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< at the Postoffice *t Tifton. Georgia.
k Second Class Matter, Act of March » t 1879
•fco. L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia-
WHY FOCH HESITATES.
' In reports from British sources, beginning
Vtth the ill-chosen Waterloo wail of Gen. Mau
rice, there is an underlying note of "impatience
that the Commander-in-Chief has not rushed
all his reserves to the support of the staggering
lines around Ypres. A portion of this impa
tience has been shared by the American public,
taught by successive news dispatches to expect
an Allied counter-offensive that would crush in
the exposed Teuton flanks, and send the enemy
hack, as was done at the Marne.
Great battles seldom repeat themselves. The
Marne was a master-stroke; the same stroke
could not be made again in the same way. for
the element of surprise would be lacking.
There would have been a counter-attack by the
Allies had they possessed the necessary reserve
force or had it promised success. That it was
not made may be due to either, or. which is per
haps nearest the truth, a little to both.
British criticism of Foch was to be expected.
For more than a year, despite American prea-
The man of military age, without dependen
cies, who does not now engage in some branch
of service to aid his country, will regret it in af
ter years.
The time is coming when those who have act-
fd tiff Slacker’s part will be ashamed in every
gathering of men of their kind. They will find
themselves without influence in politics and
without weight in their communities, no matter
what may be the aggregate of their earthly
possessions.
Never in history has such a crisis confronted
the civilized world. Never since America has
jfaue for a supreme command, the British refubv h een a republic has the peoples’ right to gov-
' S u ... until iftdP thp rflHflBtpr at St -- | : _ L T» tb. m.n
It was not until after the disaster at St
Quentin laid bare the imminent danger of des
truction to the British armies that Britain yield
ed, and then it was more than two weeks after
we had been led to believe that Foch’s author
ity was supreme before he was actually given
the title of Commander-in-Chief. After halt
ing so long and yielding only under dire necess
ity, it was to be expected that there would- be
British criticism of the general head, for Bri
tons want no one except Britons toy command
their armies. And it must be admitted that
the pressure on the British lines has been great
and the slaughter tremendous; no wonder aid
was naked and anxiously awaited.
It is plain that help has been sent the British,
if not in sufficient number to stem the German
ttde, for it was French veterans of Verdun that
stood to the latft on Kemmel hill and fell to a
«i with the fortress, while American troops
k are reported at three places on the British front.
If some men were sent, why has not Foch hurl-
fid into Hie battle the reserve army which we
* have bee* told is at his command? Without
Arguing whether this reserve army actually ex-
' iris or is largely mythical, to discuss the reason
wkjr it cannot be used in Flandi
(«f this article.
I The British armies face nearly east, the left
f flank resting on the Channel at Nieuport, rhe
' right swinging westward from the sharp aslient
* at Arras, to Amiens. Before them ia the con-
eentrated strength of the Teutonic powers; be-
lind them the sea. The atrip of land on which
they rest varies from about thirty to 150 miles
in width. Except between Nieuport and Calais,
ft is narrowest at Amiens, and there is where the
danger Uea.
It is predicted that the enemy will strike the
next blow at-Arras and this is probably correct,
for Arras forms s deep salient into the enemy
front and remains a constant menace to his flank
should he attempt an advance. But whether
Arras falls or withstands the attack, inevitably,
aaaoer or later, the Teutons will strike at
na, for there is the key to the situation,
at the map and you will see that nearly all
principal railway lines from the Channel
onverge at Amiens. From that city the
Muse, reinforced by half a dozen tribu-
flowB widely to the sea, leas than fifty
■ilea away—a very deairgble line/for defense,
it a fearful obstacle to a retreating army.' At
e mouth of the Somme ia Abbeville, and s sin
gle railway comes down the coast from the up
per Channel ports, and runs southward and east
As Paris. —
The enemy is now within nine miles of Amiens
H. by one of those concentrations of men and ar-
tiUery for which the Teuton ia famous, with s
sudden onslaught, that point can be won, the
British armies to the north and the French ar-
mies ts the south will be cut apart. Undoubted
ly, that is the purpose of the German General
irith its objective the destruction of the
army. Then, indeed, would Haig’s men
fie fighting “wi th their backs to the wall," and
that wall the sea. The Teutonic armies are
vastly superior to the British in numbers, and
•■ce a wedge ia thrust between the Allied ar-
gsiea, it would be a simple piece of Hindenburg
rirategy to leave enough force to hold the
n check and then drive with the
of his millions against the British,
result ia unmistakable—while the British
Id light aa Britons have fought for six cen-
while they would exact fearful toll from
imy, they would be pressed back, slowly
surely, to the sea.
