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TOE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 1, 1934.
The Butler Herald
Established in 187ti
('. K. BENNS
Editor nnd Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOK CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
It is being predicted that Postmas- 1 Something went haywire with the
ter General James A. Farley will be processing tax. It was fully under-
u candidate for governor of New Btood that the consumer should pay
DR. CRITTENDEN’S SLAYING
Rev. T. E. Davenport, former pas-
A WARNING IN TIME
Columbus Ledger:
The warning given
to the people
York in. the next election. Furley it through a higher price for pork, tor of the Reynolds Methodist churr _ _
usually gets what he wants, and so Instead the packers have simply ue- now located at Shellman, writes recently by Dr. Gordon Singleton,
Tar as we have been able to observe ducted it from the market price of editor of the Macon Telegraph to | educational official, in his able
deserves all he gets excusing a lot of bogs. Packers may not be making correct any insinuation on the good 1 a ddrcss at the rally sponsored by the
unnecessary criticism. i much money today, but they certainly name and character of Dr. Crittenden, j nigh School P. T. A., as to the man-
. stand to make a pile in the future one of Shellman’s most 'beloved citi- | ner j n wb j cb state funds for schools
zens whose tragic death shocked not 1 wcre diminishing from time to time
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION *1 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Huey Long has taken another long
face.
The civil engineer is not monarch
of all surveys.
The Thomaston Times recently ■«** th ^ * et their Btora «° P ,anto
gave strong editorial endorsement of c °®’ s ‘
J. J. Mangham, former state highway I " ~ _
chairman, for governor to succeed i ^ kas become alarming the nun-
Talmadge. Maugham may or may not . her °f homicides being committed,
run, who knows? Any way the Gov- 1 the killer claiming the act being in
ernor doesn’t seem to be disturbed defense of his home; but is seldom
over any effort or suggestion of op. ! ‘^d that the facts fully sustain the
position. charge. But whether a man is killed
for the reason suggested above, it is
until today they are only one-hall
what was originally intended, should
be given the earnest attention of
More men have been self-undone good reason for holding a primary in
than self-made. , this county before the time for the
state primary in September.
Physicians say that President
Roosevelt is thriving on the grind
that shattered the health of his pre
decessors.
.none the less the duty that the of- of suspicion on the character of Dr.
The question has been asked sev- ! ficerg of tbe law exert every enerRy i Crittenden who was one of the best
eral times, if there will be an early I lhey poggegg to brirg the s i ayer to! beloved physicians of this community,
primary in Taylor county? The Her- that the kiIling may be inquired “If you could have attended the
aid cannot and does not attempt to ! into an(i bbis g^ilt, , or innocence, es-| funeral and seen the packed church
speak for the executive committee or ! tab]isbo(1> and tbe propcr pen alty m- and the long line of tear bedimmed
masses of voters but we can see no ghould prove the former .
only the community in which he
lived, but this entire section of the
state:
"On the front page iof Friday’s I evcry citizen in Georgia who has an
paper was an article from Dawson
correspondent, the heading of which
does grave injustice to a noble citizen
of Shellman.
"By implication it brings a shade
Georgia is pnoud of its able rep
resentatives in congress, both in the
senate and lower house. Their sol'd
front in backing the President in his
Babson says “what is the sense of ' program for recovery is most corn-
growling because your business is medable. Without a single exception
not hitting the noof? Be thankful it our Washington representatives are
is off the floor.” proving true blue and any effort to
displace ,one of them this fall would
be a serious mistake.
The Dalton Citizen says: “The
Butler Herald is always level headed
when it touches public or private
You are fortunate not to live in problems. Here is a good sermon in a
France and own an automobile with few words: ‘You will never be a half
the price of gasoline 62c a gallon, 50c way valuable citizen in any communi-
of which goes for taxes. ty when you make more obligations
| than you pay. The best citizens are
Help-a-man out of a hole once and those who pay promptly. The most
he may forget you when he is out, successful business houses are those
but he will not fail to call on you the | w hich receive prompt pay. No man
next time he falls in. Not all but en- has the simolest qualifications es a
tirely too often office holders mani- j business man until he has his consent
fest a similar attitude.
With members of the Georgia Press
mourners, white and color d, who took
a farewell view of the open casket;
and if you could have glimpsed the
abiding interest in the preservation' of
our schools ns the foundation stone of
society.
