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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 26, 1934.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
O. E. COX, Business Manager
R. B. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
UBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen llunaied Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION tl 50 A YEAR
L itered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
We give too much abuse to those
that wrong us ar.d not enough praise
to those who help us.
The trouble with many politicians
is that they know too much for their
benefit and too little for the public
good.
The bean crop of one Florida town
is said to have brought four million
dollars. That’s a big price for beans.
Borne may think "theirs" worth that
much but they are the only ones who
do.
Scientists state that a mosquito
has 22 teeth.We believe the scientists
have overlooked a few of the mos-
nuito’s teeth. No critter with only 22
teeth could bite like the last mos
quito that tackled us.
Helen is right when she says: “A
man doesn’t take a girl around these
moonlight spring evenings because
he admires her mental qualities any
more than a burg’ar enters a house
because lie’s interested in interior
decoration.”
It requires energy, effort and time
to be a consistent sinner. That is
•why a man who is busy making a
living or a career and a woman who
is busy making a home and bringing
up a family are always the best
matrimonial bets.
Prospective candidates for the
legislature from Sumter county, ac
cording to the Tri-County News are:
E. E. Cook, of Plains, Allen Chap
pell, former representative from
Americus, and perhaps W. T. An
derson, ,of Leslie, and J. E. Mathis,
of Americus.
It now appears that the govern
ment will guarantee the principal of
the bonds issued by government
agencies such as the farm and home
loan bonds. The original plan was
only to guarantee the interest but
this plan did not meet with the ap
proval of the investor.
Dr. George W. Carver, negro sci
entist at Tuskeegee, Ala., who has
found about 50 different uses for the
peanut, told an audience at that
place that beneficial results had been
obtained massaging victims of in
fantile paralysis with an oil made
from the peanuts.
We can readily understand the
President’s difficulty in working out
a monetary policy satisfactory to
everyone. We have been working a
good many years on a monetary poli
cy satisfactory to ourself but haven't
been able to get it done quite to our
satisfaction as yet.
The Leisure League of America,
Inc., has just announced discovery of
700 ways to use spare hours. It is
the opinion of numerous husbands
that, coming just at spring house
cleaning time, the League’s discovery
pales i-to significance beside that of
the average housewife.
It will be gratifying news to his
many friends throughout the state
to know that following his illness of
several weeks W. E. Page, Georgia’s
popular internal revenue collector,
has recovered sufficiently to return
to his desk.
Florida seems to be having school
troubles finaacially speaking—of her
own, but quite different. A report
comes from Bay County, Florida, to
the effect that the late C. C. Mathis,
former county school superintendent,
was at the time of his death short
in his accounts to the amount of
$28,438.86.
In exercising his power in pardon
ing Leland Harvey and Aubrey
Smith, two of Georgia's most famous
prisoners, Governor Eugene Tal-
madge is responsible, both
his own conscious and
TEDDY G. O. P. CANDIDATE?
And comes Don Quixote tilting at
windmills. The "old Spanish cuBtorr.
to j has been revived by no less than The-
politfcal odore Roosevelt, a sophomoric gentle
friends. While we have some doubt ; man who had a distinguished father, j
as to the wisdom of his act we at
least believe him to have been sin
cere in his purpose, and shall hope
that it is for the best in this in
stance. Both men have pledged to go
straight in the future. We hope they
may, thereby setting a good example
for others.
and his field is American politics.
Slipping into the fading star-light
of one Ofcden Mills in the hazy Re
publican firmament, the Toddy of the
present day evidently has agreed tobe
come the "goat” in the next G. 0. P.
convention when it goes looking for a
nominee for the Presidency.
He has accepted the presidency of
In a recent discussion the subject, the Na4ional Republican Club, and in j
"What Will Happen in the Next Ten | doin S 50 ma,le a s P eech ,n whlch I
A well known rfewspaperman says, 'ears,” a young business women’s : ^ Roosevelt ^Adminis- I
I usuallv get my stuff from an aw- club of a mid-western city outlined i ' . , .
ful lot of people—who promised the following program which it was ‘ration- aa un-American and auto
somebody else that they would keep 1 predicted would come to pass in the denouncing the New Deal as
it a secret." It is not only so with period noted: World peace, birth cor- j "reactionary and accusing the re-
editors, but with people generally trol, economical redistribution, agri-1 f me °f violating the constitution
1 .... i “to an extraordinary degree.