I would then be a question of how much of
e« Haig could save. The single railway
Abbeville and the transport fleet would
only avenues of escape. To move an ar-
millions, with its cannon, supplies, and
chain of impedimenta, ia not a matter of
imi of moaths ; it a cot a matter
rose to when the great
In such an emergency^pimbers would be a
handicap, and were thwTrench reserve army
sent to the help of tha^ritiah and caught with
them between the (gprmaiin and the Bea, the
cause of the Allies inEurope would be lost, for
the die would havg been cast; all hazarded
upon one venture.
We have been dlMuSaing contingencies. The
Germans have been stopped at Amiens and we
believe will be held there. They have been
checked at Arras and HazebroiMk and we be
lieve will be held at one point or the other
until the Americans arrive in sufficient numbers
to turn the scale. But we have tried to show
why, in refusing to send his reserves north of
the Somme, Gen. Foch has acted with a strate
gic wisdom that promises much for the Allied
armies under his directon.
MISSING AN OPPORTUNITY.
M®s Emma R. Sutton
Editor
TyTy Department
TY TY, ^
GEORGIA 1
Dr. PXtnjan spent Saturday
day with hia family. He looks
°* if * nn >a htxhly becom-
w. a
ra. B. R- Piekatt. Sin
Urn M.Daird. Mrs. J. A Lyla and
SI» 8nnu»rr went to Sylvester Si
urday afternoon to attend tbe funeral
” . G. V ‘“’t-on.
larar Boxcman waa running the tele
phone Bt-haute the Brat of tO-»eek,
Mra. Uiwo. the operator ia c ha rye. Kar
in* toaaonaahort riait to Milan.
From erery aource cornea the com-
plaint W-* lark of hand*. Farmer* an
tettint anxioua. mill, an cioaint down,
and other Industrie* an threatened. This
need wsald be relieved, in a iarxr
measure if the aetni-Ioafera. who iliac
mia> baa* r*«ranla. wonld pot
daya wark each week.
Bay w. 3. 8.
Some of the farmera are juat Bniahint
plan tin* for the third time- The Brat
plantiuf waa deatroyed by cold and the
aceond kf flood
Some of our plant grower
order! horn Florida. Th>* ii
in* coah to Newcastle."
Ue ia Ma fortunate than .a
neighbor*, her waata n
Th« City Connell haa been baay
eek, panning unitary ordinance*, being
interviewed by contractor!, and occupy
ing themselves with other matter* of im
portance. Tbe elertv.c light plant will
be begun almunt immediately, other ii
t rovements to follow very toon.
"The Kaieer. tbe Beaat af Berlin" i
mo« emptied Ty Ty of inhabitant* on t:
afternoon! and evening, when it w
shown in Tifton. It can hardly be aa
ol I bone who uw it that they we
“plraarabut. nevertheless all of them
thought it wa> a greet play.
Mia. R. K Pickett baa been viaiting
bee daughter. Min Imuiae Pickett, thia
week at Heoaie Tift College, Foraytb.
Mr. and Mra. Tom (Trick, of Middle
Georgia .have he-n drriina ‘round in Ibia
.several d.-.». j.a«t vinitlng
inarmed to Middle (Borgia for a
nnber of exrellri.t citizen*.
Mr. R. o. Knmi.r.- i* in'rodu.ing a dct
riety of aweet potato, lie rail, it the
‘ neighbor*
n he -*,.m
era stood in Buch dire dafiger. It is the
who make sacrifices for their country who will
earn their country’s gratitude, and no man can
make a greater sacrifice than to offer his life in
service.
All wars are followed, and rightly followed,
by hero worship. The greater the war, the
greater the esteem in which those who have seen
service at the front are held by their people.
When this war is won, and won for the cause
of humanity and human liberty, the men who
(■id the fighting will be the ones who will run this
country, politically and otherwise. And it will
be right that they should. Just as now you can
not find the descendants of a man who hid in the
swamps or followed a sutler’s wagon in the War
Between the States, jua,t so ten years after this
war is over, the children of the man who shirks
hia duty today will be ashamed to acknowledge
the part their father played.
A man has but one life to live; but one life to.
give. Better a hero’s death on the soil of
France, than to eke out a slacker’s life among
a people whose every glance will but thinly veil
contempt *
If you are a young man of military age, with
out loved ones solely dependent on you, don’t
make the mistake of your life. Thia ia a time
of trial and never was human nature put to a
more crucial t^at. The coming years will write’
in history how you stood it
Buy W. S.
