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; TIPTON, GA.
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Ltofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
. Editor and Manager
ITOrgan City of Tifton
Tift County, Georgia.
ATURDAY NIGHT.
e of Peace and the God of War.
wches another anniversary of the birth
*rince of Peace, and still the War God
bmpant over a cursed and bleeding earth
l in his trail countless ghastly heaps of
^carrion which once were men; churchi
homes jn ashes; maimed or sightless
founded tottering on their feeble way; the
ucred violate, the pure dragged in the slime
J of lust—throughout a continent the-weeping of
women and the wail of the bereaved, while over
many lands once rich and plenteous gaunt
winged Famine hovers, adding its dread toll to
that of disease, hate and the engines of death.
From ten thousand choirs comes the anthem
of Peace on Earth: from ten thousand pulpits
comes the story of The One who came to earth
and died that Man might be saved through
love.
While ten thousand cannon thunder their
knells of death; ten thousand airships swoop
and dj»p their missels of destruction; beneath
the «6a lurking monsters seek and send to their
doom the innocent and helpless: on a thousand
miles of battle front men grapple, with gun and
bayonet, bomb and knife, the gases of hell
and the tires of demons’ breath, seeking like
struggling fiends to kill that their own lives may
be spared for another day of battle.
Surely, never during the nineteen hundred
and seventeen years since the Man came to earth
suffered and bled that fallen man might be re
deemed and love supplant force in the rule of
the world, has there been a time when it was so
evident that Christ made the supreme sacrifice
in vain ?
Nay; not so.
Never since Christ was Jjorn to earth, lived,
and died has there been a time when the great
j Object of His supreme sacrifice was so near
} fruition. The war which now sweeps the
world as a holocaust is bringing near the time
when force shall disappear and the people shall
be ruled by reason of love.
There is no accomplishment without sacri
fice; no revolution but takes its toll of human
life. Cruel and pitiful as were the agonies
undergone by the Son of Mam they were neces
sary that the religioh which we know as Christ
ianity should win supremacy on earth. ~
had his Gethsemane, His Calvary; but from
the ashes of the dead He arose to rule the earth.
Now the world is going through the agony
necessary to a new birth. In Belgium, in Ser-
via, in Poland, in Rumania, in Armenia, it has
passed through its Gethsemane; Its Calvary
approaches when the mightiest armies the earth
has known meet in the supreme death grapple,
Then, from the tomb of dead nations and
from the ashes of heroes; over the hills of the
East as .the coming of the sun through the rift
of the storm-clouds which have wrought their
worst, will come the dawning of the day when
the world shall be at peace; when no more shall
men resort to arms; when the cannon shall be
melted into the instruments of industry, the
battleships rust at their moorings, and the na
tions of the earth no more stagger under the
burden of great armies and navies—for the law
that rules will be reason, not forte, love, not
hate; fraternity, not envy and malice
And when that day comes, shall we thank
the Great Ruler that he chose us as a nation, be
cause we were the best fit. to carry out His
great plan for making the world anew after
. His own heart. . Then, shall, we honor:and.glori
fy those young men of oufs who have gone to
the front, to offer as a bulwark against their
country's foes the breasts we love as a part .of. necessities.
Ourselves; to give their lives if necessary, even
• the beat that in-lhVMTte&’.rh'grrfiVmjSPEsWo
turned this War God loose upon a world at
peace shall be beaten to their knees, throttled
in their own armor, that this earth may once
more be a world in which a people can dwell
in peabe unmolested. Then, though we maj^
mourn, shall we say that, no matter what the
cost, the result was worth the price.
la lack of understanding in
the meaning of prohibition
Constiution of the
houses of Congre^ and which
now goea BSp-e the several atattal for ratifica
tion. The OHaadment in full I
Sec. 1. After one year from the ratification
of this article the manufacture, sale or transpor
tation of intoxicating Hqnor within, the importa
tion thereof into, or the exportation thereof
from the United States and all territory subject
tothe jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes
is prohibited.
Sec. 2. The Congress and the several States
shall have concurrent power to enforce this arti
cle by appropriate legislation.
Sec. 3. Thfe article shall be inoperative un
less it shall have been ratified as an amendment
to the Constitution by the Legislatures of the
several States, as provided in the Constitution,
within seven years from the date o*the submis
sion hereof tothe States bv the'Uongress.
