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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 2, 10W.
The Butler Herald
Eatabished in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at Hutler,
Georgia jis Mail Matter of Second
Olass.
tturh Howell became the first
laudidate to formally qualify for
Governor of Georgia, when oil
Thursday morning he paid his en
trance fee of $-350 to Mrs. Fred
Ston y, secretary of the Democratic
Executive Committee.
Chas, Reims, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cox, Publisher it- Rus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
It is well for us to remember that
the tree whose shad we are able to
enjoy were planted years ago by
some one who lias perhaps gone on.
Do as much for those who come af
ter you by planting a tree that they
too mas be grateful for the shade.
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
The way to have good government
s to encourage and reward those
vho administer government well.
The proper life includes a balance
between v, ork and play. This ap
plies to grown-ups as well as chil
dren.
Recently appointed to fill out the
unexpired term of Judge W. A. Mc
Clelland of the Superior Court of
the Macon circuit, Judge A. M. An
drews while presiding at Knoxville
last week issued the following state
ment: ‘1 respectfully announce that
I will request the people of the Ma
con Circuit to permit me to com
plete the term of the lamented W. A
McClelland as Judge of the Superior
Court of that Circuit.”
If you want the future to hold
something in store for you, you
must store away something for the
future.
Friends will always laugh at your
jokes, whether they are good or bad
—but there's a great deal in the way
they do it.
One of the great lessons of life is
tc learn to face the facts as they
are without being confused by what
we might prefer.
It is not work that kills men; it is
worry. Work is healthy; you could
hardly put more upon a man than
he can bear.—Beecher.
The Atlanta Constitution is offer
ing a prize each week for the best
editorial submitted to their "Editor
ial of the Week” department, ex
pressing the writer's views of con
ditions, and problems of Georgia.
The editorial must not be more than
500 or less than 300 words in length
Anyone, except regularly employed
editorial writers, reporters or other
newspaper employes are eligible.
This offers a fine field for those in
terested in the public affairs of oui
state.
YOU MAY GET STUCK lU’T YCTt
CAN RE CAREFUL
NOW
IS THE TIME TO ASK,
“WHY?"
Nine times out of a possible ten a
woman who married for love will ad
vise her daughter to look up a man's hind of dugs. In our opinion
Inancial rating before giving him the
glad hatd.
Henry Ford expresses in terms of
optimism what may be expected in
future years, the next decade, lie as
serts, will bring more progress than
many past generations.
The history of Sumter county
from its earliest days to the present
time being compiled and published
by the Tri-County News makes most
interesting reading for Georgians in
general.
As long as you are learning some
thing from the fellow who is doing
the talking - , don't interrupt him.
Many people learn much by listen
ing, hut no one ever learned any
thing by talking.
The Winder News takes the hide
and hair off of those who would
maliciously poison children's pet
dogs. "Of all crimes committed,"
Harry Smith the editor says, “we do
not know of any that is more inhu
mane than that of poisoning any
per
son who is low down enough
to put out strychnine or any other
kind of poison, promiscuously for
dogs of the neighborhood belongs to
a class of the worse type of crimi
nals. This practice has been carried
on in a number of towns over our
state and in many instances, harm
less pet dogs as well as fine breeds
of hunting dogs have been the vic
tims of such vandals.”
Hotels are turning more and more
to newspaper advertising because
“such a medium presents the widest
appeal to all classes,” Osgood Rob
erts, Washington hotel executive',
reported at the All-Southern Hotel
Exposition.
Every business enterprise that has
attained any degree of success has in
it somewhere a man with driving,
restless energy. No business ever
drifted into success, but a good many
have been pushed to success by a hu
man dynamo who refused to be
licked.
Health authorities state that now
is the time to kill flies. Every adult
female fly lays millions of eggs each
season, so each fly killed now may
prevent myriads of flies from com
ing into existence. The good old slo
gan of “Swat That Fly” is still a
line one to follow.
