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AND REACH LAND JOURNAL
ESTABLISHED 1888
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JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
“An » Man Thinkcth in II i« Heart, 8<i l» lie.'
Official Orjran «f Patch County. City of Furl
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THURSDAY. AUGUST 13, 1925.
The Eternal City
John's Vision
A ND I mm w • new heaven and a new
earth; for the flrat heaven and tha
firat earth were paimed away; and there
w»* no moro of«. And I John *aw the
holy rlty, new Jerueolrm, coming down
from God oul ol Hr»»en. prepared a> a
bride edorned lor hrr huoband. And I
heard a great voire out of Heaven eaylng,
Behold, the tabernerle of God le with
men, and he will dwell with them, and
they ehall he Hie people, and God IIIm
aalf shall be with them, and be their
God. And God shell wipe away all taare
from their eyee: and thera ahall be na
more daath. neither eorrow. nor crying,
neither ehall there be any more pain;
for tha formar thlnge are paaaed away. .
. . , And the rlty had no need of the
nan, neither ef the moon, to ohlno in It;
far tho glory of God did lighton It, and
tho Limb la tho light thertof. And tha
natiano of thorn which aro aavod ahall
walk in the light of It; end the king!
of the earth do bring their glory aad
honour into It.
Earth's greatest influence is
good wife.
There is no boost for a body
a big bottle of buttermilk.
Now for the triumphant entry
King Cotton to the royal anthem
the gin.
The more folks that go to
th more we don’t want to go.
will exonerate our logic.
His countless friends in
Methodism and other high fields
service in Georgia! sympathize
with that grand old Christian
man, Editor J. F. Shannon, of
Commerce News, in his extended
ness. We profoundly hope that Mr.
Shannon will have regained
health and vigor and will have
turned to that editorial pen with
which he has commanded wide atten¬
tion and respect, ere the appearance
of this paper.
Peaches in London
Georgia peaches have been carried
to London and they met a warm re¬
ception in Britain. Doth kinds of
Georgia peaches meet a warm recep¬
tion every where. The fruit or| the
fair ones, don’t make any difference.
—Bainbridge Post-Searchlight.
A Lesson In Peaches
The Fort Valley section has just
closed the most successful peach sea¬
son in its history, and the growers
are now convinced that the whole
peaeh problem is one of co-operation
in marketing and refraining from
overstocking the markets. In other
•words, the country will pay a good
price for as many peaches as it can
consume, with ease, but just as soon
as the consumer sees that he has the
advantage of the producer he takes
it. He will pay no more than he has
to pay.—Moultrie Observer.
Continued Enthusiasm
The Columbus Blnquirer-Sun kind¬
ly remarks:
“Editor John H. Jones, of the Fort
Valley Leader - Tribune, felicitates
himself upon the fact that so much
has been accomplished at the end of
the first year of his residence in that
hustling little city. ‘The fact that we
came to Fort Valley did not accom¬
plish these things,’ says Editor Jones,
after enumerating a long list of
splendid accomplishments for Fort
Valley during the period. ‘Don’t
charge us with that conceit.’ We do
not, John, but we know that you con¬
tributed everything in your power to
achieve progress and we have no
doubt that what you did was of in¬
estimable value. Editor Jones be¬
gins the second year of his residence
in Fort Valley with the same en
thusiasm that he had when he went
there, only it has been greatly en¬
hanced and augmented. We wish him
continued success, for he deserves it.”
THE FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST, 13, 1925.
Tourists Will Turn Eyes To Georgia —
and Fort Valley!
Leaving the pharmacy just as we came to the corner of the
Pheonix block we met a tourist who wanted to know the prices of
city lots on the average streets of the city. He said that he was
on his way back from Florida, after having failed to purchase any¬
thing, because the prices were so high he would not know how to
make a lot profitable that had so much capital invested in the pur¬
chase price. Waycross Journal-Herald.
There is a paragraph from the Waycross paper that is interesting for
the simple reason that it reflects coming events. Florida property is “sky
high” and gets dearer every time the clock ticks. Sometime, before long,
it will reach a stationary standpoint.
