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BY BRUCE CATTON
If you ‘can believe Relief Administrator Harry L
Hopkins, the present period of economic evolution
is going to end in a system of 4 per cent capitalism.
By this Mr. Hopkins means that the return on in
vested funds will proceed at a much slower rate
than we have been used to in the past. Capital’s
share of the profits in industrial enterprise is going
to be smaller, in other words; the day of fortunes
built on a shoestring will be over, and money in
vested in a going company will bring in only a little
more than it brings now in a savings account.
The prediction sounds fairly mill, until you begin
to look into it a bit. Then you discover that it is a
.forecast of glmost revolutinary change.
The old axiom-—nevdr literally true, but close
enough to it for practical purposes—has been that
putting your money in common stocks in Specula
tion, while putting it in bonds is investment.
Buy bonds, and you get a sure return, limited to
a certain figure; buy stocks and you run the r’sk
of getting no returns at all—but, ag compensation
for this risk, you may make a profit many times
higher than any bond issué could bring you.
Under a system of 4 per cent capitalism, the stock
holdqr would be right where the bondholder Is
today, If he put SIOO,OOO into a company, he woulds
be satisfied to take out §4OOO a year in profits; he
would not be expecting—as has been the case in
the past—that his SIOO,OOO would be worth a mil
lion in a few years, if things broke right for him.
~ Those who have suspecte§ the New Deal of a
radical tinge will hardly be reassured by Mr. Hop
kins’ remark. This suggestion IS radical, beyond
question. It calls for a complete change in our
Q;%)omic system.
‘lt took more than the lure of 4 per cent to build
up this country’s great industries; it took the pros
pect of unlimited profits, such as those which made
multi-millionaires out of poor boys like Rockefeller
and Carnegie.
~ Nevertheless, there have been timeg in the last
gow years when any businss man would have been
perfectly satisfied with 4 per cent—if he could get
it. A low profit is better than no profit at all.
A regime in which capitalism was held to a 4
per cent return might be acceptable, if capital could
be assured that it would actually get the 4 pep cent.
A queer combination of drouth and AAA manipu-
Jation has sent the price of hogs rocketing. Neveér
before, outside of wartime, has the hog market
risen as rapidly as it has this summer.
Since June, the hogs of the corn belt have in
creased in value by nearly half a billion dollars;
if the present price level holds, this paper value
will be transformed into actual cash, with the corn
belt tarmer reaping the benefit.
What this may mean to the country at large is
mentioned in an article by Charles li. Snyder, corn
belt editor.
“To the business man and to the people generally,”
he writes, “the price of pork is the most vital trade
index. Everybody ought to be glad to see §lO hogs.
Hogs at that level, and Kept there, afford the best
‘possible promise of good timeg to all”
At a mioment when the sky is a great deal darker
than most of us would like to see it, it is comfort
ing to find at least one omen of good times.
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It is an odd development that in the Philippines,
soon to be independent, English has been adopted
‘as the official language, while in the solidly Am
erican territory ot Puerto Rico, Spanish has taken
the place of English as the accepted medium of
instruction in elementary schools.
- The Fuerto Ricans speak Spanish from the cradle
upward. Efforts have been made to conduct the
‘elementary schools bilingually, with English and
Spanish used side by side. Now, however, the in
‘struction is®*to be solely in Spanish, with instruc
tion in Inglish reserved for high schools.
But in the Philippines, English is the only lan
guage thoroughly diffused throughout the islands.
Spanish is the language of polite society; Inglish
is the language in which business ig conducted.
~The Filipinos themselves have voted to make ng
lish the official tongue,
'So the American territory will speak Spanish, and
the independent Philippines will continue to ‘“‘talk
“American”! ;
!
-« If the last czar of Russia has a ghost, that shade
. -must bave indulged in an ironic chuckle or two the j
. other day—a chuckle at a death-bed.
+ For a blind, nearly deaf woman of 90-odd was
“dying a Czechoslovakian village near Prague, and
the ghost of the last czars could be pardoned if it
found something grimly amusing in the circum
stances.
. This woman was Katharina Breschko-Breschkow -
- skaya; and since that name is preyty long and un
pronounceable, it is simpler to refer to hep by the
) ’tltl'é she used to wear so proudly—‘"gradmother of
the Russian revolution.”
She had been one of that devoted band of Russian
manoff wag shot to death in a cellar at Ekaterin
burg; and before that time she had spent no less
than 50 years of her life in one or another of the
_ezar’s prisong for revoultionary activities.
