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pearson#tr:bune VOL B—NO. 35 SOUTH GEORGIA. The Social and Material Activi ties of Our Neighbors. The public highways of Ware eounty are reported in bad eondi tion as the result of the recent heavy rains. This is not only true of Ware county but throughout South Georgia. Lanier superior court, January Term, will convene on Monday, the Rlh. The civil docket embraces ninety one cases, placed on a calendar for two days, Monday aud Tuesday. The court can merely skim it over in the time that can be devoted to it. Since the Tribune announced the successful growing of grapefruit in a Valdosta yard it has been an nounced that not only grapefruit but cumquafcs have been success fully grown this year in Tift coun ty by Mr. W. A- Myers, of the My ere Seed and Plant Company. A quantity of this fruit was carried to the Tifton market last week by Mr. Myers. An Albany concern has just ship ued to market a solid carload of pecans. Notwithstanding the crop was short there has been marketed at Albany more than sixty thou sand pounds of pecans this season and they have gone to nearly every state in the Union and several for cign countries. There seems to be no trouble to dispose of the crop at fair prices. Two pecan trees on the farm of Mr. Joe Wilkerson in Berrien county, known as the “Old Ansel Parrish place, six miles south of Nashville, pay Mr. Wilkerson’s taxes each year. This example refutes all arguments against grow ing pecans as a money crop. These trees were planted by the veteran minister, Elder Ansel Parrish, a few years before his death. The expert who was sent to make examination aud report of the Ware county soil, offered for sale through the Georgia Associa tion, has made the examination and reports it to be the very best type of soil in that section, i. e. Norfolk Pine, Sandy, Ijoam, and that it is , articularly adapted for the growing of tobacco, also for growing pasture grasses which would euablc the owner to do a fine business in raising cattle, hogs and poultry, and especially favor able'to dairying. This report is applicable to every section of South Georgia. The statute providing for Albany a Commission City Manager gov ernment was defeated in the refer endum which was to confirm. The representative in the legislature from Dougherty county was elected on a platform committing him to an effort to repeal it at the next session of the legislature. However, under the statute this government goes into effect on January Ist unless some satisfactory agreement can be reached. It is a tangle AI banians are now trying to get straightened out. How a statute ran be sidetracked by common con sent is the problem to be solved Turner county farmers have adopted the following one-horse farm unit for tbd' coming year: “Three to six good producing milk cows, purebred recommended; two to three good sows, purebred re commended; thirty to forty brood hens, purebred recommended; ten acres in corn, velvet beans and North Carolina peanuts; five acres in oats, followed with peas or other hay crop; four acres in wheat, fol lowed with Spanish peanuts; five acres in Spanish peanuts, or water melons, or divided with tobacco, three acres in sweet potatoes aud sugarcane; five acres in cotton, fol lowed with early grain; twelve aeres in permanent carpet grass, JJallis grass aud Lespedeza." Why Negro Emigrates. An intelligent colored man of Millen, Jenkins county, Louis W. Kelsey, gives the most plausible reason for the emigration of the ue gro from the South to the North the Tribune editor has seen in print. He gives his view's to the secretary of the Millen and Jen kins county Chamber of Commerce, as follows: “I have been reading a great deal lately about the negro leaviug the South, and I am writing to see if I cannot in some way help bring about a better understanding of the thoughts and feelings of my people. During the past few mouths 1 havs traveled over seven counties and have had many talks with men of my race concerning this question. Jt is something that is near to my heart as I do not want them to leavt; In that time I have found no evidences, such as have been reported, of or ganized efforts to make the black man leave the South, but I do be lieve that I understand. “When the while man asks why the negro is leaving he does not al ways receive a true answer, but is told ‘For higher wages,’ aud the real reason is left for him to work out. As one of the race the negro opens up hijj heart to me and talks freely. In practically every case where 1 have questioned the col ored people they say, ‘We are searching for the opportunities of education and pisigross, and feel that we have nothing to live for here. We do not believe that the white people understand the urge that is in the soul of the black man that makes him want to pro gress in the battles of life. We do not feel that the white man takes sufficient interest in*the welfare of the negro. “Not bringing up in any way the question of equality, we simply want to be considered the white friend, and want to