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Cbe Litton ©ajctte
Published Weekly X
Entered
at the Poaloflice at Tifton. Georgia,
til matter of the second ei*»
.Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT
I f Tha First Milling of Corn.
• Out in the little crib of unceiled logs in the
rear of the horse-lot the corn was low. For a'
month or more the horse had been fed on corn-
tops and oata. and the small pile of dusty, weevil
eaten canvn the comer saved for bread.
Out in the field..since the fodder had been pull-
led. the cornstalks drooped under the weight
•f their crop and of the pea-vines entwining
hem. The corn was slowly* hardening, but
$«]d not be ready to gather before the frosts
t ’October. But the attraction of new bread
1 aent an expeditionary force foraging.
Grandpa caried a handle basket and the Boy,
iging an endless string of questions, followed.
Pha ripest ears were the largest, and these were
ted with thumb-nail as to hardness. When
i satisfactory it was broken from the
and put in the basket. Several trips were
made and,the field was pretty well picked over
before the needed quantity’had been carried to
tha house.
Shucks were stripped off. and the ears were
dried in the sun Then after supper, the family
took up the task of shelling for several nights.
Tie grains dug tenaciously to the cob and must
be separated by much rubbing Next morning
eut on top of the chicken-house in the sunshine,
the ahelled com was spread on a sheet to dry.
It was stirred and turned and every side exposed
uHl at Jaat it was ready for the mill.
The water-mill was half a day’s trip away;
lad this com was not destined for it. There
jraa the haiid-mill, a relic of war times, which
Mas fastened to a post under the big mulberry
tree that stood by the front gate. It was built
n the same general plan as the wall cof-
Laili and was operated by u long crank with
i handle that would raise a blister while the
imier was getting up a. perspiration.
To turn the mill was the job of the boys, Un
de Jack and Unde Jim. • Each would start with
a rapid swing, but soon his breath came short,
the sweat streamed down his face, and he
glad to call on the otherrto ‘•spell" him. Oifly
by alternate turning..and mating could the mill
L ‘ a kept going. Truly, never was more literally
Utfjed the scriptural injunction thut man
jould earn his bread by the sweat of his brow.
The first product of the mill was corn chop
ped into quarters. This-was poured back into
the mill hopper and came out again coarse {frits.
The third passage brought coarse meal, and
each time the com went through, the mill grew
easier to turn.. It was not until the fourth or
fifth grind that the meal had reached the degree
of fineness that Grandpa considered essential.
Bfcen it was turned over to Granny.
Next day at noon the reward of labor came.
There was a big dish of field peas, buried in
their own juice of dark purple pot-liquor, ..
flanked on sides and garnished on top with
t of home-raised bacon. Next, came-hot
Mm the iron spider in the open fire-place three
, flat, cone-shaped pones of new corn-
jad. *"n
They have fool ideas these days of ruining
tod com bread with eggs, soda and such, but
people knew better then. There is nothing
^sweeter in the tva.v of cereals thnn new corn,
carefully ground, sifted, and mixed only with
; baked brown in pones in an iron spider
peer a fire of corn-cobs. He who would attempt
io add to this delicious natural flavor desecrates.
-The group around the dinner table had earned
jprbat they got .and (hey enjoyed it. They
mght healthy appetites, with no nightmare of
Indigestion, and they ate their fill fearlessly
iny times were the plates replenished and the
tad passed before fullness warned that no
Inc could be taken.
Man eats many times and of many things in
the course of half century. There have been
l^snics, barbecues and many festal occasions of
f* a days of youth; the midnight suppers, the
Irtg-drawn-out banquets to celebrities or cele-
d occasions of later manhood, when costly
i with ingeniously contrived sauces con-
d to tickle the palate and promote gastric
nights and days when food at feasts
secondary and dearly paid-for by afflict-
~~ ■ of the ear. But for real sure-enough eat
ing. when people enjoyedNshat they ate be
ne they had earned it and brought to the
board the glory of an untarnished appetite and
AFTER THE TROUBLESOME TICK
The concrete result of the meeting of the
Georgia Land Owners in Tifton Saturday will
be an aggressive campaign in even* county in
the state where the influence of the land own
ers can reach against the cattle tick.
