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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1920.
Elir Htniirr Nnus
WINDER, CIA.
Published Every Thursday by
WINDER .NEWS lM'liLlb ilIN<5 ( tMI'AN'V
Entered at the P'>st(ifilee at Winder, (ia.,
iis Second (/luss Mutter.
It. o. ROSS Editor
It. O. ROSS, Jit., Business Manager
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Tlie safest way to get rich <)■ iek is to
marry it.
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‘•The way of the transgressor is hard"—
hut no harder than he makes it himself .
• O .
We, however, never laugh at some people’s
jokes. But that is not our fault.
—o
Summer furs, however, can he worn right
on through the winter with less discomfort.
O
A friendly dog wags .his tail, but a man
is not necessarily a friend l>eenuse lie wags
his tongue.
O
A render wants to know how long a con
gressman serves his constituents. Some of
them don't.
O
The disappointed candidate who failed to
get under the wire should not worry. He
hus escaped a pile of future abuse.
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Just why they call the “soap I>x orators”
we don’t know. Most of them seldom use
It.
No, we liuve no humor to dispense on the
subject of high prices this week. It evapo
rates every time we pay a hill.
O
An old man with a young wife Is often
like a child with a toy balloon. He’s happy
until it blows away.
O
Where’s the bird who was around pre
dicting an early winter? We want to con
gratulate him on what he doesn't know.
O
The fellow who never reads the ails in
Ids local paper is like the blind man who
walks over a dollar, lie never knows what
lie misses. . 9 v. <
O
If we could only look ahead and see the
trials and tribulations in store for us we
might he able to shut them off onto the
other fellow.
O
Some people are never aide to see the
beam in their own eyes. But that probably
is due to the fact that it is so large it ob
scures the sight.
It's no trouble at all to earn a hundred
per cent on an investment, in this town. Just
bite off a subscription to this sheet and the
deed is done.
O
Occasionally we hear some pilgrim re
mark that he always believes in taking a
second sober thought. 11 is lirst ones, no
doubt, are woozy.
O
The league of nations is, or it isn’t, just
as you look at it. Hut to those of us who
have been reading the pros and cons it seems
to be both.
O
One way to get the laws of this country
universally enforced is to go after the offi
cials who fail to enforce them. Public office
holders will continue to lallypop as long
as their constituents sot the example.
O
Andrew Carnagie tried desperately hard
to give away his great wealth and die a poor
man, and lie almost succeeded. Ills estate
lias been recently appraised and is valued
at the insignificant suui of $23,000,000.
O
Foreign diplomats accredited to this coun
try are warmly welcomed and soon find
themselves possessed of hordes of friends.
It has been officially ruled that booze shipped
to them from abroad is not subject, to seizure.
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A squib writer, probably speaking from
experience, remarks that some people marry
for love and remain married for spite. And
some, we might add, hitch up for money and
unhitch as soon as they get it.
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THE EXPECTED HAS HAPPENED
The Republicans on Tuesday swept Amer
ica from New York to California.
To one who has lieen watching the trend
of things politically, the only surprise lies
in tlie bigness of the political sweep.
The reason is not hard to find —Winson
and Wilsonism—autocratic power indulged
In by those the people have commissioned to
rule for the time being.
The Solid South las been broken. That,
too. may be for tv * best. All the South
has done for fifty —■•is to furnish votes
and contribute to the democratic fund.
We were born a democrat, and will re
main a democrat s ■ long as the white Ke
publican hugs the 1. jro to his political
bosom.
The South will prosp?i\ it matters not who
its in the white house.
LOOKING AHEAD
We are not going to have a panic in this
country. We believe that all,-da tiger of
suc-h lias -passed.
But we will in all probability soon have
a period of business depression. That is to
be expected.
ii ndue u s can not afford to continue pay
ing the high wages they are now paying
without prices up .and that they can not
afford to do, because the public is refusing
to buy.
Now the result.
The employing class (capitalists, if you
care to term them such) are curtailing pro
duction and are laying off men in large num
bers. They will continue to do so until pro
duct ion is at a minimum. In some cases
mills may close down entirely. Tills action
will gradually extend to all parts of the
country and into all lines of industry.
The millions of employees who are I Bus
thrown out of work can not afford to remain
idle for any great length of time. They
and their families must eat.
