Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
rHE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, AUGUST 29, 1946.
THE BUTLER HERALD
Entered at Postoffice at Butler,
Georgia as Mail Matter ot
Second Class.
Chas. Benns Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Seventeen Hundred Copies
Established in 1879
The man who taught base ball’s
celebrated “Bahre” Ruth to play
the national game was honored
at a dinner in Baltimore this
month.
Nothing but the right can ever
be expedient, since that can never
be true expediency which would
sacrifice a greater good to a less.
—Whately-
After all, kids, this
school talk may not be
chatter. Have you consulted
calendar lately? Tempus has
way of fugiting, you know'?
| THE LEGIGN LOOKS AHEAD
■ On August 4, one hundred high
school lads invaded our nation’s
capital to gain for themselves a
knowledge of what makes our
Federal government "tick.”
These boys are the 1946 gover
nors and lieutenant governors of
the American Legion’s Boys States
which are held annually through
out the nation for the purpose of
educating the nation's youth ir.
the machinery of our state govern
ments. The Legion has now initia
ted a program to enlighten our
youth and future leaders in the
functions of their Federal Govern
ment with Boys Forum of Na
tional Government.
unite in Washington the young
leaders u'ere given an intensive
5-day course of instruction on the
operations of our executive, ju
dicial and legislative government
branches. They actually took part
in mock sessions of Congress and
the U. S- Supreme Court and thus
learned by personal experience
the Democratic w’ay our populace
of 140,000,o00 citizens is ruled and
governed. The Legion’s guests also
buildings and
BUMPER CROPS AND
FEED SHORTAGE
back-to-
just idle toured our federal
were instructed upon the activities
that go on within. By visits to Mt.
Vernon, Arlington National ceme
tery and other national memorials
they were reminded of the toil
and sacrifices—sweat and blood—
that has been expended to make
our nation the greatest in the
world today.
i It is indeed ncouraging to see
the veterans who fought in the
' two greatest wars to preserve our
After all what is the difference democracy looking ahead by edu-
between the gangster u'ho shoots eating our leaders of tomorrow. In
his victim in the back from a dark these days when national scan-
Political eyes throughout the
state are focused on the state
democratic convention to be held
in Macon in October, where awaits
perhaps some very surprising
turns.
Good news for farmers and feed
ers, as well as for consumers ot
meat, milk, butter and eggs, is
contained in a statement just is
sued by the American Feed Manu
facturers Association.
The feed shortage, which was
the most severe in our nation’s
history, is about over. Feed pipe
lines, long practically empty, are
filling up and flowing normally
once again. This rather sudden
change is a result of the expiration
of OPA price ceilings and regula
tions on farm products, the pro
gressive development of prospects
for bumper feed grain production
this season, and some reduction in
livestock numbers.
Tire association states that pros
pective feed supplies in this coun
try are not only large enough to
feed out the livestock and poultry
on hand, but they will be so
large that at no time during the
coming year will the cost of feeds
become unreasonably high.
This prediction is based primari
ly on the U- S. Department of Ag
riculture’s crop report which esti
mates a record corn crop of 3,488,-
000,000 bushels. Indications are
that it will not only be the largest
corn crop in history, but high
quality as well. It must be re
membered that - orn is the basic
feed ingredient, representing 75 to
80 per cent of all grains normally
used in producing meat, milk and
eggs.
At present there
controls on
PLAY SAFE
The present puzzling situation
throughout the country affects this
section as well as all others, and
business, administrators, farmers
and all are in a quandary. The
situation is accentuated by the
present price of cotton. Inflation
uncontrolled has always been fol-l
lowed by depression, and now that
prices are high and goods scarce,
it is hard to know just what is the
sensible thing for each one to do.
A prominent and experienced
student of business and political
affairs and conditions urges that
the thing for all to do now is to
pay any and all debts he may owe,
and make few new ones. The man
with no debt hanging over him is
the man best fitted to cope with,
any situation which may arise. If
prepared for it, a depression can 1
prove beneficial. There is no need
for pessimism at this time, even
ihough the cloud of the future is
rather thick. Whatever comes if we
are ready for it, can be withstood
without great loss or inconven
ience.
