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THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER. GEORGIA, MAY .in, 1940.
,f Columbus
Decades Ago
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TOP
(By W. C.
(c Kelovv is the first of a
f ar ticle» by guest column-
1 prepared, at our request
" p all [ M. Munro, of the Co-
pul,Ik schools, who was
rh.u-r his own subject. He
L, interestingly on tho sab
Cnlu ml)U8 four decades ago.
T.)
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,l!v Paul M. Munro)
v Nineties
|lbU4 i„ the decade, familiarly
"tin' nay nineties" used tc
e front neighboring Ceorgia
abanK1 towns and counties
'* visitors who came to shop
e „joj the general pleasures
city . It was in the days ol
r! r' S Carpet House where lit-
bo ys impatiently waited for
ammas to see all the beauties
E( | therein and then maybe
I1C of the loveliness. Youthful
c was as quickly exhausted at
,y . Crockery Shop, spilling
to the street with lovely
at its strategic site on the
of 11th Street and Broadway
•jeclcd in these times by one
banks.
, s in the days when Gentry's
id Pony Show offered its
- to young and old Columbus
their country cousins of ail
[Remember how the monkey
partment used to be called in
n.uish the menacing flames
;rc consuming the dogs’ house
(treat show? Was it fact or
that a lion escaped from its
t one performance? Did you
; the last drop of what was
hy persuading your mamma
tickets all round for the con-
PAGE FTVE
Fishing Season
Opens Saturday
Atlunta, May 29—What likely will
become Georgia's largest fishing
army begins its long march -, 0 the
streams and lakes Saturday w hen the
stutewide season opens.
This sport has grown in Georgia
just like it has in all other states
and before the end of the summer a
record is expected to be set not only
by liensed fishermen but by those
who attempt to sidestep the fee.
Wildlife division officials base
their prediction of a record season
on facts supplied by rangers working
in the North Georgia trout areas.
I he number of anglers visiting the.-e
streams this season is nearly double
that of any previous season, figures
show. Cold weathec was no barrier
to tlie invading fishermen, who again
proved that Georgia anglers still
should be recognize I as the most
“You Can‘t Eat
Your Diploma”
in
By Zeke Carsie
Southern Agriculturist:
Well, we have again come around
to the time of year when thousands
of boys and girls will be handed a
diploma to show that somehow or
other they have managed to get thru
high school or college.
A diploma is a fine thing to have
as a sort of keepsake and as proof
that you have done, in a manner, a
certain amount of work in a school.
The proud owner soon finds out tho
that a diploma aint fit to eat or to
give protection from the weather,
and that a banker wont lend a dime,
on it.
The work done in getting a di
ploma is time wasted if it don't
make a person able to learn more
and easier, work better and live
optimistic, as well as the most hardy I finer life. The right sort of educa-
°f tribes. j tion is like a walking cane or crutch
Altho there have been hundreds ! lo a lame man—a fellow might make
seeking big trout and others fishing j out without it ibut he can move
in private lakes right on thru the faster and easier and more corn-
period set aside for spawning, the I fortable with it. Education is kinder
great multitude have wailed for the bike religion or insurance because its
big circle around June 1. This date j sumthin you can do without, but it
brings on the full season, with no aint the safe thing to do.
holes barred, except, of course, those j We have to pay a good price for
outlawed by the statutes.
Conditions are described as tde./t
as a whole over the state. Creeks and
rivers have cleared, and unless there
are heavy rains in the meantime,
they should be productive of large
catches. The power company lakes
Df North Georgia, which have been
open during the olf season, are near
ing their normal level and fishermen
education, but we have to pay a still
bigger price if we don't have it. Doin
without it costs more than havin it.
A lot of knockers and gloom spread
ers like old Polk A. Long and N. A.
Pickel and Hap Hazzard and some
others of my nabors is always kickin
and talkin about the school tax and
tlie high cost of education and such
like, which aint no more than is to
New Auto Tags
To Shine at Night
Atlanta, May 28—Georgia will
iave a be-dazzeling auto license tag
in 1941.
