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About The Coffee County progress. (Douglas, Ga.) 1913-???? | View Entire Issue (Oct. 31, 1913)
(Cuffci' (Urnutty Pragrraa. Published Livery 1 hursday Afternoon T. A. WALLACE. Editor E. S. SAPP, Business Manager J. E. BAR I LETT, Mechanical Mgr. Pending Application to be Entered at the Post Office, Douglas, Georgia is Second Class Mail Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE \ one Year * ’ SI.OO I Six Months, - .50 Thf Coffee County Progress makes this its first appeasence under the auspices of no political party, faction, boss or ring and without any politi cal ambition other than to witness the rule of all the people all the time. Their voice is the pow er that be. The purpose of this paper is to strive for justice and right between all mankind, for clean politics, good morals, honest office holders, County State and Federal, Australian ballott system, hon est and fearless judges, progress and advancement along all lines, and a clean up-todate newspaper that may be welcomed into the home of the great and small, rich and poor, without fear of being an unwelcomed visitor or shocking the modesty or injuring the feeling of any one. <* Let us l\ave your ideas, they may be valuable to us and to others, and if they do have merits we we will gladly pass them along and thus think, plan and co-operate to make The Coffee County Progress a success. It will do you good to express your thoughts and make room for greater and better ones. The day of “Do the thing and you shall have the power” has fully developed and the spirit of progress permeates the air of all South Georgia. Coffee County has never lagged behind the proces sion and she never will. It is an inspiring sight to see the number of bright eyed determined and ambitious boys and girls entering the campus grounds of the two colleges of Douglas with appar ently but one thought and that to prepare them selves for the great duties of life. This may witnessed within the confines of their native coun ty, and in either of which colleges they can receive a thorough and practical education sufficient per haps for all needs of life. There are others who should also be taking advantage of this great op portunity while still the day of preparation holds out. We are deeply interested in this subject and we shall make a special effort to arouse the inter est of those who have been allowing such chances to pass them. In furtherance of this idea your present County School Superintendent, Prof. .1. G Floycl, t'.>as kindly volunteered to contribute to this paper such' ideas and advice as he thinks would lead to greater stimulation along educational lines and we congratulate ourselves on securing his as sistance for he seems completely given over to this work and his every thought and effort is directed 'to the advancement of the cause of education. Coffee County is to be congratulated also on hav ing such an intensely earnest and capable man at the head of her schools. In this connection Col. J. IH. Wiliams, our courteous ex-county Superintendent, has agreed to write for publica tion in this papersome of his experience while in that office, and thus express certain original ideas conceived by hinfjwhile struggling with the prob lems which that office placed upon him. Also some of our leading Physicians of the county have consented to write on timely subjects affecting the health and comfort of school children and suggest how to avoid a great many of the ills which prevent either their attendance or the pro gress they make while in school. The people of the Unite,! States expect no sud den change in the general cost of living but expect and really hope that same will he gradual. We all understand that one business becomes a prop and stay for another and that the sudden destruction of any business would tend to disrupt the whole and really defeat the very purpose tariff revision. The agencies responsibly for the distressing rise in the necessaries of life will be handled with as much ex pediency as possible and within a short time we shall all begin to realize its benefits. The general effect ultimately of tariff reduction will be toward the lowering of the cost of living and necessarily all of us will be directly benefited by it, but there are some things which no tariff reform or money legislation can accomplish for us and that is to give us a living without work. Free beef dont, raise the is made, no duty on bacon ifroesift raise the flour and meal doesn't plant the grain and harvest an ‘l one of the great troubles today with the ciistNfcliying is that there are entirely too many people a living by some other means than working foHuffcl 1 ewer stil 1 are endeavoring tomake it in the old honN e.st route via the sweat of the browktiliing thv Th-at is the o„e way by which Si ye the problem and we trust that Coffee Countv will take the lead in that direction. We have lying idle, thousands and thousands of acres of the very best farming and cattle raising lands to be found in ■’ the South and adaptable to any and all kinds of farm * ing; success and independence await the energetic j! man of brain and muscle right heye in our Countv '■ mii: coffee: county progress, douglas, Georgia THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS Realizing that the news per business affords a legitimate field of action and one that cannot un der our form of government be abridged, monopo lized or cornered, nearly one hundred citizens of this county have united in efforts, energies, time and money to create, establish and publish a clean, thorough up-todate county news-paper for Coffee County. To the great masses of the people of this county shall we turn for judgement and to them will our ears be ever’ open. To them shall we look for encouragement and for success and to them shall we listen for censure and condemnation should our pen stray from the path of progress and recti tude. To err sometime, somewhere, somewhen will only prove us mortal and to immortality we assert to claim in tin* flesh. We scarcely expect to publish a news-puffer for any considerable length of time and escape a verdict that somewhere wehaveerred, yet the only tribunal before whom we shall apfrear and recognize the authority and jurisdiction to ren der- a valid binding judgement against us will be in the grea forum of public opinion and we lay par ticular stress upon the word “Public” for by it we refer to