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THETIFTOItf
TIFTON, GA.
FRIDAY, JULY IF, 1*18.
IE TIFTON GAZETTE
PaMfaM WmUt
J at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
i Class Matter. Act of March 3, 1879.
L. Herrin* I— Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tiftoo
and Tift County, Georgia.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
TWn Month. I'- 50
GETTING AT THE MEAT.OF THE MATTER-
The character of the administration Gov.
Dorsey ia giving the state is illustrated by the
report of the special -investigating committee,
appointed at the last gesslon of the General As
sembly, to investigate and report on state insti
tutions and appropriations. Governor Dorsey
TO OUR EXCHANGES.
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?
In
Board, the Gi
to actual neci
war. Those
cash basis. /
The Gazette, is in position to know that the
With instructions from the War
; will limit its exchange list
r during the duration of the
ihanges carried will be on a
MCCALL WITHDRAWS 1
kuuv.ia a|ipiupimuuufl. UVVCUIUf L/uiacj ,
was chairman of thij committee and it, report P rlnt “™“ * h *»
. . - ia aronprAIIV EIIDTuiaarl onH will HA ita Kit tA.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
.teminded Him of Old Times. >
: The visitor was a lawyer of more than state-
,e reputation, and a man prominent in the
itica of the past decade who has found him-
aelf and is now enjoying a life of quiet ease,
peace and plenty. He waded through the of-
ice debris to the editor’s desk, extended a hand
and a cigar, dumped the exchanges from a
i chair, and sat down.
“I never read anything in ,my life that I en-
Joyed more than you Saturday Ninht Skatnhea.
he said. The editor blushed, bit off the end of
I the cigar, and looked expectant,
i “I had rather have written that book than
•wn the best 1,000-acre farm in South Georgia;”
(the man at the desk thought of his bank ac
count; of some of the fine /C rops he had seen,
and sighed) "there might be more money in the
farm now. but the book will last longer.
“I was raised in Southeast Georgia, even fur
ther in the backwoods than the Wiregrass sec
tion of which you tell, but human nature ia pret
ty much the same, and many of the scenes and
incidents the book tells of were almost dupli
cated in my experience. To read it carries me
right back to my boyhood days, and brings re
collections both pleasant and sad.
“For instance, that story of ’Cal Turner and
the Black Runner.’ There was Jim Blaisdel.
who went fishing with me down on the creek
one afternoon. jVe carried our hooks and lines
in our pockets, with the bait worms in a little
gourd. At the fish-pole. w*» started to cut ui
ty ty bushes for poles.
“Jim was busy sawing down his pole with a
dull knife, when a rattlesnake struck him. The
rattier was mad and a four-footer, ahd those
iwimp rattlers are as poison as death. By
lome lucky chance, this one was colled high
and he struck Jim on the right thigh, outside
Hie pocket of his pants. Jim’B fish-hook and
dork, or his tobacco, or something in his pocket
fparded his leg and saved his life, but the
curved fangs of the rattler hung in the tough
cloth of hia pants.
“Jim felt the.blow, looked down, saw the
rattler, jumped and yelled. The rattler
couldn’t get loose and was - ahoul as badly
■cared as Jim. I ran to help him, bijt you
couldn’t get any nearer Jim than to a kicking
mule in action. He was circling afound. yell
ing, pawing up leaves and dirt, and calling on
the Lord for help. He milled around over an
or more of ground before the rattler’s
pulled their hold out, and the snake
lid havfe got away if I hadn’t killed it
“Then, that tale of ‘Sol Drawhom and the
Gray Lizzard.’ Like nearly every other fel
low who studied law in this country those times,
I taught school in my young days. One Friday
the people came in from the section around to
the usual exercises. At noon we were all out
on the grass, under the oaks, eating dinner
from our buckets. There were several girls
almost grown going to school, and some of the
-. neighborhood girls and boys had come in just
liefore noon to the closing and brought dinner.
There were some ofthe patrons also, among
them Clem Tucker. Clem was barefooted, as
were nearly all the men and boys, and wore
a pair of homespun cotton breeches, with noth
ing else under them, as usual. He was a man
Bear middle age.
