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"WINDER, GEORGIA
THE BARROW TIMES
Published Every Thursday.
A. G. LAMAR, Editor
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Official Organ Barrow County
All Communications Must Be Signed By the Writer.
Knt erred a* 4 second-class Alail matter tit the post
office at Winder, da., under Act of Congress
March 3, IS7P.
THE ADMINISTRATION AND LABOR.
President Wilson’s administration has
been marked by friendliness to labor, a de
sire to her fair and jus? to all producers of
wealth ami genuine sympathy for those who
toil.
History 'sill show that no previous adrnin
istration has made the effort to equalize kur
orts. to recognize the rights of those who la
bor. ;m has ignored the demands which have
always been granted the powerfulbinterests
by former administrations as lias the Wilson
administration.
These are facts that cannot tie denied by
any political student who is not warped by
prejudice and refuses to be fair and just in
his criticisms of men and measures.
It seems to be one of the weaknesses of hu
manity that those of us who condemn greed
and tyrany, who abuse and criticise wealth
and power are just as extreme and autocra
tic in our demands w hen the opportunity al
lows us to show our real selves.
When the merchant charges exorbitant
profits for the necessaries of life, when he
knows the parties are forced to huy. is doing
the very thing lie condemns in the Standard
Oil Cos.. and other corporations.
When the farmer takes advantage of con
ditions that "ill enable him to sell a cord of
stove wood for $12.00 to an unfortunate wi
dow or poor person in a town, lie is very in
consistent when he criticises the meat trust
and the wall street cotton speculators.
When the railway mechanics who are get
ting approximately from six to nine dollars
per day threaten to stop all trains prevent
ttie transportation of nil foods and necessa
ries of life, and thus bring on ruin, disorder
and starvation unless they receive a big in
crease over their present scale of wages, they
are letting selfishness and forgetfulness of
others control their actions, and are doing
more to bring on the evils which threaten the
happiness and prosperity of our nation and
the preservation of life and liberty to our cit
izens than the evils of which they complain.
If our government is to stand, the people
who compose it must recognize what law and
government means to all of us ami oppose
the tilings which tend to disrupt it.
Profiteering should he punished to the full
limit, corporations should lie forced to do
justice to labor, and labor should not he al
lowed to bring on conditions hurtful to its
own welfare, ruinous to ail classes and end
ing in revolution ami destruction.
The Times is always in sympathy with la
bor in its just struggles for recognition, but
cannot indorse a course that implies rule or
ruin.
GOT OUT FIRST ISSUE OF ATLANTA
- CONSTITUTION.
i .
The Ktlifor of The Times was rvt Columbia
na. Alabama, one lay lasi week ami while
there visited the ofiioe of the Shelby <'ounty
Sun, Edited and owned by E. K. Carter.
Columbiana, the County seat, of Shelby
County, is located in a beautiful valley that
is rich and fertile and has a magnificent mar
ble court house costing $250,000.
SI olby is one of the wealthy counties of
Alabama, its taxable property amounting to
nearly eight million dollars, and its possibi
lities unlimited on account of its rich farm
ing lands, its large industrial plants and in
exanstible deposits of iron, coal, lead and
other minerals.
Shelby county adjoins Jefferson, in which
Birmingham is located, and is therefore, in
the center of the greatest industrial section
of the south if not of the United States.
The possibilities of this section of Mabama
are so marvelous, the resources so unlimited
an the opportunities so inviting that in a
period of a few years to come immense for
tunes will be realized from investments in
lands that will enchauce in value four and
five times the amount of present prices.
But what we started to write about was,
that wl ile in the office of I'be Shelby ( ounty
Sun, we met Mr. A. W. Brooks, the foreman
of tlial bright paper, who is now active at
the age of seventy years, ami he informed us
that I e helped to get off the first issue of The
Atlanta < ’destitution.
