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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Oct. 23—May Allison in
"The Uplifters”
FRIDAY, Oct. 24 —"The Heart of Hu
manity.”
SATURDAY, Oct. 25 —“The Heart of
Humanity.”
VOL. XXVI.
LOCAL BANK BUYS BARROW COUNTY
BONDS AT RECORD PREMIUM PRICE
Court House and Road Bonds Sold to
North Georgia Trust and Banking
Company at Premium of $8,250.
For many years Winder has enjoyed
the reputation of being the best cot
ton market in this section of the state,
and wo must tip our lid to the North
Georgia Trust, and Banking Company
for putting this city at the top when
it comes to purchasing County bonds.
On August 22, the qualified voters
of Barrow county authorized the is
suing of $200,000 of bonds—One hun
dred thousand for the erection of a
court house and one hundred thousand
for the improvement of roads.
The process of validation completed,
the bonds were placed on sale Monday
at 12 o'clock. i
* After the sealed bids were opened,
the lid was taken off and the bidders
notified that the sky was the limit, j
The treasurer of the county was sent
for and' quizzed, and made the public
statement that he would deposit the
revenue derived from the sale of, the
bonds’ in the bank purchasing said
bonds, provided they were bought by a
local bank. And then—
The fun bggan, and every time a
banker spoke Barrow comity was pay
ing for her court house lot.
It. was tit for tat between the Win
.der National and North Georgia Trust
and Banking Company. The Winder
National pooled its interest with the
Farmers Bank while the Trust- Com
pany played a lone hand.
The Winder National made 'a game
fight for the bonds pushing the prem
ium above $(1,000, yielding to the North
Georgia Trust and Ba'nking Company
when that, concern bid $208,250.00 for
the entire issue.
Bond men from a distance who wit
nessed the sale state that the price
paid for County Bonds, in their
opinion, is the highest paid for sim
ilar bonds anywhere in the state. In
fact, it is t.he record price.
In addition to the premium paid, the
North Georgia Trust and Banking
Company agrees to pay 3 per cent on
the deposit, and as it is estimated that
fhis interest will equal int/euest on the
whole amount for a period- of six
months, the county will realize some
thing like fifteen thousand dollars from
the sale | and deposit.
WILL INVITE W. C. T. V.
TO MEET HERE NEXT YEAR
The Woman’s Christian Temperance
Union of Georgia is meeting in Mon
roe this week. This Ls the Thirty-sixth
Convention —the convention for 1918
having been called off on account of
the influenza epidemic.
This convention which is composed
of the general officers, the state super- j
intendents of the many departments of
work, of the Loyal Temperance Legion ■
and the Young People’s branch, State
organizers, of counties and
local Unions or Branches and delegates
from each Union. It has brought to
gether many brilliant women from all
over the State, and a fine program is
being presented.
Mrs. Lula A. Dillard, of Emory Uni
versity. Gn.. is the state president,
Mrs. Julius Magath, Oxford, Ga.. cor
responding secretary, Miss M. There
sa Griffin. Columbus, Ga.. recording
secretary and Mrs. August Vurghand,
Macon, Ga., treasurer.
A large irumber of ladies from the
splendid Winder Union are attending
the Convention, among whom are, Mrs.
Collins, the president. Mrs. W. C.
Horton, Mys. Paul Roberts, Mrs. Geo.-
Turpin, Miss Arlevia Burson Mrs. D.
W. Burson, Mrs. A. A. Camp. Mrs. W.
B McCants and many others.
An invitation is to be extended' to
the Convention to come to Winder
next year and it is to Ik* hoped that
* Winder may succeed in securing it.
Winder has many noble women en
rolled in her local chapter, and we
feel sure that the town as a whole
would heartily welcome the state con-;
vention, and royally entertain them if
they should decide to accept Winder’s
invitation. We need you, and we want
you. Won’t you come?
Editor A. G. Lamar spent several
day)! last week in Birmingham.
Mr. Claud Cook spent Saturday and
Sunday in Athw.
Mr. and Mrs. S. 01 Ware spent sev
eral days in Atlanta last week.
