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THE LEADER-TRIBl'/NE, FORT VALLEY, GA., APfllL 20, 1920.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNA*.
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THE PRESIDENTIAL
From Talbotton New Era.
Much is being said by the State
press about the coming presidential
primary and the candidates who
will figure in it.
Reed came to Georgia couldn’t but pretty
soon found out that he win
Georgia’s delegation to San
cisco Convention,, so he centered on
Hoke Smith, and Hoke took the reins
to repudiate the prdSent adminis
tration in Georgia.
Hoke Smith is a fine campaigner deals
and he has put over some big
in Georgia, but we think he has un
dertakeu the biggest job of his appeal life,
He is going to make a strong
to the voters of Georgia on the
ground that he is a home man and
this appeal is going to have a strong
pu 11 with those men who are unsus
pecting enough to vote for him on
this ground. man—this
Hoke Smith is an able
cannot be disputed, hand but the the can gentleman? gentleman? you ever
put your should on the Democrat
Suppose ic nomination he from get Georgia, what
would it umount to? Musi certainly
he wont get the nomination from
any other State, so il Georgia is
foolish enough to give him her
votes votes at at the trie convention, convention, it it will win sim- sun
ply mean that l.e will pick such men
tx delegates that he can use as he
sees fit, and Georgias vote will go
for the Jim Reed-Hoke Smith-Borah
& Co.’s benefit to satisfy some per
senal spite or spleen which that com¬
pany has aguinst the present adminis¬
tration. Hoke didn’t enter the race
right. It ia too plain to those who
know, just how and why he is in the
race. If Georgia nominales Hoke
Smith ns her candidate for President
it will be the sweetest morsel for
the Republican will inirtj we know of.
That party point to the fact
thnl Georgia, one of the Original
thirteen colonies, the rock-ribbed
Domoerutic State of the South, has
repudiated the Democratic adminis
tration. bust what better annnuni
tion would that party want?
We are not fighting Hoke Smith
in order to benefit some other can
did&te in the race, hut the political
line up between him, Hardwick and
Watson is a little bit more than ’we
are willing to sit idly by without
having something to say.
It is true the Democratic party
has done many things of which we
do not approve, but take it all in
all, many constructive measures have
been enacted since it has been in the
saddle, and to repudiate the adminis
tration would be nothing short of a
calanxity to the Democratic party,
and if Georgia nominates Hoke
Smith, we feel sure she will go on
record as doing this.
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SUGAR AND POTATOES ARE
SHORT
SAVANNAH,-— Savannah is fa¬
cing a potato famine and a serious
sugar ling shortage. Merchants are sel¬
sugar this week on the basis or
the short times of last year—two
pounds to the customer. The reason
assigned for the potato famine is the
chaotic condition of freights, the sup¬
ply now being obtained from New
England. Tremendous increase of de¬
mand for sugar causes the local
shortage, for there are million* of
pounds a day being refined at the
Savannah Refinery, most of it, how¬
ever, being contracted for months
ago.
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TELL THE WORLD.
If you think your town is the best,
tell ’em so.
If you would have her lead tin
When rest, there’s help her grow,
other fellow anything to do, let the
count on you,
You will feel bully when it’s
through, don’t you know?
If you want to make a hit, get a
name.
If the other fellow is it, who is to
blame?
Spend your money in your town.
Give Thusly keep your prices down.
the fly-by-nights a frown—
that’s the game.
If you are used to giving knocks,
Throw , change your style,
for awhile, bouquets instead of rocks,
Let the other fellow roast, shun him
as you would a ghost,
Meet his hammer with a boast,
and smile.
When a stranger from afar comes
along,
Tell him who and what you are—
make it strong;
Need not flatter, for that’s enough:
Join tho boosters— that’s the
Laramie (Wyo.) Boomerang,
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH
WAGES WAR ON MAlARIA
That malaria must be dealt with
! in Georgia, as ia practically every o
ther southern state, can no. be ques¬
tioned. The greatest handicap those
j who bat this have malady been endeavoring have to com- With
ever met
‘ s the antagonism manifested by the
citizens oi the infected communities.
; They are fearful of advertising their
.community as being "sickly.”
j , So long us we deny the fact that
we have malaria in Georgia, just
that long shell we continue to have
"chills and fever, > ’ and lose about one
thousand lives and thousands, even
| millions, of dollars each year.
