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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1, 1929.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. Hl'.N NS,
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OP
TAYLOR COUNTY
PUBLISHED EVER' THURSDAY
RICK-RACK
THE THREAT OF WAR
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Entered at the Post otlice at Butler,
Georgia, As Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Lets keep hoping provision will be
made for a county agent next year.
Route three must be paved through
Taylor County before the end of
1930.
The Wesleyan Christian Advocate
issued last week a special education
number that was indeed a credit to
that publication.
Whose foot is the shoe on?
It has not been but a few years ngo.
That the good women of
Americ a were raising a
Whoop and a howl because the
Women of China wore shoes that
Compressed their feet, and
Which custom of compressing the
Feet started in infancy and kept
Vp until maturity. And so the
Chinese women hud very, very
Small feet.
Now, it would make me laugh,
If a delegation of
Chinese women were to come over
l'o America, and give the
Christian women of
America a lesson, as to the
Height the heels of a
Shoe should be to promote
Comfort in wearing, and
Conserve the health and strength
Of the wearer, and
Conform to the idea of
Common sense.
Yes, it would make me laugh.
The Uurgin bill providing that lo
cal legislation shall go back to coun
ties and cities for action, should by
all means be passed.
If you want the clearer vision
when looking through the telescope,
first put out all the lights. And in me
night of sorrow don’t complain—it
brings out the stars.
The prospects are very encourag
ing that the road through Howard,
Butler and Reynolds will be put in
the state highway system at the
present session of the legislature.
The St. Louis airmen are ap-
prouching 600 hours of continuous
flight. They have no i ntention of
coming down as long as their engine
continues to hold out and they get
$100 each for every hour above
record they stay up.
ywas a recent visitor to Mrs A. J;
line and Mrs. Rosebud King.
the
sirs. H. K. Sealy had as dinner
^sts Thursday Mrs. E. A. Hollis
her daughter, Mrs. W. S. White.
lry Sunshine crackers and cakes.
\keep them fresh at all times.
HODGES BROS.
T. A.
MR. SLATE
THE PROPOSED TARIFF
The confirmation of Tom Wisdom
as state auditor to succeed Sam Slate
one of those surprising things that
hapen in politics. Mr. Slate, whom the
governor attempted unsuccessfully to
remove in the legislative session two
years ago, had been represented as
having 34 friends in the present Sen
ate who would stick with him all the
way through, but on the final show
down, he had 19, which was noi
enough. The governor’s victory has
come, undoubtedly, as the result of
some sort of compromise between
him and Senate leaders which will be
divulged by the political correspon
dents as time goes on.
The significant thing, however, is
that a man who is eminently well
qualified for the position of state au
ditor has been rejected for the po
sition. Mr. Slate has only himself to
I blame. The position of state auditor
Williais one that should be filled without
the brregard to politics and its occupant
room ought to remain aloof from politics
The If the governor has refused Mr. Slate
weariireappointment because of politics,
georgcMr. Slate also has been guilty of
blue, transcending the line of politics. He
beauticame out as an open partisan of Jno.
The. k N. Holder and destroyed, in a large
bus- element of the public mind, confi-
Mrs. George Brown, whose
' band is a member of the Fulton dele- I ( >ence in his impartiality as an audi
gation in the state legislature, has
announced her candidacy for con
gress from the Fifth Georgia Dis
trict made vacant by the death of I,.
J, Steele. Her platform is for greater
economy in government, opposition
to increasing of bureaus and old age
pensions.
“Young men should be taught the
homely truth that they should make
up their minds to do the job in hand
the best they know how and—quite
important—to derive a lot of fun
and satisfaction from their work and
their associations. If they do this,
they will gel just as much fun out of
life as the president of the corpora
lion does.”—J. D. Mooney.
tor. He ought never to have been
anybody’s partisan; he ought to have
remained the critical observer of all
state officials.
Because he did not do so, all the
fine work he has done toward govern
mental reorganization avails him
nothing; his fine capabilities avail
him nothing. He goes out of office be-
ause he played too much politics.—
Macon Telegraph.
Another week gone and all major
issues before the Georgia legislature
still in the mill. There is more than
usual disappointment in legislative
sessions. Not for many years has the
opportunity been offered for real
statesmanship in boih branches of
the legislature than this year, but it
seems not to be found there, or at
least there is no evidence of it up to
the present time.
