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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. 28.
Favorable Mention
By Georgia Press
For Mr. Whiteley
It has been gratifying to note
in both daily and weekly papers
favorable mention of our towns
man, Mr. J. W. Whiteley, since
he announced his candidacy for
the post of Commissioner of Ag.
ricuHure of Georgia. Last week
The Clipper reproduced articles
from several papers and below
appears some of those noticed
noticed since last week. Mr.
Whiteley is spoken of by many
as being by far the “leading”
candidate and is making an ag
gressive campaign. He has many
letters from friends in every part
of the state who are prominent
people, pledging him their hearty
support:
(From Savannah Morning News
May 12th, 1932)
J. W. Whiteley of Warrenton,
who is a candidate for state com
missioner of agriculture, was in
Savannah yesterday. He called
on a number of people during
the <iay and he made a line im
pression. A practical farmer
and and a successful business
man, Mr. Whiteley s friends say
he has just the qualifications for
a good commissioner.
Mr. Whiteley has some fixed
idea about how the commission
er’s office should be conducted.
He advocates eoon my and effi
ciency in government and he
says reorganization of the farm
commissioner’s office is necessa
ry for the hes+ interests of those
concerned. He is an ardent ad
vocate of cotton acreage reduc
tion.
For- thirty-five years Mr.
Whiteley flfe^orse has operated a twenty
farm in Glascock and
Jefferson counties, and several
years ago he established dry
goods stores in Gibson and War
renton. He owns one of the fin
est pecan orchards in Georgia.
(From Dublin Courier-Herald)
J. W. Whiteley, prominent
Warrenton, Ga. business man
and Warren county farmer, who
has announced his candidacy
for Commissioner of Agricul
ture to succeed Eugene Tal
madge, was a visitor today in
Dublin.
Mr. Whiteley called on the
Courier-Herald and was intro
duced by Col. E. L. Stephens.
In speaking of his candidacy
the Warrenton man said in part:
“In making my announcement 1
am mindful of the perilous con
dition of the farmers of Georgia
at this moment and will leave
nothing undone to aid them in
this most critical hour of un
precedented depression.
“As a private citizen I fought
with all the energy of my soul
for drastic cuitailment of cotton
acreage and whether elected or
not will continue this fight as
opportunity presents.
“I stand for rigid economy and
shall if elected make no excep
tion in the department of Agri
culture,” Mr. Whiteley conclu
ded.
(From The Millen News)
J. W. Whiteley of Warrenton,
Ga., and recognized as a strong
contestant for the office of Com
missioner of Agriculture, spent
Tuesday of this week in Millen
in the interest of his candidacy.
Mr. Whiteley’s style of cam
paigning made a favorable im
pression upon the voters of this
community, as he merely seeks
to establish his qualifications for
the office sought., and being a
real dirt fanner of rather exten
sive proportions, and having
demonstrated his interests in ag
riculture by his earnest advoca
cy of legislation for the control
of cotton acreage, he finds it easy
to create interest in his candi
dacy. He expects to visit every
county in the state, and seems
confident of his election. His
formal announcement appears in
this issue, and he will be heard
from more definitely later dur
ing the campaign,.
-—From Warrenton Clipper.
Ties That Bind
~~
By BERTHA LEAH CROSS
(© by McClur# Newspaper Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
^^AOMl ^ ’ porch STEVENS watching sat the on dusk the back it
ns
settled over the garden. To her, this
time of day was the loneliest, and the
hour when she felt the most let down,
tired, old and disillusioned. This
night she was feeling unusually so bp
cause of the letter from Laura, the sec
ond she’d had that week. In the lat
ter she pleaded even more urgently
with her to accept her Invitation to go
to Europe as her traveling companion.
“If I only could,” she whispered.
“But here I am, as always, tied hand
and foot by mother. If mother could
only see, could realize how terribly she
hampers me In everything I want to
do. Talk about the selfishness of the
young—it’s nothing In comparison to
the old. They think only of them
selves 1”
All of her life Naomi had craved a
good time. Sire longed for travel and
excitement.
