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THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.
Not only “truth crushed to earth
Will rise again,” but sometimes truth
tfiven freedom will soar into the
fckics.
U. S. will join World Court, says
Senator Pepper. Well, pep’er up. You
can’t make the spirit of Woodrow
Wilson mad V
“Weather hurts melon market,”
said a headline in Sunday’s Macon
Telegraph. Certainly; it didn’t give
the melons, themselves, any raptu¬
rous kiss.
A geologist asserts that the site of
Macon was a seacoast four or five
million years ago. That was when
Johnny Specer’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 n desert waste
for centuries.
8 1 Assembly leaders in desperation
as congestion grows,” said a Sunday
Atlanta Journal headline. Instead of
sending our National Guard to
Chattanooga, as the Whitfield county
represeptative proposed, we ought to
send it like fury through the legisla
tnro.
The legislature will continue to
function—to all appearances. But the
fine Italian bonds of our political
i ■ 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
will God spare my boy life, that ere driveth many years plow IJ
cause a a
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 W’hitfield 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 w r ay he does things.-“-Greensboro
Herald-Journal.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 1925.
Amen! Brother
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 ($1.50) for The
Ijeader-Tribune. Fort Valley is our
old home and we arc 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 200 lbs.
of country cured Georgia hams, per
month. Have them write us price ano
sizes, or send us sample by parcel
post, C. 0. D.
Yours truly,
W. L. BLEWSTER.
Pineville, Louisiana. Box 464.
8-6.lt
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 bears
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. McCallum, 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 Amer¬
ican colony in Texas; that Genera!
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 tho
anniversary of the day on which
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 at • •
once war.
Revelations of a Visit
Beyond Houser’s Mill
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 ftn 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-'
vitution to attend a barbecue at the
home of A. W. Tabor. Having looked
1 already into the handsome counte¬
nance of Mr. Tabor, we were brave to
face that “desolation” beyond Hous¬
er’s Mill. Better men have struggled
through real terrors to join far worse
men.
Along with Judge Riley and our
friend-around-thc-corner, II. T. Wil¬
der, we set forth upon our journey,
our feeble mind in reluctance; our
heart strong. When we passed Hous¬
er's Mill we said, 'Good-bye, world!”
We didn't realize how right we
were. It quickly appeared that we
were leaving what, however appar¬
ently a puradise, was a prosaic coun¬
try as compared to the adyllic rural
community to which we then came.
An attempt to tell the story of our
revelations would be futile. Many
who are reading this article now are
laughing at us—they knew before,
and to them our ignorance is ridicu¬
lous. But the exodus from our igno¬
rance to us was thrilling.
Fertile land! No wonder great cor¬
porations lavish millions of dollars of
investments upon us for transporting
our products to the world. This is not
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 necessury 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.
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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.
Now back to the protoplasm of
pleasant experience from which this
serious reaction “evoluted. i
Passing Lakeview school and Fel
lowship church, always before us ;
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 I
of oak trees, a vigorous breeze to
greet us, along with an assembly of j
ns high a type of American men,
women and children as we ever
could hope to find prodded.
That, with no blotant trumpets of
self-exploitation, is a community of
natural grandeur—a community in
which people not merely labor, but
love and labor together. As an ex¬
ample, Mr. Tabor, who recently real- j -
ized such a successful crop year as
to feel free to journey northward and
look down upon little old New
ork, had only one person from out
sue of the community among all of
us peach pickers-and packers this
year—and that person was merely
rom Lizella. !
When bolshevism, socialism, radi¬
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
l^ee, when our cities shall have
crumbled and then speculative knights
shall have fallen from their high
horses, then shall such farming
communities as we visited last Fri-;
day, through the courtesy of A. W. |
Tabor and Judge Riley, stand clearly
gave us pomegranates and grapes
before the surviving world as the
one and only Promised Land. God
and grace, not spindles to weave
vanity nor intellects to evolve a
science superior to His universal
plan. j
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If Clarence Darrow and a lot others
of our great “intellects” would leave
their crowded cities and laboratories,
and their self-absorbing presump
tion of knowledge, long enough to
get back to the real glories of well-
WITH OUR
EXCHANGES
Georgia will be ready for the back¬
waters from Florida when it comes.
I^t’s hurry it along.—Butler Herald.
We only hope that the people of this
state will be ready when that time
arrives. We know of one or more in¬
stances where people suffering of
Floridaitis have been completely cur¬
ed.—Monticello News.
Thanksgiving has come early in
South Georgia this year—in more
than one county there have been
gatherings of the people to celebrate
prosperity’s return, and a feature was
the devout expression of general
gratitude to Providence for the sea¬
sons which have made this prosperi¬
ty possible.—Savannah News.
Hon. John M. Slaton tells the Daw
son News that “Georgia standfc easi
ly at the head of all the Southern
States in the performance of its
State functions, with the possible ex¬
ception in quantity of Texas, which
is an empire in itself and has tre¬
mendous amounts of state lands
which it can use for educational pur
poses.”
