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THE TIFTON GAZ TIFTON, GA.. FRIDAY, A1 [HE TIFTON GAZETTE Published Weekly j lt a, Postoffic# it Tifton, Georgia. u Second Claaa •r, Act of March 3,187th Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietors. r. L. Herring. .Z^EHtoi and Manager' Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: . $1.50 SATURDAY NIGHT. Twelve months •" Six Months * g0 Four Months * ” they went too far. When the war came to an abrupt close, the country was faced with the danger of financial nanic certain to follow an abrupt drop in prices. All at once, the Government got out of the mar ket for army supplies, including munitions, clothing and food, and to this was added the big ,tain to be left on hand following de- surplus certa mobilization. Coupled with the prospect of tumbling prices was the danger of thousands being left idle, when the munition plants shut down, the ship yards cut"their tones and manufacturers once more turned tlieir attention to the country’s needs on a peace basis, To avoid widespread disaster, men of affairs, both in the Government, in food production and in manufacturing, concentrated their efforts. So well was their work done that instead of ex periencing panic, the country is undergoing the greatest prosperity it has ever known. So far, so good. But the men who control the food supply, as well as some manufacturers, went too far. Instead of dropping, prices stead ily climbed, until six months after the war closed the country found itself paying twenty-five per cent above war-time prices for the necessities of life. Uncle Abe Mauldin. Uncle Abe was a patriarch. Always he reminded one of Abraham of Holy Writ. Like Abraham the waves of flowing beard that half covered his massive chest; like Abraham his colossal frame, although now bent with age; like Abraham the deep though now sometimes trembling voice; like Abraham the rich store of wisdom, the sober philosophy that came from his lips; like Abraham he was a fath er in Israel, and like Abraham he bore the sac red name. Verily, Uncle Abe belonged with the past; he had part with the patriarchs of tradi tion. Deep was his wisdom, but it was- wisdom not printed in books; he had read well, of the lines largely writ across the face of Nature for those who love her and can interpret her language. The school where he was educated was bounded by no narrow walls; it was illimitable as the Uni verse; as high as the sky, as deep as the earth, as broad as the horizon. Uncle Abe had lived ninety years a pupil of this school and had learn ed well its lessons. Of the pioneers who came to this country near ly a century gone he helped drive, first the Indi ans, then the wolves and bear, from the wire- grass wilderness that it might be til for the ibode of man. The wild deer, turkey, and squir rel, with which the woods abounded and the fish which teemed the limpid creeks afforded sustenance for him and his until his cattle and sheep increased to herds and flocks, and time could be found to clear away a few acres on the hillside, that bread might be provided. With his bride he came to the Wiregrass Country and settled down for life. He left this bride at the call of need to join for months on the long tramp with a few whites to drive the Indians to the Florida everglades; he left her and hers once again when his country called, to march with the Men of Lee. Children came, grew up, married, and settled on the surround ing hillsides, like hovering chicks around the SNATCHING SUi Tobaco grow- many thousands season, despite they labored. count, tobacco-may hi money crop for this se< main remunerative. Because tqbaco was of the growers In this mistakes. They had plant, when and how .. etc., and last but by no how to cure. Much to the grower did not prope plant, fertilize or culti crop was made, much wi cut too soon or too late A great -deal of , tobacco ' market was almost -^irorthl too green or ruinedin the Another difficult^’ was Neither the grower nor the knew how to grow tobacco crop to 90 . they made many when and how to stem, spray. Important, was lost because prepare the soil, ■■■■.the because it was •operly cured, to the Tifton it was cuf iced 'help, forking for him Imany mistakes WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH QUITMAN? We find the following in the Thomasville Times-Enterprise, evidently from the Quitman ee Press: We are frequently asked the question: What is the matter with Quitman? The Free Press bill for water, lights and pow er comes to us on stationery printed in Griffin, Georgia. The Free Press puts its money in Quitman banks, but the deposit is written on a deposit slip printed in Cincinnati, Ohio. The money is checked out on i ‘ ' • ■ • - - banks in St. Louis. Your physician the cum of more adg known. Fever, Billone drowsiness, loss of causes of Malarlu. 