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THE HITLER HERALD, BUTLBR, GEORGIA, JUNE 20, M
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France has fallen. What may we
next expect ?
Happy Moron's column in the Cor-
Icele Daily Dispatch is our idea of a
task well performed.
We wish that all dads could have
been as happy on Dad's Day last
Sunday as some dads we know.
The recent death of our old and
greatly beloved friend, Will W. Bru
ner, was another sad day for us.
Hitler in some respects is like the
Irishman's flea. The Allies don't
know where to look for him next.
Some men are born great, some
achieve greatness and the majority
do not trouble themselves very much
about it.
If things don't take a turn for the
better the world not only is not go
ing to be safe for democracy, but
also of little value for anything
else
Speaking primarily of the great
conflict across the pond: It is said
that the darkest hour is just before
dawn. Surely it must be almost that
time now'. No time has been so dark
gs now.
The entire nation was startled by
the announcement Monday that
France had surrendered her all in
the game of war against Germany.
What the final result will l>e no one
pan foretell.
Hon. Allen Chappell of Americus
who is a candidate for membership
on the Georgia Public Service Com
mission, was circulating among his
friends in Butler Saturday, adding
new supporters to the large number
already pledged to his cause.
News from Berlin is that Germany
is to kill half a million dogs, which
may be n relief to the dogs, if
they've heard it. They at least won't
be among the ones the world is go
ing to, according John Spencer.
And so Gordon S. Chapman, editoi
of the Sandersville Progress, is to
be Columbus Roberts’ campaign man
agers. Two mighty fine gents have
put their heads together, which wdl!
doubtless stir interest from thf
mountains to the sea.
For every man who succeeds after
quitting school in the grades to take
up a trifling job of work when ne
cessity did not compel, there are ten
thousand who have lived to regret
their folly in failing to get all the
education they could while they
could.
Tlie Madisonian came out on time
pnd just as newsy as ever despite
the fact that Billie Bacon was off
duty for a few days last week on his
annual fishing’ trip to South Geor
gia. All of which goes to prove that
we old birds “aint” so important
after all.
The communist party will be
Stricken from Georgia's election bal
lot this year, Attorney General El
lis Arnall indicated last week aftei
be received inquiries on whether the
name of the Communist nominee for
president will he allowed to appeal
on the ballot.
This remarkable calculation was
blade only recently by one House
member who is worrying about the
future: “We would have to take 85
per cent of the net income away
from all people who made income
tax returns to pay the running ex
pense of government this year.”
An ex-convict and a former mule
trader whose past also includes a
banking carrer, is riding the North
Carolina highways in a hell-bent-
for-leather campaign to become gov
ernor of the state which once put
him in jail He is chunky, bespectacl
ed Thos. E. Cooper, a little man
with big voice, one of a record field
of 10 entrants in the Tarheel guber
natorial derby.
8o well has he served his constitu
ents and ftbly represented this dis
trict in the national house that not
the slightest suggestion has been
ventured relative to opposition to
Congressman Steve Pace in the ap
proaching election. Congratulation,
faithful servant, say we.
The South will profit immeasurably :
from the national defense program. 1
Savannah will have one of the larg- j
est airports in the nation. Fort Ben- i
ning, Fort McPherson, Chicamauga !
and other military areas will be
training grounds for future soldiers. 1
—Jackson Progress-Argus.
George Elliston: There are some j
hours for which one waits all of a ,
lifetime, hours up dream's high stairs
hour that glows afar like the lighted
towers. The heart knows one of 1
these longed-for-times if at last it !
comes true. Hours like these are sa- |
cred; they are all too few. One of
these hours holds first love. The oth
er holds friendship's best.
If you are prone to procrastinate
you had better break yourself of
this habit when it comes to renevv-
ng your driver's license. For if you
don't you may be among the thou
sands of Georgia drivers who will
be forced to stand rigid driving ex
aminations this summer because
they put off renewing their licenses
before June .'!(). Take it from Safety
Commissioner Lon Sullivan—there
isn't going to be any extension of
the June SO deadline this year.
