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ME MIME
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN,
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Published Every Thursday and
tered at the Post-office at Fort
Valley, Ga., as Second Class
Mail Matter.
DUTY VS. RIGHT
Right and duty are sometimes
confounded as synonmous terms. In
one sense the ure nearly aynonm
OUS. It is a man’s duty to do what
is right. In another sense a man’s
right may not be in line with his
duty, especially to others, It may be
a man’s right to live to himself and
for himself; certainly his duty to
society does not dictate such a
course.
A merchant may conduct his bus¬
iness w’ith due regard to the right,
with the utmost honesty and integ¬
rity, with due regard to the right of
his customers to fair prices and good
merchandise, He is entirely within
his right to be content with a small
volume of business, without ambi¬
tion for its growth, for its keeping
progress with the development of the
community in which he lives, It is
open to question, however, whether
the merchant or other business man
who so conducts his business is per¬
forming his duty towards his com¬
munity.
Is it not a man’s civic duty—an
obligation he owes his community
and section—to build as good a bus
iness as he can, to be progressive, ii
line with the times in which he lives,
emulating the progress he sees about
him in his own or other commun
ities?
The town which is largely made up
of merchants and business men in
tent on maintaining their right to a
meager living, a business barely self
sustaining, contributing nothing to
the summum bonum of the communi¬
ty as a whole, is the town which lacks
progress, which lags behind othei
towns of equal opportunity in the
matter of civic improvements, and is
the town which is passed up by the
wide-awake man with money to in
vest,
One is immediately impressed with
a town full of live merchants intent
en increasing their business. It is a
town of paved streets, of handsome
public buildings, of prosperous ap
pearance on all sides. It is a town of
men who hustle, who utilize all avail¬
able means of building up their bus
iness, a town of men who are creat
ing instead of merely existing—a
town of ADVERTISERS. Such a
town will support a live newspaper.
It is a man’s right to exist, to let
•lone and be let alone; it is his dut\
to live—to be a live one, to create
to add to the summum bonum—the
prosperit of his community, to en
hance its prestige, to keep it in line
with the development of other com¬
munities, to make it a place inviting
to investors and other desirable new¬
comers.
Are you helping, or are you let¬
ting George do it, while the moss
grows on your back and the progres
»ive citizens of the town wait impa¬
tiently for your belated demise, so
that they can hurry you off to the
cemetery in an automobile hearse,
•hed a few crocodile tears over your
grave- and hurry back to raze the
old shack where you sat out the seat
of your pants, and make way foi
progress?
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THE SPIRIT THAI WINS.
Griffin News: An ideal citizen is
one who sees something good in his
town and spreads the good news
•broad thatothers may benefit there¬
from.
Of course there are other side¬
lights to the ideal citizen, but the
quality of loyalty is one which pro¬
duces tangible results.
There are three distinct attitudes
which a person may asume toward
(the community which houses and
feeds him—to boost, to remain quies¬
cent or knock.
The booster pushes his town along,
the quiescent citizen lulls it to sleep,
and the knocker helps to put it out
•f business.
Which are you?
TH€ LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., JANUARY 2^1920
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Perhaps you have never given it a
thought. You may not realize your -
self which you are—but your neigh
bors all know They have accurate
ly catalogued you according to
deserts.
If you are a booster, they admire
you; if you are quiescent, they win¬
der when you will emerge from your
slumbers; and if you are a knocker,
they yearn for the day when you wili
fold up your tent and silently fade
away.
Boost the home town and its citi¬
zens will boost you.
Knock it and you knock your¬
self infinitely more.
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TWO OPINIONS OF MAN.
(From The Dalton Citizen.)
Concerning Man, Shakespeare said:
“What a piece of work is man! How
noble in reason! How infinite in
faculties! In form and moving, how
admirable! In action, how like an
angel! In apprehension, how like a
god
This will serve as a preface to
Mark Twain’s opinion of man. Take
your choice.
