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PEARSON TRIBUNE.
Published Weekly by
Tribune Publishing Company.
B. T. ALLEN, Editor.
Kntered at the Postofflce In Pearson, Georgia,
as mall matter ol the second class.
Hubscrlptlon price, *I.OO a year In advance.
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All hall to the American eagle.
Proud bird of freedom, all hall!
Thy Bpotle.su name no man (ran Inveigle,
Or put Halt on thy beautiful tall.
Thp swept potato is on the mili
tary bill of fare to stay. The yam
finds an excel lent market and is a
prolific Georgia product. Great
is Georgia and greater is the yam.
Gen. Pershing is credited with
saying that this world war is a
young man's game; that it is to be
won only tey hard fighting; that it
is no place for the average man
over forty five years of age.
Judge Emory Speer has sustain
ed t he const ilutionality of the selec
tive draft law. lie says the (pies
lion has already been settled by
the United Slates vs. Tarble, Kith
Wallace, 408.
II once was said of the British
Empire that it was the only
government on earth upon whose
possessions (he sun never sets.
But she has a partner now in the
United States, of whom it can be
truthfully sai.l the sun never sets
upon her possessions. Whether
it is an evidence of greatness the
Tribune feels some doubt. Free
dom is the American acclaim, and
it should be freedom in deed and
in truth.
The khaki uniforms reminds the
men of to-day who were boys in the
00s of the copperas “breeches"
they wore during those days tried
men’s souls. The copperas clot lies
looked good to them then —it was
all the kind they could get —and
the khaki clothes look good to
them now because it is the ward
robe of the best and bravest sol
diers on earth, who are willing to
lay down their lives in the cause
of freedom.
It is charged, good-humoredly
of course, by some Willaeooehian’s
that the lVarsonites stole their
new county name and then stole
tin* new county. That makes
them out some thieves, sure en
ough! The Tribune looks at it
differently; Pearson has only an
equal claim to the new county
with other sections of the territory,
the difference being she is the
county sit e and perhaps, will be ex
pected to bear the greater burden
of the new county organization.
It all belongs to the people.
The Tribune is an earnest and
consistent supporter of the Wilson
administration, lias no patience
with the antidraft propaganda of
Tom Watson, Iloke Smith, Tom
llardwiek and the other members
of the Kaiser Aid Society, but it
conscientiously believes that our
people—as in Thomasville last
Saturday —are making a grave
mistake in refusing their followers
the use of the county courthouses
in which to hold their meetings.
One citizen has as much interest
in the public buildings as another
regardless of their views on any
subject. The examples in Pierce
and Bulloch counties meet our
views of the policy to be followed.
Let the meetings be joint, the ques
tion discussed from both angles
by eoiniietent speakers, after care
ful prepar.ition. The truth will
prevail, the people kept in a good
humor and no great harm done.
“Error ceases to be dangerous
when truth is left to combat it."
Free and full dsscussion of ques
tions wins friends for truth and
right, but force drives people away
and many times make of them ir
reconcilable enemies.
Pretty Pickles
The Georgia “bone- dry” law is
uow coming in for a demonstration
of its anarchistic tendencies.
Down in Lowndes county Sheriff
J. Frank Passmore was elected on
the demand of the people that he
enforce prohibition. Frank, the
Tribune knows him well, started
out with a determination to fulfill
his pre-election promises and make
Lowndes county bone-dry in real!
ty-
He, in the early stages of hi.s
activity, was doubtless advised by
competent advisers that no valid
search warrant could issue for the
kind of search required by the
law he was striving to enforce.
So, without a warrant, he began
an indiscriminate search of Geor
gia Southern and Florida trains
from Jacksonville for contraband
liquor and violators of the bom
dry law. This was resented by
the conductors and a row was pre
cipitated. The sheriff swore out
warrants for one of the conductors,
and the railroad in defense of its
servant obtained a restraining ol
der, which was argued before
Judge Thomas last Saturday. In
his decision, which has been held
up for consideration because of
the intricate questions involved,
he will pass upon the questions of
the indiscriminate search for eon
craband liquor without warrants,
and whether a warrant can law
fully issue fur such searches. One
thing is sure, Judge Thomas will
meet and answer these questions
fearlessly and impartially, though
the Tribune believes he will find it
difficult to uphold the constitu
tionality of these parts of the
bone-dry Act.
Another ugly feature of the
situation, but not involved in the
case before Judge Thomas, is the
demand of rabid prohibitionists
that tin- Sheriff and Solicitor Gen
oral commence confiscation pro
(•codings against the train or car
that brought this contraband
liquor into Lowndes county, Geor
gia, and sell same to the highest
bidder and the funds dejmsited in
the county treasury to the credit
of insolvent cost. The Tribune
takes it that Sheriff Passmore is
confronted With a problem he
doubts his ability to successfully
accomplish. There is no doubt a
Georgia Southern and Florida
train brought contraband liquor
into Valdosta; section 20. of the
bone-dry law, requires this confis
cation proceedings; no doubt of
these facts. But what is Sheriff
Passmore and Solicitor-General
Mitchell, of the Southern circuit
going to do about it?