If all this was a rocket sent up to
that news—especially the unpleasant cultural relief, television, steriliza-
is circulated by those in whom I tion, wasteful party politics, and ed-
somebody confided.
Enough postage stamps to make a
one-stamp wide ribbon that would
reach to the moon are printed each
year at the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing. Mr. Alvin W. Hall,
bureau director, told a local printing
ucation for the use of leisure time.l test out the bod V P° lltlc - then 14 I
Interesting in that it shows the trend I must remarked that nothing of an I
of thought of the younger generation | inspirational and appealing character I
which is often carelessly referred to U!IS r e'ealeH ln tl,p rockets rea
as flaming youth.
Florida smiles over the biggest
winter tourist business since the
group April 17 that the bureau each | i an( | boom folded up in 1926. In
year uses 430 tons of ink, 800 tons February there were 1,500,000 out-
of paper and 240 tons of gum ill | siders on the perfumed peninsula and
making stamps.
Resources of Georgia, 20,000 acres
the season’s spendings amounted to
about $300,000,000. Florida’s natural
delights have undergone no deflat-
of pine land for naval stores and j jpg, but it has learned many useful
manufacture of paper of fine quality, facts about real estate. More low
if only we would protect them from jwere sold this winter than for years
destructive fires. The estimate of. but in a different way and for a
water power is 2,318,800 horsepower.
Marble deposits conservatively esti
mated at the rate of present con
sumption could not be exhausted for
several centuries.
different purpose than in the big bad
boom—Visitors have cheerily bought
the land to live on it.
Here’s another item from the Wes
leyan Advocate that makes its par
ticular appeal to us because of its
accuracy: “Like the pride of humility
The New York Herald Tribune has
been awarded the Waylay Ayer cup
for the best paper typographically in j the conceit of ignorance deceives its
the nation. This makes twice this ! victim with a veneer of sincerity,
paper has won the cup in four years . The proud man is sincere when he
and the cup will become a permanent 'thinks himself humble and the ig-
possession of the paper that wins it norant man has no suspicion that his
three times. There were 130 entries
in the class of papers with 50,000 or
more circulation.
Washington bears the astonishing
statement that about as much illicit
liquor as legal liquor is being sold
in he United States. Secretary of the
Treasury Morgenthnu points out that
agents seized 73 stills, 84,300 gallons
of liquor and 173,000 gallons of
mash in a week. Somebody has failed
us. Oh, yes, the wet leaders—So
stoutly they pledged no law viola
tion after repeal.
Increases in newspauer circulation
and advertising over the country in
the last few months tell a story of
(business upturn. These figures, ore
index to trade conditions, show that,
in the wake of increased employ
ment, trade is on the increase, re
ports the Associated Press.
Todav is Memorial Day for the
Confederate soldiers. Not many of
them are left—in Taylor county not
a single one—but we should pause
for a brief moment, anyway, and do
honor to the galant heroes of the
sixties. Their memory is ever green
in the hearts of all lovers of South
ern achievements.
It makes us feel good to have peo
ple eome up and pat us on the hack
and tell us what a fine paper we are
getting out. how much they appre
ciate it, etc., yet these same folks,
wehn they have patronage they could
give us, send it out of the county.
This makes us think they are not
sincere when they are soft-soaping us
certainties rest on conceit. It is dif
ficult to help either of these types.
If first be told of his pride, he im
mediately increases it by supposing
that h:s humility has teen misunder
stood, ar.d if the second be told of [ willingness to meet them.
was revealed in
glare."
It really resembles the swan song
and last cry of some lying political
party, one that promises to reform
but is too set in its texture to make
any fundamental changes. Institu
tion rarely repent, nor are leopards
in the habit of changing their spots.
There are many good and fine
men in the Republican party, un
questionably, but this does not
change the fact that this organida-
tion has been rooted in utter con
servatism, and that such led to the
extreme abuses under the Harding
regime. President Theodore Roose
velt was a great conservationist,
like Franklin Roosevelt, and fought
to conserve for the people’s uses the
natural resources and public assets
of the nation. Under Harding, these
were looted, and then uuder Coolidge
t'ne Wall Street speculators looted
the people.
It is now seen that the “full din
ner pail” was largely a myth; it
really never did get much more than
j half full, and then for only a part of
the people.
