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PEARSON ®TRiBUNE
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NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
Tbe Campbell Lumber Company,
of Mobile, Ala., has purchased the
cypress timber on 2,500 acres of
land in Echols county, paying
$12,000 therefor.
The swine growers of Brooks
county are selling their fat hogs
on their feet in preference to tak
ing tbe risk of curing and making
bacon of it to be sold at present
prices. Hogs are being shipped
front there at the rate of six to
eight car loads a week.
it is expected that the February
Term of Candler county will be
held in the county’s new court
house. But, my. haven't those
Candler people had a '‘monkey
and eat” time building that court
house! Guess Editor Camp can
now breathe a sigh of relief.
As a result of the recent Colquitt
superior court the chain gang of
the county lias been increased
fifteen members. Judge \Y. E.
Thomas, who presides in that,
court, is handing out some straight
chain gang sentence's to the moon
shiners and unlawful pistol toters.
The Brooks County Fair Asxo
ciation and The Brooks County
Farmer’s Union will join the Quit
man C i t y Commissioners and
Board of Trade in entertaining the
1922 convention of the Georgia
Press Association which will meet
in that city in July. They expect
to make the welcome of city and
county the most cordial if possible
tht‘ editors have ever known.
The stockholders of the ('it i/.en's
Bank of Ociila, has been assessed
100 per cent, on their stock, pay
able in-thirty days. The money
thus raised will be used to pay oIT
the banks indebtedness. This is
in compliance with the law, and
the stockholders will have to pay.
It is tough luck on them but they
will have to “grin and endure" it
with the best grace possible.
Dawson now has a creamery,
the third to be established in
South Geoogia, the order being
Moultrie, Ashburn and Dawson.
Other points are considering the
ad visibility of establishing cream
cries. It takes great quantities of
sour cream to ensure profitable
operation and then- should be no
infringement of territory. The in
dustry might collapse as did the
meat packing houses.
The first session of the County
Court for Lanier county issebedul
ed to convene on the fourth Mon
day in February, and monthly
thereafter ou the fourth Monday.
J. Floyd Fender, of Stockton, will
be the Judge: he has had years of
experience as Justice of the Peace.
Attorney Ben Smith is the solici
tor. Tbe superior court has hand
ed down seventy five or eighty
eases from its criminal docket, and
the court will have a busy time.
Canning syrup and putting it in
merchantable shape for tbe South
west Georgia Syrup Association
will commence as soon as the cans
and special labels arrive, perhaps
next week. The cannery is in
charge of O. K. JelKs and son, and
they have already received four
car loads of syrup from Grady and
Thomas counties. It would be a
good idea if all South Georgia syrup
could be put on the market bear
ing the same label, or trade mark.
The commercial bodies of Bruu
swick are on their mettle over the
proposed discontinuance of pas
senger trains Nos, 96 and 97. be
ween Brunswick and Wayeross,
leaving but one passenger train a
day. each way between these
points. Tbe patrons of the road
between these points have enjoyr-d
a double daily service for thirty
five or forty years, and will fight
its discontinuance to the bitter
end. The service proposed would
be decidedly inconvenient.
Georgia’s Mineral Industry.
Georgia, which ranks twentieth
among the states in size (land area
58,725 square miles) and twelfth in
population (2,895,832 in 1920),
ranked thirty-seventh in value of
mineral products for the year 1919.
The state ranked thirty-fifth in the
total number of persons engaged in
the mining industries and in the
average number of wage earners
employed.
The total value of products of
all mines and quarries in Georgia
in 1919 was $4,082,152, an increase
of 42 per cent over the correspond
ing value at the census of 1909.
Decline of mining industries in
Georgia is indicated by the de
creases in the number of euterpris
es, mines and quarries operated,
persons engaged in the industries
and in capital invested, as shown
by Table 1. The increases in wages,
cost of supplies and materials, fuel
and power, and in the value of
products are due to general price
increases, and the impost of Feder
al income and excess profits taxes
since 1909 accounts for the large
increase in taxesshown.
The industries reported for 1919,
ranked according to value of pro
ducts, were the mining or quarry
ing of granite, barytes, clay, baux
ite, iron ore, marble, pyrite, coal,
limestone, feldspar, talc and soap
stone, mineral pigments, fuller's
earth, mica, asbestos, and gold ore.
