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ZEitton (Sasette
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Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
M Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879
fno. L. Herring Editor and Manager
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* Official Organ City of Tifton
" and Tift County, Georgia-
SATURDAY NIGHT-
THE DANGER AT OUR DOOR
Tbe Valentine of the Old Day*.
The Valentine belongs with youth; with un
tarnished ideals; with optimism and aspira-.
tion: with the warm, -unselfish love of the-
young.
The Valentine of memory was not the Ctnsel
and lace-paper of commerce; nor yet the bla
tant monstrosity so-called comic. It was home
made, it was individual; breathing a personality
as sweet as the February violets; as pure as
the dews of eve. and ns sacred as the echo of
a cherubim's chorus, singing hosannahs on
Easter morn. It breathed -blushing timidity,
a )>dlf-reluetant. modest sacrifice on Cupid’s,
altar. . , .
The Valentine you remember came as a joyful
shock. You and the other school-boys had
been out at play during morning recess; She
■with the other girls remaining ns usual in the
achpol-houso. When you came in, picked up
your book and turned to your lesson, there it
- nestled between the pages, driving all ideas of
arithmetic, reading or orthography from your
mind for the time being.
* It was a work of patience and at the same
time a work of art. A composite of papers of
many colors—blue for true, red for fave; per
haps green for spring and yeljow^for jealousy.
and white for purity. These papers had been
aliced with scissors and carefully plaited,
showing the colors alternating, then folded in
.the shape of a heart. Ordinary boy mind
never realized how it was done and the »y
tery of construction added to its attractive
ness. It was scented with sweet Basil, rose
mary. deer-tongue and jessamine, attesting that
it had reposed for weeks among Her treasures.
On the stem of the heart was—oh. words of
depth and precious meaning:
"If you love me ns I love you;
No knife c«> cut our love In twoj
DM you read-it and gloat^^rfflT did. You
read It onc^t^jaittfnS^ozentimes, and at each
sweeter. Did you know who
~ggve it? You did. Had any doubt lingered
the absorbed way in which her face was buried
In her book when you glanced across the room.
. while the tips of her ears were red and even
the pig-tail plaits of Air hanging down her
bcok quivering nervously, gave her away.
For the balance of that day. you wrestled
with the Muse. At noon, hastily swallowing
the contents of the tin bucket, you-slipped away
from your usual playmates, and hid behind
the friendly shelter of a big clay-root, sprawled
on the grass, with pencil and paper wooed the
goddess of poesy—so called.. When the bell
called you back to books, there was J'«le study
but much composition, and at afternoon recess,
back to the protection of the clay-root again.
The old stand-bys were all D-ied, rejected, and
brought back into service, because you could
find nothing better:
"The rose is red. the violet’s blue;
Sugar's sweet, and so. ate you;"
Then, again:
“As sure as the melon grows on the vine
You are my darling Valentine.’’
more spirited:
"Harder than thunder can bump a stump
Do I love you. my sweet sugar-lump.”
AH these, and many more, in boyish scrawl,
ornamented With' ptt?rced~ham dripptng-rcd
ink blood; you wrote and re-wrote, knowing all
the time that none were good enough for her.
The throes of composition over, the worst
part of the job came—getting the work into
iier -hands. Ipipatiently you Waited ^until
- school was out, and then walked half a mile
W«t of ybur way to go part of the route home
with Her. Her brothers and sisters were a-
long, and She plainly flouted you. The boys
took all your time and the other girls teased
you, but before the final parting of the ways
. came, you first stole her bonnet and ran; then
under pretense of returning it. slipped your
wad of compositions inside—and then really-
made for home, as fast as your legs anil bare
feet eould carry_you.
Did She read it, and did She like it? She
never told- ~ But today, whenthtrstm of many
summers have shriveled .your heart and the
frosts of many winters have tinged your hair,
there is still a warm place on Valentina’s Day
* for the joyous-hearted old Saint and his Bullions
of devotees. 70
Editor Tifton Gazette:
To you, whose patriotism rings clear as a
bell. I doff my hat; stand at "present.”
If the press of all the states is as loyal to the
administration, which means true to America,
os arc the papers I read from Georgia there is
reason for thanksgiving.
Every day's developments emphasize the im
portance of universal loyalty and unity of pur
pose in this country.
