Newspaper Page Text
be Litton <3a3ette
PpblUhed W—Ely
Entered it the Postoffio* #t Tifton, Georgia,
u Second Class Matter. Act of March 3. 1879
Jno. L. Herring: Editor and Manager
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
Twelve Month. ........ $1.50
Six Month. 75 Caata
OuUido Third CU». Parcel Poet Zones $2
a Year Payable in Advance.
Official Organ City of Tiften
and Tift County, Georgia.
THE DAWN OF A NEW ERA.
What the location of H. H. Tift's saw mill in
1872 in the midst of the pine forest where now
stands the city meant to the Tifton of the pres-
% ent. the opening of the packing plant today
means to the Tifton of the future. It is the
dawn of a new era.
As manufacturing and various * industrial
developments followed the saw mill, so will
diversified agriculture, with all that it means
in the revolution of existing conditions, follow
the initial packing plant. For behind this plant
will come others, as the resources of the^coun-
try for live-stock raising arc developed; behind
/'the packing plants, greater fertilizer works,
more feed mills, tanneries, perhaps plnnts for
the manufacture of the products of the indus
tries first named—all those things which fol
low in fhe train of revolutionized conditions
attendant on the development of untried
sources of wealth.
The first sound of the whistle of the saw
mill among the pines was the knell of the old
order of things; the acclaim of the coming of
the new. The saw-mill passed, but much that
it brought—some of the best—remains. So to
day. when the first hog passed through the
packing plant, the knell of the old order of
things was sounded again—the advent of the
new.
For smallest of the thing's desirable which
this plant will bring to Tifton is the additional
1,000 citizens promised. It will bring new
business enterprises, wholesale and retail; it
will bring increased pay rolls and increased
commercial prestige; it will bring renewed at
tention from the very claps of people outside
we moat desire to attract. But best of all. it will
bring to the country tributary to Tifton a steady
flow of cash money through twelve months of
the year, and from there new .life-blood in
every artery of trade.
The plant itself starts under the mosi’-fjT
vorab&, aURpices. Us superb i„_
sure, economy ofopcr.U-.-J^ economy
operauon profit,.
^pronts insure development. The time is pro
pitious. for prices of packing-house products
are the highest for half a century. It is
opened at a time when fhe nation and the world
need food supplies as they never needed them
before. The builders not only builded ad
visedly; they builded patriotically. Even if
the close of the war should come next year, the
plant is assured of at least three years of high
prices; enough time to put it on its feet and
prepare for the lean years and low prices that
are sure to come.
The packing business in the South is in its
infancy; the possibilities before it are almost
as vast as those of the rich agricultural section
surrounding. They are connected by the
strongest ties; go hand and hand toward a fu
ture roseate. ^
SATURDAY NIGHT.
TWENTY-THREE YEARS ON THE JOB.
Twenty-three years ago yesterday the writer
came to Tifton to work on the Gazette. The
paper at that time was edited by B. T. Allen,
now of Pearson, and was printed on a Wash
ington handpresa in the wooden building, still
Standing facing RaHrdnff"3tree1.’between Third
and Fifth.
• Nearly a quarter of a century is a long time
- - when -wv- note progress-.vbttt it- is -bpt os-a -span
when we glance back over the years. These
twenty-three years represent by far the best
years of our life and we hope the most useful.
They have brought great changes to Tifton as
to the section surrounding. Pin* trees stood
then on the site of some of the brick business
blocks on Main and Second streets, as they
stood on land which is now embraced in our
largest and richest plantations.
In retrospect, the twenty-three years seem
very short. But short as they appear, we know
that we shall not see twenty-three more of
them in harness.
An Illustration of what the opening of the
packingSdant at Tifton means was furnished
Saturday when one man was handed a check
• -for $6,000 -for hogs. Think what- it-means -to
a section when when thousands of dollars are
paid out every day in the year except Sundays
for agricultural products—not fat just a sea
son, as with cotton but hard cash money for a
by-product, every working day in'the year.
- Fine spirit that of the Macon boy, with the
Rainbow Division in France, who wrote his
parents that he does not want to come home
until the Hun is conquered. He said he grew
more bitter against the Germans every day as
he te*medmore about them and that, although
the home ties are strong, he does not want to
let up on tie job until it is finished—and fin
ished right ■ -* - ” -
When Every Day Was Wheatless Day.
