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The Butler Herald
“KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT IS THE SECRET OF SUCCESS”
VOLUME 64
BUTLER, TAYLOR COUNTY. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1940
NUMBER 29.
ongressman Steve Pace
ualifies For Re-election
une I Set
Candidates
Enter Race.
As Dead-line for
for Congress to
Soon
-ratic
Mr. Alva Bazemore
Extended Membership
To Honorary Fraternity
Executive Committee, of
hic h Wm. H. Young, Jr., of Colum-
iq chairman, in a meeting at
mericus Tuesday set June 1, 1040
t h e deadline for candidates for
-nresentatives in Congress to
ualify. Ho"- Stephen Pace became a
sndidate for re-election.
^e committee also endorsed him
or r enomination, in a resolution
, tting forth his many achievements
diile in olHce.
The resolution endorsing Mr. Pace
fated in part:
"That for and in behalf of the
, 0 p| e of the Third Coiigessional Dis-
ict of Georgia, the members of the
rird Congressional District Demo-
iatic committee, at meeting assem-
eii at Americus, Ga., on this 14th
'ay of May, 1940, do hereby express
Congressman Stephen Pace our
incern appreciation and gratitude
„ r the faithful and lasting service
:hich he has rendered to the people
y the Third District during hi s first
corn! terms as a member of
digress from this district.
•Tie It Further Resolved that the
•election of Stephen Pace to tho
trice which he has so ably filled for
terms is urged because his ree-
nl of outstanding service to the
eople of his district, while being
,\er mindful of the welfare of the
late of Georgia, the South and
hese Fnited States, we predict many
fore terms or his loyal friend and
onscientious public servant.”
MrJ’ace spoke on world affairs of
stating that the preservation
the peace of American people is
ramount. He said in part:
“I say to you, after the most de-
'berate consideration, that more im-
rtant than all else is the preser-
ation of peace for our own people,
o become a party to the conflict in
urope would be to place our fate
the hands of other men, would
lake us the victims of conditions we
d no part in creating, and would
ause our future to be entirely de-
endent upon the uncertain fortunes
f war. War today is not so much a
■st of military leadership nor in-
vidual courage on the battle field,
ut is rather a measure of the in
timity of those engaged in the cre-
fion of implements of human de
traction.”
The district embraces the counties
f Ben Hill, Chattahoochee, Clay,
•risp, Dodge, Dooly, Harris, Hous-
oii. Leo, Marion, Muscogee, Pulaski
nitman, Randolph, Schley, Stewart
muter, Taylor, I “each, Terrell, Turn-
Webster and Wilcox.
Became a Member of
Fraternity at Georgia
tern Last Year.
Honorary
SoulhweH-
Wesleyan College
Finally Wipes Out
$600,000 Debt
Howell to Open
His Campaign at
Ellaville July 4
WPA Projects to be Open
For Inspection Next Week
Six Taylor County
James H. Porter Gives Another Big Rally Planned in Neighbor YoUUg FoOplO Will
Fifty Thousand; Improvements Town For Gubernatorial FfOIU SOUW^II
Candidate.
Are Seen.
-There was rejoic-
and throughout
(Ellaville Sun)
Sfchley county will hold statewide
Macon, May 14-
ing at Wesleyan
Georgia Methodism Tuesday, for a attention July 4 when Hugh Howell
debt of $600,000 that had been hang- j Atlanta attorney who has earned a
reputation as the hardest-working
candidate in Georgia's history, comes
to Elaville to deliver the opening
Exercises
Campus
June 7.
to he Held on
at Americus
College
Friday
ing over the institution for 10 years
Mr. Alva Bazemore, son of Mrs. [ or more, once forcing the college on candidate in Georgia's history, comes ; Six Taylor county young people
Bertha Bazemore of Butler and a the auction block, had been paid in ^ Elaville to deliver the opening H re among the 91 to graduate from
member of the junior class of the : full. Trustees of the college held 0 j a three-months campaign for the Georgia Southwestern College Fri-
University of Georgia was recently their annual meeting Tuesday and governorship. J day, June 7. Tire commencement ex-
honored by membership to the Gam-, received $602,593 from the Wesley- j Although the date still is two and ercises will be held on the college
ma Sigm Epsilon Chemical Fratcrni- : an Corporation in cash, pledged and ^ ^alf months away, definite plans campus at Americus.
