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GIBSON RECORD
Official Organ Glascock County.
Entered at the Postoffice at Gib
ton Ga., as Second Class Matter.
Published Every Wednesday
Subscription $1.00 Per Year
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 columps.
Gibson. Ga., July 20, 1932.
ODD, ISN'T IT?
The Bible mentions a king who slept
In a bedstead 14 or 15 feet long.
The word "truth” occurs In the New
and Old Testaments the same number
of times—117.
Ohio is the only state whose official
flag is pennant-shaped—all the others
are rectangular.
The Tehuelch Indians of Patagonia,
now almost extinct, averaged more
than six feet In height.
Gen. James Oglethorpe founded
Georgia us a colony In 1732 and lived
to see It become an American state In
1783
"Q” is the only letter which dees not
occur in the names of the stales nr
their capitals or the surnames of oui
Presidents.
Goats Introduced on Si. Helena !).■>
the Portuguese In 1513 almost core
pletely denuded that Island of Us <len»*
forests wlthlii :wt venrs
POLITICAL
For Solicitor-General of the
Toombs Circuit
To Voters of Glascock County:
I announce my candidacy
the office of Solicitor-General
the Toombs Circuit in the Pri
mary to he held in September,
and subject to the rules of the
Democratic Par'y. I thank you
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 do 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. 1 shall sincerely ap
preciate your present support
and interest, and, if I am again
elected, I shall continue to use
my best eff orts to administer the
duties of the office fairly and im.
partially. This 30th day of May,
1932. C. J. Perryman.
Legal Notices
SHERIFFS SALE
GEORGIA—Glascock County.
Will be sold at the court house
door in said county, within the
legal hours of sale, on the first
Tuesday in September, 1932, the
following described property to
wit:
That tract of land, lying
and being in the 1167th District,
G. M. of said county, containing
one hundred and fourteen acres,
more or less,- hounded North by
land of D. L. Brassell; Easit by
lands of Harbison Walker and
J. V. May; West by land of J. L.
Hughes, and South by land of
Mrs. Polly Ann Dixon. Said
tract of land levied on as the
property of W. I. Greenleaf to
satisfy tax ti fas issued by R. E.
Palmer, Tax Collector of Glas
cock county against the said W.
1. Greenleaf for the years 1926,
1927, 1928, 1929, 1930 and 1931.
The iron, or steel rails laid on
and across said land, running
North and South will not be in
eluded in and sold as a part of
said land. The defendant, W. I.
Greenteaf, being a non-resident
of Glascock county, and his resi
dence being unknown to me,
his advert.sement wdl he pub
lished for ninety (90) days in
convpliances with the law in
such cases made and provided,
S t0 Pay dCe Lo
ThU Th 301,1 3 nH * . ,ay of .^. ay 1932
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ci Shenff „ (v rx Glascock i County, „ Ga.
If you have anything to sell,
try a small ad in this paper.
Says the Nineteenth
Amendment IsMost
Important Since 76
(Mrs. A. R. Shivers)
“The right of citizens of the
United States to vote shall not
be denied, or abridged by the U.
S., or any state on account of
sex.”
The above is an act of Con
gress and dated August 26, 1920,
known as the nineteenth amend
ment to the Constitution of the
United States of America. It is
the most important act of any
Congress since that famous pa
per of July 4th, 1776.
Before America was discov
ered, women in England were
asking for their rights, which in
cluded the ballot.
In the early days of the Mas
sachusetts and Maryland Coli
nies, the women demanded
“place and voice” in the colonial
legislatures, and soon in Virgin
ia women property owners were
voting.
While John Adams was serv
ing in the Continental Congress,
his wife, Abigail Adams, wrote
him thus: “If particular atten
tion is not paid to the ladies we
are determined to foment a re
bellion, and will not hold our
selves bound to obey any laws
in which we have no voice or
representation.” Of course Con
gress was not alarmed, for the
Constitution did not give the
ballot to women.
Woman’s right to the ballot
was first sought through the
State Constitutions, then thru
the Federal Constitution.
