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THE BUTT.EE HERALD, BUTLSR, GEORGIA, MAY 30, 1940^
The Butler Herald
Established in 187<i
Entered at the Tost Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Glass.
Chas. Bonus, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
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A man was injured on a public
works job. After a lap.se of several
CONGRATULATION’S TO OUR
YOUNG GRADUATES
weeks, the foreman saw the injured
man's small son and inquired as to
when his daddy would be able to re
turn to work. The little fellow re
plied, “I don't think he will be hack
any time soon, ‘cause
has set in."
If Gc rmany wins what next may
ibc expected ?
‘‘Why grow old?" is asked. That's
the very thing we are fighting like
dear life to prevent.
With the approach of June both
the weather and state politics are
getting hotter and hotter.
From what we know and can learn ,
of him, Governor Rivers made an
other tine judgeship appointment
when he designated Judge Gardner,
of Camilla, to succeed Judge John B.
Guerry, on the Court of Appeals
bench, the vacancy being caused by
fatal injuries sustained by Judge
Guerry two weeks ago while enroute
to Washington.
Politicians, like the Allies, seem
slow to begin the political battles,
and whether or not it proves to be
wise strategy remains to be seen.
Some hard fighting is expected, but
it will he with ballots instead of
bullets. Prospective candidates are
For what it means to so many of
our young people we welcome this
the most important season of the
year—Graduation time with all of
ompensation ps fre-h Inspirations and the great
j challenge to graduates to go for-
j ward with what they now have as
possessed knowledge.
These graduates will go out. into
the world to shift for themselves and
will find a cruel old world of vicissi
tudes, i reverses and dark days, yet
other times of grandeur, success and
achievement but all demanding cour
age that is indispensable in meeting
responsibilities.
It is well to listen to platitudes
and idealisms, but there is no time
to waste on worthless things. It is
THE CONFLICT IN EUROPE
time now to emphasize common
sense in religion, ami other practi
cal things.
These newly graduated boys and
girls here in Butler and Reynolds,
as elsewhere, aproach great 1 respon-
ibilities. They are to become our
The conflict in Europe furnishes a
fertile soil for many predictions as
to what is going to happen in the
future. Regardless of the immediate
outcome of the war, no matter who
wins nor what are the terms of the
treaty of peace, it is certain that
Europe is going to he demoralized
and will face as critical a situation
i.s during the war. In some respects
■ pace itself may be more disastrous
than war.
War has the faculty of centering
the thoughts of the people on a sin
gle object. It unites a nation and
subordinates everything to the pur
suit of a single objective. Not so
with peace. Unfortunately, peace
seems to release all energies and
give rise to differences of opinion ami
contnding movements and factions
that instead of unifying a people dis
rupt them. The revolutions that
came to Russia and demoralized that
LAMENTATIONS OF
PESSIMIST
WERE AMERICAN
INDIANS JEWS?
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sending out all kinds of informal i citizens upon whose shoulders fall
Don't be ashamed of your job or
the size of your business; be proud
and earnest and the people will re
spect you.
John 13. Wilson does not want to
be Governor. So here's one fine sec
retary of state who ain't goin' to be
ruint.—Savannah Press.
Do you remember w h e n
stereoscoptican views of a semi-nude
body sitting in the blue room couch
were considered naughty?
The Soperton News, which has been
edited by Mrs. Uubye Flanders since
the death of her husband W. M.
Flanders, sveral years ago, has been
purchased by James M. Law-ton.
If newspapers were no cleaner
than many of the popular and wide
ly read books they would probably
be denied admission to the mails
and to many homes that read with
interest the dirty books.
We congratulate our good friend
Hon. Rush Burton, editor of the La-
vonia Times, who on Monday was
honored in resolutions adopted by
the American Library Association
for his “Library Edition” published
last FalL.
Out of a field of twelve candidates
W. I. Flowers, well known Adel citi
zen and farmer, was recently elected
Ordinary of Cook county in a special
election called for the purpose of
filling the unexpired term of Judge
A. A. Parrisli who died several weeks
We have received notice through
the mail that one fellow wants to
run for governor but ain't got the
money. He ought to be in the news
paper business, then he wouldn't
have the money nor a desire to run
for anything, says the Crisp County
News.
