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, where to find ua?” they asked the Hodff* I
Gtfton ®a3Ctte
Published Weekly \ that you would picnic on the flrat of April and |
WIPED OUT OLD PARTY LI RES.
„ _ t . One of the direct result* of the flnrtyear:. of.
~ .. -» Tlfton RmtiHi asked us to fi* up something for dinner," was! America’s participation in the great war is that
— fiSc^Sd cfaM MaUer, Act of March 3. 1879 the unconcerned reply. old party lines throughout the nation, and old
W aecoou v* __ — Williams was the teacher. The boys looked | factional lines inside the state, have been large-
(no. L. Herring ........ Editor and Manager at hjm with crestfallen faces and dropped | j y wiped 0I Jt.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: _ ' jaws. So he knew all about it. even to the place Throujrb< > ut country. Republicans who
Twelve Month* $1.50
Si* Month. .75 Cent*
The fact was so stunning that it took their ap
petites for a time,' but youth-and hunger forget
_ old scores and even the abducting six did full
Official Organ City of Tifton justice to the bounteous spread,
and Tift County. Georgia- The #un wa8 peep j nK through the tree-tops
—h-n they gathered for the hortieward walk.
DON’T PAY MONEY TO STRANGERS. Then, the teacher made the first speech of the
It has been reported to this office that certain day:
narties unknown have been soliciting subscrip- "I have enjoyed the holiday as much as any
tions to the weekly Gazette at 98 cents a year of you.” he said, "but I need tHe day
and tendering receipts in payment for same, salary, and you need the d^y in you studies;
Such parties are frauds. We employ no stran- neither can afford to lose it. So, instead of
gers and no traveling agents except those well having Saturday off, you' will tome to school
known in Tifton. Tift county and section ad- Saturday morning at seven, and tne one who
joining No one is authorized to receive avails to show up will get a licking Monday that
•ubacription to th.- Doily Gaaetle for less that! wi() long he remembered."
$5 a vear and to the Weekly Gazette for less That was a set-back, but only momentary,
than $1 50 a year, and iio subscription receipt The teacher had been clear game and, best of
from unauthorized persons will be honored at all, had furnished the dinner. So every pupil
this office People who have paid subscrip- was on hand Saturday morning, and ever after
tions to parties offering the Gazette at bargain the teacher was held in additional respect. He
prices are requested to notify this office that had won out twice—by grit and brains,
steps mav be taken to prosecute those .guilty' With the modern ways and the new stride of
' ! the twentieth century, the April first holiday
| has almost disappeared. Still, Youth is Youth
und Spring is Spring and now and then devotees
of All Fool’s Day will insist on having the one
day in the year they think belongs to themVhy
of fraud.
/ SATURDAY NIGHT.
When We April Fooled the Teacher.
Not a boy or girl was in sight when the teach- right.
morning of the first of April. That was unuBual, DO NOT EMPLOY A PENSION ATTORNEY,
for although the teacher was always there a few ; “
minutes before seven, the opening hour, there There is no necessity for employment of claim
was nearly always a game of town-ball or cat in 1 agents or attorneys for the collectu n
a few girls would be sitting on the 1 under the Y\ ar Risk Insurance Act for sailors
true Americans first have discarded partisan
ship and are loyally supporting the Administra
tion in all measures necessary to the successful
prosecution of the war. In Georgia, for more
than ten years, the Democrats were divided into
two faction^—best distinguished as the Smith
and Brown clans. But with the country at war,
these factional lines have been^scarded, if
not forgotten, and irrespective ofjfwmier faction
al alignment, all loyal Americans are putting
So, instead of their unqualified support behind the Adminis
tration. Former friendships and party align
ment count for nothing in the great issue where
the fate of the nation is at stake.
We are furnished a notable instance of this
in the letter of Hon. J. E. Mercer, in .old days
one of the firmest friends and strongest sup
porters of the Smith faction—the faction by the
way which supported Mr. Wilson in his first
for the presidency—to the Junior Senator
from Georgia, which appears below. Mr. Mer
cer is loyal to the core, and in this loyalty he
.recognizes neither former political friends nor
former political enemies. His letter is one of
the most severe arraignments of a man in politi
cal life in Georgia that we have read in many a
day. We give it publicity for its true, broad,
patriotic Americanism:
Washington. D. C.. March 30, 1918.
