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TIOTfton gazette
Publiahed Weekly
Entered at the PostoIIice at Tlfton, Georgia,
Second Class Matter, Act pf March 3, 1879.
Jno. L. Herring Editor and Manager
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GEORGIA’S PART IN THE WAR.
intiie.Mtcd in an early and a
t\teMsted in an early and nc-
hephrt Georgia look in. the
war for Human Liberty will be interested to
know that the work hn s been undertaken By
Editor John II. Jones, of the LaGrange Report
er, who has been recently connected with the
United War Work head.quarters in Atlanta.
An advisory .board will assist Mr. Jones in
the work and this board includes Gov. Dorsey,
Lucian Lamar Knight; State Historian; M. L.
Brittain. State Superintendent of Schools; Paul
T. Harber, President of the Georgia Press As
sociation, and a number of others. Both Geor
gia Senators have endorsed the work and sup-
.port has been promised by the State President
of the U. D. (.'., by the Georgia Historical As
sociation and by the Chairtnan of Woman’s
War Relief Work and other patriotic women
societies.. I y
The enterprise is one which deserves sub
stantial encouragement and Mr. Jones invites
suggestions ami Oilers of support. His address »
is po'stollice box 1152, Atlanta. .Georgia has ' ambrai to the Belgian border. There were
furnished over 100,000 men to the army andh'so a few American troops in Italy, tjen. March
navy and hus taken a prominent part in all slav’d to the Senate Military Committee Tues-
measures for the prosecution of the war. It is day that the ntimber engaged in the fighting in
France was above 750,000 but “somewhat less
than one million.” ►
Of the casualties reported, we are told that
58.478 were deaths, t'p to and including Sun
day's lists the names of 41.204 dead, had been
reported. So it can be seen that
ready had the worst and that the number of
OUR CASUALTIES OVER
The Moultrie Observer is
What it believes are
ported by General P
has been stated that tl
B. IL STKIPUINQ. MOITLTUK.
comment on
casualties" re-|
This because it
casualties will be
262.093, while it estidktes that on)y about 700,-
Q00 men were
The trouble wktf this deduction is that it is
om a wrong preihise. If we understand cor-
ctly, the casualties referred to include all of/!
e American Expeditionary Forces from tM
ne of landing and also the losses from ti
sinking of the Otranto and other British trans
port ships. Insteud of these casualties being
nearly one-third of 700,000 men, they repre
sent the deaths from wounds received in action,
from disease and pccident, and the wounded
uud otherwise disabled in an army of 2,200,000
men. The first American forces were landed in
June 1917 so that the casualties cover the period
of a year and a half instead of th£ six months
the Observer figures. -It is also worthy of es
pecial note that it is stated by Mr. Hollomon,
of the Atlanta Constitution, who is just back
from France, that a great number of the wounds
‘received during the last weeks of fighting were
very slight, principally in the feet and lower
limbs, which he explains were caused by shrap
nel. striking on stony ground.
During hie last days of the war we had many
more than 700,000 men in action. That is the
number that is estimated to have been engaged
in the Argonne fighting. Besides these, Ameri
cans were with the French in the St. Quentin
tor *uiil with the British in the drive from
Mother! Look at his
Give Him a Cascaret—Quickl'
Won’t eiT= Don't scold! See if tongtl
breath feverish, stomach sour.
a -ixH.nfui ■ •( IHxllun’x livi-r T..n« j r v.i'.-.1 uiuiurr.. v,. mnp
»l..,„| au ,| w m „ k ‘ . u'jlins./g^hr TiftAn ixwtoffir* force. W. <
V.. won- h.liouanM* „ * ! | S| WMiSe. »( Miiultrir. I). H. Striplim
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t Hut] I Cxlaou’x Live
POUND PIGS
With roro above 50 cents hogs rat
lieir beads off very quickly. The bo*
MR. LAND APPOINTED
eiueut la made that Mr. J. '
t Onr,n line been named
Prior Gilbert u( the Georgia
Natioual Defense ne Special
lltv for Tift coauty in
r rampaiau work. A pa
never brings yon a profit
you are ready to put
1 feed, begin with tbe B. A,j The Council baa just mailed to the!