She lUinha* Menus.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right m
GEORGIANS TAKING
STEPS/TO RID STATE
• OF ILLITERACY
During the war the sad truth was
driven home to Georgians when it was
revealed that this state is away down
the ladder of education and that we
must climb and climb fast if we would
overcome that handicap. Examination
of soldiers for fitness for service in
the army showed that illiteracy was
supreme in Georgia. Speaking of a
state-wide move to rid Georgia of il
literacy, The Atlanta Journal says:
“The organization of the Georgia
Illiteracy Commission, instituted under
an act of the 1919 legislature puts
new force behind a movement which
needs to be pressed with the utmost
possible energy during the hext six
months. Within .that time must be
made suclj conquests of adult illiteracy
as will give the state a creditable
standing in the National census which
is to be taken next year, and which
for the ensuing decade will be the rec
ord whereby Georgia will be judged.
“This, of course, is not the chief
reason for the w'ork which the new
Commission has been called to exped
ite. Vastly more important than a good
Showing in census'report is the state’s
duty to see that, ample opportunity
to better their unfortunate condition
is given those of her citizens who can
not read or write the language in
which her laws and ballots are writ
t
ten.
“There is good evidence for believ
ing that, coiiditions now are materially
better, but as a matter of patriotic
pride as well as humanitarian duty it
is behooveful that we make them the
best possible before another official and
long-standing survey is taken. With
so able and earnest a Commission as
has been gathered for this effort rich
ly fruitful results are foregone, ftu
- perintendent Brittain and his co-work
ers in the cause are to be congratu
lated that at least, the state-wide cam
paign which they so long have urged
for the removal of adult illiteracy is
to begin. It is a good day for Geor
gia's interests for her honor.”
Mr. M. L. Duggan, and others of the
state organization will be in Winder
Thursday, Friday and Saturday of
this week in the interest of Barrow
county illiterates.
The local committee consists of Mr.
L. R. Radford, chairman, Claude
Mayne, J. H. Maynard, Mrs. W. C.
Horton and Mrs. J. H. Wood.
A meeting of this committee and the
teachers of Barrow county will be held
in the school Auditorium of Winder
High School next Saturday morning at.
10 o’clock, and it is hoped that every
teacher and interested citizen will 111014
with the committee and the visitors
10 CENTS A POUND
FOR BEET SUGAR
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20.—Steps to
prevent an abnormal increase in the
price of sugar because of the existing
shortage were taken today by the de
partment of justico.
' Attorney General Palmer notified
beet sugar refiners, who have been
withholding their products from the
market until the price situation became
' more stabilized, that the United States
] sugar equalization board had determin
!ed 10 cents was a fair price to lie
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charged the wholesaler and that any
charge in excess of that amount would
be regarded as in violation of the food
control act.
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A CHRISTMAS BAZAAR
The Ladies’ Aid Society of the Chris
tian Church announce that they will
I hold a Christmas bazaar on December
111. We are sure that the people of
I Winder will look forward to this as
an opportunity to secure beautiful
hand made gifts for the’ Christmas
season.
The ladies of the Christian Church
have given several very successful Par
cel Post sales at this season, but they
decided to vary their plans for this
year. We are sure the bazaar will be
a very profitable and pleasant affair.
Mrs. A. G. Lamar is reported to be
real sick this week.
Misses Ethelene Bently and Irene
Hill spent last Friday in Athens as
the guests of Miss Albie Perry.
Winder, Barrow County,*Ga., Thursday, October 23, 1919.
REDS FATTEN IN
BIG FEDERAL JOBS
Senate Told Federal Trade Commission
Is Packed With .Men Who Hate
American Government.
WASHINGTON, Oct. 2j).—Charging
that th“ corps of federal trade 'com
mission examiners which investigated
the meat packing business was pack
ed with the men who are avowed so
cialists, anarchists, reds and radicals.
Senator Watson, republican, of Indi
ana, today told the senate that the ad
herents of socialism were intrenched in
every department of the government
and introduced a resolution for an in-
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vstigation.
The senate referred the resolution
to a committee and Acting Chairman
Murdock, of the commission, issued a
statement declaring * that if Senator
Watson’s resolution would be joined
with one recently introduced by Sena-!
tor Sherman, republican, of Illinois, i
charging the commission with conspir-!
acy, and both could be investigated at
tlje same time, “it would be decidedly
in the public interest.”
Not Defending Parkers
Disclaiming that he spoke in de
fense of the meat packers, who lie de- j
dared should be punished if guilty
of the charges made against, them,
Senator Watson told the senate his
contention was that American business
should not he investigated by men who
avow a determination to destroy it,
and that the government should not
he represented by those who preach u
doctrine of its overthrow.
