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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1K88
—Published by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
Subscription Price*
(Payable in Advance)
1 Year . $2.50
6 Months .. ...... 1-.85
3 Months ...... . . .70
Member Georgia Pre»» A**ociation.
Published every Thursday.
Entered as second-da i matter
the post of fie;' 1 , at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act i f March
3, 1370.
Less legislation and more rea
Christian education is what the world
needs. Inculcate a right mind
moral law and there will be less need
of coercion by civil law, and better
observance of all law.
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The Leader-Tribune extends s.vm
pa thy to Editor E. M. Hirshburg of
The Montezuma Georgian on account
of the death of his mother, which or
curred last Tuesday morning; in Bue¬
na Vista, as noted in the Georgian of
last week.
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There is no pain like a campaign.
We’ll he glad when our county of
ficers are elected so we can rest a
while from our aches.—Lanier Co.
News.
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PHILOSOPHY IN THIS.
Savannah Mornflig News:
Southeast Georgian: “The money
that formerly made the mare go is
unable to get the same mileage out of
« gas buggy.”—Lanier County News,
And in some eases the money that
now makes a gas buggy go, better be
paying honest debts”
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A lot of these "anything for-a
ehange" fellows are standing around
with their eyes skinned and mouths
gaping, wondering why cotton hasn’t
gone to 40c and syrup to a dollar and
a quarter, since November 3rd. In
our humble opinion, “still they'll
look and still their wonder’ll grow.”
What has become of the little girl
who used to be so anxious to change
from short to long dresses?—Lanier
Co. News.
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WOODROW WILSON
We say to Woodrow Wilson that
just and unanimous appreciation of
his services to his fellow citizens and
to humanity. We have enough
fidence in the destiny of this conn
try, in the essential patriotism of its
misguided people, in the eternal
umph of truth and righteousness, and
in the designs of an all-wise Provi- j
deuce to believe that the President
of the United States treading will yet pathway see the j
United States the
of inernntional good faith and honor;,
that his life work will be crowned
with success, and that the time is
closer when at hand will than most people the right-! im- j
agine he assume
ful place in American history which
insidious enemies have conspired to
deny him.—Philadelphia Record.
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Editor J. J. Howell in Trouble
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This is the time for creditors to
be as lenient as possible. When the
farmer suffers, practically all lines
of business arc affected. A man who
is willing to pay but not able to do
so ought not to be unduly pressed.—
Cuthbert Leader.
Since this advice is also of direct
benefit to newspaper men. Editor
Howell has the thanks of the state
press, and our creditors will please
take due notice.—Jack Patterson, in
The Atlanta Journal.
We thought Jack Patterson, since
leaving the ranks of his more week¬
ly brethren and hooking up with the
Journal, was rolling in the jack as
well as cutting it up.
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Transmutation of base into pre¬
cious stones has its uses, and we do
not deny its value, but what we want
is something that will transmute per¬
fectly good subscription accounts in
eurrency with which to pay for
1 lie per pound paper that we have
been using on borrowed capital
thruout this memorable -year 1920.
In olden (golden) days when paper
could be bought at 3c and subscrip¬
tion $1.00, the margin between suc¬
cess and failure in the newspaper
business was a long-shot broader.—
Butler Herald.
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A REPREHENSIBLE “X”
There is magic in the name of
Christmas,” wrote the master
icier of “Christmastide,” the beloved
Charles Dickens. And so, he might
well have added, there is a repellant
prosiness, a very sacrilege in the ab
breviation, “Xmas.”
Were Charles Dickens alive today
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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
were he, like the rest of us, beginning
to turn his thoughts toward holly ber¬
ry and mistletoe and to feel the
“Christmas fever” slowly mounting
in his veins with every fresh evi¬
dence in the crowed streets and shop
windows of the near approach of the
holiday season, we feel he would
join with us in a sincere protest
against the use of that convenient
“X.”
