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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT V AUGUST 13, 1920.
THE LEAOER-THIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
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Meashor Goorgia Pres* Association.
PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY
There are many types of Chris¬
tians. There is the Christian of the
Jacob type, sometimes yielding to
inborn greed and avarice, lying and
swindling ip business relations;
sometimes In Ine depths of remorse
and repentance, or the exaltation of
spiritual fervor. There’s the Christian
of the ^motional type, who is exalted
by t’. ie stimulus of the spoken Word
from the pulpit, but gets cold feet
when this stimulus is lacking. Then
there is the spasmodic Christian of
more phlegmatic temperaments. Say
not that these are not Christians!
it Judge not, that ye be not judged.”
The spirit is strong but the vessel
often weak.
But the practical, consistent, ev¬
ery-day Christian, who carries his re¬
ligion into his business dealings, is
rara. There are comparatively few
professing Christians who are gov
ernedin their every day business re¬
lation* by Christ’s “golden rule,”
it Therefore all things whatsoever yo
would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them: for this is the
law and the prophets.”
We have lots of advisory Christian¬
ity that fails of influence because it
is not backed by this golden rule of
Christ, of “the l>w and the pro¬
phets. H
Not a few well-meaning Christians
ealve their souls by advising a man
what he must do to be saved, but nev¬
er extend to him practical coopera
tion that would help relieve him of
the everlasting grind necessitated by
the actual conditions of life and
whicht-leaves him no time to seek
the Kingdom of Heaven except by
the starvation or charity route.
Do you know a man, woman, youth
or child who doesn’t go to church or
Sunday School? Have you tried to
find out just what it is that keeps
them away? Have you tried to as¬
certain wherein you may be contri¬
buting to the conditions that keep
them away or wherein you might
practically help aliviate those con¬
ditions without loss to yourself—per¬
haps with gain to yourself? Do you
know a struggling brother who is not
prospering in business whom you
might patronize to the mutual ad¬
vantage of himself and yourself?
Less advisory and more practical,
brotherly cooperative Christianity
this sort is what the world most
today.
“Of all the good things in this
world around us
The one most abundantly
and found us,
And which for that reason we
care about
And can best spare our friends
Is good counsel, no doubt.”
Good counsel in religious
unadcompained >by practical
ly cooperation and fair
smacks only of smug
ness which tends to discredit
Christian religion.
SOUTHERN TO EXPLOIT
RESOURCES OF
Washington, D. C., August—
eral and chemical resource* of
South will be brought to the
tion of the nation throsgh an
to be made by the Southern
System and the oMbile & Ohio
road at the Sixth National
tion of Chemical Industries, to
held at the Grand Central
New York City, the week
Monday, September 2oth.
Throubh arrrangements with Ay
thur D. Little, Inc., chemists and
gineers of Cambridge, Mass., for
in making the exhibit, the
ment Service of the Southern
ed the services of Mr. Chester G
bert, an esonomil geologist,
of the Smithsonian Institute
now associate curator in the
of Mineral Technology of the
tional Museum, and Mr. Robert
LeBarron, chemist and engineer,
graduate of Princeton University
of L’Ecoie Superieure Nationals
Mines of France.
Both have been working in
South several weeks, securing
terial for the exhibit and will be
attendance at the exposition to
ease technical aubjects in
frith natural resources and
opportunities in the South. Mr. Will¬
iam C. Olds, general industrial
agent for the Southern and Mobile
& Ohio, will be in general charge of
the exhibit.
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FAITHFUL BE.
Faithful be, for time is fleeting;
Moments know not how to wait.
Hear the voice of loved ones singing,
Praising in God’s palace gate.
In the race which you are running
Strip you for the victor’s goal.
Trust God and eternal glory
Shall reward you, faithful soul.
Faithful be. The sun is calling,
And the hills reflect the dawn,
Prophets which the Lord has giver.
To the soul that’s pressing on.
When we read the Book of heaver.
