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Strong: editorial expressions ot
opposition to dividing the state into
i sections, naming them North Geor-
1 gia and South Georgia, as was done
" in the Carolinas and the Dakotas, by
Entered at the Post Office at Butler, ^ ^ .j. Anderson of the Macon
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second j ele{rrap y, i alu l Mr. E. B. Braswell,
The Butler Herald
Eatabished in 187ti
TOR BUTLER HERALD, BUTI.BR, GEORGIA. JUNE C, 19-10.
ANDREW COLLEGE DRIVE
A HARD BLOW
Glass.
Chas. Bonus, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
The capitulation of Belgium comes
as one of the worst blows of the war
to the Allies and one of the most
surprising events in a series oi
amazing developments. It comes nt
of the Athens Banner-Herald, meets ! a time when hopes had begun to be
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Bill Biffem in Savannah Press:
“Athens is to stage a barbecue for
the visit of James A. Parley. Hope
they do not insist upon Mr. Farley
partaking. Yankee,) don't like bar
becue.''
Ralph McGill in the Constitution
discusses how to combat criticism of
the South. To combat criticism of
Georgia alone strikes us as a whale
of job, if done succen 'uil.', says the
Cuthbert Lender.
Whether he likes the minister's
sermon or not, every man who
claims membership in a church
should attend the church as often as
possible. It isn't very fair to the
church not to do so.
We agree with one of our ex
changes which says: “A good way
of increasing your prestige among
your fellow employes is to offer them
suggestions freely concerning meth
ods of improving their efficiency.”
with the hearty endorsement of at
least seventy-five per cent of the
people of the state.
Traffic enthusiasts throughout the
nation have centered their admiring
attention upon the accident reduc
tion record of the state of Georgia
...” says Future, national maga- i
zine for young men, in a biographi-1
cal article on Maj. Lon Sullivan, j
commissioner of the Department of j
Safety. Commissioner Sullivan sj
leadership in traffic prevention work i
won him a spot in the magazine's
“Today's Young Men” column.
Human life is about the cheapest
thing in the world that doesn't carry
a bargain price tag. But the v.ay
life is being snuffed out these days
we are beginning to believe that the
tags are considered more valuable
than life itself, in some quartets and
with some people at least. And next
comes whipping of mer and women
by organized bands, which has conn)
to be a stinch in the nostrils of fair
minded, law-abiding citizens.
Press and people have been saying
many fine things about the recent
horse show in Macon. We saw no
special mention of the Eatonton
young man Editor Tom Gregory
proposed to enter in the show.—
Madison Madisonian.
A Cornell University physical
scientist declares that there is no
immediate likelihood of coal, oil or
electricity , being supplanted by
U-235, the miracle substance with
which chemical science has unlocked
the secret of atomic power.
Irvin Kass in the Thomaston
Times asks: “Have you ever stopped
to think just how many boundaries
you live within—for instance: Mili
tia district, city, county, state, zone
country, hemisphere and planet?’’
Terribly restilaiining, itsn't it?
Want a home? Uncle Sam is said
to have on his hands for disposal
78,0-lX) of them, taken over from pri
vate owners who were unable to
meet their obligations to him. The
great majority of these belong to
the Home Owenrs Loan Corporation,
set up in 11)33, as a stop-gap in a bad
credit situation when foreclosures on
private homes reached a peak of 1,-
000 a day.
“The way to convince another is
to state your case moderately and
accurately. Then scratch your head,
or shake it a little and say that is
the way it seems to you, but of
course you may be mistaken about
it; which causes your listeners to
receive what you have to say, at d as
likely as not, turn about and try to
convince you of it, since you are in
doubt. But if you go at him in a
tone of positiveness and arrogance
you only make an opponent of him.
—Benjamin Franklin.
From John Spencer's column in
the Macon Telegraph: “Leopold, the
historians say, dropped Belgium's
alliance with France in 1936 because
he had Hitler's promise that Ger
many would always regard Belgium
as a neutral and then, 18 days after
that promise was broken, ordered
his soldiers to lay down their arms
on Hitler's promise that he (Leo
pold) would be restored to his
throne when the fighting was over.
Ehat qualifies him as the world's
No. 1 Easy Believer.”
