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JURY GIVES CLERK OVATION
One of the pleasing incidents of scattering roses
during life occurred in the court house last Friday
after court had adjourned. •
Clerk Geo. N. Bagwell was handing the jurors
their script for services rendered during the week,
the last juror had received his when the foreman in
forceful and touching phraseology expressed to the
clerk their appreciation, of his splendid services as a
court officer since the creation of the new county and
touchingly referred to the severance of the county’s
relationship with Mr. Bagwell.
The complimentary speech was wholly unexpected
and yet the ever-ready clerk rose to the occasion and
responded in a heartfelt speech, thanking the twenty
three men for their kindly reference to his work.
When he had finished tears were glistening in the
eyes of all.
Than George X. Bagwell, no county ever had a
more efficient and accommodating clerk, and every
act of his administration has endeared him to his
host of friends all over the county.
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“CANNED EDITORIALS”
Home of the prosperous and brainy brethren of
the weekly press lmve been quarreling at the little
fellows for using what the elite term “canned edi
torials."
We hold no brief for the “Chicago Stealing Bu
reau" that sends out to small weeklies general par
agraphs and editorials upon common-place subjects.
However, we rise to remark that a majority of the
exchanges coming to our desk could Improve their
sheets and come nearer giving their subscribers
value received by the adoption of “panned edito
rials."
We had rather see on the editorial page of an ex
change a well-written, well-printed article that had
been swiped at Chicago from some paper in these
United States than to run into tin* headlines of
Swamp-Hoot or Doan’s Kidney Tills.
In view of the high cost of living and the necessi
ty to provide therefor, even the editor who spends
his entire time in the printsliop has a thousand and
one things to do other than sitting in front of a type
writer and telling the dear people what he thinks
Such an editor never does that. He hasn’t a vo
cabulary sufficient to express his real thoughts, and
if he were to do so his publication would be denied
access to the mails.
Up must write editorials while answering a thou
sand and one questions from friends and office force,
lie must get the ads., operate the Merg., feed the
press and crank the blamed gasoline engine every
time a wliirl-wind comes along to put the electric
current out of business. We admire the editor
who, under these conditions, selects a sensible “cann
ed editorial’ 'rather than print free of charge arti
cles furnished him by syndicate grafters who at
tempt to steal his space to gull the public.
The use of “canned editorials” is a bad practice,
and the newspaper that, sticks to them without giv
ing expression to independent thought will* soon
lose its prestige, but there are worse practices in
the weekly newspaper game in Georgia. ‘Fren
stance, a continued blotchy print with no editorials
whatever.
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The Constitution says, referring to the preferen
tial primary in Georgia: “The issue in this race is
clearly drwan. It. is loyalty against disloyalty.”
Loyalty to what? Surely no one save a coward
would fling such a slur at men who gave their sons
as a sacrifice on the, altar of their country.
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The town man who cultivates every inch of his
garden space realizes a valuable dual crop from
that ground—lnexpensive food and an improvement,
in his constitutional development.
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No matter how Indifferent a man may be toward
tils wife, there is one time when she becomes his
haven of refuge—when he wants to put his property
in her name.
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If you want to live in days of perpetual sun
shine just convince the profiteers that every cloud
has a silver lining. They’ll reach up and pull ’em
down.
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Well, now then. We suggest that Double F. J.
Harris take Mr. Palmer’s place in the campaign for
president hi Georgia.
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The l>alton Citizen is pulling for Governor Ed
wards, of New Jersey. Here’s hoping, Shope. That
fellow brings liack memories of rye bread, etc.
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Yes, times certainly do change. Speak of a chicken
now and a fellow immediately thinks of the pret
tiest girl he knows. *
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Some folks say “politics is” and other say “politics
are" but so long as they are both connected with
politics one is as bad as the other.
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Yes. it takes a mighty strong mirror to withstand
the strain of some faces, lint not yours—oh, no,
not yours.
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Strange, isn't it, how amiable the other fellow’s
wife always seems to some men?
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And the balmy days of spring art* deliciously balmy
—when they are balmy.
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Today we note that spring is quite springy.
TOM WATSON’S SWEATER
By his refusal to yield an inch President Wilson
passed his pet Eutopian dream, the League of Na
tions, to the people for ratification, but in-so-far as
Georgia is concerned the issue will not be settled at
she polls.
The politicians are determined that a clean-cut is
<ue shall not tie presented to the voters the April
primary, and the Georgian who desires to express
his opposition to the League of Nations and the \\ li
son administration in an impressive way can do so
only by voting the republican ticket at the general
election for president.
The preferential primary fight that is now brew
ing throws old-line democrats out in the cold, with
out an acceptable candidate to champion the prin
ciples for which they stand. By reason of life-long
affiliation with the democratic party, the ever present
race question in the south and other important is
sues, many democrats will remain true to the party
■tiid support the nominee of the San Francisco con
vention or remain away from the polls on general
•lection day.
