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TftE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Aug. 7th—Viola Dana in
"False Evidence.”
FRIDAY. Aug. Bth—Billie Rhodes in
“The Lamb and the Lion.”
L SATURDAY. Aug. .9th—“ The Man of
Might.” Comedy.
VOL. XXVI.
ALL EYES TURNED
TO WASHINGTON
Rail Paralysis Near as Result of Great
Strike —Labor Bent on Taking
t The Railways.
ATLANTA, Ga., Aug. 6.—With thou
sands of shopmen refusing to obey the
ii/JUetions of grand lodge officers that
they return to work; with railroad
rolling stock and motive power rapidly
failing for want, of inspection and re
pairs, and with Atlanta and other por
tions of the southeast hourly drawing
nearer to a complete paralysis of rail
transportation all eyes are
turned to Washington, hoping for ac
tion either upon the part of the gov
enrment or the union officials that will
serve to avert a situation the like of
which has never been experienced in
this section since the civil war.
Railroad officials admit their help
lessness* to cope with the situation,
and* anxiously look to Washington for
the solution of what they freely de
clare is a most grave state of affairs.
’ Leaders of the unions involved in
the present strike also are cognizant
of the gravity of the situation and
frankly predict the absolute cessation
\f railroad transportation within the
present week.
“Unless something is done to cause
the men to return to work at (nice,'’
said a prominent railroad man there
will be a complete tie-up of trains.”
“Unless something more promising
than anything yet received comes from
Washington we will not return to
work,” said an official union man.
These breif statements sum up the
situation that faces Atlanta and the
southeastern territory served by the
railroads that diverge from this city.
The anxiety of the railroad officials,
the hope of the strikers, and the in
terest of the public have center'd ill
the capital city of the nation, where
government heads and union officials
are said to be using every resource to
solve the problem and prevent the rail
'paralysis that would in turn complete
ly block all commerce and industry
and bring this section face to face with
famine and privations that, people of
this generation have never been called
upoh to suffer.
The railroad officials are hoping for
an adjustment of some kind that will
return the shopmen to work, relieving
the situation before actual disaster is
reached: the union men are hoping for
action upon the part of the government
that, will give them the increases they
demand, allowing them to return to
work before a complete tie-up results,
and the public, becoming awpkened to
the danger that threatens, is hoping
for some move either on the part of
the government officials or the unions
that will serve to avert the impending
calamity.
GAINESVILLE POST OF
AMERICAN LEGION PLANNED
• ______
GAINESVILLE, Ga., Aug. s.—At a
meeting here, on August 4, of ex-sol
diers and sailors, it was determined
that '‘Gainesville is to have a post of
the American Legion.
/ The number of members enrolled at
the first meeting was seventeen, but
it is expected that there -will be at j
least two hundred members after the
organization gets a good start.
The temporary officers elected at the
meeting were; Edgar 11. Dunlap, chair
man, and Pete Craig, secretary and
publicity manager.
It was that the post
should be named after the late Cor
poral Paul E. Bolding, 75th company,
6th marines, who gave up his life on
the battlefields of France. The next
meeting will be held an August 16, at
the county courthouse here.
DeLaPERRIERE LAND SALE
One of the largest bodies of land
eve? put on the auction block in this
section was that sold Wednesday by
the DeLaPerriere boys.
About thirteen hundred acres were
offered for sale. Several Winder men
bought tracts of land. We failed to
learn the prices paid per acre, but as
all 4tnd in this section is bringing
fancy prices owing to the high price of
cotton, we presume the price paid was
in .keeping with the times.
The big city papers tell of a woman
wearing twelve diamond rings on one
hsnd. She ought to wear a band
around her head, also, to keep the,
crack from widening.
®l)£ Winter
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
MR .E. R. VAUGHN
BUYS FITE HOME
Mr. E. R. Vaughn, a prosperous
Oconee county farmer, on Wednesday
closed a deal with Flanigan & Flani
gan of this city, for the A. J. Fite
hyme on the National Highway in
Jackson county, just beyond the Mul
berry river.
This is one of the best country homes
in this section, and the price paid in
dicates its value. It is understood that
the consideration was $225 per acre.
Mr. Vaughn will move to his new
home about the first of the year.
ANGELES UNITES
•MEXICAN REBELS
WASHINGTON, Aug. s.—Henry I’.
