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About The Winder news and Barrow times. (Winder, Barrow County, Ga.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (June 23, 1921)
THURSDAY. JUNE 23, IR2I Oihe ffluxbn Winder, Ga. Ami THE BARROW TIMES, of W T inder, Ga., Consoli dated March Ist, 1921. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY J. \V. MCWHORTER Editor J B P4RHAM Business Manager Entered at the Post office at Winder, Georgia as Second Class Matter for Transmission Through the Mails. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE CITY OF WINDER OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE COUNTY of HARROW SUBSCRIPTION RATES IN ADVANCE: ONE YEAR Sl -‘2° Six Months. - Guaranteed Circulation 1968 Winder, Ga., Jnnp 23. 1921 112 Candler Street Telephone No. 73 To Stop Peonage judge James B. Park, of th* Ocmulgee Circuit, has decided that there shall l>e no more peonage charges in his circuit. Two negroes were tried in his court in Greensboro the other week, and as they were not aide to pny any fines the judge gave them a straight chaingang sentence. The Greensboro Herald-Journal, in giving an account of the affair, says: “In passing sentence upon two black defendants this week Judge James B. Park asked the parties if they had the money with which to pay their fines in the event a fine was placed. They replied that they did not have the money and his honor sent the defendants up without option of paying a fine. judge Park told the defendants that under the peonage law parties could not pay defendants out of trouble and then force them to work out their fines. Therefore the judge thought it best to place straight clialngang sentences. The practice of buying prisoner* out of the courts has in the opinion of The Herald-Journal always been a very sorry practice. Tin* blacks would consider that they were working for no compensation and the white man wuld consider that he was paying for all privi leges'of chastisement and other penalties exacted by the state. The practice of white farmers paying the blacks’ fines has a tendency to breed crime. Black men would not hesitate to commit an offense against the law If he knew there'was some white farmer ready to pay him out of Ids trouble and protect him in fut ure troubles. Judge Park is on the right line. If a black defend ant or his relatives and friends cannot puy him out of the chaingang, ft Is best for society and the parties concerned for the defendant to work out his time un der the law.” O The Dahlonega Nugget says that It is informed by one who knows that a movement is on foot by the republicans of the Ninth district to buy the Gnines ville Eagle plant and run the daily and weekly in the interest of their party. O Editor N. C. Napier, of the Vldalia Advance, has bought the Lyons Progress from Mr. A. K. McGill, the former owner. This gives Editor Napier full swing in Toombs county, aud we wish him mighty well. These strenuous times are causing consolida tions of newspapers all around. O The I^iGrange Graphic and the LaUrange Reporter have gotten all “bet” up over the fact that the city council proposed to give the Salvation army $75 per month to take care of the charitable work in the city. The Graphic oppsed it while the Reporter was in favor of the move. The Graphic is right In its position, but both papers ought to be ashamed of the spirit mani fested in the controversy. 0 The editors of the Ninth District, who organized a Press Association a short time ago, met in Gaines ville again today (Friday), when they will put the big pot in the little one aud have a big time. —Dah- lonega Nugget. You ought to have been present, Bro. Townsend. The boys spoke often of you aud want to meet rot.. Come down to Winder, sure, next First iriday In September. O— The election of Cecil Neill, of Muscogee county, as speaker of the house of representatives, will be very acceptable to the people of Georgia. Governor-elect Hardwick was very bitter ngainst President Wilson, when the latter butted In when Mr. Hardwick was a candidate for the senate, and now, Mr. Hardwick has been guilty of the same thing. “Consistency is a jewel” O We see where Senator L. C. Brown, of Athens, pro poses to introduce a bill in the senate during the com ing session of the legislature to tax gasoline and ker oseue oils one cent per gallon. When we get to the legislature it is our purpose to introduce a bill taxing a man one cent for every breath he inhales, one cent for every swallow of water he drlnka and one cent for every word he speaks. Passenger and Freight Rates If the railroads arc wise they will reduce their passenger and freight rates. Their very existence depends uih.ii it. The present rates are turning the public more and more to the automobile and truck. High rates, instead of increasing the revenues of the roads, will have u tendency, in the long run, to de crease them.. The people of Georgia are deeply in trested in good roads, and these arc being built at a rapid rate. Soon this stute will have a net-work of fine highways, and then the automobile and the truck will drive the knife of competition deep into the vitals of the railroads The railroads had better be stir themselves and, in some way reduce their ex penses, and bring down their rates. The present rates are throttling business, and retarding the return of this country to normal conditions. The price of everything must be brought down to a level with the price of agricultural products. There can be no abiding prosperity otherwise. All manu factured produi ts arc yet too high. Labor and rail road rates, that enter into the costs of these manu factured products, must come down. We repeat, that if the railroads are wise they will reduce their pas senger and freight rates. O Two Sides to the Question Our good friend, Ernest Camp, of the Wlalton Trib une, got all “het up” the other week and wrote a very lengthy editorial, putting the of the Ogle