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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 27, 1938.
The Butter Herald
A beautiful sentiment is expressed . STRONG NATIONAL FORCE
EatabFshed in 1876
Georgia as Mail Matter
Class.
in the following from the Ellaville
Sun as a quotation from James Mont- ] .An agency of considerable weight
gomery: “Friend after friend de- and influence in Georgia—as in other j
GARDEN VS. GULLEY
(Good Morning, by Louie Newton)
.Miss Marion West operates the
ITT , Butler parts; \vho hath not lost a friend? states—is the rural mail carrier. West hotel at Butler—one of the old
Mnti*r r>< Second There is no union here of hearts that When Tom Watson was a member of rchool—the sort where you go in and
^ en( j. were t ),j s f r ai! .Congress from this state set the po- sit down to a long table filled with
world our only rest, living and dying, i litical ball rolling that resulted in the real food—no cluttering up of useless
Chas Bemns Jr Managing Editor none were blest. Beyond the flight of establishment of the nation-wide ru- little dishes with sips and dips and
O. E. Cox,’ Publisher & Bus. Mgr. time, beyod this vale of death, there j ral mail delivery system he probably tasteless food—just an old-fashioned
’ surely is some blessed clime where : did not anticipate the growth of an , hotel. We stopped there for dinner on
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO life is not a breath, nor life’s nffec- ! army of such proportions as the ru-, C ur way down to Homosassa. We for-
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tion transient fire, whose sparks fly ral mail carriers now make up,
upward to expire.”
Butler has just such determined
and dependable men in business as
referred to in the following by the
Crisp County News: “Should we go
Every community should get one territory and undertake to
hundred per cent behind the Red , ^ .
Cross.
per rein uc, “ , ‘ u select the most insignificant business
I in a town, we would certainly not
I pick out a business, even though it
Europe is said to be still shaking i ook ed small and was controlled by
and trembling from the worst war 0Tle wbo did no t make a lot of noise,
scare since 1914. I if that ‘business had successfully
—- | weathered the storms and made good
It is =aid that misery loves com- over a long period of years—especial-
pany. Perhaps that is why so many ly the past five to ten years. Some
people get married. I ° f the best fixed and most substantial
| never make any to-do about it, but
~~~ _ they are hard to rout out of the den
says nyway tbgy have been building for years,
and about which they know all the
ins and outs.”
got about Butler being on one time
The city mail carrier when he re- and Atlanta on another time, so we
mains for a long period on single got there too early, which was just
routes gets to be well known to those as well—it gave us time to sit there
he serves. Magnify the importance of quietly in the restful old house and
DUDLEY GLASS SAYS:
KNOW YOUR TIMBER
(Emily Woodward)
Students in Georgia schools hav«
something far more important t-
xne cuiMir complains "l” gain from participation in the F„.
standpo.nts-violation of the Sabbath | Contest ^ b 11 Css M-
and danger to other Sunday traffic. „ . . .. .
Oglethorpe Echo editorially decries
use of the highway on Sundays by
commercial motor trucks.
The editor complains from two
Forestry Association than the chance
of winning one of the valuable mon-
ey prizes that have been offered.
Georgia’s forest resources are t«
be a part of the heritage of these
boys and girls who will be Georgia’,
this municipal mail-carrying person
age something like 60 times and you
may get a faint idea of the import-
get ready for what was to follow.
.And I mean there was something
on that table that Saturday noon. I
ance of the rural mail carrier to :he have eaten there a number of times,
people he serves in rural sections of and it is always tops. Miss West
the United States. There have been | raises everything she served, except
numerous instances in Georgia whole .such items as sugar and coffee and
Ruth Campbell
Words Are Like a Raging Forest
Fire.” That’s true, Muss Ruth.
Halloween is in the air! We are be-1
ginning to sing Halloween songs and
plan little programs for its celebra
tion.
Tlie passing last week of Harry
Stillwell Edwards is mourned by
countless thousands in Georgia and
throughuot the nation especially in
southern states where he was known
far and wide for his undying faith
the influence of the rural mail car
rier has 'been very keenly felt.—
sometimes with joy oftentimes to the
chagrin of those concerned.
