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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 12, 1938.
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The Butler Herald
IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM
OF THINGS
“REMEMBER THE SABBATH”
The people of the United States (
have more autos, more radios, more
telephones than all the other nations j — , It is said that more than two mal-
Established in 1876 ; of lbe wor j d ^ist year automobile j Returning to HomerviUe, where he lion p ersollSj representing all re-
• — ——— vacationists spent approximately four is editor of one of South Georgia’s ligious faiths and beliefs, including
Entered at the Post Office at Butter, d<dlars ridinir around t he most interesting weekly newspapers, employes of tne federal government
Georgia as Mail' Matter o! Second
Class.
C. E.
billion dollars riding around the most inieresuug employes
country. This may be one of the un- Tne Clinch County News, genial and numerous commercial enterprises
derlying causes of the depression. l’' olks Huxford, tells his readers of have been granted a full day of rest
_ , The headlone rush to supply all of llis recent visit to Butler and some wee y y Sunday wherever possible,
Benns, Editor and Ovvmer The headlong^rush to supply au^ ^ the thjngs he , earned while hero the ^ of the Lo^
ciws Banns Jr., Managing Editor these things has built up an indus- m through the ettorts or tne rxiroe
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr. trial set-up that normal times cannot that interesued him the most. Besides Day Alliance of the United States,
__ . 1 support. We may discover one of editing the News and serving Clinch dur i ng the ] as t 20 years
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO these days, that, rich as this country County as clerk of the superior The organ j za tion is inaugurating a
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY | is> t hat it is not possible for every court, Mr. Huxford d °
one to become a millionaire, and
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.60 A YEAR
If Adolf Hitler succeeds in getting
may have to compromise on a frugal
thrifty policy of being content with a
reasonable living.
Already Statesboro, the host city
everything he wants', and gets away j of the Georgia Press Association is
with it, he will be the first man in | June, is beginning to receive a lot of
history to. do so.
The Woodmen of the World opened
their State-wide Field Day Exercis
es at Macon yesterday and continu
ing through today with an unusually
large attendance and exercises that
nfford entertainment in abundance.
publicity from its prospective guests,
the pencil pushers, who are expected
to be on hand in great numbers. As
one might expect The Savannah
Press takes the lead: “Over at
Swainsboro in one of the windows ol
the court house is that one touch of
nature which shows feminine oc
cupancy of the office and that happy
assemblage which makes the whole
Statistics show that 38 per cent of | world kin . Mrs . Howard Roberts and if not altogether on the at-
the births in the United States last
year were in hospitals. Doubtless
there would be more living mothers
and less broken up homes too if the
advantages afforded by the hospitals
had been made use of.
We have heard' no coaip'a'nt from ‘
the employes of the state in not hav
ing received full pay for services
rendered to the first of the present
month. Why should the school teach
ers be made the goat, waiting month
after month for their checks, small
at best.
As a rule the fellow who flippant
ly tells the world that he believes in
having a good time as he goes along
and has two or three pay checks
ahead, is the first one to demand
that some one help him when ne
loses his job and gets into a crack
financially.
There is. genuine rejoicing through
out the state that Hon. J. B. Wilson
has announced for re-election to the
office of Secretary of State. No
finer character nor more capable of
ficial ever filled a statehouse office
than smiling John Wilson. A life term
Is his, only for the asking.
another lady employed in the court
house have an arrangement of potted
plants that would do credit to a pro
fessional florist.”
Columbus Roberts, Georgia’s Com
missioner of Agriculture, is due un
limited thunks for the service he is
rendering the state in his effort to
prevent the discontinuance of the
poach crop reporting service
threatened because of lack of funds
in the state to match federal money
for that purpose this year. Mr.
five-year program of endeavor to
bring about “a general and more
proper observance of the Sabbath.”
The program, it is said, is already
being brought into theological semi
naries, colleges, Sunday schools and
public schools, and will be continued
until the country in general is
reached.
Beyond reading the above, we are
not familiar with the work and ac
tivities of the Alliance, but we do
say it has an important endeavor for
itself. When Franklin D. Roosevelt
was a member of the New York
state legislature, years ago, he in
troduced the first "One Day Rest in
Seven” bill, which was enacted into
law, and since then other states have
followed the example.
