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THE TIFTON GAZETTE,
FRIDAY. NOVEMBER Ifl,. 1*17.
uitton (Sa^ette
Published Weakly
nd at the Postofflce at Tifton.Georgia,
1 matter of the second class.
L L. Herrin* ........ Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia
SATURDAY NIGHT.
down, and when the dogs caught, to seize 3T
tie them. Soon the boys had eight captives,
and the waiting oxen and wagon were brought
up to where each hog lay. It was a sweating
strenuoua job to lift them into the wagon, so
that it was well on toward noon when the boys
reached home with their captives.
They were, put into a stout pen at first and
taught to eat com. then turned into the corn
field and potato and groundpea patches, and
then back into the pen to "harden” the meat
for killing. They were ugly customers for
awhile, but after being converted into smoked
hams, well seasoned sausage, or spare-ribs and
back-bone and souse, they were worth the trou
ble—at least, so the boys thought.
A TIME FOR STERN MEASURES.
Despite the surprising ability demonstrated
by our Secret Service, the government appears
to be entirely too easy with the friends of the
enemy in this country. There have been vari
ous threats and numerous hint* as to what
would be done but the impression is growing on
the people that many men are allowed to run
lo\se who should for the good of their country
be in jail and others are in jail or kept under
surveilance who ought to be dangling at the end
of a rope or facing a firing squad.
Great Britain made the same mistake of tem
porizing with the agents of the enemy until the
Lusitania with over a thousand non-combatants
was sunk; Kitchener and his staff perished in
the North Sea and the broken coasts of Ireland
were turned turned into supply bases for the
enemie’s submarines. Millions of our young
men have staked their lives in this war and we
do not want to allow a mistaken idea of mercy
to imperil them, either on land or sea.
It is estimated that since America entered
the war. incendiary fires have destroyed food
enough to ration an army of 300,000 for a yerff.
Wholesale destruction in Brooklyn. Baltimore
and New Jersey are-only instances of ihe enor
mous losses in munition factories. Undoubt
edly, nearly all of these fires or explosions were
due to alien enemies. If so it is time.some of
them were hung.
During the campaign in New Yo^c and Phila
delphia and while the campaign ls-pn in Wis
consin. stump speakers have been allowed to
malign and misrepresent the government, with
practically no attempt at hindrance] All
through the country, politicians are sowing to
advance their interests where they think they
can h- poisioning the minds of the people a-
against the administration and those responsi
ble for the conduct of the war. The escapes at
Ft. McPherson are another instance of the tol
erance with which the Germans rre treated.
The time has passed for tern." rizing or smil
ing indulgence. War fs now n .erious thing to
us. The best we have and all we have is staked
on the issue. Those who nre not helping us to
win are helping the enemy against us. Every
speech of a flannel-mouthed obstructionist may
cost the UVes of a thousand American soldiers,
perhajjg some of them from our own city and
count?
PUBLICITY OF THE WRONG KIND.
THE TASK GROWS HARDER
“An Early Morning Hog Raid."
It was early fall and the fields were open.
The corn was in the crib, the sweet potatoes
dug anV banked, seed groundpeas gathered,
and we were ready for the fattening hogs.
A cold morning, when a heavy frost silver
ed the wiregrass and young pines and there
was thin ice in the horse-trough had beeir selec
ted by Bud and the Boy for the raid, because
on cold mornings the hogs slept late and hud
dled close in their deep, warm bed of pine-
straw. All the summer they had been out on
the range, the big spotted sow and her litter
of eight pigs; they had feasted on tender pine
mast, on young shoots and juicy roots of early
summer, the fall chinquapins and occasional
adorns, •until the pigs had grown into shoats
and the shoats into hogs, almost as large as
their mother.
Little attention had been paid them, only an
occasional nubbin, that the mother hog might
not grow entirely wild. She knew what com
was, and would hesitatingly come when called,
but hey progeny scorned it, and jyould run with
a "hoof’ and elev.ated nose when man approa
ched. In the spring. Bud and the Boy had
caught the pigs and marked them, one keeping
the old hog busy while the other chased down
the pigs and cut their ears. The old lady was
a fighter, and there were two or three narrow
escapes for the boys when her babies called.
