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VOLUME 7 NO. 6 FROM MY TRIP THRU WEST By R. L. WOODRUFF) Everyone believes he is the hard est hit, are facts gathered from my trip to Memphis, Term., Chic ago, 111., South Bend, lud., and a stop off at Hopkinsville, Ky. on my way back from a free trip to the Chicago Automobile Show. 1 visited the four above men tioned cities, and at every place and with every person with whom talked on the trains, 1 learned w that 1 hey, and their sections, were hardest hit, to hear them tell it, so at least we all have our troubles. The manufacturer thinks lie is hurt worst of all; the jobber thinks he is stuck deeper than the others, and the retail merchant knows he is stuck worse, because he has a loss on what lie spld and what he did not sell. The far mers say they are ruined, so there is but one thing to do and that is forget it and go to work to make back what we lost. It has always been said that where we lost any thing, is the place to find it, and we have learned that where we made money in 1917, 1918 and 1919, we lost il in 1920; they say it is fill for the best, so if it is, WHAT WOULD THE WORST HAVE BEEN? Every man is taking his losses and the farmers are taking theirs and are not through. The cotton farmer is harder hit than any p ulher farmer because he did not sell in time. He listened to the wrong fellow and his cotton that would have brought him 30 cents a pound is still his. All other classes of farmers sold rapidly, getting as much of the high price as possible before it went down and none has as low as cot ton and a larger per cent of cotton is being held thu any other crop. A tobacco farmer at Hopkinsville, Ivy., said “I remembered how quickly tilings dropped after the Civil war and 1 told the boy’s to sell..and most all of them did, so we got a lot of our crop off before the slump. If they' had held it they would have been in as bad fix as the cotton farmer.” An automobile d ealer from Texas said they sold their crop of cotton early and got better prices than if they had waited, and the good crop wisely marketed places them in fairly good shape. A Ken tucky' flour mill man toud me on the train that he sold flour to job : bers in several states and in all sections business was normal ex cept where they held cotton. lie know every jobber all around us —Athens, Atlanta, Gainesville and Winder, and says that jobbers in the cotton bolding section that wc*re never known to fail to take their discounts were begging for extra dating, all from the fact that the farmer had held his cot ton and had not paid the merchant and the merchant had not paid the jobber or mills. All sections are talking diversi fication. and that is the only sal vation now. Even some of the big mouth-holding advocates that said when it was 45 cents per pound to hold it for 50cents, and when it dropped below 40 cents said hold it for 45 and when it was 35 said hold it for 40. and all the way down the line until they have caused their friends to lose for tunes and women and children to go hungry, all for the reason that they did not look op but one side of the question. Nowthey .say the only salvation for the farmer is to reduce the acreage. Sober THE BARROW TIMES ! HIGHEST SPEAKING HONORS GO TO RCSS AND STEPHENS The las! issue of the Georgia Pub licity Bureau had the following to say of a Winder boy who is stand ing shoulder to shoulder with the best and brightest of the college fraternity of the State University: In the (Competitive try-outs for 1 lie Anniversarian, Julian E. Ross, of Winder, won this honor in Demosthenian, and W. 11. Steph ens in l’lii Kappa. Of all the speaking honors in the University that of is consider ed as perhaps the greatest, and is certainly attended with more for mality than any other. One speaker is selected from each so ciety to speak mi the chapel on the night of February the 21st. inconi memeration of the founding of the Demosthenian and Phi Kappa lit erary societies. The contenders for these places are left to their own discretion in selecting the subject for their ora tions, but they are supposed to write them themselves. Both of the winners in these con tests are of high standing in the University and rate among the best speakers in college. Ross, of Demosthenian, was Freshman De bater, Sophmore