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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, July S—Norma Talmadge
in “The Heart of Wetoua.”
FRlDAY—(iloria Swanson and Dexter
Elliott “For Better, for Worse.”
SATURDAY, July 10—Wm. Duncan in
“Silent Avenger” Wes. Feat. Com.
VOL. XXVII.
BAND WELCOMES
REED BACK HOME
Senator Tells Cheering Kansas, Crowd
That “it’s a League of Treason”
United States No One-Man
Country.
■ When Senator Reed reached Kansas
e’ity, Mo., after being turned down by
the Wilson Sun Francisco convention
he was met at the Union Station by a
crowd of meu and women headed by
a brass band. He was escorted by
a parade to convention hall, where a
miss meeting was held.
Addressing the mass meeting. Sen
ator Reed declared that he was private
ly assured by “grapevine massages”
while his case was being heard, that
the credentials committee of the con
vention would seat him if he would
agree to keep silent in regard to the
league of nations on the convention
floor. His refusal to make such an
agreement was responsible for his be
ing denied a seat, he said.
“If there is one lesson that this
country needs to learn,” Senator Reed
said in his speech, “it is that this is
not a one-man country. If you would
keep this republic safe you must do
your own thinking. You, the people,
are the source of all power. The sooner
you exercise it the better it will be for
you and the country.” Senator Reed
denounced the democratic convention
at San Francisco “a convention afflict
ed with international blind staggers.”
Without direct personal reference to
any one. Senator Reed declared there
was little difference between the doc
trine of the divine right of kings “and
the modern doctrine that a man elected
to office becomes thereby a leader and
that all who differ with him are excom
municated and outcast.”
Robert Lansing, ex-secretary of state,
he described as the only man whom the
president took to France with him who
knew anything about international law
“and about the only one who had ordi
nary common sense,” and he asserted
that Lansing’s removal from office was
the result of “his insistence upon warn
ing the people of the true leaning of
this league of treason, this covenant
of national death.”
Senator Reed declared that “this in
formation in regard to what the league
really means is going to the people and
they shall know the truth.”
Heed was received with enthusiasm
and a resolution adopted by a rising
vote denouncing the action of the dem
ocratic national convention “in deny
ing representation to seat this commun
ity in refusing to seat Senator Reed.”
and indorsing the senator's stand, was
telegraphed to the democratic conven
tion.
THEY kill each other
IN' DUEL WITH PISTOLS
Spartanburg, S. C„ July 6.—ln a
pistol duel here tonight William P.
Cooper, a blacksmith, and Oscar God
frey, a horse trader, killed each other
Each man emptied the six chambers
of his weapon, and when the police ar
rived Cooper was dead and Godfrey,
though dying, was still snapping his
empty gun at the body of the dead
man. The cause of the trouble is un
known.
R. B. RUSSELL, JR., ANNOUNCES
Fdt REPRESENTATIVE
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It. It. Russell, Jr., son of Judge It.
It. Itussell, has announced himself as
a candidate in the September primary
to represent aßrrow county in the
general assembly of Georgia.
He is a tine young, man, a rising
attorney and has many friends who
will loyally back him in his laudable
ambition.
Ambitious, energetic, educated and
popular he will be a strong contender
for this honor.
To the White Voters of Barrow County
I hereby announce my candidacy for
representative from Barrow county in
the House of Representatives, subject
the next Democratic primary held
for the election of members of the
General Assembly.
I will appreciate the support and
influence of every white voter and if
elected, I pledge my best efforts to
serve you acceptably.
► RICHARD B. RUSSELL, JR.
■ r 1
A man can always dictate to his
typewriter, but seldom to his wife.
UDittfcr ifem
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
WASHINGTON TO RECOGNIZE
DeLa HUERTA GOVERNMENT
IF REFORMS ARE ASSURED
Washington, July 7—The Mexican
situation is receiving more careful
study by the American government than
has any subject since the I‘aris peace
conference. It was stated today at
the state department. This is with a
view to according recognition to De
La Huerta's provisional government,
provided satisfactory assurances are
given that it can and will maintain
order and will live up to its obliga
tions respecting the protection of the
lives and property of foreigners.