Senator Thomas W. Hardwick. Washington.
y be thin and unpm
scorn
*. MoooUWdJfJ. l*-U
ANOTHER RED CROSS DRIVB
The process of such
Dear Sir: I" have read your statement of the
22nd to the people of Georgia with deep con-
Ct Your attitude toward the administration,
your eontemptous personal spite against Pres
ident Wilson the past two years, has been a mat
ter of deeper concern to me. and to many others.
Apparently you are actuated in that course on
ly bv personal dislike for him. for no better rea
son than that he may not have humored your
goiam.
progress and a _ .. _ ^ .
steps chatting when he arrived. The house and soldiers' insurance.
and grounds looked deserted and lonely. ; collection., is very simple and the Bureau of
The bell was at the top of a pine pole near War Risk Insurance stands ready to render any
the door; the teacher walked up to this; un-!and all assistance required. In addition to this
wound the plowline which served for a rope the lawyers throughout the country have vol-
from the pole and gave it a pull. It parted a.untecred to give advice free of charge to dc- VJM11 ......
few feet above his head, where it had been cut pendents of soldiers and. sailors for the volley At a time when the countoF « beset with
almost in twain. The teacher was a persistent lion of war risk insurance. ) *rave dangers, when civilization and all that
man: he climbed the pole, tied the rope togeth- It came to the attention of the American Bar
er and pulled again. No sound. Up the pole Association that unscrupulous claim agents and
went the teacher: to the top this time: and sun- pension attorneys were notifying beneficiaries
drv wads of rags with which the clapper had, who have occasion to make claims under'the
been muzzled were extracted. Down he slid; i War Risk Insurance Act that they must employ
the bell pealed its summons—but no scholars counsel to be sure of obtaining insurance from
came. Back to the schoolhouse; the door was i the government. In many instances Ufcnefi-
barred on the inside. Still persistent, the ciaries have been induced to advance substan-
teacher went to one.of the side windows: with itial sums in money to these agents. Such activi-
his knife removed the putty
makes life worth living is in the balance against
the ruthlessness of the blood sotted hordes of
Central Europe, demagogues and spies alike
should not be tolerated—should be shot.
Every man in public life, as every true Amer
ican in private life, who finds himself, out of ac
cord with the spirit oNi people determined to re
sist eternally and succih^fully the powerfully
organized forces of hell ahd the Kaiser, should
resign and make his escape from the country
that will always despise him.
The co-existence of sufh recalcitrancy. and
petty spite against the C'ommander-in-Chief in
the time of war and of wholehearted patriotism
is not probable or possible.
That there are spies in this country and Pro-
Germans in high places cannot be denied and
is not doubted by any sane man.
I would not chaVge that you have actively,
supported the alien enemies evidently at work’-
in this country, but you have encouraged them.
They think better of you in Germany than
do in Georgia.
You say that any man who insinuates that you
loyal qs any other man
kin and interests in Germany who may not i_
be in full sympathy with this government in this you shiver in
war.uT r man who Has no such reason, who weA th er , if you hav«|W
has been honored and trusted by the people ut , ■/i j- ardstu
a sovereign state as you have been, far beyond , ^
your deserts, who out of petty spite,of a perso- ’ T ■_
nal nature against the President turns traitor may be thin and imr“
constantly giving comfort to the enemy is un
worthy of further confidence, or tolerance.
Your vituperative protest tries the patience
of your friends, one of whom I have been and
would be now but for your utter failure to com
prehend your duty to the Administration in
the present crisis..
