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THE LEADER-TRIBUNE
AND PEACHLAND JOURNAL
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3, 1879.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1924.
Oil quiet along the Potomac can
not be said these days, with cabinet
officers being riddled and a senator
shot from an alley.
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We see that Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Catt, having secured votes for wo¬
men will now retire and stop scratch¬
ing.
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A hint to unattached fair ones:
there’s only one more day in Febru¬
ary—and four years to the next op¬
portunity.
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‘‘Prencher Plays The Devil in a
Printing Office,” is the head under
which Rev. Theo. Pharr makes his
bow as associate editor of The Lyons
Progress. Well, brother, a printing
office is a mighty dangerous place
for a preacher. Take care that you
don’t stumble into the hell box.
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A POLITICAL RIDDLE
Wood
will
win
Geor (Me Adoo) gia ?
A year’s subscription to The Lead¬
er-Tribune for the first correct writ¬
ten solution of the above.
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MR. MCWONTDOO
You may wash, you may scrub.
You may scour, if you will,
But the scent of the oil
Will cling to him still!
—WalWm Tribuna.
Yeah, but oil makes moat every¬
thing run slicker. Why not a presi¬
dential candidate, ’specially a long
legged one that’s just got a little on
the soles of his shoes?
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A paragrapher has suggested that
the reason so many folks persist in
spelling it Xmas is on account of
the number of ten spots it takes to
pay for it. The unknown
connected with the problems of what
to give, what you are going to get,
and what the presents you got cost
(if you happen to be a lady) might
also have something to do with it.
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One Turner county poultry man
sold $110 worth of eggs during Janu
»ry, whieh was a bad month on chick
ens and his hens were not producing
to capacity. His feed for the month
cost him $42, leaving him a neat little
sum for his trouble.—Tifton Gazette.
A little more trouble, perhaps, bat
a heap more satisfactory than con
tinually borrowing money from the
bank.
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After hearing one of our business
men tell of the great and
demand for goats. we have been
made to wonder if some wide-awake
farmer of this county could not make
the feature of raising fine, goats a
monev-making proposition. When one
goat, fresh in milk, will bring an
offer of over one hundred dollars,
as a source of nourishment to a sick
man, and seventy goats will bring
forty thousand dollars, it seems that
the day of the goat would soon dawn
in great order.—Walton News.
The highly-bred milk goat has long
been one of our dream hobbies, al¬
though we have not yet tried to milk
one or tasted the milk. If \w had the
price of one though, we’d goat to iL
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Prof. Kyle T. Atfriend, Dean of
Bessie Tift College and secretary of
the Georgia Education Association,
is doing splendid work for that as¬
sociation. He reports enrollment up
to February 15 of all the teachers of
considerably more than one hundred
schools of the State—nearly 2,500
paid members—in the association.
We are glad to note that the Fort
Valley and Perry schools are on his
**100<Y honor roll.” We are par¬
ticularly interested in noting Mr. Al
friend’s good work because he was
a classmate of the writer's and seems
to have lost none of the pep' of his
college days. Furthermore, the writer
was once a member yf the Georgia
Education Association and the cause
THE LF. *.DF.R-TR!BUN F, FORT VALLEY, GA. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY S8, 190*.
of education has no more ardent
champions than the humble men
of the Fourth Estate -even in
“weakly” cln
lose Wesley,:n girls v
answered a question! a:; to their
ideals of a husband were very
tactful, to ! ay the lens:. They utterly
ignored he 1H W )Apor 1)2 0,
that, righ when .
and at a tin
the college i* asking for n column or
so n week of free pace in the news
pn pern to aid in their million dollar
“G r e a t e r Wesleyan” campaign,
Frankness is of course commendable,
even in the fair sex and young, blit
how much sharper than a erpent’a
tooth is ingratitude from such a
source. If we weren’t already safely
married we certainly would re ent
the snub. We are so uccustomed
however, to being treated that way
by those we serve that we are
right on humbly helping them to get
their million dollars, although
need a million dollars
mighty bud.
•KEEP THE SCHOOLS FREE
The Towner-Sterling bill (if our
memory does not play us false as to
the names of the authors) proposing
the creation of a national department
of education in lieu of the present
bureau of education in the Depart¬
ment of the Interior is in our opinion
not only quite unnecessary but acta
ally fraught with possibilities of seri¬
ous harm to our public school system.
This bill, we understand, provides
for another cabinet officer to be
known us the Secretary of Education.
We haven’t read all the provisions of
the bill, but it is safe to assume that
it provides for an amplification of the
work of the present bureau of edu
cation, nn extension of its powers,
an increase in the number of employ
ees, with consequent increase of ex
penses and red tape.
