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PAGE FOUR THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 7, 1935, The Butler Herald Established in 187ti SOME TFS” IN AMERICAN HISTORY C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner O. E. COX, Business Manager K. It. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt. OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO. Published every Thursday Average Weekly Circulation Fifteen Hunaied Copies. SUBSCRIPTION $1 50 A YEAR Entered at the Post Office at Butler, Georgia as Mail Matter of Second Class. Someone points out that usually when a woman marries for money the husband lasts longer than the money. Men are funny guys. See by the papers where one who nad not kissed his wife in live years kilted another fellow who did. The U. S. Treasury report recently submitted to Congress shows that tax refunds to individuals and corpora tions last year totaled $48,664,200. It is said that knocking never gets you a: ything but did you ever notice how often those congressmen and senators with hammers get re-elect ed to office V If you tried you might perhaps be able to bring it closer home than that. Huey Long looms as a menace on the political horizon to many. His un- parulelled conceit carries him to ex tremes few men attempt. Those who | Jf Columbus hud not studied as- | really fear Huey will do well to re- tronomy and geography, also if he member that Long's Undoing lies in ha(J yie , (ie(1 tl) the threats of his sail- I his very ruthlessness and high handed ors> WO uld no t have discovered I ness. Natures like Lon#’ know no America, moderation. One outbreak lead to an- j , f jJ hn Cabot had not dis- others with the result that with each covere< j the continent of North outbreak a new lot of supporters is Americ8i Great Britain would have I lost ' ln the course of time a fair had no claim for the establishment of sized opposition develops. History is colonies in America. full of similar examples.What Long’s [friends regard as his strength will prove his very undoing, These are rather harsh words com ing from a gentleman as we know the writer to be but well may we ponder the remarks of “Uncle Shack” in his Oglethorpe Echo, who in part says: “The whole country is siimply dumbfounded at the robberies, burglaries and such other ways the criminal element is resorting to to get what the other fellow has with out gi>ing anything in return there for Due efforts are made in most in stances to apprehend such robbers and bring them to justice; but we have among us robbers and robbers that we allow to ply their nefarious acts at will. Candidly we Tiave more If France hud kept out of the Ohio Valley, thre would not have been the “Frei ch and Indian War.” If General Braddock had heeded the avice of Washington, he would not have met disaster. If General Wolf had not climbed the precipes to the Heights of Abra ham, Great Britain would not have won Canada. If General Howe had not disre garded orders, fought the "Battle of Brandywine” and captured Philadel phia, the colonies would have lost the Revolution. I Washington had not crossed the Delaware, his cause would have been If the Patriots had not won the “Battle of King’s Mountain,” Corn- An exchange states: “A man should save enough to take care of his fam ily, enough to school his children, enough to take care of his old age. That’s all the saving anyone needs to do.” That, by the way, is about all the saving most men are able to do. The farmer who toils faithfully, theerful'ly and bravely tor the next ft.w months, will, at the end of the year look back on 1935 as a year without a cloud or a fog on his fin ancial horizon, and ready to put his shoulder to he wheel with others foi te progress an« upbuilding of the community. Most people who are transgressing the code, both .civil and moral, think they are getting by with it and that no one suspects them. As a rule they have gotten themselves in a frame of mind where they justify themselves in their conduct and from their view point it is not regarded as a trans gression. To them their case is dif ferent. A country newspaper can be run no better than the public support. It takes money to run a newspaper. If you want to know who ure enter prising consult the lists of the county paper and see who take the paper and who pay promptly. A newspaper office is the best place in the world to find out who is reliable and who ain’t as public spirited citizens.— Franklin News and Banner. leaped for the thug who halts his wa,,is would P™hably not have been victim on the street and makes him captured. give up is wealth or takes the risk I H France, Spain and Holland had of breaking into one’s house and not fought Great Britain as our al- helping himself to what he lir.ds than . *' es ’ wp wou ' d n °t bave won freedom we have for the robbers who adroit- ard independence, ly takes that which belongs to an- ; W George T ' lir, | ha<1 treated the other and yet mingles with us in thirteen colonies justly and with the safety. The thug at least shows nerve P ro P cr consideration, there would n I while the latter simply depends upon , have been a Revolution, his check to get him across. We re- ! It George Rogers Clarice had not fer to the many, and they seem to captured Ba kaskia ard Vincennes, come mighty near including every- Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana body these days, who inveigle people atl( i Ohio would have been a part ot into crediting them and then show Canada. no disposition or effort to meet the . If Lewis ard Clarke had not ex obligation. He robs his victims just as