“Georgia is on the threshold of an
era of good times unprecedented in
the annals of the state. A lavish
providence has blessed the efforts of
a courageous citizenry with one of
the most successful crop years in the
past quarter of a century, and in
every section, from the mountains to
the sea, there is that confidence and
courage. The Atlanta Constitution.
There are some men who wouldn’t
spend ten cents at home to buy the
wife and children an orange, yet who
KO to Floida, strut around as mil¬
lionaires, spent $10 for dates, $100
for an option on a lot and later dis¬
cover it to be a lemon. Oh well, some
are natural born foils and others de
velop temporary insanity, under the
strain of this hot weather.—Monti-'
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
little 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
the newspapers are fast outdo
ing the pulpit in their power upon
public and that their power is in
,. rea sing for good all the time, and is
adding to the influence of
i p it.” This is a compliment that |
pu i p i t by co-operation with the!
newspaper should appreciate
we have no doubt of the truth
0 f the statement. When the
of a newspaper are used
there is no estimate that.
be placed on the value that such ;
brings t0 a county and State.— 1
Advertiser. 1
In a letter received from Hon. J.
Moss, of Tignall, a most remark
family picnic was held at the
of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Ware,
21, in honor of John Joe Ware, j
was seven months old on thift ■
At this family picnic were elev
jiving grand parents. Mr. Moss I
ji e , n X) a u as> Texas, attending the 1
reunion this year, issued
challenge to the whole state of
to match it and has since is
a challenge to the state of New
the challenge. Now Tignall
and so far, neither state has
challenge the world to match it,
if it can be done, The News-Re¬
will be delighted to publish a
account of it—Washington News
nature, instead of trying to |
back to monkeys, they might
“understand th e m yst eries
Thinking of that revelation of a
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
dowm 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
re-assembling of the Kiwanis
following a peach season re
which events have justified,
each and every Kiwanian come
into the harness of civic pro
along with other enterprising
with that identical spirit of
courage and friendship, that
has glorified this wonderful
Wouldn't Drink Her Product
i n Omaha, a female bootlegger was
j ven the alternative of a fine of
i 0 0 or to drink a pint of her own
in the presence of the
. S he elected to pay the
was willing to sell it to others
knowing the potency of her own
she refused to drink it her
.
lf.
In commenting this ■
on the Omaha
thinks that the incident offers a
for limiting the hooch in¬
Mere fines, or even imprison¬
does not deter the hooch mak¬
Why not try the desperate alter
and make the illicit distiller
a quantity of his wares in
presence of the court? It might
deter other foolish individuals,
it certainly would put an auto
limit on the number of illicit
for only the most hardy
survive the ordeal.—Savannah
That Georgia Boom
Is Coming
That Georgia boom is commg sure
you live. On „ every side ., we hear ,
During the last few days we had
to talk with business men
d officers and citizens from various !
of the state and from various
of life. The one opinion of all
whom we talked is that Georgia
on the eve of the biggest boom in
history. Things are going to come
strong and the tide of progress
prosperity is going to get the j
it has ever been, all reports
1919 to the contrary notwith¬
We talked to one business man who
spent quite a great deal of time
Florida during the past twleve
We asked him to give a can¬
opinion about the future of
and the prospect for a great
boom. He says it is coming
as sure as time rolls ijound. 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
are sold under a mortgage. He says
that farming lands in Georgia look
good to him at present prices and
that he is putting quite a lot of spare
doilars down here ’ He IS golng to be
in on some cheap land when the
boom does come.
Business men who are intouch with
affairs throughout the country are very
confident that a great boost is coming
to our state. The stimulus is being
furnished us by our sister state,
Florida. Our people are more active.
They are more earnest in inviting
big business to locate in our midst.
Georgia offers the choice field for
manufacturing enterprises. The cli¬
mate, the water, the large predomi¬
nance of the white race, the freedom
from race trouble make our state one
that is particularly attractive.
It is coming just as sure as you
live and if you want to be on the
band wagon you had just as well
get in readiness now to hop on.—La¬
vonia Times.
Power of Right
A man who lives right, and Is right,
has more power in his silence than
another has by his words. So evil
deeds and words garner in their harv
est of sin and sorrow,
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Renew Your Health
by Purification
Any physician will tell you that
i i I erfect Purification of the Sys
tern is Nature’s foundation of
Perfect Health. Why not that! rid!
yourself of chronic ailments
arc undermining your vitality?
ing Purify thorough your entire system of Calotabs,! by tak-j
a course
—ODce or twice a week for several
weeks—and see how Nature re¬
wards you with health.
• Calotabs are the greatest of all
system purifiers. Get a family
package, containing full direc¬
tions, price 35 cts.; trial package,
JQ 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 w r
claim for it —
rid your system of Catarrh or Deafness
caused by Catarrh.
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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!
A T . HAUSER
a
Jeweler and Optician
4
FORT VALLEY, GA.