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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.
Not only “truth crushed to
vvill rise again,” but sometimes truth
given freedom will soar into
tikies.
U. S. will join World Court,
Senator Pepper. Well, pep'er up. You
can't make the spirit of
Wilson mad
“Weather hurts melon market,”
said a headline in Sunday’s Macon
Telegraph. Certainly; it didn’t
the melons, themselves, any
rous kiss.
A geologist asserts that the site
Macon was a seacoast four or five
million years ago. That was when
Johnny Spccer’s Uncle Adam was a
prairie wolf.
It is said that President Coolidge
displays his shrewdness by his politi¬
cal silence. So does the Sphinx; and
it has stood ruler of a desert waste
for centuries.
Assembly leaders in desperation
as congestion grows,” said a Sunday
Atlanta Journal headline. Instead of
aending our National Guard to
Chattanooga, as the Whitfield county
representative proposed, we ought to
send it like fury through the legisla¬
ture.
The legislature will continue to
function—to all appearances. But the
fine Italian bonds of our political
*• powers behind the throne,” as usual,
have blocked real constructive legis¬
lation by launching the game of
state political “slate. •»
Hoke Smith can enter an automo¬
bile in the Atlanta Journal’s Appala¬
chian Scenic Highway tour, even if
he can’t enter his vocal-gas ’phone
in the Georgia General Assembly. We
have the Atlanta Journal’s word for
it!
Cigarette consumption in the Unit¬
ed States has increased from three
and one-half billion in 1905 to 75 bil¬
lion in 1924. If the increase continues
for the next twenty-five years the
babies will be crying for cigarettes
instead of milk bottles.—Oconee En¬
terprise.
In 1522, William Tyndale said, “If
God spare my life, ere many years I
will cause a boy that driveth a plow
shall know more of the Scripture
than thou doest.” That is why this
year, 1925, in the 400th anniversary
of the completion of Tyndale’s Bible,
Just 86 years later, the Authorized
Version appeared.-“Oconee Enter¬
prise. •
Speaking of radicals, our idea of
wild radicalism in Georgia is the leg¬
islator from Whitfield county who
proposed an enactment in the Gen¬
eral Assembly last Saturday to au¬
thorize our National Guard to in¬
vade Chattanooga and expel certain
people who have located on Georgia’s
W. & A. property there. That would
give Russia something to talk about.
Twenty years ago when some of
us as school boys stole fragments of
“twist” which came from the casual
tobacco patches of our fathers, who
would have thought that Georgia was
destined to become a great tobacco
state? The achievements of one age
are the utter fantasies of the age
previous. Thus Georgia shall be ush¬
ered soon into a wholesome, sound
era of prosperous development. Grow¬
ing intelligence such as Georgians
possess knows no defeat. But may
the good Lord save us from any
such dangerous inflation as the Flor¬
ida boom.
Thanks, Uncle Jim
The Fort Valley Leader-Tribune is
printed on peach colored paper. This
is a splendid idea. Editor John H.
Jones is ever original and unique in
the way he does things.-^-Greensboro
Herald-Journal. I
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.
Amen! Urol her
If Georgia folks who go to Florida
on trips would boost just half as
much for Georgia as they do for
Florida, what a state we would have.
—Lavonia Times.
Wants Georgia Hams
Pineville, La., July 27, 1925.
The Leader-Tribune,
Fort Valley, Ga.
Gentlemen:
Enclosed find our check for one
dollar and fifty cents ($1.60) for The
Ixuuler-Tribune. Fort Valley is our
oid nome and we are always glad to
get the home paper.
We would be glad to have you put
us in touch with some dealer or farm¬
er who can furnish us about 2d0 lbs.
of country cured Georgia hams, per
month. Have them write us price ana
sizes, or send us sample by parcel
post, C. O. D.
Yours truly,
W. L. BLEWSTLR.
Pineville, Louisiana. Box 4(14.
8-6-It
Valor Day
The Georgia legislature may set
aside January 21st as “Valor Day,”
to commemorate the date upon which
the first Stone Mountain Memorial
coin was minted. We compliment the
Atlanta Journal upon its voice of the
vital Southern sentiment, in the fol¬
lowing editorial:
“January twenty-first has been
chosen and designated as Valor Day
because it was on that date the first
Stone Mountain Memorial coin was
minted and because the coin hears
the inscription “Memorial to the Va¬
lor of the Soldier of the South.” It
happens also, that the date is the an¬
niversary of the birth of Stonewall
Jackson, than whom the world has
never produced a soldier more vali¬
ant. Here is sentiment enough for
any holiday, for any patriotic recog¬
nition. The mystic will see in the
unpremeditated selection of the day
for the minting of the first coin,
something more than coincidence.
