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Volume XXXII. Number 44.
GARROLLTOh’S “PEP. it
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MEETING OF PRESS ASSOCIA¬
TION THERE LAST WEEK LAR¬
GEST EVER. HOSPITALITY
UNEXCELLED.
The main heading above may lack
the dignity that Editor John H. Jones
of Tire LaGrange Reporter told us at
the meeting last week ought to cha'r
ticterize newspaper headings, but it
has "pep” in it, and so has the big lit¬
tle city of Carrollton where we met
So we offer it as a legitimate ex
ception to Editor Jones’s rule.
More than 150 of the more tha>
200 newspapers in the Georgia Pres
Association hud one or two represen¬
tatives there, which made it in poii
of attendance at least, the larges
of the 34 annual meetings the associ¬
ation has thus far held.
Thr meeting was primarily for bu
In#**-—to discuss matters of vit;
moment to the newspapers of th
state, and hence to the constituenr
of these papers, to the state a:
country at large. So, despite the cui
dial reception given them, whi<
pore every s&ripafk of the intent i
entertain, tne members first gc
down to work. Tuesday morning ai •
pfternoon and Wednesday mornin
gives over to prepared discu
#!vit* of important topics such a
‘•The Front Office,” “Local Advei
tising, M Foreign Advertising,” "Th
Editorial Page,” “New.? Values.
li Headings a nd Make-Up,” “Th
Newspaper's Opportunity for Con
munity Service," “My Idea of an Ui
To-Date Country Newspaper,” “Ac
vantages of a Standard Price List.
«Kh And then there followed a pro
gram of pqi'e fun. And the editors
repor ers and correspondents ol tin
big dailies have had lots of it writin:
gp in witty and humorous vein man;
ptrsar-p! incident 51 of the meetinf
we’ual and imaginary.
But there is littie of sufficients
general interest in alt the above men
tior.sd features to give real new;
value to the story of the meeting, s
80 far a 3 the lay reader is concerned
'ffr* r#j»J pews value of the story i.
to be fpund in the example of rea
Southern hospitality and civic sp.rs
demonstrated by the citizens of Cai
fullton and Carroll County and i
neighboring towns, in the entertain
#}#nt pf the Press Association. Th
itory of how Other towns do things i
» human Interest story really
publication. It Is of interest to us
to know what we've got to do to
the other fellow one better.
With characteristic
a Carrolltonian word— the
hospitable people of Carrollton
not wait for the newspaper men
$omen to arrive before giving
welcome. They sent a delegation
Atlanta to return with them on
tfain and to shake hands, get ac
quaint*d and assign them
free and unstinted
frvpunded. On arriving at
th* newspaper folks found
biles variqusly estimated at from
to 300—waiting at the depot to
them to their homes over
paved street* arched and lined
flag’s and bunting in the
eolors,
Resides the splendid regular
at these hospitable homes, there
a barbecue given by Editor J,
Thomason of the Carroil
Time#; all by himself, at which
Invited guests were served to
tion with delectable products of
pit and concomitant s. and more
termelons than enough; a lawn
with light refreshments—ice
eon*» and home-made
ijjj t, on j ”„ furnished bv
enterprise 0 band— an .nampla of
of the
of basket the Carroll County Trade
a diner ’ at which
hundred peop e were filled with
chicken, country cured ham,
loaf, biscuits that melted in
mouth, pickles, pies, cake,
chero-cola, tec., without making
visible diminution in the
Prominent citizens of Carrollton,
bank president among them, who
it reom- mate of this editor’s at
lege, but who made substantial
covery from the
three whole days off from their
ness :© see that every need and
that the newspaper folks could
of, and many that they didn’t
of! were gratified, Carrollton,
SEMI-WEEKLY
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Fridays
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JULY 27, 1920. SIX PAGES
NOVEL USE OF PERISCOPE,
TO CATCH AUTO SPEEDERS
A novel peace time use has been
fo it! for the device which helped to
make the submarine one of the dead¬
liest agencies of the recent war- -the
pe. 3 vn
In the tunnels of Los Angeles, mo¬
torists delight in speeding, according
to Sergeant Frank Harlan of the Loa
Angeles motorcycle police squad, i
through whose ingenuity Is being
pre.-en the availability of the peri-'!
scope for use in detecting such speed j
law violators. Watching unseen thru ,
the periscope whose “eye” is pro- f
jected so as to peer down the long
dark tunnel, Harlan stands with stop
watch in hand. He knows the exact !
length of the tunnel and the mini¬
mum time in which the distance leg
ally can be traveled. As the machine
leaves the sunlight and enters the ,
tunnel, Harlan starts timing it. And
by the time the motorist is abreast
of him he knows whether or not he
is speeding. If so, two members of
his squad on Goodyear-shod motor¬
cycles start after him.