Declaring that the Chicago offices of
the trade commission from which the
packers investigation was conducted
were “a center of sedition and anar
chy—a nesting place for socialists,”
Senator Watson went through the list
of men employed by the commission
in the investigation and charged var
ious ones with being pro-German, an
ti-ally, admirers otf Lenine and Trotz
ky, advocates of a soviet' form or gov
ernment, participants in red demon
strations and parades, and dissemina
tors of socialistic propaganda.
The Record of Chase
Of Stuart Chase, who had general
charge of the investigation of tile meat
packing industry, Senator, Watson
charged, that besides being a well
known exponent of socialistic doctrines
Chase was president and organizer of
the Fabian club, of Chicago, “a society
founded for the express purpose of
furthering the doctrines of socialism."
“Grouped about him in his office at
federal trade commission head-quar
ters,” declared Senator Watson, “were
Victor Berger, Irvin St. John Tucker
and many other extreme socialists. His
office became the rendezvous of men
devoted to the destruction of property, j
the overthrow of government and con
summation of the ideals of socialism.”
Chase, Senator Watson charged,
helped organize a Chicago meeting at,
which “Berger and other radicals made
inflammatory speeches,” and also or
ganized a meeting at which Lincoln
Steffens spoke.
“That anarchist,” said Senator Wat
son referring to Steffens, “had just re
turned from Russia, and his address
was to aid in the recognition of Len
ine and Trotzky by our government.”
Chase later wrote a magaziue arti
cle, Senator Watson said, assailing the
United States government for not rec
ognizing “Russian reds.” On Chase’s
specific instructions, Senator Watson
further charged, the commission ac
countant inflated the showing of prof
its of the packing companies.
.fits _
Avowed Admirer of Lenine
Samuel W. Tator, who, with Chase,
had general charge of the investigation
Senator Watson charged, was “an
avowed admirer, of Lenine and Trotzky
and frequently expressed his admira
tion of the soviet government of Rus
ria.”
“He was pronouncedly gainst the
allies in the world war,” continued
the senator, “and frequently made the
statement that all big business should
be confiscated by the government.”
NOTICE
All members of Statham Camp, W. O
W. Xo. 371 are requested to be pres
ent at, the next meeting night, Thurs
day Nov. Gth. An oyster stew will, be
served about sundown to all the mem
bers and their families. Candidates
who are to take the degrees are in
vited to bring their families. The in
vitation extends to visiting sovereigns.
—W. 11. House. F. L. Williams and
AValt Crow, Committee.
CURRENT EVENTS
THE WORLD OVER
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It is now claimed that the shortage
at the Fairburn Bank will be larger
than at first thought.
It is stated that some six hundred
high Germans will be demanded for
trial in France and Belgium for high
crimes during the war.
It has been announced by the state
department that, diplomatic and mili
tary participation in certain pact pro
visions awaits on ratification by the
American senate.
It, looks now like 500,000 coal min
ers will go on strike November 1. The
president of the Union says unless all
demands are met, including a five-day
week, the order to strike will stand.
Alonzo J. Whitman, aged 61, once
a millionaire and notorious swindler,
lias applied to the authorities in his
old home town, Danville, N. Y., for
admittance to the poor house.
Mr. M. E. Tison, 79 years of age,
was killed in an automobile collision
in Atlanta Monday. The car in which
he was riding was run into by a Red
Cross ambulance. A nurse was injur
ed. The driver of the ambulunce was
arrested.
Five hundred soldiers of the regu
lar United States Army have been
landed in New York for the purpose
of relieving the congestion at the army
piers in Brooklyn caused by'the long
shoremen strike. They are under or
ders “to shoot if necessary.”
Count V. Macehi di Cellcrs, Italian
ambassador 'to the United States, died
in Washington Monday.
Ttiere are 2,000,000 bachelor girls in
Great Britain who have given up all
hope of ever getting husbands, owing
to the shortage in men us a result of
the war.
Dr. Lansing Burrows one of the most
distinguished Baptist, ministers in the
south, and for more than thirty years
secretary of the Southern Baptist Con
vention. died at Amerieus, Georgia,
last Friday.
Tuesday the industrial conference
called to Washington at the president’s
request, wiped out the slate anil will
make a new.start in the effort to bring
labor and capital closer together.
Failure of the operators and miners
to settle their differences may cause
the government to take a hand to pre
vent the strike of a half million min
ers November Ist.
Tuesday King Albert of Belgian,
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Leopold
paid homage at the tomb of Abraham
Lincoln. The king paid tribute to the
courage of the martyr president.
