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E TIPTON GAZETTE
t’nblitbed Weekly
Entered At the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879.
j. L. Herring .Editor and Manager
in
official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
In selecting Tifton As the location for the
Coastal Plain Experiment Station the Board of
Trustees did the right thing and the logical
thing, thus carrying out the purpose of the law
and the intentions of those who were largely
instrumental in securing its passage,
work is well done.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES t
Twelve Month*
Six Months -
four Months 50
THE TIME IS VERY SHORT.
"There are only two ways in which the gov-
-emment can raise money,” said Secretary of
the Treasury Carter Glass, in addressing the
newspaper men in Atlanta; “by taxation and
by selling its securities. I have never known
a man cheerful enough to pay taxes in content
ment. Sensible men prefer to lend their
money.
“Instead of Victory Loan, I think a better
SHOULD BE GLAD TO BUY.
Georgia is right in line to be known
good roads state of the union,
Already seven Georgia counties, have
$3,120,000 for good roads and- road bond
tions have been called in eighteen other coun-
Their ,ties. The progressive counties voting bonds are
Bibb, Sumter, Colquitt, Walton, Coweta, Tliom-
But for Tifton, securing the station is only as and Evans. The counties which are to Vote
the start It devolves now upon our people, no
less than upon the state authorities, to see
that this station fulfills its mission—that of the
agricultural development of the coastal plain
region. It was intended, by scientific research
and experiment, to determine the crops most
profitable for our peculiar types of soil as well
as to develop new branches of agricultural in
dustry.
“The people of Tifton should see that the
experiment station here is not merely used for
crop production. It should be headed by a
man trained in scientific methods, who will
give his time to research work. He should have
a competent corps of assistants and with these
bhould make the station of incalculable .value
to the farmers of South Georgia. This it will
on bonds are Tift, Charlton, Murray, Laurens,
term for these government notes is ‘ThanksgM ^ dQ , f . g uged only for practica , farming .
ing Loan . We should return thanksgiving that j, ave p j ent y 0 f p rac tical farmers; what we
we will soon have back from overseas two mil
lion boys to take their places in our homes and
firesides. It would be as reasonable for the
million and a half American boys now occupy
ing territory in France and Germany to dis
honor their nation by deserting its flag, as for
the nation to dishonor itself by deserting them.”
“Some talk of making sacrifices. Not a field
in this country is desolate; not a home destroy
ed; not a village in ruins; not a city depop
ulated; not a woman dishonored; not a child
murdered. The only sacrifice we have made
is represented by the glorious band of heroes
fifty thousand strong who lie in the fields
of France.
“The pacifists said the war was 3,000 miles
away; our President and others saw the danger
and knew that we must keep it 3,000 miles
away. Our boys kept it 3,000 miles away. Now
we will not penalize them nor repudiate their
heroism by failing in the last call.”
' “They talk to us of waste. War and waste
are synonymous terms. Better far to waste
billions of dollars than to waste millions of
human lives.”
’ "This loan is attractive to me because I have
two sons over there. I believe for the same
reason it will be attractive to hundreds of
thousands of others. I do not believe that the
parents who gave four million sons to their
country’s defense, will refuse to invest four bil
lion dollars in that country’s securities.”
“This entire loan could be easily taken by
the banks of the country. But we do not want
to clutter the banks with government securi
ties.
want in a station is scientific men, for investiga
tion, and through investigation, discovery.
If the state would provide facilities the at
tendance at the Second District Agricultural
School could be easily increased to 508 oi; 600,
and this would mean a great deal for Tifton.
Its attendance is only limited now by its facili
ties. The school farm can make all the neces
sary demonstrations in practical farming and
leave the station for plat and experimental
work. The co-ordination of work should make
the Second District School the best of the Agri
cultural Schools in the state, at the same time
that it makes the Coastal Plain Experiment
Station the most useful in the South.”
This, from one of Tifton’s thinking men,
gives us suggestions along lines that cannot be
neglected. Having secured the station, it is
now the duty of Tifton and Tift county people
to see that it measures fully up to the standard
contemplated by the men who inaugurated the
movement for its establishment.
