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THE WINDER NEWS
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R. O. ROSS & SONS
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ROBERT O. ROSS Editor
NOT NECESSARILY THE FIRST.
Before some of the weekly and small daily editors
of Georgia get “het up” over the senatorial cam
paign. let us look to the record and remember that
all men !>orn on the first of January are not neces
sarily the first men of the nation.
\V. J. Harris and his coterie of editors scattered
over the state are becoming very drastic in their
claims that William Schley Howard’s entry into the
campaign was conceived and fostered by a clique of
shrewd politicians of Atlanta.
They seem to have forgotten Hardwick altogether
und are firing their little pop-guns at Howard. As
the late Mr. Post would say, “There’s a reason.”
Guilty politicians always dread competition and
they become overly suspicious. They jump to wild
conclusions and unfounded charges as a camouflage
for their own secret conclaves and brotherly allign
nients.
Speaking of cliques and combines to control Geor
gia politics, wljat is the influence that is trying to
put W. J. Harris over the top, and when was his
campaign for the senate launched in Georgia.
Doesn't W. J. Harris and his partner own The
Cedartown Standard, and isn't Mr. Coleman, his
business partner, the erstwhile president of the
Weekly Press Association. Isn’t Franc Mangurn, the
editor of the Amerlcus Times-Recorder, an influeucial
member thereof?
The Harris campaign can be directly traced to his
own initiative and the stentorian efforts of a few of
his newspaper friends to run all others from the
field and mold an early Harris sentiment by the use
of the weekly press.
Early in December, 1917, Franc Mangurn, of the
Americas Times-Recorder, telegraphed to the editor
at every county site in Georgia us follows:
“In your opinion who is the most logical can
didate to oppose Senator Hardwick? Who at
present has the most strength in your county
among Upshaw, Cooper, Harris, Candler and
Hardwick? What is Hardwick's approximate
strength in your county? Answer collect.”
Mr. Jdangum received one hundred replies and
published them Sunday morning, December, 30th,
1917, under the following misleading headlines:
“Sentiment against Hardwick very strong through
our state; people favor Harris.”
These replies came from less than one-half of the
weekly press and a few of the great dailies, and with
the exception of those from ten or twelve on tin*
inside of the great political coup, a vien of doubt ran
through all of them.
Then it was that Harris was heralded as the pres
idential favorite, and the great patriot, long before
he relinquished his job at Washington and while Mr.
Howard was busy with his duties at the capitol. The
jK“ople refused to ueeept the press-umde candidate
and the Harris boom would not boom.
The people kept calling for someone to represent
the voters in the United States senate, and William
Schley Howard came into the race.
Not in answer to a call from Atlanta. Not in nn
swer to a call from the Fifth congressional district.
But in answer to letters and telegrams from all sec
tions of Georgia.
The sentiment expressed in the 100 telegrams pub
lished by the Americus Times-Recorder at a time
when neither Murphy Candler nor William Schley
Howard were in the race for the senate, justifies
one in the conclusion that William J. Harris was not
the choice of the people of Georgin, nor was he the
choice of a majority of the weekly editors respond
ing, for 58 of them seemed to be dissatisfied with
Harris as an opponent to Hardwick.
WE NEVER SAIl) IT.
Emmett Shaw is still “eating ’em up alive” in
the senatorial drive. Shaw is the only candi
date from South Georgia, and if lie continues in
tlie race to the end, there may lie some surprise
in store for the North Georgia and Atlanta poli
ticians, who seem to think that they have a ill
vine right to dictate the politics of the state. —
Winder News.
The above is going the rounds credited to this pu
ller. We are not guilty. We have never criticised
or commended Emmett Shaw. Mr. Shaw may lie
sweeping things in tin* second district and lie may
not, hut the part of this paragraph ascribed to us to
which we object is this: “Atlanta politicians who
seem to think they have a divine right to dictate
;he politics of the state.”
So far as we know, the Atlanta politician is as
clean as any other politician in Georgia, and we do
not belong to that little bunch of Georgia mud
slingers who would try to rise politically or other
wise liy misrepresenting the good people of Atlanta
who by co-operation have builded a southern metrop
olis of which every Georgian should he proud.
