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THE WINDER NEWS
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R. O. ROSS & SONS
Entered at the Post Office at Winder, Ga., as Second
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ROItFKT O. ROSS,— Editor
It is reported that Hlndenbcrg, head of the Ger
man army, is dead. We fear that this is another
case of “too good to be true.”
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Asa humorist, Hugh Rowe of the At liens Banner
has Charlie Chaplin outclassed. To bear us out in
this we cite the editorial page of the Banner since
the entry of Willium Schley Howard into the Geor
gia senatorial race. Our cracked lips will never heal
unless Hugh stops pulling this silly, mirthful politi
cal stuff as editorial leaders.
Gee Whiz. The promise that W J Harris made to
Aunt Nancy Rowe of the Athens Banner (past tense
used advisedly) must have been a free pass through
the pearly gates. Since William Schley Howard's
entry into the senatorial race the old lady has l>een
peeved. She has been vexed. She has been irritated.
She was seized with a violent and malignant attack
of the splutters and her ceaseless and meaningless
.ravings have attracted the attention of some ex
change editors and a few neighbors near the Shackel
ford building in Athens, Ga., the city wherein our
state university is located. Boiled to its last analy
sis the Athens Banner says that as a congressman
William Schley Howard was a clean, straight, hon
est, able, patriotic statesman who was rendering
great service to his country, and his resignation was
almost an irreparable loss to the lower house, but as
a candidate for the United States senate he is an
all-round crook in league with Hoke Smith, J. R.
Smith and the governmental grafters who build can
tonments in the south.
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CI TS OUT THE PISTOL.
Mr. R. 1.. Woodruff, head of the Woodruff Hard
ware Company of this city, has cut out the sale of
pistols. He has taken this step in the interest of
humanity.
The revenue in this traffic is admittedly large, but
ever since he took over the active management of
the hardware business, the sale of pistols wore upon
liis conscience, and regardless of the monetary side
of the question, society has won so far as he is
concerned, and lie lias addressed u letter to Mr. Wal
ter Harlem, secretary of the Southeastern Hardware
Association, asking that the matter of cutting out the
sale of this. public menace lie discussed at the June
meeting.
The time is coming when it will be unlawful to in
discriminately sell this death dealing instrument in
Georgia, and the hardware men can do patriotic
service to the rising generation by voluntarily do
ing what they will be forced to do when public sen
timent against the “coward and his gun" has reach
ed its zenith.
Mr. Woodruff is to lie commended on this move,
and the action of the Hardware Dealers Association
will lie awaited with interest.
ACROSS THE SEAS THEY CALL.
Across the seas from every war-torn nation in the
allied cause there comes the call for lied Cross help.
It comes from soldiers who have grimly faced the
gleaming bayonet steel and poison gass and scream
ing shells, and who now lie with parching throats
and throbbing wounds.
It comes from soldiers sick with fever, pnuemonia
and tuberculosis.
It comes from soldiers crippled, mutilated, blinded,
who can no longer tight and must be taught and
trained for useful occupations.
it comes from the underfed, shivering, helpless
prisoners in the German prison camps.
It comes from little children, orphaned, homeless,
slowly starving day by duy, by tens and tens of
thousands.
It comes from mothers In the pillaged zones of
war whose hearts and souls have been made numb
with horror.
From all these millions of suffering human beings
there comes across the seas the call for help—help
that because of the frightful burdens placed upon
our allies cannot be given unless it be provided by
the American Red Cross.
. Another hundred millions is needed to "carry on.”
What will America’s answer be? Every cent of
every dollar received for the Red Cross War Fund
goes for war relief.
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SHOI'LI) SPRINKLE THE STREETS.
For many years the business men of Winder have
been paying for the sprinkling of the streets in the
center of the city. This is unjust and unfair.
This very business man pays a specific tax for the
privilege of doing business in the city, and out of
this tax he lias a right to expect that the city fa
thers keep the strts'ts clean, safe and sanitary.
It ts a pom* landlord who fails to keep his prop
erty in a tenantable condition.
Itu't it as important that the civic authorities
make the streets ns attractive and as agreeable for
their tenants? Why should there be a special tax
on business if business is to receive no special courte
sy from tlie council?