“January 21 has been an important
day in the history of America. On
that date were born Charles Nisbet,
the educator; John Fitch, the steam¬
boat inventor; Loammi Baldwin, the
engineer; Francis E. Spinner, the fi¬
nancier; John C. Fremont, explorer
and soldier; Horace Wells, the great
physician; Dan C. McOallum, the
military engineer; John A. Bingham,
jurist and legislator; General John
C. Breckinridge, Thomas Fletcher,
governor of Missouri; John Austin
Stevens, the author; James E.
Rhodes, editor and educator, and
Helen H. Gardner, the author.
“It was on this date, also, that
Baltimore merchants presented a res¬
olution to congress that led to the
famous embargo act: That Mexico
conceded the right to found an Am t
ican colony in Texas; that General
Fitz-John Porter, afterwards cleared
by testimony of Southern officers,
was dismissed from the United
States army for contributing to
Pope’s defeat at the second Manas¬
sas.
“But the most significant fact in
the history of the day, aside from
Jackson’s coming, is that it is the
anniversary of the day on which
j Southern senators withdrew from
congress. It is a day, therefore, that
appeals eloquently to all of the south
but holds especial interest for Vir¬
ginia, North Carolina, Missouri,
Maryland, Texas, Kentucky and for
Georgia.
“It is Georgia, however, that the
sentiment that goes with January
21st, should center. Here is Stone
Mountain which is to bear upon its
breast the greatest monument of his¬
tory; and here was born the memorial
coin which has become the nation's
tribute to the valor of the soldier of
the south and an imperishable bond
between the sections once at war.”
Revelations of a Visit
Beyond Houser sAI ill
This editor needs to learn some¬
thing about the Peach county region.
His mental attitude of expectancy
having been somewhat subdued by
the elaborate proportions of the im¬
mediate Fort Valley community early
in the period of his mission here, he
place human presumption that, as
fell into the crime of the common
Ethel Barrymore said, ‘that’s all
there is; there isn’t any more' •that
the Lord couldn’t pack any more
acres of fertile land and hundreds of
superior farm-people into any given
territory than he saw right here
around Fort Valley. For him a trip
or two to Houser’s Mill, for instance,
was'nothing more than hn apptoach
to the outside gate of paradise
beyond was desolation.
Then, as the lofty skies sometimes
themselves to the somber depths
an ocean lost within itself, came
anti-climax to our ignorance last '
j
Judge A. C. Riley told us that we
were the fortunate recipient of an in¬
vitation to attend a barbecue at the
home of A. W. Tabor. Having looked
1 already into the handsome
nance of Mr. Tabor, we were brave
face that “desolation” beyond
er’s Mill. Better men have struggled
through real terrors to join far
men.
Along with Judge Riley and
friend-around-the-corner, H. T.
der, we set forth upon our
our feeble mind in reluctance;
heart strong. When we passed
er’s Mill we said, “Good-bye,
We didn’t realize how right
were. It quickly appeared that
were leaving what, however
ently a paradise, was a prosaic
try as compared to the adyllic
community to which we then came.
An attempt to tell the story of
revelations would be futile.
who are reading this article now are
laughing at us—they knew
and to them our ignorance is
lous. But the exodus from our
rance to us was thrilling.
Fertile land! No wonder great cor¬
porations lavish millions of dollars
investments upon us for
our products to the world. This is
merely a “farm community”—it is a
kingdom of agriculture, challenging
the genius of our nation's experts
whose official existence is justified
by those abandoned sections of origi¬
nal colonial estates—now washed-out
hills occupied only by low-class ten¬
ants—by which Georgia permits her¬
self to be judged.
If we may depart from the par¬
ticular subject to the inescapable na¬
ture of the theme: Herbert Hoover
said last week that real cities were
built, not by industry, but by agri¬
culture. He is right.
