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R. 0. ROSS & SONS.
Entered at the Postoflfice at Winder, Oa.
as Second Class Mail Matter.
R. O. ROSS Editor.
BEN A. JUHAN - - Associate Editor
Thursday, July 31, 1913.
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“Lay on McDuff —
“Not dead but sleepeth. ”
Eventually, Major, eventually.
“Shall the dead live again?”
The scientist have been delving
into this question and have all
brought their learning to bear in
its solution. An easy answer to
it can be had by making inquiry
of the pall-bearers who officiated
in Jefferson last Thursday night.
At Least Be Fair.
Some of the papers in Georgia
hostile to Senator Hoke Smith
seem to take a delight in giv
ing prominence to a dispatch stat
ing that the Georgia junior sena
tor had called upon President
Wilson to urge him to stand by
lus negro appointment. This
too, after the news had gone out
that Senator Smith, together with
■other southern senators would
fight the confirmation of this ne
gro. We have never support
ed Iloke Smith, and may never
do so, but we believe in fair play.
We make hold to assert that not
one of the papers that handled
the news item believed for a
moment that it was founded on
fact —not even the Atlanta Geor
gian, the first to handle it.
But, you know, next year is
political year, and Senator Smith
is the biggest political problem
Georgia politicians have to deal
with at the “present writing,’’
and there be those who would a
foundation lay far a rotten cam
paign. Be fair, gentlemen, if
you can’t 1\ reasonable.
The philoshpher, F. P. Brown
flays a cheerful disposition will do
more for you than a pedigree run*
ping back to the Mayflower.
Properly managed the state ma
fitia is a good tiling and local
companies wisely officered and
conducted prove a blessing and
pride of a city, but when busi
ness is interfered with and no re
gard patfd to the welfare of the
community which succors them, it
is time to call a halt.
The Major And His Dummy.
The Major, thoroughly en
trenched behind his thin-skinned
dummy, through the Lawrence
ville News-Herald has some
rather uncomplimentary things
to say this week of Winder and
her people. Through his dum
my the ' Major talks of slush
funds, bribery, fixings. lif
then? had been no heavier stone
in the way of Barrow county thai
mis old moss-back of Gjwinnetl,
Barrow county would already be
on the map of Georgia. One
thing can be accepted as truth,
the man who never finds any
thing good in others, and is al
ways crying “stop thief,” “brib
ery’, “fixed’, etc., would be an
easy mark for . the “fixers”
should the people, in an unguard
ed moment, permit such an one
to slip into a place of prominence
Editor Flanigan in the Gwinnett Journal of yesterday
has the following to say of the Barrow county movement and
the bill's defeat in the Senate last Thursday, under the above
caption;
Of the 213 votes cast in the general assembly for and against
the creation of anew county at Winder, 161 voted for it and 52
ngainst it. Lacking five in the Senate, the bill was lost aud the
new county movement defeated.
The defeat of the new county, according to disinterested in
formation, is attributed to John Holder, Judge Russell and Gov
ernor McDaniel. Holder controlled three senate votes, Judge
Russell two and Governor McDaniel two, the other ten senators
voting against it being opposed to the creation of any new coun
ties at this term of ihe general assembly.
It is believed, also, that the new county would have been
created in spite of all opposition, had there not been so many new
county movements taking up so much time of the general assem
bly. Winder, therefore, was made the goat of the whole matter.
Those of us in Gwinnett county who have opposed the new
county movement do so for two reasons:
The first reason is that we dislike to have the county cut up.
carrying with it the possibility of losing a representative by and
by and the consequent loss of influence and prestige in the po
litical and economic life of the state.
The second reason for opposition, especially to Lawrenceville,
is that it would take business away from the town.
These are the reasons frankly and briefly stated.
Other reasons are put forth by different parties, but to our
mind they are not of sufficient importance to demand attention.
