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PA.GE FOUR
The Butler Herald
Eatabishfd in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of Second
Class.
Ghas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFl'QLAlL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
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We love ourselves notwithstanding
( ur faults, and we ought to love our
friends in like manner.—Cyrus.
There is only one sure way to
make dreams come true. That is to
quit dreaming, wake up and get to
work.
Buford Advertiser: “It seems we
all must have something to gripe
about, no matter how well things
may he going. A farmer dug his po
tatoes the other day. We were con
gratulating him on making such hig
ones all of uniform size. ‘Yes', he
said, ‘that's true but, dern it, I didn't
make any little ones for the pigs.’’
Most men who have achieved suc
cess in any community have accom
plished it by hard work, long hours
and by saving their money. Only
rarely is there an exception to the
formula, yet one will find young peo
ple in every community who hope
some day to be a success but who
are not observing a single one of
these rules. They evidently think
that they will be the exception.
Taking exceptions at a picture
supposed to have been of himself
pubbLished in some of the daily pa
pers of the state recently, Charlie
Rountree had a “new-un took” and
printed in his own Wrightsville
Headlight that his own readers might
see that the Wrightsville editor,
while maybe not a prize-winner in a
beauty contest, isn't so bad to look
at after all.
The Waynesboro True Citizen
swings into a prose poem over a walk
in the woods: Walk through the
vornfield where the pink and white
cosmos have naturalized themselves
and go deep into the woods where
the hiokories are yellow flames and
the gums flare from scarlet to pur
ple. Sit down and listen to the sil-
< :.ce. Not an automobile horn. Not a
radio. Not a telephone. Only jaybirds
woodpeckers and redbirds. If you are
near a swamp sit there until the owls
start talking to each other, and when
you start home you may be treated
to that most delectable of all odors
on a crisp fall evening. The fragrance
of frying bacon and boiling coffee
Horn a nearby cabin.
We are no alarmist and far from
being a medium for spreading pes
simism, but the following item re
cently brought to our attention, de
serves serious thought and considera
tion. The writer says: “There are
two thousand, five hundred and for
ty-eight sales finance companies in
the United States employing more
than 27,000 people. Seventy-three per
ci nt of their mortgags are on auto
mobiles. Retail stores in the United
States which show the best business
in the past ten years are: Food
stores, variety stores, filling stations
eating and drinking places and drug
stores. Retail stores showing definite
decline in sales: Cigar stores, news
dealers and country general stores.
One-third of all retail sales in this
country are made on credit.”
For months past Hon. H. M. Stan
ley, r or many years Industrial Com
et isioners of Georgia and for more
than a quarter of a century Execu
tive Secretary of the Georgia Press
Association, (has contributed to the
columns of the Atlanta Journal each
Sunday some interesting data oi
facts concerning the weekly newspa
pers of the state and their publish
ers. The Herald and its editor were
the subjects for such publicity in
last Sunday's edition of the Journal
Journal. While we feel unworthy of
the favorable comments expressed
by Mr . Stanley in our behaLf we
deeply appreciate the spirit that
prompted these remarks due largely
to the close friendship and intimate
acquaintance between Mr. Stanley
and the editor of the paper for so
long a friend. We take this oppor
tunity, also to thank scores of local
and our friends over the state who
have by word or letter seen It to
speak to or write us complimentary
of the contribution after having read
same in the Journal.
THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, NOVEMBER 7, l»Kh
BEGGING NO PARDON
An interesting editorial appearing
in Monday's Atlanta Journal.
The crime career of one “Pee-
Wee” Randall was discussed edi
torially in The Journal of Wednes
day. According to police records
Rnndall's offenses over a 20-year
period have embraced burglary, au
tomobile stealing, forgery, larceny
from Pullman passengers, carrying a
pistol and safe-cracking. In April
1958, he was found guilty of possess
ing burglar tools and was sentenced
to six to eight years. He appealed
his case and on August 25, 1059, the
Court of Appeals affirmed his con-
\ iction. Lust Sunday, at 2 a. m.,
Randall was picked up by police out
side a building in which attempt had
been made to break three safes. He
denied guilt but arresting policemen
say they have the evidence to convict
him.