Debater, S‘‘"h --v more Declaimer, Impromp * de bater, Junior OratorChampidi De bater, member of Junior Cabinet, Senior Round Table, Scabbard and Blade, Thalian Dramatic Club and President Demosthenian So ciety. Stephens of 1 ’hi Kappa, was Freshman. Debater, Intercol legiate Debater and a member of Junior Cabinet. at last; and what pity they did not tell them Ist September and October. So now, all factions agree on diversification, and it is well we do, for today the differ ence in the raw material and the manufactured product is more than ever and will remain so for several reasons. Freight is twice as high; the Western hay is higher on that account. Why should you pay the high freight rates when you can grow your own feed-stuff? All lines of business are being conducted on more ex pensive basis than ever before, so cut out the increased freight, the increased clerk hire and the increased store rent by raising your food-stuff at home. That will settle that much of the com plaint and then compare prices with those in normal times five years ago, and it is not as bad as we think. For instance, a two horse Oliver, Syracuse or Vulcan plow cost SB.OO to $9.00 when cot ton was ten cents and no one com plained, and now cotton 15 cents* per pound and the plow $15.00. Not so much out of line at last, so what is the trouble anyhow? Well, it is this: One year ago cotton was 40 cents per pound and the same plow $15.00, and not one time did a farmer tell us that we should he getting $35.00 for that plow, be cause it was $9.00 when cotton was 10 cents per pound, so if we had kept our merchandise up with cotton we would have gotten $35.00 for that plow last year and then we could give you one free this year, hut we made a reason able profit then and you profited. Now s cotton was the first to go up and you profited in the begin ning, it is perfectly natural that it would he the first to come down. After all we can do no good blow ing the other fellow. All he wants is a profit and they had as soon it would be high as low, so they get a profit. So you can see the fac tories are laughing up their sleeves at the cotton holding game. WINDER, BARROW COUNTY, GA., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1921. TOM THUMB WEDDING ON FRIDAY EVENING fine of the great events of Win der will be the Tom Thumb wed at tlie school auditorium. * Every one will wish to see this as it will be one of the most amus ing and entertaining occasions ever seen in Winder. Get ready for this wedding, tell your friends about it and be present. There will be a crowded house, so be on hand early. MR. T. L. MC-CURRY GUEST OF A. D. MC-CURRY. Mr. T. L. MeCurry, of Detroit, Michigan, was the guest Sunday and Monday of his brother, Mr. A. D. MeCurry. He is one of the divisional managers of the Ford Motor Com pany with a territory extending from Washington, D. ('. to Texas. Mr. MeCurry is a native of Hart county, Georgia, and lias risen to this high position on account of his. efficiency and strict applica tion to business. WORDS FROM THE WISE Life cannot be judged, it must be lived. —Henri Bergson. ■He who gaius nothing, loses. — Catherine of Prussia. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.— O. W. Holmes. Passioas are likened best to floods and streams; the shallow murmur, hut the deep are dumb. — Sir Walter Raliegh. 1 had rather have a fool to make merry than experience make me sad.—Shakespeare. What hypocrites we seem to he whenever we talk of ourselves! Our words sound so humble, while our hearts are so proud.-—Hare. Patience is the ballast of the soul that will keep it from rolling and tumbling in the greatest storms. — Bishop Hopkins. Friendship improves happiness, and abates misery by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of grief.