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THE RAINBOW
Be thou the rainbow to file storms of life!
The evening I team that smiles the clouds away
And lints tomorrow with prophetic ray.
—Byron.
HOME OW NER AND TAX DODGER
A prosperous young farmer who owned nothing but
a mule when lie married some six years ago. said
to us one day this week that, lie wished the State
would tax all farm lands at a valuation of not
less than fifty dollars per acre.
This farmer owns four mules and his farm that he
lias paid for In full, and there are many At her evi
dences'of thrift, and prosjierity around his home. He
says that a more just valuation for taxation would
have a tendency to lift city hands off for rural real
estate and make it possible for young men to pur
chase* and own small farms. He says that one who
purchases a farm for a home takes care of the
premises, has an interest in the schools and churches
and the general welfare of (in* community, lie
knows of farm lands valued at .$200.00 per acre
that was given in for taxation at less titan $25.00
per aere. That the owners of large tracts of land
live* in town and use their investments as a species
of tax dodging, and that the home owner must bear
tin 1 burden of taxation or be dishonest in making
his returns. 1
The statements of tills young man opened our
eyes on the tax question. We were of the opinion
that the city dwellers were hearing the heaviest
burdens of taxation, and they, are, hut it is the home
owners and business men who come nearest paying
tax*s upon the full value of their holdings, i util
our conversation with this young man we had not
discovered the real cause for the extreme low val
uation of farm lands on the tax books of the state
of Georgia. Asa general rule tile tax assessors are
selected from among the large land owners of the
county and they invariably look through the same
old glasses .that were worn by their predecessors.
Thus the discrepancy between the actual value of
large tracts of real estate and the value placed upon
it for taxation is ridiculous. It is an injustice to
tlie small home owner both in town and in the coun
try, who, if not. too honest, is ashamed to give in
his small holdings at 25c in the dollar, and the as
sessors would not permit him to do so if lie so
desired.
BACK TO THE FARM
There has bin'll boarding and profiteering, but
the real reason for the high cost of living is the
fact that there are too many consumers for the
number of producers in this country. The farmer
icannot afford to pay $40.00 for a suit of clothes. $7.00
for a hat. SIO.OO for shoes, etc., and sell his chickens
and eggs for 10c and 20c. The crowded condition
of the "cities and towns tells the tale. There are
too many people flying around the bright lights de
manding high pay for little work. There are people
In Atlanta and in the small towns of (ieor*ia, for
that matter, suffering the pangs of poverty and
hunger, who could make an indcjiendeut living on
the farm, but they and their children have become
such slaves to the frivolity of the passing throngs
that they turn up their noses at tln* quiet life and
prefer to accept the scraps that fall from the tables
of kings than to earn their living by the sweat of
the brow in God's pure sunshine.
Atlanta is advertising that, she has no vacant
houses or apartments. The hotels and restaurants
are crowded to overflowing night and day. and the
condition is practically the same in all of the Geor
gia cities and towns, and in tin* cities and towns of
the nation. YY’e have deported the aliens. Our
birth rate for the past twenty years has not been
alarming. A number of our citizens were killed on
foreign battle fields ijnd others are still in the service,
i YY’hqre did all of these jieople come from
Uncle Sam has been a reckless spendthrift. His
liberal scattering of the tax payers' colli and the de
mands of organized labor for more pay and less
work attracted thousands to the centers of distri
bution and there they remain, while millions of
acres of farm lauds go unfilled. They want short
hours, unreasonale wages ami cheap li' ing. K
can’t be did.” The higher goes the wages, the high
er will go the living.
Some of these days Uncle Sam must, tighten his
purse strings and then there will he more real work
ing bees in the hives, and not so many lazy fellows
lying around the .gum.
There never was a more appropriate time for the
slogan, ‘‘Hack to the farm.'
—o
He is a smart man who can talk much, write
-more and scold often who eau ke<>p from occasionally
getting his wire* crossed. Once upon a time there
was a preacher—a muPhly admired and greatly loved
divine who stands for many things worthwhile. He
hied himself to the mountains of North Georgia,
and writing of the beauties of the hills and vales, lie
urged Ills readers to “spend the week-end" enjoy
ing the mountain breezes and glorying in the rain
bow-hued waterfalls that abound in these mag
nifieient hills. But he came back to earth a few
days ago as he roasted the empty pews staring him
in the face. Now what his admirers are asking is
did lie mean it when he advised them to “take week
end" trips seeing the beauties of nature.
