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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
Watered at the Post Office at Butler, Ga.
as Mail Matter of Second-Class.
Subscription $1.50 a Year
HIT OR MISS
1
Tfee new recruits from Butler will
now get a chance to see what the Star
Spoagied Banner looks like. ;
Hade Sam could probably get those
deserters in the Cherokee mountains if
he went on a “still” hunt.
Shake, Old Boy.
The Cologne Gazette (German) says:
■“•Gerjoany’s enemies will ‘wring their
hands' in vain regret at the final dis
appearance 6f the Germans of 1914.”
There are a lot of black-berry pickers
to our midst.
Alas, Also Alack!
Two weeks gone by and no more
candidates announced for the Senate.
Police!
Austria must be Hungary for peace.
To the Weather Person.
Next time don't make such a bluff—
as you scared several of our most
esteemed citizens almost to the point of
buying same W. S. S. '
Affer perambulating
Hither and thither
For considerable
Periods of time
And taking a
Perspective of
•Stilady's chapeau
Whenever .the
Shortness of the dresses
iVlihtdy wore did
Not attract our
Atteatien to other
Masters of minor or
Larger proportions
We have come to the
Conclusive conclusion
That the said
Style of slid
Chateau is of
Little consequence
Just so it’s
Different.
THE RUSSIAN
SITUATION.
Ukraine resists German at
tempts at subjugation with guer
rilla warfare by the peasants all
over the country. Hatred by the
Teutons bursts into flames at the
unexpected severity of an army
which was supposedly fighting
only for its life.
What is happening in Ukraine
is equally liable to occur every
where the Germans control Rus
sians, and is inevitable. The Bol-
sheviki, heartily denounced as
pro-Germans, are bound to con
flict with autocracy when Teu
tonic imperialism tightens the
screws of military domination to
increase the value of a dishonor
able peace wrung from a helpless
people.
For the Allies, and for us, the
question is, bow can we, realizing
the clashes which are certain,
help th6 Russians to regain con
trol of their territory and win
their right to solve destiny’s
problem, and end the dream of a
Teutonic Mitel-Europa?
A lapse of time will alienate all
sympathy for Germany which
may now exist in Russia, and the
Slaves will wish to strike for their
freedom again. The military and
economic assistance of the enten
te and the United States will be
essential to success. Plans should
be made therefore to have ready
for use against the Germans all
the equipment which Russia can
utalize. •
Lord Robert Cecil says the Brit
ish are in “constant consultation”
with their allies as to the most ef
fective way of “rendering assis
tance” to Russia. The solution
of the manner is to be found, but
■would not be surprised if it is
not found sooner than generally
expected.
A Bilious Attack.
When you have a bilious attack
your liver fails to perform its func
tions. You become constipated. The
food you eat ferments in your
stomach instead of digesting. This
inflames the stomach and causes
nausea, vomiting and a terrible head
ache. Take Chamberlain’s Tablets.
They will tone up your liver, clean
out your stomach and you will soon
be as well as ever. They only cost
a quarter.
"Not Pressed For a Reply.
J. )>. S. implies that he presses his
trousers (I should have said pants, ow
ing to size) by putting them between
fee mattress, and sleeping on them.
Now, any one knows that J. D. S.
hasn't weight enough to make an im
pression, so what bothers us is who’s
vaattress he puts them under.
'Forbear.
Ah, 1 remember well his little tear-
-S Sained face.
When in the days goue by he'd climb
my knee
Where ail his troubles of the day he
avould retrace,
Aa-f i would smile, and chide him,
and a man to be.
Bat tisees have changed, the parting of
the way
Cocoes fast apace and trials now
increase
As far across the sea he keeps the foe
ai bay
That once again mankind may live
in peace.
Should not 1 still keep smiling then
awhile.
An i cheer him as he goes along the
way?
Nor burden him with cares, his strength
beguile
And know that he—not I—is the
man today.
Don't let your little sorrows reach to
"over there.”
Bot pray, and keep on smiling at
the pain
For could you know what he must do
and dare, ,
You sure would smile to get him back
again.
SPIDER.
"The Pneumonia Season.
Tfc* cold, damp weather of March
seeais to be the most favorable for
tfte pneumonia germ. Now is the
tr*ie to be careful. Pneumonia often
merits from a cold. The quicker a
oo8& ia gotten rid of the less the
dxo^er. As soon as the first indica-
tuaeot a cOld appears take Chamber-
>rough Remedy. As to the
■nine of this preparation, ask any
one who has used it.
kt
WILSON’S FOREIGN
POLICY.
It is not strange that the Amer
ican people, wrapped up in the
idea of world-wide peace, are wil
ling to follow their liberty-loving,
peace-seeking president into the
vortex ' of the world’s greatest
struggle and participate in a great
battle being fought across the
seas. They know that there is at
the helm of this government a
man of peace, a diplomatic states
man without peer and that when
ever he can bring peace out of
chaos of war he will bring it, and
until he says “let there be peace”
there will be no peace.
