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THE TIFlON GAZETTE, TIPTON. GA^
FRIDAY, AUGUST lO^TMT.
Z\x Litton (3a3cttc
Published V*
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
a« mail matter of the second ciaaa.
10. L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
AN ARMY IN THE MAKING
Those of our citizens who fail to Visit the
Tift county courthouse while young men call
ed under selective draft a*e undergoing exam
ination, miss perhaps their only opportunity to
witness a most remarkable epoch in American
history.
There, as at each one of the 4.500 examin
ing stations throughout the nation, young men
from the farms, offices, and practically every
branch of industry, are being examined as to
their physical fitness for soldiers. And they
are a straight-standing, clefln-limbed. clear
eyed lot. in the prime of young manhood and
the country's hope for at least one generation.
They take the matter with becoming seri
ousness, but not too seriously ThevVmder-
stand the crisis and the impending change ii
their lives, but they are ready for it and ready
to do their part. Never since it was a nation
has their country as a whole called its »ons to
the colors. As it is the making of a new chap
ter in American history so it is making a new
chapter in the lives of the young men called.
Those who return, and we trust that will be all
of them, will return wiser men with broader
viewpoints of !'f>* ■ deeper understanding
of what their country and its flag means and
of what the word humanity stands for. Their
eyes will see many things and many phases of
life before they are civilians again.
Many believe the young men who are pro
paring for the army now will never see service
al road; that the war willhe over before they
arc ready to cross the ocean or so near over
that their presence will not be needed. Even
should this be so, and the prayers of millions
ask it. the training .in field and camp and the
discipline of army lifo will be a rich and val
uable experience for those who are being ex
amined and accepted for service. Georgians
are fortunate in the fact tha their training
camp is in their own state and vi»ita home will
be feasible.
Their country’s hope lies in these young men
now, and they stand as if they were worthy
of it.
THE GALLOPING LIE
A striking illustration of the difficulty truth
has in overtaking fiction is furnished bv the
case of the unfortunate Berrien county man
who killed his wife and himself.
He was insane, and his was the act of an in
sane man—that, and nothing else. Yet select
ive draft was in the public mind and somebody
imagined that he went crazy because of it; be
fore this opinion came from the third mouth
it was stated as a fact, and later, without inves
tigation. somebody sent a story to the newspa
pers to that effect. Yet Tyson was four years
above draft age and with four children de
pendent would not have been subject to draft
had he been four years younger.
Something more than a dozen newspapers
have reached the Gazette office with accounts
of the murder and suicide, and not one of them
carried the true story.' In the interest of truth,
as soon as the fsets were learned the Gazette
sent telegrams to four of the dailies which
had the story giving the facts, yet none
them carried the correction, preferring doubt
less to let the false stand rather than acknowl
edge that they had been wrong
So the story will go on. from one to another,
and from time to time, and the balance of the
country will believe that here in South Georgia
men -are killing their wives arid committing
■uicide through dre«d of.army service.
Females are taking prompt advantage of the
opportunity recently opened to them to prac
tice law in Georgia. It is said that fully twen
ty-five per cent of the applications for
trance at the approaching teM of an Atlanta
lav/ school are young women. When they grad
uate two years hence and begin to talk, man
at least the lawyer part of him—will realize
that his sun has waned.
The sooner Congress adjourns and the Geor
gia Legislature expires by statute of limitation,
the sooner we can get down to the real bus
iness of v^ar.
THEY ARE STILL COMING
Hawkinsville Dispatch and News.
We thought that Editor Herring had written
enough of those "Saturday Night" /ketches to
fill a good sized book, but they are mil appear
ing in the Tifton Gazette and are Wne of the
most delightful features of that excellent pa
per. His last article under the caption. "Divid
ing the Dead Man’s Cattle." told how when a
man died in South Georgia way back i n the
fifties, his neighbors, after making his coffin, ,
and burying the deceased, took charge of his ‘
estate and divided cattle and other property
among his heirs In a fair and impartial man
ner. without the aid of a tawywand without
making any chars* tor tkmrmmfim. It w.n
i true picture of tt* hmmcyjgi Inljirrity of
t men those oi
f Herring’s
SATURDAY NIGHT.
