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PEARSON #TRiB U NE
VOL B—NO.8 —NO. 18
HEWS OF OUR NEIGHBORS.
Gleanings from All Sections of
South Georgia.
The merchants of Waycross are
planning to have a trade week the
latter part of September. The
railroad strike has done much to
demoralize the trade current of
that city.
The Commissioners of Roads
and Revenues for Berrien county
has levied a tax of $17.50 on the
SI,OOO, for all purposes. The state
tax of $3.00 added will bring the
total up to $22.50 on the SI,OOO.
The second car load of sweet
potatoes for this season has beeu
shipped from Milltown. The La
nier county farmers are realizing a
satisfactory price for their pota
toes. This ear was shipped to
Middlesboro, Kentucky.
The farmers of Berrien county
are figuring on growing onions for
a money crop. If they are suc
cessful in growing them they will
be on the market in the early
spring—last of April or the first of
May—and com maud a good price.
Coffee county folks holding evi
dences of indebtedness against the
county board of education can't
evtm pay their school tax with it
The school tax money for 1921 is
pledged for borrowed money, and
the Board’s scrip can’t be hypoth
ecated at all, at all.
Some thoughtless personages
over Douglas way have beeu clear
ing Judge J. M. Freeman's desk of
the surplus lead pencils. The
Judge doesn’t like it; the Tribune
can see his frowning face when he
can’t find his choice Faber to write
a warrant or a fresh item for the
Note-Book.
Cordele will entertain the Geor
gia Agricultural Society and the
Georgia Horticultural Society next
week. September 6th and 7th. It
is understood that, unless Macon
interests shall pay off the indebt
edness of the State Flair that in
stitution will be transferred to
Savannah.
Local influences at Moultrie in
dicate that Colquitt county will
probably go for Hardwick in the
September primary. It is the
home of the Vereen’s who are
among his strongest supporters in
the State and with pro-German
leanings as is Hardwick. How
ever, there are some surprises com
ing to his supporters even in
Moultrie and Colquitt county.
The election down in Camden
county to determine the question
of moving the, county seat from
St. Marys to Woodbine has result
ed in favor of removal —and Wood
bine folks are rejoicing. But, sup
pose the Georgia legislature, as in
the Calhoun county case, sets
aside the vote of the people which
was overwhelmingly in favor of
removal from Morgan to Arling
ton. In that case the St. Marys
contingent would have the last
and better laugh.
The peoble of Moultrie, and all
of South Georgia as for that mat
ter, are very much exercised over
the order issued by the Federal
Trade Commission, directing Swift
& Comnany to divest themselves
of all interest it has in the Moult
rie Packing Plant on the ground
that the Company’s relation to
that plant is a violation of the
Clayton Act. A strong effort will
be made to have the order revoked
for the sufficient reason that this
plant is the great promoter of
stockraising in this section of
country. The withdrawal of Swift
& Company from the plant would
mean its death and South Georgia
can't afford to be without a first
class packing plant, such as the
present Swift & Company plant at
Moultrie.
McDonald to Succeed Candler.
It is not the Tribune's policy to
endorse any candidate for office;
however, it is making an exception
of Hon. Walter R. McDonald, the
blind candidate to succeed Hon.
Murphy Candler who is not a can
didate to succeed himself. If Mr.
McDonald is not competent no one
has let it be known, not even those
who are his opponents. It may,
then, be taken as true that he is
competent and worthy of the place.
The following is a short sketch of
his brave fight against an adversity
that few people, afflicted as he,
have been able to overcome;
Walter R. McDonald, we 1 1
known Legislator from Richmond
county, who has been a lawyer in
Augusta since his graduation from
the University of Georgia a mini
her of years ago, is a candidate for
the Railroad Commission to suc
ceed Hon. C. Murphy Candler,
who is not: a candidate for re-elec
tion.
Mr. McDonald is one of the best
known men in the state. He has
represented Richmond county in
the legislature for the past six
years and has always been elected
over strong opposition. He has
made a splendid legislator and his
vote on all the big questions of
the day has always been cast in
the interest of the people.
At the age of thirteen years
Mr. McDonald wa s suddenly
stricken blind. This great calami
ty, however, did not deter him
from his early ambition to become
a lawyer. He attended the Acad
emy for the Blind at Macon, the
Pennsylvania School for the Blind
and Brown College, and after com
pleting his courses in these schools
he was a student at the University
of Georgia, graduating in law.
Since his graduation he has prac
ticed law in Augusta with great
success.