In the presidential election of
famous 1872. Susan B. Anthony made a
attempt to vote, and
bring the suffrage cause before
the public. She was arrested
and ordered by a New York
judge to pay a fine of $100 and
costs of the prosecution, to
which the lady replied: "May it
please your honor, I shall never
pay a dollar of your unjust pen
alty.” The judge knew to jail
the famous leader would arouse
sympathy from her sex, so he
dismissed the case and made no
attempt to collect the fine.
It is said of Alice Paul, chair
man of the National Congress
ional Committee in 1912, that
she never read, talked or
thought about anything except
the campaign in which Wood
row Wilson was elected presi
dent. She formed the National
Woman’s Party.
In 1917, the U. S. Government
called upon the women, in the
name of patriotism, to forget ev
erything save the business of
winning the World War.
The women under Alice Paul
continued their suffrage news in
the head lines of the press, and
did war work as well.
In 1918, Woodrow Wilson said
before the Senate: “The services
of women during this supreme
crisis of the world’s history have
been of the most signal useful
ness and distinction. The war
could not have been fought, or
its sacrifices endured without
them. It is high time that some
part of our debt of gratitude to
them should be acknowledged,
and all they ask is the ballot.
Can we justly refuse to give it to
them?”
The Nineteenth Amendment
was declared in a proclamation
of the Secretary of State dated
August 26, 1920, to have been
ratified by three-fourths of the
whole number of states in the
U. S.
The old English Law “man and
woman are one, and the man is
that one,” came to the new world
with the Puritan* and Cavaliers,
hut as they came Democracy
grew, and today after many
wars and battles the franchise
is here, and women are learn
ing what to do with it. Many
organizations such as the Nat
ional League of Women Voters
and others have for) a I slogan?
"Every woman an intelligent
voter.”
Our national and state out
look for better things is bright
e r than it has been' for many
years. Democracy is again to
i )e enthroned. The women are
out to put a stop to machine
politic*, and political manipula
tors, and to cooperate whole
heartedly with the men whose
efforts are being directed to
wards stability of governmental
affairs and safe leadership
U has heen in th * distant
P ast > 1° criticise our government
officials, but whose to blame for
their being in office? You have
often heard from both men and
women, “I don’t take any stock
GIBSON RECORD, GIBSON. GA.
TIME TO CLEAN HOUSE—GOVERNMENTAL SPENDING
MUST BE CUT DOWN
The new Federal tax bill is in effect and the public is be
ginning to pay on every hand to maintain a wartime eosit of
government in sorely depressed peace times.
Various states are in the same position as the Federal gov
ernment.
Within the last five years, according to a list recently issued,
122 cities in, the United States, along with 104 counties and im
provement districts, have defaulted on principle or interest of
their bonded debts. Since that list was issued, Chicago has
announced default on $900,000 of bonds and interest, along
with the statement that there is a delinquency of $99,000,000 in
1930 taxes for Chicago and Cook County.
The people begin to realize that public indebtedness which
they pay by taxing themselves, is due largely to burdens which
they themselves demanded or encouraged.
Cities have been loaded down with innumerable “services
to the public.” A study of these innovations has been made
for Detroit by William Anderson, and his findings are equally
applicable to practically every larger city in the country.
Detroit was chartered in 1824 and from then to 1861 estab
lished 17 city activities which were fundamental functions of
government for all the people.
From 1862 to 1880, it added 14 other functions, largely indis
pensable.
From 1881 to 1900, it added 34 functions, many of which be
gan to branch away from governmental functions into special
services for special classes.
From 1900 on, more than 100 functions have been added,
covering almost every' conceivable activity from operating in
dustries in competition with private citizens and taxpayers,
to furnishing social services of all descriptions/
Most of the activities were worthy in purpose, but a pyra
miding of governmental luxuries does not answer the question
as to what happens when extravagant tax expenditures and a
multiplicity of public servant| and bureaucratic activities be
come impossible for property and income to bear.
Many families are now doing without luxuries which they
enjoyed during the abnormal prosperity of a few' years ago.
