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success of the Third liberty Loan campaign. stay out of th e Senatorial wrangle in Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
LET MR. WILSON ALONE.
SUGAR UNDER CERTIFICATE PLAN.
Without parallel in
In the i
of decency, let our President
* When Mayhaw. Were Ripe.
Mayhaws peculiar to South Georgia, are
riperfing. Down by the creek, in the edge of
the bushes of the swamp, around the lakes,
where the still waters reflect bush and berry,
the haws are blushing, pink on white, and their
perfume heralds the first wild berry of spring.
Mayhaws come w.ith straw hats, spring suits,
lawn and gingham dresses, and spring flowers
and ribbons. They are co-incident with the
laziness that dances along the fence rows in the,
■unshine and that feeling that work isn’t worth
while after all, and nothing really matters ex
cept that fish are biting.
Mayhaws belong in that category of things
that look a great deal better than they taste.
Their white skins merging into pink and red
and the delicious odor tejnpt. but to bite one
brings disappointment. Much hcid soon blunts
the moat ambitious appetite, and after the first
half-dozen, the rest of the day’s harvest is re
legated to the preserve-kettle, where the May
haw really attains perfection in a jelly as satis
fying as it is delicious. Always, we rather
compared the Mayhaw to a pretty girl with a
•our temper.
Mayhaws were designed by a beneficent
Creator as excuses for spring picnic parties.
Sunday afternoon strolls, and picking excur
sions. Always, just within convenient walking
distance of the Wiregrass Georgia town was a
Mayhaw pond, or a stream along which they
abounded. 9 , ,
Sunday afternoon, after Sunday school, the
excursionists to the Mayhaw pond would about
take the census of the young people of the
town. Of course they went in pairs—what
was the use of going, otherwise?—with a few
•dd boys to run ahead or behind, poke envious
fun at the couples, and make general nuisances
•f themselves. Certainty, the pond was across
the creek, *nd the nearest way was over the
long railroad trestle, and you had to hold the
girl by the hand all the way across, to keep her
from falling. Who would go with a girl and
then let her fall and break an arm or neck for
‘ lack of the support of a manly hand—even
though her hand was perhaps as large and as
strong as yours, and were you not by. she could
run the length of the trestle like a young goat?
Once across the creek, a short tramp through
the wiregrass undei*;the pines, without thought
of future punishment from red-bugs, and the
haws were in sight Around the pond the haw
trees grew in • semi-circle, loaded with berries,
peeping pink *nd white from the green leaves.
Tp shake the small tree was the boys’ job,
while the girls held aprons extended and caught
whatViey could, and then together the balance
of the»fallen berries were picked from their
hidingM>laces in the grass. It didn’t matter
much how many you got, for a few was enough
for preaent eating, and only occasionally was
one provident enough to carry a supply home
for preserves. After all, gathering the haws
was only an incident of the afternoon, any way.
To sit in a shady spot on the grass and talk
after the gathering, to eat a few and throw a
few away; to compare the ripe haws with her
cheeks, greatly to the haws’ disadvantage—
these were sufficient for the afternoon, until the
lengthening shadows warned of the approach
fit night, and the homeward trip wbb made,
holding her hand while you crossed the same
long trestle—which was not half long enough,
and finally the parting at her gate, just as dusk
was railing. This was what Mayhaws were
made for, and not for anything so unnecessary
and proaaic as eating.
Those were the days before automobiles—
before there were very many buggieS—but we
got a great deal more fun out of walking. The
great majority of the hands, so warm and cling
ing near forty years ago, are cold now, and
their owners angels—but no nearer heavenly
perfection than we thought them then.
Buy W. S. S.
, That the French are willing to go three days
of the week without meat that enough may be
spared to take care of the American soldiers in
France indicates the great need for men. Before
the great drive, Secretary Baker stated that no
American was sent across until three months’
rations preceded him. But that was before the
— Hun broke through and the cry went up for
men to fill in the staggering lines. The increase
in ship-building also makes it possible to
■lightly discount the submarine menace. It has
been apparent for several weeks that men were
-given preference to supplies in transportation
across.