The Rcpubicar. party must seek a
new name, a new set of tenets and
objectives, a new leadership, a new
insight into human neds and a new
THE COUNTY MUST GO
By Dr. Glenn Frank
My train is about an hour and a
half out of Los Angelin. I have been
scanning the papers from the coast
My eye is caught by a full-page art
icle adoveating the reduction of Cal
ifornia’s fifty-eight countries to five.
I venture no judgment on the de
tails of this particular plan. Califor
nia may need two counties or twenty,
for all I know. It is . lear to me,
however, that the whole Bystem of
local government throughout the
United States is covered wagon pol
itics in an airplane age.
The scheme of county government
was devised in the days of bottomless
mud roads and one-horse buggies.
There was no telcpliones when the
county scheme was planned. No ra
dio. No automobiles. No airplanes.
The units of government had to be
■small.
Men were then tethered to their
neighborhoods. There was little
travel. Neither the citizen of decent
habits nor the criminal on plunder
bent played very far from the base.
Commerce and crime and government
were, ther, in the very nature of
things, excessively local in character.
All that is changed now.
It is impossible to guarantee equal
education opportunity to all children
in all communities in our states un
til we radically revise our county
system.
It is impossible adeqately to
handle the problem of the roving
criminal until we radically revise our
county system.
It is impossible to bring the costs
of government down to the level of
of productive investment until wc
radically revise our county govern
ment.
We can have cheaper government.
We can have more schools and bet
ter.
We can handle the problem of crime
more effectively.
But, before we can do all this, we
must dismantle our obsolete, waste
ful and inefficient system of local
government.
THE COUNTRY NEWSPAPER
That he will continue his efforts
to secure government aid for tho
Chattahoochee - Apalachicola River
project was announced Saturday by
J. Ralston Cargill, Columbus, presi
dent of the Chattahoochee Valley ana
Gulf Association and for which serv
ice he is being highly complimented
Goverment engineers recently made I . .
, , . . . . paign, these ranging from members
an unfavorable report on the project , , , , ,
nt I orurroas tn luhor anHavc naura.
his conceit, he immediately adds to
it by observing to himself how ig
norant his informer is.”
At length the post office depart
ment has heard of President Roose
velt’s national recovery program.
Such is the inference apparently to
be drawn from the decision of Jas.
A. Farley, postmaster-general, to re
scind his order of March 2 which
“granted” four days’ payless fur
lough to postal clerks and to put
back to work many of the 26,000
postal substitutes who have been vir
tually without work. Another fairly
clear inference is that the depart
ment has heard *rom some of the
critics of its latest economy cam-
of making the two rivers navigable
for larger boats.
of Congress to labor leaders, news
paper editors, relief workers and
even local post office executives.
We remember as a boy we used
to look forward to the time when we
We really think the counties should
, , „ pay the expenses of holding primary
would be earamg money^of our own| e i ections just as they do general
elections. Then a poor man could at
and could buy all the bananas and
ice cream cones we could eat. Now
that we have rached a point where
we are able to supply a normal want
for bananas and ice cream cones we
find our - appetite for them has all
but disappeared. Most of the ma
terial wants of men are like this. By
the time he is able to realize them
he has lost his appetite for most of
them.
Or.eof the things that it has been
difficult to understand during all
ages is why the human race oftei
gives its rewards to the fence rid
and the dodger, the palaverer, and
the scheming flatterer and trickste- -
while the man who faces issues
squarely and firmly without equivo
cation or vacillation is often pen
alized for his frankness and honesty.
The conclusion is that while it may
not be possible to fao 1 all of the
people all of the time it is seldom
necessary, to accompish one's ends.
least exercise his right to run for
office, whether he had the money to
get out and make a stem-windiqg
campaign or not. We favor a law
requiring all political parties to hold
primaries on the same date, paid for I spending keeps business and indus-
The Recovery administration is
regarded as “autocratic” because it
has not maintained in office the Ted
dy Roosevelt of our generation, but
instead has picked up the br.oken and
demolished pieces of government
and society that on March 4, 1932,
came from the hards of stand-pat
Republicanism and restored them to
shape to save American civilization
from the abyss.—Columbus Ledger-
Enquirer.
Brisbane gives his readers this tc
think about: “If you figure wealth
by individual savings, we are very
poor. The country’s total savings
amount to only 50 thousand million
dollars, barely four hundred dollars
per capita. It is a comfort to knov
that Americans have 15 per cent of
their accumulations invested in
homes, as against 11 9-10 per cent
ten years ago. But that is pitiful. A
healthy negro slave before the war
Was worth one thousand dollars, and
the average white man is “worth”
now less than five hundred dollars.
