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,j£HE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
THURSDAY, Nov. 11—Constance Tul
niadge in “Lufflngswell’s Boots.”
FRIDAY, Nov. 12—Charles Ray in
“Bill Henry.”
SATURDAY, Nov. 13—“ Vanishing Dag
* ger.” "Moon Riders.” Comedy.
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VOL, XXVII.
LOBBYISTS RILE
GEORGIA SOLONS
States Municipal League Publication.
Tells Of Influence of Money,
Liquor and Women on State
Legislation.
Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 10.—Charges that
the votes of certain members of the
house and the senate of the Georgia
legislature have been controlled by a
group of'bosses, with headquarters in
the “throneroom” of an Atlanta hotel,
through the instrumentality of liquor,
money and women, are made in the
latest issue of the Municipal League
Bulletin, which is edited by Marion
Jackson, of Atlanta. It is admitted
in the bulletin that these allegations
are made on hearsay evdence, but Mi.
Jackson states that the league is moral
ly convinced of their truth.
Tire publication is the official organ
of t'.e Municipal League of Georgia,
which has for its primary purpose the
absorption of public utilities by the
state, and is reliaby reputed to lie fi
nanced by John J. Egan, of Atlanta.
The article in the second issue of
The Bulletin is under the caption, “The
Working Lobby at the Capitol—Those
Who Rule in Georgia.” It affords a
graphic description of the clique which,
charged, controls all legislation from
a room in one of the local hotels, ex
plaining the methods used as embrac
ing moral corruption in every conceiv
able form.
LOOKING FOR LOCATION
TO INSTALL A BAKERY
Mr. J. H. Moore, of this city, is
lotting for a desirable location to in
stall an up-to-date bakery.
I'hare is no reason why a first-class
bakery should not find a fertile field
in Winder. Good bread is the staff of
life, and there is no reason why that
kind of bread cannot be baked in Win
der. Sink or swim, Mr. Moore is going
to launch the enterprise, and we urge
all Winder to boost him by giving gen
erous patronage to a home industry.
A WOMAN’S CU B
Every woman in Winder who is in
terested in the organization of a Wo
man’s Club is invited to be at the school
building on Monday afternoon at 3 :30
o’clock.
Ths club is for the public welfare
of Winder, and is to he neither social,
sectarian or political. Mrs. Parker,
of Athens, will address the women
present on the subject of club work.
♦'me to the meeting whether you
expect to join or not.
BUICK AUTO SERVICE
Mr. Guy P. Jackson has established
a Buick Auto Service. His headquar
ters are at the Motor Inn Filling Sta
tion and he can he reached day or
night. He uses new cars and can
carry you to your destination in ease
and comfort. See advertisement in
this issue.
SACRED HARP SINGING
Lovers of the old-fashioned vocal
music are cordially invited to meet at
the Christian church in Winder next
Sunday afternoon for an old-fashioned
singing.
The Sacred Harp book will be used,
and both old and young are urged to
cot”-? out and enjoy the sweet songs
of Zion.
Singi*>g logins at 2 o’clock Eastern
time.
AUTO CLEANING CLUB
Mr. Hubert Stewart is organizing: an
Auto Cleaning Club— that is be offers
to care for the cars owned by tlie club
members at reasonable rates. Be sure
to read his notice to the public in
this issue.
WARNING!
I wish to warn all hunters that I
have nothing else to do these pretty
cays but to issue county and state
license. I don’t want to cause you
trouble, but the law calls for a license
and if you don’t see me and get your
credentials, toe the mark like a man
when you are hauled up before the
proper officer. You can see me over
Eberhart’s Store.
J. W. SIMS, C. -G. W.
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MAY ALLISON
Will Be Seen Monday at the Strand
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“CHEATERS”
MINORITY HAS POOR
PROSPECT IN NEW HOUSE
Washington.—With Champ Clark de
feated the leadership of the Democrat
is House minority will fall to Claude
Kitchen of North Carolina, if his health
will permit him to serve, Democratic
members say.
