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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER GEORGTA, APRIL IS, HHff
President F. D. R.
Gives Warning
To Aggressors
I United Farmers Hear
Former Gov. Talmadge
! In McRae Saturday
World Told Americans Are United
Against Any Assault, Direct or
Indirect.
Washington, April 15—President
Roosevelt told the rest of the world
today that the American republic,
committed to the way of peace in re
lations among themselves, would
stand together to repulse any as
sault, direct or indirect, from over-
«eas.
Addressing the governing board
of the Pan-American union, the
president declared that “whoever
touches one of us touches all of us.”
Then, observing that it was neces
sary to be prepared to “meet force
with force if challenge is ever
-made” he said:
“We have adopted procedures that
enaible us to meet any eventuality'
x x x I pray God that we shall not
have to do more than that; hut if it
should be necessary, 1 am convinced
that we shall be wholly successful.
The inner strength of a group of
free people is irresistible when thev
are prepared to act."
His address, besides cautioning na
tions abroad to keep hands off the
Americas, was also an invitation to
them to forego war as an instrument
of international adjustments.
“We have only asked,” he said,
“that the world go with us in the
path of peace.”
In his first public address since the
Eurui>ean conflict was extended to
Norway and Denmark, the chief
executive was grave in his words and
in his bearing. His remarks were
gravely received by an audience
which included the ambassadors or
ministers of England, France, China
Australia and Finland as well as
those of the 21 American republics.
Nations not represented included
Germany, Russia, Japan, Italy Nor
way, Sweeden, The Netherlands and
Denmark.
SEVEN GEORGIA COLLEGE
PAPERS ARE AWARDED
NATIONAL HONORS
School papers of seven Georgia
colleges received honors Monday as
results were announced from the na
tion-wide survey of campus publica
tions by tlie Associated Collegiate
Press.
Results were announced fr om
"Minneapolis, where college papers
from 406 institutions in 43 states
were studied. A total of 76 publica
tions were mentioned tor their ex-
celllence.
The University of Georgia's Red
and Black was one of two publica
tions mentioned in the weekly class
for schools of more than 2,500 en
rollment.
The Colonnade, of the Georgia
State College for Women at Mil-
ledgeville received a first-class rat
ing in the weekly class for schools
of 1,000 to 2,400 enrollment.
The Weekly News, of Agnes Scott
College was honored in the enroll
ment class of less than 600. An
award in the same class went also to
The Cluster, of Mercer University in
Macon. A second-class rating in thi
division went to The Stormy Petrel
of Oglethorpe University.
In tile -biweekly class for schools
of less than 560 enrollment The
Watch Tower, of Wesleyan College
at Macon received a first-class rat
ing, while honors went also to The
West Georgian, paper of the West
Georgia College at Carrollton in the
list for junior college bi-weeklies.
FORT GAINES OWES NO
MONEY FOR FIRST TIME
JN ONE HUNDRED YEARS
Ft. Gaines.—For the first time
e i c« the city was incorporated in
L'li'.i, Ft. Gaines was free of debt
I’trsday, following city council's
payment of the last bond of $1,(100.
Maintenance of an old bridge
across the Chattahoochee river kept
the city in hot financial water for
About 100 years. Thirteen years ago
when State Auditor Zach Arnold
was the mayor, the city owed $62,-
000. Mayor Arnold launched a debt
payment campaign and his success
or, L. L. Gwynn, carried on Debts
were paid and taxes lowe 'ed at the
same time.
Now the city ; lan - sewerage ex
tension and state paving projects.
Ex-Governor Advises Planters to
Organize in Order to Aid the
United States.
by
McRae, Ga., April 13—If farmers
would organize like labor and indus
try it would be only a matter ot
time when the United States “would
bloom like a rose,” in the opinion of
Former Governor Eugene Talmadge.
Talmadge spoke here sai'iiday af
ternoon at a meeting sponsored
the Telfair county chapt
Georgia Farmers.
Talmadge efforts to obtain needed
farm legislation in the past, he re
marked, were balked because farm
ers were not sufftciei :'.v organized
tc bring pressure to 1 -r.r.
Congress will listen m abor and
industry, he pointed out, berause
both groups were suffieo.'tly united
t< make themselves heard.
He asked fanil" 's to ro strate
with the Triple-A program "because
it is the law of the land.'
He avoided pobtics in his speech.
Talmadge was introduced by H.W.
Grcham, president of the Telfair
chapter, U. G. F.
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DR. H. .1. PORTER
Butler, C»a.
MICAH'S VISION OF PECK
Lesson Text, Book of Mieah
GEORGIA POLITICS
Atlanta.—Georgians seriously con
sidering running for governor this
year were on the alert Saturday for
the present chief executive's next
move in the protracted highway row
which is fast approaching a crisis.
Three days after the state supreme
court sanctioned legality of W. L
Miller's membership on the highway
board, national guardsmen remained
on duty at the road building to deny
Miller entrance.