#Shé had been one of that devoted band of Rus
dreamers who hated autocracy and oppresSion and
risked the worst that thg czar, could do to bring
them to an end.
§ Well, these dreamers finally had their way. The
€zar's government fell, the Siberian prisons ‘Wwere
emptied, and the great era of democracy and free
dom seemed at last ready to dawn across Russia.
And then the revolution ran out from under its
little grandmother.
Instead of freedom and democracy, Russia got
Communism. The czar was dead, and his nobles
Were gither dead or in exile; but there was no place
iq the new order for those who had given their
- lives to the fight against czarism, unless they hap
bened to believe in the particular kind of revolu
tion that Russia’s new rulers were handing out.
So this aging veteran of the czar’s prisons had
to _flee from Russia, just like any purse-proud no
bleman. She went to foreign lands, remarking that
she had waited half a century for the downfall of
;he czars and was willing to wait equally long, if
need be, for the downfall of the Bolsheviks.
And when she came to her death-bed, at last, one
of the friends who hastened to her side was Alex
.ander Kerensky—another revolutionary who found
. the revolution running out from under him, and
- who dares not return to Russia,
.~ Bo the czars ghost must have sri¥led a grim little
. #mile. A revolution is such an incalculabl, thing.
~ Btarting one ig like loosing some great, uncontrolla
~ ble force of pature. :
- The solid land itself seems to bréak up—and the
~ one who started it all is no safer than anyone else.
i s s ¢ Ay
. iThe strongest known tmber 1 yate, one of Aus
]REPUBL!CANS FEEL STING OF DEFEAT
,| As the time approaches for the congres
sional elections, it is interesting to note
| press reports of this or that leader of the
| Republican party advancing criticisms of a
‘jdiscrediting character of the present ad
! ministration and its recovery measures. |
. Like a drowning man, these leaders grab |
|at every straw in sight which may be colqr'
1(:(1 and molded into what they term a mis
jtake on the part of President Roosevelt.
iThese leaders following a hopeless cause
"are willing to resort to questionable meth
‘ods in order to mislead an unsuspecting
'mind into the belief that the country will go
(to the how wows unless voters of this country
‘rcturn topower the Republican party. Such
|a policy will not succeed; th'e people of this
lnation are satisfied with President Roose- |
[velt and his administration, and regardlessl
sos what may come within the next two!
years there is no danger of the Republi-!
,cans gaining power in that time, |
| Speakers and the Republican press are |
guarded in their manner of criticism, but
they never fail to take a dig at the Demo-l
crats and the Democratic party. As an il-]
lustration, the following, reproduced froml
“Grit”’, shows the temperament of the Re
publicans: '
“In a recent attack on what he termed
“profligate spending of publie funds,” Col.
Frank Knox, prominent Chicago newspa
per publisher, made one startling compari
'son.
- “Pointing out that the total local and
federal debt up to last July 1 was approxi
‘mately $50,000,000,000, or five billion dol
llars more than the most optimistic esti
mate of the entire national income for
1934, he asserted that should this huge
debt have to be paid off all at once the
family with a yearly income of $4,000
would have to give up that entire sum and
gaise S7O more to meet its share of the bur
en.”’
The criticism contained in the foregoing
is nothing new. That is, since the change |
of administration last year. The people of
the nation have awakened to the import
ance of surmorting the present policies of
President . Roosevelt. They are not ready
for a change or swapping horses in the
middle of a stream, but they are going
ahead in the even tenor of their way, sup
porting the president loyally and faithful
ly and continuing to do so while he remains
in office.
APPCINTMENT OF MARION SMITH
The appointment of Marion Smith, of
Atlanta, by President Roosevelt as a mem
ber of the Textile Strike Mediation Board,
was in keeping with the policies of the
President in selecting men for office pecu
liarly fitted to perform the duties of the
trust.
Marion Smith is an able lawyer; endow
ed with an intellect of broadness and cul
ture. He believes in fairness, justice and
in equal rights in all things. He possesses’
a determination that never falters when
duty calls, and in the deliberations of this
!most important board, it may be expected
that Marion Smith will be found on the
lines of peace, harmony and justice to all.
During his career as a lawyer, he has
|been prominently identified with many of
(the most important cases tried in Atlanta.
lHe has always measured up to require
ments and made for himself a reputation
that cannot be denied nor discredited, His
services to his country in securing an ami
cable adjustment of the strikes throughout
the country will be of great value.
