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McADOO FOR PRESIDENT
By Fredrick J. Ilaskin.
Wi! hington I* * Nov 2. The
l cmoL.Cic par* : tc aske 1 iy
his friends to nominate William
< lihhs Me A doo for president, and.
if it accepts the invitation, the
people will he asked to elect him,
on the basis of bis past perfor
mances as a public executive. His
friends will attempt to impress on
the public consciousness the things
that McAdoo has done, and will
claim thal in these performances
he has proven himself the right
man for the big job.
There really ought to be more
talk of presidential possibilities.
The politicians and the public
men who have up their lightning
rods are getting a hit peevish be
cause the public interest is cen
tered on such mere trifles as coal
for the cellars of all of us, and es-'
tablishiug machinery for the con
duct of world affairs in the future.
They want to know who is to be
the standard hearer next year. As
far as the Democrats are concern
ed, there seems to he but a few
names mentioned, and these only
occasionally. The first of these is
McAdoo.
This man McAdoo started out
by driving the first of the tunnels
under the Hudson river. It was a
man’s job, done like a man. lie
went from Tennessee up to New
York, and won bis way to this ac
complishment. lie was y wiry, on
the-open executive, lie got things
done.
Then he came down to Washing
ton and became secretary of the
treasury. There he made many
now and big measures a reality.
To lie sure, lie w orked in hereulean
times. But even before the war lie
had done biff things. There vvas
the farm loan board, tor instance,
which has put out $150,000,000 in
loans to farmers at interest timel.
lower than they were ever able to
loot before. Ii lias made it possible
for any owner of farm land to get
monev on reasonable terms. Me
Adoo, his friends say, is responsi
ble for this, and the farmers
should appreciate the fact, lie
should get the farmer vote.
Then there is the federal reserve
system of hanking. It became a
law and was first operated under
the direction of Secretary Me
Adoo. It has solved the currency
riddle of the nation —aggravation
of a century. It handled the stup
endous burden of financing Urn
war. (five the credit to Me Adoo.
McAdoo vvas the man who first
pushed the shiping board idea in
congress, although that body fili
bustered against his. bill and de
layed t lie legislation for two years.
Otherwise the war might have
been won more quickly. McAdoo
was the daddy of war risk insur
ance as a substitute for pensions,
and the war risk bureau, an ag
ency of the treasury department,
has been mailing out checks by
the million ever since. There are
lots of people who tie into the risk
bureau. It forms a link to service
men and their families.
Then there were two stupendous
non-military jobs at home, each
ranking near the top among all
of the big jobs—getting the money
to fight tiie war and hauling war
supplies down to seaboard, lathe:
of these was a task tor a super
man. lint, say his admirers. Mr
Adoo handled both of them as side,
lines while conducting the war
duties ol a cabinet in mbcr.
Mr. M.-Adoo Lured t c coun
try when he was establishing the
farm loan hoard, meeting many
people. He toured it again when
v . fg i r< erve banks w< re be
ing established. During tbe war
he went ali around the map three
separate times. On all these trips
he met many people, important
people. He has a very wide ac
quaintance. People who know him
are likely to be for him.
It was as a Loan speak
er that the secretary was at his
best He warmed up on this sub
ject. He gave the impression of be-
ing an American down to the roots
fearfully in earnest in the midst
of a titantie struggle. He was bat
tling with the Hun. People got to
feel that McAdoo was of the fight
ing stuff from which true patriots
are made —scrappy patriots with
teeth. He made a lot of friends on
his Liberty Loan drives. Every
one of those loans was a stupend
ous success, lie did tlie job.
Then there was the job of run
ning the railroads of the nation,
operating trackage that would
reach ten times around the world,
an industry that maintained eight
million people. There has been a
lot of complaint against McAdoo,
says his friends, because of de
creased efficiency in the service of
the railroads. hTey also point to
the fact that we took over he
roads to accomplish the purpose
of the war. not to improve the ser
vice to stay-at-hom.es.
The railroad administration,
they say, transported troops to
the .seaboard w ith a hitch, and
kept supplies piled up on the
docks as fast as steamships could
be procured to take them away.
