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A Comparison |
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By BRUCE CATTON :
It is an instructive coincidence that Franklin
Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler completed their first year
in office almost on the same day.
America has had a year of the new deal; Ger
many has had a year of Nazl control. It is worth
while to contrast the state of things in the two
countries, as a means of comparing two utterly dif
ferent ways of meeting national emergency-
In making such comparison there is no need to
contrast the personalities of the American President |
and the German chancellor. What is import’nt is
the striking way in which two diametrically oppo
site theories of government have been put to work
in time of crisis. i -
In each nation there was widespread confusion,
discouragement, and want a year ago. Many men
were out of work, finance and industry were nearly
at a standstill, the mass of mankind was ready to
embrace almost any kind of prdgram that prom
ised action.
What have we today?
In Germany there is an efa of suppression. A
large section of the populace suffers from a pitiless
persecution. Thousands upon thousands of men are
in jail—some because of their race, some because
of their beliefs.
Freedom of the press and of speech is no more.
No one dares criticize anything the government
may do. An iron discipline has descended on the
entire nation,
And over here? Nobody is in jail, nobody suffers
persecution, nobody is under boycott. A newspaper
editor can say anything his heart moves him to
say; a politician can denounce the administration
in the most violent terms his vocabulary will per
mit.
I'n the fall we are to have a national election in
which voters, if they choose, can repudiate their
national administration completely.
To put it more simply, the Germans have sacri
ficed the last vestiges of their individual liberty to
meet a great crisis. We have met our crisis with
our liberties unimpaired.
Now this is not to say that we are wiser or better i
folk than the Germans., We are used to democracy.
We had had a century and a half of experience in |
govprning ouwrselves. The Germans were not used to |
democracy; when trouble came it was only natural |
for them to turn to a dictator for relief, ]
And it is precisely that which is the point of the
comparison. Because we have been able to make
our democracy work, w:a; are a happier people than ]
the Germans, who have not been able to make theirs |
work. } : ]
If we wish to preserve our happiness, we must |-
preserve our democracy. ;
: Evidently it is not enough, in this country, to '
catech an outlaw; after you have caught him youl4
have got to find some way of making him stay (|
caught. -
John Dillinger was known as one of the rmost
desperate men in America. He had escaped from
confinement before; it was known that he would
stop at nothing to escape again.
One woull have thought thgt the officials charged‘
with his safe-keeping would have made doubly sure!
that this time his penchant for breaking jail would‘
not have a chance to be exercised.
The circumstances of his escape~his use of a
dummy revolver whittled out of a piece of wood
and covered with shoe-blacking—would be laughable
‘if the whole situation were not so serious. .
Clearly, the first job before the authorities to
day is the job of laying hands on him and bringing
him back-—and, when that is done, of seeing to it
that he doesn’t get away again.
Whatever the calendar may say, or whatever the
weatherman may have to add, spring is here. An
unfailing harbinger tells us so; the big league base-
Y ball clubs have started their spring training sea
sons. .
: Now we are beginning to get the annual crop of
~ “dope stories,” telling how this rookie is sure to be
@ sensation, how that veteran has taken a new
~ lease on life, how So-and-80 still is holding out
for more money, how such-apd-such a star is
knocking the ball over the fences of the southland
with renewed zest. %
None of {t means very much, probably—but it
. stirs the citizens’ pulses, just the same. It means
~ that winter is over, and that a long streteh of nice
~ weather is just ahead.
Baseball remains the national game, in that, in
~all its aspects, it is characteristic of America and
of no other lund. How, one wonders, do the be- I
~ nighted f{olk of Engls=d, or France, or Russia,
- know when spring has arrived, without the big lea
- guers to tell them? Do they have to depend on cal
endars? ; )
IN NEW YORK
By PAUL HARRISON
NEW YORK.—Probably it is too early to worry
about spring. Right this minute the weatherman
might be tracing some low-pressure areas presaging
another blizzard or something. And nobody has
seen a crocus or @ robin. 2
However, nature never has much vernal encour
. agement to offer this least verdant of all islands.