No piece of property is worth more than it will bring as an investment.
Property along Broadway in New York is worth thousands of dollars a
front foot, simply because buildings erected there will bring in a reasonable
return on the money invested.
A farm is worth in proportion to what it will produce.
The worth of a house or an office building is governed by its renting
income.
These arc laws of economics and cannot be disputed.
As Florida property nears that point, where it will fail to be profitable
as an investment, real estate transactions will get few and far apart.
But northern tourists will continue to come south. They don’t like
the cold wintry months. Prices on farms there are high and it’s difficult
to make a profit operating one of the high priced farms.
So they will continue to come south, to locate.
And Georgia will get her share of these new settlers.
Griffin is going to see some nice property transfers right at home,
property sold to tourists, who want to become citizens.
It’s coming, folks, just as certain as any of us are here.
Let’s get ready for them.—Griffin Daily News.
Fort Valley and Peach county must sit up and take no¬
tice. The tide of tourists’ interest must turn inevitably to
Georgia. Those towns and sections which prepare to catch
that interest and charm it into settlement and investment will
be the ones which will reap the harvest of prosperity.
When Peach county was formed some of our largest plant¬
ers and leading business men said their first move was going
to be to cut up their wide acres into small tracts of land, or¬
ganize a colonization company and go after high class, intelli¬
gent, small farmers.
Therein lies this wonderful agricultural section’s opportu¬
nity for further advancement in long strides.
Selling two, three, four, five hundred acres once in five
or ten years to some new farm capitalist does not change a
condition; It is merely swapping riders in the same old saddle.
Bringing new blood in the form of good, clean, high-type
men and women to buy one-man fruit and truck farms, thereby
increasing the population and production without reducing the
quality, would make Peach county what she ought to be—
would fulfill the vision of our champions who “fit, bled and al¬
most died” to get their new county with this as their purpose.
The opportunity is not far away. But you must grasp
Opportunity by the forelock; the back of her head is bald.
We must be ready before Opportunity comes. As indi¬
cated in the above editorials and others which we might re¬
produce, other wide-awake sections of Georgia are arising and
girding their loins for the race.
Little bait and hooks cast into the murmuring brook may
bring teasing nibbles and a few minnows, but it takes real
fishing to make a catch worth while—and you must be ready
when the fish are around.
Fort Valley has somewhat appeased her vanity during the
last year by sending out a few dollars worth of small folders,
erecting a few road signs and doing a little of this or that until
the novelty wore off. That is not going to get us anywhere in
the big program of development which we desire and which
is undoubtedly ours for the taking.
We must throw our energies and resources, every mo¬
ther’s son of us, into a great, co-operative, PERSISTENT cam¬
paign of BROAD, SERIOUS advertising and PERSONAL
WORK to get the things we say we want, whether it be an
enlargement of trade territory, new industries or new settlers
on small sub-divisions of our priceless yet cumbersome farms.
To do this thing we must ORGANIZE—we must organize
NOW—we must organize and STAY ORGANIZED—we must
not only stay organized, we must KEEP ACTIVE, day in and
day out every month and year after year, with that persistency
which never yet has failed to bring home the bacon to any
community of worthy people.
We earnestly submit that a full-grown Chamber of Com¬
merce or Board of Trade—not merely something that will give
us a name of which to boast—is the logical machine through
which we may grind out our proper destiny and realize the
full benefits of other things we do so well, whether it be Peach
Blossom Festival, religious work, educational advancement or
economy in government, and then reap our share of that pros¬
perity which is bound to come to Georgia when the tide of
tourists’ interest and capital backs up this way.
WHAT SHALL WE DO, MEN AND WOMEN OF FORT
VALLEY?
We can waste many thousands of dollars in petting our
vanity with a little expenditure here and a little effort there,
abandoning one small butterfly for another. What we waste
in sporadic impulses, if thrown into that great, PERSISTENT
campaign of which we speak, would TAKE US SOMEWHERE.
