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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
—Published by—
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN, Editor.
Subscription Price*
(Payable in Advance)
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Member Georgia Press Association.
Published every Thursday.
Entered as sec mid-d as i matter at
the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1870.
COMMUNITY BUILDERS
VERSUS PARASITES.
Every man who has cut his eye¬
teeth in business knows that the
man who has no other argument foi
marketing his goods than their cheap¬
ness will never market anything hut
low-grade products. He may not go
out of business, but he won’t go out
after first-class business. It takes
service to get that kind of business,
’ and service is a lot more than prompt
and accurate filling of orders. It em¬
braces helping the customer to know
what to order, and then executing
that order in such a manner that '.!•<
customer knows that he is getting
what he ought to have.
The man who habitually advertis
es his business on the basis of lower
prices than his legitimate competi
tors can offer has little to offer in
the way of first-class service, or
fails to place a proper valuation on
his services. In the latter case he is
doing himself, his family and his com¬
munity a grave injustice. The r. an
who is content to conduct his busi
ness on such a basis that it fails to
give himself and hi* family an a le
quate support and to contribute to
the substantial progress of the co n
munity in which he lives is not tin
kind of man who helps build commu¬
nities.
To be a community builder, not a
parasite on his community, should be
the ambition of every real man. 1 n i
does not mean to charge MORE 0>t
his commodity than tt is worth—
but to charge WIIAT it is vvortn.
Who would not prefer to pay a pF., . *
that is RIGHT for goods or services
that are right than a lower price for
inferior goods or services?
The wise person knows that it is
cheaper in the long run.
It is not to be inferred from the
above that legitimate competition
to be discouraged. As has oft been
said, competition is the life of trade.
But the man who can breast competi¬
tion only by underselling is his own
worst enemy and an obstacle to the
progress of his community. His name
will seldom be found on the
tion lists to worthy causes or on
public building or memorial of
community. He may be liked as a
good-natured ne’er-do-well, but
will never rank among the
citizens of his town nor his
be held in reverent esteem.
Pity the man who hasn’t the
bone to ask a fair, living price for
products of his toil or brains.
THE RIGHT DOPE.
The News is not one of those
believe that the world is going to
bad, because there is a depression
the price of products. It is true
the farmers and all others are
hit, but we will emerge from it.
truth is we have nearly all lived
fast. We have bought tilings we
have done without. Just as this
per warned two years ago, we
lived beyond our means and few
saved anything during the good
or, rather, the times or high
and high prices for everything
and for everything which came
the stores. It will take a few
for readjustment, but everything
be all right in the end. Now it is
duty of all who owe to pay what
can and for those whom they owe
be reasonable and lenient.
everybody pulling together and
ing their best toward each
everything will come out all
But we needn’t expect to see
ucts of the farm, merchandise
wages as high as they have been.
we do it will probably be many
—Adel News.
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SAVING FOR CHRISTMAS
By Publicity Department War
Organization.
Everybody save for Christmas.
erybody works in preparation
that joyous season, What
handiwork is wrought oy our
daughters and sweethearts, How
tensely, happily busy they are
their wonderful tasks are done
how love and skill are
with the warp and woof of
curious fabrics which affection
intelligence design for the
It is a thrifty spirit that
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
all manner of good things for Christ¬
mas and works out wonderful pro¬
grams of hilarity and good cheer.
The Christmas spirit is in the tru¬
est sense a thrifty spirit, because
is a bountiful provider. It
by working and saving, making
most of every moment an 1
every penny that is available
gifts of the season. It is an unthrifty
spirit which does not so provide.
The truth is that Thrift is
source of more real pleasure and
more deep satisfaction than
any other that you could mention,
as it brings Christmas joy to all
useit to provide gifts. So it
comfort throughout the year where
it constantly praetssed.
Real economy is the truest
ality. It is the foundation of
osity, for no generosity is
unless it is sustained and it cannot
sustained without Thrift, for Thrift
is the universal provider.
If faith is the substance of
coped for, Thrift is the realization
of those things.
All Thrift must have a method.
The savings banks furnished one
the earliest, and best methods and
,he Government has wonderfully re¬
inforced its facilities by placing $n
sale at every postoffiee of the United
States the Tnrift and Savings
and Savings Certificates, which
be bought in denominations from
cents to $100, while certificates
$1,000 denominations may be
ed from the banks.
If we can save a little while in
der to bring happiness during
mas ,why can’t we practise the
thing all the year round and
the whole year a continual feast?
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December 12 has been designated
as “Educational Day.” All
are requested to preach on
ian education on that day.