In additiou to producing the ma
terials as indicated by the industry
designation, two enterprises classifi
ed as barytes also produced mineral
pigments and one enterprise class
ified as mineral pigments produced
a small amount of manganese. The
value of these byproducts and
other unspecified mineral products
and the sums received for power
sold and for work or miscellaneous
services for other enterprises
amounted to $31,621, which is in
cluded in the total value of pro
ducts given above. The mining
industries which can be shown
without disclosure of individual
operations are ranked by value of
products in Table 2.
Tbe leading mineral industry,
granite, reported products valued
at $885,663, which was 21.7 per
cent of the total value of mineral
products of the state. Next in im
poriance was barytes mining in
Bartow county, where products to
the value of $722,891 were produc
ed in 1919. This amount was 17 7
per cent of the total value of min
oral products for that year in Geor
gia and was the largest amount by
any slate. 45.4 per cent of the total
value reported for the Doited
States ($1,592,245).
An unimportant amount of do
veloped work was reported for 1919
ori nonproductive gold mining
property.
The preponderance of the cor
porate form of organization among
the operators of mining enterprises
is shown in Table 3. Corporations
conducted 70.3 per cent of all tbe
mining enterprises in the state in
1919, employed 84.2 per cent of the
average number of wage earners,
and reported 84.4 per cent of the
total value of products.
The relatively large number of
small enterprises as determined by
the number of wage earners era
ployed is shown in Table 4. Of
the total number of enterprises in
the state, 94.6 per cent were re
po/ted as having less than 101
wage earners and these enterprises
employed 76.8 per cent of the total
number of wage earners. Only
four enterprises, or 5.4 per cent of
the total number, bad more than
100 wage earners each, and these
employed 23.2 percent of the total
number of wage earners.
Table 5 shows that in about 40
per cent of the enterprises and for
nearly half of the w’age earners in
all tbe mining industries in the
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1922
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of interest.
Hon. Leon A. Wilson of Way
cross, tbejTribtiue learns, continues
seriously ill. His troubles is dis
ease of the kidneys, and his friends
entertain no hope of his recovery.
11 is life is written on every page
of the history of Wayeross, and he
has stood for all that was best in
her progress and prosperity. The
Tribune hopes he may be spared
to Wayeross yet many years.
Editor Iviley, of the Hoboken
News, proves himself a globe-trot,
ter and intimates he did all his
trotting on his printer’s rule —a
type-high steel slat the length of
the width of a column, used to
facilitate the setting of type. The
printer carries this “rule” in his
pocket and to him it once meant
a free pass to almost any divertis
sement that came his way. It was
a secret he never divulged to his
most intimate associate. But those
days are gone, Bro. Riley.
Mr. Claud F. Hanlon, an ex peri
enced newspaper man and a son of
the veteran James W. Hanlon,
now deceased, has taken over the
"Lanier County News,” and prom
ises the people of that splendid
new county to give them just as
good paper as their patronage will
warrant. Mr. Hanlon was raised
in a newspaper office and is compe
tent to comply with his promises.
The Tribune wishes him a fine
patronage which alone brings sue
cess.
Dr. Win. M. Folks, skillful sur
geon at Wayeross, lias been elect
ed a F'eliow in the American Col
lege of Surgeons and his induction
will be in July at Boston, Mass.
Dr. Folks is from an illustrious
family of physicians and surgeons.
His grandfather, Dr. Win. B.
Folks, was highly esteemed as a
physician and surgeon in the early
days of Wayeross and enjoyed a
large practice there and in the
surrounding country. His father,
Dr. Frank C. Folks, has now the
highest confidence of his fellow
citizens at Wayeross as a physician
and surgeon. Dr. Folks will honor
his unsought title.
Editor Henry M. Mclntosh, of
the Albany Herald, has just celc
brated his seventieth birthday, is
hale and hearty, and gives promise
of many years service yet to the
people of Southwest Georgia. He
has the distinction of having been
in the newspaper business contin
uously for fifty years and being
the oldest editor in years and
point of service in Georgia. The
Tribune editor has known Mack
all these years; he is one of God’s
noblemen and deserves all the
good things coming his way. He
has loved Southwest Georgia with
an ardor unsurpassed by any of
her sous; he has refused many flat
tering inducements to go elsewhere
preferring to serve the people he
knew and loved. He declined a
seat in congress from tbe Second
district, could have been elected
with practically no opposition, but
he preferred Albany and his chosen
profession of journalism.
state in 1919, the hours of labor
were 44 to 53 per week. In a larger
number of enterprises, but for a
slightly smaller portion of the
total number of wage earners, tbe
hours per week were between 54
to 62.
