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JOHN II. JONES
Editor and Owner
••Aii a Man Thinketh In If in Heart, Ho In He.
Official Organ of Peach County, City of i .#rt
Valley and Western Division of th«
Southern District of Georgia
federal Court.
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THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1925.
Editorial
Notice
In (he rush of last week an
article got into The Leader
Tribune, not written by any per
son connected with this paper,
yet merely bearing the mark,
“CONTRIBUTED.”
This was a violation of The
I yeader-Tri bone's strict policy.
No article that deals with a
question outside the limitation of
plain news fads will be accepted
by The Leader-Tribune for pub¬
lication without hearing the writ¬
er's name.
Such information or articles as
are accepted as plain news mat¬
ter from our good friends, to be
published without personal cred¬
it, will be subject to revision,
condensation or completion ac¬
cording to the editor’s judgment.
Articles on any questions
which do not meet the editor’s re¬
quirements for plain, clear-cut
news statements of ALL the
facts must bear the writers’ sig¬
natures. W'e have enough respon¬
sibility for our own opinions,
j without taking the burden of res¬
ponsibility for the opinions of
others.
Oh! to he able to walk into Just
Any Soda Fountain and get a great,
grand glass of beautiful buttermilk.
Jiu-Jitsu Brown now has his
lative school in session. No, we
want anything.
Yes, sirree! “The Lord helps
who help themselves,” but He doesn’t
mean for us to be pigs about it.
This country needs to break out all
over with law OBSERVANCE. If we
don't respect the Law, we ought to
respect our citizenship or move OUT.
In other words, as has been as
knowlcdged throughout the world for
some time, most of us need a large
dose of good old-time religion.
Macon hud forty-five minutes of
heavy l ain and Hawkinsville had a
storm Tuesday, but Fort Valley re
mained merely warm, thank you.
Arthur Brisbane says that modern
woman’s complete costume, top, if
any, to bottom, if any, inside, if any,
and out, weighs only 24 ounces. That’s
what knocks us silly.
We want to know by what process
or reason any man thinks the courts
and officers of the law can enforce
the law against a mountain of con¬
trary public opinion among so called
better citizens.”
“Has Shot Gourd 182 Years Old,”
says a headline in the Macon News.
That’s nothing. When we were a boy
with an air-rifle we shot little suck¬
ling gourds only a few months old:
Pride of Community
This is the height of the peach sea¬
son in Georgia and Editor John Jones
is printing his Fort Valley Leader
Tribune on peach colored paper. We
suppose he is doing this to carry out
the color scheme.—Tucker in
bus Enquirer-Sun.
Come Down Here and We’ll
Give You Some
Miss Susan Myrick gives in the
Macon Telegraph, fifty different
recepies for fifty different ways to
prepare peaches for use and just to
think she never one time mentioned
peach and honey.—Commerce News.
Another City Keeps Tax
Payers Informed
W T e notice that our friend, Charlie
Furlow, new mayor of Madison, is
publishing the receipts and disburse
ments of that city each month and
we think it a very fine plan—one that
Monroe could emulate with much sat-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY .JUNE 25, 1925.
isfaction to its citizenship. This is
formation to which all the tax pay
ers are entitled and it should be
furnished them—-Wulton Tribune.
Watermelons
The watermelon crop will fall far
short of last year in this section. It
is estimated that the acreage is less
than half what it was last year. The
few farmers who have melons report
the crop doing well so far with pros¬
pects bright for a good quality mel-
1 ons. This should mean better prices,
It is expected that shipping will start
the latter part of this week or the
first of next.—Hahira Gold Leaf.
Something Really Good in
Quart Jars
Mountain liquor isn’t the only thing
put up in fruit jars. W'e frequently
got a quart or two of that salubrious
fluid, the grand and glorious old but
termilk in a fruit jar,—and the effect
is always much better on the stomach
and nerves. Hartwell Sun.
Amen, brother. But we hope butter¬
milk is more easily available in Hart¬
well than it is in Fort Valley. Looks
like we’re going to have to get a cow.
Come On And Help Us
Enjoy These Peaches
If Pat Griffin, Jim Davidson, Ern¬
est Camp, “Uncle Jeeihsboro' Wil
liams, Mister Tucker, Charlie Benns,
J. J. Howell and other dear swells of
the journalistic ocean's boundless
bosom will come to see us now we’ll
show them millions more beautiful
peaches than they ever saw on Fifth
avenue.—Fort Valley Leader-Tribune.
Ticket to Fort Valley, please!—
Walton Tribune,
Look for us right soon, Johnny.—
Cleveland Courier.
Don’t Stop.
When some one stops advertising
Some one stops buying.
When some one stops buying,
Some one stops selling.
When some one stops selling,
Some one stops making,
When some one stops making,
Some one stops earning.
When some one stops earning,
Everybody stops buying.
—Anon.
As a come-back at the piece of
poetry about the flapper girl of to
day we believe the following bit of
verse by a girl on the modern boy is
some little poerty itself:
Blessings on thee, little shiek.
