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THE WINDER NEWS
Published Every Thursday Afternoon By
R. O. ROSS & SONS
Entered at the Post Office at Winder, Ga., as Second
Class Mail Matter.
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ROBERT 0. ROSS,- Editor
1 LIKE IT.
The following by an unknown author fits our case
so nicely that we give it to our readers as our apol
ogy for occasional dark spots on our best biled shirt:
Tobacco is a filthy weed;
I like it.
It satisfies no normal need —
I like it.
It makes you fat, it makes you lean,
It takes the hair right off your bean,
It’s the worst darn stuff I’ve seen—
I like it.”
The Maysville Enterprise remarks that it takes a
rich man to draw a check, a pretty girl to draw at
tention, a horse to draw a cart, a porus plaster to
draw the skin, a toper to draw the cork, a free
lunch to draw a crowd and- an advertisement in your
home paper to draw trade.
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Man doesn’t have to fight with war engines only;
he tights with his heart and his soul and these have
got to be sustained. The Red Cross is the American
soldier’s best tie with home. When you give to the
Red Cross, realize what you are giving for, then giv
ing will be a joy and not a sacrifice. Think less
about the war; FEEL it more! ,
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The Athens Banner has its political wires terribly
crossed. Hugh Rowe is going to have a sweet time
convincing any one, even himself, that William
Schley Howard is running for the senate coupled
with Tom Hardwick. Hugh has his nose burled so
deep in the Macon Telegraph that he is actually ob
livious to wlmt is going on around the very doors of
the Banner. Look out your windows, Hugh, and you
will see people talking about Howard and Hardwick.
Mrs Oorra Harris, author of “The Circuit Rider's
Wife,” who is writing her impressions of the big
Methodist convention in Atlanta, is of the opinion
if the women in that denomination will cease for a
while in their efforts to get the money for the men
to carry on the great work, tlie hearts of these bish
ops will soften and women will be given equal rights
with man in something else besides doing the active
church work.
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“Every battlefield of France speaks eloquent testi
mony of the merciful work of the Ited Cross. If the
voice of the American expeditionary force could he
heard, there would be no doubt concerning the re
sponses of the United States to the second war fund
campaign. The terrors of battles are d(“creased and
the horrors it entail are minimized by this greatest
of relief agencies. No support which the American
people give to it will be misconceived or niiscredlt
ed.”—Secret ray Maker.
Brand Whitlock. United States minister to Bel
gium states: “.\ platoon was called up, the colonel
in command gave the word to fire, and the gray sol
diers in cold blood shot down those niety persons as
they stood huddled together, twelve under six years,
six of whom were babies in their mother's arms”
Think of it ! Can you imagine anything more hor
rible. Can you imagine a ix'aee agreement with such
beasts? To hell with the kaiser and all who sympa
thize with such a system.
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■ M* A PROCLAMATION.
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• Thursday, May .10th, 1918, has been proclaimed as
a day of fasting and prayer—a prayer to Almighty
God that lie may forgive our sins and shortcomings
as a people and purify our hearts to see and love
the truth, to accept and defend all things that an*
just and right, and to purpose only those righteous
acts and judgments whieh are in conformity with
His will; beseeching Him that He will give victory
to our armies as they fight for freedom, wisdom to
those who take counsel im our behalf In these days
<of dark struggle and perplexity, and steadfastness
to our people to make sacrifice to the utmost in sup
port of wlmt is just and true, bringing us at last the
peace in whieh men's hearts can he at rest because it
is founded upon xuercy, justice and good-will.
HOWARD LOOKS GOOD IN WALTON. t
Of course we haven’t been all over Walton county
to poll the people on the senatorial candidates, now
asking for their suffrage. Neither would we prog
nosticate, but we are reliably Informed by men who
have their fingers on tin* political pulse of this coun
ty and know how to, with great accuracy, diagnose
the case, and they tell us that William Schley How
ard. of DeKalb county, will carry it by a large ma
jority over all other candidates. Those who heard
the splendid introductory speech by Mr. John J.
Ninitially, especially the Howard men. were thrilled
to great applause when In* stilted that Howard would
carry the county by 5.250 majority. If there were
that many voters in the county. Walton gave How
ard 500 majority over Ills opponent for congress
when It was in the Fifth congressional district.—
Walton News.
FOOD CONTROL RESTRICTIONS.
One thing that people are beginning to recognize
is that the food administration will be just as ready
to raise the restrictions upon the consumption of
(food when Conditions warrant as it was vigorous In
applying them. The food administration is a war
agency. It is not an agency for correcting the habits
of American people, or for reforming American eco
nomic practices. This fact was brought out in the
case of meat. It has again been demonstrated by
the action of the administration in removing ten
days before the set time the restrictions against the
gale of live and fresh-killed hens. The food admin
istration is co-operating with the American people
to help them to win the war. It is a positive and
not a negative force. —AMERICAN GROCER.