believe that he is our friend not only in words, but in deeds. Some times when the negro laughs it is not be cause he is happy, but it is a safety valve to relieve his feelings. It is hard to convince a man that it takes himself, his wife and child ren twelve months of hard work to make merely an existence without any of the ordinary comforts of life. We want food, clothing, something in the way of an educa tion to make us better men and women and a ebanee to grow. That is what we are asking. “This seems to be the universal appeal of my people wherever I have been —the desire for a better understanding and a ray of hope. As I said before I do not want my people to leave. I know that this is the better place for them to live but there must be some standards or .principles set up and some method devised that will be an in ducement for them to stay. In those seven counties I have spoken of I have seen many acres that used to be under cultivation, but are now deserted. This is due in a large measure to the departure of the black man, and shows his importance to Southern life. “In order to help some time ago I started to get out a farm plan, similar to what I used at home this year in order to help my peo ple. Before I had it fully worked up I read of the plan of Hon. S. C. Parker, to make each one horse unit self supporting, as put out by the Chamber of Commerce. I feel, if this plan is followed by every land owner in the county, it will, together with an effort to bring about a better understanding be tween the races, go a long way to ward solving the problem of negro emigration. It insures a living and that is what my people want, to gether with advantages in the way of education and opportunities to be better men and women —men Official Newspaper of the County of Atkinson. PEARSON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 29, 1922 NEWS AND VIEWS. Editorial Opinions Expressed by Tribune Contemporaries. Millton Fleetwood of the Carters ville News Tribune tells us they are playing a new game out in Kansas, called “ebristianduty.” He says the boys and girls all line, the boys on one side and the girls on the other. The girls are the “Christians” aud the boys walk over and embrace Christianity. Well, we always did like games, anyway. —Nashville Herald. No, we may play Santa Claus this Christmas —we usually do to about fifty, more or less —but we are not going to dress up for the part. Notice where a Moultrie boy playing Santa this week caught fire and things livened up considerably while they were putting him out. One thing that doesn't appeal tous, is getting all rigged up in a Santa outfit and then having the thing catch fire. —Tifton Gazette. The real Chrsitmas spirit is to carry joy and sunshine into the hearts of others. Everyone who seeks out the unfortunate ones, those who will have no enjoyment during the glad season except that provided by others, and responds to their necessities, will after all have the assurance of having done his or her part in helping to bright en the pathway of some one else. This old world, with all of its faults is full of appreciative people who never forget a kindness when ren dered in the proper way. —Adel News. The Sob sisters are getting terri bly wrought up about the few bangings that are taking place in Georgia. It has been announced that a determined effort will be made to have the state legislature to abolish the death penalty. Sure, that is the thing to do. Turn the thugs and bandits, the morons, the degenerates aud the lawless loose to make war upon society without the slightest fear that they may be made to pay tho penalty of their crimes on the gallows.—Dawson News. The older we grow the shorter seems the flight of years. With some of us it seems as only a little while since we were doing Christ mas shopping and sending greet ings of the season to loved ones and friends. And as the years pass we are more and more prone to procrastinate in our preparations for Christmas and then have to do things in a rush. And he who puts off his Christmas shopping until the eleventh hour is almost sure to blunder in making his selections aud to exceed his first estimate as to expenditures. —Albany Herald. and women worth something to Southern life. “I am a resident of Jenkins county and proud of it and am try ing to be just as good a citizen as I know how to be, and as far as my ability goes I want to serve in every way 1 can. To that end I ask my white brethren to prayer fully consider this, and see if we can not bring about a better under standing between the races, and in this way keep my people here.” The views of Kelsey points to the duty of the white people of Pearson in lending substantial aid to her colored citizens in their ef fort to build a substantial and at tractive school house for colored youth now when they can get aid from the Roseuwald fund. The Tribune has believed all along that this is the time and the means of attracting a desirable colored citizenshio to Pearson and Atkinson county. They are needed in all the industrial avenues of