HOW THE SCHEME IS WORKED
A Remedy for Dyspepsia.
’Old Bro. Tucker was instantly cured of
dyspepsia once—but he didn't stay cured."
The crowd had gathered on the long i^azza
of the double-pen log house after dinner. It
was big meeting time, and the services which
had begun the Friday before at the little log
church in the oak grove on the hill two miles
ntray. had reached their climax on Sunday. It
was after the preaching was over that nearly
100 guests had gathered at the home of a hos
pitable pioneer.
The dinner was a feast, for the housewives
had been preparing for many days. A beef, a
fat shoat and a mutton had been killed and the
necks of half the spring crop of chickens had
been wrung. Perhaps the long table did -not
groan beneathjts load of eatables, for it
stout pine, buithere was such plenty as the
hospitality of Wiregrass Georgia in those day
onsitjered the only right and proper thing.
The meats flanked with pound-cake, cin
namon cake, layer cake, pies and custardd.
The pound-cakes were covered with icing and
garnished with arbor-vitae and red berries.
The pieces de resistance on each table were the
chicken-pies, made in the biggest pots
kitchen afforded and dished up on immense
platters with brown crisp crusts and succulent
dumplings. No man felt that he had his part
until he had disposed of at least three helpings
of this.
The men ate first as was the custom and had
now gathered for an hour's chat before dispers
ing for home. Some lounged on the steps or
sat on the floor with their backs against the
logs; others witht heir chairs tipped against the
wall, against the water shelf or against the
banisters. There was a general full feeling
and it was timely for the subject of dyspepsia
to come up—we knew nothing of indigestion
then—and the remark about old .Bro. Tucker
followed.
Bro. Tucker had gone back near l}* 3 old
home, where he had started preaching, to mar
ry a couple,” the speaker continued, noting that
he had an attentive audience. "It was -a long
way back and he had to mijke the trip o% the
train. The marriage wAs"at night and there
big doings afterwards. A supper and a
frolic and it was a long time">fter midnight be
fore they all got to bed. ThWe was no train
back home until next day so Bro. Tucker spent
the night with the family. /
"Just after the ceremony, the bridegroom
took Bro. Tucker off to one side and slipped $5
into his hand. That much money went a long
ways in those days and the old man smiled for
hour thinking of the many things his wife
needed that the greenback would buy.
“Of course he had to eat some of the good
things, as any man will no matter how much
he is affected and he hadn’t got to sleep good
before the dyspepsia, which he had been nurs
ing nearly twenty years, got busy with him.
You all know how the old man looked, long
and bony and swarthy and sallow with scraggly
hair, and an all-over shave that gave his com
plexion full swing.
"He lay there and groaned while the chick
en-pie and pound-cake and potato custard
warped his vitals, until what milk of human
kindness was'left in him was sour dough. He
had left his dyspepsia medicine at home, of
course, and suffered agony rather than wake
any of the family up. Finally towards day he
slipped up and put on his clothes and went
down to the kitchen and searched around until
he found the soda. He took ft good dose of this,
and went back to bed.
“Usually Bro. Tucker was up with the larks
but he^id not drop off to sleep until his usual
getting up time and as he had nothing to do
that mornmo ami everybody else was sleeping
date lie'decided to take another nap. .He had
just dozed off and got a snore comfortably
arted when there come a gentle ‘tap, tap, tapl’
on his door.
‘The old man hoped it was a mistake, and
didn't answer. I n a few minutes it came again,
tap.- tap. tap!’ Still he didn-’t answer. After a
while the knocking came again. ‘Whose there?’
