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it tin PotoRce «t Tifton, Georgia, u Second <Sn*
Act ot March 8,1879.
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Qfchl Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
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THE FARMERS CANT STRIKE.
“If the Farmers Struck,” reads an editorial in
the Savannah Morning News.
But the farmer, can’t strike. Neither can
any other man who is in joint partnership with
God Almighty in the production of the neces-
eitiaa of life.
It is a task that runs through the season.
There is the season of preparation; the season
of planting; the season of cultivation, and the
season of harvesting. If the farmer lays-down
on the job and strikes at any of these seasons,
he loses the work of the whole year, and unless
he has reserve sources, must ask help to get
through another.
The fanner is in partnership with the Al-
' mighty in the production of crops. When he
does his part the Lord does the rest and the
world is fed and clothed. But if he goes to fool
ing around and saying his hours of work are too
long, or his pay too small, and decides that he
will lay off until one is shortened and the other
raised, the grass or the weevil or general debili
ty will get his crop, and he will get nothing.
It ought to be that way with every other line
of industry. If a man don’t work he should not
be allowed to eat, and if he is engaged in a line
of business where his failure to do his duty will
entail loss on others, he should be held responsi
ble for that loss.
Take the tobacco industry in this section, as
a case in point. The tobacco growers have no
part in the differences between the railroads and
their employes , yet if the strike continues they
may lose the most profitable part of their crop,
The manufacturers can not buy the tobacco urn
less they are sure of transportation and the sea
son here closes September 2, when the market
opens at other points. Because of the shop,
men’s strike the farmers of this section, perfectly
innocent parties, stand in prospect of losing sev
eral million dollars.
inTOM.PFf;
never” fits with especial
amendment appropriating
plant for the Seeond
School. That it was sec
bted to enator Parker.
The money was badly neded and was a meri
torious institujsm; therefore, it should hot have
been noceasawto make a light for it. The ap
propriation ffir the other schools appeared to
get through fith comparative ease. Why was
it that the money asked for the Second District
School, which is recognized as leading the agri
cultural schools of the state in efficient work, was
denied until the last minute and then secur
extra effort?.
This is the first money the state has especially
appropriated for this school since it was estab
lished. The people of Tifton and Tift county
donated the site for school and farm and the
money for the buildings. The state has only
furnished the money for maintenance and then
not always the amount appropriated. Other
District Agricultural Schools, notably those of
the First, Third and Fifth-Districts, appear able
to get special appropriations almost at will. If
our memory serves, each of these has had at
least three special appropriations, all for consid
erable amounts.
For eight yeaB the premiums for insurance on
the buildings at the Second District School
were paid out of the money furnished for main
tenance. The state is-furnished a fund with
which to keep its property insured, but for many
years none of this came to the Second District
School. After the insurance was paid out of the
school’s funds, the state was asked to reimburse
the school, but this was never done. Mean,
-vi^hile, many of the other schools went without
insurance. The main building at one of these
was burned and the Legislature appropriated
$25,000 to erect another. But it has never re
funded the money spent by the school here for
insurance premiums. One or two of the schools
got appropriations for dining-halls. The Sec
ond District School built its own hall, largely
by means of the class in mechanics, but the state
never even paid for the material.
The logical lesson from these incidents would
be that the school which lets its property go
uninsured and then calls on the state to rebuild
in case of loss and the school that just lets things
rock along without making any especial effort
for itself, and depends on the state to provide,
gets the most favors.
Perhaps the Second District School would
have been favored with more appropriations if
it had asked oftener, and asked persistently.
But the state is paying the insurance premiums
now, the annual appropriations are more liber-
TY TY DEPARTMENT
Miss Phroni* Sikes ku extended her
vliit somewhat, (ha has tent to Texas;
seldom take op a paper that wn Is
aAste as account ol some automobile col-
lidthc with a train, ujuelly canslDf rose
«* We, bodily Injury and damage to the
car. Almost'aerer fa tt the fault of the
The old poetoiL tafia * nd ' " lo °* “ MtomobU. driver,
paired—notlwfm*it’aMded repatitog.”^ ** w,Ul traln *' *' ■"* *•»
MIu Mamie Tlckahnw, of Monroe, to
rial ting her .liter, lbatk ghetoott
I ' ■•lAr- 'Wh 9 9 ^ *
BORN—To Mr. and lira S. H. Cottle,
August 8th, a daughter.