Every county in Georgia has a
lemons. I punched Mr. Hudson, and
said, "Miss West, these green toma
to pickles taste like you might have
put them up.” “I will have you un-.
cierstand, sir, that everything on this
number of rural carriers. And every table was grown here and fixed here”
rounty in every state in the Union J she said with plenty of authority and
is similarly supplied. And these pub- plenty o£. humor.
Half the people in the world
unhappy because they have too much " d ^ tb ” p eople ' 0 f' this sec-
and the other half are unhappy be- t!on _ He died at the advanced age 0 f
cause they haven t enough. years the most of which were
spent in brightening the lives of men
The School Boy Safety Patrol are and W omen with the gift of his pen
to study the standard rules for the j n writing illuminating short stories
operation of patrols. They want to nnd poems, most of them being writ-
ece if our patrol measures up to the ten at his Holly Bluff home, near
standard in every way. I Macon, where he lived in retirement
] since the death of his iwife. His
“Aeneas Africanus,” a marvel in
short story composition, sold a mil
lion copies or more and there is a
Reidsville, according to Miss Frankie j continued demand for it. He wrote it
Trapnell, editor of the Metter Adver- | in 1919. It was regarded as one of
riser, at Metter. We almost envy i the finest of all treatments of negro
The fall meeting of the First Dis
trict Press Association has been ten
tatively set for Monday, Nov. 14, in
those who are not tied down at home
as are we.
October seems to be a month with
an unusual number of national and
state decreed observances. The
doughnut has its place in the fitness
of things this week. Here’s hoping
this little reminder will attract the
eye of an old friend whose reputation
ranks high in baking the edible we
are now feting.
We are not in the least alarmed by
what the state and national govern
ment are spending for relief meas
ures, self-defense, and to increase the
purchasing power of the masses. It
is just as much the duty of the gov
ernment to provide for the welfare
of the people as that the masses sup
port the govrnment. It is no advan
tage to live under the richest govern
ment in the world if its subjects are
permitted to become impoverished.—
Millen News.
All law abiding agencies will be
quick to applaud the action of Judge
W. E. H, Searcy, of the Griffin cir
cuit, in giving a 20 year sentence to
an offender convicted of purse
Eratching. The offender was found
guilty and the jury recommended
that he be punished ns for a misde
meanor. Judge Searcy disregarded
the recommendation of the trial jury
and imposed a sentene of 20 years.
Crime will not be stopped until heavy
sentences are imposed. Judge Searcy
one of the state's leading jurists,
acted for the protection- of society in
handling the case in question.—Jack-
son Progress-Argus.
This is a week of memorable events
for the thriving little city of Ifawk-
insville, county seat of Pulaski, one
of Middle Georgia’s most prosperous
counties. First, its fair week and the
agricultural exhibits, as well as those
of home and garden, promises to
eclipse anything in former years.
Second, the horse races and how our
heart longs to be there to enjoy the
sport of all sports to we’uns. Third,
handsome new postoffice building to
be dedicated in which Postmaster
Morgan. Thompson will be master of
ceremonies and will introduce Con
gressman Stephen Pace who will de
liver the principal address of the oc
casion. Other prominent speakers in
clude Senator Walter F. George and
Postal Inspector H. H. Hudson.
Fourth—(Well, maybe we should
leave that off, but anyway) Bootleg
ging liquor gives way to the more
modem way of dealing with the
beverage. Three liquor stores have
been licensed and are opening for
business after an elapse of thirty
yeara since whiskey was legally sold
in Hawkinsville.
philosopy and won him worldwide
recognition. He also wrote short
stories and poems and in his active
years was in demand as a lecturer.
He was a member of the National
Institute of Arts and Letters and the
Authors’ League. He held an honor
ary law degree from Mercer and was
un honorary member of the Universi
ty of Georgia Phi Beta Kappa Chap
ter. He was known for his generosi
ty and optimism. A literary triumph
of Mr. Edwards was his writing,
“Sons and Fathers,” for the Chicago
Record which won a prize of $10,000.
In everything he attempted Harry
Stillwell Edwards seems to have
been a success. As a writer he was a
poet, novelist, essayist and journalist.
