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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JANUARY 7, 1937.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
C. E. BENNS, Editor and Owner
0. E, COX, Business Manager
R. B. KIRKSEY, Shop Supt,
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
The female dynamo of the Dawson
News is probalbly the originator ot
this paragraph: “Cabinet wives in
Washington are probably bitterly
disappointed that no inaugural ball
will be held. They .will not have
excuse to “doll up" for the occasion."
SUBSCRIPTION *1.50 A YEAR
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
l)o not leave your job today with
out having one to go to tomorrow
The stock market rise in 1936 wa
one of the host in the countiy's his
tory.
The man that’s worth while is the
man who can smile when the whole
world is going wrong.
There'll probably be no one in
heaven better than the average mat
thinks he will be during 1937.
Jilin Chism’s Pelham paper changed
from a weekly to a daily. Now it has
changed from a daily to a weekly.
The young year arrives and chal
lenges each and all of us to do our
very best in whatever pursuit we arc
engaged.
New England states are infringing
again on one of the South's most
profitable and easily cultivated crops,
—the sweet potato.
Thud Holt, an assistant adminis
trator of the Works Progress Ad
ministration has resigned to enter
private business in Alabama.
Louie Morris says the trouble with
the fellow who says he can take a
drink or let it alone is that lie gen
erally doesn’t seem to decide to let it
alone.
-Allotments totaling $1,572,200 cov
ering construction of 1,400 miles of
ower lines have been made in Geor
gia by tile Rural Electrification Ad
ministration.
Announcement is made of the mar
riage of Legman Anderson, until re
cently secretary of U. S. Senatoi
Richard 11. Russell, Jr., and L\lisa
Doothy S'hippeyj of Atlanta.
Defiant Mrs. Irene Armstrong
dings to her olfice as Mayor of Day
tona Ileach, Fla., under the protec
tion of n court order which balked
Governor Sholtz’s elVort to oust her.
Glad tidings from Hart county: Iti
school hoard announces that it is nol
only out of debt but has a balance in
the bunk with which to start the new
year of between $10,000 and $12,000
Hope is seen in early settlement of
the Automobile Workens of America
strike, of which the General Motors
Conporution is the target, closing
seven of the corporation’® plants and
leaving 30,000 Workers idle.
Tom Arnold like ourselves was one
of the happy recipients of one of Edi
tor and Mrs. Milton Fleetwood
originally designed Christmas cards,
which Tom correctly describes as one
of the most unique and attractive re
ceived.
Thirty-five states start the new
year umler U. S. Security Act terms.
The thirteen states without approved
laws are: Arkansas, Delew’are, Flori
da, Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, Mis
souri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Dakota, Washington and Wy
oming.
Many Woodimen of the World
camps, after a period of dormancy
varying from several months to a
few years, are being re-established in
this and other states as an evidence
of better conditions and more inter-
es being taken in dependable insur
ance and fratemalism.
Here is a capital suggestion fol
poor people for 1937 offered by Rev.
J. O. F. McCarter in the Butler Her
ald last week: “A year-round garden,
and a sow ; a smoke house, and a
cow; twenty-four hens, and a rooster;
and you won’t go hungry like you
used to.”—Thomasiville Press.
THE OLD YEAR 1936
We acknowledge with sincere
appreciation the following contri
bution from our devoted friend,
a gentleman who is known to
ar I loved by as many, or more
people in Georgia than any
<: her individual, “Unde Sam”
Wilkes, traveling representative
cf the Atlanta and West Point
railroad with offices in Atlanta:
CONGRESSMAN PACE
We add our hearty amen to' this
paragraph from our esteemed Dawson
News: “To remember the pleasant
things which come our way, and 'ban
ish from our thoughts the petty
tilings which embitter us is one of
the finest arts we can pursue.”
• “Tile general average of intelli
gence of Americans is much highei
than it was five years ago, and it is
rapidly rising" declares one educator
to which QMn Miller addls: Don’t you
believe it. Your daily newspaper is
still carrying two whole pages of fun
nies and only two columns of edi
torials.
Miss Emily Woodward, of Vienna
past president of the Georgia' Pres;
Association, speaking to a large
gathering of educators, students ami
teachers who attended The Atlanta
Journal School of the Air banquet ill
Macon recently, lauded the work ol
the educational project. ‘•'Miss Em"
can always be counted upon when an
able sponsor to a good movement ill
her state is needed.
While we advocate the raising of
more cows and hogs as stated in a
recent issue we add at the sugges
lion of Hill Iliffem that “a kupla
million miles of fences" would not be
amiss to keep these cows and hogs
off the roads which have pioven a
dangerous foe to motorists in the
southern pari of the state.
