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THR BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 29, 1!>34.
The Butler Herald
Established ill 1876
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
O. E. COX, Business Manager
K. B. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt.
"The Southland must be painted by
southern artists who can paint the
South because they love and know it"
declared Ellsworth Woodward, for
mer head of Sophie Newcomb Art
School and water clorist ard etcher,
in a recent address on “Art in the
South,” at the University of Alaba-
OFFICIAT, ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO. ma '
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY j
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION *1 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
| Whether farming pays depends
I more or. the farmer than on anything
else. Some farmers could not make a
success of farming if the prices of
| farm products were doubled, while
I others will succeed almost regardless
of low prices or small production.
And of the latter class Taylor county
proudly boasts of a large number.
It takes 1,500 nuts to hold a cat
together; one nut can knock it apart.
Some are good as gold on Sunday,
but go off the gold standard on Mon-
day.
Charity is destroying manhood. Na
ture intended we should not get t
something for nothing.
Russia is projecting a drastic pro
gram for increasing its cotton crop.
In Uzbekistan, which is 40 per cent
behind on its quota, the death penat-
l ty has been asked for 55 farmers,
I who are charged with shirking hard
j work and with interfering with oth
ers. Russia shoots farmers for not
raising cotton and we pay them not
to.
Washington made the country,
Lincoln preserved it, Edison lighten
it. Ford put it on wheels.
Men would try harder to reach the
laduer’s top if there weren’t so many
women at the bottom of it.
Now you’re glad you did:.’t give
your old overcoat away to a poor man
w ho needed it, for you’ll need it worse
yourself.
One out of every four people are
now on the government pay rolls—
and the other three are eager candi
dates.
' One trouble is that most of the talk
that goes around about capita! and la
bor is from people who have never
had any experience with either one.
A fashion note says “Black velvet
scarfs close to the throat should be
anchored with a shimmering diamond
brooch.” That’s the anchor that sinks
the w’hole ship.
If you wish to be proud of your
children teach them to obey. Unless
children learn to obey they can never
su -cessfully command. Do not let the
love you have for your child prevent
your doing your duty.
Since there is quite a bit of talk
of junkir.g the old parties, we sug
gest that two new ones be started
out right now- in plenty of time. We
could call one Ford and the other
j General Motors. They already have
plenty of rivalry conflict and suspi-
| cion and think what a political piat-
' form some of the car salesmen could
| write!
i
We have heard it argued that
j money should be easier, that a man
ought to be allowed more credit. In
the majority of instances we doubt
i if this is the solution. It now appears
| that the fellows who got the most
j credit are in the deepest. It would
have been better for them if their
j credit had been chopped off long be
fore it was.
The Elberton Star calls special at
tention to a very important matter:
“Sportsmen of this and every county
, in the state should heed the request
of State Game and Fish Commission
er Cravey to obey the game and fish
laws. If these sports are to be had in
I the future there must be the protec
tion the law calls for. The commis-
i sioner especially calls on sportsmen
I to work with the farmers who seek
protection of game on their premis
es ”
If we had to have war to fight a
battle with shot and shell why is it
not reason that we should have
great sums to fight the depression fol
lowing it which is much more seri
ous.—Folkston Herald,
The new editor of the Baxley Ban
ner being for many years a school
mar. himself, is putting pressure be
hind a growing sentiment in his home
town for better school facilities and
prompt payment of its teachers.
Arthur Brisbane: President Roose
velt believes that the wisest, sound
est spending is spending to keep
people from starving. Also spending
to encourage farmers tha: nave long
fed the nation and got little out of
it.
Lack of confidence in our fellow-
man seems to be the unfortunate
state of mind today. Formerly one
was considered a crook only after he
proved to himself to be one. Today
one is considered a crook until he
proves himself to be otherwise.
Farmers are feeling better, It has
been a long time since any word like
that has been heard from the Ameri
can Middle West. But it comes from
many sources. It is the more re
markable at this moment, because it
follows the worst of droughts, whose
effects are not yet complete. But the
drought puts on a r.ew face now as a
major cause of the rural upturn, it
ate up surpluses and jacked up prices,
the control program of the Govern
ment added its own- boost.
Changes in the congressional line
up by elections and other causes make
necessary a wide reorganization and
realignment in both houses for the
74th Congress. Among those affect
ing the Senate is the filling of two
important committee chairmanships
and appointments to committee posts.
The latter presents quite a problem
since the Republicans have fewer
members than there are G. 0. P. va
cancies while the Democrats must
figure out a way to get their new
members on committees.
From or.e of our exchanges we
qoote the following: “It is great and
grand to grow a fine farm crop, but
* he greatest and grandest thing of
all is to have close to your heart a
good, true, honest boy and girl. To do
that, you yourself must be all you
would have them be.”