They are eating simpler food, buying plainer clothes and us
ing their automobiles longer. Government must do the same
thing. Public officials should realize that they no longer have
the same tax resources to draw on, any mor e than the private
citizen has the same income he had a few years ago.
Taxation budgets have been balanced bv increased taxation,
rather than by increased economies and reduced governmental
overhead. This process must he reversed and budgets bal
anced by bringing government expenses and taxation within
the ability of the people and industry to pay, without hard
ship, out of normal peace time income.
DIRE PREDICTION BY EDITOR OF A GREAT NEWSPAPER
Colonel Robert R. McCornfkk, editor and publisher of the
Chicago Tribune, told the Kansas City branch of the Federa
tion of American Business Thursday that "the Reds on Capitol
Hill” were speeding American civilization to an inevitable end.
Drawing an analogy on the fall of the Roman empire. Colo
nel McCormick declared that the load of “confiscatory” taxes
imposed upon American industry and commerce by men in
public office was comparable to the sacking of Rome by the
vandals.
* Decrying “a deliberate falsehood” statement that the
as any
new federal tax bill would balance the budget, he prophesied
that if the bill remained on the statute books for more than a
year “our Civilization will fall as fell the civilization of Rome,
sacked, not by the vandals, but by our own conscript fathers.”
He laid the responsibility for economic conditions and un
employment of mills on “excessive taxes which have made in
dustry and commerce unprofitable and have prevented them
from saving any surplus or raising new capital.”
“Money is being spent by public officials faster than it is be
ing accumulated by private individuals and companies. We
are therefore running to an inevitable end of public and pri
vate bankruptcy, and the end is in sight.”
“Foreign agitators,” Colonel McCormick charged, “have re
paid us for asylum by both insidious and open agitation against
our institutions until today their policies, not those born of
the great Virginia philosophers, Jefferson, Madison and Ma
son, and the great economist, Hamilton, dominate action in
Washington.”
Declaring that the “sacking of industry” has done more to
force down all commodity, security and realty prices “than all
other bear influences combined,” the publisher called on the
nation’s business men to unite in a fight to spare America’s
civilization.—Associated Press report dated Kansas City, July,
8th, 1932.
in politics.” Later you’ll hear
these same persons complaining
about the way things are going
in Washington, and what Mr.
So-and-So is doing in Atlanta.
Calvin Coolidge says that you
must get public opinion aroused
before you can get anywhere.
You lose nothing by being in
formed. Very often we do not
know a thing about the princi
ples for which a candidate
stands. Le’s get our enthusiasm
aroused as in other days—yes,
when Abigal Adams and her
famous husband were national
builders!
In re-adjustment, we must
work that “This nation, under
God, shall have a new birth of
freedom, and that the govern
ment of the people, by the peo
ple. for the people, shall not per
ish from the earth.”
REFRIGERATORS ALL KINDS,
STYLES AND PRICES.—STACY
TURNER, THOMSON. GA.
JUST A MOMENT
The moment haa uo mirror of self
consclousness.
Travelers seek a nonexistent hybrid
of abroad and home.
Disowning of faults takes the form
now of denial, now of repentance.
Our only sure power over the future
lies In the traits of character we Im
port Into it
How disconcerting the shallowness
of what we once thought so deeply
subtle.
We are always given a chance to re
trieve our faults, but not the conse
quences of them.
Sometimes thriligh thwarting our
selves, sometimes through self-satis
faction, we develop and attain.
When we have found our own per
sonally helpful gossip, we are no long
er at the mercy of the world’s claims
and clamor.
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1932
This Week
h Arthur Brisbane
“Gentlemen’s Agreement”
A Question. You Answer
A Girl to Be Proud Of
Plenty of Great Ones
Italy. France. Britain are reported
to be united In a “gentlemen’s agree
ment.” Under that agreement, accord
ing to good authority, not one of those
nations will repay any part of Its debt
to Uncle Sam without the knowledge
and approval of the others. If that Is
called “gentlemen’s agreement,” what
would Europe call the other kind of
agreement?
