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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, May 27—Owen Moore
in “Sooner or Later.” Comedy
FRIDAY, May 28— Douglas Fairbanks
in “COMES UP SMILING”
SATURDAY, May 29—William Dun
can in “Silent Avenger.” Comedy
VOL. XXVII.
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS GREATER
THAN THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
G. D. Ross Discusses the Atlanta Con
vention and the Attitude of Amer
icans to League Pact
Mr. Editor:
I was an interested spectator at the
preferential convention recently held
in Atlanta. I have received earnest
requests from friends that I publish
my ideas concerning the assemblage
and its deliberations.
Not to consume too much of your
space, I will begin my disconnected
remarks at the opening of the assem
blage. The Atlanta theater was tilled
to overflowing. The Watson delega
tion occupied the left aisle after enter
ing happy and bubbling over with good
humored enthusiasm. The Smith dele
gation occupied the right aisle from the
entrance with solemn determination
pictured in every face.
The elite and truly anointed, the
‘loyal,” true-blooded and blue-blooded
occupied the center aisle. They bore
an air of supreme confidence. They
had come with the papers in their
boots which would declare A. Mitchell
Palmer, of Pennsylvania, the nominee
of all Georgia. But this was not
enough. They desired to secure a suf
ficient number of Smith delegates to
indorse the administration of the man
whose indomitable will holds all that,
is near and dear to democracy, without
the dotting of an “1” or the crossiug
of a “t”.
Organization of the convention moved
off so smoothly that I was inclined to
believe that the Hon. T. W. Hardwick
had succeeded in pouring so much oil
on the turbulent streams of dissen
sion that they had been blended into
one grand river of “equal rights to
•all and special privileges to none.”
Then Hon. Thomas E. Watson arose
and moved that majority should rule
the convention. A timid Smith dele
gate seconded the motion. Perish the
thought that “arch enemies” of
democracy should disturb the
throbbing “heart of the world” by op
posing the will of the elite in the very
temple where they had assembled to
offer up praises to the Sacred Cow.
Pandemonium broke out and the
Palmer delegates reached for the pa
pers in their boots. Mr. Hardwick
appeared on the scene with his oil
bottle, and the morning session ad
journed. I learned on the outside that
the papers the Palmerites had in their
boots were rules that had been drawn
up quite a while ago by some fellows
who were not delegates to the conven
tion. They were never introduced.
The Palmer delegates participated
in every phase of the deliberations and
were treated with the utmost fairness.
They voted on the various resolutions
and nominations even to the seating
and unseating of delegates, and by
this participation bound themselves to
abide the results. They were highly
elated when the Chatham delegation
was seated. They took whatever came
their way. They accepted the results
of this contest, as indicating the break
ing of the Watson-Smith coallition,
but when the convention named a
national committeeman, they did not
vote. In other words, the
went into the convention to bind the
Smith-Watson followers should they
be able to induce a sufficient number
of Smith delegates to indorse the ad
ministration and the League of Nations
Being out-generaled in parlimentary
tactics, they remained until the regu
larly constituted convention had ad
journed sine die. Then they formed a
rump convention and elected a national
committeeman and delegates to San
Francisco.
In the face of this situation, the
Palmerites have caused it. to be pub
lished in many democratic and repub
lican papers that the uninstructed del
egation from Georgia will go to San
Francisco contesting the seats of the
Palmerites, when in reality, the Pal
merites are contesting the seats of the
regularly elected delegates.
I cannot, say what will be done at
San Francisco convention, but I deny
that the American people or the Demo
crats of Georgia, have been bound or
ever will be bound by the acts of
President Wilson at the peace confer
ence in Paris. Exaggerated ego in
politics and publis affairs is the rock
that, can cause an unredeemable wreck
of the democratic party. If the dele
gates of the rump convention are seated
at the San Francisco convention,
wherein are the Smith and Watson
followers or any other Georgian who
2I)C ttKtifcr Nam
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Urtawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
believes in Democratic principles bound
to support the platform or the nom
inee? They are not going to vote for
the Wilson-made convenant “just as
it was brought back,” party or no party.
The Georgia primary means that
those who voted are two to one against
the Eutopian dream. The administra
tion advocates voted, and it is safe
to say that those who did vote are
against the covenant. The primary
means that the futher the Democratic
party can get from the Wilson admin
istration the better are its chances to
carry even Georgia.
