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PEARSONIITRIB UNE
VOL B—NO. 32
SOUTH GEORGIA.
The Social and Material Activi
ties of Our Neighbors.
The thanksgiving holiday in
South Georgia, so far as the Trib
une has information, was spent
quietly and with no John Barley
corn demonstrations.
It is stated that the farmers of
Colquitt county, in addition to the
hogs reserved for home consump
lion, have sold 10,000 head to the
Moultrie packing house.
It is stated that the Bank of
Bay City, Berrien county, will
finance the growing of cotton in
that section of the county. It
may be wise of them to do so, but
some folks seriously doubt it.
The Way cross Board of Eduea
tion bad a time of it raising the
necessary $12,000 to keep their
schools open after December Ist.
They had to stir up the public
conscience to get a popular loan of
the amount. And that was notan
easy job.
A contract was lot last Saturday
by the State Highway Department
to L. 11. Smith, of Elberton, Ga.,
for the completion of the paving,
between Adel and the Lowndes
county line, on the road to Val
dosta. The length is 6.85 miles,
and the contract price is $77,676.
Under the leadership of Mr. Boss
of Florence, & C., an effort is being
made to locate a tobacco warehouse
at Alma, in Bacon county. Mr.
Boss is an experienced tobacco
grower and warehouseman. He
says the land around Alma is well
adapted to growing bright leaf
tobacco.
It is proudly announced that
the Ware county jail is empty.
Judge Crawley and Solicitor Parks,
of the City Court of Waycross,
cleaned it out for thanksgiving
and prepared for a fresh supply of
birds before Christmas and —they
will have them. The crime wave
has not subsided a bit.
The Worth county authorities
have already filled her public
barns with sufficient grain to feed
her chaingang outfit during 1923.
She bought corn, oats, bay, etc.,
from her own farmers and paid
them a fair price for it. This is
the next best thing to raising this
stuff on her own farm —as they do
in Mitchell county.
Some of the churches of the
Mell Baptist Association will load
a car of edibles to be sent to the
Orphan Home at Hapeville, be
ginning December 12th. Thesame
proposition was put up to the
messengers to the Smyrna Associa
tion but when it was known that
it could be no part of their pledges
to the $75,000,000 campaign it was
allowed to cool off.
The Nashville Herald's compari
son “Terrelll county vs. Berrien
county” may read somewhat odious,
but it surely points a moral. The
substance of the comparison is that
Berrien county raises surplus corn
to feed Terrell county w'bile she
raises cotton to pay for the corn,
and asserts that Berrien county is
better off than Terrell county in so
doing. The moral is that no coun
ty is safe and sane that does not
raise its own food and feed.
The big prohibition raid near
Braganza in Ware county, spoken
of in this column last week, yielded
to the coffers of Ware county the
sum of $7.800 —$5,300 in fines and
$2,500 in confiscated cars. Now,
what do yon think of City Court
Judge J. Lee Crawley? He has a
keen sence of an opportunity of
vigorously enforcing the law and,
at the same time, enriching Ware
county. The fines were prom tly
paid and the prisoners went on
their way rejoicing.
Subscribe for the Tribune, quit
borrowing from your neighbor.
From the National Capital.
Washington, D- 0., Dec. 5th —
Discussing the legislation which
Congress should consider and de
nouueing the position of the Be
publican administration on several
important measures, Senator Win.
J. Harris today made his first com
ment upon returning from Georgia
for the extra session of Congress.
He announced opposition to the
ship subsidy bill; advocates the re
peal of the tariff law and amend
meut of the revenue law; urges leg
islation to help in the marketing
of agricultural products, establish
ing a system of rural credits, and
further stimulating the farm loan
banks, and favorable action at once
on the Henry Ford Muscle Shoals.
Senator Harris said in a statement
today:
“The ship subsidy bill, as recora
mended by President Harding, is a
plan of taxing the people to the
extent of 30 or 40 million dollars
for the shipping trust, in my opin
ion, and I am opposed to the legis
lation. The farmers have suffered
more financially than any other
class and they are entitled to first
consideration by the Government
in consideration of legislation.
When the farmers and live stock
raisers prosper all other industries
are benefitted, but when they can
not sell their products at a profit
every industry suffers.
“Why does not President Hard
ing recommend to this ‘do nothing
and discredited’ congress some
measure that will help the people
of the agricultural south and west?
When these sections prosper every
section of our country enjoys pros
perity.