—Cicero. Children have neither past nor future; and, that which seldom happens to us, they rejoice in the present. —La Bruyere. Just enough turned loose every month to keep them moving. If it continues the farmer will fi nance the factories by holding his stock until he can spin it up in goods. Well, plant potatoes, build cur ing houses and get $200.00 per acre from your land with one-half of the work of cotton. Grow pea nuts enough to fatten your meat and then you can cut your ferti lizer bill half in two. Reduce your cotton acres, widen the rows sothe sun will help you to fight the boll weevil. Do not reduce the fertilizer to the row. * Let your distributor stay just like you had il last year, for with the boll weevil we need fertilizer more to rush it on ahead of theweevil, but reduce both the number of acres and the number of rows per acre, cutting the amount of fertilizer. In that way we will all come out better after all. Remember one thing that when we are feeling good we are not as rich as we think we are. and when we are blue we are not as poor as we think we are. Get on the ground floor; come out of the cel lar where we fell from the upper story and get hack where we be long. Yours for better times, OFFICIAL ORGAN OF BARROW COUNTY I MR. AND MRS. J. C. PHILLIPS ESCAPE SERIOUS INJURY IN AUTOMOBILE COLLISION Mr. and Mrs. J. ('. Phillips, of Monroe;, were out riding - Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Webb, of that eity, as their guest. * A negro driving a large ear for a young man of Social Circle pas sed another car in front of him and ran into the car of Mr. Phil lips who was meeting them. Mr. Phillips ’ car was badly damaged arid while all three of the occupants received some bruises they mere not seriously hurt. The young man driven by the negro was cut and bruised con siderably, the windshield of his car having been smashed in the collision. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jackson went down to Monroe Sunday hs soon as they learned of the acci dent and Mrs. Jackson will remain there with her father and mother this week. LIGHTNING STRIKES CHIM NEY Lightning struck one of the chimneys of the residence of Mr. J M. Poole on Athens street last Monday night and knocked off all the top above the roof. No other damage was done and no oii( was hurt. Carrington’s Cafe located at 106 Broad St. is one of the needed places for Winder and is already meeting with a liberal ptrouage. Splendid service and weel cooked meals is the motto of Carrington’s Cafe. DEATH OF COL. HAL NOWELL The death of Col. Hal Nowell, of Monroe, last Monday morning brought sadness to all of that city of Walton county and this section. He was one of Monroe’s leading lawyers and citizens and his death is a distinct loss to his countyaadn and state. CONFINED TO ROOM WITH CARBUNCLE Mr. W. .1. Herrin, one of Win der’s live and active business men has been confined to his room part of this week suffering from a severe carbuncle on His neck. BACK FROM NEW YORK Mr. .1. T. Strange, of J. T. Stran ge and Cos., has returned from New York where he went ten days ago to buy new goods for this big department store. This firm keeps abreast of the times and is determined to keep its large store filled with the la test styles and with what the peo ple need and must have. TAX BOOKS OPEN % The tax books are open at the Courthouse to receive tax returns for the present year 1921—will he at the (’outhouse until the !9th of Fell, afterwards Saturday only. .1 .1. Shedd, R. T. R. Barrow (Vanity. NOTICE A course in Business V riting of fered. No previous training necessary. Three lessons, 30 min utes each, given per week. Char ges $7.50 for entire course, which <vm be completed in three months, at least—time dependent upon aptness of pupil. Please confer, AT ONCE, with ALMA HAY GOOD, Teacher Penmanship in W. 11. S. 109 Church St. City. HAVE DISCOVERED THE TROUBLE The specialists of Atlanta have located the trouble in the serious illness of Rev. W. IT. Faust. They have found it was a stone in the kidney and efforts >vill lip made to dissolve it without having j to perform an operation. Winder and all this section are hoping that Mr. Faust may soon he restored to health and hack home again. BOLL WEEVILS PLENTIFUL Mr. J. F. Burnson, one of the splendid farmers of Pentecost dis trict, had a field last year which he did not cultivate and let it grow up in weeds. He informed the Times last Mon day while in Winder that these weeds are literally filled withboll weevils and that when you broke them open there was no difficulty in finding all of these little pests you desired to see. This is one of the problems with which ..we are to contend this year that is worrying most farmers and which may seriously affect the cotton fields of Barrow County. It is the part of wisdom to pre pare to meet this enemy and use