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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA JULY 23, 19ZD.
BIG AMERICAN RUBBER PLAN¬
TATION
The fascination which the
strange lands of the Far East have
held for the average American
taking on a more tangible foun r
now that travel and business are
bringing Asia and the United State*
Into closer contact.
No article of commerce is doing
more to bring this country into close
touch wth the mystic East than rub¬
ber. The rapid rise to supremacy in
the production of crude rubber of
the islands of the Indian Ocean, com¬
bined with the fact that America
consumes nearly three-quarters of
all the ruber grown there, has given
marly Americans an opoortunity to
peep behind the scenes and become
acquainted with the lands and peo¬
ples of that distant quarter of the
globe. equatorial
Although the whole
bait in that section is dotted with
rubber plantation*, representing a
capital investment of half a bil¬
lion dollars, the thoughts of Amer¬
icans naturally center on Sumatra
where one of America’s greatest
corporations has established a plan¬
tation so vast in area and so highly
developed that it stands out as the
greatese single plantation in the
world. This is the plan
tation of the United States Rubber
Co. comprising seventy square miles
of growing trees, an enterprise mar¬
ked throughout by a magnitude and
ap efficiency worthy of th* best
American traditions.
By producing its own rubber the
company is in a position to establish
product, especially United States
product, especally United States
tires, such as rubber manufacturers
have long craved.
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ADEL ICE FACTORY
NOW IN OPERATION
Adel’s ice factory is now running
on full time. Mr. Shiver at last se
cured a supply of ammonia after
scouring the country for it and be¬
gan operations Saturday. His wagons
wjtre on the streets Tuesday and he
ia now prepared to furnish ice to
Adel ( and the surrounding country.
An ice factory was needed here and
wp are glad to tee Mr. Shiver get
hi* plant started. There is little ques¬
tion that he will find a ready market
for all he can make. The ice is pretty
and, of a high quality. Mr. Shiver is
having coupon books printed, which
will be ready in a few days, and
which will prove economical and han¬
dy Tor users of ice to have.—Adel
Newa.
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THE PRICE IS TOO HIGH
There is a woman in Los Angeles
who has solved the problem of cut¬
ting grass on the lawn. She took up
•jil the grass and laid a cement lawn,
painting it green. Naturally, there
is no grass to cut as there isn’t any
lawn.
She did this, she says, to save her
husband the trouble of cutting the
grass and in saving him trouble she
has made, on a minor scale, the mis¬
take that spoils many a life. She has
evolved a hard, cheerless sham be¬
cause the real thing was too difficult
to keep up.
Everybody frets about life’s trou¬
bles, but life’s troubles and
the conquest of them are
life itself. It was Charles Lamb,
devoted playgoer, who said that he
neyer got the pleasure from good
seats in the pit in the days of his
prosperity that he did from the gal
lery in the days of his poverty. It
ig the boy from the farm on whom
the movie, the dance, and the sterile
joys of the city for which he sac
rificed so much, soon pall.
Almost anyone can, if he wishes
sacrifice the fierce joy of an active
and troublous life for a certain pla¬
cid ease, but he sacrifices too much
He can build himself a cement lawn
and paint it green, but it is only ce
mant. The Dearborn Independent.
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A CAUSE OF WASTE
The question of transportation is
not only a matter of engines and
cars and tracks, but also the useless
carting around the country of ma
terials that.need not be carted. What
is the use of hauling a live steer all
the way from Texas, turning it into
beef at Chicago, and hauling it all
the way back to Texes again? What
i* the use of hauling wheat a thous¬
and miles, as wheat, and then haul¬
ing it back again as flour? It doubly
burdens the railroads, puts the fann
af at the mercy of centralised buy
era, and adds heavily to the consum¬
ers bill. Wheat where should it is be raised. turned Hogs in¬
to flour
should be shiped as hams and bacon
—the finished, product Wherever
possible the process of production
should be completed in tne commun¬
ity where it begins. This would re¬
lieve the railways, make each com¬
munity <tnore independent of raiL
ways, exigencies, and be better all
•round.—Henry Ford ta The Dear
Independent.
