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THE BUTLER HHRAWD, BUTLER, 'GEORGIA, MARCH. 9, 1939.
Butler Herald
Established in 1676
Uttered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Chns. Benins, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF TAYLOR 00
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
The Mayor of Atlanta refuses to
agree with the Mayor of New York
that chitlins are a desirable dish. The
Mayor of Atlanta is eminently cor
rect. Being an Italian, we bet the
Mayor of New York is an apostle of
garlic, too.—Walton Tribune.
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
Thomaston has a wide-awake Ki-
wanis Club. Congratulations, Thom-
ostonians.
According to the old rule tomorrow
—March 10th—is corn planting time
in Georgia.
Though few Americans approve of
Hitler and his policies, most , of us
realize that splashing our opinions
over the face of newspapers and
magazines can do nothing to improve
the situation. Instead, it may inten
sify the antagonism existing between
tlie two countries to, a white heat.
PACE’S FIGHT FOR FARMERS
Some of our auto drivers are like
empty guns. They pull the trigger
beiore they realize they are loaded.
It is difficult to understand why
Charlie Benns could absent himsell
from the Institute. If a silver tray
isn’t worth going across the state to |
get, wonder what would be worth
it, says Mrs. Paul Trawick in hoi
Commerce News. "Becky” had other
plans for us that day. Her plans
collapsed, so did the proffered tray.
A new 3c postage stamp, com-i
memorating the New York World’s
Fair, will make its appearance about
April 1st.
A newspaper headline reads, “to
sell cotton it must be advertised.”
Who else is there to read or hear
about it?
President Roosevelt has advised
Congress that he is willing for it ta
aajourn as soon as it clears up its
current slate.
When a man is sure that his
friends never say unkind things
about him he can be sure that all his
friends are dead.
During the course of evolution
mother nature left the white women
with straight hair and the negro
woman’s hair curly. Now the whites
are spending great sums to make their
hair curl and the negro is working
overtime to get the curls out of
theirs. Such is life and the vicissi-
tudes thereof—Banks County Jour
nal.
Paul M. Conway, Macon attorney
and newspaperman, is associated with
Wm. M. Moore and others In the
purchase of Downie Bros. Circus
which maintains winter headquarters
in Macon. Running a newspaper is a
three ring circus for any newspaper
man, so Mr. Conway should be well
qualified to -handle the show La-
vonia Times.
We vouchsafe that no Cogressman
in Washington is pushing forward in
greater degree and increasing help
fulness to his constituency than Hon,
Stephen Pace, of the Third Georgia
district.
Frequently he is to be found on
the fighting lines where the going is
vigorous. Only recently, he struck
out in behalf of an enlarged and com
prehensive farm-tenancy aid pro
gram; and when the question of
America’s defense reached the floor
of the House some days ago, he Was
among the most dynamic who spoke,
in its behalf.
Now we And him battling for a
cause that directly affects .the wel-
fare of the Southern farmer—that of
the government buying products
made from cotton instead of foreign
raw materials to effect a saving.
The Post Office Appropriations B
bill carries $325,000 for the purchase
of twine
Pace Continues Efforts
To Increase Cotton Price
Congressman Stephen Pace is be-1 provision they have written in at
tng highly commended by his con- I page 14 . -
stituents in the Third district as well „ That in order ^ foster competition
as farmers generally throughout the , n ^ manufacture of distinctive
state for Ins persistent effort to ex-! , _ T r j m
, , ‘ . . paper for the United States secun-,
pand use of and op emng new mar- ,, ~ . . ,, _
f , . , lties the Secretary of the Treasury is
kets for -both peanuts and cotton. .. . . . ' ...
IT . . . . , ... . authorized m his discretion to -split
His tnerest in the former inthe early
. . the award for such paper for the
part of his first term in congress re- . ' ,,, n
‘ . . . , , . . .. fiscal year 1940 .between the two bid-
suited in material increase m the „ v . , ,, 1
.... . ,, • • i ders whose prices per pound are the
price of this one of the principal . . ■ . , „ *
.... lowest received.”
crops of the farmers of his district,
which fight he has continued with Understand me, I do not want to
mislead you. Year before last there
prospects for even -better prices this
fall.
Now comes cotton, the major
source of income to nearly all south
ern farmers, as Mr. Pace’s concen
trated efforts to further its use and
Mr. Pace , introduced an i ,. . . x . .,
amendment -whereby “not more than 1 if T f ° r fV™ 6 yieW
□ne-half of tho i,.,.!« __ 1 the farmer at the least the cost
Talbot county has abandoned its
convict system and will work public
roads with free labor. Is it, or is it
not a step backward?