The. menace of the submaribes or of the Ger
man armies is not more dangerous than the
spies, the pro-Germans and the slackers in
every state and every section, and whose con
trol and suppression largely depends on
loyal and courageous press.. To assume that
there is no menace of the kind is worse than
folly. ’
In the heart of heroic France the German
spy system made great headway, involving
high officials and a general in the army. If such
a condition is possible there where the cannon’s
roar is incessant and the face of the earth is
pock-marked b.v bursting shells, what of the
hazard in this land of carefare, unsuspecting
people, three thousand miles wrom the fields
of carnage? The infernal agents of the Kaiser
andVlcrman sympathizers may indeed enjoy
writable picnic, and are. undoubtedly, en
gineering a great campaign. Inciting strikes
through the I. W. W.. directing bomb plots
through hired anarchists, procuring sabotage
through slackers willing to do anything but
work for money, and. by far most important,
creating a disloyal sentiment through pro-Ger
man politicians who play up the horrors of war
as against patriotism and duty; who appeal to
the weaknesses in human nature and play upon
the ignorance and cowardice of which they
imngine their constituencies possessed.
Tell your readers the truth every issue of
your paper, as you have .done so well, that
every man in your county and section may
know. Informed, they will all be loyal and
brave. Spies will have to hide out. sabotage
can not exist, and demagogues will-go out of
business, out of office.
There is a difference in the community in
which a paper like the Gazette i* published and
the communitv afflicted with a mealy-mouthed
apology and half-hearted support of the gov
ernment when the country is at war with *
dangerous foe. Sincerely. J. E. (Wercer.
PROFITEERS WITHOUT PATRIOTISM.
The profiteers are playihg a contemptible and
a dangeroufi game- The people are becoming
aroused to the stern necessity of war and they
will noTmuch logger stand for traitorous phi
landering.
All over the country, government speakers
are pleading for volunteers for shipbuilding
and nearly every newspaper la echoing v-
plea. Yet in a few of the Eastern shipyards,
work was practically suspended that strikers
might rtiake their grievances manifest.
The lives of our soldiers across the water
depend on shipping, for transportation for
food and supplies. The success of the. war,
and incident thereto the ii/e^f our nation,
depends on more shipping for the transporta
tion of more soldiers across. The only way so
far discovered to combat German ruthlessness,
as illustrated by the submarines. Is by bliilding
more ships.
In the face of these things, while every pa-
•iotic nerve in the country is keyed like the
strings of a violin to increased production and
maximum of efficiency, these men threatened
to walk out and tie up almost the entire ship
building industry on the Atlantic coast.
Because there was more patriotism in the
ranks of organized labor than these men cal
culated on. they mended thir ways before it
was necessary for the government to conscript
them into service and work them under guard.
It is well, but ‘hey cut a very poor figure be
fore the country at large.
Last year. Congress fixed the price of wheat
at $2.20 a bushel, the highest the country had
previously known, except -for a few days of
wildcat speculation.
Now we are told that .the wheat growers are
not satisfied, and in th^ face of the nation’!
crisis may reduce their spring acreage unless
Congress raises the price.
They have grown wheat profitably at
cents and want to hold the country up for three
times that figure.
Ail*over the country, patriotic families are
TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE EATING.
Ignorance is not always bliaa, especially
when applied to things taken into the stom
ach. Still, the average citizen is fairly con
tent with what he eats and doesn’t care much
what happened to it before it reached the table,
just so he didn’t see it, until an internal revolt
brings realization that more precautions should
be taken.
The fanner who raises his own meat kills
his hogs Without question, butchers them with
only the most cursory examination, sends the
meat to his smokehouse and from there into the
midst of his family- Should he be thrifty
enough to have a surplus he divides that with
his local merchant or his less fortunate neigh
bors. L>ttle or nothing is thought of disease
that may be lurking in the animals and prac
tically no precaution is taken against it.
If the man who butchera--his own meat will
•isit a packing plant whRe it is in operation he
will have his eyes opened. Every hog goes
through a rigid iis^bection and the on-looker is
astonished at the Dumber condemned. Once
condemned, no portion of that hog finds its way
to the table and later to the stomach in any
form.. It goes to the fertilizer plant instanter,
where it is double-distilled, baked and ground
into dust.
