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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, April I.—Olive Thomas
in “Footlights and Shadows.”
FRIDAY, April 2.—Marguarete Clark
in “Come Out of The Kitchen.”
SATURDAY, April 3.—The Invisible
Hand, Marie Walcamp and comedy.
VOL. XXVI.
POLAND LAND
OF CONTRASTS
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Galling Poverty on One Hand,
Riches on Other.
CAFE CROWDS ARE BRILLIANT
High Prices Cause Strangers to Won
der How People Manage to Live—
Long Queues of Men, Women and
Ghildren Stand In Cold, Sleet and
Snow Outside Food Relief Stations
Waiting for Bread.
Asa land of striking contrasts Po
land with her new won freedom Is
. without an equal today. On one hand
is a display of wealth, midnight sup
pers and revelry; on the other hand
Is galling poverty, hunger and emaci
ated arms held out imploring for aid.
There is a great scarcity of milk and
the price of it is exorbitant, but there
always is fresh whipped cream for
your coffee, while a lad, weak of body
and hunger-pinched face and clogs so
1 worn that he slips on the ice covered
pavement, pushes a handcart filled
with milk in bottles from house to
house seeking customers.
Fuel, too, is scarce and only the
wealthy can buy coal, but the hot
water in your apartment at a hotel
may run to waste all day and no one
will tell you to turn it off. In florists’
windows exotic plants bloom, while
ltside the streets are slippery with
keir covering of ice and snow is
banked high.
Sell American Cigarettes.
Tobacco is scarce, but in every ho
tel lobby there are boys with pack
ages of American Red Cross cigarettes,
which they offer for sale at 18 shil
lings for a package of twenty.
Clothing is scarce and expensive,
but one sees many well dressed men
and handsomely gowned women, while
waiters in cafes and restaurants have
abolished “tips” and dress suits as
savoring of the bourgeois, and have
purchased lounge suits at £4O each.
And while men and women of
wealth dine and wine in these places,
outside at the food relief stations
there stand long queues of men, wom
en and children in the cold and the
sleet and snow waiting for bread.
How do they do it? How do the
poor live? These are questions any
stranger here would ask. The answer
is not easy for a cabinet minister’s
salary is only £IOO a month; a clerk
gft/rs £4 a month. Bread costs two
Shillings a loaf, a pair of boots £2O,
a cup of chocolate 4s. 6d.; a sweater
and a knitted skirt, £B4; a table
d’hote luncheon of soup, entree and
an ice, £1 25., with ala carte prices
as follows: Hors d’oeuvres, 15s;
soup, 3s. 6d.; omelet, 95.; cutlet, 10s.;
slice of turkey, 155.; spinach, Bs.; com
pote of fruit, 10s.; a bottle of claret,
.70s.
Mark Worth Half a Penny.
The Polish mark, nominally worth
Is. 6d„ now is worth half a penny,
and the Pole can only earn Polish
marks. Therefore many Poles who re
turned here from America when the
new Poland arose now are trying to
return to the United States.
Meanwhile, the Pole is waiting for
something to happen. He knows that
j * sent conditions cannot last always
they cannot endure.
Wit while it lasts Warsaw presents
curious sights, striking contrasts —bit-
ter frosts, radiant sun, biting wind
and dust storms; glorious sunsets and
snow T . It is a busy, constantly mov
ing city, with rooms almost unobtain
able at the hotels; with street cars
packed' like the subway trains at the
rush hours in New York; with cafes
filled with brilliant crowds, dining and
wining, while the orchestras play won
’ derful music. Today this Is a city of
men of all nations; of handsome wom
en in rich gowns and furs, and sham
bling, pinched faced beggars who beg
a crumb of bread.
And yet, with all its contrasts, War
saw, and all Poland, has a high con
sciousness of freedtßn and pride of pa
triotism. Enormous possibilities are
here, and only a constructive states
manship is needed to develop them,
to weld the scattered ends of life to
gether; to rehabilitate Poland, to
make her a great productive unit of
world production and commerce, and,
If necessary, to make her an effective
barrier between bolshevism and well
ordered government.
MARINES SHOOT WELL
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MfA flt.jh Record In Range Courso
Work.
