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THE RUTLER HERALD, BUTLER^lEORGIA^U^2fl^933r
GEORGIA
R .L.C. COLUMN
Edited by
C. C. WALL, EHaville, Ga.
Sec. flc Trees.
th is reaches the readers of
these columns, the Rural Letter Car
rs of Georgia will be having their
" oth annual state convention in Sa-
'“I'hc'editor of the columns wants
t ike this opportunity of express-
L his appreciation for the wonder-
el ^-operation he has received since
the publication of the news columns
ere instituted on January 23, last,
both from the carriers and from The
journal staff. Had it not been for
[his fine spirit of loyalty given by
ever y one interested, we could not
have accomplished as much thru this
medium as we have. We have tried
at all times to give the carriers
some service that would be worth
while to them and furnish reading
latter that would prove Interesting
n d beneficial to both them and the
each day. The
seat with a negro as one of the three
desperadoes who had a pistol kept a
close eye on' hint.
Lyle emerged from the shower
room in a linen suit two sizes too
small, loaned him by a postal clerk.
Then he went home with Postmas
ter Williamson to eat “a big juicy
Georgia melon.”
Tuesday morning Lyle wore a suit
of the postmaster's .
“He promised me a whopping big
melon for its use, too;” Williamson
commented.
The suit fitted well.
Lyle repeatedly was called, upon
to relate his experience as he sat in
the office of Williamson Tuesday
morning, telling the story with a
smile and emphasizing how he tried
"some 60 or 70 miles from Raleigh”
to pass out word of his predicament.
“I got a piece 'of a paper 'bag and
a stub of a pencil about as long as
your knuckle,” he related. "I printed
a word about every mile. I think I
said something like this, “kidnaped
phone ahead to have car stopped,’ but
I’m not sure. I was worried.
’We got into a filling station for
gas. I saw a man when my kidnapers
didn’t seem to be looking. As I had
my hand up to the open window
tl.e
eople they serve
,.wishers of The Journal have been - ----- •- -- —■- -
..onerous and considerate of winked at him and threw the paper.”
° wishes, and for myself and all I “I never in my life so wished for
carriers and their friends, II somebody to read something I wrote,
ivant to express my appreciation.
Membership Results
As this is written we find that we
iavc 1,601 carriers in the state who
iave paid their dues to July 1, 1984.
(Ve give herewith the standing of
»ach district:
District. No. Carriers. No. Paid Dues
First —
Second
rhird ..
Fourth
Fifth -
Sixth —
Seventh 155 ^
Eighth 124
Ninth 150
Tenth 154
127
136
184
161
40
167
90
73
148
114
34
117
106
87
115
117
Totals 1,388
1,001
100 Per Cent Counties
First District: Bryan, Bullock,
Candler, Long, Toombs and Treutlen.
Second District: Colquitt, Miller.
Third District: Chattahoochee, Lee
liuscogee, Pulaski, Schley, Taylor
’errcll and Wilcox.
Fourth District: Butts, Clayton,
? ayette, Henry, Lamar, Spalding.
Fifth District: Rockdale.
Sixth District: Monroe, Putnam,
iwiggs and Wilkinson. ,
Seventh District: Bartow, Catoosa,
laralson, Polk and Whitfield.
Eighth District: Atkinson, Berrien,
Brantley, Charlton, Echols, Jeff Da-
ris, Pierce and Wayne.
Ninth District: Dawson, Forsyth,
Habersham, Jackson, Lumpkin, Ste
phens.
Tenth District: Clarke, Elbert,
Greene, Madison and Oglethorpe.
Rural Carrier Kidnaped
Brother J. C. Lyle, a rural carrier
id a member of our association, of
rawfordville, Taliaferro county,
hile out serving his route on last
ionday was abducted by three un
iown parties, two white and one
igro, and after a harrowing exper-
nee was released in North Carolina
is kidnapers taking his clothing,
hat money he had and his automo-
ile and headed for points unknown,
'e are publishing herewith in part
a Associated Press story from
aleigh, N. C., telling of his ex-
Briences.
This racket of kidnaping has come
ery close to the rural carriers when
nc of their number is carried off in
iis manner while he is out render
's the service designated by his
overnment for him' to perform,
tringent laws should be enacted to
top this dastardly work and severe
enalties invoked upon the perpetra-
Jrs of such crimes.