Mr. McDonald has made iiisown
xvay in the world. He has worked
for everything he has accomplish
ed. He is married and has two
children. His friends in every
section of the state are rallying to
his support. Traveling in a Ford
automobile, driven by his wife, he
has beeu in more than one hun
dred counties of the state, and has
called on hundreds of people. It
is believed by his supporters that
he will be elected by a big majori
ty-
Bell Deserves It.
Since it is now definitely set tled
that Judge It. C. Bell, Governor
Hardwick’s appointee to the Geor
gia Court of Appeals to fill the un
expired term of the late Judge Ben
H. Ilill, is not going to be unop
posed in his candidacy for the long
term, The Messenger desires to
take this opportunity of saying
that he is a man who goes from his
home town, his borne county and
his home section with the assur
ance that he has their united sup
port, and without any fear whatso
ever that he will at any time be
the victim of propaganda issued
from his home section to the effect
that they do not think be is wor
thy of the post he seeks.
This is so much as to say that
Judgs Belt's home people feel that
hejhas earned his new high office by
services rendered, and that he fully
deserves such a recognition. This
is most certainly true, or the peo
pie of the Albany circuit would
never have allowed him to make
his second candidacy for solicitor
general and his candidacy for judge
unopposed.
He is a Christian gentleman, a
splendid lawyer, and he is well
fitted for the office in every respect.
As such a man. The Messenger
commends him to the serious at
tention of the press and people.
We are not serving political in
terests. and we are not making a
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1. 15)22
PERSONAL AND IMPERSONAL
Short Stories About People and
Things of Interest.
Mr. Roy E. Rowell, who is oppos
ing Congressman Lankford in the
Eleventh district, is making little
or no effort in his race. He adver
tises to speak in Douglas, but fails
to name the date.
Mr. Henry C. Morgan, a young
lawyer of Ilomerville, has entered
the race for the Fifth district sen
atorship. He is opposing Hon. W.
R. Dickerson, who is the present
representative, and the knowing
ones say the race will be close be
tween them.
Bishop W. N. Ainsworth, who
has succeeded Bishop \V. A, Cand
ler in this bishopric, will hold some
special meetings among the Meth
odists of Sou 111 Georgia before the
meeting of the annual conference
in November at Waycross.
Hon. T. A. Wallace, of Douglas,
is nursing a crippled mouth, the
outcome of a blow from a baseball
bat, which flew out of a batsman’s
hands. He was standing some
twenty-five feet away. It required
four stitches to close up the cut.
Judge John C. McDonald, the
Tribune is sorry to learn, is quite
ill at his home in Waycross. He
and the Tribune editor became ac
quaiutanees and friends reaching
back to the early days of Way
cross —more than forty years ago,
and that friendship has been last
ing. He hopes bis friend will be
spared yet many years.
The Republican party has given
the chairman of the State Central
Committee, J. Lewis Phillips, a
beautiful coat of whitewash and lie
will continue to dispense political
patronage to the faithful in Geor
gia. He has been indicted by the
grand jury of the Federal court of
the Disti of Columbia for swind
ling the government in a lumber
transaction at the close of the
world war.
Hon. John W. Lindsey, State
Pension Commissioner, died last
Saturday morning at his home in
Atlanta, aged 79. He is survived
by his second wife and three
children —Col. Julian R. Lindsey,
in the military service at Wash
ington; Mrs. Mary G. Carswell of
Irwinton and Mrs. B. S. Price of
Swainsboro. He has filled the
office of Pension Commissioner for
the pkst twenty five years.
Elder James Vining of Broxton,
a Baptist minister wha was well
known throughout this section of
country, died last Saturday morn
ing after a long illness. The inter
ment was at Mt. 7Aon cemetery,
where other members of the fami
ly are buried. He was a good man,
faithful to every trust reposed in
him. His ministry of the Word
was attended with a large degree
of success. He is survived bv two
sons —J. O. and G. W. Vining, who
now reside at Waycross. The lat
ter contracted and built the Pear
son Baplist Church.
political fight. But we simply
cannot pass up this opportunity of
saying to the pt*>ple fhat we are
willing and glad to voluntarily give
endorsement to his candidacy, the
reasons for our attitude being his
strong character, his unblemished
private life and bis splendid record
as a public official. —The Cairo
Messenger.
The 1922 tobacco market for
South Georgia closes today. It is
said that the grades of tobacco of
fered were better than any year
since tobacco growing became an
industry in this section and prices
correspondingly better, and the
growers are encouraged. They
have come to realize that if they
have a good grade of tobacco to
offer they will get a good price.
