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riFTON GAZETTE Published Weekly Entered at tbs PoetoBc* at Tifton, Georflt, •• Seccod CUe* Matter. Art , Act el March 8,1878. Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietors. XL/Heiring -Editor and Manager Official Organ City oi Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. ty, ‘Who can stop the oi I wag as an American i: the American standard raised high at Chateau Thierry and carried victoriously onward through St. Mihiel and the Argonne forest toward the river Rhine! In this critical period of the world’s history when the people of the earth cry out for leadership, is the United States go- —w,, a .... .• • -—■—■.■w--- ing to stand u* to the standard of leadership' ™ Mr- erected by her soldiers? That is the issue.” ’ witch It and w. A big tree o* thi« klnd!,„d Mr». W. B. i>irk«, have^rturned to Capt. Chamberlain fitly answers by Major.•taedto* 00 a vacant lot in Ty Ty, wa* tb ,i r home In Miami, Florida.. SUBSCRIPTION RATES t . $1.50 Twelve months B0 Four Months 7B Six Months A SOLDIER’S PLEA FOR WORLD PEACE. ■ If any man has the right to apeak for a cov- enant that will insure the peace of the world, and, speaking, is entitled to an attentive hear ing, that man is he who risked all in the Great War for Humanity. Capt. Thomas G. Cham berlain, of the United States Army, in his book, “Why We Fought,” pleads for the League of Nations in behalf of ”73,000 Americans, friends of mine and of yours, who willingly gave their lives for a better world,” to whom his book is dedicated The book contains a foreword by Ex-President Taft, the author’s letter to Senator Borah, a complete text of the League of Nations and a discussion of Peaceful Settlement of In ternational Disputes, of Enforcement of Cove nants, of Armament, of Secret Treaties, of Ger many’s Colonies, of the University and World Organization; extracts from speeches made by Capt. Chamberlain at San Francisco, Salt Lake City, St. Louis, Atlanta and Portland, and closes with a letter in behalf of the Leagu e from a wounded soldier. Besides being interesting and full of informa tion showing what the Peace Covenant means, the book is “a timely contribution to the most im portant caus e with which the common people of every country of the world will have to deal in this and future generations,” and expresses in "simple but eloquent language some of the reasons why America must approve of the Cove nant of the League of Nations—the only tangi ble, practical plan now before the world to avert from ourselves and our posterity the recurrence V of the horrors and misery of war.” Says Mr. Taft: “There is no part of our peo- r* pie whose opinion on the question of whether we should have a League of Nations, and whether the pending Peace Treaty should b e ratified, ought to have more weight with the Senate of the United States than the four millions of boys who were enlisted in the war to defeat Germany. They know why they offered themselves. They V know what the national purpose was. They know what their fighting was intended to mean for America and the world. Still more signifi- , cant is the opinion of the 800,000 of those four million who were given the place of honor in the trenches and who did the actual fighting. The most significant of all is the view of the 70,000 American boys who offered up their lives in ' the cause, and whose great purpose in making the ultimate sacrifice undoubtedly was to end all wan for the world.” It is for these that Capt. Chamberlain speaks and speaks well. He was a student of political science at, the University of California and he discusses the League of Nations from the stand point of a political economist as well as from that of the soldier and citizen. Inquiring: “Will th e Senate lose what the soldier won?” he discusses the working machinery of the League; how it will be used for the settlement of international disputes; how its provisions.will be enforced; how it will do away with expensive armament and secret treaties, and why under its provisions the small nations of the world will have rights and privileges