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The Butler Herald
Ketabixlied in 1876
[Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
lQlass.
Chas. Bonns, Jr., Managing Editor
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The more uncertain the scheme for
snaking money is, the more attrac
tive it can be made to appear.
Somehow we cannot help but have
i* kindlier feeling toward the fellow
who throws business our way. IPs
only human to feel that way about
St.
The'man who sells for less than a
fair price not only injuries himself
hut everyone else in business. The
unfair price gives the buyer a wrong
idea of the true value of the mer
chandise.
The devil no doubt is very jealous
of Adolf Hitler. Up to the coming
into power of Hitler the devil en
joyed the distinction of being the
S.rince of liars. He has been relegat
ed to a subordinate position.
According to a Washington news
dispatch the first new American bat
tleship, in 19 years, will be launched
June 1 at Philadelphia navy yard |
with a direct descendant of Chief
Justice John Marshall as sponsor.
W. W. Mathews says in his In
man Park (Atlanta) Advertiser, “we
almost fell out of our chair Tuesday
evening when radio singers “swung”
the Lord's Prayer. Next thing they'll
be jazzing the Ten Commandments."
The new Georgia Guide issued by
the University- of Georgia Press
should prove a valuable volume, com
pressing' into one book a tremendous
amount* of information about the
state and its counties and towns. It's
en sale now.
A familiar headline in Georgia
these days, according to one of our
■exchanges is: “Hugh Howell to
Speak . . . Eugene Talmadge to
Speak . . . Gov. Rivers to Speak
Ellis Arnall to Speak . . . W. L. Mil
ler to Speak.”
In spite of the fact that we have
heretofore been sympathetic and
friendly to Mr. Miller in his trou
bles, we have about reached the con
clusion that he sealed his cwn politi-
in the Rivers-Miller feud by the too
liberal use of his tongue.
We quite agree with the Carters-
ville Tribune-News in which editor
Milton Fleetwood says: “Nobody
wants Gene Talmadge barred from
making the race for Governor, if he
so desires. It is to be a free-for-all
and certainly he should be free to
run if that is what he plans to do.”
The distinction and the difference:
China has three and one-half times
the population of the United States
hut its living is so simple that it
uses only a little over one-half as
much land area as we do in cultivat
ing crops. To produce an acre of rice
Chinese use 750 manpower hours; in
«-ur land we do it with 25.
The following from Rush Burton's
excellent weekly up Lavonia way is
sufficient evidence that the popular
editor is a close reader of the Her
ald, not only of its editorial page,
hut other sections of the paper as
well, which, if you will excuse us for
doing so, we take as a compliment.
These are the paragraphs from the
Times to which we refer: “Butler
lioasts of a lady who flew to Chica
go to attend a party last week. It
was her first flight in an airplane,
as well. That's something we have
long wished for, an engagement im
portant enough to fly to. We don't
want to fly somewhere away off and
wire back home that we arrived safe
and then after a few days of impor
tant business fly back home, and
then go over and tell George Flem
ing about the trip. . . . Remember
when it was a common practice to
drink sassafras tea in the spring to
thin out the blood? In some sections
druggists used to buy sassafras bark
by the hundred pounds—Butler Her
ald. . . . Yes, Charley, that used to
lie the custom over at Iron Rock
where a famous editor was born in
a manger back in the last century.”
TILE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MAY 9, 1940.
An honor deserving the fine in
structor and splendid Christian gen
tleman that he is has been confer
red upon Dr. John E. Drewcry, di
rector of the Henry W. Grady school
of journalism at the University of
Georgia, by bis recent election to
honorary membership in Phi Kappa
Phi, national scholastic fraternity.
There are two reasons for gossip.
One is that gossip airs the misdeeds
and shortcomings of others to create i
a smoke screen for his or her own
misdeeds and shortcomings. The oth
er reason for gossip is that the gos-
siper secretly desires to do the
things that those about whom he or
she gossips do, but doesn't have the
courage. For this reason the gossip
is jealous :yid strikes back by gos
siping.
