Newspaper Page Text
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS.
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
1,500 Copies
entered at the Post Office at Butler, Ga.
as Mail Matter of Second-Class.
Subscription $1.50 a Year
Undefnable is one way of erpress-
ing something that can’t be did. But,
have any of you fellows taken an
x-ray view of some of the sights be
tween the barber shop and drug store
(on a sunny afternoon of course.)
Dear J. D. S.
Right after
wasting space on
The Fool Killer
Why did you stop?
Without
Giving the Indian
Sign on the
Space killer
They also are
On the list with
Other germs.
Spencer of the Telegraph says he has
quit speaking French. We should
look upon this as a superficial ac
complishment for Johnnie, as we im
agine he can still get all he wants
thru the sign language—Savannah
Press. You are right, Sutlive, he
signs them all, “I. O. U.” Ask W. T.
Don’t you think that the Anglin of
the crowd during the Chautauqua was
done pretty well by our town mar
shal.
I often get supposin’ of things I’d
like to know
And oft I get poetic, if the rhyme
would only flow
So last night 1 got-a thinkin
If such should come to pass
What this old world would do
If these things should come, alas:
Suppose just now, for instance,
As Eennesey would say
That J. D. S. and Sutlive should pass
away
And Luke McLuke was dead and gone
And George Ade was no more
And Wallace Irwin just sold out
And Fisher couldn’t score
The Katzemjammer Kids both died
And Outcault got a fit
And just put Buster Brown to bed
And told him he must quit
“As I sit alone in silence,” as friend
Riley would say,
Would not all of us be in a elofafix
to-day.
Modern Nursery Rhymes.
Little drops of moonshine
Taen now and then
Makes a fellow feel like
He’s been born again.
Mary had a little calf,
But wore her dresses low
But when she walked toward the sun
The calf was sure to show.
If you have red blood under your
shirt, You’ll wear a Red Cross outside
your shirt.
A correspondent in the New York
Sun says that a stone tied to a mule’s
tale will stop its bray. Well! don’t
see it, Pal We have a Stone tied to
congress.
Blue are the clothes they wear into
the fray,
And blue the bruises they’ve received
full many a day
But comes a time, if you will just sit
still
When they will knock seven kinds of
blue hell
From out of Kaiser Bill.
Lovable Characters.
A chap I like
Is Amos Garr
He never says,
“Well, War is war”.
—Macon Telegraph.
Who we admire.
Is J. D. S.
He gets away
With a full “mess.”
They are going to feed the boys
“Over There” on rabbit. Now watch
’em get the huns on the jump.
SPIDER
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fav-
oritef or Colds.
J. L. Easley, Macon, 111., in speak
ing of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
says, "During the past fifteen years
it has been my sister’s favorite medi-
cinefo r colds on the lungs. I myself
have taken it a number of times when
suffering with a cold and it always
relieved me promptly."
THE CONSCRIP
TION OF MONEY
By rigidly enforcing a strict and
more severe income tax the gov
ernment can make the conscrip
tion of money a reality. If the
federal governmen^does not make
the income tax law heavy enough
any state can add to the burden
of haying a large income, and in
this time of war, with the in
creasing cost of victory mounting
higher and higher, we look to the
progressive increase of income
tax laws, both state and federal,
until the rich man is paying his
part of the war.
We fail to see where a man of
great wealth is doing his part in
the-war by lending his money,
with fine security and a good per
cent. We fail to see where a man
of moderate wealth is doing his
part in subscribing to the loans,
giving to the Red Cross and back
ing up the YMC A. There are
men in this town whose financial
hardship on account of the war
has been nil. There are some
who have made great sums. One
and all of them agree that the
phrase “conscription of wealth”
is a harsh one, but the day will
come and soon, when they will
realize that the adoption of that
principle is harsher than the use
of the term.
Income tax evaders should be
sent to the penitentiary where
they belong. In ordinary times a
man robs the government in lying
about his revenue, but today he
is robbing the boys who are fight
ing in France. . The people are
not going to stand for that sort
of thing, long.
OUR AMERICAN
ARMY.
The increasing call for men, and
the knowledge that soldiers are
leaving for France every day,
coupled with Secretary Baker’s
statement that a half million men
are in France, would indicate that
the United States is arriving.
The French commissioner here
emphasizes the fact that our aid
extends further than this. De
claring that the quick dispatch
of French reinforcements to Gen.
Haig was due to the shipment
from America of ’ hundreds of
tons of gasoline” he asserted that
“in every field, a complete, thor
ough and decisive American help
is to be found.”
