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W E ARE BUILDING A 'CITY HERE Volume XXXVII. Number 26. FOR VALLEY’S SHIPMENTS 971 CARS TO DATE 66# Carlots Peaches Shipped from Fort Valley Territory Since * Wednesday Last Week 971 cars of the glorious Georgia peach had been shipped this season from the Fort Valley territory up to Wednesday night, according to C. H. Sammons, freight agent. 219 cars had been placed Wednes¬ day and were being placed Thursday for loading in this territory. 560 carlots have been shipped dur¬ ing the past week, from Wednesday night to Wednesday night, 411 cars having been shipped during the sea¬ son from this territory up to Wed¬ nesday night of last week. This week’s shipments were as fol¬ low's: Monday, 84 cars, Tuesday, 125 cars; Wednesday 133 cars. This is the peak of the Hiley Belle movement. The market has been de¬ pressed with the heavy shipments V”- is expected to recover quickly with the early reduction in shipments from smaller crops of Georgia Belles and Elbertas. For the state at largo, Tuesday's shipment of 335 cars was the largest , sef the season. A total of 2,712 ear lots had left Georgia up to and in eluding Tuesday. Georgia Kiicanians Lead at St. Paul: Moss Is President < 5 St. Paul, Minn., June 24.—John H. Moss, of Milwaukee, Wis., will be the next president of Kiwanis Interna tional. He was the unanimous choice the nominating committee here today. The election will be held Thursday as part of the organiza¬ tion’s annual convention. A mid-Summer ice carnival was held tonight at the Minneapolic are na. A hockey game between the teams representing the St. Paul and Min neapolic Kiwanis Clubs was the fea¬ ture of the carnival at which chain pions of speed and fancy skating and hundreds of skaters in carnival cos tume performed, despite the mercu¬ ry’s behavior. Georgians Take Spotlight With Peaches and Other Products St. Paul, Minn., June 24.—Georgia held her lead in many things today at fae Kiwanis international. feature of the Afternoon business session was the far more than half million-dollar report of International Treasurer Henry Heinz, of Atlanta. The fraterniay handling that sum last year, including $30,000 for the monument erected by Kiwanis to Warren Harding, charter member of ^Marion club, the only service club m embership he accepted. The monu- ; ment is at Vancouver, the last place he publicly spoke, to be unveiled in September, Kiwanis is a United States and Canada organization. Georgia featured this morning in consideration of the report of the ag¬ ricultural committee, leading all the states in the movement to beer re¬ lations between farmer and city man. Thtk Georgia delegation today in¬ formally talked over plans for a min¬ iature Georgia products exposition at next year’s convention. It was sug¬ gested that the 7 clubs in Georgia in 1925 take one suitcase full of com¬ pact samples of products from their respective counties, planning to core¬ late them comprehensively to show Georgia to the United States and Canada. New Jersey has scores of samples of he manufactured products in the show windows of St. Paul. ?>n St. Paul’s market today are Georgia peaches, melons, peanuts and peanut products, cotton seed oil prod *cts, white and oil shortening, even Georgia cabbage and Chatham county new Irish potatoes, but with no sign to tell they are from Georgia . Even Georgians did not recognize them. The sts^gestion is to label “57” Geor | gia products at the next international I convention. I Georgia district meetings were first ,Jin [j the newspaper reports, and alto gather Georgia is topping the list of ®he geafcer-Ofctbune Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon a nd Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest. FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1925. C. E. Martin Is Made President Country C. E. Martin, vice-president of Citizens Bank of Fort Valley and ready holding the high honor of presidency of the Georgia Association, was honored again Friday at the convention of Country Bankers Association o Georgia in Savannah. He was ed vice-president of that tion. R. B. Dixon, of West was made president. Mr. Martin, due to the rush of peach season, could not attend one