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THS BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY, 3, 1935.
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The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
0. E, COX, Business Manager
K. B. K1KKSEY, Shop Supt.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Kitteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 A YEAR
Bank depositors are more than de
lighted that the 2c tax on each bank
check has been lifted. This has pro
duced a considerable amount of mon
ey, but has been of much annoyance
to bookkeepers in the banks as well
us to depositors,
There is an old saying, “a dog that
brings a none will curry one.” there
is another one, "un enemy never
snoots at a low mark.” Think of these
uiu expressions wneil the gossips
tongue conies bringing tales tnat re
lied upon some one’s character.—The
Thomasviile l'ress.
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
The Herald wishes every reader a
Happy New Yeur.
Don't make any more new year’s
resolutions if you don’t expect to
keep them,,
Wliat the neiw year holds in store
for u.i will be determined largely by
cur own efforts.
Now is a mighty good time to re
new your subscription to the Herald
for another year.
If you don’t believe clothes make
the man, look at department store
Santa Clauses the day after Christ
mas.
So General Johnson says the NRA
is dead. Well, well, well, just because
the life of the party is gone, Gen
eral ?
The most difficult test of patience
is to have to see and listen to a talk
er who mistakes your courtesy for
interest.
Rear back all you can in 1935; but
while wou’rc doing that, keep your
face to the front and your feet on
the forward path.
We're off for 1935. Let’s make it a
cheerful, lively, industrious year.
The Herald will do its best to help
you make it a good one.
When time comes to kill hogs, it
makes one think how much better all
of us would be with more brains,
back-bone—and chitlings.
It is with keen regret we note the
passing of Col. J. B. Bussey, of Cuth-
bert, who for many years was pri
vate secretary in Washington to Sen.
A. O. Bacon.
It is our aim to produce a better
paper during 1935 than ever before,
and to that end we seek the co-opera
tion, of the public especially the peo
ple of Taylor county.
lHappy New Year to each and all
of our newspaper friends throughout
the state, and may 1935 mean more
in a flnanciel way to most of you
than in our opinion did 1934.
A man at Hope, Ark., last summer
raised a watermelon weighing 105
pounds. We ask you, is it fair to the
next generation to raise melons that
are too big for boys to carry?
The man who pays less than a fair
wage is unjust to his employe ana
the man who pays more wages than
he can afford is unjust to himself
and is not a good business man.
The Herald feels very grateful to
its advertisers and correspondents
for their fine spirit of co-operation
during 1934. We hope iwe are not
asking too much for the same valued
service for 1935.
Men of vision are generally those
who don’t have to go around inform
ing the world that they have confi
dence, faith and belief in the future.
Wc are thankful that we have some
such men in Taylor county.
The Pathfinder magazine under a
caption, “Dates of World Tragedies,”
lists Mae West was born in 1889. We
thought Mae was among the New
Dealers in restoration, of affection
between married men and the'r
wives.
The recent destruction of an ante
bellum home practically wiped out of
existence the historic old town of
Starkesville, in the neighbor county
of Lee. In pioneer days Starkesville
was a place of several hundred in
habitants, and was the county site of
a territory which now comprises 12
of Southwest Georgia’s best known
and most prosperous counties. In
those days Lee county was an empire
within itself and extended to the
Chattahoochee river, the western
boundary of Georgia.—Dawson News.
In tne early days ot tne United
Stales postal service the fees lor
senaing an envelope containing a sin
gle sneet ol paper ranged irom 6
cents for the first thirty miles to 26
cents tor 3nu mnes. Ana yet we .com
plain about 3c postage up to an
ounce and to any part of tne country
today.
The banks of Taylor county have
closed one of the best years in their
history. No county was ever blessed
with better banking institutions than
the ones doing business today, and
in them the people have the utmosi
connaet.ce. We trust the Neiw Year
will bring to them even greater pros
perity.
We nominate as the silliest people
in the world those American tourists
who go to Hawaii and allow them
selves to be photographed with those
flower wreaths hung aroumi them. If
you know of anybody that’s sillier,
let us hear who they are. They should
be held up for sensible people to
laugh at.—The Pathfinder.