0
A degree lias tieen issued by the Bolsheviki au
thorities. declaring Admiral Kolchak and the a 11-
Kussian cabinet outlaws. Talk about the kettle and
the pot being black. But we guess the Bolshlviki is
trying to say that Kolchak ia “outlawing outlawry."
REVOLUTION BY ULTIMATUM
, The plan of the railroad brotherhoods for taking
over the railroad properties of the country is a
straightout adventure into Soviet economics. It con
templates collective ownership, but class operation
and control, which is at the foundation of the Soviet
system.
The American people, through their Government,
are to buy the railroads from the private owners and
turn these properties over* to the railroad employees
to manage and pperate. In consideration of an
investment of approximately $20,000,000,000 the
Government is to appoint one-third of the directors,
and the pulic is to share in such savings In the cost
of operation as may remain after the employees have
paid themselves what they think their services ought
to he worth. The spirit in which the program is
put forth may Im- inferred from a statement made by
B. M. Jeyell, Acting President of the Railroad
Employees’ Department of the American Federation
of La I >or. in which he said that If President Wilson’s
suggestion to Congress was carried out “we will tie
up the railroads so tight thaty they will never run
again if that legislation is passed.” It might have
been Trotsky himself speaking to a bourgeoisie that
had offered mild and academic objections to being
despoiled.
Before any railroad plan can be worked out, one
highly essential fact fiiust lie established —namely,
whether the soverign power of the United Starfl-s is
vested in Government and in the American people or
whether it is vested in the railroad brotherhoods.
For three years now the brotherhoods have as
sumed that the soverign power was vested in them,
and Congress has provided them with excellent reas
ons for that assumption. When the railroad employ
ees In tlie critical period-of the summer of 1916 de
mandeil an eight-hour day and threatened a general
strike. President Wilson sent a message to Congress
in which he urged tHut the eight-hour day be made
the basis of work and wages, but he made four
other propmmls, one of which called for —
An amendment to the existing Federal statute
which provides for the mediation, conciliation
and arbitration of such controversies as the
present by adding to it a provision that, in case
‘ the methods of accommodation now provided
for should fail, a full public investigation of
tlie merits of every such dispute should be in
stituted and completed before a strike or lock-
out may be lawfully attempted.
Congress refused to enact this legislation because
the labor leaders objected to it. and now we have a
situation in which a labor leader can threaten to
“tie uii the rflilroads so tight that they will never
run again" if Congress presumes to pass an act to
which the brotherhood autocracy objects as unequal
to its imperative demands. .
The railroad brotherhoods have embarked upon a
policy that even the most conservative of them must
admit is economically revolutionary. If their scheme
of nationalization under chiss control is to he carried
out in respect to railroads, nobody can line
where it shall stop until all industry is under Soviet
direction. Yet not putting their programme
out its a matter to lie discussed and diliberately con
sidered by the American people. They are trying to
force the issue and bring about a revolution by
ultimatum.
In the last three years the railroad employees have
received hundreds of millions of dollars in wage
increases for which the general public is paying. As
a reward for its generosity the country is to be taken
by the throat and choked into submission if the most,
complicated economic issues that have ever confront
ed it are not settled forthwith. If there is any dif
ference between that kind of arrogance and the ar
rogance of the German General Staff in July, 11*14.
we should like to know what it is.
The legislative,branch of the United States Gov
ernment long ago degenerated into a Congress of
cowards, it may prove to be us subservient to the
brotherhoods as it, has been to the Anti-Saloon
League: but if the American people can be kept for
ever choked into a state of submission by private or
ganizations taking over the functions of Government,
the United States mifcht a well apply for the ap
pointment of a receiver first as last. —New York
World.
four organized labor has twisted the tail of
I'nele Sam one time too many for its own good.
O
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Attorney General Palmer urges jail sentences for
profiteers. That is about the best way to reduce
prices. ••
O
i What's the matter with handling blind tigers as
profiteers. Sineus to us that ss.oo a Quart, is. more
than the “law” allows.
Just 14(H) hundred gallons of corn whiskey and a
deserter from army was the catch of Revenue Otfi
leors Sunday night up in Cherokee county.
O
A fellow remarked to us that the whole world
seemed crooked to him. What is that saving that
.sounds something dike this “Asa man thlnketh, so
is he."
O
If Plumb and his little plan believes a majority
,of the American people are for government owner
ship, write it into a national platform And go to
the voters with it.
O-
The Greensboro Herald-Journal says Ole Lady
Democracy is sure going to catch hell in the next
election if she doesn't put old man High Cost of
(Living in the penitentiary.
