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BE A MAN.
You owe nothing to the man of money un
less it be money, and you will never settle the
debt with anything short of that substance or
its equivalent. He who prosititutes his honest
manhood by catering, scraping and bowing to
the bank role dummy simply because he hap
pens to be such, is no man at all. He is simply
a two instead of a four legged creature. Ihe
map that is a man is one that looks all the world
in the face and dares and does ; who stands on
his feet and applauds the right and condems
the wrong, whether the act be committed by
beggar or lord. Cowards are a menance to civi
lization and a detriment to manhood. Much of
the so called policy and diplomacy of the pres
ent is nothing more or less than straightout cow
ardice. If you owe the wealthy one then by all
means pay him, pay him in money, but in the
name of the great race of of mankind to which
you belong, don’t pay him at the expense of
your independence as a man. Be a man, first,
last and always and remember that gold can t
purchase true manhood, neither can it be des
troyed by it. It is a wonderful thing to be a
man, for the God of Creation made him in his
own image and likeness, but to witness such a
being creeping and crawling in the presence of
another mere human simply because he has
either honestly or dishonestly accumulated a
few ounces of gold dust, is a sight repulsive to
the heart of true manhood. Be a real man or
get off the earth and make room for one.
We have frequently heard it said of late
that this is an age lacking in reverence. We
have noticed this fact and in some instances
have deplored the tendency, however, it remains
for a newspaper contributor in Atlanta, to ex
ceed all common bounds and tumble into the
judiciary for a subject at that. This irreverant
writer states that J. P., with reference to that tri
bunal simply stands for “Judgment for Plaintiff.’
Do you suppose he has ever sued in a
Justice of the Peace,Court ? Oh you know.
HAVE YOU SETTLED IT.
\& hat are your plans for life ? Have
asked yourself that question aid have you set
tled it ? If so, you are already a success and
your motor will continue to speed up the high
way until that goal is reached. Earth holds no
no power which can prevent your reaching the
goal if your mind has been irrevocably fixed
upon it and the master, will, placed in the sad
dle. That is true whether the aim be high or
low, and you are designated the judge to select
the prize you will win. The greatest prize list
since creations dawn is placed in your hands to
select from and from none are you barred ; the
greater the prize selected, the greater the effort
necessary, yet all is attainable. No human has
ever done what you cannot do and no human
has yet accomplished a hundreth part of the
things that are possible. Man's knowledge of
the vast possibilities of the future is in absolute
infancy. Living is a grand privilege, especially
in this the greatest of all ages, yet the life worth
while is the only life worth living. This state
ment might be empty mockery were it not a
known and recognized fact that each individual
among us is the sole architect of his own life
and destiny.
You are today what you are. simply and pure
ly by your own choice ana making. You have
been the boss carpenter, the foreman of the job
and your life presents to the world the mansion
you have built with your own tools. Have you
planned that mansion perfectly and are you
building toward the ideal ? Have you the plans
before you for tomorrow, next week, next month
next year and for life? If so, you are one of
the worlds master builders and will occupy a
throne of success, but if your chart is unmarked,
if you aie waiting for opportunity to simply
blow you something some where, some time,
you are headed for a miserable port already '
strewn with wrecks. Indecision is one of the most
wickec pirates infeshng lifes seas and its certain
oesUny is rum. 1 caic not waa: your age, hab
its or conditions are now ‘you shoul 1 without
another,moments delay, meet yourself fare ro
face as yea are and decide once and for ail
-time what y6u wni be, then rre it ;t you nave to
but the world oh its axis.
THE COFFEE COUNTY PROGRESS, GEORGIA
GOVERNMENT’S DUTY TO FARMING INTERESTS.
The United States Government spent four
hundred and forty million dollais last year on
war, the navy and the pension departmens; it
spent only about twenty millions in the interest
of agriculture. Such a policy is shortsighted
and unjust, neglecting as it does the nations
greatest material asset and tne ultimate source
of business vigor ar.d public welfare. Ihe need
of maintaining an adiquate national defense can
scarcely be overgauged, but the importance of
conserving and increasing the national food sup
ply is more broadly evident. All enduring con
quests,” we are told, “have been made with the
plough,” The stability and progress of America
depends after all upon the soil, for thence must
come the people’s bread and meat and the ma
terials that keep commerce and industry alive.
