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©ljr trailer - eributt? AND I’EACHLAND JOURNAL ESTABLISHED !»»» PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY JOHN H. JONES Editor and Owner "A* a Man Thlnkath In Hin llaart, Ho la Hr." Official organ of Poach < nnntr, City of Fort Valley and Woalrrn Dlvlalon of tha .Southern Diatrirt of (Georgia Federal Court. N- E. A. Feature Service Ativertlaora’ Cut Service Entered aa aeeond-elaha matter at the poet office at Fort Valley, tia . under the act of March 8, 1878. SUBSCRIPTION PRICES (Payable in Advance) *1.50 I Yf-ar _ *0.75 € Month* *0.10 • Months ADVERTISING RATES 80c per Column Inch * lc per Word Advcrtiw-menU Strictly Cash In Advance 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. * * * 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 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 * * + | 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.” ++++++++++++*++++++++++++++++*+++++*+*++'**+ * +****+*- H I I > ♦♦♦■ » I I I I I I 1111 *** * * ** * ***** a $ * it Y I b g * * i \ 4 m r 4L 5f\ To , just Keep Af • II Accountflelploii iftif enough! A Bank to (jet Ahead V O ,, Citizens Bank Jill (in Fort ValleyIJ CAPITAL AND SURPLUS mill RESOURCES OVER SI 50.000.00 SI,000.000.00 * ♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦ 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, « 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. Sold by druggists for over 40 yean F. I. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohi« m m 7 / -•WT1 r i/. « 7/ \ A Z-K.%' Bi£ For Business Hours I 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.