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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE. FORT VALLEY, OV. MAY 7, 1326. THE liMMIMl AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Esta blished 1 —Puolished by— THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO. JOEL MANN MARTIN. Editor Subscription Prico* (Payable in Advanca) 1 Year (2.60 6 Months 1.35 8 Months .70 Published Every Tuesday and Fri¬ day and Entered at ihe Post office at Fort Valley, Ga. , as Second Class Mail Matter. */ 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 Long ___ 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. o -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. o 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. o 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 ' -o 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 , -o ■ 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- 11 * 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? - ° T THEY TRIED IT ON THE CaTS _ 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.” ’ ©- 1 B,G __ BAND . AM _ DEAL n SHOWS VALUE OF GODD HIGHWAYS - 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 -o- _ 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. * FLASHES FROM FLOYD dr Of the Leader-Tribune Force dr ★ „ ★ *4'****'******** To escape from the piker class should advance In price also. * Yes, there is a fixed valuation to smile, It is all that you can get out of it. --★ A wise man sees |iis own faults. The fool sees only the fault, of 0t " er3, 1 ¥ 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. -*- Energy is the gift of the gods and that is possibly the reason that some people never employ it. ★ 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 . ¥ 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, ★ ... llusehoM . .. B ;Tl t^ U ’ h fills these days. He’s becoming both a Solomon and a martyr in his old age. ♦ 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. ★ 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, — — 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, ★- 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. ★ 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, ★ 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. A 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. * 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, • • - o jp PAPERS TOLD THE TRUTH - 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 ■ 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. , , a 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 - We d- P,ck i. edUp j n Seve c " Lar , ^ D ^ d , « % F r ; , “”mT'b U “e* »♦ » , j smtli 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.— ' i o 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. ®®<®®®®®®®®®®®©®®®®®®®@®W^ ® * CAN YOU ANSWER YES? © ^ 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. ^ - /@\ 'S’ j*. Yet in the business of getting in *(g (§) * 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. n * +(§ *(§ *(§ D* O A O + (§ (©)* *(§ (©>* OF FORT VALLEY §)* FOR I VALLEY, GA. 9>* 11 IH HONOR HOLl BANK *® *® §)* THE UNIVERSAL CAB Ford cars are important servants everywhere. They help the family en¬ joy life, brine the pleasures and advan¬ tages of the town within reach of the farmer and give practical service every day in country and town. They require a minimum of attention; any one can run the Ford and care for it, but it is better to have repairs and replacements taken care of by those who are familiar with the work and have the tools, the genuine materials, and skilled men to do the work promptly. We pledge Ford owners the reliable Ford service with real Ford parts and standard Ford prices. G. L. STRIPLING & CO. Authorized Ford Dealers. v *+************************* * * ALL KINDS INSURANCE, -k * . BEST COMPANIES, + * + ar * * ^ BUSINESS APPRECIATED * * w ♦ -R KINNEY 16SIII Bill GO •I ♦ + WESLEY HOUSER, Mgr. * * + + * + + + + + + + + + t + tm + w + wtn « — — It s a mark of good judgment read the Leader-Tribune; it’s a of good principles to sub¬ for it.