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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1918
THE TIPTON GAZETTE, T1FTON, GA.
ZEbe Litton <Sa3ette
PublUbed Weekly
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
mm Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879
Ino. L. Herring . Editor and Manager
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i SATURDAY NIGHT SKETCHES.
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■ The advance volume of Saturday Night
Sketches is off the press. It is-fully up to the
expectations of the author, as- to typographical
arrangement, press-work, binding and finish.
It is from the Gorham Press, bf Boston. Mhsjl
The first edition of 1,000 volumes haS been
shipped by freight. As soon as it arrives, the
book will be on sale. This is an author’s au
tograph edition, and the price Is $2.50.
. The publication of the book -is the result or
many hours' work, sandwiched in as best we
could between the newspaper grind We hope
its coming will be in a part at least ns gratify
ing to those who remember Wiregrass Georgia
in its early days as it is to the author.
NO TIME TO SWAP HORSES.
The most serious objection to the Chamber
lain bill is that it would take the direction of
preparation for war and the conduct thereof
out of the hands of men who have had four
years’ experience nt the head bf the various
SATURDAY NIGHT.
departments of the government and more than
nine months’ experience in the work of equip
ping and organizing our fighting forces.
It would take from these men the conduct
of the war and put it into the hands of civilians
who have had no experience in such massive
undertakings. The country would lose the
training, perhaps in some cases dearly bought,
that the men at the head of the government
have won. and put in new and untried men who
must in turn learn the work. The time neces
sary for them to learn will be that much time
lost, and we have no time to lose.
Secretary..Baker. Secretary Daniels. Secre
tary McAdoo and their associates admit that
mistakes have been made, but mistakes in non-1
essentials. Each error brought its lesso n and
there is no danger of its repetition The mem
bers of Mr- Wilson’s cabinet would have been
more than human had they made no mistakes;
the members of the contemplated War Board
would be more than human did they make
none. Why should the nation at this time ex
change trained men in their different lines of
work for new and untrained men?
Despite slight faults here and there, faults
comparatively insignificant, the War and Navy
departments have a record for accomplishment
during the past- nine months that is their
strongest and most incontrovertible testimonial
The effort to change leaders comes after order
had been brought out of whatever disorder
existed and after the machinery- of these de
partments, re-organized on a vast scale, had
begun to work with comparative smoothness.
The new blood and able -minds that its
friends claim the Chamberlain bill would brin K
into the direction of the war are at the service
of the .government now. 'They were called
into the Council of Defense nearly a year ago
and called in such numbers that they have
■teen of little practical assistance- Leaders
From
is only a plain lettcY, much thumbed and
-oiled, with "Soilder’s Letter" instead of a
stamp on one corner; op anoti.er the censor’s
eal, the writer's name at the upper left and the
ddreas at the lower right; it brought its short
message and after that is forever silent, but if
it would and could speak, whet story it could
tell!
Written within sound of the guns that night
and day growl their challenge to the foe across
No Man’s Land; almost within reach of the
.ccasional searching shell hunting human tar
get: with time to write snatched between
duties of camp and field? perhaps on a board
r packing-case, or more probably on the
riter’s lap; around, the somrades. perhaps
talking of home or the latest camp distraction
•ithin reach the writer's earthly all, for the
soldier has no worldly goods except"those he
can pack on his back
After it is written and sealed, for a day per
haps it lies on the officer’s desk, until time
be had from his many and exacting duties to
rrttd and pass as censor; to be read between
the giving of orders, the -hurry and bustle of
preparation, mayhap the planning and discus-
ion of the coming battle; it waits with others
among the soldier’s litter—arms, papers, tobac
co maybe, until its time for criticism comes
Then. read, it goes into the bag with manv
others. to be throw-n on the truck bonnd to the
nearest postoffice
Started on its long journey, the route is a
isy one. Before and behind, in steady pro-
■sitfon. are trucks returning empty, or am
bulances from the front returning full—with
heir nurses and physicians and the white-
seed. drawn-featured patients: on the other
tide of the road, in procession equally endless,
truck behind, truck, loaded with supplies for
boys in ramp; with ammunition for their
<; with food fof the cannon that thunder
ceaselessly. Grim processions, both, but a
part of war in the making.
