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Gibson Ga., May 11. 1932
DEMAND GOVERNMENTAL
ECONOMY NOW
The increasing cost of govern
ment is one of the highest har
riers in the path of industrial ex
pansion and a return to normal
conditions.
In 1913 total taxes were $2,-
187,000,000. In 1923 they were
$7,234,000,000. In 1929 they were
$10,251,000,000. The percentage
of national income garnered by
the tax collector for these years
was 6.4 per cent. 10.1 >per cent
and 14.4 per cent, respectively.
During this period the amount or
tax per capita increased from
$22.6(5 to $83.21. A family of five
would thus pay $416.06 yearly
on the 1930 basis.
It is customary to blame these
increased costs on the extraordi
nary expenses made necessary
by the war. But that allies
only in the case of the Federal
government, and in recent years
local and state governments have
been the worst tax-boosting of
fenders by far. This is likewise
true in the oase of the total pub
lic debt which increased from
$4,200,000,000 in 1913, to $30,.
200,000,000 in 1922. In 1928,
while the national debt had been
decreased $5,400,000,000 in six
years, due to Federal economies,
the state and local debt had in
creased $5,400,000,000.
The lax problem extends, with
steadily increasing importance,
through every branch of govern
ment. The orgy of spending
which followed the war Hand
was largely the result of the in
flation of 1926-29—has come full
circle at last. We are no longer
able to increase taxation and
public debt without seriously
imperiling the future of the
country. Investors are fright
ened, and money is hoarded.
Businesses come to ,a standstill
and more and more men are
thrown out of work. Nothing
could do wore to start the coun
try on the upgrade than decisive
governmental economy — not
next week or next year, but now.
- Industrial News Review.
LABOR AND ROAD BUILDING
A recently completed study of
the New Jersey Contractors’ As
sociation shows that 76 cents out
of every dollar spent for road
work goes to labor. Thirty-four
cents is paid to labor directly on
the project and 42 cents indirect
ly through the transportation
and manufacture of supplies and
equipment. The experience of
other states has been similar,
which explains the efforts being
made to expedite road building
during the Hme of severe unem
ployment.
SAYS THE OWL
To Indulge in romance, one must
run risks.
Optimists talk a great deal; some
times too mrch.
One doesn't enjoy a victory over
temptation until hours afterward.
Benevolent tyranny is not tyranny
so long as It pleases the people.
Now that the roads are perfect. b !
cycling by adults is almost unknown
All the bounty there Is In nature In
the winter Is In the country.
How slow y jur watch rims when you
are waiting f» r a speech to end.
Sodul success la to tie always In
vlted whether you are wanted or noi
If your business pays, don’t be too
much dissatisfied with the way it Is
run.
Get up an hour late and It Is grown
to two hours before the morning is
over.
If you were ever a child you can
give some cogent adTlce on bringing
up children.
401 men like popularity: but aome
are terrified by its manifestation in
brass bands and torchlight proceealons.
Children’s lives are often dull; so
much so that sleeping on the floor
on a mattress when company cornea
is an adventure.
This Week
» b Arthur Brisbane
{ A Shocking Crime
I The Ghosts May Wonder
To Compete, Fight
t Russia Turns Jingo
The assassination of President I-»oti
mer, of the french republic, inflicts
upon tiie people of France a sorrow
shared by the whole world.
President Doumer, wiiose great pop
ularity made it possible for him to de
feat the powerful Hriand for the presi
dency, is described by Lloyd George
as “an attractive speaker, an able
and experienced minister of unblem
ished integrity, with an honorable
career,"
The loss of Ids sons in the war
had endeared their President to the
people of France. They looked upon
him as typifying the finest dualities
of the French race.
Many Americana, hearing that two
bullets were iiretl into the excellent
French President by a Russian, will
exclaim, “Those murderous bolshe
viks!” It happens, however, that this
Russian, Paul Gorguloff, is no bolshe
vik, but a white Russian, praying for
the return of the czars ami an end of
Stalin. The murderous fanatic boasts
that he came to Paris from Monaco to
kill Doumer because France had re
fused to attack and drive out the soviet
government.
Shanghai sends word that China
and Japan ended the war out there
With an armistice. American. British,
French and Italian representatives
Signed the peace documents. Japanese
soldiers will be withdrawn.
The ghosts of thousands of Chinese
women, children and civilians and of
Chinese and Japanese soldiers will
wonder, perhaps, why it was neces
sary to kill them.
The Southern Pacific railroad, In
stead of moaning and groaning about
automobile trucks, Is in the truck
business, and successfully. Freight
moved by the Soutiiern Pacific In
trucks during 1931, in California, Ore
gon and Arizona, showed an Increase
of 438 per cent over hauling done in
1930.