Study The City Court Question
It is to be hoped that the voters of Peach county will have the privi¬
lege of seeing the complete bill to establish a City Court for this county
published in The Leader-Tribune very soon.
It is to be hoped earnestly that every voter will read the bill carefully
and study the City Court question with a serious, open mind. No voter
should take a position either for or against the proposed City Court un¬
less he already has all available information as to the effect it will have
upon both the cost of our courts to the county and the efficiency of our
courts’ service in the interest of the public welfare.
The Leader-Tribune has the utmost respect for the opinions of each
and every citizen. We regret that this editor has not yet become suffi¬
ciently informed concerning the affairs of the old Houston county area and
the new county of Peach to venture a definite opinion about a matter of
such proportions. We are anxious to learn.
Every citizen should be anxious to know all there is to know about an
important matter before he casts his ballot. We should study the ques¬
tion as neighbors who have as their common purpose the fulfillment of
those visions by which we were inspired to ask Georgia to change her own
opinion and in a second election create Peach county. We should search
for a basis of sound judgment. There is no more serious obligation upon
a citizen than to endeavor to study the question upon which he is called
to vote and seek with all his soliI to vote intelligently. If it is possible
for this obligation to rest more heavily upon one group of citizens than
another, certainly the obligation is more serious, the duty more solemn,
upon the people of our new county^ than upon those of any old, established
county. We are now forming the foundation upon which our whole fu¬
ture as a county will rest for generations to come. We must build well.
Those who are well informed upon the question have as their solemn
duty the task of spreading their information throughout the county. “Let
there be light.
The Peach Prophets and Providence
There are peach princes, prophets and paupers, The prophets make :
most of the paupers.
Foresight is a good thing. It is wise to study conditions and intelli- j
gently judge the future by them. But the man who speaks from afar
without the knowledge whereof he speaks may prove a dangerous influence. |
The man who now predicts the size, condition and profit or loss of j
next year’s peach crop is “talking through his hat.”
The Albany Herald, the Americus Times-Recorder, the Thomasville
Times-Binterprise and other newspapers, noting a recent prediction of 20,-!
000 cars of peaches from next year’s crop, state, as The Leader-Tribune j
declared on July 30, that such enormous crop would spell ruin without
a vast improvement and expansion in the machinery of marketing and
distribution.
Some folks are using a comparison of the 1924 and 1925 crops to
show why sometimes money is lost and sometimes money is made on
peaches. *» The 1924 crop brought a loss because it reached 13,500 cars,
while the 1925 crop was profitable because it was only 13,000 cars,” says
one paper.
As a matter of fact, the 1925 crop is reaching 13,500 cars—just as
large as the 1924 crop!
The 1924 crop brought a loss principally because of a late spring, a
very late maturing of the peach and its maturing then in a flood to be
dumped upon the market within too short a period of time for distribu
tion and consumption.
The 1925 crop was successful because of an early spring, the early
ripening of the first crops and the sequence of other crops from week to
week so that the markets were not glutted to a point of repulsion.
Now who could have told in July, 1923, that we would have a late spring
in 1924?
What mortal “prophet” could have told in July, 1924, that we would
have an early spring in 1925?
Bosh! The peach industry as now existing is a speculation at best,
and those community leaders over the country who are urging their farm¬
ers to plant, or extend, peach orchards under existing conditions are play¬
ing with fire.
There is no price to be placed upon the peach industry. It is a price¬
less asset if not overdone, but overdone in any community, or overdone by
Georgia as a whole, it will destroy itself and those who fall under its al¬
luring spell.
The Fallen Crown
•'VI ce l» » mounter of such frightful mien
That to be hated need, but to be seen,
But seen too oft, familiar with hi» face.
We first pity, then endure, then embrace."
With this and other striking quo
tations, and with a deep, positive
penetration of modern social and re¬
ligious conditions, yet with a mode¬
rate, kindly analysis of the human,
heart, Rev. Thos. H. Thomson preach¬
ed a sermon last Sunday morning at
the Methodist church on the text,
i i And he took their king’s crown from
off his head,” found in the second
book of Samuel, chapter twelve, verse
thirty. It was a sermon so full of
truth and logic as to be convincing—
so temperate in tone and free of
vitriol as to command eager attention
in even the most liberal mind; a
sermon which should he preached in
every American home.
