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COMPELLING ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT
The proposed fifteen mill over-all amendment to be voted
upon by. the people of Georgia during the latter part of the
vear is phrased in simple language and easily understood as a
protection to the taxpayer against indiscriminate spending of
the office holder. The office holder who cannot balance-his
expenditures to meet the requirements of this act is not efficient
and should not be allowed to continue as a custodian of the
laxpeyer’s fund. For our readers’ information, we are carry*
the following proposed amendment in the editorial columns
of our paper so that they can be fullv informed before voting.
SECTION I
“Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same
that Paragraph 1, of Section 2, of Article 7, of the Constitution
of the State of Georgia be, and the same is hereby stricken
from the Constitution and the following is substituted therefor;
All taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws for
public purposes. All taxation shall be uniform upon the same
class of property subject to taxes within the territorial limits
of the authority levying taxes. Property which is subject to
taxes shall be devided into two classes, to-wit; Intangible and
tangible property.
Intangible property shall consist of money, notes, accounts,
stocks, bonds and all other rights of action, and, or representa
tive of value, but shall not include corporate franchises.
Tangible property shall include corporate franchises and all
other classes of property not embraced in the said definition of
intangible properties. No taxes in excess of five mills on each
dollar of the assessed value of such intangible properties shall
be levied for all purpiscs of the State, and the County, the Mu
nicipalities, and other governmental subdivisions of the State.
No taxes shall be levied on the tangible property by this
3tate or any governmental subdivision thereof except as
follows:
1. No taxes in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as
sessed value of tangible properties shall be levied by the coun
ties of this State for all county purposes.
2. No taxeg in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as
iessed value of tangible properties shall be levied for school
jurposes.
3. No taxes in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as
essed value of tangible properties shall be levied by a rauni
ipality of this State for all municipal purposes.
The General Assembly from time to time may provide the
method of returning, assessing, levying, and collecting of taxes
and may apportion the same to the State and the governmental
subdivisions thereof in accordance with the provisions of this
Section.
Provided that such property shall continue to be subject to
taxation for the payment of the principal and interest of any
legal indebtedness of the State and, or political subdivisions
thereof, existing as of January 1, 1936, and such bonded indebt
edness as may be hereafter legally created and validated.
Provided, further, that nothing herein shall be construed to
restrict or abridge the right of the General Assembly to assess
and, or levy any form of taxes for governmental purposes, but
the General Assembly is specifically authorized to assess and
levy such forms of taxes as it may deem proper not in conflict
herewith.”
There are two additional sections to the act. Number two mere
ly deals with submitting the amendment to the people and Num
ber three is the usual repealing clause. It is commonly understood
that Mayor Gamble is opposed to this amendment. The Savan
nah Daily Times believes that the future progress of the people
of the State of Georgia is dependent upon a prompt and equit
able adjustment of the tax structure; of a drastic reduction
downward of real estate taxes specifically and of the enactment
of this amendment that will be a compelling and compulsory
force upon those in power to reduce the cost of operations or
get out of the way and permit others to do the job correctly.
Mayor Gamble is the duly accredited representative of the tax
payers of Savannah and they have the moral and legitimate
right to know where he stands upon this most important sub
ject.
A concrete example of the necessity of the passage of this
amendment is portrayed in the city treasurer’s report for the
first quarter of this year, which shows an increase in the operat
ing payrolls of Savannah for the months of January, February
-and March of $3,687.95 against that of the same months of 1935.
would not be possible if the proper regulatory legislation
were enacted.
NATURES TERRIFIC TOLL
A touch of nature makes all the world akin. When misfor
tune visits any section of our common country, Americans, true
to every instinct of humanity never hesitate to reach across the
boundaries of states to extend the hand of help born of the
sympathetic bonds of a common brotherhood. When such mis
fortunes are brought to our doors, aud the terror of tornadoes
runs riot over our fair southland, then indeed are our sympathies
aroused and every instinct of charity awakened.
For stricken Gainsville, Ga., Tupelo, Miss., and the smaller
communities affected by the terrific visitations of storm and
fire we can but express that human sympathy felt by all. To
that great mother of human woes and suffering, the American
Red Cross, we must trust rendering the relief required. We
can only do our part by placing within her hands the means
with which to carry this vast task on, immediately, and surely.
