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The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. HEN NS,
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF
TAYLOR COUNTY
The Secty-Treas, and Directors of
Georgiu Group 3 of National Farm
Loan Associations,which embraces 3j
adjoining counties, held their Group
Meeting at Hotel Lpson at Thornas-
ton last Monday. Col H. P. Wallace,
of Butler was one of the speakers on
the day's program.
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Are you making a living?
“Yes, such as it is" you often heai
In reply to the above question.
It is a very nice thing indeed to
Make a living and at all times
Commendable.
An Albany high school girl, recent-1 To have a little home with flowers.
Watered at the Post Oflice at Butler,
Georgia, As Mail Matter of Second
Class.
The prospects are bright for good
u. iness this fall.
There’s plenty of work to do, but
not the white-collar kind.
ly graduated, plans to leave the first
of September for Athens, Greece,
where she will come into an inheri
tance, the story of which reads as
though it came from a book of fairy
tales. The property she has inherited
is valued at many millions.
Believe t or not the merchant who
fails to advertise is sure to dry up.
The real secret of a happy life is
the ability to put one’s powers as far
as they will go.
American travel abroad has so in
creased the demand for soda fountain
drinks that the sale of soda foun
tains abroad has increased from ^
nearly nothing in 1924 to more than j Artist’s brush,
a half million dollars last year. An-1 ^ j s n j c6) j s good, it is
other instance, and they are legion, I y®^ com mendable to make
In and about the yard and some
Chickens to feed and eggs to get up.
A cow with milk and butter
For the table and a
Garden growing vegetables for
The noon meal.
The husband, the wife and
The children in the
Home to make it complete, is a
Scene worthyof any
Those of us who are nearing the
fut und forty stage of life are hav
ing to bear upon patient shoulders
the tirades of abuse by modern mor
alists who see, in the middle genera
tion an apathy towards the proper
rearing of children that is bearing
forth unsavory fruit. To hear some
of the professional head-shakers,
present-day youth is on "the road to
hell,” and it’s
“ON WITH THE SHOW” AT
RIALTO, THEATRE, MACON
BEGINNING AUGUST 26th.
The public has always manifested
u keen interest in what happens
Lack of the curtain of the stage.
They like to know what their favor
ite actor or actress eats, what
wears, what time he gets up
kind o feigarettes he smokes,
interest has amounted to
tion—u fascination due mainly to the
he
Power Co. Deal to Speed
Development of the Sta
, . . , . , . hpttel . < Living. But while you ar^ making a
neighbors develops trade. Jts bettei t| „
| Living, are you making a| life ?
' A life as a pattern for others
far, than high tariffs.
We are dwarfing the minds of a 1
rising generation by the abnormal
practical idea. Education, primarily,
is not the making of a mere money-
, getter. We must not educate in order
If power rates continue to climb, j lo bu ;| d f or tunes, but to make men—
tallow candles may become popular sun _ crowned menj w ho can live above
again in Butler. | the mist and fog- Down with the edu
cation that seeks only to keep pace
It is predicted that the price of | w j l j 1 a j, ure iy commercial age!
tggs will be 60c a dozen by the mid 1
die of September.
It is gratifying to know that pep
per growers are getting a good price
for their crop.
During the last. Cm years, the Unit
ed States ha.s gone in for road con-
structiqrfi on a scale never before
known to the world. It is estimated
|we have spent in that time ten bil
ion dollars for road building and
naintenance and have more than half
f the world’s 6,500,000 miles of
ighways.
To live by? j
A life that will reflect honor and
Integrity and help in tme
Molding and shaping on other
Lives in deeds that arJ noble and
Achievements that arejpworthy?
Are the,fa^i dnif the mother so
l YAving in the home life, that by
I Their living, the
Children, whom God has intrusted to
Their keeping and training, will
Have formed lives, the making of
Which they need not be ashamed.
—J. T. A.
, , , , f a ct that the s.age typifies romance
the fault of present- j ^ mygtery to them . This roma nce
day parents who too, have been ^ myster y the public at once trails
caught up in the giddy swirl of pleas | f ers f rom the play upon the stage to
ure or else too busy trying to meet j the actors. Everything about the
installments on the family car, radio players and the stage holds a vivid
, . . r» * „„„ ! appeal to their imagination,
or electric stove. Present-day par- | inters for the stage have not
ents—and we are referring to those slow tQ seize upon the public s
parents again who are turning the 40 piterest and to exploit it in their
mark in life—are neglecting tneir j p| a ys, to the health of their pocket
offspring to a disastrous extent, so books and those of the producers.the
professional mourners and calamity I modern playwright does
howlers In,.™ us und try ,o ,*h- j g»« “ “
ten us with stern countenance.
