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ftbtUM W«Ul ijette : NEW LIBERTY LOAN. Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, ( mm mail ipatter of the second class. Jbo. L. Herring . Editor and Manager Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia SATURDAY NIGHT. Cane Chewing Time. Sugar cane is ripe for chewing in South Geor gia. Here in God’s Country the sugar cane is not the vulgar article of commerce which made the wealth of the Havemeyers, the Sprecklea, 'and their associates. Here it furnishes the juice which, while it inebriates not. is the delight of the poor, the solace of the wealthy and the com forter of the troubled heart. -It is at this season the » dinner-horn has an added charm fdr the South Georgia boy. Its welcome sound calls him homeward, with his cotton tack slung across his shoulder, his throat dry from the rays of the sun. husky with the dust of the fiWd and the lint of the staple which he has been gathering. Hungry though he may be he veers frotn,the homeward path when the cane-patch fence h neared. With eager feet he climbs the barrier'and with discerning eye selects from the waiting rows the stalk promising the largest yield of treasured sweet ness. From it the blades are stripped .with careful attention to^the irritating fuzar and loud snap proclaims the treasure his. Again to the rail fence, with careful selec tion of a panel with a flat rail on top. Then, with heels firmly braced in the cracks below, ignoring protesting stone-bruises if any there be. the ready barlow knife prepares the feast. Carefully the peel is removed and a round of juicy pulp is ready. Then with distended jaws and chin uptilted to prevent waste of good cheer, the-eyes rolled heavenward in ec stasy. the willing teeth do their duty and nature pays rich tribute to industry. Nimble Bacchus never bore sweeter nectar to Jove, nor graceful slave poured more delicious drink for Lucul- lus’ guests. The boy may be a man now. even past middle age, but he nfcver passes a patch of sugar-cane ii maturity thajt his mind does not return to the days gone by when it represented one of the best things of life. That is why so many Southern business men of today will stop automatically at sight of a sidewalk display of kugar-cane and the right hand unconsciously go to the pocket that once carried the true and tried barlow. Just why the chewing of sugnr-Cfne is disap pearing before modern custom it is bard to say. It affords health and pleasure alike to old and young, where the nppetite has been cultivated and the condition of teeth will allow its indul gence The juice, as obtained by chewing the cane, is a panacea for dyspepsia and kidney troubles and as a tonic and flesh builder for weak children it has no superior. It is at this time of the year that, in the land of the sugar cane, the child who hast grown sallow, thin and weak during the stress and heat of the summer acquires flesh, rosy, cheeks and goatlike spirits, and all trace of “worms.” that bane of Cracker childhood, disappears. The sugar-cane does the work. No medicine could accomplish the wonder in so brief a period- Perhaps we no longer chew cane because we are too busy doing something less useful. A large element of our population, too. has never lu.own.it. ddfcht. r»rt of thi, m.y b« do. to b tl.. foot thnt much of the .u*„r cane put on the lt „ s „ m< . market is not the best for chewing. The cane, dark red in color, or red with alternate stripes of yellow, while sweeter is not the most desir able variety for chewing. The best has a green . ... i _ j is so mitt that it is subject to-taxes only on the .petf. wr n peel of alternate stnpes af■ green and. “ u ?;ir ^. u . An aggressive campaign will start in Georgia Monday for the purpose of selling the jjfrtion ? aUptted to this state of the second installment of i Liberty Ronds. The books for thia bond sub- Ikription will close October 27th, leaving just three we*ks or 18 working days in which to place>be three billion dollar issue. EveI 7 fcdication is that the amount will be ovt?-subaiibed and in anticipation of this the Treasury baa. announced that it reserves the right to accept half of the over-subscription, which mikes it probable that the sale will amount t« four billion dollars. Small subscrip tions will be especially encouraged for it is plan ned to ttach people who did not subscribe to the first issue. The fact that the new bonds will pay 4 per cent interest. 