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ATE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER. GEORC, IA, JUNE 13, 1940.
t. Wilder Gives
Views on Old
Pension Plan
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Story of Postal
Service in Georgia
PAGE FIVE
Eugene Anderson in his interest
ing column “Around the Circle" in
the Macon Telegraph, records some
important facts In the early history
of the postal service in this state.
That gifted newspaper man who
edits Hugh Peterson's paper at Mt.
Vernon, Horace iB. Folsom, has
gathered from congressional acts the
story of Georgia's postal service
from the days of Joseph Habersham
appointed Postmaster General by
President George Washington, down
to the present day. It includes the
part Thos. E. Watson played. He
shows that in 1838, which marked
the llth anniversary of the U. S.
postage stamp, congress established
many horse and buggy routes, touch
ing practically every section of the
state. Among them were:
b rom Doctor Town to Holmesville
Ocapelco to piscola; Magnolia to
Troublesome; Holmesville to Doctor
Town; Doctor Town to Waynesville
via Pendarvis Store; Newnan to
Carrollton; Doctor Town, via Holmes
ville, Ocmulgeeville to Feronia; Lit
tle \ ork to Box ville; Jonesboro to
old folks j Rockbridge; Palmetto to Carrollton
their last days easier, thereby | ' ia Riverton and Chanceville; Thomp
.. their children of the bur- I s ° n to Lincolnton; Franklin to La-
f caring 1 for them so they may ,lage; Sewan *» via Mt. Vernon to
to live better themselves and i Jatt eground; Waresboro to Irwin-
(their children a better oppor- y ,ll e; Blakely, via Stanford's Store
in Miller county, Curry's Bridge, on
Spring Creek, and Hutchinson's Fer-
M . . - - . , r y *° Quincy, Fla.; Greenville, via
small sales ax of tvomomto Woodbury, Thundering Springs and
ercent, winch will not tax the . Tepid Springs to Thomaston EUijav
person more than 10c to 20o ] t Q j asper
eek and that be paid as 'they I _ '
vhich will never be missed. „ Columbus ' Vla ^mg Post Offic*,
now pay six cents state and £ u “ et “- to Gl ; e , en H,11 i Americus to
Holly Grove; Vienna to Vineyard;
Hawkinsville, via Lawson, Abbeville
and House Creek, to Irwinsville;
Newnan to Bowenville, Carrollton,
Bowden, Ga., Arbacoochee, Warren,
to Oxford, Ala.; Gainesville, via
Brown's Bridge and Coal Mountain
to Cumming; Clarkesville to Carnes
vill; Clayton via Huopee, to Illairs-
ville; Atlanta, via Gainesville, Sul
phur Springs and Carnesville, to
Hartwell; Lexington, via Wolfe Skin
to Watkinsville; Warrenton via Gib-
j son to Fenn's Bridge; City of New
York, via Savannah, Ga., Thomas-
ville, Tallahassee, Fla., St. Marks,
to New Orleans, La.; Forsyth to
Russellville; Boxville to Sugar Creek
Marietta, via Powder Springs, Salt
Springs, New Manchester and Camp-
bellton to Fairbum; Morgan, Cal
houn county, to Blakely, in Early
oney must be spent during the . county.
t month with receipts to show j Original spelling is employed in
it went; none of it to be j the above list. Many of the original
d, so as to make business locations and landmarks are easily
and no one shall hold any job I identified, despite the creation of ad
ition, if they draw a pension: - Ritinoal counties. Some names have
an old age pension, rather been altered; others have vanished
with the advance of modern methods
and latterday demand. However,
statement and comment will center
around the vintage of 1838, without
reference to scores of earlier and lat
er routes and officers in Georgia.
...ring the old age pension
bitten by Capt. J. W. Wil-
Griffin, Secretary of the Old
Pension Club of Spalding coun-
VVilder is known by a large
of Taylor county citizens!
