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PEARSONfITRiBU N E
VOL B—NO.8 —NO. 0
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS.
Candidates, Men and Women,
Getting Before the People.
Hon. Allen B. Spence has an
nounced for re-election as solicitor
general of the Waycross judicial
circuit. Mr. Spence has made a
vigorous and fearless prosecuting
officer and his services have been
very acceptable to the people of
the circuit who believe in law' and
order. From the present outlook
he will have no opposition. But
you can never tell what will hap
pen at the eleventh hour.
Judge John \V. Quiucey has fin
ally decided to enter the race for
judge of the Waycross judicial cir
cuit. His entry places two good
men in the race for this important
position —Judge Summerall having
already announced for re election.
Judge Quincey lurs some experi
ence as a superior court judge; he
is fully equipped, as a lawyer and
an evenly balanced judgment, to
serve the country acceptably. In
his short term by appointment to
fill out a vacancy, Judge Quincey
made scores of friends throughout
the circuit, and it is their iusist
ence that has brought him into the
race. Both the candidates are per
sonal friends of the Tribune editor,
he esteems them highly and is
constrained to say that the "coun
try is safe” matters not which of
them wins out before the people of
the circuit.
Coffee county has three anuouu
ced candidates to represent her in
the legislature of 1923 24 —Thomas
Holland was the first to announce,
then Burrell Davis and last Mrs.
James M. Dent. The entry of Mrs.
Dent into the race creates a new
and unique situation in Coffee
county politics. It is the first
time s woman was eligible to offer
her services to the people of that
county as a legislator. The Trib
une awaits with interest the dispo
sition of her candidacy by the vot
ers of Coffee county. Without de
tracting from the merits of Messrs.
Holland and Davis, the Tribune
will say that there is no woman in
Georgia who can fill the measure
of a well rounded legislator better
than Mrs. Dent.
It being Coffee county’s time, in
accordance with the rotatiou svs
tem, to furnish the senator from
the Forty sixth senatorial district,
composed of Bacon, Coffee and
Pierce counties, Col. E. L. Grant
ham of Douglas has announced
himself a candidate for the place,
and it is thought that he will have
no opposition. Grantham will
make an excellent senator and the
Tribune wishes him success.
Hon. Simon P. Sweat has an
nounced himself a candidate for
representative from Pierce county
in the Georgia legislature. He is
a splendid business man, formerly
a resident of Willacoochee, and
the Tribune is sure he will, should
he be elected, make Pierce county
an efficient legislator.
It was announced two weeks ago
that Col. Folks Huxford would be
a candidate for representative from
Clinch county in the legislature.
Nothing to the contrary appears
and the Tribune accepts the an
nouncement as true. Mr. Huxford
seems to fit into any office to
which he aspires, has always given
faithful and efficient service in the
positions to which he has been
called to serve. The Tribune sees
no reason why he would not make
an accptabie representative.
Hon. Nicholas M. Sowder, a na
live of Virginia and engaged in ed
ucational work for twenty years,
and now the educational director
of the United Stales War Vete
ran’s bureau, has announced his
candidacy for State superintendent
of schools to succeed Hon. M. L.
Brittain who declines a re election.
He believes public education deals
primarily with the rural schools
and they should receive the first
aud the highest consideration.
Anti-Poolroom League.
The Tribune has been receiving
a quantity of literature from peo
ple, whether many or few is un
known, styling itsely “The Anti-
Poolroom League,” calling upon
the Tribune for editorial approval
of its activity aud to lend aid in
suppressing the poolroom.
The Tribune editor is by this
fad as he was by the "Sabbath Ob
servance League” some time since
—he sees no reason for its exist
ence. The laws are ample to take
care of the matters which it seeks
to rectify, when they are enforced.
If the law's relative to Sunday ob
servance, disorderly houses, vag
rancy, etc., cannot be enforced,
why stir up indignation and place
another statute on the books to be
similarly ignored.
Some one has said and the Trib
une editor believes it to be true
that you can’t create and maintain
morals by law. The creation of
morals should begin in the home,
taught there by precept and exam
ple, aud the lesson seconded in the
public schools. If a boy is proper
ly trained at home he will never
be found in a poolroom be it ever
so decent - He will naturally find
some more profitable way of amus
ing himself during spare moments
than in a poolroom.
The Tribune will not at this time
discuss the merits or demerits of
the poolroom, the gambling hell,
and other places of ill-repute. It
is sufficient to say that they exist
because of a demand for them and,
alas, that demand is largely creat
ed in the home.
