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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE. FORT VALLEY, OV. MAY 7, 1326.
THE liMMIMl
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
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JOEL MANN MARTIN. Editor
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SUGGESTS BETTER NAME
FOR THE NEW COUNTY
Capt. Jim Mathews, one of out
best personal friends and “fighten
est" political “difierers," has com
forward with the suggestion of wh¬
ile deems a much more appropriate
/mine for the new county we wan
than “Peach.” Capt. Jim is strong
for its being named “Long County,
for Dr. Crawford W. Long, the Geor¬
gia physician whose first use of an¬
esthesia in surgical operations entit¬
led him to world eminence and pla¬
ced him in the class of the greatest
benefactors of humanity.
We fully agree with Capt. Jin
that “Peach” County sounds entirely
too commercial—savors too patentlj
of boasting of mere material assets
whereas the name of a county oughi
to commemorate higher virtues. Be¬
sides, there is too much chance ol
our being pride in the name “Peach” Coun
ty of an ephemeral nature. A
within name tnat bugs and water have it
their power to reduce to emp¬
ty insignificance doesn’t appeal to
us. A little more rain, a little more
curculio and borers and brown rot
and cold-kill and San Jose scale and
souring and hail and wind, and so
on, ad infinitum, for a few seasons,
it is conceivable, are liable to make
us sick of the name “Peach.” We
may wish we hud named it “Allcrops
County.” Now,
we are an ardent admirer of
President Wilson. But that’s where
Capt. he Jim and we don’t agree, and
says he’ll vote against the new
county and move out of it if it’s
named Wilson County. So that
tle* that. We’d rather have
Jim stay with us in the new county
than to have it named for
Wilson even. Anyway, we think
would be far better to name it for
dead man whose virtues have
epitaphed bles in marble and whose
“Long are forgotten. County”
name—both would be a
memorative. It descriptive is and com
priate that Georgia particularly appro¬
be named a county should
tor an eminent Georgian.
Dr. Long was a man of initiative—
a characteristic trait of the citizens
of the proposed new countv. It has
been suggested that if the' proposal
*0 r.ame the new county lor Dr
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of all were the brought to the attention
doctors in CJeorgia a very
influential sentiment in favor of the
new county would be created thru
out the length and oreadth of the
State—a suggestion worthy of se
rious consideration.
It is true that most of the coun
ties of the State are named for
former governors of the State. One
former governor, also a mun of no
little initiative, we believe has nof
been so honored. That is Governor
Joseph of Governor E. Brown. Brown’s Unfortunately foibles all
been forgotten haven’t
But he possessed nor sterling even forgiven.
which should make the qualities
citizens of
any named county for proud to live in a county
him. And talking about
Jiitiative, Gaddistown” if the “Farmer Boy o
didn't have it there
never was any such animal. And he
wasn t any piker as a governor or
•tates rights man, either, even ii
he was the originator of a whole
regiment of pikers. We like the
sound of “Brown County, *» or “Joe
Brown County.” It sounds like i * do
ing about in the spirit of that in
treprid old chin-whiskered war gov¬
ernor. And just think of the goodly
number of splendid citizens of that
good name we would have in the new
County.
But we’re getting off- the point
Capt. trying Jim’s to take the wind out of
start sail—which we didn’t
out to do. We must admit there
*£ e i.r° me ^ od stron £ points in favor
of “Long County.”
Anyway, let’s got together while
yet there is time—and time is short
—and agree on a really appropriate
name that will suit all the new coun
tyites. Let’s invite all the new coun
ty clans to gather at a ’cue or some
thing and talk it c over.
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-JSvrT?V racin' o* te ♦ Hl S hway u Board, r, o
estaDiished i last * summer, has under
way 122 projects, representing $9,
W ^ts 'I R ;» ilii L„ T fifty-three pro
tfon B n
$4,553,656.65. The proposed svstem
in Georgia includes 4,800 miles of
hard-surfaced roads, for which
C. M. Strahan, chairman of the state
highway board, estimates that $7
000,000 will be available during the
|7,50(f,000, next eighteen months. Federal aid of
added to county funds,
makes about $15,000,000 available
for the future.