Even more turmoil in the sociologi-
•cal situation of the cotton belt than
has been forsoen from the new .me
chanical cotton picker may grow out
of an experiment with growing cotton
through holes in concrete, which is
being conducted at LaGrange by L.
E. Floyd, warehouse operator anil
Agricultural research scientist.
Another reason for rejoicing that
i did not live u few generations
Ago lies in the fact that the people
n those days practiced cupping to
cure haudaches. A cup wou’d he
placed on the forehead and a piece
of paper ignited to heat the cup. A
blister would be raised on the head.
It would then be cut and fne headache
was cured.
Washington says establishment of
a central press and publicity bureau
through which the government would
maintain contact with newspapers
magaines and the radio and dissemi
nate “information” on the polities
md acts of the executive depart-
menits is being urged by some experts
as a part of President Roosevelt’s
plan for governmental reorganization,
—Savannah Press.
Every safety-built automobile be
comes a death-dealing machine when
piloted by a reckless driver. Every
automobile manufacturer has not on
l.y made the 1937 models more at
tractive but have built them safer
than ever before. The challenge is
up to us to drive them more careful
ly and reduce the toll of 36,600 sud
den deaths taken on American high
ways last year.
We can’t see any difference be
tween removing an office-holder a|
the point of a bayonet and legislating
him out of olfice. The state highway
department should' be removed as far
as possible from politics. Political
issues change every two years. In
two or four years, another governor
will have the laws changed in order
that he can place his friends in con
trol. Thus the highway department is
kicked as if like a political football,
—Greensboro Herald-Journal. •
In his “Round tire Circle” column
in the Macon Telegraph, Mr. Eugene
Anderson pays the following deserv
ing tribute to one of Crawford coun
ty’s best woman: “Mrs. R. 10. Wright
lias succeeded her husband as justice
of the peace for the 577th militia dis
trict of Crawford county. Mr. Wright
held the olfice for 30 years, and' at
his death Nov. 21, 1935, she was ap
pointed in place. The election just
held resulted in a victory for her at
the polls. It makes you feel good' to
find that people are willing to go to
the polls and cast their votes for you,
said Mrs. Wright. It touches your
gratitude, and makes you feel that
God and somebody cares. Mrs. Wright
is now living alone at her little home
on the highway between Lizella . ami
Roberta. She has two sons, one in the
navy and one engaged in business in
Macon; and she says she must remain
at the little farm where she enjoyed
such a happy married life through
the yeans. Sentiment ties me to 1 it,
she says.”
Another link is broken from the
great hereafter, and the old yeai
slumbers in the grave of the past. Its
events are chronicled with the things
that are no more, its moments have
fled, is days are numbered.
Where are the early blossoms that
were kissed by the fragrant breath of
Spring? Gone! Where is the golden
and crimson glory of the mellow au
tumn? Gone! AM gone. The "hum of
the wild bee, and the 'thrilling melo
dies of the summer birds are hushed,
and now the hoary old year lies down
in tire bosom of December and dies
There is notifing so strikes my
heart as does the knell of time, and
tomb-like solemnity overshadows me
as l reflect how fleetly, and yet how
imperceptibly like the gliding of ves
sels over tlie unriffled surface of
placid seas, are running out the years
of this our butterfly existence.
And wlvat has the Recording Angel
written of the year just gone! Many,
many things. Some engraven on the
tablets of memory, like unfading
monuments of the past will never die,
but living will go down, unto yet un
born generations until old Father
Time himself shall die. Some arc
written in the sealed volume of hid
den mysteries, whose dread contents
“eye hath not seen nor ear hath not
heard, save Him that sitteth on the
throne,” but in the “Last Great Day”
when all things shall pass away they
shall be revealed. Disease with its
raging blight has been abroad in the
land, and death has marked with un
erring aim for his victims, the young
and beautiful; the babe in its smiling
innocence, the proud man in the noon
tide of his glory, and the aged sire
whose life has lengthened unto the
“sear and yellow leaf.” Links have
been broken from family circles,
shadows have hung around hearth
stones,'blossoms have been nipped in
the hud, hopes have faded, and the
evanescent glory of many a beautiful
dream has passed away like the fad
ing of the rainbow on a summer eve
ning, leaving the dreams to clasp its
shadow. Yet these are not all. Mighty
things that breaths of honor ami
deathless fame have been wrought
among the great nations of the earth.
God has overlooked the vast concerns
of this terrestial sphere which is but
an atom in His all-seeing eye. Yes,
He, “'who walketh on the wings of
the wind, and holdeth the sea in the
hollow of His hand,” has in His mer
cy been with us and even numbered
the hairs of our head!