The periscope plan is proving ef
fective both in nabbing speeders and
in educating motorists to the neces
sity for "safety-first” when driving
through the tunnels Harlan says, and
is rapidly reducing the number of
speeders.
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HON. CLIFFORD WALKER
THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE
FOR GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA
Ocilla Star’* Representative Senti¬
ment In Regard To The
Coming Election !
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The Star _ favor* the ,, candidacy ... of .
Mr. Walker. Many of the people of
Irwin county have heard Mr. Walker
peak and wilt bear us out in the
statement that he Is a most brilliant
speaker, and his public acts and ut
erances are such as do not have to be
explained or defended. It appears to
that he has the lead in the race.
Vt least he has many supporters ii^
Irwin county ..He made good as At
orncy General, and filled the office
o the satisfaction of the people -of
he state. We believe that they intend
y call him higher up.—Ocilla Star.
THE METHODIST CHURCH
C. R. Jenkins, Pastor.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Preaching, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00
p. m.
Praise Service, 3 ;3Q p. rn,
Junior Church, 3;00 p, m.
Epworth League, 7:00 p. m.
Prayer Service, Tuesday, t>:00 p.
m.
The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
rather,Carroll County, has a real live
commercial organization. It is cqllad
The Carroil County Trade Board, L
has a membership of more than 250
and •md is is aiming aim ng at at *‘400” for r this ■ > year
Eight business concerns in Carroll
ton maintain 5 memberships each;
nf Parrollton 4- one
feach •tore 3- four other business
The Trade Board has a young
retary-manager who is, a real
wde draws % a big salary, and has a
Ford , ora cai r with wan the words w rus “Carroll -
County Trade Board” emblazoned
hereon in gold letters,
Carrollton was given a population
of 4360 by the 1920 census. All its
business streets are paved with as
phalt or similar material. Most of its
side-walks are paved. It has four
thriving banks; substantial up-to-date
business buildings, including one real
bS
grammar schools, and arm frame
sehoolhouse in the mill district; 2
cotton mills; and other Industrie*
But the people of Carrollton had
no monopoly over tbo.e of other
communities In this imm.di.te see
tion in the matter of hospitality. A
big fish fry had been planned for the
editors at Bowdon; entertainment at
Villa Rica; and a basket dinner at
1 DeuglaFville where more than -4 00
watermelons had been put on ice
two days before. Rain cheated the
editors out of tasting the nosnitality
a of these communities, although the
aroma of the preparations we-c waft
#d to them on the cool breezes
bi."V o\ r nili’* nn \ .uf.tu ^
And far-off Rome, not to■ be out
done, sent an invitation w.tn hint.
of hospitalty well calculated, though
not intended, to bring Hon. Jesse F.
Mercer into town to chaperone the
press gang.
HOW TO CONTROL CURCOLIO
AND BROWN ROT OF PEACHES
Atlanta, July.—(Special.)-— Numer¬
ous inquiries having reached State
Entomologist A. C. Lewi3 as to why
tbe curcu i io and brown rot have been
so destructive this year to the peach
crop, tho department has just issued
Circular No. 31, by Assistant En
tojnologist W. W. Chase, giving a re
view of conditions affecting the crop in
1920.
This bulletin sets forth the follow
Ibk facts regarding the 1920 crop:
1. An unusually large number of
curcuiio developed from infested, peach-
68 in 1919 ’ a,ld a lalge l ,eri; entage of
th,>8e survived the winter. The num
her of beetles entering winter quarters
could be greatly reduced by picking
up all of the infested peaches and de- I
stroylng them before the worms
emerge and enter the ground.
2. The more curcuiio present, the
more brown rot will develop, if weath
er conditions are favorable for its
growth and spread.
3. With luxuriant growth and to
»age, brown rot will develop more
^idiy. On tines of this class a
^ ould pet naps *
brown rot standpoint, if no nmogenous
fertilizer were used on these trees next
year.
4. Pruning the trees to give an
open form of head will materially aid
< tu controlling brown rot. Densely
headed trees shut out sunshine, which
is one of the best fungicides we have.