. From a shooting standpoint, thei
year Just passed was the most suc
cessful In marine corps history, ac
cording to advices from marine corps
headquartere here. Over 87 per cent
of the marines who fired the pre
scribed range course in 1919 qualified
as marksmen or better.’
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Ung.wed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right.
HON. HOKE SMITH
AT GAINESVILLE
Saturday morning, April 3rd at
eleven o’clock, Hon. Hoke Smith will
address the ciljjpns of Gainesville and
surrounding territory in the interest
of his candidacy for president.
Senator Smith stands for the best,
obtainable in the present treaty situ
ation and any should hear his address
in Gainesville Saturday.
U. OF G A GLEE CLUB
WINDER
Monday evening a large concourse
of Winder citizens gathered at the
School Auditorium and enjoyed under
the auspices of the Parent-Teachers
Association, several hours of rare mu
sical entertainment combined with col
lege wit and humor.
A cleaner bunch of fine young men
never visited our town, and the skill
and ability shown by them in render
ing all of the splendid selections was
a credit, to the state university.
Such high class entertainments are
a blessing to a town, and the large
number of citizens who are enthusias
tic in their praise of the evenings en
tertainment shows that Winder is ap
preciating talent, and geniune skill.
The program was carried out, full
of extraordinarily good music inter
spersed ' with wit, humor and mouth
provoking laughter.
MR. YOUNG DANIEL
DIED SUNDAY A. M.
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Was Former Barrow County Citizen
and a Brave Confederate Veteran.
Sunday morning at his home in Atli-
I ens, occurred, the death of Mr. Young
i Daniel, a former citizen of Winder.
He had been sick for several months
but his death was not expected by his
family as he was seemingly stronger
than usual a few days last week.
He represented Madison county in
the State Legislature for two sessions
and served one session in the state
senate.
He was one of the bravest, of Con
federate soldiers and at all times he
manifested a deep and progressive in
terest in his country.
Mr. Daniel is survived by his wife
and several children, all of whom are
influential citizens in their respective
communities.
Dr. J. C. Daniel, of Statham, Pres
ident of the County Board of Educa
tion, is his son.
Funeral services were conducted
from the home in Athens by Rev. W.
H. Faust, of Winder. The large con
course of friends and the beautiful
floral offerings showed in what high
esteem he was held by his friends.
He had reached the ripe age of 77.
DR. J. S. STEWART ANNOUNCES
HIGH SCHOOL MEETS
Dr. J. S. Stewart today announced
the various congressional district high
school meets which are always of con
siderable interest to the people of the
state. The following meets will be
held during this year:
First, District—Millen, April 30-May
Ist.
.Second Distrct— Boston, April 16-17.
Third District —Fitzgerald, April
16tli-17th.
Fourth District—Carrollton, April
23-24.
Fifth District —East Point, April
29-30.
Sixth District— Forsyth, April 15th
16th.
Seventh District—Rome, April 16th
17th.
Eighth District—Madison, April 30-
May. 1.
Ninth District— Commerce. April 30-
May 1.
Tenth District— Thompson, April 22-
23rd.
Eleventh District —Blackshear, Apr.
23rd .-24th.
Twelfth District—Eastman, April 9-
10th.
MEETING CALLED OFF.
The Parent Teachers Association
meeting scheduled for Friday after
noon has been postponed until Friday,
April 9th.
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, April Ist, 1920.
SCHOOL DAYS
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JACKSON-PIRKLE
On Saturday evening at eight o’clock
at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel
F. Pirkle, occurred the wedding of
their daughter, Bertie Lee and Mr. Guy
P. Jackson.
The home was artistically decorated
throughout with southern smilax, ferns,
pots of daffodils and pink and blue
hyacinths.
The entire lower floor was thrown
en suite and in the drawing room an
improvised altar was formed with
ferns and palms, intermingled with
Easter lillies, and on either side were
placed tall white pedestals, holding
candelabra, containing white tapers.
Mrs. Joseph Estes, accompanied by
Mr. Bertram Radford, with violin,
played while Miss Bertha Lee sweetly
sang “At Dawning” and “All For You”.
