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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, August 19, 1915. No. 19.
PUBLIC DEFENDER.
Much has been said about one law
for the rich and another for the
poor. When one comes to consider
the aggregate result from the stand
point of punishment for crime that
argument holds good in Georgia un
der our court procedure.
We believe it would be a good
thing for the State of Georgia to
create the office of Kubilc Defender,
and let it he his duty.'unassisted, to
handle all cases after they leave the
Superior court, his salary to be paid
out of the Stale treasury. The State
could demand a certain sum from ap
pellant The man able to pay should
be required to pay, and the man un
able to pay should Le given the right
to have his case reviewed by taking
the pauper’s oath.
The Georgia Legislature quit like |
School boys. The timber of which
statesmen are made is growing verj
thin.
Why is Atlanta like a jungle. An
ewer: The Dears, Tigers, Elks, Eag
l*s Owls and Orioles an* in a scrap
with Heavers
The man who is always harping
about what he would do in the oth
er fellow’s shoes generally cannot
wear the shoes.
.lust think of it, ’Blie Atlanta Jour
nal has editorially taken issue with
the views of Senator Hoke Smith.
Next we look for an editorial indor seg
ment of the red-headed guy of McLuf
fie.
If it is legal to forbid the paral
leling of the State road for the bene
fit of the State corporation, would
it not be just to the big railroad syn
dicates to forbid by statute the paral
leling of their lines for the same rea
son.
Keeling in the Frank case was fan
ned so high in Georgia that reiusou
took wings and the mob spirit stalks
brazenly in the land. The Jew is
dead and gone*. The lynchers remain
with us. Watchman, what of the
uight.
Asa fr end of both beliggerents,
and not desiring to see any real war
on this side of the pond, we respect
fully suggest and insist that Editor
llob Ross and Mayor Willis Kerry,
of Winder, refer their differences to
the Hague.—Walton Tribune.
Granted. Please act as our proxy,
Gamp.
Says the Carroll Free Press: “If
the Southern Railway Company wants
to build a road from Atlanta to
Macon paralleling the Central, it is 1
a fine thing for business, and the]
people expect fine service and the
benefit of competitive rates. But
when you talk of building a line to
parallel the State’s road from Atlan
ta to Chattanooga, it spells ruin, and
the law must be changed to prohibit
citizens of this state from building a
road wh >re they please. Competition
is good between citizens, but when
a citizen competes with the State
the State passes laws to throttle
him.'’ Prohibitive laws are the
only ones in order, brother. Shame
on you for speaking sanely before
all prohibition bills have become the
statute law.
HOME IS
The Fathers’ Kingdom, The Mothers’
world, the child’s Paradise.
The gilden setting in which the
j -wel is ’’Mother."
The place w hen* the great are some
times small, and the email are some
times great.
The center of our affection around
which our hearts' best wishes tw:ne.
The place where you are treated test
and grumble most. —Selected.
WHAT OF THE FUTURE.
Georgians should take stock, count
the cost and see if we can afford to
drift back to the age of Might Makes
Right.
The awful tragedy of the pencil fac
tory, in the eye of many honest
Georgians, has been vindicated by
the sacrifice of a human life ‘‘A’ life
for a life," and the life has been of
fered up.
The manner in which this life has
been taken is a body blow at the
very foundation of our constituted
authority. Two wrongs never made
a right, and never will. We cannot
afford to batter down the only thiug
that gives us freedom of speech, the
right to live and s*ek happiness in an
organized way—the Constitution of
our state.
No doubt two-thirds of the people
of Georgia honestly believed Frank
guitly of the horrible crime for which
he was convicted and that no punish
ment was too severe for the slayer
of little Mary Khagan, but we cannot
believe that that vast majoriy of Geor
gians indorse the manner in which
death wa a accomplished.
Let’s stop, think and take stock.
If something is wrong with our or
ganized court procedure, let us find
the organized remedy.