Bro. Tucker growled, and he made his voice as
mean as possible. There was no answer. But in
a few minutes ‘tap. tap, tap I’ the knock came
.gain.
"Seeing there was no help for it,.Bro. Tucker
jumped out of the bed. He always wore a white
cotton night shirt that'came to his ankles; this
was in-his way. so he caught the bottom of it
over his arm. his shanks shining like knobby
broom handles. His bare feet would fit num
ber nines, and they spread out on the floor like
snow shots. His night-shirt was open at the
neck and 1 showed half of his hairy breast-plate,
while a two days’ growth of beard helped his
high cheek-bones and sunken, swarthy cheeks
to make his face a scare-crow.
“Three step# took him to the door, which
he jerked open and stickin*~his head arcund
the shutter, he.gl.ared down at the visitor with a
What do you want?’
"It was the bride-groom of the night before.
His voice was low and he stammered.
‘I’m the ma n you married last night,’ he
said. ‘I gave you $5. Here’s $5 more,’ and he
held out a bill. “I intended to give you $10
last night, but put one bill in another pocket
uKouldn’t find it”
"Bro. Tucker’s frow n vanished into a smile.
5 forgot all about his dyspepsia until a week
or bo later. That, extra V meant a whole lot to
ild lady and the kids.”
Didi you read that letter from Mr. Moor in
Tuesday’s Gazette? We don’t think *we ever
read a clearer expose from a reliable retail
dealer of the methods pursued by mail order
houses. • We have often wondered how these
concerns managed to pile up such enormous
profits; we understand now, for Mr. Moor has
told us.
For leaders they put in a few standard arti
cles which, if they are not able to obtain from
the manufacturers, direct, they buy at bank
rupt sales or at similar sales and then sell
them at a very close figure, for advertising
purposes. They/make their money on the
cheap goods. r-Take jewelry for instance for
that is what Mr. Moor was writing about.
There is no article of merchandise in which
it is as easy to deceive a novice as a piece of
jewelry. It may be solid gold and still onl;
carat, worth about one-half is much as
other piece of solid gold of 18 carat. Mr. Moor
says if a jeweler could have all the trade
“from any section and sell at the prices quoted
in the mail order catalogues and deliver the
same grade of goods he could soon lay by a
surplus.” Further, “a person could do this
and buy from the jeweler’s regular stock and
save money.”
Is it any wonder that these houses can build
twenty-story palaces and declare dividends of
from 25 to 30 per cent annually? They make
a profit much larger than the small retail deal
er who buys in small quantities to which their
profits on the quantity purchases must be
ded. It is only a question of selling enough
goods, and they usually manage to do this.
They would not succeed if the baying public
was educated to their methods, for when the
people find how they arc being victimized they
will quit the mail order business. In so far as
the territory in which the Gazette circulates
is concerned, we propose, before we ge
through with the discussion, that the publit
shall be informed as to the facts in the case
a ltd then it can be governed by it
judgment.
And in the same class with the mail order
purchaser is the out-of-town shopper.
AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOUNG MEN
A3 A JEWELER SEES IJ
Tifton, Ga., Aug. 6, 1917.
Occasionally the young man drawn under j Editor Gazette: I hav« read with
selective draft appears to regard it as an" un- interest the letter* from Mr. F. C.
kind fate. He should not do so. If his health jMorriz and the editorial* by your-
is bad or he is physically unfit, he is rejectr'srif about mail order house* and 1
ed on examination; l[ he haa relate.™ depend- T.