It is easy to charge, hut it is altogether another
thing to prove. Who are these “dirty Vtlanta poli
ticians?” Is Hugh Dorsey one of them? Is Hoke
Smith one of them? Is General Wright, ('lilt' Walk
er, Clark Howell. Major Cohen and a host of others
prominent in the affairs of state “the dirty little
ring of Atlanta iwliticians?”
If my candidate for United States senator had
nothing else upon which to stand but a prejudice en
gendered against one of the greatest cities on earth,
1 would slink away and hide my fact* w hile 1 prayed
for brains and courage enough to rebuke one so
small as to base his hope of office on such prejudice.
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JUDGE RUSSELL MAY OPPOSE TOM BELU
Judge Richard B. (“Plain Dick”) Russell has been
mingling with friends on Athens' streets today.
Judge Russell whose home is at Winder, stated to a
Herald representative this morning that he was seri
ously considering the matter of making the race for
congress from the Ninth district, opposing Congress
man Tims. M. Bell, who has represented the district
for the last eighteen years.—Athens Herald.
THE PATRIOT’S WAIL.
Strange things they tell which late befell
The “only patriot” in Georgy.
With the "president’s friend” naughty men
Became disposed to “argy.”
Didn't care to abuse his little gum shoes,
Nor did he care to confess, sir.
The presidential voice that was making choice,
Was only the weekly press, sir.
Indignation burned when he had learned
Bill Howard his seat had left, sir.
And loud he cried to our loyal pride—
Was scared almost U> death, sir.
And, strange to tell, he !>egan to yell:
“Why, this thing is sacreligious.
Come here, my friends, and ward off my sins,
You Coleman, Camp and Bickers.”
“I’ve had my eye on the federal pie
For more than twenty years, sir.
I am the anointed, I’ve been appointed,
Howard shall not interfere, sir.”
The friends amazed just stood and gazed,
The truth can’t be nenied, sir.
The very first trip he shot off his lip,
'Tis said he actually lied, sir.
At Athens it was told about some coal
Ami its winter price of barter.
Thus H. H. Dean with fiendish spleen
Came into the muddy water.
With “loyal” pain at the very low plane
Upon which the campaign started.
I’a-trot promises hence to show some sense
To his friends faithful and big-hearted.
Whatever they may do the voters will view
The record of Mister Census Harris;
For well they know the record will show
He is made out of Plaster of Paris.
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SUGGESTS MEMORIAL SERVICES
TO REV. ROBERT S. MrGARITY
Below we publish a communication from .1. N.
Ross, of Chandler’s district, suggesting memorial
services in honor of the memory of the late Robert
S. McGarity, one of the best loved men that ever
lived in this section of the state.
We are sure this suggestion will find favor in the
hearts of many, and it only remains for the day to
he set, and thousands will gather from the territory
in which he lived, loved, preached arid served to
honor his memory. Here is the suggestion:
“Editor Winder News: The friends of Rev. R. S.
McGarity, deceased, would doubtless he pleased to
have memorial exercises held at Pleasant Hill church
in the near future.
“He served the church as a beloved pastor for
many years, received many into the church, baptized
them and spoke words of comfort at the graves of
their departed loved ones. Then let us call a meet
ing and allow those he served so long and so well to
speak of his life and worth.
“At the same time let us speak of the life and char
acter of other men, lately deceased, who aided this
grand man in his good work in this district.
"I am sure that Prof. Judson L. Moore, w'hose
song services are always sweet and inspiring will
meet with us and conduct the singing. He is elo
quent in speech as well as insongand being inti
mately acquainted with all our people it will be
pleasing to have him bear witness as to the life and
character of our deceased friends.
“We ask that some members of this church who
are in position to name a date not in conflict with
other services, do so and announce it.
"Respectfully,
“J. N. ROSS.”
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THEY SHALL NOT PASS.
. (Tiii> Macon Telegraph.)
The German high command lias again sent his
legions crashing against the allied will in France
and this time for forty miles the impact hurls itself
agaiitst the lines Foch holds with the armies of
Petian, Haig and Pershing. It is the last German
effort this year, the last of the war we may set up,
lo roll back and divide the British army from the
French, create a great gap and then destroy the line
that holds from tlie midline of battle to the Channel
ports before the Americans can get into the fray
strength enough to give the Allies numerical and
general all-around fighting superiority on the west
ern front. It is the supreme German effort in the
raw against the hurrying time that is bringing even
to the admission of their war and Prussian-mad
souls tin* certainty of defeat.