This is as it should be. Gen Per
shing dispatches state, is to com
mand French and British troops,
brigaded with them, are in the
majority. An early dispatch,
which was immediately denied
stated that Americans would be
withheld until they Gould, be or_
ganized into a vital factor. How
ever this may be our troops will
soon be in the thick of the fight
ing.
Schools In Danger.
American schools are in danger
of grave depreciation unless the
American people face the school
problem squarely, as they have
faced every other problem that
has confronted them. The schools
are suffering from the two all-
absorb'ng problems of the day—
the war and high cost of living.
Wages and salaries in almost
every other vocation have risen
pretty much in keeping with the
cost of living. Still the teachers
grind on at practically the same
old starvation wages.
If the harm done were only in
forcing a number of people to live
on inadequate wages, the matter
would not be very serious. But
the harm doe:? not stop here. The
impossibility of obtaining living
salaries is inevitably forcing the
ambitious man or woman out of
the profession and into some oth
er calling that is more generous.
The natural result must be the
filling of the schools with a lot of
second-rate teachers, boys and
girls who regard the school-room
as merely a stop-gap between
their own school days and a pro
fession—nice boys and giris, we
grant you, but lacking much of
being competent instructors. The
only possible result of this condit
ion must be the grievous neglect
of the youth of the land.
And just at this crisis this coun
try cannot afford to neglect her
children. America has had too
hard a struggle to reach her pres
ent intellectual plane to afford to
yield one fraction of the progress
she has made. We have made
too many sacrifices in the name of
education and culture and intellect
ual and moral uplift to be willing
to take one backward step. We
MUST go on, in justice to future
generations, in justice to the ideals
that have inspired us.
Already the complaint comes
from many sections of the coun
try that numbers of the more
competent teachers, disgusted {
with the meager salaries, are leav- j
ing the school-room for more |
lucrative callings. Once out, and j
this talent is forever lost to the j
schools, because the channels of
business will quickly and eagerly
absorb them.
There is but one remedy, and
that is for the people to look the
situation squarely in the face, and
be willing to levy taxes for scnooi
purposes that shall put the teach- j
ing profession up and abreast t
the other professions. More, per-1
haps, than any other class is the j
future of this country dependent
upon the faithful work of her
pedagogues. We must suit the
reward to the magnitude of the
work.
THE GERMAN
PAUSE IN FRANCE.
from our country. This means a
million Itailians in France. Cer
tainly with this immense army,
under one guiding hand, it is not
possible for Germany to win. The
time is not far distant when the
Teutons will be hopelessly out
numbered and consequently
whipped.
LETTER TO A SOLDIER
‘ SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE’
By Alice Twitchell Caswell in the At
lanta Georgian.
My Husband:
This last day of my holiday was a
day of rain and mist and heavy
clouds, so I have spena it in taking a
quiet inventor of my soul. From a
sheltere’d corner of the porch I watch
ed the storm for a long, long while.
The high place seemed more mighty
and majestic in the storm than in the
sunshine. Masses of clouds were
piled high in fantastic forms. They
crept down and clasped the moun
tains, and the mountains reached up
and met the clouds! Great forks of
lightning cut the sky in deviating
courses, and ledges of cloud, and
mountain was flung wide in massive
granduer. The thunder of sound
rocked and rolled and echoed back
again from hidden chambers of sound.
It was a mysterious revelation of Na
ture. I was minded of the time in
my father’s house, when I was a lit
tle girl, and was trying to caim an
excitable Irish servant during a thun
der storm. I but repeated my fath
er’s words to me. “You must not be
afraid of the lightning. God’s hand
guides it. God is gentle and kind.”
But the Irish girl scornfully brushed
aside my comfoYt. “Sure I know
that [Everybody knows God sends
the lightning. It is the thunder I am
scared of.” How true that is of hu
man nature in general, beloved! How
many of us there are who fear the
thunder!
At twilight time the storm passed
away and the golden path of the sun
set lay from the breaking clouds
across the world to my very feet!
How many times you and I watched
that golden path from the same
porch a year ago. Don’t you remem
ber how it lighted up the little thread
of river, and the gilded tops of the
houses in the valley, and lay straight
and unbroken across the long field at
the foot of the mountain! And then
it climbed up and up, like Jacob’s
ladder, till it reaches the top of that
highest peak, and after that it went
down the other side, and nothing was
left but the tender memory of gold
and silver in the evening sky. To
night the golden path seemed to
stretch from my very heart—on and
on—over the rim of the sunset into
the immeasurable future. But of
that future my eager spirit can not
know' until by painful steps through
this dark, uncertain present the way
shall be made plain. And then, from
longings for the future, my mind
turned to the holy and happy past!
