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THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Oct. 14—Alice Brudy in
“Woman Wife.”
FRIDAY, Oct. 15—Dorothy Gish in
“Nugget Nell."
SATURDAY, Oct. 16—Eddie Polo in
“The Vanishing Dagger.” Episode 5
VOL. XXVII.
J. J. BROWN GOES
TO WASHINGTON
Advises the Rapid Picking and Ginning
of Cotton and Storing in Bond
ed Warehouses.
1 On the eve of his departure for
Washington to attend the convention
tailed by nineteen farming organiza
tions to consider conditions confront
ing the market for agricultural prod
ucts, Commissioner of Agricslture, J.
J. Brown made a brief statement urg
ing the farmers of Georgia to take
prompt hold of the situation for their
own protection.
“The department has no desire what
ever to appear in the slightest degree
dictatorial.” Commission Brown said,
“but simply to advise as to the course
which seems best to pursue under pres
ent conditions.
CWhat we would say to farmers
of Georgia is this: We advise you to
pick your cotton as rapjdly as possible
te' protect the grade of the staple, gin
it and store it in warehouses —bonded
warehouses wherever you can. Then
handle your warehouse receipts in
whatever way may be necessary to
protect your creditors. They will un
doubtedly assist you in bolding for a
fair price. Less than 40 cents would
mean bankruptcy generally, and wt
would advise everyone to bear this in
mind.
“We think it highly advisable to
plant at least 30 per cent of your 1920
cotton acreage to oats, 20 per cent to
wheat and 10 per cent to rye, vetch,
clover and rape. Under no circum
stances should any farmer plant over
. 40 per cent of this year’s cotton acre
age to cotton in 1921.
k “If an agreement can be made thru
the State Departments of Agriculture
whereby the fourteen cotton states, thru
their Boards of Entomology, can put ou
a police quarantine next year, prohib
iting the planting of a single acre to
cotton, then 1 would suggest that there
be not a single stalk of cotton planted
in 1921. Let the quarantine be estab
lished for the extermination of the
boll weevil which could be accomplish
ed absolutely by this method; and we
could then get as much for the present
crop as for the two combined, if this
plan were followed.
“Under this plan ;the South would
become absolute sellers of food and
feed products, and we would then be
in ‘a position to ask the world just
bow much cotton is wanted and to
make that much and no more.
“If we could know in advance, as
the mills do, that we would make and
market our product on a basis of reas
onable profit above the cost of pro
duction, we could make just what is
needed to satisfy world demand. In
the absence of that knowledge, we must
for our own protection, get production
down to a basis of just enough to make
a market that would give the farmer
a reasonable margin of profit above
the cost of production, and, at the same
time, enable him to pay labor the
same relative wages as those which pre
vail in the ordinary industrial lines.
“We are in hopes of being able to ac
complish in the Washington meeting
something which will encourage the
cotton producer in the matter of the
value of the present crop holdings by
showing to those in authority that
their arbitrary plan of deflation is as
sure to destroy American agriculture
as a profitable industry and reduce
farm life to one of complete slave pro
duction. Professor Houston’s pol
eies are leading us to such deplorable
conditions as fast as time can pass.
“Who said, ‘Stay away from Wash
ington’? May God have mercy upon
his vision. Get those enemies of the
farmers in, Washington in line for a
square deal for the farmers, and a fair
nriqe for every farm product will come
in thirty days. Let thorn treat the
farmer as they have other interests
and we will he content, but we will
stand for nothing less.”
BARROW COUNTY SINGING CHOIR
The Barrow County Union Choir will
meet at Pleasant Hill church, near
Statliam. next Sunday afternoon, Oct.
17th. All who enjoy singing or listen
ing to good singing are invited to be
present with us on that date —H. E.
Haynie, President.
We are indebted to our good friend,
T. O. Pendergrass for a quart of fine
sorghum syrup. It looks good and
tastes better. Thanks, Mr. Pendergrass.
@iic lUiniicc News.
Untrammeled by Prejudice and Unawed by Fear We Speak the Truth and Contend for the Right
WAR DECLARED
ON GIN POSTERS
Sheriffs in Counties Where Gins Have
Been Posted Are Determined To
Bring Guilty to Trial.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 14—With Asso
ciated Press dispatches telling of mys
terious fires in Texas. Arkansas and
other states in the cotton belt where
cotton gins and warehouses are destroy
ed and with hourly reports of addition
al warnings being posted on cotton
gins, the “night rider” situation in the
south is becoming acute.