Savannah has never failed to do her part in the past, the call
has come, she must not be found wanting NOW.
For the dead, we can only with loving hands consign their
bodies to the final resting place of all flesh. Their souls we
trust may rest with the God that gave them. To the living,
the crushed and the maimed, the widow aud the orphan, the
unfortunates of an untimely fate, must we now bend our energies
to alleviate in the fullest measure the miseries of their suffer
ing arid want. They that giveth charity are twice blessed, it
blesses those that receive, it blesses those that give. REMEM
BER THE AMERICAN RED CROSS.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE
TOO MANY HOPEFULS
PLUS RUMPUS BY RAMPAGING BORAH
WORRY G. O. P. CHIEFS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
THE REPUBLICANS are coming to
Cleveland in a fighting mood. The
fighting is among themselves.
There seems little doubt of that
now.
It Isn’t merely Borah. The Idaho
senator could be crushed ruthlessly
in the convention, that is to convene
on the banks of Lake Erie In June.
It’s the underground movements.
There are too many Republicans who
de3ire to become president.
Such seems to be the opinion out
in the field.
■ Even ‘‘unheard, of” men believe
they have a chance for the nomina
tion.
LANDON AHEAD
Landon is ahead in delegates. But
he wijl enter the convention with far
from *a, necessary majority.
Borah may have a mere handful
of delegates. But he may be able to
kill off the strongest opponents with
such withering fire as to make their
nomination inadvisable—if an elec
tion is to be won.
The Old Guard is out to "get”
Borah all along the line. It will fling
all its power and wealth into Illinois
and Ohio primaries to prevent .Borah
from walking away with delegates.
The Old Guard has some vicious look
ing machines in those states. Tam
mfny is outworn and outmoded com
pared to these midwestern Republican
machines, greased with money.
“WORSE THAN F. D. R.”?
Word undeniably has gone down
the Old Guard line that “Borah is
worse than Roosevelt.”
For one thing, he favors regulating
Big Business in favor of the small
marchant. He is for those new regu
lation bills before congress. He talks
of the “unconstitutionality” of New j
Deal measures and attacks them,
but supports business “strait-jackets”
Atlanta
GETTING THE FLU?
HOW DO I FEEL? ... I feel all
right, why do you ask? . . . You
say my face is flushed. It is always
flushed, that is my type. Florid,
you know, hypertension style, red
ears, pink cheeks. It doesn’t mean
a thing . . . You say my eyes look
bloodshot, dull? That doesn’t mean
a thing, either. Got a bit of sand
in them yesterday. Very annoying,
can’t seem to get it out . . . Pains
in my back? Yes, but that’s because
I threw a ball around the beach
yesterday. Not used to that kind
of exercise, using muscles I have
not used for years. Getting to be
an old man and have to be careful
about such things.
So you think I have the flu? . . .
Who, me? . . . No, sir. Never had
the flu, not even back there during
the flu epidemic that swept the
world in 1918. Never had it since.
Me, I have a charmed life. I walk
right through swarms of flu germs,
swallow them, digest them, live
on them, fellow! . . . They never
touch me. I fight ’em off and don’t
even know I’ve been in a fight.
By WORTH CHENEY i
WE LAUGH sometimes at the.
odd given names some people pos- j
sess. On other occasions we have,
heard given names that absolute- 1
ly intrigued us, and led us to won
der about the circumstances from
which the names were evolved.
Perhaps you, too, have met or
heard of such people with unusual
names. But have you ever met any
member of the initial clan? We
mean those people who have no
given names, merely initials which
represent nothing but the initials
themselves.
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AT THE START of a school
term in Detroit a few years ago a
teacher noticed that one student
had recorded no given names on
his record card, only the initials
of “M. C.”
Since it is customary for grade
school teachers to call their pupils
by their first names, she summon
ed the student to her desk and ques
tioned him.
He was a negro boy. When ques
tioned as to what the initials stood
for, the boy seemed surprised.