Frank is out of it. I-et us consid
er what is best for the state —best
for us. Shall it be decency, law and
order, or lynch law and government
by clicks and clans under cover of
darkness. If it is might and main
that is to rule, the average law-abid
ing Georgian has only to say:
Strike from all wrists legal bands,
Give game men sword and gun;
They’ll rout assassins in Georgia land
And put lynchers on the run.
GEORGIA AS A RAILROADER
On the question of the State deny
ing a charter to the North Georgia
Mineral Railroad, because it would
parallel the State road, the Macon
Telegraph has the following sensible
remarks: ,
"The denial of this charter means
only one thing: the State has the
power, and therefore the right, to
set up for its own road a monopoly
of territory, and this it intends to
do. What would be wholly wrong
and reprehensible in the Southern,
Central of Georgia or the Louisville
and Nashville, that is the saftguard
ing of a monopoly to eliminate com
petition—no matter by what means,
if they could be detected by vigilant
commissions, State and National—
is all right for the sovereign State
to do; simply because the State can
do it and railroads cannot.
"It is simply this: the State sets
up certain bounds of virtue, practi
cal and theretical, within which
the railroads shall walk, no matter
what the extremity of their practical
needs shall demand. The State
happens to own a railroad, but the
first time competition by the private
ly-owned railroads threatens the
income from that road the State
walks outside all the bounds it has
set for the railroad to stay inside
under simialr stress, and makes the
laws to suit its own particular need
of moment. In other words, to the
railroads: ‘You be good.’ to itself:
TU be bud if I want to, just because
I can do it inside the law. and that's
an end on't.’
“The Telegraph isn't pleading for
the railroads particularly, for as a
| rule they are pretty w ell able to
take care of themselves, they have
i sinned a-plenty in the past and a
. ’tie retribution wouldn't hurt some
;f them any and would afford soine
| v hat of a belated justice, but the
thing is that the Sti*e js doing a
. arong thing, just because the State
i is the pow er to do it. by its unchal
j 1 caged right of eurnent domain.'’
The Winder News, Thursday Afternoon, August 19, 1915,
NOTICE TO BARROW COUNTY
S. S. SUPERINTENDENTS
For some four weeks we have
been running a tabulated report of
the activity among the Sunday
schools of the county. Gut of a to
tal of about 40 schools, fourteen is
the highest number reported any
given week. We donated this space
to Messrs. Mayne and Starr in the
hope that we might do some little
good in this line of work by creating
a spirit of rivalry among the differ
ent schools that would place Bar
row in the Gold Star column. From
now on we will only publish the
names of those reporting, and unless
more interest is soon manifested the
scheme will be discontinued. Unless
the space is appreciated, we can
use it to advantage in other ways.
Read the table on the last page of
this paper, and if your report is
missing find out the cause. It is up
to you. The space is gladly donat
ed, but there is no news in publish
ing a bunch of "goose eggs.”
When Both Ring True
No man wants another to make a
tool of him, but a philosopher has
reminded us that the hammer has to
have an anvil so that it can do the
work for which it as designed.
Therefore, the philosopher says, some
men have to be the hammer and some
have to be the anvil. It can’t be
helped. However one is just as use
ful as the other, in the world’s econ
omy, the position of one just as hon
orable as that of the other, provided
they both ring true. A flaw of one
or the other may make a big differ
ence—Moultrie Observer.
To keep cool for the next twe
months, read only The Winder
News and the Hoiy Bible.
Death of Mrs. S. J. Suddath
Thursday afetrnoon, August 12th,
Mrs. S. J. riuddath breathed her last
She had been ill only a few days and
the suddenness of her demise was a
shock to her friends and relatives.
She was a daughter of Mr. W. P.
Chandler of this city and besides hus
band and father leaves several sis
ters and many relatives to grieve at
her passage. She was 26 years ot
age.
The funeral occurred at the resi
dence on New street Friday after
noon, preached by Rev. H. N. Rainey
The interment took place in. Rose
Hill cemetery at 0 o'clock.
Funeral of Mrs. M. A. Holder.
