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THE BARROW TIMES Published Every Thursday. A. G. LAMAR, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Copy Months One Copy One Year fl oU Official Organ Barrow County All Communications Must Be Signed By the Writer. Knterred as second class Mail matter at the pot office at Winder, Ga., under Act of Congress March .1,187 th BOND ELECTION WINS. The bond election on last Tuesday for good roads and building a court house tor Barrow County won by a good majority. This was the most important issue ever submitted to the voters of Harrow and the K „.,.-ss of it moans more to the future grow th and development and prosperity ot our county than any of us eau imagine .it '< present time. ~ It would have been a great calamity to all of us and a set-back to our county irrepar able bad the voters defeated bonds. Some of our good citizens honestly oppos ed bonds, some were misled by false state ments made and some had not acquainted themselves on the law and the real import ance of a bond issue. . When all of us calmly consider the issues involved and the great benefits that will be derived we believe there is not a man among us but that will he pround of the result. We should now all unite and cooperate with the ordinary ami work together tor betler roads and a greater county. Dispel imaginary evils and mismanagement and try and get good roads in every corner ot >ar row. work together to have better schoo s in every district, better homes and everything Ihal ‘uplifts and makes good cilizens. The Times did all it could to help win the election because it felt and believed it was for the best interest of all the people, and a paper failing to do Ibis is worth little to a county. „ This was not a political issue but one tor the public good, and when an issue of this kind arises no local paper should be afraid to espouse what it believes is for the public good. . , The Times has tried to show to its renders the importance of the bond election and the benefits to be derived, and lias tried to be fair and just and not autocratic in its con tentions It feels good over Hie result, not from any selfish or personal reason, but bcc-ise it feels it was for the best for all ot ils people. The crop prospect for Barrow Coupty was never better. Hood roads and a Courl House places Bar row County on the road for greater pros perity. O —— Land values are going higher in the south because the world is at last realizing what the Hout h really is. EHEU!FUGACES ! '' O Much loss interest is being taken in the commencements here than used to he, hulh by the public and students, '•oars hack they commenced on Sunday and a few times on Saturday, and lasted until 12 o’clock Wed nesday night. The town was crowded with visitors, and the students remained until the last hour and a lot of them left crying. Then they had two or three debating societies and the hoys took great interest in the champion debates, which cost their parents, the state or college nothing. Now hut few people come to town at this time, there is no debating soc ieties, hut hall playing takes their places at a considerable expense, saying fiothing of the cripples and pains it causes, and when the ball instructor leaves the hoys begin to get aw.tv. and when the time arrives there are so few boys lett that there is nothing to “commence” with, and the whole tiling this time was wound up on Tuesday and nothing very interesting either.—Dahlonega Nugget. No, times ain’t what they used to he. STRAIGHT AMERICAN y 'v‘ f ►' (The Knoxville Senline) A creed of plain, unvarnished Ameriean iHin is the rock upon which Angelo l’ntri. wiz ard schoolmaster who has transformed the new York institution over which he presides into something much greater than a school, founded his success. Some of the thoughts on democracy that he instills in the minds of his pupils are reproduced in the .lulu* number of the New Red Cross magazine and they go far to explain how he arouses and holds the en thusiasm of the children. “Over in Germany,” writes Patri, ‘‘they said : ‘ How can America he a nation It is male of Germans. Italians, Russians, Turks; every nation under the sun is there. “The enemy made a mistake, a I ig one. He thought then was no American because there is no national f•• w! Kvery man eats what he pleases. There is no national dress. The American wears v it he pleases. There is no national church. The \meriean wor ships as he pleases. Aim ■ii is too big to he measured by dress or food religion. Amer ica is an idea, the democracy of life, the right of all men to live freely, fuliv: the brother hood of men.’’ YOU CAN T ABOLISH WAR.” Opponents of the League of Nations will solemnly exclaim, ‘‘None of your covenants can abolish war”—as if that in any wise were the issue. No sane friend of the League ever contended that it would transform hu man nature in a iriee or bring down the mil lennium hy airplane express. The most claim ed for this peace-conserving effort is that it will lessen the occasion and likelihood of war and create a more favorable environment for the working-out of inar.’s destiny. But this will he a great deal. It will be as much indeed as can be claimed for any of t lie statu tes and institutions hy which civilization is buttressed. Courts of justice have not abolished blood shed, not in even the host ordered communi ties. There are stealing and killing despite the Decalogue and all the torces behind it. Itut suppose we had no such iiistrunieutali lics. Russia under Bolshevism is a sample of what happens when laws and courts are flung to the winds. Ilohoiizollorn Cerniaiiv was a perfect type of the cynicism that laid no store bv treaties and had no faith in the vir tue of international goodwill. Human society, groping and stumbling as it is, serves the needs of man better than does savagery : and so we measure the usefulness of this society and its institutions, not by its failures, but by its successes. 'Thai is the fair and sensible way to judge the League of Nations. Because it will not preclude the possibility of wars, are we to re ject it as valueless? If it prevented just one warlike that which lately blackened the world, the League would have justified its founders. It is a stride in the right direction, prompted hy the best of impulse and guided by the best of thought ; it is an upward effort from which no nation that loves justice and concord can withhold support. —Atlanta Joun il. THE TWO GREATEST REPUBLICS. The Doublin < ’ourier-1 lerald There are two United Stateses. both of them in this hemisphere —the United States of America and the United States of Brazil. They may he called the two greatest repub lics hi the world. The V. S. A. has more peo ple than any other republic. The l . S. B. has more territory. Brazil’s area is actually larger than that of continental United States. Its population is only about one-fourth of ours. <>n account of that comparatively small population, how ever. its vast resources arc all the more im pressive. It lias the largest rivers, and the largest stretch of fairly uniform land. Potentially it may he the richest country in the world. Its soil is incalulahly fertile. There is abundant rainfall in most parts. It is such tropical regions as that along the Amazon which, scientists say. are destined to even tually feed the world, when the earth’s popu lation has outgrown the food producing pos sibilities of the temperate zones. These considerations, and many more, are suggested by the visit of l>r. Epitacio Pessoa, president-elect of Brazil, to the United States \ll Americans —or North Americans, as the Brazilians prefer to call us—should welcome such a visit and appreciate the honor of it no less than the Brizilians, some years ago, wel comed and appreciated the visit of one of our most distinguished ex-presidents to their country. The world has moved since Theodore Roosevelt went hunting game and rivers in Brazil. A big war has been fought and won. As Allies, these two republics have drawn closer. There has come about a thorough friendship and understanding. It is pleasant to have l)r. Pessoa as tho nation’s guest, to show him the hearty good will left toward his country, and to have a chance to sweep away the lies about the l nited States of America that mischievous enemies have been trying to sow in Brazil. PASSING OF THE PRIZE FIGHT. # (The Tifton Gazette) The Fourth of July fight was the greatest advertised event of modern times. Newspa pers the country over gave it millions of dol lars worth of space and for months the sport ing pages played it up in an effort to ie\i\e popular interest in such affairs. ( minting on this publicity, the promoters spent their mon ey and the speculators baited the trap to which thev themselves fell victims. But the people, with the great struggle for Human Liberty fresh in their minds refused to w arm up to two men who fought for dol lars after failing to light for a principle. Readers skipped the sporting pages or read with indifference. Not even the national holi day and a day of leisure could induce them to at end. A congressman described the tight as “ A disgrace to the nation’s birthday.” It was all of that. Hut it has served to drive homo ii lesson thsxt will I'** vnlno, iuhl the blow it has dealt the profession of the prize fighter is little short of a knockout. The pity of it is, so far as Willard is eon corned. (if he is entitled even to pity) is that, had he gone ahead as a red-blooded man and done hisdutv, he would now be a world hero living or .lend. Army training, army life and armv discipline would have hardened him. kept him fit. and Dempsey would have been as a o-hild in his hands. He had every advantage of weight, training and experi ence. hut years of easy living had softened him until be was almost helpless before his 1 1 While it is idle to speculate on what might have been, the lesson is one that should be driven home to every thinking man: In time of great emergency, there is but one thing to do—that is. the Right Thing. Then all else will come out right. HOME BUYERS FOR ROAD BONDS. (The Moultrie Observer.) Some weeks ago the Observer expressed the hope that the half million dollars of road bonds would be absorbed by ( olquitt county people. We were greatly pleased to have our hopes realized. The bonds were bought by Moultrie banks. The fact that the banks en tered their bids together and will all share in the deposits of the money while the road con struction is in progress is indicative again of the stand-together spirit that prevails in busi ness and financial circles of Moultrie. There will he no scrap and no political wirepulling to get on advantage out of the county bonds. The County Commissioners made a good bargain when they secured 5 per cent inter est on the money while it stays in the banks. This interest offsets the interest the bonds, and is equal to selling the bonds Cie money is needed. The bonds brought a splendid premium. It was anticipated hack when the bond cam paign was in progress that it might be a little difficult to sell the bonds at a good price inas much as the world is full of government bonds. It seems that there is still demand for county bonds bearing 5 per cent interest. GREAT THOUGHTS, FEW WORDS. (The Birmingham Ledger.) Pew great soldiers have known how to de liver long speeches or polished addresses, but there seems a peculiar ability in them to pith ilv express themselves in epochal matters and in crises. Being men of action they concentrate on the matter in hand. When they do talk their words resemble their deeds, bristling, straight to the mark, forceful, convincing. Un duly 4, 1917 when Gen. Pershing was freshly landed in Europe to command our forces battling for freedom, be participated in the patriotic exercises held under the shadow of the Lafeyette statue. The words he uttered were few, but every remote corner of the world hearkened and understood. “Lafeyette. we are here.” That expression required no decking, no explanation. We who had received help in our war of independence were on European soil to help those who had helped us a hun dred and fifty years before. When Napoleon’s army was gathered about the pyramids he said: “The centuries look down on us.” Amplification of the idea would have lessened, not carried weight. On duly 2 General Pershing, speaking of our remaining duty in Europe, said: “Our flag is here; our work is here; our honor is here. The world must understand that we w ill stand by the allies in seeing the peace treaty carried out.” Not all the words in the English language could have more clearly conveyed his mean ing nor more forcefully expressed the sense of obligation which he felt and sought to im press on his bearers. There are precious few words in the deca logue. “Thou shalt not kill” covers all the law and the prophets and all Hie nice and learned interpretations since made in its ex planation. “Thou shalt not steal” embraced every varying modification of the statutes on larceny. The four words in these pronounce cents interpret human experience id convic tion more than all that has been written about them since. We ought to treasure these pithy summa ries of right and justice sounded by our real ly great and earnest men. They will prove beacons of light in the obfuscation of words which men who would confuse 1 deceive us create with that precise end in view. VIOLA DANA In the “Parisian Tigress” Benefit Young Matrons Federated Club, Winder, Ga. Strand Theatre Friday, July 25th Prices: Adults 20 Cents. Children 10 Cents Viola Dana’s role as a grizette gives her a part rich in opportunity for her versatile talents. Comedy is clev erly intermingled with drama, and Miss Dana enacts the character of the winsome, fiery grizelte with an artistry rarely seen on the screeen. BOGART BAPTIST CHURCH. Preaching at Bogart Baptist Churchh Saturday 11 a. m.,“Qua lities of Perfection.” Sunday 4 p. m., “Imperiled Truth.” You are invited to be present. — W. H. Faust, Pastor. 1 CARPENTERS^ I TOOLS R| OF HIGHEST QUALITY ¥% LOWEST PRICE gf ; THIS is an important branch of our business, one to which we gi ve special care in selection. The superior quality of our tools is universally recognized. (’arpenters and joiners are unanimous in praising them. They will please you, as will any purchase made in our store. WE GUARANTEE YOU YOUR MONEYS WORTH Woodruff Hardware Cos. Winder. Georgia. Public Sale 1 will sell to the highest bidder, at the old W. S. Dunahoo home place in Chandler’s Dis trict, on Saturday August 2nd;2 Mules, 2 Cows, Buggy and Harness, Farm Tools and one two-horse Wagon; the property of T. S. Dunahoo. late of said county, deceased. L. E. DUNAHOO. FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Services for Sunday. Sunday School 11a. in. Preaching 12 o’clock, “The Worth of Children.” Preaching 9:30 p. m., “Three Enemies of the Republic. This is to invite you.—W. H. Faust, Pastor. .