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Alt of March 8, 1810*
^ r ^ib. Publishing Company,
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l ^ Herring. ZIZZAMoi and Manager.
.Official Organ City of Tiftoa
and Tift County,-Georgia.
.SUBSCRIPTION RATES: ^ ^
Twelve months
Six Months - - " Rft
Four Months
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Perversity of the Jitney.
“Has the possession of a ear added to your pa
tients?” asked a sympathizing friend.
“It has added to my patience, replied the
County Agent, with a reminiscent smile I am
a woman so I don’t cuss; I’m not a mechanician
so I can’t tinker. When trouble comes I can
only look on and smile-orgrin .and bear it.
That Jitney has given me a broader outlook on
life a greater nerve control and a deeper philo
sophy. It has madp me a better, because a more
self-controlled, woman.
“That Jitney has ideas of its own—a spirit,
you might say, and not always an evil one. Like
the breeze, it goeth when and where it’listeth,
and no man—or woman—may say it nay.
“That first time I drove it I started out by my
self. The young man at the shop offered to
help, even suggested that he send a driver, but
I told him no, I had to drive the thing some time,
and why not now? I knew I would never learn
watching somebody else. I had been in cars be
fore, but seeing others drive gave me no idea
how it was done. So he explained all about it,
1 suppose. lie showed me this thing and that;
to put my foot here, and my hands there; push
that and pull this; said something about spark
plugs, carburetors, gas, air and other things,
hut I hadn't the least idea what, he was talking
about, and only a hazy recollection of what he
said. I got into the driver’s seat.
“ ‘How do you start it?’ I asked. ‘Pull this,
push that; feed your gas,’ he said. I did so, and
with a jump the thing started. I had a death
grip on the steering-wheel, and after narrowly
escaping two other cars, scraping the curbing
at corners and skinning two posts, I got out into
the straight road. There 1 intended to stay un
til I got control of the thing. Twice a man
jumped for his life, and I held my breath, with
the feeling that I had in fact if not intent almost
committed homicide. I know now how people
feel when they kill folks.
“Approaching cars gave me the road; they
had no other choice: If I tried to give them half,
I ran into the ditch or up the bank. As the miles
passed, fast enough, if not. too fast, but each
yard fraught with dread, 1 gradually got the
*hanfc of the thing. • 1 could make it turn this
way or that, and with the return of confidence,
got a long breath and started to smile. Then,
a thrill of horror shot through me; I couldn’t
stop it. I tried this ami that and the other
thingamajig, but it only went faster. I pulled
back on the steering-wheel with all my might,
but it wouldn’t whoa. I saw my finish!
“Finally, on a bridge, I met a negro man
driving four mules to a wagon. 1 knew l could
not miss him—and 1 didn’t! He pulled as far
Out as he could, and so ditl I, but the wheel of
the car caught one of the wheels of the wagon
and slowly began to force it backward. The
negro appealed to me with great grief in his
voice, but I could do nothing except frantically,
pull back on the steering-wheel and say inward
prayers.. The frightened mules began plung
ing and pulling back, and the bridge was full
of car, wagon, mules, negro, and crashing har
ness. The jitney held to the even tenor of its
Way, buckling steadily down to its business of
forging ahead, despite obstacles. Jitneys are
S 5 thataway, some times. The poor negro began
'to call on the Lord for help but I knew He didn’t
have any tihie to fool with us; we had to help
ourselves. I could see that wagon and those
mules, the negro and myself, with that perverse
car, going over the bridge into the creek below.
I didn’t think about my past life—I didn’t have
time. But I scolded the negro and gave the
steering-wheel another yank. And, miracle of
miracles! That car untangled itself from the
wagon-wheel, scraped the hub of the next, and
we were on our way again, a ferve-it ‘Thank
God;’ being the last I hard from the negro, now
almost white, as we sped away.
,“We went on, like Tennyson’s brook, only a
little faster, and I thought we were going on
harder to .get every day, the .ultimate consumer
is confronted with the prohability of rapidly
mounting prices with the new year. For reas
ons we will explain later a retail price of 12
cents a pound (at the ports or principal distri
buting points) may be expected soon, but
should Congress or the Administration fail to
take action and sugar passes from under gov'
ernment control, almost anything may happen,
and predictions are already made that the price
may go to 20 cents.