17* r — r r- ^ —-. Fever Tonic if checked out on checks printed for Quitman' uri*, it prompt >mihta$ajifce Much of this could have been foreseen and mother hen. Old age came, and with it sorrow. for the companion of half a century went on ahead to solve first the Great Mystery and he, awaiting his turn, was held by age’s infirmities to the chair in the chimney corner. Often have I wished that I had known him earlier in his life, or later in mine, that record might be made of some of the things he told. Now they are gone, perhaps forever lost—the guarded against, but it wasn’t. The people had tasted Government control and they waited for the Government to act. Congress, where the duty of action lay, chose instead to wait upon the President, that any reflex indignation, either from the .people or the predatory interests 1 , might fall upon him. So we now have the raids on the profiteers. It was all unnecessary, had proper precautions memory of youth is treacherous unless deep im- . been taken, but something is necessary now.'pression is made. For from that chair came With the men who have forced prices skyward for their own gain properly brought to an ac counting, we may expect to see. prices go back to normal, because there is a bountiful supply both of food and raw materials. Meanwhile, as the profiteers are being brought to book, it is just as well to remember that at the beginning they helped save the country from a panic. many stories of adventure in forest and stream; with Indian, wolf, bear and other animals; even with fellow-men at occasional rallies at the mus ter-ground. A great book it would make, if I but had it now; a book that would give us rich store of lore about a people who have passed. Vivid is the picture before me now—the log house ,the clay chimney, the blazing lightwood fire; Uncle Abe in the corner in his deep chair, its cow-hide bottom softened with a heavy- flee ced sheep-skin. His clay pipe with its reed stem; often re-filled from the bag of home grown tobacco in its niche behind the chimney- was well ilustrated Thursday, when the tobacco facing and lit by a coal from the fireplace; the HOW RAILROADS HELP. The advantage of Tifton’s railroad facilities were made and much money lo! alone. Again, barns were to build*. These are often erroneously charged againjff*th Is year’s crop when they are a fixture, jukt jss f stock bam or orn crib, and can be used for man y years. Still, the expense was a big item, and It all came this year. Third, too many growers overcropped them selves. Tobacco'is essentially a; crop of small acreage. Many, despite the fapt that it was their first venture, plunged rather recklessly and loss was the result. Last, the weather in this section was the worst ever known here for growing itobacco. Far mers who ventured last year anil made money, found their profits cut down'this near first by dry weather at planting time, and tHen by continued rains during the harvesting season, Considering all these things, it is remarkable that any growers made money. Next year, they can profit by the experience won this year, They will know more about tobacco, from seed ing to selling. They will have more experi enced help, and will know the essentials them selves. They will have their bams, ready for use, this eliminating a big expense. Profiting by the lesson this year, the men who overcrop ped themselves will not do so again, and cer tainly we hope not to have two years of bad weather in succession. We have a warehouse at Tifton now, with an established market. Buyers like town and sec tion, and will come in increasing numbers an other year. This insures competition, and top prices. Our people will lose time, effort, money, ex- The Free Press bill for flour used in making paste is written on a bill head printed in Val dosta. The Free Pres pays its taxes in Quitman, Georgia, but the county of Brooks gets the ma jority of its supplies from Atlanta. There are only few payrolls in the city of Quitman larger than the Free Press payroll. The Free Press puts its money in Quitman banks, uses Quitman water and light current, buys ev erything that can be bought in Quitman and in cidents pays taxes in Quitman. . Could it not be very truly said that it is this penny wise and pound foolish policy that makes! in