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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Jan. 29—Eugene O’Brien
hi “SEALED HEARTS”
FRIDAY, Jan. 30.—“ THE MIRACLE
MAN.” SPECIAL.
SATURDAY, January 31. Invisible
Hand; Marie Walcamp; Comedy.
VOL. XXVI.
A CITY COURT WOULD BECOME VEHICLE
OF REAL JUSTICE IN BARROW COUNTY
Misdemeanor Cases Fill the Dockets of the Superior Court and
Take Up Immeasurable Time From the Judge and Solicitor
City Court Would Expedite Public Business With
No Added Cost to the County.
There s a great deal of work hi the
Superior Court of Barrow county.
All of the civil cases on the court's
docket are not placed on the calendar
at any session of the court, for the good
and sufficient reason that it is useless
to do so. It is annoying to all concern
ed to have litigants and witnesses to
appear at court when there is no hope
for a trial of their case.
The judge aud the solicitor are una
ble to catch up with the work. They
are away behnd aud the cause is that
the Superior Court is the only court
in the county that has jurisdiction to
try civil and criminal cases.
The cases in justice court worth
while come to the Superior court on cer
tiorari or appeal and these and misde
meanors clutter up the docket. They
take up immeasureable time from the
judge and the solicitor.
It has been said that a City Court at
Winder would create more offices. What
if it does? We have a number of law- j
yers in Barrow county thoroughly com
petent to hold the offices. The expense
will be on the litigants in civil actions
as it is in the Superior Court. The costs
of the case will include the jury ex
pense, which will be paid by thj■/•'de
feated litigant. The case tl ytft' would
be tried in the City Court-toy a jury will
be tried in. Che" Superior Court by a
jury,' In misdemeanors the Superior
Court carries with it the expense of a
grand jury, and the City Court would
have no grand jury. The expense in
the Superior Court is much greater
than it would be in a City Court. The
same jury would try the case in one
court as in the other, except that it
would be tried about one year sooner in
a City Court than in the Superior
Court as matters now stand. If a City
Court were established Judge Cobb
could clear the docket in the Superior
Court, and all litgation in the county
would be carried on up to date.
♦ Che unnecessary expense and delay
occasioned by small matters being
I thrown into the Superior Cou' t, and
jrhe-reby interferring with more impor- !
.stunt litigation is just the reason why
Barrow should have a City Court. It
is vexing for litgants with thousands
of dollars at stake to sit around and
await their turn for a trial while some
fellow is testifying about a calf trac}->
ing up his turnip patch.
There would he a dispatch of busi
ness and less expense in administer
ing the law if Barrow had a City Court,
than there now is in administering, the
law in these cases in the Superior court
of the county. As matters now stand
an ordinary lawsuit cannot take its
turn and be tried in the Superior Court
of Barrow County in less than two
years, and scarcely in any instance in
less than one year after the lawsuits
and misdemeanors clog the business of
t'fe Superior Court in a way that makes
fit impossible for that, tribunal to reach
matters which must be tried by the Su
peror Court. Try to eject a tenant
holding over. By simply iiling an affida
vit he can live in your house a year
and pay you nothing. In two or three
years you may get judgment for double
rent, but, what will your judgment be
worth ?
A City Court with necessary juris
diction, with the sheriff and the same
clerical force that is used in the Su
peVior Court to do the work, would be
in a positon to do a large amount of
work which the Superior Court, of the
county will otherwise be required to do.
We ought to give relief in this way.
We would be doing what other counties
in Georgia have done to their financial
benefit, and to the advancement of law
and order. In such a court cases can
be tried more readily and inexpensive
ly under less technical rules, and we
can see no reason why some member of
the Winder bar couldn’t try these cases
just as well, efficiently and fairly as
they can be tried in the Superior
Court.