However, the emphasis as regards
the Sabbath, and the “one day ot
rest,” should go beyond simply that
of rest from work. As important as
as it was in Jesus day so it is now that is, still more so is the use made
that leaders in the church drive of SuIld , ay> the kind of day we make
away the One who is sent to seek it> and t h e psychological and spirit-
! and save those who are lost. Truly, ua i meaning we give to it, or recog-
history has been re-enacted in this n j ze ; n ;t #
| respect in so many instances. Let us , s „ nday ' ( not on i y as a day of rest
, earnestly pray that the body of in- | but as one whkh has a deep spirit-
fant believers at Butler may not bo ua , sigIlificancei h , as CO me down to us
' destroyed by wolves in sheep-cloth- as Qne of the greates t and most
I in &- but that the churchea being beneficial institutions of mankind,
i bre I° r G°d and lost souls, may \y c lbe doi^g- the wise thing if
recognize in this visitation a mark
great deal of civic and religious
work in his section, being pastor ot
one or more churches in his county
and a class leader in sacred music.
We clip the following from last
week’s issue of the News:
“The writer was in Butler, Ga., last
week and saw the fruits of a great
community-wide revival held there
three weeks ago by our beloved S. F.
Andrews of Macon. Both pastors
there co-operated whole-heartedly
and though the meeting lasted only
a week the results were amazing.
That there has been a community
wide visitation of the Spirit can hard
ly be questioned. Just what duration
this visitation will have, depends
titude and co-operationi of the church
leaders. Lf the revival spirit is driven
away it is certain that sinners and
publicans will not be the cause. But
A newspaper reporter at Des
Moines, Iowa says that nearly half
of the fatal accidents on Io’.va high
ways involve drivers who have been
drinking intoxicants. Ye: it. Georg', i
we want to loosen rather than tignt-
en the reins on prohibition 1 . We may
repent when its too late.
It is difficult for a president to
please every one all the time and es
pecially difficult in a depression. The
fellows who donot have any money or
a job believe that the government
should spend, and the fellow who has
a steady income objects to the gov
ernment's spending because it will
raise the taxes.
Roberts has gone to Washington
where he is holding conferences this ‘ n we do all we can to preserve its true
week with irovernment officials in the i ° *I )ecia a ' or an spensa ion o meaning, and pass it on N> future
God upon them and their town and - jr enera tions. We will be rendering a
county! | ma j or service to both our own and
“There is a newly-organized Evan- the generations to come. Let us in-
gelistic Club at Bltler of nearly fifty deed' not let go of that admonition
members. The religious fervor is so of lW isdam handed down to us thru
strong that a Sunday picture show j tbe centuries
has been forced to discontinue. The
club holds on an average of five
services a week in town and over the
county. Pray for this work! Our own
Homerville girl. Mrs. C. S. Newton
who lives there, has givoi her heart
and life to the Lord and is a leader
in this gTeat movement there.”
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The pretty 22 year old brunette
girl, who died after swallowing, poi
son in a New York bus stotion after
having penned one of the saddest
messages ever read adddressed to
“whom it may concern” and signed
“The Gal in Gray,” has been identi-
fiel as a half Indian and native of
Okmulgee, Olria. Her warning to
other girls to avoid the pitfalls into
which she had fallen has been given
nation-wide publicity.
As a feature of their graduating
exercises the Tifton High school
seniors each year chose an outstand
ing Georgian to whom special tribute
is paid. This year it is Hon. W. G.
Sutlive, editor of the Savannah Press,
who is to he honored by the class on
May 30. The plan adopted by the
Tifton school is a most commendable
onp, and their selection this year
could not have been better made. Mr,
Sutlive is one of the state's most be
loved citizens, and who has rendered
to South Georgia the greatest service
of any one man we know through his
widely circulated newspaper.
Congratulations are extended Ed
ward Peavy and Miss Emilee Also-
brooks, first and second prize win
ners, respectively, in the “Wings
Across America” essay contest in
Georgia offered by the post office
department in observance of National
Air Mail Week set for May 16-21.
Edward is a student of the Cuthbert
High school and Miss Emilee • a
member of the student body, Sparta
High school. Edwin’s essay will be
entered in the national contest the
winner of which will be given an ail
trip to Hollywood, Cal. Here’s hoping
he may win.
interest of the movement to have a
crop reporting service continued.
The commissioner will confer with
department of agriculture officials in
Washington this week in the interest
of the movement to have the crop
reporting service continued.
These reports have been reserved
for 16 years through the cooperation
of the state and' federal agencies.
