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(Cnffrr (Cmmijj {lriigrrss. 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. - SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One 't ear . - , $ 1.00 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 * 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. « 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 c J There is something new for you here, and foe Want to tell you and your parents about ft RIGHT POSTURE #■,- ia* m \ 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. *