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About Pearson tribune. (Pearson, Ga.) 191?-1955 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1922)
PEARSONftTRiBUNE VOL B—NO. IT PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL Short Stories About People and Things of Interest. Hon. Warren K. Dickerson, down in Clinch county, is having a lone some race for senator to represent the Fifth district in the General Assembly of 1923 4. Hr. Claude F. Hanlon, late of the Lanier County News, was in Pearson Wednesday of last week and made the Tribune a pop call. Yes, he looks like his daddy, acts like his daddy and is very near as good as his daddy. He didn’t articulate about his future. Messrs. John M. Dame and Folks Huxford are measuring their popularity with the people of Clinch county to determine which of them will represent her in the legislature. Both are nice young men, gallant and attractive, and would represent the county all right. Editor Dan. G. Bickers, of the Savannah News, has returned from his vacation, and his departments of the paper are brighter than ever before. The country folks have missed him sure enough. The Tribune trusts his vacation was a pleasant one, and he feels the bet ter for it. Senator Dan Wall has it in for Jim Holomou, of the Atlanta Con stitution, for scattering it abroad that he had been stricken with paralysis. Dan was home sick and as soon as he came home and breathed a little South Georgia ozone he was ready to go back and finish the session. Former United States Senator Janies K. Vardeman will have to run in a second primaries against former Congressman Hubert I). Stephens to determine which shall occupy the seat in the United State’s senate now occupied by Senator John S. Williams, who will retire at the end of his term. Bishop John C. Kilgo, of the Southern Methodist church died last Thursday at his home in Charlotte, N. C. His illness dates back to the General Conference, held in Oklahoma. He was car ried to his home and gradually grew w’orse until the end. The funeral and interment occurred Saturday—when Bishop Chandler, of Atlanta, officiated. The legislative line-up in Cook county is now complete. The qualified candidates are .1. If. Ken non ami .1. T. Rowan for the Sen ate and J. S. Jones and G. D. Lovett for the House. They are all firstclass citizens and the dis trict and county will be well re presented it matters not which are elected, but somehow the Trib one leans a little to Rowan and Lovett, and would like to see them strut around in the garb of legis lators. Mr. Charlie Minshew went to Sandersville Tuesday of last week and became a member of the pitch ing staff of that city’s ball team. He was sent in against Sparta on Wednesday and after pitching two innings faultlessly he had to be retired to satisfy the Spartans and keep them in the game. The stranger from South Georgia han dled the sphere so dexterously it gave them a fright. Mrs. M. E. Hendry, wifeof Vice- President Hendry of the National Bank of Tifton is dead. She was a sister of Mr. George E. Mc- Cormick. a former employee of the Tribune, and was well known throughout.this section —at Hazle hurst, Douglas, Fitzgerald. Ocilla. She was a woman of culture and a lovable disposition, and her many friends mourn her departure. She died in a sanitarium in Atlanta. Subscribe for the Tribune; quit borrowing from your neighbor. South and the Negro. The desertion of the Negro by the Republican party has awaked new interest in that race by South ern whites. Notwithstanding the estrangement of the Negro at the close of the Civil War, and the consequent bitterness which grew out of it, there has been and still remains a tenderness in the hearts of a vast majority of Southern white people for the Negro —the descendants of former slaves, and they stand for their protection aud advancement in those things that will make t heir freedom and citi zenship real. There must be re stored confidence between the races before such conditions can be realized. The thinking people of the South have reached the eonculsion that now is the opportune time to extend help toward their educa tional and industrial growth. Sep arated from those Republican pro pagandist, who took pleasure in poisoning their minds and leading them toward unattainable goals, the uncorrupted and unspoiled Negro is ready to receive Southern instruction and agl in their devel opment. The restoration of con fidence between the Negro and the Southern white man can bean accomplished fact now that they have been ruthlessly cut loose from those who beguiled them in the early years of their emancipa tion. Just now the so-called "Negro problem” is perhaps more serious than ever, and will continue until an adjustment of the situation can be arranged; the process may be slow, but it w ill come and with it happiness and prosperity. The Macon Telegraph, discussing this momentous subject, asserts that "Perhaps no people have ever been confronted with more serious problem than confronts the whole white people