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PEARSON ft TRiBUNE VOL B—NO. '2B SOUTH GEORGIA. The Social and Material Activi ties of Our Neighbors. The farmers of Colquitt county are so impressed with tobacco as a money crop that they will plant largely of the w 7 eed next year. Go slow, three acres to the one horse farm is a large acreage. The Albany South Georgia Fair, held in Albany last week, is pro nounced by visitors to have been a great success. The promoters con fined its influence to Albanys’ im mediate trade territory. The people of Alma are com plaining seriously of the mail service our “Uncle Samuel” is ac cording. They say it is of the most indifferent character, just a little better than none at all. Milltown and contiguous terri tory is to be the Mecca of many sportsmen this winter. Mr. J. Isom Davis of Nashville is the pro moter of the project and he has thoroughly advertised it as the "Sportsman’s Paradise.” The City Council of Valdosta receded from its ordinance, fixing a license tax of $250 for selling ap ples by the ear load, when the wo men of that city took occasion to demand its repeal. Eve causes Adam to eat another apple, as it were. Owing to a heavy indebtedness the Metter public schools had to suspend its work. This aroused the citizens to a sense of the situa tion and they promptly took the matter in hand and raised $10,050 by public subscription to lift the indebtedness and reopen the school. That is the kind of loyalty that counts. The municipal politics of Doug las are growing interesting, if not breezy. A complete ticket has been announced; but to liven up matters some citizens appear dis gruntled and are raking the city over, as with a fine tooth comb, to find opposing candidates. They have not as yet solicited the dear women. A couple of Ware county farm ers at Millwood, Messrs. Smith and Musgrove, will experiment in shipping cream to the Ashburn creamery. Their experiment will be on a small scale, only six cows, but they will keep an accurate debit and credit account against the experiment, so as to determine its success. The suggestion of Mr. Will O. Parker, junior member of the law firm of Parker & Parker, of Way cross, for the business men of that city to assume the burden of plac ing the local paper, Journal-Herald, in every white family in Ware county during 1923, is a most ex cellent one. It is the best boost Waycross could get from any source. The trial gular block, at Way cross, formerly occupied by the LaGrande Hotel, was sold at auc tion a few days ago for $23,000. The purchaser will now “take a day off” and decide what be is going to do with it. Unimproved it will take many a year for its value to increase beyond what he paid for it. And. then, real estate is just now on the descending scale. Tbomasville has set the proper pace in drawing small factories to her aid in w inning prosperity. Her latest acquisition in this line is a packing plant for fruits and veget ables. There was a tannery there dnring the civil war and it should be restored, and that will invite a factory to supply the local demand for shoes. The older people wore home made shoes and why not the younger set? They may not be as good looking or as costly as those bought from distant factories; but they will serve the same purjmse. Flowers While Living. During the past twelve months the Tribune and its editor have been the recipients of many encomi ums. aromatic boquets, but none of them are more appreciated than the following from the Thomasville Press, edited by S. W. Davis, w hich is itself a strong exponent of those things which aie right, striking with a boldness born of confidence of the positions assumed. Here is the boquet: “The best edited, printed and all around small country newspaper in Georgia is the Pearson Tribune. Editor Beu Allen is one of the few old time practical printers that is to be found these days still in the business. He knows the business in detail from the "Devil” to Editor in Chief, and is a clean, conscien tious, able writer who knows a real new T s item. His four-page, six col umn Tribune, is read with more genuine pleasure than any paper that reaches our exchange table, and we hope he will live fifty 7 years more and keep it going like it is now, together with all the success and prosperity that may be deriv ed from printing a good paper.” The editor’s long time friend, Judge Jos. W. Rennet, of Bruns wick, says: “I read every week practically everything in the Pear son Tribune. Your editorials are sane and sound and should be beneficial to your patrons.” Pecans South Georgia Crop. That the Pecan nut is a South Georgia crop has become to be axiomatic, and it is destined to play a prominent part in the ma terial progress of this section of the State. This fact is shown by the increased attention being given to the planting of groves in every part of South Georgia. Jt will play the same part for the prosperity of South Georgia that the Apple groves are doing for North Georgia. Superiority of the