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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, DECEMBER 19, 1957.
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North Georgia Scouts
Helping Needy During
Christmas Holidays
Clayton, Ga. — Yonah Council
Scout members are emphasizing
"doing for others” this Christmas
season.
In Hall county, scouts are col
lecting and renovating toys and
clothing. The fire department is
helping with the project, and the
welfare department will distribute
the toys and clothing. Some troops
are stuffing stockings for Red Cross
distribution.
Nacoochee seniors are making
J pinecone tray favors for Habersham
! Hospital. At Clarkesville, Brownies
j plan to sing carols for shutins dur-
' ing Christmas week.
Rabun County Scouts are making
| ~ baby layette to be given to the
first baby born on Christmas Day
! in Rabun Memorial Hospital. They
are also making tray cards for the
hospitals. The Brownies are mak
ing scarves and corsages for their
mothers.
Rupert Club Cake Sale
►
Between now and Christmas Eve
any one desiring a good home
made cake, may call Mrs. C. O.
► White and place their order,
k Phone UN 2-3566. Proceeds will go
l to the Rupert Club.
President Eisenhower
Has Begun Greatest
Gamble of His Life
Washington, D. C. — President
Eisenhower has begun the greatest
gamble of his life. Thirteen years
ago he took another great gamble
when he ordered Allied forces
across the Channel into exactly the
same area he is invading this week.
That was considered one of the
greatest invasions of all time. But
the gamble this week is more dan
gerous.
When he invaded France, June 6,
1944. Gen. Eisenhower had spent
months building up a massive at
tack force. It had been planned by
the best men in the American
Army and Navy. Furthermore, it
was not his decision. So if he failed
those in the high command, Frank
lin Roosevelt and Winston Church
ill, would take the blame. Further
more he clid not sail in the van
guard of the attacking fleet. He re
mained in Supreme Headquarters
in England until it was known that
the invasion would be successful.
This time, however, Eisenhower
must take full responsibility for
failure. This time he sails in the
vanguard.This time he is on hand
to struggle with the initial holding
forces. This time preparations have
been almost nil. No great body of
experts prepared the preliminary
plans. Only one Cabinet officer
went in advance to scout hostile
territory. Eisenhower himself was
ill, did not prepare to head this in
vasion until the very end.
Nevertheless, he invades in or
der to hold secure that which he
conquered 13 years ago. It is a he
roic gamble taken with the cour
age of an old soldier.
Talbotton Land
Purchased for White
And Colored Housing
Talbotton, Ga., Dec. 15 — R. H.
Jordan, executive director of the
Housing Authority of Talbotton an
nounces that the purchase of all
parcels of land for both the white
and negro housing projects has
been completed.
The white units will be located
on Highcrest Drive near the Tal
bot County Hign school The Negro
units will be built on a tract of
land between state highway 41
and the old Talbotton- Woodland
Road near the Ruth Carter school.
Jordan also stated that the final
plans have been completed by J. J.
Hartz Co., architects for the project.
They have been submitted to the
Public Housing Authority for ap
proval.
Upon approval by PHA, it is ex
pected that tho local Authority will
call for construction bids early next
year.
FORMER GA. CONVICT
TO GET ELECTRIC CHAIR
FOR SLAYING THREE
Moultrie, Ga. — A 53-year-old
former convict has been sentenced
to death in the electric chair in
the fatal beating of his sister and
her two grandchildren on Nov. 16.
Judge Lilly set Jan. 3 as execu
tion date for Otha Atkinson Adams
of Morgan, Ga., itinerant farm
worker, after a Colquitt superior
court jury convicted him of murder
Friday.
The jury did not recommend mer
cy, making the death sentence
mandatory. It was not immediate
ly known whether the case will be
appealed.
New & Used Bicycles
For Sale
We are Agent for
Columbia Bicycles & Parts
We have used Bicycles that will serve the same
purpose as new ones. These Bikes are being sold for less
than half the price of the cheapest New Bicycle.
We have the time to repair your Bicycle for you if
you have one in need of repairs.
All of our work and all Bicycles we sell are strictly
Guaranteed.
New and Used Watches
Watch Repair Service
Named Brand Jewelry
Watches and Jewelry, Watch Bands,
Bracelets, Rings, Necklaces
“WE SERVICE WHAT WE SELL”
IRA H. THREAT
Jewelry & Bicycle Shop
Ph. Un. 2-4495 & 2-4211 BUTLER, GEORGIA
Woodmen are Santa's Helpers
In hundreds of communities, Woodmen Camps bring Christmas cheer to children, the aged,
uisaorea and less fortunate.
