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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
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ROBERT O. ROSS. Editor.
ROBERT O. ROSS, JR . - Associate Editor.
VOL. XXII. Thursday, June 24, 1915 Nor 11.
THE GOVERNOR AND FRANK.
Leo M.. Frank has run the gamut
of the courts and tribunals of the
state and of the nation and his life
lias been saved.
Through every channel, every aw
nue provided by law and safeguard of
law, this man lias been taken by his
lawyers and the last one, jnsl under
the shadow of the gallows led him to
life, a life worse than death. If Frai k
is innoct nt he has the comfort ni
hope; if he is guilty he lives with a
cancer eating his heart, a lifetime ol
suffering hardly preferable to the
quick and merciful end on the gibbet
As to the pardoning power of the
governor under our constitution we
disapprove. Since the creation of the
prison commission, with power to in
vestigate appeals for clemency w
do not believe the governor should
have any alternative hut to follow
the recommendation of the pardoning
board. But the constitution of the
slat<* imposes a solemn duty upon the
governor and hinds him by oath. If
Governor Slaton In commuting Frank
served his conscience, bas r and upon
the evidence, he is to he commended
for his brave stand. If he served any
other motive, he is contemptible .
"Many of our people have been
deluded by an Issue that is false,"
says The Macon Telegraph. "It lias
Iw'en said that the jury system of
Georgia was on trial before the Gov
ernor of the State. This was an is
sue raised by those who would show
the State’s contempt for outside in
terference by banging the central fig
ure in the cause eelebre, willy nilly,
come hell or high water. This was
the real issue behind many of the
leaders who raised the cry that the
jury system of Georgia was on trial.
And this was an issue that had no
place in the consideration of the
rights of Leo M. Frank before the
Judgment bar of the people of this
State. Only the crime he was accus
ed of .the evidence tending to show
he did or did not do it. only the
bare record, the man and the ease
Itself might be looked upon In that
clear white light which is thrown on
such supplicants from the desk of
the chief executive of the state.
"John Marshall Slaton is the Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia. When
he takes his seat in the room at the
Capitol each morning, he becomes not
John Marshall Slaton, but the Gov
ernor of the State of Georgia. The
came law which created trial by
twelve men gave the power to the
Governor of the State of Georgia to
pass on their verdict and the sen
tence of tiie trial Judge in such cases
as may be brought before him. And
any case may be taken to him. Thus
when the Governor to some extent
nullifies the verdict and sentence of
the trial court tie only docs what our
own sacred law Intended in the cre
ation of bis office he should do if
deemed advisable and necessary by
him.
The people of the State of Geor
gia elected the man who finally rul
ed on this case. He was their choice
to do these things for them for a
certain number of years. The people
placed this discretion in his hands.
He is a Georgia institution just as
much as our Georgia jury was. lie
tias ruled after delving into the ease
He was In a better seat to judge tha
you are I There lies the crux, Geor
gian.
"Today there are ugly stories go
ing about as to what influenced the
Governor to commute Frank’s sen
ten.ce. One is that money had its
way. The Governor’s family is worth
millions beyond the need of any man.
Politics. Look about you and see
the immediate effect of his decision
You even hear talk of lynching—not
of Frank, but of Slaton.
"What then. What caused him to
commute. There is but one answef
left: because he found there was r.
The Winder News, Thursday Afternoon, June 24th, 1915.
reasonable doubt as to the guilt of 1
that man, a doubt in his mind, and
with the recognition of this doubt j
there was but one thing for him as (
an honest, feareins man, rememberfi g
his oath of office as lie took it look- :
ing toward the throne of his God, as
a man who must answer to his ow n
sofll and to the Last Great Tribunal
<>i that Day for all his acts, both
in and out of office, and that answer
was to commute this sentence; just
as if. had in* felt no doubt, he must
'me let him hang.
The last tribunal in Georgia has
ruled on the Frank case. It has
ruled one way. We are content. As
Georgians we needs must be. We
vvoub; have been either way he made
it. The same law which .set up the
jury set up, to,the Governor. The
responsibility is as heavy on. the for
mer as on the latter; infinitely more
so, in fact."
