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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
TCRS. June 24—Alive Thomas in
“Youthful Folly.’’
FRIDAY, June 25—Doug. Fairbanks
in “Arizona.”
SATURDAY, June 26—Wm. Duncan in
Silent Avenger. West. Feat. Cqmedy.
VOL. XXVII.
LEGISLATURE IS
NOW IN SESSION
J. H. Milner, of Dodge, Named Speaker
Pro Tern, by a Ninety to Seventy-
Five—Holder Speaks.
Atlanta, Ga., June 23.—A proposal
to use the motor vehicle license tax
fund to meet the temporary deficiency
in the state treasury prociitated a vig
orous controversy at the very lirst ses
sion of the 1920 general assembly,
which convened at 10 o clock ednes
day morning.
The proposal was made by Represen
tative George Carswell, of Wilkinson
county, in a speech delivered in the
house of representatives. He denied
the statement that has been made re
garding the shortage of funds in the
state treasury, declaring that the ap
propriations for 1920 do not exceed the
state’s revenue. He asserted, however
that the tax revenues do not come into
the treasury until fall, thus making it
difficult, if not impossible, for a large
percentage of the apropriations to be
paid to the various departments and
institutions of the state. He proposed
to use the motor vehicle tax fund,
which has already been paid in, to meet
the pressing needs of the state, re
placing this fund in the fall when the
major portion of the taxes are aid.
Mr. Carswell’s suggestion was bit
terly opposed by Representative John
Knight, of Berrin county, who insisted
that the motor vehicle license tax law
was passed with the promise that the
funds so derived would be applied to
the construction of good roads through
out the state and for no other purpose.
He declared that the use of this fund
to meet the deficiencies in the treasury
would be a violation of the promise
given by the general assembly ,and gave
notice that, he would fight to the bitter
end to prevent any such action at this
session or any other session. Mr.
Knight also declared that the use of
the motor vehicle license tax fund for
any other purpose except the construc
tion of highways would mean the ab
solute failure of any attempt to au
thorize a state bond issue for good
roads.
It was indicated that this question
will constitute one of the most impor
tant. matters to be considered by the
IP2O legislature, and will undoubtedly
arouse the bitterest kind of controver
sy.
While the senate transacted no busi
ness of importance Wednesday morn
ing. adjourning at 10:10 o'clock until
Thursday, the house remained in ses
sion for about an hour and a half,
electing a speaker pro tern, receiving
five new members, listening to an ad
dress by Speaker John N. Holder and
receiving about fifty new bills. Both
houses will meet, again at 10 o’clock,
central time, Thursday morning.
Immediately after being called to or
der at 9 o’clock, Atlanta time, by Speak
er Holder, the house proceeded to the
election of a speaker pro tern John Y.
Smith, of Fulton, nominated L. C.
Brown, of Clark, while A. S. Anderson,
of Jackson, nominated J. H. Milner,
of Dodge. The vote was very close,
Mr. Milner winning by avote of 90
to 75. The election was made unam
imons on a motion by Mr. Brown.
BANKHEAD HIGHWAY
CONVOY HERE TUESDAY
The Bankhead Highway, official
convoy, numbering IR4 men, will reach
Winder next Tuesday at noon.
The local board of trade is planning
to entertain the commission at noon.
The commission arrives in Athens
the 2St.h and spends the night, leaving
for Winder the next morning, arriving
here for lunch. They will spend the
night in Lawreneeville.
These trucks left Washington June
14tli, and the itinerary planned will
include the traversing of 3,500 miles
between Washington and Bos Angeles,
the final destination. Besides the of
ficers and men, who will number 105.
(.here will be several distinguished
guests in the party. Among them will
he Col. Cameron, of ltaleigh, N. C.,
president of the Bankhead Highway
Association, and A. L. Rountree, the
director general of the same organiza
tion. The purpose of this trip aims
t show the need of a national high
way, the expenses of such a highway
to be financed by the federal govern
ment.