In Pearson there is no poolroom,
gambling hell, movie picture show,
or estoblishment of like character
to entice the young, the idle and
the vicious boy or girl. The gen
eral sentiment of the citizens are
against them; aud the Tribune is
glad it is so; for some of the boys
and girls in the city are not as
carefully trained as they should be
aud to which training they are
entitled.
These conditions leads the Trib
une to say the time is ripe in Pear
son and Atkinson county for the
parents to look more closely after
the proper training of their child
ren. The exhortation of Solomon,
"Train up a child in the way he
should go, and when he is old, he
will not depart from it,” is as true
today as when they were first ut
tered. Correct parental training
will effectually dispose of the pool
room and other places of doubtful
moral inlluenee.
Intermediate B.Y.P.U. Program
Subject—The Land of the Book.
Group No. 1 in charge.
1. The new patriotism—Evelyn
White.
2. The land God gave His people
—Athwert Skipper.
3. The Eye of History—Clarence
Lockliear.
4. The Five Physical Features of
Palestine —Doris Adams.
5. Visiting the Land —Laura
Hargreaves.
6. Scripture reading —Evadelle
White.
Civil Service Examinations.
The postoffice department has
issued notice of civil service ex
aminations on July 17 for post
masters at the following third
class postoffices in South Georgia:
Arlington, Baxley, Boston, Dorald
sonville, Metter, Perry, Plains and
Rich land.
On July 18 examinations will be
held for postmasters in the follow'
ing second class postoffices in South
Georgia: Bainbridge, Douglas,
Fort Valley. Montezuma, Quitman
and Waycross.
This means that new appoint
ments are to be made wherever it
will be to the interest of the dom
inant party in creating a white
republican party in the state.
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 30,1922
BIG MORMON CONFERENCE.
Held at Axson, Ga., June 16,
17, 18, 1922.
The semi-annual sessions of the
Florida Conference of the Church
of Jesus Christ o f Latter-Day
Saints (Mormon) were here at Ax
son, June 16, 17, 18th. “Little
Utah,” as Axson and vicinity is
known, was crowded with people
who had come to hear the Mor
mons preach.
Among the features of the con
ference were the dinners served
Saturday and Sunday on the
ground. In which the live hun
dred people present received a
material feast which compared
favorably with the spiritual feasts
enjoyed in the meetings. And the
two open air meetings which were
held to better accommodate the
large crowd present Saturday and
Sunday nights.
six SESSIONS.
Six general sessions of the con
ferenee were held Saturday and
Sunday; President Willis of the
Florida Conference presiding.
The principal speakers and visi
tors present were President Chas.
A. Callis of the Southern States
Mission, two lady missionaries
from Atlanta, Ga., and sixteen
Elders from the west. President
Callis was the principal speaker
at all the sessions. Among the
subjects treated by him were:
“What it costs to serve Christ and
what it costs not to serve him,”
and “the resurrection," in which
he explained the Mormon belief in
a literal resurrection, and brought
forth the Bible proofs dealing with
the subject. He saitl that any
theory which teaches against tin 1
mission of Jesus Christ and His
atonement is not of God.
During the sessions Sunday he
made a plea for more respect of
law aud order, warns the people
against the prevalent evils of to
day, including the late joyriding,
unchaperoned parties and Sabbath
breaking. President Callis said
"The Family is the Unit of the Na
tion, and that if something is not
done to combat the growing evil
of race suicide, the high standard
of living, the high civilization of
our great commonwealth will de
cay and crumble to pieces as Rome.
Greece and other civilizations of
the past have done.”
He says that the message of
Mormonism to the world is to
come up higher, and made an
eloquent appeal for better and
purer living. To teach and in
struct the children in the home
the true principles of living while
they arc young.
The traveling Elders dealt on
the fundamentals of Mormonism:
Faith, repentance, and baptism by
immersion for the remission ot
sins, and the laying on of bands
for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
They brought out the need of
more light on the gospel as taught
and brought forth by Jesus Christ
and showed that it was because of
this need that God raised up
Joseph Smith, that he might again
establish the church upon the
earth with the authority to minis
ter the saving ordinance of the
gospel, and to organize the church
which is founded upon Apostles
and Prophets. They said that
Martin Luther and John Wesley
and the other reformers were in
spired of God to fight for religious
freedom, and prepare the world
for what was to come later.
It w r as brought out that Mor
monism stands for eternal truths
enunciated by our Lord and Savior.
Among them are the existence of
a living God. The pre-existence of
our spirits before taking up our
mortal body, the placing of man
upon the earth to undergo the ex
periences of an intermediate state.
The transgression and fall of Adam.
The need of a redeemer to save
Thoughtless Legislation.
There is some latter day legisla
tion that is producing more harm
than good and, therefore, is serv
ing no helpful purpose.