Another thing we have never been
able to understand is that what
prompted them to call the beautiful
flowering tree “dogwood.” We do not
su.v this in disrespect for the dogs.
Those lovely flora along the streets
of Sylvester and other southern cities
should have a fairer name than dog
wood. Dogs have nothing to do with
dogwood, no more so than cows have
to do with cowpeas or cats with cat
chup.—Sylvester Local.
John F. Callaway, formerly assis
tant in the Henry W. Grady school
of journalism at the University of
Georgia, has been appointed assistant
export chief of More International
Inc., New York City. While at the
university, Mr. Callaway was man
aging editor of the Red and Black,
campus weekly newspaper, ami cam
pus news editor of the- Georgia Alum
ni Record, magazine published by the
Alumni society of the University of
Georgia.
The Herald acknowledges with sin
cere appreciation a recent visit to
this office by Editor J. I!. Chism of
af the Pelham Journal, one of the
highlights of journalism of South
Georgia and published in one of the
finest and most prosperous agricul
tural sections of the state. Mr.
Chism is serving his second term as
Mayor of the thriving little city of
Pelham and has a splendid record of
achievement for his city since taking
over the reins of office, especially in
I he organization of a thriving civic
body that has put new life and
brought new enterprises to Pelham
during the past two years.
The topic of conversation among
groups of young men recently has
been their description of borrowing
ex)>eriences of other speed-mad
youngster in the handling of their
automobiles on the highway. In
many instances it is said to have
been miraculous that no accident oc
curred. The speed of these cars, with
the highway being used as a race
track and money bet on resuls, is
said to have climbed to 90, 100 and
even higher in a few instances. We
mention this only for the purpose of
appealing to our young friends to
cease such recklessness before some
fearful accident occurs bringing sor
row and sadness into some of our
best homes. Those whose names
have been mentioned are young men
of sterling qualities, law-abiding
citizens whose places would he great
ly missed if death should overtake
them while engaged in such thrilling
ventures.
We have been from our earliest
reollection a strong advocate of or
ganizations, of whatever name, that
has for its purpose the upbuilding of
the community and especially the
training of our youths for useful
service as they take our places as
citizens. In this particular there is
none to surpass, if its equal, the
Parent-Teachers Association. Refer
ring to its establishment in Colum
bus, Mrs. J. Nunnally Johnson, guest
columnist in Monday's Columbus En
quirer, gives in part this bit of in
teresting history: “Let's glance back
at the beginning in Columbus. Miss
Lottie Barnes, a former teacher in
tlie old Tenth Street school, organiz
ed th a first P. T. A. in the city in
1907, she being its first president,
with Miss Mattie Palmer acting as
the efficient secretary-treasurer. 1
still remember the expression on
our superintendent's face, when our
committee asked him for permission
to organize; it seemed to say; “Now
here is a group of women who will
try to run the schools. But, being the
wise, patient, and progressive man
I that he was, he gave his consent. I
still think he believed if he gave us
rope enough we would hang our
selves, but anyway, he was our
friend. It was through these associa
tions that first aid, medical examina
tions, playgrounds, lunch-rooms,
school libraries and the summer
round-up for pre-school children
came into existence.”
GEORGIA SOUTH W ESTERN
COLLEGE MAKES VAST
improvements
CONGRATULATIONS GEN ER AL
HODGES, OF PERRY
It was a pleasure Sunday to visit
tile campus of Georgia Southwest
ern College, Americus, and note the
many improvements made during the
past few years.
Aliout seven years ago Dr. Peyton
Jacob came to the college to serve as
its president. During his administra
tion he has secured through the aid
of the University System several
large grants for the purpose ot
erecting throe large and handsome
buildings and making other im
provements.
Tlie first permanent improvement
made was the rection of a modern
fire-proof boys’ dormitory, at the
south end of the campus. Next a
modern fire-proof girls’ dormitory
was built between the administra
tion building and the new boys’ dor
mitory. Last summer a large gym
nasium and swimming pool were
erected just behind the administra
tion building at a cost of approxi
mately $65,000.