The story as carried in The Atlan-
i Journal follows: .
Raleigh, N. C., July 11.—Refresh-
d by a cool shower bath, a change
f clothes, a huge iced cold slice of
Watermelon and a few hours sleep,
ohn C. Lyle, big* red haired, Craw-
ordville, Ga., mail carrier, Tuesday
was able to look back on the harrow-
ng experience of being kidnaped—
'ad laugh about it.
^Lyle was here as the guest of
ostmaster Carl Williamson, who
'ent to Wake Forest to get him late
.ay night as soon as he was ad-
‘‘ sc 'd the kidnaped Georgian had
5etn released there.
pm!' snii . les ’ but attired in dirty ov-
a s which his three supposedly es-
hin' 1 ,canvict kidnapers had 1 forced
1 0 don wl, “ they took his
but evidently nobody did.”
Lyle hoped Tuesday to get some
word of his car.
“They treated me so good * and
seemed to tell the truth, so I’m kind
of inclined to believe they may have
left it near Richmond,” he said.
The mail carrier planned to take a
late train Tuesday afternoon for
home after postal inspectors said he
need not wait here.
Lyle came to Raleigh early Tues
day from Wake Forest, 16 miles
away, whqge three escaped Georgia
convicts, who have kidnaped four
men in their flight, released him
Monday night.
The kidnapers, two white men and
a negro, left Lyle tied to the rafters
of a barn, but he soon released him
self and telephoned Crawfordsville
from the nearby farmhouse of H. H.
Pearson.
E. C. Gettie, federal marshal for
this district, said the men would be
liable to charges of kidnaping, inter
fering with a United States officer,
interstate transportation of a stolen
ear, and theft of United States mail
if they are apprehended.
Williamson communicated with C.
H. Heffner, postal inspector for this
district, and L. A. Stone, inspector
at Augusta, Ga., and they advised
Lyle to return to his home.
Lyle said he was accosted about 10
a. m., Monday near Crawfordsville
and forced to lie on the floor of his
car until the party—two white men
and a negro—passed through Augus
ta, Ga. After that he rode in the
back seat with the negro, he said,
and his captors bought him sand
wiches and cigarettes during brief
halts in their headlong flight.
Lyle said the men described them
selves as escaped convicts. The white
men, he said, were about 35 ' years
old. One was tall, lead and red-
haired, the other tall and dark. He
described the negro as “chunky.”
Lyle said just shortly before
reaching Raleigh he tried to signal
for aid.
“While the negro on the back seat
with me was not looking,” he said,
“I wrote a note on an envelope and
dropped it in the road. I don't know
where it was, but it was not far from
Raleigh.”
The principal speakers
morning program were Congressman
Homer C. Parker, Statesboro, and
Lawrence Camp, Atlanta, chairman
of the state Democratic executive
committee. Senator R. B. Russell,
scheduled to speak on the program,
did not arrive.
The following iommittees wore
named at the morning business ses
sion: Credentials, G. C. Waters, Syl-
vania, chairman; J. P. Howell, West
Point, and T. M. Cauthen, Dablonega
resolutions, H. W. Taylor, Cuthbert,
chairman; L. R. Lynn, Adel and N.
F. Land, Jackson; memorial, W. R.
Cannon, Atlanta, chairman; D. R.
Temple, Graymont and B. K. Hardi
son, Tifton.
The theme of the addresses of the
two principal speakers was that gov
ernmental costs had been too high
and that President Roosevelt and the
Democratic administration had to see
that they were cut. The postal people
were told that they had evidenced
their loyalty by not criticizing the
administration for their cuts, and it
was predicted that more prosperous
days would soon be here, in which
the postal people would have their
share. The invocation was delivered
by Rev. J. S. Wilder, D. D., pastor
of Calvary Baptist Temple.
Congressman -Parker said the Dem
ocratic party; which had to cut gov
ernment employes, would yet prove
their “Santa ClauB,” through bring
ing back stability. “I firmly believe
that government employes will soon
see the dawn of a brighter and hap
pier day,” he declared. The congress
man said it was a tribute to the
loyalty of the postoffice people the
spirit with which they had taken
their cuts and supported President
Roosevelt’s program. Congressman
Parker said he had voted for every
economic measure because it had
been his duty to do so, “and it is to
your Credit that you have not com
plained," he said. He told of the
trying times and problems of the
banking moratorium.