It developed that Randall had been
freed by order of Gov. Rivers on Ju
ly 2, his sentence being commuted to
“present sendee.”
In our comment on that rather
shocking set pf facts—the freeing
of a criminal whose activities had
covered a span of 20 years with ten
convictions, if the record be accurate
—we repeated what we had felt im
pelled to say before; that, “Thus goes
law enforcement in Georgia, ‘round
and ‘found, like a squirrel in a cage.
Arrest — indict—try—convict—fight
appeal—commit to prison — pardon
~)ind!k(t—rearrest—try, land so on,
ad infinitum.
One of the secretaries to Governor
Rivers has written a lengthy protest
against that editorial comment. It
appears in our news columns today.
We commend it to our readers for
what it may be worth.
Insofar as the Randall case is
concerned, it happens that we made
no criticism of Gov. Rivers save
the impersonal complaint that Ran
dall was released after service of on-
Iv ten months, eight days. The facts,
as stated, constituted the damnation
— an habitual criminal back at the
scene of a crime.
Nor did we write the Grand Jury
presentments made Thursday—pre
sentments which referred to the
1 acts of the State's Chief Executive
who has seen fit in many instances
to virtually nullify the forces of law
by turning loose on society numerous
criminals within a few weeks or
months following their convictions.”
Nor did we write the presentments
o,f the four preceding Grand Juries
of this year, by each of whom the
pardoning of criminals by executive
erder was declared to be a menace
to our security, and by two of whom
the freeing of criminals was termed
“the pardon racket.”
Nor did we write the editorial
statement in the Jackson Progress-
Argus of this week that “There is no
racket in the world with quite the
same odor as the pardon racket.”
Nor did we write the editorial in
the Thomasville Times-Enterprise of
Wednesday which declared: “To
spend millions each year in Georgia
and thousands here in Thomas coun
ty to convict murderers, thieves, bur
glars, highway robbers, and have
them pardoned about the time they
get inside the prison doors is a tra
vesty on the intelligence of a peo
ple and a reflection on the integrity
and good intentions of the officials
resposible.”
Nor did we write the editorial in
the Macon Evening News of Thurs
day which said: “Business was going
on as usual yesterday. Another mur
derer was pardoned. A man the
courts found .guilty and sent to pris
on for voluntary manslaughter was
paroled. Two rum runners wore pa
roled. Another bad check artist was
set free ... We trust that Roosevelt
will not reward Rivers with any
kind of government job. Georgia
wouldn't stand for that. We've had
enough of Rivers.”
Nor did we write the news story
in the LaGrange News concerning
the pardoning of a bootlegger who
had been tried in City Court four
times last year and twice „his year
—which caused ‘com.a officers to
point out that ilie pardoning of con
victs is demoralizing the orderly
processes of law n this state and
county.”
Nor have we written for them the
charges made by half a dozen Su
perior Court judges in Gcorgir this
year that the feeling of confirmed
criminals has become a menace to
personal safety, personal property
and respect for law and order in our
state.
But we endorse the sentiments of
every one of them.
One of Germany's unliatched chick
ens is occasioning amusement in Co
lombia where a travel agency, which
in July advertised low round trip
rates to a victorious Germany this
lull, has had to refund the money.—
| Savannah Prsst.
AMERICANS
When a U. S. Senator rose in the
Senate chamber recently and read out
figures showing that the South has
led the rest of the nation by a great
margin in volunteering for military
service, publications and other agen
cies in other regions began offering
“reasons.”
The South, they suid is a poorer
region, and so the pay of a soldier
(now the munificent sum of $50 a
month) is more attractive to South
erners than to other Americans. They
said the South has more unemploy
ment than other regions, basing this
untenable statement on the migrant
nature of agricultural workers in a
tiny segment of the region. /They
said southerners like a fight. They
said many other things, all equally
ridiculous.