“ALL A MISTAKE” AT AUSTIN
THEATRE MONDAY
Marshallville School Benefit
Well Received There Monday
Night, To Be Presented
Here.
Arrangements have been
to bring to the Austin Theatre
Fort Valley next Monday night,
13, the play, “All a Mistake,”
was very successfully presented
the Marshallville school
last Monday night.
It is said that the play was
favorably commented upon by
one who saw it in Marshallville,
one hundred dollars having been
alized from the presentation
vhich will be used for the school
ry, as will also the proceeds from
presentation here.
As the cooperation and
of Marshallville people
much to the success of the civic
strel show presented here
weeks ago, it is hoped that the
ple of Fort Valley and vicinity
reciprocate by giving our
ville friends a large house
night. The play is said to lie
with humor. The cast is made up
splendid local talent from our
city at large.
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❖ PRAISES LEADER-TRIBUNE
*S> AND FLATTERS YE EDITOR
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Powersville, Ga.,
Dear Bro. Martin:
1 have, through a friend,
sent you $1.35 for your
high-toned paper. It is, in many
pects, superior to more than half
competitors.
Your gospel mallet has, I
flattened my “What Is a
That is all right, and please
my thanks for your editorial
cernment. I’m mailing you a
conception of the same poem.
Yours truly,
W. C.
Far lie it from us, Bro. Carter,
question your orthodoxy,
theological or literary. We had
poem already set up before your
ter was received, but it was
out of that week’s issue.
your order to “kill” your second
ception of the same subject,
ed in a subsequent letter, we
it so good that we are taking the
erty of defying orders and are
lishing it also this week. The
mallet is always to be found in
poems, and it is not for our
discernment to stay it.
The man who invented the art
printing did more to civilize
Christianize the world than any
er person. 1 would rather be a
printer than a middlin’
La Fayette Doerty.
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* FOR HIS SUBSCRIPTION
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Mr. Martin:
Attached is my check for
year’s subscription to the livest
tie paper in South Georgia.
J.
Mr. Parker is the efficient
courteous manager of the Western
Union Telegraph office here. We val¬
ue his kind expression of apprecia¬
tion of the paper no less than his un¬
solicited check. Kind words are al¬
ways appreciated, but the “check
herewith” is what enables us to cash
in on them and make them good. It’s
just such people as Mr. Parker who
make The Leader-Tribune possible.
My errors, I hope, are only those
of charity to mankind; and such as
my own charity has caused me to
commit, that of others may more
easily excuse.—Dryden.
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SALE OF CHRISTMAS SEALS
HAS GROWN WONDERFULLY
Selling Christmas seals as a means
of financing the Crusade against tu¬
berculosis was originated in this
country in 1907 by Miss Emily P.
Bissell, of Delaware. The first sea¬
son’s sales netted $3,000. In the
following Christmas season the sale
of seals was undertaken on a nation¬
al scale and $135,000 was raised.
Last year the sale of seals brought
$4,000,000. These iigures show the
great and marvelous growth of the
Christmas seals as a national insti¬
tution.
Everyone in Georgia who sends a
Christmas package or a Christmas
greeting card is familiar with the
beautiful little seal which is placed
on the package or envelope as a
token of good cheer and of aid to the
movement for the eradication of the
most widespread and destructive of
all infectious diseases. The seals have
become a well established and almost
universal feature of Christmas mail.
No card, letter or package is consider¬
ed complete without a seal. As the
seals only cost a penny apiece,the
cost is small and nobody misses the
money that goes into them.
Georgia has always responded to
this appeal with the usual public and
warm-hearted generosity which char¬
acterize her citizenship. The sales in
Georgia have mounted from year to
year in proportion to the increase in
other states. This year a total of
$100,000 is expected to be raised in
Georgia. Of this amount, approxi
mately ninety per-cent will remain in
Georgia to finance the Crusade
Against Tuberculosis in the State.
In addition to the seals, a new fea
ture this year will be the sale of
“Health Bonds” to persons desiring
to make large donations. These bonds
range in denominations from $5 to
$100. They are printed in facsimile
of the usual bond and bear
coupons payable in results of
Crusade.
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Discretion in speech is more
eloquence When you doubt,
—Bacon.
WHAT IS A POEM?
What Is a Poem? I can’t tell;
■ My mind is far too small.
1 heard one singing, “Ring the bell
Release from earthly thrall. »*
And so I listened thru the day
And far into the night
Till all the stars had passed away
Save her bright lamp of Light.
