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Published Every Friday Afternoon
T. A. WALLACE, Editor
E. S. SAPP, Business Manager
J. E. BARTLETT, Mechanical Mgr.
Pending Application to be Entered at the
Post Office, Douglas, Georgia as Second
Class Mail Matter. -
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Six Months, .... .50
All things come to him who waits and hus
tles like thunder.
Get out of the ruts and into paved streets
of progress.
Give us better business methods, give us
more efficiency, give us the power to climb dif
ficulties and reach the snow-capped peak of suc
cess, while politics goes away to rust for many
seasons.
EVERYTHING PROGRESSIVE
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The Twentb h Century is going on record
■'W’s fne most progressive age since the dawn cf
civilization. 1 here can be no doubt but what
those inclined to a blocking mulish conservatism
a"-- certainly destined to oblivion. To the L niled
States or the \V< stern world by r.o means is this
great wave confined, hrt m every, land and clime
rings the anthem of progress, the cutting loose
from the chains that have held men nd radons
P> old defunct ideas, customs and manners. 1 o
Uncle Sam s country perhaps belongs the ir.itiat
e birth of the new' freedom and >ct almost ;n
the twinkle of an eye the great spirit o* the move
has swept, not only his territory 'and across into
Canada, but across the Atlantic and into eld so
ber-sided, long-faced England witn her duk- s
and earls, pad invents and king’s bench and ii
we hesitate for a moment just to think o! Eng
land g past, we can but wonder what is next to
fetflow. England ha 3 ha 1 the most terribly
oppressive land laws of any nation of the Vv’ortd.
Eler system dates back hundreds of years. The
lot ds and warriors of past ages were given great
estates, sometimes many thousands of ac-es of
land in recognition of their services in war. The
servants of the lord were forced to go to ba t e
under the lords and for which services the lord
was paid by the Government. Thousadds from
the common ranks died in battle simply that
their master might reap rich rewards. From
these conditions grew colossal fortunes and the
most radical class distinctions. Arid yet within
the las: few years England has outstripped the
United Steles in enacting laws for the abolish
ment cf special privileges and establishment c f
common rights between ail her subjects. It cem
me iced ir. i:s veneAbs House o' Lo ds by strip
ping icf immemorial power and prestige. -t
iKcr, proceeded to enact the most progressive
aws and to actually put them in force, thus rev-
CiuPceining its rural interest and unlocking to
The laborer and tenant seme foc.rteev million
acres of farming lands and in this mar/ier is in
ducing tKe underpaid laborers of the I ity to get
back to the farm. Owing to the feudal swtem so
!■ ng in vogue it is said that there are at least six
hundred thousand fewer farm laborers and ten
ants than there were fifty years ago. These great
estates were held by lords, dukes and earls who
were toe lazy, indifferent and financially unable
tc cultivate same and whose treatment c f tenants
were the most unjust and cruel to be found in a
reputed free country. Eiowever now the Gov
ernmer:: has determined to turn this land into a
wealth producing asset by controlling the land
lord "ana assuring tenants fair play and bv offer
ing special inducements to farm laborers. Ger
many and b ranee have for many years past
been more o; less progressive, but in England’s
awakening there is a lesson to all. Those who
think Uncle Sam is speeding too much up the
road of progressive legislation are either blind,
selfish or both, or in ignorance of what the
world is doing and the age demanding.
In this issue we publish an article from
H arvie Jordan in Sundays Atlanta Journal, which
we ask every farmer in Coffee County to read
carefully. Its author is known all over the south
as one whose life work is and has been devoted
to the farmers' interest. He was one of 60 del
egates representing thirty two states sent by our
government to Europe to study co-operative
farming. His observations while abroad certain
ly furnish much food for thought and action
among our farming classes. The farmer could
and shou.d lu.e the wond and he can blame no
fate Du: himseir it he fads, tc do so.
b cut are living in the eternal new. yest- r.
id.it wee.:, last month, last year is irrevocably
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
gone: tomorrow, next vyeek, next year
can never come, time so marked is a snare and
illusion. Time is only now, no other ever has,
ever will <ir ever can reach you. Think for a
moment just what that means. You are living
only in the eternal now and whatever you shall
accomplish in this life will be accomplished by
you in the moment of now.
WHAT YOU CAN DO
Have you a well defined purpose in life. Is
there seme calling, profession or undertaking
which you have fully determined upon, have
you decided that let come what may you aie
going to accomplish that particular thing, has
your mind dwelt upon it until you are thorough
ly concentrated upon it, and is it a purpose that
violates no laws of God or man? Have you the
will power to carry it out? If those simple ques
tions can be answered in the affirmative then to
any man or woman living today on the sunny
side of fifty years of age,l care not what your
standing in life has been or is now, or what your
capacities or incapacities are now, you will reach
the goal.