REINVEST LIBERTY BOND INTEREST.
In the schools throughout the Sixth Federal
Reserve District, May 15th will be observed as
Liberty Bond interest day. Interest on Liberty
Bonds will be due that day and if every owner
of one of these Government bonds dips the
coupon and invests the money in War Savings
Stamps it will amount to $93,000,000 in 1924.
The superintendents of education have been
asked to cooperate with the Savings Division
Hall, Bartow, Pulaski, Spalding, Berrien,
Glenn, Jackson, Morgan, Dougherty, Banks,
Harralson, Troup, Lowndes and Bulloch. There
are' others which will call bond elections in the
very near future, or have already called them
and are not included in the above list.
It is one of the best movements ever started
in the state and with the federal government
adding $2 to every $1 put down by the counties,
the movement for permanent roads is spreading
into every county in the state. Many of the
counties have had so-called good roads for
years, but now they are going to have some
thing better. Permanent good roads are to be
built. While the roads we have are far super
ior to the old sand-bed and three-trail roads,
they are not in a class with the kind of perm
anent highways that the counties voting bonds
will build. The permanent roads to be built
will be as long-lasting as it is within the power
of human skill to construct.
Tift is fortunate in being among the counties
that will soon have the opportunity to vote
good roads bonds. Our board of county com
missioners has called an election on May 21st
to vote $300,000 worth of good roads bonds.
Every man in the county who is interested in
the county’s development should not only be
at the polls and vote for bonds on the 21st, but
he should use whatever influence he may have
between now and the date of the election to see
that bonds carry.
There is no question about the majority of
the people of the county wanting good roads
bonds. It is merely a question of getting out
enough voters to carry the issue.
Come on bond supporters and let’s organize
to get out the necessary vote and put Tift in her
rightful class.
LEST WE FORGET
One Year Ago in the War.
of the War Loan Organization in having the
We want their capital free.to take care'day generally observed. The children will be
of the needs of the country’s business. Wc[asked to copy and take home to their parents
wanted the people, as individuals, to take these the following message :
notes, thereby helping to inculcate in them
habits of thrift and cultivate more intimate
relations with their government. The French
'America’s Great Pay-Day—May 15 is again
pay day in the U.S.A. Seventy-eight million
dollars in Liberty Bond interest will then be
people, despite their handicap of the loss of paid to the American people. If every bond
millions of lives and billions of dollars worth of holder clips his interest coupons and exchanges
property, will pay off their immense loans be- them for May War Savings Stamps at post
cause they are distributed among the common offices or banks, this will grow to ninety-three
people.” million dollars in nineteen-twenty-four. Get
, “We want the mass of the people to take [your share. Every four dollars and sixteen in
these notes because nothing will more quickly.W.S.S. will grow to Five Dollars. Keep your
stamp out the abominable spirit of bolshevism dollars growing.”
than for the people to have a part in their coun
try’s government." | Says the Ocilla Star: “At the last session of
Only a portion of Tift county’s part of the legislature Judge J. B. Clements presented to
Victory Loan has been subscribed. It is our the State of Georgia the four acre tract on
country’s last call, and having carried on which is located the place where President
through the stress and trials of war, we cannot 'Jefferson Davis was captured. This piece of
afford to fail now. It is a supreme test of Tif- 1 ground has never been molested, but remains
ton’s and Tift county’s patriotism. This test is today like it was when Davis was captured,
upon each individual—high and low, rich or The State accepted the gift and the Irwin’coun
poor. It only requires $10 td make the first ty Chapter U. D. C. is made the guardian of
payment on a $100 bond. Some little sacrifice the property. We hope some move will soon
or self-denial will meet that. Make it, and en- take definite shape to properly mark this his-
roll your name among those who served their toric spot. It ought to be enclosed and a monu-
country well because they served in time of ment erected.”
need. I
BUY VICTORY BONDS
A BARBECUE FOR THE SOLDIER BOYS
The banks will carry your Victory Loan Bond
for you on the government terms, or they will
! allow you to pay 10 per cent down and carry
It is an excellent suggestion that Tift county the balance for yo " uatil November 10th. Have
have a barbecue for the returned soldier boys you any excuse left for not buym * ?
on the Fourth of July. |
It is proposed to make it a county-wide af-
Says the Macon News: “The tributes which
fair amd^to raise the funds and meate by7ge“n> resa °* tbe North are paying to Editor John
, | Herring’s book of 'Saturday Night Sketches’ are
To make it a great, get-to-gether welcoming 1 ’"ell deserved and show that the critics know a
event to the boys who haVe served their coun- » ood thmg when tbey see lt
try, as well as a means of expressing our love
still
and appreciation for those who are
camp or overseas.
