PEARSON©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.