The dormitory capacity of South
western is now more than three
times as much as four years ago.
Approximately 150 day students also
attend the college. This is one of
the largest Junior Colleges in the
University System.
Highways have been built through
the front of the campus which add
to the beauty and accessability of
the college; also paved walks lead
from the administration building to
all parts of the campus.
Georgia Southwestern graduates
who have not visited their alma
mater in several years should take
time to visit this fast growing col
lege and see the many improvements
made in the past few years.
We are sure that you will be
proud to acknowledge that you are a
graduate of Southwestern.
Due to the fact that Georgia
Southwestern is located so far from
Athens and is in a section of the
state where higher educational ad
vantages are needed and appreciated
we dare say that in a few years it
will be made into a four-year col
lege ranking equal with the Univer
sity of Georgia itself.
Friends and acquaintances in Tay
lor county of General Courtney
Hicks Hodges, of Per y, were very
very much interested in the an
nouncement a few days ago of his
army promotion from Colonel to the
rank of Brigadier General and ex
tended to him hearty congratulations
and l>est of good wishes. General
Hodges is a son of Mrs. John H. and
the late Mr. Hodges, who for many
years was editor of the Perry Home
Journal, and which is still being
operated by members of the family.
He is also a brother of Hon. John
L. Hodges, clerk of superior court
of Houston comity.
It is remarkable that Gen. Hodges
has attained his rank without being
a graduate of West Point Military
Academy. He lias the distinction of
being the only non-graduate of West
moint to be sent there as an instruc
tor.
Enlisting in the army thirty years
ago, his promotion has been very
rapid. In three years, he was com
missioned a first lieutenant. He has
completed required courses of train
ing in all branches of the army, in
cluding the cavalry and aviation, tho
he is in tho infantry.
Gen. Hodges has studied at the
War College, Washington, D. C. He
was member of the general staiT in
the Phillipines for two years before
his present position at Ft. Benning.
Previous to this foreign service, he
was a member of the Infantry Board
at FT. Benning for two years. For
four years, he was an instructor at
West Point.
Gen. Hodges was with the first
attachment of officers of the U. S.
Army to go to France when the
United States entered the World
War. These officers accompanied
Gen. Pershing across before any
troops were sent.
For crossing te Muse river in
France and leading an attack on the
German Forces, Gen. Hodges was
awarded a medal. He was presented
with a Distinguished Service Cross
at the close of the World War. He
was in command of part of the army
of occupation in Germany after the
war.
APPOINTMENT NOW URGENT
The Sunday Ledger-Enquirer:
It seems to be the opinion of Co
lumbus citizens in general that full
and sufficient time has elapsed for
the Cox emor to reach a decision as
to the appointment of a judge to the
bench of the Chattahoochee judicial
circuit. The feeling is strong that,
regardless of whom is to be apixiint-
ed, the selection should lie made and
the new judge take over the accumu
lating business of the court without
further delay.
Not only the local members of the
legal profession but litigants and
business men generally are suffering
as a result of the continued delay in
the official's being named. Some find
it necessary to go to Griffin, La-
Grange or Cuthbert to get their
court business handled with the
dispatch desired.
When the courts suffer, tlie com
munity itself suffers, and those ac
tivities having to do with the su
perior court today find themselves
considerably inconvenienced.
With every day that passes, busi
ness of the circuit will tend further
to pile up, not only that provided by
the city but the area generally. It
simply means that affairs will be
more difficult for the new judge
when he is selected.
It is manifestly important and
urgent, therefore, that without re
gard to whom will be appointed by
the Governor, he should go ahead
and make the appointment. It will
constitute a definite service to all
concerned.
The recall of Myron C. Taylor
was respectfully and earnestly asked
b> the Methodist General Conference
in session last week in Atlantic City
N. J., in the adoption of a report in
which it was stated that the appoint
ment “had created a spirit of un
easiness and resentment instead of
promoting peace. The vote was 393
to 334. When the delegates rose fa
voring tlie recall tlie galleries sur
rounding the delegates’ desks broke
into prolonged applause.
