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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
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ROBERT O. ROSS. Editor.
VOL. XXI. Thursday, February 25, 1915. No. 46.
WINDERS OPPORTUNITY.
It behooves every citizen of Win
der and surrounding territory to take
advantage of the chance we now
have of locating here a college. The
Disciples of Christ in Georgia are
figuring on locating a College some
where in the state which will mean
much to the community that gets it.
It means an increased population. It
means that we can give our hoys and
girls a College education at home.
It means In the near future the spent
ing of $30,000.00 to $.',0,000. in our
town. It will tend to give our city
and county a higher educational tone.
It means a school and college spirit
created among our children such as
we have never had. It means a
saving of hundreds of dollars to par
ents who are now sending their chil
dren off to college,
i It is up to us to back this enter
prise to a finish, and we ar proud to
wee that our citizens are falling in
line and contributing liberally. Win
der ought to give this enterprise
not less than $20,000. We hope to see
the committee behind this move push
it to a finish. You can count on The
News. We are with you.
* Since "Progressive Bill*' has land
ed on Ihe Trade Commission wo
would just like to know what Tom
l-Vlder said when he read the dis
3n tell.
Yes, Gertrude, Winder is a hustling
manufacturing city but the fact does
not give engineers a license to dis
turb the slumbering populace for a
radius of twenty miles by playing
with steam whistles all night long.
A young girl stenographer in At
lanta is suing for $50,000 damages,
alleging that her employer did seize
and force her to submit to being
kissed on the left hand. Why do
some men persist in STOOPING
so LOW.
The $135,000,000 cotton pool which
was formed last fall to finance the
movement of the south's enormous
cotton crop has gone out of business.
We respectfully ask that the Atlan
ta Journal publish the pictures of
these philanthropists that the grate
ful farmers may preserve thorn in
their homes.
The dispatches, classing the nom
inees for the Trade Commission,
places William J. Harris of Georgia
to* a Democrat. Hoke and Hardwick
kllxould object to this, for Billie is
"Georgia Progressive*’ and was at
Macon "progressing*' with the ‘‘pro
gressives’’ with all the power of his
office. While we do not know the
-exact definition of a Georgia ‘‘pro
gressive, *’ we are sure Billy fills the
bill, and we also know it is a long
way from a Georgia Progressive
fPamp to the battlefield of Simon
pure Democracy.
A Good Move.
Georgia retail merchants are great
ly interested in the endeavor now
being made to secure the passage
of a bill by Congress making it nec
essary for the mail order houses do
ing an interstate business to be reg
ulated or taxed by the federal gov
ernment, for the benefit of each
state.
One local merchant says there
are over one thousand mail order
houses in the United States and they
do thirty per cent of the entire bus
iness of the country without paying
taxes, except in the states where the
warehouses are located.
“This places the local merchant
at a disadvantage,” he said, “for he
not only pays for the privilege of
doing business in a community but
pays taxes upon his property ard
vestment and at the same time con
tributes to things which build up his
community.”
TRYING THE IMPOSSIBLE.
It is genuinely amusing to see
some editors, who have no political
convictions only to take the oppo
site side of every political question
that Hoke and Hardwick take, try
ing to decide what their position on
tlie ship-purchase bill is, with Hoke
on one side and Hardwick on the
other. With Hoke Smith a demo
crat, if Hardwick were to turn re
publican and Tom Felder join the
Bull Aloosers, some of the Slaton ed
itors would take to the woods. —
(Washington Reporter.
Well, Hoke can change his color
at a moment’s notice, and he may
eventualy become a democrat. Hard
wick is flirting with the republicans,
but Tom Felder will never become a
Hull Mooser. So we are safe. How
ever, it causes just a twinkle of
amusement, under the eyes of a Sla
ton editor to see the idol worshippers
splitting their pants in an effort to
ride Hoke and Hardwick.
BUILD NOW.
Winder needs more homes. Win
der needs a new’ school building, and
needs it badly. Harrow county must
erect a jail and residence for the
sheriff.
Build now.
The following from the Manufac
turer’s Journal reads as if it were
written especially for Winder and
Barrow county:
“There is a great advantage at the
present time in doing all work of
this kind, both by individuals and
by communities, for at present thou
sands of people are out of employ
ment, building material is lower than
it has been for years and it is there
fore. possible to do all the work of
this kind to better advantage and
at a lower cost than it has been for
mally years or is lisely to be when
ever prosperity returns to the coun
try.
“Every official in public life in the
south ought to take an active inter
est in investigating the feasibility of
taking up immediately all construc
tion work within the next year or
two, and who is financially able to
do it now, ought to do it now, for
his own as well as for the good
of others.
“Every man who hold® back work
that he could afford to have done at
present merely out of timidity or
unwillingness to go ahead is injur
ing the country. Every piece of
municipal or county work that is de
layed by reason of inactivity on the
part of municipal or county officials
is injuring the whole community.
“Cities, counties, states and the
national government can provide
money for work of this kind, as well
as many private individuals, and now
is the time when those who can do
such work ought to do it, and do it
now.
"Every day’s delay is a disadvan
tage to the country. Every piece
of work put under construction at
present is a help to the country.”