To meet competition, fight.
Vou can't kill new methods that
mean economy and efficiency, but you
can utilize them.
Not satisfied with the worries of
her ten-yeur plan, Russia talk* about
what she would do If war came.
Blucher, eastern commander of the
Red army, says Russia likes peace, but
Is ready for a fight.
The “oath of fidelity" has been ad
ministered to the Russian soldiers as
“an Iron call to strength and to fight.”
Talking to any European govern
ment about war now Is like talking to
a seasick passenger about pork Id mid
ocean, but Russia's talk at present U
Intended for Japan.
The Japanese, very intelligent, prob
ably will not he misled Into Imagining
that they could do to modern Russia
what they did under the Incompetent
rule of the czara
Every year 10,000 mothers die In
child birth In the United States, a rec
ord the worst of any nation on earth
calling Itself civilized. The mothers
die because ttiey have no care. Cows
do not die In that fashion, because the
Agriculture department will look after
them, If the farmer asks for Informa
tion or assistance.
Why doesn't our proud and usually
prosperous government do something
about it? Or would it be paternalistic
waste of money to help human moth
ers, since their babies are not worth
half as much as a calf or a young pig,
have, in fact, no commercial value?
New York’s building strike is grow
tng, 40,000 skilled men added to the
city’s unemployed, which tg unfor
tunate.
Empioyers want to pay their men
only $10 a day. Bricklayers demand
$2.50 an hour, or $20 for eight hours.
The more the workers make, the more
they have to spend and the greater
prosperity, within reason.
This time of unemployment, how
ever, would seem to be a good time
for arbitration.
Washington’s sensational news Is tha
arrest of Gaston B. Means on com
plaint of Mrs. Evelyn McLean, wife
of the Washington Post's owner. Mrs.
McLean says site gave Means $100,000
upon his promise to recover the Lind
bergh baby by use of the money. Her
complaint alleges that lie did not pro
duce the baby or return the $100,000.
There Is no knowing what sums
have been, and may be. paid In ef
forts to recover the lost child.
Mrs. Alice Hargreaves, the original
of "Alice iu Wonderland,” describes
America as “topsy-turvy land."
Stock brokers will agree with her,
since a stock exdiange seat sold In
New York for $80,000, once worth
more than $500,000.
Capone, extraordinary product of
bootlegging. Ids spirit not broken,
handcuffed to another criminal, en
tered Atlanta prison the other day
He tells reporters, "1 am through with
Hie racket,” hat his mind will lie on
It In prison. He will endeavor to con
trol his “mob” from his cell, relying
upon a few faithful to ten if; others
,nt0 loyalty,
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“a mission," and his was that.
"Life is reul, life Is earnest,” said
Longfellow, and Ben Franklin called it
"a state of embryo.” “A man is not
completely born until he has passed
through death.” “What shadows we
are, and what shadows we pursue,”
said Burke, when tie lost his sou.
Goethe called life "the childhood of
immortality," and Coleridge said:
“Life Is but a thought.”
j Opinions on life differ, even among
moderns.
i’HUline Lodge, forty-five years old,
working ,, in , Russia . . s New v. York „ , , head- ,
quarters, killed herself jumping from
a window and left this note: "Bury
me like a dog.” Her employer said:
“Miss Lodge was disgusted with life.”
At the same time. Patrolman John
Kennedy, who lias had twelve opera
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wife and son and insisted on the oper
ation. He had It, ami may live.
If it were told ou reliable scientific
authority that strange, brass-colored
Inhabitants on Mars, with four pairs
of hands and with four pairs of feet,
were dying in tens of thousands, we
should be interested, but not partieu
tarty sympathetic.
They are so far away. Newspapers
give eight or ten lines to the fact that
30,000 Chinese flood refugees In the
Hankow district will soon die of hun
ger because they cannot get more
American wheat. Even that doesn't
Interest us much. *for though they live
on our planet, they also are far away.
if one child were drowned in a bath
tub Dest door t0 you> tllat Wliutd
mean something.
We have underestimated the pig.
The University of Ciucinnati says
that gastric juice, taken from the
stomachs of swine. Injected Into the
muscles of an anemic patient gives
quick relief. The University of Michi
gan had previously used extracts from
Harry Binlon was elected mayor of
Sparta recently, defeating L. P, Berry.
Augusta leased its terminals and a
city-owned boat to the St Johns River
Line of Florida for one year, begin
ning July 1.
Work Is progressing rapidly on the
erection of the new $50,000 library at
the Georgia State College for Women
at Milledgeviile.
The state's new loan of $70,000 Is
now available for the common schools.
Governor Russell recently announced,
after signing the notes required.
Col. George Moultrie Napier, attor
ney general of Georgia, and one of the
best known men in the state, died un
expectedly a few days ago at his home
in Decatur.