Hotter than a lightning streak,
With balloon trousers, empty head,
Socks and ties of flaming red;
j With marcelled hair, grease galore,
The latest perfume from the store,
' With thy talcum thy face,
on
And thy cane to add thee grace,
From my heart bursts forth joy;
Glad that i am not a boy.
,—Leora M. Jones, in Elberton Star.
I We have printed the little item be¬
low before and don’t know to whom
credit belongs, but the truth of the
few lines will do to repeat over and
over :
' It is not always easy—
j —To begin over.
—To apologize.
—To admit error.
—To be unselfish.
—To take advice.
—To be charitable.
—To keep trying.
—To think and then act.
—To be considerate.
—To profit by mistakes.
—To forgive and forget.
-—To shoulder a deserved blame.
BUT IT ALWAYS PAYS.
The Letter “E ••
Someone has said that the most
unfortunate letter in the alphabet is
the letter "E". Because it is always
out o£ cash ’ forever in debt ’ never
out of danger, and in hell all the time.
That’s quite true. Still it's never in
war, always in peace and always in
something to eat, and without it
there would be no health. It is the
beginning of existence, commence¬
ment of ease and the end of trouble.
It is the center of honesty and always
in love. It is the beginning of en
couragement and endeavor and the
end of failure. It comes in life but
once and is always found in heaven.
—Hartwell Sun.
Boy, Page Mr. Hale
; Uncle John Shannon, editor of the
Commerce News, certainly must have
had a vision of Reach county when
he wrote:
A gentleman who knows what he
was talking about, came into our of
fiee recently and talked interesting
ly about sis cow. He made the state
ment. that, if we could form a dairy
| association here with 500 cows, and
a bonded agreement to maintain that
number for five years, such a basis
would authorize the organization to
buy a first class creamery outfit, and
get down to business in a business
way. The suggestion is worthy of se¬
rious consideration. Conditions here
are all favorable for cattle, milk and
butter. We have the climate. We
have the soil adapted to grasses. We
can grow to perfection any kmd of
food needed for the cow. The farm
owner and others could thus convert
what he grows on the farm into cash,
using the cow as an agency. We have
a well watered section. Our
are short and not severe. There is a
demand for all the cream and butter
we can make. With 500 cows, we
could ship in wholesale lots and get
a better price. And, while selling our
product, we would be enriching our
lands. The gentleman who outlined
the plan said he would furnish ten
of the five hundred cows. It should
not be a hard matter to get the
er 490. It would require at least a
year to get ready for such an organ
ization; a year in which to prepare
pastures, barns, procure cows and
make other necessary arrangements.
If Prof. Veatch will take this matter
in hand and put the plan over he will
render a great service to this section.
We would like to have suggestions
from several dozen farmers. What do
you think of the plan Mr. Farmer? .
Peter Tnitty Hits The
Bull's-Eye Again
Peter S. Twitty, Georgia commis¬
sioner of game and fish, is one of
the best examples of efficiency and
real qualification in public office we
have observed in a “coon’s age.”
Now comes Mr. Twitty with a
beautiful booklet, “Birds On Georgia
Farms.” While its color cover is a
genuine work of art, the booklet’s
real beauty lies in the printed pages
which disclose the charming romance
of bird life on the farms of Georgia.
To the thinking Georgia there is
a certain striking beauty in these
paragraphs from Mr. Twitty:
. • Do you know that sixty-six spe¬
cies of birds common to Georgia are
known to consume boll weevils in
large quantities? The most common
of these birds are the woodpecker,
yellow-hammer, bull-bat, chimney¬
sweep, blackbird, blue jay, red bird,
oriole, wren, thrasher, swallow,
mockingbird, martin and dozens of
other birds that play about your farm
every day.
| Many of these birds actually take
( the weevils from the cotton plant
and some of them feed upon them
,
while they are in flight and seeking
to extend their range. As many as
forty boll weevils have been
from the stomach of a single bird and
large numbers are taken from most
all species.
"It has been estimated that a pair
of boll weevils are capable of produo
ing over twelve million descendants
i in one season. Think of it! If one
; bird consumes only a single pair of
: boll weevils during the spring or sum
mer, he may save the farmer from
1 the ravages of over twelve millions
of these pests during the crop season.
Isn’t this worth the farmer’s most
serious consideration?”
Editors and Editorials
The best editorials some editors
ever write are never published.
There is a lot of difference between
having a burning conviction of right,
or the remedy for a community’s ills,
and putting it into words on the im¬
pulse, and arising the next morning
to view the product of noble
tion after it has cooled off for a
night to realize that, however good
in purpose, its practical effect through
publicity would be more harmful than
beneficial.
A preacher told us the other day
that he frequently had the same ex¬
perience—that he had to struggle
sometimes for self control to avoid
doing harm by saying the right thing
at the wrong time.
“Oh!” you exclaim, “there can be
no wrong time for emphasizing the
right thing."
We have known men who won
lovely maidens by dealing gently
with them for a long time to get them
in the right mental and sentimental
attitude before popping the question.
We have known preachers who won
wandering souls back into the fold, not
by knocking them in the head with
the big stick of Truth, but by adapt¬
ing themselves with philosophy and
patience to solving the everlasting
problem of perverse human nature.
