Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 3, 1934.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
('. li. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
Most of us like to meet up with We are pleased to note a determln-
the fellow who calls a spade a spade nation on the part of the people of
unless his talents are being shunted Butler to plar.t flowers and shrubbery
in our direction |and in general beautify their premi-
THE MONETARY GOLD ACTION
(From The Pathfinder)
While it is true that we can neither
OFFICIAL ORGAN <)K TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
Why so much criticism of the re
covery program 7 Everything may not
be perfect, but on the whole it is
working wonders in bringing financial
I relief when most needed.
All Ml VIA it PROGRAM
ses. Ther eis nothing that attracts eat _ drink nor wear gold and while
the attention of tourists more than . ^ woul<l none of us U8e gold
well kept flower yards, attractive
homes and clean streets. Lets
for
SUBSCRIPTION *1 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Seconi
Class. /
Junior Club Song, Club.
Miserere and Prison Song, Nita Mae
Windham.
Life of Verdi, Nora Coolik
Acrocstic:
money if we could get anything else
en ’ i —the fact remains that gold is still
courage others to make the same tm- . Ae mogt coveted thing in the wor ld.
i P rovements - i phat’s because it has always been
J. very scarce. If gold were as common
We reproduce the following item as | as iron, people would put a much
one of the wise sayings of Dudley ] higher value ,on iron than on gold,
Glass:” Georgia weekly soys an old- 1 because iron is so much more useful,
timer is one who • remembers when | Iron in the past has sometimes been
folks went to sleep with all used for money, 'but that was when
Avoid borrowing, if possible.
Keep good company or none.
Although the election is almost tw'o
years in the distance the question of
who will be in the running for the
next Governor of Governor is begin
ning to be discussed. Its entirely too
Be a willing worker for your town early to figure on that important of-
•n d community. i flee.
their valuables under their pillow.
That’s a custom that has passed for
ever. No average size pillow would
cover a five year old flivver, an eight
tube radio and a five gallon keg and
leave enough feathers for comfort ”
that metal was scarce. It would not
to to base the monetary system of
any nation on iron today, for iron |
xists almost everywhere and money |
would thus be too cheap. Silver ranks i
next to gold as a money metal. There j
was a time when silver was worth j
more than gold, but that was when j
the white metal was the scarcer. As |
1 soon as silver became comparatively
| common the value sar.k according:}’,
although silver is a much more useful
1 metal than gold.
It is almost as. difficult to hide a * 1 occasional editorial paragraph in that j Bon county. He is a ‘dirt farmer’ and j G ° ld the most P ractkal metal on
cough as it is to hide deception in paper in dealing with the rational ad-| knows farm needs. H e is a banker I ^_ h _ to bas ® ^ on ®y
public positions.
Frank Reynolds is right again. He
says: “If Georgians want another real
1 | I governor they should begin in time
When a man has occasion to defend 1 The Cuthbert Leader is one of our j and look over the field. There are
his actions he admits his weakness. i choice exchanges, but there seems to i many to pick from. For instance
I be a veil between our eyes and an there is George Carswell, of Wilkin-
Congress is moving along smoothly
with the expectation of adjournment
in early spring.
A feeling of superiority is about
all the satisfaction some people get
out of being good.
Many a man who used to play golf
to keep in the pink has given it up
to keep out of the red.
ministration program and President and oan differentiate between capital- 1 Bcarcer y° u make the better it be-
Roosevelt’s plans. |iism and mortgages, and above all is j comea ,01 't at purpose. at exp ams
an editor and publisher, which quail- ^ President Roosevelt has announc.
nn tnp rovnlntinnorv now nmlflv nt"
Miss Luttie Windham and Miss fies him fully.'
Winnie Underwood were dinner guests ______
of Mrs. It. E. Smith Monday.
Mr. J. W'. Windham has left Tay- , , . ,
, , , ,, ..... .the Thomasville Press pens the fol-
lor Mill to work in the Bibb Mill at, , . , r
lowing which causes some specula-
J. I. G. in his interesting column in
Columbus.
Mr. Willis Windham is on the sick
list this week
An ineresting legislative situation
is developing in Walker county and its
site, LaFayette. Senator J. M. Hut-
Icheson is being opposed by Talmadge
A Model T touring that is paid for] forceg in the county . Urged for Hs
better investment than a twin p0Rt are Lf , gislator j. A . Sartain,
tix with a mortgage on it. Megsrs Leonard and Rosser.