In the .Unison L, Hand wine in
cident there seems to be abundant
evidence that there is 20,000 gal
lons of fine old wine within the
confines of the State of Georgia
contrary to law. Somebody is the
custodian thereof, and that custo
dian is a violator of the law. Hut
Sheriff Crow of Mitchell county
and Solicitor-General Bell of the
Albany circuit are as silent and
inactive as oysters. They, seem
ingly, have a veritabl e w hite ele
phant on their hands. What are
they going to do about it?
Verily, the ways of fanaticism
are’.rugged roads to travel.
Atlanta Letter
Atlanta, Ga., August 23. —
Through legislature recognition,
in a special act just passed, and
accompanied by a maintenance ap
propriation, the Georgia State
Bureau of Markets is an accomp
lished fact.
What the Department proposes
to do now is to make the market
bureau the most efficient agency
of its kind in the south in assist
ing the Georgia farmer to find
always a ready cash market for
his surplus food crops. To do this
we must have organization, system
and the hearty and cordial coope
ration of each community in the
state.
For efficient service every county
in the state must have its local
market depot where the home
farmer can take his surplus food
PEARSON TRIBUNE, AUGUST 24, 1917
products, whether a ear load or a
wagonload or whatnot, and dispose
of them for cash. There these can
be combined into larger lots for
shipment to the most advantageous
market.
One of the first works of the
state market bureau under the
direction of L. B. Jackson, will be
the establishment of these local
market depots, in which the
Department urges the full coope
ration and assistance of farmers,
local merchants and bankers.
They have already been organized
in several counties; but every
county must have its own. Those
interested should write the
'Department at once, for the lime
is here when prompt action is ne
cessary. The fall is on us and the
harvest is ready. There must be
no delay in establishing ready
markets.
"Now that we have the law",
said Commissioner J. J. Brown,
"and a modest appropriation, we
propose to give Georgia farmers
the most efficient market service
we know how. The services of
the bureau are at the disj>osal
of all of them, and I urge them to
come forward and ask for just
what you want.”
The State Department of Agri
culture is glad to be able to in
form the farmers of Georgia that
through the efforts of the Georgia
Market Bureau, the sweet potato,
so widely grown in this State, has
definitely and finally been added
to the army ration and will be a
substantial part of the diet of the
United States troops this fall.
When the market bureau dis
covered that the sweet potato had
been omitted from the army ration
it look the matter up with the
chief quartermaster's department
and, failing to secure satisfaction
there, telegraphed all the Georgia
congressman, and got agricultural
departments of other states to
telegraph their congressmen, ask
ing them to get busy with the
problem at once.
The result is the announcement
which has just come from Wash
ington that the sweet potato has
now been made part of the army
diet and will be extensively used
the coming fall and winter.
Georgia, it is estimated, will
make 10,500,000 bushels of sweet
potatoes this year, or 50 per cent
more than last. Other southern
states have also increased their
production, and it is of great im
portance to the growers of this
splendid food product, that one of
the most valuable of all markets
has been kept open to it.
Resolutions cordially thanking
the farmers of Georgia for their
splendid response to the call for
more food crops, were unanimously
adopsed at the meeting of the
Georgia food council, just held in
Atlanta, at the call of Chairman
J. J. Brown. All parts of the
state were represented. It was
agreed that 30 per cent is a most
conservative of the increase in
food crops over last year.
In another resolution the Geor
gia food council emphasized the
importance and necessity of plant
ing this fall wheat, oats, rye and
cover crops. The council urged
the growing at least of two acres
of winter wheat to the plow.
W ith 500,000 plows, the low esti
mate of ten bushels to the acre,
this would mean 10,000,000 bush
els, or enough to feed the entire
state. In the best wheat counties
it is suggested that five acres to
the plow be planted, so as to bring
up the average. But every county
in the state should put in at least
two acres to the plow and make
enough to feed itself at home, or,
if possible, a little more.
Coat Lost
From my automobile last Sun
day afternoon, somewhere on the
road between the home of Man
ning Cowart, in Clinch county, to
Douglas by way of Kirkland, a
light weight grey. The finder will
get adequate reward by returning
same to me. Levi O’Steex.
NEW COUNTY SYMPOSIUM
Editorial Comment on the Crea
tion of Atkinson County.
Atkinson County Created Last
Day of Legislature
Georgia-Atkinson County. That’s
the way it will be in the future, if
the people of Georgia ratify the
bill at the next general election,
as it passed by both house and
senate at the present session of
the legislature. And it is hardly
likely that the people will turn it
down.
