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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 10, 1938.
The Butler Herald
Established in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Chas. Beams, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cbx, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR CO
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.50 A YEAR
Heard so often announcement of
decline in sales and drop in price of
cotton that it fails to be news any
more. ,
In accordance with the Governor's
proclamation this is “Nut Week" in
Geongia. So, now is the time for all
good nuts to come to the aid of the
crackers.
Hon. Harry A. Wise, of Calhoun,
who was defeated in the September
primary in his race for the State
Senate by Editor J. Roy McGinty,
died Thursday of last week.
The fall season brought successful
fairs at Tifton, Cordele, Macon,
HawMnsville, Douglas, Alma, Ogle
thorpe and Nashvile. Congratulations
to each of these splendid communi
ties.
Postal receipts at the Butler
postoffice were the best of any Octo
ber in local history with the further
indication that receipts for 1938 will
be much larger than any previous
year.
More than 38,090 fanners will be
eligible to vote December 10 on im
position of marketing quotas on to
bacco, and 150,000 Georgia cotton
growers will vote on marketing re
strictions on that crop.
Featuring October . r. South Geor
gia, says I >oton Elkins, is the an
nouncement that arrangements are
being perfected fcr a 11,000,000 silk
mill at Columbus, thus moving for
ward the industrv. li/ati-n of the sec
tion.
To induce people to read more,
President Roosevelt has issued a
proclamation reducing the postage
rate on books containing 24 pages or
more, with no advertisements, to one
and one-half cents per pound or
fraction thereof, regardless of desti
nation.
Referring to the fact that Glenn-
ville is planning to build a new fire
proof jail, Bill Biffem says after the
recent experience there he believes
what Gleniwille needs is fireproof
prisoners, referring to the four ne
groes burned to death trapped in
their cells.
Practices may change with the
changing conditions of the time, but
principle remains the same. Some
men may feel that because others do
that they can escape and avoid pay
ing their just debts. But the mail who
pays his dcibts is assured of a place
in the estimation of all with whom
he. deals.
All editors have their troubles.
Those whose publication carried for
the past nine weeks one to three
pages of Constitutional Amendments
advertisements, will after next week
have to resort, as Editor Shackleford
puts it to buying copy from fees to
be collected from the advertisements
“until they get back to the habit of
clipping or writing it.”
The editor of the Fitzgerald Ro
tary club publication says this is
“something I came across:” “God
gave us two ends, one to sit on and
the other to think with. A man’s
success depends on which he uses
most. It is a case of heads you win
and tails you lose.”
Should the Fair Wage and Hour
Administration, or later the courts,
rule that pecan shcllers must be lo
cated in the area of production in or
der to be exempt from that govern
ment agency’s regulations, there
probably will be little or no shelling
done-outside of the producing states.
Some processing has ibeen done in
Chicago in recent years.
There is still to be found a con
siderable number of old people, and
pome young people, who subscribe
to the theory that it is better to
keep one’s debts paid and lay by
something for a rainy day than it is
to spend as they go and live next
door to relief all their lives. They
are not only the salt of the earth,
but its balance wheel as well.
It is believed that the largest
check drawn by' the chief disbursing
officer of the Treasury Department
was one on June 15, 1937, for $500,-
157,966.40 payable to the treasurer
of the United States for the Govern
ment Life Insurance Fund to repay
the treasurer for certain notes held
by the fund’ and representing loans
to veterans on the adjusted service
certificates.
Hallowe’en was fittingly observed
by the younger set in Butler. From
all accounts they had oceans of fun
with no injury to person or property
being reported. This is not surpris
ing as we know our young people
are commended for their good be
havior on all occasions. It is regret
table to note among a number of our
weekly exchanges reference to acts
of vandalism in other places where
Hallowe’en night was being cele
brated.
The Americus Times-Recorder says
Sumter county is proud to number
among its citizens A. H. Jennings,
v.ho has just returned from a tour of
the large fairs in. the South with 189
prizes and cash winnings of $1,300
for his hogs. And that is a citizen
any county would 1 ibe proud to have.
With continued development of the
livestock industry in South Georgia,
we hope it won’t be very long until
prize hogs in South Georgia will be
more usual than unusual.—Tifton
Gazette.
