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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
intered at the Post Office at Butler, Ga.
as Mail Matter of Second-Class.
Subscription $1.S0 a Year
Betclia ten dollars that Kaiser Bill
fans out on the third strike.
Poets license is that thing
That gives a fellow nerve
To use some word that is a noun
When he can’t find a verb
And as a “pote” I have failed
To fill my heart’s desire
To find where Foch will ryme with
boche
When they are under fire
The champ licked fighters in a row
’Till he had whipped them all
Then one day he got his K. O.
From old King Alcohol
—Luke McLuke.
His K. O. never came forsooth in
these prohibit times
For the coin that he has already
spent
Was not to fathom Fate’s own deep
. desire
With beer containing one and a half
per cent.
Never say die! Don’t you know
that flowers are “Hyacinths the war.”
A Hard-'wick never gave a good
flame, it needed trimming to show
show even a decent light.
Mark Twain had lots of fun with
his Jumping frog, wherin by feeding
him lead he incapacitated his jumping
faculties. But! The huns have found
out that feeding lead to the “frog
eating Frenchmen” he has made them
Jump more.
(News item) Amsterdam, May 25,
—Germany has only six million swine
Gosh! I thot the population of Ger
many was larger than that.
An American riviter, (colored at
that) has won the inventional prize
for fast riviting 3470 rivits in 9
hours, whereas the average use to be
800. Don’t you think this will rivit
our friendship with the Allies?
Salvage and Salvation
same thing. They both
wrecks.
mean the
are after
Some fellows get along inspite of a
college education.
A very busy man is Gotch
He's no time to feel bored
For first he winds his dollar watch
And then he winds his Ford.
—Luke McLuke.
At winding, Gotch is sure is a hir’d
So now, it seems to me
He ought to, like the lowing hard
Wind slowly o’er the Sea.
—Newark Advocate.
And Friend Gotch has got in wrong
If he advice will take
For he, as I believe has made
A “L” of a mistake.
If more women would dip their
noses in the flour barrel instead of
the vanity box there would be more
conservation and less preservation.
Von Hertling says the German peo
ple want a place in the sun. He
means a place under the son—of a'
Run, don’t he?
There have been, and are, several
'‘peaches” from Macon, in our midst
that have proven to ye scribe that
Butter don’t know how to raise peach
es. P. S. This is on the level.
While the Third Liberty loan has
been filled to overflowing, you
would hardly call it the ’’coup that
cheers.”
There is a bull calf in Butler nam
ed Kaiser Bill! We don’t know which
is the biggest calf, the one who named
it or the one who bears the name.
To J. D. S. Peach,brandy is in our
midst. ’’Hush”
SPIDER. '
- Chamberlain's Cough Remedy a Fav-
oritef or Colds.
3. L. Easley, Macon, 111., in speak-
las of Chamberlain’s Cough 'Remedy
«*ys, “During the past fifteen.years
,tt tea been my sister’s favorite niedi-
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 STRENGTH
OF ARMIES
Various estimates have been
made of the strength of the ar
mies contending in France. The
correspondent of the New York
Times says the German army
numbers 5,3000,000 soldiers of
which 3,500,000 are* on the wes
tern front. To give his figures
further; when the war opened
Germany had an army of 2,800,-
000, which grew in one year to
4,00,000 and in two years to 6,-
00,000. It then began to dwindle
and in August, 1917, the third
year it was only 5000,000, and
now is 100,000 less than that fig
ure. As fresh recruits come in
at the rate of 600,000 a year the
average loss now is something
over a million a year.
As to losses of the Germany
army figures are not so definite.
When the government ceased
publishing its casualty lists in
June 1917 the dead numbered 1,-
105,760, prisoners and missing
591,966, and the wounded 2,825,-
581—a total of 4,423,307. A well
known German statistician says
the total loss up to date, in killed
and soldiers captured, amounts to
4,456,961, which would indicate a
much higher loss than the offi
cial German lists.
It is harder to say how many
allied soldiers are in the field, but
Andre Tardieu, French High Com
missioner in this country, says the
French had 3,000,000 men in the
army when the German offensive
began. Great Britain, which has
stood the brunt of the attacks,
certainly must have had almost as
many, if not more. The Ameri
cans have more than 500,000 and
probably nearer a million; the
Italians are sending troops to
France, and the Belgium army is
also there. So without counting
the British army the allies have
certainly 4000,000 men in France.
