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THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1925
He who thinks he knows it all
not know the half of it.
Just think what Eve missed by
having any woman to bo jealous of!
Never count your insect bites
fore they are scratched.
When you do a thing twice,
don’t do it better the second
you are a failure.
The beautiful thing about
is that you can start it on a
capital.
A town that talks about itself
brags on itself, tells the world
it is good and getting better,
its bells and toots its horn, and
these things all the time, will
b city here.
It will not be many days before
boys and girls of Fort Valley
be leaving for school and
Local merchants will
their trade and much money
be “kept at home” if these
people would do their buying
going away and help boost Fort
ley.
WHY WE BELIEVE IN OUR
TOWN
The man who has no faith in the
town he lives in should move, }| (;
owes that to the community of which
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the steelworker has no last resource. A misstep means dis¬
aster. A hundred times a he the lie to tragedy, and
when the whistle blows he slides
blithely down a column to a street of
dangers which probably appall him!
Where is the circus thrill that can
compare with this workaday game of
tag played by the structural steel
worker.
Divergent Viewpoints
“That bimbo must be a nut to take
*uch chances,” chirps a pert young
miss, as she pauses on route to her
job in the notions department She
■would probably be utterly dumbfound¬
ed if she could hear the “nut” remark
to his helper that “these here high
heels the girls wear are awful danger¬
ous!”
A few years ago it was a common
occurrence to see one or more work¬
ers riding aloft on a girder which
swayed and dangled from a derrick
boom. In most cities the sidewalk
gang have been cheated of this thrill
by a ban imposed through legislation, !
but this one scene in the drama is not
missed. After all, it hardly compares
w'ith the feat of skipping across a
beam, or dodging a swinging girder, or
standing on a drift-pin no larger than
the thumb, which has been thrust in
a rivet hole with nothing to hold it
there except the worker’s weight
tupon it!
All in Day’s Work
But it’s all iu the day’s work with
these men The men in the street
would probably say that they had lost
their perspective on danger—that they
were so accustomed to looking possi
ble tragedy in the face that it loses its
Identity. The cartoonist who drew
one of the most popular sketches pub
lished in years caught the real spirit
of this high disdain of danger. It was
a picture of two steel workers, draped
in complete relaxation upon a narrow
he is a dissatisfied resident, and he
also owes it to himself.
It is difficult to imagine a more
unsatisfactory situation than a man
imjioses upon himself when he forces
himself to live in a community he
doesn't like or approve, and has no
reason to believe he. will ever like
any better or approve more cordial
i ly. Never can he hope to be satisfied,
land he is foolish not to move on —
move on ■ > green fields and pastures
new” where there will be something
to live and hope for.
Of all human enigmas to he en¬
countered in modern times, the man
who does not approve of a town- its
customs, its views, its ways of doing
things, its ambitions, its community
programs, its civic ideals—yet con¬
tinues to live in it, is one of the
strangest.
Ho "doesn’t approve"—that is his
attitude. lie would like to see many
tilings changed, and is not too modest
to let it he known that he thinks he
could run community affairs to much
better advantage if given the oppor
tunity. He is a chronic objector, a
daily critic. The town is going to the
how-wows, and it is a crying shame
that its opportunities are being so
shamefully leglected!
Yet he stays on! He stays in the
town he does nothing to help and in
whieh he finds little to approve, when
the country is full of other towns
which he points as models of what a
town ought to be. He lives in the
town that’s "all wrong,” when the
land is full of perfect towns waiting
to receive him with open arms.
Queer, isn’t it?—Albany Herald.
LIFE IS CHEAP
Life is a cheap commodity in these
days of homicide, matricide, patri¬
cide and just plain murder.
A Chicago woman paid a gunman
$-100 to kill her husband because he
abused her daughter by another mar¬
riage. The gunman paid $200 to an¬
other gunman to have the victim slain
and the second gunman’s wife stole
the money and spent it in Milwaukee.
This is a sordid story that is not
uncommon. The price of life has be¬
come so cheap that men will take it
unflinchingly for a few paltry dol¬
lars.
It is a sorry commentary on our
boasted civilization that we have pro
duced such specimens of humanity.
UNDREDS of feet above the street a pigmy
figure glides across a cobweb. Nearby,
one of his fellows leans far over nothing¬
ness to catch a glowing rivet, tossed casu¬
ally aloft from the furnace. Another ant
man is driving home one of these rivets,
with a mighty clatter of air-gun, while
still another pilots a girder into place as
surely as though his feet were on solid
earth instead of a hand’s breadth of steel!
The city’s daily circus has opened—a
circus that loses nothing of interest be¬
cause there is no admission charge.