Jnteres tin the cultivation of the
tun oil tree in the South, especially
in Georgia, appears to be growing
rapidly. Not only that the tree
very ornaniental but its seed has a
high commercial value because of the
oi: that is extracted from it which is
extensively used in paint, linoleum
and applied industries. Senator Rich
ard B. Russell, Jr., was author of an
appropriation of $150,000 for the es
tablishment of four laboratories, one
of them at Cairo, Ga., for the
chemical study of the tung oil tree.
It is said that the Chinese exports of
tung oil amounted to nearly twenty-
five million dollars in 1935 and ap
proximately 150,000,000 pounds of
the oil is imported annually into this
country. Climate and soil of this sec
tion is particularly adapted to the
cultivation of the tung oil tree
evidenced by the flourishing condition
of one of these trees growing in a
few hundred yards of the public
square in Butler and is greatly ad
mired for its beautiful foliage and
pretty blossoms. Tung trees grow to
the height of 25 feet or more, with
equal top spread. Its average life is
said to be about 20 years. Not only
does it bear the valuable oil-yielding
seed, but displays clusters of snow-
white or pinkish flowers, which ap
pear early in March or April, and
has broad, handsome dark green
the blos-
Editor Ernest Camp, composer of
some of the most beautiful verses
ever to appear in print, is planning,
ft is learned, to issue a volume of his ’ leaves coming just after
poems in December. As Past Presi- soms and remains until late fall or
dent and Poet Laureate of the Geor- ; early winter. Fruit, approximately
gia Press Association, also editor of the size of an average size apple, is
one of the best weeklies in the state, borne about the third year and ma-
Mr. Camp is held in the highest of ^ tures early in the fall. The one tree
esteem by every other editor, daily growing in Butler bore five of these
apples this year. Each apple contains
from three to seven seeds, which are
removed from the woody hull and
as well as weekly, in the state.
This and the coming week will be
the most important periods of the ^ crushed iby machinery similar to that
year for Methodists in Georgia. Con-1 used for extracting oil from peanuts,
vening this morning at 1C o'clock at cottonseed and soybeans. We would
the First Methodist char.-.h at Way- be glad to see the planting of several
cross and continuing through Sunday orchards in this section, which could
the 72nd session of the South Georgia be done at very little expense, and
Conference will be held. Thursday of will doubtless be more profitable in a
next week more than one thousand few years than pecans, since the
ministers and laymen will gather at former is confined to a small area as
the historic Wesley Memorial church to climate and soil, while the latter
in Atlanta for its 72nd session. Each covers 9uch a vast territory. The
of these Conferences will be presided former, too, is in its infancy while
over by Bishop J. L. Deceli, of Birm- the latter is already being over pro-
ingham. duced.
ARMISTICE DAY OBSERVATIONS
There can be no better observation
Armistice Day than a sober contem
plation of the forces at work today
that make for war. In the midst of
our expressions of gratitude for
peace we can not be unmindful of
the forces both direct and indirect
that are driving men and nations fur
ther from peace. President Roosevelt
brought one force clearly to the
front when he set forth the principle
“there can be no peace if the reign
of law is to be replaced by a recur
rent sanctification.” We must face
the fact that the peoples of the world
are depending more and more upon
force as a guarantee of pe^ce. Now
we are not taking the position that it
Is a good idea to be unprepared when
one is in the midst of armed nations.
It is a pretty good idea to have our
gun in good shape if we are in the
midist of wolves. At the same time
one cannot deny history and history
tells us just as plainly as experience
can tell anyone that the nations
which rely on force have no assur
ance that peace will be lasting. “He
that taketh the sword shall perish by
the sword.” For the present it seems
that our nation should proceed with
its armament program. To do other
wise would be foolish. At the same
time it may be just as foolish for us
to think that the finest battle ships,
airships and armies in the world will
spell peace forever.
President Roosevelt, has reminded
us that the forces of Mars have dis
covered another war instrument. In
warning the nations against the use
of such an instrument he reminded
them that “there can be no peace if
national policy adopts as a deliberate
instrument the threat of war.” Sure
ly, one has seen a remarkable play
of this force during the past month
when one nation has attained its ob
jective by what appears to be the
sheer force of threat of war. Thus
we have ip the two forces, viz. the
threat of war and the sanctification
of force, two very dangerous factors
that must be eradicated before man
kind can have any prospect of peace.