The Valdosta Times tells us that
the “front pages of the Monday
morning newspapers are always jam
full of death stories. On. last Monday
morning the front page of a city pa
per carried the stories of four mur
ders, one suicide, six automobile
deaths and 11 injuries. And still, we
say that the nation is civilized.”—
Charlton County Herald.
Jackson Progress-Argus: The
gasoline tax—a sales tax by the way
—is proving a howling success as a
means of raising revenue for Geor
gia. A general sales tax, not an ad
ditional tax but as a replacement tax
would soon work wonders for the
state. The legislature ought to do
something about a sales tax for
Georgia.
The time is coming when the com
munity is going to put more manual
training into its schools The present
curriculum tends to educate for the
white collar jobs. The result is that
a man who sets himself up as a me
chanic has to learn it after he leaves
school, usually at the expense of
some employer. Along with this
training is going to come the train
ing that will fit young people to go
out on a small tract of land and
make a comfortable living.
There is no reason whatever why
the people of Georgia should spend
$50,900,000 a year for food produced
outside the state, and an organiza
tion which promises to remedy this
condition, to the best of its ability,
will soon begin to function. There are
many manufactured products that we
can buy more profitably than we can
produce them here in Georgia, but
there are few food products in that
class, and it is time to translate
some of our good resolutions into
actuality.—Macon Telegraph.
It isn't only the rich man who is
Eelfish. He merely is luckier or more
skillful in fulfilling his desires. If the
rest of us weren’t also selfish, if we
didn't have the desire to improve our
own status at the expense of some
body else, it probably never would
occur to us that the rich man is rich.
The selfishness that makes the rich
man resist and resent all efforts to
take their money away from them is
precisely the same motive that makes
the rest of us want and try to get
our hands on soe of that wealth.—
Dawson News
It is plain what ails things—fed
eral, state, county and municipal.
Most everybody wants all the frills in
government, college buildings and
equipment in every community, con
crete swimming pools, paved high
ways and streets, so-called experts to
tell us how to farm, keep house and
play, federal and state inspection of
every line of human endeavor, license
fees, aid of every kind to individuals
who happen to have a bit of bad luck,
etc. We crowd school courses of study
with everything from astrology to tap
dancing and even teach the manly art
of self defense at some of our educa
tional institutions. The fact is we vote
every conceivable tax increase upon
ourselves and then look for a head tc
throw a brick at on taxpaying day.
HOW THE WORLD SPENT
THE YULETIDE
President Roosevelt presided at the
family’s tree in the Wiute House,
romped wjtn his grandchildren, carv
ed tne turkey at the family dinner.
King George, of Great Britain, de
livered a family tulk by radio to his
farflung empire.
Priests and ministers throughout
the world appealed for peace on the
anniversary of the birth of the man
of peace.
Soldiers in the South American
Chaco, scene of bitter warfare, had a
light day fighting, enjoying Christ
mas tobacco and liquor. Only a com
parative few were killed.
On the high seas, Santa Claus
came down the stacks of great ocean
liners, delighted children among pas
sengers.
Cities throughout the world pro
vided their poor with excellent
Christmas dinners.
In New York, little Gloria Vander
bilt, 10-year-old heiress, was rushed
from home to church, to home again
by her bodyguards who wanted to
prevent her picture being taken.
And in millions of average homes
throughout the Christian world, and
in a number of non-Christian coun
tries, such as Japan, the holiday was
observed in the time honored way—a
glittering tree, the joyous shrieks ol
children delighting in Santa Claus’
gifts, and extensive and satisfying
dinners.
RECIPE FOR A
HAPPIER NEW YEAR
The wise man promises many years
to those that are obedient to his
words. Tiffs is a New Year’s message
v,orth heeding.
What, however, of our lives are cut
short by some swift disease or some
terrible accident? We have listened
to the words of the wise, we have
obeyed them according io our light.
What then becomes of the promise
of many years?
Not one word of the Almighty shall
fall to the ground! Whatever mis
chance may befall us, the years of
our life shall be many. For we who
are God’s children are heirs or God’s
eternity. This is the glorious assur
ance we take with us this new year.
1931 shaTT be to us the beginning of
the endless years.
