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GAZETTE, TIFTON, a A.
FR1D,
! VOTING ON THE
THE TIFTON GAZETTE ’We knew all the; time that Jesse Mercer’s
Published Wqpkly heart was in the right place. The Washington
* 1, r .. j Herald took a vote on the League of Nations,
Entered at the Postofflce at TUton.Geonrfa. an<J t j, e reS(|lt wat overwhelmingly for the
§,. Second Class Matter. Act of Marc , .. L eagl | e> 3 to X, tl$e exact figures being: Yea,
?■ ' L Herring...... . Editor and Manager j 3.4i$i No. 092. Mercer sent in th* fbl-
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Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
(lowing letter for thf “Yes" column:
i “As one who
more than the l
. a league of nations I vote 'yes.' ”
GOV. OSBORN ANSWEfcrGwP!
Before returning to his home - in RaultSte
Marie, Michigan, Hon. Chase S. Osborn, of
Michigan, found time to spend 9 day. or'stnu
that- delightfully typical Southern city,. Savah-
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read the attack of Gov. Henry J. Allen, of
1 one who drejtds the red chaos in Europe Kansas, on the South because of its attitude on
than the fires ; of hell, to your question ofr“® co **° n question, and wrote an open letter
■ * in reply. >,>
Also, while in Savannah, Mr. Osborn talked
in his usual entertaining and convincing manner
in favor of the League of Nations, on which he
was quoted at length by the Morning News.
| “God speed the
1 distracted univi
sy when the sanity of the
. will return and all men
41*80 -say 'No more wars-on earth but peace among
75 Cents ’ the races of mankind forever.’ ”
“Let us be sure that it shall be impossible
N ?Z, Y ° rI t Wh “ e t . h ,: re ’ h ® Etate > county and government health officers.
A malarial zone about five miles wide and
twenty miles long lying just' west of Sale City
has been almost depopulated, according to a
statement made to the 'Moultrie Observer by
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Building a Flutter-Mill.
- , . _e impU MH nr*w - ngraropw -w w -7
for any nation even our own liberty-loving and Concerning his reply to the Kansan, the Sav- the hemorrhagic
'magnanimous to create a condition such as annah Press says: itgf
! exists today in a large part of the world.. . | Averring the misery of the world is caused
So many deaths are said to have occurred in the
zone during the past few months that the peo
ple who formerly lived in It became panic-
stricken and moved away, one farm which
formerly operated fifteen plows being fo
completely desertedT The fever from wi
ttys people suffered in the affected area and
m which many"died, is said to have befen of
’th a, heavy mortality
I “May we not hesitate to hold up the hands 1 h |?„ cal i?!: a The section affected would probably soon
. I of the great Democrat who is devoting his sup- destitution nr^UMi- an f become as healthy as any portion of South
The poplars, bays and black-gums threw a; er-brain and sympathetic heart and bending d nd , furthe^ thifthose who profiteer ffi food Georgia if the people living therein Would c““
ool shade where the road crossed the branch his.^“thlhfatoryof toe world* undertake^ln the ° nea who “trade upon the miseries of fine their use of water to that from artesian
tu.* finiri Inal «hnv« thA rnad nrosamcr ever in tne nistory 01 me worm unaercaKen in wnwiri»» nu— a q„i n. ™ *... r_ * . .
cool
below the field. Just above the road crossing "Xthe°masseronirthrracea ot the world,” Hon. Chase S. Osborn, former gov- wells. Forty years ago—in fact much later
there wa 3 a tiny spring in the side of the hill, the ma8Se8 ° f the raCe8 °*. enter-,of Michigan, issued an ppen letter to than t hat-there was a strip of territory in the
and from this a little rill ran down to the Here’s how the referendum shaped up in to thriatt^rirrocenUtricture^upon the^uth- e;lstern P art of Dougherty and the western part
Kat r.it.iefl. ! ern cotton growerg because of the movement to Worth counties (which has much the same
®* VO/ltlpn Pnttnm aamamma PnmSni* an “AVla lntlor ffnrtlncflPn 1 frtMTlJ1 tmn . . underlying Hmpstollo
branch. Rains had washed sand in from other cities:
the hillsides until the road served as a low Yes
dam, backing the water of the branch into a New * Yor „k Globe 26,877
f small pond above the crossing. Pressed by this Ro^ester (TiiLsSon)YY!! 1,878
backwater, a swift little stream had cut its way gy racUBe (Journal) 1,116
across the roadway and ran, rippling, over 'Los Angeles (Times) 1,624
the red pebbles and sand.
