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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 1, 194ft.
The Butler Herald
Eatabished in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Chns. Bonns, Jr., Managing Editor
0. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
SUBSCRIPTION, $1.50 A YEAR
We doubt seriously that there is a
town in Georgia that has as well
behaved set of hoys of the teen age
as Butler, or another town where
such young men take so active in
terest in the civic, and so often in
the religious, affairs of the town.
We are genuinely proud of our boys
nnd young men. And as for the girls
of the same ages, we‘ll match ‘em
against the world at large.
This item taken from the Com
merce News is not intended for local
brides but June brides in general:
"The husband of the June bride is
probably gulping down biscuit that
didn't rise, using much weak coffee,
with burn toast, etc. The bride had
Such scenes as that enacted at better appreciate this for it won't be
Warm Springs last week when a fist j long until he will be demanding un
fight almost broke up a political ral- der a brow like a thunder cloud:
|y is little short of a disgrace on the
state.
Red suspenders, the political sym
bol for Eugene Talmadge, were first
introduced at Summerville, Ga.,
What in
is the matter with
the biscuit, toast or what have you."
Nor is this from the Thomasville
Press: “We don't expect to live al
ways, but before we shuffle off this
mortal coil we hope to see just one
^ _ . ,° n I blushing bride that song writers and
June IT, 1932 when Mr. Talmadge
spoke to a large gathering of farm-
“PROVE ALL THINGS — HOLD
HAST THAT WHICH IS GOOD”
From the Covington News:
As we view the great catastrophe
which has overtaken Europe we can
not but review in our minds the
misfortunes and trials which over
took the Children of Israel as they
drifted away from God and set up
false idols to worship.
The same thing might well be
said of the people in the Old World
today. This was brought out force
fully by a recent article by a fam
ous roving correspondent who was
just recently returned from first
hand observations of the war in the
various countries of Europe.
He speaks plainly and forcefully
of the conditions existing in the
countries in the Old World. He
charges Europe was decadent that
they were so busy squabbling among
themselves that they could give no
time to considering measures for
adequate defense. That while Ger
many was busily engaged in pre
novelists love to mention,
seen crying brides, laughing brides,
giggling brides, and serious brides,
but never yet have we seen a single
solitary blushing bride.”
We , ve I paring for war that the statesmen of
iurope were intent upon their own
ers in the interest of his first cam
paign for Governor.
Macon’s two splendid daily news
papers, The Telegraph and the Eve
ning News, are being congratulated wp " ever slt down to wrltp c °P y
for their determined and appreciated ! f° r this P a * e 0° u wl11 note tllat f
fight to clean up “jook” joints and | goodly portion of Rteby paragraph
clean up tourist camps which counte
nance immoral conduct.
From all reports it seems that
most of the candidates for major of
fices will conduct their campaign j a Etate of deep won der about it all
through a series of speaking engage-1 asking ourse if the question: “After
ments. Let us hope Butler will re- w ji] j( i )e read, absorbed and
ceive its full share of oratory thus I prove en j ova hl e and helpful—the
expressed. We would feel really hurt ' very thillg for which it is intended?”
if any of the candidates should slight pjditorials, to he sure are the product
ns - of all, the brains one who writes them
possesses, or the lack of it, for, be-
After motoring 3,500 miles through yond doubt, they are the soul of the
' '
squabbles.
He charges that the governments
of Europe did not give their com
mon millions either the ideals or the
machines to fight the Nazi and
Racist threats, and this is self evi
dent.
There is no doubt but that the old
rather than long editorials as ex- political and social orders were
plained to one of our readers recent- crumbling at their very cores. The
ly) but that there conies trooping i people of Europe had neither the
into our mind the names, forms and j wisdom, the courage or vigor to
features of hundreds who are to read stand against the new forces which
after us and, of course, we drop into
she can go on in the even tenor of
her ways and eventually be a potent
factor in restoring in a small way
the Democracies in Europe.
We must keep ourselves clear of
any entanglement and must purge
our nation from any semblance of
“fifth column” movement. There is
no doubt but that an attempt will be
made to demoralize this country and
possibly plunge her into war by the
activities of these foreign enemies in
our own country.
Only constant vigilance will allow
us to escape the hysteria of war
brought on by the agtiation of these
“fifth columnists.” There will be
much propaganda to combat and
every true American must be alert
to the dnager which is facing this
country.