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SYNOP8I8.
PART I.—Hts through star pitcher definitely Trls Ford, out
Of the game, Illness,
manager of the famous baseball team, '
th* Olant-Klllers, secures Barney Larkin,
brilliant twirler, but eccentric and dissi¬
pated. the and after a nerve-shattering the sea¬ In
son Giant-Killers win pennant
the American league. Gamblers, without
apparent reason, bet heavily against the
Olant-Kllleri. ship with In the the "Phillies.” world’s champion¬ Wlnton
games king of second basemen and
Shute, the bat. Is kidnaped
Ford’s main hope at
before the first gams.
PART II.—Shute, awaking from stupor
rork". f h.’wa.' b“ou e ; h t U on f board of | I
psrently Intoxicated under the name
UaTy° n A Ja wlreiessto 'pord ta'wroJk
apparently by the manager, and de
clares Shuts Is with the the team Inevitable. and play- He
Ing, Shute acquainted accepts with Miss Riley, fel
becomes something than
low passenger, and more Italian
friendship develops. At Genoa
secret service officers search the ship
Mias Riley confides to Shute that they
are after her. and that her name Is Leon¬
ard.
DRILLING FOR OIL IN FLORIDA.
Advice Given by Government Geo¬
logist
Wells have been drilled for oil
in every State in the Union except
che New England States and possi
nly four others—North Carolina,
South Carolina, Nevada, and Idaho.
Only sixteen States, however, can
be called oil-producing. A number of
deep wells have been drilled in Flori¬
da, the deepest being one near Bush
nell, in Sumter County, which was
carried to a depth of 3,u80 feet. This
well and one near Waycross, in south¬
ern Georgia, which was drilled to a
depth of 3,045 feet, are two of the
deepest wells in the Atlantic Coastal
Plain.
Geologist* Not Hopeful of Success.
Although the deep wells drilled in
Florida have yielded no indicitions
of oil the interest in the possibility j
of finding oil there has not been di- j
minished by their failure but has I
actually increased with the increase 1
in the prosperity of the State, so I
that much money has been spent in j ;
drilling test wells in areas where oil
is not likely to be found. As addi¬ I
tional wells will no doubt be drilled
in Florida the results of geologic
field work done by O. B. Hopkins,
and other members of the United
States Geological Survey, Depart¬
ment of the Interior, in cooperation
with the Florida State Geological
Survey, may have some value in fu¬
ture exploration.
The geologists of the United
States Geological Survey are not
very hopeful that oil will be found
anywhere in the Atlantic Coastal
Plain, bcause the stratigraphy and
the structure of the beds of rock in
that area are, in many ways diffe¬
rent from those of tne beds in the
Gulf Coastal plain, where oil has
been found.
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SWEET POTATO HOUSE IS
BEING BUILT IN MONTEZUMA
Mr. P. G. Busbee, Vienna, Ga.,
Contractor for the Planters Product
Company, has started work on the
Company’s 10,000 bushel sweet po¬
tato house. Mr. Busbee has just com
pleted two similar houses, one at Vi
enna and the other at Lilly. He will
cammence work on the house to be
placed at Ideal in about a week or
ten days. Materials are being assem¬
bled there now.
J. William Firor, Manager ol
Planters Product Company, states
.hat he is very much pleased with
the houses at Vienna and Lilly, as the
new features of these nouses appar¬
ently are going to overcome some
of the serious defects that have ex¬
isted in houses built heretofore in the
state. One of the great difficulties
in the past has been to provide suf¬
ficient ventilization and insulation so
that the houses could be kept cool
during the months of April and May.
These houses just finished have been
especially constructed for the pur¬
poses of meeting thi* need, Mon
tezuma Georgian.
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New Y*rk’* Indian Reservations.