Until a very few months ago no
president ever occupied the White
Housd who so completely dictated and
ruled the members of his party—the
rubber stamps with which he had sur
rounded himself when he was at, the
crest of his reign.
He walked with kings and lost the
common touch. Voices in the air whis
pered to him that honors greater than
the presidency of the United States lay
within his grasp, and long after the
war was over, he invented the League
of which he was to be president. He
floated in the atmosphere of rosy
dreams of power and glory and
forgot the American people and our
principles of government.
His League of Nations, as inter
woven into the treaty is the most
treacherous instrument of writing that
was ever attempted to be fastened for
all time upon the American people.
This treaty takes Shantung, a rich and
populous province, from China —a
trusting, loyal and confiding friend to
the allies—and gives it to Japan, the
most overbearing and autocratic mon
archy on the face of the globe. It
changes the map of Europe with little
regard for human rights. It. betrays
into strange and unsympathetic' hands
natioal rights that were wrenched from
a despotic country by those who fought
and bled a century and a half ago.
Under this deceitful document millions
of American lads, at the command of
alien authority would be carried thou
sands of miles away from home to
fight in a strange war and perish in a
foreign land in a cause not, his or ours,
as they are doing today in bleak Rus
sia with no outstretched hands to call
them home.
The president and those who have
blindly followed him away from the
fundamental principles of our govern
ment and true American democarcy,
say the Senate of the United States
must not write words into this treaty
that would at least, disclaim consent
on our part to the outrage. They ask
us to join our fortunes and our lives
with strange and alien nations, and
seek to allay our fears by promises
of universal peace. At the same time
they seek to place within our midst
an armed camp of nearly 600,000 regu
lar soldiers, augmented annually by
a force of nearly a million of com
pulsory trained 19-year-old boys. Away
with such hipocary. Thank God, the
rank and file of the Democratic party
will denounce it in unmistukable
terms.
While the war was on and the young
manhood of the country was baring
the breast to the dangers of battle
and loyal men and women were exert
ing their energies at home to get. need
ed supplies to our soldier boys at the
front and in came grafters unhinder
ed preyed upon the vitals of this na
tion. Indorse an administration that
has chosen to pile needless burdens
upon the shoulders of the tax-paying
public rather than stay the hand of
the greedy money-grabbers in their
mad rush for riches?
Indorse the acts of the occupant of
the White House, acts unauthorized
by his people or even a majority of
his party? A thousand times NO.
The president said in a speech at
Kansas City, September 6. 1919:
“I have, let me say, withdht the
slightest affectation, the greatest re
spect for the United States Senate;
but, my fellow citizens, I have come to
fight for a cause. That cause—the
League of Nations —is greater than
the Senate. It is greater than the
government. It is greater than the
cause of mankind.”
“Greater than the government?”
What red-blooded American among
you can indorse that statement —that
our government, must yield to a world
power?
Have we falsified the tongue of the
old Liberty Bell? Whether it be right
Winder, Barrow County, Ga., Thursday, MAY 27, 1920.
HUERTA IS MADE
RULER OF MEXICO
Governor of Sonora Wins Over Gen
eral Obregon by Big Margin in
Mexican Congress
Mexico City, May 25. —Adolfo de la
Hureta, governor of the State of Sono
ra, who was elected provisional pres
ident of Mexico by the Mexican Con
gress Monday night, will take the oath
of office June 1. Congress was Tues
day summoned to meet June 1 for that
purpose. Senor de la Huerta was elect
ed by an overwhelming majority. He
received 222 votes against 28 for Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales, one of the military
chiefs of the revolution.
Just before Congress assembled for
the balloting the late President Venus
tiano was buried in the Dolores ceme
tery amid scenes of grief that were in
contrast with the hostile feelings man
ifested against Carranza during his
last days.
Rodolfo Herrero, the rebel leader
who is accused of assassinating Car
ranza, has been ordered to this city
by General Alvaro Obregon to explain
his telegram saying that the late pres
ident had committed suicide rather
than submit to capture. General Obre
gon in a telegram to Herrero warned
the rebel chief that unless he comes
at once to thd capital and explains the
circumstances of Don Venustiano’s
death, he will be captured by govern
ment troops and brought by force.
General Obregon said he is determined
to punish those responsible for Car
ranza’s death.
JUDGE KING CONFIRMED
FOR NEW COURT OFFICE
Speedy confirmation by the Senate
of President Wilson’s appointment
following favorable recommendation by
the Senate Judiciary Committee Mon
day afternoon placed Judge Alexander
King, of Atlanta, upon the bench of
the Fifth United States Circuit Court.
