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’OJlif CraiUT - Glribittt?
AND PEACH LAN I) JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 18HI
WBI.lhHKD KVKKV THURSDAY
JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
*A« s Man Thinkrth in llin Heart, Ho la llr.'
Official Organ of Prarh < ounty. City of Fort
Valley *nd WfiUrn IHvinion of th«
Southern District of Georgia
Federal Court.
N. K. A. Feature Service
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act of March 3. 1879.
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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1925.
Greetings! the Summer Cold Club
is now in session. Dice wedder, idn’t
it?
The Lord is showering agricultural
•Georgia with an abundance of bless¬
ings this year.
South Georgia is harvesting her
$20,000,000 tobacco crop with much
rejoicing.
Editor Isidor Gelders.-of the Fitz¬
gerald lveader-Enterpri.se, honored
The Leader-Tribune with a visit lest
week. Editor Gelders publishes one of
the moat forceful weekly newspapers
an the state.
Editor Quimby Melton of the Grif
ifin News says short dresses have
been with us, off and on, for years,
and the effect is sinking home.” We
should think it would, you awful fel¬
low.
Now -we’re white again, If we
wpre not strong to resist temptation,
The l«eader-Tribune would now in¬
augurate a season of rich-red paper
to celebrate our section's own incom¬
parable watermelon which is moving
iu) Tull force to the market.
"Every knock for, every mention of,
Florida is a boost. Let’s quit talking
about the fairy tale and get down to
the wonderful task, the golden oppor¬
tunity that God has given us HERE
IN GEORGIA.
‘Qur friends have given us a con¬
tinual feast of peaches during the
last season. We are beginning to be¬
lieve that being a country editor is
rot without some compensation. It is
good to live in Fort Valley, Peach
county, Jawjah.
That “Bright Leaf Tobacco Special
Edition” of the Blackshear Times
certainly speaks in thunderous tones
of South Georgia's prosperity. Such
papers as the Times and Jack Wil
* liams’ other paper, the Waycross
Journal-Herald, do mighty work to
bring such prosperity.
t Sit down. Close your niouth. Think
for five minutes. Regardless of what
Fort \ alley and leach county have
not done during the last year, isn’t
it remarkable the number of good
things that HAVE BEEN ACCOM¬
PLISHED here within the last twelve
months ? There always will be things
yet undone, things, yet to do, in a
worthy, progressive community.
We join Senator J. E. Davidson
■and other Peach countians in con¬
gratulating Governor Walker on his
appointment of former Senator John
R. Phillips, of Louisville, as a mem¬
ber of the State Highway Commis¬
sion to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of W. T. Anderson.
Mr. Phillips should make a valuable
highway commissioner for Georgia.
4* Life is not measured by its
length or brevity—but by its
ments,” asserts the society editor
across the way. Some men live long¬
er in a single moment of supreme
sacrifice, noble effort or divine reve¬
lation, than other men live in three
score years and ten of indifference
to the flaming opportunities for
neighborly love and generous human
service.
Auditor's Report on State
Highivay Department
> State Auditor S. J. Slate's report of
his recent audit of'the State Highway
Department, a copy of which was re
ceived Monday by The Leader-Tribune
—a bulky book of 145 large pages!
—frightens us. “Inexscusably care
Jess’ is one of the mild terms with
which Auditor Slate brands the
Highway Department. If Auditor
Slate’s report is well founded, the
legislature ought to fix this thing
right now, and fix it good—fix it or
b top it until it can be fixed.
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Listen , Peach County!
A newspaper can be no more pow¬
erful in its force for building a com¬
munity than the loyalty of those peo¬
ple who live in the community. Every
dollar thifiWh towards the support of
a good, lively home newspaper is a
dollar electrified to help blaze the
j way j for progre ss and development—
an( that mean8 the multiplication of
home-town dollars in which YOU may
i share. The biggest obstacle a man
can set up in the way of his own de
sire to move forward and develop his
business or property- values is to re
frain from a generous support of the
home-town newspaper which shows
the marks of intention and ability to
THE, LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1925.
A Year of Earnest Efforts and
(rood, Solid Results
This paper marks the completion of our first year as operator of
The Leader-Tribune.