In time necessity will force them back
into the shops at reduced wages, and pro
duction will start up again, with a reasonable
profit for the producer and a considerable
reduction in price to the consumer. The
laboring man will he no worse off in the end,
because his living expenses will be reduced
in proportion to the reduction in his wages.
Two material facts stand out above every
thing else. •
First, the public will not long continue to
buy at present prices, except actual neces
sities.
Second, prices can not be reduced to any
great extent until the cost of labor comes
down.
We may never return to a pre-war basis,
but the above will be the method adopted
by the capitalists to return production to
something like normal conditions.
We may he wrong in our predictions, but
fids is as we see it, based upon existing
conditions.
THOS. E. WATSON
Recently in a strong editorial Hearst’s
Atlanta Georgian playing a glowing tribute
to Tlios. E. Watson, senator-elect from Geor
gia, and pledged him support in his high
office.
The Influence of Ilenrst, and the experience
and wisdom of Watson will mean much for
(lie grand old Empire State in the future.
Asa loyal*<>eorgian we take absolutely
no stock in the idea that tlie state is hurt
in the election of Mr. Watson. In fact, he
is jyi able man, viewed from any standpoint,
and his selection is a wonderful improvement
over the sad political season, senatorially
Hpcuking, of 11*18.
These years Watson has wielded a tren
chant pen; has championed the cause of de
moracy; has encouraged the struggling; has
written wisely and helpfully, and aided
many of our young men by Ills counsel and
gifts to individual and institutions.
We have read his writings these years
and nowhere in all the realm of classical
literature do you find finer phraseology than
the Sage of Thomson uses.
As an example, his Macon speech contains
these words; "1 hear no ill will to any voter
who casts his ballot against me, because
he honestly believed that Ids position was
correct and that mine was wrong. It would
he a pity, indeed, if no flower-bearing vines
of personal friendship could ever climb and
cross the wall of social, religious and politi
cal difficulties. You will remember tlie words
of the ancient Greek boatman, suddenly
caught at sea in tlie storm. While the
terrible waves were threatening to engulf
him, he cried out to his god of the seas—
‘Saturn, you can sink me if you will; you
can save me if you will, but whether you
sink me or save me, I will hold my rudder
true.’
"In like spirit I can appeal to my God of
the storms of life's fearful sea : Almighty,
you can sink me if it is your will; you can
preserve mo if you will, but so long as 1
am in tlie life boat, I will hold my rudder
true.”
This philosophy of life is a worthy one.
In it the (ioil of all the earth is recognized.
In it there is the promise so far as human
ability is concerned to hold true to the high
est and noblest ideals.
And after all prejudice and passion has
been thrust' aside, and reason, calm and
dispassionate, has been enthroned, we must
all admit that Georgia’s son)tor. is inte
leetually in the class of Toombs and Stephens,
and will give us a record in the senate that
will mean much for the state and her citi
zens in the future.
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HENRY GRADY SAID IT
When every farmer in the south shall eat
bread from his own fields and meat from
his own pastures and disturbed by no debt,
shall sit amid his own teeming gardens and
orchards and vineyards and dairies, and
barn yard, pitching his crops to his own
wisdom and growing them independence,
making cotton his clean surplus, and selling
it in his own time, and in his chosen mar
ket, and not at a master’s bidding—getting
his pay in cash and not in a receipt mortgage
that discharges his debt, but does not re
store his freedom —then shall be breaking
the fullness of our day.—Henry W. Grady
(I.SBS).
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Sweden, Norway and Denmark want the
powers composing the league of nations to
llsariu. They will—when their present arms
are worn out uud there are no others to be
purchased.
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* AS THE EDITOR SEES IT ,*
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We are all ready to criticise a young girl
if who become# wild, or giddy, or indiscrete.
ft.it wouldn't it lie oven better to look be
neath the surface, and consider the actions
of the pat ’ids who allow iter tf* travel the
dangerous path ill the days of her child
hood ?
Perhaps you have noticed the newspaper
accounts of the number of young girls who
are reported missing in th ■ .big cities. In
one big citl alone it averages tw'o thousand
a year.
.Many of these girls have drifted in from
the country towns and farms In order to
better their conditions, and have fallen an
easy prey to the vultures who are lying in
wait for them. ,
.Most of these disappearances are the re-'
suit of the girl's taking up with strange
men on the streets, or in the parks, or the
cafes.
