Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955, April 14, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextPEARSON©TRIBUNE VOL. 7—NO. 50 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings ! from Ail Sections of South Georgia. Candler county lias purchased a county farm and will endeavor to make it support the convict gang in the way of hog and hominy. The gang will be used to cultivate t he farm. Thousands of dollars have been put unto circulation in South Georgia by the sale of hogs. Milan, Tennille, Metier and other points have had big sales within the past two weeks. The commencement exercises of the Eleventh District A. «S. M. school will begin May 23d. it is announced that Hon. M, L. Brit tain. State school superintendent will deliver the literary address. “Camp < heerful," near St. Marys, will be used again this year as tin l place for the summer outing of the Okefeneke District “Boy Scouts.” An effort will be made to locate the permanent campon St. Simons Island. The legislative timber of Coffee county likely to enter ‘the race for representative at the September primal') are Messrs. E. b. Grant ham and T. .1. Holland. Both are good men and would make good legislators. An audit of the books of the Pierce County Commissioners show that last year the disbursements exceeded the receipts by $25,000 in round numbers. A halt has been called and money paid only for absolute necessities. During the five months of No vernber. December, January, Febru ary and March the Swift Packing Company at Moultrie paid out $1 ,- 800,000 for hogs alone. And it is said about one-half of this amount remained in the vicinity of Moul trie. There will be a special term of Irwin superior court held begin ning Monday, May 2!)th, Judge live will undertake during this special tei*n to remove from the docket a number of cases of long standing there which, for various and sundry reasons, have not been tried. The voters of < (mega sebool.dis D iet, favoring bonds to erect and equip a school building, won out in the election on Thursday of last week; and now a large and comfort able brick building with modern equipment is in prospect. To the women voters is given the credit for this success. The Tribune con gratulates the people of that thriv ing town. The grand jury of Irwin county takes cognizance of Jim Hendersons effort to save the short lines of railroads of Sout h Georgia. < (cilia's future* progress and prosperity de pends upon 4he continued opeta tion of the Atlanta. Birmingham and Atlantic and the Ocilla isouth ern railroads. Self preservation is the moving cause of their recom mendations. Cotton planting is well under way and a great effort is going to be made to raise a good crop this year. We predict that a sufficient test of the efficacy of poisoning the boll weevils will be made this year to make its use general by next year. In all likehootl not enough farmers will use it this year to materially effect the yield. But by next year »ve will have learned by hard experience that, cotton can be made by this method, and this method alone. —Ocilla Star. The political talk in Douglas is that Judge .1. W. Quincey will be a probable candidate for judge of the Waycress judicial circuit. It is also stated that Judge J. Lee Crawley, of Wayeross, may be in the race for this office. Both are splendid men and their abilities as lawyers are unquestioned. Our Schools and the Future. Atkinson county has no greater asset than her schools —town and county. The Tribune insists now, as it has done before, that all our people give this asset their most earnest consideration and support. When we have to do with the schools we have to do with the great future that lies out in the perspective; we are helping to build for the future. When we have to do with the schools we have to do with preparing men and women for the manifold duties of life —-men and women who are to shape and direct the destinies of this govern ment —in the providence of God the greatest government on earth; men and women w ho are to preach the “Unsearchable riches of Christ,” who are to stand before kings and queens, and the great of earth and proclaim messages of Love and Judgment; men and women witoin we hope, when we have passed away, will be better prepared to meet all the obligations of life than we have been. In short, we will be dealing with the building of the mental, moral and physical character of the race and all these virtues depends upon the kinds of schools in which our young people are trained. ■The Tribune does not criticise our county board of education for dissolving the contracts made with teachers the past spring and short cuing the term contracted for at the beginning. However, it is re marked that a contract is a sacred thing and cannot be legally dis solved without consent of both parties to it. and when it is done works to the injury of the party responsible for it. In Ibis ease il may have (he effect of destroying confidence in the Board of Educa tion and militate against them in their effort to secure the best teachers another year, because of the wide publicity it gets. The Board of Education contracted with the teachers for six months’ services and curtailed it to five months, as signing as a reason their inability to pay salaries promptly. 