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Th* leading sew*
And advert icing medi
tim of the great Mid
die Georgia Peach and
Melon Belt.
Volume XXX11. Number 46.
TO RAISE $300,000
10 ADVERTISE STATE
GOV. DORSEY COMMENDS PLAN
TO TELL WORLD OF GEOR¬
GIA'S AGRICULTURAL AND IN¬
DUSTRIAL ADVANTAGES.
Following announcement from
Carrollton, Ga., that the Georgia
Press Association had adopted a res¬
olution endorsing the “Advertise
Georgia” enterprise, Governor Dor¬
sey from his offices at the State Cap¬
itol Thursday issued a formal state¬
ment to the press of Georgia, cover¬
ing salient features of the plan.
The statement follows:
•» A definite plan for the advertis¬
ing of the entire state of Georgia,
unselfish as to persons and commun¬
ities, has been submitted to me \s
^Governor, and it has been approved
and adopted by the directors of the
Georgia Association and the Adver¬
tising Clubs of Georgia.
“It calls for the raising of a fund
of $300,000 for advertising Georgia,
her vast resources in agriculture and
her industrial and commercial possi¬
bilities to make her supreme in the
South.
<4 Th* Advertising campaign is ten¬
tatively planned to begin in January,
although the so-called ‘follow-up’ of
prospective land buyers and new
business for Georgia will be over at
least a three-year period through the
medium of the Georgia Association.
• • The raising of the $300,000 is
expected to take not more than a
month. Work of preparing an inten¬
sive orgam -tion will begin about
August 1st, through headquarters to
be maintained at the Capitol Build
mg.
<4 The month of October is expected
to be devoted to the work of actual
raising of the money. From now on
aggressive preliminary work will be
devoted to acquainting every man,
woman and child in Georgia on . the
details of the enterprise, how their
town, city, county or section will be
benefited.
At liieeting of directors of The
Georgia Association and officers last
Friday, this self-explanatory resolu¬
tion was adopted unanimously after
two and one-half hours deliberation:
Whereas, the Georgia Association
has been organized in the sole inte¬
rest of state-wide development and
nation-wide publicity, unselfish as
sections is officered by citizens rep¬
resentative of every section and
every important interest in the state;
and
Whereas, the Advertising Clubs of
Georgia have obtained for Georgia
the 1921 Convention of the Associa¬
ted Advertising Clubs of the World,
comprising the pilots of commerce of
the world in its more than 20,000
membership and more than 175
clubs; and
i Whereas, the Georgia Association
has made a valuable beginning thru
motion pictures and otherwise for a
nation-wide publicity and advertising
campaign and has under way nume¬
rous enterprises for the development
of the state’s resources and for the
improvement of health, educational
and civic conditions in the state;
and
Whereas, the directors of the
Georgia Association, after careful
consideration, agreed that the sum
of not less than $300,000 would be
required for the successful execution
of a program so comprehensive; and
Whereas, the coming convention
of the Associated Advertising Clubs
of the World is an added incentive
for such a nation-wide publicity and
advertising enterprise at this time:
and
Whereas, the Advertising Clubs of
Georgia, fully alive to the great in¬
dustrial and agricultural opportuni¬
ties of the state and desiring to aid
in every way to carry out the pro¬
gram of tjie Georgia Association for
their development have provided a
definite plan and volunteered their
service for the execution of the same;
and
Whereas, Honorable Hugh M. Dor¬
sey, Governor of Georgia, has given
his hearty endorsement to the Geor¬
gia Association’s aims and purposes
and the definite program of nation¬
wide publicity and advertising as sub¬
mitted by the Advertising Clubs of
Georgia, and has consented to lend
his official support to the carrying
out of the co-ordinated project;
Be it resolved: 1st, that the Geor
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SEMI-WEEKLY
The
TUESDAYS AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL FRIDAYS
FORT VALLEY, HOUSTON COUNTY. GEORGIA, TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1920.
PRIZES IN CLUB JUDGING
AT SOUTHEASTERN FAIR
C. A. Cobb, Editor of the Southern
Ruralist and Superintendent of the
International Club Judging Contest
at the Southeastern Fair, October
16th-26th, announces that the Amer¬
ican Shorthorn Association, the
American Jersey Cattle Club and the
Hampshire Record Association, have
each contributed $100.00 each to be
offered as prizes to the contestants,
n addition to the big capital prize of
a trip to the Royal Livestock Show
in London.
These $100.00 contributions will
be divided in the different show rngs
in which the teams are taking part.