Last year the United States Sugar Equali
zation Board was organized under a Delaware
charter in July with Mr. Wilson as sole stock
holder. Thq capital was $5,000,000 drawn
from the emergency funds provided by Con
gress. At the suggestion of Mr. Hoover the en
tire Cuban sugar crop was purchased at 51/2
cents a pound. For American raw cane pro
ducts 7.28 cents a pound was paid, and for the
refined beet product of the West 8.82 cents,
Refiners and others connected with the distri
bution of sugar were limited to certain specific
rates of compensation. A basic price of 9
cents for refined sugar at refining points was set
also as a "fair” price for retail
Incidentally, it may be stated here that the
Equalization Board' made a profit of $25,000,-
000 at nobody’s expense on this capital of $6,-
000,000. The reason for this was that after the
Cubans were paid and the compensation fixed
for refiners and dealers there developed a dif
ferential amounting to about three-eighths of a
cent a pound on the Cuban product, which ag
gregated 4,000,000 tons. This differential was
too small to pass on to the consumer as it
would never have passed the refiners and the
jobbers and the Cubans had been paid all they
asked. So the $5,000,000 taken from the emer
gency fund will be returned to Uncle Sam’s
Treasury increased five-fold. So much for con
servative and intelligent handling. But while
the Sugar Equalization Board m'ade $25,000,-
000 for Uncle Sam it saved many times $25,-
000,000 for the American people, as the prices
were jumping every few days when the Board
took control.
The Board’s contracts for Cuban sugar ex
pire January 1, and after that date we will
have to pay more. Last year we divided with
our Allies, letting them have one-third of the
Cuban crop. Next year Europe will be a com
petitor in the market and is already contracting
with the Cubans for next year deliveries at 6V6
cents, an advance of 1 cent over the price we
. Bulgaria; dii
and was the
like rots tii
among her allies' dropped _
Germany was left to> make
could early in November.
Bulgaria did nqt
nand and his mercen
the last farthing
playing the diplomats
against those of the All
hing to sell, and unhai
or principle, sold it in
was due to the poor jud;
his advisers that this market was not the best.
Bulgaria did not do much fighting, but its en
trance into the war on the aide of the Central
Powers cost the Allies at least two million lives
and many billions of dollars. It left the road
open for Mackensen’s men to over-run Serbia’
,te, and gave Ger-
send relief to the
Later, it also afforded
and lay that country dl
man a through rail route
sorely pressed Turks,
means for Mackensen’s army to strike Rumania
on the flank, and to;open the.Danube for the
Kaiser’s troops and ships. As soon as the Bul-
gars saw their armies in danger, they ran up the
white flag.
Neither valorous nor strong, Bulgaria by its
treachery kept the war going, at least another
year,>with all of the untold los$ and suffering en-
(hiled. Now Bulgaria is seeking to have its
peace terms modified. They .ran-not be too
strong to serve the ends of justice, It should
be shorn of its monarchy and reduced'to its con
dition prior to the first Balkan war.
When Bulgaria quit, Turkey was forced to
surrender and soon Austria had no other choice.
Today should be memorable with those to whom
peace brought the best news of five weary years.
They go about those things in an amateurish,
uncouth manner over in Nebraska. The South
at least has more experience; no bunch of men
would think of turning the town over and hang
ing the Mayor just for.the privilege of stringing
up a negro for the usual offense.
AM I MY BROTHER’S KEEPER?
From Manufacturer’s Record.