Careless spraying has helped bring
about present conditions. Sometimes
spraying is only half done, and not
ji the"u’ £ oner l time to a-cure best ro
^ js mnch inore dif£icult to
spray in summer when leaves are on
the trees, Spraying should be care
fully and thoroughly done.
What the Circular Shows
The new circular shows that the
which should be taken, in the or
der named, are as follows:
1, Remove all peaches left in orch¬
ard after each variety is harvested, so
to Insure destruction of the cur
cullo larvae they contain. Some good
may be obtained now, though it is too
late to adopt this method except for
the later varieties. This should be
done every year, with each variety
gs harvested.
2. Cultivate at once after gather¬
ing the fruit, beneath the treee with
harrows, to break up the pupal oaaee
|g the #olL
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LOCAL PEACH MOVEMENT IS
OVER; LAST CAR SATURDAY
The last car of peaches for the
1920 season to be billed from Fort
Valley rolled Saturday. On that day
13 cars were shipped—a significant
number, considering the ascending
series of bad luck which has fallen
to the local growers this season.
Since Wednesday night, July 14—
our last report—259 cars have been
w aybillc<J thi * do8,n «
the u season’s low record With a total
- . ’ , 77 ' Tolal - hionu>nt £ „ from
th nc sca t te up up to to j Juy u)y it , inclusive i ,
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4 ’*.!!, 0 ' aKainKt for 1
Tnerc are stU some cars moving
f P ° :ntS jU8t a b< 7 ^ on the
Southern n° record . of which ,s kept . f
at thlS offlCe ’
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LOCAL WATER-MELON CROP
BEGINS ROLLING TODAY
j
The first considerable movement.
of water-melons from this vicinity
will set in today when there will .
not known Monday "afternoon how
many of these would be ready to
move today. Up to Monday only
cars of melons had been billed from
t” ls point.
Some unusually fine melons were
displayed on the total retnd m„ket
t-oday, many of these wcghing
to 45 pounds, it is said. Some of the
finest seen came from the farm of
McArthur and Strother. Melons of
this size are retailing at 50c each,
One melon, said to weigh 52 pounds,
we are told was sold Morvay by
Champion Bros, to Mr. T S. ffar ^
Mr. Harris is not much bigger in the
waist than this editor.
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LOST-One U. S. tire 33 by 4, Sat
urday afternoon Ju i y 17, between
Massac’s Lane and F. V. H. & I.
School. Reward for return ta ft. A.
Hiley. 4-27-It.
3. Now, and after leaves have shed
prune off diseased limbs and twigs, and
open up center of tr;es by removing all
smaller limbs, so that trees may have
sunshine and free circulation of air.
4. Follow the pruning spray with
concentrated liine-sulphur solution,
taking pains to cover every limb and
twig front top to bottom. Effective¬
ness of this solution as a fungicide, Is
increased by the addition of caustic
soda (lye) at the rate of one or two
pounds to each fifty gallons.
5. Just before the fruit buds open
in the spring of 1921, apply a Becond
winter spray of Bordeaux mixture,
0-4-50.
6. In the first summer spray (1921)
use a fungicide, like self-cooked lime
sulphur, or atomic sulphur and lead
arsenate, instead of lead arsenate and i
lime. If atomic sulphur is used, add
three pounds of lime to each 50 gal¬
lons.
7. Spray two weeks later with same.
See that fruit is covered both under¬
side and outside, using an angle noz¬
zle and carrying it to the Inside and
underneath limbs all around the tree.
’ This work must be done from the
ground, the man circling each tree
as he conies, to It.
8. I.ater varieties, such as Hiley
Georgia Belle, etc., should receive at
our summer sprays the last no,
than three weeks before the fruit
ripens, Lae arsenate of lead in every
application.
9. Later varieties, If dusted, should
receive not fewer than five applica¬
tions. Earlier varieties, two or three.
10 Following the harvest of the first
ripening variety next season, IMME¬
DIATELY remove and destroy all fall
en peaches and those left upon the
trees. So with each successive vari
ety. This is IMPORTANT. :
II. Practice frequent light cross
cultivation beneath and close up to the
trees to break up pupal burrows in the
soil.
. 12 . Do not use, temporarily, nitroge |
noue fertilizers, and for the present
do not plant peas and other legumes,
except where the condition of the
ground demands them. If fertilizer Is •
applied, use potash.
For copies of this Circular Ne.
31, or Bulletin No. 57, on peach In¬
sects and diseases, address A. 0.