We have no desire to be a scold, but Winder is
lagging behind In many ways. There is too much
stench, too much dust and too many drunks for the
civic welfare of a city like Winder,
thriving city on the map of Georgia.
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TO GEORGE 11. LONG.
“I say to George H. Long and liis paper, The Mu
con Telegraph, that 1 dare you any time you want
to, to publish the full correspondence between the
president and myself— you’ve got it—and then I’ll
be satisfied to leave it to the people of Georgia to
judge.’’ Extract from Waycross speech of William
Schley Howard.
Now, Long, if you really want the people of Geor
gia to know the facts, and Judge for themselves, let
us have the correspondence. A telegram to the pres
ident from Macon would cost little more than one
from Atlanta. You have Bill's consent.
WHY THIS MADNESS?
There is no one so foolish as a mad editor, unless
it be more editors.
And the editors of the Harris organs in Georgia
are seemingly mad; mad because Congressman Wil
liam Schley Howard is asking the people of Georglu
to consider his eligibility to represent them In the
United States senate.
They are searching for and manufacturing mud —
the old game when political schemes are blocked.
They know that William Schley Howard’s official
record will stand the democratic test.
He is no Solomon, but he has their patriot out
classed when it comes to “services rendered” to his
government.
Beyond being a good fellow’ and a claimant tc pres
idential favor they know Harris has nothing to com
mend him to the voters of Georgia, and they see all
their well-lain plans to ease him into Hardwick's
'senatorial shoes steadily fading.
They may abuse and ridicule Bill Howard all they
please, but his official record shines brighter under
the white light of publicity. He has been true to his
trust, never shirked an official duty, and on ques
tions that at the time were unpopular, boldly took
his stand for what lie thought best for the American
people, w hile some of his democratic colleagues were
wiring politicians back home in an effort to feel the
public pulse.
Ami where was Bill Harris, the patriot, then?
What was he doing to check German propagnada
back in Georgia?
He was silently signing a payrool to dispense fed
eral funds, with an ear to the ground to catch the
political trend back in dear old Georgia.
Long before Hardwick delivered his Columbus ad
dress Harris was planning to succeed him.
Even before Woodrow Wilson took the oath of of
fice for the second time, we received a letter from a
•Savannah friend of Harris asking us for our opin
ion as to the relative strength of Hardwick and
Harris in Barrow county.
Yet these Harris organs would try to create the
impression that Harris, the patriot, was the first to
challenge the conduct of Senator Hardwick; that he
is the pathfinder, blazing a patriotic trail through
this great state.
Perish the thought. Harris w’as a tentative can
didate for Hardwick’s seat long before Hardwick
cast votes for war and against the selective draft.
Harris has a right to run for office in Georgia, and
so lias Howard, Dean, Cooper, Shaw and Hardwick.
We don’t believe that President Wilson is con
cerning himself in this Georgia senatorial race no
more than to father the hope that Georgia will re
buke the man who has proven an obstructionist to
administration policies and war measures.
Should he interfere between loyal democrats, we
believe that loyal Georgians would at the polls re
sent the dictation in the exercise of their sovereign
rights.
“AMAZING GRACE HOW SWEET THE SOUND.”
Below we give an extract form “What Hoke Says."
In view of all pros and cons, whys and wherefores,
these paragrahps sound interesting, and one would
be justified in believing that Senator Smith had
slept a couple of years and thought he was talking
for publication in 1920:
“Our people should be taught that it involves
our existence as a nation, their homes and tlie
future of their children. They must cease en
tirely to think of it as a foreign war. It in
volves preserving our country from foreign rule.
“We must realize now that it is a light to a
finish. We must mobilize every resource to de
feat them. If we do not whip them in France,
we will have to fight them here at home. I
would rather see the United States sink two
hundred feet below the sea level, and the waters
of the Atlantic and the Pacific pass over us,
than to submit to the treatment which the bar
barous Prussians placed upon Belgium. I urge
you to use every opportunity to let every man,
woman and child understand how our future is
involved in this tight. We must lie ready to
make any sacrifice to save our country. Unless
we save our country we cannot save ourselves.
Any sacrifice will he less than the sacrifice
caused by a German victory.”
