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WE ARE
BUILDING
A CITY
HERE
Volume LII, Number 23
Potato Chips , Nickels Pave If ay
To for Fort
By OLIVIA HAI.I.
In Tuesday’* Atlanta Constitution
FORT VALLEY, Ga., May
Their diplomas safely tucked away,
proud graduates of Fort Valley
school tomorrow morning will
the long trail to the nation’s
a road paved with coins, potato
and other things, including
proclaiming to the world the fame
their home county, Peach, "the
of Georgia Peaches.”
For the students, the trip to
ington comes after long planning
much sacrifice. The idea had
birth last year, when the school’s
bating team visited Atlanta. So
joyable was that journey that the
of a bigger and better jaunt
shape. And, said Henry
class president: “If any class
takes a trip to Washington, it will
our class.”
Nickel a Week
This year's graduating class
the idea, and at first every
began contributing five cents a
to “the fund.” Other ideas cropped
up, and with them the Washington
fund grew steadily. Cold drinks and
confections were sold; oyster and bar¬
becue suppers were promoted; school
plays swelled the fund. Another event
which contributed to the fund was a
“womanless wedding” staged by the
Kiwanis club and others under the
auspices of the Woman’s club. And
other organizations and individuals
chipped in to increase it even more.
And that is why Margaret Vance,
salutatorian, said of the trip: “The
trail to Washington is strewn with
soft drink bottles, bags of potato
chips, peanuts and crackers, bars of
candy, pounds of barbecue, gallons of
oysters, hundreds of peach stickers,
thousands of tickets, and most liberal
donations.”
Graduation Exercises
So, with their- trip assured, the
seniors, of whom probably 60 per cent
are from Peach county farm homes,
stepped up to the platform to receive
diplomas, after hearing a baccalau¬
reate addrdess by Dr. Aquila Chamlee,
president-emeritus of Bessie Tift Col¬
lege and now a resident of Fort Val¬
ley. The salutatory was delivered by
Margaret Vance and the valedictory
by Kathryn Rice, and readings were
presented by Gwen Reed and Della
Kilgo. T. F. Flournoy presented the
diplomas.
Members of the senior class are:
Sarah Almon, Hazel Barkley,, Beu¬
lah Bassett, Maurine Brantley, Opal
Crook, Nell Culpepper, Virginia Duke,
Harriett Flournoy, Dorothy Hartley,
Ruth Hamlin, La Verne Johnson, Syl¬
via Jones, Della Kilgo, Betty Liip
fert, Dorothy Mathews, Mary Ann
Minyard, Carolyn Murphy, Ilulda
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Read by thousands of people in progressive PEACH, Houston, Macon and Crawford Counties, where Nature smiles her brightest.
PEACH COUNTY
FARMERS PAID
SOIL
County Agent R. P. Swan says
$71,997.20 have already been paid
Peach county farmers who
ed in the 1938 soil conservation pro
gram. Approximately $21,000 is
to come to cooperating farmers as
1938 soil conservation payments.
Peach county farmers will receive ap¬
proximately $40,000 as price adjust¬
ment payment for 1938, making the
total payments to farmers who co¬
operated in the 1938 program amount
to more than $130,000.
The price adjustment payment for
1938 will be paid during the summer.
Farmers who overplant their 1939 cot¬
ton allotments will not be eligible for
price adjustment payments. Over
planting by as much as one-tenth of
I an acre disqualifies a farmer to re¬
ceive an adjustment payment.
The work of checking acreage of
crops planted on farms has already
started in order that applications for
price adjustment payments may be
submitted to the state office for pay¬
ment at the earliest date possible.
Mr. Swan requests that farm operat¬
ors cooperate with the field reporters
in this work in order that the job may
be done as efficiently as possible. It
is to the advantage of farmers to help
hold this expense as low as possible.
Meetings were held last week for
the purpose of explaining the 1939
soil conservation program to all farm¬
ers. At these meetings the method
of determining payments, the soil
building allowance, and other crop
acreage allotments were explained.
It is essential that every farmer un¬
derstand the soil conservation pro¬
gram in order that he may use it to
his best advantage to increase his cash
income and to build up his soil.