Hnery A. Wallace, U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture, has just made reply
to critics of his department's pro-
1, osai to make permanent its 3 1-2
cr cent rate of interest on farm
loans. Taking up the imputation that
the new Farm Credit Administration
will use soft or loose credit policies
he asserts that, “The land hanks—
several of them—have been dealing
in soft credit for years,” and asks
“If this is not true, why are 25 per
cent of the loans of the system de
linquent and why has it been neces
sary to foreclose on so many farm
ers ?”
Appearing on the front page, two
column measure, of the Washington
(Ga.) News Reporter, we read:
“Funeral services will he announced
soon at the office of the News-Re
porter for expired subscriptions to
this newspaper. Sendees will be re
gretfully conducted by the office
force. It is, however, not too late
yet. Tiie corpse may be revived by
the application of the subscription
price. The application may he made
cither at the office of the News-Re
porter or by mail.” The Herald an
ticipate? conducting a similar serv
ice.
The world spent an uneasy Sunday
and still today is in a daze of un
certainty about what has happened
and will happen in France, a repub
lic, with an army reputed to have
been the best in the world, which
has seen its country shattered in
the short span of time between Sep
tember and June. Premier Reynaud
loader who wanted France to fight
tc. the hitter end, has gone, and in
his stead stands the old soldier, Mar
shal Retain, who announces he has
made contact with the German gov
ernment to ascertain what the cost
of France laying down her arms will
be. The world awaits the answer,
realizing that at best it will be one
that will have its effect not on
France alone hut on other nations
striving to maintain democracy.—.Sa
vannah Press.
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Bator
The Cordele Dispatch comes in for
the highest commendation to be ex-
( pressed for it in presenting to its
I thousands of readers ami the public
j in general last week a special “Pic-
, torial Edition” published in tabloid
form of 21 pages, giving a general
synopsis of the manufacturing, in
dustrial, mercantile, civic, edueation-
| ul and religious interests of Cordele
j and Crisp county, beautifully il
lustrated throughout. A striking
feature of this edition is its state
ment relative to the county's owner
ship and operation of its tremendous
hydro-electric power plant, offering
cheap power rates to its patrons and
prospective customers, the one and
only plant of its kind in the United
States. We never think of this im
mense enterprise but that our mind
reflects and our heart made sad by
the passing, and in the prime of life
of Charles E. Brown, who at the
I time of his death was editor of the
Dispatch, and who for years previous
to his going away virtually spilt his
life blood in behaLf of this enter
prise. Praise and honor is due his
name for the great power plant, and
j to whom we always thought a me-
j morial shaft should be erected at
j Cordele. We hope it is not too late
yet to do so.
THE FALL OF PARIS
Paris has fallen!
In these three words is encom
passed more than the announcement
of the capture of a city; they mean
that into the hands of an enemy
whose every thought and act are re
pugnant to the standards of decency
has fallen the capital of a great re
public and symbolize as nothing elsi
could do the graveness of the dan
ger that threatens those principles
on which mankind has builded te
diously through the ages to insure
to the inhabitants of the earth lives
of peace, freedom and an unmolested
devotino to God.
Paris has fallen!
Beyond this lies what?Even today
r.s the news goes around the world
that this great city is in the hands
of the invader comes the information
tl-at other cities have fallen, that
the great line on which France
largely depended to hold hack the
force of invasion which would domi
nate the world with hatefulness is
under terrifiic attack. And the world
breathless in prayer, awaits the out
come. Right, founded on Heaven-
given principles, must prevail over
might as embodied in the Godless
hordes which swarm over fair lands
The hour is dark but with God's help
not hopeless. With the symbol ol
all she holds dear in the hands of hei
enemy Franco still keeps her cour
age and determination, and her ally
from across the channel hastens
more aid to her.
Paris has fallen!
What does it mean to this coun
try ? A quickening of the realization
that here in this great nation re
poses the highest hope that civiliza
tion shall not perish from the earth.