We must not belittle the plans of
a man who has already, in a few
short weeks, humbled half of Eu
rope. A man of this type is very
smart and very dangerous. Self-con
fidence is a great thing to have hut
it is very foolhardy at times
Let us all keep our heads and our
hearts in a sane manner and re
member America First in everything
which we do. We can offer little aid
A HIT OF HISTORY
(By Ralph McGill)
It takes, according to an old adage
nine tailors to make a man. We have
been used to that.
But now that we are in a hurrg
for guns and tanks and planes, it
(disturbs us to learn that it requires
nine months, if not 12, merely to get
ready to begin to make 9,000 airplane
motors. And it is startlinb to learn
that despite our mastery over the
machine, the first of the new tanks
will not begin to roll from the assem
bly line for 10 months or a year.
And three years for a battleship
stems (and is) a long period of wait
ing.
A historian recently pointed out we
would not be able to do as well as wo
are today had it not been for Eli
Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin,
This gentleman argued Whitney's
claim to fame should rest on the fact
that he was the first to show us the
art of mass production. And not on
on the cotton gin.
In 1798 Thomas Jefferson, who was
against the creating of industries in
tins country as well as against a
third term, signed a contract with
ein
HOW STATE OF ORo KG| .
SPENT $46,517,, N U
1940
(By Wright Bryan)
Suppose you had more than
(MX),000 to spend and
I
11 "n*|
in 8.|
evefl
famiij
to a dying world, but we can keep I Whitney wherein Whitney agreed to
America safe for Americans, and I Produce for the army 10,000 muskets
' ' two years. At the end of the urst
vcar onlv 500 had been delivered.Tins
date
hod
were loosed in Europe.
Her politicians and leaders had
argued and quarreled while Germany
built and prepared. Money that had
been voted for airplanes found its
way into the pockets of grafting
politicians.
Millions of workers, disillusioned
by broken promises and misled by-
agitators, followed strange banners
seven other states and spending alone writing them. They are the inner! (hat carried them away from the
few hours in a foreign country, we 1 self of the person really anxious to 0 ]d system that dared to call itself
arc truly glad to be back home and 1 encourage the down-hearted, to add I Democracy.
prouder than ever to be a Georgian ' zest, tone and beauty to the well- I Too little regard was held for the
although the vacation was one of the j doers along the road of life. To this ! working man. Too little regard was
most pleasant and enjoyable ones we task this one editor is wholly conse- j Held for truth and honesty. Truly-
crated, fully in the belief he who in-1 Europe was decadent and the Euro-
.-ests himself in any task, does his 1 pean type of Democracy had lived
have ever spent, says Editor J. R.
Blair in his Americus Times-Re-
corder.
If uolitics work you and hard
times depress you, run out and look
over the tall corn and the flowering
cotton fields and count the automo
biles. Watch the filling stations and
be convinced that there is more
money than you thought, and so
forth and so forth. It may not be all
right with the world, but it could
be a darn sight worse.
Lest. < u t its life.
Old Europe failed largely because
In company with members of our it was °W and it did and it
mmediate family we were highly had nothin to give but vain promis
privileged Sunday to attend religious cs and often it did not ever., bother
services of the lay at the Dooly I to S* ve these.
county camp ground, near Vienna, We might as well look at the mat
being the opening day for a full i ter calmly in the face and omit hys-
week of revival services in keeping
with the custom, lannua'ly, of the
“What became of the old-fashioned
girl who helped mother around the
home when she returned from col
lege for the summer vacation?”
This question by the Greensboro-
Heraid-Journal editor was presum
ably written before hearing of Sat
urday's disastrous auto wreck near
Jackson and another at Augusta j
Tuesday night with a total of nine
fatalties and half-dozen seriously-
wounded, all just joy-riding.
good people of that section for gene
rations past and present, and about
which in a most praise-worthy way-
much has been spoken and written!
j In addition to enjoying .be fine ser-
j moms delivered and the good music
I rendered of special interset to our
party was the delightful entertain-
I ment accorded us by Rev. and Mrs.
j W. E. Hightower, who have furnish-
1 ed and are operating one of the large
teria.Europe was destined to fall as
Babylon in the days of old. Revelry
reigned throughout the Old World.