24 TREAT FI) AT
SYPHILIS CLINIC
The weekly syphilis clinic was held
last Friday morning at 11 o’clock at
the court house. 24 patients were
given anti-syphilic treatment, 13 be¬
ing new patients. Five Kahn blood
tests were made.
The doctors are giving their time
in two-month periods. Dr. Frank Vin¬
son is holding the clinic during May
and June, Dr. R. C. Smisson in July
and August, Dr. M. L. Hickson in
September and October, Dr. J. E. Has
lam in November and December.
Those in charge of the clinic state
that there has been some misunder¬
standing regarding admission to the
clinic. In order for a patient to get,
a blood test or treatment be must ”
bring a written request from his
family physician and present it at the
clinic. For information, call Miss
Hazel Wood, secretary.
COMING TO THE PEACH
THEATRE
“The King and Queen” will be at
the Peach theatre next Monday, June
5! Some may reminisce while others
wonder. The Third Peach Blossom
Festival, depicting the King and
Queen and scenes from the festival
will be a special feature. “Sergeant
Madden” is the regular screen at
traction.
On Tuesday and Wednesday comes
“Stage Coach”, a powerful story,
crowded with rapid fire excitement—
the romance of reality, played with
human lives and hearts in an unfor
gettable way. The play is from an
original story, “Stage to Lordsburg,”
by Ernest Haycox.
“Wife, Husband and Friend” will
be the bright spot of the season, com
ing Thursday and Friday, It has been
hailed the laugh hit of'the year, with
two great stars and a dozen of your
favorite personalities cavorting and
romancing in a merry melange of
modern life. . . . They were blissfully
happy till she made up her mind she
could sing. Wife hits high C! Hus¬
band hits the roof! wife hits hus
band, and the battle is on, with the
Girl Friend trying every angle to
make it a triangle.
Saturday brings “Frontiers of ’49”
The management is booking the
best for you at the Peach theatre.
Patience and gentleness is power.—
Leigh Hunt.
Pearson, Gwen Reed, Kathryn
Florrie Scofill, Mercedes Sloan,
Snow, Margaret Vance, Ruby
Charles Alford, Walter
' Harold Avera, George
Clinton Bush, Wiley Ellington,
Green, R. T. Hancock, John
J. C. Holcomb, Kemper
Blakely Jordan, Albert Luce,
Mathews, John Prator, Henry
mer, Daniel Walton and
J Young.
* Accompanying the students on
Washington trip will be Miss
Wllson > English teacher, and the Rev.
William C. Sistar.
‘ To Visit Atlanta
! Leaving Fort Valley at 5 o’clock in
the morning, the group will arrive in
Atlanta at 9:50 o’clock. Visits will
be made to the state capitol and the
Gyclorama in Grant park. The trip
northward will be resumed at 1
o’clock.
The student party will make super¬
vised tours of the national capital
j and environs, to include the Washing¬
j ton monument, the Pan-American
|building, American the Red D. Cross A. headquarters, R. building, the the
White House, Arlington cemetery, the
Lee home and the tomb of the Un¬
known Soldier, Mount Vernon, Alex¬
andria, the Lincoln memorial, the de¬
partment of justice, the capitol, the
j [aquarium, the Shakespearian library,
|the supreme court building, the Smith¬
sonian Institution and the new and
old Museums of Natural History, the
Bureau of Engraving and Printing,
and the Congressional library.
| They will return to Fort Valley Fri¬
day night, via Atlanta.
HOLIDAY FOR
RANK MONDAY
The Bank of Fort Valley will be
closed Monday, June 5, instead of on
Saturday, June 3, Thomas Jefferson’s
birthday, a legal holiday. The bank
will remain open on Saturday for the
convenience of its customers.
Beginning Thursday of next week
j the bank will close each Thursday at
noon for a half-holiday during June,
'July and August.
| FUNERAL FOR
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JONES INFANT
Funeral services for the infant son
of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Jones, who died
last Thursday night at 11 o’clock,
were held at the graveside in the By¬
ron cemetery at 11 o’clock Friday
morning, conducted by Rev. Wm. C.
