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■£? THE TIFTOH GAZETTE Published Weekly Sntered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia, Second Class Hatter, Act of March 8, 1879. >. L. Herring..... ...Editor and Manager Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Twelve Month* — $1.80 Six Month* - 78 Cents SATURDAY NIGHT. When the Ghost Wa* Nearly Drowned. i "Why is it, when a boy is courting, others of his age and sex try to make life as miserable for him as possible?” asked'the Professor. “Give it up, unless it is jealousy," the Super intendent replied. The two were on their way to a state gather ing of educators, occupying a red-plush-cover- ed seat in a hot and dusty railway car. Outside the May sunshine, the trees in leaf and the flowers in bloom, with the drum of bees and the odors of late Spring, were tempting. It was the sight of three—two boys and a girl- fishing in a brook as they passed that doubt less set the Professor to ruminating, and brought forth the remark. He followed it up: “Perhaps that’s it. Also, a little natural deviltry; a desire to tease, and sometimes a yearning to get even. At any rate, that is the time of a man’s life when he affords the most amusement for his fellow creatures. “I was one of four brothers, and as I was the youngest, I had the chance for a lot of fun with the others for which they could not retailiate in kind. I believe I told you about the time the boys played that joke on Bill, the oldest brother, in an effort to Break him from staying out so late at night, when they put an otter-skin in his bed. It didn’t break him, but something else did, for after awhile he quit visiting at old man Johnson’s, and settled into sedate ways again. "Soon after that our second brother, Sam, caught the fever. He was hard and fast in love with a girl across the creek from our house and he was over there two or three nights a week, until after midnight. Bill al ways blamed Sam for the otter-skin finding its way into his bed. He hadn’t said much, for he was not a fluent talker, but he was laying low, waiting for his chance. When Sam be gan to stay out at night, like a steer in late spring, Bill knew his time had come. “Sam was as scared of ghosts as a four-year- old. When he was small the others could get a rise out of him at any time by calling ‘ghost’ and when they told ghost stories around the fireside at night, he would be afraid to go to bed and too nervous to sleep after he got there. So when Bill began to plan for ‘even’ it was natural that he should think of playing ghost. He made him a mask of white cloth on which he painted red circles around the holes for his eyes and mouth with poke-berry-juice. He put on a Roman nose of monstrous size of the same color, and I can tell you, it made a fright ful looking object, even in daylight. He got a big gourd, cut out one side, stretched across the hole four old fiddle-strings, and when he drew a stick across them they made the most frightful groan any graveyard ever gave birth to. A sheet stolen from Ma’s bed-clothes shelf completed the outfit. “The creek was crossed by a foot-log, and just on this side the run next to our house there was a place where the lpgs did not quite come together and a board was nailed across, from one log to the other. The trees were thick there and the darkness intense, so that was the spot Bill selected to wait for Sam. You never saw a boy playing ghost that did not get scared himself, and that was the case with Bill. Af ter all his preparations, he was afraid to go alone so he let my other brother and myself in to the secret, and asked us to go with him "Saturday night, as usual, Sam was away and about 12 o’clock Bill got together all his ghost equipment and we slipped down to the creek. It was as dark as seven black cats fighting and after we had found our place, hid in the bushels and Bill had donned all his equipment, queer little, shivers would run up and down our spines while we waited. Oc casionally Bill would try out his groaner, and • "As he scrambl ed that he was couldn’t go bad had all gone who had gone Besides, a fell girl and tell hi be hill, Sam remember-: away from home. He! the girl’s house, for they 1 THE ACCESSIBIi Illustrating the accessibi 4 long ago except the girl, sidering its desirability as soon as she got rid of Sam. Coastal Plain Experiment SI don’t want to run back to a, tbe census of 1910 the ru a ghost got after him. m or ?*m thought of was his derringer. the creek. The bullets hit the footlog like slapsticks. >. Bill had just got out halfway the log when the explosion came. It frightened him worse than he had frightened Sam, and he turned, quick, to run. As he turned, his feet tore loose the bark from the old log, and as the bark went so went Bill, headfirst, into the waters of the creek. "The recoil of the derringer was almost as fatal as its bullets, for it threw Sam off his balance. His feet slipped on the hillside, the pebbles rolled under him and he rolled down the hill, through the bushes and plunged, ker- plug! into the creek, almost on top of Bill. “My brother and I ran to the edge of the water to stop the fight, but there was no fight left in either. Neither was there desire to scare anybody. They crawled out of the water, Sam’s Sunday best clothes no longer fit for wear and Bill’s ghost outfit looking like drowned rat. As they came up the bank, each looked hard at the other, and bimeby Sam said: ‘“You played it, didn’t you?’ “ ‘Like you did,’ Bill replied. “That’s all they ever said to each other about it, so far as I know." Did it cure Sam of crossing the creek?” the Superintendent asked. “No; worse than that. There were two girls over there and soon Bill was going with S:.m for company.” fifty-two miles of Tifton, as follow^: , Couotica Pop. Sq mile Countie* Pop. Sq mil* Berrien 31.0 Jeff Davis 20.2 Lee Brooks . 35.8 38.7 Ben Hill...... ~— 28.7 84 a Coffee Colquitt Crisp 20.4 61.1 88.1 Mitchell Pulaski Telfair 40.4 41.9 Sfifi Dodge 46.7 422 Dougherty .. 22.9 Turner 43.6 Dooly 51.8 Wilcox 88.6 Irwin 27.7 Worth 29.4 Tift 47.3 BECOME ACCUSTOMED TO A DAILY. People in Tifton and the section adjoining missed the Daily Gazette Saturday afternoon and Monday, while our Whitlock press was out of commission. We are glad they missed it. While we deeply regretted the accident and consequent delay, yet if nobody had missed the paper, we would have been disappointed. That such was the case shows that the people of the territory the Gazette serves have become ac customed to getting today’s news today, through this medium. Four and a half years ago, they depended on other papers for their daily news and got their local news weekly; from Burke to Camden . but they will never be satisfied with those con ditions again. .Having enjoyed the local news daily, a return to a weekly service is unthink able. All of which proves that the publication of a daily paper at Tifton was demanded by the growth of the city and section surroihiding, and that it did not come any too soon. Neither would consent to make the effort to get along without a home daily paper now. Which is commended to local advertisers, and all other men who have the development of this section at heart. Give the local paper every possible encouragement, that it may be kept a gqing concern, for the benefit of all—including its publishers. General average of the 20 counties, 39.3 per square mile. Only one county within a radius of fifty-two miles of Tifton had a greater rural population per square mile in 1910 than Tift, and that county is Dooly. Tift led all the others. Con sidering ah average of the 20 counties Tift stands far ahead of all the others. Remember, this was the population in 1910 and since then the growth of the rural population of Tift has been much greater than that of Dooly. We are sure that the census of 1920 will show a greater growth in rural pop ulation per square mile, in Tift county and in the counties adjoining, than in any other sec tion of the state. Take the official map issued by the Railroad Commission of Georgia in 1916: With a blue pencil describe a circle having a radius of four inches equal to fifty-two miles, in every direction from Tifton. The counties pierced by the rim of the circle plus those inside (not counting Tift) are twenty in number. They are the counties which would be tributary to the Coastal Plain Station, if located at Tifton. Not another small city in all South Georgia, or in the Coastal Plain region, can make so fine a showing as to rural population as Tift. Rural population is what should be taken in to account in the location of this station, for it is the rural people the Station will benefit Taking into consideration the great farming section which immediately surrounds Tift to gether with the fact, as developed by the fig ures of the last census, that this is the center of rural population of the Coastal Plain Reg ion, and we have illustrated the reason why endorsement of Tifton as the logical location for the Station has come from every section of the Coastal Plain—from Macon to Valdosta; from the Chattahoochee to the Savannah, and The next Congress will be asked to enact legislation necessary t 0 the establishment of a system of Federal Home Loan Banks. A tenta tive bill ha$ been prepared and has been mail ed to all officers and committees of the U. S. League of Building Associations and copies can be obtained from the Division of Public Works and Construction Developments of the U. S. Department of Labor. In its campaign to stimulate building activities the U. S. Depart ment of Labor, in January, invited representa tives of the U. S. League of Building Associa tions to a conference in Washington for a dis cussion of ways and means of increasing the usefulness of the building and loan associa tions. It was realized that these associations played an important part in the home building activities of the nation and it was the hope of the Department of Labor that their field of usefulness might be enlarged. Out of this con ference came the movement in favor of a na tional system of Home Loan Banks through which these associations might rediscount their ..... T , , j securities and make available for further loans that only made bad matters worse. It looked a greater portion of their assets. as if Sam was never coming. I _ “ ‘Reckon he’s going to stay all night?’ Bill We did not like the flrst report Qf the indp _ * rumbled - ! lent mutiny of a company of American troops “Finally, along about two o’clock, we heard m Northern Russia; it read too much like the him. Bill waited until he was about half way accounts of those Russian troops who voted on across the run of the creek, where the log was whether to fight or quit—and decided to quit swaying a little under his weight. Then Bill brought out a groan that would have paralyzed a disembodied spirit. Sam stopped dead still. “Bill fetched another groan and slowly arose, his head making a dramatic appearance. Sam got one good look—turned, nearly fell off the log, and ran to the other end, scrambling up the hill like the devil was after him, a shower pf sand and pebbles raining behind. Bill ran out on the log in pursuit, working his groan machine overtime. “Now, one thing we did not know. Sam had picked up, somewhere, a little double-barreled derringer pistol. You know how foolish boys are about, such things. It had a bore like Therefore, we are not surprised that later news brought details of how Bolsheviki propaganda had worked its pernicious influence in the ranks of the company, through one poisoned sheep, who infested the flock. Which shows that Uncle Sam cannot be too careful who he accepts for enlistment in the new army being organized. It should be composed of Ameri cans only. We are glad there were no South erners in the disaffected company; pity the/ should even claim a border state for home. DRAFTED MEN HOME IN SEPTEMBER. The statement that it is expected to have the peace treaty signed by May 1 is of especial interest to those who have relatives in the drafted army. Under the law, these men must be mustered out within four months after peace is declared, so if it is signed by May 1 and speedily ratified, the men must be re leased at least soon after September 1. But every day that the Senate delays ratification of the peace treaty means another day the drafted men may be kept in service. Relatives of men in the drafted army should bring such pres sure to bear on the Senators from their state that they will not dare to play politics with the peace treaty, but will realize that the country demands that it be ratified at once. Tifton is doing its share of the work and get ting its share of the emoluments—what emolu ments there are—overseas. Ward Greene, who is writing those interesting articles from France for the Atlanta Journal about the Eigh ty-Second Division, and incidentally writing a few other things about the country and peo ple over there, tells how he found as military policeman at the entrance to the Bal Tabarin, one of the gayest of the Paris resorts, Duncan Jackson, a farmer boy from Tifton. Jenkins not only asked for Greene’s pass and then let him in, but he talked interestingly of Paris and the Old Third Georgia, with which he went to Mexico. His company was quartered in the Bois de Boulogne, he said, and there were score of other Georgia boys in it Incidentally, also, Mr. Greene found Paris no longer French, but filled with Americans. Although the soldier discharged from ser vice is not permitted while engaged in civil ian pursuits to wear the regulation uniform without the red chevrons which show that his connection with the military establishment has been terminated according to law, the War De partment announces that every enlisted man on his discharge will be allowed to retain as his personal property the following articles of uniform equipment: “Overseas cap (for men with overseas service; hat for others), olive drab shirt, woolen coat and ornaments; woolen breeches, one pair shoes, one pair leggings, one waistbelt, one slicker and overcoat, two suits underwear, four pairs stockings, one pair gloves, one toilet set, one barracks bag, gas mask and helmet (for overseas men only.) Soldiers who have already turned in their equipment are authorized to redraw them by Says the New York World: “The last official American casualty list of the great war has'applying to the proper authorities.’’ been printed. It has been a long and long-1 . ■ continuing daily record of shock and solemn It may be noted that those who are most the politicians watch the drift and >n in order to swing on to the people are not lagging in ex- - .. fibnttewBtJr in regard to the League of Nations. Commenting thereon, the ! Atlanta Journal says: How runs the tide of American public ment on the League of Nations? There been many answers in the last few m»nti of the same purport, but none, perhaps, significant than the polls recently taken newspapers in divers parts of the country.' New York Globe found 25,877 readers in 1 of such a League, and 13,187 against it: Chicago Daily News, 2,806 for; and 1,1 against; the Los Angeles Times, 1,624 for, knur 85 against So trends the record, going east and west Nor are the omens different north and south. The Grand Rapids Press, for in stance, reports 3,602 for the League, and only 430 against it; the Topeka Capital, 672 for and 188 against; the Houston Chronicle, 1,598 for, and 59 against Equally favorable and striking were the findings of the Boston Post—8,664 t< 1,512; the Washington Herald—3,416 to 992; the Sioux Falls Press. 