“Why,” he answered, “that is my
name—my name is M. C.”
“But are you sure?” persisted the
teacher. “They must stand for some
names you have been given. It’s odd
that you would just have initials for
a name.”
“Well, teacher,” said the boy, “it
was like this, so my mother tells
me: When I was born my father
was a porter for the Michigan Cen
tral railroad. So, not knowing what
to call me. my parents just took
the Initials of the railroad and gave
me a name.*' •
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WE HAVE heard of a man whose
fdven name is “J. P.” The initials
are not abbreviations of names,
they comprise his name.
SAVANNAH BEACH ELECTION
To Mayor Orrie Bright and his Board of Aldermen we extend
congratulations and best wishes for a continuance of the splen
did progress which has so marked the growth and improvement
of their seaside community during the past few years. The
town was indeed fortunate to have had two such tickets of out
standing citizens from which to choose officials to guide the
destines of their“town for the ensuing term. We are quite sure,
winners and losers will continue to display the same spirit of
sportsmanship shown during the day of voting, forget any dif
ference that may have arose and continue to work as a unit in
the upbuilding of Savannah Beach.
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All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
NOT—In the News
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MEMBERS OF THE INITIAL CLAN
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936
that are “worse’’—because they may
be constitutional.
Such a man is ‘ dangerous’’ in the
eyes of the Old Guard.
5 BORAH’S WEAKNESS
Borah’s weakness at present always
t has been his weakness. He is “neither
fish nor fowl.” Liberals disown him,
, conservatives fear him.
r He might win if he were on one
. side or the other.
' But where does he stand? That has
bee nthe question since his entry
into public life many years ago.
Even the Townsendites, who desire
; to have a candidate, are perplexed
over him. First they give him sup
, port, then they withdraw it, then they
. sit on the fence and wonder.
Borah’s trouble has been that—too
many people sit on the fence and
. wonder about hlpi.
That probably will lose Illinois and
Ohio for him —unless something turns
up in his favor within the next few
1 weeks. A sure to shooting liberal
1 could lick the machines.
SMOOTH TALKERS
The Republican national conven
tion will be full of smooth talkers.
They may not have radio voices,
but they will have the quiet voices
of power—and money.
Borah will shout. He probably will
say many truthful things.
The Republican bosses, however,
will interpret his utterances as aid
ing Franklin D. Roosevent, who does
not happen to be a Republican.
They’ll curse him—beneath their
breath, or in the back rooms— for
“killing off” candidates they like.
But on the convention floor, in
smooth, cold, precise tones, they plan
to nominate one of their own num
ber.
That’s the word one hears in the
midwest.
I Yet—this is what worries— there
are too many little boys standing in
front of the jam cupboard. Somebody
will do some pushing aside.
If I had any sense I’d go to bed
and stay and and NOT be such an
idiot? ... I will not! I WILL be
an idiot, if I want.. . But I tell you
I haven’t the flu. Guess I ought
to know. Because you and you and
you and YOU had the flu, because
your wife had it and your children
had it, that doesn’t’meanl have it
... I learned a long time ago that
if I stay oh my feet and keep going,
I can lick any germ that challenges
me.
The little white corpuscles get
going, whole armies of them, and
they attack and they overwhelm
and they devou. the microbes and
clean them up—and maybe I don’t
feel ) fine for a few hours, but I
wake up in the morning feeling fine
as ever . . . Every time, without
fail, that happens . . . So, you see—
no flu, and even if I did have it. it
wouldn’t make any difference, I’d
lick it ... So I’m a stubborn, dan
gerous and anti-social idiot and I
ought to be .n jail? So thats what
I get for knowing whether I’m get
ting the flu . . . or not? Come a
round and see me tomorrow —I’ll
be right here . . . perhaps.
» He received the initial-name in
.a very odd manner. When he was
(born there was the usual difficulty
! about selecting a name. But while
j his mother had no names she fa
' vored, she did like the initials “J.
P.” and that the parents would se
lect names to fit the initials later
on.
But they never came to a deci
sion about them, and he went
through school with teachers and
playmates referring to him as “J.
