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THE BUTLER HERALD BUTLER,
The Butler Herald
fcntered 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.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
Phone: UN. 2-4485
It is a funny thing, but people
who have work to do very often
stop to play.
An open mind is a good asset,
but don’t let it become so open
that nothing stays in it.
The problem for American
farmers is how to consolidate the
recent gains made in their in
come.
Most of us can always find an
excellent reason for doing what we
want to do when we want to do
it.
The high cost of living so-
called is not as important as the
high cost of bankrupting the gov
ernment.
Correct this sentence: ‘‘For
some reason, which I cannot un
derstand, I am behind with my
work this week.”
Advertising is the primer of the
pump of business — if you use
your head you will know how the
pump works.
The business man who tries
something and fails and then gets
busy for another trial will some
make the grade.
If all arguments, debates and
set speeches in the world were put
In a pile and burned, there would
be much blaze but very little
loss.
Advice: Anyone who is lavish
with the sompliments will get
alceig in this life. People absorb
flattery like kittens lap up cream.
Advertising is known by the
company it keeps. Your business
message in this newspaper is wel
comed by the best families in the
county.
It is about time for some in-
telligccit author to produce a best
seller which which will not be
based on what so many of them
are based - on—if you know what
We mean.
Accidents in the Home
We are certainly reminded of
the danger which lurks on the
highways in the United States, and
the number of fatalities we exper
ience each year — on our high
ways — is a national scandal.
There is another danger about
some of us seldom think, and that
is the danger of accidents in the
home. We are familiar with acci
dents in which young children are
shut up in refrigerators.
Every year, however, countless
others take various poisons or
medicines, which are left carelessly
about in home, cut or burn them
selves and suffer a variety of seri
ous accidents. Thousands are need
lessly killed.
It is surprising how many acci
dents occur in the bath room in
the home, and in the kitchen. But
accidents occur in other places,
and usually they are attributed to
carelessness.
Safety authorities advise parents,
and the heads of households, to
make a precautionary survey of
possibly dangerous conditions in
the home! at least once or twice
a year. If you will take this ad
vice and remove potential hazards
for all members of the family, es
pecially the young, you may well
prevent a personal tragedy In our
own home.
Bible Verse to Study
“Great peace have they who love
thy law.”
1. Where may this great state
ment found?
2. Who is its author?
3. Is its truth evident today?
4. What is the most pressing need
of mankind, other than salvation
Answers to BlbleVercse
1. Psalm 119:165.
2. The absolute identity of the
writer is not known, but probably
David.
3. Certainly — those who love
and obey God’s laws are at peace
with themselves, with God and
their fellowmen.
4. Peace of mind, which comes
only thru a right relationship with
God.
Out-Maneuvered
Going to a party with your wife
is like going fishing with the game
warden. Whatever you catch you've
got to throw back.—The McAnad
News, McAlester, Okla.
Mate Makes Right
If a man gives in when he is
wrong, he is wise. If he gives in
when he is right he is married.—
i Dawson County News.
eports From
SHINCTON
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t ON MARCH 1 the United States
Tariff Commission will take up a
case which affects, either directly
or indirectly, the pocketbooks of
virtually all Georgians.
At the direction of President
Eisenhower the Commission will
begin hearings
that day on
whether to im
pose import
duties on the
swelling flood
of cheap for
eign cotton
textiles which
is destroying
the jobs of American textile work
ers and putting this country’s cot
ton farmers out of business. The
Acts that Georgia is the nation’s
fifth largest producer of cotton
textiles, that one out of every
three Georgians employed in in
dustry works in a cotton mill and
that more than 85,000 Georgia
cotton farmers are dependent
upon the industry as the market
for their crops make our State’s
stake in the outcome of those de
liberations obvious.
* * *
SINCE THE END- of World
War II our domestic cotton tex
tile industry has been penalized
going and coming by the Federal
Government’s trade and foreign
aid policies. On the one hand it
has been forced by trade agree
ments which have made tariff
protection meaningless into com
petition for American markets
with foreign industry paying
slave-level wages while on the
other hand it lias been put in the
position of helping underwrite the
further development of that com
petition through foreign aid
grants and loans, the dissemina
tion abroad of American technical
know-how and the subsidized ex
portation of our surplus cotton.
