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1»E A i!SO N Tlf I B LAN E
Published Weekly,
Member 11th District Press Association
I!. T. ALLEN, Editor.
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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.
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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.