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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 8, 1034.
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Editor-In-Chief Robert Mathew a
Assistant Editor Pansy Riley
joke Editor » Blair Davla
Sport Editor Sammy Liggln
Social Editor Miriam Dreizin
Club Editor... Frances Parks
Alumni Editor Vivian Trussell
GEORGIA
R.L.C. COLUMN
Edited by
C. C. WALL, Ellaville, Ga.
Sec. flt Treas.
first grade
The first grade made a fish pond
on tneir sand table last week.
Those who have reached the sec-
ul step of ftr Health Ladder are:
ah'olm Kilcrease, Clark Gill, Jack
atkins, Harold Locke, Walter Alm-
, en , Marie Stevens, Kathryn Amos
Kathryn Culverhouse, Carolyn Brown
urolyn Bazemore, Martha Perkins,
aes al Hogg ar.d Hinton Taunton.
For chapel exercises in our class
room Friday morning the following
Health program was given by some
of the pupils:
It Pays to Wear a Smile” by Caro
lyn Bazemore.
'The Way They Stand in Health
Town,” by Carolyn Brown, Alton
Heath and Oriska Ranow.
'Safety Hill” by Kathryn Amos
“The Early to Bed Band” by Billie
Hanow
Stag, “The Underweight Scholar."
THIRD GRADE
We are sorry that several of our
pupils are out of school because of
illness
On the daily arithmetic seat works,
Kathryn Moore led the class with an
average of 99.
Those who prepared the chapel
program for Friday were: Synder
Kilcrease, Edna Posey, Bessie Hall,
Nellie Sanders.
ATTENTION! OFFICERS AND
CARRIERS, WRITE YOUR
SENATORS IMMEDIATELY
The bill revising the salaries of
rural letter carriers, H. R. 9319, was
pased by the house of reprcsenta-
I tives on Thursday, April 26, and has
to report a 100 per cent membership
last year, but these boys of the Fifth
District say thntthey are going after
this honor this year, so we will see
which will be the successful one this
time. We wish them both success In
their desires and aspirations, but
these are not the only two districts
in the state and other fellows might
the most faithful curriers in the em
ploy of the government, he is one of
the nation’s best citizens. When his
father died he tool? charge of his
mother’s farm, helped her rear and
educate his brother und sisters and
later reared and educated four of his
brother’s motherless children and is
still helping them to get established
be working quietly and come in with • in business. He married late and now
ing the writing of reports and par
liamentary law. We have held “make ., „ r ___ ,
believe” meetings in class in order to i been sent to the senate for action of
learn correct parliamentary pro-i 1 * 101 body.
cedure. National President Armstrong urg-
jes that all carriers immediately write
TENTH GRADE j ,or w ' re the senators from their re
nt, A„»it oe u • i r. Ispective states to support the bill as
Un April 26, Memorial Day, the 1 ,, , , 1 , , .
. ... it was passed by the house, so let
English class wrote compositions on us urge that all district officers,
the origin and observance of Memo-; county secretaries ai d others inter
nal Day Richard Turk’s composition ' e sted comply with this request of ou-
was considered the best. | national president immediately and
During the class period, oral com-U Tite Sena tors Walter F. George and
positions on interesting facts con-1 r. r. R US sell, Jr., Senate' Office
surpraise reports soon.
It is time now for our annual spring
round up’ of members and there
should not be a carrier in the whole
service who should regret contribut
ing the amount of .$2.50 annually to
the support of the association, since
it has proven on numerous and count
less occasions in the past its worth
and usefulness.
It han’t been more than ten days
since you received that little check
for the one-third of the salary cut
restoration, and I know that it was
a welcomed item in ’-our budget.
That, within itself, would furnish am
ple funds for many years’ member
ship dues in the association, and, as ]
one brother expressed it in a letter
cerning the War Between the States
were given. Personal experiences of
great grand fathers and great grand
mothers were told.
This week in literature we are
studying Life of Today, the factories
the steel industry and other phases
that are of much vital importance.
