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PUBLISHED WEEKLY,
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B. T. A LI. ION'. Editor.
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Tomorrow is memorial daj —
April 20; a day dedicated to Urn
memory of Southern heroes who
gave their lives in defense of the
Federal Constitution and the
rights of t lie States.
Tile Tribune lias provided itsell
with a book and wants every re
turned soldier and sailor of At
kinson county to call and regis
tor their names therein. It wants
every Confederate soldier to also
come and register. You w ill be
told the reason why later.
Women vote in Illinois and
Chicago. Last week there was an
election in Chicago on the whisky
question—“A wet and dry elect
ion." It is stated as a fact that
124.131 women voted the "wet”
ticket and only 79,325 tin- “dry.”
flow much better is the woman
than the man as a voter?
With Japan feverishly excited
and the Italians kicking over the
dashboard, the coming of peace
may linger somewhat indefinitely.
It seems that the Italian states
men have those of Great Britain
between the upper and nether
stones and are diligently using
their advantage to make trouble
at the peace conference.
Quite a number of our subscrib
ers have responded to our remind
ers that their subscriptions had
expired. They say the Tribune is
filling their wants as a newspaper
and desire it to keep coming.
Thanks. The Tribune does not
want to lose a single subscriber;
rather, would be pleased to in
crease its subscription list.
Down in the Republic of Mexico
a president ial campaign is on with
six candidates in tin- field —equally
divided between warriors and
civilians. It is stated that the
warriors are the favorites; and
here is dollars to doughnuts that
Gen. Obregon will be the success
ful candidate. President Carran
za is ineligible to re election.
There are two days which should
never give people much concern.
One is yesterday, the other to
morrow. Sufficient unto the day
is the evil thereof, w ithout worry
ing about the happenings of yes
terday that cannot be changed,
or those of the future that cannot
be avoided. The happiest people
are those who live by the day and
try to make each succeeding day
the best of his life.
Politics indeed make strange
bedfellows. This fact was never
more vividly illustrated than iu
the reversed attitude of the Be
publican party on the tariff (pies
tion. It has fallen over into the
beaten tracks of the Democratic
party in the years agone and are
now shouting "Tariff for revenue
only.” Party pollity is as change
able as the colors in a kaleidoscope:
the editor of the Tribune has lived
to see the Democratic party, on
the tariff question, change from
"Five Trade” and absorb the
Whig doctrine of “Tariff for rev
enue only," and just on what Tar
iff ground it now stands is un
known and its followers must
await the forthcoming national
platform to find out the tariff
song to which they must attune
themselves. A change is coming,
both parties will not stand on the
same tariff platform, be it ever so
good and timely.
WHY DELAY LONGER?
Practically nothing is being
done on the public roads of At
kinson county. and the outlook is
not radiant with hope that any
thing practical will be accomplish
ed during the present year.
It is true that road plows and
scrapes have been purchased, over
seers —in part or in whole —have
been appointed. But the power
to nt ili/.e these machines is not at
hand and persons subject to road
duty are mostly farmers and, with
the government insisting upon
their keeping busy and growing
all possible crops of provender and
provisions, the road prospect is
not toseate.
The Tribune is knocking no one
but is recalling these facts to em
phasize the necessity of the people
of Atkinson county coming to
gether and formulating plans
whereby the county can be sup
plied with good and permanent
roads. The situation, as it exists,
is tin* fault of no one.
The county came into existence
four months ago without a dollar
and without resources, and the
question to be determined is
whether the road policy of the old
county for the past thirty years is
to be continued in the new county,
or is Atkinson county going to
follow the lead of the more pro
gressive counties that are issuing
bonds to build permanent roads
for then' .elves.
The Tribune is in favor of the
latter policy because it firmly be
lieves it is the cheapest and most
feasible plan that can be adopted
to secure the good roads the conn
ty deserves. It is a big undertak
ing truly, and some of the people
may look upon it as unwise, but
the Tribune firmly b<*l eves that
when the work is completed and
the people see what they have for
their money they will not only
feel satisfied but proud of it.
