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PEARSONBTRiBUNE
VOL. 7-NO. 07
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Mrs. B. H. Tanner has moved
from Tales to make her permanent
home in Douglas, and is tempora
rily abiding at the home of Mr. M.
F. Brice.
The Douglas Enterprise has been
named the official paper of Coffee
county. The Coffee County Prog
ress retains the business of the
city of Douglas.
Messrs. Haskell Purdom and
Spencer Dickerson, of llomorville.
was over in Blackshear a few days
since making goo-goo eyes at some
of the fair sex of that city.
Judge Sherod Burkhalter held
the January Term of Clinch Coun
ty Court at the proper time and
place. It is stated the term was
so short it diden’t give his honor
an opportunity of lengthening out
his girth.
The death of Rev. L. A. llill,
former Methodist pastor at Doug
las, which occurred January sec
oud in Savannah, has cast a halo
of sadness wherever he was known
in South Georgia. He was a most
lovable character.
Messrs. Will Turner and Frank
Kirkland, of Douglas, have gone to
Florida to visit relatives and catch
a breathing spell. The latter young
gentleman is a sou of Mr. and Mrs.
“Yad” Kirkland who formerly
lived at Kirkland, Ga.
Mr. Hateley Quincey, eldest son
ofJudgeJ. W. Quincey, has sue
cessfully passed the bar examina
lion aud has joined his father in
the practice of law at Douglas.
The Tribune congratulates the
young gentleman upon his success.
Rev. John E. Deen has moved
back from Midland City, Ala., and
he and his family is now at home
at 43 Seaman street, Wayeross.Ga.
It is probable he will do missioua
ry w’ork for his (Congregational)
denomination in Southeast Georgia.
Miss Mary Crosby, daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Tilden Crosby, form
erly of Pearson but now Millwood,
was married December 26th to Mr.
L. B. Barlow. Rev. .1. E. Solomon
officiated. The young couple are
highly regarded at Millwood where
they will make their home.
Mr. R. Glenn Dickerson, Jr., af
ter spending the holidays with his
parents, relatives and friends at
Homerville. has returned to Val
dosta where he is engaged in the
practice of law. Glenn can't help
hankering after the good things of
Homerville aud Clinch county.
The Tribune doesn’t biame him.
Col. H. C. Morgan has been
elected mayor of Homerville. He
will assist councilmen .1. T. Dame.
S. A. Sweat, W. V. Musgrove and
J. F. Barnhill in making Homer
ville the equal of any little city in
South Georgia. Mrs. Warren R.
Dickersou Is the Homerville Dis
trict School Trustee.
Col. Rufus A. Moore has sue
eeeded Col. R. J. Cornelius as at,tor
ney for the city of Donglas. Rufus
is an Atkinson county boy who
traveled much and had many and
varied experiences before settling
down to the practice of law in the
city of Douglas. He will make a
very satisfactory official.
Mr. Z. C. Tillman, of Fargo, Ga.,
was in Pearson during the holidays.
He has a nice home here and the
Tribune would be pleared to have
him and bis excellent family return
to their home here. But Zeb was
reared at a saw mill aud wouldn’t
be himself at all if he couldn't hear
the buzz of a saw- making lumber.
Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and
pain killer, for infected sores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu
matism, 28-43
Appeals to Cotton Farmers.
Atlanta, Jan. 7. —Gov. Hard
wick, Friday, placed into the hands
of the Georgia Cotton Growers Co
operative Association for distribu
tion a letter to the public, contain
ing one of the most ringing in
dorsements of the co-operative
marketing movement for cotton,
now being fostered by the associa
tion in this state, which has yet
been published, stating, among
other things, that he has become
convinced that our only hope for
stabilized markets and profitable
prices for the farmers of the state
lies iu co-operative marketing as
sociations for cotton. He not only
urges “every farmer who expects
to grow a bale of cotton iu 1922 to
sign the contract,” but states that
he believes it “to be the plain duly
of every citizen who loves Georgia
and the south to put his shoulder
to the wheel in this great move
ment.” The Governor’s letter
follows:
TO THE PUBLIC:
We are now passing through
strenuous days in the economic re
construction of our land.
Many changes are taking place
in our industrial, commercial and
agricultural life.
Our country must get down to
real business aud learn how to save
and make.
Many wasteful methods in all
lines of activity in our past ipust
be eliminated.
I wish to call attention to the
fact that the State of Georgia in
the main is almost wholly an agri
cultural state.
