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PE AII .SOX TRIBUNE Published Weekly. Member 11th District Press Association B. T. ABLEST, Editor. 10 util red at the PostoMce In Pearson, Georgia, an mall matter of the second class. Subscription price, 91.00 a year In advance. Advertising rates are liberal and will be made known on application. The Savannan News wittily re marks that “writing about spring flower.-, babbling brooks, warbling birds and other vernal accompani ments without knocking on wood is a risky sport, especially for per sons who have no fuel for grate or heater." Commenting on President Wil son's Baltimore speech the London Morning Post says: “It shows that the spirit of liberty is invincible, and given time America is able to defeat the enemy is as lit tie doubt ful as that she is resolved to do so, however long the work may take.” Bill Burwell entered Tom Hard wick’s domain and came off with honors, lie spoke at Sandersville last Sat urday in hehalf the Third Liberty Loan. The people present were with him from the start to the finish of his address, showing themselves true to the Adminis tration and its war policies. The citizens of Bannockburn, in Berrien county, served a wheatless dinner at the closing of their liter ary school last Wednesday. In their program it was stated that the dinner would he wheat less hut toothsome, none bet ter. And their commendable- patriotism was only exceeded by the goodness of their dinner. “Publicity is a newspaper's stock in trade. When it gives (hat, it has given as much as the fellow who gives some of his stock or his goods. Yci you wouldn't hesitate to ask the newspapers to give you some publicity for your own sake, when you would hesitate to ask the clothier for a hat or t he grocer for a barrel of Hour," says the Tif ton (iazetle. Well, brot her, there is such a thing as educating a fel low into right thiiikiug. Georgia vagrants of all sorts are to be rounded up in great shape. It is contemplated to install a sys tem of employment cards and eve ry employee must carry one of these cards, which will be punched at stated intervals, so long as the employment continues; otherwise they will be asked to give an ae count of themselves. This is no time for idling. There is 100 much at stake in this war for any one to be permitted to lay around idle. This war has developed many eases of the disease known as ('a eoethes Scribendi. Some of them know as much about the principles of philology as a goat knows about the English alphabet. They seat ter grammar, rhetoric and logic to the four winds, which lands their effusions into the waste basket. These scribes are habitues of every department of the government and employed, it is supposed, to shoot this ipferior mental pabulum into every newspaper office in the land. The Tribune sympathizes with all concerned in their affliction. New Irish potatoes, garden peas and strawberries at the diunertable are reported by Pearson gardeners. The editor helped himself to new potatoes from the Hotel Malone garden at dinner Sat urday. ,1. A. Monerief reports new potatoes and Postmaster Smith garden peas. Mrs. Lacy Sutton garden peas, raddish and turnips. The editor had strawberries from his garden Wednesday. What is better than plenty of fresh garden “suss!” The printer and "devil'' have not said anything about what they have boon feasting on, hut judging from their appearance, they are not suf fering for t he want of garden "sass. ’ Notice. His Excellency, the Mayor and Council of the city of Pearson, do hereby call a Mass Meeting for Wednesday afternoon, April 17th. You are urgently requested to be present and bring some one with you. We will have a repre sentative of the Savannah Voiun teer Home Guards and, Way cross will furnish us a speaker upon the American Red Cross. At the same time and place we expect to hear from several local men, and orga nize Pearson’s Home Guard and Ited Cross. Come! Come!! Come!!! Swift & Co’s. Defense. it lias been demonstrated time after time and to a nicety that it is an easy matter to bring charges of malfeasance or misfeasance against an individual ora company of individuals, but it is quite an other thing to effect substantiations by proof. This seems to be the outcome of (lie charges made against Swift & Co., by government officials. They made charges of malfeasance but are having the time of their lives in finding sufficient proof in sub stantiation. Swift & Co., jealous of their reputation and good name, have spent thousands of dollars in giv ing publicity to their defense which shows that their success, their money getting, was the result of the volume of their business rather than exorbitant profits ex acted from their customers. The showing is complete and convincing. Something for St. Marys. For more than a week a govern ment official has been at St. Marys and engaged in making a survey of the little city and her harbor. He is giving minuteness to every detail, and the report of his find ings to superiors will be thorough. For what purpose the survey and diagrams are being made just at this time is a matter hidden in mystery, hut it is believed that the government lias found a use for the harbor of St. Marys and that city is soon to he handed a nice plum, perhaps the much hoped for shipbuilding plant, or it may be a big dry dock where vessels can he given a general overhauling. Tile statement that St. Marys lias the deepest and safest harbor mi the South Atlantic coast lias never been questioned. Then why not Fuele Sam utilize it in a way to which it is best suitedt Piedmont’s War Garden. The teachers and pupils of Pied moot Institute, Wayoross. is noth ing if not pat riotic. They’decided there was no better way of putting their patriotism into actual service than to engage in tilling a war garden. Therefore the Piedmont war garden is a verity. They have a half acre in Irish potatoes, half acre in tomatoes, an acre in sweet potatoes, an acre in peas and quar ter of an acre in beans. They will continue to plant until every avail able foot of land on the campus is growing food crops. •They have Mr. F. H. Abbott, a government employee in tick eradi cation, and Mr. Lewis Walker, county demonstrator, as an ad visory board, and a Coffee county student, Mr. Pleasant .Towers, of Ambrose, has charge of tlie work. He is loyally supported in tilling the truck by every member of the student body. The Savannah Press evidently doesn't appreciate amateur theat ricals. Bro. Sutlive should jour ney to Pearson and see a good one; they haven't any good ones in Sa vannah. Ta. ta, Billy! News reached Pearson Thursday morning from Savannah of the suicide of D. C. Odom, Jr. He was employed as a street ear con duct or. had just sent for his wife to come to him and she had not more than arrived in Savannah when the suicidal act was com mitted. The cause of the rash act is unknown to his parents who reside in Pearson. His body was brought here for interment. PEARSON TRIBUNE, APRIL 12, 1918 Send for Swift & Company’s 1918 Year Book It shows that Swift & Company sells the meat from a steer for less money then the live steer cost! Proceeds from the sale of the hide, fat, and other by-products covered all expense of dressing, refrigeration, freight, selling expense and the profit of $1.29 per steer as shown by Swift & Company’s 1917 figures as follows: Average price paid for live cattle per steer £8445 W Average price received for meat . . 