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THE TIFTON
FMPAY. JUNE at, 191ft.
rHE TIFTON GAZETTE
PuMialand WnUt
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
B Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879.
Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tiftoo
and Tift County, Georgia.
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SATURDAY NIG/IT.
THE ADVENT
lice.
When Rice Was Rice.
Says the Moultrie Observer: The Tifton Ga-
lays it is still not too late to plant upland
We suppose Editor Herring knows what
" ' Prob-
Jke is talking about—he generally does,
ably he will write a Saturday Night story some
time relating how he used to grow rice, harvest
jice. clean or “beat” by the old hand process,
■ad eat rice as it was prepared in days gone by.
The rice hopper stood out near the big mul-
fterry tree by the well back of the kitchen. It
was made from the butt of a pine of generous
aoe. s*wed about five feet long. The log was.
get on end. a small hole chipped in the center of
fte heart and a fire built therein. By careful
watching, a.nicely shaped mortar, eighteen
indies or two feet deep, was burned in the log,
aad this was scraped out and smoothed. The
ftarning not only gave a fairly even surface, but
lardened the wood until it would withstand any
awount of pounding.
The pestle was of bfackgum, five teet long,
gf generous size and about as much as a man
••aid lift It was rounded to a point at the bot-
bm, about two feet left for the pestle proper
aad the rest cut away for a handle. It was
■■pended on the end of a springy pine pole,
which was set like a well-sweep, one end fasten
ed to the ground, resting in the fork of a post
Mar the center, and the small end swinging. The
bottom of the suspended pestle hung about the
inp of the mortar. The Hhndle of the pestle
Was bored across anrl a round peg driven
' Jhcoagh. The peg served as a handhold for the
aperatoi*.
This home-made but efficient rice mill was
ftperated by pouring the round rice into the
topper, then the operator seizing the pestle in
hath hands and bringing it down. The spring
■C the pole-lifted it and the operator brought it
down agaia. Soon, with the momentum of the
.•winging pole, beating the rice became much
easier than ibappeared; still, it was a full man e
gw
Upland rice was not only a side crop, but a
!*aate land crop. We planted it down by the
Innch. near the drainage ditch, on land too wet
far anything else. A dry spell in late spring
rrat advantsge of to break the land, but
( fhe big tussocks of swamp grass and wire grass
■ade it rough work. The rice was sown in
drills about three feet apart.
Being » aide crop, it was neglected until the
crops were cleaned, and by the time we
get to it, the grass was about three inches
than the rice. Bud and the boy went at
with hoes, after Bud had barred off the rows
a scooter, and it was hot, nerve-trying,
^breaking work. Only a portion of the
could be got out with the hand and the
Balance had to be pulled out with the fingers.
Down on the coast they turn' in the water
ftuough the dykes and the grass drowns, but on
uplands we had to extract it by hand. Young
.Tfce is Bpiodiinrt stuff, and the bunrhefc masted
•b coming up instead of the grass. Humped
•rer with your back getting the full force of a
Jolyaun is no joke, and we earned all the rice
we got. Chjgfiing a smaH*patch was the work
ml a -day or more, and $he two boys felt like
•elebrating when it was over. They did cut a
watermelon..
One cleaning and a few plowing*, the last
with a sweep, was Sufficient for a rice crop and
ft CT«w tall, fruited and ripened. When the
bei.de hung brown and rustling in.the early fall,
•he boys tackled the harvest, 'fhe right way
la exit rice is with a reap-hook, and while it
■akes a heavy demand on the back, it is also
bundles and then both stacked it in shucks to
•ore. - The yield was always good, and after
oring a few days in the sun, the rice was haul-
to the crib and stacked away. Later, on
cainy days in winter it was whipped out over a
quickest Bud cut while' the boy tied it into
tag which had been set in about two feet high
■ear the rear of the crib for this purpose as well
as for whipping: out oats. (Threshing mach-
were unknown in this part of the South
X 4 auttt ggtafcssSB spread op the
bo catch the grains aad another hung on
iftck of the crib to. keep the flying grains
going through the cracks.