The speaker brought out and
stressed the important fact that
those earnest, thoughtful mir.ds who
built our state .so recognized the value
and necessity of public school educa
tion in a democracy that they defi
nitely arranged revenues for opera
tion of the public schools, through
the Western & Atlantic Railway lease
and other mediums, and made it man.
datory that at least one-half of the
state’s general fund should be ex
association the name of Hon. P. T. ' wealth °f wreathes asd bouquets of
McCutcheon, of Franklin, Ga., stands flowers laid on his grave by loving
out as a beacon light to all traveling friends, you would have been itn-
that way. He holds the record for pressed that one of the best beloved | been violated. Whereas now the state
never having missed an annual ses- I citizns of the community had passed! has an income of about twenty-foui
sion of this association and of which 1 away and ‘still lives in the hearts of • million dollars, instead of fifty per
pended on these schools.
But in recent times, that edict has
The Republicans are no nearer
finding anything on which to pitch
their campaign in the next election
than a year ago.
he is one of only a few of its present j those left behind.’
surviving charter members. In local, j “Dr. Crittenden was a high-toned
state and national affairs, as a i gentleman of the old school. His
churchman and Mason, in civic, edu- family first settled Shellman and
cational and political interests he is are the leading people here now.
recognized with equal prominence. It
was the Herald editor’s happy privi
lege to have Mr. McCutcheon as our
guest Sunday in a short stop-over
visit upon his return home as a mem
ber of the Taft highway motorcade
to Moultrie Saturday.
“His household consists of a noble
wife, a married son, a married
cent, or twelve million, going to pub-
li school education, less than, twenty-
five per cent of it is available for
such. The W. & A. rentals are dis
counted for years to come, and var
ious diversions and allocations have
cost the school fund millions of dol-
auto stopped nearby, a man got out
with a gun and almost without wara-
Have you ever been invited to a ing shot him down,
cocktail party? Did you go? What' “The pastor said at his funeral:
goes on at a cocktail party ? This | ‘He was a Christian gentleman, an
daughter and two young ladies; their i Iars. In fact, now two thirds of the
family life was indeed beautiful.
“He was an ardent golfer. Thurs- | leaving only about eight million dol-
day afternoon while on the course an | iars as a non allocated general fund,
asserted Dr. Singleton.
This means the school burden is
being forced more and more back up
on the loedl community, while the
state monies intended for such are
direction of experts, but this makes
it all the more urgent that future
work should be done by the OCC with
competent foresters and conserva
tiomsts in charge.
Our fields and forests, if properly
protected from fires and in the in
terest of conserving our game birds,
would be the source of a handsome
income to the land owners of Georgia
and a boom to sportsmen.
Let us have a unit of the Civilian
Conservation Corps as soon as possi
ble.—Macon Evening News.
CHANGING MORALS
Greensboro Herald-Journal:
In an address before Georgia Ma
sons in Macon last week, our old
friend, Dr. Joe P. Bowdoin, of the
State Health Department, Atlanta,
declared there has been an “increase
of 52 per cent in illegitimate births
in Georgia in the last eleven years,”
and said one of the greatest prob
lems that ever faced the public was
the “large increase” in veneral dis
eases.
Dr. Bowdoin, according to the news
dispatches, advocated a change in the
“attitude of parents toward telling
tleir children about sex life.” Dr
Bowdoin said aLcohol was the main
cause of moral laxity, resulting in
“more wrong doing than any one
here will ever know.
The editor of the Herald-Journal
has been a resident of Greene county
for 27 years. In the first 16 years of
our residence here, it was an un
heard .of thing in this county of 12,-
kind of party w^ have never been in- ! officer in the Methodist church and he j being employed for other purposes.
vited to attend. Is it a meeting where
to collect his accounts. None ever
exists long where credit is careless
and promipcuous.Butlrr business hous
es which collect their accounts are
Charles Ponzi, whose get-ri,ch
scheme netted him many million dol- ... . ,
Iars, but left his victims that much the on * on f ‘ hat do AU oth -
ers fail in the long run’.
ardent spirits are mixed with other
concoctions to be sipped by the at-
more physicians of the surrounding ' away. As result, the schools in Mon
territory formed an honorable escort. | roe county have had to close down,
tendants? Does sipping go on until Business of the town was suspended j and the terms of a million other
there is a kinder wildress 1 on the I during the funeral hour. The whole | Georgia children, are cut, in some
poorer, will complete his prison sen
tence in February, at which time
steps will be taker to deport him to
Italy, from whence he came.