One year your wife! Wonderful
thought, beloved, but more wonderful
for the reality. My dreams have all
come true—my early dreams of faith
and hope and beauty. And you are
truer, nobler, more to be trusted,more
greatly to be loved. You are my prop
and stay! Every thought of you is a
stronghlod of my heart. All the ten-
drilsof my soul have fastened to you,
and the roots are deep, and day by
day 1 can measure my growth from
the earth upward. If you ever have
time to think of these things over
there, Beloved, let it be a comfort
ing thought that my soul—because I
love you—is climbing step by step to
the summit of the ideals, j I wish it
were possible for us to give more
service to those we love. It seems to
me I come and go emptylhanded in
your life tlie.se troubled days.
Thoughts are all that I can give you,
thoughts and love. My thoughts
grow busier and busier /as the days
fly by. I can not empty my brain of
them. Everyone is yours without the
asking, even as I, too, am yours.
Things thought constantly, come to
be thought over ^gain, and more
come fresh in tbfeir wake—children
and grandchildren of the brain. Some
of my thoughts I can send to you by
written words, but others too holy,
too elusive, can not be confined, and
must travel on love’s wings into the
haven of your heart. On the golden
path, over the rim of the sunset,
across the treetops and on over the
stars, a myriad of wings are carrying
vou my thoughts tonight. May they
ieach you safely and be gathered in
to your tender heart.
YOUR FAITHFUL WIFE.
/ ===
Make It
Children
First
M ILK is one of the most important food sources the
human race possesses. For the proper nourish
ment of the child it is absolutely indispensable
£nd its use should be kept up in the diet as long as passible.
Not only does it contain all the essential food elements in
the most available form for ready digestion, but the recent
scientific discoveries show it to be especially rich in certain
peculiar properties that alone render growth possible. This
essential quality makes it also of special value in the sick
room. In hospitals it has also been shown that the
wounded recover more rapidly when they have milk.
AUSTRIA AND
GERMANY.
Various surmises have been in
dulged in about the recent con
ference between the emperors of
Germany and Austria. It seems
certain that a closer alliance of
some sort has been formed by the
German authorities of Austria
with those in control of Germany.
The situation in the dual em
pire has been bad for some time.
Perhaps the various nationalities
are threatening to break the yoke
and German militarism is needed
to hold them in check. It is re
ported that Bohemia and Tyrol
have been turned over to the
Germans for administrative pur
poses.
Just what will be the result of
the new arrangement no one can
tell but it not be surprising if the
German element of Austria-Hun
gary is gobbled by Teutonic Ger
many. Together they would at
tempt to dominate the - other ra
ces of Austria-Hungary just like
the'Germans are absorbing Lithu
ania and the former Russian prov
inces.
Coit of High Living.
“The necessaries ot life are a lot
higher than the; were a few years
ago," “Yes, and Just think how many
more there are of them.”
In their present position in
France the Germans must strike
again or retreat. While she has
driven two wedges in the British
lines they do not support each
other. The allies can strike con
verging blows at the base of
both, and unless Arras is taken
by the Germans the British lines
can hold.
Allied prospects are bright, I
America’s half million in France, J
Italy’s steady aid and the dispatch :
of fresh legions from all coun
tries point to ah overwhelming
concentration of allied manpow
er in France this fall. Unless the
Germans have many more men,
or are able to bring them from !
Austria, Turkey or Bulgaria, the!
Teutonic armies will be outnum- j
bered decisively.
UNITY OF
COMMAND.
Gen. Foch is in supreme com
mand not only of the American,
British, French, Belgian and Ital
ian troops in France, but also in
complete control of the entire
Italian army in Italy, which is now
stronger in numbers and equip
ment than before Austria’s suc
cessful offensive.
Italy is also sending 'reinforce
ments to the Allies in France in
numbers equal to those being sent
FOR THE PURPOSE OF STIMULATING GROWTH, j
AND ESPECIALLY IN CHILDREN, BUTTER FAT AND ;
OTHER CONSTITUENTS OF MILK HAVE NO SUBSTI- !
TUTES. Therefore every parent owes to himself and to 1
his family the duty of providing requisite amounts of milk, !
butter, cheese and other dairy products. During this last
winter, when much agitation was had in some of the larger
cities over the price of milk, which was advanced from two
to three cents per quart by reason of the rapid rise in the
cost of feed and labor, many families among the poor were
found giving their children tea and coffee instead of milk.