Instead of the immediate hearing
guaranteed to litigants in small cases
we now have great delay of all cases
ijfthe Superior Court, and a system of
jurisprudence is growing in the county
that s deplorable and detrimental to a
healthy respect for law. Municipali
ties are encroaching upon the business
of the State and gathering in funds
from law-breakers, funds that rightful-
®J)t UHttkr Mews.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
ly should go to the county treasury or
the offender to her road gang. Fifty
per cent, of the crimes committed in a
county occur in the towns of the coun
ty. To the extent that the towns run
their mayor's courts for revenue only
aud out of harmony with the State
court, to that extent respect for law and
law enforcement' must suffer. Any
mayor who issues warrants for infrac
tions of the penal laws of the State
under a charge of “disorderly conduct”
and promises not to prosecute the case
further if the accused will pay a police
court fine, is himself a most flagrant
violator of the spirit of the law.
That is the county’s business and we
are getting urselves in tune to talk
about the county’s business. And you
can just bet your old rusty bottom dol
lar that we are going to have some
thing to say about the comity’s business
in this good year of Our Lord nineteen
hundred and twenty.
Gambling, possessing and selling li
quor, beating board bills, etc., have
been looked into by some of our may
ors under the ever ready “disorderly
charge, aud what, they consid
ered appropriate fines under “THE
LAW' applied.
A uCfro served on the streets of a
town ntt a thousand miles from Win
der because he was accused of stealing
forty dol’ ars - He was tried and found
! guilty of “disorderly conduct,” though
the moicy was never recovered and
there wa* 110 witness to the theft. An
other verdict hi a Barrow county may
or’s coui* hi a blind tiger case reads
as follows: “The mayor pro tem. and
council sustains the mayor in his de
cision ot SIOO.OO fine and requests the
mayor tP instruct the city attorney to
have tin’ solicitor of the Superor court
to abandon the case in the State court.”
Ould any one desire a- cheaper li
cense to sell liquor at $32.00 per gallon?
But, if these misdemeanors are bound
to the grand jury what is the result.
The grand jury meets only twice a
year and the accused may languish in
jail five or six months to emerge from
jail with no indictment against him or
an acquittal before a jury. Why not
provde a tribunal that will give us
quick action in all small litigations?
In a City court, a trial eifh be had in
some instances in a few days, but if
tue case goes to the Superior court
there is necessary expense and delay,
and. if it happens to be civil suit, it is
placed in cold storage for about two
years before it is tried.
That is the condition that confronts
Barrow county. It is not the big liti
gation which crowds the docket of the
Superior court, but it is the little stuff
which is allowed to accumulate there
by reason of the' fact that they do not
have the time to try these little things
which should have been disposed of in
a court below.
The people are always complaining
about the law’s delay, and yet do not,
seem to realize that each man must get
his grinding in his turn. Establish a
City court and it will become a real ve
hicle of justice in Barrow county and
it will expedite public business with no
added cost to the county.
MR. L. LOVE BUYS THE
STRAND THEATER BUILDING.
Mr. 'L. Love has purchased from Mr.
j. L. Saul the Strand Theater building
in which his moving picture programs
have been given for the past four years.
Next week Mr. Love will begin the
erection of a 35-foot addition to rear
of the building to take care of the in
creasing patronage that throng the
Strand. The play house is to be made
up to date in every respect, the seating
capacity doubled and t.he stage enlarg
ed to accommodate first class opera anil
vaudeville shows, as well as legitimate
drama and farce comedies.
It will be the purpose of Mr. Love
to book one good legitimate show ev
ery week or two, in addition to keep
ing his movie films up to the highest
standard.
This will be good news to lovers of
high class amusement, and it is safe
to say that the patronage in this sec
tion will welcome clean, wholesome
artists of the stage and film.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, January 29, 1920.
