Sribaittf
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
B. T. ALLEN, Editor.
Member, 11th District Press Association
Member of the Georgia Press Association
SiOMcrirtlon price, tl.SOa year In advance.
Adveri’Sln!’. rales an liberal and will b <
made known mi application.
Entered at the Postolflce in Pearson. Georgia.
A* mall matter ol the second clans.
The people of Georgia are beiri”
introduced afresh to one Hon
Clayton Robson the youthful
playmate and lifelong friend and
chum of Gov. Thomas Hardwick —
through exchange of letters be
tween Editor W. T. Anderson, of
the Macon Telegraph, and his Ex
eelleney and Governor of Georgia,
Thomas W. Hardwick. This cor
respondence can be nothing if not
amusing to every reader of the
Telegraph, for Clayt and his busi
ness is well known to every office
seeker in Georgia. It may be
legitimate so far as the Tribune
editor’s personal knowledge goes
as the twain have had no reason
to seek each others acquaintance.
Good politicians will file these
letters away for future reference
when Clayt begins his gumshoe
campaign for his trusted pal —Tom
Hardwick.
The Tribune publishes upon its
first page a report of the Mormon
Conference at “Little Utah,” At
kinson county, and does so with
out apology. However, the editor
desires to say that the "Reporter,”
having incorporated some of the
tenets of the Mormon faith in his
report, opens the way for criticism
of such error as these tenets may
set forth, not only by the editor
himself but by others who may sec
fit to challenge the correctness of
these tenets. Whatever criticism
the editor may make will be done
with meekness and humility of
soul, and with but one end in view
—the prevalence of the Truth,
which is to make the world free.
Georgia editors are to be the
guests at dinner of the Farmer’s
Union meeting at Blue Springs,
Brooks county, on the third day
of the l’ress Convention at Quit
man. Speeches by C. S. Barrett.
.1. H. Mills and John Valentino
are on the program. The first re
presents the National Farmer's
Union, the second the State Farm
er’s Union, and the third tin* Rail
road Labor Unions of the State.
This arrangement seems to be one
the editors should investigate fully
before accepting it as a part of
their program and see that they
are not imposed upon by curb
stone politicians.
An unique political campaign is
on in the State of Michigan. The
republicans have renominated Sen
ator Frank Kyllog while the demo
crats have nominated as his oppo
nent a woman —Mrs. Anna Dickis
Oleson. Michigan is strongly re
publican, but Mrs. Oleson is a
woman of wonderful resources and
whether or not she wins a seat in
the United States senate in No
vember her opponent, will realize
he has a real political battle on
his hands and he will have to stir
lively to get the prize for which
he is contending.
Wednesday at noon the news
reached Pearson of the sudden
death of Mrs. O’Steen, consort of
Elder ,1. A. O’Steen, and mother
of Mrs. William Smith of this city.
It is stated she weut to sleep Sun
day night as was her custom aud
slept until the end came Wed nos
day morning. She was a good
woman aud had many relatives
aud friends who mourn her going
away. The interment was at
Arabia church in Clinch county.
For forty five years or more the
Tribune editor has greatly desired
the return of Georgia’s Capitol to
the centre of t h e State from
whence it was carried away with
out the sanction of the white peo
ple of the State, but his vote and
influence will not be swapped for
Tom Hardwick’s influence in get
ting the proposition submitted to
a vote of the people.
Miss Coriune Dickerson, of
Homerville is visiting Miss Doris
Dickerson this week.
PLAY HOME TEAM BALL.
The Tribune seconds the motion
of the Ocilla Star that now, the
wire edge is worn off the National
game in the home town with hired
players, is a splendid time to play
ball with such talent as the home
town affords.
