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WrSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1021. (Ihr HJiitiirr Nnua WINDER, GA. Published Every Thursday Entered at the I'ostoffiee at 11 inder, beorgia, as Second Class Matter. J. IV. McIVJIORTER Editor J. 15. PARHAM Business Manager Subscription Rales: In Advance One Year $1.50 Six Months SUING NEWSPAPERS It is getting quite popular these days to sue newspapers for libel. The Macon Tele graph and the Athens Herald are being sued by parties who claim those papers libeled them by publishing criticisms of their public acts or expressions. It is possible that, on rare occasions, individuals, or organizations are unfairly treated by the newspapers, but these occasions are rare indeed. Newspa pers, as a rule, keep out of their columns ev erything of a derogatory nature concerning individuals and publish only words of kind ness and commendation. But some time it behooves a newspaper to speak plainly and call a spade a spade. Oftimes the public is forewarned and protected by plain speaking on the part of public journals. Freedom of the press is one of the pillars of our liber ties and the courts of the land should be slow to penalize any newspaper because it has spoken plainly about uuythiug that con cerns the public welfare. Science Is Coming Around “Ou the 74th anniversary of his birthday, February 11th, Edison is working on an im mortality machine." —News item. •Kdientists, tlV’t world over, are coming around to the Biblical theory of immortali ty. Not many years ago, Edison scoffed at the idea of a life beyond the grave. Now ho is trying to Invent a toachine that will en able the living in this life to converse with those that have passed on into the next life He must believe in life beyond the grave or he would not waste the few remaining years of his earthly life in trying to Invent some thing that will enable the two spheres of ex istence to converse with each other. Step by step the thinkers of the world are accepts ing the teachings of the Man of Gallilee. Sir Oliver Lodge, William Juines, Conan Doyle, and other men of scientific minds are ac cepting the doctrine of Immortality. We may differ with them in some phases re garding the future existence, but they are standing with the followers of the Christ In regard to a future life. And this is a great victory for Christian teachers. The scientists have set out to prove that the teachings of Christianity are true. We be lieve they will succeed. All Must Be Fed Out of the Same Spoon During the past few years the price of all commodities went skyward. We might have known that deflation was inevitable. It has come, and with such force as to stupefy and stagnate the business world. But business will recover from the shock and readjust itself to the slump in prices. Everything is seeking a lower level. The farmer is taking less for his products, the merchant is selling his goods at a smaller profit, the factories, if they sell their output ut all. must be sat isfied with a much smaller margin, and so it goes. The public will not pay big prices lidw for anything. It is sick of the mad wliftl of ascending values and has settled down to the grim determination to make the dollar go further than it has during the past few years. The only jarring element in the readjustment of business conditions is labor. It seems determined to stand out against the efforts to put all lint's of business actively on a parity. But herein it will fail. Public sentiment, once favorable to organiz ed labor, is now crystallzlng against it; and no organization, however strong, can long withstand the opposition of public senti ment. John Skelton Williams, Comptroller of the Currency, in his last annual report, hits the nail square on the head, and this ar ticle with a quotation from that report. Bead it and see if you do not agree with him; I-übor, however, Mr. Williams said, must soon determine whether a shut-down and idleness is preferable to a lower wage scale which take Into consideration the lower llv ng charges. Mills and factories cannot uf ord to operate unless they can turn out an modifies at prices the public can afford rgsiy, he asserted, and it is better for the aufacturcrs to operate ami produce goods •ost or at a very narrow margin of profit P' u to close down entirely. Participation labor with capital in the profits, he aug <l as the only principle to restore busi . O oken. county seat of the now county ley, which already has a water tank ■pontine still and a soda water stand e a newspaper.—Lyons Progress, newspaper editors are men of groat The Gainesville Midland Railway. As will be seen from a news article pub lished in this, issue of the News, the Gaines ville Midland Railway has lost in operating expenses over and above all income during the last twelve months $84,487.57. Unless immediate relief can be secured the road can continue ! no longer to Operate. The * < road has no means of securing any addi tional funds. The owners and creditors of the road have Indicated a willingness to defer any inter est or Income on their investment for the next six months in order to relieve the sit uation as far as they can. Mr. George J. Baldwin, the President of the road, called the employees together the first of the week in the office of Mr. W. B. Veazey, the general manager in Gainesville and stated to them the condition of affairs. He proposed to devote every cent of income from the operation of the road for the next six months to