The Tribune is unreservedly op
posed to throwing away the
people’s money in patchwork road
building.
FREE PUBLICITY ABUSE
The idea of many well meaning
people seems to be that, in order
to obtain necessary publicity for
any cause or propaganda in which
they engage, all they need to do is
to employ some clever space writer,
preferably a detached newspaper
man, and turn him loose on the
newspapers. This publicity agent
is supposed to write the “stuff,"
and the newspapers are exiveted
to do the rest —publish it —free, of
course.
this plan of publicity has been
extensively followed by the gov
ernment during the war, and the
use and abuse of the newspapers
has greatly increased during the
past four years. Every branch of
the government lias maintained a
publicity bureau during the war,
and the newspapers have been de
luged with all sorts of literature.
The numerous patriotic otganiza
tious throughout the count ry have
also made free use of the news
papers, and if the latter used half
the stuff that is thrust upon them
by mail and by band they would
not have room for anything else.
The point has been reached
where the newspapers must, as a
matter of self defense, draw the
line against free publicity matter
of all sorts. The Herald has been
trying to do this for some time,
but has not yet been as stern and
consistent in turning down all such
stuff as it intends to be in the fu
ture. Our free horse is about fag
ged out. —Albany Herald.
The Tribune has used but very
little of this stuff, in plate form
or otherwise, and it only as it
would suit its convenience.
The government pays the maga
zines and big city dailies for the
service which it asks the weeklies
and small city dailies to do for
nothing, and yet the latter are the
real powers behind the throne.
Either the country weeklies
brought success to the four former
war loan drives, or somebody has
lied, and the Tribune doesn't be
lieve "somebody has lied." Then
why should the country press "get
it on the neck?" They should
share in the reciprocity, and after
the first of May the Tribune will
absolutely shut it out from its col
umns.
Subscribe for your county paper
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PEARSON TRIBUNE, PEARSON* GEORGIA, APRIL 25, 1919
CHALLENGING THE LAW
What an array of murders, ac
counts of which are carried by the
newspapers to the people daily!
Why is there such an utter dis
regard of law?
Because of the effort of State
and Federal legislatures to make
permanent a great moral principle
by law r .
The legislature in 1917 passed
the prohibition law which makes
it a criminal offense for a citizen
to have in his possession, visible
or invisible, outside or inside his
person, intoxicating liquors of any
character.
Congress has caused an amend
ment to the Federal magna carta
with the view of making America
"a Saloonless Nation” and to give
her "a Stainless flag.”
The result, as it appears to the
Tribune, has been to place upon
the books the most anoinolous
statutes ever enacted by people
supposed to be sane.
These statutes in one breath
creates an offense and in the next
destroy the evidence necessary to
enforce it.
It is human nature to resent
force. Law is a rule of force.
People have been accustomed to a
little “liquor" whenever they
wanted it, and when force stepped
in and said you shall not have it,
rebellion appeared upon the scene
immediately, with the spirit
"We'll have it despite the law.”
Hence the thousands of illicit
distilleries located in every section
of the state and country. People
are challenging the law !
The only recourse the law has
for its vindication is for vigilant
officials to hunt down the dis
Cilleries and destroy them and
capture their owners for victims of
the legal guillotine, ft is a peri
lous business and scores of lives
have been lost pursuing it.
It is a horrible picture!
And the newspapers say it is
the policy of the Federal govern
incut to put thousands of agents
in the field to put down the illicit
distilleries, creating a rebellion
that will prove no small affair.
Is all this necessary to create
"A saloonless nation and a stain
less flag?” This terrible blood
shed on both sides!
The Tribune does not believe
God has so ordered it. He per
mits evil in the world for the
strengthening of His people, and
when men attempt to destroy the
evil lie permits in the world they
are doomed to failure.
Atkinson’s Proportion.
County Chairman, Dr. 11. I’.
Smith, has given out the informa
tion that the State Committee
has apportioned to Atkinson coun
ty $41,100 of the Victory Loan,
the fifth and last popular loan that
w ill be called for by the govern
ment.
