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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 16, 1944.
THE BUTLER HERALD
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gia's Junior U. S. Senator, Hon.
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BIRD SANCTUARY
COBB'S DEATH MOURNED
^ ... . _ ° - „ ... . We have many times thought
Entered at Postoffice at Butler, Richard B. Russell, for a copy of Qf the woeful lack o{ rccognition
Georgia as Mail Matter of the report on the war made j accor ded those whom the counties
Second Class. JJ e five Senators _as observed y of the state selected as its most
— them on their 4o,000 airplane r p re p resenta tive citizens—represent-
Chas. Benns Jr., Managing Editor last summer to the great theatres at j ves as tbe term applies to busi-
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bns. Mgr. °f wa J- Th ?ff "ILm™ cn ' ness, industry, agricutlure and
ate Committee and making a otherwise _ to protect and care for
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO. most comprehensive and interest- their interegt in the law-making
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY ! ing report, and one we would be body of the state .
very glad could be read by all our, *
! readers, were: Sen. Brewster, of At this point we heartily concur
I Maine; Sen. Candler, of Kentucky; with C. E. Gregory in the follow-
Sen. Lodge, of Massachusetts; ing m a recent article in The At-
iSen Mead of New York; and Sen. a ” T ^ e ^egTslature has been the
Outstanding in his rather ’ stepchild of state politics for a j
* ! lengthy report is the following lo "|’ l0 t "| ^mbere o{ th ^
•Thou shall not kill,” says the statement by Sen. Russell: 1 lature make the laws that govern 1
grand jury to a prominent Grady “Wherever we went we were ^
county farmer, the victim of the mpst cordially_ recei V ed oy the of g counties, municipalities, magiste- '
tragedy being a negro and accused ficials of the British Empire, i was school districts
of watermelon or peanut fleecing, much impressed by their rank^ ,? T his writer his followed close-
,ne.ss in ^cutting not only the Jy the proceedings of the Georgia
Tire New York legislature has con 0 Th f Jwi an d Legislature for almost a quarter of
been delayed in adjourning by a P ro 1 • th - s a century, and has a personal ac-
wholo week having been blocked ha ^ e a . ® , d ‘ f t « quaintance with a majority of the
by wartime printing delays. As a war a several thousand Georgians who
remedy to the situation they might tude in the^ faceof constant da - haveserved in the senate and
have placed some of their print- ffer whic g . ‘ House of Representatives during
ing orders with some almost idle Many of their cities have been per iod. They have been hon-
shops in Georgia. heail V bombed. The food n Eng- ■
land was scarcer than in any
est, able, patriotic lawmakers
iauu we* with very few exceptions
other spot we visited. All colthing *
The Georgia Legislature is the
Recently we saw this question strictlv rationed Civilians
asked: “Do most people prefer a 1 nractTcallv no gasoline and P ractice field for the y° ung law *
life of risk and adventure to one S thei f cars ' ■ vers who later become the state's
of peace and contentment "For an ; rucks (o charcoal burners .
answer compare the number ot
automobiles parked in front of the
and yers who later become the state's
prominent jurists and noted cor
poration and criminal lawyers.The
wiuI“u.oSTarked y in S f"om > ’of , ?he »° ldters «*• are stationed in their
"The British people have hos- beorgia ligMatueIs the train ng
pitably received the American 6 b
church in the same town.
midst. From a military standpoint
ground for those who become Gov
ernors, U. S. Senators and Con
gressmen. The Georgia Legislature
they have displayed every quality * the body that fixes tax rates ;
H hniifrht anv snare ribs 00111(1 ask an a y ' e plans public developments, passes
ri so vou no longer haw ^itish Tommy is a first-class sou- ^ ub P lic works> reforms £ rison
lately? If so you no longer nave dler Whe rever I had an opportuni- svstams Drotects education in the
any doubt as to why they were 4y to vislt with our N aV y, both Sy f, mS ’ P ro(ects education in the
♦V...C namoH Thov are evidently . , ‘ «. colleges and common schools,
thus named, iney are eviaenuy enlisted men and officers spoke in . n . r j.„ ...i, ot .
removed from the carcass by ex- terms of the skill and sea tnds P a jdon rackets and brings
nerh; and if there is anv meat left gl ° " g ter ™ s “ tne SKU1 ana rf a about the storms non m D
perts and n tnere us an> meat u.u mansb i p and tbe courage of the H f
on them it is due to oversight or g r j t j sb tar Tbe R 0 y a i N aV y is still y
an unintentional slip of the knife. jj v j ng up t0 r s finest traditions.