Under the Constitution, an amendment must
be passed by a two-thirds vote of both Houses of
Congress and ratified by three-fourths of the
States ofthe Union, either by their General As
semblies or by conventions held for that pur
pose.
It will be necessary- for thirty-six states to
ratify ^the amendment within the seven years
limit fixed by the Constitution; otherwise it will
go by default. Twenty-seven states now have
prohibition and twenty-one allow the manufac
ture and sale of whiskey, in some form or other
It will be necessary for nine of these so-called
wet states to approve the amendment, and it
is very probable that this will be done.
One of the states classed as wet is.FIorida, in
which a great majority ofthe counties already
prohibit the sale of whiskey. It is thought
that, despite the fight made by some of the lar-
er cities, the amendment will be ratified b.v
Florida. This is perhaps equally true of many
other states in which whiskey is sold.
The law governing the ratification of the
amendment is the fundamental law of the land,
not a special law for this occasion. The amend
ment comes under the same class with that
which gave the negro the ballot, and by which
female suffrage will come if it gets here. They
must all go through the same process.
There is little doubt but national prohibition
is coming. The growth of the moveifient has
been so rapjd of recent years that there is little
question but the Prohibitionists can gather-suffi
cient strength within the next seven yearip to
secure the ratification of the measure. U is
more than prtbable that it will be ratified ^with
in the next two years. The Prohibitionists are
already preparing for an aggressive campaign
to secure this ratification.
So many people inquire as to the strength of
the Teutonic armies, that the following estimate
by the military critic of L'Eeho de Paris is worth
remembering:
The cqpibined strength ofthe German army
is placed by him at 5,500.000. Non-combatant
units totaling 2,370,000 are needed for guard
ing frontiers, occupation of conquered territory
and guarding lines of communication. It is
estimated that the Germans have two million
men on the Western front, considerably less
than the total strength, ofthe Allied armies.
The Germans still have one .million men oothe
Eastern front, while 100,000 have been sent to
Italy and 30,000 are helping tJu"Bulgars hold
the Balkan lines. This gives p/Ndal of Germans
on all fronts of 3.1.10.000. The Austrians, who
went intothe war with 3,600,000 fighting men
are thought to have now 1,200,000 in line, and
the strength of the forces invading Italy ! "
placed at 840,000.
Of course, it is well to remember also that this
is the estimate of an enemy and must be more
of less guesswork. To the combined strength
given must be added the Bulgarian army of
approximately 350, 00Q and the Turkish forces
•er three million.
E TEUTONIC STRENGTH.
THE POLLY AND THE flTY OF IT.
Says the Pearson Tribune, on Tifton’s most
recent development move: "Progressive citi
zens of Tifton have undertaken to organize
what is to be known as 'Tifton Home Company.'
The obect is building more residences in Tifton
for rent. The gentlemen at the head of the
movement realized that the city's growth is be
ing retarded, because people who want to be
come citizens cannot be accommodated with
homes. No one man could fill the demand, so
it was decided to organize a company of two
hundred members who could do so. The plan
mapped oqt is feasible and the desired end
be accomplished without any member becoming
.embarrassed. The idea is "In union there is
strength'.’ It is a suggestion that might be ui
ful in other towns and cities needing mo
homes than individual effort can supply.”
Newspapers tell ua of a Colquitt county man,
called under selective draft, who has taken re
fuge in a swamp and with gun and knife swears
he will die before he wfll be arrested.
The folly and the pity of unreasoning cow
ardice I .
Would it were possible for some sane friend
to take this man by the ear and whisper therein
the cold logic of reason—to open his eyes to
undisputed fact. To tell him that the danger of
the enlisted man is but an atom more than that
of the pedestrian who daily crosses a crowd
ed metropolitan thoroughfare; that more men
die every month and year that dreadful. linger
ing, suffering death of tuberculosis than
killed in the Great War during the same period
and that more people die of heart disease than
of tuberculosis; that more people are maimed
by accident than in battle, and that his danger
from insects, reptiles and exptisure while in
hiding is ten times greater-tnan it would be on
the fighting front in war—where perhaps 90 per
cent, of the Selectmen will never get.
