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“THE TRAIL OF PANIC PETALS”
(Dublin Messenger)
The trip to Fort Valley last Fri
day was a revelation to us. The beau
tiful day and t » '.onderf i roads,
the splendid homes that we passed
signifying something out of the or*
dinary, growing more attractive as
we neared the City of Fort Valley
ell engendered a spirit of expectancy
that prepared us lor something unus
ual.
Wc “trailed” the pink petals all the
way as greeh foliage on most of the
trees greeted us instead, but we were
not disappointed in the least as we
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f^TlICK | U So didiJes.se TURPIN rode James. a horse.
E9p^ vafikt When pay-roll, the however, modern he bandit starts high-powered on the trail of a fat
uses a motor car,
and in his efforts to keep pace with the fertile brains of the
inventor and the business man he may soon take to armored
tanks and aeroplanes. Pitting his nerve and ingenuity against
business and science, the bandit apparently recognizes no limita¬
tions, and American business is watching with keen interest the
effect that transportation of money by aeroplane and armored
motor car will have on the rising tide of business crime.
Transportation of pay-roll
through the air is a logical
ment in the progress of aviation,
an oaatern contractor has
blazed the way by making up his pay
roll and transporting il to his build
tug operation hy aeroplane,
joat in time to pay ofT. The
that has been attracted to his
■lay t>e expected to result in a
•T leas extensive use of this
•f transporting large sums of
Ud a* a consequence police
•re already beginning to
■hat steps can Ite taken to combat
the air bandit.
Bandit Careless of Life
The pay-roll bandit cares little
human life, argue the police.
•very day's news carries a story
■ pay-roll robbery, with its grim ac
■ompaniment of death whenever re
ststance is offered. Therefore, it is
■ot without the realm of probability
to contemplate a modern lliek Turpin
taking to the air with machine gun
mourned on the fuselage and forcing
down the pay roll plane with the saute
technique that lie has exhibited In
forcing mouey-carrying automobiles
off the road at pistol's point.
Even as the freebooter of old lay
to wait behind some headland for the
richly ladened treasure ship, so does
the land pirate of today ferret out
the pay-roll messenger and strike at
a strategic lime iftul place. It may
be on a swiftly moving express train,
as demonstrated recently when $4(t.
000 Intended for a Pennsylvania mine
was taken front a messenger who los;
fcie life Itt defense of the money
Or It may be as carefully timed u
another very recent holdup, Itt which
the weekly pay-roll of a New York
manufacturing plant was taken to
three armed bandits a moment after
It was delivered to the offices of th«
plant from an armored car.
j Strategic Point Selected
Sonteiim - the route of the treas¬
ure is so carefully checked that th >
one unsuspecu d weak point in what
was thought to be a perfect defense
Is discovered by the bandit to be In
a passenger elevator, or some other
equally unusual place Chicago fur¬
nished the most recent case of an ele
vator robbery, in which the operator
pf the car was clubbed into
realized that we were ju*t a few days
nearer the peach, the goal to which
the whole world is turning, looking
towarda Fort Va lley and Georgia
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‘ he glorious day of achievement
that was staged by Fort Valley should
be looked upon as one for all Geor
gia and surely it is.
Last year when the early and late
peach matured so nearly together
and so congested the markets that the
peach crop was not profitable and
'heir section so greatly suffered, we
wondered what effect it would have
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Armored cars for the transportation of currency, equipped with
machine guns, and cash boxes which can be automatically drawn
back to the car by an attached chain are among the recent devices
for the protection of pay-rslls from bandits.
! ity when he attempted to escape the
hold-up men, the ear run to the street
level by one of the bandits and the
getaway made.
The vast majority of pay-roll roll
heries have one outstanding charac¬
teristicthey show knowledge of the
j safest place to strike. Frequently
(here is evidence of "inside" cooper
ution. but more often the success of
the bandit Is due merely to weeks of
checking up on the specific pay-roll
he intends to steal.
Few "Water Hauls”
It Is Indeed seldom that a bandit
I stages a hold up where there is no
money The information on which
he acts is almost il’.vttr ably correct,
and if he lose, out it is because some
d|tail overlooked in bis or car- those fu! pirn guanlinv has boon th >
money exhibit more than the average
nerve For Ihe bandit lias secrecy in
his favor, He knows to a certainly
when and where he will strike, and
takes full advantage of his assurance
that Iris victim will he unnerved hy
the surprise attack
Th. foliowing extract from th -
newspaper account of one of the re
cent pay roll mlibiu ie- illustrates dra¬
matically til - strategy oi the bandit.
j ! “Tin’ robbery was p uTcctly timed
The armored car. which only a few
minutes before bad brought the
the leaDer tribune, fort valley, ca., Thursday, april 2, 1925.
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'i he Men ivan e.i-tic c»ub me,,
)>u t cnurch ounday after
noon at 2 o’clock.
