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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA, APRIL 27,
GEORGIA
R.L.C. COLUMN
Edited by
r c WALL, Ellaville, Ga.
’ See. Treas.
\T a rch 4 when ' the Demo
te administration took over the
cratic • government which we
C#n iove mid cherish, there has been a
uhniit the expenses of operat
ing such splendid men as we have
forming the personnel of the service.
They are most loyal to their duties,
always rendering under all conditions,
“Service With a Smile," and this de
gree of loyalty to their service has
had a tendency to endear them to the
various heads of the Post Office De
partment. Your state and national of-
cers deserve your full co-operation,
and may 1 admonish you to do every
thing within your power to sell the
postal service to the public you come
in daily contact with, respond to your
officers’ appeals when made, and in
the final wind-up everything will work
out alright for the good of all con
cerned. In making remittances, please
give the iounty and distriit in which
you are located. This will be of great
assistance to your secretary.
Minnesota Carrier’s Views
Dear Brother Wall:
I was pleased to receive a copy of
The Atlanta Journal containing the
little poem from my pen. I am al
ways glad to hear from my brother
carriers, especially from those living
far away.
Perhaps it is not amiss that I send
you a few of my sentiments by
“freight" for it is difficult for me to
“express" myself. I am not always
able to break into print; our home
editor often refuses to publish what I
! he J n °tVibutc more than its share to- | inscribe because he declares my ideas
t0 .. c ? m «ncimr the budget. are too strong. Perhaps you know
col
Till about the expenses
!°t the different government agen-
mS tn f. na turally it should have
wn for expenses of operation must
kept withhi the jncome of any
busincsss
of
enterprise, or else this
will not survive long. 1
RAILROADS LED THE WAY
TO PROHIBITION
Office
in
expenditures
course, the
S it a wonderful , thing that the
th n tration has tackled such a gi-
ail " e task with the determination to
five the people the best Possible gov
ernment agencies, keeping within al-
r e ?he income of the government.
" a ? he branch of the government oi
.; i, we are a part, the Post Office
Department, must share its part of
Kf burden, but from information
Hbich has been broadcast over the
muntry it seems that our branch of
the government is being called upon
to contribute more than iti
ward balancing the budget
Some would have the Post
Department self-sustaining,
other words keep its
uithin its income. Of
amounts collected for stamps, money
order fees, etc., are not sufficient to
meet expenditures, but I wonder if
there is any other government agency
that collects as much in proportion
n its expenditures as does the P. O.
Department. The public, which derives
benefits from these government agen
ts, should find out how many of
hem are self-supporting. How much
surplus does the Department of Com
merce, the Department of Agricul
ture, Interior, Labor, Navy, Army or
other government branch show each
vear above its appropriations for
maintenance. Those are questions of
vital importance to which we all
should address ourselves, .before be-
ine led to believe that the postal serv-
c is costing the people enormous
sums yearly in taxes.Of the taxpayers
dollari more than 70 per cent of it
goes to pay for past wars and for the
preparation of future wars; to be ex
act 1 think it is estimated that 72
per cent of government taxes are us
ed for this purpose only.
There is not a government agency
which docs not have to dig in the
treasury to get sufficient money on
which to operate, but we hardly ever
hear any howl about getting within
their incomes. Because the public is
required to pay a small sum for the
Post Office Department to handle
their postal business, we are continu-
allv faced with the statement that
the department’s expenses for opera
tion should be kept within its income.
The small fee which is charged for
this service is very insignificant with
in itself, hut it .comes nearer being
self-supporting than any other gov
ernment agency.
Postage Rates Should Be Cut
Notwithstanding the fact that the
income is not sufficient to maintain
the service on a paying basis, there
is a decided agitation for a reduction
of postage rates back to its former
scale. A bill has been proposed ill
congress to reduce the letter rate
from 3c back to 2c for local delivery.
This is a splendid step forward in
regaining the volume of business to
its former level, but to our opinion
this is not sufficient within itself to
warrant any great amount of in
crease. What should be done, and
right away, is to put the postage rate
just as low as possible, as low, or
eien lower than the old rates, and trie
increase in volume of business handl
ed will, to my estimation, far surp
ass any anticipated expectations.
