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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 *" -