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The Butler Herald
Kntabishcd in 1876
Untered at the Post Office at liutler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Glass.
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cox, Publisher & Pus. Mgr.
OFFICIAiL ORGAN TAYIX1R 00,
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
SUBSCRIITION, $1.50 A WAR
Time was when Armenia was the
most persecuted nation on earth.
This, however, was before Hitler ap
peared on the scene.
Justu” maynot he secured in
courts, but the record of the courts
for justice compares favorably with
justice sought outside.
Most of Chamberlain's reluctance
to fight it out with the Germans
very likely was due to his advanced
age. War is no old man's game.
Everybody seems to agree that
there is something the matter with
the United States, but no two indi
viduals suggest the same remedy.
Now that we are having rubber
and cotton highways the pedestrian
ran hit on the rubber and bounce
over on the cotton for a soft place to
tall.
Spring is the season that finds -
the energetic amateur gardner faith-1
fully clearing his plot of weeds, l
clearing the way for the 1940 crop!
of same.
To relieve the paper shortage in
Japan buyers of eigarets are asked
to empty the cigaret boxes and leave
them with dealers who will have
them refilled.
The Vatican reports all lrelliger-
ents, including Germany, have
guaranteed not to bomb Rome in
event of war there. Well, when does
the air raid shelter construction be
gin ?
We once saw in a printing offices
sign: “There never was a job of
printing so cheap and so poor that
•omewhere there wasn't a printer
nho was willing to do it cheaper
and poorer.”
In a resolution adopted by the
Georgia Federation of Labor in con
vention recently assembled at Ma
con, a proposed oil pipe-line was dis
approved as being unsafe and caus
ing unemployment.
We have been taking note for
eome time that one of the neatest
printed publications among our large
fist of exchanges is that of the
Raker County News. Congratula
tions to Mrs. J. H. Milward.
This newspaper , like all othersi
makes some mistakes; but, did you
ever notice that they are first ob
served, or you would think so by
their gib, by those who somehow
manage to avoid making them.
It isn't the church that a man be
longs to that determines whether ol
r:ot he is a Christian. Its his atti
tude toward his fellow men, and
how he lives, that determines the
true measure of his religion.
Some women, when their husband
bands them a letter hurry to open
it to read what the friend has to
pay, others look first at the post
mark to see how long friend hus
band has been carrying the lettei
around in his pocket.
The Japanese press in Tokyo
charges that stationing of the Unit
ed States fleet in the Honolulu area
is aimed against Japan. One news
paper predicts that the Philippine Is
lands will be used as a base fot
American operations in the far east
We have, from time to time, had
Jtany requests from people while
they were heavily intoxicated, to
“write up” certain things and cer
tain people and print it. So far we
have never yet done so, but one of
these days we may give the party
making the request another drink,
'write up what he wants as nearly
like he wants it as we can, then give
him drink enougli to get him to sign
it In the presence of witnesses, then
»ure enough publish it, get the paper
out, and then attend mob violence
and a funeral—his funeral.—Crisp
County News.
THE BUTLER TTERAI.D, BUTl«R. GEORGIA, MAY 16, 19-10.
Olin Miller finds another source of
pity for tlie poor farmer. In addition
to being annoyed by 700 other kinds
nl' insects pests, liro. Olin predicts
the farmers will lie pestered this
year by candidates swarming all
over the place trying to make love
to him.
The British always win the last
Battle, it is claimed. Well, maybe
there's hope yet for the Allies. Rut
Mr. Chamberlain's war prestige sank
to a new low after the Germans
chased the British out of South Nor
way. If we were in England, we'd
start yelling for a government that
would get in there and fight—and
not muddle around like that um
brella-carrying old fogy.
May 7th was a memorable date
in the history of this country. It was
this date back in 1915 that the
Lusitania was torpedoed in the
North Atlantic ocean by a German
submarine. On the incident, with its
terrific loss rtf life, was built up much
of the American indignation against
the German nation which later was
a potent factor in this country's en
trance into the World War.