Life, eternal life-—we should be ap
palled at the tremendous prospect,
our Saviour, if we were not walking
forth with Thee. But Thou art our
Comrade. And all our endless years,
with Thee, are a blessedly familiar
place.
We may have failed in the ac
complishment of everything financial
ly and itherwise hoped for during
1934, but we enter upon the new
year with renewed determination to
make it the most successful and
profitable year possible—successful
not only to ourselves but through
faithful and conscientious service to
the public, trusting that our patrons
and friend., may experience the best
year yet both in business and happi
ness.
Why is it that no one wants to
live in ti.e country any more? Cities
are full of people who live from
“hand to mouth,” and whose total
wealth in represented by the clothing
they have on. Years go by and these
persons never have a home. They
lose that independence that the
proud owner of a farm has. If there
is one needed reform it is to keep
leople on farms and away from
cities.
Florida wants the tourists, but
warning has been given to the loaf
ers and bums to keep out. The fed
eral appropriation for handling
transients has been cut off and, witn
more than ten thousand transients
already being cared for by relief
forces in Florida, warning has been
sent out for those not able to pay
their way to keep out. Florida not
only attracts the rich seeking relief
from the cold, but also the bums beat
their way to Florida as winter ap
proaches, and caring for the influx Js
no easy problem.—Tifton Gazette.
Just as the folks at home are
wrestling with the problem of paying
taxes that are due and past due, law
makers are going over the state an
nouncing their plans for the intro
duction of more bills for taxes at the
coming session of the legislature.
Taxation will be one of the big ques
tions when the general assembly
meets in Atlanta again. State financ
es are in a bad way, and the schools
are forced to borrow from some
| source. Some provision will have to
be made to keep the schools going
year by year with some other means
than help from Washington or trans
ferring funds from the highway de
partment.
LOOKING FORWARD (TO THE
NEW—BACKWARD ON THE
OLD YEAR
January * 1 was named for the Roman
gou Janus, wno nau uwo laces ana
loosed two ways—forward and back
ward into the year wnicn has just
ended and forward into the year
wnicn lies before us.
it is well ror us, as citizens of this
community, to look back, to review
the events of the past year. Well
may we pride in such acmevements
as we have helped accomplish it is
well, too, for us to consumer our mis
takes, our snortcomings, our failures
to uo the things we should have
done; but it is not well for us to
brood over those failures, nor to
dwell too long in regarding with
pride our achievements.
Better it is for us to look forward
into the new year, to the new oppor
tunities which lie out before us and
which we, profiting by the mistakes
of the past, may do our share in j
seizing and turning to the advan
tage of our community.
For ii there is one New Year’s
resolution which we should make it
is the resolution that we will co
operate during the coming year in
making our community better. Mod
ern conditions have substituted co
operative effort for individualism as
the best answer to economic ques
tions and to the philosophical prob
lem of obtaining the greatest good
ior the greatest number. But co
operative effort is composed of in
dividual efforts, and if the greatest
good for the greatest number in our
community is to be attained, it can
only be done by the individual as
suming his share of the co-operative
effort.
This community can be made a
better community and h stronger
community if we resolve to co-ope
rate with each other in making it so.
Co-oppratmg means more than just
tesolving.
It means DOING; and if we are to
do things upon which we can look
back with pride next New Year’s
Day, this New Year’s Day is the
best day in all the year to begin do
ing them.
THOSE CRAZY SPEEDERS
He drove his automobile thru the
street,
Cutting the air like a knife;
To see the fellow you’d have thought
He was fleeing for his life.
He passed all cars ar.d reached a spot
As far as he could get,
And then he stopped'—and parked,
And lit a cigarette.
This paper has had to strike all
delinquent names from the subscrip
tion list. Several of our old sub
scribers have thought us cold in our
attitude toward the public. We do
not make any exceptions, and are
only trying to operate on a business
basis. The price of $1.50 per ar.nium
or 12 1-2 cents a month is not a great
deal of money to the individual, but
several hundred such subscriptions
will make a big difference to us.