The Bulah gin, five miles east of
Bowman, Ga., was destroyed by fire
Tuesday. It is thought the fire origi
nated in one of the engines. Several
bales of cotton were destroyed. •
Arrests are expected to develope from
the activities of the “night riders” in
western Georgia counties. One man
lias already been arrested and is said
to have boasted of being the head of
an organized band of fifty men who
would do his bidding in the matter
and tliat the* government is afraid to
interfere with him.
In Jasper county, Georgia, a number
of gins have been posted and armed
guards are being placed around all
the gins at considerable cost to the
gin owners. No open breaks have
occured so far, but the owners have
all declared themselves to be ready
for any trouble that might arise.
Following the posting of gins in Gar
roll county and efforts by “night riders’’
to intimidate cotton growers, Sheriff
W. A. Garrett lias placed under unvst
one man, and is on trail of others who
are thought to have been connected
with the outrages.
W. J. Hicks, of Paulding county,
was arrested by Sheriff Garrett Satur
day night. The grand jury, which is
now in session, indicted him for gin
posting and he is now out on $590
bond. It is said that he boasted Fri
day in Villa Rica that he was the lead
er of a band of fifty men who took
orders from him and that the govern
ment was afraid to interfere with them.
MABEL NORMAN MONDAY
IN “THE SLIM PRINCESS”
Imagine a country where beauty was
interpreted in terms of fat, where
wives were selected by the pound, and
girl babies brought up on bananas and
cream!
Tlie reigning beauty of the fantas
tic Oriental kingdom of Morovenia bad
six chins. Her elder sister, tin' tiny
Princess Kalora, was twenty years old
and pretty as a picture, but sirs could
not get a husband —she only weighed
98 pounds!
This is the tangle that marks the
starting point of “The Slim Princess.”
It is unravelled with delightful humor
in a picture that stars Mabel Norman.
When G-eorgo Ade’s musical comedy
"The Slim Princess” started its phe
uominal stage career, audiences were
convulsed by liis whimsical conception
of an Oriental country where women
were esteemed for tlieir weight, and no
girl under 200 pounds had much chance
of winning a husband.
This delightful pieturized farce will
be seen at Love’s Strand Monday
night, Oct. 18th.
RAISES GREEN COTTON,
BUT WON’T SELL SEED
*
Dalton, Ga., Oct. 13—€. F. Obriant,
a farmer of near Dalton, has rais'd
about 100 pounds of his famous green
cotton this year.
Although he lias had big offers for
the seed he has refused to sell. The
cotton, of a brilliant green' color, is
unusually tine and of much longer
staple than the cotton grown here.
MRS. A. J. FITE
Monday night about 11 o'clock, Mrs.
A. J. Fite died at her home on the
Jefferson road just beyond the Mul
berry river bridge.
Mrs. Fite had been in feeble health
for many months but bad been serious
ly ill only a short while.
The funeral an and interment occur
red Tuesday afternoon at Ebeuezer,
Rev. Cantrell, her pastor, conducted the
services.
The deceased was about 58 years of
age and the mother of five children,
four of whom, with her husband, sur
vive her. They are Mrs. Brit Hodges,
Mrs. George Jackson, Mr. Henry Fite
and Mr. Boomer Fite.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY OCTOBER 14, 1920.
GEORGIA NEEDS
MORE FARMERS
To Produce More Crops Pay More
Taxes, Build Better Roads and to
Carry oil Program of Schools.
Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 14 —Atlanta has
got squarely behind the Advertise Geor
gia Enterprise and pledged itself to
raise the $300,000 advertising fund.
Under the chairmanship of Harry
Good hart, and with the Advertising
Club actively in charge all the civic or
ganizations of Atlanta will support
the campaign for funds.
Backing the campaign are the Cham
ber of Commerce, which has 3.200 mem
bers; the Rotary and Kiwanis Club
and several other organizations. The
county commissioners and the city
council probably will make substantial
appropriations.
Reports at the headquarters in the
state capitol indicate that many coun
ties have practically raised their quo
tas and have the subscriptions on tile.
Wherever the project has been present
ed flie public lias quickly taken hold of
it.
