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(TnftVi' (Ctfimty Published Every Friday Afternoon T. A. WALLACE, Editor E. S. SAPP, Business Manager J. E. BARTLETT, Mechanical Mgr. Entered at the Po3t Office, Douglas, Georgia as Secon d Class Mail Matter. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE One Year . - , - SI.OO Six Months, - .50 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. Not a Substitute But a Wholesome Beverage There’s nothing injurious in Chero Cola. Drink it morning, noon and night, and you will experience no disagreeable effects. Everything pleases when you drink it. The taste delights, and its refreshing 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 * 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 DoLgias, Ga 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.