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1HE UMMINM
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1 HH 8
— Published by—
THE LEADER TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
Subscription Price*
(Payable in Advance)
1 Year . $2.50
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Published Every Thursday and En
tered. at the Post-office at Fort
Valley, Ga., as Second Class
Mail Matter.
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As the quickening rains and sun
shine fall both upon the just and the
unjust, so the beneficent iri/'ienee
of the home paper fall upon all in the
community and section alike. And a
there are those who accept these
gifts of nature with churlish ingrat
itude, there are those who accept the
benefits of the home paper wit horn
feeling under any obligation to help
support it. They cannot escape the
benefits of either, but they soak
up and give nothing out. We’ve
heard such people called “sponges”
but that epithet is unjust—-to the
sponge. You can squeeze something
out of sponges.
We are publishing on the eighth
page of this issue a remarkable “Pen
Portrait of Jesus,” written about
1,900 years ago by a Roman pro-con¬
sul in Palestine. The news item from
Rome, Italy, embodying this it pen
portrait,” was reproduced in the od
itorial columns of The Atlanta Con¬
stitution of March 17th, and wa
brought to our attention by Mr. S.
H. Bassett. A number of people to
whom Mr. Bassett has mentioned thi
article have expressed a desire thai
we publish it, and this we are very
glad to do, as, in the words of the
Roman pro-consul himself, who wrote
this remarkably clear and interest¬
ing description of the Savior, the sub¬
ject is one “worthy of all our atten
tion."
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From the continued clamor from
some q irters of the State that Geor¬
gia democrats, shoqjd be allowed to
vote frr Herbert Hoover us the pres
idential candidate of the party it
would seem that some of the news
paper brethren are either wittingh
or unwittingly aiding and abetting
the designs of certain crafty poli¬
ticians to split the democratic vote
in Georgia and run in a dark horse
at the eleventh hour. Hoover has
told us plainly enough that he does
not want the nomination of Georgia
democrats. The brethren who
aren’t inspired by their “Marster’s
voice” in keeping up this clamor must
have a thicker integument than the
fellow who got kicked down stairs
and picked himself up with the phil¬
osophic remark, “ I guess he didn’t
want me up there. ft
We have in mind quite a few
people in Fort Valley, some of whom
are quite well-to-do, who do not sub¬
scribe for The Leader-Tribune but
habitually burrow some subscriber':'
copy. We frequently receive from
some of these people items of per¬
sonal interest regarding themselve;
and their friends for publication.
We are glad these people like to read
the paper, and we always publish
the news they send us if they make
known Hie source of it and we have
time and space, But we can’t help
feeling that these people are no
treating us just right that they are
with-holding from us support the;
ought to give us—that they are en
joying in many ways they don’i
realize the benefits of a local entei
prise they are not helping to mam
tain.
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Ain’t it a grand and glorious feel¬
ing, when you have worked yourself
almost to death and out of hope of
heaven in the altruistic effort to
publish a newspaper that will
be a credit to your town, boosting
its schools and churches and business
enterprises and commercial organiza¬
tions and all its interests at great
labor and expense—in fact at dire
loss—and after soliciting the ad¬
vertising cooperation of your home
merchants and encouraging your
fellow-citizens to trade at home in
stead of running to the city for their
purchases, and the home merchan
quits advertising in your paper—-or
never begins—but spends a good deal
more money on advertising signs on
th- circus elephant—which nobodv
sees for the clowns and brass
and pretty horses and women—or on
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minstrel show curtains—as if folk;
go to minstrel shows to read signs
or on hand-bills dropped from air
dunes—which are picked up by the
little darkies while the lucky numbers
•;o begging or on promotion pain
ihlets—which are straightway casi
hto the waste-paper basket- or on
wo by four signs on the public high
»vays which he that runs in an auto
mobile has no time to read practic
ally all of the money so spent going
out, of town never to return-—oh,
soy, ain’t it a grand -and glorious
feeling to be an editor?
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BACK TO STATES RIGHTS!
We are inclined “to view with
alarm” the apparently growing ten¬
dency towards legislation by national
constitutional amendment. It threat¬
ens one of the chief found.' on
stones upon which our government
vus founded -State .Sovereignty. The
first thirteen amendments may be
regarded now as fundamental to the
spirit of our form of government as
were the motives which prompted our
ancestors in the founding of the
original thirteen” colonies. Sub¬
sequent amendments have gone far
from those fundamentals of
government. President i incoln
himself pronounced the fourteenth
and fifteenth amendments a usurpa¬
tion of States’ Rights and vetoed
hem repeatedly. They were passed
over his veto and ratified by legisla¬
tures that were not representative
of the people. The same railroad¬
ing process was attempted to secure
the adoption of the Anthony Suffrage
amendment. The same process was
effectual in passing the eighteenth
amendment. We are in favor
nation-wide prohibition.