What they did not say is this very
obvious truth: The South is inhabit
ed by more Americans than is any
other region, both .numerically and in
proportion to the total. They did not
say that the South's native white
population dominates, in some areas
to the extent of over 90 per cent of
the population. They did not mention
the astonishing percentage of South
ern population that is not simply
native white, but native white of na
tive parentage. When we realize that
a fourth of the nation's population
either foreign born or of foreign
born parentage, we begin to under
stand how minute a fraction of the
population outside the South is of
native parentage.
What is even more to the point,
the South's population is predomi
nantly Anglo Saxon. To the South
erner, democracy i* both natural and
real, love of country is taken for
granted, and the fine shadings and
countershadings of political ideology
that tear Europe asunder leave him
cold. To him, Communism is Com
munism, Nazism is Nazism, Fasc
ism is Fascism, and he wants none
of them. He understands the Anglo
Saxon American ideas of government
and way of life. He understands and
loves America, with a love that comes
from a father, and grandfather and
great-grandfather, and still more re
mote forebears that were Americans
all. It is not extraordinary to find
Southerners whose families have
been is this country for three cen
turies—but it is almost impossible to
fiud such Americans in other re
gions.
All this is why the Southerner an
swers his country's call most readily
It is not easy for the alien dominat
ed East to understand. To them,
America is the land of opportunity—
opportunity to make money (which
may explain why they think the
money a soldier draws would attract
anyone). To the Southerner, Ameri
ca is his land and the land of his
fathers, back even unto the tenth and
twelfth generations.
He is an American.
We are indebted to Jack Wooten
ofColumbus for reminding readers ot
W. C. Tucker's column in the Colum
bus Enquirer that Mrs. S. E. DeLoach
of Sumter County, has for a quarter
of a century been winning from $30
to $40 in prizes with her canned
products at fairs throughout Geor
gia. She hasn't missed a year since
1915 and her honor have come from
such places as Southeastern fair in
Atlanta, the Macon fair and the
county fair in Americus.
The Americus Times-Recorder, in
accord with all good citizens of
Americus, is jubilant over the fact
that “Mayor Thomas L. Bell has
been given another term, his third,
as the city's chief executive, without
opposition. This is a tribute to Mr.
Bell and his administration, which
has been a progressive one. Every
thing done by the city administra
tion the last four years has not been
to the entire satisfaction of all citi
zens, not even Mr. Bell himself, but
on a whole, much has been accom
plished in the building of a bigger
and better Americus.”
As each season reaches its zenith
there is always something to write
about it, but when autumn comes
into her own there seems to be a
glorious fulfillment of the year, all
nature seems to have reached its
mellow age, the fall flowers and
shrubbery seem to vie with trees in
their beauty. We have never before
had such a riot of picturesque set
tings as we have now- at Wyldewood.
All the shades of golden yellow to
deepest orange, rich russet, brilliant
crimson, all make a perfect picture.
One almost wishes the leaves would
never fall, but remain in their re
splendent glory. Yet, we know that
nature provides thusly that in order
next spring tiny new buds and leaves
will come into being as a result of
these ripened and seasoned leaves. In
order to give life there must be de
cay and death.—J. B. Parham.
TOP O’ THE MORN
(By W. C. Tucker)
(Ed. Note—An interesting article
about the small town has been writ
ten as this week's guest column by
Solicitor General Hubert Calhoun.
W. C. T.)
(By Hubert Calhoun)
You may not he able to take the
country out of a boy after you bring
him to town, but who wants to?
What's more, show me the man who
wants to lose those country-acquired
characteristics peculiar to those of
us who hail from small towns like
Former Mayor H. C. Smith's Moun
tain Hill, like Chief Cornett's JoncS
Cross Roads, like Judge Solon Davis'
Mulberry Grove, like Sims Garrett's
Mauk, like Theo McGee's Butler, like
Judge Bowden's Durand, like General
Singleton's Grabbald, like Judge
Chapman's Cusseta, like good old
Cataula and Hamilton and like
thousands of other small communities
where real charity exists, where peo
ple visit with each other and where
neighbors share fresh vegetables in
the spring and divide spare ribs
backbone and sausage in the win
ter!
