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(Cnffrr (EmmUj JJrngrcsß. 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 Year . - , - $ I -00 Six Months, - -50 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 % 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.