In this glorious old U. S. A. rul
ers do not inherit office; neither are
they rulers; they have merely been
selected by a majority vote of the
electors to execute the laws already
made by their fellow electors. If we
violate those laws maybe it will be
the jail-house for us but anyhow it
is our law, voluntarily observed by
the good citizen and forcibly so by
tlie others when and if the duly con
stituted agents of the people observe
the oath they took to enforce those
laws.
Gen. Hodges has been awarded
i umerous medals and trophies for
his skill as a marksman. He is known
as a specialist on arms and tactics.
Prior to his army service he at
tended North Georgia College at
j Dahloncga and graduated from Per
ry High school. He was a member of
a local military company as a young
man.
One of the strongest presentations
of the trends of the times is an edi
torial in the United States News by
its editor, David 1-awrence, erstwhile
radio news commentator, who said:
“The drift of the world affairs is
toward systems that take away in
dividual rights and put the state in
absolute control. We already have
the machinery for Fascism in
America . . . We have grown self-
centered and indifferent. We have
lost the spirit of love that goes with
religion and the spirit of virility
that goes with patriotism ... A
flabby, lazy-minded nation is likely
to drift into economical chaos on
which, of course, statesism thrives.’
Bum these words into your souls
and teach them to your children.
Roy McGinty, editor of the Cal
houn Times, speculating on the com
ing race for Governor of Georgia
says: “State politics are (or is) go
ing to shape up pretty shortly now.
I note by the Atlanta, press that Jim
Gillis may become a candidate for
Governor, and if he does, will prob
ably have the support of Lint Mil
ler. Apparently this won't be a
Rivers line-up, and leaves in doubt
the matter as to where the Governor
will throw his influence. “They ^ay”
if Gillis runs, John Wilson won't,
and that this will narrow the field
down to Talmadge, Howell, Roberts
and Gillis. A lot of people have been
getting on the Talmadge band-wag
on with the idea that the gentleman
from Sugtr Creek will run hog-wild.
Others, carefully weighing a lot of
facts most people don't think about
are not so sure. For instance, it is
pointed out that Dick Russell's
friends will all be against Gene, not
only because of lus fight on the Sen
ator four years ago, but because to
elect him Governor now would be to
build him up as a potential opponent
of the fair-haired Dick two years
hence. Also, say the wiseacres, Sen.
George’s friends will all be againtt
Gene for substantially the same
reasons. Then the reasoners go on to
reason that this is the first time the
gentleman from Telfair has had to
meet such formidable opposition in a
race for Governor from the friends
of both U. S. Senators. I don't know
what this all amounts to. What do
I you think?”
MOTHER'S DAY
Next Sunday has hern set apart
for special observance in honor of
the home and motherhood. The ob
ject of the duy is to recall memories
of tire mothers who have gone; to
brighten the lives of those who re
main; and to encourage men, women
and children to 'honor home and
parents.
Tho idea of Mother’s Day originat
ed with Anna Jarvis, of Philadelphia
In designate, by annual proclamation
the second Sunday in May as Moth
er’s Day. The first national procla
mation was issued by President Wil
son on May 9, 1914.
Napoleon always stood in awe of
Ids beautiful mother and often de
clared that she had the brains of a
man. She managed everything with
a prudence and sagacity which were
incredible for her sex and age.
George Washington gave up all his
hopes of being a sailor because his
mother could not bear to have him
leave her.
Lincoln was nine when his mother
died. Her dying words: “Be some
thing, Abe.”
Eugene Field was six when his
mother died. But he said: "1 have
carried the remembrance of her gen
tle voice and soothing touch all
through my life.”
Carlyle wrote: “I am proud of
mother. If I ever forget to reverence
her, I must cease to be a creature
myself worth remembering.”
Thomas Moore wrote to his moth
er twice a week,and at the time of
her death, she possessed 4,000 of his
letters.