Lewis, State Entomologiat, Atlanta,
Georgia.
LARGEST U. S. DIRIGIBLE
HAS SUCCESSFUL TRIAL
The United States government’s t _
largest dirigible, the Navy D-l, made
its first flight July 18 at the Good
year-Akron air station at Wingfoot
Lake eight miles east of Akron, Ohio,
the flight being witnessed by an of
ficial board of army and navy offi
ce rs. The immense airship was built
for the navy by the Goodyear Tire
& Rubber Company and is the first
0 f a flotilla of ships to be built by
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naV navy. y
' rw0 hundred feet a /| d J 1111
gaS capacity of 180,000 cubic feet,
the immense envelope of the D-l
carr.es a car large enough to accom
modat e a ^ ° f s ' X i U “ eq " ipped
with f two Union engines developing
a total of 250 horse power, and car¬
ries enough fuel for a 20 hour sus
tained flight at a maximum speed of
55 miles per hour, giving it a cruising
sh iP is equipped with wireless and
with all modern devices known to
. „ aft ’ and i8 CO nsider
^ of thg mogt c ompletely equip .
ped in £ dirigibles quarters ever are made. provided Even o slee^
crew.
Following final inspection and the
testing of motors the big ship was
towed out of the Ooodyeur Com
puny . jmmense h,n.„ at W,n«^t
, With the command „ wetgh-off . , and
I tne starting «-na. of the .on on
the ship, the dirigible rose gracefully ’
nosed into a strong southwest wind,
and was off on her maiden voyage,
Piloted by Lieutenant Chari*.
Bausch, the s ip encirc e e
foot field twice a » devices being
thoroughly tested ^ out. The^sh P
no8ed head-on into the wind and then
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y com[m J \ 0 a grace ful landing .1
mQ gt jn f ont of the hangar door .
Army and navy experts witnessing
(; be performance pronounced the
flight successful in every way.
PROMINENT MACON1TES ARE
VISITORS HERE MONDAY
Hon. Bridges Smith and Hon. T.
V. Fagan of Macon motored down to
Fort Valley Monday to see what was
left of peach season here and to en¬
joy a splendid country dinner with
Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Blewster.
Neither of these genial gentlemen
need any introduction to readers of
The Leader-Tribune nor any “Who's
Who” addenda to a news report of
: heir visits. Mr. Smith is a welcome
daily visitor, “Just 'Twixt Us,” via
“grand old Telegraph” route.
And Mr. Fagan, though he comes
less frequently, always comes in per¬
son and is always as persona grata
and home-like as a fellow’s coml'y
slippers.
They went back with a tonneau
full of the biggest watermelons we
ever saw grown in this section, bu
we didn’t ask who grew them foi
fear they might feel constrained to
offer us one and ourpoliieness strain
ed to the point of accepting. There
were other things in the tonneau, too.
which would incline one to suspee
it was purely a stall about their com
ing to see the last of peggh season
But, the watermelon! sor.i
other things don’t get real rtpe til
peach season is about over.
The jj.j will be given further tests,
and t ben w jH g 0 t 0 Langley field
under itg own power to be placed in
commission by the government. With
the exception of the British _ ... . n R-34 it ..
is the largest modern dirigible ever
flown upon the American continent.
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THE RAILROAD SITUATION
A letter to Members of the Southern
Newspaper Publishers’ Association
By Victor H. Hanson
Publisher of the Birmingham News,
Birmingham, Ala., May SI, 1920.
My dear Fe]low Publishers:
The recent outlaw railroad strike
served one good purpose, while it
was doing inestimable damage to the
nation as a whole. It did serve to con¬
centrate our attention on the impor¬
tance, of the transportation facilities
of the country.
A partial tie-up of some of the big
railroad systems of the country par¬
alyzed industry, endangered the
health and safety of all the people
and clogged seriously the wheels of
commerce and industry. That strike
served to bring before our minds a
picture of what a real break-down of
the transportation system of the
United States would be.
A handful of dissatisfied men in
Chicag0 struck a blow at the busines s
of the :imtion> under it is still
smartinf , weeks and weeks later .