Fletcher, United States ambassador to
Mexico, who has been on duty ta the
state department since last summer,
will not return to Mexico City for
some time if at all, according to an
apparently iiVpired statement made
recently in the Mexican capital, word
of which reached Washington through
official channels today.
No confirmation of this statement
could la 1 secured at the state depart
ment today. Mr. Fletcher, when asked
about the report, said he was acting
under orders of the state department
and knew nothing about the time of
his return to his post in Mexico. Oth
er state department officials said Mr.
Fletcher would remain here “for the
present.”
JOHN W. MILLSAPS
SELLS FINE FARM
*
In this issue you will find an ad
vertisement that should interest you
if you are in the market for land near
Georgia’s capital city.
We know this land and we have no
hesitancy in saying that it will com
pare favorably with any land in Georr
gia for diversified crops.
Thursday, August 14th, through the
Atlanta Land Company, Mr. Millsaps
: is going to sell at auction 1400 acres,
subdivided into tracts containing from
50 to 200 acres. A brass band and a
barbecue is on the program. On the
place are ten dwellings, all in good re
pair, one of them being summer home
of the late Andy Stewart, for so long
the tax collector of Fulton county.
This will possibly be your last chance
to buy land near the city of Atlanta.
The land lies in Campbell county, just
over the Fulton county line. Read
the advertisement in this issue and at
tend the sale.
THE WALLS AND MOBLEYS
TO GATHER IN REUNION
Next Wednesday, August 13th, will
occur the annual reunion of the Wall
and Mobley families at the Mobley
schoo 1 house. A cordial invitation
is extended to every one to come and
be with us.—J. N. Mobley.
GRAFTS TOMATO VINE TO
POTATO PLANT; BOTH BEAR
ONEIDA, N. Y. —Yankee ingenuity
and American “grafting” promise to
solve the all-absorbing question of the
high cost of living. It has become
known here that Alsen Wheeler, horti
culturist and assistant teacher at the
State Agricultural School at Morris
ville, has been carrying on some ex
periments which encourage hopes for
a crop of vegetables above as well as
below the soil on the same vine. Wheel
er has grafted a tomato vine to a po
tato plant which bears fruit.
ANARCHY REAL DANGER.
SAYS VICE PRESIDENT
RALIEGH, N. C., Aug. s—The5 —The men
ace of the world today is not Ger
man imperialism, but the tendency
toward no government at all, said Vice
President Marshall before the Raleigh
chamber of Commerce last night.
“There is danger that in turning
from the imperial system to the real
domain of democracy, we are liable,
to travel in the other extreme and de-1
Clares we will hate no government at
all.” said the vice president.
To give the people of the earth an
opportunity to cool down and react j
into something like a normal con- |
dition, the president argued for
the League of Nations.
Mr. Dick Dillard, of Atlanta, is the'
guest of the family of Judge R. B.
Russell this week.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, August 7, 1919.
BILL TO PROVIDE
ONE UNIFORM TIME
Crazy Time in Vogue for the Passed
Six Months Cause of Much Com
plaint in Some Parts of State.
The Georgia house of representatives
Tuesday passed a bill to provide one
uniform time throughout the state of
Georgia.
The 'effect, of the bill would be to
put the whole state on the present
Central time, which would be equiv
alent to Eastern time when the day
comes for setting back the clocks in
October under the federal daylight
savings law.
There has been endless complaint
in parts of Georgia over the hour ad
cance in time made by the daylight
savings act this year, particularly in
those sections, reaching for into south
west Georgia, where the interstate
commerce commission has adopted the
Eastern time. With the daylight sav
ings advance of another hour, these
points were put almost two hours
ahead of sun or true time.
The uniform time measure, if it be
comes law, will go into effect at mid
night of August 31, after the governor
has made due proclamation ten days
in advance of the change to be made
and published the same in a newspa
per in each congressional district of
the state. At that hour, all the peo
ple in those sections of the state, which
now 1 observe * eastern time, will set
back their watches and clocks one hour,
after that, there will be no more set
ting back and forth of watches and
clocks in Georgia. Sun time is recog
nized by the bill as the official time
for farmers.
Mr. and Mrs. D. F. Thompson spent
Friday in Atlanta.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Kimball spent
Tuesday in Atlanta.
Mrs. I*. A. Flanigan lias gone to
Hendersonville for a months stay.
Miss Violet Wood, of Atlanta, spent
the week-end here with home folks.
