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; TIPTON, GA. (3a; i W-fcly 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. -----+ 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. 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