Now> were thinffs normaI> were raU .
road conditions what they ought to
. be > were rallroad railroads 8 adeauatelv adequately..equip eauip
ped w, J h rolllr>8 8tocK 8 “ ffl0, ® I,t
meet-the emergency,-and road and
terminal facilities sufficiently devel
oped to ca^for the- normal needs of
commerda , and - trade at their high
, eve) this Handful of men in Chica
go would have been unable-to deal
sq serious a bloWi
Temporary embarrassment - there
would have been. Yes, but not even
faintly to compare with the condi¬
tion that has arisen, a condition that
has called for the most drastic ac¬
tion on the part of the Interstate
Commerce Commission, state railroad
commissions and of hundreds of the
ablest railroad executives in the
^
And with all this drastic action,
tbe tie-up is not yet relieved. Ship
men t s are delayed, traffic is out of
ba j ance) aTld the whole people suf
fers.
Produce. Produce! Produce! This
has been the copstant cry of the doc¬
tors of the industrial ills of the coun¬
try. Paticularly has this been true
of newspapers.
Every man who thinks, knows
that the will to work must precede
and become a foundation for thepow
£ produce, and that the power to
mugt be extrted tQ maximum
^ reduce a wojld shortage
of commodities, and to bring world
supply into reasonable touch with
world demand,
But what good will it do to pro¬
duce all the commodities that the
world can consume, if transportation
facilities are inadequate to the task
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$2.50 Per Year la Adfuc*
SreCIU. FEATURES
MISSIONARY PROGRAM AT SUN
DAY SCHOOL; MR. SMITH PRE¬
SENTS ORPHANAGE APPEAL;
STRONG SERMON BY PASTOR.
Sunday at the .Methodist church
was characterized by several features
out of the routine.
It was Missionary Sunday—as
every 4th Sunday is—for the Sunday
school and in addition to the usual
program and class room period sev
oral interesting talks on missionary
themes and a solo featured the gene¬
ral exercises.
At the morning church hour Rev.
I. A. Smith, traveling representative
of the South Georgia Methodist Or¬
phans Home at Vinevlille, gave a
most interesting and impressive ac¬
count of some of the work of the
home, illustrating its wonderful ef¬
fects upon the lives of children whij
otherwise would have had no chance
•nlife, as one of the inmates described
her own previous condition upon en
ering the institution. Mr. Smith is
j magnetic speaker without resort
to oratory, and every word of his
liscourse gripped the interest and
sympathy of his hearers. A contri¬
bution of about .$450.00 was secured
o aid in the improvements now being
nude to replace the buildings de
troyed by fire some month* ago
;nd to further increase the useful
ess of the institution. These ira
•rovements will cost about $65,000.
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At night, the pastor, Dr. C. R.
lenkins, preached a most forceful
md thoughtful sermon from Matthew
’3: 37, 38, Christ’s lamentation over
erusalem following his stinging in¬
fective against the scribes and Phar
sees. He drew • a forceful par&lel
-sm between the temple which was
eft desolate to the children of Is
ael, and the body, soul and person¬
alty of Lie individual who abandons
'hrist and is abandoned of Him.
of dUtribution?
Distribution is just as important
>.s production, and crippled railway
acilities cannot haul normal product
tion to market, much less the kind
of abnormal production necessary
just now to the world’s needs.
During the period of government
control, railroad equipment wa*
strained to the last notch to meet the
war emergency. Practically no new
equipment was added. Old, worn-oat
cars were kept in service beyond
their allotted time. Consequently
when the roads were turned back to
their owners, with the whole court*
try committed to the theory of pri¬
vate management, they found their
equipment depleted, much of their
rolling stock unfit for use, and nb
funds for replacements and expan¬
During the eight-year period front
1909 to 1916, the railroads of thHj
country supplied a yearly average of
150,600 new freight cars, 3,180 pas¬
senger cars, 2,970 locomotives.
During the war period the annual
average was 76,000 freight cari»
850 passenger cars, 1,900 locomo¬
tives.
In other words, the gross shortage
of equipment today is 226,000 fr*igbf
cars, 7,000 passenger cars, and 3,000
locomotives.
The railway executives figure the
imperative, immediate needs for
equipment call for 100,000 freight
cars, including 20,000 refrigerator
cars, 2,000 locomotives, 3,000 pas¬
senger cars and 1,000 baggage ean#
costing in round figures at present
prices $610,000,000.
These demands for net* equipment
must be met if the roads are to be
put. upon a sufficiently sound basis
to meet the transportation needs of
the nation and save business for the
next few years.
The high cost of living has struck
a body blow at the railroads. Opera¬
ting expenses have increased more
than a hundred per cent, while op¬
erating revenues have increased less
than half that amount.
There is only one way that the
railroads can be put upon a substan¬
basis, provided with equipment
adequate to their needs, and that' ia
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