The hog bed had been located several days be
fore. on a southern slope amidst a thicket o,
slender pines. Each hog had brought its quota
of straw during the cool nights until-the bed
was several feet high, even when unoccupied.
Coming day was lighting the eastern sky
when Bud woke the Boy and the oxen were
hurriedly yoked. It was over a mile through
the woods to the camp of the hogs and the
hori*on was tinged with the red of the approa
ching sun when the boys stopped the oxen down
in the bottom. »»ell out of sight, and cautiously
approached the sleeping swine, lazily taking
their ease, as is their nature. That's the rea
son they and Borne men fatten readily. Two
dogs, Towse- and Rover, were held in check
with short pieces of rope around their necks.
Rover was a dark brindle. stocky built, with a
strain of bull, while Towse was white and black
pided. with just enough cur and bull to fight
and hold on. In his puppy days he had one
fore-leg caught under the wheel of a slowly-
moving freight train and all the front skin tom
away. The place never healed, and when
Towse got into a scrap or a scuffle and his sore Thejjails are yawning for the demagogues and
foot was hurt, he was a fool for fighting for a the noose is dangling for the incendiaries. The
few minutes.
Almost on tiptoe the boys approached the
pile of straw, ill which just a portion of bristly
back was visible in spots. So sound were the
hogs sleeping that they did ‘not scent the in
vaders until, from opposite sides, the boys were
upon them. Dropping the THjpes with which
the dogs were tied, the boys rushed and before
the startled hogs could escape, each had a pork
er by the hind legs. It is a man’s job to throw,
hold and tie a hog. and the Boy could only hold
his captive by the legs while Bud made such
speed as he could tying his with stout thongs
of buckskin. Each foot must be knotted sepa
rately, and then one at a time all four brought
together and so tied that the struggles of the
. animal would not work the knots loose. Then
anothw thcfliThsra the mouth shut.
The hog the Boy held squealed for help and
iris mother, less than one hundred yards-awsy,
came running to the rescue, bristles raised and
snorting in anger. With her came two of
her sons, rallying to the call of the mother and
already these had ugly tusks in evidence.
Straight toward the Boy they rushed, ana he
began to think he had more than he coy'.'
hold. Bud was still busy tying his :«*ig.
so the Boy hung on to his hog with one hand,
releasing the other to seize a lightwood-knot,
lying within reach. This he threw with fairly
good aim, catching the mother hog between the
eyes. Towse had been dancing around the
squealing hog. barking and making a nuisance
of himself generally, but when that knot was
thrown he got j>tuy< An instant after it struck
the mother hog he caught her by th^ ear, then
sidled hi» body along with her’s, where expe
rience taught him safety lay. With the attack
on the mother her two sons tui^ied from, the
Boy and vicib'usly lunged at the dog. H<
•defenseless and would have been cut to i
but for Rover, who came to his rescue and
led fhe offensive in true foot-ball style. As
it was, Towse was badly gashed in half a dozen
places before the two boys could secure the
her hog and come to his rescue. The two
rent swine were caught by the hind feet
I while they were being tied, the dogs, one
X either ear, kept the mother so busy that she
s only too glad to go away whep the boys
e dogs off, for they wanted her to stay
, it was a simple t
sooner both are filled, the better the American
people will be pleased and the sooner our ene-
ill realize that we are in this war as a
whole people, with i
object—to win.
single' heart and but one
IMPROVING THE NATIONAL.
That Hamilton county Florida, is to vote on
a $400 v 0.00 bond issue Decemebr 11th is good
news to those interested in the National High
way. the great motor route from New York to
Jacksonville.
If the bond Issue carries $250,000 of it will be
spent on a state highway through the county,
and $150,000 to build lateral roads. The state
and national governments will contribute to the
state highway and it is proponed to make
i paved road for the forty miles stretch
through the county. The general proposition
IS to connect this highway through Hamilton
with the National Highway at the Georgia line.
Columbia county will build a paved road to
connect wth the south end. This will give a
connection at Lake City for the Florida Central
Highway south through G&inaville, Orlando.
Lakeland, to Tampa and St. Petersburg and also
the branch proposed to cross the peninsular to
Miami.
