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THE TIFTOH GAZETTE
PpMighod Weekly
m P«to*ej«U Tifton, uirfi «*
5TT., let ol Mnreh 8, 18T9. L__.
- Pnhliihmx Company, Proprietor*,
p »■ u»^ ng .ZZITJidltor and Manager.
Official Organ City of Tiftao
•pi Tift County, Georgia.
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A MIGHTY POOR RECORD,
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SATURDAY NIGHT.
If the Congress which adjourned. Thursday
accomplished anything it was the defeat of the
>e next Presidential elec*
Republican'party
tion. ‘
Carried in on
swept the Demi
es, the Repnblici
awaited the call
President Wilsoi
to please them,
denunciations of ’]
When Georgia Furnished Potash (or Powltt
^“Yes; but the Georgians who went through
the War of the Sixties have forgotten about as
5J5 *. a**
veneration has discovered, said Uncle Joe.
Those gathered around the blazing log Are
in the wide-throated fire-place had been dis
cussing the difference between conditions noyr
*nd those of boyhood days. They had al o
assisted in disposing of a portion of Uncle
Toe’s surplus boiled groundpeas, pecans and
tVar-cane. Someone said something about
the wonderful resources of this section of Geor
gia that were being developed and that brought
Uncle Joe’s remark. He has a wonderful
memory of things that happened fifty years ago
and anticipating a story, the rest grew silent.
Uncle Joe had been cutting tobacco from a plug
to fill his pipe and he rolled it between his
palms as we waited. Stuffing it into the bowl,
he reached down by the chimney-jamb, picked
up the tongs and, selecting a small live coal,
laid it on the bowl. ’ A few puffs brought a
cloud of Bmoke, and when the ’pipe was going
good, he leaned back in his chair, braced one
foot high up on the chimney-facing, looked
into the fire reminiscently, as if he saw visions
of an age that is gone, and said:
“I reckon there are few people in this coun
try who know that potash was made in Geor
gia during the War of the Sixties. During the
war just over we had a good deal of trouble
about a potash supply and read in the papers
where the government experts did extensive
research work and many plans were suggested
for replacing the supply which had been ob
tained from Germany before the war.
“In 18G3 the South was cut off from the bal
ance of the world and we made everything we
ate and wore here, as well as munitions of war.
Potash was manufactured in Taylor county for
the government to use in making gun-powder.
The scrubby, forked-leaved bla^k-jack oaks
contain a large per cent of potash and Taylor
county was blessed with a great quantity of
them. •
"We had about twenty negro men employed
to make potash there. The oaks were cut and
piled in large heaps and burned. Then the
ashes were hauled and put in hoppers. I guess
some of you have seen an ash-hopper; they
were from 12 to 20 feet long and were made
of wide boards, set in a trough to form a Vr
Shape, and the cracks were chinked with
shucks. The oak ashes were wet and rotted for
a week. Then water was liberally poured on
them and the lye would run from the trough in
the hopper into a large receiving trough.
There were dozens of these hoppers in use.
“Three large syrup kettles were used for
calcination, one smaller than the others. The
lye was boiled down until it formed a thick,
black substance. Then it was dipped with
iron dippers to the small kettle. The fire was
ruBhed until the kettle was red-hot. Then the
lye was cooked to resemble a white powder,
still later to a rock substance, which was pot
ash. The hands would burst this rock potash
up with iron spikes and shovel it into barrels.
This work was hot and heavy, and it took stout
men to stand it long.
‘After the lye became too weak for potash,
we gave it to the ladies in the neighborhood
to make soap. They would come for miles for
the soap-making and it was the finest soap you
ever saw. As the men were all in the army,
you would see first the buggy with the ladies
in it and behind them a two-horse wagon with
negro men and women, barrels, pots and tubs.
Not to be forgotten was a large, white-oak
basket full of dinner. And what a day of soap
making they would have, and carry home bar-
redls of soap sufficient to last the plantation for
a year.
“Strange to say, we had to keep our potash
works fenced, to keep the cows, away, as they
would drink all the lye they could get to.