How different in tone, dignified in diction, and frankly
fair in truth as to the real reasons a few of the excellent citi
zens of Gwinnett, and especially Lawrenceville, have against
the movement, is the article from the pen of the Journal edi
tor to the flaring outbursts of brazen charges and insinuating
inuendo appearing in the other Lawrenceville paper.
The Journal has always been against cutting off any of
Gwinnett’s territory, for the reasons above stated, and has
unhesitatingly said so.
But the Journal is as much against the spirit of such
opposition and methods as have been shown by some who
have been permitted to direct Gwinnett’s fight to prevent the
creation of Barrow, we believe, as it is against the new
county.
The News refuses to believe that any outside influence
controls any member of the house of representatives or the
Georgia senate, and it would be just as reasonable to charge
that the fifty-two members who voted against it did not cast
their ballots iii conviction without fear or favor as it would be
to say that the one hundred and sixty-one representatives of
the people who voted for it were “bribed”, “fixed”, or had
any interest in the matter other than the good of the state,
the welfare and convenience of the affected territory at heart.
Such opposition as the Journal’s, frank, clean, honest
and above-board, is powerful, and though it hurts the cause,
is commendable. The other kind does its own cause most
damage, but is usually at the fore-front in the “shouting”.
Jim Flanigan edits his own paper, and is not a —“We
Killed a Bear” editor.
False and Ridiculoius.
Winder tried to buy her coun
ty. —LawTenceville News-Herald.
Were this statement made by
any other newspaper, it might
have a sting, aud would receive
the condemnation of the people
of this section who have carried
on a clean campaign fo r relief
from an almost intolerable con
diion, but coining from the
mouthpiece of Major W. E. Sim
mons, an cnfebled old relic of
the moss-baek age, it loses its
sting and will only serve to make
our cause more popular with the
good people of Gwinnett who
never share in common the opin
ions of the major and his dummy.
An Insult to the Georgia Senate.
One senator who had openly
declared time and again that he
was opposed to Barrow’ county
was called out of the senate
three times Thursday morning
and when the roll was called he
voted aye. The Winder boosters
“fixed” him.—The Lawrenceville
News-Herald.
The above quotation is an in
insult to the Georgia senate. The
doting old major is beside him
self. I
Often very grave mistakes are
made on tombstones.
We hare seen men sneer at futile
feminine fashions and then go into
a furnishing store and üße good gray
matter deciding upon the color of a
new pair of garters.
They say photography is useless in
portraying feminine fashions for the
reason, which men can readily believe,
that such figures as women would
like to have do not exist.
Now that goat meat is being sub
stituted for mutton, a bright remark
such as "you generally get the butch
er's goat when you ask for spring
lamb” is quite permissible.
A newly married man in New York
has been held up and robbed of his
money three times in three days. But
by the time he has been married a few
months he will be used to it.
The girlß in one senior class In a
high school In Ohio were graduated In
dresses that cost them only $1.90
apiece. And it is not recorded that
they knew lees in those dresses.
A rich woman in California bought
a whole township site to insure her
self privacy and quiet. This is one
way of getting rid of the noises of
civilization, but it is not apt to become
popular.
The oyster, says the government
pure food expert, has spread no more
disease than raw milk and drinking
water in many communities. But the
oyster has no particular interest in be
ing whitewashed.
Anew protest against the
extreme fashions. A Ohicago wo
an wearing a silk skirt was bit
! ten by a bull dog. She was not
bitten onthe arm, either. —Savan-
nah Press, f
trGfr-foraiK-'tfZii™-'
It is embarrassing to borrow money
from a deaf friend in a crowd.
New fork is to have stepless cars.
The much-maligned hobble skirt did
It
What will the government do with
all the microbes it washes off the cur
rency?
Still, “refined boxing" ts not likely
to become a popular parlor entertain
ment.
Despite the old adage, some people
have married at leisure and repented
In haste.
It is natural that general optimism
should Increase with the abundance of
cherry pie.
Let us quit railing at the motorcy
cle. It ranks among the utilities that
have come to stay.
