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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* nhOM**Hiaa.oftinftv*iR IM snro i