When the Tifton plant started up the fourth
hog to pass in front of the sticker’s knife was
condemned. Had that hog been butchered at
home the chances are more than 100 to i thai
it would have been converted into ba^on and
probably the family would have partaken of
the fresh meat, even of the effected puls, while
they were comparatively green. Wfeo ‘knows
how much disease or how many sudden attack
of sickness are due to unwittingly eati>e dis
eased meat? •
One thing must be said for the packing
plants. While they have odors peculiarly
their own’, they are scrupulously clean and
thoroughly sanitary; the government requires | the nb.-
it and has men there to see that its requirements j* *.
enforced, even <Jid not the management de- _
• - " —
They took a real Burley tobact»«mw|
In this country; to—fit tc — yw» w™
to«*t bread; moiaened »» repU-Aa
natural motature driven aft by fc
made It Into d*w *
-LUCKY STRIKE,*
and offered them to t
Tbe remit has been thagr—teetde
ever created for any tobi
length— time.
The change produced by Wdkg ieaot
only moat wholesome, but the lew k
greatly improved, juatuconktogimprov—
meat, fora
BILL OF EXCEPTIONS.
tobacco product la a i
Filed and Paulk Caw Corn'to Sup
reme Court.
Attorneys representing James and
Arthur Paulk filed a bill of excep
tions in Tift Superior Court Monday
afternoon to the ruling of Judge R.
•e. of the Tifton Circuit, in which
over-ruled the motion for a new •
iat. The papers will be-folk
•la tilt .Supreme Tonrt far *,1
The Paulk* were tried a
■r ter* of Tift Superior Court-asd 1
nvictnd of the kilting of Wiley
Mnthevs. They were r itenced to j
life iotprisodment. This -vaa the ^
.d trial, the first resulting in a $
mistrial. -
A motion for new trial la-mad# on J
the ground* tha Judge Eve refused w
to continue the case on account «
i witness.
the judge’* charge t®"3
the bowels become I
A PATRIOTIC EXAMPLE.
An example of patriotic loyalty 'iaj’ostmaster
P. B. Ford, of Sylvester. Although ~hi» -call
ing exempted him from Selective Draft \apd '■h :
had a brother already serving^...‘rtie army, he
waived cxen-ptign-MSild nas been placyd in Class
I. Anfttbr.tf^brother made no claim to exemp-
, 'and is in the same class. Their mother.
Mrs. Rowena Ford, will soon have three sons
in service. Such patriotism is • refreshing to
read about- Those boys came of good stock.
Their father. Wm. J. Ford, was an upright and
observing wheatless days and wheatless meals. Isire.cljtaiiUr.aeS and 'healthtbrfnivrJfsf TTfSTui
'denying* themselves that there may -C'Todui all. . longer thi. condition exist# __
for our Allies and for our soldiejp-^in ranks. The man who but, hers his own hogs shpuld iW oric you feel. Yon can pet rid of
Yet we are told Up* | 3 f a.iinewta fanners are] visit the packing plant? and watch the govfern- j bSo«E? »n^lprfagto
feeding wheai_tn ''iheir hogs because at presentiment inspectors; he will learh something thntjt, e j and see how fine you-feel next
•s#*\1fSy- cannot afford to selMt and buy | may save the lives of some of his family. ll e day. Price 50c. Sold _by Congw
ill also learn one reason why there is quite a. Dru * °°
prices
om.
adv.
Nine out of ten of the soldier boys in camp
want to go to France at the earliest possible,
moment. No matter how.much reluctance they
might have shown at first, they have caught
. the apirit now and are anxious to get where
there is something doing. And that is the right
ipirit: when a man enters a profession, he
night to want to get all there is to be had out
f,it and the aoldiers’ profession is fighting;
> Is neither honor nor promotion in the
r camps.
------ ... ... necessary labor, commandeer the grain fields of county is only a part of his work as Georgia'
[h"p” m r.^i‘e hi, city ,h, Wei »n,l .heir c-ipm™. : el»t jn-l .choolI ».»l. .it i. S iy„ificanH„ a m.iht*
and county. Tl^e boys are proving worthy
sons of their sire.