the crystalized opinion of the whole. The wisdom of the whole is the greatest of all wisdom. No man or men whose caliber fails to embrace the whole, need expect in any manner to influence the purpose of tins paper. We do not mean by this that we shall advertise for opinions before we publish this paper or- before we write upon any particular subject, or that in so doing the dictates of our con science shall not be liberally considered, but if we should through ignorance, oversight, mistake or otherwise commit an error which should meet with the disapproval of the honest thinking people as a whole, then we shall bow the knee ami rectify the wrong if within our (rower. We want every upright citizen of Coffee Coun ty to join us in uri effort to make this paper an in si rument for the benefit of all the people. We want you to realize that there is a common interest be tween us. The man of today cannot keep abreast of the times without reading the news-paper, the news paper cannot exist without someone to read it. Stretched out before she people of the twentieth century, leading in every direction, are avenues of success as numberless as the stars, through these colums we hope to exchange suggestions, ideas and experiences from which all may recieve benefits and in furtherance of this purpose, we invite those whoseexperiencesalorrgagricultural, industrial and educational lines have demonstrated anything new, successful or interesting or which will have a ten dency to help each otherjand make the burden light er t« express themselves in this paper and thus will we help, inspire and encouroge others about us. Let us forget the period in evolutionary life when the race dwelt in caves and trees and ate each others offsprings, when brute force determined a man’s position in the tribe, when the single brain cell was master of the cranium of man and coming to later life, may wc put aside forever the individual selfish ness, the little narrow thought, the cunning tricks, the conduct unbecoming true manhood, recognizing instead the great brotherhood of man, the source from whence we all came and to which we must all return when the spasm of life is over. It was very gratifying to those primarily inter ested in the establishment of this paper to find with what comparitive ease the stock to same was dis posed of. None required any begging and few hes itated for further information than a brief outline of the plans and purpose of the organization. The information uniformly given was that the paper should either be a weekly or twice weekly county news-paper. There was no systematic plan used in offering the stock, no steneous effort made to dis pose of it and many would have subscribed who had no opportunity offered, those in charge preferring to merely wait and -present the matter to the pub lic as they should come to Douglas and in numbers of instances even then the promoters failed to see them. And in this manner we have missed a great number of good citizens whom we should have been proud to have with us as stockholders, however be cause you are not a stockholder in this paper makes no difference in our feeling for you and good wishes for your success and you will always find this office open to receive you when in Douglas and we want you to visit us and tell us the news. Others who felt unable to purchase stock or disinclined to in vest, assured us. some of them as high as five vears subscription in advaee, some promised paying ad vertising matters as long as the paper should be published or # so long as they should remain in busi ness, this we trust will be many years hence, so that our success up to the time that our first issue goes to press has been rather phenominai and exceeding ly gratifying. At the first meetting of the pro moters several weeks ago the idea of making this paper a twice weekly was discussed but never fully determined, however at the first meeting of the stocholders after a charter has been obtained this question will be determined and it is not at all un likely that it will be determined to make a twice weekly out of it. We have a (tress outfit of which we are justly proud and we are in the newspaper business for success, and if encouragement shall prove a safe criterion then our success is already a thing.of reality. THE W’LSON ADMINISTRATION The democratic administration has, up to this time, made good. Its success seeing to be assured beyond boubt. l’he leaders of the dominant party Viave started out with courage and determination \ i see the progressive principles of the Baltimore jyiatform speedily written into the law of the land, bid that these laws be executed and admistered in with the spirit of democratic doctrine. Jesident W ilson has accepted his commission as Aosen leader of the people with a true conception ■QMfc?PW s hip ar -d responsibility. He has taken no GTRttojrater on anv campaign, promise and already we have the new tariff bill on the statutes, which, in itself, is enough to justify the existence of the present administration. The passage of the cur rency bill at an early date is now assured, and the field will be cleared by December for legislation touching the regulation of the trust and monopolies. As was said above, President Wiison is the ac tive leader and the head of theadministraition. He is progresssive and energetic. Under him the pres ident is no longer a mere figure head, but a co-worker with his colleagues for the redemption of his party s pledges. The promises of the democrats were, stated broadly and in general terms, that the gov ernment would be restored to the people, and that the industrial system would be so remodeled that the government would no longer be a patron for the distribution of special favors to the special and predatory.interests. The recent lobby investigation has shown that the special interests have dominated congressional committees and have written the laws of the country, and for that reason the govern ment has not responded to the demands of the peo ple, The iniquitous tariff system was the product of patronage; the interests financed the campaigns of candidates, and in return the law-makers passed favorable laws whereby the contributors were re paid many fold at the expense and oppression of the people. Wilson is well equipped to lead his party to suc cess. He is wise and courageous. But Wilson is not alone in the great work of making our govern ment, in all its functions, progressive and