Convenient yes, for it is so
so easy to write that it has crept
into the English language and obtain¬
ed almost universal usage with scarce¬
ly a word of the condemnation it act¬
ually deserves. For surely, when one
considers the matter, nothing less
than condemnation should be its lot.
It is not hard to trace the origin
of “Xmas,” for “X” is the first letter
of the Greek word for Christ. Histori
es state thut in the catacombs "X”
frequently stands for Christ. But sim¬
ply because it was proper to use it
when the catacombs were
not, mean it is proper today.
Ninety-nine out of one hundred
people who»*nake such use, we ven
to say, have no idea of the true
significance of the “X,” and. there
fore, it carries to them no spiritual re
minder whatever. It Ls merely a labor
saver, a swift scrath and dash thaten
ables them to conserve two more see
onils out of life and to relieve their
precious thumbs and fingers
the great toil involved in tracing less
than half a dozen letters.
But are seconds as valuable as that,
arc fingers so exhausted they are not
equal to the* effort of w iting out the
full name? Anyone who made a prac¬
tice of abbreviating the name of the
Deity or the name of the Savior
would be looked at askance. Is this
not a parallel case? And even aside
from the religious respect that should
be shown, is not the“magic in thevery
name of Christmas’ suificiant to
persuade us all to spend those two
more s< conds and that slight effort
in sending with our gift, not “Merry
Xmas »» but the entire, exquisite
beauty o f the word? Atlanta Jour
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THE WOMAN’S PAR I Y
AND THE NEGRO.
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(From The Macon Telegraph.)
Unbiased students of racial ques
tions have set forth that the negro
race in America has three courses be
fore it, one of which it must decide
upon. First, it can return as a race to
Africa or some country where black
men predominate. The probability
is that this will never occur. Second
it can settle down to its honorable,
' God-given place and live in harmony
with all races. The third course is
of the negro race from America,
, thru deportation and perhaps more
regrettable methods. Surely, the rad
ical leaders in the Woman’s party do
not conceive of the great danger
they would thrust upon all who re
side in this country.
There arc things that are taking
place in this connection that even the
Government of this United States
views with suspicion and misgiving
it is said, and it may be that the Gov
eminent already is investigating mat
tors that may or may not have any
connection with certain parties, who
it appears, belong to the extreme sec¬
tion of the Woman's party. The best
thing that this organization can do
is to disband when it convenes again
on Susan B. Anthony's next birth
,Jay anniversary, and leave the extre
mists to their own fanatical connivnn
ces and machinations.
A letter received recently from a
Southern negro who joined the exo
lus to the North, written from Chica¬
go, declares that the Northern people
work negroes harder than Southern
people, pay them less and charge them
more, that the negiv. hasn’t a real
friend in the whole North,that it is no
place for him and he 1s coming back
home just as soon as he can get the
money to do so.
After all, the best friend in the
world to the negro is the Southern
white man—the only one who truly
loves him. The suffrage extremists
would plunge him into an Egyptian
night without a star. By these very
methods, they may lose what victory
they have apparently gained.
ABOUT VAMPIRES.
“Vampires are common in the Un¬
ited States,” says a contemporary.
It is not uncommon for a man
whose first aucester was named Adam
to blame the women for his woes.
Sometimes a man a accuses a woman
of being a “vamp" because he hates
to admit that he was a chump. Adam
would have called Eve a vamp, poss¬
ibly, if moving pictures had been in
vogue then, and he had been instruc¬
ted from them. A vamp never harms
a man who isn’t a candiate for vamp
ing. There are more such candiate*
than there are vamps to vamp them,
the result that one vamp
half a dozen fish on her string.
t i* th duty of every peach grower
i in the peach belt of Georgia to be
present at the mass meeting on Dec
m ber 8.
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Miss Mary C. Clendenin is national
field secretary of the Girl Scouts
Inc. During the war she was asso
ciated with overseas welfare work.
