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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, JUNE 11, 1943.
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lb keep 'em rolling you should
fceep a close watch on your tires
and at the same time lowering
ffour speed.
The annual trek to this office
with the first cotton bloom of the
season has not begun. Who will be
Sie first to lead the procession?
Gasoline rationing situation is
■add to be improving, but what in
terests most of us pedestralns is a
sadre liberal allowance of sugar.
Russia, the United States, China
and Great Britian have resources
which the Axis and its allies can
never deaft.—Sir Stafford Crlpps.
> The war will call for a supreme
aUort from now on for every ounce
,mt energy In every field of our na
tional life.—Henry C. Morgenthau
ARNALL IS CONDUCTING A
HITCH-HIKING CAMPAIGN
For sinking of three United Na
tions merchant vessels by enemy
submarines in the Caribbean area
was announced by the Navy. Sur- Thls ln teresting story with refer-
vlvors have been landed at Gulf ence t0 the way gen [ a i Attorney
OO&St pOrtSi Mow oo<H tho ah I no ^ « ® . _ . *
were a
rts. The Navy said the ships General Ellis Arnnii is ma i,i no „ There is a natural longing In the
V ™ S6 , 1 .'! county-to-county town - to - town
HOW CAN WE FIND THE BEST
(By Nathan H. Gist)
We are ever In search of the best.
a small British ship and a small
Norwegian merchantman.
campaign for Governor Is told by
the Cuthbert Leader following Mr.
Arnold’s recent visit to Cuthbert to
The citizens of this community! deliver the high school commence-
extend congratulations to Dr. R. C. j ment address in fulfillment of slmi-
Montgomery In adding more rooms let requests that have come to him
and other improvements to his al-1 f rom all over Georgia this year:
ready popular and well patronized “Attorney 1 General Ellis Arnall
hospital, which Is doing much to. qualified Monday as Georgia's first
Improve health conditions in this hitchhiking candidate for Governor,
section as well as performing opera
tlons both of major and minor na
ture.
May sales of war savings bonds
totaled $634,356,000 or 5.7 per cent
above the $600,000,000 quota, the
treasury department reported last
week.
More people in Tattnall county
would have a more stable future if
they would forget the past and an
chor on to the future by living for
the present.—Glennville Sentinel.
, Friends of Miss Betty Sealy, re
cent graduate of the Butler High
vcbool, will be Interested to know
that she has accepted a position in
the office of the Local Selective
Service Board.
The War Department reported
that some 550 CCC camps, complete
with equipment and buildings,
Valued at $30,000,000, have been
transferred to the service of supply
gor the Army's expansion program.
Sometimes we think that the
wife might develop into a success-
fid farmer if she had just a little
mare ground. She can raise the
most bugs on two rows of potatoes,
of anyone we ever saw.—Calhoun
fibunty Courier.
Thanks to Tax Commissioner P.
A. Jenkins for the first peaches
we've had this season. They were
at excellent quality and flavor .It
was peach ice cream at our lovely
fiady's home. Yum!
F. L. Penn, published of the Mon-
ticello News, has been ill in an At
lanta hospital for the past two
Weeks, the Herald regrets to learn.
Last reports are that he is holding
liis own, and will soon be back on
the job.
Hollywood columnists predict
Hhat double-feature programs will
lie extinct by September 1st. Lets
hope the columnist knows what he
Ss talking about if the few samples
«f the double bill is anything like
tflie rest of them.
A lady friend of ours who pre
aides gracefully over her home
fixes the beginning of summer
the time when the slip covers go
ma the furniture, but her husband
says its when strawberry shortcake
araduates into blackberry pie.
The Japs will rue the day they
(darted using poison gas as a
means to win the war. For, believe
a or not, the allied nations are
ueady to retaliate in kind, or in a
more severe manner, in case any or
the axis powers start tne use of
The U. S. Senate confers on the
bill to increase military pay pro
posed a compromise to House com
mitteemen of $46 a month for buck
privates and $52 for first-class pri
vates. The offer compares with Sen
ate-approved figures of $42 for buck
privates and $48 for first-class pri
vates and House-approved figures
of $50 and $54.
The Herald takes this opportunity
to commend Judge Geo. C. Palmer,
of this judicial circuit for his firm
stand and forceful remarks in dls
agreement with a Government
health official as to the state courts
being unable to cope with certain
situations as reported to exist in
communities in which military
camps are located.
At last the Government has been
forced to put a stop to the favor
hitherto shown the liquor business.