, If one is sick, he must become a
ware 0 f before he will call a phy
! aician. One must realize the magni
| tude of his sins before -he will be
Kin likewise to pray earnestly for forgiveness;
we must get some idea as
to what malaria is costing us, and
make a final determined stand if
we are to eliminate this malady and
stop paying the high cost of mala¬
ria.
The State Board of Health is at¬
tempting one of the most extensive
anti-malaria campaigns in Georgia
this year that has ever been under¬
taken in the south. The success of
this camptiign depends almost en
lirely upon the amount of interest
manifested by the citizens of the va¬
rious infected communities and the
co-operation Is of the people.
malaria a problem in your com
munity? If so write the State Board
of Health all the facts, and the
I healt h department will endeavor to
j come to properly to your organize assistance and help this' you
to fight ve
ry expensive malady.
STATE BOARD OF HEALTH.
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FLAN TO GET SUPPLY
| OF CALCIUM ARSENATE
As chairman of the state board of
entomology, culture, Commissioner of Agri
J. J. Brown will appoint a
committee to assist his department
in requesting warehousemen, supply
merchants, ther fertilizer dealers and o
kindred intereste in seeing that
a supply of calcium arsenate is stored
thruout the state in order that it may
be eeadily accessible to farmers in
their war on boll weevil which threat
ens to do greater damage in Geor
gia this year than ever before. He
says:
“The The United United States States department department of of
agriculture, the Georgia board of en
tomology, ricultuie the State College of Ag
ricultuie and and the ti Southern Fertin
r.er association .• aave all approved of
the use of calcium arsenate as a
spray investigation to poison the boll weevil. Up
on it is found that the
moderate supply being produced by
bought manufaolurlersl 'is being largely
is by southwestern farmers It
greatly feared that Georgia tar
mera will neglect to provide
selves With this material until it is
too lute to seaue^iL”
TRAINING LITTLE CITIZENS
r Teach Children to Love Plants
Animals
Every ^ (By I>r, J. H. Francis )
child should have something
otherwise upon which they to lavish will weaken, his affections’;
fections, like for af
other traits, must live
ami grow by c ercise. Notice the lit
tie girl with her doll or the boy with
jeets his hobby horse. While inanimate ob
the represent life and hence hold
attention of children, living
them things are far more interesting to
and offer greater possibilities
for teaching sane and wholesome les
sons. A certain small boy who had
, several pet hens, gladly brought
little chickens their
imo the house and
cared ing for untimely them by the open fire dui~
Another an small bo; spring snowstorm,
j his Saturday mornings habitually spent
his guinea pigs, caring for
| and while his brothers
friends were playing. With the
toy the child expresses what he al
J'eady thing knows he and is; but with the liv
the ing life discovers himself and
about him.
The ig.iora icc of children, and a
dults too, of the simplest, most or¬
dinary facts of nature about them,
is unnecessary »nu .dipioraoic. *,
have been .taug.it to memorize facts
from books rather than to discover
and appreciate them.
Give to the child some living thing
that is his own to know, to love, amt
G 1 ! - . Some will find greatest
delight in animals, . such — as ponies,
pigs, dogs, cats, , chickens, rabbits,
! i.,n, eic. 1 hint life, however, will in
terest many uhildren more thun we
suspect, if they are allowed to plant
and»cultivate their own gardens. The
lessons to be learned from either
important plant or animal that life are so varied and
take advantage every parent should
of the opportunity
.tnd g;ive to each child some living
thing* to care tor, study, and iove.
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Don’t PickOut a Printer
Blindfolded >1
Get the Ore Who Can
4 Help You Sell Your Goods
have the
ability to help
you sell your goods end
we can do this &t a
reasonable cost to you.
Economy and staod
watchwords arc^ization are the
here. We
use HammermiU Bond,
the standard, economi¬
cal. business paper and
we turn out a grade of
printing that brings re¬
sults for our customers.
LET US SHOW YOU
THE SWEET POTATO™
A MONEY CROP
OF IMPORTANCE
F. H. Jeter, tell Improvement Com
mlttee.
