The Barrow times. (Winder, Barrow County, Ga.) 19??-1921, February 24, 1921, Image 3

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Newspaper Page TextONTARIO THROTTLED it GMSPIHG PDIITICHNS Facts of Vital Interest to Everybody in Georgia Attempt to Build Similar Despotic Political Ma chine With Georgia Money The bulletins of the Municipal League of Georgia devote much space to telling the people of Georgia about how cheaply water powers have been developed in Ontario and about the low rates charged for electric service in Ontario, and how the farmers uae electric current to plow, wash clothes, milk the cow and churn. Of course the writer of these bulle tins had to go a long distance from home to find the conditions suitable for a back-ground for his proposed raid on the treasury of Georgia. On tario is a great distance from Geor gia and few Georgians visit Ontario. Therefore, misstatements and half truths could be uttered with more safety. Evidently there is nothing In the results of ventures by cities in the United States in Municipal Owner ship of Public Utilities that appeals to him. He did for a while refer to Seattle’s plunge into the street rail way business, but when Seattle was forced to raise fares on its municipally owned street car lines and beg the street car company to return the bonds paid the Street Car Company and take back the system, he was com pelled to return to Ontario and its municipalities, now burdened with ap palling debt because of their endorso merre of a venture in the Socialistic do vine of public ownership of pri vate business. The Truth About Ontario Ontario is a long, long way from Georgia, and the people in Georgia could not know of the complaints of comnier ial bodies about the poor ser vi. • rendered, nor of the political ma chine. throttling the energies of the previnco, nor f the 570.000.000 00 of expenditures for which the public of the province must eventually be taxed in addition to paying ever increasing deficiencies in operating the plants and selling their products nt. less than cost, nor of the manipulations of rec ords necessary to keep these deficien cies hidden from the people. Therefore, let us talk about On tario. One of the greatest water powers in the civilized world. Niaga ra Falls, is at Ontario’s door. At Niagara Falls more power can be de veloped at less outlay than at any other spot in North America. The flow of water over Niagara Falls compared with the flow of the streams rf Georgia, makes the stream flow in Georgia appear ridiculous. The money necessary to build a dam which in Georgia impounds the flow of one smnlJ stream, would at Niagara Falls produce four times as much horse power, and storage dams, absolutely necessary in Georgia to hold- water for dry seasons, are unnecessary at Niagara Falls. In Georgia all the real commercial water powers are in the hill country, near the head waters of the rivers, where the volume of water is comparatively small. The streams of Georgia during dry peri ods become small and the develop ment of a large and reliable quantity of power requires great engineering skill and large expenditures of money. Many dams must be built, some for generating stations and some to store large bodies of water, for use during the dry season. If Georgia had a Niagara Falls within onr hundred miles of Atlanta, the cost of develop ing electric power would be greatly decreased. Destructive Policy The Hydro-Electric Commission of Ontario is the pattern after which the Municipal League cf Georgia is drawn. Tho Ontario Commission has been in existence about fourteen years, and up to 1920 had developed less than G 0,009 horse power, but in the meantime, it had sandbagged the private companies which had develop ed water powers in that territory and forced them to accept whatever price the Commission felt disposed to offer for their properties, and had taken over many of the privately owned properties. Its policy has been de sire ctive, not constructive. A Of course, the Province of Ontario and its municipalities put up the money for these so-called purchases and a proposed system of radial rail ways, and have issued bonds to raise money to the extent of something over $70,000,000.00, and because of this enormous debt the credit cf tho Province of Ontario is impaired. The Hydro-Electric Commission of On tario is entangled in politics and its service has become so inadequate, in efficient and unsatisfactory that com plaints by commercial bodies are fre quent. The political influence of the Hydro-Electric Commission is so for midatde that any effort to regulate %t --is abortive. This is exactly whart Mssw. Key, Eagan and Jackson want to bring about In Georgia. They tensk to buGd a political machine which vnilj eontmal Georgia and pare the tooy, lor Socialism, and they want the pub lic to furnish them the jnoiury *ntk i chick to do iU ] a Slamming the Lounger. Many a man’s standing would ketter If he didn’t spend so m dating.