Her song I can’t express in verse,
Its genesis of grace,
The beauty of its strains rehearse
Or sketch her angel face.
I can not fathom life’s deep sea;
Its origin’s above
The brightest dreams revealed to
A Poem is pure love.
"A Poem is pure love” today.
My soul I lift afar
And see the world beneath the
Of love’s Poetic Star.
W. C.
Powersville, Ga.
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We have two ears and but
tongue, that we may hear much
talk little.—Zeno.
LOCAL BUILDING PERMITS,
OCTOBER AND
The reports of chairman E.
McMillan of the Building
of the City Coueil. the building
mits issued for the month of
and November total $12,841.70.
October seven permits were
for repairs, totaling $1,365.00,
three for new buildings,
$7,500.00.
In November two permits
granted for repairs, totaling
and four for new buildings,
$3,815.00.
While this is a considerable
off from previous months, it
some life in the old town yet.
, CARD OF THANKS
We desire to express our deep
preeiation of the kind
j and sympathy of our many
a during the illness and death of
loved one, Otis E. Cleveland.
Mrs. O. E.
T. W. Cleveland,
G. H. Cleveland.
II ISN’T fair
THAT’S ALL
To Your Family—To Your Friend*—
To Yourself—Going Around
Half Sick
TAKE CARE OF YOUR HEALTH
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If Your Blood Is Weak and Clogged
with Poisons, Pepto-Mangan Will
Strengthen and Purify It
When you get over-tired day after
day,your system ha* to get rid of so
much waste it can’t create new energy
fast enough. The result is that your
blood is filled with waste matter. It
becomes clogged. You are trying to
get around with a lot of poison in
your system.
You look bad, you feel poorly.
You get out of patience easily. Am¬
bition is lost. You just don’t care
about anything.
That is no way to live. Your blood
needs help for a time. It is starved.
You will find help in tfiat fine tonic,
Pepto-Mangan. Pepto-Mangan puri¬
fies the blood and fills it with red cor¬
puscles. In a little while you'll have
plenty of rich, red blood and you
won’t know yourself. It isn’t a magic
medicine. It contains iron and other
ingredients that feed starved blood I
and make it rich and red.Physicians
have prescribed Pepto-Mangan for
years. I
Pepto-Mangan is solo' in liquid and
tablet form. Take either kind you
prefer. One acts the same as the
other. Both contain the same ingre¬
dients. But be sure to get the genuine
Pepto-Mangan—“Gude’s”. The full
name “Gude’s Pepto-Mangan, should
be on the package.—Advertisement,
A newsmonger is a retailer of ru
mour that takes upon trust, and sells
as cheap as he buys.—Butler.
CARD OF THANKS
To the dear people of Fort Valley:
i wish it were possible to see each of
you personally and convey to you ad
equately my appreciation of
most kind ministrations and evidence
of sympathy on the occasion of
death of my dear husband. This be
ing impossible, I am taking this
means of expressing my gratitude to
you, one and all.
Mrs. D. F. Langston.
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A GOOD NEWSPAPER RULE.
(Philadelphia Record.)
The election of Senator Hardingto
the presidency of the United States
ought to help impress his ideas as a
newspaper publisher on some of his
contemporaries here and elsewhere
who are now, as they were throughout
the campaign, disposed to accept his
judgment on public affairs.
One of the admonitions given
Mr. Harding to his employees in
newspaper office, long before he
a candidate for president, was
printing the news they should not
out of their way to bring into
view the innocent relatives of
tunates whose names appear in
news as transgressors of the law.
This is a very good rule. It is
table that it is not the rule in
newspaper offices than in the
controlled by President-elect Hard
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Why should the news of a
be embellished by the names and
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money when kept near at hand can disappear. a s
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It is equally surprising how quickly small sums a
carefully banked can accumulate into a comfortable a i
reserve. a a
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Our Officers invite you to open a Savings Ac¬ a
count in this Institution and deposit therein those small i i
sums that are so apt to “slip through the fingers. 16 K
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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9. 1920.
dresses of all of his relatives? Why
should the unfortunate wife or moth¬
er or sister of an embezzler or mur¬
derer be interviewed regarding the
crime? Why should any of the rela¬
tives of any of the unfortunates be
paraded in the public print? The in¬
nocent relatives of suicides, murder¬
ers,embezzlers and law violators of
other classes suffer enough when one
of their kin goes wrong.
If the election of Senator Harding
to the presidency has the effect of
influencing more newspapers to
adopt the rule referred to, it will at
least have accomplished some good.
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