An interesting feature in the
Cochran Journal is “Dear Mom and
Dad,” a column by Val Adams Jr.,
who i.s, at present, on an extended
tour of the United States. His com
ments on various places of interest
are well written and well worth
reading.
notices, knowrt as “feelers”, but for
tunately the press of the state has j
finally to refuse to act as their re-
connoitering planes. We have fallen
for much of such propaganda, but I
thanks to those who have shown us
the light.
Charlie Rountree in his Wrights-
rille Headlight pays the following
leserving compliment to a newspaper
man of many years' experience: To
al! of his Georgia newspaper friends
and to thousands of the people of
the state it is a great pleasure to
know that Hon. W. S. Kirkpatrick
has become the state news editor of
The Atlanta Journal. The position
places Kirk at the head of the news
paper copy desk of this metropolitan
daily. Kirk was associated with The
Atlanta Georgian for 2G years and
every newspaper man in the state
like him. He was managing editor of
The Georgian when it ceased publi-
ation. The Journal has one of the
I est in the country at its director's
iesk.
the burdens of government. It if
theyi in whose hands the future o!
America lies. Let us hope they wil
not have lived and labored in vain.
THE WAY OUT
Man is of few days and full ol Attorney Victor Davidson
trouble. He laboreth all the days of ton, historian for recreation,
his youth to pay for a gasoline hook describing the Indians „f 0 |
chariot, and when at last the task is gia and South Carolina and Alai,
finished, Lo, the thing is junk and he in such detail, its market \
needeth another. reached one hundred dollars,
He planteth grain in the earth and putting it out of reach of most
lilleth it diligently, he and his sen-
ants and his asses, and when the
harvest is gathered into the barns he
oweth the landlord eight dollars and
forty cents more than the crop is
worth.
He borroweth money from lenders
pie who might want it, But
Dr. Samuel C. Williams edited a
print under the auspices of the \
tional Society of Colonial Danies*
Tennessee; and now copies can
had at reasonable cost.
The theme of the book is
10 !>ro»
to buy pork and syrup and gasoline that ihe Indians of North Air.ei
and the interest eateth up all that
he hath.
He begets sons and educateth them
to smoke cigarettes and wear a
white collar and Lo, they have soft
hands and neither labor in the field
nor anywhere under the sun. The
nation and imposed upon the people children of his loins aie oioiy ami
one of them becometh a lawyer and
If we knew just exactly when we
were going to die, the day before,
we‘d write a piece and say just what
we thing of some folks and publish
it. The reason we don't do it anyway
is because we don't want to know-
just when we'll die, says J. R. Ham
in his Crisp County (Cordele) Dis
patch.
The Herald agrees most heartily
with Brother Shytle, of the Adel
News, when he says that the Gover
nor is right in his effort to weed out
those in Georgia not in thorough
sympathy with our institutiuos and
afl that is American. If there are
those here who are not in full ac
cord with us, let it be known and let
them be deported at once. But let's
take good care of the foreigners in
our midst who have become real
Americans.
Not only present and former stu
dents of Andrew College, but friends
throughout the state of that most
excellent school for girls at Cuth-
bert, feel that much of the praise
being extended that institution not
only because of its thoroughness
and religious influence hut on ac
count of it recently becoming free
of debt for the first time in 60 years
is largely due President S. C. Oliff,
who as given the best of his years
in faithful and efficient service to
the institution.
Referring to Col. Charles Lind
bergh's recent radio address in
which he took occasion to criticize
President Roosevelt's efforts for
preparation, much to the regret of
those who appreciated him for ac
complishments, the Thomaston Times
expresses the views of many of us
in the following: “Of course Col.
Lindbergh has the right of free
speech although he at one time
gave up his rights a sa citizen ol
this country when he moved to Eng
land and possibly other countries in
Europe. However his remarks are in
bad taste now and will not accomp
lish anything better than to further
discredit him in the eyes of Ameri
can people. A pitiable sight indeed
is one of the world's one-time heroes
have gone sour."
