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TUB BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 10, 1935.
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The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
O. E. COX, Business Manager
R. It. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hunaied Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION 11.60 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler, I
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second I
Class.
It is now that time of the year
when but few New Year’s resolutions
remain.
Your community will always be
just as good as the people who live
in it make it.
A Buffalo couple prescribes a good
scrap every day as a recipe for hap
piness. But shucks, if there was any
thing to that, don't you think there
would be a lot more people happy
than are?
A group of musicians have gone
on strike down in Mexico. It’s just
another instance going to show that
while America is a mighty good
country, we really don’t have all the
advantages.
Two little countries down in South
America have been having a war for
months and months. But it doesn’t
amount to much because the United
States hasn't loaned ’em some money
not to pay back.
When the farmers meet, they want
one thing; when the industrialists
meet, they want something else. Try
ar.d 1 imagine what a nice argument
they will have if St. Peter places
them' all together.
No method has yet been devised to
make a man believe that which he
does not want to believe.
A mirror is a nice thing to have
around, of course. However, you
can’t look into one and see yourself
as others see you.
Isn’t it odd that little Finland
would turn out to be the most truth
ful and honest of all the nations of
the earth that owe us?
Over at Etowah, Tenn., a young
autoist while driving lit a fire crack
er thinking it was a cigarette. Imag
ine him being nonchalant.
“Woman, 80, Never Kissed, Is
Dead,” says a headline. But some
how or other, we don’t reckon that
had anything to do with it.
Those who advertise must always
keep two things in -mind. First, they
must have something to sell. Second,
they must tell others about it.
“Former Kaiser Wilhelm Loses
Suit for $192,000,” states a headline.
Why, we’d even throw ours away
and not even look for it for less than
that.
Natives of New Guinea want your
old razor blades, a new® item says.
You see, they probably don’t know
that you use ’em to trim your toe
nails with.
One more movie couple has mar
ried the past year than has been di
vorced, we see in the papers. How
ever, the item didn’t specify who
that couple was.
The Japanese don’t want the
United States to dig a canal across
Nicaraga. That makes us even. The
United 1 States doesn’t want Japan to
build a bigger navy.
The Herald extends sincere con
gratulations to the editors of the
Jackson I’rogress-Argus, tnat paper
having completed 63 years of effec
tive service to the community.
Y’ou will find many people who be
lieve that the stock market serves no
useful purpose. They forget that it is
often used as a substitute for poker,
marked cards and slot machines.
Over in India a woman wrote 600 4
words on a postcard in communicat
ing wiwi a friend by mail. And we
bet a nickel she started off by saying
she didn’t know any news to write.
It is agreed that the country is
better off now than at any time dur
ing the past year, but no political
partisans can be found who will agree
upon the reasons for the improve
ment.
It isn’t the amount of liquor you
drink, but the kind, that gives you a
headache, a noted doctor declares.
Which doesn’t necessarily mean that
there will be fewer headaches in the
future.
While the sun will grow smaller,
we mortals need not worry, accord
ing to a leading scientist. We shan’t
—much—(because he says it will
probably take 40,000,000 years for it
to do so.
A year ago there was considerable
worry about the fate of the Ameri
can dollar. Printing-press inflation,
much feared, was escaped in 1934,
but it kept the big financiers *ampy
all the time. Today the American dol
lar is the most stable of all cur
rencies in the world. However, this
may not be due so much to Ameri
ca’s well-being as to the sad plight
of other nations, all of whom are
worse off.
Some people seem to think that
when you disagree with them about
something, you are the awfullest
kind of a person. But they never
think what they may be when they
disagree with you.
Vice-President Gamer denies that
he fell out of a tree and says that he
merely jumped, In a few days he can
get back in the papers by telling us
just why a Vice-President should
jump from a tree.
Mr. Townsend and his $200 a
month pensions may not get very far
in Congress, but just look at the nice
publicity he is getting. Next thing
you know he’ll be a rival for the
presidency along with Huey Long.
Every buyer in Taylor county owes
it to his community and to his fam
ily to first try to buy everything he
needs in his own community. And
merchants owe it to the local buyers
to keep in stock attractive goods at
fair prices. If both parties do their
part the towns in Taylor county will
grow and prosper. Without this co
operation, business will lag.