Fearing barbers, the German kaiser
is turning out a beard. •
Auto thrives in London are outdo
ing the ordinary American automobile
thief. The latest report from that
city chronicles the stealing of a hearst.
It is reported that owing to a strike
millions of dollars worth of food is
rotting in Denmark.
A banking syndicate headed by J.
I’. Morgan, New York financier, is pre
paring to float a loan
to England.
Ontario, Canada, has gone dry by an
overwhelming majority, according to
dispatches from the election held there
Tuesday.
Two men died in Atlanta this week
from drniking wood alcohol sold them
by bootleggers for whiskey. Compared
to money, life is worth little. This
should be a warning to imbibers to
stick to home criminals, in the pur
chase of booze.
HUSBAND IS HELD FOR KILL
ING WIFE IN ALTO ACCIDENT
ASHEVILLE, N. C„ Oct. 20.—A cor
oner’s jury impaneled to investigate
the death of Mrs. F. L. Hudgins, who
was instantly killed near Canton late
Saturday when an automobile in which
she was riding struck a post, brought
in a verdict charging the husband of
the deceased and H. F. Stewart with
murder.
Both men are charged with being
in an intoxicated condition at the time
of the accident and with reckless driv
ing. Five other occupants of the car
escaped with slight injuries.
GEORGIA TIME SUNDAY
Mr. W. B. McCants requests us to
announce that beginning Sunday, Oc
tober 20th, the Postoffice at Winder
will observe Georgia time. After that
date the window will be opened for the
distribution of mail and sal<* of stamps
at 8 o'clock and will be closed at 6
7\ M. Xo mail will be delivered thru
the window on Sundays.
BARROW COUNTY BOYS AND GIRLS MAKE
FINE SHOWING WITH PIGS AND CALVES
HEARTS OF HUMANITY
AT STRAND THEATER
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
A play destined to live forever in the
hearts of those who see it will be seen
at The Strand in Winder Friday and
Saturday.
It, is said by those who have seen
it, to be better and more gripping than
“Hearts of the World.”
As Nannette, the character who de
picts the glory accomplished by women
in the war, Dorothy Phillips proves
herself to be one of the screen’s great- J
est players. Rarely have such superb
heights been reached as she displays j
in her mfirvelous delineation of the
role. The story moves from the pine
forests of the Canadian North West
to the Helds of Flanders. Nanette,
whose husband is fighting valiantly,
is unable to resist the tiny voices of
the destitute children across the sea
that call to her through her own baby.
Nanette leaves her little one with her
husband’s mother, to minister to the
needs of the children of France. Many
adventures await her and through
them all she serves her high purpose,
risking her own life to save her little
charges when the town they are in is
taken by the Germans. A officer
tries to force himself upon her, and
Nanette, half crazed by tier ordeal, is
saved from a gruesome fate by her hus
band. After Wing decorated for val
or she returns to her little son and
the mother of her husband who has
lost her four other sons. Christmas
comes bringing with it pence and the
return of tin* soldier to his loved ones.
(io to the Strand Friday or Saturday
and go on with the story.
RIOTING IN STEEL REGION
PITTSBURG, Oct. 21—Rioting broke
out in the BrHildock steel mill district
today was renewed tonight when a
crowd of about fifty strikers anil their
sympathizers clashed with several
workmen who had just left, one ftf the
plants. One man was shot during the
melee and many others were injured.
State troopers, attracted by the noise
of the fight, rushed to the scene on
their mounts and rode into the mob,
using riot clubs freely. When the
troopers put. in an appearance the
crowd greeted them with a shower of
stones, dubs and bottles, and an un
identified man drew a revolver and
fired five shots, one of which struck
Joseph Dinnock, in the vicinity of
whose home the disorders occdrrod.
He was not seriously hurt.
DEAN WILL STAND
FOR RE-ELECTION
■ ■
Mr. W. O. Dean, Solicitor General
of the Western Circuit, when asked if
he would be a candidate for re-elec
tion, stated:
“In making tin- race for Solicitor
General, I stated that, I wanted the
office for four years. It was not my
intention to again be a candidate, but
shortly after I commenced ■ the duties
of the office the legislature saw tit, as
it had the right to do, to place the
office to which I had been elected on a
salary at not more than half it was
paying when I was elected. By the
act of the legislature I was deprived
of half of the fees of the office for near
ly three years.