Other battles have been lost, other
cities have gone under,but something
stirs in the soul with the realization
that those forces which despise the
principles on which we have builded
this happy country are sweeping
aside the foundations on which in
tegrity rests across the waterand are
coming nerarer, dangerously nearer,
to the place where the whole earth
must tremble at the enormity of the
prospect of the ruthless crushing of
the liberties and rights of mankind.
The President of the United States
has raised his voice and might, the
people join in the determination that
if this country's resources can save
civilization by being sent to the Al
lies, delivered they shall he and as
fast as possible.
Paris has fallen!
And on the birthdate of the
American flag. Greater is the sig
nificance of the day. Sorrow’ for the
troubles of those who think as we
dc and a renewed faith in the ever
lasting structure on which our em
blem is based beat in our hearts as
we lament:
Paris has fallen!
—Savannah Press.
The Brunswick News believes in
the final victory: If we have faith, as
we have so oft professed, we must
know that the Cross shall ultimately
win victory over the swastika. For
the swastika has become the symbol
of all that is treacherous, all that is
brutal, all that is a lie, and an af
front to Christian concepts of hu
man decency and right. The Cross is
the symbol of truth. And truth must
prevail.
Congratulations to Folks Iluxford
of Homerville, inhis splendid victory
on June 12th over his opponent for
the office of Clerk of Superior Court
Clinch county which office he has
filled for several consecutive terms
Folks has many friends in this sec
tion who watched with much inter
est the outcome of the primary. It
is also gratifying to her friends in
this section to know that Mrs. Kate
C. Pafford was at the same time re
named without opposition for the
fifth term as Ordinary of Clinch
County.
C. B. iMcCrillar, editor of the
Millodgeville News, who is a lawyer
as well as editor and publisher,
would reverse the order of one af
ternoon a week holidays, and gives
his reason for such as follows: “I
notice where the Cartersville law
yers have agreed to close their of
fices on Wednesday afternoon during
the summer. The Milledgeville law
yers have been thinking about open
ing their offices just one afternoon
a week, thus turning the situation
around. We could well do in one af
ternoon the work that we get paid
for. Most of the rest of it is free
gratis for community betterment
and those few who don't do com
munity betterment free work just
don't do. Too many people seem to
think that lawyers should maintain
expensive offices just to accommo
date the public and most Milledge
ville lawyers are very accommodat
ing and do just that.”
UNFAIR TO CCC BOYS
From The Macon Telegraph:
We may at least extend congratu
lations to the enlightened members
of the upper chamber who supported
Senator George's amendment which
would have given military training
to such CCC enrollees as wished to
take the course.
We can well understand the im
patience of the senior senator from
Georgia when 47 of his colleagues
voted against this practical measure
of natinoal defense. As he pointed
out, military officers are stationed
at each of these camps and it would
not have cost an additional penny
to give the boys complete military
training, instead of merely instruct
ing them in such non-combatant
services as cooking, photography and
mechanics.
Senator Barkley said the opposi
tion to his amendment was because
it “involved the entire military poli
cy of the United States.”
Impartial observers have reached
the conclusion that it is high time to
make a change in the “military
policy of the United States” if, in
this hour of supreme peril, we are
to spend billions of dollars for na
tional defense and wantonly neglect
the opportunity to carry the CCC
enrollees to the highest point of mili
tary efficiency.
Senator George said it never was
his thought that we would organize
an army in the CCC camps, hut
elementary military training could
proceed “without gun and without a
weapon in the camp.” He took the
realistic view that if this country is
going to be carried into war we
might as well be ready to draft frotr
4 to 6 million men,
He indicated the unfairness to the
CCC hoys, themselves, in view of
Ihe possibility that they may be tak
en out of their camps and drafted
for rigid military training. If they
nad had preliminary exercise and in
struction in the elements of sucl
training they would naturally be just
:hat much further along toward the
efficiency which will finally be de
manded of them.
There is nothing more tragic ir
all the history of war than throwing
raw recruits into active service. The
casualties in- such circumstances are
literally appalling. It is therefore in
the interest of the CCC enrollees to
get the benefit of whatever prelimi
nary tanning may he available.