At the station, into the queer IRtle box
haped cat* it is loaded with miner' hundred
companions.'all alike as two pea^in a pod but
MR. BAKER'S CLEAN SHOWING.
Secretary of War Baker’s frank, straight
forward statement to the Senate Committee on
iliigry affairs Monday will go far toward giv
ing the public a correct understanding of the
way those in charge have pushed the work of
war preparation. At the beginning. Mr. Baker
disarmed his critics with the assertion that he
came to defend no mistakes or shortcomings,
but to insist most emphatically that deficiencies
here disclosed had been promptly remedied;
that they were the exceptions rather than the
rule, and that the very magnitude of Ameri
ca’s undertaking made dej^ys and false starts
likely.
That there are thirty-two divisions or more
than a million men in camp in this country-
ready to take their places on the front in
France as soon as it is decided they shall move
is the best evidence that if mistakes have been
made they -have not been productive of- any
great delay, and that the machinery - of prepara
tion as a whole has more than accompished
the work expected; that we will have half a
million* men in France early this year and that
another half million are ready for call as soon
room can be made at the camps here is fur
ther proof of efficiency.
When so muchl was said about the delay in
ordering machine guns and providing rifles it
evident that the most outspoken were dis
appointed contractors or others whose views
had not been adopted. That General Per
shing wants to use the Lewis gun on aircraft
and not in the army and that the men had
been called into camp under the advice of
General Wood and others of the War CounHl
goes far toward Hearing these two points :»l
issue. That the men were called out as rapid
ly as the estimated production capacity of thi
country would be able to care for them wa«
only the dictates of common sense
•pern- w s . ..isitU-raM. surprise when Sena
’.or Chamberlain and "th.-r critics endeavored
American trpops v
artillery. The stati
‘o<5H; that they hr
Allies v
<1 sutfici.
t artillei
what <vas t
Slic'd i;
■ach with its different message to 1h^ anxiou.-
hearts across three thousand milts oflsea and
few very difficult hundreds of mil s W land.
On the train with them is the ebjUule of
trench and camp, invalided, relieved/sent back
on special duty. At frequent stops, note the
many trains as they hurry along on the op
posite track, bound to the front, with company
after company of men fresh from home, men
eager for their first sight of the trenches or the
foe: for their first baptism in the fin 1 of battle;
every- car filled with .men; every window with
its grinning face and hearty hail: men after
men. until it sc&ns all the world is going to
fight. All these the letter passes; silently
hurrying on its mission.
At the port it awaits the transport's return:
the same ship that brought the men just passed
on their way to the front, .'surrounding docks
are piled high with provisions, with munitions,
v ith arms, with barbed wire, with the thou
sand necessities to keep the modern army - lit
and active; the great storehouses of a nation
umped to furnish them. Finally, with its
companions now numbering thousands, it - is
. gain trucked, this time acro.-s the Socks, and
dumped into the hold of the ship homeward
bound. •
Then, out of the safeguarded harbor, piloted,
through the mine fields, until the ship rises and
falls upon the broad swell of the open sea- To
emergency
of the shipping
DON’T BE MISLED BY EALSE. HOPES.
ed their time and talents to the government
and are still ready to serve, without compensa
tion in any capacity where they can be used to
advantage. If they are needed, they can be
called in at any time. This without taking the
direction and control of the war from the men
. who have iied ir.cro experkw'** -than
any men we have in our country today.
We have never had a Congress without its
investigations. They are noted as mediums
for venting spleen and paying off political
scores. The greater the emergency or the oc
casion. the greater the hullaboo of investiga
tion. That there should be inquiry into the
. conduct of the war was inevitable; that the
heads of the departments under fire should
have made a showing so clean is surprising.
A bill proposing some sort of reform was as
inevitable as the fact that Congress is a body
of meddling and inefficiency. Senator Cham
berlain’s measure will give the enemies of the
President and his cabinet an opportunity to
aay their say Nan d cast their vote; to pose
momentarily in tlie spot-light of publicity, then,. .
to drop back-into the semi-obscurity from-^
which they only emerge to parade their own
weakness.