This was the purpose for which we
took the railroads. It was ■ right
well accomplished. .Just now. o
ward the end of government op
eration • f the i m roads, they a: ;
pAtiug back to profit paying. A
year from now Mr. McAdoo's
course will have been justified
People will lie coming to apprecia
te his accompli .1 meat.
I :o friends o; this versat"- j .\-
ecoMve <f'e telling little st rex
hue the followrg: In Fel it-w.
DMA the ambassadors of fbi.it
I’-itain, France and Italy cm "> - ,o
too head of the railroad ad ev
iration and sai ' “The absen ■ „f
win at in Kuroj . is breaking the
•no:ale of our people. liTe Card
Sates is behind in the aim uis
ti ai it was to '•cud. If we don’t
jv : wheat we are lost. The vv’ •!
is in the Cnited States, but :• ,t a
seCoard. I is u > to you.”
Mr. McAdoo .(‘ted immediacy,
lb . cored all M e available emp
ty cars on the Atlantic seaboard
made up into trains and si ruled
west. It was against all the lavs
of economical railroad operation
t. haul scores of empty tv.ins. Yet
rf v miles if them sped ve -t to
■ iiicago, rad.i ted out to the points
\ ' ere flier*; was grain, thee
loaded, and in a mouth wo:-.- hack
at seaboard w itli their v. hei'M
From that time no allied ship " us
at dock asking for wheat that did
not get it. The war emergency
was met. The had been accompli
shed with the McAdoo wallop.
McAdoo is the Roosevelt type,
say those Democrats who admit
the virtues of the former presi
dent. He is a man of the open, an
active, exuberant, life-loving man.
He tikes to dress in cowboy cloth
es arid ride the plains with out-of
door men. He likes action, accom
plish men.
He is not. in the movie business
as many people think. He is a law-
Land for Quick Sale
The large Willis Brown farm in Barrow County, Ca.
This farm is noted for iis fine, productive land, is divided
by Public mad from Winder to Lawrcnccvillc, known as
the lower road, lias splendid improvements, good dwel
ling?- ami fine barns. Ten horse farm open Tor cultivation,
30 acres of !)oitoms, situated near Carl and Auburn, Col
lege, S- lioi ( 'Lurches and Rail Road facilities close by.
Fine lot of timber and road. Well watered, good pastures.
Excellent for subdivision. Your opportunity to secure a
borne farm in this favored section. Only $(55.00 per acre.
Possession given on or before
in next 10 days or will rent and take off the market. Don’t
miss this chance. See me at once.
LAW, LANDS, LOANS
W. H. QUARTERMAN, Atty.
WINDER, GEORGIA
THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA.
yer with his shingle out. He is re
tained by a big movie corporation,
but not exclusively. It is one of
his clients, but he has many others
lie is practicing law, and. probab
ly. looking for a chance to put pep
into a presidential campaign.
His friends say lie is a League
of Nations man, that his policy
would he that America should as
sume her share of the world bur
den of responsibility for back
ward peoples in accordance with
the Wilsonian doctrine. They say
that he would handle problems at
home as a buzz-saw man of action
and practical experience might be
expected to handle them. They
say that he has been so close to in
ternational affairs that he would
he able to get hold quickly and
drive ahead.
They say that they know, and
the people know, the McAdoo way
of accomplishment. They are w ill
ing thal their candidate shall
stand or fall on his record.—At
lanta Journal.
6 BALES ON THREE ACRES
WITHIN CITY LIMITS.
A citizen of this city, who sells
horses and mules and farms on
the sideline has shown the folks
from Missouri how to make two
blades of grass grow' where only
one had previously grown. That
is to say, he has made this year,
within the incorporated limits of
Commerce, six bales of cotton on
three acres of land. The cotton
and the seed will bring in the
neighborhood of fifteen hundred
dollars or five hundred dollars per
acre. Now Hie question arises,
what is the value of land that
brings such enormous returns? Mr.