1-2 per cent more than the bonds sold in June, is expected to help greatly ia making the sale popular. Already large suife have been subscribed by individuals or concerns with much capital to invest but-as vtafl the ease of the first issue, it is the intention >f the Traasury Department to place the majori ty of th* bonds among people who ordinarily do not invest in such securities—that is, people of moderate means, especially wage earners. "The 4 per cent bonds will run 25 years and will be fi» e from taxation imposed by the United states, or any state, ^ir by any local taxing au thority, except federal estate or inheritance taxes, graduated additional income tax, and war-profta tax. Regardless of the amount of the bomb bought by an individual or corpora tion, theinterest on the first $5,000 worth will be exempted from all taxation. Where pur- effosera exceed $5,000 worth, the interest on the excess wJl be subject to the federal income sur tax. Tie bonds may be bought on the partial payment plan—2 per cent at time of subscrip tion, 18 per cent on November 15. 40 per cent op Decembef J . and 40 per cent on January 15, 1918 The new bunds will have the cover sion privilege, but, if converted at all. they must be converted into the issue immediately t'ollowint them. They differ somewhat in this particular from the 3 1-2'S marketed in June; which nay be converted into any future issue whatever. The 3 1-2's thus have two advan tages as investments over the forthcoming 4's— absolute Immunity from taxation and an unre stricted conversion privilege. 1 It is not believ ed, hosfcver. that the new 4’s will suffer on that acciunt. People of moderate means will not, to aiy extent be subject to the income sur taxes, wBe the higher interest rate of 4 per cent must be a special attraction to them compared with thefirst Liberty Loan. The people who subscribe! for lots of the 3 1-2’s under $10,000 covered $1.856.700.000, and the 4’s are not going to look uninviting to them because rich yellow. This variety is soft and juicy, and once its taste is acquired it is a source of delight- A South'Georgia farmer has had an illustra tion of the public mistake in the quality of sugar cjiite. With an unusually fine crop he decided to mpply the Atlanta jiwIeTTiia p^TpTe rr . rf -, aa b a ta™; w„ hop. to Tifton ritato-^tastoqt rill auulll auulU Ufu: wf.*, T Hf county do their sh.re toward, thi, end. them would have to pay surtaxes ■me. The 3 1-2’s already sold have above par. on Saturday selling at the •e of 100.30. The demand for these mg the very wealthy accounts eon- or their rise in price, comes at an opportune time for this le there is a good deal of money in People with products to sell at ices have the opportunity to invest a proceeds in something that will not in value but be a standard and profit able invaiment. We hope at least a portion of the monv derived from this season’s cotton, beas and hog crops will be invested in bonds. &ch investments would be first of all patrioticrfcut would also encourage thrift and establish an account to which savings could be added more dominate the investment mhrkct. Some people dpcised the first war loan on the ground thaf riel; people could escape the Federal in come taiT>y investing therein. The nov/ issue large anbunts which hit the rich alone. They are thenfore the ideal investment for the poor man anfithc lerms.breasy payment put them within tie reach uf-wery poor man. woman or child wlp wants to buy. The btBds-mttst be marketed-for the nation’s NG ITS WAY it the Second District Agricultural School should be able to add $2,600 to its building equipment in one year and pay off an old debt of $3,500 is the best evidence of the progressive vet conservative manner in which the school is managed and the rapidity with which it is win ning its way in the highaopinion of the people of the District. Only three of the eleven district schools open ed their terms when this school opened. It has given the people of the state one year’s service more than eight of its fellows and has maintain ed from the first a standard second to none- It has operated for ten years without asking or receiving any special favors or appropriations from the state. Some of the schools got legisla tive appropriations for a dining hall; ttag school built its own hall and asked no help. oth? era have asked for special-appropriations for ex tra buildings and equipment; this school has provided for its needs so far as was possible within the limited regular appropriations. Ad ded to this, with the same yearly sum which the state gives to all the district schools, alike, it has cared for a student body from 20 to 80 per cent larger than two-thirds of similar institutions in Georgia. But the state owes this school, as a matter of right, approximately $6,000 in cashTSnce the buildings were erected they have been