Georgia will be the first state to
experiment with a tag of several
colors with letters and numerals,
similar to reflector highway signs
which shine when the lights of an
approaching car strikes them.
This was revealed Monday in an
article written by Supt. G. A. Fisher
of the Georgia state prison in the j
Tattnall Tattler, prison publication.
“It might be well to say a word
about the auto tags for 1941,” Supt.
Fsher writes. "We will be the first
of the 48 states to attempt a new
process in this a tag in several col
ors with reflectorized letters. We
are pioneers in this field and hope
to be in others.”
The new tags will be slightly larg
er and will be in five colors and the
lettering will be larger. Yellow nu- j
literals and letters will be on a field
of bright blue. The Georgia peach
(also much larger next year) will
shade from a dark red to a yellow-1
ish red, with a green leaf on the
stem. I
believe the big ones will be hitting be expected of them and their sourt
pn the surface within a week or two. I who wants to live in this day of
There has been comparatively lit-1 modern things but dont want to pay
tie fishing for bream, bass and cat- | anything for it. They are the sort
ltd Forty-Nine
v Island and the Atlantic City
alk are tame nowadays as
ed with our Broadway' in the
:1 frolic of street fair season.
I merely the difference be-
line years of age and 49 ? We
e provinces or the tall tim-
hat you will—threw confetti
Sned all-day-suckers, and
bed balloons with the city
hat wasn't all. In the crowd
,mmed the street-court Satur-
ivn home was nothing to this
of folk—my younger but
brother's red balloon burst
eer congestion. As the balloon
with a bang Bud set up
K so loud that the family
jonged for the ancestral open
of Putnam. Our Buena Vista
urbanized for his lamenta-
iing the error of Bud's way
1 my blue balloon thru the
the milling crowd, at the
and on the excursion night
hack to the old home town. 1
that Idue balloon until it
’a.v to nothingness. Those
e days.
5U remember the rubber balls
ndd be so cleverly manipulat-
the rubber string attached?
was—nine years old and 99
■only one dimension and that
ttmference—I made enticing
number one for those rubber
mt was not all. Other mis-
so struck me. A great stout
mRJ'be a native daughter—
a " Alabamian—who weighed
111 pounds to to my small
H-' (I was the Buena Vista
' v of that era) met me on
’madway just after our Sam-
had returned from a great
o' l- r tl:o wooden bridge—so
r k°ast back home of our
-'■irated thus at my avoir-
are fat. You must be
P" ■'b”'v. Don't you weigh a
, ’b hke a varmint?”
[ " dl ''lows hurt yet—long af-
nnpact of the rubber balls
a nostalgic memory.
School Picnics
oinday school picnic was in
Kiiowlton’s Mill was
lur such an event. Ida
"'oal care was a little
" 1 1 uai, hut the real stuff
„ 11 Wildwood Park. Na-
b daughters pay sincere
'be lake, the swings, the
,,Jt if you want the real
‘ lltu Just take it dow
urbanites—coming in
■‘I excursion—.plenty
><Jar d and glass
fish. The short season before April
15, when the 45-day holiday began,
was so cold that few persons ventur
ed out even to their favorite holes.
With warm weather, though, the
urge has struck hard and tackle box
es ave started playing tunes around
the house.
The fish that didn't take advantage
of the spawning period—and there
are thousands of these—will have
to raise their families around hooks
lines and sinkers.
Arrests made during the closed
season have resulted in many claims
that “we didn't know we had to have
a license and that the season was
closed,’ C. N. Elliott, wildlife direc
tor, said that rangers have been in
structed to carry on an unrelenting
campaign against persons fishing
without licenses. He likewise asked
all sportsmen to report violators us
ing nets, seins and baskets. These
that wants to drink at the fountain
without ever doin any pumpin and
wants a free pass to ride the train
of prosperity and always wants to
eat at the free lunch counter of com
munity progress.
