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THE BUTLEH HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, AUGUST 14, 1930.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
OfRCAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO
IUWL1SHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
SUBSCRIPTION Si.so A YEAR
lv.cied at the Post Office at Butler,
(Georgia as Mail Matter # of Second
Class.
If efadging work was a paying busi
mm there would be millionaires in And it was
Jlutler.
RICK-RACK
You had just about as .vyell try to
Change the phases of the moon, as to
Try to change a
Woman’s mind, when she has
Her head set She is
Endowed with an
Unyielding determination, and a
Very strong will power.
When she sets her head, what
She says, goes.
She has been the great
Motivating factor in nearly all of
The great reforms. It was
She who started the movement for
The freeing of the slaves.
It was she who said the
Saloon must go out of business.
She who said that
Woman must have equal franchise
Most youngsters come back home With and the-same political rights
«*» they are broke, provided the old'Ar.d freedom that men enjoy,
«au has something left. Yes, whenlihe sets her head
■ I She is hard to turn. If
_ “ " ! " . . .. - 'She says long skirts are to be worn
Q<ir idea of a backward looking fe- Th arc worn
f is the flapper who reads the f ghort gkirts are t „ be worIli
-rfvmas of advice to g.rls. | Then they afc worn If high
' 'French heels to slippers nre to be
The population of continental Unit- The gtyIe( it goes And if
a.f States on the basis of official pre- Wamen ond girls substitute
Ifcnfnnry census figures is 122,728,873. Nature . g fi esh colored hose for
— Silk ones, then
A man living in Woolwich, England it goes, and
■taf- made his own coffin and sleeps in tVe men had as well keep our
t to fie sure it fits. There’s a fellow Mouths closed, for when
«iia likes his bier. ( She sets her head
; ■■■ ■ • 'she is hard to turn. —J. T. A.
r&- only thing in Italy that has ab-
MMy refund to obw the MlMtU w „ eM , , „( B „p., A,k„
■bout is Mt. Vesuvius. Wonder what
‘toll do about it?
are said to grow, held their fifth Wat-
'ermelon Festival Aug. 7th. Five hun-
————— — dred car i oads 0 f melons are shipped
Georgia friends of Nelson M. Shipp , out that territory every year, and
are delighted to learn that he has these are said to average 100 pounds
*sen made state news editor of The h in weiffht tju, prize melon this
^Columbus Enquirer-Sun. year weighed 152 pounds.
Orte divorce was granted for every 1
■ax marriages last year, according to
.x complaint of official statistics from
02 states and the District of Colum-
iu.
The Herald heartily agrees with the
Kilt on Citizen which says: “Hal Stan
ly will be re-elected commissioner of
rommerce and labor, and he should be
Vte is efficient and comes as near at-
-*ijrfing to his own business as any
jtfilic official in the state."
/resident Hoover has appointed 19
■wramssioners to look into one thing
«ranother.IIere’8 a suggestion that he
itppaint the twentieth. The last com-
•nfitee could be one to investigate the
.president himself and see why he isn’t
die land of president he promised to
)fe -v ,
Apparently you don't have to be
rtd at a person to throw acid at
■them. One of our city boys explained
that he heaved acid on his sweetie, be-
Tau-e he was infatuated with her. It
/rafrafily was just an affectionate
gesture, but the judge couldn’t see it.
The girl will get out before the boy
5.
Hans for putting into operation a
mampaign for 5,000,0000 bales of cot-
loo to be held until the price should
watch 20c a pound are advocated by
the Farmers’ Marketing Association
i«f America, Inc. The association has
planned this emergency contract for
AiMd.OOO bales to save the present
rniastCion, M. H. Wolfe, general man
ure*", said. Cotton is selling at 11c a
•iwcmd. It is hoped thru this contract,
'ix raise it to 20c by Dec. 1, he said.
It is probably safe to assume that
waist ■jI the school children of this sec-
3rm have forgotten a great part of
■four, they learned at school last sea-
:jot7. This is not surprising. The pu-
gBT* mind, however, has received a
jrKrmirnent benefit from the mental
Yearning and exercises it has had.
JB'anwver, the individual outlook has
i*enr perceptibly widened and the pu-
yal £>• thus able to develop more ef-
fedfve judgment, which, in the end,
-b the benefit of education.
“Eighteen Pound Ham Stolen."
That’s what appeared as a news item
in an exchange last week. One finding
an old-fashioned home-spun ham in a
farmer’s smoke house in this day of
that immensity, could hardly be held
to answer to a charge of theft. Per
haps he was collecting specimens for a
museum.
