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oflice at Winder, Ga., under Act of Congress
March 3, 1871*. 1
AN OPEN LETTER
By Hr. Frank Crane.
loin on >) t i:e Si ifl' i < r:u. ne, ■
inp- us {.nc of the co'*.v m ; ople of G
United States, to say a lew plain words to
you.
I speak of the Treaty of I’eaee which is
now he 1 ore you tor ratification or rejection,
and of tile League of Nations which is a part
of it ; and would ask you to bear in mind a
few plain points.
II is often Hit obvious and simple dements
of a question which, in the complexities of
debate, we forget.
First, this League matter is not, an' l ought
mil to be made, a partisan question.
It is too big.
II is a question as big as the ( nited States,
indeed ns big as the World.
It is as big as the war.
Everybody but a fool knows that the war
was not fought and won by a political party,
or by any one section <>i thi< nation. Repub
licans aid Democrats died side by side on tlie
fields of France.
The League of Nations was the natural
outcome of the League formed on the battle
field. As the war could not he won against so
powerful fin enemy without a full concert of
civilization, so the peace so hardly gained
cannot be continued if civilization again falls
apart.
This League is 1 lie* first intelligent effort of
the whole huuman race to <h> away with war; j
and war is so great a curse ioar on*> Ihe corn- I
bined efforts of all mankind can remove it.
As such, you surely, the highest represen
tative body of the most nation on
cartli, will certainly look on it • ‘.'av' i and j
make any sacrifice to insure ils success.
Atm know this great people did not want i
to get into this war. We hesitated some say.
too lo"g. But we went into it at last—what
fot 1 A <>n know it was not foreoiique.it. loot,
nor territory, but for one thing only, TO
STOP WAR.
And the League of Nations was conceive**
in the very spirit in which the war was
fought and won- to end the long reign of
militarism. *
Drop your differences. hTe League of Na
tions is greater than any man’s vanity.
I* outweighs any man’s rancor.
It is more tremendous than any party issu
Alo question within oe range o 4 ‘ imagina
tion could come before you as fraught with
inq rtanee t,-. !'.■ question of do: ,(>• v >
thing TO STuA WAR.
1 1 :nk of tli • "a xt wav' .'list the other ''ay
a dirigible balloon reached our shores from
Europe in a few hours. You do not have to
be told what that means, what new and ap
palling terrors it implies.
(let together, gentlemen. Some way, we
care not how, adjust your differences and
get this nation squarely in line with the com
mon purpose of humanity TO STOP WAR.
Tn a few years the President and all the
present Senators w ill 'fisappear, for you must
all pass away. But this issue now before you, 1
the most momentous question ever before ;
any deliberative body on earth, shall, in its
settlement, bless or curse mankind forever.
A hundred million of your fellow citizens,
nay, all peoples and races of earth, and the
God of destiny who stands unseen behind
them, await your action.
May that God give you guidance and lift
you to a sense of your great responsibility!
not as Partisans, hut as Americans!
A BEWILDERING SENATE.
The New Yord World.)
John Hay, while he was see ret ary of state
in the eabiuet of President MeKinley, ex
pressed the opinion that “a treaty ol‘ peace,
in any normal state of things, ought to be
ratified with unanimity in twenty-four hours.
This is evidently the theory of the British
Inuise of commons, which early yesterday
morning passed the treaty of peace bill on
the third reading by a vote of Bid to 4. am*
unanimously approved the Anglo-French
convention for the protection of France until
the Leaguuo ot Nations is established.
The contrast between the manner in which
tin house of commons has discussed the
great issues involved in this settlement and
the manner in which the I’nited States Sen
ate is discussing them can bring no sense of
pride to the American people. In one case we
have a parliamentary body impressed with
its grave responsibilities and with the neces
sity of establishing peace withouut delay; in
the other ease we have a parliamentary body
in which partisanship is running riot and
reckless politicians are trying to plunge the
world into chaos in order to display their
personal dislike of the President of the Unit
ed States.
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There is some compensation in everything.
Heavy rain has been falling in New \ork
since July J.
FOR THE GOOD OF THE SCHOOLS.
The Education committee of the Georgia
Senate has pointed the way to invaluable
progress by recommending the passage of
the three great constructive school measures
now before the General Assembly, namely:
the bill for a Constitutional amendment to
establish in every county a local tax for
schools; the bill revising and codifying the
State’s school statutes, an' l the bill creating
an illiteracy commission.
Each subject in this program is of the kind
which Bacon described as coming home “to
men’s business and bosoms.” The local tax
measure, known as the Elders-Carswell bill,
affords the one adequate solution of the fin
ancial problems with which Georgia’s school
system is so gravely beset. Teachers can
never he pni' l just salaries, school terms can
never be duly lengthened, children in the ma
jority of rural districts can nevtr he vouch
safed their educational rights until a fun (l ‘
far larger than the State treasury can pro
vide is forthcoming. This means that the
<•< unties must serve their individual needs by
supplementing with a reasonable local tax
llieli allotments from Ihe State. There is not
the remotest suggestion, be it understood, of
withdrawing the State fund ; on G,# contrary,
the stanchest advocates of the Elders-Cars
well hill declare that the State fun 11 ’ should
he increased when it is possible to do so. But
as practical men, knowing the present and
prospective condition of the central treasury,
an' l as earnest friends of education unwilling
to rest on promise's which must remain mere
words, they insist that every county ought to
supplement the States appropriation with a
fair measure of local support.