The increase in volume will within
itself offset the reduced rates, more
people will be given the use of tnis
government service, it will have a
tendency to start business upward
again, and the general public will be
far greater benefited than to try to
keep it to such a level that its an
ticipated income will come within ex
penditures. My observation of course
is limited to a small postoffice and
m.v rural route which I serve daily,
but even on this small scale, a de
cided tendency has existed with the
the desire of the public to offset this
increase in postage rates to such an
extent that people who formerly
bought envelopes by the package and
larger amounts are today resorting
to the postal card for their means of
communication.
if the general public is to derive
the greatest benefit from this most
worthy and important service, may
you inquire into how near other gov
ernment agencies are being operated
witnin their income, insist upon con
gress for a decided reduction in rates,
Ret back to using the mails as you
formerly did, and everything will soon
“e on a higher level. The personnel
°f the Post Ocice Department anxi
ously awaits the opportunity of serv-
ln R, you on a bigger and broader
scale.
Carriers Responding Rapidly
l an executive board meeting
■eld recently by the officers of your
“fsociation, your secretary was in-
•- ructed to get out a letter to all
„ , n . ers °f the state, which was done
.l; froni the generous responses from
,e„ s appeal, it is presumed that all
tin„ C T rn ® r , s rece ived this communica-
I..L. "’'sh to thank each of you on
tj nn / bhe officers of the associa-
at ,e for J our loyalty and co-operation
We J® V*”®- H wa3 a good idea that
oarlvf/ 1 collection of dues this
flonula? ^' e not find ourselves
the ... <l . ir 'PR the last few days of
our i,nf 0 - Cla . tiona l y? ar trying to get
ir, g stife m or< 'er -for the approach-
aro ,'i n :- convention. Your officers
bower , everything within their
ests an,l i°° k a * ter y° ur 'best intcr-
things in n ey e™ on 'y accomplish
to thei r^„n° p .° rt 1 o n to your loyalty
We are to g ea S ' As an organization,
he congratulated upon hav-
what he means—I dont
I love a brave man—one who can
look the devil in the face—and tell
him that he is the “devil.” Our pres
ent congress is not courageous; they
are thoroughly scared. Folks have
been telling them that the federal em
ployes have been receiving a salary
of unnatural size, and that shouting
has frightened them so greatly- that
they have given up most of their fac
ulties. If reducing wages is the way
to help the “new deal” and open the
demand for more goods—a drunken
man can drink himself sober. Some
members of the new congress flush
with flattery are not content by giv
ing us a cut, which none disapproved
of, but are now scheming to place us
in the discard entirely—by contracts
and consolidations.
When I entered the service in 1920
I traveled from house to house sell
ing household necessities. I had an
established trade; I quit because I
thought a position with the govern
ment would be a permanent one. Now
if I am dismissed from the service, I
will be in the class of an old blind
horse that'is turned into a pasture to
die of want.
Had I known the depression was
coming, I would be “sitting fine.” I
didn’t give up my “real estate,” but
continued to pay interest and taxes,
My equities have been wiped out and
I find myself along with others next
to a pauper. Congress should give us
a “square deal” during this “new
deal,” and not make objects of chari
ty out of many true and tried R. F.
D. carriers.
Fraternally,
A. C. BAHR,
Wesseca, Minn.
Comment
We are glad that Brother Bahr
liked our column, and we are pub
lishing his letter in response herewith
together with his observations of the
present situation as he sees it.
Brotner Coram Comes Again
My Dear Brother Wall and Fellow
How do you feel about the condi
tions which confront us just at tnis
time? Of course, we cannot help but
feel a bit of uneasiness for ourselves,
and the service of which we are a
part. However, I feel happy to know
that 1 am a cog in the vast postal
service machinery. We all know it is
easy to tear down, but it takes haic
work and much effort to build up.
Before destroying a structure, it is
wise to have something just as good
or better to replace it. This is a time
and age when organization and c ?
operative efforts are working hand in
hand for the accomplishments of^ the
worthwhile things that will be of in-
calcuable benefit. We can all say wit.i
Brother A. J. Stephenson, of Boston,
Ga., and point with pride that it was
the great statesman, Hon. Thos. K.
Watson, of Georgia, who worked un
ceasingly to inaugurate the R. F. D.
Service. The rural letter carriers have
labored and Toiled through the years
past to help make of the rural service
what it has meant to the people of
the rural section of our country.
