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GIBSON RECORD
Official Organ Glascock County.
Entered at the Postoffice at Gib
ion Ga., as Second Class Matter.
PubKehed Every Wednesday
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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.
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Gibson, Ga. August 17, 1932
MRS. CALVIN W. PARKER
VISITS THIS SECTION
Mrs. Calvin W. Parker, of
Waycross, was in this section
the latter part of last week in
her campaign as a candidate for
membership on the Georgia Pub
lic Service Commission. Her
husband was elected to the place
two years ago and had only
served a month before he died.
She desires to fill his unexpired
term. Mrs. Parker is an able
and capable woman with an
earnest desire for the better
ment of conditions in Georgia,
and her candidacy is receiving
favorable consideration over the
state. The following statement
by her published recently in The
Atlanta Constitution and Atlanta
Journal, give some of her views
on public matters pertinent to
her candidacy:
"I am in Atlanta for the begin
ning of an active campaign in
North Georgia. I have Georgia! thor
oughiy covered South
and am assured by friends ev
erywhere that I am not person
ally needed in that section at this
time. Through active, generous
friends over North Georgia, vol
untarily pledging support and
influence, I feel that I am be
ginning a visit among old
frends. I find people very much
the same throughout the state
where facts are known on any
subject.
“The three things that are
winning my race, I find, are
general throughout the state.
First, everybody concedes my
superior claim to the office on
account of the fact that hy hus
band served less (o than one month
of the term which he was
elected two years ago. Next,
I possess superior qualifications
on account o>f intimate relation
ship to the work over a number
of years. And, last, men and
women, alike, agree that some
recognition of the women of this
state in holding public office has
been delayed too long already.
“I am not going to resort to
personalities in this campaign,
hut it is so unfair for Mr. Jule
Felton, who is temporarily fill
ing the place to which my hus
band was elected, to have a bus
inspector campaigning for him
at a salary of $200.00 per month
and at the expense of the state.
Mr. Robert the Commission, Springfield, Secreta
ry of has, as
several heads of different de
partments have advised me,
practically made campaign
headquarters of the Public Ser
vice Commission’s office in car
rying on Felton’s campaign, and
at an expense to die taxpayers,
the amount of which will never
be known,
“I don’t want ihe votters to
get the impression that I am go
ing on the Commission as “a
king-cure-all” or destrjuction
ist, but conditions at the present
time demad that I express my
self freely on the subject of a
proper revision of utility rates.
We have certain utility rates in
this state at this time very near
ly as high as at any time during
the high prices of the world
war.. Such rates are just too
high, and the people are de
manding, as they have a right
to do, that such rates be bal
anced under present day condi
tions. Unquestionably, the poor
er class of people have had to do
away with such service in a
great many instances, and at a
loss to the company ans well as
the public. When I go in office
my first work will be to see that
due consideration is given the
thought stated in the foregoing
and rates prescribed according
iy.
“As I have before stated, the
present form of rates makes for
a prohibitive cost to The small
consumer. A person using ten
kilowatts pays $1.50 or 15c per
KWH. Another person (and a
large number come within this
class) consumes 200 kilowatts
and is required to pav only 4c
per KWH—almost 40$% more
(Continued on page three)
GIBSON RECORD, GIBSON, GA.
» ONE REASON WHY TIMES ARE HARD
EXCESSIVE TAXATION
The average person thinks that if the Tax Collector never
calls upon him that he, personally, does not pay any taxes—
he fools himself because every time he buys anything he pays
his share of the tax bill of the nation.
If he lives in a house, wears^clothes, eats food, travels from
one place to another, buys a newspaper, goes to the movies, in
fact, spends money in any way, he cannot help paying his
share of the taxes which Government lays on property and in
dustry (and by Government I mean all Government—National,
State and Local.)
The taxes collected by Government are included in the price
of every article we buy, necessarily so, as I will show you in a
minute.
The Alexander Hamilton Institute states, in its Business Con
ditions Weekly, that the total expenditures of all our National,
State and Local Governments have jumped from a total of
$2,000,000,000 in 1912 to $12,000,000,000 in 1931. Comparative
figures are given below for your consideration:
Government Expenditures National Percentage of
Federal, State and Local Income Expenditures to Income
1912 ........$2,000,000,000 $33,000,0110,000 6.1
1922 6,700,000,000 60,100,000,000 m
1929 ........10,800,000,000 85,200,009,000 •-*
1931 ........12,000,0)0,000 54,000,000,000 K2
You notice that last year the total Government expendi
ture, paid for by taxes, now in effect or about to he imposed,
was $12,000,000,000. The population of Continental United
States was then about 120,000j000 men, women and children,
This works out $100 per head for every man, woman and child
in the United States, if it was divided equally—of course, it is
not divided equally. People, who live in cities, and who have
to buy everything they use, pay a higher rate of taxation than
people who live in the country, and who raise the food they
consume.
People who spend less money per head than do others pay
less taxes than those who spend more liberally, but in propor
tion to the amount that every one spends so does he pay his
share of the total tax bill.
It must be so, because you, who read this article, know per
fectly well that industry cannot pay that $12,000,000,000 tax
bill out of its own pocket— it has no magician’s wand to pro
duce $12.0QO,000,000 out o thtn air. The only way it can get
such a huge sum of money to pay Government is by adding it
to the cost of what it sells, whatever that may be, and you and I
pay our part of it whenever we buy anything.
You will notice that the lax bill amounted to 22% of the
National income for the year 1931, which is a little hit more
than one-fifth of the total income of the Nation, which means
the income of all its inhabitants.
The absorption of such a large proportion of the National
income in cost of Government means that there is just that
much less to be employed in private enterprise.