—Albert Hardy Jr., in Commerce
“Business interests, which often
tremble when the legislators get
News
what sort of a Legislature it will
be. State administration heads
want to know what to expect.
Those who have reforms to pro-
The heroic exploits of the RAF al- together) llke to know in adva nce
ready belong to the legends of
. this war Ag fig b ti n g m en, they
Senator Russell is being highly are good partners to have in a
Comjnended in the part he is tak- scrap.
ing on the floor of the U. S. Senate "We had some opportunity to pos ' e ' want ' to”know~ whonTto "ad-
to prevent the appropriation of observe the operation of the Brit dress Former residen t s Q f rural
large sums of money to several ish Government, not only at home. rounties are interested in their
semi permanent general agencies bul throughout the Empire. I came ovvn representatives. The legisla-
including the Fair Employment ] lome with a healthy respect bor- t rs thmselves are anxious to learn
scheme which seeks to ram social dering on envy for the efficiency wbo their colleagues wil be
lhr0 “' S ° f thU “ f the ! n adminis.ra.io; wB ° So ' h t e " SS 7 th?s col-
P P • I aid in the handling of their rela- um n, now allowed more time for
tions with other nations and in po iitioal writing, will make an
If you are one of those persons their own vast dominion. The Brit- effort to keep Journal readers in-
who llke to have your airmail let- ish have a definite foreign policy formed as to the candidates for
ter dated with the corresponding with every respect to every tbe General Assembly in every
date the new eight-cent stamp is comer of the globe. Every county in the state. As the pri-
placed on sale you may do so by civil servant and every officer of mar ies are held, the successful
sending a maximum of 10 ad- any rank is apparently fully ac- candidates will be listed. After th“
dressed envelopes to the Postmas- quainted with Empire policy as it state primary on July 4, a com-
ter in Washington with cash or applies either militarily, diplo- p i e te and accurate list will be
money order remittance to cover matically or commercially. Every printed. It will be the first time
the cost of the stamps to be af- action of the responsible officials * ba f a Ur h a list hes been made
fixed. | of government is designed to pro- availab f e ? ery much in advance
—— | mote that policy. 1 of the legislative session six
Screen your open-grate fires m i “Jf our nation has a definite months after the primary,
winter swat the flies in summer, policy which extends longer than “j. j. Dominy, Fitzgerald farm-
stop, look and listen at grade- six months after the conclusion C r and banker, has been placed in
crossings, don't start the kitchen °T the war in any of the far-flung the race for the State Senate by
range fire with the kerosene can, lands in which American troops friends who published his an-
keep your nose out of other folks' are fighting and American dollars nouncement for him. “Capt. Jack”
business and maybe you will live are being spent, I was unable to i ias agreed to make the race,
to a ripe old age and be run over find anyone among our officers “J. L. Haas, of Herod, has an-
by a careless automobile driver on abroad who could define it. 1 nounced his candidacy for the
the public highway, is the way i “We cannot afford to rely upon Senate from the Eleventh Dis-
oui friend, Mr. J. W. Bennett, of even so splendid an ally as the trict. It is Terrell county's time for
Rupert, puts it. i United Kingdom to protect all our the senator. Other candidates are
j interests or there will be inevit- Mrs. Clem Rainey of Dawson, and
The best place to bury your trou-1 f. ble conflict « nd infusion after L. J. Ferguson of Graves,
bles. says Richardson Wright, the ,ho (var - ° ur clvl1 agencies' “T. F. Kelley of Elberton, is a
distinguished editor of House and i abroad arp numerous, but too of- candidate for the Senate from the
Garaem maga-ine is in a garden. ten th °y arp either working at 13th district, while Dudley Saun-
He asks: “Do you enjoy poor cross purposes or, worse to relate, ders Jr., and W. H. Thornton are
health? Are you worried about 1 lo some cases have no apparenc running for the House from Elbert
business? Are you inclined to in- P ur P° se - Our postwar interests ar-' county.
trovert? Do you suffer from being neglected and we stand to i 'Colon G. Cogdell, Brunswick
nerves, Does life seem futile? Are very little or no return from. lawyer, former Glynn county rep-
you lonely?” Whatever your trou- , our imrnenso expenditures.” i resentative, and Phil Ringel of
bles you can bury them in a gar- | Brunswick, are probable candi-
den, Mr. Wright declares. Headline: “Co-operation helps dates for th e Senate. Representa-
to meet labor problem.” We are llves *■ • Gowen and J. L. Gil
bert of Glynn, are expected to
seek re-election.