The Albany Herald finds much in
Georgia to praise: Pretty good old
state, this Georgia of ours. Plenty
of shortcomings. Awfully stubborn
about some things. A lot of our peo
ple get a little careless at times in
the matter of law observance, and
maybe some of them are a little
careless also about going to church.
Still, the decent, average of citizen
ship in Georgia is pretty high and
you'll find as many charitable folks
per one thousand of population in
Georgia as you'll find anywhere.
Georgians love their state and have
laith in her future, even if they do
fall off the water wagon occasional
ly and maybe sell a few votes in
elose elections.
Congratulate is again ’o Editor
Rush Burton of the La'omn Times
for his notable "brary edition, is
sued last October, lie na3 been cited
by the American Lihraty Association
no win session in Cincinnati. The
award was one of two Georgia cita
tions, the other being for a folder
completed by Miss Ella Mae Thorn
ton, state librarian, in which she
listed book of special Georgia in
terest. Editor Burton's special issue
of some 25,000 comes was widely
distributed and proved an invaluable
aid to the library movement not only
in Georgia, but was nationally rec
ognized as evidenced by this deserv
ed tribute from the American As
sociation.—Hartwell Sun.
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Study any man who is a failure
and the reason for it may easily be
found. He may be lacking in energy,
purpose, vision and a definite goal.
He may be a careless or sloppy
worker, never doing anything thor
oughly or well. Whatever the reason
he will seek an alibi. He will lay-
failure to some cause outside him
self. Here lies his greatest weak
ness. He should look the facts in the
face, admit that the fault is with
himself and proceed to put his own
house in order by correcting one
fault at a time. Any man who will
iook the facts in the face and cor
rect one fault at a time can change
his lot from futile failure to pur
poseful, and worthwhile, and satisfy
ing accomplishment.
The Georgia Department of the
American Legion is to ire congratu
lated upon its winning first place in
the nation in percentage of increase
in membership. By winning first
place, Georgia Legionnaires are en
titled to lead the parade at the com
ing national convention. The Georgia
Legion shows a membership in
crease of 140 percent over last year
a gain of 18,000 members or 6,000
more than the quota assigned to
Georgia. The Second Area, or Second
district of Georgia has led the state
in the membership increase and by
that token is to lead the parade at
the state convention.—Tifton Ga
zette. The Herald joins the Gazette
in extending congratulations to Le
gionnaires of Georgia, also those of
the Second Area.
Charlie Rountree, Editor of the
Wrightsville Headlight, calls atten
tion of his readers to a Serious sit
uation with which lawabiding citi
zens o f this state are confronted,
and one that should be remedied:
"There are road houses, dance halls
amusement dives and things by r oth
er names too unsavory to mention
scattered along the Georgia high
ways that are operating mostly-
against the laws of the land and
mostly too, against the laws of mo
rality and society. They ought to be
stopped. The very idea of such
things being tolerated out in the
open country by the roadside, naus
eating every decent motorist driving
by and stopping for a tank of gas
nr a cold drink or a lunch. About
the first thing you see is a “gal"
with a cigarette in her mouth, pok
ing her chin out at you. It is a
shame to a decent state and sets up
a growing condition from bad to
worse. The people should rise up in
a body and demand the authorities
to stop them. It is a sickening sight
and a damnable condition, Let’s see
if it can be stopped.”
high for the Allies and when the
world was fired with faith in the
trio of nations fighting heroically
against a common enemy. It is not
only the loss of men, the loss of
strategic ports, it is a telling blow
to the morale of the British and
French and even to the Belgians
themselves, for it is clearly pointed
out that this was a move of King
Leopold, made against the advice oi
his cabinet and without knowledge
of his allies.
Reaction in London is bitter anc
resentment is felt by Leopold’s owr
government in Paris, who disavow
tlie young monarch and declare they
will rally new forces to carry on.
The English regard the move as the
gravest blow of the war and speak
in no uncertain teims of Leopold's |
“treachery”. Already his name is
synonymous in England with that ot
Quisling, the Norweigan pro-Nazi
accused of Trojan horse activities.
Conjecture is rife, and while the
move of the King, at this early
stage, is regarded by all as one not
in keeping with the tradition oi
kings, especially of the king3 of the
Belgians, it is thought there must
be some factors in the picture which
have not been given out. Suggestions
that some terrible price mu it lave
been demanded of Leopold i: he re
fused are the kindliest Cifvtngj oi
exonoration. But the w > 11 finds i;
hard to imagine any fate which could
justify a monarch betraying his al
lies and upon'vrUv his own people.
