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THE BANNER-HERALD
ATHENS, GEORGIA
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The Tragedy of Herbert Hoover
By OSWALD GARRISON VILLARD
(In The Nation.)
(CONTINUED FROM YESTERDAY)
Yet Mr. Hoower does not himself come out for
the anti-trust laws or against them. Men looked to
him te achieve great administrative reforms be- |
cause he was an sngineer. They looked to him for ]
extraordinary svmpathy for the suffering and un.f
employed, only to- find that he is willing that the !
unemployed shbouid starve, but not that the Ameri-!
can pdlicy of refusing them any government aid
which might be called a dole should be abandoned.
Men thought that he would help us to an intelli
gent foreign policy, especially in relation to Europe.
They have seen hiz Geneva disarmament confer
ence break down and his London disarmament con
ference end disappointingly for lack of strong
leadership and a eclear-cut program. Men thought
that he, a Quaker, might be rellef upon to check
our growing militarism, but under him, the Quaker,
the aggrandizement of the military has gone on
apace, until our military and naval forces have
become a menace to American liberties. At least
men thought that under his engineering and admin
istrative skill waste, inefficiency, and extravagance
would be cut out of the budget; only now, a year
and a half after the Wall street crash, with a
deficit of $1,250,000,000 at hand, does he suddenly
realize that there are $25,000,000 to be saved here,
and $20,000,000 there, when in one department at
least the savings could run to two hundred millions
——a Washington daily newspaper recently declared
that the commission on reforms and retrenchment
in the war department had so decided.
What is it that has brought about this debacle
in Herbert Hoover? Viewing him as calmly as my
nature and judgment permit, it seems to me that
what is chiefly undoing him is lack of courage; or
to put it more severely, cowardice. Why is it when
Herbert Hoover took office under real obligations
to no man, when he was elected by the most tre
mendous sweep in our history, that he has not
dared say his soul was his own; that he has made
suéh inedfensible appointments, that hé has let
himself be vepresented in the senate by a Jim
Watson, has frequently surrounded himself by
wretched advisers, cheap and discredited politic- |
jans, and has appointed a cabinet whose general“
average of mentality and ability is extraordinarily
low? No one whom I know can give the answer.
Why, for example, should the president have seunt
to one of the Furopean countries as I'epreseptaxl¥a
of the United States a man whose sole quallfica
tion was that he felt that he was entitled to a j?b
(although a very rich man) because of his cam
paign contributions (he is today practically never
at his post)? True, Mr. Wilson did similar things,
and so have other presidents: but why should an
engineer, a man of great business efficiency, a
tried administrator and executive, follow such bad
examples?
Yes, it is cowardice at bottom. Man after man
comes from the White House and declares pri
vately that he is certain that Mr. Hoover would
personally like to recogmize Russia, but feels that
he cannot because public opinion is not ready for
it. But for what is 'a president there except to
organize and lead public opinion in the direction
in which his conscience tells him to go? Russia is
but one example of many. It is impossible to avoid
the belief that Mr. Hoover constantly does vie-
Jence to his better self, that he knows better than
his actions suggest, that at bottom his conscience
troubles him. Like almost every other politician
the world over. he has frequently disavov#.d his
own beliefs, and has compromised deeply and often
—as in the matter of signing the latest inexcusable
taritf, which he solemnly told congress he never,
never would sign. and then. did sigun. By that
action he contemptuously brushed aside the sound
and considered judgment of more than a thousand
of the country's leading economists, scholars;, and
men of affairs who begought his veto. Yet the still,
small voice plainly troubles him—let him be cred.
ited with that, for better, for worse. But take his
courage in both hands he rarely can. No more
than & Watson or a Tilson does he perceive the
simplest and plainest of all pelitical truths—that
the country honors nothing so much as bravery in
its public men. No, he is as timid as the timidest,
and all the time the second-term spector follows
him about as persistently as Bangquo’s ghost pur.
sued Macbheth.
What is it that makes so unhappy a man desire
four years more of the life he lives in the White
House? Pride? Hope that a revival of prosperity
before the end of his second term will bring him
the cheers of the crowd. The belief that there is
one more victory to be had in stieking to the dfy
side? Determination not to rank behind Washing
ton. Lincoln, Cleveland, Roosevelt, and Wilson, as
a one-term president? One would think he would
long for rest, for the quiet, peace, and happiness of
private life.