The Star is right again w’hen it
says, “But they say Ocilla has no
pitchers. Develop them. A boy
who sees a chance to be allowed to
play will work to that end. We
may lose a hunch of games in the
meantime, but in time we will
build up a winner.” This truth
has been demonstrated in Pearson
this season. The Pearson team is
composer] of home talent and play
for the sake of the game. They
have won some games and lost
some —about fifty-fifty. The pitch
ing staff was short and what they
had was developed at home. They
located a young man, a powerful
and accurate left hand thrower,
used him in two or three practice,
games, and his try out against
Willacooeliee’s team showed he
had in him the stuff out of which
good pitchers are made. He fanned
twelve batters, assisted it putting
out five more. The game resulted
in a score of 2 to .‘5 in favor of
Willacoocbee.
The Pearson team is pulling
itself together as the Tribune said
it would, and expect to see hoiiic
attractive games before the season
closes.
In this connection the Tribune
speaks publicly its approval of the
action of Hon. A. Corbett, man
ager of the Willacoochee team, in
putting a quietus on the small boy
guy who made themselves ridieu
ious and disgusting by offensive
personal allusions of the visiting
players. This should be the rule
ou every diamond, and especially
where amateur home teams are
the players.
Marshal Smith has promised to
rigidly enforce the rule on the
Pearson diamond in the future,
aiyi visiting teams may be assured
of courteous treatment anil im
munity from the taunts of the
small boy.
EAST-TO-WEST HIGHWAY.
The Tribune learns that a State
crew has commended work on the
State system highways in Atkin
son county, beginning on the Nash
ville and Willacoochee road at
the Alapaba river bridge a little
more than a mile west of Willa
cooehee and building the road
from thence through Willacoochee
to Pearson.
The county road gang is engaged
in completing the East-to-West
highway from the county line, on
the Willacoochee and Alapaha
road, into Willacoochee where it
will connect with the State road
as far as Pearson. The Tribune
understands that the East-to-West
highway from Pearson to the
Ware county line will have to be
built by the county, while the
State crew will rebuild the Pear
son to Douglas road to the Coffee
county line and perhaps into Doug
las.
No doubt this is good news to
the friends of the East-to-West
highway living along and contig
uous to it all the way from Bruns
wick to Albany and beyond. This
activity is an earnest that the
East-to-West highway is to be a
reality aud that in a very short
time.
The Tribune really believes this
most desirable road will be com
pleted within the next twelve
months, furnishing au excellent
road all the way from Albany to
Brunswick aud, perhaps, to St.
Simon’s island.
We admire a person who adheres
strictly to the truth in everything
he says. To tell nothing but the
truth is a good policy to adopt and
live up to, provided we do not
make a habit of telling a lot of
things just because they are the
truth. Many truthful things are
best left untold. A man may have
holes in his socks or a split or
patch in his trousers, or a womaa
may do her own washing or forget
to sew buttons on her husband’s
ciothes, but there is nothing to be
earned by going roun teliiug every
body about it. —Dawson News.
PEARSON TRIBUNE. PEARSON. GEORGIA, JUNE 30. 1922
GENERALASSEMBLY.
Georgia’s solons met in General
Assembly Wednesday morning and
cleared the deck for a fifty-day
session.
During Wednesday all the preli
minaries were looked after and put
in order for work.
Thursday Gov. Hardwick pre
sented in person his annual mes
sage, a synopsis of which —furnish-
ed by the governor himself —is
printed elsewhere in to day’s paper.
Both bodies will then get down to
real business.
The session is expected to be a
warm one —from the standpoints
of temperature and belligerency.
This situation is the outcome of
"Many men with many minds.”
It is hoped that out of the heat
sanity will prevail and the right
triumph.
Judge Cobb’s Warning.
The government of the county
is in the hand of the white man.
This will continue and it is best
for all concerned that it should.
This imposes a great responsibil
ity upon the white man. Jtisa
shame when an injustice is done a
negro, either in the court house or
outside of it.
If we have the power to do
justice and fail or refuse to admin
ister justice, we are uuworthy of
the power.
I see no warrant in the Oonsti
tution of the United States for an
interference in the administration
of criminal law of a state.
I say, however, if the state does
not function through its constitut
ed tribunals and become efficient
in the protection of the right to
live and the right to be deprived
of life only by due process of law,
there will be interference.