If Billy Sunday makes New York
think of something besides dollars
he will achieve a great success.
Wh n the evening shade is failin' at the closing of the day,
An* a feller rests from labor, smokin’ at his pipe of clay,
There’s nothing does him so much good, be fortune up or down,
As the little country paper from his Old Home Town.
It ain’t a thing of beauty and its print’s not always clean.
Hut it straightens out his temper when a feller’s feelin’ mean;
It takes the wrinkles off his face an’ brushes off the frown.
That little county paper from his Old Home Town,
It tells of all the parties and the balls of Pumpkin Row,
’Bout who spent Sunday with wl o's girl, and how the crop'll grow
And how it keeps a feller posted who’s up and who is down,
That little country paper from i is Old Home Town.
Now, 1 like to read the dailies and the story papers, too,
And at times the yaller novels and some other trash —don t you.
Hut when 1 want some other readin' that! brush away a frown,
1 want that little paper from my Old HomeT own.
—Denver Post.
The News From Home.
Plans being made by the members
of the Civic League indicate that this
year’s clean-up days will be the most
thorough in the history of this city.
The president, Mrs. W. H. Quar
terman, and other members of the
league declare that they expect the
greatest co-operation on the part of
the Winder public, and that a num
ber of new reasons will be advanc
ed why Winder should be “A City-
Beautiful.’*
While there has not been a lack
of enthusiasm in these clean-up days
in former years, yet this enthusi
asm has not been sustained each
succeeding year.
Many cities in the state possibly
have advanced much further along
the line of civic improvement than
Winder, and while it is very impor
tant that the grown-ups catch this
spirit, yet is is far more important
that the children should have it too.
This is one reason why an effort
should and will be made to impress
upon the young minds the necessity
of sweeping and cleaning the yards,
and streets, burning the trash and
rubbish that collect about the prem
ises, and keeping the play grounds
about the school buildings in a clean
condition.
The necessary precaution will be
taken In the burning of trash and
rubbish to prevent the destruciton
of property by fire.
I It is the intention of the league
members to put the city in fine
shape, on ‘these clean-up days and to
keep the good work up throughout
the year. This applies to the paint
ing of fences, removing lumber and
trash about the streets and tearing
down the unsightly poster advertise
ments that decorate many buildings
throughout the year and which so
greatly mars the beauty of our city.
The league members have been as
sured the co-operation of city coun
cil and health officers and there is
every reason to believe that the work
this year will be effective and last
ing.
“Clean-Up Days, March 19 and 20.
Let’s all join in and make an earn
est effort to make Winder a “Spot
less City.’*
COMMON SENSE.
Longfellow codld take a worthless
piece bf paper and write a poem on
it and make it worth $65,000 —that’s
genius. There are some men who
could write a few words on a piece
of paper and make it worth $8,000,-
000 —that is capital. The United
States can take an ounce and a
quarter of gold and make it worth
$20 —that’s money. A mechanic can
take material worth $5 and make it
into watch springs worth SI,OO0 —
thatls skill. There is a man in Chi
cago who can take a fifty cnet piece
of canvas, paint a picture on it, and
make it worth SI,OO0 —that’s art. A
Gtreek can take an article worth 75c
and sell it for $1. —that’s business.
(A woman could purchase a hat for
27c but prefers one worth $27 —
that’s foolishness. A ditch digger
handles several tons of earth for
$1.50 a day—that’s labor. The author
of this can write a check for $9,000-
000, but it wouldn’t be worth a dime
—that’s rough. There are people who
will tell you that other papers are as
good as this —that’s nerve. Tak
SI.OO and get a year's subscription
to The News —that’s common sense.
An Atlanta girl is suing railroads
for $50,000 damages because an of
ficer of the roads kissed her left
hand. At that rate it would bank
rupt us if we had thrown a kiss in
her direction.
Love Is.
“Love,” writes the editor of an
eastern paper,” is at first an illusion
and then a delusion.”
We can’t remember just who this
editor is nor in what paper the quo
tation appeared, but we’ll bet our
Sunday go-to-meeting boiled shirt
that he walks backwards- and that
instead of good red blood there
flows through his veins the sourest
of vinegar.
Probably somewhere back in hi®
purple, palpitating past there was
a girl who passed him by and mar
ried the other fellow and ever since
the carking canker of crabbedness
has been eating away and eating
away at that which once beat as his
heart.
Love a delusion.
By all the golden, sunny ringlets
on the brow" of Cupid, by all the
sweet lips that ever puckered into
a rosebud to receive the kiss of a
lover, we swear that love is no delu
sion.
Does a delusion make the world go
’rOund. Is the blue sky an illusion.
Is it an illusion when our cardiac
pumping-station goes all a-flutter at
the soft-whispered w-ords of the
sweetest girl God ever made.
Terse Comments of the Press.
As to Tommie Hardwick.
We don’t see why our friends
should think hard of the junior
Georgia Senator for his stand on the
ship-purchase bill. It is right in line
with all his record. True, he was
elected on a plea of sending some
one who “would stand by” the ad
ministration—but platforms are to
“get in” on; and Tommie has just
returned to hi® former owners. Don’t
you know he fought the parcels post.