“Everett M. Baton and Wayne
Hinson are candidates for ihe
I wish to commend most hearti
ly the suggestion appearing in the
last issue of the Herald looking to
the making of a “Bird Sanctuary”
in Butler.
Like mast useful things, the
birds are the silent, and largely,
the unseen friends of man, and
especially gardners and farmers, j
These silent and industrious help
ful—and may I say—necessary
friends are catching the destruc- ,
tive insects, bugs and worms, that j
otherwise would practically de
stroy, or materially damage, all
plant life, vegetables, flowers and
much of our necessary farm pro
ducts. Almost unnoticed and un
appreciated these little feathered
creatures are busy day in and day
out eating and destroying the in
sects and worm pests that sap and
damage nearly all plant life, and
without whose silent and continu-1
ous help we should all of us, who
have gardens, patches or fields,
trying to grow crops of various
kinds, see and feel the loss of
these useful and valuable as
sistants.
Then, too, birds and their habits
are well worth some of our -time
to study and understand. They
are naturally, appreciative of any
kindly attention and consideration,
in the first place they are, as a
rule attractive and responsive to
good treatment. They, like us, are
fond of their bath and are con
stant and consistent patrons of
the bird bath. If bird baths are
available to them they will bathe
during any season of the year.
They have been seen and known
to have broken thin coats of ice
in the bath bowl in order to bathe
themselves. A’ little grain or bird
food thrown around in the back
yard or nearby is always appre
ciated by them with instinctive
gratitude.
These little feathered friends,
too, have their enemies. House
cats are one of these enemies. It
has been truly said that cats are
fond of bird meat, and will not
hesitate to use all the cunning
and stealthy arts of the feline
tribe to pounce upon them in their
nests and to prowl at night, rob
them of their helpless young. Cats
are, naturally, bird destroyers and
marauders, and usually, under the
cover of the darkness of the night.
Besides the murderous assaults of
cats, even the small and un
thinking little boys, some of whom
may not be so little, .or so inno
cent, like to kill grown birds of
any kind, sometimes, just to see
them fall lifeless from trees to the
ground, regardless of size or
color.
Such treatment of our feathered
and useful friends would have no
place in a “Bird Sanctuary.” Let
us, therefore, henceforth study
bird-life and the habits and use-
| fulness of birds of all kinds and
see if we cannot make
! useful friends of them. They are
J as a general rule harmless and
will be our friends if we will but
i let them be so.
| For many years we have been
i trying to have a“bird sanctuary” of
our own in our back lot, and we
find that we have been generous
ly repaid for our kindness to the
birds, and we have many kinds to
! come to see us and we always try
j to make them feel at home
,! around our house.
Congratulations to the Boy
Scouts and their Cout Master.
Yours truly,
W. E. STEED.
Irvin S. Cobb, nationally belov
ed humorist is dead. Before say
ing au revoir to the world, Cobb
in a letter to a close friend, Edwin
J. Paxton Sr., editor of the home
town newspaper at Pauucah, Ky.,
where funeral services were held
Tuesday, asked that no tears be
shed, but inspite of his request,
there are perhaps more tears shed
by lovers of the stage, magazine
and newspaper readers and others
than can be imagined.
Cobb's philosophy of life was
unusual as is forcibly expressed
in his letter to Mr. Paxton, in
which among other things he
asked that his body be cremated
and that the ashes he placed at
the roots of a large dogwood tree
which should be his only monu
ment in the city of his birth.
Here are a few extracts from
Cobb's letter, written last Decem
ber in New York, where he died
Saturday after a long illness:
“And, thank you,no flowers.
