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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, JANUARY 4, 1934.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. K. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION 11.50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Business leaders throughout the
country predict greater things for
1934 than in many years past.
Insull jumped from the frying pan
into Greece, and took most of the gra
vy with him.
Drive today so that the florist
won’t build an “at Rest” pillow for
you tomorrow.
WTiat the New Year holds in store
for us .will be determined largely by
our own efforts.
We dislike to believe all we see in
print and never believe what we hear
whispered around.
BIRTHDAY PARTY HONORING
OUR GREAT PRESIDENT
Plans for "the greatest birthday
If the program of the CWA, Presi
dent Roosevelt’s latest effort to re
store prosperity, does what it is in
tended to do, the people of this com
munity will see with their own eyes party in American history" were an-
aome results of the New Deal. Impa- nouncod last week by the national
tient with the slow progress made by committee for the Birthday Ball for
the PWA, due to the necessity of p res jdent Roosevelt. The newlv
planning, the President issued an ex- formed committee opened a nation-
ecutive order transferring $400,OJO,- w ide movement to honor the Presi-
000 of the Public WorkB funds to the dent on bis fifty-second birthday,
Civil Works Administration. |j arli 30 th, by raising a permanent en-
1 dowment fund for the Georgia Warm
How we kick about high taxes— : Springs Foundation for Infantile
and then go and spend more money | Paralysis at Presidential Birthday
for luxuries than ever before. With | BalIs "to be held in every community
the exception of taxes on some class- , '•be nation.
es of real estate taxes is not the big I Ta >' lor county should and must do
problem that stands between us and ber part. To this end the Herald
prosperity-no matter how much slick speks th e cooperation of every citizen
politicians may talk about it. The i n{ Ta y' or . county.
money we spend for autos and gaso- j "^be editor .of t is paper as een
line and amusements and a general requested to act as General Chairman
, . , for Taylor county, .on the National
higher standard of living all the way - Committee for a country . wi( ,e Birth-
round is so much lore an Item than day Party and it is by your
taxes that there is no comparison. I be j p that he can do tfhe job .creditably
^ for the county or successfully to the
It is the opinion of some of us that pause represented. Any suggestion or
the best way to show “family pride” offer of assistance in this direction
is to be ashamed of debt rather than j win lb « greatly appreciated,
poverty, to shun laziness and enjoy | New York Times in a recent
work, to be proud of plain clothes ( atonal commented on the fete as
that are paid for rather than fine ( follows:
clothes owned by some merchant, and 1 “It is a humane as well as happv
“charged” on his books. All of which I thought which lies behind the plan to
comes of hvaing seen some young raise an endowment for the Warm
fellows at work on the streets whose Springs Foundation for Infnntile Pa-
education would warrant other work ralysis, and offer to President.
Roosevelt as a gift on his birthday,
'THE GLORIOUS NEW YEAR
WHERE MONEY MAY COME
FROM
if it opened, and who are too “proud”
to do nothing if they can help it. More
1933 is in the past. A new year has , , ,
dawned upon us. Let’s give it our best honor and more power to you boys.-
bow and with it a bright smile.
If all men in a community worked
together harmoniously there would
be no need for comp’aint of business
being dull.
Nature never intended that we
should be poor. He is not poor who
maintains his right to earn his bread
before he eats it.
Columbia News.
Jan. 30. A series of balls in his honor
is projected for communities in all
parts of the country, the proceeds of
which will be turned over to this
beneficient institution. Nothing could
Where is the man so happy as the *’ e nearer the President’s heart. It Is
one who applies himself to manual w ' 10 * las rnade Warm Springs an
lalbor? Where is the home so happy I what * symbolizes, near to the heart
as the one where each member of the | the American people. They recall
household feels, at the .close of the , I 1 ' 8 own uncomplaining and gallant
day that they have performed some, i an, I successful fight against the af-
at least, of the many duties devolving fliction which overtook him, and
upon them ? There may be a clash which threatened to end completely
some day between capital and labor, his public life. They also remember
Should this period ever come, the how his sympathies and hopes turned
I hope is that labor, with the conquer- to the help and relief of others crip-
Marion Talley is going 1 back to j ag tread of a hero, will trample be- ' plea as he temporarily had be«-n. Now
singing. No doubt she figures render
ing grahd opera is more profitable
than rendering lard.
of recovery, and needs only larger
The big job in the recovery pro
gram just now is to increase the buy
ing power of the farmers. When this
is done the riddle of recovery will
have been solved.