Mr. Kitchin was Democratic leader
in the Sixty-Fifth Congress and is
conceded the ablest debater and par
liamentarian left to the Democratic
party. While delivering a speech dur
ing the last session of the House, how
ever, he suffered a stroke of paralysis.
If he has not sufficiently recovered
the Democratic leadership will fall to
Representive John Garner of Texas.
Garner has led several skirmishes
in the House and has proved to be an
excellent organizer and strategist. The
situation calls for a leader of more
than exceptional ability, it is pointed
out, if the Democrats are not to be
entirely “lost in the shuffle.”
Practically complete returns show
the Republicans will have a member
ship of 21)3, or a majority of 166 in
the House. This means the Republi
cans will have a quorum even if every
Democratic member should absent, him
self from the floor. Thus the Demo
crats will be unable to fall back on
what has always been one of the effec
tive weapons jof a minority—a fili
buster by absenteeism.
With only 13S members to serve on
63 committees. Democratic represen
tatives will have the thorniest path
to travel that ever has confronted a
minority party in the House.
It has been customary for members
of important committees to have no
further assignment. Ordinarily .they
have no time for other work. In the
present House, v the important Ways
and Means Committee is composed of
fifteen Republicans and ten Democrats';
Appropriations. Banking and Currency,
Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, Naval Af
fairs and Military Affairs, thirteen
Republicans and eight Democrats and
the smaller committees practically in
the same ratio.
To obtain anything like efficient rep
resentation on any of these vital com
mittees the Democrats will be compell
ed to double up to such an extent it
Will tax both their industry and inge
nuity, even f it does not render them
impotent.
ARMISTICE DAY CELEBRATION
A celebration of Armistice Day will
be held at the Presbyterian church
Thursday evening, November 11, at
7:30. Be sure and come so you may
enjoy this entertaining and appropriate
program by the Pa rent-Teachers Club.
Every patriotic citizen is urged to be
present. The American Legion and
others were members of our army dur
ing the great war and the Boy Scouts
ar e especially wanted. Don t forget
the Fair to be held at the school house
November 10th. The Parent-Teacher s
Club is planing to have this occasion
“a jolly good time” for all who attend.
There will be plenty to cat and plenty
to do to amuse you for an evening.
Come and help us and well as have a
good time.
DEATH OF MR. SAM MARTIN
On last Saturday at his home in
Fayetteville, Ga., occured the death
of Mr. Sam Martin. The funeral and
interment took place on Sunday, that
day being Mr. Martin’s seventh-fifth
birthday. He was the father of Mrs.
Ed Herrin of this city, and her many
friends deeply sympathize with her in
her loss.
WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY NOVEMBER 11, 1920.
CURRENT NEWS
THE WORLD OVER
The North QeoYgia Conference of
the Methodist church is in session this
week in Atlanta.
Bulgraia has requested membership
in the League of Nations, and her ap
plication has been filed.
Twelve thousand men, members of
the building trades in Baltimore, at
a recent meeting declined an increase
in wages. This is a good sign that
prices are on the down grade.
President Wilson lias directed Secre
tary Colby, of the state department,
to visit Brazil and Uruguay as his
personal representative. Secretary
Colby will use the battleship Florida
on liis trip.
The duchess of Marlborough, for
merly Miss Consuelo Vanderbilt, lias
at last gotten rid of her cockeyed,
stoop-shouldered, faithless duke. Tues
day she was awarded a decree of di
vorce.
Captain Emmett Kilpatrick, represen
tative of the American Red Cross in
South Russia, and two nurses' were
brutally billed during a bolslieviki
cavalry raid on Solkova station, say..
a Sabastopol dispatch to Reuter’s
Limited.
Egbert E. Gales, traveling salesman
for a Chicago house, took the booze
gasoline route to eternity in Atlanta
Tuesday morning about 3 o'clock when
the automobile in which he was jolly
ing ran into a telephone pole.
While talking to her former fiancee,
Miss Theodora Saunders, of Loredo,
Texas, suddenly drew and plunged a
Mexican dagger through her heart and
sank mortally wounded to the messa
dine floor of a Chicago hotel. She
died on the way to a hospital.