And alter the bill has cojpe to a vot^. the
•work of war preparation ifod prosecution^ will
go ahead as before, in theTianda of the . men
most competent to handle it- Inveatigatona
serve their own purposes, and one of these is
to act as a spur to efficiency-
“The business men of Atlanta have raised
the $15,000 required to secure $25,000 from
- Julius Rosenward of Chicago for the construe
• Hon of a Young Men’s Christian^ association
•building for Negroes. Now the white men of
the .Georgia city have started to raise an addi
tional $10,000 for furnishings- They could
ike no better investment,” is the comment of
e Springfield, Mass., Republican.
rgrd lhat the .limited capa
ie devoted to the transportation of men
italnecessities, leaving the question of a
lerv to be takenNtqre of later—presumably af
ter enough men nhd been sent across to
strenfthei the lines against the expected Ger
man drive and after ample supplies had been
tarried to meet their needs. Secretary Baker
again emphasized this
As a wide, the statement of the - Secretary
should give the public a more comprehensive
understanding of what our government is do-
ing-to mrtta greqj emergency; an understand
ing of the magnitude of thy task anil the
rnestness .with which its accomplishment has
■fieen set about: of the work that has been done
and the sincere efforts of our officials, to
>perate tritk our Allies across the seas: and
with this an understanding 'of some of the pet-
y Taiilt-finding behind the politics of the day
which would, for a temporary advantage to
•elf. embarrass if it did not cripple the adminis
tration in the prosecution of a work on which
ironi sisfer ships ascends. Carefully the;
tiieir way in sedate procession, while beside
them, before them and in the rear dart, des
troyers in swift*- r.r,d - vigilant guard, its tlfe
mother hen hovers her brood when the ha'
swoops. All lights are out when darkness
comes: frgfther for nor .night da .officers-sisep.
until the danger zone is passed; the passengers
go with life-preservers buckled on. and every
nerve on board is keyed to that ultimate pitch
that the chance of instant death always brings.
Perhaps the enemy wav eluded; perhaps he
was sighted and beaten off; perhaps he sent
at the ship his dread messengers of destruction
that missed their mark; in either case at last
the danger lay behind and ahead only the free
nd open sea and at last the long docks of the
hbme port.
Then, ready and swift but appreciative
hands sorted the thousands of messages and
sped each on its \^ay. On .fast trains, oyer
The American public will be spared disap
pointment if, in hoping for the day when a-
world peace will come, it bears in-mind tfie
lines of a- railroad song very popular about
twenty years ago:
“Keep your hand upon the throttle
And your eye upon the rail."
In this case the throttle is war preparation
and prosecution, shoved into the last notch of
speed; the rail that straight line which runs*
through the smoke and carnage of battle to the
heights of victory. This war will be won when
the Teuton hosts are beaten by the armies of
America and her Allies; it will not be won by
any outbreaks of unrest or revolution on the
I art of the German people—-barring, of course;
the unexpected and immwfiable-
Reports that Germany is starving and her
people in revolt make very attractive reading.
The hope that some such uprising as broughf
chaos to Russia will bring peace to the world
is doubly delusive to those who have dear ones
at the front or soon to go there. But there is
little or nothing on which to base such a hope,
and the great harm it does, if we are misled
thereby, is to distract attention from the real
making of war;*to delay preparation in the
hope thar the end w-ill come before' our own
men are needed.
Beyond doubt, food and fuel are scarce in
Germany and Austria. They nrescartt/with tin
Allies, with the world to draw upon, they ar-
evJn scarce in this producing counfity, v and the
situation must be much worse in tfte isolated
Centra! Empires. But we hare fron? authori
tative and unquestioned sources—AmbiSw»dor
Gerard and Gen. Kuhn, as examples—that
Germany cannot he beaten by starvation. The
Teutons have little, but they have been taught
from childhood self-denial and ^ndurance and
they can exh^-ad little. The people may be in
want, hut tn* army will be- fed.
Hope ot-a_revnlution is -equally chimerical
With all his faults, the great mass of thy Ger
man people believe the Kaiser is right "and. that
he is leading Germany in a war of self-deft-
Prussiunism has taught tfiem this until; it
is inbred in their nature- Even the Socialist}
in emergency have been .loyal to the govern
ment in word and -deed. The great business
interests know that Germany is impoverished^
it less by winning she can collect a stupendoui
ar indemnity. Therefore, they will endure
anything, make any sacrifice, to go another!
f by so doing victory can be won. Last,
but greatest of all. Prussianism is firmly in thi;
saddle. It has ruled long and with an iron
hand; it is 'a military hierarchy; the German
people are docile, submissive and easily led.