EDITORS EXCHANGE WIRES
All the symptoms which inuiaetc a
war in the Far East have now’ ap
peared. There lias been an "incident”
the seizure of the Chinese Eastern
railway. Thousands of poor idiots
are marching around the streets ot
Moscow singing anil shouting and
making speeches. There has been an
ultimatum. There has been a rupture
of diplomatic relations. There is
mobilization. There are dispatches
from here, there, and everywhere
filling the air with rumors. The out
side world does not know what the
quarrel is about. It scarcely knows
where the Manchuria is. It does not
kno wwhy Chinamen and Russians
care so much about it. It does not
know who is to blame for starting
the trouble. The fog of lies which al
ways descends upon the theater of
war has descended upon Eastern
Asia. Everybody is too busy to think
about it. It is all as remote as the
news of an outbreak of lunacy
Mars. It is a lot of trouble to do any
thing. It is not plain what ought to
be done. Perhaps it will all blow over.
Well, perhaps ’it will blow over.
But the one certain fact in the whole
business is that Manchuria is one of
the two or three chief spots on this
planet where great wars originate.
Two or three great wars have origi
nated there within the lifetime of
this generation. Manchuria is to the
Far East what the Balkans are to
Europe. It is the place where wars
start. What one cannot be certain of
is that the wars which start there
will end there.
Three great powers are in collision
an Manchuria: The empire created by
the czar of all the Russians, the am
bitious, aggresssive and rebellious
Chinese Republic and the Empire of
Japan. There may not be any war.
There may be only a little war. But
there might be a great war in which
the battles fought by the poorly
eqipped Russian and Chinese troops
would be only a minor factor. In the
world today wars are not fights in a
ring with ropes around it. Wars to
day explode all over the place, and
the violence they unleash extends far
beyond the intention or the imagina
tion of the rulers who consent to
them. When two great peoples, like
the Chinese and Russians, go to war
there is no telling who will be drawn
in or what will be affected.
Nobody at this distance can know
for certain what ought to be done.
But in a situation of this sort it is
far better to err by being too alarm
ist than by being too complacent. If
a fire starts near a powder maga
zine, and Manchuria is certainly a
powder magazine, it is better to run
the risk of calling out the fire en
gines unnecessarily than to take the
chance of letting the fire get such a
headway that fire envines will be
useless.
We urge the president, therefore,
to take the proper steps to mobilize
world opinion for a pacific solution
ar.d to bring diplomatic pressure on
both governments for the acceptance
of a pacific solution. Surely there can
Add to the gaiety of summer leg
islation the following happy passage I be no question of the normal right of
of telegrams between two excellent the signatories of the Pact of Paris
The six cents tax on gasoline
meets with very little dissatisfaction
in this section. Better roads and bet
ter schools are two of the state’s
greatest needs. Since each of these
causes is to receive one cent of the
increased tax from four to six cents
everybody should be satisfied. While
many preferred bonds for building
highways they are willing to accept
any reasonable plan that will insure
a system of highways in a reasona
ble time. We hope the senate will
pass the bill without further delay.
ditors of splendid Georgia newspa-
papers:
We quote The Greensboro Herald-
Journal: Atlanta, Ga., July 18, 1929.
J. C. Williams, Greensboro, Ga. Come
up and attend the last sad rites of
the bond bill.
E. H. GRIFFIN.
The answer:
Hon. E. II. Griffin, House of Rep
resentatives, Atlanta, Ga. Roads too
dusty to attend rites of child mur
dered by cowardly legislature in not
submitting matter to old man “pee-
pul.” J. C. WILLIAMS.
Mr. Griffin is representative from
Decatur county in the General As
sembly and also editor of The Bain-
bridge l’ost-Searchlight.
to seek to arrest the threatened ca
tastrophe. The pact puts on specific
obligation upon us to do any particu
lar thing. But if it means anything
whatsoever, it means that the threat
of war on such a scale is the proper
concern of all the powers. The ad
ministration ought to accept the
risks and the responsibilky which all
peace-making in really important
cases entails.—New York World.