The Herald is particularly glad to
place on its mailing list the names of
neath its heel the power that has to a at Warm Springs an establishment
considerable extent, made labor la- ! and «P” ien <* d , treat -
, __ . , . ment is able to work almost miracles
bonous. We are all laborers in our
community. resources to extend its benefits more
-— ; widely. All must hope that this plan
There’s nothing like a satisfied , to delight and cheer the President by
feeling and for which fact we have such a birthday present, insuring as
never wanted a dollar of our own any jj would the larger success of Warm
worse so we could go step across Springs> will be carried out enthusi-
the street and deposit it at the bank
and say “stay thar ’till we need you,”
astically and triumphantly.”
quite a number of new readers of the . because beginning with the new year | May we as Georgians be as deeply
all deposits are really insured and no | interested in the Warm Springs Foun-
make-believe as once upon a time j dation, which is locate<i at our very
door, as are those of the far east.
paper for 1934 sent by friends
Christmas rememberances.
when we really had some money and
He is my truest friend whose com- the doors swung too in our face with
panionship rouses in- me my highest i the accumulation of a year’s toil
ideals, and makes me begin to live went to pay preferred creditors. Yes
them. He is my best friend who sets sirree,, if we only had a dollar we’d
before me hard and worthy tasks and , like to make an , otber gtaTt trying t0
makes me find joy in doing them '
That was a fine honor, and ai most
deserving one too, paid Mr. Prance,
President of the Southwestern College
at Americus, in placing him at the
head of the government’s new farm
colony in Georgia.
accumulate something with that sat
isfied feeling that Uncle Sam guar
anteed it being safely kept.
FOP. A GREATER STEINER
The movement launched by city
council to obtain 1 federal funds for
the creation of a $200,000 pay ward
for Steiner clinic should receive the
united support of the city govern
ment and the people of Atlanta.
Already recognized nationally as
“What manner of men can w e ex- 0 ne of the outstanding institutions
pect iour future generations to be? f 0 j. the treatment of cancer in the
We are now threatened with having 1 United States, such an addition to
the life of one of the veriest cowboys Steiner would make it second to no
toughs, then consumate gambler and j other similar institution in the coun-
later promoter .of shady sports pla. 1
.try.
It was brought out in an investiga
tion that Wiggins .of the Chase Na
tional Bank, New York, thought he j cated before the boy readers of our . p or many years pay patients were
was bigger than the United States I daily papers as a life of exceptional ! admitt ed to this humanitarian insti-
govemment. The pitiful part of it is merit, one to be taken as an example I tution and men and womcn , from all
that it comes pretty nearly being the
truth.
The Hilter government of Germany
will setrilize 400,000 of the mentally
and physically unfit. Sterilization is
alreday legal in several states in this
country, but it must be by consent of
the person in question. In Germany a
court will pass upon such persons.
Congress goes into action the day
this is written, and we doubt not that
in the main it will support the Pres
ident in his recovery plan. He 1 has
not abused the power Congress grant
ed him, an d the administration will
be able to show substantial improve
ment in the country’s condition.
As a rule the fellow who brags
“When I make up my mind it is hard
for anyone to change it,” doesn’t have
much of a mind to begin with. As a
rule he is narrow between the ears
that if he ever gets an idea he can’t
change it because there isn’t room in
for reaching fame and fortune. Is
there no limit to such reprehensible
over the south came to Atlanta to re
ceive expert treatment for cancer.
installation of traits of character in Under tbe recent agreement betwe en
our young?”—Exchange. This subject
is worthhy of serious thought to
which we add in passing, the stress
laid on 1 athletics in some of our
schools today tends largely in that
direction. We favor athletics, but we
do not favor letting the bars down on
the city and the board of trustees of
the clinic, the pay ward was abolished
and the scope of the hospital's service
was greatly narrowed as a result.
Cancer is now the greatest existing
threat to the health of the American
people and millions of dollars are be
ing spent annually in research work
text boioks as is too often being done . looking to the discovery of a cure,
and praising too much our heroes of Steiner has played an important part
athletics.
“The editor who does not look upon
his profession as one of the noblest
and who discounts his work by weekly
referring to his efforts as “feeble”
gestures, earthly punishment, etc.,
should engage in another line ol
business,” says an exchange. There is
no greater field for service to ones
| community, state or nation and their
i every interest than in running a
| country weekly newspaper. If an
v j — . ., , .. editor is unfitted or unwilling to give
his head for two ideas at the same „ , • , „ e. „ . .r .
j; me these his very best efforts, then he is
doing these interests a great injus-
" " I tice in trying to run a newspaper.