PEACE-AT-ANY-PRICE PROPAGANDA IS PRO
GKKMANISjVf.
By Marlon Couthony Smith.
Every civilized human being hates and abhors war
per se. Our first grievance against Germany is that
site made this dreadful war; our second is. that
site has carried it on in a manner inconceivable to
the average human mind. The tiling which makes
the radical difference between us is, that I believe it
to lie fatal blindness —absolutely favorable to the
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enemy—to let any natural abhorrence of war eount
today. I recognize this war as a part of that mighty
final conflict between good and evil, predicted not
only in the Bible but in the minds of men. The good
is of course not absolute, but is good in tendency
and aspiration, and involves all that man values, in
civilization, in freedom, in honor, in mercy, in safety
to the helpless, in truth and righteousness at large.
Destiny, which is God working in us toward a right
eous end. bus decreed that for the world's redemp
tion we spare neither blood nor life, nor peace nor
ease, nor anything that must be sacrificed on the
world's cross. Therefore I hold those who refuse to
sacrifice for any motive are recreant to the greatest
cause the world has ever known. In war, as in
peace, the difference between the aggressor and the
defender is radical, and is constantly emphasized in
life. And where such tremendous issues are involv
ed. “he that is not with us is against us.” Compro
mise is impossible. One does not analyze motive
when- the knife is at tlie throat of civilization and
■Christianity—actions are all.
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HAND US THE SALT.
Beautifully educated (the linguistic accomplish
ments being wonderful) with all tlie sweetness and
grneiousness of the Southern woman, and the exotic
charm of a foreigner, Mrs. Davis is an unusual com
bination oi beauty uuil culture and her vivid, en
thusiastic maniier and her keen sense of humor dom
inant at every turn, surprises her auditor and re
veals her as a delicious hit of female originality and
exquisite charm, of both uientul and pyhsieal pul
chritude.—Birmingham Age-Herald.
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY. May 16, 1918.
HOWARD AT MONROE.
William Schley Howrad delivered a campaign ad
dress ut Monroe Wednesday. Some Winder friends
motored down to hear the speech. They say Mr.
Howard’s effort was a clear-cut argument of the
issues between himself and the incumbent. He did
not mention Shaw, Cooper and Dean end bad very
little to say about Harris, as the latter had been
holding a SIO,OOO clerical Job and the others had no
political records to discuss. He took a rap at Hugh
Rowe, of the Athens Banner, comparing him to a
'little flee dog he saw running after an express train
in Pennslyvania. The passengers could see that the
dog was barking, hut they never heard him. Mr.
Howard said there were two things he wanted his
hearers to retnember. One is that a crook fears ex
posure and the other is that a weakling dreads com
petition.
Mr. Howard spoke in the Chautauqua tent to a
targe gathering of the best citizenry of Monroe and
the surrounding territory and his address was en
thusiastically received. It was the concensus of op
inion on all sides that Mr. Howard will carry Will
ton comity overwhelmingly.
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DEATH OF A. K. BRASELTON.
A. R. (Poss) Braselton, of Pendergrass, died
Tuesday. A few days ago he was stricken with
paralysis and his death came as a result of that
stroke. Mr. Braselton was one of Jackson county’s
most prominent citizens. He was at one time sheriff
and held the office of chairman of roads and revenue
for several terms. For the past two years he had
been giving his time to farming and stock raising.
The funeral was held at the Pendergrass Baptist
church and interment occurred in the cemetery there.
“Poss” Braslton was well known and had many
friends and relatives in Barrow county.
SMOKELESS SATURDAY.
The L. T. L.’s, the junior branch of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union, is working hard to
care for a French child, and they are appealing to
the smokers of Winder and vicinity for aid. They
usk that next Saturday be made a smokeless day,
and that an amount equal to that burned in smokes
In one day be contributed to them, the funds to go
for the purpose above mentioned.
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PRO-GERMANS TAGGED FOR HADES.
“To hell with all German sympathizers and thank
God for Woodrow Wilson,” exclaimed United States
Senator Benjamin Ryan Tillman, in concluding an
address before the state democratic conveution,
which convened at Columbia, S. C. Wednesday. The
senator declared that he wanted the people of the
state to know where lie stood on the one issue before
them —the war issue.