Somehow we are kinder losing our
grip on, Tom Linder and Gov. Tal-
madge as great politicians since their
blasts against the president and the
new deal. Tom of course, is a relay
station for what the governor says.
—Madison Madisonian. The same
here and elsewhere, it seems.
Apparently there are those who
think the time has come to "open up"
Georgia, says the Moultrie Observer.
.From Augusta comes the rumor that
the representative in the Legislature
will seek to get through laws that
will make the sale of whiskey legal,
make it possible to get a divorce in
60 days and have race tracks and
betting in accordance with law and
custom. If all this is brought about,
continues the Observer, there will
not be much left for one to .desire
The wide open crowd will enjoy free
wheeling.—Savannah Morning News.
To this the Charlton County Herald
very apropriately adds by headline:
“An easy road to perdition.”
Glaring headlights on an automo
bile not only blind other drivers, but
a'so throw a bright light on the char
acter of the man who drives behind
them. The lights say: “Behind me
drives a hog. He has no thought of
others on the road. He behaves as n
the road were made for him alor.e.
He is not concerned with the fact
that he endangers others’ lives by his
refusal to dim his own lights. But the
blight light is dimmed at the ap
proach of another car says: “Be
hind me drives a gentleman.”
Here’s an item from or.e of our ex
changes that every school boy and
girl would do well to read with care
ful consideration: “How often does it
occur to you to commit some little
evil deed which you think does not
amount to much, yet deep down in
your conscience, you feel something
telling you not to do it? Man is too
much inclined to indulge in these
small acts such as taking a book, a
pencil, a light bulb or the like and
going away trying to persuade him
self that it was no harm. But each act
does make its scar in the life of the
individual, that cannot be easily
erased and if continued it will show
up some time later in his life double
many fold.”
FARMERS, QUIT MOUTHING
1 have just read Mr. Pat Richards'
a correspondent of The Macon News,
opinion of the small farmers of his
community and his own concerning
the Bankhead bill, which was pub
lished in Sunday’s Telegraph. Being
a farmer myself, this letter con-
ctrair.s me to w-rite a few lines oi
' my own.
Mr. Richards’ findings seem to be
very much in accord with the most
of the letters to The Telegraph on
this subject from the "little and big
farmers," however, there car. be no
condition created that will apply to
everybody’s benefit.
There is another class of farmers
from whom very little has been heard
and they are mostly the oi es who
co-operated with the government
1 from the beginning, to reduce the
J surplus. They are also the class that
. run from two to six plows. This
i class is also the ones on whom the so-
[ cial and economic welfare of the
I country rests.
J I’ve been a member of the Georgia
j Legislature six years—being an old
man I did not offer for the last ses
sion, and I therefore feel like, after
putting myself to some trouble to
find out the sentiment of the farmers
they are willing for the government
to continue the present plan for the
control of cotton, so far as in their
opinion and wisdom seems best.
I notice from Mr. Richards’ inter
view that nearly every farmer has a
different plan, so I think we‘d do well
to let the government alone. I had to
buy three gin certificates myself, but
ever., after I did that, I rather do
that than take 5 and 6 cents per
pound for my cotton. A farmer can
pay the tax or buy certificates and
get more for his cotton than he coulti
before the Bankhead bill. Everybody
knows conditions are better, ever,
those who are grumbling, than they
were two years ago. Many of thos..
who are in, favor of the present plan
are croppers and tenants.
When Mr. Roosevelt went into of
fice, everybody, including Congress,
were at sea without rudder or com
pass. Nobody had a plan that looked
like it would work. The President had
a plan and asked Congress to give
him power to put it into effect. Not
knowing what to do themselves, they
gave him the power he asked Tor.
Considering the magnitude of the job
and the benefits that have been de
rived, I am satisfied a great majority
of the people feel like the President
has made a success, although the
President said himself, it was an ex
periment.
It appears to me that there is too
much being said by people that it
doesn’t concern so much as it does the
farmer. It seems to me that oui Gov
ernor is causing a perturbation that
will work no good to anybody; how
ever, I supported him heartily in his
last campaign for the Governorship,
Butler, Ga. J. T. Childs.
Some of the best farming lands in
Taylor county have stood idle this
year, because of a lack of courage,
will-power ai d determination on the
part of the owners. Let us hope that
this will not be the case another
year. The world has sympathy for the
man who makes an honest effort ar.d
fails. Now is the time to prepare for
next year’s crop. Brace up and go to
it making the supreme effort of your
life to make your lards yield good
crops. Y’ou will never regret it.
