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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1920
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WINDER, GA.
Published Every Thursday by
WINDER NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at the Postofflce at Winder, Georgia,
as Second Class Matter.
R. O. ROSS -Editor
R. O. ROSS, JR., Business Munager
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People who are considered lucky are gen
erally found to be pulcky instead.
O
No, William, the hustler never waits for
opportunity. He makes it.
O
The trouble with some of our uplifters
is the fact that they are not uplookers.
O
Don’t tell your husband “you told him so.”
It's gulling enough for him to remember,
without being reminded.
O
It is fashionable in Paris to wear dresses
tliut come only about the knee. But, ding
it, this Is not Paris.
The “cat step” is the latest thing in danc
ing. But the four legged eats can’t help it—
poor things.
O
It don't pay to go through life with a
scowl on your face. You get too many in
return.
O
What we need in this country is something
that will induce us to make the best of what
we have.
O
Cliff Walker says lie has the Holder fol
lowing supporting him for governor. For
what reason, pray?
O
Don't slip through life at too strenuous
a pace. You may slip a cog and slip out
at the same speed.
O
If given their choice between a life of
happiness and one of sorrow, some people
would he so greedy they would want both.
O
The voters at the recent primary put a
quietus lo tin 1 daily papers in one respect.
There are none of them who can say “<ve
told you so.”
O
The political pendulum is gradully swing
ing back to normal. With all of ids faults,
Tom Watson is quite an improvement over
Georgia's war-time selection of a Senator.
O
Toni Watson drove his hand wagon so fast
that he spilled all of the riders who attempt
eel to go beyond the limits of their respective
counties.
O
Oil, no, those sour expressions are ipit
habitual. Handing out alibis after a primary
is not half as exhlliarating ns spending the
salary before you are elected.
O
From tin* way the roads of Barrow county
tad tin* streets of Winder are being torn
np we opine that the tax-dodgers are going
to hop high when pay-day rolls around.
O
If the present destructive rate of sp*>ed is
maintained, we feur the reputations of many
of our politicians will have to go hack, take
a hath, fumigate, and start all over again.
O
Creeh up! All is not lost. Civilization,
w r e admit, lias been sorely crimped, but the
world is dotted with many Christian nations
—ami a few Christians.
O
A reader insists that it is possible even
In these sordid days to get something for
nothing. But at that, we fear the something
would amount to nothing after we get it.
' There were some capers cut in Winder
this week that should have proven a state
wide sensation had they hapi>ened in Atlanta.
We respectfully refer the matter to ttie de
liberations of the grand jury, which meets
next week.
O
Why do some people wear furs on a hot
summer day. you ask? Very simple. It's
alsiut the only way they can induce other
people to notice them, now that dis
plays are becoming a drug in the market.
O
Now that we have women suffrage, suppose
tlie town council reform ttie street tax lists
and the jury revisors get busy for the new
order of things. My. but won't the old
bachelors have to walk a- clmlk line to keep
out of the ohaingang?
O
We got a tip by grapevine that Henry
Lincoln Johnson is to lie removed from the
republican executive committee and that
Seuator Hiram Johnson, of California, will
make a number of speeches in Georgia before
the general election in November.
O
Large numbers of Germans of the educat
ed class are coming to the United States to
earn a living. The proletariat is in the sad
dle in Germany, and with their money gone
and their titles without value there appears
to be nothing left for them but to kiss the
hand that smote them. But it's a good hand
to kiss.
TOM WATSON ANIJ PROHIBITION
In a recent addre* In the presence of one
of the lurgest political gatherings ever as
sembled In Macon, Thomas E. Watson de
clared that he was a pioneer prohibitionist
in Georgia; that away back in 1882 he lead
a fight in the general assembly in behalf of
teinpearnce. This was the year of his first
service as representative of McDuffie.
And that reminds us of the following elo
quent words by Mr. Watson on the subject
of “Strong Drink":
“It is a warrior whom no victory can
satisfy, no ruin satiate. It pauses at no
Rubicon to consider, pitches no tents at night,
goes into no quarters for winter. It conquers
the burining plains of the South where the
phalanxes of Alexander halted in mutiny.
