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MO S MERCJUfflE CO
THOMSON, GEORGIA
OUR BIG ELECTRIC GINNERY
ALL READY TO GO!
Improvement in sample—Larger turnout—Top prices for cotton—-Automatic handling of seed, are
good reasons why you can come many miles to gin with us. Good roads and cheap truck rental
will also make it advantageous to gin your cotton here and take advantage of our good Cotton
and Cotton Seed Market.
P. S.—There is some one in your neighborhood who ginned with us and sold us their cotton and
cotton seed la^f year. ASK THEM!
GIBSON RECORD
Official Organ Glascock County.
Entered at the Postoffice at Gib
son Ga„ as Second Class Matter.
Published Every Wednesday
Subscription $1.00 Per Year
Mrs. Mae Dukes and EL E. Lee,
Editors, Publishers and Owners
We are not responsible for opin
ions expressed by correspondents
or others through our columps.
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THE RAILROADS MAKE RECORDS
Between 1920 and 1930, a period for which complete data is
available, the American railroads made amazing progress in
improving their service.
The number of passengers killed declined from one in every
5,500,000 carried, to one in 11,600,000. The number of em
ployes killed dropped from one in 805, to one in 1,553. The
average number of freight cars per train increased 32 per
cent, and freight train speed increased 34 per cent. The num
ber of tons of freight moved one mile per train hour jumped
48 per cent. Robbery of freight cars at a time when crime
in general was increasing at an unprecedented rate was re
duced more than 90 per cent. Loss and damage to freight
went down 71 per cent.
These are but a few of the records made by the railroads in
increasing efficiency and economy of operation. They show
definitely that the railroads have lived up to their obligation
as our most necessary and most comprehensive media of trure
port. The thoughtful citizen, scanning the figures and reflect
ing on the vital influence of the railroads in the development
of all territories and businesses, should realize the need for
changes in our transportation policy that will help the indus
try.
PUT MEN TO WORK
At the San Francisco meeting of the National Editorial As
sociation, a message was received from Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.,
President of the General Motors Corporation, which staled that
the greatest single task confronting the world today was to
find productive employment for those who are out of work.
To do so, according to the news story in a San Francisco daily,
it is necessary “to take things as they are, not as they should
be; to analyze economic facts, base action upon them, and
dispel the general lack of confidence.”
In every community there exists at least one opportunity to
construct or improve some essential public service. Remov
ing the menaces which are responsible for much of the loss of
life by building greater safety into highways, could well be
considered. iWidening roadways, eliminating dangerous
curves, alleviating accidents on loose gravel and dirt roads
due to skidding, flying stones and dust are among the most
Bcessary objectives.
Bk^need was never so great, the opportunity never so
^•resented," asserts Dan B. Miller, Managing Engineer,
Boast Bare Division, The Asphalt Institute. "Men and
available at unheard of prices. Materials were
Hieup. Take, for instance. Hie materials which are
' ■ Bs build the type of surfaeings used hv stale highway
on intermediate traffic roads, crushed rock and
Hbe bought for approximately half their usual cost;
|Hd Hat otto oils for are all the state lowest and in counties years.” to follow is: “Build
now.”
lax reduction" plans are based on the ancient princi
fot letting the right hand know what the left hand
In other words, they #hifjt taxes—and don’t lower
s just as painful to take a dollar from one pocket as
br—just [We as painful to pay a new kind of tax as an old
will have tax reduction when we force genuine cuts
cost of running the government—and not until then.
KSONVILLE’S LEADING HOTEL”
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lly to the fathers and mothers, sons and
he South. YQUR hotel—and THE hotel
iy. r. P/Tthi oiutely Fireproof and Modern.
Private Bath. Combination Tub
FREE GARAGE.
This Week
b Arthur Brisbane
Convicts Build a Road
A Baby Most Welcome
Bourbons Never Learn
Worth Considering
California Is building u new “coast
road," naming north and south, close
to the edge of the Pacific. It parallels
the splendid roads that already run
from San Diego to the end of the
state and on through Oregon and
Washington, to Seattle, for a total
length of more than LliUO miles.
Convicts are employed on the coast
road, paid enough to help get a start
when they leave prison, a better plan
than leaving them locked up, to rage
and mutiny. The money earned is
kept for them, but If a prisoner runs
away, as occasionally happens, that
costs the other prisoners dearly.
The arrival of a Lindbergh boy
baby is good news for the entire world.
Nothing can ever wipe out the sor
row und disgrace of the dreadful kid
naping tragedy, but It Is a comfort to
know that this tittle boy will bring
comfort to his brave mother and to
his father, who has conferred so much
honor on his country.
It ts reported that the child will
be named hi memory of Ids grand
father. the late Senator Dwight \V.
Morrow.
A strange story from Paris warns
all elderly men of sixty-two and over
to select temperamental female friends I
cautiously, If at all.
Police found Prince Edgar de Bour
bon, with his throat cut, dead. He I
was sixty-two. The lady, Gmdelaria
Brausoler, Spanish, was surprised, and
told the police: “The quarrel was
trivial. I killed him In a hllud rage, !
and slashed him only twice.”
When a Spanish lady. In a rage,
slashes twice, that is enough. This
- ;
inciilent proves again that “the Bour
bons never learn anything."