of whether the present law is the
ind of law we need or of
it was passed in a democratic
it is now the law of the land, should
be observed by all citizens and
forced by the officers of the law an
•he courts. We are, however, not
in favor of passing any other
: n this manner. If there is need
any other amendment to the nation
al constitution it should be one
viding that all such amendments mu.~<
lie ratified by the vote of the
of the states. Since we entered
war against the Central Powers tti.
forces of our government have
almost as strongly centripetal
those of the governments
which we were warring. That
all right while we were at war.
the emergency calling for this
centralization of government doe
not now exist it is time to restore
the states sovereignty over their
internal affairs. That’s why we
strong for Vice-President
brand of democracy, tho- we
Mr. Marshall’s being a strong
standard-bearer for the party.
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THE EDITOR’S PRAYER.
(Fiom The Tampa Tribune.)
A few days ago the St.
Record published on its editorial pag
“The Editor's Prayer, It has
reproduced by a number of
outside the state, and by one
ington ( 1 ). C.) Journal, although
“prayer” is less than a month
Knowing the editorial writer of
Record so well, The Tribune rathe i
felt that the “prayer” Was
with him, and asked the direct ques
i ion. As we expected, we
ail affirmative reply.
Editorial Writer Herbert Felkel
who is also managing editor, for
St. Augustine Record,
daily a supposedly funny dose
“bromides” for his patients,
coders of his paper. Because
he waggishm s and keen wit of
of them, he is believed by man.
eaders to be undoubtedly “a ver
wicked, hard drinking, evil-mindee.
fellow.”
Felkel is in reality a religious sort
>? fellow. Sunshine and shadow
ornately fleck the average
aper" editor, and he must be
ous this minute and comic the
iwhile in a short, time his
will be bringing the tear of
thy to every eye.
The Editor’s Prayer
“Almighty and everlasting
who dost, govern all things in
mi earth, mercifully hear the
>ver us in the long hours of
vork day and impress us with
’bought that all labor ought to be
fhy service and in the service
Thy people. Help us to forget
nd to remember humanity,
.vhole public and the good of
state.
M Guuie our pen with
houghts and fill us. Heavenly
er, at all times with mercy and
nd forgiveness. Keep hate out
our heart and show us how to
he sting out of what we
strengthen us with wisdom and
fulness.
“Forgive us for the grief that
word we wrote may have caused
fellowmen, and make us big
admit error, to right wrong,
to “do good unto them that
so r hat in all earnestness
sincerity we may ask that our
passes be forgiven “as we forgive
I hose who trespass againt us.”
“But at the same time fortify us,
O God, to speak our convictions, to
aland out strongly for what con
science tells us i.o stand out for, and
.
i to help put down those things that
i we know 1 ought to he put down,
“Wo pray Thee leave us not alone
in the midst of multitudinous jour
Holistic tempatations which must al¬
ways test us; but: deliver us, Oui
Father, from everything that is evil.
Remind us constantly of the wide in¬
fluence of the printed page and teach
us to s,.y those things and to do those
deeds that will help rather than hin '
der the hosts who watch our living
>nd read our writing and of neces¬
sity take color from them.
“Give us physical strength and
moral courage, increase our energy
and quicken our conception, and a
bove all, 0 Lord, keep our great re¬
sponsibilities ever well before us, for
Christ’s sake, and do to the honor
and glory of Thy Holy Name.”
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PUBLICITY PROPAGANDA.
(From The Dawson News.)
There are now coming to The
News from aspirants for public office
J letters which say “any publicity you
may GIVE me will be appreciated.”
Candidates are not to be censured
for attempts to secure publicity
wit ho ost, for efforts to minimize
t ne sum expended in pursuit for
public office. As political matters
arc arranged now running for OiU( .*» e
is an expensive diversion, even
should nil the publicity i;i connec
tion therewith be donated, We all
know that the money spent in this
direction not so many years ago be
came almost a public scandal. And
I hen, too, it is only recently that it
has ceased to be the fashion for the
newspapers to give free space to all
political aspirants, That was when
the newspapers were most partisan
organs than they are now .
in the hunt for publicity that costs
nothing, however, the office seeker
is the least offender. He is the
'east of the multitude that is clamor
ing at the door of the newspaper
office demanding entrance without the
payment of the admission fee. Nev
er in all their history, it is safe to
sav. have the newspapers been com
pelted to withstand such an assault
upon their columns as is being made
>y the press agents of today. The
army of press agents, all out to get
publicity from the newspapers with¬
out paying for it, numbers its thous¬
ands. No oraginized industry, no
organization of whatever kind, not
excepting the Federal Government, i is
without its press agent. Few men
:n -public life are without a publicity
bureau.