FINE CHAUTAUQUA PROGRAM
FOR EDUCATIONAL DAY.
The Chautauqua Educational com
mittee lias made arrangements for a
fine program on .Inly ■>„ Educational
Day. Superintendent M. L. Brittain,
of Atlanta, will address the County
Hoard of Education at 10 o’clock A.
M., the General public at II A. M.,
and the trustees of the various
schools of the county at 2 l\ M.
A personal Invitation is extended to
every trustee and teacher with the
members of the family to be pres
ent that day. The Chautauqua pro
gram for the afternoon and night is
i xi eptlonallv fine.
WE REFUSE TO BELIEVE IT.
The Hartwell Sun tries to put this
one over
“A few days ago a rather bashful
voting woman went into a store car
rying three chickens. She inquired
the price of chickens and at the same
time put them on the counter. The
clerk didn't know they were tied, and
asked if they would lay there*. She
hit her handkerchief and said: "No
sir; they are roosters.”
A Tilton pastor is going to preach
a sermon on thirteen ways to hell,
and someone asks if he has, ever
counted the roads leading to Atlanta.
Forbid Paralleling the State Road.
President Ogden Persons, of the
senate, intends to Introduce a bill to
prohibit the construction of any rail
road that may parallel the Western
and Atlantic. The bill amends the
law regulating the issuing of char
ters by the secretary of state.
GOOD CITIZENS AND CITIZENS
We can not help admiring the men
ami women who place the welfare of
the community * side by side with
their own. To our mind they are
good citizens, and the town or coun
try side is blesseed by their presence
We have such citizens many of the
—hereabouts, and you find them al
ways giving the local business man
the benefit of the doubt, the first op
portunity of making a sale If tht
local dealer has the article they want
at a fair price they prefer to buy
from him. knowing full well that in
We want the farmers to come to
the office and see us when they
come to town, and we have a twofold
object in extending this invitation.
We want to keep in touch with each
and every one of you and we want
you to tell us the news of your res
PAY US A VISIT.
IGNORE THE DEMAGOGUE;
APPEAL TO THE MAN.
Every informed thinking man sees
not alone the threatened dangers of
but the damage now being wrought
by the propaganda of radicalism in
this country. But so few are inform
ed.
The threaten* and danger is that the
uninformed, led by self-seeking, dis
honest demagogues, will be swept off
their feet by their specious argument
and, thus, the country will be swept
into soc ial chaos. The present dam
age is that of what we call "social
unrest” —strikes, destruction of
property, loss of wages, a spirit of
law defiance, and, worst of all, dis
trust and class-hatred. And as
thinking men, we admit both the
threatened danger and the present
damage. But what are we doing
about it.
There can be but one answer to
tlie foregoing question. Informed
thinking men must ma,ke it their bus
iness to teach the uninformed think
ing man that along the way the dem
agogues are trying to lead him lies
madness. The radical leaders are
speaking to him every day in lurid
page and with poising tongue; give
him cool reasoning and self-convinc
ing facts as antidotes. If the threat
ened dangers become facts in this
country, the blame will be upon the
employers of labor for neglecting
their duty to inform their workmen;
if the present damage is suffered to
continue, the blame will fall in th<?
same place.
FIRST COTTON BLOOM.
On -Monday, the 21, Mr. J. W. Huff,
who lives on route 21 from Winder,
sent to this office the first cotton
bloom we have seen this year. Mr.
Huff farms the land of Mr. J. M.
Sims and is among Barrow’s good
farmers.
On Tuesday morning, the 22, Mr.
M. It. Reed, who lives on route 1!>,
brought in two blooms, a red one
and a white one. Mr. Reed reports
a fine crop of cotton.
Tuesday at 12 oclock, Mr. L. H.
Rosier, Route 20, on ttie old Johnny
Hancock place brought us a bloom.
Lam is a fine young man and a good
farmer.
