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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1920.
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WINDER, GA.
Published Every Thursday by
WINDER NEWS PUBLISHING COMPANY
Entered at the Fostofflce at Winder, Georgia,
as Second Class Matter.
R. O. ROSS - -Editor
R. O. ROSS, JR., Business Manager
Subscription Rates: In Advance
One Year $1.50
Six Months 75
Reverses are depressing only to those who
give in to them.
If you can't keep the pace don’t try to
trip the other fellow.
O
Many tongues wag Incessantly. A few say
something.
O
A little sunshine dispels the darkest spots
of life. But it seldom passes u closed door.
O
Happiness comes to those who seek it,
but trouble ereejm unawares.
O •
Avoid the paw that kills. It is a sure
foruj of suicide on the installment pin i.
O
There's still one good feature left ill foot
ball. It’s good for the lungs.
O
A kind word to some people elicits only a
grunt in response. But the pig is never
jealous of its Imitators.
O
Letters to the editor are always welcome —
doubly so when accompuined by a check.
Write often.
0
“Is the dead past ever really dead?" in
quires an exchange. We don’t know. Ours
lias always been painfully alive.
O
Any one can readily secure the comforts
of home. It only requires the slight for
mality of paying for them.
O
If you And a button oft’ your coat be
gallant and tell your wife when she is busy.
It will afford her an excuse for forgetting.
O
Many a man can see a wart on a nt*ck in
the pew ahead of him when he can't see the
collection plate as it passes In front of him.
O
The wise man seldom falls to recognize
the truth, but only a fool blurts It out at
all times.
O
Many a man makes ad. f. of himself
when trying to be smart, but only the other
fellow knows it.
There’s always a weak spot in evpry lie
that is told, and that’s why we know they
are lies.
O
We always wish our friends a merry
Christmas iu time to get a few in return
before it is too late. Here’s yours.
O
Our office devil says he received a pain
ful Impression the other day. He sat on
the business end of a tuck.
O
When a wife wears the family pants she
is at least considerate in one respect. She
doesn't parade them before the public.
O
Woman came into politics with a whoop,
but let's hope she doesn't go out with a
scream.
O
Newspaper dispatches tell us that “coal
Is in sight.’’ But that's a devil of a long
ways from being iu tlie furnace.
O
When we mortals reach the jumping off
point of life we immediately decide that it
is not time to jump.
O
Some men are so pure of mind and heart
they can find nothing to talk about but the
faults of others.
O
Of course dead men tell no tales. Live
ones need no aid from the dead in this
pleasing occupation.
O
The laws of this country were made to be
inforoed against everyone but you. But don't
mention it. We knew you would agree with
us.
O
Soon. now. the pre-election agony will be
over. But then, begosh, comes the rejoicing
and the weeping. We just can't get from
under.
O
We often wonder what will really happen
when the world comes to an end, hut we
are so averse to being fussed up that we
have decided not to await the outcome.
O
“Lucky is the woman who can tell a lie
when she hears it,” says an exchange. But
some don't wait to hear it, and neither do
some men.
O
If this internal warfare over the merits
and demerits of the league of nations doesn’t
subside soon we fear it will eclipse even
the oa !*:* *<’• •*“ Nr/e runner
revelations. And that would be "some
eclipse.”
WELCOME W. C. T. L.
Winder is this week host to the W. (’.
T. U. Convention of Georgia, one of the
leading organizations in tin* country engaged
in the temperance crusade.
We have never had a liner or more loyal
body of delegates in our midst.
Our heartiest and most cordial welcome
is extended to each messenger present. May
your stay in our city bring to you the same
unbounded Joy that your hosts ami hostesses
have on account of your presence.
Anew era confronts the womanhood of
the country; the government has made them
“Fellow' Citizens” with the men, and the
power of the ballot In their hands will be
used as a mighty factor for good or for
evil.
The bad element will see to It that Influ
ence will be brought to beur to bring out
their forces. It awaits to lie seen if the
good will rally to the use of the potential
bit of whiteness that differentiates the citi
zen from the serf.
Law enforcement just now is engaging the
best attention of the master minds of the
age. Far-sighted statesmen are thinking
seriously through big problems.
The trouble with the world today is in
difference. The age is suffering termeudous
ly from the bad citizenship of good citizen.