Afftr much labor at Iasi the rice—white,
~ delicious, appeared on the breakfast
■ winter mornings. It was the real rich,
U the nutritive qualities donated by na-
lot the bleached, tasteless, starch—like
today. It Was Cooked In a spider In ah
kMlace, over a corn cob fire. With but-
sh from the churn, it was all that the
(acting palate could ask. but with a slice
i and red ham gravy-^oh, man! Our
waters even in old age when we think
tl
With the agreementof the United States quar
termaster's mpply and subsistence department
to reopen the-question of-naming field peas in
the army rations, /. A. Hollomon, of the Atlanta
Constitution, sees a chance for “that dear old
cornfield product,'ao relished by all of us who
know and appreciate its true worth,” to come
in for a justification. The matter has been
taken up by the Georgia delegation in Congress
and the Georgia Bureau of Markets, and sold
iers may soon be'eating this essentially Southern
product
Mr. Hollomon has been diving into statistics,
and he figures the field pea several laps ahead
of the navy bean in food value. Those who have
eaten peas since childhood do hot need to be
told that .they are palatable, when properly
prepared, and best of all, will "stick to the ribs”"
of our fighting men. Here are the figures he
gives:
In digestible nutrient in 100 pounds navy
beans contain 18.8 per cent of crude protein,
51.3 per cent carbo-hydrates, 0-8 per cent fat;
total, 71.9 per cent. The field peas, on the other
hand, contain 19.4 per cent of crude protein,
54.5 per cent carbo-hydrates and 1.1 per cent
fat—a total of 76.4 per cent.
From this it will be perceived that the field
pea surpasses the bean in digestible nutrients on
the three constituents.
An investigation will establish the fact that
the field pea is much easier prepared for con
sumption, requires less cooking, and has been
one of the main articles of food in the rural
South for centuries.
Notwithstanding the advantage of the pea
over the bean, the field pea can be purchased by
the government at a price around 5 cents a
pound, whereas the bean is probably costing
from 10 to 12 cents a pound.
It is impossible to predicate any accurate es
timate on the quantity of peas now being held,
but believe it to be within the bounds of reason
to state that the stock will probably run twen
ty-five million pounds.
This* shows that an article of food adapted
even to export can be supplied to the govern
ment at a cost of less than 50 per cent of the
beans now used, and will at the same time Bave
the farmers a loss of several million dollars,
which in turn would, of course, react and cause
them to curtail their cultivation TSt future food
crops.
The pioneer rail-splitter in the pine forests of
Wiregrass Georgia found the pea a reliable
stand-by. The men who followed Lee ate it
with gusto while we were settling oar family
row back in the '60’s, and the Yankee who met
them will not say they were not fighters, with
long wind and staying qualities.
If the army will adopt the field pea/and hire
a few negro mammy cooks to prepare it, Uncle
Sam's fighting boys have.a treat coming. We
expect to hear .that the Teuton line is bent soon
after the gpa-eaters get to the front in force.
The sweet potato was at first refused as an army
ration; then it’ was adopted. The field pea may
share a like fate.
A CHANGE FOR THE BETTER.
A wholesome change in public sentiment is
indicated in the daily news. Of course, there is
a long road ahead of us before indiscriminate
lynchings bpcome rare, but there is a growing
and hopeful recognition of the equality of the
law for all men —and all women.
From Crisp county last week came new
the conviction of a white man for the killing of
a negro—a killing which appeared without ex-
cuse—and a sentence to life imprisonment.
Now, on the heels of that, comes an account of
the conviction of a young white man for
grave statutory* offense, of which a small ne
gro girl was the victim.
Respect for law is first evidenced by its equal
ebforeeniun'L So long as popular opinion' insists
that there are two codes of laws, one for the
white man and one for the negro, neither race
can be expected to respect what both recognize
as a farce. So 1ohg as the superior Taco insists
that the law can be violated at will when the in
ferior race is a victim, so long will the law ut
terly /ail-to .check, the impulse of .the. lawlessly
inclined of both races.
From Thomas county comes an example that
should check mobs if any thert should be among
their members with a sense of danger. It Is the
shooting down of a citizen, a white man and
man of family, just because an excited mob was
out after a negro, and shot at the first man who'
came along. That this murdered citizen leaves a
dependent family makes the incident more im
pressive.
