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Tatered at the Pontofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
*, mail matter of the seconh class.
»bo. L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT-
An Incident in Court.
• How long since, Mr. Clerk have you been
practicing law?”
The voice, like the rour of a bull, was fol
lowed d>- an awed hush over the crowded court
room. A mun was on tri'nl for hisjlfe for taking,
in n moment perhaps of mistaken impulse, the
life of a fellow-mj*n-. Followed long days cf re
flection In jail; then the release on bail and
*nany yean of anxiety while the shadow of the
U SI rows hung over him anti his lovea ones; at
last, in the alow and devious process of law,
4he case came up for trial. (
"ilie 'country courthouse, a square framed
budding with the upper floor used as a court
room and for grand and petit jury rooms, was
packed with a shirt-sleeved and perspiring au-
dien-e. drawn largely by curiosity. With the
jnaiT accused was his young wife, a womltn
whose delicacy and refinement made her ordeal
especially trying; his young son, his sister and
bis aged but dignified father. They were seated
with his counsel, one of these a man "of state
wide reputation in criminal law from a distant
ti . . his kingly stature and black flowing side-
whiskers making "him a unfit 1,1 mark; another
v „ung lawyer just admitted to the local bar,
the third man short and stout, but of aggres
sive mien, a man of part# and at times a gqn
r. n. in those days when men who led must bo
a: all times ready to defend life. It was
h. whoso voice had riven the whispering
lethargy which had fallen on the courtroom
■while the dry and. tedious process of selecting
a jury was going on-
On the bench was a small man. but of dis
tinguished ancestry, a jurist who hud been a
wrrrior in the days when the South called its
sons to service. Calm and cool he was as fearless
as he was fair and deliberate. Inside the rail
that separated the bar from the. main court
room were grouped the attorneys, nearly all of
them men from neighboring towns who made
the semi-annual circuits of the court*, and
-with them the- few court officers and the o<*:n-
loonai venturer who risked the eye of the sher
iff or bailiff in order to get a seat of vantage.
The solicitor-general, a taTI man still young
but a.veteiV> in practice, was propounding the
usual question- as to bias or competency to the
long, list of tales jurors called one at a time by
the Rgcd clerk who stood at his desk. There
were many objections, as usual with such cases
and the work of selecting twelve trial jurors
bad been going on for hours/ A name had been
called and the man stood up; near him a man
waa standing at the bar rail. The solicitor-gen
eral leaned over the clerk to ask which of the
men was the one called, and the sharp eye of
Che defendant's counsel caught the movement
and misinterpreted it into a request for ad-
▼ice. Hence the question which brought the
bosh of a erfaia.
■“I waa only; ” the clerk, white-faced
Started to explain, but the Judge waived him to
afleace
“Address your remarks to the Court, sir.” he
cautioned the attorney. But a temper, none
too eaaily controlled, had glared to the danger
point. For the moment the attorney was beyond
reason.
“My duty to my client will not permit me to
allow such practices to go unrebuked,” he said
his voice almost a roar.
Firmly the Court admonished him to sit
down. He refused and countered with another
hot remark. The - Court assessed a nominal fine,
and an expressed readiness to pay it gave op
portunity for a more sqpthtng sentence. The
fine was doubled; the insulting rage brought
forth language that caused the court to - order
the attorney to jail. Friend* had gi
around the attorney but he had lost control of
himself and no one else could control him- In
,vain the solicitoi general endeavored to ex*
plain; the court warned him to silgpcefit was
the Court's doty to maintain discipline and he
would brook no efforts at help.
“Mr. Sheriff.” he called, but the Sheriff had
disappeared. “Mr. Sheriff!!" he called^gain.
menace in his voice arid kindled eye. '•Here!"
came the hearty response from the stairway,
as a young deputy scarcely past his teens, but
a man already tried in the fire of courage and
not found wanting, but who had been outside
-when the troupe began, came bounding up the
ateps two at a time.
“Take this man to jail." the Court ordered;
“and keep him until further instructions."/'All
Tight, -your honor,was the ready response.
And the young man advanced across th* room
to where the attorney turned to face him-Spec-
tators cleared way for him, for tragedy^ung
in the air. Both men were well known; once a
revolver was shown it was only a question of
which wpuld die first.
