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PENTECOST
Mr. and Mrs. George Luther, and
children, of Commerce, were the guests
of the lntter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs.
IV. T. Prlekett for the week-end.
Mr. Ray Prlekett accompanied (hern
home for a week’s visit.
Mrs. H. A. Hardlgree is spending a
few days with her daughter, Mrs. ,t.
L. Lyle, of Tyro.
Misses Pea rile and Zora Hammond
had as their guests Saturday night,
Misses Marie Haynle, Edna William
son and Addie Bee Bowman. >
Mr. Willie Ice Prlekett spent Satur
day night with Mr. Charles Hardigree.
Mr. and Mrs. Guy Mincey were the
week-end guests of relatives in Inion.
Miss Norma Hardigree spent Sunday
night with Miss Lois Couch.
Miss Mary Holiday entertained a
few friends witli an egg hunt Satur
day afternoon.
TO PREACH AT OAK GROVE
Rev. J. B. Brookshire will preach at
Oak Grove school house next Sunday,
April 11th, at 3 o’clock. A cordial
welcome extended to all.
Mrs. G. W. Reynolds has accepted
a position with The Winder Dry Goods
Store.
Miss Kathleen Beddiugfleld, of At
lanta, spent the week-end in Winder
with relatives.
EXTRACTS FROM SENATOR -
. HOKE SMI’S SPEECH IN 1
I GAINESVILLE,4AT, APRIL 3RD
Barney Baruch Breaks
Price of Cotton —One
“Phase” of the Adminis
tration Which Senator
Smith Does Not Ap
prove.
The Attorney General has offer
ed himself to yoa as a candidate
that ypu may have an opportunity
of approving “every phase’’ of the
administration of President Wilson.
There are many splendid achieve
ments of his administration, but
there are things which he has done
which I hope he himself regrets,
and you are asked to approve them
by voting for Mr. Palmer.
Let me call your attention to two
things which I disapprove and that
you can not approve.
During 1918 cotton had steadily
advanced in price until, about the
first of September, it reached thir
ty-eight cents a pound. The Presi
dent had a board, called the War
Industries Board, the Chairman of
which was Mr. Barney Baruch. On
September 4th Mr. Baruch issued a
statement that, with the approval
of the President, the War Indus
tries Board would appoint a com
mittee to study cotton with a view
of stabilising prices. He issued an
other statement September sth, an
other September 15th, another Sep
tember 26th, another September
27th, and they kept on issuing
statements until they had broken
jjown the price of cotton more than
ten cents a pound. Among other
things, they stated in their bulle
tins that the committee might re
commend basic prices, and the Pres
ident appoint a single purchasing
agency for aU cottQn exported; they
would fix the prices this agency
would give; remove all competition
among buyers and force cotton
owners to sell at the prices they
named, This threat, of course,
broke the market.
> The armistice came November
11th, and the war was over. Cotton
had been put by the President on
an embargo list, preventing any ex
portation of cotton except under
rules that he might prescribe. He
appointed, what he called, a War
Trades Board to regulate licenses
for exporting cotton. This Board
continued to suppress exports after
the war was over.
All the Southern Senators except
one signed a petition urging the
President, to tase cotton off the em
bargo list, and give a chance to our
markets. I saw the President a
number of times and called his at
tention, when v.otton got down to
about twenty-six cents a pound, to
the danger of bringing ruin, not
only to the farmers, but upon the
merchants and bankers who had ad
vanced upon cotton. Even in March,
1915, when he returned from
France, we plead with him to take
cotton off the embargo list, but he
refused. There was no justification
for his conduct. He and Mr. Baruch
and Mr. Vance McCormack, with
their two committees, broke the
price of cotton in the fall and win
ter of 1918 and 1919 more than
fifty dollars a bale, and they cost
the owners of cotton in the State
of Georgia a loss of over seventy
five millions of dollars.
This is one phase of the Presi
dent’s administration that I do not
approve. Do you? And yet Mr.