Does anybody feel moved to send
flowers, I'd prefer that they give
the money they’d spend to some
local non-denominational charity.
Cover the spot with leaves—
Christmas berries from the flat-
lands and cedar from the friendly
low McCracken county ridges if it
be winter, and leafy bows from
native pickery (sic) or nuckaber-
ries or wild crab-apples if it be in
other season.
“Above all, I want no long
faces, and no show of grief at the
burial grounds. Kindly observe
the final wishes of the undersign
ed, and avoid reading the so-
called Christian burial service
which in view of the language
employed in it I regard as one of
the most cruel and paganish
things inherited by our forebears
from our remote pagan ancestors.
“In justice to the faith of our
dear mother (referring to his
mother, Manie Saunders Cobb
who died in 1932), who was in
her life-time a loyal, tho never
bigoted communicant of that con
gregation, perhaps the current
pastor of the First Presbyterian
church would consent to read thn
23rd Psalm, which was her favor
ite passage in the scriptures, and
is mine.
“He invokes the aid of the Goh
of unjustified battle as created bv
the ancient Hebrew. All Hitler
needed to do was let his whiskers
sprout and sit on a nest of thun
derbolts and naked swords, think
ing up plagues and pestilences
raping and slaughter and slavery
for the vanquished, to be fit un
derstudy for the vengeful murder
ous Jehovah of the forepart of the
Old Testament. For Brother J 0P
Stalin, our present beloved ally
and secretly, the everassting ene
my of our institutions, the joh
would be easier. He already has
the whiskers. (One advantage of
dying is that it affords a fellow
opportunity to say a lot of things
that have been curding in his
system all these years. Frankly
I’m enjoying myself.)
“I rather figure some of my
fellow-townspeople might favor a
memorial exercises of sorts, either
in connection with the funeral or
elsewhere. Personally I have no
objection, only desiring that no
dismal note be permitted to ooze
into the proceedings. Keep thp
thing cheerful, boys and girls.
“For the wind-up, I’d be grate
ful if some of my college friends
sing Swing Low Sweet Chariot
and then Deep River. I think I
could count on Mattie Copelander
of Jones street, who for so many
years was a loyal servant of my
family to recruit the singers from
the choirs of o u r’ colored
churches.”
Vice-President Wallace says that
cur national post-war income will
run as high as $200,000,000,000 a
year. In that brave new world,
everybody will have jobs, eating
money, and perhaps a couple ot
tickets to “Kalamazoo.”
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We are
Because of the increase from six , w'edded to the idea that it helps
to eight cents in United States, to solve all problems,
domestic airmail postage effective !
March 26 under the new' tax laws, ! The promotion of Lt. J. S. „ , , ir
the Postoffice Department will is- Matthews to Captain is pleasing I rom " are count y Repre-
sue a new' eight-cent airmail to his many newspaper friends in ■ p 6n at *y es \ Batos ar >d J- J-
stamp which will be placed on ■ Georgia. For a number of years | Bpnnett - and Senator Jack Wil-
sale for the first time March 21 at previous to his entering the armed : lamS ' are a so candidates for the
Washington. The new stamp will forces Capt Mathews w'as editoi j two seats flom Ware -
be identical in design with the 1 and publisher of the Hawkinsville 1 state Senator Luther U. Blood-
current six-cent stamp except fer! News and Dispatch. He enlisted in ' vvorto ’ 0 . Macon, has qualified as
the change in numerals from six' December, 1942, received his train- | a candidate for representative
to eight and in color from the ling at Camp Stewart and was lat-. om B *bb county, opposing Repre
carmine of the present stamp to i er transferred to New York city,! sontat ’ ves bi L. Barfield. W. F.
olive green.
w'hero he's now' stationed.
The Butler school, Reynolds _
6chool and other schools of Taylor now industries have got to do
county axe fair examples of the m °re than just buzz about it and
problem confronting the state of
how to operate the schools on the
prevailing salaries paid teachers
As a result Georgia is losing her | K takes a town that is all united
trained teachers by the thousands | an< ^ * n a position to attract folks
to other states and to other lines by the unanimity of the purpose
Dixon, 21-year-old University of
— | Georgia student, is running
The towns and cities that want i agalnsl Representative Lewis B.
