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THE TIFTON GAZETTE
Published Weekly
j St tie Foctoflcs tt TIfton, Georgia, ts Second I
IT, Art of March 8,1878.
r,...n. Publishing Company, Proprietors.
j. l. Herring .Editor and Manager.
or piking, or resting on the job, or something placing of the station at ftfton under control of
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift* County, Georgia.
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TO OUR HOME FOLKS:
As will be seen in an article in another col
umn from the Cordele Sentinel, I have accept
ed, in connection with my present position with
the Gazette, the editorial management of the
Cordele Daily Sentinel, which will begin pub
lication the latter part of the month. For a
complete understanding, a few words to the
people of Tifton and Tift county in particular,
and the patrons of the Gazette in general, are
necessary.
When the position was tendered me, I debat
ed the matter for some time, giving it much
thought before reaching a decision. My final
acceptance was actuated by the following reaS-
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IPTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, <MU.y
lY NIGHT.
When the Ordnance Nearly Joined the Aviation.
“ 'Gold-bricking’ is never safe, even when it
looks like a cinch,” said the Ordnance Man.
“What is 'gold-bricking?' ”
“Well, over here we used to say soldiering,
poses as a friend of the Coastal-Plain Experi
ment Station, if he is quoted correctly.
According to an Atlanta special, Senator
Flynt said one of his reasons for lighting the
Advancing age makes it inevitable that the
time approaches when I must turn over the ac
tive work, and especially the many details of
the printing and publishing plant here, to young
er hands. I had decided that as soon as my
sons in service returned and once more took up
their work here, I would turn a portion of my
task over to them, maintaining supervision and
direction and doing the larger part df the edi
torial work. This that I might, while still able
to do a full day’s task, prepare them as best I
might for the time, which will come some day,
when they must carry on the work alone,
The boys are back now, but as each day pass-
'es bringing its mass of detail, with their usual
worries and nerve-trying responsibilities, I real
ize that the only way to get out is to lay the de
tail work on other shoulders and step out.
I believe that opportunity has com e in the
Cordele proposition.
It may seem absurd to say that it will be eas
ier to run two papers than one, but when it. is
realized that I only propose to maintain editor
ial -and managerial supervision over the two,
leaving the detail work to younger men, it may
be readily seen that it is not only possible, but
logical. Of one thing I am assured: The hab
its of near thirty-five years are hard to shake off
in old age, and that unless I make a radical
like that. Over there th e boys said tiie term
pras derived from the bar of.the second lieuten
ant, that looked like a brick (which the officer
usually wasn’t),. It meant snatching a rest
while the others were working.
“At Mailly le Camp, after the armistice, we
were checking over to the French some artillery
of their’s that the Amricans had been using to
advantage. There were a lot of 165’s and 420’s,
and the squad of American Ordnance men was
checking the puns and equipment out and a
squad of French with an officer was checking
them in. The Frog is methodical if he is any
thing, and every nut and bolt had to' be account-
ed for.
“With every battery of four guns there was a
carload of equipment and extra parts. A por
tion of each car’s outfit was four boxes of tools.
These boxes were usually shoved underneath the
car, on three boards that rested across the brace-
rqds; 1 suppose because the car was always full
of junk and they thought that was the easiest
place to find them. No French train ever ran
fast enough to jar them off.
“We had checked in a battery and emptied the
car. which a switch engine had shunted off up
the main line. Our squad had gone back up the
receiving depot a piece to unload and transfer
some bridge timber. The French lumber is al
ways cut odd sizees—a 10x12 is a 9x11, what
should be 8x10 is 7x9, etc. After awhile I re
called that I had only seen three boxes of tools
unloaded from the battery car, so I walked back
to where the Frog officer and his men were at
work and asked him if he had checked in four
boxes of tools. He said he had not. I thought
it would hav been just like them to leave one of
the boxes under the car, and said so. He
agreed. The car was about a quarter of a mile
up the track, at the top of a steep grade, and I
walked up there to see. Sure enough, there
was the box.
