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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, APRIL 18, 1936.
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The Butler Herald
Established in 187(1
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
O. E. COX, Business Mnuager
R. li. KIRKSKY, Shop Supt.
OFFICIAL GROAN ()F TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fitteen Hunaicd Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION II 50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler, j
Jeorgiu as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Advertisers who buy advertising
wisely are to be found in the col- 1
urnns of this newspaper. j
Driving automobiles and drinking |
liquor are dangerous to others as j
well as the man in the car. j
Dr. S. V. Sanford’s elevation to
Chancellorship of the University
System of Georgia, has met with uni
versal approval.
Those who believe that the even
tual solution of the railroad problem
must lie government ownership of the
lines, would do well to take a look
across the Canadian border.
Congress has before it many im
portant proposals, some of which will
involve prolonged disputes and de
bates. Already it is predicted the
session will continue until late Sum
mer.
The selection of Editor Grady
Adams of the Moultrie Observer as
postmaster of his home town by
Congressman Cox is most gratifying
to the friends of both the editor and
the Congressman.
All this agitation for mortgage
moratoriums and debt moratoriums
suggests that when the world gets
straightened out from this depres
sion a series of moratoriums on too
free spending will be in order.
Governor Tulmadge has vetoed 160
of the 6S4 bills awl resolutions
passed by the recent session of the
legislature. The Governor may have
been right in each andevery instance
nevertheless he has established an
unprecedented record.
Our esteemed young friend, Judge
Gordon Chambers, up Augusta way,
will need all the time allotted him in
which to campaign for the seat in
the national senate held by Senatoi
Walter F. George. This election, does
not occur until 1938.
Mu.di credit is due Dr. M. D. Col
lins, state school superintendent of
schools who is remaining in Wash
ington, though very much desiring
to be at home, until he gets favor
able federal action in behalf of the
school's of the state.
Doubtless most other Georgia edi
tors will envy the pencil-pushers of
the First ami Eighth Congressional
districts of their visit to the Nation
al Capitol next week. Every arrange
ment is being made to make this a
most delightful event.
Why is it that the man who gets
caught in a jackleg insurance com
pany and loses his policy proceeu-i
to condemn the insurance companies,
but if he gets hold of some bad
whiskey his faith in his favorite
beverage is in no wise shaken 7
A reader of this paper reports
that exeunt for the footnotes pub
lished below the pictures of trials
held in this country recently, he is
unable to tell the difference between
the officers of the law, the witnesses
the lawyers and the criminals.
This loose talk about repudiating
ail debts may strike a popular chord
on some ears at the present moment
but when times re-assert themselves,
as they- will, those who have chosen
to ignore their obligations will find
their appeals for financial assistance
in the future falling on deaf ears.
It Ls reported that both Chas. D.
Kedwine, president of the late la
mented senate and Ed Rivers, speak
er of the House are candidates for
governor. If we are to judge them
by the ixvord of the bodies the pre
sided over, where the governor, their
governor, found it necessary to veto
160 of the measures enacted,we can’t
be expected to be very enthusiastic in
supporting either of them.—Carroll
ton Times.
According to reports Postmaster
General Farley will resign his seat in
ihe cabinet shortly after Congress
adjourns. He will retain his post as
chairman of the Democratic National
Committee, and thus manage Presi
dent Roosevelt’s campaign in 1936.
It is gratifying to the agricultural
interest of the county to know that
lay lor county farmers are using on
ly the best long stuple and improved
breeds of cottor. seed in planting
their crops this year. As a result they
will get a better price for their sta
ple.
The Sylvester Local makes the
suggestion that since the Georgia
legislature has assumed the preroga
tive of naming highways in honor ol
persons ol nine, that the road to
Milledgeville be designated as the
“Aubrey Smith-Leland Harvey High
way.”
We have an idea that if the for
eign nations had been made to pay
their war debts or deliver the mort
gaged property they would not be on
war brittle so soon. The money that
should have been used to pay honor
able debts has been used to buy war
equipment.
Early in the year, Cason J. Calla
way, head of the big cotton mills at
LaGrange, is said to have written a
circular letter to his employes de
claring that the mills had lost $100,-
OGO during the preceding three
months and asking for suggestions
for increasing production and cur
tailing costs. Many answers were re
ceived, but the most unique came
from an old negro man, who wrote:
“Dear Mr. Callaway—If it is all di
same to you, I think de best thing to
do is to jes’ let things go on lak dey
is."
Portraits of eight famous alumni
of the University of Georgia, done in
oil by celebrated ariists, will be pre
sented to the University of Georgia
on Alumni Day, May 4. The portraits
will be those of Wm. Sylvar.us Mor
ris, for many years dean of the law
school; Jas. M. Wayne, a justice of
the U. S. Supreme Court; Wm. E.
