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EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
Superior court opens next Mon
day with a big grist* for the law
yers. And probably the politici
ans will be getting in a little on
the side. Wonder how it would
work to have them sworn first to
“tell the truth, the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.” —
St. Mary's Southeast Georgian.
There is a general feeling that
the worst is over in the business
depression. No one expects any
considerable improvement in this
immediate section till the new
crops begin to move but even now
the better prices for corn, beaus
and hogs are helping and best of
all, have removed the feeling of
panic that so nearly got the goat
of all of us. —Ocilla Star.
There are entirely too many
petitions being circulated to get
the very guilty out of prison.
The man who gets into trouble un
t hough ted ly or commits crime in
the heat of passion ought perhaps
to be shown leniency but the man
who deliberately takes human life
or cominjts other serious crime
doesn't deserve much mercy.
People sign petitions many times
without investigating the case at
all. There is entirely too much
of the pardon power exercised also.
—Adel News.
Do not make any mistake about
that $75,000,000 state bond issue
for good roads. In the first place
automobile ow ners alone will pay
for it; again $75,000,000 in bonds
is not to be issued in any one year.
On the contrary $10,000,000 will
be issued in 1923 and $10,000,000
in 1924 and thereafter $7,000,000
will be issued each year for eight
years. In the meantime, the bonds
will be retired from the automo
bile and gas tax alone. That’s the
plan iu a cocoanut. —Brunswick
N ews.
Another train lias been wrecked
on the A., B. & A. railway, the en
gineer and fireman losing their
fives. The engineer lived long
enough to tell of seeing parties
running away from the scene just
before the locomotive struck the
rail from which the spikes had
been drawn. Regard less of what
may have inspired the dastardly
deed, it was murder pure and sim
ple, and all authorities owe it to
the law and society that no effort
or expense be spared in trying to
bring the guilty to justice.—Al
bany Herald.
See here, where is this radio
business leading to? And how in
tarnation are any limitations to be
placed upon the use of the eon
tiaption that ramifies every place
and radios every word and act?
If what we read in the newspapers
that are installing radio service
and “broadcasting” everything and
everybody is true the time is at
hand when a fellow and his girl
dare not spoon or indulge in the
thrilling sensations of osculation
In the language of the old-time
political orator, “Whither are we*
drifting?”—Albany Herald.
“The ideals and principles of
Woodrow Wilson in time will be
recognized as spirits guiding the
world.” Samuel Gompers, Presi
dent of the American Federation
of Labor, is quoted as saying. Yet,
labor turned its back on those
principles two years ago and join
ed in the repudiation of Wilson.
It was one of the tragedies of that
year that those things for which
Wilson worked the hardest and
did the most joined his enemies in
the hysterical effort to tear down
wbat he had built. The common
people of America; the laboring
man, and last, but not least, the
woman voter, to whom he brought
emancipation. —Tifton Gazette.
S.-E. Georgia Pecan Growers.
Realizing that the pecan indus
try in Southeast Georgia is now
reaching such proportions that
the successful marketing of this
valuable crop must be provided
for, a number of the largest grow
ers in the district met in Mcßae,
Ga„ last week and perfected a tem
porary organization of the South
east Georgia Pecan Association,
and have made application for a
charter of incorporation without
-capital stock and not for profit.
Arrangements have already been
made whereby this association will
be affiiliated with the National
Pecan Growers Exchange for the
cooperative marketing of the crop,
and it is hoping to soon have every
grower of pecans, whether he yet
has nuts to sell or has only just
planted his trees, a member of this
association.
The association will be a means
of disseminating the best pecan in
formation to all growers, for its
directors will be chosen from
among the best informed pecan
men in the district, and one feature
of the work w-ill be periodical ser
vice letters to members dealing
with the best practices of care,
cultivation, etc., as they affect
this particular territory. This in-
formation will be supplemented by
data secured from members from
time to time as to their particular
experience with different varieties,
modes of care, and hundreds of,
other subjects of vital importance
to a grower of pecans. Then, too.
