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THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1920.
uHje Wittier Nema
WINDER, OA.
Published Every Thursday by
WINDER NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at the Postofflce at Winder, Georgia,
a a Second Class Matter,
R O. ROSS Editor
R. O. ROSS. JR.. Business Manager
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Hit the pace and you’ll get there —pro-
vided It doesn't bit you.
O
Some men talk loudly of Justice, and roar
quite as loudly when they get it.
O
Somehow the more certain folks cuss Hoke
Smith the more we see in this big Georgian.
O
Tom Bell, Tom Shackelford, Tom Hard
wick and Tom Watson. All running strong
in Barrow county.
O
There are many things about Watson to
admire, hut we feel that lie Is “fixing to cover
too much territory” to get away with it.
O
The world is full of pep. but apparently
many people have constitutional objection to
being culled the world.
0
Matches are supposed to have been “made
in heaven” should have stayed there. The*
divorce Jurisdiction does not extend that
far.
O
Don’t be too hard on the fellow who de
livers free lectures on the street corner. It’s
probably the only place he can induce peo
ple to notice him.
O
With both a coal and a food famine for
tlds winter, we have the rare privilege of
choosing our own manner of shuffling off.
We can either starve to death or freeze.
O
Three of the games dropped to Monroe
by Winder is due to Bunkum Morris, the*
Hoschton lad “who was hardly good enough”
for a try-out with Winder. You can't al
ways sometimes tell.
O
One industry at least lias not felt the de
pressing hand of the high cost of everything.
Tlie divorce courts keep right on grinding
them out us fast as the judges can issue the
decrees.
0
When Hugh Dorsey ran for governor, lie
carried Barrow county by a large majority.
If he enters the senatorial race with Wat
son and Smith as his opponents, lie may
scare up uround 300 votes in tills county.
O
It must he a whale of a Jolt for little Dan
Cupid to work up a wedding in tin* face
of the present high cost of everything and
nothing. But little Dan is a hustler, and
rumor is busily engaged in pulling off u
surprising stunt here In our own midst.
O
It is pathetic as well us ludicrous how the
returning 'Georgia I’uliuer delegates from
Frisco are using Clark’s man, Holloman, to
spread the propaganda that they really hail
a hand in nominating Cox, and that Cox
“stands four-square" behind Wilson on tlie
League of Nations question.
Hoke Smith may have done many mean
tilings, hut outside of kicking little Joe
Brown off the railroad commission, lie lias
steered pretty clear of foolish tilings. lie is
one of the biggest, brainiest senators from the
South, and it would be a shame to replace
him with a weakling like Hugh Dorsey.
O
A writer of note declares that the coun
try is rapidly becoming feminized —that the
women are gradually taking over all the work
of men. Oh, joy! What a relief it would
lie if they would only complete the job in
time for us to take one royal loaf before we
.fash in. Bui these's no such luck.
O
If you want a good clean man for attor
ney general you could pick no man for that
job who will out-class George M. Napier,
honorable and untiring, he will make Geor
gia a high-class attorney general. Napier
is wonderfully equipped for this position,
and here's hoping his ambition to serve his
people as attorney general will be endorsed
by the voters.
O
Even if it did come from the mouth of a
Republican, the speech of acceptance deliver
ed by Senator Harding contained many sound
principles that this country could put into
effect with lieueflt to the masses, in our lium
ple judgment. His ideas as to the rights of
all groupos of citizens in his hint to organ
ized labor fits in smoothly with our demo
cratic way of thinking.
O
We refuse to get excited this year over
politics. It is an off-season with us. We
know there are many vital issues facing
the American people that need careful hand
ling. but somehow we Just can’t enthuse
over anything political from Cox. the game
Democratic nominee, down to our own be
loved, peaceful and gentle A. O. Lamar, who
would represent this county in the Georgia
house of representatives.
HIGHWAY COMMISSION SHOULD KEEP
THE FAITH.
In 1919 the Georgia legislature passed a
bill providing that autos tie taxed and that
the funds be distributed among the various
counties for road working purposes.
In perfectly good faith our citizens kept
the law. Asa result there is said to he in
(lie state treasury $1,800.00Q paid in by auto
owners, believing that the state would build
therewith good- roads.