THE GREATEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD.
Stretching forth her hands to all in need ; to Jew
or Gentile, black or white; knowing no favorite, yet
favoring all.
Ready and eager to comfort at a time when com
fort is most needed. Helping the little home that’s
crushed beneath an iron hand, by showing mercy in
a healthy, human way; re-building it, in fact, with
stone on stone; replenishing empty bins and empty
cupboards; bringing warmth to hearts and hearths
too long neglected.
Seeing all things with a mother's seventh sense
that's blind to jealousness and meanness; seeing men
In their true light as naughty children —snatching,
biting, bitter—but with a hidden side that is quickest
touched by mercy.
Reaching out her hands across the sea to No Man’s
Land to cheer with warmer comforts thousands who
must stand and wait in stenciled and crawling holes
and watersoaked entrenchments where cold and wet
bite deeper, so they write, than Boche steel or lead.
She's warming thousands, feeding thousands, heal
ing thousands from her store; the Greatest Mother
in the World —the Red Cross.
If you should pee a French child —a tiny girl—
sitting by the roadside, sobbing quietly because she
is too weak from hunger to cry very loud, you would
sell your watch to buy her breakfast.
If you should hear somewhere in the restless
wards the low moans of an American soldier, you
would gladly sit by him all night, if that would save
his life.
You are not there, but here, where these sights
and sounds are not brought to you! But the Ited
Cross is there —and you can make it YOUR repre
sentative! I*
Over there the Prussians are crucifying the incar
nate Liberty of Man, and they are making the world
black for little children !
The money you give to the Red Cross now will
give you the right, when the Beast is beaten down,
to think, “There are happy children, clear eyed
women and strong men alive today, because my mon
ey went across!”
What are you going to do about it?—Selected.
STAND BEHIND THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
OF FRANCE.
It is impossible to shift the burden of war so that
It falls only on the shoulders of a few. We are
coming to realize this more and more even in our
own country. But in Europe the lives of all the
people down to the last man, woman andchild have
been affected by this war to an extent that is in
conceivable to us here in America.
In France every man able to carry a gun is fight
ing. Only very young boys and very old men are loft
behind. Try and imagine what it would mean to us
if this happened to America and you will see why
every one in France must do his utmost to keep the
country going.
Every woman, no matter what she was or did be
fore the war, is engaged in some active work in
France now. There are few women left in the
homes. Babies, even those of the best families, are
left in day nurseries so that their mothers may de
vote their energies ami time to war work.
In many cases even the children of France work
on the farms. Picture to yourself children of six
and seven years tilling the fields and driving home
the Hocks at night, some of them so small they can
barely over the baVks of the sheep.
These are tin* women and children of the men with
whom our boys in khaki are fighting shoulder to
shoulder. We must give as loyal support to them
as our fathers, brothers and sons. Stand solidly be
hind them. Help them. Encourage them. Above all
give them their daily bread by eating potatoes and
less wheat. Then more w heat can be shipped abroad.
BACK FROM CHICAGO.
Mr. W. C. Ilortou, president of the North Georgia
Trust and Banking Company and the Bell Overall
and Manufacturing Company, lias returned from
Chicago where he went to attend a meeting of the
National Association of Garment Manufacturers.
He reports the west prosperous and patriotic, and
says that patriotism was the keynote with the man
ufacturers. Harmony principally prevailed, tlie only
thing causing serious diversion being a resolution
that the manufacturers go ou record as favoring the
price-fixing of cotton.
With this Mr. Horton took issue, and the resolu
tion was defeated.
His plea was that cotton be let alone and that
the South t>e given a chance, holding thatcompared
to the* price of wheat cotton should he selling at 48
cents a pound. That it would he manifestly imjust
to the planter to fix the price of cotton unless the
price on everything iuto which cotton goes is reg
ulated.
BELL A POWER IN THE HOUSE.
Those who are familiar with the work of Con
gressman Bell of the Ninth Georgia district, tlie fol
lowing comment is not surprising. They have long
known that while Tom Bell never played to the gal
leries in oratorical flights, that he was a hard work
er and counted his friends by the roster among all
political factions. A Georgia congressman, now serv
ing a Georgia district, who until he entered congress,
just considered Bell a good fellow with average abil
ity, speaking to a friend in Winder stated that the
Ninth's representative was one of the wheel horses
of tin* House and was one of the most popular mem
bers in that body, a tireless worker whose influence
and services were in demand by all.