May 20th is the date set for the
formal opening of the 1939 summer j
season at Savannah Beach. Our eyes
are in perfect trim. All we need is a
railroad ticket.
The Thomasville Press bays that a
heavy crop of cabbage will be pro
duced in Thomas county this season.
That ought to be good news to the
commodity beneficiaries.
-Tile Savannah Press wants Geor
gia Day at the New York World's
Fair date changed from June 14 to
June 3, in honor of Jeff Davis’ birth
day and a legal holiday. Why not
change ?
One must know Ira Butt, former
Butler high pilot, but -at present oc
cupying the editorial “stool" of the
North Georgia News, to appreciate
this paragraph in a recent issue of
his paper: ."Jule Weaver and Ben
Wilson tried to supply us with some
news items this week, but coining
from such unreliable source, -we
couldn’t afford to print them.”
Hon. Eugene Anderson, promoter
of one of most generally read fea
tured articles of the day appearing
daily in the Macon Telegraph entitled
“’Round the Circle,” dropped into
our sanctum-conglomorate for a brief
but delightful visit Saturday. He
rounds up the news overlooked by the
average news gatherer as he rounds
the circle and writes it in a most
fascinating way.
one-half of the funds herein ap
propriated for the purchase of twine
shall be expended in the purchase of
-wine manufactured from materials
or commodities produced outside the
United States.”
According to the department, the
lowest bid on cotton twine was 14,60
cents a pound, while that on jute was
11.26 cents a pound. Of course, labor
n the lands where jute comes from
ta much lower paid than in our own
country of better standards, and this
is why an effective tariff on jute to
allow cotton to compete has been the
aim of -Southern members of Con
gress for so long.
As Congressman Pace so logically
expressed matters, even if it does
cost a little more to use cotton for
the postal twine, there is ,a buy-
American law that authorizes a dif-
production. His courage has not been
daunted in bis more recent move to
require the Post Office Department
to use cotton twine rather than jute
brought from a foreign country. Mr,
Pace’s amendment to the Post Office
appropriation bill, while lost in the
j House by a close vote, has been
j further pursued by him before the
i Senate Committee. The Congressional . ..
Record of Feb. 28th contains Mr. to th * they were
race’s discussion of the subject on
the floor of the House reproduced as
follows:
Mr. Pace. Mr. Chairman, I offer an
amendment.
The Clerk read as follows: ,
Amendment offered by Mr. Pace:
On page 69, line 24, after the word
“devices,” add the following in pa
renthesis: “(not more than one-half
ferential of 25 percent, and today the ,°t" the funds herein appropriated for
The Cordele Dispatch reminds the .
members of the General Assembly ol,
Georgia that "a horse cannot -pull
while -he is kicking and neither can
he kiok when is pulling.” A fine
suggestion.
Albany is proven to be one of South
Georgia’s most progressive and fast
est growing cities. The city’s popula
tion now is recorded at more than
twenty-one thousand, an increase of
over three thousand since 1930.
Hawkinsvi-lle has just organized a
Rotary Club with Hon.'Harley Law-
son as president. Don’t know a town
“stepping out” faster. Something new
developing every week. Always glad
to see good towns being made better
towns.
According to the Dispatch the peo-
pie of Cordele will ever remain grate
ful to one of the nation’s greatest
organizations: “The Red Cross is
again on the job rendering relief to
South Georgians who suffered from
tornadoes hitting this section last
week. Mention of a tornado quickens
the deep gratitude citizens of Cor
dele and Crisp county have held for
the Red Cross since A/pril 2, 1936,
The humanitarian organization per
formed wonders in administering to
the dying, injured, and in rehabili
tating scores of families who had
lost their homes, places of business,
and other property.”
government is paying a subsidy
wheat of 27 cents a bushel for sale
in foreign countries—a 50 per cent
subsidy
Also, at an hour when the author!
ties are spending millions of dollar?
to find new uses for cotton, here is a
use that would cost the government
only a few thousand dollars addi
tional.
With 15 million bales lying in the
warehouses, and with the govern
ment holding over 31 million -bales
under loans of approximately six
hundred million dollars, one of its
departments favors buying foreign
materials to save only about enough
money to pay the salary of one of
the departmental heads.
Undoubtedly, Mr. Pace went up
against powerful forces in the man
ufacturing world of the East! when
he -struck out at the ■ jute interests
—the same manufacturers’ bloc
of that section which has had in
existence the freightrate inequality
Even then, his amendment was de
feated in the House by only a close
margin, and continuing the same
brilliant fight into the future, the be
lief and hope may be justified tha!
he will sooner or later win success
in this vital effect for the Southern
cotton farmers—Columbus Enquirer
Ledger.