Mark Twain said:
<< Man can’t sleep out-of-doors
without freezing to death or getting
the rheumatism; he can’t keep his
nose under water over a minute with¬
out being drowned. He’s the poor¬
est, clumsiest excuse of all the crea¬
tures that inhabit this earth.
“He has got to be coddled, housed
and swathed and bandaged to be able
to live at all. He is a rickety sort of
a thing any way you take him, a reg¬
ular British Museum of infirmities
and inferiorities.
It He is always undergoing repairs.
A machine as unreliable as he is
would have no market.
“The higher animals get their
teeth without pain or inconvenience.
Man’s come through months of cruel
torture, at a time when he is least
able to bear it. As aeon as he gets
'hem they must be pulled out again
The second set will answer for a
while, but he will never get a set
that can be depended on till the den¬
tist makes one.
ii Man starts in as a child and lives
on disease to the end, as a regular
diet. He has mumps, measles, scar¬
let fever, whooping cough, croup,
tonsilitis, diphtheria, as a matter of
course.
"Afterward, as he goes along, his
life continues to be threatened at
every turn by colds, coughs, asthma,
bronchitis, quinsy, consumption, yel¬
low fever, blindness, influenza, car¬
buncles, pneumonia, softening of the
brain, and a thousand other maladies
of one sort and another.
“He’s just a basketful of pestilent
corruption, provided for the support
and entertainment of microbes.
Look at the workmanship of him in
some of its particulars.
.. What is his appendix for? It has
ao value. Its sole interest is to lie
and wait for stray grape-seeds and
breed trouble.
“What is his beard ror? It is just
a nuisance. All nations persecute it
with the razor. Nature, however, al¬
ways keeps him supplied with it, in¬
stead of putting it on his head.
“A man wants to keep his hair. It
is a graceful ornament, a comfort,
ihe best protection against weather,
and he prizes it above emeralds and
rubies, and half the time Nature puts
it on so it won’t stay.
Man isn’t even handsome, as com
pared with the birds; and as for style,
look at the Bengal tiger—that ideal
of grace, physical perfection, and
majesty.
• » Think of the lion and the tiger
and the leopard, then think of man
hat poor thing!—the animal of the
wig, the ear trumpet, the glass eye,
the porcelain teeth, the wooden leg,
the silver wind pipe—a creature
that is mended all over from top to
bottom.
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A “NEGRO STATE *. AGAIN.
From The Macon Telegrah.
Segregation of negroes in “states 1 •
or “republics” of their own as solu¬
tion of race clash has long been fn
tertained by worthy enough stu
dents of the roblem. It has been
tried in Liberia and with small suc
cess, actual retrogression of the char¬
acter of the negro setting in.
As far as the American negro is
concerned, he needs the white man
close by just as in the South the
white man needs the negro. Where
there is enough of each in evidence
they get along on just that basis and
both reach a mutually contributed
condition of pleasurable propinquity
and prosperity. It is hapening every
day about us here and reaching an
ever-perfecting beneficence.
If negro leaders, self-appointed,
would for a time leave off insisting
on issues and problems and troubles
to be the main features instead of
just the occasional incidents of a
large and generally developing status
of satisfactory and helpful living to
even the incidents themselves,
give them their texts, would
cease. -
other things can be grown in the
space between the trees. But in cul
tivativating the crops you must be
careful not to injure the trees.
One of the most famous pecan
trees in Georgia is owned by J. B.
Wight, of Cairo, Ga. For five con¬
secutive years this tree yielded an
average income of $100 a year. It
was bought in 1892 for $2 from Wil¬
liam Nelson, of New Orleans, and in
1897 bore 7 pounds. The yield then
steadily increased until in 1909 it
bore 352 pounds.
There are numberless instances of
famous yields from pecan trees.
Some years ago John West, of
Monticello, Fla., sold 900 pounds
from one tree.
C. R. Shaw owns a tree in Quincy,
Fla., which bore 965 pounds in 1914.