A few blades of grass, maybe, appearing wistfully
around the “Keep Off" signs in the parks. Buds on
a scrawny little tree in Fifty-sixth street; but hav
ing no significance because the tree's roots are
' wrapped around an underground steam pipe. A
grim geranium basking in a sheltered window box.
A cock pigeon at the library plaza, shameless in his
public attentigns to a brown hen. The leisurely,
north-bound sun striking a little deeper into the
city canyons. The snakes in the zoo's reptile house
twisting uneasily in their last year's skins.
The whole town feels like taking a big breath and
sayving “Ah-h-h,” but doesn’t because it would only
get a mouthful of dust. »”
There are other portents, though, which are just
as infallible as bluebirds. They've put some open
street cars in service on Madison avenue, and from
Fifth Avenue office windows it is possible to look
down and see bus-top riders holding hands. There's
a tremendous boom in the baby-carriage market. A
chorus girl, hurrying from her side-street rooming
- house for a high-noon breekfast on Broadway, went
without stockings. There are light street frocks on
. the wax dummies in the shop windows.
. The tiny old lady who cranks a hurdy-gurdy in
.~ the midtown district has emerged from her hiber
[ ‘nition. And down on the east side tenement win
. dows are being pried up for the first time in months
. “by siatternly Wwomen who like to sit all day with
~ _their elbows on the sills. A sidewalk artist has
. Jtaken up his post on Central Park south.
4 Night-club tenors are getting downright maudlin
“in their choice of songs. Chorus girls are cultivat
jfinx‘fl new crop of diamond baubles. “At liberty”
‘detors have resumed their all-day kibitzing in front
‘of the Palace theater. Ten-cent stores have got in
‘their new line of plants wraped in cellophane, con
tainers of rich topsoil at a dime a quart, and fishing
LOANS TO INDUSTRIES
'l A bill of far reaching effect, heneficial
ito small industries, has been introduced in
‘ithe lower House of Congress authorizing
|loans up to $25,000, eighty per cent
|through the Reconstruction Finance Cor
poration and twenty per cent throggh
| Federal Reserve banks. The bill provides
Ithat loans may be made to ‘““‘any person,
{firm, partnership or corporation engaged
|in any trade or industry possessing a rea
|sonable probability of repayment, employ
ling more than five persons, operating un
!der an approved code of fair competition,
[upon security in the form of mortgage
‘upon land, buildings, machinery, maferi
als, equipment, accounts receivable, or
|other suitgble collateral.”
| Such loans may be made for a period
[not exceeding three years. However, such
'loans may be extended, but.in no instances
for_a period longer than five years from
the original date of the loan. The limita
tions as incorporated in the bill, provide:
“Not more than 10 per centum of said
loans may be used to pay debts to banks:;
no loans shall be made to any firm, part
’nership, or corporation unless it has been
lin existence for three years prior to De
cember 31, 1929, and’ has shown an earn
ing capacity; no loans shall be made to
any firm, partnership, or corporation ex
cept on provision that it uses 75 per
centum of the loan for productive work
ing capital.”
’ Representative Kopplemann, of Con
necticutt, is the author of the measure. It
is believed that the bill will be enacted
into law without opposition. Its purpose
is calculated to help small industries in
the United States and other lines of busi
ness in need of supplemental capital to
tide them over -the financial embarrass
ment of the early stages of such enter
pn:ggs. - : ;
These interested in the passage of the
bill should write or wire their senators and
congressmen to support the bill. With such
an avenue open to small industries and
other business, every section of the nation
will feel t]ye benefits which are bound to
result in a " general revival of industrial
and commercial interests. |
“l 1 WILL GO HOME AND DIE” |
Fleeing from his home and former
friends and adopting a foreign country as
his home, Samuel Insull, at one time one
of the wealthiest men in the United States
and head of one of the largest public
utility groups in the world, is resigned to
his fate and willing to die.
Forsaken by his former friends, when
his life “was one round of pleasure and |
care-free; today a fugitive from justice,
his health broken and a creeping age
which has grown beyond the three score
and ten mile post of life; hunted down by
officers, the officials of a foreign countryl
ihave notified him that he must submit to
arrest and be relurned to his native coun
try, where awaits him prison terms that
last bevond the years of his expectancy.