Above all else this country needs a nation
wide revival of old fashioned prayer-meetinc
religion—
A religion that makes men realize that if
there is a Heaven, there must be a Hell—
A religion that makes a man realize that
every act is recorded on his own conscience,
and that though that may slumber, it can never
die—
„„„ . r, n ,A religion that makes an employer under-
are now paying. Therefore, it is certain that | s t alK i that if he is unfair to his employes and
sugar will be higher with the new year. The paya them less than fair wages, measured by
Cubans are debating on whether they shall his ability and their efficiency and zeal, he is a
hold out for a still higher price, one of the ob- robber—
stacles to this being the demoralization of ) a -1 A religion that makes an employee know that
1 u 1 j 1 - .11 a r . ,n i if he does not give full and eflicient service, he
hor, which would he sure to demand further In- too j s a robber-
creases in pay. Added to this increased cost j a religion that makes a farmer, who packs
is the marked increase in consumption of sugar'bad fruit at the bottom and deceives the buyer
in this country]. During the first eight mouths by (he good truit on top, realize that he is a thief
of this year this increase amounted to 225,000 j.iust as much as the one who robs a hen roost at
long tons. If the present rate of consumption n ' g J^ ”77 , ,
• | A religion that makes a man who robs a rail-
The 1
the yoi
should receive the hearty
man who wore a uniform in
vice and the support and encouragement of ev-;
ery right-thinking citizen,
The organization is to be composed entirely
of ex-service men and every one of these should
see that his name is at once.enrolled. It is non
partisan and non-political, and essentially pa
triotic. Every man in tills country who served
in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Students’
Auxiliary Training Corps is entitled-to mem
bership. Each member of these should con
sider the privilege an honor.
The organization will afford the service men
many opportunities they would not otherwise
enjoy—social, fraternal and patriotic. It will
bring them together in a closer bond of unity;
give opportunity for entertainments and social
diversions and at the same time form a ready
means for consultation, interchange of ideas
and effective organization to meet any emer
gency. Every man living who served on either
side in the War Between the States is a member
of either the United Confederate Veterans or
the Grand Army of the Republic. What these
organizations have been worth to these men
no pen can describe; of equal worth will be the
American Legion of Honor to its members.
Aside from all this, -the time appears close at
hand when their country will agalh need the
services of these, its sons, in a time of crisis.
Not in uniform or in camp, we hope, but to over
come the spirit of unrest, disorder, fanaticism
and anarchy that is breaking'out sporadically
the country ovei). These clean limbed and
clean-minded young men are their country’s
For its •
which 1
in*l m—
abdomen.
discomfort, s
experienced
MON ROUTE ONE
Mr. Barney Wetberlntfon is back from ,
service.
Tbe* Camera are about done picking \
cotton. Mr. J. \V. Taylor ia going to-
make thirty bales. ^
Mr. Jack Bray ia going t° move to . - - r :«
Brookfield on G. M. Millet's farm.
There is very little land trading going -j
on now. . BLACK EYE.
CASES BEFORE JUDGE
M
m
The following cases were beard before
Judge W. M. Sellars Monday: JYilJ Hill,
colored, larceny after trust. Bound over *.
dependence. They fou ght to make the world 1
stealing a watch belonging tfci
free and the tjme is not far off when the weight Mr. b. d. Harden.
of their influence and opinion may be needed
Mary Alice Smith white, vagrancy.
to make it a world worth living in. Over 3,000- >££ Z&M
000 young men were enrolled to their country's
service. Organize these with a common pur-
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American Legion of Honor.
Get in if you can and be proud you are able
to get in.
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TRY THE SOUTH CAROLINA PLAN.
The state of South Carolina has a law which
provides that a person injured by the’ reckless
operation of a motor vehicle shall have a lien on
said vehicle next in priority to state and county
taxes, with a right 'to have the vehicle attached
and sold for damages. A recent decision of the
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ADEL BAPTIST8 TO BUILD
Accept Plans for Building With Audi*
torium to Seat 500 People.
At a conference held Sunday the con*
gregntion of the Adel Baptist churco de-.
( eided to accept plans for their new church
Supreme Court of South Carolina sustains the building, says the Adel News,
law in all its branches. | Tbe i> laaa cal1 tor a handsome strac-
turc, with basement, large auditorium and
that
rm j . . __ . j 1,-1 j_ ■ uirc, wun Dasemem, targe auditorium and
The decision even goes further and holds Hery Tlie scatfDB capadty wiII ^
at the right to attach said vehicle is within po- .-,nn ur over. The tuiidins wia bo .1 du-
lice power, enacted for the protection of the pu- ] the Cordcic Baptist church,
only it will not be quite so large. v
DllC on highways. ^ I It is the purpose of tbe congregation
Under this law, the owner of an automobile is hesiu work on the new church as scon,
not protected where said Vehicle Was taken the detnll-s are worked out and the ma-
The court (l ' riul I‘ ,aclKl «“ the around. The con-
ributinns have bven most liberal and there
without his knowledge or consent.
is kept up it is estimated .it will aggregate for
the year 9,408,000,000 pounds, or a trifle more
than 94 pounds for every man, woman and child
jin this country.
