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PAGE FOUR AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL Established 1888 —Published by— THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO. JOEL MANN MARTIN, Subacription Price* (Payable in Advance) 1 Year ............ 6 Months ..... ...... 3 Months ........ Member Georgia Pre** Published every Thursday. Entered as sec^nb-cla - t matter the post offic - at Fort Valley, Ga., under the act of March 3, 1879. Were you “among the number • t we mailed those little subscription “billy dues” to the other day? Well, would you like to get another one? —O It costs us a good deal in postage and stationery and labor to keep on reminding some of our good friends that their'subscriptions are due. But only a cheap skate has cheap friend: that cost him nothing to keep. And if we keep on reminding you it’s a sign of our friendship and desire for yours. Those whom we do not know personally or in whose relation as subscribers the quality of friendship does not enter, we remind only once. But should friendship be one-sided? Come across or say something. %. n— Stand by the loeal merchant, The merchant fills an important place in small cities, when he is prosperous the community prospers. He is the main support of all public enterprises and organizations. It is a difficult period for the retail merchant when prices begin to drop. He needs your loyalty and co-operation as he never needed it before. You may hear of lower prices elsewhere, but you will greatly weaken your community if you turn from your home and go to distant cities in quest bargains.—Moultrie Observer. •o Don’t wait for the price of Leader-Tribune to come down you subscribe or renew your subscription. It’s $2.50 to old and new subscribers. And that it’s the same price it was years ago, compared with the price cotton—and cheaper, compared the price of everything else. And swell chance it has of being cheaper with the price of paper labor going up. Many papers no than The Leader-Tribune now $3.00 a year and some we know $5.00 a year. Don’t compare the of The Leader-Tribune with that other papers not in its don’t put yourself in the same with the subscribers to cheaper pa¬ pers. We arc classy folks here in this blessed section, and should stick to¬ gether. We are sticking to you. How about you? o ANOTHER CIVIC MATTER While the ladies of the Civic Com¬ mittee of the History Club are busy¬ ing themselves cleaning up and beau¬ tifying some of the ugly spots of our fair city with the cooperation of the Council Committee on streets and sanitation and of Superintendent Cornell and other citizens, and while interest in the minstrel show these ladies are putting on Friday night with the cooperation of the Civic Committee of the Chamber of Com¬ merce and splendid local talent is rife, would it not be a good time for the sanitary department to get busy and abate some of the nuisances that menace the health of the town? There are some back alleys in the city that are used MS dumping grounds for garbage that breeds dis¬ ease and draws flies to distribute it. There are places within the limits where flies and mosquitoes are bred the year round. A prominent citizen remarked to us the other day that he had never lived in a town with a more splendid class of citizens than Fort Valley has—nor one in which less at¬ tention was given to preventing the spread of disease among the people. Conditions which admit of two such antithetical remarks about our town should be eliminated. Places where disease can originate and where the pests that distribute it—flies and mosquitoes—can breed, should be done away with and more stringent quarantine regulations enforced to prevent the communication of dis¬ eases from person to person. Disease is unnece*»ary and preven table. It permanently impairs health and efficiency, and enjoyment of life No one, perhaps, ever fully recovers from the effects of serious illness It is very well to be able to congratulate our friends, relatives or selves on recovering: from illness—that is, not dying of it—but it is far better to be able to congratulate them or o u r selves on escaping illness. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. WE KNOW. CAN THE SWEETS / All the government press and editors of daily, weekly sundry papers have been urging farmers to produce more food Now they’ve gone and done it. farmers and gardeners in Fort and vicinity have raised more potatoes and better ones this than ever before. Consequence, local market's glutted, and no has provided for that contingency. The Leader-Tribune has times called attention to what communities are doing in the way providing sweet potato storage curing houses. We have heard of such provision being here. But there are seven or canning factories in Fort Valley vicinity. Would it not be mutually profitable for the owners of these canneries and the farmers to use them for canning the surplus of the potato crop. A systematic campaign, We be¬ lieve, was some time ago launched to better acquaint the North and East with the value of and methods of preparing the sweet potato, so little used in those sections. These sections may not yet be clamoring for can¬ ned sweet “spuds,” but there must be pioneers in every industry. While the canning of sweet potatoes is not a pioneer industry, it would be a new thing for Fort Valley. But why not? Peach growing and canning were once new industries here. o There is no prospect of an early reduction in the wages of sin.—Cleve¬ land News. •o The broad way that leads to de¬ struction is still open to traffic, but there are fewer wrecks occasioned by skidding on the wet spots-—Cleve¬ land News. o Just pretending to be rich keeps some people poor.