There will be five divisions of the
money to be awarded to the five
teams contesting in each ring. The
first is $30.00; second $25.00; third
$20.00; fourth $15.00 and the fifth
$10.00. So far twenty-four states
have taken steps to participate with
at least one Canadian Province. Fur¬
ther inforn\tion on the subject may
be had by writing to C. A. Cobb,
Superintendent, Care Southern Rura¬
list, Atlanta, Ga.
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MONTEZUMA AND L1ZELLA
TEAMS HERE THIS WEEK
The Fort Valley Baseball Club
will engage the Montezuma team at
Braswell field Tuesday afternoon.
The game will start at 2:00 o’clock
so as not to interfere with attend¬
ance at the Watson-Hardwick speak¬
ing at 4:30.
On Thursday afternoon the Lizella
team will play the locals here.
gia Association, the Advertising
Clubs of Georgia and the Governor
of Georgia, hereby sponsor the na¬
tion-wide and state-wide publicity
and advertising program, subject to
such changes as may be made by the
committee in charge, and fix the sum
of $300,000 to be raised by public
subscription and otherv/ise as equita¬
bly as possible among the-counties of
the state; a 2nd., That committees of
the Georgia Association and Adver¬
tising -•Clubs of Georgia mutually
agree to start active preliminary
work at once, with a view of opening
on intensive campaign for funds
throughout the state beginning not
later than October 1st, 1920, and
continuing until such time as „ the
committees deem necessary to in¬
sure the success of, the enterprise;
3rd, That the campaign headquar¬
ters be maintained at the Capitol;
4th, That other detaUs-^f the enter¬
prise be left to the sole discretion of
a subcommittee, composed as follows:
Three members of the .Georgia
Association, appointed by the presi¬
dent, and three members of the Ad¬
vertising Clubs of Georgia, appointed
by presidents of the Advertising
Clubs of Georgia, and the Governor
of the state of Georgia. 5th",‘ That all
advertising and other activities -paid
for from the funds raised shall be
impartial as between persons, cities,
counties and sections, and in con¬
formity with the by-laws of the Geor¬
gia Association, and the plans of the
Association for a definite and syste¬
matic three year follow up campaign.
Gth, That in harmony with the un¬
selfish, non-profity public service
character of the Georgia Association
and the Advertising Clubs, records
of receipt and disbursements shall
be kept in the manner of public re¬
cords and regarded as such, a public
audit to be made from time to time
as required by the Directors of Exe
cutiye Committees of the Georgia
Association, or Advertising Clubs or
Governor of Georgia.
“The appointment of the commit¬
tees to represent the Georgia Associ
ation and the Advertising Clubs of
Georgia is being carefully consider¬
ed. The names of the gentlemen who
will lend their support to the launch¬
ing of this enterprise will be an¬
nounced within a few day's.
44 Among the public-spirited men of
Georgia who met Friday and discuss¬
ed and approved the Georgia- Adver¬
tising enterprise were A.. K. Sessoms,
of Cogdell, president the Georgia As¬
sociation; Charles B. Lewis, banker,
Atlanta; J. C. McAuliffe, Augusta;
Walter A. Seaman, Waycross; Frank
Lowenstein, Atlanta; D. W. Webb,
President Atlanta Advertising Club;
J. S. N. Davis, St. Mary’s; John D.
Clarke, Darien; William B. Stillwell,
Savannah; A. O. Park of Macon;
Fred E. Hamki, representing the
1921 Convention Board, Advertising
Clubs; F. H. Abbott, secretary the
Georgia Association; George Low
pian; Howard See and Press Huddles¬
ton, of Atlanta, advertising men. ft
HOLDER OUTLINES HIS
INDORSES PARTY’S PLATFORM;
PRAISES ITS ACHIEVEMENTS.
FOR EFFICIENT ADMINISTRA¬
TION AND TAX REVISION.
Speaking at Byron Saturday to an
audience which included citizens not
only from that immediate vicinity,
but from several counties in this sec¬
tion of the state, Hon. John N. Hold¬
er, speaker of the house of represen¬
tatives and candidate for governor,
declared for the principles enunciated
in the platform of the Democratic
party as formulated at the San Fran¬
cisco convention, outlined his policies
if elected to governorship and paid
his respects to his two opponents,
Thomas W. Hardwick and Clifford
Walker.