‘The boll weevil was not a blessing in dis
guise to our section,” said Mr. Green, of
Blakely. Saturday. “There was. no disguise
bout it. .We have been two years recovering
from the invasion, which caught us unprepared,
but now 6ur lands are worth more than they
-re ever worth, and we are making more
money growing peanuts and selling hogs than
ever dreamed of making raising cotton.”
Mr. Green had brought over q carload of hogs
for the packing plant and carried Ih.e money
back in his pocket.
SATURDAY NIGHT SKETCHES.
From the Macon Telegraph.
There i.A no more graceful and convincing
pen in G'ew'glft'Than" that trf ~John I.-tHerring.
-editor-of .ine.Tifton Gazette, .and no man in
Georgia has kept himself more closely inform
ed into the life and times about him. If we
were.to christen the editor who gets out the best
daily in the world for the size town it is pub
lished m. who writes about two columns of edi
torial comment in it every day of the sort that
reads like the exposition of condensed pec j a i j,
•mfpnwBytr'anrHmmAy-m ewpwsilioivew «H wnA-lf;?”: ■;
ters thaT distinguishes the work of the boaro
of editors of the New York World than the one
man effort of a country editor in Georgia, we
would hail him as the Prose Laureate of the
Wiregrass, if such a personage there might be.
For he knows South Georgia, does John Her
ring. and he writes of it steadily and contin
uously and interestingly as no other man has
been able to do; no light praise when one runs
over a few of the men whose love for that sec
tion and geinus in expression of its qualities
have made it great.
So that is was with something of thrill or
pleasure that we picked up Brother Herring’s
book “Saturday Night Sketches.” just off the
Gorham Press and already on sale at Burke’s
in Macon and soon to appear in other book
stores. In this Brother John has ’expressed,
gathered, collected and edited a number of
stories, experiences and delightfully intimate
people who in early days of South Georgia
wrought and lived to the fashioning of the in
land empire in itself we know today. The style
of. narration is most delightful, the subject mat
ter chosen wjth almost uncanny sureness and
the pictures drawn with a whimsical fidelity
that will make this work to the Wigrerass of
Georgia, and a large portion of the Southeast,
what Washington Irving’s Sketchbook came to
mean to the Catskill country of New York.
In writffig it Mr. Hermig has undoubtedly af
forded himself a great deal of pleasure! be
cause, a writing man finds his fun in the easy
bypaths, cf-his handiwork, where his readers,
too. generally find him in his most delightful
vein, but in addition he has written a work that
is of great vftlne in the contemporaneous his-
torv of a state, the early development of which
is becoming of .more and more interest to
American historians. ^ - •
°We do not believe that either of these things' difference in the pripe of hog meat on the hoof tifton man would rather
would be doneSwe believe both are miserable and hog meat in the retail- stores. The* con- fight than work.
attempts at bluffsNncited in part by avarice denied hogs add to *he cost of the finished|
and in part by a pro-Germnn propaganda. e - product. / j 'ja#t hau-.l for anyone t
believe that, when it comes to a show down., to me. I woulJ rather fltrht. Sine*
growers will be glad to produce wheat at am MORE GLORY FOR TIFT'S SCHOOLS. ,taking a rouree of Mayr's Wonder-
assurance Of $2.20 a bushel. ful Remedy I actually want to work.
If not, the government should conscript the j While ft-of. M. L. Duggan's visit Jo T^ft .»nd talk about eat. I i
s The
the table
harmless preparation
ov ...... , - - - Li '“*".*'* catarrhal mucus
country needs, and bring them to nar- n f wa ys. It means added prestige to the Jural thp int „ tin „i ^,-1 and allay*
j , ' 'schools in Tift, if such can be gained. f or the. inflammation which
The government has calle'd out the young fam< . of oul - rura i school system is already eaUjr all stomach,
life-blood of the coun^ft- to-its sendee. Whether , na tion-wide.
or not they wanted to go. its young men are in Prof D UgKa n is to spend Two weeks here. I
camps or getting ready for camps. making a complete survey of Tift's rural (
Because it needed them. Jhe railroads have ; Sl . hoo ,,. He will visit each of the country
been taken ovefeand are being operated under j , c hools. and will examine the grounds, build- j
government direction. ings. etc., and also will examine the pupils to.