11 was stated that the teachers accepted the change in the contract, agree ably and without rnurmer. This is true only in part. There were some whom it did notdiseommode; these were indifferent. There were others who were not l*l» *ased and have not hesitated to express it in unpleasant terms. And from this end of the matter is where the Board of Education will encounter difficulties. Now, if possible, let the past be buried and look to the present and the future; guard against entering into impossible contracts, regard less of the requirements of the law. Rather resign than to do it. The Tribune wiuitp to say that the Board of . Education hesitated in the violation of the contract they had made until it was sanctioned by officials connected with the State Board of Education. This leads the Tribune to say that tbe beginning of this evi( is not with the county Board of Edu cation. It comes from higher up, and develops the sad fact that Georgia affairs is being conducted without fixed business principles, t There seems to be in vogue a sys tem that has well nigh destroyed j the effectiveness of her rural schools. The school troubles began 1 with the changing the constitu tional provision for the establish ment of common schools. The change was too sweeping and let down the barriers to all sorts of abuses.- It is tbe proper thing to have an accredited high school at some central point in each county, still there was no necessity to have changed the constitutional provis ion for a system of rural schools in order to have them. Of this, more anon. Official Newspaper of the Comity of Atkinson. I’KAHSOX, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, APIIIL 14.1922 PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL Short Stories About People and ! Things of Interest. Hon. Geo. \V. G illisof the south eastern section of Coffee is an an nounced candidate for the legisla ture from that county. Mr. Gillis is a successful farmer and business man, and would make the county an excellent representative. Ty-Ty folks are enjoying (?) the duel of words between the Mayor on the one hand and the Council on the other. Friends of the council men, in the majority, has asked the Mayor to resign. The row grew out of the arrest of a de faulting cashier of the Bank of Ty-Ty. Dr. J. il. Foster, president of Bessie Tift College, has resigned and will leturn to the pastorate, lie had been considering a return to the pastorate for more than a year, and when friction arose be tween the board of trustees and himself, he settled the question at once. Our best educators are be mg driven from «lhe fold —many times with sinister motives. Hon ('. Murphy Candler will re tire from the Railroad Commission at the end of this term. Immedi ately upon his making this an nouncement, two aspirants for the job were in the race —M. J. John son of Bartow countv and \V. R. McDonald of Richmond county. But, it is a mistake that the early candidate scoops the office —es- cufdally where there are two in the running. Editor H. I’. Trimble, of the Southeast Georgian at St. Marys, lias announced that he will move from Camden county in the near future. From this distance Hie Tribune voices the belief that he has done / inueh in forwarding St. Marys interests, lias made a most excellent citizen, and his places as editor and citizen is going to he hard to fill so acceptably as he has done it. Hon. J. A. J. Henderson, ofOcil la, is very patriotically giving his time and attention to creating a sentiment throughout the State in favor of the small short line rail roads. He wauls to save them from the junk for future use —be- lieving the development of South Georgia will outstrip bus lines and then the short line railroads will come into their own. Mr. Hend erson has large experience as a de veloper and railroad builder, and his messages relative to the Short line railroads are worthy of the very closest attention. Mr. Oren Purvis lett Atkinson county about three months ago and none of his family knew of his whereabouts. During the early part of last week a telegram was received from hi in by his sister, Miss Delilah Purvis, who lives at Douglas, notifying her of his being al Wauchtila, Fla., desperately ill. She left immediately for Wauchula, but he died before she reached him. A small boil came just inside iiis nostril: he picked it with the small blade of his pocketknife. From this infiamation set in, giyi grene made its appearance and soon carried him away. Miss Delilah brought his remains back and they were buried as stated in last weeks paper. Senator Dan Wall of the Fifth district has filled the position as woods rider nearly ever since the last legislature adjourned and will probably remain on the job until just before going to Atlanta this summer. Dan couldn’t get a woodsman at a fair price so