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MAYOR GAMBLE S LEMON
Tn this busy world a man has a perfect right to his opinions.
In expressing such opinions, it is his privilege, prerogative,
profundity and propensity to voice his strictly .personal senti
ments. When he does this as an individual, however fulsome
he may be, however disgusting his sentimentally may affect
us, it becomes no concern of ours. Ordinarily we would waste
neither time nor space in informing Georgians how far some
men will go in their efforts to court favor and further politi
cal ambitions.
However, when a paid servant of the people of Savannah,
whether by design or request we know not, writes a letter seek
ing to convey therein the thoughts and sentiments of the white
people of this community, it becomes a matter of serious con
cern, not alone to us, but to every individual white man and
woman throughout the confines of evedy southern home and
city. It is just such indidious propaganda as is used to inculcate
in the minds of some, serious thoughts of radical and social
equality.
Our news column carried a letter from Mayor Gamble to Miss
Gay Shepperson that will find favorable responsive reaction in
many places remote from, BUT NOT IN SAVANNAH. We
have no fight to make on this negro citizen or the peculiar place
which he is presumed to fill. If the WPA or any other activity
of the government desires to give him preference, that is their
business. We do, however, make it our business to denounce,
what is apparently the use of official position to express senti
ments that may be construed as those of the white citizens of
this community.
Will Mayor Gamble explain to the white people of Savannah
and of the State of Georgia just why this letter was written?
Will he inform them if the act was one of personal sentiment
and responsibility? Do you not know, Mayor Gamble, the dan
gers that lie lurking in just such misuse of the exalted position
vou hold BY VIRTUE OF THE VOTES OF THE WHITE
CITIZENS OF SAVANNAH? The two races have abided in
peace, if not in plenty, for many years. Do not act that will
_ awaken thoughts of social equality.
MANUFACTURING ENTERPRISES
While the lives of all the people are favorably affected, it is
of particular interest to the financier, the merchant, and the
real estate interest of a community that successful manufactur
ing enterprises be domiliced in their midst. Progress is gen
erally measured by the yardstick of increasing pay-rolls. Upon
wages disbursed, whether to common or skilled labor, to the
clerk or wage earner in every channel of trade, must all depend.
With advantags possessed by a few cities of her size, or
larger. Savannah occupies an enviable position as a natural
market for the manufacture and distribution of practically
k every commodity in common use. If we do not blow our own
1 horn, tell the world of the many superior advantages we pos
sess, others are not going to do so for us. In these times, as
the unceasing battle for manufacturing supremacy is being
waged, we cannot afford to sit idly by and listen to the tramp
of marching legions on the road of progress. We must bestir
ourselves actively and vigilantly.
We must drive home to the mind of every Savannahian, par
ticularly that large class, with valuable investment already
here, and able to invest more, that the greatest asset a city pos
sesses toward influencing outside capital to come in, is its own
confidence in its locality, and a willingness to join hands in
investing its own funds in meritorious enterprises to be located
in that locality.
We should strive to attract such concerns as will build for
permanency. We should imbue every man and woman in the
community with the spirit, all things being equal, to patronize
those products made in Savannah. We should, whole heartedly,
put our shoulder to the wheel of industry in Savannah, that its
hum may be heard echoing throughout the length and breadth
of the land. Lack of local interest must never occasion the
failure of a Savannah enterprise. Vice-President Marshall
once said, “What America needs most is a GOOD FIVE CENT
CIGAR.’* Were he living today, he would indeed be happy and
contented in the smoking of a “Cortez Special,” made right
here in Savannah by the Le Roy Myers Company. If you do
not think this is correct, TRY ONE. You will not only be gett
ing a good cigar, you are keeping your money at home, increas
ing employment, and thereby benefitting the entire community.
THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
The voice of the people is no longer silent. In store, in mart,
on the street corners and where two or more people are wont to
gather, expressions, not of the kindlist nature are heard and
open criticism made of the flagrant disregard being made by
the political ring now in control, and of the rights and privileges
of the ordinary citizen. The City Hall seems to have lost all
sense of reason in its apparent mad rush to serve the interests
of private corporations.
We have appealed to Mavor Gamble as also to the business
judgement for a FIVE CENT BUS FARE FOR THE CITIZENS
OF SAVANNAH or at least give this privilege to the people
FOR A TRIAL PERIOD OF ONE YEAR. Almost without
warning, like a bolt out the blue, the people were informed that
the attorney, just whose or by whom selected no one knows was
in Atlanta to obtain permission FOR A HIGHER FARE THAN
THE ONE SUGGESTED, and, FOR A SHORTER TRIAL
PERIOD.