P.” Now a man nearing middle age
he still is known as just “J. P ”
DETECTIVE TURNS
SOLDIER TO FIND
DOPE FAG VENDORS
NEW YORK. April 8, (TP)—Detec
tive Tom Mason is back in the rank-:
of New York’s finest today with two
new arrests to his credit.
Mason was essigned to the Fort
Haml. n arrry poit when authorities 1
there complained of a fl:od of Mri
iuana cigarettes. Posing as a rookie.
Mason lived the army life, took tbe
top sergeant’s sarcas;n and tumb'ed
out of his cot each dawn at reville.
while he kept his eyes and car-' onen.
Finally, Mas?n earned the trust of
other r:ldlers whom he saw sm'king
the Marijuana cigarettes. Thev gave
him the names of two vendors of the
forbidden weed and Ma on made bis
arrests.
Armv life, says the detectivr was
greet—but it was fine to be ab’e to
sleep this morning with no baglrr
heralding the dawn.
DEAD MAN ELECTED
KEWASKUM. Wis. April 8. (TP>—
Voters in the prosDerou c litt’e village
•f Kewaskum elected a dead men to
represent them the W-shlngton
County boa~d Emil Beckhaus. win
ning candidate for the position, d’ed
just before the. voters went to the
oolls on Wisconsin’3 state, ele-tion day.
Chicago Fears Fatalities in Election
As Kelly Machine and Dr, Bundesen
Fight Renomination ot Gov. Horner
MAYOR EDWARD J. KELLY “St Patrick drove tho snakes out
“that distinguishad Irishman. of J r .i an d an «| i am goinf *«, d r j v .
By EDWIN LAHEY
Central Press Correspondent ,
CHICAGO, April B—The keeper of
Cook county’s morgue is dusting off
a number of slabs in expectation cf
some business on primary day, April
14.
The bitterest primary fight in liv
ing memory is raging in the ranks
of Chicago Democrats, due to the un
ceremonious dumping of Gov. Henry
Horner by the Cook county machine
dominated by Mayor Edward J. Kel
ly and Pat Nash, national committee
man.
Not since 1928, when the Robert E.
Crowe Republican machine was brok
en, has there been a really bloody
election in Chicago, but newspaper
editorial writers, police officials, and
sideline observers now are predicting
that the Democratic primary in April
will be Cook county’s worst.
Early Violence
Already, with several weeks still)
remaining in the campaign, there has \
been violence, including a number
of assaults, window breakings sign
smashing. Violence so far In advance
of voting day is unprecedented. Sup- :
porters of Governor Horner expect [
strong measures from him on pri- ;
mary day, to keep from being count
ed out. One thing expected from the
governor is the assignment of state
police to watch polling places.
One police captain expressed the :
private opinion today that if state
MASS. STATE POLICE
NOT TO INTERFERE
IN TANNERY STRIKES
BOSTON, April 8, (TP)-*State
police have orders to stay out of two
strike zones today.
Governor Curley gave the troopers
instructions to keep away from picket
lines at Lynn and Peabody, after
heads cf two tanneries appealed for
state police protecti-n. The tannery
officials complained that strikers
clashed with non-union workers who
tried to move hides into an open shop.
The governor, in refusing the ap
peal, said state laws pr hibit strte
p:lice interference in industrial dis
putes.
BEGINNING OF A FRIENDSHIP
A FRIENDSHIP begins quietly—
One man meets another man, or a
woman meets another woman and
not much Is said. But a little warm
ing glow is felt—Something about
that other human being appeal;. It
may be a tone of the voice, a glance
of the eye. an expression of the face
—Each feels at home.
That may be all. The two may nev
er see each other again . . . Life
Isn’t simple. We move in whirls and
tonents and two who might have
been friends touch hands and move
away from each Oiher, to the end of
the earth . . . It’s a pity, but that’s
how it happens . . . too often.
But the feint beginning of a friend
ship is not always so close to its
end.
Sometimes the little g’o wbeeomes
a blaze of understanding and a
strong irtimacy that lests to the end
of two lives.
These two who meet and recognize
their pleasant appreciation of each
ether come closer together . . . They
find, when they meet again, that
each face lights up in pleasure . . .