It conquers amid the snowdrifts of the north
where the Grand Army of Napoleon found
its winding sheets. Its monuments are in
every burial ground. Its badges of triumph
are the weeds which mourners wear. Its
song of victory is the wail that was heard
in Hamah—‘Rachel crying for her children
and weeping because they were not.’
“The sword is mighty, and its bloody traces
reach across time, from Xinevih to Grave
lotte, from Marathon to Gettysburg. Yet
mightier is its brother, the wine-cup, I say
‘brother,’ and history says ‘brother.’ Castor
and Pollux never fought together in more
fraternal harmony. David and Jonathan
never Joined in more generous rivalry'. Hand
in hand, they have come down the centuries,
and upon every scene of carnage, like vultures
and shadows, they have met and feasted.
“Yea, a pair of giants, but the greater is
the wine-cup. The sword lias a scabbard,
and is sheuthed; has a conscience, and be
comes gluted with havoc; has pity, and gives
quarter to the vanquished. The wine-cup
lias no scabbard, and no conscience; its appe
tite is a cancer which grows as you feed it;
to pity, it is deaf; to suffering, it is blind.
“The sword is a lieuentant of death, but
the wine-cup his captain; and if ever they
come home to him from the wars bringing
their trophies, boasting of their achievements.
I can imagine that Death, their master, will
meet them with garlands and song, as the
maidens of Judea met Saul and David. l!ut
as lie numbers tiis victories of each, his pean
will be; ‘The sword is my Saul, who has
slain his thousands; but the wine-cup is
my Da f id, who has slain ids tens of thou
sands.”
O
A BETTER WAY
The government spends much money in the
printing of bulletins that are circulated for
the purpose of improving industrial condi
tions. It is one of tin* things which have
contributed to the making of a great country.
These bulletins are sent to the people who
apply for them, and possibly to some who do
not. Just how extensively they are circu
lated in this matter we do not know, but it
is lielpfu if the valuable information they
disseminate reaches the majority of the peo
ple for whom it is intended, especially in
the field of agriculture.
We believe a more satisfactory and prof
itable means of stimulating more advanced
methods in the various lines of industry
would lie to publish the bulletins in the
newspapers and periodicals that reach most
generally the people concerned.
Take the farmer as an example.
Practically every one raises corn, wheat,
oats, rye, potatoes, hay, etc. Bulletins on
such crops should he printed in the country
papers. These papers rquch practically every
farmer in the country, and would be the
logical ones to use.
Bulletins on special subjects, such as bee
culture, poultry raising on an extesslve
scale, etc., could be printed in either the
country presa or journals specializing in
such matters.
The same would be true in all lines of
industry, science, manufactures, etc., a rea
sonable price ln*ing paid for such advertis
ing.
In no other way eoiild the public lie reach
ed so quickly and effectively, and unques
tiouahlely the results would more than jus
tify the expenditure.
Sooner or later the government will dis
card its present ancient method of dissemi
nating valuable information and adopt the
one more fitted for the progressive age in
which we move.
Sooner is better than later.
O
IS IT vor?
Every one knows him.
He is energetic, painstaking in everything
that he does, and honorable to a degree.
He is considerate of the faults of others,
and realizes many of his own imperfections,
striving consistently to overcome them as
best lie may.
He is not a saint, and neither is he a
great sinner.
He is what we term a good citizen and
a credit to fids community.
Is it you?
O
\
A Spaniard is said to have invented a
machine that places chess, thus relieving
the human player of a severe mental strain.
Now if some genius will just dish up one
that will play hell it may afford a little
relief to some of our political friends.
O
Often a fellow's enemies prove to be his
friends in disguise. Men are simply grown
children and they sometimes stick their
hands out toward a fiaming blaze. We have
resolved to tie more careful in the future,
and not aspire to unnecessary worryments.
We are thankful that we were not elected
ordinary oil Barrow county.
THE WINDER NEWS
THOSE FOURTEEN POINTS
Hark! to the hurried question of De
spair: “Where is my child?” —an echo an
swers—“ Where ?”
The aliove lines are from Ixird Bryon’s
“Bride of Abydos,” the tale of an unhappy
creatures who suffered many trials and trib
ulations.
In these few words the author’s genius
has succeeded in vividly portraying a soul's
futile cry of anguish over something that
has been lost. By substituting President
Willson’s Fourteen Points for tlie lady’s
missing child, Lord Byron expresses exceed
ingly well how the world feels today.