Boggs, a former chancellor of the
U: iversity;General Robert Toombs, a
noted southern statesman; John P.
Campbell, professor of the Universi
ty; Henry L. Benning, brigadier gen
eral in the Confederate annies; Jno.
A. Campbell, a justice of the U. S.
Supreme Court; and I.. Q. C. Lamar,
a member of President Cleveland’s
cabinet. The alumni address will be
delivered by Preston S. Arkwright,
president of the Georgia Power Co.
A business man recently told us
that he actually derived some benefit
from a sick spell he had recently.
For some years past this man has
been hard at work and never missed
a day on account of sickness. Sud
denly sickness came and he was forc
ed to lie on his back and look at the
ceiling for several days. While so
engaged he had an opportunity to
size up his business ard the progress
he was making, something that he
had never taken time to do during
his well days and years. As a result
he got a different viewpoint ami saw
thing's in a different light. He made
several radical changes in his busi
ness which he tells us have resulted
in a distinct improvement. It wasn’t
the effects of the illness of course,
just the fact that the illness made
it possible for him to do something
hut previously he never thought ne
had time to do—think.
Mechanically speaking, the auto
mobile of today is infinitely safer
than that of 10 years ago. Brakes
reach perfection. Lights have been
vastly improved. Steering mechan
isms are fool-proof. Car bodies can
stand terrific punishment. Similar
progress has taken place in road
building. The modern highway, with
traffic lanes, banked turns and “skid-
less" surfaces, is a tribute to en
gineering science, which has done
wonders in seeking to make driving
safe and pleasant. Yet automobile
accidents continue to rise—both in
number and severity. The motorist
has no alibi. He can’t blame the car
or the road for mishaps, save in an
infinitesimal percentage of instances.
The human' element—and the hu
man element alone—is at fault in
ninety-odd accidents out of a hun
dred. Most drivers are competent.
Most are careful. Most realize that
an automobile is a potential killer.
But that minority of motorists
w-hich is either careless, incompetent,
or plain reckless, menaces us all.
Perhaps ten per cent of drivers fall
into one of those categories—and the
lives, health and property of the
other ninety per cent is placed in
peril because of them.
TAYLOR’S CCC CAMP
One of the best-built and provided
for institutions we have ever seen is
the group of buildings and facilities
constructed for the Civilian Conser
vation Corps that has been stationed
for some 18 months near Butler in
Taylor county.
The unit there has been doing a
splendid work in protecting and
building up the pine fores-ts in that
section, which has excellent and val
uable forests that should be given
special consideration in our tragic
day of waning woodlands.
The only flaw in the above matter
is that, for some reason, the OCC
forces have been moved away from
Taylor county, although the build
ings, etc., still remain.
Under the enlarged COC, it is to
be earnestly hoped that the govern
ment will again find itself able to
send such forces back to Taylor and
occupy again this camp so much val
uable work is yet needed to be ac
complished.—Columbus Ledger.
It is indeed pleasing to the Her
ald that the matter referred to above
is at last receiving some outside at-
ention and which it is sincerely
hoped will reach the eyes and gain
the attention of the proper authori
ties responsible for re-establishing
idle OCC Camps in Georgia, espe
cially in sections where reforestation
and preservation has been begun and
the work only half, or less, complet
ed.
Thousands of dollars were spent
and months of labor employed in the
construction of the local camp near
Butler. The buildings are left to de
cay and equipment deteriorate while
new-, camps are being established at
great expense in other sections of
Georgia, and where the work pro
vided for the er.listed men is to the
Herald’s way of thinking far less in
importance than that of protecting
our pines which bespeak untold
wealth for this section in a few
years if given the proper care and
attention.
We hope some means will be de
vised to arouse the proper authori
ties to this very important matter
resulting in the re-estaiblishmen ol
this camp and resumption of work
started at the very earliest possible
moment; remembering that every
week, or even every day’s delay
means further deterioration of the
property and a waste of morey for
replacements.
We believe the time is coming
whet every school of any size will
have in its personnel a neurologist
and a psychiatrist. Briefly, this is
the science of examining a child’s
mind and discovering past causes for
present non-normal actions and .cor
recting them. In the larger schools
and colleges where such expert help
| has been available to the students,
| many students have been led to
make discoveries and corrections in a
few weeks that have led to a com
plete turning upside down ar.d inside
out of their lives and reorganization
for a more effective and more satis
factory work. This science is already
far past the experimental stage. The
thought suggests 1 this line of work
as a possible vocation for young peo
ple who are looking for a life work
in less crowded fields. It may be
sometime before the small town
schools add such a department but a
person so trainee! might offer his
services to the schools of a .county
or a larger area and thereby enable
the individual school to avail itself
of such service ait small individual
cost. It represents a truly remark
able and helpful field of human en
deavor.