Mr. C. M. Ferguson, a director of the
Bankhead Highway, stated that mark
ers. signs, etc., were being placed
along the highway this week thruogh
his territory. _
Sljc tfHttkr iXcu's.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
NOT DOWN-HEARTED
SAYS HIRAM JOHNSON
Says Future Will Find Him As Good
Natured and Full of Fight as Ever
Sacramento, Cal., June 23.—Speak
ing publicly for the first time since
the republican convention in Chicago,
Senator Hiram W. Johnson today told
a few hundred people of his home town
who greeted him at the Southern Pa
cific depot, that he was not downcast
over the result.
Senator Johnson was en route to
his home in San Francisco. In re
sponse to the enthusiastic reception
given him and the cries of “speech,”
Senator Johnson told the people how
glad he was that, California, and par
ticularly his home city, had given him
such a big vote at the primary presi
dential election.
“Don't, iuagine I’m cast down by the
results of the convention,” he said. “I’m
happier than ever before. I started
the campaign on a shoestring and when
I got through I had the people of the
United States with me, even though
I could not win the majority of the
delegates.
“I went into the fight, in one fashion
and came out in the same fashion. I
made no compromises, but, fought to
the last ditch.
“It doesn’t make any difference if
a few politicians sitting in the Black
stone hotel in Chicago said: ‘The peo
ple be darned,’ for the time is coming
when the people will come into their
own.
“The future will find me as good
natured and as full of fight as ever,
and determined that in time to come
the peole shall rule instead of a few
men and international bankers, sitting
in New York.
“Politics is behind me for the time
being, I won’t, discuss or deal with it
intil l have had a little enjoyment in
dear old California.”
BATTLE WITH THE
WEEDS HI RING JUNE
It lias been well said that June is
a month of weeds. And for this
reason, one of the first suggestions
that comes to me as one of the most im
portant things to lie done on the
farm during June is the fighting of
noxious weeds. Weeds passed by dur
ing June will mature seed a lit.tle later
and restock the farm for another sea
son. If we fight weeds successfully
we must have the tools in proper
shape. The plows should be at “ra
zor edge” all the time. A dull sweep
that, bruises weeds instead of clipping
them off when it strikes, is not ouly
lost motion, but means the difference
oftimes between a slean crop and a
weedy one. A little shop on every
farm where the plows can receive
sharpening at the noon hour and at
night when the men have come from
the fields, is one of the greatest assets
to modern farming.
What is said of the plows, can be
said of the hoes. Although, personal
ly, I do not like to say very much
about hoes in June —for we like to
cultivate the crops in such manner
early as not to need the use of the
hoe later —nevertheless, one must
needs use the hoe some, and a dull
one is not only more laborious to use.
but does not do as good work ns a
sharp one. For this reason, one will
get excellent results by carrying a good
steel file to the field, and giving the
hoes a few straps every once in a
while. I have little sympathy with
the fellow who thinks it a loss of
time to stop and file his hoe or sharp
en his plow.—A. M. in The
Progressive Farmer.
DIXIE GOVERNOR TO
CALL SUFFRAGE SESSION
Knoxville. Tenn., .Tune 2?..—Governor
A. It. Roberts announced here tonight
that he would call a special session of
the Tennessee legislature for action on
the federal suffrage amendment in am
ple time for the women to vote in No
vember election.
This announcement was made after
the governor had been shown a copy
of the telegram sent him tonight by
President Wilson urging such action.
The governor declined to comment on
the constitutionality of such action,
saying it is in the hands of Frank M.
Thompson, attorney general, who has
the matter up with the federal depart
ment of justice.
“It is purely a federal matter and
not a state question,” said the governor
“and I have nothing to do with that
end of it.”
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JUNE 24. 1920.
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The above cut comes to us without instructions. We presume it is a
forecast of Bryan and Edwards at. San Francisco convention.
WASHINGTON TAKES TWO OUT OF THREE
LEADERS HERE FOR NEXT THREE DAYS
We went down to Washington, Ga.,
Monday to the celebration of “Red”
Barron's twentieth birthday.
We made the trip in John Tucker's
“cutting up” Ford, and in rnuking this
selection we acted wisely.
The road to Jordan has been re
established with added hardships and
placed in a strip of country leading
through Oglethorpe and Wilkes coun
ties.