and the best element of the negro race in the South. We are allowing to burn instead of putting out fires that threaten to get beyond our control. Edu cation and Christianity must come to the rescue, and there is no time to lose.” The Telegraph states the rela i ionship existing: “The negro did not leave his original home in Africa on his own free will; he was forcibly per suaded to come to America. We of the South settled him here and made him a part of our household, and looked after him as we did our children as regards proper training. He is still a part of our household, although the status of legal ownership has departed, and the white people of the South are as responsible for this race of peo ple as they are for their own child ren. If one neglects his children in the matter of training, he will surely reap what he has sown and pay for the neglect; and the same holds good as regards that part of our household, the negro. The murders that occur on the part of members of the negro race consti tute no more than the punishment that the Southern white people must bear for neglecting “child ren” that are in dire need of better attention and guidance.” The Telegraph also suggests the remedy: “Jf wre did our duty, there would be a compulsory short course training school in the smallest village and the largest city, conducted directly by South ern white people, with white in structors. to give to the negro youth that training and instruc tion, that basic enlightenment which every race —and this race especially—so needs in the business of life. Not, however, that the negro teachers would be excluded; there would be more of them. The negro educators and ministers have saved the situation as it is, as upon Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEAIISON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. AVGUST 25. 1922 NEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS. Gleanings from All Sections of South Georgia. The boud issue of $30,000 to re build the Stewart couuty court house. which was burned some time ago, has been validated. Work on the new building will begin as soon as the bonds are sold. There is a disturbance over in Irwin county over the purging of the registration lists. From the newspaper cards being published, dealing in inerimnations, it is be ginning to look unfortunate that charity does not prevail to a great er extent.. It is hoped the gentle men will consider their ways and let their anger cool off. Lowndes county entered into competition with the bidders for building twelve miles of paved road in that county connecting the city with the Florida line, be ing a part of the National High way, and won the job at the cost of $129,197.31, or a little more than $10,500 per mile. No profits were figured into her bid. It is told that a number of Lowndes county farmers around llahira had made applications for money from long Joan concerns, thought they would supply them selves while the getting was good, hut their tobacco crops have brought them all the money they needed, and now they are cancell ing their applications for loans from the Loan Companies. Failure to maintain order charge, before Mayor Cowart and the Bo lice Committee of Way cross, has caused a general shake-up of the police force of that city. Kidnap ping and beating up people has occurred frequently in the city since the strike began and nobody arrested, or cases made against anyone, is the causes of the officers being dismissed. Nahunta, down in Brantly coun ty, is planning a big day on Sep tember 2nd. The speakers will be Hon. Clifford Walker, candidate for governor; Hon. John W. Quin cey, candidate for judge of the Waycross judicial circuit, and lion. Joe B. Strickland, one of the can didates for the legislature from Brantley county. There will be something good to eat at noon and amusements galore in the after noon. The “Nantabala Farm,” is one of the most picturesque points in Liberty county. It is owned by George M. Brown, a brother of Ex- Governor Joseph M. Brown, and he has perhaps the largest hog ranche in the State. The farm is located on Colonel’s Island, near Dorchester, on Midway river, and near the eastern prong of the Dix ie Highway, and many travelers on the highway visit the farm as a place of great interest, and an object lesson in hog raising. To add to the industrial unrest at Waycross an attack was made upon the Atlantic Coast Line shops in that city Wednesday night of last week. Jt is stated. Two ex plosions, believed to have been caused by dynamite, and a perfect fusilade of shots, both in thedirec tion of the shops, brought the rail road police, city police, the county sheriff and a detachment of the military to the scene in quick time. They found signs of the fusilade, but no clue to who were the guilty parties. It occurred about 11:45 at night aud, whether guilty or not, it will reflect no credit upon the men who are out on strike. their shoulders has fallen the burden of guiding the race. But a sufficient show of interest on the