Facts produced at the meeting brought more
vividly before the land owners and everyone
present the immense sum the tick is costing
Georgia every year, and a full realization that
until it is put out of business for all time there
can be no profitable cattle raising on an ex
tensive scale in that part of the Soutji best
adapted to cattle production.
Being practical men. those at the head of the
movement understand that it is first of all a
matter of education. It is a new proposition for
South Georgia and it is difficult to make those
men who have been growing cattle under tick
conditions all their lives realize wBirt.the tick
has cost them in the past and will cost them in
the future. Perhaps the most serious setback
in the pact to the movement for state-wide erad
ication was the effort to make dipping compul
sory before the people were brought to a real
ization of the necessity for it-
If the plans of the men at Saturday’s meeting
are carried\out, every financial and business
concern throughout South Georgia will take up
this eradication campaign in their separate
communities. Every member of the land Own
ers' Association will bring his influence to bear
n its behalf in his county and immediate vi-
:inity. The commercial secretaries, also, and
the different trades organizations throughout
this section, will push the good work along.
But the Georgia Land Owners* Association
will overlook the best opportunity
all if it neglects to utilize to the fullest extent
the daily and weekly press. The men they want
to reach cannot be induced to attend public
meetings, and to discuss the matter with them
individually only provokes argument. But
steady and continued pounding on the public
mind through the newspapers may be scouted
or evaded for a time, but eventually brings con
viction. The press as a whole is strongly in
favor of the movement and only needs informa
tion and occasional reminder to keep the mat
ter before the peoplt*.
The time is all too short, for it is only a year
before the law goes into the effect that quaran
tines tick-infested cattle on the premises c *
their owner. After the Davis-Townsend la -
becomes operative no owner whose cattle are
infested with ticks can sell them to his neigh
bor. to market or for shipment into another
community, county or state. The only way they
can be disposed of is to be butchered on the
premises. f
Before this law goes into effect, Georgia
should be tick-free. This is the work that the
Georgia Land Owners’ -Association has under
taken. and the press is the medium through
which it can be accomplished.
Reckless auto drivers are killing hogs three
at a time at a time in Lowndes county. This
thing has got to stop. We might put up with
the killing of a few people now and then be
cause there are a lot of folks but hogs are get
ting entirely too scarce to be sacrificed to speed
fiends.
FINE EAT1N' AND FILLIN’.
From the Macon Telegraph:
The Columbia Record wants to know if min
nows are good to eat. We have been told they
are. We were told so by Uncle Jimmy Hanlon,
who rode with General Bedford Forest during
the War Between the States.
"Top waters (that's what Uncle Jimmy call
ed minnows) ain’t so bad when you are plumb
out of everything else." said he. "I remember
one time, this is in ’63. after I’ve been awake
about a year it seems to me. I crawl off from
the rest of the boys and go to sleep under a tree.
And when I wake myself up maybe a week lat
er. I dunno, I’m all by myself. All the other
feilows have moved on without ever missin’ me
and here I am. amLthat's all. An’ this is a place
where Yankees is sprinkled about quite con
siderable an’ so I’m kind o’ careful about how
I act. When I first staid out back in ’61 I’m
told that a Yankee will rtin ever’ time, he sees
a Southern soldier, but I’ve found out that that
ain't nothing more than a unconfirmed roomer,
as a«*feller says One of ’em pretty near sur
prises me to death once when I come up on
him unexpected by myself. Instead o' lightin'
out. accordin’ to what I’m told, he sails in an'
beats tB? stuffin' out o’ me until some o’ onr
boys that’s trailin’ along behind comes up an’
scoops him Up. An’ so that’s why I’m shy this
time I’m tellin’ you about when I get lost. I
take to the woods an_’ I'm wanderin’ around
five days before I ever get back to the rest 6’
the fellers. An' in the meantime I ain’t eatin’
regular, nor nothin' else much. At the end
the fourth day I’m that desperate I ain’t afraid
o’ Yankees or nobody else. Fact is. right about
then I wouldn’t a minded seein' a Yankee, if I’d
had a little mustard or somethin’ to put on him.