And at three o’clock P. M., J. W.
Bennett, of Oak Grove, sent in a
bloom. Then M. J. Griffeth, the Win
dor merchant-farmer, wobbled in and
announced that he had a field of
blooms right in the incorporate lim
its and invited us to follow him and
take a look.
This morning Mr. J. T. White of
Braselton, Rt. 2t>, brought a bloom
to this office. Numbers of others
called during the day to report
blooms, but the,cotton bloom editor
had resigned and the department luvd
been closed.
Lost.
In Winder on May 28th or 29th one
tan leather pocket book or purse,
two pockets' one deep, the other shal
low, with Bank of Statham printed
on side in gold letters, contained one
ten dollar bill and two or three
fives, about two dollars in change.
Finder will be liberally rewarded if
returned to this office.
buying from him they are enhancing
the welfare ot' themselves, the dealer,
and the whole community. They are
constant readers of the advertise
ments in the local paper, and because
of this practice they know where
best to find that which they seek
before they go out to buy. And then
there are some citizens who are not
of this class, who make a regular
practice of getting stung by sending
their cash to the foreign dealer who
values their money and not them.
They aw citizens, too, but not as
good as tlie GOOD citizens.
pective neighborhoods for publication
in the paper. Every one of you has
an item or two of which others want
to learn, and if each one of you hand
in the news when you come to town
you will all know everything of im
portance throughout the whole com
munity. Come and see us.
DO YOU KNOW THIS MAN?
Twenty-five years ago, when the
writer was a little boy out upon a
farm in Jackson county—a little bit
of a boy—the man in question was
our next door neighbor. He learned to
love him for his rugged honesty,
plain-spoken sincerity and big-heart
ed liberality.
He was in middle life at that time
and all of the boys felt at perfect
liberty to ask him to make our zoo
zoos, arrange our fluttermills and
carve for us pine-bark wagon wheels.
We never knew that he was sacri
ficing his valuable time in an effort
to instill into our hearts a high re
gard for truth, a reverence for Al
mighty God and a tender sympathy
for those in distress.
They call him “Uncle” now* and
his hair is as white as snow, his
shoulders are stooped and he walks
with a hickory stick cut with his
own hands from the little farm where
he has spent the most of his days.
He is not an educated man. He
is not what the world calls promi
nent, for nearly all of his treasures
have been laid up where times can
not break in and steal.
He is just an unassuming tiller of
the soil with an unbounded faith in
his God and enmity toward no man.
He is one of those quiet pillars of
the church not given to argument,
but who kef*ps the faith.
He had not been out of Jackson
county since the Civil war until he
brought his home with him and came
into Barrow.
He came to hear Dr. Belk preach
Sunday morning and remained over
for the evening services. There was
no twisting of necks nor handshak
ing when he entered the church upon
each occasion, but he was permitted
to quietly select a seat in the con
gregation.
The writer sought him out to
shake his hand and ask him how he
enjoyed the services.
“Fine, fine. You are having a
grand and glorious meeting and the
music is the best 1 ever heard,” he
said. Then the* old-time merry twin
kle came into his eye.
“Do you know I believe I an*
reaching my second childhood,” he
continued. I cannot carry the thread
of the preacher’s sermon in my mind
as 1 used to do. For instance, the
quotation. ‘He notes the sparrow’s
fall’ kept flashing through my mind
A LAND TITLE LAW
There is, probably, no legislation
pospective to the General As
sembly when it convenes this week,
of more import to all the people of
the State than the laud title law
which Mr. Barfield, of Bibb county,
will introduce and press for passage.
Any one who has bought or sold
farm lands in Georgia, or who has had
general transactions in real estate,
can amply testify to the need of si me
sort of State title stablizer and stand
ardization.
While the uncertainty as to title
on the part of a prospective buyer
and borrower is no small feature, be
ing alone worthy of a change for the
elimination of that one factor, the ex
pense that even the humblest pur
chaser is put to in almost any tran
saction he may make must run into
enormous figures each year. In fact
it has mounted to such proportions
that there are firms enjoying rich in
comes doing nothing but abstracting
titles.