Mr. Thomson gripped the atten¬
tion of his gongregation with a mas¬
terful picture of that greatest calam¬
ity to befall any king—the loss of
his crown, his royalty and power.
Then he quickly drew a contrast of
absorbing significance in the modern
day. He pictured far greater calami¬
ties of the present day: Childhood’s
loss of the crown of innocency; Wo¬
manhood’s loss of the crown of mod¬
esty; Manhood’s loss of the crown
of honor; and Religion’s loss of the
of faith.
This is not to say that Mr. Thom
preached what is usually called
calamity sermon. He did not qual¬
ify as a “calamity howler.” His was
conservative, dignified statement
causes which should be corrected
results which should be avoided
the home, society and the church.
sermon was temperate, well bal¬
therefore all the more power¬
We doubt if Mr. Thomson could de¬
that particular sermon quite as
again. We challenge him to do
We challenge all of the churches
of Fort Valley to hold a union ser¬
vice some Sunday soon and exercise
themselves so much as to gather a
congregation in a suitable
to hear Mr. Thomson repeat
that sermon. We can imagine no
more interesting, no more beneficial
with which to dispel the mo¬
notony of Summer’s tired heel.
Look Out, “Sparks!"
“No, LaGrange has not slipped into
‘Peach Belt,’ ^ut the ‘Peach Belt’
grown up around LaGrange in
last few years. ;
“In a few more years Ben Jones,
Johnson, Jim Arnold, Charlie
and others will be known
VISITORS
(FROM THE QUITMAN FREE PRESS)
More and more Georgia is learning from Florida that it pays
to have visitors.
The best publicity Florida has received has been from people
who have visited Florida.
Atlanta attracts visitors with its grand and light opera sea¬
sons, its Southeastern fair and its athletic games.
Fort Valley attracts visitors with it Peach Festivals.
Quitman and Waycross attract visitors with their Fourth of
July barbecues. Last week Savannah attracted visitors with its 1
water carnival.
These are fine for Georgia.
If Georgia cities continue to attract visitors, soon the reports
made by these visitors will get a publicity that will prove beneficial
as the peach men of Troup county.
"Troup county grows better
peaches than the P'ort Valley terri¬
tory. The blush grows naturally on
the peach in this part of the state,
while in South Georgia it is neces¬
sary to use a certain spray to get
the proper coloring.”
Thus are we snocked by “Sparks,
a brilliant wit of the LaGrange
Graphic’s editorial page.
We know that those splendid farm¬
ers are growing fine peaches. We
congratulate them. But Fort Valley
will enter a prize peach show with
them any little old time.
There may be some “peaches” here
—but we doubt it—as there are in
every other community who must
“spray” to get the proper or im¬
proper coloring on their cheeks, but
if any peach grower wants to get
into trouble with state chemists and
the chemists and governments of the
large market cities, let him send a
shipment of peaches that have been
sprayed late enough to give them
the “proper coloring.” For one rea¬
son or another the Japs of Califor¬
nia have tried it with pears, the
F’loridians have tried it with celery
and some Georgians have tried it
with peaches. They got enough of it,
as did the few folks who landed in
hospitals before the authorities had
a grand destruction of the poisonous
stuff.
Come again. Sparks.
St. Simons—Haven of Rest
In ye olden days, when this edi
tor’s “thoughts of youth were long,
long thoughts” and couldn't keep up
with his heart, he would hie himself
away ‘ for from two weeks to a month
on St. Simons Island and write
poetry. Now the skeleton is out!
For the first time in several years
he went again recently to spend
more than a day on that little drop
of heaven. But our readers don’t
have to suffer an attack of “poetry, »>
as have other papers under his pen
and Clarence Leavy’s Brunswick
News once upon a time.
