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THE IHmiM
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
—Published by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN,
Subscription Prices
(Payable in Advance)
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Published Every Thursday and
tered at the Post-office at Fort
Valley, Ga., as Second Class
Mail Matter.
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A NEW YEAR'S WISH
t* May the New Year keep
hearts and hands busy with
tive toil, leaving neither time
opportunity for idleness and
tent; may it sweeten our daily
with the thought that it has
earned by honest service; may
free us from the sin of self-pity
revealing to us a vision of the
vine Purpose that made labor
law of life."—Selected.
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We are grateful for the
good will manifested by a number
our valued subscribers in the
newal of their subscriptions
the past week in advance of
January expirations. This very
tical ernest of confidence and
operation, shown in these
advance renewals and in the
and ready response of those
ere approached this week with
erence to advertising in this
inspires us to begin the New
which is coincident with the
ning of our third year at
helm of The Leader-Tribune,
new' hope and courage, with
tude for past cooperation, with
fidence in the future, and with
resolutions to stop at no
point in 'meeting confidence
confidence, good-will with good-will
with love toward ail, malice
none, and to exert our utmost
forts personally and thru the
umns of the paper to the best
terests of the community and
We regret that, owing to the
longed vacation of our linotype
erator, who had not returned up
Tuesday night, necessitated the
tor’s manning the macnine, we were
unable to call upon some of
good advertising patrons to
them the opportunity of
to their customers and friends the
customary New Year's greetings.
We are confident that there are
others who would have liked to be
represented in this, our New Year's
Issue, and we regret that with the
date of publication advanced a day
with this issue, we were not able to
call on them all. We were on the way
but the clock struck the fatal noon
hour on us Tuesday before we got
to you, and we had to drop all so¬
liciting and go to work on the paper,
with not a line set.
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THE NEWSPRINT SITUATION
From the Buffalo Courier.
Through the recent hearings on
the Anthony bill to limit the size of
(newspapers to conserve n<v4spnrint
the public has been learning some¬
thing of the problems which today
confront publishers. The Rochester
Timea-Union, discussing the situa¬
tion, says:
The shortage in ‘newsprint,’ the
paper used in newspapers, is becom¬
ing more and more acute every day
and all publishers are being urged
to do their utmost to conserve their
supply.
it Within the past few days one
Pittsburg paper paid 10 cents a
pound tor a carload of paper in New
York City and sent it by express to
Pittsburg, paying $1,800 for the
transportation. Before the war pa¬
per sold at less than two cents a
pound.
44 Paper mills are doing their ut¬
most to supply paper, but the de¬
mands are so great that all reserves
Rave been exhausted,
’The Times-Union has only a few
days* supply on hand and is forced
to pay exorbitant prices for what it
doe* get. N
Not only are city dallies affected
bwt the weekly papers as well are
finding an uphill road. To meet in¬
creased cost for material the weekly
papers of New York State recently
on aa advance in advertig
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THE LEADER TRIBUNE FORT VALLEY, C.A„ JANUARY 1, 1920.
ing rates. Legislation to conserve
newsprint may be framed to give
soma relief but the outlook for other
than high costs for the publisher is
not encouraging.
GOODBYE, HOKE.
The Senate failed to ratify the
Peace Treaty. It is to be regretted,
to say the least, that senators should
carry partisan politics that far.
Senator Hoke Smith, in lining
with the Republicans in
the treaty and the League of Na¬
tions, certainly was not playing pol¬
itics because he certainly knew the
mind of Georgia on the question.
Without evidence to the contrary,
we must concede that “Senator Smith
is sincere in the position he takes.
He may be sincere, but he is not rep¬
resenting Georgia. So far as we
know Mr. Hardwick was sincere,
but he was not representing Georgia.
And Georgia did the rest. We admire
a man who manifests sincerity and
eschews petty politics, hut the fact
is that there are men in Georgia e
quaily as capable and equally as sin¬
cere as Mr. Smith, whose convict¬
ions are in accord with Georgia’s
convictions, and one of these men
will doubtless succeed Mr. Smith.
It is pot a question of minimising
Senator Smith’s ability nor of ma¬
ligning his integrity; it is simply a
matter of sovereign people exercis¬
ing their prerogative of selecting a
servant who will represent them.
So, with tears in our type and
friendly feeling in our form and pi¬
ty in our press, we bid you, Dear
Hoke, a fond and affectionate and
final farewell. —Maysville Enter¬
prise.
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THE COUNTRY PRINTER.
The Springfield Herald has in Ed¬
itor Moore and owner and publisher
one who usually speaks his mind.