How essential, then, that the national govern
ment devote its most earnest thought and effort
to the upbuiling of agricultural interests.
This idea was urged with peculiar forceful
ness by Senator Hoke Smith in an address last
week to the National Conservation Congress
Ihe very backbone of our economic existance,
he said, is farm products. Yet, the Government
has given but a comparatiye pittance to the im
portant task of quickening and increasing this
field of production- It has used its taxing sys
tem to r o .ter manufactures, “while the prices of
the products of the farm have been regulated
largely by foreign markets into which our sur
plus harvests have gone.
“Consider two cur crops alone, said the
Senator. “The great staple food of both for
men and animals, is corn. We produce a crop
worth one billion, six hundred millions annually.
The people of the world are to be clothed by
the use of lint cotton. We produce a crop of
this worth eight hundred and fifty million dol
lars annually. And yet the variations in the
quantity produced per acre, even though the
acres are naturally of the same character, de
monstrate the fact that when the highest degree
of skill is applied, our corn crop could easily be
doubled and bring to this country over a billion
and a half of foreign gold annually. Our cotton
crop could be produced on one-half the presen?
acreage and leave the remainder for the cuiti"
vation of food products."
The improvement ot agricultural methods
and the advancement of rural interests in gen
eral concern not the farmer alone but every
sphere af enterprise. No problem is of greater
moment to the rank and file of the American
people. No subject has a broader or deeper
ground of appeal to Congress. Some method
must be applied that will bring the country s
food supply up to the needs of a steadily and
and rapidly increasing population. The nation
al government is the only agency strong enough
to deal with this condition.
The government has done a vast deal in the
way of agricultural research and experiment
through which a wonderfully rich fund of knowl
edge has been developed ; but it has done com
paratively little to place this knowledge at the
disposal of the farmer themselves. The great
need of the day is to translate this science into
art, to make what is known count definitely in
things done. To this end, Senator Hoke Smith
urged the importnnee of co-operative demon
stration work “conducted by the State college
of agriculture and experiment stations together
with the national department of agriculture,
furnishing trained demonstrators in every county
of every State to put into practice, in co-opera
tion with the farmer, all the scientific truths
have been or can be discovered.” That is the pur
pose of a bill introduced by him and now be
fore ibe Senate. This measure provides annual
appropriations by of which the demon
stration work oj the agricultural colleges can be
extended so as to reach every farm in the coun
try ; it also provides for the enrichment of the
domestic and social side of rural life. Its great
virtue lies in the fact that it opens the way for
the practical application of the knowledge ac
quired through study and experiment.
"There is wide spread and insistent de
mand, says a recent writer on economic prob
lems, “for something to help the present farmer
the man behind the plough. He has paid the
larger share of the ten million of dollars that
have been expended during the last fifty years
id gathering agricultural knowledge. This work
was undertaken for him primarily any through
him for the benefit ot everybody. He has the
right ro expect and demand that the results be
delivered to him in a way and in a way and
form that he can utilize; He cannot go to
college for them ; they must be taken by him.”
That is the aim ox the agricu.tura! extension bill
now before the Senate. It provides a direct and
businesslike method of utilizing the fund of
agricultural knowledge. Its principles if put in
to effect in the United States, as they have a!
ready beer, in Belgium and Germany and other
countries of Europe, will add incalculably to the
productive power or our scii, will increase (he
volume and variety of our harvests, will lighten
the burden whicn the present high cos: of liv
..ig imposes on American workers ar.d homes,
will quicker, every cnannei ot industry and trade
aa u m axe :h s rtafro a in e *; r / seas e me e pros
perous a.. .1 secure - Lie.: A n.i journal.
DON’T FAIL TO REGISTER
In other parts oi thus vve ha* e caked tne
people’s attention to the fact that the city Regis
tration books will close >n next Wednesday Dec.
the “rd. We are informed that not /nore than a
dozen people have registered at this time, aithougn
only five day’s more remain in which to register
for the coming municipal election. It is a common
practice in Douglas to ’’cuss the city administration
after it gets in power regardless of who compose
the officers. Now the best plan is to get your name
on the registration books so that you cam have a
voice in electing the men you want and then use
your energy in helping them to properly administ
er the duties of the office instead of abusing them
and retarding their efforts.
fee
Our ambiion has been to make the Progress
the peoples paper and we must acknowledge
that its reception has been more than gratifying
to us, although it is now only a month old. Our
first and continuous duty, as we have set the task,
will be to help our fellowman in all of his trials,
help him to forget the sad yesterday, help him
to see, hope and work for a brighter and more
The Farmers' Time Coming.