kept in sured and the insurance premiums paid out of its appropriations for expenses. Under the law. the governor should insure all state buildings for 50 per cent of theic value and pay the. pre miums out of the general fnnds. • Therefore the Second District School has been paying money from its own fund, which should have been paid by the state, and for which the State should reimburse it-- Several efforts have been made to have the state refund the money thus paid for fire in surance premiums, but they have so far met with nothing but indefinite promises. A great many of the schools do not keep tlieir buildings insured. Last year on? of them lost its main academic building and the Legislature vyas ed for $25,000 to rebuild it; this was given. Had a building at the Second District School burned the insurance would have in part cover ed the loss and it'would not have been neces sary toa^k the State fy a large appropriation. Therefore, the money which has been paid for insurance is justly due to be returned to the school. —. GERMAN STRENGTH WANING The repeated success of Gen. Haig’s drives. EN SEASON FBI DEED, POSSUMS ANO SQUIRRELS G corgi* huntsmen can now kill ca* squirrels, o'pooani, migratory ducki, mjirsh hens and deer of either sex u this is the open season in Georgia U>t the game mentioned. week after week, cutting mile after mile into the Hindenburg line, is evidence indisputable that the German strength is waning. Russia is helpless on the eastern line, and the Austrians are again holding the Italians to a .^Attention of the huntera ia called stalemate in the south so that the full German the following open seasons, bag strength can be brought to oppose Haig in F)an- limit* and license fees as provided by ders. Yet against the best that Germany can do even when she has no other foe to distract her attention, the British continue to gainrand to gain steadily. To create a diversion the German General Staff threw the powerful weight of the left wing of the combined armies against the French lines west of Verdun, but the Frehch held fast, although for more than a week they held only by straining every resource in men and guns. Failing to move the French, the Germans again turned to face the British, only to meet three successive defeats in as many weeks. When Haig first began burning million^ of dollars’ worth of shells and losing 100.000 men month in a drive to clear the Germans from the Channel coast before winter, it looked like hopeless.task. Now, it appears that he will succeed. With the Germans forced away from the Eng lish Channel and their submarine bases thereon lost to them, the seas will be safer for Allied shipping this winter and perhaps the lives of many American soldiers will-he saved. With the coming of spring when America have half a million men in the field, what hope can Germany have to retain her hold on France and Belgium, when she cannot hold her own against the British now? It is probably a long way to peace yet. but those who insist'that it is coming into sight may not "be so far wrong. If so British guns have blasted the way. and British blood has paid the price. The lion was slow to get into actii he is leaving no grounds for complaint now that he is in. , the Georgia law: "Open Swob.." Deer, either »ex, Oct 1 to Dec. 1. Cat eqoirreU, Oct 1 to March 1. O'possum, Oct 1 to March 1. Quail or Bob White, Wild Turkey*, r Plover*. Nov. 20 to March 1. Dove*. Aug. 1-Sl inc. Nov. 20 to March 1. Woodcock. Wood or Summer Duck, Dec. 1 to Jan. 1. Migratory duck*, S^pt 1 to Apr. 10. Snipe. National Law, Nor. 1 to Feb. 1. Marsh hens, National Law. Sept 1^ :o Dec. I. Bag Limit. Deer, 2 in one season. , Cat squirrel*. 15 ia one day. Quail, Dove*. Summer or Wood Duck, Woodcock. Snipe and all game tiirds except Migratory Ducks. 25 in ic day. Migratory ducks 50 in one day. Absolute protection is given, for period of years, to Fox Squirrels, urns. Pheasant*, Grouse and all lported game birds and animals. LI---;; F.