How soon we forget! Forty years ago, with
the men and women pioneers who brought the
pine wilderness of Wire grass Georgia into
land of fertile plenty, such an order as that es
tablishing wheatless days would have caused
not even a ripple in the even course of every
day life—for all days were wheatless, with
rare exceptions.
When the one bale of cotton was sold in the
fall, part of it went to the purchase of a 48-
pound sack of flour. This was duly stored in
a carefully covered barrel beside the meal bar
rel, in the corner of the split-log kitchen,
first, there were hot biscuit for breakfast on
Sunday morning, with fresh butter of Satur
day's churning and sliced ham with brindled
gravy. They made Sunday something to Jook
forward to. TJHth the exception of Sunday
breakfast, we saw» no biscuit unless company
came.
came. - Even flour sacks were carefully saved
and utilized for meal sacks or even made into
work shirts.
After the Christmas holidays, when the Hour
began to get doigii toward the middle of the
sack, the careful housewife of that day began
to mix in just a little meal, to "make it go fur
ther.” As time went on. and the flour supply
grew lower, more meal was added, until when
we finally came down to corn-muffins, the dif
ference jvasn't noticable. But always a little
flour was saved to thicken bacon gravv, and for
the pies of peach and blackberry time, and
dumplings when apples came in. And we just
had to have flour for‘the cakes and pies for
Sunday school picnics anil Fourth of July bar
becues. and most certainly for dumplings and
crust for the spriifg and 1 summer crop of cluck-
en-pie. (By the way. did you ever eat chick
en-pie. made for Sunday dinner, baked in an
iron spider In an open fire-place, with corn
cob ashes-for fuel? If you dill, no use to tell
you: of you didn't, our mouth is watering- too
much to describe it.)
With so many demands, small wonder thai
ingenuity had to be devised to make 48 pound*
of flour last a small family' for a Oc
casionally. but not always, there was a trip to
toSvn by m-ne of the neighbors intlio spfrinc.
and then if enough chicwens- eggs-hides, bees
wax. deerskins, etc.. couliLJje scraped up to
provide the absolutely necesary coffee and
tobacco and leave enough to buy another sac]
of flour, we were all fixed (of tfrgffinng and
summer-ffTnid thehest-uflBrould. For
e things which we prfSddcefNrfft'B^lves
in those days we had plenty; of those wo must
i.v we had very little. .
One item of-diet, however, was sternly in
sisted upon. There must be no meatless meals.
Our forbears had supplied their tables from
the game of the forest and the stock of the
range, atpd to be without meat was a reproach
—a brand of>overty and improvidence. There
fore. while we had many wheatless day?, there
was always meat on the table—newly always
bacon.
We were great Honverizers then, but we
knew nothing of Mr. Hoover: it was stern
necessity behind us. and we got along all right
and enjoyed life just as well ami we thifik a
little better than the people of today who have
everything—and then want more. What our
neighbors the Yankees call com bread we
called egg-bread. making it, from com meal-
with seasoning and a little flour, beaten'into a
batter. Another snbtitutc. or rather relief
from the three-times-a-day corn pone, was po
tato bread. It was made from sweet po
tatoes. boiled, mashed. mad« into pones and
baked, but we confess we never cared for it.
Compared-with- puddings, pie*, -etc.. and the
juicy baked yam. potato bread looked like a
waste of good material. And the only genuine
cornbread is made of com nwl and y. ater. -
- pone-cornbread
for so many years that when we could get
biscuit every meal we became a slave to them;
so.to .speak, eating koocake uud,pwu:.(wly. with,
fish, vegetables, or those other things which are
not worth eating otherwise. But if the neces
sity comes, we can eat pone and hoecake again
and rejoice in the eating, considering it no
sacrifice—rather a privilege. Is such a change
to a more wholesome and healthful diet to be
taken into account when kindred of our civ
ilization are starving? Can we call sane diet
ing a sacrifice when wtrhave given to the cause ””
ofhuman freedom dear ones of our own flesh
and blood? Can we hesitate for a moment
at denying an appetite which is only habit for
our country’s good, when that country has its
all at stake—an all which includes our own?
