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GIBSON RECORD
Official Organ Glascock County.
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son Ga„ as Second Class Matter.
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Mrs. Mae Dukes and E. E. Lee,
Editors, Publishers and Owner*
We are not responsible for opin
ions expressed by correspondent*
or others through our columps.
Gibson, Ga., July 6, 1932
TAXATION BEYOND ABILITY
IS TYRANNY I
(By Mrs. A. R. Shivers)
When the earth was without
form, void, and darkness was
upon the face of the deep, the
Creator said: “Let there be
Light.” But the need was no
greater, then than it is today.
We need light upon every phase
of our existence.
Publicity is the most powerful
destroyer of evil on earth today.
Let us return to the principles
of Jefferson and Adams, and
others of patriotic days. They
advocated freedom of speech, a
free press, State's rights, relig
ions freedom, and a government
in which the people had a part.
Our laws have become unjust,
taxes oppressive, and our gov
ernment for a few who are to be
benefited.
It was not treason that
prompted Patrick Henry to de
liver in the House of Burgesses
in Virginia, the greatest speech
that was ever made in the history
of the United States.
He would say today that tax
ation beyond our ability to pay
is nothing short of tyranny.
The king and his lords in
Washington seem oblivious to
the growing revolt to injustice
and oppression at their hands.
They seem to have never heard
of the “Boston Tea Party,” and
James Otis.
Unjust law's and oppressive
taxes are directly responsible
for much of the lawlessness of
our land today.
Our laws from the beginning
have been formed upon work.
That was God’s law when people
were made upon the earth.
Today with a stupid jackal in
the the White House, everybody
is walking about. He is, surely,
closely related to George III!
If Samuel Adams were to re
turn to earth for a day, he’d
walk into Congress and shake
his finger at the body and say:
“The voice of more than a
hundred million freemen must
be respected and their demands
obeyed.” Then he’d say this is
public business, and the light of
publicity it must be turned on, and
would be done.
If there is any greater love
than that a person lays down his
life for his friend, it is that' one
loves his country well enough to
die for it.
To live under such doom is
against our race.
America boasts of a patriotic
band,
Let’s save our country from
disgrace—
Death is sweet in defense of
our land!
May the approaching Fourth
make fresh in our minds and
hearts the memory of those days
when love of home and country
Was taught by the home fires,
and that love was prepared to
defend our family altars. May
our United States again be
called the “Joshua who com
manded the sun and the moon
to stand still, and they obeyed
him.”hlm”
MJay It be said of Georgia:
“All things are possible within
her borders,”
And Warren, O Warren coun
ty!
The fairest in one hundred
fifty-nine!
Of all good things thou has a
bounty,
Whether people, flowers, or
fruits of the vine.
“O, my castle is lit in the
gloaming
With the light of the evening
star.
And whenever my feet go
And roaming whatever
misfortunes
There’s the goodness of God
about me
And He resides in the thun
ders’ roll,
God within i s the God with
out me,
And my castle is the range of
my soul!” —Ernest Neal.
—From Warrenton Clipper.
GIBSON RECORD, GIBSON, GA.
FOR THE ATTENTION OF VOTERS AND CANDIDATES
In the present turbulent political status, and the apparently
frenzied struggle to obtain public office on promises that seem
never to be fulfilled, we commend to voters and candidates
alike the statement quoted below made by a great statesman*
while campaigning for a seat in the House of Lords in England.
He was Lord Macaulay and the words quoted were spoken
about 100 years ago:
“The practice of begging for votes is, as it seems to
me, absurd, principles pernicious and altogether at variance with the
true of representative government.
“To request,' an honest man to vote according to his con
science is superfluous.
Seats in the house of commons ought not to be given,
like rooms in an almshouse, to urgency and solicitation;
and a man who surrenders his vote to caresses, and suppli
cations forgets his duty as much as if he sold it for a bank
note.
“I hope to see the day when an Englishman will think
it as great an affront to he courted and fawned upon in**
his capacity as an elector as in his capacity as a juryman.
