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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA, MAY 4, 1933.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
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^Prohibition will work just as well
to the public desires it.
Eemcr.bar this, young man! If you
dhn*t ra ' much attention to your job
one else will.
Which is better, to worry about
having to pay the pri-e, or about not
Hiring the price to pay?
Prosperity is that time during
which our credit is good; hard times
k-when paying times arrive.
The five day week is the limit in
mar work, but a lo-t of us have long
Had * one day week in our rel'gion .
Friends of Editor Lee of the War-
nenton Clipper will regret to learn that
Me » confined to his home with a
broken leg.
Business is picking up for the fel-
ttanr who carries messages from the
■White House to the congressional
lbll at Washington.
Suppose we quit talking so much
■Hoof the officers failing to enforce
(fte law and consider for a moment
, mar failure to obey them.
Some one has eroneously stated
Meat one American in five knows how
to drive a car; he should have said
ttat one in every five drives a car.
One of the blessings of the poor is
that they do not have their house
Med with all sorts of doodads that
axe of no use except to be in the way.
The fellow who is playing a
iXMoked game may think he is suc
ceeding but he isn't. Crookedness
never has and never will bring suc
cess.
The world owes every man a liv-
Btgi but it is just about as hard to
outlet t it, as it is some other accounts
C&«t every man who does a credit
Mnsincss has.
Taa often the fellow who makes
tfce best Epoch on community service
5s missing when a little community,
service is needed. He has “another
engagement.”
'She past two or three years have
rfest) -■>. ... another falls cy that exist-
ttl in some quarters, which was that
tthe family car could not be driven
mer two years.
The loafer who will not work for
Hess than his price is usually helped
tthrough the winter by some fellow
•who has taken the job for two dol'ars
•when he couldn't get three.
Wen, tlie deserving 1 Democrats who
Hail to get government jobs because
(Sere aren't enough to go around,
out put in their time by going out in
Hw back yard and planting a tree.
The efficient worker is the one who
Sac ties one job at a time and finishes
& before taking up another. Having a
in front of you and your mind on
■omething else is a fatal waste of
Motion.
Separation from the payroll is a
major operation not generally per-
Sbrmed in the political life of Georgia
milil Marse Gene got into the Gover
nor's chair, and now how office hold-
tirs do flinch!
The United States Daily, David
Lawrence’s paper, published at Wash
ington, has susnended publics'ion.
Tlie paper was founded seven years
*go and was devoted to state and
national affairs.
Occasionally one hears complaint
about the excessively rich spending
tfceir money lavishly these days when
w> many are in need. We do not join
Sri the complaint. In fact we think it
li a good thing that the rich do spend
tfieir money. The more lavishly the
lfetter. In this way it gets into circu-
Brtibn dgain, and until it does get
5srfo circulation there isn’t much
aSotnce for the little fellow toget much
af it. Our motto is “Let ’em spend it.”
Leland Harvey wants one hun.’red
years cut off his sentence, promising
by doing so to live a decent life. If
it takes law to make a man de ent,
he’ll not be decent anyhow. The more
we sympathize with criminals the
more crime flourishes.
Editor T. S. Shope of the Dalton
Citizen, doesn’t think much of farm
relief, past, present or prospective.
"We are so old-fashioned,” lie says,
“that we do not believe that morals,
religion, prohibition or prosperity can
be legislated into people.”
The Milledgeville Union-Recorder
is the oldest business enterprise in
Milledgeville. "The opportunity has
come to us to announce the estab
lishment and lend encouragement to
every other business organization in
the city at present,” declares this ex
cellent newspaper.
We bet our head against a monkey
that if Miss Stella Akin is named as
one of the assistant attorneys of the
U. S. that she will not make as big
a monkey out of her work as did sis
ter Willebrandt. Miss Akin is able and
not a publicity hound.—Bainbridge
Post Search-light.
The Soviets are blessed with a
small sense of humor, if any. Placing
a half dozen Englishmen on trial for
interfering with the Russian govern
mental function's they at the same
time call publicly for the overthrow
of the German government by the
German proletariat.
Instead of discharging the Stewart
county grand jury that was in session
at the April term of the Stewart su
perior court, Judge W. M. Harper dis
missed the body subject to call at any
time when any emergency or emer
gencies might arise to need the de
liberations of tlie body.