Students of history may study
the declarations of President Wil
son for a reason to explain the
attitude of the American people
but the president himself explain
ed it very thoroughly when he
made his talk to the Mexican edi
tors who visited Washington some
time ago. After assuring them of
the friendliness of this country, of
her disinterestedness, and her
willingness to enter into a league
of nations with South and Central
America for the protection of this
hemisphere through concerted
action by all of the countries in-
ALLIED STRATEGY
MUST CHANGE.
Frank H. Simonds, a well known
military critic, has been writing
war reviews for The News and
Courier and his views are always
interesting. In passing along
some of his recent utterances we
feel that the Charleston paper
should be commended for its in
itiative in giving its readers this
expert’s daily view of the hap
penings in France, which come to
t by telegraph from New York.
Speaking of the recent lessons
in present warfare Mr. Simonds
says:
“Unless all signs fail, therefore,
we are likely to see the profound
modification of defensive tactics.
The French and British still fol
lowing the methods developed
during the war and used with
complete success by the Germans
in the three campaigns in which
they accepted the defensive in the
west in order to deal with Russia
in the east, have undertaken to
hold their lines lightly and retain
in their rear large reserves, which
are to be used at the point at
tacked by the Germans.
But this theory rests upon the
assumption, now proven false,
that the weakly held front lines
can be defended until the reserves
are able to intervene and restore
the balance. This was the case
on the German side when the
French attacked iii Champagne in
1915, it was true on the French
side when the Germans attacked
Verdun in 1916. The method
sufficed to defeat Nivelle at the
Aisne a year ago and led to the
bloody failure of the British in
Flanders a few months later. It
was reliance upon this experi
ence which led the British and
French to accept the defensive in
the present campaign, with the
expectation that they might hold
their ground, save for local losses
like those suffered last year by
Germans, until the American
masses had reached Europe and
were ready to intervene.
We are bound to conclude,
however, as a result of less than
three months of evperience in the
present campaign that the Allies
must abandon the theory, which
formed the base of their calcula
tion for this year, and either odopt
some new policy or some material
modification of their present sys
tem. It is inconceivable that they
can consent to run the risks in
cident to several more German
successes like the last three, two
of which have held out a real
possibility of diaster, in the open
ing hours, owing to the complete
ness of the rupture of the Allied
lines.
On the other hand, while the
results of the past three months
have been unmistakably depress
ing, we are bound to recognize
that the losses in territory have
not been accompanied by propor
tionate losses either in men or in
chances of maintaining the de
fense.
enemy. Can it be that the
Teutons, after striking hard at the
British army, think that the north
is secure and now turn their at
tention to the French, feeling that
a success here will leave their
hands free for the American
trooDS? That is the way it begins
to look.
In the meanwhile American
troops undertook their first pre
tentious attack from the sector in
front of Montdidier. News re
ports give them the village of
Cantigny and two hundred prison-
el's, both items of which are of
ficially confirmed. This is new
achievement for the soldiers over
there, and confirms the growing
suspicion in Germany that the
United States is really in the war
at last.
Women of City Ready
to Help on
Farm;
The Georgia Chamber of Com
merce is in receipt of a letter from
Ethel G. Scott, Employment andJ
Housing Secretary, War Work
Council of the Young Womens
Christian Association, Atlanta,
asking that the organization as
sist in a matter they have on hand,
that of placing business women
and girls working in offices and
other lines in cities in securing
places on farms during their va
cation period, these women and
girls ifi the majority of cases be
ing willing to serve on the farms
for their room and board and a
normal wage, to be determined
by the farmer and the applicant
through correspondence. The
letter from Mrs Scott reads:
“Georgia Chamber of Com
merce,
Atlanta, Georgia.
Gentlemen:
I have a
applicants on hand of steno-
Join These Americans
On the Road to Victory
See the crowd! It is a happy crowd ! Why ?
Because it is on the road to Victory. It is an
old road, the Thrift road, the broad highway to
personal success. And as usual, the success of
the individual means the success of the Nation.
The Nation to-day wants Victory. The individ
ual here at home can help best by winning a mil
lion smaller victories over waste and extravagance.
Join the crowd! Take the Thrift pledge!
Raise the W. S. S. flag and keep it flying. Put
your quarters and your dollars behind your sons and
husbands and brothers on the sea and in France,
JOIN THE CROWD!!
Be
a War
Saver
WUL SUOTM0S SUMPS
HtnDirm
onitod states •
GOVERNMENT
Be
a Life
Saver
I THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED BYj
We have the most up-to-date tine of
number! Dry Goods, Notion, Shoes and General
graphers and other office work-Merchandise ever carried Give us a
ers school teachers, college and trial. Qur motto, “Satisfied Customers.’
high school graduates, these j 1
women and girls wish to work as, a T - ^ Y T A IT ' v
assistants on farms . during the I /\ I ^ ■ I—B 1-^ V/1 j\jd
summer months or as long as ; -^- -“—A A--M- 1* AT v ^
farm or crop work lasts. They j-
are willing to assist in any form of;
work which will help to harvest,
the crops, place more garden food
Butler, Georgia.