To the strains of Mendelsaolnes
wedding march, first came Barton
Jackson, the youthful ribbon bearer,
in dainty frock of white organdy and
yellow ribbons. Then the bridal party
entered down the aisle, formed by tall
baskets of Easter lillies, connected by
white satin ribbons, the bridesmaids;
Misses Montane Robinson, Evelyn Rad
ford, Jnez Cooper and Gypsie Bedding
field.
The costumes worn by the maids
were extremely artistic and becoming
of taffeta and tulle, in rainbow shades.
Miss Robinson wore a frock of tur
quoise blue taffeta with silver trim
mings.
Miss Radford was dressed in rose
taffeta with silver.
Miss Cooper was dressed in orchid
taffeta.
Miss Beddingfleld was gowned in yel
low.
All wore silver slippers and carried
pink roses.
Mrs. Estes wore rose satin, with. ror ( -
sage of pink roses. '* *'• -
Miss Lee wore a frock of rose Pink
wearing a corsage or palma violets.
The flower girl, Margaret Morgan,
dressed in dainty frock of white or
gandy and blue .riblams carried a bas
ket of pink roses.
Mrs. Edward L. Beddingfiefd, sister
of the bride was matron of honor. She
was gowned in white georgette satin
with drapery of green, and carried :
shower bouquet of pink and yellow
roses.
Vermille Hagan, niece' of the bride,
who in dainty frock of white, carried
the ring in a lily.
The strains of Lohengrin announced
the approach of the bride. Her strik
ing blond beauty was enhanced by her
becomingly fashioned gown of white
duches satin, embroidered in pearls
and combined with real lace. It was
cut on the new lines with draped over
skirt and caught by clusters of pearls.
The veil was arranged in corona style
and held by a chaplet of orange blos
soms. Her slippers were of white sat
in. beaded in pearls. Her bouquet was
of brides’ roses, showered with valley
lillies. She was given in marriage by
her father.
The best man was Mr. I. E. Jack-
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Ison and Rev. W. H. Faust performed
the impressive ring service.
After the ceremony a reception /ten
dered the largt> number of guests pres
! ent.
Mrs. Pirkle, mother of the bride was
becomingly gowned in lavendar geor
gette arid satin, richly beaded and
wore a corsage of palma violets.
Mrs. Jackson, mother of the groom
was also becomingly gowned in grey
j georgette crepe and wore palma violets.
! Mr. and Mrs. Pirkle were assisted in
! receiving by the bride and groom, Mr.
j.l. E. Jackson, Mrs. Clyde Williamson
[and Mrs. Edward L. Beddingfleld.
Those helping entertain were Mr.
K. H. Pirkle, Mesdames J. W. Griffetb,
Paul Autry, Rhett Nowell, W. H. Jen
nings, W. C. Horton, L. S. Radford, J.
P. Williams and Miss Annette Qutllian.
Mr. and Mrs* Jackson left during
the evening for a trip to Washington,
Philadelphia, New York and other
points.
Mrs. Jackson traveled in a smart
suit of blue tricotine, with all acces-
sories to match.
The bride is the youngest daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel F. Pirkle and
possesses a charming personality that
has endeared her to a host of friends.
Mr. Jackson is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. M. Jackson one of the most
prominent families of the city and a
young man of sterling qualities.
The out of town guests were: Mrs.
Louis Shipp, Madison; Mr. fend Mrs.
E. A. Morgan and family, Atlanta;
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Tuggle and Mrs.
Roy Tuggle, Decatur; Mr. and Mrs.
C. IT. Born, Lawrencevllle; Messrs. J.
H. Pool and Leonard Miller, Athens;
Mrs. A. D. Spealman, Hoschton; Miss
Bertha Lee, Atlanta; Mr. and Mrs. W.
E. Henry, Macon; Mr. and Mrs. Car
ter Daniel and Mr. and Mrs. Ilulmo
Kinnebrew, Athens.
MR. VICTOR SETTLES WINS
HONORS AT GEORGIA-TECH
News comes to us that is of interest
in our college set. Mr. J. Victor Set
tles, who is a student electrical engi
neer at Georgia-Tech, has been appoint
ed instructor in the wireless class, be
cause of his hard work and proficien
cy in wireless telegraphy. His work
is with the S. C. R. aeroplane sets.