Is Dairying Profitable?
Every dairyman should ask him
self the question, "Is dairying
profitable!”, be able to answer it
and give reasons for his answer.
This should apply to every busi
ness but since it is so easy to get
this information in dairying there
is no excuse for running a dairy at
a loss for any great length of time.
On nearly every dairy farm a
few cows are kept at an excellent
profit, some at a small profit and
some at an actual loss. A study
of any herd of cows, unlsss they
have been very carefully selected,
will show' that there are wide vari
aliens in the production of milk
and butter fat and in the economy
of production. There arc always
individuals in a herd w'hich pro
duee milk more efficiently than
other individuals, making it pos
sible to grade the cows according
to their production and cost to
the owner.
Keeping a daily milk record and
making fat tests at regular inter
vals is the only satisfactory method
of determining what individual
cows do with t lie feed given them.
The cost of keeping such a record
is small and is more than offset
by the advantages (o be had from
the record. Having a daily milk
record makes it possible to feed
cows with the greatest economy.
Such records enable the herdsman
to detect sickness quicker than
otherwise would be possible. This
in turn enables him to avoid the
use of unwholesome milk and to
give prompt attention to the ani
mals in poor health. Daily records
also make it possible to judge tlie
work of different milkers. Experi
ments have shown that with cer
tain cows some milkers are able to
get as much as 25 per cent, more
milk than others.
The greatest advantage to be
had in having a record showing
the individuality of cows, of
course, is making it possible to
eliminate the unprofitable ones
and build up herds. A milker
might be able to determine a dif
ference between the very best and
poorest cows in a herd but he
would not know how to draw the
line of distinction in its proper
place without a record. The cow
giving the greatest amount of
milk is not necessarily the best
cow. This holds true also for the
cow giving the richest milk. Both
quantity and quality must be con
sidered for it is the total fat pro
duction that counts.
Beginners sbouid sWidy this
matter closely'. In purchasing
cows they should obtain informa
tion concerning the actual value of
animals under consideration. Poor
milkers are always for sale and
cause most of the discouragement
among-dairymen. A few unprofit
able cows probably caused many
dairymen to become discouraged
during the last few years. Such
discouragement might have been
avoided had the proper steps been
taken in selecting and eliminating
animals.
1). G. Supi.in'.s,
Animal Husbandman.
Reunion at Springhead.
To the Pearson Tribune and the
public generally:
As the time is drawing near for
our annual reunion meeting, em
brasing the first Sunday in Sep
tember, there to pay another
tribute of respect in honor to our
dear father. Roan I’afford, whero
we engage in preaching and song
service and prayer, has always
made it a well spent day with me.
I hope Newsom and Bascom can
meet with us this time at Spring
Head Church, 8 miles south of
Willaeooebee.
Sincerely,
J. M. Paffohp.
EDITORIAL OPINIONS.
The Brethren are Discussing a
Number of Live Topics.
The skeleton of a dead railroad,
which lies a half block away from
the News office, should lie a con
stant reminder and warning to
Milltown people to sustain the
living one with their business.
Milltown would be in a sorry plight
if her one iron artery was cut off.
It. wont do to be indifferent about
it. —Lanier County News.
Some one remarked that Coco
Cola made one Candler a Bishop,
one a Judge of the Supreme Court,
and several sous of Asa G. Candler
millionaires and from the front
page publicity of the latest Candler
scandal we can’t, find it in our heart
to blame Brother Geo. Rucker of
the Alpharetta Free Press for his
opposition to the drink. —Cornelia
Enterprise.,
While South Georgia is making
strides in the matter of diversified
farming and cooperative selling
and is doing good work in solving
the marketing problem of the “new”
farmer, South Carolina, just across
the river, is keeping pace. Increas
ed interest in dairying and in swine
raising are especially notable and
the truck growers have a long lead
on the truck farmers of this side
the Savannah. —Savannah News.
Bring us either five hens, ten
dozen eggs, a bushel of corn or two
loads of wood for a dollar, the old
price, and we will reduce the sub
scription price of the Nugget to
ten dimes. You see an editor can
not print a good paper at a low
price unless he can buy things the
same way. Why should an editor
work cheaper than any one else?
You must remember that they do
a lot of (hanky work any way, and
some times don’t get that. —Dali-
lonega Nugget.