the larger nations are bound to respect The discussion is too long for reproduction and no extract will do it justice. Senator Reed’s statement that the ratification of the League would be America’s surrender to foreign powers Capt. Chamberlain denounces as “a malign attempt to defeat by the politician’s tongue what has been won by the soldier’s lood.” Here is a pertinent question: "What Senator has seen the torn and mangled bodies of fallen men; men hanging on the wire for hours with one hope and one prayer, and that for a friendly lot to end the agony. I have seen men’s eyes 'eaten out by gas. I have stood by, unable to help, as the gas ate slowly into their lungs and > seen them gasp for tthe last and final th. That is war.” ’’The glorious policy of isolation didn’t keep out of this war, and it won’t keep us out of great war. Mechanical methods and mod McCrea’s immortal poem: In Flanders fields the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place: and in the sky The larks still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard among the guns below. We ar e the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow. Loved, and were loved, and now we He In Flanders fields. Take up our quarel with the foe: To you from falling hands we throw The Torch: be yours to hold it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields. Why We Fouht; By Capt. Thomas G. Cham berlain; $1. The MacMillan Company, New York. A LAW THAT IS OUT OF DATE. wiatw. It I Dr . Frank Wilhm., of Vienna, spent weeki.sp-! guntiajr at the home of his parents, Mr. blown op the lay on the *round fy|dfrl ^ n patently dead, and vaa then rawed into'^d Mn.’w. E. William., where he met wood. Aa a block a few feet from the root ether membera of the family recently unit* I waa aawed, the remainder of the trunk, ft „ a | 0Bg Mp , rat lon. .pr.n* np, drawn by the few rooU that! F<tmeAl are Bot bra „ lBf 0B their rot . Wet weather and boll weevils remained in the were cawl^f came hurt And when 1 made a serious combination against the men wl , «riou.I,l ton now ' Sm pot. tine out their leaven la the aprinf, the, _ ,, . old tree was with the beet of them. A| *here ha. been a retular epidemic of hunch „f treah branches and leave, came very (irl. out and It la now In a fair wav to make a " bia vicinity, some of the brides betel Hr f little more than children. A story came • «a It baa come the eel worm’s tom to be Inreitiaated now, and be talked about, and auaranteed againit. Those Intlmately ae- qnainted with him have always felt that P ,rrnt *. *dopted thl. mode beautiful tree One of the most pitiful of sll the dread-! ful stories that hgve come to us from the ] Great War is that of the children who! were sent out from among the starving, inhabitants of Petrograd and Moscow to! get food for themselves. The occasional hints and scraps of sto>' T)rujrg ries that came to us about these children were received incredulously, for it seem ed unbelievable that such things were possible; but the Bed Cross Magazine has published the full story from facts gathered by the association's workers in that part of the world, and it far exceeds The Gazette publishes a Very interesting let ter from Hon. O. M. Smith, County Attorney for Lowndes, in reply to comment In this paper a few days since on the fact that the County Com missioners of Lowndes were prohibited by law’ from building a bridge at an expenditure much less than the amount they paid out for road work every few months. In this letter Mr Smith quotes the law on the subject at length, and con vincingly. There is no disagreement between the Gazette and Mr. Smith over a question of fact; neither do we believe there is any disagreement as to the absurdity of some provisions of the law quoted. But Mr. Smith mistakes what we intended for a criticism of an existing law for a criticism of his interpretation of said law. This mistake we admit was justified, for we see now that the paragraph in question was susceptible to a dou ble construction. The peculiar provisions of these sections of law were so familiar to the writ er, because of many years service