Here's an item plucked from the
“Happened in Georgia” page Atlanta
Journal, that will probably interest
you: ‘ ‘Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Haley of
Lavonia, Ga., recently celebrated
tbeir 4<)th wedding anniversary, but
they were engaged before they
ever saw each other. Mrs. llaley was
telephone operator in Lavonia, and
Mr. Haley met her by long distance
while working in South Carolina.”
It will be of interest to the news
paper friends of the family of the
late Editor John M. Anglin of Lump
kin, to learn that his son, Leonard
F. Anglin has qualified for flying
tadet training at Vanderbilt Uni
versity where he is a member of the
senior class. Young Anglin, brother
of the editors of the Stewart-Web
ster Journal, attended Gordon Mili
tary Academy at Barnesville before
ruing to Vanderbilt.
Georgia is going to have a Hon
ey Show in Atlanta this fall, Colum
bus Roberts, commissioner of [agri
culture, announced Saturday. Maybe
you didn't realize it, but the bee
business is a pretty hefty industry
in Georiria. It brings the beekeepers
more than $800,000 annually, and
Georgia is a leading state in ship
ment of bees to other sections. Tay
lor county leads the rest of Middle
Georgia in the annual production of
honey.
From London comes the announce
ment that one of America's top
flight war correspondents — Webb
Miller of the United Press—is dead,
llis body was found beside a rail
road track in southwest London. And
it is believed lie fell from a moving
train during the blackout of night.
Miller had left the United 1 Press of
fices in London for a night's sleep in
the country, after covering the mo
mentous debate in the House of
Commons.
Here is something new, we think.
A judge in Long Island has ordered
a wife to pay $8.50 weekly to her
estranged husband in order that the
man will not become a public
charge. We are in .favor of equal
rights for women and, we suppose
this includes the privilege of sup
porting a spouse when the poor fel
low is unable to support hipiself.
Anyway, the women asked for equal
lights and they are gradually get
ting them. We should not complain.
Harry Hamrick, who conducts a
most interesting first column left
front page personal items in the
Dooly County Citizen, Vienna, speaks
a whole parable in the following:
“Yessir, it's just like the man said.
A fellow can say most anything
about most anybody if he smiles.
Most of us don't mind being called
anything if the speaker says it with
a grin. But when it comes to print,
there is no big smile or changing of
the voice to denote mirth. Nothing
butt he cold hare facts and the ef
fects depend largely on the present
nature of the reader.”
Mi's. J. H. Milward, who edits the
Baker County News, is gratified by a
recent court decision in which the
killing of livestock on the highway
is not an unlawful act, and in which
she gives a bit of her personal ex
perience: “I ran over and killed a
small pig. A small negro boy at the
nearest house was asked to see ii
the pig belonged to hi s people as 1
was willing to pay . . . He came hack
and said, “No‘m, hit aint our pig.”
'Well I said, whose pig is it?” He
said, “I don't know whose hit is, hut
I think hit b'longs to that ol' gray
sow out there.”
“HOTZIGGETY!”
“As the drip, drip, drip of a drop
of water wears away the stone, so
constant intercession—not to say
nagging—over many, many months,
at long last brings me the new pic
ture staring at you. Long ago I
cleaned out of our picture morgue
every one of those aged mats, re
producing the likeness of the Honor
able Stephen Race. I'd begged, plead
and prayed with the dignified gentle
man from the Third for a new pixt,
No bites. Then I went to the Light
of His Life and she promised that
before cotton picking lime, Her Man
would visit u photographer. So in the
mails tbit week comes the new mat
of Brother Steve, and again he oi
his likeness reposes in the morgue
for future eventualities. . . . ON OR
BEFORE or soon after July 25th
every paper in the Third will front
page the full cut, a part of which
adorns this column today, for Steve
must register for the primaries us
his own successor by that date. As
of this week, he won't be opposed.