This makes it inevitable that unless tlkere is
economy in the use of sugar we must soon pay a
great deal more for it. Much of the increased
onsumption is waste which could be avoided by
voluntary methods of economy similar to those
which were compulsory last year. With in
creased consumption and a limited supply the
profiteers will have their own sweet will with
sugar when the United States Sugar Equaliza
tion goes out of existence with the New Year.
There is a movement to have this Board contin
ued and we hope this will bedone.
holding that the person injured by reason of its
, or its freight bill, know that lie j reckless operation by the one who took it may
' church should
forever. I had the thing, filled with gasoline
before I started, so had no hope of running
OMAHA RUNS AMUCK.
About the only lesson derived from the rioting
at Omaha is that the lynching problem and the
race question are not sectional. And every
thinking person knew this before; the incident
is only cumulative evidence.
Nebraska is very far west; .its people and
newspapers are among those who have most
bitterly condemned the South for its treatment
of the negro. That an outbreak of passion and
race feeling should fill the streets of its largest
city with maddened mobs serves but to show
that the brute in man is not confined within
climatic, geographic ./or territorial boundaries.
It does not excuse the people of the'South ffir
permitting lynchings that these outbreaks of
lawlessness are becoming common in the East,
Middle West and Far West. It only makes the
problem nation-wide instead of sectional, and
therefore it becomes more impressive that it
should be dealt with as a general and not a lo
cal evil. It is a national disease as well as a nat-
i out of fuel. Finally, nine miles away, we came j ional shame, and no one section has a right to
into the‘outskirts of Budapest. My heart sank
ith dread again, for a town meant more peo
ple and more cars and more danger. I knew l
would only reach home a corpse or a murderer,
iny best hope being to land in the hospital.
“But Providence provides! In the midle of
town, in the principal street, there was a sign,
*Ford Garage.’ Well, that Jitney saw it, knew
v its home, rolled up to the door and stopped!
£/ Could you beat it? And thanking the Diety, I
> crawled out, a saved woman.” .«
“WJiy, don’t you trade that car off and get a
hold another up to scorn therefor.
The incident is further illustrative that good
ireaching usually shows the least effect at home,
Mr. Bryan is a man of peace and lynching is an
evil he has condemned most forcibly. Yet this
outbreak was not only in his home state but in its
largest city.
Says the Griffin News and Sun: “The Tifton
Daily Gazette is five years old and a healthy
youngster. We remember when Editor Herring
started a daily newspaper m, Tifton we had
some doubts as to whether it would pay in a
city that size. But when we glance over its
pages now, filled with advertising matter and
live news, we have no doubt. Qutt it Is pr
ing and is a permanent venturi. It’s a ap!
>er that has great influence throughout
MPa
road
robs himself of all right to feel that he is an lion
est man—
A religion that makes a man realize that by
driving too hard a bargain with his servant, his
employee, or his merchant, he can be just as
much a profiteer as the seller or producer who
swindles by false weight, false packing or false
charges—
A religion that will teach church members
who fail to contribute to the extent of their
ability fo the support of religion, and that com
pels them to recognize that m they are paying
pastor less than a living salary, they are rob
bing God and man alike-«-
A religion that will make the laboring man,
who by threats or by actual violence against
the non-union man, strives to keep him out of
employment realize that he is at heart, a mur
derer and is murdering the individuality and the
liberty of his fellow-men, and is displaying a
hatred which, if it has the opportunity, will
commit physical murder—
A religion that will make the politician who
yields principle for the sake of party, who wor
ships at the feet of any class and sells his
soul for political preferment know that he is not
only a coward and a poltroon, and unworthy of
the respect of any decent man, but which will
also make him see that he is helping to murder
human liberty, as great a crime as murdering
the individual man—
In short, we need a revival of that religion
which will make every man and woman strive
m every act of life to do that which, on the
great Judgment Day, they will wish they had
done, as with soul uncovered they stand 'before
the Judgment Seat of the Eternal.