TAYLOR COUNTY TAX LEVY
FOR THE YEAR 1946
IN REGULAR COMMISSIONERS' SESSION
BUTLER, GA.. AUGUST 6. 1946.
GEORGIA—TAYLOR COUNTY:
It being the duty of the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of
Taylor County, Georgih, ,to levy a sufficient amount of taxes to meet
the current expenses of the County for the year 1946 from the general
property of the County, and the Digest of the County shows a total
value of property, of $1,514,850.00, less exemptions of $672,350.00;
leaving a net balance of $842,505.00.
It is therefore ordered by the Commissioners of Roads and Reve
nues of said Taylor County, Georgia, that the total rate for the year
1946 be assessed at .017 (Seventeen) Mills or one and seven-tenths
(1 7/10) of one per cent of all property in said County subject to tax
ation under the laws of the State of Georgia. The same to be ap
portioned as follows:
1.
To pay sheriffs, jailors, or other officers’ ees thatf
may be a legal charge to be paid by the County
To pay coroners all fees that may be due them by
the County for holding inquests
To pay expenses of of the County for bailiffs at
Court, non-resident witnesses in criminal cases,
To pay jurors a per diem compensation
fuel, stationery, etc.
Mills
1/8 Mill
Because we are in the midst of
a serious real estate inflation
as this country has ever seen, it is
folly to buy or build a home in the;
present market, according to Miles:
Colean, former Assistant Federal |
Housing Administrator. “Don’t |
huild. Don’t buy,” Colean declares
in an article in the August issue
of House Beautiful magazine, a
are no price publication which ordinarily en
grains, grain products, courages the construction of new
doorway, and
blasts the good
man or woman?
the gossip
name of a
who
good
With cloudy, cooler Weather for
the past few days we will soon be
bidding farewell to the good old
summer time. May peace accom
pany you while joy will welcome imately
your return six or eight months ic ,
lienee.
An amendment to the
Constitution will be submitted
the voters of Georgia in the No
vember < ., lion. The present Con
stitution is only a little more than
a year old and shoiild not be
amended at present. This proposed
amendment will create a new
board but the State already has
more than enough of these. Let
the present constitution alone un
til it seasons for awhile
making any amendments
provisions,” is the good advice ot event
dais, involving our very lawmak
ers and shaming our entire nation
are emanating from Washington—
when petty politics is holding up
the forward motion of our great
nation—when racial and religious
discrimination and persecution are
tolerated and preached by some ot
our national leaders—and when
60 per cent of our
citizenry is ignoring its sacred
right and duty to vote in state and
national elections, it is a con
state solution to see the American Le-
to gion in its politics-free service to
community, steate and nation
looking toward the future by fos
tering the education of our young
citizens and future leaders in
the principles upon which our
great country was founded and
for which the Legion’s memoer-
ship twice fought to prestrve.
The American Legion should be
before encouraged to make Boys’ Forum
to its of National Government an annual
on a large scale to insure
feed ingredients, and livestock homes.
and poultry feeds. There is abso-!
lutely no necessity of reestablish- ; Georgia is a great state in many
ing these controls in the face of wa y S regardless of the accusa-
bounteous crops. i tions, charges and attacks made
on it, principally by magazines,
Oat supplies indicate that on
July 1 we had one o£^ the largest c0 ] urnn ists writing for
owned syndicates, labor
carry-overs of 1,741,000,000 bush
els. This, along with the big corn
crop in prospect, plus a normal
supply of barley and an excep
tionally good crop of
grains, leads the AFMA to fore
cast a large enough crop of feed
grains with the usage of only the
minimum requirement of wheat
for feeding purposes.
Even taking all these factors in
to consideration, we have a good
prospect of having an oat carry-
northern-
racketeers
and pretended uplifters who are
jealous of the south’s growth, ex
pansion and sound progress.
S *°. r Crime, brutality, poverty, slums,j
strikes, lockouts, racial disturb
ances, hate, gangsterism and oth
er evidences of low ideals, dis
respect for law, degeneracy and
unrighteousness are widespread in
many parts of the east and north.
But the reformers, meddlers, Com
munists, sensationalists, and Euro
10.