The idea of Federal aid for the
^tatt* school systems is of course
appealing to those who do not think
below the surface. Where is this Fed¬
eral aid in the way of appropriations
to come from if not from the pock¬
ets of the people—all the people?
Why sen dour money to Washington)
to be put back into the heads and
characters of our children? A much i
smaller proportion of our tax dollar
would conic back to us through tin
national treasury than through our
State treasuries. The recent oil scan
dal should convince us of the don¬
ors in such a roundabout method of
school financing. True, we had a
scandal in Connection with our ov *•
state school funds Rev, rnl’v .
but if our memory serves us fait'
fully, our schools and t! o taxp '* c -
lost nothing thereby. There is le
red tape, less waste, le.-s ornortn
it.v for graft when the hand!: of
,j u . schoo j fund , con i
lndividual , ut os. Il>;e nd ,f aP r .
priati ,, ns * rom the nat ional trees .
f or our schools, lets increase the
appropriations from our state trea -
uries. It will cost us less and ther
wj j| j, e no strings tied to the
funds, as there may be under the
proposed bill.
It may bo argued that the aoviou*
turn!, mineral, forest, fishery,
ther natural resources of our
try havp been Rreatly ai(ied hv na
tioaal bureaus and
Quite true. These resources require
much s«nientifie investigation and e\
p Cr j men t a tioti and involve inter
sUte rel . uions . lt is quite prop 4 3ud
helpful for the nationa i g overnment
to supplement and enlarge on the
work of the state departments
these matters. But tqe education of
is not a field calling
exploitation and expevimentatiq^. It
i s not desirable, especially in i e
mocracy, that all minds he moulded
according to one standard. That is
an expedient of autocracy. That, we
fear, would he the tendency if we set
up a national department of educa
ra
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MACON. GEORGIA
’ tion.
a miccht lurk in a uni
fin oi text-books through
ion? i "i abolition of
the schools of our
. . ft .ols being used for
on of political, relig
l« > « p ropa mdn? What acl
. ’of K or our heady hard
■ filii.i out count
< ‘ t maircv and ,reports to
i f( ti ’.r f small statistic**
,
irh rl; 1 .-y for fo. r or five hours
,* ( five df ten dollars per day
j each? W! - elaborate further on the
’ potent r . 1C . of uch a ryztem*
W< hr.V' ii ' ui e for i national do
partmonl y * edu ation. Better let
el! enou a aione.
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minority government
i n receiii editorial The Atlanta
called attention em
phaticn iy ; the dangers in govern
by a minority. Government by
; ininon. y tr*.lr< place when citizens
I do not exercise their suffrage—the
right to vote.
A i ■ unii t nt cartoonist recently
illustrn' d forcibly how sensi
tin S\ .« A ■ Wean citizen is about
any attempt !>f others to govern him,
a ins*,meed bv the Revolution a
gainst England; and yet Low indif
ferent hi* i to governing himself, 1
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We recently printed ita- i
a con.
tion and by aw; for a negro frater
nat society, )nc 01 the by-laws pro- ,
vided that any member who failed
to vote one way or the other on any
question comine before the society in
**'"• presence should pay a fine of 10
cents.
TV t strik. s us as a very progre«s
ive idea in democratic government,
Why riot e ac Lr.v r quiring every
citizen who is eititled to vote to pay
a uF tunti ! fine for carelessly o*.
willfully neglecting the privilege and I
duty of cithern' ip? Would not such'
a plan cause a more 'enernl Interest
in and closer study of the questions
of government that fome before the
citizen fo* his determination from
time to ti* ip? Would it not make for I
better government - government by a (
mere en igii majorily? Would i ;
10 * :,IV s so f eted be accepted with
better ' grace as the w ill of the majori-j
•>’> and therefore be better observed?
We e, mmend th thought to our
11 It has been well said
chut .• w * man .ay learn from a
fool. Va, v, ■ ere far lorn regarding
u. u ! Acred negroes who framed
-low as fools. i
NOT A POUND OF BUTTER IN
, TOY- N I
Commerce X
Uk Cv.lt of the
New. poll . oi j.xt.r for
table n.- . V.'e ever nicer and
merennti ill) iv*Tit i. town oii
ly to o vv reta pound
0 lru . V <i cup t e follow
mg advertise; *ut from re cent
issue o: th*. Conk lo .Dispatch:
“Dni'iv.g December : he Gordele
creamer P« one f: mer over
$,,00 fo >r crea: r.'.niHl during that
mu ,..h to tiv er< cry.
"C ray on tl i arm wi.en you
grow your ow:i U . d .1 u ; he dairy
tu o tlii. feed iuto ready cash to
voui f it i very un¬
wise to „]1 til e feed—only
the »u . v concent rat should bo
bought.
“Sow to v ■nent pas
lure thi *uan vet beans
and hay cror suF tner for th?
milkers r.vxt fall r\d v ter.