Commercial peach growers, market
ing agencies, and others dealing in
peaches depend upon the service en
tirely for information regarding dai
ly shipments and marketing con
ditions and it is highly important
that it be continued.
Dudley Glass in the Atlanta Geor
gian calls attention to the fact that
down in Blackshear, a busy little
town between Waycross and Savanr
nah, Editor Kirk Sutlive has issued
a 28-page special edition of his
Blackshear Times, devoted to the oil
well near Offerman, in his county.
“Not that the well has struck oil,"
Dudley says,” Kirk is almost as
smart as his daddy, the famous Bill
Biffem, of The Savannah Press. He
got out his special edition when the
drillers reached 3,500 feet down and
he detected a distinct smell of gas.
The fact that he was standing beside
the gasoline engine which ran the
machinery had nothing to do with
this. If the well turns out to be a
“duster” Kirk has still collected, we
hope, for his advertising. If it proves
a “gusher” he can say “I told you
so” and get out another special edi
tion. Canny crew, those Sutlives. But
speaking seriously—or as seriously
as we know how—that oil well down
in Pierce county is something to
think about. It may prove something.
And it may—or may not—be a big
thing for Georgia.’
A former Butler young man, Col.
Theo J. McGee, who has had a lead
ing part in the religious and civic
affairs of Columbus, besides doing an
extensive law practice, is given fur
ther recognition as referred to in the
following from the Columbus Ledger:
“Columbus took a definite step to
ward procurring a slum-clearance
project recently with the appoint
ment of a housing authority, neces
f,ary under the United States Hous
ing Authority to place machinery
into motion for securing federal aid
in financing such a program. The
authority, appointed by the mayor
with the approval of the city com
mission, is made up of a group of
men who are fully cognizant of the
needs of Columbus and who have
proven their ability in their respect
ive field of endeavor. They are of
the progressive type, enthusiastic
and energetic and should function
splendidly as a board in carrying out
the duties that will accrue to them.
In selecting Messrs Theo J. McGee,
Brown Nicholson, E. J. Knight, M. A.
Goldstein and W. F. Fielder, the may
or chose a group of men' representa
tive of a cross-section of business
activities in the city.”
WHERE WILSON STANDS
Quiet, friendly John B. Wilson has
decided to run for re-election as
secretary of state instead of offering
his name in the campaign for gov
ernor.
It yas a wise choice.
Mr. Wilson is one of the most
pleasant men in the capitol. He has
kept singularly free from the stain
of any political group during his
service in an office which is as
necessary to the state as the census
is to the nation, but just about as
exciting.
Therefore, Mr. Wilson, despite the
fact that he has and deserves to
have as many friends as anybody else
in the statehouse, has not a political
machine in operating order. And this
is a time for high pressure sales
manship in the campaign for gover-
n°r. .i ! i|i i; Yif|
John Wlson won’t be defeated in a
race for re-election. Probably he
would make an excellent governor.
But ’ie is not in an opportune po
sition now to make a successful race.
—Columbus Ledger.
“Remember the Sabbath.”
The trend really is toward forget
ting Sunday. Persons need 1 physical,
mental and nerve relaxation if not
spiritual. It might be well for us to
take stock and see how far we have
gone toward getting entirely away
from the Sabbath idea, principle 'and
practice.—Columbus Ledger.
THEY ARE BLESSED
According to the Tifton Gazette an
unuscal case is reported from Flori
da, where a woman regained her
sight as she was about to undergo an
operation. She lost the sight in one
eye nine years ago and a surgeon
was preparing to operate to save the
sight of tile other, when sight was
restored 1 to the blind eye.
To the old-fashioned church with
its high back seats, indicative of
strait-laced Character of the rural
membership, there used to go the
serious-minded fathers and mothers,
with wagons of rollicking children,
for the monthly church meeting. No
body stayed at home because of
young children in those days. Every
body from far and near brought bas
kets of food to be spread at noon,
and every housewife cooked for days
and days, vying with other house
wives of the country for the best
chocolate cake, .peach puffs, and fried
chicken. Preaching lasted all day
Saturday and again Sunday, and it
WAS preaching, too! The old fash
ioned' minister never spared words in
denouncing the sins of his people.
Immortality was condemned and the
virtues extolled. A man’s word had
to be his bond, if he was a gentle
man according to the version of these
venerable leaders.—Jesup Sentinel.