—Boston Transcript. _____ n LET US CONFER WITH YOU ABOUT LUMBER If you never bought from us ou ca r ®®^ z ® the many advan our aim to sell at prices that will move our stock quickly. Thebene / WILLIAMS-THOMPSON CO. _ .J Phone 88 SHARON For last week. z School at this place is progress ing nicely. Mr. J. W. Parks and daughter, Pauline and her teacher, Miss Gwendolyn Mann, made a business trip to Winder Saturday. Mr. llarvie Clark, of County Line, spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Simpson. Little Miss Modane Lancaster spent Sunday night with her aunt, Mrs. Lola Maddox. Miss Viola Mauldin is spending this week with her grandmother, Mrs. Turk of "Winder. Miss Merita Duncan, of Auburn, is spending this tveek with rela tives at Sharon. Miss Alma Hulsey and Miss Ward, of Sells, spent Saturday night with Misses Lola and Beu lah Little. Miss Laura Lancaster spent Thursday night with Miss Ermiel Simpson. Miss Lola Little spent Monday night with Miss Ida Louise Cronic. Mrs. Viola Moulder spent Satur day night with her sister, Mrs. Hoyt McEver. Mr. Clifford Simpson, of St. Louis, Mo., lias been spending several days with Mr. J. M. Simp son. Mr. J. I). Carter and children, of Braselton, attended the singing at Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Simpson’s Sunday night. COUNTY LINE Mr. Melvin Hudgins and daugh ter spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Stewart, near Cedar Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Murphy and Mr. Grady Cronic attended the oyster stew at Mr. and Mrs. Arthur House’s Thursday night. Messrs Ernest and Arthur House and Spencer Greeson motored to Atlanta Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Ezelle arc the proud parents of a girl, horn ed Feb. 5. Mr. Herman Johnson was in this community Tuesday after noon. Mr. Spencer Greeson and Miss Lottie Doster were married at the home of Rev. Jones, in Hosehton, Friday night, Rev Jones officiat ing. Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Clark spent Sunday night with Mr Doe Giddings. Mr. Henry Puckett and Miss Pearl Skinner were united in mar riage Feb. 13. Messrs Ernest House and Wil liam Maxey spent Saturday night with Mr. John Maxey. On last Wednesday P. M. secur ed the marriage of Mr. Bud Ever ett and Miss Alonza Vandeford. Jottie Doster and Miss Mary Lou Rainey were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Freeman, of Hosehton, Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Puckett spent Sunday night with the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Skin ner. Mr. G. W. Hardy has as his guest Sunday night Mr. Melvin Hudgins. Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Greeson spent Sunday night with the lat ter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Doster. Mr. Zaek Doster made a pop call in Cedar Hill Sunday after noon. Mrs. J. M. Murphy visited Mrs. Andrew Johnson Monday after noon. Mr. G. W. Hardy was in Hosch ton Monday afternoon. THE BARROW TIMES, WINDER, GEORGIA. GENUINE “BULL” DURHAM tobacco makes SO good cigarettes for APPALLING CONDITIONS REPORTED FROM RUSSIA s New York, Fcbuary 18.—A de scription of apparently serious conditions in Russia under the bolshevik administration as taken from soviet newspapers and other documents is given in a statement issued today by A. J. Sack, di rector of th Russian information bureau of the United States. Tljie official bolshevik Izvestia of De cember 20, last, contains the text of a speech by Trotzky before the eighth congress of soviets, in which he declared: “At present about 54,000 versts (36,000 miles) of Russian rail roads are destroyed, so far that only the central part, about 15,000 versts, remaining intact. Three thousand bridges and 16,000 tele phone and telegraph lines have also been destroyed and we have about 61 per cent of sick locomot ives.” The recently appointed commis sary of means of communication, Yemshanov, speaking on the same subject, said: “Out of a total of 38,000 tele phone poles along the railroad lines of Russia, 32,500 require ma jor repairs. The electric signal apparatus must be completely overhauled. The upper part of the roadbed is in eastrophic condition. The repair shops are mostly in ruins and their machin ery has been denuded of import ant parts.” The statement says not less than 20,000,000 peasants are starving this winter along the Volga region and in other provinces of central Russia. PARADISE For last week Mr. and Mrs. Ledson Clack spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Hershal Clack . Mr. and Mrs. Jinuny Lackey spent Sunday in Statham the guests of Mrs. Lov Lankford. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Miller spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sims spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Claud Wills. Mrs. Lolie Frost and Mrs Leanna Clack spent Monday with Mrs. Nora Hunter. Mr. and Mrs John Clack spent Friday night with Mr. and Mrs Herschel Clack. Mr. W. H. Millar, Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Miller and Mias Beulah Miller spent Sunday in Bethlehem. Mr. and Mrs. Price Miller spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Luther Frost. Mr. Odis Miller spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Grady Mr. and Mrs. Zed Tinch spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Jim McDonald. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Miller spent Monday night with Mr. and Mrs. Grady Perkins. Bhortßt-Ltved Peopfa. The natives of New Guinea are the shortest lived people in the world, which is attributed to their diet of the larvae of certain beetles and their practice of drinking sea water. WORLD HAS CHANGED LITTLE Uke Ponce de Leon, People Today Are Apt to Believe What They Want to Believe. Ponce de Leon didn’t originate the idea uf a spring of eternal youth. That was not in his mind when ho sailed for the new world. He sailed with Columbus upon the latter’s second trip and was appointed governor of Porto Rico, where he believed gold existed in abundance. While exploring the is land he met an old savage, who told him that not only was tin to gold to be found In another country to the northward, but also there existed in the land a spring whose waters brought eternal youth. So the rest less adventurer set out upon his search and discovered Florida. All of which Ls stated not because the information ls new, but to call at tention to the fact that Ponce de Leon believed the eternal youth proposition because he wanted to, remarks a writ er In the Columbus Dispatch. All erf us, to this good day, do the same thing. We believe that which we de sire to believe, whether it Is good or bad. We believe the scandals we hear about others when we want to be lieve them—and we reject them if we do not want to believe such things of the persons connected with the scan dak Further, we usually hour that which we are desirous of liearing. The wily old savage wanted to get rid of Ponce de Leon. He knew enough of human nature and of Spanish nature to be aware that gold—and youth—would prove highly interesting to the invader. That was what Ponce de hwi was ex pecting to hear—especially the story of gold. But the old savage, to make the gold story all the stronger and to lure the invader from the ii-rtand ail the more surely, added the eternal youth proposition to the story which the explorer was expecting to hear — and thereby was he successful in rid ding his island home of a troublesome character. Superstitions. The Woman’s Press club gave a party at an Indiana [Kills hotel, which was followed by a playlet. The woman who had charge of tire prop erty list. In her excitement, forgot that a broom and dustpan were among the articles needed. At the last moment} as the guests were arriving, she rushed downstairs and started to eDter the elevator with the articles. The middle-aged man in charge halted her and said: “Madam, you can’t take that broom up Id this elevator.” She tried to explain G>at It was to be used in a playlet and had been for gotten, that she would tuck It ayvay In a comer, and It canid not possibly Interfere with any one's comfort on the trip up. "No," be replied. “You can take the dustpan all right, hut woman, not for anything would 1 take a broom in my elevator. Why, don't you know ft Is bad hickl" She didn't know it, but she had lo get out of the car. and smilingly walked up the niDe floors. Hawk Makes Fatal Mistake. The other day the family of B. P. Mulsbnry of Imlayatown, N. J, beard a crash of breaking glass and discov ered a bay window broken, and flop ping helplessly about the floor, a large hawk. Knocked to the floor, also, was a freshly stuffc'd rlnguock pheasant, Which Russel Malsbury had shot dur ing the gunning season and had just brought home from-the taxidermist as a gift for his mother. The stuffed bird had been left in the hay window while the family admired it. and the hawk, probably sighting It from a near by tree, had made a 100-yard swoop for Its Intended prey, only to crash through the unseen glass barrier and injure itself fatally. New I*omice Stone. A tiMteriul noted by a commerce re port as promising Inc retired future use Is "Koka Sekl." a Japanese variety erf pit mice stone. It le found only to the small group ot NilJlma Islands (New islands), lying off the Jdzu pentnwjia about 30 mile* south of Tokyo. It has been need locally from ancient times at a building material; but its gweei teusOe strength, durabtlftty and retef* a ace Id temperafow Of 1,300 dagraoa Qeoflgmde adapt it far baiV Ifr and fnrnaan ronstraetion. as mdl as Uptag* for safes and Mfi%ateot toartatkin. J* con ba ear fly rot, totem naQSk and can be painted or ptoted wKb matte. MtorrerM Pocretol v>mortal tßttw haw been plgjrtad by the bonkeds to honor of the boy* who ioaght In the Treat war. and hundreds wttl be pteoted ret in tbaftr honor, says tbe American Forestry vjqgnoia Bat why stop with the planting of one tree tn honor of each? Why not make it a half-ocra. or even more, for each, amd bunch the plann ing to make a forest? We can call tt whatever we may, a township, a mu nicipal. a county or a community for est, letting it be distinctly understood that it is to serve as a memorial for ever to those for whom planted. French Soil Restored. Of the 7,000.000 acres of land In France made unfit for cultivation by the effects of