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THE lEMMHHM
AND FEACHLAND JOURNAL
Established 1888
JOHN H. JONES
Editor and Owner
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Published every Thursday
Entered as second-class matter at
the post office at Fort Valley,
Ga., under the act of March
3, 1879.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1924.
sins will find out, >>
<• Your you
quotes the Wilkinson County News.
Wish they’d find us out when thej
call.
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About the livliest thing in Geor¬
gia journalism today is the clash of
swords between the venerable editors
of the Newnan Herald and the Car¬
rol County Times.
With 70,000 white persons ten
years of age or older in Georgia
who cannot road or write we won¬
der how many there are who can’t
read their own writing when it gets
cold. We know one.
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Information: The Leader-Tribune
will have over two thousand sub¬
scribers within four weeks. Better
be one now than later and enjoy the
satisfaction of having helped to do
a good thing for the glory of Fort
Valley.
UNCLE JIM WILLIAMS
IS A PEACH
Don’t knock Peach County, boys.
Let them have their new county, if
they want it.—Greensboro Herald
Journal.
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«< How many homes in Georgia to¬
day hold family prayer?” asks the
Cobb County Times. We venture the
assertion that if a majority of the
homes in Georgia and America were
holding family prayer nearly all of
our post-war troubles would be
solved before breakfast, from finan
cial confusion to jazz illusion.
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Peach growers are assured of
hearty support among Georgia news¬
papers in solving their problem of
marketing, which means aggressive
exploitation of by-products and dis¬
tribution to a large extent, as indi¬
cated by frequent editorials in the
LaGrange Reporter and many other
influential pupers of the state.
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Speaking of dumping peaches into
rivers, the Dalton Citizen tells a sa¬
tiric Kentuckian that “we are giving
our fish the nectar of the gods,” and
then calls them “food the gods would
have been proud to subsist on,” while
“Kentucky’s chief crop is coal—coal,
the chief fuel of fire—fire, coupled
with pretty women, why, that’s what
hell boasts of!” But we protest that
an abundance of pretty women may
be heavenly. Witness Georgia.
WHERE MONEY IS
Very satisfactory returns to the
growers are said to be the result of
car lot shipments of green peppers
and butterbeans from Butts county,
which goes to prove that there is
money in anything the farmer grows
provided he uses good judgment in
not overloading the market with any
one article.—Butler Herald.
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LACK OF DISTRIBUTION
CONCENTRATES LOSS
That the lack of proper distribution
of products is almost entirely respon¬
sible for the great loss to watermelon
and peach growers every year has
again been all too strongly demon¬
strated again this year. With a tre¬
mendous crop of melons and with
hundreds of cars being shipped daily
indiscriminately to the cities, with no
knowledge of how' many cars are
there already, growers will never re¬
ceive adequate returns for their la¬
bor.—Adel News.
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GEORGIA PRESS MEETINGS
AND PARADISE FOUND
Charlie Rountree, Miss Emily
Woodward, Ernest Camp, Hal Stan¬
ley, Charlie Benns, and J. J. Howell
as officers, with the incomparable
Jack Williams, editor and future
state senator, as host at Waycross,
made the annual meeting of the
Georgia Press Association almost too
good to be true. The program was
rich in study of progressive newspa¬
per work and constructive editorial
policies and embraced a constant
feast of as wholesome entertainment
as ever blessed a meeting of news¬
paper men and women. This was
true throughout the press trip, in
Douglas, NichoHs, Alma, Blackshear,
THE LEADER-TRIBUNE, FORT VALLEY, GA., THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1924.
WE SALUTE OUR NEW FRIENDS
There are times when the heart is so full of happiness that an attempt
to express this happiness overwhelms the blessed one with a sense of fu
tility. The new owner and editor of The Leader-Tribune stands helpless
in a flood of such happiness.
After having conformed to the cut-and-dried custom of newspapei
salutatories several times during an editorial career of about seventeen
years we have become conscious of a belief that these initial greetings are
like faith, , “the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things
not seen,” and that, as “faith without works is dead,” even so is an editor
actually judged favorably by his community only after his works have justi¬
fied his introductory expressions of faith.
We might well confine our self-introduction to simple assurances of
our happiness in the generous warmth with which the people of l 1 ort Val¬
ley and adjoining communities have welcomed us—a welcome which, with¬
out serious restraint, might make us extravagant in our plans. Yet we can¬
not be so selfish in our happiness as to forget thut we are at the door of a
solemn responsibility in succeeding such a gracious gentleman, sterling
citizen and gifted editor as Mr. J. Mann Martin in this editorial chair, the
activities, or lack of activities, from which must have a direct and vital
influence for good or bad in the life of Fort Valley and her section of Geox
gia.Havinglearned in our pleasant dealings and associations with Mr. Martin
to love and respect him, we sincerely join the community as a whole in
keen regrets over his approaching removal to Atlanta. We know that the
abiding interest and affectionate good wishes of our people will go v\ii!i
Mr. Martin and his charming wife, who also has contributed such valuable
service in the social, religious and civic advancement of the community.
