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A GREATER COFFEE COUNTY.
The Coffee County Progress has but one
desire and one purpose, that is to help the peo
ple of Coffee county. We are not a one man’s
paper, neither do we look through the colored
spectacles of any master. We know no master
except the voice of the common people, but
when their voices are raised we are ready to
follow and obey. We want no strife, politically
or otherwise, in this good county, for strife and
division in no way tends to the uplifting or up
building of any community. Small sparks have
in the past been fanned into flames, the flames
became raging forest fires [consuming lifes ener
gies as they swept on and on. The day finally
comes and passes and the fire has served its
purpose. Some man has been elected to an
office and then the “Dear People” may return to
their respective and neglected homes and sow
grass where the flames have swept. Yes some
body gets a benefit out of it. Ihe man elected
gets his office and draw's the pay ; were that all,
then good and well, perhaps, but that is not all.
The one who drops the spark that ignited the
the grass a id fanned the fire now goes to the
victor to receive his reward, sometimes money
and sometimes office. Reward for what ? For
having worked on our passions and prejudices
and caused us to make fools of ourselves. We,
the common people get what? We get the rep
utation of being able and willing to follow the
beck and call of unscrupulous dirty political
ringsters.
If there is any one word in the English lan
guage to which our head is ever uncovered it is
the word “Independence." All people can and
should be independent and the mangy creature
who can only subsist by stirring up strife in a
community is a public, as well as a private,
nuisance. Let us get together as a people
and live the very best life that is possible.
Our interest is your interest, and the interest of
all is the steady progress of mankind to a high
er and better life, a closer relationship and
brotherhood between us. We organized this
paper for the purpose of injuring no one but
with the intention of trying to help the citizens
of the county, we each being citizens, to develop
our resources, whether physically, materially,
mentally or spiritually, and this we shall ever do
If any must suffer because of its establishment
and because of the offorts we shall make through
these pages for the benefit of the whole, then
the welfare of the whole becomes paramount
to the few. We again invite every honest citi
zen of this County to join hands with us in a
common effort to build a greater Coffee County.
WEALTH CHANGING ITS CHANNELS
It is the general belief among prophets of
finance and political economist that the huge in
dividual fortunes of the past and present will
not be witnessed in the future. This to a great
extent will be the natural result of the govern
ments prosecution of trusts and unlawful combi
nations, thus forcing disolutions and enabling
those of small capital to obtain a foothold in the
industrial, agricultural and commercial world.
Competition will then regulate the survival of
fhe fittest and the man of small capital and large
ability and plenty of energy and push will have
the opportunty which he has long been denied.
The Currency reform now engaging th e minds
of the present administration will afford the
greatest aid in getting the money out of the old
centers and distributing it in channels where the
masses can reach it. These facts present a fine
bases upon which to build an optimistic future
for the young man. Opportunity undreamed of
by our fathers are our constant companions now
but the American boy of today with character,
will and determination, faces no condition or
handicap sufficient to prevent his life being all
that a normal being could wish for.
In the future, instead of great aggregations
of ominious wealth centered in the hands of a
few in our great commercial centers as now, it
will be scattered among the agricultural classes
and we predict that the next aristocracy to grow
up under our government will be the farmer
class. This is no dream but a sober forecast of
the future, based upon facts open to any thought
ful mind. According to bulletin cf the Agricul
tural Department at Washington there is a grand
THE rOFFFF rOTNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA
aggregate increase in agricultural land of more
than six billion dollars in five years and an
average of thirty-three per cent. A few years
ago our ambitious young men were forced to
seek other fields than the farm, consequently the
stores, banks and professions became miserably
overcrowded with the countrie s richest blood;
the old home was permitted to run down and
agricultural land went to waste. Then came
science with its new secret to interest the boy
and link his ambitious mind to the great possi
bilities of the earth.
The scientific and practacable became play
mates in the field, they attended the agricultural
schools together, they became a union of forces
from which has and will spring a wealthy,
happy and contented American Citizenship.