Can the sons of the men and women who-
made the Wiregrass Georgia of today count it
a sacrifice to live for two days of the week and
■for -one meal a -day -for even a short time on
what is much better than the staple their fore
fathers lived, worked, and thrived on for three
meals a day for 336 days of the year?
Wheatless days a sacrifice? Out upon the
thought! Wheatless days are a blessing. They
give os the privilege of helping those who have
given so much!
“The Tifton Gazette says forty years ago in
South Georgia every day was a wheatless one.
but the man who didn't have meat every day
was almost considered an object of charity.
ThU old gentleman certainly has a remarkable
.r.emoi?” says the Savannah Press. Hold on.
Rift^who you talking about, "old” gentleman?
THE SAD
MORNlNc t
The following is told by a peregrinating
printer anent Mr. John Duncan Spencer, the
gentleman who manipulates the generator that
illumines the masthead of the Macon Tele
graph :
Once upon a time, John D. was doing the
heavy work on a scintillating Memphis mom-
ing paper. He did a little of everything as a
genuis like John can, from writing the 42-cen-
timetres to the first page lay-out. and all in be
tween. On the night of the San Francisco earth
quake, John was inspired with the spirit of
the tragedy and dashed off a cross-page scare-
head that would have startled a cab-horse. His
toul writhing with the horror of the great ca
tastrophe he followed the head with four-
deck, six-deck ShA double-deck liners that
scared the tentacles of the aorta. The story as
it came from the wires was re-written in lan
guage that made the ghost of Webster stand
up in a comer and gasp.
Just about the time he was half through,
while waiting on the wires, came a telephone
call from the Ladies’ Guild reminding him to
appear at their weekly meet that night, whore
he had promised to read a paper on “The Ear
Muff as a Suburban Developer.” The hour
had already struck and there was only time to
dash off a note to his assistant to follow up the
arthquake story when he came in. call a taxi
nd beat it for the hall where the audience
waited, with baited.breath.
Now, the assistant had been to the all-night
bank to draw out funds for the morrow's pay
day. and as he was trundling the gold, specli
and other truck along in his trust.v wheel
barrow. he was sandbaggd and looted, awaking
r into the next.day with no tecollection and
headache. n-
Meanwhile. a peevish linotype operator, as
the night grew old and weary, arriving at the
lace where the story broke off. and having
'» more copy in sight, set at the bottom of the
galley “Where in the ? ? ! ;
the balance of this stuff?" He was some
sser. that lino was. and the language he used
would have scared a river boat stevedore.
Worse, he set it in black caps, of course ex
pecting the proof-render to kill it.
Wwthe proof-reader that night VP'as a negro
sub-Sfudent at a Memphis theological college,
and he thought perhaps the cuss-words were
a part of the day’s job and let Vm oo.
,-.dd to the unfortunate -haro!’ circumstances,
kjtliejaree; an was off to bury his grandmother.
’ and a Substitute was on his job. This substi
tute was making up the paper, and he had no
time to read over and criticise matter. Con
sequence. the sheet came out next morning with
flaring headlines covering the earthquake,
with the news story cut in half on the first
column and the lino’s cusswords in black face
at its conclusion.
There was a family conference in the office
of that sheet next morning that was more in
quisith'e than a rich.uncle’s funeral. Tradi
tion says that at that time Spencer was six feet
by four and weighed 210. After the confab hi
e size fie is now and grew no more there-
also that his voice tripped while he was
trying to explain and that even to this day it
times halts in times-of stress.
A FORTUNE IN PEANUTS.
There is a fortune to be made in growing
peanuts if the grower can sell at prevailing
es and invest his money in something like
a government bond against the time when
prices decline.
That was an interesting and instructive story
in our news-columns of the crop of the Tift
county farmer, who sold the peanuts and hay
from nine acres for $209 an acre, and who sold
the peanuts and hay^from land, on- jyhich he.
had .iiatle'U 'Vo&d' cfop iif Oats tm
acre.
Peanuts do not require one-third the labor
to,cultivate anCnarrest required tty cotton, yet
how many farmers in this county made $200
nn acre from theii* cotton, crop? And from
cotton, at least fifty per cent, must usually be
'dea iictecTTor "ek p e n se.
