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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER,
GEORGIA. NOVEMBER 18, 1943.
THE BUTLER HERALD
Entered at Poatoffiee at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
Chas. Bonus Jr., Manaplng Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
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The best news of the week: “U.
S. subs sink seven more Jap
ships."
The Herald extends sympathy
to Rev. H. L. Lumpkin of Mauk,
in the death last week at Ameri-
cus of his brother, Mr. John Ed
Lumpkin, 62 years of age. Funeral
services and interment took place
at Ellaville.
Ira Butt's North Georgia News
at Blairsville is favored each week
by items of interest from many
sections of the county. Another
thing we find in them to admire
is the fact that the items from
nearly all of these communities
are preceded by a verse of scrip
ture from the Bible.
Americans are seeing more of
America today than they ever did
in peace-time, but they are seeing
it under conditions that are far
from normal. Even so, many are
making the most of their oppor
tunities to explore and enjoy new
surroundings. Home town loyalties
remain unshaken, however, and
"Home Sweet Home” is the
theme song of every man and
woman in the service.
News reports from the midwest
tell of the snow-blocked roads, of
40-mile gales, of blocked traffic,
of sub-freezing temperatures.
Schools In Minnesota were clos
ed for days. Planes were ground
ed, bus traffic was almost at a
(standstill and communications
with many areas were cut as the
wires fell. War plants were forced
to suspend operations because
workers were unable to travel ov
er the snow-drifted roads.
All of which, while arousing our
sympathy for the unfortunate vic
tims of the Midwestern elements,
makes us appreciate more than
ever how blessed are we who live
in the temperate zone of the south.
In Atlanta, as this is written,
the sun is shining, the skies are
blue, the wind is no more than
mildly invigorating.
The South suffers under man
made handicaps, such as the in
justice of railroad freight rates;
scarcity of local investment capi
tal; political impotency because
of the one-party system, but all
these are offset, forgotten,when we
contemplate the blessings of God
and Nature have bestowed upon
us.
It is, despite troubles that some
times loom large, a wonderful
blessing to live beneath the bene
ficent skies of the South.—Atlanta
Constitution.
FINE FARM LEADERSHIP ! labor to be included In fixing the
___ j parity price of the products turned
„ „ , , rout by that labor. No one needs to
I-rom The Macon Telegraph. b e ad expert in economics to
The condition of the American Rnow that the ^ of labor is
farmer, and therefore of 16 one tbe j^gest Ingredients In
American people, would be gjca tbp cost D f production and to say
ly improved if we had more of the that u shou , d not be includod in
leadership of such men as H. . fj xing the parity price of farm
Wingate, president of the Georgia p roducts simply does not make
Farm Bureau Federation, who sense
presided over the two-day sessions, Mawm was d to have here
of the organization held in Macon President wingate and the hun-
recently. i dr eds of members of his organiza-
Mr. Wingate mercilessly expostogether with the distin-
ed all the fraud and fallacy of gu j sbed guest speakers who
absidy payments on which v . .
A shortage of newsprint stock,
which has become a source of
worry to all newspapers in the
state, again necessitates reducing
the size of this issue of The Her
ald from 8 to 6 pages and the
omission of a number of important
articles Intended for publication.
We regret the situuation very
much but entirely unavoidable.
those subsidy payments on "iiiu* br0 ught many valuable messages.
Mr Roosevelt so obstinately insists We believe that the seed sown at
while on the other hand he ( o- these mec tings will bring forth
c ared that Congress must pass ten and a hundred fold and that
the Pace bill by a majority su - W0 can yet bea t do wn the stub-
ficient to override the probable,^ grQ J p ip the Washington ad .
veto of it by the President ministration which seems bent on
Representative Stephen Pace, au- ; American agriculture,
thor of the bill in question, was
the principal speaker at the Fede
ration meeting on Wednesday
when he made clear the provisions
of his proposed bill and vindicated
"THE BEST I KNOW HOW'
BURTON'S DILEMMA
If I were to try to read, much
the claims of the American farmer , egs answf!r> a n the attacks made
to greater consideration than this
administration has accorded him.
The Pace bill would make it
compulsory to include the cost of
labor in fixing the parity price of
agriculture products.