First it had been her father, who,
parsimonious to the point of miser
liness, had forced both her and her
mother to scrimp and save; to go
without and .make over, while he
hoarded his money. Then when he
had died, tern years ago, each hail
lacked initiative and urge to get out
of tlie rut into which their lives had
settled. It had taken but those let
ters, however, to light the flame of de
sire In Naomi’s crushed ego.
“There’s money,” she told herself
“plenty of it. If only mother tan be
aroused . .
But the mother—a self-effacing lit
tie woman who had lived for forty
years under the domination of her
husband. Cowed, timid, shrinking
after these years of bondage. What
force could galvanize her and make
her forget her husband’s reiterated
statement: “Women’s place Is in the
home.” Could she be fr'>od, emanci
pated from that obsession?
Naomi was now forty-five. She bad
let youth go by as she had love. Fred
had become tired of waiitng.
She had been a lovely g’.ri with a
wealth of curly, brown hair and large,
wistful eyes filled with dreams. <>th
er men had been attracted. But they
like Fred, hnd been appalled by too
much interference, and later by toe
much prospective mother-in-law. They
had passed by to other less hampered
girls.
Now hnd come this opportunity
Galvanized into life, she let her
thoughts dwell on this chance of a
lifetime. Even the words In the lettet
were etched on her mind: "Come on
Naomi,” her friend had written
“Check your mother with her sister
and come with me.”
The tears catste now, faster and fast
er, stinging her eyes, overflowing—a
perfect torrent of heart-breaking tear
of longing.
Suddenly the tears stopped and she
set up with a snap. The tire In het
eyes dried the tears: “I’m going!"
site said aloud. “I’m going to I’ltroje
with Laura. Mother can go to Cali
fornla with the Lawsons.” Red spots
appeared on her cheeks. Site had de
elded.
She began formulating In Iter mind
her plan of procedure. First she
would write Aunt Hattie that her
mother was coming. If she could make
her, and ask for her help. Then she
would write Laura that she would ar
rive In New York ready to sail the
seventh of July.
"I’m going to spend, spend, spend!”
she said recklessly. “I am going to
make myself young again and see life.
For every dollar I’ve denied myself
I’ll spend two.”
After supper she walked to the vil
lage for the evening mall. She posted
l letter to Laura telling her she
would meet her In New York the
FOR ATTORNEY-GENERAL
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HON. GUS A. HUDDLESTON
of Greenville, Meriwether County
GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MAY 25, 1932.
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Lawrence Tibbett measuring voice as Harvey S. Firestone Jr., watches
W/ITII ” Lawrence Tibbett, noted
singer, as the subject of the
test, science has now proven that
the soothing tinkle of gold in the
human voice has greater sound
volume than the jarring crash of
iron and steel in the familiar dis
cords of modern life. In other
words the music of Tibbett’s sing
ing exceeds in volume the din of
a boiler factoi-y, a of riveting New York ma
chine, or the streets violent
in their most moments.
This test is believed to be the
first ever made of determining the
exact volume of a famous singer’s
voice. It took place when Law
rence Tibbett was in Akron the
Other day as the guest of Harvey
S. Firestone, Jr., vice president
of The Firestone Tire and Rub
her Company, sponsors of the
Monday night radio programs of
which the Metropolitan grand js
opera and talking picture star
the regular artist. .•
“golden The measuring of "TTnbett’s
voice?’ wps dpjjp under
the person#! supervision^! Roy*
W. BrW, noted Firestone re
search engineer and member of
the Society of Automotive Engi
neers Research Committee. One
of the instruments in the Fire
stone research laboratory is an
audiometer, an extremely sensi
tive piece of mechanism, which is
part of the extensive equipment
used in detecting, photographing
sixth. “I've burned by bridges now,"
she thought. “I’m going straight home
to break the news to mother. I’ll find
now Interests, and new life, and
youth," she told herself.
“Mother," she snid abruptly. The
swaying roeked stopped at the tense
ness In Naomi’s voice.
“Yes? What Is It, Naomi?” Her
tone held a mild surprise.