But the girls are not always to blame
entirely for allowing themselves to be led
astray. Often they are the victims of neg
lect on the part of their parents during the
formative period of their characters.
A hen never neglects its little chicks' until
they are able to care for themselves.
But some parents are not so careful or
considerate as the mother hen.
They allow their girls to begin running
wild while yet in their tender years. This
spirit of wildness, ignored in infancy, grows
with time until it reaches the point where
it is beyond controL
And then the “port of missing girls.”
Not all parents neglect the proper train
ing of their children, of course, but too
many for the public weal.
Extension and development of the parcels
post would be an excellent thing for this
country. It would lie potent factor in elimi
nation of gambling and juggling in the ne
cessities of life It would reduce the number
of middle men who are fattening at tlie
expense of the consumer.
These middle men and gamblers who jug
gle tlie products before they reach the re
tailer or consumer are responsible for mucli
of the skyroebeting which has cursed this
country of late years. There is no end to
their rapacity.
With a practical extension of the parcels
post tlie retailer and' the consumer could
order the bulk of his supplies direct from
the manufacturer or the farm.
Manufacturers and farmers could sell their
products us easily through newspaper and
magazine advertising as they do now through
the present method of sending hordes of
salesmten throughout the country at enor
mous expense, all of which is eventually
paid by the consumer.
Some (lay we will have a parcels pose
that we can use as we should. Hut in the
meantime we will continue to blunder
along and feed a horde of parasites who have
fastened themselves upon us.
We Americans are great on “paying tlie
freight.”
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You call do it! Very few things are im
possible of accomplshment in this world of
modern men.
“I Can’t” is an expression which is used
about a thousand times where it should be
used but once. A man thinks lie can’t do
a tiling simply because lie is too lazy or
indifferent to exert tlie necessary energy.
If lie would bring his will power and his
energy and perseverance into play he would
And that accomplishing difficult tilings is but
one of the many incidents of a day.
“Can’t!”
He would laugh at the word as the refuge
0 f weaklings and the father of ncompeteney.
“I Will!”
And you bet lie would.
Go to it.
PROVIDENCE TO THE RESCUE
All over this country there has been wail
ing and lamenting over tlie scarcity of coal,
and over the fact that in many places there
is no coal to he had—above ground.
Coal barons have been rubbing their hands
in gh-e at tlie prospect of exorbitant pro
fits when the pinch of winter drives des
perate householders to pay any price to pre
vent freezing to death.
Newspapers for mouths have been full of
detailed accounts of juggling and profiteer
ing in coal. Facts were laid bare in tlie
hope that public prosecutors would punish
the offenders.
Prosecutors, jarred into the open by the
exposures, talked largely, vowed (lire punish
ments. and did practically nothing, except
to pinch an occasional “small fry.
It began to look as if millions would have
to be gouged or let their families freeze,
for there is coal in abundance under ground.
The situation was desperate.
Then anew element entered —one which
reckons not of politicians, or craven prose
cutors, or profiteering or graft.
That element was Providence.
Winter was pushed back. Summer was
pushed forward. The warm rays of the sun
enveloped the earth at a time when icy
blasts should be blowing and furnace fires
should be roaring.
God, who created man. came to the rescue
when man demonstrated his impotency to
handle the situation.
But God is not a politician.
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Now that the people have spoken their
minds politically, let’s hope they get down
to work commercially. We need action—
not oratory.
THE WINDER NEWS
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Woodruff Hardware Cos.
Winder, Georgia.
Fords orv
“TRADE MARK *
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accomplish—we say, in all such tests the Fordson has stood head and
shoulders above all competing Tractors. And this is best proven in the
fact that while there are about three hundred thousand farm Tractors
in use in the United States today, and while Tractors have been sold to
farmers for twenty years, and while the Fardson Tractor lias only been
on the market two years, more than one-third of all the Tractors in use
in the United States are Fordson Tractors.
Now you can’t upset a fact. You can’t hack away from an establish
ed truth, and there it is—out of three hundred thousand Tractors, one
hundred thousand are Fordsons, and there are probably some fifty diff
erent makes of Tractors on-the market. Just let your common sense
consider these facts. “Figs are not plucked from thistle hushes, nor
plumbs from thorn trees.”
The Fordson Tractor has the necessary pmver. It is economical
iu operation. It is flexible in control and operation. It is simple in
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