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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 16, 1934.
The Butler Herald
Established in 187(1
C. K. BENNS
Editor and Publisher
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOK CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION *1 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Mattes of Second
Class.
Possession is nine points of the
law and the attorney’s fee is the
tenth.
The trouble with too many people
is that they push in the wrong direc
tion.
No man is truly wise who has not
bumped up against at least one bunco
game.
Slippery weather is of course the
dangerous period for automobile
drivers. But any sort of weather is
dangerous for pedestrians.
Hugh Rowe of The Athens Banner
Herald is kicking about children
skating on the sidewalk. As for us,
they can have the sidewalks—if they’ll
keep out of the street.
Ain’t it so: “It’s much easier to.
tell the man in office he is wrong
than to run for office and do the
thing as it should be done,” says Mil-
ton Fleetwood in his Cartersvihe
Tribune Herald.
Arthur Brisbane, noted editorial
writer and outstanding commentator
on current events, will be the honor
guest at a banquet to be tendered by
Mayor Key on Mr. Brisbane’s visit in
Atlanta Feb. 23.
Secretary Wallace is in full accon.
with Senator Bankhead in his meas
ure regulating the production of cot
ton. That ought to help some, and
probably does since the price of the
staple continues to climb.
"It is not going to be long now”,
says the Savannah Press, “before
state wide politics will be sharing
space in the country newspapers with
the doings of Congress and the re
ceipt of a mess o’ greens.”
We thank Editor Bacon for this
bunch of violets: “One of the best
county papers we get is the Butler
Herald. From its editorial and news
pages ope is led to believe Charlie
Benns has nothing to do but work.”
President Roosevelt started the
Sail rolling Wednesday for immediate
legislation to control the stock ex
changes, deeding upon the principles
of a bill to put the federal trade com
mission in charge of the billion dollar
-market.
We are indebted to the Savannah
Press for this bit of information: “A
special stamp over the cork of bottled
whisky, so the public may know
whether the liquor has been legally
produced and the tax paid, has been
ordered by the treasury.”
The same thing here. The Nash
ville Herald tells us most everyone
should realize the benefits of CWA
operations. Besides giving employ
ment for many Berrien county men it
is placing in circulation thousands of
dollars to be used in all forms ot
business activity.
Give what you can and do it cheer
fully. Everyone knows you have not
been so prosperous as a few years
ago. It does no good to repeat the
tale. Just think ,of the many thous
ands who have nothing at all, not
even a roof over their heads. Do your
bit with a grin—and thank God you
are iri a position to give even a little
Those who already see Gov. Tal-
madge a victor over Senator Russell
in a proposed campaign in 1936 may
just be "seein’ things”. In the cam
paign of 1932 in which both Talmadge
and Russell were candidates for differ
ent offices Russell polled just about
twice as many popular votes as Tal
madge, and they tell us when Geor
gians want anything done in Wash
ington or want something done thej
usually call on Senator Russell and
get what they want, just as they did
from Senator Harris. Don’t think
Dick Russell hasn’t a political ma-
chine.—The Madisonian.
The- Herald is in perfect accord
with the sentiment as expressed in
the follownig from the Charlton
County Herald: “Erskine Caldwell
has stirred up a hornet nest by writ
ing a play advertising the fact that
Georgia is treating its negro popula
tion badly. From what a few of the
newspapers say near the area criti
cised it seems there is a basis of
complaint. Erskine is playing false to
his state in capitalizing our faults on
the stage, but what we Georgians
ought to do, is to trv and seek the
truth and correct these evils if they
exist.”
Zack Cravy, the newly appointed
Commisisoner of Game and Fish for
Georgia, in a statement issued re
cently says that he hopes to double
the game resources of the state in
two years. He asks the whole hearted
support of all sportsmen throughout
the state to aid in this conservation
plan in order that the hunting and
fishing will be better for the future.
He advises hunters to never shoot a
turkey hen or doe, and to observe the
game laws strictly. He further
states that we have plenty of forests
fields and streams and we should have
one of the finest states for hunting
and fishing in the nation.
Senate advocates of increased vet
eran’s benefits claimed a major vic
tory Friday with assurance from ad
ministration leaders that some 29,000
additional veterans would be res;'red
to pension rolls from which they had
been removed under the economy act.