"I’m sailing the seventh of July with
I .aura."
“Sailing?" In a bewildered tone.
"Yes, sailing for Europe on the sev
enth. And I’ve made arrangements for
.
you to Stay with Aunt Hattie while.
I’m gone."
“You’ve made arrangements?” Icily
“I haven't lost my mind, have I? Well,
you’ve certainly taken a pretty Inde
pendent step.” Her quick anger
cooled. She laid a band on Naomi's
with a quick pressure. Suddenly sh«
laughed. “Child, you was afraid to
tell me? I wondered what you had
on your mlrid for a week.”
“'Yes. I was afraid. I was afraid
you’d not want me to go. Oh, moth
er.” her voice breaking. “I’ve got to
go. I can’t let this go hy, as I have
everything else in life.” Her voice
as growing shrill and rising a little.
“Can’t you see? Can’t you under
stand?’
“I certainly can see,” her mother re
plied slowly. “I have wanted a vaca
tion for years and always thought I
had to stay here at home on your ac
count. But from now on, Naomi, these
ties that bind are going to be elastic.
They are going to stretch. For a
month I’ve bin trying to get up cour
age to tell you that I’m dying to go
to Californy. I’ve always wanted to
go—and now I’m going.”
DID YOU KNOW—?
A ventilated carrier for dogs
has been invented to be mount
ed on an automobile trunk rack.
Concrete building blocks
coated with a weatherproof sur
face have been Invented In Ger
many.
A strainer to cover cooking
utensils has been Invented that
can be clamped to their han
dles.
and eliminating sound from tires
in motion. With Harvey S. Fire
stone. of Jr., the watching audiometer, the record
ings Tibbett
went singing through his factory. first experience
of in a Instead
of a' fashionable Metropolitan
Opera House audience, his back
ground tools used was in the the development machinery and by
Firestone of silent tires.
Sound is measured in units
known as decibels. With a long
sustained note in E flat, Tibbett
sent the needle of the audiometer
spinning to 99 decibels. Brown, the
familiar with the readings of
delicate instrument, looked startled.
He had known that Tibbett pos
sesses one of the most powerful
voices of modern times but he had
not believed it capable of created surpass- by
ing the terrific volume
some of the most violent of every
day npises. .
Checking up against computa- the
tion tablesj it was found that
99 decibels registered t£e by Tibbett decibel
whre in comparison to
of the foilswing: 96; maximum riveter
98; boiler factory noise
New York street 92; roar
ing lion 88; York police whistle 86;
noisy New street 80; street
car 70; piano practice The only 60 sound and
purring of cat 20.
of greater volume which the chart
listed was that of an airplane
110 decibels.
167 MILLION DROP
IN FOOD EXPORTS
Greatest Loss in Meats, Says
Commerce Chief.
Washington,—Exports of foodstuffs
from the United States dropped to a
total value of $874,000,000 In 1931 C.
H. Kardell of the Commerce depart
ment’s foodstuff division; announced.
The value of foodstuffs exports In 1930
was $041,000,000, a decline of $107,
000,000 in a year. The 1931 figures,
he said, was on an approximate level
with pre-war foodstuff exports, but
the decline does not represent loss In
quantity so much as decrease In prices.
Trade In cereals and cereal prod
ucts, meats and fats and oils showed
the greatest loss, according to Mr.
Kardell, while shipments of fresh,
canned and dried fruits, fresh, salted,
smoked and cured fish, and feeds and
fodders Increased considerably.
"The foreign market for fresh
fruit," the report stated, "particularly
apples, oranges, grapefruit, and
lemons continued to show the expan
sion of past years and In this year
of low prices the total value of all
fresh fruits exported practically held
its own amounting to $58,249,000,
compared with $56,608,000 a year ago.
"The total value of grain and grain
products exported In 1931 aggregated
$106,040,000 and constituted approxi
mately 28 per cent of the total value
of all foodstuffs exported compared
with 35 per cent In 1930 and 88 per
cent in 1929. Wheat and wheat flour
combined, comprise about four-fifths
of the trade In cereals, with nearly
as much wheat exported In 1931 as in
1930. Lower prices, however, resulted
in a decline In value of 44.6 per cent.
