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GIBSON RECORD
Official Organ Glascock County.
Entered at the Postoffice at Gib
son Ga„ as Second Class Matter.
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Mrs. Mae Dukes and E. E. Lee,
Editors, Publishers and Owners
We are not responsible for opin
ions expressed by correspondents
or others through our columns.
Gibson, Ga., June 22, 1932
WHAT-A-MAN
Now that campaigns are wann
ing up, it may be a good time as
any to republish the experience
of an Arkansas candidate who
has been going the rounds for
several years. Here is the latest
version:
“Lost four months and 20
days canvassing; lost 1,360
hours of sleep thinking about
the election; lost 40 acres of
corn and a crop of sweet pota
toes; lost two front teeth and a
lot of hair in personal combat
with an opponent; donated one
beef, four shoats and five sheep
to barbecues; gave away two
pairs of suspenders, five calico
dresses, five dolls and thirteen
baby rattlers • kissed 126 babies;
kindled 14 kitchen fires; put up
eight stoves, cut 14 cords of
wood; carried 24 buckets of wa
ter; gathered seven wagon loads
of corn; pulled 475 bundles of
fodder; walked 4,000 miles;
shook hands 9,080 times; told
10,001 lies; talked enough to
make 100 volumes; attended 26
revival meetings; was baptized
four times by immersion and
twice by sprinkling; contributed
$50 to foreign missions; made
love to nine grass widows; got
dog bit 19 times—and then got
defeated.”—The Winder News.
GEORGIA NEWS
(Continued from page one)
foreign nfh'de sugar.
Mias Ethel Jackson, ot Athens, and
Harry Garrett, Atlanta, were named
worthy grand matron and patron,
roapeotively. of the Georgia Chapter
of the Order of Baatern Star at the
thirty-firet annual convention of the
organisation at Macon.
An audit of the Peach county
school district submitted recently by
State Auditor Tom Wisdom to Gov
ernor Russell revealed assets of $82,-
287 above liabilities, Th« schools
opsratsd during the past yenr at a
oost of $16,073 and finished the school
year with a balance of $10,250.
How Radio Detects Storn-s
In its annus! report the radio re
search board In England described
how radio rangefinders traced the
birth and path of storms. The meth
od used is to record the waves ot
radio “static" sent out by the storm.
With this method they claimed to be
able to detect the birth of thunder
storms as far ns 2,000 miles away
and as high as six and seven miles
above the earth. Besides, they were
able to follow the path of such storms
across the country, making It possible
to warn air routes or cities In their
paths.
Hew Spellings Differ
Some of the principal differences In
English and United States’ spelling are
the Inclusion of the letter “u" In the
English form in such wools ns labout
and honour, the substitution of “que"
or "k" In such words as check
(cheque), the use of the letter “s” In
stead of “a" In such words as orgaol
cation (organization), the substitution
of “re” for “er" In such words as the
ater (theatre), the use of the letter
“y" instead of “I" in such words as
tire (tyre).
How Leaves Affect Tree*
The leaves of a tree correspond to
the lungs o" other bresthing apparatus
of an animal, since s large part of the
tree's respiration Is done through the
leaves A tree stripped of all Its leaves
would die If unable to replace them
although under ordinary circumstances
at least part of the leaves would grow
back. A plant may be said to die from
lack of moisture during a dry spell
which Is equivalent to the dying of
thirst of an animal.
How to Apply Varnish
Varnish can he applied much more
easily and evenly If It Is nested In n
warm even before being n*<>d. Not
only does It look more professional
but less varnish Is -equlred if this Is
done.
How Earth Is Slowing Down
The rate of rotation of the earth on
tts arts ts not constant, tint It gradual
ly decreasing with a consequent
tengtheidn;. of the sidereal day
amounting to about 1 /ItXX) of a second
per century.
How Cotton Got Name
Cotton gets Its name from aa Ara
Me word qufn
GIBSON RECORD, GIBSON, GA.
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Shall A Nation of Mendicants Be Created?