Let us remember that the associa
tion functions for the good of all m
the same proportion as we labor foi
it, and he who serves his organization
best gets the most out of it. Now,
brethren, let’s “go” and give our as
sociation a boost, and in turn the as
sociation will boost us.
Men are remembered on account oi
the lives they lived and the mark
they made on the age in which they
lived. The man who sells bis con
science for money, no matter how hue--
a price, is condemned as never be
fore, and the end of his life comes
and finds him still clutching at the
vain shadow of the man he nngnt
have been. ,
There are three times in a man s
life when it pays him to do his very
best, yesterday, today and tomorrow,
so let us be up and on the job al
ways. . . . ,
I certainly enjoyed and appreciated
Erother M. U. Edwards’ article in
last Monday’s Journal, welcoming the
carriers from the new counties in the
district into our district association,
and inviting them to be with us at
Unadilla on May 30. I hope to meet
all the carriers of the district there
that day.
Fraternally yours,
GEORGE J. CORAM,
Benevolence, Ga.. Carrier No. l.
Comment ,
We are delighted to publish anoth
er good letter from Brother Co f am
our news columns, which we are su
will be read with much interest
all the readers. We are Phased
the continued interest in our ®“?j
from the carriers as demonstrat
their continued good spirit
operation. We enjoy publ'shing
communications sent in t°r
these t columns and ask tnat
join in the ranks.
Cuthbert, Ga.
To the Editor:
For 63 years I have worked for my
railway. Immediately before that
time I sold a mixed stock of merchan
dise for J. R. P. Durham which con
sisted of dry goods, groceries and in
toxicants. I can mix a cocktail of
which two will put any man I ever
knew under the table. Rectified liqu
ors made of low wines, the fusel oil,
which was left in the barrels of cur
ed liquors, and all of every kind
came out of the same vat; and was
colored and flavored to resemble the
pure liquors of every description and
not the abuse of the right to drink
pure, well cured stuff put up after
double distilling by the manufacturer
for corn, apple and peach brandy,
four years; and rye and wheat eight
years, in chared oaken casks, and the
imported cognac and champagne from
France, cured the same way, never
crazed a man. It would put him to
sleep, but when he had slept it off no
bad effects followed. But the rectified
stuff composed of low wines and
chemicals, did. Durham sold both,
Beer of 6 per cent never made a man
drunk. It acts directly and swiftly on
the kidneys and he could not hold
enough to make him drunk. My rail
way led the way in prohibition. An
employe was not to drink while
duty and to avoid passing a bar
his way to work. Now the puppies
of prohibition, the little fellows who
have not, and never will shed their
pin-feathers like C. M. Ledbetter and
Marvin Vincent, fearing for coca
cola’s extinction from whose sales
Emory University and Wesleyan
Memorial hospital derived their re
moval from Oxford to Atlanta, are
taking up valuable space in the Ma
con Telegraph to growl against the
Democrtic administration. Yet I dare
say neither—or I should say none—
of them have ever read the 18th
Amendmnet nor the Volstead Act,
which, like the Latin grammar rules
for parsing verbs, has more excep
tions under the act than is governed
by it. They illustrate the proverb:
“Where ignorance is bliss, It is folly
to be wise.” Here are four texts, two
from Solomon and two from the New
Testament: “Give strong drink unto
him who is ready to perish and wine
to him of a faint heart;” “Wiqe is a
mocker, and strong drink is raging,
and whosoever is deceived thereby is
not wise”; “Drink no longer water,
but take a little wine for thine
health”; “Be not drunk with wine
wherein is excess.” Now I have been
in politics since 1857; was brought
up by Godly parentage. Both loved
cured, mellow liquors, but sipped
them, and 1 have inherited their
taste. They kept them and took care
of preachers of every name and order
from the Catholic priest to the
Quaker; all partook save the Rev.
John Martin of Shellman. My middle
name is from one of the Lovick
Pierce. They had a "preacher’s room”
in which were four beds, and could
accomodate eight at one time. Poli
tics of a controversal kind and re
ligion of the same kind between dif
fering sects and parties were barred,
in 189? and 1900 I attended a dis
trict conference at Shellman. Tom
linson Fort, of Lumpkin wanted to
bring in a minority report on tem
perance. Failing to find one to second
It on the committee, W. D. McGregor
°" being chairman and espousing Seab
Wright’s dispensary plan. I agreed
to second him and he prepared one
for direct prohibition. There were 78
delegates. He and I voted for the
substitute; 76 voted for McGregor
and dispensary. Since then I have
examined closely every proposition on
any subject brought by a preacher.