Miss Mable Jackson spent the week
end with friends at Cartersville.
Mrs. P. A. Flanigan has gone to
Waynesville N. C., to spend awhile.
Miss Jodie Wood, of Griffin, spent
Sunday in Winder visiting relatives.
Miss Jurelle Fulcher will leave Mon
day for Atlanta.
Mrs. Jesse Wallace and little son,
of Milledgeville, spent last week with
Mrs. J. M. Hayuie.
Mr. and Mrs. H. T. Kilpatrick were
the guests of Mr. It. L. Carithers the
past week-end.
Mr. H. A. Carithers, Jr., and Mr. J.
,T. Wilson attended the ball game in At
lanta Wednesday.
Mrs. J. J. Wilson returned Sunday
from Dacula, where she has been for
several days with her mother who is ill.
Mrs. Millard Harper, of Monroe, N.
spent a few days of the past week
with Mrs. C. S. Williams.
Mr. John McCants is expected home
today from Camp Lee, where he has
been in the training camp.
Mrs. M. A. Wood, of near Galilee,
Jackson county, is spending several
days with relatives in Winder.
Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Fortson Will
leave tomorrow for Elberton and Hart
well, where they will spend a week
with friends and relatives.
Mrs. John Craft and children are
visiting relatives in Lithonia. They will
visit, Newborn and Atlanta before their
return home.
Mrs. Georgia Harris had as her
dinner guests last Sunday. Rev. and,
Mrs. R. W. Wallace, Rev. It. E. Moss,
Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hardigree.
Mesdames W. C. Horton. P. S. Rob
erts and Bailey left Friday for an auto
trip to Asheville and other North Car
olina points.
Mrs. Mamie Martin and little daugh
ter, Johnie, of Gainesville, are spend
ing a few days here as the guests of
Mrs. A. I). MeCurry.
Mr. Phillip Elder, of Saitdford, Fla.,
was in Winder Wednesday. He is the
Postmaster of Sanford. He ha* many
friends in this section of his native
state who are always glad to see him.
WALKOUT GROWS
32,000 MEN IDLE
Evidence Nought for Criminal Prose
cution of Those Responsible for
Tie-I"p of Roads.
CHICAGO, Aug. tith.—A searching
federal investigation is under way
here today which may result in dras
tic action against railroad ‘workers
who walked out over the heads of
their international officers, resulting
in the piling up in yards a round* Chi
cago and vicinity of hundreds of en
gines and cars in need of repairs.
Evidence is sought for criminal
prosecution of those Responsible for
the tie-up of railroads under govern
ment* supervision and a number of
witnesses .will be examined by the
United States district attorney. Hun
dreds of men have left their jobs in
the last four days oil orders of the
Chicago district council of railroad
men, despite contrary orders from the
higher officers.
Reports reaching here today show
that the walkouts are spreading and
now more than 32,000 men are oht
in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Wis
consin, lowa, Ohio, Missouri,, Ala-'
hania, Michigan, Oklahoma, South Da
kota. Arkansas and Montana.
Columbus Shopmen Out
COLUMBUS. Aug. 6th. —Columbus
entered the nation wide railroad shop
men’s strike yesterday when flye hun
dred Shopmen, including inspectors!,
repairers, mechanics and oilers, walk
ed out.
Four hundred and fifty walked out
at the Central of Georgia shops. The
Seaboard and Southern railways
have small shops in Columbus, but all
employees of the three roads are out.
The men acted on their own initia
tive, abiding by vote of local union,
not having received any orders from
headquarters.
Stockyard Workers Strike
CHICAGO, Aug. 6.—Eighty thou
sand workers in the Chicago stock
yards today ar<‘ voting on the ques
tion of a stril.v if their demands for
wage increases of from 20 to 50 per
Cent—a matter of .$25,000,000 or more
a year—are refused by the packers.
In addition to asking for higher wages
the men who are members of the
forty-two butchers’ and allied unions,
demand that, the packers at the same
time be restrained from boosting the
price of meat and food products to
pay them.
Strike on Brooklyn Car Lines
NEW YORK, Aug 6.—Union em
ployees on all subway, surface and
elevated lines of the Brooklyn Rapid
Transit Company plying in Brooklyn j
and between Brooklyn and Manhat
tan inaugurated a strike this morning.