“The day was a drizzly one, as nearly all
those days in France were, the lumber was
heavy, and 1 was tired. It looked dry and rest
ful under there out of the rain so 1 thought,
‘here I gold-brick a little,’ and without taking
the trouble to pull out the box, slid under on the
boards, kicked the box out with my hobs, and
settled.down for a nap
“1 had just dozed off, when I thought I felt
the car move: I jumped up, bumped my head
against the floor, and—sure enough, it was
moving! The Frogs rarely take the trouble to
the College of Agriculture was that the people in
the region effected ere not behind the
unitedly and that some of the strongest men on
(he Board of Directors sre opposed to the plan.
It is indeed news that Senator Flynt is such a
friend to the station at Tifton that he is trying
not know what is best for them would consign
to save it from the fate short-sighted people who
do not know what is best for them would con
sign it to. It is also news that the people here
are indifferent. Many citizens of Tifton and
surrounding section went td Atlanta at their
own expense in behalf of the meaaure. and the
Tifton Board of Trade once or twice sent 1 delega
tions at considerable outlay, the necessity for
which we have Mr. Flynt to thank
For a real friend to a station at Tifton, Sena
tor Flynt has acted mighty strange. At various
and sundry hearings before House and Senate
Committees in the past-fine years, he has fought
any branch station for South Georgia vigorously
and earnestly, and recent history is well remem
bered.
Perhaps Senator Flynt argues that the best
friend of a station at Tifton is he who wants no
station here.
If so, Senator Flynt will qualify.
In the meantime, we hope the General Assem
bly will save the Coastal Plain Station from the
efforts of such friends.
change, I will go on, from day to day, in the old
channel until at last strength fails. Therefore,
I feel that the change will be for my benefit,
just as I hope it will be for the benefit of the
people of Tifton and Cordele.
Few men past life’s meridian who went
through the strain of the paBt two years are the
same men physically. I realize that I am not
and that a change is dictated by common-sense
and self-preservation, as well as being a physi
cal necessity.
Yet, notwithstanding all this, did I not believe
that the change would be best for Tifton, I
would not consider it. My home is here; the
best years of my- lif e have been spent here;
the people here have been more than kind to me
—they have been exceeding generous. There
fore I felt in debating the change, that I should
give them the first consideration.
At Cordele, I will have as most intimate As
sociates two young men trained from youth in
the newspaper game. _ I hope my experience of
almost thirty-five years will be of value to them,
just as their youth and energy will be of value
to me. The same condition prevails at Tifton.
Those who will take Over the heaviest part of th e
work here are boys who have, been reared in
Tifton, just as they have been almost raised in
the Gazette office. They are .able now to do the
work I cannot; I hope to give them the benefit
while yet I may of the experience the years have
brought me. While they have been in the office
nearly all their lives, they have been In subordi
nate positions; now they take their share of res
ponsibility.
put on a brake, if they did, two' chances to one
it wouldn’t hold. So when they cut loose the car,
they just put a chock under one wheel and left
it When I kicked out the box, it hit the chock
and knocked it out, so the car soon moved off,
The box was left with one end on the boards, and
now it was dragging, the cover loose, and scat
tering nuts, bolts, tools and fixments alongside
the track.
“I didn’t worry much, although the car was
soon going pretty fast, for, bad as some of the
track was, the car would probably stay on.
But all at once, like a mental thunder -clap, I
remembered that we had left a car of ammuni
tion on the main line, at the bottom of the grade,
and in the end of that car nearest to me was
enough dynamite to blow up Stone Mountain.
Then I tried to get out.
“But it was too late. The car was going fast
er than I ever saw a French car go before, and
peeping out ahead I could see the ammunition
car getting closer, like it was flying toward me,
I thought of the folks back home, and won
dered if my ‘dog-tags’ (identification discs)
would be left from the blow-up and if they
would fall near enough for any of the boys to
find them. I’ve heard of people saying all their
past life would flit through their mind in a sec
ond, but mine didn’t. I wasn’t thinking of the
past; I was thinking of the present, and if you
ever heard a fellow put up an earnest prayer,
mine was that sort, although it might have been
a little incoherent if there had been anybody
near to hear.
