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THE LEH-lKl
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
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• t Truth, crushed to earth, will rise
again.
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One thing that hacks us newspa
per men considerably about Tom
Watson’s victory is that he got all
his newspaper advertising free. Wise
old owl.
Dr. Geo. II. Slappey wired Mr.
Thomas E. Watson Thursday, we are
told, the following suggestion as a
suitable title for his latest best
seller: “Front Buford Jail to U. S.
Senate in Fifteen Days.” You’ve got
to hand it to Dr. Slappey for original
cleverness and staunch friendship,
whether you agree with him in poli
tics or not.
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Dear fellow citizens of Georgia:
We are frankly surprised, chagrin
ned, e’en mortified, that you would
not be governed by our advice in
your selection of a senator and gov
ernor. i * What boots it with incessant
care * i that we tell you how to yote'!
Surely it were . * better done, usothers
use, to sport with Amarillis in the
shade or with the tangles of Neaera’s
hair, *» than to labor as the monitor of
the political conscience of the dear
peepul. "Alabama, ’ • for a while at
least.
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CROW NOT—CROAK NOT
The second decisive victory of the
year for the new county forces is of
course very gratifying to the advo
cates of division. We fought a good
fight, and a fair one. We kept faith
—and will continue to keep it. It
was but natural that in the first ex
altation of victory we should do a
little celebrating. Having blown off
this excess of pent-up steam, there
is no longer any general disposition
to crow over our late opponents—
nor croak over their method of
fighting. Let’s forgive and forget
whatever may have seemed to either
side unfair or unbecoming tactics on
the part of the other. Let us not
nourish the memory of any lapses of
gentility that may have occurred in
the thick of the fray.
Let’s work out the remainder of
the program in mutual good will and
friendliness. That is not to suggest
any sacrifice of the advantages of
our victory—the stamp of the si p
proval of a majority of the voters of
the county and district. But it is a
suggestion that all bitterness be for¬
gotten and that all unite in a con¬
structive program for peace and pro
gross.
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V. DO BOTH ENDS MEET?
(Madera (Pa.) Times.)
Many of the country newspapers
are advancing tlie subscription price
to $2.50 per year in advance, The
reason for this advance is given that
the co«t of print paper and the cost
of labor and the cost of the materials
necessary to produce a paper have
advanced to such proportions that
the owners of the printing plants are
losing money on every issue of the
paper they print. The advance in ad¬
vertising has gone front 12 cents to
as high as 25 cents an inch for dis¬
play advertising and even to 30
cents per inch. And yet here in our
own county some of the weekly pa¬
pers are only asking $1.50 to $2 for
a yearly subscription. How our fel¬
low printers make ends meet on a
subscription of $1.50 per year is be¬
yond our ability to figure, particu¬
larly just now when paper is selling
at 16 cents per pound f. o. b. point
of shipment. Is it any wonder the
editor insists that all subscribers
come across promptly, and pay their
subscription to their home paper?
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I THE OPTIMIST
(By Frank Dorrance Hopley in The
Dearborn Independent.)
Webster defines an optimist as:
One who looks on the bright side
of things.
That is a good definition but,
somehow, it does not quite seem to
express the true meaning of the
word.
I was going down the street the
other day, and I met a man who,
from appearances, had seen better
days. His coat was ragged, his trou
sers shiny; his collar was frayed and
his shirt torn. There was something
in his eye, however, that seemed to
indicate that he was not cast down by
his troubles. On a sudden impulsq I*
stopped him and asked:
THE LEADER TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., SEPTEMBER 10,1920
“What is your definition of an op
timist?”
The man’s eyes twinkled, as he re¬
plied :
<< An optimist is a man who can
take the lemons which are handed to
him by life, and make lemonade out
of them. »>
Then he walked away chuckling to
himself.
I was glad that he gave me that
definition, for it is a true one. An
optimist is a man who can smile,
when everything goes wrong, because
he believes that things will turn out
all right in the end.