There is a growing complaint at
the number of cases of drunkenness
among the relief workers. The gov
ernment never intended, we imagine,
Comptroller General McCall has
ruled that the government housing that any individual should be given
proposition is illegal and congress work for any other purpose except to
will have to pass another bill. One provide for food and clothing and the
hundred million dollars had been al- j necessities .of the home. Certainly the
located to the housing corporation to taxpayers of the United States ought
clear up the slums in the cities. j not to be called on to pay for beer
| and whisky for the poor unfortunates
Governor Sholtz has requested who are unable or unwilling to con-
President Roosevelt to allow the trol their appetites nnd craving for
United States marine band to make drink. There should he, and r,o doubt
a tour to Florida during the current will he, strict regulation along that
winter, a possible itinerary was not i; ne before long. The relief money
suggested. If the request is granted should go to the families of the work-
attraction to Florida will be complete. P rs. not into the stomachs for beer
Ar-
— j end whisky.—Jackson Progress
The Madisonian pays Senator Rus- (, us
sell the following deserved compli- |
hient: “Senator Richard B. Russell has
been appointed on a number of lean- 1 A ver >’ important phase of the
Ing committees in the United -States President's decision to monetize and
Senate, and is steadily forging his stabilize silver, is that it has done
way into deserved recognition in that much to still the fear that we would
bodv ,, . have inflation by the printing press
j route. It will bring more money into
M. D. SaboT^ Jr^ son-in-law of circulation, if the economists are
Hon. Harlec Branch, the new second , ri K ht . will provide funds for foreign
assistant postmaster general, has an d domestic commerce ffnd the
been given a good federal job. Doubt- money will have something of cstab-
less Sk shorn deserved the promotion lished and definite value behind it.
and serves a double purpose including Thus, the silver proclamation will
the high esteem throughout Georgia se rve two ends—it will restore con-
for Mr. Branch. j Rdence of a large part of the public
j in the United States monetary polici-
“The War Cry,” official national | cies . and it will help resurrect one of
publication of the Salvation Army : the greatest and most essential of
features Georgia in this week’s issue. | our industries. Results of the latter
The front cover is a beautiful roto- j are being felt now—in jobs, in buy-
graveure picture of the entrance to ] ing power, in hopes for the future.
Georgia Hall, at Warm Springs. The j And, if the expected happens and
back cover shows five beautiful scenes 1 other major nations adopt similar
part of the sippers. We are just community is shocked and saddened
wondering how the Buick will behave [ at the loss of one of its best citizens.
, , 000 people—the majority colored—to
state s funds have been, allocated, , - , , . ■ ^
1 have a case of bastardy in the
Greene superior court.
Since the advent of the prohibition
law it has been a common occurrence
for such cases to be tried.
The amazing part of such cases
has been that the defendant—the
man in the case—has in nine out of
ten cases won the jury’s verdict.
The woman, desiring a legitimate
name for her child, is usually likened
to a circle saw by the defendant—
and the jurymen are made to believe
the woman is unable to tell which
tooth on the saw inflicted the cut.
died a martyr’s death.’ A dozen or ] The plants ,of the fathers have gone
under the guidance of the cocktail
sipper. Will the Ford know the safety
ally and just go home and unload the
sipper? Will the Chevrolet be able Co
guide the sipper thnough the danger
ous traffic? Do cocktail parties nour
ish character. Some how we have
‘Shellman.
T. E. Davenport.”
THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE
To the Editor of the Herald:
Our government is trying to help
, , . all classes of people except the aged
gathered the notion that these parties | and infirm They are turned out to
are rather dangerous influences for
starve. Our government is doing all
our young ladies and gentlemen, and it can to help our children . u , g trying
none the less perilous for the older | to he , p QUr farmers . It>g alg0 helping
ladies and gentlemen.—The Thomas-
ville Press.
Some sections are not pleased with
the amount of men and projects al-
loted to them by the CWA and other
government agencies an ( j claim that| money through its different organiza-
the corporations, business men, bank
ers and railroads. Our veterans ana
their dependents are receiving pen
sions and it is right that they should.
Our government is doing a great and
ood work, pouring 1 out barrels of
favoritism is being shown some cities | tiona in , or d er to help tbe poor i abor -
ar.d counties. The News does not|j ng P eople; and I do hope that thiq
share that belief. We believe that the
good work may continue until the
communities which have seemingly • P eople can get om. their feet and be
fared better thnn others simply went I ab ] e ba s tand alone. But what’s go-
after and asked for more than some ; n g. t 0 become of these honorable but
other communities. We have learned a jr e d people who have helped to make
long ago that not much is just going , this great nation what it is?They are
to be handed any community or any I j us t simply overlooked. They have
at Warm Springs.
