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VOL. XXIX. SOMETHING MUST BE DONE TO GET ARSENATE FOR FARMERS THOSE farmers who expect to make a cotton crop this year should in at once terest themselves in the se curing of calcium arsenate for the de struction of the boll weevil. It will not do to wait until you need the arse nate. You cannot get it then. Now is the time to make arrangements to get it. The banks of this county are vitally interested in our people making a good cotton crop this year. There are four banks in Barrow county,v and it strikes us that upon them is going to rest the responsibility of financing the calcium arsenate situation. We understand that the Winder Na tional Bank has already bought two car loads of arsenate in order to take care of its customers. This is a step in the right direction. We would sug gest a conference of all the banks of the county on the subject, decide how much arsenate will he needed to take care of their customers and put in or ders at once for the amount needed. Eight or ten car loads will take care of 40,000 acres of cotton. If the boll weevil can be kept off the 40,000 acres and only the best lands are planted in Sutton from 15,000 to 18.000 bales of cotton ought to be made this year in the Winder and Statham territory where the four banks are located. Such a yield of cotton at present prices would give great impetus to our commercial activities. Now is the time when men of vision must show tueir good sense and plan for prosperity. Our farms must be come prosperous propositions before we can hope to again see a return of nor mal conditions. We hope the banks of the county will seriously consider thi4 question and get behind the calcium arsenate proposi tion. Let’s have a good cotton crop thisryear. No one can pay debts with out a cotton crop. Give the batiks the first liens on the crops of 1923; make them secure for the calcium arsenate .that they may furnish, and with a good cotton crop, many of the old debts will be paid. FARM CROPS FOR THE YEAR OF 1923 J. T. Pittman, County Agent The farmers of this section are pass ing through a critical period, you re alize this fact. Farmers in the cotton belt west of us went through a similar period and are getting back on their feet, some are in much better condition than they were before the boll weevil infestation. The farmers of Barrow county can do equally us well if not better than those farmers west of us. The first two or three years of boll weevil infestation brings about a demor alization. farmers are discouraged and handicapped with the expense of the farming operations. A discouraged man' will unusually relax his efforts, in other words, his energy his determi nation or will power lacks the punch that it once had. This only makes bad matters worse. Farmers and business men need to bring their best judgment into play npw. It is no time to get excited and jump from one thing to another or try to escape the job before you. Confi dence in our ability to make our busi ness go and the right co-operation with others in lighting the battles will get results. Definite, united, and concert ed action is the thing we need, but we must first come together on the sensi ble and practicable things to do. The farms must be self-sustaining, so we will need a diversified system of farming. Do not put all your eggs in one basket. But you will need some thing else besides something to eat on the farms. Your money crops are the next to consider, for this section I will say: Cotton, peanuts, tobacco, dairy products, poultry products, hogs, and of course you ay get some money from vegetables and fruits, etc. Bill what are you going to plant on your farm this year? Have you thought the matter over carefully worked out your plans, and come to an- decision? This is a very impor tant matter. MRS. M. J. PERRY IS SERIOUSLY ILL. Mrs. M. J. Perry, one of the promi nent citizens of Winder, is critically ill at her home in this city. She was tak en sick while on a visit to her (laughter, Mrs. E. S. Harris, in Bethlehem, and was brought home later. Her many friends in this section sin cerely hope that her life may yet be spared. CLEANXLL ON’ DEMOvSTATION AT CITY PHARMACY DRUG ( TORE A demonstration is being held at the City Pharmacy on the new discovered cleaning preparation—Clean-All and a number of people have attended these demonstrations and noted the manner in 1 which this preparation does it work. It is eh aimed by its demonstrators thatwill clean anything hut your consrfenee. and has a soothing effect on that. We tried out a can and find that it, loes its work well. Mr. and Mrs. S. F. Pirkle of Union Pojnt were visiting relatives in Win der first of the week. @k Wilder Wows. and THE BARROW TIMES Parts of His Ford Are Found In Fish Fond Du Lac, Wis. —Last March Aruim Schroder, a prom inent business man, lost his fliv ver, when the ice on Lake Winne bago sank beneath it Mr. Schro der thought that was the last he would ever see of the machine. Today, when Louis Holcomb, a city fireman, was cleaning a big pike that he had caught through the ice he discovered a bolt two inches long in the fish’s innards. He also found a radiator filler cap, which Schroder identified as belonging to his drowned Ford. GEORGIA LEADS IN MARINE RECRUITS Atlanta, Ga., January 12. —Georgia lead the entire South in the number of recruits furnished the United States Marine Corps during 1022. when 600 wart Georgians from all sections of the State were accepted for a three or four years enlistment by recruiting of ficer. 