There are Indian reservations at
Brie, Cattaraugus county; Oneida res¬
ervation at Oneida; Onondaga reser¬
vation, Syracuse; St. Regis reserva¬
tion, Franklin county; Shlnnecoek res¬
ervation. Southampton, L. I.; Tona
wanda reservation In counties of Erie
and Genesse, and the Ttiscarora reser¬
vation In Niagara county. Some of
these reservations mv quite large,
running up to 7,300 acre*. They are
opao ta visitor* almost any time.
No, Trls Ford didn't want to have to
answer back to unanswerable talk
like that. Neither did lie cure to part
company with Barney Larkin Just yet
—not while the temperamental twirler
was holding the Giant-killers to the
fore of the championship race and in¬
cidentally proving himself the best
drawing card In the American league.
If the team could he brought to look
upon Barney as a weak brother -
somebody without the pale of (lie
Giant-killers' society—and would tol
-rate him for the worth of his pitching
arm. the club might contrive to scale
the heights and win another pennant,
It was for the boys themselves to de¬
‘ Trig would have it out with
item through their . natural . , leader, , .
oi,ute
It haa been Intimated elsewhere
that a good atory hangs about the dis¬
covery and capture of James Wlnton
Shute—“Win" ta his team mates as to
bis college Intimates. Suffice It that
be was captain of the varsity nine at
tka big university, and so devoted wag
be to the national pastime that he was
eager to cut short his collegiate train¬
ing at the end of tils Junior year and
JoId the Giant-killers. But Trls Ford
wouldn't listen to It. He Insisted that
James Wlnton finish hla education;
and ever after, when Shute considered
his bachelor of arts degree with pride
and satisfaction, n. never failed to
thank Trls Ford for his part In the
capture of It. Ford alone could hove
kept the budding ball player In col
lege.
Two years after graduation Shute
was a regular on the-Giant-killers'
team, playing second base, He was
batting well over .300 and covering
second hr though he had Invented the
position and was continually Improv¬
ing his Invention. He had earned the
sobriquet of the “pepper-box.” for the
obvious reason that he Infused life and
go into the club. He was In the game
every minute, playing always for the
team, never for himself,
And—his lips had never known the
taste of liquor, as Ira Landis oratori
oally said one time at a public ban
quet; neither did the great second
sacker smoke. No wonder Trls Ford
looked upon him as a model hall play
er and Nought his counsel. ,lames
Wlnton Shute sat at the manager's
right at the meetings of the strategy
board.
Events hastened Trls Ford’s consul
tation with Win Shute about Barney.
Flrat of all, Shute was suffering the
tortures of Job with a nasty boll on
his groin—the one spot where such an
affliction can most harass an active
ball player. Trls Ford, sympathetic
to a fault, had told Win to stay out of
the game.
“With the team In a hatting slump
the pitching staff wabbly, and a lead
of less thun two games? Not on your
life, Trls 1 You may get the umpire to
order me off tha field, hut I’ll uot quit
for anybody else—get that?”
This gingery dialogue look place In
Chicago. Three days later Barney
Larkin railed to show up the after
noon lie was down to pitch. Hawk,
who didn’t have the stuff, tried to fill
tha eouthpaw’s shoes, and the Giant
killers were beaten—trounced three
games out of four in tha serie*.
Getting back from the grounds, the
team found Barney in the hotel lobby,
mixing it up with the hotel porter, «
friendly soul, who had tried to lure
tha “full" pitcher Into the privacy of
hla bedroom. At sight of Trls Ford.
Barney sobered up temporarily and
lurched Into the elevator—and heavily
against Win Shute.
It was the much advertised last bale
of straw. Barney's kicking over tin
traces and upsetting the chariot of
victory In such a crisis was too much
for James Wlnton Shute. He spoke
his mind:
“If Ford doesn’t tie a can to you to¬
morrow the so-called hundred-thou
sand-dollar Infield will look like s
plugged nickel. Barney, you're n«k
worth a d-n to anybody hut the tin
dertaker and hed be taking a long ^
chance, for I don't Whow who’d give up
dollar to bury You nothing (
a you. re
but an ordinary bum."