the operating expenses and the wages of the employees, if the employ ees would consent to a re-adjustment of wa ges to such an extent as to cover the loss that the road was incurring. In other words Mr. Baldwin asked the employees to consent to such a reduction of wages that the road would not he losing annually $84,487.87. Some were willing to take the reduction, but a sufficient number rejected it to cause the withdrawal of the proposition. The Winder News believes in fairness and justice in all the relations of life, among all classes of people. Labor should be treated justly and given a fair share in the profits arising from the operation of the business hi which they are employed. Likewise, the men who furnish the money and take the risk, in every line of business, are entitled to a fair dividend from their investments. There should be absolute justice between capital and labor. However, in the case of the Gainesville Midland Railway, there are other interests to be considered besides those of the owners of the road and its employees. Every manu facturing plant, every business enterprise, every farmer, in fact, every citizen in the territory served by this road is vitally con cerned in its continued operation. It passes through Winder and Barrow county and the value of every enterprise in this city and county and the worth of every acre, of land in Barrow county is affected by the contin ued operation of the road. Junk it and all our business and farming interests will be depreciated to a large extent. The people of this section will not stand for the road to be thrown in the scrap pile. It must continue operation. If it cannot pay its employees the present scale of wages and live, then the employees ought to be willing to so adjust the wage scale as to per mit the road to continue operation, and to conserve the farming and business interests that have been built up along Its line depend ing on it for an outlet to the markets of the world. We hope the employees of the road will reconsider their position and thus save the road to the sections through which it runs. The Dublin Tribune Ims suspended publi cation. Another Instance of two papers trying to live in a one-paper town. O Senator Hoke Smith, at the close of his senatorial term, will practice law in Wash ington, D. C. This must mean that the Sen ator is through witli Georgia, politically. O There are a great many unemployed men In Great Falls, Mont. The mayor of the city arranged for the men to got work at $5.00 per day. The men rejected this wage, claim ing that the scale of the American Federa tion of Labor, of which their union was a member, was .$5.50 per day and that they would not work for less. The effort on the part of the mayor and council to create work for the unemployed was abandoned. Com ment Is unneesary. O One of the most heroic acts that we have noted in many years occurred last week down in Washington county during the great storm that destroyed many lives in that sec tion. Three lady teachers were holding school and, during the storm, one end of the school building was crumpled in by the wind and the roof at the other end hung precariously low above the heads of seventy five children. The three teachers ran to the rescue of the children and by main strength and unassisted, they held up the sagging roof until all the pupils ran out into safety. The teachers then leaped to safety them selves. There are no braver or truer hu nfans in tin' world than the women teachers of Georgia. O MEETING OF RED (ROSS The Bed Cross Chapter of Barrow county will meet at the school audi torium this (Thursday) afternoon at 4 :30 o'clock for the purpose of laying plans for the coming year, All are In vited to be present. The meeting will be short and Interesting. Mr. Dwight S. liny ley. field representative for the North Georgia, will deliver an address It will be helpful and encouraging. THE WINDER Nfc x MARY MILES MINTER I N PEGGY REBELS STRAND THEATER, MONDAY 21 Read! Read Wonder! and J. L. SAUL IS ABSOLUTELY SELLING HIS GOODS AT LESS THAN HALF PRICE-TO RAISE CASH. We believe the truth does not hurt anybody. We need about $15,000.00 and are needing it quick. We must raise it right now,'it matters not of it takes $3.00 worth of merchandise to raise SI.OO in cash. Our reputation is at stake and that is worth more than all the erchandise on our shelves. Hence, now is your chance to BUY at J. L. SAUL’S BIG SALE $3.00 WORTH OF MERCHANDISE FOR SI.OO. We are selling Best $2.75 Bell or Wimco OVERALLS for men, all sizes, at *.* • •■• • 95 c W. L. Douglas Shoes & Oxfords. $7.50 quality for $3.75 SB.OO quality for $4.25 $ll.OO quality for $5.25 The price of all Douglas Shoes is stamped plain figures on each pair. MEN’S SUITS AND OVERCOATS $25.00 Men’s Suits and Overcoats at sl2- 45 $45.00 Mens Suits and Overcoats at s2l * 75 BOYS’ SUITS $lO Boys Suits at 56.75 sls Boys Suits at $6.35 In fact everything in our store you can buy $3.00 for sl. For we need the cash and we are not too proud to tell you the truth. Come and profit by the biggest sale ever held here. J. L. SA UL Winder, Georgia. REMEMBER THIS SALE WILL LAST EIGHGT MORE DAYS ONLY TO FEBRUARY 27TH. LADIES COATS $15.00 Ladies Coats at $40.00 Ladies Coats at $12.50 Ladies Dresses, at $5.90 $20.00 Ladies Dresses, at $9.75 $25.00 La. Coat Suits, at $9.50 $50.00, La. Coat Suits, at $19.75 500 SCRAP ROLLS $2.50 of cloth in them for 69c Best 25c Ginghams 9|c Best 30c Sheeting . 10c Best 40c Outing 12£c SUBSCRIPTION: $1.50 A YEAR