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"THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 20, 1945.
IKE BUTLER HERALD
VETERAN "CIRCUIT RIDER"
WOULD LIKE TO REPEAT
“If I had my life to go over I’d
THE MALE HOMEKEEPING
THEORY
Georgia as
Second Class.
Official organ taylor co.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Mrs. Margaret C. Jones of Fort
Valley, gives suffering housewives
some queer advice about their ar
Entered at Postoffice at Butler,
Mail Mattor of still be a circuit-riding Methodist
preacher—wouldn't change it a
bit,” so said Rev. I. R. Kelley, who duroU s duties. She asks: Are you a
Chas. Benns Jr., Managing Editor recently retired from active min- wr . ary wife mopping and dusting
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus Mgr. istry in the South Georgia Con- y OUr life away? Then let the dust
ference with 55 years added to his gather, it lends a cozy touch. Do
credit. Having given a large por- y OU have a permanent stoop from
tion of this service in Tayloi and too close communion with the oish
adjoining counties Rev. Kelley is pan? Throw out the dishes and in
Christian Science
Lesson-Sermon
"Ls the Universe, Including
Man, Evolved by Atomic
Force?” Ls the subject of the Les
son-Sermon which will be read in
Churches of Christ, Scientist, •£
throughout the world next Sunday.!!*
The Golden Text Is: "Sing unto
the Lord, all the earth; shew j ^
Average Weekly Circulation
Seventeen Hundred Copies
ctujuiiunK u/ukulo uan i 1 iinjw UUl LI1U Uldlit'd CU1U All- - Jt - , .1 . . ■> ■
well known and held in high es- stall a wooden eating trough. Dor's forih * ro ™ to hls sa1 ™' <
, .... ... . . tion. Declare his glory amons the ».
Established hi 1879
SUBSCRIPTION, $2.00 A YEAR
teem by many ni this section
Mr. Kelly attributes his happi-
the sight of overflowing ash trays
cause you to scream and tear your
ness in his work to four fundu- hair? Away with the sissy gadgets a ™° ag
mental principles which were and bring in a nail barrel. Un- j
taught him by his father in his thinkable, not at all. It’s what the j
Greed selfishness and smugness youth: Industry and independence men advocate and while nobody
ave no place in this sad old religion, honesty and truthfulness ever heard of keeping house to
be and good company. The first three please a man it might have its
among the ^
heathen: his marvelous works Ij
all nations” (I Chron. 16: j S
23-24). |i
Among the citations which com /
prise the I^esson-Sermon is the I %
have no place
world, but there seems to . .
there and every- were easier than the fourth, for merits.
he said a person knows when he All these and similar
— — is industrious, religious or honest, have been expressed by a group of
i ij ,, , „ 'but sometimes he needs a little masculine celebrities. You may not
Some one- has said that a sue ^ (o (lnd om about lhe
eessful man works < g ut ^. g £atber sa i d; “Justus celebrity indorses a wooden trough
plenty of it here,
where.
works
likes whether he ™ ako * ^ea'^The Son as a boy finds out lie’s in bad your chosen one cun do no less. If
»t.P rnot - , A “"‘f ir ;! company he’d better get out in a the famous look with favor upon
following from the Bible:
“For, lo, he that formeth the
mountains, and created the wind
and declareth unto man what is
op nions ^ thought, that maketh the*
morning darkness, and treadeth
, ... . . .. upon the high places of the earth,
be married to a celebrity, but if a - . . . •
.... a , . Toe Lord, The Uod of hosts, is his
only trouble is that one’s banker company
and his fellows measure his sue- Hurry,
cess by how much money he is
able to make. It’s wrong, of
course. After all true happiness
and contentment Ls the oniy
measure of success.
It is a short sighted business
man who thinks he can advance
his own interest by beating his
"I never forgot that,” the preach
er said.
The veteran minister, who will
be 77 years old January 24, 1946,
is endowed with a keen sense of
humor, is friendly, and a twinkle
in his eyes, smile and a twinkle in
his eyes. He is well educated, not
in a statistical way, but in a
depth of human experience, long
the barrel ash tray, should not a
lesser mortal do likewise? Asked
how they would keep house if they
were keeping house the boys let
down their hair.
If they wore the
meals a day would be the limit:
any selfish creature wanting a
third could get same without bene
fit of assistance. There would be no
name” (Amos 4:13).