The Baptist Ladies' Mission Study
n u ,, i..rs. i\i. fe. vv.itre tvxoutlay
afternoon.
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Miss Elizabeth Willis of Macon
f>t lit la.ic ween end with Miss Laker,
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Mi-i. Pinkston, who is tecahing in
the public school at Cordeie.
the week end with Miss Swindle.
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The M. II. S. quintet are attend
ing the National Tournament at Chi
cage. They left Marshallville early
Sunday morning. The Marshallville
bo prcsqulpd a crate of asparagus
to he served on the Dixie Limited.
The pa senger expressed their
ans- ami v.isneu our uoys luck.
Marshallville considers this incident
a ver ood advertise ment, of
gia asparagus. The team played their
on the fine spirit of the people of
Peach County.
Houston county had been divided
by an act of the Legislature termi
noting a fight that had been
0,1 ^ or sev< ' lfd years between Fort
Vaiiey and 1Vn /' S ' nct ’ \ hv div,s,0n ;
1 there has been found in the “ruined’
I section of Houston county, minenu
deposits and there is now being
(.j g million dollar cement plant. In
(he City of Perry, they are erecting
( , ne 0 f ^e most beautiful school
buildings in the state. They have also
erected more new dwellings than
had been built in Perry in probably
20 years. From the ashes of disap
pointment she has discovered a new
power and greater worth and stands
money, tad just disappeared when
the robbers entered the oflleo. The
cashier was ubout to put the box con¬
taining the money into the safe when
it was snatched from h r by one of
the robbers who pointed a pistol .if
her. He then back d out of ihe of 1 -
and was followed by his companions
who had tine timed o .hers in the
office with pistols, Th. whirl of a
motor outside an in :, ut later indica'
ed that Ihe men bail made their get
away in an automobile."
Bandits are not sneetacular mcanse
they crave publicity. Some of their
most daring exploits have a far more
businesslike foundation. They know
for instance, that on a crowded thor¬
oughfare the pay roll is likely to tie
less carefully guarded. They know
also that the average Innocent by
stander is not going to take a chain
on being the central figure in a first
class funeral merely for (he privih-g
of saving somebody vise's money
A rohherv that might have furnish¬
ed a movie thriller was ree fitly con
eliminated on a Lusy down-town stree
m Chicago. Six bandits in nvo auto
mobiles trail ’d an automobile coni: in-,
ing $10,000 pay-roll for v. ’
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blocks. Kina’.> b y maneuver, d iln
pay-roll car to •:> • curb by the simp!
expadi'-nt o . i:g it and b’o 1
the way with their larger machines,
The pay roll car was wrecked, and
before th- occupants could colic
their wits r,;oi..y and bandits were
but a cloud o. mist In the dietc.u.
Th.* crowd v. ,-h immediately gath
ered h id seen i.otlilng but ill ■ wreck
and did not realize for several lain
utes that a robbery had taken place.
Another tin re of the manner in
which (lie hao-'ui capitalizes ihe et
feet of surprise attracted nation-wide
attention a f. w weeks ago The pay
roll of a large industrial plant had
been made up, and the paymaster was
first game Tuesday afternoon
St. George, Utah and won
i bey win play Durham, N. C.,
nesday nignt.
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Mrs. A. J. Hargrove and her
daughter, Miss Eugenia, are
iv.rs. ii M. Hargrove
Mr. Donehom pastor of the
list church, made a very
talk to the school children Monday
morning. Mr. Wight has asked sev
| end citizens to conduct chapel exer
cises while he is in Chicago with the
basket ball team.
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Mr:-. S. C. Rumph is supplying
Mrs. E. A. Wight while he is away.
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Mrs. J. C. Lee has been called to
A .I, er on account of the illness.of
Mrs. Sallie Boswell, her sister.
; bailie s” many frieifTI here are
to hear of her illnc-s am hope she
will soon be better.
before the people of Georgia as
| demonstration of the real value
confidence and courage.
A year ago Fort Valley suffered
a great loss and in that she saw a
new need the need of the power to
carry over her perishables for a brief
period.
| Today they are finishing their new
million dollar plant for that purpose
and they will not suffer again so
much,
Thay ga 1 e t > the world the great¬
est pageant of all this yeur and it is
a credit to the intelligence and cou¬
rage of her splendid people.
Every white family and even some
negroes had a part in the production
and we were glad to see that there
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making his rounds of the building,
paying off. At the foot of a stairway
a man was standing, apparently en¬
grossed in a newspaper. As the pay¬
master passed him the stranger drew
his pistol and demanded the money.
Two other bandits suddenly appeared
with drawn revolvers, and the pay¬
master ami two oiiic -t employees were
forced into a small room while lie
hold-up men escaped with $8 000.