This paper this week contains this
paragraph:
44 We have run across a proposition
lately that for cheek has given us
a jolt. The Herald is expected to
boost the schools, churches and other
public institutions, yet when these
same institutions have a little money
to spend for stationery, or anything
else, the managers seem to forget
that we ever existed and they send
this money to outside print shops.
Consistency, thou art a jewel!"
This reads to us liRe a legitimate
protest. There is too great a tenden¬
cy in the country bo take small job
work from the home printer and give
it to the larger shops in tfte far-away
cities. This is an evil that is preva¬
lent in all small communities. We
have discussed the problem with
many of our country newspaper
friends and it is surprising the num¬
ber of people who will deny their
local printing office job work be¬
cause they can save a few cents on
a printing job. Often there are ad¬
ditional charges to be met, such as
postage, or express charges, that
make the out-of-town job really
more expensive than it would be if
given to the home printer, but these
extra costs are not Lgured by the
man with the contract.
The local printer is deserving of
the support of the n’ome people.
Without him the community would
be in a bad way.—Savannah Press.
Dawson News.
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WHY HE LEFT
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, federal
judge in Chicago, has a wealth of
poise. He sits thru long stretches of
litigation, apparently lost in some
maze of abstraction on the other
side of the moon, but he never miss¬
es what is going on. And suddenly
he will break in when attorneys are
wrangling, or a witness isn’t speak¬
ing well, and with a judicious ques¬
tion or some pertinent advice, will
readjust the court mechanism and
set it running smoothly again.
One hot day the federal prosecu¬
tor was examining a witness in
Judge Landis’ court, und wasn’t
making much progress. The witness
was an itinerant printer.
*. Where .were you working in Jan¬
uary’of that year?” asked the pro¬
secutor.’ '
*» On the Texarkana Bugle,” re¬
plied the witness.
44 How long did you stay? ft
• • Two months. ?»
44 Why did you leave? ft
<4 The editor and I disagreed on a
great national question.
“Where did you work next? It
<fOn the Joplin News-Herald. I
was there seven weeks. tt
<4 Why did you leave?”
‘‘The editor and I disagreed on a
great national question. »i
Three other jobs were mentioned
and each time the printer explained
his leaving with the same phrase.
Then Judge Landis sat up in his
chair and raised a hand.
A< Wait a minute,” he commanded.
u What was this great national ques¬
tion? M
44 Prohibition,” said the witness.—
Cartoon* Magazine.
SAHARA MAY BE RECLAIMED
(teed Possibility of Its Being Mado
Into a Reasonably Productive
Agricultural Country.
That the ShIihi-h will snmo dsv
‘‘blossom like the rose,” or at ttny rare
like a reasonably productive agricul¬
tural country, la the gist of ho. article
by J. Nicholas Brusse in La Nation of
Paris. For more than a quarter of a
century, Mr. Brusse declares, although
people In general have thought of the
Sahara as an enormous, permanently
hopeless expanse of sand, those ac¬
quainted with the results of a geo
graphical survey conducted about 1893
have known also that the Sahara Is
not absolutely unlit for either plant or
animal life. Halo tails sometimes in
the great desert and there are under¬
ground streams that could he made
available for water. The present oases
could be developed and others created,
provided a beginning were made by
establishing strategic roads and intro
during a sense of Inw and order among
the desert tribes for the security of
those who were trying to develop Hie
country. In Its entirety the region In¬
cluded In the Sahara contains already
a good deal of spontaneous vegeta
Hon; It grows a number of forage
plants and shrubs that serve aa |>a«
tnrage for caravans, and could doubt¬
less he Improved and made valuable
by cultivation. Fig trees, apricots,
peaches, grapes and various cereals
have been grown in the oases.
PRINCE’S MEMORY WAS GOOD
Heir te British Throne Had One Qual¬
ity That la Indispensable
to Politician.
On one occasion Mr. Louie Sterne,
an engineer and Inventor, and a
friend of Charles Pickens, showed the
late Edward VII, then prince of
Wales, his exhibits at South Kenaln*
ton and the Crystal palace.
The next time I mel the prince.’’
said Mr. Sterne, "I was crossing
Plcadllly, at the top of 8t. .laiue*
•treat. In trying to escape being run
down I ran directly Into the arms
of hla royal highness. He at once
recognised me and aald: ‘Mr. Sterne,
you should give this traffic time and
never cross the hows.' I expressed
•urprlse that he should recognise me
to which he replied that he never for¬
got either face or name If associated
with any matter of interest.”
Mr. Sterne met the prince Hgnln
at a picture exhibition where a por
trait of the late W\ H. Smith was
hung. Turning to the princess, h!«
royal highness said:
“Hallo, there’s Smith!"