JOKES
Joel H.: “Father, do you remember
that story you told me how you were
expelled from shool?”
Mr. Hollis: “Yes.”
Joel: “Well isn’t it funny how his
tory repeats itself?"
• • •
Miss Luke: “Mildred, what is the
Blue Sky Law?”
Mildred M.: "It is a traffic law for
aviators. What else could it be?”
to the writer, “Had it not been for
Building, Washington, D. C., and ask j the efforts of the officers of our or-
you studied
Miss Kelley: “Have
your history?”
and ' Martel M : “No’m, I haint had no
.time fur nuthin’ cept my grammar.
FOURTH GRADE
We regret that Ann Gray is ill this
week and absent from school,
e hope she will soon be back again.
Jewell Ballard from Manchester j
chool entered our class last week, I Mountaineer: “My son is after
we have 37 on roll now and our at- learnin’. What have you got?”
(tendance was lots better for the past 1 Teacher: “We offer arithmetic,
English, geometry, spelling, trigo
nometry.”
month.
We have our class divided into two
sections again. There is a big race
on now which will last until school is
out as one section is V-8 Ford ar.d
the other is Chrysler.
FIFTH GRADE
The class was glad to hear that
Frank England was allowed to get
out one day recently for the first
time folowing an extended illness of
scarlet fever.
We are studying Robert Brown
ing’s “Pied Piper of Hamelin”
Mountaineer: “Whoa, teach him
some trigger nometry. He is the
worst shot in the family."
• • *
Mr. Rickman: “If Shakespear was
alive today, would he be looked upon
as a remarkable man?"
Blair Davis: “I’ll say so! He would
be three hundred years old.”
them to support the bill in its pres
ent form.
This is urgent and your immediate
compliance will be greatly appre
ciated.
Fraternally yours,
G. H. THOMPSON,
President, Jackson, Georgia
CHAS. C. WALL,
Secty.-Treas., Ellaville, Ga.
SPORT NEWS
The Butler High school baseball
English. We are to draw pictures to defeated the Talbotton school
illustrate the poem and the best ones team Thursday p . m . by the score of
"ill be placed on the bulletin board, j ^ to 14
The game was a toss-up until the
Butler club went on a hitting spree
in the seventh inning. This featured
In Health, we are having a
‘Drink More Milk” campaign Only
hre names have had to be put in the
pot for drinking coffee.
SEVENTH GRADE
We missed Wanza Moore last week
and hope that he will soon be well.
He enjoy seeing some pretty roses,
dogwood and other flowers in our
room ,
In Geography we are learning the
counties ami county seats of Georgia.
In Arithmetic last week we studied
graphing and drew different kinds.
Some of our boys hate to stay in
school—is ball playing so important
after all?
Again we see on the board: “Your
“ppearance and conduct is part of
•’ n "\ story to all the world.”
Hiss Cobb spent last week end in
Macon.
Hiss Cobb: “George, what does the
* or ’l solicit mean?”
George: “To ask for.”
EIGHTH GRADE
,. T ? ur c ' a?s has begun the study of
... 0 I af I>’ of the Lake” by Sir
, 3 er S' ott. We are finding this to
t l_ ° ne the most interesting of the
-''ics and we are anxiously await-
“ I" discover who are the charac-
j S ^ hidden identity.
n Science we have been learning
a home run by Bazemore ar.d doubles
by Pope and Gray. These with the
assistance of a single by McGuffin
brought five runs across the plate.
Two men were on base when the 3-
bagger was knocked.
Talboton, facing the five hit ball
of Pope, could not ovencome this lead
The secretary’s office has just
completed the task of checking and
making up a list of the rural car
riers in the service in Georgia, and
from which will be based our mem
bership roster for the next fiscal
year, beginning July 1.
We find that there have been
some considerable changes in some
sections of the state due primarily to
the retirement of carriers having
completed 30 years or more of serv
ice, while in other sections there
have not been so many changes, es
pecially down in the extreme south
ern portion.