Hon. J. I. Allman, president of
the Georgia Education Association,
who on Tuesday evening, of this
week delivered an able address to
the graduating class of the Butler
high school, does not paint a very
rosy picture of the school outlook in
Georgia for 1940-41 when the term
opens next fall. With the state al
ready indebted to school teachers in
the sum of approximately $4,000,000
—long past due—and funds in sight
for a term of only four and one-half
months next year, he said the in
coming Governor of Georgia and
the new Legislature to convene next
January would face a situation cal
culated to give them no little con
cern. He said the school finances this
year, 1939-40, ran almost $2,000,000
short of needs and that only diver
sion of other funds enabled the
schools to operate for six months
and one week insofar as state pay
was concerned.
The Columbus Ledger speculates
m what might happen—if: If Ger
many should win the European war
and then seize Allied possessions in
Greenland, Canada, Bermuda and the
West Indies, they would be at our
front door and within a few hours'
striking distance of the American
mainland by plane. Europe today is
our last frontier against attack—it
is a defense behind which we should
prepare with all earnestness to pre
clude making our coastur-i our line
of defense. The present war has
graphically revealed the power and
mobility of aggressors It has shown
us the comparative ease with which
an enemy can strike at great dis
tance with telling effect. Poland was
the first example; then Norway; then
the Neterlands; then Belgium; then
France, and next it will be England
itself. After England, what next
unless this country is prepared to
combat the enemy before it reaches
^ our shores.
Hugh Howell, now regarded by
many people in all parts of Georgia
as being well out in the front in the
Governor's race, again shows his
keen insight into public affairs by
offering a clean, simple solution to
the school problem in Georgia.
Howell's solution is simply this:
When he is Governor, he says he
will pay teachers their salaries, if
other state employes are paid. If it
becomes necessary to cut salaries of
teachers, let the salaries of all state
employes be cut at the same 1 time
and in the same proportion.
“But,” adds Mr. Howell, “what
sense is there in 1 always cutting the
salaries of teachers, while janitors
in the Capitol are paid, regularly,
and in full twice each month?”
Truly, this is something to think
about!
Hugh Howell is capable of doing a
good job in the Governor's office and
it now appears that he has a clear
track to the mansion house as suc
cessor to the incumbent, Ed Rivers.
—Cartersville Tribune-News.
HAPPY MORON RELATES
“THE PERFECT STORY”
a communistic government, the riots
that ran through Germany and pre
pared the way for Hitler are but il
omens of what may happen to every
European nation after the present
conflict.
The economic system will be para
lyzed. At present ami during the
war every factory is keyed up to
wartime production. Change to peace
time production is not going to be
easy. The same thing may be said
of the economic system, of the edu
cational system and of the social
system. Civilization knows all toe
well the fact that the most devastat
ing hing about war is not the battle
scared forests and fields but the de
moralized communities that have to
meet more radical readjustments
than the human mind can incompass
in peaceful fashion.
There is something more, too,that
the mere demobilization of men and
machines. It is relatively simple to
give a soldier his discharge. It is a
vastly different thing to discharge
from his mind the bitterness, the
hatreds, the ghastly pictures of the
horrors he has witnessed during tha
conflict. To declare peace is not sim
ple within itself but it is far simple!
than to bring peace to the soldier
and to his loved ones back home.
That will be the greatest problem o(
the peace after the war. And we
may escape the war but not those
problems of peace. In being pre
pared to stay out of war we must
begin preparation to endure or sur
vive the peace.—Journal of Labor.
wore derived from the Jews and]
from the Chinese or others,
Jewish scholars are quoted m |, roo |
and also a long array „f
both before and after the time ( ,f,
researches of the author, j am
Adair. Indian dialects are analvn.
to show similarities with the ii P i ire J
religious practices and names a
another sticketh up a filling station « ho ' VI > t( * have Srown from the‘j fl
and maketh whoopee with the sub
stance therof.
The wife of his bosom flirteth with
a stranger and when he rebukes 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
libs project thru the epidermis.
