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THE TICK MUST CO tEbe tElfton <3asette Publiahwd Wwffilg Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia, a* mail matter of the second ciaaa. SATURDAY NIGHT fao. L. Herring. ■ Official Organ City of Tifton ud Tift County. GaorgU. AN INJUSTICE IN APPLICATION Selective dr.fl li lie only efficient method of raising a large army in emergency, ine only v.lid objection end pr.ctlc.lly the only don.er to the .ncc.«fol oper.uon ofthe pl»n lay. in -the poMiblUty of error in currying out Its provisions. We have just had an instance of how an un necessary hardship has been wrought on the drafted men from sn adjoining county where reports say that half of the me* certified tor senice are married and many of these W1U1 children. Its within our personal knowledge that married men there with delicate wives and with babies only a few months old have been certified for sen-ice. These men have no prop erty or income except their wages. Their wives are not physically able, to work and to support themselves and look after a baby only a few months old is impossible. In these da vs of the high cost of living the wife and baby at homo cannot maintain themselves on whnt the hus band and father can send them of his month ly pay Hardship and suffering arc lrtqvita- blc. The War Department, the President and Congress never intended that such •». state of affairs should be brought about. I has been expressly stated from the first that men »' dependents, whether wives and children mothers and sisters, would not be required serve. Such men are not allowed to erl'at. and to leave them subject to draft wogld be unjust and unreasonable. ■Speckled Pea Time in the Wii Speckled peas are here. Once upon a time the speckled pea ranked erven ahead of the oll|rd aa a Wiregraas staple. They were not ivsU, each coming in its due and allotted seamn. The peas In the early fall, just atter roiating-ears and after the summer vegeta ble* were gone; the collard after the first frost ha< made its broad leaves sweet and tender. Bofc were rarely absent from the table until th*r. like all growing things in those days before canning became a domestic/art. paused with their season. Both "stuck to the ribs” and nade a diet that stayed with the working man. The peas wgre planted between the corn rows, and since the fodder hfld been pulled, ran luxuriantly over the ground and up the stalks. We didn’t know anything about le gumes then, but we did know that peas "built up the soil." just as they filled the stomach. There were many varieties—the red ripper, th* cow-pea. the crowder and their kindred, but the old-reliable was ’the "speckled buck,” which made the-pot-liquor black, and on long platter, garnished with slices of the ba con which seasoned them. flanked with pone corn bread, made a dish tnJit could tackle tion. ONE THOUSAND HOGS “When I began farming for myself. Imy greatest ambition was to produce 1,000 bales of cotton In one season and to bring 100 bales of it on one trip to market behind the fattest and’sleekest mules the country afforded,” said one of the most extensive planters in Tift coun ty recently. “Now my ambition is to have 1,000 hogs for A FUNDAMENTAL LAW Vital Qnttka- AfUct. th* Tlfto* Packing Hoc, The aew law making It Impoeei- bl* to transfer cattle infested with ticks, in the *U»t* °I Georgia or in to said state has put an aspect on the packing' House businea that ia a pretty vital thing to the Tift In his prime. Judge Emory Speer was re garded as one of the ablest jurista on the Fed eral bench. The manner in which he handled the celebrated case against Oberlin M. Carter and his associates. Benj. D. Greene and John F. Gaynor. illustrates the reason why his name •» • •«"»• t» o, *£5 Trad, Md Ok matter how rich or influential. At .'matter acutely brought out at th* market at one time and for them to be the'time that he insisted upon a strict enforcement u t meet j ng 0 f tho Board of Gov- finest hogs marketed from this county that of the full penalty'against the wealthy wrong-[ ernort . Thi. organization ha. bem. year. I already have near 500 head and next doer. Judge Speer was noted for the leniency, looking <•"■>»** V*fT year expect to have 1.000. I have found one and kindness with which he dealt with t ^|^ eo “ ^ ^ opTO | n(r o{ u>. i hungry man certain and sure preventive of cholera, and that is inoculation- It will certainly stop the disease if handled right. I know, because I have tried it." Thus, through our friend Joe