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SINN FEIN APPLY TORCH
British Government Attributes Fires
To Sinn Fein And Says More
Terrorism Is To Come
i London. Sinn Fein carried the Irish
war into tin* industrial heart of Eng¬
land with an outbreak of arson in
Liverpool. Twelve warehouses, stock
ed with cotton and other materials
and a number of lumber yards, were
set on fire simultaneously. A police
j man was shot dead as he tried of to the ar
rest a man running from one
! burning buildings, and a boy who had
1 misfortune to observe the fire
tlie
hugs on one job was another victim
. At one time (hero were eighteen
had fires in the warehouses and lum¬
ber yards, including six in the Boo
t|,> section alone. All the Liverpool
fire engines as well as those from
suburban slut ions were simultaneous
ly at work and other appaiatus was
summoned from neighboring towns.
No estimate of the damage can yet
tie attempted, hut it will certainly
a "*°« nt to many thousands of pounds
■ several score of firebugs are believ
(0 have worked ou the job in pur
oes of varying numbers,
when the police rushed to (lie tires
j n the north end they were fired upon
by the pickets stationed to stave ott
interference, None was his. however.
Bootle had a total of twelve fire
alarms during Iho arson orgy, Sev
eral huge six story warehousese, cram¬
med with raw materials just unloaded
from ships or with manufactured goods
about to he shipped, were burned out.
At one time there were three great
fires going, Including one lumber
yard containing thousands of feet of
timber badly needed for housing con
struetiOH. In Sandsfield lane, a sim¬
ilar lumber yard went up in flames
and two immense cotton warehouses
were badly damaged.
While Liverpool was being threat¬
ened with destruction, and the entire
forces of the great seaport city were
making a bewildered fight against at
tacks in many quarters. precautions
went forward in London to protect
Lloyd-George and other high officers
of the government.
Alleged Draft Conspirators Are Held
San Antonio. Texas. After more
than two years wandering in South
America, Mexico and western cities
of the United States. Tom Caplis, Jr.,
and Joe Caplis, farmers of Shreveport,
La., reputed to lie wealthy, were in
the city jail here with their father,
the three charged with conspiring to
violate theV draft laws.
To Take Kick Out Of Medicines
Chicago.—Plans which, it is said,
will drive fr#m the market the nan
utacturers of medicines and toilet ar
tides of such high alcoholic per cent
that, they are used as beverages are
completed hv the Proprietary asso¬
ciation composed of more than two
hundred manufacturers of proprietary
medicines, The manufacturers have
agreed to assist the government in
driving out of business the firms that
are selling beverages as medicine.
Rich Diamond Haul By "Daylighters"
New York.—Two tin boxes coutain
ing diamouds worth $60,000 were the
i loot of four daylight hold-up men who
I attacked a messenger for a jewelry
use as he was leaving the Pacific
I bank at Forty-ninth street and Sev
emh avenue, where he had removed
| the jewels from a safety deposit vault,
The messenger was set upon as he
stepped from the hank door to the
sidewalk, at which time business was
bustling with activity.
MISS (HE PUCE
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In the Treatment - i Colds,
Grippe and Flu, Capatone
is a Scientific Preparation,
Prescribed and Recom¬ j
mended by Physicians and i
Surgeons. 1
lief, A quick with warm fear up of and affecting Instant the re¬
no
Heart or .Stomach.
Capatone i- highly neuralgia, recommended rheuma
f -r headaches,
tism, nervous hoadache, nervous
n.e: lumbago, earache, and to.Ah
ache.
l!uy a bottle for 80c < r GOc, take
one dose and ask for your money
ba< k if you are not satisfied with
results.
Capatone is sold by dl drug stores. l
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PRESBYTERIAN SERVICES
Sabbath School, 9:45 a. m.
Preaching, 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. ;
Juvenile Society, 8 p. ni. j
A furnace recently installed in the
Presbyterian church gives comfort
to everyone present. Wednesday ev¬
ening the pastor gives a popular lect
ure on the subject of tne Sabbath
school study for the week.