OLD HOME TOWN
CALLS PROF. CASH
A few days ago Frof J. P. Cash re
ceived following telegram from
Hartwell, Ga..:
“The Board of Education elects you
superintendent at a salary of $2,500. —
W. E. Meridit.h, President of Board.”
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That this action was taken without
solicitation on the part of Prof. Casn
shows in what esteem and confidence
he is held by his home town and peo
ple. Nearly ten years ago, Prof. Cash
left Hartwell where he had taught as
principal for one year and later as
superintendent for five years.
It was during IJis administration
that the Hartwell public school sys
tem was inaugurated, and so satisfac
tory and complete was it in detail that
scarcely has a change been made in
the workings of the system.
Such a message as the above from
one’s home town and people is no small
compliment, and this one is thorough
ly appreciated by Prof. Cash.
MASS MEETING CALLED
“The Democrats of Barrow county
are hereby called to meet in th'C court
| house at Winder, Ga., at 11 o’clock on
Tuesday morning, February 3d, 1920.
This meeting is called for the purpose
of electing anew executive committee,
arranging for the Democratic primary
elections and preparing for the year's
campaigns.
“Let all loyal democrats be at this
important meeting.
W. H. Quarterman, Chairman.
“J. C. Pratt, Secretary.”
HON. HAKVIE JORDAN
TO SPEAK SATURDAY
Hon. Harvie Jordan will address the
farmers and business men at the Bar
row county courthouse next Saturday
evening, January ,31st.
Mr. Jordan comes as a representa
tive of the American Cotton Associa
tion, and what he will have to say
will be of interest to the planters and
business men of this section.
The American Cotton Association
means millions to the cotton planters
of the Southern States. It is the pur
pose Saturday to see how much in
terest the people of this county have
in this great movement to secure fair
prices for their cotton. Be on hand
and hear Mr. Jordan explain the ob
ject, and purpose of the association
as an American movement. Saturday
afternoon at the Court House.
winder defeats auburn
The Winder High School journied
over to Auburn Friday afternoon and
took the measure of the fast. Auburn
team by the score of 16 to 10. Win
der High has a very good team, but
not one-third of the Winder people
have knowledge of that fact. So next
time you see a game advertised to be
played on the home court, come around
and be on hand to root for our boys
so that they can defeat any of the
high schools that may come to Winder.
They can already do this, but with
the support of their home town they
can accomplish by far more than they
could by themselves. . So don't forget
and come out to the next game played
in Winder. They need your support
both financially and personally.
ALBERTUS HARRISON WILL RUN
We are authorized to state that Mr.
Alliertus Harrison lias definitely de
cided to enter the race for clerk of the
Superior Court for Barrow county, und
that his official announcement will ap
pear as soon as the date for the pri
mary is set. This will be good news
to the numerous friends of Mr. Harri
son.
TWO NOTED WOMEN
SPEAK IN^ WINDER
Winder was blessed and Honored
with the presence of two noted women
here last week, both of whom gave
great messages to their hearers. Mrs.
Elizabeth Ross of the Christian Wom
an’s Missions of the Christian church
spoke Wednesday night on Africa,
where her gifted son, Emory Ross, is
stationed at Bolengi as missionary. She
showed her audience what the great
continent of Africa is today with all
its vast abundance of wealth and re
sources. Every one felt that Africa
has vast prospects.
Mrs. Mary Harris Armour spoke on
Friday evening, in spite of the torrents
of rain, to an appreciative though
small, audience. She thrilled her hear
ers with her eloquent appeals from the
beginning and made them feel that
prohibition was not only a great, but
a vital matter. Her sentences were
brilliant and forceful and went right
home to the hearts of her hearers.
HONOR ROLL OF WINDER PUBLIC
SCHOOLS FOR SECOND QUARTER
Eleventh Grade.—Ruth Chapman,
Desma Bradbury, Sara Frances Se
gars, Willie Mae Eavenson, Ina Apple
by.
Tenth Grade —Edith House, Ruhye
Woodruff, Elise Starr, Ralph Hardigree
Lagree Jacobs, Willie Mae Holloway,
Edna Appleby.