No greater blessing was ever bestowed upon
any people than the establishing of agricultural
schools in reach of the boys and to encourage
them to attend them is the duty of every patriot
ic man or woman. We long to see the day when
the gentlemanly art will be farming and domes
ic science be considered among one of the
greatest of womanly arts. This will stem the
city tide that has so long sapped the countries
jewels of manhood and womanhood. The lure
of the white way will lose its charm in a contest
with the green fields. Money has been turned
into agricultural channels and the scientific far
mer of the future is the anchor and stay of the
American Republic.
GOVERNMENTS DISCRIMINATION
AGAINST THE FARMERS.
In money matters the farmer of the United
States has always been at a great disadvantage,
fhe government instead of assisting him to ob
tain money in the cheapest possible manner and
the lowest rate of interest, has allowed him to
be pillaged by private banks and the great money
interest. It does not recognize his land as col
lateral upon which money can be borrowed al
though the soil is the most tangible and perma
nent fixture of creation, one that will be here
perhaps as long as the world stands or certainly
so long as we live here. Although the Postal
Saving Bank system has only been in operation
a short time it now represents in deposits about
thirty-six million dollars, ranging in deposits
from ten cents to five hundred dollars. We dare
say no rich mans money represents any portion
of that deposit for the government only allows
two per cent, interest and men of money don’t
loan on that kind of interest. That sum no doubt
represents the hard earned savings of the labor
er and the farmer, still under the postal bank
regulation the post master must immediately de
posit the amounts received by them in the near
est solvent bank willing to accept it, but no
matter if the farmer had a thousand acres of
the finest improved lands in the United States
and worth five hundred dollars an acre, he
couldn’t borrow one dollar of this money with
his farm as security. Now this money may be
loaned by the bank to its other customers, ex
cept a reserve fund of about sixty-five per cent,
but not on land securities. The bank may also
send it to either of the three central reserve cities
viz: New York, St. Louis and Chicago. Imagine
if you can, three greater gambling dens than
these three cities. There the money may be
loaned to speculators whose living is made by
manipulating the market and by running up or
down the price of that which the farmer had by
the sweat of the brow produced.
Does it look fair or just or can there be any
reasonable excuse for a government to permit
such gross discrimination ? It is estimated that
the American farmer pays on an average of
eight and one-half per cent, for the money he
borrows while the governments of France, Ger
many and England give financial aid and back
ing to loan companies who will lend money to
farmers on improved lands at from three and
one-half per cent to not exceeding five per cent
enterest. It is estimated that an interest in ex
cess of five per cent, the farmer cf this country
each year pay out more than two million dollars
1 hat sum simply represents a tribute paid by
the American farmer to the money interest and
private banks and with the governments appro
val at that. We trust that the present adminis
tration in dealing with the currency question
may enact laws that will protect instead of dis
criminate against the farmer.
The Coffee County Progress is the
name of our new neighbor, a paper
published at Douglas by Col. T. A.
Wallace, as editor, J. E. Bartlett, as
mechanical manager, and Mr. Sapp
as business manager. The PROGRESS
is all the name implies and no neater
composition and newsy paper could
be imagined. Success is already
attained by this new paper and our
wish is that it may by F r exceed
their expectations. The Alma
Times.
Editor Otto Middleton of the
Hazlehurst News, accompanied by
his beautiful wife, paid this office a
call Thursday. We shall always ap
preciate a visit from this i Eng
couple.
DICKERSON AND DART
HIGHLY ENDORSED BY
BLACKSHEAR TIMES
Members of the Pierce county bar,
county officials and the public gener
ally in this section are unanimous in
trie expression of public opinion that
Marcus David Dickerson is one of
the ablest, best and most efficient
solicitor-generals in South Georgia.
Mr Dickerson resides at Douglas but
is a frequent visitor to Blackshear
in his official capacity and is well and
favorably known to our people.