They talk, and they discover that
for neither is it wholly necessary to
finish his sentence. Though they
have never known each other, though
their lives have been utterly differ
ent and their ages far apart and
one might say they cuodl have “noth
ing n common,” they learn that they
have everything in common —and are
friends! their minds, their emotions,
their reactions touch and dovetail
and even talk is unnecessary.
I wrote in that first paragraph of
friendship between two men. two
women ... But this same friend
sh’p can exist between a man and a
woman. It need not lead to marriage,
it can be a precious part of mar
riage, surrounding, strengthening
love . . . Many men some women,
will say. a friendship between men
and women Is not possible ... I
know that it IS.
THE GRAB BAG
In how many statees la the gover
nor a representative of the fa;m
laborite party?
What post doss Major General E.
M. Markham hold?
What Is the capital of Brasil?
Correctly Speaking
The expression “above any” should
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police invade Chicago April 14 to
, protect the interests of Governor
Horner, bloodshed on a wide scale
will be a certainty.
A record-breaking registration con
firmed widespread opinions that pri
mary day this year will be hectic.
When all revision® in polling lists
have been made, there will be a reg
istration in Chicago of not fewer
than 1,700,000 votes, an all-time rec
ord for the city.
Whistling
Leaders of each faction, of course,
concluded publicly that the heavy
registration meant indubitably that
a wave of public sentiment was wash
ing In for them. Privately, however,
every politician is whistling in the
dark, with full knowledge that the
big registration means a jackpot that
can’t go to everybody,
j The fight between Governor Hor
ner and Mayor Kelly has become so
j bitter that as far as publicity is con
cerned. Mayor Keelly’s candidate for
1 governor, Dr, Herman N, Bundesen,
has been all but lost in a cloud of
recrimination between Horner and
, Kelly.
Mayor on Defensive
; Kelly is not a candidate, but he Is
the most busy man in the campaign,
defending himself against radio at
tacks by Governor Horner, who has
surprised even his close associates |
: with his capacity for carrying the *
fight to the enemy. 1
LAGGING EMPLOYMENT
WITH JOBLESS INCREASING ONCE MORE
BAFFLES OBSERVERS
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Pres* Staff Writee
WASHINGTON, April B—With bus
iness rapidly getting back to a high
ly satisfactory prosperity level, why
is employment lagging?
Economists do not answer this
question at all convincingly.
That business is much better there
Li no d:ubt. Income tax collections
are up about 35 per cent. The gov
ernment’s industrial figures are rosy.
Financial publications all speak of
greatly advanced earnings by the
country’s big corporations. Retail
trade is good.
It would seem as if jobs should be
available nearly normally.
Yet the American Federation of
Laker e:t mates that 12,550,000 work
ers still are idle, and the peak of un
employment was only approximately
13,000.000.
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FALSE EXPLANATION?
The stock explanation of unem
ployment is the mechanization in re
sponsible for unemployment; that is
to say, one man now can produce as
much as half a dozen or more men
formerly, thus pitching the extra half
dozen or more Into the discard.
It is not an explanation, of course,
which holds water.
It Is the theory of over-production.
And, as Congressman Geeorge Hud
dleston, the house of representatives’
premier economist, repeatedly has
pointed out, there can be no such
thing as over-production until every
one has what he wants up to a sur
feit—and there are precious few folk
in the Lnited States who would not
consume more, indefinitely, if they
could pay for it.
MECHANIZATION RESULTS
Mechanization does. Indeed, dislo
cate employment.
Senator James * Couzens aptly
brought this out in a report he made
a few years ago, when the mechan
ization process was younger than It
is today.
What he emphasized was that a
man who has been trained to a trade,
and finds his job jerked fr;m under
him by hit particular trade’s mech
anization, finds small consolation in
the prospect that some new occupa
tlon presently will offer an orrxrtu
nity for re-employment. At best he
will have to re-learn a calling. At
worst, if he is old, he is a derelict
permanently. 1
Such a situation is hard in indl-
not be used when “more than any’*
Is meant. ,
Words of Wisdom
Great men are not always wise.—
Job. , •
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day usually
are strong in their determination to |
further the well-being of this fam
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Kelly has been placed in a pecu
liarly unfortunate defense position by
Governor Homer's strategy. The gov
ernor hammers on this point:
“The issue is between the Demo
cratic voters in the primary and
‘Boss' Kelly."