Industry —manufacturing— is es¬
sential to economic progress just as
science is necessary to the advance¬
ment of culture—civilization; just as
the sunshine is essential to the burst¬
ing of a seed, the growth of the
plant and the unfolding of the har¬
vest. But underlying all, and pre¬
ceding all, and greater than all, is
the fundamental foundation of nature
for the world.
That is agriculture.
* * *
Who knows the wonder and majes¬
ty of the world around him; the
mysteries and munificence of na
ture and the abundance of God’s
blessings in earth, sea and sky?
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When any community abandons the
farm for the factory it strikes at the
very roots of the structure of Ameri
ca. Manufacturing plants within
themselves are a blessing. At the
complete sacrifice of the farm, as
has been the experience of some
parts of Georgia, they are a calamity
in the long run.
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Now back to the protoplasm of
pleasant experience from which this
serious reaction “evoluted.
I assing Lakeview school and h el
lowship church, always before us j
what seemed to be an unending pano- ;
rama of perfect farm scenes, we
came to Mr. Tabor’s home, nestling
in the midst of an expansive grove
of oak trees, a v.gorous breeze to
greet us, along with an assembly of I
as high a type of American men, ^
women and children as we ever
could hope to find produced. |
That, with no blotant trumpets of
self-exploitation, is a community of
natural grandeur—a community in
which people not merely labor, but j
love and labor together. As an ex¬
ample, Mr. Tabor, who recently real¬ i
ized such a successful crop year as
to feel free to journey northward and
look down upon “little old New
York,” had only one person from out-1
side of the community among all of
his peach pickers and packers this
year—and that person was merely
from Lizella!
When bolshevism, socialism, radi- 1
calism shall have bled Europe to
death, when ignorance and false re
ligion shall have let Africa and Asia
fall into self-destruction, when Amer¬
ica's’ own proud genius in science
and industry shall have bowed the
knee, when our cities shall have
.
crumbled and then speculative knights
shall have fallen from their high
horses. then shall such farming
as we visited last Fri
through the courtesy of A. W.
and Judge Riley, stand clearly
gave us pomegranates and grapes
the surviving world as the,
and only Promised Land, God
grace, not spindles to weave
nor intellects to evolve a
superior to His univers&l
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If I
Clarence Darrow and a lot others
our great “intellects" would leave
crowded cities and laboratories, I
their self-absorbing presump
of knowledge, long enough to
back to the real glories of well-
WITH OUR
EXCHANGES
Georgia will be ready for the
waters from Florida when it
I^et’s hurry it along.—Butler
We only hope that the people of
state will be ready when that
arrives. We know of one or more
stances where people suffering
Floridaitis have been completely
ed.—Monticello News.
Thanksgiving has come early
South Georgia this year—in
than one county there have
gatherings of the people to
prosperity’s return, and a feature
the devout expression of
gratitude to Providence for the
sons which have made this
ty possible.—Savannah News.
Hon. John M. Slaton tells the
son News that “Georgia standk
ly at the head of all the
States in the performance of
State functions, with the possible
ception in quantity of Texas,
is an empire in itself and has
mendous amounts of state
which it can use for educational
poses.”
“Georgia is on the threshold of
era of good times unprecedented
the annals of the state. A
providence has blessed the efforts
a courageous citizenry with one
the most successful crop years in
past quarter of a century, and
every section, from the mountains
the sea, there is that confidence
courage.”—The Atlanta
There are some men who
spend ten cents at home to buy
wife and children an orange, yet
go to Floida, strut around as
lionaires, spent $10 for dates,
for an option on a lot and later
cover it to be a lemon. Oh well,
are natural born foils and others
velop temporary insanity, under
strain of this hot
cello News. .
Give me clean words, and clean
thoughts; help me to stand for the
hard right against the easy wrong;
save me from habits that harm;
teach me to work as hard and play
as fair in Thy sight alone as if the
whole world saw; forgive me when
I am unkind, and help me to forgive
those who are unkind to me; keep
me ready to help others at some cost
to myself; send me chances to do a
ijttle good every day and so grow
more like Christ.—Wm. DeWitt.