Iglesias Calderon, the special envoy
sent by De La Huerta to urge recog
nition, will ask for another conference
with Acting Secretary Davis as soon
as he has discussed the situation with
the members of his staff who have
just arrived here from Mexico City.
American officials, it is stated au
thoratively, are impressed with the ev
ident sincerity of the expressions of
De La Huerta and of the efforts to
bring about order in Mexico, but they
have taken note that the active work
ers in the various departments of the
Mexican government have not been
changed and that the newly appointed
cabinet officers leave the work of their
offices chiefly to the same men who
conducted the affairs under Carranza.
LITTLE CHILD GOES HOME
The little daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
A. E. Castleberry died at the home of
her parents in this city Wednesday
morning.
The funeral and interment occurred
this morning at Bethabra.
These young parents have the sym
pathy of many friends in their sad
bereavement.
DR. J. H. MOORE
In this issue will be found the pro
fessional card of Dr. J. H. Moore, vet
erinary surgeon. Dr. Moore is already
•n the ground, ready to look after all
needs of our people in his line. He can
he reached at the City Pharmacy or
the home of Mr. W. B. Mathews.
In this issue also appears the card
of Dr. Hayes, of Athens, who makes
i specialty of the eye, ear, nose and
throat.
WARNSWORLD OF
COTTON SHORTAGE
Manchester, England.—Prof. J. A.
Tood, secretary of the empire cotton
growing committee of the board of
trade, has just delivered to the textile
institution a warning of the prospect
ive world scarcity of cotton in the
near future and emphasized the need
for developing new sources of supply
as well as experimenting with cotton
substitutes.
After dealing exhaustively with the
labor position in the United States
cotton growing aresa, bad weather
and ravages by boll weevil as well as
the acreage position the professor
said, “it is obvious that we are not
going to get 15,000,000 bales of cot
ton this year.” At home it seemed
to him the consumers had not yet felt
the full weight of the high cost of the
raw material. Even in America he
did not see much sign of the consum
er's intention of doing without cotton
fabrics.
The statistics for America’s domes
tic consumption for the first three
months of the year were on a basis
uncomfortably near to 7,000,000 bales
a year. British consumption before
the war was nearly 4/KK),000 bales and
the total American crop last year was
only 11,000,000 What was going to
happen when the rest of the world—
and particuarly the continental coun
tries —woke up and began to demand
more cotton
By next year, he said, the continen
tal mills probably would be more ac
tive than now and the demand increas
ed and the oriental demand would al
so be much higher
So long as the workers and produc
ers of the world were making so much
more money than they ever did be
fore he did not see how the demand for
cotton goods was even going to be sub
stantial reduced The world was not
producing sufficient cotton to meet this
demand and was not likely to do so
unless some way was devised of mak
ing use of even the lowest grade
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY JULY 8, 1920
CITY FATHERS LET
PAVING CONTRACT
Must He Completed In One Hundred
and Ninety-Five Days From Date
of Contract—.lnly 2, 1920. £
m m
Wimlerites are soon to walk on paved
streets.
Our city fathers on July 2, 1920.
signed a contract with the Passmore
Davis Construction Company of Ma
con, for the paving of Broad, Candler,
Jackson and Athens streets, according
to the plan outlined by the city fa
thers some weeks ago.
The bid is said to be $3.40 per square
yard.
For some weeks the mayor and, coun
cil have been considering calling off
the puviug project, owing to the high
cost of material and unreliable trans
portation facilities.
But in material for this kind of
progress, Winder is blessed. Right
within her limits can be found unlim
ited quantities of rook suitable for pav
ing purposes, and neurby can be found
the necessary sand.
Machinery for rock crushing is on
the way, and in the next few days the
contractor will have a force of bands
on the job.
The contract time limit is one hun
dred and ninety-five days.
GEORGIA SOLONS
PLEDGE COX AID
Atlanta, Ga., July 7.—Reconvening
after its holiday, beginning last Friday
afternoon, the Georgia legislature on
Tuesday morning got down to business
again, passing a number of important
measures and introducing many oth
ers.
One of the first measures adopted
was a privileged resolution of Mr.