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After receiving his copy of “Saturday Night
Sketches,” a former Tift County boy writes:
."It is useless for me to attempt to
much I enjoyed my ropy -of ’Saturday Night
Sketches’. I took it with me-On a recent visit
to my dear old Dad, and we sat up nearly all
e Dad is one of the old-
hly appreciate
When four out of every '.five families in the Unit
ed States bought a liberty Bond in one month,
the people of the United States were brought
into closer touch with their government than
they have ever been before.
We are today a nation of bondholders. With
the close of the Thrift Stamp campaign, we will
be a nation of savers. With all its sorrow and
hardship, the war will have brought good, in
that it taught extravagant and spendthrift
America the primary lesson of economy.
The campaign was essentially educational.
Of the first and second Liberty Loan issues, the
rural population of the United States bought
less than two per cent Realizing this, and
what an immense mine.of investment lay in the
rural districts, the promoters of the Third Liber
ty Loan at the outset took measures to lay the
matter of investment before these people. And
like true Americans they responded. The first
'states to subscribe their quotas were farming
states, and throughout the nation, the farmers
were the most liberal buyers.
Not only was the loan easily oversubscribed,
but the way was prepared by which the float
ation of successive issues will be comparatively
easy. In this work of- education, the newspa
pers of the country took a leading part, but to
each citizen—banker, preacher, teacher, busi
ness or professional man, who laid down.his own
work and took up the task of doing his part to
ward helping his government to finance the war.
equal credit is due.
The Third Liberty Loan has made., all of us
better Americans.
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CURTAILING OUTPUT OF PLEASURE CARS.
A further curtailment of the output of passen
ger automobiles may be expected July 1st, if
we may judge from the following, from the
Springfield, Mass., Republiican:
If the industrial plant of this country is to be
utilized in war work as it should be. the curtail
ment of the manufacture of passenger automo
biles would seem to follow as a matter of necea -
aity. Automobile factories can be easily utiliz-
S5&2?5S£KV h '
He has troubles enough now, without adding to
hi* burdens. With the responsibility of the
great war on hia hands; with the friends of ,
human liberty throughout the civilized world
looking to him as the representative of the
country that is to save the cause of the peo
ples’ right to govern and rescue humanity from
the domination of barbarism, let the voters in
this state settle their own differences without j
appeal to the nation’s head.
We are sure that any loyal man the people
of Georgia may select will be satisfactory to.
the President If this fib-*so. let Georgia go
ahead and make that selection without constant
appeals to the White House fbr an expression
of preference. Loyal as we are to Mr. Wilson,
and anxiohs as we are to see a man sent to the
Upper House of Congress who will be in
thorough accord with him and his Administra
tion in the prosecution of the war, we think the
man who goes before the people should go on
his merits and not as the expressed choice of
the President. And we believe Mr. Wilson
shares this view.
Let us have less of this fulsome and tiresome
discussion of which and who is the Administra
tion's candidate for Senator and more of the
merits of the man or jnen who ask for the of
fice. It has degenerated to the point where it
is nauseating and only serves to further the
cause of a man who should no longer be allowed
to misrepresent this skate.
Buy W. S. S.
A woman who spent the best years of her li fe
Tifton in its early days, and one among the
strongest and sweetest womanly characters it
has ever been the privilege of the writer to
know, writes from-her home in an Eastern state
of Saturday Night Sketches: "Many of the inci
dents so graphically and gracefully described
seem so real to me. I went to Tifton in 1878,
loaf' before you came, and the primitive little
house on the lot where Mr. Pickard’s house now
stands was my home for seven years. The
walk was bordered with Cape Jessamine bush
es and I can eveti now close my; eyes and almost
ygy sLw
According to announcement from State Food tired and i
Administrator Andrew; M. Soule, after May 15 have the first i
the distribution of sugar in all quantities to '|Jj e4 jj n i n <r rtreneffc
manufacturers throughout the United States >yg | em ,
goes strictly under certificates. This is the first ;_i „
scon
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bulances, tractors - ...