A bill authorizing the army ail
corps to increase its strength to 6,-
BOO war planes won the approval oi
Ihe U. S. Senate Monday after a de
bate which emphasized the “threat”
of the dictator nations to the democ
racies of the world.
The patrollers will get you if you
don’t watch out. Their number has
been increased -by the legislature
from 120 to 200. While business in
this line -will pick up, maybe there
will be less victims to be picked up
from the highways.
A two-headed pig, which lived on
ly a few hours, has been pickled and
is, being exhibited at a drug store at
Hawkins ville. Multiple intestines
might have created greater interest
if the pig had lived long enough to
reach the slaughter block.
A New York man who read that
a Chicago judge had ruled that it
was perfectly all right to slap one’*
wife thought he would see how -it
worked out and after the attending
■physician had pulled a fork' out of
•bis,gizzard and bandaged thp places
where, the ‘boiling water hit, his con-
elusion was that the jurist may be
.thoroughly familiar with the law,
but.—Macon Telegraph.
Our heart almost stopped fuc-
tioning Saturday when the daily pa
pers brought us the first account of
a _ terrible automobile accident the
night before near Monticello in which
Mrs. L. P. Penn, wife of the Mayor
of Monticello and Editor of the News
was killed, Mr. Penn and his sister,
Miss Maude Penn, were seriously in
jured and a friend of the family hurt.
From our long and delightful ac
quaintance with the Penn family the
suffering they bore was brought close
home to us. While we mourn the
passing of Mrs. Penn we humbly
pray that the lives of the others in
the wreck may be spared and that
recovery may be speedy.
We have often heard the remark
made of a girl who married an - un
prepossessing young man. “For heav
ens sake what did she see in him ?”
A local woman who might be num
bered among this class answered the
question recently. “When I was home
I had no rights that any one re
spected. My sisters wore my clothes
without permission and my family
upheld them in it. My brothers were
constantly hounding me for money.
My room afforded no privacy. My
personal mail was opened and read,
Everything I did Was criticized and
picked at. I married the first man
that came along ten years ago and
he has never failed to show m e more
respect and consideration than my
famiiy did." This may be the an
swer in many instances to the often
asked question: Why do girls leave
home ?
Deep-Laid Affection
One of the WPA gang working on
the back files of the Savannah news
papers'to see what happened in the
past, tells B. B. he found this in the
Savannah Morning News of Feb 9
1870: ‘ ’
"A tombstone in Ulster has this
inscription: Erected to the memory
of John Phillips, accidentally shot as
a mark of affection by his brothers.”
—Bill Biffem, Savannah Press.
The decisive dry majority in the
prohibition referendum election last
week definitely settles the issue in
Thomas county for the next two
years at least, if not for many more
years. The majority of the people of
the county are unalterably opposed
to open ibar-rooms, and legal sales of
whiskey. Thomasville Press. Why not
go a step further by putting a stop
to the screened bar-rooms and il
legal manufacture and sale of whis
key?
Lovelace Eve subjects himself to
being shot to tell this and to help
the cause along we are reprinting it
for the benefit of our readers:
“Gene’s face was as red as his gal-
luses, recently when he mixed in
itials. He had spoken to 2,500 per
sons at 'Glenwood as guest of the P.
T. A. sponsors of horse racing and
judging event . . . None in Georgia
, have flayed the New Deal and its re-
llief agencies more consistently than
the purchase of twine shall be ex
panded in' the purchase of twine man
ufactured from materials or com
modities produced outside the United
States).”
Mr. Pace. Mr. Chairman, I ask
unanimous consent that I .may pro
ceed for an additional 5 minutes.
The Chairman. Is there objection
to the request of the gentleman from
Georgia ?
There was no objection.
Mr. Ludlow. Mr. Chairman, I won
der if we can reach an agreement on
time? I ask unanimous consent that
all debate on this amendment may
close in 20 minutes.
The Chairman. Is there objection ?
There was no objection.
Mr. Pace. Mr. Chairman, it is
Somewhat embarrassing for an
American citizen to have,to come be
fore an American Congress to insist
that one of the great departments of
the American Government use Ameri
can commodities.
•This bill carries $325,000 for the
purchase of twine. The item last
year was $292,000. In this bill it -is
increased to $325,000. For the last 18
years your mail and mine, transport
ed by your Post Office Department,
has-been wrapped in jute, a com
modity produced thousands of miles
from American shores.
