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The Butler Herald
Betabllahed In 1876
C. E. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
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Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class-
If President Roosevelt had charge
of the Georgia legislature for one
week the whole complex of the situ
ation would be changed.
0j» of the most deplorable orlmoo As ft of the ffraat puWta works
In the history of .the state has basil program he U outlining! for unam-
lnfllotod upon the good county of 1 ploymeni relief, President Roosevelt
Charlton in til* assassination of W. may send to cOHffMl* a recommenda-
C. White, county warden. Charlton is tion that tho long-agltatad ship canal
one of the beet counties in the state 1 be constructed acrose the Florida
and inhabited with the finest type of peninsula at or near the Georgia line,
citizens that must feel the sting | Designed to save ships a passage of
brought upon it by a fiend. ; some 800 miles in round trips between
eastern ports and the Gulf of Mexico
If newspaper reports be true A1 the vast project, capable of providing
Capone was a saint compared to employment for 20,000 to 30,000 men
THE BUTLER HERALD, SUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 80, 1ES8._
^ ^ TM jfaggw
was
Mitchell and his bunch, and that
doesn't excuse some of the higher ups
in the Hoover administration. Some
things are coming to light in Wash
ington that give one the riggors to
think about as well as well as pray
that the country will never again be
placed in the hands of the Republican
party.
The senators who voted against the
double mileage resolution should have
their names enrolled and framed,
lays the Statesman, an Atlanta pub
iction. They were Senators Baggett,
oyd, Boykin, Carlthers, Cason,
loud, Culpepper, Goldin, Groover,
aralson, Hogg, Howard of the 24th
,e-wis, Lovett, Morris of the 89th,
aschall, Pottle and Terrell. Total,
9
Among those who protested against
the treatment of Jews in Germany
were Newt D. Baker, J. W. Davis,
Alfred E. Smith—a strong trio
liberal champions. A1 Smith has
probably suffered from intolerance
himself.—Savannah Press. And what
gets our goat is that some of those
who fought A1 Smith and the Demo
cratic part£ so hard in 1928 are mak
ing the biggest noise after Demo
cratic patronage under the Roosevelt
administration.
at the peak of operations, is known
to be receiving the serious considera
tion of the new chief executive.
A debate on the repeal of the 18th
amendment between. Senator G. A.
Weaver, of Thomaston, and Represen
tative Jas. L. Cartledge, representa
tive from Richmond county, was held
Monday night in theconvention hall
at the Piedmont Hotel in Atlanta.
Representative Cartledge argued the
affirmative while Senator Weaver op
posed the repeal. An admission price
of 10c was .charged those attending,
the proceeds went into the charity
fund of Atlanta. The audience got a
big kick in seeing Weaver in action,
no doubt.—Butler Herald.
Debater Weaver would have to be
some gesticulatpr to give more kicks
than Brother Cartledge, who as a
windmill contortionist has few equals
when he gets going. And to have furn
ished additional thrills our friend,
Will Stokes should have been allowed
to speak on both sides, as" he is never
better than when taking the middle
of | course arguing for or against any
thing and everything.—Edison News.
far profound thonkfolnoss that, astva
t®ttoh tits tuning point into thft
ora seen by tSe Nows, we .have at the
halm a man of vision ahd of JndOmi?
table will to bring u8 once more, In
its bountiful gifts to America, des
tined that we should go in our manch
to permanent prosperity and happi
ness,—Atlanta Constitution.
ADVERTISING GEORGIA
It is no doubt a very gratifying
fact to all the people of this state
that the Georgia Chamber of Com
merce has definitely perfected its or
ganization, and is now ready to start
upon its great and splendid work of
advertising the resources of Georgia
to the best of the world. Since its
membership comprises many of the
most successful and representative
Georgia citizens from different walks
of life, who -are vitally Interested in
their state’s welfare and development
and forcibly realize the great need of
We oftn think of no boitw ndvloa
to givs to everybody at this tint*
than to say 1 Keep cool and back t.p
the President, It makee no dlffero «•>
if one is a Republican or a Demo >'»t
The fate of our nation iB in the ha Jb
of the man in the' White House, 111J
he is entitled to the sincere supp rt
of everybody. We think every good
Republican will follow the exa.. pie
of the former President, Mr. Hoove-,
who has publicly expressed his ap
proval of Mr. Roosevelt’s actions t 1 s
far and has ca,led upon the P e °P lc of
the whole country to place their am-
fidence in hiAi.