Wilson. A. H. S. Weaver, the
third Bibb representative, is un
opposed.
“C. O. (Bud) Walker of Fitz
gerald, is a candidate for the Sen
ate from the 45th district. Rep-
talk it over. It takes something
more than that. It takes some
thing more than cheap power too.
of work with higher salary sched
ules. In North Carolina teachers’
salaries range from $116 to $170
per .month, while in Georgia the
range is $87.50 to $100. How can
we keep good teachers in our
schools with such a salary dis
crepancy? State Superintendent
It takes good churches and schools
as w'ell as the money end of it and
don’t you boosters forget it.
The number of serious fires oc
curring over the state during the
past ten days calls to mind the
great catastrophe of May 16, 1923
Collins reports that 9,903 white near Camden, S. C., when 73 per-
and 4,205 negro teachers have j sons, mostly women and children
been lured from the schools by ‘ were burned to death in a fire
higher pay elsewhere, during the that destroyed a country school
past three years. “Unless some house where they had gatiiered for
way is. found to pay better sal- commencement exercises and
aries, many schools w-ill not be ./here a lamp, dashed from its
preservative V. G. Wells, of Ben
Hill county, has announced for re-
With his heart and mind always
fixed on the brighter side of life
Bro. Ed A. Caldwell, editor of the
Walton News, gives this bit of en
couragement: “Let the breath of
winter blight the flowers, if you
will, they'll come as gold refined,
when South winds blow. Those
balmy days of the recent past,
subsequented by the unfriendly
clutches of Winter jonquils, hya
cinths, peach blossoms, violets,
flowering quince, gave way and
fell as flimsy awning aitei «■ sum-
able to reopen next fall for lack of hanger on the"ceiling over the au- | mer ' rainfall.' o leU Hke
! G . S ’ Ji A says : A11 ‘“ AO ** . , ditonum stage had turned the lit-I v. eather-beaten, trustful ’soul t
lem vye must meet, and now is the ] tie"'country"'schooT into 7 furnace i wrn“rome agS n trUStf '^ ^ ^
time to be thinking about it. t .. °
\fire.
than before.’
more wonderful
On to Tokyo say the Americans
to the Japs who are wondering
where we will strike next. The dis
tance between our base and Tokyo
has been cut from 4,000 miles to 2-
500 miles during the past month
with minimum losses to our forces.
We are happily marching on.
Commerce needs a hotel says
the Commerce News. By the News’
help she will have it. Like all
worthwhile enterprises it takes the
backing of the local -newspaper
to insure success. Commerce was
built largely on the efforts of
Uncle John Shannon, who devoted
thousands of inches of space in
advertising Commerce.' Having
gone to his reward, it is now up
to Brother Hardy to take up
where Uncle John left off, and we
are glad to see that he has already
fully demonstrated his willing
ness and readiness to do that very
thing.
Senator Dick Russell has intro
duced a bill to stop President
Roosevelt from setting up govern
ment agencies without authority
and appropriations from Congress
and also to stop the transferring
of money from one account to an
other. It is a move in the right
direction. We are overburdened
with too many bureaus and agen
cies now—and have been. Controls
are necessary probably, but the
trouble is that every agency or
bureau makes its own interpreta
tions to suit itself, and the people
be dammed. A recent example
was the move to put Cobb county
under the Atlanta milkshed, forc
ing our dairymen to send all milk
over their production quota to At
lanta, when retail dealers here al
ready run out every day.—Cobb
County Times.
•s
^hips returning from other missions, are bringing 4
natural soda from Chile—for this year’s biggest of all
lood production jobs. It is soda you know all about—
can store and handle easily—can depend on for top and
side dressing. How much will there be? That’s hard to say,
but last year Chile sent 1,000,000 tons to U. S. farmers
and think what that would mean this year.
• Properly applied. 1.000.000 ions of Chilean
Nitrate would produce 250,000,000 bu. of oats or
100.000,000 bu. of wheat; 125,000.000 bu. of corn
or 4,800.000 tons of forage crops; 6.000.000 tons
of vegetables or 2,500,000 bales of cotton end
1.100,000 tons of cotton seed.
Natural Cnilean Nitrate, always a big factor in food pro
duction, is absolutely vital this year—enough and in time
for all essential needs.