James A. Holloman, writing for The Atlanta Con
stitution from Washington, I>. C„ lias the following
to say about the congressman from the Ninth dis
trict :
“Coming down to the Ninth district, we find
Representative Bell next to the very top of the
powerful i>ostoffice and postroads committee, lie
is vice chairman now and will become chairman
next session if Representative Moon, of Tennes
see, does not return to the House.
has been suggested that Mr. Moon may not
stand for re-election this time, as he has served
in the House since about the time of the Span
ish-Araeriean War. Of that, however, I am
not familiar. 1 do know that upon his retire
ment. the Georgian will take another chairman
ship for the Empire State.
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 23, 1918.
BARROW COUNTY WOMEN IN WAR SERVICE.
Friday afternoon, May 10, the Barrow county unit
of the Woman’s Committee, Council of National De
fense, met with the county chairman, Mrs. W. C.
Horton. This unit consists of the presidents of all
the organizations of women in Barrow county, and
Is constituted for the purpose of enlisting women
in the county and mobilizing them for war services.
The successful prosecution of the war depends quite
as much upon the great army of women as upon
the boys in khaki, and our women are beginning to
realize this and are rallying to the call. There is
work for every one to do. If you don’t know what
to do, get in touch with some member of the county
unit and she will help you to find out. We must
prove that there is no feminine for “slacker.” We
must make this war service unanimous.
The reports ot work done during the last two
months are inspiring. The Department of Food Pro
duction and Food Conservation, of which Mrs. J. F.
Shgats is chairman, reports 457 war gardens, 150
women growing food crops, 84 canning club girls,
150 war cooking demonstrators. Five thousand tin
containers and 250 dozen glass jars have been or
dered. Home dryers for preserving fruit and vege
tables are being made and demonstrated. Twenty
two demonstrations of war cooking have been made
to groups of women over the county. General farm
Conditions are reprted improving, and much more
attention is being given to the production of food
stuffs.
The matter of Child Welfare is being taken up,
and it is planned to register every child under five
years of age in the county. The preventable mortal
ity among little children in Georgia is appalling, and
the government is urging that every possible effort
be made to save these little ones. Already much em
phasis has been laid upon the proper food and care
of children, but more definite work along these and
other lines of Child Welfare will be undertaken in
the future.
The W. C. T. U. has undertaken to see that every
boy who has left for service has been provided with
a comfort bag. Most of these have been made by
the ladies of this orgnaization, but under their direc
tion and encouragement, the colored women are be
ginning to muke them for the colored men who are
going out.
About 900 books and recent magazines have been
sent to the Carnegie Library in Atlanta, to be sent
to camps or to France for the use of our boys. Dif
ferent organizations are keeping in touch with the
boys through correspondence, and we are trying to
get in touch with the homes of all who are in the
service. It is desired to place a service flag in these
homes. Such flags are displyaed in many homes,
but not yet in all. Also, many are being placed in
the churches of the county.
About sixty patriotic talks have been made in
schools churches, etc., and a sterioptiean is being
used. Seventeen patriotic programs have been given
in churches and schools (white and colored) ; one
county rally has been held, and a service flag for
the county has been unveiled.
The women have rendered efficient aid in the Lib
erty Loan campaigns and in the sale of Thrift and
War Savings Stamps. Eighteen Thrift Stamp So
cieties have been organized in the schools, and one
in the Bell Overall plant. Totals raised in the coun
ty are not now available, but at last report, $12,-
•_> 13.66 had been raised in Winder Public Schools.
Literature has been sent to all teachers in the coun
ty, and four district chairmen have been appointed.
Tlie Department of Home and Foreign Relief, of
whieh Mrs. Paul Roberts is chairman, reports that
there are now three Red Cross groups in the coun
ty arid three Junior Red Cross groups. These have
546 and 205 members, respectively. Thirty-one socks
.1 sweaters, 14 shirts and 30 “T” bandages have been
made and given to the Red Cross. Also 41 ambu
lance pillows, 36 cases for same. Sixty garments
have been made and sent overseas for relief work.
Two French orphans an* being supported by the
Winder schools, one by the' W. C. T. U. and one by
Statham.
Avery important part of the w r ork done by the
county unit during the past two months was the
work among the colored people. They have bought
Liberty bonds, Thrift stamps, and are becoming more
and more Interested in saving the foods asked by
tlie government, and in booking after the beys who
are away, buying service flags, making comfort bags,
and helping In any way they can. Temperance in
struction has been introduced into their school, and
the children are being encouraged to live cleaner,
better lives.
The Barrow county unit has only recently com
pleted its organization, and already results of its
efforts are proving better than expected, but we may
look for better things in the months to come. Tlie
next monthly meeting will be held at the home of
Mrs. Sikes In Statham. It is hoped that the head
of every woman’s organization in Barrow whether
khe is notified personally or not. will be present.