... .V e x T7„_ chants side of the case (and in tma
ent on him for support, he heed not serve. For 1 r . preM nt the jeweler* 1 viaw-
the young man sound in body with no one de-
pending upon him army service, especially in | j should like to ask*Mr. Morris if
time of war, offers opportunities that rarely ha ever took hi* mrfl order cat*-’
come the way of the average young man in : logue to the merchant and asked
thU country. Thcao opportunitio* to br*do„ {£
the mind and see the world are trebled If he ;s the merc hant a chance
sent to foreign service. to , pr ice on EXACTLY the
The chances are "very good that the young game article that i* deseribedjn the
men who are drawn now will never see actual'catalogue; I have'advertised time
fiyhtinK nt the front during this war. It will •?*;
he near October before they go into training
and it tabes a year to make a seasoned me EXACTLY ih. urn, w— *
dier. Half of-'fnis year will probably be spent: A’ party cam e into, my store a
in camp in'this country and the other half be- time ago with a watch directly
hind the lines in Europe, if the tTanspportation-th« express office and wan 1
problem is so far solved bv that time Ihut they *"•» lh « "I"
, • , ,, 1 , jng up with their offer to
can be earned across the water next summer.
" v ' “ ~~ ~ •" v ( to any reliable jeweler and 1
The probability is that it will be midsummer I jt was not j u , t a * they rapr
or early fall before they reach Europe and the etc - j showed him the
chances are against their seeing actual fight- cal watch in m y jitock
ing beforeRhe winter of 1918-19 puts a stop to h-ss than he paid for it
artive operation, »
This would postpone the probable date for ^ knowledge
a majority of these young men ee'ting into the j Now j wil j - mert jon a few excap
fighting line before the spriitk <*f 19?9. ondthe tions t 0 this but the exceptions are
opinion of the majority o'! pie military /vcpeAs very few; f 9 r instance: jL, Wal-
is that if- ike war is no': /ver by that new it W*. Tjj
. ., ,..x, x •.tandard makes will no-.-sell tnelT
will be so near over that -here will bp bill, act- ^
ual fighting for these young m-‘. t.» !o. Of hoU5es ^ these makes of watches
course things may be hmrried a ’ tie but we ^ obtained through bankrkupt
are discussing probabilities and possisibuities. solas, auctions, pawn shop*, etc., in
The Government has not called out this great '*«ne way beside, through legitimate
army so much from an expectation of using it th? re toil
as to have it ready should it be needed. I pricet ^ Uy renera i ly known s 0 they
Even should they get to the front and par- tal(c COO( j, nn d use them ns
ticipate in the fightin* the percentage of kill-p leaders" quoting prices which I ad-
ed"3n»J injured has grown much smaller dur-'mit,
ing th* past two years and with modern train-
BY A SOUTHERN MAN
Almost does it seem that things are topsy
turvy when a Southern man is appealed to by
the negroes of three Northern States to pro
tect them^rom lynch law and mob violence.
Yet this happened in Washington the past
week, when a delegation of negroes from Il
linois. Pennsylvania and Ohio waited on Pres
ident Wilson and asked him to take steps to
avenge wholesale murders of negroes in their
states and to prevent a recurrence qf such out^
breaks.
A report of the incident says that "Mr. Tu
multy* assured the delegation that the Presi
dent was deeply interested in their complaint,
and already had discussed the lynchings with
officials of the department of justice with a
view to stamping out this blot on the pence and
order of the nation.”
Mr. Wilson was born and bred in the South.
That the negroes should know that in him they
would find a protector and a man who would
uphold the law is the most eloquent testimony
we could have that the race question is not a
sectional one and that when it comes to a show
down. thc negroes know that the law-abiding 0U |j n ,
of their race ca n always find a friend in the ( jj ;i
.Southern white man. joui
Many and varied have been the sporadic j p a .
