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THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., AUGUST 27, 1920.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
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JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
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A movement is on foot to build a
sweet potato storage house in Tal
botton. Good business and it would
he good business for some other lar¬
ger Georgia towns.
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The new county of Cook, organ¬
ized a year or two ago from Berrien
County, has a population of 11,180,
according to recently announced cen¬
sus figures. A healthy increase in tax
values was alRO shown this year.
■o
It is somewhat noticeable and sig¬
nificant that of the four members
of the Senatorial Executive Commit¬
tee for Houston County, recently ap¬
pointed by the chairman of the Dem¬
ocratic Executive Committee of the
County, none is from the proposed
new county section. Is this a tacit'ad
mission that the proposed new coun¬
ty aection is already no longer a part
and parcel of Houston County?
—o
Officials of the Board of Trade of
Elberton and some of the progressive
business men of that city are organ¬
izing a building and loan association
to solve the acute housing problem.
A similar movement is on foot in
Donalsonville, the fuure coun.v seat
of the brand new county of Seminole.
This is good business and will be re¬
flected in the next census of those
forward-looking communities and in
the business growth enjoyed mean¬
time.
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Your town may be good enough
for you. It might he good enough for
everyone if other towns were not
constantly improving. But other
towns are improving and you must
either keep up with them or go in the
scrap heap. And if you go in the
scrap heap your prospects, your pros¬
perity and your hank account go
too. So, though you may become im¬
patient with some of our enterpris¬
ing citizens and their new-fangled
notions, better not treat them like
a fly in the summertime and brush
them away, for they are really work¬
ing for your good.-—Hartwell Sun.
Aint that the truth? And don’t it
hold good for counties too?
o
EVERYBODY WINNING
it According to the papers” nearly
all the candidates for office in Geor¬
gia today, whether for national, state
or county office, are running a win¬
ning race. That is, according to which
paper you read.
According to the Atlanta Georgian
and several of the weekly brethren,
Watson and Hardwick are overcom¬
ing all opposition and are already
being heralded as victors throughout
the State. According to the Atlanta
Journal, Macon News, and several
other daily and a few weekly papers
of the State, Hoke Smith has the U.
S. senatorship already safely tucked
away in the folds of his toga. Accord¬
ing to the Atlanta Constitution, Ma¬
con Telegraph, and a large majority
of the other daily and weekly papers,
Gov. Dorsey is safely and surely
the choice of a big majority of the
people of the State for U. S. senator,
and Clifford Walker for governor.
According to our esteemed neighbor,
The Perry Home Journal, the anti
new-county candidates for legisla¬
ture and State senator are gaining
strength, whereas news daily receiv¬
ed by The Leader-Tribune regarding
the steady growth of sentiment in fa¬
vor of the new county movement and
candidates is most gratifying.
So, there you are. Take your choice
of the “news,” and vote your choice
■of candidates.
Just now the paramount choice as
affects the progress and reputation
of Houston County and the welfare,
prosperity and happiness of its citi¬
zens is between the old order and a
new; between bad roads, unsafe
bridges, inadequate school facilities,
county debt and despair, on the one
hand; and the new order of things
proposed in the division of the coun¬
ty into two separate, homogeneous
political units with resultant harmo¬
ny of interests and action within
each unit, which will leave each unit
free and unhampered in realizing
destiny, on th^ other hand.
The citizens of the county are
therefore divided into two parties,
the Conservative and the Progressive,
The Conservatives, if not by intent
at least in effect, would keep the
county as it is—at a standstill in
point of provision for public improve¬
ments, wiping out the county debt,
etc. Wo used the word “standstill • >
in its ordinarily accepted sense. As a
matter of fact there is no such thing
as a standstill. Throughout all na¬
ture, human affairs and the cosmic
universe there is no such thing as
rest, except in iq comparative
sense. Motion, change, is the sine qua
non of existence, whetner in the or¬
ganic or inorganic world—whether
of men or matter. The stone that lies
apparently inert from year to year,
century to century, is in reality a
vibrant mass of molecular activity,
the physicist tells us; but there is a
steady and more significant change
constantly, if imperceptably, taking
place in that stone. The scientists
call it “erosion;” we ordinary folks
call it “wearing away.” The action of
rain and sunshine, frost and thaw, are
constantly reducing the size of that
stone. It glows, but in the wrong di¬
rection. It grows smaller from year to
year. If the world lasts long enough
Stone Mountain will be leveled to the
surface of the surrounding country
in this way. We can’t stand still. We
must move, either forward or back¬
ward. Conservatism in politics is of¬
ten stagnation, and stagnation is al¬
ways retrogression. When the Conser
vaties stand in the way of forward
movement they are Reactionaries.
