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AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
Published every Thursday
JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
“As a Man Thinketh in His
So Is He. i
Official Organ of Peach County,
of Fort Valley and Western
sion of the Southern District of
Georgia Federal Court.
N. E. A. Feature Service
Advertisers’ Cut Service
Entered as second-class matter
the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1879.
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19,
DID YOU EVER STOP TO
i THINK—
: That the city that gets the
publicity gets the business?
I That the city that gets the ad¬
I vertising grows?
I That advertising a city is a
business, not child’s play?
I miles
i That people go to get a
I good, live city to trade in?
i That your property will in¬
crease in value when the out¬
i side world knows your city is
i wide awake?
i That people from neighboring
cities will come where there is
i something doing?
J That the city that does not
seek something better than it
now has is going to lose out?
That now is the time your
j city and business needs before? adver¬
i tising more than ever
—Port Arthur (Texas) Hullo
i tin.
Why worry about alleged
payrolls in the State Highway
partment? Add another
lax to gasoline.
“GREAT” IS RIGHT, TROX
—COME ALONG
Covington News: Fort Valley is
reilay making great preparations
the Peach Wesson. Festival to
Feld in tlu't city next month
mvw^papfr "PRirNn^ 1 *
Those who contribute least to
support of the newspaper are
ly the ones who demand the
— Walton
Yep. And sometimes want t >
the editor what to print and what
to print.- Dalon Citizen.
THE FESTIVAL CERTAINLY IS
“GOING SOME”
Cairo Messenger: Fort Valley
again making preparations for lie:
annual peach blossom festival.
Jones says Fort Valley expects
spread it on this time as never
fore, but if they surpass
festivals, they will be going some.
WESLEYAN COLLEGE
, We stated recently that Agnes
Scott ami Shorter College were the
only two Georgia colleges admitted
this year to the American Association
of Colleges. This was not meant to
indicate that no other Georgai col¬
lege enj jyed this honor. Wesleyan
College has been a member of that
Association for main years, and
stands right at the front \mong the
progressive higher educ.tmnal insti
tutions of America. “Wealevsn ar.d
Randolph-Macon Woman’s College of
Virginia are the two colleges
women of the Methodist Church roc
ognized as doing work of the same
grade as our regular colleges and
universities for men,” writes Dr.
Quiliian, president of Wesleyan.
“Wesleyan and Agnes Scott are the
two colleges belonging to the Ameri
can Association of University Worn
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A TRIBUTE TO INCONSISTENCY
Conformity and consistency are the
parents of hypocrisy. No man cat;
be at once honest and consistent. We
must either refuse to investigate,
conform through hypoerky, or be
honestly inconsistent
The preachers plead, the teachers
teach the multitude and implore us to
be consistent and conform. Yet these
mighty souls, around whose lives the
history of the world revolves itself,
could find no place for conformity
and consistency. They have so earn¬
estly endeavored to determine the
truth that they have had no time to
ATTENTION
EDITORS
Every Georgia editor is invited to
be a special guest at the Fourth An¬
nual Peach Blossom Festival in Fort
Valley on Friday, March 20th.
A barbecue dinner will be served
especially in honor of the editors.
Each editor who notifies The Leader
Tribune editor at once of intention
to come will be presented with a
seat for the wonderful pageant and
other entertainment. Railroads will
have special rates in cases where ed¬
itors do not possess press mileage,
Lincolns or Cadillacs.
SEATS ARE BEING SOLD RAP¬
IDLY. Last year’s experience and
present indications show that even
the greatly enlarged seating capaci¬
ty this year will be sold out. Thou
sands were unable to buy seats last
year. Thus it is IMPORTANT THAT
EVERY EDITOR write to The Lead
re-Tribune IMMEDIATELY if he is
going to attend, so that good seats
may he reserved.
Fort Valley’s invitation was ex¬
tended last year to the Georgia Press
Association for the 11)26 convention
of that body. Wo want EVERY ED¬
ITOR in the State to come to the
Peach Blossoln Festival on Friday,
March 20th, uh a happy, captivating
preliminary to the 1926 event.