The forthcoming hearings rep
resent the culmination of a 13-
year-long fight by the industry
and Senators and Congressmen
from textile and cotton states for
relief from this intolerable plight
which has cut American spindle-
age almost 12 per cent since 1054
alone. Admittedly, they repre
sent a back-door approach to the
problem beenuse they involve the
question of whether the safe
guards of Section 22 of the Agri
cultural Adjustment Act shall be
invoked—that provision being one
designed to protect American
agricultural commodities, in this
instance cotton, from unfair com
petition from abroad.
» * o
THE ISSUE WAS brought to a
head by the strong case made by
the National Cotton Council and
the vigorous representations made
to President Eisenhower and Sec
retary of Agriculture Benson by
myself and other like-minded
members of Congress. Consider
ing the fact that it is being done
over the outspoken opposition of
a State Department which con
siders the American textile in
dustry an expendable pawn in its
game of international politics, the
development can be considered a
victory of considerable magnitude.
If our cotton producers and
processors are to thrive and en
joy the benefits of our expanding
national economy, it is essential
that they be given relief from
policies which force them into
competition with industries
abroad which operate under con
ditions which would be illegal in
this country and which enjoy a
further advantage of being able
to purchase subsidized American
cotton at a price of 25 per cent
under that prevailing in this
country. For the sake of the
future economy of Georgia, it is
to be hoped that the Tariff Com
mission will see that it has a clear
duty to give that relief and to do
it promptly and vigorously.
Time to Kiss and
Make Up
The election is over, and if a few
unkind words were said, just for
get about it, and let’s all join in
a sincere effort to make Taylor an
even better county.
You are bordering on being an
Ole Sage, if you can remember the
good times had by young and old
at a candy pulling party.
Independent Research
Oldsters remember when a per
son scratched when he itched, in
stead of going to see an allergist.—
Chicago Sun Times.
Pungent!
Asked for a one-word definition
of Edgar Allen Poe, a student
promptly volunteered: "Dead.”—
Tri Supply, Philadelphia.
Thirty-five years ago the issues
were (1) economy in government,
(2) the power of labor and (3)
look out for the Bolshevicks.
It will do you little god for the
doctor to tell you, after your
health is gone how you could have
avoided a collapse.
Bang! Bang:
Big shots are little shots who kept
on shooting.—Spotlight, San Diego,
Calif.
Wealth will take care of itself;
what this country needs is some
body to see that the average man
and woman gets a break in the
battle of life.
Every cotton grower is hoping
our recent cold weather will reduce
the boll-weevil population.
OGF will advance $250.00 to
several farmers interested in plant
ing five acres of sweet potatoes
and tomatoes; or you may have a
better plan which will be given
serious consideration.
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Just any day now, you can and
will see the City Slickers on the
banks of creeks and rivers, trying
out new gadgests to catch fish.
(nof prepareJ or printed at government espenee)
Just wondering why it always so
happens the big fish get away.
—One Gallus Farmer.
The Defense Picture
The defense picture is curerntly
the hottest controversy in Congress,
and because the consequences of
U.S. defense policies are so grave,
the issue has caused genuine alarm
among the respected members of
the 86th Congress.
Never has such a spectacle pre
sented itself in the national capi
tal. In a period stretching back to
the end of World War II never
have so many prominent military
figures criticized our official, all
important defense policies, all im
portant defense policies as is hap
pening today.
The military figures are joined
by the Central Intelligence Agen
cy’s chief, Allen Dulles, and—of
course—they are joined more
strongly by prominent Democratic
members of Congress.
Grumblings were heard long ago
Werner Von Braun, renowned rock
et scientist, began protesting al
most bitterly, more than a year ago
Various committee reports, includ
ing the Gaither Committee, con
tained clear warnings that we
were dropping behind in the vital
missile and rockets race .