The following from the Towns
County Herald, way up in the
North Georgia Mountains, strikes
responsive chord:
Blessed are the merchants who ad
vertise, for they have faith in theii
business, and their prosperity shall
increase many fold.
Blessed is woman who sends in a
written account of a party, or
wedding for she shall see the details
and names of her guests correctly re
ported.
'Blessed are those who do not ex
pect the editor to know everything,
but tell him whenever an interesting
event occurs, for they shall have
better newspaper in their town.
■Blessed are they who get their
copy in early, for they shall occupy
a warm space in the editor’s heart.
Blessed are they who cooperate
with the editor in his efforts in be
half of the community, for their
town shall be known to all men, far
and wide as a good place in wlrich
to live and do business.
Men are still prone to look fai
away for those advantages whicli in
many cases lie near to their hands.
There is a measure of humor in the
verdicts of -men who dwell' in differ
ent sections of the same state.
Wherever you go you will hear the
predictions of disaster upon the lips
of many. In the cotton sections the
outlook is characterized as hopeless.
In peanut sections they will tell you
that there is no money in the crop,
and 1 in localities where hog raising
has flourished' there is a dismal story
of reduced prices and vanished
profits. All of these sections, how
ever, fumisli many examples of men
who talk little and work much, and
a an is an optimist these days just
about in proportion to the amount
of work tht he performs. Such men
are making some money regardless
of the condition of agriculture and
other lines of business in their lo
calities. About the only man that
cannot be heir! down is the man wb/>
is so busy with his work that he nas
no time left in which to comtplsin
and build up in his mind the duali
ties of the future, hut it must bo ad
mitted that even for such rnerr the
difficulties arc greater than they
have ever been in modern time
Monroe Advertiser.
HUGH HOWELL’S PLATFORM
SENATOR GEORGE’S RANK
From The Georgia Democrat,
Blairsvil'le, Ga.
The following are some of the
things advocated by Hugh Howell in
his opening speech in his race tor
Governor of Georgia:
“The first plank in my platform
for Governor is a substantial reduc
tion in taxes. I intend not only to cut
dow the expense of government
and reduce the present taxes, but i
am unalterably oppossed to any ad
ditional taxes of any kind."
Howell further states that former
ly the state was operated on some 12
million dollars per year, until the
present administration came into
power, when the lid blew off and
taxes have been increased millions
and millions of dollars. He says under
the present administration so many
new employees have been added to
the state payroll it is impossible to
house them in the capitol and tre
mendous floor space has 'been rented
in so many other buildings that one'
has to roam alt over Atlanta to find
them.
The second plank in his platform
he says concerns the most tragic
fraud ever perpetrated upon the
people of the state, he says there
are thousands and thousands of old
people who go daily to the state
capitol and the Hurt building vainly
and unsuccessfully seeking their pen
sions. He might have added that
there are many other thousands all
over the state who go to their local
Welfare offices seelring the same
thing and who receive the same ans
wer.
Howell says further: “It is my
purpose to put all of the eligible old
people on the pension rolls, and to
pay all of them now with the money
that is available."
Howell says the way to pay these
old people is to cut out high salaries
and high rent. He calls upon the
present state officials to pay these
old people NOW and not wait until
just before election; pay them now
while they are living for by that
time many of these old people will
have passed on.
Ho Well says: “The tendency on
the part of the present administra
tion is to take all power away from
the counties. This tends to force
them to consolidate or merge. It fol
lows that the county unit plan would
be destroyed and the populous cen
ters would then control the govern
ment of our state.”
He says that when a man buys an
automobile tag he should be given a
drivers license for himself and fam
ily free of cost. He, therefore pro
poses to abolish the fee for drivers
license. However, he does not expect
to abolish the highway patrol but
make the highway board pay this
expense out of the millions alloted
to them.
This was Howell’s first speech
over the air and he did not have
time to go more fully into the things
which he advocates but will do so
later.
He asks that every man and
woman in the state who are inter
ested in the welfare of the state and
who are willing to join him in his
fight, give him their ideas and views
and thereby help him in his fight
against the present wild spending of
the taxpayers’ money and the unfair
treatment of the old people of Geor
gia.
Hugh Howell has a sane and sensi
ble platform, he wants to help you,
so be good enough to help him, by
writing him and giving him your
views, then give him your support
and thereby help him to be able to
carry out these things.
