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PEARSON©TRIBUNE
VOL. 7—NO. 47
NEW LAW FIRM FOR PEARSON
With Office in Pearson, Homer
ville and Milltown.
The name of the new law firm is
“Dickerson, Divers & Penland,”
composed of Cols. W. T. Dickerson,
E. D. Divers and D. M. Penland.
They will have offices in Pearson,
Homerville ann Milltown. Their
Pearson offices, the Tribune is in
formed, will be in the Corbitt
building, over the Morris Drug Co.
store.
Col. “Walt” Dickerson, the
senior member of of the firm, needs
no introduction to the people of
this county; he has many relatives
and hosts of friends in Pearson
and Atkinson county and has been
practicing here ever since the crea
tiou of our county; although living
at Homerville in Clinch county,
where he was born and reared.
Col. Dickerson has been practicing
law for some twenty (20) years in
this section, during which period
he has achieved a great deal of
success. He was for 12 years in
charge of the educational system
of Clinch county, as County School
Commissioner; he was in the State
Senate in 1911 1912; and for ten
years thereafter was Solicitor of
the County Court of Clinch county,
which position he resigned last
year to give more attention to his
law practice in this county. He is
Attorney for the Doaad of Educa
tion of Clinch county, the town of
Homerville, the Bank of Homer
ville, the Atlantic Coast Line,
Georgia-Southern and Florida, and
the Southern Railroads, and vari
ous other leading business organi
zations. Aside from his law prac
tice, Colonel Dickerson has been
in the forefront of the industrial,
commercial and agricultural de
velopment of this section. He
helped organize the Bank of Ho
merville years ago and has since
that time served as its Vice Presi
dent, which position he now holds.
He ruus 26 plows, and operates
two independent turpentine dis
tilleries; his farm and naval stores
holdings extending into Atkinson,
Clinch and Lanier counties. Col.
Dickerson will be in active charge
of the Homerville offices of the
firm, and will also continue to visit
Pearson as he has done before.
Col. E. I). Divers, the second
member of the firm is the County
Attorney of Lanier county, and
lives at Milltown; he is also At
torney for the town of Milltown;
the Farmers’ and Merchants’ Bank
there, the M. A. L. Railway Com
pany, and other of the leading
commercial interests there; as well
as Secretary of the Lanier County
Chamber of Commerce. Before go
irig to Milltown, Colonel Divers for
five (5) years practiced law in
Grady county, during which period
he served as County Attorney for
that county and Attorney for the
City of Cairo, its county site. He
was preminently mentioned by
some of the lea Tng newspapets in
southwest Georgia for Solicitor
General of the Albany Judicial
Circuit in the campaign of 1920,
but chose to move to the new r
County of Lanier, instead of seek
ing that political preferment. He
has held various offices of public
trust, and since coming to the
Alapaha Circuit has made rapid
strides in the legal profession.
Colonel Divers will continue living
at Milltown, and have charge of
the firm offices there.
Colonel D. M Penland, the third
member of the new firm, will in a
short time move to Pearson and
take active management of the
firm offices here; he is not unknown
here and has a number of friends
and relatives in this county. He
is a nephew’ of Dr. A. F. Christ
opher here, and also of Elder N. G.
Christopher, pastor of the Baptist
church here. Col. Penland was
sometime back admitted to the
Work for Georgia.
From the C3corgia Publisher.
The Georgia Association,in which
organization their arc a number of
newspaper men, is one statewide
enterprise which should have the
hearty cooperation of every person
who wishes to see this State keep
pace witii the othereommonwealths
of the United States.
Georgia has not been losing pop
ulatiou, but she has not in the hist
one or two decades shown the
growth expected of her. During
the past ten years, as shown by the
census, Georgia lost 254,317 inhab
itauts by interstate migration. In
a word 533,563 native born Geor
gians left the state, and only 279,
246 natives born citizens of other
states moved to Georgia, making a
net loss to this State of native born
sons of more than a quarter million
population in ten years, or an aver
age of more than 25,000 each year.
California, Oklahoma, Texas, Wash
ington and . Colorado gained enor
mously, showing the trend of pop
ulation is westward, as Greeley ad
vised.
Of course, Georgia did not actu
ally lose in population, but there
was a very small gain, the large
number leaving the Stale prevent
ing as great an increase as should
have been shown. The analysis of
the census shows further that of
Georgia’s population 89.6 per cent,
is native born; 9.6 per cent, were
born in other states of the United
States aud 6 per cent, were foreign
born.
