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ROBERT O. Editor
ROBERT O. ROS*. JR Associate Editor
VOL. XXII. Thursday, January zO, 1916. No. 4'
*l HE REAR RANKS.
Atlanta has another sensation
ami the daily papers are making the
most of the- occasion.
A1 Jennings has arrived in the
Gate City for the purpose of com
pleting the work begun by .Marion
Jackson—that of redeeming the me
tropolis from a sin-cursed world. Wc
sre in the papers, as Hennessey
would say, that A1 -proposes to do
the job upon his recoid as an ex
bandit, train robber and all-around
crook.
The Atlanta Journal says a little
man In a black overcoat, oid-fashion
el black shoes and a dark blue felt
hat stood in front of the movie cam
-era at the Terminal station Satur
day afternoon while a cold wind
swept the plaza and. a crowd of men
and boys gazed at him curiously;
that he is not the “heroic” figure
one would picture of t lie train robber
ex-convict and bad man.
After giving a minute description
of the hang of Al’s mouth, the drop
of his Jaw and the color of his
eyes, the Journal tells us that when
the movie man finished him the
photographers had to snap him and
whim the photographers got through
wiith him the policemen on the beat
had to shake his hand and tell how
much they had read about his hold
ing up trains, etc. A newsboy re
marked: “That’s him. He used to
hold up trains: Now he’s a preacher
Ho looks like a red-headed Irishman,
don’t he.’
When askid by newspaper men for
h s message to Atlanta Jennings
said: ”1 am not much on theology.
I’ve Just got some stories to tell. 1
wuut to clean things up lie re like we
cleaned them up in Oklahoma.”
Now we do not know whether Al’t
train-robbing escapades took place
in Qklalioma or not. Therefore we
are somewihat puzzled as to the man
ner in wh'ch he intends to clean up
his now' field of endeavor.
However, remembering that Christ
ran the money changers out of the
Temple, we art inclined to the be
lief that the Lord is haling little
to do with this brazen-blow and
“hero” worship based upon past vio
la! ions of the laws of God and man.
True, the Lord sometimes employs
wondrous means his mysteries to
perform, and it may be that Al Jen
nings, tlie evangelist who is to hold
a thi\e weeks’ revival in Atlanta, is
doing a good work, but in the col
umns of slush in the dally papers
concerning his meeting we have yet
to see in print mention of the
Grand Old Book or the name of the
meek and lowly Nazarine in connec
tion therewith.
To our mind Jennings will have to
possess a double share of power fron
on high to overcome the evil im
press upon the minds of young boys
by the great stress being placed
Upon his past lawl ssnese and his
ow';i attitude in posing before cam
eras for personal aggrandizement.
Has it become necessary that one
must drink the dregs of sin before
becoming a great preacher. What
encouragement does such “hero” wor
ship bold out to the model young
man.
We will ever have faith in the
young fellow who throws his weight
against the load at the foot of the
hill of life and go .s on up with a
stetwiy pull until he reaches the
goal, and we frankl, confess that
our confidence in the prancing, dal
lying steed that takes the hill on the
run is somewhat shaky. The latter
is more apt to fly hack when the
1 >ad becomes burdensome.
The clean up spirit does not appeal
to us anyway, especially when the
preacher relies upon his own efforst
to do the work. We can serve our
Ivord and Master with more grace in
a congregation where the minister
simply keeps the faith and ex-con
victs, ex-bandits, ex-thieves and ex
train robbers occupy positions as
high private® in the rear ranks.
LOOK FOR THE GOOD.
.Most of us are slavus of habit. If
you had not stopped to think of it
the men folks are ail guilty of do
in j wliat # Adani, our father did. Pul
ting on our left shoe last.
Laugh and the world laughs with
you. Grouch about wiith your lower
lip stuck out like the tongue of- a
“yaiier dog” that lias been chasing
rabbits and you will find birds of a
lika feather flocking around you.
If you are good, then good people
w H gather around you. The pistol
toter can always find fools who car
ry f.re-arms everywh re they go. The
drunkard can always find fellows
who delight in handling blind-tiger
liquor. The fellow who cusses can
at all times get in a crowd who use
all sorts of vile profanity. In fact
we see what we look for as a usual
thing.
