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GJhr trailer - AND J’EACIILAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED 1««* PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY JOHN H. JONES Editor and Owner -At • M»n Thinkrih tn Hl« Heart. So la Official Organ of Pearh < minty, City of Valley and Weatern Dlvleion of the Southern Itialrlct of (ieorgla Pederal Court. N. E. A Feature Service Advnrtieera’ Cut .Service Entered n- aecond-elaks mutter at the office nt Fort Valley. t:« . under the act of March 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION PRICKS (Payable in Advance) S3 f Ypm - € Monfhf» I Months advertising hates 80c per Column Inch * le per Word Offsl Advertisements Strictly Cash In 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? * ♦ + 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. * * + 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 * * * j 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.” HWHWWWWHWHWWWmHmWHW I < ■ » ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦« I *** **** » ** * * **** 4 * 4 * ft / I » 4 * ,1 \ 3 * ^ 4t\ V a * 't. ) JS* '■m ■■PwL I To just Keep Af I *71 A. AccountV® isn’t enough i A Banls (W Ahead ffelpYal „ ? I to I — Citizens Bank Hu ill Fort Valley! CAPITAL AND SURPLUS all!!!] RESOURCES OVER SI 50.000.00 SI.000.000.00 ♦♦ ♦ H 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. i 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 . . 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 • , Your Health by Purification Any physician will tell you that, ! ( Perfect Purification of the Sys is Nature’s foundation of! Health. y y Why not rid! of chronic ailments that I undermining your vitality?! your entire system by tak¬ a thorough course of Calotabs, or twice a week for several see how Nature re¬ you with health. Calotabs are the greatest of all purifiers. Get a family containing full direc¬ price 35 cts.; trial package, cts. At any drug store. (Adv.) Miss Lois Belcher of Monticello, ’ was the week-end guest of Mrs. Joe Davidson. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine will do what wt claim for It — rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness caused by Catarrh. Sold by druggists for over 40 years F. J. CHENEY &. CO., Toledo, Ohi mm , A n T t y. € ■7S' ft \ A For Business Hours f T HE mean trying strain duties on the of eyes. the day Are you tired—worn out—be¬ fore quitting time? You can’t af¬ ford to waste your vitality—your work suffers accordingly—results tell the story. The proper glasses will keep you refreshed and rested through the day. Don’t delay—be fitted at once. 4 and notice the difference! \ N. HAUSER Jeweler and Optician < FORT VALLEY, GA\