Crowds gather. At times they all but
block traffic. Stiff necks mean nothing to
them. Here, indeed, is a Roman holiday,
The trapeze performer of the circus has
his net in the event of a fall, the equestri¬
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”1 wish 1 was matin’ the jack those
box fighters drag down,” says steel¬
worker No. 1.
“Sure, but they take a chance of
bein’ all smashed up,’’ replies No. 2!
Many books have been written upon
curiosity, anticipation, and allied phe
nomena The crowd that rubbers at
the acrobats of the sky-line is not ac
tuated by the same psychological im
pulse as the one that stares at a bill
poster, or listens to the patter of the
patent medicine vendor. Anticipation
probably best describes the mental at¬
titude of those who sthnd open-niouth
ed while the riveter perches aloft
working like a gigantic woodpecker,
“Some day that bird is going to take
tumble,” soliloquizes the spectator.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE,-FORT VALLEY, GA„ THURSDAY, AUGUST, 20, 1925.
ANGELS' DAY
( )n my so(J j no ji^ht was beaming,
Not a ray,
Till the time that I was dreaming,
Dreaming, yea.
In a vision bri ght ; mmor tal8
Stood within celestial portals
Arid they shouted "Angels’ Day.
And f saw in land elysian,
Saw my May;
i And 1 thought upon the vision
“Angels’ Day
Till my spirit’s eye upturning
Strove with an insatiate yearning
Two angelic words to weigh.
, Then spirit life empowered
my
Left its clay,
And to Paradise it towered
Far away.
And I saw the heavens rifted
And ‘ a banner fair, uplifted,
That shall be unfurled for aye.
Heard I then two angels singing,
j George and May;
And the good news they were bringing
Here to stay.
And I heard all creatures human,
Ev’ry man and ev’ry woman
Sweetly Hinging “Angels’ Day.”
Came the shinin * an « els nearer -
r Touched my eyes,
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Gave mp vision Wronger, clearer,
Bade me rise,
' Sweetest angels! how I’ve missed'them!
0ft within soul r ’ ve kis8cd them
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J ‘^' nce they went to Paradise,
In deep darkness I have wandered
From the Way;
And the heritage I’ve squandered
Brings decay.
Well that night do I remember!
Well May’s words that bleak Decem¬
ber!
u Will you me; husband? Say, > •
“Yes;” I promised—broken hearted;
Promised May;
And I kissed her, the departed,
Gone for aye.
Now bright angels bend above me, J
And they whisper, “Jesus loves me, II
And it’s ever “Angels' Day.”
—W. C. CARTER.
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Following out this line of thought,
even though it may be subconsciously,
the man on the sidewalk feels that
some day he may see him take the
tumble. There are those who will
vigorously combat, this theory. But it
is borne out by the morbid intensity
with which people watch any hazard¬
ous undertaking.
Not that the work of the structural
steel worker is the most hazardous
occupation in the world. Of course
it is not the safest, as attested by life
insurance statistics. The man who
chooses such a calling usually has a
peculiar physical qualification for hfs
work, and he has a sixth sense which
usually operates to warn him of dan¬
ger. It may be that an unseen girder
Is swinging his way. He ducks his
head and the danger passes. He may
have seen it out of the corner of his
LAWYERS MAY USE MERCER’S
LAW HOOKS FREE OF CHARGE
Macon, Ga., Auk. 18.—Lawyers of
Georgia have been extended the privi
lege of using the 7,000 volumes which
! i are on the shelves of the Mercer
| University Law School Library, by
i Dr. Rufus C. Harris, secretary of
1 the Law School.
j recently In the letter which was of sent out,
j to each lawyer the state,
Dr. Harris said that he wished
'give the practitioners of this and
near-by states, the use of what is
said to be one of the most complete
legal libraries in the entire south.
Lawyers who take advantage of
the offer may come to the university
at any time and use the books for
study or for reference without cost
to them.
As a result of this offer, practition¬
ers will have at their services vol¬
umes on Georgia, United States, and
English legal procedure, beside all of
the standard magazines in that field.
CONVENTION OF
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
The Rehoboth Association, of which
the Fort Valley Baptist church is a
part will hold a Sunday school con¬
vention at Mount Zion church, eight
miles out of Macon on the Forsyth
road, on Thursday, August 27th. 7 he
Rehoboth Field Secretary, Gainer E.
Bryan, has arranged a splendid pro¬
gram and is expecting a large at¬
tendance.
A number from Fort Valley and
vicinity will attend.
F. W. Withoft is president of the
first district of the association, which ‘
includes the churches in Montezuma, I
Perry, Elko, Tharpe Memorial, Fort
Valley and Houston Factory.