part of the white people, an inter est openly manifest, is lacking,with resulting disasters that Georgia has almost lead other states in suffering.” Candidates for Commissioner. The Bill of Representative Cor bett and Senator Wall, which be came a law before the close of the legislature just past, provides that each militia district of Atkinson county shall elect its own member of the Board. Hence, voters will not be permitted to vote for any candidate for Commissioner save one of those announced from his own district. The new law also provides that all candidates for County Commis sioner in Atkinson county must be freeholders —that is must have a fee simple title to a tract of land, even if it be but a small one. The new law has created some con fusion among the candidates who announced prior to its passage, but as the Tribune is informed that all the candidates are freeholders there is no reason for further con fusion or friction. The candidates —Messrs. Minchew, Cowart and Mathews in the Axson district; Douglas, Maneil and Sutton in the Pearson district, McCranic and Peterson in the Willacoochee dis trict —are all gentleman of high character, and so far as the Trib one is advised are qualified under the law to make the race and hold l he office. It is only nineteen days to the primary election, when the voters must make choice between the candidates of their district, and the Tribune feels sure that each votin' will go to the polls and cast his or her vote for the candidate whom they conscientiously believe is the most competent to fill the office to the best interest of the county as a whole. All personal considerations should be layed aside and the county’s best inter ests given a “square deal” in your ballot. Cows Cotton Grower Friend Beginning with 1918, each year has been a long step ahead for H. B. Goodson of Florence. S. C., a locality where the cattle tick has been eradicated. Here arc the steps, year by year: 1918 — Raising cotton and tobac co and enough corn to feed the mules. In the fall he had a 20- acre patch of fine rye for a cover crop, but it looked too good to be left uneaten. So he borrowed money at the bank and bought a few cows with the idea of fatten ing them and putting them on the market in December or January. But, unexpectedly, three of the cows dropped calves. They proved to be fairly good milkers and he started selling the milk to a dis tributing plant in a town near by. In the spring he bought 4 more grades, bringing the total up to 7. 1919 — Continued milking the 7 cows. In the fall 7 more grades were added at prices ranging from $35 to $65 a head. 1920 — Some of the neighbors had bought Guernseys which were much superior to the cows of the locality. In February, Mr. Good son bought 3 purebred cows, and at a sale in March he bought 2 more. 1921 — This year the manure showed its value in building up the soil. On a field that had been treated with 5 loads to the acre, with 50 pounds of nitrate of soda at the last plowing, corn produced 55 bushels to the acre. Previous ly 35 bushels had been a good yield on this land. 1922 — This year the fields that have been receiving manure will make 3 to 1 over fields that have not been manured. But the whole story is not that of increase in soil fertility brought about by keeping cows. Mr. Good son now has a herd of 12 purebred Guernseys, 10 cows and 2 bulls. Last December he sold a bull calf to a bull association in the State EDITORIAL OPINIONS. The Brethren are Discussing a Number of Live Topics. That idea advanced by the Echols county conscientious ob jectors to the dipping law is not an original one —all of us would obey the laws if they were amend ed to suit our own personal ideas and convenience.—Tifton Gazette. An authority says that Georgia is importing annually 300,000,000 pounds of im%t, that we are rais ing only a small per centage of what we eat. As long as this eon ditiou prevails we need not expect prosperity. Truly there is need for a real hog and hominy cam paign.—Ocilla Star. Another jolt for the taxpayers. They are going to investigate the high express rates. There are many big grafts, but one of the biggest is the American Railway Express Company, and for a num ber of years the people have been actually robbed in express charges. —Dawson News. That committee which stated that Brunswick was a commercial cemetery, have no doubt, found that they were wrong. The people of Brunswick are progressive, but even though they were not, it does not behoove state officials to make such ungentlemanly remarks. But it must be remembered that Gover nor Hardwick was on this commit tee and Savannah’s voting capacity is far ahead of Brunswick’s. —Na- irn nta Banner. The shopmen’s strike up to to day has resulted in a large num ber of worthy men being out of employment for seven weeks, many to remain out; many have become soured and hardened and some of them criminals. The whole organ ization has lost ground, in morale if not in morals, and no one has profited but the kid-glove gentry who