How can this be done? One dares
not venture a guess. Perhaps the
atmosphere just now is not such as
to make possible clear thinking on
this point. Let us hope that it may
be possible in the near future.—At
lanta Journal of Labor.
A comparatively few years ago
the airplane was practically unknown
as an implement of war. England
felt safe with her navy and this na
tion felt safe with the ocean barrier.
The airplane has changed all this. It
interesting to speculate as to
what will come after the airplane.
The fact that two able writers and
experienced newspaper young people
have launched out on the sea of
matrimony together is a sure sign
that their hearts are in perfect ac
cord and will doubtless find business
success as well as personal happi
ness. The Herald joins other news
paper friends throughout the state in
extending congratulations to Walter
Herbert Rains and Miss Anna Eliza
beth Maugham who were married re
cently at Cordele. Mr. Rains was
former sports editoV for the Cordele
Dispatch and has also served as
sports writer for a number of daily
papers in the state. Mrs. Raines is
the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. W. Mangham, of Americus, and a
graduate of the University of Geor
gia School of Journalism. She has
held a responsible position in Cordele
with the Crisp County News for the
past two and a half years, and prior
to that time was connected with the
Milledgeville Times and Pelham
Journal.
The Southeastern Fair is history;
it is about time for Bill Biffem, Char
lie Benns, Louie Morris, Rush Burton
and other distinguished editorial
writers to begin arguing, talking and
discussing the pros and cons of chit
terlings.—Courtland 'Gilbert’s Fulton
County Review. Late, as usual, Court.
Gilbert! We done started. And don’t
forget Ernest Camp of Walton Coun
ty is anti-chitlin.—Savannah Press.
Yes, chitlin’ weather is just around
the comer and don’t forget that Mar
garet Mitchell and Willie Snow Eth
eridge are for ’em. P. S. Mrs. S. D.
Brown drops in to say that she is for
’em too.—Rush Burton’s Lavonia
WELL DONE
(Editorial From Macon Co. Citizen)
The Board of County Commission
ers is to be congratulated on the pur
chase of the Miona Springs property
a site for a state park and the
citizens of the county owe the mem
bers a debt of gratitude fob their
foresight in making this development
possible.
After weeks of work, when at
time it seemed impossible, the com
missioners carried on in an effort to
make this dream a reality. Fine co
operation by leading citizens made
the work easier. The result shows
what the people of Macon county can
accomplish when they work together
on a given project.
Besides the commissioners, certain
individuals deserve credit for their
fine work. Foremost among these are
Mrs. J. E. Hayes, beloved Monte
zuma and state historian, whose work
in behalf of the iMiona Springs
project, perhaps made the park pos
sible.
Several months ago, Sheriff W. T.
Jolly mentioned to Mrs. Hayes that
a number of sites were being de
veloped into state parks and it
seemed to him Miona Springs had all
the needed requirements for such a
park. Immediately Mrs. Hays con
tacted Commissioner Burch and sold
him on Miona .Springs. She next
took the matter up with County Com-
ir.iisoners and the rest is now his
tory.
Others who played important
parts in making the park possible
were Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Toler, own
ers of the property, Jule Felton, J. B.
Easterlin, Dave Rumph, ’Mrs. Tina
Cohen, Mrs. Susie Perry and mem
bers of the Montezuma ICiwanis club.
To everyone who played any part
in making the park possible the citi
zens of the county should ever be
grateful. The surii of $8,000 paid for
the property fades into insignificance
when $200,000 is spent in developing
the property and when thousands of
tourists will visit our county each
year. No finer investment has ever
been made by any group of county
commissioners.
PROSPEROUS SOUTH GEORGIA
WALTON RESIDENT HAS
WONDERFUL MEMORY
The Walton News, records the fact
Lhat Monroe has a citizen whose
memory is far above the average of
men. The story is related as follows:
“IMr, V. M. Bentley, who is a fre
quent caller at the News office, was
again welcomed iby our force last
Wednesday afternoon, when he
dropped by to pay his respects to the
editor and to “read” a fbw pieces
which have appeared in the columns
of this paper. Mr. Bentley can recite
from memory exactly as it appeared
in The News any article, editorial or
news tory, regardless of the time it
appeared. So adapt has Mr. Bentley
become with his rapid memory, we
are told that “Believe It Or Not”
Ripley is trying to persuade him to
come to New York and appear on his
radio program, and according to Mr.