Young, speaks the spirit of diversified farming. Its.aims can not reach their culmination in one year nor per- haps"iq two, but if adhered to will ultimately make this one of the richest countries in the world. Mr. Young tried cotton year in and year out for a decade of more. Instead of growing richer although he made some of the finest crops known to South Georgia, he grew poorer. Now he is trying the better, plan and certainly if he lives and distaster comes not he ith the certainty of satisfac- has found the right Twenty-five cent cotton has no attraction for ill early and the dew was on thejthe man who can raise 20-cent hogs. The man vines when the Boy and Mother, the breakfast j who produces cotton.never knows what it costs dishes washed and- put away and the kitchen ‘in or.der. were out picking peas for dinner. The vines hung with long, full pods, the ripe ones easily distinguished by their corrugated sides and the green of the cover turning to white. Not too ripe, for-they would be dry and cook hard: just full grown. And then i n between the succulent snaps—green fodder, as delicious to appreciative man as to beast. The large handled basket, woven of hickory splits, was at last filled and to the house they I | an d |s being, improved and grain the big* mulberry tree by crops are absolutely necessary. norant tilling. —. ... n _ Tift county with the opening o petty malefactor, notably the more or less ig p [ ant Under h , Uw man who was charged with illicit Tift county ia tick free, no 'fanner in the county can aell hia several of his rulings have been cited and cattle and no cattle emn be brernght preserved for their scholarly text and their ™ tT2 keen and incisive elucidation of the law. ui, tcrna „ veg of one proposition eith- late years, Judge Speer has been taking some er the. county tick free or no of the rest necessary for a man of his age and .tjd-'sraughter of cattle b^ the has been less in the-public eye- But his opdn- pa$kl£ff house. 01, the anti-draft U j last week, tfhows that age has not dimmed tne ^ unanjmou , condu ,i on in J clarity of his vision nor enfeebled his powers of ;. ounty> namely "Get rlt^ < expression. ’ticks.” In its concern toy We publish extracts below from this decision market for all Tift county * aa giving, In tho clearest terms have yet J** 1 Ill Si read, the legal and logical reason why this reec i Vc , ny expressions from far country not only has the power to require its alonB ,h, s line. The whole sons to shoulder arms in its defense but to send question is: "As n count are we to them abroad when occasion requires. The full He idle while others make • him: there is labor and expense trom the text of the decision is not given, but only par-, t®'* i'44pro- time the first plow is thrjist into the unbroken afrrnphs w hich app ] y directly to the case in j uc( . gn enormous -u’mber of , ground until the compressed bale is delivered! point: I tie but in order t, at the factory and all this expense, the grower The touchstone for each judicial power is the' we must get the ultimately pays. Hogs and cattle grow them- constitution and nothing else. It rem; selves. They require care, feed and intelligent determined whether the constitution has c»n-|i attention, but only an atom comparatively ] nuthorK^ojj^Co^t^s Rennet Ihi^law. I mpowers Congress “to raise ami support t S to h*‘ ; ami m»ke the law of April. „ 3 /* aVie to d c»ttlc Vn the -ounty ov:nty tick fret- bc- ipeaking to the great amount of labor neces- ry to produce a cotton crop. I armies” 'This power is pi. And while hogs and cattle are growing thej^ricted in any manner. Congress may summon nd feed]to its army thus authorized every citizen of 'he means! United States. Since it may summon all. it may ,, nud shell the peas for din-1 feeding the farm at Home and the removal of. summon hn\. Said the i Ming one Of the wonderful ato- j the JU.luA.ae from the West. j"ioX'-Among thJ powere Sll her remarkably retentive mem- What is said about preventing cholera is [ National Government, is the power , while the Boy sat^and worked )a j so w orth.v 0 f especial mention. Recently support armies. its co ‘ is plenary and exclusive ithout question from any.; e army shall be raised. ptirh what went, to sit u For these very reasons, the exemption of thisI th * ki ‘‘' h ' i n ,l ' class of men was left with the locM exemption ' boards, who would be familihr with all the cir-l rl< * «’ ,lh cumstances ainS who were ^xpectcd to see that, j ,,r l . • while no slacker was allowed to escape service! 