on a Board of County Commissioners under old conditions, that he took too much for granted that the pub lic as a whole was equally familiar with them. The paragraph: “If a county can build roads, why cannot the same authorities build bridges, where the ex penditure for bridges is much less? Here ap pears to be a legal splitting of hairs to a point too fine for the layman to understand,” was intend ed as a criticism of the law and not of the inter pretation thereof by the County Attorney of Lowndes, which interpretation! tv® believe to be correct. With the situation thus cleared, we believe Mjr. Smith will agree with us that there is a glaring legal inconsistency here which should be cleared away. The law he quotes was enacted many years ago, when public roads in Georgia were worked under the old overseer and militia district sys tem, before convicts were used on road work and before county road gangs were maintained ex cept in those counties having a large urban pop ulation. The County Commissioners or Ordi naries had no way of building bridges except by contract, and to safeguard the people, the law required that the letting of such contracts, to tand recently of a fir, o? «« « ""if - ... married not m.n, mile, from T, Ty.l J"“ "*» lrat thi *’ ln “ ■“» » Her tetter, «. won a. be l-.med where mwe „„ about three thnuUBd rte wye, promptly brought her home. If cbudreD( their a|Pa raB<lng from 1)x --- parent^adopted thl. mode of pro- BiW Tur> , and ib „ were ollt be dewrved aomethtef like ttlai tat ila.cedure, there would be fewer of fteee (u|daB „ tHdlPra _ mfB aad friend. in.l.ted that he did no harm-ln- ?»«•. nnd^rotabl, fewer > ,llvoree_.nd womeB _ aBd (uardlaBI , t0 work ! .tend, that he did (Ood, looaenln* the*oU|*™rer re*re& <>vy I wa.ted youth. ^ flfld , for bread . Th,, worked about the root, of plant., etc. ■. | The Baptl.t meetlnp cloned Sunday j faithfully and well, and were fed until , * * * * * , [ nl*ht, and, on Monday moraine, Reverend the crop, were fathered and the cold had J“ r - , I £, 1 U “, r , raI «? d “f’lSIr. Smith and his wife, who were In'come, then they were .tarted back to- kueVu of Mr°^d Mef P^u aS. ^V 1 "* 1 ** <* 'He meetlna. left for Monticello, wards the cities. Quests of Mr. and'MrA Poole Sunday. ! Florida, where they will m^ke their' But, to qu,9l* for the Red fro". Mr. It n Pickett Ml.. Icnl-Plek> l^ om '’ Mr ' Sml ) h ha " ,al "n reruler Vbrk J .tnry: "Barrlof their road homeward It, Mr.. K. R. Pickett, Ml.. LouUo We* I tk , r , Mr . ^ tke , {nRr . wko „„ tha .flol.hevlk f ron t’ which the pasalon ett a°d «ra. M. D. Thompson spent * kfr , dur i„, t h,. meeting, went from here of revolution and class hatred had now day in Albany last week In the more or' At)aB|a , |lM „i who would check th. less engaging, occupation of shopping, 1 1 W. E. WILLIAMS engaging occupation toeppmg. ^ r ^ ^ home ^ ^ I d e.,ruc,ive co„r« by which .hungry pro- few watermelons are being .hip- In North fleorgla, will All the place made 1 1 0S * “ ,| d ,*„» this front In ped, but the crop la abott ixhnuated. vacant by the death of Rev. S. S. Kemp. |'' “ y " n . ' . the Mr. Heath will „ke charge of the Metho,"- TllSLT l«t churches of Ty Ty. Sumner. I’onlm, " h ““ T htre them on viait. to her slater, Mm. Effle Marshall, and Shin«le r on the first nf August and Ihudmn wem »' L "“ Pki “- orVrSe conJmry'ttavMom Mis. l’hronie Sikes „C the Poatofflc. j h Z .MhMmmon.’ge ""lenten. He wL ! h ™wm force, i. spending her vacation with herja chaplain in the army, having been dia-,'”*. t . h,t , beh '" d ?!i while h. sister, in Eomythe. # < # | eh.rged on,,, reeentl, .