Yet. overcome by the impulse of unthinking
fear this man would, to avoid doing his duty for
his country, from which he has taken every
thing that made life worth living and has given
nothing in return, make of himself an outlaw,
an Ishmael, with his hand against every man
and every man's hand against him.
Rather than fight beside comrades As brave
men must sometimes fight for human right and
a people's liberty, he would fight his neighbors
and friends, the officers sworn to do »b“ir duty.
Rather than slay a murdering, raping, itic&n-
NEGRO KILLED BY
FALL FROM TRAIN
Was Found by Crew on “Sbot
fly” Wednesday Morning
HE WAS BRINGING IN I
Lot! B.Unc. WhiU Setting SuTtCa—•
OB Roar Platfo'm and Fall fro*
Traia.
John Webb, » negro man forty
_ .-are old, fell from northbound
G. ,S. and F. Train Number 4
Tift '.ounty, just north of the Ber
io county line, Tueedoy night and
received injuries from which he died
about 8 o'clock Wednesday morning.
The negro was seen by the "Shoo-
fly”. crew ns ita passed I
Wednesday morning. When
train reached Eldorado, 2 1-4 rail so
north of where the negro was seen,
the section foreman was notified and
went to look for the negro. Re
is" nearly dead then.
Webb had been employed at a saw-
ill at Eldorado and is supposed to
ive gone to Jacksonville to get some
liquor. It is believed that he had
taken his liquor out to the rear of-
he ear to set it off and a lurch of the
rain caused him to lose his balance
.nd fall. He had a gash in the back
of his head, his mouth was mashed
,i Jj* was bruised on other parts of
the boa. He was not run over, but
probably truck the cross tie, in falt-
ling.
diary Hun. he would slay a former playraate or Some whukey carto ns-were found
comrade. who would be only trying to do'his ■ < ir where 'Webb w
plain duty. Rather than die the death of a j*
patriot and a loyal citizen, of a hero and a
xnithy son of the men who planted the banner .sheriff Shaw was notified this
if freedom in a land of the free, he would go to moming-md msde a trip to the seen*
ideate.
a found and it is
>iight ti.at other negroes came
ong. sai> his cpnditionn and took
his grave disgraced and discredited, leaving a
name which his posterity will speak in a whisper
and with a blush pf-ghame. *
Anti the greyest pity of it all is. that it is so
useless. For the'U-.tr will be taken. The
long arm of this government reaches far. and it
A British battleplane, a giant weighing, with j is as sure as fate. None have escaped in the
its cargo, seven tons, dropped bombs on the i past, and none will escape in the future. It ic-^
Turkisfft-apital The flight was made via Paris. | slow and deliberate, and for a brief time he may
the Rhone valley, ^Marseilles. Pisa. Rome and revel in fancy security, but after awhile the_law
Salonica. over mountain peaks from 8.000 t<
10.000 feet high, and across the Adriatic. One
of the objects bombed was the German cruiser
Goeben. now a parK^f the Turkish navy. If
England keeps up her stride in aircraft build
ing. she may yet make Germany regret the Zep
pelin venture.
Editor Brantley, of the Valdosta Times, has
been “among those present” at some lively al
fresco gatherings in his day, if we may judge
from this: “Mr. Gerard says that if the Ger
man people rose against their government they
would make the French Revolution look like
a picnic. We have attended picnics that would
have made the French Revolution look like
Paradise.”
Legal advisory boards in the several counties
are finding themselves swamped with regis
trants seeking advice to fill out questionnaires.
Consequently, many are following the prece
dent of the Tift county board and urging that all
registrants study their blanks at home and fill
them out so far as possible before coming to the
lawyers for advice. By doing this, much time
may be saved all parties.
Queer to read in the papers about schools in
South Georgia closing down because of lack of
coal. One of these is at Doerun. The last
time we saw Doerun, you could scarcely get a
peep at it for the pines surrounding, and
first time we saw the site there was
there but pines.
1 ■ v.
"For the first time in sixty-two years I have
eeen Christmas- without « jug/’ remarked an
old friend to the editor Monday afternoon.
And he did not look, from his Hale, hearty ap-
'. pearancc. as if he was any the worse for thi
change.