Of this amount Pearson Bank
iug Company's sector is requested
to raise $17,400 of this amount;
Merchants and Farmers Bank's
sector. $14,850; Bank of Willacoo
cheo's sector, $11,850. The idea
seems to be that these amounts
are to be raised within the circle
of each bank's influence, among
their depositors.
These bonds are to bear 4 3-4
per cent interest and to become
due in four years. To people
who have surplus money the in
vestment is not a bad one from a
financial standpoint.
The amount apportioned to At
kinson county is much less than
her people cashed in on each of
the third and fourth loans, and
the Tribune is quite sure, if the
people have the will, they can dis
pose of the matter quickly.
Fifty dollars each from one
thousand persons would oversub
scribe the amount, but the word
has gone out that no oversubscrip
tions will be received, so that
eight hundred and eighty two per
sons loaning SSO each will accom
plish the task and put it behind
us.
Let's do it and do it quickly.
Do they remain peace terms
when they are discussed at your
house? —Journal-Herald.
Naming Tifton’* Street*
Tiftonhas a thoroughfare named
Love avenue. It must have been
christened in honor of John Her
ring.—Savannah Press.
Perhaps few even of the people
who live in Tifton kuow the
source from which our pretty resi
deuce street got its name, it is
located near the central part of
the city and was named for Tif
ton’s first mayor, Willard H. Love
who made his home here for many
years during his connection with
the plant system of Railways.
He and W. W. Timmons each
built a handsome residence in
what is now the business part of
the city, the Timmons residence
occuyyingthe corner where Brooks
Pharmacy is now located and Mr.
Love's residence the corner where
the-O’Neal McLeod building stands,
near the head of Love avenue.
Love avenue takes its name from
a noun, not a verb transitive nor a
verb-intransitive. While the
people of Tifton did not name it
in our honor, we are pleased to say
they let us live on it—and that is
good enough. —Tifton Gazette.
These clippings recalls the Tri
bune man’s mind to the part he
played in the organization of the
City of Tifton. He became a
citizen in 1891.
Tilton's first officials were Wil
lard H. Love, mayor; H. 11. Tift,
Dr. J, ('. Goodman, John Pope,
J. L Clements and M. A. Sexton,
couneilmen; J. Hawkins Goodman,
clerk; A. J. McCrea, marshal, and
John Baker, night policeman.
Mr. James I. Clements was chair
man of the committee on streets,
roads and lanes. In the latter
part of the year 1891 Mr. Clements
moved to Sycamore, ninteen miles
north of Tifton, which created a
vacancy on the council aud street
committee.
As provided by the existing
charter of the city the Mayor and
council selected the Tribune man,
then owner and editor of the Ga-
zette, to fill Mr. Clement’s place
on the council and committee.
The street committee was then
composed of B. T. Allen, chairman,
H. H. 'l ift and M. A. Sexton. To
this committee fell the duty of
naming the streets. As is gener
ally the custom the chairman of
the committee had to formulate
the scheme. The streets by order
of the chairman of the committee,
had all been cut out and graded to
the city limits. The first scheme of
naming the streets, that suggested
itself to him, was the one present
ed to the Mayor and Council and
adopted by it with enthusiasm,
viz: The old B. & W. (now the
A. C. L. trail road divided the place
in twain, northwest and southeast,
and the mercantile interests south
of the railroad; the street iu this
section was named Main street,
while its continuation north of
the railroad was named Love aven
ue in honor of the presiding may
or. The scheme provided further
that all streets running north and
south were to be known as avenues
and those west of Love avenue
were named Central, Church,
Ridge ; those east of Love avenue
were named Tift, Mill,Oak. It pro
vided that all streets running east
and west were named by numbers
—those south of the railroad by
the odd numbers as first, third,
fifth, seventh; those north of the
railroad by the even numbers as
second, fourth, sixth, eighth.
The chairman of the committee
was elated at his success in so
easily satisfying his official com
rades iu naming the streets of the
future city. But imagine his hor
ror and dismay w hen, two days
later, a most prominent Love ave
nue citizen accosted him with the
remark: "You’ve played h —11!"
