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VOL. XXXIX: No. 16.
Economic Highlights
At Home and Abroad
Happenings that affect the din
ner pails, dividend checks and
tax bills of every individual.
National and international prob
lems inseperarable from local
welfare.
Under present business condi
tions, no news is apt to be good
news. While business is show
ing no particular improvement, j
ihe decline has apparently been
interrupted and a measure of,
stability reached. It is hoped;
that political movfcs during the'
next few months will have in the a[
helpful effect on business
future. i
derwent^tirrmof financial Hqui
dation with strengthening of our
financial structure. This was
followed by a similar period of
commodity liquidation, which
seems now coming to an end.
The next step will doubtless be
further commercial liquidation
and readjustment to put many
of our industries on a basis to
show earnings in normal times.
Since 1929 there has been a
decline in foreign markets for
JjnaSt 1 yearthe'Einf It showed is be
■ tendency to slacken.
lieved. that once the problems
of disturbed monetary systems
and trade barriers are partially
versed* and larger quinUtfcs reach "5
our farm products will
foreign lands.
Domestic demand for products
is naturally awaiting industrial
recovery. Even a slight change
for the better in business gener
ally, should cause marked Im
provement in farm markets.
Potential of bank the credit existing is thej
equivalent money IJ'unu'Sy
thisD’redDt n ‘supply‘ of the
large. Member banks
Federal Reserve have $600,000,
000 of excess reserves, and it is
stated that these banks could ex
pand their credits by $9,000,000,
000 without borrowing from the
Federal Treasury. Interest rates
on money are at unprecedented
low’ levels.
Latest reports on major indus
tries show:
Motion Picture—A naw align
ment of the motion picture in
dustry is forecast, with Rocke
feller interests a large factor.
The industry’s principal difficul
ty is in real estate carrying
charges on theatres built during
boom years.
Textiles—Future has hopeful
appearance, with cloth demand
steady.
Oil—Refiners breaking even,
despite low gasoline prices.
Cigarettes—.December showed
gain in consumption, as compar
ed with decline in most other
months of 1932.
Tires — Price-cutting has bro
ken out again, with resulting
disturbance.
Meat Packing —Outlook good
for moderate profit during com
ing fiscal year.
Automobile—Sales continue to
improve, with January well ov
er a year ago. It is interesting
to note that price reductions
have resulted from improved ef
ficiency, and not by reductions in
dealer margins or in quality.
In an effort to check rapidly
diminishing passenger revenues,
the railroads of the country are
planning various classes of rate
reductions designed to bring
back lost business. February 1,
western roads made marked pas
senger fare cut. The seasonal
decline in freight car loadings
is showing a tendency to modern
ate, as compared with the same
period a year ago.
With an estimated $1,500,000,
000 at stake in the form of mort
gaged debt in nine states, mid
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GIBSON RECORD) ♦
Published to Furnish the People ot Glascock County a Weekly Newspaper rfnd as a Medium for the Advancement of th e Public Good of the County.
GIBSON, GA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1, 1933.
“Not Crazy, But Ad That Way”
(By Bascom Anthony in The Macon Telegraph and News)
We are not crazy, we just act like we were. We are like a
bunch of doctors who try to cure a broken leg by reading poetry
to it. We are trying to cure our national ailments with a sooth
ing poultice of money, when our lack of money is due to a lack
of character. Well, when we have used up all our poultices and
the patient, like the woman of the scriptures, is none the better),
but rather worse, then maybe we will quit treating symptoms
and go to work on the disease.
Our ailment is not material but spiritual. It is not in things*
but in us. You may dress a consumptive in royal robes and put
him in a palace, but he is still a consumptive. He needs frlesh
air and a proper diet. As our maladies are moral, only a moral
treatment can eure them.
We are by nature moral creatures and our natures is a moral
problem. We complain justly about our taxes. Where do they
g 0 ? \ part g oes j 0 tj, e courthouse and judges, jurors, clerks,
sheriffs and bailiffs, when, if we were merely moral and decent
we wou,d need none of the,n exce P l a smtdl Are-proof building
with a clerk in it to keep a record of marriages, wills, deeds and
such like. What a pile of money we would save if we did not
have to keep all this machinery to hold rascals in check,
A part of our money goes to jails, jailers, deputies, guards,
chaingangs, penitentiaries, etc. What a motley crowd of human
ity the taxpayer has to feed and clothe in trying to keep the life
and property of society in safety. I doubt if all the hotels in our
cities could accommodate them. If they were only moral after a
very ordinary sort what a difference in our expenses it would
make.