Our heart thrilled Sunday morning, upon our first church attendance
in Fort Vulley, with the words, “Service Is Sweet! from a duet in the first
Methodist choir. Indeed, service is very sweet in its returns of public con¬
fidence und appreciation to the conscientious, industrious newspaper editor.
There can he no more gratifying reward in the human sphere, no more glo¬
rious conquest before the gates of paradise, than to be recognized a s one
who has rendered faithful service. Thus we indicate our great, absorbing
desire and purpose as we place our humble hands to the plow.
Fort Valley and her environs have rendered such signal service in
commanding nation-wide attention and admiration for the agricultural de¬
velopment and progressive spirit of Georgia as to win the deep respect and
friendship of all thinking people of the state. This section is conspicuous
as one of the aggressive agricultural centers of America, and, with the
growing acknowledgment that there can he no return to sound, resaonable
economic conditions in this country without repairing and strengthening
the essential agricultural foundation, Fort Valley stands as a light upon a
hilltop reflecting the high, unwavering vision of the peach, pecan, corn,
cotton, watermelon, asparagus and other types of farmers who surround
her in dynamic action through good season and bad, with never a white
feather nor a mournful cry when the good Lord sends a cloud.
“Looking on the bright side,
That’s the way to go,
All the time the right side.
Summer time or snow.”
That’s Fort Valley, and that is why we have come to this city from
LaGrange, where our moderate success was diu to the great hearts of
some of the best people that God ever placed on His footstool. Inasmuch
as we are getting so personal—this will be our last assumption of the liber¬
ty—we might say that to leave LaGrange almost broke our heart. Fort
Valley is performing a miracle in rapidly healing it and giving it vigor.
“Looking on the bright side!” We wish every American citizen could
witness at close sight the heroic spirit of the people here. But is it so “he¬
roic,” after all? Is it strange that these people should look yet on the bright
side, notwithstanding reverses in a season’s crop of peaches? Of course it
is customary to cry over spilt milk, regardless of how much milk is left in
the pail, but every man’* range of vision should be as far beyond his present
sphere of activities as God placed his eyes above his feet. These people see
far. They know they have a rich farming section with sufficient di¬
versification in crops to protect them from real calamity even in the face
of failure in any one harvest, and they are encouraged to continue the
fight for the glory of Georgia and themselves by the attitude of people
throughout the state who, having learned the indomitable nature of this
section, are going to make the job easier and the conquest more valuable in
its benefits to the whole Empire State by giving them the dynamo of
Peach County by which even more fighting progressive spirit will he generat¬
ed. The consciousness of this encouraging attitude on the part of Georgia
as a whole today is making the farming genius of the Peach County area
hold its head high with a smile jand a song in the teeth of any obstacle.
The roses are too sweet for them to feel the thorns.
With the conspicuous attention Fort Valley and her farm .setting hold
before the eyes of America, Georgia will be judged to a large extent by the
measure of success or failure here. The flow of homeseekers and capital to
Georgia, which is now beginning, will be governed much by what happens
in the celebrated Peach Festival section. There can be only one answer:
Our song of prosperity and agricultural development must swell higher and
higher, and there must be no discord. It is good for Georgia when she helps
us to “tune in” more effectively with the nation.
And so we have infinite faith in the section which we have come humb¬
ly to serve. That justifies our coming. We have yet by our works to justify
the hearty co-operation and support of which we are being assured. It is
said by some kind folks that we can do it. Thanks! We shall see what we
shall see.
JOHN It. JONES.
Jcsup, and Brunswick, as well as in
Waycross. Every point visited by the
press party was exceedingly gracious
in hospitality, and the committee
which, with the officers, arranged
this trip of surpassing pleasure
proved its merit beyond degree. And
just to think that we may look for¬
ward to meetings just as wonderful
in 1925 and 1926—in Atlanta’s twin
sister, West Point, next year and
following in the fairyland of Fort
Valley and the paradise of Peach
county! Yessir! It is true. We know
we are not still a child and we don’t
remember having ever exactly died,
yet we find ourself, brethren, in a
paradise where we are beginning to
believe in fairies. To say the least,
the peaches here are not confined to
trees, although some of the young
ones do adorn baby baskets. That
ought to make an invitation from
Fort Valley wrap a spell around the
hearts of some of our bachelor-edi¬
tor friends. If we can manage to sur¬
vive the magnetic hospitality of Fort
Valley for two years we certainly
are going to hope to share it with
every editor in Georgia, hut we are
afraid we’re going to explode with
the joy of it. W'e give it up; we can’t
express it. Come and see for your¬
selves.