And now we are just stepping on
the threshold of a new born year. Its
morning looks in upon us, and be
holds us still engaged in the warfare
of life. We may ask what has it in
store for us;we know not but it may
be fresh hopes, fresh scenes, new joys
and new disappointments; it may
bear on Its wings the angel of Death
which .may smite us down before its
wintry close We may sup at the
fountain of sorrow a bitterer draught
than our hearts have ever yet tasted.
But let us welcome, with smiling
lips and unclouded brow, the new
born year. Let us bravely go on; life
has its storms and its. calms, its win
try nights, and its May mornings, its
roses and its piercing thorns, let us
meet it as it comes, having our lamps
trimmed and our lights shining, so
when the night of death gathers
around us, ,we can peacefully fold our
hands upon our bosoms and looking
over to the holden homes of those
From Tri-County News, Americus:
The only new member cf the Geor
gia de.egation in the Congress con
vening in a lew days will he Stephen
Race, of Americus. Other members
nom Georgia have had one or more
Iti'ins. 'though the “baby” memoer.
Congressman Pace enters his first
term well equipped to perform effec
tive and patriotic service for lus dis
trict, state an<T nation.
me laws of tne nation no longer
are made on the floors of tne House
and Senate, but in committee, and
committee appointment depends
large,y in both houses on length of
service. The longer a district contin
ues uninterrupted the service of a.i
honest, hard-wotkimg representative,
the more effective are his efforts.
Seniority rules in both hoiises, par
ticularly as to choice committee ap
pointments and I’hairir.ansnips.
’Mr. Pace has requested membership
on the House agricultural committee
"•because his district largely is agricul
tural and he himself is from the soil
Though his district may not hear
very much of the new Congressman
from the floor of the House, it will
see results from his work among tin
departments and bureaus of the gov-
eminent. And it is in his acquaim
ance with these that Congressman
Pace will be able to accomplish much
for the Third district.
Possessing an able legal mind, and
with several years’ experience in th,
legislative hull's of the General As-
snibly where his efforts were effective
and lasting, Mr. Pace enters his du
ties weLl equipped—exceptionally so.
Since liis nomination in the late
summer, Mr. Pace Has worked day
and night, here and in Washington,
acquainting himself with the duties
and functions of the numberless
hoards, bureaus and departments’ that
constitute our government. Through
this exhausting and exhaustive labor
he arrives in Washington this week
possessing an intimate knowledge and
familiarity with the various depart
ments of government that few new
Congressmen have had.
Some one has said success comes
from ten per cent inspiration and 90
per cent perspiration. The News be
lieves this district is destined to
I' EEL, individually and collectively,
both the brilliant inspiration Mr. Pace
possesses an the results from per
spiration that will glisten on bis
brow even into the wee hours of
dawn. To a friend, before leaving
Americus, he said:
“It doesn’t matter to me how you
voted in the past nor how you vote
in the future. Whether I am in Con
gress one term or ten, I want to
come to tlie end with the knowledge
that 1 have tried to be of some n-Ti 1
service and with the hope that my
efforts were of some benefit and con
tributed to the -upbuilding of the dis
trict and the happiness and prosperi
ty of the people of this district.”
Mir. Pace did not mean to say he
would be satisfied with one term in
Congress, but, as we interpreted his
words, he means that bis efforts
shall earn the respect of his district,
that the results of his work this first
term shall be effective and lasting—
I that he will rest his claims in the iu-
' ture on the effectiveness of his ef-
j forts.
| and it is the opinion of the News
that Mr. Pace is entering a long,
lasting and worthwhile career as the
representative of the Third district.
COMMISSIONER ROBERTS SEKK$
PROGRAM TO AID GEORGIA
FARM WOMEN
The program of Hon. Columbus
Roberts, Georgia’s new Commissioner
of Agriculture, calls for a new deal
for that forgotten race, the state's
rural women.
'Mr. Roberts’plans call for work for
the rural women such as the agricul
tural departments has done for the
farmers.
Although the otganized women of
Georgia have neglected the opportuni
ty to setup a helpful working project
for rural women, this oversight may
be remedied by their future co-opera
tion, the commissioner said.
Mr. Roberts said:
“It has been my idea for some
time to establish a real woman’s di
vision of tlie agricultural depart
ment.
“I have received' many suggestions
from individuals, and probably will
be able to put some into practice, but
I had wanted Georgia’s outstanding
women, in club, civic and political
groups, to help shou'der the respon
sibility.
“The extension department of the
State College of Agriculture has ac
complished a great deal for rural
women, but tin's is not enough.
