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FAQE TWO
THE LEAOEfl-TRIIIinE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
—Published by—
THE LEADER TRIBUNE CO.
JOEL MANN MARTIN,
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Published every Thursday.
Entered as sec .nd-clas i matter
the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under me act of March
3 , 1870 .
BUSINESS, RELIGION, AND
THE GOLDEN RULE.
For three years The
bune has, in its editorial, news
advertising columns, encouraged
people of Fort Valley to trade at
home, pointing out that even il
had to pay their home merchant
little more than the city merchant
the same commodity, they profit in
the long run, saving time,
wear and tear on their automobiles,
keeping their money at home where
it will come back to them, and help
ing to build up their town. The edi
tor and his family have practised
what he has been preaching, buying
what they needed at home whenever
possible, even at a higher price than
the same goods could be bought for
in Macon or Atlanta, in both of which
places we have had frequent invita¬
tions to open charge accounts.
Not a few of our business men and
merchants have shown their apprecia¬
tion of this cooperation. Others, who
have benefited just as much by it,
have often had their job print¬
ing done out of town, if they could
get it done a little cheaper by print¬
ing establishments that never spend
a dollar with theVe merchants. They
have charged us more for what they
trad to sell us than we could buy it
for elsewhere, hut have been unwill¬
ing to pay us more than they could
get the work done for out of town
by a printer who does no business
with them whatsoever.
A draw-back to the printing bus¬
iness is that it is very difficult to
figure the cost of doing a job. Com¬
paratively few printers have yet
learned how to figure their costs. It
took us two years and cost us two
thousand dollars to learn. That is
the reason there are always printers
to be found who will cut the price on
a job to where there is no profit in
it for themselves or anyone else. If
they continue in business, they either
do not prosper or they have other
departments of their business in
which they make up the losses in
their job printing departments.
There are men here with whom we
trade, paying the price they ask for
their goods without question, who
never give us an order for job pript
ing without trying to beat us down on
our price and getting us to do it
cheaper than any one else will. If
they want advertising in this paper
they want us to cut our rate be¬
low that which other local advertisers
who use ns much or more space are
paying. They do this in spite of the
fact that we tell them frankly and
truthfully that we have lost money
every year we have been here and
that for two years we gave them ad¬
vertising and job printing below our
actual cost, because we had no pre¬
vious experience on which to reckon
our costs and the prices of all ma¬
terials and labor in our business were
on the up grade. Some men to whom
we have given hundreds of dollars
worth of business have never given
us ten dollars’ worth.
Some of these men are prominent
churchmen. We do not quite see how
a man can reconcile his religion with
business dealings that do not in¬
volve a practical application thereto
of the Golden Rule—not the modern¬
ized version, “Do others as they
would do you, but do them first;”
but Christ's version: “Therefore all
things whatsoever ye would that men
should do to you, do ye even so to
them: for this is the law and the
prophets. • >
Some one has most aptly said:
“We know that to be successful
and to continue to serve, WE ALL
must profit by the same transaction.”
The man who wants all the profit in
a transaction to come his way is not
carrying out the spirit of the Golden
Rule. That man may enjoy a tem¬
porary success in business, but there
will eventually come a day of retri¬
bution.
To “give and take,” “live and let
live,” is the spirit that wins the high¬
est ultimate, permanent personal suc¬
cess and that builds communities.
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The ■way some people with opin¬
ions often more radical than rational
boast of their “backbone” would sug¬
gest that they have merely got their
forms pied and some parts of their
anatomies transposed—their “backs
up” and all the bone where their
brains ought to b*.
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GEORGIA
CURTAILING COTTON
The movement to reduce the
age planted to cotton is, in our
ion, a very wise one. The moss
ing to be held in Perry next
nesday should be attended by
farmer, arid other person whose
iness success is interwoven with
of the farmer,in this section.
At this meeting the reduction
cotton acreage should not be the
ly thing discussed and acted
There should be free and expert
cussion of other crops that can
produced profitably in this
to replace cotton. When you tell
farmer NOT to plant cotton
him WHAT to plant in place of
Let the farmers discuss this
themselves. Let something
as well as negative, come of
meeting. Otherwise it will fall
of accomplishing what is
Talk diversification. The farmer
the last man in the world who
put all his eggs in one basket. He
at the mercy of too many
and conditions over which he
little or no control.