Since August 1, 1924, God has smiled upon Fort Valley and Feqch
county. The creation of our new county, erection of a million-dollar ice
plant, vast improvements in railroad facilities, expansion in commercial
and industrial institutions, a new bank, an additional church with a new
building, many new business and dwelling houses, enlargement of activities
in civic bodies, improvements in the municipality’s public service, definite
movements for better schools, approaching regulation of sanitation and
control of disease through adoption of a county health officer, marked im¬
provements in the county's roads, a successful crop year—oh! it makes as
thrill when we stop and try to enumerate the features of splendid develop¬
ment and the transformation in public heart and mind since we came here
a year ago, looked through the cloud and saw the silver lining—caught
the vision of this people’s unyielding courage and their inevitable good
fortune and progress to come.
The fact that we came to Fort Valley did not accomplish these things.
Don’t charge us with that conceit. But you may convict us of a great
pride in the consciousness that we have thrbwn every ounce of energy,
every fiber of ability, every grain of resources of every nature that God
has given us into the common scheme of “building a City here;” and we
know that there is no more vital factor in the advancement of any com¬
munity than an enterprising newspaper. Such a newspaper should be, and
in this community happily is, valued as highly by the citizenship generally
as by the editor in particular.
During the last twelve months we have doubled the investment in ;
The Leader-Tribune. Although it might have been considered, and may
yet be considered by some people, to be too much of a plunge for a small
pocketbook, as we have remarked before, we would rather get brought
down on the wing than to dwell in the quiet nest of the half-haked bird
forever. If we ever “go busted,” we’re going to get a lot of pleasure
out of covering a large territory with our scattering remains and the
sound thereof.
But that is in fun. We enter another year with that same cheerful
faith which brought us to Fort Valley. We have just begun to fight—to
build a real newspaper here. Our faith in the people of this community,
and their resources and opportunities, and their abiding loyalty to a worthy
newspaper, knows no height nor depth nor breadth. Thus we are de¬
termined, as quickly as conditions permit, to plunge even further into our
treasured scheme to make The Leader-Tribune a medium of service to |
its section which shall command even warmer measures of commendation
and praise than those which already have greeted us from time to time
from folks of appreciative hearts at home and abroad.
A little encouragement always had made us almost work our ‘fool
head off.
The next year holds mysteries for us—mysterious
strange romance of peculiar ways in which we shall go forward. As
The Leader-Tribune, so with Fort Valley and Peach county. A
voice of opportunity calls us into the future, to work, to sing, to
friendly hands and press forward with eager eyes and throbbing
Our ^people must be one people, with one purpose even as they can
oply one hope, their mutual interests inseparable and their mutual
siderations indivisible before all conflict and temptation. We shall
a community 100 per cent, successful only by being 100 per cent, for
community, and each citizen 100 per cent, for his neighbor—“until
cow*, come “home!”
JOHN H. JONES.
William Jennings Bryan
No more will American audiences sit spellbound under the
sweep of the Great Commoner’s appeals for a transcendent character in
citizenship and government, but the giant character of William Jennings
Bryan, who died Sunday afternoon in Dayton, Tenn., will live and breathe
forever in the spirit of America. Even more, its influence will be forever
part of the pulse of the new civilization of the whole world, making it
and better.
That is the destiny of really great crusaders. They blaze the way,
fix their ideals in the hearts of humanity and then pass into the mortal
0 jjii v ion of immortal glory ere the sensations of the hearts of that hu
manity find full expression in the functions of citizenship, the scheme of
society and the structure of government.
In one degree or another we have men of that type in every com¬
munity-men who are brave to stand for things which, now unpopular,
some day must form the shrine of the whole community’s devotion.
Yet the marks of Mr. Bryan's tireless thirty-five years of labor are
clear upon the face of his country, and the world, today. While, like the
life and ideals of Woodrow Wilson, it remains for the future to give full
interpretation and glory to his achievements, when Mr. Bryan passed
quietly into eternity last Sunday afternoon he left enough of apparent
results tefmake his career now one of the most conspicuous of the century.
His most distinct and powerful opponents in every crusade, from
national politics to the recent evolution battle, are paying tribute to him
as a great man, sincere in principle, earnest in endeavor and of abundant
accomplishments for the good of humanity and his country.