. . . Two recent “fishing” expedi
tions failed to result in enough bites
to warrant opposition. Steve hasn't
officially, but will in due time.”
The above is from the pen of our
clever, good friend Lovelace Eve,
Editor of Americus Tri-County
News, one of the best newspapers in
the Third Congressional District, or
any other district in the state for
that matter. We, too, are proud ol
having recently come into possession
one of these splendid likenesses ol
our affable and able congressman.
UESLKSS SORROW
THE STOREKEEPERS
Those who are past middle age
can remember when the kindly
neighbor whose job it was to sell the
necesssities of life was known as the
storekeeper. The name was quite ap
propriate. He bought a stock of
goods, hung out a sign, sometimes,
and waited for his neighbors and
friends to drop in and buy.
Later on, his son inherited the
business, if he had not gone to the
wall, adopted a slightly more ag
gressive attitude toward the secur
ing of trade, and called himself a
merchant. Here and there a venture
some soul began to really study busi
ness methods and actually plan for
greater volume and a wider • trade
radius. Some became real business
men anr reaped rich rewards.
Later still, the department store
and mail order house came into ex
istence, followed by the chain stores.
lit spite of these revolutionary de
velopments, however, thousands of
independent merchants are making
money today. They are doing it thru
adopting scientific methods of buy
ing and selling, thru the employ
ment of systematic accounting, thru
a study of their customers’ require
ments and thru advertising.
But a great many spurn such new
fangled ideas, and stay in the rut in
which their forefathers ran their
course. They are headed for bank
ruptcy and don't know why. But to
anyone with a fundamental knowl
edge of modern business practices
the reason is plain. These failures
are not business men, nor even
merchants—-they' are only storekeep
ers.—Americus Times-Recorder.
Mahogany trees are giants of the
forest; they grow to 150 ft. in height
and range from 3 to 7 ft. in diame
ter The first limb may he 50 to 80
ft above the ground. The price of
the lumber into which they are made
requires a giant pocket-book to be
obtained.
Jn a campaign designed to give a
several million dollar boost to Geor
gia's tourist income, Warm Springs
Junior Chamber of Commerce of
ficials have disclosed that preparation
for a state-wide advertise Georgia
movement are well under way. Con
gratulations, Jces. it takes the spirit
of youth to put things over.
When the occasion arises, as it
frequently occurs because of the ex
ceeding popularity and prominence
of the editor of the Wrightsville
Headlight and Bast President of
the Georgia >I'ress Association, the
Savannah Press prints a picture
purported to be that of Charlie
Rountree, but more nearly the like
ness of one who came along during
the dark ages. The fact is the gen
tleman from Johnson county is a
respectable looking man and by his
many fine traits of Christian char
acter holds the reins of power in
his hands when the time comes for
seeking office. We predict, that in
spite of the injustices done him by
the Savannah newspaper, CharLie
will represent the 16th senatorial
district at the next session of the
Georgia legislature.
FACING A REAL EMERGENCY
(By Gus Hall) From the Macon Telegraph:
The other day a young woman No man in public life is less likely
came to me for’ a few comforting to yield to war hysterics than Sen.
DEMOCRATS IN GA.
READY TO RALLY TO
DONKEY TAG DRIVE
words 1 localise her father, an old Walter F. George, but the dialing■
man, lmd died. She wept as she uished Georgian, who is a member of |
talked about how kind and consider- the important finance and foreign
ate he was, how she missed him, how affairs committees of the upper
lonely the world would be without chamber, comes forward with the
him. But the deepest agony of her suggestion that the government take
grief came when she talked about immediate steps to increase our air |
how cold and dark the grave was defense to 25 thousand planes and j
and how terrible the thought of the that 10 thousand pilots should be |
dissolution of the body of her be- trained as rapidly as possible,
loved father. The whole thought This is one clear note of warning
seemed to be that her dead father that we must prepare against all j
was imprisoned up there in the eventualities in a world of war mad- j
cemetery on the hillside, locked in ness which may have repercussions in ,
the vault of his burial place, feeling the most unexpected quarters. In oui j
the cold and darkness of a slow fancied security we must not wait,
loathsome dissolution. j for the cry of “Hannibal at the |
Such sorrow is useless sorrow. In gates.”