“Two men looked out thru prison
bars,
The one saw mud, the other stars.”
The story is told of a talented
young artist who painted as best She
could a picture and placed it on ex
hlbiiton, and alongside of it was a
paper of pins with the written re
quest that all who saw faults in the
picture stick a pin in the fault. At
night she came to examine it and
found all the pins out of the cushion
and in the picture. Discouraged, she
w'ent to her teacher. He told her
to go back the next day and write
a request to the people to stick a
pin fn all the places of excellence
on the picture. At night imagine her
delight to find the pins all gone.
So after all it is good to look
for the virtues of individuals and
cities. Winder Is the best city in
Georgia. Low tax rate of $1.00; the
best school facilities imaginable. A
city filled with fresh young, coun
try blood. Young men tjo the foie.
Progress in tine very air we breathe.
We are going some. Don’t waste
your time and talents grouching. You
will need it all to keep up with our
procession. Come in outsiders and
make our swimming pool yours; the
water is fine and dandy.
REGULATING OTHERS.
The desire to have other people
Live aeeordimg to our ideas seems t(
be inhere©* in many of us. No one
can explain why we are not willing
to let other people live their lives
as they see fit, but so radical d
some of us become in regulating otb
ers that we try to force them bj
aw to live as w'd thiink ttihtety
should live.
It may be this is a survival in
us of the old Puritadn idea that each
man is his brother’s keeper. It it
easy to see to what absurdities wt
would come if this idea was put int(
effect. Each of us would try to reg
u'.ate our neighbors’ conduct. They
in turn would try to regulate ours
according to thedr ideas. The inevi
table conflict would be productive
of more evils than w e originally triet
to overcome. No. man is good enougl
or so certain in his virtue that lie
can force other men to be like him.
The very fact that he does try to do
so shows that, he is like the Phar
see who prayed at the front
of the Temple " and called all
men to witness he was a good ano
just man. To be self-satisfied with
our own virtue is egotism—not
virtue. To try to force other people
to bo virtuous as we think we are
virtuous, is the height of egotism
and pride which is one of the grea'
sins. The rulers who persecuted the
early Christians were trying by law
to force their beliefs on an imwillinj
body of men wlio bel’eved different
ly. The result was the martyrdom o
thousands of good men and women.
Christ suffered and died because lu
■ insisted on living his life as Ik
chose and not as the Jewish rulers
wished him to. The whole Christian
world has been built o<n tins deter
mlnation.
The Winder News, Thursday, January 20th, 1916.
AGGRESSIVE AGR CULTURE
Some time back the daily papers
carried the startling nevus that Pier
pont -Morgan had given a trtmendu
ousiy big sum of money "For the bei
efit of poor and needy college grad
uates.” At fiist it was laughabl
then after more serious thinking
it grew to be serious. In tact fa.
a long while the^wcild has been di
vided up into two classes. Thom
who worked without thinking, and
those who thought without working
Asa direct result we have had up
to tire present factions w'ho be
lieved that thinkers could not work
and workers could not think, and a
terrible mess they have made ot
it to be sure.
Pick up the Kentucky papers and
you read of the schools over the
great commonwealth at night oponeo
to banish illiteracy, and educate the
older men and women of each comon
nity. The same is being tried on
in North Carolina and Georgia an
other states. It is a long move i.,
tire right direction. Bankers, schoq.
men, financial leaders, in fact the
entire world is beginning to offer its
services to the farmer in order that
he may be assisted In his task stu
penduous of feeding and clothing the
whole world.
Not long since a lad by the name,
of Hanes, in Ohio, raised 153 bush
els of corn per acre, got a prize ani
a trip to New York with expenses
paid. We see in it progress; i|t is
the first step towards linking edu
cation of hands and head.
Our successful men come from the
farms. Big-brained, big bodied, brawn
and bravery are found pure and adul
terated in the farmer lads. These
boys trained in head a/nd hand go
up to the cities and carve for them
selves places of worth. They grasp
with firm hand the tree of success,
and shake down for themselves its
rich and luscious fruits. Asa result
of the efforts of the men who have
had head and hand trained togeth
er we are going to have better po
etry, letter music, better art, bet
ter is .mens, better pedagogy, bet
ter p -itics, better government, bet
terter statutes, better life. Such
a ay jm perfected will make men
like K >bert Burns, George Washing
ton, Abraham Lincoln, Joseph E.