There was a split second when It ap
peered likely Barney would strike
Shute. Tris Ford, who had crowded j
Into the elevator unseen at the last j
moment, scenting trouble, contrived tu!
worm Ills way In front of Barney. H* j
gripped the pitcher’s wrists and held I
averted. them Ilka But a vise. that evening The danger after was din { J
ner, when Shute was sitting in his
room reading, the manager come tc
itlm and unbosomed himself. To
getber they discus :ed Barney’s pe<-u
Unwelcome Immigrant.
The boll weevil Is something thia
has acquired from Mexico.
crossed the Rio Grande river In
Since theu tt has been travel- t
100 each '
front 40 to miles year.
now covers the greater part of
cotton states.
liar case from every possible view
point.
“You put him In his right class—*
bum," began Trls.
"But I oughtn't to have said It,” ad
mltted Win.
“Never mind about that—you were
Justified In ssylng most anything—
yon playing for the club when you
should be In bed.”
“Cut that out, Trial l want the
pennant—want to get Into the world
series money again—you know It."
“go do we a!) of us.” agreed Ford.
“And there’ll be no pennant this
season If we can Barney Lnrkln
that's a cinch, Trls Ford suppressed
a sigh of pure relief, He now ven
tured to remark:
“If you hoys want me to let Barney
go, why—he goes! You won’t have to
say the word twice. It’s up io you."
"We can’t win without him—you
appreciate that, Trig, He’s a weak
ling, and we’ve got to get along with
him somehow or other.”
James W’lnton Sliute exercised his
gray matter for a brief space of time;
then his face brightened and he pro
posed:
Have a scheme—why not appoint a
keeper for Barney?
"A keeper?" Trls smiled, but
shook his head.
“Some one to look after him—nev
•r leave him a minute, 'cept when
he's snoring," elaborated Shute.
'Frald he wouldn’t stand for It,”
argued Trls; and If he did, Id a
week he’d lead his keeper astray I
Win laughed. “But you don’t quite
get me. Barney mustn’t he wise to
this keeper, and the keeper muat be
firewater proof.”
"I got you—but where’d you find
the man?"
"Higiit In our squad—Steadman—
young giant left-hander we have."
“But I’m going to send hlin to the
minors, to keep the squad dawn to
twenty-five men. This was the
league’s rule—from May 15 to August
15.
“You were going to,” corrected
Shute with a grin; "but on second
guess you’ve decided to keep him to
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"Why Do You Pick Steadman far tha
Job of Keeper?"
learn the pitching art from Barney
Larkin—greatest left-hander of hts
generation."
Trls Ford flashed his smile of un
derstandlng. Then he asked:
“Why do you pick Steadman for
the Job of keeper?"
“Because he doesn’t drink a drop,
because In a scuffle he’s heavy and
strong enough to take care of Barney
and put him to sleep, because Barney
likes him, and because they have a
great common bond. *»
“A eomn#m bond?" Trls looked In
credulous.
“Sure—they’re both disciple* of
Isaak Walton.”
“You mean—”
“They'll fish all day, both of them
without getting a single bite, and g>,
home happy at night.”
“Say, I’ll stock a trout pond neat
the ball park and build Barney a bun¬
galow on the shore,” said Trls.
Player and manager laughed with
the fervor of a couple of kids.
•Til revise my list and hold on to
Steadman." promised Ford.
"If you say so,” said Win, “I’ll
coach the yougster In his new posl
tlon. Next to Baruey, he likes me bet
ter, 1 think, than any man on the
cluh.”
“Next to Barney?” questioned Trls.
“Yes; I don’t fish.”
Ami thus, to the surprise of the
catchins force, was Ernest Steadman
retained with the Giant-killers. Two
lnen only. Trls Ford and Win Shute.
gb „ rP( j Steadman’s secret that he was
officlallV the weakling’s keeper. Stead
ninti stuck to Barney Larkin closer
than a brother.
“Dnmott and Piscatorlus.” Shute hm:
dubbed the pair. And, kept fnlrly well
in leash. Barney Larkin was a big
factor in the winning of many a ball
game.
