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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
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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, , ..
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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
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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.
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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
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