“The election of November 7th
was a protest of the people against
the revenue bill passed by the Be
publican Congress placing the
burden of taxation on those least
able to pay and exempting those
most able. This law should be
amended.
“The tariff law recently passed
should be repealed. It has increas
ed the cost of living for every per
son in the United States in order
to helpthe Republican manufactur
ers who, in many cases, had contri
buted to the campaign. It is vi
cious to tax ail of the people to
assist in paying campaign contri
butions.
“The objectionable provisions of
the Esch Cummins railroad law
should be repealed and a reduction
in freight rates and passenger fares
should be made, so that the manu
facturers and farmers can make a
living profit. Reductions will bring
more business to the railroads, in
my judgment.
“Congress should pass legislation
that will help the farmer in mar
keting his crop at loss expense and
prevent the middle man from get
ting all the profit the farmer earns.
Several measures that would help
the agricultural situation, in my
opinion, were introduced by me
and passed the Senate at the last
session. The farmers associations
all over the country have recom
mended these bills but the Repub
lican Congress will not let them be
voted upon. Why not pass these
bills, and others, and give the
farmers assistance in marketing
their crops through financial and
warehouse facilities?
“The Democrats were working
on a system of rural credits to give
the farmer cheaper interest rates
on money. Why do the Republi
cans delay this measure? The
Democrats are all urging it now.
“The Federal Farm Loan Banks
should be more prompt in making
loans and Congress should increase
the present limits.
“The southern cotton producer
aud the western wheat farmers can
not receive full prices for their
products as long as Europe is
floundering about financially. It
js to our interest fyr Europe to get
Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson.
PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8. 1922
PURELY J?ERSONAL.
Short Stories About Men and
Women in the Public Eye.
Mr. and Mrs. 8. D. Phillips, of
Milltown, spent the thanksgiving
holiday with his parents at Morven,
in Brooks county. Both are well
known in this section and especial
ly at Willacoochee where they
were favorite young people.
Major Carter, the slayer of
Sheriff Robertson in Pierce county,
has again been found guilty of
murder in Wayne superior court.
However, the jury’s verdict con
tained a recommendation and this
saves him from the gallows —but
sends him to the penitentiary for
life.
Judge Fred G. Boatright, the
new United States District attor
ney, is being carefully looked over
by tlie Fourth Estate of South
Georgia. Whereupon Ed i tor
Brown of the Cordele Dispatch
hastens to assure his brethren that
the Judge hales from that city and
—that is a sufficient commendation.
The Tribune man knows three
things about Judge Boatright: he
has energy, good judgment and isa
consistent Republican.
Dr. David FI. Harrell, of Way
cross, who has for the past several
months been the bouse physician
at the Railroad hospital in that
city, according to reports will go
to New York early in the new year
and take a thorough course in sur
gery. Dr. Harrell was born and
raised in Atkinson county, near
Pearson, and has many relatives
and friends in this section who are
watching his career with much in
terest and best wishes for his suc
cess.
Editor J. Kelly Simmons, over
Nashville way, has actually fallen
in love with the Senatress from
Georgia and can’t understand why
many of the Georgia pencil pushers
write disparagingly of her. If
Kelly was just a little older he
wouldn’t have asked the question.
He doesn’t know that the charges
lodged against her are absolutely
true. She has been a thorn in the
Georgia democratic flesh for thirty
five years and have never shown
any signs of repentance.
Rev. Shadrack W. Brown is dead.
He attended the South Georgia
Conference at Waycross and was in
his usual health. He was returned
to the Midville charge in the Dub
lin district. He left Waycross for
home Monday and died shortly
after reaching his destination.
The Tribune editor has known Mr.
Brown for more than thirty years,
at Sumner, Ga. He was then
scarcely out of his teens but was
the preacher of the Sumner charge,
lie was about fifty five years of
age and a man of deep piety and
consecration. He is survived by
his wife and several children
on a sound basis financially and
commercially. It will help our
farmers, laborers and manufactur
ers.
“Because Henry Ford contested
the Newberry election is one of the
reasons the Republicans have re
fused to let F’ord have Muscle
Shoals, which would be a great
help. The Republican voters have
repudiated Newberryism. Why
not let F’ord have Muscle Shoals?
He made the best bid and offered
millions for a plant which the Re
publicans said should be junked.
Why not pass this legislation now?
The country will force Congress to
help Muscle Shoals two years from
now, in my opinion.
