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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 8, 1946.
THE BUTLER HERALD
Entered at Postoffice at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter of
Second Class.
Chas. Benns Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation j
Seventeen Hundred Copies i
Established in 1879
HOW WHITE PRIMARY WORKS
IN SOUTH CAROLINA
Whoever started the rumor
Georgia Democrats would so dis
grace themselves by bolting the
state primary and put out an in-1 A t 13th is date set f the
dependent candidate in opposition White Democratic Primary r in
A NOBLE GEORGIA EDITOR
The first time ye editor ever at
tended a session of
MONROE'S COURAGE
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
ITS IN THE AIR, THEY SAY
) A confused, and bewildered,
The members of the First Meth- shocked nation has its eyes cur-
to the regular nominees in the
July 17th primary is possesssed
with more brass than brains. True
democrats and good citizens don’t
do things that way, but will be
found standing loyally by the par
ty nominees in the November
election.
That Chicago alone has inflict
ed upon it more murders and even
greater tragedies in a few short
weeks than recorded in the entire
South Carolina in which there are
11 candidates for Governor.
™ . ... , fj(0rgla odist Church of Monroe, Ga., have rentlv on Tennessee
ress Association he became ac- condemned the lynching of four Athens in Fast Tenneccor.
quainted with a gentleman, then Negroes near there on July 25 as , a , S ’ n E f S . t Tpnnessee . re-
o B , 7 . ^ ^ y .. „ turned veterans literally went to
No Negroes will vote. A few Secretary of the body, in the per- an outrage against humanity, war with their own _ e -J , ,
on son of Charles E. Benns, editor of called on the law enforcement P
managed to get their names
established county political mach-
the Democratic Club rolls, but all that bright, scintilating weekly, authorities to bring the guilty to in without doubt corrunt and evil’
♦ unco ,„nrn i,t n r u.. „ The Butler Herald, published at justice, and pledged their co-oper- . . . . 1 ’
these were later purged by
special party committee in each of Butler, Ga
the 46 counties. about the
Much has been said in recent est or d° r
months about Georgia adopting
South Carolina plan in main-
the
supremacy in our
Heard on the air—“Thirty days
hath September, April, June, and South in months yet we are none
November, but
hath May?”
how many days
less , shocked and grieved by
There are still those who de
mand government spending, in
spite of the already heavy output
of public funds.
Children are dying of hunger in
countries that fought with us.
Help save them by giving money,
or food in tein cans, to the Emer
gency Food Collection. Give gen
erously—today!
the
the turmoil and tension that South Carolina white primary
gripped this fair land of ours last machine we relate it herewith,
week by the killings in Tennessee:
the lynching of four negroes in
Georgia; and the challenging in
federal court Georgia’s county
unit system of determining elec
tions. Let us hope that we will
soon get back to sane and sensi
ble reasoning.
Our first impressions ation. Their act is courageous, it is
man were of the high- just, and it is the kind of act which
and, keeping up with alone will really stamp out lynch-
him through the years, -we never ing-
found the least room for a di- The reason lynching persists in
version of that opinion. He, as ed- the South is that cowards who hide
itor, postmaster in his city, in the annonymity of the mass
churchman, fraternity man, and, know they will be protected. They
as an all ’round good citizen, has know the law-enforcement officers
proven of incalculable worth to will not
his section of the state in its en- they do, „ . . _
tirety. That he thinks of us in the will not sit as jurors and convict a S°°d thing. It is disturbing be-
When the U. S. Supreme Court highest terms and regards our them. They feel that they are pro- cause the immediate good, of it
made decisions that struck direc- friendship as true blue he recently tected by the mores of their com- np vertheless, may be productive of
ly at Southern primary laws that columnized us in his excellent munity— and they are usually a ^ bei / similar, disorders without
million, dear right about it.
boy and, whenever we can serve i n • Monroe, it seems, they are
you, give us a ring. We have oeen wrong. There are law-abiding clti-
taining white
primary laws.