“Georgia has never undertaken any
work of such statewide importance as
this, a work which interests city and
town and rural district alike,” says
Governor Dorsey, general chairman of
the Advertise Georgia Enterprise. “The
state must have a greater population of
farmers if she is to regain her old place
as an agricultural state. She has
dropped from fourth to sixth. Georgia
must climb back, and there is no reas
on she cannot attain even a better
position that fourth place.”
“Georgia netsls more farmers to pro
duce more crops; to pay more taxes,
to give the state a bigger income to
carry on its program of better schools
and better roads. Advertising will
bring them —and when once they see
what Georgia an offer, tlicey will stay,
invest in land, and send home for the
neighbors.”
W. J. BRYAN SUGGESTS
CANCELLATION OF WAR
DEBTS BY UNITED STATES
Washington October 13.—World
peace “universal and perpetual" can
be purchased with the ten billions of
dollars the allied governments owe the
United States, W. J. Bryan declared
in an address hrre tonight before tlie
World Brotherhood congress. He sug
gested that cancellation of tlie war
debts would go far toward tlie build
ing iqi of a spirit that would remove
the chief causes uf conflict between
rations.
“Onr nation, * submit,” said Mr.
Bryan, “lias now such an opportunity
to serve the world as no other nation
has had and as this nation never bad
before. The allies owe us nearly ten
billions of dollars and they cannot
pay it. If they did pay it, they would
have to collect from tlieir enemies and
they could not collect this sum in ad
dition to their own demands without
sowing the seeds of a war more bloody
than the one out of which we have just
come.”
TOO MUCH RUT
Tin* fellow who wears a path from
liis work to his home will soon wear
himself out.
These are not the times of a hundred
years ago. when life was more simple
and people had time to think, lodaj
we are going the pace that kills in oui
chase for wealth, a pace that taxis
nature to the limit.
We need more recreation, more re
laxation, more enjoyment free from
the cares of business, for without these
the pep of life will become sapped to
the marrow.
In our haste to accumulate wealth
we have acquired the habit of leaving
community affairs almost entirely to
our elective officials, contenting our
selves with a perfunctory kick when
things do not go to suit us.
We should leave the beaten path
and take some of this responsibility
upon our own shoulders. It would be
good for the community and even bet
ter for us.
FOR SALE
Complete equipment of tools for or
dinary garage consisting of Valve Re
ceder. Valve Refacer, Valve Grinder
and all other necessary tools for the
repairing of automobiles and Fords.
Vices, anvile, etc. Apply to Hubert
Stewart, box 234, Winder, Ga.
A ROVING TIGER
MAKES SAD VISIT
Captain Clark and William Marlow
Capture Walton County Tiger
and Cheek His Illegal Traffic.
Carl Perry, a young mnn who lives
down near the Fifth District Agri
cultural College in Walton county, will
have cause to remember Winder's big
fair in nineteen hundred and twenty.
And Captain Clark, Winder’s mg
policeman, and W. M. Marlow,Sheriff
Camp's occasional deputy, willl always
be outstanding figures to young Perry,
for these officers captured him and
his Ford, together with some six or
seven gallons of bad smelling corn
liquor.
Friday evening, after a peaceful and
jolly, sober week of the fair, these
officers noticed that business along
Tiger Lane was picking up and set
about to locate the source of supply.
Early Saturday morning, about the
time our little leghorn rooster lets our
neighbors know he is keeping tub
on time, these sleuths eased up on a
Ford by the side of the road just lie
low Beil Hill’s store. Crouching in
a gulleyv they waited the return of the
tiger. They did not have long to wait.
The fair gates had closed and the big
crowd bad dispersed and gone home,
and business for the night was over.
Young Perry sought bis ear to bid
the fair a short goodby, unloaded his
bottles into the car, took bis seat at
the steering wheel and was in the act
of touching the crank when he was
ordered to “Hands up and deliver.”
In the car was a keg containing four
or five gollons, and several bottles of
wiskey.
Along with Perry his Ford was taken
into custody. A city and state case
was made against the young man. The
: mayor assessed SIOO against him for
disorderly conduct and bond was given
for his appearance before a Burrow
county jury.
Bond was also given for the car.
Tuesday morning, in the presence of
[this editor, Uncle John Mashburn and
j Mr. f. M. Wallace, Officer Marlow
poured the concoction out and tried
'to burn it. But it was not of the
; burning kind. There was no blue
blaze and the (alitor wus satisfied he
hud missed nothing.