It will be of interest to his many
Middle and South Georgia friends to
learn that Love B. Harrell, a native
of Richland, has been appointed as
sociate pastor of Wesley Memorial
Methodist church ini Atlanta. “Love”
Harrell, as he is generally known, is
31 years of age. Following his grad
uation from Emory University in
1924, he joined the Publix Theaters
organization at Macon. In *929 he as
sumed the secretaryship of the
Southeastern Theater Owners’ Asso-
liation in Atlanta. He later became
attorney and secretary for the At
lanta Theater Owners’ Association
and resigned in April to become sec
retary of the motion picture code au
thority.
It is occasionally helpful to ask the
advice of others in the settlement of
life’s problems but most of life’s de
cisions have to be made by the indi
vidual. Since this is true, it is a
good plan to make decisions early
and learn the lesson of personal re
sponsibility for decisions. Nothing is
more unfortunate in the life of a
young person than to live under the
dominance of a stronger personality
who insists always on making all de
cisions. Such a person develops soon
into a helpful creature. Initiative is
completely destroyed and decisions
are impossible. We once knew a
young man whose father never per
mitted him to make a business de
cision. The father made them all.
When the young man reached the age
of 46 his father died. He then was
forced to make his own decisions and
did not know how. He had not learned
this valuable lesson in. his younger
days when mistakes would have
been less costly. Suddenly the emer
gency faced him and he was unpre
pared to meet it.
WITHOUT TAXES—WHAT?
When you pay your county and
state taxes it is well to leinemiber
tnat you are simply paying an in
stallment ol your debt to tne com
munity, slate or nation for the serv
ices you nougtnt from them. You
askeu lor tree education! for your
children, comlortable school houses,
paved mgnways, police protection for
yourself and lanuly ana your prop
erty. rhe various units of govern
ment advanced tne money that you
might er.joy these advantages. They
were given to you upon your request
and your promise to pay. When we
consider wnat we get for our county
and state taxes we might congratu
late ourselves on our bargain' if we
could gain our own consent to do so.
If there were no taxes for the sup
port of schools we would have no
free schooling and r.o comfortable
school houses. If there were no taxes
for the building and' upkeep of roads
the children would have difficulty in
reaching the school house. There
would oe no school house, in> fact, if
there were no taxes.
If there were no taxes for the
support of the social structure we
would have neither teachers, nor po
lice officers lor courts. Every family
would be its own policeman. There
are plenty of robbers and holdup
men as it is, but not a tenth as many
as there would be if there were no
law enforcement officers.
Taxation is the very bed rock of
civilization. Roam the world ar.d 1
wherever you find people untaxed
you find a people only semicivilized.
On a lonely island in the Pacific re
cently two human bodies were found
by sailors. They died of thirst. They
went to the island in order to es
cape taxation. There were no wat
erworks, no town pump or things of
that sort on the island provided for
by taxation. The victims got away
from taxation and lost their lives be
cause of the absence of the things
taxation provides.—Sylvester Local.
WOMEN IN PUBLIC OFFICE
Whenever we look over a list of
people holding public office, in Con
gress. in the Federal departments
and elsewhere, we are always im
pressed anew with the increasing
number of women doing public serv
ice. And the more we think about it,
the more it seems to us like a right
and proper thing.
Intelligent women are much more
interested in serving others than men
usually are There is something in a
woman’s nature that impels her to
see the job through and pay little at
tention to outside influences. Women
in public office are less likely to be
fired by personal political ambitions
than men are. Likewise, they are
more apt to be economical in their
administration of their jobs.
We could think of a great many
things less desirable than to have a
| large part of the government run by
I women, preferably grandmothers. We
believe one result would be lower
taxes and less waste of public funds.
There also probably would be less
graft and fewer scandals.
A lot of Georgians would like to
see more fish ar.d game in the state
A number of new fish hatcheries are
to be established 1 in the state with a
view to stocking the lakes and
streams. There will be efforts to
pass better fish and game laws when
the legislature convenes again. The
present laws are inadequate. New
legislation will 1 help, and more
hatcheries will help, but local co
operation is needed also. There must
be more general appropriation of fish
and game on the part of the people,
and sportsmen must make up their
minds to obey the law. Handicaps to
the increase of fish and game are
poisoning fish in streams, destroying
birds by burning over the grassy
places where birds are wont to
nest and rear their broods, and by
hunters exceeding the bag limit and
killing game out of season. There
must be more respect for law and
more appreciation of wild life.—
Moultrie Observer.