Mr. Wingate pointed out the
familiar fact that subsidy pay
ments are no remedy for inflation
for the simple reason that the
same amount of money would be
placed in circulation through one
channel or the other. The taxpay
ers would be compelled to contrib
ute to these subsidies whatever
amount might theoretically be
on me, this shop might as well be
closed for any other business. I do
the very best I know how—the
very best I can; and I mean to
keep doing so until the end. If
the end brings me out all right,
what is said against me won't
amount to anything. If the end
brings me out wrong, ten angels
swearing I was right would make
no difference.—Abraham Lincoln.
For the past week the Herald
has been confronted with similar
trouble to that told by The Baker
County News in the following;
"Like every other business or
ganization war’s crippling influ
ence has had its hand upon us
here at this newspoper office. Last
week, however, it laid a heavy
hand upon us but the Enterprise
came through “on a wing and a
prayer." Our “trouDle" revolvad
around the shortage of paper.”
Florida's big citrus crop is be
ginning to move. In years gone by
that state suffered disaster by
freezing weather when the buds
began to swell in early Spring as
resulted to the Georgia peach crop
this year at a tremendous finan
cial loss to our growers. It is
gratifying to know that Florida
citrus growers are anticipating a
bumper crop this year. Think we
will speak to Santa Claus about
our fondness for oranges and
grape fruit.
The Herald was favored yester
day by a visit from Hon
T. M. Seawell of Carrollton, a
fond friend of ye ed since our
earliest days in the field of
journalism. For many years Mr.
Seawall was owner and editor of
the Winder News which he sold
after purchasing the two news
papers at Carrollton—The Free
Press and Herald. At present Mr.
Seawall .s closely connected with
the state administration and it
was or a mission of much im
portance to this section that
brought him to Butler yesterday
Warning! If your Christmas
gift list isn't made up by now
you’re late! Buy and mail in No
vember our Government warns
If you want to select from fresh
complete gift stocks, do it now
If you want better service in
stores and post offices—buy now
mail now. If you want your gifts
to arrive on time—make up your
Christmas gift list now—this min
ute! This is not an appeal to buy
more—it’s an appeal to ease the
manpower strain on stores and
postoffices, the strain on trans
portalion—and yourself. You
stores urge you to buy only what
you need—thoughtfully, carefully
and immediately.
In wishing the Atlanta Constitu
tion, The Butler Herald and The
Franklin News and Banner many
happy returns of their birthdays
which they celebrate approximate
ly on the same date each year
1943 being their 67th, the Coving
ton News reminds us that it has
22 year seniority over us—twenty
two extra years that have been
used wisely and profitably in the
making of one of the finest weekly-
papers in the state with particu
lar interest in its editorial page
and "Chatter-Box Column" signed
by “The Office Boy." When ole
man Dud Glass rants again about
“country editors being too darn
lazy to write editorials for their
newspapers”—to which we plead
guilty, -.not as for doing the writ
ing ..but studying and making
preparation of something to write
about—vve are going to ask Bro
Belmont Dennis or conductor
"Chatter Box" write an editorial
for us blistering ole Dud.
We trust Congress may pass the
bill introduced last week by Rep
resentative Davis of Tennessee
of j which would direct the Secretary
to
the next of kin of servicemen or
So far as the Pace bill is con- ] women who are killed in action
cemed it is literally amazing that under such circumstances that
the administration will not seethe, their bodies cannot be recovered
logic of permitting the cost of farm and returned for burial.
saved by the consumers who, __
course, include the taxpayers! of War to furnish headstones
themselves.
Dudley Glass: Years of acquain
tance with the rural press has re
vealed that ye ed, and pub., al
ways a genial person with a
heart as big as a prize water
melon, is called upon to do almost
everything from acting as pall
bearer for a corpse he had never
known in life to minding a couple
of children while the mother at
tends a movie two doors away.
But I never knew before that an
ed. and pub. is expected to run a
winter greenhouse for the town.
Yet it seems Rush Burton, of the
Lavonia Times, has been winter
gardener for many seasons and the
business has outgrown his quar
ters. Rush remarks:
“The Times office cannot take
any more flowers to care for dur-
ingthe winter. We are over-run
with flowers. There are flowers
around one of our motors so deep
that we can hardly get to it.. Flow
ers have the storage room door
! blocked. We almost stumble over
flowers at every turn. As much as
we regret to say this, we must say
that we have all the flowers that
we can care for.