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More than 200 Rescue Homes for
fallen girls are maintained by the
Salvation Army throughout the
world. More than eighty-five per¬
cent of those passing through thes*
home* are permanently restored.
MOTHERS’ DAY
The second Sunday in May has
<een set apar t as M others 1 >ay
when we are to do homage to our
mothers and wear a flower ! n then
memory. Mother! How the thrills
name
every human breast with emotion*
unsurpassingly sweet “We have all
known her not in the same pecson j
but the same glory frames each sop
arate face in the aureale of ita own i
Divinity. , .. . .......t,,' ?he
nf^Anna ?f mS‘ Jarvi* who S Conceived conceived the
to And thu day
her own mother. on gratitude we
bring our tributes of love, ]
and devotion and lay them at her
feet with all the reverence of our
oeing. that sweet personality ...
Mother,
.iid most drawn powerful influence from in our
ives has us awav gentla man spir
a snare and pitfall; that
t which guided
Hours 1 1 temptation, has u»
;afely : ».to the things ot right.
** -' S till’ is
.• 1 orce in the universe, th»t that wp we li»« live in
duration. She bet.eveu realized in us wue.. the
\ 11 others doubted. She
mobility of the life in her keeping,
nd felt that Christ gionfied in mo
oerhood was a wonder u pi
'^Mav^wc plead her fnr^v— her
our wayward steps have caused
a sweep SinKl ovJr a as a we‘ ref left upon'the
moments of anxiety she has suffered :
in our behalf. I
We know that all we are or ever
aspire to be we owe to mother’*
holy influence.
We know that most “all the
leautiful things in life
wos and threes, by dozens and hun
dreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets,
rainbows, brothers and sister-, aunts
° n ® m ° ther “
all the wide world.
Let us usk ourselves how we can
>est show our love and appreciation and
if Her whose untiring devotion
nd patient training has made us
rue to ourselves and to her God.
It is sweet to wear a white flower
.’or Her, and to honor her memory
whether living or dead, but if we
vould make her happy, we can best
lo by wearing the “white flower of
1 blameless life.”
I think when Heavens gates are
wung apart, in the forefront of that
Ingelic throng, there will not be
lerhaps all the heroes we have pic¬
tured here on earth, but those mo
ihers of our land who have been
rue to their trust throughout the
years. Only eternity will reveal the
many deeds of heroism and sacrifice
'.hey enacted on earth, and their
crowns will be as beautiful as
lives—
“The bravest battle that ever wa*
fought
Shall I tell you how and when,
On the maps of the world you’ll
find it not,
It was fought by me mothers of
men. **
Eliza Hill Martin,
May 5, 1920.
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NOAH WEBSTER'S STORY RE¬
VISED. •
(From “Food and Farming” Weekly,
U. S. Dept. Agriculture.)
It all depends on whose ox is
gored, as Mr. Noah Webster once
said in a charming little story.
Farmer Johnsonius Smithfield—
call him that for short— had 35
chickens that he wanted to sell. He
hauled them to town, was offered 19
cents a pound for them, refused to
take it, and was hauling them back
home when he met the county agent,
who advised him to ship them to a
near-by city, when he believed, they
would bring 22 cents a pound or
more. Smithfield said he never
shipped any chickens, that he
believe in new fanglei ways, and that
he would take the chickens back
home. The county agent was so sure
of his ground that he offered to
guarantee Smithfield 22 cents, and
the on his personal responsibility advance— paid
farmer the money in
$32.62.