Out in the coltonfield where the boy was hoe
ing the sun was hot, the dust choking ,and soon
the lure of the cool water in the spring was too
strong to withstand. At the spring, kneeling
on a piece of sap and pinebark, he drank deep
ly and thirstily. The shade of the big poplar
by the road tempted to rest, and while sitting
fanning himself with an old straw hat, the
rippling water across the road suggested a flut
ter-mill.
- Did you ever build a flutter-mill?
If not,‘you missed a great event in'a boy’c
life.
They are constricted from a shingle, from a
piece of soft pine, from a cedar stave from
bucket or piggin—or froth a'round, wooden
box in which matches came in those days. Two
j - long paddles were whittled thin and notched
half through in the center. Fitting these into 1
Y, a split rod so that one notch would slip into tho
,a> other, leaving four paddle blades protruding,
,<; was the work of a mechanic. To find two
? b'ushes with just the right-sized forks was
'•> mother job. Cut the forked sticks about eight
aches long, set ttym upright In the sand on
Ither side of the ritt, and then lay the rod into
" 3 ?hich the paddles', had been inserted in the
Y - forks. With the bark removed and the ends
Grand Rapids (Press) 3,602
Des Moines (Capital) 187
Boston (Post) 8,664
Dallas (Times-Herald) 1,069
Bridgeport (Standard-Telegram) 410
Topeka (Capital) 672
Houston (Chronicle) 1,698
Binghamton (Press) 468
Sioux Falls (Press) 70
13 137 reduce cotton acreage. Coming as the letter geological formation- _ _
1 068 does from a life-long Republican and a personal as that in the part of Mitchell county men-
149 * riend Governor Allen, the defense assumes tfoned, and which lies directly to the' south of
267 special significance. j it) where hemorrhagic fever prevailed through
85 Mr. Osborn tells Gov. Allen that his prifi-i*rn|the late summer and early fall months. That
49 °- !*!®? uth . “ un kind, unjust, and unfound-j section was almost entirely given over to large
1,612 ed ’ and no *' on, y ‘‘doc® the South a grievous 1 plantations and the fever was so fatal that’th’e
'lOO wrong, but yourself a poignant injustice." He’white people moved out and left the land to be
166 then proceeds to show, by clear-cut logic and cultivated by negroes. With the discovery that
i88 straight-forward facts why Gov. Allen is wrong’artesian wells with flowing water could be sunk
7 4 and in what way he is wrong. Showing just;there at comparative low cost the use of sur-
27 how acreage reduction would be of benefit in- face water for drinking purposes was aban —
stead of harm to the world as a whole, he saysrdoned almost entirely and artesian water ,sub-
The final figures of the Bureau of Census on’ To begin with the “misery of the world” is stituted. There is very little complaint of
the cotton crop of 1918, not including linters, caused byTiunger, hatred and strife and not fever in that territory now.
shows an increase for Georgia of 230,969 bales, ^ y ot C h ^° n ttWh* those wCprofiH » is within the writer’s recollection when
compared with 1917. This report was made in food are the ones who “trade upon the misery cistern, or rain water, was used almost ex
public on March 20, but the details have just of the world.” No matter what is the object of clusively for drinking purposes in Albany, and
been sent out. It credits Georgia With 2,116,- cotton acreage reduction the result in the South there was a great deal of fever there, especially
023 bales for 1918 against 1,886,064 bale 3 for j. 3 al ?ff better cotton and more f 0 u 0W j n g a hot summer. Several cases of yel-
1917. The counties in this immediate section been the habit in th^South to pourin fertilize? low fever there with the attendant quarantine
report as follows: Berrien, 4,137 against 10,- and try to handle more acres per man and mule Hag are well remembered. The coming of
683 for 1917; (Cook county is reported for the than could be well done. Under existing boll toe artesian well has changed all this. Albany
first time, 2,083 bales, this amount being taken weevil conditions of the South ten acres well has comparatively little malarial fever and yel-
from Berrien.’ Atkinson county is reported for ™ ^ ^S^^o^aw fever i 3 almost forgotten. We are sure
the first time, with 1,666 bales, this amount , b ®-,?oTco C ^Vtt ^Snli^asrViwerbtaM!:the same remedy would make the deserted
ing taken from Coffee;) Coffee, 12,926 for yams, etc.. This ten to one statement may strip in Mitchell county healthy again.
