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Published Every Thursday Evening
—by—
R. 0. ROSS & SONS.
Entered at the Postoffice at Winder, Oa.
as Second Class Mail Matter.
R. 0. ROSS Editor
BEN A. JUHAN - - Associate Editor
Thursday, Jan. 15, 1914.
Obituary notices, resolutions and tributes of re'
apeet. cards of thanks, and noticas of entertain
soents where admission fee ia charged, will be
pulluhed at one-half cant par word. Cash must
accompany tha article.
Well, nnyway, we were right
when we said Winder liked the
movies—over one thousand people
saw the hills at one theatre Friday
and Saturday nights.
Daisy Opio Grace, despite the
dying threat of Eugene Grace to re
turn in spirit and haunt her for
•hooting him, according to news
paper reports, is calm and serene.
She says she is not afraid of dead
ones.
The Gainesville Midland has fin
ished broadening its guage from
Bellmont to Winder, and the work
is being extended to Monroe. This
gives Winder three railroads —the
Seaboard, the Gainesville Midland
and —the di mmyline.
Cole L. Please, the South’s black
est and dirtiest governor, in his an
nual message to the South Carolina
legislature, roasts everything from
the I nited States t. smoking in
public places. He spoke one para
ble —that the people of Smith Car
olina needed more money for edu
cation. When one thinks of the
four-flushing deumgouge who oc
cupies the executive chair he can
see the wisdom of an education.
The three JefTe rson county ne
groes who were rushed to Atlanta
to prevent lynching, were tried and
convicted this week and sentenced
to hang February Gth That these
brutes are to he legally executed and
not lynched is due to a statute,
passed in 1911, which makes it
mandatory upon the judge in the
jurisdiction of the crime to change
VI nue where mob violence is threat
ened. This incident should estab
lish the wisdom of the statute.
Wijider Industries.
I mentioned in th e i paper last
lvp ‘‘k the (’hero-Cola Company
nag opened up their plant in the
Opera House block. Mr. J. Si
K.‘es, president of the company
mid Mr. R. 0. Emery, a prom
in>nt official in the company,
both of Athene, are n the city
this week going over the plant
with Manager L.A. Huff, who lias
become/ a citizen of Winder.
Th s makes two strong concern
o?* this class for "Winder. Mr.
A. 11. O ileal, who has been in
the manufacturing/ business of
soft drinks for a number of year ,
having also established a spiral id
business in this line throughout
tlii s section.
When you stop to eons der.
Winder is smicv manufacturing
point anyway.
W t . have a large Cotton Mill,
a large O 1 Mill and Fertilizer
manufactory, one of the larg
est Founderiesi and Machine
shops n Northeast Georgia, and
one of the largest- Shirt ami Over
all factories in tip* South, aiid a
number of other small manufac
torit s.
And, by the way, ’Winder is the
be t town in Northeast Geor
gia. If you are not a booster,
get the habit.
In auother column appears an article from Mr. C. M.
Thompson, to which, if you have not read it, we direct your
perusal before going further here.
The city’s business men and citizens need no defence
at our hands from just criticism, nor does idle gossip bear
such weight as that it would cause us to rush forward to res
cue Winder's fair name from pernicious assaults by jealous
partisans. if |
But for his specifications, and by intimation, charging
this city and her citizens with the things he complains of, we
would pass it by as one of “Tyrant’s” dreams, and refrain
a denial.
Conditions of which he writes may have once existed,
he is a broad student and close observer; but they have not
prevailed here since the New* came into being. The day
when men can live to themselves alone or cities progress and
prosper to the exclusion of the rural section has passed.
The time when the so-called best citizen could look down
upon every effort for a public movement as belonging to only
the common people is NOT today. Standing highest and
esteemed most is the man who joins with his fellows in push
ing forward to final completion every movement for the bet
terment of his city and his section.
There are no broader and more liberal men engaged in
barter and sale in the state than those who compose commerc
ial Winder, and no ‘‘secret business conclaves” exist here; no
forbidding wall surrounds us as a town.