They will not get through this time, just as they
failed in the other two. It is not that their assault
will lie weaker. It may be stronger than ever it has
been, but the spirit and the strength of the men who
stopped them before are as unbroken as ever. They
shall not pass is still the slogan, si ill the deathword
and the watchword of the roads that lead to Paris
and the ports, and the Anglo-Saxon and Gaul will
make it good as ever it must be made good.
We will get our first experience of the sort Eng
land. France and Canada have been bearing up un
der for over three years. There is every reason to
believe our troops are brigaded into the holding line
in numbers sufficient to roll up long casualty lists
in such a great drive as this one. It will come so
berly and strongly to us that our blood and bone is
far into the issue across the seas and that it is fall
ing. when it does drop, with its face to the face, with
the American arms striking undaunted and with
high courage. It is grim and desperate work over
there, hut it does call for the high saving qualities
of that courage that counts life hut a pawn in the
game, .that it deems it good to die if death will serve
tlie larger purpose and where honor and devotion
to duty are the supreme virtues. It is to such a
test our men are about to be exposed. It is in such
a test the best that is in them will come out. And
we know they will keep the faith.
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The recent general conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church. South, which was held in Atlanta,
Ga„ gave its full approval to the Centenary of Mis
sions movement which proiaises to raise £15,000,000
in the next five years for home and foreign missions,
church extension and war work. Laymen in all sec
tions of the South are enthusiastic regarding the
measure and the leaders in the great movement are
sanguine of success.
THE WINDER NEWS, THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1918.
The Macon Telegraph is giving “Whispering Billy”
Harris a lot of free hot air—but he needs a lot of
that commodity to keep him going.—Macon County
Citizen. #
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A New York Sun correspondent says a weight tied
onto a mule’s tail will stop him from braying. We
understand, but who is going to keep up the fam
ily of the man who does the tieing while he is getting
well? —Dalton Citizen.
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He Had Right Idea AH Right.
The fellow that rode his horse up the Capitol steps
for the purpose of taking some horse sense to con
gress was at least aware of what congress needs.—
Baltimore Sun.
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Ranks Next to the Kaiser.
Search for the “meanest man” has ended. The
chap who robbed the Blue Devils of their money and
war decorations wins the belt without a struggle.—
Macon Telegraph.
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Chance for Comeback.
The young woman suing a New York hotel be
cause she was kissed in an elevator by an intoxi
cated man leaves the way open for a hot comeback.
S’pose the brute should testify he wouldn’t have
done it if he hadn’t been blind drunk! —Johnny
Spencer in Macon Telegraph.
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YOU HAVEN’T TIME.
Occasionally we hear a busy but thoughtless house
wife exclaim : “I haven’t time to save wheat. Mak
ing wheatless breads takes extra time and besides
I am totally unfamiliar with the other cereals and
would have to learn anew recipe for nearly every
thing I cooked, if I do without wheat. No, I haven’t
time to do it.”
But who has the most time—the American woman
or the women of the allied countries? In Europe,
women are rising at dawn to work in the fields,
nurse the sick and wounded, minister to the home
less and friendless, and keep all the wheels of life
moving while their men are at the front.
In England there is a munition factory where
nearly a year the women have worked ten and twelve
hours a day without a holiday. The government
usually insists on one or two Sundays a month for
rest, but these women refuse to take even this meag
er vacation.
“What will our men do at the front,” they asked,
“if we go holiday making?”
And the superintendent let them go on with their
work, unceasing.
This is not an exception, but an example of how
unremittingly and unselfishly the women of the al
lied eountreis are pouring out all their energies in
one direction or another that will help win the war.
Surely the least we can do is to feed these heroic
women. Of course what we would all like to do is
to have them come into our homes three times a
day and sit down to our plentiful dining tables.
But this is impossible. The next best thing to do
is to send them all of our wheat so that they can
buy plenty of bread at their bakeries at a reasona
ble price.
