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FACE FOUR
THE BUTLER HERALD. BUTLER. GEORGIA, DECEMBER 6, 1945.
THE BUTLER HERALD
CHRISTMAS RAPIDLY
APPOACHING
By Jim Chism
In The Pelham Journal
Entered at Postoffice at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of
Second Class. | j) ra g ou t y OU rChristmas decora
Chas. Benns Jr., Managing Editor ( lions, turn on the lights and
O E Cox, Publisher & Bus Mgr. makp the most of them. The war
' . ! is over, our hearts are lighter,
and the Yule Tide with its “Peace
and Good Will Toward Men” has
never been more appropriate.
Every home can have an at
tractive tree and every child de
serves one. The lack of Christmas
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One of, if not the most contro
versial question of the day is with
respect to the bill before congress,
with little prospect of action for
several months, compulsory mili
tary training by the United States
government.
The South Georgia Methodist
conferenpe at its recent annual
session at Waycross went on rec
ord as condemning such action,
the body condemned as "utterly
foolish” the building of large
True greatness lies not in never
falling but in rising every time
we fall.
One o fthe best ways to welcome
v r e r heroes is to make certain that
they find employment.
An old-timer is one who can
remember when the U. S. Govern
ment minted ITI (Three) cent
pieces by the millions.
| spirit in the home is an injustice armies. Similar action was taken
, to the grownups as well as the b y the Georgia Baptist convention
young ones. The cost is not pro- meeting a week later at Macon.
! hibitive and the effect is everlast- The convention's Social Service
ing. A small pine sapling or other Commission protested against
.evergreen makes an excellent tree wmpulsory military training un-
j for decorating. A few cents worth less it is “absolutely necessary."
I of commercial trinkets wall do the it is agreed by many that volun-
job. Its a swell game when deco- tary enlistment could be made so
| rations are gathered and every attractive that ample manpower
1 member of the family has a hand necessary to carry on the various
i in it. military operations could be se-
In antebellum days our ances- cured. This could easily be done
tors decorated huge trees
stringing pop corn on long sew
In the well-founded belief that
there is not a community in Geor
gia that hasn’t something which is
attractive or could be made at
tractive to tourists, the Georgia
Power Company has announced a
contest in which it will award $6,-
200 in 67 Victory Bond prizes to
letter writers who tell how their
communities can appeal to tour
ists. This contest ties in with cur
rent efforts of state agencies to
make Georgians tourist-conscious
and to make tourists Georgia-con
scious.
Georgia is so rich in natural en
dowments that her citizens are
likely to take them for granted.
EDUCATION AS A PEACE
FACTOR
We have just had another Na-
PROFITABLE NEW CROP IS IN
SIGHT FOR TAYLOR COUNTY
When Mr. W. A. Lundy w-as Ag-
tional Education Week. We wonder ricultural Agent for Taylor county
whether the various programs several years ago he tried to in-
stressed as much as might be the terest our farmers in the future
potentiality of education as a j possibility of the tung oil tree be-
peace factor.
Fo rinstance, the teaching in
our schools of unbiased history.
History, as taught in the senuois
of the various nations, contains
concepts conducive to war. No two
nations teach their children the
same story about a specific his
torical event. Wars, in particular,
coming a profitable money crop
as. according to Mr. Lundy’s
claim the climate and soil of'* 1
tins section being particularly
adapted to this crop.
Experiment was made in only a
few instances, but not in suffi-
j cient quantity t omake the crop
marketable. Those with trees are
are treated differently in the delighted at the abundant yield
history books of the respective na- per tree each year.
We regret that more of our
farmers did not act upon the sug
gestion of Mr. Lundy, which by
this time would be in marketable
supply now or much sooner when
the demand comes.
With further reference to this
new crop the Columbus Enquirer
Thirty
ing threads with the aid of a
needle, pnie cones dipped in starch
lint cotton, and wild berries at an
outlay of expense exactly of
NOTHING, yet the finished product
was a thing of beauty and a joy
throughout the Yule season. Every
child understood that the gala
With the approach of Christmas event was in celebration of our
the happiest
per cent increase in
demanded by many
workers who are receiving from
$1.22 to $1.31 per hour. Poor fel
lows !
one we can remem
ber is when Old Santa brought us joyful praise,
our first pair ’ of red top, brass- Thanksgiving is over
toed boots. We have never Yule season is upon us.
stepped quite so high or felt quite oral years our homes have
so proud since
From the state a large comes
congratulations to Raechill Park
er, of Muscogee county who was
awarded a $200 college scholar-
shin as the national winner in the
food production contest in the na
tional 4-H Congress in Chicago.