This intrusion of personal senti¬
ment is an irresistible impulse to
say once more that, although the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts possess
many resorts of more elaborate
schemes of excitement, we don’t be¬
lieve there exists a more delightful
place than St. Simons Island for the
person who wants a real vacation of
pleasant rest, charm of nature and
nurture of soul; and to come under
the spell of the hospitality of Mr. j
and Mrs. L. F. Arnold of the Arnold
House and cottages, and the associ¬
ations of such Brunswick people as
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To the business man there is a measur¬
able advantage in a hanking connection
where a personal interest will be taken in
his transaction.
Here, .you will find this personal inter¬
est plus a complete, efficient service that is
an indication of our appreciation of your
business.
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Editor Clarence Leavy, Managing
Secretary B’red G. Warde of the
Chamber of Commerce, Mayor Mai
McKinnon and others too
numerous to mention, for even a few
sort of shoots a whole
and through with that
makes it complete.
Bryan s Tribute To His
Noble Wife
I* 1 his W 'H- William Jennings Bry
an referred in terms of absorbing
affection to Mrs. Bryan as his com
ra de and companion and helpmeet
through a long matrimonial career,
We dare say that aged crippled wo
man finds real happiness in the fact
that her celebrated husband, passing
into the Great Beyond, “gave her of
the fruit of her hands and let her
own works praise her in the gates”
—gave her of the fruit of her hands
jn an eloquent, affectionate tribute of
far beyond comparison with the
in material wealth which he
her. Many a man has become
many a man has fought his
through defeat to victory, many
man has come from gloom to glory,
the depths to the heights,
the priceless love and loyal¬
of a real “comrade, companion and
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After all, how can a man find life
while without the guiding,
light of such a woman-star?
A Knock Is A' Boost
Every knock for, every men¬
tion of, Florida is a boost. Let’s
quit talking about the fairy tale
and get down to the wonderful
task, the golden opportunity that
God has given us HERE IN
GEORGIA.—Fort Valley Leader
Tribune.
Knocking Florida is not going to
Georgians anywhere. It is no use
swell is to get up with busy envy. and boost The thing Georgia, to j !
the world about its advantages ,
possibilities, build up the waste
When we do this the Florida
will be no problem at all.
Florida, be it said to its credit, has j
the world about the South. Geor- '
should capitalize this advertising. !
can get our share of new settlers
our part of the development
is coming South. If we fail to
do this we are not worthy to grow
and prosper.
Stop being a “piyk, pale pessi
mist,” but get busy and let’s put
Georgia over the top.— Jackson
Progress-Argus.
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Our Best Friends
Our best friends are the ones who
speak plainest. They see our faults
and tell us about them. Those who a
flatter us care nothing about us.
They want to see us in furthering
their own interests. Beware of the
man who is always saying nice things
to you. Pleasant words are not always i
like apples of gold in platters of sil¬
ver. Sometimes they are plated with
gold but within there is poison and
death.
We don’t like stern, hard-boiled
men but they are mighty useful to
have around. They keep things
straight. They talk plain and tell us
some things we ought to hear.
Adversity is just as necessary as
the soft things. Failures are just as
stimulating to the real man as suc¬
cesses.
The formation of character is the
aim of creation, and God is just as
much interested in you as he is in
getting the thing done. If prosperity
helps you, if it humbles and strength¬
ens you, if it makes a better, wiser
stronger personage of you, then yom
will have prosperity. If it takes ad¬
versity to strengthen you, to make a
wiser and a stronger man of you,
then you will have adversity. Gener¬
ally, it takes some of both to develop
a fellow.
“All things work together for good ft
to them who are interested in self¬
development and will profit by the
lessons that both prosperity and ad¬
versity teach.—The Winder News.
Cause of Hot Weather
Scientists have thought that the A
very warm weather was caused by
spots in the sun, these spots being
objects that had fallen into that
body, perhaps meteors or something
of the sort and the act of consuming
them made the sun throw off more
heat than it ordinarily does. W’hat
the explanation there is no dou$t
the heat being thrown off and it
hoped those objects may be con
vey soon.—Thomasville Times-