North Georgia Apples and of the South Georgia Pecans have come to he recognized wherever they are placed under comparison. The result is tiiat increased acre age is being planted in Apples in Habersham and other counties of North Georgia, and increased acreage is being devoted to Pecans in every 7 county of South Georgia. The demand for both is increasing and it will be many years, if ever, the supply will be adequate to the demand. Although it takes many years to bring a Pecan tree into commercial value, the Tribune does not hesi tate to advise the young farmers of Atkinson county to start them a grove of the very best grade of paper shell pecans. Plant sixteen trees to the acre, and one acre a year, until you have not less than a five acre grove. With proper care these trees will, in ten years, be worth SSOO an acre. And while the trees are growing the land will not be lost to you for growing other crops, and, in fact, will prove advantageous to the trees to plant leguminous crops —peas, corn and velvet beans, followed by oats, rye or wheat, on the land. But to succeed with pecans the trees must be given careful study and prompt and wisely directed attention. They must be mulched with vegetable mold, fed on iron and potash, and kept clear of weeds and other growth. Georgia farmers are not the only ones now seriously studying the marketing problem. Merchants and bankers and professional lead ers all over the state are doing their best thinking just now on the practical question of a partic able solution of the one big prob- I lem for the Georgia producei—the I matter of his future, steady, con | tinuing, profitable, all-tbe-year market for the staff he can easily i make. —Savannah News. Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEARSON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY. NOVEMBER 10. 1922 PURELY PERSONAL. Short Stories About Men and Women in the Public Eye. Mr. Thomas W. Overstreet has been assigned to Florida territory as postoftice inspector—all of West Florida on the west side of the Appalaehicola river, and embrac ing ten or eleven counties. It is probable this appointment will eliminate him as an applicant for postmaster at Douglas. Judge Raleigh Eve, of theTifton judicial circuit, is holding Cook superior court for Judge R. G. Dickerson. The term lasts two weeks. Judge Eve, by his suave manner, w ins friends wherever he holds court and dispatches the business. The citizens of Adel and Cook county will be pleased will) him. ltis given out from Waycross, where the annual South Georgia Conference is soon to meet, that Rev. W. M. Biitch the Methodist pastor at Douglas, is to be given a secretaryship (hat will take him out of the itineracy. In that event be will become a resident of Nash ville, Tenn. Me is credited with being well equipped for the job to which he will be elevated. News has reached this office of the approaching marriage of Miss Grace Thompson, the young lady who taught a Sunday-School teach er’s class in Pearson some weeks since, and Elder J. 11. Bush, the present pastor of the Baptist church at Jesup. Miss Thompson, l> V her charm of manner, won many friends in Pearson during the few days she was here who will wish her bon voyage on the sea of matrimony. Elder S. S. Mathis, just as the Tribune predicted, has accepted the pastorate of Immanuel Baptist church in Savannah. He is well known and very highly regarded in this section, where he did some evangelistic work only a few years ago. He has been pastor of Hart well Baptist church. Hart county, up to the time be resigned to ac cept the Savannah call. He and his wife are visiting relatives and friends in Berrien and Gook count ies before they go to his Savannah work. Editor W. T. Shy tie announces that The Adel News has been un der his management for twenty years, during which time Adel has experienced many changes in growth and importance. From a way station on the Georgia South ern and Florida railroad she has become the Capitol City, with more than two thousand popula tion, of the splendid new county of Cook. Editor Shy tie and his paper have been no mean factors in lead ing up to the splendid position which Adel has taken in the public eye. The Tribune and its editor extends heartiest congratulations. Gov. T. W. Hardwick is reported as having taken a dislike to the name first selected “Georgia Crack er'' for his new weekly political newspaper, and has now decided to call it “The Georgia Democrat.” This is a joke on the old fashioned Georgia democrats who are some thing that Hardwick is not. He says he will wage a fight for the abolition of the county unit system of electing state officials; for the state to pay the expenses of bold ing the primaries together with the printing and distributing the ballots. The county unit system did not affect him in bis last two races as there was an overwhelm ing popular vote against him. The counties of the state are already paying the expenses of holding the general election in November, and there can be