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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1»1T.
Litton (3a3ctte
PublUbed Weekly N.
THE BRITISH OBJECTIVE.
THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS
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Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
u mail matter of the second class.
j^L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
•nd Tift County, Georgia
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Apple Dumplings.
Some of the best things of the days that are
gone are unknown to the youth of the present.
One of these is the apple dumpling.
The real apple dumpling was made only with
apples that grew on the gnarled old tree that
stood between the kitchen and the big house,
into whose branches your first experiments in
childhood climbing were made; under whose
abade your first frog-house was built and minia
ture railroad constructed, with cars and brake-
men of corn-stalk and locomotive of a discarded
oyster can.
The only way to make them was for Mother to
gather the red-striped apples while yet the dew
was on. and later peel them, sitting in a chair by
the kitchen door, while you sat on the step at
her feet and shared the peelings with the pet
duck and gnawed the juicy parts of the core.
Sliced thin, the apples were sailed in wide
alabs ofaough- made from the treasured stock
of flour in the barrel behind the kitchen-door.
Seasoned, kneaded by one who knew, and then
rolled wide and thin with the long, wooden roll
ing-pin that hung by a string on the nail above
the kitchen table.
In the pot they boiled long, until the dough
tasted like apples and the apples tasted like
ambrosia the gods knew not. Hot from the
pot the.v came .when dinner was ready and the
hungry family, with appetites whetted by great
expectations, grouped around the table.
And the sauce? The only sauce to serve
with apple dumplings was of sugar whipped in
butter. The butter from milk from old Brindle
who was then feeding herself from the tender
wire grass undershots along the flat down by
£ e branch. Sugar from the bucket with its
ooden hoops and close-fitting wooden lid that
was only replenished when cotton was sold, and
which was kept among the family treasures in
the bottom of the wardrobe in the big hobse.
Sugar which, whea the lid was lifted, sent up
an aroma that brought the water to your mouth
and brought you pleading for "just a lump”-
which you usually got? 7
Half a dumpling generously filled your plate,
and on this you spread the sauce in lavish
plenty. As it melted and added its savor to
what nature and a good cook had already’ pro
vided. with the wide side of your knife-blade
you shoveled, until even the appetite of youth
was satiated. For while you did not get good
things often, when you got them there
plenty.
Gone is the apple dumpling, with the. South
Georgia apples and the days when the world
was young. Now you have the apple roll, the
apple pie, the apple turn over, but they do not
reach the spot that the dumpling touched.
Neither will-anything else, for gone with it is
the appetite, the capacity to enjoy'. But in its
day and time—which was yours, the apple
dumpling was one of the good things of the
earth. Lament not that it is gone, for the best
part of you has gone also—like the dumpling,
the best you have left are memories.
Sir Douglas Haig’s men are striking at the
German submarine base at Zeebrugge. ^For
nothing else would the British War Office make
such an immense sacrifice of men and munitions.
While he is literally blasting his way with his
cannon the weekly list of British casualties is
astounding. First 24.000, then 26,000, then
27,000 failed, wounded and missing. The War
Office llat puts to shame for all time the state
ment that the British are leaving the hard fight
ing for others to do. Since the Marne and the
first days of Verdun, no other nations at war ex
cept Russia during her debacles, and perhaps
Germany, of whose losses we know little, have
paid sucl, a fearful price in men for an advan
tage gained. Nearly every foot of ground won
represents a British casualty.
Only a great objective could warrant this
sacrifice, for that it was deliDerately planned
and methodically executed, the continued and
increasing reports attest. The Channel coast
must be cleared of the enemy before winter sets
in and the time is short Why?
The Germans must not be allowed to use
this coast as a base to send their submarines
• tgaSriifc shipping during the five months of
winter. The sea lanes must be measurably
dear tor“, through them must flow bread for
Britain and her allies and munitions for their
unk. Through them must also flow the steadily
growing American army; its aviators and their
equipment; iLs hospital men and supplies, and
greatest of all. food and clothing for the men
who are pressing forward to take their places
in the fighting lines.
It is for this that Britain is paying deliberate
ly and methodically as Britain does all things,
a heavy toll in men. It is in this that the Brit
ish have won for themselves a place again
among the greatest fighting nations of the world.