With sorrotf we,learn of the death of Capt.
H. F. Wiggins at the ripe age of 59, following a
second stroke of paralysis, at hja home in Al
bany. Fred Wiggins was one of nature’s no
blemen in the full meaning of the word; a man
faithful to duty; a man who spread in his every
day life, amidst the day’s work, the gospel of
cheerfulness. The writer knew him first
when, a youth fresh from school^y^vas assis
tant to a aectioif foreman on the Sylvester divis
ion of the old Brunswick and Albany railroad,
now a division of the Atlantic Coast Line.
Soon afterwards he was promoted to a conduc
tor’s place, first on a freight and later on a pi
senger train. He served the road continuous
ly for forty-three years, giving up his duties
ly when he suffered the first stroke a few months
To tiie people along the line of his' daily
run he was a personal friend, a man who had al
ways the ready greeting and the cheerful word.
We shall mias him, but we are sure he has flag
ged the Gospel Train, and that the Great Engi
neer smiled when he pulled him safely into the
Eternal Station.
r Vi. s. s.
Tbv bhrkberry crop—and il it
iaing oo* thia year—baa reached tbv atatv
which inrardiately precede* perfection.
Kind ol curious—isn't it?—that black
berries MT ptn when the/ are red.
That arm* of Gibboes-'looked rather
imiuaiaf in the list of Liberty I-oan sub
scriber*. and it wonld have been even
longer if >'»e of the women Subscriber*
bad usrf tbeir maiden name. It ia a
larxe fiailj wboae ancestor* verr amour
tbe pioneer* of Georgia.
Gordaa Bishop is the Brut of Ty Ty'a
boy* to ke called away by tbe aelective
draft, fie are deeply aorry to have him
Bay W. 8. S.
%Ty Tj etreet! are in rather a norry
conditio*, especially _ aince tbe bit rain,
but it *•«*■ impossible to jet hand* to
work oo them. Keen the garbage ia re
moved lea frequently than it ought to
Buy W. A. S.
We writ delighted to have Mr. Kidder
p u* celebrate the victory of Ty Ty
being the Brat diatrict in tbe county
r about ten daya) in getting “Over tbe
i." Mr. Jolly may have been preaent.
but be taak no part in tbe proceeding*.
Ty Ty district is fall of the finest wnrk-
they always get what they go
itr for it: but it will have i
[otato to oust th- Porto Hi-
plare in tbia roramnnity—wbieh pla
tbe Porta Rico easily bold, at present.
However, something occasionally come*
» and *eem* to be better than the beat.
hff. John Bridge*. of 8m.Br- waa in
Ty Ty. Monday, baying* need groundpra*.
Bridge* baa several inn', in the tire
beside* those connected with tbe tele-
Buy W. S. 8
-. Hardman Wade, of Jacksonville.
• en in Ty Tv Ifch. w-ek. mPoI Vi.
irial her*. Mia
Probably tba only really unpopular
thing that President Wilson baa ever
donr. according to tbe opinion of our part
of the country, la opposing tbe execution
of spies. People are asking if h<
and better than Washington, i
are really superior, morally a
tally, to our aaceatora of Revolutionary
daya.
There ia no incident connected with
our enemy of that time, that haa excited
the pity caused by tbe death of Majot
Andre. To this day. no normal person
ran read tbe story of this gallant youi
officer without., being moved almost
tear* by his-'sad fate. Who would thii
of comparing such a man to tbe myriads
af'German spies who are awarn
America to-dky. blowing up buildings
filled with innoernt workers (many
whom are women), putting glass
bread, poiaoniug walls, and committing
all the fiendish arts for whirb Germany
pays witft lavish hand? How this honest
young Englishman would have loathed
such people and such
.nd yet Washington consented
nd the iieople appro
rn hia pathetic plea,
illowed to die tbe dra
soldier—that he be shot and not hanged
—waa refused, and be died' no •»;- ral-
.1.(1 th( I
IVii!
Buy W. 3. S.
A little A etch of j. J. Toung. where
fferniga were ended by death last Fri
day. will ke found ia another column.
Mr. Toung kad worked under distressing
tiona. for many years, to support
an almost helpless family.
Buy W. i. 8.
Those who pass along tbe streets of Ty
Ty may nee store doors that are pro-
I l»j b*tj That ia to keep nut the
aud bogs Ton may think that
cowi. as they have only one row of teeth, j <n ,| niII
ran do but little injury is a store - hot '
I saw one destroying a
another biting piecea
Buy W. 8. S
e Bigsbie. an aunt of Mr
■ returned to her
Manning S. C„ stopping at two
points on tbe way to visit other
relatives. She came here to attend the
neral of a Mr.-Tbompwm.
