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OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY AND CITY OF WINDER
Published Every Thursday Afternoon by R. O. Ross & sons. ind Entered at
the Postofftce at Winder. Ga.. as Second-class M.u Matter.
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ROBERT O. ROSS Editor
ROBERT O. ROSS. JR Associate Editor
VOL. XXII. Thursday, August 26, 1915. No. 20.
When milk turn* to clabber, thj
Optomlst smiles and quotes the sci
entists who say clabber iis more
healthful .anyway.
Should you call an extra sees ion of
the legislature, Governor, please re
commend the chasing of rabbit* from
the state prison farm.
Some men who have climbed to the
top rung of the ladder of success, do
not look down at their less fortunate
fellows for fear they'Ll loe their own
hold.
Clias. S. Alruow', of Camden county,
ha been appointed state game and
fish commissioner for a term of two
years. Ah now, little birdies and
fishes.
Haste doesn't always make waste.
But when a man runs a full square
to catch a street car and then it is
bolckaded for half an hour, he is apt
to waste a lot of adjectives..
We have it upon pretty good au
thority that certain blind tigers had |
beat dose up shop and leave town be
fore the next grand jury meets, tak
ing their witnesses with them.
Since the retirement of Chief Reav
era Atlantans are throwing fits in
an effort to revive the "old-time At
lanta spirit." Be consoled, gentle
men. You still have your clubs aim'
Jim Woodward.
A man moved his household effects
from Atlanta to Athens in a motor
truck. Good roads and the mobile will
insure quick delivery and the safe
handling of freight for a short haul.
Verily ‘‘the world do move.”
A Cobb county coroner’s jury has
disclosed the fact that ‘‘U‘o Frank
was lynched.” IfoTbert (flay announ
ces that he Intends to ferret the
mystery to the bottom. Cainyou im
agine the terribC© sifting of isiand
there will be when Herbert gets on
the bottom.
There is nothing more cowardly
than an attempt to injure the busi
ness of someone you dislike, unless
it be the contemptible sneak who car
ries it still further and tries to dam
age the business of the friends of
the person he dislikes.—Washington
Reporter.
Ty Cobb got lour hits, two of
thorn doubles, and stole three bases
in a contest at Clevealnd Tuesday.
The Georgia ball player iis proving
himself the athletic wonder of the
age. He i.s batting .400 and leads
his nearest rival by good safe margin i
in all important features of the
game. ,
“McAdoo prepared to protect price
of south’s cotton.” says u headline.
Prcpamlnits is aH right, but pie
paredncss in action is. better. There
never has been a time when the mon
cy power, of this nation w.ia not pre
part'd U> take cane of any one of our
industries, but the “safety first, ’*
process generally eats up the farm
ers' profits before the "preparation"
reaches him.
(leorgia may be falling in ban
hands officially, and the mob spirit
may have grown apace in the Urn
few months, but her people are thor
oughly qualified to mange h r n<r
nal affairs, and spttaking for our
selves alone we do not apprec'ate the
outside interest exerted in behalf of
Gaorgia crim'nals. We advise Chicago
and New York to pedal softly and
divert their funds to the running to
cover of their defiant gunmen and
cut-throats.
l
GEORGIA’S SHAME COMPLETE.
The following editoriaJ from the
pen of Ben A. Neal, editor of The
Washington Reporter should be read
by Georgians and considered well.
We must turn to law and order, or
one day we may cry out,"Ob, Lord,
save Georgia." Read:
“We feel more like hiding our face
in shame than writing an editorial.
Why reason when reason ha* been
dethroned. Why attempt to warn
men who evidently feel that they are
a “law unto themselveisi” and recog
nize no higher authority than the im
pulses of a poisoned and impassioned
heart. If more opinions- are to con
stitute the compelling power of a
community, a county, a state, what
remains to be hoped for an striven
for by those who recognize somethipg
higher, something surer, LJinething
more trustworthy than popular clam
or.