Until the people of this nation accept aqd
live this religion there will be strife where there
should be peace, there will be strikes and lock
outs and murder where there should be co-oper
ation and harmony; there will be hatred where
there should be friendship and love..
In the Golden Rule, followed In the fullness
of the spirit of this kind of religion, there would
be found a solution for every business trouble;
there would be created friendship between em
ployer and employee, capital and labor wpuld
work in harmony and with efficiency; efficiency
for the capital and efficiency for the labor, with
profit to both. ,
Religion of this kind is not measured by the
hope of a Heaven hereafter, but by the full
fruition now of “Peace on earth to men of good
will.”
It is not merely the chanting of hymns here
or in the world to come, but it is the recognition
and full application by rich and by poor, bv
learned and unlearned that each one is indeed
his brother’s keeper, that we can bring this
country and the world back to safety. \
.A nation-wide acceptance of this, the only
true religion in action, would bring business
peace ana world peace where there is now tur
moil, and men would then cease to *seek to gain
have the car attached and sold. Throughout,
the court dearly considers the motor vehicle dri
ven recklessly as an instrument in the hands of
a criminal, and therefore forfeit to the law and
to the person injured for damages.
Such a law in Georgia should help in the pro
tection of the public. By making the motor ve
hicle forfeit for damages to the person injured
reckless drivers would become more careful or
fear of losing his or her car would serve to
check some drivers who appear to have little
respect for the danger or the rights of others.
It would not hurt to give such a law a trial,
anyway. Perhaps because it provides for pay
ing damages in case of an injury, it would be
better enforced than the automobile laws we
have, as the injured would seek redress..
The provision that the motor vehicle shall be
forfeit, whether driven with or without the own
er’s consent would make owners more careful as
to who drove their cars. The court’s decision
that even where the vehicle was securely lock
ed the owner was not released from responsi
bility would make owners careful as te (he safe
storage of their cars. The provision that the in
jured shall have first lien on the car aside from
state and county taxes gives the injured prece
dence over all homestead rights and the rights
of the party or parties selling the car—if it has
not been paid for. This would make dealers
more careful to whom they sold because the
car sold to a person noted as a reckless driver
would be at the dealer’s risk. It would also
make it necessary for dealers to require ample
security where a caAvas sold on deferred pay
ments. .
For
Weak
Women
■N-,
by lawless acts of iramoralil
spirit zhd in deed follow the
“Allthings whatsoever
ye even so to
rye wi
them.’
but
ivine
would that
Things are picking up in Tift. The first day
he was in office, Ordinary Baker issued three
marriage licenses, one white and two colored.
This part of the Ordinary’s business was drop
ped to zero during the war, but there promises
to be a rush this fall.
Longshoremen are'to strike for a dollar an
hour and a 48-hour weqk. Verily, this is the
day when muscle commands iteown price and
brain is at a discount.
“The price of coffee ha\ dropped ten cents
a pound since July 1,” notes the Worth County
LocaL Glad to see one of the birds roosting
a little lower. . v '
Away up In Whitfield county, we leaflA from
the Dalton Citizen they, are replacini
ton gin houses with sweet potato
d cot-
Thus crop-diversification spreads.
la use lor over-ti) years)
Thousands ol voluntaiy
. letters trom women, tell
ing of tlie good Cardul
has done them. This la
the best proof ol the value
ol Cardul. It proves that
Cardul is a good medicine
tor women.
There are no harmful or
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Cardul. It Is composed
only ol mild, medicinal
Ingredients, with no bad
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TAKE
The Wtraan’s
You can relyon CarduL
Surely It win do tor you
what it has-done torso
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“1 was taken tick,
seemed to be . . .
writes Mrs. Mary ILVette,
of Madison Heights, Va.
•T got down so weak,
coaid hardly walk . J.
Just staggered around, i
...I read ol Cardal,
and alter taking one bot
tle, or before taklng qulte
"an, I tell much better. .1
took 3 or 4 bottles at
that time, and was able to
domywork. I take It ia
tbe spring when run
down. ! had no appetite,
tad J. commenced eating.
. It tithe best tonic lever