Carolina, for example, Woodmen Camps have raised thousands of dollars for their
annual Christmas parties at more than 20 orphanages. Some 1,500 boys and girls will receive
clothing, toys, candy and fruits.
Other Camps participate in the Society s varied program of helpful Yuletide activities, including those
in Chattanooga, lenn., where hundreds of pairs of shoes are given needy youngsters. Fellow
Woodmen everywhere receiving hospital and outpatient care provided free by the Society for
victims of pulmonary tuberculosis, and others disabled or unfortunate, are also remembered
with luletide gifts.
This is part of the ^Society’s year-round program of civic and humanitarian services, th«
exclusive plus of the life insurance it provides its members at cost.
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World's Financially Strongest Fraternal Beriefit Society
Ezra Taft Benson
Makes Timely Comments
Of Interest to Farmers
THOMAS E. TANTE
District Manage 1
Butler, Georgia
WOOMEN t°h f . WORLD
The Herald is publishing some
statements made by U. S. Secretary
of Agriculture Ezra T. Benson
which doubtless be of interest to
local farmers These were some of
the remarks made by the Agricul
tural Secretary at a recent news
conference:
You have heard, I have heard
much speculation in recent weeks
on whether the Secretary of Agri
culture is a political asset or a lia
bility. I have been told this: "What
you say may be true, but then
YOU don’t have to be elected.” I
have heard it said that "Benson is
basically right on the farm tacts
but dead wrong politically.”
Let 'me say right here that what
I am about to say is a statement—
not of resignation—but one of reso
lution.
I cannot believe the people of
thisc ountry want any double talk
from a Cabinet official of the U.S.
Government. So let’s keep the rec
ord straight:
Congress has the final respon
sibility of enacting our laws. The
job of the Derartment of Agr°ul-
ture is to administer these laws
and to recommend improvements
However, laws which try u set
farm prices and control produc
tion will not cure the farm prob
lem. If they could, then it would
have been cured two wars ago —
four Secretaries of Agriculture ago
—back in the days of the New
Deal.
That is why this administration
has consistently recommended a
number of changes in the farm
program. Had our recommenda
tions been adopted years ago farm
ers would be much better off to
day. For everyone knows now, be
yond any doubt, that past attempts
to legislate farm prosperity nave
merely encouraged surpluses and.
put agriculture deeper in the hole.
The cotton program, for example,,
which cost the government more
than $600 million this year: This
well-meaning attempt to help the
cotton farmer really hurt him in
stead. He has lost many of his
markets at home and abroad. He
has been squeezed down to where
today over one third of all cotton
allotments are less than 5 aci^s.
And cotton has spread the surplus
disease to other crop to hurt other
farmers.
You can depend on this—I’m tor
farmers. But I do not believe—and
I’m sure farmers do not believe—
that we can spend our way io farm
prosperity. Last year it cost us $3.3
billion to carry out the present
farm price support and stabiliza
tion programs. If this had brought
a solution to our problem, It would
have been a bargain. Instead, the
problem is still with us.
I came to Washington with only
one purpose—do the best possible
job I could for farmers. Here are
the things this administration
stands for:
1. Freedom to plant.
2. Freedom for farmers to make
their own management decisions.
3. Getting rid of every undesir
able control and taking the shack
les off farmers’ efficiency.
4. Building farm markets at
home and abroad.
5. Getting food into stomachs in
stead of storage.
6. Helping all farmers to help
themselves — especially those on
smaller farms.
7. Using our ability to produce
abundance for the blessing it real
ly is.
With these long time aims as
our guide posts, we will again pre
sent suggested revisions in the
farm law to Congress in this
coming session. For I’m convinced
these basic aims are good for
farmers and good for our Nation.
It is the program I will fight for
as long as I am Secretary of Agri
culture.
And my personal plans are to
continue as Secretary of Agricul
ture. In September the Presi
dent asked me to stay on. I agreed
to do so. Nothing that I know of
has come up to change this under
standing.
You will recall this administra
tion came into office with an over
whelming mandate from the people
i who above everything else wanted
1 integrity in government. I believe
that is still what the people want.
And with other matters of great
urgency now facing our nation, it
is doubly important that we rise
above selfish politics.
I do not propose for the sake of
political expediency to run the
risk of destroying the very family
farm we set out to save. And per
sonally, I do not believe one bit
that telling the truth ever hurt any
political party. I intend to continue
to tell the truth.
There will be great opportunities-
for statesmanship rn the next ses
sion of Congress. To those who rise
to this need, both farmers and na
tion I will be forever grateful. And
I will do everything in my power-
to contribute toward a good clim
ate or statesmanship.