While the details have not been
announced, it is pretty safe to say
that there will be a marked change In
the government’s plan of relief after
the first of the year. There will be
more work relief and less direct re
lief. It ig likely that there will be
many public works projects started
and carried out. Many of these are
needed. This is all the more reason
why Taylor county citizens should
outline definite projects and present
them to the government authorities.
Many needed projects can be obtain
ed if there is the proper interest and
co-opration and support.
Reynolds ar.d Taylor county friends
of Rev. A. J. Moncrief, Jr., will read
with interest the following item
clipped from the Christian Index:
“The Rev. Ayliel J. Mor.crief, Jr., pas
tor of Bayshore Church, Tampa,
Fla., recently closed his second year
in that pastorate. The Board of
Trustees presented Mr. Moncrief with
an easy chair. Sir.ce assuming the
Bayshore pastorate in 1932, Mr. Mon
crief has been identified with many
religious ar.d social enterprises in
Tampa and Florida. The church has
made steady progress unrrer his lead
ership. About $24,000 has been con
tributed and 178 members have been
brought into the fellowship. The
church occupies a site on the Bay-
shore Boulevard in the leading resi
dential section of the city.”
A FRUITFUL Ql’ADRE.NMUM
The Waycross Journal-Herald pays
the following editolial tribute to
Rev. John M. Outler, recently as
signed to the presiding eldership of
the Columbus district:
j The quadrennium of service by the
Rev. Mr. Outler as pastor here has
j been marked by something unique in
| ministerial and in congregational cir
cles. During these four years, not one
word of criticism, not one sentence of
protest has ever been voiced by any
member of the First Methodist
church. That is, indeed, a magnificent
tribute and it is a tribute to any
minister however distinguished he
may be by a previous record of
Christian service. To serve a church
four successive years and to have at
all times the unqualified confidence,
repect and affection of the members
is to manifest that a minister may
serve a church so as to bring about
unity, progress, and faithfulness to
the daily exemplification of Christian
principles.
In Methodist circles the Rev. Mr.
Outler is known as a “quadrennium”
minister, which is to say that his
service in the South Georgia Metho
dist Conference is outstanding for
the number of times he has re
mained four years in an appoint
ment. This is eloquent testimonial
not alone to his ability in the pulpit,
but to his intimate knowledge of his
congregations, to his comprehensive
view of church policies, and to his ue
termination that each day of a pas
torate or eldership be measured in .
terms of church and congregational
growth.
As a circuit rider, as a builder of
small stations, as pastor of !a\j?e
city churches, as presiding elder of
ditricts, as delegate to the general
conferences, as chairman of con
ference boards—in every field of
work open with a Methodist confer
ence the Rev. Mr. Outler has served
with distinction.
The Rev Mr. Outler is a minister
with an eye to the welfare of the en
tire program of his church. He does (
not select any department of church
work as an individual hobby, but
earnestly, zealously ar.d fruitfully he
makes his pastorate a well-rounded
work in all fields of Methodism, as a
consequence, his pastorate benefits
each ar.d every member of his con
gregation.
The First Methodist church of
Waycross is a stronger church be
cause of the consecrated service de
voted to its welfare by the Rev. Mr.
Cutler during the four years the
church has been privileged to have
him as pastor. His service has
reached beyond the confines of his
own church and has been a helpful
factor in community life.
Not only the Methodists of Way 1 -
cross, but all the citizens, extend to
the Rev. Mr. Outler their best wishes
for a successful, productive quad
rennium on the Columbus District.
In a recent radio address, Miss Al-
lie Mann, president of the Georgia
Education Association, says: “Now,
if ever, Georgians need to give at
tention to our schools. We are at the
very bottom of the list of all the
states in education. They tell me that
Georgia is fourth in wealth of ten
Southern States, second in income and
second in amount spent on automo
biles, but we are last in the list of
cui own Southern States in educa
tion. This is not a pleasant fact.”
Sweet land of Liberty how fitting
is this hour of Thanksgiving for all
the blessings we enjoy. How inspir
ing is the vision of your bounty un
der government based upon equality
and temperate consideration of hu
man rights. There is something
deeper ir. the day than selfishly to
review those betterments that per
sonally have blessed us through the
year. Rather should our thanks go
forth to Him for planting in Ameri
can hearts those principles of govern
ment which insures happiness and
contentment.
The spirit of Thanksgiving is
abroad in the land, and while we are
celebrating let us not forget to pause
for at least a short time and consider
the many blessings that have come to
us during the past twelve months.
God is good to Georgia. We, of all
the people on earth, are most blest.
There are no war clouds hanging
over our country, no foe threatens our
borders and we have no devasted
homes and r.o starving children. Our
government is secure and peace and
safety are ours as we pursue life,
1 liberty ami happiness. He who clothes
I the lily and feeds the sparrow has
! blest our earth until it is yielding its
increase in abundance, that we, also
i ^’ s children, may be clothed and fed
, He has not rewarded us according to
i our iniquities, but according to His
I loving kindness ar.d His tender mer-
Icy.
