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TH aSDAY, JAM'ARY 12. 1022. ©lip Btuiicr Nnna Winder, Ga. And THE BARROW TIMES, of Winder, Ga., Consoli dated March Ist, 1921. " ITBUSHKI) EVERY THURSDAY j. w. McWhorter - Editor J. B. PARHAM Business Manager Entered at the Poatofflce 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 Member Ninth Georgia District Press Association. SI BS< KirriON KATES IN ADVANCE: On'e YEAR- Six Months >0 "Guaranteed Circulation 1968 Winder, Ga., Jan. 12, 1922. 112 Candler Street Telephone No. <? Horn. John Holder, our neighbor over the line in Jackson, has put in charge of the highway de partment Of Georgia. He has the ability and we know he will make good in this most important work. George I). Rucker, of the Alpharetta Free Press throws a nice boquet at lion. M L. Brittain, Geor gia's splendid state school superintendent. Says the Free Press: “M. 1.. Brittain is headed toward any thing lie wants in Georgia politics. He is dean and aide and progressive and courageous." The Free Press is right. __o The Madison Madisonian gets a little rough but hits the nail square on the head when it says: ‘‘The Madisonian has no hatchet for Commissioner John Brown, hut darned if we'll support a man for any office who advocates a moratorium of any kind and who advises farmers to hold 45c cotton for nOc, and who is unwilling to have the records of Ids office investigated. Taking Stock-. This is th" time of the year when merchants and business men take stock. In fact, all of us total up our assets and liabilities to see whether we have gained or lost financially. While we are taking stock from a financial stand point it would not he a laid idea to take stock of our selves and see how we compare with what we were one year ago. Have we grown mentally and morally? Or have we retrograded? At the end of life we will not be Judged so much by what we have as by what we are. ir we are not growing in attributes and character we are losing much of the joy and zest <>f life. The Joy of life is the result of growth. It is all right to grow financially hut this, alone, will not bring happiness. There must be a steady improve mentf within to bring to us the things that we desire. So. while we are counting up our gains and losses for 1021. from a financial standpoint, let us also look within and see how we stand from that viewpoint. O A Bad Road. The travelers from Winder to Atlanta say that the road from this city to Lawreneeville is in an awful condition. Tourists traveling through this city never fail to sjienk out in no uncertain terms about tins roadway. The highway from the Oconee line to the Gwinnett line passing clear through the county is one of the most important roads in the state. It runs from Athens, the commercial center of northeast Georgia, to Atlanta, the capital city of the state, it ought to be put in Hrstelnss shape and kept that way. The good name of our county and our city demand it. We hope our rounty authorities will give their at tention to tills road, sq that tourists going from Ath ens to Atlanta, or from Atlanta to Athens, and our own people who visit these cities will not form such an unfavorable opinion of our county. This is the most important road in the county, and at present about as disagreeable to ride over as any in the county. O Our Banks. In last week's issue of the News occurred the state ment of the Winder National Bank, and in this issue we are publishing statements from the North Georgia Trust and Banking Company. The Farmers Bank, of this city, and the Bank of Stutham. These state ments re fleet credit on these institutions. Banks have had a laird time during the past year. The drop in the fall of 1020 caught them all with heavy loans out and they have not been able to liquidate many of these loans during 1021. Deposits have dropped often very materially, and with their assets tir.l up as never before, and with deposits smaller than they have been in several years, the hanks have not been able to meet the demands that have been made on them by the public for credit. That they have done as well as they have shows that they have been splendidly managed since the slump has come. While many similar Institutions in others cities have gone to the wall the banks of Barrow county have stood the strain manfully, and they are all facing the new year with hope and optimism. The News con gratulates the officials of these institutions upon the great way in vM.Ii they breasted the storm, and we sincerely trust that prosperity will bo theirs during {he coming year. Credit System Going. The old worn out bankruptcy 30-day credit business is fast playing out. More and more the business houses are cutting out the charging of a cigar, a nick el's worth of salt or a paper of pins to the gent who could never tie found on the first of the month when money was needed to pay the wholesale bill. It wn right convenient to step into a store, buy a cigar and say, “charge it,” but It sent many a mercantile con cern to the bankrupt court. Hi*-ed the day when everybody pays cash or does without