PEARSON #TRI BUN E
VOL. 7—NO. 18
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Vice-President Plauten of the
Maintenance of Way Employees
announces that organized labor
“can run every damn thing in this
country if it wants to." Labor
certainly seems to want to, but
might do well to reflect that cap
ital has seen tit to abandon similar
dreams of empire as impractical. —
Valdosta Times.
The man who owns his farm is
the independent man; he is the
best citizen; white or colored, he is
the most consistently law' abiding
citizen —he has too much at stake
to risk it in lawlessness; he is the
steady support of the state, the
county, the schools, the churches,
and of business. It would bean
ideal state —one in which every
piece of land was ow ned, mortgage
free, "by the family which annually
digs hew created wealth out of the
son.' —Way cross Journal Herald.
Camp Cheerful came to an end
Monday and silence reigns on the
picturesque banks of North River
w here the merry hubbub of over a
hundred judilaut Boy Scouts held
sway for the two weeks ofr the first
district encampment. That the
boys enjoyed the encampment and
are much in favor of St. Marys for
the permanent camp was testified
unanimously. While official action
has not yet been taken, it is a fore
gone conclusion that Camp Cheer
ful will be made the permanent
camp of Okefenoke Council. —St.
Marys (ieorgiau.
The formation of the Senatorial
District in Georgia, composed of
Berrien, Cook and Lanier counties
is unique, in that almost all the
territory was formerly comprised
in Berrien county. As it now is,
old Berrien, or the territory which
was formerly in that county, has
three representatives and a Sena
tor, I)r. Woodard introduced the
bill and there w as not a dissenting
vote. It is said to have been the
first time oil record w here a Con
stitutional amendment'received a
unanimous vote. Cook county
will furnish the next Senator. —
Adel News.
We must all awake to the fact
that the man, whoever he is, who
makes or sells liquoi is an enemy
to society. He is opposed to the
happiness and prosperity of every
family in the community. He is
more dangerous than a mad dog,
and ought to bo stopped as effect
ively as we stop the mad dog,
though we do not recommend the
same method. It is our business
that some fellow who fears neither
<iod nor man is defying the law
of our land, and we all by word
and deed should let him and his
kind know that we will not stand
for him and his destructive work.
Ocilla Star.
Rub-My-Tism for Rheuma
tism.
One farmer near Nashville has
sold over $BOO worth of tobacco
from a little over four acres, an
average of about $2OO an acre.
< 'ousidering the price that tobacco
lias been selling at this season
leads one to believe that the low
price is not caused by the manu
facturers altogether. This man
has grown and cured a good grade
of tobacco and every time he has
brought, tobacco to market it has
brought top prices. We believe if
our local farmers will grow and
cure their tobacco properly they
will get a better price every time.
Of course, even the best grades are
not bringing near what they did
last year, but neither is anything
else, as to that matter. We didn't
know of anything else that will
bring a return of $2OO an acre at
present prices.—Nashville Herald.
Okefenokee Swamp.
Few pens have been able to de
scribe the beauty of the Okefeno
kee swamp, this wonderland in
southern Georgia, and no brush
has been able to reproduce the
varied’colors of the woods, for the
exquisite blending of shades has
been touched by a Master hand
into one brilliant glow that is in
imitable. It matters not how dull
one’s imagination is, or how- dead
one’s enthusiasm, the natural beau
ty of the Okefenokee will stir
every inanimate- sensibility into
life.
Old trees are there like gray,
dusty warriors that have battled
with the elements and lujve with
stood the storms of the centuries.
Flowers bloom the year around
that are found in no other pla<?e
this side of the Atlantic, and no
ferns are found anywhere with
such feathery fronds that are ever
waving on the banks above the
limpid streams.
“Big Water” stretches for miles
through a labyrinth of moss-draped
cypress, which are mirrored in a
maze of loveliness on the bosom of
the stream. Water lilies are sprin
kled everywhere and pitcher plants
are there in all their perfection.
Bear and deer hold high carnival
there and birds of rare plumage
often stop over in their migratory
flights to Southern climes. “Oke
fenokee is a refuge for such rare
and splendid birds as the ivory
billed and pileated woodpeckers,
the wood ibris, the sand-hill crane
and the American egret. Seven
species of ducks are found winter
ing here: Hooded Mergansre, Mai
lard, black duck, green winged
Teal, fan-tail, woou duck and ring
necked duck. In the somber
depts of the bays, about the first
of June, we may find the nest of
the Arcadian flycatcher, which de
lights in the solitude of the moss
draped trees above the clear brown
water.”