With the increasing number of
American troops being poured
across the ocean it is safe, to pre
dict that unless the Turks, Bul
garians and Austrians come to
the aid of their ally, this fall will
find them badly outnumbered in
France, and fighting an acknowl
edged defensive struggle.
THE RED CROSS
FUND.
President Wilson stated a fun
damental truth when he declared
that no man can take a real
credit to himself for lending the
government money at good inter
est and backed with gilt-edged
security but that all had a chancte
to seiye humanity by giving lib
erally to the Red Cross.
From several communities have
come reports of some disgruntled
foolish man, who declined to give
to this noble cause. We fail to
see where any decent human be
ing has a right to call himself by
any respectable name if he refus
es this war charity when he is
able to give. Some men we know
have hard times to make their
daily bread, but many of the
poorest elements in the country-
have poured their mite into the
mercy seat of the nation. They
deserve all praise, but the well to
do, the rich, the folks with money
idle, or much invested, who nig
gardly hoards his wealth, refus
ing this call to his better self for
service, deserves contempt of all,
and should be forgotten by those
who hold honor and well being
above the lure of slimy dollars.
WHEN YA SEtiythe PAPER
THAT AN'OLD INVESTMENT
has MATErfclAUlfcD
AN YA CANT THINK
WHERE-the SAM HILL YA
PUT -the PAPfcE'j ar\d YA
LOOK THRU eVCRYTHINfr
irvthe H0US£ AND YA
CANT
FIND EM at the OFFICE HER
ANYTH I NO-THEN WftEfcL
YA GET HOME,
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SAYS THETY ARE SAFE:
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AERIAL FIGHTING
IN FRANCE.
With the claim by the British
that they have brought down
more than a thousand German
machines since March first comes
to a clearer idea of the immensi
ty of the war in the air. That the
allies have been ascendant in the
new field of fight has been evident
but recently German raids upon
Paris and London, bombing of
hospitals and other points along
the front have ernpasized the fact
the Germans, too, have an aerial
fleet.
The tragic death of Major Luf-
berry, the American ace, has been
explained. The machines he
fought in was a frail flyer, which
had to be . operated with great
care, and was vulnerable to ma
chine gun shots. The German
machines which he undertook
to destroy was a huge flyer of
steel, carrying two machine guns
and entirely armored.Ordinary air
planes, armed only with machine
guns, stand little chance before,
and it is said that six American
machines attacked it simultane
ously without result before Major
Lufberry attempted the impossi
ble.
The existence of such a ma
chine has been known to the al
lied high command for some time,
as one of them was captured dur
ing the recent fighting, and the
onjookersl of the great struggle
may rest secure in the knowledge
that whatever German skill and
ingenuity can produce allied in
ventiveness and courage can sur-
P&S3.
OUR SOLDIERS
IN FRANCE.
Government has cut coal- pri
ces ,10 cents a ton, .according to
Washington dispatches. We are
not expert accountants, but we’ll
bet that by the time the' Calcula
tions reach the consumer they’ll
mean, a 10 per cent advance.
Admittedly there are 500,000
Americans in France, certainly
there are many more, because
since the announcement trans
ports have speeded up and the
official statement made that the
results were five times greater in
a given month. In fact, there is
a considerable body of American
soldiers behind the British lines
in Flanders, land this new army
to which Lloyd George evidently
referred in his famous surprise
speech, will be a considersble fac
tor in the subsequent fighting.
This does not mean that our
troops are to be in the front of
the defense for many weeks, but
it shows that there will at all
times be considerable reserves be
hind the Britsh that the French
will be abie to get up a reserve
army of their own, and that later-
in the summer, or early in the
fall, if in the opinion of Gen Foch
the time is right, the allied forces
in France will be able to knock
the head off the German military
monster.
It is possible although at pres
ent doubtful, that 1918 will be the
decisive year of the war. It is
within the realm of the may be
that a huge offensive by the al
lies, backed by a million American
troops, and supported by large
numbers of Italians, will run the
Germans from their present' lines
this fall. It may not happen, but
why not look at the bright side
once in a while.