When he was officially notified that he |
must return to America, in a weakened
land sad voice he mumbled, “I will go
home and die”.
' In his palmy days, the Insull company
was rated as one of the strongest financial
institutions in this country, but when the
crash came, thousands of investors and de
positors lost their savings of a life time.
Whether he is guilty of wrongdoing may
never he determined by the courts. If he
is allowed to get his desires, on his return
home, “he will die’””. The failure of the
Insull interests was the most gigantic that
has occurred in recent years in the United
States. When the announcement of the
failure was made, Mr. Insull fled from this
country, traveling throughout many of the
European countries, finally locating in
Athens, Greece, where he expected to find
a friendly people, but the call of the of
ficials of the United States forced the
courts of Greece to cause him to be return
ed to this country where he will be tried,
and, if convicted, sentence will be imposed.
It is a pitiful case, one that excites the
sympathy of the public on acocunt of his
age, but if the crime with which he is
charged is proved, he should be, treated
{with by the courts and the law as is all
other criminals. . ' :
With his fortune gone and his health
broken; deserted by his former friends,
truly there is little left for him in this life.
Granting that he is guilty of the charges
of the crime he is alleged to have commit
ted, it is a hard heart that does not hold
some sympathy for him.
ADMINISTRATOR HOPKINS
The announcement made by Harry L.
Hopkins, head of the CWA, that the work
program will be discontinued on the first
of April, but that “the 1,500,000 persons
who still will be on the Civil Works pay
roll will be transferred to what will be
known as work divisions of the emergency
relief administration, .operating under
state and local relief administrations”, will
be received with such interest and satis
faction on the part of the workers.
It may be depended that President
Roosevelt will not permit the unemployed
situation to become acute again, but will
find a way to keep.the millions, now em
ployed, at work where they can earn a
living for themselves and their dependents.
Tt is believed, however, that with the en
forcement of the NRA, business will soon
\be restored to normaley and through com
;mercial and industrial channels, much of
the unemployed will be absorbed thereby
|relieving the government, in a measure, of
ithe present burden it is carrving.
The CWA organization was never in
tended as a permanent relief project, but
was created as an emergency agency to
bring about promot relief for the millions
’of unemployed. That purpose has been ac
complished and now 6ther plans and pro
grams will be employed for caring for the
dependents.
The United States- has a mile of good
road for every seven cars in operation. |
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A Little of Everything,
Not Much of Anything
By HUGH ROWE '
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Speaking of paying back
taxes due the municipality, the
recent tax collecting campaign
conducted by the mayor and
council, developed an interest
ing condition as relates .to
street taxes,
It was shown that there are sev
eral hundred citizens, whose names
appear on the tax book, who do
not pay a property or advalorem
tax—only a street tax. This élass
of citizens enjoy the use of the
streets, sidewalks, street lights at
night, police protection and many
other benefits furnished by the
city, yet a majority of them ap
pear under the head of' delin
quents. Of course, these citizens
are barred from voting in the
municipal elections, but that priv
ilege does not seem to excite their
pride sufficiently to pay the three
dollar tax. Every citizen should
be qualified to vote—that is if
they have a desire to take part and
be a part of the local government
People who complain the
most and criticise the city of
ficials, are those citizens wha
do not pay their street taxes.
Before a citizen should criti
cise the officials, they should
be prepared to vote.\
Then, if the mayor and members
of the council commit official acts
that are not in keeping with their
way of' thinking they have the
right of ecriticism. However, a
person should not vegister and
qualify to vote, simply for the pur
pose of being in a position of jus
tification for criticism, but he or
she should have enough pride in
their local community to pay their
street taxes in order to aid the of
ficials t, function the business of
the city without financial embar
rassment or harrassing' from the
delinquent tax payer,
We are not informed as to
the number of citizens paying
their back taxes or the amount
collected by the city during the
recent campaign, but we were
gratified over the fact that the
property of no citizen was ad-
vertised for the April sales.
