese Barber Shop. J. D. Adkins. Joe Goolsby. .T. C. Wall. * R. A. Kunnes. Hndaway’s Department Store. Hobbs & Lokey. Myer Steine. Thrasher & Wilkerson. Boyd Furniture Co. Mrs. Estelle Martin. Thomson Hardware Co. J. W. Fletcher. J. E. Wiley. E. E. Roberts. Mrs. Gordon E. Wall. Gus Agoos. Racket Store. H. L. Boatwright. B. A. Scott. P. P. Maddox. J. A. Jones. Hunt & Williams. Thomson Mercantile Co. Roy J. Johnson. E. H. Landers. R. S, Pounds. J. M. Hogan. G. H. Hogan. Washington, D. C., June 5. CONGRESS CLEARING ITS Letter From Hon. Carl Vinson. Washington, D. C., June 5. The Editor of the McDuffie Progress, Thomson, Ga. My Dear Sir: Will you please do me the kind ness to publish this letter in your paper, advising the ex-service men that it is not necessary to write to the War Department, Navy Depart- ( ment or Veterans’ Bureau for blank forms of application for adjusted ! compensation. 1 Detailed information will be furn ished with the blanks, which will be ready for distribution in about 30 days. Accompanying each will be a circular giving the veterans full in formation as to how to fill out the application blank. The blanks will be distributed by American Legion posts, Red Cross chapters and the postoffices. The Secretaries of War and Navy have advised me that they will furn ish me with an ample supply of the blanks so that I can distribute them among any veterans who fail to ob tain them from the soui’ces above noted. As soon as the blanks have been distributed, I shall come to Thomson to advise with the veterans in regard to their bonus and to .render what assistance I possibly can in helping them get their applications in proper shape. I shall let you know later at what date it will be convenient for me to be in Thomson for this pur pose. I trust my familiarity with the new law and experience with handl ing claims before the Department will be of great assistance to the vet erans in getting their adjusted com pensation promptly attended to. Sincerely yours, CARL VINSON. Warrenton Ball Team Here Friday. The Warrenton base ball team will come today (Friday) for another J game with the Thomson team. The game Wednesday was much I enjoyed, as it was one of the most hotly contested games of the season, and the first that Thomson has had with Warrenton. Warrenton has a good team, as is testified by the close score of 4 to 3 in Wednesday’s game. Warrenton had the home boys going in the first inning, when she piled up her only tallies, making three runs with the bases full at the close of the inning. From then on to the close of the game Thomson held them down, but they played a valiant game to the last. Another thing about the Warrenton team this year, they are all good sports, play a good, clean game, with out the least bit of wrangling. It is hoped a good crowd will turn out to see the game today. Both the home boys and the visitors deserve a good audience. South Must Supply Wood Pulp. Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Will the South be the center of the paper in dustry in the future? A new industrial opportunity has been opened to the South as a result of the Canadian embargo on the ex- poration of wood and pulp wood, it was pointed out here today by At lanta publishers. The Canadian em bargo places the manufacturers of paper in this country face to face with a serious situation, it was shown. Without the Canadian pulp supply, paper manufacturers must find new sources of supply or a substitute for pulp wood in paper. The latter is not easy to do, it was asserted. Experiments made with the fiber of cotton stalks and with other wood fibre have not been satis factory. Thus far the only material paper makers can depend upon is pulp from pine trees, a material that is becoming exhausted in the North and North-east and which still abounds in the South. The South, it is believed by paper manufacturers, reports received here state, offers the only solution to their difficulty. One difficulty, as pointed out here, that has tended to prevent the use of Southern pine in paper making has been the inability to overcome the rosin handicap. Until a few years ago it was thought that the rosin content of southern pine rendered it unfit for paper making by any known process, but the research chemist has overcome this difficulty. The south’s outpuf of strong brown kraft paper in the mills now in oper ation is said to be around 600 tons daily. And although so far southern pines have not been generally used in the manufacture of news print and other white paper it is belived here, in the light of recent developments, this, also, has been conquered by the chemist. The Southern states of Georgia, Alabama, Virginia, North and South Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Arkan sas, Louisana and Eastern Texas have pine forests which it is believed are ample to supply the needs of paper industry for a number of years, per haps indefinitely if yield manage ment and conservation is coordinated. J. D. Curtis Elected Vice President. Mr. J. D. Curtis, of Thomson, was honored by the Georgia Funeral Directors Association at their meet ing in Savannah this week by elect ing him Second Vice President of the Association. Mr. Curtis is well known throughout the State in his association with the funeral directors and