To pay expenses incurred in supporting the poor
of the County, Public Health and otherwise pro
vided by law
To pay other lawful charges against the County
To pay salary & expenses of Tax Commissioner
To pay $1,000.00 oh Bond issue payable through
Fulton National Bank, dut Jan. 1, 1947, and
interest on the unpaid balance
Mill
Mill
Mills
To pay salary of County
law ,
Agent as provided by
1 5/8 Mill
1 1/2 Mill
1 1/4 Mill
1/2 Mill
For maintenance f county roads and to purchase
new equipment
6 Mills
levied for the
It is further ordered that Five (5.) Mills be
bonded indebtedness of Buller School District.
It is further ordered that a County-wide Tax of Fifteen (15)
Mills be levied for school purposes as provided by law under
the New Constitution and requested by the County Board of
Education.
Section XII
Paragraph 1. Taxation by Counties for Education.
The fiscal authority of the several counties shall levy a
tax for the support and maintenance of education of not less
than five mills nor greater than fifteen mills (as recom
mended by the County Board of Education) upon the dollar
of all taxable property in the County located outside inde
pendent school systems
It is further ordered that the Tax Commissioner collect the above
teaxes for the various purposes after allowing exemptions as pre
scribed by law and pay them over to the proper authority.
over next July 1 of well over 300,- ...
nnnnnn i u 7 . , , pean scum residing in various
000,000 bushels, and a good chance ^ b
the Tifton Gazette-
the future good government of our
nation.
Walter Locke, well known col-j
omnist, gives us these figures to
consider while talking about the
possibility of another war: “The
wars of the United States have
cost, all told 414 billion dollars.
The value of all the farms, homes
factories, stores and oilier property
in the United States is 300 billion
dollars- The United States has
spent on its past wars more
money than the whole nation is
worth. What the nation has spent
on its wars would give every
American an $8,000 home, a $1,200
automobile and $2,000 in the
bank. The money cost is but a
small part of the total loss from
war. The loss of life and health is
more than money. The harm to
mind and morals is worst of all.
The special ills which war creates
and never cures are long-term
costs of war. The present inflation
and the future deflation will be
greet jr costs of the Second World
Wa. than the direct expenses of
the war.”
WE SHOULD PROCEED
CAUTIOUSLY
of having more than a 600,000,000
bushel carryover of corn. This
would be the biggest corn carry
over on record, except during 1940
and 1941 when the government
made loans to support the market i
price of corn. |
These increased feed supplies, if
left free to move in normal chan
nels, spell increased production of
meat, milk, and eggs for the
| American public. Also, if the prod-
: ucts which the farmers produce
difference of are left free of price control « the
people of this American housewife will have a
tree choice of the type of food her
parts of the east and north do not
try or want to see their faults or
admit them. It is popular to at
tack Georgia principally and other
states of the South.
Respectfully submitted,
L- P. ANTHONY, Clerk.
Read, approved and ordered signed and published in The Butler
Herald this the 6th day of August, 1946.
J. RAN COOPER, Chairman,
Wm. M. BROWN, Member,
A. S. JAMES, Member.
There may be
opinion among the people of this
country as to the advisability of a . ., . , . . ,. ,
single defense force, or as to the faml . 1 y most desires-beef, chicken
credit to be given the various
services in connection with victory
in Europe and Japan, but there
should be no present hesitation in
insisting that the country be pre
pared for anything that might
happen in the future.
General Jacob L Devers, Com
mander of the Army Ground Forc
es, points out that the forces of
lust and greed have lost two wars
because the United States was
given time to gather strength. In
both wars, aggressive attacks
failed because we had allies able
to withstand the onslaught until
we got ready. General Devers
warns, however, that “we will not
have that advantage in any future
war.”
meat, pork, veal, etc.—A choice
she has not enjoyed under regu-,
lated prices.