Straight across the room the officer walked,
and took the attorney by the arm. In the mean
time. reason had reasserted itself and obedi
ence to constituted authority resumed away.
will go with you; I never resisNnn officer
the law,” he said, and together they walked
dut, firm friends from that day. But not to the
jail of rough timbers across the way. PWends
hurried to the bench and Whispered; the Judge
nodded, and soon word was given the young
officer and the attorney was escorted to his
office, just outside the courthouse square.
With hand of iron his honor turned to the
waiting courtroom, and the machinery of the,
law was in motion again, the trial dragging its
alow length. Meanwhile, in the lawyer’s office
within plain sight of the Judge as he sat upon
the i»cnch. a seething caldron of indignation
boiled- Hot with anger, smarting under a sense
of injustice, perhaps reason temporarily ob
scured b)\the effects of several jovial nights
with his fellow counsel, at last the attorney felt
that he could no longer re- .‘a under’.the stig
ma of sharp reprimand. The young deputy
had gone, leaving only a bailiff on guard, and
this bailiff had a wholesome fear of the man
inside, so when the attorney seized from a rack
a repeating rifle (then the most deadly of small
firearms) and started Jiut the door, he offered
only verbal resistance.
But the Judge saw. As the machinery of the
court moved he had c^ist from time to time a
glance at that office across the way. And he
saw the man with the rifle come out. and knew
that the,, weapon was intended for him. Al
though nfuriy lawyers in attendance on the
circuit courts carried revolvers then, the Judge
did not. - He wis unarmed and defenseless
should the enraged man reach the courtroom,
or even take a shot at him within plain view
through the-open window. But not a muscle of
his face moved: his eye did not falter, although
the intensity of his look brought every eye on
that side of (he courtroom - to the object at
-which he gazed.
Again tragedy was averted. Only a few
yards had the man with the rifle hurried wheii
lie was met by a party of men who finally dis
armed him and induced him to return to his
office. Seeing this, the Judge turned once more
to the business on hand.
Late that hot afternoon, a man repentant,
rth bandanna banduged head, face still deeply
flushed and eyes that still ■ flashed, walked in
to the courtroom on the -arms of two friends,
and made his apologies to the dignity of. (he
■ourts of his state, Hnd to the man ^rn the bench,
for whom he recalled many ye
in court and camp and battlefield. As he
•axed eloquent, again his feetingg^got the bet
ter of him. “I apologize to the courts of my be
loved state." he said, “but us for apologizing to
any man. I'd rot in h first.” J
“Hush-h h." admonished the friends at his
elbow. The Court gracefully and smilingly ac
knowledged both friendship and contrition,
and the Incident was closed,
Both the attorney and the judge have long
aince passed to the jurisdiction of n higher
court; the young man on trial has filled out his
allotted years and. has laid his case before the
Great Judge; few men who stirred at, the
events of the day are left to remember now. But
the incident illustrates that in those days men
of iron and courage were required to adminis
ter the affairs of the courts where the law was
supposed to reign as yvell as in the paths of
the pibneers who were carving a country of
civilization from a wilderness.
VOCATIONAL
TRAy
KING
“THE RED CROSS WORK-
*7,000 30 ACRE#
The editor of the Worth County Local sug
gested the advisability of a vocational ..train
ing school at Sylvester, and the last issue of
that paper contained several 1 :lters from citi
zens of that county and business men of Sylves
ter endorsing the movement.
We aye pleased to see Sylvester taking this
forward step and hope they will not let interest
become lukewarm until the school is establish
ed. feeling assured they will find that money
and time spent therein one of the best invest
ments they have ever made. Too much of our
educational system is theoretical, and the ef
forts-of the leading educators'now are being
turned along practical lines. t
If is largely due to a / faulty system of e dura
tion that so many bo^-keepers and clerks are
hunting jobs while the supply of trained ‘v irk-
rs is far short Of the demand and the special
ist in practical lines can command almost his
•wn salary-
The greatest of all conservation is in human
nergy- As the day of the jack-of-all-trades has
■ast. so is the (lay of the specialist here. The
parent of the boy or girl who selects for thpm
•ocation in life and trains them for it from
childhood- is giving them a rich heritage which
cannot be taken from them; also doing a full
duty towards community and country at large
by giving to both a trained hand and an educat
ed mind..