Mobs as a rule are composed of the most ig
norant, the most impulsive and the least res
ponsible among the people of a community.
Their only impulse is that of the enraged brute,
to kill and to torture. They interfere with- offi
cers, too often by such interference make it pos
sible for the real criminal to escape, and bring
stain and reproach upon their communities.
The aooner Georgia growB out of the mob ha
bit, the sooner will she take her place among
her sister states.
Several months since, a solicitor for a truck
growers’ Gazette published in a northern state
canvassed this territory offering that paper with
two others for 98cents a year. Many subscribed
under the impression that they were getting the
Tifton Gazette, and lost their money.- Every
day or so, one of the receipts shows up at this
office with inquiry as to why the paper has not
been sent. Occasionally, a fellow appears to
think that we got his money and don't want to
give him anything for it. This office makes no
dub rates, and the Weekly Gazette is sold to no
one for leas than $1.50 a year. It ia a bad idea
strangers, aad especially bad '
I FOR BOYS IN FRANCE.
On the first of May the War Department no
tified relatiye* and friends of soldi erg in Fraace
that because of congestion on French railways,
parcel post packages would not be accepted for
transmission to members of the American Ex
peditionary Forces unless the request therefor
came from the soldier himself and was approved
by his commanding officer. It had developed
that a great majority of the articles sent the
soldiers were not only unnecessary, but could
be purchased as cheaply abroad as at home,
and in some cases cheaper. To restrict the
amount of parcel post mfttcr makes it possible
to deliver other mail quicker.
The original order requiring that requests
for articles should be approved by a regimental
or higher commander has been so modified that
they may be approved by a major or higher
commander. The approval of a company com
mander is not sufficient. At the* same time, no
tice is given that the rule will be rigidly
forced and packages mailed without the neces
sary request therefor, duly approved, will be
returned to the sender. This rule does not ap
ply to books, magazines, newspapers, or other
printed matter.
The reasons for the ruling and the require
ments are briefly stated in the Official Bulletin :
The question of the shipment of parcels to
France came to the attention of the War De
partment originally when tl *t Commanding
General of the Expeditionary Forces cabled that
the congestion of such articles had reached the
poiat that French railroads were unable to move
the®. The Secretary of War and the Postmas
ter General then organized a board consisting
of the Second Assistant Postmaster. General,
representatives of fraternal organizations and
tha Red Cross, and a representative of the port
of embarkation in the United States where
theie articles are shipped. This board examined
verr carefully 5,000 sacks of parcel-post mail
and found that the articles therein not only
were in the main absolutely unnecessary but
very undesirable. The investigation developed
that the amount of such mail had reached the
extraordinary total of 500,000 pounds a week
and that the mail for the first half of February
waa greater than that of the entire month of
January, and that for the first half of January
ix was greater than the entire month of Decem
ber.
The regulations now in effect, leaving in\he
hands of the Commanding General of the Ex
peditionary Forces the entire control of Ship
ments to individuals in the military establish
ment in France,-were based on the recommenda
tions resulting from the investigation by this
board.
Hereafter no exceptions will be made to the
rule that parcels when presented to post offices,
express companies, or freight stations for ship
ment must be accompanied by a written request
from the soldier approved by a major or higher
commanding officer. Persons connected with
the Y. M. C. A., the Red Cross, or other organi
zations in Franc* must make a request for ar
ticles in a similar manner, the approval of an
executive officer of the organization being ne
cessary in such case.
About 1,000 letters in which requests are
made for permission to send parcels to France
have been received daily recently by The Adju
tant General’s office. Relatives and friends will
find they often can do a greater service to sold
iers by sending them money for the purchase of
articles in France than by forwarding the ar
ticles. Tobacco is now being supplied as pari
o’Fihe Army rations. Mer 'handise of practical
ly all kinds can be purchased in France through
a general store established by the Quartermas
ter Corp^.
The restrictions governing the shipment of
parcels do not apply to newspapers and maga
zines. These can be mailed without any re
quest from the intended recipient and without
military approval.
