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Established 1888
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THE LEADER-'!
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
Subscription Price*
(Payable in Advance)
1 Year $2.50
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• Months 1.35
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3 Months .70
Published Every Thursday and En¬
tered at the Post-office at Fort
Valley, Ga., as Second Class
Mail Matter.
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<• They say” the woods are full of
candidates in Houston, but judging
from the scarcity of appearances
they must be watching one another
from behind the trees.
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“When we let new friends into
our lives we become permanently en
larged and marvel that we could ever j
have lived in a smaller world. l)uv- (
id Grayson, in Hempfield, a Novel.
If the continued late and pro¬
tracted nightly, et cetera, freezes
haven’t decimated the peach crop
there are still enough pessimists in
our midst” to do it—and enough op¬
timists to savo it several times over.
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We like Mr. Marshall’s brand of
democracy and Americanism and if
we were confident he coutd marshal
the force of character necessary in
successful presidential candidate
we’d, like to see the voters of the
Democratic party marshaled to his
support.
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It’s about time to Hooverize now
on this mad effort to lead an un¬
willing horse to drink out of the
Democratic trough. He may have fine
running qualities but if he is
ing to be led, it were better to
one whose color and disposition
beyond question.
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Mr. F. S. Royster, who
built up and still controls the
known F. S. Royster Guano
is que'ed as saying that the
of hi business ir, due primarily
his be ief that the farmer is the
est of men, and will stand
fully by those who study his
and give him always the best.
great growth of the Royster
is due to the recognition on the
of the farmer of the efforts of a
time devoted to giving him the
most in plant food for his
and to his appreciation of the
that through good times and
in war and in peace, measured by
whatever standards Royster Fertil¬
izers “have stood the test. ♦ »
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MACON’S ABLE SECRETARY.
Now that Fort Valley has
about in earnest the organization
an efficient Chamber of Commerce
the following editorial from a recent
issue of The Macon Telegraph, to
which oor attention was called by
Capt, Robert Flourrfoy, is especially
pertinent, in parts, to our own com¬
munity and section:
Happily a new order of things
has come about in the work of cham¬
bers of commerce. There was a
time not so long ago that the men¬
tion of such an organization brought
the mental picture of boosting and
fanning the air generally, without
anything definite to be achieved. In
those days it was a difficult matter to
keep such an organization on its feet,
because the promoters were unable
to show the solicited any results for
the funds subscribed, But an en
tirely different situation has develop¬
ed. In this day and time a well or¬
ganized chamber of commerce has at
its head a coucil of business men
who pa;s upon the suggetions of a
serious-minded secretary whose bos
iness it is to generate ideas and plan
their execution. The modern and
worthy chamber of commerce not on
ly looks after the interests of the
city 1 in which it is organized and
operated, but it is equally diligent
with regard to the agricultural com
munity which hedges it about.
draw farmers into the chamber
commerce and get them to work with
the business men, in order that both
classes may understand each
troubles and together devise a solu
tion, to the mutual advancement
all ,, interests, . , . is . one of ... the .
considerations ., .• or reasons for . a
chamber of commerce. To gather
data concerning the State, section,
county and city, and see that the
Jiome people are educated in refer-
THE LEADER TRIBUNE FORT V ALLEY, GA . MARCH 11, 1920.
to their own affairs, as well as
foreigner, is another of the con
of a chamber of commerce. To
factory sites, to look after
generally and to attend j
everybody's business is the
task of the secretary of a
and modern chamber of com
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To measure up to the responsibil¬
and make a success of the un¬
a man must have vision,
tact, ingenuity, and
The Telegraph has been
to form and express a conclu
in regard to the present secre¬
of the Macon Chamber of Com¬
F. Roger Miller, But it feels
he has been here a sufficient time
prove his worth, and now that he
done so, he is entitled to the ac¬
and the support of
only this newspaper, but of
other enterprise and individoal
this city and section. The Macon
of Commerce has more
a thousand memberships at $25
which it is estimated is suffi¬
to finance all of the great work
for this year, tl is the best
and organized of any we
ever had, and Macon may well
felicitate herself on possessing this
asset.
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NEWSPAPER BORROWERS.
From The Monticello News.
Editor Shackleford, of the Ogle¬
thorpe Echo, published at Lexington,
“hits the nail on the head,” in the
following editorial:
'fhey are the bane to the success
publisher of a country paper
should attain.
The Echo doubtless has fewer of
them to contend with than is the av¬
erage with most county papers in
proportion to its subscription list.