“Yes; there are a lot of smart men these
days, and they are making Georgia a great
state and the South a great section, but they
haven’t anything on the boys who were doing
business here fifty-five years ago,” Uncle Joe
concluded. -.•• tv
And none of us disputed it. '
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_ Just by way of keeping the record straight
Bobby Deariso writes from Sylvester: “I notice
in ‘Saturday Night’ of November 8 you said that
1885 was the dry year,' or dry fall. You just
missed it by one year, 1884 was the year. Some
things happened in my life that makes me re
member that year in particular.” We think
we know what-happened. The same thing hap-
■ pened to {ears later, and it was that in
teresting event wiwere dating from, only it wm
two years before instead of one.
, 11
.With the price of hogs back around 13 cents,
farmers are selling with greater freedom, and
if the price stays up much, less meat may go to
e-curing plants. Should the market drop
in the grew*** will convert their hogs into
is possf “
WAIT UNTIL TROUBLE COMES.
crest of a tidal wave which
its from power in both hous-
jubllantly and impatiently
>r ah extra-ordinary session,
•ould not act quick enough
id loud and long were their
because he went to Paris
instead of calling them together. There were
great promises and great expectations; the re
sult is Dead Sea fruit.
With every opportunity; witn undisputed
majorities in both branches; with a whole nat
ion awaiting constructive legislation to bring
the country out of the chaos of war activity and
give industry a chance to get on its feet; to en
able a people to get back to normal conditions
with a restoration of normal prices, normal pro
duction and normal transactions, Congress has
talked away six months of precious time—and
done nothing.
The old simile of Nero fiddling while Rome
burned is shopworn, .but it best illustrates the
attitude of the Congreps which just took a
recess. Much of the industrial unrest; much of
the labor agitation; much of the work of the
Soviets and anarchists, could have been pre
vented by timely, wise and constructive legis
lation. At a time of greatest need, when every
hour was precious, six whole months were
worse than wasted.
The record of the House was bad enough and
has proved to the public that the Republicans
as a party are unfit to govern—without the
power of cohesive action and without the will
or capacity for constructive work. But while
the House has done nothing, the Senate has
done less. On this body the eyes of the civi
lized world were fixed; on its actiofi not only
this nation waited anxiously, but also every
nation which was our ally during *the World
War. Influenced by spite, hatred and partisan
ship, the Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of
Peace, while it was too impotent to kill it. So
the body adjourned, with a record of six months
of shameful bickering and old-womanly quar
reling, during which every tradition that the
Senate had previously held sacred was shat
tered, and at last even cloture, the final resort
of a desperate hope, failed to bring action.
The country is left nominally at war, with all
that means as a handicap to industry and pro
gress, and the shameful alternative of remain
ing at war or of making a disgraceful, pusi-
lanimous and patch-work peace with a despised
and discredited enemy, thus forfeiting the good
will of our Allies and shaming the United
States before the nations of the world. For
the action of the Senate has put this country
in the attitude of a cowardly, selfish and nar
row-minded quitter.
But the day of reckoning is coming when the
people will get a chance at the men who are
responsible. There are differences of opinion
as to the merits of the' Peace Treaty and the
League of Nations, but there is only one opinion
in regard to having the matter settled that the
world may find itself again. The American
Legion, composed of men who fought our bat
tles for us, and nearly every religious, edu
cational or business organization the country
Over, endorsed the Treaty and Covenant and
urged the Senate to ratify them. Although
that body is supposed to be a servant of the
public, it refused to obey the mandates of its
master. When this master the people get
a chance at those men they will find that in
refusing to save their country from threaten
ing disaster they brought political ruin to them
selves.
About the most foolish and unnecessary thing
in life is to borrow trouble. Especially is tiffs
true when the worry is about convulsions of
nature, against which there is no safeguard.
A few weeks since there was published in a
number of newspapers the, prediction of some
astronopier, whose name was not given, who
said that on December IT, seven planets will
pull jointly on the sun and make all sorts of
bad things happen. About the least of these is
an earthquake with attendant fire and brim
stone, and a terrific weather cataclysm.
A lot of newspapers published the stuff as
a curiosity and wild flights of the imagination,
but some of their readers took it seriously, and
all over this section of the country there are a
lot of people who will not enjoy their Thanks
giving turkey unless, their minds are relieved.
