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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, APRIL 13, 1933.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
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A lie travels around the world
While truth is putting on her boots.
We fear all things as mortals, and
we desire all things as if we were
immortals.
It is possible but not very likely
that Governor Talmadge will call an
•vtrn session of the legislature on the
leer question.
Some statistician has figured that
it will take 33 glasses of 3.2 beer to
make one drunk. If this is true, boot
leggers will continue plying their
trade.
Wouldn’t it be simply grand and
glorious if someone could-advise a tax
plan that would fit and please every
body; also one that would supply
funds sufficient to pave the highways
and pay off the pensioners and school
teachers and nobody complain.
One of the reasons why farm prod-
wets never sell is that everybody uses
them; only a few produce them;
there aie no high price stocks buying
them up, no protective tariffs pro
tecting them from competition, or no
association to prevent over-produc
tion.
Grandma is shocked at the way the
“sweet young things” dress nowadays.
But we opine that the “sweet young
things” are just as sweet and just as
good ns th e y "’ere in grandma’s girl
hood. They may be a little bolder in
some respects than grandma was, but
we sorter like ’em just as they are.
Some of the state senatorial dis
tricts are advocating the abolishment
•f the rotation system in the election
•f its representatives in the upper
bouse. With respect to the 23rd, com
posed of the counties of Houston,
Crawford, Peach and Taylor, we arc
well pleased, ary hope the custom will
remain in force.
The Georgia editors will be'guests
of Cartersville for an -afternoon dur
ing the middle of June. And a right
nice party is being arranged for
them.—Cartersville Tribune-News. If
any town in Georgia knows how to
make the Georgia editors feel at
home and have a good time, its Car
ters-, lie. We know.
Broadly speaking, freedom is not
liberty. Nor will liberty ever be free
dom in the full sense of the word. We
are not at liberty to do as we please.
When our thought and act interfere
with the rights and privileges of an
other we are no longer free. Freedom
is always and only the right to obey
the expresses will of the majority
and no more.
Friends here were interested
learn last week that Congrcssmi
Castellow had recommended Mr. L.
Wood of Cuthbert for postmaster
that city. Mr. Wood is well know
here having represented the Co-0
Cotton Growers Marketing Associ-o
tion as field agent in Schley ary ad
joining counties for several years.—
Schley County News.
The editor of this paper is not a
politician, but he has had his ears to
the ground a long, long time, and you
can’t fool him about some things. To
pick a winning candidate there is one
sign that seldom ever fails, the one
on whom all opponents center their
attack while they are not very par
ticular about the weapon used, being
especially careless in seeking the
truth or dealing with facts.
The Albany Herald has confidence
in the President’s ability to do things:
“President Roosevelt may not find it
as easy to put through future meas
ures deemed important as it proved
to get those preceding it enacted, but
his varied experience in dealing with
the Now York Legislature will be of
great help. Often the Legislature was
hostile to his programs, but he nearly
always managed to get results.”
The Dawson News puts the beer
question up to its readers this way:
“There is much concern on the part
of citizens, wet and dry alike, as to
the manner and method of dispensing
beer when it -arrives and to prevent
the dispensing at the same time of
red liquor. Who will sell this liquor
to the public? Who will be permitted
to buy? What will we call the place
where liquor is sold?”
The Nashville Herald pays its new
Congressman a very high compliment
editorially from which the following
paragiapn i3 clipped: “The support
ers and friends of Congressman Bras
well Deen of the Eighth District feel
a deep sense of gratification—we
might say exultation—that their rep
resentative is measuring up in our
national law making body to their ex
pectations, and to the standard -at
which the mentally appraised him.”
It is something dreadful the num
ber of suicides being reported in the
daily press. There is scarcely a cay
but that the first thing that greets
ones eye on the front page in a daily
newspaper is the report of one or
more prominent persons bumping
themselves off and apparently for
causes that might have been easily
averted. The tragic death Sunday of
Dr. Gregory, pastor of the Mulberry
Street Methodist church, Macon, is a
forceful reminder of this fact.
They say that while it is wrong to
gamble, it is perfectly nil right to
guessjwhiic we are guilty of both, our
conscience has never hurt us for
“guessing” wrong, while it has
scourged us Unmercifully for losing
in a gamble. Anyway, we have not
quit guessing or predicting and our
latest prediction is, that within the
next 90 days cotton will be selling at
10c, and wheat at from 75c to $1. It
would take too much space to tell you
why we believe this.—Millen News.