But /Judging from recent press reports
there seems to he a concerted effort on foot
to divert these funds from the original pur
pose. Here is the law :
“Be it further enacted. That the full
amount of the fees collected under this act
shall he turned into the State treasury l>y
the secretary of State, within thirty days
after collection, in such manner as the State
treasurer may prescribe, and thut it shall
me the duty of the State treasurer to set
aside from said fees the sum authorized by
the budget sheet as prescribed under s<*ction
1!) hereof. Tlie remainder of said funds
arising under and by virtue of this act shall
lie distributed each year by the State high
way commission among the several counties
of this State, according to the road mileage
in each county, and spent by said highway
commission in the building, repairing and
maintaining public roads in each county until
December 31, 1920, at which time said
State highway commission shall apply said
funds to liquidate the bonded indebtedness
of salr State created to support and build
roads therein and pay an interest on same;
but should no such bonded indebtedness be
so created, then the State highway commis
sion shall continue to distribute said funds
among the several counties as aforesaid, and
apply the same as until said bonds
are authorized."
It is so perfectly plain that anyone can
understand it. Unless these funds are spent
on the roads in the various counties from
whence they were gathered, sonaabody is
going to feel it at the day of final reckoning
—which is the next election. Our people
want good roads, and they are tired of being
fooled with.
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TO WINDER CITIZENS
We have been informed by a contractor
of many years experience In construction
work tlint an epidemic or typhoid fever
oftens follows tlie tearing up of tlie public
streets at this season of the year. He suys
the fever usually becomes prevalent in from
six weeks to two months after the grad
ing is done. As the grading is now being
done for paving purposes and our streets
are being plowed up, and the dirt scattered
about, we spoke of the matter to a leading
physician in the eltv who says that tlie con
tractor’s observations are no doubt true, and
it, would lie wise for every citizen of Winder
who lias not taken typhoid inoculation dur
ing the past three years to do so at once.
An ounce of preventative is worth a pound
of cure.
O
WHAT DO YOU THINK
Politicians mad with imperial ideas of na
tional greatness.
The rich snarling with greed over returns
oil their riches.
The poor snarling back with demand for
larger share in the worlds goods.
Capital grinding labor.
Labor fighting back with every source of
sabotage, inadequate work, and demands for
more and more wages and shorter and short
er hours.
Society gone mad with orgies of immor
ality.
Profiteers, plunderers, bolslievists, boll
weevils, cyclones, plagues of a 'thousand
diabolic forms.
Ranters, reformers, prohibitionists, pla
titndinists, panaceaists, ponderers to every
form or figment of thought.
In fact a world going, or gone, to the ever
lasting how-hows.
Or:
A nation of 100.000.0000 industrious citi
zens intent on bringing out every good that
tlie country holds.
Statesmen bent on making tlie old world
a better place in which to live.
More people who are interested in the
eternal verities than ever before in our his
tory.
Capital gradually making labor partner In
every phase of Industry.
Labor becoming more efficient by inten
sive and extensive study and training.
Society more inte -ested Mian ever in works
of lasting good. Civic and social organiza
tions going forward with giant strides.
Science gradually but surely harnessing
the forces of nature and lifting the ban from
parts of the world that have heretofore
been plague spots on the world’s surface.
Engineers and inventors rapidly making the
world a brighter and lighter and livelier
place for the human race.
Better preachers, more liberal philanthro
pists, more men willing to live and give
for their race and their nation than ever
before.
Seedless zlaekherries. acheless cucumbers,
and no “ mornings after.”
More pretty, wholesome, sweet-toned girls,
more lively, good-looking worthwhile boys,
more real sensibe, four-square men and
women, than the old world ever held before.
These are the two pictures drawn of our
nation and time today, and the one you be
lieve and subscribe to will depend on wheth
er you are an optomist or a pessimist.
As for us. we are inclined to view the
matter optimistically.—Conyers Times.
THE WINDER NEWS
CONSTRUCTIVE AND DESTRUCTIVE
Every community possesses two distinct
classes of citizens, although this communty
Is to a certain extent an exception to the gen
eral rule.
Both classes are critical as regards com
munity affairs, but one class is constructive
in its criticisms while the otheT is destruc
tive.
Tlie one sees the weak spots in our mnnic
iple life, points them out and suggests ra
tional methods for correction and Improve
ments. •
The other class sees the faults, criticises
the authorities for permitting them to exist,
hut offers no sane suggestion for correction.
The man who accepts a position of author
ity must expect criticism. But he has a right
to expect the public to refrain from violent
criticism unless it can suggest u method of
procedure that would be an improvement
over tlie one he employs.
The public has a legitimate right to crit
icise its officials when it feels that criti
cism is due, lint it should he certain of the
justice of that criticism before it is uttered.
A constructive critic is an ussef to any
town, but the destructive one is simply a
knocker.