Some nationally circulated
magazines are devoting their
columns to a campaign of what
i sreferred to as “Tolerance.” Many
well informed people consider
sueh articles as breeding racial
disorder rather than Tolerance.
Fool ideas cause racial strife. The
birds mingle for ages, and com
pete for a living, yet few quarrel
—and none ever mix.
From Mrs. Howard, editor of
Dawsonville Advertiser comes
these remarks: “If Editor Benns
of the Butler Herald will come up
to North Georgia he can find can
and the
For sev-
been
so burdened that all thought of
Christmas decorations were muf
fled with the knowledge that our
loved ones were in death struggles
with treacherous enemies. All of
our boys have not yet returned,
however the guns have been si
lenced and this is a time for great
rejoicing. Let us immediately
grasp the Christmas spirit, satur
ate our homes with it, prepare ap
propriate programs, fill our
churches, sing songs of praises and
utter prayers of gratefulness. Let
men be not ashamed to publicly
acknowledge the one whose birth
we celebrate. Let’s make this a
real Christmas in every home, in
every community, and in every
church. In the past if some of us
have forgotten the real meaning
of the word and have desecrated
the season with thoughtless friv
olity, let each of us pause long
enough to fully realize its full sig
nificance thsi season.
Let’s begin decorating our homes
and places of business for the big
tions, colored always by national
The man who has lived all his slants.
life at the base of a mountain! Students too often are taught to
might find it hard to understand glorify as national heroes men
why anyone should be interested ! who have waged unjust wars or
in such a phenomenon. To resi- I who have precipitated their own
dents of the Okeefenokee vicinity, peoples into needless wars,
htat vast swamp might seem only J Nations in their history books
a hazard. But to thousands who perhaps are too prone to publicize says editorially:
have never seen a great swamp, a the mote in the other nation’s! “Prospects appear to be bright
by by a~ campaign“ot pubiicitjT'temng stone mountain, an Indian mound, eye, too loath to note the beam in for the development of tung trees
a tobacco auction, these things their own. Such history teaching as an important crop in the
that are to Georgians a common-. doesn’t make for peace. .south,
place, become a matter of con
suming interest. With a little im
agination and enterprise, these
countless endowments can become
commercial blessings.
One division of the power com
pany’s contest is for veterans on
ly. It is highly probable that the
Georgian who has seen the de
struction and misery in other, less
fortunate lands, will look with a
new and sharpened appreciation
upon the things at home. We and intellectual fibre
shall be disappointed if they, and
many others, do not contribute
stimulating ideas that will con
tribute to the state’s tourist busi
ness.—Atlanta Journal.
the young men of the country of
the benefits to be obtained by an
enlistment of 18 months in the
regular army. For instance, a
young man just out of high school
could enlist in the army for a
year and a half and receive
enough benefits to give him a
college education. Certainly there
could be no easier way for a young
Saviour’s birthday and a period of man to work his way through
college.
Contrary to the arguments the
editor of The Baker County News
criticizes the action being taken to
prevent compulsory training,
which we publish only in part
and without comment as follows:
“Serious thinking people
throughout this section who want
to see the United States remain “
the world’s leading nation, both will be a tremendous stimulant,
for themselves and for their chil- Some say that the training will
dren, were shocked recently by the be of little value—what can one
headline appearing in the daily year’s training do for a man af-
Press "Methodists Rap Plans for ter 10 or 15 years. To that we
Peace Time Draft,” and continuing answer nothing. The million and
with the first two sentences of an
associated press dispatch covering
the annual session; ‘The South
Georgia Methodist Conference in
annual session here was on record
doesn’t make for peace.
The task of repairing the edu
cational ravages of war and mak
ing up the educational arrears of
the war years, is certainly of
grave urgency.