How can the group that tries to
pose as watch-dogs of the treasury
—and forever howling about public
expenditures, reconcile their friendly
attitude toward the removal of the
State Capital with their pronounced
ideas of economy ? We imagine that
it would 1 cost a few dollars to move
the capitol anywhere, besides, the
useless discussion of the proposition
would cost much and weary the pa
tience of the voter. Why not talk and
write about something the masses of
the people are interested In—ana
quit so much political wind-jamming?
—Millen News.
DRUNKEN DRIVERS
Drivers should 1 not drink, and
drinkers should not drive. Every per
son who ; s at the wheel of an auto
mobile or truck should be in full
possession of all his faculties. Not
only does his own safety demand
that he keep his vehicle under control
but there are others who are using
the highways whose safety should
also be considered.
We know of no offense classed as
a misdemeanor that is worse than
driving an automobile or truck while
under the influence of an intoxicant.
If a man has a pint of liquor in his
pocket but has not tasted it, he is
violating the law, but he has not up
to that point injured himself, nor has
the public been seriously affected by
this violation of law. Rut if he has a
pint in his stomach and has reached
that stage that many drunk men
reach where he knows it ail and can
not be told anything, and feels that
he is just about the smartest man in
the world, then he becomes danger
ous if he attempts to drive an auto
mobile or truck.
There is no excuse for the mah
who will drink to excess and then
attempt to drive upon the highways.
And juries usually have less com
passion for violators of this statute
than of many others. Heavier penal
ties and s'vift and sure punishment
will make the driver who may drink,
think more seriously of doing both
at the same time. Sobriety is one of
the esentials of good driving and
safety to all who use the highways.
Records of the courts and coroners’
offices everywhere tell tragic! stories
of the man whose judgment and rea
son were warped by strong drink.
Untimely deaths to drivers and inno
cent victims are too often caused bj
such wanton and reckless conduct
At best the automobile or truck upor
the highway is dangerous enough
but when an irresponsible, urunkei
driver is at the wheel, death ride
with him. Jail doors and prison bar
would separate these two dangerou
companions from defenseless inno.cer.
persons.
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS
The president in ms address before
congress makes tne emphatic state
ment that "the federal government
must and shall quit this business ol
relief,” ar.d calls for a program ol
public construction to furnish jobs
lor 3,6011,000 of those now unem
ployed. He would remove 1,500,000
unemployables from the FEItA rolls
by returning their care to local com
munities.
He expresses the belief that under
the new plan “we can supersede the
federal emergency relief administra
tion with a co-ordinated authority
which will be charged with the order
ly liquidation of our present relief
activities ai.d the substitution of a
national chart for the giving of
work.”
The address reviews the progress
of the recovery campaign, among the
chief accomplishments of wiiich is
listed' the saving of millions from ut
ter destitution, the outlawing of
child labor, the saving of thousands
of homes to their owners, and “most
important of all,” the restoration ol
the morale of the nation.
As in his previous messages at
the opening of congressional sessions
the president deals with conditions
and policies only in general terms,
but gives the assurance that he will
submit suggestion® for legislation
covering the topics discussed.
The president warns against
“predatory wealth,” but reiterates his
belief in the “profit motive” in plain
and direct words. In emphasizing
this position, he says:
“We find our population suffering 1
from old inequalities, little changed
by past sporadic remedies. In spite
of our efforts, and in spite of our
talk, we have not weeded out the ov-
er-iprivileged and we have not effec
tively lifted up the under-privileged.
Both of these manifestations of in
justice have retarded happiness. No
wise man has any intention of de
stroying what is known as the profit
motive; because by the profit motive
we mean the right by work to earn a
decent livelihood 1 for ourselves and
for our families.
“We have, however, a clear man
date from the people, that Americans
must foreswear that conception ot
the acquisition of wealth which, thru
excessive profits, creates undue pri
vate power over private affairs, and,
to our misfortune, over public affairs
as well, in building toward this end
we do not destroy ambition r.or do
we seek to divide our wealth into
equal shares on stated occasions. We
continue to recognize the greater
ability of some to earn more than
others. But we do assert that the
ambition iff the individual to obtain
for him and his a proper security, a
reasonable leisure, and a decent liv
ing throughout life, is an ambition
to be preferred to the appetite for
great wealth and great power.”