ATTENTION R. F. a CARRIERS
Ralph Smith,
Washington Correspondent,
Atlanta Journal
One of these days, and in the near
future, Yvaiier George will announce
his piatiorm in his candidacy for t e -
nommation as the Democratic can
didate for U. S. Senator from Geor-
gia. ... It seems appropriate and
permissible, therefore, to direct at
tention to his rank in the Senate
since the dictates of modesty may di
vert the senator from so much as
passing mention of these pertinent
points of interest.
As the senate stands today, George
is the eleventh ranking members m
point of seniority, which, as you
know, is figured on the basis of con
tinuous service. He crashed the Sen
ate on Nov. 7, 1927, as the result of
the death of Thos. E. Watson. He
has been twice re-elected—Nov. 2,
1926, and Nov. 8, 1932. Thus he fe
rounding out his third elective term,
one of which didn't run the full ten
ure of six years .
The ten senators who outrank
George, in the order of seniority, are
Borah, of Idaho; Smith of South
Carolina; Ashurst, of Arizona; Pitt
man, of Nevada; Sheppard, of Texas;
Norris of Nebraska; McKellar, of
Tennessee; Johnson, of California;
McNary, of Oregon (Republican lead
er); Harrison, of Mississippi.
Committee Membership
Senator George is a member ot
four standing committees and one
special committee of the Senate. . . .
And holds the chairmanship of one ot
trese—Privileges and Elections. (More
important by far, however, than this
chairmanship, are George’s member
ship and rank on the powerful Fin
ance and important Foreign Rela
tions committees. . . . They are tops
in the set-up of the Senate, equaled
only by the committee on appropria
tions. Civil Service is the other
standing committee of which he is a
member, and the committee on in
vestigation of the Munition Industry
is his special assignment.
George’s big committees are fairly
described by their names—Finance
and Foreign Relations, . . . The
former handles all legislation relat
ing to taxation or other methods of
raising funds for the conduct and
maintenance of the government, and
the latter deals with the foreign af
fairs of the nation, including, obvious
ly, diplomatic relations, treaties and
conventions. ... In a manner ot
speaking, this committee is the best
sounding -board in the senate, as in
stance Senator Borah’s frequent
broadcasts about foreign affairs.
THE FARMER
The greatest thing in all this
creation,
Is a busy l'ittLe farmer on a big
plantation.
He plows and! hoes and watches
things gTow,
But never complains if prices are
low.
His crib is full of corn, his smoke
house full of meat,
And when times get hard he has
plenty to eat.
He never complains if all the banks
close,
But just works the harder to pay
what he owes.
His horses look well, his cattle arc
all fat,
He likes all 1 his neighbors and enjoys
a little chat.
He rejoices when he sees the rain
descending,
He knows it makes food on which
all are depending.
Great is the farmer, let all men hail
him,
The Rural Letter Carrier’s depart
ment in the Atlanta Journal each
Monday ably edited by Hon. C. C,
Wall of Ellaville, contained in a re
cent issue the following important
announcement to the Carriers of the
Third Congressional district:
Greeting to All Rural Carriers and
Their Wives:
It is again time to put our house in
order for another great year in' both
our Cariers’ Association and Ladies
Auxiliary. Our district meeting this
time will be hold at Vienna, on May
30, and it is being near the center,
we are expecting a large attendance
Make your plans now to meet your
friends there. May we hend in our
dues at once and be free to enjoy this
day.
'Both the association and auxiliary
need your mqrport ami influence, and
we know it will continue to be ol
great help to all of us, so may we
pull together during this campaign
to bring Um Third District in ahead.
Blncerely yours,
W. W. Fuqua, Pros., Umulilla, Ga„
ihird Dint, Asm, ti Auxiliary
For the whole earth suffers when
crops fail him.
Hope has revived that -the depression
has past,
For the government is helping the
farmer at last.
Come, whoop ’em up boys, and lie*
tern to my song,
Don't mind the depression for it
won't last long.
Then hail to the farmer, on a Mg
-plantation,
He is the greatest thing in all this
creation. —E. G. Greene.
W. R. Frier, editor and publisher
of the Enterprise' at Douglas’, says
that his paper will be 60 years oM
this year and that he is planning *
special edition during the summer
that will carry one page for each oi
the 50 years.
The story goes that in Germany
brides-to-ibe must go to school s’ s
weks before marriage to study do
mestic arts, while in this country *
great many brides-to-be go to ‘Schoo*
six weeks before re-marriage—the
latter school being in Reno.