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ZEitton (Sasette • Publiabad WMkly Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia, M Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879 fno. L. Herring Editor and Manager SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Twelve Month* .... J1.50 Si* Month* 75 Cent* OuUide Third Claaa Parcel Po»t Zone, $2 a Year Payable in Advance. * 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.