Palmer asks you to vote for him
because he approves it.
LOST —On the 17th of Jannary be
tween the residence of J. T. Strange
and down town, a Htrlng of pearl
lH*nds. If found and delivered to store
of J. T. Strange Company, a reward
will he given.
GUARANTEE
I f —a n (1 when—t h e
voters of Barrow County
honor me with the office
of CLERK of court I
pledge to them in ad
vance a service in the
performance of the du
ties so pffimpt, courteous
and efficient, that they
will never have cause to
regret having placed
this trust in my hands.
I want to thank my
friends for their cordial
proffers of support.
A. L. JACOBS
Senator Smith Replies to
Attack of His Opponents
for Protecting Cotton
Farmers in 1915.
Jr,
I see that some of my friends in
Gainesville were displeased with
my course in 1915, when I insisted
upon the freedom of the seas and
the right of citizens of Georgia to
ship their cotton into every neutral
port of the world.
In the Russian-Japanese war
Russia sought to stop cotton ship
ments to Japan. England protested
against this action and made Rus
sia yield. 1 knew our people had
the right to sell their cotton in any
neutral port of the world; I knew
that this right was established by
international law. My constituents
had suffered so much from the loss
of markets for their cotton in 1914
that I was bent upon obtaining for
them their well-established nghts
to the freedom of the seas and the
freedom of the use of neutral ports.
President Wilson took exactly the
same position and our State De
partment (March 31, 1915) notified
Great Britain that her interference
with shipments of non-contraband
goods to neutral ports “violated the
most sacred rights of this country.”
I kept up a constant fight all
through 1915 and into 1916 in favor
of the freedom of the seas for the
shipments of cotton to neutral
ports. Great Britain felt the justice
of the criticism. British courts and
British statesmen for a century in
sisted exactly upon the same prin
ciple I was urging. Finally their
representatives came to Washing
ton, and advised officials of our
Government that Great Britain on
or about the 23rd of July would
place cotton on a contraband list.
They knew this also was illegal,
and wanted to know how they could
make up to the United States for
the losses which their conduct
would cause; they were told it could
at least in part be done by buying
cotton heavily immediately follow
ing the order making cotton contra
band.
I am sure this suggestion was
carried out. The day after the an
nouncement that Great Britain had
put cotton upon the contraband list
the price of cotton went up on the
Liverpool Exchange; the day fol
lowing it went up on the New York
Exchange, and in a few days it was
publicly known that British inter
ests were buying cotton heavily on
the New York Cotton Exchange.
Then representatives of German In
terests came to Washington to find
out why cotton advanced, although
put upon the cotton contraband list.
They concluded it was because
British interests know peace would
soon be made, so they began buying
cotton heavily also, and our crop
of 1915 sold higher than it did be
fore the European war began.
In December, 1915, Sir Richard
Crawford, the Financial Agent of
British interests, showed in Wash
ington a statement which disclosed
the very heavy purchases they had
made in August and September up
| on the New York Cotton Exchange
and from the sale of which, later
on in the season, they had cleared
over four millions of dollars.
I know the fight I made for the
freedom of the seas, both through
the press of the country, where in
many instances I paid out of my
! own pocket for publications, and on
the floor of the Senate, where I
spoke elaborately upon the subject,
contributed substantially towards
restoring the price of cotton, and
the knowledge of the service I ren
dered the people I love cannot be
taken away from me by slanderers.
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Announcement
The Winder Tailoring Companyf
wishes to announce to the people
of Winder and surrounding coun
try that they will open on April
9, a first-class tailoring establish
ment on the 3d floor of Winder
National Bank Building.
J. E. Wilkins, of Atlanta, who
has had several years’ experience
in the tailoring business will have
charge of the management.
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Ladies Suits, Dresses
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We have a big stock of the lovliest
and most stylish frocks it has ever
been our good fortune to secure.
Our millinery department on the
2d floor has something to suit the
varying tastes and whims of th<v
most fastideous.
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J. L. SAUL