Ninth Grade —Alton Young, Rounet.t
Benton, Gladys Eavenson, Willie Hill
Eighth Grade —Nettie Bagwell, Julia
Dunnahoo, Evelyn Harris, Frances
Hubbard, Fannie Lou Tucker, Essie
Let* Williams, Harold Starr, J. B. Wil
liams.
Seventh Grade—Pauline Hill, Hazel
Hill, Boyd Brown, Hilda Faust, An
nie Lou Lamback, Thelma McDonald,
Mildred Oldham, Mary Julia Reid, Ka
tie Lou Oglesby, Louise Williams.
Sixth Grade.—Mary Ross, Gibson
House, Anita Bagwell, Otis Willie
Smith, Fielding Russell. Nannelle Starr
y.amar Perry, Carolyn Aiken, Hoke
Woodruff, Lucile Churchhillj, Sunie
Johns, Henry Bradley, J. T. Perry, W.
C. Horton, Annie Kate Hunt, Evelyn
Patrick, J. L. Hill. Alice Dunahoo, Ju
lia Smith, Ruby Maynard, Nell Segars,
Luella Bronson, Ella Roof Bray, Mary
Dell Elrod.
Fifth Grade—Thelma Barber, John
nie Bennett, Preston Cash, Nannie Mae
Dunahoo, Johnnie Lou Garner, Frances
Hill, Morgan Holsenbeck, Lucy Ruth
Moone, Lillie Belle Mincey, Ermine
McElroy, Mary Frances Sorrow.
Fourth Grade —Frank Marten, Mary
Lamar Jackson, Helen Graddick, Era
Mincey, Lois McElroy, Marietta Faust,
Gertrude Young, Lucile Dunahoo.
Third Grade —Sara Barber, Bonnie
Beddingfleld, Birdie Ruth Doster, Bess
Harris, Ruth Love, Pauline Roberts,
Ijarryette Segars, Lizzie Kate Wil
liams, Robert Appleby, Carlton Nib
lack, Harold Patrick, Herman Shedd,
Monford Whitley, Allen Smith, Hubert
Henson, Ruby Lee Bell, Amilee Chas
tain, Fannie Lee DeLay, Annie Mor
gan, Nelle Summerour, Frances Eber
hart, Griffin Hill, Curtis Foster, Har
old Fulcher, Clyde McElroy.
Second Grade —Miriam Fulcher, Gui
de Mae Hill, Lester Hardigree, Alice
Rives, Sulu Thomas, B. ('. Hill, Edward
Royal, Mary Willie Wright, Wallace
Seagraves, Loyd Baird, Malcom Baugh
Bruce Brown, John Cash, John H.
Eavenson, William Farr, Samuel Gra
ham, Arnold Holsenbeck, Harold House,
Roy Maynard, George Mayo, Bert Min
cey, Roy Poole, Oran Roberts, James
Segars, Eugene St. John, Dean Tur
pin, Margaret Blakey, Mary F. Cooper,
Frances Craft, Gertrude Chastain, Ger
aldine Fullbright, Annie H. Hargrove,
Estelle Long, Dorothy Maynard, Myr
tie Marlow, Lota Mae McElroy, Caro
lyn Russell, Ruth Rutledge, Rubye
Rutledge, Mary L. Walden.
First Grade B. —H. L. Bently, Geo.
Harwell, Lester Hinesley, Bill Jones,
Hubert Marlow, Harold Wilson, Lois
Austin, Ruth Dunahoo, Willie Belle-
Fuller, Lois Hinesley, Mamie Marlow.
Adell Mobley, Girtie McDonlad, Ora
Belle Shedd, Anide Mae Summerour.