You carefully avoid in your published state- been coi
ment.weak as it is vituperative, the real issue ^ , nearly fifty year*. -
in the present exigency: the absurd policy you r »r» nowers foi
advocated in Georgia last summer against the P . • lj wa rmth,
draft and the sending of, troops to Europe to creating natur y
fight the infernal Huns vJliile we had the help for charging summer Oiooq
of France, Great Britain, Russia, and Italy in
the struggle that was sure to reach our shores if
we hesitated, as I fear we have^td© long, stir
red up your friends and setttod'your political
'doom. \ - I
A rubber stamp Senator is more to be desir-,
ed and is far less dangerous in times like these!
than a ranting stickler, willing, by pertinacious!
contention, to obstruct at any cost the efforts of i floooooooo To u, krivrI in ( ampnisa
the Commander-inC’hief who has been guilty of wbifh n**in» M»r so.
no greater crime than that of being too busy to , A ,i. nU . On. Aprils.— on* of
humor your puerile vanity. 1
I am aware that it is against the regulations Jvv»r KunJ p riv* for imo.ooo.ooo,
of the civil service to take an active part in poll- whlch m,- of M*r 20.
tics, and while I am not advocating here or else- a,«rHo» ..r »i«-i*!
where the election of any candidate and have br Yvickes Wmnboldt,
no particular interest beyond your defeat, uc-; c am p*i*n Director, wall* J.
tuated onlv for the good of the state and safe*y , u , Jcrr , Jr .. Director of PubiicUy. H«-
of the country, this letter may be construed p.:< an i-rt v r.n»,n
infraction of that rule. If so make the mevd "• , ^ ln ’
it. I shall not be deterred from doing c.Wat 1 , b9
conceive-to be qjy duty and what I believe to be u-i
a greater service than I can possibly render. in , ■ _ southrm Dirt*.'
civil service position. |.... ;a. i-ct. divided mu, 13 Pi*trieta,
'As a citizen of th,e state that made the mis- >.,„i ^„. 0 fr-v U cc will i- held “
take 'of. sending you to the Senate, thus making .mb.
it possible for your littleness to obstruct and run-1 |n ^-] nr ^ ai f 0 |iuwni immcdi.trir br
der by dallying and nagging, the national pro- lhr „.. , u „ n c >t ibe Ch«mbcr of
gram in this crisis; as one in part responsible i-.ewa.m
for sending you to the Senate; as one entit.ed « ^ |he i.«»*t u n Memorial Huildin*
to the “freedom of speech" of which vou prate. in AU , Bl , „„ A|iri | s . The co D fcn»e«
and as a red-blooded American who fears t.uo.-.-w ami it.- t.o Carolina, wilt
treacherous and untrustworthy men in high
places more than heavy battalions of -a- ruthless J, llll f^ r ,- U M
foe I beg you to resign yolir high commission asj Jlw by
a last duty to a state that has been cheated all,,...mi, .
too long out of true-representation in your 8e f t i *' , ’ rl ‘7 l , . , .
in the Senate, and as the best thing you can do'
for your country, and mine, until we shall have j |. Ull „
passed the crisis of this World War that already i* uk.
nenaces our national existence.
Very truly • yours.
j J. E. Mercer.
l’ublleitr M
of all tba '
I iiol-f-t hx
SCRAWNY CALVES.
i j,icl oo iuj“i h-’ :—- life here fortv vears ago m._
rdinary liar.” That puts in th^e Ananias ; someth j nK that‘fiction cqn never reach
class m large unmber of people you have been . #ve triec | t0 select one sketch that appealed^
misrepresenting in the Senate since the death us more than'the other and concluded that they
ne of the aide windows; with itial sums in money to these agents. Such activ:
the putty surrounding one of'ties are in direct violation of the spirit of Wa
the small panes, lifted it out. and reached up j Risk Insurance Act. and are denounced as being
and removed the stick which served both to in the highest degree reprehensible and unpa-
hold up the sash during the day and hold it triotic. Therefore, the American Bar Associa-
down at night. He shoved up the sash, climbed jtion has called on its members throughout e
in. and pried loose the bar which had boen country to volunteer to offer free advice to
nailed across the door. As he opened the door beneficiaries of sailork’ and soldiers' insurance,
and stepped out. six of the larger boys caught and to send to the headquarters of the nsaocia-
j,i m tion the name of every claim agent, pension at-
These. boys were husky fellows, almost as torney or other person known to be violating
large as the teacher, who was more than a!the spirit of the War Risk Insurance Act. that
match for the. best one of them, as had been they may be dealt with.