(movement is on foot to get a
bin r° r o,(t P e °i lle P assed b y
egislature. Our county, Spal-
hus been organized and is
i) j do not know' as yet wheth-
county has been organ-
1,- n „ t I want to ask the people
t good county to get busy and
i pUt over this old age pension
proposition is to pay an old
sns jon and not a pauper pen-
| t0 anyone reaching the age, or
already reached the age of
l nn w that when you mention
for any purpose, people “go
the air” at once and say we
sed to death now. But con-
what a little extra taxes will
rds making the
old age pension program calls |
federal tax on gas and do
'iss the money, because they
Is they ride, and would pay
[to get to run their cars if they
ersnn has as little chance of
a job at 60 they have at 63.
people can handle money bet-
an others. They are the ones
usually have something in
[old age; others not so fortun-
• do not hold much to the old
that all people are born
If so why are some born
ssly crippled; others almost,
quite, imbeciles? That ought
my contention that all are
rn equal.
propose to pay all who are
a pension of $50 per month;
rings to that: they being that
paupers pension anyone can
such pension regardless of
al worth, just so he does not
position that some younger
might hold.
will pay the- same in this.fund
it to go to politicians as a
in each county whereby po-
scores may be paid off eating
ot of the money raised,
mean to handle these fund's
radically no expense by let-
our Ordinaries hand out the
as the Confederate pensions
ndled; he to certify to the age
eligible and place their
on old age rolls. A slight
would be paid by applicant
vh certification, etc.
tile over 100,000 are eligible in
a - to draw this pension. We
' put this thru our next" leg-
with the provision made at
I 'K> lor raising the money,
iban pass a law as we have
" provision to pay. So many
d to work do not get a cent
0 the political set-up in each
gets all the money. Let us
lo . Vou to vote against any
ute that is opposed to this
N| und out your candidate
•I'lcsentative and vote against
opposed to the pension.
>h- care of the old people. We
II "'uch more for them. They
1)0 E°ne. Then think of the
tundreds of thousands of dol-
U|d !ll, t into the hands of our
ll ‘t> and traders. Won't you
'“Iks, lets put this over.
a K f d know that we are for
" l | can take care of them
1 ml way than any other.
WlU also feel
i cl ° you sa y?
J- M. WILDER.
any
independent.
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^inters PAY
0 Taxes here
LL| US DO YOUR
PRINTING
(IT TIMBER WITH
CARE TO PREVENT
DAMAGE BY INSECTS
Evangelism Is Dependent
Upon Orthodox Christians
According to Bob Jones
County Agent W. F. Bembry this
week warned Taylor county farmers
not to practice careless cutting of
pine timber during the coming grow
ing season, in order to prevent heavy
damage from insect infestation.
“Farmers should be particularly
concerned with the Southern pine
beetle, the deadliest and most preva
lent of Georgia's forest pests,” the
agent asserted. This insect thrives
on trees that have been weakened by
fires, and when they once attack
this timber, dead trees are inevit
able.
A healthy, fast-growing tree might
survive an attack, but one whose re-
sisance has been lowered by the ef
fects of fire, drought or mechanical
injury has no chance whatsoever, he
added.
Mr. Bembry said that a tree cut
here and there in the woods during
the late spring and summer serves
us an attraction to beetles. But the
pest docs not stop there, he added,
since there are no other down timber
to feed on, the insects go to adja
cent standing timber for food.
The agent further warned that
care should be taken by all landown
ers to spare the axe in the forests as
much as posible. Although the cut
ting may be on only one man's farm
he pointed out, the damage spreads
to the farms of adjoining neighbors.