Yet there is a sufficient number of
them to have very material effect
upon our success.
Since the cost of publishing and
issuing a paper has mounted to such
a high plane they are indeed a men¬
ace for they in point of fact beat us
out of whatever it costs to publish the
paper—the more it costs the more
they beat us!
We are charitable enough though
to suy most of them would not be
guilty of the practice if they full}
realized what is was.
In reality they do not borrow. A
thing that cannot be returned cannot
be borrowed, When one sends to a
neighbor and gets his paper to read
he may return the paper itself but ht
does not and cannot return what ht
seeks—the information he gains from
the paper. He appropriates that.
Nor is it from his neighbor that he
appropriates it for the neighbor anc'
family have already gained that in¬
formation from reading the paper
and hence retain it even when the>
let the borrower have the use of the
printed sheets. Whn that informa
tion has been gained by the sub
seriber from those sheets they art
valueless to him just as they are o‘
no value to the bororwer when he has
gained information from them am!
sends them back. He does however,
get something from the publisher—
the information the publisher has
gone to expense and worked hard to
print in the paper. This information
to The publisher is just what the mer
chant's goods on the shelves are to
him. The merchant must sell a cer
tain amount of his goods to enable
him to stay in business and make i
living; the publisher must get pa}
from a ufficient number of sub¬
scribers for the information he gath¬
ers up and prints to enable him tc
stay in business and make a living. If
you obtain the merchant’s goodi
without paying him for them you
take from him just that much of his
success; if you obtain from the pub¬
lisher, through borrowing the printed
sheets from a neighbor, the informa¬
tion the publisher sells you takes jus!
that much of his success. In the case
of the merchandise nobody hesitates
to call it defrauding, but one is
hardly allowed to use such a harsh
term of the information; yet the prin¬
ciple involved is identical.
We know of some habitual borrow¬
ers in the county who would bristle
up for a fight at the least intimation
of them being disposed to defraud,
If they would sustain the reputation
for themselves that they would thus
defend they will cease to belong to
the ranks of newspaper borrowers.
Some weeks since we had an article
in this column showing the materia!
benefits a paper renders its sub¬
scribers. The borrower, or any read¬
er, of a paper gets these benefits the
same as a subscriber. We said in
that article that it was safe to as¬
sume that The Echo renders to yearly
subscribers service that actually
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encial ^° Ul f service a PP ro P™te without this paymir possible 3 * us ben- the
. dollars . „ we make , the v subscriber
suuscxioer
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1 Ever}- citizen who is sufficiently
intereste<1 in the affairs of his see
tion to want to keep up with them
the columns of the paper ,
in all fairness keep his name
the lists of the paper as a paid
If he uses other methods
thus keep in such touch he does
to the paper and fails to
what he should in all fair
to the support of the paper thut
him to keep up with these
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THIS THING OF GIVING.
George F. JBurba in Elbert County
I do not understand it, any more
do you, but there is something
this thing of giving that bless
us. No man has ever impover
himself by giving, It cannot
done. Those who give most, have
left, No man has ever died
because of that which he gave
No one has ever gone hungry
giving away his bread; some
somewhere, bread has been pro¬
for him.
I believe that every one who gives
penny will get it back a hundred
I believe that every one who
a tear with his assistance will
spared the shedding of a thousand
I believe that every sacrifice
make will so enrich us in the fu¬
that our regret will be we did
sacrifice the more. This thing
giving! A glorious privilege it
How meaningless now is money
that is hoarded. How fateful to him¬
and to his fellows is he who does
not answer to the call for aid. Give
—and in the giving live the life a hu
man being is entitled to enjoy. Give
—and let no thought of sorrow abide
with you because you did not give.
Give—and somewhere from out the
clouds, or from the sacred depths of
human hearts, a melody divine will
reach your ears, and gladden all
your days upon the earth.
ADVERTISING IS HELP
TO BUSINESS FARMER
That farming, the biggest
in the world, and advertising
greatest selling force, need to get
gether, was one of the points
out last week at the community
paper conference held in
with Farmer’s week at Cornell.
The farmer needs to do two
of advertising, it was declared.
educational advertising, the
sort that the meat packers and
railway executives are doing.
reason the city man sometimes
that the farmer is profiteering is
cause he does not realize all the
penses which go into the
of food, plant or animal.
