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VOL. XXXIX. No. 6.
W hiteley Calls For
Governmental Aid
For Cotton Farmer
Editor Gibson Record:—-As
author of a series of articles ap
pearing in many Georgia Daily
Newspapers for the past eighteen
months under the caption, “Am
I Right or Am I Wrong," relat
ing to a Cotton Holiday for this
year, 1932, want you to call for
the question and ask for a ver
dict from all Georgia as
whether we were right or wheth
er we were wrong?
Ninety per cent of our cotton
farmer* were in favor of planting
NO COTTON this year, 1932.
They were supported in their
plan by small bankers,
chants, business men and many
weekly newspapers. The daily
press as a whole as well as the
large city banks, the fertilizer
manufacturers, the railroads and
manv other corporate interests
fought their plan to a conclusion
and won the battle, hence, we
were left to continue to
commit financial suicide
planting another crop and have
produced twelve million hales to
be added to the already big sur
plus. The farmers of all Geor
p ' a should ever be grateful to
f Messrs. Hamilton and Anderson,
’editors of The Augusta Chroni
ijle and The Macon Telegraph,
who finally came to the farmers
rescue urging a cotton holiday
for all the states. There was
sufficient money' pow-er and pol
itieiarvs to defeat the army of
yfeotton plan(ters, hence, we are
jbi a far more deplorable condi
tion financially now' than in the
Fsffi of 1931.
Georgia produced more than
one and one quarter million
Bales 1^1931 at a flat actual loss
to the cotton growers of six cents
ner pound, or thirty seven mil
lion dollars. We. as farmers
had sense enough and exper
ience enough to know that with
the large cotton surplus it would |
be folly or suicidal to plant
another cotton crop in this year, I
1932, as -we could not well af
ford another such loss. How
ever, those who live in
and made their wealth from cot
ton were willing to sacrifice the j
South for their own selfish pur
pose. The co|ton farmers lost i
their battle and Georgia cotton I
farmers now face another loss!
of .$35,000,000 more. Ninety per
Georgia cent of the cojton stand farmers the of j
now on verge
of bankruptcy, whereas if they .
had been protected by law with
a cotton holiday they would have
received 20c for their 1931 cot
ton crop and all Georgia would,
today be happy and on the road j
to prosperity.
I call attention to this terrible
farmers defeat to challenge any
corporation, or individual to sue
cessfully defend their attitude
and position in opposing the no
cotton planting plan for this
year, convincing the cotton far
xners of Georgia that they were
in error in their plan.
If it were not for the distri
bution of millions of dollars
worth of clothing and flour by
the American Red Cross there
would be untold suffering in all
Georgia. I know by actual ex
perience as I am chairman of the
American Red Cross for War
ren county where we have dis
tributed thousands of yards of
cloth to clothe the naked and
thousands of sacks of flour to
feed the hungry and the condi
tion is still terrible even with
that help. I am in favor of
Cotton Holiday for 1933, provi
ded the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation can be given power
by Congress to make a loan of
sufficient funds to every cotton
farmer with which to purchase
as many bales of spot cotton as
he usuaHy produces each year,
arranging* to hold said cotton
until the price reaches 20c per
pound.
Since a very large portion of
the cotton crop has been forced
irom the fanners bands into the
speculators warehouses, a Cot
ton Holiday woulc’ only make
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GIBSON RECORD)
Published to Furnish the People ot Glascock Coun ty a Weekly Newspaper and as a Medium for the Advancement of the Public Good of the County.
New Chevrolets Add Over 85,000
People to Payrolls of Nation
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LEFT: New Fisher “No-Draft" Ventilation system illustrating
how each passenger may have individually-controlled ventila
tion instead of being subjected to a sweep of air through th e car,
with resultant discomfort and danger to health.
RIGHT: New rear-end of aji closed models screening all un
sightly underparts of the car.
Chevrolet's public showing of its
new 1933 line means a material
spurt to national employment and
materials consumption, since this
company is the largest manufacturer
in the largest industry in the world
More than 86,000 people are back
at work, 30,000 in the company's
twenty domestic factories. 21,000
more in Fisher body plants working
exclusively on Chevrolet-Fisher
bodies, and more than 30,000 in
dealerships throughout the nation.
As many more are indirectly bene
fited by the announcement, through
making their livelihood by building
parts for the car which Chevrolet
buys from independent suppliers.
Chevrolet’s 1932 volume totals
nearly 400,000 cars and trucks with
a retail value in excess of $200,000,
000. This is said to be one of th®
greatest contributions made by any
company this year to the economic
welfare of America,
<n the new line, now on display at
...alars', is a variety of models
the rich, richer at the expense of
the cotton farmer and said
ton farmer would continue to be
the “goat.” Yes, this can he
worked out and the only other
remedy to save our agricultural
people Federal from bankruptcy is for
the Government to sta
hilize' the price of cotton, say
20c per pound, and take enough
off the market to warrant this
price. France, one of the most
prosperous nations, stabilizes
the price of her wheat product
and becomes rich. When Uncle
stabilizes the price of cot
ton, which ought to be done im
mediately, then all other agri
cultural products will follow,
since the price of cotton is the
barometer of the business world.