For the benefit of those who
wish to know the workings of the
sought to out-count a political
ticket composed of veterans.
The machine had followed a pat
tern. It had imported as “deputies”,
toughs from other sections. It could
not longer depend on its own
people.
Yet it ruled them politically.
It is a disturbing thing to say,
arrest them, or that, if hut viewed from this distance, the
the law-abiding citizens Usht of the veterans probably was
l There are various avenues, of
course, thru which men become
i the servants of a nation. To men
tion only a few, there are men
who toil in the market places of
the world and add to the fame attempted to
and volume of the commercial
the nations
Any young man who can save
a thousand dollars these days has
in him the elements of financial
success. It takes a lot more self
denial to save a thousand dollars g rp atness ot
today than it did 40 years ago. , lh ^ represent. There
1 who serve the people as states-
„ ... . men in our legislative assemblies.
Getting out a nev\spaper is There are others, whether in one-
probably a v hole lot like being room sc hool or in the halls of the
happily marned. f a guy knew g,. ea t colleges and universities,
what he was getting into, he vv b Q add f ue i to the flame of
would.n t, but since he did^ he knowledge. There are the farm-
wouldn t think of quitting. Ella- ers w j 10 fjj] the granaries of the dates,
ville, Ga., Sun. , | 6
barred the Negro. South Carolina, . v „„ k , v Thanl .„
in a special session of the General
Assembly, repealed all status re
lating to primary elections. Now
the party is governed exclusively
by rules framed in the State Dem
ocratic Convention. Such rules are
not enacted into statute law- With
no statues in South Carolina re
lating to primary voting, the
United States Supreme Court, if it
modify the state’s
set up, would be compelled to
in the Benns’ home at Butler and
can safely say we were never in a
lovelier, more hospitable one,
anywhere at any time.—Rev. Ed
A. Caldwell, Editor Walton News,
Monroe, Ga.
zens in Monroe to whom murder
by lynching is no less heinous a
crime than murder in any other
fashion. They have uenounced iiie
mores by which mob murder is
tacitly condoned and mob murders dians of our government.
Flattery always finds a weak are hidden from justice. We are too often willing to ap-
spot in human nature, being only By offering the co-operation in pease political machines merely
human we are oblige to like it tracking down the murderers, they because it isuncomfortable to op-
the basic principle of this one. If
guns are required to upset bad gov
ernment they can also be used to
establish and maintain it. That is
profoundly disturbing. Yet it is
“good’' if it makes us think.
The moral is plain.
We, the people, are the custo-
“ lcla attack the party machinery from and appreciate what Rev.Caldwell are building up a new custom to- pose them. The people of McMinri
'|u IC , the standpoint of a private club or has to sa Y whether we ^.de- ward lynching—a custom of decen- County, Tenn. have long known
are those organization antl not from the serve it or not- Nevertheless we cy and humanity, enforced by law their county political machine was
standpoint of state law or consti- thank you for such kind words, upon those who are not by their corrupt. But it was not until fam-
tutional inhibitions i Brother Ed. ’own choice decent and humane- We ily was turned against family; not
The theory in South Carolina is 1 hope there will be thousands more until guns blazed in the streets;
thnt if thp Npprn votes in a nri 1 Since his re-election as Repre- like the members of the First Meth not until children were joining in
mary he must conduct his own sentative in the House of Repre- odist Church of Monroe. If they seeking to kill other persons, that
primary and name his own candi- sentatives from Hancock county, come forward, the people of the they began to look at themselves.
It is the continued jnain- John C- Lewis, it is said, • has United States will at last see a us are used to the saying
of the racial segregation started an active campaign for cleansing from their land of the that ali these things that are hap-
~ " ■ ” pening today come about because
world and clothe her citizens, tenance - ~ „ ,, ,. ,, , , , ,, „ , , ,
1 Each, in his particular sphere, la- in politics in vqgue when national Speaker of the House, succeeding black and ugly blot of lynch law.