In tfiis contention they are unheld by the
unanimous judgement of Georgia’s educa
tional leaders and by the virtually unanim
ous practice of the country at large. Ours is
one of the two or three States, if not the only
jone, in which local taxation for schools is
not inquired. We cannot afford to limp on
under a plan whichli is inherently unsound
and which obtains nowhere else in the I’nion.
Sixty-five Georgia counties already have
adopted the local-aid or self-help system,
Colquitt and Coweta having done so in the
lasi few days. Their names make up a roll of
j honor and progress well worth proclaiming.
They are:
“Bacon, Ben Hill, Bibb, Bryan, Burke,
Butts. CanCeii, Chatham, Clarke, Chattahoo
chee. < biucli. (’oflee, Columbia, Craw ford and
Crisp, DoKalb, Echols, Emanuel and Fulton,
Glascock. Glynn, Hancock. Harris, Hart,
Henry. Houston, Irwin, Jasper, Jeff Davis.
Jenkins. Jones, Lee, Lincoln, Lowndes, Mar
ion, Mclntosh, Mitchell, Monroe, .Montgo
mery, Morgan, .M uscotree, Newton, Pulaski.
Quitman. Rabun, Randolph. Richmond, Scre
ven, Spalding. Stewart, Talbot, Terrell, Tift,
Walton. Wayne, Wheeler, Wilkes, Worth,
Stephens, Treuutlen, Atkinson Cook, Haber
sham, Coweta and Colquitt.”
lii lime, no <|i 11 1>1, every county would fol
low these inspiring examples; ultimately, in
dee'l. no eounty that prizes reputation and
prosperity could afford not to provide ade
quate aid for its schools. But why waste pre
cious years in the long and costly process of
local plebiscites, conducted under rules that
give a backward minority the advantage
over a progressive majority, when one State
wide election will place (leorgia where she
ought to he and where she so urgently needs
to he in this fundamental matter of school
finance? The (Jcneral Assembly can render
so sounder service, none that will come home
with richer boons to the material interests
and the heart interest of the Commonwealth,
than to press this goo' l bill to speedy enact
ment.
Thetwo other measures recommended by
the Senate committee are so obviously well
advised that no plea for them is needful. The
State’s school laws are now a mass of confu
sion and contradiction which the astutest of
lawyers would tin' l difficult to understand.
They of all statutes should be harmonious
jand intelligible. liTe pending hill proposes to
make them so by proper revision and codifi
cation. Kqually apparent is the need of a
commission to facilitate the carrying out of
the compulsory school attendance law an* l in
other ways to aid in freeing (leorgia from il
literacy. hTese hills are virtually assured of
passage if they have a chance on the Legisla
tive calendar.
So, too, is the local tax bill, notwithstand
ing its need of a two-thirds majority as a
Constitutional amendment. Last year it pass
ed tlie Senate triumphantly and missed suc
cess in the House by only a vote or two. In
the present session its friends are more than
ever numerous and more than ever zealous
in its support. Let them work unceasingly
until it is enacted.
WHEN PRINCE HENRY WAS HERE
(The Philadelphia Record.)
“Prince Henry of Prussia, who has just
joined the growing army of loyal Hermans
determined to save the ex Kmperor from the
ignominy of a trial, will he remembered—as
the society writers say—as the cause of the
Interest war of social queens New York
swelldom ever witnessed. Seventeen years
ago, when the prince made the grand tour
of America, presumably for his own pleasure
-hut then as now working in the interest of
his imperial brother- the rivalries of Mrs.
Stuyvesant Fish and .Mrs. John Jacob Astor .
each determine ! to outdo the other in his en
tertainment. precipitated a rm st (modifying
row. Government officials were dragged into
the battle, and it was altogether a pretty
mess, and a matter for gossip long after the
prince and his entourage had returned home.
This country, it may be safely predicted, w ill
never again see such a fuss made over a
prince of the Prussian blood.”
WHY HE FAVORS THE LEAGUE.
(By Dr. Cbas. W. Eliot.)
The league of nations which the treaty will
establish is indispensable to the gradual
bringing into execution of the new policies
he treaty embodies. It is the league which
must procure, through its assembly, council,
and legal tribunal, order an (l peace through
out the civilized world, while the new repub
lics set up in Europe and Asia are becoming
stable and orderly and are gaining experi
ence in self-government. It is the league
which is gradually to Provide an intelligent
and righteous w ay of giving aid to the irack
ward peoples of the earth, and of protecting
them from exploitation by any stronger pow
er. It is the league which is to determine
when Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Turk
ey have become admissible to the league. It
is the league which offers the only available
means of getting put into execution the
ideals for which the American people went
to war. Without it the sacrifices America
made for the war will he in vain. With it the
treasure spent an 4 * the young lives sacrificed
will have earned an immense gain for man
kind. It bs the league which finds the way to
the suppression of militarism among the
civilized nations; that is, to the annihilation
of a military class of professional soldiers
who have no occupation except war and pre
paration for war, and who are always at the
service of any despotic government—pur
porting to represent the divine right of kings
or to he the socialistic superstate—ambitious
of territorial or commercial extension. The
treaty in its present form is by no means per
fect from the American point of view; but it
contains within itself the means of its own
perfecting.