Nobody knows better than Mr. Hoo
ver what a serious condition confront
ed the United States on the day when
he turned over the keys of the White
House to his successor. Mr. Hoover's
hands were tied. As the outgoing
President he could not initiate ac
tions which he could not hope to car
ry out. it would have been unfair to the exploitation of its possibilities, it
tie his successor's hands. But he could j g believed that a great deal will be
and did. lay the situation so clearly I don e within the near future by this
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ropndpus «d Bttwijfijj fovsu
nwt along all linos of indwtoft*
tlmatfmt tho * J
wore bsing mars largely
and utilised because there 1.1 ?!"*
One hears that Georgia is to have!
a new code. The trouble was that the''
old code was good enough, but was
not always obeyed by the people.
What Georgia criminals need is not a
new code but a new character.—Sa-
vanah Press.
We can all say amen to that.
The service charge of the Georgia
Power Company was wrong in prin
ciple and should never have been al
lowed. We rejoice that, Public Service
Commission has done its duty by
abolishing the service charge, and we
hope that the Power Company will
accept it with good grace as we be
lieve they will.
Those who are inclined to criticise'
the loss of revenue by the state in tho
unfair automobile tag tax for 1933
should not put all the blame, if any at
Oil, on Governor Talmadge. The sen
ate should be held almost entirely re
sponsible. Although the Governor ad
vocated a ?3 tax, for the sake of har
mony he agreed .to a compromise,
which would have given the people a
60 per cent reduction and .proven sat
isfactory to the public generally, but
the senate refused him and he pur
sued the only course left in carrying
out his promises to the people.
It is interesting to note the com
ments of people ordering $3 tags.
Some condemn Governor Talmadge
for making the rate so low, but say
they will take it, since others will get
the low Yate. Others .praise the gov
ernor and say, “Whaitaman.” And,
occasionally, some fellow is heard to
remark, “Talmadge will get my vote
for anything he wants.” If there is
any candidate thinking of opposing
Mr. Talmadge next year, he might as
well pull down his colors and cover
his head—the governor will run wild
with anybody.—Tifton Gazette.
W. W. Attebury, president of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, in regard to
transportation .problems says: “Oui
system of national and state regula
tion of transportation should be re
stored to its original purpose, which
was to secure just and reasonable
charges for transportation and to
prevent special rates and rebates, the
primary object being to avoid unjust
discriminations in the rendition of like
service under similar circumstances
land conditions."
Ed Howe, the veteran newspaper
[man from Kansas, expresses a pretty
od code for every man in the fol-
owing lines: “In associating with
bhers I try to be fair and respectable
aving found the policy best for me.
want my own way as much as any-
tte, but when this disposition clashes
1th the rights of others, I try to
ake such concessions as a just man
should, to the end that my greed may
not d° me more harm than good.” An
obviously sensible code for anyone.
Taylor county must not fail to do
her part in contributing to the fund
being raised throughout the state to
erect a Georgia White House at Warm
Springs as a fitting tribute of appre
ciation of the country’s greatest Pres
ident of all times—Franklin D. Roose
velt. The editor of this paper has
been designated as chairman of a
committee to raise Taylor’s quota of
(>300. Please send us your contribu
tions, which will be acknowledged and
the money placed immediately yi the
hands of the central committee.
The mails are being flooded with
applications and indorsements from
the smallest as well as the most thick
ly populated sections of Georgia to
Senators and Congressmen for politi
cal patronage. We sincerely hope that
there will be found a good piece oi
pie for all deserving Democrats and
if there are any crumbs left they be
given to those who after forsaking
the party in 1928 when their help was
most needed returned to the fold and
with the old stands-by of the party
estored the party in 1932 to its
rightful place
Hon. Hugh Howell, chairman of the
Democratic State Executive Commit
tee, has paid the weekly newspapers
of Georgia a splendid tribute. The
great service they render to their
cities, county and state is often taken
as a matter of course, he states. He
further says their real worth has just
recently been doubly exemplified by
the exceptional services they rendered
in the recent financial crisis, not only
in giving the facts but in bouying up
people and preserving confidence, says
the Nashville Herald. In another
place the Herald says: “Newspapers
during the past bank crisis did more
to satisfy the disgruntled citizen than
all other agencies combined. The
newspapers were really the loud
speakers for the president in his pro
gram to make certain that “Good
Times Are Here Again.” It has been
the newspapers which helped tb re
store to the minds of the people that
America is still sound and again on
the road to prosperity."
