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MAYOR GAMBLE’S FINANCIAL REPORT.
We have consistently called for a DETAILED FINANCIAL
REPORT of the operations of city government. Certainly the
>ublished report which we have before us fails to give that de
nied information which the people are desirous of having. It
iems to be a smoke screen behind which is hidden the real cost
if useless activitis. A camouflage of reckless spending of the
axpayers monies on items is not entirely in keeping with that
conomy consistent with present day conditions.
According to this report, under the heading, “7 fiscellane-
< us,” there was expended the tidy sum of ONE HUND IED AND
SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGH
TY-NINE DOLLARS ($176,489.00). A notation advises that
this amount was spent for, “pensions, city market, abattoir,
electrical department, recreation, auditorium and stadium, air
”ort, publicity and entertainment, Armstrong Junior College,
etc.”
The people may not be concerned over the cost of “etc.,”
I ut, they are interested and entitled to know just how much was
spent on publicity? And to whom this money was paid? Should
tliey not be informed how, and where the city entertains? As
i'iey pay the bills, should they not be told who is being enter
l.lined, and for what purpose? Was the people’s money spent
ler entertainment in Savannah, or was it lavishly handed out
in Washington and New York?
Are the people not entitled to know the amount of the bill
I’.iey were called on to pay for the Armstrong Junior College?
'ot that they would object in the least to this splendid institu
-1 on. That is beside the question. Tell them what it cost to
< perate, how much income it has brought in, so they may
! am in actual dollars and cents and so exercise common judg
iv.ent as to its value? And so should each and every item under
ae heading, “Miscellaneous,” be explained in detail.
Then we have jumbled together, “Industrial Development,
ort Authority, Industrial Commission, Freight Bureau, etc.”
Each and every one of these activities may have a part in city
overnment. There was spent for them, ONE HUNDRED AND
! ORTY-TWO THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND NINE-
I V-ONE DOLLARS ($142,491.00). The people want to know
,‘ast how much was spent on each and every one of them. It is
• our plain duty Mr. Mayor to give them an itemized statement.
A report of plain facts is all they ask for. Are they not en
titled to it?
VOTING AND CITIZENSHIP.
According to published report, there are, in Chatham Coun
nearly seven thousand (7,000) voters who have failed to pay
heir poll tax, and who, if they do not act promptly, will be dis
qualified to cast a ballot in the coming election.
THE TIME IS SHORT.
The last day to register for the state election is May 2nd.
or participation in municipal affairs voters have until July,
lomentus issues must be decided in the state election, issues
ipon which improvement in city government, if improvement is
iesired or to be had.
This delinquency in registration is the largest in the his
ory of Chatham County. Over forty (40) per cent, of a people
ailing to place themselves in position to assert their independ
nce, unmindful of the duty imposed by virtue of citizenship,
areless or indifferent to conditions that must affect, if not con
rol, their daily lives, is a sad commentary upon the prevailing
ufluences which seem to have a strangle hold upon the com
nunity.
This delinquent list is a most happy omen to those that are
ver on their guard, and constantly fight to control. Rest
□red the professional politician, the members of the ring and
he ringsters, have all been faithfully looked after. Their poll
axes have been paid; they are registered, and they will vote. It
s a matter of grave importance that every citizen pay his poll
ax and register, at once. This is the only means you have of
isserting your power, correcting existing evils in government,
•ind reducing the burden of taxes.
You cannot exercise the right of franchise unless you are
registered. You cannot vote, unless you are registered. Signs
are plentiful that, before the end of the year every citizen will
give praise for the precious privilege of participating in placing
in power those who would guide the destinies of his nation,
state, or city.
Speaking for the great public which we would serve, as did
Spartacus to the Romans, “IF YE ARE CATTLE, STAND
AND LIKE OXEN, WAIT FOR THE BUTCHER’S KNIFE. IF
YE ARE MEN, FOLLOW MEN, FOLLOW ME.” A word to
the wise: Register that you may vote.
PEACE HATH ITS GLORIES
To those who experience the horrors of war and come through
inscratched to win the plaudits of a grateful nation this is writ
en. Returing heroes from successful campaigns, find some ex
'liliration, excitement and recompense in tumultuous shouting of
he crowds for the suffering and torture of mind and body en
lured in the trenches and on the battlefield. There is too, even
n the possibility of death, some consolation in the thought that
he nation never forgets those who make sacrifices in her name.