Before the season was embalmed In
the Official Baseball Guide, Tris Ford
exhibited the first signs of age. Long,
lean, and immobile, never batting an
eye in the most trying situations, he
been wont to follow the game
front the dugont. A fiction there was
that he signaled with his score card:
but otherwise lie was as Impassive as
the copper head on a penny—until the
homestretch of this nerve-breaking
season. Then, as the scribes put U,
he began to act like an ordinary, flesh-j
and blood human being. He moved
uneasily upou the beach, sometime*
signaled brazenly to a player, and was
occasionally known to give vent to
disappointment or disgust by actually
slapping his knee In public. He was
not the same Trls Ford—not by an
obstreperous nervous system.
But who, save a block of llpnum
▼ifae, wouldn't have allowed Ids deep
concern to be occasionally seen ? I rom
the middle of August, when the West¬
ern clubs made their last Journey
east, the Giant-killers were scheduled.
week after week, to “blow "—that Is
to drop back in the race, This disas
ter threatened many times. Once the
team was two full games behind the
Red Sox, then leaders; hut lowly
Washington surprised the president,
the vice president, senators and con
gressmen by beating the “Spe**d Boys
four straight, and thus taking second
place. Collaterally, the senators helped
the Giant-killers back into first posl
tion.
Came the very last week of the sea¬
son with more excitement than the na¬
tion’s fans had ever experienced, The
pennants In both the major leagues
were In doubt! The Giants, expected
to repent" and Hgaln participate in
the world series, were to engage In n
cut-throat struggle with the Phillies.
If New York broke even, the charo
plonshlp banner would again float
from the Giants’ stadium. But If the
Phillies won three out of four, then
Father Penn would carry off the flag.
This series opened on Tuesday.
In the American the Giant-killers
had to keep ahead to win. A game and
a hr.lf separated Trls Ford's charges
from the Chicago White Sox Here,
however, there was no rival clash. The I
two clubs had met for the last time. !
and honors were even. Washington Chi- j j
must heat the Giant-killers and
cage must win from Detroit in order
to bring one end of the world series I
Into Lakeville. These two "deciding” j
combats began a day later.
The fan's night—Phillies dlnry had these and entries: New j |
Tuesday
York tied In the National.
Wednesday night- Giant-killers still !
a game and a half ahead In the Amer¬
ican ; New York leading in the Na- |
tlonal. I
Thursday before dinner—Teams j
fled again In the National; lujt a half
game between Giant-killers and White
Sox In the American.
Friday night—Phillies win the pen¬
nant I —
On the same day the Giant-killers,
with Barney Larkin on the rubber, de¬
feated the Senators while the White
Sox were whitewashing the Tigers. No
change in their respective standing-—
two leading American league teams
but half a game apart.
Immediately after ihe third game
Trls Ford took Barney Larkin into
hi* private office and talked to him as
a father to his wild son He rallied
every ounce of manliness, of senti¬
ment, of flghiitig blood there was In
the eccentric left-hander. He told him
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next day—and bring home the bacon |
The pennant was at stake! I
“You will be a hero If you win.” I
urged Ford, “pointed out by everybody
as the man who pitched the Glant-kiil
ers to another championship. But If !
you lose, why—you’ll be nobody.” j
Meanwhile, James Wlnton Shute
was giving orders to Ernest Steadman,
Just as the secretary of the treasury
would have directed the chief of the
secret service.
"You mustn’t lose sight of Burney
one instant’ If he insists on drinking,
start a row. and get locked up—the
both of you. We’ll ball you out, But
only in time to get front Oity hall to
the park In a taxi. See’’’ , ;
Ernest Steadman slowly nodded his
head. I have been every place but In
jail with Barney.” The keeper was a
man of few words.
That night Trls Ford slept badly,
Being younger and having done a big
man's work out o’ doors, Win Shute
slept like a babe—the kfod of kid you
read about. Naturally Tris awoke
with a feeling of depression, as,if the
Giant-killers weren't .going to get the
day's breaks. But Sliute jumped out
of Tied singing: “Today we win the
buutiug 1" Which goes to prove that
premonitions are closely allied to
“morning after.”
