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*Jid Super m»lh »> d Mr liter —^T-7 the Butler Herald 'olutftf 53 BUTLER, Taylor County, QEORQIA, Thursday June 13, 1929 Number 29 ViOBD APPRECIATION g PL KNDlU SERVICES : MIL \N1) MRS. SHEARER ,, and vicinity will deeply re- “ 1,r ' and Mrs. A. E, j lose Mr. mude Shearer has intendent of Public s . Shearer has made client teacher. Mr. d school man, and a of the 9 rcr is a Christian gentleman " tv pe, and a well educated ‘ Butler has been very fortunate .' h ,,,l 6 uch an able man to head chooK Mr. Shearer holds the A. ,nd M. A. degrees. has been promoted FIRST THINQS FIRST. Topic of Commencement Sermon Delivered by REV. J. C. ADAMS Farmers Bring to This Office Their First Cotton Blooms. Mr. Shearer nus been ‘ jn sa iary and in size of school, leaves butler to become the head a school in Florida and carries it h him the good wishes and kind fcuvh of the people of this county, (lod greatly bless his efforts in new locality • H. M. WOLFE, Pastor Butler Baptist Church. [IS ‘But seek ye first the Kingdom oi God, anil His righteousness; and all other things shall be added unto you:”—Matt. 6:33. Mercer University President Here For Short Visit Friday. inquest over PHAROAH The death and burial of Pharoah be portrayed in a sermon Sunday „ ht at the Methodist church at junction City, T:30 to be delivered Rev. H. L. Roberts, pastor of the uk charge. The subject for his dis burse will be The Inquest Over haroah, which will be instructive nd interesting- Tnt pub, -: is eor- udly invited. jHERIFF R. P. McGUFFIN RETURNS FROM BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA WITH PRISONER Dozier Walton, colored, who has n a fugitive from justice since March 24th last, was arrested in Birmingham Monday. Being advised of the arrest Sheriff McGuflin went to Birmingham for his prisoner Monday afternoon returning witli him Tues day. Walton is charged with assault with intent to murder as the result of shooting which took place at Pot- terville on the 24th of March at which time Dan Trussell, another negro, was wounded. Grand Theatre REYNOLDS, GEORGIA PROGRAM FOR THE WEEK THURSDAY, JUNE 13 “THE WIND” Starring Lillian Gish. A great star, a great director combine to ®ake a thrilling romance of the attained West that will rank as lout of the great pictures of any Star. Added Attractions: thrill HUNTER Western Feature HOT PUPPIES—Comed v FRIDAY JUNE 14 “THE WIND” Lillian Gish. Here is the picture the world’s been waiting or —UllianGish’s first screen ap- Mrai.ce in more than a year. A mneer enie you’ll acclaim as her gretest triurjph! Added Attractions: HOT PUPPIF.S—Comedy RECKONING Serial No. 4 'EYPcnl L ’ RDAY - JUNE 16 "Oh the UNDERWOl J*! eta the Racketeers 2 ' an bounding "Nov. with warageou re tale of daring youth and h Js girl victorious over War °F the underworld. F;v. ' dded Ateractions: THp ,;., KKCK ONING, Serial 4. - ^jOKED WEST. Comedy Monday & Tuesday JUNE 17 & 18 n, ‘ E SHEPHERD of PrimV IXGD<)M COME ” mount *° Ves —Primitive hates all j n .J" madness —blooil feuds the Knm 'i’ sou Fstirring drama of t to b y hills ' A bo y’ s « reat Prising '. a 1Tlan > and his sur- m°untain °' C ® between a barefoot, b lue“l maiden and a proud, Fox, j r ' au ty. Story by John HIGH s'!'',' 1 A H r »etions: ULU ES—Comedy These are the words of Jesus taken from what is commonly known as the Sermon on the Mount. More properly it is the Gospel of the Kingdom. Li the 5th, 6th and 7th chapters of Matthew we have the Constitution of the Kingdom of God. Jesus never made a mistake. He lived in what is known as the Dark Age, but he taught as never man taught before, nor since. When Jesus made a statement you could then, and now, accept ahat statement as ab solutely true. His statements always ranked as one hundred per cent true. Not only was this true, but Jesus always placed first things, first. He emphasized the important things of life. He had little time with the triv ial, unimportant things of life. Most of us are unlike Jesus in this respect. We emphasize the trivial and unim portant things of life. Let there come a financial depression and we begin to economize upon the important things of life and cling to the unim portant things. Since 1920 many peo ple have refused to educate their children on account of financial re verses, but have been able to buy new automoiles. The consumption of gas has increased steadily year by year. Automobiles and gasoline have their place but that place is not the first place. And this is the issue in the pas sage from wnich the text is taken: Place firist things first. Place first in your life the essentials; let the non- essentials have second place. This is the essential difference between a Christian and a sinner. The Christian places emphasis upon the eternal matters; the sinner thinks for today. Paul speaks of the seen and the un seen. The eternal or important things of life are the unseen; the temporal, fleeting, unimportant things are the ones that you can see with your eyes. This can be further illustrated from every walk of life. Most of uii spend our time upon the unimportant things of life and leave out of our