Georgia ministers and newspapers
are denouncing the recent session of
the Legislature, and while we express
no opinion about it, We should like to
remark that there were no Catholics
in it and therefore the Pope cannot
be held responsible for any shortcom
ings it might have had.—Augusta
Bulletin.
While county taxes are lower this
year than for many years past, our
county commissioners have promul
gated plans by which they hope to see
a material reduction in the county’s
indebtedness by the end of the year
with all current bills paid. Let ui
stand solidy behind these self-sacri
ficing officials and encourage them in
their splendid endeavors all that is
possible.
A condition that is getting entirely
too prevalent throughout the country
is told in the following from the
Thomasville Press: “Eight, well
dressed intelligent looking young
white men were marched from the
county jail Monday morning to face
superior court on felcny charges.
With them were about an equal num
ber of negroes. In comparison with
former days the conditi 11s are alarm
ing and nobody knows the answer,
except fireside instruction has de
veloped into destruction.”
In a report from a state reforma
tory there was one significant item
Among the 1,055 youths admitted to
the institution in a two-year period,
no one was or had been a Boy Scout.
This speaks pretty well for the
teachings of that organization, and
for the kind of men who are its pre
ceptors. It speaks well also for the
class of boys received into scouting
The parents whose sons join a Boy
Scout troop may be assured that they
will be in good company.
Pat Griffin, legislator, and editor of
the Bainbridge Post Searchlight,
comes to the defense of the members
of the recent session ofthe general as
sembly who no doubt have been un
duly criticized: “The Thomasville
Press seems inclined to dispute the
statement of this paper that drinking
has decreased in the general assem
bly. They ought to go there and see
It is very easy to abuse and criticise
people but it is another thing to
know what you are talking about.
• Every liquor head that sits in the
gallery the last two or three nights
1 and rambles all over the hall is not a
1 member of the general assembly.”
Melon growers in Georgia and
Florida have appealed to the admin
istration for a reduction in the
freight rates on watermelons from
these two states. The .new rates, they
said have been advanced as much as
$50 per car load.
Considerable concern is felt over
the continued bombing of United
States mission property in North
China by the Japanese, and diplo
matic authorities are waiting impa
tiently for a satisfactory answer.
The Metter Advertiser has an edi
torial in the last issue headed, "We
Are Holding Our Own.” Editor Creech
has only been in the newspaper busi
ness for a few weeks, and we are
wondering if he can say the same
thing three months from now—
Swainsboro Forest-Blade.
Amelia Earhart, famous axiatrix
threw a bomb in the ranks of the D.
A. R. continental congress in session
at Washington when she rapped them
for agitating strong armaments while
not doing a thing toward having
women bear arms in case of war. The
convention quickly turned to other
subjects
We will not undertake to verify
the following statement clipped from
the April issue of the Editor’s Forum
nevertheless it sounds good: “The
editor of the Butler Herald denies
that he is a politician but admits 'that
he has had his ears to the ground a
long, long time and you cannot fool
him about some things.’ There is one
thing about Charlie whirl we all ad
mit: he is one of the bos; editors ,n
the state.”
Judge Seaborn Wright, an old-time
prohibitionist, who is not swept off
his feet by the clamor of the beer
boys, but who thinks and investigates
for himself, states that when the dis
pensary succeeded the saloon at Rome
the county got $40,000 in one year
from the sale of whiskey but ’that it
spent $320,000 with the brewers of
the north during that period. The tax
payers and others spent that huge
sum to get $40,000 in taxes.—Adel
News.
An editor of one of our exchanges
says that he had been asked several
time in recent months not to mention
social functions in his newspaper be
cause those entertaining were afraid
that they would be criticized for giv
ing a party during these trying
times. We have said before that this
sort of criticism is doing a lot to keep
the depression going. Money spent is
money nut into circulation, and we all
know that it is lack of money in cir
culation that’s hurting. So why crat,
because someone spends a dollar or
two to feed a few friends and keep
up their morale.
Most of us worry more or less. The
foolishness of the practice is evident
.vhen we recall that many of the
things that caused us much worry last
year have been forgotten and we can
not recall them. Most of them never
happened and most of those that did
happen were not as serious as we
thought at the time they would be.
They are behind us and forgotten,
but we are faced with a new crop of
worries that appear as formidable as
did those of last year when we were
face to face with them. These too,
will be forgotten next year, the same
as the worries of last year are for
gotten today.