L’hat is war.
There are glories to be won in peace no less that in war. How
ever, the peace heroes and heroines do not receive the plaudits of
he crowd nor the recognition of duty done at the sacrifice of
tealth, even life. We have in mind, and desire to pay a short trib
te to those splendid types of Americans who have always an
wered every call and demand made upon them namely THE
>OCTORS, NURSES, and AMERICAN RED CROSS WORK
iRS OF AMERICA.
Through flood, fire and famine, they face dangers unafraid,
ighting hunger and cold, placing a merciful hand to alleviate
>ain here and ministering to the necessities of starvation there,
feroic acts are performed silently, without thought of renown or
iward, working constantly and steadily so that human suffer
ig and miseries may be removed. No doubt many such cases
:.ave occured during the past few weeks that will never find
• icir way to the public prints. All honor to these heroes and
loroines of
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, April 15 (TP)—
Out Os The Mailbag: “Dear Sir: I
would not give 2 cents for the is
land of Manhattan. I do not sei
ow you stand to stay there just
to write it up. It is a town of gyps
and thieves.
“I have been in your city twice.
One time a man stole my wife’s
expensive coat when she went a
way and left it for only about 8
minutes across a in Grand
Central Station. The same trip 1
was cheated out of $42 by some
men running a game of chance in
6th Avenue near Radio City. They
were gone when I went back the
next day. I also got a cinder in
my eye and it cost me all my sol.
dier’s bonus in hospital bills.
“All so-called night clubs and
theatre are hold-up places and
ought not to be tolerated in a de
cent city. What you don’t say in
your writings is that it costs a man
sls or S2O to go to these places
once. No value rec’d. I am told that
you writers get paid by famous peo
ple for putting their names in the
paper. Is this true? Os course, you
won’t answer yes or no as you have
not the nerve to print this letter.
“New York makes me sick, so
stuck on itself and not worth 2
cents. Sincerely, (please do not
use name. I am ashamed I was in
New York.”
• • *
And from Piedmont, California,
ocmes the following contrastingly
acute letter:
“Was glad for the few words of
commendation you gave the pro
duction, ‘Ethan Frome.’ I’ve not
seen the play, but have always con
sidered the book the Great Amer,
lean Tragedy. It made a profound
Impression upon me. As you say.
it should be refreshing to one and
all to witness a play (or read a
book) which was written for the
worth of its human emotions rather
than to disseminate propaganda of
one sort or another.
“But what have you to say a
bout that extraordinary super-mid
victorian offering called “The Old
Maid’? A writing friend and my
self saw it a month or so ago in
San Francisco, and were hard put
to it to decide if it were intended
to be burlesque.
“Oh, well, we knew, of course,
that it was Intended to be taken
seriously, but really . . .
“Os course, you saw it. Maybe
you commented on it at the time.
I don’t recall. But to get If off my
chest want to say that of all the
insane, purposeless, monotonous,
real, ridiculous plays I’ve ever seen,
it takes the Grand Prix. How could
it possibly have been a success on
Broadway? (if it was). I kept
thinking how perfect it would be if
offered in the mood of The Drunk
ard and that type of play which
was in the mode recently.
“If you have a word in its de.
Tense, or an explanation for its ex
istence at all, or—mayhap—an a
greeing remark, maybe you’ll pub
lish it. I don’t wish my name to
appear inconnection with the sub
ject. however.”
The only defense I can think of
offhand is that at least one play
must be written every year suit
able for the Pulitzer Prize, which
“The Old Maid” copped last sea.
son. Os course, that’s pretty flimsy
when it is recalled that at least two
first rate plays have won the ac
colade.
As for the success of plays like
“The Old Maid” in New York, I
"an think of but one fair explana
tion. "The Old Maid” was a "safe”
nlay; that is, visiting famines could
‘ake the kids to see it, and residents
booked seats for it in advance, an
ticipating the visit of sninster Aunt
Agatha. It wasn’t really the worst
nlay ever written; it appealed res
pectably.