The average old American, dying
penniless, dependent on others, finds
satisfaction, perhaps, in thinking
how much he has spent. And that
may be the important thing. Since
USE THIS DAY WELL "
(By Greenville Kleiser)
There is something sublime about
the beginning of a new day. Possibly
the previous night has been
with dark misgiving, disappoint,
ments, and .oppressive fears. But the
fresh beginning of a new day, with
its beautiful light and promise of un.
explored possibilities, should gladden
the heart and inspire the soul.
upward at the beginning of the dav
This simple act will elevate you r
mir.d and impel you to go foith with
new confidence and power. A day is
well-lived in which you have put a
fine resolution into practice, achieved
a definite purpose, done some wor
thy acts of kindness, or rendered a
noble service to others. True sen ice
is not limited to time nor place. To
day is the day to do something fine
and noble.
At the beginning of each day care
fully determine what are the really
essential things you should do, then
give them first attention. Once you
have found this habit you will have
an increased sense of satisfaction,
The actual working time of a single
day is short, and often many things
contemplated and planned for a
given day must be postponed. Take
time to think and plan carefully, and
you will make each day more highly
productive in actual results. Get a
right sense of life’s values. Learn to
give your thought first to essential
things, so that useless trifles will
not so easily consume your time. The
more earnestly you study right pro
portion and prospective, the better
judgment you will have in planning a
well ordered life.
Realize how quickly time passes
and you will plan better and achieve
more. When you have an important
thing to do, reserve sufficient time
in which to do it properly. Miscal-
cultion as to time is a prolific cause
of haste, waste, inefficiency, incon
venience, and disappointment. It is
impossible to do two hours good
work in one. Know how much you
can accomplish in a certain time,
then make your plans accordingly.
Work that you do hastily or under
pressure of time is not likely to oe
your best work. Plan the hou v s of
Turning from city newspapers to , the day so that they will yield the
best results. Time passes quickly,
and what you do with the present
moment is ,of vital importance. Defi
nite thought and action economizes
time and energy. Beware vacillation.
Keep your life simple. Be on strict
guard against subtle influences of
men and society to lead you away
from the simple life. Keep your life
simple in a big, strong sense. True
simplicity is free from self-seeking
and selfishness. It manifests in a
sincere and straight-forward atti
tude toward others. Be true to the
visions and inspirations of your own
mind. If you would be great you
must be simple, sincere, and strong.
The simple things of the world con
found the wise. The last shall be
first. Realize the power and great
ness of true simplicity, and endeavor
to make it a preeminent quality in
your character, work, and life. The
noble men of all time have been men
of simplicity and sincerity.
Life is fleeting. Now is the time
to initiate your new plan. Today is
the day to attempt the great and
small town press exchanges that
come to the editor’s desk is like
stepping from the slums, full of vice
into an old-fashioned garden sweet
with lavender and rhyme and the
scent of perennial flowers The pages
of big dailies are so full of murder,
thievery, immorality and selfishness
that the better news is obscured by
these glaring shatterings of the deca
logue. One puts the papers aside
with a feeling of depression and
heartache that the world is so full of
terrible and unhappy things.
Then picking up the papers that
record the happenings of the little
towns around us, one gains renewed
faith in life. Here are set forth only
that which uplifts a community—the
activities of the business men, the
church items, the happy social gath
erings of the people, the marriages,
births and deaths, farriers’ items,
hud all the thousand and one daily
occurrances that make up the simple
annals of the great common peotile,
who are really the foundation of this
broad country of ours. - -
Sometimes people speak lightly of I worth y P ur P oae which you have long
the country newspaper, but it is one j bad ’ n contemplation. Delays are
of the most potent and uplifting fac- dangerous. Procrastination v.ea ena
tors in our national existence.—
Christian Science Monitor.
by the counties.—Calhoun Times. We
have never seen any good reason
Why the county should not bear the
expense of the primary. Such was the
the practice in Taylor for a number
of years and should be revived this
year of all times rather than impose
a great burden on the poll-holders
who have always been faithful and
true to the trust reposed in them.
April has perhaps more historical
anniversaries in America than any
other month ; n the year. It vis on
April 14, 1865 that President Lincoln
was assassinated in the Ford theater
at Washington. San Francisco’s
great fire disaster was on April 18,
190G. It was April 15, 1912 that wit
nessed the sinking of the Titanic.
