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Published Every Thursday by R. O. Ross 6f Sons, and Entered at
the Postoffice at 'Winder, Ga.. as Second-class Mail Matter.
From May 11915 obitiiary notices, resolutions and tributes of respect, and notices of entertainments
to which admission fees are charged, will be published at one half cent per word, cash in advance
ROBERT O. ROSS, Editor
ROBERT O. RQSS. JR Associate Editor
VOL. XXII. Thursday, Mrach 30, 1916. No. 51
COMMERCE PASSES ITS ANCIENT
RIVAL.
Paul T. Harber, editor of The
Commerce Observer, paid a visit to
The Georgian office Saturday night j
and observed that Commerce finally
lias passed its ancient rival, Winder,
in the matter of population, largely
due to the fact that in the last few
weeks an overall manufactory has
located there with 40 new citizens.
The total gain since Christmas,
averred Mr. Harber, is 75, while
Winder has not progressed quite j
that far. Mr. Harber said the two
cities were pretty close in population
about 2,500 for Winder and about 2,-
575 for Commerce. —Atlanta Geor
gian.
It is true that Winder loaned to
Commerce a few of her well trained
citizens to get the Commerce Overall
plant in running condition, but these
are still citizens of Winder and al
ways spend the week-end here. Paul
gave Winder’s population about right
—not counting women and children.
BACK UP YOUR SCHOOL.
April 13, 14, 15, at Canton Ga.,
the representatives of the schools of
the Ninth Congressional District will
gather and in debates, speeches, rec
itations, athletic contests, stand for
their respective schools and localities
Winder is progressive. The hero
ic victorious fight for Harrow coun
ty demonstrated to all Georgia the
Winder spirit. We are erecting a
splendid building, tlie best in the
state. Progressive and successful fac
tories and financial institutions have
placed us to the front. This reputa
tion must continue to grow. We
should rally to our faculty and see t
it that our school makes as good
showing as any In the district.
Miss Itubye Johnson is looking af
ter the athletic training and the oth
er teachers are training the contes
tants in their special fields.
A large number of the pupils and
teachers should attend. This will
necessarily cost something. All our
citizens and school officials should
take up the matter and give to our
school representatives their hearty
and cordial financial support and
sympathetic co-operation so when
you are approached on the subject be
ready to respond, not simply with
advice and good wishes, but come
across with real aid. Winder’s edu
cational reputation ana school spirit
is at stake. Come on and put Win
der In front in this gathering.
Field day to select representatives
from Winder at Canton will be Mon
day, April 3., at Athletic Park.
State of Georgia, at the Instance of
John B. Gamble, as Solicitor Gen
eral of the Western Judicial Cir
cuit.
Vs.
CITY OF WINDER
In Barrow Superior Court, State
of Georgia. Petition to confirm and
validate $22,000 bonds for the com
pletion of a school building for said
City of Winder.
On the Bth day of April, 1916, the
above cause, being a petition filed
by the Solicitor General of the Wes
tern Circuit in the name of the State
of Georgia against the City of Win
der and the Mayor and Council of
the City of Winder, in Harrow’ coun
ty, to validate and confirm TWENTY
.TWO THOUSAND ($22,000.00) DOL
LARS of school bonds, the proceeds
to be applied to the completion of a
school building In the City of Win
der will be heard and determined in
the Superior Court room of Barrow
county, said state, at Winder, on the
Bth day of April, 1916, and any citi
zen of the Satte of Georgia residing
within the City of Winder or any
other person, wheresoever resident,
who has a right to object may be
come a party to this proceeding.
This 28th day of March, 1916.
G. N. BAGWELL,
Clerk Superior Court, Barrow coun
ty.
WHAT OTHERS THINK OF
OUR EDUCATIONAL EDITION.
Judge W. W. Stark:
I know the people of Barrow coun
ty must be proud of your Education
al Edition. It Is the best advertis
ing of the schools of a county I ever
saw. You are certainly to be con
gratulated for conceiving the idea,
and the people of Barrow should lift
their hats to you for what you have
done for their schools.
\V. W. STARK.
John A. Thurston, Superintendent of
Upson County Schools:
In today’s mail I find a copy of
this week's paper.
I wish to thank someone for send
ing this copy and wish further to
state that it is a splendid edition and
does credit to any city.
I note with much pleasure space
given the educational cause in your
county and am sure your people are
a progressive people.
Your school superintendent, tho
I do not know him, must be a live
wire and on to his job. I am enjoy
ing reading the entire paper as it
comes from a section of the country
that is not very familiar to me.
Yours very truly,
JOHN A. THURSTON.
F. M. Grissette, Lessee and Mana
ger Citizens Publishing Compa
ny, Loganville, Ga.:
Allow a perfect stranger to con
gratulate you on your Educational
Edition. Typographically it is a gem
and the reading matter is calculated
to do this section untold good. The
Winder News has set a mark with
this edition that can never be excell
ed and may never be equalled again.
We seriously doubt if you could get
out another of like merit —you have
surpassed yourself and every other
paper in Georgia. Respt.,
F. M. Grissette, Lessee.
A fine and creditable edition of a
splendid county paper.
G. A. JOHNS.
Mrs. Nancy Head Davis:
The Winder News is surely an
exceedingly creditable paper. The
Educational issue of March 23, con
tains a wonderful amount of informa
tion concerning the schools and lots
of good reading.