Sen. James Byrnes of South Caro
lina, with only three years’ service in
the senate, is President Roosevelt’s
spokesman in that body. The Presi
dent considers him one of the most
able men in public life. More Is
pnobably to be heard of Mr. Byrnes in
future years.
In many sections much complaint is
being heard that favoritism is being
shown in the employment work in th
CWA program. But in this section we
have the utmost confidence in the
personnel of the employment bureau
It may be possible that there are
those who fail to get the help needed
but as in everything else it is im
possible to please everybody.
Recovery measures are necessarily
artificial stimulants. It is not a mat
ter of desire that the government is
forced into unusual and extreme
measures. We face a situation under
which millions could n °t eat unless
employment were provided. By pro
viding that employment the govern
ment placed into immediate circula
tion millions of dollars. It goes di
rectly into the channels .of trade. De
mand is created for the goods pro
duced. Eventually the whole organi
zation of business and agriculture
will be set into motion. No one likes
to have his nose to the grindstone,
but it is better that there be noses on
the grindstone than that there be
empty stomachs elsewhere.
Do not fail to vote for bonds for
the new courthouse Saturday.
If you are a registered voter and do
not vote, you are in reality voting
against the bond issue. For this
reason, if you favor the bond issue of
$20,000, on the basis of which we are
assured of being able to secure gov.
eminent appropriation of three time-
that amount thereby the realization
of an $80,000 building at a cost to
local tax payers of only $20,000 and
20 years in which to meet the pay
ment. What more could be asked?
The need of a new courthouse has
been a settled question in the minds
of every individual in the county for
a number of years. This is the oppor
tunity of a life-time and we just can’t
afford to miss it.
HON. B. T. CASTELLOW
The Congressional Record of Jan.
26th, comes to us with evidence of the
exceptional ability of Hon. B. T.
Castellow, the man who was elected
to fill the place that was so long oc
cupied by that outstanding statesman
from the Third Congressional District
of Georgia, the Hon. Charles Crisp,
of Americus.
We do not know what measures
were before the House for considera
tion, but it seems that there was
much difference of opinion in the
House on the question as to whether
“higher prices for commodities tend
to lessen the depression and form a
basis for economic prosperity.” War
ren, the adviser of Roosevelt, says
yes. But there is a strong difference
of opinion on this question, and the
discussion takes in almost every fac
tor that is supposed to affect the eco
nomic interest of the country.
During the disucssion of this ques
tion, Hon. B T. Castellow got recog
nized, and delivered one of the strong
est and most comprehensive argu
ments on the state of the country, and
the principles involved, that we ever
have read.
Mr. Castellow’s speech was philo
sophic and illuminated by many ob
servations that tended to show that
economy was what was needed.
He claimed that two important
committees had been appointed to
guide decisions and helpfulness in the
situation, that the committtee on
ways and means of the House was
entrusted with the raising of the
money which the appropriation com
mittee is to spend. But under the
present conditions the appropriation
committee is spending money before
the ways and means committee has
provided it. This brings an economic
disaster that requires great caution
in handling, t.o avoid a treasury deficit
that is difficult to manage.
Mr. Castellow through experience
is a capable commentator 'on such
desperate conditions, and his voice is
raised to warn his colleagues of its
consequences. He does not claim in
fallibility, but we know his wise and
cautious nature, and believe that
great attention should be given his
suggestions.—Albany Herald.
The above from the Albany Herald
will be read with interest by the
friends of Congressman Castellow In
the Third District. We, of the Third
are coming to appreciate our con
gressman more and more as the days
go by and are glad to see that other
districts are noting his splendid rec
ord.
BREVITIES
Rest and change renew ambition.
Evil lures only by false promises.
Keep your temper: nobody else
wants it.
War never kills the ones who need
killing.
Love creates blindness; marriage
cures it.
The world is now a safe place for
loose talk.
The less one sees of church the
more he knocks it.
Describing a filthy book or show
only popularizes it.
Marriage between age and youth is
ilisgastrous to both parties.
Tell me when he turns in, and I’ll
tell you how he’ll turn out.
Be sure to praise your child as of
ten as you find fault with it.
Strong men have strong features.
A doll’s features indicate a doll’s
mind .
"As a man thinketh in his heart so
is he.” Right or wrong thinking
makes the right or wrong man.
For a limited time God seems to be
on the side of the largest purse and
the largest cannon, but justice is as
certain as it is slow.
The weekly News of Hartford, N.