The young manhood of this country is m orc - SC ert a ig their jyoficiency in their studics.'When j
precious than the workers in the government I , he work j* completed, a p amphlet is going to
shipyards; wheat is just as vital to the successL published for distribution in the county,
of the war as railroad operation. . jjft countians have no doubt but what the sur-j
Those men who put the dollar above loyalty vey >v j|j s how still further how Tift leads Geor-■
to their countrv should be taught that they are K j a j n educational matters
'* * Heretofore the standard for judging schools
has been based o n the results of investigations
among Northern educational institutions. As a
result of Prof. D u RK an ’ s work, it is understood
Thai a..n^w standard—a Georgia standard-
T\TH T>e 'jfiTb'T^ed arrrd 1t is -probable That Jh*
Fork "of the Tift county schools will be taken
s a standard.
Tift countians have just tauieja be proud
bf Their rural ftehool~sy-^-«mr mid <h*e-sMrv*y-.
should show an even ^l*7f cause for pride
in our schools.
playing with fire over the mouth of a powder-
mine.
The government cannot afford to make fl^sh
of one citizen and fowl of another.
OUR SOLDIERS' 1f>l FRANCE
In view of recent statements in the Senate
that our soldiers wercraent across the water
poorly clothed and equipped, the following ex
tract froni a letter reciVed yesterday is of es-
interest. I‘ was written January 27th.
.LeforeTfic wriKFTiacT"any meads t>f kuuwlng -
That Senator Chamberlain and his associate*
would erupt.
Writing from “Somewhere in France."
Gerald Herring says: “f am well and happy
and getting plenty to eat. I have all the clothes
I can carry: two suits, an overcoat, two sweat
ers—one army issued sweater and a Red Crdss
sweater—and four blankets, three army and
one Red Cross! So you see we soldiers are not
quite so bad off as some of those pessimists at
home try to make out we are."
‘ SEND IN SOLDIERS’ NAMES.
There are now more .than 100 names on the
Tift County.Honor Roll as published in the
Gazette. While this is a fine showing for Tift
county, this number does not include all of the
fxpresarens-of -the conditions.-atmosphere and Tift county boys now with the colors. Some
few names have been sent in since the list
was published, and there are many othen.
whose names have not been supplied. If y
know someone with the colors, fill out the
blank*, which is publishd in the Gazette, ana
send it in. Do not send in the blank unless
you can give the young man’s address and the
name and address of his nearest relative in
this section- Send in the names at once as the
Gazette is anxious to get the honor roll com
pleted.
News from those recognized authorities. Edi
tor McIntosh, of the Albany Herald, and City
Editor Hawk, of the Vadosta Times, that the
fish are ripe for the harvest, inclines us to dig
bait and overhaul last year’s tackle.
OUR CONGRATULATIONS, MR. HERRING.
From the Wavcro*s Journal-Herald-.
Mr. John .L. Herring just celebrated his
twenty-fifth anniversary as editor of the Tifton
Gazette ‘and still John is a young man.)
For a quarter of a century the Tifton Gazette
has been one of the powers back of the grow
th of this seotion. Conservative in thought
tnough progressive in action, the Gazette has
day in day out. week in and week out and
year in and year out. continuously and ever
lastingly hammered {'away proclaiming and
developing the resources of this section. Tiftop
people do not realize it. but it is a fact never
theless that John Herring and his Gazette haye
done more effective work in building Tifton
and developing Tift coupKThan any other forte
that has been at work.
The' Journal - Herald ^congratulates Editor
Herring, and - the people oLXift -county- upon
the 25th milestone of the Gazette. May Editor
Herring and the Gazette both live many many'
more years and continue the good work
long carried on.
Tie Woman’s Tonic
“ 1 took lour bottle*,"
ONE OF THE FOREMOST FACTORS.
From the Adel News. /
Editor John L. Herring has be^n .publishing
the Tifton Gazette for*twenty-five years and
Mr. Herring and the Gazette have been the
foremost factors in the building of a beautiful
little cit.v. And this gifted editor has beer
hacked Bv a strong and liberal constituency,
men who have stood bv him and by the town
We congratulate Mr. Herring and the Gazette.
The good that they Jiave jjjamight for this see-
tion cannot be put in colatvpe. It can but be
gratifying to the editor of the Gazette that his
efforts are appreciated by home pople.