O
The jury in the case of Henry Ford against the
Chicago Tribune brought in a verdict for six cents
damage's. It is estimated that the trial cost a mil
lion’dollars. Both sides seemed to he satisfied.
- O
With 1,100 wounded Czecho-Slovaks on hoard, the
United States shiping board steamer Heffrou is
ashore off Kokureu. Korea strait, cable advices re
ceived by the Pacific Steamship company from its
agent at Kobe, states.
O
According to a statement made by i barb's A.
Post to the house interstate commerce committee
Monday, business sentiment in the l nited Mates is
almost unanimous that government, ownership of
railroads must not prevail. He urged a return of
the roads to private ownership and management.
THE WINDER NEWS, WINDER. GA.THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 11.
GOOD DEEDS
A good deed is never lost: lie who shows courtesy,
reaps friendship; and he who plants kindness, gath
ers love.—-Basil.
O
The Georgia legislature has adjourned. With the
exception of a few wind-jammers in the Senate who
wasted hours at tlie State’s expense bedding crock
odile tears over woman suffrage and pleading that
spine feelers might lie permitted to practice in Geor
gia. the session was a record-breaker for the pas
sage irt constructive legislation. Senator Elders
seemed to be of the opinion that all ailments of man
kind are directly traceable to kinks in the backtione
and lie thought it was a shame that tlie great State
of Georgia would not license the feelers to practice
their profession among the people. There are kinks
und orisiks in Georgia, all right, but those located
in the backbones of the dear people are not the.
ones that are causing the most trouble just at pres
ent. * ,
O
Marion Jackson says that Atlanta is opposed to the
Georgia Railway and Power Company developing
North Georgia at Atlanta’s expense. And North
Georgia is opposed to the development of her natural
resources solely to the benefit of Atlanta. .We are
proud of the Gate City, even when she does not give
us credit with having some small part, in her up
building, but when her citizens take a fiing at North
Georgia in their fight with tlie Georgia Railway
and Power Company, they remind us of the town
Dully who said he had “tried to cover too d—n much
territory.”
O
You may wear jewels on the head, but it is the
jewel in tlie heart that counts.
O
There is some good in tlie worst of us. Encourage
and commend that good and give it a chance to
grow.
WELCOME HOME
Pass free of charge will be given to
every honorably discharged soldier in
Barrow county good for every day of
tlie fair. By presenting your discharge
papers to the Secretary before tlie
Fair commences.
Have you gotten your auto pennant.
NORTH GEORGIA FAIR
THE INSURANCE DEPARTMENT OF THE
North Georgia Trust & Banking
Company
Announces to its friends, the general public
that Sidney F. Maughon has been placed in
charge of this branch of our business.
'Sidney Maughon is well-known to the peo
ple of Winder and BarrOYv county. Wimfer
lias been his home since childhood and the
people of this town haY’e shown their confi
dence in him by electing him Principal of
our High School, Yvhich position he held
till he enlisted in the U. S. Navy.
The Patrons of the Insurance Department
are assurreil the same efficient and courte
ous service that has won your confidence
When interested in Insurance see—
North Georgia Trust & Banking Company
'INSURANCE DEPARTMENT
S. F. MAUGHON, Manager.
M DISPOSAL. OP '
ill DESERVING 1 1$
j|g[ PRODUCERS
IT IS THE DUTY
of every American citizen to produce all he can, to make
all he can.
By so doing he can help maintain present day prosperity,
help solve the important problems that confront us at
this time.
AVe are prepared to he particularly liberal with farmers
and legitimate busiess in need of funds.
A BANK FOR THF -l ALL ™ £ PEOPLE
FARMERS BANK
WINDER. GEORGIA.
Remember that when you bring your Ford car to
us lor mechanical attention that you get the genu
ine Ford service—materials, experienced workmen
aid save both time and money. YY’e are authorizes
Fcnl dealers, trusted by the Ford Motor Company
ind Ford factory prices. Your Ford is too usefti.
.oo valuable to take chances with poor mechanics,
ritli equally poor quality materials. Bring it to ms
and first, come first tp receive delivery.
FLANIGAN & FLANIGAN
and esteem in the past.
*To the ex-service men, who desire to con
vert their Government Insurance to a dif
ferent form of Government Insurance or
any other form of Insurance, Yve offer the
services of this department.
Besides making long term loans on Farm
and City Property and performing all du
ties common to a Trust Department Yve are
giving special attention to the following
forms of Insurance; Life, Fire, Automobile,
Accident, Hail, Tornado. r
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