Brow/., and men who grew' up like
Ciucinuaties on the farm and pluss
ed brawn with brain and made foi
them a secure place in the forefront
of the world’s famous ones.
PERILOUS PROSPERITY.
Wihat a contrast in conditions to
day and a year ago today. Then the
spirit of pestsimisan was all around
the land, and today the spirit of
optimism is manifest everywhere.
Folks are prosperous, but wdiat is
their prosperity based upon. Trade
is increasing, in fact over $ 1,010,000,
000.00 was the amount of increase ot
4015 over 1914.
Mills, mines, fields, factories, and
everywhere one sees prosperity con
nected with the bloodstained battle
f ells of Europe.
Some oue has suggested that when
you go out on an European battle
field you ride out in an American
made automobile, American tools dig
the trenches in the hands of Russian
peasants. The soldiers are protected
by barbed-wire and lumber made in
America, and manned with American
made guns, munitions and food and
clothing are prepared in America.
American horses make up the calvarj
and aeroplanes and light artilery
made in America are seen on every
side and above.
It may be all right for our gov
ernment to furnish all these
to the warring nations. The nurses
and bandages, the medicines and
coffins n.ay be helpful, but the mon
ey that swells our coffers is slight
ly tinged with European blood.
Just a bit of contrast between
sales to Europe before and since
the war.
In pea e we sold Europe woolen
goods to the amount of $4,753,000. In
wur, $32,057,00 '. Shoes, $£>,603,000
vtains $22,669,000 in war. Harness
$793,000 against $18,434,000 in war.
Steel bars, $7,590,000, against $21,-
743.000 in war. Explosives, $6,244,-
000 against $71.506,000 in war. Auto
mobiles, $12,536,000 against $92,000,-
000 in war. Breadstuff®, $181,484,000
against $5671720.000 in war. All this
goes to feed the greatest armies ever
DO YOUR BANK//VC
BUS/NESS W/TM
OUR BANK/S w’T BTf
ti^NF/l
OUR BANK IS A MEMBER OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE BANK
ING SYSTEM OF THE UNITED STATES.
ONCE A MEMBER OF THE ‘- FEDERAL RESERVE’’ SYSTEM, A
BANK IS ONE OF THE VAST ARMY OF RESPONSIBLE BANKS
WHICH STANDS TOGETHER FOR EACH OTHER’S PROTECTION AND
FOR THE PROTECTION OF DEPOSITORS.
YOUR MONEY IS ABSOLUTELY SAFE IN OUR BANK AND YOU
CAN GET IT WHEN YOU WANT IT.
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK.
WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, WINDER, GA.
Big Lot of Shingles
W. E. YOUNG has just unloaded the big
gest lot of Shingles ever brought to Winder.
He has Shingles that are good, Shingles that
are better and Shingles that are best.
PRICES RIGHT
W. E. YOUNG.
The Shingleman
Winder, Ga.
F. Hofmeisler
Winder’s Shoe Expert
Has Recently Installed New Machinery
for Making and Halfsoling
SHOES
He Can Serve You While You Wait.
HIS MOTTO: Fine Work—Quick Service.
Place Your Order With Him.
F. HOFMEISTER
Winder, Ga.
ZZ INSURANCE
Your neighbors home burned only a few days, or months ago, and
a cyclone is likely to strike this section at any time, so INSURE with
US and lie down at night with a clear conscience and a peaceful mind.
Don’t DELAY. It may mean the loss of your home. Any man can
build a home once. A WISE man insures his property in a reliable
insurance company so that when calamity comes he can build again.
He owes the protection that it gives, to his peaoe of mind and the
care of his loved ones.
Kilgore. Radford & Moore
known in the world, dealing out
death and destruction in wholesale
qualities.
You may enjoy dancing and fun,
but somebody must pay the fiddler,
and the United States is sowing to
the flesh and reaping a great har-
vest of dollars now, but then as a
matter of fact, 'whatsoever a man
sowipth that shall he also reap.’* We
want progress, but we want it along
peaceful lines. We want prosperity
but we want it along with others
who prosper also.