Talk—and decide upon —diversifi¬
cation, and upon just what other
rops can be successfully grown and
successfully marketed in this section,
and curtailment of cotton will large¬
ly be taken care of automatically
and far more effectively. It is well
and good for the farmers to sign
pledges to curtail their cotton acre¬
age. But the matter should not stop
there 1 .. Let them discuss and decide
what they will plant instead of cot¬
ton.
There are very few products of
■itlier the vegetable or animal king¬
dom that cannot he successfully pro
luced in this section. The farmers
of this section should be the richest
in the world. They can be if they
will break away from tradition and
think and read and study for them¬
selves, and find out what other farm¬
ers in other parts of the country are
doing that they eou^i do here quite
is successfully, if not more so.
There are such things besides cot¬
ton and peaches. This writer is not
i practical farmer or horticulturist,
but he has been told this, and he be¬
lieves it. And if you don’t believe it
just cut this out and paste it up
where you will see it again a few
years enee.
TINE STOCK
OF YOUR
HEALTH ill
Winter Brings Many Ills to Pale,
Overworked People
TAKE PEPTO-MANGAN
Fortify Your System—Good Blood
Will Give You New Strength
to Keep Well
If you feel the least bit run down,
not necessarily sick, but tired and
blue and sort of down and out, it
-hows plainly that your power of
resistance is low.
It is dangerous to go around that
way. You don’t want to do it.
Make no mistake about it, when
you feel yourself slipping into lazy
habits, getting indifferent to the
things you naturally like 1 —-no energy,
no vigor, always tired—it is time to
look out. It may not mean that you
are sick or that you will be. But
there are diseases that would have an
easy time of it with your system when
your blood has no fighting qualites.
A ou want to be well and keep well
and feel strong. If you build up the
quality of your blood by taking Pept o
Mangan you will be in trim to fight
off winter ills. It has just the right
ingredients to build your blood up
with rich, red corpuscles.
Pepto-Mangan gives your blood
the qualities it needs to pick you up
and start you off on a healthy basis.
You will notice the difference soon
after you start taking it. You will
have better color, better feeling, and
more energy.
You can take it in liquid or tablet
form as you prefer. Both have the
same ingredients. But be sure you
get the genuine Gude’s Pepto-Man¬
gan. Ask for it by that name—
“Gude’s Pepto-Mangan,” and be sure
the full name is on the package.
Advertisement.
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NOW THE ACCEPTED TIME
FOR LIVE STOCK IN SOUTH
Atlanta. Ga.. January, “Condi
tions are now ideal for building a real
live stock industry in the South,”
says Roland Turner, general agri¬
cultural agent of the Southern Rail¬
way System, who declares that the
present depression, due largely to
the one-crop system, would be im
possible under a well balanced sys
tem of diversified farming and live I
stock raising.
“Good pure-bred, registered dairy
cattle, beef cattle and hogs," says
Mi. Turner, can now be bought at
prices in keeping with conditions and
with the market prices for dairy prod-
ucts and meat animals. To
: at live stock raising we must
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prove our old pastures and
new ones. We must raise mo e
1 guminous feeds. Proper
crop
tion with live stock will build
the fertility of our exnausted
and will also help greatly in
ing farm labor conditions by
distributing the farm work.
(( The Southern Railway
ment Service,” Mr. Turner adds
sires to aid farmers in starting
with live stock, will sen 1 its
stock bulletins on request, and
the services of its trained
to farmers wishing advice and
sistance in feed production, care
animals, and the locating and
lecting of animals for breeding pur
poses, stockers or feeders.”
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COMMON SENSE IN RELIGION
(Contributed)
There is no such thing as
religion. I mean by that a religion
books and creeds and
If I were appointed inquisitor of
ages, and were set on a hunt
the fatal mistakes, I could find
like this: that the race has
ly regarded religion as a thing to
read about, to be embodied in
trines, to be embalmed in song,
be thundered in sermons, to be
ified in prayer, but not to be glori
fied in actual living. The only relig¬
ion that is worth a farthing is
which is illustrated in practice; that
which is not in moral philosophy, but
in man; not in Heaven, but on
not in apostles’ creeds, but in apos¬
tles; not on the tongue, but in the
heart; not that which is taken from
priest and preacher, but that which
springs into blossom as the. fruitag<
of our own open, honest convictions.