As a politician he was postmaster at
Macon from 1901 to 1913, Georgia
referee for President Theodore
Roosevelt, and an independent candi
date for the Unitd States Senate in
1920. Jefferson Davis, president of
the Confederacy, was his godfather.
A recent, though hurried trip, to
Buena Vista revealed a number of
interesting facts that are well worth
mentioning here. First, the friendli
ness and cordiality with which visit
ors are greeted as they come in con
tact with the people of Buena Vista,
men or women, on the streets or at
their places of business. Second, im
provements taking place here, there
and everywhere about the city as
evidence of a general awakening in
civic as well as business interests
with encouraging signs of prosperity
such as not seen before in many
years. Third, transformation of a
bad stretch of road between the two
points—Butler and Buena Vista—
into a splendid highway via Charing
and Tazewell, as a high compliment
to the county officials of both
Taylor and Marion counties.
The country just looks different
and is different as the old, narrow
load with its deep sand ruts is re
placed with a widened, graded and
heavily clayed road. Telephone and
electric lines are being established
all along the route serving rural
homes which otherwise show marked
improvements while others are being
erected and more clearings made for
additional farm acreage. There is
considerable talk both in Butler and
in Buena Vista about paving the
road between the two towns. We sin
cerely trust that it may materialize
into something more definite before
the marketing of another crop be
cause of the great advantage such a
road would be to the farmers of this
and Marion county in reaching their
principal point, of market. We hope
our next trip over this road and visit
to Buena Vista will not 'be such a
hurried one and that it will reveal
further improvements from sources
Verein noted.
lie servants are well organized. Their
coalition in this state is remarkalfly
effective. Candidates for state-wide
offices cater to them—as well they
may. Those who seek political ir eth
er preferment in immediate sections
try always to win the good will of
the mail man. Ha is the figure ri'at
keeps in touuch with the “big town”
from whence the mails are rou: ed
and brings on his route each day a
reflection of the sentiments of those
ho serves.
Ruth Cross has recently written a
book, “Eden on a Country Hill,” in
which she gives full credit to the R-
F. D. man for what he can do. She
declares he is an artist and in his
way a genius. And she is probably
right about it. Hear her:
“Our postman is a remarkable
man. 1 doubt if there is one tS com
pare with him in all the length and
breadth of the R. F. D. He takes an
active, personal interest in the af
fairs of every man, woman and child
—also the live stock—on his 33 and
one-tenth mail route. This as far
transcends curiosity as art surpasses
photography. He is the most obliging
soul alive.”
And what the rural postman is to
Ruth Cross and- her home life he is
to men and women throughout a
continent. We believe they could
elect a President of the United
States if they could get their num
bers everywhere sufficiently aroused.
—Savannah Press.
We won’t go into the first com
plaint, because the Sunday law’s and
traditions have fallen into neglect in
so many ways.
But, with so many thousands of !
pleasure-seeking motorists goir -g ' citizens of tomorrow. Properly ar(> ;
places on Sundays-the only Jay tected nmv> the forests wiU y J£
they have it does seem the all-too- j bute to their Konomic '
narrow roads might be theirs to en- j years ahead . Laid waste by flres ^
”' y ’ I their destructive agencies, they will
It isn’t the coupes and sedans and give place to desolaU , d ar erod .
roadsters that clog up the highways fleJda> depletcd water suppli .
except when you faU behind a jalop-1 which win ma , ke the struggle for
py that can’t make the grade or a istence more difficult for Gcor ^.
indulging *-
couple of sweeties
love’s young dream.
What one Pulaski county farmer
has accomplished this year may ap
pear remarkable, but not at all im
possible to the man who puts his own
resources to work with those pro
vided by Providence, whether he be
a Pulaski county, Taylor county, or
just any other good old Georgia
county farmer. But on with the story
as told by the Hawkinsville Dispatch:
“Here’s a little story of what a Pu
laski farmer can, do. It’s about Bill
Brawm, who rents a farm from Mrs.