We have secured the information
from which we have made the reduc
tions through several sources, thru
the Postal Bulletin, from the district
and county secretaries and from our
I national secretary’s office, and the
we realize that the list we have com
piled is not absolutely correct or
authentic, we feel that it is nearly so
as could be ascertained under such
conditions as we had to pursue
This time last year we had listed
1,394 carriers in the service in this
state and at this time we have listed
only 1,269. The latter figure takes
in such changes as will be made pri
or to July 1, or at least those for
which orders have been issued from
the Post Office Department. There
will no doubt be a few other changes
before July 1, but not many, so we
can safely say that by July 1 we
will have only 1,250 carters in the
service in tKisf stpte^ pgai:
■maximum number of around
in some former years,
This means that about or.e-fifth
of the routes in this state have been
discontinued through consolidations,
While if we take the whole U. S.
we will find only about one-seven
th of the routes have gone out of ex-
of difFe
r °nt phases of our work bv
v ^ ant > knowledge. Last week we
and leap” ‘Tl telephone exchange
of tv 1 n * tne intricate workings
' t . h,s *rv a nt of the people.
a Kain Itrade “A" section has
soelliaJ 'p into two sides in
tire Catl »erine Payne and Chris-
ers. With '’ aVe been choaen as lead-
" 8 'sters’’ 0 muc h rivalry between
Koo«l speii'j. 1 ^ 18 ’ we hope to develop
Tke ^^TH^ADE
** koift. 8 KettinB some
inter "! some of the funny
dU i r r AI Cr ’ < '^ Gallic WaS
stu dy irtr. are en J°ying the
The
English
fc a rithms
c 'ass has been study-
LONDON . . . Well Informed
sources here predict thnt the engage
ment of Sweden's Princess Ingrid
(above), to Crown Prince Frederick
of Denmark, will soon be announced.
!d^P>0
and were three
runs
behind when
istance through this means.
Pope struck out three
men in the
We giveherewith the figures as
ninth inning.
compiled for each district with
com-
Gill and Hill
were
the scoring
parisons of the number as we
had
stars for Butler while
Parker and
them ast year this time:
Edwards led in
this line for the op-
1933
1934
posing team.
First District — 133
123
The line up
was as
follows:
Second District 136
129
Butler:
Talbotton:
Thin! District 184
165
Riley
lb
Carter
Fourth District _ 161
141
Davis
2b.
Smith
Fifth District . 41
33
Mathews
3b
Wimberly
Sixth District — — - 156
140
Gill
c
Parker
Seventh District _ _ 157
137
Pope
p-
Stallings
Eight District 124
120
Gray
If..
Edwards
Ninth District 147
135
Hill
If
Lick
Tenth District 154
136
McGuffin
rf.
Fowler
—
—
Bazeore
ss.
Smith, M.
Totals - _ 1,394
1,259
Spillers
p-
Of the number of reductions
we
' '
find that there were three deaths in
the state, three removed for
ause,
several resigned ard the majority of
the other reductions came about
through consolidations occasioned by
carriers retiring.
100 Per Cent County
We have the pleasure of reporting
another county in the Ninth District
having attained a 100 per cent mem
bership for the now year beginning
July 1, this time it is White County.
Brother Grant, the efficient secre
tary-treasurer of this progressive dis-
strL'-t, has sent in dues from several
of the other counties, and the total
enrollment for this district at this
time is fifty-eight.
The Fifth district is making good
progress toward a 100 per centmem-
bership also, as fifteen membership
fees have been received at the secre
tary’s office from this district. This
is a small district.figuratively speak
ing, but ore of the largest In en
thusiasm.
The Ninth District was the first
ganization, no doubt this check
would not have been fortcoming.”
Every county secretary in the state
will be furnished with a list of the
carriers in his county within the next
few days and he will be asked to per
sonally solicit all regular carriers,
substitutes and retired carriers for
membership in the association, so if
you haven’t alreudy sent in your
dues when your county secretary
calls on you, come on across with
your dues.
