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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 8, 1034. butler buzzes OF BUTLER HIGH 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.