no logic for saddling the cost of the primaries on the State. Better abolish the primaries —the Tribune has never seen their political value. The Law to Cure Evils. When Adam and Eve trans gressed the Divine law evil was introduced to the world, it has remained to this day—it meets us daily face to face, and will so eon tiuue until the consummation of of ail things. To combat evil man has been endowed with a will power which must be exercised in choosing whether he shall do good or evil. From the great Creator comes to him the command, “Choose ye this day whom ye will serve.” No where in the Book of Books, "God’s revealed will to man,” is there a single precept citing man to human laws as a cure for evil, nor does it authorize men to waste their time, their energy, their talents nor their means in an iff fort to set aside or place evil out of the reach of man. The Book points out tlx* destructiveness of siu or evil —“The wages of sin is death.” The Divine command is to “shun the very appearance of evil.” Human laws cannot destroy evil from the world. This task is ad dressed to the individual, and the individual is given the privilege and i lie power, by accepting Him who came to earth to bear the world’s sin in His own body, to resist the temptation to do evil and to thus destroy evil as it concerns himself, it is an individ ual duty to live right, to teach by precept and example righteousness that those coming within the radius of our influence may learn to choose to eschew evil and cleave to that which is good. Human legislation cannot de stroy evil from the world and all efforts in that direction will prove futile. Remember, also, individ uals cannot shift personal response bilities on the makers of law. Cheap Excursion to Atlanta via A., B. & A. November 9th. Round triii fare from Waycross s(;.<)<>. Tickets sold for regular t rains, November 9th, good to leave Atlanta returning not later than Sunday night, November 12th. Tickets good in sleeping ears. Ask A.. B. &. A. ticket agent or write W. W. Croxton, I’. T. M., Atlanta, Georgia. The Haunted Houses. Speaking of the “haunted house” at Pablo Beach, near Jacksonville, Fla., the Valdosta Times says: “There is no ‘haunted house,’ though, to compare with one at Surrency in this State, some thirty years ago. Thousands of people visited it and saw the inexj livable doings of the ‘haunts,’ such asseat tering furniture about the rooms, breaking dishes, mirrors and other articles.” The Tribune editor was at that time an attachee of “The South Georgia Times,” now “The Valdos ta Times,” and it is his recollection that the “Surrency Hotel mystery” occurred fifty or more years ago. It is true that many newspaper re porters, including Mr. C. R. Pendle ton, went to Surrency during the mysterious happenings, and left without obtaining definite evidence of what was causing the disturb ances. Mr. Pendleton said many the ories were advanced as to the cause of the strange phenomenon, but none of them satisfactory. The newspapers have reported a number of “haunted houses” re cently. There was one at Black shear, one at Albany and now this one at Pablo Beach. In the cases at Blackshear and at Albany it re quired two or three days investiga tion to discover the human agen cies that were directing the “haunt” activities. How the Pablo Beach case may turn out is un known, but it is a fact that the “Surrency Hotel mystery” has re mained unexplained to this day so far as the Tribune editor is advised. NEWS AND VIEWS. Editorial Opinions Expressed by Tribune Contemporaries. The speech of acceptance of Senator George at the eouven tion in Macon Saturday was a very able one. Judge George is an orator and his speech on that oc casion stated clearly the things that he stands for. —Adel News. Slowly (he pecan tree is forcing its value upon the people of this section. Some day people will learn that they can put their land to no better use than growing pecans for market. ()u!y a limited territory can grow pecans, but all the people of the world like to eat them. —Oeilla Star. Senator-elect Walter George made a splendid impression at the Macon convention last Saturday when he delivered his speech of acceptance. It has been pronounc ed by the press everywhere as be ing a masterpiece, well delivered, and the Senator to-be left no doubt as to where he stood on all national and international questions. Judge George is going to stay in the senate a long number of years, is our prediction.