Coca cola drank to excess will kill.
We have had in my neighborhood an
example. A dealer in Quitman county
drank 12 bottles daily. The local doc
tor pronounced him suffering with
T. B. He went to an expert and he
took him off coca cola and cured him.
Later he returned and died from ex- Mrs. Pearle Hartley, the tourist de-
cessive caffene poison, though it was partment is gathering information on
called by a different name. The solu- all resorts in Georgia to disseminate
tion of temperance is be temperate in throughout the nation. Georgia cities
all things. All things are given us ‘ are urged to use this department as
richly to enjoy, not to be gluttonous an exchange in circulating advertis-
in any of them. The Harrison narcotic ing matter oh their communities,
law can govern alcoholic preparations I During the past few weeks hun-
as well as narcotics. I have read my dreds of inquiries have come from
Bible through this is the 40th time 'various states as to Georgia’s resort
I go to it for farming, for every facillties.With the vacation season ap-
phase of my business; my test is preaching many additional queries are
prayer, asking God to direct, and I expected. The states from which have
have been saved by It from snares, come requests for information are:
In my boyhood the concluding prayer Louisiana, Florida, Arizona, New
in our meeting house was, “For all York, Maine, Ohio, Indiana Maryland
that are in authority, that they may South Carolina, North Carolina, Tex-
lead peaceable and quiet lives.” Ex- as, California, Pennsylvania and one
cepting C. M. Weeks, pastor for two request from Hawaii,
years in Cuthbert, I have not heard I Tourists spend millions of dollars
that prayer since John B. McGeehe, annually in the United States and
J. W. Hinton and W. C. Lovett, re- the bureau points out that Georgia
tired. In conclusion: “Look unto the is not getting her share of this busi-
rock whence ye were hewn; the hole ness - Georgia’s game and fish com-
. „ij. worft missioner says that despite Georgia’s
p j t f r®>« which ye were agr ( cu i turn i wea Uh, her mineral re
digged.’ Let ritualism and politics sources and water power that the
stay out of the pulpits, and a cam- greatest potential wealth of the
paign for family prayer be inaugu- state lies in the development of ner
rated. We have been married nearly irecreational resources. “No state can
1* ‘ . ' offer a wider diversity of recreational
80 years. We were brought up on ^ than Gfeorgia » gay8 M ra.
“Hickory oil and family devotion, Hartley. “Mountains unsurpassed in
and in our home we have continued. | beauty, plains of excellent fertility
We enjoy life. Both have a saving and beaches whose smooth sands and
, , „„„ I romantic history have won for them
sense of humor. Both can laugh and the tule <. Georg(a . g Golden Ig i eB » are
both are happy because we bore the a challenge to the citizens of the
yoke In our youth and don’t complain
because we are living.
Andrew P. Rives.
ATTRACTIONS OF GEORGIA TO
BE PRESENTED TO TOURITS
THROUGH ORGANIZED EFFORT
Ivan Allen, president of the At
lanta Convention and Tourist Bureau
and Cator Woolford, vice president in
charge of touristB, head a big move
ment to advertise Georgia’s attrac
tions as a tourist state. The Bureau
will move, the first part of May, to a
corner location at Spring and Harris
streets where they will be fully pre
pared to answer all questions in the
travel line. Under the direction of
state to advertise and make the most
of these natural endowments.”
The tourist department of the At
lanta bureau offeers a fully equipped
service to the traveler. Parking fa
cilities are to be made available to
those seeking Information. A com
fortably equipped reception room and
a baggage checking service are only
a few of the many features offered.
All Georgians visiting Atlanta are
urged to make the Atlanta Conven
tion and Tourist Bureau offices their
headquarters while in the city.
Coincident with the removal of the
offices to the new location, the At
lanta Convention Tourist Bureau will
celebrate its 20th year of work. Or
ganized April 3, 1913, the bureau ha*
had two decades of success as a con
vention securing agency. This work
haB been under the direction of Fred
Houser, executive secretary, during
the entire period.
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