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KIURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1021.
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WINDER, GA.
Published Every Thursday
Entered at the Postoffice at Winder, Georgia,
as Second Class Matter.
j. w. McWhorter— Editor
j j{ PARHAM Business Manager
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WINDER LEADS
A few days after the present editor of the
News assumed Ids dutlerf, B rot lie r John
Shannon, of the (Commerce News, spoke of us
“squatting” so near him and Invited us over
to see a “sho-nuff’ town. We hesitated
about going over to visit our good friend for
fear that Commerce was so much more pro
gressive than Winder that it would fill our
mind with envy. From the tone of Brother
Shannon's invitation we were confident we
would see paved streets, white ways, high
up office buildings, and all those kind of
things.
However, information comes to us through
the Commerce News that we need have no
fear of a comparison between Winder and
Commerce, and we are going over right
away and take a peep at Commerce, and
when Uncle John's back is turned we’re go
ing to laugh at him, and then bring him
oyer to Winder and show him a thing or two
See how he waileth:
“Winder has already paved streets,
Lavonia is Retting ready to pave her.’s
Next tiling we know Maysville will fall
into line and Jefferson is progressive
and will not take a back seat. Next in
order comes Iloiner. After that Com
merce may have un attack of paving
fever. In some things Commerce is pro
gress! vet In some things, she leads.
Hut she is not leading in this matter.
Worse still, we see no evidences of a de
sire, even to follow. Now and then there
is a little agitation mostly by the local
press, there the matter dies. Where
there is a will, there is a way. The bus
iness men of Commerce never yet failed
to achieve results, when they have put
their heads together and affirmed that
it must be done. Of one thing we may
rest assured: We will never have good
streets until they are paved. Automo
biles and heavy trucks will keep our
streets in holes, always and eternally,
until they are paved. lad's inoculate
our people with a street paving attack.
If Winder and Lavonia can, we can.”
HELPLESS
A desperate man is Mister Sisk,
Plants all cotton and takes the risk:
The crop falls low. the price goes punk.
Winter finds him greatly “swnnk.”
—Winder News.
The rent man has just left.
The grocery man the same
The bill collector's all bereft
We couldn't sign our name.
Wrightsvllle Headlight.
O
The Macon Telegraph publishes the poem,
“My life is like a summer's rose,” and states
that the woff.lt* werV by Sidney Lanier,
while the music was by ltichard Wilde. This
is a most beautiful poem and we have al
ways Imh'u under the impression that it was
written by Richard Henry Wilde, a promi
nent citizen of Georgia in the long ago. Will
our contemporary please tell us where it
got its information as to the authorship of
this poem?
O
If we were Georgia’s Commissioner of
Agrieultrre we would never again advise the
farmers of this state on any question, llis
foolish and blatant efforts last fall to keep
the farmers from selling their cotton when
they could have gotten above twenty cents
for it has cost them millions of dollars. On
top of that he advocated a law to stop the
collection of debts which would have bank
rupted the country. The farmers and bus
iness interests of Georgia will pay no atten
tion to Mr. Brown's advice in the future.
C
Four or five young men in Atlanta last
week stole an automobile and started out on
a hold-up rampage. After holding up two
men and getting only a few dollars they
abandoned the car and escaped. It seems
that the campaign in that city against vice
has not deaiuxl up things thoroughly.
O ;
The Dawson News, one of the loading
weeklies In the state, sends us a copy of its
ltt2 i almanac. It is Interesting and replete
with much important information. We shall
lmng it in our sanctum as a constant remind
er of our enterprising friend down in south
west Georgia.
O—
Better times will not come until people
begin to pay their debts and get down to
work.
On account of some matter coming in late
kn the way of communications ami ather
fceiuents we are forced to curtail our ed-
page somewhat this week.
R. L. WOODRUFF, HARDWARE DEALER,
HOME FROM TRIP TO CHICAGO, ILLINOIS
Vttcnded Automobile Show in Chicago
and Tells Some of the Things He
Observed En Route.
