PEARSONftTRiBUNE
VOL. 7—NO. 35
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
There are so many new ways of
enjoying a harmless manner of cel
ebrating the holiday occasions that
the boys will not mind missing the
dangerous fireworks —with their
menace of conflagration and conse
quent loss of property and their
almost certain following number of
cases of tetanus. —Savaunah News.
So satisfactory has the dairy
business panned out in Pulaski
county that parties from Indiana
are building a creamery at llawk
insville. Dairying seems destined
to come nearer taking the place of
cotton than anything yet expert
menting with. And the beauty
about the business is that pay
ehecks come to the hands of the
farmer twice a month instead of
once a year, as is the case in cotton
growing.—Worth County Local.
The greatest need in Georgia to
day is respect for law and order.
Many people seem to think that
they have a right to do as they
please, regardless of law. provided
they are not caught and convicted,
but tbeyjnever seem to realize that
they are trampling upon their own
rights whenever they knowingly
violate the laws upon our statute
books which are made for the pro
tection of all the people. —Sanders-
ville Progress.
For several weeks the fall terms
of courts throughout this section
have been busy with criminal ca
ses, sometimes securing convictions
with much difficulty and always
at great expense. This week the
executive mill in Atlanta has been
turning out paroles and pardons.
Mercy is a beautiful thing, and at
Christmas it is more than ever
timely. But mercy in excess de
feats the ends of justice. Mean
while, the tax payers pays the bill.
Tifton Gazette.
The financial affairs of thiscoun
ty are in the most satisfactory con
dition that have existed in many
years. It is claimed by some, who
are in position to know, the tax
rate for this year could have been
reduced with safety, in as much as
there will be a large cash balance
in the treasury at the close of the
year. This condition was brought
about, not only by the economical
management of the Commissioners,
but by a fortunate turn that caused
the county to collect a substantial
amount of back tax money. —Thom
asvillc Press.
Proof that meat can be well
cured in the local curing plaut is
found in the fact that several huu
died pounds of this product was
Monday purchased by Metter incr
chants at 25 ceuts per pound —
about 18 cents more than could
have been obtained for uncured
meat. The meat was raised by
Mr. George Heartley and was
brought to the plant of the Mettei
lee and Cold Storage Company,
where it was carried through the
various processes of curing, includ
ing smoking, and was sold to local
dealers at approximately the same
figure they pay for foreign cured
meat. —Metter Advertiser.
Some of the South Georgia news
papers have been expressing the
fear that the watermelon growers
were probably planting too laige a
crop, but the CordeJe Dispatch
says: "If they are early and up to
the standard, the melon grower
will do well.” And we believe
that will be true, no matter how
large the crop. We can win both
ways —by planting an early crop
and by growing a late crop. There
is a kind of watermelon which does
well in Georgia late crops. The
late market is just as strong as the
early. We may be assured that it
will take care to make it a paying
business. —Macon News.
Dr. J. L. Dedge Dead.
From The Alma Times.
Dr. ,T. L. Dedge died at his home
here Saturdey night, after a linger
ing illness of several months.
Perhaps Dr. Dedge was one of
the best known men in this sec
tion, having practiced his profes
sion here for about 30 years.
He was born in Coffee county in
1868, and began the practice of
medicine when a young man, and
lived practically all of his life in
this section until about a year and
a half ago, when he moved to
South Carolina, and lived until
about two months ago. when he
moved back here. After moving
to South Carolina, his health be
gun to fail and since returning to
Alma he grew gradually worse tin
til the end came Saturday night.
Dr. Dedge is survived by his
widow and one daughter, Latane;
four sisters, Mesdames Mary A.
Ricketson, of Pearson; Ellen Eu
nice, of Blackshear, Lydia Lott, of
Nicholls, and Lula Chancy, of
Baxley.
Funeral and interment wore
held at the Lott Cemetery Sunday
afternoon, conducted by Rev. H.
M. Meeks, of Nicholls.
Crime or Law Which?
Atlanta Constitution.
There is hardly an issue of any
American newspaper these days
but whose columns are clustered
with crime reports.
That is the situation in Atlanta,
as elsewhere. Crimes ranging
from the blowing of a safe down
through the list —burglary, high
way robbery, embezzlement, lar
ceny after trust, etc. —to pocket
picking, purse-snatching and petty
thievery.