It the Conservatives win in Hous¬
ton County on September 8 th and the
New County candidates are defeated,
it will simply mean that Houston
County will continue to move in the
wrong direction—backward, falling
behind her neighbor counties and
practically every other county in the
State in the matter of public im¬
provements, realty enhancements,
growth in population, and hence bus¬
iness development; and the county
tight will continue to grow bigger.
It may be argued that property val¬
ues have enhanced under the old re¬
gime. True, and they will probably
continue to enhance tome under a
continuation of the old regime. But
as long as they do not ennance at the
same rate they do in other counties
we are falling behind in the proces¬
sion of progress and are not getting
what we are entitled to.
The man who looks only at him¬
self, within himself, and at his own
accomplishments for evidence of his
growth to higher things, has a very
limited standard of comparison and is
not likely to progress nearly as rap¬
idly as he who looks beyond himself
and his own accomplishments to the
great world of men and accomplish¬
ment about him. So it is with a coun¬
ty. Let us enlarge our horizon and
note the progress other counties are
making, and take due heed of causes
and effects.
What can the opponents of county
division hope to gain by defeating
the movement, if there were enough
such opponents to do so? Would the
triumph of their bitter opposition
bring the remote sections of the coun-^
ty any nearer together? Would it re¬
duce the distance from Fort Valley
to Elko, for instance, or make it eas¬
ier to get from one of these places to
the other? Would it bring about any
closer community of personal, indus¬
trial or commercial interests? Would
it bring about any greater harmony
of sentiment and concert of action
among all citizens of, the county?
Would it increase the liklihood of
carrying a county bond election for
better roads, bridges and schools?
VVould it insure any harmony of act¬
ion toward wiping out the county
debt? If the cooperation necessary
to accomplish these things has not
been forthcoming in the past, by
what mesmerism is it hoped that it
can be done in the future? If the new
county movement were defeated
would its advocates be any more kind¬
ly disposed toward those who defeat¬
ed it and more ready to cooperate
with them for the county's advance
ment?
These are some of the questions
that should be analyzed dispassion¬
ately by every voter, and if he can
not honestly answer “yes” to every
one of them he should vote -the new
county ticket as the only means ot
curing the ills that beset us as a coun¬
ty tin' only means of turning the
county’s condition from one of re¬
trogression from bad to worse, to one
of progression from good to better.
“Everybody winning?”
Vote the New County ticket Sep¬
tember 8 th and everybody in Hous¬
ton County will win—the enti-new
county forces included, in ^pite of
their expressed belief to the contra
ry.
And we confidently believe that
everybody in Houiton County it go¬
ing to win.
AS TO COST OF NEW COUNTIES
(From The Tifton Gazette of sev
years ago.)
Really somebody ought to inform
the editors of two Atlanta papers on
a few ordinary facts as to the State
in which they live and its govern-
mcnt.
Here come the Constitution and
the Journal, arguing as one, against
the “great burden of expense” new
counties will bring upon themselves
and the State. It is always popular
and easy to talk “expense.” The cry
of “high taxes” has killed too many
deserving measures and is the ready
weapon of the demagogue and re¬
actionary, always to hand. The chief
victim thereof is the man who pays
least taxes.
They tell us that chief among the
burdens of expense new counties
bring upon the people is the salary
of officers!
And here you have a typical anti
new-county argument.
These newspapers, leaders in the
State, do not know or choose to for¬
get that practically all county offi
cers in Georgia are paid under the
fee system—according to the work
they do. It costs no more to record
a deed or administer on an estate in 1
Tift than it does in Worth or Fulton;
the treasurer, the tax collector, the
tax receiver, the clerk, the ordinary,
the sheriff, the coroner—all are paid
for what they do, the , same fees , m .
the new counties as in the old.
So the new countie*, insofar as the
officers are concerned, do not cost
the people a penny.
The new counties do cost the State
the pay of a member of the General
Assembly and a small.item of postage
and stationery. But in return they
onng to it increased value, many
time, what they cost. New counties
nre the best investment, from a f.
nancial standpoint, Georgia has made
during the present century.
Next the expenses of court houses
and jails. If the people directly in
terested care to pay these, in order
to enjoy modern conveniences, what
concern , has Atlanta ah , therein? It t. may
interest these new zealots to know
that in none of the new counties is
the tax rate higher than in the old
counties adjoining them; that where
the new counties were formed ten
years ago, each of the old counties is
now returning more taxable proper
ty than before territory was |^ken
from it to create a new county, and
the new county is just that much add¬
ed to the wealth of the State.
Take Tift county as a case in
point. When it was created the bulk
of its wealth and territory were tak
en from Berrien. At that time Ber¬
rien’s tax returns, including Tifton
district, totaled less than three mil¬
lion dollars. Now Berrien returns ov
or four million dollars’ worth of
property for taxation and. besides j
this Tift returns two millions!
