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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1923
Page
4
A collage of humorous notations on daily life, work, and prosperity. It notes regional boastfulness about schooling in Taylor county, a digression on modern leisure, and observations about loafing, bootlegging, and old age in Forana. It mentions a Brown's Bridge dinner and quotes a South Carolina paper praising Black progress in land, homes, churches, banks, and literacy gains.
A largely white assembly attended the funeral of a 103 year old black woman known as Tammy in Bristol Tennessee. The service was held at a white church and the deceased had long devoted herself to educational work among her race.
Taps have founded for Thomas Benton Smith who died in Nashville at 85 after years in an asylum due to a head wound from the Battle of Nashville on December 16, 1864. The item reflects Civil War heroics, U S war indemnity policy, Georgia county development, and a forthcoming press association meeting in Commerce on June 8.
A LaGrange Reporter National Publicity Edition, 40 pages, highlights manufacturing industry civic and education in LaGrange. The issue earns praise for illustration and information while noting Taylor County’s farm labor dip is modest thanks to an honest business climate and a strong white and black business class. It also cites political angles on Prohibition and contrasts Democratic and Republican stances with references to Gov. Smith and the 18th amendment.
A Cedartown Standard quote rails at a man who dodges payments by delaying or refusing to settle a newspaper bill. The tirade mocks wasteful tricks and lauds those who finally pay, criticizing deliberate nonpayment as worse than petty personal shortcuts.
The author argues that France has developed long range guns and costly new shells capable of bombing targets over a hundred miles away, enabling strikes on production centers and rail hubs beyond battle zones. He warns of universal massacre and criticizes public praise of Napoleon, Frederick the Great, and the Kaiser, urging frank critique of their selfish rise to power built on millions of deaths.
Idle and vicious gossip cloud purity says the Madisonan. A large civil suit began in talk by small town men and women who prefer saying something good about others. The Madisonian notes such tongues create a hellish fate for those who gossip.
The Americas Times Recorder lauds the Third District Agricultural and Mechanical College in Americus for advancing rural education. It praises Principal J. M. Prance, urges state support, and argues agrarian colleges should focus on production and practical farming rather than mirroring universities.
From the Americus Times-Recorder Rainey notes Terrell and Sumter counties produced 117 of Georgia's 1922 cotton and Terrell's 340 square miles yielded a $3,000,000 crop. He argues autos cost more than profits, estimating 1,200 cars valued at $1,000 each with $1,200,000 capital and $720,000 yearly upkeep plus $96,000 yearly interest and $300,000 capital loss, totaling about $1,116,000 annually, exceeding a third of the cotton value.
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