The best way to build up a town is
to stand by every man in the place
who does right Whenever a man is
doing well do not tear him down. All
| residents should be partners, no op
ponents. In all livelihoods the more
! business your rival does the more you
will do. Every business man who
| treats his customers honestly, cour-
| teously and fairly will get his share,
I and the more business that can be
J secured by united efforts, the better it
will be for all. When a town ceases
| to grow it begins to die, and the more
people try to kill each other’s busi
ness in their town the more readily
| will utter ruin come to all. Stand to
gether for the advancement of every
I citizen. If a man shows ability tc
prosper, do not pull him back thru
| jealousy or weight him down thru
cold ir. difference.
MORE FOR EDUCATION 1 ' I
For the first time, the country I
knows exactly how niucii—or rattier J
how little—it has been spending upon *
the most important ol ail human a*. \
tivities—education. ]
During tne school year 1931-32, to. I
tal expenditures for education of I
every cost amounted to $2,964,073,024 I
—less than three thousand million I
dollars. I
This looks like an enormous 6um I
of money. I
Actually, it is no such thing. I
For three thousand million dollars I
is only one-fourth of the country’s I
annual crime bill of twelve thousand I
million dollars.
And education is the best of all I
antidotes for crime—ignorance ranks I
ahead of poverty as the chief factor
in breeding crime and viciousness. I
Spending on education to prevent I
crime is every bit as important as I
law enforcement to repress crime, I
Education and law enforcement are
both national duties, and the nation-
al government should devote itself to
both without 6tint.
The very report on which this
comment is based furnishes an ex
ample of the desirability of federal
leadership in education.
The report was compiled by the ’
Federal Office of Education, which
required a year and a half to assem
ble the data
Without the information, a compe
tent education policy is impossuble,
and obviously no state could be ex
pected to gather all the facts.
Now that the facts have been col
lected, two things become more than
evident.
1— Education—which should be the
privilege of every American child—
is being denied to many and badly-
provided for others.
In this connection, Prof. Mark A,
May, of Yale, told the Progressive
Education Association recently that
6,000,000 young men and women, 16
to 25 years old, are out of school anil
idle—definitely deteriorating.
In addition, it is estimated that 2,-
000,000 younger children have been
shut out of school by “economy.”
2— Education, even to those obtain
ing it, is poorly distributed. For the
country as a whole, the average cost
ter school child is $87.37 a year. In
New York, it is $152.85; in Arkansas
only $31.70.
Obviously, the federal government
must correct these deficiencies.
From every aspect, in truth, far
too little is being spent on education.
The government report gives ten
thousand million dollars ns the na
tional investment in school plants,
plus two thousand million’ more in
endowments.
And this is only 3.6 per cent of the
national wealth!
Congress in January should ad
dress itself to the problems and needs
of education.
Let us have a Federal Department
of Education, headed by a Secretary
of Education who shall be a member
of the President’s Cabinet.
DIXIE DEWDROPS
(By Olin Miller)
Spiritualist claims that for sev
eral years he has been in touch with
hell. As who hasn’t!
* * •
A depression is simply a period
when we can’t borrow money with
which to pay our debts.
* * *
A woman swore in court that she
knew her husband was drunk because
he went to bed with his hat on. But
maybe he had something he wanted
to keep under it.
t » *
The average movie fan’s idea of an
atheist is one who doesn’t worship
George Arliss.
* • •
What China needs is a Chinese
sandman.
• • *
It’s an odious comparison, but
modem girls and tonsils are alike in
this respect: It costs a lot to take
them out,
• • •
In many cases, talking is a substi
tute for thinking—and a poor sub
stitute, at that.
• • •
It is said that religion and politics
can’t be mixed, but almost any minis
ter is enough of a politician not to
condemn too strongly the sms of his
best paying members are guilty.
* * •
No one ever had such a severe
case of insomnia that he was awake
when the alarm clock rang.
* » »
Another problem for the recording
angel: It is reported that 1,075 Gid
eon Bibles were stolen from hotels ?n
1933.
Drive today so that the floris.
won’t build an “at rest” pillow
you tomorrow.