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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 1918)
1»E A i!SO N Tlf I B LAN E Published Weekly, Member 11th District Press Association I!. T. ALLEN, Editor. Knturi’d at the RostoffJco In Penraon, < leorgla, mall matter of the second class. Sitl>acrlDtlon price, SI.OO & year in advance. Ail vert t>ln« rates are liberal and will be made known oil application. JsBfWT Wi 11, well, Winter is lingering in the Lip of Spring, ami the Weather Man is beseeehed to spare tin* fruit crop. Let Georgians apply the try sipuire to the United States sena torial eamlidates t hemselves.'l'hey are perfectly capable of doing so; need no help. If is Senior Lenroot, of Wiseon sin. He is LaFollelte’s partner, a supporter of the Adininistra lion’s Avar policy, t hough a dyed in the wool Republican. The Savannah News says its opinion of the Kaiser couldn’t ap pear in the paper. To print it would be a violation of law. It must be very, very, vulgar. Yes. Pauline, those beaux who are caught on the si reel corners do not measure up to the husband size, ami the belles avlio spend their spare moments at the same place do not make admirable housewives. Plain talk, but true. Clinch County superior court, held last week, was in session three days. The (rial court held two days and the grand jury Him* days. There is a long civil calen dar and many cases that was ready for trial were mutually continued because the farmers were anxious to gel back home and to their work. Senators Hoke Smith and Tom Hardwick both arc opposing the Overman Hill, granting increased powers to the President during the Avar. The difference between the two senators is like that between t wood ledum and I weedledee; neitli er ot them confute in the President or support his administration with commendable whole hearted ness. V The second chapter in tin* effort to return L. ,1. Cooper, formerly president of the First National Lank of \\ ay cross, to Chicago for t rial on the charge of ( heat ing and swindling was written in Waycross Wednesday before Judge ,1. Lee < rawley. It came up on a Writ of Habeas Corpus. Judge Crawley will consider the ease thoroughly before rendering his decision. 1 ne Metier Advertiser is trying to arouse its people to the neces sity of organizing a civic body or business men’s organization. No good. Bro. Camp, the Tribune has been preaching't lie doctrine to the business men of Pearson for nearly a Ae.n with no Visible signs of suc cess. They seem to be afraid they Avill be called upon to do some thiilg for the whole community; something they really ought to do. The Albanj NeAvs thus reviews the activity of themonthof March. 1918: "March, noted as the bins teiy, capricious month of the year, is past, and it proved to be a very pleasant month down here in Cod’s country. It brought but little cold, there was no w indstorms of any conteuuenee. and we had real spring weather before the month w.us half spent. Upon the whole, it was an exceedingly pleasant month. Some of the brethren say Char lie Edwards isn’t senatorial timber. That may be so. but he is the equal of Billie Harris in energy, in morals and in ability as a states man. Georgia needs a man in the Senate Avitli courage and common sense; a man of her own choosing without dictation from any source. Hardwick was not the choice of Georgian; he came down Hie pike from whence Harris presents him self. Beware. Georgians! Fretful Freddie. Our young friend of the Coffee County Progress deserves the sympathy of all lovers of humanity. He has thoroughly undertook to swallow' and digest the newly es tablished City Court of Coffee county. The immature institution soured on his "little tummy,”gave him a nightmare and he dreamed, oh, a terrible dream: “We’ll bet that Editor Allen is the first man to come up for trial in the new City Court. He’s sure to do some thing desperate hoav that he and Charlie have been overridden.” Did Freddie, in dream, see Judge Rogers issue, a rule for contempt against the Tribune for felling the people of Coffee county about the grand jury made City Court over which he has been nominated to preside? Surely, was Freddie’s nightmare contagious? Did Judge Rogers have one, too? The Tribune thinks not; thinks it was confined to Freddie and he is having a powerful struggle to get rid of it and thinks Judge Rogers will come to his rescue. The Tribune, as a public journal, would have fallen far short of its duty had it failed to inform the people of Coffee county of what was happening. Its editor is not opposed to a substantial City Court, is not opposed to Judge Rogers as its presiding officer. When the matter was brought to his notice, after careful reflection, he decided to take part in it in any manner. lie has told tin people of Coffee conn y about it in some degree and has no apology to make for doing so. TheTribuncdoesn’tknow wbelli er fretful Freddie is in condition to appreciate facts as they exist, but here they are: Governor Dorsey can only nomi uat.e a judge, the Senate must con firm the nomination or it becomes a nullity. What the Senate will do in the matter depends upon the final attitude of Senator Dickerson. If he opposes it there xvill be no confirmation. Then, under the law, the legisla ttire has the power to abolish it, and it is absolucly sun* to have to run this gaatitlet. The great uia jority of tin* people of Coffee coun ty Avill be behind the movement, not «for tin* purpose of depriving Coffee county of a city court but 'to give her a substantial court, a court that w ill till the demand and be