M urder is often included in the
day’s crime list. In most instances
of this kind robbery is the motive,
the killing usually being done by
the criminal either to prevent de
tection or in making his escape
from arrest.
And the worst part of it is that
this condition is growing worse
from day to day, despite all that
the police seem able to do to make
it better.
The situation is apparently no
worse in Atlanta than in other
cities. It seems to be general the
country over.
The crime situation has reach
ed a point where it actually
menaces government.
If it is not brought under control
in the near future but continues
to increase, as it has during the
last few months, the time is not
far distant when the institutions
of order and just ice will be brush
ed aside and society will be put
under the control of the forces of
outlawry and crime.
But it must be brought under
control!
Crime'must be curbed, and the
criminal class must be overcome
by the agencies of the law; for or
derly government must prevail and
the lawful rights or American citi
zens must be safeguarded, regard
less of cost.
That must be done, if it re
quires double or treble the num
ber of policemen now serving
American cities to do it.
And, if that is not sufficient, the
national guard, then the United
States army, should be called into
action; and if even then the exe
gencies of the situation demand it,
the armed forces of the govern
ment should be increased to pro
portions great enough to put every
criminal either under ground or
behind bars.
To say that the American peo
ple cannot protect themselves and
their property against the para
sitic criminal element is bosh!
They can and they must do it;
for organized government by law
and order is itself at stake!
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1921
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The State prison commission is
to furnish Camden county tempor
arily with fifty convicts to build
a good road between St Marys and
Kingsland. They will then be re
moved if desired.
The regular January Term of
Lanier superior court will be held
commencing on the second Monday
and continuing through the week
or until the business for the term
as far as possible is transacted.
The people of Douglas are ex
ulting over the newly elected
Mayor, Col. J. J. Willingham.
The Tribune is quite sure he will
make the city a firstrate official,
and congratulates the women and
men who elected him. Then they
have an excellent board of alder
men in Tanner, Brooks, Jardine,
Kelihan and Stubbs.
The Atlantic Coast Line Rail
road Company, December 23rd,
laid off indefinitely a large per
cent, of its shop force at Wayeross.
The impression is current that
these employes were not prepared
for this enforced idleness, and if
continued long they will be in dire
distress. The Tribune doesn't be
lieve it can last long without de
triment to the railroad’s best inter
est.
The Executive Committee of the
Southern Swine Growers Associa
tion will meet at Ashburn January
11th and 12th, and swine breeders
of Georgia and Florida are expect
ed to be well represented. A fat
hog sale will be on at the same
time. Turner county farmers are
seeking to solve the boll weevil
problem through boosting the cat
tle, swine and poultry industries,
and they are succeeding well ac
cording to reports concerning the
Ashburn creamery.
A contest over the recent Du-
Pont municipal election was filed
before Ordinary Musgrove. W. T.
Dickerson and S. Burkhalter re
presenting the contestants, while
R. G. Dickerson, Jr., and Folks
Huxford represented the mayor
and council chosen by the election.
Upon the hearing Judge Musgrove
held the election to be legal and
that A. E. Perry and A. L. Hughes,
F. E. Bullard, W. L. Mobley, S. B.
Newborn and J. E. Hancock were
entitled to serve the little city as
mayor and councilmen respective
ly.
Next week the State Highway
Department will take over fifty
nine miles of Ware county road
for permanent maintenance. This
is in keeping with the policy of
the Department of employing a
competent road man to supervise
and keep up all the roads con
structed under the State plans,
from county seat to county seat.
The Ware division will be eighteen
miles of the Wayeross to Homer
ville road, four miles of the Way
cross to Blackshear road, seven
teen miles of the Wayeross to
Alma road, and twenty miles of
the Dixie Highway south toward
Folkston.
The Ku Klux Klans of Douglas
and Thomasville demonstrated
last week that they are composed
of men of real Christian character.
The order at Douglas contributed
$25 to “T h e Empty Stocking
Fund,” to provide Christmas cheer
to the poor and needy children of
that city. The order at Thomas
ville provided articles to made the
hearts of the poor of that city glad,
white and black, and dressed in
regalia, the members delivered
their gifts in person. It is stated
not a single “Old Time Darkey”
failed to receive a liberal share of
this bounty. Both were fine ex
amples of Christian benevolence.
Ware Grand Jury Presentments
Your Grand Jury after carefully
investigating numerous cases com
ing before it, in view of the able
charge given it by Judge Summer
all, feels that it is but proper that
it should make an earnest appeal
to all classes of the citizens of
Ware county to become more law
abiding.
