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ROBERT O. ROSS. JR --- Associate Editor
VOL. XXII. Thuraday, March 16, 1916. No. 49.
Why not send Hawksliaw after
Villa?
Our little goat is still grazing in
pastures green.
Judge Dick Russell is having him
self urged for Congress. —Walton
Tribune.
We suggest that the Mayor and
Council of .the City of Winder pass
an ordinance abolishing the month of
March. Such weather should not be
tolerated by that august body.
Judge John Candler’s denial that
he will run for Governor was the
first mention we had seen of him in
connection with the race.—Walton
Tribune.
Henry Gassaway Davis, former
United States senator from West
Virginia and one time candidate for
vice president on the Democratic
ticket, died in Washington Friday.
He was 93 years old.
There might possibly be room for
a third candidate for Governor, but
we can hear of no special demands
for Hugli Dorsey, Bill Burwell or oth
er small fry to hop in and disturb
the waters. —Walton Tribune.
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There was a split at the meeting
in Macon of the Georgia G. O. P.
Committee last week. The police
were called in to quell the stormy
session. The Roosevelt faction call
ed a state convention for Atlanta
April 12. The regular faction will
probably hold a convention In Macon.
If you had only one dollar and
thirty cents cash scattered in all
your pockets, and a man wanted to
sell you $2 00 worth of hot air, would
you give him the order? Well, that
is about the kind of a bargain your
mayor pulled off in the “interest”
of your city.
Mr. R. W. Haynie, we are inform
ed is being urged by some of his
friends to make the race for Ordina
ry of Barrow county. Mr. Haynie
lives in Chandler's district, is now
a valued member of the Board of Ed
ucation of the county, and is said to
have the matter of announcing for
Ordinary under serious considera
tion.
Different means are employed to
reach a desired end, and it is to be
expected that ripples will occur upon
the surface of Winder. Still water
becomes stagnant. Let them keep it
up, but at the same time let’s you
and I go up on yonder hill and
get a little perspccitve, and we
and we shall see that there has been
progress and the procession is still
moving. We are building a city here.
They're off. Jackson county has
cracked the polititcal season open
with a resounding thud. Every coun
ty officer has opposition and “Big
Ben" is shaking hands as he never
shook before. Barrow aspirants for
office are just beginning to make
their announcements, and the indi
cations are that wo are to have some
politics in the new county. At pres
ent the fight is centered on tax re
ceiver. Read the announcements in
another column.
Since President Wilson has ordered
the capture of Francisco Villa, the
Mexican bandit, American civilians
are pouring out of Mexico. It is
well, for there is going to be a fight,
if for no other reason than the av
erage Mexican’s hatred toward an
American. It was to solidfy this
hatred that Villa crossed the border
and in a weeks’ time after Uncle
Sam enters Mexico, we do not be
lieve that Carranza will have a cor
poral’s guard of soldiers.
THE MAYOR AGAIN.
At a mass meeting held recently
at the court house, Mr. Perry, de
fending the action of council in at
tempting to sell the exclusive right
to do a fair business in Winder, made
bold to say that politically he would
go the limit to take care of his
friends, hut when dealing with the
finances of the city he was as care
ful wtien dealing with his friend as
he was with his bitterest poiltical
enemy. We were not present, but
reliable authority tells us that the
above is, in substance, about what
the mayor said.
Now let us see about the mayor’s
watchful care over the taxpayers’
money.
Last year The News, l eing the
only paper published in Winder,
handled the citty advertising. Last
year the City Fathers ordered the
publication of a financial statement,
the publication of the Specific Tax
ordinance, bond election ordinance,
and notice of election. This year
the same kind of service was order
ed, but since last year the mayor
has succeeded in landing in the city
an official organ in which he is a
stockholder. A count of the words,
or space measurement, will reveal
the fact that there is practically no
difference in amount used. Now for
a comparison:
1915 —The News —
Publishing Specific Tax Ord. $ 9.00
Publishing bond ordinance 12.00
Publishing notice of election 6.00
Publishing financial statement 5.50
Total ?32.50
1916 —The Mayor's Organ—
Publishing Specific Tax Ord. $42.00
Publishing notice bond election 6.00
Publishing bond election Ord. 24.00
Publishing Financial Statement 12.00
Total 84.00
Complimentary to the Mayor’s Or
gan - - * - $01.50
Now, it will be remembered that
Mr. Perry O K’s these bills all by
himself, and we have personally ver
ified his O K in this particular in
stance.
It will also be remembered that
The News offered to publish the
statement this year as a matter of
news, free of cost to the tax payers,
but the clerk was forbidden to give
us a copy.
We w r ould not have called the pub
lic’s attention to this matter had
it not been for the public utter
ances of the mayor, for we realize
that several of our friends swallow
all his blarney, and like the young
bird, have their mouths wide open for
more.
Surely, surely, no one, in view
of the above record, will be so un
generous and nukind Us to believe
for a moment that Mr. Perry is not
the real watch dog of the city’s fi
nances, nor will they be so cruel as
to suspect the mayor with using his
official power to foster and maintain
his fast sinking offspring of politi
cal spite.
“It’s all wrong, your Majesty; it’s
all wrong.”
For two hundred dollars and under
the strict censorship of our mayor
and council the Sunday Constitution
carried a bum write-up of Winder.
To those who stop to think such
buncomb does not amount to a row
of pins. We will take a contract to
feed for six months every man, wom
an and child who comes to Winder
in answer to any such tin horn toot
ing. The city fathers could do a
better service to the town by turn
ing cn the water and electricity
for the men who come here to do
business, and not attempt to hold
them up for the past water bills of
others.