TIME TO BECOME CAUSTIC
(Macon Telegraph)
Senator Walter F. George of
Georgia is a mild-mannered man and
does r.ot often feel called upon to
address the Senate. He must have
been stirred deeply, therefore, when
he made his attack upon Secrtary
Wallace, of the Department of Agri
culture, whom he declared to be unfit
to ocupy a place in the cabinet.
Observing the increased and ever-
increasing cost of living, while in
dustry is lagging and unemployment
is daily becoming greater, Senator
George made the statement that the
time was coming when he would have
to lift the processing tax from meat,
bread and clothing.
On the basis of this statement the
Secretary of Agriculture declared
that so far from the processing tax
on cotton being lifted or reduced, it
would probably be increased, and that
in any event the tax had nothing to
do with the condition in which the
condition in which the cotton grower
and the cotton manufacturer find
themselves.
| Senator George then rose in the
| Senate and made the most caustic
' speech he has made since he has
I lieen a member of the upper cham-
j hr. He explained that he had said
nothing, originally, about lifting the
processing tax from cotton, and re
iterated his statement about the time
coming when it would have to be lift
ed from meat, breud and clothing.
The Georgia senator added that
■ while the processing tax might r.ot
j be the sole cause of the trouble cot-
I ton is now experiencing or of the
! difficulties encountered by the tex-
| tile irdustry, it was at least an im
portant factor, and lie proceeded to
show that with the staple selling for
10.50 cents a pound, the processing
tax of 4.2 cents a pound or $21 a
bale, is a sale tax of exactly 40 per
1 cent on the raw material entering in
cotton textiles. “Ar.d yet,” he ob-
i served, sarcastically, “that does not
| affect the consuming power!”
j Continuing, he said that if he were
ever inclined to extend the power
] given under the A A to those in
| charge of its administration, he
would stop now when cotton, after
losing its foreign market, was about
to lose its only friend, the textile in
dustry. With the cotton mills of the
East and South closing down and
thousands of additional men being
placed on relief rolls, the Secretary
of Agriculture, “threatened to use
the power which, I am now con
vinced, Congress should never have
vested in the hands of one man or
group of men—the power of taxa
tion on the very necessities of lite to
raise yet higher the burdens of tne
working men of this country, who
must use 70 per cent of this product
ar.d pay 70 per cent of the taxes,’’
said' the Senator.
He pointed out that the number ott
woiseis thrown out of employment
because of the shutting down of cot-
i.or. mulls in the East and South was
rapidly approaching 50 thousand
“anu this means 200 thousand peo
ple, in this industry alone, which
normally employs between 450 thou
sand and 500 thousand workers,
must be placed or. the relief roils.”
Senator George distinctly resented
Secretary Wallace’s characterization
of the Georgian’s amendment to the
works-relief bill to pay benefits to
farmers out of that fund and not out
of the processing tax, as enabling
the farmers to dip their hands in
the public treasury.” To this he re
plied that the whole bill simply en
abled everybody to dip his hands in
to the public treasury.
DANGER IN ALCOHOL
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
A few days ago I gave you an ex
ample of what I thought was the
natural effect of beer drinking. Witn
your permission, 1 will give you an
other:
At the time the present beer craze
struck this state, there was a lowyer
in one of the cities of Georgia who
was actively engaged ir.’ the practice
of his profesion. Some years ago he
had drunk heayily and had almost
ruined himself. During the days of
prohibition he had stopped ar.d hau
not touched the stuff for years. He
had become a regular attendant at
and a regular worker in his church;
he was successful in his profession
and had the resipect of all who knew
him. When his city joined the beer
parade and it became the thing there
to drirk beer and to patronize this
“temperance drink" that would not
hurt any one, he was persuader) to
drink some. It had its natural effeci
ar.d he wanted more ami then still
more, and he soon realized that he
could get more of the essential
quality of the beer, the alcohol, by
drinking stronger liquor. He is now
a wreck and has spent a good deal
of the time lately in hospitals.
I could give you a different ex
ample every day that the liquor
traffic stays in business; for the
reoson that this is the natural effect
of the essential ingredient of beer,
wine, whisky and all the rest ot
them-—an intoxicating, habit form
ing, narcotic drug /called alncohol or
ethyl hydrate, which always tends to
form the habit and increase the
thirst for its consumption; and to
talk of temperace and moderation in
the use of habit forming drugs is
such a contradiction in logic as to
amount to absurdity.
You left out one paragraph of my
previous letter. I don't know wheth
er this was by oversight, or whether
you deleted it because the letter was
too long, or purposely for some
other reason. In case it was the
first, I would be glad for you to in
clude it now. It was as follows:
“But you are going to bring back
prosperity and raise a great deal of
revenue by licensing the traffic.