1 " » »'len< e of intense interest. Ihe shilling |the KOVernmf . nt sent an experienced man here by subterfuge, no man who should not be tak- ,lon ‘“- Mother carried the peas to the well where. whp Rpent nearly three months, giving his ser- en into service woujld be certified the >' were thoroughly washed sewl^ ‘'mes in vice s. free foresting hog cholera. He ino - Such a situation! as is reported from our < fr ‘ ,,,h W8,or -. wh, . 1 ‘‘ *. he bore the hul,B jqlated -1.1W head, .vet said on his departure neighbor county could not play more effcctivi i still I high a .Jto the waiting calves in the lot. that he had treated less than one-fifth of t The usefulness of the peas did not cease with .hogs in this county that should have been treat- it hos a Kfe Ig of average weight is WQrih j tjn j is worth saving. When peb^ .^ n value ly into the hands of the enemies of selective me useiui draft If It had been especially de.-igncl tor that y*® di »" cr »'“ h *‘ effact. Its unjuatire I. .o aparral. and ™< r e »»» Plent.v to .mardd or “J , When a fat flapant that public todilhaUun Is inevitable. “ h 'f *■» a p»Ue end , , 30 to s „ f„ And this indipnatiun will be unjustly directed -haped into tlnv cakes and fned to udd zest p]e wow to rea | lzc , he real against the system, the War Department and to the baco " and cornbread which constituted fltock they wiU Rlve more attention to pr against the President, instead of againiS the.'"e regular breakfast fare. live measures. Mr. Young tried inoculaUo men whose bungling has given those who a* -0 ,. Wlr attacking selective draft fresh amfnunition for ,u lhe >' 900 .... I val stores r their gas bngs. Ont of the worst features of the situation is. that little remedy may be expected from the District Boards, which are expected to pass on other classes of exemptions «nd i question of dependents. It is to be ..... they will make . exceptions,in these cases and mficent aee that a great injustice is not carried out iluntary enlistment or forced draft, the ge at which the soldiers shall be received and! le period for which the soldiers shall he taken; ie compensation he shall bp allowed and the •rv»ce to which he shall be assigned.” There remains to be considered the ronten- ion that Congress cannot employ th.» National reated by virtue of this legislation of theirj'in foreign lands or beyond the seas. If this is ■vent- true, then indeed is our country impotent. Then Mr. Young tried inoculation and must H*. pe?P\e suffin in tbl ’ an article of commerce then. he says it jj, certain—the statement is positive, ♦h^horroreonnvi became one. The lumber and na- w jth(Mt equivocation. Hogs are worth i their cities and on t^eir farms, all »-« in 24 HOlidS <rt your Stomach Ailment* her minute. What appear* t« „! v minch^..‘ ; t»mnch .lizordem -'•.on he of Toneer ric.-rn'of the PtNm -eh and io- n.-«. Gal! Stone*, ‘ ^eute Indl- on. Auto Intoxication. Yellow ffiee. ar l other dnnghrous ail- -. of which the suffereV. I« not until too late; An Idekl pre- ,'inn for overcoming quickly Stomach, l.ivcr nnd Intestii.al Trouo la i.iz Mayr'* Wonderful Remedy.. Mill ions, of people have been rektor. .-,i ny it. One dose will PROVE fhat Remedy is for sale by Brooks Pharmacy. asive v Its military lead- One reason eome part, of Spain have pro- wMe the supply of seed for Bud ally to eouotry is the poorest kind of poliUea. German leanings is shown in a recent n9 ws 1 for anotber >' ear ^ he als0 garnered from: We fe)t a jj tke time tka t Woodrow would ■torj’ Worn Portugal, which tells how '.Spanish' tbe 8ur P lus ‘ h e wherewith for many packages ; 8ett j e that 8e i ect jve draft matter right when it fiahermen are accumulating wealth b v looting iU ^ ar and coffee- a "d occasionally a sma reac y, e< i him and so he did. That Woodrow ■hips sunk by U-boat, and by aellin e to the ] German commanders information as to ship movements. A majority of the ships sunk In the Incongruous though it was. among that com- ,! misery’s ^merchandise were a few books—for Mediterranean have been attacked .Ions the' ™ a man of Uternry Uete. One Spaniah eoart and man, of them were overhaul.* ““*■ ^ ed becouae of wireleaa mmeuge. from Spanish ,h « B5 > “ . ot denlrAbtlity- oAnd aourcea Upping the wbmtrine commander,.