Victor says he is very muchly inter
ested in wireless and will spend six
weeks at the government Radio school
at Little Silver, N. J., in the summer. *
Victor was also elected captain of his
company baseball team and it will be
remembered that he and Hubert Jacobs
were members of the company football
team that won the Regimental clinmp.
Mr. Settle had the honor of meeting
Miss June Caprice via wireless tele
phone at the wireless dance given by
the Tech wireless operators Saturday.
Mr. W. A. Hayes, of Hancock coun
ty, was a visitor to Winder Thursday.
Mr. Hayes moved from Barrow county
to Hancock last year. He was looking
fine for an old man.
MR. R.S. ELDER HAS
SERIOUSACfIDENT
Tuesday afternoon, two young mules
being driven by Mr. Richard S. Elder
became frightened by an automobile
and Mr. Elder was thrown from the
wagon and knocked unconscious.
Mr. Elder lives on the H. P. Hardi
gree place, near Statham, and it is re
ported he is in a serious condition.
FINE FARMS SOLD
AT FANCY PRICES
Some fancy prices are now being
paid for Barrow county farm lands.
But, then, Barrow county dirt will
always command the highest prices, as
Barrow county is located in the best
section of the state.
Mr. J. O. Hardigree sold his farm
just below Winder on the National
Highway to Mr. M. E. Rogers, and the
same day Mr. Rogers sold the same
farm to Mr. Fleming Thompson. This
is one of the finest, farms near Winder
and it is understood that it roungli
a handsome sum to the owner
. Messrs. J. W. and Vasco Segars this
week purchased the tract of land on
the National Highway leading to Jef
ferson known as the E. I). Sparks
place. This land is located about three
miles from Winder and is in a fine
neighborhood. We learn the purchase.
: price was around $175,00 per acre.
GREAT NAZIMOVA
AND MISS CLARK
Features at Strand Theater Friday
and Monday.
On Friday, tomorrow, Margurite
Clarke will lie' featured in “Come Out
of the Kitchen” This is considered
one of Miss Clark’s greatest vehicle.
On Monday, the sth, the great Naz
imova will lie seen in “The Brat.”
Its heroine and dominating charac
ter is a waif of the city’s slums who
has never known any name save “the
brat.” To eke out a precarious exis
tence sbe plays in the chorus of a cheap
musical comedy. But the pittance she
receives for her wages is not enough
to clothe her in even the half-decent
style of other girls. “Fired” for be
ing shabby, she faces the world des
perate. A masher insults her; she
slaps his face and is haled to the Night
Court, on an outrageous charge falsely
made by the man sbe rebuffed. There
a celebrated author salvages her from
tlie human wrecks awaiting justice for
their misdemeanors. He takes her home
to study her as the heroine of liis
forthcoming novel.
BADLY HURT.
Friends in Winder of Mr. J. W.
Whitehead, formerly of this place but
now of Gainesville, will regret to learn
that as the result of a fall recently
he was seriously injured. He was car
ried to a hospital in Gainesville, and it
is learned that he is getting on as well
as could be expected, owing to Ids ex
treme age.
CORONER THOMPSON
MAKES EXPLANATION
I desire to explain to the voters of
Barrow county that I have lteen prov
identially hindered from seeing them to
talk over my candidacy for re-election
as coroner. I have been confined to
my room most all of the time sine?
March sth and have been on account
of sickness of myself and other mem
bers of my family unable to go out
among the people. I am just getting
out from my sick room and will prob
ably be too weak to canvass for some'
time. However, I take this method* of
•ailing the attention of the voters to
my candidacy and I assure each and
every one that I will appreciate the
support of the voters and an,endorse
ment of my official acts. I have held
the office for one term and it, is usual
to give one an endorsement and if my
-■ervices have been satisfactory I will
thank you for an endorsement.
Hopbig to see you as soon as my
hysical condition and the condition
of my family will permit and assur
ing you of my appreciation of your
support, I am, Respectfully,
W. I’. Thompson.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, March sth.—Nazimona in
‘The Brat."
TUESDAY, April 6. “Lightning
Brice and Comedy.