The Augusta Herald answers Ex- j Those who give conscientious, faithful
Senator Reeds recent inquiry: "What | and efficient service is not due any-
is to become of the millions who in- , body an apology for following the
vested their honest earnings in bonds | profession. Running a newspaper is
anO notes, by asking the following 0 ur business. We respect it as we
question. What became of some of i Wiould any enternrise in the country
the millions who invested their honest ( and demand from the public their re-
earnings m South American bonds
and Insull notes—back in the emi
nently sound days of 1929.” Senator
Reed, it will be remembered, has sel
dom agreed with a Democratic ad
ministration.—Millen News.
spect for it. The Herald believes it
has succeeded in this particular
whereby the editor finds it a pleasure
to be a member of this honorable pro
fession.
in this work and its contribution to
wards an end that seeks the saving
of thousands of lives annually and the
prevention of widespread suffering
would be greatly enhanced with the
creation of the proposed P a y ward.
Since an important phase of the
work at Steiner, as in every other
cancer clinic in the country, is dedi
cated to the search for a cure that
would bring renewed hope to men and
women in every state in the Union, it
would seem that the expenditure of
' funds for the broadening of these ef
forts would .come within the scope of
the relief activities being supported
by the government.
The new ward would make Atlanta
as conspicious as a center for the
treatment of cancer as Warm Springs
is for the treatment of those suffering
from infantile paralysis. With such a
goal, in addition to the humanitarian
side of the project, there should be
full an d earnest cooperation by the
city government, and by the people of
the city as a whole, in the movement
I launched by council.—Atlanta Consti
tution.
The door is snut and bolted; the
book is closed and sealed, neither to From the Macon Telegraph:
be opened until judgment day, at j President Roosevelt is reported to
which time tne mystic things that we be the tightest lipped individual who
failed to understand during tne year has ever occupied the White House;
1933 will be made plain. Tnen we will j a n d that in addition to keeping his
know as we are known. I own counsel and figuring out ques-
The old year was freighted with tions for himself and making his de
responsibilities, many of wnich were cisions accordingly, he never decides
very grave and important. It also 1 any matter without giving due con-
carried with it aspirations, political j sideration to the practical politics of
and otherwise. It also witnessed dis- J j t . He of all men who have occupied
appointments and successes. It car- j tbe wbite H ouse is president of the
ried with it many fond ambitions, . United States.
hope* and bright expectati ns. Many Tbe question often arises as to in-
of these culminated in full fruitions; fl at j on) and where is all the money to
others were blighted and frost-killed j come from tbat is be i n g spent on gov-
in the budding. emment projects and to give food and
Many hearts were made to rejoice, I employment to the unemployed. No
and homes brightened by sweet asso- j amo unt of prying has separated him
ciations. While other hearts were sad- from one sugges tion as to what he
dened, and homes darkened and veil- j bas in mind , on these points when he
ed in sadness because death had en- sba u report to and make his recom-
tered there and the loved voice was no mer .d at i 0 ns to Congress,
longr heard and the foot-falls forever There are a „ kinds of gupsses as to
hushed. | wbere the money is coming from. It is
As the New Year has been ! our guess> without B part icle of au-
ushered in, let us enter upon its thority 0 r basis further than the ap-
duties and assume its respons bilitiei ; pearance of things, that the setting
w.th the love of the Master in our , up of the gold market was primarily
hearts and love and sympathy for all , the hope that it would raise the
our friends and fellows wherever they prices of conlm odities. This gold
may e oun . market was set up domestically right
after his address in which he
renewed his pledge that he would
raise them, in response to the farm-
An editorial writer in the Pathfind- ers’ strikes and riots in the West,
er discovers that Franklin D. Iloose- | There appeared an additional purpose
velt has even greater fame as a -big i n the gold market, however. - Con-
game hunter than that which was en- j gress authorized the president to is-
joyed .by his equally illustrious cousin 1 sue three billions of new paper cur-
Theodore Roosevelt, observing. | rency, with which to buy government
"So far Franklin D. Roosevelt has | bonds. Then it authorized him to is-
suicceeded in bumping ,off the G. O. P. j sue three billions of new bonds and
ANOTHER BIG GAME HUNTER
elephant, skinning the Tammany ti
ger, caging the Russian bear, corial.
is now hot on the trail of the big had
wolf. If -he can only drive that vicious
and vorae.cious creature from' our
sell them to get funds with which to
carry on relief and public work. This
ling the wild bulls of Wall Street and 1 hnoney if issued -must -be retired 4 per
in nnnr L 4- 4V a 4 — n — 1 — f 41- n 1-2 — V- n #1 —. ...
cent a year after a certain date.