That desire which refuses to down but isev
er knocking at the conscious door is but a buri
ed talent striving to break the shell that it may
spring into reality and materialize in conscious
lire. And it contains (he power within itself to
accomplish the object else the desire would not
be fe :at all. We are not unmindful of the fact
thu: the shares of success are covered with the
stranded lives of men of the greatest ability, per
fect character and highest education, but through
a lack cl well formed purpose, decision, con
centra* m and will, have perished in sight of the
most brilliant success. it is worth your time to
to third: well cf these things. Making a living is
nothing. If we will turn the horses, cows and
hogs loose they will do the same thing and in
fact so many of us live on the same material
plane of the animal. It fills itself with grass and
lies down at night to sleep and
await the corning o r another day when it will
merely repeat the pexfdrmances of yesterday,
and ! tear that ov/iag to ou:' mode of life, many
of us wi 1 be remembered much in the same
manner after we have been dead twenty four
hours. Life is more toar, making a living and
they who content themselves with only that are
certainly squandering the grandest birthright to
which the human family is heir. There are no
limitations on your ifeoryour achievements ex
cept those that NGL set. This very hour here
and now in which you are reading these lines is
a perfectly new hour, one that has never been
this wa r before, has never been used before and
it is yours to do with as you will and you are
without imitations except as you make them. If
you are dissatisfied with your past wipe out the
slate now and make of life what ever you de
sire. This you can do.
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According to a recent report issued by the
department of Commerce, the United Statesh as
in eight years ceased to be an exporter cf beef
and beet cattle but has instead become a very
Heavy importer. The money annually sent to
foreign cc ur.tr ie s alcne for the beef we eat runs
new up in the millions, i'et Georgia and
. iorida nave thousands and thousands upon top
r thousands of acres cf waste land out of which
the finest cattle grazing pastures could be made
is ce muted to gc to waste. Coffee County has
an immense amount of this land and we hope
some day in the not far distant tc see great
herds of cattle being raised in Coffee County
tc supply the ever increasing demand of the
world for beef, yet t is a sad fact that much of
the beet consumed right here at home ;s foreign
so tar as cc-fLeCounty is concerned. How much
more ir. keeping with her resources it would be
tc* witness refrigerator cars being loaded with
beef and pork for other markets.
GEORGIA'S GOLDEN FLOOD
Toe recent clearing house returns show that
‘ Georgia js this fall selling the prosperity pace
for prac ically every other State ir. the Union and
by it is reflected the financial, industrial and
trade conditions of the entire State. Compared
with clearing house statistics of almost any oth
er sectian of die country, Georgia, has reared
her head like a giant peak above the rest of the
nation. Right in our own good country we are
told by the banks that there is the greatest flow
of ready money witnessed in Coffee County for
a number of years. After the fatal years of 191 I
-1912, in which the farmer was driven to spend
almost his last dollar in meeting the heavy obli.
gations he had incurred, he commenced the
year of 1913, facing the most uncertain condi
tions with little money and little credit but with
a determination born of desperation. There
were no luxuries bought and only the barest ne
cessities. Good fortune favored him to the ex
clusion of the cotton belt East and West of him.
He made a splendid crop and housed it without
its suffering ary ciavnages from the weather and
on the ma ket he received a great price. Today
t»*e most o; the ta.mers of South Geoigia have
w p a cut tire tosses and deficiencies of the past
twv years have paid for this years crop snd
ev tier have money m *Le bank or coito:. in the
fiber ns great successful cot
■ . t;.e c- :s a- j a:. • rage corn. octa:o,
c rnt, peas anUbeu... y. us Georgs and
p.er.” c: it. W
LET IT CONTINUE
There is an immense am >unt <T satisfaction in
considering the New York city election of last Tues
day. We predicted last week the over
throw of Tammany and sure enough she went down
♦ good and hard. A great army of office-holders,
employees, tools and Slugs will lose their official
anti political heads in the shake up to follow. Boss
Murphy will retire from the ring according to re
ports from that city. Let him retire together
with ali corruptionist of his type, yet if we could
have a little spark of pity for anyone connected
with this outrageous gang, we had rather waste it
with the boss himseef than with the army of tools
and slugs who by their prostituted obedience to his
command made possible the building of such an in
fernal machine as that of which Murphey has been
the boss. Of all the human being for whom we
have an utter contempt it is the little tool that slips
around to listen and put the boss wise to all that is
going on. He is a nuisance to sociesv and good
government. When the boss orders him to move,
he moves and when he assigns him to his unclean
duty he performs it without so much as an audible
groan. May the Lord have mercy on his little dirty
soul but not now.