The wav it looks to me is that it
aint the cost of education and schools
that is hurtin this country and the
tax payers, but it is the COST OF
IGNORANCE and CRIME that is
makin the load hard to carry. Our
banker, Will B. Wize, says it takes
$2,000 a year to keep a man in the
state prison where he is put so the
lives and property of other folks will
be safe while at the same time most
states is just payin the pitiful sum
of $30 to $40 a year for each one of
our children in the common schools.
And the school and home and church
is the place to plant the seeds of
good citizenship which will later on
bear good fruit and keep the jails
game hogs, he declares, are depriv- i ar| d pe ticlear of folks,
ing the hook and line and rod and
reel anglers of the greatest outdooi
sport.
I
of
. - »««., pistols
" ' of red candy—and the
ey rilie °ut thru the
an event!
Itu- f p° Unty folk bad our
1 01 ( ' olu n>bufiites. One of
What
iarion
city
our citizens had come up here to
live and was bringing up a family
a pretentious house. Mr. X ini ti
ed his old Marion county friend to
spend the night with him after bus
iness prevented his return on the af
ternoon train. Early next morning
the host hied away to the butcher s
for steak and to the grocery for
eggs and butter—all done up in city
• Our teacher, Prof. Add Vance,
says that 92 out of every 100 pris
oners in the state prison aint never
been past the third grade in school.
That ought to be enuff argument for
any person who has half-way good
judgment. That fact should even con
vince my nabor, Will Bungle, who
knows less about more different
things than any other feller in our
country. It'd be as eazy to sell him
a good idear as it would to sell an
ice box at the North Pole.
One of the fine things about the
present age is that most any young
ster that has a good supply of grit
ar.d backbone can get an education.
It is like it was when the report got
out that our assistant teacher, Miss
Ima Payne, had decided to marry a
‘struggling” young lawyer. Roe
Tate, my feller school trustee when
ite heard it, said that if she had
made up er mind it wouldn't do any
good for the young feller to
struggle. So it is a matter o.f young
style. His guest came on back home , bblese <] a y S making up their
and reported to the countryside that minds about the ques ti on of gettin
old X had gone to the wall, no meat
in his smokehouse, no hens and no
cow'—his family was subsisting out
of paper sacks.
Familiar Sights
Some, things seem quite familiar
as to location an;, vac -the station,
the court house, the downtown
churches. I think the wooden lady
now on First avenue not far from,
the courthouse was one of the girls
around then. No doubt she used to
come boldly and handsomely up the
Chattahoochee as the prow of some
vessel from the Old World. Forty
years brings many changes but our
old man, Chattahoochee river goes
rolling on. To see the wonders of
the city along its Georgia side close
to its fall line was tlie greatest
event of my boyhood. “The Song of
the Chattahoochee” charmed me
then Yes, four decades have passed
but like Die Lorelei, the music of
the river still intrigues me. Yes the
,-iver and my life go rolling along
together.
to make the cow set on had a one
sided education—if any., The kind of
training that gives folks swell head
is mis-education, regardless of the
mass of facts and figgers that they
may of got stored away.
They have FAILED whether their
grades show it or not. They may be 1
in the same fix as the old boy at
college who flunked and wired to his
brother as follows: “Have failed on (
final. Prepare father.” His brother
wired back: “Father prepared. Bet-!
ter prepare yourself,” And if school |
o r college fails to prepare a person j
in mind and heart and body for the
big job of livin then it has not edu
cated—but just packed a lot of unus
able stuff into the boy or girl and
made em unfit for the big job of be
ing useful citizens.
In 1939 the farmer received about
40.5c out of every dollar the con
sumer spent for food, while the oth
er 59.5c went for transportation, pro
cessing, and distributing services.
No. t
(Solution in Next Issue)
HORIZONTAL
1—Destructive
6—Killed
11— North American country
12— Swallow-tailed flag
14— Near
15— Exchanged
17— Preposition
18— Viscount labbr.)