At once a man standing near turned
•round and acknowledged the recog¬
nition, offering his hand, which the
prince unhesitatingly accepted. When
this man, whose name happened to
he Srntth, recognized the prince, he
became embarrassed and. with the lady
who accompanied him, made hia exit
aa toon as possible.
Sheila Help Oil Geologist.
The little jellylike animals which
the scientist calls Foramtnlfera swarm
to abundantly In the sea that their
tiny cast-off shells In some places
make up a considerable part of the
•edinients which are laid down on
the sea bottom and which In time
may become beds of rock In a land
area. The small size and the com
parities* of these Nhells protect them
from some of the accidents that he*
fall the remains of larger animals, so
that In many samples of well borings
the Foramintfera are the only shells
that have survived In recognizably
form the vicissitudes of drilling. Tn
the hands of the specialist trained to
Identify fossils, the Foramlnifera
may furnish the only available clue
to the age of rock inclosing them
and consequently to the existence of
strata or structure favorable or un¬
favorable to the accumulation of oil,
gas or water, according to the United
States geological survey.
Hew Weed “Booze” Originated.
!■ the Pennsylvania museum. Memo¬
rial hall In Fairmount park. Phila¬
delphia, can be seen a collection of
highly decorated old bottles, and the
one which attracts most attention Is
the log cabin whisky bottle, molded In
the shape of a house. On one end is
the Inscription “120 Walnut street,
Philadelphia,” together with the date,
which Is “1840,” on the front of the
roof. On the back is stamped in bold
letters, “E. G. Booa’s old cabin
whisky.” spirituous
This erstwhile vendor of
liquor Is said to be responsible for
the use In America of the slang ap¬
pellation “booze,” by which all kinds
of intoxicating drinks are known to
day. Although some etymologists give
It ns being derived from the Hindu¬
stani word “booza,” meaning te drink,
while others claim It Is from the
Dutch “huyeen" to tipple. The tern)
was good English In the fourteenth
century.
Confectionery of Ancient Egypt.
The Invention of confectionery, an
English writer guesses. Is dne to Noah,
who “first hit on the Idea of boiling
down the starch of the wheat and the
Juice of the grape. The result was
« paste, said to he the original of
our present day ‘Turkish delight.’
Among the ancient Egyptians whole
fruits, particularly figs and dates,
wera used for flavoring purposes, the
latter especially for preserves and
cakes. In old tombs date sweet¬
meats have been found, also records
of honey je’lles. The making of con¬
fectionery, in fact, goes back 3.400
years, proof of which is to be found
M the walla of Egyptian teiuba. *»
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Our Naw Year Resolution
Go
Right
On
Working.
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Good morning, New Year!
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Look out, boys! It’s Leap Year.
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How about your New Year
lutions?
A rather quiet and enjoyable hol¬
iday season.
New Year resolutions are like thin
ice, easily broken.
The fool who had much, wanted
more •and lost all.
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Some silence may be golden but
most of it is ironical.
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It’s a charmed engagement ring’
that has no returning.
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The weather man passed out some
pretty weather for Christmas.
Even the farmers are resolved to
make this a most profitable year.
When a girl wants to be kissed
she makes more fuss about it than
if she did not.
Nineteen nineteen had its faults,
of course, but here’s hoping that
1920 will be no worse.
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No, Pauline, you can’t always
by a girl’s looks whether she has a
, cold in her head or is in love.
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Cannot tell you anything about
hypnotists, except that the writer of
his column considers hypnotisnf bunk.
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Marriage is the photogravure
made from the glowing
which love has painted on the heart.
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The Lord hasn’t much use for the
man who contributes to foreign mis¬
sions the money that he owes the
washer-woman
In order to attract men a brunette
must be either rich, brilliant or beau¬
tiful, but a blonde doesn't have to
be anything but a blonde.
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And yet after the same solitaire
has been sent back to him once or
twice a bachelor somehow begins to
look upon it as a “lucKy stone. »>
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Any woman can hold a man’s at¬
tention, just by keeping perfectly
quiet; but a real “beauty” is one
who can do all the talking and still
manage to keep his devotion.
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It is not so much that he misses
the fun of taking a drink that makes
this new year so dull to the average
man, but that he will miss all the
fun of breaking his New Year’s res¬
olution.
Of course, men are awfully big
minded; but*it’s funny to observe
how philosophically one of them will
pay a five hundred dollar poker
debt, or a thousand dollar garage
bill and then fly into a purple rage
when he discovers that his collars
are costing six cents apiece at the
laundry.
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W.e call this s real stay-at-home
Christmas.
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