He went on to say that, "unless
the name of the street was chang
ed he would sell his home, located
on it, and move to another part of
the place." The name was not
changed and he actually carried
out his threat —sold his home to
Mr. Robert Turner, of Kirkland,
Coffee county, and moved over on
Central avenue.
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A Day at Willacoochee.
The editor spent Wednesday
in Willacoochee and while there,
attended a eommital trial before
Judge E. L. Moore, a father-in-law
prosecuting his son-in-law for hog
stealing. The son-in-law was bound
over to the grand jury. The fath
er-in-law then swore out a peace
warrant. Sheriff Leggett arrested
the son-in-law and by a ruse son
in-law gave the sheriff the dodge
and literally “Burnt the wind."
The editor also accepted an in
vitation of I’rof. Ernest Neel to
visit the high-school. The attend
ance has fallen off considerably,
but there is still many bright and
ambitious boys and girls in the
student body. The visitor wit
nessed the recitation of a class
just beginning Algebra and dis
covered that their training is
faultless. The entire faculty is
doing good work for the children
attending the school, and it is a
pity that so few of the children of
the city are in attendance.
The editor is pleased to announce
that Mrs. J. B. Oberry, as soon
as she returns from a few week’s
stay at St. Simons Island, will un
dertake to furnish the Tribune
with all worth while news from
Willacoochee. She is a lady of
culture and will perform a splen
did service for the city. When
she enters upon this work the
Tribune trusts she will receive all
the encouragement and aid possi
ble from the citizens of Willacoo
ebee generally. In the meantime
will not some one kindly send us
the news. The Tribune desires to
serve all sections of Atkinson
county.
W. F. BARTLETT.
Oakfiei.J), Ga., May 10, 1917.
Old Kentucky Mfg. Co.,
Paducah, Ky.,
< lentleinen:
Please allow me to state that I
have sold your hog cholera remedy
for one season and have ordered
more for this season. La si year 1
sold it to 12 or 15 men who raise
hogs. I told each of them to take
the remedy, feed ii to their hogs
and if they lost a single hog from
disease of any kind not to pay me
a cent for the remedy, but 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. < >ue man
paid me for the small package and
bought $5 worth more and said it
was the best that he had ever
tried. Yours very truly,
W. F. Bartlett.
Sold by Pearson Hardware
Store, Pearson, Ga.
The Tribune regrets to learn of
the illness of Elder J. C. Hewett.
He was in the city on Wednesday
and became suddenly ill, and had
to be carried home.
Mr. Edgar Parker and sister.
Miss Estelle, have gone for a visit
to friends and relatives iu Jackson
ville. Fla. While there Miss Es
telle will have her eyes examined
by a Specialist and, perhaps, fitted
with glasses.
There was an all-day singing at
New Bethel church, five miles
southwest of Pearson, last Sunday.
Dinner was served on the ground.
Everybody present enjoyed the
music and the dinner to their ut
most capacity.
Several Pearson people are on
the sick list this week. Mr. John
Meeks was reported to be quite ill.
but the Tribune is pleased to learn
he is convalescing. His brother.
J. M. Meeks, has also been very
sick, both with the same disease.
Mr. Paul Locklier has returned
home after two unsuccessful ef
forts to go to France to assist iu the
restoration of that war-ridden coun
try to her former self. His first
effort was aboard a ship from
Savannah. The vessel was caught
in a storm aud had to return to
Savannah. The next was aboard
a vessel that went on a rock off
Bermuda Islands. The passingers
and crew had to take to the life
boats to reach the Bermudas.
Thoroughly disgusted in his efforts
to go across the pond he abided
his time to get back to the States
and he says, "Never More!"
Legal Advertisements.
Sheriff’s Sale.
GEO RGI A—A tklnson County.
Will be sold before the court house door a
Pearson. In said county, between the lawful
hours of sale on the first Tuesday in May next,
the following described real estate:
Lot of l.and No. Two Hundred and Five
(205), In the Seventh (7) Land District of said
county. Levied on as property in which E.