lives the important things of life. B’or instance the average mother is more interested in her daughter’s appear ance, than die is as to her genuine ness of character. Show has a very important place with all of us. You young people who are receive your diplomas now soon will be confronted with this very issue. The temptation will come to you to live as a butter fly. On the other hand the opportuni ty of making your life a blessing to humanity will be presented to you. If there were no other objections, and I assure you that there are very serious objections, to such forms oi amusement as card playing and danc ing, the waste of valuable time and energy upon these amusements would be sufficient to condemn them. Next to your character your most valuable possession is your time. In fact the way you use your time will determine your character. I know of a man who is spending all of his time studying rat psychology. And for what pur pose? For the benefit of man? No. Just a fleeting fancy of his. He has no idea of turning any information that he may gain, to the good of hu manity. He is not accomplishing any thing. His talents are wasted. And when he comes to the end of his day a bam yard cat will know more rat psychology in a minute than he will know in a life time. Men waste enough time to become educated. It was Mr. Elliott that Emeritus President of Harvard, who said thata person could be thoroughly educated by spending 15 minutes a day in seriously reading the proper kind of literature. All of us have the same amount of time at our disposal, twenty-four hours each day, and the difference in people is the difference that they make in the use of this time. If we will place first things Specimens of fine cotton crops and the first cotton blossoms of the sea son found their way to the Herald office Monday in rapid succession. The first to remember the Heruld in this manner was Mr. J. B Goodwin who a few months gave up his resi dence in Butler to resume farming which he had .found by previous ex perience a much more satisfactory and happier life than business wor ries even in a good town. He is en gaged this year in farming in a prac tical way in Panhandle district. He is cultivating such crops as will sup ply his pantry, smoke house and barn for another year with a small acre age in cotton as a surplus crop. From this latter crop he sends us a stalk which measured 22 inches in height and bearing nine squares. Postmaster C. W Bazemore was reared on a farm and has been unable to shake the moss off of his back. He has one of the best farms in the north-western part of the county. He mixes brains with the soil and the combination has kept him in po sition to read with a smile the figures which he has been able to place on the right hand side of his ledger each year since leaving the farm many years ago. Some of the credit it may be said in fairness to the perseverance and energy of {he superintendent of this farm, Mr J. C Wade. Mr. Wade gives his crops rhe best of attention at all times He knows when and how to plant ami cultivate his crops systematically throughout the growing season. From this farm the Herald receives the first cotton bloom of the season. The hands of the clock moved ’round only a few times between the arrival of the cotton bloom from the Bazemore farm and a bloom from Mr Pope Booth’s farm. Mr. Booth is one of those farmers who finds plenty of work on the farm and is at it the year ’round, and while he doesn’t bank much on cotton expects to make a good showing this year on a nine acre patch in spite of the boll weevil, since he has been making an aggres sive war on that dreaded pest ever since their appearance in his crop the Dr. Spriglit Dowell, President oi Mercer University, and Dean Mc- Clean, dean of the law school of the University, passed through Butler on their way to Columbus last Friday morning. While in Butler they called on Rev. Horace M. Wolfe, pastor of the local Baptist church and also u former student of Mercer, and a number of the leading business men of thd town. Dr. Dowell has shown marked ability in being able to raise all of the $50,000 needed to endow the Law Department, except a few hun dred dollars and our understanding is that he completed raising the money while in Columbus. Mercer’s Law School stands eighth in the list of outstanding law schools of America, it was necessary that Mercer erect a new building to house its law school or she would lose her standing. Dr. Dowell came to Mercer Univer sity from the presidency of a great Alabama university and has made wonderful progress at Mercer since his coming. He is loved by the stu dent body and has won their faith and confidence by his straight-for ward manner in which he deals with the problems of the school. CAPT. T. E. BREWER DIES. As the Herald goes to press news of the death of Captain Thos. E. Brewer, of Louisville, Ky., is received in a telegram to his brother, Mr. J. E Brewer, and in which it is stated Cajit. Brewer died this morning at six o’clock the result of paralysis. He had been in serious condition about four weeks. He was a native of Tay lor county, the family being one of the most