The statistics for wage earners
presented in Table 6, showing tbe
changes in the number employed
month by month, reflect conditions
prevailing in the industries during
the census year.
Table 7 presents for 1919 statis
tics in detail for the state as a
whole and for each industry that
can be shown without the disdos
ure of individual operations.
Is the Negro a Beast?
Ever and anon this question is
discussed in the public prints and
otherwise. An oral discussion of
the question took place recently
between two white men. The Tri
bune gives below the negative ar
gument produced in brief. The
affirmative speaker was named
Waddell.
“The gentleman’s guess that God
burned up Sodom and destroyed
the world by a flood and that Five
consorted with a negro and all oth
or such guesses were presented
without proof except he guessed
that ‘strange flesh’ means negro
flesh. Since he guessed at this I
guess he is mistaken and my guess
is as good as his. This answers all
he said and 1 will present the fol
lowing negative arguments:
“1. There are negro nations and
mixed blood nations. Waddell
concedes tills and the Bible teach
es it. Acts 17:26, “God hath made
of one flesh all nations.’ Scientific
tests show that negro blood is ex
actly the same as white men’s
blood. Any medical college will
tell you so. Thus science and the
Bible refute thejnegro a beast the
ory.
“2. God commands His church
to ‘go teach all nations’ (Matt. 28:
19 20). If we obey this command
wc carry the gospel to the negro
nations, if they are subjects of
Gospel address they cannot be
beasts.
“3. The Ethiopians were mixed
bloods and negroes. Acts 8:29
tells us that Philip preached to
the Ethiopian and that the man of
negro blood was saved and bap
tized. This proves he was not a
beast.
"4. The word ‘Adam’ means ‘red
earth.’ Thus the very word ’Adam’
shows Adam was not a white man.
He was about the color of our
American Indians.
“5. Solomon was a black Jew.
Song of Solomon, 1:5-6. Negro
blood in his veins, according to
Waddell. But he was in the gene
alogical line that brought Jesus
into tiie world, See Matthew, Ist
chapter.
“6. How do we account for the
origin of the negro? lam under
no obligation to show the origin of
the negro. My honorable oppo
nent should do that and not con
tent himself with guessing that he
is a beast, lit* should prove the
negro is a beast or acknowledge he
is defeated. But since he will not
nor can account for the origin of
the negro I will cite him to Gen. 9:
28, where a eurse was placed upon
Ham’s descendants because of
Ham’s sin. This eurse consisted in
the fiat that Ham’s descendants
must be servants to his brethren,
and since Ham settled in the Fltbi
opian region and there we find the
negro and the negro having always
occupied a subordinate position,
the position of a servant, it is a rea
sonable conclusion that the negro
came from Ham and his black skin
and kinky hair are the marks of
the eurse placed upon him. Be
sides the word ‘Ham’ means black.
“The negro is therefore a human
being with a soul to save and a
judgment to meet and he should
be treated as a human being and
given the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
and the blood of Jesus will not on
ly save his soul but in the resur
rection will lift the curse and the
negro will be in glory the same as
we. But since the curse of God
demands that he must occupy the
place of a servant, let us keep the
negro where he belongs and not
equalize ourselves with him. He
is not our equal but he is a human
being and God’s grace can lift him
up to glory.”—B. M. Bogard.
666 is a prescription for Colds
Fever and LaGrippe. It’s the
most speedy remedy we know-
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
There are some people who sit
around with their hands folded
waiting for opportunity to present
itself. You never have heard a
cow, out in an open field, back up
to a man to be milked, who was
sitting ou a stump.—Greensboro
Herald.
They keep telling us that better
times are on the way. We believe
it. True, we may have to curtail
our expenses for a while longer,
but better times are on the way.
Tbe tide changed .soon after Janu
ary Ist. Now let’s help by start
ing something that will put money
into circulation even though it be
a little. If you need something
buy it. If you need a house build
it. —-Ociila Star.
With the different organizations
for the marketing of crops, with
the greatly increased diversifica
tion, and with the more advanced
methods employed in the growing
of crops, we expect to sec Cook
county prosper this year. We have
no sort of idea that 1922 is going
to be a worse year than we have
experienced as some of the pessim
ists say. We have every reason to
believe that times are going to be
better when the truck, the water
melons, ete., begin to move and
again when the cotton and peanuts
are marketed. —Adel News.