The fact that there is such a
small population here which come
from other states is not at all flat
tering. We boast that Georgia
has the best soil, the best climate
and the best people in the world,
but we are not impressing the eiti
zeus of other states as we should.
The Georgia Association has for
its purpose the development of
Georgia's waste of uncultivated
lands. If it is successful in doing
this there is no estimate of what
gooe would be done the State. The
men at the head of the Association
are unselfish; alive to every inter
est; thoroughly imbued with the
Georgia spirit, and deserves the
aid and encouragement of all of
the newspapers in the State.
As Georgia develops and becomes
great every newspaper in benefited.
Your commuity has a better
chance to prosper when the State
prospers. The State prospers best
when there is the largest influx of
population, and when waste lands
are developed.
When you work for the Georgia
Association, you are working for
your State, your community and
yourself.
bar from the Alapaha Circuit, and
at the present time lives at Mill
town, where for a long time he was
Cashier of the Farmers’ and Mer
chants’ Bank. He was formerly
Cashier oi the People’s Bank of
Woodbury for about four years,
and it was said that the bank there
enjoyed the most prosperous period
of its history during his admin
istration. Colonel Penland gradu
ated with first honors with the
Class of 1912 from Young Harris
College in North Georgia, and
since that time has been promin
ently identified with the Bankers’
Trust Company of Atlanta, Geor
gia, one of the strongest financial
institutions in the South. His
joining the firm brings to it one of
the strongest business men in this
section as well as a splendid law
yer.
We are always proud to welcome
new comers of the proper kind to
our town and county; and accord
ingly extend, a welcome hand to
this new law firm. Their profes
sional card appears in another col
uma of the paper and the attention
■ of our readers is called to it.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY. MARCH 24. 1922
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Probably no class of men are
given more free advice than farm
era, and this paper does not under
take to tell them what to do, but
we would very much like for all of
the farmers of Irwin county to
learn about the co operative plan
of selling cotton. Then if they do
not think well of the plan we will
insist no further. —Oeilla Star.
It takes a long time in Georgia
to convict a man of a capital crime
and send him to the gallows or in
to penal servitude for a long term
of years. There are occasional ex
ceptions to the general rule, and
they merely serve as reminders
that bringing the guilty to justice
is not necessarily as slow as the
piocess usually proves. It is the
fact that the courts are so slow
that gives lynchers a color of justi
fication, at least in their own eyes,
for taking the law into their hands.
—Albany Herald.
Somehow, people appear to have
got out of the habit of paying
taxes. Perhaps because they
amount to such a large sum, in the
aggregate, by the time city, state,
county, special corporation, income
and incidential taxes are consider
ed, they grow to be a heavy bur
den. But this does not account
for the fact that so few people pay.
They appear to have acquired the
habit of putting off the day of
settlement. Of which we are re
minded by the fact that Turner
tax sales take up a large part of
the space in the Ashburn paper
this week. —Tilton Gazette.
There are mighty few folks in
the world who do not have trouble,
and it is to be noticed that those
who never have any soon go to
seed. It takes trial to spur us to
struggle, and struggle makes us
strong. The average man thinks
his troubles are greater than those
of his neighbors, but that is be
cause he knows a good deal more
about his own affairs than he does
about those of o the r people.
Trouble? The world is full of it,
and the heavy-hearted people we
pass ip a day are carrying griefs,
sorrows and disappointments of
which most of the world is wholly
ignorant. —Albany 1 Jerald.
Why should the paper of the
national government, the state or
municipality be exempt from taxa
tion? If no more tax free bonds,
state or national, were perniitted
tax- dodging would not be so easy'.
The rush for tax exempted securi
ties by people with money, that
they might evade the payment of
taxes, has made the most gilt edged
security on earth, the farm mort
gage, pay a higher rate of interest.
Taxing a farm mortgage (on pro
perty which already pays its full
proportion of tax) is double taxa
tion, while the man who has thou
sands invested in government or
state bonds escapes taxation al
together.—Dawson News.
Present indications are the next
session of the legislature will be
confronted with two or three prob
lems that are of vital interest to
the public. The governor wants a
show down on the capital removal
bill, then there will be the Munici
pal League bill and the $75,000,000
bond issue for roads. These three
issues talk money with big figures,
all of which must in the end, if
passed, come from the pockets of
the people. The legislature will
hardly feel like taking such heavy
responsibility on its shoulders,
therefore" ask the people to settle
them with their vote. That is the
proper way to close up such gigan
tie propositions. It lets every
man speak for himself. —Tbomas-
viile Press.