ty at the university. j other funds which the trustees said ^ being s h ape d for a gigantic ral- Messrs Walton Thomas Neisler
Mr. Bazemore won membership to | wou ^ more tian P a ^ 0 ^ e e * ■ iy will draw thousands from all sec* of Butler and Pat Hodges of Iiey*
Ibis honorary fraternity because of ^ Un S { ~> ° r ltn P* ovemen 8 . tions of Georgia to hear the dynamic 1 nolds, and Miss Marger> Walker of
his character and high academic j un ^ e osejan on sen a or.v. (lawyer sound the keynote of his Butler will receive junior college
standing. i At meeting of the trustees an- i cam p a ig n The speech will be made diplomas. Misses Lucibelle Booth
! r.ouncement was made of a new con- ; durjn(r the a ftemoon, and WiSB, At- and Mary Helen Neisler of Butler
lanta's 50,000-watt radio station and Sarali Eleanor Booth of Rey-
He was first honor graduate
Butler High school in 1937.
While attending Georgia South
western College in Americus he was
honored by membership to the Sig
ma Lamda Honorary Fraternity he- 1
cause of his high scholastic record. |
Mr. Bazemore
gree in Chemistry at the university
in June of next year.
His many local friends are proud
of the high record he is holding
throughout his college career.
H. Por-
r.l
will broadcast the entire
tribution of $60,000 by Jas
ter, Macon philanthropist. Last Oc
tober he gave $100,000
an ' j In launching his race here,
The remainder of the obligation | jj owe n w jn i, e “picking up where
t( the bondholders was $442,500. I p e 0 g>> f or ] le delivered the
There were $50,000 in debts ar.d not c ] os j ni r speech of his whirlwind drive
will receive his de-i on ] y w jjj Giese be wiped out,
ings direct from Ellaville.
I In launching his race
bui
of 1938 in the grove of the county
proceed- nolds, will receive normal diplomas.
| Hon. J. D. Gardner of Camilla,
member of the university system
board of regents, will deliver the
literary address. Rev. Joseph Cook
pastor of the Americus First Meth
odist church, where all the gradua-
sermons are preached, will
May 20 to 25 Is Designated At
Achievement Week Throughout
Nation.
Gen. Singleton Receives
Highest Honor To Be
Conferred by Girl Scouts
there will be funds for the improve- j coUrt j louge yard . Next day Schley tion
meats contemplated. | CO untians went to the polls and gave preach the commencement sermon
1 here was wild cheering among ptheir two unit votes, swelling
the institution's students when news , he stalew i de coun t that touched
leaked out of the conference room jggppp popular votes,
v.here he Wesleyan Corporation and ( Gratifie(] that Ho well saw fit as
early a; October of the same year to
choose Ellaville as the opening bat
tleground for the 1940 race, his
friends in Schley county are taking
up the event and stand ready to con
tributing liberally of their funds,
time and influence to assure making
haa
the Wesleyan trustees were in ses-
1 sion.
| Dr. Dice R. Anderson, director oi
the Wesleyan campaign and presi-
| dent of the college said that the
1 workers for Wesleyan funds
| been busy more than 10 years.
. ... 1 Mr. Porter's final gift of $50,000 , p ro g ram a rousing send-off to a
Columbus, Ga., May 13—brigadier | had put t he drive over the top, ht memorable political season that will
General Asa L, Singleton was pre- | ^ , _
sented the highest award that can j
be made bythe Girl Scout organiza-1
tion at thelovely ceremony of the i ||gy ^ |^J
himself June 2nd upon invitattion
of President Peyton Jacob.