We presume that in a majority
of the cases of delinquent tax pay
ers, all or a goodly part of back
taxes were paid or else satisfac
tory arrangements perfected. A
cocperative spirit should be shown
in such matters, especially, under
the conditions that our people
have lived for the past four or five
yvears. There are hundreds of prop
erty owners who could mnot pay
their taxes and, possibly, there are
hundreds who could have paid
them, but did not do so because
their neighbor or some other prop
erty owner had not payed theirs.
Such a position is inexcusable and
not in keeping with a cooperative
community spirit. ?
The writer of this column
has received a number of let
ters from friends and citizens
disagreeing with us on our ad
vocacy for back tax paying
on the ground that all should
be made to pay.
~ There is merit in their position
“There should be no diserimination,
purpesely, on account of favorit
ism or friendship, but every case
should stand on its own base, and
be settled accordingly. Certainly
no undue influence should be in
jected in any case, rich or poor;
great or small. They should all bhe
brought bhefore the same bar of
justice and treated with on an
equal basis. That has been the
program of the mayor and counecilt
and thelr officlal representatives
charged with the responsibility of
collecting, especially, back -taxes.
One reason for the failure of
so many citizens to pay thein
street taxes is attributed to
the state law which permits a
citizen to register and qualify
for voting on the payment of
one do'lar *poll tax.
On the payment of the poll tax,
@ citizen may vote in all county
and state eiections without paying
the municipal street tax of three
dollars, Some d, not seem to have
much interest in the election of a
mayor and members of the city
council—their chief interest and
object being in the election of
county and state officials. We
should remember, however, that
the conveniences furnished by the
municipality of which we are' the
beneficiaries, obligates, or should
obligate, us to pay gur street taxes.
At any rate, the mayor and coun
cil are inclined te a liberal policy
in the collection of taxes, but they
cannot be expected to go so far
as to jeopardize the interest of the
people by curtailing police and
fire protection, street lights and
sidewalk service on account of de
linquent taxpayers. by :
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l HE OTHER DAY I sat reading the annual report of the president of our bank.
My eye caught an astonishing set of numbers and I started a little figuring of my own.
As of the date of the report, THE CrrizeNs & SoUTHERN NATIONAL BANK in its offices is
serving 119,501 customers. Were we to translate this in terms of the population of Georgia
it would mean simply,
that one out of every twenty-four—men, women and children—carries an account
in The Citizens ¢ Southern National Bank.
Moreover, these good people had in the bank, December 30, 193 3, the sum of $58,747,811.59
a sum equivalent to $20.00 for every man, woman and child in Georgia.
If we translate these figures again in terms of the census average of five to a family, it means:
one out of every five families in Georgia had SIOO.OO each on deposit in the bank.
Of course the money is not distributed exac}tly that way, but it is surely a re
markable endorsement of the sound banking operations, the personality of the institumon
and the satisfactory service rendered, when nearly 120,000 people unanimously say "
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This is Number 72 in a series of visits
by “The Man-on-the-Street”
The Drop in the Bucket
Unnecessary Travel
By State Employes
Hit by Road Chief
ATLANTA, Ga—(#)—With the
chairman remarking that em
ployes have been doing “a lot of
unnecessary traveling,” the State
Highway Board announced salary
and expense account reductions
estimidted. to total $200,000 an
nually.
W. E. Wilburn, chairman, said
the changes in salaries were “an
adjustment, rather than a cut”
and added that persons employed
since the nresent board took over
the department generally were
drawing smaller pay than those
previous employes. ;
The salary changes will save
about $60,000 annually and the
expense account cuts about $140,-
000, Wilburn said. The department
will pay only those expenses that
cannot be avoided under the new
rules. Some of the expense ac
counts of employes have been cut
out entirely.
Care of Mothers '
During Childberth
To Be Discussed
Programs’ to prevent possible
impairment of ‘health due to moth
erhood, will be discussed at a
meeting to be held in Mell audi
torium on the High school campus,
March 16, at 4:00 o'clo¢k, This
mother welfare@ program is being
sponsored by the P.-T. A.
Speakers for sthe meeting will
be:
Introduction—Dr. G. O. Whel
chel. -
Symptoms of Cancer in Women
—Dr. H. M. Fullilove.
Treatment of Cancer—Dr. Wey
man Davis.
Prevention of Cancer From
Childbirth—Dr. Paul L. Holliday.
