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the butler herald, butler, Georgia, afiul 35, 1<M0.
0—. — , || |j Tile school closing season is about
The Butler Heruld re. and the orators are brushing
up their commencement addtessus,
the honor graduates are having
writing pains, and the newspapers
are learning again how to spell
baccalaureate.—Savannah Press.
the price of war
Eatabished in 1876
SPRING
JCntered at the Post Office at Ilutler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Cjtass. I
Chas. Itcnns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E» Cox, Publisher & Hus. MgT.
Georgia's state department of law
has won 212 cases and lost 26 during
the I t months Attorney General Ellis
OFFICIAL, ORGAN TAYLOR CO. Arnall has been head of that depart-
lUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ( m ent, a survey showed. The depart-
- | meat has handled 386 cases in that
period, and 118 still are pending
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
Publicity is the best Spring tonic
for business but, like medicine in a
bottle, it won't work unless you use
It .
The United States manages to
keep her merchant vessels from being
punk by keeping them from going to
Europe.
various courts. There have been DM
legal opinions handed down by the
department with no reversals in the
state courts.
Propaganda is use.ful so long as it
is not disguised; the man who
frankly argues his case is to be com
mended.
It is gratifying that the President
has again proclaimed the first week
in May as National Employment
Week to the end that interest in thi 1
welfare of all the unemployed, and
especially the worker over 40, may
be stimulated and employment ex
tended to all. He recalled that a
(luarter of a million placements were
made during last year's National
Employment Week.
You can save yourself a lot of
wasted effort if you will not believe
everything that you hear about oth
er people.
It's wrong to marry for money,
and reckless to marry without any.
The ideal plan, the girls say, is to
liave both love and money.
Sand, mere sand, considered by
many as almost worthless, is an im
portant factor in the manufacture of
automobiles, especially in the glass
of which they form a considerable
part. We were impressed with a re
port from the Ford Motor Company
plant in Detroit in which it is said against Finland has lieen met with
that in every 24 hours thousands of a resistance which challenges the
Sandersv.ille Progress:
Death, devastation and destruction
arc the inevitable consequences of j Spring
war, but there is apparently no es
cape from the calamities that fol
low conflicts of arms between na
tions.
The adjustment of boundary lines
when pence was restored after the
great World War was thought to be
a safeguard against "future out
breaks of hostilities, but it has
proven futile. Germany began ex
panding by absorbing lands of ad
jacent nations. In order to prevent
the calamitous war now in progress
the leaders of some of the most
powerful nations agreed to a plan
of appeasement, with the under
standing that no more territory
should be added to the German em
pire. But the greediness of Dictator
Hitler would not stop at what had
been acquired altho he knew that
further aggression would be met by
a declaration of war by England and
France he made unreasonable de
mands upon Poland and with super
ior force subdued that country. He
had promise of assistance from Dic
tator Stalin of Russia, whom he had
most violently denounced as the
scum of the earth. This coalition of
two powerful nations makes the situ-
rtion at present most omnious. His
tory' alone can tell what will be the
result.
The inhuman onslaught of Russia
Silver-tongued Ernest Camp, edi
tor of the Monroe Tribune, writes of
When a man begins to buy hats
like ^ie last one he had he has ad
mitted to himself that Tie is no long
er as young as he once was.
54-in. width ribbon of windshield
glass alone are turned out.
June 80th is the deadline for ob
taining your driver's licenses. But
l>y all means avoid the last minute
rush by attending to this matter
now.,
Some one has figured it out that ii
Che Civil War it cost the Union $5,-
000 for each soldier killed, in the
World War $21,000 and in the pres
ent war $50,000.
It is estimated it costs the suc-
tessful candidate $40,000 to be
elected governor of Georgia. That
makes the job a luxury not many of
us cen afford.—.Brunswick News.
A Beloved Georgian is Hal M.
Stanley, who has devoted many
years of his life to public service.
The Dawson News pays hint this de
served tribute: “Hal M. Stanley,
veteran officer of the Georgia Press
Association for over thirty years,
was signally' honored by the associa-
tion at the semi-annual meeting in
Athens recently. At that time the
title of secretary-emeritus was be
stowed upon this venerable figure of
press meetings for over half a cen
tury'. For the past 33 years Mr.
Stanley has served the organization
us an officer, first as president for
two years and as secretary .for the
past 31 years.”
admiration of all civilized nations,
but it is thought to lie almost in
evitable that the brave people of that
country must eventually be over
powered.
It is a great pity that with our
boasted civilization of the present
era of the world's history that thi
conflict of nations cannot be peace
fully adjusted and each nation per
mitted to pursue its course unmo
lested by others.