A short time ago we published in
these columns a statement given out
by Harvey Jorden on his return from
Europe, where he had been sent as
one of the Committe to study Agri
cultural Conditons. This Committe
went into the rural districts and
studied the situat’on at close range
and by getting first hand informa
tion, learned many things that would
benefit the farmer in our county if
put in operation.
We had naturally supposed that
this information would be printed
and sent out to the farmer byway of
advice etc. but we learn that this
committe will be requried to report
direct to Congress and that they will
be permitted to suggest such new or
remedial legislation as they may think
would help the Agricultural interest.
Special attention will be given to
the rural credit system and by this
foot we learn that even our own
Country is begining to recognize the
fact that the farmer is being requir
ed to pay an excessive rate of interest
on the money he borrows to plant and
harvest his crop. There is no ques
tion but that the farmer has in the
past been discriminated against in
the matter of borrowing money.
Congress can and should regulate
this evil. When it is done the far
mer will begin to have his long de
layed inning.
The Georgia Cattle.
We hope that the farmers receiv
ed some valuable hints as well as in
formation from the comparison of
the cattle exhibition at the Fair.
There is no doubt that the greatest
hinderance to cattle raising in South
Georgia is the tick, yet like almost
everything else it is a pest that can
be handled. In Tennessee it seems
that they have completely eradicated
the tick and if the cattle from that
state and Bulloch county, Ga., on
exhibition at the Fair last week is
even a reasonable comparison, then
Tennessee has certainly done a won
derful work regardless of cost. A
difference of $53.75 is some profit on
a single cow and yet that represents
the difference between Georgia rais
ed cows from four to ten years old
in the tick infested district and a
Tennessee cow from two to four
years old. The difference is paid and
and discrimination made in the mar
ket of a Georgia city. We understand
that Mr. Z. W. Kirkland intends in
stalling a dipping vat at once and we
trust that many other Cofiee county
parties will do likewise.
A Correction.
In giving the list of winners at
the poultry show last week unfortu
nately we made it appear that J. I.
Hatfield won first prize on English
Penciled Ducks. This prize was
awarded Mr. R. R. Woodward, Mr.
Hatfield entered the White Indian
Runners only.
We are sorry we made this mis
take in as much as we feel very proud
of the interest taken in the recent
poultry exhibit, and always
stand ready to do anything in our
power to keep this interest up. Tne
poultry interest in this section has
grown wonderfully within the last
few years, and why not ? It is just
as easy to have a lot of nice thorough
bred chickens of some strain on your
yard as it is to have a bunch of
scrul s.
Do your chickens have sorehead
1 have the absolute cure.
E. S. Barton.
Corns barber shop.
glorious tomorrow. To help a.r.d encourage all
to grow into greater and truer manhood. To
assist in the advancement in educational and
material welfare and in the development ot the
wonderful resources of our country. To expose
rotten and corrupt practices in men. To purify
politics and put grafters on the hog. If you be
long to the common people we want your co
operation.
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There’s nothing injurious in Chero
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night, and you will experience no
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qualities are most satisfying. It
quenches thirst completly, and the
memory of its goodness lingers
until its time for the next bottle;
TRY IT TODAY.
Douglas Chero-Cola
Bottling Works
Telephone No. 192
King’s Market
*
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The Agricultural Girls
One of the best exhibits at the re
cent Coffee County Fair was the one
made by the pupils of the Agricul
tural School. Well made dresses and
other garments, preserves pickles
and jelly, the most tempting edibles
were on display. Four fruit cakes
were on display, one among the num
ber being sold, another, baked by'
Miss Mildred McDonald, was served
to Governor Slaton at the dinner
given him last week at the model
home of the school. There are only
four girls in the Senior class this
year, but the wonder of it is that
there are not many times that number
when we know that such training as
this is the training that makes good
wives and happy homes.