But a great many people have a
wrong idea of what an optimist is.
They think he is a man who will nev
t*r admit that there is any danger,
even though the sky may be lower¬
ing; that he is a person who always
looks on the bright side even if there
is no justification for doing so.
Those same people would call an
ostrich an optimist. When danger ap¬
proaches, the bird hides its head in
the sand, and says to itself: “I can
see no danger, therefore, there isn’t
any.” Such a person is worse than
foolish, and deserves disaster. You
can never prevent danger simply by
shutting your eyes and saying that
danger does not exist.
The real optimist is the man who
goes through life with a cheerful
smile, resolving to think the best pos¬
sible about his neighbors; the man
who, when things are bad, ac
knowledges that they look black. He
admits that the situation is a diffi¬
cult one, but through it all he be¬
lieves that with the help of God and
his own efforts, everything will come
out all right.. He doesn’t say there
isn’t any danger, but he meets the
danger with a smile.
There are parlous times, times
which require a clear head and sound
judgment. It is futile for any one to
hide his head in the sand, like the os¬
trich, and say everything is going
well. That is false optimism. Every¬
thing H NOT going well, but, things
WILL go well, if we meet the diffi¬
culties before us with a stout heart
and a sincere belief in our ability to
cope with them successfully. That is
true optimism.
Confront the dangers which beset
us on every hand, politically, indus¬
trially and internationally, with a
calm conception of what they mean.
Then bend every energy toward do¬
ing your part in solving the problems
which the events of the past five
years have forced upon us.
The definition of the man in the
street was not original with him. He
had heard it somewhere. But it was
true, and will bear repeating:
“An optimist is a man who can
take the lemons which are handed
to him by life, and make lemonade
out of them. ■ •
THE OLD MARKET BASKET
How clear to my mind are the prices
once ruling
When i was a boy and could eat
all my fill
famished, 1 came from my
much-hated schooling
And sat down to dinner with Harry
and Bill.
A great plate of meat—duck or tur¬
key in season—
Corn, turnips, asparagus, peaches
galore,
With three or four pies—there was
no earthly reason
To stop except stomachs that
would not hold more—
All came from the basket, the brown
wicker basket,
The old market basket that father
once bore.
Eggs then cost a trifle—each fresh
as a daisy,
No hated cold storage was known,
by the way,
And every one then would have
thought you were crazy
To ask for “nut butter,” as folks
do today.
Twelve cent for a pound of good
pork or of scrapple,
A little bit higher for chops at the
store,
’Twas kept in the village by Marvin
and Chappie,
And no one delivered things then
at the door—
came in the basket, the brawn
wicker basket,
The old market basket that father
once bore.
How oft in the present when wor¬
ried and harried
1 think with a sigh of those days
of delight,
And picture the basket that father
then carried
And brought home filled up to the
brim every night.
How fresh were its contents, as
fragrant as honey,
The prices, all told, made a laugh¬
able score.
How eagerly, gladly I’d plunk down
my money
For three times their cost at that
time, even four,
If fresh from the basket, the brown
wicker basket.
The old market basket that father
once bore.
—New York Sun.
ACCEPTANCES i ' vl
URGED TO AID
COTTON LOANS
Would Make Country’s Credit
Resources Available to Grow¬
ers and Lighten Burden on
Southern Banks.
UNIFORM WAREHOUSING
LAWS ARE NECESSARY
Natitonai Bank of Commerce In New
York Saya Discount Market Re¬
quires Standard Receipt Which
Will Protect Loans.
The use of bank acceptances for
financing cotton growers Is advocated
by the National Bank of Commerce In
New York as a remedy for the hand
to-mouth crop-lien system now in gen¬
eral use. In its magazine, Commerce
Monthly, the hank points out that cot¬
ton* marketing requirements hereto¬
fore have not shared in the country’s
-credit resources because the obliga¬
tions of the generality of borrowers In
this Held huve not been suitable for
negotiation in the open market. The
burden of financing has been concen¬
trated on a limited number of Soutli
ern hanks, Such a system has been
responsible In a large degree for com¬
pelling the dumping of cotton on the
market almost as rapidly as It could
be picked and ginned.