have continued to draw their fat salaries and watch the struggle from afai —Valdosta Times. The most patient man in the country is the farmer. The sea sons may be against him for mak ing a good crop and the prices he obtains for that he does make may be swallowed up by exhorbitant transportation charges, but he goes on the even tenor of his way with out thought of striking or wreak ing- vengeance on any one. Sup pose the fanners of this country decided to go on a strike for one year and produce just enough food stuff for their own families, what a great howl would go up and what suffering would ensue! After all, the farmer is the most patriotic man of all and with more regard for his fellow man than nearly any other class of people-—Adel News. for $250. He is keeping another bull calf for which he was offered $750. “Besides producing direct re turns,” says Mr. Goodson, “my cows by supplying me with a regular income, enabled me to hold my cotton crop until the price went up. I have raised most of my own feed, and as a result keeping cows has meant little out lay in money except for the animals themselves. In the fall of 1819, I sold my farm and have been rent ing since that time. I am now buying another farm and expect to build a silo soou. “In the spring of 1919, I was getting 11 cents a point for each per cent, of butterfat per gallon of milk —about 50 cents a gallon — and for 125 days 7 cows brought me sl2 a day. Prices for milk and butterfat are lower now, but they are high euough to make dairying profitable.” Subscribe for the Tribune, quit borrowing from your neighbor. $1.50 A Y EAR Hardwick or Walker. The Bulloch Times, whose editor is a careful and logical dissector of persons and things, has this to say of the respective merits of the two gubernatorial candidates. Read what he has to say: “We have tried to find something tangible in his favor, and have fail ed. He proclaims that he has tak en the State out of debt and placed it on a sound basis. But has he? The State was behind something like two million dollars. It had an annual income from the rental of the State road approximating half a million dollars. He procur ed an advance payment of five year’s rental and paid up the press ing obligations. Then he fathered a scheme to put a tax on gasoline for five years to replace the income he had discounted. If it is states manship to collect in advance the rents annually due the State, and permit a discount of hundreds of thousands of dollars on the trans action, then Governor Hardwick is entitled to class himself as a states man. He has talked much alioufc safe and sound financiering —pay as you go —but if he has brought any results from his talk, we are still looking for the results. “Having considered these things about Governor Hardwick, we find ourselves looking for something to approve in Clifford Walker. We find that his record is one of mod est Christian service to his people and his State. While Tom Hard wick iu the United States senate was obstructing Wilson’s war meas ures, we remember Cliff Walker was giving his personal efforts throughout Georgia, sparing not time nor expense in behalf of his country. We find him loyal iu every word and deed, building in stead of destroying where bis coun try needed builders. "Some of Cliff Walker’s enemies say he is not a strong man. We find that whatever strength he has, is for the right. He hasn’t promised much, and if elected possibly would not do so much; few men do as much as they promise—few men intend to do all they promise. Hardwick’s friends of two years ago charged that he has done very little he promised then. We are not condemning him for what he has failed to do; but we cannot bring ourselves to forget the things he did before he went in.” How Elder O’Steen Died. From the Metter Advertise**. Rosemary church, in the north ern part of Candler county, last Saturday was selected by grim visaged Death as the place for ending the labors in the pulpit for forty five years of Elder J. A. O’Steen of Nichols, Coffee county, who succumbed to what is believed to have been an attack of heart disease at about two o’clock in the afternoon. The regular meeting of the Alabaha association, with several visiting ministers and delegates in attendance, was in session, Elder B. A. Thornton of Brantley couuty having delivered the morning ser mon and Elder O’Steen following in a discourse of fervor and power from the text, “Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature. Toward the close of his discourse, the preacher bow ed his head and exclaimed, “I’m give out,” falling backward and calling on those nearby for help. Elder Thornton and Elder Bryant of Bacon county threw their arms around the stricken man and assist ed him to the floor, applying first aid, under the impression that the preacher had fainted. After a brief struggle and a gasp or two. it was seen that death had come, and Elder O’Steen’s body was tenderly laid on the floor of the pulpit to which he had devoted the larger portion of bis life.