“I will give no pledges; I will not hind myself to make or
to support anw particular motion. '-'
“The great beauty of the representative system is that
it unites the advantages of popular control with the ad
vantages arising from a division of labor.
“Just as a physician understands medicine better than
an ordinary man, just as a shoemaker makes shoes better
than an ordinary man, so a person whose life is passed in
transacting affairs of state becomes a better statesman
than an ordinary man.
“In politics as w'ell as every other department of life,
the public ought to have the means of checking those who
serve it.
“If a man finds that he, derives no benefit from the pre
scription of his physician, he calls in another. If his shoes
do not fit him he changes his shoemaker.
“But when he' has called in a physician of whom he
hears a good report, and whose general practice he be
lieves to be judicious, it would be absurd in him to tie
down that physician to order particular pills and partic
ular draughts.
“And in the same manner it would, I think, be absurd
in him to require posilive pledges and to exact daily and
hourly obedience from his representative.
How about clipping it out and sending it to your favorite
political hero, whether he be in office now or is just a caiidi
date?
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HOW DEATH TESTS ON
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in your home because its killing power
has been death-tested. Sinclair main
tains a "fly farm” at East Chicago, Indiana,
where strong, healthy flies are used for
testing purposes. In these tests every batch
of Sinclair P. D. manufactured must kill
1,000 five-day-old flies under conditions
ink
i uk PR wus BEDBUGS, FLIES, MOTHS, MOSQUITOES ANTS, ROACHES ETC.
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POLITICAL ANNOUNCEMENT
For Solicitor-General of the
Toombs Circuit
To Voters of Glascock County:
I announce my candidacy for
the office of Solicitor-General of
the .. Toombs Circuit .. in . ,, the T Pri- , .
inary to be held in September,
and subject to the rules of the
Democratic Par’y. I thank
for your support in the past and
if again elected I promise faith
ful and impartial service to you.
Very respectfully,
M. L. Felts.
For Judge; of the Toombs
Judicial Circuit
To the White Voters of Toombs
Judicial Circuit:
I hereby announce my candi
dacy for the office of Judge of the
Superior Courts of Toombs Ju
dicial Circuit, subject to the rules
and regulations of the State Dem
ocratic Primary to be held on
September 14, 1932. I am deeply
grateful for your confidence in
twice honoring me with this of
fice and for your splendid co
-operation. preciate I shall sincerely ap
your present support
and interest, and, if I am again
ejected, I shall continue to use
my best efforts to administer the
duties of the office fairly and im
partially. This 30th day of May,
1932. C. J. Perryman.
Population of Detroit
Is Placed at 2,104,764
Detroit.—After a year’s study and
discussion, the bureau of census final
ly has determined over the area of
the metropolitan district of I>etroit
and the population.
The bureau has placed the area at
740.02 square miles and the popula
tion at 2,104,70-1. Of the population,
1,568,082 Is Inside the Detroit rity lim
its and 026,102 in the remainder of
the area.
more severe than those in your own home.
As flies at this age have more resistance
to insecticide, you are sure that clean,
stainless, cedar-smelling P. D. will kill
every fly, mosquito, bedbug, cockroach,
moth, flea or ant that invades your home.
Ask for Sinclair P. D., the death-tested
insect spray.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1932
WHY
Egress From Hive Should Be
Allowed Bees
When entrances have been closed
and the bees discover that they are
Imprisoned, they become excited and
attempt to escape. Within a short time
a large number of bees will have wor
r((1( j themselves to death In their fran
tic efforts to eet out of the hive. Dur
ing very cold weather, when the bees
are clustered away from the entrunce,
mfl v he possible to close the en
-
* r!,nce without causing such excite
ment, but as soon as the weather
warms up and some bees venture to
the entrance, they would begin to wor
ry, usually with disastrous results. A
small opening must be maintained
throughout the winter, even though
the weather Is too cold for the bees to
fly.
The amount of moisture given off by
bees during any given time depends
upon the amount of honey they con
sume When the winter stores are poor
and the bees are confined to their hive
for a long period without a cleansing
flight, they become restless and eat
honey quite rapidly, and thus give off
much more moisture than if qi'let.