The distance from Winder to Wash
ington is said to be 75 miles. It is
nearer 100 miles the way we were
forced to go. To pass around a strip
of roadbed that was being worked (and
goodness knows it needs it) we were
compelled to go twenty-eight miles out
of our way over the most horrible
medley of ruts, hills, holes, gullies,
saudbeds and creek fords on this mun
dane sphere. The best road we saw
in Oglethorpe county was the worst
road we had ever seen. Had the good
Lord failed us and sent His rain, we
would not be here today to tell this
story. Some of the Winderites who
went to the ball game at Washington
Monday are still missing.
On the rturn trip our “John Henry”
passed Stuts, Packards and Buicks
scattered along the woulde-be road
from Lexington to Washington await
ing repairs.
In spots the crops along the way are
fair. We saw women and children
chopping cotton in Oglethorpe and
Wilkes counties. Asa rule the crops
do not compare favorably with those
in Barrow and Walton counties.
The town of Washington is filled
with baseball enthusiasts. The men
and women in the stands pulled hard
for the home team and quarrelled
with the umpire, but they took de
feat like good sports and treated the
Winder visitors royally. Elbert,on is
to Washington as Winder is to Monroe,
and the fans could be heard on all
sides pulling for Thomson to beat El
berton, although Thomson is one of
the league leader.
We said we went to the celebration
U. S. ARMY CONVOY
HAS FOUR-FOLD MISSION
A four-fold mission has been an
nounced for the government's convoy
of 65 motor vehicles which left Wasn
ington on June 14 and is due here
shortly on its transcontinental trip
over the Bankhead highway. This
mission is.
To demonstrate the praticalility of
the motor truck as an efficient aid to
the railroads.
To obtain data on equipment, high
way and bridge construction, and top
ography, for military purposes.
To stress the need of well construct
ed and maintained tranccont'nent 1
highways, for both commercial and
war-time uses.
Folonel John J. Franklin, Jr., is in
command. Aecomqanying him as of
ficial war department observers are
twenty officers. Operating personal
consists of 13 officers and 150 enlisted
men.
BODY OF 11. J. GARRISON
BURIED LAST SATURDAY
The funeral of Mr. H. J. Garrison
who died suddenly about midnight of
the 16th. was preached at the Presby
terian church at 11 o’clock last Satur
day morning.
Mr. Garrison was a member of the
Methodist church, and his pastor. Rev.
John H. Mashburn, preached the fun
eral.
His body was laid to rest in Rose
Hill cemetery.
of “Red” Barron's birthday. While
“Red” played the game as it is plann
ed by Air Robert Higgins to the
queen’s taste, made two hits, purloin
ed three sacks and scored three runs
on his birthday, he was not the whole
team by a long shot. Every man on
the Winder team was in the game from
start to finish, and Settles and Smith
shared the honors with “Red” in the
offensive. Mr. Ledbetter, Bevo Webb
and Bob Higgins featured for Winder
in defensive play. The tall l>oy let
Washington down with what we con
sidered a no-hit game, not a runner
reaching second base for Washington.
The team that leads Winder will win
the pennant in the Million-Dollar
League, and, by the way, that million
dollar joke is Incoming to be almost
a reality. - v s
Tuesday Washington defeated Win
der by a score of (i to 2. “Goat” Coch
ran was on the mound for Winder
and he was touched up for eleven hits.
Whirling was the hitting star of the fray
getting a double and two singles out of
three times at the bat.
Wednesday Washington repeated,
only more so. The locals never had a
! show after the first inning. The whole
team seems to have “gone up in the air.”
Wood was pitching and yielded 17 hits.
The score was 15 to 1.
Thomson vs. Winder.
Today Thomson comes to Winder for
a series of three games. Thomson is
leading the league, and Winder is hop
ing to trim them down a few points.
The standing of the clubs in the
North Georgia League follows:
“MILLION DOLLAR” LEAGUE
(Including Wednesday Game)
CLUBS— Won Lost Pet.
Thomson 5 2 .710
Winder 4 3 .568
Washington 4 3 .568
Monroe 4 3 .568
Elberton 3 4 .426
Madison 1 6 .142
FARMER BOYS AM)
GIRLS CAN MARRY
Very few classes of people can in
dulge in the luxury of getting mar
ried these days with as little hesita
tion as can the farmer lass and lad.