—Savannah News. And practicing poverty makes others rich.—Butler Herald. —0 “WITHOUT ME YE CAN DO NOTHING.” 1 can not grasp my neighbor’s hand, Nor help him win the race If I know not the Lord’s command And power of His grace. I can not for my neighbor pray, Successfully entreat, Unless I know the Truth, the Way And live at Jesus’ feet. I can not treat my neighbor right If 1 myself am wrong; Nor can i sing of life and light Without the Prince of song. W. C. Carter Powersville, Ga. TWO KINDS OF MILK WHICH DO YOU PREFER? Do you consider milk as “just milk,” or have you discovered that it is of different kinds? There are at least two kinds which should be con¬ sidered by every consumer or cus¬ tomer. These may be described un¬ der the broad terms “clean” and “un-clean” milk. Milk is an exceedingly important item in our present system of living, and since the true value of it de¬ pends so largely upon its cleanliness, it is highly important that the es¬ sentials of clean milk production be understood by both milk producers and consumers. It is necessary for the producers to know these essen¬ tials in order that they may meet the demands of their customers. And it is well for the consumers to under¬ stand them in order to know what to demand. For clean milk, cows should be not only healthy and in good physical condition, but also sufficiently clean to permit of milking without the heavy contamination so often fol¬ lowing that process. Barnyards should be kept sufficiently clean and dry as to enable cows to walk freely without becoming dirty. In fact, milk should not be permitted to be sold where such bad conditions cannot be rectified. The entire procedure from the milking of cows to disposing of the milk should be governed with great care toward keeping the milk as clean as is possible. Too much emphasis cannot be placed on the importance of seeing that the cows are healthy and in good physical condition. Especially should they be free from tuberculosis. Scientific investigations show that a certain percentage or human tuber¬ culosis is of bovine origin, the germs being transferred through the use of milk, butter and cheese. By means of the tuberculin test it is possible to detect cows with this disease and re¬ move them from the herd. Every milk producer should have his herd tested and discard any animals affected. Customers or consumers should con¬ sider this matter when purchasing milk. Where herds are not properly in¬ spected by officals, milk customers should visit dairies where they ob¬ tain their milk and observe for them- THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY. GEORGIA nelves as to the physical condition of the cows and the sanitation in hand¬ ling the milk. D. G. SULLINS, Animal Husband man, Georgia Experiment Station. Mo»t Article* Written Through the Door Are Canards. Shortly before press time some 1 young man, who has not yet been identified, handed an item all written up through the door to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Sullivan, who have been wedded a short time, had an infant son at their house. Not knowing the young couple the Chron¬ icle assumed it was correct and the article was printed. It appears that there is no foundation for it.—De Kalb, 111., News. FEEDING TESTS SHOW VALUE OF BEEF-CATTLE RATIONS A feeding test has been under way at .Jonesboro, Ark., conducted by the Bureau of Animal Industry, United States Department of Agriculture, in cooperation with the State experi¬ \ ment station and the First District Agricultural School. The purpose is to compare various rations for main¬ taining a purebred breeding herd through the winter and to determine the best methods of raising -pure¬ bred beef calves for breeding pur¬ poses. Then 10 Aberdeen-Angus, 10 Shorthorn cows, and 10 Hereford cows, with one bull for each breed, are being kept. The work began July 1, 1919. The calves in lot 1 had a ration of grain in a creep in addition to their dam’s milk. This lot made a daily average gain of 1.37 pounds. Lot 2, on milk alone, gained 1.06 pounds daily. Cal ves and cows ran on pasture. On December 6, the cows were di¬ vided into three lots and fed for 112 days on the following rations, with the results indicated: Lot 1. Corn silage, 40.58 pounds; cottonseed meal, 1.71 pounds; wheat and oat straw, 3.32 pounds; grain 0.04 pound. Daily average gain 0.61 pound. Lot 2. Corn silage, 40.58 pounds; cottonseed meal, 1.21 pounds; cow pea and sorghum hay, 3.99 pounds, daily average gain, 1.04 pounds. Lot 3. Cowpea and sorghum hay, 16.38 pounds; wheat and oat straw, 2.83 pounds; coarse hay, 1.44 pounds; grain 0.12 pounds. Daily av¬ erage gain, 0.13 pound. Biown spot of corn is present throughout a large part of the corn¬ growing section east of the Rocky Mountains. The disease is caused by a minute fungous parasite. Dam¬ age may amount to 10 per cent, but is lower in most sections. Careful field sanitation, crop rotation, and seed selection are recommended by the United States Department of Agriculture as an aid in controlling the disease. • 0 - THE ANT’S TOILET ARTICLES. No creature is more tidy than an ant, who cannot tolerate the presence of dirt on her body. These little creatures actually use a number of real toilet articles in keeping them” selves clean. A well-known authority says their toilet articles consist of coarse and fine-toothed combs, hair brushes, sponges, and ^ven washes and soap. Their combs, however, dif¬ fer from ours mainly in that'they are fastened to their legs. The ants have no .set time for their toilet operations, but