AND SOUND at-trie BAN 1C
SAY' A1NT YAObAD YA
BANK AT THE FIRST NATIONAL
The First National Bank Reynolds, Ga.
THIS is A HOT
SUMMER.
Summer time has about arriv
ed, and the therometer does not
hesitate to climb into higher alti
tudes than comfort demands.
With the rising mercury comes
the eternal orry and fuss about
getting ice to keep cool. Wecredit
about one half of the heat we
have to endure to the ice situation
which produces so many remarks
and makes necessary such exten
sive watchfulness to get what
you want when you want it.
Then this summer we are up
against the order-your-coal now
proposition. This being a strict
war conservation, and a common
sense proposition, we take quite
a liking to it, and advise every
body to boost their summer tem
perature, if necessary, by think
ing about the supply of fuel for
next w-inter. It has to be done in
order to avoid a shortage next
year. At this time we are ready
to order, but we know of no one
ready to book the order, we ex
pect its the same with others, but
everybody must keep trying—it is
a long ways to winter again.
the American arms striking un
daunted and with high courage.
It is grim and desperate work
over there, but it does call for the
high and saving qualities of that
counts life but a pawn in the
game, that deems it good to die if
death will serve the large purpose
and where honor and devotion
to duty are the supreme virtues.
It is to such a test our men are
about to be exposed. It is in such
a test that the best in them will
come out. And we know they
will keep the faith.—Macon Tele
graph.
Some Neighborhood Comment
IDLERS FORCED
TO WORK.
National applause will greet the
new regulations of Provost Mar
shal General Crowder which com
pel idlers and loafers to work or
fight. Commendations also greets
the new idea that those employ
ed in unnecessary occupations
must get in line to take the place
of the necessary industrial
works who have been palled to
war. For months the people of
the country have desired some
such action taken.
It is not enough however that
those who are registered should
be compelled to work or fight,
and the workers in non-essential
activities should be trans
ferred to war work, but it is also
demanded that those above and
below the draft ages should be
compelled to work, and if engag
ed in unnecessary occupations,
transferred to war industry .When
millions of men are shedding blood
it is no time to put up with men
who dawdle; the nation needs
manpower elsewhere besides the
trenches and by all the power of
laws she should have it, and that
plentifully. '
Optimistic Thought.
A prince of talent wlU recognize the
talent of others.
THEY SHALL
NOT PASS.
The Germart high command
has again sent his legions crash
ing the Allied will in France and
this time for forty miles the im
pact hurls itself against the lines
Foch holds with the armies of Pe-
tain, Haig and Pershing. It is the
iost German effort this year, the
last of the war we may set up, to
roll back and divide the British
army from the French, create a
great gap and then destroy the
line that holds from the middle of
battle to the Channel ports be-
for the Americans can get into
the fray in strength enough to
give Allies numerical and general
all-around fighting superiority on
the Western Front. It is the su
preme German effort in the race
against the hurrying time that is
bringing even to the admission of
their war and Prussian mad souls
the certainty of defeat.
They will not get through this
time, just as they failed in the
other two. It is not that their as
sault will be weaker. It may be
stronger than it ever ha§ been,
but the spirit and the strength uf
the men who stopped them be
fore-are as unbroken as ever.
They should not pass is still the
slogan, still the deathword and
the watchword of the roads that
leads to Paris and the ports,
and the Anglo-Saxon and Gaul
will make it good as ever it must
be made good.
We will get our first experi
ence of the sort England, France
and Canada have been bearing up
under for over three years. There
is every reason to believe our
troops brigaded into the hold
ing line in numbers sufficient to
roll up long casualty lists in such
a great drive as this one. It will
come soberly and strongly to us
that our blood and bone is far
into the issue across the seas and
that it is falling, when * drop it
does, with its face to the foe, with
THE SLACKER.
(Talbotton New Era.)
There has always been and al
ways will be a lot of people who
think a worthy thing should be
done, but with them it’s “let
John do it.” The time has come
when the public is going to de
mand an accounting from every
individual, and it is time to quit
making John do it all. If one
person should subscribe the whole
of the county’s quotafthat wouldnl
relieve any man or woman.from
doing his or her duty in sub
scribing. It’s not what the other
fellow is doing to day, but it is
what are you doing?