Georgians, particularly those of
Carroll county, are paying deserving
tribute to that grand old gentleman,
Hon. James J. T'lomasson, editor of
the Carroll County Times and the
Dowdon Bulletin, whom to know is
to love, who on Saturday last cele
brated his 89th birthday, 55 of
which has been spent in the news
paper business. While old in years
I!ro. Thomasson is young in spirit,
vigorous and active in his profession
and in the civic affairs of his home
city, his county and state. It has
been our happy privilege to have
been acquainted with Rro. Thomas
son for a number of years, and join
ht artily with those who on this oc
casion are honoring him.
The Civilian Conservation Corps
appears to be one federal organiza
tion that receives little criticism.
Congressmen have refused to cut
doyn the appropriation for the CCC
camps, reflecting the approval .of
their constituents for the organiza
tion .—Americus Times-Recorder.
Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt feels
the greatest ''one •ihution this coun
try can make to humanity today is
to solve America’s domestic prob
lems, but cautions we cannot set our
house in order without cooperating
with the rest of the world. What's
more, she savs, this cooperation i;
probably the best way to stay out of
war.
Congratulations are being freely
extended to another fine young man,
a product of Taylor county, who thru! should take this attitude. If he can
Another “First Column I eft Front
1'age" columnist, whose article we
enjoy each week is a Methodist min
ister Rev. Wilson J. Culpepper, pas
tor of the Methodist church at Zebu-
Ion, who is a regular contributor to
his home town paper I he Pike Coun
ty Journal. Returning last week from
a fishing trip in Florida lie gives his
readers the benefit of some of his
experience as well as valuable ad
vice in the event they lust after the
finny tribe. In part Rro. Culpepper
says: “When one goes fishing he
should choose a day that begins with
lowering clouds, rain and with a stiff
east wind blowing. Later on in the
early afternoon, when the rain ceas
es and the clouds break—although
they need not disappear entirely—
and while the east wind is still blow
ing briskly, the fisherman should go
forth in all confidence. It goes with
out saying that the fisherman should
choose to go fishing where fish are
to be found. There is no use fishing
in a tuib in one's back yard. One
should go to coast, to a river, to a
creek, that is well stocked or to a
lake or pond where it is evident that
the water is alive with all kinds id
fish. The less water and the more
fish there are in the body of water
the better. One man in rejecting su
gar and cream for his coffee said,
‘No cream and no sugar, thank you
and just as little water as possible.’
r l hat man liked coffee and he wanted
coffee. It is wise that the fisherman
This amazing talc of woe is told
by our esteemed contemporary The
llawkinsville News and Dispatci
and is another instance where it al
ways pays to trade with home folks
and home enterprises rather than
strangers and firms of which you
know nothing;
“A clever crook hit town recontlj
and the echoes of his visit have not
yet died away. And since leaving
here he has been playing his nefari
ous games in other towns of this
state and the reverberations are
coning in.
“To our chagrin this man is a for
mer printer—lie does know enough
about the business to convince one
that he has worked in a prim; shop.
He has a rather gooa personality,
doesn't seem to want to rush or of
fend—and all the time he is building
tor his slam.
“He came to llawkinsville equip
ped with a sample case ffied with
samples. He said he represented a
Florida firm and he took some orders
for printing here. Then he came to
tile printing oil ice and spent about
two hours—wanted us to do song-
work for parties in other towns.
Mind you, not a single one was for
local people. He took theirs els -
where and played his trick.
“He forgot names right and let*,
changed orders, filled in orders
where he could get none and turned
the ‘jobs' over to a s'u p near the
Alabama line. This we have found
to be absolutely true. Then be Hook
ed us by getting us to endorse a
check, a small one, hut enough to
hurt. He sneaked mi*, of the hot"!
while we were looking for him, hav
ing gotten wise to him, and skipptd
|iv e r to the to.vn referred to alove.
“He forged one order on a local
man amounting to $1116. On another
he changed .he amount from $18'
to .$3.80; on i third from $6 00 to
$21.50. Two of Git places he rtally
did get the ordei at prices so ridicu
lously out of line they were amaz
ing. At the other he got r.o order,
but he stole some forms and then
wrote up the orders for more than
St 00.
‘ This man was a stra'kC, \ t he
knew a lot of people in th.s part of
Georgia and is acquainted with peo
ple you and 1 know are good citi-
zens. He ‘sold 1 priming at prices
ti-at varied so much it wasn't even
funny. He knew how to -xpres? him
self in printing terms.