plored the “Oregon Country,” Wash- does the hold-up thug or the house- ington and Oregon would have been breaker; he takes that which belongs | a nart of Canada, to another without giving any re- ! If Jefferson had rot bought Louis- compense; he goes further and lies iana, the Mississippi River would he to his victims when he promises to the western boundary of the U. S. pay for what he gets while the thug If Commodore Perry had not won makes no false statements or prom- the Battle of Lake Erie, Michigan ises. Should he not, therefore, be less would have been a part of Canada respected by the public than is the ' If Gen. Andrew Jackson had not thug? Should he not be more disre- won the Battle of New Orleans, the spected? Should he not come under British would probably have taken the bane of criminal law as much as, the great Louisiana Territory by con quest. If Gen. Sam Houston had not re strained has soldiers ard saved the life of Gen. Santa Anna, Texas would not have g'ained her independence. If Eli Whitney had not invented Once America’s pride, the “little the cotton gin, there would not have red schoolhouse,” with- its barn-like , been the “War Between the States.” if not more than, the house break- FEWER SCHOOLHOUSES AND BETTER SCHOOLS If Thomas Jefferson had not cone tended for “States’ Rights”, there would not have been the “Cavil War. ’ If General Albert Sidney Johnson had not been killed at Shiloh, Grant’s probably have been captured, and there “Siege United States Treasury officials are working apace with plans to launch issues of government bonds in denominations as low as $25 in or der to appeal to and meet the needs of small investors. The move is a commendable one from several an gles. It will not only give the pur chaser a high degree of security for his savings but will give him a di rect and palpable interest in the fi nancial stability of the Government of the nation in which he is a citi zen and voter. J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the divi sion of investigation in the Depart ment of Justice, in a pamphlet dis tributed by the New York State Chamber of Commerce, charges that crime was the biggest industry in the United States. “Stealing, kid naping, robbing, thieving and murder ing” is a $15,000,DIM),000 a year busi ness, he said. Urging citizens to un ite in a war on criminals and their political ar.d legal allies, Mr. Hoover declared the parole system was be coming a “major menace.” According to the Philadelphia In quirer, Pennsylvania has her pardon and parole trouble. Recently many dastardly crimes have been commit ted by pardoned and paroled con victs. The Inquirer does not under stand the sentencing of convicted criminals to long terms of punish ment, and then having them pardon ed or paroled after only a brief serv ice of sentence. And one of tne things hard for us to understand is that it is not the poor fellow in for some minor offense who is pardoned or paroled but the big criminal serv ing for some serious offense. If this excessive use of the pardoning power keeps up, the legislatures will be forced to provide some other way foi the exercise of executive clemency. single room and primitive equipment is slowly but surely passing. More than 10,000 of these small district school buildings were abandoned in the past few years, their places be ing taken by the modem consolidated army would school. [ crushed and With the rapiil extension of good would ptobably have been no roads and the employment of motor of Vicksburg.” busses for the transportation of chil- 1 If Gen. Bragg’s orders could have dren to these larger institutions, it been carried out, the Northern army seems inevitable that the one-room could probably have been whipped school, with its many handicaps, will and captured in detail, and there eventually disappear. | would not have been the Battle of While the district school must thus ] Chickamauga. give place to a new and better sys- | If Wood’s Division of the Northern tern, it has filled a paramount role in I army had not made the “Fatal Gap” the advancement of the nation To at Chickamauga, the Confederate ar- t,he self-sacrificing labors of faithful , my would probably have been de- teachers in these rural schools many j feated. amous men and women owe their | if General Lee had not lost his early education and inspiration. j p] a n of battle in his Maryland cam- But the demands of progress must paign, which was found by McClel- be met in education, as well as in all ] a n, his first invasion of the North other phases of our increasingly com- j might have been successful, plex civilization. The new and larger j if L ee had had Stonewall Jackson consolidated school, with its staff of a t Gettysburg, he would very prob- better prepared teachers, its 1m- ably have succeeded, and possibly proved organization and its modern could have made peace with the equipment will mark an advance over North. If Commodore Dewey had not won at the “Battle of Manila Bay” we should not have the Phillipir.e Is lands. If Gen. Joe Wheeler had not disre garded the orders of Gen. Shafter to retreat, the Battle of Santiago might not have been won. If Germany had not illegall> used the “little red school chouse,” which must make for a more enlightened and efficient citizenship. NERVY SALES METHODS Local business and professional men are ftequently annoyed by mail order firms which send them goods not ordered, with a request that the c ” T‘"T 1 ’ " , ,7”' I - ' , 1 . , „ her submarines, we should not have been in the World War. merchandise be either paid for or re turned. Such sales methods are en tirely