There is but one business men’s organization here, so
far as we know, and that is the Board of Trade. It lias for
its purpose the promotion of such enterprises as would bene
fit this city and this section, and the doors are open to all
who will join us. We need the cooperation of “The Tyrant”
and all other good men, and they are not only invited but
urged to present themselves for membership. Your presence
and advice will be appreciated.
Today the most progressive cities are made so by the
concerted efforts of the many. Geographical location, natur
al resources and attractiveness of climate does not always
prove the consistence of a town. The welfare of the world
has been contributed to by cities having none of these, while
other spots with all have, tin u the centuries, remained noth
ing more than spots. It takes men to make a city. Men
with red blood in their veins and unselfishness in their
hearts. And in Winder awaits a welcome for the men of
“brain and brawn’’ Mr. Thompson speaks about, who, he
says, “will gladly step in”.
We do not have to advertise for or import men of worth,
we have only to discover them in our fellows —they are here,
in Winder, and there are hundreds more in that “10-mile ra
dius”. We believe it, and have further proof from Lum.
Ihe business of Winder citizens, where it concerns the
public, is conducted without fear under its gaze; their delib
erations touching the welfare of the community are held in
open forum, and their arms are wide-extended to, and their
hearts pulsate warmly for, their rural neighbors, and their
hospitable homes always ring with welcome, even if some of
their Dutch suppers are exclusive.
God made the mountains, streams, forests and quarries,
and God in man cut thru the hills, harnessed the streams,
and from the quarries made the world a place fit to live in.
Sun-kissed and cloud-crowned man built houses, made
clothes, developed art, and working out the problems of edu
cation and progress, raised himself from the level of the beasts
of the field.
The success of men and communities does not depend on
favorable environment alone. Material assets receive their
true value from the manhood making them. This manhood
is not confined to the city of Winder, nor is she more blest
with wealth than the section around her. All along the high
ways entering here are the broad acres and comfortable homes,
some pretentious, of planters who are among Georgia’s best
citizens. Many of them ride into the city to do their bank
ing and other business in cars as costly as those C. M. refers
to, and no banquet board was ever spread with more delicious
or wholesome food than the tables of those rural homes afford.
Winder needs these men —needs them where they are
needs them here—everywhere—and she appreciates them,
admires them, honors them as men of worth in capacity, not
in terms of the counting-room alone, and an intimation to the
contrary from any man exhibits a lack of that understanding
Mr. Thompson seems to covet, and is a violence to the broth
erly love of which he boasts.
Go on writing history, Lum, but be sure of facts. A town
without a rural section to diaw from is in the middle of a bad
fix, and a rural section without the town is in the same boat.
Remember the good things we have done, and for good
ness sake don't intimate that we are worse than we are.
And he is full of prune*;
He has a nugty phonograph
And never changes tunes.
—Cinoinnaja Enquirer.
There is a man in our town
Our goat for sure he’s got;
lie dumps all sort of rubbish on
U s vacant corner lot.
Allentown Democrat.
There is a man in our town
Who helps mosquitoes breed;
He owns a world of vacant lots.
And never cuts a weed.
Houston Pofit.
There ia a man in our town
Who surely can’t be beat ;
He’s always telling us jnst haw
To rip or blooming •heat.
Tampa Ttibt*a.
Thsrs i* a, man in o*r town
Who ’g worse fcha* all the**,
He takes h.w carpet on the law*
And beats them in th brsssfi.
Columbus Enquirer-®**,
There is a man isx our town
He doesn’t seem toi labor;
He bbrrows everything he need*
Prom his nearest ne:ghbor.
Port Valley Leader.
There is a man in our town
Rich—yes, got the “'rocks,'”,
And vacant realty he won’t sell
Or build on—yet he knocks.
A Passing* Thought.
After you had lambasted anar
-qoui pu!u apip-qom Isipepos f jsiqo
law time and, time again, in sea
son and ou_t of season, and been
abused for so doing ( how would
you liked to be called to your
telephone and indirectly called
an anarchist. That’s what hap
pened to this pen-plusher the
other day. Gee, but its tough,
i s u’t it.. Some little editoral which
and dn’t meet the approbation of
a highly intelligent reader of
this paper, brought forth the de
nunciation. The same editoral
however brought forth congratula
tions from another highly intel
ligent lady reader. It also drew
profusive congratulat : on s from a
Why Not Winder Arouse Herself?
