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THE BUTLER HERALD, BUTLER, GEORGIA, MARCH 23, 1961.
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 Editoi
O. E. Cox, Publisher & Bus. Mgr.
OFFICIAL ORGAN TAYLOR CO.
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY
Congressman Vinson
Will be Honored
Rural Children
Better Behaved
Average Weekly Circulation
Fifteen Hundred Copies
Phone: UN. 2-4485
Big businesses grow slowly and
collapse rapidly.
Education seems to be an end
less affair.
Trying to please
pleases no one.
everybody
The problem of any problem is
to field the facts.
Every citizen complains about
the taxes that he has to pay.
Independence is something that
the married man brags about.
When a community has no
leader, it makes little progress.
There are various degrees of
friends, occasionally even a true
one.
Sixth District Congressman Carl
Vinson, who has served longer in
the U S. House of Representatives
than any man in history except
Speaker Sam Rayburn, will be the
guest of honor when the Macon
Chamber of Commerce meets in its
67th annual session April 7th.
The Chamber’s big annual meet
ing will be in the Walter Little
Room of the Dempsey Motor Hotel
has been designated “Carl Vinson
Appreciation Night.’’
Because Rep. Vinson’s constitu
ency covers the entire Sixth District
of Ga., Chamber officials have de
cided that guests for the annual
meeting should be invited from all
over the district.
Invitations will go to all 75
members of the Sixth District
Democratic Executive Committee
and to many others in the Middle
Ga. area.
Tho annual meeting committee,
A survey of about 900 communi
ties recently revealed that young
sters stand a better chance of liv
ing a crime-free life if they come
from rural areas or from small
cities, than if they are reared in
metropolitan areas.
The survey showed that in nine
hundred communities, each with
less than 25,000 population, the
number of arrests of adolescents in
recent years was about one-third
the number of arrests in metro
politan areas, over the same per
iod.
The result of the survey showed ing the week, too.
A Cheerful Spring
The big news of the week in
Ga. was economic. And while we
haven’t seen the color of the new
money yet, morale was given a
fine boost.
The Marietta plant of Lockheed
got a tremendous order for jet
transport. The order ended gloomy
rumors about the plant’s future. In
the fullness of time it will result
in an increased payroll there and
perhaps evevn add to the indus
trial strength of the section thru
the establishment of satellite sup
pliers.
j Delta Air Lines, whose headquar
ters are here, got a big lift dur-
The govern-
that not only were total arrests ment’s award to Delta of the
less in the rural areas, but thst Southern transcontinental route be-
the number of arrests per one tween Atlanta and California
thousand youngsters was far low- cities against formidable compe
er in rural areas and in smaller titicn added to the line’s worth and
cities. Even tho this is a better prestige.
record than is found in the cities i Like the Lockheed contract this
the survey revealed that the oium- j award eventually means more in-
ber of arrests in rural and town come for the area. And because
composed of Wm. A. Fickllng, Sr., areas per 1,000 youngsters was Delta is a native, whatever adds to
A smile can do more than mon
ey, work or words on many occa-
Your plans for the future should
include paying your debts of the
past.
Those whose values are b sed on
money alone have lost their sense
of values.
The easiest way to make an ex
pert mad is to keep some news
from him.
Life has come to a sorry pass
when a man has to lie to compli
ment anybody,
Chairman, Peyton Anderson and
Ellsworth Hall Jr., has made plans
for at least 500 persons and probab
ly more.
Vinson, who usually turns down
celebrations in his honor whether
on the ^national or local level, shied
away from the Macon Chamber of
Commerce overtures several times
in the past.
But the Chamber persisted. As
one annual meeting official said,
“we have hoped for many years to
honor Vinson and to show him the
appreciation we feel for his contri
butions to middle Ga. We are de
lighted he consented to appear at
this dinner in his honor.
Vinson will bring a short address
to the annual meeting.
Ceremonies in his honor will fol
low a session devoted to Chamber
of Commerce business, including ciety, are still more keenly
the introduction of new officers j predated,
will bo elected on April 3rd.
nevertheless increasing* steadily. i its glory and prosperity adds to
Some have charged that the in- [the reputation and economy of its
creased crime and juvenile delin-jhome.
quency in rural and small town At the end of the week and
areas is the result of TV, Holly- closer to the ground, came word
wood, new highways, automobiles, that the Southern Cement Co. of
etc. Youngsters in these areas, it is Birmingham would build a new
said, are now being subjected to plant to cost several million dol-
many of the “unhealthy” influ- lars and partly supplied by stone
ences which are so prevalent in from the Ga. Marble Co.
metropolitan areas. j Why? Because company officials
Whatever the cause, the fact is foresee an increased demand for
that the recent survey showed that their product in the growth of this
youngsters in rural and small- metropolitan area and the section
town areas were still far less of a of the South serviced by it.
problem than metropolitan youth. Along with the Spring weather
All of which goes to prove, once have come sure signs of an eco-
again, that the strength of Ameri- nomic revival. There are a number
ca lies in rural areas and in small of causes, including the wisdom of
towns, where close family ties, an the General Assembly the wisdom
orderly and supervised life, and of the General Assembly in insur-
the basic, traditional values of so- ing peaceful and orderly progress
ap- thru its open schools legislation.