Then If the walls of the hive are cold,
this moisture condenses. Therefore,
condensation of moisture within the
hive can be prevented by making sure
that the winter stores are of good
quality so that the bees will not be
come restless when they are confined
to their hives without a cleansing
flight, and packing the hive to keep
the wails warm enough that there will
be no condensation from the small
amount of vapor given off by the bees
under normal conditions during the
winter.—Exchange.
Why the Gray Squirrel
Is Called Public Enemy
The London county council has is
sued an order for the extermination of
Canadian gray squirrels, for the little
rascal, despite his handsome coat and
dainty ways, is vermin. Unless this
war is carried on relentlessly, the gray
squirrel will entail a serious loss to
agriculture. He has been proved guilty
of a long catalogue of crimes. He
drives away or kills the harmless red
squirrel, rifles birds’ nests, eats the
eggs and young birds, attacks and
kills pheasants and partridges, dam
ages trees by eating off the shoots and
buds, eats fruit and vegetables, and
generally makes himself a oulsanee to
the farmer and smallholder. Gray
squirrels are now said to have popu
lated 14,000 square miles of England,
and they are breeding with great ra
pidity. Four thousand have been shot
In Burnham Beeches alone during the
last ten years.—London Mail.
Why Elks Observe Hour
Originally Corks,'a the ( Elks club wer$,knowfi «bm as
the Jolly of men
posed exclusively of actors who usual
ly met in New York on Sunday nights
in friendly fellowship, and they formed
a club and the custom was established
of drinking to the absent ones at
eleven o'clock every Sunday night, and
as a result thereof remembrance of
absent members became one of the
principles of the present great Ordft'
of Elks, and the custom is regularly
observed in Elks homes and clubs and
lodges, and Indeed wherever a group
of Elks may be gathered together. In
many Elks homes there are automatic
light controls and electric clocks and
when the hour hand points to eleven
o'clock every night the lights are
dimmed, eleven strikes are sounded on
the clocks and the members present
remain standing In silent meditation
during that period.
Why Called “Pby.ician”
“Under Charlemagne, medicine was
taught uuder the names of ‘physieus,’
hence the origin of our name physi
cian for one who practices medicine,”
wrote Charles H. LaWall In “Four
Thousand Years of Pharmacy.”
“Charlemagne had In his ‘Capituluires’
described a list of medicinal plants
which were to be cultivated In gar
dens. From this modest beginning
came the Idea of botanical or plant
gardens, which was to culminate hun
dreds of years later, when in the Six
teenth century many of the famous
botanical gardens of the world were
instituted.”
Why the Hand Shake?
j The custom of shaking hands has
come down to us from the time when
every one carried a knife or sword.
In those days, when two persons met,
it was courtesy to extend the right
hand to show that no weapon was be
tng drawn. To this day we extend our
right hands to our friends, and refuse
to shake hands with those we do not
care to know.
Why Star* Ara Invisible
Stars are not visible during the day
because the superior light of the sun
and Its reflected rays from objects
on the earth are so strong as to oblit
erate the tiny rays from stars go
that they make no impression on the
retina of the eye.
Why Intacta Ara Small
When asked why insects did not
grow to be elephant-sized creatures In
the course of evolution, Dr. L. O. How
ard, noted entomologist, replied that
one reason Is because the insect skele
ton is on the outside of the body.
Why Toll for the Dead
The tolling of bells for the dead at
the time of burial began long ago
when it was believed the sound of the
bells would frighten away the evil
spirits who lived in the air.—Kansas
City Star.
Birds of a Feather
Bj JANE CEDOEN
by McClure per Syndicate.)
(WNU Service)
'TVJERE was always something
1 cheerful about the atmosphere of
O’Grady’s store that stood on one of
the corners where the state highway
crossed the old Main street of the
village called North Hill.
There were always plenty of peo
ple waiting for the bus, young men
who bought cigarettes as an excuse to
hang around an hour or more, older
men occasionally talking politics, girls
sitting at the tables giggling over their
Ice cream. If you had been a resident
of North Hill and had had a son you
would have taken it for granted prob
ably that he would occasionally join
the loiterers at 0'Grady‘s.