The destruction of ships and their
cargoes, and the consequent loss of
life has already assumed appalling
proportions, while the airplanes are
also destroying cities and inflicting
death upon the inhabitants, and
-pring approaches this diabolical
method of warfare will be intensi
fy.
Aeons ago King Solomon wrote:
••For lo, the winter is past ... the
flowers appear on the earth; the
time of the singing of birds is come
and the voice of the turtledove is
heard in our land” ... To Solomon's
epic a modern day writer adds the
following: “Glorious is April, month
of awakening nature, of greening
grass and burgeoning bud and blos
som ... of warm sunshine, misty
bower and fragrant breezes . . . and
,\ ery where the smell of new-turned
earth ascending like incense to
Heaven” . . . And then, from the
Southern Appalachian mountain
peaks comes this epic of the season:
"I love Spring in the Blue Ridge
with its parade of lovely rhododen
dron, its ivy, mountain laurel, and
dogwood blossoms . . . And under
neath all this beauty lies a aarpet
of yellow, blue, purple and white,
snowy bloodroot blossoms, pink and
white trilliums, greenish-purple jack-
in-the-pulpits, pink and yellow
lady's slippers, trailing arbutus,
anemones, adder's tongue, and dain
ty bluets ... I love the heavy sweet
scent of the brown trillium and the
sweet shrub ... I love the roar of
the river as it rushes past our home
on its way to the ocean, dashing
into sprays of foam against the
boulders along its bed. ... 1 love
the flashing rainbow trout, and the
shade of tall green spruces . . . I
love the Psalm which says: ‘I will
lift up mine eyes unto the hills from
whence cometh my 1 elp.”
PREACHERS AND CHICKEN
(,By Olin Miller)
DEMOCRACY IMPERILED
‘Here's hoping there
"From Earl Browder, communj-
leader in the United States comeR
will be
„ , ... „„„ ttir warning that should be heodo<i c
shortage of the chicken crop in the * L 10,1 by
Savannah vicinity next fall. The those who believe in our form of ^
Methodist preachers are to assemble j i nm< " ' 8a ® .1.' ° F ^ lllnl,y Mel-
hero in November." - Savannah Ion °f the Griff,n News. ^
Morning News. \vnrnlns, he says, has been utt**,
When we clipped the foregoing' -me and time agam by others, but
paragraph some 10 days ago. we his >s the first time that the
1 1L 1- In nnr rP- leader has called attention to it n
turned the clipping over to oui re , tu n. it
may he that he slipped in giving out
search department with instructions
that it ascertain why Methodist mm . the wurning-but nevertheless he dii
inters have the reputation of being ! J«t that when he spoke m Boat,,
inordinate chicken eaters. Here is
the report it has just submitted:
“The Methodist Church, partial-
n few days ago.
Browder said:
party of the U S.
“The Communist
A. appears
very
larly in years past when the country j small and weak in comparison wit)
was predominantly rural in - ipopula- the gigantic tasks which history hiu
tion and character, lias placed a ( placed upon us of leading 130,000,.
great deal of emphasis on evangel- | 000 Americans to the new Socialist
revivals and ‘protracted meetings’ at! years ago the Russian Bolsheviks ap-
many of its churches, especially j pcared even weaker, a persecuted
those in rural communities. During and out-lawed group, but that today
sych a series of services of from
A NEW PRAYER
A boob advises that it is possible
to keep warm during' such weather
us April has brought us without
spending so much money. Our advice
to him is to look at his coal bill for
the past winter. It is likely to make
him hotter than hades.
Don't plant cotton till you hear
the chirp of the whipporwill, nor
change the weight of your under
garments until after the full moon in
April has been more forcefully im
pressed on the public this year than
in many preceding years.
Much praise is due Editor W. T.
Shytle and the Adel News force in
producing last week a specially fine
16-page edition of the News featur
ing recent accomplishments for the
city of Adel and Cook county thru
the efforts of the enterprising busi
ness and professional men, farmers
and public generally. Among these
accomplishments it is noted that
the Hotel Phil Cook, a modern hotel
of splendid design ami structural
beauty is to be formally opened to
night the occasion being appropriate
ly marked with a brilliant banquet;
a “white way” extension along the
business section of the city has just
been completed; tile
Remember when it was a common
practice to drink sassafras tea in the
spring to thin out the blood? Ill
some sections druggists used to buy
sassfras bark by the hundred ' 11 ^he world. Open our eyes to sim-
pounds. ‘Il'lo beauty all around us, and our
men hide
From the Cordele Dispatch:
One of the finest pieces of writing
we've seen recently is a new prayer.