TFe Medicine. Ua« regularly! Mayor and f'onnclfof ea'h city in fieor-'
h your shoals round out into ain a letter enclo.ina a m~l.-. ordinance
■ —month*—boaa
.. ,-ing well
...rr -OU I-'Utills and aa high as 240
IK.im.la, Figure the average feeding and
yon will ace why tbe B. A. Tbomaa medi
cine la a good fnrentment. Try feeding
out your hogs ou this plan and if yon
are not mqre than pleased, w* will re
fund the cost of the medicine. For sale
by itickeraon Grocery Co.
in the <
tint the
it lining
ordinance I.
large
nrably
duer this loss lit food a
TO MOTHERS! Nothing else "works" the 'tiasty bile, the sour
fermentations and constipation poison so gently but so thoroughly from
the little stomach, liver and bowels like harmless Cascarets. While
children usually fight against laxatives ar>H cathartics, they gladly eat^g
candy Cascaret. Cascarets never gr';.j the toowdi, never sicken. E"
ten cent box of Cascarets contains Brecon* for do*> for chBdtm a
one vear old and upwards.
fitting that the history of this work shduld be
written while the news .js fresh. . m
FOUR MINUTE MEN COMPLETE WORK.
On Christinas Eve the organization of Four
Minute Men will disband, the work complete.
This organization was formed last year under| deaths will be relatively small in the lists to
the direction of the Bureau, of Public Infurma- conic. The casualties it is true have been a
’ tion, and ihcljudcd-every town of importance heavy toll on American manhood, but consider-
throughout the nation. The pur.nose was, bv.ing the number enguged have been comparer
talks of four minutes each, at theatres, church- lively small. Perhaps when we know the whole’
pnd other public gatherings, to educate the I truth about the last’days of the lighting.
r manures; the first work being to ! hind the daily reports of ‘short advances’ by our
i the people why this country army in the Argonne in October and November-
was forced to go to war. There was a head j lay the details of the bitterest conflict of the
es. and other pi
peciile on war i
correctly inforr
organization in each state and an organization war. perhaps one of the greatest battle's'.of all
in each, county, all working directly under in- time. Some day history may set the Argonne .
struction from the head office in Washington, j battle at the peak of America’s first adventure
Among the most notable thimrs discussed ilnreliiL-a-worid-c-imsade-fop-Fr-eeclom."
mg the year and a half were: The four Liber-1 Flunk the best we can see, the War Depart-
ty Loan drives; the varioift public utterances of ment has been absolutely frank in printing,the
the President; War Savings Stamps; Red Cross,!casualty lists as soon as they could be obtained
War Work Fund and V. M. C. A. drives, and ev- and verified. An accurate list is all the kind
ery detail of the various publicity campaigns that would be worth while. Secretary Baker
for the different exigencies of war work. It stated that General Pershing had been asked re-
has been properly claimed that the Four Minute! pcatedly to expedite the reports. He said that
Men played a strong part in arousing the Anieri-’at first the system at central! headquarters was
can people to a full sense of their duties and J too slow, but that it has been improved. “We
responsibilities during the war. I had to choose between speed and unreliable
The work of the Tift County Four Minute'information and a Somewhat; slower system, but
-Men is finished, because under the bun on pub-1reliable.” It should be kept in mind that the
lie gatherings, no more speeches can be made {first and prime object «>f an army in battle is to
here before December 24. The organization
here was: R. Eve. Chairman; J. L. Herring,
Secretary and Acting Chairman; C. W. Ful-j
■stjjpg t* noti the other dayJItoi
rman cruiser Goeben was among
wood. C. W. Durden. G. W. Mathews, A. G.
. Fort, W. L. Bryan and J. S. Ridgdill. During
the past year, 183 speeches were made by these,
and audiences aggregating 47,245 people ad
dressed.
PLANT TREES FOR THEM.
That is a splendid suggestion from the Savan-
' hah Morning News that testimonials or monu
ments to soldiers who lost their lives in the
cause of Liberty be usdtul or living things. Why
• not set, on public* squares or parks, in each
town and county, a tree for each man who died
in service And have their care delegated to a
patriotic organization of women? Marble is
ail right, but trees are more useful, live longer
and look better. Also, there is something ap
pealing in the idea of keeping their memory
green.