If we do not give them our wheat, and these wom
en cannot buy bread, they will starve, for they have
no time to prepare other nourishing food at home;
furthermore, they have only a pitifully small amount
of “other foods.”
Give them all your wheat, then, unstintingly.
What? You haven’t time to save wheat for these
women ?
Who has the most time —they or YOU?
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THIRTY-THIRD SENATORSHIP.
WANTED—To know what comity in the Thirty
third Senatorial district should have the naming of
a candidate this year.
There seems to be a doubt in the minds of many
as to which county composing the Tirthy-third dis
trict should have the honor of naming the candidate
for this position for the years 1919-1921.
The executive committee of the district is the prop
er authority to settle that question, and the chair
man should call the committee together for the pur
pose of settling the matter.
We believe that it is Barrow's time for the follow
ing reasons, if the rotation system is to lie fdllowed:
January 5, 1915, Barrow county was organized.
Judge W. W. Stark, of Jackson, was the representa
live up to the meeting of the general assembly in
June 1915. Hall county furnished the senator from
June 1915 to June 1917. The senator now comes
from Banks and his term will expire June 1919. If
this is correct, and we are sure it is, it seems to us
that Barrow should have the honor of naming the
toan this year to serve the district 1919-1921.
We have some fine material waiting the settle
ment of the question, and we hope the chairman w ill
convene the committee at an eraly date, so these
would-be lawmakers may know "where we are at.”
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Col. 11. 11. Dean, in his opening speech at Athens
last Saturday, made a good beginning when he in
timated that his campaign was to be cast on a high
plane, but before he was through he spoiled it all
by digging into the mirky mire of Georgia politics
and bringing to the forefront the doing of politicians
during the trying times while democracy was being
supplanted by prejudice and fanaticism led by dema
gogues and dreamers —the times when it was said
even of Hubert Dean that on any question, political
or otherwise, the important point seemed to be “how
far can I go and stay out of jail?” His effort was
what might be termed a good beginning but a ra.ik
finish. His intimation that W. J. Harris was being
supplied with funds by the coal barons is unjust un
less he can make good with the proof, and his ref
, ionce to Judge Gaston, the republican, who defeated
him for mayor of Gainesville, was unkind to say the
least, and his digging up the private personal affairs
of Bill Howard hack in 1910, before Howard entered
congress, may not speak well for Howard, but it
will not make any one think more of Dean. We
voice the opinion that iu this senatorial campaign
brains w ill count, and it is a great pity that so many
of the announced candidates fail to recognize their
stations as they skid along. But September 11th.
clear and distinct, the people will call out "home.”
and return transportation will be furnished most of
these would-be senators, including Dean of Hall.
PRESS COMMENT.
WINDER HIGH SCHOOL.
The Winder High School has just
closed one of the test years in its his
tory, and the patrons of the school
have enjoyed one of the finest com
mencement exercises ever witnessed in
this city.
Prof. John I*. Cash and his excellent
corps of assistants deserve the high es
teem in which they are held here as
educators and disciplinarians.
Not one incident of disorder was no
ticeable and the usual attendant con
fusion on such occasion was absent
during the whole of the exercises, al
though the weather was warm and the
program lengthy.
The cirriculum of the Winder High
School continues to climb and it now
ranks wjth the best preparatory schools
of the state.
And it can be said that not one of
the graduates turned out by Prof. Cash
since he took hold of the school has
failed in the universities they have en
tered.
The class graduating this year,
though small, is one of the very best
to the credit of the school, as a whole
making higher units than the one last
year.
THE OTHER MAN’S SON.
An exchange recites the incident of
a constituent of a senator who w-ent to
Washington to secure the senator’s in
fluence toward having his son given a
special war post. “I want to get my
boy a commission,” he is quoted as hav
ing told the senator, “and I want to
get you to se that he is placed at a
post where there is no danger,” the fa
ther added.
“And what father’s son would you
have put in the place of danger from
which your son is exempted?” the sen
ator replied, and the father went away
sorrowfully, for his own lack of manli
ness has ben developed by the inquiry
of the senator.