It views with profouudest regret
the fact that the breakers of the
laws of the State are not confined
to the so called criminal class, but
that many of its so-called good
respectable citizens are guilty of
transgressing the law, and if not
transgressing it wink at its viola
tion.
This is especially true in refer
ence to the Prohibition law. We
would remind our fellow citizens
that respect for law is one of the
safeguards of the State. If men
who are looked upon as leading,
and influential citizens thus vio
late the law it is but natural for
the more ignorant to feel that they
are at liberty to do as they please.
We are informed that Marshal
Foeb, who is visiting in this coun
try, openly declared that though
he drinks light wines at home, he
would not drink while in America,
since the law of the land forbids
it. Later, the Italian Commauder
in Chief General Diaz, took the
same stand, surely if these leading
citizens of other nations thus re
spect our law, then those who are
living under its protection should
be loyal enough to be law abiding
citizens.
Your Grand Jury feeling the
weight of your presiding Judge’s
charge that a majority of the
criminals convicted in his circuit
court during the past few years
had been young men and boys,
and his statement that the only
salvation for the coming genera
tion rests with the schools and
churches of the county, as the in
stitution of the home was not
meeting the obligations imposed
upon it, would impress upon the
home, that God made institutions,
to awaken to the great responsibil
ity resting upon the fathers and
mothers themselves. We there
fore, appeal to the fathers and
mothers of our country to throw
around their sons and daughters
the influences which will lead to
modesty and chastity in speech,
conduct and dress. We appeal
to them to put a stop to girls, un
chaperoned, riding at night in au
tomobiles with men. This is
fraught with great danger. We
urge that more authority over the
children be exercised in the homes,
obedience in the home means
obedience to law.
Looking over the history of our
section, and realizing its great pow
er in past generations, your Grand
Jury feels that if the present day
tendency toward unwholesome con
ditions are to be cleaned and our
civilization is to be preserved, then
it is necessary that our homes
must establish the old fashioned
family altar, that we may become
a God fearing, and a law-abiding
citizenship.
The alarming increase in the
number of divorce cases impresses
upon us the necessity and import
ance of keeping the home clean in
its moral life, and a high ideal of
the sanctity of the marriage vows
must be kept before its inmates.
Let us keep before us those high
ideals which leads to right think
ing and right living.
An eminent Georgia judge once
said: “It is not too much to ask
the parents to exert their authori
ty in the home and if they do this
aud bring their children into the
right way of thinking our courts
will not be so crowded and our
whole civilization will progress to
a marked degree.
Your Grand Jury makes these
suggestions not in the way of cen
sure but because of the many de
plorable conditions existing, and
asks our citizens to give these sug
gestions most earnest and prayer
ful consideration as suggested
proper solution of the momentous
problems confronting society in
these critical days,
HIGHWAY TO PROSPERITY.
H. M. Mclntosh, Editor Albany
Herald, Writes on Subject.
There is nothing of irreverence
or skepticism in the declaration
that “God helps those who helps
themselves.”
And the assertion is not less
true of communities than it is of
individuals and these be times in
which communities will do well to
be reminded of the fact and to
profit from being reminded.
That is what Brooks county is
doing.
Brooks is one of the splendid ag
ricultural communities of South
Georgia. It is a county whose
hams and smoked bacon have made
it famous, and which was better
prepared to defy the boll weevil
than perhaps any other in this
state.
This year the farmers of Brooks
have raised large aud valuable
food crops. Desiring to convert
their surplus into money, they
found themselves confronted by
tin* unfavorable conditions result
ing from depressed markets. It
appeared that they must either
sell their products for whatever
they would bring or hold them in
definitely in the hope of obtaining
better prices later on.
But they did neither of these
things. What they did do is in
terestingly told in the following
Quitman Free Press editorial:
All farmers w'ho are down in Ihe
mouth and suffering from the hard
times blues ought to get in touch
with the Farmers’ Exchange here
and get cheered up. The Brooks
County Union has on foot plans to
build a syrup refinery here aud
have it ready for operation before
next spring in order to handle this
season’s crop. They will also ar
range a bonded warehouse for stor
age and will be able to advance the
farmers money on their syrup and
other products.