Another scientist, and a man of national re
pute, says there is absolutely nothing to these
predictions; that the seven planets will not be
in juxtaposition on that day and that there is
absolutely no cause for uneasiness. We may
have some bad weather In December, as we us
ually have every year, bat there is nothing now
to indicate that there will be any such uni
versal shake-up as those predictions forecast.
It is also worthy of note that none of the wea
ther men or astronomers of the various govern
ments of the world have seen anything to
cause uneasiness and had there been anything
unusual in the revolutions of the planetary sys
tem, these men would be the first to find it out.
It is well enough to remember that none of
the great upheavals of e.arth have been fore
told, since the days of Holy Writ. The Lisbon
earthquake, Vesuvius’ eruption, Mount Pelee
disaster, San Francisco 1 earthquake, nor any of
more recent yeare were forecast. They just
came along when the sign was right, and the
disasters of the future will come in the same
way. It is a pretty) good idea to go ahead
with the day’s work; do your part and depend
on the Lord to do his. If it is written that you
are to be snuffed out like a tallow-dip, you
will be snuffed, and there is no use to lose any
time worrying about it.
The nameless astronomer who has caused
all this uneasiness was doubtless suffering
from shell-shock or was bitten by the germ of
general unrest and perpetrated that article
before they could lock mhim up in the bug-
house.
If ydu read the stuff, forget it; as our friend
Goldberg says: “It doesn’t mean anything.”
It is best to be prepared to die at any time, for
that event is sure to come, but there is no use to
be hysterical about it.
JUST LIKE TIPTON.
That was a pretty and graceful; thing Tifton
did Monday night, in unanimoutiy calling on
Mr, Hf H. Tift; the father of the town, to serve
one term as its Mayor. \ „
Mr. Tift's service on the City Council of Tif
ton was long an£ useful. It extended through
a quarter of a century, and in the body of the
Couneil1tself, as weli as oh fhe various com
mittees thereof, he took an active part in the
building of Tifton. Especially was his services
of value on the Waterworks Committee and on
the various other Committees having construc
tion in charge.
But always, although frequently solicited,
Mr. Tift refused to be a candidate for Mayor.
Although owning the largest individual inter
ests in the city, and strongest , identified with its
progress, he preferred for pikers to have the
higher honors and contented himself with the
working places.
Now, his people have called on him to serve
once in the highest office they have to give, and
he has responded. They intend that the place
shall be one of honor, and will take measures
to relieve him of much of the vexing detail
work. But they are unanimous in the desire
that Mr. Tift shall be for one time at least May
or of Tifton, and to this desire he yields, as he
has ever yielded to the wishes of a majority of
his people. -
And the call to him was just like Tifton;
that Tifton ppirit of appreciation of its home
people; of loyally to the town and its institu
tions. It is just one of those things which
make Tifton just a little different—we think
just a little better—than the average town.
THE TARTAR AROUSED.
i
We see the finish of the I. W. W. Officers
of the American Legion all over the country are
appealing to members to join in tho fight
against Bolshevism.
The cry for aid came from Washington state
but it has been taken up. the country over.
The following telegram sent out by Centralia,
Washington, Post, American Legion, speaks for
itself: “Four of our comrades murdered by I.
W. W. Grant Post No. 17, demands immediate
action by every American Legion Post for Con
gressional action on individuals and organiza
tions un-American, and a National Publicity
campaign to carry on Americanism. Line up
your local posts. Congress convenes December
1. Americanism must be the issue. A publi
city campaign carried on by every post for the
next ten days will win our battle. Act today.
You are urged to take up with local newspa
pers and Congressman of your district and take
immediate action by your Post in the interest
of one hundred per cent Americanism without
further complacency.” If three million return
ed service men get squarely behind the Reds,
they will put them off the continent And that
is where they belong. The American Legion
should have for a slogan, “American for Amer
icans,” and the balance of the country should
jojto therein. V
With banks so handy and their services free,
why is it that people will continue to risk their
money by leaving it where thieves can get’their
hands otf it eaMly? The latest ekample is the
Jenkins county farmer who went to Savannah
for the day, leaving $18,000 at home in‘his
trunk. When he returned^the money was gone,
Yet on
as in every town of note, and these wotild have
kept his money safely for him without charge, _ Peninsula into the Gulf or Atlantic^.