he as sumed the job himself and kept the salary in bis pocket. Senator Wall has shown he is not afraid of work. The Tribune admires his pluck and independence, Work as Refuge. From the Atlanta Constitution. There are many stories of Euro pean noblemen, left financially stranded by the late war, having to go to work for a living, but we rarely hear of a wealthy one work ing “because the routine life of a nobleman bores him.” But that, according to a news item, is the reason given by Alger non George De Yere Capell, who is the eighth earl of Essex, and has organized a concert troupe in which he acts in "a female impersonation stunt." The item states that his troupe “includes a gardener's daughter, two English farm girls, a village seamstress and several sturdy farm hands,” and that he is giving Ins troupe a tryout by touring his es Late near Herefordshire, England. While he might have donned a workman’s blouse and become a dsy laborer with the rest of his farm workers, and so obtained the relief he seeks from the aristocrat ic routine, the show business had the greater appeal, and lie’s able to indulge his preference for it;. It is such a novel undertaking for a nobleman that, if he should extend his tour to the great cities, his troupe would doubtless play to big business! Why shouldn’t he make an American tour, as well as other of his countrymen who come over and tell us our faults and foibles at SI,OOO per lecture? His show would very pleasantly vary the monotony of at least a few of the former literary perform ances of which we have had so many, and whatever merit the earl possesses as an actor would be handsomely acknowledged! Perhaps he would not tell us, in possible newspaper interviews, that we are not as literary as we think we are; that we don’t really know how to enjoy life, and that Amer ican women are not so beautiful, after all. He would probably be in a good humor with himself, and so would contribute to keep us in a happy smiling condition. At any rate, as an experiment, a visit from his unique concert troupe would be worth while. But the best thing about the English earl’s new departure is the appeal of work —of some sort of employment —to the minds of those who can afford to live without it. Support Your Home Paper. From the Nashville Herald. People are funny beings. As an instance, let the bome'paper show the least sign of non-progressive ness, and every business man in town w ill lioii on it with both feet. Yet, a great many business men will go all over the country to buy their printing. They will send away from town on the slightest pretext. Somehow they never stop £o figure that their home pa per might be worth more to them and their town than their whole year’s printing gross. About the only time some of them will pay the home printer more than they will pay a man out of town, is when the express and postage will equal ize the cost. This is the wrong spirit. No man would think of living in a town that had no churches, schools or railroads or other public improvements of that nature. The newspaper is a far bigger booster than either. It does its share toward regulating the morals of the community, it does its share towards educating the community and it does its share towards developing the communi ty. Business men, men who want to help build a town, must consider their newspapers too. Subscribe for tbe Tribune; quit borrowing from your neighbor. EDITORIAL OPINIONS. The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. There seems to be much interest in the sweet potato crop in this county. There is a splendid mar ket for them, good price, and we see no reason why this should not be one of the best money crops to be made. Of course tobacco will al ways be our big money crop now since the departure of the snowy white, but the sweet potate crop is bound to attract the attention of all growers, with present prices and market existing. Douglas Enterprise. If the newspapers in South Geor gia keep on making predictions of an enormous melon yield the com ing season melons will not bring enough to pay for hauling them to the railroads. What produce firm in the North or West would offer a good price for melons today if they expected the market to be glutted tomorrow? it is about time for the newspapers and correspondents to let up on t hei" big predictions and give the melon growers a half a chance to sell what they make. —Valdosta Times. Every political campaign is marked by slanderous and untrue statements regarding the rival candidate with the hope of belit tling him in the estimation of the voters, and this year will probably not be an exception. This method in more recent years does not have the intended effect, but reflects discredit upon the one who would tear down that he might be lifted nj». If it is necessary to lie, to say mean things of our opponent — then he is not such a bad fellow, and you are the one to reform. — Dawson News. All tbe talk about submitting a referendum vote to the trades bodies in Savannah and other cities as to a modification of the prohibi