Nearly 9,000 bodies of American
soldiers who died or were killed in
France during the war have been shipp
ed to the United States and turned
over to their nearest 'relatives, and
1,800 more await shipment at French
ports.
When the South Georgia Methodist
Conference convenes this year in Moul
trie, J. P. McFerrin, 80 years old, will
ask to be superanuated. He has preach
ed 53 years, attended 220 quarterly
conferences and has preached in the
neighborhood of 8,000 sermons.
CENTRAL CHURCH, ATHENS
On Sunday, October 10, this church
celebrated its tenth anniversary, and
also at the same time the tents an
niversary of the pastorate of Rev.
Samuel J. Cartledge. It was a most
happy and helpful occasion in every
particular. Seven new members were
received, representing three new fam
ilies. In the ten years of its existence
it has a net increase in membership
of 758 per cent, or an average net in
crease of 75 and 4-5 per year. It is
thoroughly organized in every depart
ment. All its services are well attend
ed, and the spirit of brotherly love
and good fellowship is very marked.
At this anniversary occasion the pas
tor's salary was increased from $3,000
to $4,000 per annum.
AN APPEAL TO FRIENDS.
'To my Freuds and Patrons:
The time of the year has arrived
when my bills are pressing and I must
have money to meet my obligations.
Because of the low price of cotton I
have hesitated to call on you, but I
must have money, and I appeal to each
'one indebted to me to make an effort
at once to pay their account, If you
cannot pay all, pay part IV hen jou
called on me, I cheerfully responded.
Now treat me as I treated you.
Respectfully,
S. T. ROSS, M. D.
REAL ESTATE DEAL
Mr. W. H. Quarterman has purchas
ed from Mr. John Perry the Perry-
Daniel home on Candler street. This
is one of the largest real estate deals
pulled off in Winder since the tighten
ing up of money. It is said the con
sideraton was around fifteen thiousand
dollars.
Mr. Ernest Sims, son of Mr. and
Mrs. J. W. Sims, is home again after
four years’ service in the Marines.
Mrs. Custer Ross and two little
daughters were guests of relatives in
Atlanta the first of the week.
DON’T
EVER
MARRY
BIG VICTORY WON
BY HIGHWAY BOAR!)
After a fight in the state legislature
which was. the center of interest for
several weeks and finally ended in the
house appropriations committee refus
ing to make the Knight resolution for
county distribution based on post road
mileage conform with the repealed sec
tion of the motor vehicle act of last
year, and reporting it back to tlie
house unfavorable, another chapter in
the cast was written Monday when
Judge Andrew J. Cobb, of the Clark
superior court, denied the mandamus
petition filed by the county of Butts,
et al. against the state highway board
and dismissed the mandamus nisi.
In addition to this decision, Judge
Cobb cited the conflict in the plan of
distribution by the state highway
board of funds arising from the law
as approved August 18, 1919, one pro
viding for distribution of funds on a
plan of post roads mileage, and the
other under congressional road district.
The ruling of the judge, after citing
tliis conflict, in the two laws, leaves
the matter in the highway board's
hands so that the funds shall be dis
tributed under the plan of distribution
as set forth in the highway law with
out reference to the plan under the
motor vehicle law.
This ruling by Judge Cobb is de
scribed as a distinct victory for the
highway board and removes one of
the last obstacles in its program of
ipad construction. The organization
now has the roads of the state divided
into twelve congressional districts,
with a district engineer directing high
way construction work in each
Working on this basis the board is
defraying the expenses of its program
with funds obtained under the motor
vehicle tax law. —Atlanta Constitution.
A WORD OF APPRECLATION
I wish to express my sincere appre
ciation to the men and women of Win
der who cast their ballot for me in
the recent primary. 1 shall endeavor
to merit your confidence. If I should
err in my official duties, I beg to as
sure you it will be an error of the
head and not of the heart. I thank
you. Respectfully,
W. E. AUTRY.
JOKES BY JURY
One of the most brutal, premediated
murders ever committed in this coun
try occurred in Chicago.
