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THE WINDER NEWS
Published Every Thursday Afternoon By
R. O. ROSS & SONS 7
Entered at the Post Office at Winder, Ga., as Second
Class Mail Matter.
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ROBERT O. ROSS,. Editor
i With the exception of Bunk Cooper all the other
senatorial candidates answer to the name of Bill.
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Mr. J. T. Austin set us up last week to the best
brand of sorghum syrup we have ever spread over
batter cakes and butter. It was made from can
grown from mountain seed.
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WO notice that W. L. Skelton and others have
taken over the Royston Record. Bill has made good
with The Elherton Star but how to keep on top with
two pajK'rs strikes us as some job.
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A western judge declares that the husband or wife
deserted for another is entitled to neither pity nor
damages, being in the position of one who has got
ten rid of some worthless property.
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THROUGH PICKING COTTON.
Mr. J. H. Austin, Campton Route 2. dropped in to
See us Monday to qualify for another year to The
News. He told us that he had finished picking his
1917 cotton crop, having picked four bales since
January 1, 1918. He said it was necessary to strip
the bolls from the stalks and delay picking while he
was preparing for another crop. The delay was
occasioned in part by some of the force answering
Uncle Sam’s call for men at the front.
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Long the Canadian editorial fleet-foot of The
Macon Telegraph, is responsible for a whole lot of
political slush appearing in a few of the disappoint
ed Harris organs of Georgia. It seems to be a case
of “you did” and “I didn't.” But admitting that ev
erything Long says as to the Howard presidential
interviews is the gospel truth, the public records of
Howard and Harris are not in the least affected. We
fear the reported favoritism of the president for
Harris caused these papers to make a bad political
break without due consultation with Mr. Voter.
Ease up, gentlemen, patriotic Georgia will make a
patriotic senatorial choice, regardless of President
Wilson’s personal preference in the matter. The
Harris paper balloon has bursted, and no one is par
ticularly to blame. lie is n fine fellow, but the job
is too big for him and no set of loyal Georgians know
that fact better than loyal Georgia voters. Again,
the Georgia voters are the (Inal arbiters of who shall
represent Georgia, and if their choice should be
Thomas W. Hardwick, as a democrat, we yield.
DEVELOP THE WATER POWER.
The Georgia Railway and Power company lias ap
plied to the Railroad Cbmmission for approval of a
revised scale of rates proposed for it for electric cur
rent sold to towns and residents along its lines, and
to increase street ear fares. Eighty odd companies in
the United State's and Canada have revised their
rates since the beginning of the war.
The Georgia Railway and Power company claims
a loss of nearly five hundred thousand dollars dur
ing 1917.
If this is a fact, serious consideration should he
fciven the petition of this company. Operating ex
penses have practically doubled since war was de
clared. and if the development of water power is to
continue, it must be self sustaining and more to at
tract Investment.
North Georgia is vitally interested in the develop
ment of itsj water power, and if the claim for revi
sion has merit, we feel sure the Railroad Commis
sion will not retard this development by withhold
ing consent for the revision.
If the company is being operated at a loss, one of
two things must occur sooner or later —its rates
have got to be advanced or bankruptcy will follow.
Before it can advance its rates, the Georgia Railway
Commission wil lhave t ogive it permission to do so
The company has spiraled to that body for this
right, and the people of Atlanta who are already
paying less for their light and power than the i>eo
ple of Winder, and are enjoying street ear rides for
5 cents that Winder people have to pay other com
mon carriers 50 cents for an equal distance. Win
der at present has a contract with the power com
pany, and discussing this questino, The Klberton
Star says of a similar situation in that city:
“If the Railroad Commission grants the company
the privilege of increasing its rates, Klbertonians will
not suffer thereby until the mayor ami council of
Rlberton agree to an increase, because of an existing
contract with the city. The people of Atlanta, how
ever. would doubtless have to pay nearly quite as
much for their power and light as the people of El
lierton pay for theirs, and also might have to pay six
cents for an eighteen mile ride, or for one of even a
much shorter distance.