Sistar, minister of the Fort Valley
Presbyterian church.
FORT VALLEY, PEACH COUNTY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 1, 1939
Ki Iranians to Hear
Building-Loan
Itv WM. C, SISTAli
At the regular Kiwanis
last Friday, the program was
ed by Harris Hafer, and was a special
highway safety program featuring
reading by Bobby Marchman, entitled
“Enough of This.”
State Trooper Mayes, of the high¬
way patrol stationed at Perry, gave
interesting facts regarding accidents
that were fatal, and other less inju¬
rious accidents of the year 1938. Cit¬
ing the causes of most highway acci¬
dents as speed, blind passing and
faulty brakes in their respective order.
Four accidents in Peach county re¬
sulted in death during 1938, as com¬
pared to three in the previous year.
Trooper Mayes closed his talk with
the twelve commandments of high¬
way safety as given in Georgia’s
highway traffic regulations, and urged
the practice of common courtesy on
the highways.
The program this week will be pre
sented by George B. Culpeper, Jr„
and will feature a discussion of the
possibility of a building and loan as¬
sociation for Fort Valley by W. R.
Turner of iCordele, chairman of
Crisp county power commission and
a director of the Cordele Building and
Loan Association.
7th Crude Pi a grain
Tomorrow Morn inn O
The seventh grade graduation exer¬
cises will be held in the high school
auditorium Friday morning at 10
o’clock. The program will be as fol¬
lows :
Invocation—Rev. J. E. Sampley.
Theme Song—Class.
Announcer—Leonard Wylie.
Salutatory—Gene Vance.
History—Valeria Brown.
Poem Solo—Nell Hardeman.
Valedictory—Simone Bassett.
Theme Song—Class.
Delivery of Certificates — T. F.
Flournoy.
Announcements and Awards.
Benediction—Rev. J. E. Sampley.
U. S. NATIONAL
INCOME RISES
I’resent Rate of Increase Indicates
Income of $65,600,000,000.
WASHINGTON, May 29. — The
Commerce Department estimates that
national income in the first four
months of 1939 totaled $21,561,000,000,
a gain of 2 per cent over the corre
spending period of last year.
A continuation of the same increase
over 1938 would result in a national
income this year of $65,600,000,000,
compared with $64,200,000,000 for
1938.
Included in national income are all
to individuals—wages, sal¬
dividends, interest, income from
and relief payments.
The seasonally adjusted index of
payments dropped from 84.1 j !
March to 82.6 in Aprjl, but is now
per cent above the 1938 low of 80.4, !
last May.
The decline in the index in April,
department said, reflected largely
in bituminous coal produc¬
Other depressing influences, the de¬
said, were a sharp drop in
insurance benefits and
5 per cent decline in direct and
relief payments.
Income received by employes in Un
four months of 1939 was 4 nor
above the total for the like pe¬
last year. Interest payments
practically unchanged, but divi¬
disbursements were down 8 per
and income from enterprise was
2 per cent.
Mr. arid Mrs. A. J. Taylor of Hurts
Ala., attended the Kendrick
wedding last Friday. Mrs.
is a sister of Mrs. J. D. Ken¬
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Mrs. Chas. W. Eberhardt and
of Compton, California, who
been visiting Mrs. C. T. Eber¬
left Saturday for Reidsville,
G\, for a few' weeks visit to rela¬
and friends before returning to
DEATH WALTER
BURCH
Walter Burch Norton,
Fort Valley business man, died in
Macon hospital last Thursday
at 10 o’clock after an illness of
two weeks.
Mr. Norton underwent an operation
Saturday morning, June 20, and de¬
veloped complications the following
Monday, his condition growing grad¬
ually worse.
For the last 27 years Mr. Norton
had been associated with the Fort
Valley Oil Company.
He was 59 years old, was born in
Fort Gaines, Dec. 16, 1879, the son of
Emma McKenzie Norton of Louis¬
ville, Ala., and William Harrison
Norton, a Baptist minister.
He attended Mercer University
where ho was a member of the Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity, and took a
business course in Poughkeepsie, N.