Bentley, he plans to accept within a
few weeks.
“His latest, given him by Mr. E.
L. Almond, Jr., was memorized in
one reading and is as follows:
“Life Is a Funny Proposition”
A man comes into this world with
out his consent and leaves it against
his will. During his stay on earth, his
time is spent in a continuous round
of contraries and misunderstandings.
In his infancy he is an angel . . .
in his boyhood he’s a devil. In; his
manhood he’s everything from a liz
ard up . . . if he raises a family he’s
a chump ... if he doesn’t he’s too
selfish. If he raises a check he’s a
crook. If he’s a poor man he’s a bad
manager and got no sense. If he’s a
rich man he’s smart but dishonest. If
he’s in politics he’s a grafter ... if
he isn’t he’s an undesirable citizen.
FARM SECURITY IN GEOR(; u
Three years old, the program f
the Farm Security Administration al
ready has achieved notable results '
Georgia, helping to create a new life
and to make possible a higher stan
dard of living for some twenty thou
sand handicapped farm families.
Farmers overburdened with debt
have been enabled to adjust their ob
ligations, while those who lacked ade-
quate credit have been provided with
funds making it pos~.il.iA for them to
go on farming. In cases of extreme
distress, farmers with no prospect of
making a crop have been granted
money to feed and clot ho their fami
lies until they could make a harvest.
The government program also, has
given tenants a golden opportunity
to become owners of good homes and
farms.
Since 1966, the FSA in its drive
to help low-income farmers has in.
vested more than ten million dollars
in 'Georgia, much of which already fi
being repaid. Nearly twenty thousand
farm families, virtually at the end ol
their resources, have received money
from the government to make anoth
er crop, their loans up to June I,
1938, exceeding seven and a quarter
million dollars. In addition to credit,
these families received in planning a
sound, “live-at-home” economy to
make them self-supporting.
In cases where farmers could not
get further credit and faced loss of
their farms because they owed more
than they could pay, local debt ad
justment committees organized by
the ESA helped these men scale
down their debts. One thousand,
eight hundred and thirty-nine Geor
gia farmers were helped in this way.
Before the
If he goes to church he’s a hypocrite , tie?^ newlyTree‘
, . . If ho doesn't he‘s a sinner ... i n .. e , ... ,
if ^ o , lais * Alter adjustment they owed ap-
If he gives to chanty its for show proximately flfteen per cent , £
' • • “ he d06Snt t h i S a t'jhtwad. * ere in better jtion to
When he comes into the world every- farming and their remaini |
body want to kiss him. Before he Uebts , while their creditors
leaves the world everybody wants to substantial
kick him. If he dies young a great
There is no more observant editor
in Georgia than P. T. McCutchen of
the Franklin News and 1 Banner.
Tucked away up there in a northern
corner of the state he keeps an eye
on what goes on in his community.
Among the treasures of the News
and Banner is a list of energetic and
lively country correspondents. There
is one of this type at Mt. Pleasant a
rural community in Heard county of
which Franklin is the county seat.
And a couple of weeks ago this Mt.
Pleasant scribe concluded his news
letter with this reference:
“Jake Nelms with two of his boys
and a Mr. Cooper of near Fitzgerald,
spent Thursday with relatives here.
Jake is doing well in South Georgia.
He made $1,054 worth of peanuts
after all expenses were paid and
saved 70 bushels for seed, 20-odd
tons of peavine hay and over $600 for
tobacco, $140 worth of watermelons,
some 400 bushels of com, has 20
acres of running peanuts for his
hogs, and made 14 bales of cotton. I
am only telling this to show you that
we can raise something else besides
boll weevil cotton. All this on a 4-
horse farm.”
Jake has certainly carried back to
his old home in North Georgia a fine
word picture of conditions down in
this favored part of the state. The
South Georgia farmer has few prob
lems to solve and makes money pro
ducing crops with more ease than
does his kinsman in more northern
sections of the state. Surely we live
in a section that has been generously
blessed by God and nature. If man
only does half his part down here he
can make a living and find ail the
comforts in climate, weather con
ditions and growing seasons that
make him the envy of those in less
favored sections.—.Savannah Press.
GEMS OF THOUGHT
future was before him . , . and if he
lives to a ripe old age he’s in the
way.—Author Unknown.