Now let’s see about this thing. In
the first place, we don’t believe that
modern youth is “hell bound” any
more so than youth 20 years ago,
and if we remember correctly, par-
nts along about that time were not
the recipients of so much abuse from
We have gotten so accustom to
leelng the lights and electric— power
go off in Butler that we get appre
hensive every time it begins to thun
der.
The Atlanta Constitution asks how
It is going to be possible to pay as
we go for paving when we cannot
even pay Confederate pensions as we
go.
What an intensely polite and beau-
iful compliment was that bestowed
y Heinrich Conreid, the great ope-
atic impressario. He was chatting
ith a celebrated singer, who was
Iso a very pretty woman. Said she
Mr. Conreid, do you consider blind-
ess or deafness the greater afflic
tion?” with a gallant bow, he re
plied: “I should prefer to be deaf
when I am looking at you and blind
when I hear you sing.”
GEORGIA PRESS GIVEN BIG
BOOST
but mainly to stories about players
and their private lives and back
stage experiences. They did not set
the fashion. Shakespeare probably
originated it with Hamlet where the
play within the play is used to catch
the conscience of the King and in
which Hamlet gives the strolling
z w» ■» *•<**•
committing the crime, however petty ‘nJu'. Dre.iJ
it might have been bore the brunt of ln mb * umsu c b
ondemnation. The parents were Shakespeare again made use of the
sympathized with and consoled. They shoit paj wit in le pa>.
had "done their duty by their child” j Yvofltington, »«vid Garrick
and hence absolved of all blame. If a ami lhe Koi ' a Box are other 0 d
bov persisted in smoking cornsilk l days aboat the sta f and lts ^ le ’
. .. . » c , , in recent years there have been
cigarettes, the stamp of Satan was 111 ■> ca °
upon him-not upon the parents. ™" y productions revealing back-
Later, if he got drunk on a pint of stage secrets It would ook as tho
squirrel-head likker, he was to be actors and Playwrights having pass-
pitied—the parents, poor things, had ad ^ si »ge wnere they were regard
done all they could for him, including ed as vagabonds and scoundiels were
The Central Railway is improving
its yards at Newnan, Ga. Give the
aid Central the business and it will
spend money at borne for you, says
the Savannah Press.
For this climate August is said to
fce the beginning of our second spring
so now is the time to get busy and
plant your fall garden. It is a good
time to plant snap-beans, turnips and
lettuce.
Next week this time the Herald
editor expects to be at Toccoa at
tending the annual meeting of the
Georgia Press association. It is our
purpose to give the mechanical force
a day or two of vacationing, if pos
sible, at the same time. Therefore we
expect to give our readers a four-
page edition next week instead of
eight. So please let this be sufficient
notice and don’t be disappointed. We
thank you in advance for your indul
gence.
We had supposed the Ford was
about the last thing in cheap auto
mobiles, but here comes the an
nouncement from a New York inven
tor of a new “baby ’ auto, 60-inch
wheel base, 50 miles on a gallon of
gas, no axles—each wheel separate—
to be crated and sold by mail for
$200, with the packing box having a
hinged door and to be used for the ga
rage. When we see all the wonderful
|things that have happened we can’t
say anything is impossible.
Senator George who leaves thji
week to resume his duties in Wash*
■\gton predicts that congress will
accomplish but little during its
forthcoming session. No marked
change in the tariff law is anticipat
ed, he states.
The Cordele Dispatch wants it
■lade compulsory that Georgia cot
ton planters shall fight the boll wee-
TiL It puts it this way: “We need a
legal provision which will not permit
the farmer to grow cotton unless he
fights the weevil out of it. If he
should refuse to poison and wait on
the Lord to take care of him, then the
county should do the poisoning and
let him pay for it. People are be
ginning to make such provisions—
and it will not be long before such
will be done in this section.”
