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THURSDAY. MAY 26. 1921
®hp Winitpr Kfuib
WINDER, GA.
Published Every Thursday
Entered at the Postoffiee at Winder, Georgia,
as Second Class Matter.
J. W. McWHORTEIi- Editor
j p PARHAM Business Manager
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Six Mouths
If you have nothing else to do these rainy
days, sli down and write the Governor of
Georgia a letter on the race problem. “Ev
erybody is doing It.”—CrawfordvilL* Advo
cate-Democrat.
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Editor Townsend, of the Dahlonega Nug
get, is authority for the statement that a re
ligious wave struck that, section the other
week during the storm. Hear him: “Many
a one who had not offered up a prayer for
some time did so during the storm the other
night iy an earnest and very pointed manner.
The average farmer and business man in
this country work from 12 to 15 hours per
day. and when a man gets a week’s pay for
44 hours' work it makes the article that he
produces cost a sum entirely out of propoff
tion to the articles produced by the man that
works from 60 to 75 hours' per week.
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It is reported that an evangelist out West
had the habit of painting religious lines and
sentences on the fences along the public
highways, rtne of his lines ran thus: “What
will you do when you die?” An advertising
man came along and painted finder it, “Cse
Delta oil. Good for burns.” It pays to ad
vert ise.
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We heartily agree with Editor Shannon,
•of the Commerce News, in what lie said last
week about “These propagandists.” Thou
sands of dollars worth of stationery and
stamps are wasted in sending out this tuff
to tile various papers of the country. Any
man or bureau that thinks lie or it cun ride
the papers now for a whole lot of free pub
licity is simply labeling themselves “weak
minded.”
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The State Agricultural Department in At
lanta and the State Agricultural College in
At liens have fallen out over the fact that
both are trying to maintain market bureaus
at the expense of the people and there isn’t
room enough for both. There’s u lot, of mon
ey spent in this state trying to teach the
farmers how to run their affairs and we have
about reached the conclusion that the far
mers pare nothing for all the propaganda
that is being dished out to them.
We acknowledge with much appreciation
an invitation to attend the ‘‘Formal Opening
National Highway," at Madison, (Ja., Tues
day of this week. We regret exceedingly our
inability to be present. This occasion was
the formal opening of the ten miles of
beautiful paved highway between Madison
and Rutledge, and Its completion shows the
splendid, progressive spirit of Morgan coun
ty, one of the best counties In the state and
one in which we are always interestd, having
s|H>nt many of our boyhood years in the
midst of her good people.
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We regret the suspension of The Social
'Circle New Era, for it was one of the bright
est papers that came to this office. We al
ways read it with interest and trust that
Bro, Winchester may soon be able to re
sume its publication. All newspapers, like
other lines of business, are hard put just
now to make expenses, many of them sus
pending, and uone of them making any
money.
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The Georgia Department of Agriculture has
163 oil inspectors who are paid SIOO per
month each besides expenses. Six men can
do this work if the oil was inspected at ter
minal points and seaied. In this way over
SIOO,OOO could be turned into the slate treas
ury. It seems that the legislatures of the
past have been more interested iu making
jobs for peanut politicians than in serving
the people of the state. Fort Hirer inspec
tors can also be reduced.
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What Do You Think?
The Avery Manufacturing Company, a
well known manufacturer of plows and farm
implements, recently mnde n survey of all
their idealers and found that those that did
not advertise in their local papers had an
nual sales averaging SB4S per annum, whih
those that used the columns of the paper
sold $5.42 of the company’s implements per
year. each. It pays to advertise.
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t . It Pays to Keep Books..
“Some time ago a girl claimed damages
from a young man for breach of promise.’
KBs vs the Valdosta Times. “In court she
made the astounding statement that the
youth had kissed her 3,764 times. His coun
sel challenged the statement. Rut the girl
produced her diary, wherein every kiss had
been recorded, with the date. She won.
Whereupon the Moultrie Observer says
that it pays to keep books.
Expensive Government
It cost our forefathers iu the years gone by
about 50 cents a family to support the Feder
al Government. It now costs each family
in the United States from S2OO to SI,OOO to
lie governed. The cost in 1014 was about
SSO per family to be governed.
We believe in supporting our government
but there should be an end to the orgy of
extravagance that has gripped this nation
of ours, and is destroying the energies and
ambitions of the people. There are u mil
lion Government employees in this country
and the tendency is to increase the number.
Surely, the future does not look attractive
to the man who would apply himself to his
business, and by sacrifice and economy accu
mulate Si metliing for old age.
We don’t need any* more Federal Court
Judges in Georgia. We don’t need any more
state judicial circuits. We’ve got too many
boards and bureaus and inspectors au:l
agents who are not earning the salt they eat.
Cut most of them out. Let them go back to
work and earn their living. Cut most appro
priations down to the minimum and let many
of our institutions go hungry awhile. It will
do the;n good and it will give the people a
little rt st.
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The Ordinary Fellow
We like the ordinary man. He’s the back
bone of every community. Others may play
to the galleries and court the lime-light, and
dazzle for awhile, but everything übout them
is lieeting and temporary. It is the everyday
man, tlie quiet fellow, the one that goes
about his everyday busiuess with steady ef
forts upon whom you can depend. This is
what the Savannah News says on this sub
ject :
"It is the common, ordinary fellow upon
whom the country depends. He’s the man
who lives the ordinary humdrum sort of life,
not given fo excesses and excitements, I not
the conventional and never-radlcal; the mau
who lives with and plays with and works
for liis own children, who cares for and loves
in a rational manner his own wife, who nev
er gpts his name mixed in with spicy stori *s,
who hammers away at liis business and
scarcely ever takes a vacation, who goes
home at night, every night, and ‘hits the hay’
early; who rarely asks help from others and
thinks nothing of extending assistance when
it is asked of him, who starts no fads, stirs
up no revolts, leads no reforms, nnd gets into
no trouble. Born the* ordinary way. living
the common routine, getting the medium
standard, never-much varying flavor out of
life, working in and of and for the common
mass of his fellows—and quitting in the us
•nal unspectacular manner. He’s the hope of
the country.”
Two Sides To The Question
The situation in which the Normal
School aud other educational institu
tions tind themselves is a severe indict
ment against the state and reveals a
state of affairs which should lx* remedied
without delay. Isn't it really pitiful
that institutions like these should be com
pelled to pass around the hat? —Walton
Tribune.
If Brother Camp will inquire among the
people of Monroe and Walton county be will
find that they are now loaded down with
just about as heavy taxes, state, county, mu
nicipal and federal as they are able to stand
up under. Many are not standing; they are
falling by the way. We have never believed,
and we have not yet seen any argument that
has convinced us otherwise, that it is good
policy for the state to help too liberally iu
providing higher education for the p<*>ple.
Take care of the common schools, and when
n hoy or girl finishes with them, if there is
anything worth while in them, they will go
tjie balance of the way without so much
help.
There is a whole tot of fad and mush at
tached to higher education just now. We
are inclined to think that Edison was right
in ills criticism of the colleges recently made
by that genius.
What we need just now in both state and
national life is retrenchment along all lines
of expenditures. The great mass of tax
paying folk, hard pressed and weary of bur
dens, nre Just as valuable to the Aate and
deserve just as much consideration as the
few who attend college.
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