—Douglas Enter prise. There is a good deal of talk about the need of law enforcement. All of us are for it, of course. But might we not accomplish some thing by talking about law observ ance! It is better to observe the the law than to enforce it. Pre vention is better than cure. If all of us who claim to belong to the better class of people will set out to observe the law, and will use our influence to got others to do so, the matter of law enforcement will lake care of itself to a largo extent. —Dawson News. It having been demonstrated that a boll weevil can be frozen stiff without suffering any serious injury or lowered vitality, the statement is made that another of the old theories is knocked in the head. But a pest that can stand one freeze may not be able to stand twenty or more, and it still seems to be a good idea to send the boll weevil into winter quarters weak and hungry. And the advice of departments of agriculture to destroy the cotton stalks as soon as picking is over still stands. — Albany Herald, There is to be another investiga tion of the prison camps of the state. This one is to be made at the request of Governor Hardwick, who has acted at the request of a committee representing the Com mittee on Church Co-operation which called on the Governor Wednesday. The general com plaint. coming from different sources, is that prisoners in Geor gia camps are brutally flogged and are often given inhuman treatment. The investigation requested by the Governor will be made by the Prison Commission. —Albany Her ald. Senator-Elect George’s speech of acceptance was another most agreeable surprise. In it be dis played a knowledge of national af fairs that many doubted he pos sessed. It also demonstrated a diplomacy and tact worth a mil lion to a politician. It has started him out in the high and important station he is to fill with the very best of feeling back of him. Even his blood and thunder opponents admit that he is clean, able and a thorough gentleman. May his shadow never grow less, and may he render a service that will retain the respect aud good fellowship that now exists for him in his home state. With it he will have a weapon that cannot fail to make him a valuable Senator. —Tbomas- ville Press. $1.50 A YEAR Lost Time. From the Blackshear Times The average man seems to regard time as his least valuable possession, if one may judge by the use ho makes of it; aud yet time is the one thing a man may lose and may not recover. Rost money may be found: lost property may be re covered; lost reputation may here gained, but time lost is lost for ever. This very fact makes it encumbent upon every man to use his time that the greatest possible good may follow his efforts. Every consideration of self-interest, as an enlightened sense of his personal responsibility to his fellows, should impel a man to the utmost exercise of wisdom in the expenditure of his most priceless possession—time. And yet how 7 forgetful most of us are, and how recklessly we throw away our time. We do not seem to remember that “today we live but tomorrow 7 we die.” There is always something that needs to be done, and no man in the full pos session of his mind need ever lack for something to do. God has given us six days in which to do all our needful work, aud a seventh day in which to rest and render worship unto Him; bnt for the average man the one day iu seven is insufficient and numerous other days of rest are added, to the hurt of all. Let it be understood that every indi vidual member of society is depend ent upon every other member, and that when one fails that failure in creases the burdens of all the rest, and then we shall understand how vital to the common good it is that every man shall wisely use the full six days for honest toil. There is no way of computing the material loss that accrues to the people of this county from loss of time every year, but the sum were it known would be staggering. If every one who is physically able to work in Pierce county would put in full time at some productive employ ment for one year every debt that they owe would be paid and we would take front rank among the progressive and prosperous people of the land. The man who idles not only adds to his own misfor tunes but increases the burdens and problems of the worker. Lost time accounts, for the great bulk of our present day troubles We know the remedy. Let’s rpply it! We are in the market for Heart Pine, Sap Pine, Cypress and mixed Oak ties. High est prices paid. Write for prices and specifications. Mutual Timber Company, Brunswick, Ga. The Young at Heart. It's a great thing to stay young. Only those who bruise themselves against the world grow old. There ought to be as much joy aud just as much expectancy in our last years as in our first ones. Wo ought, to continue to look forward and upward to the end of life. The last year of our existence on this earth can be just as pleasant and should have just as many thrills as any other year. It all depends upon the w 7 ay we have accustomed ourselves to looking at things. We are not here to fret and fume but to sing and labor and to be happy. We are not here to envy our neigh bors but to wish them well and to lend them a helping hand. We are not here to grumble and com plain but to keep sweet aud look pleasant. We are not here to tail but to succeed —in fact we are here to be useful, happy and suc cessful. And all the years of our life can be bright and thoroughly enjoyable if we will but align our selves with the laws of our Creator and go forward. —Winder News.