J. ('. Massey of the firm of Massey
and Montgomery, stock dealers ot
this place is the man who owns the
land that produced the cotton.—
Commerce Nows.
CAMPAIGN FOR REVALUA
TION N. C PROPERTY ON IN
THAT STATE
We are reproducing in this is
sue of the Times an article from
last Sunday’s Constitution bv -lule
B. Warren beaded “Real Value
in Money and Low Tax Rat s in
North ('arolina.
The item is rattier lengthy, but
brim full of valuable information
we invite your attention to this in
formation from N. < ’., as it is only
a question of a few years until
Georgia is certain tofa ee the same
problem.
If the Georgia tax law is per
fect, the equalizers are very im
perfect. The intention of the law
is perhaps, the very best for our
State. But the fulfillment there is
so far a miserable failure so far
as real equalization goes.
Read about how North Carolina
has gone about the job of equali
zing property values and the anti
cipated results.
CORRECT CONFEDERATE
HISTORY.
From the Vienna News.
No wonder that Miss Mildred
Rutherford, historian for the Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy,
stirred the meeting of the Sons of
Veterans in Atlanta w hen she call
ed attention to unjust articles and
histories that have been written
about the South, and asked tlie
sons to direct their efforts toward
righting the wrongs tlia have been
done the cause for which their fa
thers fought.
The histories of Ihe past fifty
years were largely written by
northern men. In them have been
perpetuated and given the world
as fact the fiction of camp gossip
and rumor and the partisan dis
tortion of the days following the
war between the states. The South
was startled when discovery was
made that these distorted histories
were being taught Southern chil
dren in Southern schools.
How many Georgia boys and
girls today know tlie real truth
about Libby prison, about the ex
change of prisoners, about the
treatment accorded prisoners
North and South, about the Hamp
ton Roads conference, about Lee’s
sui render, about Jefferson Davis’
capture and imprisonment and
failure to bring him to trial, toge
ther with hundreds of other facts
of like character?
LANDERS SENTENCED TO
HANG.
Following the denial by the su
preme court of anew trial for
Hollis Landers, convicted of kill
ing Sheriff Cliff Barber. Judge A.
.). Cobb opened a special session
of court in Jefferson on last Fri
day. and re sentenced Landers o
hang on .Friday, January 2nd.
Landers, who has been in the
Clarke county jail since the crime
was committed, was brought to
Jefferson by Sheriff Ned Pender
grass and Constable J. M. Deaton,
and was then returned to Athens.
MAYNARD
MERCANTILE CO.
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"The Only Shoe Store In
Barrow County ”
nr. a i ar
We sell the celebrated Queen
Quality Shoes for women. \ ' ;/
It is’nt necessary to wear clum- \
sy, cumbersom shoes in order to j Xm * )
get comfort. 1 j)
If your shoes are properly fit- C
ted, you can select the styles you
favor most—and get all the com- m X
fort in the world.
We fit shoes correctly because we take time and
the trouble to do it. And we have the required
experience.
i
Maynard Mercantile
Company
Broad Street Winder, Ga.
A leet Christmas Half Way
There’s much that joyous on this the greatets holiday
of the year. Do your shopping early and he prepared to
enjoy yourself.
Our space will he filled with timely gift suggestions,
clip out the advertisement and keep it in your shopping
bag for reference.
GIFTS FOR HIM.
Sterling Belt Buckles will Belt $4.00 to $20.00
Cuff Buttons SI.OO to $50.00
Stick Bins SI.OO to SIOO.OO
Tie Clasps SI.OO to SO.OO
Watch Chains $2.00 to $25.00
Watch Fobs $2.00 to $15.00
The shop of beautiful gifts is teeming with arrticles
large and small, suitable to every name on your Christmas
list.
Bay us a \isit. Mail orders given prompt attention.
E. A. MORGAN, Jeweler and Optician
10 E. Hunter Street. Atlanta, Ga.,
There is economy in a few steps around the corner.
One DozenSecondHanded, Slightly Used
FORDS
For sale at Bell Home in edge of
Winder on Bankhead Highway.
W. F. Bell & Son
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20th