HINDENBI RG ASSUMES ALL
BLAME FOR WAR ORDERS
BERLIN, Aug. 6th—Field Marshal
von Hindenburg, chief of staff of the
German army, today issued a state
ment taking all of the blame for or
ders issued by General Ludendorff, his
own chief of staff, during the war.
Miss Esther Henson is visiting rel
ative- in Alabama this week.
Mrs. Itilla Bridges, of Pendergrass,
is the guest of relatives in the city this
j week.
Mr. and Mrs. R. U. Wright, of Con
yers, are spending a few days here
this week as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. H. M. Hinesley.
Miss Mary Farrar has returned from
Atlanta, where she spent two weeks
very pleasantly as the guest of rela
tives.
Messrs. H. D. Jackson. W. W. Jack
son. Lamar Wood and Tom Strange
went down to Atlanta to witness a
ball game one day this week.
Mr. C. Wm. Hathaway left Wednes
day afternoon for New York state.
For several weeks Mr. Hathaway has
been in ill health, and he is going
north to recuperate.
Mrs. W. A. Brooks will go down to
Atlanta Saturday where sbe will meet
her sister. Miss Annie Slocum, of Ed
wards. Miss., who is to spend several
weeks here with Mrs. Brooks.
Ned House, former Winder News
devil, is back again in the city after
an extended rail tour and varied ex
periences. As an entertainer Ned con
tinues to improve.
WINDER BUYERS
OFF TO MARKET
Messrs. J. T. Strange and A. I>. 11c-
Curry, of the J. T. Strange Company,
left last Sunday for New York, where
they will remain about ten days in
specting and buying for the fall trade.
The rating of this firm in the eas
tern markets of trade give Winder’s
leading merchants advantages equal
to those of the large firms of Atlanta,
and Messrs. Strange and MeCurry,
personally inspect, their purchases,
therefore they always have on hand
something .new’ in design, up-to-date
and the best the lineal trade demands.
PRICE OF SHOES
IS UNJUSTIFIED
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—President
Wilson was at work today ilpon his
message to Congress in which he will
call for the enactment of additional
laws to meet the high cost of living
situation.
He was devoting practically his en
tire time to the framing of the docu
ment. and as he planned to deliver it,
probably in person before a joint ses
sion, it was believed in official cir
cles that his appearance “on the hill”
might not be later than Saturday of
this week.
Meanwhile'the drive upon the prof
iteer was to be waged unrelentingly
under the laws that now exist, and
flour was to be put. on the market at
$lO a barrel—sl less that the pre
vailing price—through the .medium of
the United States Grain Corporation.
Tin* announcement of Attorney
General Palmer that the Lever war
time food control act was being in
voked to bring to justice those who
have been reaping extortionate profits
from the consuming public, was ex
| pected to have a marked effect. Al
ready there was evidence that the
government’s was being
felt, and that there would be a break
for cover by those whom the law
would reach, was expected.
PRESENT HIGH PRICES ARE
NOT JUSTIFIED, SAYS REPORT
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—The pres
ent high price of shoes is entirely un
justified. •
This is the finding of the Federal
Trade Commission, to be submitted to
Congress, following an investigation
of the activities of the packers, tan
ners, manufacturers and retailers dur
ing the period from 1!)14 to 1010, it
was announced today.
The report of the commission shows
a succession of profiteering all down
the line. The commission found, ac
cording to the report that:
1 — The larger packers control the ;
hide supply anil have taken excessive I
profits, and have passed increased
costs to subsequent steps in manu
facture and distribution.
2 The tanner has taken exceptional
profits.
3 The manufacturer has taken un
usual margins.
4 The prices charged t*y the re
tailers are not justifiable, each factor
in the industry having added to the
burden he had to bear, just before he
passed it on to the next.
TWO INMATES OF PEN
SAW WAY TO FREEDOM
ATLANTA. Georgia, August fith.—
Land jn the vicinity of the federal
prison was being scoured Tuesday by
county policemen and officers of the
penitentiary in an effort to recapture
two inmates of the prison who made
their escape sometime Tuesday morn
ing between 3 o'clock aud 6 The
escaped prisoners are John Duffy, an
Italian, serving eight years for violat
ing the interstate commerce laws, and
Rector Sherrill serving six years on a
charge of counterfeiting.