“Well, the crash came, and I crawled out, of
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And now co
WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE.
If the government depended on returned sol
diers for purchasers of the army food supplies
soon to be put on the market through the med
ium of the postoffices, said supplies would more
than likely remain in Government hands. The
boys back from overseas want no more corned
Willie; monkey meat; spuds; goldfish; slum, or
similar truck. They got back here with heal
thy appetites, but they were fed up on army ra
tions, and want no more for years to come. Be
it known to thb uninitiated that Willie is U. S.
canned roast beef, while monkey meat is the Ar
gentine product. Boys who are in a position to
say, declare that there is a notable difference
in the taste, the Argentine beef having a strong
er flavor. Spuds as we all know are plain
Irish potatoes, goldfish canned salmon and slum
stewed hash. Some of the boys will eat pota
toes if they are disguised a little, but they admire
the other stuff only for its distance. A few
who were close to port when Italian ships came
in say they have had enough macaroni to last
them a life time.
After all, why not turn the railroads over to
their employes, as they request, and let them op
erate the lines awhile?
According to the last figures available, it will
cost the tax-payers $780,000,000 this year for
Government operation, despite greatly increas
ed freight and passenger tariffs. The tax
payers would be saved this expense If the roads
were turned over to the employes with a pledge
that the owners would be paid a reasonable In
terest on their investment
Perhaps the employes would raise the freight
and passenger tariffs again. But if the worst
came, when we could no longer pay the freight
we could get along some way without or with
less, and when we could not pay the passenger
ariffs we could stay at home, from the present
outlook, it seems more than probable that we
will have to do one or both anyway.
A recent issue of the Saturday Evening Post
bad a very illuminating story of a baseball club
that was turned over to the players as a last
resort. Perhaps the roads would share the fate
of the unfortunate ball club, but they seem
bound that way in any event.
Why not give the employes a whack at it?
First the owners' and then the Government ap
pear to split the switch.
GOOD ROADS AS AN ASSET.
The suggestion that the interior cities of Geoij.
gia establish motor lines to the ports to relieve
a possible food shortage in event the railroad
strike grows, emphasizes the necessity for im
proved roads and for a state system of connected
roads.
Suppose each of these cities had a direct pav
ed road to the nearest port? Their transporta
tion problem would be solved.
Georgia should have had such a system of
roads before the need grew acute. But now
that we are caught without, it would be foolish
not to be prepared for the next emergency.
If the present session of the General ’Assem
bly adjourns without providing for a state high
way system, it should be called back immediate
ly for that purpose, and no bunch of vote-bid
ding demagogues should be allowed to stand in
the way. The Legislature has been called into
extraordinary session many times for far less
important matters.
A POOR SUBSTITUTE
FEDERAL HOME LQANS.
The Federal Government has in operation a
farm loan plan under which money can be ob
tained for 35 years on easy terms for farm im
provements.
Why not have such a system for men of mod
erate means—the average wage earner—by
which he can borrow the money to build a home
and repay it in monthly or annual installments,
on long time?
Such a plan would solve the home problem
that is now facing nearly every town and city in
the country.
Give the wage-earner a chance to improve his
condition and own his home. It will make him
a better citizen. No man who owns his home
is a Bolshevist—unless he is crazy.
In no sense am I leaving Tifton and in no ' course > or 1 wouldn’t be here to tell about it.
sense am I leaving the Gazette. I expect to be What happened? I think I said before that the
~ even closer identified with both in the future I French were careless railroaders. Right there
. v than in the.past, when the grind of the daily *” ^ ron t °f that ammunition car was a switch,
task absorbed all my time. It is the same con- ' and of course > when the Frogs put some cars in
dition that would obtain did the head of a Tif- on the sidin K' they failed to close it snug, leav-
ttfn bank, manufacturing plant or wholesale | * nf? *^ °P en shout an inch. That saved my life,
or retail establishment accept the joint manage-' nnd incid entally and not so important to me,
ment of a similar business in another city. It is two fairly 8 ° od cars for the French government
my purpose to divide my time between the two, and a tired but chastened soldier and a carload
cities, giving to each that amount that circu‘m-' of ammunltlon for Uncle Sam—both of which,
stances may make necessary. , I'hope, h,e will never need again. . <*■
I believe the change will bring the two bust- “When the car that ! was running special
ling young South Georgia cities closer together.
