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KSTAIILIHHED 1888
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
JOHN If. JONES
Editor and Owner
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Official Organ of I'earh County, City of Fort
Valluy imd Wi**t«rn Division of the
•Southern District of Georgia
Federal Court.
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THURSDAY, JULY 9. 1925.
Your sins may not find you out but
they certainly will hem you in.
When the peach trees are left
bare there will be quite a lot of
peaches left in Fort Valley.
Speaking of that Tennessee evolu
tion case, William Jennings Bryan
and the. balance of us may not have
any monkey i blood . | | - in us, , but plenty n i„ n . v
of us make monkeys of ourselves.
We agree with the Cuthbert Leader
that the folks back home ought not
to cast such reflections on the legis¬
lature. Their votes make it what it
is, and there are a number of real
good statesmen up there who will
give us some constructive legislation
if we will give them a chance.
Jack Williams, editor of the Way
cross Journal-IIerald, with his organ
ization, must be congratulated in no
uncertain terms upon their great
edition blazing the way for the Good
Will Tour with which Waycross show¬
ed other towns how to go out and
cultivate friends.
We welcome H. W. Harris into the
Central Georgia journalistic field. He
succeeds J. J. Harvard as editor of
the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News.
Mr. Harvard leaves behind him many
years of fine newspaper service for
his section of the state. Mr. Harris
is taking up the pen in a manner
which indicates that he will keep
banner of service flying with
honor. ' l> 8
We dare any tourist to get as
much genuine pleasure out of a trip
to Cuba with her Malecon and
ling glasses as can be found right
here in Fort Valley on a summer
evening with a phonograph and a
pitcher of i,ce water or—glory halle¬
luiah!—a quart jar of buttermilk.
Florida with her blistering beaches
and bootleggers doesn’t enter into
the argument.
Our Belled Buzzard
The Anderson (S. C.)Daily Mail,
after reading about one of Georgia’s
belled buzzards in last week’s Sun,
remarks:
“That old buzzard was about again
due for a line of personals from the
Georgia newspapers, as it has not
bad its name in the papers for sev¬
eral months. According to the news¬
papers that old buzzard has been
paying periodical visits throughout
Georgia for the past fifty years, and
we insist that its bell should be worn
out by this time, and it be provided
by a new one.”
Buy Mountain Camp
Through the efforts of its officers
and members of the camp committee,
the Georgia Press Association will
soon come into possession of n per¬
manent camp in the heart of the
mountain region of North Georgia.
The camp sight is near Sawtooth, on
the Tallulah Falls railroad, and on
which is located a number of cot¬
tages, garages, assembly hall, etc.,
all equipped with water and electric
lights. The transfer of title to the
property will be made in the next
few days with promise of possession
about September 1st. A construction
company are the original owners of
the property, which will complete its
present project and turn over same
to its new owners at the time above
stated. These cottages are to be fur¬
nished by members of the Georgia
Press Association and occupied by .
them and their families as summer
homes and for annual meetings of
the association.—Butler Herald.
Cartersville Is Tip-Top
Brother Fleetwood
By hooking our galluses up a hole
or two and just naturally "hitting
the grit,” The Leader-Tribune is
realizing this week one of the edi¬
tor’s choicest dreams since his ar¬
rival on the job nearly a year ago—
a regular mansize, two-section, six-
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 9, 1925.
Governor Walker's
Tax Program
A state income tax for Georgia, in
addition to the federal income and
other taxes already imposed, would
not be a PRODUCER of wise income
from legitimate sources of taxes in
sound government—it would be a
CONSUMER of assets and resources
both in the capital which is necessary
to constructive progress and in the
incentive of business ability and gen¬
ius that forms the motive power for
that capital.
We believe that Governor Walker
has the highest and finest motives in
his program of tax legislation. But
| we believe lie is wrong; and we do
not believe that you can correct an
evil by the adoption of a greater
evil—you cannot cure the stomach
ache by cutting off a sound right arm.
Georgia has financial indigestion.
* She ,s not f,roberl y ass,nillat .... ’"K the
; money which already goes from the
j Governor taxpayer’s pockets Walker’s into her coffers.
diagnosis is
■ wrong jf e wants to per f orm a ma j or
surgical , operation where . the real
neea *" or a strict diet for the stom¬
ach’s sake and then careful develop¬
ment, and not DESTRUCTION, of
the arms and head of capital and
genius without which, even if the
patient were to be cured, he would
never be an up-and-going man.