The banks are doing business on a
sounder and safer basis than ever
before in the country’s history.
Early primaries are being given a
setback by both daily and weekly
newspapers throughout the state.
If you don’t depend on luck, it will
likely come your way, but luck is
fickle, depend on it and you won't get
It.
Congressman Car! Vinson is to
have opposition this year it is said
but we predict that the voters of his
district will look well after his in
terest ir. the same able manner in
which he is caring for his constitu
ents of the sixth district in Congress.
It is being predicted in political cir
cles that Ogden Mills of New York,
who was Secretary of the Treasury
under President Hoover, will be the
nominee of the Republican party for
E-nvvthinn- around the state capitol President in the next national elec-
la Atlanta is as hot as blue blazes, jtion. But my, how slowly the mills do
v ’>• -illy speaking, according to re- grind.
piorts. I
I Marion Talley has returned to
Some say hard times are coming ! grand opera. Marion said when she
«rd others say that easy times are quit the opera and went to the farm
gone. It all depends on how you look that she would never sing 1 again,
■t it. 1 Ownership of a farm these days is
I making a good many people do things
Dealing with others as we would i they at one time said they never
hove them deal with us often cal's ! would do.
for silence concerning what we see |
and hear. I Congressman Braswell Deen, ren-
- resentative from the Eighth district,
three I j 8 making a safe home run in winning
on-
I gress anti maintaining the admira
tion of folks back home. It is interest
ing, this matter of keeping tab on our
national leaders.
Traffic on highway number
continues on the increase, which is as \ the e.-teem of his colleagues
we prod •' •■ted would be tne most pop
ular highway in the state.
Remember that to be able to vote
in the September primary this year
for Governor and statehouse officers
you must register not later than May
Sth.
The state is $16,000 behind with
Taylor county schools. Something
ought to be done to remedy the
situation especially since the teachers
have not been able to draw a penny
of
Some people who occasionally
to church would be doing themselves of t heir salary since the opening
and the cause less harm by going to sc i 100 l s in September 1933 and
bed. In that event they wouldn’t find nlos t cases since April.
*o much to criticize.
ed the revolutionary new policy
seizing all gold and making it a gov- i
ernmert monopoly. With a single bold
stroke he has made gold extremely t
scarce; in fact he has made it so j
scarce that anybody who is caught I
with any yellow metal in his posses
sion is r.ow virtually a criminal. Even i
old goI d coins can’t be retained with- |
tions among his readers: “I think
that pretty soon the Press will carry
an interesting account of one of Geor
gia’s most notorious characters. At 1 out special permission, and then they
this time it would be ‘unpatriotic’ to i have to be of value as historic relics,
say more along this line. But when I such as the little gold dollar of 18o7. j
the ‘whip cracks’ this publication will | Even paper money which calls for ;
be on the grounds and intends to see i payment in gold is under the same
the job well done. Now don’t get in- I ban.
quisitive and ask questions for we are ' It is widely claimed that only a
as shut as a clam out of the salty , experts can understand the money
brine.”
All we know about the sales tax
may not bt all there is to ieain, but
■ A Southwest Georgia paper, in
| writing up the death of a citizen said:
I “In his death his lodge lost an ex-
The Georgia Education Journal
pays the following deserving compli
ment to Dr. Soule: “The government
of the United States is most fortunate
to secure the services of Dr. Andrew
M. Soule as director f,or Georgia for
the National Recovery Emergency-
Act. The nation has no stronger ex
ecutive and administrator than Dr.
Soule. He will give the ablest direc
tion to the work in Georgia. We are
delighted to see his great ability at
the command of our president in this
hour of greatest need. Our congratu
lations go to him and the nation in
the work he has been called to do.”
No small part of the beauty of
profession in the sight of men con
sists in the due government of his
tongue. The law of truth and kind
ness and purity is upon his lips. He
abhors lying; and is so far from in
venting a slander, that he will not
repeat a report to the disadvantage
of his neighbor, however true, with
out a proper call. His converse is
cheerful, but inoffensive; and he will
no more wound his wit (if he has a
talent that way) than with a knife.
His speech is with grace, seasoned
with salt, and suited to promote the
peace and edification of all around
him.—John Newton.