They have interests in common, and much can
be done by cooperation. I shall do my best to
impartially protect the Interests of both.
"■ A* for .the Gazette, Daily and Weekly, it is
like one of my children. And we want to train
our children to take car e of themselves.
| Sincerely, j. l. Herring.
Judge Covington is right The Georgia Leg-
islature is just WMtfng time passing a bill
to put all of-Georgia in the Central time Coj
Uncle Sam is ahead
(gainst my trill struck ths switch, it split, and the
car went on to the siding and on to the ties. By
good luck, it didn’t turn over, and I didn’t grum
ble at the midden stop.
“After •that, I took my part of the job as it
came and tried no more for ‘gold-bricks’—I’d
lost my taste for ’em. And some may make fun
of the French railroading methods, but I want
to tell the world, they’do things just exactly to
suit me some times.” '
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. “Wil j of clemperfoch aveiius? is said to be the
te given one of its ‘
francs
“Editor Herring of the Tifton Gazette sure
ly knew what he was talking about when he
said the state experiment station at Griffin has
been of little worth to* the farmers of Georgia.
As a rule, it has been a haven Which old politi
cians sought when they died,” says the Savan
nah Press. We do not want the station at Tif
ton to degenerate into a political liability; we
want to make it an agricultural asset.
UNDER WHOSE CONTROL?
from the Atlanta Constitution.
One of the house committees on agriculture
acts today on a measure putting the Tifton ex
periment station under the State College of Agri
culture, as urged by the trustees of the college
and by prominent agriculturalists throughout
South Georgia.
The proposition is opposed by the advocates
of the Griffin experiment station. If the Griffin
station does notlwish to be put under the State
Agricultural College, there is no reason fo» tak
ing action to that end, unless it be that the state
thinks it wise to pursue this course in the inter
est of efficiency, as has been done in other great
agricultural states.
In the matter of the Tifton station, it certain
ly seems that the wishes of the trustees of that
insitution should be consulted, especially as
their appeal is in direct line with the policy of
every one of the progressive agricultural states
of the union.
It Would be quite interesting to watch the
development of the Tifton experiment station
under the operation of the State College of Agri-
ture, and to compare it with the operation of
the Griffin station under semi-political control.
Perhaps those responsible for the conduct of
the Griffin Experiment station are not willing
that this comparison should be made.
At any rate, Commissioner of Agriculture J. X.
Brown was right when he said two years, ago
that the State Agricultural College should i,ave
-he direction of the experiment stations, pointing
could be obtained in that
conditions. *
The Gazette does not like the bill which has
passed both houses of the General Assembly, pro
viding that after January 1, 1922, half of the
state’s revenue shall be appropriated to the com
mon schools.
The schools need support, but communities or
counties in which they are located should be
shown that it is their duty to support them.
What Georgia needs is state-wide tax for the
support of the schools. Then, and then only
will we really have a state school system in
keeping with our needs.
The 60-60 measure only puts the day of state
wide local taxation farther off.
A TIME FOR COMMON SENSE.
With the war over, the world appears to have
gone mad. The spirit that made a ruin of Rus
sia permeates the very atmospherre, and only the
sound common-sense and superior education of
the American people can save us from a taste of
It.
Now is the time to sit steady in the boat.
Give the duties of the day your undivided atten
tion. Go your way, do your work and keep
your temper. If America is saved a conflict with
Bolshevism, it will be because of the even tem
per and common-sense - of the American citizen.