You can subscribe for the Trib
une until May Ist for SI.OO,
Praise of Sweet Potatoes.
From the Sparks Eagle.
There has been a little bulletin
issued entitled, “28 ways to cook
sweet potatoes.” While as yet we
have not seen the bulletiri, we are
convinced that the best method of
all was left out, and lor the benefit
of those, if any so unfortunate as
not to know about it, we give it
here as.follows: First catch your
potato, then have ready a large
bed of hot ashes, preferable the
dying embers of a log-heap, but
any ashes will do just so they’re
hot: take a stick and make a hole
in ashes; insert potato, cover up
same in ashes and let alone. When
you can wait no longer rake potato
out of ashes, mash it, and if found
soft it is ready to serve. This
method of serving the luscious
“sweet spud” wa s first made
famous by the Revolutionary War
hero, General Francis Marion, and,
if there is any dependence to be
put in our old school history, a
British officer, who having dined
with General Marion on potatoes
served in manner above described,
flung up his job and refused to
fight longer against a people who
could produce such grub, the like
of which he had never tasted be
fore.
Lankford’s New Measure.
Representative William O. Lank
ford has introduced a bill to create
the farmers’ finance corporation, to
provide “An efficient method of
promptly making loans to farmers.”
The corporation as proposed by
Mr. Lankford would consist of the
Secretary of the Treasury and four
other persons to be appointed by
the President, with the consent of
the Senate, each of the four ap
pointees to receive $12,000 per an
num. A fund of $500,000,000
would be Set aside in the Treasury
on which the corporation could
draw for its purposes by the vote
of three fifths of its membership.
In explaining his bill the Elev
enth district congressman said:
“The purpose of the bill is to
supply a need not now supplied by
the War Finance Corporation, the
present rural credit system nor the
long term loan companies doing
business in the country.
“I want to mention some of the
difficulties the farmers are con
fronted with when they seek a
loan either from the present gov
eminent rural credit system or
from any of the long term loan
concerns. First, it takes entirely
too long after the application is
made to secure the loan. Second,
it costs too much to get the loan
before it is due. Fourth, loans can
not be renewed or increased with
out new unreasonable expense.
Fifth, any part or all of the loan
paid off before maturity cannot be
reborrowed during term of loan
without extra cost or fee.
“The bill which 1 have introduc
ed seeks to cure these evils. It
provides that the farmer be per
mitted to have his loan approved
for all his property will carry and
then get the money he needs. It
allows him to pay back any amount
he wishes at any time to stop in
terest on the money he does not
need, and allows him to reborrow
the money so paid back when he
again needs it. The bill allows
him without extra expense to bor
row and pay as he pleases so long
as he stays within the limit for
which bis property has been ap
proved.
“Alter the farmer’s land is ap
proved and his title certified under
my bill be can go to his local bank
and execute his note for any
amount within the amount for
which his security has been ap
proved, and immediately secure
his money under an arrangement
to be perfected between the cor
poration and the local banks-”
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL.
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Mr. N. N. Hurst, aged 65, father
of twenty-two children —sixteen of
whom survive him —died at his
home near Fairfax Thursday night,
March 16th. He was a member of
aj’riinitive Baptist church three
miles north of Blacksbear where
the burial took place Saturday
morning.
Mr. Bethel McMillan, at the
election held Wednesday of last
week, w r as elected Tax Receiver of
Berrien county to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of his father.
Mr. Archie McMillan. The success
ful candidate is a brolher of Mr. J.
C. McMillan who formerly resided
in Dearson.
Benjamin Smith, a young lawyer
of Milltown, and Miss Ruth Cooper
a teacher in the public school at
Homerville, were married in Val
dosta February sth. It has been
kept a secret —the bride wishing
to complete her contract with the
school, and teach until the end of
the scholastic year.
lion. ,f. A. J. Henderson, of Ocil
la, and well known industrial de
veloper of this section, is the an
thor of a strong protest against the
junking of the short line railroads,
published in the Atlanta Constitu
tion last Monday. His protest is
so full of patriot common sense
that the Tribune thinks it is wor
thy of wide circulation.
Editor J. Kelly Simmons, of the
Nashville Herald and Coffee Conn
ly Progress, with his family motor
ed to Jacksonville, Fla., and spent
the last week end with his parents
who are residents of that city.
Mr. Simmons spoke very compli
mentary of the Dixie highway be
tween Way Cross and Jacksonville.
Says it is a pleasure to ride over it.