Juat what contract was entered into between the City of Sav
vannah and the Savannah Electric Company that they so speedily
reached an agreement? It there a written agreement? If so,
PUBLISH IT. Was a part of the agreement, ORAL or WRIT
TEN, THAT THE COMFORT AND CONVENIENCE of PRIV
ATE AUTOMOBILE OWNERS would be disregarded that the
new bus lines would have less trouble? THE LARGER BUSSES
of the through bus lines, as also the bus between the city and the
railroad terminals have been operating for years around Johnson
idquare and the parked automobiles have never stopped them.
WHY THE SUDDEN CHANGE?
Again, the memory of the oldest inhabitant cannot recall any
th® rounds of the squares on Aber-
MRS. BOURG NOW SEEKS
SUPPORT OF CHILD NOW
FROM WEALTHY SPOUSE
CHICAGO, April 7 (TP)—Pretty
Mrs. Juanita Bourg, who recently
won custody of her 15-months old
son from his millionaire grand
father, George W. Bourg, has re
turned to court with another suit
against the wealthy manufacturer.
Mrs. Bourg wants her estranged
husband and bls millionaire father
!o supply the money to support the
child. Said she: "I don't want the
luxury we once had. I just want
enough to give my son all the ad
vantages that we owe him.”
OIL MAN’S PHONE CALL
TO JAPAN’S EMPEROR
HELPS TO EASE MIND
CLEVELAND, April 7 (TP)
Abrabnm Plckus. of an oil
company, became worried about the
Japan-se-Russian border clashes. He
couldn’t sleep well. So he placed a
long distance call to Hiros! Salto,
Japanese Ambasscdor to the United
States.
Pickus refused to talk to any un
derlings. He demanded to talk with
the ambassador. Mr. Salto was put on
the wire. We and Plckus chatted for
about seven minutes. Mr. Saito assur
ed Mr. Pickus that there would be
no war, and while border clashes
might continue, difficulties would be
Ironed out.
Mr. Pickus went to bed in a
peaceful frame of mind.
HUNGARIAN PREMIER
MAKES READY FOR DUEL
WITH PEASANT’S LEADER
BUDAPEST. April 7—(TP)— Pre
mier Julius Goemboes is practicing
up on his swordsmanship today.
The premier has been challenged
to a duel by the leader of the Hun
garian peasant party, Tibor Eck
hardt, who says Goemboes insulted
him during a heated parliamentary
debate.
Although both Goemboes and Eck
hardt have appointed their seconds,
few expect the duel to take place.
The Hungarian premier was chal
lenged several times during the past
year but the squabbles always were
patched up before the premier squar
ed off against the challenger.
CONGRESS TIED UP
UNTIL NEAR NATIONAL CONVENTION TIME
ON NEW TAX BILL
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
WORKING OUT a "satisfactory”
new tax bill is expected to take
congress till June I—at least, that
is tha word received back home.
That will give senators and repre
sentatives baerly time to get to the
respective political conventions in
June.
The new tax bill is not proving so
simple as had been indicated. Any
thing that will not harm anybody
or that will not be vigorously pro
tested. will not raise sufficient re
venue.
Furthermore, liberals threaten
to force action on taxing the "mid
die class” much higher The ad
ministration shies in fright at this
• • •
POWER WAR
The federal power commission Is
getting some well-calculated pub
licity in a report it has made to
the senate.
This report asserts that efforts of
litigants to prevent the construc
tion, extension or operation of pub
licly owned electrical generating
distributing systems have cost
nearly 13 million dollars and have
caused operating delays of 289
years. 8 months and 22 days.
The survey goes back to 1888.
Some energetic utilities company
now may try to hire the commis
sion’s publicity man.
•
INVESTIGATORS
“Why doesn’t the government get
‘big’ investigators when it bucks big
corporations like American Tele
phone & Telegraph?” we’re asked.
Want to know why?
’Way back some corporations
got a law passed that no counsel
for an investigating committee
might receive more than S3OO a
month. The corporations believed
that would stultify Investigations.
But when a man like Ferdinand
Pecora comes at a sacrifice to grill
the bankers and when heads of
committees themselves are good
lawyers or good Innvestigators, cor
porations become entangled any
way.