“If the Railroad Commission should refuse to
grant the company permission to increase its rates,
as before stated, the company sooner or later would
be driven into bankruptcy. That doesn't mean that
the plunts of the company would quit developing
electric iwwor, or that the strivt cars would stop.' It
would mean, though, that the company with which
Elberton. and scores of other towns and cities out
side of Atlanta, has a contract prohibiting an in-
crease in rate without niutuul agreement of the con
tracting parties, would he legally dead, and its con
tract would die with it. It would mean a reorgan
ised company would take up the business of the Geor
gia Railway and Power company, and would make
tew contracts. And unless the new company could
succeed in securing labor and material at cheaper
prices than the old company Elherton or Atlanta
would have to pay it an increased price for power
and light and street car rides, because somebody,
somewhere, has got to pay the cost of production und
of service. And in such contingency, it is very prob
able that Atlanta would take care of Itself, as it has
already done in the matter of light and power rates,
leaving the rural patrons of the new company to
make up for any deficiency caused thereby.”
IT IS UNKIND.
There lives in Winder a lonely gentlemen. He has
his peculiarities and indiosyncrasies, but he harms
no one and all his thoughts are for the betterment
of mankind.
He is getting old, and he deserves the respect of
us all. Recently some boys and young men. in a
spirit of fun of course, have indulged in pranks and
tantallizing remarks that are distasteful to him.
One with a different birthday gift would pay no
attention to such conduct on the part of others. But
to him the insult is real, and his feelings should lie
yespeeted.
These young men should reflect. They should re
spect this lonely citizen.
Find fun and enjoyment in other directions. To
say the least your conduct is neither charitable nor
manly.
WILL TURN AWAY IN DISGUST.
When the war is over some of our soldiers will
retnrn. But thousands will be buried on the battle
fields of France. Some will return with one eye, or
a leg or an arm missing, and will relate ex
periences in the trenches; tell how he suffered in
the wind and snow and the August sun; tell how he
was in the thickest of the tight, how the dead and
wounded men were picked up all around him ; how
he suffered for food with his uniform tattered and
torn ; how he was wounded and spilt his blood on
the battlefield, suffered in the hospital, but glory in
the fact that Barrow county soldiers stood like a
wall and whipped the Huns. He will tell you how
often lie thought of us back home. He will ask you
what were you doing to help win the war, and when
you tell him that our county was prosperous and
prices were fine and that you raised cotton and pros
pered and let others raise wheat and corn and buy
bonds, he will turn away with disgust.
Do something to help win the war.
J. F. B.
OVER AND TO SPARE.
As predicted last week Barrow county lias “gone
over the top” in her Liberty Loan drive.
To no one in particular is this success due. hut to
men and women of all walks of life, from the banker
with his thousand dollar bond down to the humble
negro tenant with his fifty dollar bond.
Chairman Walter Jnckson deserves praise for the
splendid organization lie perfected. All honor to the
busy men who dropped their personal affairs and
worked unstintingly for the men in the trenches and
in camp.
But to the women belong the highest mead of
praise for persistent, sacrificial work and splendid
results.
“She hath done what she could” will echo down
the corridors of time and reverberate in the “mansion
not built with hands.”
With her it was a work of love mixed with county
pride, and Barrow was sent over the top in a whirl
wind finish.
\VE ARE UNABLE TO MAKE GOOD.
Lust week we promised to publish the names of
all the subscribers to the Third Liberty Loan, but
for once we are unable to make good. However, it
is not our fault.
The work of sorting out the bonds and assigning
them to the proper districts is tedious, and we prefer
to wait until we can give each district credit for
its purchases.
However, we do know that Cain’s district ex
ceeded its quota and is entitled to an honor flag. It
is said that parctiacallly every home in that district
possesses a Liberty bond.