We receive many letters and con
tact many people in all parts of the
country who hear our radio messag
es and read our editorials in The
Fellowship News, and * who also
read our syndicate articles that go
out weekly. In this article I should
like to visit with the practical-
thinking, orthodox Christians re
gardless of their denominational af
filiation. Recently we chartered un
der the laws of Tennessee the Gos
pel Fellowship Association, the pur
pose of which as stated in the char
ter is “the promotion of harmony
and peace among orthodox Christian
regardless of their denominational
affiliation and the uniting of these
orthodox Christian in an effort to
get the Gospel of the grace of God
to as many as possible in the short
est time possible.” It is the sincere
honest opinion of the writer, after
an experience of many years in evan
gelistic work in many parts of the
world, that programs of evangelism
in our church must be carried on to a
great extent by individual orthodox
Christians. Ecclesiasticism is inter
ested in itself. We have built in
America and throughout the world
church machinery which is a burden
on the people. It takes not only
time, but money to hold up the house
which ecclesiastical leaders have
built. It takes very little money to
evangelize. An individual Christian
in his contact with individual sin
ner can tell the -Gospel story. There
are enough orthodox Christians in
the United States to get the Gospel
of the grace of God to every man,
woman, boy and girl in this nation
inside of five years if we would con
centrate on this effort rather than on
the effort of taking care of our ec
clesiastical house and machinery.
The writer is 56 years old. He does-
not know how many more years of
service he will have, but the Lord
helping him, he proposes for the rest
of his life to unite as far as possible
individual orthodox Christians in all
parts of the United States and other
lands in a harmonious effort to tell
the Gospel story to a lost .world
The church cannot save people. If
the church is ever saved Jesus Christ
will have to save the church. In an
effort to “church people” we have
counted heads instead of hearts. On
ly a small percentage of the church
members of America have ever been
converted. Unconverted men and
women cannot do the work of God.
Men cannot deliver the goods unless
they have the goods to deliver. You
can'tpump water out of a dry well
It is impossible to he religious with
out religion and no man can be a
Christian unless he has Jesus Christ
enthroned in his heart. In our syn
dicate articles we have made no
appeals for support of any cause
which we have represented. In this
article the writer is making a defi
nite appeal to evangelical orthodox
Christians to unite with other ortho
dox Christians in getting the Gospel
to as many people as possible in
the shortest time possible. If any of
our friends wish literature concern
ing the Gospel Fellowship Associa
tion, we shall be glad to supply it.
Just write Dr. Rob Jones, president
of the Gospel Fellowship Association
Cleveland, Tenn. This association is
a corporation not for profit. Any
real honest-to-goodness, genuinely
born-again Christian man or woman
can hold membership in this asso
ciation. There are no membership
fees. —Bob Jones.
TREUTLEN FARM AGENT
APPOINTED GEORGIA
EXTENSION FORESTER
LIBRARY NOTICE
Beginning Monday, June 3rd, the
Library will be open from 9 to II
a m and from 3 to 6 p. m. each day.
Eva G. Byrd, Librarian.
Director Walter ' S. Brown this
week announced the appointment of
L. W. Bberhardt Jr., Treutlen coun
ty agent, as forester for the Georgia
Agricultural Extension Service to be
in charge of demonstrational work
on projects set up under the recent
Norris-Doxey act.
Mr. Eberhardt will have tempo
rary headquarters in Athens. Part
of his time will be occupied with the
demonstrational work in Taylor and
Atkinson counties, the two Georgia
projects coming under the Norris-
Doxev act. The remainder of his
time will be spent in forestry work
in cooperation with H. C. Carruth,
Extension forester, and A. H. Shir
ley, cooperative naval stores agent.
The new forester has been Treut
len county agent for 18 months. Pri
or to that time he was assistant
county agent of Emanuel and Ber
rien counties. He specialized in for
estry and is a graduate of the Uni
versity of Georgia.
Many Georgians Placed
On Who’s Who List
Macon, Ga., May 2»—'Thirty-eight
Georgians have been added to the
list from this state in the 1940-41
volume of Who's Who in America
that will lie published this week.
Twenty-nine Maconites, in former
editions, also are included.
Additions to the volume include
Judge Blanton Fortson of Athens;
Abit Nix, Athens; R. T. Jones, edi
tor of the Constitution staff, Atlan
ta; Mil wee Owens, editor, Augusta;
Asa Singh ton, brigadier general U.
S. Army, Ft. I’enning; J. H. Cheat
ham, manufacturer, Griffin; W. B.
Gibbs, congressman, Jcsup, and A.S.
Camp, congressman, Newnan.