indefensible. It is unfair to place upon a busy man the burden of wrapping and re mailing stuff lie does not want, yet the average person, feels an obliga tion to pay for it or send it back This method of alleged salesmanship no doubt produces results, or it would not he resorted to by the con cerns which practice it, The above paragraphs can be tak en as subjects for historical essays by the school boys and girls of Tayl lor county. Pastor Marshall Nelms of Sardis church, Hart county, is thoroughly ' “sold” on the “God’s Acre” plan of ! raising ■ money. His church produced I in 1934 fifteen hales of cotton which One way of handling such cases is ' cotton when solll > together with the reported by a Michigan paper. A doc- j seeed, totaled about one-half of the tor was sent $10 worth of cigars ; amount set up in the church budget with a request to try them and re- ■ for that year. As a result the church mit if satisfied. In case he did not was able to P a y seven hundred dol- snioke, it was suggested that the doc- ' ars on *t- s church debt and this pay- tor could find some frier.d who would men t liquidated a mortgage amount- be glad to take them off his hands. I in g to two thousand dollars. In ad- The doctor wrote in reply: j dition all local expenses were paid, “Cigars received. I enclose in pay- , about five hundred dollars were giv- ment two prescriptions well worth en to the co-operative program and $10. If you do not need them, you tbe churoh treasurer , had a balance ’ ' of over one hundred dollars on Jan- THE BLASPHEMY OK LIQUOR (By Nat G. Long) That which cripples the bodies, mars the minds, and ruins the souls of men and women not oi.ly thus de bauches humanity; it blasphemes God. Ic is the duty of Christians to de stroy any such blasphemous thing. Such a horrible evil' is liquor. The Christian church can be true to God cnly by fighting it to a finish. One cf the most needed things is to face the awful facts about liquor. First, let us ask, what is alcohol? Science says that alcohol is not a stimulant as many thought for hun dreds of years, but a depressant. One’s heart beats faster .after drink ing alcohol. This is not due to any stimulating effect but to the fact that the alcohol has puralyzed the nerve centers that control the rate of the 1 eart-beat, and the heurt is more or less running wild. It is like releas ing the brakes on a car and allowing it to go pell-mell down, the hill. Alco hol has been thought to be a food. Food increases the working power of muscles and bruin, aids one in en- dming physical strain, maintains the warmth <>f the body, and helps the body to resist disease; alcohol does just the exact opposite of every thing that food rices. For over a hundred years medical authorities have de clared that alcohol is a poison. Typi cal of hundreds of quotations from authorities of every civilized country is this from Dr. Emil Bogen, “No other poison..causes so many deaths, or leads to or intensifies so many dis eases, both physical and mental, as does alcohol in the various forms in which it is taken.” How does alcohol affect man’s body ? Alcohol is a protoplasmic poi son. The structural unit of the hu man body is the .cell. The cell itself is i microscopic bit of complex, jelly- like substance called protoplasm. Sur rounding the ceil is a protective membrane The membrane separates the cell from adjacent cells. Through the membrane oxygen ar.d nourish ment pass into the cell; through the membrane waste matters pass out. In a sense, the membrane protects the cell from certain injurious substances that get into the blood stream. Thir teen trillion cells make up the human structure. Alcohol dissolves the mem brane and paralyzes the cell. Thus, says Atticus Webb, alcohol “is the poison that strikes the very founda tion of our physical existence and damages the material that enters into it.” Very readily alcohol 1s taken up from the stomach into the blood stream and thus is driven con tinuously around to damage the cells of a man’s body. , Alcohol retards digestion. It leads to chronic inflamation of the lining of the stomach, causing gastrtis and other disorders. It may lead to chron ic catarrh ar.d the failure of the di gestive juices. This leads to the ab sorption from the alimentary canal of poisonous matters. Alcohol over works and impairs the liver.Sir Thos. Oliver, British specialist, says, “Six ty to eighty per cent of all casses of cirrhosis of the liver are due di rectly or indirectly to alcohol.” Brit ish authorities declare that alcohol contributes to the development ol Bright’s disease, to the degeneration of the blood venssels, which leads to apoplexy, and that it promotes fatty degeneration of the heart. Alcohol greatly injures the tissues of the brain. Alcohol impairs the .capacity oi the white blood cells to destroy germs; it reduces the .power of the anti-toxins and the resistance of the red blood cells. Consequently when a drinker is injured he has less chance to recover than the nor.