Our friend Bill Burwell has gotten out before he
got in.
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Bill Burwell, of Hancock, in an interview, settles
tin* question of his entry into the Georgia senatorial
race. He joins the few in this state who will sup-
V>rt W. J. Harris.
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Long keeps on calling for Howard’s files anent
presedential interviews and private correspondence,
if it is honorable, etc., to give the public conversa
tions and correspondence between a congressman and
bis president, it would be equally honorable to start
tot the other end of the line. Long have your Boss
tell Hugh Rowe of The Athens Banner to ask Hollis
Randolph to lay the matter before Edward Brown
and urge Brown to have his prospective senatorial
stamp through his “closeness” to the president,
gain that great gentlemen’s consent to give Georgia
voters the inside to this big racket about nothing.
The Athens Banner while asserting that the entry
of William Schley Howard into the senatorial race
did not create a ripple on the political waters, is still
throwing daily fits. If Howard’s entry matters not,
why should The Banner abuse Howard while remain
ing silent ou the entry into this race of John R.
Cooper. Emmett Shaw and H. H. Dean. The truth
is, and The Banner, knows it, Howard’s entry sealed
the political doom of W. J. Harris. Emmett Shaw
will carry more counties than Harris unless the
track can he eleared of all eligibles. The people of
Georgia are looking to the records of the men who
offer for this place, and from a loyal patriotic view
jHiint, t'ongressnian Howard’s record will stand the
acid test. Raise all the racket you please about
"promises." They will add nothing to the states
manship of Harris, nor prevent Howard from being
the most formidable opponent to Senator Hardwick.
We are frank to confess that all of our life we
have condemned Great Britain for what we believed
to be her unjust treatment of Ireland. We had read
in song and story of her refusal to give the Irish
home rule, and we could not understand why a great
nation should keep the heel of oppression upon the
land of the shamrock. Ignorance is generally the
basis for mistaken ideas. Not until a well-to-do
Irishman from the old country entered business in
Winder did we know that southern Ireland favors
home rule and northern Ireland opposes it . We did
not know the real bone of contention until this Irish
man explained to us his opposition to home rule. He
says that ifeland is not mistreated by England; that
flit* country is well governed and the taxes light;
that home rule would meau Home rule for Ireland
and the domination of the country by the Catholic
church.
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 1918.
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t’jngfcjffiFijr* J The Red Cross recognizes neither party, nor
race, nor creed. It is world-wide in scope
wP an d humane in purpose. It has no political
nor economic ends to serve. It only asks
w here it can be helpful to men and women
in distress —afflicted by disease, overtaken
|p|Kj|l| m .K by some sudden disaster or caught in the
or deal of war. There it finds its place and
opportunity. There it springs to serve man-
The Red Cross is the Great Neighbor,
ft treats every man as a brother, and asks
no rethm. If the world of toiling people is
made a little more comfortable, a little happier, a little
stronger for the struggle of life through its effort, the Red
Cross is content. And while it is not affiliated exclusively
with any religious body, it is essentially a Lay Brotherhood
and Sisterhood of all denominations, putting in practice the
teachings of all religions,—unselfish sendee and good deeds.
The works of mercy which it is banded together to accom
plish are the result and evidence of its noble sincerity and
inspiring faith.
In the great emergency of the present war the Red Cross
is doubly enlisted. In all it does to help us to win, it is help
ing to save and maintain those ideals of faithfulness and
honor, kindness and loyalty on which its own existence rests.
And every man, woman and child who realizes this —
realizes the peril we are in—and who can help the Great
Cause in no other way, can at least support the generous
efforts of the Red Cross. It is the best equipped agency in
the world to bring succor in the day when only organized
and well directed help can avail.
25 TONS OF ETHER—
THAT’S ONE ITEM
Only the quickest action imaginable,
which included the shipment of tre
mendous quantities of hospital sup
plies from Red Cross stores in France,
as well as large purchases in Italy,
made the emergency work of the
American Red Cross possible during
the recent distress in Italy brought
about by the rout of the Italian army.