It is true our stale has many re
sources other than farming, but it
must be borne in mind that our
timber reserves are pretty well
used up. aud the plow' is now tak
ing the plaee of the forest.
Our mining is limited and our
manufacturing is small. Our
main resource is agriculture.
Then let us give our best efforts
to making a prosperous agriculture
for the State of Georgia. Let us
do our best in production, and let
us exercise the utmost care in the
matter of marketing
One of Georgia’s greatest bene
factors is the man, or group of men,
who produces Tan article that the
whole world needs and iriusi have;
and 1 know of no man, or set of
men, who reaches to the remotest
parts of the earih as the cotton
farmer does.
The cotton farrnei touches every
quarter of ihe civilized world, but
at i hat the col ton farmer has never
had a voice in determining the
value of this most universally need
ed and universally used article,
and it is on this subject that 1
wish to talk to the citizens of the
State of Georgia, and to the farm
ers in particular.
The question of getting the
right price, and a profitable price,
forcotlon to the farmers of our
state, as well as the citizens of our
commonwealth, is not an individu
al problem, and it cannot be solved
by the individual marketing system
Individual selling of cotton only
allows speculation and gambling to
creep in, and demoralizes our
markets and our prices.
I have studied the question from
many angles, and I have become
thoroughly convinced that our
only hope for a stabalized market
and a profitable price for the farm
ers and citizens of our state lies in
co-operative marketing associations
for cotton.
It is true that we may not pro
duce so much cotton in the future
as we have in ibe past, but the
ravages of the boll weevil and the
uncertainty of gambling and spec
ulating in cotton make it doubly
important and necessary that the
farmers have a stabilized market
and a fair price. I wish, therefore,
to cali attention to ibe movement,
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. JANUARY 13, 1922
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Human life is entirely too cheap.
One hardly reads a daily paper
without seeing an account of the
killing of some innocent man who
is in the way of a bandit’s getting
what he wants. With pardons so
easy to get in Georgia, there is
little room for surprise that crime
is rampant in this state. —Ocilla
Star.
One day this week the Thomas
ville post office deposited SBOO
that had been taken in from late
iu the afternoon of the day before
until the middle of the morning
hours, and at closing time that
afternoon had taken in a little over
S7OO more. As John Spencer
would say that means whatever it
means, regardless of all this hard
times and poor business talk. —
Thomasville Press.
With the beginning of the new
year we people here can make 1922
what ever we wish to locally. If
we take a new hitch in our belt,
get down to business and quit so
much grumbling about “hard
times,” there will be less time to
think about these things. “Hard
times” are more a state of mind
that anything else. There is as
much money in the country as
ever, we people down here have all
we know what to do with in the
way of something to eat, and so
what more could we ask! Let’s
put out a little honest effort and
stop grumbling. —Coffee County
Progress.
There is a movement on foot to
float a bond issue of $75,000,000
for the purpose of building good
roads in Georgia, this amount to
be underwritten by the state auto
mobile tax. Frankly we believe
that this is the sensible thing to
do. The tax money from automo
bile license coming in as it does in
small amounts will not amount to
a great deal in the building of
good roads. With the money in a
lump sum it will accomplish a
great deal if it is expended judici
ously. We are eventually going
to spend the money, so why not
spend it in the manner that it will
accomplish the most good.—Nash
ville I lerald.
Farmers in an area in Pennsyl
vauia—named, it will be remem
bered as Penn’s "Woodland” —arc
beginning a brand new industry,
'they are planting and planning to
plant orchards of Christmas t rees,
to grow the trees suitable for such
purpose for commercial supply. If
they will only—without the graft
ing process —arrange to have the
trees to come to full fruitage an
nually just at the right time and
can sell the trees at a reasonable
price the success of the venture is
assured. Hail to the cultivated
Christmas tree forestry.—. Sava
nnah News.
in Georgia and in the South, to
form the Cotton Growers’ Co-oper
ative Associations
-1 believe it is the right move in
the right direction, and I further
believe it to be plain duty of every
citizen who loves Georgia and the
South to put his shoulder to the
wheel aud help in this great move
ment that will restore the buying
power of the farmers, and bring
prosperity to our state.
lam acquainted with the per
sonnel of the men behind this
movement, and know them to be
of the highest type citizens of the
slate.
I want to admonish every farm
er who expects to grow a bale of
cotton in 1922 to study this associ
ation and movement carefully, and
when he has made up his mind, as
I have, to then sign the contract
and put Georgia in the proper light
with the other Southern states in
the movement to get a fair price
for our principal product.