In 3 905 C. S. Parker, of Thomas
ville. Ga.. set out ten acres of pecans
and some years later gathered 2,690
pounds of nuts from that grove. At
the present prices his crop would
have returned $1,345.
This year even more remarkable
instances have been offered of Geor
gia trees that bore heavily and of
that netted fortunes.
IT'S YOU.
1
If you want to live in the kind of a
town
Like the kind of a town you like,
You needn’t slip your clothes in a
grip
And start on a long, long hike.
You’ll only find what you left
For there’s nothing that is really
1 It’s a knock' at yourself, when
knock your town,
It isn’t the town—it’s you!
Real towns are not made by
afraid
Lest somebody else get ahead;
When everybody works and
shirks
You can raise a town from the
And while you make your
stoke,
Your neighbors can make one too—
Your town will be what you want
see.
It isn’t the town—it’s you!
—G. A. G. In Dawson News.
THE QUITMAN MEETING.
(From The Macon Telegraph.)
The publisher of the small or
rather strictly local newspaper
assumed as a class the firt impor¬
tance in the cultural, political and
general progressions of what consti¬
tutes the majority of the American
people. The excellence of the new
local newspaper, the strength and
intelligent sense of its editorial ex¬
pressions and the diginity given to
town and county happenings through
treatment has brought what was
once only too nearly the mere or¬
gan for the country printing into the
class of prized and established, in¬
stitutional newspapers.
So what they do at their meetings,
these men who have made the local
papers what they are, is of prime im¬
portance to the people everywhere
within the reach and scope of their
combined circulation which, as in
the case of the men who are to meet
in Quitman, for instance, is the
whole Eleventh district. The fact
they have invited and secured what
amounts to acceptances from prac¬
tically all the editors of the so-call¬
ed statewide dailies is not so signifi¬
cant of the fact the local paper men
would learn from the good and great
but of the fact that they realize
there is more the large daily man
has to learn from them than they
from him. Nothing is truer than
that. And the opportunity afforded
i he editors of the larger dailies by
editors of the local papers in that one
great and coming section to sit in
with them in their councils is a po¬
tential benefaction to the former.
GEORGIA LEADS
IN PECAN GROWING.
Some Marvelous Records Were
Made Last Year By
Many Georgia Trees.
The pecan center is in Southwest
Georgia, but in every part of Georgia
pecans will grow. They will thrive
anywhere that a hickory nut tree
will grow.
Every farmer ought to plant pe¬
cans. He should plant them any¬
where there is room. In the pecan
section are families that get 300 to
100 pounds a year from patches
around the house. Under present
prices that means $150. And all
they have to do is to keep the hogs
away.
That doesn’t mean, however, that
you can set out a grove, then fold
your hands and watch it grow, Pe¬
can trees require more care than
other bearing trees, particularly
when they are young. If a negro
cuts them up, with a plough or fire
gets in, the grove is lost.
Pecans are planted 40 to 60 feet
apart, leaving room for other crops.
Peanuts, velvet beans, corn, Irish po¬
tatoes, cabbage, turnips and a dozen
Those riotous scenes in many,
towns are not the Bolsheviki trying
to establish Soviet government, but 1
merely the housewives crowding up
to the counter for a 25 pound lot of i
sugar. j
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Some people here in Fort Valley
who blame the newspaper for print
ing so much silly personal gossip, are
often the ones who find fault be
cause they are not mentioned often
enough.
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One of our near relatives surely
knows our needs having sent us some
socks, neckties and the like on our
birthday last sveek. We had just
noticed our shortage and were pre
paring to advertise for bids among
the local merchants for same.
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QUESTION OF TASTE.
U So you have always had
your
doubts concerning the Germans?”
“Yep,” replied Farmer Comtos- 1
sel. “I can't see how anyone could
help having his suspicions about .a
nation who thou S ht a dachshund was
improvement on a regular dog. tt
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Raw materials are scarce, but raw
prices aren’t.