Another, candidate for acBon by a
Debs, three times can-
Federal
Grand Jury is Eugene V. Del
didate of the Socialist party for president In a
speech at Canton, Ohio. Debs is quoted as call
ing the Bolsheviki comrades, endorsing the So
cialist party platform which condemns conscrip
tion, and saying that the aim of the Allies in the
war is plunder. Fifty-five young men attending
the meeting addressed by Debs were arrested
because they could not show draft classification
cards.
If Debs is guilty of sedition, the Federal au
thorities will deal with him. Meanwhile, it is
well enough to give thought to the position the
United States would now be in were it not for
the Selective Draft law.
Had Great Britain adopted conscription as
speedily after the declaration of war as did this
country, the war would have been over more
than a year ago, before Russia got sick and quit,
and the Irish question and many more of Eng
land’s troubles would have been settled. The
end of the war would have been in Bight when
the drive was made in the spring of 1916, be
cause the British would have had the men to
press their advantage, and with Germany short
of food, supplies and man-power, could have
pressed that advantage to a conclusion,
though they had been at war three years. it was
almost a year after the United States* had a sc.
lective Draft law well organized and working
like a machine, that Australia and Canada were
■till struggling with conscription.
Had we-ho Selective Draft law, and wei e e
still endeavoring, spasmodically, to raise an j-
my by appealing for volunteers, we Pould not
now be able to send men at the most critical
stage of the war for Liberty tb turn the scale in
the great struggle. We would be forced to
helplessly wring our hands while we read
how the 1 few regiments'we had been able to
send across were being slaughtered as were the
Canadians along the Yser and the Australians
on Gallipoli. Instead of having nearly a million
men in France, taking a tiger’s part in the
fighting on a dozen fronts—wherever fighting
men are most needed, and making a record
which causes every red-blooded American
heart to swell with pride that he is an Ameri
can and that these men are brothers of his blood,
we would have a few scattered units, too small
to turn the scale, and helpless to do aught but
to fight and die, as heroes should.
We owe it to Selective Draft that these men
are alive today, able to fight and still fighting,
We owe it to Selective Draft that we not "only
have nearly a million men over there, but that
we will have three million under arms in sixty
days. A task Great Britain—in the thick of the
fighting, with a regular army outnumbering
ours seven to one at the outbreak of the wafc—
was more than two years accomplishing.
In considering the phenomenal record of
achievement that this nation, presumably a na
tion of peace, has made in twelve months, it is
also well to consider the situation we would
have been in had the advice of Mr. Debs and
other opponents of Selective Draft been heeded.
SECOND UNION MEET
t MM Aaaaetarian WHS >>■»■*■
Tb* Second Colon rarotin* *t tlx MM
■aoriatloa will be held with the Ally aka
mirk Juft 20 omd 80. The anbjaet la.
Work xnd Office of .the Holy Spirit"
Follow!o( U the program:
10 a. m.—Prayer end praiae aerrk* tad
by the paator, R. W. But*.
rodurtory sermon by D. C. Baiaoy »
alternate. B. F. Keraey.
Dinner.
2:00 Orcaniie.
2:80. Iiiaruuton, "Do we today ua-
deratand and eeteem the work and offlee
of the Holy Spirit aa we abould?" led by
W. I. Patrick.
3:30. General discuaelon on the work
and offlee of the Holy Spirit aa tha chair
may direct •_
We aak the churches of thil district to
•end delegate!.
The doom of Alapahl are open to all
J’bo will come.
W. I. PATRICK.
For the Church.
Chula, the pretty business center of North
Tift, is building well when it sets its figures for
school building at $15,000.^ There is little prob
ability that the proposed bond issue will fail to
carry, and a larger school building is needed.
When Tift voted local taxation, a school build
ing which was considered even a little larger
than the town’s needs was built at Chula. Twice
since rooms have been added to it, and now the
building will no longer accommodate the pupils.
Good evidence that-Hte Chuhi ■section is raising
citizens as well as crops, and we are glad to see
its school spreading out. For an educated citi
zen is the best citizen.
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B. C. WILLIFORD, ATTT.
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YOUNG MARRIED SELECTMEN.