Pierce county forming a part of
the Superior Court of the Waycross
circuit, is of course as deeply inter
ested in the kind and character of
the officials of the circuit as any
other section of which is comprised,
and it is gratifying to The Times to
point to the record made by Mr.
Dickerson and tp say that a better
lawyer or a gentleman of a higher
type in every respect could not have
been selected for the office of solic
itor-general than the subject of this
sketch. While he is a vigerious and
relentless prosecuter of those who
break the laws, he is nevertheless
imbued with a fine sense of mercy
and kindness toward erring human
ity and his judicial temperament and
well-balanced mind serve to make
him as much of an “investigator”
as a prosecutor, with the result that
when he represents the people in any
case on trial his contentions have
great weight and convictions follow
much oftener than acquitals.
Mr. Dickerson was born February
12, 18S0, on a farm in Clinch county.
His early education was obtained in
the niral schools of his native county
after which he took a course in the
Georgia Normal College at Abbeville
and later graduated in law at the
University of Georgia. He was ad
mitted to the bar in 1901 and at once
began practice at Douglas, where he
has since resided.
His early life was one of strenuous
endeavor to carve a name for him
self. His father died when he was
two years old, leaving seven children
His father’s name was David Dicker
son he was an ordinary farmer by
occupation. His mothers’ name was
Amanda Sirmans Dickerson. She
is still living on the old homestead in
Clinch county. They were not able
financially to help their son in ob
taining an education, he therefore
worked on farms and taught schools
in Clinch, Lowndes and Pierce coun
ties before he began the study of
law.
Mr. Dickerson is one of the wheel
horses of the Democratic party in
this section. He was solicitor-gener
al of the City Court of Douglas for
six years, having been appointed
twice by Gov. Terrell and elected
once.
He was elected Solicitor-General
of the Waycross Circuit in 1910, and
should he decide to stand for re-elec
tion in 1914 he will no doubt receive
the hearty support of the people in
every part of the district.
Mr. Dickerson stands high with
the people of his home city, Douglas.
He is a member of Douglas lodges of
the Masons, Odd Fellows and Knights
of Pythias and is generally one of the
most popular citizens of that pro
gressive community.
When the voters of Pierce County
are called upon in 1914 to elect a
judge of the Superior court, Way
cross Circuit, Hon. Francis Willis
Dart, of Douglas, will no doubt be a
candidate, so his friends here say
He has already sat upon the bench
as a superior court judge. In June
1902. Judge Joseph W. Bennett of
the Brunswick circuit resigned and
Judge Dart was appointed by Gov.
Candler to fill the unexpired term end
ing January 1, 1903, being, while he
filled this short term, probably the
youngest superior court Judge in the
state. He also made a most accept
able record and left the bench with
a host of friends.
Judge Dart was born at Bruns
wick, Ga., April 21, 1869. His edu
cation was obtained in the public
schools and in Glynn Academy. He
later graduated in law from the Uni
versity of Georgia, on June 21, 1893,
was admitted to the bar. Nineteen
years ago he moved to Douglas, Ga.,
and has since been one of the leading
lawyers of that section. He main
tains a finely equipped office in the
Union Bank building and resides at
221 Gaskin avenue, Douglas. He
does a general practice in the State
ar.! Federal courts and has been very
successful as a practitioner. He is a
member of several fraternal orders
Restlessness vs.
Contentment.
If you could only have what others
have, and they could only have what
you have,' how happy everybody
would be. It always seems some
what ludicrous to see great train
loads of people being rushed into
I New York for instance, while other
| great train-loads of people are be
| ing rushed out of it. The one set are
as anxious to get there as the other
are to get away.
If such things were not so,however
there would be little travel and little
transportation or business of any
sort. The city man’s dream is to
have a place in the country where he
can live in quiet retirement; the
country man's ambition is to live in
the city, where he thinks he will see
life and enjoy great advantages.