Be careful of small things, ana
then large ones will take care of
themselves. Be careful of the cents
and dollars will all be safe. Remem-
measures, a long step toward general
gorld recovery will have been taken.
Our Echo.—You remember the
stroy of the hoy who went out in the
i woods and cried out “Hello,” and
her the old tale: For want of a nail j echo sa id “Hello.” The hoy got mad,
the shoe was lost; for want of a horse thought he was being made fun of
the rider was lost; and for want of
the rider the battle was lost; and by
the loss of the battle the kingdom
was lost. See what came fnom the
loss of a little nail.
and he said, “I hate you.” Echo said
“I hate you.” His anger increased,
and he cried out, “I’ll hit you.” Echo
says “I’ll hit you.” The little fellow
indignant, went into the house and
told his mother that a boy out in tne
woods was going to hit him and that
he hated him, and so on. The mother
saw the secret, and said to him, if
you will go into the woods and cry
out, “I love you,” you will find that
It is a strange thing to us—and
one that should be added to the
seven wonders of the world—why a
hian gets mad when dunned for the
small amount due a newspaper when
he is often dunned for hundreds of j the boy will" say he loves you, and
dollars through the bank and nothing Echo immediately replied, “I love
is thought of it except that the j you .” When i-e go into the church or
amount must be met, or the credit of j into the worla, with this life of love
the party is ruined. Honor is honor ; in us, producing harmony of ail fac-
wherever you find it, and the small j ulties, we project into our environ-
matter of paying subscriptio-s to a jments or circumstances this life of
paper should be as much subject to love, and by it make men love us, and
protest as the bank account, honor- beget in the lives of men this life r*
ably speaking. I ] ove .
individual from the government
from any other source. There is an
old law maxim that says “the law
takes care of the vigilant man,” or
words to that effect, and we have
come to believe that it applies not
only in law hut in practically every
thing that engages our attention and
thought and effort. If some communi
ties have apparently fared better than
others it is because such communities
have live wide awake officials, clubs
and interested citizens who haw
presented the claims of their com
munities in no uncertain or hesitating
manner.—Adel News.
PAST FIFTY
Those who are near the 50 mark
can derive some comfort and conso
lation in. the fact that Gladstone, Vol
taire and Bismark were little known
at 50 years of age. George Washing
ton was 57 when first inaugurated
President. Cato began the study of
Greek at 80. Socrates learned to play
musical instruments at 75. Franklin
did not begin the study of philosophy
until he was 50. General Foch had
nassed 65, and Joffre 60 at the close
of the World War. For every suc
cessful man who has arrived at 30
there are a hundred successful men
who have had to hammer a life time
to finish a job they started out to do
—Butler Herald.
Well, Charlie, nil this is very com
forting to those of us who have pass
ed the half ce-tury mark and an
moving on in the general direction of
the sunset.
We know lots of men who are old
at 40 and many who are young at 60
an dbevond. Tt isn’t a matter of years
if a fellow is blessed with health,
pluck a?id determination. One of the
mo't active, alert and successful
young business men we know has
passed 65.—Walton Tribune.
reached the deadline by having lived
a little too long.
The business world has no place
for them. Even ,our .churches do not
want men past 50 or 60 for pastors,
and our government has no place for
them—too old is the cry from all va
cancies. So the old and helpless are
being turned out to go on to - the
grave and give the oncoming throng
more room.. Perhaps the easiest and
quickest way to get rid of us old peo
ple would he to follow Professor
Osier’s suggestion. This noted profes
sor said several year ago, “That all
men reaching 60 years of age should
he chloroformed.” I wonder what our
young people of today would say to
that when they reach that age. I can
not believe that our government is
going to pass unnoticed this host of
worthy citizens, when a small pen
sion of one dollar a day would pro
vide for them. Our government Is
helping all other class in need. Why
not help us old people who have
done our best to help make this great
nation.
J. H. HILDRETH,
Geneva, Ga. Baptist Preacher.
The tragedy that occurred at
Shellman Thursday is one that almost
makes ,ones blood run cold to read
about. We don’t know any of the par
ties or the facts leading up to t.ie
tragedy, but can safely say that in
similar cases we have known of a
depraved mind, either by liquor or
other undue causes, were responsible
When a man is shot down like a
dumb brute the law should take a
hand and bring the killer to justice
ns speedily as possible. The law gives
a man the right to protect his home,
nnd if he fails in that responsibility
he is not entitled to such a sacred
trust, but it does not say he may go
out and kill at will.
instances half in two. Furthermore, a
hundred thousand are not even going
to school, for one reason or another.