Y.
Mr. Norton was a member of the
Fort Valley Baptist church and of the
Masons, Knights Templar and the
Shrine.
He was a past master of Fort Val¬
ley Lodge F. and A. M. and past com¬
mander of the Ivanhoe Commandery
of Knights Templar.
Survivors include his widow, the for¬
mer Miss Mirian Edwards of Perry;
a son, Edwards Norton, Fort Valley;
two daughters, Mrs. Carter Matth¬
ews, Talbotton, and Mrs. Frank N.
Hawkins, Macon; a grandson, Carter
Matthews, Jr,, Talbotton, and a broth¬
er, L. M. Norton, Detroit, Mich.
Funeral services were held at 10:30
Saturday morning at the residence,
conducted by Rev. M. D. Reed of the
Baptist church and Rev. J. E. Sampley
of the Methodist church. Interment
was in Oaklawn cemetery.
Pallbearers were A. C, Riley, Dr.
V. L. Brown, D. C. Strother, John A.
Houser, C. H. Matthews and Dr. W.
L. Nance.
Broicn En joys Trip
to South America
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John Lawrence Brown returned
Monday, May 22, from a two-months
tour of South America, Mr. Brown
sailed from New York on March 10
on the Grace Line ship, Santa Lucia,
His trip carried him through the Pari- ,
ama Canal and down the west coast
of South America and up the east
coast. He visited seven countries and
five capital cities, spending three
weeks in Buenos Aires and one week
in Rio de Janeiro.
He says that he was particularly
impressed with the beautiful lake re
gion in Argentina, and en joyed his
trip immensely.
Four to Be Named
Master Farmers
The honorary title of Master Farm¬
highest award- will
conferred on four Georgia farmers
summer.
Announcement of the 1939 winners,
will join an illustrious list of 44
in previous years, will be made
Farm and Home Week sched¬
for the University of Georgia’s
of Agriculture, August 7-12.
Jointly sponsoring this movement
The Progressive Farmer, south¬
agricultural magazine; the Geor¬
Agricultural Extension Service,
the university’s college of agricul¬
The selection of Master Farmers is
by The Progressive Farmer, in
with the extension serv¬
Twelve Master Farmers were named
each year: 1927, 1928 and 1930, and
were chosen in each of 1936 and
Among those named in 1927 was J.
Davidson, Peach county, and in
A, W. Tabor, Peach county, was
such recognition.
in List
School Teachers
In the list of teachers furnished
publication last week Miss Eliza¬
Williams name should have ap¬
as teacher of the third grade
instead of Mrs. Lawton Culpepper.
CLASS ANIMOSITIES ARE THREAT
TO AMERICAN UNITY , BYRD SAYS
More Freedom in Economic
s Nation’s Need, Virginia
Senator Declares.
GETTYSBURG, Pa., May
I Speaking as the first southerner
to deliver the Memorial Day
at this famous Civil War battlefield,
Senator Harry Flood Byrd
| Virginia), said Tuesday that Ameri¬
1 ca's unity is again being threatened
by new class animosities, racial and
religious prejudice and hatred between
those whose have and those who have
not.
He urged American citizens and
their government to re-orient them¬
selves to the principle of freedom in
economic action, the desirability of
free private enterprise instead of leg¬
islative fiat and charities and a re¬
turn to greater localized government.
“Every form of social and industri¬
al injustice—r'acial and class hatred,
religious prejudice, monopolistic com¬
binations that unfairly enhance the
cost of living—all are enemies of De¬
mocracy,” Byrd said.
A leader of the anti-New Deal and
economy blocs, Senator Byrd' said that
a liberal and democratic government
does not mean being “liberal with
other people’s money.”
Immortal Principle
“Among other things,” he said,
“true liberalism in America means
preserving and protecting from at¬
tack from any source the immortal
principle that our government was
established in three branches—the ju¬
dicial, the legislative, the executive-—
free of coercion or control, one from
the other. . . . Only a government fi¬
nancially solvent is a government
founded upon the liberalism of De¬
mocracy. The preservation of fiscal
solvency and strength to meet any
great national crisis is an obligation
inherent upon those who wish the gen
eiations to come to enjoy the
freedom we have today. The main
tenance of law and order under all
conditions, the preservation of the j
principle of the sanctity of private
property from mob possession are the
basis of every form of liberal democ
racy; in fact, of any form of eon
stitutional government.