The General Assembly deserves credit for the
Banking and Currency bill, which has passed
both houses and, as soon as the Senate can
concur in the House amendments, is ready for
the Governor’s signature. This measure creates
a separate Banking Department with a staff of
its own, entirely severed from the office of the
State Treasurer, and provides for a state Super
intendent of Banks who shall be appointed by
the Governor with a 4 year term of office and a
salary of $6,000 a year. He is to have an assis-
tant who is to receive a salary of $3,600 and a
corps of bank examiners who receive $2,400
each. The measure was approved by the Geor
gia Bankers’ Association. *
Mr. B. B. Or „ _ „
Ion. experience with * volunteer vater-
melon Tine. * ft came op in hi* yard this
spring among the rose bashes, and he let
it frow bavin* in hit mind a prospect of
bi* melon enttin* this summer. The
vine spread like Jonah's sored until it
covered about SO square feet of ground,
bur only hove one melon. TbU Grant cut
Sunday. ,
When opeced the melon was a beau*
tifnl red color, and looked good. But the
meat waa absolutely ta&te'ess or If It bad
any taste at all, it waa that of a rose leaf.
The open melon had a faint perfume like
Grant thinks he has found a scheme to
•tart a perfume factory by grafting bin
rose bushes on melon vines.
I
FEELING BLUE?
UVERLAZY?
TAKE ACALOTAB f
Wonderful Bow Yoon, a ___
Yon fed After Taklag TUa Nairn.
leaa Calaawl TakM.
It you bare not tried Calotaba you bare
a delightful surprise awaiting goo. The
wonderful liver-cle&sing and ryitem-puri-
fying poopcrtice of calomel may cow bo
enjoyed without the slighted unpleasant-
new. A Calotab at bedtime with a awal-
low of water—thnt'a aU. Jlo Mote, n«
salta. nor the slightest unpleasant effects.
Yon wake'up in the mornlpg feeling so
good that you wont to laugh about it.
Your liver la clean, your system is puri
fied, your appetite hearty. Bat what yon
wish.—no danger. The next time you
feel lexy, mean, nervous, blue or discour
aged give your Uver a thorough cleansing
with a Calotab. They are ao perfect
thst your druggist is authorised to re
fund the price ee a guarantee thet you
will be delighted.
I Calotaba are eold only In original, aeal-
ed packages. Price thirty-five cents. At
all drug stores. Adv.
NIPPER DOTS
Mr*. H. H. Mickle la taklu* a trip to
Chica*o, visiting her unde, Mr. R. R.
8tewart.
Miss E. I. Wheeler had a stroke of
paralysis at Clyo, Go. We are glad to
aay she is mending.
Mama's Lonely Lad.
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>6 quickly relieve* Constipa
tion, Biliousness, Lou of Ap
petite and Headaches, due to
Torpid Liver. adv
Sick
Women
Cgfdd, A* WOMB'S
tank, helped Mis. W»-
■tm Evenole, of Hgggl i
BMch, Ky. Read what
SB write*: “1 had a
«f ay butt. I wash
had iocwaeka, naoblata
■ri sp. I had (Kh •
very Mur*. AM
, Mda* I had triad ovary-
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TAKE
Sylvester lays claim to the first bale of Gcio£
gia cotton, through a bale raised by W. C. Can
non, and marketed, so it is claimed, July 31.
weighed 376 pounds and was shipped to Augus
ta, where it sold for 36 1-2 cents a pound,
sending the bale to Augusta instead of, Sa-
nah, the Statesboro man gets credltXov the
Georgia bale. --judr *•.&•& *»•
er«». fibri'
We agree with the Lyons frogress,,tluit (hie
proposition of a few politicians, jtpf^a^eihe Fled-
The Woman’s Took
DoywMw«ak,dto-
taut aay '*i
Then why *ot
ghv CanM a trial?
MuM airtly doferyu
eral government pay pensions i‘
soldiers is piffle—or worse. .fin-thfe first ph
the Republicans w(tt see to It that ift'sncl
is done; second, it is notrigl^and U^rd,.j|
insult fa),the surviving Veterans of the Lud
ter askforiti- Think of a Veteran whdiff
or J®hn«m L opi
walking up £o one of the men v
the bob of one of thesemeiiand*
“ } Jho ,
War. Between *
Mr, 4»d MMe «f the
jrehld,*
what it bag don* fora*
'whoadBend-n
i you backs*
Jbk Mo* My I
Jwho.Nu takas
’n* win m yoa town
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Me, Tty&rdB.