And so :lie slorj goes, the lertiio
brain of the bandit ever active in his
quest of easily won wealth Somo
im s hi- work lias a touch of ihe
usual as he strolls into an office,
un a few thousands and walks
leisurely out Again he comes almost
oviili a blare of irunipets. like ilv
robber baron of old. But alvyays he
Uses th method best . irulated t)
result in a tr.msfe o£ possession ot
:l ■on si ra.HP sum iz ten.y 1'verv
Bay -roll is fair f him and it
L i!'(!, «] an opiiinl ; c prophet, who
re-cast bis .1. i lent l
ise oi .planes * ■er st - ship,.
Business Has Now Plan
lian<i:.,y lies eontini I in ii a. ••
with the expansion ol nidus.. and
lie eoi:-. .iu-'ii. lucre-. il.
bity for tiroiiiable I:
types of criminnIs vvho p-c y on l-.u ;
ness have not had such easy
however. For in t;im-. , tit i
las found his I'nnn : Iv . V liveti
Iiood s rinusly me o- Ch. ck wr't
ng ma h.nes. remarkable develop
ment In safety paper and the activkv
of insurance c.unpanl - and bai vs'
arganlr.ntioaa have made his .-ailing
hazardous in the extreme Taking
advantage of this greater safety of
is at least.one place in the world where
co-operation is not a mere name. We
do not know how much it will cost
the citizens aiiove the actual income
in cash, but we hope it will be noth
ir.tr: whatever it may be, however, the
city of Fort Val’ey should have a
provision in her Charter to provide
the authority to levy a tax to cover
\ it if necewary. In t’-e ultimate, the
pro pert r.wri' T f ‘bat sect 1 )• »t<‘
to be the beneficiarie .
In return for t' hf* nefit derived
to all Georgia we should be lavish in
supplying flor.ts s-nti patronage, that
there y. jld h no <: far •: po
sible and it would be 1 a real good
; investment if we should divide the
1 financial responsibilities. To furnish
j the tbe Production timo and the of ener great ^’ inciden pageant * to
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i should be enough for Fort Valley
j and her sister cities. Val
Ju “ l as we were leavin|? Fort '
,ey we stor) P ed at a drink stand and
' wcre served fr< " h P each J u,ce <not
fermented) and this wonderfully
Palatable drink was crushed from the
I i<,ach last vear and has been camed
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PC >r. of Fdrt VaPev were amon the
first to see the wisdom of a State
Port. To be able to carry fresh peach
juice and to take it from the off
Krade and sizes of the peach crop
would make the people of the peach
belt richer and the world happier. To
be able to furnish twelve month m
y ear the crushed peach juice
through all the fount of the world
would indeed be a great power and
true to the characteristic of her
people, they saw it. We brought a
bottle of that peach juice home with
us, paying Si.00 for it, and the taste
of the peach “fur” still in it. What
would it have been worth last year
to save every sound peach of the or
chard of Georgia? The boldest flight
of imagination cannot tell. The State
Port would give that power. But in
the meantime Fort Valley is spend
ing time, money and effort in build
ing a plant to take care in some de¬
gree, of Georgia’s great crop.
The Peach Festival is the greatest
advertisement Georgia has ever had
and the cities of the entire state
I should offer their aid next year to
I help the people of Fort Valley stage
the production.
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A New York construction firm is using an aerop’aee to transport its pay-roll
doect to dr.ant building operations. Occup-nts of tne plane go armed in event
of possible forced landing or attempted hold up.
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si: ; to." most Improved check writ
machines and suf tv paper
tic <i by processes that make suc
check alteration
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.mi . by leaving their cash in hank
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For years the hartr.l of forgery
I hindered the use of the pay-roll
ich. ck. Science and invention have
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The height of ignorance is sitting
. p all night because the washwoman
has your pajamas.
It is estimated that not enough
i ound the currency which he
by signing his name to a check wit l
safeguards as effective as those
i ployed by the government in produe
| i paper currency. N’ot all checks
I are protected adequately: for if they
were the forger would b" out of a
job for all time But such protection
is possible, and as a cons. , lence the
roll of industries paying off with
check instead of cash is growing wi’h
remarkable rapidity.
Collateral Benefit
A collateral benefit of the pay-roll
check is the encouragement of the
people are saving for vacation time.
Congress reminds us of an alarm
clock. It always gets cussed for doing
the best it can.
use 4 of banks by the employees of con ^
corns adopting this pian. Once the
employee understands the check sys
tem lie is almost invariably in hearty
accord with it The hold-up man is
the only one who loses.
If the pay-roll check does finally
displace cash payments, American
business will save millions of dollars
| now being spent annually to protect
money in transit between banks and
industrial plants, which is an ijfciied
reason why the bus'ness man is seiz
ing eagerly upon the pay-roll check
as a way out of a serious dilemma.