■
Here is an evidence of what new
counties will do.
New counties in some sections are
necessary for' the progress and de¬
velopment of the State.
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THE WALKER-HOLDER MUDDLE
Editor Leader-Tribune:
It seems that the great majority
of democratic voters want to elect
one or the other of these gentlemen.
They both are in public life, have
served the State in official capaci
;ies, and there is nothing in their
records to impeach their party loy¬
alty or their patriotism. As to the I
,hird candidate, his war record while
United States Senator puts him be¬
yond the favorable consideration of
hosts of democrats and intelligent
patriots. They realize that he must be
defeated for Governor, as he was
overwhelmingly repudiated as U. S.
Senator.
This is the main consideration.
Democrats arc more concerned to
defeat Hardwick than to elect Wal
ker or Holder. All
democrats have been asking if it is ,
not possible to get together on one
or the other.
It is clear that by his temporary
alliance with Watson and the Wat
■
sonites, and by his adoption of all the ■
Watson methods of appeals to prej
udiice and class feeling, Hardwick
will control a very considerable vote,
and will carry some counties. But if
the real democratic vote should be
undivided he would be defeated be
yond any question.
The suggestion made to Hon. John
Holder to retire in favor of Hon.
Clifford Walker by The Telegraph
and The Constitution newspapers
was not calculated to favorably ap- j
peal to Mb. Holder. Naturally he
believes he is stronger than Walker,
Had these editors gotten Mr. Holder j
into a private conference with other I
friends of both candidates and talk- i
the situation, with the !
ed over all one
purpose of advancing tne interests of j
the State and the party by agreeing 1
on some plan by which one or the
other would retire, then it seems r#a- ]
sonable to believe something could j
have been accomplished.
But Mr. Holder kicked, and de¬
manded to know why he should be
called on to retire. He put it up to
the Editor of The Constitution, whom
he seems to consider the backer and
the instigator of Governor Dorsey’s
candidacy for the Senate, to know
why he should have stabbed him in
the back, Brutus-wise.
$188,187.66
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LOCAL METHODISTS PLAN
A GREAT CHURCH RALLY
The Methodists of Fort Valley
Rut he further calls on him to take
Dorsey out of the race for the Sen
ate, and that then he, Holder, would
retire from the race for Governor.
Now that does stump you, does it
not? You will have to think that over.
If Clark Hofell started Dorsey to
running he can not possibly pull him
back now. He has too much momen¬
tum. No one is running against him
except Tom Watson and Hoke Smith,
and many thousands of the most loy¬
al and consistent democrats of Geor¬
gia can not bring themselves to vote
for either. A few months ago these
two professed democrats were close¬
ly allied in the unholy business of dis¬
crediting a great democratic admin¬
istration; and in the Atlanta
vention jointly steamrolled a resolu
tion to endorse the general work of
the administration of President
j aon j^ow tbat botb are set .^i nK the
same of£icef there Jg , ots of eX p] ain -
jng — and Mr g m j tb especially is ex
| plaining that he did not mean to go
to do it; that Watson is to blame;
I that Watson overreached him, and
tricked him, and so rorth. Intelligent
, democrats read the newspapers. Mr.
gmith>8 many utteranC e S in the Sen
ate and in the newspapers are too
recent for Mr. Smith’s present pro
fessions of party loyalty to receive
any faith or credence. Democrats
k now him now.
But about Mr. Holder’s proposi
ernor Dorsey will come down in the
interegt of Smith. Is that a bid f or
^ support of the Smith following? | j
()j , jg jt merely an expre8sion of re
■
sentment at what he considers an
unfair and unwarranted demand j
made upon him publicly in a manner I
; nte nded to retire him whether he
wd j or
We prefer to believe the . latter ..
* is
the real case.
—X. Y.
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It is not true the rolling deep
Shall hold with massive chain
The broken urns that ’neath it sleep
Nor yield them up again.
Hope’s beacon fires unfading gleam
Around th’ azoic pole.
And shed by far their brightest beam
Where darkest waters roll.
It is not true, although they die,
That we shall see no more
The child that played with star-lit
eye
Around our cottage door. v
The Lord will soon the veil remove, j
Bestow the clearer sight, __ j
And we shall meet in realms of love
The lips kissed good-night. ^
we i
It is not true death is the end
Of all our spirit’s quest;
That like the brute man shall de
scend i
To unrequited rest.
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planning for a great church rally on
the fifth Sunday in this month—
next Sunday week. Every member
1 is boin * ur *° d t0 * ttend the Sunday
school, Epworth League and preach
> n K services. There will be special mu¬
sic and the pastor will preach sermons
suitable to the occasion. There is a
great deal of enthusiasm in regard
to this “go-to-church day," and it
is expected that the church will be
filled to its capactiy with the mem
and visitors.