It was interest
the former Garmin
the warships of the Turkish fleet surrendered
to the Allies. The Goeben had a lively and
checkered career. Wilh her companion, the
Breslau, she was caught by British warship* in
the Mediterranean at the outbreak of the war
and ii was reported both*were destroyed. This
was not true, for they made their escape and
took refuge under the guns of the Dardanelles
where they were interned until Turkey .entered
the war 'Cvhen Germany turned them over to the
Turks and they were converted into a part of
the Turkish fleet, although still oflitered and
manned by Germans. ‘They did H»nsidorable
damage to Russian and other Allied shipping ii
the Black Sea and when the Germans took oVer
the Russian fleet paused, the Allies some un
easiness, but when the two made a dash off the
‘ entrance to the Dardanelles a few Months ago,
they were caught and the Breslau destroyed.
It wu.reported that the Goe*ben yP)s beached
led at the same time but she was soon
I put back in commission. The final
f the cruiser into the hands of the Al
lies rlHtff > career both eventful and romantic.
Say# tbe Valdosta Times:
from Valdosta to Ml
It runs througl
put the project o
Highway
a paved
National
tght to be'
i counties
fighL - Whip the enemy first, before he whips
you. To that end every energy of the army
and the vast train of communications behind is
beat. Fresh men, shot and shell, food arid sup
plies. must be kept going forward in a steady
stream, following ail army driving the enemy
from point to point and leaving in its rear a
region torn and devastated. Next is to take-
care the wounded and secure the positions
won. As soon as possible then the rolls are,
called, th/men checked, and the killed, wound
ed and missing reported. These reports must be
erified and because in the course of battle;
companies and even regiments shift and cl *nge,
the process is slow. Then, through the con
gestion at the mar of the lines incident t<« any
in battle, must be sent several hui tired
miles to headquarters the casualty reports.
There they are checked again and sent t< the
ports and from tJier*» to Washington, \\ here
they are again cheeked and verified. Because
the lists arc long and the wires crowded, they
must be sent by mail and to avoid delays, sev-|
ral days in: advance of the data released for
publication. W* must remember that we have
been fighting 3.M0 miles across- the seas; not
next door.
The casualty lists hatfb been slow in coming,
but we cannot believe they have been unneces
sarily slow. That the losses have been great
has been due in part to the bravery and gallan
try of our men in action. That the War De
partment has been anything but frank with the (
friends and relatives of the soldiers at home, we
do not believe. On the contrary, the evidence'
Is that all information in its possession had been-
readily and freely furnished.
The Florida legislature was called together
to pass a prohibition law that would be tig»r|
tight and bum proof, and it appears to be
succeeding. The special session was called for-
lowirtg-Qie election of November 5. at which the!
constitutional amendment prohibiting the raar.u-j
facturc and sale of intoxicants in that state after
January-1 next was ratified. Not only is the
transportation of liquors by every method of
conveyance hitherto used to be prohibited, but
by special paragraph the Florida law makes it a
penalty to deliver them by airship. So far as
known this is the first law of the kiTld in the
world and to the Land of Flowers belongs the
distinction of keeping not only abreast of the
times, but perhaps a little ahead.
BARGAINS,
Yes, Bargains in all W inter Goods and Holic
Goods. From now until Xmas we wiFFoffer rds
Bargains in all W inter Goods.
Ready to Wear
All Coat Suits, Coats and
one-piece Dresses reduced
QfW
Best Blue Bell Cheviots 25c
Toil-du-Nord Ginghams ..25c
36-in. Ponjab Percale 25c
uU /o
For Cash
40-in. Unbleached Sheeting
Silks
All Silk and Crepo de Chine
reduced
Best 36-in. Bleaching 22c
10-4 Unbleached Sheeting 65c
25%
One lot Ladies’ Purses, Special
Shoes
All Ladies Fancy Shoes re-_
duced
75c
25%
Men’s Shoes and Hats reduced
Sweaters
Sweaters and Georgette and
Crepe de Chine Waists reduc-
25/o
Great Values.
^'25%
Special Prices on all Wool and
Cotton Blankets. 1
Of all kinds for the
Children.
v
Best Assortment of
Dolls ever shown in Tif-
ton. The very thing all
little girls want.
Xmas Gifts
Ties
Scarfs
Gloves
Handkerchiefs of all
kinds.
Silk Petticoats.
Ivory Goods.
Cut Glass.
Silverware. • ' r -
Bath Robes.
The above prices are for strictly cash, because they are special values
and we can afford to sell only for cash at these prices. We will be giafl *
to see you anytime- We can save you money on your holiday shopping.
COME EARLY, Before the Best Is Gi
The Adams-Smith C<
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