Use of Stone Mountain granite iu
constructing the annex to the library
of congress was urged again recently
by Senator Walter F. George and Con
gressman Robert Ramspeck.
Almost five times as much building,
from a standpoint of value, was be
gun in April as in March, according to
the monthly building report submitted
to the Macon city council at a recent
meeting.
Milo B. Medlock, for fourteen years
a member of the Macon Rotary Club,
was elected president of the club for
the coming year in its annual elec
tion at Macon recently, succeeding E.
B. Harrold.
“The glory, the winsomeness and the
wonder of mother is the beauty and
glory of the Creator reflected from
her to us,’ 'says Dr. Elam F. Dempsey,
of the Wesleyan Christian Advocate,
in an able editorial on “Mother's Day.”
The Chatham county commissioners
recently voted to give $10,000 to the
unemployed through the Mayor's Un
employment Commission, it was an
nounced by Judge George W. Tiede
wan, chairman, following the weekly
session of the board.
Burness Moore. Thomasvllle young
man, has become an editor, In a
recent number of the Spotlight, pub
lished at Mercer university, where
Moore is a student, he is listed as
editor of that magazine. He is a son
of C. D. Moore, of Thomasville.
At an annual meeting of live stock
men held at Moultrie recently, Gover
nor Russell, in a speech, praised that
section for the work that has been
done towards development of the cat
tle and swine industries, and predicts
that only a start has been made.
Walter H. Harrison, Lavonla banker,
in a recent address at Columbus, told
Georgia Women's Clubs that $56,000,
000 is spent out of the state each year
for feed and feed products that couid
be grown at home and urged aid in
opening up a market for Georgia's
surplus crops.
the pig's stomach Itself In fighting
anemia.
Harvard medical school had achieved
results with liver extract. But the
gastric Juice from the stomachs of
swine app« ars to be most efficacious,
immediately increasing the number of
red corpuscles in the human patient,
Respect the poor pig and remember
that he would be clean If men would
let him.
If you have felt the depression you
H 'U happy to learn that “top
prices for the Max Schmeling-Juek
Sharkey prize fight have been reduced
t0 a seut - Tl| e price, originally
$2T.50, is reduced as a concession to
“present conditions.” Ho! polio! will
he delighted to liear that they can
get in for as little us $3.45.- a special
stadium 1,700 feet long and 1,100 feet
wide is being built in honoi of the
event.
08. 1932, by King Features Syndicate. Inc.)
(WNO Service)
Uncle Eben
“A man dut likes to hear hisself
talk,” said Uncle Eben, “wouldn’ be so
bad if he wasn’ so unselfish in tryln’
to share Je pleasure with others.”-
Washington Star.
WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1932
GEORGIA
NEWS
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Happenings Over
the State
An ultimatum to city and county of
ficials to place both governments up
on an immediate “sound financial ba
sis," was issued recently by the At
lanta Taxpayers’ League, numbering
more than 3,00o members, and with
many additional members anticipated
In the near future.
That Summerville is one of the most
progressive and prosperous places in
northwest Georgia, if not in the entira
state, is evidenced by general busi
ness conditions, building programs and
so on, together with the fact that the
cotton and knitting mills are running
full time, and sometimes at night, in.
order to fill all orders.
The state game and fish department
collected $35,228.54 during the year
1931 and closed the year with a bal
ance in bank of $11,706.29, according
to a report filed with Governor Rus
sell recently by State Auditor Tom
Wisdom. The audit closed the exist
ence of the state board of game and
fish, which was abolished January 1.
Dividends amounting to $3,500,000
were voted recently at Atlanta by the
directors of the Coca-Cola company,
for distribution July 1. The payment
will include an extra dividend of 25
cent per share on the common in
addition to the regular payment of
$1.75, bringing the total payment on
the common to $2,000,000.
Suit for a recovery of $4,880 in in
come taxes for the year 1927 was filed
recently in United States district court
at Atlanta against the federal govern
ment by James R. Atwater, of Thorn
ton, Ga. The plaintiffs petition seeks
recovery of the amount, together with
interest from December 15, 1928, upon
which date, it is alleged, he was forced
to pay the amount to the government
as taxes for the previous year.
The Episcopal diocese of Georgia,
comprising the southern half of tha
state, selected Savannah for its next
meeting place, to ba held on Febru
ary 12, at which time the celebration
of the bicentennial of the founding of
Georgia will be under way.
Constitutionality of the 1931 cigar
and cigaret stamp tax act was attack
ed recently in an injunction suit filed
by wholesale tobacco merchants and
consumers in Fulton superio? court.
The plaintiffs allege that the tr.x ia
not uniform, and that it is discrimi
nating and confiscatory.