AUTOS CAUSE DEATH EVERY
3! MINUTES IN UNITED STATES
Atlantic City, N. J- October 11
Methods of reducing automobile acci
dents* which it is estimated cause a
death every tliirty-one minutes in the
United States, were dealt with in an
address by 0. M. Talbert, director of
j streets and sewers of St. Isniis, and
chairman of the public safety section
of the National Safety council, at the
opening session here today of tin* Ainei
iean Electric Railway association con
j ventiou.
While accidents from other causes
arc decreasing hrough safety work,
accident prevention in connection with
automobiles has been neglected, he
added.
An aroused public sentiment through
education is the most forceful influence
I which can be brought to hear upon ac
i cident prevention, Mr. Talbert said,
i He declared this work cannot be ac
complished by individual efforts, but
must be performed through a nation
wide organization working In every
j community.
REV. It. E. MOSS CRITICALLY ILL
j Nashville, Tenn..—Editor News:
Please inform the many friends of
j It. E. Moss that bis condition has been
so critical for several weeks that I
could not write them bow much he and
* I appreciated their kind courtesies.
Our physicians have told me they have
little hope of his ultimate recovery. He
has been at death's door for the past
three weeks, and is, still a* helpless as
a babe. A1 tests by specialists have
been favorable to him and yet he con
tinues to show no signs of improve
ment in flesh or strength. The doctors
are puzzed.
If be must go. be leaves bis bless
ings to the people of Winder, and iu*
give him back to God who “Doeth all
things well.” But we Want him with
us and cling to hope, feeling that God
will hear our prayers. We hope against
hope, and ask the people of Winder to
pray with us fer his recovery.
MRS. R. E. MOSS
ms AN EYE-SORE
AND A DISGRACE
Worst of the Center of Town Remind
ers of Jug Tavern Days Should
Give Place to Modem City Hall
The city fathers this week are busy
uprooting all the trees in the busi
ness section of our city preparing for
the paving of streets.
The old seed house, for years ob
noxious to our people long ago gave
way to progress and soon a brick
building is to rise where it stood.
All the disgraces In the shape of
buildings is the old rattletrap known
as the city fire-house.
T'ie trees have been cut down in
froqt of this shack and it is now re
vealed in all its ugliness.
This a nice lot and the city should
Itui. Ia city hall and fire station on
it. We have no city jail; no court
room and no fire quarters.
Fire apparatus is one of our great
est needs. While we believe in paving
streets we also believe in protecting
the interests of those who have put
their money in buildings.
If a mayor wants to go down in his
tory as the mail who rid Winder of
her ugliest site, let him raise to the
ground the old wood slmek and cause
to rise in its stead a handsome brick
City Hall and Fire House with the
jail in the hack.
We have paid enough excess insur
ance on account of this unsightly fire
trap to entitled to what kindling wood
there is left in it.
BARROW DELEGATES
TO MACON DOUBLED
As will lie seen by the minutes of the
meeting of Barrow county Executive
Committee, Mr. R. L. Woodruff, of this
city, is put forward as one of the
Ninth district committeemen.
Barrow county lias never had a mem
ber of the State Committee, and as
this county has been among the most
loyal Watson and Hardwick counties
we are making a hid for the honor at
this time.
At the request of the nominees for
senator and governor, Messrs. Watson
and Hardwick, W. F. Dunimlioo and
L. W. Leslie have been added as dele
gates, and Dr. J. J. Bridges, of Auburn,
mid Henry M. Hill were added ns altcr
nates —in fact, the Barrow county dele
gation to Macon has been doubled.
Credentials have been issued accord
ingly. The delegation will have two
votes oil all propositions coming be
fore the convention and will east tlieir
vote as a unit.
Mr. Woodruff is ifnxious that all
delegates and alternates who possibly
can attend the convention.
THREATS OF VIOLENCE
WILL HINDER RATHER THAN
HELP COTTON MARKET
Washington, October 12. —Federal
prosecution of “night riders” and
others responsible for the burning of
cotton and cotton gins in the south
ern states will lie ordered if an inves
tigation started today discloses vio
lation of any federal laws.
Department of justice agents have
been instructed to investigate and re
port immediately instances where fed
eral laws appear to have been violat
ed.
In most cases, officials believe the
outrages have constituted crimes only
under state laws, but the investiga
tion was ordered when it was indicated
ihert* might have been interference
with shipments in interstate commerce.