THE ROAD TAX MONEY.
The funds derived from the sale of automo
bile license tags in Georgia amounting to $223,-
226.55, is now ready for distribution among the
counties an the basis of improved road mileage.
The total mileags reported is 80,110. Hall
county gets the largest sum, $4,217.19; DeKalb
second, Monroe third and Carroll fourth, of
the counties in this immediate section, Tift gets
$1,048.67; Turner, $1,876.24; Worth, $1,774.03
Colquitt. $1,731.85; Coffee, $2,060.80; Berrien.
$1,982.07, and Irwin,$1,197.68.
. While these several sums can be used to.good,
advantage by the comities receiving them, it Is
apparent that if the whole amount, nearly a
quarter of a million dollars, was spent by the
state in'building a number .of miles nf jfrst-cUss
highway each year, the advantage to the state
as a whole, and eventually to every county,
would be apparent It is hoped that the General
AssenVBlv win nidkf! dohivy provision tor Hie "p'rac-'
tical use of the fund, in co-operation with the
Federal government. In the course of a few
years, under such a plan, We should have a sys
tem of standard highfeg.vs traversing every sec-
I tion of the state.
An important ruling has been received by the
Local Exemption Board of Tift from the Provost
Marshal General’s office on exemption of men
registered for military sendee who married be
tween May 18.1917, and January 15, 1918.
Men registered for military servicd*who have
married between the dates given shall be placed
in Class 1;
Unless there shall be a child from this mar
riage. born or unborn, prior to June 9, 1918. In
this event the registrant shall be placed in Class
2. Th* wisdom of the ruling is apparent The,
young mother cannot support herself and babe;
therefore both are dependent The ruling is
valuable to Local Boards just at this time, when
so many registrants are being classified. It is
estimated that it will affect about twenty-five
registrants in Tift
REFLECTED GLORY.
An effort is being made to have the franking
privilege for letters, now accorded to soldiers
in overseas service, extended to enlisted men in
camp.! It would mean quite a saving to the
boys in postage, and they are entitled to the best
we have. Give it to them.
Says the Savannah Morning News:
Georgians will find something that is patriotic
and wholesome in the war view of John L. Her
ring of Tifton, as expressed in his paper, the Ga
zette. There are some fathers in this state who
have sent more sons to the war but none, sure
ly, with greater patriotic devotion. Mr. Her
ring says: “Another of the Seven has gone. Not
because he had to go. but because he felt that
duty called. It hurts even to loan them to their
country, but we see them go as cheerfully as we
may. While we have-not one to spare, there -art
five more that the cause of Liberty can have
when it needs them, and the Old Man knows the
»y, when it is open.”
On the same subject, the Fitzgerald Leader-
Enterprise is kind enough to comment:
It is on the foundation of such men as Editor
Herring that our nation’s greatness rests. Truly
he is a patriot who is giving, and giving until it
hurts. May his sons cover themselves with
glory and come back unscathed.
A French officer estimates that the Germans
lost 80,000 men in the Noyon-Montdidier offen
sive, which although the smallest and least sue»
drive*, was marked by thehafd-
i-rnmmm
Shooting on sight seems to be the order of
the day—or night—over in Colquitt Last week
a posse hunting foi a negro shot down the first
white man who came up, and now report comes
that a man returning hoirte at night shot a
neighbor’s son who had been sent over to guard
the house during his absence, and who had
gone to Bleep on the porch. A motto of “look
before you aboot" ought to aave livea over, in
Office lloun: II la 10 a
Special AllrnlloB to Surgery a
* JOHN 'A. * FKTWWON
Office Drnliat
New O Nral .McLeod BolUlaf
Tifton, (icorcia
DR. A. G. FORT
EVE. EAR. NOSE and THROAT
(or. 2nd Street and Lave Avenue
Offlee I'hoae »7
DR. A. E. O'QUINN
FIRST O.VSS DENTAL WORK
Cruun and Bridge Work a Specialty
Over Plnhvlonji Dm* Store
Tifton. Groqyia
In mailer* relating lo land tltiee.
Will practice la all the Court*.
Golden Bldg. Tifton. Ga.
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