Butler High Seniors
To Be Honored Sunday
At Methodist Church
sweep the orphan boy and former
country school teacher to Georgia's
highest office. Far ni advance of the
Independence Day rally, they will
complete all arrangements for the
celebration.
(By Airs. O. B. Bankston) |
I Rev. C. M. Dunaway is bringing to i
| the people of Taylor county some of ;
the most heart-searching messages
Schley Citizens Pleased Over
Choice of Ellaville
(Editorial)
Selection of Ellaville for the open
ing address of his campaign for gov
ernor is convincing of Hugh Howell's
0 f | regard for Schley county and the
! faith he has in his many friends in
The Men's Bible Class of the But
ler Methodist church will honor the
Senior class of the local high school
Sunday morning at the church.
The program begins at 10 o'clock.
.Mr. P. Y. Luther, of Griifin will
be the principal speaker on this
occasion.
The public is cordially invited to
be present at this time and help to
make this a big day for the Senior
Class.
annual Council Fire at Ft. Benning # .
on Sunday evening. Earlier in the j ContlHUCS ReVIVal at
afternoon a fire had been lighted in ]
the fteldstone fireplace built by the| j\|gyy ( tUlip GrOUnd
Scouts in the glen below the cabin j
for the girls to have their last |
meeting" of the season. Parents and
interested spectators arrived at six.
The Girl Scouts stood in front oi
the fireplace as Airs. C. E. Cook,
member of the council asked the , have ever had t h e privilege
general to step into the circle and hearing
receive the Thank-you badge pre-1 Those who have „ ot been attending | the county. .
sented in “love and appreciation of ! 8ervic wiu you not come out I When Mr. Howell announced j Ellaville—Mrs. Alonzh A.
Ids interest in the boys and girls of j America's leading months ago that he was coming to ton, 67, wife of a retired
the community.” ! evangelists’ | this stronghold in South Georgia, merchant, died Saturday after a long
“I am not only interested in you” j Rev Dunaway h as been in the j he singled out Ellaville for an event illness.
Mrs. A. A. Arrington
Dies At Ellaville Sat.
Arring-
Ellaville
She had been in ill health the last
I love every one of you.” He vent;| ^“p^adiing t^“ true'gospel as ' throughout the state this July, and, two years and developed pneumonia
HOWS FOR WEEK
T DEAN THEATRE
Hie general told the scouts in reply, Methodist Conference more than 40 J destined to claim foremost attention
nr t nnn nf Vrtll ” Hf> WftJlt • ..... 1 I 1 L..U i-L» ntnl-n Fkic T.1ll\r DllH
of _
member of
choice after many" conferences with ' the Baptist church and was a grad-
• e i years, ^icauiuug mv. & wu.,v. —, — —q— - , .
on to praise the organization of recorded in the Ho i y Bible. God is 1 thereafter to be remembered as one , a few days ago.
scouting, saying that the girls bad using hjm here in a -nnrve’.ous way.! of historic importance. He made his ' Mrs. Arrington was
reason to be proud of their work, j jj r James Walters of Decatur
‘One of the finest characteristics one j ead j n g the singing during these advisors and much thought
over
Sunday and Monday: “Vigil in the
min." Carol Lombard, Ann Shir-
•>, and lirien Ahern. Here is a
licture which will be remembered
or several reasons; the firet being
•si' 0 ' Lombard's radical departure
10111 ' lor usual screwball type come-
*-° handle a deeply emotional and
nimatie role. T’he story is based on
)r - Cr °nili‘s story Vigil in the Night
'" s tile story of a young doctor
, a beautiful nurse, their romance
sacrifices. Its transfer to the
lciecn ls powerful and deeply stir-
"inir,
Wednesday & Thursday: “He
lurried His Wife.” Cast: Joel Mc-
1 Nancy Kelly, Roland Young
* n< Mar v Poland, and a score of
• The story takes place in a
°afe, at a race track and,
""‘■pally, on and about an ex-
"' ni ' country estate. Beautiful
hl< ' ‘ '"thes, scenery, etc. It is con-
a polished work, technical-
'a handsome, well
''lined, glib and glossy film.