"For several years The Times
! office has been used by- some of
our friends for winter storage. We
i are glad, to accommodate our
! friends. But this season there is
i an unusual run of flowers. We are
simply swamped with flowers;
we wash our hands in a mass of
terns, we turn the motor on in a
galaxy of elephant ears, and
write Christmas stuff surrounded
by Christmas cactus. It's flowers
to the east of us and flowers to
the west of us—flowers all around.
“We have carried flowers to the
house till the dining room win
dows are all banked with beau-
ful flowers. Some are on stands
and others just sitting around. We
«ave produced sn
pretty flowers. But wo t ^
more room for flowers w? no
glad to look at them whiin W are
living. Bu. „„ have * e
paper out, and any more
wouid imped 6 the p,„ mm n o n£
HASTY MATRIMONY
It is unpleasant to contone! *
the forecast that the flood of T
vorces which followed the i?i
war in this country "
participating nations may develop
again when peace comes
conjecture is supported by a ‘ n ^“
ber of reasons, the principal bein*
the large number of hasty r g
Suons ntraCt0d Und(>r
It needs no divining rod of 0 b-
servation to note that many nZ
nages are made in war-tfL
when the couples are swept a Jay
by die rapid course of events
when persons who have thrown
normal caution to the winds enter
the important state of matrimony
wn i°? y 3 f 1 hort a «iuaintance
What does all this mean for th«
future ? What of the children bom
of these hasty marriages? \Vhat
complications and problems win
this pose for the postwar period^
It is something that calls for stu’-
dy and contemplation, it i s
problem to be dealt with when th
war is won.—Atlanta Constitution"
Back in 1492, when ‘‘Columbu
sailed the ocean blue,” he set ou
on August 3rd and reached th,
new world on October 12th, the
voyage requiring 70 days.' The
office of War Information nt$i
tlons a pilot who recently flew
across the Atlantic four times ii
three days.
WORLD’S RECORD IN SHIP CONSTRUCTION
Beats World War I Destroyer Time of J
45 l A Days — Bethlehem Set Both Marl
Has Large Gun-Power for Both Offensive
and Defensive Service; Equipped
for Surface, Depth Bomb and
M
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Beating ail prior records, the destroyer-escort Reynolds was com
pleted and delivered November 3 to the U. S. Navy, by die Bethlehem-
Hingham Shipyard just 25 days after keel laying.
The Reynolds is a hard-hitting, fighting unit with great fire-power
and speed, a bigger, more powerful ship than the destroyer Reid,
which held the previous production record of being built in 45Vi
days, during World War I. Bethlehem built both ships.
,The Reynolds has terrific battle armament for surface, depth bomb,
or anti-aircraft combat. Her main battery has guns mounted in three
turrets which can revolve in a complete circle to follow a target,
and can be fired by a trained crew with amazing accuracy and rapid
ity. Aft is a 40-mm. Bofors gun, each barrel capable of firing 120
rounds of 2-pound projectiles per minute. She has numerous 20-mm.
Oerlikon machine guns with a potential fire-power of nearly 400
shells every 60 seconds. Also, along port and starboard rails aft
of amidships are a flock of K-guns which can toss out the famous
300-pound “ash cans” which make it unhealthy for any submarine
within hundreds of yards.
The Reynolds is, in fact, one of those powerful, swift, sea-panthers
designed by the Navy to drive the Nazi subs from the Atlantic and
0E photo by U. S. Navy—cijored by Prnt Rotation* Ofifko, U. S. Navy, Wcnhkgb*' 1
Destroyer-escort designed by U. S. Navy has wide range of fire-power and $
DE Reynolds was built by Bethlcbem-Hingham Shipyard in record time of 25 4a>J > |
oft
protect American convoys. She can deliver a terrific curtain
effective at 2500 yards against air or surface targets. Like s°'
of her sister ships, she is one of Uncle Sam’s contributions to
British fleet.
The first group *f ships in the destroyer-escort class were
in 302 days.
The next group in this class were built in 206 days.
Now the Reynolds has set the mark of 25 days.
And she is but one of hundreds of warships steaming out
shipyards of America to speed the day of Victory.
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