battle from 1914 to 1918, only 280,000 acres will not be In a condition to permit sowing during the next season. Handled 40,000 Prisoners. After traveling 60,000 miles in the "Black Maria” and .carrying nearly 40,* 000 prisoners, a London police ser geant has J*t retired. MAN’S BIG BLUFF Were Fiction That He Is Incapa ble of Housework. Yet TUiroughotit the History of the W-orto, as Writer Points Out, He’s Got Away With It. When Adam delved and Eve spun, tho fiction that man ls Incapable of housework was first established. It wotlld be Interesting to figure out Just how many foot-pounds of energy men hare saved themselves, since the crea tion of the world, by keeping up the pMterwe that a special knack Is re quired tor washing dishes and for dusting, and that the knack ls wholly feminine.. The pretense of Incapacity is taupe Aunt Id Its audacity, and yet It works, Heywood Brown writes In Magazine. Men botM bridge* and throw rail rcttitls across deserts, and yet they con tend successfully that the Job of sew ing an a burton Is beyond them. Ac cordingly. they don’t have to sew but taw. It rrrfgbt he said, of course, that the safety of suspension bridges Is so nmriti more important than that of sus penders that the division of labor ls only fair, but there are many of us who have never thrown a railroad In our lives, and yet swagger In all the glory of masculine achievement with out undertaking any of the drudgery of odd jobs. Probably men alone could never have maintained the fallacy of mason line Incapacity without the aid of women. As soon as that rather lim ited sphere, once known as woman's place, was established, women began to glorify and exaggerate its Impor timee. by the pretense that it was all so special and difficult that no other sex could possibly begin to accomplish the tasks entailed. To this declara tion men gave immediate and eager assent and they have kept it up. The most casual examination will reveal the fact that all the jokes about the horrible results of masculine cooking and sowing are written by men. It is all part of a great scheme of sex propaganda. Naturally there are other factors. IMitgy bps been unscrupulous enough to discriminate markedly against women, and men have seized upon this advantage to press the belief that, since the hearing of children Is ex clusively the province of women, If must be that all the caring for them belongs properly to the same sex. Yet how rid lest lous this Is. Most things which have to he-done far children are of the simplest sort. They should tax the intelligence of no one. Men profess a total luck of abil ity to wash bahy’s face simply be cause they’ believe there's no great fun to flic business, at either end of the sponge. Protectively, man must go to the whole distance and pretend that there ls Dot one single thing which he can do for baby. He must even maintain that he doesn’t know how to hold one. From this pretense has grown the shockingly transparent fal lacy that holding a baby correctly Is one of the fine arts; or, perhaps, even more fearsome than that, a wonderful Intuition, which has come down af ter centuries of effort to women ODly. Seek Candle Light Shade. At a committee of the National Elec tric Light association, investigating the question of toning lamps for color, it seemed to be the general judgment of those to whom samples were sub mitted that n light even soinewhnt more distant from white than that of the carbon Incandescent lamp was de sirable, something indeed approximat ing the kerosene flame of earlier days. Tbe result of practical experience on a considerable scale in the candle flame lamp now brought out meets the rotor requirements very beautiful ly, mid -moreover, the coating given to the bulb is permanent In hue even when used on the gas-fitted lamps, thus possessing a virtue which most of tho earlier experimental lamps did hot have In a reliable degree. The Kite to efficiency by the color-toned diffusing coating ls relatively small, the specific consumption being less than half that of a carbon lamp of anything near tho same cotor. Bwttdtoa Model a Wonder. W?iat Is claimed to be the most eomp)a&f yteee of mo<fcl building ever utlewpred is tha* of Pershing square. Wew Fork, shown at tbe recent con vention at hotel men In that clfy. The model to a large one and attempts to be • 00/wplete miniature. It was con stroefsd from plans furnished by tbe pnM|e service commission and archi tects. Francis T. Gilllng, a sculptor, woffled on it for two year*- Th® ma ‘ lertafs uaed for the miniature of Grand Central terminal are wood pulp and celluloid. Tbe 13,000 windows of the skyscraper are shown, together with cars. lights, signal devices and other equipment of the subways. A.f tcr the exposition the model is to be shown In other cities and may be tak en abroad. Suspicious Prosperity. "Are there any 'moonshiners’ about hero?" “I wouldn't make a positive state ment as to that,” said Squire Wither bee, "but since the eighteenth amend ment went into effect a lot of moun taineers in this neighborhood who couldn’t support their families before have bought motor