The cars with which the recovery
policies have been tested, and the
unity of purpose and activity widen
has been achieved, is cited by the
president as follows:
“As the various parts of the pro
gram begun in the extraordinary ses
sion of the 73rd congress shape them
selves in practical administration, the
unity of our program reveals itself
to the nation. The outlines of the new
economic order, rising from the dis
integration of the old, are apparent.
We test what we have done as our
measures take root in the living tex
ture of life. We see where we have
built wisely and where we can do
still better.’
Support of social security legisla
tion is promised by the president,
and other already advanced policies
are briefly commented upon.
The address is largely a review
ar.d restatement of the recovery pro
gram, the only new policy of im
portance being the advocacy of an
enlarged construction program de
signed to take the government out
of relief activities.
It is reassuring in its plain state
ment of the 1 admnistration’s desire
that the recovery and relief activities
of the government shall cease at the
earliest possible time, and the re
iteration that radicalism has no part
now, nor will have, in the fundamen
tal reforms to be sought.—Atlanta
Constitution
OUR SPIRITUAL NEEDS
After all, the president can do lit-
le more under the Constitution than
;erve in one way or another the peo-
ile’s material needs. The trouble is,
he real needs of America and of
he v/orld are not material, but
piritual. It is putting the cart before
he horse to feed the inert cart, the
iody, and starve the living horse,
he soul. Political leadership every
where has failed, and will fail. Po
'tical leadership is an arm of flesh
'he new leadership of America ant
f the world will be religious not po
tical.—Charles Hooper, Coeui
.’Alene, Idaho.
THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES |
Out of the bewilderment and con- |
fusion and hopelessness of the past
few years this nation has emerged
with faith and courage and— above
all’—a social-min’dedness which prom
ises to make a new era of the times
now bginr.ing.
The social-mindedness has reached
into government, into business ar.d
industry. We have made spiritual
progress as well as material prog
ress during the past year. We are
not yet out of the depression. We
have made definite gains, but we
cannot expect to deliver ourselves
from its bud effects within a year or
two years.
The material benefits have been
mostly of a nature to sustain us un
til times improve and to restore the
nation to the prosperity it formerly
enjoyed. The spiritual benefits look
toward a fuller life in which all will
share in a more just proportion than
before.
We as a people, have come to re
alize that the little man, because of
his numbers, is an important factor
in the scheme of things. He is im
portant, not merely because he has
certain rights for which he will stand
up en masse, but also because the
country cannot get along without him
and because when he suffers the tota.
of human grief is multiplied by mil
lions. Without production machinery
geared to mass output, there can t>e
no profits for industry unless the
millions of our population are able to
purchase its products.
Hereafter, the value of an enter
prise is to be measured by its value
to society. Individual initiative ana
fair profits will continue to have
their places in the scheme, but we
will demand better safeguards
against unsocial activity masquerad
ing under the guise of business.
The new spirit of the times is op
posed to the regimentation of people
in enterprises that deny a living wage
to the masses while creating vast
fortunes for others. This spirit Je-
mands the invention of machinery
which will spread the benefits of a
decent living to all who are willing
to work for them and guarantees to
those too old to produce and to those
who, for some other reason, are un
able to bear a part of the nation's
work.
It is in this spirit that we are
grateful, not so much for the per
sonal benefits which we enjoyed dur
ing the year just closed, but rather
for the general improvement, which
has brought us, not only to the trail
of material recovery, but also to the
mental and spiritual condition where
we can regard ourselves, not only as
individuals, but also as members of a
society, closely knit, dependent one
part on another ard sharing with one
another, the bounty of our common
endeavor and concern for the welfare
of all.
TAXES ON HOMES
Home owners in a great part of the
48 states, are going to have part of
the tax burden lifted from their
shoulders if bills introduced in the
state legislatures become laws.
There is no reason why a man
with a small home should be taxed so
heavily. We encourage people to
own their own homes, yet our sys
tem of taxation discourages them.
In Florida, homes worth up to $5,-
000 have been exempted from tax
ation, and that one thing is en
couraging 1 the people of that state to
own their homes.
We are n it offering a suggestion
as to how we could make up the loss
in revenue, .f such a system were
adopted in Georgia, but we do be
lieve that it is a good plan to exempt
the small home owner from taxation.
It might le that the $5,000 exemp
tion is too nigh. But it could be low
ered in Georgia. If we could exempt
from taxation homes worth up to $2,-
500, we believe that it would have a
wholesome effect and would encour
age people to try and obtain a home
of their own.