Governor Walker says we must
raise more money, merely because we
are spending, or need to spend, more
than we now are getting. So far, so
good.
He says further that if otners don't
approve of his program for raising
more money, they must offer a bet¬
ter plan. We disagree with utmost
respect for the distinguished govern¬
or. Those others probably should of¬
fer a better plan, if they can, but it is
not at all the logical conclusion that
simply because they can’t do so they
should accept any plan that may be
presented. Inability at once to devise
a satisfactory plan is no argument
in favor of an unsatisfactory plan.
t It would seem better to retrench,
| as any wise business man would do,
until the proper remedy for current
ills could be found and a safe and
sane method of constructive progress
and expansion could be devised.
It is our humble opinion that Gov¬
ernor Walker is eminently right in
his claim that certain essential insti
tutions and departments of public
service in Georgia need more money.
However, we are confident that the
practical policy would be one which
first sought to stop waste and
travagance in other departments and
thus largely relieve the temporary
emergency until not merely , any
method that would get results re
gardless ^ of the means, ’ but the right
mol hod that would get SAFE results
through WHOLESOME means, could
be agreed upon at least to a reason¬
able extent.
Some of the best medicine in the
world is dangerous if administered
for the wrong ailment; and you can't
feed a hungry man by sawing off his
arms hr legs.
teen-page paper such as is published
in other wide awake towns in the
Fort Valley class during their main
harvest seasons.
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 szie in j
Georgia, we’ll surrender the secret of ,
our success in finding buttermilk |
where there isn’t any.
Now we’ll never be satisfied until
we—the bankers, merchants and this j
editor—succeed some day in publish¬
ing a three-section. 24-page paper j
such time in as little is published Cartersville, from time to j
old Hart -1
well and similar Georgia towns. Hot j
dawg! i
!
The above is from the editorial
pen of that genial soul, Johnny Jones
of the Fort Valley Leader-Tribune,
It’s all right, except we simply
can’t understand what he means by j
"Little old Cartersville.” There’s no
thing small about her but her popu- j
lation figures—and they are growing
—growing! — Cartersville Tribune- !
News. j
What a Question
“In other words, as has been ac¬
knowledged throughout the world for
some time, most of us need a large
dose of good old-time religion.—Fort
Valley Leader-Tribune.”
But has anybody got any? And if
so, has he got any to spare?—Colum¬
bus Enquirer-Sun.
Joe Davidson On the Job!
(From the Atlanta Georgian)
In a conversation in the irnball
House lobby the other night, Repre
sentative B. II. Zellars, of Hart,
boldly asserted that his county was
the only one in the state named for
a woman—Nancy Hart, of Revolu
tionary fame.
“I go you one better,” replied J.
E. Davidson, of Peach. “Urepresent a
county named for EVERY woman in
the state.”
Boy, page the warden!
Keep Praying
Some business men were holding a
conference over their affairs, The
outlook was raher gloomy. Finally
one of the men remarked: “We must
keep praying. He spoke almost
consciously; he was giving audible
expression to his innermost thoughts,
but his words gave encouragement
to his associates for they knew he
was sincere.
Prayer is the greatest help in busi
ness affairs and in public affairs as
well. Prayer, in the right spirit, will
carry us through. If the things we
have been doing, or the positions we
have taken, are wrong, we will find
the mistake through prayer and will
have the strength and the courage to
correct it. And any endeavor on any
other basis is futile.—Spartanburg
Sun.
Fort Valley Pearlies!
If Pat Griffin, Jim Davidson,
est Camp, “Uncle Jeemsboro”
liams, Mister Tucker, Charlie
J. J. Howell and other dear swells
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.
Unless the Fort Valley fruit should
be more accessible than the Fifth
Avenue “peaches,” the temptation
pack our grip for the capital
Peach county could be overcome
without difficulty. A real peach
one that you do not care to
at a distance. But we are
that all Fort Valley peaches
improve on closer
Cuthbert Leader.
What's The Matter W ith
Georgia?
It seems that nowadays no news
paper is complete without using the
question above.
i Indeed, it is the vogue to not mere¬
ly confine the query to an unflaring
title .... the editorial • , , but . to .
Oil page,
mightily shout it in flamboyant type
on the very front page.