Mr. Withoft expect to attend and
will lead the messages in Music for
the convention. The will I
program be¬
gin promptly at 9:30 Central time.
Turtles have no teeth, and the com¬
pensation is that they never have to
go to the dentist.
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L. H. BROWNING, President,
Norman Park, Georgia.
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worker relieves the monotony by
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deftly aloft from the forge.
very alert eye, or he may merely have
sensed it.
Confidence of Worker
Probably he could not tell you just
how he knetv that his safety was men-
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feats that would make any circus audience gasp- 1
j Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Friday McWaters
tored to Macon last afternoon,
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Mrs. H. Moskovitz is visiting in
1 Atlantic City for a few weeks. Mr
Moskovitz left this week for New
York on a buying trip
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Mrs. S. Halprin is spending several
weeks in New York City,
Mrs. George Luce and Miss Faith
Luce, of Chicago, are visiting the
family of Mr. A. L. Luce.
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nothing if you don’t know and very
little if you do.
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ly how he manages to tread his nar
row footway in a high wind with such
a sureness of step, such an exact al
low’ance for wind stress What would
mean immediate disaster to the un-;
trained only serves to give the steel- j
worker added confidence. What ap- ji
pears to the spectator as sheer brava
do Is just part of the job to the man
who is fitting together the steel puz¬ !
zle that is to finally emerge into a
great skyscraper.
•“his structural steel acrobat’s trade
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CAPITAL AM) SURPLUS ini RESOURCES OVER
$150,000.00 $1,000,000.00
is one of many unusual occupations
that have been developed in America.
The skyscraper, which created his
trade, is peculiarly an American in¬
stitution. A half century ago, mason¬
ry construction towering six to nine
stories high was considered the maxi¬
mum for safety and utility. Then
came Bessemer steel, and later open
hearth steel. Here was a material
that would perform with mathematical
exactness. A steel column of a given
size established that it would do a
specific amount of work in a more
efficient manner than any other known
material This development of steel
came at a time when land values In
the business sections of the larger
cities were becoming almost prohibi¬
tive Taller buildings were the only
solution, and structural steel made
them possible.
“Tailor Made” Buildings
Quickly there developed, between
the rolling mills and the purchaser,
the structural steel fabricating plant.
Now was come, indeed, the era of the
tailor-made building and the struc¬
tural steel worker. From the engi¬
neer’s drawings and specifications the
framework of the great structure was
fabricated by the structural steel mill.
When it reached the job, each piece
bore a number which designated its
place in the skeleton. It became the
steel workei s job to put each piece in
P r °P er Place, and drive home each
Previously designated rivet,
The steelworkers agility and dan
^ er entrance the pedestrian The
structure which he so accurately fits
together catches the imagination of
the builder, the architect and the busi
ness man
Like Human Being
A speaker at the recent Architec¬
tural and Allied Arts Exposition, in
Grand Central Palace. New York, built
his address around the assertion that
the American skyscraper is built like
human being, and does practically
everything a man does except walk,
His simile is well worth quoting:
“The metal feet rest on the solid
rock, which was reached by huge
caissons. Us frame work of steel is a
complete skeleton with articulated
riveted ribs, arms, legs and spine.
Its joints can move ever so slightly
when heat expands and cold contracts,
yet so braced are they that it can
the strain of storm. The stom
is the furnace room—source of
and light and power. From its
heart—the boilers and machinery—
the arteries, which carry 'the
equivalent of blood throughout its
pipes which warm the ra¬
in winter.”
Continuing the figure, the architect
the steam and water pipes to
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Nonchalant Is the word that best
the attitude of the actors
In this scene from the daily acro¬
act of the skyline.
human circulating system; the wir¬
system to the nerves ; the ventilat¬
scheme to the respiratory system.
Wider Field of Steel
The field of usefulness of structur¬
steel continues to increase. Archi¬
engineers and city planners are
cities that will tower high¬
into the ether than anything that
yet been planned. It may be nec
to use field glasses to get a
look at the structural steel work¬
of a few years hence. It has been
that steel is capable of
more and better work than has
been required of it. This
of the situation has been th®'"^
of exhaustive investigations
the American Institute of Steel
an organization which
almost the entire fabricat¬
steel industry of the United States
Canada. As a result of these in¬
a standard specification
the fabrication and erection of
steel has been developed
makes possible a saving of not
than twelve per cent on all steel
as compared with old meth¬
Technical schools, research labora¬
and government bureaus are
new capabilities of and
for steel New alloys are being
New economies are being
And the sidewalk crowd is looking
to the opening of the greater
when the drama of the archi¬
and engineer for the city of to¬
are translated into towering ¥
of steel, surrounded by brick and
and cement and tile. *-