A constitutional amendment would
be necessary to make such a change
in the tax laws of Georgia which
would necessitate w-aiting two years
for the change, even if the legislature
passes such a bill at the coming ses
sion, but certainly such a plan is
worthy of some consideration.—Bar
tow Herald.
A Hollywood movie star is suing
for divorce after nine days of mar
ried life because her husband insisted
that another person go with them on
their honeymoon. We think that the
decree should be granted at least
quick if not sooner.
Many business men have learned
that classified advertisements make
money for those who use them. The
Herald has a rate for such, advertise
ments that is low enough to make
them available to everybody, We
would like to convince anyone who
has anything to sell.
BIRTHDAY BALLS FOR 1935
The movement to honor President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt with com
munity dances and 1 balls to be held
throughout the country on the night
of January 30, the 63rd anniversary
of hi® birth, give® assurance of be
ing an impressive success.
The plan was projected by a na
tional committee which includes many
of the most distinguished men in the
contry, the underlying purpose being
to devote the proceeds of the sale of
tickets to the Endowment Fund of
the Warm Springs, Ga., Foundation,
in which the President is deeply in
terested.
The suggestion to repeat the balls
came from Henry L. Doherty, utili
ties operator, patron of the Warm
Springs Foundation of which Mr.
Roosevelt is founder, and long an in
timate friend of the President.
It was to the waters of this spot,
where Mr. Roosevelt has built a resi
dence that has become the second
White House, that he is largely in
debted for recovery from the attack
of infantile paralysis which came
suddenly upon him in the plentitude
of his powers some years ago; and
his gratitude has ever since found
expression in a desire to enlarge, as
far as possible, the equipment of the
resort in order that others might ex
perience similar benefits.
The hall that was recently opened
there was one of the results of the
interest in the enterprise which the
President’s humanitarian efforts
stimulated among men or prominence
who knew of his personal hope that
Warm Springs might be enlarged, so
as to become a real national benefac
tion.
It was the happy conception of
some of his friends to utilize the oc
casion of his approaching anniver
sary as affording an opportunity both
to express the national regard and
felicitations, and, as an incident to a
commemorative social event, to se
cure funds that would be expended
to expand 1 the usefulness of a project
dear to the President’s heart.
In every community, in every city,
a local chairman and committee of
arrangements forthe anniversary ball
will be appointed; and the wide
spread interest that is already evinc
ed indicates that the event will be a
great success.
The funds derived from me com
ing “birthday balls” will be used
differently, that is, in the expansion
and improvement of the facilities for
treating victims of the disease in the
areas in which the money is con
tributed.
At the time the suggestion was
“'birthday balls” be repeated, he
made to President Roosevelt that the
turned the proposal over to the tru s .
tees of the Warm Springs Foundation
with the request that they act upon
it.
The trustees of the Foundation a p.
proved 1 the idea but accompanied
their indorsement with the following
recommendation, as to the disposition
of the fund:
“Seventy per cent of the funds
raised through and by tne American
public on the anniversary of you t
next birthday to be used directly to
help those committees, individuals
doctors, hospitals and other organi
zations struggling with the task ol
providing care and treatment in their
communities, counties or states for
those affected with infantile paraly.
sis, such funds to be expended with,
in the community or within the near
est geographical unit of which the
community is a part; and 30 per cent
of the funds raised to be used to
' maintain and intensify the efforts 0 (
! medical research to develop proven-
1 tives of and immunization against
t infantile paralysis with the purpose
of eradicating this scourge exactly
j medical science has successfully com-
bated and brought under contro
smallpox, diphtheria, typhoid fever,
yellow fever and 1 similar maladies.”
CHILDREN SHOULD BE WARNED
The teachers of Taylor county
schools should not fail to take a few
minutes out of their regular worl
each week to discuss with their pu
pils the dangers of the highways.
Eighty children are killed each
week by speeding automobiles and
trucks. Not only should this slaughter
have the attention of the teachers in
our schools, but all other organiza
tions should help in the fight against
this terrible toll. Children must
peatedly be warned to avoid the
dangers that lurk in the careless use
of the highways over which tiiey
must pass.
It is time for us to quit taking for
granted the death of 80 children each
week and almost as many adults each
day. The price is too great to pay Tor
speed. By concerted efforts the death
toll can be cut down appreciably.
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