The nomination was sent to the Senate
several weeks ago, and Senators Hoke
Smith and William J. Harris used their
influence for favorable action before
the recess in June
Judge King succeeds Judge Pardee
uho held the office with honor until
his death. The new circuit judge is
one of the leading attorneys of the
State.
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
Services for Sunday:
Sunday ScDool 10.30.
Preaching 11:30. “Dew and Lions.”
B. Y. P. U. 7:30.
Preaching 8:30. “Spiritual Sleep.”
We need you. How about it?
W. 11. FAUST, Pastor.
Mrs. Byrd Harris, of Athens, spent
the first of the week here.
Miss Freda Durst and Master Ed
mond Durst, of Commerce, spent Sun
day with Mr. W. E. Y'oung and family.
To Preach Commencement Sermon
Rev. W. H. Faust has accepted an
invitation to preach the commencement
sermon for Meson Academy, at Lexing
ton, Ga., Sunday, June 6th. This is
one of the oldest schools in the state.
Mr. Faust received his high school
work in this famous old institution and
it will be a pleasure for him to be
present on this occasion. •
or wrong, the tears and heartaches
of every American mother who ever
gave a son in battle along the winding
pathway from Hunker Hill lo Flanders
cries out against that statement. The
voices of Washington, Jefferson, Madi
son and Monroe cry out against if.
These men are dead, but their advice
and judgment and warning still live.
Their lives stand out in our history
today, monuments to the immortality
of constitutional America. Their lives
stand out today like guide-posts, point
ing out the road to safty and warning
against the pitfalls and intrigues of
Europe and her quarrels.
Autocratic usurpers of power may
padlock the mouths of our citizens and
dreamers of Entopian dreams may
dream on, hut loyal and liberty-loving
Georgians will ever be foung stand
ing over the ashes of these great states
men defending the principles of gov
ernment handed down to as by the
fathers. f
Indorse the administration of Wood
row Wilson and HIS League of Na
tions? NO, NO, NO.
PERSONAL NOTES
OF MOVING VAN
Short Items of Interest About People
You Know Who Move With
the Passing Throng.
J
Rev. J. 11. Mashburn spent Tuesday
in Atlanta.
Miss Bernice Lay, of Gainesville, is
visiting friends and relatives here.
Miss Susie Tucker, who has been at
tending school here, left Monday for
home.
Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Mathews will
leave soon to spend a few weeks at
White Sulphur, Fla.
Mr. Nixon Rainey, of Atlanta, at
tended commencement exercises here
this week.
Mrs. Roy Smith left Tuesday for
Cordele to spent a week visiting rela
tives.
Mr. G. H. Fortson and little son,
Jack, have gone to Atlanta for a few
da ye.
Mrs. Claud l’atat and baby, of At
lanta, are expected to spend a few
days with relatives.
Mrs. L. Love and little daughter,
Ituth, have #one to Anniston, Ala.,
for a short visit.
Miss Josephine House, who has been
teaching at Cordele, has returned home
for the summer vacation.
Mr. G. S. Millsaps, who has been in
Chicago on business, returned home
Tuesday.
Mrs. J. F. Broome spent n portion of
the week in Atlanta as the guest of
friends.
Mrs. Henry Pledger, of Social Cir
cle, was the attractive guest of her
parents here last week.
Mr. Fritz Potts and a party left
last Friday for Mich, to bring back
some cars.
Mrs. Hershal Williams was the guest
of relatives in town last week to at
tend commencement.
Mrs. T. M. Furlow, of Jackson, is
spending some time with lier daughter,
Mrs. Mac Potts.
Mrs. W. D. McKinney will leave early
next week to visit her mother in Knox
ville, Tenn.
Mr. Roy Jackson, of the New Win
der Lumber Company, was in Atlanta
Tuesday on business.
Messrs. J. B. Lay and J. M. McEl
hannon have returned from Hot
Springs, after a ten days’ visit.
Mr. Hope Brown, of Scott.’s Bluff,
Neb., is spending awhile in the city
under treatment of Dr. T. E. Hill.
Mr. Tom Tysinger and Mr. B. M.
Stewart, of Atlanta, were visitors here
last week.
Masses Nellie and Lillian Knight
attended commencement here Monday
evening.
Mrs. J. P. Williams will leave next
week for Concord, where she will
spent the summer with home folks.