thorpe Echo and the Winder News in the same crowd with “skin-flint politicians,” and stating that the com ments of these two papers upon an editorial that he wrote about colleges, were “unjust, untrue and un worthy of those who give them utterance.” Brother Camp was boosting the colleges of the state, and we simply suggested that it would be a good idea to give more attention to the common schools and let the colleges be content with what they have for awhile. Editor Shackelford’s reply to Editor Camp's lurid editorial in last week’s Echo was good and to the point, and we wish that wc had space to reproduce it, but have not. Just a few words on the subject of education. We are opposed to paternalism in any government. It is destructive of aspiration, energy and individual development. The drift of public sentiment towards paternalism and socialism has been greatly acceler ated by the world’s war. The people are looking to the government to regulate and control business, to educate and train our children, and to shape our in dividual lives in accordance with certain ideas. Many are in favor of government ownership of railroads and other public utilities, and of the government's putting its hand strongly upon private enterprises. It is socialism aud bolshevism, pure and simple. We are opposed to it. So far as education is concerned, all that the state ought to do is to help the child just enough to awaken it to a realization of its possibilities and create a hunger in it for greater and better things. More than tills is an injury to the child and an imposition upon the public. Let Georgia provide a good education for her chil dren through the high schools of the state, and if there is anything in the child, the victory is practi cally won. Georgia is trying to provide teachers for her schools by building colleges. All the normal schools in the world won’t supply our schools with teachers at starvation salaries. Provide good gram mar grade and high schools, pny teachers an at tractive salary, and the colleges will take care of themselves. We have looked around us, Brother Camp “in the good county of Barrow", and we see men and women quitting the school rooms and going into other lines of work on account of the meagre salaries paid. Teaching is a make-shift profession in Georgiu. Men and women, boys and girls are injured by giv ing them too much. Character, power, success in life are won by effort. Do enough for the child to awaken it and to show it what can bo done in life, and then hands off. The grammar schools and high schools will do this. And the colleges will not suffer. Let the colleges pass around the l>at. It will show them how they stand in the public estimation. It will put them in closer touch with the needs of the people. We are in favor of colleger, but they should be self sustaining. The boy or girl who wants a college ed ucation can get it. It is worthless to those who do not want it. Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after knowledge, for they shall be filled. Without the hunger and thirst, it Is a waste of time and money. Here's our position In a nutshell: A strong system of public education through the high school, salaries for the teachers in these schools that will induce them to enter the profession as a life work, and then the colleges aud universities will take care of them selves O Editor Rucker, of the Alpharetta Free Press, says that Dawson aud Lumpkiu county liquor has reached the shamefully low price of $1.40 per gallon. Where uon Editor Townsend of the- Dahjoncga Nugget, says that local customers can't get it at that price. We think Editor Rucker should give Editor Town send the password. 0 *— Dry as a bone. A water wagon needed. V good price will be paid for some fellow who is an expert in praying for rain.—Commerce News. And it rained the next day. THE WINDER NBWB gggggg The American Short horn Breeders’ Associ ation. 13 Dexter Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, Offers a Champion prize of $25.00 for the best Shorthorn bull over 12 months old, the property of the exhibitor, pro vided he county fair offers the same amount for a Champion female. Breeders eyerywhere should get in touch with their county fair aud get them to put up the extra $25.(X) as out lined by the above association. Scholarship in Business College for Sale. $ f We offer for sale schol arship in Athens Busi ness College, bookkeep ing, shorthand, typewrit ing, cotton grading, etc. If you contemplate tak ing a business course we can furnish the scholar ship at a reduced price. Call at this office. 1899 1921 Worth Thinking About TO POSSESS MONEY SIGNIFIES POWER. ' It opens the way by which you can help yourself and it is, therefore, proper that one should strive, within rea sonable bounds, to make money and save it. Such accumulations deposited here will give you a working capital on which you can draw when needed. The habit becomes a practice and the liberal interest which we pay plus the SAFETY that this bank affords makes it profitable to take advantage of this opportu nity. Our SAVINGS DEPARTMENT affords you the best opportunity for saving and getting your savings to work for you. Hundreds are delighted with the results that they have obtained and July 1 they will be paid the earnings from their accounts. It will pay you to think about the matter and get in line with this crowd. Winder National Bank 1899 192! COAL ** Now is the time to buy your coal. Cheaper now than later. Phone your order. Plenty of cotton seed hulls and meal at very close prices. MILLSAPS & ELEY Phone 238 W. C. Jett Do you buy Groceries and Fresh Meats? If so, it will be to your interest to visit my store and get my prices before buying else where. Fancy and Family Groceries, all kinds of table supplies and fresh Cured Meats. ALL GOOD THINGS TO EAT Prompt Delivery 4 W. C. JETT Phone 55 Phone 55 SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 A YEAR