BEN MICHAEL HERE
Mr. Ben T. Michael, of Eatonton,
spent Monday in Winder. Mr. Michael
is a son of John Michael, the old Pop
and Go baseball pitcher star, and left
Oconee county last fall for Putnam
county, where he is doing well in the
real estate business. He has some
farms he is offering for sale in this
issue of The News. Read what he has
to say, and if you are interested in
Putnam county lands, go to see him,
or write him at Eatonton.
Miss Maggie Perry has returned from
a few days visit to friends in Atlanta.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Aug. lltli—Tom Mix in
“Hell Roaring.”
TUESDAY, Aug. 12—" The Lightning
Raider.” Comedy.
WEDNESDAY, Aug 13— Marion Dav
ies’ “Ceilia of Pink Roses.”
JAPAN’S POLICY
NOT UNDERSTOOD
Foreign Minister Asserts Japan Does
Not Intend to Claim Rights Af
fecting Sovereignty of China.
TOKIO, Aug. s.—Viscount Uchida,
the Japanese foreign minister, in a
statement issued today declares that,
Japan does not intend to claim any
rights affecting the territorial sover
eignty of China in Shantung. He
promises that the Japanese troops will
In* withdrawn immediately an agree
ment is concluded with China.
Japan, moreover, tin* foreign minis
ter's statement adds, is considering
the establishment at Tsingtao of a
general foreign settlement instead of
a purely Japanese settlement.
Viscount Uchida begins his state
ment bjA saying that it, appeared de
spite the official statement of the Jap
anese* delegation in Paris May 5. in
which he fully indorsed and* a subse
quent interview given by him to the
press, Japan's policy with regard to
Shantung was little understood or ap
preciated altroad.
The foreign minister then recalled
that, Japan by an ultimatum in August,
1914, demanded the surrender by Ger
many of tiie entire leased territory of
Kiao-Cliow’ without condition or com
pensation. within a month witli a view
of its eventual restoration to China.
“The terms of that demand never
elicited any protest on the part of
China or any other allied or associat
ed power," said (lie foreign minister.
“Following the same line of policy Ja
pan now’ claims as one of the essen
tial conditions to peace the accomplish
ment of that surrender without condi
tion or compensation.
“At, tin* same time abiding faithfully
by the pledge she gave China in 1915
i she is quite wilting fo restore to China
the whole of tin* territory in question
and to enter upon negotiations with the
government at Pekin regarding the
necessary arrangement to give effect to
that pledge at the soonest possible time
after the Versailles treaty has been
ratified by Japan.”
ATTITUDE OF RAIL MEN
LIKENED TO TREASON
WASHINTON, Aug. ths.—Senator
Thomas, democrat, Colorado, in an im
passioned address in the senate today,
flung defiance to the railroad employ
ees and likened their attiture to treas
-1 on.
“I cannot justify it as anything short
, of treason,” he sgid, “after citing the
1 recent public statements of the broth
erhood officers. “We are face to face
fith the demand for wage increases
! costing $X()0,00<>,000 which confessedly
j will not help them, or they will sus
pend our great, transportation system.
Their second demand is for confis
cation of S2<UMHUMH,OOO of property
that if lie put into government owner
ship. This is the first time in the his
tory of the American nation,” the Col
orado senator continued, with great
earnestness, “and God grant it be the
last, in which a segment, of the Amer
ican people has pointed its finger at
the American congress and said ‘you
must legislate thus and so,’ or we will
strike and tie up all translortation and
industry.
| “Ours is the responsibility now to
give answer. There is no consequence
as serious as involved in yielding. It
mean an end to representative govern
ment. Let’s not flinch this issue. It’s
quite as important as any
is a threat to bring ruin on the coun
try.”
Sometimes, he said. bi> wondered
chether, in the next presidential elec
tion, but one party, composed of both
democrats and republicans, would not
be found fighting side by side to over
come the tide of radicalism.
AGED CITIZEN DIES
Mr. James L. Odum, one of the old
est men living in this county, died at
his home in Bethlehem district last
Sunday. “Uncle Jimmie,” as he was
familiarly qplled. held the respect and
esteem of a large circle of friends.
At the time of his depth he had reach
ed the ripe old age of 84 years, 6
months and 21 days. His funeral was
conducted on Monday, and his body
was carried to Kilgore cemetery, near
: Bold Springs, in Walton county Mon
| day afternoon for interment. Revs.
W. E. Moore, of Winder, and Harben
had charge of the services.
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