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TUP BUTLER HTRALP. BTTTT.VT? GEORGIA, MAY 19, 1949.
THE BUTLER HERALD
White Cane Week
Seventeen Hundred Copies.
Established in 1876
Entered at the Post Office at
Butler, Ga., as Mail Matter of
the Second Class Under Act of
March 3, 1879.
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
20-30-40-years ago columns in
weekly newspapers furnishes a
tine opportunity for gossip as re
lates to the age of one’s neigh
bors.
A Wisconsin working woman cut
off her loafing husband’s head
while he slept the other night. That
is a pretty dangerous practice to
get started.
Having a number of paying in
dustries—some new, some old—
Butler is now out stronger than
ever before to secure more. As an
inducement we have plenty of la
bor and the finest year-’round
climate.
Labor—both union and non
union—has always had our inter
est and sympathy. But demands of
organized labor in the Ford strike
at Detroit and taxi-cab drivers in
Atlanta are both very much out of
place and we sincerely hope that
adjustment will be reached at an
early day without further incon
venience to the public.
We have no time for anonymous
letters. They are about as low as
treason. Unsigned communications,
however, to prohibition enforce
ment officers, which are called
“Way-bills”, are an exception. If a
good citizen knows of a liquor still
in operation, that is his way of
tipping the raiding authorities off.
Lots of times the blockader is a
fellow who wouldn’t hesitate to
burn your home or barn
tion for being “turned up
n retalia-
Having had the pleasure of re
viewing the program arranged for
the annual convention of the Geor
gia Branch National League of Dis
trict Postmaserters in session this
week at Brunswick it is with sin
cere regret our inability to be
present, our first absence in a
number of years. Prominent
among the speakers will be officials
of both Washington, D. C., and At
lanta offices. School of instruc
tions and boat trip to Jekyll Island
will also highlight the convention.
We heartily agree with Lieut-
Gov. Marvin Griffin on the subject
of limitation on public spending as
expressed in his weekly newspaper,
3he Bainbridge Post-Searchlight. He
says: “As business levels off we
are going to have to be content
with a little less, and our people
are going to l.~ve iu be content
with fewer public services than
are now paid from the taxpayer’s
dollar. If we don l have one Hun
dred million dollars to spend on
roads, then we will nave to be sat-
istied wan wnat we nave, it we are
not willing to dig up o4 minion
for schools, then we will have to
be content with 5b or 60 million.
What we have should be the best
we can get for the dollar we
spend.’’
This week is being observed
throughout the nation as “White
Cane Week,” under the sponsor
ship of the National Federation of
the Blind.
George Cord, chairman of the
iWhite Cane Week committee,
writes:
"Would you who can read this
swap vision for a good chicken
dinner? Of course you wouldn’t!
Neither would you take a million
dollars for it because vision is so
vital to you in almost everything
you do. But blindness is no re-
spector of persons—it could over
take you today. We therefore trust
you will be willing to help the
blind to help themselves by buy
ing and selling all the WCW
Stamps you can during White Cane
Week, the third week of May, 15
to 21 inclusive, 1949.
“Your purchase of and aid in sell
ing WCW Stamps will help to se
cure needed and adequate legisla
tion, rehabilitation, vocational
training, employment, loans for
their own business, books, informa
tion, and many other benefits for
the blind. It will aid in establish
ing bettersight conservation and in
preventing the sighted children
and adults ol today from being the
blind of tomorrow. It will help to
educate the public about the blind,
their problems, and the use and
purpose of the white cane.”
Editor’s Friends Tender
* Sympathy in His Accident
We feel it in our soul that we
speak for several thousand readers
of the Walton Tribune, Monroe
when we say that we felt lonely
last week without the privilege of
reading Ernest Camp’s weekly
column in the Tribune, its ab
sence due to Ernest’s confinement
to his room following a fall two
weeks ago. We sincerely hope he
will soon be restored to his usual
good health at the same time re
suming his ever interesting writ
ing. Mrs. Sams did a fine piece of
pinch-hitting for Ernest during his
affliction.—Butler Herald.
W. Eugee Wilburn
Is Qualified for Place
On State Patrol
Last week in his personal col
umn, the editor of The Tribune
apologized for continuing to men
tion the accident in which he was
recently involved, but it seems
difficult to get off the subject.
One reason for that is that his
body continues to be somewhat
sore from the tumble he took in
the bathtub at his home on April
Public attention is being in
creasingly focused on the growing
proportion of old people in the
population and on the social and
health problems which arise out of
this trend. A century ago, about
one American in every 40 was 65
years or older. At present, one in
every 14 is in this age bracket, and
the outlook is that the proportion
will rise to one in eight well be
fore the year 2000. According to
current mortality conditions, more
• nan three-fifths of the newly-born
white male babies and almost
three-fourths of the newly-born
white female babies will reach age
65. Their chances of living 10 years
beyond that age are still substan
tial. More than one in three of the
boy babies can look forward to
reaching age 75.
