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HU... ,j i THE IHmiM AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Established 1888 —Published by— THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO. JOEL MANN MARTIN, Subscription Prices (Payable in Advance) } Year .. < Months 8 Months "f Published Every Thursday and tered at the Post-office at Fort Valley, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter. 1 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. ★ 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. ★ 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 : k 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. «• 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. ★ 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. *» ★ ★ FLASHES FROM FLOYD it Of the Leader-Tribune Force ★ ★ ★ ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ Our Naw Year Resolution Go Right On Working. * Good morning, New Year! ★ Look out, boys! It’s Leap Year. ----★- 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. * Some silence may be golden but most of it is ironical. ★ It’s a charmed engagement ring’ that has no returning. * 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. - * - tell No, Pauline, you can’t always by a girl’s looks whether she has a , cold in her head or is in love. ★ Cannot tell you anything about hypnotists, except that the writer of his column considers hypnotisnf bunk. * Marriage is the photogravure made from the glowing which love has painted on the heart. *-— 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. I 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. »> ¥ 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. -*- 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. * MiCKIE SAYS ul wtu?, puetvst'. stTX [ VOIQ'W kVWUS \TEVh,SHOG< ( } Vf IN, VP TO ONUS CUE, N PER rTiJxvceS XNM> OF TrtEtA -OX. E\U- TVf PfxPER Wqo EVJEW4 UTtVE Bit Nu'OEO-CvMUfsrt NME <3Crt HNNUsEft fV\i\L ©\< / S. N\C*kE\ SSiTNow ' (NOO Kfaosiv III what) % y w yous. e Pnpp/rj v <*.tnr OuPPiww -n*-f oi>« Noa-fiOo 005 m ®i 1 . ^ ■J I t ★ W.e call this s real stay-at-home Christmas. * NEW STORE * A * * * ¥ * JUST OPENED * ¥ ¥ At Sanders’ Old tand on Main Street. ¥ ▼ ¥ I have Opened a first class Fancy and Family * Grocery Store at the above named place. * ¥ * ¥ All my stock is new and up-to-date; no shelf- * ¥ * ¥ worn goods. + ¥ appreciated. * ¥ Your trade will be r* -a ¥ ¥ WE BUY FOR CASH-WE SELL FOR CASH * ¥ * ¥ * ¥ L. M. NESMITH + * ¥ » ¥ GROCER * ¥ St ¥ Main Street Fort Valley, Ga. J ¥ ¥ * ************** **** ****** ****** **** ****** ****** ************** ¥ * ¥ * for * ¥ We wish to thank vou your patron¬ * ¥ * ¥ age during the past year, and 14 ¥ * ¥ * ¥ We Are On The Trail * + ¥ * * ¥ of your business for the coming year, We want * ¥ it and will find that will appreciate it and * ¥ you we * * ¥ will do our utmost to deserve it. * ¥ J4 * * ¥ 4 4 Hit The Trail” for Our Garage when in need * ¥ of anything in our line. * ¥ * ¥ * ¥ OUR SERVICE INCREASES YOUR SERVICE tt * ¥ ♦ ¥ * ¥ EVANS BROS. * * * ¥ * ¥ * ♦ Garage & Machine Shop * ¥ * ¥ * ¥ Night Phones 257-L: 81.J * ¥ Day Phone 161-L * ¥ * * ¥ Fort Valley, Ga. i ¥ * * ************** ************** Read Our Ads For Profit, ¥¥¥¥ + * + + + + ¥¥¥¥¥¥ ************** ¥ # ¥ + * GREETING Ol ¥ 0 ♦ ¥ * ¥ * ¥ * ¥ ¥ of the New Year * * ¥ * * ★ ¥ From the New Firm * * * * ¥ McElmurray & Sanders, * * * ¥ 14 ¥ Successors to * ¥ P. * * A. SANDERS * * ¥ * ¥ We begin the New Year in a new and ♦ ¥ * ¥ better location, a larger, more attractive, * J larger more convenient stock of store, with a new and If * * * ¥ * ¥ * ¥ * * V ¥ catering especially to discriminating fam- * * ¥ ily trade. * ¥ We thank you for your patronage du- * ¥ ring the old and solicit * ¥ year the opportu- J4 nity of serving you more acceptably du» 14 ring the new. 14 * * ■ik * ¥ McElmurray & Sanders * ¥ ¥ 14 ¥ * I* Cor. Church St. and Anderson Ave. ♦ :* * i* (Formerly occupied by C. W. Arrow- * M if ¥ smith). Phone 239-J. * 14 ************** ************** Advertise and Profit Thereby.