The Democratic party promised 10
cent cotton, and this has been
brought about within three months
after President Roosevelt’s inaugura
tion, it being the first time cotton
had brought that much in five years,
said Congressman Parker. Speaking
of the President’s program, he said,
“No matter Whether we approve it
or not, if it works its right, and it
looks like it will work.”
Telling of the evils of job selling,
and of the efforts of the Democratic
Congress in defeating postal . con
tracts and job selling, Congressman
Parker cited examples of extreme
conditions in these matters, indicat
ing the spirit of the people of being
willing to take work for anything
they could get for it. One rural free
delivery route in the First Georgia
district which formerly paid $960 a
vear for years, was taken on a con
tract for less than $300, he said. He
told of another case where a carrier
took a route so cheaply that after
the first month he had not only spent
more than he had been paid but had
gone into debt $24 because of the job.
“Two Thousands Miles Through
Rural Mexico’’
Address by Hon. Brown Tyler, Editor Fulton Weekly Review,
at Recent Meeting Georgia Press Association.
J and accomodating, deeply interested
! in what you Have to say, ana uliove
all even the poorest have dignity
and an intense pride in their
and land, as well they might
tney came from a mixture of
best and the oldest civilizations
two continents; and they nave
Mexico intact despite hundi
race
lor
the
of
held
of
When Mr. Williams asked me to churches, 161 public schools, depart- 1 years of turmoil; due mostly, it must
address this convention oil the sub
ject of a recent automobile trip I
made into old Mexico I wrote him 1
was doubtful ot my ability to enter
tain you to any extent, but that I
was willing to risk your Judgment
for the opportunity afforded to do
what 1 could toward the correction
of some of the many erroneous im
pressions most of us seem to have of
the great neighbor nation to the
south of us. In- our community life
we don't arbitrarily make up our
minds that our next door dweller i^
backward, lazy, and all wrong about
everything, and continue to believe
that without making an effort to as
certain the truth. Yet that seems to
be what we have done in the case of
Mexico. Perhaps our ideas about
Mexico are the result of the long
years of turmoil in that Republic,
but I rather think our misunder
standing is largely attributable to
the thoughtfulness news polLcies of
our daily papers in stressing such
things as bandit raids and kidnapings
and the playing up of every occur
rence that gives promise of the
starting of a revolution. As an ex-
-RURAL CARRIERS
OPEN CONVENTION
, "..WI UlCJ VUUft. iiio
jj’ £ ™" n o ej ’ u an d automobile, Lyle
; here.
a shower as soon as he
'u ( 1U< ' rid(len * en hours with ’ his
c ors » lying on the floor in the
°f the car some 70 miles and
e '"g forced to sit on the back
Savannah, Ga., July 17.—The 30th
annual convention of the Georgia
Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
opened at Savannah Monday morning
with 263 delegates in attendance, ac
cording to a report of the tourist and
convention committee of the Cham
ber of Commerce, which registered
the delegates. Registration was at
the Hotel Savannah.
The morning business session got
under way at the Municipal auditori
um at 1 o’clock. A banquet was held
at 8:30 Monday night, followed by a
dance. Monday afternoon, following
lunch and a sight-seeing tour to the
Savannah Sugar Refinery, the mail
carriers and their ladies went to the
Savannah Beach.
The morning program included ad
dresses of welcome by Mayor Gamble
Maj. P. G. Pierpont, president of the
Chamber of Commence, and T. J.
Brady, who spoke in behalf of the
postal employes of the city. C. •
Wall, Ellaville, veteran secretary ot
the organization, responded for the
carriers, and Mrs. J. H. Balcom, Jef
fersonville, for the Ladies Auxll ’ a ^
Mrs. W. R.’ Wood, Dawson newspaper
woman, offered a toast “to Georgiy
Thos. A. Kennedy, presMentofth
First District Carriers Asst ? at '°. n ’
«*»?* % rffaS
gavel over to Roy carrou,
president of the association.