Some will say that this is rather
early to be paying dues, but when
you realize just how much detail
work there is atached to getting
everyone properly enrolled and mem
bership cards mailed out, you must
agree that it .cannot be done all at
one time, and this appeal is made so
that the work will be spread out over
a period of several weeks, thereby
giving ample time to get the task
completed before our annual state
onvention.
The officers certainly appreciate
the wonderful spirit of co-operation
that has been manifested by the
brethren in the past, and know that
they will continue to give even bet
ter co-operation in the future than
they have in the past.
“What My Rural Delivery
Means to Me”
Words are inadequate to express
the full meaning of what it really
does mean to me. To a country wom
an with a college education who
spent 25 of her best years as a coun
try and small town school teacher
and who has given to the nation
two beautifully educated children,
who themselves have made good in
their profession, it is indeed hard to
tell how much it means to me to
have my mail brought daily to my
Very door in all kinds of weather
over rough and muddy roads, on
schedule time, by a polite, kind and
noble carrier.
Yes, the above is true. Our roads
are not improved highways and there
have been many days, even a week
week at a time in the past 18 years
of my residence here, that our fam
ily car could not go over the roads
to the post office for our mail, hence
I would have suffered mentally had
it not been for the R. F. D.
Before we had free delivery coun
try people only took a thrice a week
paper and often they could not get
them from the post office more than
once a week. But with the R. F. D.
came daily papers delivered to our
doors which made us feel like we
were in a new world, everything was
changed for us. Country life was
sweeter than city or town life, be
cause with the nows of the world at
hand, the country had jo many more
advantages than the town offered.
The R. F. D. carrier is the most
Important man the government em
ploys. We cannot dismiss him and
go back to ignorance and supersti
tion. He is the greatest medium of
education and enlightenment in the
whole nation.
Few people know anything about
the hardships, the hazards of health
and expense, the R. F. D. men un
dergo. Many people think the roads
are either surfaced or paved, but
few carriers have such routes. They
have to go, rain or shine,
Our earlier, Troy Castleberry, i3
the best carrier we ever had. He
makes his deliveries on schedule
time regardless of conditions. He is
polite and accommodating. He has to
deliver over a route of 66.8 miles
with only 11 miles of improved high
ways. Not a foot of paving and the
other 55.8 miles just common coun
try roads, over hills and always
rough, and when it rains, impassable
for ordinary travel in many places;
yet he has to go over them and keen
his car in first olass condition, pay
for his gas and oil, which I know
from the number of cars he has 6wn-
ed, puts him to a great expense,
has a beautiful home and lovely wife
and several fine cildren he intends to
educate and make into citizens of
his ideals. His salary already has
ben reduced and I learn that another
reduction is coming. Why not sub-
stntially raise the salary of a man
of his caliber, instead of reducing it?
Mrs. J. S. Morton,
_ _ Lumpkin, Ga.
Comment
We are always indeed glad to have
good things said about us, and it
makes us feel that our efforts in the
past have not been in vain, and when
a patron of the rural service oomes
forth and says the good things that
Mrs. Morton has said about her
rural carrier, it makes us all feel
good to know that one of our number
is held in such high esteem.
It makes us feel good to know that
one of the natrons has such an in
terest in the future welfare of these
carriers as to make such a strenuous
protest as has Mrs. Morton against
further salary reductions and dis
criminations for the workers in this
branch of the postal service.
We know, too, that Mrs. Morton
has not exaggerated her statements
in the least, for we share with her
an intimate acquaintanceship of her
carrier, Brother Castleberry, and feel
that she is fully justified in her
praises of the splendid work he has
done all these years.
It Is a great pity that more of the
patrons of the rural delivery service
don’t interest themselves in making
like protests, for then the service
might be taken more seriously iby the
department officials and members of
congress. We have argued all these
years that this service is the great
est gift of our government to the
rural people and hey should in no
small measure assert themselves
when a square deal is ,not being giv
en them or the workers engaged in
performing the service. May we have
more such splendid letters as
the above.