' The Lesson-Sermon also Includes
1 the following passage from the
Christian Science textbook, “Sci
ence and Health with Key to the
Scriptures” by Mary Batter Eddy
■ “Either Mind product's, or it is
produced. If Mind is first, it can-
aprons two no t produce its opposite in quali
ty and quantity, called matter. If
matter is first, it cannot produce
Mind. Like product's like. In nat
ural history, the bird is not the
rugs, curtains, or drapes, thus product 0 f a beast. In spiritual his-
competitor down and putting him . d k observation.’.Born eliminating and vacuum tory, matter is not the progenitor
out of business. Whenever a man V^/th Carolin a in 1869 during Clea ™™ a ?Z of Mind” (p. 551).
following the
smarts out on a policy of this kind
he reveals himself as a small
business man. In the average rural
community this country over, any
business in it prospers most when
all the businesses in the com
munity are prospering. It never
helps any business in a communi
ty to have some other business in
the community fail—especially in
the same line.
Nortli Carolina
the turbulent days
War Between the States, the lad
pensing with the need of personnel
to man such equipment. All hooks
and hangars would be shaped like
In a few months the political
moved to Telfair County, Georgia doorknobs . Doorknobs, it seems, arc experts who missed the last elec
before he was 22 years old, and by
that time he was preaching. When
he was 24 years old, he married
Miss Katherine Lancaster, of Tel
fair County, who died in 1935. Ai
ter preaching “on his own” for sev
eral years, he was admitted into
the Methodist Conference in 1897.
tion will be telling us how
voting will turn out in 1946.
the
highly prized for hanging purposes.
Another timely suggestion for
energy-saving is the free use of,
rocking chairs. With a lay-out like Trying to please some people is
this you may be prompted to join comparable to taking a bath in
me in asking what energy, never
theless, let us pay tribute to the
thinker upper. Everything is
public, using a block of ice instead
of warm water (while a biting
dono nortli wind is whistling through the
'Ihere was adepth of warmth in while rocking. You peel potatoes, P eack orchard) without benefit of
A. C. Jolley in the Bartow Herald Mf Kelley’s description of his nnd rock . vou , dsit ove . tho te i e . soap, and using a soured wash-
•Peal® • Pwable In the following: barly mln i le rial days . His first iTk; you ZI the baby
‘ Trying to please , so ^ nt ; ^°^ le ,f charge consisted of five country { 0 sleep, and if all that leaves you "
churches in Wayne and Glynn exhausted, you just rock. j Tliis is a free country. You have
counties in the Southeast section It has long boen my belio{ tha t a rigm make Y° Ur earnings out
of Georgia. He preached every thc executive ability a man dis- of th e P°°P le of your community
plays around the house has gone to
comparable to taking a bath in
public, using a block of Ice in
stead of warm water (while a bit
ing north wind 1s whistling Sunday*at one
inrough the peach orchard)
without benefit of soap and using
a soured washrag.” Again he re
marks, “There was at least one
church and one p i ays ar0 und the house has gone to anc * s< ‘ nd them hundreds of miles >
Sunday at two churches, going t)j> waste j it has not received due ap- from home. But we have <
rail and boat with one exception, nrecia’tinn let us take to our ver y llttle sympathy for the fellow;,
when he walked. hSSSXse^uly“ru5aS and ef does so and then falls to put J j
I didn’t mind walking 23 miles ficient suggestions undoubtedly the nv< \ r some proposition he is spon-
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fonu qiemory of the good old days. - — -- - he '" said '“The resuitoFIreneratfons"of” research fioring for lack of community co-
TZLTnL L i LkflZnL road was through wiregrass and and put them into elteet. This m.y ?**?.«?"• to one and |
* nrosent nritv should a palmettos and pines, and I was be the salvation of the American a 16 to spend your money with;
a* present, price, should a v i the people form whom you earned |
young and strong. And I made home.
pastoral calls along the way." | But if not, the remedy is simple
With his wife and children he and coming as it does from one of
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THE ATLANTA CONSTITUTION
The South’s Standard Newspaper
At the present, price, should a
fellow carry his girl to a baseball
gajne, a game that hap
pened to go extra innings, it would . . , , ■■
take eiirht dollars worth of pea- liv ^ thc Peonage located cen- the interviewed, should be consid-
nuts and soda pop to do the job." frally between the churches, and ered authoritative. Says he in part,' fe
that year his pay was $284. “That “if i were my wife she would prob
lems little,’’ he said appreciative- ably be me and I would shoot my-
From reports published both in jy ( “but one dollar then went 6elf every time I tried to Interfere
Georgia and throughout tho nation ,- artber than three now, and people with the housekeeping!”
daily the number of crimes of
various kind is alarming. These
reports show that human nature
hasn’t changed much since the
days of Adam. Custom and con
vention have changed many times
but human nature is just the
same. In the old days there was
wickedness and dishonesty in
high piaces. There was dishonesty
and .thievery and corruption in
divided what they had.”
Mr. Kelley’s next charge was
Janesville, and it paid only $161.40
during the years. Though food was
cheap a third child was born that
year, and the ends wouldn’t meet
on this pay, so the preacher went
to work at cutting cord-wood.That
was the year he acquired a bicycle
for traveling.