Then our tears begin to flow
And we long to greet the faithful
In their garments white as snew.
Blessed Jesus, Shepherd faithfgM,
It’s enough* for us to know
Thou wilt crown Thy saints with
glory,
And the garments white as snow.
W. C. Carter
Powersville, Ga.
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Solve the Storing Problem and Sweet
Potatoes Will Become a Satis¬
factory Crop.
There is no more important matter
relating to food supplies in the South
than the problem of storing and sav
ing sweet potatoes.
In recent years methods have been
developed by which “sweet potatoes
can be kept through the storage sea¬
son with a loss of less than three per
cent due to decay,” according to the
United States Department of Agri¬
culture. »When the necessary facili
jkies for keeping sweet potatoes
without serious loss from rotting are
provided throughout the South, the
sweet potato will become one of our
best staple crops, for the use of sweet
potatoes is rapidly increasing outside
the South. In fact, if sweet potatoes
can be safely and economically stored
their use will be greatly increased in
the South for under present condi¬
tions they are generally more or less
high priced and scarce for six months
of the year.
While a satisfactory curing and
storage house is not very expensive,
still the small farmer may find the
cost too great. Therefore, coopera¬
tive curing and storage houses should
be built in every neighborhood. There
is no better opportunity for coopera¬
tion than in providing neighborhood
sweet potato storage facilities.
The essentials for keeping sweet
potatoes are, well matured potatoes,
one distinct or well defined variety,
careful harvesting and handliug, and
curing and storing in a properly con¬
structed and ventilated house where
a fairly uniform temperature of
around sixty degrees can be main
tained during the storage season.
Mixed varieties requiring different
handling immature potatoes or
those injured by frost, and rough
handling which bruises the potatoes
must all be avoided if the potatoes
are to be cured and stored satisfac
torily.
Plans for houses that have been
proved satisfactory tAjy be obtained
from the extension forces of each
state or from the United States De¬
partment of Agriculture.—The Pro¬
gressive Farmer.
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ONE-MULE RIGS VERSUS TWO
MULE RIGS.
Cultivation cost is largely reduced
by using adequate power harnessed
to modern cultivating machinery.
Figures compiled by the United
States Department of Agriculture in
farm management studies conducted
upon southern farms show that the
two-mule implement team hitched to
a two-mule implement saves time and
money over the usual one-mule out¬
fit In Texas, where the farms are
comparatively large, the two or four
mule hitch is generally used, but the
farmers in the Southeastern States
are inclined to depend upon the sin¬
gle rig to do their plowing, planting,
and cultivating, even where their
acreage is large. In preparing land
for cultivating crops the southeast
ern farmer with his one mule makes
five trips across his field to the Texas
farmer’s one. The Texas man culti¬
vates both sides of the row and the
middle at a single trip, but a one
mule hitch must make two or three
trips to accomplish as much. More¬
over, the single-mule farmer uses
twice as much man labor as does the
chap who drives a team. In some
ca^es the one-mule farmers get
around this difficulty by exchanging
mule Ijabor and working two-mule
teams.
An Alabama farm study furnishes
a dollar-and-cents accounting of the
two methods. “When the rows were
laid out with the contour of the land
and cultivated only one way, the cost
of cultivation was $1.3- an acre and
the hoeing cost 70 cents an acre.
When the corn was check-rowed and
cultivated both ways, the cost of
cultivation was reduced to $1.10 an
acre and the hoeing cost was only
21 cents an acre.” Such treatment is
only possible with adequate machin
ery.
ULTIMATUM SENT BULSHEVIKI
Russians Within Slaty Miles Of War
taw Ant Whale Ssa Corridor Of
Poland la Threatened
London —According to the Herald,
Premier Lloyd-George, during hia eon
venation with M. Krassin and Kame
neti presented an ultimatum to the
Boldhevlk representatives demanding
an Immediate and unconditional cessa¬
tion of the Russian advance on Po¬
land, even before signing an armistice,
or otherwise Great Britain would de¬
clare war.