Speed! And yet the goal is not
reached. The demand for haste in
creases with each passing day—and
the days move with timely precision,
ordered by a Divine hand. This is a
supernatural condition which should
challenge the consideration of man in
his wild scramble for gain through
the process of making a moment, or
an hour, do more than its ordinary
service. In this mad rush it is re
freshing to recall that during the
early days of the automobile, with
his stock and poultry being killed by
cars passing his otherwise quiet
premises, a considerate South Geor
gia citizen (and he lived in Liberty
county) erected across the roadway
in front of his gate a substantial
sign with warning legend: “Precede
Sloly.”
The poor man if honest and indus
trious is just as important to a
town as the rich, because one furn-
shes the money and the other builds
the homes, churches, factories and
oilier structures, and has to do free
road work regardless of whether he
owns even as much as a horse or
mule and stays at home and never
has anything to bring in or carry
out, and never thought of unless it is
to do a job of work or about election
times.—Dahlonega Nugget.
If the moving picture people, the
American Legion and the baseball
enthusiasts can break down the taws
protecting Sunday, then Sunday wil
come to be just the lame as
other day, which will be exactly
what the devil wants—and it will be
one of the worst calamities that has
come upon our land in a long time,
If you care, you will do well to de
t'-rmine not to vote for any man, re
gnrdless of party affiliations, if h
favors a wide-open Sunday.—Bapt’.s
A<*\ ..nee.
Despite the failure of numerous
banks in Georgia and Florida, and
in other Southern states, due mainly
to adverse agricultural conditions,
the entire section will have recovered
and safer methods and policies be
adopted as result of the bitter ex
perience by both bankers and de
positors. The banking laws are ap
parently sound, but there are still a
few loopholes which should be
chinked up with a mixture of caution
and honesty. Tincture of thrift add
ed to the above ingredients at the
ratio of one-third will make a mix
ture calculated to stop the leaks.—
Montgomery Monitor.
1 here are those who dream of the
fusion of right and wrong. They fan
cy they can live in some border land
where right and wrong are so com
pletely blended as to be neither the
one nor the other. They would live
in a moral twilight—an indefinable
moment when day and night ap
proach so very near as to be neither
—and all in this moral world. They
utterly’ forget that to be negatively
good and morally wrong are one and
the same. Were you to starve a man
to death, or if you were to shoot him
down, you have reached the same
end. There is a sort of moral fusion
—it brings confQsion—it ends in the
uter diffusion of self, so much so as
to put no stamp on character at all.
He who thus seeks to blend right and
wrong, without maintaining their
shade of difference, courts an * exis
tence as characterless as the ground
on which he stands.
From whatever angle the Republi
can tariff bill is approached, its
weakness and unpopularity is mani
fest.
Not only is there nation-wide pro
test against the exorbitant rates in
volved in its schedules, but the ud-
ministrative fea.urea — which con
template doing away with the non
partisan character of the Tariff
Commissioned bestowing the power
on the President to r.iahc rates ac
cording to the findings of his own
commission—has aroused the hostili
ty of Congress itsell against the lur-
ther encroachment of the Executive"
on the functions of the Legislative
oranen of the Government. Senator
Boarh has voiced this sentiment and
_n so stalwart a Republican as
Congressman James M. Beck of
i ennsyivania opposed the measure in
the House as of doubtful constitu
tionality.
The communications of European,
American and Asiatic Governments,
with the implied threat of relation,
suggests a menace to our foreign
commerce.
The other day Senator Wheeler, of
Montana pointed out that the huge
industrial corporations were urging
the smaller, less competent business
es as stalking horses to excuse un
conscionable increases in the rates.
The Wall Street Journal, staunch
champion of big business startled its
clientele on July 8, by an editorial
indorsement of this contention
Under the heading: “A Substitute
for Efficiency” this business news
paper asid:
“It is not often that The Wall
Street Journal finds itself in sympa
thy with Senator Wheeler of Mon
tana whose idea of legislation seems
to be ‘wherever you see a corpora
tion head, hit it.’ When, however, he
says the industries demanding ever
higher and higher protection in the
tariff must prove their claim by
their books, he is on firm ground.
One of the evils of protection is that
it tends to become a substitute for
efficiency’.