The proposed route will shorted the distance
from Tifton to Jacksonville via the National
Highway by about thirty miles. It will also
give us a paved road through a section where
the roads have been indifferent and poor. Since
/as established, that part of the National
between’Valdosta and Lake City has been the
weakest link south of Macon. With a paved
road through Hamilton county a big curve will
be cut out and a good road'secured. The im
provement will make the National Highway
easily the bast and most direct route into Flo
rida.
SWEETEN WITH MOLASSES.
From the Calhoun County Courier.
Old-fashioned sorghum cane is coming back
into its own in Georgia. Reports from moun
tain counties bring the information that the
crop is the greatest on record. Many moun
tain farmers have raised only sufficient corn to
supply their needs and planted the balance of
their corn land in^aorghum cane. In South
Georgia the crop of ribbon cane is said to be the
largest on record also. Syrup and molasses
Ing a good price and sugar is getting
phets believe the people will
to sweeten their coffee and
i. like Southern -people
days pf the Civil War.
The Gazette has for some time held the po
sition 4h at a great deal of harm was being done
to the cause of American unity by widespread
and indiscriminate publicity to the vaporing*
of pacificists or rantings of demagogues and
place and notoriety hunters. Give this class
the silent treatment, and the harm they can do
will be circutnacribed.
In a current issue of the Saturday Evening
Post Mr. Samuel G. Blythe, one of the beat fea
ture writers on its staff and who for many years
has covered the capitol assignment, has a com
prehensive and interesting ffe-riew of the Ameri
can public’s attitude toward the war, and the
dawning of comprehension of the great task
confronting us. No summary can do Mr.
Blythe’s article justice—it must be read to be
fully appreciated, but one part we quote as 11
lustrating the wrong kind of publicity with
which the Aimerican public has been afflicted.
Discussing misinformation at Washington as
to the people’s, attitude concerning the war. he
says:
Considered as a legislative body the Senate
of the United States, as at present constituted,
is a rather mediocre assemblage. It has few
big men in its membership. Considered
institution the Senate is a tremeduous arm of n
tremendous government. It does the work
according to its own—often shaded—light,” and
.there it is and there it will remain. Now in a
crisis like this the ninety-six Senators arc o the
number of ninety, say, intent on but one thing,
and that is doing what is to be done as well as
may be. These ninety men work long hours,
are entirely American in their views, and sup
port the Government. Their procedure is ac
ceptable, conventional, regular. Nothing
heard about it. save in a general way. T
Senators are doing their work, and that requires
ither-comment nor commendation.
But presently there rises in the Senate one. or
more, of the six others to mouth his demagogi
cal opinions, to protest this or that about th<
war. to obstruct, to talk—principally to talk.
And what happens? Immediately the rantings
of this demagogue are taken up and sent ovi*
all the wires, to be printed in all parts of tm
nation. 1 while the earnes, unselfish and trui
American efforts of the other n5nety—their
patftnitism and their labor and support of the
countrv—are lost sight' nnd blanked to mind.
Their position is the regular, usual. American
position and deserves, in the prevailing idea "i
new> values, neither consideration nor space in
the mediums of public information. They arc
regular and American. But as soon as a denm
eogue rises to maReL his obstructions, to vaunt
his egoism, to break into the newspapers—he
breaks in. nnd the real American attitude and
conduct of the other ninetv are not
The vauntings of this minority are taken to
reflect-the attitude of the entire Senate, because
the ninety are doing their job nnd making no
fuss over it.
Now that situation tvpifies that American
national situation. We get nothing in the
news papers about the great aggregate loyalty
of the men of Kansas or Maine, or T«u. or
Michigan, or of anv other state: but let a .ew
persons in anv of these states, or in
begin disloyal preachings or ret disloyally, and
their deeds and sayings are placarded.in the
press as tvpiral and representative of the
thought and action of the great bulk of loyal
and war-supporting Americans who live as their
neighbors. The usual is never news; only the
unusual.
If newspapers as n whole gave less space to
these notoriety hunters and more to the loyal
Americans who are earnestly and quietly going
nbaut their duty as they see it. men who are try
ing to make capital and votes out cf what little
sentiment against the war and conscription may
be lingering incthe minds of thftaaifltefernied
would soon drop out of sight and out of mind.
Give them the silent treatment awhile and turfi
newspaper space to higher uses.