1918 against 22,111 for 1817; Colquitt, 18,- sound disproportionate until you know that 1001
094 against 18,888; Irwin, 12,133 against 16,-, acres of cotton put in late and poorly cared for
416; Lowndes, 2,088 against
643 against 10,967; Turner, 16,
208; Worth, 14,650 against 16,684.
The Second District Asricultum!
School baseball team won its first fame
of the season on Up borne diamond Fri
day afternoon, defeating the Nashville
team 8 to 0. *; v' t?
Mobley, Fateh and Morrison, were the
battery for Nashville; Harrell and Me-
Millan fo r A. M. S.
Bowen and Puckett umpired the game.
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Complaint comes from social workers that
t forks
of the
of the rod whittled down .the ,u
should bo just high enough for the [Mil
paddle-blades to drop
f .;■!•. The forks must be right;;,the rod prop-
t-._ balanced and the blades of the wheel the
proper weight and thickness to work well, and
the water swift enough to pull the mill. It
required much p&tienbe for the work had to be
done over and over again, but after awhile—
presto! The water would spurn the lower
projecting paddle; the wheel would turn on its
axis in the fork; the water would catch the next
paddle—and, oh, joyl The mill was a going
concern! Never in older years did master
mechanic take greater delight in the most pow-
rful turbine or the most marvelous locomotive
han the juvenile builder took m his first fluty
sr-mill when, after hours of patient labor, for
•he first time
n “It starts! It moves 1 It seems to feel
A thrill of life along its keel!’’
Once going, tho work is only well begun. A
piece of bark floating along clogs and stops the
■wheel. The forked axis jams and operations
cease. No matter how merrily the wheel may
be going, the most temporary absence means a
p or a breakdown, and no boy wants his
iutter-mill to stop. When once it is well go
tsst&TiSJsra
,u>2 against is.- a id U0U sly, weevils picked off as long as can be! Georgia are apparently overlooking the law
' done and the cotton picked as fast as it ma-'that authorizes the creation of a juvenile court
tores, may yield several bales per acre instead in each county, for they have failed to put it in
The call of the government for fifty thous- of less man an average oi a nan oaie even oe- opera ti 0 n. The law was enacted In 1916, yet
>nd volunteera for three yeaw> ,ervic ® ^ reduction in only top or twelve counties have organized i
into tho water about an! ar u my 18 opportunity for young men the gouth ^ certain i y help to cure shiftless these qourts, although they were designed not
ha riiriit- tins rod nrnn- w *'° rcR ' lze the advantage of a course in mlli- farming and the one-crop idea, with absolutely alone to-correct criminal tendencies already !
tary training and who want to see foreign ser-;no harmful result. 'developing in children, but as preventives
vice. The Government guarantees to send these A.'.cr ccmprehensively discussing the awak-j against adult crime. It is thought that thej
volunteers to France as soon as they can be en ed South and the, new agricultural methods strain of the war may account in part for the \
mobilized, the purpose being to relieve an equal which have brought Georgia into fourth place neglect of the juvenile courts, but it is designed 1
number of men over there who want to come among the agricultural states, only led by H-’now to bring the matter before the attention of
home. The recent fresh outbreak of Bolshev- linois, Iowa, and Texas (and made 51 per cent the Grand Juries* that they may investigate and (
ism in Central Europe had nothing to do with 0 f the agricultural productions of this state if they consider them necessary, recoiiiffiend [
this call. The purpose is to relieve men who t foodstuffs) giving the increased acreage in that toe law be put into operation,
have seen service abroad and are entitled to a g ou th Georgia as an illustration, he concludes:
Much Suffering is Needlessl ,
Get Relief Without Fear!
JDon’t Lay Awake in Pain.