20— Handles roughly
21— Scottish: mark off
22— Turkish prince
24— Golf mound
25— Cereal grain
26— Sarcasm
28—Backbones
30— Employ
31— Ovum
32— Quenches
35—Scarfs
38— Shanties
39— Torrid
41— Nevada city
42— Unit
43— Marine deposit
45— Vat
46— Parent (coll.)
47— Titled widow
49— Prefix: again
50— Labored earnestly
52—Ornamental stand
54— Impatient
55— Drugs (coll.)
VERTICAL
1— Bluebeard’s last wife
2— Indefinite article
3— Small flap
4— Man’s name
5— Woolly
6— Supporting timbers
7— Dregs
8— Conjunction
9— Preposition
10— Warning
11— Underground cavities
13—Short letters
lfi—Payable
19—Locate
21—Curl of hair
23—Ventures upon
25—Hardship
27—Female ruff
29—Fondle
32— Stores
33— Crescent-shaped
34— Downpour
35— Exhibited
36— Becomes available
37— Staid
40—Anglo-Saxon money
43— Inlet
44— Mother of Apollo
47— Canine
48— To knock
51—Sun god
53—Earth goddess
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an education.
Of course, the young folks dont
know the need of education and col
lege training and such like, and cant
realize just how much interested
their* parents are in their welfare and
may not be like the feller said about
his weddin. He said he was late at it
—but no late enuff. Sometimes these
youngsters are late about gettin their
educations and has to get most of it
in he bitter old school of experience,
which is the only school a certain
class of folks will learn in.
Again we want to remind the new
and proud owners of diplomas that
education is a failure or at least only
a half-way job ff it dont teach folk
the value of work and how to do it
when the come face to face with the
proposition of earnin their hog and
hominy. The girl who asked how
they fed corn to hogs and was told
that they fed it to em in the ear
and then wanted to know which ear
wasnt but half way educated at least.
The young city feller who thought
they used the stool at the dairy barn
k AYING TAXES is just one of tlie
many essential obligations in the
life of a worthwhile citizen. The
$4,016,671' which this Company
paid in taxes for 1039 made us
far and away the biggest taxpayer
in the state. But it would take more than
that to make us or anybody else the
state’s best citizen.
In fact, having such a log stake in
Georgia’s welfare only serves to put us
on our mettle in all the other — more
aggressive, more constant, more respon
sive, more human — phases of citizen
ship.
It makes us keenly conscious that, as
an electric company and a citizen, wo
are honor bound to render tlie best elec
tric service it is in our power to give —
at rates that are reasonable by any ju
dicious comparison whatever.
It reminds us that to he entitled to
fair treatment from our fdlow-citizens,
we must be fair to ourselves; that, of
course, we should never intentionally
commit a wrong, hut if we should, we
must right it. This big participation in
our state’s affairs, in short, keeps us for.
GEORGIA
ever aware that our privilege of serving
Georgia al.-,o involves obligations to
Georgia —if we are to sustain the right
to our slogan: A Citizen Wherever We
Serve.
That same deep sense of responsi
bility does not disappear when you sep
arate us into 4,600 individual Georgia
Power Company employes and follow
us into the 5.“>5 communities we serve.
That’s why our employes throughout
the state, from management to laborer,
are good patriotic citizens and loyal
homcfolks in their own home towns.
'1 iiat’s why we patronize home mer
chants; keep money in home hanks;
advertise in home papers; try our court
cases, when they sometimes arise, with
home lawyers; call home doctors when
we are sick: belong to home churches
and send our children to home schools
— take a vital, vigorous, interested part
in all the forward-looking activities of
every town and city in which we live
and work as citizens.
The taxes w T e pay are really only an
entrance fee — letting us into the broad
field of Georgia - building opportunity
which true citizenship represents.
COMPANY
YOUR HOME MERCHANTS
ASK YOU TO "BUY AT HOME"