Weil they - strike al the submarine, for of all
their enemies it is the most uncertain. Two
weeks ago, when only eight ships over 1,600
tons snd twenty under that tonnage fell victims,
it was thought that because of convoys the sub--
marine commanders had turned their attention
to thn smaller vessels. Next week, however,
thirteen vessels of more than 1,600 . tons and
only two of less tonnage were deatroyed,jind
the calculations of experts were again, upset
And id it goes; the estimates of today are 'worth
less tomorrow. But one thing remains certain,
that Be submarines continue as the most seriouk
menace to the Allied cause and that the British
are kjriking at the heart of the situation when
they are driving the Germans from the Channel
coast
Two articles in the Gazette's news columns
the past week give an idea of the great re
sources of this wonderful country we live in.
Eighty-four hogs sold by one grower, and
these only portion of his crop this year,
brought within a few cents of $2,000. A crop
that paid a profit so handsome that 4L eclipsed
cotton even as a money crop at 25 cents
pound. >
Another tells of a bee-hive which had
ready netted its owner cash returns of $13 for
the year. And this hive was only one of many
Bees require a little care and attention but not
much actual work. They do the work them
selves and collect good money foistheir owner
from the flowers and buda thatTjfoom sponta
neous.
These are only items of the many resources
that this section offers the man of resource and
perseverance. They are by no means small
things, but the profit in them lies in look
ing after the details. There are many others
of the same class. With this country availing
itself of the splendid market for all kinds
food products, we expect to see more attention
n to by-products of the farm, in which after
all, the great profit lies.
J. F. Yaneay
. C. Ireland Daniel Sutton
'. H. Davis
Mr. John G. Herring, for the past two years
with the Albany Herald as city editor, is again
at his desk on the Gazette- He returns as as
sistant to the editor, and will also have charge
of our local and advertising departments. He
had hia early training in newspaper work in this
office but later went to the outside field for a
broader experience. We believe he is qualified
to do better work for the Gazette and for Tifton
by the years of absence. He returns to take a
portion of the work off the Old Man’s shoul
ders, which for some time had been very heavy,
especially when changed conditions first dou
bled and later trebled it. Now that the young
man is back, the Old Man expects to doll up
some glad rags and loaf around town, smoke
gift cigars and chat with the boys awhile- He
has done enough work this year to last him a
long time. >The boys have got to take our place
Bometime; they had as well begin now.
Jack L. Patterson, formerly of Griffin, is at
the head of the Conyers Times.’where his good
work, is already noticeable.
WHO PAYS THE INTEREST?
From the Dublin Coorier-Heruld.
One must admire prosperity, and the means
of promoting it. no matter where he finds-it, nr ti
what the business is bv whieb. pmspcrityls jfain- *'
ed. ’ Wb have hot a word of objection to the
success of the big mail order houses. We
could not have. We have the greatest faith in
the methods they use in building up their busi
ness. They use the only approved system the
world kndws—Advertising.
Don’t misunderstand us. We are not iff fa
vor of mail order houses. We do not patron
ize them. We never will patronize them, and
we do not advise anybody to patronize them.
But at-the same time vr e must admit that they
conduct their business on the only lines that
count for success in business, listen to a little
newspaper item, which we cut from a city fin
ancial column some weeks ago.
“Local stockholders have been notified that
the Directors of Sears. Roebuck and Co., have
recommended the distribution to stockholders
of a 25 per cent, stock dividend, making the en
tire capital of the company $75,000,000 common
— and $8.-000,060-preferred. At the meeting of
the directors yesterday the dividend rate
on the common stock was increased from
Paitor Jim Foster, who is now at Rochelle,
has i»ur sons in the army. Two, Hinton and
Robert, are with the “Rainbow” division on Long
Islani; Sam is at Camp Beauregard, and George
is atCamp Gordon. Mr. Foster was twice
past# of the Tifton Methodist church and those
who know him are not surprised that his boys
respflided so readily to the call to service.
A THREE-YEAR-OLD-GIANT
Fron the Lincoln Journal.
Tl* Tifton Daily Gazette has just entered its
fourth year, and not withstanding its youth
the |Bper has developed a strength that puts it
in a class with the daily papers published in
citiel with ten limes the population of Tifton.
Bit the Gazette has been well nourished
fronwvithin and without. It is edited by a man
who knows the newspaper business from the
hell-tox to the sanctum; a man who has given
to thl Gazette and' to Tifton more than most
citiei could ask. but who has. in return, been
give* much by the people he has so earnestly
and faithfully served—a- fact unusual in the
garni of editing a newspaper.
