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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER. GEORGIA. JUNE 12, 1958.
The Butler Herald
Entered at Post Office in Butler,
Georgia as mail matter of
Second Class
Chas. Benns, Jr., Business Mgr.
Chas. Benns, Jr., Managing Editor
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
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Fifteen Hundred Copies
Phone: UN. 2-4485
Only old foggies can remember
the penny postcard.
Whenever a person begins to
feel his own importance, his asso
ciates begin to doubt.
A man is not made of the right
kind of timber when he carries a
chip on his shoulder.
It is time to trade the old felt
fore one of straw if we can be
sure now that winter is over.
An old man can remember when
people had time to live and were
not always rushed around like mad.
One writer says a World's Fair
visitor needs plenty of cash. One
needs that most anywhere he
agrees.
There'll never be a brotherhood of
mankind as long as agents hires
private eye to keep check on an
other.
Gov. Griffin advises that four
business firms have been incor
porated in Georgia each day for
the past year.
Life should not be all work.
Everybody is entitled to some rec
reation and amusement, whether
everybody gets it or not.
The business recession has re
duced the nation’s business rate
and may have closed out the post
war baby boom they tell us.
Atty. Gen. Eugene Cook stated a
few days ago that his investigation
of paving contract irregularities in
Baxley has produced evidence in
dicating “criminal conspiracy to
defraud the state.’’
The Macon Telegraph says Bibb
county’s political pot, which has
been unusually quiet since first of
the year, has begun to bubble as
the summer traditionally cam
paigning time, warms things up.
The Columbus Enquirer says:
Sen. Wrn. F. Knowland who for
some time was considered a prob
able candidate for the Republican
presidential 'nomination in 1960,
made it clear recently he believed
Vice President Richard M. Nixon
has already locked up the nomina
tion.
Rev. Bodenhamer wants the peo
ple to tell him whether to run for
Governor or not. We would advise
him to stick to his pulpit, and
leave the race alone. The same ad
vice is offered to other prospec-
tives.
The Christian Index, weekly
newspaper for Georgia Baptists,
has passed the 100,000 mark in
circulation. It is the second oldest
weekly religious newspaper in the
nation in continuous existence. It
has been serving Ga. Baptists since
1833. At one time The Index was
printed at Penfieid. That was dur
ing the period when Mercer Uni
versity was at Penfieid.
Says the Ocilla Star: Near Ocilla
early Saturday morning, We notic
ed a farmer sitting atop a disk
harrow which was being drawn
over a field by a team of mules. |
As we got closer we saw that the
farmer was sound asleep at his j
post, and yet the harrowing con
tinued in perfect pattern. Which
all goes to show that in this day
of mechanized farming there is
still an advantage to using the al
most forgotten mule .
Conscious as we are that age is
not the sole prerequisite to wisdom
we’re about ready to concede that
it’s often a factor. Consider, for ex
ample, the case of Fred Poulson, a
New Jersey traveling salesman.
Poulson is 87. For 50 years, he has
been cruising the highways in the
daily pursuit of his trade. Never
had an accident. The other day,
Poulson informed the Motor Vehicle
Bureau he’s decided not to renew
his operator’s license. Reason?
Too many crazy drivers.”—Char
lotte (N. C.) Observer.
Got It Again: Professor Gordon
Nance of the University of Missouri
said recently the present farm
situation reminded him of the
veterinarian who was called to look
at some hogs. Some of the farmers
hogs had died, some were about to
die, and others were sick. The vet
looked at them a long while, The
illness didn’t jibe with any ail
ment he ever had seen or heard
about. He was stunned. Finally,
the vet asked the farmer: “Your
hogs ever have this trouble be
fore?” “Yep,” said the farmer, “a
couple of years ago.” “Well,”
said the vet, "they’ve got it again”.
Big Mistake
An executive who is a great be
liever in efficiency hung up a sign
in his office one day last week. It
read: “Do It Now.”
Within 24 hours, the cashier
bolted with contents of the safe,
his stenographer eloped with his
eldest son, the office boy threw the
ink bottle into the electric fan
and the whole office force took the
afternoon off.
HINCTON
a:; r
THE REACTION TO the new
farm program which I proposed in
a recent speech before the Senate
has been overwhelmingly favor
able and, in response to the man
date expressed by the farmers of
Georgia, I have introduced legisla
tion embodying my idea.
I received
scores of letters
from both indi
vidual farmers
and farm
groups and the
consensus of
them all wns
that the farm
er wants to be
free to run his own affairs as he
sees fit. Letters from people in
other walks of life also generally
approved of my plan to restore
the farm economy of the nation by
giving the farmer protection equiv
alent to that received by labor and
industry. Particularly encouraging
have been the expressions of
agreement with my program which
have come from various Senators
and Congressmen.
* *
THE FEW OBJECTIONS which
were voiced stemmed primarily
from a misunderstanding of how
the program would work and a
confusion of it with the so-called
I “Brannan Plan” and the “two
price system.”
Basically my idea is to let the
farmer grow whatever he pleases
and to sell it for whatever price
he can get. The Federal Govern
ment would then pay the farmer
the difference between the price
of
he receives and 100 per cent
parity on that portion of his crop
which would be consumed in this
country.
Such a plan is diametrically op
1 posits to the “Brannan Plan"
which would completely regiment y
the national farm economy by die-1
tating to the farmer how much he
could plant, how he should plant
it and when and where he could
sell it. It differs from the "two-
price system” in that it would al
low commodity prices to seek their
own level rather than maintaining .
artificially-high prices on the do
mestic market.