■
Mr. Orla Dell and Mis. Blanche Dell
were the guests of Mica Wflle Grace
Farlti Sunday. aBKBgMBjjSE
asses
Mrs. B. B, Pickett is spending the sum*
mer In Waynmille, N. C.
joe a a
Mr. Owen Dowd la visiting bis sister,
Mrs. Calhoun, in Cataula, Ga.
. a a a a a '
Thera are still som
fodder, and they are
work now, between showers.
aaaaa
do now, accidents like this will continue.
gowe
We are threatened with (18-S'barrtl
flour, but the com atop la good, this year,
snd there will probably bo an abundascs
of sweet potatoes, and other things In that
line. Thera might have been rice, for
that la a tolerably sure crop In this lo
cality. but the farmrs think ther, are
other crops more profltable.
Colan and Sandy Malcom seem to be
making a good thing of their boiled
| ground-pea?. They took in *21 at the ball
game in Sylvester last week and could
probably have sold as many more ground-
pees if they bad had them. Aa the
tround-peas are sold in five-cent packages,
to d. S'S^xss; to hu “* 10 t,ke ln tw * n -
Paulk’s Cbapef, ‘falling into line with
MBS. BLACK AMD WHAT
SHE THOUGHT OPT* TX
It wts with deep regret that Ty Ty’s
little club of woman received the news
of the death of Mm. Nellie Peters Black. I
for Is her they recognised one of tha heat
friends that women—especially tha wo-
men of Georgia—ever had. Tha Question
of politics, woman’s suffrage, interested
her far lea than the things that meant
the rahl welfare of womankind, and bet
ter children, and happier homes.
Some of the women of Ty Ty were per-
•O nelly acquainted with Mrs. Black
and they had a warm admiration tor her
pleasant .unaffected manners, her unfail
ing good-humor and her good hard sense.'
Mrs. Black was especially interested in I
Ty Ty. The club’s delegate to conven
tion* received a warm personal greeting
from her and her questions about Ty Ty
showed that she remembered the place
from year to year. At tha District Con
vention In ThomasviUe, ln the spring of
1918, ehe asked me where Ty Ty got its
name and I told her It was ln the diction
ary. I met her a year later, in Tifton,
and almort the first thing the .aid to me
rp..., - . 1 - .«*“*,* low one who,-— ----- —- — — —i —„ S-JU w iuc
0ther .**:•*“*•* '« taatot S pm- Ty Tyvn not to the diction-
rain Sunday afternoon and evening—If It; t,. c ted meetina
bad only been needed. ^ ^
... « , Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Johnson, of Col
Ml»« Do r l ,p lttaan, EarUn. Sumner' aitt countJi , K „, ltlllf ttel ; ^
I-udlle Bridge* and Wlllla Glen DelV all Mrs. Aaron Parka and Kn Soflle
of Sumner spent a few dija with Miss
Ruby Parka last week.
Miss Mattie Z. Mallory, of Olio, Ga.,
Miss Peeples of Naahville, and Miss Alex*
under, of Nashville, have been visiting
ira. Edgar Gibba. Miss Peeples and Miss
Mallory have taught music In the Ty Ty
school, and Miss Altxander is a sister of
M&. Gibbs.
OOOBO
Rev. R. O. Heath, who was to have
preached in the Methodist church here
Sunday, sent a telegram saying that he
I explained the spelling and, al
though the did not feel sufficiently well
to attend the luncheon at the Twentieth
Century Club rooms, she took time to con
sult the dictionary again. When we met
at the afternoon session of the conven
tion, she told me she had found “titi,"
“and” she added, “I found out something
about it that I don't believe yon know.
The Germans an gloating over labor
conditions in America, particularly over
what they are pleased to call the “Black it is sometimes called 'buckwheat tree. 1
Peril." | (I did know it, bat that name was never
• • • • • used in this section).