The editor of this paper holds At
torney General M. J. Yeomans in most
high esteem, and such reference to
him as the following from his home
paper, the Dawson News, is very-
gratifying: “The Savannah Press ob
serves that the attorney general is
‘rendering the Governor Yeomans
seivice.’ The attorney general, it may
it is the most equitable way to raise * Win " to * a ” ^ he
revenue. j scr jp^ton, and Sears & Roehuhck a
darn good customer.—Baxley Banner.
has appeared, and is held in high
esteem throughout the state. His
home people here are watching with
pleased interest his career in the
A1 Smith shot the chutes sudden |
Eke. He was so busy looking back-1 , ...........
ward he failed to see the writing on 1 According to reports the govern- | important state pos.tion he fills so
the wall. There are a few of his kind ment is Preparing to build the world s well.
biggest balloon for stratosphere
-Dal-
I flight, in which two and a third acres
J of cotton fabric will be used in mak-
irg the balloon bag. It will have a
capacity of 3,000,000 cubic feet. This [ wh lt 7 House:”“Word comes out
ought to be encouraging news to
, southern cotton growers.
said that we have the assurance
six more years of Roosevelt in
| Like ourselves and practically for
the same reason the Fulton Review
j did not support Governor Talmadge,
i but now makes the following ad-
Icft, but not enough to count,
ton Citizen.
Deaths from tuberculosis in 'Geor
gia have been reduced 50 per rent.
That is a most remarkably good
showing, and the work of fighting the
dreadful malady should be encourag
ed to the limit.
We regret exceedingly to learn that
Editor Jack Majors, of Zebulon, con
tinues in a critical condition in an
receded automate accident I f “ Ct ” We ° PP ° Sed him rath ST strenu- |for his"pet JVarm Sp^'ente^
three weeks ago.
question— and it is not strange that
it remains a baffling mystery to the
average citizen. This is especially true
when we find that even the great ex
perts themselves do not agree on the
subject and that there are several
schools of thought among even the
“brain trustees” and “best minds.”
While it is impossible to explain such
a complicated thing as the new money
policy in words of one syllable, we
can’t nass the subject up just be
cause it is hard to comprehend.
As explained by Secretary- of the
Treasury Morgenthau, the P’-es’dent’s
plan “means that the money system
of the countrv shall be managed f.o»
y’ou, to the end that a more steady
purchasing power for your dollar v.ill
be maintained.”
The sales tax and the income tax
theoretically should be perfect taxes.
One taxes a man according to income |
and the other taxes him according to
his .outgo. The present property tax <
is wrong in principle because it is a i
tax on thrift. Thrift should not be !
taxed.
We pull these interesting figures
from the Baxley Banner: “Clip this
to flash .on the next croaker who wails 1
that we are groaning under an ex
cessive burden of debt. Accepting the
President’s figures of the ultimate
debt of thirty-five billion dollars, we
will owe approximately $300 per
capita as compared with $1,400 for
Belgium; $900 for Great Britain and
$620 for France. In addition, we
have the resources and the will to
pay.”
Alfred E. Smith certainly has the
right conception of financing our
schools with the tax burden as pres
ent upon the taxpayers. He says:
“Real property bears the burden of
almost all of our local taxation. This
is the curse of property owners in
the city, in the suburbs, and in the
country. Something must be done
about it. I am convinced that the
best single remedy is to transfer the
cost of education from the locality to
Harry Stilwell Edwards has well | the state wherever this can be done,
certain congressional committee
rooms that plans are being laic, foi
an attack all along the line on Roose
velt and his recovery- program.—
Washington News Item. Too late,
gentlemen. The supreme birthday-
gift of those 6,000 dancing communf-
|mission: “The Review did not support ties last Tuesday night was not just
Eugene Talmadge for governor. In | some hundreds of thousands of dollars
;her
ously for the reason we di<l not be- > it was an assurance of six years
lieve he was temperamentally fitted j more of Roosevelt in the White
I for the job. But we have been watch- j House. And, if the rising tide of em-
Until somebody reports to us that j ing with an open mind and now ad- | ployment, and upward bound of stocks
they have received as much as 15c | mit Talmadge has accomplished more j a n d bonds on ’ the exchanges are
direct benefits from the state agricul-j for Georgia people than his prede. j sound bases for prophecy, the countrv
tural department we will continue t" cessors did in two decades. In making faces a golden age of prosperity. It
entertain an opinion that it should be jthis admission we don’t mean to say | would seem that the wisest course left
abolished. It has never been nothing we now agree with 1 Talmadge on |t othe Grand Old Party would be to
more than a political machine and ! everything he does, for we don't; al- reorganize under a two word platform
source of disruption in the state though we admit further we may be'cui bono, and adjourn sine die, pron-
louse family.—Oglethorpe Echo. I wrong again.” to.’ ”
and for the state to finance this ad
ditional burden through taxes raised
otherwise than ’ upon real estate.