We dare say his name was mentioned Sunday, in Sunday-schools,
churches and homes, by men who never dreamed of his death on that day,
with greater expressions of praise ind confidence than have marked the
unknown date of de any other man in many a year.
It remains, fo glorious survival of America, for other men in
every community of the country to C6tiy ,O B with the fearless ideals and
courage of William Jennings Bryan.
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Dp^THINGS. There are many peo¬
ple m Fort Valley and Peach county
who realize this vital truth. That is
why The Leader-Tribune has the
spirit to pursue its program of ex¬
pansion to serve its people. That is
why we have had the courage to
more than double our investment in
this plant, to increase its power and
speed, during the last year. We don’t
mind making investments and shoul
dering a load of debt when folks
help us to keep singing the song of .
progress as we race along the way.
All right; now come on, old scout;
dig up a job of printing of an adver
tisement full of ginger. We have '
a
few wheels that '
don't know what to
do except work full speed ahead, and
we don't want them to learn any bad
habits.
20,000 Cars?
Division heads of the Central of
Georgia railroad met in Macon yes¬
terday to discuss improvements in
the line looking towards the 1926
peach season. G. L. Candler, assistant
general manager of the Central, is
reported as having predicted that
about 20,000 cars of peaches would
be moved from Georgia next year.
If Mr. Candler is correct in his
prediction—if the peach crop next
year reaches such extreme propor¬
tions—the peach growers might as
well hook up their galluses and dig
up some other way of making a liv¬
ing by the sweat of the brow, unless
an enormous advertising campaign is
conducted in the meantiml through¬
out the country in high class maga¬
zines, as California advertises her
products, to increase the popular de¬
mand for Georgia fruit.
Of course many more than 20,000
cars of the incomparable Georgia
peach would prove profitable if
America’s natural desire for this
luscious fruit were properly awaken¬
ed. We’ve got to make millions of
Americans realize what they re
missing.
Time To Hustle
The time to pray most is when the
way seems darkest.
Flash your brightest smile in the
face of your greatest trials.
“It is easy enough to bo pleasant
When life flows by like a Sony,
But the man worth while is the man
who can smile
When everythin* goes dead wrong !’*
Dull seasons are the times for
your most energetic efforts. You can |
afford to relax a little when Lady
Luck showers you with prosperity— '
you can afford to, however unbccom-!
ing it may appear—but you cannot
to neglect a minute of
pressure endeavor when the
comes . j
Your sails will carry you before a !
breeze, but it takes elbow grease be
hind the oars to a aver¬
age in progress through a dead • sea.
And the year-aropnd average is
counts—not the peak of high speed
during the fat season.
Remember the fable of the
and the hare.
Stick to it. Hit- the line. Keep the
old game full of. pep. You may not
do much a part iof the time, but
“every little bit added to what you’ve
got makes juat aYlittle bit more.” It
-raises the generaJujtverage.
Evolution
Dr. A. M. Pietce, editor of the
Wesleyan Christian Advocate, Dr. E.
Y. Mullins, president of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary, and
other eminent Bible students have
taken a position which should be the
attitude of every 'wise Christian on
the question of teaching evolution in
the schools.
Arbitrary intolerance and compul¬
sion of opinion is not the spirit of the
Christian religion, which every be¬
liever should know to be a light that
cannot be dimmed.
Extremists in science and self-in¬
flated intellectuals may advance
ever so clever theories, but the world
will coninue fo enjoy the brightness
of that faith which Dr. Mullins
voices when he says: “Nothing which
biology can ever prove will shake my
confidence in the inspiration and au
thority of the Bible.”
But,” says Dr. Mullins, if in order
to be a Baptist and a Christian it re¬
quires the denial of facts, the closing ’
of the windows to the light, the put- i
ting of the head in the sand, like
an ostrich, in order to hide, then I
am neither a Baptist nor a Christian.
If we are going to save our children
and our generation from the evils of
modernism, it will only be by an in¬
telligent and indiscriminating recog- I
nition of the real situation and shap- !
ing our course accordingly. The situ- j ,
ation can be met. But it will never
be done by stuffing cotton in our
ears, and putting a blindfold over I
our eyes, and seizing a club and
mauling the heads of people who |
merely differ with us in insisting on
reegnizing facts.”