' Miss Carter of the telephone exchange j Mrs. Black was especially pleased at the
has gone to West Virginia. Mr. Wood, convention in Tifton by the donation of
of Sumner, is in charge of the office at'the Tj Ty dab to the Tallulah Falls
present I School. The amount was fifteen dollars
• • • • • and it wai paid promptly. She said it
Mi ms Clara Malcom and Miss Lucy! was better than some of the big clubs of
Sikes are representing Ty Ty at the oan- the state had done.
had been called to Knoxville, Tenn., by n ing demonstration at the A. M. 8. this I On thia trip to Tifton, Mrs Black
the illness of his wife. Rev. W. E. Biv- week, and they are practical canners, too. passed through Ty Ty, and she was loud
ins, of the Protestant Methodist church, mim % I in praise of the town's- appearance. She
preached to the congregation, which was Again is the carrier of Route 1, obliged said it wai the prettiest, cleanest little
a large one. ^ j to go twelve miles out of his way to dr-1 place, and that it had a gtester number
• • • • • cumvent and dreumnavigate John’s creek, of pretty homes than any place of its
The ladies of the Methodist church are How long? | size ghe had aver seen,
collecting new furniture, etc., for their * • • • • | Mrs. Black's opinion of Ty Ty is thus
parsonage at Poulan.
• See*
Mr. and Mrs. 0. D. Varner, Misses
Nevie, Violet and Louise Pickett and lit
tle James, made a trip to Albany last
week.
None of the authorities seem able to given at length because not many sucb
tel] anything about the origin of the I things have been said of the place. There
word titi, and even more of a poser is the has long been a prejudice against it which
question why it should ever have been is just beginning to disappear. Ty Ty
■ailed “buckwheat tree.'* Its habitat ia was not exactly a Garden of Eden, with-
.In a case of this kind the party at fault ought
to be made to pay the damages. We do not pro-
, tend to say who this party is, but somebody is
to blame, and that somebody ought to pay. It
may be a case of pig-headedness, and both sides
■ to blame; in that event both should be made
a) so perhaps after awhile we will get what Is
due us—but it has been a long time coming.
Meanwhile, the amount asked for a heating
plant 'was urgently needed. During past win
ters the buildings have been kept fairly warm by
means of heaters, using wood for fuel. In the
to pay. It is neither right nor juBt that an inno
cent man should lose the fruits of his labor.
xjNo, the farmer can’t strike; he’d starve if he
did* Perhaps if every other working man was
. confronted with the same alternative there
■would not be so many strikes.
A PROGRESSIVE BODY.
Taken as a whole, the work of the General
Assembly which closed its first session Wednes
day night was constructive and far above the
average of the years past Of course there
"were a few demagogues and trouble-makers.—
they are always on hand—who insisted on mak
ing the floor of the House or Senate a political
aa, but constructive leadership largely over
dormitories especially, this Is dangerous, and
more than once a fire has been averted by close
watchfulness. The heaters in the small rooms
Jack Ford has not lost a member of his
family, but it was almost aa bad, and he
looks almost as doleful abont it His
big automobile was burned list week.
Fortunately it was insured.
a country where the buckwheat plant is out a serpent bat it never deserved the
unknown, and it bears about as much re- reputation it was given in its early years
semblance to that grain as it bears to it was no worse than the other little
cotton. towns in a then sparsely settled section.
• • • • • Mrs. Black waa an intelligent, educa
Why injure your corn (according to the ted woman of good taate and sound judg-
scientific agriculturist) waste your timejment She had traveled a great deal and
and make yourself uncomfortable pulling seen many places, and surely her opinion
Maybe you think everybody in the conn-! fodder such weather as this? Leave it on ought to be worth something. She was
tr, i. h “ an , automobile, butjhe breathing | the 8talks to roti for it {a folnf fot f food woman—a Ohristian-and Ty Ty
should strive to deserve all sh* said of it
take up space the pupils need, and the question
of firewod is always an aggravating one. A
heating plant for all the buildings would be a
matter of economy as well as a protection to
the school property and the lives of the pupils
and faculty.
spell that farmers have between the time* way H it is pulled now> and
they "lay by” their W3P3 find Cotton- j noW be too late,
picking times brings out the buggies. .....