Dobbs, of Cobb, commending the demo
nating Governor Cox, of Ohio, for pres
nating Governor Cox, f Ohio, for pres
ident, and extending hearty congratu
lations to Governor Cox upon his choice
as the national standard bearer of the
democratic party. The resolution,
which was unanimously passed, also
assured Governor Cox of the support
of the members of the house in the
coming campaign.
MR. RUFUS L. CALLAHAN
DIES AFTER LONG ILLNESS
Mr. Rufus L. Callahan died Wednes
day morning after a long, lingering
illness.
Mr. Callahan was a fine young man,
and for a number of years was one of
Winder’s efficient policemen.
Resigning his position in this city
for a number of years he was with the
Seaboard railway in the secret ser
vice with headquarters in Atlanta.
Failing health caused him to sever
connections with the Seaboard and he
returned to Barrow county and for
awhile lived on a farm in Chandler’s
district.
About the first of the year he mov
ed to Winder.
Many times have reports from his
bedside stated that he was dying, but
the brave fight he was making for life
staved off death.
Tuberculosis, the great white plague,
proved too much for his weaking frame
md Wednesday morning he peacefully
crossed over to the other side.
The funeral was preached at the
Baptist church Thursday morning by
fohn H. Wood, assisted by Revs. John
i. Mashburn and W. H. Faust.
The interment was in Booth cemetery
n Chandler’s district.
He is survived by his wife, a little
daughter, his mother, Mrs. Mary E.
Callahan; two brothers, J. 11. Callahan
of Crawfordville and J. E. Callahan of
Winder: three sisters, Mrs. I’. I’. Jen
nings, of Winder; Mrs. W. E. O’Neal
>f Union Point and Mrs. W. B. Murden
of Robinson, Ga
A BEAUTIFUL THOUGHT
Eighty per cent of all apologies are
not meant and the other twenty per
cent are not believed.
A word to the wise is sufficient. To
the fool it is one too many.
It's no disgrace for a brave man to
admit that he has been licked by a
better man. Only the craven tries to
bluff it out afterwards.
FOUR OUT OF SIX
IS WEEK’S RESULT
Winder Takes Five Out of Seven Games
Played Thus Far With Monroe.
Pretty Good. Thank You.
The Million Dollar League is mov
ing along—not smoothly, but moving.
The old sport rivals have been at
it again this week. Monroe and Win
der. and Winder put it over to the
tune of two to one.
The baseball week started off on
the home diamond with Winder fac
ing Washington, and the locals trimmed
the niffty Washington team by tak
ing two out of the series, and repeat
’d by giving Monrot* the same kind
of a drubbing.
Four games out of six each week
will satisfy the Winder fans and scare
the leaders.
With the exception of one game, ev
ery game played on the local diamond
the last six days were good exhibi
tions of ball playing.
Monday’s game with Monroe was
rhe hardest fought we have ever seen,
not excepting Southern League games.
Cochran was doing the twirling for
Winder while Rentz was handling the
horse hide for Monroe.
And it was a battle royal between
pitchers. The support of Cochran was
faultless and not a Monroe man cross
ed the home plate.
After the first inning, when Rentz
struck his stride, there was nothing
doing, but the game bad already been
won.
The feature of the game was the
base running of Guyon, the South’s
greatest football player, who beat out
a bunt, and stole in home. Few of
the fans knew of Guyon’s presence,
having reached Winder only a short
while before the game was called.
The next day Monroe turned the
tables on us and shut us out. This
also was said to be a pretty game. But
there is joy even in this defeat, as
it took a Barrow county boy to give
is the drubbing. Bunkum Morris was
on the firing line, and reports from
Monroe where the firing was done it
seems that he had things pretty much
his way.
But, just for that, Wednesday Win
der batted the ball all over the field,
taking the game in a walk by the score
>f 12 to 1. Jenkins did the pitching
for the locals.
We are sorry for our newspaper
friends over at Monroe, They are true
sports and if they had half a chance
they would write columns about the
lickings Monroe handed Winder, but
it takes ginger to win ball games and
Winder players and Winder fans are
stocked up on ginger.
Five out of seven is the record writ
ten by Winder and Monroe —and one
of the two of Monroe’s credit was won
by a home run in the twelth inning.
Fine, mighty fine.
Now for Elberton. We must have
two out of three. Game called at 4:15.
Fill the grand stands and bleachers.
