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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, G4, JULY 27, l®?0.
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THE LEAOEME
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
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A word of advice to Atlanta;
chuck away the key to your Pando¬
ra’s Box; don’t get in a huff; be of
good heart.
Editors Francis W. Clarks and
James \. Holniuoii gave some un*
varnished history of Messrs. Hard¬
wick and Watson in last Saturday’s
Constitution, which every voter
ought to read. For untrammelsd ex¬
pression of facts, figures and edito¬
rial opinion you've got to hand it te
The Constitution. i
MR. HARDWICK’S COMING l
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Mr. Thoe. W. Hardwick is sched¬
uled to speak in Fort Valley on the
afternoon of Tuesday, August 3rd;
in the interest of his candidacy fof
governor.
Mr. Hardwick’s political activities;
although, in the opinion of a large
majority of the voters of Georgia
as expressed at the polls, inimical
to the highest interests of our couii
try, have not resulted in his being le¬
gally denied the right to hold officti
nor of freedom of speech. He comes
to Fort Valley by self-appointment,
so far as the evidence goes. We do
not know why he chooses to speak
in a county and section which so
overwhelmingly repudiated his rec¬
ord in the United States Senate. We
do not know any basis for his hope,’
if he has uny, for a change of opinion
regarding him. He has a few—a very
few—friends in Fort Valley and vi¬
cinity, and a very few more in other
parts of Houston County. To Mr.'
Hardwick and to these friends oil
his we have my desire to be discour
teous. Some of them aie also our
friends. Mr. Hardwick will be accord¬
ed an attentive and courteous hear¬
ing here. His brilliant oratory may*
win him u few more supporters from
among those whose subjectivenes* to
hypnotic influence may produce in
them a state of amnesia,causing them
to forget his political record, which,
had it prevailed, would have placed
th is country at the mercy of the Hun.
But his converts will be few. The?
N. ,great mass of the people of this sec-'
tion think and remember. They are
not easy subjects for hynotism. Their
j-ecord for patriotism above all other 1
considerations stands out dear and
Convincing,
Their-record for courtesy is also
unsullied. Mr. Hardwick will be given
« courteous audience. But courtesy
does not preclude our privilege, of
stating, nor Mr. Hardwick’s privilege
of ,kno\ving, that this paper and the
vast majority of. its readers, are not
in sympathy with his aspirations.
4 - «- INCREASED t*** «■* . *ri \ • l,.J*
NO EARNINGS
FROM LARGER BUSINESS
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Referring to the contention that
the rate increases asked for in pend
ing applications before the I. C. C.
should be reduced because increased
earnings would result frqm larger
business, Francis J. Gowen, General
Counsel of the Pennsylvania Rail
rpad, who made one of the final
statements for the Eastern Roads,
pointed out that tha first four months
of 1920 reflected not only increased
traffic but increased expense#. In
that period Eastern Railroads sus
tained a deficit of |63,d00 000 „
compared wrth a net operating in
come of $10,000,000 in tha corres
ponding months of 1910.
THE GEORGIA PAPERS
AND THEIR EDITORS
_
(By James A. Holomon, in the
Atlanta Constitution .)
!
It will ba a royal welcome that
Carrollton will give the Georgia
Press boys this week.
These press conventions are always
occasions of more than pasting ia
tererf to the individual editors, for
th# y not only furnilh . week eac j,
year of needed recreation, but they
.ring the men in elbow touch with
each other, who are more responsible
for the political purity and the in
dustrial progress of a state than any
other one factor, as a unit, in the
state.
I say this in all frankness.
You can talk all you want about
the power of the city press, Nobody
will deny its portentiality in civic
and politial and educational lif<
But for community service; for
local arid sectional upbuilding and
development; for shaping the high
OS. ideals of political and social
thought in a county, or in a section,
in which a country newspaper is the
center of leadership, my hat is off
to the country editor, whose ability
is just as keen, whose vision just as
broad, whose judgment just as safe,
as any of us fellows on the city press,
and whose influence in the specific
community which he may serve, is
a thousand times greater than any
one from the outside. !
Sonqeone has said that you may.
judge the housekeeper by the lawn.
You can judge a community by the
paper. Show me a live paper and
i’ll show you a live clientele for that!
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paper. .
No news payer man can inspire,!
whatever mAy be his ability, unless
something ... . ,. him. i
there is to . inspire j
No newspaper man can inspire *i
progress and prosperity about him
when the people are too slow to
render aid and too self-contented to
reach out for greeter things. I
Georgia is peculiarly fortunate in
her weekly newspapers and good
editors. I know, almost intimately
newspaper men in every state in the
union. ,1 come in contact, in my
travels with them. 1 see their papers,
study their viewpoints, note the pro
grass of their sections as reflected
in their columns, and appraise the
assets of a community by that com¬
munity’s gpprecjgltioiv.of their great¬
est asset, their newspapers.