A resident of Madison, who has
just come from a sojourn of several
years in California brings his big
Studebaker touring car—a 1925 mod
el!—that looks and runs almost like
new. The secret is that it has only
been operated on paved roads. The
ag on it cost $3—the tag that
Georgia costs around $20. Paved
loads have added many years to the
life of this car. Paved roads in Cali
fornia cost $3. Dirt roads in Georgia
coit $20.—The Madisonian.
The following editorial, which is
appreciated by every editor in the
state, recently appeared in the Atlan
ta Constitution:
“The Georgia Press association
holds its annual meeting in Tocoa
this year, commencing on August 27.
A very full attendance of puDlishers
and editors is promised and honor
trophies will be awarded to news
papers that have made notable con
tributions to the prestige of the
Georgia press during the journalistic
year then ending.
“The Constitution has always had
sincere interest and pride in the
press of Georgia.lt has not forgotten
how warmly the democratic, editors
of the state welcomed its birth
1868 and how generously they sup
ported its life and policies. For those
reasons it has considered its own for
tunes strongly identified with those
of the loyal and progressive
paper of the state.
“Georgia has much in government
and some state-wide institutions that
manifestly could be most beneficially
improved,but the Georgia press is not
conspicuous among them. On the
contrary, much of the civic and ma
terial progress achieved in the state
in recent years has been due to the
intelligence, enterprise and promo
tive spirit of the conductors of the
state’s newspapers.
“To them the people must look
more expectantly, perhaps, than
any other of their public servants for
the same leadership in progressivism
that the state needs today more than
in half a century past.”
tearful praying. And at every pro-
so proud of their profession, so in
fracted meeting to hit town, the tested in it and in themselves that
ayward youth was prayed over and they J ust kad 10 taka he Pubhc mto
cried over until he repented an d ! thelr confkjence and tel! them “U the
promised to forsake his evil ways,
Compare those conditions with to
day. Moralists have come to the con
clusion that the youth must be saved
through the parents; that we—we
inner workings of putting plays upon
the stage and spin romantic yarns
about the private lives of players.
Geo. S. Kaufman’s “The llo/tl
I Famly” is an offstage story of a
parents of the middle generation- | ^ leat family of ^spians, presumab-
wiidness of ' ly funded upon the DrewRarrymore
are responsible for the
our children. They tell us we are to famlhes ’ Edna Eerber * Show Boat ,
blame for all their shortcomings; i alld the muslcal l >loductlon kas ? d
that if the young people drink, it is u P on lt ’ showad th u e ln "fl *’° rk 1 ln * a ,
because they learned it at home; if of the nver show , boat The Barker
thev stay out at nights, they put up . Panted colorful and ramat.c story
the excuse that they have been ° f the carnlval tent show , llfe * Bur '
searching for Dad and Mother at' lest l ue ” is sufflctently characterized
some roadhouse. If this bov or that! by its title ’ “ Mertoa of the Mov ‘ es t
girl is notoriously bad, the moralists whlch Harry L ' " llson wrote about
point an accusing finger, not at the P icture studios and screen actors f as
culprits, but at some fat, baldheaded 1 ada P ted to the sla K e and then done
gentleman who is struggling desper- i in bl « hit ln a11 three
ately-an unsatisfactorily-to solve i O t _ her J , f®^ l days de _ aUn r ^ ^ ac ;
the old, eternal problem of H. C. L.
He is the real culprit—and the wom
an, too. So, they proceed to “work on
them.” An educational program, if
you please; a getting-back-together
of father, son, and daughter. And we
behold the spectacle of Associations,
whose primary duty is to work Jiand-
inJiand with Willie or Mary even
while they attend school.
We must deny that we are to
blame for any orgy of “hell-bent
ness” on the part of our children.
Rather , we would say that we are
doing the best we know how under
Ernest Camp, Jr., is not ready -to
believe that the small town will dry
up, but it will be the survival of the
fttest. He says: “Ever so often you
hear some one saying, ‘Everybody
buys in the city or orders by mail.
The small town is drying up.’ Wfc
don’t think so. Certain merchants
may pass out of the picture . . .
the kind lacking in aggressiveness
and enterprise . . • but the fit
will survive, as they always have
done, before Darwin and since. These
merchants will fight the city and
mail-order stores with their own
weapons: keen analysis of public de
mand, consistent and truthful ad
vert isng, close prices, and courteous
service.”