THE BIG SHOW NEARS
(Hugh Rowe in Athens Banner)
The big show in Georgia is booked
to appear in Atlanta on the first
Wednesday in January, at which time
every county in the state will be rep
resented.
These celebrities will convene and
caucus, adjourn ar.d go home on week
ends, return chocked full of good in
tentions ar.d then wrangle over
things of little importance for an
other week and then return home for
the week-over. This procedure will be
kept up for 60 days. The preliminary
the
ten days, then adjourn aid on
following morning the member.,
reconvene and enter into the ;
session—that is for 60 days exci UU ° n?
holidays or other days on which
business is supposed to be transwi
If i a 4-U-a. a. “UeU
It is to be hoped that the income
legislature will not vote themselv*
railroad fure for the short and i ^
terms of the legislature
When you hear a fellow saying he
has made a failure of things or «th
erwise trying to under-rate himself
you may be sure he is seeking praise
and vindication from you.
SUPERANUATED
They call him "superanuated”
And they laid him on the shelf,
They say he’s a sho’ buck number,
Cuz he done “spent” his self .
His idees, they are “moss grown”
An’ he lacks the “modern touch”
Cuz he preaches Hell an’ Brimstone,
When we know there air.t no such.
Of co-se he wa right useful
When we were just a “town”
An’ had our little “meetin’ house”
Where they came from miles aroun’.
But now we’re a “small city”
An’ we sho’ got city ways,
So we got no time fo’ “has beens,”
That’s been left from other days.
No sah, we're hifalutin’
An’ we sho’ do feel "our oats”
So it’s time fo’ seperatin’
The “sheep” from among the “goats”
Now you take us ol‘ fellers,
That can’t hear so very well,
We had a pew right by the railin’
Where we could hear the preacher yell.
When he got the spirit
An’ he drove the devil out
Why, we could ver.t our feeiin’s,
Could sing an’ pray an’ shout.
That was 'fore we built the new “Cathedral”
As things were diff’rent then,
An’ it wasn’t called bad manners,
If a feller yelled AMEN!
But we have changed consid’ble,
Since they turned our preacher loose,
I hey have ditched the ol' melodian,
As it were no further use.
An’ they’s bought a big pipe organ,
With a hundred keys or more,
An’ got a blond, “imported” player,
To make the dinged thing roar
An’ they got a vestry an’ a chancel,
Whatever that may mean,
An’ a choir that sings in nighties
An’ comes from ’hind a screen.
When they take up the collection
They got a plate that’s on a stick
An’ they kind o’ shove it at you,
So you’ll drop your offerin’ quick.
The ol’ plain glass windows,
With a broken pain or two,
Where the birds would come a twitt’rin’
While the sun was peepin’ through,
Them’s all gone an’ in their places
Wc got pictures of the saints
An’ other holy subjects,
On the glass, in colored paints.
An’ the preacher—why Lord help yo’,
He’s a maiden’s prayer,
He don’t preach so much religion
But more “pop’lar” tremes an’ rare,
That drip with honeyed phrases
That don’t disturb yo, soul,
But sort o’ sooth yo’ conscience
Like a fairy tale that’s tol’.
An’ the sir.gin’s like grand op’ry,
Yo’ can’t understand a word,
Lots o’ trills an’ thrills an’ raptures,
Like the imitation of a bird.
Yo’ never hear ol’ “Rock of Ages”
Or “Bringin’ in the Sheaves,”
An ‘_ when the "basso” sings his “solos”
Y ou d think he had the heaves.
Yes, the Church has sho’ out-growed us,
Kind o’ left us high an’ dry,
Seems our only place to worship
Is out beneath the sky.
For I doubt, if Christ came strollin’
Some Sunday unaware,
With his flowin' robes about him,
HE’D get a welcome there.
I’m afraid they’d say His clothin’
Wor.t in the latest style,
Cali HIM superanuated,
An sit HIM back here in the aisle,
With the rest of us ol’ “has beens”
Tha t don’t seem somehow to blend
With our new “house of worship”
Or uphold our social end.
Well, I reckon that is “progress”
An’ the price we got to pay
For bein’ ol’ back numbers
An way behind our day
But I don’t b’lieve the Lord intended,
When a feller’s gittin’ old,
Just cuz he’s “superanuated”
He be crowded from the fold.
For HE said, if I remember rightly,
We’re HIS children, one an’ all,
An bein born there in a manger
Meant we at least, should have a stall;
So when I get up there to heaven,
I m goin to take the choicest seat,
Even though I'm “superanuated”
Right near the Saviour’s feet.
—Howard K. Race.