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01?* H*ai)rr * (Urtbutt*
AND PEACHLANI) JOURNAL
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JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
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Official Organ of Paarh County. City •# Fort
Vallry and Wratern Division of the
Southern District of Georgia
Federal Court.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925.
ltuild or bust.
BUST OF BUILD.
Buttermilk. Wo dare anybody to
Bay anything about it or us. Sblood.
This is fair time in Georgia. Here’s
lioping Peach may stage a county fair
next Fall.
Professor Snider, over at Griffin,
prophesies freezing weather on No¬
vember 20th.
Chicago is thinking of paying
crooks to leave that city, It just
naturally pays them to leave Fort
IValley.
If you can’t do any better, BUILD
[AND BUST. At least you will have
the satisfaction of having come a lit¬
tle nearer to Heaven.
Augusta is showing us how a com¬
munity can start its own boom with
little difficulty if it will simply turn
itself aloose and step forward.
Tuesday’s Macon Telegraph in
formed us that Governor Walker was
going to Washington for a tax hear
mg. That’s about all most of us hear
all the time.
_—--—
'Give fools their gold and knaves
their power,
Let fortune’s bubble rise and fall;
Who sows a field or trains a flower,
Or plants a tree is more than all.
—Whittier.
“Stop patronizing bootleggers and
the sale of liquor will stop,” declared
Judge Searcy in charging the Spald¬
ing county grand jury Monday. Now
we will give a quart of onion juice
to any man who will prove that is
not true. But prohibition will be V al
ly enforced only when both ends of
the problem are given indiscriminate
attention. The man who keeps his own
little pet Personal Privilege in his
home never will help a jury to do it
in a permanent way.
Fort Valley and Peach county offer
splendid real estate investment op¬
portunities right at this time. There
is something in the air besides the
wet at her. Those who have eyes to see
and ears to hear will be on the job
in this neck o’ the woods during the
next few months. You are going to
see a period of activity from which
some profits will grow. But the prop¬
erty owner who sets too high a price,
instead of joining in the general
movement of selling and buying, will
be killing the opportunity at its birth
so far as he is concerned.
Secretary of the Treasury Mellon
suggests a reduction of a quarter of
a billion dollars in the national
levy. In that case we can heave a
sigh of relief and pull through until
tomorrow if our delinquent subscrib
ers will ffay up by morning. Secre¬
tary Mellon didn’t say anything about
rent and groceries and wc never
qualified for any sort of government
pension with which to print and mail
The Leader-Tribune free of charge.
Now look at the date next to your
name on this paper, beloved sub¬
scriber, and PAY UP—PLEASE!
TWELVE THINGS TO REMEMBER
The value of time.
The success of perseverance.
The pleasure of working.
The dignity of simplicity.
The worth of character.
The power of kindness.
The influence of example.
The obligation of duty.
The wisdom of economy. l
The virtue of patience.
The improvement of talent.
The joy of originating. —Ex.
THE SONG OF THE TREES
Ye who pass by and would raise
your hand against me,' hearken ere
you harm me. I am the heart of your
hearth on the cold winter nights;
the friendly shade screening you from
the summer «ui>» mf fruita are
freshing draughts quenching
thirst as you journey on.
I am the beam that holds
house, the board of your table,
bed on which you lie, the timber
builds your boat. I uni the handle
your hoe, the door of your
the wood of your cradle and
shell of your coffin.
I the bread . of . .. kindness ,
am
the flower of beauty. Ye who
by, listen to my prayer; harm me
—McClure’s Magazine.
HIS READY TONGUE
In one of Lloyd George’s
campaigns some one threw' a
through' the window, and it fell on
platform at his feet. Picking it
he cried: "Behold the only
of our opponents.” From the
a sullen fellow kept calling out “Rats!
Rats!” in one of his meetings.
some one please take the
his dinner?” was the witty and
fective reply. Once when he was
ing on 'home rule” he said, “I
home rule for England, for
| for Wales, for Ireland”—At this
point some one shouted, Home rule
'for hell. That’s right, he shot
, back. Every for his own coun
man
, another gathering a man
try.” In
shouted, Oh, you’re not so much.
Your dad used to peddle vegetables
with a donkey and cart, >> u Yes,” said
the orator, “that is true. My father
was a very poor man. The cart has
long since disappeared, but I see the
donkey is still with us.”— Christian
Register.
REFERRED TO THE JURY
There is a certain youngster who
isn’t going to be subpoenaed as a wit
ness any more by a certain attorney.
One case is enough to lose.
The local youth was on the witness
stand, when the lawyer started to
examine him.
“Have you an occupation?” asked
the attorney.