There is a valuable lesson in Mr. Byrd's ex-
perigee tor those who do not believe there is
money in peanuts, or that peanuts are too much
trouble.
Airplnneswill be one of the contributing fac
tors toward a final decision in the great war,
and America and her flyers will do the major
part of the work, but a great deal of what is
denominated in parlace as "bull” enters into
many of the discussions of our aerial activity.
For instance, anent some of the wild discus
sion about America having 100.000 aeroplanes
in France this year. Howard M. Coffin, Chair
man of the Aircraft Production Board, shows
the futility and foolishness of such talk by the
statement that the maintenance of each arep-
plane at llie front means the employment of -petizingly.
between forty and fifty men in auxiliary
branches of the service, or an army of four
million men for 100.000 planes. This is more
than twice the total number of fighting men
Uncle Sam expects to have in France by mid
summer and is more than Germany is at pres
ent supposed to have on the Western front.
That is what the stupid guff about "smother
ing the enemy with aircraft” amounts to.
That Prussianism should make short work
of the dissatisfied element anfong the German
laboring classes was to be expected. Before
any revolution in the Central Empires can hope
for success, the army must be involved.
WELL TREATED INC
Tift county boys in Camp Whefer tell their
people on occasional visits home thw they are
well treated, that every possible .provision is
made for their comfort and thst the sick have
careful attention. But there is still a natural
feeling of uneasiness about the dear ones away,
especially when news comes of epidemics of
colds and measles, of pneumonia and
meningitis. To these we commend for com
fort the words of an .Albany mother, Mrs. W.
F. Fincher, who has five sods in the army ser
vice. She spent some time at Camp Wheeler
nursing a son who was ill with pneumonia. Of
her experience there she says:
“My boy received and is receiving the most
careful and tender care, and the same is true
of all the other aick boys in the hospital. I was
there four weeks, and was permitted to enter
all of the wards except the meningitis ward.
The conditions aj-tlfe hospital awe the best pos
sible, and I pafmot understand how such false
reports could have gotten out concerning them.
The force of nurses is sufficient, and none of
the sick soldiers are neglected or slighted in
any way. I would rather have my boy there
during his illness than at home, for he is re
ceiving better care than could be given him
at home.”
If you have a boy or other relative in camp,
take the word of a mother who has seen and
knows, and do not-be worried over the idle but
harmful gossip of the trouble maker.
.TMwn i
1 ft delayed,
I.L ’lxirtli c
"tap*:
ro-abeertivd ii
m natssd of b
:;«m i»
Of When th .
_j brain tissue it <
a and that dull. t
ache.
immediately
he itomach, rwnov* the ■
diverted food and' fooler
tie excess bile from t u '
es.
oat all the c
matter and poisons L. .
A Caacaret to-night will msreij
straighten yof out by morning.
They work while yon sleep—* 10-
box from your druggist means
your head clear, stomach sweet,
>reath right, complexion rosy and
your liver ami bowels regular for
nentiu. .* dT -
A BIG JOp.
Secretary Baker gave only a glimpse oi the
magnitude of the America-a undertaking in the
war when he stated that # it hdd b» < is necessary
to build or rebuild 600 miles of Railway in
France. That is a line almos* as long as 'rom
Tifton to Washington or to New Orleans; mqre
than three times the. distance from Tifton to
Atlanta. Think of the magnitude of (he task
of building a railroad from Tifton to Washing
ton within less time thin three months. Take
in consideration that the materials of e'
kind jriust be transported across 3,000 miles of
sea. part of the distance through the submarine
zone where every transport ship must be con
voyed. and some idea can be had of one part
of the task Uncle Sam has undertaken. Yet
the railroad is one of the absolute necessities
of *he srrv.' eetore it win ne ieaay for fighting.
There must be ‘facilities for the quick trans-
portatnn of food and munitions, of medical
supplies, and to insure the wounded quick
transition to well-equipped hospitals.
r chance, this aeaaon,
to get potash for your home mixture
guano. See Hester, at Myon Hotel
Saturday 9th. 6-42wlt
EOX SUPPER. AT CAMP C
A -box auppec will 1
Camp Creek scbocl
Everybody la urged t<
good time i» promised.