Macon persons listed are Wm. N.
Ainsworth, Dice Anderson, W. D.
Anderson, W. T, Anderson, W. E.
Atkinson, W. A. Bootle, W. J. Brad
ley, J. B. Clark, Spright Dowell,
Warren Grice, J. E. Hall.
W\ A. Harris, C. C. Haroid, E. M.
Highsmith, C. B. Jones, F. L. Jones
W. G. Lee, R. L. McKenney, O. A.
Lark, J. H. Porter, B. D. Ragsdale
Joseph Roberson, T. E. RyaU, K. B.
Tupper, Blanton Winship and North
Winship.
FARMERS URGED BY
COUNTY AGENT TO
SAVE GRAIN STRAW
Taylor County farmers would do
well to save grain straw during the
threshing season for its many uses
on the farm, in the opinion of Coun
ty Agent W. F. Bembry.
“Farmers each year let hundreds
of tons of good straw go to waste
when it could be used to great ad
vantage for livestock,” the agent
1-ointed out. “Straw- is quite palat
able, although it is not very high in
feeding value for farm animals.
“With the increasing livestock
numbers, there are many ways to use
good cereal straw,” Mr. Bembry con
tinued. “Each winter many farmers
buy roughage that is lower in feed
ing value than straw, yet they fail
to save straw from the grain
crop.’ ’
If not needed for feed, straw can
certainly be used for bedding and
help conserve losses of stable ma
nure, the county agent said. Thin or
galled spots in cultivated fields and
pastures can he rapidly improved by
covering them with straw. In this
way, he stated, erosion is reduced
and some needed organic matter is
added to the soil.
“Straw either baled and stored in
the barn or put in large stacks to
prevent spoilage from weather, can
fill a large part of the roughage
needs,” Mr. Bembry explained. “It is
quite acceptable in helping to feed
heifers and dry cows during the win
ter months.
“A use for straw can always be
found on a farm where there is
livestock,” the Agent added.
OUTLOOK GLOOMY FOR
SCHOOLS NEXT FALL
POISONING WEEVILS
WILL ADD DIVIDENDS
TO COTTON INCOME
Boll weevil control in production
of cotton will provide extra money
for farmers who carry out poisoning
schedules along with other recom
mended practices in producing quali
ty lint, County gent Bembry said
this week.
"Experience of farmers and ex
periment station results show that
two or three pre-quare applications
of freshly mixed molasses and cal
cium arsenate mixture will kill most
boll weevils that live over w-inter,"
the County Agent explained. The
mixture should be made in propor
tion of one pound of calcium arse-
r.ate, one gallon of water, and one
gallon of molasses,
If a good job is done w-ith the
sweetened poison, a good crop of
cotton may be produced if the weath
er is hot and fairly dry, he continu
ed. Further poisoning, if necessary
should be in the dust form.
Mr. (Bembry said it will pay to
poison cotton after squares begin to
form if the infestation is heavy,
provided the land is capable of pro
ducing a sufficiently high yield to
make the increase profitable.
Georgia Editors Will
Visit Savannah After
Session In Macon
Atlanta, June 4—Things don't look
f-o bright for Georgia schools for the
1940-41 term next fall. At least not
to J. I. Allman, president of the
Georgia Education Association, and
State Supervisor of School adminis
tration, who said the incoming gov
ernor and the Georgia legislature to
convene next January would face a
situation calculated to give them no
little concern.
The state already is indebted to
school teachers in the sum of $4,-
000,060—long past due—and funds
:n sight are only for a term of four
and one-half months next year, Mr.
Allman said. Finances this year
1939-40, ran almost $2,000,000 short
of needs, and only diversion of oth
er funds enabled the schools to ope
rate for six months and one week in
sofar as state pay was concerned, he
added.
CHEVROLET SALES RECORD
FOR MONTH OF MAY ABOVE
SAME MONTH LAST YEAR
Detroit, June 6—Retail sales fig
ures fo rtlie last 10 days of May and
also for the month as a whole, were
announced in Detroit last week by
Wm. E. Holler, Chevrolet general'
sales manager. They showed sub
stantial increases over the same per
iods last year, and the final 10-day
figure was one-third higher than
that for the previous period.
