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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 12, 1938. PAGE-POUR 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.” he n b 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.