-drinker. The cells of the drinker may be so weakened that they cannot fight off infection and build new tissues. Tests have shown that the wounds of drinkers taxe three to four times longer to heal than those of non-drinkers. Blood poison is three to four times as like ly to set in with drinkers as with non-drinkers. A great industry kept records of its 1 injured men. Drinkers had a death rate of 4 to 1 compared with that of non-drinkers. Alcohol greatly reduces the resistance of the body against all diseases. A French autsority says, “Alcohol prepares the soil for tuberculosis.” One of the most appalling mistakes that drinkers make is to think that alcohol will help combat cold. Alco hol does give a quick feeling of can sell them to some friend.” luary I, 1935. DON’T NEGLECT YOUR KIDNEYS! I F your kidneys are net working right and you suffer backache, dizziness, burning, scanty or too frequent urination, swollen feet and ankles; feel lame, stiff, “all tired out” . . . use Doan’t Pills. i Thousands rely upon Doan’s. They are praised the country over. Get Doan’i PUU today. For sale by all druggists. « DOAN’S PILLS warmth, but what actually happer.e is this: The human body has a sys tem of nerves which regulate the teiibion of the blood vessels at the surface of the skin. On a hot day the nerves relux the tension and allow a large amount of blood to flow to the surface of the skin to be cooled. On a cold day, the nerves increase the tension, and force the blood from the surface away from the cooler air intc the interior of the body which ij warmer. Naturally, then, to com bat a cold one would want to make his blood warmer, and to avoid any thing that will actually make his body colder. Alcohol actually makes one’s body colder. Alcohol paralyzes the nerves which control the surface tension. The tension is thus relaxed. The blood flows to the surface where it is cooled more and more. Alcohol dulls all the senses of body. The drinker feels warmer because his sense of feeling is dulled by the alco hol and because his blood is flowing right at the surftfee at the very time when it ought to be forced to the interior. Instead of helping to com bat cold, alcohol helps cold to get a better hold. British authorities de clare that alcohol causes one to be especially susceptible to pneumonia. Alcohol robs men of physical en durance. Sir Frederick Treves, speaking of the soldiers of the Boar war, said, “In. that enormous column of 30,(A)0 men, the fiirst who dropped out were not the tall men, or the short men, or the big men, or the little men.—they were the drinkers, and they dropped out as clearly as if they had been labelled with a big ‘D’ on their backs.” Two groups of soldiers were given beer, the other water. The group with beer gave out more quickly and did less work. Ath letes of every kind have rejected al cohol. Connie Mack, Knute Rockne, Alonzo Stagg, Bill Tilden, Jack Dempsey, Gene Tunney are a few of the celebrated athletes all of whom have spumed alcohol because it de- ctroys physical endurance. The records of 42 life insurance companies show unmistakably that alcohol shortens life. They show that men who drink on the average of twr glasses of beer a day have a mor tality rate 18 per cent higher th the average; the occasional heav | drinkei has a mortality 60 per cen , | higher than the average; and ^ I I steady moderate drinker has a ni0 . ! j tality of 86 per cent higher than Z J average. Note that the life insurant companies declare that the steady I moderate drinker lives a shorter tLm# than those who ure occasional liea.v' drinkers. Much has been said 1 in praise i>> the moderate drinker. But alcohol I being u protoplasmic poison, it , cumulative. Alcohol regularly taken into the body will gradually poi^ •he cells. One authority declares tha, i tne person who occasionally gets deal |drunk, and then lets liquor alone for weeks or months is not nearly in s , much danger as the one who drinkj I regularly. (This does not say th it I there are not terrible effects fro.nl the occasional spree). Moderate! drinking slowly injures every organ of the body. Dr. C. C. Weeks, English ! authority on alcohol, declares that a',. ' coholism is one of the four great health scourges of modem civiliza tion'—-cancer, tuberculosis, and ven- eral diseases, being the other three. Ellis G Arnall, representative from Coweta county and speaker pro-tem of the house of representatives, re ceived last week the distinguished Service Cross of the United States 1 Junior Chamber of Commerce for his work last year as president oi the i Georgia Junior Chamber. When Your Head Feels “Stuffy .. Apply Va-tro-nol ...just a few drops. Va-tro-nol pene trates deep into the nasal passages, reduces swollen membranes, clears away clogging mu cus, brings welcome relief. Two generous sizes ... 3(V and 50f. . USED IN TIME HELPS PREVENT MANY COLDS Are fiilg 1©® Are YOU Satisfied Present Tax System? DO YOU WAINT TAX BELIEF 4?- ~. Ink ** I he present Georgia Legislature has not yet passed any tax relief bills. The County Commissioners' Association and the Mayors Association through their organizations w Mla.itn are attempting to confuse the minds ol the Legislators as to (lie effect of tax relief. We believe the particular officials who are responsible for this effort are actuated by their own selfish in terest rather than the welfare of their people. ♦ The Governor and Legislators have heard and are hearing from these associations. They have not heard from you. The views of selfish politicians will not weigh heavily with this Governor and Legislature if only they can hear from the people * HAVE THEY HEARD FROM YOU? This matter of taxes on real estate vitally concerns your pocket book. You can’t afford not to express your opinion! If you haven’t time to write a full letter, simply clip this coupon and mail it today to the Senator or Representative from your district, c/o State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia. DO NOT DELAY. To.. (Insert Name of Senator or Representative) I urge tax relief and tax reform NOW. Name City County This communication is from the Georgia Real Estate Tax Bayers’ Association. R. C. NEELY, Waynesboro, Ga., President. T. P. SAFFOLD, Ex. V.P., Savannah, Ga.