* * * * i
THE CHANCES FOR enact
ment of any major farm legisla
tion at this Session of Congress ■
are not good because of the oppo
sition of President Eisenhower,
Secretary of Agriculture Benson
and Republican leaders in Con
gress. That is true despite the
fact the Federal Government al
ready is supporting wool on a
similar basis and the Administra
tion has recommended that Con
gress enact an identical program
of compensatory payments for pro
ducers of lead, copper, zinc and
other minerals.
However, the indicated interest
of Democrats in Congress and the
demonstrated grass roots support
for a farm program along the lines
of my suggestion encourage me to
believe that it may prove to be thei
basis for a program around which I
the members of the badly-divided J
farm bloc can rally to enact des-l
perately-needed new farm legisla
tion at the earliest possible time.
Georgia farmers may be assured
that I will not relent in my efforts
until Congress has measured up to
its responsibility to rescue the
farm economy of this nation and
to assure the farmers of America
their rightful share of the national
lnot prepu-ed or printed at government expense)
Why Retire
Eugene Anderson
In Macon Telegraph
Back in the days when we didn't l
have so many tragedies to report j
in newspapers, I acquired many
home remedies and removed so
many aches and pains from suf
ferers, I had a hard time keeping !
my patients from paying me for :
my help; but I shunned the temp
tation and respected the law.
Among those who seemed to be
filled with everlasting gratitude •
was Capt. F. S. Frierson of Butler.
He was a conductor on the South
ern Railroad, and he had many in
teresting experiences in dealing
with his passengers. He saved
lives more than once.
My mother, who was a young
girl on her father’s Hayneville
plantation had learned many sim- j
pie home remedied, had plenty of
practice on the ex-slaves and the
10 children of her own; and I.
learned much from her, as I was
the eldest of the 10.
Capt. Frierson frequently hunted
me up when his little ills were too
much for the available doctors. He
was reaching the age of retirement
and when I left Macon, I left him
there in retirement. But recently he !
found me and gave me a history of I
his program for living without a!
job. He also enumerated the serv- j
ices I had rendered in tailing him
what to do about one ache after
another.
He still has too much life and j
mentality to be retired, but ha had j
to follow the custom of his em
ploying railroad company, as he
talked to me I thought of the
great waste of human brains and
human strength in retiring such
useful ages. Throughout the nation
there are organizations that insist
on having retirement ages, and the
federal government and perhaps
some state governments encourage
the retirement practice, and pen
sion the people who are retired.
Some of the laws penalize the re
tired people for earning any mon
ey. But a man like Capt. Frierson
would be of great value as a lec
turer for younger employes,and the
interest that it would stimulate in
life for him would mean much to
all concerned.
Idleness is an excruciating pun-
Mr. Layrence Hunt
Named Perry P M.
Lawrence Hunt, clerk of the
Houston county commissiones will
become postmaster of the Perry post
office.
President Eisenhower has ap
proved the appointment and sent
it to the Senate for confirmation.
Usually, about four to six weeks
are required for the Senate to com
plete confirmation of new postmas
ter appointees.
Mr. Hunt will succeed Cullen
Talton who has been acting post
master for the last two years.
All-Niffht Parties
Judge Alfred D. Noyes of Rock
ville, Md., says that graduation
parties should not be allowed to
turn into all-night affairs. He has
been in office for 12 years and is
a Juvenile Court judge.
Judge Noyes said the activities
of teenagers during such frolics
can only lead to trouble and pos
sible court appearances.
“It gives me great alarm and
concern when parents let young
sters experience sophisticated and
adult thing too early in life,” he
said. "We are letting down the
bars slowly for permissiveness far
too early in life. Those May or
June graduation parties should be
kept within reason and certainly
should not all-night affairs.”
Judge Noyes said that he wasn’t
condemning all teen-agers. In his
home county, less than 2 per cent
of the children are involved in de
linquency action.
ishment to anybody who has
learned to keep busy. From the
cradle to the grave some of us live
to work, to try to accomplish
something; and we have long since
forgotten to loaf and to play. Why
do we have social clubs? What are
they good for?
They seem to be intended to
teach people how to kill time. They
are fine for retired men, but they
haven’t always advanced the inter
ests of younger men, unless they
are teaching such men to enjoy
killing time. But who wants to do
that? Or shall we insist that work
is a blessing? Some mighty good
people don’t think so.
Garland T. Byrd of Tay
lor County has the back
ground, the experience,
the ability for Lieutenant •
Governor!
(PAID POL. ADV.)
Garland T. Byrd
For
LIEUTENANT
GOVERNOR
v , Democratic Primary
'■ Sept. 10, 1958 ' \
a FARMER )
a LAWYER
a BUSINESSMAN
THAI'S A FAIT
Let me tell you what I saved when I drove a new Plymouth...then bought one!
Just like a lot of other people, I was putting off buying a
new car ... even though we sure needed one. Then I found
out what my Plymouth dealer was offering in the way of
low prices and really big trades,
j Mister, when I saw what I saved I knew there was no
use putting off any longer! Got more for my old car than
I believed possible. (Plymouth dealers need used cars and
can sell all they get!) Got a terrifically low price on the
new Plymouth .. . and choice of models besides ... hard-
tops, sedans, convertibles, wagons.
And I saved a cool $140 on the ride alone! Plymouth’s
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(Today’s best buy...tomorrow’s
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competing “low-price 3” cars.
What’s more, I got the car that proved it can save me
gasoline, by winning the 1958 Mobilgas Economy Run. A
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it will still be worth more when I trade. With the kind of
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as it is better looking!
Any wonder 1 quit waiting? Take my tip ... get your
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best trade.
Butler Motor Company
Butler, Georgia