It takes a silly woman to make a
fool ot a smart man.
Genuine Syracuse Plow Points,
sold by Smith Hardware Cos.
The Winder Newt, Thursday, March, 16, 1916.
THE GROUCH TALKS OF
KINDNESS.
We were much surprised to hear
The Grouch proclaiming the worth
and influence in the world attributed
to human kindness.
It was amusing as well as pleasing
to hear one, who points so often to
the ugly side of human nature and
displays such impatience toward
those who fall short of his standard
of manhood, make of kindness the
grandest human attribute.
He said the kind man carries a
light in his face, a touch in his hand
that turns the gentler part of nature
next him, while he builds for himself
a character of far greater worth than
exalted position or piles of gold.
That the dumb loyalty of animals,
the affection of children, the trust of
woman and the faith of man, render
the kind man rich indeed. Here we
Vutted in to say:
“But Grouch, this -mighty magnet
fails to attract the kicking mule, the
bucking bronco, the snarling cur, or
their prototypes in man. It strikes
us that a two-handed pole would
prove far more effective in wooing
toward correct living, applied to hu
man vandals, hurley scoundrels or
hardened criminals. Kindness will
not affect the trickster, the schemer,
th.e confidence man, nor will it woo
those who choose their benefactors.
“ ‘Feast and your halls are crowded,
Fast and they turn and go. 5 ”
Turning upon us The Grouch said:
“No, Bob, courts, kindness and
Christianity fail to remove birth
marks, the cry for vengeance over
outraged justice or to heal wounds
inflicted by cruel hands through
man’s inhumanity to man. Yet it is
a lost soul that responds not to
heartfelt kindness from one who
looks more to the comfort and wel
fare of his neighbors than of him
self. Meek kindness like mock re
ligion may prove impotent, but the
genuine heartfelt variety of either
may move the world toward Goti.
Your couplet from Ella Wheeler Wil
cox alludes to love or esteem that
money may buy which has ever been
unstable, insipid.”
“Then tell us, Grouch, where and
when this genuine article of kindness
is to be manifest. We so often meet
the counterfeit that we doubt if we
may know the genuine. We would
cheerfully canvass the city to abide
ten minutes under the love and ad
monition of the man who places our
welfare above his own, who has
grown rich of character through prac
tical heartfelt kindness.”
“True, Bob, you may not be able
to distinguish a mushroom from a
toadstool, but there are men who
can. The best way to know genuine
kindness is to practice it with the
words, deeds and face. Gentleness
plants a beauty in the eye, easily rec
ognized in those who are kind. This
year I was ushered into the pres
ence of a lady in Barrow county.
She sat by a window with her Bible
in her lap. Our acquaintance was
of the slightest. She lifted a face
to mine benign as faith, hope and
charity. She extended a hand as
gracious as good will to man. I
looked into those kindly eyes with
that reverence with which one ap
proaches God’s Altar. And I thought
that there about this saintly lady a
child could kneel at the most sacred
altar that God has erected for the
salvation of the world, the Christian'
mother’s hearthstone.”
A political article carries a large
headline, “Lips of Watson Are Seal
ed.” Knowing that our dear Tom is
still in the land of the living, we
read the article to learn that it had
reference to James E. Waston, of
Indiana, who seems to be a republi
can of great importance thereabouts.
* FOR TAX RECEIVER
1 hereby announce myself a can
didate for the office of tax receiver
of Barrow county, subject to the vote
of the citizens of the county in the
primary May 10. I will not be able
to get over the county to see the
voters as the time is short, and the
condition of the weather has delay
ed me in preparation of a crop, so
will have to be at home w r hen the
weather is suitable to work. But I
solicit the support of all the voters
of Barrow' county and will promise
if elected to give the very best ser
vice I can. Respectfully,
W. C. BAGGETT.
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OUR BANK IS A NATIONAL BANK, OPERATING UNDER A CHARTER
FROM THE GOVERNMENT AT WASHINGTON. BUT, BECAUSE OUfi
BANK HAS BEHIND IT MEN OF HIGH CHARACTER AND FINAF4IAL
RESPONSIBILITY. WE CONDUCT OUR BUSINESS IN A CONSERVA
TIVE YET PROGRESSIVE MANNER, AND PROMOTE NOT ONLY
THE INTERESTS OF OUR PATRONS, liUT THE INTERESTS OF THE
WHOLE COMMUNITY.
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK.
WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS.
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When Better Automobiles Are Built
BUICK
Will Build Them
A few Doctors who drive
BUICK CARS
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DR. C. B. ALMOND, Winder, Ga.
DR. S. T. ROSS, Winder, Ga.
DR. L. W. HODGES, Winder, Ga.
DR. H. P. QUILLIAN, Winder, Ga,
DR. J. T. WAGES, Winder, Ga.
DR. S. A. BOLAND, Statham, Ga.
DR. J. C. DANIEL, Statham, Ga.
DR. RALPH FREEMAN, Hoschton, Ga.
DR. L. C. ALLEN, Hoschton. Ga.
Some of them have run 2 years
with less than $5 repairs. These
cars run night and day—cars
that are put to actual^test—ask
them how they like their Buicks
BUICK OWNERS OUR
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A Car Load Will Arrive Soon
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Buick Agency Winder, Georgia.
Notice to Stock Buyers
We have just received a
Car Lead of Mules
Which we will offer the trade at very low prices for the
next few days. If interested, come at once, for we can
only be here a very short time.
J. M. Brooksher & Sons