‘‘Geo M. Frank’s life, or the life of
any individual is trival and insignifi
cant compand With the momentous
issues which the unlawful taking of
his life involves. The question wdiicl
stares in the face every honest and
law-abiding Georgian i—which is
supreme the laws of the land or the
Impulses of the rabble. If the law
can not constitute the balance of pow
er, if there is no Sovereignty which
man recognizes, pray tell us what
there is that is sacred and supreme
[f what can be made popular is to be
the law hi Georgia, may there be
some official announcement of the
lact, in order that all of us may
fclhape our conduct so as to meet the
approval of the masses.
“The act has been committed. We
believed that such a crime would
he committed. A few men of influ
ence have done everything in their
power to inspire such an act. May
God deal mercifully with them, for
man cam not. The pre pet rat ora will
not.be apprehended nor punished and
they knew this when they planned
the scheme. They,wore,masks because
they w r ere afraid. (No mob was ever
composed of otherts than cowards. No
man or set of men who attempts to
provoke a mob was ever anything
else than a cringing and infamous
cow-ard.
“Notwithstanding there had been
given sufficient arid ample warning
that mob violence would be under
taken, what preparation was made
to prevent or check it. Where were
the mounted machine guns that w ere
reported to make the prison impreg
nable. Where were the trained
guards. 25 armed men handcuff the
authorities, walk peacefully in/idde
the reported “garrison,” take a de
feus less prisoner, cut the wires and
beat an orderly retreat. Shame dot's
not exprss it.
Gome home, Governor Slaton. You
have l**en advised to stay out of
Georgia, but let’s test the temped of
Ci-eorgians. lyet’s see, a/nd sooner we
find out the better, whether the Em
pire State of the South is ruled by
Law or is at the mercy of thugs,
(vo'.triHjiLus and cowards, I>et’s see if
the inciters of mob violence will lead
their hosts out in the open and give
battle to those who know something
of honor, who cherish the fair name
of their state and who stand for
something higher than a character
plausibility. Friends and fellow
citizens, we earnestly hope that the
situation its less serious than it
*eems to us, but we would not be
candid did we fail to state that nev
r before did we feel so despondent
I >ver the future of Georgia. We did
| aot know M. Frank. His life,
! ° us - was nothing more than that of
i fellow man. He may or may not
j iave been guilty of the crime charg
d with this has been of secondary
| m porta nee to us. Isince to us was no
i the question of his guilt.
The Winder News, Thursday Afternoon, August 26, 1915.
But, if there is no authority in this
state, higher and more sacred than
which may be defiantly desecrated by
a lot of cowardly, irresponsible and
impassioned anarchists, what securi
ty is there here for law-abiding cit
izens.
"The decent citizneship of the state
has been challenged by red-handed an
archlsts, and, speaking only for our
sdves, w r e are ready to accept the
ciallenge. The time has come to
either redeem Georgia from the dom
■
ination of thugs and cut-throats, eke
abandon her to the bestail passions I
of perverts and degenerates.’’
Heavens fails to clean up Atlanta.
Police called out to kill a skrunk.
Give us another Bulletin.
How Pass, Ed.
"The Georgia legislature quit like
-school boys. The timber of which
sta esmen are made is growing very
thin,’’ says Editor Koss of the Win
der News. Does he mean they jump
ed upon their desks, grab therr hats
and coats, rubbed out the monkeys
that they had made on their slates
with their sleeves and went home to
sip-end the night with a friend. Bro.
Ross, do you mean to say there is
too much soft pine and that we need
more men of the post oak variety as
lawmakers. If so, yon can pass.—
Walton News.
“Too Much Soft Pine,” Yes.
We need fewer promises and more
performances, less oratory and more
opportunities, fewer candidates and
more capital, not so many politicians
and more statesmen.
Cussed Even for Busting.
The biggest trust on earth is the
country newspaper. It trust* every
body, gets cussed for trusting,' mis
treated for trusting, and if it busts
■ for trusting it gets cussed for
busting.—Hartwell Sun.
BASEBALL.
Winder’s crack local team tighten
ed up a little by placing Mut Rhodes
at ®hor and Catcher Newsom behind
the bat and went down to Monroe on
Monday to begin a series of four
games with the hired men of that
town. Smokey Joe Wood was on the
mound for Winder and let the “pro
fessionals” down with five measley
hits. Dot Camp assayed to pitch
for the professionals and if the dot
in his name stands for baa© hits
the boys made a pokadot of Mr.