It Is announced that President
Hoover and Mr. Bennett of the Cana
dian government have agreed on dig
ging the St. Lawrence canal. It would
give ocean ships access to Great Lakes
cities and mid-western farms, The
price suggested—1800,000,000 — would
he cheap.
The proposed 8t. Lawrence canal
will have two dams, developing 2,000,
000 electric horse-power. One will be
In Ontario, one In New York state.
Will Canada’s share of the power be
owned and used by the people of Can
ada, sold to Canadians at half the
price charged In the United States, as
happens at Niagara falls?
And will New York’s share of the
state power be owned by private Indi
viduals. taking “all the traffic will
bear” and charging double the price of
power In Canada, as now happens with
private United States companies at
Niagara falls?
How would you bet on that ques
tion?
An energetic, ambitious young wom
an Is Amelia Earhart Putnam. The
power that you see In her eyes Is gen
uine. Except for failure of her gas
pump, which compelled a stop tn Ohio,
she would have “hopped" from ocean
to ocean, non-stop, defeating all
records.
As It Is, she sets s new long dis
tance record, flying 2,019 miles without
a stop, 19 miles farther than she went
on her non-stop flight across the At
lantic recently.
This Is a young lady to be proud of,
and the wonderful fact Is that thera
are a million like her In the United
States, with just as much will power
and ambition, waiting to be discovered.
George Barnard Shaw says thera
are “no great men or great women”
alive or dead, and “People believe In
them as they used to believe Id
dragons and unicorns."
Shaw Is mistaken. There have been
and there are great men and women.
Pasteur was one, Edison another;
Copernicus, Tycho-Brahe, Kepler, Gali
leo, Descartes and Newton were six
others coming, by the way, from six
different countries.
Every mother who devotes her life to
her children Is a great woman; every
father who devotes his life and en
ergies to his family la a great man.
For In all “greatness" the chief Ingre
dient Is “goodness.”
The death of Thomas Bata, killed
In Czechoslovakia when his private
plane crashed, Is a great loss to the
industrial world. Born flfty-stx year*
ago in Moravia, he was the son of a
poor cobbler, learned his father’s trade
and thirty-eight years ago had a shop
with fifty employees.
When he died, flying over one of his
many factories, he dominated the man
ufacturing of shoes throughout the
world, made gigantic shipments to
tht* country in spite of the tariff, and
was called In Europe “the Henry Ford
of Europe.”
Hts death la a calamity. His Ufa
proved that opportunity is always at
hand for those that combine courage
with ability.
A wise man from India whose name
was Shrl Meher Baba, came from India
not long ago, announced a* "The Holy
Man” who had not spoken a word for
seven years He was to open his
mouth and speak on Important things
on arriving.
Now be says his silence wiU con
tinue because “conditions are not yet
right." Wise Mr. Baba. He should
be elected to congress.
The British empire, all its members,
hold a powwow at Ottawa. The Idea
is to establish free trade within the
empire, as we have free trade within
our forty-eight states.
Part of the plan la to buy as little
as possible,outside the empire, a vir
tuous plaa
But Canada will not forget that this
country has been buying from 80 to 90
per cent of her newsprint and wood
pulp, 90 per cent of her exports of
fresh fish. We buy largely from Brit
aln also, one-third of her linen exports
and 43 per cent of her tin.
The British empire has more than
fifteen hundred millions invested in
this country, two-thirds of it Canadian
money. This country has five thou
sand millions invested in British In
dustries throughout the empire The
situation calls for wtsdom.
Moscow announces Russia bag sowed
one million fewer acres of wheat than
was planned. However, on July 1.
more than 241,000,000 acre* had been
sown, and that is not doing badly
Such a crop means 400,000 square
miles of wheat, equal to a strip 15
mile* wide from the Atlantic to the
Pacific ocean.
(A lttt, by Kin* Feature* Syndicate, lac.) '
(WNTJ Service)
GEORGIA
NEWS
Happenings Over
the State
Reform of the Georgia school code
is urged by Dr. J- S. Stewart, director
of the University of Georgia summer
school, Athens.