A special committee of the conven
tion of agricultural interests in session
here decided tonight to recommend
rhiil the convention adopt a resolution
tomorrow denouncing the work of night
riders and others in cotton states. The
committee resolutions will declare that
the activities of those responsibe for
the burning of cotton and cotton gins
and for threats of violence are calcu
lated to binder rather than help re
habilitation of the cotton market.
DEATH OF A LITTLE BABE
James lahi Wood, the little thirteen
montlis-Old son of Mr. and Mrs. L.
M. Wood, died at the honie of his
parents a few mill's atyjve Winder
Wednesday morning, after an illness
of several weeks.
The funeral and interment occur
pluee at New Pentecost that morning,
Rev. J. H. Mashburn officiating.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY, Oct. 18—Mable Norman in
“The Slim Princess.”
TUESDAY, Oct 19—“Tlie Lost City.”
George Walsh in “The Dead Line.”
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 20—Mary Miles
Mlnter in “Nurse Marjorie.”
HARDING REFUSES
TO COMMIT BOARD
To Any Line of Action But Predicts
Rising Prices in Cotton at
Early Date.
Washington, Oct. 14.—Somethin*
will be done to relieve the present situ
ation In relation to cotton and other
agricultural products. This was ap
parent from remarks made to the agri
cultural convention by Governor Har
ding, of the federal reserve board today.
While Governor Harding made no
promise or statement which could lx*
construed us committing tlie federal
reserve board to any defiuate policy,
the delegates to the convention felt
greatly encouraged by his definite as
sertion that he will issue anew state
ment of policy covering all phases of
the credit situation. This is slated to
be made public Saturday.
LORI) MAYOR’S FAST TRAGEDY
OR FARCE, SAYS LONDON POST
London Oct. 13—Tiring of treating
the MucSwinney case as a “crisis,”
British newspapers have begun to cast
doubt on the lord mayor's fast, some
of them boldly declaring they have
“information” that the prisoner is being
fed.
The Morning Post wants to know
editorially, “whether this is a tragedy
or a farce.” Several papers are in
clined to treat the whole affair humor
ously, one comparing the mayor to
"a certain Japanese dog that died
after a fast of 9N days.”
The Express declared tliat it has
information that McHwiney is taking
fruit juices and wine in spite of denial
by the Irish office that it lias any rea
son to believe he has partaken of a
single bit of ndurishment.
British physicians say that it would
require at least five ounces of fat a
duy to keep a mail alive, even lying
in bed, and argue that even if he lived
on salt and water he would have been
a slmdow long ago.
THE ODD FELLOWS OF
GEORGIA TO BUILD HOME
The Odd Fellows of Georgia are pre
paring to erect an Odd Fellows Home
at Griffin, Ga., to be known as the
Robert T. Daniel Memorial Home. ’Jhey
ilready have deeds to one hundred
acres of good land just outside of the
•ity and will soon begin the erection
)f the building. To raise funds for
is purpose, November Bth lias been
designated and set apart as Odd Fel
lows Orphan Home Day. On this day
■very Odd Fellow of the twenty-five
thousand in Georgia are requested to
contribute at least the proceeds of the
day’s work.
The Odd Fellows now own and op
erate fifty-six institutions of this kind
in the United States. The value of
these homes is about ten million dol
lars in—Money Value. Their value as
a force for good cannot be estimated.
AND THE KU KLI’X WERE
HERE LAST FRIDAY NIGHT
Last Friday night about midnight
the Ku Klux Klan invaded our city
and to many onr people they pre
sented quite an interesting spectac e.
It is not known how many there were
here. Those who saw them have a
different opinion as to the exact num
ber. The more or less excited de
clare there looked to he four thousand
of them, in cars innumerable. Those
to be depended upon—they that more
moderately observed these creatures
of—shall we say providence?—declare
there were at least forty cars. They
squabbled off when they reached this
city and circled in different directions.
Just the extend of their work has not
bet'ii learned, but we dare say that
wherever they appeared there was su
preme quiet therafter and will be for
some time to come. It is said they were
looking out after the fellow or fellows
who are not walking straight as they
should and that they have it in mind
to apprehend and punish all who have
been making threats as to what they
shall do in the matter of burning gin
neries etc. So somebody better be on
their "p’s and q’s.”—Walton News.
Born to Mr. and Mrs. Junius Carring
ton on October 6th. a tine little .girl,
who has been given the name of Kath
rine. This is the stork’s second visit
in seven years. Mother and baby are
reported as doing nicely.
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