embalmers at their meetings, which attests his knowledge and au thority on matters pertaining o his profession. Macon was selected as the meeting place of the association in June next year. MR. "pEARCE improves. Mr. Robert Pearce, who has been quite’ ill this week has regained his g^j*gy}g£h to a most satisfactoiy ex tent and seems to be getting back to his usual health. He is anticipating with pleasure a visit from his daugh ter, Mrs. T. A. Scott, of Atlanta, who is expected Saturday to come and spend several days. On account of Mr. Pearce’s illness the V oman s Club meeting to have been held with Mrs. Farmer was postponed. Twenty-Three Fish Traps Removed. Attention of The Progress has been called to the fact that twenty-three fish traps have been removed from the streams of McDuffie county by Mr. C. P. Watson, game warden, and his deputies. Most of these were taken from Briar Creek. Early in the season Mr. Watson notified the public that he intended clearing the streams of fish traps, according to government instructions. From the number taken out it would seem that the streams should be about clear of traps, and doubtless fishermen and all concerned are elated at the work done by Mr. Watson and his deputies. Much favorable com ment has been heard regarding these efforts to protect fish in the streams of the county. BUYS MATHEWS DRUG CO. Mr. A. J. Melton, of Crawfordville, has purchased the Matnews Drug Co., which will in future be known as the Melton Drug Co. Mr. Emmett Mathews retires from the business and is contemplating locating in Florida. Mr. Melton is a druggist of long experience and comes to Thomson well recommended. Mrs. Melton will join him as soon as they find a suit able place, and they will be heartily welcomed as new citizens of Thom- ACCEPTS POSITION. Mr. Eugene Dunn has accepted a position with the Wear Ever Allumi- num Company and will leave Mon day for Crawfordville with Mr. W. L. Harwell where they will work to gether on his initial trip. Mr. Harwell, who is of a prominent Dc-Kslh county family, has been in Thomson a month and has been very successful .in his business. He has made friends by his affable manner and,business dealings. DECKS: Japan pi’otests against the exclusion of its nationals by the United States. A tax bill has bean passed, and in sending it to the Presi- dent it was accompanied by an im plied threat that if vetoed, it would be re-passed over the veto. Out in Chicago a Federal Grand Jury has \ been investigating the administration ■ of the VeteranJs Bureau, which was | previously painted very black in the j Congressional investigation. Import- ! ant railroad legislation is not to i be hoped for in this session of Con- 1 gross. Farm bills have moved up wards in the Congressional calendar, I and gi r.dually the contingencies [threatening to delay adjournment of Congress have been removed. THE CONGRESSIONAL AGONY: The present Congress exceeds all predecessors in its intrigues to dis regard party lines; to snap its fingers at the White House and defy threat ened vetoes. Senator Fess of Ohio, has said that “today, the Senate as a body has no control over its mem bers, but any member can entirely use it to his own purpose.” He be lieves that the American people will not tolerate a continuance of the “spree” of investigations, which he heartily dislikes. Optimistic Nicholas Longworth, also from Ohio, and- Re publican leader of the lower branch of Congress says: “The House is to day the dominant body in Congress. We not only legislate but we know how to legislate.” Unfortunately few people will agree with Mr. Long- worth. The House is unwieldly in size, and the reports of its principal committees is only preparation work for the Senate which does most of the actual legislating for the country. The country has quite justly measur ed he present session of Congress as a sort of “agony”—due to the peculiar kind of results that have been obtained. AMERICAN GOODS ABROAD: Re el uests to the United States De partment of Commerce from 2[) foreign countries indicate that “many merchants seek to buy goods outright and others ask that American firms be advised of their willingness to sell their goods on an agency basis.” Bulgaria wants industrial machinery; Jugoslavia inquires for household scales. Egypt wants flour and semo lina. Bakery supplies are wanted by the Netherlands. Austria will take artificial silk and wool yarns; Jama ica, carpets and furniture; France, hams, lard and sugar. LAND, VALUES AND POPULA TION: The Agricultural Depart ment estimates a population of 150,- 000.000 in the United States in twen- ty-five vears. and that it can be fed by adding 38,000,000 acres more of producing farm lands. It is easy, as there are 600,000.000 acres of poten tial cron land, 200,000 acres of which should be reserved for forests, etc. The Department in another bulletin says that the available land resources in the United States are capable of sustaining a population of 300,000,- 000. In still another bulletin the, Department considers the problems of the demand for land and farm products and arrives by a course of reasoning that “there is consequently nothing over-optimistic in predicting an increased demand for farm land, and consequently for American farm products within a few years.” HOW NOT TO