The disturbing part of the gen
eral picture which is not a subject
of dispute is the admitted fact that
we are behind the Russians in the 1
inter-continental ballistics field.
Even Administration defence of
ficials admit that the Russians
will have an ICBM superiority of
3-1 over us by next year.
The charged and replies, on be
half of the Eisenhoker Admin
istration, have flown so thick and
fast in the last year or two that
it is difficult dififcult for the aver
age citizen to know just who is
right and what to believe. Many
find it difficult to believe that a
dis-tinguished general and Presi
dent would allow this country to
fall behind in the vital defense
field.
Taylor County Tax Books
Are Now Open
TO RECEIVE STATE AND COUNTY TAX
RETURNS FOR THE YEAR IMS
All persons owning property January 1,
1960, must report it for taxation purposes.
In order to get the benefit of HOMESTEAD
and PERSONAL EXEMPTION it will be neces
sary for you to file your application on or be
fore April 1,1960.
I will appreciate your calling by the Tax
Commissioner’s Office the first time you are in
the Court House and making your return.
Yours to serve,
All Persons Selling Rifle Cartridges $ 5.00
All Persons Selling Fire Arms & Cartridges 15.00
C. H. ADAMS
Tax Commissioner, Taylor County, Georgia
and
Photos vividly show conditions at Hospital 48. Gapping holes, falling plaster, and crowded waiting room, the ulumbing is rusted
exposed, wiring is dangerous, and there aren’t nearly enough beds for the need. V S
CONDITIONS AT VETERANS
REPORTED “SHOCKING” BY
By Pete Wheeler
Georgia Department of
Veterans Service
An ancient building with rot
ting walls and crumbling ceil
ings, old Hospital 48, is the only
government hospital in Atlanta
available to the veterans of
Georgia — a horse-and-buggy
hospital in the medical jet age.
And even if the old building
were modern, it would not be
near large enough to serve the
veterans of this huge million-
population city, Georgia, and
the Southeast.
A visit to Hospital 48, as the
above photographs testify,
would amaze even the most in
sensitive person. He would find
desperately ill veterans turned
away for lack of accommoda
tions, and those who were
“lucky” enough to enter are
housed in a building partially 70
years old. The “newest” portion
is 40 years old.
The hospital has a capacity
of only 300 beds with which to
serve applications of more than
10,000 veterans per year who
need medical care. Each day the
waiting room is crowded with
veterans seeking entrance, yet
each day the hospital can accept
only a few from this group of
the sick.
The personnel at Hospital 48,
working oftimes in almost im
possible circumstances, are to be
commended. They are doing an
'utstanding job without proper
facilities.
The hospital has no facilities
whatsoever for the mentally ill,
a field now recognized as one
of the most critically important
fields of medical care. These
many of them actually suffer
ing the scars of war—must
either crowd their way into
state hospitals or pay huge
sums for private care.
There are also no facilities at
all for women patients — the
women who accepted military
jobs alongside the men in re
cent wars.
It is almost impossible to
imagine that the United States
government would even main
tain so aged a building as Hos
pital 48. The walls have gapping
holes where the plaster has been
torn away. The plumbing is
rusted and unjointed in places.
The wiring is extremely dan
gerous. (The building could be
classified only as a fire hazard.)
Yet our government appropri
ated several millions to erect a
HOSPITAL
WHEELER
new modern 650-bed hospital on
Formosa for Chinese veterans.
There is not a single room in
this entire hospital with a pri
vate bath, regardless of how
desperately ill the patient may
be. And there are no restrooms
at all for their visitors.
The need to begin construc-
t 10 " ° n a new veterans hospital
m Atlanta, with at least a 1,000-
bed capacity, is extremely criti
cal. Even at the very earliest, it
will arrive too late to save many
deserving veterans.
Congress should consider an
immediate investigation of the
facilities at Hospital 48. There
is little doubt that such an in
vestigation would show the need
for an immediate appropriation
of the necessary funds for the
hospital Georgia’s veterans
need. i