Tifton'and guaranteed hr Quitman still a country town? j rhannaog Company. The complaint is all too common. Indeed, we fear few towns, and even cities, are exempt; fern. Thousands °f 1 been eared with , Tonic and unhesita to their friends. W. T. McDonald, prominent of the Macon Railway A Light Co, of Mscon, Ga„ says: * "I had Malaria and Billons Ferer and Chills and Ferer and Ameco Chill and Ferer Tonic cured me. It does erery- thing yon claim for It." Ameco Chill and Ferer Tonic la sold BEN JIARDISON HOME market was opened after being closed nearly a week on account of the freight embargo. This embargo was not lifted on the Atlantic Coast Line and had Tifton been confined to one rail road the market here would, perforce, have remained closed for awhile longer. This indi cates where the leading tobaco market of this section will be located. WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. “When the Armistice came,” said the one from the Aviation, "one of my Buddies and I were out from the camp a piece, sitting by the canal, taking a little rest. Heard a noise, and turning saw a Froggie coming on a bicycle, like the devil was after him. He was humped over the handlebars, and peddling so fast that his feet looked like a circle. He slowed up just be fore he reached us, jumped oft and throwing up both hands, shouted ‘Finny da Gearl Finny da Gear! Wee! Wee! Veevah America!. Veevah _____ France!! and jumped on his wheel and peddled and long since you were called to your reward, oft. *1 don’t know what he said,’ commented |Each man in life has his mission, and well you Buddie, *but 1 know what he meant. The war’s filled yours. We who came later enjoy some <over.’ ” of the fruits of your toil but to many of ua your .. ~ name means notiiing—for we never knew. Ty- WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. | pical of a time and race, we wHl not see yaur "You left out one important Item of those kind again, things the A. E. F. got fed up on,” said the Coast Artilleryman. “That was tomatoes, the only tem on the regular fare so funny in itself that he boys couldn’t nick-name it We had ’em This year has taught many Colquitt county * meals and between meals, on hikes and in farmers that they cah’t “beat the weevil to it,” inn, If there was nothing else to eat on a.snysthe Moultrie Observer, train, there was usually an orphan can of And the farmers of Colquitt are not alone, tomatoes. Uncle Sam will sell none of his left-!Cotton is growing luxuriantly on many forms in er stock of this kind to the released patriots, this immediate section, but there is no fruit on it “When I landed at Bordeaux, eating waa a The weevils have not only cleaned out the jblem. We marched and drilled and slept in J squares and young bolls—being reported some- e mud, and had to stand in the mud, ankle times three in a square—-but they hate bored in- 1, in a slow, drizzling rain, to eat How to ti> the grown bolls, and these are rotting, follow- curling smoke, and the mellow voice as rtory or philosophy came from the lips still full but no longer red half-concealed by the heavy, white beard. But not to man is it given to know all things, and even Uncle Abe sometimes erred. Here is a piece of advice he oft repeated “Marry not, my son. It will distract your mind, dull your energy and hamstring you in the battle of life. But if marry you think you must, take a woman past her prime, who cannot bear children Alas, Uncle Abe! That piece of philosophy, strictly lived up to, would soon bring the world to end. You had never heard of Roosevelt, and you would not have cared what he thought if you had heard. But your theory was evolved from your own horizon, and no man can see far ther. What tragedy, what sorrow, did life bear for you, to bring that into your philosophy? Well you did your work, beloved Patriarch, A BOLL WEEVIL LESSON. I a plate of chow, a knife and spoon and a »of coffee in one hand and eat with the other ing the continued rains. The weather last year was unfavorable to the problem, but there was ne place to ait,' weev ti and this, together with the high price, except in the mud, and we learned the'hiduced many farmers to risk cotton again, the ■ a W hfle.We had to. .majority of them hot i il came back to Bordeaux, Uncle Sam esaary to keep the w< - the camp in shape. Good barracks and a,chanceatit” - i land met* hall, where they could dish It was a long chai ; the food to she tines of men as fast as they'Put things, are not so ■ walk pash’ll believe the record was,been had «f feod$^r |,M0 men la twelve minutes..are a staj