I wani to Shy s ^ sincerity no state
n the union has abler newspapers and
abler men and women running them
than Georgia—
Hencp Georgia is an Empire, and
the Georgia press the flower of
American Journalism.
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A Department of Agriculture re
port gtatee that the amount of wheat
remaining on farms July 1st is es¬
timated at 6.1 per cent of last year’s
crop. This indicates a substantial
improvement as compared to earlier
months of the year, but the amount
remaining unmoved is still greater
than the average amount unmoved
on July 1st. of recent years. |
INCREASE IN COAL MOVEMENT
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U. S. railroads in the first five
months of 1920 transported 40,100,
0Q0 tong of bituminous coal in ex¬
cess of the movement in the corres¬
ponding period of 1919, which was
exceeded only during the war years
1917-1918, when every possible pre¬
ference eras given to coal movement.
Anthracite movement up to June 19
was 40,09‘9,006 tons, or an ihereaso
of 3,2999,000 tons over the aame
period of 1919.
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R. EXPENSES INCREASED
FOR MORE tflAN REVENUES;
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R. V. Fletcher, who appeared fo$
Southern Roada, Mid that. the ,
wou] have a true picture
of the situation which confronted
Southern carriers at the end of
control if ft would hear in
that, comparing 1916 with
the operating revenues in that
had increased 68.87 per cent,
operating expenses had increas¬
110.88 per cent; that the opera-'
ration had gone from 66.63 per
in 1916 to 68.44 per cent in
that net ineome in this period
decreased 62.88 per eent, and
rate of return on property in
had fallen from 6.90 per
in 1916 to 1.88 per cent in 1919.
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The business men of Quitman are
to build more than fifty neat
to relieve the shortage con
there. And the fifty houses
soon b ® 7>Hed with good citizens,
population will soon be
increased if homes are
for the people. The tame is
of the towns of this section.—
News.
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C«m«U FillH to Thrive Hero
Conirio and fhoir near r$?iatfvo«, the
b *ve l>**e» introduced la
coa ® trT fr ^ 11 t»ld, world at
knowled|re of their habit , and ^
methods of caring for theta,
tew fwrte
The Leader-Tribune force is In
debted to Mr. S. E. Bassett for a bag
ket of the finest Eibertas we have
seen this season. They not only look
fina and taste good, but are con
spicuously free from worms. If any
body wants to contest honors with
>lr. Bassett we've got seven mighty
good judges in this plant, and we’ll
give each contestant u little bit big
er boost than nis predecessor.
FA * M ™DUCTS m
GET REFERENCE
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- adrfltion t0 , xt<mded co-onera
JJ , imorovimr eattla th! breeds sad
in teat-farm work work, the Central Central of of
Georgia Railway policy la that of
«« everything to promote the prosper
lty of farmer pa ro *; I
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Hangmen Of Germany Are On Strlks '
London.—The hangmen of Germa-j
ny have gone on strike for increas
ed wages, gays a Berlin dispatch to
lbe Exchange Telegraph, quoting Get*
newspapers. At Meinlngen. ae
cording io the dispatch, the execution
of a murderer could not be carried out.
a* the hangman refused to work
Aeke Surrender Of Nuevo Laredo
Laredo, Texas.—The federal garri
;on at Nuevo Laredo, the Mexican
towu opposite this city, is sleeping on
anna, following receipt of a demand
^ surrender to anil-government
forces. The demand, according to
Mexican Consul Saracho, was made
by gen. Ricardo Goiiaeulea, who has
several hundred disaffected soldiers
and custom guards under his com
maod. The demand, the consul says.
»•» ™ fu « l on lhe ** rt
Col. Ortegon, garrison commander at
Nu#vo |, arado .
Offielal 0*atroyer Mak-.s Record Time
Washington.—Piloted by Admiral
Hugh Rodman, commander-in-chief of
the Pacific Heel, the destroyer on
which Secretary Daniels and Secrets
ry Payne left Seattle, reached Katchi
Al “ 8k, ‘- iu lh * rerord lim * of 36
hours, cutting five hours off ths pre¬
vious (rest lime tor that ruu. Through
the uarrow, rock-bound channels of
the inland passage, at night, the de
stro.ver was pushed at a speed of 2C
k nQt a While the previous best time
was 41 hours, few ships have made
trip in lest than 6a hours.
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E XTRAVAGANCE gone by the board, Thrift has lii
is in the air. Men are buying / Mi
where the value is. %
Saw-?