Appeal from Small Town
Popular James A Farley, while
postmaster general—proud of his
borne town Grassy Point—Interest
ingly relates a post office problem
which confronted him in a little town
Lincoln, Indiana, in 1935. Because of
decreasing population in the town
and because of decreasing business
.n Lincoln's post office the depart
ment decided to abandon the office
and to substitute home carried serv
ice once a day from a nearby town.
Lincoln went up in arms; its citizens
went to war! Mr. Farley received a
letter, written half in jest and half
in earnest, from one of the best
known and best liked newspapermen
in Washington who was born many
years ago in Lincoln.
Letter Reproduced
I give you this letter which I think
and which Mr. Farley thought was
the finest picture ever penned of how
a post office is converted by the
neighborly, solid and God-fearing in
habitants of a small community into
a pleasant social center:
“Dear Mr. Farley: This is a serious
matter. The village of my birth—
Lincoln, Jackson township, Cass
county, Indiana—is threatened with
humilation—the loss of its post of
fice.
“Indignation meetings are being
held at Lincoln, according to special
delivery letters that are popping in
on me every hour of the day. Our
best village orators, including my
Aunt Emma, are voicing mighty
sentiments. That's the reason your
ears have been burning. We are all
heated up on the subject. You have
opportunity to become the hero of my
birthplace if only you spare our post
office. But if you fail us—well, you
would be pretty sure to lose the last
of the few remaining hairs on your
head.
“The Lincoln post office was estab
lished in 1866. Going to the post of
fice to get the letter that seldom
comes has given us great pleasure
during all these years. There would
be no chance for the abundant life
if you deny us our long-established
habit of the daily trip to the post
office, established in the genera!
store, a few minutes after mail train
which never stops, tosses off the
mail bag. Indeed, our village of
Lincoln would lose its identity if
you, Jim Farley, put us on a rural
mail route out of a neighboring town.
We've fought all these years to keep
Lincoln on the map.
“We don't ask for a Federal
building. We are content with what
we have—a humble post office on the
grocery counter—but we would feel
humbled if we lost our P. O.
“We appeal to you to save our
.pride; to spare us the hurt we would
suffer if our village is swept off the
post office map. Think how you would
feel if your birthplace, Grassy Point
N. Y. shoud have its pride trampled
on by some heartless P. M. G.
Only a Post Office
“In Lincoln we have no Rotary
Club; we have no Elks Lodge; we
have no courthouse; no City Hall; no
poolroom; no bowling alleys; no ping
pong parlor; no airport. All of w-hich
increases the importance of our post
office. Take away our post office and
we would have no place to go. Take
away our post office and we would
have no forum where the mighty
questions of the day could be dis
cussed. Our barbershop is open only
one day a week so the post office
gives us our only meeting place for
the village debating society. Right
now, Jim Farley—they call you Jim
out here—is the chief topic of the
debates that are raging.
“My Aunt Emma is the chief de
bater. She is a citizen with pride in
Lincoln and she loves going to the
p)ost office just to look into an empty
lockbox. It would be taking away her
personal liberty to deny her the priv
ilege of going to the post office. Sb
in the name of my Aunt Emma, I
appeal to you to be bighearted and
spare our post office.
“We may not he able to erect a
Jim Farley statue, but if only you
save our post office from rural route
oblivion we promise to hang your
best photograph in the post office
and to hold a l’raise-to-Jim mass
meting. What do you say, Jim?”
This letter was signed by E. C.
Watkins.
Post Office Saved
Your guess is right—Jim Farley
saved the post office in Lincoln and
it still exists.