worth while. The City Court of Coffee county just established by the grand jury will be slow, must have an appear ante term and a trial or judgment term the same as the Superior Court, no way out of it. Any well informed lawyer will lell you that, while everything connected with the establishment of the court is regular and the grand jury acted within their province, the court is not ax' hat the county needs. The Tribune has said, and has no apology to make for it. that the action of the grand jury was pre mature and had it given time to a consideration of thequestion the recommendation would not have been made. The result is Judge Rogers will draw from the treasury of Coffee county SIOO per month without an opport unity of earning it. No way to stop it save his own sense of right and justice. The Tribune has been faithful to its duty as a public journal. It rests the matter with the people who pays the bills and are most concerned. If they are satisfied the Tribune has no complaint. The insinuation that the Tribune consulted Representative Stewart and has made his tight its own in regard to this city court question is untrue and fretful Freddie knew it when he touched oil his hot air gun. But the party who keeps company with Mr. Stewart will he a long way from a fool’s den. The Tribune recommends that fretful Freddie try it a bit and note his improved mental organism. “Take this as a prophesy," says the Ocilla Star. "Along about 1930 a good many men are going to find it embarrassing to try to explain to their little ten-year old boys why they had no part in the great war of 1918." PE ATI SON TRIBUNE, APRIL 5, 1918 PATRIOTIC RALLY AT DOUCLAS Attendance Reveal Intense War Interest in Coffee County. To the kindness of Rev. <). B. Tally the editor and his printer are indebted for free rides to Douglas last Saturday, and to be present at the patriotic and cdu eational rally. The city xvas reached by 10 o’clock and, notwithstanding the threatening weather, found thou sands of the sturdy yeomanry of Coffee and adjoining counties had gathered to learn what is their reasonable duty in this crisis of our country's existence. The.speaking and dinner were at Ward’s Bark, just outside the business section. The speakers in their order were lion. Clifford Walker, Attorney-General of At hpit a; Mrs. James E. Hayes, a vice president of the Woman’s Federa ted Clubs in Georgia of Montezuma; Hon. J. J. Brow n, Commissioner of Agriculture of Atlanta; Lieut. W. 11. Hlrickiund from Camp Gordon; Hon. J. M. Johnston, official orga nizer of the W. S. S. in the South, (whose services are contributed to the government by the Metro politan Life Insurance Company of New York); Hon. 11. C. Me Michael, a Georgian who enlisted in the Canadian army at the out break of the war and served two and a half years in the trenches, and three times wounded. He proudly wears the Canadian army uniform which has emblazoned thereon the three bars of honor of King George —one bar for each wound. The Tribune can only hint at the messages brought to the peo pie present by the speakers. Mr. W alker told of the fact that the United States were actually at war, a most horrible war, made so by an unscrupulous ami demoniacal enemy, one taught to believe that might is right, whose savagery would put the uncivilized Ameri can Indian lo the blush. Mrs. Hayes spoke of the American Red Cross work, how the women could belli win the war. Mr. Brown spoke of the part Georgia farmers are to take in the struggle, to grow and conserve all food and feed possible so there shall be plenty for ourselves, our soldiers and our allies. Lieut. Strickland gave it as his opinion that it w ill require five million of trained American soldiers and one hundred billion of dollars to win the war, which he believed would lasi three to five years and maybe longer. Ik said Germany forced the United States into the war for the big in demnity and plunder she hopes lo wring out of this people at its eon elusion—expeeling to be victorious. Mr. Johnston spoke of the War Saving Stamps as a means of rais ing funds lor carrying on the war. Mr. McMiehael, from actual obser vation and experience, verified the charges of hellish atrocities com mitted by the Germans, and the hardships of the trenches. To sum up the teachings of the day we learn that this war is not a matter of a few days, weeks or months, and it is going to require the sacrifice of much blood and treasure, the severest self-abnega tion, to win it: it is going to take lighting, hard fighting, to pull the Kaiser from his throne: that the government needs men, valiant men, trained men. to meet the enemy on the field and in the trenches; she needs the wealth of the people to finance the Avar; she needs great quantities of food and feed raised and conserved to sup ply ourseivds and our allies during the Avar. The govern then t needs the sustaining hand of the Ameri can Red Cross, a most important arm of the service. The Tribune believes the people caught the spirit of the occasion, and now realize as never before the stubborn fact of this war; that the very moment war was declared it became the war of every Ameri can citizen —men,women, and child ren —and upon their shoulders was placed the responsibility of carry ing it to a successful conclusion, and that there is going tobesome- thing doing in tho way in raising provisions and money in Coffee county to maintain the Avar. The editor deisres to publicly acknowledge many courtesies ex tended him during the day, and especially the effort of Judge tjuinccy to provide him with din ner. The