Yet it Is a David against a Goli
ath when a 3300-a-month investigat
or appears against the flve-billion
dollar A. T. & T. Young Samuel
Becker, however, may find Goliath’s
vulnerable spot.
• • •
CIVILIZATION
The Daily Sun. of Goose Creek.
Tex., helping to expose present farm
conditions, tells of meins taken 1n
quelling the "mutiny” of 17 convicts
corn street Why the snap action in cutting away the corners?
At Na hose expense was this work done? Was the treasury of
the City of Savannah called upon to pav anv pa n t of the tax
payers money for this? And, FOR WHOSE PARTICULAR
BENEFIT WAS THIS DONE? These are just a few pointed
questions the people are asking. Will Mayor Gamble in his
next publicity article inform the people?
Possibly, the economy which American agricultu r e needs is
not so much one of plenty or of scarcity, about which a pro
longed argument continues, but an economy of diversification.
Surpluses of major commercial crops would aiwomatically go
down if the rural people of thes country set into produce their
own feeds and foods.
—Charlotte Observer
Automobiles keep on trying to beat trains to grade crossings.
For that matter, oodles of people, young and old, seem to be
under the delusion that they can win from the slot machines. '
—Oharlotte Observer
LANDON’S JOYHOOD DAYS IN OHIO RECALLED
Marietta Residents Tell How Presidential Possibility Impressed Them As Youth
- .j < b °y hood home at Marietta, O.
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I Gov. Alf M. Landon reflects upon his bovhood t
at the Harlem farm of the Texas
prison system.
Three members of the Texas pri
son board, one of them a woman,
visited the prison farm and, in the
presence of General Manager Jack
Ellington, interviewed prisoners.
The prisoners said the guards a
bused them.
Three days later farm officials
reported that the 17 men question
ed had “rebellvl.” They had re
fused to return to the barracks aft
er working in the fields—tbe offi
cial report said.
So what occurred?
The 17 men who had complained
to the prison board were strung
up, and each was given 20 lashes.
Superintendent Ellington was
quoted as saying: “It was too big
a job for one man to dish up the
340 lashes. They (farm officials)
had to call in ‘some extra help to
give all those whippings.”
Whippings have been frequent,
but the prison board recently vot
ed to abolish them—as soon as
funds were available for the con
struction of solitary oenfinement
cells.
In some other states, when pub
lic opinion forced the abandonment
of the whip (or is it still in use?)
such "humane” punishment as
Several deaths under torture call
sweat boxes, etc., were instituted,
ed attention to that.
Many of the men sentenced to
farms and chain gangs are not
criminals at all, but are vagrants,
victims of an economic tragedy.
ITALY’S ENIGMA
"How long can Italy last finan
cially?” That is the question asked
now in world financial circles.
Sanctions and the cost of war
are straining the country to the ut
most.
The recent rationalization of fac
tories was a necessity—if produc
tion of armaments was to continue.
This nationalization has been mis
takenly called socialization. It is
nothing of the sort.
Private profits have not been a
bolished. But labor has been forc’d
• to work at whatever wage the gov
ernment decrees.
Private capital stUl owns every
thing—under government control.
i Labor, however, has lost its last
say.
Dictator Mussolini said tbe nian
was adopted because the nat’on
would be called on to face another
i war.
Europe asks —will the Italian peo
i pie follow into another war?
By William T. LEWIS
Central Press Correspondent
MARIETTA, 0., April 7 Alfred
Mossman Landon, now governor of
Kansas and possible presidential nom
inee, is an Ohioan, too. That may
count in the Cleveland convention in
June. Although Landon was born in
Middlesex, Pa., his mother, Mrs. An
ne Mossinan Landon, brougnt him
when only two weeas oid io Elba,
Washington county, Ohio.
in isna me lamuy hveu in a hou-se
now owned by L. L. Dutton. Tnis
was the Hrst home the governor oi
Kansas rememoers. DuLtun telis oi
nodding little Alf in ins arms and
.ater piaymg with him on tne iioox
o/ inc home while he and the boy s
lather aiscussea the tnen booming
oil business.
John M. Landon, Alt’s father, came
to hioa from r-ennsylvuma in lotto
to operate some leases lor the Lmon
oil company. He was taaen into tne
Masonic loage in 1392, Jan. 14, at
Lloa, and touay is a mem oar in good
standing ot the Macksouig (o; ma
sonic order.
OU Was Bringing Wealth <
Few recall incidents of Ad Lan
don’s early days in and around Elba.