The hank points out that a means of
securing u broader distribution of the
burden has been provided by the Fed¬
eral reserve system, which enables
member hunks both to rediscount
loans and to execute acceptances,
which are particularly suitable for I
general negotiation. The success of
tills remedy, however, depends largely |
on the ability of borrowers to provide |
certain simple requirements of the |
discount market One of tlie chief re¬
quirements, the hunk declares, is a
uniform standard of quality of ware¬
house receipts, which will enable
hanks throughout the country safely
to undertake tile execution of accept
auces on cotton In storage.
Requisite Conditions.
There tins been a diversity and
often a laxity in business practices,
as well as an absence of uniformity in
the obligations and responsibilities as
sumed t.y warehousemen, under vary
lug state warehousing laws, which has
caused banking Institutions not d*
rectly acquainted with the Individual ,
warehousing concerns to hesitate to i
extend receipts,” credit the on bank the declares. strength of ‘ On their re-. J
celyh.g a request for a lost, against
cotton the bankers first concern Is !
tha there actually Is cotton behind ■
the warehouse receipt. One of the
most serious difficulties which banks,
particularly those which are not in close i
local touch with the situation, have
found In tlie way of loaning more free¬
ly against cotton receipts is that they
have never been able to ascertain ex
nelly what title to ihe cotton they bad.
In general it is true that the holder of
a receipt is subject to prior liens, and
uncertainty as to their nature and ex¬
tent increases the banker’s hesitancy
In accepting receipts as collateral- ,
though In practice the actual I
even
losses from defective title by reason
of such liens have been comparatively
small. The cotton, furthermore,
should be in ttie hands of a reliable
warehouseman, who should be inde¬
pendent of the borrower, so thnt the
latter cannot, while the receipt is out¬
standing In the hands of a third party,
obtain control over the cotton covered
by It.
Uniform Warehouse Laws Needed.
“A reasonable method of Improving
this situation would seem to he the I
application of fairly uniform laws con¬
cerning cotton warehousing wherever I
cotton is stored. Two laws have al
ready been formulated which, were
thetr provisions uniformly and Jointly
applicable to cotton warehouses,
would go far toward establishing
warehouse receipts on the high level
of the bill of lading. These are the
Uniform Warehouse Receipts Law and
tlie Federal Warehouse Act adopted
In 1916. The latter provides for Fed¬
eral supervision and examination of
licensed warehouses which take ad¬
vantage of Its provisions. The Uni¬ i
form Warehouse Receipts Act, on the
other hand, Is concerned with putting
the receipt itself Into proper form,
making standard the terms which It
Incorporates and the obligations as¬
sumed by the warehouseman, and
making standard also the conditions
attending its transfer or negotiation.
“As regards the Uniform Ware¬
house Receipts Act, there would seem
to be no valid reason why Its provi¬
sions should not be incorporated in
their entirety in the statutes of every
state. The Federal Warehouse Act Is
not compulsory, and warehouses have
been, and probably will continue to be, ;
slow to avail themselves of Its provi- ;
slons because of the public supervision ;
for which It provides.* A remedy !
might be found cither in the estab- j j
lishment of a s.ui.hu system of public
supervision by the respective states, !
or In a provision in state laws that
all public warehouses be required to
obtain federal licenses, the latter
method being decidedly preferable be
cause of the greater uniformity It
would insure.’
TOM WATSON
The Old Adage,—“Every Knock is
a Boo*t’’ Comes True Again.