Regardless of when or how the
present economic depression will
termniate it will take us -a generation
to live down the effects of our own
folly. The greatness of the American
nation came out of the hardships and
sacrifices of our fathers and forefath
ers. Thru their determination and am
bition to push ahead in the face of
overwhelming odds a mighty empire
was forged from a raw wilderness.
And, today, it is alarming to note the
vast change in the attitude of Ameri
can people. It is a bad example we
are setting for the future generation.
We are literally teaching our chil
dren of today to be beggars of to
morrow. «- Crawfordville Democrat.
We don’t think the situation quite so
bad as that. People have not lost their
courage and with the turning of the
tide which has noW been made, people
will go to work with the greatest
amount of energy and enthusiasm the
country has ever known. Our people
are not beggars and.never will they
be.
THE BOTTOM HAS NOW BEEN
REACHED; UPWARD THE
ONLY WAY OUT
President did not have to waste time
after his inauguration before going
into action.
Of Mr. Roosevelt’s policies, as dis
closed by his actions thus far, we
think most will agree that they have
met the approval of the people as a
whole in a remarkable degree. The
country was facing a situation which
called for drastic remedies. We do
not think it fair to criticize what
some regard as his dictatorial atti
tude. Nobody can seriously believe
that Mr. Roosevelt intends to set him
self up as an American Mussolini,
even if it were possible for him to do
so. But in an emergency only single
headed leadership can be relied upon
for prompt action. When the ship is
sinking the captain cannot wait to
take the advice of his officers and
crew; he must take the responsibility
upon his own shoulders.
That is what Mr. Roosevelt has
done, and until we are past the crisis
the patriotic thing for every Ameri
can to do is to back up the President
by voice and action, to the limit of
every man’s individual ability.
AS iWK ENTER A NEW ERA
Since Congress delegated so much
authority to the President, the nation
has been moving along with almost
military precision. There is no objec
tion to obeying military orders if
they are backed by common sense in
a peace time battle against uncer
tainty and fear. \
There is no aftermath of discon
tent following the banking holiday.
Americans have shown their, willing
ness to follow a leader who has the
tourage, ingenuity and honesty to
quash the innumerable problems that
will arise as the campaign toward re-
tovery progresses.
The biggest battle ever fought on
American soil is going on right now
on the battlefields of trade, commerce
finance and general business. Neveir
before has a victorious army e^er
been armed with nothing more than
confidence and common sense. We
[have scraped bottom, and there is no
way out but up.
The Georgia press—almost without
|exqpption—was vitriolic in denuncia-
|tion of .the do-nothing legislature.
[One paper went so far as to say, if
lie members were honest, in view of
Ithe many tax problems needing at
tention and other vital issues which
could have been remedied by the
body they could probably “sneak-back
home’’ after dark—ashamed to be a
member of such a body.—Hazlehujst
Georgia Cracker.
The proven leadership of President
Roosevelt, and the faitn the public has
evidenced in his ability to successfully
attain his objectives, leads the De
troit News to prophesy that the pro
jected development of -the Tennessee
valley is a “vision which is to become
a reality.”
Holding that there comes a time,
periodically, in the history of every
nation when it must “record the close
of one era and assume the task of
creating a new chapter of history,”
the News feels that when—
President Roosevelt, in anticipation
of Hie day when he should enter the
White House, made public the “most
interesting experiment a government
has ever undertaken,” he was, in ef
fect, recognizing the implications of
the historic moment and was pointing
the United States definitely toward
its next era. For, as a world period
ended with the war, so a national
period f° r tills country closed wit.i
the extravagant finale of 1929. If the
project to reconstiuct life in the rug
ged highlands and fertile industrial
valley of the Tennessee watershed is
carried, as it must be, to a successful
issue, then at once there will be pub
lic acceptance of a new national poli
cy whicn however startling in its di
mensions, is nothing more nor less
than the most obvious .and logical
historical sequence in the progress of
this or any people.