* * - * * I According to the newspapers (those
Mr. E. J. Cottle aayi that to looking'outside of Atlanta, that la) Atlanta puts
over some old papers a tew days ago, he' a hand into her hag oi tricks and produces
found a bill for dressed lumber at *7.60 whatever the occasion seems to call for.
a thousand. The cheapest of lumber that, in the days of P. T. Barnum, Doc*
can be bought now is $25 a thousand, hut \ tuder's Miniitrela ussd to giro a buries-
AN UNFORTUNATE OMISSION.
It will be a matter for deep regret to the
friends over the state of the higher education of
the sons and daughters of the farmers of Geor
gia for the work to which they devote their lives,
and incident thereto to the agricultural develop
ment of the state, that in the final give-and-take
ne these and a majority of the best measures
put through.
lie state-wide local school tax measure
i[ds easily at the head in the list of occom-
ents. Next in importance were the state
ghway measures. Not all was secured here
t was desired, but initiatory steps were taken
ybich it is hoped will lead to all that the real
■tends of good roads desire.
. Rrom the opening days, both bodies kept
Veil up with their work. This was mainly due
; to the way in which the Budget Commission had
aved the way for the big appropriation bills,
ad to’the fact that it had handled a mass of the
1 work that usually comes before the House
littee on -Appropriations. The Budget
between the House and Senate by which the busi
ness of the 1919 session of the General Assembly
was wound up the increased appropriation for
the twelve District Agricultural Schools was lost.
These schools nefld this money and they need it
badly. It could have been used in many ways
by those among the schools that are doing in
tensive work to facilitate that work and broad
en its usefulness.
and more.
MR NELSON REPLIES.
Sumner, Ga., Aug. 12,1919.
The Tifton Gaaette, Tifton Ga.-
Please allow me space to reply to a
piece by your Ty Ty correspondent in
W.EWKUAMS
Pays For
This Space
Ty Ty Farmers Supply Go
R. R. Pickett, President.
J. M. Varner, Manager,
DEALERS IN -
Groceries, Dry Goode
Notions, Shoes, Hats
Raady.to.Wear Chtkiag
Fans Implements
And Other Things,
Pictorial Review Patterns
TY TY DRUG'GO.
E. W. Otir.r, Pr*,ri.Ur.
A eeiohle lias sf pstset n
sins*. Drags sst SaaJrto*.
k
THE BANK OF TY If
SAFETY FIRST
TY TY, GEORGIA
your last week's issue, misleading and
millmen say they are making no more • qUe 0 n the Greatest Show 0 n Earth. Th e -
money now than they made them. Oe* man who represented Barnum (and he' far from what was said,
tainly the lumber is much inferior to that | was made up to look Barnum's exact I I never said there was a road In Worth
in those days. It seems that there is counterpart, except as to complexion) used county in a perfect condition, or any-
very little good timber left In this part
of the world.
The old plaint, that “the poor man haa
no chance," does not hold good these dayi.
The poor man is reaching out for every
thing, while the rich man—with income
taxes, investigations, snd one thing and
another—is having a very bad time.
to say in his speech abont the show—
“We’ve got more men, more horses, more
wild animals than any other show on
earth—or, if we haven’t, we can get 'em
made over here at Bridgeport"
Just the same, though, Atlanta can do
things.
On Sunday, Mr. William Whlddon cele
brated the return of hia sons 'from the
thing that any one could have thought I
meant such.
Nearly ever since I have been warden
of Worth county thia correspondent every
two or three weeks, writes a piece scoring
Worth county roads and why they do not
pay one cent of the tax, have no interest
in the road, and no intertst in Ty Ty, by
which they wguld derive any benefit from
others who do not travel them, and I dare
war by giving a big dinner, and not only jthe writer hat not been on a road in
This ia the farmer’s leisure season, and
So h. qoe. visiting, ettende church and tt atl j inn(ri bat then WM turkey. »«**». Now •« to my being on the rtm-
Think of both berhecuo end turkey St the P**e. * n T <“• c * n out that wu not
same dinner to these H. a L.'times Be-1* 0 taking W. B. Parka, J. M. Varner,
port taye that every preacher and doctor | Jerk Ford, Mark Whitfield, Warren WU-
within reach were among the Invited **a, or Mr. CornwaU, father of the caah-
gaeata, but we hare heard of no newspaper of the bank, aa I waa only there a
comes to town. Monday was an especial
ly busy and lively day in Ty Ty. The
town was full of visitors, including several
recently returned negro soldiers, and eves
the downpour of rain failed to disperse the
crowd. They merely withdrew, temporari
ly, to shelter and came out before rite sun
appeared.