One thing that stands out clearly in
the confusion of the times is that out
of the present difficulty must come a
sound banking law by means of
which depositors, when they put their
money in a bank can be assured of
getting it'back. When this is accom
plished, the next thing the govern
ment should do is to take off the two-
cent tax on checks. Unless this is
(done the future of the banking busi
ness in this country is going to be
incertain. In other words the govern
ment is going to have to make the
bank safe for the depositors and then
iget out of the banking business. The
[present system cannot continue to
ixist.
Beyond all doubt Taylor coun
is the logical point for
one of Uncle Sam’s forest .camps
The protection of our forests from
fires, which has already been a mat
ter of great concern and much In
itiative work among our people, will
result in untold wealth in just a few
years. A strong effort is being made
to establish one of the camps in Tay
lor and the prospects for favorable
action are indeed encouraging. The
camp would bring to the community
no less than 200 enlisted workmen to
be fed, .clothed and paid a fixed com
pensation by the federal government.
Much of this money would be spent
with local merchants and farmers of
the county.
LIFE IN THE SMALL TOWN
Life is pleasant in the small town,
observes the South Norwalk (Conn.)
Sentinel in commenting about the
late Louis T. Stone of Winsted. The
Sentinel says:
“When Louis T. Stone, the news
paper writer whose freakish, Mun
chausen-like little ‘nature stories’
made Winsted famous all 1 over the
country died the other day it was re
vealed that here had been one man
to whom the fame and fortune offered
by the big city was no attraction
whatever.
"Stone, it seems, had been offered
jobs frequently on metropolitan pa
pers. But be had always refused pre
ferring to stick to Winsted, and re
marking, ‘I’m just a small town man
—I’d set lost down there,
of sound sense—sense of a kind which
a good many of us never quite had the
wit to appreciate.
For generations.it has been the
PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT
By Frank T. Reynolds
My acquaintanceship with Presi
dent Franklin Delano Roosevelt is
limited to one exposure. It was dur
ing his last term ns governor of New
York and on one of his many visits
to Warm Springs, Georgia.
Just after the close of the national
democratic convention in 1928 at
Houston, Texas, Clark Howell, Sr., re
turned to Atlanta with the informa
tion that the national democratic
executive committee was thinking of
establishing executive southern head
quarters' for the promotion of A1
Smith’s candidacy for the presidency,
and that New Orleans and Memphis
were actively after these headquar
ters. The Dinkier Hotels company
was operating the Piedmont hotel as
In that remark there is a good deal' we ll as the Ansley. I immediately
took the matter up with the late Mr.
Louis J. Dinkier—God bless the
memory of that princely gentleman!
He at once instructed me to do cvery-
tradition in this country that the,thing and anything to secure it for
really able man is going to gravitate
sooner or later, to the city. The city
can pay him more money. It can give
him a wider field to work in, it can
flatter his ego and fatten his bank
balance at the same time; and so,
year after year, ambitious young men
have been drained out of the small
hopper of the metropolis—often
enough, to their disillusionment.
"But this man wasn't fooled. He
said, ‘I’m jus a small town man’; and
in that saying there was not so much ! Mr. Carpenter for lunch, and at 3 p.
modesty as a realization that life in j m. he and I rode up to the cottage
a smali town can be more satisfying ! formerly occupied by the governor—
and wholesome—can in short be more 1 not his new one—and alighted on the
fun—than life in a big city for the back porcli for the convenience of Mr
man who is geared to it. Carpenter, who was using crutches at
“For the small town man escapes that time. To have gone up the
a lot of grief. He escapes crowds, he front we’d have had to climb a seiies
Atlanta, and to tender the use, gratis
of os many rooms in the Piedmont
as were amply necessary.
Governor Roosevelt was then at
Warn Springs, and through my friend
Arthur Carpenter, manager of the
place, I made a date without hinting
the object of my wish to see the gov-
enor. I went down by train the next
day, and raining as it was, a friend
with his auto met and drove me to
the hotel where I was the guest of
escapes the depressing sight of those
miles of identical apartment houses
and ‘two families’ which constitute
the waste lands of our great cities;
he has the open country at his el
bow, his life is set at a more leisure
ly pace, his nerves arc not put under
a constant strain, he has more chance
for friendship, for recreation, for
plain loafing—if he likes,
“All of us know this, when we stop
to think about it. But most of the
time we don’t stop to think. Wo
chase success down city streets, go
ing after it sc fast we seldom have
of rock steps.