Visiting in Summerville, Gov. E. D,
Rivers gave no hint of what he
would do about restoring the deposed
road chairman to office. Nor were
any motions for rehearing filed with
the supreme court as the week
closed.
Miller indicated recently that if
he was allowed to return and com
plete his tenure in the highway de
partment, his name could be taken
from the roster of prospective gub
ernatorial candidates. But if kept
out of the post, he intimated he
would run for governor with his
ejection and military lockout a major
issue.
An advertisement in a labor maga
zine this week carried Miller's pic
ture and called him a “potential can
didate for governor.”
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE
LESSON-SERMON
Miss Jeanette Harris of West
Point, Ga., has been elected presi
dent of the senior class for 19-10-41,
»t Wesleyan College in Macon.
“I he Doctrine of Atonement’
is the subject of the I.es-
son-Sermon which will be read
Sunday in Churches of Christ,
Scientist, throughout the world.
Among the citations which com
prise the Lesson-Sermon there will
b" the following from the Bible:
"But now in Christ Jesus ye who
sometimes were far olf are made nig-h
b> tlie bloor of Christ. For he is our
peace, who hath made hot!) one, and
hath broken down the middle wall
of partition between us” (Eph
2: 13,14.)
I he Lesson-Sermon will also in
clude the following correlative se
lection fom the Christian Science
textbook, “Science and Health with
Ley to the Scriptures" by Mary
Baker Eddy: “Jesus of Nazareth
taught and demonstrated man's one
ness with the Father, and for this
we owe him endless homage. . , . He
did life's work aright not only in
justice to himself, but in mercy to
mortals, ... to show them how tc
do theiis, but not to do it for them
And they shall heat their swords
into plow shares, ami their
spears into pruning hooks! Na
tion shall not lift up sword
against nation. Neither shall
they learn war any more.
»or to relieve them of
sponsibility” (p. 18).
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PURCHASES PAPER
AT DOUGLASVILLE
Announcement was made a few
(lays ago by R. T. Baughman, own
er of the Douglas County Sentinel at
Douglasville, of the sale of that pub
lication to Robert O’Kelley, young
Georgia newspaper man, who for the
I'ast year has been editor of the Car-
roll Free Press at Carrollton. The
transfer of the property took place
on April 1.
Mr. O’Kelley has been active in
Georgia newspaper work since his
graduation from the University of
Georgia Journalism school in 1933.
He has worked with the Newnan
Herald, the Atlanta Constitution, the
Cedartown Standard and the Carroll
Free Press.
The Time
In the first verse of the book of
Micha gives us the information that
... the time of today's lesson was dur-
United ing the reign of Jotham, Ahaz and
Hezekiah. From this we are led to
the fact that Micha's reign lasted
for 60 vears. The end of this period
is approximately 750 B, C.
We know that corrupt conditions
were rampant in the kingdoms.
They were both corrupt to the core
so far as the priests and prophets
were concerned. Micah was able to
see thp prosperity and note the
moral decline which was the baro
meter for the corrupt days yet to
come.
Micah
We do not know anything of the
personal history of Micah. One
thing to be noted about him is the
fact that he was the only prophet
called by name in the writing of an
other prophet. In the following
words we find this reference, “Mi
cah, the Morasthite prophesied in
the days of Hezekiah, king of Judea
and spake to all the people of Judah
saying, thus sayeth the Lord, Zion
shall be plowed up like a field and
Jerusalem shall become heaps and
the mountains of the house as the
high places of a forest.” Micah's
birth place was a small and obscure
place Moreshethgath. It was located
in central Palestine. In this place
the prophet had a direct contact
with nature. From here he had the
opportunity of getting a keener in
sight into conditions than he could
otherwise have done had he lived in
the more thickly populated places of
the kingdom. i.Micah's origin was
humble. He was probably the son of
peasant parents. We do not even
know the name of his parents. His
name means “who is like Jehovah.”
This would lead us to believe that
he was especially a revealer of
God's will and character. Micali was
not seeking the professional side of
prophecy. However he did recognize
that his call was from God. The
call was so clear and forceful that
Micah saw what was expected of
him. The call was so clear to him
that he spoke as the message was
revealed to him. He was fully con
scious of the fact that he had a
message from God to deliver and he
proceeds to do so.
The Messa ge
Tlie message that he had to give
included both Samaria and Jerusa
lem. These were tlie two capitals of
tlie nation. We do not know anything
about the success of his ministry
But since ancient history both sacred
and profane tells us that the coun
try moved steadily downward. We
may come to the conclusion that
Micah had nothing to cheer him on
(\ itli his work. Because his message
to the people was falling on deaf
(tars he resorted to his pen hoping
that he might reach a wider circle
of people and that his message might
have a greater weight.
i* rom reading the book we are led
to think that it is composed of
flagments or parts taken from his
prophecies that were orally deliver
ed. The book naturally divides itself
into three parts. Each of these parts
bc-gin with the words, "hear ye”
These words carry with them the
sentence of judgment, the guilt of
sin and a promise of award.