At two o’clock that fateful attar
when the last man left the lock¬
noon. Barney Larkin
er-room for the field,
and Ernest Steadman had not report
ed at the park. For an hour, by or- w
dor of Trls Ford, President Benns
limousine bad been rushing about I ke
hack on election day. searching
a pair,
everywhere for the missing
the business office the club’s ••Cretan'
hud the telephone directory b* for ®
him, opeD at "Saloons and Cafes, and
one after another the proprietors Mlche were
called, beginning with Aiello, e
and ending with Zbytnieski, Julian
Neither Michele nor Julian, not to
mention the rum purveyors occupying
the more intermediate portions of the
alphabetical directory, had seen the
erratic Barney or his slow-going con
vo.v. Win Shute.
On another telephone. hit*
marring the oak furniture with
spikes, was < calling the various police
_ final ln
stations. He remembered his
stmetions to Steadman. and was look
lng for results, But Larkin was not
behind the bars—not yet. As a place
of last resort, John Benn suggested
that some one telephone the morgue.
Borne one did. • • No one answering the
deacrlptlon I”
"He's made his getaway,” said Trls
Ford, “there’s nothing to that. - The
game was played with Cummins and
Arrow In the points. Washington
won.
Trls Ford left the grounds with a
face as long, as a rainy spell In April.
But Win Shute was cheerful. An hour
later he telephoned the manager:
“White Sox lose! Pennant’s ours.
jj 00 . ra yi”
,.j know it—but what d’you s’poaa
h8g become rt f Barney?” were Ford’s,
words. Already his quick mind was
looking ahead—to the big battle for
tbe wor id>g emblem,
“He’ll show up tomorrow—stop wor
ryi n g and hug yourself tonight,” couft
* e |ed Shute.
Well. I appreciate your grand work,
Win—on and off the field,” said Trls.
Next morning before ten o'clock, hts
eye bright, bis complexion clear, bis
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"We Won the Flag Sure Enough; Am
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step elastic, Barney Larkin turned up
at the park. He grinned as ha re¬
marked :
“We won the flag, sure enough; am
I right?”
“Where you been?” growled John
Benn, son of the club’s president.
"Up-stare,” answered Barney uncon¬
cernedly.
“What the devil you been doing?"
"Fishing."
Fishing—this time of year?”
... Didn’t catch nothing.
“You'll catch something when Trls
set* eyes on you.”
“Mebbe.”
Baruey took the most comfortable!
chair in the room, bit off a generous:
chew of tobacco, then picked up last!
night’s pink extra, and began labor!-’
on sly to spell out the “Flashes from
the Diamond."
Elsewhere Ernest Steadman was ex-i
plaining to his i
mentor. James Wlnton:
Shute. It appeared that Barney had
developed a robust thirst, which would
not be denied. Lacking confidence In
the jail as a haven, the worried keeper,
drawing heavily on his meager ima
glnalion, had faked the story of a mar
velous trout pond up state, In the
crisis he conjured up such a remarka
ble picture of the pond which wag
“lousy with trout,” as he expressed it,
that Barney was seized with a sudden
determination to go thither.
“I tried to make him wait until the
pennant was cinched,’ explained
Steadman, but he said he always
pitched better ball on a bellyful of
trout. Thought I planned it to get
back In time for yesterday’s game.”
“But I thought this was a phony
pond?” said Shute.
“ It was-the -one I told Barney
about. But I hunted up the nearest
one In the summer tour book of the
Pennsy.”
“Why didn’t you get back?” demand
ed Win.
“Because Barney wouldn't come un
til he had one bite_kept putting off
starting until, he says, ‘one speckled
beauty rises to my fly.’ None riz ”
“You must have picked a fine pond, • »
said Shute.
“1 did. They’s an Intake there from
a cam-a-bear cheese factory and It’s
killed all the fish.”