Praising the ashievements of the
Democratic administration during iti
eight years of power, Mr. Holder
called attention to One advantages
gained through the enactment of the
federal reserve act, which places
the disposal of the people the great
financial resources of the nation. He
also painted out the benefits to farm¬
ers under the rural credits act, the
parcel post system and other pieces
of constructive legislation, declaring
that to insure a continuance of this
beneficial policy, it is imperative
that the Democratic party be return¬
ed to power in November.
The speaker insisted that there is
only one method of making better
provisions for schools, pensions and
state institutions-—efficient, econom¬
ic administration and revision of the
tax system so as to place on the tax
books property that nas never been
returned, or has, been valued at an
absurdly low figure.. He reoused to
consider any plan of taxation that
would add to the burdens already
borne by the owners of tangible
property.
“While, I am standing in the
watch-tower to prevent any increase
in the tax rate and endeavoring to
get the legislation necessary to give
Georgia schools the support they de¬
serve, my opponents are making from
two to three speeches a day. II said
Mr. Holder. t I don’t believe
hte people ( ft Georgia are going to
penalize me for staying at my post
and doing my full duty. > >
Critizipg Mr. Walker for dealing
in generalities rather than in specif¬
ic issues^the speaker charged his op¬
ponent with the entire lack of a plat¬
form of principles and declared that
Mr. Walker was making the race sim¬
ply because he wanted the offfice.
Referring to Mr. Hardwick, he
charged him with hindering con
structive legislation and declared
that if elected governor, Mr. Hard¬
wick could not give an impartial
administration because of his bitter
personal feeling toward many eiti
zens of Georgia.
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SCHOOL NOTICE.
A rule of the Board of Education
requires that ali pupils entering
school must be vaccinated. A number
of parents wait until school begins
before having children vaccinated
.with the result that these children
have to be absent sevesal days
sore arms right in the beginning of
the term when they need very much
to be in school. This is especially true
of first irrade pupils and , yet . nowhere , ___
absence is a greater drawback than
during the first weeks of the first
grade.
This notice is to urge all parents
to have vaccination done now during
vacation so that there may be no loss
of time after sihool begins.
School will open on the second
Monday in September.
All pupils who have been condi¬
tioned in any subject must make up
work in this subject during vacation
and present satisfactory evidence of
this work at the beginning of school.
Pupils failing in the conditioned sub¬
ject the frst month of School wil be
sent back to the grate from which
they were promotet.
Ralph Newton.
Adv, Superintendent
FOUR PAGES
GREEK PEDDLER SAVES
MODO III 12 YEARS
ARISTIDES SOUMPLIS WON FOR¬
TUNE UNDER HARD CONDI¬
TIONS. AN ATLANTA STORY
OF RARE HUMAN INTEREST
A wonderful story of thrift, shot
through with human interest, is told
by Carl Taylor, in the Atlanta Journ¬
al. Aristides Soumplis, a Greek fruit
peddler, left Atlanta in July for his
native country with a comfortable
fortune of $100,000, which he had
earned and saved in twelve years.
Coming, to Atlanta in 1908, with
no knowledge of the country or its
language and with two little boys on
this side and a wife and other chil¬
dren in Greece to suport, he made
his way to a competency and went
home to take the god news to his
family. Later he will bring them all
to America, the “Land of Opportun
ity.
Mr. Taylor thus tells the story;
When Aristides arrived in Atlanta,
in the spring of 1908, he was practi¬
cally penniless. In a strange lard,
without even a working knowledge
of its language, no money and two
young sons, one seventeen and one
thirteen, dependent upon him for sup
port, it might be said that Aristides
was slightly “up against it.”
However, he had a dogged determi
nation, an ability to work, and un
limited hope and confidence in
America, the land about which he
bed heard so much, the land of milk
and honey, where one must only
work and save, to eventually become
independently rich.
And so he started. A rickety fruit
wagon, propelled by a much more
rickety horse and a varied assore
ment of fruit, took all his money. He
embarked on a career which was not
only to bring him money and ease,
but fulfill his greatest wish to re¬
turn to his mother country rich be¬
yond expectation.
Peddled Fruit Four Year*.
For four years he toiled with the
fruit wagon. For four years he was a
familiar sight on the streets, crying
forth his wares, beseeching the house¬
wives to buy “de nica banan" or per¬
chance apples, grapes or oranges. His
stock grew larger and he made it a
point to keep his stock frei'i at at.
times
Meanwhile, Victor Soumplis, the
youngest boy, had entered school
and was wrestling with the intrica¬
cies of the English language. Charlie,
the older boy, worked with his father,
and studied at niglit. Today, both
Charlie and Victor speak English.