Entsr.ua the field In coupetltlot
with th* other more firmly establish
ed money crops, the southern sweet
potato Is rapidly gaining in popntarltj
as a field crop of first importance. On*
of the greatest drawbacks to Its suo
cessful establishment has been that m
adequate means of curing and storing
bad bseis advised until the last few
years. With the successful operation
of these potato storage houses, how
ever, the crop can bow be marketed
successfully It Is probably on# cl
the most cheaply grown crops of th*
South and with proper fertilisation
the least fertile lands can be made tc
produce excellent yields, giatlatiej
show that It la aa ordinary accom
pllshment to grow a crop of from 20(1
to 400 bushels per acre on most any
soil of average fertility with proper
fertilization.
Possibilities As s Money Crop.
Ah to the money income from the
crop, it must be said that it com¬
pares most favorably with cotton, au¬
tistic* show that the average rstura
from an acre of cotton amounts to
about 170 87 per acre, while the re
turns from an acre of potatoes
amounts to $134.19. One grower in
South Carolina reports to the college
that he made a net profit of
on four acres, which Is a return over
three hundred dollars per acre. Thl#
grower was careful to keep an accu¬
rate account of all expenses, including
that of curing, marketing sad grad¬
ing his crop, and his experience shows
the possibilities of the sweet potato
as a money crop for the Bouth In
fact, It proves :he value of the crop
beyond all queetlon.
Produces Well On Nearly All Soils.
The soil and climatic condition# of
the lower South are very favorable,
to its growth and produce a root much!
sweeter and richer In nutriment than
the harder and more starchy tuber 1
"* ,he mor * northern atafaa
1 lat0 makes tta beai yields In the san
Idler soils. It will do well on most I
any soil that is well drained, but if 1
grown on soils that are too fertile, I
lh ....educes .xpenL a larger oJ !h. amount of vine at
e potatoes A light
*° 11 aot t00 fertU * 7 Uh ‘ ^
’ sub¬
soli, gives K best results. If the
■ noil Is too loose, and not compact, a
Urge proportion of the roots will bB
itrlngy and unfit for markst purpose*.
Preparation of the soli is about as
tor cotton, The land Is broken, laid
off, the fertlliaera applied in the rowa
and this bedded upon. The ridge ia
generally allowed te settle firmly be¬
fore the slips or vines are planted
Some Leading Varieties.
As to varieties, the Nancy Hall
seems to be the prime favorite at this
time. The Porto Rico and Triumph
varieties are also very popular and
rnnk with the Nancy Hall a* a good
yielder and a market favorite. The
Southern (Jueen and Yellow Jersey are
two other varieties which have found
favor with some growers.
Liberal Fertilisation Important.
The uuextion of fertilizers ie, of
course, related to the kind of soil on
which the crop Is grown On the
whole the crop needs liberal fertilisa¬
tion and respond* well to this treat¬
ment. The sweet potato needs a com
pleta fertiliser and an application ol
at le * s t tf 0 ™ 800 t0 P 0 ® 11 * 1 * P* r
acre. Some manure may be applied,
but It should be understood that this
is an unbalanced plant food, that bo¬
cause ot Its nitrogen content will d*
velop the vine to th* detriment of the
roots If applied in too large qu&nti
ties. The same thtng ie true of a oom
mercial fertiliser mixture having a
high nitrogen analysis. Th# croc
needs potash more than do genera)
field crops, since this element seeing
to aid In the elaboration of starch In
the root*. It wa* found, however, that
during the shortage of potash, due tc
the recent war. that aweet potatoes
would produce well with a less amount
of potash than had been previously
thought neceeeary.
For nest results the crop must have
a good supply of readily available
phosphoric add. A formula contain
ing all three of the necessary ele
ments of plant food would be, for th*
coastal plain region, f per cent avail
able phosphoric acid, 3 per oent nltro
gen and 4 per cent potash. For th*
Piedmont region, a good mixture will
contain 9 per oent available phos
phoric add, X per cent nitrogen and
X per oent potash.
Curing Houses Solves Marketing
. Problem.