Rural women have many problems,
and 1 believe a better understanding
between rural and city women will
help solve many of them.”
STEPHEN PACE, FRIEND~OF
THE VALLEY
New Year Resolutions
Topic Of Discussion
By Rev. Edgar Martin
From Columbus Enquirer-Sun:
When Congress convenes next week
the Third Congressional district ol
Georgia will have as its member in
the National House of Rapresenta
lives a new personality and mentali
ty—in the person of Stephen Pace,
well-known former state legislator of
Americus.
The district is fortunate in having
in the nation’s councils a man of Mr.
Pace’s ability to lead and work with
Some people do not believe i,
propositions. I do. I proposed to R e „ a
Lee Walters, she accepted my
proposition, became my wife, and a
home with three fine children is the
outcome. Suppose I had not resolve
to ask her to marry me; there nevei
could have been a home for us.
People who never make resolutions
never make moral progress or any
other kind of progress. Solomon re-
solved to ask God for Wisdom and be
came the wisest king of his time.
Daniel purposed in his heart not to
defile himself and was the most re-
nowned prophet of his generation.
The prodigal' son said I will arise
and go to -my father, he received a
warm welcome back, shod feet, a
comfortable bed, a full stomach, and
a glad father. The disciples resolved
to follow Jesus and were the first
leaders of the Christian church. We
might-continue to give illustrations
but these are sufficient. Don’t be
afraid of resolutions but make some
good ones this year.
I am resolved to be a better preach
er, pastor, and citizen this year, 1937,
than I have ever been before. I want
to live closer to Jesus this year. I am
resolved to lead more sinners to
Christ, to visit more homes, to pray
more prayers, to preach more ser
mons, to talk to more people about
their souls than any previous year.
Like Paul, I want to be ail blessings
to all men that I may win some.
I hope each reader of the Herald
will resolve that this year is going to
be your best year. Keep your body
clean by eating or drinking nothing
that would defile it. Keep your mind
pure by reading only those bocks or
magazines that are elevating. Think
those thoughts that are uplifting.
Speak only those words that are
chaste, and do those deeds that are
right and good.
When people in great numbers re-
his fellows. H.is clear-cut character . . - = _
and type of mind, his amiability, his I solved to stand for and do the right
willingness to sit down and talk mat-1 % e £ an have an Pthing that we need.
LOTS OF RAIN, COLD
WEATHER PREDICTED
FOR JANUARY, 1937
who live forever, we can say
well.”
‘all is
Robert Rowlett, 48, managing' edi
tor of the Nashville Tennessean, and
formerly associated' with Louisviltl
Courier-Journal, died Sunday. Hit
death is mourned by countless thou,
sands.
Olin Miller gives this bit of needed
advice, .but we doubt its acceptance:
“Young man, don’t run after women.
You can stroll lesurely along and get
mixed up with more of them than
you’ll have any idea what to do
about.”
As the price of hate the nations ol
Europe spent in 1936 $13,000,000,00(1
on armaments. Taxes have been
piled on the peoples of these nations,
and in some countries starvation is at
the doors of millions. There is no
other reason for the frightful state ot
affairs than hatred, envy and covet
ousness. When we consider this situ
ation we cannot refrain from taking
stock of our indiividual self and tin*
desire to root out the least particle
of it that may exist within us toward
those with whom we come in contact i
Griffin, Ga.—The outlook for Jan-
uai,.\ is muen rain and "rough”
weather, with some unusually cold
spells, Proi. Albert Snider said in
making his predictions lor the first
month of the new year.
Spalding county’s long - distance
weuther forecaster believes there will
be ram on 14 ol the month's 31 days.
“Cloudy” is the prediction for 10 days
and “lair” is the forecast .for the re
maining 7.
me uay-by-day forecast follows:
1. —Rain.
2. —Iiain.
3—Cloudy and cold.
4. —Fair .
5. —Rain.
6. —Cloudy and cold.
7. —Cloudy.
8. —Rain. i
9. —Rain.
19.—Fair and colder.
11. —Fair.
12. —Cloudy.
13. —Rain.
14. —Rain.
35. Rain.
16. —Fair and cold.
17. —Fair and very coirs.
18. —Cloudy. -
19. —Rain.
20. —Cloudy.
21. —Cloudy.
22. —Rain.
23. —Rain.
24. —Fair and cold.
25. —I net-easing cl o u din ess.
26. —Rain.
27. —Cloudy.
28. —Cloudy.
?9.—Rain. —! ' r '
30. —Rain.
