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HEAD FIRST STATE WEEKLY A P
Robert Boliug Metre (Right), prominent Georgia Newspaper
Editor, and his sen and associate. Jere N. Moore (Lift) head the
Millcdgevillc Union-Recorder which has been elected to member
ship ir The Association Press. The Union-Recorder, one of the old
est ar.d most progressive papers in the state, is the lirst weekly
newipapi .• in Gr-crgia tc become a member cf The Associated Press,
cc-opcrative, wcrld-v dc news gathering asrcciation owned and
rperated by its more t han 1200 member newspapers. Jere Moore
is Vice-President cf The Gecrgia Press Association and will be host
to the Georgia Press Association at its annual convention in Mil-
lcdgtvillc this summer.
(Associated Press Photos)
By Chartas Mlchrissa
Director of PmMktty. Democratic
MERCER GI.EL CLUB TO GIVE ,
PERFORMANCE FRIDAY NIGHT, j BJack MaV Get
“Concert ar.d Comedy" will hold | -p r.
the spotlight Friday night at 8:15 j 1 TCaSliry l OSt
P. M. when Mercer University's 1936 j j
Glee Club presents its variety pro-I
gram in the G. S. C. W. auditorium. | 1
T^ie directors of the Mercer or-1 SHH 9*^
ganization this year have selected i
the program numbers from both the J Mm -J
classical and jxipular fields in nrde- i IfiHLu j
please a representative audience, j uR* 1 *"
Choral and orchestral selections and
novelty numbers comprise the two
hour program
The 26 voice chorus will sing ten
numbers during the evening, featur
ing a special arrangement of the old
favorite. "Shortnin' Bread", and
Tostl's “Gocdbyt". The Mercer Col
legians, under the direction of W. F.
Walker, will present a mock wedding
set to music, and in addition will
feature such curently popular tunes
as “Alone". “Moon Over Miami."
and "Cling to Me". The orchestra’s
rhythm section holds the spotlight
with novelty arrangements of "NcJa”
and "T.'ger Rag".
Charlie Thompson, glee club presi
dent and accompanist, will lead the
novelty group with his rendition of
George Gershwin's “Rhapsody in
Blue", together with several of his
cwn popular arrangements. Thomp
son has been n favorite with Mercer
Glee Club audiences for the past four
years. Bob Crandall will sing "Water
Boy” as a baritone solo.
Eugene R. Black. Jr., son of the
late Governor of the Federal Re
serve Board and native of Atlanta,
Ga., is said to be under considera
tion for the post of undersecretary
cf the treasury. Black is an
• fficial of the Chase National
Bank of New York.
(Associated Press Photo)
There appears to be little progress
in the efforts of the Republicans,
epen cr undercover, to solve their
twin problems—their candidate for
the Presidency and the platform on
which he will stand.
There never was a more vocal
party. It is a poor day that does
not bring a speech. More words al
ready have been expended in their
assault cn the Roosevelt administra
tion than siVfice for an ordinary full
campaign—and we have nine months
to go. and yet it is undisclosed what
policies they ask the country to ac
cept. or what kind of a man they
mean to offer to carry out their non- |
existent program. '
Even Alfred E. Smith, thoir latest
a pc legist, in his "Liberty League"
tribute said nothing that has not al
ready been said in a hundred forms
by every yearning candidate from
Ex-Presidont Hover down to Sena
tor Dickinson of Iowa in inveigh
ing against the President and his
emergency program. At that it was
a good political speech, with plenty j
cf humor, sarcasm, a proper amount
of humility, and a suitable seasoning
cf disclaimer cf personal ambitions j
officeward.
He said what he came to say un
der the auspices of the duPont or-
j ganization much better than his pre
decessors on the same theme. He is
a better workman on the hustings
than any of them. He did not ex
plain how the militant Liberal of
his Gubernatorial days, and of his
Presidential candidate period came
tc be the -pokesman of the most re
actionary outfit in the picture. He
did not once refer to th« innumer
able speeches he made during the
je.'irs of his Democratic activity, in
which he took a position as vehem
ently for the things Roosevelt
■tanding on now*, as he did aaginst
them when he discussed the high
character and altruistic mo.ives of
the Liberty League the ether night.
He told us that there could be
only one Capital, Washington or
Moscow. It used to be Washington
and Wall Street in those so different
days. He assured us th« re could be
only one flag—the stars and stripes
the red flag of the Godless unicn
cf the Soviet and eloquently assured
that our country would brook no
dictator. Now. I don’t recall a Su
preme Court upsetting the plans of
Mussolini. Hitler cr Stalin, nor do I
find any of these despots patiently
seeking a method to bring his ob
jectives within the limitations set
by the court.