One of the reasons why there are not enough jobs to go
around at the present time is because such a large proportion
of our income is taken away from private employment to he
used by Government in unnecessary and wasteful ways.
Who is responsible for this state of affairs?
Why we, the people of the United States, are responsible for
It.
We have demanded a lot of services from our Government,
which we can no longer afford. We have allowed, and indeed
encouraged, the politician to reward political services to him
self personally, and to the 'party generally, by a place on the
public pay roll Tone adult out of each 10 adult persons in the
country is now on the public pay roll) and we have done this
largely because we have been told, and believed, that somebody
else, and not ourself, is paying our tax bills for us. Don’t let
us “kid” ourselves any longer with this delusion—the only
people who don’t pay taxes are dead ones.
If you want to spend your money instead of having the
Government do it for you, you know what you have to do
about it.
You, and your friends, and your employees must organize
to elect as your political representatives, persons who have
pledged or will pledge themselves to rigid economy in the ad
ministration of public affairs—National, State and I-ocal—and
if they break their pledges to you, you must replace them with
representatives who will keep their promises.—Written by
Benjamin Rush, President of the North American Life Insur
ance Company.
ROAD DOLLARS FOR LABOR
The hulk of the money to build roads is spent for labor,
either on the job or in the preparation of materials. More of
the road dollar goes to labor when comparatively inexpensive
roads are built than in the case of $40,000 a mile super-high
ways. The secondary or farm-to-market road is thus the best
means of providing employment—and at the same time it is
the road we most need. Rural areas have, largely, been left
outside of the good roads movement in the past. Thousands
of farms and villages are situated within a short distance of
fine modern highways—with no means of reaching them dur
ing bad weather. When all-weather, bituminous surfaced
roads can he secured at from $3,000 to $6,000 a mile, road
building might he called insurance for social and economic
progress in the future. It results in better business, stimula
ted agriculture, a fuller life for millions of people. And at
this time, with material prices at the lowest levels in many
years, and with a vast army of men in need of work, it pro
duces better fruit than at any other time within living mem
ory. The plan of the government to give preference to hand
labor and to regulate hours of work and pay in use of the
money recently appropriated for highways as an emergency
relief measure, will be a boost in ending the depression.
WHAT WILL ROGERS SAYS
The following is a reproduction of the daily letter of Col.
Will Rogers, famous humorist and noted stage and screen
character and gives his idea of the editors of country news
papers:
Beverly Hills, Cal., July 28.—Editor The Journal:—We have
a great bunch out here prowling around. It’s the National
Editorial Association, couipoksed of editors in smaller towns
and weekly publications. They are just eating their way
around the country, having a good time, and getting a lot of
up of just about as representative gang of Americans as would
be possible to band together intelligent, well read, and no
national advertising controls their pages. They are not con
ceited enough to think they “mold public opinion,” they just
go along serving their community with the most indispensable
article that it has. And yet their real power is greater than
all wour metropolitan dailies combined. Any person that
don’t read at least one well-written country newspaper is not
truly informed.—Yours, Will Rogers.
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Avera News Items
(Regular correspondent)
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Wiggins
returned to their home in Allan
ta Friday after several days visit
to Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wiggins,
Mr. W. C. Phillips made a
business trip to Augusta Mon
day.
Messrs. Jerome Hadden, Er
nest ...... Mathis and . n R. \\. Dixon,
Jr., spent Sunday in Atlanta.
Mr. R. F. Woodrum, of
dette, was a visitor here
Mr. and Mrs. R. H, Minor have
returned home after spending
nine weeks in Athens.
Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Clark and
children, Jewells and Junior,
visited Midville Sunday.
Misses Vivian Rivers and Al
ma Hughes, of Stapleton, are
visiting Mrs. Beina McCracken,
Mrs. Hodges Kitchens
children, of Mitchell, spent sev
eral days with her mother, Mrs.
T. S. Ivey, this week. Mrs.
Ivey has been very' ill, but we
are glad to report she is better.
M)iss Blanche Harden leaves
for Trenton, New Jersey, Wed
nesday, after spending several
days with her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Alex Harden.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Chalker
and Mr. and Mrs. B. E. Chalker
i spent Thursday in Augusta.
Messrs. C. H. Harden and Ray-!
foe Coxwell made a business trip
to Sandersville Saturday.
Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Miller and
daughter, Ann, of Adrian, vis
ited relatives here Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Berry Dye and
Mrs. Joe Roney, of Augusta,
Medic* eience, constantly search
ing for wi i to prolong life, frequent
ly come Iv "ward with startling state
ments of Iteir findings, but no more
astounding announcement has
made in fissent years than the state
ment of af eminent Chemist who now
declares Ktit “There is no natural
death. At deaths from so-called nat
ural causa are merely the end point
of progreSfSe acid saturation.” An
amazing statement indeed but a warn
ing, that 1* heeded, should improve
the health said well being, increase the
joy of liviaa, and prolong the lives of
millions of men, women and children
who mi gig otherwise drag through s
weary lif< o an untimely end.
ACIO»»*Y KILLS MILLIONS
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ST ”' 5 ot Mr >- Mc Dje last
One of the most interesting
revivals ever held here closed
Friday night at Pleasant Grove
Baptist church. Twenty-six new
members joined on profession
of faith and were baptized Fri
day afternoon in the pool by the
pastor. Rev. J. M. Gilmore. Rev.
Gilmore led the revival and de
livered some wonderful ser
Instrumental music was
furnished by Mrs. Charles Har
den and the singing was led by
r - Robert Streetman, of Wrens,
Mrs. Lucious Fagli e and chil
dren, of Mitchell, spent several
days the past week with Mrs. Ed
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