“Nope.”
“Don’t you do any work of any
kind?”
“Nope.”
“What does your father do?”
"Nothin’ much.”
“Doesn’t he do anything to support
Hie family?”
“Odd jobs once in a while.”
“As a matter of fact, isn’t your
father a worthless fellow, a dead
beat and a loafer?”
“I don’t know,” the witness repli
ed. “You’d better ask him; he's sit
ting ovei • there on the jury.”-rThe
Bulletin.
JUDGE BARRETT BLAZES
THE WAY
Judge William H. Barrett of
' United States court of the Southern
district of Georgia, in his charge to
the grand jury in Macon last week
blazed the way fbr law enforcement
am | f or the reduction in crime.
Judge Barrett declared that “per¬
nicious influences are permeating our
social life and our body politics,” and
un i CKS they are arrested they will re¬
sult in decay and possibly annihila
t ;„ n 0 f muc h we hold dear.’ Entering
f ur ther into the discussion of law en
f or cement and regard and respect for
f b e law, Judge Barrett, said:
It is not for me to say what has
caused the increase in crime, but
this 1 know, that it betokens des¬
cent rather than ascent, and that
while crime may never cease, it
can be cui •bed and restrained
when our leaders firmly, boldly
u nflinchingly and pertinaciously
set their faces against it.
The charge of Judge Barrett was
' timely and should be heeded by
mos t
not only the jurors, but the entire
j ctizenships of law-abiding people
sbou i d support and aid in the cam
|Pa ig n against law violations as out
i; ned [, y Judge Barrett. The time has
come w ■lien the people of the country
seem to hold little regard for strict
en f orce ment of the laws, Down at
Milledgeville, recently, a mapiae who
a n 0 wed to run loose in a fit of
vas
[ insanity murdered a young white wo
ma p connected with the asylum—a
most horrible and brutal murder, but
the negro was not responsible for the
crime. He was known to be utterly ir
responsible and dangerous, yet he was
allowed to roam around the grounds
free and unmolested. For the crime,
a mob caused him to pay the toll
with his life—lynching him in the
open without regard for the law or
the court officers and officials. Such
serves the condemnation of all law
abiding citizens. If the crime had
been committed by a brute possessing
usual intelligence there might have
been an excuse, but to lynch and mur¬
der a helpless lunatic is beyond
rhyme or reason and a blot on the
state.
The officers of Baldwin county and
tbe officials of the institution from
w hich this negro was taken to his
death, should exert every resource, at
their command in searching for and
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE. FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925.
j The bringing outspoken to trial words the of guilty Judge parties, Bar¬
rett should be heeded and endorsed
by the people of Georgia and the
state courts and officers should fol
j-1®* ^ the wake of Judge Barrett m
the performance of their sworn duty.
Until our people realize the import
*nce of respect and preservation
the laws of our country, crimes wil
be bommitted and criminals allowed
( * communlt
m _ Atheng Banner _ iIerald .
Growling Prayers
Prayers for rain in Arkansas were
followed soon by prayers for relief
from too much rain. There is always
something wrong and the weather
usually catches most of the blame
for whatever failure we poor weak
mortals experience from season
season. We are always complaining
and seem to think the Lord has noth¬
ing to do except listen to the prayers
of m en whose chief occupation in life
is growling about “hard luck.” But
if you take time to look, every once
in awhile you will notice a fellow
who does miraculous things in spite
of difficulties. He is the fellow who
believes that “the Lord helps those
who help themselves,’ and knows
when to fall on his knees and when
to stand on his feet.
Preparation
Here’s the world, and you are in it,
Look about you for a minute
Look about you and consider
What it is you want to be,
Just what sort of a position
Marks the height of your ambition
Pick the kind of work you fancy
From the many that you see.
Do you fret at preparation,
Call your study a vexation
Do you sigh for something easy
Which unfutored minds can do,
Do you want to be a waiter
Or a deck-hand on a freighter ?
Is street-sweeping a vocation
That’s appealing unto you?
N
There are countless posts^and places
Needing little that embraces
Constant study, and their duties
Very easily are learned,
But the higher your ambition,
And the higher the position,
The greater must your skill be
And it’s harder to be earned.
( Coypright, 1925, Edgar A. Guest.)
A Georgia Opportunity
The Jackson Progress-Argus, pub
Hshed in Butts county, this ,’tH state, rc ‘
«* “ com ent
upon it, which shows that Georgia
fanners are permitting a splendid op
por tunity to pass them by without
1 availing themselves il 1 he Pro¬
1 ess-Argus says:
gr
] whole cars of milk, shipped
from Ohio and Wisconsin, pass
through Georgia every day to
Florida. This milk is produced
in sections that have a short
growing season and most of the
year the cattle are housed in
barns. Yet, here in Georgia, with
grazing practically nine months
in the year, allowing solid cars of
milk to be shipped through her
borders. What a commentary on
our lack of thrift.