There is a vast difference between
a book and a man. The one is but
an echo from a dead past; the other,
a thrilling inspiration of the pres¬
ent. The one is a lake whose history
sweeps backward to the mountain
springs; the other, a river whose des¬
tiny is onward and ocean-ward.
I get tired of hooks sometimes, a!
though I am much their debtor. For
years they have been my constant
and faithful companions. They have
been the sunshine on cloudy days,
the skies that were never over-cast,
the friends that were never faith
less, the hopes that never betrayed
I have loved to read history, that
great magician that has unlocked
the graves of the past and brought
into my chamber the ramiliar faces
of all those who have fought and
fallen, loved and lived, since time
began. Poetry, to me, has been a
source of unalloyed pleasure; poetry,
that bird of the sky, whose plumage
never droops; whose voice was al¬
ways in tune, and which never vet
refused to sing. But sometimes the
thought tires of great deeifls; the
soul has had enough of music, and
books are laid aside. Not so with a
human life. It is ever fresh, ever in¬
viting. It may sink into the lowest
depths of shame; it clamors for our
sympathy and aid: it may sweep sub
limest heights; it demands our ad¬
miration. A human life commencing
ending in mystery—all creeds
and doctrines are its slaves, and re¬
ligion must find here its only home.
I have no faith in a Christianity
that weeps and prays and preaches,
but never does. The man whose
thoughts are always in Heaven, who
knows all about the Crystal River.
Streets of Gold, Jasper Walls arid
Tree of Life, and yet never burdens
his sympathy with his nrother mortal
here, will never see the city of his
dreams. The fellow who is always
praying on earth, ana yet never
dries a tear nor lends a helping hand,
will pray on in the world to come.
The saint who sits in the front pew,
dressed in broadcloth which was
bought with the tears and blood of
oppressed poverty, will need to wear
fire-proof in the next world.
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Mrs. H. B. Mashburn of Americus
visited Mrs. N. IT. Baldwin during
the sessions of the Woman’s Mission¬
ary Conference. Mrs. Mashburn is
pleasantly remembered here as Miss
Mary Gurr, formally of Fort Valley.
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NEW EXPRESS COMPANY
TO OPERATE IN SOUTH
Washington, D. C., Jan.—Compet¬
itive express service in the Southeast
ern territory will result from the de¬
cision of the Southern Railway Sys¬
tem and the Mobile and Ohio Rail¬
road to turn the express business on
their lines over to the Southeastern
Express Company on March 1st.
The Southeastern was recently or¬
ganized under Alabama laws for the
purpose of conducting an express
business in the South. It will have
a capital of $1,000,000.00, owned by
Southern men, will have headquarters
Atlanta, and be managed by men
have spent their lives in the ex
press business in the South. John B.
Hoekaday, formerly vice-president 1
Express manager Company of with the old which South- he j
over forty years, will be presi
of the Southestern.
Over the Southern and the Mobile
Okie, the Seutbestern will oper-
ate on ten thousand miles of railway,
including the whole territory south of
the Potomac and Ohio and east of
the Mississippi, and will also operate
into St. Louis over both lines and into
Baltimore over the boats of the Ches¬
apeake Steamship Company, connect¬
ing with the Southern at Richmond
and Norfolk.
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“REST."
My feet are wearied, and my hands
are tired,
My soul oppressed—
And I desire what 1 have long de¬
sired—
Rest—only rest.
’Tis hard to toil, when toil is almost
vain,
In barren ways;
’Tis hard to sow- and never gamer
grain
In harvest days.
The burden of my days is hard to
bear,
But God knows best;
And I have prayed—but vain has
been my prayer,
For rest—-sweet rest.
’Tis hard to plant in spring and never
The autumn yield;
’Tis hard to till, and when ’tis tilled,
to weep
O’er fruitless field.
And so 1 cry, a weak and human cry,
So heart-oppressed;
And so I sigh, a weak and human
sigh,
For rest- for rest.
My way has wound across.the des¬
ert years,
And cares infest
My path, and through the flowing of
hot tears
1 pine—for rest.
’Twas always so; when but a child
1 laid
On mother’s breast
My wearied little head, e’en then 1
prayed !