The bill creating Atkinson coun
ty with Pearson as the county
site, passed the House on. last
Wednesday about noon, the last
day of the legislature. It had
previously passed the senate and
nothing remained but the passage
in the House and the signature of
Governor Dorsey, to get it ready
for the ratification of the people
next November year. The vote
stood 139 to 38, giving the new
county several votes to spare.
Under the provisions of the bill,
the election for county officers of
the new county will take place in
January, 1919. There will be a
number of entries for county offi
cers, no doubt, as there always is
in the organization of a new coun
ty-
With the creation of Atkinson
county, the old Eleventh congres
sional district has added one more
county, giving the district 17.
The Fifth senatorial district will
have another county added, a s
also the Waycross Judicial circuit.
The people of Pearson fought
valiantly for the creation of the
county. They have been fighting
for several years, and only lost at
the last session by a small vote in
the senate. The new county takes
from Coffee county about 7,000
people and nearly half of the area.
Only two columns of Clinch coun
ty is added to the new county.—
Douglas Enterprise.
The above excerpt from the
Douglas Enterprise is no comment
outlie merits or demerits of the
new county. It contains several
errors of fact, two of which the
Tribune will undertake to correct.
First, the Bill provides for the
election of county officers on the
second Wednesday in December,
1918. for a term of two years, and
the organization of the new county
on the first day of January, 1919.
Second, relative to the southern
boundary line: While it is true
only two full columns of lots is
taken from Clinch county, it takes
two fractional columns, some of
the border lots from these two
columns having been attached
to Coffee county years ago.
Pearson County Seat
Mr. Stewart, of Coffee, Mr. Cul
pepper, of Clinch, and Mr. Cheney,
of Cobb, were the champions of
Atkinson county, which is to be
created from 340 square miles of
Coffee county and 80 square miles
of Clinch county, with Pearson as
the county seat. Mr. Wright of
Floyd, and Mr. Lanier, of Bollock,
spoke against it, the former de
claring that lobbies for new coun
ties were becoming unbridled and
should be slopped —Nashville
Herald.
This clipping from the Nashville
Herald breathes a spirit of grouchi
ness which can be accounted for
uj)on only one theory. The editor,
Mr. A. C. Sweat, is related by mar
riage to Ex Senator Calvin Ward,
whose opposition to the new coun
ty is well-known from Rabun Gap
to the Marshes of Glynn, and who
was willing to destroy the confi
dence of the people of the new
county because of his antipathy
for Representative Stewart. The
Tribune very much regrets this
feature of the new county strug
gle. because it has created a breach
of good fellowship that will take
years to heal if. indeed, it can be
healed.
Pearson Gets New County
The bill creating the new county
of Atkinson which has been one
of the hardest fought measures at
the present session of the Legis-
lature, was passed by the house
Wednesday, by a vote of 138 to 40.
The new county will be made from
parts of Clinch and Coffee counties,
and will be among the best little
counties in the State. The people
of Clinch were in favor of the new
county while Coffee put up a stub
bom fight to keep from being cut.
The thriving little town of Pear
son will be the county site, it is
centrally located and is surround
ed with as good farming lands as
Piedmont Institute
In the breezy Metropolis of
South Georgia
Offers thoicugh courses in
cluding business
Rare teachers, delightful Lo
cations, splendid oppor
tunities.
Boy Scouts for younger stu
dents. Christian spirit
thru all.
For particulars address
M. 0. CARPENTER, Pres.
Waycross, Ga.
ATTENTION PUBLIC!
I have just received a full line of
Fall Goods, at which 1 bought be
fore the prices advanced. I am
going to give my customers the
benefit of the Bargains. Call
around and let us show you our
stock before you buy.
PEARSON BARGAIN HOUSE
I. PASSON, Prop.
PEARSON, - - - GEORGIA
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teml>er sth, 1917.
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to arrive Atlanta before noon Sept. sth.
Limit Sept. 14th, 1917.
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Sept. 15th. 1917.
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Oct. 31st, 1917.
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Ticket Agent
PEARSON, GA.
Low Excursion Fares to Atlanta
Account Convention Woodmen of the World
The A. B. & A. Railway will sell tickets from all Agency
stations in Alabama and Georgia. July 8-9 10-11th. Tickets
sold on the first two dates will be good returning until July
25th. Tickets sold on the last two dates, good returning July
lotii- The entertainment Committee has arranged three days
of public entertainment for visiting Woodmen friends.
These dates are July 11th. 12th, 13th. The A. B. &A. offers
double daily- service to Atlanta with sleeping ears on night
trains from Waycross-, Thomasville and intermediate stations.
W. W. Croxton, G. A. A.
can be found anywhere.
Atkinson county will be filled
up with an industrious set of peo
pie. and this connected with the
other resources will make it one
of the lead ing counties of Georgia —
Clinch County News.
Tiro. O’Steen has done himself
nroud in this comment on the new
county. He knows the territory
and correctly states the facts.
The Tribune thanks him for his
kind words.