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"WINDER, GEORGIA THE BARROW TIMES Published Every Thursday. A. G. LAMAR, Editor SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Copy Six Months 75 One Copy One Year $1 ><") 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.