This was many years ago. and we began
thinking over those years that ha' f made
history, of the number of men and politicians
in Georgia The Constitution had helped to
make and unmake of its successful and con
tinued growth ami influence since that first
issue, of the wonderfulu development of the
South since that time and now. the part this
great paper had played in furthering this
development, r."d we could not tu dp feeling
good for the old man who enjoyed a just
pride in the fact that he was ore among these
who got off its first issue.
WHAT A EARROW COUNTY BOY ELAS
ACCOMPLISHED.
About sixteen years ago a quiet, unassum
ing. but ambitious boy, worked for the Edi
tor of The Times when lie was editing “The
Economist’’ of Winder.
This boy was working for us at that time
for the small salary of $15.00 per month,
studying at spare hours and at night, and
two or three nights every week going to the
superintendent of our school for his exam
inations.
At the end of the term he stood at the head
of his classes without everattending school.
By borrowing money he then entered the
Technological school at Atlanta and graduat
ed with first honors.
lie then went to work at a small salary
with the same determination to succeed that
had been his motto from a boy and continued
to rise in bis chosch life work.
The Editor of The Times was in Birming
ham. Alabama, last week and found this
young man, in whom he had during all these
years felt a deep interest. Superintendent of
the Southern Car Wheel Cos., one of the larg
est manufacturing plants of its kind in the
south, drawing a salary of $3900.00 per year.
The young man who has made this great
success is Mr. Clyde Appleby, oldest son of
Mr. W. T. Appleby of our city.
Tl is should lie an object lesson to young
men who are ambitious as it shows what can
he done if a young man leaves off the follies
of youth and determines to win in life’s bat
tle.
A LESSON FROM LOUISIANA.
That reclaimed swamp lands arc not in
danger of unusual damage during seasons of
prolonged or excessive rains, but in fact fare
particularly well in flood time as well as in
drouth, is interestingly evidenced by the re
cent experience or planters in southern Loui
siana Rains in that territory have been so
continuous and heavy that, much anxiety w*
felt for crops, especially for those in district*
which were marshes or bogs before drainage
converted them into farm sites. But the agri
cultural commissioner of Louisiana report*,
niter an extensive tour of the southern re
gion that the corn and rice on the reclaimed
ands are as flourishing as any in the state,
indeed more so than in many otb'"* districts.
Likewise in long rainless periods when
other lands may be baking and the vegeta
tion burning up. the erstwhile swamp* and
soggy bottoms will >e luxuriantly green. In
this connection the New Orleans Times-Pien
yune recalls that in 1917 and 1918 “when a
severe drouth prevailed throughout Texa*
and the mountain states, cattle suffered so
greatly from lack of water and the drying up
of pasturage that thousands of animals had (
to be sent east to save them, numbers coming
to Louisiana. The result was an enormous in
crease and development in our cattle and
dairying industries.”
Evidence like this should encourage Ueor-,
gia to prosecute with quickened and widened :
energy the great work of reclaiming her own
swamp and overflowed lands. There are more
than seven and a half million such acres in
our ('ommonwealth —approximately one-sev
enteenth of its entire area. hTc labor of re
claiming this empire of fertility has barely
begun. The drainage districts thus far ofgan
ixo<l represent upwards of fourteen thousand,
acres This is a mere hand’sbreadth, compar
ed with the total task to lie performed. But j
ii is enough to show the feasibility and the
profitableness of drainage undertakings in
Georgia. It is enoub to demonstrate that at a
cost of thirty dollars an acre, or less, an da j
which were virtually worthless can he raised
to a value of one hundred and fitly dollars an
acre, or more, andto a pitch of productive
ness that rivals the rich borders of the Nile
itself Whilst, then, we have not gone far into
this immense. Atlanta Journal.
COMMON SENSE AND FAIR PLA\.