John Quincy Adams every night of
his life said the childish prayer,
“Now I lay me down to sleep,” that
his motehr had taught him.
There is a lot of clamor that tax
es be reduced, but if a man elected
to office proceeds to reduce expenses
by abolishing jobs and reducing sal
aries he is condemned more bitterly
than a tax waster is ever condemned.
The public wants taxes reduced, but
at the same time it wants salaries
increased and more persons given po
litical jobs.
Hon. Wright A. Patterson, Editor
of the W. N. U. Pubisher s Auxiliary
Chicago, who is to ho honored at a
dinner on May 24th in celebration
of ids fiftieth year of service, points
i.ut the road to success or failure of
any town in the following: “The
success or failure of the rural com
munity as a market place and its
maintenance as a cultural and social
center depends upon the attitude
and activities of tlie people of the
town—the hub of the community.
People of the town—merchants
teachers, ministers, other profession
al people, the newspaper editor and
publisher; and the public generally—
must wish the town to succeed and
must work to that end.”
THESE WOMEN AND MEN \\|m
CAST GEORGIA’S VOTE
Tlie 72 men and women chose*
Thursday, April 26, as delegates a |
terantes and second alternates viiti
out specific designation to ropr.. S( , nl
Georgia and cast the state's 24 vota,
at the Democratic national conveo
tion at Chicago July 15 follow;
State at Large: E. D. Rivers, H.T
McIntosh, Mrs. Virginia Price, |’ rwt
B. Wilson, J. L. Gillis, I. X. Peeble
Jr., Henderson Lanliam, L. W.
ert Jr., Clark Howell, Dr. VV. A. Rot.
ton, Roy Harris and W. C. Kemirict
F’inst District: John Spivey. M p
Thompson, G. L. Googe, J. J. Bouha,
W. L. Grayson and R. G. Wilkes.
Second District: Mrs. A. B, Cogner
S. Marvin Griffin, W. Fred Scott, Jne
Johnson, Addie N. Durden and
Ferguson.
Third District: Zaek Arnold, Mm
Clem Rainey, Cason Callaway, H. fi
Smith, Dr. V. C. Daves and T. (;
Reeves.
Fourth District: A. H. Freeman
Samuel J. Boykin, A. K. Maddox
Pal Campbell, W. M. New and A. q
Swint.
Fifth District: Shepard T!ry a n
Scott Candler, Ralph McGill,
j Allen Jr., Paul Lindsay and W x
j Dean.
| Sixth District: Mrs. Frank A.
Dennis, W M. Shurling, Mrs. J, h
Ennis, J. M. Branch, Victor David-
son and R. L. Hogan.
Seventh District: Paul Akin, j|
C. Townsend, Tom Bryan, T. tlrady
Head, Grover Byars and W. I),
Trippe,
Eighth District: Braswell Deen,
Kirk Sutlive, Mrs. L. L. Patten, Dr.
•J. T. Holt, J. B. D. Paulk and Down,
ing Musgrove,
Ninth District: Judge Boyd Sloan,
T. T. Benton, Mrs. Fred Stowe. Dr.
C. J. Welborn, T. J. Lance and Frank
Gross.
Tenth District: A bit Nix. C. E,
Sutton, Inman Curry, Gust Starke,
Paul Webb and B. B. Zellers.
It is said that of the 500 moivt
feature films and 800 “shorts" pro
duced in this country each year Hol
lywood makes 95 per cent, with 106
producing concerns. Of the pictiin*
shown in the world 65 per cent art
made in this country. Hollywood
pays 125 million dollars a year tr
the 2S,500 people it employes as ar
tists. extras, supers and for mot
scenes.
Bidding fair of becoming a popular
publication, making its first bow to
the public last week was the Outdoor
Georgia, a monthly magazine devoted
to hunting, fishing and other outdoor
recreation, made its appearance <*
the newsstands. Chas. N. Elliott, di-
rector of the State Wild Life Divis
ion, is editor. John Martin, former
Journal sports writer, is managing
pditor. E. L. Gibson is business man
ager.
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