The Okefenokee is the only
place in Georgia where one may
find the sand hill crane and the
limpkiti.
One is forcibly impressed with
the fact that we have failed in
our duty as patriotic Georgians to
have ever let this great natural
preserve pass out of our hands.
However, opportunity is once
again knocking at our doors; it is
not too late yet to save tbisnatura!
wonder for the generations w hose
eyes have never seen it. Maga
nines and newspapers are carrying
articles concerning the swamp and
mauy prominent people are coming
this way for the purpose of scienti
fie investigation. Outsiders are
wondering whether or not our
Georgia people have been afflicted
with sleeping sickness, dreaming
while our great natural resources
are passing into the hands of am
bilious capitalist. Every indivi
dual in the state should feel a
personal interest in the Okefeno
kee as a national preserve. With
such a wonderland Georgia would
not need to magnify her "Adver
tise Georgia” campaign. This
spot would bring her untold wealth
and place her on equal footing
with any state in the union.
With the united effort on the
part of the women and men of this
state a great sentiment can be
created in regard to making a
national park or preservation out
of the swamp. Write letters to
your senators and congressmen.
Get the Georgia legislature in
terested in it; invite them together
with the governor to come see for
themselves.
The world is given as a prize to
the men and women who are in
earnest. All need earnestness in
the matter of conservation. Let
every one take a hand in protect
ing the natural beauties of our
state. People have been known
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEOIiGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1921
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Irwin superior court has been
adjourned until the regular term
in November.
Berrien county farmers are ship
ping sugar-cane to Atlanta and
other points by the car loads. The
prices are reported to be satisfact
ory.
The Mason Tire and Rubber
Company of Kent, Ohio, has pur
chased the Quitman Cotton Mill,
and will manufacture their goods
there.
The community ehautauqua will
goto Douglas on September 20
and continue through the week.
The program seems to be an at -
tractive one.
The Nashville tobacco market
held up well last week, the price
paid ranging from 20c to 82c. per
pound. It indicates that the
grades are better.
The Shrine ceremonial to be held
in Way cross on Labor Day has
been postponed. The local Slum
ers could not guarantee a suffici
ency of “fresh meat.”
The decrease in tax values of
more than $1,000,000, the tax rate
in Berrien county will be $1.50 on
the $l,OOO more this than last, year.
With the state rate added it will
be $27 on the $l,OOO.
Mr. <>. It. Youmans becomes
commissioner of roads and reven
ues of Bierce county under the law
enacted by the recent legislature.
He holds office until his successor
is elected and (jualilied.
All the people suspected with
being connected with the assassi
nation of Sheriff J.W. Roberson, of
Bierce county, are now in jail and
their cases will receive attention
at the next session of superior
court.
The Baptist church at Ocilla,
following the lead of the Church
at Mcßae, has adopted resolutions
forbidding its members from en
gaging, in any manner, in the
modern dance on pain of being
disciplined.
The trustees of Alma high school,
not having sufficient funds to op
erate the school have adopted this
plan: An entrance fee of $3 to be
charged each pupil, whether living
ill or out of the city, and $5 for
high school pupils. Children liv
ing out of the city must, in addi
tion to paying the fees, secure a
permit from the Superintendent.
Children unable to pay the fees
will be cared for on application to
the secretary of the Board of
Trustees.
Rub-My-Tism kills pain.
The potato growers meeting at
Adel on the fifth was a large and
enthusiastic one. The counties
of Appling, Atkinson, Bacon, Bald
win. Ben Hill, Berrien, Brooks,
Burke, Clinch. Coffee, Colquitt-,
Echols, Grady, Irwin, Jeff Davis,
Lanier, Lowndes, Muscogee, Pierce,
Putnam, Screven, Terrell, Thomas,
Tift, Toombs, Turner and Worth
were represented. A temporary
organization was made with it. E.
Betts, Ash burn, president; Frank
Powell, Omega, vice-president;
Cary Ragsdall,Nashville, secretary,
and T. H. Jarman, Sparks, treasur
er. A meeting will be held to
perfect the organization.
to pay many thousands of dollars
for pictures painted by the masters
of the old world, but in in a mis
guided moment we have almost
lost a great picture painted for us
by our own Master’s hand.
Mrs. J. [. Walker,
State Chairman, Okefenokee Soci
ety.
668 cures Chills and Fever.
Lankford Helps Banks
to Finance Farmers.
When (he Act to authorize the
War Finance Corporation to make
advances to help in the orderly
marketing and exportation of farm
products was up for consideration
a few days ago Representative
Lankford of the Eleventh District
of Georgia secured the adoption.of
an amendment broadening the
scope of the measure by making ne
gotiable instruments of all kinds
given for advances for agricultural
purposes objects of loan by the
War Finance Corporation.