We believe that most men want
to do right. It is surprising how
sometimes you can exercise patient
policy and get the most stubborn fel¬
low to come around to what you con¬
sider the right thing. It is equally
amazing how at other times you can
widen the breach between yourself
and your fellow man by being too
quickly positive.
Another thing; It happens occa¬
sionally that, being overwhelmed with
a conviction of right but holding
yourself silent for awhile in closer
examination of the facts, you catch
MARRIED
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w hik . formg divine that neV er sleep
} Attend their steps and viff il keep
0yer lWQ 80U , 8 who now are one .
por ^ they arfi jn heart and hand .
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The mun un(J wjfe who understanJ ,
. An<J ]ead the life by Heaven p i an ned,
daily pray „ God , s win be don „ -
There’s naught but death can sepa
! rate
f wo souls united in the state
Whicb God has made to antedate
The entra nce of all earthly ills,
y e marr j ed folk! be pure, be true,
Though many be your years or few,
g 0 s hall rich blessings come to you.
us j as your heavenly Father wills.
—W. C. CARTER.
a startling vision of some element of
meager justice in the other man’s
position.
But aboat editorials—you will find
usually, in the type of editor who
breaks aloose abruptly every time
he thinks the spirit is moving him,
a destructive influence. He is like
the proverbial bull in a china shop.
It would seem that the editor
should be slow, very slow, to “raise
sand,” but when he does raise it to
lift it so high that he will have left
a few golden grains on the very ala¬
baster gates of paradise.
Sixteen Pages!
By hooking our galluses up a hole
or two and just naturally “hitting the
grit,” The Leader-Tribune is realiz
ing this week one of the
choicest dreams since his arrival on
the job nearly a year ago—a regular
man-size, two-section, sixteen-page
paper such as is published in other
wide awake towns in the Fort Valley
class during their main harvest sea¬
sons.
What other towns do, Fort Valley
can do, and oftentimes more. If Fort
Valley has not at least as much en¬
terprising spirit and “git-up-and-git”
as that of other towns her size in
Georgia, we’ll surrender the secret
our success in finding buttermilk
where there isn’t any.
Now we’ll never be satisfied
we—the bankers, merchants and
editor—succeed some day in
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New Long Distance Circuits
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For Fort Valley
HE long distance tele¬ tezuma, one between Fort Val¬ r
phone service to and from ley and Marshallville and one
Fort Valley has been between Macon and Mar
greatly improved and increased shallville.
by the additions and extensions The$e new facilities required
recently completed. the construction of 77 miles of
copper toll circuit between
These new circuits were en¬ Macon and Montezuma, 27
gineered to care for the peak miles of additional phantom >
traffic during the peach season, circuit between these points
and we can now handle, in a and 13 miles of new toll circuit
satisfactory manner, all the from Fort Valley to Reynolds.
business offered. i
Most of the through business
Six new circuits have been will now be routed via Atlanta,
added, giving ample facilities instead of Macon, which will
for carrying the large volume improve transmission
of calls flowing to and from and speed up the service by
the Peach Belt. eliminating the switching at
Macon. i
Two additional circuits have
been installed between Fort Long distance tele¬
Valley and Macon, one between phone service is the quickest
Fort Valley and Atlanta, one and most economical means of
between Fort Valley and Mon- communication.
W. D. WEEKS, Manager
«4 Bell System” »
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE 8
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY &
One Policy, One System, Universal Service <
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Anti Pharaoh said unto Joseph, In my dream,
behold, I stood upon the bank of the river:
And, behold, there came up out of the river
seven kine. fat-fleshed ami well favoured; and they
fed in a meadow:
And. behold, seven other kine came up after
them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed,
such as I never saw in all the land ol Egypt for A
badness:
And the lean and the ill favoured kine did eat
up the first seven fat kine:
And when they had eaten them up. it could
not he known that they had eaten them: but they
werestillillfavoured.asat the beginning. So I awoke
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven
I stalk, full and good:
ears came up in one
And. behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and
blasted with the east wind, sprang up after them:
And the thin ears devoured the seven good ears.
*****
And in the seven plenteous years the earth
brought forth by handfuls.
And he gathered up ail the food of the seven
years, which were in the land of Egypt, and laid up
the food in the cities: the food of the field, which
was round about every city, laid he up in the same.
******
And the seven years of dearth began to come,
according as Joseph had said: and the dearth was in
all lands: but in all the land of Egypt there was
'
j bread.
*****
! And all countries into Egypt Joseph
came to
for to buy corn.
—From the Forty-First Chapter of Genesis.
ing a three-section, 24-page paper
such as is published from time to
time in little old Cartersville, Hart¬
well and similar Georgia towns. Hot
dawg!
Georgia spends less per capita on
education than any other state in the
South—$5.30.
Foxy Parson Jones
Parson Jones had won five dollars __
In a crap game with one of his par¬
ishioners. Fearing to he denounced
at church the following Sunday he
came prepared. Rreddern,” he said.
announcing his text for the sermon,
“owah lesson dts niawnin’ am taken
from de Good Book, which say, ‘Bles¬
sed am he dat loseth, and maketh no
outcry.’ ”