Recently it was announced by the
War Production Board that ninety
per cent of the distilleries of the
country would be taken over for
the production of industrial alco
hol. The liquor people, however,
chuckle over the fact that they
have ample supplies of whiskey for
several years.
Friends of Capt J. N. Steed, of
Macon, will regret to learn of his
confinement by illness at the Cen
tral of Georgia Railway hospital at
Savannah, and will wish for him
permanent and speedy recovery,
Capt. Steed, a native of this county
and brother of Col. W. E. Steed, is
now enjoying his retirement bene
fit as an efficient, friendly and ac
commodating employee of the Cen
tral Railroad.
As never before in the life of any
individual of today hate should be
left entirely out of ones make-up.
The. hour ..is . too momentous, the
danger too near. We cannot af
ford to indulge in the drug of hat
red—in the virus of anger. Now is
the time for calm, cool judgment
for sane, clear reasoning, for ma
ture and careful decision. The lives
of all of us, our entire way of life,
depends upon our self-control.
The lower branch of Congress last
week refused by a vote of 158 to 121
to approve funds for the Civilian
Conservation Camp. The CCC has
done a good job. Of that there is
practically no question. But the
time and circumstances have ma
terially altered the major purpose
of the Nation now is to win a war,
and in that purpose there is ample
opportunity for employment of
young men in armed forces, on the
farm an din defense industries.
Although entitled to an unlimited
supply of gasoline as a state offi
cial and having a practically new
car given by friends a few months
ago, the attorney general has de
cided to save as much gasoline and
rubber as possible during the forth
coming campaign.
“After scratching his head for
which gives us comfort and
strength; that which Increases our
power, improves our morale, and
makes us more like the Infinite.
Men know what they want, and
they know when they have found
a power higher than their own.
Power may be called the best thing
to strive for. Everything else is sub-
ordinate to it. But when we find
the best to be found in life every,
thing else fits into place.
The significant thing is that the
best is not far from us. We do
not have to search to the end of the
world. Fine living and life's big
treasures are not matters of geogra
phy. These are near at hand.
For ages the apple had fallen,
but there was no Newton to tell
If you can't say something good
®r encouraging about a person,just
don't say anything at all. Just
erunt. One big advantage in it is
that you won’t have to try to wig
gle out of the whole thing when
same one goes , and tells the other
party what you said.
It may seem rather unfair for
college boys and girls to be de
prived of their summer rest and va
cation, but they will soon become
accustom to it and appreciate the
motive that prompts it. When this
Ss true the usual four-year course
win in most instances be completed
fin three years.
According to information received
Urom County Agent Blackwell, Tay-
Dor county farmers may face during
tihe next few months the greatest
Sufestation of boll weevil that has
been witnessed for many years. A
-rigorous fight to control the pest
should be.started at once the Coun
Hy Agent urged.
Near-by swimming pools have
become points of attraction forboys
and girls just out of school and
seeking fun and frolic. Some of
them, it will be noticed, in an at
tempt to acquire a luscious, Holly
wood honey beige complection,
have overdosed themselves with
sun-rays to the extent of ruining
their “perfect posture.” They are
barely able to hold their shoulders
up under the strain and pain of
their oh-so-uncomfortable blisters.
There is considerable talk going
the rounds that State Commission
er of Agriculture Tom Linder will
probably surrender his present of
fice to enter the race fo rthe U. S.
Senate against Senator Russell. If
we may be permitted to say
such a decision will be most re
grettable to most of Mr. Linder's
friends. Whether he would be vie
torious in his ambition or not is
not the most important question in
our mind. But the fact that Mr.
Linder has conducted his office as
Commissioner of Agriculture so ef
ficiently and most pleasing to all
that his retirement would be regret
table and unfortunate at this time.
With all the inconveniences and
the so-called privations we are due
to undergo, the people have plenty
of reasons for being thankful for
the many privileges we still have
left that are not enjoyed by the en
slaved inhabitants of conquered
Europe. We can still cuss the Gov
ernor and the Legislature and
that's worth a lot. Along about fod
der pulling time we will be in the
midst of another hot political cam
paign. There will be barbecues and
picnics galore. If .we can get tho
gas we can go to 'em and about to
our heart's content for Gene or Ellis
whichever we are for, without ra
tion or restriction. Hurrah! Whoo-
peee!—Sylvester Local.
some time Monday the candidate\ men that in the falling apple, lay
worked out the following schedule j the law of gravitation. For centuries
tor a morning s work in his office ( the seaweed had been tossed up on
and an afternoon dash to a speak- the shores of Europe, but men did
lng engagement at Cuthbert High I not know, until Columbus became
school commencement exercises | the pioneer, that seaweed meant
Monday night. He:
“1. Hitchlked from his home in
Newnan to his office in the State
Capitol,
“2. Caught a bus at 2:30 p. m.
for Griffin.
overtures from an unseen continent.
