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Newspaper
Jackson Progress Argus
Location
Jackson, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1922
Page
4
Editor J Doyle Jones decries Georgia politics accusing the Ku Klux Klan of infiltration and laments wasted time in Atlanta. He criticizes the forty day session, calls bills rushed at adjournment and urges reforms to cut the legislature to thirty days.
The City Manager of Columbus and the mayor submitted a report to the city showing an actual saving for the last six months of 136000 for the taxpayers. Think of that, sleeping taxpayers of LaGrange. This is a striking illustration of
Georgia editorials urge commission government and strict budgeting to stop wasteful taxation. They condemn lynching coverage as sensational and press courts for prompt justice. Laurens grand jury findings reveal $6.38 per convict day cost and advise drastic retrenchment and competitive bids. Calamity talk is blamed for economic stagnation. boosters are urged to imagine and build a brighter South.
A Dalton Citizen editorial argues hunger would push strikers to yield and condemns agitators and bosses. The Barnesville News Gazette suggests lynching as a solution to crime, then condemns lynch law and urges Negroes to leave the South for a better life for all.
Eddie recalls Sammy Jones and sharp teeth from life as he describes a hand injury during a past fight.
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