AN ACT OF FORGETFULNESS?
Fat Griffin, editor of the Bainbridge-
Post Searchlight, and an outstandiny
member of the- Georgia legislature
says: “We wonder if all the guys that
want the legislature to meet and work
for nothing in order that they make
money selling beer would do a much
for the general assembly. We recall
that the prohibitionists were going
ti pay the legislature in 1915 if they
met but when the smoke blew away
the state paid for the session and
these suppose^ donators to the ex
pense did not show up.”
The most simple and trival differ
ences sometimes develop into large
issues. There was -a case in Clay
county court recently between two
white citizens. One was charged with
assault and battery. The charge grew
rat of the other man’s allowing his
ihickens to run in the defendant’s
:arden. Brought to trial, the latter
leaded: “Countries have gone to war
or less than I h-ave endured.” He was
cquitted. It was provoking. More an-
oying than chicken trespassing, prob-
bly, is the persistency of some peo-
le to plow across a well defined land
'ne. That will make a fellow’s “dan-
er” rise every time. It, is not the
ecuniary damage done, but the prin-
iple involved th-at arouses the ire.
here are numerous other little flag-
ancies that will quickly disturb the
mity that should exist and be zeal-
usly <-. carded between neighbors.—
,'utbl ert Leader.
“Man’s work is from sun to sun,
Woman’s work is |never done.”
Monuments of marble to men be
deck the land, built to commemorate
outstanding service—the soldier of
war, the civic leader, the inventor;
the Hall of Fame is lined with tab
lets and busts of men who seived
their country in large degree. Which
is commendable. It it is not alone
recognition of merit and a reminder
to youth to strive to serve as well;
it takes materialistic display of com
memoration to keep the average man
from absolutely forgetting that he is
indebted to any of his ancestors for
his learning, his conveniences and
pleasures of life.
But why build all the public monu
ments to men? Must the marble
memorials erected to the memory of
women be confined to the local ceme
teries? Should not the inscriptions
they carry denoting a life of love and
devotion to her family and her church
convey a more comprehensive mean
ing than is usually accepted? With
out woman’s love and solicitude and
prayers and unfaltering work for her
“boys” we don’t believe they, as men
would have done anything especially
deserving of costly public memorials.
Praises have been sung of the
women who kept the “home fires
burning” while their men were off to
battle, but no marble shaft built to
symbolize their faithfulness and sac
rifices.
A notable example of real heroism
of devoted women is the almost un
believable ability of the women of by
gorie days, Mothers who raised their
families, did the housework, some
times helped work in the field in ad
dition, before the day of labor-saving
appliances. Looking back or thinking
about it we of present day facilities
don’t see how they were able to do
so much. Faith, love and devotion
and the sheer pleasure of serving en
abled them to do it, uncomplainingly,
and some of the country’s famous
men grew up from such surround
ings.
The same noble attributes help the
good women of the present to carry
on. The glamour of the past does not
cause us to respect any the less the
faithful women who are giving their
all that their children may serve
with credit the world and the Cross.
Disappointments line their path, for
man is forgetful ary unappreciative.
Some day, maybe, a marble me
morial, taller than Washington Monu
ment, greater than the Statute of
Liberty, surpassed in grandeur by no
shaft built to man, will be erected to
the good women. It may sharpen the
memory of men, who are prone to
forget.—Cuthbert Leader.
The Herald heartily endorses the
sentiment contained in the above.
A city is like an individual. You
cannot keep the city down whose citi-
dens devote their thought and energy
toward building and improving con
ditions, adding payrolls, providing
wholesome entertainment, keep an
eye upon the program of moral and
civic improvement, an<j cultural de
velopment. Cities whose builders and
bankers have an eye to a sound pro
gressive advancement are community
centers which are attractive to the
discriminating home-seeker.
The Blacksiiear Times in an editorial
headed “Cussin’ the legislature,” says.
“While this newspaper was disap
pointed in the recent General Assem
bly, nevertheless it does not believe
that raising the devil after the fiasco
has ended is going to be productive of
results. As we view the situation, we
can see no hope for improvement in
|the legislative branches of our state
overnment until our present method
if enacting laws is completely chang-
d. We, and residents of other states,
re administrating our legislative af-
airs in an antiquated and cumber-
ome manner. There is absolutely no
eed of sending approximately 300
epresentatives and senators to Atlan-
to spend 60 and 70 days in trying
solve problems that any eight or
in men could work out in a week’s
time.”