Summer time is picnic time and bors in his nation’s vineyard, and administrations other than Demo- Boy Harris who was defeated a
along the fun comes the ever pres- deserves the love and the honor crats were seeking the full en- 1 f pw months ago in Richmond The 79th Congress has adjourn-
ent danger of forest fires—started of the people.
by carelessness- With America’s
forests already depleted by war
time demands every effort must
be made to preserve what re
mains. Warning after warning has
been carried we know but then,
if only one fire is prevented by
repeating the message the space
can be justified.
“It’s in the air.”
It* is time to ask why there is a
contagion in the air- And what
to do about it.
The Atlanta Constitution.
franchisement of the Negro. county. Mr. Lewis has many ed and j(- s members returning
“White supremacy” is something fronds among House members as home for a muchly needed rest. It
of an issue in the current state ) vell u as thousands^ of^ well wishes has been one of the longest and
campaign, but candidates - are not in tbe state that he be given this mo st eventful in history. However
as violently articulate as those in deserved honor. t h e job must be alluring, judging The Federal Aid for Vocational
Mississippi and Georgia recently: by the way some of them recently Education Bill, which was signed
were*. | With many supplies still off the fought in campaigning to retain by President Truman in Washing-
Two of the candidates in par- store shelves several midwest their seats. ton, will mean the training of
ticular—.John S. Taylor, of An- towns have staged Town Fairs practically twice as many young
who represented the where members of the community Dorothy Dix says: “The fact that people and veterans in trades in
District in Congress six can buy and sell from and to each one marriage out of four ends in this State, State Vocational Di-
J. R. (Country) Ham, well !'* * a enncerninr^voW which years, and John D. Long, of, other- According to reports the divorce, and doubtless half of the rector M. D. Mobley said. Among
known and equally well-liked current - imo those who know Union, a meraberof the Lower, idea has been a big success with others are nothing more than those present when President Tru-
k House of the State General As-; many an unused item returned to armed truces, with both parties man signed the measure were
fight, and that a Sen. George, author of the bill,
Every man would be a better
citizen if he cared more for the
verdict which the public passes
upon him. The world may not al
ways be correct, but it has each
one of us sized up and may us
ually express its opinion in a
short sentence. In the town or derson,
neighborhood where you live there Third
editor and publisher of the Abbe
ville Chronicle, has decided to re
tire from active direction of his
paper, he announced in a recent
issue of the Chronicle. His daugh
ter, Janice, and his nephew, Jim
Cumbus, have taken control,
you.
bad
ST trusted,“he “isTVadbe'aThe ton and northern interference
has made much out of the public southern politics major planks
and gives as little as possible in their platforms,
return, he is a blessing to his ' r ’
though Mr. and Mrs."Ham 'will community—such are some of the The Herald joins hosts of devot-
continue to helD out “around the °P' n ' ons which find place in the ed friends throughout the state of
edges ” S m^ds of those who know us. It is Editor Ernest camp, of the Walton
j well, perhaps, that the world does Tribune, Monroe, Ga., in wishing
The announcement that Mr. E. not tel1 us vv ' hat h thinks of us, for him spe edy recovery from an
H. Bazemore is to begin at once but we , ma >' be , certain that we illness that necessitated hosptali-
the erection of a 500-unit freezer- are foobng ourselves only if we zation an d probably t he loss,
locker pant adds another link in think that we have the respect ot (temporarily only we trust) by
the chain of progress that has men regardless of the worth of our the public of his very interesting
spread over Butler during the citizenship. The fact is that the column -‘Tenting On the Old
past 12 months. From all quarters world secretly laughs at us Camp Ground” in the Tribune-
come words of commendation on ur ? accoun o e veiy iags
which we take a pride, it takes us
a long time to learn that in re
spect to the opinions of our fel
lows as well as in connection with
our own happiness we can get no
more out of life than we put into
it.
h e j s a hie but cannot sembly, have made the Washing-j use by a new owner. This takes us spoiling for a
c k ac k some twenty-five year when real happy couple, who enjoy each and Mr. and Mrs. Mobley. The
in such occasions were not unusual other are pointed out as a curiosi- George bill increases Federal aid
I in this community and were a ty, is ample proof that marriage is for vocational education from
j source of pleasure as well as not the success that intelligent $14,200,000 to more than $28,000,-
profit. people should make it.” 000.
on
behalf of Mr. Bazemore on his
spirit of enterprise- That such a
plant is needed is beyond doubt.