A few months ago, J. W. Jones sold his
farm near Ty Ty to Peighton Wethering-
ton and moved to Valdosta. Recently,
Mr. Wetherington has traded the place
_ ... *o J. M. Varner for the M. P. Young farm,
A man who patronized the school at Tifton, between Ty Ty and Tifton. One never
said yesterday: “I sent my boy to this schoolii5 0WB th ® owncr of * * lic * the * e ***■•
for only one term and was surprised at the re-'^w ” "" * 4 '*
suits. The discipline is excellent and with only .....
a few months training that boy can plan out and But for that promiM th * t a ‘ w »rH
lay the foundation for any farm building, lay
out the work on a farm for a week or month;
on should be continued. If a budget,tell all about fertilization, seed selection, crop
'can he of such help in one year, why not utilize rotation, etc., can milk, churn, or do anything
t all the time?
As a whole the work of the General Assembly
liras good. It labored along progressive and
' live lines, and the results will be. long
|lt for the welfare of the people of the state.
tCan the supposedly non-partisan Associated
mbs be leaning toward the Republicans? It
pve something oyer; six thousand words to Sen-
‘ r Lodge’s speech and only a few hundred to
S»d Hitchcock. By this
the chalfipftn 1 Republican campaign
nent of the yearT-Wia .circulated |by wire
else to be done about the farm and know why he
does it and when to do it.”
The schools should be encouraged in thelr
work. It is unfortunate for the farmers of
Georgia that some other appropriation—In.
creased salaries, for Instance—was not cut in-
stead.
i for the Repjil
»leading argumi
men who are
ue of Nations am
i Peace Treaty.
fiHtrjritfver; also
ibstructiopists and
cation
o tree is comparatively Unknown
i country now, but if it can be transplant-
easily become a
kin Costa Rica and its j
atically turns'
i stronger. No,
In an interesting review of the political situs,
tien, Hdllomon, of the Constitution .says: "Talk
ing about gubemational candidates, it is now
said that Dudley Hughes—one time a congress-
mkn—Ms likely to be in the running. And
John Bennet still insists that he is “seriously
considering it,” while Jim Weaver is listening at-
of the Mntively to the siren Call of ambition—and thus
it goes. But Jim Clements, who is the only man
in Georgia who- owns his own courthouse and.
jail, positively refuse* to be quoted.”
“From the number of points sticking up, it
looks as though a political lightning rod agent
bad been working among those who would like
be Governor of Georgia,” says the Dawson
News, whose, editor is around-the capital quite a
There here sot been men, nelnbowi late
ly, either.
• e . . e
With chickens brtoitof ell sorts of pric
es, and scarce at that. It doea seem a pity
to have them go for ho, feed ; bnt that
la vhat goes with most of those, even the
crown ones, that dare to show themselves
on the streets. Hog railing la profitable
business, when the toed la not too high;
bnt to this cate, it la frequently not tha
owner who furnishes the feed. A stock
law teems to be the only remedy.
• . 4 • •
Mrs F..B. Pickett and her two daug-
tera have returned from Atlanta. The
health of- tha little girl is greatly im
proved.
a o e e e
Mr. Thorton, the section muter, hu
purchased from Mrs. M. Dowd tha lot
adjoining the homo of Mr. Dupont Varner.
e « e a •
The few antomobiles et Sunday School
Sunday afternoon very obligingly got the
crowd homo after the rein begin. If Misa
Willie Grace Perks, with her tether 1 * car,
hid collected e; tar* for each passenger,
the could have bought n stunning new
frock. Tha car Is a larga one and aha
made abent half a dozen tripe.
688
I has fwnra Gmltstlsm than
other Chill and Fcsrar Taw
folks beinc called to the feast Preachers
snd doctor* always fet the best of
in the way 0 f eatinc—Just another proof
of "unto him that shall be liven"
the newspaper folks being the party of the
second part The Whlddon family ia a
large one, and moat of its branches were
represented.