Cautious owners of motor boats will
take along a pair of oars and keep
within sight of land.
Europe would be still more dis
quieted If it had two baseball pen
nants to worry about.
Will the government experts who
are to investigate the oyster beds be
classed as chambermaids?
Press dispatches say there Is a rev
olution in Venezuela, but fail to state
whether It Is yet or again.
Fourteen thousand books are turn
ed out in this couAtry a year, and only
six of them become best sellers.
At $1,500 for four pounds of Pomera
nian dog, the prevailing high prices for
cattle and hogs seem dirt cheap.
■Wisconsin has a law prohibiting
gossip. But is there a man in Wis
consin who can tell what gossip is?
A Cincinnati woman wants all her
sex to wear a badge reading: “I kiss
not.” The answer to that is: “I guess
not.”
New York is to have not only the
largest court house in the country,
but the largest church. It needs
both.
The older generation is unaffected
by the immodest fads which modern
society sanctions; but what of the
young?
The difference between your own
child and your neighbor’s is that your
child is a cherub and your neighbor’s
is a brat.
It is diverting to recall that motor
cycle races induce hysteria now
where summer schools induced it
a year or two ago.
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Possibly it would remove one source
of danger if the automobiles going in
the same direction were coupled to
gether in trains of ten.
The minister who says that great
wealth keeps away religion seems to
have hold of an idea that was being
talked of about 1,815 years ago.
An exchange wants all bonehead
plays in baseball tabulated by them
selves. The request cannot be com
plied with in all leagues in all cases.
Now it is discovered that the earth
wabbles. This will furnish anew and
effective excuse for thosje shaken by
this wabbling from the straight and
narrow path.
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Baptist Church, Savannah, Rev.
.John S. Wilder preached on “Scan
dal-Mongers.” It was a splendid
pulpit address. Monday morning
The Savannah News printed its
salient points. A life was saved,
says the Augusta Chronicle:
Mr. Wilder was servere in his ex
coriation of the “they say” band
which exists in every community.
He warned these gossips of the curse
that would he visited upon them as
a result of their tainting characters
and ruining and crushing souls by
the words of statement and insinua
tion. He hade the victims of the
tongue to put their hope and trust
in Him, “for He knows.”
Monday afternoon Mr. Wilder re
ceived a letter signed by “A Broken-
Hearted Widow Who Longs to Be at
Rest.” The writer declared that
scandal-mongers, without rhyme or
reason, had crushed her and driven
her to desperation. Finally she
had decided to end it all and to
“join her husband, children, father
and mother, who had gone before.”
Shamefully admitting that, as she
wrote, she had pen in one hand the
poison phial in the other, she said:
“But after I had read it (the ser
mon) through a second time I de
cided that you were right after all,
and that God wold in His own way
bring retribution to the scandal
monger, and that it was not for me
to take that which God can give.
Thus for the time being I have
been saved from the suicide’s
grave, and I want you to pray for
me, that God s sustaining grace
may be poured out upon me in
abundance, for I shall need it in
this neighborhood.”
‘‘ln the very act of the awful sin
of suicide, the poor woman’s eye
had caught the printed sermon.
Her hand was stayed. Her letter
is pitiful —but what a rebuke it is
to those of the scandal school!
“Rev. Dr. Milder, were all
other good works to come to naught;
were all the acts of his past and fu
ture life failures —and they have
not been and will not he, for he
must be a good and pure man of
God —has won for himself by this
one sermon a triumph in the
records in heaven/’
The man who went out to milk
and sat down on a rock in the shade
of a tree and waited for the cow to
back up, was a brother to the man
who kept a store and would not ad
vertise because he reasoned that the
purchasing public would back up to
his place of business when it wanted
anything in his line. —Alabamian-
Dispateh,
“Suffrotescent. ” An adjective
used in describing a male suffra
gette. From the Hindoo, fcjuffro,
means weak-minded, and teseent,
meaning very much. —Macon Tele
graph.
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