First Grade A. —Pierce Brown, Ev
erett Bronson, Hugh Carithers, Joe
Cash, Clarence Dunahoo, Ea
ton, Ivrey Henson, Jack Hill, Law
son Hill, Roliert Mincey, Henry Patat,
James Mnxey Saunders, Martha Coop
er. Lona Reese Couch, Hattie Eugenia
DeLaPerriere, Doris Hardigree, Cam
mie Maynard, Mary Mayne, Emolyn
Miller, Ruby Mobley, Doris Nowell,
Inez Ross, Runette Segars, Gladys
Thompson, 3ibyl Williams.
BONDED WAREHOUSE IN WINDER WOULD
SAVE THOUSANDS TO BARROW FARMERS
Jealousy and Indifference Should Be Eliminated When the Good
of the Whole Community Is at Stake.—The Erection of
This Warehouse Will Help Rather Than Hinder the
Progress of Other Warehouses in Winder.
Since the movement started for the
erection of a cotton warehouse in Win
der, there has been quite a deal of dis
cussion for and against it. There have
developed two kinds of opposition to
this movement. One faction, principal
ly our farmer friends, who would be
lieve it is it business proposition launch
ed by the moneyed men of Winder to
drag in capital from them to promote
this warehouse for the gain of the men
in Winder. The other faction oppose
this movement on the ground that sucn
a warehouse will control all of the cot
ton business and leave the present
warehousemen without business.
It is regretted by the promoters and
all interested in this warehouse that
such attitudes as these are taken by
any one. No promoter has a purely
selfish motive in view when he lines up
and makes a drive for this warehouse.
However, there may be those who are
playing the part of a hypocrite by of
fering to push the proposition in order
that by being on the inside they will be
more able to fight and kill the move
ment. In order to bear out the state
ment that, no promoter has a purely sel
fish motive in the advocating of this
warehouse it will be well to look the
ituation squarely in the face, give a few
facts and let you draw your own con
clusions :
Ginner’s reports up to January Ist.
show 19,545 bales of cotton for Barrow
county, (as against 17,142 bales last
year.) At present there are only five
warehouses in this county that store
cotton for the public with a total stor
age capacity of only approximately 4,-
900 bales. Four of these warehouses
are in Winder and are able to care for
only 4,400 bales.
Thus it is seen that 15,000 (hi round
numbers) bales of cotton in Barrow
county alone are exposed to the weath
er, with no insurance, or if insured, at
an almost, prohibitive rate. The dam
age is tremendous in its cost. At the
least calculation the damage will av
erage a loss of 10 pounds per bale or
150,000 pounds of lint cotton. At 40
cents per pound, this loss amounts in
round numbers to $60,000.00. A total
loss to the farmers of Barrow county
alone.
However, this does not cover the cot
ton that comes to Winder from tin- ad
joining counties. It is safe to say that
the loss on the unstored cotton from
adjoning counties will amount to 100,-
(KM) pounds of lint cotton or $40,000;
making a total of $100,000.00 loss in
Winder cotton during twelve months, —
enough to build a warehouse of 10,000
to 15,000 bales capacity.
Without warehousing facilities to
care for the cotton crop properly and
economically, this loss will continue to
come from the pocket of the producer
under the present system of handling
the cotton crop.
A Federal bomb'd warehouse, such
as has been proposed will give the
farmer a place for storing his cotton
at a low cost. The insurance rate will
be very low, depending upon the char
acter of the building, and other charges
will be as low as can be made. At the
same time the great advantage is in
the availability of the cotton thus stor
ed for collateral at any bank. The re
ceipt from this warehouse will bear a
government stamp of approval and car
rying on its face the grade of the cot
ton as graded by a United States li
censed grader. The receipt bearing
this stamp is sufficient collateral at
any bank for borrowing money at the
lowest rate up to an amount equal to
two-thirds of the value of the cotton
as graded by the United States grader.
This is a great opportunity for ev
ery cotton grower to be able to hold
his cotton for higher prices if lie wishes
or, if he wishes to sell, the certified
grade on his receipt enables him to get
the maximum price for his cotton.