Among these is what is known
as the labor contract law. It was
the intention of the legislature to
provide protection for the employ
ers of large numbers of laborers,
many of whom are irresponsible
and unworthy of credit, who get
in debt to the employer and ab
scond leaving the debt unpaid to
the injury of the employer. The
intention of this law was good but
its operation is bad. The employ
ee leaves in debt; the employer
swears out a warrant against him
charging a misdemeanor; he is ar
rested and brought before a court
of inquiry where all sorts of legal
legerdemain is brought in play to
collect the debt or put the ofiend
er in the chaingang, and some
times these warrants are used to
secure a legal contract/ with the
employee, who makes the contract
in order to be released from custo
dy and returns to his employer
practically a peon. Many of these
cases reach the trial courts and
costs the county more money in
disposing of them than it would
take to pay the amount of indebt
edness involved. This law should
be repealed aud the employer set
tle upon some business principles
in dealing wit h his employes.
Another bit of thoughtless legis
lation is that known as the “bad
check” law, which has recently
linen declared, by the courts of
nisi piius, as being unconstitution
al and void. It is stated that the
present legislature will be asked
to remedy if possible the defect in
the law. For the reason that the
law is used by the creditor class
to oppress the debtor class, the
legislature should let it remain
where the court has placed it. The
creditor insists that the debtor
give a check, payable the day after
his employer is supposed to pay
his salary; something intervenes
to prevent payment, a warrant is
issued and the debtor arrested
aud haled into court at a cost to
the county of far more than the
amount of the little old spurious
check. It would pay the county
better to pay the creek than to
have the matter lodged in her
courts.
In the administration of these
two laws it is too often the case
that the prosecutors perjure them
selves in the effort to convict the
defendant and relieve themselves
of paying the costs fora malicious
prosecution —a prosecution with
out probable or reasonable cause.
mankind from that fail and His
providing of a definite plan which
by obedience too, man may obtain
a remission of sins. The establish
ment of the church in his time.
The falliug away from the simple
principles as taught by Christ to
the extent that the authority was
taken from the earth and the re
establishment of the church in
these the latter days.
The conference ended with a
plea that the world would judge
Mormonism by its fruits. That
they would lay aside prejudice
and tradition and not judge its
teachings aud principles before
they knew what Mormonism stands
for. That error and faith built
upon false and weak structure
doesn’t have the sturdy growth or
the wholesome fruitage as mani
fested by the church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The attendance was very grati
fying to those in charge and the in
terest manifested by the large
number of visitors present shows
that Mormonism is gaining many
friends in the Florida Conference.
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EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
There is no reason in the world
why there should not lx* hundreds
of fine dairy herds in South Geor
gia where now there are dozens.
There is no reason why this section
should send its good money into
other sections for butter that is no
better than we can and do produce
here at home. Fine and cheap
pasturage, and pasturage that lasts
through practically t h e whole
year, gives South Georgia an ad
vantage that ought to be capitaliz
ed, and will be capitalized as
creameries multiply and better
markets for milk and crcani are
provided.—Albany Herald.
Some parents make a big mis
take. They bring their children
up as hot house plants. They are
continually kept indoors, are sel
dom allowed the companionship of
other children, aud are denied that
life in the open that puts red blood
into human veins. Years later,
when they develop weak or ab
normal minds, or show a lack of
capacity for success in the world
of affairs, their deficiencies become
a handicap and a source of grief to
the parents, who could have pre
vented such a condition had they
adopted the right course in the
beginning. The sun shines for
little children as well as for adults.
Let them enjoy it to the full ex
tent if you would have them justi
fy the love and devotion you be
stow upon them. —Dawson News.
The New Bethel Dots.
Little Gussie and Ruth Corbitt
spent a few days with their broth
er the past week.
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Fussell spent
Sunday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. W. T. Fussed.
Miss Cleo Guldens has returned
home after a week’s visit to her
cousins, the Misses Clara aud
Stella Fussell.
Mr. aud Mrs. Son Corbitt and
Miss Clara Fussell spent Sunday
at the homo of Mr. and Mrs. J. L
Murray at Pearson.
Miss Jessie Corbitt spent Friday
with friends in the Live Oak com
munity, and attended the revival
meeting Friday and Friday night.
Mr. and Mrs. Lamar Corbitt aud
daughter, Jessie, and son, Palmer,
and Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Barnes,
attended the revival at Live Oak
Friday night. They say the ser
mon was both interesting and help
tul.