Butler is rapidly increasing in
population and a place to store
and feed people is in great de
mand. There is an abundance of
cattle and hogs, fruit and vege-
teables in the county that are be
ing lost or going to waste for the
lack of such facilities, and besides
the convenience it will ’prove to
our people the saving of thous
and of dollars annually it is ex
pected.
Gems of Thought
It is motive alone that gives
character to the actions of men-
Bruyere.
Preaching the gospel and edit
ing a weekly newspaper are
separate vocations and neither
conducive of winning the ap
plauds of the public, but if we
are any judge the prize would go
to Editor Jones of the Jackson
Progress-Argus, for what we con-
We have enjoyed reading about sider one of the best sermons ever
the baby contest being conducted condensed into one paragraph in
at Americus by the Pilot Club and the following: “A world torn and
extend hearty congratulations to rent by strife and bickerings may
the winners. Zoe Patricia Lowe, find consolation and comfort in
39-month-old daughter of Mr. and the camp meetings now about to
Mrs. Clarence Lowe, was adjudged get underway in many portions or
the grand champion George Hen- the state and the South. For
ry Irwin, Jr., was declared the generations these camp grounds
most handsome baby. Nineteen- have been focal rallying points for
month-old Nancy Sue Thaxton was the religious life of the people. In
adjudged the prettiest baby. Mar- peace and war these camp meet-
tha Anne Kennedy was voted the ing have gathered large numbers!
most physically fit and that 0 f people to hear the gospel;
means she must have drunk her preached and to listen to the mes-1
orange juice and eaten Tier cereal, sages in song. The world now can
Since all contestants were pretty stand a revival of the old fash- >
and handsome the margins of ioned religion. In fact many be- !
victory were very narrow. We lieve that a revival of religion is'
ought to have more such contests the one thing needed to cure many :
as it encourages us to pay more G f the problems facing a perplex- '
attention to our children; to be- ed and bewildered civilization.!
come interested in their looks, \y ar did not solve the problems
their health and their education. as expected. Diplomacy is not
making a success in settling
boundaries and the many prob
lems that grew out of the war.
Religion may be the thing needed
to bring civilization face to face j
with the fact that man is but a
puny creature after all and that
divine guidance is needed. The
camp meetings of 1946 have im
portant work to do. With all
travel restrictions removed the at
tendance should be the largest in
several years.”
He that does good for g
sake, seeks neither praise nor re
ward, but he is sure of both in
the end.—William Penn.
Right motives give pinions
thought, and strength and freec
to speech and action.—Mary Ba
Eddy.
is chiefly
Goethe.
worth
The measure of a man’s n
character is what he would do
he knew he would never be fou
Macaulay.
Belmont Dennis, owner and edi
tor of the Covington News and
several other splendid weekly
newspapers in his section of the
state, has added other laurels to
his crown by equipping one of the
best radio stations in the state in
the News office. Politics is not in
his line as proven in the recent
state election, but in church, civic
and business affairs he is unsur
passed and a more lovable in
dividual is not to be found in a
day’s travel. As president of the j
Georgia Press Association he is j
held in the highest admiration of
every member and recently win
ner in the nation-wide contest for i
the fourth best weekly newspaper'
in the United States. However if
we are any judge after reading
her weekly column “The Chatter
Box” in the News Mrs. Dennis is
certainly entitle to much of the
honor.
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