“We, too, are watching these wan
dering printers. We thought we
knew the raoko'-Oors and then got
picked up> by one ;, i -t because he
talked like a printer and had a brie.1
case full of samples.
“The racket boys are becoming
more and more numerous. It i.- true
that few of .horn ate to he trusted,
for they are fly-by-night artists and
all they want is your money. The
next time some traveling salesman
comes to town seeking your order if
you would give us a ring, we wuld
appreciate it. We want to do your
printing and will do it right and
there is no necessity of ycur tak lig
a chance and sending it away.Crooks
iike the one mentioned wouldn't lie
traveling so far from home base un
less they thought they had a good
chance to play a rotten game.
“If this sounds more like an id
yertisement for us than ;* doe? I ke
,-n editorial, icmcmotr that the ad
copy writers often g’t paid mure
than the edhoci.-.l staff and that ads
frequently nave as many wnrc.s ot
wisdom In thins a.s the do lit mu'
stuff of the Times o' News. To, may
be, we ha e combin-d it.o two--ad
vertising and editon'alizi ig. L »>, a.
would like to end thi adi’-eu.t thus;
“You'ii probably ret t . : somo-
dnie in life, but you can he caiefi.l",
(By Willis Thornton)
The most important word for this
country today is "Why?” A lot of
broad general insertions are going
the rounds, and there is a dangerous
tedency to accept them at face value.
Hitler, in his invaluable treatise
in "Mein Kampf” bn how to manipu
late the mob, makes it clear that
the main thing is repetition. No
matter how ridiculous a thing is, he
maintains, if you repeat it often
enough—and loudly enough—people
begin to believe it.
That is the danger in some of the
tilings you begin to hear repeated
these days. What's needed is a lot
of people who will step up every time
one of these assertions is made and
ask WHY? And demand very spe
cific answers.
LAMENTATIONS OF A
PESSIMIST
ot
TRAGIC ERA OF Him
Things have corny to a p'o'.tv
in our beloved old state of (;,
It is sad but true Jut men j n |, T
official positions of trust ,mt i *
i i . i. . , , 1 ^or.oj
(From The Scrap Rook)
Man is of few days and full
trouble. He laboreth all the days of | | 1;ive i )een indicted
his youthto pay for a gasoline
chariot, and when at last the tusk
is finished, Lo, the thing is junk and
he needoth another.
He planteth grain in the earth
, and tilleth it diligently, he and his
servants and his asses, and when the
' harvest is gathered into the barns
| In oweth the landlord eight dollars
1 and forty cents more than the crop
is worth
I He borrowelh money from
I lenders to buy pork
' gasoline and the interest ™»u. “»■ r j ^
I'm 1
0 ,r 'da.
tot
"ui |
ei't-
courts, I
break!
laws. Our Governor has beer,
cd for defying the order of
our adjutant general in command o(
our National Guard has had his driv
er's license revoked. Men have |
flogged by people taking the Unv j n
to their own hunds. Our tt-ache
can't get their money and our schools
are having a struggle to e.xis
ist. P4
! lie officials are bodily thrown out a!
the office.. O' 11 ' Supreme Court restore
, . the men to office and yet thru tri-t
ind ** r Z an cry he is stripped of his
and the interest en i i up ^ right to function. Counties
all that he hath. 1 UPs
„ having a struggle to exist because „i I
He begets sons and educateth them ^ exomptions _ and ' o| 1
Here are a few to practice on:
“If it goes badly with the Allies
in Europe, the United States must
inevitably be drawn into war . . .’
Why ?
If Holland is invaded and the ^
Japanese grab the Dutch East Indies ,
the United States must send its fleet
over 9,000 miles to prevent it.
Why ?
Guam, 9,209 miles away, should |
be strongly fortified.
Why ?
(Ite very specific. No generalities
about “interests.” What interests?) J
Though the money borrowed by
Europe during the last war was '
never repaid, we ought, when cash j
runs out to advance money this time
?<; they can buy American farm prod
ucts. It is different this time.
Why ?