He drinketh a drink of whoopee
juice to' forget his sorrows and liver.
All the days of his life it burneth
the lining from his timmy.
He findeth no parking place and
is tormented by traffic from going
forth till coming hack.
An enemy stealeth his car; phy
sicians remove his inner parts and
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 frying to keep the peace.
Sorrow and hill collectors follow-
eth him all the days of his life and
when he is gathered to his fathers
the neighbors sayeth: How much
did he leav?
Lo! He hath left it ail. And his
widow rejoiceth in a new coupe and
maketh eyes' at a young shiek that
slicketh his hair and playeth a nifty
game of bridge.
Woe is man! From the day of his
birth to the time when the earth
ish sources. How the Indians firs
reached the American shores Is
settled; in fact, the question is
lightly touched; but Indian traditid
is quoted: “The forefathers in
mole ages came from a far c|i sta ,
country, where all of the pM
were of one color. In time they
ed eastward to their present settli
ments, and after a contest in
ning, one group was polished whj
mother painted red and anotW
black.”
But the author ridicules that
allegorical, and foolish. Though
does argue that the Indians i
themselves red, by persistent
metics of grease and bark extri
In thime this took effect in the 1
er beneath the epidermis. The
der an Indian is. the more pleased^
is with himself.
The author says another,
more sensible tradition says the
dians of the Southeast aver ty
they came over the Mississippi fn
the westward. The western old ton
left by them verify this, it is clain
Chickasaw and Chickahominy inti:
according to Spanish accounts, can
from Mexico in quest of their bretl
ren, but those were killed by
French or sent back.
“All the nations of Indians s
to be of one descent,” says Adi
knoweth him no more, he laboreth ; who spent years among them as I
“The funniest newspaper story 1
c-ver redd is too good to leave out,"
says the Hawkinsville News and
Dispatch. It is reproduced by the
Happy Moron of Cordele, and why
Olin Miller, of the Journal, hasn't
used it is a mystery. Here goes:
We forget what editor the story
is told on, but he was one of the
biggest names in newspapering.
This editor was one of the many
that have very clear ideas of what
constitutes the perfect story.
One day the newest and rawest
cub reporter turned in a long, ram
bling story, and eventually it repos
ed under the eagle eye of the big
boy himself. He hit the ceiling and
issued a clarion call for the young
reporter.
After a brief and fiery description
of the young man's work, the editoi
relent enough to give the budding
journalist a few pointers.
“To sum up this matter of a news
story,” he concluded, “every story
should have reference to the Deity
a touch of royalty, and some men
tion of sex. In addition is perfer-
ably short and to the point.”
The next day the young reporter
turned in another story. His copy
read simply:
“My God,” said the young qu_
“take your hand off my leg.”
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Here's another from the same
source but only better:
Since we related a yarn the other
day about a young reporter and his
first story, we’ve been told, and have
read a host of similar stories. Some
were good, some were bad, and some
were medinary.
The best one is the story of a cub
who was sent out to cover a high
school pay.
The higjh school was one which
was located well in the backgrounds
and the play was one which suited
the locale. In fact the play was so
bad that when it came to writing a
story, the reporter couldn't find a
grfeat deal to say about it.
So he turned to the audience for
the bulk of the descriptive matter
with which he filled his yarn. At
one point he touched a new high,and
carved for himself an irremovable
niche inthe hall of fame for report
ing when he said:
“The auditorium was filled with ex
pectant mothers eagerly awaiting the
appearance of their offspring.”
THE GOOD OLD DAYS
Many who brag about the good
old days, the horse and buggy days
forget that a part' of the good old
horse and buggy days were mud
roads, no telephones, few bath tubs,
no rural delivery, no parcel' post, no
radios, no airplanes, people with ap
pendicitis died, there were no auto
mobiles, no picture shows, 1 no one
swatted flies, there were no mechani
cal refrigerators, hospitals were few
and far between. When the doctor
was wanted some one had to go af
ter him and he had to drive to his
case in a horse and buggy. Some of
the advantages of the horse and bug
gy days which, however, did not off
set the disadvantages, w r ere cream at
five cents a pint, six loaves of bread
for a quarter, the butcher made no
charge for liver, shaves were ten
cents, -there were few traffic acci
dents, few foreclosures, little unem
ployment, few bank failures, few
operations, no Hitler, no Commun
ists, no dictators.