"After dinner, we were laughing and talk
ing. when somebody scared up one of those
'devil’s race-horses.’ The boys would head it
off and chase it around toward the girls, and
they would squeal and dodge, and we were all
having a lot of fun out of the fellow. Finally,
tha race-horse got away from the boys and
headed straight for Clem. Before Clem could
jump up or protect himself, the race-horse, with
fee*, ike wire clawB, ran straight for his bare
foo*. .town his ankle, and right up his breeches-
b-. Clem couldn't think of but onF thing to
do in such a case, and that’s what he done. The
girls squealed, hid their faces and ran for the
hoase, and we boys sorter gathered around
Clam until he could get 'em back on.
“What became of the race-horse? We lost
has just been made public.
While there are minor changas recom
mended. the most significant feature of the re
port ia that there is a lack of system and unity
among the different departments, by which the
^ork of these departments overlaps, to the ex
pense of the state and at the cost of efficiency.
This but bears out theopinion held for a long
time by those who came in contact with more
than one of these departments, and the wonder
is that it was not discovered and remedied long
ago.
A notable instance of the overlapping of work
ia furnished by the Department of Agriculture
and its related departments on the one hand
and the College of Agriculture on the other
hand. The committee says that in some instan-
each has infringed on the territory of the
other, at the expense of the state. “The sphere corn - beanB and Peanuts and peas sowed for
is generally supposed, and will do ita bit to
ward limiting consumption. It recommends
that its contemparries do the same. It will
probably be necessary soon to reduce the size
of the paper.
If the Gazette ia not on your exchange table
after this issue is received, understand that it
is. a war measure, and one with which we com
ply With extreme regret. Our exchanges, and
our relations with our fellow craftsmen, have
been one of the pleasant things of life.
This is not farewell, but au revoir until the
war ia ovfer and the world at peace.
THE SOUTH FEEDING ITSELF.
A short drive around Tifton and a look at
the thousands of acres of green and luxurious
of the Department of Agriculture is police and
regulatory, while that of the State College of
Agriculture Is educational.” Each has a broad
field of its own. without interfering with the
province of the other. This overlapping is es
pecially true of the entomological work being
done by both.
For a long time, those acquainted with the
affairs at the capitol have known that there
was much friction between the State College
and the Department of Agriculture over the en
tomological work. This friction has done much
harm to both and has prevented either from
reaching that state of efficiency that would have
given the people the best results. It is to be
hoped that as a result of the report of the com
mittee. this friction will in the future be avoid
ed, and that each branch will find ita proper
iphere of usefulness.
Both the College and the department have
been accused of playing politics, but it is prob
able that bbth were sincerely doing their best to
give the people the best service possible, ac
cording to their understanding. Now, with the
province of each clearly defitted, they should go
about their work in such a way as to be of mu
tual help.
THE STATE SANITARIUM.
Washington, D. C., July 16, 1918.
With your kind permission, I fain would ad
dress a few chaste lines to your readers.
Editor Tifton Gazette:
Dear Reader:
Dam your old clothes,
Damn the new ones.
Patches may become badges of honor—knee
taps look better than half soles on the pants.
During the civil war homespun clothes were
the height of fashion; (shirt-tail boys were com
mon, one of whom I was which.)
Alter that war evidence of service, an empty
slgeve for instance, commanded universal res
pect, and those who got rich during that period
of common sacrifices ever aftelr lived in full
realization of the contempt of their neighbprs.
What have you done to help to win this war?
What identifiable sacrifices have you made?
Write them down and show them to your,
wife or friend and get the record approved.
Buying War Savings Stamps is not in the
nature sacrifice, it’s a good investment. If they
had been offered simply as investment securi
ties the buyers would have been more eager and
the sales much larger.
Nor is it a sacrifice to wear your old clothes.
Thus releasing material and the tailor for mak
ing uniforms, but it is patriotic.
If you are too selfish to make real sacrifices
just a little patriotism wiil help you to save.
Save for yourself, that will be doing something
for the safety of America.
They are going to tax automobiles, jewelry,
and fine clothes because they need the money
and that is the place to find lots of it with the
least hardship on the taxpayer, and for the fur
ther reason that people who insist on such
luxuries need a jolt that will cause them to sit
up and take inventory of their frivolous proclivi
ties.
It is no longer good taste to dress up. nor
good breeding to hie up and down the highways
in high powered automobiles that others may
see the evidence of your prosperity when pros
perity is a crime.
