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Whose Are The Roads ? It is hardly fair ti> divide into two factions designated as farmers and joy-riders those who are working in the cause of good roads. For the latter class would seem to include only those selfish persons who use automobiles on the country roads to cater to their own love of reckless speed. As a matter of fact there ought not to be any quarrel between the two schools of good road lovers, however they are designated. Both are anxious for the building of more roads and for the improvement of those in existance. r l hey may dif fer in regard to the direction cer tain roads should follow, but funda mentally their desires are not far apart. The farmer has t thank the auto mobili. t for aiding in '.'.rousing the present great interest in the cause of good roads. The automobile own er has profited no more than, if as much as, the farmer from road im provement. Such at least has been the experience of Georgia farmers. And then it is no longer proper to speak of farmers behig a different class from automobilist, f< r the far mers in surprisingly large numbers, are automobile owners. A good automobile road is a good farm wagon road. The road that gives pleasure to the automobile tourist aids the country doctor in his buggy or his automobile to make a greater number of visits among the sick in his community and make it possible for him to answer speedly in all sorts of weather- a hurry call to a sick bed. It enables the farmer’s children to go to school in rainy weather. Then the question arises, should long disemce highways he given chief consideration by road builders or should t heir effor ts be confined to connecting up the different commu nity of farmers in each county ! There is no reason to lean too strong ly in either direction. Community roads can in most instances he easily connected up to form long-distance highways. And so there is ri ally no very important reason why there should fie a heated debate of the question of for whom the roads should be built. * c *®*®'®*® 1 11 ■tXl 'jnv wiwif'j*' r/» itilii tnin—hi ■■■! mm—■■ Douglas, ■ Georgia WHAT DO YOU NEED FOR YOUR AUTOMOBILE? WE HAVE IT Right Here In Douglas and The PRICES ARE RIGHT p ■ r T Goodyear Micheiin United States Mansfield Firestone G. & J, Tires And Tubes• Red and Gray Tax Collector s Notice. Last Round. I will be at the following places on dates named for the purpose of Collecting State and County Taxes for the year 1913. Pridgen Thursday, Decmber 4th from 12 noon to 2 p. m. I Broxton Friday, December the sth from 8 a. m. to 2 p. m. WILLACOOCHEE Saturday Dec. fith from 8 a. m. to 4 p. m. Mora Monday December the Bth from 9 a. m. to 12 noon. Charlie Daniels’ Monday Dec. 8, from 2 to 3 p. m. Kirkland Tuesday December 9th from 8 to 9 a. m. i Pearson Tuesday December 9th from 10 a. rn. to 3 p. m. McDonald Wednesday Dece. 10th from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m. ' Tanner & Gillis Thursday Dec. 11 from 9 a. m. to 11 a. m. Wilsonville Thursday Dece. 11, from 1 to 3 .p. m. j C-arrant Friday December 12th from 8 a. m. to 3 p. m. | Nicholes Saturday December 13- from 9 a. in. to 3. p. m, | Ambrose Monday December 15th from 11 a. m. to 4p. m. I Douglas Tuesday, 16, Wednesday, 17, Thursday is, Friday 19, and Saturday 20. Books will close December 20th Daniel Moore. T. C, Yet the National Good Roads As sociation did make that question the subject of debate at its recent con vention at St. Louis, in connection with a plan to ask the government for aid in road building. It ought to be easy to satisfy both of the so called factions. The roads should be the servants of everybody, the far mer in his cotton wagon or in his motor truck or his passenger auto mobile, the country doctor in his buggy or automobile, the city mar. who has to make trips into the coun try to visit cliants or business ac quaintances, the tourist, in fact eve rybody who has occasion to use them. The city man helps to pay for the country roads. Taxation for county roads does not stop at‘the corporate limits of the county seat. The roads are everybody’s. They should be built so as to bring the greatest good to the greatest number of persons, but there is grounds for protest when it is proposed to build a road that would be used practically by only one class and that a limited one. THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, DOUGLAS, GEORGIA New York Lectures The Farmer. An amazing bourbonish attack on the proposed system of farm credits, or extended bank accommodations for the agricultural interests of the country, which Congress will con sider next winter, appears in the New York Financial Chronicle, the organ of respectability and conser vation in the sphere of banking and finance,says the Springfield Republi can. The farmers of the country do not need easier borrowing facilities, one reads. Do not the value of farm property in the United States in creases $20,000,000,000 in the decade 1900-1910? Has not the farmer re ceived from his crops nearly $2,000,- 000,000 more a year by reason of the advance in prices in ten years? This highly esteemed organ of Wall street finance asks “why in this state of things, should the farmer be in need of ‘extended bank accommoda tions.’ and why should we encourage him to think that he is an ill-treated, ill-favored individual, and that the banking resources of the entire con tinent should be place 1 at his dis posal to do with as he may please?” It might be answered that if the far mers : s growing prosperous and rich on his rapidly expanding business, no better reason could be thought of for improving his banking facili ties. It is the experience of an in dustrial and commercial civilization that the demand for banking accom modations increase with the increase of wealth and the exchange of com modities. But this New York oracle is hard ly consistent. It allows that the far mer may need to borrow, but that is because he is such a shiftless crea ture. “What he ought to do is to get out of debt and stay out. He is no doubt paying higher rates of in terest than ordinary borrowers, but for much the same reason that per sons patronizing pawn-shops pay high rates.” Such remarks about the farmers of the country who pro duce from the soil each year some $9,000,000,000 in marketable com modities without which Manhattan Island would, relapse into a howling Agents for Chalmers & Overland Automobiles Dont fail to call on us while in Douglas and get what you need. i • luiitußmamauunarr; If you want to rent an Auto Phone No. 50 for the BEST SERVICES . . Right Prices a l,a " ,, *** w,ia *“ M “ ,aiß,arr,n, * ,llr r« /•*«» » %*. bmb■ s \\ 7 e do repair work and guarantee it to he O. K. Iry us, we wili convice you. wilderness and the stock exchange would have about as much life as a Pharaoh’s tomb in the Egyptian des ert-such remarks reveal a lovely spirit. But what are the facts about farm credits in important sections of the country? North Dakota is in the heart of the wheat growing belt. Even Wall street and the New York Financial Chronicle rejoice because the wheat crop this year proved to be the largest in our history. “Far mers in the Northwest,” says the Wall Street Journal in a recent issue, “have to borrow money, or obtain credit to carry on agricultural op erations at interest reaching, in some cases, 20 per cent.” Perhaps the New York Financial Journal thinks 20 per cent about right. A professor of the University of North Dakota investigated the sub ject. He sent inquiries into forty five counties and got answers from 125 country banks. The average rate of interest charged by them was 10.75 per cent., but thirty-five banks reported a rate of 12 per cent. When the North Dakota farmer buys ag ricultural implements and machinery on a year’s note taken by the dealer, he pays interest of 10.26 per cent, on the note according to averages. He gets credit on his prospective crop, precisely as the Eastern manufactur er gets credit at the bank on his prospective turnover of raw material into finished goods in order to pay promptly the cost of manufacture. It is as much business in one case as in the other. But local conditions and the lack of liquid capital in the sparsely populated agricultural re gion force the farmer borrower to pay rates so high as to cripple him. The system of farm credits so well .worked out in Europe and indorsed by President Taft as well as ty President Wilson, should prove a great benefit to the agricultural producers of the continent. Farming methods in the United States can he improved. The pioneer conditions of development in a new country are always wasteful; and America has not yet outgrown them particularly in the West. There will be tremendous improvements in agricultural processes during the next half century. But whai non sense there is in the New York Fi nancial Chronicle’s concluding state ment that there will be advance “if the farmer is not prevailed upon to abandon habits of luxury and ex travagance.” Coming from New York city, where single hotels waste food enough in a day to feed many country towns for a month, where the feminine luxury of Fifth avenue would make Cleopatra seem like an old-fashioned woman of Newbury port or Salem, and where the mas culine luxury of the clubs would fill Louis XIV with horror this censure of the “luxury” and “extravagance” of the average farmer of the United States fills one with unspeakable ad miration for its absurd humor and its unconscious arrogance. Have your clothing cleaned and .pressed at the City Press ing Club We will dye for you. ROYAL DENMARK I his perfect horse will be in Douglas Nov. 1 5 to Dec. sth ; 1913, at j. S. Lott. He is full 16 hands high and weighs 1280 lbs, standard bred, perfectly built; the best conditioned horse and the “biggest” stile horse you ever saw. Mr, G. W. Moye and expert breeder, has charge of this high school horse. Drop in shake hands with this great horse and hear him give the “horse laugh.” 1 erms: $lO cash, $1 5 when colt drops. J. W. Stucky, I allahassee, Fla. To The Public I have taken charge of the old Rail Road Cafe, which will hereafter be known as the Royal Cafe and placed Mrs. S. A. Edenfield in charge as manager, every one who knows Mrs. EdenfielcTs cooking will be pleased to know that there is oue place in Douglas, where they can get something good to eat, Nuf Sed. A,‘ K. Spencer y Notice to Creditors Georgia, Coffee County To the Creditors of B. H. Maynard | late of said County: All parties holding demands against the estate of B. H. Maynard late of said county, . Georgia, are hereby called upon to present their demands to the undersigned in legal i form in accordance with section 3907 * of the code of 1910. This November 3rd.1913. . _ . , Mj?s. B. H. Maynard Admx, of tne Estate of B. H Mav nard. • J Prestolite Searchlight Gas Tanks sold and exchanged Complete Line of Spark Plugs Magnetos, Batteries Tools and other Auto Supplies