A noted divine of Macon is report¬
ed to have said in the course of his
remarks in the pulpit last Sunday,
words to this effect towit: “I believe
t j lat newspapers are fast outdo
ing the pulpit in their power upon
the public and that their power is in
tre asing for good all the time, and is
constantly adding to the influence of
pulpit.” This is a compliment that
the pu i p ;t by co-operation with the
every newspaper should appreciate
and we have no doubt of the truth
fulness of the statement. When the
C0 ) U mns of a newspaper are used
properly there is no estimate that
can be placed on the value that such
use brings to a county and State.—
McDonnough Advertiser.
In a letter received from Hon. J.
A. Moss, of Tignall, a most remark
able family picnic was held at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ware,
July 21, in honor of John Joe Ware,
who was seven months old on thA
day. At this family picnic were elev
en living grand parents. Mr. Moss
while in Dallas, Texas, attending the
Confederate reunion this year, issued
a challenge to the whole state of
Texas to match it and has since is¬
sued a challenge to the state of New
accepted the challenge. Now Tignall
and so far, neither state has
will challenge the world to match it,
and if it can be done, The News-Re¬
porter will be delighted to publish a
full account of it—Washington News
Reported.
accepted nature, instead of trying to
g- e t back to monkeys, they might
sometime “understand the mysteries
of*Heaven. ~
Thinking of that revelation of a
peaceful, cultured, successful agri
community beyond Houser’s
people who smile from the
and keep their ways quiet in
love of God—we are reminded to
down on St. Simon's Island, as
look out upon an ocean which of
music to the Marshes of Glynn,
Sidney Ladier’s soul-stirring
“As the marsh hen secretly builds
on the watery sod,
So will I build me a nest on the
greatness of God.”
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The Kiwanis Club
We congratulate Fort Valley upon
the re-assembling of the Kiwanis
Club, following a peach season re
cess which events have justified,
May each and every Kiwanian come
again into the harness of civic pro
gress, along with other enterprising
citizens, with that identical spirit of
faith, courage and friendship, that
already has glorified this wonderful
community.
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Wouldn't Drink Her F’roduct
j ! In Omaha, a female bootlegger was
K j ven the alternative of a fine of
?10 o or to drink a pint of her own
moonshine in the presence of the
court She elected to pay the fine I
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she was willing to sell it to others
but knowing the potency of her own
ii quor , she refused to drink it her
se j£
In commenting on this the Omaha
Bee thinks that the incident offers a
suggestion for limiting the hooch in
dustry. Mere fines, or even imprison¬
ment, does not deter the hooch mak
er. W’hy not try the desperate alter
and make the illicit distiller
consume a quantity of his wares in
the presence of the court? It might
not deter other foolish individuals,
but it certainly would put an auto
matic limit on the number of illicit
distillers, for only the most hardy
would survive the ordeal.—Savannah
Press.
That Georgia Boom
Is Coming
That Georgia boom is coming sure
as you live. On every side we hear
it. During the last few days we had
occasion to talk with business men
and officers and citizens from various
parts of the state and from various
walks of life. The one opinion of all
with whom we talked is that Georgia
is on the eve of the biggest boom in
her history. Things are going to come
back strong and the tide of progress
and prosperity is going to get the
highest it has ever been, all reports
about 1919 to the contrary notwith¬
standing.
We talked to one business man who
has spent quite a great deal of time
in Florida during the past twleve
months. We asked him to give a can¬
•
did opinion about the future of
Georgia and the prospect for a great
Georgia boom. He says it is coming
just as sure as time rolls abound. The
people who are in Florida now are
going there maily to speculate. That
will play out after awhile and people
who have been speculating will wish
to go to work and will naturally re
turn to Georgia or to some other
state.
We met a man the first of this
week who lives in North Carolina
and whose chief business at present
is buying farm lands in Georgia that
sold under a mortgage. He says
farming lands in Georgia look
to him at present prices and
he is putting quite a lot of spare
down here - He is S oin f? to be
on some cheap land when the
does come ’
Business men who are intouch with
are very
that a great boost is coming
our Rtate ’ The stimulus is bein S
us by our sister state,
Our people are more active.
are more earnest in inviting
business to locate in our midst.
offers the choice field for i
enterprises. The cli¬
the water, the large predomi
of the white race, the freedom
race trouble make our state one
is particularly attractive.
It is coming just as sure as you
and if you want to be on the
wagon you had just as well
in readiness now to hop on.—La¬
Times.
Power of Right
A man who lives right, and Is right,
more power in his silence than 5
has by his words. So evil
and words garner in their harv
of sin and sorrow •
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