Strange as it seems, that last is
often a box-office asset in a town
where most offerings are plenty sul.
phuric.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
WILL F. D. R. TURN RIGHT
- AS CONSERVATIVES NOW BEGIN TO BELIEVE
IF HE IS RE-ELECTED?
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Frees Staff 'Writer
WASHINGTON, April 15—Assum
ing, for the sake of argument, that
President Roosevelt will be re-elect
ed next November, one hears a deal
of wondering as to what his second
term’s policies will be like.
His current one is what may be
described as an emergency term.
He entered on it with the admis
sion that he probably would have to
undertake a considerable number of
experiments, and we’ve had them.
Next, it would seem that, having
learned by experience, his aim will
be to put permanency into the New
Deal.
Besides, if re-elected, he presum
ably will not count on being re-re
elected, and consequently will be
rreer to work for what he sincerely
thinks best than during his Initial
White House tenancy. In other words,
politicians take it for granted that,
being human, he has been more or
less influenced thus far by consid
erations of his personal 1936 chances,
but that, once re-elected, he will feel
at liberty to proceed as he sees fit.
* * *
GO TO RIGHT?
Perhaps it is altogether a wrong
guess, but there is an unmistakable
idea among conservatives that he
will turn their way. given -four more
years in the executive mansion.
I cannot ascertain that it is any
thing more than a "hunch.’’
Nevertheless, I have talked with
not a few legislators and others in
pretty close touch with such centers
as Wall Street, and there is general
agreement among them that the fi
nancial district thinks more favorably
of "P. D.” than it did.
Maybe that is natuial, business
undoubtedly having improved, and
business sentiment, in Improving
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936
Hauptmann, Even Though Dead, Figures Decisively
In New Jersev’s Hotlv-Contested Political Battles
HOFFMAN DETERMINED
TO GAIN NOMINATION
FOR U. S. SENATORSHIP
By JACK YARMOV
Central Press Correspondent
TRENTON, N. J., April 15—Brun
Richard Hauptmann is dead, bu
even dead he may play a dccisiv.
part in the forthcoming primary
and election an New Jersey.
Two months ago it was a certain
ty that Gov. Harold G. Hoffman
New Jersey’s Republican chief ex
ecutive, would have little opposi
tion in obtaining the G. O. P
nomination for the United State
Senate. His sole opponent appeare.
to be the incumbent, Warren Bar
aour, millionaire senator who bare
ly defeated an unknown Democrat
ic opponent civ years ago.
Likewise, two months ago it was
an odds.on conclusion that David
Wllentz, the state’s Democratic at-,
torney general who was catapulted I
into the national limelight by vir-’
ture of his adroit command of the
prosecution in the Hauptmann case,
would be the senatorial candidate
of his party. Wilentz, at that time,
ahd no opposition for the covert
ed post.
Hague’s Announcement
Approximately a month ago, the
political situation took a surprising
turn. State Senator William H.
Smathers of Atlantic county, had
been groomed for the Democratic
gubernatorial nomination. Smath
ers-for.Governor clubs were, in
fact, being organized throughout
the state. Suddenly Mayor Frank
Hague of Jersey City and the Dem.
ocratic leader of New Jersey, issu
ed a statewide release that the
party had selected Senator Smath
ers as the organization candidate
for the United States senatorial
nomination.
Almost immediately after Ha
gue’s release Smathers issued a
statement, believed to be binding
on the party, that Wilentz would
make the ideal “organization” nom
inee for governor. Wilentz, at this
time, seems to be virtually assured
of that nomination, though he has
been silent concerning the senator
ial fight
Political observers were stunned,
narticularly after the innumerable
measures that had been taken to
nrepare Smathers and Wilentz for
governor and senator, respectively.
Hague is said to be making his
moves with a “national eye”. It is
believed in New Jersey that Hague
may become the successor to Post
master General James A. Farley if
"•nd when the latter resigns his cab
inet post to devote himself entirely
‘0 the chairmanship of the national
?amnaign.
The G. O. P. ranks, meanwhile,
have been torn asunder with in.
ternal strife due to four factors:
One, the governor’s efforts in the
POEMS THAT LIVE
PRAISE
Dear, they are praising your beauty.
The grass and the sky;
The sky in a silence of wonder,
The grass in a sigh.