The Brooks County Union is also
considering the building of a grain
elevator smilar to the one in Dub
lin. They had a big order for corn
this week and due to the fact that
it could not be obtained here in
form suitable for marketing the
order could not be filled. The ex
change also had an order from St.
Paul, Minn., for 3,000 Brooks hams
at 30 cents, and 800 chickens from
one point and a carload from an
other. The Brooks County Poultry
Association is getting busy to
raise the chickens for this market.
The exchange is also selling farm
cured meats in large lots to points
in Florida. They are beginning a
campaign to educate the farmers
in getting their produce on the
market in an attractive form and
to advertise it.
Here is interesting information
aud light on a series of problems
that have caused much perplexity.
It is important to get the full
import of the Brooks county pro
gram. First of all, Brooks county
farmers have a union and a mark
eting exchange. Having hams and
other farm cured meats, syrup,
chickens, etc. to sell, they have
gone about selling them intelli
gently. By putting a salesman on
the road, they were able to sell 20,
000 gallons of their excellent syrup
at 40 cents a gallon, whereas farm
ers in other South Georgia counties
were glad to get 20 to 30 cents a
gallon for theirs.
And tkink of shipping 3,000
Brooks county hams to a Minneso
ta customer, and getting 30 ceuts a
pound for them. And of develop
ing a market in Florida for farm
cured bacon. And of shipping
chickens in carload lots.
And these things are possible be
cause the farmers of Brooks couii
ty have perfected a selling organiz
ation. They are not afraid to
spend a little money in seeking
and developing markets. Instead
of assuming that their case was
hopeless and that the prices offer
ed in their home market were the
best they could hope to obtain,
they went forth in search of new
$?1.50 A YEAR
V
Madame Grundy’s Proverbs
I. It’s a pity that wisdom does
not grow on a man like whiskers.
11. Love may be blind but most,
loving is done in the dark.
111. Even lazy people are per
fectly willing to acquire corns in
their hands from handling hard
cash.
IV. Good times may be ahead,
but if so they are so far ahead that
overtaking them seems hopeless.
V. Our lady friend says she
dislikes the dictionary because it
spells words so differenly from
what she does.
VI. The average school teacher
has to take a vow of poverty now
adays before going into her voca
tion. The salary is like some of
the children —a case of arrested
development.
VII. If tombstone epitaphs were
reliable, Satan would be out of a
job.
VIII. Never judge a man by
the silk umbrella he carries—bo
may have left a cotton one some
where in its place.
IX. The only certainties of life
are death, disappointment and
taxes.
X. It’s a lot easier for a child
to inherit red hair than brains.
XL No, sister, not all men who
wear boots are bootleggers.
XII. A fool and his money arc
soon spotted.
The Coffee county Board of Edu
cation has unanimously decided to
retain the services of Miss Maureen
Hammond as demonstration agent
in Domestic Science.
customers and seems bad no diffi
culty in finding them.
If the farmers of any county will
put their syrup into attractive bot
tles or cans of convenient size; tbeir
hams into clean and sanitary can
vasses; their lard into neat new
tubs or cans; their grain into clean
sacks and their hay into well pack
ed bales —in short, if they will
make whatever they have to sell
appeal to the eye of the prospect
ive buyer, there will be far more
likelihood of its having a chance
to a p peal to an appreciative
stomach.
Aud what is being done in Brooks
county cau be done by the farmers
of this whole section of Georgia.
For the problem of our fanners
is no longer that of raising stuff
but of selling it. The boll weevil
has forced them to turn to other
crops than cotton as a means of
making farming pay, aud food pro
duction in this state is increasing
at a remarkable rate.
This is as it should be, and as it
should have been long before the
boll weevil forced radical changes
in the agricultural system of the
section.
But now that South Georgia is
producing large and valuable food
crops, the importance—yea, the
veritable necessity—of perfecting
a marketing system that will safe
guard the farmers against market
ing disasters is increasingly appar
ent.
And it can be done. Brooks
county is proving it. There is no
reason why effective marketing
and market-developing organiza
tions cannot be formed in every
South Georgia county, and why
these county organizations cannot
co operate through a central agency
or bureau of their own.
This is what the peculiar prob
lems of the times demand.
These are things we must come
to.
Why delay? For even larger food
crops will be raised in South Geor
gia next year, and farmers, as well
as those who are directly interest
ed iu fanners’ problems, should see
to it that the machinery is in readi
ness for operation before the crops
of 1922 are ready for market.