Dr. Bundesen, who after all is Gov
ernor Horner’s opposition on the bal
lot, never is mentioned. Mayor Kelly
himself has been forced to answer
these attacks of attrition with the
declaration, now becoming lame, that
“the people elected me, I’m no boss.”
The Battleground
The Horner forces privately hold
no fear of losing to the Kelly-Nash
machine downstate, and are concen
trating their attack in Chicago, where
they hope to win a number of wards.
The greater part of the city’s 50
wards are failry well wired for the
local organization, but in at least
five o fthem contests are so bitter
that it is anybody’s fight.
Mayor Kelly’s deefnse suffered at
his own hands St. Patrick’s day, in
the opinion of many observers here.
He referred at a dinner in St. Louis
to that "distinguished Irishman, Mr.
O’Horner.”
Governor Horner immediately seized
on the implication of racial hatred
inherent in the alleged remark, and
termed Kelly a “boa constrictor.” The
governor followed with the vitriolic
1 blast that “St. Patrick drove the
> snakes cut of Ireland, and I’m going
• to drive ‘Boss’ Kelly out of Illinois.”
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vidual cases, but it is subject to grad
ual readjustment. There are no signs
of one.
MANUFACTURER’S VIEW
President C. M. Chaster o fthe Na
tional Association of Manufacturers
makes the assertion that readjust
ment is retarded by capital’s unwill
ingness to Invest in the machinery
for society’s new needh, while in a
state of uncertainty as to the politi
cal-economic future.
“We stand,” says Prseident Ches
ter, “on the threshold of air-condi
tioning, television, transportation
through air, twentieth century hous
ing.
“But we are asked to subject our
selves and our workers and our proc
esses to the ideas of men who never
have produced anything and who
cannot point to a single enterprise
under their control competently and
productively managed.’’
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WHAT ABOUT RAILROADS?
He did not mention the private in
dustries which have been terribly
bungled.
For example, the railroads?
However, it may be true that prop
erly regulated enterprise (rather than
capital, which seems to be stupid,
more than anything) is handicapped
by uncertainty.
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A SLOW PROCESS
But why does re-employment lag
behind business recovery?
Major Ralph H. Case, a competent
economist, who grew up on the west
ern plains, puts it:
“After a very arid season, when
the well has dried up, and then a wet
season follows, does that well begin
to flow again immediately? No. It
is a slow r process of infiltration.”
Dictators can’t be so tough. We’ve
never heard of them punishnig the
cameramen who take those awful pic
tures of them.
Many a congressman probably re
calls the good old days when his
constituents were satisfied with noth
ing more than the annual package
of seeds.
WEALTHY EUROPEAN offers $lO,-
000 for a sure cure for insomnia.
Don’t try for the prize. We are sure
to win it. having sent him the names
of a half-dozen or so radio programs.
ilies and friends. They generally
. possess good intellect and a strong
j will which often leads them to posi
■ tions of prominence.
Answers to Foregoing Questions
1. One, Governor Floyd B. Olson,
of Minnesota.
j 2. Chief of U: S. army engineers.
3. Rio De Janeiro.
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My New
James Aswelll|
NEW YORK, April B—Rando.
musing: Out late and into the dawn
ing not long ago, I meditated that >
in at least one department the
horse has not been replace ... I
mean the beasts that haul the milk
delivery wagons . . . The vehicles
are rubber tired, in the modern
craze to make New York whisper
silent, but they still plod their ac
customed ways—more economical
ly than any gasoline buggy could
. . . The gas bill for stopping and •
st rting would be enormous and
no flivver has been trained yet to
follow its master from door to
door . . .
Vignette: two stray cats frisking ,
about in front of the old Society for
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
rescue home in 23rd Street ...
And the human flotsam a stone’s
throw away, lounging on the steps
of the municipal free bath house .