„d 1. ..id to Miss Ruby Parks ha. receutly return- „„ p "" b ," "TV"T Tt ' ray th,re ™ ,ood "” d clo,hln * ,or the ■d from n visit to her .i.ter, Mrs. Jack'. V V.IrVlV. Tl T P -' n< ™'’I>'°"“* * n<1 «* tncl “ ot reli ' f that " ou ’ d Anderson, whose home 1. in Wet Point, I takc ctn ol ' hem •' , | Arizona, and, associating with themselves Hundreds of these children died from , , , , , Pickett and Mr. R. S. Cornwall, starvation, or were fro.cn to death, some Plenty nf elds going about Dodge' 1 ^ ' were rewned and camd for b, the kindly them if possible. Some day there will be j ,, ' , peasants, and many othem were “caught,” n quarantine ngninst colds, same as ' or '> '» abo ''< Pot«toes promise to use the commissloner’a expression, by other contagious diseases. I wo * ftn ' 1 ,hore ’* tobac °« ^or a money. tlie Red Cross workers. They were like • ••••* jerop. and always hogs to be depended on. j wild animals, snatching the food and es- Mrs. K. W. Oliver and the children j 80 ,et 14 rn,n - I eaping with It to cornera where it was are with Mrs. Oliver’s parents in Atlan- Cood work has been done on our roads, greedily devoured. Unwashed and almost ta where they will meet Lieutenant Uhough they are still a long way from per- naked, they had to be bathed and drea- Webb, Mrs. Ollvefl’a brother, recently | Action. They are much bettor than | «ed by force, while they snarled and returned from France. Lieutenant Webb|tI M \ v us °d to be. though, In the not veryjt r i p d to bite those who were ministering was a frequent visitor to Ty. Ty be-! cll«tnnt past, and one thing we must give to their wants. fore he became a soldier. thpn ' credit, for: they can go from the Most of the men and women who had boating to the pedestrian state in a wayi been spnt out with the children had de- fhat astonishes those not acquainted with [ sorted their charges, many had perished them. After the tremendous rain of Sat-[ and R * me - remaining true to their trust, urda.v afternoon. Ty Ty was like an is- ba( * succeeded, after weary miles of tramp- Lyman Smith." o"f ~I»oulan, is home|l aa( 1 in an inland sea: early Sunday in *- ,n bringing their little bands to safe, from the war, wearing a medal for j morning, the roads were about as usual. They had suffered with the child- extra gm»l marksmanship. He took' We hear nn goml authority that Dr R 1 T”' dM l’ t ™ t ' , 7’ ho,dl, >* ‘ h( l r dinner In Ty Ty Monday with hla for-! R . p ickptt ha , b „ uaht fiftv ' PrP , of ,„ nd Vhar "» »>»■>* Pays For This Space - *■ Ty Ty Farmers Supply Gu R. R. Pickett, President- J. M. Varner, Msnifaiv DEALERS IN • Groceries, Dry Goode / Notion*, Shooa, Hata 1 Ready-to-Wear CMny ' Farm Implemaata J And Othar Thinyw Pictorial Review Pattern* * Seott is e«»nvalescing in n rather severe illness. • tenrher, Mr. U. N. Dowd. just north of Tifton. The price wa, ^ ‘’"I",* ‘""T., T'v ^7’’ 7""" $250 sn norm {» i. 0 .ia v 8 ,such vehicles could be had from the peas- Mr. W 1*. Knight, of Mansfield. Ga., is visiting his ilnughter, Mrs. R. J. Cottle, for a few days. M MS Mrs Car! 5?. Pittman baa with btr for a few days, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Story, of Ashburn. . it is said. anta, waiting, tramping, begging, and walt- An old farmer who used to live in this ing again.” neighborhood always insisted that the About 6fteen hundreds of these child- birds on his place belonged to him, that ren remain unaccounted for. Some of they got their living from him and he had j them are probably wandering about tha a right to kill them whenever he chose to forests of Russia, living as wild animals do so. Acting up to this bsliaf, quail! live, but without tha animal’s protection and other game graced his table twelve;against the cold. "Pursued by fear and Mrs. F. Z. Dumas, who has been month * ln the an<1 game laws tortured by uncertainty, living on herba, quite sick at her home near Ty Ty, is re-! troubl «^T him not at all. He had grown clothed in rags, there enter into the soul* ported to be much better. ■ up w b pn k 8 ®* was so plentiful that it waa of these little children a hatred and dis- • • • • • I troublesome. A few hunters, who have trust of human kind that are like that of I. J. Cottle was a busy man last not bis excuse, do a little shooting out of the hunted animal. The stories of these straggling bands come to us in fragmen tary shape; the picture of the tragedy is incomplete. The mind rejects it as a fact and calls it rumor until a heart-break ing tale of another band, emaciated and week, attending the meeting (lie ia one 0 f M,a " on ' b,1 ‘ ,h< T arc Q“let about it the leading members of the Ty