Wall,
Secretary Carriers, Busiest
Man At Convention
The busiest man in the convention
of the Georgia Rural Letter Carriers
Association which opened in Savan-
nalt Monday, is C. C. Wall, the secre
tary. Mr. Wall is a human dynamo of
activity. He is everywhere all the
time and he keeps things moving
where he is concerned. He has had a
very active career in the government
service. He was appointed a rural
letter carrier from the Ellaville post
office Oct. 1, 1911. He served as
temporary carrier on the route he
now serves three months prior to his
regular appointment.
He has served In various and im-
Dortant capacities in the Rural Let
ter Carriers’ organization, district,
state and national, having served as
both president and secretary of the
Georgia Association, - and also as
secretary of the National Associa
tion.
He is actively and prominently
connected with religious, fraternal
and civic organizations, both local
and state. At present he is superin
tendent of the Methodist Sunday
school in his local city, is secretary
of the Third District Masonic Con
vention, is prominently connected
with Georgia Masonic Grand Lodge,
serving as the grand representative
in Georgia for the Grand Lodge of
Queensland, Austria. He is a past
grand chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias, having served as the head
of this organization for the state in
1931-32.
Mr. Wall is 41 years old, and was
married to Miss Lila King in 1910.
They 'have two children, a daughter
and son.
mer.t stores, clubs, big newspapers be admitted, to oppres
new office buildings jus\ completed
and others going up, new homes
everywhere, universities and traas
schools, big banks, too many automo
biles and radio stations, a chamber
of commerce that occupies a three
story building and everybody busy or I striking things a traveler
in a hurry to go somewhere. In fact, i south notices—the wide
outsiders and to outside influences.
Ninety per cent of the Mexican
people show strongly their Indian
blood, some of them almost black in
color, others with only the slightest
tir.ge of brown. That is one of the
from the
ariety of
the city is so thoroughly modern, we [ color, often in the same family. One
were again disappointed, having the sees a group of language girl3 stroll
feeling we didn't come down there’ to | ing along the street. They will range
be slapped in the face with cities all the way from pure white to the
and people as good and in many re- | darkest dark. The sight docs not look
spects better than anything we just right to a Georgian. But there
knew about in our own country. We is absolutely no negro blood. We
were mildly angered about it, and saw only one negro in our entire
started once to turn around ahd travels. In one valley section the
sneak back home. But we went on peons or farmers were all pure
after a day or so determined, how- | white. I am still anxious to know
ever, to avoid the cities; stopping at / J U3 t why. It is difficult to got full in-
roadside inns for meals, sleeping in | formation about such things without
small town hotels or bunking places. a tull command of the language.
Whenever a likely looking road
turned off the highway we followed
it to some out of the way village or
town, stopping to chat with the cit
izens, wander through the stores, ask
The pure Indians who inhabit the
mountain country keep to themselves
in small villages or scattered huts
reached 'only by trails. Few of them
speak the Spanish language. Riding
questions about this and
there was a fairly good
that.
hotel
If' along through this country one
or
ample, during the time my partner sleeping place, we stayed a day per
and I were down there a peon in the bapgt Most of the people you meet
to of the country
far south of the country who had never heard of the state of Georgia,
gotten his ire aroused over some- but we me£ a Mexican school teacher
thing—likely as not over accidently j n a uttle settlement 100 miles from
sitting hard on a thorn bush an- j. be neares t towri, who had lived in
nounced himself as organizing a Thomasville, Ga., quite a while,
revolution. The Mexican daily papers I We wandered on down throu?h
. . , | IIU tVUllUCICU Ull UUWU l>IUvl
paid him no attention, but the 8eyeral o{ the 8tate3> 8om eti„, e s
in
American dailies, a number of which rich vaUey countryi gometlmes over
circulate in Mexico, played the peon . degert and seml _ desert landS( vast
up with big headlines. At t o exact' rocky gtretcbeg covered by sparse
moment this was occurring a large j th q{ cactus an( , weedgj dry and lite and friendly, clean
section of Iowa farmers were in open | parched( yoid of habitation for dlg .