Portentous thought: in* Greater
New York and its satellite cities 1
there are more people than in all \
of Canada, than in all of Argentina '
... Richard S tee re, dean of the old
time profession of humidor keepers,
now guarding the tobacco stores of
an-uppity Fifth Avenue shop, re- »
veals that the generation of expen.
sive cigar smokers has almost van
ished . . . J. P. Morgan, the elder.
Judge Gary,* John W. “Reta Mil
lion" Gates, James R. Keene and
his son Foxhall, used to drop in and •
order a thousand dollars worth of
smokes in a morning and think
nothing of it . . . The most costly
cigar of those times was a Partega,
retailing at $6 each. . . .
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Escudero, the classical Spanish
dancer, looks his role less than any
of the hoofing Dons ... At the
Club Gaucho, where he nightly
terps for a sieek coterie of Castilian
magniflcoes, he slouches in a chair
between numbers hair uncombed,
dress careless, eyes abstracted . . .
Escudero, who is the Astaire of the
bullfight acres, is grooming a 21-
year-old nephew to continue his
familys dancing tradition . . . The
mannequins of the Paris dress
shops consider Barbara Hutton’s
feet the most beautiful of any
American woman’s ... I like the
mellow hope expressed by George
Ade, that the regimenters of the
future will leave young men of
talent and ability “elbow room to
move around and achieve their
proper reward. I got mine” . . .
* * *
If I had a few days in New York
and I wanted to see some plays, I’d
pick them in this order, knowing
what I do: “First Lady”, “Boy
Meets Girl”, "End of Summer,”
“Call It A Day” and “Ethan Frome”
. . That underscores the enter
tainment angle, which is precisely
what should be underscored . . .
Unfortunately all playwrights fail
to give it the proper emphasis . . .
Os course, if it were a fete and a
musical were to be chosen. I’d grab
a pair for the “Follies” . . . Comes
word of how the stage, doorman
pick up a little extra change: back
stage phone numbers are never list
ed in the directory and a stage door
guardian who has a notebook cram,
med with them can earn an honest
penny dispensing the digits to in
terested performers who have
friends in other productions who
they want to meet at Dave’s, Leon
and Eddie’s or “21”. . .
Sunday night, once the slumpiest
session for the dawn bistros, has
been turned into one of the crowd
’em-in-with-a-shoehorn evenings for
night club headwaiters . . . Sherman
Billingsley started the movement at
his who_ho-de-ho salcn, the Stork
Club, by raffling off bottles of
champagne and, on special occa
sions, automobiles.
YOU’RE TELLING ME
By WILLIAM RITT
JUST BECAUSE something wears
a long, white beard and supports »
supply of wrinkles it doesn’t indi
cate membership in a Townsend Old
Age Pension club. It may be just a
radio gag coming back from the
studio.
* * •
Sometimes it pays to put all.
the eggs into one basket. Easter
Rabbit gets away with it every
year.
* * *
Oklahoma congressman Is taking
teits and plans a movie career. Natu
rally all his films will be talkies.,
• * *
Why mar people fail of suc
cess is because they have dis
covered that Easy street is at the
top of the hill and there 1$
no taxi service up.
* * *
Money may not bring peace of
mind but at least one can worry in
comfort.
* * *
Another difference between
nine justices of the supreme
court and a baseball nine is that
the court is made up of nine
pitchers and no catchers.
* * *
Many a man has come to the con
clusion that the world is a weary and
gloomy place in which to live when,
in truth, it was just a bad sandwich
from the night before.
BUILDING WAVE SEEN AS i
AS BIGGEST AID TO
PROSPERITY’S RETURN
PHILADELPHIA, April B—(TP)
The chairman of the committee for
economic recovery, A. S. Freed, says
prosperity can come only on a build
ing wave.
In an address before the engineers’
club of Philadelphia, Freed urged in
dustrial leaders to help launch a vast
program of home building. So far,
he said, better housing moves have
been a mess. He said that every ef
fort thus far seems to have made
the housing campaign only a failure.
Freed ur~ed that financiers and
industrialists should interest them
selves in a national drive to furnish
decent homes for American people.
He stressed that the program would
pay big dividends.
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