-' »“ »"b «•»»- «>• P™« of less *>-- - o-h- The Entente Powers are taking steps to break a man right. weekly newspaper i high standard for the young men to follow. iWq wish them success. The rebel yell, now Americanized into the “Southern yell." is the battle-cry of the Amer ican fighters in France, and will soon be heard when the boys “Go over the top.” If .it doesn't put the fear of God into the hearts of those womcn-butchering Teutons, nothing but a 13- inrh shell will. - >ng er s must ignore the settled principles'of their were sending scouting expedi-' an( j therefore they are worth saving. science, that the best defensive is the most vig- tions with axes into the rich pine forests which I jj ow many planters in Tift county will in ike; orous offensive. The keen swords of its sons were almost primeval, and one of their mills \ 000 hogs a year their goal? instead of flashing over the Run™ of ' °p*’ __ located within seven miles of Bud’s home, wfith Y | m v and piercing hi* vital*. mus^be^eW im- MM* whom the Boy spent the late fall. At ite com- 'ToliUca—not PstrioUsm.” is the way j ^'tera£d”blowa‘f bin hammer. Deprived of hoped that mis *ary they would buy peas, paying the mag- Savannah Morning News characterizes the anti-j oUr#ai{l j n tke fl e id. successive defeats will visit nificent sum (then) of $1 a bushel, in merchan- draft agitators. Which sums the situation in an d crush our allies. Their lands conquered, disc. As winter approached the com ripen- 1 three words. But those men who are guilty are Jiheir navies taken, we must then iff turn, soil ed, the peas were dried in their hulls, and t going to awake soon to a realization that disloy- tar.v and alone, meet on our own soi eirnpai. - a_ au »„!!«.. of rictonous and barbarous legions whose la ws do not forbid their service abroad, hut wmm. inspire their fierce and veteran armies to d.-eds of conquest in every clime. .Was this contention maintainable, the mis guided men who for their persona! ease ad vance it. might all too late discover their fatal error? They would discover it in the flaming homesteads', in the devastated fields, in murder ed brethren, in outraged wives and daughters; in their lands, their factories, their merchan dise. their stock, their all. coolly appropriated by the conquerer as his own: their Institutions destroyed: homeless^ landless and beggars to spend whatever interval of degraded life re mains to them in abject slavery to the conquer er. ’ But* our organic law does not so shackle the gigantic energies of the 1 great Republic, /Yiicr'-^iie onnrueration of the powers of Con gress. among them ns we have seen, “the power to-^aise and support armies.” it provides the power “to make all laws which shall be ne.ces- saor and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers ami all other powers vested b v this constitution in the Government of the .United States or in any department or officer .thereof.” Here,is. the.great reservoir of power to save the national existence. It is said that there is no express power to send’armies beyond the sea. True; but there is no express power to enact-the criminal la of the United States; none to convey the pub lic domain: to build a transcontinental rail road ; nor to construct the Isthmian canal; noi to create the interstate commerce commission; nor to declare the Monroe Doctrine and half of peas! , than a bush- Back home GEORGIA PACKING PLANTS From the Atlanta Constitution: In an article, on the growth of the packing business in Southwest Georgia, due to the de velopment of the stock-raising industry, the forecast of The Tifton (Ga.), Gazette is that “a great future and immense wealth awaits that ] hurried, got the consent of Bud, and went to (9ec tion if diversification is adhered to.” up tha practice JV? W,B v ‘ " c “ l . w | re>A ever pick and thresh out a- It is a long job. For nearly our Tifton contemporary says that- Sentinel. M,„rs. J. C,«d„ Bn,w„ and G. I* «•* <•» »**">• «”* *«“- Compared mth pnees »f fond and feed pred- Christian have leased that paper and will take ; ^oa. the pile growing only too slow. At last charge as managers and publishers Sept. let. i there was a quantity sufficient and the thresh- At the same time a linotype and other a'ddi- l in ? began. tions will be made to the office equipment- Ed-1 A quilt, which had passed it** uaefulneas. was j work. Did you ever pick and thresh out a • Asto the necessity for greater, diversification According to announcement in the Cordate - bugbc *. °^P e1 ^ ucts the prevailing price of cotton is not so high after all. A pound of eotton will not buy any more meat or flour now than it would when the staple was selling around 10 cents and the ......... southern farmer should bear this hi mind in