It is refreshing to witness the clean up even if
it is so far from home and we hope and trust that
it is only the first swipe of a mighty cyclone des
tined to spread from coast to coast and from New
York City to the Florida everglades.
I: 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
inf< • mation uniformly given was that the pa] er
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 :<• Douglas and in numbers
of instances even then the promoters failed to sie
them. And in this manner we have missed a great
number/d" good citizens whom we should have bee n
proud to have with us as stockholders, however be
cause you are not a stockholder in this paper make,
m difference in our feeling for you and good wishes
t r your success and you will always find this office
■ p-: t< receive you when ir, Douglas and we want
sit us and t< is ers who
toil unable to purchase stock er disinclined to in
si assured us, some of them as high as five years
subscription in advaee, some promised paying ad
vertising matters as long as the paper should be
pu unshed or so long as they should remain in busi
ness, this we trust wi 1 be many years hence, so.that
our success up to the time that our first issue goes
t * pres- has been rather phenominal and exceeding
ly gratifying. At the first meetting of the pro
moters several weeks ago the idea of making this
S a per 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 press 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.
A Cal! To The bovs and Their Mothers
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There is something new for you here, and
foe Want to tell you and your parents about ft
RIGHT POSTURE #■,-
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A health giving patent, built into clollies
that are made to stan ard usage. I f I
it is a patent elastic band built into fie
shoulders and back of the coat. Not abrade, * hSK; J\ |
but a gentle reminder to stand with held lß|
back, chest out, and shoulders squre. |f/T S f
A garment that encourages right-posture,
correct breathing and pride of appearance. mjk
We give a nice pair of Dumb Bell’s with V|
each Right-Posture suit. I
We invite you to come and look them over
Peterson & Relihan
Douglas Georgia
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS
Realizing that the rewsper business aft: rds a
legitimate field of act *n and one that cannot .Ol
der our form of govern- -nt tie abridged, monopo
lized or cornered, re: ly one hundred citizens of
this county have unite - in efforts, energies, time
and money to create, establish and publish a clean
thorough up-tod ate c unty news-pape; f.r Coffee
C< unty. To the great . lasses of the people of .his
county shall we turn f r judgement and to them
will our ears be ever •pen. To them shall we ook
for encouragement and for success arc: 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, somevhen will
only prove us mortal and to immortality v/e astert
to claim in the flesh. We scarcely expect to publish
a news-paper for any considerable length cf time
and escape a verdict that somewhere >we have erred,
vet the only tribunal before whom we shall appear
and recognize the authority and jurisdiction to ren
der a valid binding judgement against us will be
in the great forum of public opinion and we lay par
tic-uiar stress upon the word “Public" for by it we
refer to the crystalized ( pinion of the whole. The
wisdom of the whole is the greatest of all wisdom.
No man or men whose earlier fails to embrace the
whole, need expect in any manner to influence the
purpose of this paper. We do not mean by this .hat
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
she aid through ignorance, oversight, mistake o
otherwise commit an error which should meet with
the disapproval of the T nest thinking t pie as a
whole, then we shall b -v the knee and rectify the
wrong if within our power.
We want every v r-right citizen oFC< free boun
ty join us in an elf: rt to make this paper an in
strument for the benefit * aii the people. We want
you to realize that there is a ccmmcri interest be
tween us. The man of * iuy cannot keep abreast of
the times without rea r.g the news-paper, the news
paper cannot exist with-.ut someone to read it.
Stretched out before she people of the-* twentieth
century, leading in every direction, are a *. ues of
success‘as numberless as the stars, through these
c nuns we hope t - exchange suggestioi irk as and
experiences from which all ma\ reeievebenefits and
in furtherance cf this purpose, we inv'te those
whose experiences al: *ng agricultural, industrial and
e . ueational lines hav- urn r-nstrated .armthi r=g new
successful or interesting r. which will have a ten
dency to help each othed and make the biu Tn light
en to express themselves -in this paper and thus wit!
we help, inspire and encoui ege others about us. Let
us forget the period in evolutionary life when th -
raee dwelt in caves and trees and ate each other
offsprings, when brute force determine, a man’s
position in the tribe, when the single bra la cell was
master of the cranium c f man and coming to late
life, may we put aside forever the individual selfish
ness, the little narrow thought, the cunning tricks
the conduct unbecoming true manhood, rec gnizing
instead the great brotherhood of man. the source
from whence we ali came and to which we must all
return when the spasm of life is over.
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