As now— for rest.
And ! am restless still; 'twill soon
be o’er,
For, down the west,
Life’s sun is setting, and ! see the
shore.
Where I shall rest.
FATHER RYAN.
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WEATHER AT FORT VALLEY
WEEK ENDING JAN. 31, 1921.
Light snowfall occurred during the
night of Wednesday Jan. 26th. The
snow melted the following morning.
Rainfall for the week amounted to
.58 inch. The highest temperature
was 66 degrees on Sunday, Jan. 30,
at 3:00 P. M., the lowest, 29, on
Thursday. Jan. 27, at 1 :00 A. M. and
again at 3:00 A. M. The lowest mid
lay temperature was on Wednesday,
Ian. 26,when the thermometer read
34 at 3:00 P. M. Two days were
cloudy, three partly cloudy, and two
clear. 1
Table for the Week.
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251 59! 48 I I NEj Cloudy
26| 371 29j 8| .01| NE Cloudy
27| 52 i i 31 211 .36 NE P’tly Cloudy
28j 61| 331 28. | N | Clear
291 64| 39| 25j E i P’tly Cloudy
30| 66) 46| 20| .21 SW| P’tly Cloudy
31 60 40 20: NW| Clear
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KU KLUX KLAN DOES NOT
TOLERATE LAWLESSNESS
Atlanta, Ga., Jan.—Incensed by
reports of attempts to intimidate
whites and negroes in several sec¬
tions of the country by persons pos¬
ing as members of the Ku Klux Klan
Colonel William J. Simmons, imperi¬
al Wizard of the Knights of the Ku
Klux Klan, has offered a reward of
$100.00 for the arrest and conviction
of any person anywhere who uses the
name Ku Klux Klan in an unlawful
manner or in connection with any
purpose or movement not sanctioned
by law.
“The Ku Klux Klan positively does
not sanction lawlessness in any form,”
says Conlonel Simmons, “and most
certainly it is not to be used as an
agency of wrong or injustice. If any
member of this organization has so
far forgotten his oath as to lend him¬
self to any movement that interferes
with the right of any person of any
race or creed to life, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, that member,
if his indentity becomes known, will
be immediately banished from the
Ku Klux Klan.
“The Ku Klux Klan is a law-abid¬
ing organization and does not count
enance. under any circumstances,
the use of force or violence, imtimida
tion or threats. Its members are
sworn not only to obey the law them
selves but to assist officers of the
law 1 in its enforcement whenever and j
wherever their services may be need
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THURSDAY FEBRUARY 3. 1921.
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(§) PIT! PIT! PIT! m I
We are pleased to announce that we #
® have just added to our stock the most ©
d) complete section. You line of Glidden only Paints find in what this ® @
(§) can not
you want in paint and when you want
it, but can rest assured that the price (0) >
# will he the lowest possible. We believe ®
H that by effect selling STRICTLY nice saving for FOR you, CASH and © J
@ we can a ||
® make it to your advantage to buy your
paints on this basis.
We invite you to give us a call when (§)
in the market.
(£5) Green-Miller Gompany,
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Fort Valley, Ca.
WHY PAY MORE? I «
When the best Barber i !
you can get 'i
Work done in the city at Turner’s $
Barber Shop. Over Franklin £ £
$ Theatre. HAIR CUT 25 CENTS. SHAVE 15 CTS.
£ £ We selling
are now
31
Melts Queen Bread
also
Cottage Rolls
We have them fresh every day,
made by Melt’s Sanitary Queen Bak¬
ing Co., of Macon, Ga.
Try this bread once and be con¬
vinced that it is the bread that has the
quality which pleases.
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Empire Grocery Co.
Phone I6I-J 120 Main St.
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NASH MARKET g N5
(At Rogers' Store) fi £
New and ■o— Neat; £ Si
Clean and Sanitary. £ £
Courteous and Efficient Service; Geor¬ £ <
gia and Western Meat of the Finest £ £
Quality; Prices that will please you. £
Try Famous Nash Sweet Home % s
our
Sausage. £ £
Sausage Meat, 35c. Sausage in Cases, 40c. £ £
SATURDAY SPECIAL £
Side Meat, 16 and 18 cents a pound.
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.
It will please us to please you.
T. M. NASH, Prop.
W. B. JONES, Manager.