Tfaee years or a little better ago. when John
Harifag oarne .out with the first issue of his
daily. many, of his closest friends in the business
felt ti*trthe "Old Man" was entering the stage
of life -when reasoning faculties lose their keen-
• the stage of second childhood, so RpaeJc •
ditor Herring saw a field wide open and
ked and so he stuck his plow in the soil,
' the ceding himself and the result is that
:tte has Won an envious position.
__ back or the success of the paper is still
another feature that should be kept in mind
and that is that Tifton is one of the best citieB
in Georgia and the Cleanest City in the South.
For several years previous to the birth of the
daily edition of the Gazette, Tifton had been
torn and bled periodically with political strife.
She never knew a year of absolute calmness
and-co-operative business effort for so long a
time that some of the younger men there for
got when peace reigned in her midst. Soon
after the Daily began a proposition was put
up to the folks there that they bury the hatchet
for all time und get together. The advice was
taken and from a stagnant city filled full of
disagreeing office seekers, caring not a rap
for the welfare of any save themselves, the
place has developed into a marvel of activity
and civic development. In the past three .years
or less hundreds <)f thousands of dollars have
been invested in substantial improvement* and
nstead of the business imen haggling away
their time over politics, there is a joint effort
John
Newspapers will be much more expensive to
their readers after July 1st next. The increase
postage as agreed upon by the House and
Senate Conference Committee makes it impos
sible for the publishers to avoid raising their
subscription price. The high postage under
the zone system will also force subscribers to _ ltl
confine their reading to newspapers published | Jo - hn R WiIli , l Bennett
within a few hundred miles, as the price of J T w Tift Dave Branch
those printed in the metropolitan centers wilTj s G ibb» J. D. Denby
be so high that only the wealthy living at a dis- j nco b Goff 3. T. Mlekel
„ , .. * w A Doss 3. A. Yarbrougn
tance can afford them. "• A-
Newspaper publishers must also be expert
accountants, to figure the postage on their newv
papers to different points. The following are
the rather remarkable rates proposed In the
w revenue bill
Beginning July 1, 1918, and continuing until
July 1, 1919. the rate per pound^will be 1 1-4
cents per pound on reading jjwtuer more than
the present rate on all second class matter, 1 1-2
cents per pound after July 1, 1919.
Publications carrying more advertising than
CALLED BACK HOME
AUTUMN
NEWSPAPERS WILL BE HIGHER.
traverse jurors
Drmvm to Sorea Fiot WtJi Oct- Tarm
Ttf« Superior Coart.
R. T. Pop* G - w - D,nlelj
Ssm Turk W. J. Slko.
A. B. Blalock H. J. Young
F. H. Short A. R. Thrasher
C. B. Coarsey E. D. Branch
E. L. Ireland * “ ”
... Doss
P. Young T. C. Allen
E. L. Dukes Lamar Sellara
Eitls Fletcher H. H. Scarborough
F. Z. Dumas J. N. Brown
Wiley Walker W. A. Fletcher
C. S. Arnold J. K. Butler -
W. I. Bell J..W. William*. ,
GRAND JURORS
H. Rainwater J.
5 per cent of their space would be subject under }J - Jone>
the fourth-class parcel post zone system, to the j R w Branch
October Ter
Court.
L Doss
. Abbott
, u ,, B. Clement*
following rates per pound on their advertising j M g PaUcn g 3.
matter: i\| Tucker Dempsey W. Wlllla
Between July 1. 1918. and July 1. 1919. n™ 1 v;j || io Sulton j. c. Touchstone
and second zones. 1 1-4 cents; third. 1 1-2 cents; | s N Adams William Branch
fourth, 2 cents; fifth. 2 1-1 cents; sixth 2 1-2 ; c 0. Montgomery L. L. Simmon*
cents; seventh. 3 cd*ts: and eighth. 3 1-4 cents. w s Cobb n. N. Malcoa
Between July 1. 1919. and July 1. 1920. first
and second zones. 1 1-2 cents; third. 2 cents;
fourth. 3 cents; fifth. 3 1-2 cents; sixth, 4 cen»«,
seventh. 5 cents and eighth, 5 1-2 cents. /
Between July 1. 1920. and July 1, 1921, first
and second zones. 1 3-4 cents; third 2 1-2 cents;
fourth. -1 cents; fifth. 4 3-4 cents; sixth, 5 1-2
cents; seventh. 7 cents, and eighth. 7 3-4 cents-
r July 1. 1921. first and second zones 2
cents; third. 3 cents; fourth. 5 cents; fifth. C
cents; sixth. 6 cents; seventh. 9 cents, and eighth
10 cents.