clean up whenever they get soiled. The Heat—A negro stole a ther¬ mometer from a white man’s shop window in Alabama. Next day there appeared a notice outside the latter's window which read: "Will the person who stole my thermometer kindly re¬ turn it, as it is no good for the place to which he is going, for it only reg¬ isters 1 80 degrees.” O BISHOP MIKEL COMING Right Reverend H. J. Mikel will preach in Fort Valley at the Episco¬ pal Church Sunday evening at 7 P. M. The rite of Confirmation will also be administered. A cordial invitation is extended tp members of the other churches who may not have services or those de¬ siring to worship with us. o Paid For—The .customer picked up a knife from the counter and handed it to the butcher with a friendly smile. “I don’t really want it,” he said, “but if you’ll cut it off I’ll take it along, with the rest. »» “Cut what off?” demanded the as¬ tonished butcher. "Your hand,” was the gentle re ply- *« You weighed it with the sau sage, and I like to get what 1 pay for. • • •o The state of Oregon has been asked to appropriate $50,000 to handle the attempts to evade the law by means of stills in various parts of that state. \ m Red-Blooded Men and Women Seldom Sick WATCH YOUR BLOOD CONDI¬ TION If You Look Pale, Feel Gloomy and Run-down, Take Pepto-Mangan and Build Up You see men and women who are never sick. They work hard, look ro¬ bust, eat heartily and enjoy life. They have plenty of rich, red blood. That is why they are never ill. People who try to get along with weak, impoverished blood always have a struggle. They go from one sickness to another. Children the same way. If you keep your blood rich and red you’ll enjoy full vigor. Disease has little chance to develop in heal¬ thy blood. As soon as you feel run¬ down take Pepto-Mangan for awhile. It will feed your blood with the in¬ gredients needed to create a good supply of red corpuscles. Pepto-Mangan „ . is . sold , i in . , both ,, li quid and tablet form. Take kind you prefer. They are alike in medicinal value. But be sure you get the genuine Pepto-Mangan-“Gude’s M The full name, “Gude’s Pepto-Man gan, M should be on the package. Ad vertisement. POSITIVELY. “Have you heard my last joke?” asked the Pest, as he stopped the the Grouch in the street. “I hope so,” replied the as he kept on traveling.—Sou. News. o READ AND SEE IF THIS APPLIES TO YOU Here is an item from some paper which the Oklahoma Extension vice has picked up and reprinted. are also going to publish it—in spite of the fear that some of our may sleep less soundly tonight after getting these facts mixed up with his conscience. Here is the item: “A man will pay $225 for a bind¬ er, use it two days in the year; $65 for a planter, use it five days in the year; $130 for a wheat drill, use it four days in the year—and then let his wife rub, rub, rub, on a wash¬ board all day long, fifty-five to sev¬ enty-five days in the year. A wash¬ ing machine will do its work as well as a binder or any other machine. »» If this item annoys you, you know what to do about it.—Talbotton New Era. ■0 A great relief map of tire world, showing ‘ail known physical condi tions of the globe, is being prepared by the United States Shipping Board. i £ ! £ / £ $ The First Dollar £ ! £ £ £ £ deposited in a Savings Account in the Citizens Bank £ of Fort Valley, acts as a magnet in drawing other dol¬ J £ lars to it. h As the amount grows larger the desire to increase £ £ it becomes keener. £ £ The habit of saving soon develops from a duty £ £ into a real pleasure. rS Our Officers invite you to open an account today. I I Citizens Bank IS £ £ of Fort Valley ! ! Capital, $100,000.00 Si Resources Million Dollars ! !i over a £ 4 per cent, interest paid twice a year on Savings. 5 per cent, an¬ £ £ nually on Certificates of Deposit. £ £ £ £ NOVEMBER 18. 1920. mmm&m Southern Railway System (§) Tracked Trunk Line (§) The Double Between (§> Atlanta, Georgia, and Washington, D. G. C©j m m <§) SINCE completion of the comotives with their tenders double tracking and new con- have a combined weight of (§>) struction on the Southern Rail- 520,000 pounds, wnich is more way System between Washing- than twice the weight of what tv* © (<§) ton, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga. was considered the monster @ the type of locomotive used has passenger engine of a few @ been increased in size and pow- years THE ago. DESIGN of these big er for both freight and passen ger service. engines has been worked out <§> (®) THE NEW DOUBLE- in the greatest detail, and they (g) TRACKED line between Wash¬ are provided with every device ington, D. C., and Atlanta, Ga,, for safety; as well as comfort (§) a distance of 648 miles, over to the operators and efficiency which operate many of the in operation. They use super¬ © (§) heaviest and most famous pas- heated steam, have power op¬ 'g' trains in this country, is erated reverse gear and grate senger ! ® of first class construction, and shakers, compound air pumps, (q to keep pace with the increas- mechanically operated stokers, X electric headlights and the la¬ (©) ing weight of heavy trains of (g) steel passenger cars operated test safety appliances. © over the line, we have put in THE USE of these heavy en¬ © operation over this entire dis- gines has resulted in a very (©) (§) tance the heaviest and most uniform train operation, and /g\ powerful type of steam passen- consequent satisfaction to © © ger locomotive in use. These lo- travelers. ® ¥ m C® I • The Southern Serves the South. © C® C©j (©J - ..........— ■ ♦♦ ♦♦ i J Qyg^ Cleaned 10c. 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