The Message to Us
On the far distant horizon of
time the rophet saw the glory of the
coming of the perfect day. This day
would be when wars should be no
more and freedom would be uni
versal and the Lord would dwell
over the new- world forever.
The Perfect Day
We have in the firrst verse of out
lesson today a picture of that per
fect day as Micah saw it in the dis
tant future. He says, “but in the last
days it shall come to pass that the
mountain of the house of the Lord
shall be established in the tops of
the mountains, and it shall be ex
alted above the hills and the people
shall flow unto it.” He tells us then
“and many nations shall come and
say come and let us go up to the
mountain or the Lord and to the
house of the God of Jacob and he
will teach u.s his ways, and we will
walk in his paths, for the law shall
go forth to Zion and the word of
the Lord from Jerusalem.” What
I more glorious a picture could have
been portrayed than this. A promise
j that if we would reach that perfect
day that we should walk in the
marvelous light and liberty of the
Saviour's love and basque in God's
sunlight forever. This picture so
graphically portrayed to us by the
prophet of the perfect day to come
is one of the great revelations of
all the Old Testament, it sould be a
light unto us as we journey down
the pathway of life. A task is al
ways easier for us if there is a
hope of reward at the end of it. in
this vision of the future we have
tlie greatest promise in all the
world for a reward. The task for us
to attain this reward is to walk in
the ways as revealed unto us.
The vision of the place that ne
tells u.s about is of no less import
ance today than it was in Micah's
day. The end of the way .for peace
is to make the world to stop its
worrying and be transformed into
a worshiping world. But if we are
to have a lasting peace we must
have a transformation of human na
ture. The question then of vital im
portance to us then is how is this
transformation to be brought about.
Micha gives us the plan in the text
of today. We must go to the Lord
in humble and contrite spirits and
take him as our counselor in all
things. The way to the perfect day
is an open way to all who will ac
cept it. When we accept Christ and
when we all look his way we are
making the good better and making
the bad good. Then there is no better
way to regulate life than by the
Golden Rule which would in itself
usher in the Perfect Day. If we are
to establish peace on earth we must
learn the secret and source of the
peace as prophesyed by Micah.
We would then ask the questiqit
what makes peace really satisfying
and permanent. It must be centered
in religion. We cannot center it in
any government. We have seen down
(he ages too many governments fail.
We must go to the trie source
which is religion in the house ot
Jehovah. The law will finally come
from Zion and will be for many peo
ple. It may be a long time in being
recognized but will come in latter
days. These teachings will be com
mitted to the churches of Christ as
typified in the mountain of Jeho
vah's house.
Peace
At some distant day the Messiah
will be Master of the world. When
this takes place there will be uni
versal brotherhood and wars and
strifes will be no more. The king of
glory will he arbitrator between na
tions and national strife will cease
to result in shot shell.. This set
tlement will be according to the di
vine plans. When the teachings of
the Prince' of Peace is put into ef
fect weapons of war will be changed
to useful articles. It the sword scat
ters crosses among the poppies the
plowsheare fills the grain fields with
good crops. If this is the case why
not beat the swords into plow-
shears? Why should metal be put
into a spear when a pruning hook is
needed to cultivate and dress the
vineyard. A drawn sword pulsates
with hate. What would Christ have
done instead ? It would be down with
the sword and out with the open
hand.
Godliness and Peace
In any place where religious lib
erty prevails, we find the freest of
the free. When this condition pre
vails no one will persecute
Christ's Coming Fulfills Peace
The prophecy that Micali pro
claimed was fulfilled with the com
ing of Jesus the Messiah.
Bethlehem
The advent of the Saviour was
foretold. First, he came from the ,
Lord of Hosts. He came to Israel |
who are the chosen people i>orn in |
Bethlehem in the land of Judah. \
This was all foretold just as it trails ,
pired. j
The God Man
His humanity is asserted for he is
a descendant of David. His deity is j
proven for he antedated the crea- ,
tion. His soverignty assured because i
he should rule over Israel and over ;
all the earth and universe.
The Saviour's Coming
We often wonder why the Saviour
did not come in Micah's time, but
when we think of the condition of
things we know that the world was
not at that time ready for his com
ing. Even Israel the chosen people
were not prepared. They (Israel)
must be tried in the firey furnace
of adversity such as the capitvity
and better experiences oonhected it
iwr a j.
They would have t„
Jerusalem before "the f U |i°
time” When this was ac 1
God would then send hi* T
the world and not before *
The Mission of the p rinC( .
The question must at t)
have arisen: What will the*
do when he comes? The ..
i , 1,1 JllSte
that he would stand i mmov-
fore all opposition. He
such u shepherd to his fj
none of them would be i n
would so strengthen hj s
that none of them Wou y
away from the fold.
$07,700 BID FOR OLD
COLUMBUS POST (II I | ( R
Washington, April ]5—Th
Buildings Administration an .
today that the G. C. NVoodn
nl Columbus, Ga., had oITered'
bid of $67,700 for the old poa
building and site at Columb
John Woodruff, Columbus,
$66,666.66 and W. T. Heard
bus, $38,000.
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