The newspaper says also that the
British note sent to Russia is of e
threatening character.
The Dally Mall also reports that the
note is in the nature of an ultima¬
tum.
It sags plainly,” asserts the news
’'that Poland hi being overrun,
and If, Instead of hastening the armis
Uce, the Bolshevik armies continue to
advance, the situation foreseen in the
note of July 2 will have arisen and
Great Britain and her allies will be
obliged to asist In the support of .he
Poles."
The O&lly Mail also declares that the
ministers indulged in some trank talk
about the red advances to Kamenetf
and Krassin.
Poland is unwilling to negotiate a
peace with the Boleheviki except In
conjunction with Great Britain and
France, according to a Warsaw dls
patch to the London Times, dated
August 3. The dispatch adds that the
British and French missions met the
heads of the Polish government Au¬
gust 3. A wireless dispatch from Ber¬
lin says the Rueaians now have ad¬
vanced to within • sixty-two miles of
Warsaw on the east, and to within
about 40 miles east of Lemberg.
The dispatch adds that there is pan¬
ic In Warsaw and that all the wealthy
people are fleeing.
LEAGUE MEETS TO
REDUCE ARMAMENT
TO LOWEST COST
A 8urvey Of The Armaments Of Th#
World Is Under Consideration
As A Preliminary
San Sebastian, Spain.—The league
of nations took its first step to end
war, in the opinion of delegates to the
league council now meeting here.
The disarmament commission met
and made plans for a survey of the
armaments of the world, as a prelim
inary to cutting down all armaments
to the lowest possible figure.
Members of the disarmament com¬
mission Include the highest military
naval and aerial authorities of Brit¬
ain. France, Spain, Italy, Brazil, Bel¬
gium, Japan, and Greece, under the
leadership of General Fayolle and Ad¬
miral Lacaze, of France, and General
Olives and Admiral Calthorpe of Great
Britain.
The commission named three secre¬
taries who will be attached to the
league, consisting of a Briton to han¬
dle naval matters, a Frenchman for
military affairs and an Italian to han¬
dle aerial matters. After the survey
of the world’s armaments has been
completed and submitted, the league
will fix the maximum armaments
which will be permitted under the
rules. All surplus war material will
have to be destroyed.
The league council recently In se¬
cret session discussed the mandate*
tor Germany’s former colonies, and the
work of civilization that must be done
hy the powers holding Tsuch mandates.
One of the first questions which must
i>e decided ie whether the liquor traf¬
fic shall be abolished In Germany’s
former possessions.
The United States formerly opposed
this general staff plan, but Leon Bour
geolse and General Fayoole of France
took advantage of the absence of an
tmerican representative from the coun¬
cil to put it through.
Warsaw Is Under Bombardment
London.—-The outer forts of Warsaw
have been under bombardment since
Lhe morning of August 6, says a wire¬
less dispatch received from Berlin. The
Poles are returning the Bolshevik fire.
The Moscow government has notified
the British government that it Has
been arranged for Polish delegates to
cross the Russian front'on the even¬
ing of August 9. and for armistice and
peace negotiations to begin at Minsk,
August 11.
34,000,000 Gallons Of Liquor In U. «.
New York.—Ottlclaly there are 54,
000,000 gallons of whisky in bonded
warehouses in the United States, a
dwindling of about fifteen million gal
Ions eince January 16, when prohibt
lion became effective, according to J.
F. Kramer, federal prohibition commis
sioner. He announces that no more
permits will be granted to persons to
deal In whisky in large quantities in
this vicinity. The quantity of liquor
withdrawn Indicates that it was not
all used for non-beverage purposes, as
permitted by law, he says.
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Odd New Guinea Craft
The lakatois is a picturesque New
Guinea craft. These odd-looking ves¬
sels are composed of from five to ten
dugouts lashed securely side by side.
