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TUB BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 28, 1»30.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
OFEICAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
RICK-RACK
What the state of Georgia needs
Today is leadetship. A leadership
Based upon
Statesmanship that Is broad minded,
Statesmanship that is conservative;
Statesmanship that is not based on
Political, selfish interest, or
Self preferment, or
Self-aggrandizement.
Statesmanship that will view the'
State as a whole.
Its needs, its conditions.
Its varied and multiplicity of »
Interests, that
None may suffer that others may
Be advanced.
We need no special privileges
Granted that will do hurt to other
Interests and needs of the state.
Salesmanship that will not make
In the course of human events it' Appropriations in excess of the
sometimes becomes necessary to sug- ( Income of the state .
gest that merchants advertise, and we Statesmanship that will not
do so in the full knowledge that it | p romo te and advocate % bill that his
will pay them, as well as the Herald. 1 Political preferment may be advanced
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Georgia k as k Mail Matter of Second
Class.
If there is any citizen of this sec
tion who believes that furming is a
business for the ignorant man he is
entitled to one free guess. *
A bear Henry Ford had penned up
escaped and went on a rampage in
Dearborn a few days ago. Judging
from recent quotations he must have
reached Wall street, thinks the Sa
vannah Press.
That kind of statesmanship the
State of Georgia has not had,
If so, the
Stave would not be in the
Financial mess in which
We today find it.
If you today review the public life
Of the five candidates who are
Aspiring to the office of
Chief executive of the
New names are added to the Her
ald’s subscription list each week,
which hot only indicates that the pa-, , 1 . ... „ ,
per is appreciated, but makes it an fW ° . Ge ° r M wlU flnd *
advertising medium, progressive mer- ? ,stinc 1 tlve W statesmanship,
chants cannot overlook. l'*S eac ]> “ d all ° f them ,n th,n B a
I They failed to do and in things
If you spend your money out of did '
Of the five evils,
I will take the less.
s j
T. A.
town who is to blame if your town
flops not thrive like other Cities? It
takes home money to make the home
town a better town. Get that idea in | It is the time of year when fires
your noggin and hold it for future are not only more frequent but more
reference. disastrous. Cigarettes carelessly
I thrown aside may cause heavy losses
The Dawson News is 48 years old. for the fire from one does not go out
We want to be invited to Dawson until all is burned up. Matches care-
when it celebrates its 50th anniver- lessly handled while picking or haul
snrv, so we can tell the Raineys—;ing cotton may pass unnoticed until
father and son—just what a dandy , reaching the gin stands, then, ’tis a
newspaper they publish. Savannah I sad st0 ry. While everything is so dry
Press. There is none better. If ires spread rapidly, and the old slo
Bgan—“an ounce of prevention *is
Iworth a pound of cure,” can be ap-
lplied to fires as well as to many oth-
ler things.
The Cuthbert Leader discusses a
(live problem: “The fact that 42 coun
ties in the state have dropped their
chaingang, or convict system of work
ing their roads, indicates that the
county commissioners of these coun
CATCHY PLATFORMS
The writer has never been a can
didate for political office and what is
more never intends to become one,
with the light now before us. It seems,
easy, however, to" write catchy plat
forms, bait that the voters will swal
low. A study of the platforms of the
several candidates for governor does
not reveal a great deal of difference
in opinion among these gentlemen.
There is, however, a vast difference in
ablity, experience and qualifications
of the several candidates and it is
these things the voters should care
fully weigh.
All the candidates favor—and who
does not?—good schools, 1 equal op
portunities for all the youth of the
state, good roads, strict economy in
ihe public business, elimination of
waste, cutting down of bureaus nnd
departments, a reform of the state’s
tax system, prompt pay for teachers
and Confederate pensioners and last
and greatest the preservation of De
mocracy—whatever that means. And
—lest we forget—the elimination of
factional politics in Georgia.
Any good public speaker can take
any of the platforms of the several
candidates for governor and fairly
make the welkin’ ring. So many good
things are promised that it is easy to
imagine the masses and the classes
would soon be tossing hats in the air.
It‘s a fine lot of platforms we have
and much timber was used in building
these platforms. Platforms, were made
to run on and the voters have about
learned that.
How about the man behind the
platform. What of his honesty of pur
pose? What of his courage and abili
ty? What of his training and experi
ence ? What of his past record ? What
constructive thing has he done for
Georgia? Is he reliable, trustworthy
and dependable ?
_These are standards by. which vo
ters should carefully test the several
splendid Georgians contesting for the
honor of serving the state as chief
executive. And what’s more, the same
standard should be used in testing
the candidates for senator and repre
sentative, for it is well, known that
the governor passes no laws. He can
only recommend and cooperate with
the lawmaking bodies of the state.