When he got to the Statonville
On the occasion of his 73rd
birthday anniversary, Thomas Ed
ison said: “I am glad that the 8:j
hour day had not been invented i
when I was a young man. I am
wondering what would have hap- ;;
pened to me by now if, 50 years,
ago, some fluent talker had con- 1
vlnced me to the theory that
public office and there still Is. The Circuit> ho swapped off the bicycle it was not fair to my fellow work
trouble lies in the fact that we and t a borse and bug gy_ “That T 13 ^ lliy
have not yet evolved a system ot 1900 » ho ,. X nl«ined “I was m m y work - This country would
training and education by which ’ anA h '! . 1 Rot amount to as much as it does
ers to put forth my best efforts
paid $275, and had a smoke-house
and garden. That year I taught i
scliool in the week and preached
on Sundays.”
By the year 1927 his health was |
not g<x>d, so he was forced to re- j
if the young men of 50 years ago
had been afraid that they might
earn more than they were paid.”
Lester R. Ruth, State News Edi- !
aining and education by
we can build up witltin men the
moral fiber necessary to enable
4\em to stand up when tempta
tion comes. It is the opportunity
to "go wrong that shows up what
Anyone can^be* hOT^t^and^dece'nt Ure from the active ministr y and tor of the Atlanta Journal, tells j
V , _ i . __ he moved his wife (by this time . us that Carl Broom, who publishes '!
his children were “on their own”) several papers in South Georgia,
to Geneva, Ga. After Mrs. Kelley’s has discovered that the truth is I
death, he went to Americus to not always believed by his friends ■
live with his daughter, Mrs. E. B. and readers. He was raising ducks !
I Thompson, who lives now in Deca- I at his farm and one morning
tur. j discovered one duckling missing. 1
In 19-13, when the entry of so Suspecting a young dog might be;
and law abiding when he has no
opportunity to he otherwise. Until
a man is so proven these qualities
are unknown quantity in him. j
—
“Wo have never tried to tell any
farmer what he ought to do to
thc entry of
make a success," says our greatly many ministers into military fore- ; guilty, he started search. In a
beloved friend and veteran news- es as chaplains caused a dearth corner of the barn he found the
paper editor, VV. T. Shytle. “In fact of ministers, Mr. Kelley was called missing duckling, buried in th«
he says, “we would not know what to Trinity in Albany and back to straw and manure, its head
io tellhim. But in recent years al- active service. Then last week he sticking out, but still alive despite
most every calling has organized retired again—this time for good. 1 the interment and the mauling,
and we have observed that those During his 55 years of preaching It grew up to be a full-fledged
who are organizc*d have the ear Mr. Kelley has learned many! Donald. Mr. Brown told the story
of the proper representatives in things. For one thing, he doesn’t in his paper, whereupon one read-
matters of legislation. Now, a p ay too much attention to the e r remarked: “I don’t believe any
great many farmers are interested hue and cry about young people's C I°8 evcr buried a duck alive and
uvthe Farm Bureau ar.d we are delinquency. He can remember the duck lived, even if a preacher
'oing to say that we are pleased that back in the last century his does say so.” Editor Broom is also
at the fact that they are seeking father’s generation said: “What are an ordained Baptist minister and
to better their condition and that the young folks coming to 9 ” He a graduate of Mercer University,
they have, in our opinon, set believes that since the days of I
about the tasa which is theirs in the patriarchs, people have looked
trying to get a fair deal, more back through the golden light of
money for their produsts, along time and thought their generation
with the organizations which have was bet ter than the present one.
successfully fought for recognition. As £or peace> the spirit doclaros
that there can be no peace with-
Qf a)l tiie people the farmer is
entitled to a fair return for h^ la- ^ a chris tian spirit-a spirit that
bor. Throughout die war and at makes p^pjp think( trust>
and love one another.
pray,
From another state comes this
alt oUier times they have worked
hard and especially in providing
food for those who have fought our
battles on land and sea and in
the air. They have never struck story of a tar-ry mess: Philip
but have valiantly stuck at their Sylvester, 11, and a pet goat were
posts tlirough it all. At this time wandering across a vacant lot.
they are engaged In a most worthy They came upon a trench filled
effort to enlarge tlieir scope of with tar awaiting use in a nearby
influence and to get such legisla- paving project. Phil jumped, the
tion enact'd that will not be goat refused, and the rope linking
■ against them but that will vitally Lhe two jerked the boy squarely
help them. And when the man into the trench. The goat followed,
who produces food and other pro- Jimmy Oviatt, 17, working nearby
ducts prospers the whole country pulled Phil out, but it took six men
will prosper. Without the farmer prying with boards and sticks to
the world could not exist.” get nanny loose.
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