Persons given to speaking twice before
thinking once sometimes berate the grocery
man for the high cost of living. A little reflec
tion will show how unreasonable this is. and
how unfair. In the grocery business, both re
tail and wholesale, where risks are exception
ally large and margins of profit oftimes very
narrow, prices like those now prevailing are
anything Imt desirable; for tliev force con
sumers to stringent economy and thus tend
to reduce the volume of trade, Grocers pros
per when they can buy at a figure which en
ables them to sell at prices that are inviting
to the average purse. But they cannot con
trol or determine the food market any more
than the consumer himself. They are no more
responsible for a world shortage of necessa
ries than lawyers or clergymen are. and are
no more to blame when the processes of dis
tribution are interrupted or impared. They
‘are at the mercy of those incidents and torccs
just as we all are. It is not reasonable, it is
not just to single them out for condemnation.
Some there may be who take advantage of
the times to charge beyond a fair profit, and
assuredly these ought to be condemned lmt
the rank and file of groeerymen are having
as hard a struggle with the eost of living as
*v any of their customers, and would wel
come above all else a decline in the market
whose dictates they must follow Ask any in
formal! official of the United States Food Ad
ministration about the grocers’ war record.
He will tpll you that as a rule they co-operat
ed with ungrudging loyalty in the Govern
ment’s every effort to conserve food and to
keep prices within hounds. And so will the
great majority of them co-operate today. Let
not such a spirit be met with snarling anil ig
norant criticism. These dealers are rendering
service without which every household and
verv community would be at a loss where to
♦urn and what to do. They ask only a fair
uompensation. and to that they certainly are
entitled. — Atlanta Journal.
THE EARROW TIMES
THIS HIGH PRICE SITUATION SEEMS
TO BE AN ENDLESS CHAIN.
While the government forces are planning
to take some definite action toward reducing
1 1he high cost of living the people will contin
jue to pay higher prices and suffer until the
relief comes, if it does come. Where to begin
lon cutting down high prices is the question.
Some lay the blame on one class, some on an
other. Some say that the five big meat pack
ers are most to blame for high food prices,
while others lay all the blame on somebody
else. So far as food is concerned the meat
packers are about as much to blame as any
one else but what they have done has been
* done in a series of years and cannot be un
done at once, so immediate relief from prose
cution of the packers is a mere delusion.
A backfire from the high price charges is
now coming from various sources and now
the retailers are getting under fire. The far
mers are also coining in for their share of the
charges of profiteering. Only the other day
25 farmers were arrested in Pittsburg on the
charge of profiteering. No matter what hap
pens to the farmers in one place few can
blame him for trying to get all he can for his
product. The American farmer has been un
der the bottom for about fifty years and
I nothing but the stress of a world war has
(shown him that he has a chance to get out
from under and make some headway toward
the top. So much for the farmer.
| As for the retailers in all lines of food
stuffs and clothing materials they have had
little to say regarding high prices. They can
always show why they must raise prices. The
manufacturers raise their prices and the re
tailers must raise theirs. This is their defense
when they are charged with making prices
too high and they can always show their in
voices to prove their case. But right here is
I where the retailer jnust be careful. A man
testified before a committee in congress the
other day that he bought a pair of shoes and
was charged 75 cents more per pair than he
had paid only a few months before. He was
told that this had to be done to meet increas
ed freight charges. The buyer knew all about
freight charges and showed the dealer that
the increased charge was only 5 cents per
pair yet he had increased the price of the
shoes 75 cents. The retailer had no answer.
These are some of the problems that con
gress is wrestling with and the wrestlers will
find an endless chain covering all prices and
raises in prices. The end of the chain must he
found if it has to be cut in two and hurt
somebody or some big business. The people
of this country will not stand for a continua
tion of raises in high prices, most of which
seem unreasonable.—Athens Herald.
O
TELL IT TO THE EDITOR.
Day before yesterday a perfectly iiica lady .-ailed
up. tears in ber voice, and reproved u. for not men
tioning the fact that she had a friend visiting her
last week. We told her she had not let ns know she
had a visitor. Then she said: “Well, yon should
have known. 1 thought you were riiDniug a news
paper. ’ ’
Wouldn’t that rattle your slatstf Some people
think that an editor ought to hr a eross between Ar
gus and Anna Eva Fay. They seem to think that
our five senses are augmented by a sixth that let*
us know everything that happens, even if we tee.
hear, feel, taste or smell it not.