Mr. It. L. Woodruff, of the Woodruff
Hardware Company, is back from a
trip to Memphis, Chicago, South Bend
ind a stop off at Hopkinsville, Ken
tucky. When asked by a News report
er of what lie heard anil saw and ab
sorbed, especially around Hopkinsville,
of mint julep fame, Mr. Woodruff said :
"Everybody believes he is tin- hard
est hit, is facts gathered from my trip
ro Memphis, Temi., Chicago, HI., South
Bend, Ind., and a stop off at Hopkins
ville, Ky., on my way hack, taking ad
vantage of a free trip to the Chica
go Automobile show.
I visited the four above mentioned
cities and at every place and with ev
ery person whom I talked with on the
trains, I learned that they, and their
section were the hardest hit, to hear
them tell it, so at least, we all have our
troubles.
The manufacturer thinks he is hurt
worst of all. The jobber thinks he is
stuck deeper than the others, and the
retail merchant knows he is hit hardest
because he has a loss on what lie sold
ind wliat he did not sell; the farmers
say they ure ruined, so there is but oue
thing to do and that is forget it, and
'o to work to make back what we lost.
It has always been said that where we
lose a thing, that is the place to find it.
And we have learned where we made
money in 1017, 1918, and 1919, we lost
it In 1920. They say it is all for the
host, so if it is WHAT WOULD THE
WORST HAVE BEEN?
"Everybody is taking his losses and
the farmers are taking theirs and are
not through. The cotton funner is
worse hit than any other farmer, be
cause he did not sell in time. He lis
tened to the wrong fellow and lias cot
ton that would have brought him 30
cents per pound. All other classes of
farmers sold rapidly getting as much of
the high prices as possible before it
went down and none lias gone as low
as cotton and a larger percent of cot
ton is being held than any other crop.
A tobacco farmer at Hopkinsville, Ky.,
said he remembered how quick things
dropped after the Civil war and told
the boys to sell and most all did, and
got a lot of our crop off before the
slump. If they had held it they would
have been in as bad a fix as the cotton
farmer. An automobile dealer from
Texas said they sold tlieir crop of cot
ton early and got better prices than if
they had waited, and the good crop
wisely marketed placed them in fairly
good shape. A Kentucky flour mill
man told me on the train that he sold
Hour to jobbers in several states and in
all sections business was normal ex
cept where they held cotton. He knows
every jobber nil around us —Athens,
Atlanta, Gainesville and Winder, and
says that jobbers in the cotton-holding
section that were never known to fail
to take their discounts were begging for
extra dating all for the fact that the
farmer had held his cotton and not paid
the merchant add the merchant had
not paid the jobber or mills.
“All sections arc talking diversifica
tion. and that is the only salvation now.
Even some of the big mouth holding ad
vocates that said when cotton was Tic
per pound to hold it for 50c, and when
it dropped below 40c said hold it for
45c, and when it was 35c they said
40c, and all the way down the line un
til he lias caused his friends toy lose
fortunes and women-and children to go
hungry, all for the reason he did not
look on hut one side of the question.
Now ho says the only salvation for the
farmer is to reduce the acreage. So
ber at last, and what a pity be did not
tell them last September and October
tlint. So then, all factions agree now
on diversification, and it is well we do,
for today the difference in the raw ma
terial and the manufactured product is
more than ever and wil remain so for
several reasons. Freight is twice as
high. The Western hay is higher on
that account. Why should you pay the
high freight rates when you can grow
your own final stuff. All lines of bus
iness is being conducted on more ex
pensive basis than ever before, so cut
out the increased freight, the increas
ed clerk hire and the increased store
rent by raising your Baal stuff at home.