The funeral of Mrs. M. A. Holder
who died last Sunday at her country
home about 3 miles from Jefferson
was held Monday afternoon in the
First Methodist church of Jeffer
son, and the body was placed ia the
cemetery there close beside the grav
of her noble husband.
The funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. Dunbar, assisted by
Rev. S. R. Delk, D. D., and John F.
Yarbrough. The church was crowded
with sympathetic friends, and in the
gallery were many of the colored ser
vants who were mourning for one
who had been good to them.
The floral offerings were many and
beautiful. Dr. Relk preached the
sermon from a text selected by the
deceased from 2nd Tim. 4th chapter,
and 7th and Bth verses. The expo
sition of Scripture .was full of comfort
and his tribute to the life of Sis
ter Holder was beautiful and well be
fitting her character.
This death removes from this world
to the one above another of the old
er citizens who, by precept and by
practice, established the high stand
ard of Christian citizenship w hich has
had so much to do with the making
of Jackson county a front-rank coun
ty in Georgia.
In early life she consecrated her
life to the service of Jesus Christ
and among her frie’Vids she lived a
life so well expressed by Saint Pe
ter in his first letter and in the 3d
chapter and in the first six verses.
The world is better because Sister
Holder lived in it. Rich are her
sons and loved cues in the heritage
of her Christian character.
And now she is away from us and
we will miss her. But in Jesus
Christ we shall see her again.
Jno. F. Yarbrough.
Things Caught Here and There.
(By the Volunteer Reporter.)
Late last Saturday afternoon there
were a number of gentlemen seated
upon the easy benches in front of the
Farmers Bank. When the \olunteer
sauntered up a man from old Houses
district, asked, addressing his re
marks to the reporter:
"How is the election.’’
“Very quiet, I think.”
"I live in old Gwinnett and came t(
town expecting to see a hot time.
An hour after the polls have closed
I cannot even find out who have been
elected. 1 thought you Winderites
were hot under the collar and every
other man was out for another’s
blood. When a man of Ben Smith’s
district lets out a squall you can
depend upon it that the shoe is pinch
iug; someone has stepped upon
his corns. If there was no excite
ment here today, why did Winder
send up such a yell a few weeks
ago."
“Some councilmen were out of
harmony with the mayor concerning
minor details of the administration.
Every one is working to the same
end —a bigger and better Winder. The
friendly election today has restored
confidence and effected a completely
harmonious mayor and council. Even
those who retired from the board are
perfectly satisfied with the result.”
“Certainly, it may Le alright, but
the old-time snipe hunters and fun
nel players out in the country do not
understand why you city chaps cut
such high shines when there is noth
ing wrong."'
It was here that a spry old gen
tleman of the new district of Jones
caught the attention of the crowd,
and I wish I could put into print his
every word. As best the reporter
remembers, he began:
“I am not concerned in Winder’s
politics nor the manner in which the
people build a school building for
this city. The town needed a good
school building and 1 rejaice that
there is one in course of construction
City property valuations and taxes
upon money, notes and accounts do
not affect me in the least, but I am
interested in Winder as the county
seat of Barrow county, and I want
to see her hum before I die.
“I am nearing onto the seventy
year mile post. Ever since the civil
war I have been contributing taxes
to keep up the public buildings, the
bridges and roads of Jackson county,
Now I am ready to pay some to Bar
row.”
"You do not mean to intimate
that you are not in favor of strict
economy; that you would plunge the
county into debt for a court house
and jail.”
"Plunge into debt, shucks. Econ
my is one thing and down-right
stinginess and stagnation is another
Yes. I want a courthouse and a jail
and good roads. Wasn't I in the thick
of the ten-year fight for anew
county and haven’t I the moral right
to expect to see the full fruition of
that fight before I pass away."
"But the grand jury recommended
strict economy and the ordinary was
only authorized to purchase one road
scrape not to exceed the cost of
$130.”
