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GIBSON RECORD Published to Furnish the People of Glascock County a Weekly Newspaper and as a Medium for the Advancement of the Public Good of the County. VOL. XXXVIII, No. 23 Edgehill School Commencement Exercises COMMENCEMENT PROGRAM EDGEHILL AUDITORIUM APRIL 22-24-25-26 PROGRAM FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 8:00 OCLOCK TOM THUM1B WEDDING Jenny June, the bride .. ._ Ogle Milburn Tom Thumb, the groom .. Lamar Mathis Maid of Honor .............. ................................................... Esther Allen Best Man .......................... .................................................. Ray Wasden Bridesmaids ................ ........ Audrey Walden, Willie Bell Allen Flower Girls..................... Jessie Sue Hawkins, Mary Bessie Mathis The Minister ................... .............,...................................... Ray Howell Soloist .............................. .................................... Elizabeth Hawkins Pianist ............................ ................................................... Lola Raley Father ............................... .................................................. Odis Hughes Mother ........................................... Loniee Phillips Guests—Margaret Smallwood, Frank Williford, Shannon Brooks, Jonnie Walden, Lois Black, Cecil Dye, O. C. Hawkins, and Evydell Williford. Ushers Horace Milburn and Charlie Reese Musical Reading—“Gee Whiz, When Mother Washes Me—By Everett Wasden. Chorus—Hard Times in Boyland ............ ........... Twelve Boys THE TRUTH ABOUT MOTHER GOOSE LAND Girl ............................................... .............. Elizabeth Hawkins Boy ......................................._...... : ........................ J. C. Brooks Farmer’s Wife ........................... ...............Maggie Williford Jack Sprat .................................... .................... Terrell Milburn Mrs. Jack Sprat ...................... ....................... Esther Marsh Tommy Green ........................ .................... Leroy Thigpen Johnny Stout ............................ ................... Doake Williams Little Jack Horner .................... ..................... O. C. Hawkins Tom The Piper’s Son _.......... ..............:....... Hezekiah Grey Jack ............................................ ..................... Hubert Hughes Jill ............. Ellen Cooper Mary, Quite Contrary ................. Cora Lee Morgan Little Maids—Esther Allen, Evvdell Williford, Lois Black, Margaret Smallwood, Magdeline Huff, Mildred Walden. Doctor Foster ----------------- ......... Thomas Williford Little Boy Blue ................... .................... Linton Marsh Little Bo Peep ..................... ........... Mgudie Morgan Little Miss Muffet ............. _......... Audrey Walden Little Girl With Curls ...... ............ Pauline Hughes Jack Be Nimble ................ ........................... Cecil Dye Butcher ...........................-...... ............. Henry Scarbough Baker ............................-........ .................. Harris Smith Candle Stick Maker ........... .............. Frank Williford Hobo Drill ...........1................ B ...................... Eight Boys Scarecrow Drill .............— ............... Seven Boys Chorus —..—..... Barnacle Bill The Sailor OPERETTA—“THE LAND OF DOLLS” Bessie, a naughty Child ...................................... ....... Ellen Kitchens Minnie, Her Sister ............................................... ............ Lola Raley The Fairy Queen .................................................. Lizzie Mae Sammons Limpy, The Rag Doll, King of Land of Dolls ........ O. C. Hawkins Hoy La, The Clown Doll ................................. ...........Junior Wilcher Judge Scaren, The Jack in the Box .................. ............... Namon Huff Fat Sing, The Chines Doll .............................— ...........J. C. Brooks Fifine, The Paris Doll, Queen of Land of Dolls ............Beckie Marsh Bohette, 'Hie Dutch Doll, Her Maid ............... ....... Quylor Kitchens Tellella, The Talking Doll .................................... ...... Olive Williford The Dancing Dolls—Ethel Newsome, Bessie Reese, Loney Reese, Sara Milburn and Sadye Phillips Captain Stiffin, Commander of the Doll Army Allen Reese The Army—Ralph Smallwood, Lonnie Williams, Luther Black, Ozie Lamb. The Fairies—Maggie Williford, Sue Morgan Lillian Milburn, Corrie Todd, Glenyee Cooper, Fromie Bell Sammons and Johnnie Horton PROGRAM SUNDAY MORNING, APRIL 24TH, 11:00 O’CLOCK Song ............................... .......... “Come Thou Almighty King.” Invocation ------------------ ............................................. Rev. Morgan Song................................ “The Little Church in the Wildwood.” Song .............-................ ... “He Lifted Me.”—By Congregation Special Song ............... ...... Frances Horton and Adis Cooper Baccalaureate Address .............................................. Rev. Barton Doxology Benediction PROGRAM MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 25TH, 8:00 O’CLOCK PLAY—“A SOUTHERN CINDERELLA.” Comedy-Drama in Four Acts By Walter Ben Hare Characters Madame Charteris, An Old Aristocrat .... Julia Wilcher Enid Bellamy, A Southern Cinderella Velma Williford Miss Rosie Winterberry, A Settlement Worker, Lizzie Lee Williford Miss Johnnie B. Randolph, A Little Coquette Virginia Phillips Katherine Hawke, An English Nurse .............. Franees Horton Caroline Hawke, An Adventuress ....................... Celie Ruth Milburn Mammy Judy Johnson, A Black, Bluegrass Widow .... Adis Cooper ACT I—Living Room at Charteris Hall. Enid comes home. ACT II—Same, three days later.’The burning of the will. ACT III—Same, two years later. Cinderella goes to the ball. ACT IV—Same, Cinderella comes into possession. PLACE—A Southern home. Before Act I ..............................Dance of the Moonbeams—Eight Girls Musical Reading .... ............ “Sambo’s Defense—Phlanoy Brooks Between Act I and II.—Choruses—“Would you Like to take a Walk.” “The Ladies, They all Like me.” Between Act II and III—Pantoinine—“The Old Rugged Cross— Velma Williford and Ida Lou Shepherd. Between Act III and IV............ ............. Chorus—Six Boys PROGRAM TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 26TH, 8:00 O’CLOCK Graduating Exercises Song- Johnnie Williford Salutatory ............................... .......... Pleas Sammons Declaration of Independence .............. Class Poem ......................... ................. Kathleen Allen Class Picture ............................ ...................... Amy Downs Valedictory----------—......... _________ Elizabeth Goleman Literary Address ..........-......... Supt. J. W. Brantley, Jr. Delivery of Certificates Farewell Song Music furnished by Miss Vivian McNair. GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1932. EARTHQUAKE STUDY PROVES U. S. SAFE Manhattan Island Is Safest, With Area East of Rockies in No Danger. New York.—Despite the proximity of the recent Cubun earthquake the chances are live million to one against any Individual in the United States losing his life through an earthquake, and the chance against an earthquake occurring within any one area of 2.1 square miles, in a total area of more than 2,500,000 square tulles east of the Iiocky mountains, In one particular year during the next 50 years, is also about live million to one, according to John Uiptey Freeman, president of the Manufacturers’ Mutual Fire Insurance company, and past president of both the American Society of Mechanical En gineers and American Society of Civil Engineers. Mr. Freeman presents tlds information in a 900-page book entitled "Earthquake Damage and Earthquake Insurance" just published by the Mc Graw-Hill Book compuuy. The vol ume, it Is stuted. Is based ou more than 25 years of study by the author of the causes and effects of earth quakes, particularly from the stand point of the safe design of engineering structures. In his preface to the book Sir. Free man declares that Its purpose Is "to promote research toward better data for engineers relative to earthquake resisting construction, which duta are now far from satisfactory." Loss of Life Small. Even including the dunger area west of the Kooky mountains, and the 700 or more lives lost during the Sun Erun cisco earthquake and fire In 1900, the author finds that only about 930 peo ple In the whole of the United States have lost their lives directly and in directly through earthquakes during the century which ended in 1930. During that period, he states, the greatest loss of life, outside of Sun Francisco, was during the earthquake at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1S8C, when 100 lives were lost. Of the total loss of property In the San Francisco earthquake and Ore in 1900, Mr. Fine man finds that only 5 per cent can be attributed to the earthquake prop er, arid that the bulance of the loss was due to the fire which followed. “An estimated loss ratio average of 5 per cent damage of the structural value in an area effected by a severe earthquake would be high,” the au thor declares, adding that, "this figure is in excess of the actual quake dam age in San Francisco In 1900, and Is high also for the actual quake damuge in the great Tokyo Japanese catastro phe of 1923, the greater