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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1922)
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. Subscribe for the Tribune during April, at only a SI.OO a year.
