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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- — P fef pf 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- SUBSCRIPTION RATESi Twelve Month* Sis Month* 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. — 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 ——7’TT —” * f , " , UVkMtoRJ V*. WIJ ruucilKttU LTUV|A9 d6VOteCt AllienCSZlfl WB UftVB IU VI* 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! ■Il| ■— . 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- ..... I I , i 11 J.J li*. -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.