Carl Wanderer, a former army officer
shot to death his wife and their un
born child and a “poor boob” who had
been hired by the murderer to stage
a fake holdup.
A jury of men, supposedly sane, fixed
his punishment at twenty-five years
in the penitentiary. Good behavior
will reduce it to fourteen years.
Decent people the country over have
been both amuzed and disgusted at
this verdict.
It is becoming so increasingly dif
ficult to mete out justice through the
medium of men juries that courts and
prosecutors are beginning to consider
calling in the women for jury service.
It is painfully evident that their
sense of honor, right and justice is
far superior to that of modern man.
A jury of women might hesitate at
the death penalty, hut they at least
would have given this human monster
a life sentence In the penitentiary.
The correction of these nauseating
womanhood of our country,
jokes by jury appear to he up to the
CARD OF THANKS
We, the committee, wish to thank
each person for making it possible for
us to furnish a room for Bro. and Mrs.
Mashburn in their new home to be
called the Winder Room.
MRS. H. P. QULLIAN.
FOR RENT
TWO 2-HORSE FARMS
DR. C. S. WILLIAMS
RIOT OF GRAFT ALLEGED UNDER
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD
PROGRAM IN HONOR
OF ARMISTICE DAY
Dr. Sam Cart ledge will fill bis pulpit
Dr. Sam ('artledge will fill sis pulpit
at the Presbyterian church tonight, and
after a short sermon a program will
be rendered in honor of Armistice Day.
The program lias been arranged by
the Parent Teachers Association and
the ladies of the Presbyterian church.
All ex-service men are urged to lie
present, and a cordial invitation to all
church members of ail denominations
is extended.
Many of Winder’s best singers will
take part in the singing.
The ex-service men will meet at the
City Pharmacy at 7:30 and march to
the church in a body.
“HURRAH FOR THE WHITES,
HURRAH FOR THE REDS.”
Only two more Sundays and the con
test closes. This is a wonderful class
of men and for the past eight weeks
have proven just how interested they
really are by their loyalty and personal
work they have been doing. We bad
ill present the past Sunday. We are
planning to have 125 next Sunday. If
you are a member of the men’s class
at tlie Christian church and have failed
to help us by your attendance for some
time, we urge yon to come Sunday. If
you are not a member of any Sunday
School, we give you a cordial invita
tion to come. This class is doing things
worth while. Come and be a part of
it, we need you and you need us.
Ralph Smith captain for the White
side.
Guy Jackson captain for the Red
side.
BELL CARRIES FIFTEEN
OF THE NINETEEN COUNTIES
So far ns we are able to learn be
fore going to press the following is
the vote cast in the recent election for
Congressman from the Ninth. We.are
unable to get the vote in Union and
Fannin but we give the majority in
favor of Barnwell. Here is the way
the result stacked up:
Bell’s B’well
County Bell B’nwell Maj’ty Muj’ty
Pickens 648 557 91
Barrow 701 358 343
Habersham 631 465 166
Banks 638 181 457
White 373 157 216 *
Stephens 465 186 297
Milton 341 204 131
Jackson 1253 81 1172
Gwinett 1733 1030 703
Rabun 331 125 206
Dawson 382 282 100
Hall 1626 716 910
Lumpkin 207 148 59
Cherokee 673 1000 327
Towns 274 397 105
Forsyth 958 612 346
Gilmer 853 189 664
Union 21
Fannin 3®®
5849 848
Bell's total majority 5001.
MR. RICHARD BOGGS DEAD
Mrs. J. L. Williamson and Mrs. S.
T. Ross were called to Dauielsville
Monday to the bedside of their brother
and uncle, Mr. Richard Boggs. Mr.
Boggs died Tuesday and was buried
Wednesday with Masonic honors.. He
was 86 years of age.
Mrs. Tom Burson, who has been in
Athens for treatment, spent the week
end here with relatives.
Mrs. J. M. Brooksher, of Dahlonega,
is spending a few days here, the guest
of her daughter, Mrs. Miles C. Wiley.
Mr. Joe Coker and Miss Ruth Mit
chell, of Atlanta, spent the week-eriil
in Atlanta as the guests of Mr. and
Mrs. J. R. Coker.