DECEIVE: The Fed eral Trade Commission is constant ly adding new rules to the code of business morals. A Philadelphia manufacturer of toilet preparations has been summoned to Washington to answer the charge of misbranding his goods as “lemon” cleansing creams, etc., when — despite the cheapness of the fruit— they contain no lemon, or juice. A St. Louis con cern has been called to the carpet on a complaint that it enters into agree ments with distributors to maintain certain resale prices, and to report to the manufacturer any failure of other dealers to keep the price agree ment. In another city a firm of blanket dealers is accused of sailing under false colors by using the name of a former company now out of the blanket game. In Omaha, a firm sells its goods to its “established dealers.” New customers are classed under a different head, and charged ! greater prices, •which in some cases are divided pro rata among the ‘‘es tablished” favorites. A New York concern advertises to sell “English Broadcloth” shirts, when as a matter of fact the goods from which the shirts are manufactured is made in the United States. I A FOLLETTE’S LAST CHANCE: Senator La Follette’s name has been presented at the last “several” Republican national conventions. The Senator is getting old, and 1024 is i the last chance at the Presidency, j hence, a willingness to “go it inde- | pendent.” TO BUY SILVER: The Pittman | bill to purchase fourteen million t dollars worth of silver to replace silver dollars withdrawn from the I treasury vaults during the war and ! sold as bullion to the British govern ment for use in her Colonies has passed the Senate. This is intended to complete the purchase of stores of domestic silver covered in the Pitt man Act. Favorable 'action by the House is confidently predicted. BOYCOTT OF THE FEDERAL COCRTS: A bill before Congress last year sought to remove the juris diction of Federal Courts in public utility cases and throw these cases into the State Courts. A new pro posal is to clear certain public utility cases through the Interstate Com merce Commission. Congress never becomes converted to such proposals. WORLD TRADE IMPORTS: Dis tinct tendencies toward readjust- i ment in those phases of our foreign trade that are not normal npw and a gradual but definite improvement in other directions are declared to have characterized American 1923 over seas trade, in a comprehensive re view just issued by the Department of Commerce. “A decline from the adnormally high levels reached by our exports of foodstuffs on account of reduced European [’producing capacity was to have been expected along with Europe’s recovery,” the Department finds, “and Europe’s de mands for industrial raw materials, which have been greatly reduced, should show an increase. Both of those tendencies are seen in our 1923 export trade. The continued though moderate growth in our exports of manufactured goods is encouraging, and we should be able to maintain and expand it, even in the face of in creasing European competition, if we but make the most of our advantages we have enjoyed on account of dis ruption in Europe during ;and follow ing the war.” THE NORRIS SHOALS BILL: Sen ator Norris’ Muscle Shoals hill as amended and accepted by the Senate Committee provides for the separa tion of fertilizer and power produc tion. The Department of Agricul ture would be placed in charge of the fertilizer manufacture, hut private operation would be allowed. The hill keeps all operation under the control of the Government, hut it would per mit private concerns to secure the rights to operate. The Ford ofl'er is as dead as a smelt. HONEST WEIGHTS: The Bureau of Standards is making a fight against dishonest scales and weights. Secretary Hoover has declared his energetic support of the movement to stop this cheating. PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE: The arrangement agreed to be tween the Philippine Mission and the War Department, and which seerns likely to be approved by Congress— though that approval may not come before next Winter, gives the Philip pines the right to select their own Governor General and run their own elective and political affairs under a kind of American protectorate that will terminate in twenty years. SUMMER TRAINING CAMPS: The War Department arranged for 30,000 student soldiers for the Citi zens’ Training Military Camps, to be held during July and August. The applicants for admission have already exceeded that number by several thousand. NEW COTTON FIELDS: Official Federal reports show that Lower California and Virginia are making very large increases in the amount of their cotton production. On the other hand certain sections of the South are giving up some of the cot ton production in favor of diversified farming. FRUIT PRODUCTION: Federal re ports show that fruit production and the exports of fruits to foreign countries is likely to reach $100,000,- 000 this year. The shipments go to one hundred countries and colonies the world over. The census figures show that the farm value of the fruit crop in the United States is about $700,000,000 per annum. Canned and dried foods have also increased our exports. BIG SCANDALS FOR LOCAL CON SUMPTION: Washington has heard from every part of the nation that the people are tired of