2000 youths were examined dur ing the year by the medical officer, but only 600 were able to pass the physical examination. That the Marines seem to be the selection of the ex-service men upon their reentry into the Feder al service was attested to by the major ity of those accepted being men with prior service in the army navy marines. 2500 young men were furnished infor mation by mail during the year, thus bringing the total Georgia applicants to 4500 the largest number in any year since 1017. While no special drives were conduct ed by the local office during the past year, the lure of travel and the oppor tunity to better the (“duration bytak ing advantage of the free courses of study as given the members of the Corps by the Marine Corps Institute seemed to attract the greatest interest of the applicants who applied for en listment. And a number of times it was necessary to start “waiting lists” in order to take care of the steady flow of applicants for the sfallest of the three branches of Uncle Sand’s fight ing men. MRS. BEARD AN i DIED JANUARY 13 Mrs. M. J. Beardan, aged 60 years, died January 16, in this city near the old ball park. She leaves a husband and four children —three girls and one boy. Mrs. Bearden was buried at Cedar Creek Monday, C. M. Ferguson & Cos. having charge of the burial rites. | This family has been in needy cir ' cumsfanees and when Mrs. Beardan died then' was not wherewith to give her a decent burial. Some of her f friends of Winder donated the shroud and amounts of money which made it it possible for the deceased to be given a decent burial. Mr. Beardan and children wish to thank those who contributed in money, and acts of kindness to them during their sickness and the death of their wife and mother. __________________________ BASKET BALL FRIDAY NIGHT. The Winder High Basket Ball team meets the Commerce High team in a double header Friday night at seven thirty o’clock on the court in the new Masonic building. Winder's first team will play the first team of Commerce and Winder’s second team will play | Commerce’s second team. These are to be great games and we hope to have a large attendance at these games. The following Friday night we play Hartwell in a double header on the lo- i cal court. This will doubtless be one of the hardest games of the season. Our team needs the presence and the encouragement in every game of nil the citizens of the town and county. If you have never seen a game played, come for you can soon catch the trend i ami understand it thoroughly. Remember Friday night and Friday j night week. BASKET BALL GAMES. Winder has been playing winning basket hall during the past week. In the game with Jefferson which was played at Jefferson, Winder won by 18 to 11. In the game with Maysville played here Winder won by a score of 0." to 10. At Lawrenceville Winder cleaned up that team by a score 18 to 0. In the game against Gainesville which was nlayed here Winder won by a score of 20 to 15. The girls lost the game with Bogart by a score of 2 to 14. Mr. George Garner and fatnily have moved to the Russ> 11 residence on Woodlawn avenue. * • • Mr and Mr* Pat Rogers have moved into the residence vacated by Mr. and Mrs. George Garner on Midland Ave. Winder, Barrow County, Georgia, Thursday, January 18, 1923. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE WEDNESDAY NIGHT Woodruff Hardware Store Burned.— J. C. Kay & Cos. Badly Damaged. WEDNESDAY night about 3 o’clock the store of Woodruff Hardware to. on Athens street was discovered on fire. On account of the late hour Uie nre had maue sucli headway betore uis covered mat me entire stock of Wood run. iiaruwaie Cos. and the building which belonged to Smitn A Larimers were totally destroyed. The adjoining building owned by Mr. Sam Smith and which was occupied by Kay A Garner, was badly damaged together with the stock of goods of the latter by the wail or the larger building tailing over on it. w oodruff Hardware (Jo. carried about $17,000 insurance on their slock of goods which amounted to about $24,000. | The buiiumg was partially insured. Ray A Garner had uo insurance on their stock, while Mr. Sam Smith ear ned some insurance on his building. The origin of the fire is not known. It was discovered by Dr. W. L. Math ews about 3:00 o'clock in the morning as he was returning trom a profession al call. He immediately gave the alarm, but the lire had gained such headway that it could not he controlled. We sympamize sincerely with the losers. HOME JUDGE SAYS SUIIEIY iiAlVlßLllMi