Mrs. Lamar Corbitt’s relatives
sprang quite a surprise on her
Sunday, when her mother and
brother from Homerville arrived,
accompanied by a sister she had
not seen in fourteen years. She
had for her guest also a cousin
from Homerville and seven rela
fives form Lakeland, Fla. No
doubt they enjoyed every moment
of their short visit.
Dosh & Sobin.
The Axson News.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wall had for
their guest last week little Miss
Eloise Keaton.
Mrs. C. D. King and Miss Eva
King spent Saturday night with
Mrs. Belle Gillis, aud enjoyed their
visit very much.
Mr. C. E. Stewart will open up
his new store this week with a
supply of new goods. His friends
wish him much success.
Misses Emmie and Ha Wall
walked to the home of Miss Cor
inne Griffis and spent the week.
They report a nice time.
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Wall and
their little girl, Ruth, spent Satur
day and Sunday with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Keaton.
There will be regular services
held at Mt. Zion next Saturday
and Sunday. We have a grand
old man for pastor. Everybody
invited to hear him.
Misses Emmie Wall, Corinne
Griffis. Johnnie Gillis, Eva King,
Miranda Cowart, Pansy and Lillie
Gaskins and Messrs. George, Leon,
Olin aud Stokes Gillis and Ken
$1.50 A YEAR
New Officers Elected.
The B. Y. P. U., last Sunday ev
ening, affirmed the nomination of
officers to serve the ensuing six
mouths, as made by the committee
on nominations, viz:
President, Lonnie D. Pearson.
Vice President, Ferrell McNeal.
Corresponding Secretary, W. J.
Tyler.
Recording Secretary, Clarence
M. James.
Treasurer, Bessie Moore.
Librarian, Mrs. J. S. Morris.
Pianist, Eugenia Allen.
Chorister, J. O. White.
Captain Group No. 1, Jessie
Sutton.
Captain Group No. 2, Iva Cor
bett.
Quiz leader, Mrs. Leon A. Har
greaves.
666 quickly relieves Colds, Con
stipation, Biliousness and Head
aches. A Fine Tonic.
neth Cowart went over and sur
prised Mr. Cribb Saturday night
and had a jolly old time dancing.
There was a young man on board
the Dixie Flyer Monday morning
who was ilirting with a certain
Axson girl and lost his bat. Look
out, hoys, hold to your hats!
A crowd of men and women
started out for a joy ride and the
driver ran into a sapling and spil
led the whole bunch and now
several are seriously wounded.
And drunkenness was the cause of
it all.
The Axsqii Sunday-School is
giving a picnic today. Everybody
is invited to go to the Red Bluff
creek bridge and bring a basket of
refreshments. Lemonade and din
ner will be served. Hope the
school will continue to improve.
Be sure to attend the Sunday-
School every Sunday afternoon at
3:30, at the church building which
has been entirely remodeled. It
is nearer and more convenient
than the school building, and it is
hoped the attendance will be much
better. Three Sisters.
The Willacoochee News.
Dr. and Mrs. George Gray mo
tored to Nashville Monday.
Miss Willie Mae Joiner is spend
ing awhile with relatives in Vida
lia.
Miss Ida Griffin is spending a
few days with Mr. and Mrs- E. A.
Carver.
Miss Johnson of Broxtcn is the
guest of Miss Alice Faulk near
Lelialou.
Miss Iva Corbitt was the attrac
tive visitor of Miss Melba Corbitt
last week.
Elder T. I). Cox gave two very
inspiring sermons Sunday morning
and evening.
The Misses Jones of Quitman
are attractive visitors of Mr. and
Mrs. W. B. Ladson.
Misses Sarah Brakefield and Ed
na Newberu are the attractive
guests of Miss Marie Corbitt.
Mr. John S. Burns of Waycross
and Mrs. Charles E. Stewart of
Axson were visitors here Monday.
Miss Ida Mae George returned
Monday, after attending the State
B. Y. P. U. convention in Athens.
The Misses Linder and Ethel
Turner have returned from their
sight-seeing trip to New York aud
other points of interest.
Misses Leola Gaskins, Bertha
Lee Brewlon and Mr. Clifton Neu
gent attended the Epworth League
conference in Mcßae last week.
The B. Y. P. U. held its regular
meeting Sunday night with tho
Senior and Intermediate combined,
group one in charge, after which
a report was given by the delegate
who attended the Slate B. Y. P, U.
Convention.
The W. M. S. of the Baptist
church met Monday afternoon at
the church.
Devotional by Mrs. L. W. Sum
merlin.
Reading an article on the model
church by Miss Mae Hammond.
Business discussed.
Dismissed by Mrs. R. R. Folsom.
PJJP Cures Malaria, Chills,
hhh Fever, Bilious Fever,
Colds and LaGrippe.