The Peach Blossom Festival Asso¬
ciation is warmly conscious of the
splendid interest and co-operation of
Georgia newspapers in its
ous efforts to lift the standard of
SELLING GEORGIA and GEORGIA
PRODUCTS, and the GEORGIA
SPIRIT, to the world. It is eager foi
the honor of entertaining you.
COME! Write us TODAY.
adjust themselves to the modes and
fashions of their day.
All great souls have been incon¬
sistent. The very fact that truth is
unattainable is a sufficient cause for
inconsistency. As we view only a
small part of the great reality at any
one time, our changing viewpoints
can not fail to justify a change in
our convictions.
We sec on every hand those puny,
sordid souls that are striving toward
conformity. We see them crawling
in the dust of fear, while upon their
1 backs they bear the burden of pub
lie opinion. Even in the features of 1
their face the lines of conformity,
are plainly manifest; and their coun-1
tenanees huve assumed an assinine
expression that cannot be mistaken.'
Anchored in the harbor of expedien-'
cy, their cheeks unkissed by the
winds .of criticism, they view with t
j horror , the brave , and honest soul who I
.
(ventures out upon the ocean of in
veatigatinr., little rui T izing that the
stormy sens will some dry break the
b,u ttn ' 1 toss th: " r jntried ’’arks dis-;
nstrously against the rocks of fate.
As we search with honest eyes each
Rlaln nmi P art,cle of that infinite
universe of undiscovered truth, and
add these grains to the particles we
have gathered, we find that the
grains today discovered add new lus¬
tre to the grains we viewed the day
before. And if we are honest, our
convictions will reflect with added
beauty this richer, new-born lustre.
; Let us then honestly speak the
plain, unpolished truth today; and
if perchance tomorrow contradicts it,
let us proclaim with equal frankness
the apparent contradiction. For as
the various colors reflected in the
'rainbow resolve themselves into a
beautiful and perfect arc, so shall
our inconsistencies, when viewed to¬
gether and impartially, form them
srIves int0 !1 beautiful ,lnd consistent
arc of truth.— Macon Daily Tele¬
graph.
SUNDAY SCHOOL VS. CRIME
"1 do not hesitate to express the
conviction that attendance by young
men at Sunday School or other reg¬
ular religious work, with its refining
atmosphere, » signally preventive a
gainst crime and worthy of careful
s * ud >’ b - v those who are dismayed by
the increase of crime on the part of
'V . voln 'g n,en °f America. ))
So says Supreme Court Justice
Fawcett, of New York, and he adds:
“The sustained, wholesome, niorah
atmosphere imparted through hubi
* lla ' attendance upon Sunday School
and church will expel criminal im
pulses.
“Any man not contributing to sup
,,0, t some cbur( ' b or organized relig¬
ious work is living on charity—rid
0,1 some °* bor man’s transporta¬
tion. If he really desires abatement
of crime he should ally himself with
those agencies which prevent or abate
crime.”
In the eighteen years that he has
sat on the bench Judge .Fawcett has
had more than 4,000 boys less than
twenty-one years arraigned before
him, charged with various degrees of
crime; and of this large number but
three were members of a Sunday
School at the time of the commission
of their crimes. ^
This is one of the strongest argu-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1925.
monts in lavor of the Sunday School
that we have ever read, and
have the effect of making the people
of thin nation take more interest in
this great institution.
As will be seen from the above quo¬
tations, Judge Fawcett believes the
Sunday School a good thing for the
“grown-ups” os well as for boys and
girls, and everything he says is borne
out in general experience. Judge
Fawcett has stated a great truth in a
most striking way.
There is no one who would argue
for a moment against the idea that
the best way to handle crime f s to
train boys and girls so well that they
will not want to commit it. The great
problem is how to get all the boys
and girls of the nation into the Sun¬
day School. If this could be done,
we would never be troubled with
“crime waveB.”—Cedartown Stan¬
dard.
HE AIN'T HEAVY; HE’S
MY BROTHER
Rev. David Albert Howard, con¬
ducting last Friday’s program of the
'Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley, read
the following poem under the above
title. Read it over a few times, brot!