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A PERMANENT PASTURAGE.
Major W. L. Giessner, of the Southern Rural-
ist, who has been spending several days in
this section, says he has a grass in mind from
which he thinks a permanent pasturage here
can be developed. This grass will grow luxur
iously on lowlands or waste lands, which are
ideal for pasturage but unfit for cultivation.
This grass will be experimented with at the
Coastal Plain Experiment Station and at other
points in South Georgia and the Major is sure
that with its propagation and development we
can have an all-the-year-around pasturage.
This will be one of the greatest factors in pro
moting the live-stock industry and will enable
owners of small tracts of land to utilize for
stock-raising waste lands from which they now
get no returns.
Major Giessner was with the Industrial De
partment of the Georgia Southern and Florida
Railway twenty-five years ago and was later
With the Georgia and Florida Railroad in the
same capacity. He is a man of ideas, and many
suggestions came from him which were utilized
for the development of South Georgia’s agri
cultural aijd industrial resources. If he has
discovered a grass that will give us a perma
nent pasturage here, he has solved one of the
problems confronting the stock raisers. This
section is developing so fast that the wiregrass
will soon be gone and we will have no pasturage
except that under fence. '
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BRITTAIN’S EASY LESSONS.
Prof. M. L. Brittain, Secretary of the Geor
gia Illiteracy Commission, has compiled and
published a pamphlet “Lessons in Reading—
Writing and Arithmetic, for Special School
Work in Georgia,” It is designed especially
for use in the campaign against illiteracy now
under full headway in this state, and its 24
pages contain twenty easy lessons in the rudi
mentary principles. The .print is large and the
lessons so simple that they must be easily mas
tered. The last lesson gives simple instructions
how to draw a check on the bank and how to
keep a farm expense account The reading
texts are admirably! selected and especially
conducive to state and national pride. They
include ike ten commandments, a song, a tem
perance article, a citizen’s creed, a health creed
a fable and beatitudes. Of all the text books
we have seen issued for the purpose, this is by
far the simplest and best.
t travel over the National Highway
records. Not a day passes that does
not see a dozen or more cars here, on their Way
to Florida. They come from all sections of the
country, from Maine to Detroit and the Far
West; sto|) for food and gas and go on their
way. Add to these the heavy travel by rail and
it begins to appear that if both-do hot slow up
soon they will be crowding each other off the
THEIR TASK WELL DONE.
To appreciate . what. Mayor Hargrett and
Councilmen B. H. McLeod, H. L. Moor and L.
E. Bowen, together with their co-workers, have
done for Tifton In the four years the majority
of them have been in office, we have only to
contrast the Tifton of five years ago with the
Tifton of today.
Then, torn asunder by factional strife, now
united in a common cause for the common
good; then suffering from depression that al
most amounted to stagnation, now imbued with
new life and energy; then a place that had stop
ped growing, now a city whose citizens have to
keep on the jump tc even remember the new
enterprises, so fast do they come. The new
High School building, the street paving, extend
ed sewer system and enlarged waterworks
plant, city hall and fire station and equipment
are among the notable municipal improvements.
Five years ago, Tifton tired of factionalism
and internal strife, made a clean Bweep of the
old crowd and put new men and young men,
in charge of its affairs. These responded to the
call of their fellow-citizens. They brought to
their tasks youth, energy and a high vision.
How well they have filled their trust, the Tif
ton of today is the best evidence.
They will retire from office with the con
sciousness of duty well done and-the earned
thanks of their fellow-citizens.
CAME FROM ALASKA
FOR HUNT IN TUT
Will an* Fred Gram Had Such Good
Time la Tift Last Year That The*
• Return A tala This I«ar.
Messrs. Will aid Fred (Jreea, of Am
sterdam, N. Y., are siesta at the Bison,
having arrived Monde j to spend a week,
hunting In this section. Messrs. On
spent several days' at the Myon
year and hunted in Tift county,
had such a good time that they 1
on leaving tiiut they -would ha bsek i
ason ‘for another hunt.