revolt against the government. Not L, of mnny mlles . There was no
a line about the Iowa matters a P _ : indication of even animal or' bird
peered in the Mexican papers, al-| Ufe Jn u of thig ,c 0Untryi no ] emau out vigorous, men- women
though a large per cent of their news nor eyen small streama o\ily P? um P and comely. They served us a
is of American origin. If Mexican j the bedg of streamg ca n ed ar . dtoner of beans and tortilles. In the
papers carried all the new of kid-, Traveling . tbrough this coun- afternoon we were invited to «‘>
napings, bombings, riots and near | t e , earned experi ence why j down to the river with them, where
their huts surrounded by their corn,
coffee and banana patches clinging
high up among the clouds. They
have no work animals, cultivating
their crops by hand aAd shipping it
down the mountain by squaws. They
bring it in small bags to the trad
ers and receive in return a variety
of wares, including quantities ' of a
sweot but powerful whiskey made
from sugar cane.
We spent a day in a small settle
ment of these Indians. They are po
pe rson
and in their homes. They have no
furniture, only sleeping mats, blank
ets and cooking utensils. They are
! small but vigorous, their women
revolutions that occur on this slde [every Mexican Indian or peon car- thc . whole party, men and women,
press associations should, as a mat
ter of common justice, radically
change their attitude toward the
news out of Mexico.
Perhaps I am assuming too much
the border, they’d have to dowries a water gourd. Other portions I ““P^tely «" d went
their size and exclude everything,^ ^ country are coyered w , th a | bathing together. We got popeyed,
else. Our American newspapers and gIwth of smaU timber( brush and /M '■ - un - 1 — , - 1
vines, so thick in places and so regu
lar and close to the road you have
the feeling you are traveling between
walls. All this, however, was parched
and shriveled when we were there,
in attributing to you editors such During tbe rainy sea son ' everything
wrongful impressions of Mexico, but ffrowg i uxur j an tly, we understood,
it is my observation that all of us and the appearaniCe 0 f this section
have the idea that Mexico is a land cban g es entirely.
of ignorance, poverty, banditry and At the town o£ Valle we rema | n ed t ^
revolution, a far and unvisltable three . g to witne8s t h e ce i ebra . | to the constant moisHne ..om the
land. The idea there might be decent tiong incident to the Easter season, i clouds. The road and the only one
honest citizens, living in nice homes, ( ^ a gor f 0 f frontier town, the • these mountains—for a dis-
with radios, frigidaires, riding only town o£ any consequen ce in a tance of 80 miles is narrow, so nar-
around in Lincoln automobiles and wide territory . and everybody was row in fact that a very sllght turn
beating their editors out of subscrip- j tbefGj £rom £be ranches and
tions, didir/t enter our heads. I will j haciendaa £or mi i e8 aro und. Indians,
confess to you it didn’t enter mine | peonS) rich cattle mell( 8( j UaW8 , ug i y
much. As a,matter of fact, when my Q , d women smoking black cigars,
(My partner is still shocked. He
wants to go back and get shocked
some more.) They exhibited not the
slightest embarrassment, although
their morals are perfect, we are
told.
This mountain country is extreme
ly beautiful. The soil even in the
mountain tops is rich and loamy,
and where crops are not growing
there is a dense growth of trees, due
Thompson Heads Rural Carriers
Savannah, Ga., July 18.—G. H.
Thompson, Jackson, was elected
nresident of the Georgia Rural Let
ter Carriers’ Association, and Atlan
ta was selected as the ' convention
■ ,
'• "• • •-^.*1....- tv.-'.;
partner and I first planned the trip
we were undecided whether to call
on the American or Mexican au-
thrities for a guard detail of soldiers
or hire gunmen. My partner 1 is 71
years- old, and as the time drew near
I caught myself sizing him up as to
his fighting ability;, later on I began
to size him up as’ to his running
ability. That shows how much I
knew about the country.
But instead of the border guards
at Laredo meeting us with a
young girls so beautiful a happily
married man dare hot look again.