The high cost of living has scared the
city man. As one woman said, “The
high cost of living for one makes the
high cost of loving for two out, of the
question.”
To show how splendidly these mar
riage troubles pass over the heads of
the farmer boy wanting to take unto
himself a wife, consider those articles
the cost of which have increased the
most: Clothing 100 per cent, food 90
per cent, fuel, light and heat 51 per
cent and shelter 28 per cent.
We do not have to be dressed up all
the time as does the clerk or teacher
in town, so a few store clothes can
last, a long time. The price* of overalls
would not break anyone, surely. As
to food, there is nothing we have to
buy but sugar, coffee, tea, occasional
fruit, flour or cereal and a few sun
dries. Fuel means effort but not ex
pense, while even a very poor youth
can buy such kerosene as the young
man starting out is likely to need.
t
Sundries have Increased 63 per cent,
and sundries include furniture and
lamps. These are high. Most girls in
love are willing to get little expensive
furniture for a few years if the bride
groom shows a disposition to provide
comforts and such conveniences as he
can contrive.—The Progressive Far
mer.
AUGUSTUS THOMAS
KNOWS “ARIZONA”
His Knowledge of the Western Life
.Made His Play Virile.
Not invariably does the man who
writes of the west, know his ground
or his characters intimately enough
to insure their being accurate. Too
often absurdities are. permitted to
creep in which may not be noticeable
to the eastern spectator, but which
are glaring so to those who have lived
in the big lands of the west or south
west.
Augustus Thomas, however, is one
dramatist who knows whereof he
wrote. “Arizona” is his most famous
play, which Douglas Fairbanks has
produced for Artcraft, he playing the
leading role of Lieut. Denton. The
stage version was acknowledge to be
the nearest approach to realism of any
romantic play of that country or
period. The screen adaptation will he
shown at the Strand theater next Frl
day.
The version which Mr. Fairbanks
offers, not ony reserves all the fea
tures investiture, costumiing and char
acter, out likewise is even more con
vincing than the play itself, for the
extended scope of the screen enabled
the producers to give full range to the
bigness and beauty of the scenes,, as
well as to development of the charac
ters.
WILSON URGES LABOR BOARD
TO EXPEDITE WAGE DECISION
Washington, June 23.—T1i0 railroad
labor board at Chicago lias been ur
gently requested by President Wilson
lo expedite its wage decision.
The president's mesage rosulle.l
from the general unrest among rail
road workers over the wage question
and the walk out of yardmen and oth
er employees at Philadelphia, Balti
more and other cities. Its text was
not made public.
B. A. Jl HAN NOW CITY
EDITOR ENQUIRER SI N
The Enquirer-Sun takes great pleas
ure in announcing this morning that
effective this date Mr. B. A. Julian
becomes city editor of this paper, the
well-known Georgia newspaper man
having arrived hi Columbus yesterday.
Mr. Julian has been with the Athens
Banner for throe years in the same
editorial position lie lias accepted here.
Before entering the daily field Mr.
Julian was connected with several of
the leading Georgia weeklies. He
comes highly recommended as a news
paper man, holding fairness and ac
curacy paramount in handling news
articles. Mr. Julian is a native of
Georgia, being born in Lawrenceville,
Gwinnett county.
The Enquirer-Sun bespeaks of the
paper's many friends that the same
courtesies accorded representatives of
this paper in the past be shown Mr.
Julian.—Columbus Enquirer Sun.
For several years Mr. Julian was
with The News and left Winder hi
1917, accepting a position with The
Athens Banner. Mr. Julian is an all
round newspaper man, and he has
hosts of friends here who will learn
with interest, of his promotion. Mr.
Juhan married a Winder girl, Miss
Ethel Jackson, of this city.
Mrs. H. D. Jackson, of this city.
OBREGON POSSESSES A
REMARKABLE MEMORY
Nogales, Ariz., June 19. —Gen, Al
varo Obregon, leader in the movement
that recently overthrew the Carranza
government in Mexico, has a remark
able memory, according to H. Percy
Meaker, an Englishman, who has re
sided in Sinaloa for many years and
who, during the recent war with Ger
many, acted in an executive capacity
for the British government.