tion law so as to permit the sale of wine and beer originates with the liquor interest. Once undermined by the permitting of the sale of wine and beer, the prohibition law would practically be a dead letter. But these votes will have about as much weight as straw votes. They will amount to nothing. It will be a long time, if ever, before whiskey is legally (fold in this country. And in ten years from now the revolution which it will work in the making of sober youths will be wonderful. The open bar room, even for the sale of wine and beer, will not be tolerated by the thinking people of this country again. They have seen the awful results of it and although powerful influences are at work to restore these dens it will not be done. — Adel News. One of our exchanges is advocat ing building good roads with free labor. We presume be bad in mind the bond issue as a means of getting money. That w6nld be the only means of getting money for such an extensive undertaking. It is quite true that such a tiling would place a lot of money in cir culation'find give a lot of people employment at good wages. All in all it might be better than to build our roads by driblets, as we are new doing, it is a question as to whether convict labor is cheap er after all. Tbe expense of guards and other protection, including the food and clothing that we have to furnish, runs the cost very high. Then, too, the roads are built so slowly that they wear out before we get back to patch them up. If they were all built at once, every tax payer would get the immediate benefit of his tax money. Like it is a great many pay the taxes and wait several years for tbe roads. — Coffee County Progress. $1.50 A YEAH Some Thoughts. The day has come when some strange things loqk more strange: some new tilings look newer and foolish things become more foolish. Tbe meeting of the Religious Education Society, held March 29th, in Chicago, 111., evolved two fads, perhaps thoughts, and spilled them upon the unsuspecting pub lic. Tbe members of that society are attempting to outshine tho shiners. Thought No. 1, which was reput ed to have both “depth” and “weight” to say nothing of its “breadth,” reads: "Tbe Church must attract youth by providing what it wants.” Such an undertaking would end in hopeless confusion. Just con ceive, if you please, a real church —one that bumbles itself at tbe foot of the Cross —laying aside the Gospel robe, borrowing a few stunts from Satan, and putting on the robe of pleasure and entertain ment. for the purpose of attracting the youth. The scriptural injunc tion to the Church is "Go ye, there fore, and teach all nations, etc.,” and that is the sum total of the real church’s business. The Church has no orders from its Founder to “Go ye, therefore, and attract tho youth, etc.” Thought No. 2, published by that “Shiner Society” is: “The evils of cabarets and dance halls can be cured by providing music and dancing right in the churches.” Some thought that! How sublime! How inspiring!. Can any sane person understand how vaudeville stunts and danc ing. under the most favorable aus pices, can act as antitoxin to themselves? “Preach the word” is Paul’s instructions to Timothy. Christ's marching orders to the Church was “Preach the Gospel.” Both declare that when the Gospel is received in the heart, old things will pass away and new things will appear. The devil’s toe holds will all pass away. By giving the youngsters a chance to* hug and kiss4n a church building will not cure them of that “disease.” The battle for righteous living was never so fierce as it is today. Never was well equipped soldiers of the Cross in greater demand than to-day. Tell the Other Side. When you have occasion to speak of this town, what is the burden of your remarks? Some complaint, or grevianee, perhaps. The good things of our commun ity life we take as a matter of course. We feel that they are coming to us. We can see no rea son for comment. We are mum* But when something goes wrong our first inclination is to blow up. Somebody is to blame. Somebody needs a good cussing. And some body gets cussed —perhaps. Having let off steam we are ready for the next round, and be come quite human again. But let’s take a new tack and tell the other side next. It is far more pleasant —to those, with whom we speak.—Exchange. Douglas people haven’t forgot ten that the editors of the Elev enth district are coining here next month for their regular May meet ing. In addition to the twenty odd newspapers of the district, some of the larger papers of the state will be present, including some of tlie association officials. Plans will soon be put under way for the entertainment of tbe press people. Douglas is going to show tbem the time of their lives. It will be the most delightful season of the year, and a basket picnic will be in order. Editors are like other business people, however, and they will want to transact some business while they are here. So, the eutertainmeiit feature, will not want to be such as to over shadow the business at Coffee County Progress.