•cry low cut, but still they
k e a small margin of profit and
mg hrnl scientific’ methods such as this severe ^"'^iWrtiiing
school of war has taught will lie probably {a „ lhi , m Bai wh( T re y foot the
much less one year hence than it is now. 'purchasers, is in making them be-
So far as deft^is-conccrned. young men die iu-ve that ALL their goods ar e cor-
everv dav of disease, from aocidents. and from rv-pondm/ly low. nut believe me,
prnvidentinl cu.v,. Thv « * i,
half out of his wits today for fear he may be ^ ^ chcaper Americma
sent to the army may remain at home and be ,
killed by an auto within a month. There isi 1 had a circular this morning from
onlv one life to live, and it has a certain ele-/ a reliable .-ilvirr-are concern and
me,it of risk. 1 nearer mid bisber than life it-!>bey -txtM ih.t th„ m»U »«-11
.-if » duly and loyalty, for they .rrf.ure
life is uncertain. ij ne or the Reed and Barton line*,
Army training will take a raw youth and 'j n the.-e /atuloguei? No. nor noth,
make a seasoned man of him. The discipline ing that can compare with them,
alone is something some yourig men would geti An article may bo aold as solid
from no other-source. Coupled with this, the d “ ndan ~' * r "
lywhere from 8 carat
. , , , , ... 10 18 carat. How is a party to
opportunity of seeing the world and participat- know whjch . But wUd Kolll wi „ b ,
ing in great events should appeal to the young the only , Ump 0Q it From m j#w _
man of red blood. 'tier's standpoint, if he could have
Added to this is the wages of $30 a month ALL the trade, in jewelry,. eU.,
with every necessity, including medical- at- from an >" » e c'“°n and sell at tha
tendance, furnished, which ** »T‘ ’'’“MS?
is estimated at nearly $4 a day. .luih m<>ri 0 f eoo ,j t he could soon lay by a sur-
thnn can be earned in the average calling. p i a5 „s well^ as they do, in propor-
There is nothing for the young man called tion. Furthjirmore. a person could
under selective draft to be despondent ove.r.. Jdo this and bu y from the jeweler 1 *
- j.-cgular stock and SAVE MONEY. ’
, T- s ' But the average merchant think*
If there arc any Ccrmanc . ontcmplatms 1#<t , f b ^ w „ u „
an imitation of the Oklahoma fiasco, they had ,, Uy thas particular article and pay
just as well reYnember that the principals in the | t }, e price it is myie of hi« business,
here against Selective Draft were In- V on when *•- knows he can sell the
to: -; and a few mixed whites. :, ' r Ic ” mon *>-
want to get into- that kind of com-
ring now to the so-called
It is very prolSable that Mr. Wilson will be
able to do little more to punis£ crimes against
negroes in Northern states than his jiredeces-
were able to do toward punishing the
lynching of negroes in' the Southern states. But
illustrative of a. new condition of affairs
that hq should be asked to do so. And while
he IS a very busy gnan, we hope he will find
some way in which the evil ca n be reached,
and let the first effort by, Federal authori
ties to protect the .negro in his constitutional
rights be inaugurated by a Southern man in
thc Presidential chair.
I hclicv e sh.it the ahov- e will ap
ply to nil line* of merchandise car
ried I'., our local merchants.
I might say more along this line
ts gen- ! •: spnr c - forbids nnd I don’t want
. oral j.n--ei unents published this week worn- ;^ v caeroa Hs r’or good aatnrt too
tnciids ‘tbfii'ii be abolished, considering four
term i of Superior Court annually sufficient to |
tal • :•!-•• »f lh** '-holiness. . c,
j w h"'n yod yawn, a gooJ dual in
„ the 4:iytinfcTfcd dull, acli'v and
appeals for Federal power to punish riotous
outbreaks resulting 'from race hatred. The! The City Court of Sylvester has only been in
states are sovereign in their authority i n this • operation since the first of the year, but the
respect and there i.sdfttle the Federal Govern-. Grand Jury of Worth Superior Court
ment can do. so long as the mobs remain with
in ecstahf bosnde.