Such methods of feeding fail to nourish the child properly.
The Food Administration desires to bring these essen
tial facts to the attention of all mothers.
In spite of the shortage of rnilk in Germany, that coun
try has at all hazards maintained the milk ration of the
children and in the hospitals, even though to do so has
meant that the adult population has had to forego largely
its use. In a “safety first” health campaign it must be
remembered that it should be children first.
ON ALL OWS
'WOT 1*1 RUCHAJE Of
vac nooiiot home ua
wtamiwusoAKHjai
waouncrcnMcmuJ
United States
Food Administration
ANDREW M. SOULE,
Foderal Food Administrator for Georgia.
J
DEAN ANNOUNCES
FOR SENATE RACE
Says Harris Hardwick and How
ard Dare Not Meet Him In
Debate. And Are Polit-
• ical Weaklings
H. H. Dean, Gainesville attorney-at-
law, already prominent In ilie Geor
gia senatorial race by reason of bis
challenges to William J. Harris,
Senator Thomas W. Hardwick and
Representative William Schley How
ard, his opponents, has made public
announcement of his candidacy and
will later issue his platform.
The new candidate indie 3 each in
turn—Harris for his connection with
the Macon convention and the Hard
wick election; Hardwicl: Jor his rec
ord in congress, and Howard for
‘with considerable bluster announc
ing; that the alabaster bo", supposed
to be only for Harris, had been also
broken for him.”
Announcement in Fill!.
Here is the complete statement:
•May 11, 191*.
■‘To the People of the State of Geor
gia :
“1 hereby announce my candidacy
to the high and honorable office o
United States senate, subject to the
September primary and respectfully
ask the support of all white voters.
“I have qualified by sending my
entrance fee to the secretary of the
state democratic executive commit
tee, and will publish my platform at an
early date.
' I am opposed for this office by
three chronic officeholders, Messrs.
Harris. Hardwick and Howard, all
with unsavory political records. I
have challenged each to a discussion
of his record with like results.
As to Mr. Harris.
“Knowing that Mr. Harris wouid
not and could not make a public
speech t gave him an open challeng
ing letter, pointing out specific
charges, which, if true, totally unfit
him to represent Georgia in the
United States senate. If untrue, they
called for a speedy, quick and em
phatic denial. The public is faradiar
with these charges. \ month has
passed and not one line of denial has
y*3n attempted, though there were
hundreds of witnesses in the Macon
convention by whom I could have
proven every word charged, had he
denied the same. He stands convicted
by his silence.
Charges Against Hardwick
‘ When Senator Hardwick came to
Georgia, prepared to enter upon a
campaign of abuse and villification of
President Wiison and the Demociatic
administration, beginning at Carroll
ton and extending from county to
county throughout, the state, I stopped
him with the direct challenge to
meet me fae« to face, and presented
him with twelve specific charges, at
tacking his record. These charges
have been printed broadcast for three
weeks. Had he possessed one re
training trait of political character
he would have met me and dented
|he charges, or retired from the race.
In fact, he turned both head and tail
and left the state with, only oDei
speech, and now announces that his
Julies are so pressing he cannot re
turn to Georgia until congress ad
journs. This means, in my judgment,
lhaf, he is absolutely eliminated from
the race and will never return to dis
cuss his record before a Georgia au
dience.
Challenge to Howard
“Then came Congressman Howard
with considerable bluster announcing
that the alabaster box supposed to
be only for Harris, had been also
broken for him. 1 challenged him on
the threshold to meet me at Wrights
ville, his chosen place, among his
relatives and friends. He sidestep
ped a general debate and backstep-
ped a separate debate.
“He absolutely refused to let me
meet him in Wrightsville, and cid
not allow me the courtesy, as Mr.
Hardwick did, to follow him in the
afternoon. Like Harris, he prefers a
gumshoe campaign where he can
meet the people, shake hands, make
loud promises and cover up that
which the public is most anxious to
learn.
‘‘None of them dare measure
swords with a plain Georgia citizen
and none of them dare have the
searchlight of truth turned upon
his political record.
' “They are political weaklings.
“However, they cannot escape. The
people demand and shall receive full
and complete information.
“I extend them one more opportuni
ty, either separately or jointly, to
meet me and defend their political
positions and records. If they still
docline, L will go before the people
with the unassailable truth.
"Tours sincerely,
"ft. H, DBAN." i