Now delay in shipping Is adding to the sugar
famine by keeping the new crop of Cuban sugar
from the refineries. We are told that when
this cr.-p'j'eacfcestV refineries early in January,
there will be plenty to relieve the shortage.
r the gaso-
Politicians with a grudge against the Admin
istration are using the Congressional investiga
tions as a means of playing even. Don’t pay
too much attention to the vaporings; they are
only escape-valves. Somebody has well said
that the whole country is on a war basis except
Congress:—it is still playing polities'and drag
ging along in the old. slip-shod, time-killing way-
Cut on) iov rilling -imtiLall the_
5 moving.
THE JUDAS OF NATIONS.
Frdfn the New York World. '
Russia is today the Judas of nations. No
other government in this war, not even that of
Germany, has touched such depths of moral
degradation as Russih has reached under the
rule of BolshevildJ
The armistice vf-ith Germany which k«emne
and Trotzky have'made in the name of Russia
is not merely » cowardly desertion of former
allies. 'It is a studied and calculated act of
treacherv at which.'even Machiavelli would have
hesitated, for it involves a denial of every arti-
the cle of faith and honor which holds society to-
nothing "ether. ;
That the armistlc was prepared u. Berlin is
Maybe the overworked expressmen and mail
i clerks will have a chance to catch up today.
As for Sanfa. he has a year to rest, unless he
iwill now turn his attention to the Red Cross and
Y. M. C. A.
Well, we»can get along without sugar again.
For the best twenty years of our life w^ did
iritiiout. and never knew the difference. Lots
neeesaary things are considered essentials
obvious from the mjost casual reading of the text
Framed "for the purpose of achieving a lasting
and honorable peace.” it permits the German
Government to wTfHdraw all the troops from the
eastern front that I it desires and concentrate
them in France. *To make sure that no ques
tion can be raised ais to the right of Germany to
make such transfers, the armistice specifically
provides that “neither side is to make operative
transfers of unfits from the Baltic-Black SeS
front until Jan. 1 ojeent those begun before the
As the agreement was
ermany to bpgin a general
from the east to the west.
effective German f< rces-in the east against the
the effect of this ai mistice is to release all the
prican and Italian forces m
the west. Maxima 1st Sorialism in Russia has
made itself t le active friend, supporter
and ally of the mIW ary autocracy in Germany,
•nd a revolution that was once a hope of human
ity has been turned nto a shameless conspiracy
against democracy I ghting for its IK:.
armistice was signe
held up to enable (!<
movement of troopi
The lady paragrapher of the Memphis Com
mercial-Appeal is v.-orried because so much
provision was made for getting Christmas boxes
to the boys at the front while nothing was said
or done about the nurses who have also gone
across the water in,their country’s service. En
tirely unnecessary. If the boys get half
enough, the nurses will have more than they
want. Depend on the Sammies for that.
Another solution of the transportation prob
lem is the manufacture of munitions abroad by
skilled American workmen, who have been sent
to England and France. This will stop a tor
pedo or mine from destroying the works of
weeks, and is another way in which co-opera
tion between the Allies is evidenced.
ADVERTISING A NECESSITY; INVESTMENT
Advertisipg Is a necessity, not an expense,
Somc_peopla-gct-along-withoul as 'V*"'
neopie get- along without many other tijnigs
-that nfb»»r> must have. Ttiaatayaras xrjnife ad
vertising was considered extravagance. A
umber are still of the opinion that^ther firms
could save a grea^ deal of mone>^y dropping
the-j)ublicitv expense, say- the Publishers'
Girtde/ .
We know of a dry goods man who built up
an enormous business in a small town through
advertising. He reached the top. established
a reputation, then proceeded to get rich by
saving his advertising cost. nc cut out his
newsnaper displays, and ran on momentum.
How long did he last? Within a year his store
take advantage of the situation by increasing
its advertising space. Within two years the
former leader was out of business and looking
for a position.
Advertising is a necessity—a fact which he
understood and appreciated through the long
rears he was engaged in climbing from the bot
tom to.the.top of the ladder, but. once on top.
he became dizzy. In other words, his head
swelled. Looking around, he saw no one else
on his level, and he came to the conelu:
that because he was up it would be impossible
to fall down. He forgot that he had passed
others who fell in the rut. He conceived an
idea that he could save his advertising expense
and rash in on the amount om money he had
naid in the past. He overlooked the. fact that
he obtained his returns on his advertising from
day to day. in increased sales in his very com
plete dry goods store. He imagined that the
monev he had expended was all in the nature
of future investment. He did not understand
that the monev he expended today wfts for to
morrow’s trade—tomorrow's increased trade,
if you please. When it was too late, the full
force of the truth dawned on him.