W. F. Sikes, has ship|>ed nearly a mil
lion potato plaoti thia season, and ia still
a-shippin.' He planted six hundred
bushels (If “alipa." and a lot of tomato
seed. also. Hia seeds came up and bis
plants flourished but t fir re came so many
for potito plants that be made
rt to sell the other*. So there
vs aud row* of the finest tomato
plant*, and be i* gfnng them away.
Want luur? Mind, be "is not giving
to people who write —that require*
that he cannot spare. It la lack of
that prevents hia selling tbe plants
must do your own palling.
MRS. OLIVER IIOSTKSfl'
I (Hub. Ilka
Tbe Ty Ty Imp!
fittest apasen* of entbnaiaam> Ihn of
Hear struck it this week, and there was a
ell-attended and lively meeting at tbe
■>me of Mrs. F.. W. Oliver Tuesday af-
Weighty questiol
tklt in. they were
re disposed of—
sw-d and left for
constitution was
r promptly paid,
e laid for fhe fu-
while other*
RICH, VALUABLE FICTIONAL MATERIAL
f one railway train,' buf of thousands,
e Briton was separated from his Allies;
e was forced beck upon the see, the sal-
would
The editor of one of Georgia’s leading news
papers writes:
Just a word to express to you the real eqjoy-
ent I got out of reading your book, "Saturday
ght Sketches.” To me the people portrayed
in the times fold of were reminiscent of the peo
ple l came f.i'in myself. Many of the customs,
•ue general outlook on life, the community style
of lning and the general interrelation of the
•mon stock being identical with that enjoy
ed by the community in Northern Ontario
wher .till stands today my Grapdfatherts home-
But in addition to the great pleasure I
perso"' ’’y derived from going back to the days
lire of the experiences of my own very
young boyhood, there was a real joy to a writing
mar ' jiscovering a new simplicity in the com-
positio n of the book, which was extremely effec
tive. I do not think Artemus Ward could have
much improved on the story of Bill-bat, th«
watermelons and hornets.
The most important thing about it. however,
in my estimation is the really valuable and per
manent contribution you have made to the his
tory of an all too little exploited American era
one that waa cbmmon in its characteristics and
its relation to the developments of a great peo
ple from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.
In this connection I would like to make a very
■erioua suggestion to you. I believe that what
Edward Eggleston did for the early Indianians
im such books ai the Circuit Rider and »he Hoo-
transporta, but of hundreds; not a alar Schoolmaster, yoif could do for Georgia if
you would set yourself to the task. Certainly.
tgi*re is rich and valuable fictional material
ii the life and tijnes of which you have written
in your little book just out If you can do it,
tainly is your duty to go to work at once,
am one of those who believe you can.”
-k of flour.;
of pot aloes j
ere too big to go into her mouth, j
bog*—there pn 2.VT.000 word* in
tbe English language but they are all too
w to do justire to thia subject
Ty Ty people pat in a lot of time at
tbe Tifton station, waiting for trains,
and tbe improved appearance of the
waiting rooms is a source of great com
fort. One need there now is some one
to rail trains, but wbat is especially
Deeded W a "boaarer" having a *u|«er-
humaa backbone, and tbe principal dnty
of this official should be to cast fill joyed them.
i ok era—especially lha fp-- .... .,1 ,
The question of getting rid
two raliant women agreed to do their
beet—to bell the cat. as ft were.
When enthuriasn. waned aud tbe
ent for adjournment drew near.
Oliver, assisted by Mrs. Warren Willi*,
served refreshment*. Entbui
out afresh then, becai
the n
I best. I
d tbe CI
P»ny v
This is sot oaid ia a spirit of
criticism, be* b—-*u«* Ty
osejt ...qn-rtf.1 with Tifton.
m-e and column interests, that
whatever concern* one of. these town.
Interest the other. "Nothing >
yet gained by one part of a c
munity pulling against its neighbor.
> eat and drink. They en
After this, until furtbei
tings ol the rim.
t the home of the Vresident. Mr*.
• long and
Are y
> W. 8. 8
at. th* election that take* place
the third of July? Now. If Tifton wishes
to do torn* real missionary work,
might arnd ua some speakers to talk
thia law. Too see. this being aa
agricultural diatrict. the people an
to enthusiastic oa tbe DO-f*nc* question
as tbe^ might be. They ere extremely
orthodox, and their ancestor* fence
tbe crop*. They ere overlooking the feet
■at in tbe old deya. the field* wet
•ry email part of our South Georgia
land*, and that that difference ia growing
rapidly. Stork roamed over bund re.
thouaanda acres of land then, and it was
much cheaper to fence in the crop* than
fence out the stock. Conditions b*<
changed very much.