The human distress which marks the present era of depres
sion and unemployment cannot fail to elicit sympathy from all
good people. It is widespread and it is painful in many as
pects.
But our sympathies may lead us to adopt unwise means of
relief which will bring great distress in the future. Indeed,
we may create a nation of mendicants; for we have already
gone far in that direction. Every occasion of suffering
brings forth clamors from every quarter that the Federal Gov
ernment relieve the situation.
If a drought befalls any part of the country, for its relief it
is demanded that appropriations be made by congress in order
that the sufferers may escape the hardships of the lack of
If a storm befalls other sections of the country, appropria
tions must be made for the relief of the people who are storm
hurt.
If an overflow occurs in the Mississippi River, great appro
priations must he made to avert such a disaster in the future.
Highways must be built at government expense, a large pro
portion of which must come from the treasury of the Federal
Government.
The education of the children and youth of the country must
be by governmental appropriations, considerable sums arising
from the national treasury.
The important matter of maternity is sought to be promoted
by appropriations to the Maternity Board at Washington City
under federal direction and control. Thus every interest is be
ing taught to look to the National Government for aid and re
lief, and, of course, the National Government will not respond
to these appeals without coupling its responses with a consid
erable degree of federal control. Indeed, the Federal Govern
ment should not and will not pour out the money in the treas
ury without fallowing it with some supervision as to how it
is expended.
With all these expenditures we may be sure there will be a
great increase in the number of officials with salaries cover
ing a considerable part of the appropriations made.
Meanwhile, just cries go up demanding the taxes shall be
reduced. Taxes ought to be reduced, for they have outrun the
ability of the people to pay and they have outrun the lawful
function of the government to aid the people in their real and
supposed distresses. We cannot look to the treasury for
funds to relieve popular wants without extracting from the
pockets of the people taxes with which to supply these funds.
The final outcome for all this clamor for relief for every
conceivable ill, coupled at the same time with insistent de
mands for reduced taxation, will be a most dangerous form of
socialism. The thriftless will demand gifts from the treasury,
made possible by taking of the money of other people through
taxation. The idle, who compose most, if not all, the thriftless,
will call for governmental aid whenever they feel the pinch of
any want. And demagogues will be ready to respond to these
demands, for the members of legislative bodies have the chron
ic habit of keeping their ears to the ground in order to And out
what the majority of the people dmand. The end of all this
process means enraged people dividing the citizenry of the
country into angry classes, and sacrificing the best government
the world ever saw in selfish efforts of some to secure what
they never earned and what they never ought to have until
they have earned it.
At bottom of socialism in all forms is nothing more than
clement mendicancy, calling for the funds of the government,
which have been collected from all the people. It has never **
done justice and never will do justice. Socialism is too selfish
to be productive and self supporting, and it is too idle not to
raise cries of selfishness when it feels the need of anything
which its insatiable desires demand.
In addition to the demagogues who respond to these mendi
cant calls for popular relief, we have preachers preaching so
cialism without knowing what they are preaching. They even
claim that the New Testament justifies communistic and so
cialistic proposals when the primitive church sold its lands to
relieve the poor. That unwise expedient was early abandoned
by the church at Jerusalem, and it brought on the first tragedy
of covetousness in the history of the early church. The death
of Ananias and Sapphira was the outcome of covetousness,
leading to lying. But the Apostle Peter did not say to them
your land was not your own. He said to them, speaking to
Ananias, “Why hast Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy
Ghost and keep back a part of the land? While it remained
was it not thine own? And after it was sold was it not in thine
own power? Why hast thou conceived this thing in thy heart?
Thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.” (Acts, v, 3-4.)
In these words to Ananias the Apostle Peter recognized and
asserted the right to property. He only denounced the prof
anation of property that had been dedicated to the Lord and
by lying withdrawing it from such dedication.
The commandment of the Decalogue which forbids stealing
recognizes the right of property; and rightly interpreted it for
bids legislation that takes property unjustly bv nefarious
methods of taxation. The majority of a legislature or congress
has no more right to take from the people by needless taxation
than an individual has the right to rob his neighbor by theft.