One of the favorite methods pf these men for
securing notoriety is Jo attack the newspapers,
claiming persecution or misrepresentation; the
press rises to the bait and^qnany columns of free
advertising is the result; soon the public will
get the dim idea that there is perhaps something
in that shallow, mediocre man after all, and the
harm is done. Let this class severely alone;
they are the most vituperative abusers of news
papers. yet newspaper publicity Alone made It’
possible for men of their stamp to rise to the
positions that should be fillepwith men of
brains.
Further. Mr. Blythe says; “ If we do not whip
Germany, Germany will whip us.” “There is
a job to be done. It is a job wherein the future
of the country depends on the doing. We can
do it. We shall. That is all there is to that
end of it." With this concrete truth in mind, to
give aid or publicity to the seditious obstruction
ist is disloyal to our country. Because it will
help the enemy and make, the war longer, it is
a crime against our young men who are fighting
and are yet to fight our battles. We are sure
when a realization of this comes to the news
paper men as a whole, they will let the notorie
ty hunter drop back to obscurity.
With its current issue Editor E. M. Hisrh-
burg rounds out .five years at the helm of the
Macon County Citizen. He notes the event
with a very comprehensive review of his five
years in harness and concludes with the fol
lowing. which applies with equal force to any
local paper in a country town or small city:
"There are three vital things that go into
the making of a good town: the .churii. the
school and the newspaper. The church is the
connecting link between humanity and the Di
vine ; Ihe school is the connecting link between
man and the realm of knowledge; the news
paper is the connecting link between the city
and the outside world. .Are you doing your
duty by each of these institutions? Are you
giving your support to each?”
The expected has come to pass in Russia,
although for months those most familiar with
the situation had hoped against hope that the
German peace party would not get control of
that much dhrupted and disorganized coun
try. While not much was to be hoped from
Kerensky, he appeared to be the onTY sincere
friend to Russia to whom the liberty-crazed
masses of his country would listen. His los*
of power is perhaps due, not so much to faults
of his own, a« to the thoroughness with which
Germany’s agents and friends at Petrograd
had poisoned the public mind.
The German War Office evidently knew
what was coming when so many men were
withdrawn from the Russianfront for the con
centrated drive on Italy./While few have ex
pected Russia to take an active part in ag
gressive fighting for the remainder of the war
the hope lingered that she would keep enough
men in the trenches to force the Germans to
retain a guard even though a thin line along
the 1,200 mile front. This hope is now dis-
pated and Germany can give her entire at
tention to France. England and the United
States , her only remaining powerful foes.
Italy may almost be counted out of
fighting. Fcr her to assume the aggressive I £ ife u >n
again it would be necessary for her A.itteK ta! the Boatright builA-
fumish munitions and equipment which they ^ ng _ _ohone 316.
can little spare. The best that we can nope*
there is that the Teutons are checked before
Italy shares the fate of Servia.
Russia is too disorganized and poverty
stricken to aid Germany, even should !-he new
government—or misgovemment—show aft In
clination so to do. It is probable that the
most that Germany hopes for is an outlet
through Russia and access to her grair fields
for the coming season.
It was futile to turn with hope to Japan.
The same factor /that caused Russia’s failure
in her.war with Japura prevents that country
from offering any material assistance to her
Allies along the. Russian - front. There is only
one line of single-track railroad, very poorly
equipped. t„ Jransport troops and the supplies
to maintain them for about 4.000 miles,
is understood that this is the reason Japan
has so far refused to send an army to the RusA
so-Teuton front.
Nation'* L~d~ 5*1* W « * r * Ha ' m
to Prorid. Mr OtW*.
, President Wilson says “If a man
, doea not provide for hia children.
, if he does not provide for all
dependent on him, end if be b*»i»
■ that care for the days that have *
i dawned, then he bee not ayooed |
i «r- to “7 edeqpeU eooeeftte - "
I human life. We are In 1
to provide not for OureeT
1 but for others.”
I This b the glorious ]
i life Insurance, e purpose that is be-
[ ing promoted in Tift eonnty by the
co-operation of severe! ptniiAieb*
lattice who are competing for *»*j
Ford touring car being given «
i In the United Lif* campaign,
lontest cloeJI Dec. 20.