Not , being . diagnostician ,. . . a
a oi ac
cre< hted standing, we have no desire
or intention of breaking through the
rf gathered experts . Many emi _
nen t consultationists have called
themselves to the patient, r and the
case seems to have given rise to a
variety . of c opinion. t In j? fact, a it •*. i begins
to look doubtful if any diagnosis of
measurable agreement will be reach
ed.
The truth is, it has been a hard
matter to make the patient admit he
is ill. And how can you expect emi
diagnosticians to agree when a
patient is so perversely obstinate as
to refuse to furnish them with any sub¬
jective symptoms ?
It is possible, after all, there is
nothing much the matter with
gj a q
Who started this "What’s the mat
ter with Georgia” anyhow? M'ho
foisted the habit on us ?
Perhaps some clue may be found
by listening to the eminent diagnos
tieians. They continue to ask the
question with a professional flourish
which bespeaks much practice. At
times they quit voicing the inquiry
long enough to declare what they ob
serve as objective symptoms, with
supporting proof of amazingly con
trived statistics. “Poor roads,” illite¬
racy,” “nothing spent for schools,”
niggardly support of State institu
tions" are scraps of the medley. Hav
ing picked their diagnostic slogans
and shaped their statistical data,
these gentlemen seem determined to
hold the patient down until he swal
lows all of the mixtures they would
prescribe.
Here’s your panacea,” one group
shopts “bonds, bonds, bonds,” “ Take
this,” another says- “the income tax."
“This is the remedy,” says a third—
“a new taxing system which will
treble our income.” The thing, of
course, to do is to convince the pa-
tient that he is really ill in order to
make him swallow the medicine. So
the steady chorus of “What’s the
matter with Georgia?" goes on. i
The facts that Georgia is spending
more on Federal aid roads than any
other Southern State , that it is
spending more for common schools
as a State than nearly any other
| State, that it is spending a great
deal more than half a million dollars
; a year for higher education, and
! that, with the counties and political
subdivisions considered, it is contribut
ing some twenty million a year for ed
ucation, that it is spending more for
tubercular patients than any other
Southern State, that it is giving
three-quarters of a million a year
i to its State sanitarium, that its an
nual budget is now some seventeen
million dollars seem to have been en
tirely ignored,
The truth of the matter is Georgia
has been, and is, receiving at the
bands of its own people a world of
unfavorable advertising, which is ut-
1 terly without foundation of fact,
any i
In some instances well-meaning but
! misguided citizens have been respon
' sible. In others—and frank
we are
to sa F we believe these to be in ths
majority — propagrandjsts, with cer
tain selfish purposes or pet schemes
to serve, have spread the slander of
Georgia s utter inferiority.
I It is true that this State is not all
j that it of could the others be or should either, be. But We
none are,
have a long way to go yet in the full
development of our magnificent nat
ural resources. But all things consid- j
ered, our stride has kept pace with
that of our neighbors. We are going
,
to keep on making progress—normal
ly and sanely and lastingly.
Georgia, more than any other State
except Virginia perhaps, caught the
staggering blow of the Civil War. It
rebuilt from the ashes, splendidly and
permanently, with a fine faith and
courage ' It has suffered in recent
years from a depression which prat-,
tically wiped out the gross returns
I of an entire cotton crop, from the
raving pest which has come near to
I robbing it of any profit from its
chief crop. Yet is has never given
up. More than that, in spite of what
it has suffered it has maintained its
rank as one of the substantial com¬
monwealths of the Union. Last year I
it ranked second among Southern
States in income taxes paid the Fed¬
eral government.
It is time to call a halt on this
slander of the State.
It really ought to be made a felony
for anybody else to ask, “What’s the
matter with Georgia?” —Dawson
News.
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‘Why is it,” asks a neighbor, “that
the man who is out of a job always
has a pocket full of recommenda
tions.”
Now that they are teaching how
to play a saxaphone by mail, why
don’t they also invent some way
whereby the scholars can do their
practicing that way.
An Eastern editor says “jazz” is
turning us into barbarians. Well, it’s
worth something to find out what's
doing it.
Satisfaction
Beats “Show
Less is being i spent today on "keep•
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More is being spent for comforts
and advancement. >
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today. Yet you buy it on easy terms -
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satisfactory means of communication.
When you use the telephone, you know, without
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