Charlie still has trouble pronouncing
all the tongue-twisters, and occasion¬
ally he lapses into his native t mgue,
but Victor talks the language like a
native.
During the four years that the
rickety fruit wagon, was the sole
means of the three’s support, Aristi
des was slowly accumulating money.
Not a day passed, but what he put
aside a certain portion of his daily
income in the bank—the savings
teller of one of the principal banks
of the city vouches for that—and
his little pile began to grow and grow.
At the end of four years, Aristi¬
des decided to branch out. Casting
about he saw the' opportunity for
[ making money in the insignificant
business of peddling wieners pop
ularly termed “hot-dogs, > So, he pur
c b aso d a portable hot-dog stand, and
started his eldest son in preparing
them for the crowd which constantly
; surues uo and down Decatur street.
l Business proved , good , and , pretty soon
j another was added. Then the third
and finally the fourth. /
Then Came The Chance.
Four years elapsed and Aristides
continued to make money out of his
wiener stands and his rickety fruit
wagon, which he clung to all the
while. Then he bought out the soft
dring establishment at the*corner of
Piedmont Avenue and Decatur street,
and gave up his fruit wagon to raan
age his ’business. Victor and Charlie
were called upon as assistants. And
the bank account doubled and trebled
again.
Just after the new year had been
ushered in, Aristides passed his six¬
tieth birthday, and he resolved to
return to his native home, in Colum¬
bus, Greese. So he wound up his af¬
fairs, turned over the soft drink bus¬
iness to Victor, drew an even $100,
00p out of the bank and left. Aristi-
SHIPPING WATER-MELONS
IN REFRIGERATOR CARS
There is trustworthy evidence and
testimony of a real bonafide
shortage of ventilated cars for
shipping water-melons, and as a con¬
sequence, the^ railroads have been
compelled to offer growers refrigera¬
tor or box cars. The melons will car
ry well in either refrigerator or box
cars, it is said, if properly loaded.
In the case of. refrigerator cars
both side doors of the car should be
opened wide, the openings cleated
up with planks spaced apart, and a
reinforcing cleat-board nailed from
door to door on each side so as to
securely hold the doors open and
prevent accidental jarring shut in
case the hooks that hold them back
should jar loose. The plugs in the
hatches on top of and at each end
of the car should be lowered to the
bottom of the car and the hatch cov¬
ers raised so as to open toward the
nearest end of the car. A 2 by 4
scantling should be set in each hatch¬
way so as to protrude out of it and
prop the hatch cover back securely.
The cover should be nailed to the end
of this Scantling so that the hatch
cover cannot be accidentally closed.
This will insure ventilation thru the
ear from side to side and from end
to end, regardless of the direction
in which the ear is moved. The melons
should be loaded higher in the middle
of the car than at the ends.
In the case of box cars, the doors
should be securely braced apart on
both sides and the cars well bedded,
. and the melons loaded only two tiers
j deep at each end, uniformly increasing toward the num¬ the
ber of tiers
middle where the greatest ventila
tion is scured.
Naturally one can not load as
many melons in a 32 foot refrigerator
car or in an ordinary box car as in a
40 foot ventilator. So the grower
should not expect to get as much for
a car of melons so loaded, as he is not
selling as many pounds of melons.
This is a solution of a very difficult
situation, however, and should en¬
able any grower to save his crop and
get a fair price for it. Buyers should
not hesitate to pay a fair price for
cars carefully loaded in the above
with carefully graded melons of good
quality, the stems of which have been
PROPERLY treated.
des said just before he left that he
might return—his wife is still living
in Columbus, and also another boy,
Pole, fourteen years old, and a
daughter, Vessis, sixteen.
(4 If I come back, he told the boys
before he left, “I’m going to bring
mama and the children with me, so
they can see this great country.”
Aristides has gone. He never learn¬
ed to speak, read or write the English
language, but he learned that sterling
quality of thrift, which has won suc¬
cess for so many, many men and ap¬
plied it all his life—namely, that it
isn’t what you make that makes you
ultimately wealthy, but what you
save.
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THE WORLD’S RAINFALL
The total annual rainfall upon all
the land of the globe amounts to
29,347 cubic miles, according to the
United States Geological Survey, De¬
partment of the Interior, and of this
quantity 6,524 cubic miles drains off
through rivers to the sea. A cubic
mile of river water weighs about 4,-
205,650,000 tons and carries in so¬
lution an average of about 420,000
tons of foreign matter. In all about
2,735,000,000 tons of solid matter is
thus carried annually to the ocean.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
C. R. Jenkin*, Pastor.
Sunday School, 9:30 a. m.