These agencies daily pour into the
newspaper offices a veritable flood of
propaganda of every kind, It, is a
matter that is well written, often
attractively illustrated, all cleverly
designed to appeal to the newspaper
■ditor and to break down the bar¬
riers he has erected against it.
I’he editor cannot afford to admi.
any of this material to his s newspaper
for two reasons, namely:. ( 1 ) ft i
propaganda, and as such the editor
:s justified in suspecting that if it i is
not untrue it is not the whole truth
o’ that such truth as appears is s ex
nggerated : ( 2 ) Newspaper space-has
ecome so valuable by reason of
..ioatly enhanced cost of producing
he newspaper that to give it awe;
s sheei lack of business common
one.
Newspapers have their shortcom
ngs and make their mistakes, bin
hey are no worse in that particular
ban the people who read them, 1
s to the credit of the newspaper.
i hat so little of the propaganda 110 V.
overloading the mails sees the ligb
of day in their columns, It is t
heir credit tha tthey stand like ;
suck between the reading public and
• he flood of propaganda that beat
'.gainst the newspaper office daily.
No oii£ has a keener appreciatioi
of the ed of preserving the free
mm of the press than the newsDapei
a self.
The maintenance of so many count
publicity bureaus and. pres
a cuts involves a waste that i is ap¬
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palling. Some one is putting up :»
lot of money t o no useful purno?«
! ’he News is willing to predict the.
ne discovery is going to be mat!
->me day that all thi is expenditure
is nothing more than waste. an
i
when that discovery is made a lo
.it well paid and comfortably offi c ex:
press agents will have to look f
other jobs.
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The national interest in bettering
the load factor of the soft-coal in¬
dustry is measured by the fact that
we have an excesss mine capacity of
at ieast 150 million tons and an ex
cess labor force of perhaps 150,000
men.
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What the children can never un
; as t * le v hear their parents
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. h* dear’ll
''‘ scu ' s r > of commodities is, i
why there is never any shortage of
school days, of soap, of castor oil.
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V Of the Leader-Tribune Force ifc
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vlary had a swarm of bees
And just to keep alive, •
They followed Maty all around
’Cause Mary had the hives.
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Often the explanation has nothing
o do with the case.
The agitator thinks that one good
•trike deserves another.
The cost of living is out of sight
out never out of mind.
London has tired of jazz, It
makes most people tired.
Seldom is a light-headed man a
brilliant conversationalist.
Too much money or too little
doesn’t beget happiness, so try just
enough.
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Unless your persistence is equal to
your talent your endowment amounts
to little.
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It takes a rousing demonstration to
get a srhali boy out of bed these
in ornings.
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Fine feathers may not make a fine
bird, but it’s different with a
woman’s hat.
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It may be a lift ■ farther around
the corners of a square deal, but the
road is better.
Patches are not now so much of
a badge of poverty as of economy
and discretion.
Allowing food to spoil is no way
•ither to solve a shortage problem or
a wage dispute.
Stop, look, listen, continues to be
a good policy for those approaching
grade crossings.
It is no wonder that the public
temper is getting soured the way
sugar is soaring.
We have recently heard our first
spring birds. Let’s all hope that
Spring is here for fair.
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Or maybe the increarse in size is
caused by their wearing shoos that
are big enough for them.
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Just as we expected. A German
publicist has discovered that Amer
ica started the recent war.
The ¥
shortage of candy only re
minds one that the course of true
love luver did run smoothly.
Eveiybody loves a lover—espec
'.ally the florist, the confectioner, the
jeweler and the reStauranteur.
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Another way to waste time is to
argue with a grocer about how much
sugar a family ought to be entitled
to use.
A woman lately died in England
who dnln t know that there had been
a war. It was a case of ignorance
is bliss.
We are beginning to hear, as usual,
from scientists who have a sure cure
for the flu. They are a part o fthe
plague.
New ¥~~
Orleans is advertising her
oolasses in big type, well knowing
hat short sugar makes for long
sweetening.
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Good farms are still offered at
reasonable prices, but it is difficult
co interest a lounge lizard in a farm
in cold weather.
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if some gentlemen fought as
Tenuously for the light, to work as
or the right to strike the nation
couldn’t be so badly off.
How many noble and upright
•lurch members are guilty of oer
anal extravagance and of stinginess
award the collection plate?
Maybe Carra..za is going after
those kidnaping bandits who have
xised the ransom price to $125,000
n a charge of profiteering.
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American buyers in Paris refuse
o bring home the knee-length gown
or American wear. Anyway our
'/inters are much too severe.
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Trouble travels very fast
No man’s swift enough to shake
him,
Makes no difference how he runs,
It can always overtake him.
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In these days of high costs the
uverbuideaed husband is trying to
essureet his powers of flattery t
convince his wife how becoming :
last year's suit.
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