About a week later tha county
agent met Smithfield and suggest
ed that they settle up the chicken
deal. “Well, how did it come out?”
inquired Fanner Smithfield. “and, “I lost
$5,” said the counfy agent, of
course, you are going to share it with
me.” “No, sir,” said Smithfield, “it
turned out exactly as I thought it
would, and 1 am under no obligation
to bear any of the loss.” “Well,”
said the eo&nty agent, “I just wanted
to see how you felt about it. Here is
the check, $42.21 which is $9.5P
more than I paid you. I got 28 cents
a pound for those chickens instead. !
of 22 cents.”
Now to follow the vne seouence sequence of oi 1
Mr. Webster’s story, johnsonius we would have
to make Farmer
field demand the turning' over of
$9.59 to him; but it didn’t come out,
that way. The county agent offered
to Smithfield do exactly said, that “I thing, won t have but Farmer it that j
way; you keep half the profit and I 11
take half. You have taught me a les
son that will be worth a great deal
more than that to me and my neigh
bors whenever the local dealers re
fuse to pay us what our produce is
Tha -l - ln ?? gma 5 y * tory . :
The T u TT United States Department ot
Agriculture vouches for it and back-
it up with the records of the Office
Work in ,h0 Sou,h '
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Two 1m, t r»c« of l,„d .long It,
Dixie highway have been purchased
Tbe f°, r exceedingly sales so gratifying noteworthy prices, that
se were
tbey were reported in numbers of
P«Pers over the section. These items!
serv in V8lue e to emphasize which always the rapid to increase) lands;
comes
al °ng good roads. Transportation is
oft ®n as vital a factor as soil fertili
ty> and looking at the matter strict
ly from a standpoint of dollars and
—The^DixuTmghwav for good
roads B ,
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Rub-My-Tism is a great pain kil
ler. It relieves pain and soreness
caused by Rheumatism, Nauralgia,
Sprains, etc.—Adv.
ALL-THE-YF.AR FARMING
For the second successive season I
peach growers of this section
facing disaster.
Late freezes, excessive rainfall,
curing arid dying of trees, insect
; j amaife depleted L. vitality of trees oast!
,rom excessive ex „ bearine Dtaring of of the the past | j
ihrec years, hail and wind, have all
conspired to steadily diminish the
prospects for a normal crop. A num-l
>er of the large growers will have no I ‘
^ The situntion looks critifal for
business generally thruout this see-j
j on< >p} le peach grower is faced with
he same situation as the cotton
planter who relied solely on cotton
and suffered several off years. Bus
iness generally is threatened with the \
same results. 1
Why will men of the high order |
of intelligence of the average peach .
grower of this section confine their I
tailents, energies and financial in
vestment ... to a one-season money:
crop? Why not diversify? Why not I
divide his land into four equal parts j
and plant each quarter t0 cropa that
will fj nd a mar )j e t waiting at each of |
the four maturing seasons? Plant
me-fourth to small grains for a;
i prinff ba «-v«t; one-fourth to peaches i
^ or a summer harvest, one-fourth to
pecans for a fall harvest; and one
to hogs for a winter
Strawberries and other small fruits.'
peanuts, and many other crops could
be pro( j uce d profitably in this sec-
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Mr. A. B. Young told the editor
.other day of seeing recently a
^‘end of his who lives in
where the farmers formerly « , depend- . ,
cd solely upon cotton and were
ruined by boll weevil. This friend
had recovered from financial ruin
and reported that he and the other
farmers of his section are now pros
pering. The cause was diversifica
tion—all-the-year-round crops.
We don’t know a thing about
practical farming. But if it’s done in
other sections of the country, why
not here?
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THEY TRIED IT ON THE CaTS
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Lack of knowledge concerning the
right food to feed rather than lack of
food is the cause of much of the mal
» ' bis h ».Si!'!” country child specialists sa>,
and home demonstration agents em
ployed by county farm bureaus in
cooperation with the United States
Department of Agriculture and the
State colleges are being asked this
, year to teach the kind of food that a
growing child should have.