At least it's new to us. It was re
cently recommended by Mrs. F. D.
Roosevelt as a prayer to be read of
ten and we agree with her. The
prayer is:
“Our Father, who has set a rest
lessness in our hearts, and made us
nil seekers after that which we can
never fully find; forbid us to he
satisfied with what we make of life.
Draw as from mase content, and set
our eyes on far-off goals. Keep us at
tasks too hard for us, that we may
be driven to Thee for strength. De-
Iver us from fretfulness and self
pity; make us sure of the goal we
cannot see, and of the hidden good
week to 10 days' duration the min
ister waA a guest in the various
homes of members of the church,
most of these members being farm
ers. Time was when no farmer had
facilities for refrigeration, and
hence about the only fresh meat
available in the summer was chick-
5ii. Consequently the principal dish
served to the honored guest was
chicken. And so the preacher, thru
necessity, ate chicken and more
chicken and even more chicken.
“During this research, experiments
were made in serving various kinds
of meat to Methodist ministers, and
it was definitely determined that
chicken is by no means' the only moat
a Methodist preacher will cat;
that party heads a nation of iso.
W)0000, the strongest in the world
nc! its voice is listened to by
who sit in the seats of the mighty
as well as by the masses of all eoun-
tries.”
.Browder also referred to “quirk
transition” in our form of mr.em.
liient and may have had in mind
“revolution” when he used the**
words.
Ways of changing our form ol
government are provided in our con
stitution. There is a lawful peaceful
way to bring about changes. In fact
every amendment to the constitution
has made a change.
The unlawful way of bringing
fact, it is not the favorite meat of , about a chan S e is by for «. >»’ iw
! lution. And that is the plan that
tile majority of them. Given the
choice of chicken or a nice, thick Communists and other subversive
juick, beefsteak, six out of every ten j f° rces would use. What they want to
Methodist ministers will light into
tile steak with unrestrained
amazing enthusiasm.”
and
MAN AND HIS MULE
hearts to the loveliness
“The Happy Moron,” feature
writer for the Cordele Dispatch, re
lates the following reasoning of man
teh son of toil, with “Bill”, his next
best friend, while they both labored
under a hot summer day sun, one
pulling the other following the old
trusted Dixie:
“Bill, you are a mule, the son of a
jackass, and I am a man made in, the
jinage of God. Yet, here we work,
itched together, year in and year
t. 1 often wonder if you work for
le r I for you. Sometimes I think
is is a partnership between a mule
do is to scrap every vestige of de
mocracy—freedom of speech, r reedon
of assembly, freedom of the press
freedom of religious worship, the
right to own property, the right to
enjoy liberty and pursuit of happi
ness. They want to replace this with
tyrany masquerading as their
cialistic rule of the people; they
want to establish free love and do
away with the sanctity of home and
virtue among women; they want to
close the doors of our churches awl
tell us there is no God. And yet. thej
hold up their form of government &
an ideal that makes all men equal.
Newest omnious note in the dis- j ^ lom u - s because we do not try /and a fool. For surely I work
cordant European martial symphony i e|1 °ugh to understand them. Save us hard as you, if not harder. Plowing ; c ' mnce *” or Browder and his asso-
i . ii-i.. r . : from mircok'oc 1 i ... . toa ♦ n An cmivrilil>we
has been sounded by Italy. During i 1 101,1 ourselves, and show us a vision j here we cover same distance,
tt-cent weeks, press attacks against
France and England have been in
tensified. The Berlin-Moscow alliance
has been soft-pedalled. And newspa
pers which are known to speak for
high government officials—who, in
turn, speak for Mussolini—have
lately announced that Italy may not
national gov- j l>e able to stay out of war much
but
It is gratifying to her friends
throughout the state to learn that
Mrs. Bacon, wife of Editor W. T. Ba
con, of the Madison Madisonian,
who has been under treatment for
injuries sustained when struck by an
automobile while crossing the street
near her home two weeks ago, con
tinues to improve at a Madison hos
pital.
eminent is nearing completion a
seventy-thousand dollar brick post-
office building; elaborate pre.para-
i lions are being made for the re-op-
The (Scandinavian loves liberty.