No such mission for human help has
ever seen the like of this heroic work
by the American Red Cross in Italy.
For the winter’s needs it was found
that 750 tons of hospital supplies were
required, and these were ordered in
America for immedia,te delivery to
Italy.
Some of the things ordered were an
aesthetics, surgical Instruments, rub
ber goods, enamel ware, gauze, ab
sorbent cotton and drugs. Just what
such a shipment means is difficult for
a layman to grasp.
If you'd like to see your druggist
lose all his senses at once just tell
him about some of these quantities
that were ordered for use in Italy.
Tell him that 250 pounds of quinine
were ordered. Since the war quinine
has been difficult to get at any price.
The Great Neighbor
By JOSEPHUS DANIELS
Secretary of the Navy.
Limitations Removed on
Home Grown Wheat
1 take pleasure in announcing to my friends
and customers of the Winder Roller Mill that the
limitations regarding the restriction of flour
ground at any one time has been removed by the
government. The farmers who raise their own
wheat may have it ground just the same as they
always hare so long as in the use of the flour
made from it they observe the conservation rules
of the foil administration.
I have made arrangement for this mill to con
tinue operations throughout the ensuing year
and will tkae pleasure in serving you as hereto
fore. Your attention is called ton statement iu
this paper regarding the removal of the restric
tions regarding farmers who raise their own
wheat.
Winder Roller Mills
D. F. THOMPSON, Manager.
It lias jumped from $2.50 a pound in
France to SBO a pound. (Juirtne is
very badly needed in Italy, and this
Red Cross shipment has been nothing
short of a boon.
Other items which give a better idea
in terms of the things which mean
most to the wounded are 15 tons of
chloroform and 25 tons of ether.
These items are beyond the power of
the layman to visualize, but he can
come nearer to picturing 2,000 bales of
absorbent cotton, the quantity asked
for.
Orders for all these goods for Italy
were placed last winter In America,
and the American Red Cross has seen
to it that shipments of each item are
in process of delivery right along to re
lieve the terrible misfortune of the
people in Italy.
Over 1,000 Repatriated French
Arrive at Evian Daily.
The number of “repatries” ar
riving at Evian daily varies from
1,000 to 1,500. Two trains a day
come into this little town loaded with
these unfortunates, most of them chil
dren under fourteen years of age. The
task that Ihe American Red Cross has
undertaken is the care of these little
children.
Dress
Sale!
at HALF PRICE
We have just received some extreme
ly wonderful values iu dresses. Here
are tow examples which you are offer
ed :
We tell you frankly they are most
'unusual, ami as the quantity of each
is limited, early buying is advised. They
are for the street and general wear
brand-new, never shown in stock be
fore. There are crepes de chine and
Georgette crepe.
Georgette Crepe &
Crepe de Chines at
25.00 values 16.50
65 of these, in stock
Silk Dresses at one
half off
-25.00 values 12.85
Suits
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You business men in these strenu
ous times when matters unusual call
for so much extra time—who haven’t
had the opportunity to go as deeply in
to your selection of spring and summer
attire as heretofore—come to Saul’s.
If it’s a suit to keep you in trim ap
pearance—holding its spruce style and
shape well and giving an all around
good account of itself—we can supply
you—easily, pleasantly and profitably.
Your money cannot buy stronger
values and better clothes efficiency
than we offer in these well-made,
splendid
Schloss Bros, and
Gold Bond Suits
$15.00 to $27.50
Kool Kloth 7.50 to
10.00.
Men's Straw Hats
Officially speaking and otherwise it's
time now to change to the straw top
piece.
Naturally you want one that’s cor
rect in style.
You also want the shape that's best
suited to the contour of your face.
Here you can find variety—variety
in straws—variety in models—variety
in prices.
$1.50 to $3.00
JLSAUL
Winder, Ga.