r the precautions nee- down but: “taking a Only a year ago, many Americans were kick ing against Government control of food. Now, with the profiteers having their own bitter way, the same Americans are howling for Govern ment control. Sorter funny people, we sons of Sam. FAILURE OF A REPUBLICAN CONGRESS. tli the Army of Occupation in Ger* many and ha* so many things to tell the home folks that it will require months f»A- the telling. / r ...... Ben Hardison, after tw 0 years’ rervice lrom a practice that sends money away from ■ with tho Marin™ in Franco, m-rin-d home home which is badly needed by home institu- Friday morning, eight hours after .Tea tions. We have read such complaints from the- hllvl "s received his hono«bi« smaller cities, then from Atlanta, Savannah, j t u the wa? across Frar«-. Ben *u anil even Nashville, Tenn., which takes quite a' lot of printing from this section. Many business firms and individuals, who preach loudest about buying at home, fail to practice what they preach, when the printer is concerned. City officials, boards of trade chambers of commerce, and other organizations depending solely for their existence on their- home towns or cities, insist on sending their printing away, or in letting it under competi tive bids, when a few dollars difference carries the money out of town. The practice is an evil from which the local printers have suffered so long that a change is almost despaired of. Perhaps it will come after awhile, with a better understanding on the part of many business' men of what it takes to make a growing town. “FAKE" ASPIRIN WAS TALCUM Therefore Insist Upon Gen uine “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” From the Atlanta Journal. _ „ „ .. Responsibility for the critical confusion now s * Ucj cadd ' perienc; and a great opportunity if thpy fail Millions of fraudulent Aspirin Tablet^ were sold by a Brooklyn manufacturer which later proved to be composed mainly of Talcum Powder. “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin' the true, genuine, American made and American owned Tablets art marked with the safety “Bayer Gross." Ask for and then insist upon “Bayer Tablets of Aspirin” and always bnj them in the original Bayer package which contains proper directions and dosage. Aspirin is the trade mark of Bayer Manufacture of Mon^aceticacidester of to prepare now for a tobacco crop next year. WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. door of a Republican Congress that chose to play pygmy politics rather than grapple the time’s greatest needs. Had the majority lead ers, particularly those in the Senate, spent half MB. WEBB BUYS KENT HOME. A deal was closed Thursday whereby County Clerk H. D. Webb purchased from , w «. I(W Judge Harry Kent the latter’s home, cor- the pains on problems of reconstruction and ret “™ Uth ""** adjustment that they have in trying to embarrass The only time 1 shot my gun at the enemy af .. __ .. . , - , - .. . . to tovdta, 3.000 miles to clean him ,p. ™ foFffSZSUA’SSXg&ig & an aviator, with no chance for a hit,” said the one who went over with the Engineers. “There was a battery of artillery up on the hill ahead and Jerry was often coming over trying to bomb it. One day he passed the hill and came over our billets, flying very low. We began shoot ing at him, just for fun, for he was nearly out of range, and he heard It. Down he came, swoop ing low and blazing away with.his machine gun. Our boys dived into dug-outs, but I was too far off and went under a pile of lumber. Had a bomb hit it, they wouldn’t have found what was left of me. About three days later another bunch of Jer ry’s planes came over and broke up a real good vaudeville show that was 6n in the town for us that night. Altogether, while we were in that town that artillery brought us more trouble than all of our picks and shovels.” WHEN THEY WERE OVER THERE. Many of the stay-at-homes are inclined to dis count stories of the activity of spies. Boys who went overseas are not. “Just before the armistice,” said the one from the Ordnance Department, “a young recruit was sent into our company. He was a genial fellow, had some good cigars concealed in an aluminum compartment of his belt, and made a bunch of friends. Shortly after he came, a man in a major’s uniform strolled carelessly through our part of the camp, stopping at first one and thin another of the guns. I noticed the young recruit watching him closely, and all at once he darted toward him, taking cover behind the guns. The major was then at the breech of the ‘Marie Louise,’ a 10-inch