WEDNESDAY, April 7.—Blanch Sweet
in “A Woman of Pleasure.”
INDIANS FIRST
USED RADIUM
Aborigines of Utah Employed Ore
• as Beautifier.
MAN'S FIRST COAT WAS PAINT
Reds Painted Their Bodies Bright Yel
low, and With Other Pigments
Looked Like Rainbows—Mining Op
erations Show That Indians Did
Much Digging for Iron Oxide, Which
Was Used to Decorate Their Bodies.
The first users of radium ore were
the Indians of Utah. In pre-Columbian
times they employed It (the stuff now
known as “carnotite”) to paint their
bodies a bright canary yellow.
No work on eminent painters ought
to omit mention of the American abo
rigines, who quite generally were In
earlier days wonderful colorists.
It is suspected that the first coat
worn by man was a coat of paint. But
the early American artist, when he
had adorned himself like a rainbow,
the final touch, perhaps, being to make
the lower half of his face red and the
upper half green, did by no meanft
stop at that.
He painted weird pictures on rocks
and the faces of cliffs. He painted his
wooden house, or his tepee, with sym
bolic nnd descriptive designs. He
painted his slfteld and bow and arrows.
He painted monstrous masks (worn lh
ceremonials) and also his pottery.
Most Precious to Indians.
The most precious of all things to
the Indlnns —who even nowadays have
not lost their talent in this direction—
was paint. A deposit of minernl pig
ment was to them a mine* of wealth.
Oxides of copper yielded blue nnd
green paints, and from iron oxide was
obtained a brilliant red.
The first workers in the qulcksllvet
mines of California were pre-Colum
bian Indians. Cinnabar, tho ore ot
mercury, is a sulphide of the lattet
metal which we call vermilion. Great
stuff for war paint, as well as tot
other uses.
Not long ago an Important deposit
of ore was opened at Leslie, Mo., and
mining operations disclosed the fact
that much digging had anciently been
done there by the fot
Iron hut for iron oxide contained in
seams and pockets. For the oxide
they had burrowed in all directions*
even to a depth of 25 feet.
Trade was extensively developed In
early days among the Indian tribes,
and doubtless the pigment produced
by this mine was distributed over a
vast territory. The miners employed
there today, when they come out after
n day’s work, look as If they were
painted from head to foot.
The same diggings In times ante
dating the white mnn yielded quali
ties of another highly valued paint,
namely, yellow ocher —the latter be
ing another compound of Iron, often
found associated with the red oxides
Paint From Springs.
A beautiful white paint was ob
tained by the Indlnns of the Yellow*
Btone region from boiling springs. Ii
was a white clay, very finely divided,
so that when dried it took the form
of a powder. They took it out In the
form of mud, which had only to he ex*
posed to the sun In order to become
first-class pigment material. Some ot
it had a pinkish tint.
The Indian women, as well as the
men, used pigments for cosmetic pur
poses. But, unlike modern young la
dles, they did not try to disguise them*
Belves with masks of white, or to
adorn their cheeks and lips with
roseate hues, though the white stuff
from the Yellowstone springs might
have furnished an excellent “liquid
powder,” supplemented by touches ot
vermilion or iron oxide. They painted
their faces, with quaint conventional
designs, in obedience to the demands
of aboriginal fashion. —Philadelphia
Ledger,
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AGED MAN LOSES MEMORY
Fall of Fifty Feet Leaves No Other
- * Mark.
_The police of Long Beach, Cal., have
An custody a well-to-do octogenarian
who has been suffering from loss ot
memory since he fell fifty feet off the
ocean bluff when he marvelously
escaped with no disfiguring injuries.
In response to queries concerning
his home and kin he told the officers
he didn’t worry about such matters.
He had In his pockets slll In mon*
ey, $2,300 worth of Liberty bonds and
bank books showing deposits of $1,637,
$3,600 and $1,700 respectively in the
Spokane and Eastern Trust company,
the Old National bank and the Citi*
zens’ Savings and Loan society, all ot
Spokane, while he also had a SI,OOO
certificate of deposit in the San Diego
Merchants’ National bank, a S2OO note
and other papers.
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