It is probably true that a large part of the excessive taxation
under which the nation is groaning possesses the nature of
theft by the men who enacted oppressive measures to take
from the people their money in order to promote their own po
litical ambitions. How often have demagogues bribed the peo
ple by using the money of the people in these socialistic
schemes! Such taxation demoralizes the people and destroys
their spirit of self-reliance and self-support. They become
mendicants, clamoring at the door of the treasury for the pub
lic funds which they see or think they see are held by the
*treasury.
Even for so valuable a thing as education taxation may be
come unjust and oppressive. Teachers may no more combine
to maintain unreasonably high salaries than firemen or police
men, or clerks in any department of government.
We ofter hear the silly cry that the rights of man should
outrank the rights of property. This absurd view’ overlooks
the fact that there can be no rights of property which are not
the rights of men. Property cannot own itself, and when it is
produced, or otherwise honorably secured, it is the sacred po
session of a human being who is entitled to protection of what
he has as well as defended for what he is. Personality does
not depend upon property, but profterty cannot exist at all if
there are no persons to own it. An unpeopled world would be
a world fit only for brutes to occupy.
Only the animal man accumulates property. The beasts and
birds live from day to day, guarded and fed by the heavenly
Father, who notes the fall of the sparrow to the ground. He
notes also the fruits of human toil and respects its sanctity.
Nothing could be further from the spirit and teachings of Je
sus than the theories of socialism and communism. When He
rode into Jerusalem on His final and royal entry’, He rode
upon a borrowed ass, and said to His deciples, whom He sent
to secure the animal, “Say to the owner, the Lord hath need,”
and doubtless the borrowed ass w T as returned with scrupulous
care to its rightful owner.—Bishop Warren A. Candler in At
lanta Journal Mazazine Section.
Need for Side-Dressing Cotton
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A remarkable contrast. The heavy rowa in the rear were aide-dresaed with
Chilean nitrate oi soJa. Thrifty, fast-growing plants like these will set a heavy
crop before the weevil hat a chance to do its wont damage.
The light application of fertilizer
under cotton makes side-dressing the
most necessary thing to be done this
year.
The need for aide-dressing cotton ts
probably greater tnan ever before. Last
year’s crop, which averaged 200 pounds
of lint per acre, removed a tremendous
amount of plant food from the soil,
which means that the present crop,
with little or no fertilizer under it,
started the season under a serious
handicap. Everything points also to
• heavy boll weevil infestation, as a
Early Fast-Growing Cotton
Safer From Weevil Ravages
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This picture show* the advantage oi forcing cotton » a means oi getting ahead of
the weevil. The plant in farmer's right hand waa taken from row* lide-dreaead with
Chilean nitrate, while one et left received no aide- dressing. The contrast is also
apparent in the rows where the men are standing.
Realizing that the weevil is here
to stay, planters have developed meth
ods to grow cotton in spite of him.
Improved seed, early planting, and a
aide-dressing of quick acting nitrogen
have made it possible to speed up the
crop so that the boils are set before
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result of the mild weather of laat
winter.
Side dressing with quick-acting ni
trogen will supply the plant food the
crop lacks and help it to get ahead
of the weevil. The method most farm
era follow is to use 100 to 200 pound
of Chilean nitrate per acre as tool
as the crop is chopped. The youtp
plants take up the nitrate as soot
as It is applied, with the result tha
growth Is speeded up and the cro -
is set before the weevil has reaches
Us most destructive stage.
the weevil is able to do its worst
damage.
A crop that grows off slowly is at
the weevil’s mercy, particularly In a
season like this one when there Is an
abnormally heavy weevil Infestation. A
nitrate side-dressing ts cheap and ef
fective Insurance this year.
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
The Shouting Is Over
The Bonus
About War Debts V
Smiling Faces
The shouting and voting, nominating
and indorsing, parading and singing,
demonstrating, real and pretended, are
over unUl 19S6, as for the Republicans,
it is Hoover and Curtis, nobod; else
had the faintest chance at the head or
tall of the ticket.