MOTOR RURAL
CARRIER EXAMINATION
upon the market, dry, can, pre
serve fruits and vegetables, care
for and feed all kinds of poultry j
and farm animals. This work is!
necessary and they seek it as a pa- j
triotic duty.
These applicants for farm pla-;
ces are all energetic and intelli-1 County of Taylor, to be held at
gent young women, good workers :
The United States Civil Ser
vice Commission has announc
ed an examination for the
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a Fav
orite! or Colds.
J. L. Easley, Macon, 111., in speak
ing of Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy
says, “During the past fifteen years
if 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 NEW GERMAN
stead of through the influence 0 f DRIVE.
the Monroe doctrine alone, Pres
ident Wilson touched on the
Mexican situation, which every
one knov/s seemed on the verge
of bringing about war several
times, and admitted that at the
time of the trouble with that coun
try, he “was anxious to have the
states of the two countries of
America show the way to the rest
of the world how to make a basis
for peace.” In this country, and
on this side of the ocean, the
Wilson policy won, and kept
peace; if Europe had tried it ear
lier, or if Wilson had a hand in
the European game earlier and
could have gotten to the ears of
the chancellors there he might
have been able to improve their
conceptions of peace a great deal.
Striking along the Aisne and
forcing their way forward despite
British and French resistance the
Germans have lengthened the long
battle line of Picardy and Flan
ders. Just what this new effort
portends can not be clearly seen
at this time, as news from the
front is too meagre to state just
exactly what has happened.
It is apparent that the Germans
have won another success.
Capturing the Chemin-des-Dames,
and advancing eight to ten miles
along a fairly wide front indicates
considerable driving power, al
though it is yet too early to esti
mate the strength thrown into the
blow.
One puzzling feature of the new
drive is the ultimate motive of the
and willing, and of a high mental
and moral caliber. I am sure
they will be willing to assist ar
ound in house, or lend a helping
hand to whatever task which will
make the work run smoothly.
Any assistance that the Geor
gia Chamber of Commerce can
give us in an effort to place these
girls and women on farms this
summer will be greatly appreciat
ed by us.
Very sincerely yours,
(Signed') ETHEL G. SCOTT,
Employment and Housing Sec
retary.
The Georgia Chamber of Com
merce makes a special request of
the farmers of Georgia needing
help in harvesting their crops that
they take advantage of this offer
and communicate with Mrs Scott,
care YWCA Atlanta, filing with
her application for the number of
workers needed by them this
summmer.
Happy is he who has learned
this one thing—to do the plain
duty of the moment quickly and
cheerfully whatever it may be. If
you want knowledge, you must
toil for it; if you want food you
must toil for it; and if pleasure
you must toil for it. Toil is the
law. Pleasure comes through
toil and not by self-indulgence and
indolence.—Selected.
Many men spend more money
on expensive caskets, flowers and
emblems of mourning than they
ever spent on their poor, loving,
self-sacrificing mothers for many
years while alive. Men who, per
haps, never thought of carrying
flowers to their mother in life,
pile them high on their coffins.
At 3 p. m. on July 12th 1918
to till the position of Motor
Rural Carrier at Reynolds, and
vacancies that may later occur
on motor rural routes from
post offices in the above men
tion county. The salary on
motor routes rangees from
$1,500 to $1,800 per annum.
The examination will be open
only to citizens who are actual
ly domiciled in the territory
supplied with mail by a post
Office in the county and who
meet the other requirements
set forth in Forms 2121 and
1977. Form 2121 may be seen
posted at any post office in the
county for which the examina
tion is held, Form 1977 and ap
plication blanks may be ob
tained from the post offices at
which the vacancy exists and
where the examination is to be
held, or from the United Seates
Civil Service Commission at
Washington, D. C. The ap
pointee to this position will be
required to furnish, maintain,
and operate a modem motor
vehicle with a carrying capaci
ty of uot less than 800 pounds
and a cubic capacity of not less
than 800 feet. Applicants
must file with their applica
tions astatement of the equip
ment they will be able to pro
vide in the event of appoint-
forwarded to the Commission
at Washington, D. C., at the
earliest practicable date.
NOTE- During the continu
ance of the present war the
Commission will, in accordance
with the request of the Post
Office Department, admit wo
men to rural carrier examina
tions upon the same conditions
as men.
By direcetion of the Com
mission
JOHN J. McILHENNY,
President.
One of Our
Best Assets
Demand the genuine—call for
it by full name.
Imitations Are Made
to Deceive You.
There is no happier nor more
cozy picture of home life than
the little family group gathered
about the evening lamp, while
some member of it reads aloud.
These evening readings can be
made educational in many ways,
which the eager feminine mind
eager for improvement will easily
devise.