From the time of the creation of
man, the blood had circulated thru
the body, but the world waited for
Harvey to tell his fellows that the
blood was a crimson stream giving
“3. Met at Griffin by friends who life and vitality to the organism,
were driving to Americu^ and took
him along.
"4. Met at Americus by friends
from Cuthbert for the last leg of
the journey.
“Mr. Arnall said that neither
hitchhiking nor riding busses is
new to him, as he has been hitch
hiking between Newnan and Atlan
ta for the last four years, and he
has used busses to a large extent in
delivering 44 addresses during the
last 60 days, largely at school com
mencements.
“Some of my friends in Newnan
gave me an automobile a few
months ago on the theory that it
was undignified for the state's at
torney general to hitchhike all the
time, but I like it,” Mr. Arnall
commented.
Picked by Majority Leader Mc
Cormack o fthe National House or
Representatives as Democratic
Whip Representative Robert Ram-
speck of Atlanta, proves the won
derful courage and ability with
which this fine -Georgian is re
regarded by his colleagues.
While the largest crop, as iwell as
best yield, of grain produced in
many years in the county is- being
harvested, farmers are urged to
save the straw, This year and next,
farmers have resolved not to waste
anything, and everything of, value
for feed or plant food is being sav
ed. We can win the war oh what
we have formerly wasted.
Mrs. Ida Butt's gorgeous array of
Easter lilies is receiving the atten
tion and admiration of many call
ers at her home near the Methodist
church. The blossoms on these
stately stalks vary in number from
four to six. The plants are in large
rows in her flower garden and not
in boxes as is commonly seen prov
ing them to be of a superior va
riety.
All collections of waste paper and
allied products have been ordered
suspended by the United States
Government as supplies of these
materials have been completed and
no more is needed at present. But
possessed with energy and note
worthy ambition to be of some ser
vice to their country and their fel
low-beings the members of the lo
cal organization of Boy Scouts are
using their best efforts now in the
collection of scrap iron and. tinfoil.
We call on the public to lend these
fine young Americans your
couragement and assistance in the
work they seek to accomplish.
Sunday, June 28, has been desig
nated as Ministerial Education Day
by the Baptists of Georgia to assist
ministerial 'itu.le its in M'wei Uni
versity, Norman Junior Co I lor,o and
Brewton-Parker Funlor College.
Five thousand dollars is the goal
set to be rai-se:l on that day. F.cv.
Arthur Jack-ton, Secretary of the
Georgia BaoVst Foundation :;a>s
“Baptists are said to be investing
more money in educational institu
tions in America than any other re
ligious body. They pioneered in the
building of schools and in the
training of their ministers. Today
they have institutions for the train
ing of ministers equal to any in the
world, their standards for the train
ed ministers are as high as any,
and the denomination has sought
to encourage in every possible way
more thorough preparation for the
ministry. As we approach the day
for Georgia Baptists to contribute
to the support of their young min
isters in training, we are face to
face with a peculiar situation and
an increased demand because of
war conditions.”
The best is near at hand; the
best people, the best environment,
the best interests, the most helpful
influences. Self-education can be
gin in one's own home. The law
of helpful service is most effective
in our immediate neighborhood.
Moreover, the best opportunities of
life do dot have to be sought.
They seek us. They are always
waiting for him who is ready to re
ceive them.
We find the best when we give
ourselves to the best. We find the
best people, cultivate the best
friendships, make the best contacts
prove ourselves to be the most
agreeable and useful when we
pledge ourselves to the highest post
sible standards. We find the best
when we work the hardest and the
most methodically. We find the
best . when we lose ourselves in
the scope of one mighty task.
GEMS OF THOUGHT—FAITH
Now faith is th substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of
things not seen.—Heb. 11:1.
Thru love, thru hope, and faith's
transcendent dower,
We feel that we are greater than
we know.—Wordsworth.
All I have seen teaches me to
trust the Creator for all I have not
seen.—Emerson.
Trust in Him whose love enfolds
thee.—Mary Baker Eddy.
Nothing in life is more wonderful
than faith—the one gerat moving
force which we can neither weigh
in the balance nor test in the cru
cible.—Harvey Cushing.
Faith and works are like the
light and heat of a candle; they
cannot be separated.—Beaumont.