That will settle that much of the com
plaint, and then compare prices with
hose in normal times five years ago,
and it is not as bad as we think. For
instance, a two-horse Oliver, Syracuse
or a Vulcan plow cost SB.OO to $ll.OO
when cotton was 10 cents, and no one
complained, and now cotton 15c per
{HHiud and the plow sls. Not so much
out of line at last, so what is the
trouble anyhow? Well, it is this: One
year ago cotton was 40c per lb, and the
-amo plow $15.00, and not one time
did a farmer tell us that we should be
getting $35.00 for that plow, because
it was SO.OO when cotton was lOe per
pound, so if we had kept our mop
chandlsle up with cotton, we would
have gotten $35 for that plow last year
and then we could give you one free
this year. But we made a reasonable
profit then and you profited so as cot-
Woodruff 2
ton was the first to go up and you prof
ited on the beginning, it is perfectly
natural that it would be the first to
come down. After all, we can do no
good blowing the other fellow. All he
wants is a profit and they had as soon
it would be high as low so they get
a profit.
So you can sec, the factories are
laughing up tlieir sleeves at the cotton
holding game. Just enough turned
loose every month to keep them moving
along. If it continues the farmer will
finance the factories by bolding his
stock until lie can spin it up into goods.
“Well, plant potatoes, build curing
houses and get $200.00 per acre from
your land with one half of the work of
cotton. Grow peanuts enough to fat
ten your meat and then you can cut
your fertilizer bill half in two. Re
duce your cotton acres, widen the
rows so us the sun will help you to
fight the boll weevil. Do not reduce
the fertilizer to the row. Let your
distributor stay just like you had it
last year, for with the boll weevil we
need fertilizer more to rush it on
ahead of the weevil, hut reduce both
the number of acres and the number
of rows per acre, cutting the amount
of fertilizer. In that way we will all
come out better after all.
Remember one thing, that when we
are feeling good we are not as rich as
as we think we are, and w hen we are
blue we are not as poor as we think
we are. Get on the ground floor;
come out of the cellar where we fell
from the upper story to get back
where we belonged.”
R. L. WOODRUFF.
A RARE TREAT.
Tsose who wore so unfortunate as
to miss the lecture given by Mrs.
Maude B. Perkins on Monday night at
the Christian church, under the au
spices of the W. C. T. U., missed one
of the finest opportunities that lias
come to Winder in many a day. And
not only did they miss a wonderful
lecture, but they missed some of the
best music we have had the privilege
of hearing for a long time. Mrs. Land
and all those who assisted deserve
much praise for their fine work.
On account of the severe storm, the
audience was small, but those who
braved the rain felt richly repaid for
their efforts.
Mrs. Perkins said the fight for pro
hibition and morality are by no means
finished, and that the rising genera
tion lias tremendous problems to face
which can only be met by clean, train
ed, organized leadership among the
people of today.
The forces of evil are thoroughly or
ganized and have unlimited wealth be
hind them, and only organized right
eousness call cope with them, islie
pictured the effects of the cigarette
habit and the social evil, stressing the
results not simply on the individuals
themselves, but also on their children
who shall come after them.
She appealed to the young people to
face their problems frankly and fear
lessly, quoting: “Ye shull know the
truth and the truth shall make you
free.”
At the close of her lecture. Mrs. Per
kins asked the young people who were
Interested in the Young People's
branch of the W. C. T. I . to remain,
and after a brief talk on the plans
and methods of work in the organiza
tion, she organized a local branch
which immediately selected the fol
lowing officers: President. J. Harris
Mayo; Nice President, Miss Charlotte
McCants; Secretary, Mr. June Jack
son, Treasurer, Mi£s Frances Hub
bard: Director, Miss Ora Lee Camp.
The next meeting is to be held at
the home of Miss Camp on Stevens
street next Tuesday night, Feb. 15. at
7:30 promptly. Each member has
promised to try to bring one new mem
ber, and all young people between the
ages of sixteen and thirty are invited.
The account of Mrs. Perkins visit to
Winder would be quite incomplete if
mention were not made of her wonder
ful talk at the school house on Tues
day morning. This talk made a very
deep impression on pupils and teach
ers. President A. W. Van 1 loose, of
Shorter College, Rome, was present at
Chnpel that morning, and Prof. Cash
invited him to speuk after Mrs. Per
kins had finished. He responded that
he would not attempt to make a speech
following Mrs. Perkins, and added that
she visited Shorter only last week and
made, not one of the best, but the very
best address that had ever been given
there.