17th, and another is, he cannot af
ford to ignore the kindly expres
sions of interested friends.
He greatly appreciates the above
fine expression from his old
friend, Charlie Benns, editor of the
Butler Herald, one of the most gal
lant and chivalric figures the Geor
gia Press has ever known, and one
of the best men that the state af
fords.
The fall I suffered bept me laid
up for a couple of weeks, but I
sustained no broken bones, and
have almost entirely recovered, I
am glad to state.—Editor Ernest
Camp in the Walton Tribune.
Commencement Season
Is Here Again
By determination, working long
hours, will-power and grit, in most
cases is the secret of sucess, Dewey
raue, owner ot the in-Lounty
News for the past three months, is
about to get matters straightened
“Ut in his plant and has a much
orighter future than ten days ago
when as he says: “In three months
time wq have been boycotted by'
two different groups; had our ma
chinery sabotaged; had some of
our equipment stolen; been as
saulted and threatehed with death;
had to put up with drunken print
ers because there were no others
available and finally had our
printers hired away from us in or
der to put us out of business. Prog
ress of the Tri-County News may
be slow for a while, but we are
iiow definitely ‘on our way.’ Noth
ing can stop us, for there is little
icit which an ingenious evil mind
can invent which has not already
oeen used in an attempt to destroy
us.” The Herald deeply regrets
jjiother lattes worries ot the past
and extends sincere congratula
tions in having the back-bone to
Stand for his convictions. May his
new and better start grow and
ripen more rapidly than his most
hopeful anticipation.
One by one. the schools and col
leges in our educational system
are holding their commencement
exercises and thousands of boys
( and girls will be released from the
medium of classes for the next
Ihree months while some of the
graduates will go out into the
world to establish a career.
We have never looked up any
authority on the subject, but we
take it for granted that the word
“commencement” means that the
emphasis is being placed on the
j beginning of freedom for these
J youngsters who have been study-
j ing, according t o their grade,
| everything from the rudiments to
i higher mathematics.
J Perhaps in the little red school
house of the countryside, the lit-
•.lest boy gets by w'ith his com
mencement contribution by recit
ing:
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick;
Jack jump over the candlestick.
His sister of a larger growth per
haps stands up before admiring
parents and other members of the
fluttering audience while she
reads a beribbonded essay which
includes the statement that she
is—
Standing with reluctant feet
Where the brook and river meet.
Somewhere in between may
come the boy who stood on the
burning deck and that soldier ot
the legion who was born at Bin
gen on the Rhine.
From Montezuma Georgian:
Legal action challenging the
right of Eugene Wilburn to serve
on the State Pardon and Parole
Board was dismissed Tuesday by
Judge Ralph Pharr, of Fulton su
perior court.
The action was initiated in the
form of a petition in behalf of E.B.
McLendon, convicted of having
murdered his estranged wife, Doro
thy Jones McLendon, in Augusta
June 13, 1948.
McLendon’s attorneys, Randall
Evans, Jr., and Samuel E. Tyson,
alleged in the petition that Wilburn
at the time the Pardon and Parole
Board turned down McLendon’s
plea for commutation of his death
sentence, was serving on the board
illegally.
According to his attorneys’, Wil
burn is both a banker and a mem
ber of the State Democratic Com
mittee and these endeavors con
stitute “utside interest” expressly
forbidden by law to members of
the Pardon and Parole Board.
In his decision dismissing the pe-
tiiton, Judge Pharr said that it
“fails to present a cause of action
and fails to allege facts sufficient
to entitle him (McLendon) to the
equitable relief sought.”
Tyson said the case will be ap
pealed to the State Supreme Court
and that additional legal action
would ze sought in Macon county.
Biscuit Kept 54 Years
Hartwell—A petrified biscuit re
cently was discovered in Hartwell
in excellent condition considering
it is near its 54th anniversary. The
story began when the biscuit as
part of a lunch was carried to the
Cotton States International Ex-
Dcsition in September, 1895, in \\
lanta.
The biscuit has been kept by be
ing wrapped in tin foil for the first
few decades of its existence.
Miss Emma Kay, of Hartwell i s
the owner of the biscuit.
NO. 1
FROM PAGE
does all things to which we defy
contradiction.
SOME INTERESTING THINGS
are heard when a bevy of
high school seniors get together
and give their experiences the day
after the night before when they
are out late with their first dates.
HAD THE FEELING Friday after
noon of experiencing an old time
Postmasters’ Convention after a
two-hours conference with an in
spector, three Postmasters, each ac
companied by his wife, one by
both wife and recent addition to
the family who may some day be
come U. S. President.
PAYING THE PENALTY for late
sleeping was charged to Dr. Lewis
Dean, owner and proprietor of the
Dean Hotel, as he emerged from
the City Coffee Shop about 10 a.m.