Camp, as they plastered his system
w-ith fourteen safe bingles. The
feature of the game was the batting
of Baby Brose Jackson, who secured
three hits out of four times to bat.
The score: Winder 4, Monroe 3.
The Monroe professionals came on
to Winder Tuesday and had the cal
eimurite put to them by Rube Mor
ris, a young side-w-heeler out of the
cane brakes of Mulberry river. The
game wars l snappy throughout, but Mr
Morris had the Monroe aggregation
eating out of his hand all the way,
causing ten of t!he husky men of swa
to fan the air. Shirley was on the
mound for Monroe, and aside from
laying batsmen out in cold storage by;
his wildness, he delivered a high
class of pitching. He hit five men, j
laying one out on the sidelines with,
a iswift shoot to the head. The score
Winder, 2; Monroe, 0.
The game scheduled for Wednesday
was postponed until Friday on ac- j
count of the death and burial of a j
prominent citizen of our sister city, j
where the game was to take place.
The third game of the iseries will;
be played at the Winder park this ,
afternoon. Probable batteries: Win
der —Wood and Newsom; Monroe—
Wesson and Ellison.
Walton Superior Court Adjourns.
Monroe, Ga., August 25.—Superior
court adjourned here today and Judge
Brand and Solicitor G-amble left for
Athens tonight.
Judge Brand's charge to the grand
jury was one of the strongest he
lias ever made —emphasizing observ
ance of law, respect for the~"courts
and its officials, the serious and
solemn duties of juries, and other
matters of intense moment just at
this time in Georgia.
CAUGHT HERE AND THERE
By Volunteer Reporter.
Continued From First Page.
the roads of the county until they are
all placed in first class shape. I do
not believe Barrow will ever take
its proper place among the progres
sive counties of the state until she
do * isaue bonds. Why should the
present citizenship bear the brunt of
the burden that future generations
and immigrants may obtain perma-
nent public improvements free of
cost. But public improvements al
ways pay for themselves. I remem
ber when there were only two or
three stores here and land around
Winder sold at $lO per acre. Now,
you cannot buy the isame land at sltJ
per acre. What has cajised that. I
will tell you. Somebody went into
debt and built the Seaboard Air Line
railway, and somebody else went in
debt and built a large department
store at Winder, and other people
went into debt and built other stores.
Land doubled in value and men who
could scarcely live upon their acrei
age are now independent. The men
of the territory may still be in debt,
but I happen to know' that they man
aged to gather in enough coin to
scrap like the dickens for anew
county. We have one in name and
I intend to keep scrapping ujrtil we
get one in reality. I may be an
extremist, hut ycu just shake that
old gentleman’s hand for me and let
the ordinary and next grand jury
know how' the country people feel
about these matters.
There w-ere only three of them seat
ed under the awning at Uncle Henry
Segar’s store, and it rs immaterial
wTlo they w-ere. From memory the
reporter records the following as the
conversation which took place:
“Cotton bolls are beginning to pop
open.”
“Yes, and I see from this paper
that Secretary McAdoo (states that
whenever needed he will deposit in
Southern Reserve banks thirty mil
lion dollars in gold to help move the
cotton crop.”
“That does not cause me to throw
up my hat into the air. The (Wil
son administration and the money
si arks were expected to express
deep concern for the farmer about
this time of the year.”
“The farmers of the south have
long since learned that there is little
to be gained by accepting eagerly
proffered favors. If conditions are
such that financiers can handle the
crop at a profit and give the farmer
a good price for his cotton, the far
mer will get a good price. If desper
ate chance® must be taken, the far
mer is going to bear the burden .Ev
ery fall there goes up a great hue
and cry in the interest of the poor,
down-trodden farmer, but a casual ob
servance w-ill reveal the fact that the
tender-hearted philanthropists who
come to his rescue take great
care not to lose a penny on the far
mer.”
“If McAdoo were to deposit thirty
millions of dollars in Atlanta, the re
serve bank will distribute it to the
National hanks in the state at 6 per
cant. The farmer may be able to bor
row it from the National) bank upon
his cotton at a very low value, say.
one-half price, giving 8 per cent
for the loan, and paying warehouse
charges and insurance and suffering
all other incidental losses.”