But each time he has made a state,
ment he has assured the country he
doors permanently no one can ever meant to have “sound” -money. Sound
claim Teddy -was a bigger big game (mone y i s that which is backed by
hunter. . gold, and the international agreement
The Pathfinder s list is formidable , is that it shall be not les8 than 40
and impressive but not all-inclusive. | per cent of gold behind paner money.
For, in addition to the feats referred . that then could be described as
to, the president alsohas made it hard ‘< SO und money.” After impounding all
on the blind tigers. -Moreover, while . the gold and by establishing a gold
these worthy accomplishments were in | market for the newly mined metal,
process, he gave some thought to he raised the value of the four and
conservation and checked the habit of I one half .billions of gold in the treas-
killing the goose that lavs the golden ury f roTT1 $20.67 per ounce to $34.06
—or a paper profit of three billion
163 -million dollars; and anyone with a
slate and pencil may readily see that
that figure is ominous when It Is re-
This week will see the end of the called that the total public works and
service of Jack Williams, editor of relief program is to .cost three billion
egg.—Rome Tribune-News.
A CAPABLE LEADER
the Waycross Journal Herald, as
president of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation. Mr. Williams will with the
coming of the new year round out his
second term in this office. Under the
constitution of the organization he is
not eligible for another term, so he
300 million dollars.
The president has pledged “sound”
money, and by raising -he price or
value of gold he is still able to issue
a great deal of paper -money and have
more than 40 per cent gold behind it
—sound money. He probably estab-
will take his place in the ranks of , lished the silver market and raised
those who, having served faithfully
for the time allotted them as execu
tives, have earned the right to rest
and to assist the state wide bod"v
through means of advice and counsel.
No president of the Georgia organi
zation .of newspaper editors has given
more valuable and consistent service
than has Jack Williams. He has been
alert to the demands made upon him
because of the duties of his office. He
has responded cheerfully to calls f.or
his presence and his service in every
section of the state. It has been for
tunate for the Press Association that
it has had a president whose time
could be so generously given to his
duties no matter in what direction
they called him.
From presiding with fairness over
the state wide convention to taking
part in greeting the President of the
United States at Savannah, Jack
Williams has proven equal tio the
task. He has given attention- to dis
trict meetings and aided in making
every occasion whore his preser.ee was
called for a success.
His adaptability, his affability, his
capacity to accomplish and his ability
to get things done have been .of in
valuable service to the body which he
heads. He goes out of office with the
best wishes of all editors from sea
shore to mountain top. He has held a
place in the affections of his fellows
because of his “likability," and he
has won their admiration thru that
capacity to accomplish and a willing
ness to put all that was best in him
into the tasks he sought to perform.
Jack Williams has come very near
the price of silver as a political
stroke to keep senators and congress
men, from silver states as well as
those who speculate In silver, quiet
and prevent their running away with
inbation. The president has played
his cards with great astuteness. He
has made it possible for Congress to
issue new paper money with gold to
back it away above the international
agreement, an d by still further in
creasing the gold price there will be
room for Congress to pay the bills
out of the .profit and still have a
sound money and inflation at the
same time.—if such an anomaly Is
possible.
For him to have issued three bil
lions of new paner money and bought
up that many bonds, as Congress au
thorized him to do, would not have
been as sound a proposition as his
gold market and increased price of
that metal. He has made it easy for
Congress to pay the bills,call it sound
money or inflation, or what one will.
Germany issued printing press mon
ey an d gave food and employment to
her returning soldiers and idle indus
trial workers. She transposed her
slums and poor, ramshackle buildings
and run down cities and parks and
hospitals into veritable dreamlands.
The United States is endeavoring
to approximate some of the blessings
and advantages of Germany’s exper
ience, and to steer away from the
evils she encountered and fostered.
But the United States is not in the
being the ideal president.—Savannah | same dire straits as Germany faced.
Press.
The old saying used to be “compe
tition is the life of trade.” The state
ment isn’t true as it stands. Intelli
gent competition is the life of trade
but -ignorant competition is not. Ig
norant competition is one of the most
destructive elements wi h which busi
ness has to deal. The man who sells
merchandise for less than cost not
only injures himself but everyone else
in the same business.