popular. His cabinet is composed of able, courageous, and progressive men, and the entire executive depart ment will certainly ring with progressiveism at qvery turn. Nothing else could be expected at the hands of such men as compose the present cabinet. The senate is now in charge of leaders in full sympathy with the administration, and we can ex pect that the senate will no longer turn a deaf to the demands of the people, and that it is no longer the rnecca for the paid tobyistsof industries seeking patronage. The House is thoroughly pop ular and responsive to the real needs of the country. The character and couragemf our President and of our dominant leaders in Congress assure us that a new era and a new freedom is soon to dawn and to permeate the country, and that we may confidently expect social and industrial justice to prevail in the place of fovoriteism a^Tabninage. The leaders of tfmlfdrojrHStration have a hard fight to free the county amr secure for us popular government in reality. We can certainly expect a howl from the predatory interests when they are no longer allowed to filch from the people tributes un der the guise of protecting infant industries and maintaining a high standard of wages for labor, and we can expect them to boil with indignation when their paid henchman are driven away from congressional committees, and are no longer allow ed to legislate for the people. There is no limit to what they will try to do in furtherance of their scheme to own and control the goverment. Many of the captains of industry are really cowards and are afraid that they cannot survive industrial com petion without tne favor and patronage of the gov ernment. They have lived and operated so long un der the old Republican regime that they have come, almost honestly, to believe that to rob and (tillage the people is legitimate because, as they think, it is necessary. We can trust our leaders at the helm and are not afraid that they will give ear to the se ductive wiles of the money and special favor crowd. The conservatives are a great stumbling block A Call To The Boys and Their pothers There is something new for you here, and We Want to tell you and your parents about it RIGHT POSTURE _ f A health giving patent, built into clothes that are made to stand hard usage. It is a patent elastic band built into the shoulders and back of thecoat. Not a brace, *> 1 V \ but a gentle reminder to stand with head jP* Br I iIl 1 back, chest out, and shoulders squre. Jj f- \J I rf‘ A garment that encourages right-posture, correct breathing and pride of appearance. | lii "% We give a nice pair of Dumb Bell’s with ||l| each Right-Posture suit. j l l •We invite you to come and look them over. 11 Eji • Wzjjaifc' Peterson & Reiman i • Douglas -:- Georgia in the path of the administration, fj'fw a<? more troublesome becouse they try to pose Is being in harmony with the leaders. The objeclpns t»' these fellows are that they are too scared tha something awful is going to happen t<> the Constiuion;ir>d that Constitutional Government is to be destroyed; they think that the framers of our 'onstitution and the authors of the earlier statud were divine and knew how to write laws that wojld fit the in dustrial, social, and commercial relations through out all age 9. Their conception of a geat congress man. or senator is one who never seety; to have any law enacted but sits on the (<mstitutpn and is con tinually hollowing “Constitution” wjen any reme dial legislation is sought to be pa*se<. Thecon servatives are necessarily an asset (»f gd interests, and so abnoxious to the people were, in heir incep tion, wise and just. Social andindustrjtl develop ment and the general evoFutflfii of the tpuntry call for new laws and the conservative is unible to grap this idea. They -fail to realize that atv progress can or ought to be made in regard to the enact ment uf laws and their execution Even the church which is the most conservative |elemertt in all our civilization recognizes that progress is inev itable in all things, and should bebncouraged. We may expect to hear many protests from our conservative democrats when Congress at the next session directs its attention to the enactment, of remedial legislation seeking tpgjve u the freedom and justice and opportunity whith ought to be so abundant in America. Tm <j' the senate in "reorgnizing itself in accordanceJKh new progress ive ideas and in “benching,” b, a certain extent, certain conservatives will be i ore^tpparent. We note that much has b; t* said recently by the conservative organs of this S«ue in regard to cer tain efforts to read out of the party the 'conserva tive element in Georgia. It isa lamentable fact, at thedawn of* the democratic administration which is destined to mark the most expansjve and pro gressive era in our nation’s Vistorv, that Georgia, the greatest of the truly democratic States, has so many hopeless and implacable conserv atives who are total ly deaf to the eternal caff of progress and who cann t unwed themselves from the idea that this coun ry ought to be govern ed by the plutocrats, and th 1 ultimate goal of the government is to lookout fm the great captains of industry and make the rich r cher, and bigunterests and industries more powerful. and confidently trust that the mighty and strong will take .care of the weak and poor. Let the IT'Jffifi. 1 be the guardi ans, without bond, of the veak is the gist of the governmental programme p omulgated by thestand pat republicans and conservative democrats. The purpose and aim of the two -re the same and where' 11 in do they differ? There is |io effort to read anyone out of the party. The consort, ative is just simply toe* slow for the fastecompany in charge of the progres sive administration,, it is simply back to the ‘bush league’ him. The very fact that a man admits being a conservative is an >pen confession of his ’rneompetoney; for he theieby confesses that the way things were done one,hundred years ago are gorid enough for him. lb abhors progress. He would make a poor official, and he is entirely too slow to get theappointmeil:. To the victor belongs the spoils is an eternal diet.an when the victors are the only ones qualified to administer satisfactorily the booty. The conservative does nut think rightly, he does not act rightly, aid he is too much out of harmony to take any part whatever in an adminis tration whose every functim and fiber is permeated with purpose and progress
