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* M “ on Volume XXXII. Number 44. GARROLLTOh’S “PEP. it f 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. o HON. CLIFFORD WALKER THE LOGICAL CANDIDATE FOR GOVERNOR OF GEORGIA Ocilla Star’* Representative Senti¬ ment In Regard To The Coming Election ! _____ 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 ^ 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 , ■ 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 ’ -o 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. ■ 0 -- 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 ,. .... .„ ........ 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 ____, ^ ijj.j 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. -o 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 iSI 1 ♦ $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. > 0 . 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 (Continued on editorial page.J