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* STANDING OF CLUBS
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Thompson 15 4 .7KO
Washington 14 •> -'-8
Winder 9 1"
Monroe 9 19 - 4 ®B
Elberton " 12 :164
Madison 3 1® - 4 '’®
TO MAKE SURE HE WAS DEAD
The enterprising company in the
Soudan had decided to lay a railway
into the wilds and. of course, many
blacks were employed in its construc
tion.
One day the telegraph clerk at the
nearest civilized spot received a tele
gram from the foreman of the rail
way constructors.
“White boss dead. Shall I bury
; him?”
"Yes,” wired back the clerk. “But
first make sure that he is quite dead.
Viil send another white boss tomor
row.”
A few hours later another telegram
came from the foreman.
“Buried boss. Make sure he was
jnite dead. Hit him on the head with
i large shovel I”—London Tit-Bits.
WHO REMEMBERS
The old-time contractor who, when
asked to estimate the cost of building
an ordinary dwelling replied. “O. it'll
run about a hundred dollars a room?”
VICTORY IS GAINED IIY
THE STATE HIGHWAY
BOARD’S PROGRAM
Atlanta, Ga., July B.—After squab
bling for nearly an hour over the un
satisfactory report of a subcommittee
appointed to make the Knight resolu
tion for tlie comity distribution of the
highway fund conform to the repealed
section of the motor vehicle act of last
year, the house committee on appro
priations yesterday afternoon, by a
vote of 13 to 12, decided to abandon
any further effort to amend the reso
lution and to report it back to the
house unfavorably.
This was a victory for the highway
hoard and its program of road con
truction and it is now doubtful wheth
er advocates of county distribution
can command a majority of the house,
>ven if the Knight resolution is ever
brought to a vote this year.
When it became evident at the meet
ing Tuesday afternoon that a major
ity of the appropriations committee
was opposed to the Knight resolution,
hut that certain members of the house
felt themselves bound by an agreement
made with the county distribution ad
vocates last year, a sub-committee,
composed of Williams, of Walton; Al
frieud, of Baldwin; and Covington, of
Colquitt, was appointed to re-draft
*he Knight resolution so as to make it
conform to section 20 of the motor
vehicle act, which was repealed by a
enflicting section of the highway de
partment reorganization bill, which
was signed last by the governor.
When this sub-committee reported
Wednesday it was found that, its mem
bers were not In agrement on their
report and that Mr. Alfriend, of Buhl
win, one of them, had himself pre
pared a substitute. The whole com
mittee, after debating the question for
about an hour, seemed to be farther
'rom agreement than the sub-eommit
tee. It rejected the report of the sub
committee, which seemed to satisfy
neither side, and Mr. Alfrlend’s sub
stitute. and then voted down a propo
sition to refer the matter to anew
subcommittee with instructions to re
tort back at 9:30 Thursday morning.
At this stage. Mr. Moore of Fulton,
moved to report the original resolution
with a recommendation that it do not
pass and **>’-.* was carried by a major
ity of votes.
CURRENT EVENTS
THE WORLD OVER
Skv-high coal prices, double those of
last year, threaten the United States.
< 'onsumers face an added tax of $6.00
or more on every ton of soft coal.
From the kitchen to the office of
sheriff is a long jump, but Mrs. Wil
liam Gates, of Duncan, Okla., has tak
ui it —and she is making good on the
job, according to her deputies.
One hundred Grecian girls arrived
in New York recently. They journeyed
to America t obecome the brides of an
xious, waiting husbands. The picking
was some job, according to dispatches.
The state department has removed
the restrictions on trade between the
United States and Soviet Russia.
Legal measures have been resorted
to in an effort to prevent Woman suf
frage. The secretary of state and at
torney general have been enjoined
from issuing any proclamation declar
ing the amendment ratified. The hear
ing was set for July 13th,
Ernest Hart, Milledge Derrick and
W. J. (jiuittlebaum, charged with rob- j
bing the Western Carolina express car,
were arranged in federal court Tues
day in Augusta and held to the No
vember court in bonds ranging from
000 to $13,000.
Senator Hoke Smith, in behalf of
■ lie melon shippers of the state, has
made a special request to the inter
state commerce commission that they
make every effort to remedy the short
ge of ventilated cars now prevalent
in many parts of Georgia.