That’s the repson he is now engaged in sell
ing real estate—on a commission basis.
hp has defied will reach for him. And then he
will be taken—alive to serve'a term in prison
and be sent first to the fighting line; or dead to
sleep in a grave dishonored.
And should he live, when this war ends, as
end it will, he can no longer have a part with
worth while. His former companions will
The Gazette Has a large number of
documents dealing with the war, its
causes, conditi.oni in European coun
tries and other matters of public in-
s’nun him: his own people will turn aside when terest which wffl be presented free of
he draws near. As a moral leper, a man who charge to anyftne calling st the offleo
shirked duty when the K eat test came, he will • “".’I 11 '*
, .. . , . ■ the pick. They go in the waste basket
drag out a miserable existence, to a miserable jn # )]ay? ^ come — onc# ^
but deserved end. « want any of them.
There were shirkers and deserters in the last' ’
war. You cannot find living kindred or des
cendant of one of them today who will acknow
ledge the rerationship. Some one should tell
him of these. This man is mad; he is doing a
fearful thing—to himself. - .
THE SWEET POTATO QUARANTINE.
After furnishing South Georgia with the
sweet potato blight and sweet potato weevils.
Florida now quarantines against the Georgia
sweet potato because of these pests, the Florida
Plant Board having placed an embargo against
the shipment of- the choice edibles from Geor- j
gia into Florida territory.
Of course, we suppose a little thing like cor- J
nering the Florida market for the Florida sweet I
potato growers was never considered in the case.
But the loss falls upon Florida, not on Georgia, j
Growers of "sweet potatoes In this state can find 1
a marljef for their product wherever people of
ii-iqrfminatiiig taste exist—a market for many j
jo-sce iban they can grow, JuU^the Flor.ida.Ufi;,
can get genuine, delicious, succulent, alto- ’
get her desirable South Georgia sweet potatoes
• ■ - .
FIoriHaToses. aniTflie'loss ls'ih"eat.
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Tom McCall, over in Colquitt county, aged 65.,
is advertising for a wife, with a farm. When j
we knew Tom. his progeny was as the sands of j
the sea. and now if he is alone we do not won-
derthat he is lonely. Bnt he never had much
use for a farm—what he needs is a farmer.
Failure to adopt the amendment will make no
change in any state prohibition law now existing
lipsed by another, which was quick to, or which may hereafter be passed by any-sepa-
rate state.
THE BAD MANNERS OF A SENATOR.
From the Philadelphia U-dger
Senator Reed's insulting treatment of Mr.
Hoover is precisely what might ha\c bceii ex
pected. His opposition to the legislation which
created the food administration was pronoun
ced He accompanied it by bitter personal at
tacks upon Mr. Hoover, aspersing his motives
and deriding his previous achievements. Now
he stoops to the petty malice of ignoring him
when he makes a perfectly proper request.
There was every reason why Mr. Hoover should
be heard by the subcommittee of the Senate
Committee on Manufacturers which is investi
gating the sugar shortage. Mr. Spreckles had
m£de accusations which Mr. Hoover naturally
wished o refute. But Senator Reed would not
even acknowledge that Mr. Hoover was in the
room. He would not even permit the counsul
for the food administration to ask Mr. Spreck
les questions. Such behavior asthis cannot
bloek the investigation, of coursadfor can it in-
iure Mr. Hoover. Senator Reed himself will
be the chief sufferer from It.
Pains,
Dizzy
Spells
Mrs-G. P.CartwrlgM.af
Wbilweil, Ter.n., writes:
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down pains. : . The
dizzy spells got so bad
that when I would start to
walk, 1 would just pretty
nearly fall. Was very
much run-down. 1 told
my husband 1 thought
Carduiwould htlpmc. ,,
Hegormes borae. .. It
helped me so much lhat
. he got me another bottle.
I got a whole lot better.
.The dizzy spells end die
bearing-down pains . . .
left me entirely.”
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nm-down, or suffer from
womanly pains,
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