They had strayed and were worship
ing strange Gods and when the crisis
came their strange Gods deserted
them and left them to the mercy of
the terrible war machine which Hit
ler had created.
If you follow your your Old Tes
tament you will find where God per
mitted the wicked to destroy hia
chosen people when they refused to
ligten to Him. Who can tell but the
I tents on the grounds for the enter
tainment of those of their friends j hand of God permitted this reign of
attending the meeting during the I terror which is now gradually cover-
! week. They exerted every effort to , ing the entire world.
I make our visit interesting and de- | Stranger things have happened
| ' ' ' lightful and succeeded to the limit and there is a basis of facts in the
Occasionally we hear it said that in t | iat paritcular. Rev. John S. j conditions which existed among
newspapers in hunting for news often , sharp, Superintendent of the Amer- l crooked politicians and lax states-
cverlook it in their own front yard. I icu8 district, delivered the opening manship evidenced in the tottering
lat is true, but there is a reason j „ ermon Sunday morning using as the of the Old World,
or it. Often the busy editor is the j theme 0 f hi.s very able discourse the | What is in store for the rest of
last person to be told about an im- 1 re t urn 0 f the Prodigal Son. Equally , the world is yet to be seen .It may
poitant happening right under his ^ interesting was the sermon delivered be that Hitler will find a stumbling
nose. The public is generally to blame j in t ], e afternoon by Rev. O. C. Coop- block in England which will cause
or not assisting the neswpaper in 8r) pas t or 0 f the Ashburn Methodist ! the German people to finally banish
gat lering information, excusing I church. Rev. Theo Pharr, pastor of Wm from their midst. History has a
t emseives on the presumption the (he Unadilla Methodist church is in
newspaper is alieady in on the story. ^ charge of the song services of the
week assisted by Mrs. H. E
way of repeating itself and this
may be no exception to the rule. Na
poleon died at St. Helena. Other
would-be world-conquerosr suffered
ignominious deaths and a like death
may be in store for the man who has
plunged millions of people into this
malestorm of destruction.
We do not believe the people
Stipe,
Newspaper praise is being given to 1 of Vienna, as pianist, and their part
one of Crawford county's outstanding is being splendidly performed. The
citizens in which it is stated that list of preachers scheduled for the
Elder D. Yancey Hicks of Roberta week include some of the most out-
serves three Primitive Baptist standing members of the South
churches, rides at his own expense to Georgia Methodist conference, and
conduct three or four funerals a from the outlook at the beginning of America should attempt to do the
week and depends on his 4(>-acre the series of services, the meeting 1 impossible at the present time. We
faim in the limits of the town to get bids fair to be one of the most sue- do not believe American entry into
his living. “I've never charged a dol- cessful ever held on these sacred the war can have any effect on the
lar for my work in the Master's grounds. In going to and from the fate of Europe.
cause, he says. And people in that camp meeting we viewed- with inter- The old boundaries in Europe have
community will single him out as the ost while driving leisurely over the been erased, possibly never again to
best farmer they know. j splendid highways that cover the en- ; be remade but this should not
— ! tire distance the crops of corn and cause the American people to at-
Let the weather get as hot as it- 1 cotton under cultivation along the ' tempt to reform them. A new thing,
may but it will be profitable to al! roqte through the entire length of j as potent and as devastating as in
of us to keep cool politically, in spite Macon and northern half of Dooly the French revolution, is today
counties, which we pronounced as sweeping over Europe and its end is
from fair to good and good to better not yet in sight.
when the storm and stress of revolu
tion is passed, be in a position to
minister unto the world.
The June 13 issue of the Coffee
County Progress at Douglas was
printed on green stock. The occasion
for the snappy dress is unknown
unless it might have been in cele
bration of the first cotton bloom
which appeared in Douglas a few
weeks ago.
The Crisp County News predicts
another storm in the near future for
Cordele, but differing somewhat from
the cyclone that almost blew the town
away four years ago. For a long
time a low rumbling of thunder has
been heard,” says the News. “The
cloud grows larger and the thunder
is more and more audible. One day a
streak of lightning will rend the air
the thunder will roar, and a hesvy
‘rain’ that will clean, up xr,e town,
will follow. But it won't be rain
water.”