Announcement by the President
that some 250,000 men have been
rejected by the Army due to illit
eracy is a staggering piece of infor
mation. That there should be in
America today this many men of
draft eligibility who are unequip
ped mentally, tho fit physically, is
a situation which brings the coun
try up sharply against the realiza
tion, to say the least, of a distress
ing lack of inclination to seize the
opportunity for education which ex
ists. These are unequipped mental
ly, though fit physically, nation's
men and women, who are illiterate.
They do not even include the men
of draft status who are not physi
cally fit. There are, in fact, 433,000
actually illiterate in these ranks,
but a large portion of this number
have not qualified as physically
fit.—Savannah Press.
G eo rg/a 's-.Mext G o vernor
PIANO TUNING
SALES & SERVICE
C. W. SMITH
503 S. Hill Street
Phone 551 Thomaston, Ga.
Speaks Over
{.radio WSB station
iL Saturday Night
lOslS P.M.
HM
ON WAR’S FRONT
Pearl Harbor has been partially
avenged by a smashing U. S. Naval
victory in the first phase of a great
and continuing Pacific battle in
which two or three Japanese air
craft carriers have been sunk with
most of their planes and 11 or 12
other ships, including three battle
ships, have been damaged.
The triumphant and staggering
blow to Japanese sea power was
announced last Saturday night by
Admiral C. W. Nimitz, commander
of the U. S. Pacific fleet, who gave
this score of Japanese losses thus
far in the still raging battle west
of Midway Island:
Two of three aircraft carriers
sunk and one or two damaged,.
Four cruisers damaged, two se
riously.
Three transports damaged.
"Our citizens can now rejoice that
a momentous victory is in the mak
ing,” Admiral Nimitz proudly pro
claimed.
He asserted that "substantial
progress” has been made in the
navy's aim to reduce Japanese sea
power to "impotence.”
“Pearl Harbor has now been par
tially avenged,” he added trium
phantly.
The U. S. Fleet last riight was
still pursuing remnants of the shat
tered Japanese invasion force which
met with quick disaster in an at
tempt to gain a foothold on Mid
way, westernmost Bastion of the
Hawaiian Islands, which began
with a powerful attack Wednesday.
The stirring news of the Ameri
can victory in the greatest naval
battle of the Pacific war was brok
en to the wprld by Admiral
Nimitz after almost a full day of
silence on the import of the Japa
nese defeat.
Some of the damaged enemy
ships, even if not overtaken by pur
suing American warships, possibly
would be unable to get home, Ad
miral Nimitz said.
Thus the combined American
naval, air, army, and marine forces
inflicted the “major Japanese dis
aster" which the admiral in an ear
lier cautiously-worded communique
had indicated was in thg making
on the vast expanse of the Pacific
battle area.
It was indicated that Pearl Har
bor would be more than averaged
before the battle is over and that
it certainly would contribute a
greater blow to the Mikado's fleet
than the enemy's losses in the Al
lied victory of the Coral Sea.
Indeed, it appeared the. blow off
Midway may mark the beginning
of the end of Japanese naval su
periority in the western Pacific.
The heavy toll of Japanese ships
sunk and damaged, provided an
inkling of the size of the force which
had dared to attack the U. S. pos
sessions bulwarking the heart of
the vast Pacific Ocean.
The presence of transports in the
enemy fleet, indicated the enemy
have planned to attempt a landing
in force to try to wrest one of these
American islands from the defend-
s.
The Japanese attack on Wednes
day against the Alaska outpost of
Dutch Harbor—far to the north—
was thus made a complete failure
if its purpose had been to divert
U. S. forces from the center of the
Pacific so that the Nipponese sail
ors coUld strike the more easily in
the direction of Midway and Ha
waii.
In his communique Friday Ad
miral Nimitz said it was too early
to claim a major Japanese disaster.
His statement Saturday night that
“substantial progress” had been
made in the direction of reducing
Japanese sea power to “impotence
indicated that the repulse of the
powerful evenmy tankforce wasfast
resolving itself into a disaster foi
the enemy.
The assault on Midway, regard
ed as Japan's first major move to
occupy the Hawaiian Islands, crum
pled with disaster damage and
casualties to the troop convoy and
battlefleet than the Japanese in
flicted in their peace-talk cloaked
attack on .Pearl Harbor.
The Japanese invasion force, far
from surprising the defenders of
Midway, was engaged in battle be
fore its advance rqjling force could
soften the defenses of the tiny
westernmost Baston in the Ha
waiian group, and before its troop
ships could come close enough even
to attempt a landing.
Just as in the battle of the Coral
sea, this invasion force was hit
more than 1,000 miles from its
probable ultimate objective—Oahu
Island.