Byrd said that there is “no substi- !
for those time-old virtues of
thrift, frugality, self-reliance and in-|
“No magic wand of legislative pan- j
aceas will sweep away our ills,” he
said, |
Private Enterprise |
“Private enterprise, and not the
must provide employ- '
merit for our citizens, It. is a foun- I
stone upon which our democ
is founded. When private en- 1
fails, then representative de- 1
fails. Here it will not fail
taxation becomes confiscatory; !
government regulation becomes
oppressive; unless government
with private business be
too restrictive.” !
Byrd said that the War Between
States was a brother’s war,
on by the operation of eeo
forces, the clashing of inherit
feelings, the impact of differing
about the meaning of liberty,
“No war in human history was a
conflict than this war,” he
“It was not a war for conquest
glory. It was a war of ideals, prin
political conceptions and of
to an ancient ideal of English
...
“The lengthening shadows of Get-
WHAT'S A HOME WITHOUT A
PORCH?
Someone said “A house should be built around a fireplace and
a porch.”
Why have a porch if it’s not screened—making it usable at night
as well as during the day?
If your porch is not screened. See Us AT ONCE for an estimate
for materials or labor and materials.
Only Best tirades of Materials Used and Most Experienced
Mechanics employed.
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* tysburg once c ast its sorrow over
those who loved the men who died
here, but today the mellow sunlight of
the years has warmed us to a com¬
mon devotion to our constitutional
government of laws, not of men. Loy¬
alty to American ideals know's no line
between the north and south.
Neither Side Has Apologies
“Neither side has any apologies to
make. . . . The old sectional hatreds
between the states are healed, but the
unity of America is threatened by
new class animosities—racial and re¬
ligious prejudice, and envy, hatred and
jealousy between those who have ac¬
cumulated property and those who
who have not. Even congressional in¬
vestigations tell us that men and
women, untrue to our constitutional
democracy, tare exerting efforts in
their secret way to incite disunion; to
foment bad feeling between labor and
capita], and to weaken the unity of
our American economic life.
Byrd said that alien despotism may
threaten our individual rights but
that class hatred from within alone
can destroy them.
“It will not suffice to preserve
here the outward forms of government
if the time comes when the American
citizen no longer has the right to
work his own way within the consti¬
tution from poor station to prosperi¬
ty,” Byrd said. “Out of America’s
free economic life have come invent¬
ors and executives who have made
prosperity for millions; there has been
established here the highest standard
of living of any nation, and every
man has been taught that, this is a
free land in which the door of oppor¬
tunity is forever open to intelligence,
industry and ability. Do not let us
close that door. Lincoln could not
have developed to make Gettysburg
address in any country where the door
is closed.
Jefferson on Government
-‘Thomas Jcffe* d- cl >■ «d in his
simpler day that the best government
is the least government. ... If the
most government be the best gov
eminent., then bolshevism in Russia
and fascism in Germany and Italy are
better governments than those sup
ported by the democracies. . . .
‘Here we need not more federal
government but better local govern
Our system was soundly based
on the principle of strong local self
government. We cannot bring all im
portant business under the control of
national agencies. America is physi
eally too big and diverse to be raan
aged from one central point. We must
resist the trend of federal centrali
zation.”
Byrd said that had not “the new
lawlessness of sitdown strikes” been
“by just punishment,” the faith
the people in the duty of the gov
to protect private property
have been impaired and democ
injured,
Law and order must be maintained
consideration of the political
of law violators,” he said. “And
this free country there is nothing
un-American than the effort to
and control the sacred privi
of suffrage by command of those
dispense relief to the destitute
are compelled to accept charity
their government.”
Bad men excuse their faults; good
will leave them.-—Ben Johnson.
The best reformers the world has
seen are those who have com
on themselves.—H. W. Shaw.