loss in both instances having been caused b.v the fires which followed the quakes.” "No region within the United States or Canada appears wholly Immune from the possibility of earthquake damage," the author avers, "although the liability Is exceedingly small In those portions of the United States located east of the ltocky mountains. From all data of earthquake history and geology,” he adds, "Manhattan is land with its foundation of exception ally rigid bed-rock, over which Its buildings of greatest value stand, ap pears to be one of the very safest spots In the United States for prob able Immunity from destructive earth quake shock.” Total Quake Damage Low. “The total earthquake damage In the United States and Canada, exclu sive of fire damage following quakes, during the last century," Mr. Freeman estimates, “does not exceed, roughly, $40,000,000.” The author also explains that the motion of an earthquake is not as bad as most people believe it to be and, “rarely, If ever, as terrible as many of the published accounts SOMUWHG Walter Wlnchell N£V€R KN£W TlL»KOW "D rs> < 0 % Ur'S i mi I – n n L i*- STS iQfci <S£ r -J i <$ If? : ; ::j Ly£ i;ra ";y _/ L> ; * ^ c j • 1HAT - IN THE 17™ CENTURA 17 WAS (ONIIOEftED THE 6EST OF MANNERS 70 BLOW VOUR. N0S6 IN YOU* HOST'S TABLECLOTH. Shall Farms And Homes of Georgia Folks Be Sold’to Pay Public Debts Asks Whiteley Give Honest Folks a CHANCE. Warren county is not the larg est cotton growing county, but its farmers are financially in as goo,^ shape as the average and still about 65% of 1931 taxes are unpaid. Yes, made good cotton crops, but when forced to sell at to 6c per pound below actual . cost , of „ production, , .. a to hence $30 hundreds a hale loss of was our incurre best cit ;! zens could not pay their curr^ expenses n6r their taxes. Let’s cut our state and county budget to the quick and save our people their property. Fit your budget to your income. A moratorium should he de clared on payment of back taxes in Georgia at once. Thousands of agricultural hon^s, thousands land owned of acres by hon- of est, hard working, liberty loving men and women are nearing the SbetrsTs electric chair. These good people, native Georgians, lots v.f them born and reared on Southern plantations, their most saered heritage may soon see their*coveted possessions sell to pay state and county extrava gance. Then they will/ in the army of millions of me) i, women and children now out of work, begging for bread, unless some body in authority in our Em pire State of the South shows the hand of mercy. Will those in high authority, those who have power, influence and prestige, pernjit the sale of the homes and plantations of this Southland of ours to pay Georgia’s debts? Will Georgia ruthlessly destroy her very own by selling the famiL' homes and acreages of her pafrrotic*~cTtizcn»hi’p distressing in the most period of depression since the sixties? It will he heap ing tragedy upon tragedy to do this and it is to he hoped that somewhere in our state official family, mercy and help will he shown to our people instead of dealing with a heart of stone. Those who owe back taxes are not responsible for their delin quency. No, a thousand times no. Extravagance in state, coun ty and municipal governments is partically responsible and the terrible deflation in the price of our money crop finished the job. Shall these humble, laboring people who cannot hide their real estate from the Tax Assessor, lose their home land their all on account of high taxation, un reasonable taxation, brought on by those in authority who un- lead one to believe. In nine eases out of ten," he adds, “happenings during earthquakes that Involve loss of life and property are the results of Inex cusably had designs, or of bad build ing construction, and could be pre vented by the use of proper construc tion methods.” The author reassures his readers concerning the possible earthquake future of the United States. “The zones of greatest earthquake activity,” he s i's, "are limited and well defined By similes of earthquake bolts, and SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR wisely and lots of time selfishly spend tthe tax money? It’s high time that those who are supposed to guide the destines of the state use some “common sense” listen to the cries of the hungry, pleadings of the distressed and save them their homes. Let the state, counties land municipalities declare a niora torium on payment of back) taxes t once , This is no idle ta]k , but "• an appeal to save the homes . the commonwealth of the Em pire State of the South. The danger line is near. See what has just happened in anoth er southern state, Mississippi. Just last week, the newspapers