About one-fourth less flour was ex
ported with a decline of 50 per cent
in value compared with a year ago.
“Meat products comprised about
one-tenth of the value of the food ex
port trade, and show a greater de
cline compared with a year ago than
any other class of foodstuffs. There
were approximately 254,000,000 pounds
of meats of all kinds exported In 1931,
valued at $36,000,000, a decline of
127,000,000 pounds and $30,000,000
compared with 1930. The bulk of the
decrease occurred In the bacon trade,
which fell off from 94,846,000 pounds
in 1930 to 38,428,000 pounds In 1931."
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LIGHTS > 5WBB2
of KEW YORK
At one of those aimuut luncheons
to which members of the Dutch Treat
club bring their children, one of the
principal entertainers was Al Baker,
the magician and ventriloquist. Mr.
Baker was doing his ventriloquist act
with a doll, but tlie actor who made
the biggest hit with the grown persons
in the audience was a little girl he in
duced to come up on the platform.
She was about eight years old and she
had no eyes for Mr. Baker. She looked
only at the doll. The doll spoke to
her and she answered gravely. Then
the doll leaned over and whispered
and she put her lips close to its ear
and whispered back. Mr. Baker
asked the child whether she would
sing with the doll. She said she would.
“Perhaps she doesn’t know iny
songs,” said the doll.
”Oh, I think she does," said Mr.
Baker, and he mentioned “Hush a
Bye, Baby.” The little girl said she
knew that one, so she and the doll
sang It together. The little girl was
too young for skepticism. She heard
the doll speak with her own ears, and
that was that. Even when she grows
older, she probably never will forget
that very remarkable doll.
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I was surprised to learn from Le
jaren A. Hiller, the artist, that he had
been to the top of Katzlmo, or the
Enchanted Mesa, that great, circular
rock which rises In solitary grandeur
from a New Mexico plain. Compara
tively few persons ever have climbed
to the top of this rock. The first
white man known to have scaled this
mesa was Prof. William Libbey of
Princeton. He accomplished tlie feat
by means of a mortar from a life
saving station, which he transported
to the foot of the mesa and used to
shoot a line over the top. This was
In July, 1897. In September of that
same year, Dr. Frederick Webb
Hodge climbed the rock In three
hours, by means of ladders and ropes.
It had taken Professor Libbey four
days. Then Charles F. Lumrnls made
the climb with a party which Included
David Starr Jordan. Later he climbed
It with other parties. There Is a leg
end that the Indians lived on the En
chanted Mesa before they moved to
Acoma, another lofty mesa. Hodge
and Lurnmis found arrow heads,
beads, shell and pottery which at least
confirmed the story that the Enchant
ed Mesa once had been occupied.
They have told me another Henry
Ford story. It seems that Mr. Ford
has telephones pretty much all over
his house, and makes a practice of us
ing them. One day he read in a mag
azine an article which interested him
and called up the editor. The maga
zine was published in Michigan.
“This is Henry Ford," he said. “I
want you to send me two copies of
your magazine,” and he named the
month. The editor was a smart fel
low. He didn’t know which' of his
friends was kidding him over the tele
phone, but he wasn’t going to let him
get away with It.
“Why only two copies, Henry?’ he
Inquired. "If I had your money, I’d
order 1,000 copies."
“Nevertheless,” answered Mr. Ford,
“I want only two copies, but I'd like
them right away.”
“O. K., Henry,” said the editor. “I’ll
send them right around In a truck.”
Then he hung up the telephone, grin
ning a bit at his perspicacity.
A couple of days later the editor’s
telephone rang again. The same voice
came over the wire, but this time It
was considerably sharper.
“This Is Henry Ford,” It said. “1
asked you to send me two copies of
your magazine. They haven't ar
rived.”
The editor began to have a queer
feeling in the pit of bis stomach.