Vocational truiriing i s the last word in con-
<ervation of-human efficiency. It is a duty every
parent owes to his- or her child. With it we will
no longer find the high school graduate the po«
scssor of ull the preparatory school can give
ret'left like a ship without a rudder, at a loss
or an occupation-
A vocational training sehtwl at Sylvester
voiild huve a broad field of usefulness in traili
ng the young people of Worth county. It would
•onflid in no way with 'the established insti
tutions. for the suppl;
Tiffr is doing its part this week toward AUp * k “
raising it* part of the million dollar s President xhos* who planted Irish pot«u>»*
Wilson has asked for to further the greatest this year and iii«d judgment in nur-
humnnitarian work in the world, that of the kiting them . m »<te "« clean up," m
Red Cross. Our county's portion is fixed,at *5,- (“• “> in «i.* 0 "- I " r ° nn " tion
000 and it should not fall short. ™ G "“'“ " m “ ■ 1 »’
Not every person believes in'
believe in saving life. Many are conscientiously j t*to*» thta year.
* W* t
gradlni
opposed to strife; none can offer objection to | Mr. slater lire* about «bc
relieving suffering. The Red Crosg knows no north of Alapaha, and planted,
country, no section, no creed; it knows only ""'*’"** tw * “*
Christ the Merciful. Its only object is to aid the
wounded, sick and distressed; to act the part of
the good Samaritan-
Those who c/nnot go' to the front can do
their part here by supporting #he Red Cross-
Have you a boy or relative who will be with
Pershing or any part of the American' expedi
tion to France? Or is he in the navy, the avia-
oion corps, or any bramji of Uncle SamVfight-
ing forces at home or abroad where danger
awaits? If this briy should be sick or wounded
you would want to be at his side, would you
not ? This is impossible, but instead you, can
send an experienced physician, a trained Chris
tian nurse to minister to his wants, second only
to a mother. You ps»» do thi s by supporting the
Red Cross, which has ambulances, physician?,
and nurses where evfcry battle flag flies
which i s today bandaging wounds and giving
first aid to the suffering wherever suffering
calls for help.
Church and state unite in suppw-J* sf this
great work: Tifton cannot be a, -lacker. t\#t
your subscription, for some sunn/great as your
means can give—it is for Christ and humani
ty—19 the Red Cross fund. Give for hu-’Hniiy
and also give for self- The Red Cros, l.s aving
lives: tomorrow it may save one very dear to
you
potatoes this s
sold his crop for #9,000 g
expenses reached about #2,01
he has #7,000 which may b, ej
aa velvet.
Another lesson from i
The first two carloads
shipped without |
sold at a loss. T1
crop he sold' in t
from Savannah
and these were ffraAk
shipped,. Mr. Sister 'll
pmder and will t
the future.
Now he i
thereV
and*.
ich schools is
We want to see
ire sure that if can
will be a great sure
s saying that the G
the
REPLACING THE NEGRO AND THE MULE.
short of the di
hool at Sylvester a fid
it on the right lines it
Gen .Wood is quoteii
gin brigade, composed of three regiments of
fantry. one battalion of field artillery and one
squadron of cavalry, will be among the first of
'of friendship.’ the National Guard to go abroad. The high
rating of the Georgia troops is given as the
reason for their selection. They have been or
dered into concentration camps to prepare for
the trip-
A loaf ol'tjccad selling for la coats in De
troit. Mich.. snlhNfor 9 cents in Windsor. Cana-
da. iust across-the river. Made from the same
crop of wheat, under The same conditions, thi
■itizens of the United States pay four cents
Thursday.
telephoned first from J
.Chula that the boys v
•rere into nil kinds of petty bSJjCn
r-hief. They made nuisances of them-
••elves generally before beinir finally
taken up. They said their homes
•re in Macon. - A
Friday Miss Allies McKenna, who j
is charge of' the juvenile rereue 1
irk for Crisp county, <
iys, n» they were wai
county for a misdemeanor. Shed
Shaw was elad to turn them- •
Aline*
MOVING SOUTHWARD.
The purchase of the Moultrie packing plant
by the Swift interest* i s a sign of the times:
The packing industries of the country are com
ing South.
