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THE BARROW TIMES Published Every Thursday. A G LAMAR, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Copy Six Months 75 One Copy One Year $1.50 Official Orj:an Barrow Comity All Communications Must. Be Signed By the Writer. Knterrt and us second ( lass Mail matter fit the post 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. O 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. O 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.