While the suggestion has been made, the
move is only in its initial stage, we would like
to hear from the people in regard thereto, with
suggestions for working out the plans in detail
READING THE HOME PAPER.
Says the Valdosta Times: “At the present
price of sweet potatoes and sugar cane, both
products are too costly for ‘stump rum.’ It
looks as if the ‘shriners’ will have to get back
to pine-tops and palmetto roots.”
There are more than two kinds of Veterans
in Berrien county, and Winter is working
in Urtlap °f Spring, we gather from the Nash
ville Herald:
Mr.-' Jerry May, ninety-two years old, was
‘ * *T com rows this week.
has great possibilities where men
i of ninety-two and are still able
Great is Berriehl
From the Moultrie Observer.
Those who read the home paper do not haVe
to ask—
What is the date of the election?
When does court convene?
When will the Tax Receiver be around?
What the verdict in the case?
What is the hour of preaching at the •
church?
When does school open?
What is the last date for paying taxes?
When is the last day for buying automobile
tags?
Which is the first day of the open game
season?
Who was elected?
How will the election for bonds go?
When does the train depart for -?
What store is offering the greatest bargains?
What is the financial standing of the county?
What is the sheriff offering for sale on next
sale day?
And a thousand other common questions ask
ed daily by the non-newspaper reader.
-—BUY VICTORY
*
May 2, 1918.
Australian troops enter Es Sah, capture 38
Germans, 817 Turks; a detached brigade of
horse artillery loses 9 guns.
United States steamship Tyler sunk by sub
marine in the Mediterranean; 11 lives lost; Bri
tish steamship Franklyn and two others are
torpedoed In same attack.
British airmen drop 3 1-2 tons of bombs on
Bapaume and other targets, bring down 14
hostile machines, disable 4, lose 5. Also drop
5 1-2 tons of bombs on Cbaulnes, Juniville and
at Caix, and on lock gates at Zeebrugge.
In Lower House of Prussian Diet Social Dem
ocrat motion to restore equal suffrage provision
is defeated.
May 3, 1918
French take important positions between
Hailles and Castel; French and British raid
South of Arras and east of St. Denant, taking
guns and prisoners; south of Avre, Hill 82 and
the wood bordering on the Avre are taken and
over 100 prisoners (4 officers); a German at
tack near Ailette is repulsed.
British airmen bomb Thionville railway sta
tion and Carlshuttle works.
United States makes an agreement with Nor
way for exchange and restrictions of exports
to enemy.
May 4-5, 1918.
Italian airship drops a ton of explosives on
aviation ground at Campo Maggiore.
British mission to the United States estimated
British casualties in Picardy since March 21 ap
proximate 250,000 killed, wounded or missing.
Field Marshal Lord French named Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland.
British airmen drop more than 20 tons of
bombs on Chaulnes, Tournai and La Bassee rail
way stations and on Estaires, Marcelcave,
Memeo, Comines and Middlekerke; bring down
28 German machines; disable 5; anti-aircraft
guns shoot down 3; 11 British machines are
missing.
British repulse German attack near Hinges,
on western front, and improve line at Sally-le-
Sec and east of Hebuteme.
May 6, 1919.
The British down 6 hostile machines, losing
1. At night British airmen drop 100 bombs in
neighborhood of Bapaume, 1 British machine
fails to return.
Treaty of peace is signed at Bucharest by
representatives of Roumania and the four Cen
tral Powers.
Major-General Sir Frederic B. Maurice, re
cently Director of British Military Operations,
accuses Premier Lloyd George and Chancellor
Bonar Law of misstating army strength.