ably tanks; while, of course, the airplane indus
try should be taken up by these factories with
comparative ease. It was not until the first of
this month, however, that production of passen
ger automobiles was curtailed 30 per cent for a
period ending July 1. and at only this late day
does one read that the War Industries Board
and the Fuel Administration are planning to
curtail passenger car manufacture by 75 per
cent after July 1. Such a move would be m
line with an energetic prosecution of the war
and it would have comparatively little disturb
ing effect on industry for the reason that the
plants and employes can all be used to excellent
advantage in the other lines referred to. It
would also be consistent with the policy of per
sonal economy in living expenses which the
American people should follow for a heavy cur
tailment of automobile production is to be en
forced, The amount of gasoline still consumed
in the United States for the purpose of pleasure
riding alone Is scandalous; in England it is not
permitted in any such degree.
Besides the question of fcasoline. which will
be needed in ever-increasing quantity as our ar
mies grow, the demand for motor trucks is
great deal larger than the average mind imag
ines. Besides the supply trucks, the ambulan
ces and the hundreds of other uses to which mot
or vehicles^n^applied, the artillery .the main
stay of the arnr?, demands an immense number.
We talk glibly of guns by the thousands, yet we
littje think of what must be behind the guns.
Each company of artillery has four guns.
Each gun. besides the caisson has as first equip
ment. one light and one heavy motor truck,
and behind these, a long string of trucks must
bring up ammunition, as well as supplies for
onder our supply is insufficient; to
see the thousands upon thousands in line, the
wonder is we have so many. j w
If there is anything the American public can
dispense with until the war is won. it is pleasure
automobiles. Those who already own cars,
can get along without new dnes. and economyTn
the use of gasoline for pleasure should be volun
tary .before it becomes of necessity compulsory.
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The extent of the cattle tick campaign being
waged throughout the South is little realized.
The purpose is to get the ticks as they come
from the grass, the tiny ticks hatched from eggs
laid last fall. “With the first warm days of
spring. 1. "0,000 cattle in 250 counties in the
South will have begun their fortnightly march
to the dipping vats. This is the first action in
this year’s effort to free 100,000 more square
miles of Southern territory from cattle tick and
costly tick fever. Twenty-three thousand dip
ping vats are actively in -Operation, and these
vats if placed end to end would measure 100
miles of concrete trenches to oppose the costly
army of the cattle tick. In charge of the vats
are 285 inspectors of the United States Depart
ment of Agriculture, 280 state inspectors and
1.000 county inspectors, all working in co-oper
ation. The real results, however, are achieved
through the patriotic determination of thous
ands upon thousands of cattle owners who will
ingly are driving their cattle through the dip
ping vats each fortnight. They have come to
realize how great is the' toll they have been
made to pay to the tick and are particularly
anxious to get rid of this meat-wasting parasite
soms. It was a happy time and place, and the
memory will always linger. Your book sug
gests so mjyiy things that I am sure that I am
one of the most appreciative recipients* My
best wishes to you for its very successful recep
tion—and may you get your reward. 1 ’
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In their General Presentments, the Grand Ju
rors of WortA county recommend a better en
forcement of the law requiring gasoline dealers
to keep the specific gravity of the article offer
ed for sale posted. They also recommend a re
pair gang in addition to the road-building ganij,
that the county roads may be kept in better con
dition. A very . wise suggestion, which all
counties wiuld find it economical to follow.
Buy W. S. S.
Colquitt county now has the Ellis health law
in full force and we are sure will be more than
pleased with the result of its operation.
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“FOR GOD’S SAKE, HURRY UP.”