President Roosevelt is mindful of the
gravity of the strike situation. He is anxi
ous to clear up every vestige of the trouble,
but it cannot be done overnight. It will
require time and patience to overcome
what appears to be a most serious condi
tion, especially in Georgia. With the ap
pointment of an arbitration board with
| men of the type of Marion Smith, it may be
expected that a fair and equitable solution
will be worked out by these gentlemen.
Strikes are like wars—they break out when
least expected and usually result in serious
casualities and deaths. It is to be hoped
that congress will enact legislation that
will require all differences between labor
and capital to be settled before reaching
the extreme stage of striking and entering
‘in]to acts of hodily harm upon innocent peo
ple.
HEADING FOR THE GOVERNORSHIP
Texas enjoys the distinction of having
had 2 woman for its chief executive for two
terms, “Ma” Ferguson. Now comes Mrs.
Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, wife of Governor
Pinchot, of Pennsylvania. Mrs. Pinchot has
been threatening to become a candidate for
the office of governor, succeeding her hus
band. She has taken part in all of the cam
paigns of her distinguished husband and
on two occ:cions he has been a candidate
for congress. However. she was not sue
’cessful in her congressional aspirations.
Should Mrs. Pinchot decide to enter the
’race for governor in Pennsylvania, it will
‘be a heated campaign and a three corner
ed race. There are now two candidates in
the field, William A. Schnader, the Repub
lican nominee, and George H. Earle, the
Democratic candidate. With the entrance
of Mrs. Pinchot into the race, the people
of that state will have a wild time choos
ing between the candidates. 1
Mrs. Pinchot is a wonderful campaigner; |
she has had experience; she is endowed“
with ability and resourcefulness that
would well fit her to perform the duties}
of the importance of the governor’s office
of that great state. She may and she may
not be elected, but if she is—then mem
bers of both major parties will be mak- |
ing overtures to her for favors and for herl
goodwill. i
Church services are being recorded on
discs and reproduced on a phonographic
instrument for use in churclfiss unable to
have regular pastors. |
The custom of tattooing persists in
Egvpt for love charms, and signs of social
status, and guards against bad luck and
ill health, |
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A Little of Everything,
Not Much of Anything
By HUGH ROWE
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It is expected that Athens
will be visited by the largest
crowd since the Georgia-Yale
football game when Governor
Talmadge spelaks here Monday
afternoon.
Thousands of Georglans will as
semble here to hear and see thelr
chief executive in person ang In
action, Governor Talmadage 1s a
picturesque person. He is courage
ous, a straight shooter and a man
who keeps his promises. During
the present campaign he has spox
en to nearly a half million people;
he will close his memorable cam
paign here and await the result of
the ballots on Wednesday. [His
record of achievements are too well
known to the people of this state
td discuss or review; he has kept
faith with his constituients and ful
filled every campaign promise he
made in his campaign in 1932,
The people of this section of
the state are coming to Athens
in large numbers. They will
be here from morinng until
late in the afternoon, enthus
iastic and loyal to their gov
ernor.
We have never known of such
interest as he has been hown n
the speakings of Governor <Tal
madge, From all parts of the
state, his friends travel for miles
in order to cheer him along and
show their admiration of him as a
man and their appreclation of hits
services. Athens will be no excep
tion to the rule—the crowd will
tax the space set aside for his
speaking; it will be a great day
in Athens and one that will be long
remembered by the people here and
elsewhere.
“Now, boys,” said the teacher,
“tell me the signs of the zodiac.
You first, Thomas.”
“Taurus, the Bull.”
“Right! Now, you, Harold, ano
ther one.”
“Cancer, the Crab.”
“Right again. And now it's vour
turn, Albert.”
The boy looked puzzled, hesitated
a moment and then blurted out:
“Mickey, the Mouse.,”—Vancouver
, Province.
One of the best introductory
speeches that we have read in
~a long time was delivered by
~ Judge A. W. Cozart, of Colum
bus, when he introduced Gover
nor Talmadge in that city last
week.
Judge Cozart is one of the abl
est and bes¢ knawn Jjurists in the
state, A formei.: president of the
Georgia Bar Association; a mem
ber of the Georgia Board of
Examiners. His pithy ang pleas
ing remarks in presenting Gover
nor Talmadge to the large crowd
that had gathered at Columbus, has
attracted a great deal of attention
and favorable comment. So much
so until we are taking the liberty
of republishing it.