One of the most interesting side
lights on the German thrust is the
official German conclusion about how
to handle Norweigans. Reporting
from Oslo, Edmund Stevens, war
correspondent, quotes as follows
from the circular of instructions to
each German soldier: ‘ ‘Be patient,
for the Norweigans are slow think
ers. They love liberty and therefore
hate being ordered about. One must
talk to them gently and try to per
suade them.”
ening on a much larger scale than
ever before the big canning plant,
which besides giving employment to
scores of men and women, furnishes
a ready market for tons upon tons
of vegetables of all kind grown by
tlie farmers o.f Cook county; the com
pletion of the beautiful new Cook
county court house at a cost of more
than $110,(XX); a new Air Port, an
other government project, costing
$82,000, soon to be under way, -be
sides street and highway paving
projects and other matters pointing
to a substantial huilding boom and
other forms of progress for the city
and county. We heartily congratu
late our South Georgia friends and
wish for them continued success and
prosperity. Having visited among
and become acquainted with a num
ber of the citizens of Adel and
Cook county we can truthfully say
the sun has never shone on a better
class, or more thrifty people.
longer, the intimation being that shc-
will throw in with Germany. What
will come of this remains to lie seen.
Bro. Ed A. Caldwell, of the Wal
ton (Mnoroe) News, boasts of his
crabapple tree thusly: “If there is
any one thing that tends to cause us
to see the bright side of life, above
smother, in the springtime, it's our
crabapple tree, near the corner of
our residential lot on Washington
sheet. It is now well on its way to
full blossoming. Besides what it
brings to us, in the way of comfort
end joy, it gladdens the hearts and
fills the nostrils of many with its
unsurpassed perfume. As we see it,
anyone who has a .flowering tree to
share with others, is a community
benefactor indeed.” We invite him
to spend a night in our guest cham
ber and enjoy the aroma emanating
from one of immense size shading
Die window and lapping the eaves of
the house. It is perfectly gorgeous
and wish there were more homes
provided for such enjoyment
111 . a W(,rld made new. May Thy ' you do it on four legs and I on two.
spirit of peae and illumination so j So, mathematically speaking 1 do
twice as much work per leg as you
enlighten our minds that all life
shall glow with new' meaning and
new purpose; thru Jesus Christ oui
Lord.”
"Soon we‘11 be preparing for a com
crop. When the crop is harvested, 1
give one-third to the land-lord for
being kind enough to let me use this
it will Ire of interest to his many
I aylor county friends who have j corner of God's universe. The other
known and loved him thru the years | third goes to you and what is left
tn learn that Elder W. J. Greene, of is mine. But while you consume all
Jones county has under considers- your third with the exception of a
don a petition from a large number | few cobs, .[ divide my third among
o vo eis of the sixth congressional , seven children, six hens, two ducks
district that he make the race foi
Congress in the coming primary.
Hon. Carl Vinson, of Milledgeville,
is the present incumbent and is ex-
peted to offer for re-election.
This section is again blessed with
the live tiful dogwood season. Not
only are the woods glorious with
these snowy white blossoms, but so
many of the well-kept premises of
property owners here in our little
city present a picture o.f grandeur
that can scarcely be excelled with so
many of these flowering trees, of
both pink and white blossom, in full
bloom. Each season, as we admire
these trees, all brilliant in their
w'hite and pink, we wonder why there
are not more dogwoods in Butler.
Truly they perform well their mis
sion in life of making- this world
as J beautiful and a better place in which
these unusually rare blossoms afford, man may live and be happy.
and a banker. Bill, you are getting
the best of me it ain't fair for a
mule, the son of a jackass, to rob a
man—the lord of creation—for his
substance. And come to think about
it, you only help to cultivate the
ground.. After that, I cut, shock, and
husk the corn while you look over the
pasture fence and he-haw at me.
“All summer and part of the win
ter the whole family, from Granny
down to the baby, picks cotton to
help raise money to buy a new set !
ot harness and pay interest on the i
mortgage on you. And by the way, I
what do you care about that mort- I
gage. It doesn't worry you any. Not j
a darn bit. You leave that to me,
you ungrateful, orney cuss.
“About the only time 1 am your
better is on election day, for 1 can
vote and you can't. But if I ever get
any more out of politics than you do,
i fail to see where it is."
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Macon, Georgia
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excellent Cafe
Rates $1.50 and Up
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REYNOLDS, GA.
If the people of America did not
have before them pictures of just
how Communism has worked in Rus
sia—there it has had every chance
to flourish—there might be some
ciates to do something here. But oui
people will never give up their rights
under our form of democracy to
mander off into the bogs of dictator
ship, following the Red will o‘ the |
wisp.
But we must not grow careless and
because the Red following is small
in America let them gnaw away at
the sills of democracy. The best time |
to stop a fire in a community is be
fore the blaze has spread. The
time to kill a rattlesnake is while it I
is young. The best time to solve the
problem of Communism is right now
—by throwing the spotlight of pub
licity right in the middle of their
ranks. I.et America know what they
really stand for and their existence
here will be ended.
But let’s take thought of what
Earl Browder himself says about the
danger of Communism. |