The women of the state, for the
purpose of raising a large sum of
money necessary to conduct a suc
cessful Democratic party campaign
next fall,, are going to sell some sort
of a donkey tag, it is said, under the
slogan, “Don’t let the donkey do al!
the kicking—et‘s kick and help him
this year.” The quota for the entire
state has been set at only $3,600, it
is further announced.
The Georgia state highway board
is doing some interesting advertising-
in behalf of the state. On the back
of the envelopes used by the board is
printed the following statistics con-
carning the state's highway system:
“KNOW YOUR GEORGIA. Georgia
has 6,500 miles of paved highways.
Georgia has 47 miles of bridges and
114,193 miles in the state highway
and rural road system. Georgia owes
no bonds nor borrowed money for
funds spent in development of the
state highway system. 'Georgia has
an up-to-date Motor Patrol that
makes our highways safe. Industries
are awakening to the advantages of
fered by the State of Georgia,”
says the Americus Times-Recorder,
which is all very good; but, what
about our schools which are so great
ly in need of the support promised
us in the campaign speeches all over
the state two years ago?
for bread and catcheth the devil.
Dust he was in the beginning and
his name is mud,—From the Scrap
Book, and reprinted in the Fulton
Review. |
GEMS OF THOUGHT
t v ader. “They call many things
the same name in their various
lects.”
Adair thinks the separation
tribes came after they rea
America, and he notes their tnl|
customs and administration
with the Jewish. They even call
He is happiest, be he king or ' Great Spirit Jehovah, but spelled
peasant, who finds peace in his home ' pronounced backward. And of
Goethe. thirty thousand gods the anci^
’ j heathens created for themselves, l
Home is the chief school of human 0 ne is found among the Americanll
virtues. Channing. 'dians. Their only God is the Gaj
\
To Adam, Paradise was home. To
the good among his descendants
home is paradise.—Hare.
Pure humanjty, friendship, home,
the interchange of love, bring to
earth a foretaste of heaven. They
unite terrestrial and celestial joys,
and crown them with blessings in
finite.—Mary Baker Eddy.
When home is ruled according to
God's word, angels might be asked
to stay a night with us, and they
would not find themselves out of
their element.—C. H. Spurgeon.
“J. D. S.” in his Macon Telegraph
column, says that the head of the
research department of General Mo
tors is unable to find an answer to
Die question, “What is friction ?”The
columnist naively suggests that he
could find out what it is by attending
a meeting of the Georgia highway
board.
We may be too modern but we do
not understand why any one should
prefer the horse and buggy days to
the modern or present days. There
were few conveniences of any kind
then. The conveniences alone that
the modern age places at our dis
posal more than offset any fancied
advantage that the horse and buggy
days offerod.
Spirit.
Many historians and ethnolojit
say Adair wrote the most compl
history of the Indian people yet p
lished. — From Eugene Anders
column, Macon Telegraph,
the Circle'.
The Christian Science Mod
commends the work accomplished]
school teachers. It says:
mentally, teaching is giving,
those who teach with the most i
cess and constancy are those *
love best to give. The faithful*]
represented in uninterrupted
is a happy by-product of the i
mental attitude of the teachef|
Sandersville Progress.
One of the most dramatic mo
we have ever seen at a funeral]
uirred at the rites for Uncle ]
Vining yesterday. A long
of Gene Talmadge Uncle I'”'' 5 *
words were “Tell Gene I died dq
ing for him.” When the casket
opened for the friends of IncleJ
to view his remains, down the a
strode Mr. Talmadge, who no '
knew was within one hundred
With a bowed head he looked •
at the man who had fought so
for him these many years and
walked out. We know Uncle
would ave smiled had he he®*
Eatonton Messenger.
LOCKHART BROTHERS
BUTLER, GA.
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