Not even the most advanced
countries (including the United
States) have any cause for com
placency. We need to give width
and breadth to education if we are
to fortify ourselves against the
many ills that threaten our moral
for many
After observation
years we have come to the con
clusion that, in fighting, there is
nothing to compare with a real
family row, unless it is a church
wrangle.
"We thought the war was over”
says a headline in an exchange.
For some few the war has never
been, except for the benefits they
Thursday as condemning peace- . is in full swing will be 7 to 10
time military training. At it’s ses- million men who have only been
sion Wednesday evening, the out of training one to five years,
church body condemned the They will still be valuable men
building of large armies as utter- and can be put into action very
a half in training together with a ; leaped of wartime prosperity. The
standing army of about a half
million represent a pretty good
potential force. Available for call
of men up to 25 after the program
did yams and pork chops, as well evon t now . it is the anniversary of
as the good old country sausage
and head cheese, trimmed with
sour kraut.” If you will kindly
give us a “rain check” on that in
vitation will be seeing you later.
the greatest event that history has
yet recorded. Let’s celebrate it
sanely and appropriately.
A sufferer in “kindred kind” is
found in A. C. Jolly, columnist of
the Bartow Herald, Cartersville,
who says: “Trying to WTite a va
riety (of course its country) col-
MAN'S WORST ENEMY
One of man's worst enemies are
the insects. Insects are the most
numerous and versatile group in
the animal kingdom and can be
found practically anywhere on
umn bounces one from high tide earth where life exists.
to low, on occasions. Sometimes,
with time fast running out on you
there is a famine of ideas. Then,
again, paragraphs present them
selves and pass in review faster
than you can jot 'em down.”
The number of divorces in
Georgia is increasing at an alarm-
ing degree and which may be ex- stalk,
pected to continue with the re
turn of our soldiers from over
seas. To speed these procedures by
the courts the next legislature may
be asked to pass a law that di
vorces may be granted in 90 days.
There may be some good argu
ments in favor of such speedy ac
tion by the courts. But there is no
sound reasoning why more couples
cannot live happily together.
They can live in water, on land,
above the ground or . under the
ground. They can feed on all
parts of a plant above the sur
face or attack the roots of a plant
below the ground. They can find
lodging in the heart of the larg
est trees or between the surfaces
of a leaf or within a tiny leaf
Every housekeeper in this coun
ty knows the scourge of certain
insects. Roaches can make life
miserable for the woman of the
house, while moths may destroy
the most valuable clothing in the
wardrobe, if proper precautions
are not taken.
While ants attack dwellings or
other structures and may continue pass
their depredations unknown
ly foolish
“And in the same issue of the
paper wa a small notice telling
of the arrival of a few thousand
more men from ‘overseas’ and a
notice of a soldier long missing in
action being dead.
“Our dead not yet counted; our
fighting men not home from the'
fronts; our wounded not over the
first pain and suffering from their
..sacrifices; our country still in the'
J throes of converting from war to
peace; a whoel world filled with 1
revolution, strikes, bitter fighting
and old prejudices; a world which
is rich in spots and desperately
poor in others; a world that is
bright in one small location and
dark and depressing in the great
er part; and our Methodist friends
want America to forget.
“For the generation who fought
this w'ar, most of whom were just
barely walking when the previous
great conflict finished, to be over
ly enthusiastic about the possi
bility of immediate success of the
world conference of nations and
an international policing agency
would be entirely understandable;
but for the generation who has,
seen the beginning and ending of
two great conflicts, who have
personal knowledge and experi
ence of the forming of world courts
of peace treaties, and then turn
ing them into mere scraps of pa
per by powerful aggressors, to
a resolution saying the
quickly. Those who have been
away longer will not be of much
immediate value but will require
less refreshing to be usable sol
diers.”
war is not over a£ long as one
United States soldier, sailor, or
marine has to police a foreign
country. It will never be over as
long as life lasts, for the maimed
bodies and minds of thousands of
war veterans in hospitals, or the
heart-rending anxiety endured by
millions of relatives at homo
while their loved ones were sub
jected to all the dangers of the
battle front. This war, as other
wars, had its price also its
profiteers.
“The review of the Federal Re
serve Bank of Atlanta carries an
article which says that tung or
chards offer a new Crop to the
Southern states. If the output of
tung oil increases appreciably it
is probable that the paint and
varnish industry will be attracted
to the South.