70 to 87; the Bridgeport Standard-Telegram—410 to 165; the Des Moin es Capital— 187 to 49; and the Dallas Times- Herald—1,059 to 100. There is no mistaking the significance of these returns from communities representing every region of the country and all campB or political faith. They corroborate and rein force the evidence of the letters on this sub ject received by United States Senators, both Republican and Democratic. Out of approxi mately four thousand communications of the kind, nearly three thousand were in favor of an international league—if not altogether on the lines of the one now proposed, at least one in a revised form. It is worth recalling, more over, that some weeks ago the Twenty-second Pennsylvania district, ordinarily aS stanch stronghold of the Republican party as there in the Union, went overwhelmingly for a Dem ocratic candidate for Congress in a contest wherein the chief issue was support of the President’s peace policies, particularly the League of Nations. Because they are a practical people, humane people, a people who love concord and justice, a people who wish to spare their chil dren from the tragedy and terror of another world war—Americans stand earnestly for the establishment of a League of Nations. If the people have been outspoken the press has been no less so. The Literary Digest re cently took a poll of 1,377 daily newspapers, representing all parties and sections of the United States, and having a combined circula tion of more than 21,000,000. The question asked was: “Do you favor the proposed League of Nations?” “Yes," replied 718, and “No,” replied 181; "Conditional,” meaning with some amendments, 478. A majority of the Democrat ic papers, a majority of the Independent pa pers and a majority of the Republican papers were for the League, although more Republi cans than others asked for "conditions,” per haps reflecting the sentiment of those Republi can leaders who are trying to get back on the band-wagon. Many Republican editors said that if that party continued to fight the League the big Republican majorities of last November will be turned into Democratic majorities on the next election. Instances were cited to show that where the League had been made an issue before the people it had been overwhelming ly triumphant. Politicians want office first; principles are a secondary consideration. It is safe to say that when they hear from the people the great majority of the leaders of both parties will favor the League of Nations and when the peace treaty reaches the Senate that body will lose no time in ratifying it. If it should dally then, it will hear from the people because their patience with time-serving politicians is worn threadbare. The Soviets appear to be rapidly gaining control of affairs in Germany, whether against the best the present government of that coun try can do or with the secret connivance of the men Who are now in power in that country, meager information leaves some doubt It ap peared at first that the organized government with the aid of the army, had the situation un der control; now it appears to be fast escap ing them. Just how much is actual fact and how much pretense in order to deceive the Peace Conference into giving Germany better terms, only later events can develop. Certain it is, that so long as the army remains loyal, the revolution can be kept down, but once the soldiers join in the revolt, the Soviets will win. Russia was the home of revolution for fifty years, but it was only when the army went to pieces that the Empire was lost; the same was true of Hungary. In reading what news seeps through from Germany, note what attitude the; soldiers take. Admiral Sims, who is back from overseas, says that when we arrived over there “in April, 1917, the Central Powers were winning the war. There were 700,000 to 800,000 tons of shipping being lost each month and we did not know how to stop it. We had to adopt a new method. We did thie. We established first a convoy system; second the depth charge; third the listening device. The convoy system might have been put into operation sooner than it was but it had undergone a period of incor rect information.” We need to read a little stuff like this and-recall what a condition the Allies were in a year ago, when the British were fighting with their backs to the sea; the French were straining every effort to save their capital, and Russia had thrown down her a shotgun and loaded, with cap and ball. Sam bid it out, and always, carried it with him load- pride to thousands upon thousands of families'anxiously inquiring as tor who is going to en-janns and invited Germany to help herself, to ed to the muzzle when he went across the and of imperishable glory to them and to the force the national prohibition law are the men I understand why a word from Mr. Wilson has <****—for protection, I guess. 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