“Carpet vrass v -nedezr. furn
an idea! nixture for your "or'ea
j ner.t v \. land sown
m th e one cow
eight months h r, and your
Velvet be ■'TV ;■ with rye
I will f .a e •• ;c re re mainin'
four months.
-Walt Ms tvT-ioTu:
- 'The da \r\ .3 a thin i of
charm,
" 'She Mf rv ! -sre from the
farm.’ ’
: MEETING AT TERRY TO
CONSIDER FARM LOANS
Perry, Georgia
Feb. 22. 1924.
The Leader-Tribune.
Ft. Valley, Ga.
Gentlemen ^
I would be glad to have you men¬
tion in the next issue of vour paper
*that there will be a meeting in Perry
March 4th at 10 o'clock A. M. of the
Houston National Farm Loan Asso-
1 eiatior.. and at this meeting there
wHl he brought up the question of
organising ar. Agricultural Credit
Association in connection with the
Farm A t«f money to
r? on at
o he ob
v :*xediat€
C . I e to have
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,;u. H. N. F. L. A.
POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
(Caih in advance).
FOR TAX COLLECTOR
I hereby announce my candidacy
for Tax Collector of Houston County,
subject to the Democratic Primary.
Your vote will be greatly appreciated.
T. E. THARPE.
FOR TAX RECEIVER
To the Voters of Houston County:
I respectfully announce that I am
a candidate for re-election to the Of¬
fice of Tax Receiver of Houston
County, Georgia,, subject to the Dem¬
ocratic primary.
Your vote and support will be ap¬
preciated.
C. N. ROUNTREE.
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FOR CLERK SUPERIOR COURT
The friends of Emmett Houser
hereby announce his candidacy for
clerk of Houston Superior Court, sub¬
ject to the Democratic Primary.
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FOR SOLICITOR CITY COURT
I respectfully announce myself a
candidate for re-election to the office
oY Solicitor of the City Court of
Houston County, subject to the Dem¬
ocratic primary. Your vote and sup¬
port will be highly appreciated.
J. W. BLOODWORTH
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FOR SHERIFF
I hereby announce my candidacy
for Sheriff of Houston County, sub¬
ject to the Democratic primary.
Your vote and influence will be
appreciated.
Respectfully,
GEO. D. ANDERSON.
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FOR COUNTY SCHOOL SUPERIN.
TENDENT
To the Democratic Voters of Hous¬
ton County:
I hereby announce myself as a
c tndidate for County School Super
i ■;undent of Houston County sub
j ■ ;t to the Democratic primary. If
i eg ted I promise to do all within my
vow r to make the schools of the
C *unty the best in the State.
Respectfully,
W. H. Lord.
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Farm products are often shipped
- at distances when they might be
tv l A with greater profit close at
mi, says the United States Depart
•ent of Agriculture. Surveys are
,nv being made by the department
in various parts of the country to
determine the extent of this waste
im practice and to help farmers
make readjustments in their farm¬
ing and marketing to enable them to
meet local market demands.
Is your subscription paid up?
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323 Anderson Ave. Fort Valley, Georgia
CITY REGISTRATION NOTICE
FOR 1924
Notice is hereby given that, in ac¬
cordance with the law, the registra¬
tion book of the City of Fort Valley
for th yr registration of voters will
open at the office of the City Clerk
and Treasurer in the Citv of Fort
Valley on March 1st, 192<? at Nine
O’clock A.’M., and will remain open
for registration each and every day
between the hours of Nine O’clock
A. M., until Twelve O’clock Noon,
and from Two O’clock P. M., until
Five O’clock P. M., Sunday except¬
ed, unt\l Wednesday Noon, March
1924) when it shall be finally and
absolutely closed.
No person shall be allowed to
register who, wnen called upon by the
Clerk and Treasurer, refuses to take
the following oath touching his
rights to register, to-wit:
I do solemnly swear that I am a
citizen of the United States of Amer
ica; that I have resided in Georgia
one year immediately preceding this
election and six months within the
corporate limits of the City of Fort
Valley, immediately preceding the
opening of this registration list, and
it is my intention to remain a resi¬
dent of said City continually until
the day of election; that I §m twenty
one years of age, or will be by the
day of election, and have paid all
taxes due the City of Fort Valley;
that I have made all returns required
by the ordinances of the City, that
I am -qualified to vote for members
of the Legislature: SO HELP ME
GOD. No person will be allowed to
vote in the election to be held for
Officers of said City, unless their
name shall appear in the registra¬
tion Book.
N. W. Jordan, Clerk & Treas.
2-28-4t.
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The campaign among the Wesley¬
an alumnae is to open on the night
of March 27 and will continue un
til April 26.