A rear room was equipped for an
office, in which was a’cou,ch-like bed,
especially made, that the governor
might half-recline upon while d’etat-
ing. I had no sooner put my feet upon
the porch when the governor waved
to me through the open door with,
“Come in, old man—been looking for
you.” He then dismissed his young
lady secretary and shook me warmly
by the hand. I immediately made my
tender of the hotel. He was delight
ed, said so, and showed it. He knew
its location in Atlanta, and thought
timo to wander why life no longer has tt »d AtUnU »*»d to.
the kicx it used to have. How much
better off some of us would be if we,
too, had had the sense to say ‘I’m just
a small town man’.’’—Milford (Conn.)
News.
Milton Fleetwood in his Carters-
ville Tribune-News gives his readers
these encouraging words: “Conditions
are bad, but they have been worse, if
records now available are to be be
lieved. They always improved, too,
just as they are going to do after
this depression. The time will come
when you will wonder why you lost
hope, let your courage take wings, and
you joined in with the calamity howl
ers.”
The average newspaper reader
sometimes becomes alarmed by the
amount of crime news appearing in
the daily press. Some readers have
written or expressed opinions that
crime news should be eliminated from
newspapers. Let it be said that crime
news is not the making of the news
paper and to ignore it would be to
encourage worse conditions than now
exist. If crime could be committed
without the fear of publicity the
country would, we believe, not only
have more than is now being com
mitted but it would also ’tempt crime
now held in check by the certainty
of such publicity.
The young man or young lady who
is being reared without parental dis
cipline is going to be handicapped
later on in life. A certain amount of
stern, strict discipline is necessary for
every individual. If it isn't received
when one is young, it must come lat
er. Discipline like the alphabet and
the multiplication table, is taught. It
is never gotten in any other way. A
young man or young woman may
wheedle or bulldoze their parents, but
life and the world isn't swayed by
any flabby sentiment. It always ex
acts its pound of flesh, and any par
ent or young person who thinks other
wise is only deceiving themselves and
no one else.
the purpose and cheerfully told me
he’d take it up with Mr. Smith upon
his return to New York the following
week.
Atlanta and the Piedmont were se
lected. I then offered to retire, and
said I knew he was a very busy man
and did not want to take up his val
uable time, but he would have none
of it, made me keep my seat, and we
discussed many things in a friendly,
social way, just as though we’d been
pals for years. His welcome and that
contagious, if not also infectious,
smile, broke down all possible em
barrassment and formality. He prov
ed a most agreeable surprise to me,
thougli I’ve alwavs thought that :eal-
(y big men are like that, hut I had t<*
meet him to realize it. His camera-
derie, his friendliness radiated a
manliness and fair play that always
goes with manliness. There is such a
[kindly humanness about him, such a
“democratiness,” that in his presence
:one instinctively draws oneself up, as
|it is said one experiences when the
ollossus of Rhodes is first seen. His
eyes look out frankly and keenly. His
mind showed itself disciplined and or-
erly, and its working struck me as
Having all the certitude of a steel
rap—one who does things—you can
see it sticking out all over him. If he
was a gambler, he’d be no “tinhorn;"
he'd win or lose a million without
hatting an eye-lash. No one will ever
surprise him. 1 If I’d asked for a glass
of corrosive sublimate, instead of a
glass of water, he'd have had the
same composure. I’d bet, if called up
on, he could split a gum log with a
dogwood glut, and every mountain
farmer boy knows what a hard job
that is when time comes for getting
out more fence rails.
I really regretted to leave his com
panionable presence, and will treasure
my visit as long as “memory holds
sway in this distracted globe.” I am
wholly of the opinion that I may
truthfully say of him what Robert In-
gersoll said of James G. Blaine: “He
cannot be flattered into invertebrae-
less subserviency by the patronizing
smiles of kings.”
A little later on my friend, David
Provan, then manager of the Ritz-
Carlton hotel in Philadelphia, was
appointed chairman of a democratic
committee to work with the hotel'
men .of the country, and he assigned
four Southern states, two of
GREAT IS HIS REWARD W Rn
DOETH LITTLE THINGS °
WELL
“Take us the foxes, the llnu t
that spoil the grapes while inT
cluster. Take heed how y e despise th!