The proposal, he it remembered,
was simply to give this training tc
those who volunteered for it and yet
every day the possibility draws near
?r that they will he conscripted into
an army of millions of men with nc
choice in the matter whatever.
It would be a comfortable feeling
today if the four and a half million
boys who have passed through CCC
camps could have had this elemen
lary training and would constitute
today a vast reserve force which
could he more rapidly sent into ac
tion in the hour of danger.
There are only too many signs
that congress has not yet caught up
with public sentiment as to the com- j
pleteness of a national defense pro- j
gram and such blindness as that in- i
dicated by the defeat of the George ■
amendment tends to confirm the Hit- i
ter sneers at the inefficiency of de- j
mocracy.
Above his signature in his own
newspaper—The Statesman — Mr.
Talmadge, now a full fledged candi
date for Governor makes the follow
ing statement: "Some of my friends !
have been solicited for campaign
contributions in my behalf by unau-
| thorized persons. A few years ago it
j was necessary for us to send one
person to the federal penitentiary
for highjacking my friends. Any
time you are called on in my name
for campaign funds, be sure such
person is authorized to solicit funds
by letter, or some authorization. If
you are approached by anyone whom
you doubt, call me in Atlanta at
1800 Walnut immediately.”
The Atlanta Constitution cast!
some sunshine: War, for example,
seems to many the end of everything
Not while the fleece of clouds
marches in solemn majesty across
the azure of the heavens; not while
humankind instinctively picks the
good and despises the bad; not while
men give unselfishly that others
less fortunate in the turn of fate's
wheel may be helped; not while a
mother heavy with child can walk
arm-in-arm with her mate; not while
the beauty of flowers draws the pen
nies even of those to whom pennies
are gold. Look about you. Look at j
the most miserable shack. You'll find
there a flower, perhaps more flow
ers than you have in your own right.
Each flower in the garden or in the j
fields is mirrored in human hearts, I
indelibly, where even the lank and ]
dark days cannot erase their beauty.
Remember this when there are only '
the black clouds. i
IT'S SO HERN FOOLISH
By “The Happy Moron” i n hi a a -
ways interesting column in the (V
di-le Dispatch, writing under tv
head, “The Good-Boy.”
Every 'time we get a telegraphic
dispatch from across the water
get sick all over. It just seems
eternally silly to send millions 0 'ut
to die when there's nothing to di.
for. It deems so pointless that livi,^
breathing, intelligent men just
(lie ones who sit down with you f r
coffee, are being shot, gas J
boombed, fried, skewered, and blast
od because of u lot of apes in beau
liful uniforms have gotten up on
lot of porches and made speeches
that din't say anything.
We don't mind fighting
there is something to fight a jj 0Ut
No one does. The man or womar
that ain't ready to fight v.hen they
have to belong in the same category
as a catepillar. But the man or Wo .
man who fights when there isn't
reason belongs in the same jail wjy,
a burglar. Fighting is a matter oi
necessity only. And try ar we wif
search as we will, we can't find an
reason why all them fools across the
water should be so hell-bent to kit
each other.
We ain't a pacifist, and wc hop?
we're not a coward, i>ut we r.evtt
could generate any sympathy fur -.h<
guy who hits his finger with a hag.
met- just to show you he can stand
the pain.
Georgia school teachers, whose
pay has been extremely uncertain in
recent years, will play a consider
able part in the lf>4() primary for
Governor, as well as in local races
for representatives and state sena
tors for the coming assembly. While
educational groups may not func
tion as a political organization in a
formal sense, representatives of the
teachers will inform them of the po
sitions taken by candidates.
The Dawson News speaks thusly
of a worthy official: “The re-ap
pointment of Mrs. A. H. Thomas as
postmaster of Dawson, recently an
nounced by the Civil Service com
mission, is gratifying to the many
friends of the popular official. Mrs.
Thomas has made an outstanding
record during her 15 years of service
in her respective capacity, and has
been highly commended by the Post
Office Department for the efficient
manner in which the local office is
conducted.”
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