May 7, 1918.
Germans South of Brimant cross the Aisne
Canal and return with prisoners.
Australians succeed in reaching German
lines on both sides of Corbie-Bray road, but
are driven back.
Nicaraguan Congress declares war on Ger
many and her allies.
United States casualties to date; Killed in ac
tion (including 227 lost at sea), 643; died of
wounds, 184; of disease, 1,005; accident, 220;
from other causes, 51; severely wounded, 413
slightly wounded, 2,492; missing in action and
prisoners, 122.
® People, and especially the
, >n and Tift county, should be
glad to buy Victory Bonds.
The amount asked for is only four billions
and the interest equal to that of the savings
banks. Had it not been for the valor of our
boys across the water, we would be confront
ed by a bond issue of six billion with the cer
tainty of two more issues to take up before the
end of 1919, and three more in 1920. We are
getting off cheap, very cheap, and it is due to
tbe bravery and fighting qualities of the men
we sent over seas that we stay at homes are
escaping so easily.
In introducing Secretary Glass to an audi
ence of newspaper men Senator Smith, a mem
ber of the Senate Committee on Foreign Af
fairs, said:
“In April, 1918, this country was confronted
with a period of greatest doubt. The British
were fighting with their backs to the sea, the
French concentrating every effort to defend
their capital, which was under the enemy’s
guns, and Italy was summoning her last res
erve strength to defend her remaining terri
tory. The U-boats infested the seps and daily
took fearful toll. It appeared that the Allied
powers were fighting in the last ditch and the
day seemed not far distant when the foe would
be crossing the water to levy tribute from
America. The Senate was facing the problem
of meeting the Hun on our own shores. We
cared for the freedom of other countries, but
thought first in voting money to protect our
own homes and firesides.
“On the first of May we had 400,000 men in
France, only 40 per cent of them ready for the
fighting line. On the 18th of May our boys
did the work. It was on that day the French
Commander under whom the Americans were
brigaded, ordered ‘hold the line and retreat. 1
The trouble with our boys was that they hadn’t
been taught to retreat. They charged in
stead. They were defending in France our
homes and firesides, and women and children,
just as if they had been on our own soil.
“After the 18th of May there was a great
change in feeling in this country and abroad.
Then America began planning to put enough
men across the seas in 1918 to whip the Ger
mans by 1919. The fall revenue bill carried a
provision for eight billion dollars and it was
considered certain that it would be necessary
to spend eighty billions in 1919 and another
eighty billions in 1920.
“But after the Americans got thoroughly in
to the fighting and the enemy was turned back
in July, the end came speedily in November.
Then we reduced the tax bill for 1919 by
two billion dollars and the tax bill for 1920 by
four billion. You people were saved six billion
dollars on these two items alone because the
boys had done the work sooner than was ex
pected.
We all thought it was better to raise this
money by borrowing than by taxation and af
ter various measures were discussed and dis
carded, the plans were left with the Secretary
of Treasury and I want to say here, that no
plan suggested or contemplated was equal to
the one he worked out and put in shape. This
last loan is three billion and a half less than we
were going to ask for and it will be repaid with
interest in fdur years.
“The boys did well their part and the peo
ple who didn’t have to go are slackers if they do
not provide the funds, part of which will pay
the expense of bringing these boys home.”
These bonds are little more than notes. The
buyer has the balance of the year to pay for
them and they mature in four years.
It is the country’s last call to war service.
Those who fail to do their duty in this time of
need, will regret it as long as they live. For
those who'have not'helped in the time of war
this is their last opportunity to set themselves
right—not only with the present generation,
but with the generations of the future.
Brown Tyler, who was with the Gazette a
dozen years ago, but who later gave up the
editorship of the Conyers Times to enter mili
tary service, is back from France and is said
to be organizing a stock company for a new
paper at Conyers. The least the people of that
town can do for Brown is to see that be gets
his job "
Victory
TIFTON SELECTED AS
A LANDING STATION
On Proposed Aerial Mail Route From
Atlanta Sooth. Suitable Provisions. -
Will Be Made at Once.