"Fiddlesticks. I do not want to
be the center of a curious crowd,
but I am going to tell you some
things, young man, and then I am
done. As I said before, I have been
in this world for some time and my
observations have been close. Asa
general rule the young man who
does not go into debt for a home
never owns one that isn’t given to
him. The boy whose daddy buys
his clothes large enough to allow the
youngster to grow to them looks like
a scarecrow. The man who buys old
second-hand buggies and surreys on
sal- 1 day and patches them up is the
ecouomic spendthrift who rides on
pins and spills his wife and babies in
the middle of the road. The city
that is not bonded to the limit never
amounts to much. The man who puts
things off seldom gets to them.
There is a farmer in my neighborhood
who has been butting his head on
the low door of a corn-crib for twen
ty -fi/e years, and planning each year
to build anew crib when he got the
money. There is no economy in put
ting off things that you necessarily
must have. There is no sense in pay
ing.double,turnkey .fees, railroad fare,
and mobile hire and denying Sher
iff Otis Camp the pitiful profit made
by feeding the prisoners and delay
the pubile improvements to the coun
ty at an increased expense. I never
did believe in borrowing other peo
ple’s tools when I was able to buy
some of my own, and delay in this
matter will not save the county one
penny in the long run. If I w c re
ordinary or a member of the next
jrand jury I would stand for the im
mediate building of a courthouse
and jail if it hair-lipped every mai
on the is and.”
The reporter moved on to the
Rexall corner where a number oi
young men were in a heated argu
ment over the details of the Winder
vs..Monroe ball games. The YVindet
management had scoured the country
and pulled some hired men together
who had defeated the Monroe aggre
gation the Friday afternoon before,
but they had gone to Monroe Sat
urday and proven themselves abso
lutely helpless at the hands of the
Monroe professionals.
The young man who was doing
tne talking was preaching sound doc
trine along the lines of patronizing
home industry and keeping the money
at home. He said that he could
pick a baseball nine in Barrow conu
ty which would defeat clubs similar
ly picl*ed from adjoining counties. He
said it was not right and it was a
lack of good judgment to expect
the home boys to play ball for the
love of the game and allow two or
three professionals who do not give
a rap which way the old ball game
goes to come in and get all of the
money. This fan declared that the *
ball players between the ages of ten
and seventy, whose habitats are in
Barrow county can defeat those of
any adjoining county. He favored
the formation of an association with
iron-clad rules which would protect
home talent and eliminate any possi
bility of crookedness. He said home
boys were always in the game doing
the best they could ,but he had seen
hiied men make suspicious errors. It
does seem that the passtime would
he just as interesting and the rival
ry as keen were the gate receipts dis
tributed among home players. It is
the hiring of sauni-professionals
which sends ball clubs of small
towns out through the little end of
the horn. Then the game goes dead
for a season or two in that town.
Wednesday afternoon the reporter
ran into bro. John Yarbrough at the
pos.ofiice. Brother John had 'been
holding a series of meetings at. Mos
sy Creek camp ground, up in White
county. He said he felt a little tired
as he had been preaching to acres
of peop.e for a week, but he had
gained three pounds drinking good,
tuK'k buttermilk and eating yellow
legged chickens, country ham, etc.
He said great congregations attend
ed the me tings, coming on the train,
in automobiles and in covered wag
ons with hound dogs tied behind
mem. They came and camped, many
new tents being in evidence and the
mountains round about echoed the
oray of Georgia’s famous song-bird—
the mule. On Sunday twenty-two
hundred people attended the meet
ing by train. Brother Yarbrough
says the camp meeting will be a
yearly gathering and he wishes to
congra.uiate the good mountain peo
ple upon the magnificent behavior
jf the iarge concourse of people who
attended the services through the
series of meetings. Brother John
war- enthusiastic over the success of
the meeting, but in talking to the
reporter he placed the greatest stress
upon the subject of yellow-legged
chicken.
House and Lot For Sale
Desirable city property; good loca
tion, nice residence. Good well wa
ter, convenient to city mains. Ap
ply to J. N. Hodges, Winder, Ga.