'iBut.-as I was savin’- aiwHit them top waters.
THEY WALK THE PATRIOT’S PATH.
Tift county should bid Godspeed to its thirty
Selectmen Tuesday as will be fitting to men who
go to fight, not alone for their country's honor,
but to offer themselves as a bulwark against
the invader. M is necessary that these men go
that our rich and prosperous land should not be
laid a desolate waste in the path of the Hun.
They go not to fight for themselves, but to fight
for you and I, and for all that we hold dear; for
the wives mothers and the daughters of Colum
bia that they, like its soil, shall be untouched and
unharmed.
Speed them not with sorrow but with re
joicing, that this country has such young men
,lly for its defense ; that befo^jf each of
them stretches the glorious path of tnenero and
that to them is given the opportunity forservice;
that service whose pathway is lighted by the
searchlight that shines from the high peaks of
Duty.
For it is a rare opportunity; one not given to
many young men. that lies before these.-the
Selectmen from Tift. They will not return to
us the same men that leave. If they do not
reach the fighting front, when they come hom<
they will have been seasoned and disciplined by
army service. If they cross the water to the
fields of battle, each may return with the hero’s
badge of courage, a testimonial for valor.
War is a grim and dreadful thing, but from
its great crucible men are forged. Men
nerve, men of self command, men of disciplined
mind, who know how to command because they
have learned to obey ; men who can guide and
direct, and into whose hands will be given the
destiny of the country they fought to save.
Even a long war is a brief space in the cycle
of time, and when these men return they will re
turn to receive the respect the plaudits, the ad
miration of their fellow-citizens. There will
be nothing this country has that will be too good
for them. This earth and the fullness thereof
will be their’s. Surely, for such reward, a few
iontfcs of service is well spent. Personally, we
envy each of them the opportunity. In our day,
no such chance came. It will never come again
to the people whq live today. >—
our chosen defenders, bid not farewell.
l>ut au revoir-^antil we meet again Send them
•ay with a smile, and then look forward to
the day of their returft.
The question is often asked whether under
ttye new regime in Russia -^the government of
that country can be held responsible for the
payment of money advanced to the former gov
ernment. The question was answered ii
British House of Comons recently without reser
vation in the affirmative. “It is a settled prin
cipal of international morality that neither a
change in the person of its ruler no'r a complete
transformation of the internal organization of
its government can affect the treaties or public
debts of a country so long* as its corporate iden
tity remains-. As the people as a whole are
bound by the acts of their international agents
each new government succeeds not only to the
fiscal rights but to the fiscal obligations of its
predecessor. The principle goes still further
and when a state merges voluntarily into anoth
er state or when a state is subjugated by another
state, the fiscal property and the fiscal funds
of the extinct state accrue t. '.he absorbing
state, and the debt of the extinct state must be
taken over also.” In the case of the loans made
by this country to Russia the territory and cus
toms of that country can be held subject to the
debts of the present government, no matter
what revolutionary upheaval may come.