All thoughtful people wish a
government that governs. If the
state governments abdicates, the
people will look to another govern
ment, aud if . another government
appears that is efficient, its au
thority will not be closely scruti
nized. Usurpation will be prefer
red to anarchy.
I wish to see a public sentiment
so sound and so strong that no
hand of ruffians, blackguards or
brigands would dare to enter a
jail to take therefrom a person
lawfully confined therein, or take
the life of a human being without
authority of law, no matter what
crime be is charged witli or might
be guilty of. 1 have but expressed
the sentiment of right thinking
people.
1 wish to see a sentiment so
strong that injustice will not be
done, or if done, will not be toler
ated in court or out of court. Such
a sentiment and such a sentiment
only will save the state from inter
ference by an outside power.
Observe Watermelon Week.
The people of Georgia have been
called upon by Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick to aid the farmers
in disposing of a bumper water
melon crop by observing the week
beginning July 3, as “Watermelon
Week.” The Governor also asked
the co-operation of the Governors
of other states in this movement.
He says “the farmers have made a
vigorous fight against adverse con
ditions and through diversification
of crops have produced a bumper
watermelon yield, and a heavy con
sumption of fruit throughout the
country this summer will furnish
encouragement and assistance to a
larger number of citizens who en
gaged in cultivating this product.”
The 801 l Weevil Problem.
Editor Tribune:
The boll weevil has great inter
est for Georgia, and the latest in
formation has been complied by
the Department of Agriculture in
Bulletin No. 1272 on “The 801 -
Weevil Problem.” I believe there
is much information in that bulle
tin which should be in the hands
of every Georgia cotton grower,
and I will be glad to send a copy
of that bulletiu to any one request
ing it. 1 hope it will be possible
for you to make brief mention of
this in your paper.
Respectfully submitted.
William J. Harris
GOVERNOR HARDWICK'S
MESSAGE TO ASSEMBLY
Summary of Address
Outlines Important
Recommendations.
Atlanta, June 29.—Governor Thomas
W. Hardwick’s message to the 1922
session of the General Assembly, de
livered in person at noon today is prob
ably one of the most non-political docu
ments of the kind ever presented to
an assembly-by a governor. In it there
are no “issues.” The paper deals
wholly with statecraft in a very serious
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GOV. THOMAS W. HARDWICK.
vein and may be properly divided un
der two distinct yet complete headings;
viz.: the fiscal affairs of the state, their
status; the insistent prayer for the cre
ation of a practical business policy in
handling the state v affairs.
The governor deals exhaustively
with the question of taxation, using
emphasis in the declaration that he
never has been and is not now willing
to tear down one piece of necessary
operating machinery' until there has
been created something to function in
Its place. It is on that basis he deals
with the tax equalization law end the
subject of a substitute in the form of a
new system, of which he says: “I
propose that the state shall abandon
the field of property taxation on the ad
valorem basis,” and, as the substitute
machinery which he offers, “in lieu
of the property tax for state purposes
and as a substitute for it, propose a
graduated income tax.”
Financially he shows that the state
faced. January 1, 1921, an actual de
ficit of $2,500,000 which would have
been a deficit of $3,000,000 in Decern
her of that year hut for measure;'
adopted to prevent it. The state now
owes on “ilnpaid balances” on 1921
appropriations $63,740, for which re
quisitions will be paid when they are
properly drawn, in connection with
the financial showing he draws atten
tion to the provision by law that one
half of all the state’s income, when it
exceeds $8,500,000. shall he set aside
for the public schools. To follow this
requirement, he shows, would make it
impossible, by one-third, for the state
to pay the appropriation as made and,
for well defined reasons he gives, the
recommendation is made that this
clause be repealed.
