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as Second Class Mail Matter.
R. O. ROSS Editor.
BEN A. JUHAN - - Associate Editor
Thursday, June 19, 1913.
01>ituary notices, resolutions and tributes of re
spect. cards of thanks, and notices of entertain
ments where admission fee is charged, will be
published at one-half cent per word. Cash must
accompany the article.
Love fortunately plays a large
part in June weddings.
A wise man lias his hand on tin
door knob when opportunity
knocks.
Sift the talk that you hear and
you will have one part wheat and
nine parts chaff.
Another radition exploded
The majority of sweet girl grad
uates nowadays can co ( >k accept
ably.
Postmaster-general Burleson in
sists that, there was a hig deficit
in Postmaster-general Ilichcock’s
record.
What makes a congress mad
and a nation glad is a President
who so far forgets precedent as
to “meddle”
In accord with tin* eternal fit
ness of tilings, a man with nar
row shoulders ought to wear a
broadcloth coat.
001. Roosevelt deserves a vote
of thanks from the nation for giv
ing it the biggest 6 cents worth
of news it ever had
The baseball friends of W. J.
Pledger, who are numerous in
this city, are longing for him to
show up in Winder.
Woman can put on enough
clothing in winter to keep her
Sviarra, and take off enough in
summer to keep her cool.
If people wore sensible shoes,
think of the chiropodists who
would he thrown out of work.
Wearers of foolish footgear have
their uses.
China’s reported predilection
fir A meriean whisky may he ex
plained on the ground that it is
human nature to copy first tin*
vices then the virtues, of those
we admire.
W. J. Bryan says: ‘‘The busi
ness man who does not advertise
is like the fellow who throws a
kiss to a girl in the dark. He
known wihat he is doing, but no
body else does.”
An effort to efface precedent
Encounters There
was a time when even that estab
lished institution the safe and
sane Fourth of July was ridicul
ed as a a mpossibility.
A universally satisfactory tar
iff and a thoroughly equitable
and practical banking and cur
rency system seem almost too
much to hope for from a single
session of Congress.
Nothing could better illustrate
the change, time brings than
a comparison of Kaiser Wilhelm
and Andrew' Carnegie. 1 The Kais
er, once an uncomprising peace
advocate, now' admits that there
might be conditions which would
cause him to “shoulder a gun . ”
If we were asked what is the greatest curse to the human
race, we would answer sin. If we were asked which sins
were the most damning we would answer boose and greed
for gain. But if we were asked what is the poor man’s curse
we would unhesitatingly answer the credit system.
By it the honest man is forced to pay the dishonest
man’s bills, clothe his children and feed his family. All
along the line, under this system, the man who pays must
make up the losses sustained by misplaced confidence, bad
judgment and reckless chances taken for the sake of gain.
The honest laborer must pay for the spike-tailed dress
suit of the smooth-tongued beat; the economical house-wife
must be content with a soup-bone because the system has
carried the juicy porterhouse beyond her means. The in
dustrious father must wear jeans because the oily-inouthed
swindlers have forced the prices of broadcloth beyond him.
If everything was put on a cash basis, dollars could be
turned over faster. Business could be carried along at less
expense and merchandise and foodstuffs could be sold at a
closer margin. Honest, hustling, industrious men could
grow up with the country, and raise a family while doing so.
The beat would have less opportunity to ply his trade,
and would be forced to work or steal outright. Then, may
be, a few of them would find rest in the chaingang, where
they belong.
My idea of Eden is a place where everybody is honest,
and love their neighbors, pay cash for what they buy, and
treat others as they would like to be treated.
A state or a community that will try the cash system,
we believe, cad soon have this Eden for their very own, for
tinder a cash system the chaff of the human race who abide
with us now will seek other fields where the system is in
vogue.
We don’t mean “Owe no man”. We are speaking of
the credit system in the every-day marts of trade.
It was rumored on the streets
of Winder this week that the At
lantic Coast, Line has purchased
tin* Gainesville Midland Make
shift, but the rumor could nor
be verified. We thought this too
good to be true. So long as the
agents of the Gainesville Midland
can secure the bulk of the local
business by using hard-luck stor
ies, these pauper millionaires will
hold on to the “good old thing.”