Many states are already returning
large sums to the localities for edu
cation in the forms of teachers’ quo
tas and other subsidies. In most states
education is a state function. The
state should hear the entire burden,
but this should he accompanied by- a
reorganization of school districts so
is to get the most efficient units for
administration, and to do away with
numerous small, extravagant, and in-
efficicpt units. In most states, I be
lieve that the county is the best unit
for school administration. Whatever
the details of the plan may be, we
know of no policy which will so
nnickly adjust real estate tax burdens
throughout the country as the as
sumption of school costs by the state
and the meeting of these costs by
taxes other than those on real es
tate.”
ECONOMIC CONTROL PLAN IS
URGED BY JUDGE GUERRY
Purposeful human control over
economic affairs will not lead Ameri
ca away- from the Constitution, Judge
John B. Guerry, of the Georgia court
of appeals, told the Macon Lawyers’
club at Macon rcently.
Sounding a call to “lawyers, more
than any other class, whose duty it
is to support the ideals of President
Roosevelt’s program,” Judge Guerry
was the second club speaker in recent
weeks to uphold “a changing Con
stitution to meet conditions that have
already changed.”
Judge Guerry reviewed the history
of the framing and adoption of the
Constitution, “born of compromise.’-'
“We have seen this frame work of
government set up 147 years ago pass
through many changing schools of
political thought,” he said; and Jef
ferson . . . and John Marshall . . .
the War Between the States.
“The constitution has always been
constructed to meet the changing con
ditions of social and economic life. A
public evil demands a cure even at
the price of changing laws.”
The speaker said state and inter
state regulation of public utilities as
practiced today “is beyond the pur
pose of conception on the framers
(of the Constitution), but we have
come to accept as a matter of right
the necessities of the situation under
a changing economic structure.”
“If,” he said, “the greatest good
to the greatest number really be a
basic principle of government, is it
not rule then that :»-en individuals
may be told how much cotton they
shall plant and how many hogs they
shall market; and in case ,of public or
quasi-public enterprises, may not the
scale of wages and the number of
work hours become a matter of regu
lation by the public?
“Upon our ability to adopt our
selves to conditions which have al
ready changed, economically and so
cially, depends the future of our gov
ernment and civilization.
“On March 4 last we had come to
see an economic and political struc
ture bog down and absolutely failed
to meet an emergency. Many were
hungry in a land of plenty.
“More and more there is rising in
the minds of the people a question
ing of the right, and justice ,of the
concentration of wealth in the hands
of a few individuals . . . especially
since the disclosures showing the en
tire want of character in some of
those to whom power has been en
trusted.
“If the system has been proved to
be ineffectual to prevent recurrence
of periods of public, political ar.d eco
nomic ill health, has not the time
come . . . for management and con
trol of property and income.
“The thought of America today is
towards purposeful human control
over economic affairs, rather than a
reliance on the heretofore automatic
control of existing economic laws.
“We as lawyers need not be
alarmed about the constitution. Its
underlying principle, promotion of
the greatest good to the greatest
number, makes it necessary that col
lective action by governmental
means shall assume control in order
that patent evils may be coirected.
“These changes have not as their
motivating purpose the destruction of
the constitution but the fulfilling of
its plan and purpose.
“If the underlying motive may bo
kept in mind, under the leadership of
our president, who so far has shown
that he has but one sin, and that to
lead us out of the morass into which
we have been brought, we may by
honest effort and the old rule of trial
and error, come to a solution of our
problems even at the expense of for
mer ideals.”
DOING THE FOOLISH THING
People are always unwise to put a
mortgage on their home places. It is
bad enough if placed any where, but
on the home place it makes it doubly
bad, almost tragic, especially in case
they should happen not to meet the
pay-meats.
