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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