Frienda at the hotel received a'l
front them laat week statin* tfcaf I
wonld be here on the 19th, ready t$ e
the season, but as Mr. I. W. M
oa a hunting trip in South
they stopped over with ■
oh to Tifton Monday.-
, Mr.. Will Green was in .
ing. all the way from-tbs Far b
for t week’s hunting in Tift conn
Birds are plentiful in this
this year, and many hunters are <
here from other sections tor a few t
shooting In the woods.
INFLUENZA 5
starts witb a(
Kilt tho Cold. At tho first*
CASCARaSNuINN
THEY WILL NOT TAKE WARNING
A young man passed through here last week
on his way to the state penitentiary to serve
three years for killing a child while driving an
automobile at a high rate of speed. He was out
oh bond while the case was being fought
through the courts and when the last resort
failed he went without guard to don the stripes.
On the way he stopped to tell old friends good
bye.
He is in the prime of young manhood and
three of the best years'-of his life are gone—
three years that will leave their scars, red and
smarting, even unto old age. Not to be foi
gotten is the young wife, left for three yeai
alone. His servitude will not bring back the
life of the innocent little one, but his fate should
be a warning to others. Will it?
Another tragedy not long since snuffed out
a man’s life at the height of his usefulness;
left a widow and a fatherless babe and another
driver, under bond to answer to the courts.
These are only examples near home. Similar
tragedies occur every day of every week, and
the cause is always the same—reckless driving.
The laws are ample to protect the people
and to protect the reckless one against the con
sequences of his own folly. Where they are
enforced, they are respected. Any gathering
of men who travel by motor can tell you the
places where the traffic laws are enforced and
those where they are not. It is iq those coun
ties, cities and towns where the laws are disre
garded that the toll of death is heaviest and the
hospitals have the most work to do. ’
Warnings to speed-mad drivers are useless.
No one heeds them until it is too late. The
only remedy lies in rigid enforcement of the
law—and we need no new laws to serve the
purpose. '
JLtAIIDmS
SOUTHER FIELD TO BE US
Amcr{cu84 Nov. 25.—-Souther
the aviation training post h<
made the air control e
Atlantic coast southward
to n and for the Gull, accoi
resents tive Charles R.
iugtou. The post la ©
service officials as an
especially in connection with the
tion- of Fort Henning, of ^C
where regular troops are to., be
and it is planned to enlargo A 0U
field and erect additional repair
here.
Air service officials who talked
Joseph Perkins, secretary
and Sumter County Chaml
merce, recently at Washingl
him they considered the maintei
Soiitltr Field v'o! the highest imj
BETTER THAI
WHISKEY
COLDSAI
New Elixir, Galled;
ali Medicated With 1
Scientific Rems''
and Endorsed
pean and American
Surpons^to Out Short’
cationi q 5 *'
Every Druggist in U. S. In- '
structed to Refund Pi
While Ton Wait at Con
er If Relief Does Not Gfl
Within Two Minutes.
Unless the Government regulates the dis
tribution of sugar, we will go without sweet
things for a portion of next year,.and unless
the Government takes over the distribution of
news print paper, many newspapers must soon
suspend publication. This is an era of waste, _ ^
and whether we want it or not we are forcing ™t*?
government supervision of what should.be pri- .
vate bffiiirs. , , r •"*»•* «*4 call for;
Like Elijah .of <ff«L genial Eg Turner
The sensation of
drug trade is
minute eo"
thcritativi
toriea;
enthtuii
cat authorities, and
the common people u.
quick and-effective as
AU drag •tores are now
with the wonderful new slink,
you hnve to do to get rid of thM <
. t *'f«P.llrio the nearest drug
hand the Clark Self a dollar for a he
of Aepironal and tell hfcn to serf*]
hack in two minutes'if
r eold fading
Valdosta Times is without a roof. over his
head,' a fire the other night having., left his
domicile coverless. We hope Eg was well forti
fied with insurance and that it is easier to get
a home in an emergency ip V«ffd**taHN<a 1°
Tiftor - gp
your eold lading away nk
m the time lin3t. • iSoaM
foe all druggists li
ect yon to try A.
lievedftake°the
home to.yeur wife
mugiader i
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Aspironal la by fax
effective, the eaaic
most agreeable
for infants sod <
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