“Of course, if he cannot get any
price at all for his cotton, the plan
will furnish him a means of dispos
ing of a worthless commodity. My
observation is that when a farmer
cannot afford to hold his cotton for
a better price, it is just as good a
plan as any to accept the market
pr.ee and send the staple on into the
channels' of legitimate trade. Since
I was a boy Good Samaritans have
been coming to the rescue of the
farmer, and they have all finally used
him to their own financial benefit or
as the football of politics.’'
“But money is scarce,” said the
interested listener.” Secretary' Mc-
Adoo is to be commended for fur
nishing the southern cotton buyers
money with which to move the crop.”
“Southern cotton buyers are not!
going to pay 8 per cent for money 1
when they can borrow all they need
in New York at 4 per cent. They
tell me that the Reserve Bank Lendd
money in New York at 4 per cent.
Why is the same government money
worth 6 per cent in the south to Na
tional banks and about 9 per cent all
told w'hen at reaches the farmer.
There was plenty money to move the
crop this year, but cotton buyers, are
not going to jump out into the dark
and go broke, and I can’t say that I
blame them.”
"You can rest assured that the far
mer knows what is what, and he is
not looking for Good Samaritans
to come to his rescue without ex
acting a tremendous toll.”
PHYSICAL COWARDS IN OFFICE.
Editor Winder News:
Allow me to make a few statements
relative to the confused conditions in
our state. We read much of crimen
of every kind being committed in the
state, factional contention in the
Capital city and in the law making
body of the state. There appears to
be no leader who can lay down his
prejudice, make concessions to the
other fellow lsj views and bring order
out of chaos.
Our best thinkers predicted just
such state of affairs to result, when
<.hat 'school of polities began preach
ing The end justifies the means,”
when our people began condoning
lynchiugs of men guilty of outrageous
crimes and upholding what is termed
the unwritten law.
Then, there are writers who will
confine themselves to no rules of
polite controversy, but with their
muckraking billingsgate, set out to
prove all men are liars, that every
man w-ill sell his conviction for a
price, even those in the highers* posi
tions in the nation. They fan preju
dice and strive to make criminals and
traitors believe that they are as
woithy of honor a® are the sincere,
brave men who strive to see justice
done and to uphold the laws of the
state at all times.
Our best men have been divided
into factions and made suspicious, of
the motives of others; and there ap
pears to be no leader, whose sincef
ity is undoubted, to call our people
back to sanity and weld them together
in a course of political conduct, con
ducive to the best interest of all.
We have had quite enough of nag
ging, bickering and strife, that does
nobody good; who wins position be
yond his ability or worthiness by
the fanning process.
I w-ould like to see the time when
the brave, sincere men of this state
may again meet in mass, confiding m
the honest purpose of each, sincere
ly and reasonably consulting ‘ as. to
the welfare of the public.
V hen this occurs, the blatent dem
agogue, the yellow sheeted character
assassin, the cowardly official who
ignores his oath and hold® position
just for the pay, the traitor w-ho re
fuses to abide his public promise, w-ill
slink away in shame, under the com
bined frow-n of honest law-abiding
men.
Honest men and true dwell in ev
ery county in this, state. Brave men
vvno would die in defense of their
off.cial oaths and in defense of pris
oners placed in their care by- this
grt'at state. Men who would wring
t ieir hands in agony if a poor and isarm
ed, helpless criminal should be tak
en from their custody- and killed by
a lawless band. Men who would show
the scans left on their persons as
they told of the fight with the mob.
L.et us hope that such may again
seek and obtain offices that call for
courageous men. There is a place for
timorous men, but they should not be
put in charge of desperate criminals
or called to face an infuriated mob/
Physical cowards are moral cowards
and can forget the facts as conven
iently as they fail to see and shoot.
The picket, who slept or licked salt
out of the enemies hand, was. shot.
The sheriff who is overpowered ,un
scratched, may believe he is respect
ed by brave men. Not so. His hon
or came from the mob and the mob
has contempt for him. Re®pt„
J. N. Ross.
I nselfish and noble acts are the
most radiant epochs in the biogra
phy of souls. When wrought in
earl: youth they lie in the mem
°*> of age like the coral islands*
green and sunny amidst the melan
choly waste of ocean.