the first place, because death after Greenland, a Danish possession,
a long useful life is a part, a neces- lies to the North, and from South
sary part, of the eternal scheme of America conies a reminder of the far I
things. If it was not for death, life flung interests of the European na-
would lie a hell on earth. If oeoplo lions now at war in a dispatch which
did not die, there would not be s8 y S a Ferman merchant ship has
standing room on the face of the been scuttled by its own crew in
earth for all the people, and the Dutch Guiana. The Dutch island of
world would be filled with masses Curacao is still nearer our own shore.
of crawling helpless old people— | ,
blind, deaf, unclean, and without i Experts are beginning to make it
hope. No housing program could clear that we are in a deplorable
take care of a situation like that slate of unpreparedness, in spite of
and hunger would drive the whole the large sums of money recently
race mad. It is necessary that peo- \ voted for the army and navy. Wo
pie die for the good of themselves , are told that all but a few of our
and all those that are left behind. I airplanes are obsolete. The navy is
Atlanta.,—.Every loyal Democrat'
Georgia is being urged to wear'd "
ing the week of May 18 to 26 n
little red donkey on a tag ( ,f L h<
and blue that wil 1 show that th**
have come to the aid of their
to return it to power in th„ 1
, .. lne mm
i lection.
May 18 will be officially known
Democratic Donkey Tag I> a y an(j
being held in every county j„ y.
state under the auspiceH of the W*
men's Division of the Democrat!,
1 arty organization in Georgia.
Mrs. J. A. Rollison, of Wa
But we bring on ourselves useless
sucering when we get the wrong
conception of death and what it
means. As you stand at ,the bier of
some loved one the profound impres
hardly large enough to guard the
Pacific from any threat on the part
of Japan, whose naval power is in
creasing every day.
At the beginning of the war in
lycrns^
is preisdent of the woman s divisioi
but the drive for party funds thrt
the donkey tag sale is being directed
again this year by Mrs. R. L. Tumi.i,
of Atlanta,, chnirman of the tj nanc(
committee.
Assisting Mrs. Turman will be Mi,
Nina Pate, of Hawkinsville, and Mi,
Lewis Waxelbaum, of Macon,
of the finance committee.
Congressman Hugh Peterson ha
accepted the chairmanship 0 f th,
donkey tng sales in the District
Coumbia, under the auspices nf m
Georgia Society,
Each year on May 18 a drive fa
funds for the national democrat*
party is conducted over the
and the 1940 campaign in (Jeorgj*
will be conducted in a new and in.
proved manner, according to Mu
Truman
sion that you get is that the ego, Europe the army existed largely on i
the personality, the real self of hhat paper. In theory it consisted of nine
loved one has vacated the body; army corps, each composed of regu- 1
warmth, animation and life—all have lar army units, national guards and
departed and nothing is left but the corps troops.
discarded body. | As a matter of fact, according to
That little girl that you lost, and one authority, there were only
whose body lies in the grave on the enough regular army and.national
hillside under the flowers of love is guard units to make up four or five
in, more there than she lives in the corps troops, which are the army's
little dress that hangs in your closet, skeleton, to make a full complement
We should quit saying that our ,01 ' one corps,
loved ones have died and that they i H I s disquieting to learn that last
have been buried in a grave. We September the army possessed only
in a
think of death as the end of life.