A cordial welcome awaits all who
come to the services.
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THE METHODIST CHURCH
Sunday school 9:30 A. M., H. A.
Mathews, Supt.
Breaching 11 a. m. and 7:00 p. m.
Prayer and Praise service 2:30
I*. M.
Junior Church 2:80 P. M.
Epworth League 6:00 p. m.
Midweek prayer meeting, Tuesday
evening, 7 :00.
C. It. Jenkins, D. D. Pastor.
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THE BAPTIST CHURCH
C. C. Pugh, Pastor.
Sunday School 9:80 A. M.
Preaching 11 a. m. and 7:00 p. m.
B. Y. P. U., Sunday 6:00 p. m.
Prayer meeting, Thurs., 7:00 p. m.
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EPISCOPAL CHURCH
• Sunday School at 9:45 a. in
Lay Service every Sunday morn
jng ftt j, : 00 o’clock, except on fourth
( * a V at 11 o clock. Evening ser
vice on fourth Sunday.
Rev. J. F. McCloud, Rector.
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The Bureau of Chemistry of the
Department of Agriculture is exper¬
imenting with te manufacture of mo¬
tor fuel from dried leaves.
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A A Twentieth-Century Creed
From the lips of some wise man comes the pra
admonition: I * Know thy business.
And, recognizing a sound knowledge of one’s busi¬
ness as the first essential, the modern business man
HR might well adopt a second or supplementary creed:
u Discuss your business
with your banker. 19
Our patrons regard candid, open discussion of per¬
plexing problems with our Officers of inestimable as¬
sistance.
Your account invited.
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Citizens Bank
of Fort Valley
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1920.
SHADES OF CAESAR!
Will Shakespeare was indicted in
Atlanta the other day on the charge
of assault with intent to murder
Julius W. Wray with an automobile.
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A member of the Russian royal
family escaped from the Bolsheviki
with family heirlooms baked in a
loaf of bread.
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Every house in the city of Daw
son, Yukon Territory, has been stock¬
ed up with caribou meat for the
winter, and it is estimated there
at least 20.000 of the animals run
ning at large in the vicinity.
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In the Land of m
Opportunity ©
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T HERE is no other section of the United States in which
the opportunities for industrial and agricultural develop¬ ©
ment compare with those of the South.
Don’t you want to put your manufacturing plant in a
- locality where you can have the advantages of a great
variety of raw materials, abundant power resources and de
LQ? pendabie labor; where the percentage of foreign-born popula¬ ©
© tion is lower than in any other part of the United States/
(gj _ Don’t you want to buy a farm where climate and soil condi¬
tions are adapted to a greater variety of crops than in any other ©
part of the United States; where the growing season is so long
that there is no danger of your crops being frozen, either in
the spring or in the fall; where the grazing season is long;
© where excellent pastures can be had and a large variety of tor
age crops can be grown; w here land values are advancing, but
where there has been no “boom, ’» and prices of farm lands are
still low as measured by their productive value?
If you want a factory site or farm in the South it is the
business of the Development Service of the Southern Railway ©
System to help you find just what you want.
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© For information about Southern Resources and
Opportunities call on or address
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J. C. Williams, Manager © ©
f| Southern Railway Development Service ©
Washington, D. C. ©
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there’s life in your ads,
there’s hope for better business.
Since the establishment of the re¬
public in China and the waning of the
popularity of the queue that nation
is losing one of its greatest trades,
the export of human hair.
The University of Washington is „
teaching the use of the old-fashioned
hand loom for weaving towels, table
linen, spreads,'' covers and dress
goods.
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A Canadian has perfected a pro¬
cess of tannage whereby rabbit fur
is fastened firmly to the skin and
the fiber toughened, which will open
a source of almost unlimited suppi.v
for a new low-priced fur.