It is true that not every Georgia
farmer can go into the dairying
ness immediately and begin ship
ping quantities of milk and butter t0
Florida, but there are few of them
who would not soon be able to begin
such shipments if they would set
their minds and hands to working
end. The hundreds of -u thou
to that
sand of people who are flocking into
Florida must be fed; there is no ques
tion of this; and it is certain that
Florida’s production of food stuffs is
not sufficient to supply the demand.
This is true of other products besides
those of milk and butter.
The situation m Florida opens a
wide fed to Georgia farmers, . and
those who are alive to their . interests - t ts
will avail themselves , , of r the rmnnv- oppor
t it that is presented to them. Cer
tam t 1 * if farmers in Ohio and Wis
consin can shi dairy products to
Florida at a profit Georgia farmers
can do as well. Their nearness to the
point of distribution ought tq make
it more profitable to them than it is
to the farmers of the more distant
states.
The constant stream of people flow¬
ing into Florida is making new op¬
portunities for the people of Georgia
almost every day, and they should
not sit still and allow others, far re¬
moved, to reap the harvest that
should, by right of proximity and
favorableness to production, be theirs.
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun.
Cottons Comeback
Cotton is still the country’s great¬
est single article of export and the
main source of support for the South.
Therefore^ it is good news that the
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TO MOTHER >
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y ou sougbt not ear thly treasures;
Far nob]cr was your ajm
That garnered fadelegs laure)s
On Zion’s hills of Fame.
j 2
| You wrote no story, Mother,
To charm the sons of men;
But lived a life of glory
No poet’s skilled to pen.
3
You conquered no great city;
You scorned the tyrant’s rod,
. For in your spirit Mother,
! There dwelt the Son of God.
| 4
Dear Mother, how we miss you!
We can not say “Goodnight”
one who leads her children
Home to the Realm of light,
6
Look! we are coming, Mother;
.Your life illumes the way;
I We’ll meet you in the city,
^And praise the Lord for aye.
—W. C. CARTER.
crop has “staged a comeback. The
Department of Agriculture, in its re
port on the condition of the crop as
of September 16, places the probate
yield at 13,931,000 bales. As this com
pares with an actual yield of 13,627,
000 bales last year the improvement
may not seem striking, but if the
present estimate , is realized tk« the crop
will be the largest since the record
yield of 1914. In the light-of develop
ments in the last ten years, and par
ticularly in the l^st five years, this
improvement is significant.
In the early part of this century,
when the American cotton crop was
getting along comfortably, a few in¬
sects somehow crossed the Rio Grande
from Mexico to Texas. It would be
difficult to imagine an incident of less
■ pparent importance than that, But
these insects, known as boll weevils,
lived on cotton; Texas was white with
cotton, and the climatic conditions for
th< weevil were So the new
Mexican immigrants, seeing . that that
they had indeed found the land of op
portunity, decided to settle, become
Americanized,* learn the language—
and multiply. And so they spread
year year by uy year, yea. i, eastward, eatward, al
ways eastward.
For a time their effect was not felt,
In 1911 there was a crop of more
than man 15,000,000 bales, ’ in 1913 of more
,
and 1J14 ,
than 14,000,000 in
cord crop of more than 16,000,000.
But in 1915 there was a sudden drop
! ___ ~~n
to 000 000 bales. The crop
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ab<)Ut six yearSl and then, m 1921,
there was another fall, sharper, al
mogt ca tastophie. That year the crop
was 7,1 153,0b0 bales, the smallest for
any year since 1895. In 1922, at 9,-
762,000 bales, it was little better, and
in 1923 it had increased to only 10,-
139,000. which
Meanwhile, .the whole world,
had depended upon the United States
b'LTf \he of its cotton, became almost
ban ot tn fiber, and from the 1913
13 cents pound, .
price of less than a ’
cotton shot up to more than 40 cents 1
in 1920, and was still over 35 Cents
a pound at the end of 1923.
The result of this shortage and sub
sequent high price of an essential
c t0 cause the outside world
^ tuyn to other sources of supply.
j I The British Empire, in particular,
J made great efforts to stimulate pro
I { , uction> conducting extensive experi
|nentg in Egypt, and elsewhere in Af
rica The high price, moreover, has
.
i tended to make such experiments
. profitable It was freely predicted
thgt thg Un ited States as the great
source o{ tbe wor i d > s co tton was done,
But last year bur crop was in ex¬
cess of 13,500,000 bales, and this year
—assuming that the Department of
Agriculture’s estimate is reliable—it
will be the,fourth largest on record.