often proved on the school athl.etic field. Like!. When the questionnaires were sent out hist
Lilliputians on Gullivfcr they swarmed, anil for I year C. W. Fulwood. as Chairman of the Tift
awhile things were lively. They only wanted. County Advisory Board, formed an orgamza-
to carry.him with them, and he didn’t want to tion which furnished free advice to registered
hurt, so knuckles, nails anil teeth were barred, men who were called on to fill out question-
For ten minutes the six had their hands full. \ naires. The organization is still intact, and
but at last numbers triumphed, and with one to Chairman. Fulwood asks any relative ojr de
each leg and two to each arm they started off pendent of a soldier or sailor who may become
down the road with him. • a beneficiary under the War Risk Insurance Act
"All right, bpys: Ml go.” He said, whenwsi*-; to call on him or on any responsible lawyer in
tance was no longer possible, and with the the county and free advice will be furnished as
teacher in the van they marched off down the'to steps.necessary to take_to secure the amount
road, over by the grave-yard. along near the of their claims. The Bureau of War Risk In- denee of y
bottom where the murderer had been hung, out snrunce has all the necessary records and the You convict yours-
two miles to Black, lake, vyhyv, .the . hone^^cess. ,*4.UStment^ «mP|o- J
suckles wore iif lilimni,'trees had their spring 1 Under the oht pension-system it was news- j )re ' a ^'
dress of green, and the/ish invited: Only a few sary to employ an. attorney to put through: D J. ,i own ,» Up where?/'Up to you? Cer-
hundred yards on the way. they overtook thy!claims. This is not necessary under the new taj ’ nly it is up to you to make the people of CJt’or-
girts and the smaller boy,v whrr joined to, make^inaurftnot-Be*. If you have a claim, ask your^ hcli.M-’g'pgTtrg^oyHif^rostwogly. -or
a procession, off for a holiday. ‘I’honie lav.-'yer. lie will tell you what to do and jiruthfuf'
It was only a two-mile walk to the lake, and charge vou nothing. The lawy
there everybody had fmi in his or her own way!
In Hoe eh F. cfiTRIIfitf.' "bbtSTCTOus; “TatMckin g - ftm ~
If everybody and his wife in Tift county
asn’t in Tifton Saturday, they did not miss it
far.
“THE HUMAN TOUCH.”
From the Wort*County Local. ... . .
We acknowledge a copy of ‘ Saturday Night
Sketches” from the pen of our neighbor Her
ring. of Tifton. We have enjoyed these
sketches in the Gazette each week, but they,
have always been but a taste when we wanted
bite, and’ having gotten the bite we now want
a full meal. One cannot read them without,
at least temporarily, stop living in- the present
dav. and go back with the writer to the days
when this section was one almost untouched b>
the hand of modern progress..His portrayal of
i-ars ago has the human touch.
W.hat make* a calf »rrawnjr—off
ta feed? Germ*'—paraaite*—in tba
nte»tine*. Why not free them of
hi*; trouble? .If you wll give the
*alf some B. A. Thoma* Stock Rem
edy in it* feed, within a week j
will see it brighten up and In to*
oV five week* you :
Colts you but a few cent* al
rill refund that if it doein’t 4
e aay.
°hillips Mercantile Co., .
Tifton.'
■; F. Bussey and Co.,
Enigma.
of Senator Bacon.
It is for vou to say whether you are patriotic
and it is your right, and duty to yourself, to en
deavor to make your friends, and erstwhile
friends who now oppose your political ambition,
bitterly und enternally. believe you loyal to the
American side of the world-wide issue between
the President and the Kaiser. Your protest of
patriotism is not convincing. Y our course de
nunciation of press and people is taken as evi-
shameless guilt.
chut y<m deny'in the
protest that “you
must be taken together for so well do they all
fit that the book would have something lacking
should one be taken from it. We know those
stories are true and can but envy the real, sim
ple life lived by sincere people.