The Amendment received practi
cally the unanimous approval of
the House.
in thanking the House for the
favorable consideration given his
amend men t Judge Lankford said:
"I aopreciate very much the ap
proval given this amendment by
the chairman of the committee and
by the ranking democrat on the
committee, and I am sure that the
entire country, and especially the
farmers who are now so sorely in
need of help, will appreciate very
much the adoption of this amend
ment which lias just been voted
by the House.
“The amendment enables the
War Finance Corporation to buy
from the banks of the country
notes, drafts, bills of exchange and
oi lier negotiable instruments issued
lor agricultural purposes and dis
counted or rediscounted by the
banks. This amendment will help
every farmer in the country who is
indebted for supplies, whether
mules, guano or other farm neces
sities, as well as every farmer who
wishes this fall and winter to buy
on credit a mule, guano or other
farm supplies. It will assist every
man who is helping to carry the
burdens of the farmers, thus the
amendment will help the whole
nation, for when we help the fann
er and those who are helping him
we help all.”
Judge Lankford said he would
gladly help the banks of his dis
trict, secure help for the farmers
under the bill from the War Fi
nance Corporation and hoped that
the banks would avail themselves
of the privileges authorized by the
bill and help relieve the present
financial strain of the farmers.
Methodist Church Directory.
The following is a schedule of
services on the Pearson circuit,
Method ist Episcopal Church Sou lb.
Pearson —2nd and 4th Sundays,
12:00 a.in. and 8:00 p. in. Sunday-
School 3:30 p. rn. Prayer meeting
Wednesday 8:00 p. m.
New Providence —2nd and 4th
Sundays 3:30 p. in. Sunday-School
2:30 p. in.
Wesley Chapel —lst Sunday
11:30 a. rn. and Saturday night be
fore 7:30 j>. m. Sunday School 3:00
p. in.
Sweetwater —Ist Sunday 3:30
p. m. and 7:30 p. m. Sunday-School
2:30 p. m.
Live Oak —3rd Sunday 11:30 a.
m. Sunday School 3:00 p. in.
Kirkland —3rd Sunday 3:30 p.
m. and 7;30 p. m. Sunday-School
2:30 p. m.
All of these services “Rain or
Shine” without the ringing of any
bells. Public cordially invited.
T. M. Luke. Pastor.
Seeds for Fa!! Gardens
Now' that the time is here to
buy Fall Carden Seed I want to
call your attention to-the fact that
in addition to having lately
bought and put in a nice line of
packet seed. 1 have also a nice
line of most all varieties of fall
turnip seed in bulk that i can sell
you more seed for the same amount
of money than can be bought in
the packages. Shall be glad to
have you call examine my line of
garden seed as well as all, other
lines I carry in stock. My price
w ill sell the goods.
Come and get the bargain price.
F. E. M< Neal.
COLONY FOR JEFF DAVIS.
Twelve Thousand Acres Selected
For Gigantic Scheme.
Valdosta, Ga., Aug. 25. —Con-
tracts were signed in Washington
completing plans for the most
practical and progressive land de
velopment enterprise ever put on
foot in the South, and which means
the immediate development of a
tract of 12,000 acres of land in
Jeff Davis county.
The land is owned by Messrs.
Tanner and Brice and the contract
they signed was with the Georgia
and Florida Land and Develop
ment Company, which is composed
of a group of New York bankers
and financiers. This party is head
ed by XV. V. Griffin, Franklin Pet
tit, Benjamin B. Burton, Howard
Sw'iggett and others, who have
personally investigated the lands
and prospects before agreeing to
enter into this contract.
This gigantic development enter
prise was originated and out
through by W. E. French of Val
dosta, immigration agent for the
Georgia and Florida Railway, the
plan being personally backed by
General Manager D. F. Kirkland,
of the road, who has worked very
hard and unceasingly for some
agricultural development of a
practical nature for South Georgia.
The company will clear and pre
pare the land for cultivation in
small farms, erecting houses on it
in the nature of units. These
houses will be built according to
a standard and will vary from five
to eight rooms, as may be needed.
Each house will have running
water and electric lights, while
each place will have barns and
other necessary buildings. The
farms will lie sold on easy terms,
small cash payments and long time
on remainder and every thing made
as convenient and attractive as
possible.
This Jeff Davis county tract will
be, offered largely to the Dunkards
of Indiana and that section, who
are looking for homes in the Sout h.
Their representatives have per
sonally visited this property and
approved it for their purpose.