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Women of the Southern Baptist church have been
granted full and equal rights with the men.
Strange 9 s
Dresses
Another shipment of beautiful Taffeta dresses;
Georgette sleeves; the best we have ever received
for the money. Worth up to $15.00
Choice $9.95
J. T. Strange Company
FOR CONGRESSMAN.
To the People of the Ninth Congres
sional District of Georgia:
I respectfully announce that I am a
candidate for congress from the Ninth
district of Georgia, subject to the demo
cratic primary, Sptember 11th, 1918.
I was born and reared within the
bounds of your district, and have spent
my life in your midst and your welfare
is of the greatest concern to me. To
represent you in the national house is,
indeed, an honor. At this time there
are grave duties and responsibilities to
be assumed by your congressman.
The world is engaged in a titanic
struggle for supremacy; a conflict be
tween right and wrong, truth and false
hood, democracy and autocracy. The
United States has never yet met de
feat, although our heritage has come to
us through many a bloody battlefield
and over unnumbered slain. Our great
est effort should be to preserve for our
children and our children’s children
that freedom we now enjoy.
To accomplish this it is of the great
est importance that our people should
be true to the principles of democracy
and especially that your congressman
shall not only be patriotic and loyal,
but outspoken and persistent in their
efforts to uphold the arms of authority.
They should not waiver, nor should
they lack in that courage to go and per
form where duty calls.
True Americanism is not only an
ideal, it is a living, breathing virtue
that shall save our country. I promise
yuo that virtue, to live it, breathe it
and promulgate it wherever I go. If
you trust me I shal not fail you.
In making this anouncement I wish
to assure you that your influence and
support will be greatly appreciated.
Respectfuly yours,
R. P. JACKSON,
May 7th, 1918, Dacula, Ga.
BENEFIT OF FRENCH ORPHANS.
Next Friday night little school chil
dren will put on a play at the school
auditorium, the proceeds to be used in
caring for a French orphan.
Popular prices will prevail, and the
tecahers and children are bestirring
themselves to make the occasion enjoy
able as well as philanthropic.
The “kaiser” will be there in all his
kultur. Don’t miss seeing him.
SMALL WANTS
Drag harrows and spring tooth har
rows at Woodruff Hardware Cos.
FOR RENT—3 nice connecting rooms
with water and lights; will rent
very reasonable. Apply to W. E. Tread
well, Winder, Ga. 4-7
MOTORMEN AN D CONDUCTORS
W r ANTED—Men between the ages
of 21 and 40 ; good wages. For further
information write P. O. Box 152, At
lanta, Ga. 4-7-p
See the new Jewell range at Wood
ruff Hardware Cos.
FOR RENT—My home on Center St.
is for rent. Will rent furnished or
unfurnished. If interested see me at
once. J. M. Rrooksher.
To cultivate your cotton and
get a spring tooth cultivator at Wood
ruff Hardware Cos.
FINE VARIETY THOROUGHBRED
Pigs for sale at reasonable prices.
See J. M. Jackson at his residence or
Ambrose Jackson at Oldsmobile Sales
Company.
Spring tooth cultivators at Woodruff
Hardware Cos.
STRAYED—Light, bay mare mule,
weight about 800 pounds, short
coupled, in good order. Finder notify
me at Campton, Ga., and get reward.
W. H. Williams. 1-p
Columbus Buggies the best made.
Just unloaded a carload. Woodruff
Harware Cos.
OLD FALSE TEETH WANTED
DON’T MATTER IF BROKEN.
We pay up to 15 dollars per set. Also
cash for Old Gold, Silver and broken
jewelry. Check sent by return mail.
Goods held ten days for sender’s ap
proval of our offer. Mazer’s Tooth
Specialty, Dept. A, 2007 S. sth Street,
Philadeplhia, Pa. 8-12
CARD OF THANKS.
We take this method of expressing
sincere thanks and appreciation for the
courtesies and kindnesses extended us
during the illness, death and burial of
our husband and father. God bless
you all.
MRS. C. T. HAMILTON.
MRS. C. R. SORRELLS.
MRS. T. L. GARRETT.