As beautiful April days pass one by
one we are constantly reminded of
Memorial Day which is just two
weeks off, April 26th. This day will
never be diminished or lessened in
the eyes of southern people . Instead
it will “grow brighter as the years
roll by; a hundred years from now
little curly-headed children will hear
the story from mother’s lap; their
little voices will be quick to learn the
stirring tune of Bonnie Blue Fla and
little hearts will ever beat faster as
the song of Dixie comes to them.
Sentiment is a characteristic of the
South; they, are wont to relinquish
memories so interwoven with then
make-up; they rherish and preserve
ideals linked inseperately with the
history of their proud race. Who is
there that would ask a Southerner to
erase from his heart those memories
so dear, so everlasting?
CONGRESSMAN WITH A
BACKBONE
It is nothing less than amusing to
read some of the vaporlngs of those
who believe a Senator or Congress
man should blindly follow the letter
of any party’s platform.
Since the special session began,
Judge Tarver, who represents this
district, has seen fit to oppose some
of the measures proposed by Presi
dent Roosevelt. He has supported
many of the president’s bills, and no
man in the Congress has stood out
more strongly in their support.
Senators Russell and George have
also been rated as loyal supporters
of the administration of President
Roosevelt, but even these capable and
worthy gentlemen have seen fit to
oppose the President, and when they
I felt it their duty to do so, have not
hesitated in voting their convictions.
We have always felt this is what
we send Senators and Congressmen
to Washington to do—simply to vote
their convictions.
Everybody knows it is far easier
for a Senator or Congressman to
keep his ear to the ground, find out
which is the popular side, and t}, en
get a front scat upon the band wag
on. Not all of them do that, but it
has been done, and it will be the case
in many instances from now on.
Let any Congressman or Senator
stray from the path laid out for him
by bis party leaders, and he must
possess great personal ability and
strength to win against the pitfalls
set for him. Only the very strong, or
very foolish try it—the first lot ulti
mately win a high place for them
selves, while the latter go down to
certain defeat.
No one questions the sincerity of
purpose of Senators George or Rus
sell; and no one > knowing the man,
can believe Judge Tarver voted oth
er than his honest convictions.
For that reason, we have no criti
cism for his action, and feel certain
that he will be endorsed by an over
whelming number of his constituents
once they understand the situation,
and begin to appreciate the stand he
took upon beer legislation, for in
stance.—Cartersville Tribune-News.
The Third District’s greatly be
loved representative, Hon. B. T.
Castellow, merits and doubtless is
similarly commended by the people
he so ably represents throughout the
district, his vote in each instance
since ho has been in Congress has
been in accord with the two Georgia
Senators and a majority of the Con
gressmen from this state.
WOMEN IN OFFICE
There has been general eommemia
tion because Presiuent Roosevelt has
placed women in high office.
First there was Mrs. Paul Wilson,
nee Frances Perkins, who was called
to the cabinet, as Madame Secretary
of Labor. She defended the Presi
dent’s policy in organizing divisions
of labor to work in reforestation.
She appeared before the labor com
mittee, and answered all questions
readily and successfully. Sue showei
herself thoroughly at home in her
new position, and had already made
a good record as head of the Labor
Department in New York while Pres
ident Roosevelt was Governor.
Then there was Mrs. Ruth Bryan
Owen, former congresswoman from
Florida, who was defeated last fall
by a Palm Beach lawyer who ran on
the “wet” ticket. She is a tall strik
ing looking woman, “with the mouth
of an orator,” and has inherited
much of the talent of her distinguish
ed father, ■ Wm. J. Bryan. She mar
ried an Englishman early in life, but
later was divorced from him. After
her defeat for Congress, she attend
ed the National Democratic conven
tion in Chicago, and was seated a;
the table of the Hearst newspaper re
porters.
Then there was Mr3. Nellie Taylor
Ross, former Governor of Montana,
now chairman of the national com
mittee.
There is no question about Mrs.
Qwen’s ability, but we doubt wheth
er she would fit in a foreign legation.