I make no attempt in my amend
ment, for none is necessary, to in
crease the appropriation. I do not ask
as I should that the twine used by
your Post Office Department should
be made of American products en
tirely. I simply ask that you at least,
Dr the postal authorities, at least
give the American commodities a 50-
50 chance. My amendment provides
that not more jthan one-half of thi-j
money shall be expended for twine
manufactured from materials grown
outside the United States. Is it un
reasonable that I should object, with
15/000,000 bales of cotton lying in the
warehouses, with your own 'Govern
ment holding 11,200,000 bales under
loans of approximately $600,000,000,
that I should ask that you at least in
part give the American farmer the
American market? (Applause).
| The Appropriations 'Committee, I
! understand, states that it wants
more time, after 18 years of investi
gating this- question. I ask you .to
turn to page 3.4 of this bill and see
how much time they gave in helping
the paper manufacturers of this Na
tion. On page 14 you see an appro
priation of $851,000 for. fancy paper,
approximately three times as much
as that twine, and listen to the pro
vision which the Appropriations Com
mittee has inserted for the -benefit of
the paper manufacturers. The com
mittee insists that the jute manufac
turer has submitted the lowest bid on
twine, and, therefore, they must
have all the twine business, regard
less- of the condition of the cotton
farmers of the South, but when the
—wmn
speech 3 hTsS- bU “I waM t^ 0 ^ Ws i larmers 01 ' the s «uth, -but when the
my appreciation to f the Treasu ^ to
™ ! get 'some fancy papeer on which to
"print more Government bonds the
this enjoyable occasion” . , , The
crowd roared, 'Gene blushed and the
PTA’s were momentarily befuddled' at
referred to as reliefers.”
committee authorizes him to disre-
gard the requirements with! respect to
was no bidder on cotton twine. I will
tell you why. You know we are hap
py in the security, I think that we
have a competitive bidding system in
our Government, but have you stop
ped to think that you leave it to the
head of the department to draw the
specifications? Just this week I was
given an illustration by the head ol
a department. They moved head
quarters from one place to another;
had to rent new quarters. They were
supposed to have done it by com
petitive bidding, and they did, but
they did not advertise that they
wanted 6,000 feet of office space. Do
you know what they did? They went
to move to,
picked out the offices they wanted
and then drew the specifications and
issued the advertisement. There was,
o,f course, exactly one bidder in the
United States that could bid on it.
Let us turn to the hearings of last
year. The committee asked us why
we did not come before them. I did
not come before the committee be
cause the hearings were held on the
16th day of last December, when I
was a Ion, long way from the city of
Washington. But let us look at the
hearings on the 1939 bill; let us see
what we find. It is given on page 303.
Mr. Trexler, who, I presume, is the
purchasing officer for the Depart
ment, said:
“The last time a representative of
the jute-manufacturing industry was
in my office he said that the next
time we advertised for jute twine the
price was going to be even higher,
When the last proposals were called
for, there were no bids on cotton
twine. This year there was a bidder
on cotton twine. The bid on jute was
11,26 cents a pound. The lowest bid
on cotton was 14.50 cents a pound.’
Under that figure, they say, it is
going to cost a little more to use
cotton and other American commodi
ties. Suppose it does, you have a buy
American law that authorizes a dif
ferential of 25- per cent; but I submit
to you if you will .give cotton
chance, if you will tell that Depart
ment down there they must write
their specifications so as to be fair
to cotton, they can arrange those
specifications so they will give the
cotton manufacturers an equal chance
of making a suitable twine to com
pete with the jute twine.
Today we are paying aI subsidy on
wheat at 27c a bushel' for sale in
foreiga countries. That is a subsidy
af 50 per cent. Do you realize that?
It is a 50-percent subsidy. I am not
complaining of what our Government
has done to help the farmer of the
South who produces cotton; you
have done a great deal. At this hour
you are spending millions of dol
lars to find new uses for cotton, yet
here is a use right under your nose
that I will guarantee under this
amendment will not cost the Ameri
can Government over $1,000 or $2,000
additional.
It is unreasonable that the people
in the South, who are trying to stay
m the cotton business, who do not
want to go into the wheat business,
to set up new farm practices unless
it becomes absolutely necessary is
it unreasonable to ask an American
Congress to give the American cot-
ion producer under existing con
ditions at least a 50-50 chance at the
business of the American Govern
ment ?
Mr. Schafer of Wisconsin. Mr.
Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
Mr. Pace. I yield.
Mr. Schaffer of Wisconsin. Why
not give them a 100-percent chance?