LACK OF TEAM WORK SOMEWHERE. ’SHOT WIFE IN DARK
FORNIGHTPROWLER
back to the local board with instructions to again j gaping
consider these cases, and where the applicant j
clearly shows that he has a wife, ojxrwife and ‘
child or children, dependent upoffhim for sup
port. that th* exemption be granted. It is sug- ,
gested that this matter be given immediate at- part of the city anc
6 . „ ■ , lhave been-troubled with night prowi-
A few nights a *
A news story sent out from Moultrie Saturday ,
stated that "charges filed with the Adjutant ■
General that the Local Board of Colquitt bounty
had misinterpreted the rules laid down 1 by the Horrible Mistake Was Made by
President and Provost Marsha'l general regard--, Mr Carter
ing the exemption of drafted men who claimed , .
discharge upon the ground of dependency, have ^f|f£ CRITICAL CONDITION
resulted in the Adjutant General issuing a cir-j ,
cular order to District Boasd No. 1 for the South- Fr ^, u . B , vuiu of Night Prowl.™
ern District of Georgia instructing them to j Arou.ed Family «° Vigila»«a That
carefully consider all claims of this character. ^ »° Ae < : «—*-
The order goes further and insists that if the sh “” y J her '«day «nom-
District Board has already passed upon these . 3 o . c)o< . k ^ lomd from *
claims from this county and refused the exemp- ]^ ng i e . bBrre ]«i shot-gun struck heron
tions, that they either be reopened by the Dist-j^ inside of the upper portion of
- • * i e f t thigh, tearing a frightful
Igaping wound, and severing some of
the principal arteries. -Mrs. Carter’s
condition is critical. Pit she has a
chance to recover.
Carter and his family livo
of Mill avenue in the eastern
ind for s
tention as the quota of married men drafted have iin “ e Ujelr kitch .
fron* Colquitt county will be held up until these cn wag enlcred and 50 mc provisions
matters are fully considered.” taken and Sunday night they *ere
This will be read with pleasure by many peo- visited ngain. On this occasion Mr.
pie who have thought from the first that it was Carter would h.ve shot «*■»«*
,u- .V,„ ProoiAont nr the Wnr! hl * l ' een loBdcd I,e Io * ded 14
preparation for their re-
lesday morning shortly after 2
-u one of the older girls told
Carter i{iat someone was in tho
t She toW the girl to awaken
father, who was slightly deaf,
- in the meantime slipped out of
month is not enough to support a dependent, bc d(in:c the hallway to listen,
woman and one or more children. And besides . Sot locoing anyone she had turned
it is not Tight to ask a married men in service to s »ck toword fc
ale down his spending money to only a little
more than SI a week while the single man be
side him has $30 a month to spend. Married
men as a rule are not acceptedl/for enlistment
and therefore they should be rffled under selec
tive draft only after the supply of available
ngle men has been exhausted.
It was the opinion of those w,ho have studied
the situation that the President’s instructions
two weeks ago that men with dependents b<
cused from service and this followed by the re
ported instructions from the Adjutant General s
office District No. 1 at Savannah would
not the intention of the President or the Warjjj^ .
Department to call out any men under selective j’ urn
draft who would leave dependents behind. It,
is understood that the Colquitt county Board «
estimated that the enlisted man receiving $30 -
month could have $25 set aside for his famil://
and that they could live on that But $25
Carter coming with the gun in
his haS > t -- . the darkness Mr. Car
ter mistook his wife for the intruder
and fired.
Instantly he
and horrified i
cd. caught her as she fell. One of
the children had told him that her
mother was out there hut he did
not hear her. Medical aid was hur
riedly summoned and tho Wood was
checked before Mrs. Carter bled to
death.
Mr and Mrs. Carter have four or
five small children and Mrs. Car-
Id. The fau
lt, ter I!
with grief c
settle the matter. Selective draft should ,ily
be placed as near as possible on all clas*-| ,he borN acci en
es alike. Such we believe was the intention °f Constipation »K. Faih.r of Many 111.
the President ami the men who adopted select-' Of the numerous ills tjiat affect-hu-
ive draft as the quickest and best means f° r , l *Keep h your ovn ‘bowels
raising an army for the nation’s defense. | regular and thi
Not all lawyers lead lives of ease.