Plr’i I
The Firestone thrifty 3^ is - -F J
.
leading the smalUtire built field real today. thrift r
Because it is on ao*-. /
*iethods from start to finish.
Firestone experts on the spot in /
the raw material markets of the
world are able to get first choice .JW- *3H
of prices. quality at quantity purchase sj
Firestone have worked (non skid)
men out
the way to produce this tire by
concentrated methods—no waste Gray Tube $3.75
material, no waste motion, no Red Tube $4.50
waste space. ■ rtn
And Firestone through Jr
volume output ,
thousands of dealers , permits sellin g t at a i §L<|m ■&£&. W
close margin. The user gets the benefit. 9
Try this Firestone thrifty 3Vz, (a
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of the road, u an example of
it* efforta have accomplished,
-that 1! aouihftus
west Georgia agriculturists of
Central of Georgia Railway that Co.
shown the farmer* of
how to grow bright leaf tobacco,
crop new to that territory, but
which the soils and climatic
i . « i n j <
tobacco ia firmly established as
staple crop in that .action; a
wareliouse was oti.it at •
bama, in 1919, and over two
pounds of tobacco abi pp .4 f rom
ington County.
- In spite of the boll weevllthe
ers t ^* t anC * ^joining
"• more Prosperous than ever
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th# farmi * syatem of that Ur
havjng b en changed from
(ygtem to that of
farming without the usual
ligation attendant upon such
HON. JNO. N. HOLDER WILL
SPEAK AT BYRON JULY 31
State of Georgia
House of Representatives
Atlanta
7-18-20.
The Fort Valley Leader-Tribune
Fort Valley, Ga.
Bear Sir:
Please let it be known
your paper that Hon. Jno. N.
Candidate for Governor, will ad
dress the people of Houston and
Crawford Counties at Byron on
urday, July 31st, at 10:30 A. M.
Very truly yours,
C. C.
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Try OUR BREAD and
DONT
fail to get your pick¬
ling vinegar at
Empire firootry Company
—Continued from 1st page.
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THE RAILROAD SITUATION.
*f *“ increase m freight rate*, the
roa< l3 having determined that the
w *s®8t course is to put the burden on
freight rather than to distribute it
between passenger and freight traf
«c. Their appeal is now before the
Commerce Commission,
»nd the next few weeks are to be
consumed in hearings on the subject,
The railroads of the South are
•*»»* for an increase of 30.95 per
eent., which would yield 6 per cent,
upon capital invested. The railroad
law of 1920 gives the Commission
poW er to raise rates to produce a
return of five and one-half per cent.,
or six per cent., in the discretion of
the Commission. The roads are asking
six per cent, in order to make their
securities attractive, to assure self
sustaining power. Anything less
would seem wholly inadequate, as
the strongest roads of the country
| have lower been unable than to borrow and money
at a rate seven one
half per cent, to purchase new equip¬
ment.
Our railroad rates before the war
were the lowest in the world, and
since the war, England has raided
rates on freight by 71 per cent.,
France 140 per cent., Belgium 100
per cent., Italy 40 to 100 per cent., ’
Holland 70 to 140 per cent.., Sweden
200 per cent., Norway 150 per cent.,
besides enormous increases in pas
senger rates in each of these coun
tries.
Today a given unit of any com-
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modity will buy more transportation
than ever before in the history of
the world. 1 quote Mr. Walker D.
Hines, former head of the railroad
administration:
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P» H or e\ er\ ing e se,
1 at ls eT ' J °* c IC
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1 , ' ,l ’! )uUei u v 1 1 ra 1 roa s ’ a
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Ull:l 0 an.v coinmo i > wi )uy mo
transportation_ now than it ever did
before in the history of the country.
a ton of steel, or a bushel of wheat,
or any other unit of any commodity
Ul ,HI > more tiansporta ion now
thani ever before. The result of that
is 1 a ‘ rug ii r.ms a. m presen
time instead of being higher than
ever before, are lower than before,
when tested by the value of the units
transported and the amount of trans
portation which that unit will buy.
Thus justice is added to the plea
( be railroads that they be given
revenue adequate to produce suffi
c j ent return upon the capital invest
ed „ , eem , clear tbat they should
be givsn the increases in the amounts
prayed.
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Children and Books.
rt does the child no harm to make
the acquaintance of books which were
i,ot-written for children. in a home
vhere great book that have ittsp red
or amused successive general ions are
accessible, an active-minded child, is
likely lit .some time ir other to get at
helll. If we want our children to tall
1 ; love with the better kind of hooks.
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|,. t us provide them with opportunity
for mtetihg such books without tot
much formality.