We have heard of some foolish peo
ple actually placing a mortgage on
their home in order to indulge in
some luxury, such as owning a new
Ford or something else equally as non
essential. Of course it is nice to enjoy
the benefits of having a nice new car
which will take or.e rapidly wherever
he wishes to go, but there are other
things much more important than a
car and owning a home is one of
them.
The brief period of pleasure is not
worth all the pain ar.d anxiety, worry
and fretting he will have to undergo
sometimes in order to retain his few
little possessions. He should think of
these things before placing himself in
the predicament of maybe, losing his
home when the mortgage falls due.
TEXT OF SPEECH
BY PRESIDENT
The text of President Roosevelt’s
speech received over the radw Tues
day evening in celebration of his fifty
second birthday, follows:
“Tonight I am very deeply moved
by the choice of my birthday anniver
sary for the holding of birthday balls
in -so many communities, great and
small, throughout the country. I send
you my greetings and my heartfelt
thar.ks; but at the same time I feel
that I have the right to speak to you
even more as the representative ,on
his occasion of the hundreds of thou
sands of crippled children in our
country.
“It is only in recent years that we
have come to realize the true sig
nificance of the problem of our crip,
pled children. There are so many
more of them than we had any idea
of: In many seotions there are thous
ands who are not only receiving no
help but whose existence has been
unknown to the doctors and health
services. -
“A generation ago somewhat the
same situation existed in relation to
tuberculosis. Today, because of con
stant stressing of the subject, the na
tion understands the tuberculosis
problem and has taken splendid steps
not only to effectuate cures but also
to prevent the spread of the disease.
“The problem ,of the crippled child
is very similar. Modern medical sci
ence has advanced so far chat a very
large proportion of children who for
one reason ,or another have become
crippled, can be restored to useful
citizenship. It remains, therefore, only
to spread the gospel for the care and
cure of crippled children in every part
of this kindly land to enable us to
make the same relative progress that
we have already made in the field of
tuberculosis. As all of you know, the
work at Warm Springs has been close
to my heart, because of the man,
hundreds ,of cases of infantile para
lysis which have been treated there.
It is a fact that infantile paratysre
results in the crippling of children
and of grownups more than any other
cause. Warm Springs is only one of
many places where kindness and pa
tience and skill are given to handi
capped people. There are hundreds oi
other places, hospitals and clinics,
where the surgeons, doctors and nurs
es of the country gladly work day in
and day out throughout the years,
often without compensation.
“Warm Springs, through the gen
erous gifts which are being made to
the foundation tonight, will be able
to increase its usefulness nationally,
especially in the field of infantile par
alysis. We shall 'be able bo take more
people and I hope that these people
will be able to come to us on the
recommendation of doctors from
every state in the Union. I want to
stress however, that the problem of
the crippled child is so great that in
every community and in every state
the local facilities for caring for the
crippled need the support and the in
terest of every citizen. Let us well
remember that every child ar.d indeed
every person who is restored to use
ful citizenship is an asket to the coun
try and is enabled ‘to pull his own
weight in the boat.’ In the long run,
by helping this work we are not con
tributing to charity but we are con
tributing to the building up of a sound
nation.
“At Warm Springs the facilities
are available, insofar as i beds and
funds permit, to the rich and to the
poor.
“The fund to which you contribute
tonight will undoubtedly permit us to
extend the facilities of Warm Springs
in a greater degree than before. I
like to think and I wou'd like each
ore of you who hears me to remember
that what you are doing means the
enriching of the life of some cripplea
child. I know and you know that
there could he no finer purpose than
ours will to aid these helpless littl"
j “Today so many thousands of wel
come telegrams and postcards and
letters of birthday greetings have
poured in on me in the White House
I that I want to take this opportunity
of thanking all of you who have sent
; them. From the bottom of my heart
I am grateful to you for yourh
thought. I wish I could divide myself
by six thousand and attend in person
each and every one of these birthday
, parties. I cannot do that, but I can be
j and am with you all in spirit and in
the promotion of this great cause for
! which we all are crusading.
! “No man has ever had a finer birth-
I day remembrance fitom his friends
I and fellows than you have given me
i tonight. It is with an -humble and
thankful heart that I accept this tri
bute throught me to the stricken ones
: of our great national family. I thank
-vou but lack the words to tell you
I how deeply I appreciate what you
i have done and I bid you good night on
what is to me the happiest birthday I
ever have known.”