The death Wednesday of last week
of Mrs. J. B. Hardy, one of the most
beloved women of Thomaston and
wife of the editor of the Thomaston
Times, was a great shock to her
many friends over the state. Our
deepest sympathy is extended our
friend Broughton in this great sor
row. It was our good fortune to have
been associated with Mr. and Mrs.
Hardy on several pleasant occasions
and we found them to be one of the
most congenial couples we ever knew.
The slogan, “It’s Great to be a
Georgian,” seems to be increasing in
popularity over the Slate. There is
no doubt but every word of the
phrase is true. We have the thought
however, that this slogan would be
all the more true if the citizenry of
this commonwealth realized the tre
mendous stimulus it would' give
every walk of life if a constructive
program was begun at once for the
development of the numberless re
sources within its borders—some
concerted action taken which would
tors and the stage are: The Spieler
Ballyhoo, The Jazz Singer. Of an
older vintage were Hearts Are
Trump, an old Drury Lane melo
drama, Sweet Nell of Old Drury, and
Zaza in which Mrs. Leslie Carter has
one of her biggest successes.
It will be noted that few of these
productions dealt with the movies,
but the films have frequently con
cerned the stage and its theatre.Most
of the plays mentioned above have
been made into pictures. The first
100 per cent natural color, singing,
talking, dancing picture, “On with
the Show” a Warner Bros. Vitaphone
changing invironments. The problem
of raising children 20 years ago and P roduction in technicolors opens for a
today is as different as the autonro- I ^ ul * week beginning Aug.
h ie 20 years ago and today. Present
day youth cannot be circumscribed by
f he same harsh restrictions laid dj •*
by exacting parents at the close of
the 19th century. But neither are we
apathetic or indifferent to the extent
that moralists would paint us. It is
because we are not resorting to the
mailed hand; the hickory-switch is
obsolete; children today can be rea
soned with and knowledge of right
and wrong instilled through their
heads instead of through their hide.
And even at the risk of offending
some parents who have long turned
the 40 mark, we’ll venture to say
that the youth of today is more in
telligent than the youth of vester-
26th
the Rialto Theatre, Macon, Ga.
SENATE PASSES
GAS TAX MEASURE
result in bringing the state up to its
wonted place of general prosperity, I day; made so, possibly, through ad-
peace and happiness. — Monticello vantages of a more modern civiliza-
News.
The more of the present legislature
we see the more we like it. There
may be no big outstanding leaders in
the bunch, but there are some good
hard-headed thinkers. Their idea
about holding the county primaries
of the state on a single date, and lat
er in the spring, is good. The winter
primaries we have been having of
late are too early. They are too far
in advance of the election. We think
it a capital idea to combine the coun
ty primaries with the presidential
primaries. That will give us a real
vote and worthwhile representation
in the presidential primary.—Moul
trie Observer.
Waste turned to profit often leads
to great success, is the way a head
line in Tlfe Butler Herald reads
above a fine treatise on the subject.
It calls to mind that even the junk
dealer profits, evidently, by turning
the waste material of various kinds
back into the trade-markets. Time
was when some of the most profita-
tion.
No—whatever mark our children
may make on the pages of history,
their failures or their short-comings
The Senate Friday adopted the
house, six-cent gasoline tax bill, with
two amendments, by a vote of 42 to 6
A substitute to reduce the tax to five
cents and allocate all of it to roads
was rejected, 43 to 4. With the gas
tax disposed of the senate turned to
debate on the classification property
tax.
The bill allocates four cents of the
new tax to the highway fund, or.e
cent to the school euqalization fund
and one cent to counties. An amend
ment by Senator Zellars, of the 30th
adopted 33 to 2, would require coun
ties and cities to pay the tax on gas
oline used by them officially. Another
amendment adopted was by Senators
Myrick, of the first, and Pitner, of
Columbus, Ga.—The following
ficial announcement of the pure),
of the Columbus Electric & p
Company and its subsidiary,
what I South Georgia Power Co., and
, Their j association of these companies ,
fascina- the Georgia Power Co., had been
thorized by R. M. Harding and h
Patterson, managers of the two
panies, respectively:
’It is with pleasure that the Cola
bus Electric and Power Company
the South Georgia Power Comp,
announce their association with
Georgia Power Company and
Commonwealth and Southern Con
ration.