Up to the present time we. as a nation, are
fattening on the horrible war conditions, but
•rifices is coming. Only fools
believe we can settle this trouble the war lords
of Germany have brought on the world, more ;
WH Not S—k Now Trial. I
SotM* TIb* at Omt
Attorney, for Wrfckt T. MeQUl, «
rioted in Tift Superior Court T»
of the murder of R. L. Bennett I
fenced, to the penitenUury for Ilf*. V
drew hia .pplientlon for i I
ty. He will at once bexiJ
hia aenteoce.
Immediately after aentence a
ooneed Thursday afternoon Me
ra Bled morion for new trial I
Aupiat 3 waa aet aa a date for a ha
The withdrawal of the morion a
elebrated caie, ao far aa the eoorta
of Tift are concerned.
POULTRY PABASITSS
You keep the chiekea honae clean W
keep the paraaitea off the chiekena. Ton
apray 40 kill «eraa—but whjt dOJJ*
do tS »et the yerm. and 1-rarile.Jhrid.
the chiekena. Uena eapaeially aho»
ime and durin* the win-
I you expect them to lay r
all internal paraajtaa by
Thomas Poultry Powder
... If It doeau't make your
hens happy, we will return yoOr money.
Rickeraon Grocery Company. Tifton. Oa.
The Strong Withstand the Hoat of
Better Than the Wonk
A enrirbee the blood and bolide up lb* ebdein-
Profession-! Directory^
D. B BARBELL
ITaetaday Physician
O'Neal-Mtl <eod F-'Udine
and Die-
Re cause it is necessary to appropriate a mil
lion dollars for the support of the state sani
tarium for the insane this year, and because the
congestion at that institution has grown from
year to year until conditions have become a
stench in the civic nostrils of the" state, many
measures of reform are being proposed.
Suggestion has been made that moVe strin
gent regulations Be thrown around lunacy trials
in Courts of Ordinary, in order that the number
sent to the sanitarium * be cut down. This
would not provide a remedy, and would in
many cases work a hardship on sufferers.
Many people of middle age. especially wo
men. become deranged from organic diseases.
Their relatives cannot properly care for them,
and their mental condition makes restriction
necessary. . Many of the rural counties have no
public hospitals, and the only place to which
to send these patients is the sanitarium. If that
relief was not provided these people would re
main at large, a menace'to their communities,
their relatives and friends. At the sanitarium
they are often cured. They should not be shut
up with the violently insane, but they must be
cared for.
The recommendation of the special Inves
tigating committee that a State Board -of Chari
ties and Corrections be created, appears to of
fer the best solution of this vexed problem. The
charities department could supervise the es
tablishment of a hospital where milder cases
could be treated and cured; the correction de
partment could operate a reformatory where
juveniles or those milder cases among the
criminally insape might have attention.
hay sfter oats, will convince anyone that this
section will more than feed itself this year.
And what is true of this section is true of
Georgia as well as of the South. A great
change was coming, due in a large measure to
the boll weevil, but the war brought it to ma
turity several years sooner than it would have
come otherwise. A recent bulletin of the De
partment of Agriculture says that not only is
the South beginning to feed itself, but that it is
beginning to help to feed other sections of the
country. By divorcing itself from the one crop
system and raising food and feed in large quan
tities it is decreasing the drain on the North
and West and is releasing the products of those ; the day of sacriff
sections to be shipped across the ocean.
As a case in point, until four years ago not s j n j ster and menacing now than at any time ; dr. .\. g. fort
a single carload of hogs was shipped from 17 j s j nce the first gun was fired across the Belgian eye. ear. nose »mi throat
counties in Southern Alabama. In the year border, bv sending a million men to Europe and cor, tad stmt ad u>, Ateue
ending April 1st, 1918. thfae 17 counties had expending twenty millions of American dollars, omc, rhomr a: K«id«« sit
shipped 2 352 cried, value *
timated to.be more than $4,000,000. Formerly de |jb e ration but in truth hurrying forward with
that section produced little except cotton; now lbe most prodigious tasks. . . I 0
it utilising peanuts, velvet beans, corn and . Men by the millions, money by the billion,
oats, and has permanent pastures of Bermuda the figures run.
