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AGregd Line of opdepMW today WILL BE FOUND AT PEARSON GROCERY CO. MONEYTOLOAN I can make you a loan on your farm lands on loug time, cheap rate of interest, liberel terms and with the least possible delay. Be sure to see me before placing your loan. W. A. WILCOX, Douglas, Ga. WHEN IS TOWN Come in and inspect my line of| Boy’s Youth’s and Men’s Suits. Children’s Misses and Ladies’ Coat Suits. Also a fresh shipment of Dress Goods, Shoes and Flats for Misses and Ladies H. L. Lankford Every Person Should Consider In The First Place The ability to save is one of the very first rules in the game of success. In The Second Place Did you ever meet a successful man who at some time did not owe his success to his cooperation with some Hank? Our success depends on your success. Think it over and start an account with Pearson Banking Company THE CITY CAFE I'. KIUKLAXI). Prop'r. Tables Supplied With the Best MEUS *1 HI HOURS REASONABLE RITES Up-To-Date Grocery Store Run in Connection YOUR PATRONAGE WILL BE APPRECIATED Patronize Tribune Advertisers PEARSON TRIBUNE, DECEMBER 7,1917 MAIMED SOLDIERS WILL BETRAINED Uncle Sam Plans to Build Large Number of “Reconstruction” Hospitals. EQUIP MEN FOR NEW WORK Surgical Experts Will Endeavor to Re turn Wounded Fighters to Civil Life as Self-Supporting Citizens. The whole conception of govern ment and national responsibility for caring for the wounded has undergone radical change during the months of study given the subject by experts serving with the Medical Officers’ Re serve corps and others consulting with them. Instead of the old idea that responsibility ended with the return of the soldier to private life with his wounds healed and such pension as he might be given, it is now considered that it is the duty of the government to equip and re-educate the wounded man, after healing his wounds, and to return him to civil life ready to be as useful to himself and his country as possible. To carry out this Idea Uncle Sam’s plans are well under way for building "reconstruction hospitals” in large cen ters of population. Sites have been chosen, In the following cities: Bos ton, New York, Philadelphia, Balti more, Washington, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Chicago, St. Paul, Seattle, San Fran cisco, Los Angeles, Denver, Khnsas City, St. Louis, Memphis, Richmond, Atlanta, and New Orleans. Those In Boston, New York, Washington, and Chicago will probably he constructed first. Each will be built as a 500-bed hospital, but with provision for en largement to 1,000 beds if needed. Training to Be Given. These hospitals will not be the last step In the return of the wounded sol diers to civil life. When the soldiers are able to take up industrial train ing, further provision will be ready. The Injured man may be retrained to his previous occupation to conform with his handicapped condition or retrained for a new industry com patible with that condition. Addition al education will be given to those fit ted for it, and men may In some cases be returned to more valuable work than that from which they were called to war. Workshops will be provided at the hospitals, but arrangements will (dso be made with outside industries whereby more elaborate methods of training may be carried on. An em ployment bureau will be established to place men so trained in different parts of the United States. This whole matter comes under the department of military orthopedic surgery recently organized In the medical department of the urmy. Arrangements have been made by the department of military orthopedics to care for soldiers, so far as ortho pedics (the prevention of deformity) is concerned, continuously until they are returned either to active service or civil life. Orthopedic surgeons will be attached to the medical force near the firing line and to the different hos pitals back to the base orthopedic hos pital, which will be established within 100 miles of the firing line. In this hospital, In addition to orthopedic sur gical care, there will bo equipment for surgical reconstruction work and “cur ative workshops" in which men will acquire ability to use injured members while doing work Interesting and use ful in itself. This method has sup planted the old and tiresome one of prescribing a set of motions for a man to go through with no purpose than to reacquire use of his injured part. It Is not the tutentlon that men able to go back to the firing line shall be •returned to this country unless their convalescence will extend over a period of a considerable number of months. Soldiers unable to return to duty will be sent to the reconstruction hospitals iu the United States. Instructors and Examiners. Instructors and examiners for all the camps are also being furnished by the ■department of military orthopedic sur gery. A number of older and more ex perienced surgeons will act as instruc tors and supervisors for each of the groups into which the camps will be divided; a number of orthopedic sur geons will be detailed as attending surgeons at each camp to act as ex aminers and as consultants to the camp’s other surgeons; directions are being provided for instruction of med ical officers In military orthopedic sur gery, emphasis being made on foot, back, and joint conditions as effecting 'the acceptance or rejection of re cruits; and careful instruction is planned for line officers so that they will recognize the simpler orthopedic conditions and refer to the camp sur geon any men who develop them. Semimonthly inspection will be made of all soldiers’ feet and camp surgeons and men detailed for the purpose will be given special Instruction in care of the feet. Courses of intensive train ing in military orthopedic surgery are being arranged for different universi ties so that the younger surgeons tak ing up the work may enter upon their duties with some special preparation. The course will occupy six weeks. An Italian