I Two pairs of black-faced comedians
have made large fortunes because the
i American public liked their stuff. Mo
I ran and Mack, now dissolved, were
said to have earned $5,000 a week for
their funny chatter. Amos, an^l Andy
make $100,000 a year for" broadcast
ing and have been guaranteed $350,-
000 for their first talking picture.
* We hear a great deal about taxes
and what the various candidates are
going to do about them just as soon
as they are elected. As a matter of
fact all of this is a lot of hooey. Here
In Taylor county state taxes are only
a drop in the bucket when compared
to county levies. Out of $50 per thou
sand paid in taxes about $5.00 goes to
the state. Furthermore, Taylor county
gets back more money from the state
than she pays into the state treasury.
James E. Ferguson, former gover
nor of Texas, whose wife, Miriam A.
Ferguson, is a candidate against R. S.
Sterling for the Demo’cratic nomina
tion, in a recent statement charged
that Sterling “is being made the vic
tim of the most selfish crowd of po
litical grafters that ever turned their
selfish plnns on a Texas citizen.” "Ap
pealing to his (Sterling’s) vanity and
taking advantage of his entire ignor
ance of political procedure, he is fast
^becoming a candidate without a plat
form and a general without an army.”
Ferguson said.
| In staid old Boston, ’tree sitting’ is
referred to as “farcial phenomemon".
No matter by what name it may be
known, its continuance may be direct
ly traced to newspaper publicity. Lads
who are unablee to accomplish any
thing worth while, resort to this novel
means that they might attract the
publicity that is otherwise denied
them.
Henry Lewis Menckens hard boiled
<*punent of single bliss—and other
•■Tate's of beauty—is to be married.
Pftey all fall soon or late. Mencken’s
-*ook, In Defense of Women, is many
years old; but Is still discussed. It
nay mean anything, from a defense
af os sweet young things, to a scath-
hfr indictment of the petticoat species
'TVie gent is 50 years of age and once
said tftai the reason he hadn’t mar-
Ticrf was because no female had pur
ged him persistently enough. Miss
.Taardt probably won’t relish having
ffta£ remark thrown up to her. Be that
is it may, the editor of the American
.Ifereury is to marry her. He at least
'si;or am intelligent mate, Miss Haardt
'.Saving written a number of delightful
•v , for The Mercury, as well as
a fiaok.
By insinuation, if not otherwise,Mr,
Slaton charges Senator Harris with
the responsibility of low market pric
es for farm products and hard times,
It might be equally as fair to charge
Mr. Slaton with responsibility for high
taxes in Georgia. In this connection
Editor Jones, of the Cedartowh
Standard, says: “We understand that
the state of Georgia will collect from
the people about $37,000,000 in 1930
I while she required only $9,4,00,000 ten
years ago. We humbly submit that
Senator Wm. J. Harris' has been in
Washington, or at least not in the
( Georgia legislature, all of that time,
and Governor John M. Slaton has been
right here with us—in Atlanta.” But
as a matter of fact all such charges,
and many others coming from the
Slaton campaign headquarters, are all
bunk. : 1
By R. M. MARTIN,
Editor, Liberty County Herald, Homerville, Ga.
When Hal Stanley wrote mo a short time ago that Louie Morris,
President of the Georgia Press, wanted me to meet the association
here and talk to them about Midway for a few minutes I accepted
and like the old maid who had been asked to marry the man of her
choice said, “I will and thank you too.”
So after thanking Mr. Stanley I began to think about the sub
ject which had been assigned me and the more I thought of it the
bigger it got. Midway is a big subject It’s influence has been felt
in many lands, its children have trod the paths of endeavor in all
parts of the globe.
It furnished in John E. Ward, the first minister the United-
States sent to China, it furnished to the world the most distinguished
scientists of their time, John and Joseph LeConte, it furnished two
signers of the Declaration of Independence, magna carta of our lib
erties, these signers from the then St. John’s parish, afterwards Lib
erty county, were Lyman Hall and Button Gwinnett, both of whom
were worshipers of the Deity in the Midway meeting house and con
gregation. Mr. Gwinnett lived on St. Catherine’s Island a few miles
distant, now the home of Liberty’s adopted citizen, Hon. C. M. Keyes,
who with Mr.«. Keyes, are restoring the tabby manor house occupied
by this sturdy signer and the other buildings of the Island and mak
ing them to appear as they did in the days these heroic people lived.
Dr. Hall resided just off the highway you have just traveled over a
little more than a mile from this edifice.
Gen. Daniel Steward, great grandfather of President Roosevelt,
was a member of this congregation and Dr. I. S. Axson, a pastor of
this church, was the father of the first Mrs. Woodrow Wilson.
Col. C. C. Jones, Jr., one of the noted historians of his time was
a member of this church and congregation. The bronze tablet on the
outer wall of this building is eloquent in the tale it tells. Here it is.