day’s session of the On Friday he delivered a address on "Mistakes of the Past How To Avoid Them.” W. G. BRISENDINE BUYS WRIGHT One of the most important , estate dpa j s of recent months I that of last week in which W. | Brisendine bought the handsome i idence formerly owned by VG-ight on Miller street. Mr. is being congratulated upon quiring this property for a jj e [, ac j been improving grounds on the Perry road for erection of a lovely country but succeeded instead in buying Wright house at a satisfactory Macon Man Preaches At Presbyterian F. R. Martin, a prominent of Macon, and a member of the Evangelistic Club of Macon, the phTpit at the Precbyterian of Fort Valley last Sunday. He was greeted by an unusually large con gregation for this season. MELONS BRING GOOD PRICE Tifton, Ga., June 24. Walter Mal com, of Ty Ty, sold two carloads of melons yesterday for the high price of $900.00 for the two ears. The mel ons ' were of the Dixie Bell variety, new, large, round melon. Melon loadings are expected to reach the peak this week and continue heavy through next week. Mrs. Lula Anderson is ill at her home on Anderson Avenue. Friends wish for her a speedy recovery. Kiwanis state delegations. Several Georgians participated tonight in the . unique mid-winter ice carnival at South Minneapolic arena. GIVEN BALLOON WINNER f! {ny * i fWH i T wm ■ ./■ Wmf * WjL 4b '-■■■■■ ■ m % X m m I wm % I 1 £ 11 1 Wmimm Beautlful trophy awarded the ner of the national balloon race started from St. Joseph, Mo., on May Unveiling Zeebrugge Memorial Scene when King Albert ot 0 unveiled erected to the the Zeebrugge memory of heroes who carried out the raid on the seaport when It was by the Germans. XSSKWR! t A *5; r . I’ V* t j I i I j ~ 1 ! Mr*! raS&t >4 ti a W f X'.VV mm fV; J V -v m*:/ * 4m -■ t-A< M !fv. ; v. i HE DAVIDSON LEFT TUESDAY; WILL PRESENT BILLS Peach County Representative Will Offer Bill to Abolish In¬ heritance Tax J. E. Davidson, former state sen a ^ or and now representative in the legislature from Peach county, left Tuesday morning for the opening of the general assembly in Atlanta on Wednesday. Mr. Davidson stated to The Leader Tribune before leaving that he would introduce a hill to abolish the state inheritance tax. Abolishment of this tax, it is believed, will be accom pushed at the 1925 session of the legislature. Mr. Davidson is receiving a ] al .g e measure of credit throughout j (-be state for his positive, intelligent stand upon this question. ! He will introduce also two local bills, one for the Fort Valley con¬ solidated school district and one to create a city court for Peach county. ‘ Mr. Davidson has had wide expe rience in state affairs and has culti¬ vated a very large circle of friends in the legislative field who hold for j his judgment the highest respect. He is recognized as one of the most , : practical, influential men in the gen¬ eral assembly of Georgia. Farmers Growing More Wheat Here The farmers of Peach county are building upon solid rock. One of the marks of this constructive pro gress along sound lines of diversifi cation and "living at home” is the fact that much more wheat, of a j j ter Mr. quality, Hunter, is being of the grown. Valley Milling Company, tells The Leader-Tribune : that last Saturday was a banner day in the bringing of wheat to the mills by farmers of this scetion. Last Fall Mr. Hunter got 400 bushels of m usually good wheat from near Grif fin. This wheat was so good and so uniform in quality that he decided to distribute it among our farmers for seed. The results are remarkably fine, as shown in the eagerness with which farmers are bringing their j harvests of May and June to the ■ mills and insisting on quick delivery 1 splendid flour with which to of the delight their palates. I Messrs. T. J. Blewster, I. J. Blew ster, Jr., and W. C. Blewster of Mag¬ nolia, Ark., will arrive Saturday to visit their brothers and uncles, R. G. Blewster and W. M. Blewster. Georgia was $1.82, of North Carolina $1311, CHEATED CHILDREN Just because a child happens to live in Towns county, hasn’t he as much right to opportunity in life as the one who lives in Fulton county? Let us see if he has it. Towns county lies in the‘mountain country, Its people