, i. an „ f t„- n ' - ! Somebody must fight, somebody must pay. j
, i ,o-ca \ r i , I The plan that has been adopted is the most
In 1909 only 12,o60 acres of velvet beans perfect and impartial ever adopted in any coun-
were planted in the South; in 1917 the velvet tr y anv age of the world. It is a concrete] W ni pn
bean crop in thip section covered 4,600,000. In embodiment of all the good taken from all the Gaidm Bid*.
1909 only 1.6® acres were planted in soy-systems of the other nations now at war and
be; in 19.7 the ... ..tinted .> ^h.ve been . fj ..r ,,nc, m.n . fret record,
half a million. The acreage in cow peas^ isi Do you expect to shirk as a fighter? Do you
SprcUl Attention t
u« of women
Office Over Brook. Pkarmaer
JOHN A. PETERSON
Office DewtUt
New O'Neal-McLeod Building
Tiftoo. Georgia
HR. A. E. O'QUINN
FIRST CLASS DENTAL WORK
Crown and Bridge Work a Specialty
Oirr I'inlcton'. Drug Star*
Tifton. Georgia
K. C. ELLIS
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
11 ml ion fitrn to collections
islter. relaliag lo laad title*.
In all the. Coarts.
Tiftoo, Ga.
FI l.WOOD S flARGRETT
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
o Bldg. Tiftoo, Ga.
a THE PRISON FARM AGAIN.
Senator Field en has introduced a resolution
e upper House of the Georgia General As-
tnbly asking that a commission of three suc-
cful farmers and two successful business
i be appointed by the Governor to spend a
i at the state prison farm (Senator Ficklen
i it “the hospital”) and report on the best
ler of dealing with the matter, either by
i, swap, or “give away.”
* hope his reaointion will pass, jknd if it
f nominate for one of the successful
, M. S. Patten, of
f the House of Re-
r Commit-
LOOK AFTER THE NATIONAL HIGHWAY.
Florida people are going northward now al
most every day by auto. Three to six cars ir
a squad are a frequent sight, and some days
fifteen to twenty cars can be counted, all bound
north. They are Florida people off for their
Bummer vacation.
Congestion of railway travel and improved
roads are adding daily to the volume of auto
traffic. Predictions are made that the travel
by auto south to Florida this fall will be the
largest ever known and Florida people are al
ready preparing for it
This brings Jto mind the need for improved
highways south of Tifton, connecting with the
system of pavtd highways through Central
Florida. Since Hamilton county has voted a
bond issue for a paved road through that coun
ty the necessary link of the National is secured.
While Hamilton is building, the other counties
north and south of-it should be improving their
stretches j>f the National in order that when
Hamilton's roaS is ready, a perfect highway
from M^con to Jacksonville, and from Tifton
to Orlando and points south, may be waiting.
Meanwhile, it would be a good idea for Tift
coanty to get its part of this highway in first
clam condition. There is work needed, and
done soon, we will get some advertis
es
said to have been' trebled since 1909. The hope to escape as a payer'
acreage in peanuts since 1909- has been mul- Will you get down to duty, setting a whole-
tiplied by six in Georein, Florid, and Alabama, • some example in your community, or trill you ,
. . . . . ,p i4- Tho await the arrival of the day of necessity, there-
and by eight in Texas and adjoining states^ The by increasinjt the cost in mcn and money?
acreage last year was three and one-fourth mil- Enlist f orlbe war like the boys in Frpnce and
lions compared with less than half a million the cantonments enlisted in the Army,
nine vears ago. The acreage in all three crops.' Fine new clothes, a bountiful table, sump-
velvet and soy bean, and peanuU. increased tuous livinir. joy automoblies are the best evl-
Irom 884.000 in 1900 to 8.350.000 in 1917. ]^* of * “ h ° ll> s,lfeh " ttl!rl> " n !“ ,r,otic
nearly all this acreage in the South. Frugality is a fine thing to cultivate at any
This great increase-in food and feed crops time and in any country: now it is become the
means more than appears on the surface, even vogue, do not wait for it to be foTced on you.
with thole enormous figures. It brings witn i! Sgve your money and produce more of the
, ,,, .. .. , .. , . substances needful in the world s dire stress,
improvement of the soil, the production of home Get the fru(ra , habit the most se |fish can do
fertilizers, pnd with the increase in animal' that with utmost consistency and with profit,
feeds and forage comes meat and milk to a sec- personal profit.
tion that was formerly a consumer of the sur- Put your automobile, gasoline, jewelry, and
plus meat and dairy products of the North and! sj^ M p|’ hea mone> ' ‘" to " AR SAVING
West. _ .. j Georgia should buy a hundred dollars worth
Truly, when peace comes it will find the-efor every dollar now invested in them.