Adults—Take one or two
“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin’’
with water. If necessary, re
peat dose three times a day,
meals. .
rest, and to train fifty thousand additional. Now, if curing carelessness and cutting down The Sparks Eagle may be young in years J
South will not only help to alleviate the misery!and while we may publish and comment on the
, , , , ! of the world, but also tend to do away with j most important news of the world, the chief
Nervous people need not be alarmed over miserableness in the South, even at the ex- ambition of our young i ife is to print the news
prospects for another war with Germany. That'pense of competing food production with good . f 0Ur home town and the territory immediate .
country is whipped, and could not go to war if Western farmMS. ly surrounding, and this is what we are trying
it wanted to. At the first hostile demonstra- All of the above is piffle compared with the' t d to ^ b t f abilitv We have no
less than a week and hold every fortified cen-j _ n a e world when Amer j C ans should b e one same piethods employed by other people, that;
ter within thirty days. And the boys over there swe ; e (. people, it is now. Bitterness and death is we have to see, be told, written or otherwise
wouldn’t ask anything better than a chance to j are 'stalking over Europe night and day because informed of everything that we find out, and'
do that very thing. Germany will dicker and of hatred and hunger. Our country i s still safei it , i mno saible for us to be everywhere at I
- - haggle, and bluff on all possible occasions, but and sound and harmonious. We must be care-)®® J J n * mp “®e^erat r^ me
mg, there are many. a ; m0 ^ n Unl f i r 7‘ t cr e d P 0S3 ' b ' - that country must accept such terms as the Al-jful how we play with firebrands of discord.' AC ^ ptace that we Si
ties. With a piece of cotton string for a belt, d i ct ate and none knows this better than’All of us must be for country first all of the naturally many tmngs take place that we dont
to a wheel formed of a match-box lid mounted government. The I time - There must be a vacation - of Partisan-1 s f e - H y° u should «° somewhere and someone
r oni an axle a foot or so away, another mill a
*■' rnay be started; from this.another still farther
Y Tom the water, until at last the flutter-mill In
he stream has all it can carry, and there is a
' Y leries of shafts and counter-shafts, pulleys and
string belting enough to tax the ingenuity of
even the most Imaginative and industrious
builder. ' „
Insignificant as it may seem, a perfected flut-
s ter-niill <(ras the product of many days rather
than hours of hard work, and much perspira
tion some little amateur profanity and many
t fingers were the price of success. Some pa-
tlence was necessary, for there were many fail
ures,
Gripp
Influenzal^
Neuritis
Sciatica
Lumbago
Owned by Americana!
. ship, even at the expense of not being mention- should come to visit you and the fact should.
worst that Germany can do is to refuse to sign ed f or P residehcy. We must pull together [not get in the paper, don’t think that it is spite
the peace treaty and let the Allies collect by for America; not push apart. j or cussedness on our part, for the chances are j
force-
do.
-which they would speedily proceed to
In pursuance of the policy of giving aid to
state road building, the Secretary of Agricul-
There seems to be a contagion of raucous that we didn’t know it.”
criticism abroad. You vyere a Y. M. C. A.
worker. Now come all classes of soldiers who
you and all Y. M. C. A. workers were fifty
Always Insist upon the safe
“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin.”
Boy only original Bayer
COeent package—larger lizca.