Where are those fourteen points?
They expressed so well our justifications
for getting into this awful world mess that
we hate to lose sight of them. But where
are they?
When last seen they embarked upon a ship
for Europe in the custody of President Wil
son. All the world knows that they never
reached the other side of the Atlantic, lie
cause everything that was done at Versailles
' and Paris and London and Itoam and War
saw and Flume and Prague violated the very
soul of the Fourteen Points. And President
Wilson refuses to tell what became of them.
Must we look upon their fate as one of the
great historical mysteries like the identity
of the Man in the Iron Mask?
“Where are the swallows fled?” asks one
poet. “Where shall we make her grave?”
asks another. "Where lies the land to which
the ship will go?” queries the third. And.
“Where are the snows of yesterday?” Villon
wants to know.
(Conundrums —all conundrums. The an
swer probably is that they are just where
the Fourteen Points are. But when Despair
shrieks wildly, “Where is my child?” —an
echo merely answers, “Where?” —Atlanta
Georgian.
O
SEVENTH GRADE COMPOSITION
Great is Atlanta. There are street cars,
picture show’s, policemen and a heap of people
in Atlanta.
The governor stays in Atlanta. Hugh
Dorsey is the governor and he is making a
big bank to keep all the cotton. The big men
and the pretty women live in Atlanta. The
mean men and ugly women come from other
places. All the papers are printed in At
lanta, and they tell about politics, the mur
ders and folks that get hurt.
Electric lights are made in Atlanta and
some day all the houses in the country will
be lit up and women will wash clothes and
churn with electricity. Camp Gordon is
in Atlanta. Camp Jessup is in Atlanta. All
the soldiers live In Atlanta. Atlanta is the
biggest place in the world.
Moral—Teach your boys not to believe
all they read in the Atlanta papers.
O
IT IS POSITIVELY DISGUSTING
This silly talk about loyal democrats In
dulged in by the Atlanta Constitution, Macon
Telegraph and Athens Banner is positively
disgusting to red-blooded Georgians. In one
line they intimate that all who do not vote
for their liaml-picked senatorial dummy are
disloyal to the party and in the next para
graph appeal to all loyal democrats to come
out and save the state from political ruin.
It does look as if these papers could read
the hand-writing on the wall. The prejudice
in their systems and the hatred in
their hearts have already caused fair
minded Georgians to rebuke at the ballot
box one of the made to order statesmen, and
unless a more liberal policy is pursued to
ward that large element of Georgians who
do their own thinking, another good young
man is going to meet his political Waterloo.
O
UP AND OUT
Insistent demands for an increase in wages
continue to he made from time to time, but
we fear the people who make them do not
stop to count the ultimate cost of their de
mands.
Wages and salaries in this country are
now high—very high.
This fact, coupled with the excessive cost
of raw materials, makes the production of
a finished article a very expensive propo
sition. .
Regardless of this expense, we have a large
foreign trade, because other countries just
now must have our goods.
But some day—not far hence —Europe will
lie recovering from her war paralysis, her
internal affairs will become adjusted, and
she will he producing these same articles
herself. The cost of labor there will he much
less than here, and raw material will prob
ably cost no more.
When that time comes Europe will produce
these articles at a cost far below ours, and
the rest of the world will buy where they
eau get goods at the lowest price.
Then what will become of our extensive
foreign trade?
Before trying to boost labor and other
costs still higher it might be well to think
of the after effects.
It is quite possible to go up in price and
out of a jolt.
O
Every time a man sees a woman wearing
a mosquito netting blouse on a hot summer
day he feels just like doing the same thing
himself. But modesty forbids.
O
The expert who was here this week in
specting the Barrow county oil fields says
that, scientists have discovered oil was pro
duced by pre-historic bugs. Evidently there
is something good in all things. Maybe oil
follows in the wake of the boll weevil.
• •••••••
• AS THE EDITOR SEES IT *
•••••
Our era of extravagant buying is about
over, and its effect is beginning to be felt.
There is a slow but certain tendency to
ward a decline in prices, with the prospect
that another year may witness a material
reduction in the cost of living.
But naything like a sudden drop in all
lines Is not to he expected. It kg’ rather to
he avoided, as it mighr bring our whole com
mercial fabric tumbling about our ears in
ttie greatest panic in history. And no sane
person wants a panic.