31. —Fair and cold. .
ters over, will undoubtedly prove a
great asset to the large section that
he will represent. And verily some
might call his district the Third Em
pire, with reference to its expanse
of territory, its Wealth and diversity
of interests, and the importance or
those interests.
Mr. Pace is an earnest friend of
the Chattahoochee Valley and its va
rious* concerts. He can be counted
upon, we unhesitatingly predict, to
do his sincere utmost iin looking after
the interests of the Columbus sector
and of Fort Benning itself. He lias
strongly pledged to do this, and it
can be expected of him.
He has indicated quite definitely
that he expects to work actively and
whole-heartedly with Congressman
Henry B. Steagall, of the Third dis
trict in Alabama, and with all those
who have at heart the interests of
the Chattahoochee Valley from the
Alabama side of the river. This pro-
fared co-cperation is most gratifying
and it means that the Valley will
have a strong team to work for it in
the nation’s capital—two ardent sup
porters of its progress and develop
ment.
Tlie record of Congressman Sieve
Pace in Washington will be followed
with an intense interest by his many
friends as well as those who have at
heart the welfare and advancement
of the section. There .will be, of
course, the period of time he will,
Hke all new congressmen, need to be
come acclimated. But even then, Mr,
Pace is one who can be counted 1 upon
to keep his attention constantly upon
the interests of the section and dis
trict.
The Cherokee Advance, .published
at Canton and established 63 yeari
ago, 21 of which it has been owned
by. J. P. Rudasill, was recently pur
chased 1 by Carey A. Poland engaged
in newspaper work at Cordeie since
1908. This change is one of several
similar changes taking place the lat
ter part of 1936 among the weekly
newspapers of the state. We extend
best of good wishes to all affected by
these changes.
Three Georgia women were entitled
to be saluted as “judge” with the turn
of the year. In Columbia county Miss
Kathryn Morris is the young woman
who will preside over the Court of
Ordinary, succeeding Judge Glenn S.
Phillips, who resigned to serve as
state senator from the 29th. Mrs. Gor
don Callaway, widow of a lawyer and
a newspaper publisher, as voted' into
the office of ordinary in Putnam
county, and Miss Bertie Stembridge,
who was assistant to her father, the
late W. H. Stembridge, in the Court
of Ordinary in Baldwin county, and
was named to succeed her father
some years ago, is for the third time
the choice of voters.
Nothing can thrive where it is not
the will of a majority of the people.
May we of Taylor county, one and
all, desire to have the best county
possible. We can make it. what it
should be if enough of us will put
our shoulder to the wheel and push
hard. God expects us to try and try
hard to right the wrongs, and make
better the good. I hope that when
1937 is closing each of us can reflect
backward and say I have made an
honest effort. This will get results.
Yours for a good year,
Edgar A. Martin.
MR. PERRYMAN RETIRES
A Jones Penryman, wiho has served
the Chattahoochee Circuit Superior
courts as solicitor general, retires to
day after eight years of faithful serv
ice.
Mr. Perryman, while'not 'honored
with re-election when he offered' in
the recent September democratic pri
mary, has made the Chattahoochee
circuit a capable and' faithful so
licitor, a man who has always tem
pered justice with -mercy ail'd been
impartial in handling all affairs
placed in his charge
His work is known throughout the
Chattahoochee circuit and that is
suffice to say that he has discharged
the duties of his office honestly,
faithfully and fearlessly in the hand
ling of thousand's of criminal actions
which have come to his attention
since first taking up the duties of
solicitor general.
'Mr. Perryman has pursued his
work diligently and leaves the office
with a record that bears no ibluirs up
on it. He has co-operated with grand
juries, enforcement officers and 1 ju
dicial authorities throughout the cir
cuit and retires with the knowledge
that he has the respect and admira
tion of each of them.
His has been a task well done and
it -is fitting that his fellow associates
should honor him and wish for him
godspeed in the pursuits he will fol
low in the future in the practice ot
his profession.—Columlbus Ledger.
The honor conferred upon Taylor
counity by Congressman Steve Pace
in selecting as his secretary in Wash
ington one of our choicest young men
cements the ties of friendship and
love -that has bound together the
hearts of our people and that of the
newly elected congressman from this
district. Mr. Si-ms Garrett, Jr., tha
chosen secretary is a young man of
unusual ability and qualifications for
the position and will fit in most ad
mirably not only in the duties of the
office to which he has been- selected
but in 'business and 1 social contacts
that becomes ain important part in
Washington officialdom. The ap
pointee is the son of Mr. and 1 Mrs.
Sims Garrett of Charing representa
tives of two of the best 'known- arid
most popular families in Taylor coun
ty.