When the packng plant at. Moultrie was
first considered, one of the most effective Ar
guments against it was that the small packer
in the South would be helpless against the
immense concerns in the same busines,, North
and West. Yet before the Moultrie plaut.na*
been in .operation three years. * one of the
strongest and most influential of the Western
packing concerns hag bought it up. ‘
The Swifts are not in business lor 3entimenL
They would not buy a plant in the Soutlrunless
they saw for it a promising future. They would
not buy a plant here if they did not believe
theywould get plenty of men: to pack. Like all
large investors the Swifts look ahead. They see
the great possibilities for development in the
live stock industry of South Georgia, and they
want to be firet in the new field
And what is good for the Swifts .rood for.
all others in the packing bus'vj-s. It is good
for those at Tifton, amd at Waycros3 ; nd at
Statesboro, and other points where home capi
tal has organized to go into the packing busi-
for it will stimulate livd stock raising by
assuring a relinble market and a good price.
The Gazette ha* contended for years that the
near future would see a meat packing plant
in practically
coming of the Swifts is cumulative evidence
that this contention was right. For we confi-
d,ejjtly expect to sue • the • other large packing
concerns follow Swift’s example. The fi©ld is
too promising for them to afford to stay out.
loaf more than the citizens of Canada. Rea
son: CflTvadk'has food control; the United
States, thanks to a,Congress either dilatory or
friendly to the food speculator, has none.
PLAYING WITH DYNAMITE
From the New York World.
Everv vote in Congress against the" Food-
Controi bill i« a vote to increase still further the
high cost of living, which has already become
almost intolerable.
It is thus a vote for bread riots not only in
this country, but in Great Britain and France.
It is a vote to strengthen the hands of Ger
many by crippling the economic resources of
the den\ocratic nations that are battling against
autocracy. .
Whatever the professed motives of the oppo
nents of this measure may be. they are helping
Germany and weakening the United States
when they seek. to deny their own government
a power that has become vital to the winning
of- the war. .
Some of them say that the bill- practically
creates a dictatorship We have a dictatorship
now. but it is not vested in a responsible gov
ernment, It is vested in fno(\ gamblers and food
speculators and food moiropolists who control
the markets and squeeze every pojwible penny
from the necessities of the distracted consumer.
Flour is selling at approximately *15 a bar
rel. with prospects of - going to *20 unlera this
legislation is enacted. Measured hv the highest
Opportune with the migration of many ne
groes ffom tfie South and the scarcity »f fa ni
labor incicleiit to the demands of the army and
navy, comes the' announcement that . r viry pfaV-p. in 24 HOURS
Ford, who has solved so many problems of -mo
tive power, has perfected a farm tractor which
ill be within the reach of any mart, with capi
tal sufficient to buy a horse. This tractor will
do the work of six horses, and can be operated
for twenty-four hours a day when necessnrv.
!r. Ford is said to have been at^ work.on tm
problem, of cheap motive power for the-farin'
for many years, but has withheld announce
ments of progress lintil he had a tractor why-h stornoch. Liver and I
he considered would meet all the requiremetws.! it- in Mayr* Wonderful J .
These experiments have continued, despite the .‘on’Td^ic ^il? PROVlif
demands for war materials and pressure to .t "ill help yon. Mayr’a Wontf
solve (h<£ submarine problem. Now he is willing pliun^ocy. ? ° F *” C by j
for Stomnrh Sufferer* <vho
Mayr'* Wonderful Remedy,
neglect your Stomach
another minute. What appM
he only minor Stomach Jii
may often be nymptoma of (
-tm! Klcert of the S»nm»eh and T»- 1
tevtinea, Gall 9tone», Amt* Indi- f
■ ition. Auto Intoxication.. Y*!!o_t
•imr.Siea— Met' ether -«
nti, of-which the nufferer i« n
ntfl too late. An ideal pn*
for
V CTrf.
- :Vure tint
to submit his machine to a practical t<?st apt!
after correspondence with J. E. Mercer, of (hi
Department of Agriculture at Washington,
who htw interested himself in improved meth
ods of cultivation, donated one of his tractors to
the Buy Scouts of the National Capital, and
during the last week in^Mav they put a large
tract of ground near Washington into cultiva
tion by means of its use. The operation of the
tractor proved entirely satisfactoryj^according
article Sn a recent issue of the Murafac-
turers’ Record.