“I was placed in the position the
farmer would be that has made and
so]d part of his cotton crop at 36 cents
per pound; if he should wake up to
morrow morning to find that some law
has l>een passed fixing the remainder,
or three-fourths of his crop, at 18 cents
per poqpd.
“I feel in view of the fact,
income pf the office to which I was
elected, was reduced one half by leg
islation, that if I have made a satis
factory public official, the people the
Western Circuit will be willing to vote
me another term.”—Walton News.
BRIDGE OFFERED FOR SALE
An opportunity will be given the
state or Mclntosh and Glynn counties
to purchase the Altamaha. bridge and
thus save the connecting link between
the north and Jacksonville, according
to an auouncement made today by Col
onel 11. 11. Dean, of Gainesville. •
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Opt. 27.—Mary Pickford in
“The Hoodlum.”
TUESDAY, Oct. 28—“ The Great Gam
ble.” Comedies.
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 29—Peggy Hyland
in {‘Cowardice Court.”
Take Prize Money at the Great South
eastern Fair in Atlanta. _On Ex
hibition This Week at Macon.
Barrow county folks fared very well,
at the Southeastern Fair held in At
lanta.
Owing to regulations governing size
of exhibit Barrow county did compete
for agricultural display, although she
was awarded 11th prize.
The rules required that 60 feet of
space be used, but at the last moment
it was found that the articles sent
would not fill the space and the space
was cut down to 30 foot, and Harrow
never entered the contest.
Mr. Will Hoscb, who has charge of
tiie exhibit, was assured, however, if
the exhibit had come up to space re
quirements, the exhibit wiuld have
ranked up near the top.
But in the pig and calf clubs Bar
row County did better.
Miss Lillie Chandler, daughter of
Mr. ,T. W. Chandler, of near Auburn,
won three prizes with her Poland
China Pig. This pig took first prize
in the Junior Sow Poland China, in
tlie Open Ring Class and against all
comers in a wide-open field.
Miss # Cleo Sorrels, another Barrow
county girl, landed second prize in the
pig club anil fifth in the open field.
At the Winder fair the position of
these pigs was reversed, Miss Sorrels
•pnoaes joipuwqo ssjiv pun is.;jj
The pigs are now in Macon at the
tate fair, where they will be sold to
the highest bidder at the close of the
fair.
In the elaf club contest, in which
60 calves were exhibited, Barrow coun
ty boys won four places.
Gus Collins, son of Mr. A. D. Col
lins, of Stntham, captured sixth prize
in the yearling class anil Nolan Evans
ninth prize in the same class.
In the senior class. Clay Harrison,
of Bethlehem, won ninth prize and
Ivory Perkins 10th prize in the same
class.
These calves are now in Macon.
NO AMERICAN SOLDIER
EXECUTED DURING WAR
FOR MILITARY (REASONS
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—N0 American
soldier was ever executed "for purely
military reasons” during the war with
Germany, Major S. W. Brewster, for
mer Judge advocate of the third naval
district, declared in an address before
the American prison association here
today. He said that those executed
had been found guilty of offenses rec
ognized us capital crimes in civil
courts.
The association opened a five day
convention here today with 250 dele
gates. •
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UNIFICATION PLAN IS
SCORED BY BISHOP KILGO
In a strong address liefore three hun
dred members of the Atlanta Southern
Stewards’ association, as
sembled in quarterly session at Park
Street Methodist church Tuesday night
Bishop John C. Kilgo, of Charlotte, N.
attacked thd plan of unification of
the northern and southern Methodist
churches, declaring that a radical wing
wants to .organize American Metho
dism into a great corporation with its
members as trustees.
Unification, lie said, was feasible
and desirable only on certain condi
tions, those being recognition of the
principle of local self-government in
the south, the protection of minority
rights and a separate church for the
negro.
Following his address, Judge H. E.
W. Palmer introduced a resolution,
which the association unanimously
adopted, declaring itself being in
favor only of a plan of unification
which will provide a separate church
for the negro and unalterably opposed
to any other plan relating to him, "as
we believe that this will be the best
for the church and best for the negro.”
STRIKERS THREATEN TO
LYNCH UNION PRESIDENT
HOBOKEN, X. J. Oct. 21.—A riot in
which pistol shots were fired broke out
at a meeting of longshoremen here to
night wJUen T. V. O’Conner, president
of thetnrernational Longshoremen’s
association, after having officially de
clared the strike of New York wrfter
front workers at an end.
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