Ty Baptist f Have you noticed that business in the church), and, hetweeu times, looking up marriage line has kind of fallen off? new sites for two mills. He managed to | The price for tying the knot has been ad- get through with it all. vaneod, and whereas two fond hearts ! could be made to beat aa one. and no char- : , opo ” 8 ' corrallwl somewhere in a deso- Mrs. Kelley, who went to Atlanta for go made, a hard-hearted J. P. now de-| , /T* 011 WB * te ’ ^ ries ont tba t this, in- _ uu nitration last week.roturned In a much ( mands one dollar for the job when appli- j ^ w f, n aotua,it *v too poignant even aggregating over $300 in value, should be Dub-I''" |,r " v “ d °° ndi,i ""’ lhou * h «"■ operation jeanta come to him—same price and extra j t ' ,r " " 1^ was not performed. It was decided that for gasoline when he goes to them. This! 1 seems cheap enough to those lie Now, with well-equipped road gangs, the Coun ty Commissioners can do much of their bridge building cheaper and better (as was the case in Lowndes) than it could be done by contract. Thus, the law interferes with the safeguard of the best interests of the people. Therefore, this law should be repealed. It cannot be argued that the old law is neces sary to protect the public against jobbery or pil fering on the part of the County Commissioners. When a body of men is allowed to spend $500- 000 or more on a county’s roads without fur ther safeguards than those of honor and integri ty, what an inconsistency to require that a bridge worth only $600 can be built only under public contract 1 The law has served its day. Now it stands in the way of progress and should be repealed. It is daily ignored in many counties now. i not ntH*ossnry. Owing to the active condition of the real estate market, Ty T.v just had to have n concern to transact business of that kind, and real estate dealings bring qn in surance and other kindred lines of bad ness. The Ty Ty Investment and In surance Company answers all these calls. See their advertisement in another column. A vast concourse of colored people as sembled at the colored Baptist church Sunday to do honor to the memory of two members of their race who died several weeks ago—Peter McLean and Moses Lee. an all-day affair with dinner on the ho did not know that it has been customary about here for certain officials of the eouuty to do this work for nothing (maybe tl why they have been called much of it), but to those who having iron ^ |n MOSTLY TRUE. The following is from a perfectly relia- h » b,e f * our «*. but it may be a little—not very to do ao I "^ own * n Alabama a large coal and TV TY DRUG GO, E. W. OUw, Proprietor, A compl.I, lte, of pateat ■> cbM. Drags and Samdriaa, Prescriptions A Specialty HIE BANK OF TY IT SAFETY FIRST TY TY, GEORGIA GAP1KU, .UNDIVIDED PEOTITB Ml INTEREST PAID I aa* SAVINGS Dl ia aw FRIEND wkta jaa MONET wa wffl ka TOURS jai kara NONE. WOODWARD’S OARAGE Tj Tjr, • • • Repair* promptly attended ta. Repair, oa Fiord can a Oil* aad Greaae for Sale. known the old arnnzement and expected work their own eaie—why. “Aint it ful?” SAINT 8WITHIN OR SIRIUS? Report has it that the former Crown Prince of Germany has expresed a preference f° r being transportation have made the world smaller, j tried in the United States. Somebody ought to y, the peace of the world is the business of ^undeceive Frederick The Senate does not voic e world and in that business the United States the feeling of the American people towards his kind. i take full share of the benefits and th e bur- [ den. That is only fair play,” “l recall those dark days last spring after the feat of Italy, the loss of Chemin-des-Dames r the French, the defeat of the Portuguese in (idem and the breakdown of the British i Army In Picardy. It seemed then that no- r could stop the German armies and as they ’ closer and closer towards Paris, the ques- i was asked with greater and greater anxie- The British parliament ratified the Peace Treaty and League of nations in a few minutes. But Germany hasn’t so many friends in that body, anxious to play to the pro-German vote. “A New Remedy for