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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1933
Page
4
A column vents on international debts and urges USA to avoid lending to Europe. It notes a New Year resolution and questions public debt norms. A local note promotes paving State Route 96 from the Butler courthouse toward Reynolds. The piece muses on neighbors and personal reform through lifestyle warnings.
An editorial argues brains still beat better writing tools. It notes literature was produced with quills by candlelight, contrasting with today’s reliance on machines. It mentions 89 million Japanese electric lamps imported by 1982, which draw 20.5 percent more current and cost users an extra 11 million dollars annually.
The Savannah Press recalls veteran Brick Stonewall Miller as a Columbus based lawyer planter and landowner aged 65. A UGA graduate class of 88 he has long been a state legislator with many Georgia friends and roots in Buena Vista.
Mrs Jessie Sayre, daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, died Sunday night at Cambridge City Hospital after an operation Saturday. She was wife of Francis B Sayre, newly appointed state commissioner of correction and Harvard Law School professor.
The new state Superintendent of Schools Prof Collins has impressed the public with plans to cut costs and boost efficiency. His recommendations are receiving wide approval and he is regarded as the right person for the job.
Every line of endeavor should gird its loins and organize for the better ment of conditions. Georgia produces hundred million dollars worth of good products annually and the pro ducers can secure better prices and make greater profits if they organize and place themselves in a position to demand what they are entitled to.
The national House on Saturday adopted the conference report on legislation that makes 329000 bales of government owned cotton available to the Red Cross for relief. The cotton, last of the Farm Board stabilization stores, may be used for clothing, bedding and quilts. Senate action will send the bill to the White House.
A brief note from the Valdosta Times praises the hometown paper for its rarity of mistakes amid human fallibility. It comments on the tendency to overlook improvements while focusing on deficiencies and marvels at the overall reliability of local reporting.
John A. Davis of the Albany Chamber of Commerce warns that delaying or diverting Georgia highway funds would harm through routes and tourism. He notes many small unpaved gaps in the state system and urges prompt paving to integrate these routes into general use, while Americans keep faith in life insurance amid market declines.
The critical illness of Mr John W Blount assistant general passenger agent of the Central railroad is reported with regret by friends in this section. He was admitted to a Savannah hospital last Tuesday suffering a severe heart attack. Doctors were called and his condition remained critical for hours. He will require extended rest away from his office after hospital care.
A Congress speech by Congressman Castellow in support of Georgia peanut growers is praised as the ablest Southern contribution this session. The speaker is depicted as a true farmer's friend with courage and ability to champion growers on the floor of Congress. The Third district notes its good fortune in having such a representative.
Governor Talmdge outlines ten main measures for the Georgia General Assembly. Proposes canceling unpaid past appropriations, flat three dollar auto tags, adding invisible property to tax rolls, cutting departments and salaries, tighter bond liability, limiting appointive office terms, ensuring Confederate pensions, cautious state sales tax, governor power to curb waste, and recalling the school book contract.
In a statement Congressman-elect Braswell Dean faces criticism for suggesting pension abolition and four year terms for rural letter carriers. Supporters defend the current system, arguing against patronage and praising rural carriers, urging Dean to reconsider before taking office March 4.
Mark F Ethridge of the Macon Telegraph will spend six months in Europe after receiving a grant from the Oberander trust of Philadelphia administered with the Carl Schurs Memorial Foundation. He will study conditions in German speaking countries, traveling Berlin through Switzerland and Holland, then France and England on return. He leaves February 20 and returns September 1 with headquarters in Berlin. The grant aims to foster US Germany Austria understanding and notes a trained newspaperman makes the best observer. A past recipient was Julian Harris of the Atlanta Constitution.
A puzzling crime is unraveled by the French police as recounted by H. Ashton-Wolfe, former assistant to Dr. Beritillon of the Surete, in The American Weekly distributed with the Atlanta Sunday American.
M D Collins head of the state school system asks reduction of his 4500 dollar annual salary and declines the 500 dollar annual payment to the State Superintendent from the Vocational Education Department. He submits a revised budget cutting general office expenses about 22 percent and supports Governor Talmadge's economy program. The Board appointed a committee with power to further reduce salaries. New district supervisors named and several longtime staff kept. Teaching certificates to be issued free to qualified applicants, saving about 6000 dollars annually.
The Statesman reports that a predicted organized attack in the State Senate on Governor Talmadge's program failed to materialize. The House vote on the full-term resolution showed support for the governor, while Senate debate consumed time before marking a final 34 to 15 vote in favor of cooperation with the new governor.
The Macon Telegraph summarizes Governor Tallmadge's push for immediate fiscal reforms. It endorses deficit cancellation only for uncontracted funds, favors department eliminations and highway reform, and supports a $3 license tag and tax law enhancements to bring intangibles on the books. The paper cautions against diverting highway funds and urges resubmission of the classification tax amendment. It stresses broad economic restraint but notes existing contracted appropriations limit relief.
J W Hamm reports in News Bases Telegram that the coming legislature will open January 19 with Speaker Rivers steering a reform agenda aimed at ending the floor chaos of the past 25 years. The plan restricts floor access to members and authorized officials, introduces admission cards, ends family seating on the floor, curbs unofficial conferences, and relocates stenographers to a cloakroom area for bill typing. The result is a more orderly, dignified and efficient session.
A recap of astonishing escapes from death reported worldwide last year, featured in The American weekly magazine distributed with the Atlanta Sunday American. Read about near misses and miraculous survivals across diverse situations and locations.
A witty line notes that beside jail and debt, men cling to love, marriage, and formal attire as stubborn bulwarks against modern pressures.
A feature on a two gun schoolmaam shaping frontier justice in a glossy historic issue of American Weekly tied to the Atlanta Sunday American. The piece frames a rugged frontier narrative with bold female bravado and gunplay set against the era’s clashes with Indigenous groups.
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