, er; it will put a little, more of the
breath of life into your soul.
J
Mister, what ye lookin’ at?
Think I’m tired and all of that’
Can’t ye see the-stones is goin’ to’
hurt his feet?
He’s barefooted, I got shoes,
And it’s hotter than the deuce
For him if he has to v ilk along the
street. .
Makes no diff'rence ’bout the weath
er,
Me and him must go together,
And he knows I ain’t a-gfri’ t’
drop him nuther.
When I get there he will be
Standing ’long the side of me.
NOTICE
You are invited to attend a
demonstration of the newly de¬
signed T. & S. Disc Harrow to
be given on the Farm of J. A. L.
Wilson on Tuesday, Feb. 24th.
This Harrow has been devel¬
oped because of the insistent
need of a harrow that would do
more than [simply throw dirt
toward the trees. Special fea¬
tures provide for throwing dirt
away from the treesoradjusting
from a straight single harrow to
a double tandem.
Features of the Day's
Program
Plate lunch at noon will be
served by the Fort Valley
Woman's Club.
Address at one o’clock by O.
1. Snapp at which time he will
discuss the latest peach pest
control methods.
Come and Meet Your Friends.
A Good Time Assured.
j
Valley I
Fort Company I
Ah, no, mister, he ain’t heavy; he’s
my brother.
I
Let ye take him for a while'.'
Why, it’s only half a mile
Till we get to where the grass is
soft and green.
Then you ought to see him run,
Gee, we ll have a lot of fun.
Me and him, the bestest time ye
ever seen.
I am big and tall and strong
And I like to have him 'long,
’T won’t be long that I will have
to pack him nuther,
’Cause some day he’s .going to grow,
Then we won’t go half so slow.
Ah, no mister, he ain’t heavy; he's
my brother.
Maybe I could get there quicker
If I just would let him flicker
And would set him down and leave
him here behind;
But he needs me, I ain’t goin’
T’ run away ’cause he is growin’
Andll hold me back. No, sir, I
ain’t that kind;
It’s a lot of fun to hold him
On my back, and once I’ve told him
I would take him, why, I will some¬
how or t’other;
See, he’s laughin’, not a-cryin’,
And I ain’t a half a-tryin’.
Go on, mister, he ain’t heavy; he’s
my brother.
—WILL R. HILL.
LIBRARY AUXILIARY
The Woman’s Auxiliary of the
Thomas Public Library will meet on
next Wednesday afternoon at 3
o’clock at the home of Mrs. V. L.
Brown with Mrs. J. L. Brown joint
hostess.
A real bargain—10 yds. 40-in. Sea
Island .$1.19, Saturday and Monday
at Braswell’s.
MOTHER’S BABY
1.
Mother's Baby! lovely being,
Bright jewels ever seeing
In the skies,
What a reaper, child, you are
As you guner moon and star
In your eyes!
2 .
Orator the wisest, best,
Speaking from your Everest
Words of love,
High you lift two hemispheres
To the light of Eden’s years.
Purest dove.
3.
Mother’s Baby! noblest queen,
You are peeping, child serene,
At the sun.
More are you than orb of light
To your mother day and night,
Dearest one.
4.
I'm the child, 1 must confess;
You the afigel sent to bless
Me with your charms;
And I prophesy today
I shall spend a happy May
In your arms.
W. C. CARTER.
BOYS STUDY PEACH GROWING
As a part of their school endeavor
the boys of the senior class of the
Fort Valley High School last Friday
were given a lesson in the pruning
and trimming of peach trees.
The boys reported at roll call at
the High School building and then
went directly to Pinecroft Plantation,
of the city, and wore taught to
prune trees. In the afternoon they
again in the orchards and
knowledge that will be of
interact to them
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NOW and THEN
Nothing ever really happens by chance.
What happens to you later depends upon
what you are doing now.
Decide upon the future you want, and work
now to bring about what you want then.
You will find that your plans call for a grow¬
ing bank account. We suggest that you open
it here.
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Citizens Bank of Fort Valley
Capital and Surplus $150,000.00