In his tetter to Mr. Mercer Mr. Ford states
that he expects to have between 25,0iK) and
30.000 of these tractors in use in thi* coun
try by fall. It is claimed for-them that they are
h'ght. comparatively inexpensive, and. require
little experience for their operation. Their
general use would solve many problems now
onfronting the producers of the country. Not
inly would they in a large part relieve the la
bor shortage, hut they come nt a time when the
price of farm .Stock i* high and th* supply-une
qual to the demand. Available for brenking and
preparing land as well as for planting, they
should go far toward-.helping the farmers to
replace the crop ahortagfc. especially in the cof-
price nt which wheat-has actually sold this year j ton belt. With planting and cultivation made,
and making allowance for milling, transporta- eBfiy the cotton have but to see the
tion and reasonable profits to everybody con-I colloll icki machine perfected when.-they
cerned In manufacture and distribution, flour - - r
should be selling at $9 a barrel
— - -- This means
that a*tax df more than $66,000,000 a month is
levied upon the American people for flour
alone- .... .. .
Cold storage figures made public show that
in poultry alone the amounts held in refrigera
tors have increased by tens of millions of
pounds during the last year. The percentages
of increase vary from 290 to 976. and the pub
lic is taxed to pay for it Every necessary of life
tells a similar story of extortion.
At the present prices of food the nverage
American family can just about manage to live.
The-ordinary wage earner, the man of mod
erate’lalarv. esn barely stagger along under
the burden that in Imposed upon him. Each
month the situation grows worse instead of bet-
ery county in this section. The ter. and unless there is legislation that 'y^-. T ' 1 ' '
tect the American people and protect their al
lies. this country can easily be brought to the
verge of a social revolution by nqy glib dema
gogue who ventures to take advantage of the
opportunities made for him by Congress ,
The ultimate issue of the war is likely to turn
upon the skill and efficiency with which the
food problem is solved in the United States A
Congress that conscripts breadwinners
gives bread-gamblers a license to prey upon
people is inviting disaster. If Congress refuses
to give the Administration the necessary law to
control this situation, hunger may make its own
laws as it has done in Russia. The men who are
fighting this bill are playing with dynamite,
and whatever arguments and pretexts they of
fer. to cloak the sinister and sordid character
of their opposition the facta remain the facts.
Good for our progressive neighbor, the town
council an election was ordered for July 10th
rf Sparks- At a recent meeting of the town
to authorize an issue of six per cent twenty year
bonds to the amount of $5,000 for the purpose
of erecting a school building. Sparks has alway*
invested liberally in education; that is one rea
son its name always suggests something bright
scintillating. -— —
will for the first time be independent of negro
labor.
The remedy for food shortage is improved
methods of cultivation, rather than increased
acreage. Here the tractor offers a solution to
the problem. It is said to have met with high
Savor'from government officials as well as prac
tical farmers who have watched it in opera
tion- If it will bring emancipation from the nje-
gro and mule, one furrow system; it will, it*
its friends claim mean a new era for the South
ern farmer.
The drain on the country's horsepower is
«howtf by the statement that since August.
1914. 920.000 horses dnd 330.000 mules hav
been sent to Europe. 300.000 horses this year.
Cavah'J "is -playing a small part in modern war
fare and the motor vehicle is doing a great deal
of the work, but the demand for horses an
mules continues to exceed the Bupply. Gei
Wood has said this government finds it exceed
ingly difficult to equip its army with horses,
and is compelled to use some stock below the
regular standard- With the expedition
Frafice under way. more horses will be needed
than ever. Which shows the Georgia fanner
that he should raise his own horses, and makes
very timely the announcement ©! Mr. Ford that
he has a cheap and practic^>f£rm tractor.
To Cure a Cold In One Day
kr I. AX ATI VR KKOMO Oulala/. l»
UKh koj llv. Hchr .OJ kroik* ull Ihv CO*
nt-Kiita t-lund tm,Mr l< 11/toll* to CM
TAKE
The Womaa’s Tonic
“1 took tour boule*,” t
Mn. Jones goes c
tty, “and was not only I
greatly-relieved, but can I
truthlully say that 1’h;
not a pain. . .
" It has now been two J
years since 1 tooicCardni, I
Sd 1 am still in good |
health. . . I would ad- I
vise any woman or girl I
to use Cardul who is a I
’sulicrer from «ny.fci,ijle-4j
trouble."
If you sutterpain canted I
from womanly trouble, or I
U you feel the need oi a I
good stren-yhening tonic I
to build Ugi> our run-down D
system, take the advice 1
oi Mrs. Jones. Try Car- 1
dui. It helped her. We 1
believe it will help you.
AODniggisb