! Sometimes talks and demonstra
I ! tions are given they to the mothers, and
sometimes are gtven to the chil¬
dren at school. It is an interesting
fact that the best results come when
talks with the mothers are supple
men ted by talking directly to the
children.
Milk, whole milk, is always advised
as the ideal food for the growing
child, and sometimes the results of
the experiments made by an investi
gator who fed milk to rats is told
the children to drive home the neees
sity of drinking milk if they wish to
be healthy and stiong.
Among the pupils who heard such
a lecture in a school in Platte Coun
ty, Wvo.. were three boys from one
family. All three were very much
underweight, as were two
brotheis at home. Their mother had
had little training in the care and
feeding c-f children and the children
showed it.She w T as very willing, how
ever, to help carry out the sugges
tions about food that the chi i dren
brouffht home nome from irom the tne lectupe lecture.
Two months later the home
stration agent met the mother, who
fold her how pleased the whole fam
ily was at the children’s gain in
weight and general health since their l
change in diet. Then she said: 4<
must tell you about the experiment.
that the boys tried with cats to
me that what you *old about the rats
was true. They thought that calsi
ought to do as well as rats in an ex
periment of that kind, and they had
the cats ancNdidn’t have the rats. So I
thev took two kittens, and to one
they onlv fed separated milk, and to
the other they gave whole milk with
feeding n tablespoon of cream added to each
„ Tf tul !"® d . ^ ut . wnth ... them lust . . ... like
,t f did with the rats, to the intense
at ' sfac t,an _ of . tbe f . , b " ys , - The .... k.tten
had J the whole u milk grew big and
strong, while the one on the sepa
rated milk diet was thin and puny.”
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B,G __ BAND . AM _ DEAL n SHOWS
VALUE OF GODD HIGHWAYS
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Americas—One J of the big—st
, . d ' " The ale\f
,, ■ aS jusf been c , osed in
the John W. Wheatley home place of
528 acres for $50,000. The property
was owned bv Crawford Wheatley, of
Americus who sold it to Charles M
CouncU Mr Counci purchased the
will develop it as a model dairy
Th» ’» loe.fod on It.
seefion' ’ „f S ^t, east of*the V state b ^^
in this * th *
ne Dixie L ’ ixle nignway. Highway
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The ’’Huns” in History
Hodgkin in his “Italy and Her In
speaks of the Huns, prior to
heir European invasion But for one
sonne of Informa- j
Ion. nil Is dark concerning them Thai
Is ihe history of Chinn If the
he the Hlong-nu, whose ravages
recorded in that history, then we
a minute account of their doings
centuries before (be Christian era.
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FLASHES FROM FLOYD dr
Of the Leader-Tribune Force dr
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To escape from the piker class
should advance In price also.
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Yes, there is a fixed valuation to
smile, It is all that you can get out
of it.
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A wise man sees |iis own faults.
The fool sees only the fault, of
0t " er3, 1
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There is plenty of goodness in this
worid but the trouble is that each 1
fellow thinks that he has a corner
on the crop.
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Energy is the gift of the gods and
that is possibly the reason that some
people never employ it.
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Hard times are in store for the ed
torial writers. If old Carranza peters
out thev will have to find another
fo j. thejr hot shots .
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Here are two important extremes
of ]jf e . A good reputation is hard to
make and easy to lose, while a bad
one is eas y to ma ke and hard to lose,
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... llusehoM . ..
B ;Tl t^ U ’ h fills
these days. He’s becoming both a
Solomon and a martyr in his old age.
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Note please, that the oratory of
our presidential spellbinders was
completely eclipsed the other tornado day.
But it took a death dealing
to do it.
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This town is full of brains. What
* needs is a little more co-ordina
tion and cohesiveness. Brains pro
dut . e w i s d om only when they are em
ployed to advantage,
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A nut once said that a man could
« et r {f h b V attending strictly to his
own business. His own business, we
presume, would consist of annexing
the other fellow’s business,
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Turkey, we are told, is to be al¬
lowed to keep Constantinople. But
who is to keep the Turk? His past
performance render him an unsafe
animal to be roaming at large.