That i» not so, for nothing dies;
even the elements of our material
bodies are immortal. Death is only a
form of change that we do not yet
understand; such are the teachings
of all religions, the dictum of Science
and the dream of poets and seers. I
When we are bom, we come into
this life crying and dismayed by the
awful change that has suddenly come
to us and we are afraid. Gestation i
and birth are a series of experiences 11 mote, hut with one of the British
by which nature provides us with a commonwealths lying along our
material body thru which the light' north border for more than 3 thou
of the spirit shines. The body may Kand m,le8 > and the Possessions of
die and be placed in the cold dark onp or an °ther belligerent scattered
grave, hut the indwelling spirit of , a11 over the Western Hemisphere it
that body goes somewhere else to a ^oB> to flout the possibility of a
new form of life. j cr ‘ s ' s -
We think of death as the end of ' M ' S ' eaSt likely to come if we are
f.li things—that it means dissolu- ! plel>ared for ll and cool-headed men
171 fixed anti-aircraft guns. The
British use that many to defend one
manufacturing town. Since the war
' began 100 additional anti-aircraft
guns have been ordered and these
would just about defend New York
! city.
| The army appropriations bill, re-
' cently passed, included only 25 mil
lion dollars for this important branch
of the service . . .
The chances of attack may seem
means
turn and decay, hut that cannot be so
because the same cosmic force that
brought us here is immortal. This
force will lie standing guard at the 1
end of life to lead us forward and i
upward in a new experience. This I .
life impulse is as old as the stars, | 'J' U ° e ~V. Va 0,1 ’* une Thanks to
benign in nature, the giver of all J J “'° r 'J' or Chism for invi-
that is sweet and good and beautiful i 1 " 1
in this life; whose store of bless- "
ing will never be exhausted in the
like Sen. George and Representative
Vinson must be supported in their
demands for every aid to national
defense.
Pelham plans for a mammoth to-
present.
“Last year we experimented, are
found it good,” said Mrs. Turmai
“This year we are experienced don
key tag salesmen. Our party row
hack, to the people. Our efforts ii
this campaign will mean much valj.
able service to the party in a tin
when it needs it most.
“Let's pledge one day's sere*
to the party” Mrs. Thurman i s urg
ing' all democrats in the st
"These red donkeys on the tap
stand for the party of our fathers,
the party of the South. We
everyone who loves party and want)
to see it return to power to have
opportunity to contribute during del
key tag week.
The goal for the entire state h
been set at $3,600.
ROBERT L. RUSSELL
G ETS EN DORSEMEN T
FOR NEW JUDGE
Washington.—Robert L. Russ
brother of Sen. Russell (D-C,a)
reived today the endorsement
Georgia senators for appointment
a proposed new federal judgeship
the state's northern judicial
trict.
The choice was announced by S
George (D-Ga) who said he i
Sen. Russell had agreed to the i
fit ion of the second Atlanta jud
ship.
Previously, Sen. Russell 1
blocked the establishment of
judicial post, advocating instead
creation of an additional district
the state.
Farmers cooperating in th
Triple-A farm program over
lion received 660,610 tons c
and 136,736 tons of phosph
grants-off-aid.
endless life of change
tliat is to come.
and growth
It is said that the only book among
5,500,000 now in the Congressional
Library at Washington •< positively
known to have survived the burning
of Washington by the British in 1814
has just been restored to an hon
ored place inthe Library through the
generosity of Dr. A. S. W. Rosenbach
noted collector and dealer in rare
hooks and manuscripts. This book is
a handsome folio entitled “An ac
count of the receipts and expendi
tures of the United States for the
year 1810. Stated in pursuance of
the standing order of the House of
Representatives . . . Washington: A.
& G. Way, printers, 1812.”
No appointment has yet been made
to fill the judgeship vacancy in this
district caused by the death of Judge I
C. Frank McLaughlin. Gov. Rivers ;
seems tobe acting extremely cautious :
in the matter. But with such splen- j
did material to pick from in the I
names of those mentioned in this
particular don't see how he could go I
amiss by closing his eyes, turning i
around a few times and placing the j
crown on the head of the one near- i
est the point of his stop. Those un
der consideration, it is learned are:
Hon. George C. Palmer, former so- I
licitor general; Columbus City At
torney William de L. Worsley and
Attorney William A.Leonard. i
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