The number of ministers and other church workers has increased
by many since the tablet was placed there and the number of min-
isters.is now around or in excess of the 100 mark.
You who_ have imagination can readily discern the ever widen
ing influence of this old church through the people who founded it
away back in 1764 and whose children and descendants have lived
according to its tenets and principles.
We are proud of the record of the congregation and their des
cendants, we are particularly proud of the distinguished men who
have fared forth from its portals and made themselves names held
high in respect in all the walks of life and where duty, honor and
achievement are held in reverence as the high water marks of life
and yet there is one who lived here and who had many counterparts
as the year3 go whose memory and whose acts you can take home
with you and perhaps’ you may inspire in some of your citizens
some similar action.
This man, though dead and sleeping in God’s sacred acre hard
by this church 138 years, still lives and walks in our midst. Not in
flesh, but in the good he established while here'on earth while in the
flesh. It has been said by some writer that “the good men do is oft
interred with their bones, but the evil theydo lives afterthem.” Not
so of John Lambert. If he did evil in life it went with his bones back
into the dust insofar as we know but the good we know he must have
done still lives, and there are many living in Liberty county today
who call him blessed.
Briefly this is the story: John Lambert lived and grew to man
hood near this place. As he grew into manhood he acquired property
and this increased in value as the years grew apace and tho of hamd-
some mien and popular with men and women, he never married. Fin
ally growing old he made his will and left all of his not inconsider
able property to charity to be administered by a board of selectmen
or trustees composed of five members. In those days the Congrega
tional or Presbyterian faith was all there was in this section and
naturally as he was a member of this congregation the duties of ad
ministering the fund fell to the members of this congregation. Five
members of the congregation took charge and from that day in 1792,
they and their successors have faithfully administered for the good
not only of the Presbyterian church but also for churches of other
denominations in the county. The fund has helped to pay ministers’
salaries in weak churches and to hundreds, yes literally hundreds of
the poor, both white and’black, have been fed when it seemed the
grim monster must have seized them but for the, willing life-giving
presence of old John Lambert’s fund in the hands of broad minded,
and righteous trustees who have ever heard the call of the needy of
all races and all creeds to the extent of their means.
These trustees have in nearly a century and a half of their ad
ministration handled hundreds of thousands of dollars, not one cent
or the fractional part thereof has ever been known to have been mis
appropriated. The fund phssed unscathed through the periods of the
War of 1812, the various Indian wars, the Mexican War and finally
through our own great fratricidal strife, the War Between the States
and the World War and today lives and flourishes to help and to suc
cor the needy and suffering of our people.
It may be that some one among you may inspire some citizen of
your community to a similar beneficierit action—it might be that
some one of you might establish such a fund for some 'of the needs
of your community—if you do, you too, may live in the hearts and
minds of your people just as does old John Lambert .in the hearts
and minds of the people of Liberty.
I am pmrd to have you here; I am proud to have told you the
story of a man of whom all Liberty county is proud and it is my
earnest desire that you will enjoy your visit so much that you will
again find time to visit this beloved shrine of old liberty county.
MIDSUMMER BARGAINS
Midsummer bringr fashion to the cross roads. This is the season when
she makes her final review of summer’s colorful wardrobe and looks ahead
to the first hints of the Fall mode.
Twice gifted is this season for feminine lovers of fine raiment. Mid
summer is the time when merchants'sacrifice profits to move their remain
ing summer merchardise and when the interesting advance styles in coats
dresses, hats and accessories arrive to add zest to shopping.
Personal and household needs are now being replenished with distinct
savings to buyer. Supplies for future needs arl being purchased at low
midsummer prices and countless buyers now find it possible to buy the
things which they have desired since summer’s coming but refrained from
buying because of early season prices. This is economy season for those
who take advantage of this opportunity which knocks but once a year.
Midsummer bargains are not offered to the women folks alone. Over
stocks of men’s suits hats, shirts, underwear and other wearing apparel
are unloaded at thi.: time of year to eager customers. There are thrifty
men who find it highly profitable at this time of the year to stock up with
clothing essentials for .the entire year.
Newspaper advertisements herald the opening of the midsummer re
stocking sales and guide the buyer to the places where shopping is now not
only profitable but an exciting adventure.
Ministers ought to be happy men when they sit down for an evening’s
reading in “Who’s Who in America." Ministers’ sons outnumber any other
gioup in that volume. Preachers, doubtless have their sad days like other
folks. They must sometimes feel their work is dull, doubtful,
futle. But so long as their sons form the single largest group among those
who are recounted to be distinguished, they ought to be glad—glad they
ire making the biggest possible gift to the nation.