There is little probability of an uprising/ of
strength, and little possibility of success/ for
one There have been sporadic flare-ups and
occasional inurmurings. but they were prompt
ly suppressed * The German people wan
p.-arc—so do all the countries at war. but then
is no prosport of. their overthrowing their
|government to secure it now. What may hap
, pen if the great offensive fails next spring am
the ericir.y sets foot on German soil is-tirndhe
!story altogether.
I Austria is a composite empire of many peo-
^5oriel
A fertilizer especially a
the production e
PEANUTS
Peanut* require ,
acid and lime. BoneVal
brand phosphate snppbes $ 1
high percentage of both.
Wot* /or pri-iea and HlfiulB*
DOWNING PHOSPHATE CO. 4
OfOo. Wuniwtck.Ca. h
Half Your Living
Without Money Cost
Wc arc all at a danger point. On.
til* use of aood common »en»e In our
1918 farm anil garden operationa de
pends prosperity or our “going broke..
Even at present High price* no oso
aan plant pit or nearly all rouoa.tty
food and grain al present price* frxn
supply merchant on credit and matt-4L
money, food and grain is higher®. JM
proportion than are present coup ™
prices.
It's a time a birr e alt other* ft
eafe; to prodneo all possible 1
grain and 'orasc supplies on your
acres: to cut down tlie store bln.
A good piece of garden groatt. V
rightly planted, rightly tende4 «»*-»
kept planted the year round, can W r
made to pay nearly half your Urlng. It J
will save you more money than pt 1
made on the t-cst three g^ree cfootma j
you ever grew! “*'
Hastings’ ISIS S-eed Boolf
about the right kind of a mm
Ing garden and the vegetabio
In It It tells about the farm <
well and shows you the etear ri
real and regular farm prosperity^
Free. Send for It today tp I
HASTINGS CO, Atlanta, f
the fate nf the nation—even the freedom of-piles. Since the first year of the • war there
he civilized peoples of the world—depends, jhave been uprisings and demands for peace.
In keepir- with Mr Baker’s candor and I Also. Austria has suffered much more than
self-effacement was his sense of duty to *K« j Germany. and-would doubtless be glad to make
men who are bearing the brunt of the work of j peace at any price. But Austria h*s been re-
preparation and his tribute to "the officers and jduccd to a German vassal; her armies have
ivilians. laboring with devotion, sacrifice arid j German offleersjind she is fedjind financed
_ __ zeal who are spending many sleepness nights-by Germany
right and left, before, and -Whfod- -wm**!*®-**"* this army -np-tu its greatest efficiency jAnst:
isisieY strips ascends. Carefully they make and supceta." But personality is sunk in desire .self ....
• Since the first year of the war there has been
DR. A. G- FORT
EYE. EAR. NOSE and TStU
Cor. 2nd- Street and Lot* Atm
Office Phone 257 Reside
Tifton, Georgia.
Therefore, what Germany does
should
for general good. as. "If any .
figure in tomorrow'snasualtics-Jt wnitid Ue aginuich talk of German shortage of munition
nothmjrSreSW* thf'obietf We nil seek" > tials and f 1 supplies, and since ffiT
Hiving thus cleared the atmosphere Mr. h been said tha Germany would be driven to
Baker can-go ahead with his work; the nation j make Tit-ace by starvation- But she has ted
will attend To hi* critios. . •Brigiwm*,
i France, Poland. Rumania and even Servia each
contributed their portion. Now she is obtain
ing supplies from Southern Russia although
the Russians cannot themselves get them to
wide rivers, thogogh mountains, aerpss brfoad
plains they humied. until at last the uhiniate
goal waa. reached; even the distributing < lerk
iffice smiling understandi ngly
he dropped into the family box-
From the pilel of letters of no consequence
now. it peeped; -a smile of joy lighted th® face
of. the one who saw it—eagerly it was seized,
opened, and read aloud that all might' share
in what it brought Then, over telephone or
by word of mouth the good new# spread, of the
tidings brought
Through many dangers; through stirring
scenes; from amidst history in the making, you
came, the letter from “Over There.” Many
things you have seen that we will never see.
but for what you have passed through and for
what you brought, we love you much, you
soiled, rumpled 1 and travel-stained letter from
“Somewhere in France."