«. o resilient- good in tuAv,* coun ty only $1.00 o resident!. good in any cann- ty in '•'tatc only • $3.00 o non-resident*. -M any county $15.00 THE NEGRO SELECTMEN Whei the first contingent of negro select men was called into training camps October 3rd, a new epoch for the colored race United States was marked. * Heretofore, the ngro a^,a citizen has been a dependent. All he has was given him; white . . men fought for his freedom; white men paid for If the school had the money the state owes it. 1 ednention; white men paid, for his govern- needed buildings could be providetL With a ment—leaving him to purchase with his own la- building accommodate the departments of Home-Economics, Music and Expression congestion in the-dormitories would be relieved. With a suitable building for a machine shop the structure at present used for that purpose - could be turned into a tool shed, for lack of which some of the school’s property is not being well cared for. The school had to turn away boarding stu dents this year because.it did not haj-e dormitory room- The work it is doing is of too great value bor only the necessities of existence. When the negro selectmen who went into camp the pnst week return from the war, the position of their race in the United States will be changed. They will have fobght like the white men for the salvation ol* their country; for the perpetuation of its institutions'; for the freedom of democratic principles; for the right of a sovereign people to govern themselves. Hav ing fought for it they will have a right to par- pate in its privileges—not as dependents; not r : ’!•?/'' So-! i.f'u-Ilc "liaU fry** liiw ainl ftli-r Ti-ot.to.- Ur. C W. IMI.Ss; air. Str*t fei. LrfiK. ill. l^ .lidv. PEACE m M HOURS Bvgier t your StnmBck Ailment* another minute. What appear* to be only minor Stnmn\rh .li*ordi«a »sr often be rymptoi** of Cancer *nd Ulcers of th.- Stomach and l»- teatine*. Gall 9tonest 'Acute tu«ti- restion, Aoto Intoxication. Yellow -•undice, and other dingerous .alt- p»»nt*. of which the sufferer is not arwnre until too late. An ideal • pro scription for overcoming qoAcklT Stomach. Liver and rnte*tii nl Troub lo i* Mayr’s Wonderful Remedy.. Million* of people have been reitor- *d‘by-lt. One dos*. wifi PROVE that Remedy i* for salt ~ Pharmacy. to the sons and daughters of the farmers of this U, v the grace of a people of a superior race, but section for such a state of affairs to continue. | hy the right of service—because they have Let the state pay to this school the money'just-j p^;,! ^th their blood for the privilege o.f their ly due. and its sphere of usefulness can be people as citizens. broadened- 1 ' I Perhaps this phase of the matter has not been ! considered, at least not often, by those who in- Due to Its subscription contest last summer 1 listed that the negroes should do 'heir part of the Gazette added several hundred additional! the fighting. But it is a concrete fact, nnd when . readers m the territory which Tifton mer- the war is over wilf present n new condition ofi chants should cover for their fall trade. Nearly all of it is competitive territory and if these mer chants want the business of this territory they must bid for it. The Gazette, daily and week ly, offers the best medium for reaching these people at the lowest cost. y TWO PHOTOGRAPHS. ffairs with which the South must contend.t a problem for the South to solve- It is in keeping "with the fact that the South* em white'man has always been the negro's trj- cst friend that these new conditions should have been brought about under a President Southern bom and bred and in whose Cabinet Southern blood predominates. PROOF OF GERMAN PURPOSE I From the New York Times: This is what Vnn Goetz said to him, this i From the Savannah Tkfornihg 'News. On a certain day a photographer took a pn;- ture of a steer. The animal was not-a-prixS-j whal Dewey.lri muUt of great responsibij- winner for beauty of lines, for strength, or meat-..of -sack •fcr.ftt/ratftce producing qualities. Instead it. was a horrible example. Its ribs could be counted with th* some expense he loaded a car with some of the finest green-colored sugar cane ever seen in the South. But - hen it » u» offered for sale thej Anothc chapter in the development of diversi- Atlnntane .couldn't h»ve if. Because the peel | ..^..iturt In thi, section i, the Installu- “ v'» ™ |OT »ffirmed it was not ripe lion of , roller ml|I at Ashburn. Gradually »nd told him to take it back home «nd wait for lhe>( , for converting wheat into flour erh it to turn red. springinf up ail over this sectioo of the state. tNote—The above was written for .the Suv»o-! aIia wi trthom win come increased interest in anh Morning News in 1912. It was also pub- w p eat gpwing. Once here we expect them to liehed in the Gagette at that time. Its incorpora- becam , ^anent institutions and that the day tion in the Saturdnv night stories is desired. wH| saolba part when this section will depend therefore it is republished here, at this time , n anllthr part of the country for ita bread. when the fields of cane are ready for the boy; T t and his knife.) From Bidfnell News-Herald: The d®il sat bv a large lake of fire on a pile There Is quite a boom in rattle tick cradi- ?’ h "> d "oT .. .. . ,, breast. US tail between hisjcgsj .Q.lo.oK oi cation, according to.a goveramom rnporl. llelf. , hanl *wjTon hirtara'; the sparks gripped from a million Southern herds arq being dipped y,j s e y C8 l^he had sent up his resignation to the regularly in 20.000 vats- Mississippi led in this throne npin th/ skies. "J'm down and out" the work and the legislatures of that state, and of devil said—ht*L«qid it with sob—"there are Louisiana. Texas and Arkansas have joined with others that outclass me. and I want to quit the Georgia in recent tick eradication laws. job. Hellfcn’t in it with the land that lies along . the Rhine ;Tm a has-been and a piker, therefore ... , ,, . ^ I resign; of ammunition maker with his bloody A Little H 1 of Their Own, So to Say. shot an ^ gjell knows more about damnation We fnvor another secession. We desire to than all th^ imps of hell. Give my job to Kaiser _ee the conscientious objectors against fighting William, th author of this War; he understands in this war withdraw and form a government of it better a pillion times by far- I hate to leave their own. Of course their cabinet will have the old hoc e, the spot I love so well, but I fegl so eecretary of war. They will have no army that I’mjte up-to-date in the art of running and no pohee-—Covington News. hell.” | arried on its hide a small army of enemies licks. On another day only two months later the same steer was posed for a-second photo graph. Its ribs were covercxl with a generous layer thnt concealed rather than revealed them. The caverns in the region of its-hip bones had been reduced to the gentle hollows that mean good health. Its countenance was the abode of peace. And on its skin was nowhere a sign of a tick. The weight of the steer when the first picture was'made was 730 pounds, mostly bone. Its weight when the second picture was tu need a full report to the navy department: :: !•") yars fr> m now my country will Ita.countenance wa« satl-and-foriom. Its- «t a rt~n“gTeat~war. She will be in Paris about hip boncs vvcrc r jginfully prominent.- And it nvn months aTterfh. • commencement of hostfB- — a- - -—" 1„„ ^ H( * move on Paris will be but a step to her real object—the crushing of England. Some' months after we finish our work in Europe we will take New York, and probably Washington, ajul hold .them for some time. We will put your country in its place with reference to Germany. We do not purpose to take any of your terri tory, but we do intend to take a billion or so of your dollars from New York and other places.! The Monroe doctrine will be taken charge of; by us. and we will dispose of South America as vish. Don't forget this, about 15 years made was 1,015 pounds, and the increase was f rpm now.' cl >!£*Ty meat- There the report has lain in the naval archives | Tins IS not fiction, but fact. The pictures avar , iacc _ -About J5. years from now" wasi were made for the United States Department of Agriculture. It seems impossible that anyone should lobk at the two pictures and fail to ap preciate what the tick eradication means, what folly it is to try to raise cattle profitably while feeding the ’fick. too, and how easy it'is tom- Weaso rapidly ami greatly the value per head of Georgia, cattle. The bad exarriple steer was converted into a-reasonably good example beef animal by merely ridding it of ticks. It gained 258 pounds in two month*, or 4 2-3 -pounds a day. This steer was worth at least $30 more when the second photograph was- taken than when the first picture was taken. In Georgia and Florida on Jan. 1. 1915 the average value of cattle was placed at $18. while in eighteen tick-free states the average was $50. South Georgia counties have begun none too soon the eradication of the tick. Opportunely, too, it has become necessary to transfer much fine stock from Texas to Georgia to save it from starvation. l-.H ’,. Germany intended to launch her attack! in lh:;t year, as is proved by the revelations ( made, by the Italian government of the propos-j a Is -l.i'le to it to join in an invasion of Serbia in4 (hat vt-nr Italy refosrd. hut the invasion was. mi l.▼"We will put your country in ts place.” said Von Goetz in 1898. “After the war America had better look out.” said the Kai ser to Ambassador Gerard in 1915. Any man who still says that this war is not a' var of self-defense, a war against invasion, is either proof against facts by reason of the con struction of his brain or has full possession of his riao.ning powers and is serving the enemy. *i Despite the short crop, the champion cotton picker is again with us. The Ocilla Star brings forward a negro boy fourteen years old who picked 205 pounds in leas than five hours. 1 urn him loose in the beanfield now.