Sr' j- V. Bivins, who ha, conduct the p.pnr ] ^’d and sprcd nndnr d ‘ »%* u Sf , |£S for tho for a dozen years or more, will remain in edi-j- var “- A pile of the peas in the hull was j growth of Georgia packing plants, is proof that, tonal charge. The Sentinel is an excellent’‘ ,d hereon, and with a ‘hoc-handle, for a flail, stock ja being raised to keep them busy, and— and Mr Bivins has set a* the Bo - v set t0 work - waH weary, back-| Feed mills are a natural sequence, of meat Old. nian William JenningR is a full of a man. despTte some faults and much' ishness. When it comes to the test, he is right there, assaying 100 per cent. His articles on loyalty to-the country are the ^utterances of a 'patriot. From the Quitman Tree Press: All the evil prophecies concerning the boll weevil have been fulfilled. Those farmers who faithfully followed instructions and picked boll weevils wM) make a fair crop and those who planted too much cotton and could not pick the wevils won't do ao well. NowUlf all tfea farmers will plow up the cotton early be fore there is a bint ot frost and cut up the stalks nnd plow tham under the boll weevils will be easier to manage next year. As for the top crop, it is Hke the little boy who asked another little boy to tet Mm have Aw earn of the apple he top crop. breaking work, and only a pitifully small pile packing plants because the cattle and hogs of peas would result from the threshing. Thtse make them a necessity. They, in turn, create „„ i a heavy demand for corn, beans and otner were heaped up and the hulls and trash fanned „ and thus insUre crop diversification and out with an old sack; then they were stirred {a cash market a t home for all such crops that and fanned again, until they were clean. For the farmers can raise. Not the least of these unless this was the case, the commissary man are peanuts, which' are expected to supply the wouldn't havo them. It was a long-job bent- oil mills with a satisfactory substitute for , ,, ishort crop of cottoh seed. !ka. or to take 0\er Porto Rico and the Philip mg out a bushel and a half of them- , It is pointed out that the profitable packing ■ pines. This h.as .nil been dim- under the great (The way to do a lob is to stick to it- At 'a 81 plant at Moultrie has been -in existence only power to promote tbe general welfare, just as the weeded-quantity was in the sircks and-with three years, and “an immense neiv one Is now! the selective army will be created under the these on the ox-wagon the Boy made the trip, under construction." and “similar plants .are law here assailed, "to provide for the common measure hv taking a„ curly morning start, within the springing up all over that section of the state.” defense." And beyohd1 apd above all. is the measure y k d th needs'" grew ' When it is stated that before a new plant is inherent power of every nation, however, or- ichXfpol- d »y- But wb,lc hc ^rked other completed "more than enough hogs are in sight ganized. to ulhlize its every man and its every and the book was not so bright in prospect as ^ jts yar(ls - j t w ju seen that with the' energy to defend its liberty and to defeat the it had been a week ago. Finally, with the peas ( enterprising Georgia farmer stock-raising has migration to its soil of mighty nations of fe-| sold, the Boy-took-a farewell look^at ihe-book passed from the experimental stage and reach- rocious-warriors, whose barbarous inhumanity, on {Re"sheirarid Invested the proceeds'-lriV,! Chat oT a great and growing indUstrv-. The ‘ for three yeare 'has surpassed m. others smee things that appealed more to*'the physical, than laraers who have profited by it arc In the bus- the death ot Attila. the Scourge of Gad. 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SMOWN thresh our pea* in Wiregrass Georgia; it is ion- This is the viewpoint of The Tifton Gazette, interesting problems thaP*should be worked sidered easier to raise cotton and pay rrye based o n wjtat has already been accomplished out while we are discussing efficiency and econ- ( provident people $3.60 to $4 a bushel for what and the plans of progressive stock-raising far- om j n the public service. This enormous cost ggSwSMliS 1 — S_ n * * V ' ,mers to get greater results from that crop di- fa » d aa one of the reaB on S why the rates 72EE I versification which means^meat to the packing , «T«onM ho mineH uBKuua itomoowmny * [plant and money in the home pocket on newspaper postage should be raised. •**■«**«•«»«*■«. °»5u2Il.w*. B udvertUemenU are Caeb iu advance.