Charley Cathey says the \
Life's policy is the finest Inr
’ in the world because wher ’
: two of his toes by the i
» .discharge of his gun while hunting
> last Christmas, hla United Life pon-
, ey paid him »10 per week for five
months—the entire time that he »
disabled. If you are O. K. l’
' cally and morally and are en|
in an occupation not coositfc
hazardous, you c4n probably |
. one of these policies. The Unll _
' Life is An Old Line New Hampshire
“’J Company and its Tift county h
MARKETING HOGS
Bec'J bcjrying them. Steve Hoover,
M. PImsant. Iowa, writes, “Com-
oced. feeding my herd of about 100
hogs ft. A. Thomas' llog Powder over
f?0 months ago. Fifty were sick and
off feed. Nearby herds had cholera.
I did not lose ong—they arc well and
growing fast-"
Phillips Mercantile Co. Tifton, Ga.;
F. F. Bussey and Co., Enigma.
Chicken Livers
An old hen has a much larger lh"
than you in proportion to weight 4
food eaten. Then it follows that tl
get bil ious just like you do. They el
grouchy, cross, unhappy. Start »
liver and make her happy. Tfien si
will lay eggs all winter. Come a
get a package of B. A. Thomas PoUl
try Powder. Feed it occasionally,]
See your hens perk up—hear
sing—look'for eggs. Your money]
Russia's reversal of position does not mean hack if it fai^
defeat for her former Allies but it means that Phillips Ifemntilo Co. Tifton,-Ga.;
their task will be longer and harder, it E F. Bussey and Co.. Enigma,
isidered. means that this country must build more ships. [ Mr p j carman of Bartow o
train more men. conserve every possible re- J j y< who ' r j ccntly purchased a place 1
source of food and fuel and double its output ;,f D ur mile* south of Tifton on ' ' “
of munitions bf war. No longer is there.almost/Union road, has moved his fail
a certainty that the war will end with, here and U^staylng wiq» hi* c
another year—two and perhaps three year^’j
may elapse before victory comes. But win wfe j
must, if it takes every resource of this country | A „- 0
and calls every man the front who can j beea at San Ant0 nio, Texas. n
shoulder a guft. j r.ow stationed at Fort Sill, Law!
Russia’s defalcation means that we must Oklahoma.
buckle our belts tighter, and grimly -settle!
irselves t n the task before i
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Sample (either color) for 2c.Stamp.
eader* of our yesterday’s dispatches were
no doubt surprised t 0 note that a nicotine,
factory was being operated in Kentucky by
Germans and that a former German army of
ficer was manager. A similar inc'dent was
the discovery in Savannah that an unnatural
ized German coming under the tiill provisions , 5o«*F.hhSu B «u»a.N.r.
of the alien enemy act. was in charge of a
shipbuilding plant near that city where ves
sels are being constructed'under government
supervision. The man had a permit to move
within ft ivstricted territory at Brooklyn.
N. Y.. and just how he got to Savannah, where
he was actually *iy?er\ising the building of
vessels with which .this country' hoped to pro
vision its armies nnd those' 1 of its Allies to
Win the war with Germany, is the subject of
a sweeping Investigation by the Department
of Justice, - — —.
These cases both reported in one day show
that entirely too much latitude is given enemy
aliens in this country. These men were in
positions to work great hann if the occasion
should offer and they should be so inclined,
and the record of Germany in this war doea
not show any lack of inclination. We have
already had some rather costly lessons. The
reins need to be drawn tighter.
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—Volney Williams is a candidate for Railroad
Commissioner, and will make the people of
Georgia a splendid official if they elect him.
He proved that he was not mercenary early in
the year when he resigned a job which paid
him a good salary to serve in the Legislature.
He also proved that he is a man of affaire, for
in that difficult body he made a good record.
Waycross is essentially a railroad town and in
extreme South Georgia, which has no represen
tation on the Commission. The development
of this section depends largely on its railroads
and for this reason especially we should have,
representation on the great controlling body.
Volney is as good material as the people will be
able to find.
Kerensky was unfortunate in being the
wrong man for the place. Russia needed a
man of blood and iron, while hp at best is a
dreamer and pacifist. KomiWn would prob
ably have come nearer measuring up to the re- |
quirementa. Besides, KerenskyTnarried at the
wrong time, and an actress at that.. He had
too much on his mind to have any chance for ]
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