™* U OU Testament
Gather up the scraps that nothine
be lost. He that giveth one of the*
little ones that believe in me shall
not lose his reward,” The Christ. Lit
tie things make up one’s life work
The little sins damn and bring about
the big sins when fully grown, ij ke
the little foxes that spoiled the grape
crop. My success in life came fm m
just this, neglecting nothing that
would help. A man came into my 0 f-
flee, began to abuse my road. I asked
his grievance, got it, straightened it
out, secured his friendship, and
reaped oVer 40 car loads of freight
Ultimately from this little one-horse!
ignorant cropper, for he spread the
news of my act and bigger folks took
notice and came to me to solve their
railroad problems. In 1864 my father
moved to Cuthbert and kept a board,
ing house, taking both house and meal
boarders. His rule was all of every
kind must be there for family devo-
tion each morning. The merchants
then all closed at 7 a. m. for meals
for 46 minutes. The devotion lasted
10 minutes. Since father’s passing,
men have come to me, and said,
•your lather's house rules, and his
uniformly kindly Christian life led me
to God.” Thomas Muse and father
differed as wide as could be doctrine.
Muse was a Calvinist of the deepest
die; father an Armenian; Muse
wanted only immersion; father as lit
tle as possible, preferably none but
conformed to the M. E. church’s or
dinances.- Muse asked father to take
Lumpkin Street and Eastern Cuthbert
and lie would take Western Cuthbert,
and gather the children, unchurched
and poor, without regard to past af-
filiation, and take them each to his
own Sunday school and teach them,
Marcellus Douglas, head of the bar,
and John McGunn, heard of it, and
without request came to father and
offered to furnish Sunday clothes for
the children, Some who now stand
high in social society were saved thru
their fathers and mothers having
been within these “scraps”. Gunn and
Douglas at that time were not mem
bers of any church. Douglas died
leading his regiment at Malvin Hill,
Va. the son of Gunn is a merchant
and his grandson a manufacturer o(
baskets in Cuthbert. An old friend
asked me, “What do you think of the
Eternal Virginity of Mary?” I re
plied, “You know II. D. knew him
before and since his profession ot
Christianity; when'you can give me
any hypothesis that his changed
was brought about by anything
the saving power of Mary’s son,
Christ, I will discuss with you
virginity.” Time passed on. I-Ie
life
but
the
the
was
within two days of his going. He sent
for me and said, “I could not get over
H. D.’s changed life, and I thought I
was a Christian but found I was not,
and have sought and found H.’s sal
vation, and will see him soon. Just
wanted you to know it. “May God
bless this creed to put others to mind
ing the day of small things.”
Cuthbert, Ga. Andrew P. Rives.
HOME TOWN
Anybody can sympathize with the
sufferings of a friend, but it requires
a very fine nature to sympathize
with a friend’s success, the latter of
which we see demonstrated more and
more the older we grow.
(By Mrs. G. L. Moore)
They say don’t knock your own home
town
Or you will tear the structure down,
And all the tongues at once arc loosed
“You must not knock, but you must
boost.”
A hammer is needed here and there
To keep the home town in repair.
Every town that has yet been horn
Needs both a hammer and a horn
No town exists without a flaw
We need a hammer and a saw.
And, too, a bugler there to tell
The outside world that all is well.
Constructive work must build a stand
That will support a boosting band.
To “hit the nail upon the head”
Will save a town from going dead.
Keep building on, wing after wing
Then “join with pride” and progress
sing.
We need a hammer and a saw
To shape a town to fit the law.
A bugler for the morning call,
The reville for one and all.
Keep the town moving then perhaps
There will be no need for sounding
taps.
We need a bugler and a band
That will the public ear demand.
The biggest drawback any town cad
have is a clique, who, while they lac
the initiative to do anything for t '■
town are jealous of their position an
,,10 -- look with suspicion on any P jn
which went republican and two dem-. brought forward by anyone but _
.. Kn selves. Not all towns are so r.a
ocra IC ’ ' pered, but wherever' this condition i-
found, it acts as a complete bar 0
progress in that particular town.
These individuals adopt the dog
the manger attitude. They do no
want to do anything themselves an
do not want anyone else to do any
thing.