We had been expecting something of the
Commission, as Engineer in immediate charge
of work under the Federal Aid road act. Mr,
MacDonald will supervise and direct all acti
vities under this head, including the expendi-
say you ana an I.n. u. a. woraers were nny| cAyotinn; auiue.mns mo
stave roau ou.iu.ng, tne oecretary oi ngncui- milesin the ^a r se n din8 wordthat you wouldkind.Aiong comes a newspaper yarn thatthe
tore has appointed Thomas A MacDonald, form- thTtoS&S 0 * m
er Chief Engineer of the Iowa State Highway in “NoTan ? s La^d,’’und?r fire, comforting the tion - °^‘ nated „ up ln n ?^ ern Michigan where
wounded, giving them water and words of God, county Sheriff named Bone was so vl 8*Jant in
and to the fighting men coffee and doughnut8. the)«nf orcement of a local option law and kept
Of course I do not believe a word of the charges his county so dry that it was called “Bone-dry”
made against the Y. M. C. A. and you. I know and when tre national prohibition measure was
te was necessary, for there were many fail- ture of the additional appropriation under the 1 both $ f £° U htt£ Jtoinatie'? irSmort^rimblai p6R ^ n8: ^ Co “f ess U *** fo ' him ‘
_ -» and a little mechanical ability, for there Po3toffice appr0 prlation bill for the extension! you^uld have L ur L« r - a ° n? ® i*™ state ® that th ® * orm ®f
were many problems, uut the boy who was| and development of highway construction dur- 1 thought just once before charging the whole Shar ^ f 18 n ° w Y r0 ^ kl ”* ia a Tampa shipyard
working on a flutter-mill was busy and out ing this and the two following years. He will South with trading upon the misery of the.ahd has modesty admitted that the thirst-crea-
[ of other mischief ,and some grown men and - ' ' "* ‘ '
fathers encouraged their construction, believing
.that they developed mechanical talent.
[KS But the boy who went down to the spring
and then started to build a flutter-mill thought
consult and co-operative with state and county
authorities. Y
world Ta\>
Why, bless you, Dear Governor Henry
Allen, there is no Bolshevism, no anarchy i
The outbreak Of Bolshevism in Hungary'will’ ttJ^°v?hlte atyMriack, are the purest, most
not delay the departure of any American troops devoted Americans we have In these blessed
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of none of those things. Neither did he think Europe. It may he necessary for the Al- old U? S., and they wre our brothers.
** • else bi)t the mill until the horn up uea to occupy the affected area—for the case
Do fiot -figure that you have./ 4
itor was named for him. Of course the sobri- enough- FIRE INSURANCE! ^
J.'quet “bone-dry”, as applied to national prohibi- when your property is proti
nor tion, grew out of the familiar expression,* “Dry ted to the extent of
All of as a bone”—only this, and nothing more. SIXTY per; cent—be on
: *afe side, and carry ENOl
at the -house on the hill sounded for dinner and
he realized that half of a morning had been
lost, atid that an accountiing would be neces-
■y when his work was checked!
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. ochool'has been
of Trustees, * L
The Tifton Gazette says: “It is safe to say INSURANCE.^ 1
that none of those senators who talk so glibly’ ADDITIONAL
of Hungary is altogether different from that of. With 270,000 casualties among the Affiferi-Jabout blocking the ratification of the peace ANCE can be platodthru
But no »«enc
Agricultural
led to Cochran the Board
hours session in At- the7>eace treaty.
Russia, which was a’friendly nation—but the can Expeditionary Forces, there were only 3,- treaty has a son in service overseas.' — — YWihtoorn
French and Italians have plenty of troops avail- 034 major amputations—meaning the loss of senator talks about blocking the peace treaty. fcAmESX - t
able for this purpose. The War Department is 1 arm, leg, foot, hand or two or more fingers.!lf it is delayed because coupled with an ex-; u> tntyflga—why
bringing our troops home as fast as the shipsiThat the proportion of major amputations was.traneous matter that is objectionable it wfll not a poraon or your n
ore available and the only thing that can af-'so small is attributed to modern surgical skill, bo the fault of tty senate.-rJae^u^eJ^ty^f y ®“ T n . Md additional
feet their departure would be delay in sighing | which savea such a large p6r centage of shat-
For some of our men must! tered limbs. With old surgical methods and
ided in favor of that stay over there until peace is declared. . modern shell wounds, there would be an alarm-
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-me of the?
COMPANIES -
not grant ut
your business;
i 'proti'
Union. The gentlemen leaves a doubt, wheth- Bont
cr he is trying to be sarcastic or Is only silly, j Dependable service'[i and/
ing number of the wounded disabled.for life.
Dembtrat-'No profession!haa. come through the war with —, —, —
e remember where-'higher honors 1 than the surgeons and physici- ney-Generai. Good material—but is that tiie
tiative. ' ans. 'reason he moved from South Georgia? ■ !
k -.. ■:
courteous attention;
They are talking about rtinhink John IB.. P.L1. PnrlroH’,
utetyson,. formerly of Ashburn, for Attor- nTiTi. Pocket, M*
iphon. 807.