Tifton has been deSifnated as one of, i,
the official landing stations on the pro
posed aerial mall route from New York
to Cuba.
Lieutenant C. D. McCoy and H. H.
Tift, Jr., delegates from thia dty return
ed Tuesday night from the Aeronautical
Congress at'Macon.
They report a very enthusiastic time
among all the delegates in attendance
and that the fact of aerial mial is as- \ j
sured. Also, that Tifton will be among
the official stations soon to be establish
ed.
Suitable landings and grounds will V
have to be provided and instead of wait
ing for delayed trains and other trans
portation troubles we can get our mail
from Atlanta within one and one-half
hours after tbe flyers leave the capital
city. ‘
Buy Victory
ATRUEREMEDY
FOR MALARIA
NO. 101TONK
In the low marshy places where, mos
quitoes breed, there is always malaria in
the Spring and Summer. But this/ ter
rible affliction can be completely knock
ed out of the system by* Dr. Williams’
101 Tonic. It not only knocks out flfal-
aria, but it builds up the health gen- -cAl
erally and makes the sufferer strong juUC * ' jj
well and able to resist attacks^f
erydsy ailments. The quinine in It^kl
the malaria germs as soon as it pfet
rat os the system; the iron strengthens
and invigorates and improves the'appe
tite i the magnesia regulates the bowClf
and prevents constipation knd headache. .
Dr. Williams’ 101 Tonic la a moat val-
uable medicine for any one
down health. Try it , Your
can supply you. Refuse >11 substiti
—adv.
——Buy Victory Banda m> 'A
DR. M. J. CROCKETT, 8YLV^_
Sylvester, May 1—Dr. It X Crock- ;
ett, aged 74, died at ’hta' residence in
Sylvester Tuesday night at 11:80 o’clock, *
after an illness of several months. Dr.
Crockett came’to Wort^ county from in- j
diana about forty-five, years ago. ‘He a
and W. H. McPhaul ifrere the first two
settlers of Sylvester, god. he had pra6
ticed medicine here ever, since; for thfc
past ten years he had been county phys* | j
idan. He is survived by a wife, three
daughters and two sons, Mrs. I C De«r*
iso, of Sylvester; Mrs. W A MooA of
Macon; Mrs. William D Nobles, of nit*
acola, Fla.; B F Crockett, of Sypple,
Ark., and Dr. E W Crockett, of Glenn
St. Mary, Fla. The funeral was con*
- ducted by the Masons it 4 o’clock jester*
"We Jove to go a-roving on sunny days of day afternoon.
A CLUB WORTH WHILE.
Spring,
When first the buds begin to blow, and birds
begin to sing.”
So goes the song the school children sing,
and it voices a well known human longing.
One of the big cities has taken notice of this
natural love for spring wandering, and a “Hik
ing Club” has been organized by some of the
responsible folk who head the different wel
fare organizations.
Every Sunday the club meets at some point
on the outskirts of the city, and takes a ramble
through the woods and fields of the surrounding
country-side. The line of march is published
in Saturday’s paper, and anyone is eligible who
loves to walk and is willing to behave himself
decently. There is, however, little danger of
any unruly member joining the caravan, for
healthful exercise has little appeal for your
true rowdy. There are neither dues nor fees,
though the wise traveler carries a little car
fare in case the walk planned should prove too
long. i
Starting with but a few members, “the club
has gained in numbers and enthusiasm with
each successive weak. , ,, *•-
Men and women, young men and maidens,
boys and girls all go, and many a stranger who
had experienced the soul-racking loneliness, of
a big city has found safe and congenial friends
through the medium of this club, whose only
constitution or by-law is to spend a part of ev
ery Sunday “in God’s great out-of-doors.”
——Buy Victory
;'
Be a Joy-Walker,
“Beta-ll” for Com,
2Srep^3Beeoad*-Coa&Oeomt4l
Wh«n yon almoat dl» with roar
•hoc, on and corns make you slmoat
walk sideways to «t away froa,
th. pain, taka a vacation (or a ala-
“irolmd
uto or two and apply l or t drop*
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