Everybody wore a gun and a belt of
cartridges. The Indians and poorer
classes carried machetes, the long
blade common to American Spanish
speaking countries. There were bull
fights, chicken fights, Indian dances,, “ IVC , “ K “ 11
a carnival with all the gambling de- view noatinff
perfect winding river
feet almost straight
vices known, the whole scene remind
ful of stories of our early West, ex
cept there was no fighting, nor even
indications of ill feeling anywhere.
machete in one hand and a sawed off |£ n the big .. day when so many more
shot gun in the other, as we confl- , ong ^ toter8 be g an to arr ive my
dentlyexpected them to do, they er &nd £ consulted as to whe th-
treated us with absolute courtesy.
er we had best move on down the
. . I Cl VVC 1IUU UVDh iiiuic V/1* MW”'* *'**«
They were actually apologetic m the r(md _ we were the Qnl Americans in
examination of our baggage. We
i. .. 0Ur . oaKKaKe ' town—but the restaurant proprietor
were really 1 disappointed, as upon ^ whom ^ roomed agsured ^ we
our return we expected to be able to ^ cooperatfo „
brag about fights with custom off'- ^ ^ by thegheriff( police
cia s as do those traveling magazine ^ Qthers in takhvg pictures , and
wr Jf rs '' .... , . „ ’ seeing the whole interesting affair.
The new national highway beg ns The ^ flghts are not tbe affairs o£
Laredo and is connected to 400 miles cfuelt we haye heard tbem to be . It
below the border. It is a wonderful . g true thgy do punigh the animal
roadway, of macadam, well built, gomewhat t0 arouse him properly to
wide and smooth. It cuts straight thg flght( but they j^aHy 8ee ni less
south from Laredo, across a country cruel than our prize £ights . A M exi-
rocky and barren, mostly semi-desert. can to „ hom j ment i on ed the Ameri-
by the city of Monterrey, a distance j . ... . . ...
of 150 miles below the border. There , <T „ hllll fl „ hts we nlav
are no towns between ahd only
few small settlements. Monterrey is
a-city of 150,000 people, .with fine
headquarters for next year at the'
concluding business session in Savan-
anh Tuesday at the municipal audi
torium.
Mr. Thompson who succeeds Roy
Carroll, Abbeville, as president,
served as vice president during the
past year. T. A. Kennedy, Manassas,
was elected vice president, and C. C.
Wall, Ellaville was re-elected for a
three-year term to the executive
committee and George T. Pippin,
Round Oak, was elected sergeant at
arms.
to say: “In our bull fights we play
with a nerveless animal, then kill
him and serve him for fneat. In your
prize fights you half kill a human
being, leave him to suffer, and when
He finally dies don’t have the pleas
ure of eating him.”
After leaving Valle we got into
of the wheel would send you falling
from two to five thousand feet. Cars
meeting one or the other has to back
up to one of the wide places pro
vided vfor cars passing. There are
many sharp turns, some of them so
close large cars have some difficul
ty in getting around them. The
road was originally a trail for pack
animals, widened later for carts and
still later for automobiles. If you
like the thrill of high narrow places,
the
clouds of a
thousands of
down- below
you want to travel this road; but be
sure your' brakes are alright, don’t
do your looking at the scenery with
out first coming to a stop, and if
your wife Js nervous, leave her at
home.
(Continued To Next Week)
Tells How She Lost
15 Lbs. of FAT
Rheumatism Gone Too
Here is a woman who was rapidly
putting on weight and who was trou
bled wit
with rheumatism too. Read her
letter:
“I started taking Kruschen Salts
because ^of the good it had done for
a friend of mine who had been crip
pled with rheumatism. At the end of
the second bottle I was weighed and
find I dm now only 148 pounds
(original weight 163 lbs.), at which
I am so pleased. But I have also
felt my rheumatism much less, which
has been so troublesome in my
the Indian mountain country, stop- knees.. I must say 1 think Kruschen
a splendid reducer.” (Miss) E. L. P.
Overweight and rheumatic poison
ing often go together. The six salts
in Kruschen assist the internal or-
to perform their functions
ping along the way at ranches,
country stores, small towns, road
camps; and everywhere we were
treated with the utmost courtesy and, gans
respect, not the humble sort of at- Properly-little by little that ugly
.. , ’ . , fat goes: slowly, yes—but surely,
titude that some Americans seem to j You feel WO nd e rfully healthy, youth-
expect from every person who does . f u j an( j energetic—more so than ever
not speak the English language, but, before in your life,
a genuine kindly feeling is displayed j Kruschen Salts is obtainable at
by all these people. They are honest j
1 all drug stores—a jar lasts four
| weeks and costs not more than 85c.
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