The country needs a general clean-up.
Welcome to the task, members of the W.
C. T. U. The job is big enough to engage
ttie iH-st there is in both manhood and woman
hood.
The- News inis always stood for the best
there is In life for all. It is a delight for
us to throw open our columns, our schools,
our churches and our homes to Georgia’s
elect ladies, and with true Pauline phrase
ology we assure our guests that all Winder
can do to help “those women” now in our
midst will be gladly and willingly done.
Welcome, thrice welcome to Winder, and
come again; the doors of our city are always
open to the best.
FACING CONDITIONS WITH A SMILE
Tim most causal observer cannot fail to
admire the pluck and grit being displayed
by the city of Wind r and her citizenship
in these crucial times of fast declining prices.
For the past month the bloated bears have
liet'ii pressing cotton, the south’s money crop
down, down, down, and all the while Win
der's cotton buyers have been taking the
small amount of cotton that the farmers
were forced to sell at points-on prices.
The merchants have conceded that it is
their day to lose and have thrown their
stocks of goods on the bargain counter at
below cost prices. One prominent merchant
has openly stated that lie will give any man
$35,000.00 to assume the losses on his stock,
and yet he is meeting his customers with a
happy smile and suys: “Come oil, boys, and
take these high-priced goods off of our hands
that we may shape ourselves for the new
order of things.” Others have either set
the pace or followed suit, and the blue pen
cil lias gone through entire mercantile Win
der to keep our affairs abreast with the
steady trend toward normal conditions.
Winder refuses to take any part in the
attempted spread of gloom throughout the
glorious southland on account of the inevita
ble decline in the price of cotton. It is an
infallible rule of nature established by an
nllwise God that things which go up must
come down. If it were not so, when our
penciles slip from our fingers they would
go up, and we would see them no more.
We are taking this old world as she comes
and making the best of a mighty good place
in which to live.
Even now, while pessimism is abroad in
the land, Winder is alert, energetic and
aetve. Should you get blue, come and see
our merchants and “bring all your family.”
They will enjoy watching the laborers load
the big mixer to spread cement on our streets
and the cranes and derricks placing the
marble columns on Barrow county's new
courthouse. Come and stand with us while
we view the bright silvery lining to the dark
cloud that has shadowed old Georgia—Bull.
MAKING OR BREAKING
Bringing up children is a problem to all
parents.
The character of the child if moulded
principally in its younger years, and it sel
dom leaves the pathway it lias been trodding
in those days.
It is niude or broken by its parents.
Some parents are kind to their children,
but firm, insistent upon implicite obidence.
The world is full of such children, now grown
to manhood, and they are dominating the
really inportaut affairs of the world.
Other parents are weak and vacillating.
They coax, wheedle, storm, rave and threaten
—but never punish. They are uot obeyed,
and are often defied. The world is also
peopled with these children, now meu. Much
of the peopling is within the four walls of
a jail or a penitentiary.
It is a problem Indeed, but one which
many parents fail to solve until too lute.
The children do it for them—iu their own
way.
O
A MESSAGE FOR YOl
It won't do you a bit of harm to look at
the goods advertised iu this paper.
Merchants can not afford to pay printing
bills iu order to advertise something that
won't “stack lip” ou inspection. That Is
uot the way home.
Every ad in this paper contains information
of vobie to some person. Perhaps you are
person—but you can’t tell without read
ing the ads.
THE WINDER NEWS
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* AS THE EDITOR SEES IT •
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Ten cents worth of oil will often prevent
tern dollars worth of rust. Yet maay ex
cellent people fall to give this fact even a
passing thought.
Take a tour over this town.
You will find garden tools that have been
discarded for the summer standing around
in corners exposed to the whether. Lawn
mowers will lie resting on the grass in the
morning dew or after rain. Hatchets, ham
mers—even saws —may be found out of
doors. Wheelbarrows, carts and other arti
cles are the same.
Use ten cents worth of oil on them and put
them under cover and they will be in prime
condition for use when required. But leave
them to the mercy of rust and the elements
and soon they will become junk instead of
tools.
Drive out onto the farms, and in many
cases the same conditions will confront you.