Dear lady, editors are only human, or, at least,
almost human. If you have a friend visiting you,
if you are going away, or have returned from a visit
out of town, if Johnie falls and braks his arm, if
your husband chops his toe instead of a stick of
wood, if anything happens to make you glad or sad.
happy or mad, call us up. That’s the way to get
in the paper.—The Walton Tribune.
• • •
EDITORS AND LAWYERS.
A lawyer in a court room may call a mat * liar,
thief, villian or scoundrel and no one makes com
plaint when court adjourns. If * newspaper prints
suuch a reflection on a man’s character there is a
libel suit or a dead editor. This is owing to tho fact
that the people believe what an editor says. Sopor
ton News.
Sonic follow bobs up and affirms that new i the
time to build good roads; that a little later, the rick
people will all own airships and having thrown their
liniosines into the junk heap, using'air ships, they
won’t care a tinkers dam whether the common peo
ple have good roads or not.
AIN’T it so?
If you want to live in the kinil of a tnwi
Like the kind of a town you like.
You needn’t slip your clothes in a grip
And start on tong, long hike.
You’ll only find what you left behind,
For theft's nothing really new.
It’s a knock to yourself when you knock your twe
It isn’t your town —it ' you.
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody *!se gets ahead;
When overv one works and nobody shirk*
You can raise a town from the dead.
And if you can make your personal stake.
Your neighbor can make one. too.
Your town will be what you wait to see;
It inn't your town —it * you.
—Doited Fine.
We are afraid the Atlanta Constikuutioa ts taking
Facie John shannon too seriously about chicken be
ing as “free ns air" up at Commerce. Of course
there are several wavs to get your chicken, buut we
doubt if the free supply that may he securtd up
there i as inexhanstibla as the air. And the Con
stitution printed it right next to Frank L. Stantoa’•
“ flight Cost World - ’ l’oem too!—Marietta Journal.
And likewise, we fear our Brother David Com
fort. of the Marietta Journal took uus ’’too *er
iouslv" when he denounced tins n a common fool,
for writing in a hutanrou vein about the danen at
the Monroe Pro* Meat.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
R. E. Moss, Minister.
Sunday School 11 o’clock. Claud
Mayne, Supt. Let us have every
one present on time.
Morning worship 12 o’clock.
Brother Wallace has kindly con
sented to conduct the service. Me
will make a brief talk in connec
tion with the communion service.
There will he no evening service.
The minister is away on his vaca
tion. All are urged to attend the
norning service.
WANTED—
The name and address of every minister of
the Gospel in Barrow county, and name of
churches sered. Eery school teacher and
name of school where they teach. Every old
soldier with their age. Every old Bachelor
and old Maid. The name and address of ev
ery hoy that went to France. If you will
mail the information at once to the Secreta
ry it will he greatly appreciated,
NORTH GEORGIA FAIR
PHONE 233 A. L. JACOBS, Sec y.
Fair office upstairs over Merck’s Wholesale
Company on Jackson street.
J^nCREDIT
CONFIDENCE
SOME men can borrow large sums
of money on their signature alone.
WHY?
Simply because they made their names stand
for integrity and judgment.
You can do the same thing. A well-kept
Checking Account at this Bank will start you on
the road.
You can not start such a Credit too soon.
A BAKK FOR X * LL Tfi£ /y£iDPLE
WINDER. .
“As A Man Thinks”
FRIDAY A^ ST
Strand Theatre
THURSDAY, AUGUST 28
MONEY TO LOAN ON FARM
LANDS.
At 6 Per Cent Interest
I make farm loans for five
years’ time in amounts from
$500.00 to SIOO,OOO.
I have an office on the 2nd
floor °f the Winder National Bank
Building, and am in my Wi n der
office on Wednesday and Friday of
each week.
S. G. BROWN, Attorney.
LavvrencevHle, G^-gia.