“For reasons of climate we have
never been able to build up i
industry in this country to compare
with those of the west of Scotland,
Belfast or even Saxony. No industry
has received higher protection than
the manufacture of woolen goods and
yet people of only moderate means
wear Scotch tweeds, West of Eng
land cloths, Bradford serges, chev
iots and the like, because the quality
is worth the difference in price, both
in wear and in appearance. The idea
of making people ‘clothes conscious’
by wearing two suits of inferior
quality, at superior prices, in place
of one which would look good to the
last, has not ‘caught on’.
Our cotton goods manufacturers
have received higher protection ev
ery time the Republican party has
engineered a tariff advance in ac-
Knowledgement of favors received. In
spite of the substantial increases of
1922 that industry in New England
has scarcely been paying its way.
Theatlernative seems to have been
resort to cheap labor in the Southern
cotton mills. It seems a decidedly un
American expedient and hardly bears
out the contention that the protec
tive tariff is gooil for the worker.
What seems to be needed in the
textile industries is not more protec
tion but reorganization with an axe,
together with an improvement in
quality, both in the product and in
ihe condition of the worker. Cthse
industries have proved that good
wages and working conditions won
derfully improve the per capita out
put, both in quantity and quality.
Long ago, when other motor car
manufacturers without Ford’s vision
proposed to reduce wages to below
two dollars a day, Ford raised his
minimum to five dollars and took the
market away from them. Protectitn
is perhaps something of a necessary
evil but protection as a substitute
for efficiency becomes less tolerable
every day.
“To take only one group all the
textile manufacturers have shown
Congress is that protection has fail
ed to teach the their business.”
The Minneapolis Tribune, hereto
fore a faithful supporter of the Re
publican administration, addresses
an appeal to the business men of the
Northwest to study the Hawley bill,
from the point of view that whatever
harms agriculture harms the North
western merchants and bankers.
“All along the line” says a Trib
une editorial, “industry has trimmed
agriculture.” It instances an ex
ample that the hides leather and
shoe deal is calculated to cost
farmer from nine to eighteen
lion dollars a year, and then
sents the following table:
It raises the cost of his barns.
It raises the costs of his shingles.
It raises the costs of his sheds.
It raises the costs of his founda
tions and his flooring.
It raises the costs of his curtains.
It raises the costs of his bricks.
It raises the costs of his mirrors.
It raises the costs of his clocks.
It raises the costs of his highways.
It raises the costs of his siios.
It raises the costs of his window
shades and window blinds.
It raises the costs of his brooms.
It raises the costs of his shoes.
It raises tne costs of his saddles.
It raises the costs of his brushes.
It raises tne costs of his metal
kitchen utensils, household utensils
md table utensils.
It raises the costs of his pocket-
knives.
It raises the costs of his spring
lo.hes pins.
It raises the costs of his cotton
towels, blankets, quilts and bureau
covers.
It raises the costs of his little
girl’s dolls.
It raises the costs of his incandes
cent lights, bulbs, and lamps.
It raises the costs of his tobacco
pipes.
It raises the costs of his matches.
It raises the costs of his wax
candles. :
It raises the costs of his umbrellas
It raises the costs of his granite.
It raises the costs of his watches.
It raises the costs of his china-
wear and porcelain.
It. raises the cos.s of his cartridges
and shells.
It raises the costs of his fish
hooks.
It raises the costs of his needles.
It raises the costs of his leather
bags, satchels and pocket books.
It raises the costs of his lead pen
cils.
It raises the costs of his cameras.
It raises the costs of his school-
houses. 1,
It raises the costs of his bridges.
It raises the costs of his sponges.
ALONG THE
PATHS OF LIFE
(liy Honey-Coated.)
THE WATERMELON TRIUMPHS
At last the watermelon is coming
into its own. It has long challenged
the products of earth for first place,
but only recently can it be said that
scientists have given it its rightful
place. “Eat a slice a day” is a mot-
linen to ^at is being framed about this
delicious product—regarded by many
as neither a fruit or vegetable.