"The quick-drying property of
tung oil is of great value in the
manufacture of paints and varn
ishes.
“Tung trees have been grown in
Georgia since 1912, but most of
the oil has been shipped from
China. The United States received
j 175,000,000 pounds of tung oil
from China in 1937, but ship-
I ments declined sharply when war
j broke out.
j “Texas produces a small amount
of tung oil, but the main belt ex
tends through Louisiana, Missis
sippi, Alabama, Georgia and into
Florida.
“The production of the oil from
Southern orchards is reported to
have increased steadily, and it is
profitable that the industry will
continue to grow.”
Already with the lifting of gaso
line rationing the death rate in
traffic accidents in the state of
Georgia has increased 40 per cent.
No report was given on the num
ber of accidents, but it is assumed
that the increase in accidents is
an even greater percentage.
Tax Payers
Notice
It is interesting to learn that
the life insurance companies of
the United States and Canada
have created a medical research
fund which will spend $3,500,000
in the next six years. The first
problem of medicine that will be . ,
attacked concerns heart and ar-1 £ er ,_ ce11 . 0 tho va ue of his crops
teriai diseases which cause some
400,000 deaths annually, or about , .
insect pests. Weevils, worms,
to building of powerful armies is 1
anyone until the building is “utterly foolish” is to be trite!
ready to collapse. Flies with “utterly foolish." j
their disease-bearing proclivities, “The people of the United
are not only a nuisance but are a States are determined not to*
menace to the health of human have another great war. By re- !
beings - Imaining strong and trained we
can see that we will not have an- 1
The farmer sustains an average
annual loss of not less than tei
if he takes no measures to con
trol or check the ravages of these
40 pet* cent of the total
this:
other war. By allowing ourselves
to become weak once again we
invite disaster.
“There is no other way to main
tain the necessary military ma-
country. Thus far, the amount ex
pended for research
is far less than for cancer, tuber
culosis and other major diseases.
grasshoppers and the like take chine than through universal mili-
m this field |their annual to11 of the profits of tary training. It is the cheapest,)
the farm. i it is the fairest, it is the best long
All over the land there is a real
It will be quite time enough to
talk about the faults and failings
of absent friends when we have
and j general awakening of the assured ourselves that we have
people as to performances of duty none of our own of which to
by public servants. And this does speak. \ j
not stop at the president, at con- j
gressmen and at governors of, People in general throughout
states. It goes all the way down Georgia, Methodists in particular,
the line. It says to each and 1 deeply sympathize with Rev. C. W.
every public servant, even down Curry in the death of his estim-
to the officials of the smallest able wife, which occurred two
town and to the constable out in weeks ago at her home at Ocilla.
the country district: “YVe expect Mrs. Curry was a woman of cul-
you to do your duty, we expect ture and refinement and a sin-
you to do the things We elect you cere friend of the sick and dis-
to do, that we pay you to do, that tressed and was a great help to
you take the oath of office to do; her husband in his minsterial
range program. We all must fight
in war through the draft—why
mustn’t we all serve in time of j
peace through the same demo- )
cratic and fair process. One year’s 1
service is little to ask of a man. I
Most men of today’s generation
have given three years in service
to their country. The country is
asking only one from it’s youth, j
"From universal training will ‘
come many benefits to the nation 1
that a large standing professional
army can not give. Better health)
among our youth, many skills and
trades, and a strong individual!
capable of independent action.The
one year’s training among so
youths,
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many youths, will impress on
we want you to toe the mark and work, he having held pastorates at each the value of education in a.
do your duty, remembering that a Cochran, Cordele, Douglas, Jesup, manner which no other force can >
man placed in office should have and other cities and who until a demonstrate. Each youth will see 1
no aspiration higher than the year ago was Superintendent of that in a competitive field where!
faithful performance of duty and the Warren A. Candler Hospital at names and finances have no bear- ;
to win the confidence of his peo- Savannah for 11 years and served ing> il ^ ability and education 1
pie." That is the sentiment of the with distinction everywhere he that trium Ph. Instead of hindering
people of today.” has lived. education—higher education it
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Dec. 20th
P. A. Jenkins
Tax Commissioner, Taylor County