Rev. R. W. Wallace, of Valdosta,
was in Winder last week shaking
hands with his many friends.
Miss Ida Kilgore has gone to Reid
ville, S. C„ to visit her sister, Mrs. T.
M. Leonard.
Little Miss Janice Wise, of Atlanta,
has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Guy
Kilgore.
Mr. and Mrs. King, of South Caroli
na. spent a while in Winder Sunday
with their sister. Miss Alice King, en
route to their home from Jefferson.
Mr. W. H. Quarterman and Mr. A.
D. McC'urry wept down to Powder
Springs Sunday where their wives are
guests of Mrs. Henry Hunt.
Mrs. Howard Mann who has been on
an extended visit to her parents, Mr.
and Mrs. A. V. Eavenson, left with
Mr. Mann for Frisco, Cal., Tuesday.
Misses Runett, Woodruff, Beulah
Ferguson, Desma Elder anil Katheleen
Wilson are at home from Shorter Col
lege for the summer vacation.
Miss Dorothy Brogden, of Atlanta,
will be the attractive house guest of
Mrs. Hubert Eberhart the latter part
of the week. Mrs. Eberhart and her
mother will entertain at a Ifcrge re
ception in her honor next Tuesday
afternoon.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Y. Eavenson had as
their guests for the week-end Mr. and
Mrs. George Hand, of Greer, S. C„ Mr.
and Mrs. R. G. Game, Miss Kathleen
Game, Mr. Keith, Mr. Paul Game, of
Atlanta and Mr. anil Mrs. Howard
Mann, of Savannah.
GOVERNOR H.M. DORSEY TO SPEAK -
IN WINDER SATURDAY AFTERNOON
GEORGIA FAIRS SEEK
$lOO,OOO STATE FUND
Macon, Ga., May 25.—Invitations
were mailed Monday to all the State
senators and legislators of this dis-,
trict to attend a meeting Friday after
noon of the directors of the Georgia
State Fair, to discuss a proposed bill
asking the State for an appropria
tion of $lOO,OOO annually for the State
district and county fairs of Georgia.
The bill has been drawn by Joe Hall,
of Macon.
The bill is to be presented to the
Legislature. It is proposed that the
State make this appropiation to be
equally divided among incorporated
State, district and county fairs, to be
used for premiums and other educa
tional purposes.
DEMENTED, AN OLD NEGRO
HIDES AND FASTS IN SWAMP
‘Uncle” Henry McElbannon, an old
negro who has been a familiar figure
around Winder for years, disappeared
last Thursday evening, and his where
abouts were unknown until Sunday
afternoon.
The old negro has been a faithful
employee of Mr. C. M. Ferguson, the
undertaker, for some time past, and
Mr. Ferguson, together with Uncle
Henry’s relatives set out to find him.
The last seen of him was when he
purchased a ticket at the door of the
church to attend the commencement
exercises of our colored school here.
He never went Inside of the house.
Sunday afternoon an airplane passed
over a big swamp near Bethlehem, and
Mr. Elisha Odum and some neighbors
saw a negro come running out of the
swamp. They approached him, and he
proved to be Uncle Henry, demented
and famished.
Mr. Odum, after feeding him, brought
him to Winder. Mr. Ferguson had him
placed in the care of the sheriff and
sent a doctor to treat him.
Asked why he ran away from Win
der,, the negro stated that there was
too much war going on here, where
people were l>eiug shot down every day,
and he wanted to get away from it.
George Tate, brother of Uncle Henry,
will take the old negro out to Ills
farm and try to nurse him back to
sanity.
DEATH OF MRB. P. P. SMITH
Last Thursday afternoon uhout 6
o’clock, Mrs. P. P. Smith died ut her
home In this city.
Mrs. Smith has been ill for some
time, and for several days before her
demise little hope was held out for her
recovery.
Mr. Smith, her husband, is still con
fined to his bed, but he is reported
better at this time.
The deceased was a good woman,
and she leaves to mourn her departure
besides the aged companion, several
children and numerous relatives and
friends.
The funeral was preached Inst Fri
day afternoon by Rev. S. P. Higgins,
of Auburn. The Interment was in Rose
Kill cemetery, this city.
WINDER BOY MAKING GOOD
Lexington, Ky., May 24.—Gus B.