But If you had had a daughter you
would have passed on to her the un
written law that girls didn’t hang
about O’Grady’s. They went there for
Ice cream, or to buy a paper or candy
or a quart of milk. But having made
their purchase or eaten their ice cream
they left. Even boys who spent too
much time at O’Grady’s were looked
upon as Idlers and loafers.
It was at O’Grady’s that Lois Gran
ger first saw Malcolm Kent. She hud
gone to buy bird seed and Malcolm
wag with the loafers leaning against
the tobacco counter. Lois cast a
glance In that direction Just to see
who was there and naturally enough
noticed Kent. He was a stranger and
looked so different from the usual
O’Grady frequenter, she assumed that
he was waiting for a bus.
But when a day or so later she went
to O’Grady’s with her little sister to get
an Ice cream cone and noticed again
the tall, rather well-dressed yonng
man loitering there beside the ciga
rette counter apparently feeling very
much at home, she concluded that he
had got the O'Grady habit.
•’Who Is the good-looking stranger
that’s been hanging around O’Grady’s
lately?’’ Lois’ uncle asked that evening
at supper.
Lois tried to look Indifferent, while
her older brother Informed the family
that the loafer was named Malcolm
Kent and that he was a cousin or
something of the Robinsons who had
a big farm out beyond the creek. Tom
farther announced that he bad met
the young man, liked h'm and If there
was no family objection, would bring
him around to supper.
“He can’t be much account,” ob
served Lois’ mother, “If he’s always
hanging around O’Grady’s.”
“Still, Just because he goes there
Isn't any sign he's like the other
loafers,’’ Lois said.
“Birds of a fgftther flock together,”
pronounced her mother.
“You’re right,” said the uncle. “Ev
ery time I've been In there he was
having the time of bis life.”
Still it was agreed to permit Tom
to bring the young man to supper.
And that was where Lois met him.
Malcolm called again two nights la
ter and when he was told that Tom
waa not at home he asked whether
he might see Miss Lois. Yes, he had
actually come to see her. He had an
Idea that Tom wouldn't be home.
Almost every night at supper when
Malcolm wasn't present Lois’ family
spent some time In discussing Mr.
Kent. He had said something about
having had some sort of a job on a
newspaper. But certainly he couldn’t
be doing any news gathering out here
at North Hill. And always Lois’ moth
er would observe that birds of a feath
er flocked together. It was a matter
of common talk that he spent more
than half his waking hours at
O’Grady’s.
Then, one Saturday afternoon, Mal
colm and Lois went walking down
country lanes In the mellow autumn
sunshine, and Malcolm asked Lois to
be his wife.
“I think I’d like to, but I don’t
know how my family will feel about It.
They know you aren’t working, and
you spend so much time at O’Grady’s."
‘Must because I hang around
O’Grady’s doesn’t mean that I am like
other O’Grady habitues, does it?”
asked Malcolm with a mystifying
smile.
“Only mother says that birds of a
feather flock together.”
“Well, It happens that the reason
why this bird flocks around O’Grady’s
Is because he is of an entirely differ
ent feather.”
Lois told him, In a rather hurt tone,
that she hadn’t the least idea what he
was talking about. “It seems to me
that If you really care enough about
me to want to marry me, you wouldn’t
hang out there all the time—that
you’d be making plans to do some
thing some time.”
So Malcolm explained, but he made
Lois promise not to tell the others
until he left. He had written a novel
—a darned good novel, too, Malcolm
frankly admitted. “But, you see, I’ve
always been something of a book
worm. never spent enough time talk
ing with the kind of birds that stick
around O’Grady’s. And there are
chapters In that book of mine that
need the kind of talk you get at
O’Grady’s. Came out to see the Rob
insons one day and happened In at
O’Grady’s—found It was just the sort
of thing I needed—the publishers have
accepted the book—that Is. when I put
In a bit more first-hand work on those
chapters. And now I’ve got reviewing, my regu
lar Job on my paper. Book
you know—I’ve been carrying- on as
usual while I’ve been away.”
And Lois was satisfied.