Before there can be any great decline
there must first he an adjustment in the
cost of labor, as well as materials, and it
is difficult to conceive the laboring man
voluntarily surrendering a portion of his
wage.
That will lie the greatest obstacle of all
to surmount, and only fti the exercise of
time and infinite patience can satisfactory
results he produced.
Our parcels post should be in more general
use. Asa matter of fact, it should be in
constant use in the transporting of farm
products and other supplies from producer
to consumer, thus eliminating the middleman
in a majority of cases and curtailing the
number of pockets to he lined at the expense
of the consumer.
Such a development of the parcels post
would not be welcome to the middlemen and
others who are getting fat rakeoffs from
every article sold, hut it would materially
reduce the heavy burden that now rests
upon the purchasing public.
There Is no sane reason who many of
our supplies could not be shipped direct by
post.
—O—
Fortunately the campaign will be ended
in November. Were it otherwise we fear
there would lie a derth of perfectly good
mud in this country.
Alud has been flying permiseously for the
past few weeks. It has been striking, and
besmirching, and besmearing until one begins
to wonder what ki|id of men we put up for
public office. <>r perhaps the cadidates are
all right and the rest of us need cleaning.
To any one with a reasonably cleam mind
this policy of mud slinging in political cam
paigns is nauseating.
If the man deserves the mud that swats
him he is not the kind of man we should
honor with public office. If he is an honor
able man he should not be subject to vitu
peration and abuse.
It requires long years of right living to
build up a desirable reputation. To destroy
WINDER HOUSEWIVES
PLEASE TAKE NOTICE
In this day of high prices, time figures largely in the cost
of living, and when you save time you save money. Tiiat is the
reason we have inaugurated the system of only two deliveries
per day—one in the morning at 10 a. m. and the other in the
afternoon at 5 p. m. Remember that by helping us save the
expense in delivery, you enable us to sell to you at a lower price,
thereby saving you on your purchase. Co-operation means much
to the merchant and the buyer. If you desire something for the
noonday meal, phone us prior to 10 a. m. If for supper phone
before 5 p. m.
It is a pleasure to serve. Help us serve you better by ob
serving these delivery hours.
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Broad St. Winder, Ga.
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y as an act of political expediency is about
the limit to which an opponent can go. ‘
The indiscriminate assassination of char
acter is becoming entirely too prevalent in
this country—but at that we are no worse
that the other nations of the earth.
Periodically some Wall street financier,
breaks into print with a tearful exhortation
to America to extend additional financial as
sistance to European countriiy.
The editor of this paper is not totally
devoid of a,heart, nor is he entirely bereft
of horse sense, but there are times when it
is difficult to harmonize the one with the
other.
The fragment of a heart that remains in
our shell prompts us to extend our sympathy
to those foreign countries so sadly in need
of funds, and to recommend that they all
go earnestly to work—every mother’s son of
them—and produce something that will aid
in the rapid rehabilitation of their bleeding
countries. That is what we in America
would do under similar circumstances. • .
In the meantime, the limited amount of
horse sense we possess (not lieing a Wall
street financier) leads us to protest against
any further loans to Europe, even if the new
loan tie for the purpose of paying the interest
on what they already owe us.
Robbing Peter to pay Paul may be a,ll
right—for Paul —but it is deucidly rough on
poor old Pete.
O
THE OTHER MAN’S SISTER
People are often heard to make suggestive
remarks concerning young women whom they
see on the street —but never when a husky
male relative is present.
Generally there is no thought of injuring
the innocent object of these remarks. They
are born in thoughtlessness and uttered in
a spirit of idleness, but they carry a.sDng
that lasts.
If men would confine tlieir remarks to
such as they would approve if made regard
ing their own sisters, or such as they would
make in the presence of the father of bro
ther of the girl, there would be less vicious
rumors and innuendoes circulating from lip
to lip. and fewer heartaches when this idM
gossip reaches the parties concerned.
The Lord made tongues that they might
be used to good purposes, but the devil often
twists them to his own evil ways.
It makes a world of difference when it is
the other fellow’s sister.
Speak gently of others and they will sel
dom speak harshly of you.—Selected. „
O
We advise every man and woman to exer---
cise their inalienable right of franchise and
vote exactelv as they please in the comingy
national election.