MRS. NANCY HEAD DAVIS.
Lexington, Ga.
A. D. McCurry, Advertising manager
and member firm J. T. Strange
Company:
“Avery fine paper and one cal
culated to be of much benefit to this
section.”
Woman is jeered at for the gro
tesqueness of some of her fashions,
but though she does wear monstros
ities from time to time, when did she
ever go right on clinging to a bad
mistake as man has clung to the un
sightly, unsanitary derby?
Speaking of dancing a Northern
paper says that Wilson has done
pretty badly about Mexico. His
course there has given rise to the
jibe which is passed from mouth to
mouth as a description of the new
Wilson dance: one step forward, one
step backward, hesitate, sidestep.
WHAT WINS THE RACE.
It’s not so much the time nor place;
It isn't scheme nor plan;
It isn’t luck that wins the race —•
It’s courage and the man .
For failure cannot long exist
Where will and dogged aim persists;
So long as doubt
Stays locked without.
And heart and soul are firm and
stout
So long as hope flames in the breast.
And urges ever to the test,
So long as vision seeks the height.
So long as valor cheers the fight—
The past counts nothing; all is new,
Each morrow means a chance to do.
—Herbert Kaufman.
The Winder News, Thursday, March 30, 1916.
SUPERINTENDENT BRITTAIN’S
REPORT.
A recent report to State School
Superintendent, M. L. Brittain, car
ried the startling intelligence that
Georgia counties ran in illiteracy
from 49.5 per cent down. It was
startling, striking, stupenduous. It
is the finest argument for compulsory
education ever published.
Israel had its first real big row
about taxes. The Democratic and
Republican parties fight over the tar
iff and tax bills. The citizens of
counties, cities, wards fight over tlie
subject. Our American Independence
was won over taxation.
The normal taxpayer doesn’t ob
ject to being taxed to educate the
boys and girls of his state provided
the money is used judiciously.
John Doe is engaged by the school
authorities to teach five months at
Coon Holler at SSO per month. The
children, 45 in number, attend well
in January and February, then at
tendance begins to fall off and only
15 attend. If Georgia, as a state, has
the authority to levy money from her
citizens to finance public schools, she
has the authority to say that the
money should be used wisely and for
the benefit of all the boys and girls.
Compulsory educational laws ought
to be adopted or taxes ought to be
lowered. When the state is taxed
to do a certain thing that it doesn’t
do, the state does wrong.
Many a poor boy and girl are plow
ing furrows and hoeing cotton rows
out to the school house yards and
have not the privilege of attending
the schcol and getting its advan
tages.
When money is spent to employ a
teacher and run a school nine
months or five months and the pu
pil only goes two or three months,
there is something radically wrong.
Our men and women with nothing
to do and good salaries and incomes
rave over the conditions in Belgium
aud on the Congo and in Mexico,
when right here at their doors are
poor children, working in factories
and fields, growing up in ignorance
illiteracy and poverty.
We rant over Africa and China
and the poor and ignorant ones there
but mighty little is said about our
unfortunates at home. We build in
stitutions, jails, court houses, etc.,
at the cost of tens of thousands to
care for the criminals, and gag at a
few hundred dollars for our ambi
tious, persevering, bright, intelligent,
worthwhile boys and girls.
Yes, a handsome granite structure
in which to look after a sorry, trif
fling negro criminal, scroundrel, and
a pine-plank shanty to house our no
blest and best boys and girls in the
formative period of citizenship. W£,e
slur Germany but she lias only one
tenth of one per cent of illiterates
in her borders, against our 30 per
cent.
It is time to begin honesty, right
eousness and justice at our very
doors, in our own homes. The next
legislature ought to lower taxes or
pass compulsory school laws. Mr.
Citizen, your welfare and that of
your child is at stake. What about
it?
Banks Grand Jury Endorses Gamble.
During the March term, 1916, of
the Bank county grand jury in ses
sion, John B. Gamble was endorsed
for re-election as Solicitor General of
the Western circuit:
“And to John B. Gamble, Solici
tor General, we extend our thanks
for the able manner in which he has
discharged his duties in the prosecu
tion of the violators of the law, and
for counsel give that body during
this term of the court, and we recom
mend him to the citizens of this coun
ty for re-election to the office of So
licitor General.”
THE SOUTH’S GREATEST WILL
CASE.
Already over fifty of the leading
lawyers of the South have been em
ployed in the famous Jim Smith will
case which is to be tried soon in
Judge Speer's court in Augusta.
This vast estate is claimed by
many heirs from various states.
Like most estates of its character
the major part of it will be lodged fi
nally in the pockets of the lawyers.
Many lawyers from this section
will share largely in the division of
spoils.
Our
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LET US TAKE CARE OF
YOUR MONEY
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A CHARTER FROM THE U. S. GOVERNMENTO DO A BANKING BUSI
NESS. UNDER OUR CHARTER WE MUST CONDUCT OUR BUSINESS
UNDER THE NATIONAL BANKING ACT. THIS LAW PLACES OUft
BANK UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE TREASURY DEPART"
MENT AT WASHINGTON. A RIGID EXAMINATION OF THE BANK’S
AFFAIRS IS MADE SEVERAL TIMES EVERY YEAR IN THE IN
TEREST OF ITS DEPOSITORS.
MAKE OUR BANK YOUR BANK.
WE PAY 5 PER CENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK, WINDER, GA.
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