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You can’t play at work, but you
cun always work at play.
The “Reds” don’t often get red in
the face from hard work.
Fort Valley is a show city this
week. Two companies in town.
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When the school children go on
strike, it is time to spank the parents.
More moonshine nights nowadays
than the Old Farmers’ Almanac calls
for.
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Few big men ever completely for¬
get or get away from their respon¬
sibilities.
They call this a “questioning age,”
but it is difficult to find census enu¬
merators.
It is denied that Congress has done
nothing as both parties have been
busy passing the buck.
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Biff Murphy says that Legal Holi¬
day certainly has a lot of birthdays
j seeing as how the banks close for
’em.
Age has only one heartache—the
bitter knowledge that it can no long¬
er feel the heartaches we suffered
from in youth.
Case reported of a man who drank
"home brew," and then rang in a fire
alarm. In most cases they call for
the ambulance.
When a boy grabs all the cake, he
is called a pig; but when he grows up
and grabs all the money, he is called
a leading citizen.
The Y. W. C. A. is agitating
against tight fitting shoes. No pro¬
gress is reported among the loose fit¬
ting brains element.
The fact that a man can handle
a very heavy bowling alley ball, does
not prove that he is able also to swing
a very light bucksaw.
Columbus could not have disco. -
ed America in these days, as th* sail¬
ors would have held up the expedition
for time and a half for overtime.
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Those fellows who seem to hav
been careless with their soft boile '
eggs at breakfast, are seen on clos
view to be merely wearing the latest
colored neckwear.
The people who can’t afford to sub¬
scribe to the home newspaper, will
be cheered by the fact that the patent
medicine almanhcs for 1920 are now
being delivered free.
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Many applications for divorces
were reported during the recent holi¬
days, and a lot of people are now
ready to sign matrimonial contracts
for the 1920 summer season.
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It is denied that the profiteers pay
no attention to the government de¬
mand that they fix reasonable prices,
us they have responded by sticking up
their figures another notch.
Among the people who get very
angry about the price of clothing,
are those who don’t bother to read
the announcements of bargains pub¬
lished in The Leader-Trubune.
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Since the price of easy chairs, gold 1
headed canes, and other gift articles '■
has gone up, giving surprise parties :
to well known citizens has not been i
so popular a diversion in this section.
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THE UNIVERSAL CAR
For sixteen years, n corps of metallurgists have
been studying and constantly perUeting ’-be steel
thiit part ot the Ford ear am 1 (he
yt.es into every
Ford One Ton True. Each separate part has
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been studied >o earn the type < f steel best fitted
for it. Farts receivin : constant surf :<:<•- wear are
made m hard, flint-Tike inetai; subjected to great
vibr.t i m resilietu-t are made 1 1 softer, s': rin*
yy step;. Every part i made according to it- use
—that is, every Genuine Ford part is.
But there :ire¬ als. t'l unterfeit “Fold' parts.
'J. Lcsu in;.inti ms are m i !■■ by concerns in no way
connected with the Kurd Motor Company and
ret il as side incs bv mail-order houses, down
town stores, and many garages, The unsuspecting j
civ turner accepts them because they are called
‘ ■ i.' con pnr.s To make sure ■ •f getting - the gau¬
nine Foid-made parts, buy them Ot dy from Auth
ortz- a I." OIO Dcaicts Lik( wise bring or take your
Ford cur to mtr garage for repairs, replacements
am . r i • timing up.
Wear Authmmvit Ford Dialers. We can sup¬
ply yon wili. all Ford parts for either passenger
cart r truck And our shop is equipped to give
real Ford service in ad repair work.
G. L. STRPILING & GO.
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$ i SHIP Us Your Hides and Fur.
% 's The Es High. We Will Pay The Following
Market
I Prices
Green Salted Cured Hides .30o
Green Hides .27c
Dry Flint TOc
Dry Salt She
Number 1 Cake Tallow .12c
BLOCH HIDE COMPANY Maeon, Ga.
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