Nor should the week’s
Who Knows?
Sunday Laws
You can’t get human beings to
agree: That’s why we have po
litical parties.
The empty honors
world bestows do not
yond the grave.
that
carry
the
bc-
The man who plays too much is
about as sensible as the man who
works too much.
Political speeches are to be
avoided at almost all costs, in the
great majority of cases.
Democracy becomes a failure
when it does not have tho
biased support of its people.
1. What is the oldest fraternity
in the U.S.?
2. Who has been called “the
Father of the UN?”
3. What nation is the largest
,producer of silk?
4. What is known as “the green
^border?”
5. What does the term “modus
viviondi” mean?
6. What is a bookaburras?
7. What are the most crowded
bities in the U. S.?
8. In what year did Wendell
Wilkie run for President?
9. What film won tho first Oscar
to be awarded in 1927-28?
10. What is the Ford Founda
tion?
good
| news be the end of such progress.
, Gov - Vandiver is deep in plans and
I conferences for the industrial de-
I velopment of the entire state thru
Sunday laws which attempt to J ke adoption of methods which
enforce certain forms of behavior, iave proved successful elsewhere,
by citizens are currently undergo- The kind of good news we got
ing controversial investigation in week was not just a happy ac-
several states.
Every thinking citizen should re
member that we believe
free-
If you make a friend by lending
un- him money, you often lose a friend
by trying to collect the debt.
cident. It was the result of plan
ning, good management, and some
vc intelli & ent Politics. We’ve got to
dom of religion in the United p ? n workin R a t this combina-
States. This does not mean that . . 1 every county in Georgia
because a majority of us hold i ® ooc e ' onomic shape.
Sunday to be a day of rest, that ! ™ ~
we are entitled to force everyone' on many enterprises fail
o, „ go forward is that it is much
Georgia Department of Commerce ^
Wren’s Nest - Home of Joel Chandler Harris
Br’er Rabbit wasn’t the only one who had a briar patch.
His creator had one too. Both patches were used as a place of
refuge—one to escape the dangers that threatened him in the
woods, and the other to produce a world of fantasy and dreams.
As a special Centennial commemoration, the Tour of the
Week salutes the Wren’s Nest, home of Georgia’s beloved Joel
Chandler Harris.
This gray, gabled house stands apart from its suburban!
surroundings. Shaded by the ancient magnolia and tulip trees'
it is encircled by cobblestones etched with names of famous
writers, all visitors and admirers of Mr. Harris.
The Victorian furniture within the rambling, 200-year-old
house remains almost as Harris left it. The living room, or
“Friendship Room,” filled with photographs of the Confederacy,
Robert E. Lee and Roosevelt are portrayals of his personal
convictions.
A life-sized scene of “Christmas at Uncle Remus,” given by
Walt Disney, can be seen through the window of the Friendship
Room. Petitioned from the porch, the old slave quarters scene
with its crudely homemade furnishings typifies life a century
ago. Harris as a boy is depicted at his old friend’s knee. The
aged slave never dreamed that his idle tales would later be
retold to wide-eyed children over the world, immortalizing him
forever as Uncle Remus.
The writing room preserves a museum of Harris’ literary
belongings. His arm chair, worn with many years of perform
ance, is still beside the window overlooking the briar patch from
which his vivid imagination gathered data for his stories. Family
pictures, statues and tributes to Mr. Harris are encased in this
room. The first prints of all 52 books written by Mr. Harris,
including history, fiction and a biography of Henry W. Grady
are documented here.
The Wren’s Nest is haunted with memories of Harris and
his storybook characters. Each room whispers an enchanting tale
of its own. They all tell the story of a man who wrote as simply
and as unpretentiously as he lived,
t Plan your next Centennial tour to the Wren’s Nest, 1050
1 Gordon St., S.W., Atlanta. Visiting hours are 9:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
Monday through Saturday; 2 p.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Admission ^
prices are adults 50c, teenagers 25c and children 15c. Groups plan-'
ning a tour are asked to call PL 3-8535 for reservations.
—by Laura Anderson
TAIMADG
Heporfs From
SHSNGTON
THE REPORT OF the Presi
dent’s Commission on National
Goals is an incredible document
which makes one wonder how
many of its signers actually
read it.