Only-—the masses had hoped and had longed,
and the plain people had wished a real leadership,
a new leadership: had dreamed of a man in the
White House of whom it could never be said that
‘he truckled or compromised or played the political
zmgit ‘has come to:pags ‘flmt men every
where are saying that Mr. Hoover does not wish a
newer and better order, and a newer and juster
THE VINDICATION OF
MAYOR WALKER
t Friends of Mayor James L. Walker, of
INew York City, have issued copies of his
!answer to charges preferred against him
ias Mayor of New York and filed with Gov
lernor Franklin D. Roosevelt, The books
|are bound in permanent form and contain
‘a full and complete record of the charges
|as preferred by members of ‘‘City Af
,fairs Committee”’; the answer made td
l'the committee by Mayor Walker and the
zdecision as rendered by Governor Roose
‘velt along with editorial expressions from
'the various newspapers of that city.
. In a nutshell, the accusations amounted
‘to nothing more nor less than Republican
‘propaganda born in the diseased minds
!and brains of men whe are irresponsible
for their acts and doings. The accusa
tions consisted dlmost entirely of general
ities without foufdation of facts and were
‘made up of a colorful conglomeration of
charges which they failed to substantiate.
The unwarranted , attack pitched on
Mayor Walker appears to be full of false
accusations against his administration
which would not stand in the limelight
before a fair and just public. ‘ |
i In dismissing the charges as preferred
by the City Affairs Committee against
'Mayor Walker, in the closing paragraph
of his decision, Governor Roosevelt, said: |
“I have given the charges and the reply
‘my most earnest consideration keeping al
ways in mind the principles above set
forth which must guide a governor in his
decision. I do not find sufficient justifi
cation in these documents, as submitted,
to remove the Mayor of New York, or to
proceed further in the matter of these
charges.” !
Answering the various counts on which |
the City Affairs Committee undertook to |
indict the Mayor of New York, Mayor
Walker took them up count by count,
fully answering, and showing them to be
based on prejudice and without founda
tion of facts. Without an exception, the
newspapers endorsed the answer of !
Mayor Walker and the decision of Gover- |
nor Roosevelt with ridicule and censure |
for the alleged, sejg_,appointed committee, |
in their effort to besmirch the character s
of Mayor Walker and to discredit his ad- !
ministration.” ;
Instead of diserediting Mayor Walker
as intedned by the committee, the accusa
tions served as a boomerang and have fall
en flat, strengthening Mayor Walker with
the great mass of people, Republicans and
Demoerats, who helieve in fair play and
justice. The Mayor's answer was com
plete in every detail, giving facts and fig- |
ures that can not be controverted or de-‘
nied, and sets at rest for all time to come |
efforts to discredit a faithful and honest
official and a clean and constructive ad-}
ministration.
MAKING A LAST STAND
“Scarface” Al Capone is making his |
last stand against law and order. Accord-l
ing to newspaper reports, the officers and
the law have at last won a moral andi
legal victory. For many years, Capone
has terriorized Chicago and some otherl
of the larger cities of the mation, at least |
he has been given credit for leading bands
of gangsters and racketeers in many sec
{tions of the country. His career has been
spectacular and daring. He has boldiy
operated in the face of the law, allegedly
assassinating men and violating all laws
on the statute books without prosecution
lor conviction. Money played a major part
\in securing protection, while fear, on the
‘part of the officers, no doubt, contributed
Imuch to his successful operations of illegal
pursuits. However, he has spent his course
‘iin crime and now the law is to be upheld
land Capone is to pay the price of his
( wrongdoings by abdicating his throne of
crime and retmn? to the confines of the
jail to pay the toll of an outlaw and an il
spent life. ;
With his record as the most noterious
criminal this nation has ever known, there
{are things good in his make-up that are to
'be admired. It is said that in his pros
{perity and adversities, he never forgot his
‘mother; she came first with him. Charita
ible organizations and cases of need were
inever refused help by Capone. He has a
kind heart and a sympathetic nature, not
withstanding his temperament for rackets
‘and other violations of the law. But his
tdays. of racketeering and gangster rule
{have passed, and unless the machinery of
(the law becomes closgged in some way or
'for some reason, “Scarface” Al Capone
| will be wearing the uniform of a convict,
{and if not in chains, a number will be the
tonly record the outside world will have to
‘find out the future abode of this one-time
tgreatest of all gangsters and racketeering
|operators.
A BEAUTIFUL MEMORIAL
Now that the memorial to Warren G.
