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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1022.
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Winder, Ga.
And THE BARROW TIMES, of Winder, Ga., Consoli
dated March Ist, 1021.
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WINDER, GA, FEBRUARY 2, 1922.
112 Candler Street- Telephone No. 73
Crime and the Law
under the above caption the Atlanta Constitution
of last Monday carried a fine editorial which was
called forth by an article that Rev. W. H. Faust,
pastor of the Baptist church, sent that paper and
which was printed in the shine edition in which the
editorial appeared. The following is the editorial
of the Atlanta paper:
We present elsewhere upon this page ft communica
tion from Rev. W. H. Faust, a Baptist clergyman, of
Winder, Ga., appealing to the righteous sentiment of
this state in behalf of law and justice as against lax
ity of Law enforcement which, lie truthfully says, is
“daily putting the state in an altogether unfavorable
light before the country at large."
His reference is particularly directed # to Ipajor
crime, such as murder, and'the case with which the
criminal may ciieumvent the aims of justice and es
cape penalty by resort to technicalities and any one
of the innumerable loopholes in the law.
He cites the record of his own county, Barrow, to
illustrate his point.
“Take Barrow county, for Instance—one of the
youngest counties in the state,” he stfys. “During
its short existence fourteen foul killings have stained
its fair name; and tl.e majority of these crimes have
not been penalized by the courts.'
Think of it ' Assuming that Dr. Faust, a citizen,,
Knows what he is talking about, during the few years
of its existence, there have been more homicides com
mitted in Barrow county, Georgia, than were com
mitted in the whole of England during the same length
of time!
And the reason is as clear as the fact is appalling:
That “the majority of these crimes (in Barrow <smn
t y ) have not been penalised by the law,” while if a
man commits a murder In England he.knows in ad
vance that his punishment to the fullest extent of the
law will be swift, sure and certain!
What is true of Barrow county is correspondingly
true of the state as a whole, and the same condition,
as to the laxity and flexibility of the law, exists to a
more or le.-s general extent throughout the entiu
country.
The trouble is that American criminal law favors
the criminal rather than the slate!
Our law is full of loopholes, offering every con
ceivable opportunity for isistponements, continuances,
retrials, stays of execution, appeals, delays upon ev
ery conceivable pretext; hut they are all in favor of
the defendant, none in favor of the state!
What this state and this country needs to protect
the public from crime is a system of law administra
tion under whieli a person who violates a law may he
reasonably certain, tlrst, that he will he caught and
brought to hook: *mmd, that the punishment will he
made to lit the crime.
Every person accused of crime should, of course,
bo guaranteed a fair and impartial trial according to
the constitution, but there should ho no unnecessary
delay in court procedure.
If we had such a system as that in operation, mur
der would he as rare in this country as it is in Eng
land
Without faith it is impossible to please the god
of success.
O-
A young man without any aim or purpose in life
is sure to become shipwrecked.
O
Georgia is a great old state in which to make a
living if you have a mind to work.
O —•
A strict enforcement of the law is always best for
Hie safety and welfare of the people.
O
It takes courteous, high-minded, dependable men
and modest, loving, true-hearted women to make a
natiou groat.
O
Co-operation among its people goes a long way to
wards making any city prosperous and a tine place in
which to live.
. O
And John I>. Walker, who is more famous than
muxt men would desire, has bobbed up in I ranee.
They do say there's lot’s of banks and oil and pretty
women in France. If so, John will roam in green
clover down beside the still waters.—Commerce News.
The roads in this section are getting about as us
ual at this time of year.
O
To-day (Thursday) is ground hog day. He sees
his shadow and will hurry back to his hole real
izing that winter is not over yet.
O
Maybe out of all the farming and marketing meet
ings we will get (‘Dough good to enable us to make
buckle and tongue meet.
O
There has been entirely too much speculation in
the country for our good. We must stop it and get
down to work.
O
We congratulate our sister county of Oconee on the
determination she has shown in running down those
who have besmirched her good name.
O
Now is the time when every city and county in the
state should have charge of their affairs men of
sound discretion and good business judgment.
O
All Winder regrets the removal of Rev. Stanley
It. Grubb from our midst. Columbia, S. C., is secur
ing a splendid citizen and an able preacher.
O
Mr. T. J. Simmons, who has been editor of the
Athens Daily News since its initial publication, has
resigned that position. Mr. T. J. Bryson, who has
been with the News for some time has become editor
and publisher. The News continues to be a splendid
newspaper.