There is no getter example of the ef
fect of the liquor traffic on prosperi
ty than the history of the City of
GOOD PLACE FOR CHILDREN
Every community in the United
States has its natural advantage
Instead of looking afar and emy,,
some other settlement it would be
far better for every town to i,*^
after its own opportunity and de
velop it.
In- some places it miay be only the
possibility of maintaining an excel
lent environment for the rearing 0 (
good families. A community which
can boast that it is a place where
children- may grow safely to man
hood’s estate has- an asset better
than new factories, regardless 0 f
what hot-air boosters may say.
In Butler we boast of such a com-
munity. Here our children have the
ideal place in which to form thcr
J early a d lasting impressions of
! Rood living. Here they are not sub-
i jected to the wild life that exists in
| many larger places. Here they see a
1 real community of interests, a place
| in which the misfortunes that grieve
the average family find a responsive
not of sympathy in almost even’
home.
) This is a wonderful spirit. It is the
very essence of co-operation and the
highest form of social development
when properly expressed. The people
of Butler should do all that they can
to maintain it in its best form ard
to see that a proper pride encourag
es its future growth and expression.
Louisville. Before the days of na
tional prohibition this was the whis
ky capital of the world. It made
106,000 barrels of whisky a day. 1
hope you do not expect us to make
more or sell more or use more tax
more than that in Georgia. Hut if
you will look at the U. S. Census re
ports I believe you will find that ir
the 10 years from 1910 to 1920 when
Louisville was doing this and brirg-
ing all this great amount of money
into the city, the population in
creased less than 1 per cent. After
Louisville with the rest of the coun
try went dry, from the years 1920
to 1930 the population increased 31
per cent. This is the difference be
tween the wet and the dry night
mares.”
R. S. Wimberly.
Lumpkin, Ga.
Pigs is Pigs"
AND CROPS ARE CROPS
A widow was in our office a few
weeks ago and she stated that she
hoped she would never have to call
at the relief office for assistance,
that as long as she had strength and
health she would not, that she had
four children to send to school but
that she was working her little farm
and had only a few days before sold
$40 worth of chickens and eggs and
that she had provided clothing and
books for her children. That was a
fine example of what a real desire
and effort to work can accomplish.
It is all right for the government to
provide for the old and sick and
crippled people, those who are un
able to work and some who on ac
count of their age may be unable to
secure work although they may be
physically able to work hut have had
to get out of the way for younger
people. But those who are able to,
work can get something to do even
if it does not pay them much. We ad
mire the fine spirit of this good
woman.—Adel News,
From now on every rain ot
change in the weather will be judged
on- the basis of whether it is good or
bad for the /com, cotton or other
crops.
In conclusion he said that if the
secretary had deliberately sought to
depress the price of cotton, and in
tensify the burdens of the people he
could not have done it more effective
ly than by the ill-timed statement
made by the head of the Department
of Agriculture.
Tliere is a strong disposition all
over the South to agree with Sena
tor George. The time, indeed, must
come when the processing tax must
be lifted from meat, bread and cloth
ing, and /cotton is the raw material
entering into the clothing of a large
percetage of the people of the whole
country.
Judge Gordon Knox, prominent
South Georgia attorney, appointed by
Governor Talmadge to succeed the
late Judge J. H. Thomas, opened
Camden Superior Court Monday. Hii
having court opened by a prayer has
caused much favorable comment in
reviving this fine old custom. His
charge to the grand jury was made
in a brief, but impressive way. He
pointed out to that body the great
impc/tance resting upon them to en
force the laws laws of our state
whether they met with the approv
al of their several opinions or not.
—Southwest Georgian, Kingsland.
Yet they're much alike at Feeding Time
• Strange, isn’t it, to think of
pigs and crops this way .. . but
science presents more and more
evidence every day to show that
food requirements of animals
and plants are much the same.
Animals need vitamins. They
could starve to death on chemi
cally pure food. So could your
crops,without vital impurities.
Chilean Natural Nitrate sup
plies the vital impurities—sup
plies them in Na
ture’s own balance
and proportion.
These vital impuri
ties are the rare
elements—iodine,
boron, calcium,
magnesium, lithium, stron
tium, and manyothers. They’re
all there, combined with nitro
gen, to make your crops strong
and healthy.
Chilean Natural Nitrate 1
ideal for your crops. It is na
tural, the only nitrogen that
comes from the ground.
For your own protection say
“Chilean” when you order ni
trate. Two kinds—Champi° n
(granulated) and
Old Style. They are
both gen uine. Both
are natural. Both
are Chilean. And
both give your crops
the vital impurities.
"A Pure Food and
Drug Act jor plants
would be a death
warrant to all living
creatures. ”
—Scientific American
Chilean
NATURAL
NITRATE
THE OLD ORIGINAL SODA
I've got those
natural
IMPURITIES