the semi annual conventions of the
association held in different parts
of the district will offer an oppor
tunity for unlimited discussion of
the problems of the industry. We
have a National organization, but
the need of this semi local associa
tion dealing with problems as they
effect this section particularly is
plain to all growers, whether large
or small. Another feature of the
association will be in the concen
tration and handling through the
National Pecan Growers Exchange
of the nut crop. That cooperative
selling is the only ultimately sue
cessful method is plainly demon
strated by the success of the Geor
gia Fruit Exchange in handling
the peach crop, the Florida Citrus
Exchange in handling the citrus
crop of Florida, the California
Raisin Growers, Walnut Growers,
and dozens of the other California
marketing associations. The Na
tional Pecan Growers Exchange,
which is now over two years old,
has handled a large part of the
output of the larger growers to
advantage. It will ultimately
handle the pecan crop of the
country, and the sooner the small
growers can see the advantage of a
National organized central selling
agency the sooner will the pecan
industry become stabilized. 'Phis
local association will act as the
personal representative of the
smaller growers of this section with
the national exchange and attend
to-all the details, and see that the
individual grower, even though he
has only a few nuts, gets the same
consideration that the grower of
many tons secures.
This association will cover the
Southeastern part of the State,
and it is expected that within a
few months all the growers in the
first, tenth, eleventh and twelfth
congressional districts will be fist
ed as members and begin seeuing
the benefits of the association.
The annual dues for members has
been placed at three dollars to
cover the small cost of clerical
work, postage, etc., as the officials
and directors are giving their ser
vices without charge, for the ad
vancement of the industry. The
owner of even a backyard grove
can receive ipore benefit than this
small cost will amount to.
With the large number of grow
ers and the limited funds for car-
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1922
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL |
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Mr. Raymond C. Tyree, from
Raliegh, N.C.. is the new secretary
of the Wayeross and Ware County
chamber of commerce. He assum
ed the duties of his office last
Saturday. He is said to have
large experience in the position to
which he has been called.
Prof. L Gordon Floyd, former
school superintendent of Coffee
county, has been indicted by the
grand jury charged with embez
zling several thousand dollars. He
has many friends who are loth to
believe him guilty of this grave
offense. It is stated that tyis
whereabouts is unknown to the
authorities.
Hon. William Jennings Bryan
says his running for the Florida
Senatorial toga depends upon the
democratic voters. To which the
chairman of the Florida State
democratic committee replies that
he is ineligible for the race as the
State Constitution provides five
years residence in the state as a
qualification of senatorial candi
dates. That seems to settle it.
Roy E. Powell, of Valdosta, has
resigned all his Federal positions,
to run for congress. He is a
bright fellow, son of the late Mr.
and Mrs. Hugh Powell, both am
bitious people, and you may call
him a "chip off the old block.”
The Tribune editor knew his
parents —his father when he was a
conductor on the old Atlantic &
Gulf railroad, and his mother when
she was a Miss Jenkins.
Prof. J. M. Thrash, before the
Douglas Kiwanians, sounds the
alarm that there is danger every
day of the Eleventh District A. &
M. school being destroyed by fire.
He gives out the information that
the premises are absolutely with
out fire protection. And he figures
that should the school be burned
out Douglas would lose the school,
as it would never be rebuilt, and
Douglas and Coffee county, as well
•as the Eleventh congressional dis
triet would lose a most valuable
asset.
(). C. Fairfield, who confessed to
complicity in the murder of W. T.
Reed, an engineer of the A., B. &
A. railroad, and implicated a doz
on other men in the same offense,
has made a solemn affidavit, before
Judge Jt. L. Tipton, of the City
Court of Ashburn, that his story
was a falsehood and was made
with the hope, held out by Solici
tor General Wall, of immunity
from prosecution. That his state
ment was made further under dur
ess and threats of bodilv harm on
the part of court officials, connect
ing Judge O. T. Gower, of the Cor
dele judicial circuit, with the mat
ter. '
Mrs. Lina May, mother of Mr.
J. JL May and grandmother of
Mrs. Asa Day, nee Miss Lois May
—both of whom are well known
and highly regarded in this city
and vicinity—died at Adel on
Monday. March 27tb. She is sur
vived by two sons and one daugh
ter —Mr. J. H. May of Adel and
Mr. E. G. May and Mrs. Melissa
Balkcom of Sparks. She erme to
Georgia with her parents from
North Carolina when she was a
young lady. The burial was in
Concord Primitive Baptist ceme
tery, of which church she was a de
vout member for half a century,
the funeral service was conducted
by Elder H. W. Parrish. Her age
whs eighty one years.
ryiny on a membership campaign,
it will be impossible to see them
all personally and explain just
what this association will do. So
all growers iu the district are ask
ed to immediately write to the
Secretary of the Southeast Georgia
Pecan Association, at Mcßae, Ga.,
for further particulars.