French gun with a range of shout 32 miles. A few minutes later he recruit came out from behind the gun, march ing the major ahead of him at the poiht of a pis tol. The spy was caught red-handed, disabling the firing mechanism. ' He carried him to Chah- mont, the American headquarters. Not much was said, and that was all we ever knew about it The recruit belonged to the secret service and was said to be one of tiieir best men. He came in uniform, but left in plain clothes.” ■They caught three spies at one pull at our camp at Tours,” said the one from the Aviation. “The first was a captain of one of the squadrons, caught him cutting guy-wires and other- ter off. Before the President called this special ses sion, Republican leaders were bewailing what they termed his “obstinate refusal” to give the legislative branch of the Government a chance at the problems of the hour. In the last stages of the preceding session, they filibustered to death a number of important measures, among which were the urgent supply bills, their pur pose being to force the President to summon the lew Republican Congress into extraordinary ses sion. The public had warrant to expect, there fore, that a broad program of essential legisla tion would be undertaken without delay and be pressed earnestly forward. But what is there to show for results? How has Republican leadership met the responsibili ties and opportunities of the session? Not one constructive measure has been enacted. Not one problem has been solved or even simplified. Ever since this Republican-ruled Congress has been in session, the burdensome cost of living has clamored for investigation; but the party of Lodge and Penrose has been too busy in efforts to becloud the fame of a Democratic President and too intent upon next year’s political hatch ings to notice so un-partisan a matter as the cost of living. From the day this Congress conven ed, more than two and a half months ago. there has been insistent need of legislative considera tion of the railroad question; but the party of Borah and Knox was too engrossed in schemes o destroy the League of Nations to take up an is sue that called for constructive thinking. Like wise the pressing problem of Army reorganiza tion and of the future of the merchant marine demanded attention. The Interior Depart ment’s reclamation program, together with its exoellent plan to provide farm sites for released soldiers, merited prompt support. Educational measures of the utmost importance awaited ac tion. Scores of opportunities fpr service kept beckoning and scores of high duties cried out for performance, but all in vain, to politicians who saw no further than their partisan designs and heard no voice but petty prejudice. Their one line of activity has been directed against President Wilson, who, In his deep con cern in the treaty of peace, has been fulfilling hi* Constitutional duties—duties which he only could discharge. He has been working for a peace that will justify America’s part In the World War and bring to pass the dream of them who died that freedom might endure and good will abide among men. But the Lodges and Knoxes were not content that the President should do his part whfle Congress dld Its part. Instead, they set out to interfere with hja efforts and to discredit his accomplishments. Not have they neglected argent duties of floml legislation, hut they have «ho obstructed the settlement of foreign ' problems. Frtnet mid England promptly ratified ‘ United States is still hi between peace and war. For over The consideration waa $0,500. Judge Kent will give possession Octo ber 1. Mr. Webb hat rented his boat oa South Park avenue. WATCH YOUR KENS Hens that do opt lag do not pag.i Ton can make these non-lagers pag gon (or the feed tbeg eat bg giving them B. A. THOMAS' POULTRY REMEDY avarg dag. Tonic, egg producer and uaed lor gapes, bowel troublea and other trouble* incidental to poultry. Rlckerson Gro cerg Co. edv. FORD GETS • CENT VERDICT. Mount Clemens, Mich., August 18.—A Jurg last night awarded Henrg Ford alx cents damages against the Chicago Trt* buna (or calling him an anarchist Rub-My-Tinm b a great paia killer. It relieve* pain and soreness caused by Rheumat ism, Neuralgia, Spralas, etc. ad Bccsusc of its toatejUMl tenth* effect, LAXA. TXVB BROMO QUININB is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nerrousness nor iberthe tall aane and i toe the signature ot 8. W. GROVS- Cotton Scales y Leather H# rness and Collars Oil Stoves and Ovens * ■$ H Crockery and Glassware i Builders .1 Supplies of j * f V AII Kinds *. il