Harding has 'been duly dedicated, it is
worth while to remark that the memorial
itself, with its stately columns and its clas
sic simplicity, is one .of the most beauti
ful things of its kind yet erected in the
United States.
As a rule, the memorials we put up to
our public men are not exceptionally note
worthy from the aesthetic standpoint
This is especially true of those erected
in the latter part of the 19th century. Ap
parently, however, a new day has dawned.
The Harding memorial is g fine exam
ple of what a memorial ought to be. Its
beauty will be a delight to Americans for
generations to come.
Glass-lined tank cars for the transpor
tation of milk have been introduced on
British railways.
' Automobile owners pay gasoline faxes
of $500,000,000 a year in the United
States, in addition to $350,000,000 for
registration and license fees. .
Color blindness affects about four per
cent of males and four-tenths of one per
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| —NoT MUCH OF ANYHTING
g BY HUGH ROWE
Well, the firemen’s ~anvention
is over and the visitors are re
turning to their homes, after a
two day session of live interest
to every one participating,
- Chief Lester and committees are
to be congratulated on the sugcess
ful manner in which every detail
of business meetings and enter
tainment was carried on without
a '*bobble.,” Athens has been fortu
nate this yeay in securing a number
of conventions all of which have
added much to the gaiety and pros.
perity of the city, .
The Georgia legislature 1s now
in full blast ang the “old” capi
tol building is filled with anx
ious sightseers as well as law
makers from every ¢ounty in
the state, 5
Congressional delegations are
camping around the Capitol urging
this and that plan for the redis-l
tricing of the state in order that the
respective Congressmen will hold
their offices. Two of these faithful
k servants of the people will have to
-~ retire to private life, That much
ig certain—which two? Well that
is a problem that no poe can solve
at this time, >
. Settling the financial difficul
ties of the state has been some
what lost in the excitement over
the Congressional redistricting
and re.apportionment of coun
ties,
At any rate, it is to be a busy
session ang one thar will go down
in history as a record breaker
There is plenty for the legislator
to do, in addition to the re-appor
tionment of Congressional districts
Finding money with which to meet
the deficiency that 1s upon the
state will be a perplexing question
to solve, but we have faith in the
lawmakers to meet the emergency.
After all has been said and
done, increased revenues must
be found, if the state meets its
obligations and keeps its ma
chinery running on fuli time,
The allocation proposal of high.
way funds does not seem to be
what a maljority of the people ot
this state desires. That was passed
upon last year and a substantial
majority of the people registered
their votes against any interference
of the gasolne fund, So, there yon
are, and what are you going to de
aboug it? Oh, well we will have
to wait and see—there will be
some way found in which to relieve
the situation—that much can be
depended upon,
A rookie in the cavalry was
told to report to the lieutenant,
“Private Rocney,” sad the offi
cer, “take my horse down and have
‘him shod,
¥For three hours the lieutenant
waited for his horse, Then, im
patiently, he seny for Rooney.
“Private Rooney,” he said “where
is that horse I told yeu to have
shod ?" ! :
~ “Omigosh!” gasped the private
growing pale aroupd the gills,
“Omigosh! Did you say shod?”
| SEVEN YEARS AGO
{ Tuesday, Jun: 24, 1924
~ Cotton: 28 3-4 cents.
~ Weather: Generally fair.
~ Madison Square Garden, N. Y.:
Many famocus fights and many
circuses have been in this historic
building but none matched the
combinaticn of both that began
here Tuesday with the opening of
the Democratic national conven
tion. '
| Atlanta: Members of the Geor
'gia General Assembly. were ar
riving in Atlanta Tuesday morn
iilg in preparation fer the open
ing of the annual session of the
‘; fi;embly which begins Wednes
l Smith Headqu-a:tfrs. N Y
When the National Democratic
convention opens here Tuesday
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GEORGYA
morning, William G. McAdoo wil
be away out in the lead with
Al Smith a rather poor second.
in the face'of existing figures.
McAdoo Headquarters, N. Y.»
“McAdoo will climb within a 130
votes of the Democratic presiden
tial nomination on the fifth bal
lot”, was the claim advanced
Tuesday by managers of the Cal. |
ifornian candidate just before the
opening of the first day of con
vention session, |
1001 GEORGIA VERSES
(Note—No one has any reason
to be ashamed of being “from
Georgia’’.)
If one should ask you, “Where're
you from?” don't wait
To hem and haw and halt and
hesitate ;
But give the answer promptly,
name the state
You count your own; with confi
dence secure,
Tell with a faith that always will
endure—
Say proudly, gladly, “I'm from
Georgia, sure!”
WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE TELL
HIM THAT SUMMER 1S HERE?
No. 410
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attractive, comfortable interior. The slanting windshield is made of
Triplex safety plate glass. You can now have the new Ford deli vered
with safety glass in all windows and doors at slight additional cost.
The price of the new Ford Standard Sedan is $590, f. o. b. Detroit.
F. 0.5. Derat, pus frotghs and delivers. | Bumpats and spare t esra ot low cos, Comsenint, scomomica trms thoush
THE TRAGEDY OF HERBERT
HOOVER
(Continued from column one,
Editorial page.)
by him and leave him high —and
dry, a cowering, frightened man
in the most beautiful house in
America. With thé most wonder
ful opportunity to make himself
not only the regenerator and the
moral leader of aspiring America,
yes, of the whole world, he fears
to act, fears to speak out, fears
to assume that leadership which
could easily write his name and
fame upon the imperishable scroll
of time, :
(THE END.)
HOLD EXAMINATION
ATLANTA-—(AP)—ludge Ed
gar E, Pomeroy will conduct state
bar examinations Wednesday in
the Fulton county court holuse.
Examinations will start at 9 a. m.
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SOLD 3Y DRUGGISTS BVERYWRERF
Education Board
To Offer Tracts
Of Land for Sale
Two tracts of land will be of
fered for sale by the Athens
Beard of Educations, it was de
cided at a meeting yesterday.
The land formerly occupied by
the Baxter streot school will he
submitted to real estate dealers
for offers, and some propefty on
Church street will be offered *for
sale to the various civic organiza.
tions to bg“l;sed as a park.
A committee was appointed to
investigate the insurance business
of the board a@s to its equal dis
tribution among the various com
panies here. Dr. A. C. Holliday,
E. S. Sell, R. W. Woods are on
the committee.
The board adopted a motion by
Mrs. D. L. Earnest - thanking the
city school teachers for a pienic.
“Always Good Bye”
Wi ith Elissa Landi, at
The Palace Tonight
Among the wmany outstanding
features of the production, “Al
ways Goodbye,” which stars the
iorg'eous Venetian bealty, Elissa
andi, at the Palace tonight, are
the exquisite settings and photog
raphy.
William Darling, who served as
art director on the produetion, had
had the cooperation of= William
Cameron Menzies, one of the co
directors, on the design and con
struction of all the sets. Menzies
was awarded the Academy of Mo
tion Picture Arts and Sciences.
GREATLY REDUCED fARES
ATHENS o ATLANTA
AND RETURN
59200 ROUND TRIP .
3 ON SALE DAILY 3
LIMITED 5 DAYS &
In Addition to Date of Sale
via SEABOARD
C. G. LaHatte, TPA, Atlanta, Ga.
C. S. Compton, CA, Athens, Ca.
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1931
M_* -
1
]nmda] for the best art dire
last year.
i “Always Goodbye" | t}
| co-directoral assignmey; i
{ zies and Kenneth Mac Ken
| tells the romantic nd
| story of a young soci ty pi
upon finding hersels bal
:(*homes the life of an gdve
{ rather than one of pove, ty.
| Supporting Miss Landi is
| star cast, headed by Lewis
i and Paul Cavanaugh ip th
{ leads. Other ceiebrities
| ing important roles are Jo}
| rick, Lumsden Haye F
i Kerr and Herbert Bunston
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| It’s just too hot to
~er about cooking bre
- Butter Rolls will §i
1 bill, both plain and
' wheat—made Fresh
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SAID TRY CAf
“A FEW years azo, 1 was in
erable, run-down condition,”
Mrs, M. M. Brett, of 808 Albani
Wayeress, Ga. “I
was 80 weak, 1 could [[7=gea
bardly go. I was ner- \;,_
vous and all out of [FSS
heart, getting very 1%&6'2
discouraged with my *g)‘,i"\'t
condition. {;y‘ff""
“A Iriend of mine, {{frvaoe
seeing how misera- I:”:.:.'-
blgel was, told me to || =™
try Cardul. T have ! %
never ceased to be .i §
grateful, for T felt || @i
better from the time || ST
I began taking it. i
“T kept on taking || ™ snrge
Cardui until I felt &S
well and strong. T |imieees
was Jess nervous and || o
was soon enjoying {imiiig
good health.” Fror7 e
Sold at Drug Stores.