“My countrymen of this good
state of Georgia:
“l couint myself happy because 1
have the honor and pleasure of in
troducing to you today vou, pres
ent and your next governor. In
these troublous times which men
sometimes call ‘degemerate days’
we need, nay, we must have, lead
ers who have backbone and under
jaws; in other words, men who
have guts and gumption. There
never has been a time since Ogle
thorpe first landed in America
when Georgia has had a governor
who has done more for her com
mon people than has Governor Tal
madge; nay, have all of them put
\tocethu- wrought the mighty works
THE BANNER-HERALD, ATHENS, GE(_’B_GTI
in behalf of the citizens of our!
state, especially the poor and the!
needy, which Governor Talmadge
has done during the last fewl
months of his first admiriistration?“
He put clothes upon theip backs,
food ip their stomachs and money
in their pockets; he has actually
done for Georgia what Franklin D
Roosevelt has been trying to do
and has been doing for the nation.!
The truth is Talmadge and Roose-|
velt have been going together like
ham and eggs. ; |
“The so-called opposition seem to|
think that campaign arguments
should consist of bull, bombast and
billingsgate.
“Of course when our good friends‘
‘Boobie’ Arnold and ‘Billy Sly'
Howard (the latter being short of |
thought and long of hair,) began
to villify a man you many .Kknow
that the disgruntled boys have
failed to get their prude out ot!
their prudence, Rube having los!i
the Frank case, the Taylor case,|
and the attorneyship of the high
way department, should not on|
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As GEORGIA grew—so did the CITIZENS & SOUTHERN grow.”
This statement, made to me by a bank officer, was most interesting.
“Savannah in 1889—Augusta, 1912—Macon, 1916—Atlanta, 1919—Athens, 1925
~—Valdosta, 1926.”
Such a development—growing into one of the hundred largest banks in the United
States—seemed particularly significant. I studied it further. Six cities — ten offices — but
always the same bank—governed by the same basic policies of sound banking—operated by
an executive personnel rigidly schooled in those principles.
Banking is essentially a business of men and not materials. Your money and mine is
at stake on the judgment and the ability of men. Bebind them must be capital, reserves, earn
ing power—the factors which give us safety for our money.
As our industries grow and develop in the South, we must have banking institutions
competent to understand their problems and adequate to meet their needs. As businesses
grow and expand from city to city, their collective operations are of ten best served through
collective banking.
So, it seems to me, does THE CITIZENS & SOUTHERN serve i§s most useful
purposes—in facilities, trained personnel, collective service, and in the strength and resources -
to meet any need with adequate protection te more than 120,000 customers. .
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This is Number 97 in a series of visits ’ ; -
by “The Man-on-the-Street” R SR i S
The Literary Circle in California
| these accounts, utterly lose his
!mind. .
i “The vast multitudes who have
lcome to hear Governop Talmadge
lin the last few weeks are far
i greater than the great audiences
who heard Watson, Hoke Smith
and General Gordon all put togeth
ler. The truth is, the common peo
[ple hear him gladly. And when
| this election is over, you will find
!that the little so-called candidates
]who imagine that they have run
i against Talmadge will be known
no¢ as ‘has beens’ but as ‘never
weres.” ”’ 5
' MAYBE—MAYBE NOT!
| CHIICAGO—(A)—By the proper
exercise of reason, Dr. George W.
Crilen noted Cleveland surgeon,
i believes, man should have the pow
!er to ward off nervous breakdowns
lgoiter, stomach ulcers, gall stones,
tone variety of dlabetes, certain
ldiseavses of the heart, and protrud
ing eyes.
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NEW YORK--Odds and enas:
Broadway, say habitues of the
Rue Regret, is a place where you
can get away with anything—ex
cept what you came with . . . ,
There's the story about the gamb
ler who went broke in a crooked
poker game, went out and bought
a 2b6b-cent “diamond” ring, return
ed and sold it for §3oo—and later
discovered he had been paid in
counterfeit bills.
Women are still muscling in on
male professions. Manhattan has
three feminine taxi drivers who can
hold their own with any cop or
traffic jam , .'. Therels a lady truck
driver named Emily Shaefer who
wrestles heavy boxes of pretzels.
She once was a chauffeur for a
Wall Street broker, is pretty in
an Amazonian way, and has car
mine-enameled fingernails . . . ~
Some of the amusement places have
girl barkers. There's a girl stilt
walker who carries sandwich«
boards. Twe New York women
run their own detective agencies,
Several voluble lasses “make a
pitch” "along Broadway, selling ra
zor blades, knife sharpeners and
other gadgets. Scores of women
work for pitehmen as “cappers,” or
decoys, being the first to make a
purchase, then withdrawing from
the crowd to keep a lookout for
the police, :
And during the last few evenings
a pretty panhandléer has made her
appearance in the theater lobbies,
“I hate to ask you,” she says, “but
please give a decent girl something
so she can get a place to sleep.”