Mrs. A. S. E her hart was called to
Atlanta Sunday on account of the ser
ious illness of her hrother-ln-law, Dr
Watkins, who continues critically ill.
Little hope is felt for his recovery.
Dr. Watkins with his family moved
to Atlanta last fall from Maysville.
His many friends in this section will
learn with sorrow of his illness.
THE STRAND THEATER PROGRAM
MONDAY. Nov. 15—May Allison in
“Cheaters.”
TUESDAY, Nov. 16—“ Lost City.” Serial
Gladys Brockwell in “White Lies.”
WEDNESDAY, Nov. 17—Constance
Binny in “The Stolen Kiss.”
Corruption Laid To the Officials And
To Employees—Government Rob
bed of Tremendous Sums.
Washington, November f. —Corrup-
tion of employees and officials of the
shipping board emergency fleet corpo
ration, graft in purchasing supplies
for, and in repairing government-own
ed merchant ships, and the use of politi
cal or other influence in obtaining con
tracts for ship construction and the
allocation of completed vessels to
operating companies, are among a
maze of charges made in a report sub
mitted to the house committee on ship
ping hoard operations by A. M. Fisher
and ,T. F. Richardson, former employees
of the board.
Chairman Benson, of the shipping
board, refused tonight to discuss the
report, declaring that any statement
lie might have to make would be made
to the house committee, which now is
continuing its investigations of the
board’s operations.
Deals With Many Phases.
The report was made public tonight
by the committee, of which Represen
tative Walsh, Republican, Mass., is
chairman. It covers more than 100
printed pages, and deals exhaustively
with many phases of shipping board
operations as observed by the commit
tee’s investigator over a period of more
than a year.
Mr. Fisher, who formerly was con
nected with the federal trade commis
sion, made a survey for the shipping
board as to record-keeping systems in
the office of the lumber administration.
Mr. Richardson, for twenty years a
newspaper man, was employed for sev
eral years in the board’s department
of investigation.
In presenting the report, Mr. Fisher
explained that it was designed to deal
only with problems which could be
solved wholly by the shipping board
itself and “left untouched” fourteen
general subjects in connection with the
board’s operations. Among these were
enumerated organizations of the board,
technical errors in the construction
program, German-American deals, as
sumption of diplomatic functions by
the board officials, enforcement of the
new merchant marine act and evasion
of the selective service act.
Taking up in detuil seven general
phases of the board’s activities, the
report charges gross waste of govern
ment funds, improperly drawn Con
tracts, which cost the government large
sums, and failure of the various divi
sions of the board to co-operate efficient-
ly, and the almost complete failure
of some of the divisions to function
properly.
Padding of Payrolls.
Padding of payrolls by firms repair
ing shipping board vessels, ownership
by companies operating government ves
sels of stock companies furnishing sup
plies to those craft at prices ranging
anywhere from 40 to 50 per cent above
wholesale cost, wholesale theft of sup
plies and equipment from ships, and
the loss of millions of dollars through
improperly secured loans made to con
tractors building government vessels
also were charged.
Investigators alleged that in some
cases the fleet corporation loaned money
to contractors and accepted as security
bonds issued by the contractors, “which
bonds have since been found worthless.”
The charge also was made that in many
cases shipbuilding plants with materials
“which are going concerns, are turned
back to contractors as salvage propo
sitions, and that the contractors thus
reap large profits at the expense of
the fleet corporation.”
SAFE IS BLOWN AT
BANK OF GRAYSON
The vault of the Bank of Grayson
waR blown open late Friday night by
experienced safe blowers. Some cash
was taken, as well as several Liberty
Bonds and other valuble papers.
The salt which contained the money
was not tampered with.
Sheriff Garner was Immediately call
ed to the scene and is assisting Chief
of Police Brooks in running down the
guilty party. —Lawrenceville News-
Herahl.
The friends in Winder of Mr. Her
bert Coker will be Interested in the
announcement of his marriage to Miss
Mollle Bramer, formerly of Philadel
phia, but now of Atlanta.
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