It will be far better for 'Georgia to
have a plain man of the people, a man
who knows and understands'the prob
lems and trials of the common people
as governor than to have one who
does not understand and does not
cark—Jackson Herald.
INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS
Students in one of our high schoolsji ties have come to the conclusion that
complimented its local newspaper for) j the county work can be done cheaper
its descriptive accuracy recently while by free labor. To say the least^of it,
NOT AT ALL STRANGE
0. W. I’assavunt, editor of the
Newnan Herald, says, in an editorial
and. discussing the deficit problem!
“The good old Mucon Telegraph,
under the leadership and direction of
the able and belligerent W. T. Ander
son, has espoused the idea advanc d
by candidate Carswell, of diverting
the tag tax revenues to make up the
state’s deficit, and is rearing and
tearing at anyone not in sympathy
with the idea. This, in the light of
the Telegraph’s past furious advocacy
of speedy and immediate construction
of paved highway looks strange, very
strange, indeed.”
There is nothing strange about it.
Anybody who’ has been reading The
Telegraph, knows that, as Mr. Passa-
vant says, this newspaper is intensely
interested in seeing the roads of
Georgia paved and has advocated day
In and day out the speediest possible
accomplishment of that job.
But an emergency has arisen—an
emergency that jeopardizes the school
system; that deprives the Confederate
veterans of what they are due; that
increases the suffering of insane pa
tients who might be treated at Mil-
ledgeville if the asylum had the mon
ey. It is an emergency that has
clogged the norrnal functioning of the
state machinery and that can be cur
ed by the simple expedient of divert
ing $5,000,000, tag tax from the road
fund for one year, leaving the state
from 12 to 13 million dollars
or as much as it had in the past, when
Mr. Passavant and others were saying
it had enough, to. continue road work
for that year. Federal aid for the
state jias been ipereased by two-
thirds, which makes up for a million
and a half dollars of the $5,000,000
that would be diverted for one year
only.
We do believe in speedy construc
tion of state highways, but we be
lieve also in the honorable discharge
of the state’s obligations to its old
people, to its .insane people and to
the children who are of school age.
No other plan, except that advocated
by Carswell for meeting these obli
gations has been -advanced.—Macon
Telegraph.
There are innumerable cars in this
section being operated at night in vio
lation of the law as to lights—some
with no light, others with only one
light and still others with high pow
er spot light. It would be well for the
owners to have them attended to.
EX-SENATOR WATSON W
FRIEND TO SENATOR HARMS
ihe editor of the paper was blaming
the proofreaders for a typographical
error. The following sentence ap
peared in a story telling of the clos
ing of school for the summer vaca
tion: “Final examinations will be hell done.”
next Tuesday and Wednesday."
working free labor would afford em
ployment to a great many who are
needing work at this tir.ie. It is doubt
ful if convict labor can be worked
cheaper anyway, when all is said and
Whenever you are traveling for
business or pleasure in winter or sum
mer' and you visit a live looking town
STREETS OF GOLD
The city engineer of Milwaukee, ac
cording to the Associated Press, de-
and mention to one of the citizens clares that in every cubic yard of the
that there is a better town to live in city’s pavements -Ahere are three
than his and he smiles and tells you
that there is none better, it’s a sure
sign that it’s a live town. The
cents’ worth of pure gold; that a
pedestrian treads on four dollars'
worth in walking a block, an automo-
chanccs are that he is' right and it | bile passes over $100 worth in going
will pay you to stick around a while downtown, and that Milwaukee’s
and look it over.
$48,500
streets altogether contain
worth of the precious metal.
In a literal way, then, Milwaukee
may claim to be a fore glimpse of
the New Jerusalem, with its street of
pure gold; but in a higher sense gold
is to be found in every town, and in
every part of every town. There is
good everywhere.
Of course we. know that for every
The s‘ate primary is less than three
weeks off and yet it is the general
talk that the campaigns of the vari
ous candidates to be voted on are stir
ring comparatively--little interest.
There should not be too much ex
citement of the hurtful sort, but there
should be enough interest, so far as
the individual voter is concerned, to three cents’ worth, of gold in Mihvau-
eause everyone who is qualified to ex- | kee’s streets there is a ton of almost
ercise their right of franchise, unless! worthless clay and sand and gravel,
they are providentially hindered. |But why not think of the gold'rather
[than the dirt? Is not that the best
A mistaken idea with some people , to go about increasing the ratio of
is that the newspaper is an individual, the gold and bringing our streets up
proposition. If they- don’t like the! to the standards of the New Jerusa-
editor, they feel they must knock the lem ?
South Carolina and Georgia are to
work in unison in the building of con
necting highway trunk lines. J. W.
Barnett, chairman of the Georgia
highway commission, announced Sat
urday that he had received assurances
from the highway authorities of
South Carolina that special efforts
will be made to hard-surface their
main roads which connect the trunk
lines in Georgia.