This meeting will he held on Friday, June 7.
This is a service for our boys, our country, and
world freedom. Our boys are offering their lives—
shall we hold back what we can give?
—N. C. W.
ABOUT REGISTRATION.
June stli has been named by President Wilson as
the day for the registration of all young men in
America who have become twenty-one years of age
since June 5, 1917.
The only notice these young men will get is that
contained in the newspapers. This registration, like
the previous one, is compulsory, and all who are not
sick, will have to report to the local board at the
court house.
In case of illness, the local board will arrange for
the registration of such persons.
You need not expect official notice by mail of this
requirement. The government expects you to re
spond to the proclamation published by the press.
Don’t fail to come to the court house ou June sth
and register, and the Barrow county board requests
all to assist in notifying those who cannot read so
they may be informed.
June 5, 1918, is the day, and the place is at the
county court house.
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Speaking of decency in politics, it seems to us
that The Athens Banner could have afforded to de
lay its “splutters" against William Schley Howard
on the day that Gentleman was standing by the
open grave of a beloved sister.
HOGGISHNESS BLOCKING
IMPROVEMENTS.
Atlanta is raising a great howl be
cause the Georgia Railway and Power
Company has asked the Railway Com
mission for the privilege of raising
passenger rates. We believe in fair
play in all things, and we make no ex
ception when dealing with a corpora
tion. In the circumstances the position
of Atlanta’s picked political committee
does not appear tenable to us. For
more than six months the Atlanta pa
pers have been nagging and demanding
of the power company the expenditure
of vast sums of money to improve the
street railway service to and from
Camp Gordon. Any one who is at all
inclined to be fair realizes that mate
rial and labor has advanced more than
one hundred per cent, since the war be
gan. All other public utilities, includ
ing those the government has taken
over, have advanced their prices, then
why not the street railway company?
It matters not what they were making
upon their invested capital before the
war. They are giving good service and
we were satisfied at that time. Why
should Atlanta howl if the street rail
way company makes money? It is not
the only enterprise with headquarters
in Atlanta that is making money. The
howlers are no paupers. We want the
Georgia Railway and Power Company
to make money, for we want that cor
poration to be in a position to give
Winder and other small towns along
its lines better electric lighting facili
ties. Atlanta you are wrong. Your
hoggishness is blocking improvement
and progress.
EVEN LITTLE CHILDREN GAVE.
The Red Cross committee used us
this week to attend a meeting in one
RESERVE^ 1
WAR TIME ORGANIZATION
This bank is a member of the Federal Reserve System,
Because: 1 We consider it our obligation to do our part
in tlie organization of the nation’s banking
resources.
C 2. We believe that the interests of our customers
are safeguarded by our membership in the
F Federal Reserve System with the rediscount
ing privilege which insures our being able
to meet all demands for cash.
WINDER NATIONAL BANK
WINDER, ::: GEORGIA
Will Give Away
Straw Hats
.
With every two-dollar purchase
from my market or grocery store
I will give absolutely free
One .Straw Hat
No raise in prices, just want to
rid myself of a job lot of hats
purchased some time ago. This is
an accumulated stock from sever
al years. Some of them are nice
hats and some of them are not.
There are more than 100 hats that
are going the give-away route.
Come early and get first pick.
Besides this you gdt more for
your money at
Bennett’s Cash Store
of the outlying districts of Barrow
county and in our feeble way attempt
to present the cause to the people. A
subscription was taken up, and it was
touching indeed when the little chil
dren of this rural section began drop
ping in their nickels and dimes. All
of the donations were comparatively
small, but the collection was almost
universal. We came away from the
meeting happy and with a firmer faith
in mankind and its ever present pur
pose to extend the helping hand of
sympathy in hours of need. Imagine
our deep disgust when the first person
to meet our gaze in the morning was
an old fossil who has never yielded a
penny of his vast wealth either for
Liberty bonds, the Y. M. C. A. or the
blessed Red Cross. We realized anew
the extreme fairness of the selective
draft, and th hope flashed through our
heart that the government might take
over the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross
work and place a direct tax upon the
property of people to sustain them
throughout the war.
President and Mrs. Wilson have pre
sented to the American Red Cross the
shearings from the White House sheep,
with the request that this w r ool be auc
tioned in each state. Now if Wall
Street will donate the recent shearings
■of its lambs the Red Cross drive will
go over the top with a great bleat,
JAPAN and China have signed f.
treaty concerning military operations
in Siberia.
FIVE German prisoners of war es
caped from prison at Fort Oglethorpe
a few days ago.
U-BOATS sanks allied tonnage dur
ing April to the amount of 305,102 tons.