Isn’t it true fellow citizens if you
want to defeat a man, just speak
kind words of him laud his good
qualities, etc. I think that the news¬
papers of this state are partly re¬
sponsible for Watson’s big vote, too
much knocking and putting him in
jail overnight probably got him more
votes, than all the kind words you
could have said of him, as for free
advertising he got more, than the
other candidates combined paid for
theirs, the time for clean politics in
here, with woman getting the ballot
privilege the politicians of today
have to come clean, woman will puri¬
fy the elections and the change will
certainly be noticed.
Observer.
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First Payment On Altamaha Bridge
Savannah.—Savannah business mer,
put up $3,700. one-fourth of the first
$15,000 to be paid for the Al’amaha
bridge at Darien, H. H Dean and oth
ers having agreed to sell the bridge
for $60,000. Glynn and McIntosh coun
with the three-fourths aid of Jacksonville, for the j j
raised the other
initial payment in cash and have also
tiad pledged the remaining $45,000
Savanah promising also her share ol
that. The first payment was raised
in thirty minutes in a meeting ol
about a dozen Savannahians. The
opening of the highway bridge and by the the mainte state j i
nanoe of the
commission will wonderfully facilitate j
tourist traffic by auto from points
noi •th into Florida and return and also ;
summer travel from Florida and
Brunswick toward the Carolina hill
country.
Reception For Noted Educator
Atlanta. An infomial reception will
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be given by the Atlanta Public
Teachers’ association at the girls high
school. Prof M. V. O’Shea, and the
. entering the Atlanta
teachers who are
school system this fall will be the
guests of honor. Prof. O’Shea is a
leader among the world’s educators
a publisher and author of note He i,
the head of the educational depart
meat in the University of Wisconsin
and president of the National Parent
Teacher association His visit to At
latda is not only of interest to eduea
tors in the city, but to parent-teacnei ■
organizations throughout the state.
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Clayton Sheriff Arrests Gritfin uop I
Griffir 1
Griffin.—Over half of the
police was arrested by the sheriff oi
c , ayton county wh0 came armed with
for Officers Simonton
Smith Huckaby and Williams,
, , he carrying of concealed weap
onR agsault nmlicious arrest, etc. I
ch being ma de by parties,
werg arrested , n Clayton count,
breakl ° spe eding regulation, j
tn Grlffin ’ seem8 l ha th ‘
werp too much for a single ( of
cei ,akin ani * retur f ned to t with e po ice :he a,,ovt a lor j
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assure you.
One of our most ceaseless purposes is to so treat our cus¬
tomers that they will consider each visit to this Bank a pleasure.
Whatever the nature of your business, you can come to us
with the assurance that you will be courteously and consider¬
ately dealt with.
Our aim is that this Bank shall always be regarded by
those who deal with it as ‘The Bank With a Personality.
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Resources over a MILLION DOLLARS
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named po.jse overtook tli tagu.vw
near Lovejoy, in Clayton county bring
lug them back to Griffin where they
were tried and fined. The policeman
were prompt in giving bonds in the
sum of $1,000 each to appear before
the superior court in Clayton to an
„wer the charges under which
warrants were served.
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Hidden Strength
u The ancient Greek artisans
displayed as much care over their
handiwork in hidden places as in the
parts exposed to view. They said it was
because the gods could see everywhere.
. vVhat they were really try¬
ing to express in their primitive
way was their understanding of the
fact that a thing was neither beautiful
A nor strong unless the quality endured
l throughout.
Framework Is Important
ll made ing lies The in which the finished to look covers skeleton-the strong it. floor But framework by its may the strength floor¬ and be
timbers beneath. It must be good to
be strong.
In beams, rafters and lath, as in
all varieties of lumber, we have concen
trated our attention on getting only the good
qualities. Come You for can buy with atisurai.ee here.
to M3
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“A great many men make more
money than their wives can spend,
but never as much as their wives
would like to be abie to spend, ’ ’
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“With the present style in femi
nine ; ..tire there’d be no excitement
all in living in glass houses. »»
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