prominent in this section. Funeral and interment will take place tomorrow at Cincinnati. Revival Services to Begin at Baptist Church Sunday. The revival at the Butler Baptist church will begin Sunday, June 17th. The pastor, Rev. H. M. Wolfe, will do the preaching. The hours for ser vices will be 7-45 song services will begin and preaching at 8 o'clock. There will be no morning service at the church. The town and country people are cordial ly invited to attend these services. The pastor says that he is going co do his best to preach the Gospel of Christ in such a way that any man can find the way to salvation, and that he is going to tuke the top off of sin, anil let the people look at it; and that ha. is going to preach in such a way that when the revival is over he will be unashamed to stand before God and tell him that he did his best to reach the lost people of Taylor county. Rev. Mr. Wolfe requests that every praying person in Taylor county and elsewhere who reads these lines to pray that God will greatly bless the revival and save the lost people of Taylor county. Every one is invited to attend regardless as to what pur pose one may have in attending be cause once a missionary in South America had a man to come to he ..r him preach who was hired to kill him but after hearing the Gospel he ac cepted Christ and is now one of the best preachers in South America. WESLEYAN Honors Duke Philanthropist Who Gave $100,000 to College Will Be Memoralized. first of the season. Mr. Booth is not only a good farmer hut one of the county’s best citizens, always active in church, school and civic affairs ir. his community. The county needs more citizens like him. ANOTHER BUTLF.R NEGRO DIES “UP NORTH" Just three weeks ago Henry Mims, well known Butler negro, and one of outstanding character among his race left Butler in search of the “pot of old at the end of the rainbow,” which led him to Detroit. He had scarcely landed on Michigan soil when pneumonia seized him with a mighty grip. Kindred and friends “back home” w«; . .t ailed upon for financial aid which was promptly furnished. However the disease could not be checked and death soon claim ed him. His body is expected to ar rive here today for interment. Macon, June 10.—A bmefucctor of Wesleyan college. Benjamin N. Duke with his father, Washington Duke, and brother, J. B. Duke, will be hon- , ored in a voluntary movement to es tablish a permanent memorial by way of appreciation for the contributions they have made towards educational institutions In this country, China, England, France and South America. Named from Georgia to assist in making the memorial permanent are Dr. W. F. Quillian, president of Wes leyan college; H. M. Willett, presi dent of the board of trustees of Mer cer university; Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta Constitution; Dr. P. T. Durham and Morris Brandon. Mr. Duke gave $100,000 to Wes leyan on a pledge of the citizens of Macon and Georgia to raise a similar amount. This was done and the col lege received the amount in stocks from the Duke estate, which have since expanded in value considerably. A voluntary movement “to estab lish a permanent memorial by way of appreciation” of the lives of the late Washington Duke and his sons B. N. Duke and J. B. Duke, has taken definite form in the announcement this week of the official executive committee who have been named by the original group of sponsors of the Memorial, acting for friends of the men who made American tobacco merchandising history and whose benefactions to their f- ’ men will total well over one ... 1 million dollars Jas. A. Thomas, who was associat ed with the Dukes for over 3U years, and who represented them in many of their operations in Europe and Asia when the Dukes were creating world wide marks for \trtB*ican tobacco, . has been named chairman. Other members of the executive committee are W. S. Lee, vice chairman; W. W Flowers, treasurer; A. H Sands, Jr., secretary and C. C. Dula Basil Har ris and A. J. Drexel Biddie, jr. 1929 B. H. S. CLASS PASSES INTO HISTORY AS SIXTEEN DIPLOMAS ARE AWARDED Local School Student Holds State Record For Attendance. Magnificent Address and Inspiring Sermon Delivered by Prof. J. O. Martin and ' Rev. J. C. Adams Respectively With pomp and pageantry, rite and ceremony, the Butler High school graduated 16 promising young peo- pie, eight boys and eight girls, Monilay evening, last. A more beautiful evening r o u 1 d not have been found for the ceremonies. The exercises were scheduled for 8 o'clock but long before the appointed hour the auditorium was crowded with proud parents, exultant brothers sisters and friends. By the time the program began there was scarcely standing room either in the audi torium or the corridor adjoining it. The program was begun by the audience singing “America,” after which the invocation was dcliveied by Rev. H. M. Wolfe, pastor of the Butler Baptist church. Miss Elizabeth Childres was the salutatorian and she made a very in teresting address of welcome. Next was an oration by Wyman Harris on the “Constitution”. Net only does Wyman hold a record in scholarship but in attendance as well. It