The United States has to go
buying all the gold and silver offered !
by anybody at prices far above its ,
market worth.
Why? !
Germany has invaded one neutral ,
ountry after another. The United |
.States is neutral. Therefore l‘m sure j
it is only a question of time until it j
is ou turn. ,
Why ? i
The United States is shirking a |
plain international duty if it refuses j
to throw its army and navy into the
European war.
Why?
You may not be popular if you be
come one of the question-askers. You
may get a few apoplectic answers
like, “Why, you poor dumb—, it's ob
vious!” And so on, with the original
statement repeated. But by that
time yu'll begin to get interested in
the answers.
And you'll l>e doing your country
a serviej for never before was it so
so important to have plenty of peo
ple demanding to know, “Why?”
to smoke cigarettes and wear a
white collar, and Lo, they have soft
hands and neither labor in }he fields
nor anywhere under the sun. The
children of his loins are ornery and
one of them becometh a lawyer and
another sticketh up a filling station
maketh whoopee with the substance
thereof.
The wife of his bosom flirteth
with a stranger and when he re
bukes her, Lo! She shooteth him in
the finale.
He goes forth in the morning on
the road that leadeth to the city and
a jitney smiteth him so that his ribs
' project thru the epidermis.
I He drinketh a drink of whoopee
1 juice to forget his sorrows and liver.
| All the days of his life it burneth
, the lining from his tummy.
! He findeth no parking place and is
tormented by traffic from going
I forth till coming back.
I An enemy stealcth his car; phy-
i sicians remove his inner parts and
I his teeth and his bankroll; his
daughters showeth their legs before
| strangers; his arteries hardeneth in
| the evening of his life and his heart
bursteth trying to keep the peace,
j Sorrow and bill collectors fol'ow-
I eth him all the days of his life and
j when he is gathered to his fathers
I the neighbors sayeth: How much did
I he leave?
I Lo! He hath left it all. And his
widow rejoiceth in a new coupe and
maketh eyes at a young sheik that
sliceth his hair and playeth a nifty
game of bridge.
Woe is man! From the day of his
birth to the time when the earth
knoweth him no more he laboreth
for bread and catcheth the devil.
Dust he was in the beginning and
his name is mud.
the move tc
economy 1 !
consolidate counties for
sake collapses because it will jn( M .
fere with certifying the needv
relief rolls by making counties tool
large and putting the county seat so
far away they can't get to the of.
fice to get on relief.
Yes, it's a tragic era in Gem-pi I
Things are in a hell of a mess-
Otis Brumby in Cobb County Times
The following joke is told on ,1
Lumpkin county candidate; There I
were three candidates for the office I
of Sheriff in Lumpkin county. When I
the election was over and the votes I
counted, one of the candidates re . I
reived only about 64 votes. Hut re-1
gardless, the next morning he walk-1
ed down the street with a pistol I
buckled to each side. When asked I
what he meant by going armed he I
replied: “Anybody who doesn't have I
any more friends than I have needs I
protection!”
“Wear What?” asks Ollin Miller
in the following. “See it stated that
women pay more for silk stockings
than for dresses. Why is it they
don't wear 'em?”—Editor W. A
Shackleford, in the Oglethorpe Echo
a
bis untiring efforts is making his
home communty and the state at
large a better place in which to live.
On this occasion it is Mr. Joe H.
Cox to whom \i£ are pleased to re
fer. The Manchester Mercury, which
he has been editing for a number of
years, celebrated its 30 anniversary
a few days ago.
find a body of water where the fish
are so numerous that they crowd out
all of ^the water except barely
enough for their existence, it is all
the better. He will then be able, per
haps, to lift some of them out with
his hook. The point is, however, that
in fishing one should go where the
fish are.”
We, iike thousands of otnnrs in
Georgia especially either as publish
ers and members of the bar, were
keenly saddened by the news last
week of the death of Judge Rufus
Gordon Price, of Louisville, Ga.,
judge of the City Court of Jefferson
county for the past eight years and
one of Louisville's most beloved citi
zens. He was the husband of Mrs.