Out of the success of the Tennessee
development, this great northern
newspaper envisages the creation of a
national program which will encom
pass a vision of the civilization to be,
within it to be contained “the possi
bility, discerned by President Roose
velt, of reconstructing the whole eco
nomic structure—the one sound basis,
and a wholly natural one, for the new
a.’
Speaking for a section and a city
that industry has made populous and
prosperous, the News feels that Presi
dent Roosevelt’s vision emphasizes
fact that—
In sum, the day of action has ar
rived when we shall repossess the
land; when the people, exhausted from
the very plentitude of their _own
achievements, re-create their energies
for the next and greatest task of all.
It is nothing less than a return to
(hat sound American manner of liv
ing which, in city or country, has the
recognizable flavor of the national
tradition; it is the quest for a sound
er, more wholesome and enduring
life, sufficiently large and fruitful
that its basis never can be dan-ger
ously shaken. But most important of
all the dream is not only for tomor
row it is for today. The task begins
now.
That we are entering a new era in
American life is evidenced by the col
lapse of an unwieldly and top-heavy
economic system, by the end of the
trek from the farm to the city and
by the realization of the people that
we are suffering because of the un
soundness of our entire scheme of ex
istence—governmental, economic and
personal.
The nation as a whole has cause
possibility of the pittSS mL 4 **
fronted in a few months wJh J
moBt difficult
r faced
presence of the boll weevil " e
nualty causes losses of mm.J*
i
greatest danger and
problem they have ever
quainting people -alt over the United
States with what Georgia has to offer
the homeseeker and the capitalist. It
has already been demonstrated time
and time again that the resources of
this state are the equal of any other
state, and the officials of the state
Chamber of Commence believe that a
systematic advertising of these would
result in the emigration of thousands
of desirable homeseekers to this state
and in the investment of millions of
dollars of capital in its industries.
The State Chamber of Commerce
is inaugurating within the near future
the most definite and systematic cam
paign of education ever conducted by
any other organization, and because
of the energy, intelligence and en
thusiasm of those behind the trade
body, it is believed that the cam
paigns will be crowned with success.
The State Chamber of Commerce will
receive statewide cooperation and sup
port as hundreds of the state's leaa-
ing citizens of all classes, as well as
boards of trade, chambers of com
merce, and other organizations and
associations have pledged its officials
their greatest cooperation and‘support
in its work. The members are deeply
enthusiastic over their work and be
lieve that if the people of Georgia
show the proper interest and enthu
siasm in their plans of publicity and
lend their assistance and cooperation
that definite results of the work of
the State Chamber will soon be evi
dent.
Just such a work as this organiza
tion is undertaking to do certainly de
serves the support, approval and co
operation of all Georgia citizens if this
state expects to keep pace with other
states in progress and prosperity it
Is imperative that her matchless poB'
sibilities of all kinds be definitely ad'
vertised to other sections of the
world. Georgia is already the Empire
State of the South, but it is easily
within the power of her- people to
make her the Empire State of the
Union. The advantages of this state
of every kind, agricultural, commer
cial, industrial, etc., are unsurpassed
by those of any other section of the
United States, and Georgia is behind
many states in the development of
various industries, simply because her
resources are not being exploited as
they should be, Every year millions
of dollars are sent out of the state
for com, wheat, poultry -and other
food products that should -be pro
duced here in the greatest abundance
because the people are not thoroughly,
aroused to the tremendous possibili
ties within their grasp and because
they do not advertise these to other
sections of the world. There is abso
lutely no reason whatever why Geor
gia should not be one of the greatest
agricultural -and industrial centers of
the world, because she possesses in
exhaustible agricultural resources and
other advantages and possibilities
that are not being highly developed.