Elder Levi Winklebleck, of Mo
ilesto. Cal., will have charge of the
distribution of the land among the
Dunkards.
Plans have already been prepar
ed for ten of the dwellings to be
erected and it is expected that the
contract for the erection of these
will be let within at least a few
weeks.
Franklin Pettit, Jr., who is an
architect located in New York city,
will be in charge of this construc
tion work, and he will come to
Valdosta Friday to look after the
details of the first work which the
company will do. As soon as the
first unit of ten dwellings can be
completed, they will he sold and
immediate construction on other
units will be started.
This group of New York bankers
and capitalist have been investi
gating the matter for several
months, besides personally looking
over the land and proposition at
this end. They are determined to
back the work to the limit with
their funds and each one, upon re
cent visits here, expressed great
enthusiasm over the work.
They propose to take other lands
along the Georgia and Florida
Railroad, and continue this devel
opment work just as long as they
can secure property for that pur
pose. After considering the mat
ter very carefully the backers of
t his enterprise believe t hat they
are safe in estimating that several
thousand families will be thus
brought into Georgia as quickly
now as homes can be prepared for
them.
The Georgia and Florida Rail
road officials, headed by General
Manager Kirkland, have worked
81.50 A YEAR
“Pass Your Plate.”
The poet of The Dalton Citizen
hears the trumpets of falltime, and
sees the table of Plenty as he sings:
“Muscadine a-ripenin’ fast;
Sugar cane am fine;
Yaller yam a bustin’ through;
Pumpkin on de vine.
“Den it’s fall time in Dixie —
Fall time, 1 say;
Yaller yam and juicy ham —
Oh, man, go away!
“’Simmon growin’ on de tree;
Possum watebin’ roun’;
Nigger watch in’ Old Man Poss,
\Vid his speckled houn’.
“Den it’s fall time in Dixie;
Huntin’ time to come;
Possum meat, oh, can’t bd beat —
Sambo, gib me some.”
Special Election in Clinch.
Mr. C. 11. Dickerson, tax collect
or elect of Clinch county, having
failed to file the required bond the
office lias been declared vacant and
Judge W. V. Musgrove, the Or
dinary, has called a special elec
tion to fill the vacancy on Satur
day, September 17 th.
There are three announced can
didates for the place—Messrs.
Robert E. Lee, Irwin W. Corbitt,
Jr., and L. R. Register. The latter
has experience as a tax collector,
having served in the office one
term embracing the year 1907 and
1908. Besides these, it is stated
there will be twenty-eight other
candidates. This may or may not
bo a joke.
The Divorce Evil.
Judge John T. Pendleton says:
“Easy divorce eneouages incon
siderate marriage. The failure to
appreciate the obligations of mar
riage and the ease with which a
divorce is obtained are largely re
sponsible for the ‘commercial mar
riage,’ the ‘trial marriage’ and the
‘quick marriage,’ so that marriage
and divorce operate upon each
other. Inconsiderate marriage
causes divorce and easy divorce en
courages inconsiderate marriage.”
Judge Andrew J. Cobb gives the
church anil civil definition ot di
vorce and scriptural authority for
divorce and suggests a remedy for
the evil. Judge Cobb believes
that the church and school through
public instruction can do more to
cure the divorce evil than the pas
sage of laws which are in advance
of public sentiment.
Coming to United States.
Paris, Aug. 27. —Marshal Foch,
unannounced yesterday walked in
to the American embassy here
without formality, took a scat in
the reception room and, like the
ordinary caller, sent up his card
asking to see Ambassador Herrick.
When the presence of the dis
tinguished visitor became known a
secretary immediately ushered
him into the ambassador’s office.
Marshal Foch told Mr. Herrick
that be had come to the embassy
in person to say definitely that he
was going to the United States.
“I wanted to come and tell you
definitely,” said the officer who
commanded the allied armies dur
ing the World War, “that I am
going to America. I also wanted
to tell you directly, by word of
mouth, instead of by letter or in
any formal way, how deeply touch
ed I have been by the echoes from
America of my prospective visit.
I wanted to tell you how delighted
1 am that I am going.
“The visit of the American
Legion has brought me in closer
touch with America than I have
been since the American army was
here, and I appreciate deeply the
desire of the American Legion that
I go to their convention iu Kansas
City.”
hard for the consummation of this
plan, and as this road’s 400 or 500
miles of track is all within the
boundaries of Georgia, except
about thirty miles, it can be seen
that this movement is a most im
portant one for Georgia. Other
previous development plans in the
South have lacked the unlimited
financial backing and enthusiasm
which is behiud this on the part
of the New York capital interested,