The cost of the Valdosta city gov
ernment has been reduced more than
38,000 for the four months of the pres
ent fiscal year
Augustans are formulating plans for
the organization of the East Georgia
Motor Club to cover 17 counties In
eastern Georgia.
It took sixty-five and a half pounds
of watermelon to win the prize for the
blggeBt display at the watermelon
festival at Moultrie.
The state of Georgia spent 318,068,-
807 on permanent Improvements dur
ing the year 1831, out of total reve
nue receipts of 340,369,181.
Numerous diocesan activities of the
Georgia Episcopalians hereafter will
center at the new permanent camp of
the Diocese of Georgia on Brunswick
Beach.
Judge Louis L. Brown upheld the
recent ordinance of the city of Ma
con which levies a charge against mo
ter carriers for the use of the paved
streets in that city.
Midville has acquired a new indus
try—a pool table factory. The plant
hat already begun operations and the
proprietors say the first tables have
been placed on the market.
The newly erected postoffice build
ing at Sandersvllle has been formally
opened. The building is a two-story
structure and on the inside is based
with pink Georgia marble.
Work will soon be completed on
the new highway between Sparta and
the Baldwin county line to connect
with the new highway which has al
ready been completed In that county.
Paving which will provide a nearly
all-pared route between Atlanta and
Augusta and Atlanta and Savannah,
will be completed shortly, Captain J.
W. Barnett, state highway chairman,
announces.
A series of meetings of Georgia
bankers to set up a scientific plan
to market Georgia’s surplus grain and
feed products have been held in At
lanta. Plans of the conferences hare
not yet been made public.
Chatham county has undertaken ex
tension of malaria control measures
in spite of an already advanced rating
in such health activity. Further drain
age work is being done and aid of
state and federal experts enlisted in
the work.
W. H. Allen, director of research,
Acetol Products company. New York,
will be one of the principal leaders
In the seventh annual poultry short
course to be held at the Georgia State
College of Agriculture and Mechani
cal ArU, July 20, 21 and 22.
Ordinary R. T. Hawkins, of the Sum
ter county court of ordinary, has
named G. C. Thomas, of Cobb, as a
member of the board of commissioners
of roads and revenues of Sumter coun
ty. He will succeed W. T. Anderson,
of Leslie, who resigned several days
ago.
The Georgia Historical Society has
added to its collection of valuable
Georgia relic* tha gold-headed cane
of Robert Toombs, which was pre
sented to him by Commodore Josiah
Tattnall, probably during the war be
tween the States or shortly there
after.
Augusta aviation enthusiasts are
seeking establishment in Augusta of
a national guard aviation unit. Fred
Daniel, manager of Daniel Field, near
Augusta, haa written the adjutant
general of the fourth area at Fort Mc
Pherson, asking for information en
the subject.
Not even tha “Plau t-a - Gard ea ”
campaign of tha world war days ex
ceeded In results or interest tha
garden work that has been carried
on this year In some of the cotton
mill communities of Georgia, notably
at Porterdale and Bibb City, the lattt *
near Columbus.
King Diion, Savannah buslneyf
man, associated with a number of ice
plants through south Georgia and
northern Florida, haa been named
president of the Equitable Building
and Loan Association, Savannah, and
is now directly In charge of the af
fairs of that concern
The woman’s relief committee of the
unemployed commission of the city
of Savannah has made an unusual re
quest of property owners. The com
mittee has asked house owners to lend
them unoccupied housee* so that fam
ilies with ths bread winner out of
work may have a place to live.
Co-eds outranked the men under
graduates by a large margin in class
work of Mercer’s recently closed scho
lastic year, it is announced In the Bap
tist Index, the official organ of Geor
gia Baptists. Law and graduate stu
dents stood well above the average of
the student body as a whole.
The Moultrie chamber of commerce
announces that tha people of that
county realize that no agricultural
county can advance without the •err
Ices of a county agent R. A. Strat
ford has been elected county agent
for another year.