A deck Is thou laid across and a su¬
perstructure built on it. There Is not
a nail In the whole fabric, and'every
part of the vessel is composed of
home-grown products, from the steer¬
ing paddles to the curious mating
Don't Cultivate Cotton Too Daop.
A few days ago I was in a field
of cotton the owner of which was
cultivating in a way, in my opinion,
that was doing more harm than good.
He was using a rather large and long
solid sweep, getting up close to the
cotton, and every time he came to
the end of the row he had to stop to
take the cotton roots off the plow.
I think it highly important to keep
a dust blanket in the cotton field at
this season of the year, but if the
cotton roots have to be badly broken
up to get this dust mulch, then I‘d
prefer to go wiQiout it. As a matter
of fact, the dust mulch can be main¬
tained and grass and weeds kept
down without greatly disturbing the
feed roots of the growing crop.
Where heel sweeps are used, and on
sandy loam land these are excellent
for cutivating cotton, the scooter or
shovel plow ahead of the heel sweep
should be short and blunt, and the
hee sweep should skim along
under the surface.
The manner in which late
tion of cotton is done is of great im
portance, and every farmer should
give It mueh thought. If cotton is
be kept green and growing and is to
continue to put on fruit and hold it,
late cultivation must not be too deep.
—B. L. Moss, in The Progressive
Farmer.
Reason for Keeping a Mulch on
Soil
The reasons for keeping a
en the soil are seldom given. The
main reason is to stop the rising
moisture just at a depth where
are the most plant roots to utilize it.
We are all familiar with the
state of the ground beneath the plank
or board that has lain in one position
for some time; still it may not
occured to us why it is so. Now,
us, see if we cannot reason it out.
The soil is composed of very
grains arranged among themselves
such a way as to form minute
lary tubes that connect the
layers of the soil with thetop
The water in the soi passes
through these tubes to the
where it is evaporated. Now, if
place a board or plank all over
surface of our cultivated fieds,
aiQ joj »iqissoduit aq by
that is brought to the surface
illarity td evaporate. Such a
however, is not at all
but we clin easiy imitate this
by spreading a dust mulch over
top of the soil. In other words,
low cultivation breaks off the
tubes through which the water
capes. A single cultivation in
weather is not sufficient. As soon
th? soil settles again, these
tubes become re-established
evaporation again
Progressive Farmer.
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Biliousness, Torpid
Headaches, duo to
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MAKE THE PREMISES PREMISES RAT- a
PROOF
Rats are dangerous, since they car
ry-the germs responsible for a num
her of diseases among them being
Bubonic plague. In addition they are
very expensive, because of the quan
tities of grain they destroy.
It is wise to make the residence
and outhouses as nearly rat-proof as
possible. This can be done in the
following way: Wooden walks should
be torn up and replaced by concrete
gravel. The residence should be
or
at least 18 inches above the ground,
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Man’s Thinking Apparatus
if it be properly attuned, leads him
inevitably to weighing of values and a ✓
careful gauging of the trend of com
ditions.
So in these days of high prices, A
Brown Rot and Worms,
the Wise Man’s Creed is:
cut down expenditures; speed up
savings; build up your cash reserve at
the Bank.
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley
CAPITAL..... . , $ 100 , 000.00
SURPLUS & PROFITS . . . 90,000.00
Resources over a Million Dollars.
4 per cent, interest on Savings Accounts.
5 per cent, interest on Time Certificates.
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measuring from the lowest joist. The
barn and chicken house should have
'concrete floors, and chicken wire of
small kind (one-half Inch) should be
use( j. The woodshed should have no
floor . if the premises are rat-proof,
a uttle poison carried by meat or
cheese wi u kill all the rats, because
they w m be driven by hunger to eat
; . to eat the poisonous bait. M. M.
B in The Progressive Farmer,
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w# ar# proud of the confidence
druggists end the public
bsvs in 666 Chill end Fever Tonic.—
Adv.