The Governor shows the total appro
priations made for 1921 were $10,886,-
884, and this total was cut down to
$9,452,317 for 1922. being a reduction
Of $1,434,567
The governor urges upon the legisla
ture a close investigation of every
board, bureau and commission and, un
der the stress of conditions, that “we
abolish every useless place, purge ev
ery pay-roll of every useless official. He
recommends the department of ar
chives and history he abolished: the
reduction of the railroad commission
from five to three members, the
abolition of the special attorney for
the State Highway department, and, re
peating his own and Governor Dorsey's
recommendations, that the state be re
lieved of being board-ridden, commis
sion-ridden and trustee-ridden.
The governor especially urges imme
diate establishment by the legislature
"a complete modern and up-to-date sys
tem in the operation of the state’s
fiscal affairs,” referring directly to
the need for an auditing system which,
he points out, should pass upon and ap
prove all items before they are paid,
and in connection therewith he
insists that the departmental and in
stitutional heads be required to make
up advance budgets and working plans
for each year. The auditing system,
he says, should be applied to the state's
collection as well as to its purchases
and payments, and that every cent col
lected for the state from any source or
any agent be 'urned into the state
treasury.
The governor urges the “enactment
of a real and rigid Australian Ballot
Law to be applicable to primary and
general elections alike, and to be
installed at every precinct in Georgia,"
and that this session of the General
Assembly submit to the people a con
stitutional amendment providing for
bieniai sessions of the Assembly
In scope, the greater part of his
message is devoted to an explanation
of the ills under the present system of
taxation, and the imperative need for
reformation of that system, a system
which has made it possible for appro
priations to increase gradually until
they exceed revenues, as he is with "se
curing a just and equal distribution of
the present burdens of taxation." to
gether with the practice of “rigid econ
omy by drastic retrenchment, and In
his proposed taxing system he pro
vides for the collection of taxes quar
terly instead of annually.
On this subject matter he presents
not only his own views, but such views
as have been advanced to him and.
thereby, he “feels that I am only dis
charging my Constitutional duty to you
and to the public.” He charges the
legislature, though, that. "If the present
taxing system of Georgia is to be
abolished, then it is your duty to pro
vide on efficient and adequate substi
tute."
CAROUI HELPED
REGAIN STRENGTH
Alabama Lady Was Sick For Three
Years, Stiieriag Paia, Nervous
and Depressed—Read Her
Own Story of Recovery.
Paint Rock, Ala.—Mrs. C. M. Stegall,
Df near here,* recently related the fol
lowing Interesting account of her re
covery: “I was in a weakened con
dition. I was sick three years in bed.
suffering a great deal of pain, weak,
nervous, depressed. I was so weak,
l couldn’t walk across the floor; just
had to lay and my little ones do the
work. I was almost dead. I tried
every thing I heard of, and a number of
doctors. Still l didn't get any relief.
I couldn’t oat, and slept poorly. I
believe if I hadn’t heard of and taken
Cardul I would have died. X bought
six bottles, after a neighbor told me
what It did for her.
“I began to eat and sleep, began to
gain my strength and am now well
and strong. I haven't had any trou
ble since ... I sure jan testify to the
good that Cardul did me. I don't
think there is a better tonic made
and I believe it saved my life.”
For over 40 years, thousands of wo
men have used Cardul successfully.
In the treatment of many womanly
ailments.
If you suffer as these women did,
take Cardui. It may help you, too.
At all druggists. E 85
Hon. A. Corbett Announces.
The office of Representative in
the legislature from Atkinson
county was thought to be going
begging, but Hon. Aaron Corbitt,
of Willacoochee, jnst before leav
ing home for Atlanta for the 1922
session of the General Assembly,
hands the Tribune the announce
ment which follows. He has serv
ed the county as representative
one term, made the people a cap
able representative. His re-elec
tion would express the people’s
confidence in him and appreciation
of his past services. There is no
reason for having a heated earn
paign over this office; that is. the
Tribune sees none at this moment.
Read his announcement.
FOR REPRESENTATIVE.
To the qualifed voters of Atkinson
County:
I am a candidate for Representa
tive of Atkinson county, in the
primary to be held on the 13th of
September next.