the scan dals that have come out of the Sena torial investigations. Too bad, but it is all to be in the campaign speak ers’ text books, so that in a few weeks the story will be delivered first-hano from the “stump” right at home. RUBBER: All of the large tire manufacturers are rushing at break-neck speed to make manufac tured rubber products, This lS due , to the over-production of tires and j keen competition that has demoral- i ized rubber manufacturing enter prises. JAPAN’S PROTEST: Japan’s pro test against exclusion sounds a great deal like a reprimand to Uncle Sam because of his abrupt, uncouth American manners. The indications are that the two Nations will continue to be friends. NEWSPAPER BUNK: Another newspaper item that has gone the country ’round about the President strolling “unrecognized” through the streets of Washington. It’s hunk. Washington never has failed to stare, politely, at all its Presidents when they join the pedestrians. Think to Themselves There is no objection to other poo lie’s thinking what tliev like—Jus* so ;hev refrain from tiiin'-im/ out tour) NUMBER 24. Movement On To Select Capable Men? CREAM STATION Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Word comes to Atlanta that there is a serious movement over the State to send the strongest business and professional men to the next Legislature. The opinion seems to be general that Georgia’s plight is due to lack of a constructive program put for ward by men in whom the public have confidence. A well known Georgian, talking on the subject today said: “Jehovah promised Abraham that He would save Sodom and Gomorrah if ten good men could be found with in them. Ten good men might be able to save Georgia but they would have a hard job doing it. Forty or fifty could do it with ease. “Surely the State has not fallen to such depths of impotence that we cannot find fifty big, capable, un selfish men who will consent to make the personal sacrifice to go to the next Legislature and frame the con structive legislation necessary to lift Georgia out of the financial mire into which she has sunk. “One or two big ones cannot ac complish the task by themselves, but if we get twenty-five to fifty of our ablest Georgians in the next General Assembly, the people will listen to them. Let’s elect one more Assembly which will measui’e up to the best of the old days. We need men who have no political ambition but whose sole desire is to help Georgia. Men who are playing politics all the time, who are scheming to be governor or sena tor or congressman or a judge, will never solve the greatest problem in a big broad way. If the weekly and daily newspapers will hammer on this subject for a few weeks, they will awaken general interest and the peo ple will feel an inspiration that they have not had in a generation.” National Park in North Georgia. Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Photograph ing North Georgia will be the next step to be taken following the organ ization of the Southern Appalachian National Association which is behind the movement to establish a national park in the South, it was announced here today by Louis B. Magid, of Tallulah Park, Ga., president of the association. These photographs will be submit ted to the Southern Appalachain National Park Committee that they may see by pictures what they may not be able to see when they make their inspection in June—and that is the beautiful and unequaled scenery of North Georgia. Subscriptions are now being taken for the North Georgia Photographic Fund, remittances being made to Jas. A. Hollaman, care of the Atlanta Constitution, in this city. Mr. Holla- man, who is associate editor of the Atlanta Constitution, is vice president of the Southern Appalachain Nation al Park Association. President Magid v/as the first contributor, sending his check for $50. “If you want the National Park to be located in north Georgia write your check for the photographic fund and send it to Mr. Holloman, no mat ter what the amount is,” said Mr. Magid in a statement made public today. “You are the best judge of what you are willing to contribute to this fund.” The committee named by Secretary Hubert L. Work, of the Department of the Interior, to inspect sites for the park, is composed of Hon. II. W. Temple, congressman from Pennsyl vania, chairman; Colonel Glen S. Smith, of the U. S. Geological Sur vey; W. A. Welch, engineer and 1 manager of the Palisades Interstate Parks, New York; Harlan P. Kelsey, of the Appalachain Mountain Club, and William C. Gregg, of the Nation al Arts Club, of New York. Mr. Gregg, one of the members, came south in advance of the com mittee and in company with Louis B. Magid, president of the southern as sociation, inspected the scenery in Habersham and Rabun counties, Georgia. Mr. Gregg, it was stated, was himself favorably impressed with the existing natural reasons offering north Georgia as a favorable location for the park, which may embrace besides north Georgia, parts of west ern North Carolina and northwest ern South Carolina. HARD WIND SUNDAY AFTER NOON. . About 5 o’clock Sunday afternoon a storm swept across the northern outskirts of Thomson, doing consider able damage to property and growing crops. One barn was blown down and other outhouses were twisted and roofs