It is learned with interest by the
friends of Hon. Columbus Roberts,
Commissioner of Agricultui-e and Gu
bernatorial candidate, that Mrs. J. A.
Rollison, of Waycross, State Chair
man for the Woman's Division of
Democratic Party and aid to both
Senator Russell and Senator George
in their victories, has joined forces
with Mr. Roberts in his present cam
paign. Mrs. Rollison first campaign
ed for President Roosevelt in 1932,
when she served on the state finance
committee. She was a member of his
national spakers’ bureau in 193G and
spoke for Senator Russell in Geor
gia. She directed the woman s di
vision in Senator George's campaign
In 1938.
The Indian Springs Holiness camp
ground is soon to observe its 50th
anniversary. An appropriate program
will be carried out during the 1940
meeting which runs from August 8
to 18. During the entire fifty years of
the institution it has been a con
structive force in the life of the coun
ty. Ministers of outstanding ability
from all parts of the country have
been among the speakers. The cul
tural, moral and spiritual influence
of this large assembly is hard to es
timate. Thousands of people in many
of the southern states will join in the
ceilebration.When there are so many
destructive forces at work—roadside
camps, jook joints, inns and taverns
and others—it is refreshing to find
in institution such as the Indian
Springs camp ground devoted wholly
to good.—Jackson Progress-Argus.
was at the rate of loss than two per
At the end of the two years the
order still was about9,00 ) short and
deliveries ceased.
Whitney was called, to Washington.
He took with him a largo box On ar
rival he quick!-/ assembled 10 mus
kets. He had brought along 1(1 identi
cal barrels, 10 identical stocks, trig
gers. His time was extended. He
\eent back and starting turning out
musket barrels. And then -docks and
triggers. He then assembled the mus
kets. The order was completed.
He was the first man in the world
to conceive the principle of inter
changeable parts. This is the basis
of mass production. Without it we
would be 10 years, not 10 months, in
getting- out planes and tanks.
It is obvious that our chief of staff
and all our military experts believe
(he nation to be in danger,
The President believes so. Any
man, even those who oppose the pres
idnt, must realize his attitude toward
war grows out of the information
supplied him by the State Department
and by your foreigv -ouservers.This is
the best information available.
It was this information which
year ago caused the President to ask
for 10000 planes and to have a hos
tile congress ridicule and defeat the
suggestion
Had they adopted the suggestion
the planes would now be coming off
assembly lines at a great rate each
month.
It was during this time the Presi
dent mentioned the possibility of
war and was damned for his pains,
_ ,, . . Wer ° told
for this amount you must operat
stute government of Georgia "
How would you divide the
among the schools, road buildi
public welfure, and many other)'
lions of government?
This is the question which
every Georgia legislator and
candidate for governor.
It is the safe question (except f
a tremendous difference in th,> . '
of money involved) which faces 8 """
■householder in making up ],; s
budget.
It is the same queseion which f
es every businessman in keeping"
penses within the income of his
ness.
It is the question which must
answered sensibly if Georgia is
have good government.
The object of these articles is
give information in the simplest
si hie terms about how the
money is being spent, in the
that popular knowledge on this
ject may lead to more lmelli™
planning and control of state expa
dit ures.
Georgia's state government had
income for the year ending J une
of $40,517,639.80. This was the ti
of strictly state revenue items
elusive of grants from the
government .unemployment
a nee taxes, and such items as hoi
hills collected from students
university system.
The exact amount of these
revenues has not yet been tabula!
but for the preceding year they
ed the grand total to slightly ira
than $70,000,000.
How the state spend this m
especially how it spends the 40-
millions of dollars subject to
priation or allocation by the legist
lure—affects every Georgia citizen,
Hhere's how each state dollar
divided for the year ending June
(considering only the 46 million
lars cf strictly' state revenue
Schools received 32.1 cents of whii
20.7 cents went in the general fi
S.3 cents in the equalization fund
3.1 in the textbook fund.
Highways received 29.3 cents,
which 5.7 cents went to retire
lificates held by the counties.
Public welfare received 10.4 cel
of which 5.1 cents went to assisl
for persons, 4.7 cents to maintei
of institutions, and 0.6 cents
ce expenses.
Grants to counties for roads ti
7.5 cents.
The University System receivi
4.7 cents.