Mrs. Oscar Paulk, of Willacoo
chee, died at the Little-Griffin
hospital a few days since, following
an operation for abscess of the
lung which had formed after a pro
longed illness of pneumonia. The
funeral and interment was at Union
church, near her home, and near
the Berrien and Atkinson county
line. She is survived by her bus
band and five children;also an aged
father, Mr, Jacob Paulk.
Mr. it. Glenn Dickerson, son of
Judge Robert G. Dickerson, since
he opened his law offices in Val
dosta has missed the Tribune from
his batch of reading matter. He
decided he must have it and ac
cordingly sent the price of a year’s
subscription and had his name ad
ded to our list of Valdosla readers.
Glenn is a fine boy, a scion of
worthy parentage, for more excell
ent people than his parents can
not be found.
Hon. T. G. Culbreth, of Echols
county, who represented the sixth
senatorial district in the State
legislature when Atkinson county
was created and was a friend to
the proposition is dead. He was a
man of unusual breadth of character
and withal a Christian gentleman
and a splendid citizen, aud his
death is not only in
Echols county but wherever he is
known by his service in good deeds
to his fellowmeu.
Mr. Homer V. Johnson, a resi
dent of Broxton, is the guiding
genius of The Willaeoochee Times.
He is a newspaper man of experi
ence and under his administration
the paper has much improved.
The Tribune editor has been ac
quainted with Mr. Johnson for
several years, since he conducted a
newspaper at Broxton which flour
ished a while and went to "rest
under the shade of the trees.” Like
most of Priuter Editors of the old
school Horner Johnson has had his
experiences in the way of Jack of
properly directed appreciation.
$1.50 A YEAR
Children’s Week.
Atlanta, Ga„ March 18. —A
eontinent-w id e observance of
“Children’s Week” will occur from
April 30t,h through May 7th. lit
interest of the religious training of
all children throughout North
America, as the territory of the-
International Sunday School Asso
ciation.
“Children’s Week” has been ob
served throughout the continent
for the past five years, having been
promoted through the Children’s
Division of the State and Interna
tional! Sunday School Associations,
for the purpose of reaching more
children for the Sunday Schools
and creating sentiment fora high
er standard of work in the Sunday
Schools of all denominations.
The program for the week may
include a meeting for parents, Sun
day School leaders and day school
teachers of all children of the com
munity for the purpose of present
ing the need of the children’s
religious education; a Sunday
School Exhibit; a house-to-houso
visitation of the homes of the com
munity to get the names of child
ren not in Sunday Schools; a
ant or play emphasizing the need
of religious education; a children’s
festival of song or story; institutes
of parents; and story hours for the
children.
Further suggestions for the ob
servance of "Children’s Week”
may be secured from the State
Children’s Division Superintend
ent, of the Georgia Sunday School
Association 917 Hurt Bidg. Atlan
ta, Georgia.
Marketing Country Produce.
From the Thom as vl He PresH.
Some times we are almost ready
to believe the farmer entirely to
blame for not finding a ready mar
ket at a fair price for his products.
The reason being that he is the
most sluggish business man on the
face of the earth. He works him
self sick producinga good crop and
then quits the job before he puts
his goods iuto attractive packages.
He just bundles it together in a
most unattractive manner and
hauls it to the nearest point (not
market) and asks the other fellow
to lake it at his own price, and the
buyer, not being a packer, can’t
use it at any price in its perishable
condition. Why not wake up and
continue the work a little further
after the crop is made. Grade and
crate the potatoes, shell and sack
the eorn, bale the hay, thresh aud
sack the oats, grade, can and label
the syrup, crate the eggs, mould
the butter and pack in sanitary
paper, etc. Then buyer will soon
be going to you and asking what
you will take for your packages.
The suggestion that the auto
tags be distributed by the sheriffs
of the state instead of from Atlan
ta is meeting the approval of the
people. The sheriffs have to en
force the law’, and to place the salo
of tags in their hands, with proper
remuneration, is right- Of course
nobody expects Atlanta to endorse
the idea, but the convenience of
the people of the state should be
considered first. —Lanier County
News.
Mr. J. A. Dasher is loading a ear
of cabbage on the Coast Line tracks
to day for shipment, and he ship
ped another ear during the day
from Ifabira. This will make four
carloads of cabbage sbippedjby Mr.
Dasher during the season up to
this time. A considerable amount
of the hampers in the shipment
being loaded in Valdosta had to bo
repacked because the cabbage had
not been properly trimmed, and
this caused some delay in getting
the ear ready for moving,—Val-
dosta Times.
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