DOING THINGS PROPERLY.
short time and talked to an of them:
I went to this correspondent and ask
ed them to stop costing so about the road*
in Worth county; that every road In
Tift and Worth that joined up to Ty T*
was better than the street it joined, ex
cept the one north, and we were at work
on it and try and get it fixed by cotton
season. But if we did and they did net
fix that street, they could not get to the
gin after they got to the town line. I
told thia correspondent I had worked hard
get the Ty Ty fill fixed—even ordered
One thousand Cseeho-Slovak veterans,
on their wey home from Slberie, vie New, ^ „ .. ,
Orleans, were entertained by the Bed “ d »** d ,or tte flr *f «todert myeeif end
Cron of Atlanta u they passed through was then on my way to aee the commit-
that city not long ago. There waa nothing' alonera to reference t* part they uaed.
to unusual to thia, thoueh the veterans' But ike put * terrible atreu on that part
this, though the veterans 1
oonaumed 250 watermelona, 1,000 ponhda'°f oor oonvertatloa. Now Mr. J.
of bread, 65 pounds of chicken, and other Varner heard the eonvenatlon end this
tihlnga, amounting in all to ntos wagon-
Tha Red Cross haa dona far greater
things than thia to the feeding of people;
but there wee a genuine Atlanta touch to
this occasion that was rather appealing.
Looking over her citiaeni, Atlanta pro
duced a Cseeho-Slovak person and sent
him to hold n talk-feat with his country-
•55,410 IN A SUIT FOR DAMAGE
Mr. Palaemon Presaey kts return ad
from Savannah where ha was ^dled as
witness In the case of a man with whom
he worked In" n shipyard daring th* war.
A falling derrick injured thia workman
■o that he can never work again, end he
aued the contractor. Mr. Pretaey saw the
derrick fall, and he was tha principal wit-
nea in the ctse. After hiving been out
three hours, the Jury brought to n verdict
of $25,410 for the plaintiff. This, the
lawyers say, la the largest amount for
damage ever awarded by t Georgia court.
Aa a lew trial seems improbable, the
ctee is likely to go to the Supreme Court
lAXAHVff HOMO qopnitt land! I awe the
ease, There ie eoly era -grime Q*Mee. r
c.w.atovrs
correspondent tried to get him to join
•idee with them end ho told them I wu
right Personally, I don't cere whether
the etretti of Ty Ty ere worked or not,
end think I have as much Interest there
u tha Ty Ty correspondent has to Worth
county roads. As to my expertising
and any one wanting information u to
the streets, thia correspondent refers them
to me. If any one wants tha facta as
they are, they will have fo go to mo or
some one etse to get them.
Tonra Truly,
G. S. Nelson.
The old Southern Lumber Company's
property is offered for tale by J. A. Kit
chen, of Sylvester, Ga. Thu land la of
fered at from $10 to $20 tn acre lea then
other lend as well located u this.
It to currently reported that tha coron
er’s jory that investigated the etna .et
the death of tha negro who wu lynched
to Bleckley county Monday night re
turned * verdict to the effect that the
segroeame to hie death on account of tha
fact that ho did not know the differenet
between Chicago and Cochran.—Exchang,
HOUR we wM ho TOURS
WOODWARD’S G ABAGS
JONES * COMPANY
Soalors In
After yon road thia advartfcanaafr
go to thia atora and do iw
PRICKS RIGHT
A. PARKS, w
Groceries. Dry Goods Ete^
Caskets, Coffin*.
Ty Ty, Georgia. >
D. VARNER AND COMPANY
Dealers In
Crwwiw Dry Goode, Condlaa, Q>
Else ia tho way at Camaanl
DR. F. B. PICKETT,
Physician aid Stngeoa.
T.» Tar. Ga.'
Ba J. D. Maori ikawt goto* to ■
good a Ml waB, Tam Ostia, mmM
tram to* to hottao, keeping oat mntNi
AMraa A D. Maani, Ty Ty, Shk
CARL 5. PITTMAN
Physician and Sargean
Tf Ty, Ga.
W. B. PARKS
Uaaa to flarife, link paphg
tor tibls space Just the eaann
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