Virginia Polhill Price, editor of the
Louisville News and Farmer and
Democratic Committeewoman of
Georgia. Both have for many years
been regular attendants at the an
nual sessions of the Georgia Press
Association and always taking a most
appreciateable part in its business
deliberation and social features. We
extend our sincere sympathy to the
bereaved family ami relatives.
Among prominent speakers to ad
dress the Georgia Scholastic Press
Association, which is today and to
morrow holding its 13th annual con
vention at the University of Georgia
Athens, appears the names of two
outstanding Georgia journalists,
Hon. W. T. Anderson and Miss Emi-
iy Wodwarcl.
A mammoth and wortlnvhi- ifl.
tion of the Columbus Ledge- lin-
quirer Sun, was distributed Sundav
among the thousands of subscribw
and friends of that publication, -jvh.rh
has gained most enjoyable popularity
throughout West Georgia ami Fuji
Aiabama. "Salute to the Army" was
the inspiration that resulted in tig
rnamoth publication in the interest
of the 15,000 soldiers now stationed
at Ft. Benning army reservation en
gaged in spring maneuvers, much
of which has been witnessed here.
Edtor V. I. Butt, of the North
Georgia (Blairsville) News, forma
Butler bank official and esteemed
citizen, warns diis Union County
readers thusly: “Candidates are no«
on what you might call ‘the home
stretch.’ Keep ears open for that I
minute campaign lie, and sock top|
wide open for ‘Old Santa Claus’,
Elsewhere in his column he says:
“We don't want to be suggestive, but
I i ease vote on next Wednesday just
like we do—that is, just as you d.m
please, without ‘Santa Claus’ having
to come to see \ou.”
UNCLE NATCHEL Says:
Rested after his welcomed Georgia
visit of eight days spent at the Little
White House at Warm Springs,
President Roosevelt left Saturday
for Washington where this week he
is said to be busy with problems
that relate to the war in Europe and
to the approaching adjournment of
Congress. The session is expected to
adjourn sometime in June.
Still uncertain whether 19-month-
old Paul Dennis Mahoney is her son,
Mrs. Frances Mahoney, 19, of Los
Angeles, has arranged to set up an
educational trust fund for the child
from the $.3,590 awarded her by a
court jury in her suit against a hos
pital. She sued the hospital because
of mental ang'uish as a consequence
of her suspicion her own son and an
other baby became mixed up after
their birth in the hospital. Mrs. Ma
honey said she and her husband have
“become very attached to Paul Den-
| nis ami he's in our home to stay—
' like he truly is our own child, which
• he may be.”
Newspaper friends throughout the
state of the late Editor J. C. Wil
liams o,f the Greensboro Herald-
Journal, were interested in memorial
services held last week by the Lions
Club of Greensboro on the fourth
annniversary of Mr. Williams' death
who during his 36 years as editor ot
his home paper was one of the most
frequently quoted and numbered
among the craft the greatest num
ber of intimate friends of any of its
members. .Charles M. Furlow, for
mer mayor of Madison and for many
years editor of the Madison Madi
sonian, delivered an address on his
life and career. Two sons of the late
Greensboro editor are actively fol
lowing his footsteps in journalism.
Cranston Williams is general man
ager of the American Newspaper
Publishers' Association with bead-
quarters in New York City; Carey
Williams is editor and publisher of
the Greensboro Herald Journal, the
Crawfordville Advocate - Democrat
! and the Columbia News of Harlem.
nHlIA'r's Uncle Natchel’s phi-
losopliy ... if Mother Na-
losophy
ture made it, it’s good.
Chilean Soda is good be
cause it’s “Natchcl”—the only
natural nitrate in the world.
It’s good for all crops, before
planting or after. It’s particu
larly profitable for sidedress
ing and topdressing. It acts
quickly, picks the crop up ani
pushes it ahead to early iua '
turily.
Sidedress — topdress - will*
natural Chilean Nitrate. I 1
gives your crops plenly
quick-arting nitrate, anil»
natural balance of many °'l' ft
protective plant foodeleinenO'
NATURAL
CHILEAN
NITRATE OF SQM
I’ROTI ( J 'V- I
ELEML>T s
Boron
lodifl*
Mantmn<" e
Potash
Magneiiw*
Callin'”
and many
man