. . Ul,ly * Saturday: Lynn Barri
u. I),,nald Woods in, “City of
■ Jllso Gene Austin in, “Songs
f"'d Saddles.”
can acquire is dependability,” Gen
Singleton told the Scouts. “Worth
while leadership is based on service
to others; you belong to an organi
zation contributing much to young
womanhood." He spoke further of
the two states, growth or decay, and
one must go forward or lose
uate of Shorter College at Rome. She
was married in 1896.
Funeral services were held Sunday
afternoon at the Baptist church. Rev.
Hugh Dozier, pastor, Rev. R. C.
Howard, pastor of the Hog'ansville
services. He is a fine young Chris- their opinions.
tian, with plenty of zeal in his sing-1 Naturally, considerable stir ac-
j n g. companies the inaugural stump ap
Next Thursday, Alay 23, the Coun- pearance of any major candidate for
tv Rally will be held at the Taber- governorship. All leading state dai-. T ,
nacle. Plan now to come out for this lies and the wire services send ace ,a|> 1S ® urc ’ an _ ] »,\Y ....
all-day feast. Besides Rev. Dunaway 1 reporters, news analysts and camera son, pastor of the Ellaviile Methodist
Rev. E. A. Martin, former pastor of men to the scene. There is a radio
ound. “God bless and keep every Butler Alethodist church, will be broadcast, usually over a statewide
one of you” the general said, thank- p reserd to deliver either the morn- hookup. Newsreel photographers re-
ing or the afternoon message. cord the ceremonies. Outstanding
Come each night at 7-30 and each weekly editors come from distant |
morning at 10-30 for these services. ; points to get stories for their next Another effort is being made to
that
ing them for the award and bidding
them goodbye as he left for Alex- ,
andria.
-The program was then turned over
[ 0 the troops who entertained the
spectators with songs.
I
S M1LE-IA -WHILE QUARTET
BE AT CENTRAL FRI. NITE
church conducted the services.
PICTURE SHOW OPENED
IN CITY OF REYNOLDS
others
Mrs. E. Paul Hodges
To Present Music Class
In Recital Next Thurs.
Next week—May 20-26—will be
observed by all WPA projects as
achievement week throughout the
nation. During this time the public
is especially invited to visit these
projects and inspect the work.
At the present time the following
WPA projects are In progress In
Taylor county; Farm-to-Market Road
Work, Adult Educational Work,
School Lunch Room, Sewing Room
and Library.
The farm-to-market road work is
under the direction of Mr. H. W.
Rogers. The road now being graded
and prepared for paving is the
Butler-Potterville road which serves
hundreds of f armers in the south
eastern part of the county. A large
number of other roads in all sections
of the county have been graded and
are in splendid shape.
In the adult educational work ap
proximately 100 adult persons in the
county are receiving an education.
There is one white teacher, Mrs.
Lucy Taunton; and two negro teach
ers, Marvin McCrary and Ben Braz-
zill.
The WPA lunch room at Butler
high school is sponsored by the local
P T. A. Mrs. H. P. Wallace is in
charge of this project. Hot lunches
are served to an average of 100 stu
dents and teachers each day at cost
of 10c each. According to Prof V-
P. Folds, superintendent of the lo
cal school, forty students whose
parents are not aible to pay are
given a free lunch each day.
Miss Virginia Smith of Columbus
is district superintendent of alf
WPA lunch rooms in this area. ;?he
is assisted by Mrs. A. FI McGee also
of Roberta. One of these ladies
visits the local lunch room every
few weeks.
Mrs. Wallace, director of the But
ler lunch room is assisted by Mrs.
Effie Tante, Mrs. Ida McDaniel and
Miss Edna Wainwright.
In connection with the lunch room
a one and one-half acre garden is
being promoted. O. P. Gipson, col
ored, is employed as gardner. Vege
tables produced in the garden will
be canned during summer to be used 1
in the lunch room next vyjpter.
