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HE LEJDEMBUI AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Established 1888 -Pu dished by— THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO. JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor. Subscription Price* m (Payable in Advance) 1 Year ..... $2.50 6 Months ....... 1.35 3 Months ......... .70 .. Published Every Thursday and En¬ tered at the Post-office at Fort Valley, Ra., as Second Class Mali Matter. i \ C A I: IOLIC. PROP AG A N D A The Editor of The Leader-Tribune wus “lectured” several days ago by an esteemed subscriber for carrying in the paper an advertisement of cer¬ 0 tain literature offered te public by The Catholic Laymen’s Association of Georgia. This perfectly well-meaning fel¬ low- Methorlist evidently fired by a previous family discussion, the in¬ fluence of Tom Watson and other an ti-Catholics and anti-Wilsonians, re¬ peated numerous charges against Ro¬ man Catholicism including a certain alleged oath of the Knights of Col¬ umbus which we have seen eirculat ed in at least one political campaign in which one of the candidates was a catholic, but with reference to we read in the papers quite a years ago that a national committee of Masons especially appointed to vestigate this particular oath the Catholics a clean bill of health, He then insisted that our carrying this advertisement in our columns necessarily carried our endorsement of Roman Catholicism and was real ly hurt that OUR paper—his and your paper—should take such a stand. The stress which he placed upon the word “OUR” in referring to the paper impels us to take some notice of the criticism, as other readers may feel as does this subscriber that we are using their paper to promote a propaganda with which they are not in sympathy. We hope that most of our readers will credit us with average intelli¬ gence; with having heard and read a very good part if not all of the mod¬ ern as well as ancient anti-Catholic propaganda. Who could have been born and reared in the state of Tom Walson ami not have imbibed some of it at least? We are frank enough to admit that in common with many other protestants we consider Roman Catholicism, as an institution, a sys¬ tem of religious teaching, a menace to intellectual and religious freedom of thought, and to that extent, inimi¬ cal to the spirit and text of the con stitution of the United States and to America i institutions and a menace to our national liberty and freedom from world embroilment. We do not deem it necessary in the present dis¬ cussion to enter into a more detailed criticism of Roman Catholicism. But because we entertain the above-mentioned view and because others maintain it is not sufficient reason to justify our denying Rom¬ an Catholics the right to be heard— to explain their position. That is what The Catholic Laymen's Asso¬ ciation is seeking thru these adver¬ tisements—the right to reply to anti Roman Catholic propaganda, and, of course, to do some “propaganda-ing” on their own hook. They are seek¬ ing to bring about a better under¬ standing on the part of protestants of Catholic aims and methods. Sure ly no broad-minded, intelligent cit izen cf this land of vaunted relig¬ ious freedom would on sober second thought condemn one-third of the church going people of the nation to eternal political and spiritual damnation after hearing only or.e side of the case. The editor of this paper is not built that way. He is thankful for an environment and experience which has imbred into him a spirit ox tol¬ erance and respect for the beliefs of others, especially in matters re ligious. One of the most impressive lessons of his life was one in relig¬ ious tolerance. He must have in¬ herited a strong tendency in this dir¬ ection or the trivial incident refer¬ red to would not still be so vivid in his memory. He was only 10 or 11 years old when the little episo'de occured that crystalized that tenden¬ cy.. It was the custom of h>s father, a devout but broad-minded Baptist, to take him for a walk every Sunday THE f EADF.R.TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., FEBRUARY 12, 1920. afternoon. On one of the e walks, as we passed the Syru gogu n Sav annah, the writer mode -oiee mg remark about the Jews, A very gentle reproof came in the following words: “Why, son, don’t you know that Christ was a Jew?” That w e all and it was enough. It would be against -our very rta ture as well as our sense of ju-wiev and fair play to deny The Catholic Laymen’s Association the use of our columns for advertising their liters ture. Our selling tern space no more carries our endorsement of their lit erature or of Roman Catholicism than in the case of any other article, proprietary medicine or what-not that is advertised in our columns but the merits of which vve surel.v cannot be expected to endorse from personal experience or knowledge. We do not accept advertisements of articles, . treatments, etc., known to be fakes or inimical to the public or individual welfore. Roman Cathol icism has not been placed under any such ban by any church so far as we know, or by any department of the United States government, On the contrary the Catholic church is* a Christian church: it is probably more noted than any other Christian denom¬ ination for its works of charity; the writer has been intima cly as¬ sociated