Canada’s agreement with Great
Britain on tariff and business prefer
enees are published and show that the
“trade within the empire” plan has
reality back of It.
Canada sells to this country more j
than to all the "British empire, and
must have considered carefully the j
probable consequences of making ours
a decidedly less favored nation.
Production of white paper from j
quick growing pine In the South, need
ing only eleven years for regrowth,
against thirty years for northern for
ests, is one of the things to be con
sldered. .
California does things well and sue- j
cessfully. The Olympiad ts part of i
Quality Cleaners
"Known for Quality Work**
We can make that old suit or dress look mighty good. Dry
Cleaned for 50c, or it ..ay only need the quality pressing
that we give you for 25c to make it look like new.
PHONE 76 — WARRENTON, GA.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1932
the past. Los Angeles did everything
nobly and generously, and knows that
It pays to do things well. With all
bills paid, “surplus receipts” will be
devoted to retiring state bonds Issued
to guarantee success for the games.
California taxpayers will thus save
about one million dollars.
Saving anything for taxpayers Is
quite unusual.
Cuba deals with a doctors' strike.
Ten thousand medical men, organ
ized In a “National Medical Federa
tion of Cuba," rebelling against low
pay, have walked out of hospitals and
sanitaria, also refusing to attend 3,000
patients confined In iustitutlonsL
President Machado, much disturbed,
promises to ameliorate conditions of
which the doctors complain.
The beautiful city of Pasadena, on
the hillside east of Los Angeles, an
nounces that all tares will be cut 11
per cent. The thing has been done
by revising city expenses.
That will Interest other cities and
annoy only those managed by men
that find wealth and political power
In tax expenditure.
More interesting Is the fact that five
cities in Kansas, four In another state,
levy no tuxes at all. Publicly owned
light and power plants yield profits
that make taxes unnecessary.
In Jacksonville, the entire tax bud
get amounts to only $350,000, less than
$2 per inhabitant, as compared with
nearly $100 per capita In one of our
richest cities.
Hitler, chief of Germany’s Nazis,
modestly demands of Von llindenburg,
and all Germany, "power In Germany
equal to that of Mussolini in Italy.”
Old-fashioned Bermans will remind
Hitler that power such as Mussolini
possesses must be earned, won. It is
never handed out on a silver platter,
ready to wear,
Bismarck had great power In Ger
many, and created the empire. But
he attained his position by working
for It.
The manufacturers’ sales tax l*
c °ming. You may write It In your tab- ‘
lets. or bet on It, if you prefer. The
ret® 1 ' sales tax, which would cause
endless confusion, and be unworkable,
18 not comin S- nflr any general appll
cat ' on state re,a " sales tax, re
P° rtP<1 t0 have worked well In MIs
sissippl.
Young lady “coeds" at the I .os An
*’ o es h Diversity of California may
smoke, If they choose, w’ithout con
cealment. One student clubhouse will
smoking headquarters, but there
no restriction anywhere. A
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C. 1931 . by Kt np Features Syndicate. Ina
WNU Service
“Good times" are coming again.
From Edgehill
(By C. C. S.)
We have been absent most of
the time recently due to the fact
that we have a real nice young
lady giving us the happenings
around Edgehill, but I have been
asked by several to come back
regular. I can’t say as to that
at this time, but I want to tell
you one thing Edgehill is still
on the map, yes, our little vil
lage is small, but we are first
in some things last year and this
year. Our Edgehill Gin Co., op
erated by Mr. Dave Raley, has
ginned the first bale of cotton in
the county. They ginned two
bales, one weighing 860 pounds.
This cotton was grown by a very
prosperous fanner, Mr. Lee
Walden, of Grange. This is the
second year this gin is being
operated at Edgehill and the
people who operate it are fine
folks and it is quite convenient
for the people of Edgehill and
surrounding neighborhood. So
bring your cotton to Edgehill as
they will do you a good job of
ginning. We also have a fine
new school building in our little
village that wa s built in 1931,
and Monday August 22nd, we
had the first congressman, Hon.
Vinson, to speak in this
nice building. One other thing
I can prove that we > in
Edgehill is the many a retty
girls. \ es, you will find ’em
right here in Edgehill and they
are good cooks too, boys, so I
am told.
Myself and several others
went over to Warrenton Satur
day afternoon to hear Hon. Eu
gene Taltnadge, candidate for
governor, speak, and after lis
tening to him I can’t see why
every farmer in the State of
Georgia should not vote for him
for governor, and I believe a ma
jority of them will cast their
vote for Mr. Talmadge. I be
lieve he will be our next Gover
nor of Georgia.
Several from Edgehill attend
ed the singing at Nimrod pool
last Sunday aft^noon and all
report some fine singing.
Rev. J. E. Culverson filled an
appointment at Uphratus church
last Saturday and Sunday.
Mr. C. C. Smith and family
spent last Sunday with Mr. Geo.
Milburn and family.
Preacher John Dye will
preach at Edgehill next first
Sunday in September. Now
don’t forget this. You are in
vited to come to Sunday School
every and Sunday afternoon. 1 Come
join us and help us make ft
of the best in the county.
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postoffice, Gibson, Ga.
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