68.97 IT Average price received for by-products 24,09 BKS33 Total received . . . £3*6 BBUHHH9HB This leaves for expenses and profit 8.61 [gf Of which the profit per steer was . 1.29 ] There are many other interesting and instructive facts and figures in the Year Book. We want to *end our 1913 Year Book, to anyone, anywhere free for the asking. Address Swift & Company, Union Stock Yards, Chicago. \gg %J Swift & Company, U. S. A. Wheat Flour Regulations. The attention of allheadsof fam ilies, hoarding houses, hotels, retail and wholesale dealers, in Coffee county, are called to the following rules and regulations of the Fede ral Food Administrator for Georgia. Under those rules no merchant or dealer, or user, shall have on hand, unrcporled, more than a normal supply of Hour for thirty days. The excess should l>e-inventoried at once, in duplicate; one copy to be sent to l>r. Soule and the other to the County Food Admin istrator for the county. Tile following is the official an nouncement sent to me its Comity Food Ad minis) rat or: “Heads of individual families, hotels, restaurants, hoarding hous es, retail merchants, wholesale dealers, and all oilier people in the State of Georgia, having in their possession or under their control, any wheat flour in excess of tilt' |>ermitted 20 days supply, are call ed upon by I>r. Andrew M. Soule, Federal Food Administrator for Georgia, to tile with iris office. 11 1 Chamber of Commerce Building, Atlanta, Ga.. by or before tin* 18th day of April an inventory showing the amount of such Excess Over SO Day Sitpi.v at the date you make the inventory, of flour then on hand. If you do not have over a Itt) days supply, at the rale of (> pounds per person per month, you need not make any report. If you have over this quantity, mail him a statement, showing the quantity over tile :’>() days supply you have on hand on the day you make the report. This is for the purpose of determining how much flour there is in Georgia, so that the govern men! will know how to save wheat in the grain elevators of the West for us.“ This rule applies to all parties using or dealing in flour and the inventories must he filed on or be fore April 18th. .!. W. til IN. EY. Chairman Federal Food Adminis (ration for Coffee county. A st root preacher, whom and from whence nobody seemed to know, regaled a throng in front of the Rearson Pharmacy Tuesday afternoon on the Bible and its prophecies concerning this great war. The Tribune did not hear him, hut liis discourse is reported as being above criticism. Nobody found out to what religious sect, he belonged nor why he was hem He was neatly dressed and appar ently a perfect gentleman. He is said to have given his hearers some very sound advice as to making preparations for the life beyond the grave, whence they were rapid ly tending. W. F. Bartlett. Oakeieeo, Ga., May 10, 1917. Old Kentucky Mfg. Co., Poducall, Ky., Gentlemen: Please allow me to state that 1 have sold your hog cholera remedy for one season and have ordered more for this season. Last year i sold it to 12 or 15 men who raise hogs. I told each of them to take the remedy, feed it to their hogs aud if they lost a single hog from disease of any kind not to pay me a cent for the remedy, hut when they began to sell cotton every man came in and paid me for the medicine and every one of them told me that it was the best hog medicine they ever used. One man paid me for the small package and bought $5 worth more and said it was the best he bad ever tried. Yours very t ruly, W. I-'. Bartlett. Two ear loads of corn in the shuck, amounting to about 1,200 bushels, was shipped from Pearson this week to Way cross by some of the farmers of this setion, among them the Messrs. Ooursou, Dennis Daniel,.l. M. I‘afford and L. L. McNeal. The price received for it 81.05 |ter bushel f. o. 1). Pearson. The farmers are highly pleased at their good fortune in selling their crops of corn at such a remuner ative price, and they arc encour aged to plant for a bumper crop for 1918. The editor examined the com being shipped and found it in a fine state of preservation. These two ear loads of corn will I yield to the shippers around $2,000. jit can be truly said “corn is being j shipped from rather than to i Pearson." Mrs. Audrey Wall returned to Pearson Thursday morning from Atlanta where her husband is do | ing his "bit" in the United States j army. Ur. HENRY P. SMITH Pearson, Georgia Office in Post Office Building DICKERSON & MINGLEDORFF ATTORNEYS and counselors Office in the Sew l’afford Handing Pearson. Georgia Practice in all the Courts, state and Federal Mr. Dickerson will be in office every Thurs day unless other engagements prevent. BENJ. T. ALLEN ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR Offices In the Allen building, Pearson, Georgia. Will do a general practice in State and Fed eral Courts. DR. B. S. MALONE. Dentist Office In Malone Block PEARSON. GA. LUCKY STRIKE EVERY month we make enough Lucky Strike Cigarettes to reach, end to end, from New York to China, the long way mound. That’s 15,000,000 A ©AY Regular men like the Lucky Strike Cigarette—good, solid Kentucky Burley tobacco, fine for a cigarette because — IT’S TOASTED IN C O A ,0. Six Weeks’ Spring Normal at PIEDMONT INSTITUTE WAY CROSS, GEORGIA. From April 10th to May 17th, 1918. IE YOU WANT '!’< > Make a License; Make a Better License; Teach a Better School; Receive a Better Salary; Come right on to PIEDMt )NT and tve will heip 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.