with catholics who were neither bomb-throwers nor militant religious proselytizers; the record of .the recent world war show Roma Catholics of the United States as ioy al American citizens as any others, their welfare work among the Amer ican expeditionary forces and in home camps has Keen unsullied bv the slightest criticism but on the con trary has been warmly praise ! even by protestant soldiers; our own for mcr Baptist pastor, Dr. W. S. Dorset, bunked with a Catholic priest in France and wrote home very appre Relatively of the pleasant association, saying it was his daily privilege to awaken his priestship every morn at four o’clock for mass. If Roman Catholicism is the men ace to religious and intellectual free to our government and our in j stitutions that we are led to believe it is that menace will not be lessened by unjust, untilligent methods, it is for Christian protestant churches and citizens generally to combat the men ace intelligently and justly, and the first step in the direction is to be intelligently informed. One is not intelligently informed if he has a knowledge of only one side of a case. One is not fighting a just fight with¬ out first having given his opponen' a chance to explain his side of the case, The Catholic Laymen’s Associa tion’s advertisement is very evident ly intended for rton-Gatholics. Those who do not care to write for the liter ature they offer will surely not be harmed by the advertisement.. Those who may write for it, reai' it, and may not be convinced there by of the error of their preconceived attitude will be able the more intel ligently to combat the menace. Ii' any write for it, read it and are in fluenced thereby to a more tolerant attitude toward Roman Catholicism in America, The Catholic Laymen’s Association wi 11 have accomplished their purpose to that extent. Finally, brethren, we do not think that we had a LEGAL right to re fuse to publish the advertisement ol The Catholic Laymen’s Asociation If this esteemed brother-Method ist or others still think we are ii error in this matter we would sug gest that they read once again thei; church creed, if they don’t remem¬ ber it verbatim, and then go to an unabridged dictionary and read carefully all of the definitions give" of the word “catholic.” If they then still hold us in error we will surrender ihe argument. THE NEWSPAPER BONEYARD A Northern newspaper reminds it; readers that St. Louis has a popula¬ tion of nearly 1,000,000 inhabitants and only one morning newspaper since the passing of the Republic, which first appeared in 1808 and nev¬ er missed an issue until it was taken over recently by the republican pro¬ prietors of the Globe-Democrat. "The passing of this newspaper with a record of 111 years of continuous publication is most significiant of conditions in the newspaper world,” saysj our contemporary. “News paper costs have mounted so rapidly during the last two or three years that only the most viiiie are able to survive ant many papers are being sold, mortgaged or are passing out of the field entirely, The dav has passed when a man with a cheap outfit and a desire to see his ideas in print, or to serve a political boss! or faction, can start a newspaper.-— News. i'- | The farmers of southwest Geor a making their usual preparation plant a large acreage of boll wee food.—Dawson News, “THE OLD HOME PAPER." (From The ballon Citizen.) j There is nothing that will take the place of the home paper, it is not always clear of print anri not iritre quently it is poorly made up and lacks classification, hut it is ‘‘the old home paper” just the same, and ap |)cals to those of the old home town as nothing else does. And by the way, “the old home paper” is getting better as the days come and go. There is more in it than there used to be. -it is fast be¬ coming a strong factor in the devel¬ opment of its home town and county, it is more respected and its influence is no longer flouted. The politician seeks its approval and endorsement, l’he lawbreakers fear it. The church and the school must have its co-oper¬ ation if their influence is to be proper ly felt. This is a day of publicity and all that is good in a community mus. be heralded through the newspapei if the community is to grow and pros¬ per as it should. The business and the professional man must use its columns in order to place te service they offer before the people. There is no other medium to take the place of the newspaper no other form of advertising hall’ so valuable. The government demon¬ strated this fact time and again dur¬ ing the war. It leaned heavily on the newspapers, and but for them the bond and thrift stamp sales could never have been put over. The man or woman who leaves a community and seeks fort une m an other part of the country, always wants “the home paper" and the long¬ er he or she is away the more the paper is wanted. There hovers about it a sentiment that appeals to the heart. It is the letter from home and while it may not always be a perfect paladium of all that is good, because after all, it is a human institution, it is still “the old home paper.” Listen to these verses from an ex change whose name we can’t locate. We should like to know the author: The Home Paper. When the evenin’ shade is failin’ at the endin’ o’ the day, An a feller rests from labor smokin’ o’ his pipe o’ clay, there’s nothin’ does him so much good, he fortune up or down. As the little country paper from his ol’ home town. It ain t a thing o’ beauty an' its print ain’t always clean, But it straightens out his temper when a feller's feelin’ mean. It takes the krinkles off his face an’ brushes off the frow n; That little country paper from his ol’ home town. It tells of all the parties an' balls o’ Punkin Row; Bout who spent Sunday with his girl, an' how the crop'll grow; How it keeps a feller posted 'bout who is up an’ who is down; That little country paper from his ol’ home town. ,ow • like to read the dailies an’ the story papers, too, An’ al times the yellow novels and some other trash—don’t you? But when 1 want some readin’ that will brush away a frown, 1 want that little paper from Any ol’ home town. * The publisher of the Rupert (Ida ui) Pioneer-Record confesses that he ■A somewhat puzzled. He says: One inn stopped his paper after reading w hat we had to say about the jury i rrial, and two others came in and subscribed for a year after reading ihe same article. Several others stopped to commend us on our atti ude, and two or three other per sons came in to tell us that we had our wires crossed. So there you are. One can easily see how utterly impos¬ sible it is for a newspaper to please everyone. but it is this difference if opinion that makes the wheels go i'ound—so we should worry. M —Publisher's Auxiliary. The finest patriot m 1920 will be .he man who sticks to his job and strives to recreate that which w-as wasted by war. And usually that man is too busy to be running about making speeches or arguing the mat - sr on the street corner.—Dawson News. “Your friends may not need an ex planation ar.d your enemies would not believe it if you were to make one,” is an old maxim that holds good to this day.—Bruswick Banner. LE i EVERY FORT VALLEY BUSINESS MAN, CAPITALIST OR GENTLEMAN OF LEISURE, AND EVERY FRUIT GROWER AND FARMER IN THE VICINITY OF FORT VALLEY BE AT THE MASS MEETING AT THE CITY HALL MONDAY NIGHT FEBRUARY 16, Ar 7:30 ’ TO ASSIST IN RE-OR- i GANIZiNG THE fort valley board of trade. i * FLASHES FROM FLOYD ★ A of the Leader-T ribune Force ★ * ★ ★■>★★★★★>:★★★■★★ ■ A heavy purse doesn’t always make: a happy home. ! - 4 -- ! Time to begin planning that spring garden. If ypu would please a woman, say nothing and listen. - 4 . - f ortunate is the man who can bear misfortune. — ★—■ Even the kiddies are looking for¬ ward t(T the summer holidays. Wall Street is already figuring on what Georgia’s 1920 cotton crop will be. Georgia’s crop of politicians seems to loom bright for a bumper one thi season. + Some are wonder,ng if that extra hour of daylight will be saved again this year. - 4 - Biff Murphy was jeen a few days ago inspecting a line of fishing tackle. Anyway the knowing ones pre dictions about the "flu” were partly correct. — ★ The Atlanta papers are at least conserving paper by their enforced abbreviated size. M - A man can never tell whether his wife’s hat is becoming until hr learns the price of it. —★- Habit, likt the speed of a falling body, is cumulative; it creates it: own momentum. - 4 -- A real sleeping baby is more won leiful and beautiful than a thous¬ and dollar French doll. -- 4 - Officers and soldiers in the Aus¬ trian army may not marry. No mai •an serve two masters. ★ Georgia ought to raise more gar¬ den truck. No better land for the purpose is to be found anywhere. ★ Jack Johnson, seems to think that to be in prison in the U. S. A., is bet ter than being free in Mexico. There are plenty of people who seem to think that Billie Jennings can successfully stage a come-back. Right thinking and right living a; merely matters of right habits; b and bad living, matters oi bad habits. --- 4 -- Shooting marble; on the streets is more enjoyable to the average now-a-days than almost any of other duties. - 4 - A friend of our’n tried to spring joke about a stove pipe on us, but vvoulnn’t listen as we supposed it be a smutty one. A St. Louie judge has decided tha man’s costume is not unbecoming a woman. That judge evidently an artistic eye. A little girl's prayer as quoted an English pulpit is as follows: don't make grandpa gooder, do make im nicer.” — ★ Every time a widow hears of a man has been disappointed in love makes it her business to get him from the crowd and sympathize him. In the olden days when the auto¬ was designated as a "one I suppose the chap who own¬ one had a good deal of trouble his lung, but now his chief com is either gas-tritis or that feeling. ★ The path of success in business is the path of common sense. all that has been about “lucky hits” the best kind success in any man’s life is not comes by accident; the good fortune in which we are in hoping for is that which are capable of making for our And we can only attain suc¬ by constantly thinking success. 4 A number of Georgia cities are al¬ busy ip the movements to get city up to standard in the cen¬ standing at which they think they belong. Many towns have been claiming a popula¬ that far exceeded their actual .as shown by the recent count. move on the part of all progres¬ citizens will do much toward in¬ manufacturing enterprizes citizens in locating in any com ” j (Q) (© ® F"h /g\ ^ 1 \ J Oil! Opd 1 Sf (§) 1 Of I 1 1 t ' ® X ‘ (g) Protection against loss by Fire or xg. 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