Foster, son of Mrs. T. M. Foster, of
Winder, Ga., is ranked among the ex
cellent students at the University of
Kentucky this year. He is matricu
lated as a junior in the college of Arts
and Science and is majoring in Eng
lish.
Mr. Foster was graduated from Win
der High School 1916, and entered
Transylvania University the following
September. After three years there,
he matriculated in the University of
Kentucky in the fall of 1919. Since
then he has won many friends here,
Both by his social life and class work
has he proven himself a capable young
man.
TWO BIG FISH.
Speaking of fish, Mr. Hugh Uarith
ers made the biggest haul of the sea
son Tuesday morning.
While visiting the farm at Carithers
mill, he noticed two big fish flop over
the mill dam from the pond. Investi
gation located two big blue catfish in
shallow water, and Mr. C’nritbers with
others soon captured the big fish.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, May 31—William Farnurn
in “Less Miserable"
TUESDAY, June I—Lightning Bryce.
William Russell “Lincoln Highwaymen’
* WEDNESDAY, June 2—“ WED OF
DECEIT”
Will Discuss His Banking Plan and
Tell What It Means to the Cotton
Planters of the South
Harrow county will have as her
guest on Saturday, May 29th, Govern
or Hugh M. Dorsey, who will deliver
an nddress at 3 p. m. at the Barrow
county court house in Winder, on the
subject of the Georgia Cotton Bank
and Trust Corporation, its plans and
organization, and what it will mean to
the people of this state.
While Oocemor Dorsey has had the
organization of a great cotton bank like
this in his mind for several years, it
was launched only a few’ months ago
at a meeting at the state capitol at
which 190 represenative Georgians
were present, who after hearing the
plan of organization subscribed $375,000
of the stock and authorized the govern
or to take charge and push the sub
scriptions and organization. Wide
spread interest has grown up in all
parts of the state until today the sub
scriptions and pledges approximate a
million dollors. The Governor has
made a number of speeches in the in
terest of the bank in different parts
of the state and has always met with
a cordial receplon and strong support
for his plan.
The plan or organization of this
bank has the endorsement of the gov
ernor of the Federal Reserve Rank,
and prominent farmers, bankers and
warehousemen in all parts of the state.
It is hoped that a large and represen
tative gathering will hear the governor
next Saturday at 3 o’clock.
UNITED STATES MANDATE FOR
ARMENIA IS URGED BY WILSON
Washington, May 24.—Authority to
accept for the United States a mandate
over Armenia was asked of congress
Monday by President Wilson. The ex
ecutive said he was conscious that he
was urging “a very critical choice,’''
hut that he did so “in the earnest
belief that it will be the wish of the
people of the United States that this
should be done.”
The president’s message was read in
both the house and senate, but was
discussed in neither. Each referred it
to Its committee on foreign relations,
and there was no indication when eith
er committee would take it up. Some
republican loaders in the senate pre
dicted privately that the message would
lie in the senate committee indefinite
ly.
Senaor Harding, republican, Ohio,
chairman of the committee which in
vestigat'd Armenia affairs, said he
would never consent to taking a man
date over Armenia, and added that he
did not think the senate would con
sent.
‘“The foreign relations committee,”
he said, “was almost unanimous against
a mandate, democrats as well as re
publicans opposing such a step.”
MRS. MARY YOUNGBLOOD
The body of Mrs. Mary Youngblood,
►
who died at a private sanitarium in
Atlanta, was brought to this city last
Sunday and laid to rest in Rose Hill
cemetery. Mrs. Youngblood was the
mother-in-law of Mr. G. W. Reynolds,
of this city.
LODGE NOTICE
Regular meeting of Winder Chap
ter No. 84, Royal Arch Masons, will be
held at the lodge room on Friday even
ing, May 2Sth.
Work and refreshments.
All qualified Companions envlted to
meet with us.
Candidates for degree will present
themselves promptly at 8 :.H0 o'clock.
W. A. BRADLEY, H. I’.
Teachers Entertained by
Miss Flossie Henson.
A delightful event of the week was
that of Monday evening when the
teachers were entertained at a Vale
dictory parte by Miss Flossie Henson.
Bunco was played during the after
noon, also two amusing contests were
enjoyed.
Delicious refreshments were served
late in the afternoon. Those prenent
were: Misses Suddeth, Ivey, Clayton,
Smith, Cargil, Harris, Jackson, Kil
gore, Stephens, Dillard, Qullian, Hen
son, Mesdames. Williams, Maughon,
Smith and Mr. Hodges.
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