Chi
be avoided,
hen a laxative is needed take
•erlain',s Tablets. They not o -
Now the charge is made that the valuation
of railroads, begun more than four years ago is
a failure- Many thousands of dollars have been
spent on the project and mountains of statistics
compiled for which it seems now there is little
practical use. As a conservation measure it
has.been proposed to stop further work on this
line until after the war if not drop the proposi
tion altogether. It was the outgrowth of the
high tide of demagoguism and railroad baiting
that reigned in Congreas half a dozen years ago.
and this valuation scheme was the pet of La-
Follette. It is only one item of the immense
amount this man and his class have cost
country that is growing very tired of them.
...... the .bowel* hut improve the
tteKdWra. and -.went^-five years ag.
wa* occasionally strenuous for men in the pro-
fession. An old file of the G.aette nation. aoJ-D.Ete ra»*D THROUGH^
Albany attorney leaving home at 1 n olock in | lhrotll . h T i„„ „i,k,
the morning, reaehing Tifton by rail: driving; lhl . 0eor ,A Snut a, r[1 ttn a Florida
20 miles from Tifton to Irwinville; finishing his railway and four train load* passed
work by 5 o’clock in the afternoon driving back ( through Sunday night. They eon-
to Tifton and reaching Albany at 2 a. m. The J ai " ed T ^1^1° f t
Gazette countered by telling of another Albany enrnu e ° nn,p
attorney who left hi* home at 3 a. m., drove 35 r> ur i n g the day Sunday twelve mot
files to Moultrie by 10 o’clock; finished his | 0r truck*, donated by different
business bv 5 p. m.. drove home by midnight, Florida town* to the Firat Florida
left at 4:05 a. m.. by rail for Alapaha. from !rreiftrent. pa*se.f through Tifton en-
which place he drove 13 miles to Nashville, at-! Mnrori °' er *
tended sheriffs sales and retraced his way to
Alapaha where he took a train at 1:15 p. m.. when the bowel* feel uneomfort*-
reaching Albany at 1 o'clock. A coincidence { ^h.^^WUraBj,
was that the lawyer first mentioned was J. D. omrning operation, a dose of HERB-
Pope and the la«t holler ... hi, father Jodgo
David II. Pope, for many years a power in legal | Ke t its beneficial effect after hreak-
circles in South Georgia. They didn’t have au- ^
those days but they had hustlers who got
there.
The Cordele Sentinel comes out in a new
dress under its new management. Not only is
it an all-home print paper now but it was neces
sary-lo add two pages to - the original eight to'
accommodate local advertising. The paper is a
splendid showing for Brown and Christian, the
new pilots at the helm, as well as for veteran
Editor Bivins.
THE SAFE FOOD CRO
From the .Atlanta Constitution.
To the farmers of southwest Georgia, who.
as Tifton Gazette points out. “listened to good
adyice.” or. acting on their own initiative, plant
ed food crops last spring, 20-cent cotton will not
be misleading.
Diversified farming has brought such good re
sults for those who have made a business of it
that they will not be swayed from the greater
food crop purpose by sudden flights of the fleecy
staple.
But there is still doubting ones, who are daz
zled by every rise, at intervals, in the price of
cotton, and to these our- Tifton contemporary
says:
"The price is not as high, comparatively, as
bacon at 27 cents, corn at $2 a bushel or flour at
$16 a barrel.
“Twenty cent cotton will not buy any more to
day than 8 or TO cent cotton would buy three
years ago. _The same is true of the seed at $60
a ton. “
“Our people have made cotton a money crop
for nearly a century and it is hard for them to
realize that there is more money in almost any
other crops. So. when the price bf cotton reach
es an unusual figure, they go right up in the aii
for the time being.
“The man with a good crop of $2.corn.
r J D. Duncan ha* sold hi* farm
known a* the Rutland place, fiv*
mile* south of Tifton, to Mr. W. S.