A farm publication was
which advocates the creation of
fund by an association of
which shall be used for a
campaign in the newspapers and
azines to tell the story of
a Take the city man into your
fidence,” says this farm paper to
farmer. • • Tell him the wonder
of production. It is a
story. In agriculture you have
greatest romance of all time.
him what it costs to raise your
el or peck of onions. You have
tors entering into these costs
would stagger a bank examiner.
The greatest part of the
was devoted to ways in which
ers may advertise their own
and thus get better
when they sell through the
channels. It was declared that
farmer advertises more or less
advertising is only telling what
have to sell and showing why
other man should buy it. When
farmer says to a neighbor:
Bill, know anybody that wants
couple of fine pigs? They are
dies ♦ » that’s advertising. So it
advertising when a farmer has
auction and has a few bills
off." Those at the conferneee
urged to buy good bills, printed
good paper, even though they
cost more than cheaper ones.
good bill, about 18 by 24 inches
size, will cost about $7 for 50, it
said.
But good as a bill may be it
felt that an advertisement in
local paper is much better, <4
reader must go to the bill, while
ad goes to the reader, was the
this was phrased.—Publihers’
iliary.
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Country weeklies are
ly the home papers of
They are not hurriedly scanned
niep travel to business, then left
brakemen to gather up. They
directly to homes where their
is a duty as well* as a
Hence their peculiar value as an
vertising medium.—Review of
views.
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A London doctor suggests
hospitals of airplanes for
patients. From a medical
this might be a good Idea, but
omically there would be difficulty
the way of overhead charges.
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Read The Leader-Tribune for
home news.
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Of tha Laader-Tribuna Forca ★
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Georgia politictans are trying to
* bluff his
It is easier for a man to
than his wife.
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The queen of the tea table not
only reigns, but she pours.
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An extravagant man is always
preaching economy to his wife.
-* be careful
Be up and doing—but
what or whom you undertake to do.
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If a man is ruled by his feelings
he is apt to travel in a zig zag course.
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Many a man doesn't know what
he is talking about until it is too
late.
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Never judge the size of a woman’s
foot by the price she pays for her
shoes.
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Don’t forget that there are no
express trains to the summits of
success.
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Perhaps the old year could have
been better, but for that matter so
could we.
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The groud hog must have been
blind when he made his appearance
this year.
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Safety First,” is a good motto
until it hooks up with “let the other
fellow do it. ft
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A wise young man passes up the
pretty girl and marries a homely one
who can cook.
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This earth is frequently designat
ed as “she ♦ ’ because no man knows
the age thereof.
During courtship a man thinks it 8
a dream; after marriage he is sorry
that he woke up.
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An ounce of prevention is not
worth a pound of cure—in the pork
packing business.
But eggs are coming down, and
the temporary divorce of “ham and”
may end in a reunion yet.
Register now, for the candidate
of your choice may need your vote
very badly on election day.
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The trouble with some folks is that
they forget that young folks are
young and old people are old.
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Nine times out of ten a man man¬
ages to live happily even after a wo¬
man has refused to marry him.
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Buy, page Prof. Snyder, we want
to find wihat dope he has on the
weather for the next few weeks.
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Strange things sometime happen
but nobody ever heard of a poor man
being invited to join the 400.
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A modern boy may not stand high
in his studies but he can tell you who
all the leading movie stars are.
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At least one crop of Georgia
peaches are not hurt by the cold spell
for we see them in bloom every day.
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You’ve got to find happiness in
your own way. You’ll never find it
by traveling the other fellow’s road.
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Now it appears that there is al¬
cohol in coke. Perhaps that is why
coke acts so queer in the furnace.
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Lots of men who say that they are
looking for justice will find them¬
selves behind bars if they ever get
it. -•
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Johnny Jones, of The LaGrange
Reporter, is running for State Sen¬
ator fretp his district. Yes, we said
running.
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Looking over the array of the
newest “best sellers” one is impress¬
ed with the fact that quantity does
not mean quality.
There’s no fool—of either sex—
quite so pitiful as the one that mar¬
ries for money. Even the money is
rarely forthcoming.
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A woman will tolerate a lot of ne¬
glect if her husband will only pay
her some attention when there are
other women around.
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A Boston doctor says that 50
years hence the peop<e of this coun¬
try will be so civilized that they
won’t kiss any mors. Fortunately,
there is no chance that we shall have
to survive the glorious osculatory
barbarism of tkis tiiu«.
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neighbor s paper appropriate the
editor’s labor without compensa
ting him for the cost.