Those who were privileged to hear
her Monday night and Tuesday morn
ing can certainly believe that this is
true. Tfca results of her visit will
mean much to Winder. NCW
THE WINDER NEWS
Bargain Day
Saturday, February 12 th
Below are some special bargains for Saturday Feb. 12.
It will pay you big to look over this list and go shopping
Come to Winder Saturday and get these bargains.
CRONIC & GLOVER
FRESH FISH AND OYSTERS FRIDAY AND SAT
URDAY. CALL AND SEE US-CRONIC & GLOVER
Near S. A. L. Depot.
Call At
CARRINGTON’S CAFE
For Your
SUNDAYDINNER
Ladies Especially invited. Everything clean and up
to-date. We serve you with anything you wish.
CARRINGTON CAFE
A. S. EBERHART
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
Prices on everything to compare with conditions—for
Cash.—All goods delivered in City limits
A. S. EBERHART
Telephone 104
FREE SUGAR! . Beginning Friday, the 11th, we will
give away absolutely FREE ONE POUND SUGAR to
a customer with every pound of Peaberry Coffee pur
chased from us at the extremely low price of 29 cents
per pound as long as our supply lasts.
Call for our Friday and Saturday Specials
One 12 pound can Kingan i A
Breakfast Baron in Bulk
One pound sliced Kingan rrC
Breakfast Bacon in pkgs JJ
Libbey’s No. 2 polk sausage in can 33c
f'udahy No. 2, roast beef in cans 33e
Libby’s No. 2, Kosedale ptbehes in
cans, 40c
ATHENS STREET GROCERY CO.
PHONE 314 431 Athens St.
We Handle the
BEST MEATS
FISH AND OYSTERS
Also A Line of
GROCERIES
12 Lbs. SUGAR SI.OO
W. C. JETT
Successor to R. D. Moore.
PROMPT DELIVERY Phone No. 55
J. C. RAY & COMPANY
“The Economy” Store
Athens and Jackson Streets Phone No. 177.
Special This Week t
48 lbs Pals Best Flour
48 pounds White Spear Flour $2.90
48 lbs. Sky Rocket S. R. 2^
24 lbs Sky Rocket S. R. $1,65
1 lb Maxwell House Coffee 45c
3 lbs Maxwell House Coffee __sl.3s
4 lbs Pilot Knob Coffee 1.25
1 lb. Bucket 25c
ALWAYS A SPECIAL PRICE ON FEEDS
WINDER 5 & 10 CENT STORE
We will sell the following items at an especially re
duced prices on SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH.
Outing, Gingham and Suiting 15c yd; Curtain Scrim 15
cents yard. 3oc hose (white or black) 15 cents a pair.
Childrens heavy ribbed hose, Foot-rest quality (best
made) 39c pair. 35c and 40c Stationery ( good grade)
special 25c. Coat Hangers 10c each. Golden Rod
Washing Powder 5c pkge. 4 string corn broom, extra
value) 49c. 1 lot enamelware 75c val. 49c.
WINDER 5 & 10 CENT STORE
S. M. St. John. Prop. Old Court House Building.
SI.OO buys The Winder News for 1 year on Saturday 12
TRADE IN WINDER
< V- M'.-M:
Apples per dozen 35c
Grape Fruit 5 for 25c
Onions, per pound .05
Onions, per pound
Irish Potatoes, per poimd .05
Cocoanuts, a piece 10c
Eggs, per dozen 50c
No. 2 can Tomatoes 10c
No. 2 Best Can Corn 10c
Van Camp’s Tomato Soup 10c
Van Camp’s Vegetable Soup 10c
Arm & Hammer Soda 5c
6 bars Export soap 25c
3 bars Octagon Soap 25c
5 lbs Pure Lard $1.25
10 lbs. Pure Lard $2.50
No. 10 Snowdrift $1.75
Florida Cabbage per lb 5c
Pure Georgia Cane Syrup $1.25 gal.