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FOUR er THE LEH-lKl AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Established 1888 —Published by— CO. THE LEADER-TRIBUNE JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor. Subscription Prices (Payable in Advance) 1 Year $2.50 6 Months ......... 1..35 3 Months .70 Member Georgia Press Association. • t Truth, crushed to earth, will rise again. -o 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. o 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. o 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. o 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? o 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. o 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 School I 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. •0 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 ” a «' r car You’ll Feel at Home! You’ll feel at home when you visit this Bank, we can 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. i Citizens Bank Of Tort Valley Capital, Surplus and Profits, $190,000,00 4 Resources over a MILLION DOLLARS / x i \ i I -mil 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. - ?■ i I iAp, y vX v I £ 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 6 V » 9 of Quality atZconomy Prices Fort Valley Lumber Company •— ★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★ * EXCEPTIONAL BARGAIN!! * 4 ^ PEACH ORCHARD 4 ^ 4 * 4 * 200 Acres, 6000 Bearing Trees—one- * half Hileys; balance Elbertas. 4 4 l l. Only Six Years Old. Up-To-Date improvements. 4 * 4 * * ^ KINNEY LOAN & INVESTMENT CO •i 4 4 WESLEY HOUSER, Mgr. 4 4 * * “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, ’ ’ O— “With the present style in femi nine ; ..tire there’d be no excitement all in living in glass houses. »» at