New car sales for the month total
led 92,764 passenger cars and trucks
Mr. Holler said, a gain of 20.1 per
cent over May, 1939. In the final 10-
day period, Chevrolet dealers re
tailed 35,761 new cars and trucks, a
27.6 per cent increase over the same
period last year and a 38.8 per cent
gain over the lgure reported for the
second 10 days in May this year.
Increases w r ere also registered in
used car sales, he said, a total of
187,765 units being sold during the
month. This represents a 19.2 per
cent gain over May, 1939. In the
final 10-day period, 76,254 used cars
were sold at retail, a figure 33.5 per
cent ahead of the preceding 10 days
and 30.1 per cent greater than the
same period last year.
Savannah, June 1.—Plans are go
ing ahead very rapidly for the com
ing to Savannah of the Georgia
Press Association in August. The
editors are to come here from Ma
con.
Plans for the 1940 Georgia Prees
Association moved forward with an
nouncement of a three-day instead of
four-day meeting.
Details of the convention are being
arranged by President Roy McGinty
and Secretary-Manager Jim Seymouf
conferring with W. T. Anderson of
the Macon Telegraph and News, who
will be host to the editors in Macon
Aug. 22.
The convention will open in Macon
Thursday afternoon, Aug. 22, accord-
Lg to present plans.
Late Friday the publishers will go
to Savannah for a Saturday of enter
tainment at the seashore.This means
the visitors will be here Saturday
and Sunday. Some will remain even
longer.
After discussing general policies
of the convention May 17, the board
of managers placed details in the
hands of the president and secretary
manager. Conferences with Macon
and Savannah newspapers in the
next few weeks will work out defi
nite plans.
Under the present plans the pub
lishers will stay in Mercer Universi
ty dormitories during their Macon
stay thru co-operation of the officials
there.
Mr. McGinty and Mr. Seymour
will come Here tomorrow or Sunday
to confer with local newspaper peo
ple and J. D. McCartney, assistant to
the receiver of the Central of Geor-
j g:a Railway, relative to the visit of
the press association.
HOTEL LANIER
Macon, Georgia
Conveniently Located
Excellent Cafe
Rates $1.50 and Up
CRAWFORD COUNTY
FOXES PLENTIFUL
Macon, June 5—Crawford county
has more foxes than rabbits, says G.
M. Bailey, and some half-fox-hal f -
dog animals can be found.
Mr. Bailey found three of the half
breeds near his home Tuesday. Only
three weeks ago, he ran a female
fox to a tree stump and found seven
male pups, whch he brought to Ma
con for friends.
“The foxes have about eaten up
all the rabbits and now the dogs
have nothing to chase but foxes,”
Mr. Bailey said. “After every rain
we have a fox hunt.”
About 1,700,000 farms, or 25 per
cent of all farms in the United
states, had high-line electric service
at the beginning of this year.
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HORIZONTAL
1—Nave
4—To desire
9—Favorite
12— S. American native
13— Pertaining to moon
14— In the past
15— To absolve
17—Grief
19— To trifle
20— Lever
21— Frank
23— Extremely
24— To call forth
27— To prevent
28— Gambles
30— Ireland
31— Conjunction
32— Stiff winged insects
34— Symbol for tantalum
35— Saxon serf
37— Gaseous element
38— To rent
39— Sows
41— Musical note
42— Box
43— Climbing plants
45— Woddland deity
46— Wrinkled
48—Discoverer
51— Poetic: old time
52— Heron
54— Age
55— High note
56— Prepared
57— Candle
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2— Fairy
3— Trade
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7— Jardiniere
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10— Self
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18—Rants
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21— Musical instruments
22— To analyze
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25— Child’s toy (pi.)
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32— To obscure
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36—Western state
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40—Taunt
42—Container
44— Margin
45— Sympathy
46— Bishopric
47— Cloth measure
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50— Knock
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