A week ago the issue of Leagueor no League was
clear-cut in Georgia between Mitchell Palmer, a faith
ful supporter of the Wilson administration in every
detail, and Senator ltced, of Missouri, an irrecon
cilable opponent of the League.
Then Hoke Smith came straddling into the cam
paign, with no other hope than to control the Geor
gia delegation to the nominating convention. Hoke
has a large following in the state that will vote for
him without regard to the purpose of his campaign.
They are going to vote for Hoke, straddling dema
goguery to the contrary notwithstanding.
Smith's entry brought out Tom Watson, and we
-can’t say that we attach much blame to the Sage
of McDuffie. It was enough to arouse his ire when
he saw Hoke begin warming up for the race wear
ing the costly Watsonian anti-league sweater with
its Jeffersonian stripes. Ttie sight of that sweater
opened old sores in Tom’s heart. It reminded him
of the day that fie was threatened witli jail doors,
his publications were denied access to the mails and
his mouth was sealed. Hoke had appropriated the
garment very late in the season and it is a decided
■misfit. He had only one arm through the sleeves and
was putting it on hind-side front. The senior sen
ator may be nominated for president, by the voters
of Georgia, but Tom Watson is going to see to it that
HIS expensive anti-Wilson, anti-league sweater is
worn by its proper owner.
No man in Georgia has more faithful personal ad
mirers through tHick and thin than Thomas E. Wat
son and none have more bitter political enemies.
The politicians expect the campaign to result in solid
ifying factional line-ups. However, as neither can
didate hopes to he made the democratic nominee for
president, quite a number of thoughtful Georgians
may rise above past political differences and vote
for measures instead of for men. The preferential
primary can amount to nothing more than an expen
sive pulse-feeler, and the people may become aroused
and give the feelers a healthy throb.
So we are to have local factional politics on April
20th—tlwi Atlanta Journal vs. The Constitution with
Tom Watson holding the balance of power. The
League of Nations will be the subject under discus
sion and some good may result. Reed, Watson.
Hardwick and Smith may teach the people the fal
lacy of tlie president’s dream, and there is one cer
tain bet: This trime neither of our Georgia can
didates will telegraph to Woodrow for his endorse
ment nor will the price of cotton be again stableized.
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EASTER SUNDAY
Do we meekly celebrate this hallowed day so the
one on which Clirist arose from the dead and as
cended into heaven or has modern customs convert
ed the day into a dress parade for the display of
new spring clothing?
We do not criticise those who go to church pre
pared to meet the bride, and this article is written to
call the attention of our readers to the fact that
every one should endeavor to attend services on
Easter Sunday. Asa general rule the Winder
churches hold special services on this day, and those
in the rural extend, to one and all a spring
time welcome. We all need to go to church more than
we do, and, as you have read this, we want to speak
a word to you personally: Attend services some
where on Easter Sunday.
Following is un extract from the Dawson News:
“Next Sabbath throughout Christendom all faiths,
all sects and all denominations will again celebrate
the coming of the new life. In Easter carol and
resurrection sermon; in Easter mass and anthem;
from pulpits throughout the world with humble elo
quence the story 2,000 years old will be brought
home to the hearts of the adherents of the faith of
Him who was crucified and who rose from the dead.
Symbol and emblem of new life; nature’s resurrec
tion from the death of winter; the egg. symbolical
of the life unseen but existent; the lily, with its
purity and beauty, all will blend into one sacred and
Joyous re-declaration of the simple words of the an
gel who sat within the tomb and proclaimed to the
women the resurrection of the Son of God who as
sumed the form of man that this one truth, this one
hope and this one destiny of mnn might be proven
for all time and beyond all equivocation.
“Other great moral teachers had proceeded Jesus.
But none of them had taught, much less proved, that
there is life after death; that while the body may
molder back to the earth from whence it came the
soul, the spirit, the divine part of man, lives on and
on through the aeons of endless time, deathless as
eternity. That was the truth established for all the
world in the scene at the quarried tomb in the hill
side cliff outside Jerusalem while the dawning day
of the new Sabbath broke over the hill tops and made
visible the messengers of heaven sent to proclaim
the proof of immortality of man.
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France wants Germany disarmed and wants Uncle
yarn to help do it. Having failed to disarm the
Germans when they had the opportunity, they would
now do it when they are impotent. Opportunity
once spurned, does not intrude itself a second time.
Nothing doing for us.
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William A. Pinkerton, noted detective, says crime
in the United States is general. Finky is too mod
est. Judging from the columns of the daily press it
is something more than general—it is an overflow.
THE WINDER NEWS, WINDER, OA. THURSDAY, APRIL 1, 1320.
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