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And still Major Dalrymple need
not fear for a job. Rum rebellions
could be worked up in the movies,
and star actors with a reputation
could command almost any price,
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0 > »«b“Lt?d f mopp ” .Tt"i. V Pirs until
»ui b.
tjnf , af , a j n Surely our Kood f 0 refa
thers wished a bunch of agony on us
w h c n they framed the Constitution.
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Another Boston doctor says, that
in lized fifty that years they people will not will be anything so civi¬
care
about kissing. We should worry. In
fifty years we will be so old that
kissing will not be interesting to us.
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Where Ignorance Wa* Bliss.
, A farrner saw R b picki app]ea
from one of his best apple V trees. He
tried to catch hini( say the Wee kly
Telegraph, but the bov was too quick
for him, and so the farmer changed
his tactics.
“Come here, my little son,” he said
in a soft voice, with a counterfeit
friendliness, “come here to me a min
ute! I want to tell you something, tr
“Not likely!” replied the boy. “Li it
tie ones like me don’t need to know
everything, • •
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jp PAPERS TOLD THE TRUTH
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Only a short time ago the editor
of a paper in Indiana grew tired of
called a liar, and announced
1 that he would tell the truth in the
future, and the next issue of his pa
contained the following items:
John Bonin, our groceryman, U ,s
doj a business His store s
dirty and dusty. How can he do
h?
Tom Conaway, the laziest mer¬
chant in town, made a business trip
to Loganport on Monday.
Rev. Sty x- preached last Sunday
1 . , 1 Charity, n The
^ " on sermon was
P ur > K a| m ^ an hour long,
f' av e fankey died at his home here
on Tuesday. 1 he doctor gave it out
as failure. Whiskey killed him.
Married—Miss Sylvan Rhodes and
\'J T ‘ S Cordon, last Saturday at the
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Y aptl £l pars onage - b - v R ?. v - J - Gor '
, ls f y ery ordinary town
. wtl know
g ‘ r ° ""es 11 \ any more
abou„ cooking than a jack-rabbit,
and never helped .her mother three
days in ber ]jf e g be is nol beauty
bv y anv y means, and ana has nas a a cad gait uvi like
duck. , ,
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The groom is an uptodate loafer.
He has been living off ihe old folks
at home and is not worth shucks. It
will . be a hard life.
The governor of our state, a verv I
ord ; narv mail) w h 0 was eiec.ed by
was here yesterday. He has
very few friends here now. He
? ised some of the voters of this
precinct a piece of pie in event of
f or f tt en a11
lltlte plece ^ L''rnii rolled ^ 6 around t j , over i I
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We d- P,ck i. edUp j n Seve c " Lar , ^ D ^ d ,
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oL’ N “We MelTby lost 18
night,
some RAT-SNAP and picked
7 dead !, at s ," eXt morning
nd , i t fn s dldn , ‘t see f Single
at- RaT-SNAP t ™ - is good and sure.”:
m cake ready for use. Three j
25c, 50c, $1.00. Sold and guar- j
by the Georgia Agricultural 1
and Copeland's Pharmacy.— '
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Did you know that the Salvation
maintains a “Missing Friends’
which searches for missing
in any part of the world? i
1000 missing persons are lo
by the Bureau every year.
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© ^ Alluring ways to become separated *(§
(g) * from our earnings confront us on
every side. Compared with these
(§)>♦■ the channels of profitable saving are
* relatively small.
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(§) * on
(@) h- life saving is admittedly of tar great¬
er importance than earning or
spending.
§)* Do you save? Do you save hap
hazardly? Or do you save and
bank consistent!)? *(g
When you answer yes to the last
query, you can begin to expect big *(§
things of the future.
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to have repairs and replacements taken
care of by those who are familiar with
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materials, and skilled men to do the work
promptly. We pledge Ford owners the
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and standard Ford prices.
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