It is a matter of report that in
sections where farmers are burden
ed with a surplus of unsalable corn
they are translating it into moon
shine whisky, for which there is
always a good market, and with
the proceeds are accumulating
funds with which to meet interest
payments and taxes. If interests
and taxes are not paid it is good
bye to the farm. Self-preservation
has long been recognized as the
first law of nature. There will be
a difference of opinion, of course,
as to the morality of such a meas
ure born of desperate needs. What
would you do? —Dawson News.
Georgia and this section of the
State will have a small sprinkling
of politics this year. Already the
prospective candidates are feeling
the pulse of the voters by giving
the glad smile, the hearty hand
shake and anxiously inquiring
about the health of the family. It
won’t be long before they will be
kissing the babies, and sitting on
the fences at the end of the rows
where the farmers drive out to talk
over the affairs of government with
them, ft will be a good thing for
our county and state, it will help
divert the attention of the people
from “hard times” talk, which
never does any good or gets any
body anything. —Worth County
Local.
The general indication is that
the tobacco acreage will be increas
ed about twenty-five per cent, in
this county. At least that is the
estimate placed on the situation
by a man here wito ought to know
what he is talking about. We
frankly hope that the farmers here
will keep up their efforts at grow
ing tobacco. We feel quite sure
that once they have mastered the
culture and curing of tobacco they
will find a greater profit in growing
it than any other money crop. The
soil here is ideally adapted to the
growing of tobacco, so tobacco men
from the Carolinas say. We Itave
the warehouses and the markets
already established and if this
year’s crop is made economically,
wc believe that it will show a profit
when it is marketed. —Nashville
Herald.
Rub-My-Tism, antiseptic and
pain killer, for infected sores,
tetter, sprains, neuralgia, rheu
matism. 28-43
$1.50 A YEAR
No More Creameries at Present
From the Ociila Star.
Just now there seems to be dan
ger that too many communities
may put in creameries. There
could hardly be too many if there
were enough cattle in the country
to supply them, but the few cream
eries we have in the state are fur
nishing a market for ail the cream
that is being produced.
The Star believes that there are
great possibilities in supplying
cream to these butter factories aud
wants to see the industry develop
ed. But if creameries are put in
faster than the supply of cows is
increased, failure of the whole in
dustry will result, and failure will
again be written of an industry
that ought to have succeeded.
There is no talk of a creamery
for Ociila and the Star hopes that
no one will for the present, at
least, suggest one.
What we do want to see, how
ever, is every farmer with from
four to ten cows selling cream to
the creameries already established.
From accounts reaching us, a farm
er can expect to realize from eight
to ten dollars per cow per month
in real hard cash.
Is there a man in Irwin who
owns five milk cows or who could
get that number, who would not
find S4O to SSO per month, very
acceptable to his income?
Farmers can not sell surplus
corn, velvet beans, hay, etc., at a
profit. Turn these products into
cream and a check can be realized
every month. The skim milk with
which to feed pigs and hens can
be further turned into a nice profit.
But let’s not think of adding to
the possibilities of causing the
whole thing to fail by encouraging
the building of another creamery
anywhere in South Georgia till
those at Ashburn and Moultrie
can not work up all the cream that
is for sale.
Pope Benedict XV, head of the
Catholic church, died Sunday,
January 22d, after a few days ill
ness of pneumonia. He was a man
of learning, piety, and influence
world-wide in its scope. The con
clave of Cardinals met yesterday
in Rome, Italy, to choose his suc
cessor.
Change in G. & F. Schedule.
On and after February Ist., we
will discontinue running trains 6
and 7 between Valdosta and Madi
son and no tickets should be sold
that will be presented for passage
later than January 31st.
On and after February Ist, 6 and
7 will operate on same schedule as
at present between llazlehurst aud
Valdosta only.
Trains Nos. 90 and 91 operating
daily except Sunday will handle
passengers on its present schedule.
Yours very truly,
R. C. Hicks,
Traffic Manager.
What Do You Give the Lord?
A man should give to the Lord’s
cause whatever amount he can
give, without giving grudgingly.
The Jews paid a tenth.
Zacheus proposed to give half.
The Saints at Jerusalem gave all.
I do not believe in the Law of
Tithing—but I do believe in the
“practice” of tithing. The Lord
doesn’t require us to keep Sunday
as a sabbath day, but I never knew
a man to work on Sunday without
losing by it. It’s nothing but right
that we should divide our time
and our money with the Lord aud
a man is a scallawag that claims
to be a Christian and won’t doit.
We should have system in ever
ything we do. Unless we set apart
a definite part of our time and a
definite part of our money, we
have no system. One day out of
each week and one dime out of
each dollar is not too much to give.
—Elder J. L. Brown,