Practically no newspapers which accept ad
vertising at all carry as little as 5 per cent of
their total space. Therefore, the higher rate
of postage in each instance must be paid- Very
few newspaper publishers are making money
now; many have gone out of business during
the past two years, and others were facing dif-
1 Parks
Sumner
Sander* Gibba
e^llips C. L. Parker
Hook,- E. J. Cottle
Geo. W. FleUiSer E. F. Harrell
L. P. Thurmmn Jacob Gibbe.
: F .RO Bl'RGLAR CAUGHT.
Alien Person, a negro who claimi
Douglas as Viis home, was arrested
SaiSrdny night, by Chief Thrasher
as he was breaking into a rear win
dow of L. S, Shepherd and CJe/a
store. Persons is sijd to hare brok
en into the store one or more times
and Mr, Thrasher recovered some of
the stolen goods. Persons is held in
(Written for-the Gazette).
September belongs toHlie past, one month
nearer the end of the old year, and one month
nearer the new; and still the-golden days of sum
mer linger. Days of brilliant sunshine, that
SI-- —t p»- a. <-» so.- "*-'“iT;
fields, where the bamboo lays a trap for the for the second yeifr. o 1-2 cents; for the third
careless, with its crimson thorny tangle. year. 7 3-4 cents, and for the fourth year. 10 eta.
Magnolia Balm
Acuities before the new postage rates were pro-| tJQUID FACE POWDER.
posed. Consequently, they must raise their
subscription price to meet the increased post
age or suspend publication.
The zone system will confine the circulation.
of the smaller newspapers strictly to local ter- ,
rltory. For instance; the Gazette has a few
subscribers in the far Western ptates and in the
Canal Zone. These are in the Eighth Postal
Zone. Although we have only one or two sub
scribers in the different zones beyond the third
Nature in all things shows a marked distinc
tive individuality. It is the season of Indian
Summer when she lifts her breezes to the top
of the pine and oak, Peddens the fronds of the
fieldgrass, turns the poplar leaves yellow, pur
ples the sweet gum, and gives to the maple its
crimson bloodlike shade.
In Autumn the wind in the tree top is never
jolly, it is as if moving slow and touching tend
erly the chords of sound, and recollection.
If the Mocking bird sings, its voice is low.
If the summer insects linger in the fuze, they
seem to mellow their notes to softness on an
echo. If the Magnolia flings out a white flag of
truce to all the strifes of the passing year, from
the topmost bough it ts waved to the sinking
sun—waved to the rising star.
Spring the Beautiful! Dreamland of Youth
—Spring of passion—of pleasure, of play,
whose Violet eyes oft times are blinded by April
tears, with unsatisfied restlessness presses eager
ly on to Summer, with its days bo full of toil
and heat and passionate throbbing life, so fill
ed with sowing of seed, and solving of problems,
so tense with unrestful expectancy. *
AutumR—Golden, mellow, dreamy autumn,
belongs to life’s maturity, and has in its very
breath a restful assurance.
It is in the Autumn of life, that time begins
Je.lsy the finger-of peace upon, our brow., ami-
wisdom leads us through paths once fill
ed with cruel, cutting stones, stones oft-times
marked with blood drops from the stumbling,
slipping feet of inexperience and cruelty of the
World's rush and roar.—.
Uke a weary child we are filled with a rest
less longing for the Ahtumn—
“Some morning you will wake, not long from
And draw a breath, and smile, and will arise
And hurry to the window, wondering how
In one brief night so much of sorrow dies.
For you will look .into the morning skies
And-find a different blue above the pine.
And every thought will be glad surprise,
And all the air be glorious as wine.
“Some morning you will wake, not long from
now,
And find a world of peace before your eyes.
For time will lay his fingers on your brow
Andleave .vou so content and. oh. so wise!
No longer you will worry and surmise.
For age wjll come with medicine divine
And heal the hurt and "till the aching sigh.
And life will be glorious as wine.
(Georgia.) — A L.