Preaching, 11:00 a. m. and 8:00
p. m.
Praise Service, 2:30 p. m.
Junior Church, 3:00 p. m.
Epworth League, 7:00 p.*m.
Prayer Service, Tuesday, 8:00 p.
m.
The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
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Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Fitzgibbons and
daughter, Miss Mary, of Reynolds,
were here Sunday, the guests of Mr.
and Mrs. O. E. Pearson. Miss Mary
Fitzgibbons will be the guest of Mrs.
Pearson for several days.
world.
$2.50 Par Year In Advance
MB. JOHN B. ALLEN
OCCASION TURNS INTO FARE¬
WELL PARTY FOR MR. T. L.
COLLINGS, POPULAR PEACH
TRAFFIC OFFICIAL.
Mr. John H. Allen was host Friday
noon at Twin Oaks Fruit Farm when
lie gave his annual post-peach-season
barbecue in compliment to the rail¬
road officials whose hard work and
friendly cooperation mean so much
to the peach growers of this section
in the expeditious marketing’ of iheir
fruit.
This particular barbecue was more
in the nature of a farewell party in
honor of Mr. T. L. Collings, assistant
general freight agent of the Central
of Georgia, who for many years has
devoted his entire time during peach
season to the movement of the crop
in this particular section and whose
extensive knowledge of the section
and its needs, whose indefatigable
work and friendly interest have made
him the close personal friend of
every grower in the section. Mr. Col¬
lings has resigned his poition with the
Central of Georgia Railroad and is
moving from Macon to Moultrie,
where he becomes on August first
general manager of the Georgia
Northern railway. Mr. Collings will be
succeeded by Mr. W. E. Stewart,
recently division freight and passen¬
ger agent at Chattanooga, but who
has served much of his railroad ex¬
perience in Macon and is therefore
not a stranger to this section.
Another popular railroad official
who was a guest of Mr. Allen’s on this
occasion and who has been of great
help to the growers, and who is
changing his position. is Mr. V. L.
Smith, who has been in charge of the
transportation end of the peach in¬
dustry at Fort Valley for a number
of seasons. Mr. Smith, after two
weeks vacation on his farm in South
Georgia, will take a run as freight
and extra passenger conductor on the
southwestern division of the Central
between Macon and Americus.
The barbecue, prepared under th*
supervision of Mr. J. L. Everett, wai
served in the spacious, airy 1 dining
room of Mr. Allen’s new peach pack¬
ers’ hotel. Of the thirty-five of forty
guests invited the number seated
around the table was significant
of the jinx of F'ort Valley’s
unluckiest peach season. There
were but thirteen. There were
13 cars of peaches shipped from
Fort Valley on the last day of this
unlucky season. And to clinch the
fateful significance of the figures
.he day was Friday and the occasion,
was Tom Colilngs farewell party.
The affair lacked the old time
gaiety of John Allen’s barbecues
There was no levity at the table, and
here was a distinct note of sadness
in the appropriate farewell speech
of Mr. A. J. Evans and in the re¬
sponse of Mr. Collings.
Mr. Smith in fitting words paid
tribute to Mr. Coding's ability andda.
votion to his work. In speaking of
the assumption of his new work in
this territory as Mr. Coding’s success¬
or, Mr, Stewort made a very favor
ble impression.
However, business men don’t get
morbid when they have to say good¬
bye to friends and associates, espe¬
cially when they meet in social in¬
tercourse; nor can sadness predomi¬
nate at Mr. John Aden’s barbecues.
So, in spite of the jinx of the 1920
fruit season and of the fateful num¬
ber gathered around the festive
board, and of the vacant places of
guests of other years, who w ere
s
kept away by various good reasons—
only very good and sufficient rea¬
sons would keep any one away from
one of Mr. Aden’s barbecues—
everyone present had a mighty good
time and what they ate was a plenty,
and of mighty fine flavor.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Sunday School at 9:45 a. m.
Lay Service every Sunday morn¬
ing at 11:00 o’clock, except on fourth
Sunday. Celebration of Holy Com¬
munion and sermon on fourth Sun¬
day at 11:00 o’clock. Evening ser¬
vice on fourth Sunday.
Rev. J. F. McCloud, Rector.
C. T. Eberhardt, Supt. S. S.