Curing and storage houses are now
going up rapidly all over the South
Some of these are established on th*
Individual farm for the itfdtvidua.
crop, but many large houses to storr
the oommuntty crop are also being con
strucled. The curing hou*o save*
from 95 to 98 per cent of tUe crop in
excellent condition for food as con
trs 9 ted to a former loss of from 2(i
to 100 per cent of roots under the
old system of banking and handling
A storage house may be constructet
for about 50 cents a bushel for housei
of from 500 to 2.500 bushels capaclt'
and for 40 cents per bushel for target
houses. Plans for these houses ma>
be obtained free of charge from th
Spited States Department of Agriaul
ture.
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★ FLASHES FROM FLOYD *
★ Of th# Lsador-Tribuas Forea it
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Some of the candidate* wear* in the
race pnyway.
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A short horse is soon curried ft
he isn’t a kicker.
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Somebody’s always trying to take
the joy out of life.
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* • Prices Soar.”—Headline. So are
we.—Westby (Wis.) Times.
A man who has a right to vote and
doesn't exercise it should be disfran¬
chised.
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Some people wear overalls because
they want to, others because thej
have to.
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Beauty may be only skin deep, but
the impression it makes extend
much deeper.
¥
• A woman’s mind, like a chicken sa¬
lad, contains a lot of things that m
man ever suspects.
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If people would eat more-lasee"
three t : mes a day it might help re¬
duce the h. c. of 1.
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We have always thought some e peo
pie’s appearance would be helped
with a pair of overalls.
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Another thing that we can't un¬
derstand is why a red-headed man
never seems to get bald.
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Fort Valley will soon be a city ol
“some” population. Peach packer.
and helpers will soon be on the job.
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If you aren’t happily married e
verybody is sorry for you, but if yon
are nobody seems to understand you.
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What has become of the old fash
ioned woman that used to press he
husband's pants every Sunday morn
ing.
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Some elaim that the 1920 peacl
season will be a few weeks late. Bu
all seem satisfied that a good croi
will prevail.
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A doctor announces that eatint
raw onions i* the best hair tonic. But
most girls would rather be bald
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Many movie promoters still havt
‘if! 1 1 mak * a co
™ .. walkin and
,, E c»ne ;
mousutene.
You haven’t heard any of the boy.
who were over there rareing to g.
back and get into the present scrim
mage that s going on.
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Peace hasn't been declared in the
families in which the husband got
married to keep from being drafted
He can’t even arrange for an arm is
tice.
A woman used to hold her cai
fare in her mouth. But she has turn
to quit it in towns where the fare has
been boosted to seven and eight
cents.
We are still listening for those re¬
fishermen. record-breaking From catches by our local
there indications to date
has not been so much of a
nibble.
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One thing about being poor is
that your money is not going to Day
a lot of high priced lawyers to ai»
cover that you were insane when you
made your will.
W hen girl :—¥— becomes
she a is engaged to
a that man all her friends uncomfortably aware
she did it— and all her are asking whv
asking how she did enemies are
it!
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A village girl eloped in her father’s
And the next day the locai
paper came out with an account of
ther's elopement headed “Flees in Fa¬
Pants.”—Ladies Home Jour¬
A
The first fcaby is awakened every
minutes because the mother is a
fraid that the color of its eyes might
But the third and fourth get
dose of paragoric so that they will
on sleeping.
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The Kalmazoo Gazette tells the
that the Normal School band
consist of “a cap and coat
first with the probable addition of
pants at a later date, One way to
oeat the old H. C. L.
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The ice cream freezer is said to
been invented by a woman,
it sounds reasonable. If a man
invented it he would have made
so a woman could run it without
assistance from him.— Mechan
(O.) News Item.
THE LONG ¥
AND SHORT OF IT
** Pack my box with five dozen li
jugs, ” .Is the shortest sentence
the . American
the letters of language containing
the alphabet. But
July 1 the fellow who does is
to draw one of the longest sen
on record.—The Optimist,
THE EDITOR.
Breathes there a man with sonl so
who never to himself has said:
editor has quite a head, I’m
to take his paper. He’s got a
of grit and sand, he prints the
to of beat all the the band, land, he boosts the*
and that’s the
caper. He soaks the grafter’
the neck, he saves the Ship of
from wreck. He’s Johnnie on
spot, by heck, when things are in
jumble. He writes the ads that
the dough; he chases all our
and woe; he tells us all we
to know—and y*t ha is quite
Mason.
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Authorized Ford Dealers.
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