report, that 25 acres out of every 100 acres of agricultural land has just been sold for taxes. Forty thousand homes in seventy-two counties sold in one week in this nearby state. If five people, which is an average family, is a correct surmise, that would displace and put in the “road,” two hundred thousand people in seventy-two counties in Mississippi. Ths picture presents a most pathetic scene, to see in one week hundreds of thousands of honest, toiling people, lose their homes and their all and by no fault of their own. Is it time for lalarm? Does not this heart-breaking spectacle jar the compacency of those who are more fortunate and living in the lap of luxury? Is it not the patriotic duty of those in authority who have their hand in the state treasury draw ing pay checks from $10,000.00 down to $1800.00 per lannuin to have mercy on the tax payers of Georgia and if need be waive their Constitutional rights and cut their own salaries? This question also applies to Judges of the Superior and Supreme Courts and other officials who receive pay from Georgia’s pay roll. Citizens of Georgia, beg and plead with your tax Assessors not to raise your taxes to where you simply cannot reach them, but to permit a cult that will help you to pay your just part of taxation. This is the urgent need of the hour and folks don’t talk about if until your are blue in the face, but act and act now. Then when voting time comes next Fall, use some good old fashioned “common sense” too. My next letter will suggest some means of raising tax money where it will not hurt, sting or burn. J. W. Whiteley, Warrenton, Ga. by history, and by studies of topog raphy and great contrasts of elevation between mountain ranges and ocean deeps, we are reassured that the San Francisco earthquake of 19011, the New Madrid earthquake of 1811, and the Owens valley earthquake of 1872, pre sent examples of earthquake destruc tion of the greatest violence and broad est range Unit we have to fear in the United States and Canada. Nothing worse than these three historic quakes appears to he even remotely possible In the United States or Canada." MADISON BELL ENTERS COMPTROLLER’S RACE Hon. Madison Bell has yielded to the urgent solicitations of his friends to become a candidate for Comptroller General In tho September primary. Mr. Bell has been president of the Fulton County Democratic Club. He repre sented Fultou County In General As sembly four regular and one extraor dinary sessions and was one of the out-standing members, and took an active Interest in much Important legislation, notably, among which was the abolition of the convict lease sys tem. He was the author and expon ent of Georgia’s Child Labor Law re quiring that all children should be given a certain amount of educational advantages to alternate with work in all factories. /•* tfci! I h S* v WL ■ ■ ip - 4 mm ,.V Jr. V IMfe fc fljj JL HNyH l HON. MADISON BELL When asked about his cimd’.daey, Mr, Ijell said. "I am t"»> friends, coliege-mates, and colleagues I served with in the General Assent bly, for the very wonderful encour agement and proffered support they have given me. It is an opportunity tor gratify a laudable ambition that I have cherished since young manhood to hold the office my father held, ha having served as Comptroller General for several years just after leaving the Confederate Army where he served as Major in the 11th Georgia Cavalry. He was elected at the same, time Hon. Logan E. Blackley, who later became Chief Justice of the Su preme Court, was elected Attorney General of Georgia. They wore close personal friends, went into office to gether and retired voluntarily together. Mr. Bell Is a member of the Geor gia Bar Association; Atlanta Post No. 1 American I.cgicn; Shriner; It of P.; Odd Follow; President of the Sixth Ward Improvement Club. He Is a grad uate of Emory College and the Uni versity of Georgia, and 1ms college mates in p.acGi—.-y evory county in the State. Mr. Bell originated tho movement to have the statues of two Georgians placed In the Iiall of Fame, Washing ton, D. C., and was secretary of the commission that named Dr. Crawford W. Long and Alexander H. Stevens for this distinction. For the past several years Mr. Bell has devoted his time to private inter ests and tho practice of law, while at the same time he has kept intimately acquainted with the affairs of state and is well posted in all the State'* activities and is well qualified for the position to which he aspires. CAPT. J. G. SHENNAN %. , A C/ W'-i #1 w,.. * i H m ' ( J y James G. Shennan, captain of tills year’s varsity crew at Princeton, ink ing a workout In the gymnasium. If you have anything to sell try a small ad in thin oaoer-