On the face of official reports on
the first three days of battle, the
conflict appears so far to have been
a spectatcularly and fiercely-fought
series of engagements with Japa
nese airmen' fighting like savages
and machine-gunning American
airmen as they floated downward
in. parachutes or bobbed on the sur
face of the sea in rubber boats.
Admiral Nimitz gave no indica
tion how the battle was progressing
tonight.
That the smashing blows dealt by
U. S. forces was regarded in Wash
ington as a complete victory for
America was indicated in a mes
sage sent to Admiral Nimitz by .Ad
miral Ernest King, commander in
chief of the U. S. fleet. The mes
sage read:
. "The navy, marine corps and
coast guard join in admiration for
the American navai, marine and
army forces, who have so gallantly
and effectively repelled the enemy
advance on Midway, and are confi
dent that their comrades in arms
will continue to make the enemy
realize that war is hell."
Whether planes or fleet were
winning the victory, it appeared
that the armed might of the U. S,
was taking frightful vengeance for
the treachery of Pearl Harbor which
cast the U. S. and the whole great
Pacific are into the Global war just
six months ago.
The presence of Japanese trans
ports and such a great array of
lighting ships suggested that the
enemy was intent upon a new
invasion, perhaps of Midway Island
tho the force seemed too large for
such a tiny objective; more plaus
ibly of Pearl Harbor and the Ha
waiian Islands via Midway.
While its ships were engaged,
Japan's land forces claimed another
victory in China—the capture of
walled Chuhsien deep' in Chekiag
province. The Chinese said they
were fighting furiously and had in
flicted 11,000 casualties on the
Mickado's army in three days. The
Japanese were attempting to join
forces with another column thrust
ing thru Kiangsi province.
In the Lybian desert, the British
wrested armored superiority from
the Germans in a scorching trian
gular trap before Tobruk and open
ed a new offensive aimed at wip
ing out the remaining half of the
enemy's tanks, 340 of which al
ready had been destroyed on
crippled.
Russia's great battlefields were
relatively quiet except for a futile
German thrust in the K alinin sec
tor which cost the invader 500 men.
Russian planes claimed to have
sunk nine German transport ships
in the Baltic sea in three days.
The RAF ended its most destruc
tive week with great daylight
sweeps by perhaps 1,000 planes ov
er the German-held European coast
This was after another night of
torture to the Ruhr where many of
Hitler's death machines are forged.
More than 3,000 bombers had left
enormous wast in Cologne, Essen,
elsewhere in the Ruhr and Rhine
land and in Bremen during the
week.
As he thinketh in his heart so is
he.—Old Testament: Prov. 23:7.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
SCHOOL TRUSTEE ELECTION
SET FOR JULY 3. 1942
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
There will be held an election in
all School Districts in the County
except in the Taylor Mill- School
District on July 3, 1942 for the pur
pose of electing trustees to fill va
cancies on the Local Board of Trus
tees in each of the several School
Districts.
Said election will be held at the
same place and in the same man
ner that other elections are held in
the said districts. Voters qualified
to vote in other elections will par
ticipate in this election.
Returns will be filed in the
County School Superintendent's Of
fice on July 4, to be consolidated
by the County Board of Education
in regular meeting July 7, 1942.
Done by order of the County
Board of Education in regular
meeting this June 2, 1942.
W. T. RUSTIN, Superintendent,
Taylor County Schools.
LEGAL NOTICE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
To the Voters of Cross Roods
School District of Said County:
A petition signed by more than
one-fourth of the qualified voters
in Cross Roads School district re
questing same having'been filed
with me, notice is hereby given
that an election will be. held in said
school district on the 12th day of
June, 1942, for the purpose of vot
ing on local school taxation for the
support of public schools. Said
election will be held at the white
school house in said district. Those
favoring local taxation for public
schools shall vote “For Local Tax
ation for Public Schools,” and those
opposed shall vote "Against Local
Taxation for Public Schools”. All
qualified voters of said county resi
dent in said school district six
months prior to date of said elec
tion will be eligible to vote there
in.
This 20th day of May, 1942.
J. R. LUNSFORD,
Ordinary, Taylor County.
LEGAL NOTICE
GEORGIA—Taylor County:
To All Whom It May Concern:
All creditors ofthe estate of
J. W. Phillips, late of Taylor
county, deceased, are hereby noti
fied to render in their demands to
the undersigned according to law
and all persons indebted to the
said estate are required to- make
immediate payment to the under
signed.
This the 6th day of May, 1942.
L. F. ROBERTS,
501—13th Street
Columbus, Ga.
Administrator Estate of J. W.
Phillips, deceased.