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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1939
Page
5
The Butler High School Journal volume two number eleven presents school news, student activities, and campus notices. Highlights include upcoming events, club reporting, and announcements relevant to the Butler High School community.
Mr C D Gorman spoke to Commercial Law General Business and Economics classes about labor unions and the AFL and CIO. He explained union heads, possible power concerns, and the difference between craft unions and broader unions citing railroads and a Washington paper titled Labor as a factual resource.
An H D agent promotes a live at home program stressing balanced diets for farm families. Data from the U S Bureau of Home Economics show 40 to 60 percent of urban white diets and about 60 percent of rural black diets lack nutrition value. The study notes limited vitamin A and pellagra prevention in the Southeast, urging more spending on milk cheese vegetables and fruits alongside eggs meat and fish.
On a field trip about five miles south of town the group gathered guards to plant watermelon seeds and planned to transplant vines later. They found guards near Mr. Munro's farms, rode back in Dan Callahan's pickup, and collected yellow jasmine bouquets admired at school.
A student recounts a February weekend in Atlanta as a Senate page. Duties included locating senators and delivering messages and papers while shadowing sessions in both chambers. The trip included visits to Emory University, the Biltmore Hotel broadcasting station, Georgia Tech, and theatre passes.
The senior class sponsored the films Gold Mine in the Sky and Down on a Farm last Friday and Saturday to raise money for a World Fair trip. Classes started at 8 AM with 40 minute periods and no recess or chapel to fit the show in. Students staying at school during show time attended study hall under a supervising teacher. The seniors thank Dr. Dean for support and attendees for the Friday and Saturday shows and invite all to their upcoming senior play at commencement.
In geography class Miss Jones tests three uses of fish. Mary Frances jokes three uses today are for making telephone poles railroad ties and pulps for paper. The room erupts in laughter as students trade quips about oxygen discovery and summer wake times.
The Senior Home Economics Class attended part of a demonstration by Miss Leonora Anderson last Thursday. She spoke on selecting clothes for different figures, favoring striped fabrics that elongate. taught figure measurements for patterns. and had students pair up to measure each other. The class toured the Stone home nearing completion and began Dream Homes scrapbooks to document house dimensions and materials for sewing department display in a few weeks.
A compact, period voice critique of student behavior patterns. Six weeks of laziness translated into punishment and demerits, contrasted with six weeks of work and quiet study. It frames discipline as a recipe, with a teacher’s trust and daily logging, served at home while others endure exams.
A long line of song titles and performer names appears, including A Fine Romance by William Adams and Doris Callahan, Five of a Kind by Dorothy B and others, Anchors Away by Hazel Standridge, That Foolish Feeling by Ralph Eubanks, Youre Sailing at Midnight by Sudie, You Teller by Miss Lancaster, You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby by Wendell, Simple and Sweet by Frank England, Ferdinand the Bull by Carliss, and more. The fragment resembles a musical program or cross-reference of tunes and singers from an archive page. It ends with a colon and incomplete entries.
Butler High School Juniors sponsor The Haunted Castle to raise funds for senior events. The play blends comedy and mystery with a large cast including Tommy Barksdale Dan Callahan Johnny Nolan Aunt Martha Eloisa and many others in roles such as Baron of Bavaria Duchess of the castle and a reporter. The date is to be announced.
A brief character sketch of a small, popular student known by his repeated calls for Flora Bell or Hello. He attends all basketball games and tennis, loves hot dogs, and asks Mr Edge for permission to work a problem in the hall around 2 o clock, his sobs said to signal distress.
General Science class aims to collect scientific event clippings from newspapers and magazines. Students will post readable items on the lab bulletin board and publish weekly summaries under Science Notes.
A government report shows that one fourth of U S families account for 63 percent of all children in the nation. The Bureau of Agricultural Economics released the finding highlighting concentrated child distribution among a quarter of families.
Sparta Ishmaelite, the town weekly, marked its 61st birthday reporting it began March 12, 1878. Founded by Sidney Lewis then joined by Thomas Cobb Moore as business manager, the paper has run weekly since. now owned by the Moore family despite the founders’ deaths.
The report shows Negro families allocating about one sixth of spending to milk and cheese, nearly one third to eggs lean meats poultry and fish, around one sixth to vegetables and fruits and six percent to milk. Usual diets use fewer eggs and less vegetables and fruit, and about half to a third as much milk as diets graded good. Dr Stiebeling suggests improving nutritive value not by spending more but by spending less and more wisely.
The Taylor County Colored Teachers and Educational Association held its annual Field Day at the Butler colored school on Friday March 10. Nineteen schools participated, a record high. Highlights included an oratorical contest won by Loretha Walker of Potterville, a declamation win by Jeanette McCrary of Butler, and a singing contest with Mauk taking top honors. Reynolds won exhibits and prizes totaling seven dollars were provided by Oscar Dreizin, a prominent Butler merchant.
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