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GEORGIA’S REAL GREATNESS
COMING FROM HER FARMS
Our good, enduring friend, Charlie
Benns, editor of the excellent Butler
Herald, reminds us of the last edi
torial we wrote before leaving Lu
Grange by reproducing it, and inas¬
much as it so earnestly expresses our
view of the conditions in Georgia ag
riculture we, too, take the liberty,
of reprinting it herewith:
“When Roger Bahson and otheri
conspicuous statisticians and econom¬
ic experts predict for the southeast¬
ern states, especially Georgia, Florida
and the Carolinas, supremacy in
prosperity during the next few years
they arrive at their conclusion by a
careful analysis of the rich farming
opportunities here, as well as the
advantages for industrial develop¬
ment. These combined opportunities
and advantages make Georgia and
her neighboring states ideal for econ
my and profit in production, mar¬
keting and manufacturing. Their
analysis and prediction already has
been justified in the industrial field.
It is now being demonstarted with
emphasis in the flourishing farms
of Georgia, which are producing
bumper crops of a variety that would
read like a fairy tale. That some of
these crops are not being realized In
satisfactory term of dollars and cents
does not spell calamity, for success
in production before success in mar¬
keting is only a natural step prior to
a system of successful marketing be¬
fore the crop is produced.
a Georgia is proving this year that'
she can produce dozens of crops in
abundance. The man who has travel¬
ed over a large part of Georgia dur-
ing recent weeks must be over¬
whelmed with the revelation in great
production of almost countless valu¬
able crops—cotton, corn, tobacco,
peanuts, peaches, watermelons, po¬
tatoes, pimento, asparagus, pecans,
pears, vegetables innumerable, and
in fact a variety which almost sur¬
passes the imagination. It is an act¬
ual fact that the recent burning days
of sunshine, while doing remarkably
little damage to the majestic fields
of corn, have assisted the farmers to
a priceless degree in keeping the cot¬
ton free from the boll weevil. Dili
gent farmers—those who have had
the faith and energy to use poison in
a scientific way are very happy.
There arc many who could join Lee
Council, of Sumter county, in offer
ing a reward of $1U.00 for every
boll weevil found in their fine cotton
fields. This is a condition which ex¬
ists generally throughout Georgia.
“That the mammoth peach crop of
Georgia this season should have met
with a comparative market failure is
an example at one and the same
time of the importance of diversified
farming and co-operative mai’keting
along thorough, as well as protective,
lines. Those peach producers who, in
spite of their rich profits from this
crop in recent seasons, have guarded
quality against quantity and have re¬
fused to let the Midas touch lure
them from the solid ground of di¬
versified crops, can laugh in the face
of one season’s failure in peaches.
Yet they, along with less cautious
peach producers, will be convinced
that it is not only theirs to produce
hut also to get together and develop
a better marketing system.
“By the same process of reasoning
the cotton, corn, tobacco, peanut and
every type of farmer must realize
that, no matter how rich the prom¬
ise of one crop, his only guarantee
of well balanced progress and pros¬
perity lies in diversity of production
and thorough methods of co-opera¬
tive marketing. We must not make
ourselves helpless under the load of
bumper crops without a stiff upper
lip and a firm, intelligent hand in
placing our crops, in proper condi¬
tion, all over the world where con¬
sumers exist, and doing this, not
with a plea for purchase, but with
the smiling assurance that we offer
the BEST at a FAIR PRICE—take
it or leave it!”
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For best results advertise your
wants in The Leader-Tribune.
FORT VALLEY’S HISTORY
“Fox Valley, later known as Fort
Valley, named for the numerous
foxes found here in 1831. One of the
largest Indian trading posts in state.
Great Reduction on
Summer Suits
Seersuckers, Suitings and
other Fabrics. The Last <?_ v -
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$15.06 & $25.00 Summer Suits Reduced to—
$ 11 — & $18 .50 t
DLL STRAW HATS ONE-HALF PRICE!
EDWARDS BROS.
FORT VALLEY, GA.
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Be Independent away from home—use
Travelers’ Checks.
a WIRE FIFTY—WAIVE IDENTIFICA¬
TION!”
Ever have that joyful experience of “wiring
home for money”?
You are embarrassed, you lose several
hours and you lose your temper. All use¬
lessly.
Next time take along Travelers’ Checks.
They eliminate all such inconvenience and
worry because they identify you, every¬
where.
A. B. A. Cheques good the world over.
Citizens Bank of Fort Valley
Capital & Surplus $150,000
Resources cA Million Dollars
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