The senator’s answer has universal
application. The war is being fought
to suppress the spirit w-hich w-as in the
father, the spirit of getting special fa
vors at the hands of the government,
of having the power of the government
reach down to remove his son from per
il which some other father's son would
have to suffer. In the great army that
is going forth to reap royalty and beat
dow-n the autocratic prerogatives of en
throwned power, there is no place for
caste or special privilege. One man’s
son is as good as another man’s son.
They are all precious In the sight of
their parents and the hazard which one
must be exposed to must not be mini
mized for another. There is a common
task with a common peril and with a
common glory that is to come.—Elber
ton Star.
Twenty-two German prisoners began
work on the public roads in Fulton
county. The Germans are guarded by
United tSates soldiers and the county
of Fulton w-ill pay the government
$1.35 per day each for their services.
We don't mean any harm by suggest
ing it, but wouldn’t it kinder simplify
matters if Bill Howard, the Patriot,
would prove his patriotism by retiring
from the senatorial race and giving
someone who can run a chance to run
unhampered by promises and presiden
tial favoritism.
ANNOUNCING THE COMING OF
MAZO
To the housewives of Winder and vicinity:
MAZO is coming to your grocer, and will offer you
the greatest opportunity to economize that has ever
come your way. This is just a bit of advance informa
tion and you will do well to remember what is said
below.
FREE! Friday, June 14th
A MAZA coupon will appear in this paper June 13th
with a complete list of grocers from whom you may
get a free trial package.
Don’t Overlook the Coupon.
B. H. MERCK
Distributor
FLOYD, HALLIBURTON & LANDAU
Factory Representatives
933 Healey Bldg. Atlanta, Georgia
THE ELEGANT IDLER.
“The idler is individually a social ex
presence. and collectively an economic
waste. He is the leering negation of
all decent human impulses and ideals.
At this time when the hand and mind
of every human unit is desperately
needed, the deliberate refusal to pitch
in and do something is a defiance to the
race and an insult’ to the Almighty.”
The author of these pungent and
timely words, Mark Swan, of the Vigi
jlantes. applies them particularly to
side-street gangsters, gay corher loaf
ers, grocery shop whittlers and riff-raff
vagrants. But those species by no
means exhaust the catalogue. An idler
is an idler whether bedraggled or de
bonair, trousered or skirted, rich or
poor, elegant or plebian. And all idlers
are friends of the Hun, whether they
intend it or not.
In Georgia, as in many other states,
there is under way a vigorous cam
paign to force vagrants to work. The
movement is partly economic and whol
ly patriotic. Factories and farms are
critically in need of labor, and unless
they are supplied the commonwealth
and the country as well as private in
terests will suffer. It is peculiarly
needful, therefore, and altogether just
to hunt out and bring either to a job
or to jail all those able-bodied men
who are not working or fighting for
their country.
With these, the lash of the law can
deal. But what of those who neither
toil nor spin, yet array themselves like
Solomon or Sheba? Shall public senti
ment allow them, in these iron times,
to go unwhipt of justice?—Atlanta
Journal.
It is said that Field Marshal von
Hindenberg, chief of the German army,
is in a hospital at Straasburg danger
ously ill from typhoid fever. Typhoid
fever is said to be spreading rapidly in
the German army.
The sale of spoiled meats and other
food products to the army with the
knowledge that the food w-as unfit for
human consumption is charged in com
plaints issued by the federal trade com
mission against Wilson & CO. and Mor
ris & Cos., two of the five great Amer
ican packing companies of America.
A few times in the past eleven years
we have guessed pretty accurately as
to how Barrow county would line up
on election day. While no one is ex
cited over the senatorial race in this
county, as we read the political signs,
the contest in Barrpw will be between
William Schley Howard and Thomas
W. Hardwick, with Howard an odds-on
favorite.
While w-e don’t think one whit bet
ter of Hoke Smith than w-e have for
the last four years, honesty compels
us to admit that at least he is being
“interviewed” right on war question
and we w r arn all aspirants who w-ish to
succeed that political chameliou to get
in now while the water is fine, senator
iaHv speaking, for Hoke has a way of
coming back, and he has started on the
return trip to public favor. If you
don’t believe it, keep an eye on Hoke
and his press agent for the next two
years.
How bad do you want anew Ford.
We have it. Woodruff Hardware Cos.