Why limit it to 60-50 when you have
sucn a deplorable situation?
wh^ r- T^ aCe ’ 1 Wi!l teIi the gentleman
y. hey contend they want to in-,
vestigate it more, that it costs a lit-
wiiihT! for T tton twine; a71d 1 am
willing to make a start after the 18
long y ea rs to make it merely 60-60
fine /?r° n and jutG g€t on the
me, and then I am willing to accept
he consequences'. That is the reason.
embl mit ° the gent,eman that it is
here an^ Sm v t0 ™ 6 to come
here, and ask for only half when wo
are .entitled to all, but I am doing it
LTh° f ^ C ° nditiOTS ' 1 ^ do
ing it because above all'thine,s m
section, and I w r ant no more than I
can prove I am entitled to, I have
never asked for. more than my fair
share, and I shall never be satisfied
with less.
My amendment will not require any
increase in the appropriation. If it
should develop that the cotton twine
should cost a little more than the
jute twine, I am sure a little econo
my in the use of twine will more
than save the difference.
The cotton farmer of the South is
facing a crtical situation and his fu
ture, is very uncertain. The, present
surplus of cotton is the greatest in
history, with 15,000,000 -bales in .this
country and an equal quantity in for
eign countries.
On top of that our exports or for
eign sales have dropped down to
what they were in 1880, or 60 years
ago. It is doubtful that we will ex
port as much,as 4,000,000 bales this
year.
In addition, the use o.f cotton in
this country is becoming less and
less, due to the rapidi increase of sub
stitutes for cotton and the failure of
business to expand n a normal way.
Ait this time it seems that our prin
cipal hope lies in increasing the con
sumption of cotton'by finding new
uses for it. My amendment provides
one new use by substituting cotton
twine for jute twine in the Post Of
fice Department. I propose to later
suggest the same change in the hun
dreds of other departments and agen
cies of the Federal Government, and
in all it will bring about substantial
increase in the use of cotton.
The cotton farmer is not receiving
cost of production. He would not be
receiving even 8 cents per pound
were it not for the Government loan.
Under the loan program the Govern
ment has already accumulated 11,-
200,000 bales of cotton, and we 1 all
realize that this cannot go on for
ever; we know loans in excess of
world prices cannot continue very
long on a commodity which is depend
ent on world trade for at least half
of its market. We must soon begin
paying export subsidies, as you are
now doing for wheat, or you must in
crease the uses of cotton. If we re
duce cotton acreage much more it
will throw millions of southern peo
ple out of work and will tend to in
crease cotton production in foreign
countries.
I do not want to beg you to do any
thing, but I do hope you can under
stand the position we are in and that
the Appropriations Committee, which
is in charge of this bill, will not
fiffkt my amendment. When I ques
tioned the chairman of that commit
tee concerning this matter during
general'debate last Friday he said
that the committee and the Post Of
fice Department wanted to investi
gate the matter further. It seems to
me that 18 years is long enough and
the time has come to act.
M;ay I repeat—the American far-
mer is entitled to the American mar
ket; he is entitled to sell his own
products to his own Government. My
amendment, gives you an opportunity
to see that he gets it, at least in
part. I hope you will adopt the
amendment.
The Chairman. .The Chair recog
nizes the gentleman from Massachu
setts (Mr. Clason) for 3 minutes.
Mr. Clason. Mr. Chairman, the
gentleman from Georgia says he
wishes to be fair to the American
public m regard to his amendment. I ’
certainly want to be fair also. He has
alreadyrtold us that .for 18 years the
Post Office Department has been us-
madf't tW i n " ThiS twi ™ ^ not
made abroad. The raw material, the
ute, comes in here and is fabricated
“t° twinc m the United States. If
the amendment offered by the gentle-
ZJT a< ? 0pted ’ an additional
subsidy beyond the 25-percent al-
wouM C< b y giV6n t0 cotton S°°ds
trv ihe glV H t0 the cotton indus-
try. ^e result might be to throw
, “ ° f J ork for 6 months 300 peo-
pie in Massachusetts and 300 people
in Penns, i^opie
ac*p,i* 1„„ m . „ , h . j , a „
m Pennsylvania *
customed to employment in ,
for the last 18 year”
I a-sk, is it fair to start up a new
industry wheih Will, i„ the ™
throw out of work 600 citizens who
have been accustomed to this type 0 f
work and make idle the ;m J^ r y
that makes this product—1 0 do this
to subsidize a prod!
uct Whmh already has the advantage
of the buy-American plan-
quirements of the Tw„, „ re '
Why at this latA date d fn rV1Ce '
into mate, te do the cotton
iTt St lT e in and say: “We are
not making cotton twine' foi* iT
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; thaa the Post CiEceis^roS
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