every precaution possible to pre vent serious loss and damage. Mr. Cus Richardson spent one day at home with his grandpar ent's Inst week. Gus is making good and has a fine position at Birmingham. Mrs. Omie Richardson, of At lanta, was a visitor the past week end to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. McElhanuon. Statham high school notes will appear next week and several other local matters left out for causes we could not prevent. On Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock the B. V. P. P.’s of the Ap. palacliee Association will meet at the First Baptist church at Win der for the purpose of organizing an assoeiational B. Y. P, U. Mr. and Mrs. Mark Sims and baby, Mrs. John Shields, Mrs. Lillie Lamar, Miss Utha Shields 'and Mr. Guy Shields motored to At liens Sundy. Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Ilamhy, of Gainesville, spent the week-end with Dr. and Mrs. W. L. Mat thews and Mrs. Ella Whitehead. Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Brady spent Sunday in Athens. Rev. and £lrs. Will Rutledge have rooms with Rev. and -Mrs. W. E. Moore. Mr. Brady Hill has boon confin ed to his room several days on ac count of illness. IMPORTANT NOTICE—IN COME TAX RETURNS Commerce, Georgia, Feb. 4,1921. Mr. A. G. Lamar, Winder Ga. Dear Sir: I would thank you kindly to say to the public through the columns of your paper that 1 will lie in your city on Feb. I,Bth and 19th 1921, for the purpose of assisting the public in rendering their 1920 Income Tax returns. Two days only. Yours truly W. M. Bryant, Deputy Collector. Mr. and Mrs. I. E. Jackson spent the week-end in Hosehton. $1.50 IN ADVANCE MR. JOHN R. AUSTIN LOSES BY FIRE I On last Thursday night Mr. Jno. K Aushtin, of this city, sustained a heavy loss by fire. Ilis garage, a large casing, 5J gallons of oil and a truck were burned. The loss runs over #4,000 and was only partially insured. I VISITS HIS MOTHER SUNDAY' Mr. John W. Millsaps, the big wholesale mule dealer and busi ness man, of Atlanta, was here Sunday visiting his mother. The many friends of Airs. Ga llic Millsaps will regret to know that she is in very delicate health and her condition is the eaus e of much uneasiness to her children. Mr. John Millsaps always re cones a warm welcome to Winder where most of his days were spent, until going to Atlanta a few years ago, and all of them are proud of his great sucres in the business world. Mr. Arch Perry nd sons, Leon and W. R„ and Mr H. H. Segars visited Miss Sue Dell Perry at the Normal school in Athens last Sun day. Mrs. Arch Perry visited friends and relatives at Campton, last Sunday. Mr. R L. Manning, the big far mer and gin man of Bethlehem district spent Tuesday afternoon in Winder. Mrs. Cox, of Cmilla, left for her home Monday after spendng sev eral days with her sister Mrs. Roy Smith. Mrs. W. B. Mathews and Miss Johnnie Lou Smith spent Wed nesday in Atlanta. Mrs. Jobe Hill has been confin ed to Her room several days this week. Born to .Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Sims on last Saturday, a ten-pound baby boy who Ims been named Be laud Ross Sims. The mother and fine Hoy are doing nicely and Kr nest has reduced His hours at the bank so as to watch the young fel low wink at him and continue to grow. While on duty at the North Georgia Trust and Banking Com pany, however, he is still polite and courteous to all patrons and wears a broad smile. INCOME TAX IN A NUTSHELL WHO? Single persons who had a net income of SI,OOO or more for the year 1920; married couples who had a net income of $2,000. WHEN? March 15, 1921, is the final date for filing returns, and making first payments. WHERE? Collector of Internal Revenue for district in which Un person resides. IIOW, Full directions on Form 1040A and Form 1040; also the law and regulations. WHAT? Four per cent normal tax on taxable income up to $4,000 per cent normal lax on balance of taxable income. Surtax from 1 per cent to 65 per cent on net in comes over $5,000. HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE FOR SALE—On account of moving,will sell furniture of 13-room house, consisting of bed-room, parlor and dining room suits, dressers, iron beds kitchen tables and safe, Ma jestic range, refrigrator, rugs, chairs, shades, tea wagon, vacuum cleaner etc. MRS. R. O. ROSS.