J. L. DuPree, in the Pulaski District.
Bill is 36 years of age, has lived in
this county all his life and on the Du
Pree place the last five years. The
other day Mr. Fred Clark, Sr.,
and I, were talking. In the office was
another man and Mr. Clark began to
tell what real -work will do. Then we
got Bill to open up. He’s “sitting
right pretty” just now. He has:
Money in the bank, 11 shoats, 1350 1
pounds of Spanish peanut seed, 1,000
pounds runner peanut seed, 250
bushels of corn, seven to eight tons
of peanut hay, 200 cans of fruits and
vegetables, among other items and is
out of debt.”
Rev. George B. Culpepper, Sr., of
Fort Valley, is the author of a book
just off the press entitled “King
Solomon’s Son,” which is being sold
in large quantities to schools and
libraries, as well as to individuals at
the remarkably low price of 50c-per
copy. The book has a personal appeal
to this section of the state, the whole
plot of the story dealing as it does
with the creation and early develop
ment of Taylor, Marion and Macon
counties also towns, villages and
thickly settled rural communities
within these confines. The characters
used are names of some of the best
and most prominent citizens who
have long since gone to their heav
enly reward. The story is clothed in
the most matchless English, intensely
thrilling and beautifully pictured as
by an artist’s brush. It invites second
and third reading with increased joy
and interest at each reading. Our
hearty congratulations are extended
the author believing he has rendered
a distinct service notonly to this sec
tion but to the entire state. The Her
ald will take pleasure in securing a
copy at the price of 50c to all who
may call upon us.
After dinner we went with her to
see her chickens and hogs and fruits,
listening to a running comment that
:ide us more grateful than ever for
people who love to work and love to
do something worthwhile, and finally
wound up in her flower garden,
back of the hotel and her private
home—a veritable garden it is where
once an ugly gulley ate away the
sloping hillside. You have to go there
and look at the place for yourself
before you can appreciate what I am
saying. She has transformed one of
the worst gulleys into one of the
prettiest gardens I ever saw, and
with very little actual expenditure of
money. It represents lots of work,
lots of thought, lots of patience, lots
of good taste, but not very much
actual money. What Miss West has
accomplished in that gulley, hundreds
and thousands of Georgians could ac
complish if they were willing to put
as much into life as she has put. But
I guess that is right where the rub
comes.
“How do you find time to run a
hotel, raise chickens and hogs and
vegetables and fruit, and then per
sonally do what you’ve done in this
gulley?” I asked. “It’s the joy I get
out of it,” she answered, reaching
over to turn on the water in one of
her beautiful lily pools.
THE DREAMER
((John B. O’Reilly)
I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded -hives of men;
Heart-weary of building and spoiling
And spoiling and building again,
And I long for the dear old river
Where I dreamed my youth away;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.
I am sick of the showy seeming,
Of a life tha is half a lie;
Of the faces lined with scheming
In the throng that hurries by,
From the sleepless thought endeavor;
I would go where the children play;
For a dreamer lives forever,
-And a toiler dies in a day.
I can feel no pride, but pity
For the burdens the rich endure;
There is nothing sweet in the city,
IBut the patient lives of the poor.
Oh, the little hands too skillful,
And the father s heart that bleeds.
No, no, from the streets rude bustle,
From the trophies of mart and
stage,
I would fly to the wood s rustle
And the meadow’s kindly page.
Let me dream as of old by the river,
And 'be loved for dream always;
For a dreamer lives forever,
And a toiler dies in a day.
Do you remember—when the street
carnival came to town-, was permit
ted to show on the main streets;
when everyone had to buy some con
fetti to throw in one’s face, always
awaiting the opportunity to catch the
victim engaged in a big laugh so as
to get a goodly -portion in the
mouth ? And the parting “shot”; “spit
out the green ones and swallow the
reds?”—Dawson News. Remember?
You telling me! That’s when we lost
our first dime, and the last one we
had for a long time thereafter, on the
“wheel of fortune.”
truck as big as a box-car. It even
obscures the sight of those lovely
billboards.
istence more difficult for
ln , future citizens.