. iTnisionin A
T it* Teas* V
Hajlia ireebllii I
skSES-L ...
Ssasfisjp&ai
-n» and »Mom (alls to
SUSP!
“It is refreshing' to leave the War long
enough to remark in passing that Editor John
Herring of the Tifton Gazette, is npw an ad-1 odd and lime.
A fertiliser especially adapted ft
the production at
PEANUTS
Peanuts
thbr. He has authored a book made up of his
charming ‘Saturday Nightj sketches published
in the Gazette and giving human /nterest-tales
of Georgia life. We have not yet seen one of
the volumes, but we have Mr. Herring’s word
for it that it is off of the press and will soon be
ready for distribution,” kindly ronarks the
Quitman Free Press.
brand phosphate
high percentage of b
Writ a ,
"Go to work, or you will be stood.against f
.vail and shot ” is the equivalent of the threat
to inflict “militar.v punishment^on strikers in
.German munition plants. That is the way the
Hun treats men nvho think they have the
right to work or quit,, as they please. Yet
some working men pretend to argue that they
have no personal interest in the outcome of the
war. A few days under. German dominatioji
would teach them.
HOW THE NATION MAKES WAR.
Here-are some of tha striking points made by
Secretary Baker before the Senate Military'
■ ■hbhbksssssssbsssssss^sss
' Wewfll have 500,000 men in France early
in 1918 and we will have 1.500.000 ready to
ship to France during 1918. At this hour we
1-ave a fighting army in France, seasoned and
(ralhe'd' to the warfare.
We are in the\var to hit and to hit hard.
Our problem is not one of star playing, but of
team playing. ■ * ,
Fran-- an.! Great Britain are supplying artil
lery to the American forces, because they
themselves wished to do so. us they had an ex
cess on hand and.wish.ed to save ships for more
vital necessities.
Ships are the crux of this problem, and every
time jvc can use French industrial resources' in
stead of making and sending our own products
we are doing it.
The American Army in France, large as it
isr Hud the ArnericHn Ariiiy to be sent thffeT
large as that is. are and will be.provided with
artillery of the type they want as rapidly as
they can use it
When we went into the v/ar the (standard
of the army uniform was 75 per cent, cotton. But
now every yard is of virgin wool, with a large
increase in its strength.
Sixty million shells are under manufacture
No army ever assembled anywhere was ever
fed as ably, as well, as nutritiously and as
Pains,^
Dizzy
Spells
Mrt.Q.P.Cl
Whitwell, Tenn., »
"l suHered with bi
down pains,
dizrjr spells go! to b
that when I would start to I
walk, I would just pretty I
nearly fall. Was T»
much run-down. I k
my husband 1 thought I
Cardul would help me. .. I
He got me a bottle. . . It J
helped me so much that [
he go! me another bottle. I
I got a whole lot betti
The dizzy spelli and fl
left me entirely."
If you are wet
run-down, or suB
womanly pains,
TAKE'
Gen. Wood was recognized by common con
sent in the army as the most capable to select
camp sites and inaugurate a training camp sys
tem.
. There are things that could have hten bet
ter done, but our effort is to learn. ■
The German Army, best prepared jn the
world, furnishes an obsolete rifle for practice
until men learn.to takie care'of a better wea
pon. /
We have built in France docks, terminals,
sent over dock machinery, cranes, even piles,
warehouses at ports of disembarkation for the
storage of vast supplies needed before distribu
tion. We are taking over and are in process of
rebuilding a railroad^COO miles long from our
ports of disembarkation to our base of opera-
The Woman’s Tonic
You can feel sale In glr- .
Ing Cardid a thorough
trial, it is composed ol
mild, vegetable, medici
nal Ingredients, recog
nized by standard inedk- I
cal books for many yeat% I
as being of great valut is [
the troubles from which
only women sailer. The
enthusiastic praise d file
thousands ol women wh*
have been helped by
Cardul in its past 40 years
M successful use should
assure you of its genuine
merit, and convince you
that H* would be worth .
your while to try this I
medicine for your trow- 1
ties. All druggists sell ft
Try Canha
tion.
N