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PROGRAM OF DIVISION NO. 15
I 0. 0. F. TO BE HELD WITH
CARL LODGE WEDNESDAY,
AUGUST 13th
Meet 10:00 A. M.
Organize.
Fill vacancies.
Appoint Committees.
10:30 A. M.—Adjourn for Pub
l'c Meeting.
Music.
Prayer.
Address of Welcome, Bro.
Frank Hall.
Response Bro. F. B. Maddox.
Address, Thus 13. Bonner, Grand
Master.
Address. W. B. Sloan, Past
(Jra n d Master.
Ben ♦'■notion.
AFTERNOON SESSION
Report of Committee on Creden
tials.
Roll Call. Reports of Lodges.
Reports of Committees.
Lodges not represented. State
of the Order.
Finance. Other Branches.
Next Meeting Place. Resolu
tion. General Pusiness.
Exemplification of U n written
Work.
Questions and Answers. Good
of the Order.
Adjourn.
W. T. RANDOLPH.
Physician and Surgeon
Winder National Bank Bldg.
Winder, Ga.,
Phones: office 303 Res. 311
All Calls answered promptly
Medici D e Furnished.
A Graphonola is what you want
and must have. See John S. Craft.
SPECIAL
“A House Divided”
0
This great Picture, featuring Sylvia Breamer and
Herbert Rawlinson, will be shown at The Strand
Theatre on
Friday, August Ist
Admission: Adults 25c Children lOc
STRAND THEATRE
WINDER, GEORGIA
CARTER HILL.
‘
On Thursday, Aug. 7th those
interested in the old Omer ceme
tery near here, are requested to
meet and assist in beautifying the
grounds and getting ready for the
annual memorial exercises on the
2nd Saturday in August.
Messrs. B. M. and G. C. Leach
of Mansfield, Ga., recently passed
this way enroute to spend a week
at Franklin, N. C.,
It is said that Rev. Owen Still,
of Florida, will spend some time
with relatives and friends here
during the revival in August.
Miss Myrtis Leach, of Mans
field, is planning to spend the 3rd,
week in August with relatives
here and in other sections of Bar
row.
Mrs. Emma Owens, of Atlanta,
is visiting her brother, Mr. Tom
Hinesley and family.
One of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie
Lynch’s twins, a boy named Ed
gar Leroy, was buried here -Mon
day. He was about 7 months old.
Rev. J. C. Harbin, of Bethel, con
ducted the funeral rites. Many re
latives and friends attended. The
floral offering was beautiful.
The mother could not lie present
on account of the other one having
taken seriously ill that morning
with apparently the same trouble.
Rev. Harbin spoke very beautiful
ly of a mother’s love, saying that
it only excelled by love of Jesus.
Mrs. Lynch, grand-mother of
little Edgar Leroy, and Messrs.
Carl Wells, and Mark Lynch, of
Atlanta, who have been with Hie
A. E. F., attended the burial here
QUALrn^g
- - . . .mb,. i Xjmrmt .
In may lines of merchandise you can get
along with second quality goods.
It is not so in hardware. More mqney is lost
on inferior quality hardware than on excessive
prices.
It is economy in hardware buying to patren
ize a reliable store, one that guarantees the qual
ito of each article sold.
WE GUARANTEE YOU VOUR MONEYS* WORTH
Woodruff Hardware Cos.
Winder, Georgia.
Monday.
I regret that 1 failed to mention
the fact that Mr. Vaughan Sims,
son of Air. and Mrs. A. J. Sims,
had returned from services with
the A. E. F., abroad, on Sunday
before last Mr. and Mrs. Sims had
their children and several broth
ers and sisters with them. Mr.'
Sims will resume the study of law ’
at Athens, where he was located
before entering the army.
FOR SALE.
The best looking, smoothest run
ing, easiest riding six cylinder, &
passenger Roadster in Barrow
County for tlie money, mechani
cally good, some terms to right
party.—Dr. E. F. Saxon.
FOR SALE.
Jersey cow fresh in, will sell at
a bargain, See J. N. Williams on
farm 7 miles, N. AV. of Winder, or
J. P. AYilliams, at office 308 Win
der Nat. Bank Bldg.
For Sale—One Rubber tire, top
Buggy, and Suray, good as new,
will sell at bargain. See me at one
—C. G. M°ore, South side of AVin
der.
WALTER W. McEVER.
Attorney-at-Law.
office in Court House
Specializing in Commercial
Law and Collections.
Winder, Ga.
If you need a good sewing ma
chine Sec John S. Craft.