Don’t you know he has always been
lined up w'ith the trusts and that the
shipping interests are fighting the
ship-purchase bill. Hence he lines
up that way. We could tell by the
very way Tommie’s pants troubled
him when he made his speech here
that he was a small potato. All
during his speech his pants needed
constant attention to keep them in
place.
So the junior senator’s friends
shouldn’t be disappointed in him, and
those who opposed him expected just
what has happened; therefore every
body should stop poking fingers at
Tommy. He’s living up to his record,
so let "Shoo-fly” alone.—Marietta
News.
If Hardwick is conscientiously op
posed to the ship purchase bill as he
claims he is, he should not have
eaueussed with the democrats and
then voted against the measure. If
he was consistent in the one he was
not in the other. In his campaign
he begged that he be sent to the
senate, as he was in thorough ac
cord with the president and his pol
icies, and was needed to give earnest
support to the administration s meas
ures. His present attitude belies
the statement. —Leader-Tribune.
In times like these when freight
charges on one shipload of cotton is
sufficient to pay for the ship, it docs
seem that the friend of the cotton
grower in the halls of national legisla
tion could find in his head and heart
reason enough to support the ship
purchase bill.
That Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, jun
ior senator from Georgia, does not do
so, is a disappointment to his friends,
a body blow to the democratic party
which he professes to love and serve,
a thrust at the administration of
President Wilson from a source little
expected and none deserved, and the
effect of his course is to oppress the
people and their every business inter
est for the benefit of the shipping
trust.
Mr. Hardwick’s defense of his
course may be thoroughly satisfactoij
to himself, but it does not seem to
satisfy his constituency, nor does it
tend to relieve the stagnation of bus
iness the country over, caused by
the lack of ships to carry our pro
ducts to the markets of the world.
Perhaps the future will reveal the
cause of Mr Hardwick's seemingly
inexplicable opposition to the ship
purchase bill. —Elberton Star.
Is it an illusion when we thrill ■ 1
every nerve if a tiny, soft, velvet 1
hand chances to linger, just for I
instant, in ours, as we look i Qto ' 1
pair of eyes whose limpid depth* I
make the profundity of the
shallow as a mud-puddle.
Is it an illusion when the ve
marrow in our spinal column t*
if we hear that “THE” girl has
date with another fellow.
* Is it an illusion when she
her face behind the lapel of our coat
shyly nods her little head and ar
swers “yes” when we ask her the
greatest question in the world. i s
IS it.
We should say not.
Love is the concentrated essence
of goodness, sprinkled upon the ten
der petals of a crystalized violet, it
comes sky-hooting down from the
high heavens on a mellow moonbeam
entwines its silken tendrils about
your fluttering heart until y our
breath comes in short, quick, ecstatic
gasps and your soul just seems to
float away on a billow of seafoam to
the Island of Rosebuds and Orange
blossoms.
Love an illusion.
It is not. And believe us, we knov
We’ve tried it often enough.
We have thought for some time
that w r e might just as well put up
the various offices to the highest
bidder, and let the men with the
largest rolls of “long green” secure
them. When it costs $25,000 to SIOO,-
000 for a candidate to run for gov
ernor of Georgia it indicates clearly
that there is something “rotten in
Denmark.” All down the line this
expense runs proportionately, until
it has the effect of deterring many
worthy, but poor men from asking
the suffrages of their fellow' citi
zens. The Madisonian believes that
this enormous cost of office is large
ly the result of our white primary,
and that the primary could easily he
abolished. The expenses of holding
two or three primaries in one year
must be borne by the candidates
themselves. We believe the primary
has served its day and generation
in Georgia, and that to maintain it
in future means a useless expense
upon the candidates themselves.—
Madisonian.
The girl who works—G*od bles3
her. She Is brave and active. She
is not too proud to earn her own
living or ashamed to be caught at
her daily task. She smiles at you
from behind counter or desk. It
is an honor to know this girl,—to
be worthey of her regard. Her
hands may be stained with dish
washing, sweeping, factory grease
or printing, but it is an honest help
ing hand. It stays misfortune from
homes; it is our shield which pro
tects many a furlorn little family
from the almshouse and the asylum.
—Jones County News.
The story Is told that a certain
woman was reading the matrimonial
columns of a paper and remarked
to her husband: “There's a strange
coincidence —a William Strange mar
ried a Martha Strange.” “Strange
incident,” remarked the husband,
“but I expect the news a little later
will be a little stranger.”—Ex.
We don’t mean anything by it, but
you know a few- decent burials are
a good thing for any town; especial
ly so. when you want some municipal
improvements.—Hartwell Sun.
(From the Cincinnati Enquirer)
One reason why man is superior to
woman is because a man always
knows w'here he got his headache.
(From The Chicago News.)
Some geniue might make a fortune
by inventing a campaign box of can
dy that costs but a quarter yet looks
like a dollar box.
When People Ask Us
what is good for nerves and lost weight,
we always recommend
Emutskin
containing iJ gvophosphuti
a food tonic and tissue builder.
Dr. J. T. Wages Drug Cos.