Parrl*h. The farm contains 123
:res and tlje consideration wa*
$4,000.
. tx- • . ,s- Rut as I WM savin- nooiu mem top wbicij. come uic ■ - , : ,
consoonec, curry u, back to tbs Sir^^Shrrsiro'The fourttrasrl domSTopSlllK herr. rend Ms HNMrto «MI brr,
me, four decades gone b.v, when we ate of .the cre ek that’s plumb live with ’em. I can, be protected by the laws of this country, avoid
see 'am swarmin’ around in the water and I dip the repression practiced by the rulers of his
ud aT»tfull- Then I get me a thin rock for a' native land, and still act as if there was no bur-
i sl illet'and build a fire an’ roast ’em. They go 1 den of reciprocation resting upon him He is
I , SKHiei »»u » , , . Iv-,,- r _ ,b... I'.il.J Clolbd ric evorv-thin it
t of the new crop of corn.
Commenting on the tragedy at fTawkinsville.
the Savannah Morning News says:
"It is hard to understand how any man can _ „ - f .. .
come to tho United States an alien, make his $T.2 _ . peanuts-or v<pj-ut ljcans. or bogs worth 2ti
. . ...... - ~_a*iiA-vi_ cen j s the hoof or cattle for which he can de
letter to the editor, an officer at Camp' utniet •nnu •> *—/ *»” |-—• - _
;*rk» N*ttc««t Araurwin b* *■ iii” Amcinr’SiiMlMr
ibis surprise to the people of this country " Mfeiomrod nightmare vou ever seen, comes to doiup somethin! for t,hc United States
are , fine, bold, brave lot of real men, Iday IVetches up n-iih the rest o' the fellers he is quick with abuse of the President. And
idy to do with a vim anj&hing necessary' l n ’ ee ta a good cussin' for gettin' lost Bill: the truth must be told that not only some
aervice.” That ia just the wav we had Forest, an’ Jaw, what a man he was. son! Bill, aliens but also some Americans with four or
irizeri un he savs ’Looky here. Jimmy, that’s a fine tale, five generations of Americans in their ances-
1 're tellin’ about bein’ hid in the woods; but try are willing to take with both hands from the
- • b BC k this way with the white swellin’ nation and to ^give nothing at all in return.
you r
alters of dipping vataare again gettingv^ ml "°*^, ^^"uneJ^mel^beUeveyo’i There islesT disposition to blame aliens for
iowndes county. Porhaps after all Jr “ >, iH out in somebody’s smokehouse. such selfishness when they have before them
I L. au. 1.^ m i . ii. oeeamuv ,, j tt„.i. t:_ — — •- —*/»-»*-♦»'*>-»
l by the last general Aawnbly ••Top”
concluded Uncle Jimmy, “ia the example of Americans whose forefathers
but fillin’." Jfor generations sleep in American soil.
* Out Matxrla. Bui:;: tip
'fin Tiim w.inrtir cur... kidney And
I MAdder trouble*, illuolm xr»r*l. cure*
dubeto*. week *nd lAmebAck*. rheum**
tlum *nd *11 lm-rul»rltio* of the kidney* And
hlAl^rr In l»lh^,e«A.M *..meiv ^[KdAold
hend’fur^teAamoQUI* from Sim end other
S£1Slfkf ESSiK«“
md his own price, has got no cause to envy
the man with a crop of 20 cent cotton
The packing houses already in operation in
Georgia, and others nearing completion, are evi
dence of the faith of the farmers in the value of
greater food crops and the stock-raising which
makes the packing enterprises possible.
For the packing plants must be fed from the
farms, and plenty has been produced, and will
be forthcoming in future, to keep them busy.
They answer the “high-price-cotton” queries
of those who halt between two opinions- And
“hogs worth 20 cents on the hoof, and cattle.for
which the farmer can demand his own^rfee,”
certainly places him far way in the financial
lead of hi brother of the all-cotton crop the
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