Stata Highway Bond Issua.
Senator A. 15. David of Gordon
County is highly in favor of a state
bond issue for the construction of
a system of State Highways as de
signaled by the present State
Highway map.
Senator David says that he will
support a bond issue that can be
retired by the automobile license
fees and gasoline tax, but that
there must not be even a shadow
of any increase in the present tax
rate. Pooling t lie above funds to
retire a bond issue is positively
the only way the citizens of aver
age can ever have good roads in
their lifetime. Also it is our only
hope of getting the millions of
Federal aid appropriation to Geor
gia for road purposes.
By the bond plan, the people
who own automobiles and trucks
and the consumers of gasoline
would be the ones who would pay
the entire bond issue, and they
would pay no more than they are
now paying. The 5,500 miles of
State Highway that would be con
structed would save the owners of
trucks and automobiles in Georgia
$12,000,000.00 annually in less up
keep and depreciation of cars.
Mr. J. M. Patten, of Ray City,
representing the Atlanta Journal,
was in the city Tuesday afternoon
in the interest of the paper. Mr.
Patten is an ex-scoool teacher and
at one time principle of the Willa
coochec high school, lb* is now a
well to do fanner of Berrien county
—the newspaper being a sideline
with him.
Georgia S. S. Association.
Atlanta, April 3. —The program
committee for the State Sunday-
School Convention, which will be
held in Columbus, Ga., June 13,
11 and 15, announce the fact that
a number of outstanding Sunday
School specialists have been secur
ed to speak before this annual
gathering of Sunday-School work
ers of all denominations in Georgia.
The program will cover the
many phases of religious education,
including Sunday School adminis
tration, specialization conferences
for workers in all departments of
the Sunday-School, and the new
field of religious education, —week
dav religious institution.
Among those who have already
been secured to bring to the Sun
day School and church leaders of
Georgia the most progressive,
workable plans in Sunday-School
work, are Dr. R. A. Waite, of
Chicago, Associate Young People’s
Superintendent of the Internation
al Council of Religious Education;
Dr. W. JO. Chalmers, of Philadel
phia, Secretary of Religious Edu
cation for the American Baptist
Publication Society; Dr. A. W.
Squires, of Philadelphia, Director
of Week-Day Religious Instruction
for the Presbyterian Board, and
Mr. P. E. Green, of Chattanooga,
Field Secretary of Religious Edu
cation for the Presbyterian Board.
Other out-of-state workers will be
announced later. About twenty
five of the outstanding Sunday-
School workers in Georgia will also
be on the program.
For the past thirty or more
years, the State Convention, held
under the auspices of the Georgia
Sunday-School Association, has
been one of the greatest factors in
the religious fife of the State,
bringing the outstanding leaders
in Sunday School work of the
whole continent, to confer with
the Sunday-School workers of ail
denominations in this stale, bring
ing best methods and inspiration
to thousands of pastors, officers
and teachers. The Convention in
Columbus will be one of the best
ever held by the Association. “An
automobile load from every Sun
day School,” is the slogan adopted.
NEWS OF OUR NEIGHDORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The voters of Cairo school dis
trict have voted $30,000 in bonds
to build and equip a school house.
The district has recently lost two
school houses by fire. The last
one was burned shortly after its
completion.
Camden superior court is in ses
sion this week; sixty cases ou the
civil and fifty on the criminal
dockets, it may take two weeks
to clear these dockets, but Judge
Highsniitb intimates that he will
“be ou the job.”
The Ocilla Southern railroad
has been denied a government loan
of $75,000 by the Interstate Com
meree Commission. The reason for
not granting the loan was because
it was not needed for public ser
vice, and the earning eopacify of
the road too small.
Ware county cattle owners be
gan tick eradication April Ist, last
Saturday. It is encouraging to
t he* cattle owners of neighboring
counties who have been having
their cattle dipped for some time.
Their work will not be in vain,
and they will reach the end in the
near future.
In Coffee criminal superior
court Taylor and Rosier, convicted
of murder,were given life sentences
in the penitentiary; Wooten, con
victed of manslaughter, was given
two to four years; Edenfield, con
vieted of manslaughter, was given
one to three years. Verily, “The
way of the transgeessor is hard.”