“BURNED OVER”
Cobb County Times:
what had
hopelessly
payments on
too often appeared to be
frozen assets.
Just what the ESA program has
achieved is best shown by a survey
I of a representative group of approxi
mately ten thousand Georgia fami
lies. Because they were struggling
with farms too poor to afford a living
six thousand of these families were
Convincing arguments against any helped to rent better farms. In two
benefits to be derived from “burning years remarkable results were appar-
over farm land are contained in an ent. Families which previously could
article by a Virginia college pro- not afford a horse, a mule or a cow
lessor found in the current issue of found it possible to purchase live-
the Blue Ridge Parkway News. Thos. stock. Acreage of feed and forage
Hutcheson, the author, is recognized crops was more than doubled in or-
as one of the ablest authorities on aer to avoid paying out extra cash
soil in the South, and ish a practical to feed this livestock. The families
farmer and dairyman as well. canned three and one-half times as
Cohb county farmers who persist in much fruits and vegetables as they
clinging to the old belief that land had before receiving government aid;
is improved by being burned over they raised three times as much
Times. Louie Morris, of grand old
butter-milk fame, can measure the
length of the chitterlings by the
squeal of the pig, and Editor-Preach
er Caldiwell too. But nothing doing
here, Courtland. Yams and hams,
jowl and the the old reliable black-
eyes, are still fit for the king’s table,
with a piece of good old-fashioned,
home baked pumpkin pie to finish
off with while you’r sipping over a
mug of that very refreshing beverage
made from ;’simmons and ’taters that
the brewers and reveneuers have not
yet been able to control its output.
each year should take due cognizance
of the professor’s article and remem
ber the facts contained therein. The
article follows:
“Prom the standpoint of forty
years’ experience and observation, I
know of no poorer land than that
which is burned over from year to
year. The short dry season in the
fall and spring are followed iby the
periods of most destructive rains.
“When burning takes place the
organic matter which is the food for
the next generation of plant life is
destroyed. The minerals are either
blown off a ash or washed off by the
rains. Seeds and young sprouts of
leguems are destroyed. The bare land
quickly erodes away. When the cover
is removed from the land moisture
does not enter the soil. It runs off,
carrying with it the soil itself. The
removal of covers from the land has
resulted in the drying up of springs
and streams. All water that enters
the land serves a useful purpose.That
which flows over the land is destruc
tive.
“It is my belief that the majority
of fires are set on purpose and al
lowed to run. Where they are set to
improve grass stands the real result
is destruction, not improvement. A
poor stand can be improved by lime
and fertilizer, never by burning.”
If sensuality were happiness
besets were happier than men; but
human felicity is lodged in the soul,
not in the flesh.—Seneca.
Sensuality is the death of the soul.
-Balzac.
Sensuality not only debases
body and mind but dulls the
edge of pleasure.—Fielding.
'both
keen
Sensualism is not bliss, but bond
age.—Mary Baker Eddy.
When the cup of any sensual
pleasure is drained to the .bottom,
there is always poison in the dregs,
Anacreon himself declares that “the
flowers swim at the top of the .bowl.”
—Jane Porter.
home-grown meat; they had two and
one-half times as much milk, and got
more than twice as many eggs from
Iheir enlarged poultry flocks. At the
same time they increased their net
worth more than sevenfold; whereas
the total value of furniture, clothing
stored supplies and equipment aver
aged only $35 per family in 1935, two
years later this value had increased
to two hundred and forty-five dol
lars.
All of this has been achieved thru
what might be termed emergency aid
from the government. In addition the
FSA has made a start toward solving
the long-time, fundamental problem
of farm tenancy. Three years ago a
small experimental farm ownership
program was launched, with foul
hundred and fourteen Georgia fami
lies being established on good farms
of their own. This program is now
being expanded under terms of the
new Bankhead-Jones Farm Tenant
Act. During the past year, loans
were made to one hundred and eigh
ty-six families to help competent
tenants, share croppers and laborers
buy farms of their own. This year
tjhe program is being extended to
provide for more than four hundred
families, and it is planned to reach
still more families in the future.-
Atlanta Journal.
There Are More Eggs In Jazz
22 Per Cent Laying Mash,
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Sold by
E. F. PARR
Reynolds, Ga.