Mr. Jacob J. Youn
painful illnea*. died
Ty. Friday aftrrnor,
in Oakfield Saturday. Rev. S. 8. Kemp,
pastor of the Methodist church,
from 1‘oulac to conduct the fuaen
Mr. Young wu among the old
of Worth county, haring lived
county all hia life. He le*'
four nail children here and
rttlers
»ho live
r Oakfleld. Ue w
Mr. Young waa b
It seem, that we are in for a dry May-
id e dry May is usually ruppoeed to be
thing greotly dented by farmers. Thia
year, though, it is diferent. we have
an unusual wins. Very few far-
bave finished plantiux.
colored brother came into Ty Ty.
recently on a sad mission: he' had been
by telegraph that J metoiier of the
family had died in a distant town. I
be could not attend the funer
so far away, but that V smuH lelegraj
'congratulations.'
W. Hi- Be
“Bay a Bond." of .,»ur** • also vote fc
ist "No Fence" lew.
Mr. W. E. Williams has put bom.
grown peaches on the market thia wee)
Hia tree* an aa heavily taden with fniit
that they hare to fere supports to keep
them from breaking.
■ra and raised ia the
Worth county, mov-
tbia place several years ago.
About thirty year* ago he ’was revere
by Tom Dick Itycrofj at old Isa
bella from which injuries be never fully
recovered.
HKNDRICK8-GASKINS
Nashville. Ga.. May 8.—A' marriage of
unusual interest occurred here last Friday
evening, when Miss Doan Hendricks, of
Nashville, and Mr. Wilbur M. Ga.kim.. of
Alapahh. were" united In marriage
Tbe bride is the daughter of Pol. and
Mrs. IL A. Hrndrirk*. and
of many rare charm* and accomplish
ment* She is a recent graduate of
Bessie Tift College, where she won many
honor*. Tbe groom is the son of Mr.
Gaakina. of Alnpaha. and il - our of
the leading young business men of South
Georgia, be being eitenairety engaged In
farming, mercantile business Band other
Sergeant R. F. Hendricks, who la Boon to
sfiil for France.
The bride and groom will visit Wash
ington, New York and other iioiota of
interest, after which they will return
to Alnpaha. where they will make their
> the country,
all possible harm.
puniore of doing 11
Only hi* Ii
from n
that was t
id had It
Mild n
ildier and a gcntlemai
commanded by ni* superior
within ^the American lint
diet Arnold, and to mat
e obeyed, juat as 1
it tbe ship, in plain sight
- him to safety. If hw
alifications of a spy. be
Wbat pussies us to understand ia
his iKsir fellow, admittedly a gene
igb-toned man. should have perisbv
lirerably, when German spies of today—
icn and women be would have scorned
a loathsome beings—are treated aa our
atiun's honored guests, i trcaaioaaBy.
aa individual gives oat
raid be well
take the people into its Confidence
would not satisfy them entirely for they
wonld still think that none ought t
cape, but it would bnng about a health
ier feeling among them. Non* of nt
help feeling that wbat was good enough
for an honest soldier ought to be good
enough for the' skulking, fiendish
mans and pre-German,, who now infest
People in this vicinity have not alway
read n*w,|>ai>*r, -■ assiduously as th*
have been reading them .luring the pa«
few year*, anil maybe they have fail-
to learn of some of the legal rhanges that
have taken place within tbe past ran
a being worthy of death
laive form Why
>een regarded •
Buy *V. 8. 8
PLANTS VEILS! S WHISKEY
"Virtue i
but it often
fal. eve* in
this world.
■en Georgia went in fn
•D—tbe kind of prol
p make tbjs a "bone d
-anris- solemnly assured
country was ruiaed. for ho*
reived its-death Mow and tl
bibitinn wuoid injure
sometimes seem to pay. f.
but It never doe* in tbe ei
Ty Ty business
rteadilv incremrod
. (the r
•ce . in raneetlation and.
tbe express, ia bringing the good*) and
it looked a. If they must suftkrr a I
They did. for a time: but. it was (
Tl(ere seems to be no rsnnectiow
iskey and raising pla
W. E. WILLIE
DEALER IN
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I
Your Trade Will Be Appreciated,'
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J. M. Varner, Manager.
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