A MOST INTERESTING COLLECTION.
for it was Spring TCfid Life was young. Over the patriotic duty,
wiregrass they romped, the girls gathered
flowers and leaves and wove garlands: a few
of the boys slipped off to a wash-hole in tltb
a.ream leading into the lake for the first swim
of the year, and some of the older ones and the
older girls fished. From his pockets the young
teacher dug out hooks and line, and wriggling
worms for bait were driven’from their refuge
in the moist earth of a bottom. Before noon,
the other fishers were somewhat chagrined to
see that the teacher had far the longest string
and the largest fiah- Noon approached and the
children’s minds turned to sundry packages, tin
pails and small- basWts, in which dinner was
always curried, and which hud been piled under
a big bay tree by the spring near, the lake.
Then, a surprise came. — r
The two Hodge girls -drove’ up in the family
bUg*rv. and wedged ilTthe li
cracker-box. covered with a cloth. The tend
boarded with the Hodge family, and he -wefl
to help the girls out. unhitched, tied and fed th
. horse, and carried the. box to the shade of the
big bay: When the girls unpacked it, there
was a lavish of picnic good things. Not the
sandwiches and salads of today, but chicken-
fried. baked and pied; cold beef, biscuits, cus
tards and pies, tea-cakes, pound-cake and many
other eatables, dear to the palate of ahildhood
and youth, ’the eyes of the boys and girls
> bulged
“How did you know we were picnicking, and
■•wuuu*. of Tift coun-j If you are not contemptuously disjoyal and
ty are giving this advice Tree to the dependents alarmingly unpatriotic you have been led by
1 hav.- made no study of your record except
of-the-s
utmd-imihys-e
mntrya
You can light this war by saving anil help
those who are doing, the rough fighting.
“WITH UNPRETENTIOUS CHARM.”
From the Thomasville Press.
The Press is in receipt of a copy of “Satur
day Night Sketches.” stories of the pioneer days
of Wiregrass Georgia by Editor Herring of the
„ re-...-.. r Tifton'Gazette. This is one of the most mter-
trioUc .as. any American who eating-mHt'Hsows -of original ahost .ateuz
li of Hit*, from PV'esiaenTWilson blnations df humor, comic and pathetic Sen
timentality it has ever been our pleasure to
read. Many of the descriptions of personality
and places arc so familiar HK those Whft-haye^^
Mgctffly’yfflT* ln-Qobth Georgia that ^
rradinK it U Uke livinit life over K >* ^
the bright side of days gone by. as well as a ^
true history of a pioneer section, and a cojiy of ^
If sh'otild be’ tn-every home m Gyoegia- -a»»U4^. w
to note from time\o tigieyoyxw-ill in guess to ob
struct the war progress afiff spiteful interference
with anything that/would strengthen the hands
of the Commander-in Chief.
It is rumored on good authority that you n
dulge in contemptuous and disrespectful, if not
libelous, language about the President in the
security of the cloak rooms of the Senate, a
shameful desecration of the precincts of honor
able association; such language you dare not
use on Georgia soil, all of which suggests the
thought that when you "return to Georgia to
ieople in person’' in'explanation of
f the high commission they placed
From the Dawson News.
The News hjis received a copy of the book of
Editof John L. Herring, of the Tifton Gazette,
entitled “Saturday Nigty Sketches." It [s one
of the- most interesting contributions to the lit
erature of the day. dealing with various phases , j„ n pr«nn’'
of the life of the pioneers of the wiregrass re-j address the peoplewpr,JV
gion of South Georgia—their habits, custom ; your abuse of the conimi.
frolics, labors,, loves and lives. It is dedicated j in youi*hands take cam they do not dn
to. the mother of the author, as follows: “To my j beware of everything as sticky as tar
mother..who, like the wiregrass pioneer, is now!looks at all like feathers. This is rough
acred memory.” In explaining the title ofj.guage ami l deplore the apparent necessity
book the author says: [its use on the grouds that asteism may not al-
'Satonlay night in the Southland is a breath-[ways be considered as full and complete rebut-
ing space .between the work of the week and! la i' 0 f course braggadocio,
the devotions of the morrow. In wiregrass Gi?or- You vehemently protest your loyalty.“to th-
ir tlia
h \
ity fT.