“The Republican party should
not forget the farmer, the wage
earner and the consuming public.”
Senator Harris is a member of
the Senate agricultural “bloc” and
all of his views on agricultural
matters are in line with the fight
being made by the "bloc.”
The Small Town Paper.
Atlanta Constitution.
The small town newspaper, whose
enterprise and iuiluence is the most
important factor in the growth and
expansion of its town and territory,
invariably receives ready recogni
tion from its contemporaries of the
great cities.
As to this recognition, in its own
section. The Spokane Spokesman-
Review says—
“ The story of the rural news
paper, the paper published in the
village or the small town, has sig
nificance for the student of Ameri
can society. The influence of the
rural press is close, constant and
pervasive. When the paper of a
small town appreciates its oppor
tunities and is judiciously con
ducted, it becomes a member of
every family within its field in a
way that the great newspaper of
the large city cannot rival.”
When the people refer to the
editor of the weekly newspaper as
"Our Editor, - ” they give the best
evidence of local pride in what the
paper has done and is doing for the
good of the community. “They
want to put our editor in the legis
lature,” writes a county corres
pondenl of a country paper, "but
we need him here at home, in a
bigger job than that!”
“That’s another illustration of
town aud county pride in the home
paper; and where that sentiment is
universal there is real community
prosperity.
For it means loyalty to the
town's best interests, and the most
effective work on the pull together
plan.
And pretty soon the local -week
ly becomes the live little daily; it
"branches out” in every way.
It is the friend of everv home,
and the best home-builder of them
all.
Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic
Thanksgiving.
Market Bulletin.
The day of which this Bulletin
is issued has been celebrated ever
since the first harvest gathered by
the pilgrim fathers. Thanksgiv
ing is so interwoven into the fabric
of our Government that it has be
come peculiarly an American insti
tution.
The President and the Govern
ors of all the States have issued
their Proclamations, calling us to
remember with grateful hearts, the
blessings of a generous Providence.
It is a good time to take stock
of the mercies given us and be
thankful. None of us but may find
some cause for gratitude. We may
not have achieved all our purposes,
and sometimes the shadows of
gloom, and even suffering, may
have crossed our pathway, but we
must remember that there can be
no shadows without the sunshine.
After the winter of death comes
the spring of resurrection, when
the flowers will bloom again, signi
fying the mystical return of life
and hope.
It is the buoyant,, contented
spirit that wins. Let us, therefore,
push forward with renewed vigor,
to make the old farm more fruitful
and the home fires burn brighter
with the coming years.
666 cures Bilious Fever.
Seriously Injured.
Moultrie, Ga., Dec. 2.— 'Frying
to save a toy that she had let fall
into the fire may cost the life of
Mary, aged three, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Tucker of this city.
The child reached over to recover
the toy, lost her balance and top
pled into the open grate. Before
her mother could rescue her she
had been horribly burned about
the body and on one of her arms.
Her condition to-day was said to
be very serious.
666 cures Dengue Fever.
NEWS AND VIEWS.
Editorial Opinions Expressed by
Tribune Contemporaries.
The farmers of South Georgia
are not as greatly worried about
what to plant next year as they
were at the close of 1921. Market
conditions, under the influence of
the law of supply and demand, are
much better than they were, and
the outlook of the fanner is much
more hopeful than it was. —Albany
Herald.
This being Thanksgiving Day
and everybody having their hearts
touched by the bounties which
Providence has placed within their
reach —the whole lay out has gone
crazy on foot ball, et cetera. Amer
icans are a funny people. The
ancient Jews or the modern Chinese
were not more "peculiar”.— Valdos
ta Times.
The farm with a few sows, a
hundred or so hens, several milch
cows and a few goats will be a
prosperity farm. Live stock and
poultry means as much as cotton,
corn and other crops. Georgia
can raise enough hogs to feed
Georgia. Southwest Georgia may
easily become as famous for her
hogs as for her cotton. —Dawson
News.
Pecans are bringing a good price.
One Ocilla man sold his crop for
fifty cents a pound. We have been
preaching pecans for more than
ten years. And that is long
enough to bring agrovo into profit
able bearing. But we believe that
the prospect is as bright now as it
was when the Star first began to
advise the planting of pecans. —
Ocilla Star.
So far as our recollection goes,
the sleet and snow of Sunday
morning set a new record for this
section. We do not recall, nor
have we found any one else who
does recall, the time when sleet or
snow came before a frost. There
was rain, sleet and snow, all with
in one hour's time, Sunday morn
ing, and the next morning, Mon
day, there was the first frost of the
season in this locality—a big, white
one, —Tifton Gazette.