The Commission was estab
lished by President Eisenhower to
“set up a se
ries of goals in
various areas
of national ac-
t i v i t y” and
was composed
of highly - re
ported lead
ers like Judge
Learned Hand,
Dr. James B. Conant and General
Alfred M. Gruenther. Its report,
released late last year, is a hodge
podge of platitude-coated recom
mendations for accelerated wel
fare statism, expanded federal au
thority and greater international
involvement. Said by the Indian
apolis Star to reflect “a compro
mise between the hard insights of
a few and the confusion of others,”
it is distinguished only by the
enormity of its contradictions and
1 the effrontery of its invocation of
fundamental constitutional prin
ciples as justification for propo
sals which would destroy them.
* * *
‘ THE COMMISSION lamented
“pressures toward conformity”
while applauding evidences of
development of “a classless so
ciety.” It called for “peaceful ad-
I justment of differences of opin
ion” but advocated withholding
i of federal funds from schools, hos
pitals, airports, housing programs
and private businesses which “dis
criminate on the basis of race.” It
[ acknowledged that education “is
' primarily a responsibility of the
states” but insisted that “the fed
eral role must now be expanded”
774 i: XPEv;
and all schools, whether under
court order or not, must desegre
gate.
It maintained that “government
spending in the economy should
be limited” but proposed “in
creased investment in the public
sector.” It contended that there
is “no merit in a statistical race ;
with the Communist nations” but 1
recommended “a substantial in
crease in the amount of foreign
aid.” It stated the “basic foreign
policy of the United States should 1
be the preservation of its own in- !
dependence and free institutions” i
but urged a “search for acceptable
areas of accommodation with op
ponents.” It pointed out the need i
for safeguards “against market
disruption” but wanted “reduction
of tariffs and quota restrictions.” 1
* * * I
ON ONE HAND it declared
that “maintenance of our inde
pendence and way of life . . . re
quire the most effective counter
measures” while endorsing on the
other “trade, cultural exchanges
and occasional technical or fi
nancial aid . . . (as) useful poli
cies toward Communist-dominated
peoples.” i
The report is replete with many
equally - astounding examples
which raise the questions of what
is wrong with and what has hap
pened to the national goals which
the Founding Fathers set forth in
the Preamble to the Constitution?
Perhaps the one thing it proves
above all else is the need for those
who are preoccupied with seeking
a new image for America to give
some thought to the ridiculous
image created by Americans look
ing for an image.
else to reserve Sunday as a day
of rest.
There is an argument on the oth- ;
er side of this issue — that the
good of the majority outweighs the
evil in having special Sunday or j
Blue Laws. The fallacy in this line i
of reasoning is that it will lead to
majority tyranny, for the majority
can justify too many things under ;
this concept.
And, one cannot prove that be
cause the majority does not force J
a minority, in some other religious
faith, to adhere to the customs and
beliefs of the majority, that the
majority willnecessarily come to
any harm. If the majority believes
in their laws and customs, they
will not necessarily be the victims
of extreme disadvantage in a so- j
ciety where all religious groups ,
are treated similarly.
We talk often about the princi
ples of freedom of speech, freedom j
of assembly and freedom of re
ligion. Nor do we want Congress to
pass laws recognizing or support
ing any religion.
If this is a sound premise, then j
our State Legislature should not |
pass laws which recognize or sup- j
port any religion, and state money >
should not be used to help the |
churches or schools of any religious
group. Likewise, we have no right
to require those of other faiths to
observe Sunday as the majority of
us wish to observe it.
ANSWERS TO WHO KNOWS
’ 1. Phi Beta Kappa, founded in
1776.
2. Cordell Hull, former Secretary
of State.
3. Japan.
4. The 625 mile boundary be
tween the Russian and other zones
of occupation in Germany.
5. Latin phrase meaning “way of
living.”
6. A laughing jack ass.
7. Memphis, San Antonio, Birm
ingham, Atlanta and New Orleans.
| 9. “Wings” produced by Para-
I mount.
J 10. A philanthropic organization
| founded in 1936 by Henry Ford
I and his son Edsel Ford, to foster
i human welfare throughout the
world.
There are people ready to ex
ercise control over others without
petng able to control themselves, i
easier to plan to do than to do.
fnol prepared or printed at government expenet)
One of these days everything
fjwill be known, but we do not ex
pect to be around for the revela
tion.
I People who want to work are
rare; what they want is the pay
that they can’t get without work
ing. .
| If the Government would get out:
of business entirely, the loudest j
complaints would come from so- i
called big business.
Taylor County
Are Now
Tax Books
Open
TO RECEIVE STATE AND COUNTY TAX
RETURNS FOR THE YEAR 1961
All persons owning property January 1,
1961, 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 1,1961.
I will appreciate you calling by the Tax
Commissioner’s Office the first time you are in
the Court House and making your return.
All Persons Selling Cartridges $ 5 00
All Persons Selling Fire Arms & Cartridges .15.00
Yours to serve,
C. H. ADAMS
Tax Commissioner, Taylor County, Georgia