We have yet to see a Georgia
newspaper that appears to be the
least bit proud of what the recent
State Legislature accomplished,
and for the most part there has
been a general "roast” of the legis
lators as a whole for the many
things they might have»done but
did not do. Summing up caustic
criticism of the State press it would
seem that the opinion generally
prevails that Atlanta is a hoodoo
to a legislative body, if that be
true, why not move the State
Capital to a smaller city! —where
farce-comedy might not be at so
high a premium.—Quitman Adver
tiser.
The beating up of strike-breakers
—and those merely suspected of
bei n g strike breakers —does nobod y
any good and does a great many
others much harm. It hurts the
cause of the unions seriously. It
is a reflection on them which they
do not deserve, for union members
generally are lawrespecting and
law abiding. The papers bring
daily accounts of the beating up of
men who have taken or offered to
take the places of strikers in the
railroad shops, and these outrages
inevitably alienate sympathy from
the unions, even though hotheads
in the union ranks are to blame for
them. Violence never has helped
settli a strike, and never will. It
only intensifies bitterness and
makes agreements more difficult. —
Albany Herald.
Valdosta has on a program that
is going to be a great help to the
town’s business. It is their pro
gram to build good roads from
every section leading into the
Lowndes capital. One of these
roads, running south, will be paved
to the county line. They have re
cently built the road to witiiiu a
few miles of Hay City, and the re
sult is the people of Ray city can
go to Valdosta with a deal less
trouble, and make the trip quicker,
81.50 A YEAR
LIVELY PRESS COMMENTS
Anent the Conduct and Doings
of Legislature Just Adjourned.
“BY THEIR FRUITS YE SHALL KNOW THEM.”
Selected by Hon. C. E. Stewart and Pub*
lithed at His Expense.
(From The Macon Telegraph.
About the most important thing
the legislature did this year was to
convene and adjourn. What it
did not do is of far more conse
quence.
It piled up work for the courts.
It plunged the state into debt,
by making appropriations and fail
ing to balance them off with
revenue measures.
It is a crime against the whole
State of Georgia that a scientific
agricultural program was not pro
vided for in connection with the
state farm, provision made for edu
cating illiterates, proper periodical
inspection instituted through some
channel not interested in ’’covering
up,” and a warden general put in
direct charge of the entire state
prison system, who would be en
abled to make other needed reforms.
If there is anything more child
ish than destroying a state’s in
come without enacting a substitute,
it is that of making appropriations
without creating revenue to meet
them. As long as a man has some
thing to take to the pawnshop, his
wife can make debts in excess of
what his salary will pay; but after
he has pawned to the extent of his
treasures, the debt-making must
stop.
The Georgia legislature, however,
(Continued on Page Two.)
Efficiency or Friendship?
Many a vote will be cast in the
approaching primary solely upon
the basis of friendship, and with
no thought of qualification—or the
want of it —of the candidated thus
favored. We do not decry the
fullest exercise of friendship, be
cause we believe the world would
be infinitely better off if there
were more real friendship in it,
but we do regard the matter of
qualification of prime importance,
and we do believe it should be the
deciding factor in determining for
whom a vote should be cast. The
question of efficiency on the part
of public officials is of paramount
importance to all of us, and it
should not be swept aside merely
that a personal friend may be fav
ored with our vote. We should
bear in mind that to the common
run of us the ballot is the only
means we have of effectively ex
pressing our convictions as the
character of government we shall
have over us. We shall never ar
rive at anything like the ideal in
government until every voter lays
aside personal predilections and
votes his honest convictions for
the best qualified man. Indeed,
we think we do not go wrong to
assert that that voter who uses his
ballot to punish some grievance,
either real or fancied, is guilty of
postive sin against the government.
Public office is public trust, and
concerns every citizen for good or
ill, and it therefore follows that
loyalty to the highest ideals of
citizenship demands that careful
scrutiny of the qualifications of
the several candidates be bad, and
that, the vote be given to that
one likely to prove most efficient
in office. If friendship alone is to
decide for whom we shall vote we,
at least, owe it to ourselves and
to the generai public, to remember
that our own welfare as a citizen
is involved equally with that of
the general public, and that we
can exercise a very effective sort
of the friendship by voting for
efficiency. —Blackshear Times.
than they can come to Nashville,
though Nashville is much nearer.
Good roads are the best asset any
town can have. Some of ours are
beginning to show a need of repair.
Let’s rebuild these roads and bring
that good tobacco money here in
stead of letting it go elsewhere.—’
Nashville Herald,