It was a time of excitement. Oil was
pouring untold wealth into tne lapo
ox people wno previously had been
satisiied with the bate necessities of
life.
When Alf was about six years old
the family moved to Marietta, 'iheie
are many Marietta residents who re
member Alf. It was here that tne
educational foundation of his Lie
was laia; where he atteadeo graae
schools and Marietta academy.
Ihme in Marietta rememoer him
as a "quiet, caieiul boy, unassuming
out positive in his convictions, even
in his eaiiy years, with an inaerent
sense of values, absolutely honest ami
possescing an uncanny Knowledge oi
numan nature.”
xu Manet cd, the family first lived
at Hannar, now Known us tne wes»
bide, nere Au avtcuuea scaosx. xae
omldrng was constructed on tne sr.e
of fort Harmar, the fust ua t v»u
btates army lore estab west oi
me Allegneny mountains.
Ole Swimmin Ole
Later tire i-miiy <,o the ead
siue oi the city, InL’d street, ana aU
tne c;d la..u bvreet senou,
max now is used, as a service s»awu-i
.or autonuoaes.
ne iemueu to swim in the Muskin
gum liver, aiiu many tmiec he anu
ms companions, ne»er tm._im.d oi
tue now a<uiwS' swain.... g
slut, Axoiick.u in me water at
' xiie ixocKS,” about a ia..e Uvt«m o.
Manetta. do riot swm: at me
—ucko any um*e. 'me c.ty has pro
v.ueu a since Ail uaaa-ns
ouyrioou days.
one of tae many interesting facui
about au’s lire in Ma.xttta is mat
moot oi the boys with m he as
sociated later becarre suo?*;sful men.
Feihaps the one who remc-mers
him best is Warren E. Burns, com
metcial manager c* the Mononga
hela West Pern P-bllc Service com
pany, himself - ’-ell knevm and well
liked oil producer and former Repub
lican representative to the general
assembly of Ohio.
A Bev’s Club
“Boys who formed friendshios, like
oth" s of tbet t'me, also organized a
club,” Burns recalls. “Who started
cur club cr w' -t we called it I can
net remember. But I well remember
some of its members.
“The ouletest one. es I remember,
was Alf Landon. I don't mean that
he wasn’t friendly. He was. He was
I’kable and easy to But he
just didn’t talk a lot unless he had
something to say.”
Frank P. Wheeler, retired school
teacher, chairman of the Washington
county board of elections, and a
staunch Democrat, remembers Lan
don well. It was Professor Wheeler
who taught Tendon “readin’ and
writin’ and ’riihmetlc.” excent it was
"’■eadinfr, WTiting .arithmetic, geogra
phv and history.”
recalls:
"He e quiet, studious boy. who
worked in school an, l played
hard outside. One of his charert’r
’st’es. that I remember most vlvid’y,
that he W”' »lv—— and clean.
It’s queer how vou will remember
some narticu’ar t’ ' ” about a boy af
ter <-q men” b<»ve passed.
"His grad’s? They vzere good.
Abov« average. I ran’t remember
whether he was at the head of his
class. Under ordinary circumstances
it would be very easy to check' the
school records, except that records
of Alf Landon’s class, along with
others, were destroyed during
a flood.”
Regular at Sunday School
The boy attended Sunday school
regularly at the First Methodist
church in Marietta, and his father
and mother were both regular church
goers.
Sept. 16,1902, ‘’’e boy registered at
Marietta academy. Here he studied
a’gebra, Latin, German, history and
English. The academy, then, was a
prenaratary seb”! for Marietta col
lege. The building then used for
academy work, now is known as An
drews hall, and is used for Marietta
college classroom work. College of
ficials custodians of academy rec
ords, say that Landon’s record was
"very satisfactory.”
Alt’s life in the academy
was a ouiet on« ’“tie mention is
made of him in campus pv. .lications.
However, only a few academy students
r”’!’-'--' any from Ma-i
--etta r’Pesre W'ner classmen who pub
lished The Olio and The Mariet-
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THE GRAB BAG
Which great Civil war command
er once was relieved of his com
mand because of violation of mili
tary rules of conduct?
Where is Singapore situated?
What nationality was Ole Bull
and for what accomplishment is he
remembered?
Words of Wisdom
The sense ot humor has other
tana, both of which are still being
printed.
First Mention
The first time Landon was men
tioned in a school publication was in
November, 1903, issue of The Olio:
‘ The Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity has
pledged Roeser, McGrew, Landon,
Grass and Kenned" 1 ’ The Olio stat
ed.