(Signed; Thomas W. Hardwick.
January 6, 1922. Governor.”
Money Lent in Georgia.
Washington, I>. C., January 9.
—The report of the Federal Farm
Loan Board published today shows
that from the organization of ihc
board until October 31, 1921, it
had loaned in Georgia $6,317,000 to
2,10') borrowers on 430,347 acres of
land appraised with improvements
at $ i 5,886,000.
Florida, for the same period
$3,554,000 to 2,009 borrowers on
265,557 acres of land appraised at
$8,799,000.
The Better Plan.
From The Atlanta Constitution.
The New Year farming plan in
Georgia will be one of greater di
versification.
That, is the word which comes
from practically every farming sec
tion, and if it is adhered to, the
farmer will be on the winning side
at last.
Speaking for southwest Georgia,
The Albany (Ga.) Herald says —
“In the light of an experience
that has been costly, the conserva
tive and level-headed farmer down
here in South Georgia, where so
many different crops inaj be suc
cessfully produced, is learning the
unwisdom of putting all bis eggs
into one basket, In other words,
he is beginning to diversify. It
may be all right to plant some cot
ton, some peanuts, some potatoes,
some corn and some watermelons,
but one takes great risk when he
puts his all into either oneof these
crops. The one crop farmer may
make a lucky strike now and then,
but the one who diversifies and
gives first consideration for food
crops for man and beast is the one
who accumulates something every
year and keeps out of debt.”
That’s the way to beat the boll
weevil —with home supply crops
that keep money coming in the
year round. And it is the only
safe and certain way.
The “lucky strikes" made by the
one crop farmer are so few and far
between, they make but a poor
showing iu the general summing
up.
That is what the Georgia farmer
has come to realize, and that is
why greater home supplies of the
ever-dependable crops, will be
grown another year.
Giving to Those Who Have.
From the Moultrie Observer.
You have marvelled at the
scripture which says that to those
who have, much shall be given,
and those who have little it shall
be taken away. It is a law of bus
iness that operates before us every
day.
Opportunity is bunting the man
who has money and property aud
education. It is running from the
poor man —the man who generally
spends more than lie makes.
We are being told that millions
of dollars have been make speculat
ing iu liberty bonds. It was no
speculation at all. Bonds were
sold broadcast during the war, and
millions of them were bought by
men of small means for patriotic
reasons, and through pressure.
The. bonds were rushed on the
market by those who did not care
to save. They were bought far be
low par by those who had money
to spare. When the small fish dis
posed of all of their bond holdings
they were no longer rushed on the
market. The bonds had found
comfortable berths in bank vaults.
Those who owned them knew and
appreciated their value. They
would not sell for less than par,
hence the price of bonds advanced.
The present holders of bonds have
made billions. They had the mon
ey and the faith in the bonds and
they won. The small fry lacked
the capital and the faith and they
sold. They lost billions of dollars.
The billions were taken from
those who had not aud were given
to those who already possessed
great wealth. Who is to blame?
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Lanier superior court is in ses
sion this week with a heavy dock
et. Cook superior court will con
vene next week for a two weeks
term.
A. I\ Sexton, the missing plant
grower of Valdosta, has been locat
ed in a hospital at Hot Springs,
Ark., according to a telegram re
ceived by his wife at Roystou, Ga.
With eight thousand acres or
more of watermelons contracted to
be grown and marketed through
the Southwest Georgia Melon
Growers Association, what will the
result of the harvest be?
Valdosta parties have closed a
deal with the Putnam Lumber
Company for 250,000 acres of tur
pontine timber in Dixie county,
Florida, said to be the largest body
of turpentine timber in that State.
The Jenkins Lumber Company’s
plant near Moultrie, including a
saw mill, three dry kilns and sever
al thousand feet of lumber, was
destroyed by fire one day last week.
The lost is estimated at $30,000
with $12,000 insurance.
The Bank of Scotland, located
at Scotland in Telfair county, has
just held its annual stockholders
meeting. It has had a successful
year. The stockholders voted an
8 per cent, annual divdend and
passed a satisfactory amount to
surplus fund.
At the hearing before the Port,
Harbor and Terminal Commission
—Savannah, Brunswick and St.
Marys being represented—no de
eision was reached. The hearing
was in Atlanta on Wednesday of
last week. The decision may be
ind eiiuitely postponed.
For the purpose of putting in
force the commission form of gov
eminent the City Council of Quit
man is holding over and has called
an election to be held January
30th for three commissioners to
organize the new city government
anil serve the city under the new
law.