Is that the way to build or sustain
a democracy? We doubt it, seriously.
The statistics indicate that Georgia
is at the tail end of the list as to ed
ucational rank in the nation, or 49th.
The District of Columbia is included
in this list, making one more than
the 48 states. In 1890, Georgia was
46th, then in 1900 44th and the same
in 19T0 and 1918, losing ground since
the Worl d War. As a matter of infor
mation, Alabama is today 45th. In
1890 it was 44th; in 1900 48th; in
1910 45th, and in 1918 46th.
Dr. Singleton advised that our
own local school situation is far
above the state figures as to status.
However, like all other communities,
he state situation affects us greatly,
and we must fight the state battle as
well as look after our Columbus and
Muscogee county concerns here al
home.
We feel sure our representatives in
the next session of the legislature
will take a particular interest in the
manner in. which the state’s expendi
tures are budgeted, with special re
gard to the school appropriations.
Our --schools are in danger. Let
us give the matter special attention.
WORK FOR THE CCC
It is to be hoped that Prof. G. L.
Carver and his associates in the Mid
dle Georgia Audobon Society will be
successful in securing a unit of tne
Civilian Conservation Corps for this
area in order to carry out the project
of building up our game supply and
protecting our forests from those de
structive fires which cost us a vast
amount of money every year.
It is generally agreed that the CCC
is one government agency in the sys
tem of national recovery which has
won golden opinions from all sorts
of people. The discipline for these
young men who are taken into the
conservation camps under army su
pervision has been excellent for them
and at the -same time they have ren
dered valuable service in forest pro
tection, the prevention of soil erosion
and at least incidentally in protect
ing our game birds.
Here in Bibb .county, and doubtless
elsewhere, the CWA has cleared up
a great deal of undergrowth which
furnished covert for birds and other
wild life, greatly to the distress of
nature lovers. Much of this work was
done with the immediate purpose of
draining swampy lands, but it has
not been done under scientific direc
tion which would have taken into
consideration the conservation ol
wild life along with the general pur
pose of clearing up. It is .correct to
r-:.y that much of this destruction of
the undergr.owth has done more harm
than good.
General Robert J. Travis, of Sa
vannah, at the same concention urged
a return to “the family altar,” in his
comment on channing morals. He
said: “I think the crime wave we
have seen grow larger and larger
each year is due to this change. Un
less something is done—somebody
stops it—we will see a complete revo
lution, I fear.
“We must go back to the normal
code of our fathers’ and the first
place to begin this change is in the
home. Each Mason should have a
family altar—family prayer.”
The moral code of our father’s day
in which these \two illustrious Geor
gia Masons asked the citizenry to re
turn features honesty, -virtue and
firmness of character.
The code of our fathers featured
the use of the shot gun in extreme
emergencies They did not seek a
court of justice in an effort to secure
a legitimate name for the child of an
erring daughter.
General Travis is right about the
return to the family altar. It has
practically been abandoned.
There would be more legitimate
children in Georgia is the old shot
gui was cleaned up and the powder
kept dry. That was also an impor
tant item in the code of our fathers.
ED CALDWELL
It may not be generally known, bul
Monroe is the home of a newspaper
man who has seen 50 years of service
nnd is still going strong.
’ Eii Caldwell was 60 years of age his
last birthday and hasn’t a gray hair
in his head. And were I to call the
roll of the community’s most useful
men' his name would be near the head
of the list. *
The work of the newspaper man is
usually taken for granted. He often
spends himself in active and devoted
effort with little or no reward. His
job is to say nice things about others,
to make something large out of the
small and inconsequential, to magnify
human virtues and minimize their
frailties and frivolities—in short, to
view life and humanity thru rose-
colored glasses and to scatter roses
and honeysuckles, even though his
own pathway may be thick with
thorns.
And Ed Caldwell, like Jim Williams
and many more good men that could
he mentioned, have never wearied of
the job, despite its manifold disap
pointments and difficulties. But hav
ing spent a half century in dispensing
flowers, it is no more than meet that
they be tendered a fragrant blossom
on their own account now ar.d then. •
Walton Tribune.
It requires push to succeed m
I business, whether it be running 3
We" realize that nothing better ' newspapers ’ keepin S a grocery store
could have been expected without the or W|0rkin e for Uncle Sam.