Gerald Heroing has enlisted .for army ser
vice in the aviation corps and left for Atlanta
Monday night. We cannot say that we see him
go cheerfully,- but we would not, by word or
deed,'stand between him and his duty, aa he
sees it. Had it been possible, we would have
been in the sendee ourselves. To say that be
cause we have seven sons we have one to
spare, is to speak foolishly. Affection is indi-
viduali it knows not numerals. To us each
of our" boys stand alone, as if he were an only
son; it could not be otherwise. Yet. while we
have no boys to spare, we stand ready to sur
render any, or all. even life, when duty calls
or their country nqeds.
They say they are making counterfeit pota
toes. May be able to imitate the old Irish va-
•ty, but the man does not live who can make
imitation sweet potato and pass it off on a
Georgia Cracker.
The bill to provide two terms of Superior
Court for Tift county annually instead of four
terms, a* at present, passed the House Thurs
day. It now .goes to the Senate.
< very truly.
Recent events In the National Congress are
converting Georgians to the recall theory.
MANY EXEMPTIONS EXPECTED
From the Springfield Republican:
'The large proportion of claims for exemp
tion bv-those who pass the physical, examina
tions is not so disturbing as might be suppos
ed. While much is heard about slackers, the
truth is that there are many men of draft nge.
physically fit for military service, who are
clearly entitled to exemption, tinker the prin
ciples of the selective conscription lay. N" -
one would have them neglect to filq their
daims from fear of- being classed amongjhr
slackers. Others there are rwhosc cases are near
the border line, and certainly should be/passed
upon by the exemptioir'boards in a spirit of
complete fairness and impartia'ily. The law
was justified, when it was enacted, on the
ground that it wAtild equalize the burden of
military service among the sections and equita
bly distribute it among the Individuals, ot mil-,
itarv fitness who could be best spared from
civil life." The spirit of the Law seems to re-
ouire that doubtful cases be passed upon by
the exemption boards without prejudice Jo the
claimants in the judgment of people of patriot
ic feeling.
It will be found, undoubtedly, that the over
whelming majority 1 of those whose claims to
exemption are denied will accept the decision
of the exemption boards gracefully and patri
otically. They will appreciate thp fact that
their cases hqd received full consideration and
that the verdict constituted the nation's un-
Many "people toiler the tortures b<
lame muscles and stiffened joints because
of impurities in the blood, and each suc
ceed! njj attack teems more scute untfl
rheumatism bat invaded the whole system.
To arrest rheumatism it it quite'as im
portant toimprove your geuersd health aa
" pur blood, and the cod lireroO "
‘.multion is nature 1 sgreat blood-
- - — ... ■ -uile ita media ual nourishment
ty of the youth of America, buMf the nation. b^fd 0 ’ to erptl
■ucntly, .. ... .._
unrnist.-ik.ibt. symptom i i • milnria
■ ■ l fence
you nre'booked for n spell of chills.
IIKRH1NE .. a chill m.- ii-in-; that
will prevent nr rure the discisc. It
drives out the impurities on which
the mntnrial germ thrives, strength
ens the liver nnd '.c-anses the bow
els. Price 50c. Sold t>y Conger
Drug Company.
NOTICE
There will be an annual ipeeting
of th c stockholders of the Farmers 1
Union Warehouse Saturday Auiurt
11. 1917. a t 10 o'clock at the Ma
sonic Lodge. _ _
Caorf* Sutton,
Secretary and Manager.
0 Piles Cured In 6 to H Days
oiKTMRKTUIfs to cn« sir c«?of MckUc!
PfltMl.nir-itiasorerofrudlos PlteiinCloMdsrs.
'SATURPAY S -ENLISTMENTS
David F. I.uke, Milltown,
Geo! E. Oliver, Valdosta.
Barney J. Handley, Waycross.
Moses Hardwick, Cairo,
Roy H. Wurrow, Tifton.
RHEUMATISM ARRESTED
with an 'its faults, means'to them anything • o u "K 1h -
worth of-self-SBcrificingaevotion, they can- eror d*r who cduid not find
not fail to meet it triumphantly. j *" -