South, and especially South Georwja, one of the ! Not one man in ten who reads this knows that
richest agricultural countries in the world. j Saving Stamps are redeemable at any post
j office at their increased face value; that they
i draw interest every month you hold them, and
TO WHOM HONOR IS DUE. j that any money order post office in the United
. . r j States will give you the money you have in-
Provoet-Marshal General Crowder is a modest 1 vested in them and the interest on if on short
man, and at the same titpc a man who puts a j h(m . liuu , how much ,
true value on the services of others. He | you are concerned .
says that to the local draft boards throughout o, Georgia, empire in extent, population, and
the country, the men on the firing line of SeleC- ] wealth, set the pace for the other American
tive Draft, so to speak, is due the “greater slates in this world crisis!
, ... ... , _ .. Dear reader, invest your money where it will
share ofthe credit for budding up our armies ; b0 mos , >ecure and brinz good in , crcat , nd
When he was offered the rank of Lieutenant-: wb ere it will do its share in keeping from our
General, which tender he said he “valued be- shores the most dreadful menace that evefcJ
yond anything in his military career,” he de- ; threatened the world’s civilization,
clined. for the reason that the higher honor be- J- E- Mercer.
in librral amount*, at 54 aa
rrat ttraighl inter rat. Can I
n» in any county and ft* I
B. C. WILLIFORD. A
ral-Wt l-cod Building. Offl
Tifton. Ga Fh
It. It. LITTLE
DENTIST
Tifton. Gto^fla
mil Brkler Work a
t I'.tiildios foi
longed to the local boards, calling attention to
the fact that “6000 local and district boards,
with an aggregate membership of 18,000 citi
zens, have co-operated with the national head
quarters efficiently and honorably, many with
out compensation, in the superb teamwork j
LOCATED TWO THOUSAND ACRES.
KENT(
TRY US- WE ^
.MOVE.
You anywhere by auto
tqick. Any size loads,
large or small.
Prices right,'25c and up.
We move trunks, 35c
Up Stairs 50c.
See us and save money.
Kent’s Auto Transfer
Opposite Court House
Telephono 112 or 261
Tifton, . . . Ga.
Already, more than 2,000 acres of the land
. hich did not show up on the county tax (books
the superb teamwork when the Board of Equalizers'completed Its
which has produced the gratifying results at-! work late in June has been put on the digest. .
tained under the selective service law.” i Thjs land has been located a few acres here,
Here is merited praise from the highest j a fewSjjore acres there, in small tracts and
source for a set of men who 'have done their large on*, until the aggregate amount
duty well and served the nation in the main
fearlessly and impartially often at great per
sonal sacrifice. When we are footing up our
indebtedness after the war, we should not for
get the local boards.
Score another for Wilson, in hia veto of the
measure passed by Congress fixing the mini
mum price of wheat at $2.40. This bill waa
graft on the part of Western Congressmen and
would have yiereaaed the cost of flour to the
consumer about $2 a barrel. Reports from the
West Bay that the wheat growers were not
clamoring for the increase; being fairly well
satisfied with the price they are getting—about
150 per cent over that of five years ago.
The county of Turner is to have a new
Board of County Commissioners if the- bill of
Representative Gilmore gets through. Thus
the eternal change goes on.
runs up
into the thousands. In nearly every case, the
omission was due to oversight or error, but had
not Effort been made to locate, these missing
acres, they would have remained off the tax
books for an indefinite time.
The total result means that the county will
collect taxes on more than 2,000 acres of. land
in addition to wh^Lrt collected taxes on fast
year.
“ANOTHER HAS GONE”
From the Cordele Dispatch.
Editor John Herring of the Tiftgn Gazette
now has three sons in the war. From the
Gazette office within less than p year five men
have volunteered and are now on the way to
combat with unspeakable Hun. The Gazette
and its editor ought to be happy. It is seldom
permitted for an enterprise of this kind and its
head to have the vital interest they have in
those who go out to battle for freedom. A
Of course, it “gave the old tree a wrench" to
part with each one of them.