Down here in Georgia, where the
most luscious of this luscious fruit or
vegetable, or whatever it is, grows to
its richest deliciousness, we have for
ages been able to designate it as hav
ing the right to first place, but un
fortunate people living outside the
realm are just latelly learning the
true facts. George J. Dawes, who
calls himself an alimentationis doc
tor, is out with the statement on“un-
fired food and hygienic dietics,” in
which he places the watermelon at
the head of the list. Among other in
teresting things he says:
“The watermelon is the most juicy
of all the herbal fruits. The juice of
no other fruit can filter into the
blood and through the kidneys as
quickly as that of the watermelon.
This is due to the fact that it is very
rich in those salts which aid kidney
elimination. Organic iron, calcium,
potassium and sulphur are most
abundant in the watermelon juice. It
is advisable to always eat a portion
of the hard flesh with the crisp flesh.
The cellulose in the hard flesh and
the organic salts it contains are use
ful in the intestines as the salts in
the juice are to tlie kidneys. Water
melons should be served in sections
or slices with a knife or fork. Water
melon is the best fruit to eat after a
fast. Convalescents should eat water
melon when they would drink water.
—Brunswick News.
DEAR Charlie et al:
Weil, here 1 am way down in H-
oluiu ill tlie Isie oi tiow-urt-\
Certainly a vast dinerence i
and the Harem. I like it her n ne
uni a nuuve, in uress. 1 am all di
ed in white, with a what-u-may.
it around my neck, u lease 1 q,
anyhow it is one of them things i
looks like the stuff you put on X„
trees. And 1 have a good coat of i
bo 1 really look like one of t hi
until 1 speak and then 1 can t
’em. Went down on the Beach
Wak-i-key, sure is a fine place,
girls, oh boy, they are sine a
bunch, the corn field kind, and
dresses and sunburn sure do
monize, that is what little they \ Vf
The pleasant part of it is when th
need a new dress all they have i
is to pull some more glass, g et
string and presto, they nave a n
skirt. They wear no hose at all, ji
a little string of Bermuda amu
each ankle, a pair ot pie plates:
broad smile makes up my lady
hope chest. You know a hope cnesl
a big box that the girls put ad in
silk undies in that they get on Xm
and hope they don't die of om
b-4 they get married and can
them. But a lot of them turn o
be a hopeless chest. You know
of the girls in Old Georgia are t
to get a coat of tan like the
! waiians. They are wearnng the si
back dress, and some of them are
low that they get their hips bli.-t,
too. But let me get back to hawa
forgot to state that the uke-lay-lee
another part of the dress lor no \v
dressed girl will go out without
] uke-lay-lee and believe me they
j do know what to do with it too. A
; swim and dive, they are leguiar
I tie alligators, they almost eat you
they are so affectionate. You
enjoy it here, Charlie. Even more
than you did at Fort Valley at
Peach Festival. You remcnib
Charlie when you chewed so
tenamints thinking it was cVw:
gum. Cunt say just how long ]
stay here. Ch i lie, as I am havi
the time of my life. Wouldn't
taken the time to have written
but just wanted to make you jeal
Ten minutes later one of the
were smoking a cigarette and
dress caught afire, and oh boy,
was some blaze while it lasted. Loo
ed like the burning bush, the on
difference this bush was
and 1 drew nigh. I had to close
eyes to coun’t 100 and by that til
she had on a new dress. There i
good moral to that, never
while wearing a grass costume.
Y'ours for shorter grass,
HONEY COATED.
il
AUGUST
August brings a touch of fall,
sun is preceptibly on its way sou
Earlier it takes its candles throi
the woods and goes to bed. Eveni
may bring a suggestion of chi
a thought of a log fire. Queen Arn
lace and button rockets arc in
open places with daisies and the
grass. There’ll be red haws and
grapes to gather.
The silk of the sweet corn
brown. Red-headed woodp'
have come into the oaks, pound
and skirling. Thickets are gro«
yellow. Soon a dried leaf will
tumbling out of the shag bark 1
ory. The pips of the wild rose
turn red. The old wheel is on am
turn.
the
mil-
pro-
an JKrmy ofJfEen
10,000 Strong
a Sir earn of Trucks
27 Miles Long
to Deliver a Mounts
of FREE COAL!
Read all about it In the August 10th Saturday
Evening Poet—and watch this paper for more newtl
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Jarrell’s Department Stoti
Butler, Ga.