THE FARMER AND THE INCOME TAX.
The unmarried farmer who made more than
$1,000 last yeat and the married one who made
more than $2,000 will be called on "to pay an
income tax just like other folks.
The announcement is made by the Collector
of Internal Revenue for Georgia that 100,000
blank forme f&r the especial use of farmers in
this state in making their income tax returns
have been printed.* They will be distributed
by . officers who wall Visit the various counties
the state for the purpose of explaining the
features of the new law.- One of these officers
is coming to Tifton. February 1st and will
main until the 9th. On these blanks each
farmer required to make a return must set
down every'item from which he derives an in
come. including each crop and the rent of land,
animals or machinery. Deductions will be
allowed for interest, taxes, stock and supplies
bought, wages paid, and items of a like nature.
The blanks contain 107 questions and a sample
ean be seen at the Gazette office.
The idea that the farmer has an income is a
new one, but with changed conditions and the
high price for farm products quite a number of
them made more than the excepted amount
during the past year- Now is a good time for
theril to begin to figure on receipts and ex
penditures ani be ready for the tax man when
he comes,
In reading (he Washington news, remember
that election time is coming, and don't get un
duly wrought lap-
PetrogTad for lack of transportation.
Germany ia. deprived since we entered the
war of the source from which she fed her army
for more than a year, on supplies from this
country bought by neutral nations and re-
shipped to the Teutons. But she has ap
parently enough to figjit on for another year.
With the collapse of Russia, she is in much
better shape than she was one year ago; there
fore. less inclined to peace. So the sooner
get rid of the idea Rhat the German people
will revolt and bring peace this spring the
sooner we can get down gfo the business in
hand—thnt nf -winTring The ’wnT'by -beattngThc
German armies in the field-
That is the task to which this country has
set itself and to which every resource must be
bent.
That is the task confronting the Sammies on
th« firing line, and an united country must
behind them
PROFESISONAL CIRI
DR. J. B. S. BLITCH.
n*V e * special itndy of
diseases of children and chro-
r long standing diseaaea.
DR. N. PETERSON
0*fics Over Brooks Phsrmaejr
doers—10 to 11 ».m. 3 to 4 *a,
-0<S*.--rW.»«o-33 •
Residence 'Phone No. 1 4
JOHN A PETERSON
OSes Dentist
New Golden Building, Second
Tifton, GoorgU
DR. A. E. O’QUINN
FIRST CLASS DENTAL WORK
Iron and Bridge Work s Specialty
Over Pink*ton’s Drug Store
Tifton, Georgia
FULWOOD A HARGRETT
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Golden Bldg. .t Tifton. Ga.
R. C. ELLIS
^tornaj-At-Law-
Special sttOTtion riven to c
and Kittetri relating to haul t!
Will practice ia all tka Court.
Golden Bldg. Tifton. Cta. 1
The Ocilla Star urges the school children of
Irwin to plant pecan trees on the school
grounds, and calls the attention of the school
authorities’ to the desirability of encouraging
this work. Such trees in a few years will beau
tify the grounds and before IjjRjfbe a source of
income if properly cared for. The Chula
school and number of ’other -«diools in Tift
county have set out pecan trees and the result
is satiirfactory in every way-
DR. J. D. WILBANKS '
VETERINARIAN *» ;
Offica at ToucWtoaa's StaUa
Ot&ca Pkona 273—Ra.ida.aa U7
Ml aalU ratponda ' to dap «r llfkl
Tifton, Gaorgia.
10 Year Firm & City Lmni,
Wa have an unlimited an
monay to loan on farm 1
city, property, in Ubersl^aa
■ 1-2 and 6 per cent ftra!*
Can make loan* in any •
and get them promptly.
B. C. WILLIFORD, Att*y. ,
O’Neal u*d Me Lead BcOfeg
•*OfHeae N41
Tift—. Ga, Pk—. lay.