represent the finest stock existing in America today—pure An glo-Saxon, highly intelligent, capable of great development—stalwart pio neers out of whom anything can be made. They learn easily and quickly and have the mother wit to use what they learn. Yet because the railroad has not as yet reached Towns county; because her wonderful resources are unde veloped; because she is out ot the march of progress and property val ues are low there, she is unable to spend much money on schools, Be cause she has been in this condition for some years, a wonderful county hidden away from man in the moun tains, many of her children have grown up without education. Not hav¬ ing had the advantages of an educa tion they naturally have not appreci ated its value, Therefore Towns is spending even less in proportion to her slender resources than more fa vored sections. She spends $4.01 a year on each child that goes to school. She spends a total of $299.94 each teacher during the year. These sums will hardly provide much edu cation for these folk who could be made into such splendid citizens. Now let us take the county of Ful ton. Fulton is a highly developed county; in it lies the great city of Atlanta with all of its wealth. Its people are progressive, well educat e{J 0nd {ully alive t0 t he need of an edu ,. ation It is t h e wealthiest county jn tf)e >state _ Fulton spends $83.30 on each chjld and $3,509.89 back of each tcacher during the year. Between Fulton and Towns lie the other ig8 counties 0 f Georgia. Ten of them spend over $25 a year on each ehild> ’ twer) t y . e jght of them spend ^ han | K) An(J betwcen those fig ures range the other 120. Are not those 1,300 school children up in Towns county entitled to much opporunity in life as the 65, 000 in Fulton? Yet Towns county cannot do much better than she is doing. To raise her income from her meagre taxes to the point where she could give her children a proper education, she would have to impose a tax of over 50 mills 5c on the dollar—upon her property holders. And there are 39 other Georgia counties that are in the same predicament—one-fourth of all of our counties. means that under the present system the children in one-fourth of the counties in Georgia cannot get (Sixteen Pages) Fort Valley Carry Happiness Kiwanis T. Sanders Harris, representing Kiwanis Club of Fort Valley at convention of Kiwanis n Saint Paul, Minn., this week, bearing fruit. What we mean is that Sanders actually bearing fruit—the which makes millions hope to live other season. Fruit—the famous Georgia When Mr. Harris left last for Saint Paul he had the delight knowing that J. E. Davidson other peach growers were by express to him in Saint Paul number of crates of these peaches for presentation to those Ki wanians gathered from all corners the globe. lr Knowing Mr. 1T Harris as they , the ,, people , of , Fort ,, . , Valley r ,. are confi dent that he bearing . . other ,, , kinds • . is of fruit while at , the ,, convention—the fruit of good . work . well ,, done , in .__,, mak mg folks better acquainted with ,v„ the wonderful advantages and , opportum ties ,. of - ,, this . city ., and , section of c n Geor gia. Rev. J. W. Smith Now In Revival at Macon Rev. J. W. Smith, evangelist of the Macon Presbytery, is conducting a series of revival services at the Log Cabin Heights Presbyterian church in Macon. The meetings be g-an last Sunday and are expected to close next Sunday. sufficient education to take proper advantage of life’s opportunities— to develop their state. Think what this means to Georgia! j One-half of the wealth of our stat0 )s concentrated in ten counties. These ten counties, despite better mc thods, have only one-fifth of the teachers. Therefore, they do not have to spend as much on education as these poorer counties we have been considering. Yet they are dependent upon those | 0 tp er counties for food and citizens; they sell them goods. Cannot they af f or( j to help these poorer counties produce more food, better citizens an( j a better market for goods ? Education will do It 1 . The Georgia Education Association recommends that the state itself pro¬ vide an equalization fund which will distribute some of this surplus wealth of the richer