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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 6 Months 1.35 3 Months .70 Published Every Thursday and En tered. at the Post-office at Fort Valley, Ga., as Second Class Mail Matter. \ 9 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." ¥ - 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. * 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 THE LEADER-TRIBUNE. FORT V ALLEY, C.A , MARCH 25, 1!)20. u~jr*4n.mJK* 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? ¥ 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. ¥— 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.” ---A 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¬ - 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. -★ 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. —'Ar — What the children can never un ; as t * le v hear their parents - . h* dear’ll ''‘ scu ' s r > of commodities is, i why there is never any shortage of school days, of soap, of castor oil. ★★★★★★ j * * FLASHES FROM FLOYD * V Of the Leader-Tribune Force ifc ★ vlary had a swarm of bees And just to keep alive, • They followed Maty all around ’Cause Mary had the hives. ----★ 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. --★ Unless your persistence is equal to your talent your endowment amounts to little. ¥ It takes a rousing demonstration to get a srhali boy out of bed these in ornings. * Fine feathers may not make a fine bird, but it’s different with a woman’s hat. -- ¥ 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. --- ¥ Or maybe the increarse in size is caused by their wearing shoos that are big enough for them. -★ 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. -¥-- 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. ★ Good farms are still offered at reasonable prices, but it is difficult co interest a lounge lizard in a farm in cold weather. ★ 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. ★ American buyers in Paris refuse o bring home the knee-length gown or American wear. Anyway our '/inters are much too severe. ★ Trouble travels very fast No man’s swift enough to shake him, Makes no difference how he runs, It can always overtake him. J«. 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