It's a almnost irresistable appeal,
and judging from any observations
of her activity, the girl must be
maintaining a suite at the Waldorf-
Astoria.
Stuffed Shirts .
Two of the best-dressed men of
Manhattan are prominently in evi
dence these evenings along crowd
ed Broadway. Both wear toppers,
tails, brief beards, and carry canes,
One passes out cards advertising
a nearby dance-hall.
The other is so prepossessing in
dress and mien that he draws
whispered comment as he approa
ches the dorways of eabarets and
restaurants. Whep all the bystand
ers, perhaps_including,kK a photo
grapher or {wo, are looking at him,
he presses a button and across the
vest bosom of his stiff shirt ap
pea, the illuminated words “Drink
So-and-So’s Whiskey.”
Camping Out
Some people who live in a lofty
apartmeng building began sniffing
the hreeze the other evening, try
ing to locate certain odors remin
iscent of the woods. “Reminds me
of a campfire,” ane said. “Pré
swear there-was a steak and coffee
cooking,” declared another. They
were bhoth right. Squatting in
front of a fire on his péenthouse
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBe, %, 1034
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4 4 < ‘N\—.
Mog‘.gfld.,;seeks Court
ction :
With Youn nite
Oung Daughf
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BARTOW, Fia_(p
has sought cour action A Mothey
reunited with ey I‘,“‘." becomg
daughter she saiq ;. | “2-old
held in lieu of 4 WA”;““ 15 being
In a b“l of (‘Hln),h‘i;";lr(l IJAU
cireuit. court here, Mp« I Liieq in
OX, the mother, (-l:ximvv;; 4,,&,““‘\' Sew,
her child in the cqpo of ‘\“f Dlaceg
lins at_Winter Havep wl ok Col
tle girl i s the ligd
girl was 16 monthy gly ;
Mrs. Sewox said (o, .
fused to give up (), L'hi!l{'i has. re.
is paia $565 which h‘”mml he‘i
due for her hoarq, S
The mother saiq she hag |
to.pay $3 a week iy m""‘ _“E.ref-di
and $2.50 in the winey 5. omer
to care for her daug)m-,f“'. : "“’“9‘
she had been unap). ke that
0 carpy
the agreement. Y
A hearing has been: gop 1., |
Judge A. N. Pettaway at L O
on September 10, “Akelang
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Unique Tribute ¢, Be
Unveiled at Loy,
qulege in Los Angeleg
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LOS ANGELES_(/PJ_\ ;
tribute will he unveiled ];(‘,,(_mi‘que
day at the campus of L,,\-“,a'mn'
Versity to Abram J, Ryap &6 um
poet of the Confederacy = Wil
It was to consist of :
memorial plague anig :? l&i?nze
maple trees, which wepe taken f .
a battlefield at Franklin Temm
and planted on the (-:1n1{»11< 1""
vear. >
Father Ryan, chaplain in
Confederate army, ig best n,mg“
bered for his poems “T}, Cong um.
ed Banner” and “Tp, \‘wor:} "
The Sea.” ” s
ety iet shesan —_—
terrace nearby.‘Mr. Max Herzberg
a magazine editor, wis broilin a
steak of magnificant p!'opm-njm
And making some soffee, He doaAq‘
that at least once a week, dye 1, 4
nostalgia for the Breat open spaces,
The big-city influence js gpnifi-g
him, though. Whil: coking hg
wears a derby hat ang gloves,
Out-of-town visitors almos; ar
ways hawve predetermined jdegs ot
what they want to see in Ney
York, One may not care a whoop
about Chintatown, and anothey
will have no interest in Greenwich
Village. So a good miany of these
particular tourists come under the
guidance of the Architects' Emer.
gency committee, which has enlist.
ed a lot of unemployed architects
In an organization called Man
hattan Land Cruises.
Although they're fitted and wiy
ing to delivey expert comment on
famous skyscrapers, homes and
churches, the guides will fill any
sort of special request. They have
taken physicians into hospitals, au
thors into Harlem, and merchants
through factories. One fellow
came to Gotham and wanted to ses
nothing but stained glass. They
kept him busy. Another couldn't
think of any special interest—uns
less it might be women. So they
took him backstage at a couple of
big musical shows