C., prepares its own “Twenty Ques
tions,” but doesn’t pretend to give the
answers. Among the queries are:
“What young lady applied for a
CWA job wearing a fur coat insured
for $390?” “Who is the only girl in
Hartford with nerve enough to smoke
in the drug store?” “Who, though
dressed in formal evening wear at the
President’s ball, had on only two piec
es of his own clothing?”
We endorse the suggestion herein
enumerated by the Brunswi-k Pilot
We are satisfied the CCC is doing
excellent work in forest reservation
and rehabilitation, work that will re
turn large dividends in the years to
-come. However, we wish they could
exterd their work to something that
would give a lot ot pleasure promptly
and bring returns to the general pub
lic. This would be highway beautifi
cation. It appears to us that the OOC
would be peculiarly fitted to render a
wonderful service in this matter and
it would be work that is in every
way worth while. The millions we
have invested in roads warrants the
expenditure of some funds on mak
ing these highways attractive tc the
eye as well as to the tires.”
“CEASE APOLOGIZING”
Dalton Citizen:
Under the above heading the Edi
tor’s Forum delivers a short but
destaved rebuke to those newspaper
editors who are always apologizing
for their efforts to try to be some
thing in the community in which they
live and work. It is true that the
public is not going to place any high,
er estimate on a newspaper than it
places on itself. If it suffers from an
inferiority qomplex the public will
treat it with the contempt it deserves
There are to be sure certain in
dividuals in every community who
seek to look down on the newspaper
man—especially the home town news,
paper man. Always in the ocher com
munity is the respectable newspaper.
People Who give expression to such
sentiments are generally those who
go away from home to buy what they
want. The town in which they live is
good enough for them to make their
money in, but it is not good enough to
merit their trade when they have
something to buy. We don’t know
how they get that way, but they do.
However, the newspaper man is not
always to be held blameless. He is too
often lacking in pride, and many of
them have absolutely no ability or
capacity for running a newspaper.
Editing a newspaper is not a job that
can be done in the first three days of
the week. It takes all the week to
make a good newspaper, and it also
requires some reading and thinking.
In other words a newspaper man
must enjoy his work if he is to t>e
successful. He must know what is
going on in his community, and also
he must know what is going on in his
state and nation. He is as respectable
in his community as he makes himself
and he can’t be very respectable if he
is a subservient tool of some group ,of
individuals who wants something
done, or something left unsaid.
THE END IS NOT ,YET
(W. H. Faust)
One of America’s most popular
writers says often that what he knows
he gets from the newspapers. Most of
us find our store house of wisdom at
the same place. And today the press
is filled with wars and rumors of
wars, and earthquakes and dissensions
and gangster rule and criminality, and
lawlessness, and the dire consequences
of wrong doing. In writing about the
end of things,Jesus plainly states that
when all these evil things come to
pass, that the end is not yet. Paul,
following up the same line of thought
says, “Thus know also that in the last
days perilous times shall come, for
men shall be lovers of their ownselves
coveteous, boasters, blasphemers, dis
obedient to parents, unthankful, uiu
holy without natural affection, truce
breakers, false accusers, incontinent,
fierce, despisers of those that are
good, traitors, heady, high minded,
lovers of pleasure more than lovers of
God, having a form of godliness, but
denying the power thereof, from such
turn away.”
There is an accurate and graphic
description of modem chronicles
transpiring about us almost daily.
Selfish greed and .commercialized ag
grandizement manifest everywhere.
Ungrateful are many for the bless
ings daily received. It is wonderful
how many people sit down to groan
ing hoards and remain silent before
God for food which sustains life.
False accusers are abroad in the land.
Let any one try to do anything con
structive, and immediately he is
talked about, and all sorts of lies and
slanders peddled about him. Despisers
of those that are good. Many who
are not themselves exemplars of the
best, are trying to place those who
would stand for law and order in the
class of hypocrites. Lovers of pleas
ure more than lovers of God. The
world is amusement mad. ■ Luxuries
IS 8TIIE II I*
As the Editors Forum is the offi- are now mu '" hl V sought after. Church
cial organ of the Georgia Press Asso
ciation, what it says on the subject
of apologizing for being a newspaper
man, is entitled to respect and favor
able consideration. We quote:
Time and again one notes that some
editors are afflicted with an inferiori
ty complex. Publishing a newspaper
is just as much a legitimate piece of
business as that of merchandising or
practicing medicine or law or being
a banker or candlestick maker. Yet
some of us are obsessed with the idea
that it is a business for which we
should apologize. No man will take
one more seriously than ore takes
himself. We are not advocating that
an editor should be puffed with his
own importance, but we agree with
the Butler Herald that an editor who
is continually referring to his efforts
as a “feeble” gesture should engage
in another line of business. As the
Herald truly says there is no greater
field of service for a community
state or nation than that of running
a weekly newspaper, but when an
editor discounts his work the public
will certainly not look with favor
upon it.