Many a man who is a good shot in this world hopes he will miss fire
! n the next.
It takes A woman’s sewing circle to develope a lot of conversational
halitosis.
SENATOR HARRIS ALWAYS
FOR WHITE SUPREMin
ently for white supremacy ,,
birth to this date, and the in?., '
gent public of this great state S '
Ize how ridiculous and propose.™ '
the claims of Mr. Slaton that's^ 1
ator Harris at any time
!^? h .L° r . expre83etl an opinion
the claims of Mr. 918101,0,0°“'
ator Harris at any time
thought or expressed an onisH
other than for Unconditional ihiu
supremacy everywhere and at .n
times Mr. Slaton has never ,
explained to this good hour wh!
he fought the proposed constltu!
tlonal amendment offered who
S aton was a member of the Gm,
g a legislature disfranchising^
vicious negro of this state. Wh«
is your answer to y our reco £ n «
mJ 8 Slaton? SUPr ° macy luesUon,"
When Senator Harris was ap
pointed Census Director by Presi
dent Wilson, the first order passed
by Director Harris was the one seg
regating negro employees In the
Census Bureau from white men and
womou. This was the first official
order of this kind, separating the
races In any department In Wash
ington.
When President Harding appoint
ed that negro leader In Georgia,
Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder
of Deeds In Washington where
many white women held positions
In that office. It was Senator Harris
and Senator Thomas E. Watson
who defeated tho confirmation of Mr. Slaton,
this negro boss. When Ben Davis, But senator Harris tool. ..
tho negro National Republican that hig vote ffiRdjggfr
Committeeman from Georgia, had “
Judge Tilson appointed United
States Judge, he was defeated for
confirmation. Senator Harris held
that no foreigner or non-resident
should be appointed to the respon
sible place of United States Judge
of a people In whose district he
novor resided, feeling that there
were many able lawyers residing
In the district and familiar with
this city who were capable and
known to the people In the Judi
cial District over which he would
have to preside.
Senator George and Senator Har
ris both ure authors of the law
adopted by Congress to Investigate
aud prevent the sale of Post Office
or any other federal appointments
In Georgia at that time.
Senator Harris is particularly
proud of. his vote against the con
firmation of Judge John J. Parker,
of North Carolina, for Supreme
Court Justice. The . Parker ap
pointment was not made on account
of ability or fitness, but was "a
master political stroke” by the Re
publican administration in order to
aid Republican rule in North Caro
lina. Political Justices should not
be on the Supreme Court to pass
upon the great questions to be de
termined by that Tribunal of last
resort.
Judge Parker in one of bis deci
sions in what is known as “The
Richmond Case" decided for the
negro against the whites, covering
the question of segregation'of the
races under a Virginia law, and
even went so far as to question the
constitutionality of another Vir
ginia law prohibiting the inter
marriage of the negroes with the
whites This one decision makes
out a clear and forcible reason why
Judge Parker should have been re
pudiated by the Senate for confir
mation to a high judicial position.
Senator Harris has been conslst-
agalnst the confirm,
Hon of Judge Parker on the qu^
tion of humanity and justice tn
men, women and children shouH
bo regarded as the paramount re,
son for his hostility to Judge Pnrkoi
for this Judicial position. j u s c .
Parker ruled the laborers in Wei!
Virginia off the face of the earth
and even went so far in his court'
order as to restrain "the supply 0
money and other assistance to 5,
used by the men, women and chll
dren in the strike district" and
enjoined any means necessary m
provide these human beings vltb
(1 quote from the court's order)
“food, drugs and necessary sun.
piles of all kinds, and undertakers
in case of death." Surely no good
citizen without regard to section ot
his party could approve this cruel,
unjust and inhuman court order,
solemnly pronounced from the Fed
eral Bench in the West Virginia
case. This unusual and unjust de
cision was not in line with any Sa-1
preme Court opinion, but was 1 f
product of Judge Parker’s brad I
hostile to a class of-human beinsl
working for a living. * “1 couill
never vote for any man tor Justice I
of the Supreme Court of the United |
states who would issue such an in-1
junction, so inhuman as to stane
hungry women and children and
.prohibit them a decent burial when
dead,” says Senator Harris.
Mr. Slaton hopes to win in this
primary by debauching and cor
rupting the good people ot the
State of Georgia, by the corrupt
use of money furnished from the
wealth of his family connections.
Millions have been spent for the
purchase of a United States Sen-1
atorshlp in Pennsylvalla,' Illinois
and Michigan, but Mr. Slaton’s "un
limited funds,” cannot purchase I
white voters in Georgia like the I
hordes of foreigners, grafters and |
criminals in big Northern cities.
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