There were really not any issues.
There was a prohibition fog, much
carefully ignoring in speeches of every
thing that men discuss in private, de
pression, crime, racketeering.
Luckily, “conventions can’t give the
people anything and they can’t take
anything away from the people.’’
Everything depends on what the peo
ple themselves are, not on the partic
ular individuals chosen to hold office.
The house voted Immediate cash
payment of the $2,400,000,000 bonus
certificates.
Veterans would have preferred Jobs;
although spending $2,400,000,000, cash,
among the merchants, big and little,
would be a wonderful thing for busi
ness revival.
Unfortunately, it is necessary to
warn veterans that the bonus so quick
ly voted in the lower house will hardly
become a reality.
Ramsey MacDonald, at Lausanne,
lets it be known that “the United
States has encouraged us to believe
that it will co-operate.” He does not
say in what. The United States is
expected to “cancel Its share of the
war debts.”
If that doesn’t happen, Europe will
probably cancel them for us.
The new German government will
tell assembled nations at Lausaune
that Germany can and will no longer
pay for losing the war.
After that, the French and Italians,
and the British, probably, will an
nounce that they will not pay us. Paris
announces that the French and Eng
lish prime ministers have “an under
standing," that includes an under
standing about the debts.
It is Interesting to study faces of
convention delegates gathered in long
rows. The majority, smiling, seem to
say, “This may be somebody’s funeral,
but not mine."
The faces are those of temperate
men and women, keen, intelligent
faces. Somebody says “there U no
genius In them.” But if another young
Bonaparte sat under the New Mexico
banner the same person would ask,
“Who let In that queer little Mexican?
If ha really a delegate?"
And If Marconi, or Edison, or New
ton himself sat there in modern
clothes, no one would question the
statement, “They come from Kansas."
Wa rarely recognize genius or ex
ceptional ability until we see it in his
tory hooka In the writings of Leo
nardo da Vinci, greatest intellect of his
day, you find no mention of Columbus,
although that navigator crossed the
Atlantic and came back while Leo
nardo was in his prime. He could not
see Columbus’ greatness; Columbus
would not have seen his.
Mr. Teagle, head of Standard Oil
of New Jersey, adopts a five-day week
to give Increased employment. Five
days’ work and pay for many is bet
ter than six days for s few. And when
prosperity comes creeping back, the
five-day week may remain, carrying
six days’ wages, to remind workers
that in all evil there is some good.
Europeans wonder why Americans
“work so hard merely to get money."
Some Americana make money, as In
dians made bows and arrows, with
a plan of usefulness.
W. H. Conner, retired steelmaker,
gives two million dollars to study and
fight cancer. Everybody, Europeans
included, will have the benefit of the
discoveries made through the fund es
tabllahed to help scientists in their
work.
Men worth while like power, al
though some of them use it foolishly.
Martin Deputy, alias Marshall De
pew, arrested as the leader of a gang
that kidnaped a woman in Kansas
Offy, tells detectives: “Boys, you’re
only wasting time. I did it. I’m go
ing to get the neose. And I’m not
afraid.”
Missouri, in which the kidnaping
was done, seeks to discourage that
crime by punithing it with death.
Capital punishment Is abhorrent, but
if the five men that combined to kid
nap the Missouri woman and extort
$75,000 from her were all strung up
at once it might make kidnaping seem
less attractive. Depew was given a
Ufa sentence.
Congress, in its talking, planning,
voting, taxing and appropriating, wor
ries big business, and big business has
been laying earnestly to congress,
“Won’t you please go homo?" and
congress has been saying, “No, I
won’t”
A trals wreck in Russia kills scores;
sixteen railroad employee*, held re
sponsibie, are charged with murder.
A etationmaeter and others are ac
cused of being drunk and mixing the
signals, causing the fatal crash.
That does not happen in this coun
try, thank* to the character at Amer
ican railroad men.
<•. 1111, by Kmg_F«iture« Syndicate, Xac.)