Wagons, buggies, farm machinery—much
of it deligate in mechanism and expensive
in cost—is standing out in tlie yards or fields
while sheds are empty.
Every day the parts are becoming weaker
by the rapid accumulation of rust—going
to decay through thoughtlessness and neg
lect.
Only a little oil and a little care.
But !
Each one in this town should have an
intimate acquaintance with the requirements
and possibilities of this community.
It is only through such means that we
are enabled to take proper advantage of the
opportunities that present themselves for
condnunity betterment.
Such an interest on the part of the popu
lace does not end with community improve
ment. There is a personal equasion which
is of vast importance.
It deflects our minds from our private
business affairs, gives them food for thought
and development, affords us a broader per
spective of life and its conditions, and
strengthens us for the battles of the years
that are before us.
It is a good thing in all ways.
Hop to it!
How many of you have children in school?
How many of you can tell off hand what
grades your children are in?
How many of you know the books your
children are studying, the size of the lessons
the teacher assigns, or the progress the lit
tle ones are making?
How many of you take time occasionally
to run over the lessons with your children?
How many of you think to commend them
for the interest they are taking and for the
advancement they have made?
There was a time when you were young—
when you worried your juvenile brain over
problems which seemed mountains then, but
are so simple now.
Commendation and; encouragement were
sweet to you then.
They are just as precious to your children
now.
Do they receive them?
O
TELL IT TO THE EDITOR
Every newspaper editor Is desirous of
printing all of the legitimate news of Ms
subscription field. That is the object of his
paper.
But unfortunately au editor is partly hu
man—he ut least is moulded in human form.
He does not posses a dozeu pair of hands,
or legs, or eyes, or ears for the collection
of this vast fund of information.
That is why the editor urges you to tell
him wlmt you know —to keep him informed
of the doings of yourself and family, of your
friends, or of tha community in general.
It is the only way to make a good paper—
and a good paper is one of the prime re
quisites in a good community in which to
live and do business.
Tell it to the editor.
He’ll tell others —if it is tellable.
O
“LET THE WOMEN DO IT”
In this country there are large numbers
of men who are too lazy, or indifferent, or
too greedy in the accumulation of wealth
to go to the polls and vote —to pay the debt
they owe to their country.
They think they are good citizens, but
many other people think they are not.
Women have always forged to the front
in all good work, and unquestionably they
will take up their newly acquired burdens
of citizenship as rapidly as they can adjust
themselves to their new station in political
life.
Will they lead in the voting of the future?
Will they put the stay-at-home man to
shame?
We have faith in the willingness of all
good women to do that which is for the
best.
Women are not sliirakers.
Women are not shrinkers.
Men sometimes are.
O
Taik less and say more, and the world will
understand jou better.
O
A Chicago school teacher gave up Ms job
and opened up a beauty shop. He remarked,
in substance, that in these days the men
who dispenses knowledge has nothing before
him but the poor house, while wealth and
fame awuits the fellow who can hang artifi
cial beauty onto an ugly mug.
FIRE, ■ FIRE,
FIRE!
No, there isn’t any fire. Just some
calamity howlers, like the man who hol
lers wolf, shakes a bush, gives two or
three wolfish yelps and starts to running
and howling. Half the people hear the
howl and run to see “what-sa-madder.”
Just liKe school children following a cir
cus band-wagon.
The country’s safe. No use croak
ing. We’ll all get some eats most every
day. Thanksgiving, Christmas, New
Year and Easter will all come in regular
order.
We will also elect a president of the
U. S. A. soon, likewise a mayor and city
council and some minor officers, such as
congressmen and senators, all of which
things will tend to get the scare out of
the people’s mind.
Meantime we have some valuable
merchandise on hand that we are ready
to sell NOW, notwithstanding the howl
ings.
If you have to buy any building
material or farmers’ hardware, we will
make you attractive prices.
We have not any sugar, but our
prices are in line with that commodity.
Our line of WAGONS are the best
Prices CHEAPER.
Winter is coming, fuel is scarce. Bet
ter buy a heating stove, less expense and
more heat We have a good line.
In fact, we have lots of things need*
ed around the house.
Come to See Us. WVII Make
CORRECT PRICES
Williams-
Thompson
Company
PHONE 88
Candler St. Winder, Ga.
SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 A YEAR.