Snakebite” reads a head line. A necessity, following the bone-dry law. —Buy W. S. S. —»— It rained on Snint Swithin’s l)»y, nnd it did not rain on the first of Do, liny’, Now, shall wo heliove the food Saint— J who waa a real iwraon, known in the flesh grounds, two sermons and several hymna laa tbe D* abo l’ ° r Winchester—o r shall we nnd prayera. Daniel Mosely, pastor of i 1 ' 11 ” ur bl*' 1 ' ' Siriua which la only a the church for about thirty-five yearn, oon-| bri * lu a,ar whow ’ riaill S *' ltb ,be " un «’ ducted the service. Ho was assisted by *"j a,,, « 7*. D *” *,? d lg "“PtaKfl to cause G. .7, Lane, another well-known colored * ~ * minister, who had "called In” his regular appointment elsewhere to be present on this occasion. Mr. J. M. Varner sold a piece of land in the southern part of the county last week for one hundred dollars an acre. Some farmers think that wet weather has damaged cotton more than the boll weevil. Either ia bad enough. Tom Edwards went to Tifton laat week and had hia tonsils and adenoids removed. He is recovering rapidly. Mr. Roy Dumas was ln Ty Ty Mon day hunting rooms for two. He said he expected to be married toon, and, as he Is away form home a good deal, he wanted some one In the house with hts wife, that* is-to-be. Mr. Dumas, who la blind, tra* vela from one town to another and sells small articles. WaCim M» ml taflte LAXATIVE SSOMO QUntiNETttlct, n caoaa. Then b only one "Brora© ft V. GROVE'S ckeatcrc on bex. Me. intense heat and disease? This question need not cause us sleep less night-, however, for Saint Swithin’s Day has been variously placed on the fif teenth, sixteenth or seventeenth of duly (the best authorities seem to agree on July 15th), and the beginning of Dog Days may be almost any time from July 1st to early September. In a calendar which appeared with the Book of Com mon Prayer in Queen Ellxabeth’i reign. Dog Days began July 0th and ended Sep tember 5th, So we are offered a wide choice in re gard to our forty days of rain. Accord ing to tradition It should rain on each one of these forty days; but, this time—and many other times—there has been an oc casional day when there was no rain. Putting aside supertitions hnd getting down to facts, most of ua old enough to remember very many years have noticed that when it begins to rain at this season of the year it ia likely to keep right on till we get more than enough wet weather. BUY YOUR PRINTING IN TIFTON much—overdrawn: an effort to eliminate malaria and typhoid, has fought the fly nnd mosquito with great success. How ever, the campaign has brought about one result that was not anticipated. The ab sence of the insect pests has rendered life so easy for the company's horses and mules that it has been necessary to cut down the feed of these animals materially in order to keep them in working condi tion.” There are people about here who say almost as much about their cattle that have been dipped, and, in addition to the improvement in physical condition, the increase in the milk is almost unbeliev able. And yet there are people opposed to dip ping stock—why. they probably cannot tell. They are just “ag’i’n it," and that' all. B. J. COTTLE TY TY, GEORGIA « n Manufacturer if YeUow Ptae Lumber ml Shingles Wood for Sale at Ty Ty ST W. P. SIKES Heavy and Fancy Groceries Cows Bought and Sold Fresh Meats Plants of All Kinds H. a MALCOM TY TY, GEORGIA Orders taken now for plants. Also I buy and sell hogs. ..Hogs, Beef Cattle and MOIl. JONES A COMPANY Dealer* In Hifk Clara General Alter yon read thl* i fo to fill* etore and do ehoppin*. PRICES RIGHT A. PARKS, Groceries. Dry Goods Ete« Caskets, Coffins. Ty Ty, Georgia. D. VARNER AND COMPANY Drain* In Gracorioe Dry Goode, Caadtaa, CL gar,, Tatareo and Ever, Iklag ED. ta Aa way af MerctandDe. Man's FarabUacs DR. F. B. PICKETT,, Physician ai d Surgeon.' T.» Ty, (A. *' FOR TASTE AND BEAMS Saa J. D. Mean! akrat patttra I* a *aad • lath will, Terra Catta, aeeeraM frera top to tattaa, krapto* ant ■arise* J.D. TrTy.Ea. CARLS. PITTMAN Physician and Surgeon TY Ty, Ga. W. B. PARKS One to Florida, tat paying far thl* tpoee jutt the tame.