The officers and directors of
Columbus Electric and Power
pany and the South Georgia f
Company are confident that from
co-ordination of their effort:
those of the Georgia Power Comp:
such benefits to customers will
crue the new arrangement will hi
through and coraiai approval o[
public.
Our customers will be glad
know tnai me local management
continue unuer tne uirecnon oi
K. al. Harding wno win nai e
enthusiastic cooperation oi omcer:
the Georgia Power Company
nave done so muen tow am i,uaiih
as real citizens of every comma
tney serve.
'i ne territory served by the Col
bus Electric and Power Company;
tne South Georgia Power i_oni|
will benefit materially by the
arrangement. The sphere of indue
of the two companies and the nel
electric service will be greater
ever before and tne territory is
sured tor all time of a Uependi
supply of power ample for all j
ent needs and for luture expan
The new arrangement will pen
expansion and improvement
vice which could not be attempt#
tne past because of lack of neces:
new capital.
The companies all have been
gressive in efforts to build up
territory they have served and
er industrial expansion in Ge:
should come about through the
ordination of their efforts. I
separate control it was impossii
realize the full benefit of phj
connection of transmission lines,
it was impossible tor either com
working independently, to devote
the development oi the
piactices as effective as will be
stble under coordinated control.
Through unification of contro
the service all communities
terjitory served will have their
posal all of the specialized skil
management, in engineering, in
ration, in financing, m enoits
tract new inuusaies, to promote
ricultural development, not oily
the Columbus company but oi
Georgia Power Company
Everywhere that a consolidate
this cnaracter has been effected
efits to the territory and to tne
tomers have resulted.
The Columbus Electric and
Co. has both developed and
veloped power on the Chattai
size. This, coupled with the eSi
tne companies to stimulate t
velopment of the territory ini
ly, snduld bring about imntedi
numerous benefits to the sect*
The officers and directors
various companies are
of the
cannot be blamed on us. We are do- the 50th, and provided that the allo-
ing just as much for them as par- cations • to counties and schools
ents did fot their children 20 years
ago—and possibly more. Blame
you moralists may
whatever sins
have against them tc the World W;
it is being blamed for our crime-
ble commodities, such as cotton seed wave and everything else that does
and kindred things, were literally j not go to suit just right. Don’t blame
thrown away or destroyed as being
useless in the present state. It is en
couraging, to say the least of it, to
know that almost everything in these
days of scientific research and en
lightenment has some monetary
value or is of some use after all.
Therefore, all waste material should
be held until the junk dealer has
passed judgment upon the pile.—
Monticello News. _
us.—Cobb County Times.
Boys and girls, do the best you
can, but DO IT. A man was saying
how he wanted to get on in the world
that he was aiming to do this, and
aiming to do that, and aiming to do
the other thing. His friend replied,
“If you’re ‘aiming’ so much why in
the world don’t you occasionally pull
the trigger and SHOOT?”
and of Georgia. They are am
that the territory they sK ' c
achieve the position to ™ c
natural advantages entitle it >
bend every effort toward a cc111
ing this purpose, and thru in**
every single community sen
endeavor to qualify as worthy
zens of each community,
river above Columbus. It
impossible to fully utilize tha
because of the uncertainty
flow of the river. Under
rangement, the full capaeitj 1
Goat Rock and Bartlett -
dams may be utilized at
The territory will have at 1
ice not only the facilities
lurnbus Electric and i ov,el
should go to the highway depart-
ments and general education fund, | South Georgia 1 o" Ll
respectively, in the event of the will get the benefit ot
money for any reason becoming un
available for the purposes named in
the bill.
Senator Myrick, speaking for his
substitute, declared that he and the
few others who were going to vote
for it would “go down in history
with the great men of Georgia” for
having done so. He said he was in
troducing the substitute, not because
he exnected it to pass, hut to go on
record as protesting aganst allocat
ing any portion of the gasoline tax
to anything but roads.
1 “I wish the Georgia senate had an
necting system ot the Conn 1
and Southern Corporation
through Georgia, Alabama
nessee. Thus, the Colundio-
Georgia Power companies
a better position than 1 ' er _
serve and attract indu.-ti 1
institution like th<
My nek
con?
record,’* Senator
that every word sp°>‘ e
might live and so
know exactly what
course of our delibe'u