Mr. Editor;— l for one, stand
for ihe betterment of the rural sec
tion. A successful stroke along this
line will necessarily imjDve the
town or city which it surrounds.
Most towns and cities have a hab
it of living to themselves, so to
speak, without taking any thought
of what makes the 'own or who
supplies and supports it, keeping
the wheels of industry moving.
They get so egotistical and so far
forget the rural section that they
are seemingly cut off as if by a
Chinese wall.
They forget a brother, even a
natural brother, and let him delve
along as best he can in strife for a
living, and too often putting the
hard usury prices to him as if he
were a Gentile.
Why not Winder arouse herself,
shake off this secret conclaves of
business meetings to fix the price of
any commodity, and reach out four
or five miles at each cardinal point
of the compass and invite good bus
iness men to a seat with you, and
have passed such rules of business
and prices that would accommodate
the masses? Then we would have
hartnonv and a bigger business.
I am not courting a seat in your
secret conclaves, hut there are men
with brain and brawn who will
gladly step in, and most highly ap
preciate the honor.
When you reach out for good men
you throw out a life line and wield
an influence most powerful for
trade, for society and for education.
We of the rural section have our
■ arietta News.
That old scavenger, the buzzard,
protected for years by law and by
custom, is about to come into disre
pute. Recent investigations seem
t prove that he is the great means
of scattering hog colera over the
country. He preys on the carcaa
of dead hogs, then washes his filthy
plumage, feet and limbs in the wa
ters near by. Hogs drink therefrom
and get the germs that soon lay
them low. What disease the hog,
that other scavenger, passes on to
mankind who eat them, is not alto
gether certain. No doubt numerous
ailments come from the use of im
pure hog meat. There is, too, an
other scavenger, the gossip. He
whets his tongue on : dle report*,
turns them to suit his whims, aed
passes them on to his neighbor. He
harm* the community, the individ
ual, aid often the business interests
of friend®. But he has a much
worse office than this: He tainta
the mind of youth with discourtesy,
lack of confidence and false ideas of
what makes the real man and the
happiness of mankind, and thereby
does exceedingly more injury to so
ciety than to individuals. Unfor
tunately law lias little hold on him.
Our laws make it too hard to obtain
damage for false reports repeated
from mouth to mouth. “He who
steals my purse steals trash —but he
who filches my good name robs me
of that which enriches not him and
makes me poor indeed.
Undertakers are men who follow
the medical profession.
Who’ll be the early political bird
in Jackson county?
highly esteemed and a ihost in
telligent young fellow-townsmen.
Hut that is the way it is. You
are all right when you write to
suit some people. Y,ou are all
wrong when you happen to peu
an item that they don’t like. But
that is what an ed.tor mu.-tj ex
pect if he tries to comment on
current events. After all, it may
be best to fill our columns with
patent medicine ads or pot metal
and go out and fish the trot lines
and river baskets. —Ex.
farms and our stock. We need to
stay here, yet we want to mix and
mingle —but the wall.
We can cheaper start our little
fellows for an education at home.
Then if we had abetter understand
ing and a brotherly love that ought
to exist, we could finish the child’s
learning where they are better pre
pared to put on the finish.
If this wall was down and we
could feel equal in all respects, we
could adapt ourselves to many so
cial gatherings and be benefited.
Just let the people know that
those within a radius of ten miles
from Winder, good and deserving
men, will be elected to membership
in your secret conclaves of business,
and influence will begin to spread
and other good men further off will
fall in, and soon what a conclave
and what business! What a unit —
and what strength.
Give us a free ride in your costly
autos —just as free as we set you at
a fish-fry in the summer months.
Give us a supper as sumptuously
prepared as Woodruff Bros, did
their friends and employees. Then
come out. Our game will nut. fly
too high, our rabbits and squirrels
will be more easily obtained at no
cost to you for tresspassing, for we
would be brothers and we would
act the part in totem.
But keep up the wall, spread
your feasts at our doors and invite
us not, then abuse us not if we ob
ject when you wish to shoot our
birds.
C, M. Thompson.