According to The Jackson Her
ald T. T. Cooper, the Farmer’s
Union of Jackson county is opposed
to the creation of Barrow county.
At this‘‘Regular Meeting” of the
Union we will wager that out of the
nineteen people present at the con
ference not one of lived inside the
territory affected nor voted for H.
N. Rainey for representative from
Jackson.
Editor Caldwell’s views have un
dergone a change as to the creation
of new’ counties since he was asking
other folks to make up a fund to
buy The Winder News Then one
of the arguments advanced to sec
ure backers was that Winder and
surrounding territory badly needed
anew county, and |that he was the
ideal newspaper pebble to do the
boosting.
The editor opponents to the cre
ation of Barrow county are now’
howling “leave it to the people,”
just as if that was not done when
Wood defeated Blasingame in Wal
ton and Rainey walked away with
Sidney Nix and J. E. J, Lord in
Jackson, the latter two gentemen
making “Shan’t cut the county”
the Drincipal plank for considera
tion.
Brooks county is out of debt and
has $20,000 in the treasury. Fine!
—Madison Madisonian.
The Dawson News says: “There’s
a reason. Brooks county farmers
sell meat and corn by car loads.
It’s no uncommon thing for a car
load of hams to be shipped by a
Brooks county farmer. The banks
in that county borrow money from
the farmers ”—Macon Telegraph.
It is easier to rest too much than
work too hard.
“Baby Saving” Campaigns.
What the American cities are
doing, and can do, toward pre
venting infant mortality and the
high death rate of children under
five years of age is the subjeet of
a bulletin issued by Children’s
bureau of the federal department
of labor. The bulletin deals
with the inspection of the milk
supply, milk stations, baby clin
ics, visiting nurses, instructions of
mothers, little mothers’s leagues,
destruction of flies.
In conclusion the bulletin advis
tile city health officials to estab
lish a continuous graphic state
ment of the births and deaths of
babies, kept by means of differ
ent colored pins to be placed day
by day on a city ward map, and
to thus keep imformed as to the
special points of danger ;and urge
prompt registration of births in
Order that the baby may be
brought under observation as
soon as possible.—Macon Tele
graph.
Joy Comes Without Price.
The real pleasures of life are
not to be bought. Amusement is
for sale, hut joy comes without
price aud without bargaining.
There are no figures set upon hap
piness; it springs up in the
pathway like a flower the seed of
which has been wafted from some
other world. The quiet, deep
joys of life, benison-like, fall
from heaven upon our hearts.
None can command them, none
can corner them. You may pur
chase assistance and interest but
affection and love come unsought
unsolicited, unbought. What
wealth have you greater, worth
more to you, than the terrier kind
ness, the symapthy the spirit of
self-giving, that goes out to you
from other lives? These assets
are not on our office ledgers of
life from which our final balance
are struck they are writ large.
—Exchange.
A Missouri lawyer, r in pleading a
wife’s divorce case, stated that her
husband “undertook to poison her
without just cause.”
Master of human destinies am I!
Fame, love and fortune on my footsteps wait.
Cities and fields I walk; I penetrate
Deserts and seas remote, and passing by
Hovel and mart and palace —soon or late
I knock unbidden once at every gate!
If sleeping, wake —if feasting, rise before
I turn away. It is the hour of fate,
And they who follow me reach every state,
Mortals desire, and conquer every foe
Save death; but those who doubt or hesitate
Condemned to failure, penury and woe,
Seek me in vain and uselessly implore.
I answer not, and I return no more!
John J. Ingalls
Treasury to Aid the Banks.
It will be recalled that after
the panic of 1907 cSngress passed
vv.hat is known as the Emergency
Currency Bill which runs to July
25th, 1914. This bill provides that
banks may deposit state, county
and municipal bonds as well as
Government bonds with the Treas
ury Department and secure Cur
rency thereof. Secretary of the
Treasury McAdoo has announced
for cash can call on the Treasury
Department and get an ample sup
ply of money whenever they need
it. This announcement is an as
surance to the banks that they
can lend all the money to the bus
iness men of f'ne community with
out fear of embarrassment. The
dent Wilson desires t.o have pass
ed at this season will be along
these lines.