Former Carrier Dies
Funeral services for Mr. I. P. Gun
nells, 83, pioneer and beloved citizen
of Preston and Webster county, who
died suddenly Saturday, April 21,
were held at the Baptist church in
Preston Sunday afternoon, April 22.
Interment was in the church yard
cemetery.
Mr. Gunnells took an active part in
the development of Preston and Web
ster county, which was attested by
the large number of floral offerings
at his funeral. He was employed as
one of the first rural mail carriers
from the Preston post office, which
position he held for about 10 years.
His son, S. P. Gunnells, is now em-
BOB JONES
OMMENTS
ON
HERE and
HEREAFTER.
I believe that it is altogether pos
sible for the everyday, average man
to succeed in life. We can succeed in
spite of our ancestry. Good blood is a
good thing, but many a man has had
success in life who had poor blood in
his veins. A friend of mine told me
about his ancestors. He went back and
back and back. The further back he
went the better they were. He really
had one very honorable ancestor. I
felt sorry for him because he was
dead and gone and could not apolo
gize to the world for the failure his
great, great, great-grandson had
made. We have the thing turned
around. Instead of our ancestors
making us famous, we ought to make
our ancestors famous.
Years ago. so the story goes, m
man in a little southern town wanted
to buy a horse. He advertised in the
weekly paper. A day or two later a
colored man came to him and said,
“Boss, I want to sell you this horse.”
The gentleman said. “John, I
wouldn’t have that horse. I would be
ashamed to take him up town. He is
the ugliest animal I ever saw.” A
few moments later a man brought an
other horse to the home and said, "I
see in the paper that you want to buf
a horse. Let me sell you this one.”
The gentleman looked him over and
said. “He’s a good-looker. I’ll take
him.” They closed the deal. The
next day the colored man led hla
ugly animal across the wagon-yard.
A race horse man who had a trained
eye saw the horse. “What’ll you take
for that horse, boy?” inquired the
race hoi so man. “I’ll take $100 for
him, Boss.” The gentleman bought
him. He tried him out on the race
track. Ho cleaned up everything In
state, and the race horse man went
to work and made that horse an an
cestry. A man was sent Into the
mountains of the state to find out
who was the mother and who was the
father of the horse. They got the
names of his maternal and paternal
grandpnrcnts. That horse made all of
his kinfolks famous.
ployed as one of the rural mail car
riers from this office.
He is survived by the widow, Mrs.
Fannie P. Gunnells; one son, S. P.
Gunnells, and four daughters, Mrs.
S. P. Pearson, Mrs. Silema Sherman
and Miss Jennie Gunnells, of Preston
and Mrs. F. S. Cobb, of Columbus,
Ga.; two brothers and a number of
grand and great grandchildren.
The sympathy of the entire rural
carrier force of Georgia goes to
these dear friends in their sad loss,
and bereavement.
MONKEY AND BABOON
CIRCUS HERE FRIDAY
Due to a quick change in routing
Butler is to hav^ unusual entertain
ment Friday, May 4th, when the
Bryan Woods Monkey and Baboon
Circus will pitch tents and exhibit
on the vacant lot at the city limits
on the Thomaston road, Route Three
north of town.
The Bryan Woods show, one or
ganized especially for children, be
sides having more trained monkies
and baboons than any other show in
Mr. Castleberry is not only one of the world, enjoys another unique dis
tinction in having entirely lady
trainers for the monkies, dogs and
ponies.
The only men who appear in tho
show are musicians and clowns.
Cowns! Of course! What tented show
would be complete without the funny
fellows. v
People of Butler are assured by
the show management that the Bry
an Woods Monkey and Balboon Cir
cus w f ll make good every promise,
and prove a fast, clean and highly
entertaining and diverting bit of
amusement "are. Visitors will ba wel
come at the show grounds where
children may get somewhat ac
quainted with their Simian friends.