Surplus commodities such as but-
Ire, flour, oat meal, dried milk,
oranges and apples are given to the
lunch room by the government thru
the Surplus Commodity Warehouse.
Mrs. Wallace stated that no doubt
many farmers will have a surplus ot
beans, peas, corn, tomatoes, okra,
etc., this summer and will be will
ing to donate these items to the
lunch room for canning purposes.
She said that i.f this be true the lo
cal lunch room will be able to furn
ish a hot lunch for ftc instead of 10c
next school term.
Mrs. Wallace said much credit is
due the County Commissioners, But
ler Board, P. T. A., and Prof. Folds
for the success of the lunch room.
Mr. Allie Callahan, of Charing is
loeai supervisor of the Surplus Com
modity warehouse. In addition to
commodities distributed monthly to
I he lunch room, supplies are given
also monthly to an average of 417
needy families of the county.
The sewing room which has been
and
The
Quartet
lion WMAZ,
Central school building
morrow—nigt at 8
sion, 16c and 25c.
4t-door sedan,
One 1936 Chrysler
45,(KM) miles; with radio; in good
condition; tires good; price $265.,
One 1936 Ford coach with trunk.
Mercury motor and transmission;
13,000 miles; price $300. ,
O. W. PAYNE, Reynolds, Ga.
issues. Thousands of people travel ^ picture show going at Rey-
| long distances for a first-hand re-1 , ;o ] ds- This time E. E. Shealy of Ca-
1 view' of the rally. Many of these per-: m j|| a j s j n charge,
j sons have never seen our town, prob-1 The show was opened in the be-
! ably never would without the lure jrj nn i n g of the winter, by another j operated in this county for the past
I of this drawing card. The things operator, but the weather discoruag- ] five years is now giving employment
j they will say, coupled with the ed him. The unusual cold was too | to 18 ladies in the county. It is un
der the direction of iMrs. Blanch*
Hicks of Reynolds. (Clothing made
in the sewing- room is distributed
to the needy people of the county.
Three WPA libraries: One at But-
er, one at Reynolds and a traveling
library, are operating in tho county.
There is a total of 3,000 books in
Ihese libraries. Mrs. Eva Byrd is
In charge of the laca.1 library; Miss
Elda Blackmon is in charge of the
t.ne at Reynolds; and Mrs. Clara
Cameron is in charge of the travel
ing library. With the three libraries
nearly every important book is
(Turn to Page 8; No. 2)
was
well
the
■f Smile-A-While j newspaper, radio and motion picture much for the would-be patrons
Stamps- ax^ti rad j u s t a .! publicity, spread word of our town before the spring the project
1Car wilT be in concert at Mrs. E. Paul Hodges will present and couxl t y that is a definite help in | abandoned. The theatre is
W j Friday—to- her Piano and Music pupils in a many ways. i equipped, the building is above
o'clock Admis- \ Recital Thursday evening, May 23rd , But as fascinating as this fanfare average and Mr. Shealy is confident
(Adv.) at 8 p. m., Reynolds high school au- w iU be, it is far from the main rea-1 Vie will have success.—Eugene An-
ditorium. The public is cordially in- hon tbe campaign opener is a tribute derson in Macon Telegraph.
” . | vited. ] to Schley county. Most impartial 1 ■
USED CARS FOR SALE j . ! political observers agree that this is PIANO TUNING
- 1 MULES FOR SALE j the year Georgians must place in _____
! governor's office a man who tern-1 Have your piano tuned by an ex-
a j pers a program of broad and con- j pert tuner. I also sell new and used
Several fine young mules and ( - . .
number of second-hand mules for; Ptructive progress with principles of p i an os. A representative of Lester
de 41so two pair of splendid brood ! wise economy and utmost honesty. Pi ano Manufacturers. (S^Sp)
mares Come and see them. I Hugh Howell's platform promises C. W. SMITH
D. W. PAYNE, Reynolds, Ga. (Turn to Page 8; No. 1) I 493 W. Gordon St. Thomaston, Ga.