Friday.
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Reynolds, Ga.
Not the fear of being ambushed
as the result of giving editorial
expression as that accorded to
Weyman Carmichael, Sr., editor of
Lhe Morgan County News, Madi
son, Ga., but after long experience
in the newspaper business we have
come to learn that ours is not an
institution of correction nor a me-
uium for spreading sensationalism
or gossip in a small community;
nui mm of disseminating news
from reliable information and en
couraging co-operation and friend
ly ties between neighbors, and
progress in the business affairs of
the community. Under the caption,
“Grandpa and Grandma On the
Road to Hell,” Editor Carmichael
carried as a leading editorial in
the News last week as a sensation
al story in which he stated in
part as follows: “Yesterday we
saw an old grandpa and an old
grandma acting mighty frisky at
each other. Not long ago we saw
this same old grandpa and the
same old grandma parked out on
a side road in the woods. Grandpa
has a wife and grandma has a
uusband but grandpa and grandma
were hunting thrills. We know sev
eral of this type of grandpas and
grandmas in Madison and they get
mighty mad w’hen you point a fin
ger at them. We don’t think it
makes any difference what they do
for they are going to hell anyway
but we want to ask them for the
sake of our young people not to be
so shamefully brazen about it. Any
person that will swap* heaven for
the lust of the flesh is a fool but
any person tnat will swap heaven
for the lust of their flesh knowing
that Almighty God will cast them 1
into the flames of hell forever and
ever is a wicked fool.” I
Mr. Eugene Anderson in his
“Around the Circle” column in the
Macon Telegraph, which is always
highly entertaining to his many
readers, gives some interesting ex
periences in his early career among
which he says: “When I was ap
prenticed to the Hawkinsville Dis
patch at 14 and was to be paid $7
a month for my services the first
years, and $8 the second year, 1 ap
pealed for a chance to make more
money; and then I was paid by the
column for typesetting. This was
the first chance I ever had for
making money. As a farm hand I
earned $25 one year, but it set me
wild with enthusiasm when 1 had
a chance to make $35 in a month
by setting type by the “piece”, as
it w r as called in a printing office,
i’o make so much i had to work
early and late, so I carried my
breakfast, dinner and supper in a
bucket, and w'orked from daylight
till 10 or 11 o’clock at night. My
employer, George P. Woods, said to
me one day that he was going to
fire me to keep me from working
myself to death. The only condition
under which he w’ould let me keep
my job was that I should join the
town’s baseball club and play ball
each Wednesday afternoon. I
thought it was a great waste of
time, but 1 did not ’want to lose
my job. I hated it when it paid me
only $7 a month, but when I
could earn five or six times that
much money by hard w'ork, I en
joyed it.” How odd that sounds to
a youth of today wanting to learn
a profession, whether it be in a
print shop or otherwise. But it
takes that sort of stuff to make the
success that has come to the three
Andersons—the late W. T., Payton
and Eugene.
Now' that summer is in the im
mediate future and all of us will
be keeping windows and doors
open, it’s time to think of the
neighbors—particularly when hous
es are close together. Of course,
every man’s home is his own; but
it can become a grinding nuisance
to the neighbor next door when the
radio is played loud enough to be
heard in the next block. And too
many of us do just that! We can
all be better neighbors by helping
keep the noise down. Your neigh
bor deserves that consideration,
don't you think?
The only difference between
youth and age is experience,” says
L. L. Patten in his Adel News with
which we are fully in accord. Con
tinuing, Brother Patten says: “It
is said that a young man lives in
the future and an old man lives in
the past. The old man is but the
same young man seasoned by ex
perience. His experience has given
him a different outlook upon life
and too often that outlook dampens
his ardor and ambition. When he
was a young man the future look
ed exceedingly bright and nothing
seemed impossible to him. He ex
pected to dc great things and
looked forward to the day when he
would be both wealthy and famous
tor then he was living in the fu
ture. It is well for the progress of
mankind that young men are ego
tists and dreamers. It is well that
young men can only see a bright
tuture ahead. It is well that young
men hitch their w'agons to a star
for how else w'ould great things be
accomplished. When a man reach
es the age where the future does
not look bright and encouraging,
where he no longer dreams of do
ing great things, he then becomes
an old man and begins to live over
again the times that have passed
and that is why it is said that old
men live in the past.”
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you have to harvest it! And, nine chances out
of ten, your neighbor’s will he ready for mar
ket at the same time. You know what that
means—big crops generally bring lower prices.
But that’s the yearly gamble we farmers expect
to take and our income depends on what the
harvest will bring.
“But let me tell you about my nest egg crop
—pulpwocul. W ith pulpwood, I pick the time
for harvest...whenever it’s convenient for me.
My pulpwood is just about the most convenient
crop a farmer can grow.”
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crops! You can grow pulpwood on land which
will not grow other things at a profit. And, after
your trees are planted, nature willingly pro
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