Eve at that, why should she not use
her credit and wealth to care for the
unfortunates who have no fuel, no
clothes, no food, no houses to shelter
them, no jobs at which to work? She
spent 50 billions to make the world
safe for democracy—and it isn’t safe,
so the money must have been wasted
—why shouldn’t she spend as many
billions as necessary to make her own
people safe from starvation and the
cold?
POEMS OF ERNEST CAMP
PRINTED FOR DISTRIBUTION
"Autumn Odes and Other Poems*
by Ernest Camp, editor of the Walton
Tribune, former president of the
Georgia Press Association, and pne
of the state’s most beloved and es
teemed editors, has just come off his
presses at Monroe, for distribution
among his friends.
It is dedicated to the memory of
Mrs. Camp, who died several months
ago, and one of the most endearing of
the poems is that in which Mr. Camp
recalls his first meeting with her.
Mf. Camp gives in these poems a
| full throated appreciation of his be.
I loved Georgia at all seasons of the
] year, as in “Miss October,” Septem-
I ber,” “Miss April,” in the “Swinging
| Through Georgia,” dedicated to the
I Georgia Press association, he does in
I truth “.catch a magic spirit from the
mountains to the main.”
Two poems that effect the President
are especially attractive. One is
“Warm Springs,” in which he pays
tribute to the charms "reflected in
! those children’s hopeful eyes,” while
ithe other was a blithesome comment
! on Miss Frances Perkins’ famed
' “shoe speech” in superb contrast to
the dogged wrath with which many
editors sought to refute her purported
statement that the south does -not
] wear shoes:
“Sakes alive, Frances, you dear old
sis, you may be wise, but you’re wrong
on this—folks of the south nearly all
wore shoes till the nation went down
with the Hoonver blues.
“It is trie at this time that some
feet are unclad, but that’s a small
matter even though It is -bad, for
stomachs are empty and breeches are
out and joy and contentment have
passed up the spout.
“Our feet may be bare but our
spirits are proud, and hope is renewed
by Frank and his crowd; Please get
to work to scatter these blues and
give us pants, our food and our
shoes.”
President Roosevelt, on seeing the
poem editorial, wrote Mr. Camp the
following:
“Dear Ernest Camp: That little edi
torial on the secretary of labor is a
perfect joy and I know she will ap
preciate it as much as I do.”
And Miss Perkins sent him at the
time a compliment, and made the
same explanation <-f how her remarks
came to be misinterpreted that she
made in Atlanta on her recent visit.
But nerhans the most engsm'pg of
them all is the “When the Funnies
Cease to Thrill.” in which Mr. Camp
tells of the feeling of loneliness that
seized him as his children e-row up
aru ceased their merry comment:
“The ‘funnies’ still are coming with
each Sundav morning moil: still eome
the same old figures, with their pleas
ure and travail: but. they lie untouch
ed. neglected, bv tho=e eager youth
ful hands, wjivih are reaching out to
manhood, with its more austere de
mands.
“Ann somehow it makes me wist
ful as I look hack down the vonrs at
those lovelv childish faces, alternat
ing iov an4 tears, and T miss their
Snndov eo-mMe for the ‘funnies’ end
and them stnro as thov shook with
shoo- osVoonent with their tummie*
on the floor.
ifnrnTiTe mo wn uournT,:,
wv LOCAL CITT7VN
Hon. W. F. Pteed. o 1 * this eitv. who
was a classmate and life long friend
of Mr. Howell, upon learning of Mr.
Howell’s death paid him the following
tribute in a letter addressed to Hon.
Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution and brother of the de
ceased :
Hon. Clarke Howell,
Atlanta, via.
Dear Clarke:
Tendering io you my deepest sym
pathy on the passing of Albert, per
mit me to say of him that I feel I
have lost one of ti.o very best friends
I ever had, whose loyal friendship
and wise counsel enriched and il
luminated my own life. In his pass
ing I feel that I have sustained a
distinct loss.
His brilliant mind and genius radi
ated into thousands of other lives
throughout the country and won for
him loyal and lasting personal friend
ships everywhere.
He was a brilliant and successful
lawyer and a prudent and wise coun
sellor in directing the policies and
affairs of the dominant political party
in this state.
He carried “his heart in his sleeve”
and it was to him a real pleasure to
strengthen the hands of the weak and
worthy.
On all worth while matters he had
strong convictions and for which he
fought with the sword of courage. He
was, indeed, a knight with stainless
spear and worthy of • any foeman’s
steel.
He will linger long in thei memo
ries of his thousands of friends and
make music forever in their hearts. I
feel that I am fortunate in being one
of them.
Sincerely your friend,
WALTER E. STEED.