this section, and they cannot be expected to stay where he can see no ray of hope for the advance ment of his posterity in an educa lional and industrial way. Elder Simms in Atlanta. The Atlanta Georgian, in a re cent issue, carries the following sketch of Elder A. V. Simms siuce his removal from Valdosta to At lauta. Elder Simms is well known iu Atkinson county and through out this sectiou among his bretbern of the Primitive Baptist faith aud, no doubt, they will learn with much pleasure of the success he has made in his new field of labor. He stands amongst the ablest min isters of that denomination: "Members of the former Boule vard Primitive Baptist Church will worship Sunday afternoon for the first time in their now home, the present plant of Jackson Hill Bap list Church, the purchase of which was announced Saturday by the Primitive Baptist pastor, Elder A. V. Simms. The Jackson Hill congregation, of which the Rev. J. J. Bennett is pastor, will continue their services at the regular morning and even ing hours until headquarters aie provided. The Primitive Baptist services will be at 2.30 in the after noon. “Jackson Hill Church has bought a lot at Boulevard and Rankin Street on which they will build a church larger than the present plant. Dr. Bennett said Saturday. “The Primitive Baptist Church will begin worship in their new home unencumbered by debt. In spite of misfortune in the burning of a temporary building they had erected in East Avenue, generosity of the members has enabled the little congregation to pay its debts and purchase a house of worship without mortgage, the pastor said. “Elder Simms came to Atlanta three years ago. He began preach ing services iu a rented hall and gathered several families of the Primitive Baptist faith into a ten tative organization. From this humble beginning haßarisen a con gregation strong in members and able financially. “The name of the church was changed to Glazener Memorial, in honor of George F. Glazener.one of the older members, who donated property worth more than $15,000, thus helping Elder Simms’ flock to move into quarters of their pwn much sooner than they had expect ed.” Down With the Pot Hunters. The NftHhvllle Herald. The Herald cannot refrain from voicing its disgust at the manner in which birds have been slaught ered and hauled out of Berrien county in the past few weeks. We welcome true sportsmen to our section, and wish to see them treated with every courtesy but when people come in here with au tomatic shot guns and shoot as long as there is a feather in sight, and then haul the dead birds off with them by the automobile load, the sporting sense is horrified and disgusted. One man was seen to load what was estimated at 500 birds in his ear here one day last week the birds having been placed on cold storage until he was ready to de part to his city home. What on earth will he do with all those birds? He can’t eat them all him self. He will either have to sell them, or give them promiscuously to his many friends, and he will have to have a large circle of them at that to eat all this mauy birds before they spoil. We welcome people here who come and enjoy real SPORT —peo- ple who kill what birds they can eat —and then leave a few for the natives to shoot. We hope there will be no more of this “pot-hunting.” It is un sportsmanlike and will devastate our section of birds. There are plenty of birds here —plenty for neighboring friends —when they come and are satisfied at a sports man’s kill. RuW-My-Ti»» ft Rkeumathm PURELY PERSONAL. Short Stories About Men and Women in the Public Eye. Hon. Rufus A. Moore has been elected Mayor of Douglas without opposition, and the citizens are ex pecting a jam up administration. Here’s hoping they will not be dis appointed. Col. Dorsey Rlalock, of Waycross, who has just returned from a trip North and West, gives it as his unqualified opinion that Waycross is the equal of any city of its size in the United States and that South Georgia is the coming agri cultural aud stock raising section. Hon. Samuel H. Humph, of Marshalville, the pioneer peach grower of Georgia, is dead at the age of 70 years. lie laid the found atiou of the peach industry which has made Georgia famous, audit will ever remain a monument to his energy, his faith and persever ance. Mr, and Mrs. I). A. Holmes, form erly of Douglas but now residing in Vladivostok, Siberia, have arrived to spend the holidays with rela tives and friends at the old home. Mrs. Holmes will be remembered as Miss Lelia Jardine. He is en gaged in the fur trade and finds Siberia a fertile field for this busi ness. Mr. Frank Overstreet, Jr., from Ft. Pierce, Fla., is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Overstreet, of Tifton. He is a nephew of Mrs. 11. H. Parker, formerly of Pearson but now of Savannah. He brings the intelligence that Ft. Pierce will vote on a commission form of gov ern men t. Judge Isaac A. Rush, of Camilla, who died some weeks since, left an estate worth $285,580 according to the appraisement. The largest single item of his wealth