was an nounced from the stage that during his entire school career of eleven years that he had not been absent a day, a record perhaps unequaled in the state. Miss Rita Peacock v/as the valedic torian and her talk was very in spiring. She reviewed the tender as sociation of school life, gave expres sion of gratitude for the board, superintendent, the teachers, and oth tin who was reared in the adjoining county, Crawford, expressed his hap piness at being invited back home. He praised the work of the local and county superintendents, and con gratulated the people upon their beautiful school building. He told the class that they should be happy to live in such an age as this, saying that he had rather be the youngest member of the graduating class, than to be the richest old man in the United States. His remarks were timely and witty in contrasing this age with the past age. His illustrations were amusing and the vast audience was held spell-bound by a mixture of the humorous with the informational. He pointed in a striking manner to the wonderful progress of our country in the past 30 years, electricity, the automobile the radio, the telephone, and the air plane have made their contributions to the age. , Prof. Martin showed clearly that we no longer lived in the past but in a remarkable present age, and in or der to cope with other people we must discard the old methods and ac cept the new way of doing things. In a very impressive manner he admon ished the graduates not to be satisfied with their present education, but to seek further educational accomplish ments. Prof. Martin lamented the fact that so many pupils were not continuing in school through the fourth grade. (Continued to Page 5) ers who have made the school what He in a mighty climax said, “Ignor- it is. The literary' address was delivered by Prof. J. O. Martin of the State Department of Education. Prof. Mar- ance was the greatest curse to the human race,” and he stated further that something should be done to raise the mass of pupils out of the grades into high school. He told the class that they were indeed fortunate to have survived through high schoil graduation, and advised them to select some course to pursue in life, and then put their heart and soul into this course. He said the course selected should be a laudable and worthy’ one, and then they shoud never let up in their pursuance of it. He told the grad uates that heretofore their trend of thought was divorced from the wor ries and car es of the world but in the future they, and they alone would be architects of their fate. In conclusion he plead to the grad uates to make a contribution to life, to do something worthwhile, to make the world better by having lived. He told them to make opportunities if they found none, and to use these opportunities. His address was one of the best ever delivered in the local audi torium. Prof. A. E. Shearer delivered the diplomas to the following: Woodrow Amos, Marie Garrett, Tom Harmon Anna Heath, Naomi Foy, Wyman Harris, Jack Jarrell, Blanford Jar rell, Sim Montgomery, Frances Downs, Rita Peacock, Elizabeth Childres, Voncile Parks, Edna Smith Malcolm Gaultney and Wallace Riley. Using as the theme of his dis course “First Things First,” Rev. J. C. Adams, of Atlanta, delivered to the graduating class Sunday at the school auditorium one of the ablest commencement sermons ever heard here, and which is published in full elsewhere in this issue. McTYIERS EN ROUTE TO NEW YORK ARE VICTIMS TO SAD AUTOMOBILE ACCIDENT Friends of Mr. J Floyd McTyier and Mrs. McTyier, the latter a native of this city who will be remembered as Miss Ella Gray Carithers, sympa thize with them deeply in their re cent great sorrow occasioned by the death of their father, Mr Uriah Mc Tyier, the result of injuries received in an automobile accident near Ox ford, N. C., about two weeks ago. In the same accident the wife of the de ceased was also badly injured and has since been under the care of phy sicians at the Oxford hospital. According to information received here Mr. and Mrs. McTyier, whose home was at Plains, Ga. were en- route to New York with Mr and Mrs Floyd McTyier when a car collided with the McTyier car. The elder Mc- Tyiers were contemplating a most delightful visit to their son in New York when the accident occurred, and the son and his wife equally &s happy over the prospect of having their a "-.d parents visit them in their New York home for the first time. Mr. McTyier is doing successful secretarial work with the Y. M. C. A in New York and is president of the Georgia society in that city # The remains of Mr. McTyier were expected to arrive at Plains yester day for funeral services and inter ment. Besides his wife, who is just out of the hospital, Mr. McTyier is survived by two daughters, Mrs. F. F Barnett, of Plains; and Mrs. J. W. Salter of Dawson; and three sons, J. F., of New York; W. L., of Macon; and U. K. McTyier, Jr., of Tampa, Fla. ATTENDING SUMMER SCHOOL Those to leave this,, week to attend summer school at the Americus Normal College were Mr. C. F. Rustin, Misses Elizabeth Childres, Marie Payne, Katinell Cooper and Mr Wyman Harris.