The campaign to save that part
of the Hawkinsvilie and Georgia
Southern railroad from Ashburn
to Camilla has ended in complete
victory. The counties of Mitchell,
Worth ancl Turner have subscrib
ed their quotas of stock; the latter
c<innty over subscribed her propor
tion by several thousand dollars.
This part of the road has resumed
operation.
The editorial page of the Doug
las Enterprise, of April 14th, will
be handled by the Senior Class of
the 11th District A. & M. School.
Editor Frier gives these boys and
girls the entire page, if they can’
use it. The girls and boys of the
Senior Class of the G. N. & 15. 1.
may mount the tripod next, and
who knows but what a bright edi
tress may be developed permanent
ly front these efforts.
Smyrna S. S. Convention.
Superintendents and Teachers of
Smyrna Sabbath School Associa
tion, Smyrna Association.
This year our association meets
in Broxtou, April 29th., 30th. We
have been very fortunate in book
ing one of the strongest and most
interesting programs that has ever
been held in South Georgia. Your
President is making a special re
quest that you and your delegates
be there on both days. We hope
you will arrange to do so. By
reading over our programs you will
see at a glance that you cannot
afford to miss hearing these dis
tinguished Speakers and Teachers,
who will discuss the most import
ant subjects that demands the at
tentiou of Baptist Sabbath Schools
today.
Let me say that the city of
Broxton, her charming and hospit
able people are preparing and look
ing for you. Do not disappoint
them, make a special effort to
meet them there.
Please have your report and de
legates on hand, on time. Invite
your friends. Study carefully each
speaker and his subject. These
men are coming from many miles
away to bring you a message that
will better qualify you for your
important work. Let me insist
that you spend these two days
with us in Broxton. Of course we
$1.50 A. YEAR
Our County Schools.
Editor Tribune: I read your
editorial of last week relative to
the rural schdbls of our young
county with much care, and I will
thank you to allow me space in
your paper to say a few words
along the same fine, as I heartily
endorse what you say. First, let
me say to the independent systems
in the County (I mean Pearson
and Willacoochee) that 1 will do
my best in aiding them to obtain
a standard 4-year Accredited High
School that will enable us, as a
county board, to geta Junior High
School in different sections of the
county. Of course, as you say,
that will take more money, al
though I don’t think that the good
people of this county would object
to spending- a little more money
for better schools as there has been
thousands of dollars spent for
other things—mostly non-essential.
1 also appeal to the people iu the
rural communities to consider con
solidating their small schools, and
get at least schools with from three
to six teachers, as those kind of
schools will enable us to educate
your boys and girls at home with
at least tweuty-five per cent less
than the cost of sending them
away to school. In the meantime
1 mean to figure to consolidate on
the small scale and not squander
money. Utilize all materials that
we have and spend a little more
on transporting the children to
and from school. The State De
partment of Education advocates
consolidation and that means bet
ter schools in all rural communities
of Georgia, Atkinson county in
cluded.
Allow me tc say just at this
time that when I moved to the
farm in March of 1914, we had
school and also went to church in
a small rough lumber building, and
as I have always been a believer
in better schools and churches, we
first went to work and built a
school building (I mean a one
teacher school) within less than a
mile of my place and in course of
time, that is a few years ago, the
Barrett-Rogers Act was passed by
the Georgia legislation allowing
SSOO to a consolidated four teacher
school. At first I was like many
other good people, 1 thought it a
crime to move the school any
farther from me. But some of my
good friends soon converted me
and we consolidated at Axson with
a four-teseber school, and I want
to say to the people of Atkinson
county that I'd send right by a
one teacher school and send to the
consolidated school.
Now, I want to say that in con
solidating the school building will
not be put at the end of every
body's lane, but where people five
over three miles the children will
be transported to and from school
and that at the least possible cost
to the county. Any way it is as
you say, we must sacrifice some
thing in time and money to edu
cate our boys and girls, and that
can be done with much less cost
at home than iu boarding them
away from home. So I earnestly
appeal to all the people of Atkin
son county to consider the school
situation in your community and
let’s all pull together to bring At
kinson up to a standard with the
best counties in Georgia as to her
Local and Rural schools. Our aim
and desire is to get experienced,
normal trained teachers for the
coining term, which we hope to do
and make it the banner term of
Atkinson county rural schools.
Your friend for better schools.
J. G. White, Supt. A. C. S.
hope to meet again somewhere
next year. Who will invite us?
Yours very truly,
TURNER BREWER,
President)