The news will be gratefully receiv
ed by tourists and by all advocates if
good roads in Georgia. The same
course will no doubt be followed by
South Carolina engineers in building
toward the North Carolina line. The
result will be connecting hard surfac
ed highways from the tip of Florida
thru Georgia and the Carolinas and
on to New England. The plan is in
line with practice generally urged in
the building of interstate highways.
The next step of Georgia is to build a
cross-state line to make a similar
connection with the highway in Ala
bama that will lead across the conti
nent to Los Angeles and other Pa
cific cities.—Columbus Ledger.
paner 'and stand in the wavs of its
success whenever possible. They do
not realize that the local tinner is
just as much a part of the community
as the school, churches or anything
else. The newspaper is different fvom
any other business, it is a community
affair. It is for service to the people
and nut for any individual.
Cousin John Slaton, in a recent
speech, told his audience the doleful
taie of “farm lands and business
houses being sold for taxes in Geor
gia. while Senator Harris was voting
millions and millions of dollars for
appropriations.” He evidently over-
■ looked the fact that the United States
did not tax farm lands or business
houses a single copper. It gets its
fuMs from the income tax from ,ieh
r nlka. and dozens of other sources.
That is the monev being appropriated
by congress.—Wilkes County Forum.
“And the street o^ the city was
oure gold.”—Read Revelation 21:
15-21.
MODESTY
I do not ask for much: A little light
From your soft eyes as you may
pass me by,
A smile from where you are, a smile
just bright
Enough to letAfie know it is for my
Encouragement, a word sometimes to
cheer
Me when I need it softly—it may be
Sometime in silent night and sorrow
dear,
Unsaid, assurance that you think
me.
I “ask” for little yet my hungry
heart is such
It fishes, longs and hopes in tender
love for—Much.
—D .G. BICKERS.
Ex-Governor Slaton, seeing his
certain defeat on September 10th,
has desperately grabbed at every
straw. Last Tuesday, in his speech
at Dallas, he is quoted In the press
as saying: “Practically all of the
leaders of the late Senator Thomas
E. Watson are likewise supporting
me. It will be recalled that Sena
tor Watson played a conspicuous
part in helping to put through the
disfrauchlsement program.”
Of all moil in Georgia, ex-Gov-
ernor Slaton is the last one to have
brought into this campaign this
reference to the late Senator Wat
son. When Slnton was in the Leg
islature and the proposed dtsfrun-
chlsement of the negro was before
the House. Slaton opposed the
measure to his limit, and finally
voted to reject it Senator Watson
was then fighting aggressively for
tlfat disfranchisement measure, and
Slaton antagonized Watson to the
last. The House Journal shows that
Slaton' voted against this proposed
Inw. Slaton admits as much in his
attempted explanation of his atti
tude. How perfectly ridiculous for
Slaton to pretend that he ever fa
vored White Supremacy In Georgia
when he failed to take advantage of
an opportunity to aid In outlawing
the Ignorant and vicious negro
from participating I11 Georgia's af
fairs.
Will Slaton name these alleged
leaders ot Senator Watson^He cer
tainly knows that not one man In-
100 followers of the late Senator
Thomas E Watson In Georgia Is
now suportlng Slnton. On the other
hand, they are actively supporting
me everywhere.
Who has the best opportunity ot
Knowing or has the right to say
whether the friends of the late Sen
ator Watson are supporting me or
Slaton? Certainly his closest sur
viving relatives, his only living
brother and a favorite nephew—
Hon William A. Watson, of Thom
son. and Mr A. D. WatBon, of Lou
lsville. i have in my possession
letters from both of them, one
dated July 12th, and the other
August 9th, 1930 1 quote from the
letter of Hon. W A Watson:
“It gives me pleasure to say that
you can count on my support In the
coming election, and I wish to as
sure you that my friendship and
continued loyalty to you will be for
more reasons than one One rea
son .is that you have given your
very best service to the people of
Georgia, and have ever been on
the lookout for their best interests
A further reason for my love and
esteem Tor you Is for the great
respect that you always showed to
my brother (Senator Watson 1 and
also to myself. I am very glad
you did not enter into a joint dis
cussion ’of political matters with
Mr Slaton It has been my expe
rience, going hack over many years,
that no good ever resulted from
these joint debates, but often great
hm-m baB grown out of them.”