Problems Are Moral And Not Material
A part of our mone y 8° e s 1<)r banks, bars, vaults, guards, night
watchmen, policemen, etc. What a crowd of policemen, and de
tectives we have to keep by day and by night, when if we were
moral we would need none of them. If we were only decent
there would not he a Jock nor a vault on earth. All the protec
tion banbs need wou,d be a paper wei 8 bl ke * p *•
wmd from blowing the money away and a screen door to keep
the rats out. Yes, our problems are moral and not material. 1
wish we were ail moral so that we didn’t have to hide our pocik
etbooks, nor sleep with our pants under our heads. But there is
no hope of that until we quit being a bunch of selfish smart alecs
who think we can’ take a nigh cut on a straight lint, and who
think we know more about how to he happy than the God who
us does. I don’t expect to find such a country this side of
heaven, and not even there if these broadly tolerant folks who
ru b out mora ] distinctions, and that other crowd of sloppy sen
their w»y and turn nl] sorts into heaven,
,n 11,81 evehl the angels will have to rent safety vaults for their
crowns and Saint Pe er will have to set a strong guard over each
pearly gate to see that it is not stolen—hinges, walls, paving and
all. Unless we can cure the selfishness of humanity and make it
moral, I don’t see how even heaven can be run without some sort
of penitentiary . which to lock the selfish ln . souls , who , regard
in up
only their own desires,
They would regard the Almighty as Victorian and Puritanic
if he did not allow beer and bootlegging so they could all make
whoopee and have necking parties.
Back of All This Spirit is Standing
I repeat that our trouble is not material, hut moral and spir
itual. We all know this to he true whether we obey it or not.
We all believe that back of all things stands that inescapable
something we call spirit, and that is the dominant and final
thing in all matters. We see it not and yet feel ourselves to he
in its grasp.
Some call it a “hunch” as if some one had nudged them, in the
ribs with an elbow at the critical moment. Some call it the
“breaks,” as if some one had tipped the scales in their favor when
it stood poised in doubt. Varying forms of superstition give to
the spiritual a name and source to suit themselves. Some call
it “astrology” and think that from dear, coid far off worlds,
comes a power for weal or for woe that grips them relentlessly.
It is a bit pathetic to see our daily papers edited by intelligent
and educated men harking back to the days of the early Phara
oahs to resurrect this ancient faith in the spiritual and the un
seen, and'dish it out to their readers as something by which to
govern life and conduct. It all shows our undying faith in the
spiritual and that it forever dominates the temporal.
Few men believe that the laboratory with its scales and test
tubes ever yet found and weighed all that was present in the
test. Mr. Edison, who spent his life amid laboratory apparatus,
found so many baffling things that he said no man knew one
billionth part of one per cent about anything,
Laboratory Tests Meager And Poor J
We all have seen in print the results of the laboratory tests
of the Component parts of a man. It was so meager and poor,
and still the best that science could do. They found enough sul
phur to make a few matches, enough iron to make a ten-penny
nail, a fair amount of water, a little calcium and a few, other ma
terials and salts. And that was all that learned scientists could
find. What had become of all the high hopes and vaulting am
bitions that once were there? Where were the heartaches, and
holy longings? Where was the dauntless courage that went up
sword in hand to defend the citadel of the soul against all de
filing enemies? Where is the conscience, God’s deathless ally,
that reproved, rebuked and encouraged with all authority, until
finding its words disregarded, it climbed up into some higher
part of the soul and beholding the wreck that disobedience had
made, shed bitter penitential tears? Where all the holy God
like aspirations, marred and crippled by selfishness, “like a swan
with a broken pinion” that sang such deathless songs that an
angel might covet them. All these are matters of the spirit,
and are the only matters that do matter. They forever trans
cend the temporal—will never lend themselves to the tools by
which we measure dust and dirt. Such implements are good
enough to mark the orbits of worlds and to tell theid weight
and component parts, but they have no part nor lot in the things
of spirit. The smile of a babe, the love of a mother, the sacri
fices of a friend, all lie limitless distances beyond the realm.
So let us come hack to where we started and end where we
hSgan with the statement that is so commonplace 'that it sounds
like a platitude, all our troubles are moral and because they are
moral are matters of the spirit and not of the body. Then why
poultice a head to cure stupidity, or why try to hush the soul’s
cry by dangling toys before it? Why not submit our unholy
spirits to the Holy Spirit? Why not turn to God and see if our
troubles do not vanish as a midst before the sun, or be lost
in the mighty consciousness of a regained decency and a re
claimed moral rectitude.