The Mississippi flood was in April,
1927. The United States entered the
and the
21,
An evil tongue has a certain
amount of influence, but, mind you
only with certain persons. People of j World War April 6, 191
liberal views never permit another to | Ohio prison fire occurred April
influence their opinions. A scathing J 1930. The war with Mexico, the Civil
tongue is a barbed wire, and it cuts | War and the war with Spain all be-
and lashes unmercifully. If a person ! pan in April. Four Presidents of the
has the forebearar.ee to over-look the I United States were born in April,
cruel thrusts—to bide their time— | Washington was inaugurated first
there seems to be a special dispensa- President of the United States on
tion from some unseen source which | April 30, 1789. Louisiana was pur-
smoothes out this tangled network j chased from France on April 3'0,
of falsehood and gossip and leaves 1803. The battle of San Jacinto
the victim unscathed. Not a trace re
mains of the deep wounds once de
liberately inflicted.
try going. Tho French do not think
So. Every old Frenchman thinks
himself disgraced lif he has failed
to make himself at least modestly
independent after a lifetime of
Work.”
The Columbus Ledger encourages
local singers: “The overflow .crowd
at the First Baptist chuich Sunday-
night to hear the Columbus Oratorio
Society render ‘The Prodigal Son.’
indicates that the people of Colum
bus greatly appreciate this type of
religious music. The Oratorio Society
is a new organization which has
'been in existence for only a few
months, and tho interest manifested
Iby the public in its initial presenta
tion is highly gratifying. The society
was organized recently by a group
of local singers and music lovers
who thought it would be a good
thing to (resent publicly in Colum
bus a type of sacred music not often
heard there. An oratorio has the
merit of being a medium through
kvhich excellent choial singing can
be developed. It also allows the use
of severinl well-itrainod solo voices.
The presentation of an oratorio en
ables both the soloists and the chor-
Most of us have marveled at the
flow of gold to the United States since
the tentative stabilization of the dol
lar within the range of 50 or 60 certs
and many ,of us have wondered just
where this money is coming from and
who is sending it to the United States.
The flow is not coming rrom any one
source. Some of it is “smart.” Ameri
can money, that is, money which was
sent to Europe during the days be
fore Uncle Sam went off the gold
j standard, but when we were faced
| with the prospect of the fall of our
; dollar. Considerable sums ,of it, no
| doubt, belong to Europeans who are
j becoming- fearful of France and of
trouble in Europe, and who therefore
I think that at present the United
States, with its emporarily stabilized
money, is a safer place for funds.
Still more of it, no doubt, is European
money which is going into our stock
purpose. Seize your .opportunitv
while it is within your reach. Pn-
forth your most earnest effort ail"
good results will surely follow. The
instant you attempt something fi nc
and great you are on the way to its
realizaion. All great chievement 1 3
a series of progressive steps. AH
great men have first put forth small
efforts, which have led to large work
and results. Let this encourage yo’i
to make a vigorous beginning today
so that your dreams and aspirations
may become actualized in your life
WHO WANTS WAR?
Not the fathers and mothers
the world; not the sweethearts an
wives. Not the American people'
the English people, the French, tie
Germans, the Italians, the Russians.
Chinese, Japanese. Not many presi
dents, chancellors, secretaries, sen
ators would individually take respo
sibility for overt acts.
Suspicion spreads that munition-’
market, in the belief that, with the ! makers furnish the impetus. A
which established the independence , us 4,0 make tho best use of their
of Texas was fought on April 21, voices and gives them invaluable
1836. J training.”
devaluation of our money, American
securities are bound to rise.
Heard two men in an argument
the other day. One contended that
1 the NRA was not a success because
I all the people were not living up to
j it. The other replied that the fact
j that all were not living up to it did
: not necessarily mean that it was not
! a good plan. “For that matter.” he
! said, “not all the people are living
j up to the Ten Commandments but
they are still considered a fairly
I good rule to live by.’ ’
e.:r committee is to investigate '> ' r
business this summer. Some m-
teresting revelations are to be ex
pected.-—Pittsburgh Press.
All the real successes in life and nj
the great achievements in the worl s
history have had their root in ‘ ®
vigorous exercise of those self-re!fen
qualities that make for true manh-' 111
and womarhood. Strong character^
are not built up by pampering or m
dulgence; they are the resut
steady individual work towar s
great life purpose.—Marden.