cars, phonographs and pianos and finery for their wives and daughters so I’ll just let you draw your own conclusions.” —Birmingham Age-Herald, THURSDAY FEB. 24, 19921. CROWDED “GARDEN OF ASIA" Some Sixty Million Chinese Live in an Area About Half the Size of Texas. While many of u$ may feel that we live In exceedingly well populated dis tricts, even our most crowded farming communities are almost deserted when compared with some sections of China. Take Sze-chunu, for example, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. In this province some 60>000,000 per sons live. The area is 181,000 square miles. As Sze-ehuun Is surrounded by mountains and in some places Is bare rock Itself, about 50 per cent of the total area Is impossible to culti vate. We find, in consequence, that these 00,000,000 human beings are crowded into a space less than half the size of Texas, and that all the food they eat Is grown within this area. The problem of raising the food necessary to keep these millions alive Is complicated by the Chinese fann er's lack of scientific knowledge and the primitive implements he uses. In addition, rice, which is the staple food of China, is the most difficult of alt cereals to produce. This is particular ly trne in n country like Chinn, where the hills must be terraced and the wa ter used to Irrigate the paddy fields he lifted by wheels moved by foot power. Yet these f.0,000,000 persons who live In Sze-chunn never know famine, whilp other parts of China are some times decimated through death by hun ger. In this, the garden of Asia, is produced nearly every vegetable and grain we know, besides some we do not know. The climate is so advan tageous to agriculture and the soil is so rich that fine foods are easily raise I The abundant rainfall, with climatic and other conditions, provides *the water necessary for Irrigation at certain seasons, for certain purposes. For Instance, so plentiful are or anges—and they are second in quality to none—that a thousand oranges may be bought for half a dollar. However, we must remember that 50 cents in China, especially in Sze-chuan, has a purchasing power of many dollars in that densely crowded land. Telephony or Telepathy. The telephone gets blamed for n whole lot of things and the gentle operator often gets bawled out by the irate subscriber or the fellow who is borrowing somebody else’s phone. On the other hand the telephone and the gentle operator are not always cred ited with all they should be and they deserve mention when they add telep athy to their other accomplishments. That must explain this incident. A. few days ago a subscriber at Jeffer sonville wished to telephone to Mr. Smith, and was told at his office that he had just gone to the hank. The subscriber called the bank numher while actively thinking of Mr. Smith ; the telephone operator—or her sub conscious self, let us say—plugged in at quite another numher, of course. "Is this the bank?” "No, this Is the newspaper office.” “Sorry, I was look ing for Mr. Smith.” “Well, wait a minute; he has just stepped in.” How’s that for "service”? —Indianapo- lis News. A True Story. Secretary Lawson Purdy of the Charity Organization society, said in a recent address; “Unorganized giving usually does more harm than good. Let me tell you a true story. "A lady last week besought her hus band with tears in her eyes to buy her u set of near-coney furs which she had seen in a Fifth avenue shop marked down to SI,OOO. “ 'My love,' her husband said, ‘I can’t do it. This very day 1 sub scribed SI,OOO to save poor dear old Sinnickson from bankruptcy. “The lady a few days later rushed into her husband’s office in great ex citement. “.Jack, what do you think?* she cried. 'You know that SI,OOO set of near-coney furs I wanted you to buy for me? Well. I saw them on Mrs. Sinnickson in Fifth avenue this after noon.’ ” Consolation In Fatigue Couch. It will be a revelation to many to find how sure an aid electricity las been and still Is in troubles small and great, from the neurasthenic <sTth logorrhea and the woman who Is “so Ilf as to think she Is 111 when shots not.” to the despondent, mutlUtfed, war-spent soldier with paralysis, says the New York Medfcal Journal In a review of Dr. J. Cißtls Webb’s “Electrotherapy.” It can soothe and banish all tlw?se everyday attacks of headache, tics, neuritis, pad make all nerves ap proach the happy condition of the ninth one Only those who have test ed the restfulness of what is sometimes termed the fatigue couch can appre ciate Its consoling power. Strange tf Tn. Property Man — This stage Is about, to he uplifted Mike. Electrician—How do yoa get that way? Property Man— This hero prop list for that there farce comedy company In the offing doesn't call for a bed In any way, shape or form! —Buffalo Ex press. Profiteering Approved. "T’m sorry young man.” said the druggist, as he eyed the small boy over the counter "hut I can only give you half as much castonoll for a dl-me as I to.” The boy blithely handed him the coin. “I’m not kicking,’’ he remarked. “The stuff’s for me,” —The Watchman? JBMKteer-JJfeS Xggs* -