D. Brinson has an undivided Interest, and
found in the possession of Robert A. Brinson,
Administrator of theestateof Mrs. F. V. Brin
son, and will be sold to satisfy an execution
Issued from the Justice Court of the 1130th
District, G. M., of said county. In favor of Dr,
Joe Corbett and against E. D. Brinson. De
fendant and party in possession notified in
writing. This the 31st day of March. 1919.
E. D. LEGGETT, Sheriff.
Citation for Letters of Administration.
GEORGlA—Atkinson County.
To all whom it may concern: J°e McDon
ald having in proper form applied to me for
Permanent Letters of Administration on the
estate of Mary McDonald, late of said county,
deceased, this is to cite all and singular the
creditors and next of kin of Mary McDonald
to be and appear at my office within the time
allowed by law, and show cause, if any they
can, why permanent administration should
not be granted to JoelMcDonald on Mary
McDonald’s estate.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this the 7th day of April, 1919.
J. WESLEY ROBERTS, Ordinary.
Citation for Twelve Month Support.
(!E()R<HA—Atkinson County.
To all whom it may concern: Notice is here
by given that the appraisers appointed to set
apart and assign a year's support to Ferrabee
Fender, the widow of David Fender, deceased,
and their three minor children, have filed
their award, and unless good and sufficient
cause is shown, the same will be made the
judgment of the Court at the May term, 1919,
of the Court of Ordinary. This the 7th day of
April, 1919.
J. WESLEY ROBERTS, Ordinary.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
(; E< )R(.l A—A tklnson (bounty.
All persons holding claims agalns the estate
Quitman Fender,late of said county deceased,
are notified to render the same to the under
signed Administrator duly Itemized and ver
ified within the time prescribed by law, and
all persons indebte d to said estate are hereby
notified to make immediate payment of their
indebtedness to the undersigned.
WILLIAM FENDER,
Administrator.
Mr. John T. Douglass carried bis
10-year old daughter to the King
Daughter’s hospital at Waycross
Wednesday evening. Pneumonia
had caused an abscess to form on
her lungs, and it became necessary
for an operation to be performed.
She will be under the care of Dr.
Will Folks.
The school at Sandy Bottom
closes to-day with eleborate exer
cises. Quite a party of Pearson
citizens attended, including Super
intendant Booth, Cols. G. H.
Mingledorff and T. S. Winn. Of
course they arc to deliver addresses
of encouragement. The Tribune
is pleased to learn that the school'
at Sandy Bottom has been a very
live one.
Notice to Teachers.
Teachers, in filing tbeir last
monthly report, will please file an
nual report and return register;
also send or bring license along,
that record may be made, if this
is done prompt settlement will be
made. Respectfully,
San key Booth, Supt.
Acids Endanger Ships.
Shipmasters dislike carrying drums
of acid where they cannot he reached
readily. A Chilean ship, the Japan Ad
vertiser says, recently put In at the
Falkland islands leaking badly. Her
cargo was mode up of drums of acid
and chnlk. The acid had leaked from
the drums and mixed with the chalk,
forming carbonic acid gas in the hold.
This gas is deadly and the crew could
not make repairs. Meantime the acid
had gathered at the bottom of the hold
and eaten away the iron frames of the
ship.
Ants That Carry Umbrellas.
In Mexico there is a vuriety of ants
that carry little green umbrellas, made
from bits of leaves, to protect their
bodies from the fierce tropical sun.
Sometimes, writes a contributor to the
Youth’s Companion, who has lived In
the turbulent republic across the Rio
Grande, X have seen two ants walking
together while one politely carried the
umbrella over the two. At other times,
she says, I have seen them, when going
in opposite directions, stop and salute
each other before they passed on.
Ever-Faithful Horse.
It is the horse that has fought the
wars of the world and won our human
liberty. Besides this, he has broken
nur prairies, sown and harvested our
grain, and delivered it to the markets
of the world. He has carried messages
of victory and of sorrow, and down to
the time of Washington he constituted
the fastest mode of communication
known, if we except only the carrier
pigeon.—Dumb Animals.
Woman Invents Lamp Shade.
Artistic lamp shades have been in*
ented by a woman who chemically
reats the lining of calves’ stomachs
o produce a translucent leather.