absolute certificate order covering sugar sales;
issued under authority of the Food Control Act
The order does not apply to the sale of sugar to j
hotels, restaurants, boarding-houses or public ■
eating places. Certificates are not required in |
selling to licensed wholesalers, retailers or ba- j
kera, nor in sales to individuals or families, nor to replenish y
to unlicensed retailers not engaged in manufac- enliven its dm
turing. The manufacturers who must have cer- bade the map and «
tificates are those who manufacture candy, bev- B°^ he*Jth. ■>«>** *^ c
erages or brewage syrups.creals. sauces, gums, ™hich » 1
confectionery, preserves, condiments, syrups,. gny ( -a
extracts, ice cream, jam, jneat products, medi- - - - ■
cines, soda water,,soft drinks and catsups; also I i
soda water fountains, soft drink dispensers and |
bottlers of soft drinks. Leather tanners and j
manufacturers of non-eatable products are pro- •
hibited the use of sugar at all. I s^TuI^Tnrr holuiman
“Under this order all wholesale and retail > ' -—
grocers, and dealers in sugar in any form, are 1 *»>» u »u »n bu:
notified that they must not sell sugar after May n11 —*. Woril j. mhoi
15 to any manufacturer using sugar unless the J i>b>iUi»o>unc. * mi.ir-i -ui.urfe of Til
manufacturer in making a purchase first deliv- j Sunday aft«-rn«.n by <-u» sm»ii.
era to the dealer from whom the purchase is be- ;
ing made the necessary certificate as prescribed ,bmu n mad *>*. and ■«<
by the Food Administration. Certifi'’»tf* are U-Uuman idayrtn*j; Ho ^, m
to control each purchase made anr’ responsibit. 1 tv' i>»n rai.r~» *>»»-
ity for violation of this portion of the order rests uar ,| l hn. u *h hi* aboaidrr. Tb*-
upon the dealer making the sale. -a t.ot n..t i»rrr«arii' daai'-ro?V
“ Manufacturers are not to be precluded N- h *n, J lM ^ m -* *
from obtaining sugar under blanket' order, but j snirriNU fiwk I’EAmchks.
percentage of consumption has been place* un -r s s Monk u .hippin* -me
dcr a fixed, definite scale which doc« control.! IlM thia w**k. The Mayflower, ;
the effect of which distinctly precludes from Die a pink-cheeked rar.eiy. i.
purchase of sugar concerns irhilch entered bus-1
inesa on or after April 1. 1918. A further spe- j b, twrrn
cific clause of the order is that any concern { oraie. th..
which has exceeded its ftxecf percentage will | Bv w
not be permitted to obtain any more sugar until j
the period of time and the percentage quantity •
of sugar permitted strike a proper balance.”
It is thought this order will directly affect
hundreds of soft drink dispensing establish
ments.
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THE TIFT COUNTY WAY.
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reward* b>- and
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Monk
with Thb
Old ReUablt '
Richard H. Edmonds, in rfanufacturenT Record.
If a brute had attacked your wife and mur
dered some of your children, would you while
his hands were dripping red with blood of your
loved ones, talk peace with him?
If such a fiend wanted to discuss peace terms
with vou while still attacking your daughters,
would’ you fight, with all the power that God
gave you,to throttle the beast, or would you par-
lev back and forth and suggest that the matter
m’ight be settled on some basis which left the
rapist and murderer unpunished _and free to
take all the loot of whiefe he could rob your
h °On the battlefields of Europe, our loved ones
are hem? murdered—for remember Germany s
war is a definite war of murder and outrage—
and every electric spark which sweeps across
the Atlantic from the trenches in France will
bring an ever-increasing list of these murdered
jnenovho have gone out to save us from the at
tack of the murderer and rapist
Our Allies, who for nearly four yeara.witn
superb heroism and at a fearful cost of men. and
money t have stood between us and Hell.are call
ing to us,“For God’s s*ke. Hurry up.” ere it be
-erlastingly too late.
But we talk about peace, when there is no
possible peace except the peace of death to us.
of death to Germany’s hell-begotten power.
Some men and women do not yet comprehend
the meaning of this war. some are pro-Germans,
some are German spies, some are cowards who
disgrace the mothers who gave them birth, ana
ome are simply plain everyday fools who should
go out and root and live with the swine of the
field until the appointed time to be killed for the
good of man-kind.
Peace! There can be no peace Jietween Hea-
en and Hell, between God and Satan!
Peace with the unrepented, unhung, rapists
and murderers! . . . , ,
Peace with the vilest criminals who ever
blackened the records of man’s history!
Peace with the outrager of your wife and
daughter as you look on!