The beauty secret of
wemenwho knowhow
to take care of the com
plexion. Cannot be
detected. Heals Sun-
bum. ,lop* Tan. SoolUa*
Sample (either color) foe 2c. Stamp.
LjoaMla.Cn. to Wh Fifth 3c. B~Ujo.N. Y.
Few subscribers will care to pay this price and i
the publisher cannot, so people interested in,
Tifton who live at a distance and want to read
the local paper will be deprived of that privi
lege.
Another item of the increase will be hard on
e editor who likes to keep in touch with the
best sources of information in order that he
may write intelligently on live topics. The
price of newspapers published in the large cen=*j
rs will be forced so high that the editor living
several hundred miles away cannot afford them.
At present the Gazette subscribes for about half
a dozen such papers and we -believe a careful
reading of them enables us to add to our own
information as well as to that of our readers.
After next July we must do without them.
Further than this the application of the law |
is so complex that an expert mathematician may
feel at a loss to figure the different rates. Fiipl
it must be estimated how much advertising
comes within 5-per cent of the total space. Then
the number of subscribers must be figured for
ach of the separate zones and the tax or. post
age in each zone estimated. Altogether, the
measure is a queer piece of legislik^ion and will
work much hardship on newspaper publishers
a whole. These do not object to paying
their share of fffe expenses of the war but they
do think these expenses should be levied in a
way that would save them as much inconveni
ence as will be possible.
M V YR’S
wonderful remedy f<
STOMACH TROUBLES
One doae convinces.
For sale at .Brook's Pharmacy
other reliable drug vista.
7 to 8 ... .
percent. A special meeting of the stockhold-j being made to make the city grow faster,
ers was called for February 26th to enrry in»o Herring is largely to blame for the conditions a Terrell county farmer sold $15,000 worth
effect the recommendations of the Directors.”: thiilrexist there now. There are hundreds of oth-| p f. p eanu ts in~ Dawson this week receiving
Who pays this big dividend? Who is res-! er *Velping and it is a happy united working g 100 er ton f or 150 tons, or $1.25 a bushel,
house. C The neon™** 6 * 8 ° f the . b,jr Chica *°! family, such a family as every cit.v must contain j Thia ja only a part D f his crop from 300 acres.
American soldiers who find it so easy to spend
their $30 monthly stipend may draw some conso
lation fron. the fact that he is the best paid
lighting man in the world. The French poilu
is said to*get only $1.50 a month, while the Rus
sian Boldier gets 73 cents and the British $7.60.
The ItaHan gets $5.83 monthly, while the Aus
tro-Hungarian gets 2 1-2 cents a day. Japan
pays $8 a year and Turkey 92 cents a month.
The $75 the Kaiser offered to the first German
who captured ah American soldier would rep
resent a little more than three years’ pay for a
private, says the Macon News, quoting from a
war bulletin. All of which illustrates how some
of the nations of Europe can afford to maintain
big standing armies.
The Right Name, Mr. Sutlive.
see a Tift county farmer is going to get
twelve bates of cotton from a two-horse plow
house. The people. . - I • , . , , , .
The people alway, repopd to .dvertMpg. if ahe is to Ito anywhere • Iprior to thi. year this farmer always planted ^ the ^ weev i L Then the
= i&S°.in7'«.°ptmoU a iU SUTh™ LcS: 1 o^he^ P.^rytowfthi; B “‘ b ''-, Irishman who spoke of it a, "Thrift County"
fully the big company referred to above has' something better than a wide place in the road ’ • was not far wrong..—Savannah Press.
done its work is due to but one thing—Adver- vrill have to’’bury the hatchet” and her citizens r , ift _ ountv Boarc i 0 f Health is
tjaine will have to learn the art of working for each The Colquitt counij ooara oi neaun is , A
"Take . loeal store that advertises and gi™,'ether's welfare—or else remain a wide place making preparations to put the Ellis Health Violation!lof the game lawl‘ re ch ®
- people to understand how it condueta its in the ond. i„ to operation in that county. The law is ed in neighboring comities. Andusual,
and you will dnd always a store that Here ? our hand to the Gazette, andto TK- torward in the conservation of public the violator, are the very men for whose benent
• -• « ■ -- . Hriorbt herhts hpoomfi ireaueni F .v. _ , j
i that has no compTaTnt to oHer USi ton. . rf»y such bright lights become taQUen.'
j order houses ruining its business. .in this southland.
the laws were enacted.