MUSI BE STUFFED. JUDGE WRIGHT ANNOUNCES WAR ON SOCIETY SPEEDERS BRIDGE WHIST AND POKER PLAYERS. Delivering his usual anti-whiskey, an ti-gambling and anti-speeding charge to the grand jury in Floyd Superior court Monday morning, Judge Moses Wright, of Rome, included some sensa tional statements in regard to the course he intends to pursue hereafter in the punishment of persons convicted in his court on any of these three cljirges. Judge Wright declared that he will 'not encourage the unfairness and injus tice of punishing offenders who are poor or of no influence by putting pen alties on negro crap shooters while rich or influential gamblers are not arrest ed. Bridge-whist players, poker play ers of high standing who play cards with a “ceiling limit,” and auto own ers who violate the speed laws, he said are the ones he is after. He gave notice that any person con victed in his court of exceeding the speed laws will get a jail or chaingang sentence instead of a fine and stated that notice of this having now been given the speeders can govern them selves accordingly. While insisting that makers of corn whiskey and bootleggers who sell it shall be arrested and punished. Judge Wright said that above these he is most anxious to punish the wealthy and influential who get red whiskey or imported Scotch by way of Florida, de livered here in expensive automobiles, and said he is quite sure there are such in Rome if the officers will be vigilant in discovering them. lie told the grand jury if they want evidence they must summon the “red noses" of fashionable society and some ! of them may tell the truth and so lead j to tin 1 conviction of the drinkers of im- j ported hlskies. ANTICS OF PLANET VISIBLE IN WINDER Crowds of star-gazing citizens of Winder w. re seen on the streets of the city last Saturday craning their necks to catch a glimpse of the brilliant phi net Venus which was clearly visible in the clear southern sky for some hours after daybreak. The clear visibility of the planet was largely due to the un usually fair weather with which Win der was favored Saturday. Not a cloud appeared on the sky to mar the brilliance of the spectacle. According to the United States Nav al conservatory, Verms is now hut two weeks past its maximum brilliancy and far excels all stars and planets in brightness. The planet, according to press dispatches, was observable in all parts of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains, with tin* exception of Maine and the greater part of New Hampshire and Vermont. NEED BOOKS AND CLOTHES, There are several children in the city that cannot go to school on account of a lack of books and clothes. Anyone who has any second hand hooks or sec ond hand clothes and want to do a charitable deed, let the Winder News know it. Mr. H. J. Parham of Athens was in the city Tuesday. SOME BAD MAN’S PARADISE-THIS Mer Rouge, La., —State Sena tor Howard Warren, conferee of Attorney General Coco in the ku klux klan hearing, returned Mon day from his home in Houston, where lie spent the week-end. “I heard a story the people around my home were telling,” he said. “Folks over there tell of a man who came riding into Houston the other day astride of a ferocious lion. Under each arm he had a wildcat and in one hand he had a rattlesnake, that lie used for a whip. ‘‘This fellow they say, drove up to a drug store, hitched his lioa out in front and called for a soft drink. Wat’U you have?” the sola clerk asked: “ ‘Give me a drink of carbolic acid, colored with iodine.’ “The clerk gave him what he wanted and this fellow ordered some moth balls to take the tasti out of his mouth. “Finally someone got up enough courage to ask him who he was. “ T come from Morehouse par ish.’ the stranger replied, “hut it got too wild for me over there, and now I’m on my way to the oil fields." HIGH SCHOOL MEET IN WINDERIN APRIL The high schools of the 9th District will meet in Winder this year and con test for places in both literary and atli >letic events. These meets are always the source of inspiration and rivalry I that is tine and wholesome. The Winder High school and the cit izens in general are looking forward (to this gathering of the host of repre ' sentatives of the various schools with eagerness and pleasure. Six years ago jour school and town entertained the Imeet to the credit of her school and j citizens, and the privilege and oppor tunity of doing so again is joyously an ticipated. No meeting ever comes to a community that affords more excellent means of advertising a town than these meets. There is no doubt in the mind of any one but that Winder will measure up to t‘very hope and expectation of all in j teres ted in the schools of our district. The people know Winder, her hospital ity in entertaining and providing for the welfare of her guests, and there jvvill he on this occasion. All plans for the contests will he for mulated within a few days by the ex ecutive committee which will meet in ; Gainesville. The officers of the association are as follows: Supt.. J. A. Mershan, Gaines ville. rresident: Supt. Edmund Wroe, Toceon. V-President; Supt. J. IV Cash. Winder. Secretary and Treasurer: Supt. C. (). Stubbs. Lawrenceville, and Supt. j J. F. Muldrow, Commerce, executive, committeemen. BEECH CREEK I OOF I INSTALL OFFICERS Beech Creek Dodge, No. 121. I. O. F. met Saturday night, January 16, and enjoyed a fine chicken stew after which met at the hull and the follow ing officers were installed for 1026. M. L. Williamson, Noble Grand. K. C. Pentecost, Vice Grand ,1. H. M.unless secretary. ,1. A. Spence, Treasurer W. T. Brookshire. Warden. J. TANARUS,. McEver. Conductor J 1,. Pentecost. Inside Guardian } W. Wilburn, Outside Guardian. It 1, Mef'ane. Chaplain. J I. Lyle, R. S. N. G. E. J Pentecost, L. S. N. G. E. M. Dunahon, B. S. V G. G. J. W. Couch, L. S. V. G. Jim Foster. R S. S. J. It Finch. L. S. S. Let all members attend, and let us make this the banner year for old Beech Creek Lodge. II 11. MAGXESS, Sec. MRS. MARY E. CALLAHAN Mrs. Mary E. Callahan, of Winder. Ga passed away on Wednesday evening January 10th. at the home of her daughter. Mrs. W. B. Murden. at Rob ertson, Ga. . ~ Mrs. Callahan lived to a ripe old age. She was a consecrated Christian having joined the church in early life. Shi' came to Winder from Greene county about twenty-three years ago, and has many friends here and other sections of the state who will be griev ed to know of her death. Her husband preceded her to the grave about forty years ago. She Is survived h.v two .cons, J. E. Callahan of Winder, and .T. H. Callahan of Crnw fordville. Three daughters, Mrs. W. E. O'Neal, of Union Point; Mrs. W. K Murden of Robinson and Mrs. P. IV Jennings of Winder. Eleven grand children and three great grand children and three brothers I. Watson, of Ope lika. Ala . A. 1 W 'fson of Social Cir cle. and Col Young Watson, of Quin cey, Fla. Hr. N. A. Shnrpton spent Tuesday in Atlanta BARROW COUNTY FORMS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AT A LUNCHEON THURSDAY Mr. C. M. Ferguson Was Elected President; Mr. G. W. Woodruff and Mr. R. L. Rogers Were Elected Vice Presidents; Mr. W. A. Bradley Was Elected Secretary ONE DAY A WEEK TO PAY ALL TAXES ROGER BAB,SON SAYS WE PAY ONE-SIXTH OF TOTAL INCOME TO THE GOVERNMENT llow much of your productive time during lir22 was used in paying taxes? Roger Babson, tin 1 statistician, an swered the question recently in a state ment that shows the equivalent of one day eacii week spent to meet the direct and indirect taxes that nation, state, county and city levy. i “One hour and twenty minutes of each business day—or one entire day j a week—is demanded of every able bodied person in the United States to I maintain government,”’ says Mr. Bab son. “That is the lesson of a recent analysis showing that one-sixth of our national income goes for taxes, federal state and local. The amount divides al most equally between national taxation and th; expenditure for state and local purposes. The question is not, there fore, one of any particular party pol itics. “This habit of getting the govern ment to do something about it” is one of the most costly and. wasteful ideas that we Americans have developed. It lias grown upon us since the war. We be came accustomed to tilings then that would not have had consideration be fore. Now we are exceeded by one na tion only. Great Britain, in our cost of being governed. There the ‘unem ployment doles’ and other legislation put forward by a stronger labor vote have exceeded anything attempted here as yet. But this tendency must he checked abruptly if American business is to survive in the competition which it faces over,the next five or ten years. All Must Pay a Part. “Because any one individual does not see the tax collector lie thinks per haps that lie does not pay, but he does pay just the same. Taxation repre sents an item of overhead in every thing that any one huys. consumes or uses in process of working up to a finished product. The tax burden is inevitable. There are a certain number lof potential labor hours represented in | the individuals making up any oom ! inanity. The number of these labor I hours w hich it takes to protect his Iproperty, make safe Ills home and cd jueate his children are just so much tak en away from the possibility of estab lishing that surplus of wealth upon which the community thrives. “The truth of this situation was per fectly clear in the old days when ev ery man in the community was called on for live days’ work on the roads a year in lieu of taxes and when the ‘nightwatch’ was maintained by period ic service of the townsmen. How would you like to go out and patrol a police bent one day each week, year in and year out? Or how would you like to take your turn as a member of the fire department one day in every six? This would be our lot if we paid our taxes in the old way today. Or, applying it to road work—nearly sixty days’ ser vice on the roads would be required instead of five. . . , “What wonder living costs are high when this toll comes out ahead of the productive capacity for benefit of the community. The actual taxation does not tell tiie whole story. Costs of col lection, particularly under our system of Federal taxation, some tines treble government. Any move to restore ex cess profit taxes or special classified levies on trade is hound to make the situation worse. “We should he able to make the peo ple understand that fads and frills all cost money. It is all right to he pro gressive in our ideas hut it is not al ways true that “progressive’ legislation means an improvement over the old way of tending to our business at home. The country was swept by the cry for ‘more business in government’ and ‘less government in business.’ We have not as yet succeeded in edging government very far toward the door of the busi ness office. “A step toward remedying the con dition of burdensome taxation which now hampers business would lie to let everybody know when they are paying taxes and how much.” General business as reflected in tlie index of the Babson chart shows ac tivity at 1 per cent below normal —an improvement of 1 per cent over last week. CANNOT DO WITHOUT NEWS. Washington. D. Jan. 10. 1023. Editor Winder News: Em losed find money order for $l5O for niv subscription to the News. I like your paper very much and cannot afford to he without it. Wishing you much success for 1023. Yours trnlv. E. B. BETTS. [splendid speeches made and FINE SPIRIT OF ( OOPER\TIOIV AND ENTHUSIASM WAS SHOWN THROUGHOUT THE MEETING. NEARLY one hundred citizens of Win der and Harrow county met at a luncheon at the Moore Hotel last Thursday night and organized the Bar row Chamber of Commerce which was voted as the official name of the organ ization. In the absence of Mr. R. L. Rogers, Mr. Claud Mayne presided over the meeting. The following permanent of ficers were elected: C. M. Ferguson, president; G. W. Woodruff, and R. L. Rogers, vice presidents; W. A. Bradley, secretary; Mr. L. H. Radford, treasurer, Messrs. W. M. Holsenbeek, L. S. Rad ford and .1. M. Tumlin were appointed a committee to draft a constitution and by-laws. Splendid speeches were made by many who were present and a fine spirit of co-operation and enthusiasm was shown throughout the meeting. A luncheon will be served by the mem bership on each second Thursday night in each month. The purpose of the organization is to got squarely behind tb<> interests of Winder and Barrow county and take a leading part in bringing prosperity to the city and county. BRUNELLE SMITH’S HOME DESTROYED BRUNELLE SMITH’S splendid borne a few miles south of Winder, burn ed last Monday night. It cost about SII,OOO to build this house about three years ago. Mr. Smith had $7,000 insurance on the house and SI6OO on his furniture. No one was at home at the time of the fire. Mr. Smith being in Atlanta and Mrs. Smith was spend ing the night at a neighbors. The or igin of the fire is unknown. DRIVER AND MULE, WIN IN ALABAMA William W. Brandon, a former car ■ driver hack in the clays when street J cars were pulled by mules, was inaug ■ mated governor of Alabama Monday, 1 January 15th. An old mule, named .Kate, 47 years old, formerly driven by j the governor when he was in the street car driving business, was placed at the* head of the parade that was pulled off in honor of the chief executive. It is said that (luring the parade Kate showed plenty of pep. R. S. Sammon Dies In Lawrenceville. Mr. It. S. Sammons, age about 26 years, one of the prominent citizens of Ijiwrenceville, died tit his home in that place last Thursday morning. The cause of his death was influenza and jaundice. He had been sick for about two weeks. His father died about ten days before from pneumonia. Mr. Sammons was a brother to Mr. T. J. Hammons, of Dacula, a former citizen of Winder. Ford Station Moved. We have moved out Ford station from our old location on Candler street to the Bush Building on Broad street. We cordially elcorne our customers and the public to our place. Ford cars tractors, trucks and parts of all kinds. Come to see us. WINDER MOTOR & TRACTOR CO. It. L. Rogers, Banager .GOOD COLORED WOMAN DEAD.. Aunt Lizzie Hood, a respected color ed woman, about 60 years old, died at her home in Glennwood during Christ mas week. Aunt Lizzie was a good colored woman, and had ixen washing and laundering for the white folks for many, many years. She had the confi dence of all who knew’ her both white and colored. She was very active in church and fraternal organizations with her race. HONOR ROLL The following have kindly paid their subscriptions to the News since our last issue. We thank them sincerely: W. E. Moore, Ernest Moon, E. (I. Mize, 11. G. Hill, G. P. Hill, G. L. Hol loway. Robf. E. Horton, Mrs. G. W. Hammond, T. O. Pendergrass, Mrs. Fannie Couch. J. W. 15. Maughon, B. T. Thomas. G. W. Fuller, J. P. Moore, Jr., Mrs. 11. 8. Worsham, John Hill, John W. Kilgore, Mrs R. L. Callahan, H. C. Tuck. Muller McElroy, R. M Hill, Z. I>. Lancaster, E B, Betts, Mrs. M. A. Millsaps, IV. A. Harper. Mr. J. 11. Wheeler spent Tuesday in Atlanta. No. 39