I have served the people of this
county one year, and at one term
of the legislature, during which
time I have endeavored to render
the best service of which lam
capable.
It is my belief that during a
second term I will be in better
position to render worth while
service than 1 have been in this
my first term, for the reason that
1 will have the experience that is
at all times helpful in matters
pertaining to this office.
1 am heartily in favor of econo
my in the administration of the
state’s affairs, and will work hard
for a reduction in useless expendi
tures. looking to an ultimate re
duetion in taxation.
1 earnestly appreciate the honor
that the people of the county have
already bestowed upon me, and
will likewise appreciate a re elec
tion for another teem: promising
that iu that event 1 will strive at
ail times to render the best service
of whieli 1 am capable.
Very respectfully,
Aaron Corbitt.
I AM HERE TO SERVE.
Located in roomy quarters, in what is known as the
Sutton building, i am well prepared to serve you in
Cleaning, Dyeing, Mending and Pressing your clothes
and make them look like new clothes. I endeavor to
give entire satisfaction to my customers.
Ring Phone 75 and I will call for vour clothes and
and return them promptly. LEWIS SPEED.
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Address PEARSON TRIBUNE, Pearson, Ga.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
pR. B. S. MALONE,
Dentist
Office in Malone Block
PEARSON, GA.
piCKERSON, RIVERS & PENLAND,
Lawyers,
General practice in all courts, State and
I''ederal.
OFFICES At
Pearson, Homerville and Milltown, Georgia
RUFUS A. MOORE,
Attorney and Counselor.
Douglas, Georgia,
Office in the Union Bank building.
Practice in State and Federal courts.
LEON A. HARGREAVES,
Attorney and Counselor,
Pearson, Georgia.
j Office in the Pafford Building.
; Prompt attention given to business in both
j the State and Federal courts.
j QEORGE H. MINGLEDORFF,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR,
Office In the New Pafford Building
Pearson, Georgia
Practice in all the Courts, State and Federal
TALMADGE S. WINN,
Attorney and Counselor,
Pearson, Georgia.
Will do a general practice.
Office up stairs In the Pafford buildlng.front
room on the left hand side as you go up.
gF.NJ. T. ALLEN.
attorney and counselor
Offices In the Allen building.
Pearson. Georgia.
Will do a general practice in State and Fed
eral Courts.
B. FRANK GIDDENS,
Undertaker and Funeral Director
Burial Goods in Stock.
Pearson, - Georgia.
Atkinson Sheriff’s Sale.
< i KOltfl IA —Alt lnson i ounty.
Will be sold before the court house door in
said county, at Pearson, between the lawful
hours of sale on the first Tuesday in August
next, the following real estate:
A certain tract of land located and being in
the town of Willacoochee. containing one
half an acre. more or less, of original Lot of
Land No. Four hundred and seventy-eight
U7B>, In the Fifth (5) land district of Atkinson
county. Georgia, bounded north-by right-of
| way of the Atlantic Toast Line railroad, east
by land of George F, MeCranie, Sr., south by
Toffee avenue and west by land of Mrs. B. l.
Tonne 11.
Levied on as the property of s. Sheppard
and to be sold to satisfy an execution issued
from the Superior Court of Atklhson county
in favor of Dennis I*. Peterson and against S.
Sheppard. Property pointed out by Plain
tiff's Attorney. This the 29th day of June, 1922
E. D. leeggett, Sheriff A. C.
Typhoid Fever Increasing.
The Typhoid Fever season has
come and many, many, people in
| Georgia are still unprotected so far
!as being vaccinated is concerned.
I Time and again the State Board af
: Health and the County Boards of
j Health have sent out warnings and
advised, even begged, the people
to be vaccinated. Last year 798
people who turned a deaf ear to
such timely advice have already
crossed to the unknown.'
Any one who wants typhoid vac
cine this year had better order at
once. The supply is by no means
unlimited.
Order your vaccine from the
State Board of Health today, and
have your physician or health offi
cer administer it at once.
Ga. State Board of Health.