• The Lobby Investigation.
The charge by President Wil
son that the “big interests’’“were
maintaining a powerful lobby in
Washington to defeat the tariff
bill or else to emasculate it so
that it would be a failure, has
produced splendid results. Ilis
charge has called attention of the
country to the manner in which
these big concrens do their
work. The sugar trust, the wool
en trust, the lumber trust, the
railroads and other big interest
are using their utmost endeavors
in opposing the tariff bill. This
lobbying is done through ex
senators and prominent excon
gressmen. Ex-senator Dick of
Ohio, Butler of North Carolina,
Dubois of Idaho and ex-congress
man Watson of Indiana and Lit
taur of New York have been
named as the most active of t
lobbyist. Whenever a senator fails
to be re-elected, if he is somethin?
less than a millionaire, he sett Les
down in Washington and becomes
a 10-byist.
Best in. the Uniom.
“During my connection with
the Farmres’ Union work I
been in every state in the union
with the possible exception of
Vermont, and in most of them
many times, and I give it as
my calm, carefully weighed judg
ment that Georgia is the hest.the
greatest and most promising
state on the North American
continent.” —Pres. Barrett, of
Farmers’ Union.
The Albany Herald says: “No
body w-ho know's anything what
ever about Georgia—nobody who
has traveled in all sections of
the state thereby enjoying op
portunities for studying the vast
ness and variety of Georgia’s re
sources—-will think of question
ing the. absolute accuracy of Mr.
ident Barrett’s enthusiastic state
ment.” 1
Whom the Lord k>veth he
chasteneth. He surely must love
Atlanta awfully.—Greuesboro He
ald-Journal. I J |
NEW COUNTIES BRING
TAX VALUE INCREASE
Eleven Million Added by Eleven
New Counties Authorized
In Nine Years.
1 _ -
Whatever objection may be raised
to the creation of new counties as a
general proposition, it is shown bv
the records of the comptroller gen
eral's office that the creation of each
new county in Georgia has been fol
fovved by a rapid increase in tax
values in the territory absorbed by
the new countv.
The new counties of Tift, Turner,
Grady, Jinkins and others are splen
did examples of this fact; in some
instances the tax values have more
than doubled within a period of five
years or less.
A conservative estimate is that the
eleven new counties created in Geor
gia in the last nine years have added
SI 1,0(90,000 to taxable values in
Georgia, which would not have been
added had there been no new coun
ty creation.
MINISTERS WORKING
FOR PRISON REFORM
A statewide movement has beenJ
p it under way to have all the min*
isters of Georgia set aside July 0 ns
prison reform Sunday, and from
the Christian point of of view. The
movement was originated in Atlanta
by a resolution passed hy the Evan
gelical Ministers’ association. Fol
lowiug that action, the Baptists,
Methodist and other denominational
conferences have endorsed the plan,
while Episcopal, Congregational,
Presbyterian, Lutheran and other
churches have agreed to participate.
Will Follow Old Line Policy.
Atlanta, Ga., June 19—It is an
nounced as a result of a trans
fer of its industrial business, the
Cherokee Life Insurance Compa
ny of Rome will increase its sur
plus to approximately $300,000.
This is the most important an
nouncement that has been made
in connection with the affairs .of
the company since Barry Wright
assumed its presidency, and 1 is
one that will be of interest in
insurance circles all over the
south.
The company will devote it
self in the future entirely to .old
line life insurance. This policy
took form w'hen the Cherokee en
tered into a contract to transfer
its industrial insurance to the
Am‘*rieari National Life of Gal
veston, Texas. The actual trans?/
f** r is now under way, the latter
company taking over with the
business the industrial agency
force of the firm.
Karl C. Brown, a merchant of
Stone Mountain, Ga., was killed
Monday while attempting to
hoard a moving train.
Six Phillipine scouts w'ere kill
ed in a skirmish, with Morns on
Island of Jolo.