‘'GRAFTERS BIBLES’’
A year or two ago, H. B. (Hell Bent) Edwards, then, a member
of the legislature, produced what he called the “grafters’ bible,”
a report of the state auditor showing expenditures of the State of
Georgia. It was an interesting document full of evidence of
nepotism and abuse of government.
The United States Senate has its own “grafters’ bible,’’ hut it
ha* not been made public. It was printed privately for the mem
bers, to do with as they please. The New York Times has ex
amined one and reveals its interesting entries, wholly in line with
the revelations made by William P. Helm in his book, Swindle
Shtet.
Among the items were a barber’s bill for $8,000 and a mineral
water bill for $8,500. Some of the other items were: kitchens
and restaurants, $64,237; California redwood for manufacture
into boxes, $599; stationery, $44,147.00.
The New York Times, amplifying the report out of conjee
ture, said that at 25 cents a bottle, 25,000 bottles of mineral wa
ter must have been consumed by senators with whom Washing
ton water did not agree. Similarly, an analysis of the barbefi
bilJ show’s, according to The Times, that if each of the 96 sena-
4or s shaved every day except Sunday and paid at the market
price of 25 cents a shave it would cost $144 a week and that the
Wren, Ml Mi «. IH. . .«n ; ,- w„„d be
$48 a week and that, (therefore, it would be‘ cheaper if the govern
ment paid their barber bills without running a shop for them.
The items are only a few of the numerous things thait have
been brought out in the past year to show where the govern
h ‘ s 8onc '? Unita ! sho ", idsc "
ators $10,000 a year-normal salary-and then pay their barber
bil.S and make up the deficits in (the House and Senate restau
rants is beyond the comprehension of lay citizens who do not
understand why their tax money should pay all the perquisites
the senators and representatives have.
The question goes deeper than that, however: The question
really is whether government has degenerated so that it is run
by men who are so attached to persona] consideration, even putty
graft, that they can not consider the common good in a detached
way, or an unselfish way. It is a form of petty graft for public)
servants to use tax money to improve their beauty; it is a trival
torm of petty graft that would be resorted to only by trival men.
If the senate is concerned about its dignity—and it ought to be,
for after all, it is our most serious legislative body—it ought to
act in a dignified manner and stop all the petty grafting that
brings it into contempt.—Macon Telegraph.
BESSIE TIFT DRAMATIC
CLUB WARRENTON MCH. 7
Ob Tuesday evening, March 7,
the Studio Players of Bessie
Tilt College will put on one of
Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated
plays, “The Importance of Being
Earnest,” a comedy in three acts,
sponsored by the P. T. A. of
Warrenton.
The performance will be given
in the high school auditorium at
8 o’clock. Admission 15c and
25c. It is full of humor, wit,
fun, and just what you’ve been
looking for to have an enjoya
ble evening of laughs.
The play is under the person
al direction of Miss Lillian Ed
na West, well known director
and head of the Dramatic De
partment of Bessie Tift College.
The cast is as follows:
John Worthing—Carol Terry,
Acworth, Ga.
Algenon Moncrief — Louise
Waldrop, Acworth, Ga. 4
Rev. Canon Chasuble, D.D.—
Helen McGinty, Norwood, Ga.
j Merriman, butler—Jenny Lynn
j Strick land, Douglasville, Ga.
(Crawford, j Lady Bracknell — .. Rebecca
Lineolnton, Ga.
] Hon. Gwendolen Fairfax—Re
jbecca Lane, Mullins, manservant Chipley, Ga. Frances
—
Whitworth, Atlanta, Ga.
Cecily Cardcw—Leith Carlton,
Nashville, Ga.
' Prism Kathryn Rack
—
Icy, Millen, Ga.
Scenes
Act I.—Algernon Moncreff’s
Hat in Half Moon Street, W.
Act II.—The Garden at the Ma
nor House, Wooiton.
Act III.—Drawing room of the
i Manor House, Wooiton.
Time—The present.
SUBSCRIPTION $1.00 PER YEAR
Place—London.
As shown above Miss Helen
McGinty, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. N. E. McGinty of Norwood,
will portray one of the charac
ters in the play. Miss McGinty
is a graduate of the Warrenton
High School.