university professor says he has found radium in ordinary dew. RICH SOIL FOR CAULIFLOWER Plant Will Not Thrive in Poor, Barren Earth and Does Best in Slightly Cool Weather. Many persons who have attempted to grow cauliflower are doubtless wondering why they met with more or less failure. Cauliflower requires a rich soil to produce satisfactory development It simply will not grow to do any good in poor, barren earth, and it Is use less to try to grow It unless the soil Is or can be made very rich. Cauliflower does best in a cool soil and still better If the weather Is slightly cooler than Is required to produce some other vegetable crops. Feed the plants. Apply manure that has strength in it, but avoid any munure that has heating properties. Well-decayed , horse manure well mixed with cow manure, will produce the desired results. Apply to the bed where the plants are to be set, spade or plow under, and then during the growing season, apply it to the sur face and especially along the rows pretty close up to the plants, but keep from touching them If possible. Liquid fertilizer from such manure will give satisfactory results if ap plied during the growing season. A little wood ashes added to the manure from which the liquor is made and applied at the time the heads are forming will Increase their size and weight. Bend over the longer leaves to pro tect heads from sun, and finer white heads will be grown. SALE OF STRAWBERRY CROP Every Producing Section Has One or More Marketing Associations— Scarcity of Labor. A report of the detailed study of the marketing and distribution of strawberries made by the United States department of agriculture con tains much Interesting Information. The Investigators found that with the increase of the Importance of the Industry more elaborate methods for the disposal of the crop have become necessary. Practically every Impor tant producing section has one or more Important marketing associn clatlons. These organizations relieve the grower of many of the dotnlls connected with the disposal of his crop, and in some cases even main tain a labor bureau for securing the much needed help during the picking Strawberry Basket. season. In certain cases, too, a num ber of local organizations by concert ed action have secured u high degree of uniformity in the grade and pack of the berries, which Is reflected In the better price obtulned on the mar kets. A difficulty that has Increased with the development of the Industry and the growing practice of shipping strawberries over long distances is the scarcity of labor at picking time. In order that the berries shnll reach a distant market in good condition. It is necessary to pick them regularly and at the proper time. The demand for pickers Is, therefore, very great. On the other hand, idleness, due to a few rainy days, may cause the pickers to migrate to another section, caus ing considerable loss to the growers they leave. To offset this tendency, the report suggests that pickers should be guaranteed a minimum number of working days within the limits of the normal harvesting sea son. AXLE GREASE IS NEGLECTED One of Greatest Sins Against Farm Equipment Is to Overlook Proper Lubrication. Of all the sins of neglect committed against farm equipment that of fall ing to “grease” the farm wagon is per haps the worst. The farm manager gets in a hurry, hitches up the team and drives off to haul a heavy load when the “spindles” of the wagon may be so “dry” as to be bright from the friction of the wheels. Such use means heavy wear and rapid deterioration. It takes but a very few minutes to "grease" the wag on when everything needed is handy. When axle grease is used often the load draws easier and the wear is re duced considerably. Keep your wrench, axle grease and axle rest handy so you will not forget to lubricate the wagon. YOUNG FARMERS CAN ASSIST Greatest Service They Can Render in Winning War Is to Help Produce Large Food Crops. Every effort should be made to have the young men on the farms realize that the greatest service they can ren der the country at this moment is to give their best efforts to the produc tion of as large crops as possible, es pecially of the staple foods that will be needed for men and animals. THE ATLANTIC COAST LINE “THE STANDARD RAILROAD OF THE SOUTH” « For Fares, Schedules, Pullman Reservations etc., call on or wit*. A. R. HOUSE. Ticket Agent PEARSON, GA. GEORGIA & FLORIDA RY. Schedule Effective August 26th, 1617 &&& Trains leave Willacoochee for Douglas, Ifazlehurst, Vidalla. still mo re, <lar fic-M. Milieu. Swainsboro. Millville, Keysvllle, Augusta and intermediate points. Trains leave Willacoochee for Nash ville, Adel. Sparks. Moultrie. Val dosta. Madison, Fla., and interme diate points. T. E. HARRIS, L. J. PARKS, General Passenger Agent Traveling Passenger Agent, Augusta, Ga. Augusta, Ga ATTENTION PUBLIC! I have just received a full line of Fall Goods at which I 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 PEARSON TRIBUNE PUBLISHED WEEKLY B. T. ALLEN, Editor SUBSCRIPTION: SI.OO a Year ....... 50c Six Months If you receive a sample copy, it is an invitation for you 1° subscribe. You will iind The Tribune a newspaper worthy of your patronage. ADVERTISIN RATES : 15c for single column inch’each insertion. Reading no tices, in regular type. 5e per line. In black type 8e a line. JOB PRINTING Every description of printing done at lowest prices in keeping with the high prices of material used. PEARSON PHARMACY WE CARRY a full line of PHARMACEUT ICALS fresh to fill all Doctors Prescrip tions and have a licensed pharmacist in charge of our store. Wo also carry a full line of Cigars, Cigarettes, Perfumery. Toilet Articles, in fact everything us ually kept in a first-class Drug Store will be found here. Your patronage will be appreciated. Pearson Pharmacy Dr. E. S. BOLTON, Manager No. 4 Daily 9:40 a. m. No. 6 Daily ex. Sun. 6:03 p. m. No. 5 I)ailj T 4:26 p.m. No. T Daily ex-Mon. 7:47 p. m.