Wo are also reminled ‘.bar, it has
not been the fate of nations capitu
lating to the Nazis to escape ill
tnatment.
l p to this time the worst which
ci lid have seen said of the Allies
war that they were slow to take up
ti e challenge ago. nst an aggressor.
Once their spirit was quickened, how
ever, they .manifested the qualities
for which their nations had been
esteemed. Belgium has had a tradi
tion to maintain and from the first
sympathy of the world has been with
her due to her fate in the last war.
And because of the late King Al
bert's noble defense of his country
to the end, Belgium has been un
questionably accepted as a staunch
ally. The disillusionment brings sor
row and bitterness to those who had
placed their faith in this nation. It
is rather an indictment of royalty,
of an individual, however, than oi
the Belgians, as Leopold alone seems
tesponsible for the fateful move.—
Savannah Press.
Friends of Christian education,
throughout the state and especially
in southwest Georgia, are sincerely
interested in the move to create an
endowment fund for Andrew College
at Cuthbert.
This institution, like many sucli
colleges, was heavily in debt several
years ago and there was some talk
of consolidating it with Wesleyan.
At that time the good citizens of
Cuthbert came to the rescue and
raised considerable funds which re
sulted in the announcement last
week that all debts of the institution
have been paid.
Now that Andrew is debt-free and
Wesleyan has secured sufficient
funds to pay off its debt, trustees of
the Cuthbert institution feel there
should be a helping hand from Geor
gia Methodism in their direction.
Andrew College has long- been a
credit to southwest Georgia and to
the Methodists of the South Georgia
Cnference. It has served the educa-
i tional needs of hundreds of the
I state’s finest young women.
Terre'l county citizens have an es
pecially close tie with the college
because many daughters from here
have received their education at the
school. Some of the most beloved
women we have are Andrew gradu
ates and are keenly interested in the
well-being of their Alma Mater.
By its location in rural south
Georgia, Andrew College has made
possible the education of many de
serving girls, who could not have at
tended a college in Atlanta, Milledge-
ville or one of the other schools of
the state. It is serving and will con
tinue to serve, the educational needs
of the young women of this section
and Georgia Methodists owe it to
their own daughters to give Andrew
College the endowment it so richly
deserves.—Davvson News.
WHAT IK) NEWSPAPER
FOLK DO?
Woes common to all newspapei
folk are related by one of our con
temporaries as follows:
“We met a man this morning who
asked us where we were going, and
laughed in our face when we said
we were going to work.”
“Work,” he chortled. “You all at
the paper don’t do any work. The
oliuy folks at your place that have
to work are the boys that run the
machines.”
Maybe he's right. We haven’t
vorked at a lot of other things
THE MODEL MAN
What we desire is that it may
said of us when that eventful day 0 <
transformation comes, as it must to
all of us, as did Rev. Mr. Culpepp^
of Zebulon, in the passing n f one if
tlie members of his church when ho
said:
"1 preached the funeral of a man
yesterday. He was in his eighty-fuw
year, small of statue, youthful of
fuce, white of hair. He was not a
man of material wealth or of KW
position. He was an average human
being, judged by common standards;
he was above tlie average, howev«
we‘wouuldn‘t'know,“but if the rest | from the standpoint of manhood. He
of the working folk of the world
have a muah harder time than the
newspaper folk, it's small wonder
that the world is as crazy as it is.
Before we finish this—in fact be
fore we get more than a paragraph
was neat in appearance, clean
habits, interesting in conversation, I
wholesome in his view of life, op. I
timistic in his outlook for the future I
winsome in his ways, kind!-,- in di s . I
position, full of religious faith, loy*; I
or so written-someone is sure to 11<> his church, devoted to his friend,
come in with something for us to do. “'’djeipful to the Me rf'hi, com ,
As soon as he gets in the door, the
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INDUCEMENT TO VOTERS
IMPORTANT POST FOR
COLUMBUS ROBERTS
Columbus Roberts, Georgia com
missioner of agriculture, recently
was appointed to an important posi
tion when he was named to represent
the South on a new four-man nat
ional committee of agricultural of
ficials.