In the study necessary to write 8
It’s the big, lumbering, -groaning, cr€ditable essay oft the subje< . tj
leezing, overloaded trucks which Georgia Counties Should Support
hang two feet over the midnle line Korest Fire Protection,” Georgia
and can -barely crawl up the grades. dentg wiu be acquiring information
We hold no brief, as the lawyers that should help ^ t hem fa
say, against commercial trucks. They intelligent performance of their d»
pay their taxes-gas, oil, license, tie8 of cifcizonrflip . Young Georgian,
business and everything else. have much to gain from beginning
Sunday is the day for an outing now to KNOW THEIR TIMBER,
without thought of profit. And you j Dr< charles Herty) who has don(
don’t get much of an outing behind a more than anyone else mak(
Georgia's forests and to foster
knowledge of the imperative need foi
their protection, saw in county-wid.
protection the most certain and effcc-
During the week ending October ' rive means for forest conservation.
15, 1,310 persons were placed on- jobs l n one of his last statements, Dr.
by the Georgia State Employment Herty made a strong plea to Georgia
agencies. The Atlanta District led in citizens to make the necessary step,
private industry placements with a to make such protection possible,
total of 238. The -Columbus District | Young Georgians will be glad to
was next with 174. Of the state total have had a part thru participation in
730 were placed in private employ- this contest, in paying tribute to the
ment and 580 on public works jobs. I man who has done most to prevent
- | them from -being deprived of the heri-
About 2,000 Future Farmers and of adequate forest resources.
their vocational agriculture teachers
met at Macon in connection with the An Arkansas woman advertised foi
Georgia State Exposition, October 21 a husband. She got ono at a cost ot
and 22. These future farmers meet in $9. He enlisted in the army and was
Macon each year to participate in killed-. She got $10,000 insurance and
livestock and seed judging and plant a widow’s pension for the rest of
and tree identification contests. This her life. Yet, some will tell you that
year the Future Farmers -had on ex- advertising doesn’t pay.—'Leon News.
hibition- at Macon 40 beef cattle, 60 |
mules, colts and mares, and 150 hogs. ' Uncle Sam is planning to put out a
These are raised by Future Farmers „ew nickel this fall, with Thomas
as a part of their project program. - Jefferson and his home replacing the
t Indian and buffalo on the coin. Seems
Dud Glass, over favorite columnist, there was some worry among official*
is turning the Western States on one as to whether the Indians would ro
of his annual pleasure jaunts. From seT >t having the likeness of one of
■Shrevesport, La., he writes: “We’ve thedr kind removed from the coin,
been- seeing more of America First. But no objection was heard, for whicA*
All we’d ever seen of Mississippi was officials offered several- explanations,
that beautiful little bit along the none of them taking note of the fact
Gulf Coast between Mobile and New that maybe the Indian just didn’t
Orleans. And we’d always understood care, one way or another,
the rest of Mississippi wasn't much
to look at, -being composed of swamp, | One of the most encouraging re
cotton, negroes and mules. And we’d ports we have seen or heard in a long
been especially warned against the -while comes this week in statement*
roads, which were terrible, according by leading government economists to
to our informants. It’s a slander on the effect that private business is oi
a noble state. We crossed Mississippi the eve of launching a vast “spend-
from east to west; from Meridian to ing” program of its own. Continuing
Vicksburg, on as fine a concrete high- , the report says: “Millions in job
way as you’ll find anywhere in the j creating new capital are expected to
South. And the map shows numer-' be poured into the nation’s industrial
ous long red lines- indicating paved arteries as the recovery movement
highways. It appears that Mississippi continues to higher levels, implement
like Georgia, became weary of being ed by increasing confidence of the
the target of tourists’ abuse. But business community. These econo-
Mississippi started in and built com- mists said the time is ripening for
plete highways swiftly, while -Geor- the floating of new capital issues for
gia had done a strip here and a strip working capital, credit extension,
there, which never -were coupled up plant equipment and expansion by the
until years after the beginning.” I durable goods industries.”
HOTEL LANIER
Macon, Georgia
Conveniently Located
Excellent Cafe
Rates $1.50 and Up
M)'0»>0'a»04B»04
USED CAR SALE
j We are staging the biggest
j used car sale in our history to clear
\ the space for new 1939 models,
j! All makes and models in good j
! mechanical condition now priced j
j from '
j $25 to $300
will trade for any kind !
!
! of farm produce.
Butler, Georgia