The people of European countries do
do not send women abroad; they do
not understand this preference. One
of the best proofs of this was when
Kosakin Schwimmer was sent by
Hungary as Minister to Switzerland
in 1918. She was not a success in
that 30b, and "*as soon withdrawn.
It is not probable that the people
in Europe will stand for this kind of
thing, and as for Mrs. Ross, who is a
good Democrat and a capable person
she will probably act in some othei
place better than that of Treasure.-
of the United States.
The general policy of President
Roosevelt is without criticism. He
wants to recognize women in his ad
ministration, and has done so sig
nally—Savannah Press.
THINGS TO THINK ABOUT
(Wm. E. Prucell in
The Royston Record)
Will the forgotten man be remem
bered ? A man may remember his for
gotten and forsaken brother without
getting close to his Maker, but he is
getting close to his Maker’s thoughts
when he remembers him. This ad
ministration was launched upon hu
manitarian principles and these are
embodied in the highest type of re
ligion that an knows anything about.
This forgotten man is more than
seventy-five per cent of the total
population of our country. He is not
“balance of power,” he is the power
itself. What he wants to do, he can
do it, whether it be right or wrong.
His trouble has fortunately been, he
didn’t want to do anything, he want
ed some one else to do something. He
might have done the wrong thing
but perhaps no worse than what was
done.
The Maker of all men, is interested
in the welfare of every man, and his
love and beneficience is not confined
to any small group. He is interested
in the establishment of right and
right destroys wrong, just like light
drives away darkness. Man is the
only creature that offers to inter
fere with the true meaning of de
mocracy among men. Though we
usually place everything wrong to
the credit of the devil.
We are all very enthusiastic over
the posibilities that lie out before us
and yet there is a chance for the for
gotten man becoming all the more
forgoten. Desperate cases often re
quire desperate remedies. The man
who is "sitting pretty” does not like
to move. Every man who reads this
is in the forgotten man class, and
you know something must be done.
If you had a good income, and any
change threatens to take a part of it
you would pull strings to prevent it.
This is human nature, hut if we are
to live in a million miles of right,
we must rise _above the tendencies
offered in human nature.
We have been thinking we had
reached the bottom for several years,
forgetting that the bottom is as deep
as perdition. There is no bottom to
error and wrong. Erroneous stan
dards and methods of living involve
everything we come in contact with.
We have been living wrong, and we
have been overtaken by justice. Let
us plead guilty, restore and start
over again. We will keep on thinking
we have reached the bottom until we
do become adjusted to the laws of
humanitarianism.
Our nation has become intoxicated
on greed and selfishness. We are
mad for gold. The child in the cradle
is taught to love it. The government
and ninety per cent of the people are
broke, not bacause they want to be,
but because our system permitted it.
What is offered for our relief ?,Snail
we take part of the land and pay the
holder so much to let lie idle? Who
would benefit? You know. The man
who has had to take it, because you
couldn’t pay off the mortgage. The
tittle cuts op government expense
will not reach out to the forgotten
man. This new banking situation will
help the unforgotten man. Th.s new
farm pool plan will not stabilize
prices and the forgotten man wilt
still be the unseen struggler for what
unbridled human nature seeks in
vain.
If the forgotten man is to be re
membered, he must be given a chance
to find himself. Fear is a terrible
thing, but along with fear is despair,
that ghost against whom no man can
rise. The foi gotten man has well nigh
lost hope in himself and every bouy.
This must be restored. I am afraid
of a man who does not want a chance
to help himself.
Let a bill that is before congress
now be passed, and business will
pick up right away. Let our govern
ment lend money to buy farms for
one and one half per cent interest,
and an equal amount to apply on
principal, and our “forgotten man”
will be heard from. He does not wan'.
to be remembered with a tombstone,
he wants a chance to survive. Sta
bilize his crops and he will stabilize
the world. Publie interest has a guar
antee of profits, why discriminate
against the forgotten man? This ad
ministration can make things like
they ought to be and may they offer
no substitute.
You can’t fly with the owls at night
and with the eagles in the day. You
can’t lead a double life all the time.
You may think that you are “getting
by” but within a surprisingly short
time you will realize, to your sorrow,
bhat it can’t be done. The athlete
knows that he must refrain from cer
tain things in order to keep in train
ing. He can’t dissipate and yet pro
duce the best that’s in him. It’s true
of everyone; we can’t be false to our
selves—no matter what walk of lift-
—and expect to be efficient in what
ever the undertaking. We must pu’
our best efforts on the thing we most
desire and leave those things that are
not consistent with our success go by
the way.