it. It will mean a better day for both the buyer and the seller. —Worth County Local. It would be a great thing for the country if we could get to the point w hen' the 'charge it’ system would be out out entirely. It might put some of us to considerable inconvenience for awhile but we'd get; used to it after trying it out. and when we did all of us would get along a whole lot better. Enquirer Sun. O Turned Bankrupt Out of Church. It is not so unusual to be a bankrupt these days, but it is somewhat out of the ordinary to ho expelled from church on account of taking advantage of the bankruptcy law. but it sometime- hapts'iis. or rather it has happened. A man in Moniw county was turn ed out of his church last w ek because he went into bankruptcy, ai'cording to a rejsirt published in the Macon Telegraph. It seems that the ehurch membership thought the brother was taking advantage of tin* bankruptcy law to keep from paying bis honest debts and not because he was compelled to, and being firm advocates of honesty and integrity particularly in the matter of paving just debts, lie was dismissed from thi\ ehurcli. Opinions may differ as to whether this was the wisest course to pursue from a theological standpoint, hut there is not a doubt hut that there is room in our churches, as well as other places, for a return to some of our old-fashioned standards of honesty and fair dealing. The bankruptcy law is a wise and just pro vision for those who are forced, because of unusual, or unfortunate circumstances, to take advantage of it, hut when a man use's it to cheat his creditors he is not an honest man, no matter how many laws he has on his side. —Augusta Chronicle. O Young Boys and Crime. Much of the crime that is committed in this country is done by boys and young men, so states Judge Hum phries, of the Fulton Superior Court, and he ought to know. In a speech made at the Rotary club in At lanta last Tuesday, lie says: "Boys and young men of Atlanta are responsible for much of the crime being committed here and figures show that an astounding proportion of the crime is being committed by hoys less than 20 years of age.’’ This is one of the deplorable problems that con. fronts society today, and something must he done to create in the minds of our hoys and young men higher ideals and more lofty ambitions than are being given them by the forces that are molding their minds and characters at the present. The trend of today is to have a “good time," frolic, spend as much as you can get your hands on, work as little as possible and live the fast life. Young men do not sc mto lie possessed with an ambition to succeed in business, to become men of power and influence, to own a business and a home, and to build a character that stands for honor and strength in their communities. It is time that the parents of these boys and young men were opening their eyes to the truth of the sit uation. and put down the orgies of extravagance and fast living through which we have passed. If there is not a change, the penitentiary will open its doors to a large number of our hoys, that could lie saved. Selling For Cash. Most merchants throughout the country are being forced to a cash system. They are not able to sell goods on credit, on account of the fact that credit has been so badly abused lately that very few merchants have the capital to carry their unpaid accounts and continue to extend credit as heretofore. This cash system will enable the merchants to sell goods cheaper, eliminating much book-keeping and many losses. However, the merchant that would sell goods for cash must look closely after his adver tising. When a man must pay cash for wlmt he buys he is going to the merchant that bids for his trade. The merchant must not only sell goods close but he must let the public know that he is doing this very thing. The time lias been when a man could set up in business almost anywhere and by selling on credit do a fair business without advertising. But that day Ims passed. If you propose to sell for cash, you must keep your business prominently before the public. The buying public is watching the mlertisiug cqlumns of the newspapers as never before to set' where their dollar will go the furthest. This paper readies the people in the Winder trading territory, and an advertisement in its columns will be the best business booster investment you can make. Don't take our word for it. Just keep your eyes and ears open and you will realize it for yourself. No paper in this section with the subscription list of the News lias as reasonable advertising rates. Figure with us on your advertising space for 1!>22. O “The right kind of management in business is most important." says a headline in the Atlanta Georgian. The discovery of such a tremendous truth entitl.’s that pap r to go up to the head of the class. THE WINDER NEWS HARDWICK URGES COOPERATIVE PLAN Governor Tims. \V. Hardwick has issued an official statement calling at tention to the need of scientific meth ods in the solution of marketing prob lems in Georgia and the south, and in dorsing the plan of the Cotton Grow ers’ Co-operative Marketing associa tion plan and to align themselves with the organization. We are now passing through stren uous days in the economic reconstruc tion of our land. Many changes are taking place in our industrial, com mercial and agricultural life. Our country must get down to real business and learn how to save and make. Many wasteful methods in all lines of activity in our past must be eliminated. 