For the past two years the
auxiliary of the State Medical as
sociatios has been advocating
health programs to prevent the
impairment of health which may
be due to mdtherhood. - ¥
It -has Pbeen found that cancer
is curable in a large percentage
of cases if the physician has @an
epportunity to begin treatment
early. §
It is -also preventable in muost
cases with- proper care and treat‘
ment following childbirth; and:for
these reasens every woman showld
take adwvantage of this opporiu
nity to learn the facts about this
idxje_aded disease and how it may
be conquered. ;
Southeastern Arts
Association to Open
Convention Thursday
The Southeastern Arts associa
tion opens its 1934 convention at
the Ansley hotel, Atlanta, Thurs
day, March 15, for a three day
session.
Willis A. Sutton, superintend
ent of Atlanta schools, will speak
on “Opportunity for Art in the
South” oh the opening day.
Officers of the assokiation are:
President, George S. Dutch, George
Peabody College for Teachers,
Nashville, !Tenn.; vice-president,
Blanche Cahoon, director of art
education, Tampa, Fla.; chairman
local committees, Charlotte G.
‘Smith, supervisor of art, board of
education, Atlanta, Ga.; secretary
treasurer, May Kluttz, instructor
of art, North Junior® High school,
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Tuesday “Return Day”
For April Session of
Clarke Superior Court
Tuesday is ‘“return day” for the
April term of Clarke superior
court, which means that Tuesday
is the last day on which suits can
be filed to come up for action in
the coming term.
Superioer court will convene, as
usual, on the first Monday in April,
which falls this wvear on April 2.
It is the law that all suits must
be filed at least 20 days before
court convenes.
SUNDAY, MARcH 1 y
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Processing Tay o, 1
Hogs Must B. Paig.
Collector Declyy
Attention is calleg to the go
ernmental processing I,y on hea
which some farmerg have
lected’ to file With the imer
revenue department, according o
J. T. Gordon, deputy Collectop o
the Augusta Office, Tpis is
quired where the live Weight o
the hogs slaughtered 1,, markd
exceeds 300 pounds for one Year.
“The processing tay has p 8
in effect since Novembpey 5"
Gordon said, “and an Parties wy
have sold ana slaughtered jo
for market and have not magg
return should make these retyp
at once.” Forms are availaple 4
the county agents’ offic. 3
Evidence of willfu] evasion o
the tax and failure ¢, make pg,
turns are subject to Prosecutig
and, upon conviction, tpe Penalty
is SIO,OOO fine, or five years jp,
prisonment, or both. ,
Returns in their processing a 8
are to be returned monthly, ¢
deputy collqctor said, Effectiyy
March 1, the rate went up to'§
1-4 cents per pouny live weigh, 1
Childs Street Schol
- Room 1 was ask by room 3t
play ball with them Wednesday at
11 o'clock. The game was playeq
and room 3 won, 4 to 2, Room §
has been drawing .orests and mjg.
eral maps. They received a lotg,
from the sixth grade of Trentm‘,”!.
Virginia, saying they would like i
know more about Georgia's gede.
graphy. The roon: plans to re:l:'i
to their letter, ‘
Room 4 has written to a gir| 1
Utah and are expecting a lett
from her soon. In room 6 the py.
pils and teachers are glad to hay
Clifford Denny and the others ¢
have been absent, back again
They are sorry John Hunnicyy
and Harold Mitchem have medsle
The pupils of room received
letter from Mr. Benson, their spon.
sor, He sald he would visit anfii
talk with them any time they
wished. Room 9 has been racing in
Arithmetic. 'They form teams .Lmi]
each team tries to say the answer
to the probiems in the shortest
time. Seventeen seconds was the
record made by Dorothy Dean
They are studying “‘The Pathfind
ér."”
" In art, the rooms are drawing
things to put on exhibit at.the
P.-T. .A The boys have two new
basketball courts, Childs street
school will soon have Spring holi-
Adays. They have all finished their
tests.
y Marion Burt
PWA GRANTS IN STATE
WASHINGTON .—(®)—The pub
lic works administration has given
a grant of $3,000 to Albany, Ga,
for an abattoir addition,