The small towns, once almost a
thing of the past, have taken on new
interest. Look at Butler—once a sand
bed—now a beautiful town! Chipley
Hamilton, Talbotton. Buena Vista,
Shiloh, Waverly Hall and many oth
ers in this vicinity, with community
houses, new jails, improved court
houses, water works and other im
provements, are little cities—once
villages. Keep them growing and
thriving with the renewed interest of
the past few years!
Court
Superior court with Judge George
C. Palmer presiding, convenes today
for the November term. It will have
the prayers of Mrs. Ed F. Roberts
good lady and widow of a former
sheriff of this county, who has been
called by the late Judge McLaughlin
as “the mother of law enforcement
and good citizenship.” For many
years, on the opening day of court,
she has telephoned one of the offi
cials and expressed her wishes for
justice and mercy. The jurors will
have her prayers and support.
We used totalk about the time
‘hat every family would have J;wo
cars in the garage and be a two car
family. Instead we are talking now
of a two ocean navy.
WISDOM FROM \
LIPS
pRophe
Few wiser men have
ever
or spoken than Prof. w ' „
Sumner of Yale, whose n„ e ’
huniiJ
birthday anniversary is | M ,j
brated this Fall. Prof «„ " 1
ci„l field „„
economics, and he had the .
ty of making those usually d *J
jects interesting to everybody
Observations which l) r s I
down on paper—forty fifty ^
years ago, seem especially at)n|w
m these days. The greatest 3
history ,s being waged between
es which set the state above tV
dividual and democarey vvhich*
serts the rights and liberties J
citizen to be the sole proper ™
of any government. Listen to
sentences
thema
A neighboring editor takes a crack
at the county officers in his county
whom it seems buy all the county
supplies they can out of the county
giving only the crumbs to the local
printers. This justly indignant editor
says: “This office has been turned
down on a number of occasions by
county officers when it has solicited
them for items for printing and sta
tionery used in the county. We learn
ed afterward that those items all of
which we could have supplied, were
purchased from out of town concerns
We are getting tired of it and are
going to put some one on the spot if
it continues. We note one business
man who was elected to a county of
fice preached the trade at home doc
trine as long as he was in business.
As soon as he gets elected to a two
by four county office he forgets his
trade at home ideas and places all
his orders for printing with out of
town salesmen. We admit that we
are not in a position to give free
desk sets and pencil sets every time
we solicit an order for printing, hut
believe that inasmuch as we live
here and pay taxes here we are en
titled to this business. By eveiy
right and rule of fairness we are en
titled to it.”
“When all fine phases are stn J
away, it appears that the stal
only a group of men with humaj
terests, passions and cle S i res
worse yet, the state is only
scure clerk hidden in some co
a governmental bureau. I n
case the assumption of superhj
wisdom and virtue is proved
Dr. Sumner wrote that in i«L
more than 60 years ago. In lg^j
wrote in one of his essays:
state, it cannot too often be
peated, has nothing which it does
take from somebody. it s
must be those who have earned]
saved, and they must be the bil
strong middle classes, from
alone any important contribute
can be drawn . . .
Speaking on the same
1901, he said: “Wherever therL
a force in human society the pi
lem is to use it and regulate it]
get the use and prevent the abf
of it. The state is no exception!
the contrary, it is the chief illusl
lion.” And in one of his most p]
Dating and prophetic essays entii
“The Absurd Attempt to Make!
World Over,' published in IS!
Prof. Sumner wrote:
“In any socialistic state there
be one set of positions which will |
fer chances of wealth beyond
wildest dreams of avarice;
on the governing committees. ’
there will be rich men whose
will indeed be a menace to social!
terests and instead of industj
peace there will be such war as
one has dreamed of yet; the war!
tween the political ins and outl
that is, between those who are on f
committee and those who want|
get on it.
We have seen that come
Russia under Communism, in
many under National Socialism,
Italy under Fascism. The men ont
governing committees of those
tions have enriched themselves
they have ruthlessly put to di
every ambitious opponent who
tried to seize their places.
true
To relief
Misery of
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