William Jennigs Bryan did a great
service to the Christian world in his
vigorous fight in the Tennessee evo- |
lution case, because he kept the >
ene
mies from undermining the faith
through default of the champions of
faith. But the attitude of Mr. Bryan
the wrong attitude for the Chris- ,
body as a whole, Dr. Mullins,
the same sentiment which
a recent statement from Dr.
states the proposition in this
practical way: »
‘Every one familiar with history
that every great menace to
faith has been met and destroyed
THERE'S ROOM
There’s Room for men of soul and
brain,
To crus hthe growing greed of gian,
And freedom bring;
For men who hate the lust of gold,
And in their hearts most firmly hold
God is our King.
“God is our King”—for such there's
room.
The desert for the roses’ bloom
Awaits today;
And lilies, crushed by tyrants’ tread,
i Cry from their lowly martyr bed,
"There’s room for aye.”
For willing heart and toiling hand,
And Christ-like souls that understand
The harvest call,
There’s room at home, and room afar
Where famine stalks, and rages war,
And thousands fall.
There’s room for her of angel face
Whose soul is radiant with the grhee
Borft from above,
And onward goes in Jesus’ name
To toil, to suffer, and proclaim
Christ's matchless love.
—W. C. CARTER.
in the court of reasonable discussion.
The Christian reason must meet the
unchristian reason. Religious scholar¬
ship must,meet the irreligious. True
science must meet the false. Radical
fundamentalists are saying to Chris¬
tian scholars: “Keep still. Don’t dis¬
criminate. Don’t recognize facts. Don’t
investigate. Don’t prove all things, ac¬
cording to the New Testament. In¬
stead of doing these things, call
names. Shut your eyes to facts. Be
disloyal to facts. And thus you shall
glorify Him who was the way, the
truth and the life.” Meantime the
devil, whose lie they inveigh against,
* s capturing thousands of young peo
P^ e because he knows that the spirit
such radicalism will drive them
n t° his arms. Such fundamentalism
8 the best ally of modernism, be
cause modernism rejoices in nothing
so much as in silencing the voice and
stilling the pen of the Christian
scholar and thinker.”
Richet Garnered From 1
Great Chilean Desert
Chile has many thousands of square
miles of land capable of cultivation,
yet ita most valuabla asset Is a desert
where the rainfall la seldom more
than half an Inch per annum. It doea
not grow a single tree, or even a
blade of graas, except where patches
of Imported soil have been laid. This
Is tha nitrate country, which employs
60.000 people directly and Indirectly
five times as many, and In which
something approaching (300,000,000 la
Invested.
There are ever ens hundred and
seventy separate workings, each of
which Is the center of a busy popula¬
tion. Yet every ounce of food, every
yard of clothing, every cog and shaft
of Its huge machinery, every pint of
water even, has to be brought from
a distance, For many miles around
the country produces nothing but
nitrate of soda.
It Is an amazing fact that the most
valuable fertilizer of commerce comes
from a region where nothing will
grow, but It Is a case of all fertilizer
and no soil and no rain. In earlier
days water was so valuable that It
was a saying that It was cheaper to
drink champagne, but now water Is
carried by pipes from far-off sources,
some of which are 200 miles distant.
Lots of people drive as if they
were going for the doctor. And some
who don’t know it really are.
Hobby of Real Value
The person who has no hobby al¬
ways reminds me of a hen without a
gravel heap to scratch on—he has lit¬
tle to do In his spare moments but
mope about. Now, this Is not good
for anyone. Give a hen a bit of
gravel to scratch among and It Is
pleasantly occupied, so with the per¬
son who goes In for a hobby, let It
be what It may.—Arthur Slurp In th«
Edinburgh Scotsman.
Lessens WeWar on Rubbers
Your rubbers will last longer if
you put a half inch layer of crushed
tissue paper into the heels. The pa
per forms a soft coushion for the
hard heel of the shoe and thus les¬
sens the wear on the rubber.—Geor¬
gia Publisher.
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sider it beyond mere value in
dollars and cents!
Precious gems are your eyes.
When they fade the beauty of the
world too, grows dimmer.
•There is only one time to care
for your eyes — and (hat u the
present.
^ An examination will reveal
any
%.'»knesses—glasiei will itrengthen •
the.*!.
So 4 '*»hy delay?
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Jeweler and Optician
FORT VALLEY, GA.
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