In addition to Mr. Roberts, mem
bers were appointed to represent the
east, the middle west and the far
west. They will carry out a national
plan to coordinate activities involv
ing cooperation of state and federal
departments of agriculture.
The appointment of Commissioner
Roberts followed this dispatch of a
telegram to President Roosevelt,
pledging support of Georgia farmers
in the chief executive's national de
fense plan and declaring that “the
first line of defense of any nation is
its food and Georgia farmers can
help liberally in that and other plans
providing or the defense of the state
and nation.”
The selection of Mr. Roberts ai
one of the four members of the na
tional agricultural council is a trib
ute to the ability of the Georgia
commissioner. He is in close touch
with agricultural conditions not only
in Georgia but throughout the south
and is thoroughly qualified to per
form the new dutie: tr which he has
been assigned.—Columbus Enquirer.
Here is a prediction by a military
man that makes you shudder: Eng
land and France will keep on in de
feat until they forget civilization,
foregt humanity and right a total,
ruthless war with no rules because
that is the kind of enemy they are
up against.
Frank R. Kent: Almost overnight
the sentiment of this country
changed from a complacent belief
that we had no real stake in this
war to an uncomfortable conviction
that should the Allies lose, our po
sition would be both perilous and
painful.
From Tlie Ellaville Sun:
A former teacher at Midway school
in Schley county, H. W. Garrett,
editor of the Doerun Courier, is com
bining whimsical editorial appeals
and display advertising with a bar
gain subscription rate to gain sup
port for his campaign for the legis
lature, which does not reach Col
quitt county voters until September.
Five months before the primary,
in the last two issues Garrett has
used quarter-page display advertise
ments carrying his picture and
brief biographical sketch.
Twelve-inch spaces headed “Deer
Peepul” have offered The Courier to
all Colquitt county residents “from
now until Christmas for only 50c”.
Explained the office-seeker: “The
weather is warming up, the days are
getting longer and I’m going to need
a bit of money to carry on my cam-
>aign for the legislature.” Regular
price is $1.50 a year.
Closing paragraph of the cut-rate
subscription offer ad extended this
invitation, “Even if you don't mean a
word of it, you can drop in occasion
al! and give me a word of encour
agement. Shoot me a line worth a
campaign cigar.”
Garrett recently made political
capital of his town's regard for law
and order. When no resident of Doe-
run was accused in 63 indictments
returned by the superior court grand
jury, the veteran weekly editor wrote
in his front-page personal column,
I think this ought to help my cam
paign for the legislature. Because,
even if I am not such a nice fellow
myself, I live in a good town among
decent, law-abiding citizens and am
at least not exposed to any degrad
ing environments.”
Beginning a series of advertise
ments for three Atlanta hotels, Gar
rett confessed to his readers that he
was publishing them “every week
phone will ring. Either something
will have gone wrong, or there will
be another story to write and steer
through the tortuous maze of the
editorial pencil and the machines.
About the time we handle these
ietails, and get back to one-finger
ing a few more misplaced adjectives
out of a typewriter that won't spell
for nothing, someone will come in
to tell about his son, Absolom, who
is at present engaged in writing a
book on how to grow rutabagas.
About that time the phone will ring
again, and we will have to painfully
jot down the details of an ail ffes-
co party or something.
About the time we get ready to
step out and get a bite to eat, things
will really begin to pop. Like as not
the courthouse will be blown up, ora
Republican gets elected to something
in Georgia, or some other news
break of exceptional interest will
have to be handled. If it's nothing
more startling than Hitler taking
countries two at a time, it will hap
pen at lunch time.
Well, we skip lunch, and try to
catch up the loose ends of all the
things we have had to let slide dur
ing the morning, and get a few sto
ries written. Then, right after ev
erything gets to running smooth, j
up will come someone and inform
us that termites have got in the pa
per, and we haven't got anything
to print today's issue on. I
Finally by three o'clock we have j
got in our stories, chased the ter- )
mites out of the paper roll, placated I
a legion of would be bill collectors
salesmen, politicians and what have
you we may get a breathing spell—
for all of three minutes.
Business really picks up then. We
think we have been going hard ail
day, but ever.vtime we think we can
sneak off and breathe twice all by
ourselves business really picks up.