This does not that ...... the battle ...
mean
against the boll weevil has been won.
The present crop was attained really
. be( the lar est
' ause S aorea ^' ^
P lanted m cotton was devoted to it.
An acre this Year is yielding only 141
'younds. though it yielded 200 in
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FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
Corner Main and Macon Streets. Phone 333
WATER SPORTS SAFER
i FOR RED GROSS WORK
Expert Life-Savers and Many
Thousand Swimmers Reduce
Annual Water Toll,
Water sports In the United States
have never been so safe as they are
today, a survey of the work done by
Life-Saving experts of the American
Red Cross In the past year Indicates.
Thousands of adults and young peo¬
ple were taught to swim proficiently
by these experts during this period *
In addition, 5,581 men, 4,187 women,
and 13,024 juniors successfully passed
the rigid tests of the Life Ssvlng Ser¬
vice of the Red Cross. The total thus
trained during the year—22.8S2—Is
5,041 more than last year's results.
The total membership of the Life Sav
lng Corps of the Red Cross on June
30 wss 72,810 persons.
Meeting the demand for qualified
Instructors and councillors In these
camps, are the college men and women
of the oountry, many devoting whole
or p arb 0 f their annual vacation peri
odg t0 this field. Meeting the need
of standardized Instruction In Life- :
Saving, First-Aid, and kindred sub- |
jects, the American Red Cross con- ;
ducted nine First-Aid snd Life-Saving
Oamp Institutes this year with a total
Attendance of more than *00, in Maine,
Massachusetts, New York, ’ North Car
ollna, 7 Indiana, Wisconsin, , Oregon, and .
Representatives of Red
^ cbKJ>u>n gamraer ^
^ at manlclpal and beach .
eg< d t r8C tors of physical education In
schools, and others of this calibre
made up the student body.
A number of city or regional insti¬
tutions were conducted also during
the winter at Indoor pools to develop
local experts. The aquatic school con¬
ducted by the New York Chapter was
especially successful, It Is stated. In¬
spired by this system, many camps,
pools, bathing beaches, etc., have
adopted In whole or In part, the Red
Cross Life Saving and water-safety
program. In the New England states
alone, more than 180 camps employ
councillors trained In these methods.
lndlcateg more (han
g0 ck , eg using the Red Crogg senior
teBt as a minimum requirement for
their municipal life guards. Educa
tional Institutions have turned to it
with enthusiasm,
This widespread Instruction be
sides creating unprecedented numbers
of expert life-savers, is developing a
vast body of Americans who are at
home in the water. All contributes
to safety the year-round, for swim
ming is a recognized all-year sport
today, records show.
The danger from water accidents
Is ever-present however where proper
STnZfJ!
vice Is one of the reasons why In
creasPd membership in the Red Cross
| 3 urged, The Annual Roil Call, dur
ing which the opportunity to assist
all Red fross work in many lines of
endeavor* is extended, will he held
from Armistice Day to Thanksgiving,
November 11-26.
| Large Volunteer - Work of Red Cross
Volunteers under the Red Cross all
over the United States are doing con
«antly for others among their prod
| acts being more than 90 per cent of
j the Braille reading matter for the !
j blind, and a vast production of cloth
, j rig and surgical dressings,
METHODIST CHURCH -
Thos. H. Thomson, Pastor
; Sunday school, 9:30 a. m. Judge H.
! A. Mathews superintendent.
i Preaching by the pastor at 11 a. m.
Kpworth League at 6:30 p. m.
Pageant by Sunday School at 7:30
P- m.
No prayer meeting Wednesday
evening on account of revival services
at First Baptist church.
To all services the public is cor¬
dially invited.
Potential Colton Growth
British and Portuguese East Africa
| have areas twice of land suitable for cotton
production as great as the cot¬
ton lands of the United States.
There has been some progress in
fighting the boll weevil, notably by
spraying the plants with calcium ar
senate. But this year nature, with her
| hot, dry weather, did more to stop
I the pest than man with his labor and
science.—New Y’ork Sun.
Satisfaction
“Show V *
Beats *
Less is being spent today on ^keep¬
ing up appearances. •5
More is being spent for comforts
and advancement.
U A Financial
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today . Yet you buy it on easy terms —
simply regular deposits , not neces¬
sarily large , in a bank such as this
strong , friendly community Institu¬
tion.
In this nay you provide both a
safeguard and an “opportunity key »
for the future.
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