Then enact a law to close every
cotton exchange that gambles in
cotton futures. They are a men
ace to the cotlon farmers. Cot
ton is up fifty points one day
and down 100 points the next
day and nobody knows what it’s
all about except the fellow who
is gambling on the board. Yes,
the price of cotton, sink
the New York Cotton Exchange
in the bottom of New York bay
and the farmers will be on the
road to prosperity,
Unless some remedy is effec
tively applied at once
five acres out of every hundred
acres of farm land will in 1933
pass out of the hands of the
present owners to some Insur
fence Company or other mortt
gagee. It is a tragedy for our
State or our Government to per
mit the loss of thousands of sa
cred homes for taxes and debt
when it is no fault of the
le. It is almost equal to #
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GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1932.
featuring longer wheelbase, new
Fisher "No-Draft" Ventilation and
many other features which the com
pany has designed to retain for it
the leadership in the industry It has
enjoyed for four years out of the
past six.
Other features Included in the
new line are more power and speed
in the engine,which is newly cushion
mounted; improved free wheeling,
plus Syncro-Mesh transmission with
Silent Second gear; a new "Starter
utor" that greatly simplifies start
ing; such safety elements as shatter
proof glass in the windshield; larger
and lower bodies by Fisher* in tho
new "Aer-Stream' ” mode; throe
fewer controls, with really automatic
features in some of those retained;
an Octane Selector that Insures tho
highest possible operating efficiency
from all grades of gasoline, besktos a
uniform gasoline cost per mile; dash
Instruments of airplane type, for
instant, eusy reading* positive
brakes; and still easier steering.
fiscation to sell for taxes and
debt, homes, lands and all, turn
ing thousands of good Georgia
men, women and children into
the road penniless, thereby add
ing to the twenty million people
now on the bread line.
this tragic scene have the ap
pearance of tieing your
backing you up to the wall and
commanding the firing squad to
proceed?
Here’s hoping the legislature
convene soon, together with
congress now in session, will
work out a plan whereby the
agricultural people of Georgia
will quickly come into their own.
J. W. Whiteley.
Warrenton, Ga„ Dec. 19, 1932.
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35c GIFT STATIONERY, Box ........................................... 19c
$3.50 RAYON BEDSPREADS, 108 inches .................... $1.95
25c MEN’S LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS ........................... 15c
25c LADIES’ LINEN HANDKERCHIEFS .................. 15c
MEN’S 75c and $1-00 TIES ........................................ 49c
$1.00 MEN’S SETS—Tie and Handkerchief ............ 49c
$1.(10 BISQUE DRESSED DOLLS .......................... 49c
ALL $1.C0 LADIES’ SILK HOSE.................... ............... 69c
FOUR CAKES PALMOLIVE SOAP FOR .................... 25c
MANY OTHER CHRISTMAS WEEK SPECIALS
Kitchens Brothers
With all these, and many more,
the price range continues to be
mindful of the buyer's pooketbook.
It has been found possible to equip
the new Chovrolets with many fit
ment* that used to be confined to
ears selling at several times Chev
rolet 's base prioe.
Since Ootober first, trained
former employees have been going
hack to work in Chevrolet’s widely
distributed manufacturing and
assembly plants, with welcome addi
tions to the general purohasing
power, made possible by more wage
money in circulation. Throughout
November, the Increase in em
ployment continued to a seasonal
peak to th* middle of Deoember,
when concentrated operations inci
dent to prompt dealer stocking
were In full swing. More than
twenty million dollars worth of the
new cars wore in dealers' handB
when the national Introduction
was made.
Hay Cures by Burning
Curing hay In sweat stacks by let
ting It heat Is really burning part of
the hay to make heat to dry the rest,
the United States Department of Agri
culture says.
When Ihe Imy heats in the sweat
stacks a type of combustion takes
place, although there Is no actual
flame. This method, used where there
Is so much rainfall there is little
e i mnoe to sun-cure the hay. produces
what is known as “brown bay.’’ ai
though it may he relished by live
stock, hay cured this way Is inferior
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„ututlon Is # calamity. To dear away
,i, e wreckage and rebuild requires a
strong heart and a dear mind.—' Toledo
niade.
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SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR
HOW MUCH MORE CAN THE TAXPAYER STAND?--
The 72nd Congress appointed a committee to investigate Gov
ernment competition with private industry. Approximately 300
witnesses were heard. Few people realize that already the Fed
eral Government, to say nothing of State and local Governments,
is invading no less than 23il) different .varieties of- private" enter
prises. It competes with its citizens in manufacturing, merchan
dising, transportation and communication,
We find Government competition in the •manufacture ofi-alum
inuni, bronze, varnish, cement, shellac, rubber products, awnings,
atomizers, rope Deiscl engines, . flags, . radio equippientv nails,
hammers, mail bags, torpedoes, envelopes, printing ink, satchels,
and any number of other things. One .woolen, manufacturerites
titled that Army specifications forced-the use of Australian wool
as against American. The Navy l)epar<tment is-reported*to man
ufacture over one million gallons of paint every year. It is also
a large producer of rope and other cordage. The Federal Peni
tentiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, installed a -brush factory
to give work to prisoners, hut instead of handling the matter to
give maximum employment, they .installed the most modern labor
saving machinery, thereby defeating the end in view.