“TOP DRESSING” MAY
BE CARRIED TOO FAR
Soil Type Should Be Considered
In Applying Fertilizer
THE COIN OF THE REALM.
(Tifton Gazette.)
While you may not have your
share, American money now in
circulation is almost $50 per head,
twice what it was when Bryan
first ran for President and three
times as large as at the end of
the Civil War, while the per cap
ita wealth is $2,400 against $1,000
in 1896 and $500 in 1865. Money
is about the cheapest thing we
have now, but one of the hardest
things to get your hands on and
keep them there.
THE LOAFER.
(Albany Herald'
The loafer has become more
than a liability. He is a positive
menace. His idleness has become
a crime against society and the
State. The only thing which it
once was possible to say in his
defense, viz, that his labor was
not particularly needed, can be
said no longer. His labor is
needed as never before in the
history of his land.
SOON TO VOTE EVERYWHERE.
(Eatonton Messenger.)
If we can read the signs cor
rectly, women will soon be al
lowed to vote all over this coun
try; and all you who oppose it
had might as well change your
minds.
STILL GAME.
(Darien Gazette.)
This paper has labored for 44
years for certain needed reforms
and is willing to keep up with the
fight for bettering conditions in
definitely.
SOUNDS REASONABLE.
(Lumpkin ilndependant.)
A subscriber suggests that in
dealing with loiterers we exempt
the fishermen.
The practice of "top dressing” or
“side application” of fertilizers haa
been common for many- yeara and in
many instances is carried to extremes
The object of dividing the entir#
amount of fertilizer into two or more
applications is to prevent loss of plant
food by leaching down in the soil be
yond the reach of plant roots. Plant
food leaching is most extensive in.
soils of a sandy texture with rather
porous subsoils. These soils are rep
resented by sands or sandy loams and
soil3 with a predominance of sand in
the subsoil. Soils with a loam, clay
loam or clay surface or underlain by
fine textured subsoils of clay or com
pact sandy clay are not subject to
leaching to any great extent and.
therefore, will io3e little plant food
from fertilizers by leaching.
Soluble phosphoric acid and potash
when added to the soil are not readily
lost through leaching. They are quick
ly fixed in the soil within reach of the
plant roots Nitrogen is lost to a
much greater extent than any other
plant food and the more soluble the
form when added as a fertilizer the
more it is lost by leaching with the
drainage water.
Organic forms o' nitrogen carrier*,
such as cotton 3eed meal, dried blood,
tankage or fish scrap, are not as sol
uble as nitrate of soda or sulphate of
ammonia, and are. therefore, not aa
liable to loss from leaching. When
complete commercial fertilizers are
applied in amounts of 400 to 009
pounds per acre or less, it is doubtful
if more than one application need be
made. This is certainly true on the
soils of the Piedmont Plateau which
have heavy subsoils as shown by re
sults from the field demonstration
plats of the Agronomy Division of the
Georgia State College of Agriculture,
Complete fertilizer of a 10-3-4 compo
sition was applied at the rate of six
hundred pounds per acre on corn and)
cotton. Corn showed the largest yield
where the fertilizer was all applied be
fore planting, while cotton showed no
advantage from side applications.
In the sandy soils of the Coastal
Plain section of the state where ni
trate. of soda is used as the source
of nitrogen, side applications may be
made as a means of preventing loss of
nitrogen. However, where other
sources of nitrogen are used, this
method of applying fertilizer will have
little value. Care must be exercised
where side applications of fifty pounds
or more per acre of nitrate of soda are
made. These applications should not
be made late in the growing season.
The application of nitrogen tends to
extend the growing season and to de
lay maturity. Side applications late in
the season may decrease the yield of
corn by prolonging the growth of stalk
and leaves. Where boll weevil is pres
ent the snsecess of cotton production
depends upon making the crop as ear
ly as possible, therefore, side appli
cations of nitrogen will tend to delay
maturity and will possibly cause a loss
in- yield through injury by boll wee
vil to the late maturing cotton.—Prof.
George A. Crabb, State College of Agri
culture.
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a Baby
in Your
Home?
Babies and Children Need
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r. P. MARSHALL, Manufacturing Chanda*.
Atlanta, Georgia.