The half-price schedule of motor ve
hicle license taxes does not go into ef
fect until August 1, according to offi
cial announcement from the office of
the secretary of state.
Dispatches tell us that the allied
premiers have given the Constantino
ple government ten days to sign the
'reaty of peace.
Along a front of approximately 720
miles, the Bolshevik! have launched
the greatest attack they have ever hurl
* and against the Polish lines, says a dis
e.teh from Warsaw. The poles are
| withdrawing. .
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, July 12—Bert Lytell in
“Alias Jimmy Valentine.”
TUESDAY, July 15—Sherley Mason
in “Her Elephant Man.”
WEDNESDAY', July 14 —Charles Ray ,
in “The Pinch Hitter.”
NOMINATION WON!
BY GOVERNOR COX
Took Forty Four Ballots To Decide
Who Would Be The Democratic ;
Standard Bearer— Roosevelt
Running Mate of Cox,
James M. Cox, three times governos
of Ohio, was nominated for the presK,
deucy early Tuesday, morning by the
democratic national convention sitting
at San Francisco.
It took forty-four ballots to make a
choice. The convention had been dead
locked since last Friday, with the del
egates wavering between Cox, McAdoo
and Palmer.
On the 39th ballot Cox begun to ease
away from McAdoo, his nearest oppon-*
ent. Then Palmer retired, releasing his
delegates, and every ballot after that
showed Cox climbing toward the goal.
When victory was attained in the for
ty-fourth, the roll call was stopped and
Cox nominated unanimously by accla
mation.
The San Francisco deadlock was the
longest tie-up of the kind in the his
tory of parties.
Franklin D. Roosevelt, assistant sec
retary of the navy, was chosen as the
running mate of Governor Cox Tues
day afternoon without the necessity of
a ballot.
Cries of Cox and Roosevelt ran thru
the convention, and supporters of oth
er nominees began to withdraw their
favorites, and Roosevelt was soon chos
-*n.
GOOD WOMAN DIES
AFTER SHORT ILLNESS
■Late Monday afternoon our people
were shocked to learn that Mrs. J. B.
Law had just died.
Something over a year ago, with her
husband and young son, Mrs. Law
moved to this city. Since coming to
Winder she had made many warm per
sonal friends.
She was a good woman, active itt
church and social movements, and she
will he greatly missed by not only her
own little congregation of Presbyter
ians, but by all the protestant denom
inations of the city.
The deceased was ill only a few
lays, suffering from jaundice, but com
plication set in and she sank rapidly
dying about 8 o'clock Monday after
noon.
The deceased was 47 years of age
id the mother of two children, John
’>. Law, of Atlanta, and Frazier Law,
>f this city, who with her husband
■ urvive her.
The body of Mrs. Law was carried
Tuesday morning to Savannah, where
the funeral and interment took place
Wednesday morning.
“MY HEART IS IN GRAVE
WITH CAUSE,” LAMENTS BRYAN
San Francisco, July 6.—“ My. heart
is in the Brave with our cause and
I must pause until it comes back to
me,” said William J. Bryan, today in
giving his reason for not making any
extended statement on the work of
the democratic national convention.
“My views on the convention’s ac
tion in reference to the indorsement
of prohibition are known,” said Mr.
Hryau. "I regard it as a very serious
mistake—it opened the door to the
nomination of a wet candidate. 1 need
not repeat here what I have said be
fore in regard to the evasion of other
issues.”
BIT NO ‘SO ON”
The lecturer was growing very ve
hement in the course of the address.
His subject was “The Ideal Wife.”
's we all know,” he said, “the duty
■f a wife is to be a Moving helpmate
o her husband, by cooking his food,
attending to his various requirements
•onducting his household affairs prop
rly, and so on and so on.” Then a
lc fellow in front got up and blurt
ed out: “They don’t do that last thing
you mentioned mister.” “Which one
is that?” asked the lecturer. “Why,”
said the little fellow, “sew on and sew
on.” And he proceeded to exhibit how
a safety pin did duty for a button on
his trousers.
Someone ought to tell congress the
war is over. It's a burning shame to
keep our dear senators and congress
men in ignorance of this fact ali of
these months.
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