"One of the easiest tilings General
Obregon docs,” said Meaker, “is to
deal out a complete deck of playing
cards to a party of seven, memorizing
the cards each receives, then, begin
ning backward, tell each man correctly
the cards he holds.
He remembers whole columns of
newspaper t articles and, many days
after reading them, can repeat an en
tire article verbatim. He remembers
accurately incidents years back. A
great deal of the book ‘Eigh Thou
sand Kilometers of Campaigning,’ is
written from his remarkable mem
ory.”
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, June 28—Theda Bara in
“Cleopatra.”
TUESDAY, June 29—George Walsh in
“The Shark.” Also comedies.
WEDNESDAY, June 30— Frank Kee
nan in “Smouldering Embers.
WHITTLING OUT
PLANKS AT FRISCO
Prohibition Plank To Be fhe Only
One to Find Its Way to the
Convention Floor.
San Francisco, June 23. —A volunteer
construction corps of platform builders
was busy today whitling out. plunks
which they believed would meet the
needs of the democratic national con
vention in expressing its views as to
prohibition enforcement. Leaders, in
cluding Chairman Cummins, of the na
tional committee, were in agreeiueu'
mr, this question would monopolize
the center of the convention stage
until it was settled. Mr. Cupimings ex
pressed the opinion that it would be the
only issue t obe carried to the conven
tion floor.
Informal discussion by delegates
showed several schools of thought
among the anti-bone dry advocates as
to how the question should be ap
proched. They vary from the sttaes
rights stand taken by Governor Ed
wurds, of New Jersey, to proposals
that congress be urged to proceed di
rectly toward modifying the one-half
of one pm- cent alcohol content re
striction of the Volstead enforcement
•it. so as to lift the ban from beers and
light wines. The most pronounced
movement at the moment, however,
and the one which appeared today to
have taken the most, definite shape was
that originating In Washington and
designed to offer a basis on which
anti-bone dry forces could concentrate.
Personal liberty will he t.he slogan of
advocates of this compormise plank,
SHACKELFORD ANNOUNCES
FOR CONGRESS IN EIGHTH
Tom Shackelford, one of North
Georgia’s greatest lawyers,- a product
of old Jackson county, has announced
for congress from the Eighth Geor
gia district.
Tom is fine material and will fit in
nicely in congressional halls. Tom
Bell and Tom Shackelford represent
ing the Eighth and Ninth will make
a pair of Tom-Toms that would mean,
much to their constituents.
GOOD WOMAN DIES
Mrs. S. A. McDonald, sister of Rev.
J. H. Mashburn, the beloved pastor
of the Methodist church of Winder,
died in Atlanta Saturday morning
June 19th, and the funeral was held
at St. James Methodist, church in that
city Sunday afternoon at 4 o’clock.
Mrs. McDonald had been a member
of St. James for oyer 30 years.
On account of the death of his sis
ter, the pastor was absent from Win
der Sunday and Monday.
Mrs. McDonald was 68 years old.
She was the mother of siiihxnerdc
She was the mother of six children,
four boys and two girls. Brother
Mashburn has one sister and three
brothers living out of a family of
thirteen.
TWO BARROW NEGROES
CHARGED WITH FORGERY
Josh Sorrells and Roy Jackson were
bound over to the Superior court oil
Tuesday on a charge of forgery.
The negroes, it is said, tried to pasd
a check for twenty dollars on the Win*
der National Bank signed by D. D.
Kesler, one of our prosperous planters,
but Assistant Cashier Oakley didn’t
like the looks of the signature and
turned it, down.
Sheriff Camp was notified and soon
landed a bunch of live in Jail, but at
the preliminary hearing only Sorrells
and Jackson were held for further ii •
vestigation.
The bonds for the negroes wer*
placed at, SI,OOO each.
There lives in Barrow county a fine
young man named Thurmond Adams,
and he has sonie little dogs trained
to trail criminals. He is ever ready with
his dogs to assist the officers in run
ning down transgressors of the law.
He and his dogs were used in rounding
np this bunch, and he has assisted
in many other cases. The sheriff is
high in his praises of Thurmond
Adams and his little dogs.
Mrs. S. T. Ross. Mrs. W. A. Brooks,
Mrs. It. O. Ross and Miss Elise Starr
drove over to Athens Tuesday afternoon
shopping.
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