Quartermaster stores in the Army sell everything from pins
to automobiles, without the overhead of private enterprises. The?
loss is covered by taxpayers money., During thedast- two years,"
12,500 Krag-Jorgensen and 1,043 Springfield rifles were sold in.
competition with private arms manufacturers. Nobody knows,
the extent of the Government’s laundry and restaurant business.
Now the Farm Board’s statement reveals ,the fact that only
140 millions of the 500 millions is left. The shrinkage of 3–0
millions is larger than was expected.. Part of .it.is accounted for
by the allocation of 53 millions in wheat and cotton for the Red
Gross; the 140 millions remaining is loaned to the various co-op
erative associations. The Farm Board recommends the cancella
tion of these loans, stating that to make these collectibns would
break the co-operatives. Bills are pending in Congress to carry
out this, recommendation. Just how- we tax payers who have
to meet (his Government competition are expected to raise the
money for taxes lo pay for this foolishness is not explained, nor
do we believe it can be.—From a Market Letter by Phinizy and
Company, Colton Factors of Augusta.
COUNTRY PAPER “KEEPS ROLLING ALONG”
Men everywhere are coming more and more to understand
and appreciate the influence of the rural press in the affairs of
this country.
Only a few years ago we were told that the local newspaper
was passing—that it could not compete with the dailies add
weeklies of Ihe big cities and that it must yield to the inevitable,
But the prophets were wrong. It is true that the local £xy
or weekly caimpl,supply in.detail all of the news of the
features. It cannot compete withjts city contemporary in illusIrationsy^nS *
And yet the local paper is still with us, and it is growing id
strength and usefulness as the years go by, Some of the rea
sons for its existence are summed up in this paragraph from an
exchange:
“The local paper should he found in every home. No chil
dren should grow up ignorant who can he taught to appre
ciate the home paper. It is said to he the stepping stone of in
telligence in all those matters not to be found in books. Give
your children a foreign paper which contains not a word about
any person, place or thing, which they saw or perhaps ever
heard of, and how could fou expect them to be interested. But
let them have !hc home paper and read of people whom they
meet and of places of which they are familiar and soon an in
terest is awakened which increases with every arrival ; of the
local paper. Thus a habit of reading is formed and those chil
dren will read the papers all through their lives and become
intelligent men and women, a credit to theicaneestors, strong
in the knowledge of the world as it is today.”
HUNT UP NO MORE “ADDITIONAL SOURCES” OF REVENUE
Our country is going through a period of unprecedented eco-.
nomic stress. Individual life savings have' been'wiped out, sev
eral thousand banks have' failed, poverty and distress have stalked
over the fair face of a land with nature producing the necessary
food and clothing in abundance. Something is radically wrong.
Many astute thinkers state positively that multiplied activities
of government, local, state and national, which have raised taxes
to one-fourth of the incomes of individuals and business institu
tutions still actively engaged in earning capacities, is the main
cause of the continued economic crisis.
With congress in session and the state legislature to meet in
January, local officials soon to face another year, members of
these bodies should get out of their minds the. idea of hunting up
“additional sources” of public revenue and concentrate on reduc
mg goVernrllfeiital buJg^-YjLJ^ expense. This has almost become a “plati
Rule,” I | heavy taxation makes people restless and
historws ^ jp „ y^bsen- the cause which led to revolution
in fingl; ^ Jkly (er Cromwell, the American Revolution,
and various' V upheavels in the past. Our “wise
statemen” should tA-t warning and bend every energy in roturn
ing our government to one of equal rights and a fair field to
all. Individuals have been forced to cut down on all expense,
Why not do the same in governmental expenditures now and
avoid more serious conditions which appear inevitable in any
effort to foresee into the future? The high cost, of government
must come down regardless of clamor on the. pant of many “in
tcrested” people! i
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HANDWRITING FOR TAX MAKERS
When the Post Office Department admits that three'cent*
first-class letter postage has failed to yield an increase in reve
nue and has actually caused a decrease, it submits to the law of
diminishing returns. You can’t make a taxpayer write letters
and you can’t make him use a three-cent stamp when he can'use
a one-eent postcard. Congress should hear these experiences in
mind when it prepares its next tax bill. It Will (have to make its
basis of taxation so broad and spread it so thinly over a variety
of articles, that it will scarcely he felt. Otherwise, taxes 1 will de
cline because an over-taxed people will ’ deny themselves exor*
bitantly taxed products.
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