Finally about midnight we will
stagger home. *
Now of course we realize we have
not done a day's work. Newspaper
folk—and that means everyone in
the shop from the back door to the
front—may not work for a living,
but they sure have to toil mightily
to keep from working.
inunity. He was a Christian.
“This man undertook to make M I
show of himself. He was sincere I
humble, self-respecting, conscious of I
his inherent dignity without indicat- I
ing the spirit of vanity. He was able I
to hold his head up as more than a I
decent American, as more than a I
mere church member, as more than I
mere human being. He was able I
to look the world in the face in the I
consciousness that he was a man- I
a real man . j
"He was not merely a bundle of I
human flesh whose constituent ele- I
ments ordinarily are worth less than I
two dollars in the coinage of the I
land. He was intellect, emotion, and I
will. He was a human being in whom I
these elements were organized, de-1
i eloped, refined, intergrated into a
noble personality. As such a person. I
ality he was appreciated, esteemed
and loved. He was a satisfaction to
himself and to those about him. He
still lives and will continue to live
in the radiance of the helpful influ
ences that he set in motion. He also
will live on in the identity and in
tegrity of an immortal child of God.'
Ideals try our faith as though to
show us nothing is too good to k I
true. In noble ideals there is some
thing aggressive. They are not a;-
gressive like an army with gun and
spear, but aggressive like the ssn
which coaxes a June out of a winter.
All great truths are persistent. Each I
form of right is a growing form.-
David Swint.
Someone has said: “No generation
can ever see its great men. To each
generation all great men are dead.”
That is generally true and to be re
gretted. While a fellow lives, there
arc always those who exaggerate
his weaknesses and mistakes. The
good he does often fails to attract
proportionate attention. On the
other hand, some of those who were
takes and crooks during their life
time now have almost the rating of
gods. It isn't fair, but it's true!
Barnesville News Gazette.
The person who says the world is
growing worse, or that a general im-
for the rest of the year in payment I Pavement of conditions will
of board in advance” when he goes
to legislature in January, 1941.
Born in Marion county 55 years
ago, Garrett taught in rural schools
“on and off for four years” and serv
ed three years in the a'rmy before
coming to Doerun in 1914. He has
published and owned The Courier
since 1920.
The Atlanta Journal records the
darkest charge against Hitler: Who
tsat ever sought happiness has found
it or kept it? Blessedness is prom
ised to those who mourn and are
comforted, to the peacemakers, the
pure in heart, the merciful. But hap
piness is a lark singing in the sky,
never tv, be captured; a breeze blow
ing from the fragrance of secret
gardens, never to be bought. Yet,
does not happiness belong to youth?
When history's indictment of Adolf
Hitler is closed, it will contain few
counts darker than this: he blotted
out the song and the blue heaven of
millions of youths and trampled
I down the flower of their hopes.
come, have only to look around and
fee the wonderful amount of prog
ress taking place in Taylor county,
especially in its two chiefest towns
Butler and Reynolds—during the
past several months.. It is almost
marvelous how much in building and
civic improvements can be done in
so short a time. And the end is not
yet by far, according to reports.
Outsiders will do well to keep their
eyes open on this section.
3U-dgESS3-
ATTORNEY GENERAL
ELLIS G. ARNALl
Educated at Mercer and the Du 1 '
versity of Georgia, and experienced
as a practicing attorney, SpcaKt
Pro-Tem of the House of Represent
atives, Assistant Attorney Genera
and Attorney General, Ellis G. At
uall is by training and experieW*
well qualified for the post he hol»
Mr. Aruall has won 242 Import*®
eases for the State and lost only >
None of the 914 opinions renderea
by him has been reversed by W
court.
The Economy and EfM en “
Committee of the House of R*P“
scntatives reported that the Sts
Department of Law under Attorn'
General Arnall is “operating *■
clently and economically" 1
State Sennto by unanimous reso
tion praised the services ot
Arnall. The press and K cn ',
public have acclaimed the worS
this capable and energetic A ltor
General. ..
)I3y consistent achievement,
sclentious, courteous and effe
service, Ellis G. Arnall has g a
the right to a full term as Atto
General of Georgia.
One Good Term Deserves
LOCKHART BROTHERS
BUTLER, GA.
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