Peace with the cold-blooded butchers who
murder your beloved son and the sons of
millions and millions of others!
I. there anything on earth aoi craven, so bereft
of soul that it would claim to be a man and yet
be willing to parley with these acdureed murder
ers and worse, led by “William the accursed?”
"Is life so dear or so sweet that we are will
ing' to 'permit any word of peace to be uttered
aigfet reading il
Buf W. S.
“With a voice full of individuality and of un
usual quality,” wrote an enthusiastic onlooker
at a Florida wedding of the male soloist From
which we deduce that said m. s. is an expert
mixer of hia own drinks.
Thursday morning, the total individual sub-j
scriptions to the Third Liberty Loan in Tift
county had passed 1.000. What this means can ]
be understood when it is known that the total i
voters’ registration for the county is 1,763.
Thus, it will be seen that there are few |
homes in Tift county without a Liberty Bond, j
While tlte exact figures are not to hand, and will
not be for some time to come, we do not believe
there is a county-in the state, or perhaps in the
South, that will show a larger per centage of
purchasers. Tift county’s allotment was large
in proportion to its population, and the number
of homes itr which bonds hav^ been bought is
not only a testimonial to the patriotism of the
people, but also to the thoroughness of tjjg can
vass.
The good results are not measured alone by
the bond sales. The campaign has been an ed
ucational one, ajid the people of the county are
better informed as to the war and are more
thoroughly*aroused to the necessity for prompt
action on the part of America and a more
thorough organization of our resources than
they have been sjnee war was declared. The
part Tift county has taken in war work was well
presented by Chairman Hendry, of the Third Li
berty Loan Committee, at the auditorium Satur
day night, when he called attention to these
facts:
When the call for volunteers came, the enlist
ments from Tift county were larger in propor
tion to population than from any ottier county
in the state.
Tift county led the state in the proportion of
Food Conservation pledge cards.
Tift county reported the first complete or
ganization for the Thrift Stamp campaign.
And now Tift is going over the top with a sale
of Liberty Bonds approaching 100 per cent.
Not boasting, of course, but that is Tift coun
ty’s way.
IMPROVED BREEDS OF HOGS.
Iancock*
SulphurCompound I
Worni
Thousands of vt
letters Irom worn
log of the good Carts* |
has done them. TWi la j
the best prool of the tains |
of Cardul. It prove* that j
Cardul is a good medldna I
: There are no hannMer J
habit - forming i
Cardul. It It c
only of mild. ■
Ingredients, with so bad j
TAKE
A close observer who noted from time to time
the carloads of hogs unloaded at the Tiifton
packing plant, remarked that nearly every- one
of them was a blooded hog—rarely, very rarely,
was a pine.v-woo(|8 rooter seen among them.
Which is evidence that the scrub hoz hns
passed. If there were any left, they would be in
evidence at the packing plant, for they are the
kind an owner would want to sell—provided, of
course, he could get them large enough to put
on the market.
Anothef significant fact is that so many of th?
hogs shipped here come from the sections of
Alabama visited by the boll weevil a few years
ago. Hundreds of carloads have moved to
Georgia packer's from, sections that four years
ago produced nothjng for sale except cotion.
Troof that the boll weevil is not an unglixed
affliction.
Already, although in operation only three
months, the Tifton packing plant Ijas paid in
CARDI
The Woman’s Tonic
You can rely oi
Surely It will do
ing to permu . . . . cash over half a million dollars for hogs and cat-
until we have throttled the demon-andTougnt ^ Next ,, easQn- jg to say that this plant
him to a finish? And then, when he tries lor j,, „ „iiimn onH a h<
mercy, let there be no mercy except such as he
gave to Belgium and Frrnro. no mercy except
me-cy to all civilization for all the centuries to
come, expressed through the gallows as these
foul blots on mankind, the Kaiser and all his
associates, pay the just penalty for their un
speakable sins.
will pay out a million and a half dollars for
stock. Which gives some idea of the cash mon
ey it will turn out in TjpMl for a product that
has been regarded as a marketable asset here
for less than three years. •-
Buy W. S. S.