counties among the schoolfi 0 f the poorer ones, In view of what we have seen here, it looks like a good idea. Why not do it? SHE’S GOING CALLING | j i » 1 5 Cl | j j i i j m K ; 1 i J ; ■ it < I 1 m 5; "4 Wm 5 ■ - /wm. mr 'v p a m Miss Eleanor McCarthy, New Or¬ leans society girl, at her airplane. She Is piloting It to make social calls, see nothing unusual in a woman driv¬ ing an airplane,” said Miss McCarthy. “it Is Just as easy to operate us an uutoinohile and Is certulnly more pleasant and speedier. While In France I learned to fly from Charles Nungesser, Hie French ace. This sum m er I intend to fly to several Ameri can resorts and will later tour Europe in machine. PEACHLAND JOURNAL 36 years old—only newspaper in heart of one of America's richest diversified agricultural sections. $1.50 Per Year in Advance. SUNDAY SCHOOLS MEN’S C LASSES MEET TOGETHER Bible Classes of All Denominations B ill Hear Hon. George S. Jones Sunday Morning Hon. George S. Jones, a brilliant lawyer and Bible student of Macon, address a joint meeting of the rnen s Bible classes of all Fort Val | ! ley churches next Sunday morning 11 0 clock in the court house. ! This will mark the launching of .i°' nt meetings of the men's Bible classes of all denominations in the city to continue through the summer months in order to give adequate re¬ ception to the numerous visitors hero during the peach season. The ar ■ j rar >gcments tor such a consolidation of classes have been made in a splen ! did manner by ? Mayor ' R. D. Hale, ‘ president of the Baptist 1 and . w W. B. i Hardeman, president of the , M tho dist . , Bible classes. It urged 1 men s is s I that every member of all such classes ! of all „ denominations , . . loin . , heartily m the movement, which ... promises to add ’ 1 largely to the interest of each , Sun- _ day Bible . study. s The speaker for ne>: unday morn ing, Mr. Jones, will ) introduced by Judge A. C. Riley. \ special choir made up from the various classes | will furnish music. A mong these sing ( ers will be Frank Smisson, F. W. i , Withoft, Ashby McCord, R. D. Hale, Miller Mathews, Henry Branham and others. j All men who are in Fort Valley on Sunday are cordially invited to I share in the pleasure and interest of this meeting. ! CjA-L IT YT th UN l 1 ij l Y C'J'TY 1 , ! PHONE SERVICE | NOn COMPEL I LD Manager Weeks of the Southern Bell Telephone Company announces the completion of the work which has been in progress to care for the growing volume of long distance business in Fort Valley and the peach belt. ^ Four additional sections of toll ewitchboard have been installed, the toll testing facilities enlarged, ad ditional storage battery and other I equipment provided at a cost of more than $9,000. Six new long distance circuits have also been added, one between : Fort Valley and Atlanta, one between Fort Valley and Marshallville, one between Macon and Marshallville, and one between Fort Valley and Montezuma. These increased toll facilities are designed to care for the peak load in this section during the peach sea son and telephone officials state that all business offered can now be handled in a satisfactory manner. The new circuits required the con¬ struction of 77 miles of copper cir¬ cuit between Macon and Montezuma, the creation of 27 miles of phantom circuit between the same points and the 13 miles of new circuit from Fort Valley to Reynolds. The cost was ap¬ proximately $10,000. Through business is now routed by Atlanta, instead of Macon and this is expected to improve the transmis¬ sion and speed up the service by eli¬ minating the switching at Macon. SHERIFF GETS THREE STILLS Sheriff Geo. D. Anderson has cap¬ tured three stills during the last two Valley. Notwithstanding the fact that weeks, about six miles east of Fort he took several private citizens along with him at night as witnesses to the difficulty in catching operators, and exercised great care, not even using a flashlight, nobody was found at either of the stills. Seven barrels of beer was destroyed. The only other ripple in the placid waters of peace was a negro gambl¬ ing party which was raided Sunday night by Deputy Barfield and Police¬ man Joyner. One-fourth of Georgia’s children are not in school.