GEORGIA IN 1833
iSSJWtsy y
While this year commemorate^, 6S8 '
hundred years, it is fitting tw °
editorial exactly onehS, 3 311
old be reproduced—Editor’s notcT 8
Centenary of Georgia
‘Georgia has completed th» v
dredth year of her existence. On thfa
da y> P“ns of a grateful
ascend to the Giver of all goodT
the blessings, civil and reliri 0 u<
bountifully dispensed to them
hundred years ago, the great a „!
good Oglethorpe, with his little band
of followers first planted his foot
steps upon our bluff. He came no,
like Pizarro with desolation in hi 8
train, and intent upon exterminating
the natives of the forest, to satiate
an unholy appetite for gold. He came
leading to a new and unexplore’
country a band of poor an d needy
f °Ji 0W M r ,r a help !, ess train »f women
and children swelling the little band
“The canoe of the Indian was K li d -
ing peacefully on the waters of the
Savannah—the smoke of his cabin
ascended in a peaceful current to the
skies of heaven. Tomochichi trod the
monarch of the wood, and his eyes
reposed upon the scene with con
scious majesty. Oglethorpe met him
and other chiefs of the nations j n
council, and concluded a treaty of
peace and friendship. The lofty pi ne
of the forest fell beore the axe of the
adventurers, and a few log huts
marked the spot which was destined
to be the commercial outlet of a
great and powerful state.
“At this date a population of more
than half a million souls occupies
the land, which in 1733 resounded
with the warwhoop of the savage,
the latter has retired before the
march of civilization, and their cabins
have given place to the abodes of art
and science, to the lofty spires erect
ed by Christian man, to point the way
to brighter worlds. The colony which
at the outset in 1733 secured aid in
the necessaries of life fr„m South
Carolina, now rivals her older sister
in her population, her resources, her
industry, and her intelligence. Pre
senting the aspect of a free and in
dependent state of a great and un
rivaled confederacy, she bids fair to
increase in her prosperity as the re
sources of her rich and varied soil
are developed.
“Does not the heart of the patriot
kindle with emotion, when he throws
his glance along the vista of futurity
and inquires what will be her con
dition when the year 1933 is ushered
into existence? Teeming with wealth
and population, enriched by the works
of art, embellished with canals am/
railroads, her condition will be viewed
by the patriot of that day, we trust,
3 ith the proud feelings which now
_ adden the heart of the patriot of
1833. May we not hope, too, that the
Union, now composed of 24 states will
100 years hence present the govern
ments of Europe the proud spectacle
of 50 independent states, extended
even to the Pacific, knit together by
the tie of a common activity, and a
common kindred of feelings and in
terests.”
We detest negative characters—
these silent figures in ' a restless,
bustling world. We despise the sort
I that is content with the mummy life-
Somehow we like the fellow who docs
something, and does it wrong, far
more than we do the fellow who does
nothing for fear he will do that
something wrong. Start something.
There’s tonic in a dare. Scare some
body — antagonize something. Only
the dead keep quiet. They are very
quiet.
Speaker Rivers says the recent
session of the legislature was worth
all it cost, about $200,000. Well, «
predicted some such result last /A
with a sightly different variatio't,
says the Cuthbert Leader, to whr#
Speaker Ed Rivers replies as follow?:
We still think that the legislature ac
complished some good work. The hi
selling the state owned rutomobiles 15
estimated by Governor Talmadge a*
saving Georgia one million dollars 3
year which will save each year «'
times as much as the legislature co
Every town has its advantages and
should make the most of them. E'er?
town is peculiarly fitted for some i on
enterprise more than another, ami
soon as it is ascertained what " ou
be most conducive to the growth »
prosperity of the place the clt,ze '
should take hold of the matter 3
push it for all there is in it.
man cannot make a town. 7 he nrl ‘
paper cannot do it. But one man 0
I newspaper with the help of the
awake men of the place all P u1 in ^
gether can -make a wide differen
a place. Every man who succeci
a town is a help to it. The ^1
ey he makes if he spends it, t e
for the community. The ' ar ^ er „j ver -
ness he builds up, the more c ‘ t(
tises, the more attention is * }S
the town. A man cannot bull .
honorable business in a town
helping the country.