With the feed and food pipelines
rapidly filling as the result of free
markets and visible supplies of
teed and food, there is no reason
to fear a runaway inflation of food
costs- On the contrary, common
sense tells us the price trends
point downward from present lev
els. |
It takes time to go through this
“get-off-steam” period and to fill j
up these food pipelines. Once they |
are filled and production con-j
tinues under a free competitive
system, the American housewife
will begin to see the results of
abundant supplies and large pro-!
duction. I
i Infantile paralysis continues to
When the Central Railroad in- rise sharply in the southern sec-
augurated the “Nancy Hanks" tions of the nation. While the rate
many years ago people marveled has not reached the high of the
at its beauty and speed as well as epidemic years following World
comfort found in its fine new war I, still the rate is well above
coaches- Today the old reliable 1944 and seems to be continuing in
Central has taken a much more a n upward direction. Whenever
advanced step in providing com- disease strikes a community the
fort and luxury for those who attention of the population is
compose its traveling patronage drawn to available medical facili-
besides increased efficiency in its ties so that it is in these times
own behalf. The latest improve- that newspapers and others are
This agricultural program,
which has so universally been
adopted by our farmers, will keep
Taylor county on the map: Pea
nuts, potatoes, peaches and pe
cans. Butter, eggs, cream, velvet
beans and peavine hay. Chickens,
hogs and cattle; little cotton for
to battle; builders’ sand and china
clay, with lumber will save the
day.
ment is the placing in operation on
its line between Macon and Co
lumbus and passing through But
ler twice daily the high powered
handsome stream-lined Diesel en
gine and to which is attached six
to eight elegant coaches. Each
morning, though the hour of its
passing through Butler is before
most of our people are up and
out for the day, yet many sacri
fice an extra hour’s rest to line
the road side to watch t.»e stream
lined passenger train go by and
marvel at its beauty and wonder
ful power. This is said to be the
first of eight Diesel passenger
train engines soon to be put into
operateion by the Central. The en
gine,
interested in advancing the prog
ress of community medical insti
tutions. Millions of dollars have
been and are being spent on the
development of man killing weap
ons, now is the time to speak up
for man healing institutions.
The story is told of a resident of
another city who continues to
have faith in the banking system
and in mankind because of an ex
perience of many years ago as a
nine-year-old newspaper boy with
weekly earnings amounting to
about $1.50 to $2.00- He had just
made a small deposit to bring his
savings total to $9.00. A stranger ceive
followed him from the bank and white people
a 2,000 hourse-power, 315,000 said, “Son, there are circumstances they stay in
With all the spasmodic intense
excitement demonstrated by Times
magazine and other Eastern and
Northern publications on account
of an occasional regretable out-|
break between whites and Ne
groes in the South there is in-,
creasing fear among most people
of that section of a general migra
tion of the Negro to parts of the
nation North of the Mason-Dixon
line. Leaders among the colored
brethren well know this and well
know, too, that no welcome awaits
their coming and are beseeching
them to remain in the South where
they are better understood and re
better treatment from the
of the South when
their place and re-
pounds, stretches 71 feet and 14 that will make it necessary to train from committing some of the
inches. After reaching Columbus close this bank. It is likely that crimes for which they are too fre-
about 7 o’clock every morning it is you wall not be able to get your quently guilty. It is a well known
then attached to an Atlanta money again when it does close, fact that the Negro is not wanted
passenger train, returns to Here is the money from your ac- in the North, but such publications
count, I want you to take it and as the Times feel that they are
keep it, so you will continue to rendering their Northern patrons a
believe in banks.” The money was service by their bitter reproach of
taken from the man’s own pock- the southern white man when the
was the bank Negro and his problems are in-
' volved
bound
Columbus from Atlanta about 9 p.
m. the same day and leaves Co
lumbus for Macon at 11:15 p. m.
passing through Butler again
shortly after midnight. No smoke, ets. The stranger
no cinders, no puffing, no blowing- examiner.
NEED BUILDING
BLOCKS?
Then see us
money can buy.
guaranteed to satisfy because:
for the best that
Our blocks are
1. They are built with the latest and
most up-to-date machinery obtain
able.
2. They are made from ground granite
and cement only—no sand.
3. They are 3-cell blocks — which
makes them stronger and more
practical for all building purposes.
Our plant is open for inspection at all time.
Come by and see our plant in operation and
compare our blocks with all others before you buy.
COOPER
Concrete Block Company
Rupert, Georgia