Every year the farmers could easily
produce enough food products of all
kinds not only for home consumption,
but to ship hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth into other markets. The
corn, wheat, poultry, and other prof
itable industries are not being highly
developed in Georgia, while the pos
sibilities for their profitable and
scientific development are as great as
in any other state. The exhibits in
Atlanta each year of the Southern
International Poultry Association and
Southern Coni show prove that Geor
gia could soon develop into one of
the geatest poultry and corn prodc-
ing centers of the world, while it has
jy s ° J )e<?n strikingly demonstrated
that Georgia soil is capable of pro
ducing in the greatest abundance all
the food crops that are purchased in
other markets.
Georgia has the agricultural, in
dustrial, and other potentialities, but
these need to be more largely adver-
“ dd ^ oped if the Empire
State of the South would increase its
wealth to the extent of millions , of
i°S B lt r ally ' and ex P e rience,
which it deserves to do, the most tre-
the sohth. By a mode definite
tation of the state's desources
larger development of the« T
dreds of. desirable homeseekeVs »
be attracted to Georgia and °U
farmers, would not only be in « ^
tion to successfully combat the 'kl
weevil problem, but would be in
position to save millions of doll '
annually by a practice of crop d t
sification. Not only Georgia, butT
whole south has not received t?
proper publicity, and for this m2
people of Georgia and other M !«*
em states have for many year,
nually spent millions of dollar. I"'
food products. f0f
It is a very gratifying act, OmS
that within the past *"•
southern farmers have
to crop diversification and m'JT
movements have been sikwJ?
launched for advertising the
tages of all the southern states t» tv*
rest of the world. As a result, tu
farmers are raising less cotton 2
diversification is being practiced j,
the largest scale in the history 0 f the
south, all other resources and Indm
tries are being highly developed"
thousands of desirable homeseeker,
are flocking southward, million, of
dollars of capital are being invested
in the industries of this section, wi
the south is rapidly developing int,
one of the greatest and richest agri
cultural and industrial section, of
the whole, world. For many yew
prior to the effective exploitation of
the south’s resources, them wa, t
heavy tide of immigration from tfc
United States into Canada on acco '
of the cheap wheat lands in the Brit
ish territory, but the tide of cmlgi
tion is now drifting southward, be-
cause the thrifty farmers of the wa-
tern states and other sections of tit
Union have been made acquaints
with the fact that not only are landi
cheaper and more fertile in the touti
than in Canada, but that the sews
are longer in this section, and a gmt
many things can be raised here tk
cannot be produced on Canadian mi
because of the short seasons and rip-
rous climate.
There is great need of more lint-
class farmers in the southern data
because all over the south there n
millions of fertile acres lying idle la-
cause of a lack’of farmers to culliiat,
them, and millions of acres of an
lands are being opened to cultiralhi
by reclamation projects, particular
of the state and national govern
ments. The presence of enough fans
ers in the south to bring about a
ler development of its agricul
resources would be a splendid way
solving the high cost of living and
raising not only enough food prod"
to supply local demands, but to
millions of dollars worth annually
other markets the people of the So
would reap the advantages of the
cost of food products, instead of
fering on -account of them.
One of the main purposes of
Georgia Chamber of Commerce is
acquaint the people of the w
country with the wonderful ad
foges and opportunities Georgia
to offer the homeseeker and capi
that through the emigration of
sands of progressive planters here
the investment of millions of do.
in its industries, this state can «-
the fullest and most scientific dev
ment o'f its matchless resources 0
kinds. The Georgia Chamber oft
merce is certainly engaged in a
commendable and noble work,
deserves the heartiest support
cooperation of all patriotic, P--
sive, and public-spirited citize^
Georgia. The work of the state
ber will certainly mean the >
dlate stimulation of’ every line
dustry in the state, and the inc
of its wealth to the extent of
of dollars annually- According
president-the state chamber'™
ively cooperate with the
cultural college, the Sta
ment of Agriculture, the a -
operative and Demonstration
the com and canning c U
cial organizations, state,
county fairs, s tate Jepnrt
caion and many other W ,
organizations for the p , eres t
the commonwealth’s bes^ ^
We are told that in P*®*?
buy a loaf of bread « * ^
than two pounds for f 0f
one-fifth of the price P« U
same amount of brea 1 . 4
States. And the loaf l* * . .J
American grown wheat,
across the Atlantic
ocean.
some
Frenchmen must know ^
when it comes to bread »
selling.
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