We hope that the members of the
Georgia Press Association will take
on a more cheerful tone during this
coming year and cease remarks that
at best' appear to be apologetic. Tod
much self effacement is about as bad
as an undue amount of exaggerated
ego.
OUR INTRICATE PROBLEM
It is more than ’ passing strange
that people will not be united in a
cause that will result in their own in
dividual interest. That is the advance
ment of their section. This is some
thing that we all should be interested
in. We live and derive our living from
the locality in which we make our
homes, and it should be our first aim
to advance its best interest both in a
business and spiritual way. Yet we
continually find people who are
knocking everything that would seem
to be an’ advance step toward better
moral and business standards. This is
one of the most intricate questions
we have ever tackled and after more
than 30 years experience in this work
Wi are no nearer a solution than xr-
were at the start. We just simply
can’t figure it cut. Can you ? Or have
you ever given the matter any se
rious thought? There are numbers of
ways in which we could improve con
ditions here for our young people, for
ourselves and for our own business
interests, if the people would oome to
gether and try to work these things
out. Our interests can not be sepa
rated whether we are doctor, lawyer
farmer, merchant, preacher or news
paper man or whatever your business
may be. They cannot be seggregated.
We should all put up ■. united front
for the advancement of both social,
spiritual and business conditions. An
ideal community will be the result.
This is applied to the entire country
and we want you all to take it to
heart and think it over seriously.
members, young and old, spend more
for amusements and selfish gratifica
tion than for the spread of the glori
ous gospel of Christ.
Formal godliness manifests itself
continuously. We observe Lent, and
then go away and revel the remainder
of our time.Their folly is to be made
manifest to all men. Evil men shall
wax worse and worse. There is not
going to be any let up in this sin cru
sade until the end, and the end is not
yet. Thinking men stand afraid in our
great cities as they realize what is
going on in every circle. Righteous
ness is at stake. In the meantime,
Armageddon looms out in the futube.
The forces of right and wrong, of
Christ and the devil, are lining up.
There is no question as to the even
tual winner. But until the battle is
won the destiny of the contestants is
involved.
One of the leading teachers in one
of Georgia’s greatest schools said a
few days ago in a large group: Much
is said about youth’s drinking sprees.
The dance season at our school was
observed recently. Not one per cent
of the attendants touched liquor. No
case of drunkenness and disorder.
Could such have been said during sa
loon days? How much more wicked
ness can the world stand ? How much
longer before the end? What is our
stewardship in these perilous times ?
To create a fine mental, moral and
spiritual atmosphere in which our
children can struggle upward towards
success in these times is our task;
may we perform it for the good of
humanity and the glory of God ?
Heard a lady say she was expect
ing to receive a check for $1,000.00 at
an early date from the estate of a
dead relative who set that amount
aside in a will for her. She had al
ready decided how she is going to
part with that money. First, of course
she is going to buy a car, then buy
her five children some , dothes so they
may £.0 to school looking 1 decent.
After this buying program has been
carried out she hopes there will be
enough left to pay two or three years
back taxes due on her humble little
family home. Note the car comes
first as in every case where people
gettheir hands on a little cash.
Thomasville Press.
Do not fail to vote for bonds for
the new courthouse Saturday.
If you are a registered voter and do
not vote, you are in reality voting
against the bond issue. For this
reason, if you favor the bond issue of
$20,000, on the basis of which we are
assured of being able to secure gov
ernment appropriation of three times
that amount thereby the realization
of an $80,000 building at a cost to
local tax payers of only $20,000 and
20 years in which to meet the pay
ment. What more could be asked?
The need of a new courthouse has
been a settled question in the minds
of every individual in the county for
a number of years. This is the oppor
tunity of a life-time and we just can’t
'afford to miss it.