damaged. Young cotton and corn was pretty badly whipped about and damaged. So far as learn ed no one was injured. TAX ASSESSORS MEET. The County Board of Tax Asses sors have finished going over the tax returns for 1924, having been in ses sion for the past several days. The board is composed of Messrs. G. F. Rogers, of Dearing; J. S. Megahee, of Thomson; L. M. Mathews, of Sweetwater. The board finds that the property valuation of the county will about approximate that of last year, there being few changes. CONGREGATIONAL HOLINESS CHURCH. Rev. J. O. Burnett will preach at the Congregational Holiness church next Sunday night. The public is cordially invited. Efforts are being made to get • sour cream station located here. A w.n will come to Thomson on st&ttfd days about twice a week and tefty weigh and pay for the farmers' ©Ottlt cream on the spot. This will enabl# the farmer to sell his surplus butt©? a3 sour cream and have a constant market for his milk at all tint©©/ This will enable them to sell quantt- ties from a pint to 100 gallons ptit week. It is not a get rich quick pVO* position, however, and you can’t e*» pect the same price the year round 1 / The sour cream market, like th© poultry and cotton markets, fiucttl* ate. You can make the cow pay th© expenses, keep your skimmed milk At home, have the much needed man' ure for your crops and make a littl© clear money. All we have got to do is send Irt to the county agent your name and number of milking cows so we call know whether it will pay the concert! , to send a man. Let me know you? i name at once if you want a constant | cash market for your butter as SOU? • milk. No separator is necessary t© begin with and no cream cans. Ill fact, there is no expense except com ing to town and you do that every week anyhow. We feel that this would be bettor for the farmers than a cheese fac tory. ' G. C. DANIEL, County Agent/ To Wage War On Boll Weevil. Atlanta, Ga., June 5.—Prepare t© fight the boll weevil with all the means and all the speed one may command. This, in effect, is the advice of the insect investigators of the federal department of agriculture, made pub lic here today by agricultural agent© of the railroads, who with other agencies, are helping to rally the forces that will do battle with the billion-dollar hug. The opinion is expressed by agent© of the department of agriculture that many cotton farmers are placing to© much confidence in the cold weather of last January and are expecting A lighter invasion of boll weevils thait they will actually experience thi© year. The farmers are all wrong, it ap pears, for the latest information available shows that while the emer gence from hibernation will be gen erally light, there will still be suffi cient weevils to do very serious dam age in almost all sections. Each fall, according to entomolog ists of the federal , department of agriculture, approximately thirty thousand boll weevils are placed in hibernation cages at Tallulah, Louis iana. Percentage of weevils emerg ing this year, in spite of cold weather, the official report states, is greater than was the case in either 1918 or ID 10 and approaches closely that of 1917 and 1920. As nearly as can b© predicted, the survival will probably be higher than in 1917, 1918 or 1919, and will fairly closely approach that of 1920. “The farmer who does not prepat© to fight the weevil now is merely gambling on the weather during July and August,” says an official state ment. GRADUATES OF THOMSON HIGH SCHOOL ARE DISSATISFIED WITH DIPLOMAS. Editor of The Progress: A goodly number of the member©, of the graduating class of the Thom son High School have been heard t© express themselves as being very much dissatisfied with their recently acquired diplomas. Some of them disliked the diplomas from the first, but after comparison had been mad© between their diplomas and those of the graduating classes of 191 , 1911, 1918, 1919, etc., they were plainly disgusted. The empaorisn shows that: 1st. The diplomas of the class of 1924 ate of a cheaper grade of paper than those given the classes of former years. • 2nd. The names of the pupils are written §n these diplomas with pen and ink, whereas the names were en graved in an elaborate manner on the diplomas of the classes of 1910, 1917, 1918, etc. 3rd. The other diplomas were headed, “Thomson Public School,” whereas the word “Thomson” cannot be found on these last diplomas, merely mentioning “this institution,” giving the reader no idea of what in stitution “this institution” is, or where the diplomas were received. Another objection seems to be that the diplomas were not signed by the superintendent of the Thomson Pub lic Schools, but that he allowed hi© signature to be affixed to each diplo ma by a High School graduate. Some of the members of the grad uating class are perfectly satisfied with the diplomas, while others are contemplating presenting the Board of Trustees a petition for better ones, but if the financial condition of the school is such that they ar© not able to buy good diplomas, then, they state, they are perfectly willing to pay for the better ones themselves, Respectfullv, HIGH SCHOOL GRAD, Restaurant for Pcfs London lias a restaurant lor Oflti and dogs, where women .-hoppers Of others may leave their pets to dine. i j I