The next time The Olio mentioned
Landon was in the following issue,
December, 1903. “Alfred Landon will
be in school again next term and
thinks he will be able to play foot
ball next fall,” The Olio asserted.
But Alfred Landon was not “able to
play football next fall." His family
moved away from Marietta and he
entered the University of Kansas in
September, 1904, according to Mari
etta aca<''~”r records.
Landon’s edi , ' , "‘’’'’nal career in Ma
rietta academy was end°d. But Al
fred Mossman Landon returned
years later —to obtain a degree at
Marietta. As governor of Kansas
(after “makinr his mark” in oil in
Cklehoma and K?' ? was award
ed r,n honorary LLD. degree by Ma
rietta coUege in 1034.
things to do than to make Itself
conspicuous in the act of laughter.
—Alice Meynell.
Correctly Speaking—
Us° "I had rather’’ instead of “I
would rather” to express the elem
ent of choice.
Todays Horoscope
Persons born on this day are
usually analytic and far.saeing. I
They are more apt to look for the
Mj Nt’zt’
Zy w- W
James Asvvelt*
NEW YORK, April 7 Not much
Grade-A jewelry in evidence among
the dinky ladies of the current era.
Oh, a few $19,969 bracelets and pea
sized diamonds, but nothing to com
pare with the Nineties, when Lillian
Russell regularly carried around more
genuine sparklers than the average
heiress today totes in a lifetime.
They own s he rocks, lam told, but
keep them at home, like old coin*.
For dress occasions they prefer paste.
It is safer, and it arouses less vio
lent envy among the less fortunate.
Emeralds are the thing nowadays,
if you have a few hundred thousand
in our pocket bouncing around loose.
Marlene Dietrich and Joan Crawford
have impressive collections, but wear
them very sparingly in public. Ethel
Merman has a drawerful too.
But Eugenia Clair Smith, the cof
fee heiress who rates pretty close
to the Barbara Hutton plane of
wealth, has the finest collection of
green gems in the country. Only a
few Indian Rajahs outshine her in
this department. The other afternoon
she toumed up at the Savoy Plaza
for an informal party and I happen
ed to be in the lobby when an ex
tra squad of house detectives were
ordered in a hurry.
Mrs. Smith is, at the moment, more
interested in race horses than in
emeralds. She and Bing Crosby have
gone 50-50 in the purchase of a race
track 100 miles south of Hollywood.
♦ ♦ ♦
I intervieweed Ruby Hallida, “the
most perfect mannequin in the world,”
recently for a screed in another place.
The highest-paid clothes exhibitor in
Paris, she was the late Patou’s ideal
model—and she was bom in Memphis,
Tennessee.
The fact didn’t seem to fit into
my article, so T omitted it: Miss Hal
liday, although she has onl lived in
Paris during the past eight or nine
years speaks with a pronounced ac
cent. Taxi drivers and doormen rat
tle on to her in French, if they know
how (and a surprlsoing number of
them do) and sometimes this ear
had to listen sharp to follow the
drift.
I had expected something like:
‘ How y’all do? Ah showly am glaid
to be home, mister!”
♦ ♦ ♦
No first night in recent years
drew the mob of celebrites you could
have spotted when the Winter Gar
den celebrated its 25th anniversary.
Theaters in New York take on very
personal characteristics and, for those
who have placed in them, stay alive
with memories not even the little
gray home in the west could dupli
cate.
“The Ziegfeld Follies” is playing
the Winter Garden nbw. After the
performance the whole audience was
invited to remain and skoal the
house, with its romantic associations.
A quick look-around spotted Wil
lie and Eugene Howard, Phil Baker,
Bert Lahr, Irene Bordoni, Sheila
Barrett, Frankie Fay. Jimmy Savo,
Norma Terris, Kitty Gordon, Benny
Fields, Charlotte Greenwood, Odette
Myrtil and the Fairbanks Twins. One
by one—and in the case of the Fair
banks Twins and the Howard Broth
ers. two by two—these mounted the
stage and gave a flash of the acts
they had made famous under that
reof.
reasons why anything occurs than
to interest themselves in the actual
occurrence.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant.
2. In the Straits Settlement, at
th? tip of southeastern Asia, north
east of Sumatra, which separates
the China sea and the Indian ocean.
3. Ole Bull was Norwegian. He is
remembered as one of the greatest
violinists of modern times.