O
What a great place is the home! Around it clusters
the fondest memories of boyhood or girlhood days.
The home lias more to do with making courteous, suc
cessful men and modest, lovable women than any
other agency in our midst. Every effort should be
put forth to make the liomelife pleasant and to make
it the center of alt that is best in life.
The Maysvill • Enterprise, our esteemed neighbor
succeeded in marrying one of the Muysville women
to the wrong man. That is to say the name of the
wrong man was listed in tho marriage notice that
appeared in the paper. This is the first time we have
ever known a newspaper to marry a woman to the
wrong man, but a country newspaper is equal to any
emergency.—Commerce News.
O
A Fool There Was.
Of course, it isn't intended to name any particular
person under such a title as the above, hut before the
point is discussed it will become manifest to the
reader that he is the one 1 aui talking about.
We live in a land of sunshine and plenty, in nat
ural resources.' 1 We boast to the visitor that Geor
gia has eight climatic zones out of the nine possessed
by the United States. We boast that we can raise
anything in this good State that can he raised any
where else. And ai! of this is true. But why brag
about it when we don’t raise it?
“You say you can, raise turnips, rutabagas, as good
as can he produced in the world, and with this it is
proper to catch both thumbs in the armholes of the
vest and stick out the chest. “Is that so?" says the
Strang r. “Well, why is it you don’t raise them and
eat them?” Why do you ship so many carloads of
Canadian turnips into Georgia.
“Well, I tell you, stranger, it’s this way. Dr. Walker
down here in Bleckley county, just the other day an
nounced he had thirty tons of rutabaga turnips he
had, grown on eight acres of land. Ho sold a few of
these at 2 cents per pouild, net, which gave him SIOO
on his eight acres, or $l5O per acre (that’s going some,
I’d say, for Georgia.) But the folks they got to talk
ing about the inferior quality of Georgia turnips—
said they was pethy and wasn't sweet; and so ev
erybody passed up the Georgia turnips and bought
the Canadian product. That’s how it happened. But
Dr. Walker got a few folks to eat some of his ruta
bagas (three of them weighed 20 pounds) and these
folks found the Georgia turnips were not petliy and
they were sweet, to boot. Dr. Walker says the Geor
gia sweet potato, the best in the world, is not sweet
when you first dig it, and that the turnip is the same
way—that it must season a while after it is dug.
“Yes, sir, all this is true, but you know' I’ve got
some Canadian turnips up to my house right now, and
it doesn't make a lilt of difference to me whether or
not Dr. Walker sells his Georgia turnips or keeps
them to rot on his hands. I just can't get, my wife
to order anything from Georgia—you know, she's kin
der prejudiced herself, and always lets the merchant
send her her whatever he wants to, or orders him not
to send any more of that Georgia stuff anyway. So
we just travel along in the easiest way up to oUr house.
We spend our money for out-of-state stuff and al
though ready money is awfully scarce this year, we
prefer to let the few dollars we have go on outside
and disappear forever. It’s so, these dollars don't
come, back, and if they were paid for Georgia foods
they would stay around hero and circulate, and just
do us worlds of good.
“Tell those Canadians to keep on growing their tur
nips. We’ll dig up the money some way to pay 5
cents a pound for their product, and let the Georgia
kind rot at 2 cents. We don’t care."—Macon Tele
graph.
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Our store has been busy with WISE BUYERS ever
since we announced our Clearance Sale. Three more
days and your chance to dollar go as far as
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We are expecting a crowd here Saturday and Mon
day, February 4 and 6, and will have a full force of
courteous salespeople to wait on you. Come and make
your dollar go as far as $2 elsewhere.
Remember we are sell
ing during this sale:
$ 9.00 W. L. Douglas
Shoes, price stamped on
each pair at $4.50
5.00 Army shoes
2.95
25.00 Mens Suits 14.85
35.00 mens suits 21.45
10.00 boys suits at 4.95
25.00 ladies plush or
cloth coats 9.75
15.00 ladies long coats,
at 4.95
LADIES OXFORDS for Spring 1922 at $2.75, $3.25 &
$3.75.
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10.00 ladies dresses
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20.00 ladies dresses in
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25c Ginghams at . . 14c
30c Ginghams at 19c
1.25 Serge, all wool,
at ... 79c
1.25 Work shirts 69c
1.50 Sunday Shirts 89c
2.00 and 2.50 Sunday
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20c sheeting at. 10c
25c sheeting at . . 12 ic