(By John Hammond, Staff Writer
Georgia Newspaper Alliance) ’
INTENSIVE FARMING SEEN
The southern states are preparing
to go in for some of the most inten
sive farming this year this section of
the country has ever seen, if fertilzer
statistics are to be taken as an indi-
cation. Fertilizer tag sales in January
preparatory for February shipments,
as compiled by the N. F. A. from de
partments of agriculture, show these
10 states are about to take just about
double the fertilizer they did in 1933-
in other words, the percentage of
tonnage of this time last year. Vir
ginia’s percentage compared with last
year is 184; North Carolina 186;
South Carolina 261; Georgia 426-
Florida 86; Alabama 170; Mississippi
116; Tennessee 52; Arkansas 476:
Louisiana 162; Texas 93; Oklahoma
107. The average percentage on the
basis of comparison with the same
month last year for the South is 176,
or three-fourths more fertilizer than
a year ago. It will be noted there are
two interesting features in these fig
ures; first, that in all the South only
Florida, Tennessee and Texas indi
cate less tonnage than last year at
this time; second, that the tobacco
producing states are evidently going
in for heavy fertilization. And pros
pects are that all this is to be done on
reduced acreage for the respective
states.
NON-PARTICIPATING CRITICS
Up in Cedartown the last of the
week Hugh Howell, chairman of the
State Democratic Executive Commit
tee, delivered an address to a joint
meeting of the Exchange and Kiwania
Clubs in which he used this expres
sion: “No citizen in the state has the
individual right to criticise his or her
government unless that citizen par.
ticipates in the selection of the gov
ernment. If I were a school superin
tendent I’d require every one of my
teachers to register and vote, vote
according to the dictates of each in
dividual conscience, but vote. If I
were the head of a business employ,
ing people, or running an enterprise, I
would require every employe of age
to register and vote; vote each as he
or she sees fit, but vote. If we do not
participate in government by the ex
ercise of the franchise given us, those
who do not are failing in their duty
as good citizens."
Mr. Howell’s talk was a party
argument, not a factional one, and
carries a great deal worthy of serious
consideration. That is borne out when
one takes the Georgia population
figures, selecting and totaling the
adult whites in the state and then
comparing that total with the aver
age total vote polled in any state pri
mary.
PREVENT DUAL POST
PRIMARY WRANGLES
Some time around the middle of
March the State Executive Committee
as a whole will be called to meet for
the purpose of framing the rules and
regulations to govern the primary
this summer. Accepting the informa
tion on which this statement is made
to be correct, the indication is that
the matter of making rules and regu-
laions will not be left merely to a
small portion of the whole committee
which is right. So far as has been
learned to date, there seems to be no
movement to make any material
changes in the existing rules but
possibly, it might be a good thing, if
some change could be made in the
matter of disDosing of contests fol
lowing the primary, if there are any,
which would ’obviate dual action
thereon. Under past custom a sub
committee of the body in office dur
ing the entire period of the camnaign
and at the time of the primary hears
contests and makes reports: then
there usually is a successful effort
made to take those matters into the
convention which is composed later,
and thresh over the same ground
again. Frequently the finding of the
oriomal sub committee is upset and
a different verdict comes.
One of the things ought to prevail
either there should be no sub com
mittee to hear contests from the ex
isting state committee, or else the
matter should be finally disposed of
by the sub committee. That course,
though it might find objection for
partisanship reasons, would serve to
keep from clogging up the convention
proper with much stuff that is purely
local in its nature.
SENATE SUPPORT FOR
TALMADGE
I don’t need to plead any cause for
or against the Talmadge administra
tion. But, facts are known when they
are seen. A size up of the prospective
races for the state senate, so far as
it can be made at this time, indicates
conclusively, as it will to anybody
who cared to go to the trouble to
compile it, that the present adminis
tration will have full support in the
next state senate to the extent of at
least 39 out of the 51 members; and
that is fased o information which
j does not include six of the 51 dis
tricts.
| Information on the outlook for
I seats in the House of Representatives
| is not as complete, but present ind'-
i cations are that the status of the
i next house is going to be just about
the same as at the last regular ses-
I sion. . .
| From the general trend of politi
cal events at this time, a forecast is
that state politics will begin to take
on activity between the first and mid
dle of April. The fact that it is an «
I year in county politics will slo
; things down somewhat, but unusua
1 economic an ; political conditions seem
to be centering more county att ?Hfi 0 4
than usual on state politics, and iii.i
is as it should be. And there will
i enough this year to make everything
interesting. . . (
’ May the best man and the rig
man win in every place.