The Lescw Needed a Colloquial
They Are New and Smart
GIGGER SUITS
JUST RECEIVED
A wMc range of ran and it vie
vru|unU ia Plain and
Qecka. You will want one—try
■ake a selection now.—
$6.95
SPRING
Dresses
UtoIjt new skewing of Sprint
Printa. See them and y»n will
buy then—
$4.95 - $7.95
College Dept. Store
"YOUR SATISFACTION OUR AIM” *
Incidentally the question mest fre
quently asked about the speech was
why did A1 Smith make it. The
answer is obvious. The “Liberty
League" needed It. That outfit, with
its roster made up of multi-million
aires, their lawyers a nd lobbyists,
associated with every effort
hinder liberal legislation, has been
discredited from its beginning, par
ticularly in the West. The necessity
of having somebody with a popular
appeal vcuch for it was required to
dim the stain of special interest
that clouded it,—and Smith, with
his rough and ready personality, his
man-of-the-people quality, his collo
quial eloquence, and his political
grievance, was the ordanied goat,
Well, the Lobby League has had
| its party—there was more than
[billion dollars represented in
j guests—but hew far has that feast
(advanced the enterprise of stopping
.Roosevelt? There has to be ai
I position candidate, and in that
I nection there has been no
Interesting essay than that of Rob-
I ert Moses of New York.
He was the Republican candidate
for Governor last election and loads
at least one branch of his party in
, ^at state. He takes for his theme,
not who the Republican candidate
for President must be. but who he
cannot be.
• For instance, foremost on his list
of unavailables are "former leaders
whose names are indelibly associat
ed with ineptitude and defeat." That
eliminates ex-President Hoover.
Second on his ban are “old re
tionaries and standpatters. The Re
publican party has more than Its
share r*' these embittered old states
men.” Exit Wadsworth and Ogden
Mills of New York.
Third of those Mr. Moses pro
scribes are: “Village Hnmpdens
dressed un to look as much
cihle like Abraham Lincoln. The
defense of such nominations is nl-
»nvs that T.'neoln was an uncouth.
character who riovelooed
v after he got into office.”
e nintnre goes Governor
SEVEN CCC ROYS RESCUED FROM ICE FLOE
Seven half-frozen boys belonging to the Civilian Conservation Corps are all awn (top) adrift on an
ico floe in Cape Cod bay off the Massachueetta coast shortly before they were rescued by Coast
Guardsmen after a night of peril and suffering. Below le aeon the f seat Guard Cuttar Harriet
Lane jammed hard and fast in the ice after a futile attempt to reach the beyo. Theea exclusive pictures
were made by an Associated Prose photographer who flew ever the bay In a plane.
U. S. Builds Strategic Link With Panama Canal
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i distance
ports
an! the Panama canal eliminated
on its completion, the Florida canal
is considered to have the most im
portant military value to the United
States of any project that has been
launched in recent years. Plans for
the canal were worked out by army
engineers.
The photograph at top shows a
fleet of Ford V-8 trucks engaged in
hauling dirt oat of the excavation.
The view at right shows the type
of truck being used in this work.
Inset is a map showing the course
of the Florida canal.
This new waterway will be 195
miles long in its entirety. From
Jacksonville on the Atlantic side it
will follow the St John's river in
land, pass through a series of lakes
and then follow the Withlaeoochee
river to the Gulf of Mexfeo. Only
about 40 to BO miles of actual canal
will have to bo built The coat la
estimated at $146,000,000. Surface
width will bo 600 foot, tapering to
300 at the bottom with a water
depth of 85 feet
The importance of this waterway
to shipping is indicated by esti
mates that it will carry, whsa com
pleted, one-third more toaaago thaa
job, and who are already out in front
before there is a program.” Colonel
Frank Knox of Illinois will please
take notice.
“Pawns of Powerful Groups" Also
Barred
He puts the bar upon “stooges and
pawns of powerful groups," and he
adds as an example: “I present the
“Republican demagogues who spout
radicalism at every show and
away from every showdown. Every
party has them. This is not a year
for Republican New Dealers.” Sen
ator Borah will please rise and take
his hat
Mr. Mcses is sadly vague when it
comes to the positive side, but per-
spectre of the dying Boies Penrose, I haps there is a glimmer of light
directing the 1920 convention from j to where his heart lies when he
his sick bed. ordering with his last says:
breath the nomination of Warren ..jj
conservative Democrat,
whose party has left him, fits princi
ples and platform, why not take
him?”
However, AL'red E. Smith declared
his speech the other night that
candidate for any
much to have the
Harding and thus raising the
tain on an amazing melodrama in
which only death, prosperity, fool’s
luck and Calvin Ccolidge saved the
Republican party from impeachment
and lasting disgrace.” There are so
many sporadic candidates in this
classification that it's hardly worth by “ ny P * tty at
recounting them. '
Then he . I The llsuai form of abnegation un-
his respects to der these circumstances runs some
thing like this when the individual
wishes to declare himself completely
out of It: “If I am offered the nomi
nation I will decline it If, in spite
of that I am nominated, I will re
fuse to run.”
I think it was General Sherman
who in all our political history so
specifically barred himself from the
Presidential race.
RESERVE OFFICERS MEET
The Reserve Officers Organization
held a meeting Monday night and
had as their guest Major J. A. Sheri
dan, Field Instructor for the 321st
Field Artillery, Macon. Mai. Sheri
dan gave a very interesting talk
the purpose and advantage of Field
Artillery weapons.
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