1 wish to call attention to the fact Hint the state of Georgia in the main is almost wholly an agricultural state. It is true our state has many resources ether than farming, but it must he borne in mind that our timber reserves are pretty well used up, and the plow is now taking the place of the forest. Our mining is limited, and our manu facturing is small. <>ur main resour ce is agriculture. Then let us give our host eeorts to making a prosperous agriculture for the state of Georgia. Let us do our best in production, and let us exercise the utmost care in the matter of mai keting. One of Georgia's greatest benefac tors is the man, or group of men. who produces an article that the whole world needs and must have and 1 know of no nmn. or set of men, who reaches (i tin' remotest parts of the earth as the cotton farmer does. The cotton farmer touches every quarter of the civilized world, but at that the cotton farmer has never had a voice in determining the value of this most universally needed and uni versally used article, and it is on this subject that I wish to talk to the cit izens of the state of Georgia and to the farmers in particular. The question of getting the right price, and a profitable price, for cot ton, to the farmers of our state, as w r ell as to the citizens of our commonwealth is not an individual' problem, and it cannot lie solved by the individual mar keting system. Individual selling of cotton only allows speculation and gambling to creep in, and demoralizes ■>ur markets and our prices. How You Can Make Money This Year Everybody is interested in making money this year. The past year brought losses to many, and it is very im portant that expenses be kept down as much as possible during 1922, so that a better showing may be made when the year ends. Money saved is money made. Let us save you money on your groceries and meats and feed stuffs this year. As we have entered the wholesale grocery business this year we are'in position to save you money on all your needs \n this line. Buying direct from the factory and paying cash for it enables us to save our customers the middleman's profit. Try trading with us during the coming year and see if you do not save a substantial sum for your savings ac count at the end of the year. We have a large shipment of baled shucks that we are selling for $1.25 per hundred pounds. Prompt Service WATSON-GLOVER & CO. Phone 80 I have studied the question from many angles and I have become thor oughly convinced that our only hope for a stabilized market and a profita ble price for the farmers and citizens of our state, lies in the co-operative marketing association for cotton. It is true we may not produce so much cotton in the future as we have in the past, but the ravages of the boll weevil and the uncertainty of gambling and speculating in cotton, makes it floubly important and necessary that the farmers have a stabilized market grid a fair price. I wish, therefore, to call attention to the movement in Georgia, and in the south, to form the Cotton Growers’ Co-operative associa tion. I believe it is* the right move in the right direction, and I further believe it to lie the plain duty of every citizen who loves Georgia and the south, to put his shoulder to the wheel and help u this great movement that will re store the buying power of the farmers, and bring prosperity to our state. I am acquainted with the personnel of the men behind this movement, and Cheap Groceries We are selling groceries at prices that will make you sit up and take notice. Just look here: 17 A pounds Sugar .............. . ... SI.OO Full Patent Flour per Bbl ...j $7.95 Prompt Service Satisfaction Guaranteed W. C. Jett Phone 55 Subscription Price: $1.50 Per Year. know them to be of the highest type citizens of the state. I want to admonish every farmer who expects to grow' a bale of cotton in 1922, to study this association and movement carefully, and when he has. made up his mind, as I have, to then sign the contract and put Georgia in the proper light with the other south ern states In the movement to get a fair price for our principal product. THOS. W. HARDWICK, Governor. NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the part nership of E. W. Oliver and H. M. Her rin doing business as Winder Drug Cos., in the City of Winder, Ga., Barrow county, has been dissolved by mutual consent. E. W. Oliver resumes all the present, past and future indebtedness of the firm and is entitled to collect all accounts due said firm. H. M. Herrin is released from further liabil ity on account of the past or future in debtedness of said firm. E. W. OLIVER. H. M. HERRIN.