5 Health
^ About
11 snouiu uir 111 Citi, .---
handed down from generation to Ken era tion
that our descendants may learn from whence
they came. The book is nicely bound and sells
for $2.50 at the bdok stores, or will be furnish
ed by Mr. Herring upon application. Get. a
copy, you’ll'never regret it.
... there were frolics of all kinds-^-eandy-pull
lies, old-fashioned dances and singing schools.
>T coitfse. there was courting at all of them. On
Saturday, and on other days as well, there was
fodder-pulling, cane-grinding, cotton-picking
and* log-rolling: but they were fun because
everybody pitched in and they all had a joHy
time after the work was done.To anyone famil-
iiuvivith the old-time South this book will bring
hack a host of pleasant memories, for it gives a
\-iviri-pimrnenf thoje wonderful-days when life
was simple and people were sincere."
With unpretentious charm and in homely way
Mr. Herring brlngs'in review the old days.which
have passed away. The book will be widely
read with pleasurable interest.
ountrv” nnwTTnrt it** evident to you that the
people of tne state are loyal and wholehearted
ly with tbo-,- who ay lighting for our.liberty
and national life, from the hoys in the trenches
“up or down", to the Commartder-in-Chief.
Evident lv you rue the rashness of your wild har
angues of a vear ago when you guessed that the
people of Georgia would prove false to the
Americanism that stands today for the freedom
of the WL,r!-L - V
Y'our belated protest of loyalty will not be
taken seriously. It was a bad guess you made
then and you shall have t,o pay thepenalty with-
'oub-sympathy from a people who trusted you
four years ago.
“NOT MERELY STORIES.”
From the Early County News.
This is the title of a book just issued front Hi
Gorham Tress of Boston a$d written byEdito
J. L! Herring, of the Tifton Gazette.
The sketches were first written for the Tif
ton Gazette and struck such a chord of popular
fancy that the readers of the Gazette prevailed
upon the author to republish them in book form,
so that posterity might get a glimpse of th
simple life led by the early jgttlers of W iri
The sketches are true to life, and “to any on
familiar with the old time South fhis book wi
bring back a host of pleasant memories, for it
gives a vivid picture of those wonderful days
vheH life was simple and people were sincere.
This editor is old enough to remember repli
cas of many of the scenes anil frolics described
in this book, and we know from actual expe
rience that the pictures he has given are not
merely stories he has heard, but actual happen-
Many Ox
women sut
womanly trouble,-
been benefited by the use
o* Cardul; the woman'*
Ionic, according to letttta
we receive, similar to this
one horn Mrs. Z. V. Spell,
Al Uajrw, hi- C-. '.‘Icould.
not stand on my lee*, and
Just suflercd tenlbiy,”
she says. “As my ful
lering was u peat, and
he had tried other reme
dies. Dr. —— had us
, pt Cardul. . . I began
Iinpiuving, and it cured
me. 1 know, and my
knows, what Car
dul did lor me, lor my
nerves and health were
about gone."
TAKE
ings of which he was pari nnd parcel as he ^
grew from boyhood to manhood and watched V
the progress of his country from a wilderness of
pines and wiregrass into busy throbbing marts
° f, S^Rrice of the book is $2.50 and it can be
obtained at book stores in leading cities of the
State. We shall enjoy readingjkrfd preserving
the Saturday Night Sketches. 'They bring us
pleasant remembrances of our boyhood days.
CARDU1
The Woman’s Tonic
She writes lunhen
am In splendid health ...
can do my work. 1 leel I
owe it i^ardul.tor 1 was
In dreadlul condition.”
II you are nervous, run
down and v. cak. or sutler
Irom headache, bach-ache,
etc., every month, 'try
Cardul. Thousand* of
women praise this medi
cine lor the good It flfr
done them, and maly
physician* who Juave Used
Cardul successfully with
their women patients, lor
years, endorse this medi
cine. Thin!- rehai it meins
to be In s| .^udid health,
like Mrs. SpeiL Givi
Carilui a trial.
Ani