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AM) PEACHLAND JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 1*88
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
"Am a Man Thlnketh in Hi* Heart, Ho I* H«*. M
Official Orirnn of I’cach County, City of fort
Valley and Western Hlvi*ion of the
Southern District of (ieorjfia
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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-eader-Tribnne’s strict policy.
No article that deals with a
question outside the limitation of
plain news facts will be accepted
by The Leader-Tribune for pub¬
lication without bearing the writ¬
er’s name.
Much 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 (he writers’ sig¬
natures. We have enough respon¬
I sibility for our own opinions,
without taking the burden of res¬
1 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 legis
lative school in session. No, we don’t
want anything.
Yes, sirree! “The Lord helps those
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
knowledged throughout the world for
some time, most of us need a large
dose of good old-time religion.
Macon had forty-five minutes of
heavy rain 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.
AVe 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.”
U Has Shot Gourd 182 Years Old, H
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. j
I
Bride 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
scheme.—Tucker ‘
the color in Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun.
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Come Dow n Here and We’ll i
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. |
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Another City Keeps Tax !
Payers that Informed friend, Charlie |
We notice our
Furlow, new mayor of Madison, is
publishing the receipts and disburse- |
ments of that city each month and
we think it n very fine plan—one that:
Monroe could emulate with much sat- j
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY ,JUNE 25, 1925.
i.sfaction to its citizenship. This is
formation to which all the tax
ers are entitled and it should
furnished them—Walton Tribune.
Watermelons
The watermelon crop will fall
short of last year in this section.
is estimated that the acreage is
than half what it was last year.
few farmers who have melons
the crop doing well so far with
pects bright for a good quality
ons. This should mean better
It is expected that shipping will
the latter part of this week or
first of next. Ilahira Gold Leaf.
Something Really Good in
Quart Jars
Mountain liquor isn’t the only
put up in fruit jars. We
g e t a quart or two of that salubrious
fluid, the grand and glorious old but
term ilk in a fruit jar,—and the effect
is always much better on the stomach
arid 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, • I Uncle Jeertisboro 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,
Walton Tribune.
Look for us right soon,
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
poetry about the flapper girl of
1 J day we believe the following bit
verse by a girl on the modern boy
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;
| With marcelled hair, grease galore,
| The latest perfume from the store,
With thy talcum on thy face,
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.
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—
—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 of cash ’ forever in debt > ncver
ou *‘ dan K er « and * n bell tbe 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.
^' s tbe cen ^ er honesty and always
* n * ove - ^ * s tbe 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.
Roy, Page Mr. Hale
Uncle John Shannon, editor of the
Commerce News, certainly must have
had a vision of Peach county when
he wrote:
A gentleman who knows what he
was talking about, came into our of
fice 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 favoruble for cattle, milk and I
butter. We have the climate. We ,
have the soil adapted to grasses. We 1
1 to perfection kind of i
can grow any 1
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 winters
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 400. 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
I think of the plan Mr. Farmer?
you
Peter Twitty Hits The
BulVs-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
i 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, chimnej
sweep, blackbird, blue jay, red bird,
oriole, wren, thrasher, swallow,
mockingbird, martin and dozens of
other birds that play about your farm
j 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 taken
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 produe- j
ing over twelve million descendants i
in one season. Think of it! If one ■
bird consumes only a single pair of j
1 boll weevils during the spring or sum-1
j mer, he may save the farmer from ;
the ravages of over twelve millions j
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 inspira- ^
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.
H 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
patienee 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 hapjvens 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
climb with joy life's rugged
steep l
forms divine that never sleep
their steps and vigil keep
two souls who now’ are one.
one they are in heart and hand,
mun and wife who understand,
lead the life by Heaven planned,
daily pray “God’s will be done ”
naught but death can sepa
rate
sou | s un ited in the state
God has made t0 antcdate
entrance of all earthly ills, I
married folk! be pure, be true,
many be your years or few;
sha || rich blessings come to you,
us(; as your heavenly Father wills.
—W. C. CARTER.
startling vision of some element of
justice in the other man’s
But about editorials—you will find
in the type of editor who
aloose abruptly every time
thinks the spirit is moving him,
destructive influence. He is like
proverbial hull in a china shop.
It would seem that the editor
be slow, very slow, to "raise
but when he does raise it to
it so high that he will have left
few golden grains on the very ala¬
gates of paradise.
Sixteen Pages!
By hooking our galluses up a hole
two and just naturally “hitting the
this The week Leader-Tribune of the is realiz- j
one editor's|
dreams since his arrival on 1
job nearly a year ago—a regular j
two-section, sixteen-page
such as is published in other
awake towns in the Fort Valley
during their main harvest sea
What other towns do, Fort Valley
do, and oftentimes more. If Fort
has not at least as much en¬
spirit and “git-up-and-git”
that of other towns her size in
we’ll surrender the secret of
success in finding buttermilk
there isn’t any.
Now we’ll never be satisfied until
bankers, merchants and this
some day in publish-
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New Long Distance Circuits
For Fort Valley
r-' HE long distance tele¬ tezuma, one between Fort Val¬ .4 y
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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. 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
M Bell System
SOUTHERN BELL TELEPHONE IS
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY .5*
One Policy, One System, Universal Service I
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And 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 and well favoured; and they
fetl in a meadow:
And, behold, seven other kine came up after
them, poor and very ill favoured and leanfleshed,
sueli as I never saw in all the land ol Egypt lor
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
were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke
And I saw in my dream, and, behold, seven
ears came up in one stalk, full and good:
Anil, behold, seven ears, withered, thin, and
blasted vv ith 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 lie 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
bread.
*****
And all countries came into Egypt to Joseph
for to buy corn.
-—From the Forty-First Chapter of Genesis. s
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
daug!
Georgia spends less per capita on l
education than any other state in the
South—$5.30.
Foxy Parton Jones
Parson Jones had won live dollars
In a crap game with one of his par¬
ishioners. Fearing to he denounced
at church the following Sunday he
came prepared. "Breddern," he said,
announcing his text for the sermon,
“owah lesson dis rnawnin’ am taken
from de Good Book, which say, ‘Bles¬
sed am he dat losetli, and maketh no
outcry.’ ”