Briefly, it is planned under the bill
Mr. Barfield will introduce to make
each title good in the original and
have it registered in its county for all
time with the ordinary or some simi
lar official. Thus once a title is read
clear and established the owner may
file with the official designated the
registry of the title, and there it will
be. Any time he wishes to borrow
money, or a purchaser comes along,
it will not be necessary to hire a ti
tle guaranty company to dig and
delve and investigate, with conse
quent large fees, so as to prove that
the owner really owns the land.
On each deed will be registered
each and every mortgage as it is as
sumed or as it is taken off. so the
owner can produce his deed as proof
during Dr. Belk’s discourse like Mark
Twain's ‘Blue trip slip.’ Every time
an English sparrow lit upon one of
the church lamps I caught myself
speculating as to whether it would
fall.
“1 enjoyed the entire day, and feel
that I have had a spiritual uplift by
having attended your services, but
your customs are so different from
our country way that my brain was
befuddled and my thoughts went
fluttering about from place to place
without concentration.
“After the morning hour I rebuk
ed myself lor paying so much at
tv*i Don to the English sparrows and
went to Hie evening services resolv
ed to give strict attention to Bro.
Faust
The orchestra and the choir had
given us grand music and the young
man who sang by himself touched
me with his sincerity. Brother Faust
started his sermon with an earnest
appeal to tinners and I was follow
ing his every word, when someone
on tiio ame bench with me moved,
and my atL ntion was attracted to a
young woman playing with a. cat in ,
htr lap ”
“Oh, no, you must be mistaken
about that. The young girls have a
way of making rabbits out of their
handkerchiefs and flipping the ears
with their fingers. It must have
been one of these."
“No, siree, it was a real live cat,
and it wa tuning after her finger
as if it was a straw-. I am not criti
cising, understand. I am only tell
ing you why I could not concentrate
my attention upon the excellent ser
mon that was being preached. If it
is your custom to bring the cats to
church, all right. Our women folks
bring their babies and J have an old
dog that has been in the family- for
fifteen years and we have to lock
him in the crib to keep him away.
Then, sometimes he hides out -Jn
the woods until w-e are gone and
beats us to the church. It was all
my fault. I got to wondering v. If y
would happen if all the women
brought cats to church and stood, or
kneeled to pray, and as to why the
cats did not catch the birds that lit
upon the lamps, etc. and Bro. Faust
concluded his sermon before my mind
got settled. But I am coming again,
you’ve got good preachers in Winder,
and fine singers.”
at once of just what the property le
gally owes, thus saving another ex
pensive and often troublesome delay
while all these features are gone into
Nothing helps the real estate value?
of a State as a satisfactory title
and deed registry. It is not difficult
to borrow money when tlje big ven
ders, such as the national insurance
companies, know all titles are regis
tered, easy of access to their record
and guaranteed by the laws of the
State applying to such matters.
There is plenty of moneey to be
loaned on first-class real estate secu
rity—always more than there is first
{
class real estate security to get it.
While Mr. Barfield's bill is not - "
completed, it is known that it is be
ing modeled largely after th Torrens
bill, which is generally accepted a
standard in its application. Four
yers are working to adapt the Tor
rens measure fully and faithfully to
the precise needs of G-eorgia, so it
seems reasonable to suppose, at this
time, that the proposed measure will
meet with all requirements.
The simplest form of legal paper
is always the most binding, from w ill
to bills of sale. And so the Torrens
bill is effective and satisfactory be
cause of the simplicity of its mode
of operation. A child can see thro
the principles and the details of ap
plication while the whole Philadel
phia Bar Association cannot break
them. And that, above all things, is
just what is wanted in Georgia.
Mr. Barfield is confident his bill
will pass, because there can be no
great objection brought to it. It decs
seem that the general principle
hind it is not alone flawless but ;
every way as necessary as dtairal?]- ?
—Macon Telegraph.