Some time perhaps the scientists will
discover some method by which peo
ple who wish to change places can
do so, by means of some sort of
chemical or other transmutation.
Perhaps the day will come when a
man in Chicago who wants to be in
New York can get into a little box,
be connected up with a lot of coils,
etc., and be disolved, wirelessly
transmitted to his destination and
there rematerialized, all in an instant
Nothing short of this will satisfy
mankind.
There is no limit to our desires;
we want what we haven’t got, and
as soon as we get a thing we want
something else. The White Star
steamer Baltic on her last trip to
New York brought in 6,000 quarters
of Argentine beef, by way of Eng
land, and at the same time the At
lantic Transport liner, Minnetonka,
was taking a similar shipment of
American beef to England.
and is personally very popular,
Judge Dart has served as aider
man and subsequently as mayor of
Douglas, being elected each time
without apposition. In 1895 he was
appointe 1 by Gov. Atkinson as judge
of the circuit court of Coffee county,
About a year afterwards a city court
was organized in Coffee county and
he was appointed judge of this court
and served six years, when he volun
tary retired.
There is no better or truer Demo
crat in Georgia than the subject of
our sketch. He was chairman of the
Democrate Executive Committee of
Coffee county for several terms. He
was permanent chairman of the last
congressional convention of the Ele
venth Congressional District and is
now serving as chairman of the
Democrat Congressional Committee
of the Eleventh Congressional Dis
trict.
Telephone No. 192
King’s Market
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When you need a good rich,
juicy steak, nice roast, pork
chops, ham, sausage or any
thing in a first-class market.
Call 192
King’s Market
Ward Street Douglas, Ga
Beef coming in and going out at
the same time looks like stupid fool
ishness, but it isn’t exactly that.
Even in nature there is a constant
flux and flow of things. Acorns grow
into gigantic oaks only to die and
rot and return to the soil. Water
comes down as rain and is then evap
orated and taken up into the clouds
again in a perpetual cycle.
Nothing is at rest, and even in
death there is life. The scientists
now believe that all matter is only a
kind of vibration, and not solid at
all. There is in all creation an irresis
tible yearning for change. The hu
man soul is drawn ever onward and
upward and this aspiration is a part
of our nature, which we share with
all other created things.
The desire for change is therefore
a natural and a wholesome one, but
like all human attributes it must be
kept in restraint. We should never
be satisfied with ourselves or our
lot in the sense of ceasing to strive,
but we should not let this feeling
grow into discontent, for this is the
milk of human kindness turned sour.
We don’t want to covert what others
have, or to envy them ; verily they
have their rewards, and we ours.
A missionary who has recently
come from the wilds of Africa de
livered a sermon the other day on
“The Glory of Doing Without.” He
attributes most of the unrest of
civilized society today to the fever
; is’n and morbid anxiety for some
thing different from what we have.
Many of the things we hanker for
j would not be good for us if we had
them, and there is positive virtue in
denying ourselves.
You must to a large extent develop
your own philosophy of life. Others
'can give you ideas but in the main
your spiritual life will be as you
yourself make it, and you want to
avoid letting it be to dependent on
mere material things. They have
their place, certainly, but they should
not dominate you.- Path Finder.
Mrs. J. H. Milholian Dead.
News reached the city Tuesday of
the death of Mrs. J. H. Milholian, of
Broxton. Her death was due to ty
phoid fdver and so ill had she been
for several days that her death was
not a surprise.
Mrs. Milholian was a sister of
Messrs. Dan, Elias, Elisha and Dr J.
J. Lott, Mesdams Denis Vickers, Sr.,
Lundy Paulk, Luke Pridgen and
Tom Byrd, and has many friends and
relatives in the county who learned
of her death with sorrow. Five chil
dren and her husband survive her.
The interment occurred at Brox
ton Cemetery Tuesday afternoon,
Rev. M. A. Morgan, of the Douglas
Methodist Church, having the mat
ter in charge.