Constructive criticism is always welcome
to any higli minded and well inteutioned
public official, but it is u thorn in the flesh
to those who surrender to ulterior motives
and forget the duty they owe to their con
stituents.
Our own officials are constructive in both
their intentions and in their methods.
If you see something that needs correction,
tell them so. They will welcome the informa
tion.
But go a little further and suggest what
appears tb you to be the best method of
correction. It may he an improvement to
what our officials would deem appropriate
action.
It is team work of this kind that breeds
success in the garden of life.
O
PIETY AND PIETY
Many people have a strenuous objection
to being called pious. We are one of tlie
many.
Tlie piety of today does not consist of pull
ing a long facet and sour grin. That form of
piety is a thing of the past.
Neither is the man with a beautiful smirk
necessarily pious. Some of the worst scala
wags in the world travel around with a saint
ly smile and endeavor to create a halo of
benevolence around their ungodly brows.
That is the reason so many men object
to being termed pious.
Tlie true piety of today does not welter
in the gloom of its own existence. Instead
it radiates the joy of life in a manner which
all men know comes from the heart and is
not donned for commercial reasons.
Pose as an apostle of piety? Forget it.
Give us instead tlie rugged honesty and
simple truthfulness of a real man, who sin
cerely endeavors to do a little good in the
world in his own humble and unobtrusive
way, with no plaudits from the multitude
and no thought of a reward from St. Peter
when lie reaches the golden gate.
O
The Athens Banner has the worst case of
political belleyache we have ever noticed. If
we did not know Hugh Rowe we would think
the editor was an escape from the madhouse
designed for those afflicted with hallucina
tions.
O
Luke McLuke Says.
Too many men who have rabbit-skin sala
ries have wives who have seal-skin ideas.
And you may have noticed that it is got
to he pretty doggone warm when a woman
looks hot.
It has just about gotten so that a woman
thinks her education isn't complete until
she has married at least once.
Once in awhile you run into a man who
belongs to everything in town except Lis
own family.
Some of the new skirts for women come
only to tin* knee, and we might add that
they are generally worn by women and girls
who have something worth exhibiting below
the knee.
JAMES L. KEY WINS.
Mayor James L. Key was yesterday nom
inated to succeed himself as mayor of At
lanta.
We predicted as much. For a long time
Key lias been considered the spokesman for
tlie poor man in Atlanta politics.
While he seems at times radical, neverthe
less he is a conscientious worker with lean
ings toward the organized clan, right or
wrong.
FAMILY REUNION
Next Saturday the Wages family will gath
er at tlie old home for a family reunion.
The children and their families are coming
from their various homes and a good time
is anticipated by each and every member.
O
NEW MONEY.
If you want new money—money without
germs; money that no dirty hand has soiled,
we can put you wise as to its location.
Tlie Winder National Bank has just is
sued two hundred thousand dollars in clean,
crisp bills.
This bank is getting ready to do its part
in handling the cotton crop and take care
of its customers. Maynard, Maddox, Money.
That sounds good to a man needing assist
ance.
STRANGES
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Silk Clearance Sale
FIRST FLOOR—A.SLE TO RIGHT
SILK DEPARTMENT
i
Every item offered is new, this
season’s purchase. But they must go. ~
ONE LOT POPLIN, NICE ASSORTMENT COLORS, WORTH
UP TO SI.OO YARD; TO CLOSE—
-3 5c
ONE LOT ALL-SILK CREPE DE CHINE; 40 INCHES WIDE
SOLD UP AS HIGH AS $3.00. CLOSE QUICK, YARD—
52.00
ONE LOT REAL GEORGETTE, W ORTH UP TO $3.00 TO $3.50
HERE IT GOES FOR—
52.00
ONE LOT SPORT SILK, ALL THE SEASON’S DESIGNS—THE
NEW T “MULLINSON’S” CREATIONS; SOLD UP TO $6.75 A
YARD. TO GO AT, YARD—
54.00
ONE LOT PERCALES, 36 INCHES W IDE, W ORTH TODAY
50c; TO GO AT—
-3 9c
ONE LOT LADIES’ SILK HOSE; COME IN BROW N, W HITE,
BLACK, GRAY; EASILY WORTH $2.00 PAIR. TO CLOSE
QUICK AT, PER HOSE—
SI.2S
ONE LOT LADIES’ SILK TRUE SHAPE HOSE, W ORTH UP
TO $2.50 AND $3.00. TO CLOSE AT—
sl.9s
Come in, look, and you will
find many articles of interest.
I
J. T. Strange Cos.
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WINDER, - ■ GEORGIA.
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