There was something about that voice
which sounded real, and he was re
membering a number of things he had
fcaid.
“Yes, sir,” he stammered. “Sorry,
sir," he mumbled. “I’ll look It up,
sir,” he stuttered.
Mr. Ford got his two magazines.
(©, 1982. Bell Syndicate.)—WNU Service.
Handkerchief 100 Years
Old Owned in Carolina
Selma, N. C.—A handkerchief said
to be more than one hundred years
old Is owned by Miss Anne Noble. Sel
ma. She says the handkerchief be
longed to lier great-grandmother, Anne
Stephens, who was married lu 182.”
and came to America from Scotland
The handkerchief Is In a good state
of preservation. Sol Topping of Bel
haven first claimed to own the old
est handkerchief In the state. He Is
sixty-three years old.
Ia a Nutshell
Th* sparrows and robins, If you
glva them leave to nest as they choose
about your garden, will have their
own opinions about your garden; some
of them think it well laid out—others
ill.
Sketch of Warrenton
P. T. A. Part of The
History of County
(From Warrenton Clipper)
(By Mrs. W. F. Wilhoit, County
Historian.)
The Parent Teacher’s Associa
tion of Warrenton was organ
ized in 1923 and the first officers
were Mrs. S. E. DuPuis, Presi
dent; Mrs. W. H. Fowler, Vice
President; Mrs. C. E. Garbutt,
recording Secretary and Miss
Inez Brinkley, Treasurer.
This organization has been of
great assistance to the school,
ready to assist in any of its un
del-takings. The meetings were
held in the Woman’s Club room
at the school building until the
Community House was com
pleted, since which time it has
met there.
After the first administration
was over in 1924, Mrs. John
Ricketson succeeded Mrs. Du
Puis as President, the other offi
cers remaining as they were. In
1925 the ticket was the same, ex
cept that Mrs. L. D. McGregor
was elected President. In 1926,
Mrs. DuPuis was again prevailed
upon to take the presidency and
Mrs. D. S. Kitchens was elected
Recording Secretary. Mrs. W.
H. Fowler and Miss Inez Brink
ley were still serving as Vice
President and Treasurer respec
tively. These officers are still
serving in 1932.
The Parent Teachers Associa
tion has a large co-operate mem
bership and as its name implies,
consists of the parents of the
pupils and the faculty. Monthly
meetings are held at which the
different grade teachers present
programs using the pupils of
•their grades. After the meet
ings fight refreshments are
served by groups of members
appointed the
After the beginning of each
scholastic year a reception is
given the teachers of the War
renton High School to which
several hundred people are in
vited, and it the end of the year
a reception is tendered the grad
uating class. The whole As
sociation co-operating in fur
nishing refreshments and in re
ceiving and serving.
The school grounds have been
beautified. A landscape archi
tect came from Georgia Univer
sity and drew the plans, and
flowers and shrubs were prant
ed around the building, some of
these were purchased, but many
of them were contributed by lo
cal flower growers.
A granite coping with massive
columns topped with electric
fights has been placed around
the campus by the Association
and a grand piano, costing four
teen hundred dollars, was placed
in the auditorium.
A Webster’s Unabridged Dic
tionary and a recent edition of
the Encyclopaedia Brittanica
were presented to the school li
brary and a velvet draw curtain
for the stage was the latest gift
to the school.
MOTHER’S DAY
mother My first recollection is that
has done a great deal for
ine and I believe that I should
appreciate her enough to cele
brate Mother’s Day. The reason
we have come to set-aside this
day is because some of the chil
dren don’t love their mothers as
they should and don’t appreciate
the work they do for them.
Some children let this day go by
without knowing what it means
to them, so this little poem will
let you know something about it.
We have celebrated in this way,
To show our love to Mother’s
And Day, should
we love to our
mother give,
To make it a happy one as long
as we five.
Children should not give their
love to their mothers only on
this day, but all the way through
fife. Don’t w:ait to this day to
make her think you love her
truly. — Written by Cornelia
Foste, 11 year old daughter
Mrs. W. G. Johnson.