The following |« ,i,„
,e “Mrs 0f w h , A D ' Wauon 8 '
celved your” campaign' IHe'rV''
and, while .we than* you'to'nS
information contained therein lh ‘
have always supported vm, *'
our family’ connections al >
Uncle Tom (SenaZ T
Watson) was verv fnmi *
short time he was Associated
you ih the Senate. 1 hare been b
several counties and have not hi 5
a mm. say he would vote fm S?
ton. ami no one takes his candV
dacy seriously" caMI ‘
Who has the best right in i»
the mind ot former Senator Wnt*
son, these closest relatives livinl 3 '
Candidate Slaton now n„ " 5 t ° 0 r f
office, presuming to tell "he
and preference of the dead Sei.
tor? There has never beet. S m '
outrageous Insult to the mJlfl
of Thomas E Watson nnd hl“J|
friends and followers than the nf
fort of Mr. Slaton to bring he ' ■
Senator Into this campaign and'
now tel) the people the m", d a ° 0
Senator Watson if he were llvln.
today. This attempt to -d ehe
the people cannot be JustirinH
These surviving relatives of the Lt.
Senator know Mr. Watson's
lugs concerning me and bis riZ,
against ex-Govqrnor Slaton /?
anyone wishes to verify J
of Thomas E Watson about Got
ernor Slaton, let the Wends M
followers of the late Senate re
view the Jeffersonian and other
Watson publications. Numberless
editorials expressing most forcibly
the mind of Mr. Watson will show
clearly his repudiation and denus-
elation of the record of Govern*
Slaton. These "alleged leade
may now be following Slaton, b
if so they certainly have departs
from the ranks of Senator .Watsoii
followers. Indeed, if Senator Wat-
son could view this contest for Sen
ator, he would turn over in bb
grave to protest against such mis
representations of his mind ani
soul concerning John M. Slat—
The family, relatives nnd friends
of "the - late Senator know that mj
relations were most cordial In even
way with Mr. Watson while n
were collea: ues in the Senate, ani
Mr. Watson stated repeatedly to
his friends and followers “that no
Senator worked harder for the
comma • people than Senator Ha
rts.” Everywhere in every coun
the friends of Mr Watson are air
porting' me practically 100%, an
no amount of attempted deceptlo
by Slaton can induce these patrl
otic Georgians to vote for him. Tbl
Is a typical Instance of his at
tempted deception of the people 0
many tilings that be brought Int
this campaign.
If the late Senator Watson we
here today, Mr Slaton would be I
Europe with his family. If Senato
Watson were still living, Siam
would not now..be a candidate to
any office in Georgia.
MURDER FOR MERCY
A short while ago, a man took his
hopelessly afflicted and mentally fee-
ble 20-year-old son out into the coun-
try with him and shot both his qpn
and himself to death. Saturday, a
77-year-old father killed his 24-year-
ojd daughter, mentally ill, because he
believed himself approaching the end
of his life and he could not bear to
think that she might suffer under
some care not.as tender as his own.
Society has never condoned such
murders, because' it Could not afford
to, but it has always reacted with the
greatest sympathy for the distress of
the parent. To condone them would be
to reverse its whole position upon tihe
taking of human life. To fail to pun
ish them would only offer another de
fense for murder. Therefore, while it
carries out its punishment inexorably
it recognizes in such genuine cases as
that of the elderly father and the af
flicted girl a great tragedy of our
civilization. The sympathy is all the
keener because society finds itself
face to face with its own failure.—
Macon Telegraph.
Never get the idea that you can
fool a youngster about 16 years old.
He is seeing more than you think he
does.
Men follow Payrolls >>
« and payrolls follow
the Power Lines
It make* no difference how much the
community grows or how greatly it
prospers, the share of the public util
ity in each prosperity it limited to a
reasonable rate of return on the fair
value of the property it devotes to the
community’s service. If the utility
proepere, the community earns infi
nitely more out of such prosperity than
the utility itself is permitted by law to
take out of it.
P. S. ARKWRIGHT, Pre.ident.
O NE of the most vital factors in mak
ing cities attractive is electricity. It
makes men more productive, enables
them to earn more. It reduces home
drudgery, and gives their wives more
time for the children, more tiilfie to live
better. It helps build prosperity. Hence
population has flowed to centers with
dependable power supply. \
Now the power is march
ing out to the smaller places.
Suburbs, towns, villages and
farms are being supplied, with
service that, a few years ago,
only the big cities enjoyed.
And as that development goes
forward, it will have a broad influence
on the movement of population—for men
follow payrolls and payrolls follow power
lines.
In 1929 this Company extended elec
tric service to thirty-two Georgia com
munities which previously had had no
electric service at all. Three more towns
gained the benefits of full time service
for the first time. And six, which had
been depending upon small, isolated
plants, were given dependable power.
Thus 41 new Georgia towns were given
power service which would help them
attract industry—which always seeks
dependable electric power as an essen
tial of operation.
During 1929 and part of 1928, a total
of 56 new rural power lines were con
structed. Others now being built wi
soon bring electric service to a total 0
3,000 Georgia farm families. A remar -
able advance in a short time, and evi
dence that the great problems of making
electricity available to the farms are e “
ing overcome.
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POWER
CITIZEN WHEREVER WE
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COMPANX
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