Coffee county has done the pro
per thing in retaining the services
of both her farm demonstration
agent and homo economics demon
stration agent. The Tribune hopes
the time will soon arrive when At
kinson county officials will see
their way clear to have similar
servan ts.
Representative John. G. Valen
tino, of Chatham county, will seek
at the next session of the legisla
ture to change the present law re
lative to the eligibility of persons
being sworn in as deputy sheriff.
His change will require at least
twelve months residence before be
ing eligible.
The Jesup Bank case is on trial
this week in Brunswick. The in
dictments are against H. C. Dick
erson, formerly cashier of the Odum
Banking Company, charged with
embezzling $23,000 of the bank’s
funds and absconding, and of mak
ing false entries in the depositors’
ledger. Clyde Carter, son of L.
Carter, is indicted under practical
ly the same charges. Others in
dicted are L. Carter, former presi
dent of both the Jesup Banking
Company and Odum Banking
Company, and W. H. Tyson, form
er vice-president of Odum Banking
Company and cashier of the Jesup
Banking Company. The cases have
been transferred from Wayne to
Glynn county. The attorneys en
gaged in the case are Solicitor Al
vin Sellers, of Baxley, and Col. J.
R. Thomas, of Jesup for the prose
cution, Hon. John W. Bennett, of
Waycross, W. B. Gibbs, of Jesup,
and Frank M. Scarlett, of Bruns
wick, for the defense. The trial
wilj be quite a lengthy one.
*1.50 A YEAR
The Game of Life.
From the Quitman Free I’ree.s.
Somebody said that life is not
so much in playing a good hand as
in playing a poor one well, says
the Columbus Enquirer Sun.
If life is a game, and some so re
gard it, there is much in what this
person said. Give one a good hand
aud even though he may not be an
expert, he will be able to get by.
But the good hands are not often
dealt; only once in a while does
one find that he holds a winning
hand against his opponent.
Therefore it is all the more nec
essary for one who holds a poor
hand to play it well. This can only
be done by one who is careful, by
one who is observant, by one who
lets no opportunity pass without,
availing himself of the advantages
of it. The man with the poor
hand, if he will play it well —if ho
will play it as it should be played
—may be able to win from the man
who holds the better one.
Do you play the game? That is
the question. Don’t concern your
self with what the other fellow is
doing, unless it should be that he
is playing against you, but look
after your own hand. What the
other fellow docs is not of impor
tance to you; what you w'aut to do
is succeed yourself. If the other
fellow succeeds, well and good; but
your success does not depend upon
his; yours depends upon your in
dividual efforts; especially if you
hold the poor hand in the game.
And you can succeed by sticking
to it; watching the game as you
should watch it; you must keep
your mind on what you are doing;
you can’t divide your attention
with something else; if you do you
will lose. And that is what you
want to avoid.
Life isn’t so much in holding a
good hand, but in playing the hand
you happen to hold.
Grady on the Situation.
(Farm and llanch.)
Every day these times is a fit
ting day for repeating these words
of Henry \V. Grady:
“When every farmer in the
South shall eat bread from liis own
fields and meat from his own pas
tures, and, disturbed by no credit
ors and enslaved by no debt, shall
sit among his teeming gardens and
orchards and vineyards and his
dairies and barnyards, pitching
his crops in his own wisdom and
growing them iu independence,
making cotton his clean surplus,
and selling it iu his own time iu
his chosen market and not at a
master’s bidding, getting his pay
in cash and not in a receipted
mortgage that discharges his debt
but does not restore his freedom
—then shall be breaking the full
ness of our day.”
Henry W. Grady saw the Sooth’s
problem with unfailing clearness
and expressed it in winged words.
The South must work toward the
goal of complete independence, for
States, for every farm. Its com
plete realization is, of course, Uto
pian, but the nearer we come to it
the better will lie our lot.
Change in G. & F. Schedule.
On and after December 26th wo
will discontinue running trains 43,
44, 14 and 15 between Keysville
and Tennille. Effective January
Ist, we will operate trains 2 and 3
between Tennille and Augusta —
DAILY —instead of Daily except
Sunday. Effective January Ist wo
will discontinue trains 9 and 10
now being operated between Pend
leton and Millen. We will contin
ue to operate trains 8 and 11 be
tween Vidalia and Millen. Effect
ive January Ist we will discontinue
trains 6 and 7 between Hazleburst
and Vidaiia. Yours truly,
D. F. Kirkpatrick,
General Passenger Agen(,