GOLD AND SILVER
SLIPPERS RETURN
The fashion tin given by one of the
hotter shoe houses Is to d.ve the heels
slid bows of an opera pump to match
the gown or the accessories. This
same house Is showing a slipper that
can almost he said to embody every
jo lor of the rainbow in e vivid pattern.
Velvet slippers are exceedingly
smart. Many of them have straps and
Intricate trimmings of gold or silver
khlskln. Some have both. Itetnrned
to favor are khlskln gold and sliver
slippers. A new note Is a combina
tion of the gold and silver.
The brocades are very smart. They
are trimmed with the gold or sliver
khlskln. Some houses are showing a
trim of opaque kidskln. There are
satin and moire combinations to be
had and crepe slippers to he dyed.
One-Sleeved Gowns Are
Latest Freak in Paris
Two sleeves do net nmke a dress.
Paris couturiers are striving to per
suade their clients that one Is quite
sufficient.
However bizarre may be your men
tal picture of a one-sleeved gown, ln
reality the creation Is sometimes effec
tive. It's smartest, however, when ap
plied to jackets.
These leave one arm covered with
a fabric contrasting with the fabric
of the dress sleeve. The armhole of
the "missing sleeve” Is trimmed with
feathers, the other with fur.
Sequin Caps*
A shoulder cape of sequins on black
net or chiffon ts charming worn with
a simple evening gown. They can be
bought separately to wear with differ
eat dresses.
Papers Comment On
Davis Appointment
J. C. Davis Named Solicitor
General
J. Cecil Davis, widely known
Warrenton lawyer, Friday was
appointed by Governor Eugene
to be solicitor general
of the Toombs circuit. He suc
ceeds Marion Felts, who died
early last week. Mr. Davis, who
had been notified of his appoint
ment, came to the capitol Friday
afternoon and received his com
mission. The new solicitor
general is 40 years of age. For
more than 15 years he has been
associated with his father, E. P.
Davis, in the practice of law. He
is a graduate of Emory Univer
sity and studied at Columbia.
He is married and the father of
one child, Martha Davis. The
Toombs circuit includes the
counties of Taliaferro, McDuffie,
Wilkes, Warren, Lincoln and
Glascock. Judge C. J. Perry
man, of Lineolnton, presides
over the circuit. Mr. Davis’
appointment runs until January,
1935. — From Crawfordville Ad
vocate-Democrat.
Mr. Davis Appointed Solicitor
Governor Talmadge has ap
poi f ted ^ Ir - Cecil P a Y is » of War_
JJ“ J*"’ Felts'^rfolkitor-ge^Ii
of the Toombs circuit. The ap
pointment takes effect immedi
ate, y and ™ ns until the next
Keneral election, which will be
TeS
to complete the four-year term,
Mr. Davis is an able lawyer of
Warrenton and is fully qualified
lo bcdd the responsible place to
^
i n (his section.-From McDuffie
Progress.
Col. J. Cecljl Davis Appointed
Solicitor
Governor Eugene Talmadge
has appointed Col. J. Cecil Da
vis, prominent young Warren
ton attorney, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Solicitor
General Marion L. Felts. Col.
Davis is one of the outstanding
young lawyers of this section of
the state, and his appointment
meets with the approval of the
people over the circuit. His ap
pointment is particularly pleas
Lincoln county, many having an
attachment for him by reason of
the fact that he came to Lincoln
to secure his life companion,
who, before her marriage was
Miss Julia Dye, daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Ware, of near
Lovelace. Col. Davis will as
sume the duties of his office at
once.—From Lineolnton Journal.
PUBLISHING A STATEMENT
The Miliedgeviile Times car
ried an editorial recently com
mending the county and city for
publishing quarterly statements
of t,heir financial condition in the
county paper. It went on to say
that the citizens of the city and
county are entitled to know just
how much money is expended
and they could know in no other
way than from this statement
being carried quarterly in the
county paper.
The practice of carrying quar
terly statements in the papers for
the benefit of the citizens is prac
ticed by a great majority of the
cities and counties in the state.
In most of them, it is compulso
ry. To anyone interested in the
government of their community
it is very interesting indeed and
gives greater confidence in the
officials.—The Covington News.
Aid Woman 116
Jersey city, N. J.—On her one hun
dred and sixteenth birthday Mra.
Dora Meyers received approve! of an
old-age pension from the state to help
provide for herself and son, John,
eighty-nine.
Respect Carried Too Far
“Respect for our ancestors,” Mild Hi
Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “should not
go so far as to convince us that they
have provided all the wisdom and mor
als of which the world has need.”—■
Washington Star.