is 1,820 bales of cotton which was valued at $200,000. This item was sold Wednesday for division between his two heirs. Judge Bush also owued 6,325 acres of farm lands. This with his city property was valued at $08,505. He had previous to his death deeded to his children 7,000 acres of fine farm lands. John Thomas, a Greek connected with the Douglas Greek-American restaurant, was shot and killed by Jini Stalvey, the crippled livery man, Sunday night, December 17. Thomas went to Stalvey’s home about 11 o’clock and, instead of knocking at the door, rattled the door as if trying to break in, aud the shooting was the result. Stal vey, as soon as he discovered what he had done bv mistake, carried the wounded man immediately to the hospital for surgical treatment, but nothing could be done for him. Stalvey deeply regrets his hasty action. - The many friends of Elder James M. Rushin, of Boston, Ga„ will learn with sorrow of the injury in flicted on him by a car driven by Claude L. Hunter, of Quitman, Ga. Mr. Rushin, who is a very aged gentleman, was crossing street when the car struck him, knocked him down and the rear part of the machine ran over him. The acci dent was apparently unavoidable. Elder Rushin is well known and greatly beloved throughout South Georgia. As a Baptist minister and sweet singer he has carried the sunshine of the gospel of Christ to many a famished soul in this terri tory. His iujuries are said to be serious but not fatal. The new postmasters confirmed for South Georgia are Andrew H. Stapler at Metter, Ga„ and George P. Broome for Pavo, Ga. Pavo is located partly in Thomas and part ly in Brooks county, while Metter is the thriving county seat of Cand ler county. Rub-My-Tism, an antiseptic $1.50 A YEAR Pulling the Spangled Leg. Metter Advertiser. Will the campaign of foreign propaganda never cease! We are severely criticised be cause we do not open onr money bags and pour their contents into the bankrupt treasuries of Europe. We are imported and wheedled to cancel the billions of war debt* due us from our late allies. We are charged with deserting them because we are not willing to embroil ourselves in the tangled affairs of the nations across tha seas. We are denounced an war profi teers because we sold to the lata victors in the war the munitions and supplies with which they pros ecuted that war —and they were sold upon the insistent plea of those nations. We are told that it is our duty to come to the aid of civilization hut with gold in our hands. And now comes the Greek na tion with a demand that we let down our immigration bars and open our doors to a million and a half of Greek refugees from Con stantinople and Asia Minor. God forbid! It is because of the presence of so many foreign malconents in this country that wo are iu a constant state of internal turmoil, with the shadow of bolshevistic revolution and plunder always hovering as a menace in tho background. Admit a million and a half direct from the hotbed of intrigue and fanaticism! Never! Men and women of foreign birth who have come to us in the past and have proven themselves to be good citizens are welcome, and we extend to them the hand of fellow ship aud good will. But they constitute a sufficiency. If Greece needs aid in feeding her own people who are forced by circumstances to return to their native land, we will extend that aid in the same manner that we have been doing it in various conatries in the past —through the Red Cross and other such agencies. No one can charge the United States with being niggardly in feed ing and clothing the hungry and naked of foreign lands. Even as this editorial is being writteu, our food and our clothing and our gold is being sent abroad in great quan tities for this very purpose, ami hundreds of thousands are being savfd from starvation. This we are glad to do, because it is an act of humanity. But we are eternally opposed to the wholesale admission of a horde of refugees who have been reared amidst blood, butchery aud trick ery. That would be an act of In sanity. Lei the Greek nation house its own refugees, and if necessary we will aid iu feeding and clothing them until they become seifsus taing. But no more! The volcano of discontent is be coming hot under our feet as it is. We will not knowing kick off the lid. Meeting In Tents. If strangers passing by the Methodist church have been struck with curiosity at the presence of the tented city in the rear of the church, and have asked what it alt means they will be interested to learn that the tents recently erect ed there are for use of the Sunday School classes. Because of the re cent growth of the Sunday School, there had been found difficulty in seating the various classes in the church auditorium and annexes. The problem of room was solved by the erection of four army tents, each 20 feet in diamater, placed in the rear of the church. Seatshave been provided and individual warming stoves render the tents comfortable, so that the young children who occupy them are de lighted with their accommodations. —Statesber# News,