There are splendid opportunities
in this section. Cook county and
the counties around us are rich in
fertility. In no other section per
haps can as great variety of pro
ducts be raised. There are many
things that will respond splendid
ly to intelligent work. No need
to move to other parts of the coun
try expecting to get rich quick or
to make a living easy. It takes
work anywhere and if our people
will try we can make this section
prosperous at all times. —Adel
News.
The individual with all his am
bitions and love of home is a mere
bagatelle, compared to the his
tory of a community or country.
His life is of a few days and full of
troubles. The history of a com
munity and country lives forever.
You are only the brick in the great
structure of your community wel
fare. The old saying is that when
rightly built, as a building should
be, the brick only holds up its
own self, means that is just what
your life is in the construction of
future history, and if your sphere
of usefulness does not count that
much, then with all of your boast
ed fulfillment of time accorded
you, your life has not been in vain.
—Folkston Herald.
“Sad is the day,” says Phillips
Brooks, “for any man when he be
comes absolutely satisfied with the
life he is living, the thoughts that
he is thinking and the deeds that
he is doing; when there ceases to
be forever beating at the doors of
bis soul a desire to do something
larger which he feels and knows he
was meant and Intended to be.”
91.50 A YEAH
Labor Agents at Work.
To the Newspapers of Georgia:
There is now and has been for
sometime a considerable exodus
from this State of labor which will
be badly needed next spring ami
summer upon the farms of Georgia.
A person has a right to leave the
State and locate wheresoever he
pleases, but it is a violation of
the law for labor agents to influ
ence such an one to emigrate. These
labor agents are very active and
have carried a great many laborers
out of the State. Before a labor
agent can lawfully operate, ho
must:
FIRST —Pay the tax collector in
each county where he operates a
tax of $1,000.00.
SECOND —Register with the
Ordinary.
THIRD —Secure a license from
the Department of Commerce and
Labor.
At the present time there is not
a labor agent in the State authoriz
ed to do business. Even if a per
son wishes to secure labor for bis
own use outside of the State he
must first obtain a permit from
this Department. In the absence
of such a permit he can be prose
cuted as for a misdemeanor.
I have brought this matter to
the attention of the Tax Collectors,
the Sheriffs, Chiefs of Police,Coun
ty Demonstration agents, canning
agents, Chamber of Commerce,
Boards of Trade, and I have also
written a letter to eaqh judgo in
the State, asking that he specific
ally charge the graud jury in each
of the counties of his circuit with
reference to this law. Officials of
this Department have visited and
are visiting the various counties in
the State in the effort to put a
stop to this exodus. Bailiffs, cons
tables, policemen, sheriffs and
deputy sheriffs can put a stop to
the operation of these labor agents
if they go at it vigorously. Geor
gia is a big state and unless help
is secured from each locality the
work of this Department will be
in vain.
1 would be glad if you will aid
in creating a sentiment that will
arouse all of the citizens to watch
diligently and vigorously, and land
these labor or emigrant agents on
the chain gang. Wo have found
that it is a favorite method
of nrocedure for these agents to
send threatening letters to certain
negroes and in a day or two ap
proach such parties and offer them
a position in another state. These
agents, very largely, work in the
country and small towns and all
the people must be alert in detect
ing aud reporting to the proper
authorities these agents. You can
aid in arousing public sentiment
and I trust that you will have no
hesitancy in doing so. Unless
something is done a bad condition
next year is going to prevail upon
the farms.
Thanking you in advance for
any effort you may make to help
in this matter and with my very
best wishes, I am.
Cordially yours,
H. M. Stanley,
Commissioner.
To Issue Bonds.
(From the Sparks Kagle.l
Permission was granted to
Sparks College at the Annual Con
ference in Waycross last week to
tloat a bond issue for the amount
of $46,000.00. This money wiil be
used iu building a new boy,s dor
mitory, which will be a duplicate
of the girl’s dormitory.
This will make the third bond
issue for Sparks College, aud these
bonds will be retired when the
$110,000.00 pledged to the school
in the recent Edncational Cam
paign is paid in. The school has
never had any trouble in disposing
of their bonds, in fact one party
has already offered to bny half and
probably all of the proposed $46,-
000 00 issue.
We understand that work on
the new dormitory wiil begin at
an early date,