viands were very tempt ing and- he was sorry he could not sit down anil enjoy the richly laden plate that was tendered him. He appreciates the service just as much as if he had done so. The threatening Weather coupled with the fact that a passenger on the ear, a feeble lady, required that he go at once. He could not think of keeping her waiting. The Tribune is not supremely ecstatic over the appointment of a South Georgian as Secretary of State. It is not so easily satisfied when South Georgia’s importance entitles her to many more. A South Georgian lias been Fish and {fame Commissioner ever since the office was created, from Mercer to Arnow. They made good, but Ar now was made to walk the plank for a North Georgian. Strange is a good man for the place and the Tribune is glad he got it; but one lone appointment does not fill the measure for South Georgia. Florida will plant 40,000 acres to castor beans. The product Avill insure some airship grease. The Tribune speaks advisedly in saying that Hon. R. G. Dickerson will not be a third candidate in the race for congress from theelev enth district. Dr. HENRY B. SMITH Pearson, Georgia Office ju Post office Building DICKERSON ,V MINGLEDORFF ATTORNEYS AND COUNSELORS < > I lice In (he New Cafford llulldlng Bearson, Georgia Practice In alj the Courts, state and Federal Mr. Dickerson will be In office every Thurs day unless other engagements prevent. BEN.I. T. ALLEN attorney and counselor Offices in the Allen building, Bearson, Georgia. Will do a general practice iti state and Fed era-1( 'ourts. DR. B. S. MALONE, Office In Malone Block BEARSON, GA. The Serenity of Labor. Latimer recalled the wonder that nl ways possessed him when he stopped to peer down Into excavations where men groped about In a crazy network of mains and conduits, or when he looked up to the steel girders swinging Into place on the new skyscrapers. Only now and then would he catch sight of a heavy sledge In play, or the heave of muscles. As a rule men moved about tn the tangle of cloaca os If engaged In an elaborate minuet He saw men poised on the end of a steel beam go through a graceful cal isthenics, with a measured wave of the arm, now this way, now that way, 30 stories above the sidewalk. Yet the subways got themselves dug. and the pavements were laid—and torn up again—and the skyscraper grew a couple of stories overnight.—From the Atlantic. Chippendale. Chippendale—that’s a name to con jure with! I mean this literally, for so many people do it or try to; I am sure that every one of you. rending this, knows the type of commencing connoisseur who ascribes most of the furniture of the eighteenth century— and some of the early nineteenth—to this same dominating Thomas Chippen dale. But. after all, isn’t that a tribute to bis personality, a recognition of the fact that he, first of all the English cabinet makers, was able to break away from tradition; that he actually recreated his trade, making it a pro fession, an art; and so stamped his Individuality on all his work that it became known by his name, not by that of the reigning monarch? —Alice Van Leer Carrlck, in the House Beau tiful. Bread and Newspapers. We must have something to eat and the papers to read. Everything else we can give up. If we live in a small way, there are at least new dresses and bon nets and everyday luxuries which we can dispense with. If the young zou ave of the family looks smart in his new uniform, its respectable head is content, though he himself grow seedy as a caraway-umbel late In the season. He will cheerfully calm the perturbed nap of his old beaver by patient brush ing in place of buying a new one, if only the lieutenant's jaunty cap is what it should be. We all take a pride in sharing the epidemic economy of the time. Only bread and the newspaper we must have, whatever else we do without. —Oliver Wendell Holmes. PEARSON fiARAGE ; T. G. HAMILTON, Prop. Service Rendered Day or Night We carry Accessories in Stock GASOLINE TUBES FREE AIR OILS AND TIRES AND GREASE IN STOCK WATER We have a set of first-class Mechanics that Do up-lo date work. Try us. If we don’t please you, tell us. If we do please you, tell others. Your patronage is solicited PEARSON" GARAci^ PEARSON, - - - GEORGIA Six Weeks’ Spring Normal at PIEDMONT INSTITUTE WAYCROSS, (rEOKGT A. From April 10th to May 17th, 1918. IF YOU WANT To Make a License; Make a Better License; Teach a Better School; Receive a Better Salary; Come right on to BIED.MONT and we will help you to do so. Board and Tuition only $30.00 for the Six Weeks Write at once for reservation of room. M. O. CARPENTER, Pres. Waycross, Georgia. It Cost the Average Family Less Than 10c Per Week for Packer’s Profit in 1917. . | The Meat Bill is one of the | large items in the family budget but less than 10 cents per week of it goes to the packer in profits. In converting live stock into meat and getting it into the hands of the retail dealer, the packer performs a complex and essential service with the maximum of efficiency. The above statement is based on Swift & Company’s 1917 figures and Federal Census data: Swift & Company’s total output (Meat and by-products) 5,570,000,000 Pounds j Swift & Company’s total Profit $34,650,000.00 Profit per pound - $.0062 U. S. Meat Consumption • 170 pounds per person per year 170 pounds at $.0062 = $1.05 per person per year The average family 4 Vz persons = $4.72 per family per year j 1918 year book of interesting and instructive facts sent on request. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards. Chicago, Illinois ® Swift & Company U. S. A.