On the face this looks good, but there
are even better results to be obtained
than are apparent. The average man
cannot borrow money on cotton stored
on his fann. Neither can every man
borrow money without security In or
der to hold his cotton. Hejcan discount
his paper profitably. SpecjkK rates
have been arranged by the government,
through the Federal Reserve System,
thereby enabling each farmer, under
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Feb. 2.—TOM MIX, in
"ROUGH RIDING ROMANCE”
TUESDAY, Feb. 3—Pearl White in
“The Black Secret.” Comedy.
WEDNESDAY”, Feb. 4.—“ The Thir
teenth Chair.” Special.
this warehouse plan, to make a saving
on bis louns.
If the farmers of this section put
their shoulders to the wheel and put
this proposition over by assisting the
business men to raise the capital need
ed, they will reap all these benefits and
come in for their share of the profits
on the investment. The farmers and
business men of this section are de
pendent one upon another. Without
co-operation between them the com
mercial life as well as the social life
will be demoralized. To build this
warehouse co-operation is needed. One
can not do it without the other. Neith
er can one share in the benefits without
the other sharing in some proportion.
The merchant’s business will be in
creased, the banker’s business will grow
and the city of Winder will no longer
be a town but will become a real city.
The warehouse as proposed will bring
not only the cotton of this county but
that of the surrounding counties. All
that is needed is a place to store it and
our railroad facilities coupled with our
centrally located compress will enable
Winder to become the leading cotton
market of North Georgia. Any ware
house built will lie filled and those here
now will have their share as well.
When this is done the business will
have increased, the town will have
grown larger and with it receipts of all
business will lie larger and the value
of all farm holdings will have increas
ed in proportion.
With such a warehouse in Winder
the present warehouses will have more
business than they can acommodate in
addition to t.lie business of the new
proposition because of the increased
amount of cotton coming in from other
sections. Even this season enough cot
ton to fill a warehouse of 20,000 bales
capacity, in addition to all the ware
houses here, was turned away and
went elsewhere on account, of the lack
of facilities of weighing and storing
in Winder.
The time has come that the foreign
buyers are no longer in position to buy
ahead two or three years supply of cot
ton, and it falls upon the producers to
be prepared to store the crop. Small
towns or individual producers will not,
be able to do this. Centrally located
towns with good railroad facilities and
other conditions such as Winder are
the logical places for such storage
plants.
To comprehend fully so large a move
ment and its possibilities requires a
broad mud and once stripped of all
jealousy and a strong desire to make
Winder the best town in Georgia. As
long as there is strife and an element
of selfish domineering towards any new
enterprise our town will certainly ret
rograde instead of advance. The pro
moters of this plan are co-operating
with all for the general profit of the
whole. Get yourself Tight and, if you
can not. subscribe towards this move
ment, at least let your influence be for
the upbuilding of your neighbor, your
town and country.
GATEX OIL CORPORATION
MAN ON VISIT TO WINDER
Mr. H. C. Wilson, prominent real
estate man of Atlanta, is in Winder
for a few days in the interest of
the Gates Oil Corporation, a corpor
ation organized by Georga and Texas
boys about a year ago. The company
lias made good: have several produce
wells anil nearly 200,000 acres of land
leased on which they are drilling mort
wells.
The Gatex Company never issued
any stock until a short time ago. The
stock being sold at present is for the
purpose of building refineries. The
profits in refineries are equal to that
of production, and as safe investment
as real estate or bank stock. Mr.
Wilson states that the Gatex has made
good and is going to get better every
month and advises friends to get in
on the ground floor. Several of the
nromiuent Winder citizens are already
stockholders in the Gatex.
Any one desiring to know about the
working plans or holdings of the com
pany. can address Mr. Wilson, care
Granite Hotel, Winder, Ga., or Hotel
Georgian, Athens, Ga. —adv.
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