Public debt and interest requh
fedeij
utiii
appro
m-mr-il
to oil
the floor of both houses of con- ments took 2 cents.
ui the weather M does not often pay’
to get ^wrought up over political
'ampaigns, important as we may’
think certain issues or certain can
didates may be. Very few, if any, :
candidates are ever as good or as bad
as they' are said to he in heated
contests. The most of us have lived
through political defeats and vic
tories without ever knowing much
difference as to the results coming
with special emphasis on the latter
as relates to the Red Level section of
Taylor and parts of Dooly county.
Judging them all as a whole, how
ever, we would cast a tie vote as to
the best for Hon. J. W. Edwards, of
Taylor and Hon. Joe Page, of Dooly
county. These, in fact, are the best
we recall having seen in many years
>
to us personally. It is our duty to especially their corn crops, which
take a lively', hut not a foolish in- are already made, and cotton with a
tfcrest in political affairs. 1 most promising futuure.
We do not believe America will
ever ho able to glue together the
broken bits of Europe. We may at
some future time help build a new
and better structure hut this is not
the time to attempt and such pro
cedure.
America must look for her own
safety. Must make herself strong
and secure so as to be in a position
to defy any attempt of any n a tion ! They gained what we lost, but they
to conquer her. When this is done may never regain what they lost.”
Our experience in dealing witl
young men and hoys, especially of
our own locality, forces us to the
conclusion that the two cases to
which the Crisp County News refers
are isolated ones and all young men
of the present generation should not
be judged by the conduct of the two
the News writes about. The editor
jays: “Most folks are fearful that
the younger generation will ruin
themselves. What we fear is that
they will ruin us. Recently two
young men, not at the same time,
hut separately, called on us in a
business way, and each time we did
our part in trying to help them, and
in each instance we took the rap. The
loss to us in dollars and cents was
not heavy compared to the loss they
took. They were both young men
just starting out in life. We knew
that and it was our desire to help
them. As it is we have lost a small
amount in money. Not enough to in
jure us and not enough to help them,
cress, as a warmonger and as a pol
itician using war scares to help his
cause. The late Senator Borah arose
to say his sources of information
were better than those of the state
department and there would be no
war.
Now there are those who still in
sist, in the face of every fact, the
President is using the war as a po
litical weapon.
It so happens I believe in Mr.
Franklin D. Roosevelt. If I did not
1 would not like to believe the
President of my nation would be
guilty of such a position in a period
of undoubted crisis. I think it ob-
viocs the President is sincere and hon
est. The chief of staff and ranking
naval officials all agre: with the
President.
This was o re of the reason- why
many people, who believed Mr. Roose
volt tlie best mv-i available for anoth
er term, were hopeful he would not
be drafted to run for a third term.
They feared the impe-tant and vi
tal issues would he obscured by the
| opposition from the olhet side:' that
j small and petty issues would be dis-
I cussed and the real ones neglected.
| This already is beginning la 1 appen.
| It may be best to let the nation
have the information that Washing
ton has.
^ et, if it should hi
The public safety department
ceived 1.8 cents.
Confederate pensions required 1^
cents.
Revenue department expenses wer|
1.5 cents.
Public health reecived 1.3 cents. |
The department of agriculture i
ceived one cent.
The remainder, 6.6 cents were dil
vided among all other departments.I
e given general-
Hear
ly to the public, the result might
bad. There are reasons why we :
hastening to arm; and reasons "hi
| we are about to adopt some form ■
universal military service
Those who object the most migH
look at France, Belgium and
conquered countries. But more pa 1
ticularly at France. It does not seei
that those leaders in industry, finaw
and politisc who refused to face
alities and temporized for 20 years,
even to the time when the enemy fl
at the gates, have salvaged
from their course. What has Ixnglan*
gained from a period of "laissez-m
faire” while a few miles away «•
Germany arming and getting read)
It is something for us to consideq
This country is going on, no mattei
who is elected in November. But 1
can go along a smoother path if n
can unite and do the job of prepadflj
this country' under the leadership
now have and continue it under
ever leadership we have after Ne' fl *
her.
Columbus Roberts
WSB
7 A. M.
Every
Saturday
Morning
Re will discuss
“breakfast table"
chats with the
people of Geor-
gia. ^
Starting
August 3
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