I too would sing for your praising.
Dearest, had I
Speech as the whispering grass,
Or the silen tsky.
These have an art for the praising
Beauty so high.
Sweet, you are praised in a silence.
Sung in a sigh.
—Seumas O’Sullivan.
ICEBERGS PERIL SHIPS
BOSTON. April 15— (TP) All
ships plying the North Atlantic be
tween Europe and America were
warned today to bandon the northern
route and follow what is known as
track "B”, or the southern route.
Icebergs have been sighted in the
North Atlantic and warnings are be
ing broadcast by the International
ice patrol boats.
times, always being against "rocking
the boat.”
Not that I think business regards
the present president as a safe pilot
for a long cruise, but it seems willing
to run ricks with him for another
four years, for the sake of profit in
the meantime.
« • •
LABOR PRO-F. D. R.
Labor, however, has not benefited
appreciably by the bulge in business.
Employment has increased only a lit
tle and wages have advanced scarce
ly any.
Yet. curiously, the organized work
ers appear to be as pro-Rooseveltian
as ever. The American Federation
of Labor, while it does not take po
litical sides, at least is not anti-
Rooseveltlan. John L. Lewis’ lineup,
led by the American Mine Workers,
is militantly pro-Rooseveltian. And
the Lewis organization will cast mil
lions of votes.
Briefly, I think that business is in
fluenced by currently increasing divi
dends, labor by the president’s prom
ises and his enchanting radio voice.
* * •
WINS BOTH SIDES?
There is a hardboiled conservative
element which believes him to be es
sentially a constitution underminer.
There is a radical element which
Assesses him as only a pseudo liberal.
And there are hereditary Demo
crats and Republicans who swear for
or against him on the line ot party
designations, no matter what they
may mean.
But generally the question is:
"Has he sold himself?— alike to
liberals and conservatives?”
Unquestionably he "sold” himself
to the liberals "from the jump.”
Now apparently he Is "selling’’
himself to the conservatives, without
losing the liberals.
Which readies political gcod man
agement.
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The Rev. Lester Clee, of __ Hoffman, who is Smathers, of Atlantic City, || pushed by Demo- |?
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nominee. rial nomination. tori al nomination. ' [torial nomination.
Hauptmann case; two, his whip
of patronage which he has unspar
ingly used to obtain complete con
trol of the party; three, his fight
with the Rev. Lester Clee, state
senator and Republican leader of
Essex county and, incidentally, the
outstanding G. O. P. candidate for
the gubernatorial nomination; and
four, the governor’s past and pres
ent insistence in favor of a sales
tax.
Governor Has Upper Hand
Republican county leaders of the
various party strongholds have giv
en up their blattle against the gov
ernor, realizing that without pat
ronage their own organization could
not compete with the WPA ma.
chines now ~apidly gaining control
in a majority of the counties. Even
Clee has been reported to have
"forgot minor differences” in an
effort to bolster party solidarity and
keep a Republican governor in th°
capitol rather than permit Wilen’.z
to slide in, as it has been quoted
“on the strength of a murder cas»/’
Senator Barbour, however, is de
termined to defeat Hoffman and se
cure the nomination again. He is
relying mainly on what he beli ves
to be the unpopularity gained by
the governor because of his efforts
in the Hauptmann case. Walter E.
Edge, former governor, senator, and
ambassador to France, also is in
terested in the nomination. Edge,
like Barbour, is a wealthy man,
and has the added distinction of
having the president of the Stand
ard Oil Company of New Jersey
as his brother-ln.law. Edge un
questionably would make a stiff
in the primaries should he
Inally tosa ms hat int«. ;h> ring.
Edge I? mentioned, als’\ is per-
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manent chairman of the National
Rrpubi’oan convention in Cleveland
one time thought he might be nom
inated for vice president.
Hoffman Has Edge
In spite of the intense opposition
In New Jersey, Hoffman stands the
best chance of winning the senator,
ial nomination because of the pat
ronage he controls. Regardless of
the dozens of rumors that have been
circulated concerning his intense
interest in the Hauptmann case,
All Os Us
Big, Black Cigar
I SAW HIM. With my own eyes
I did ... A small boy. about 13
j’ears old .sitting on a curb, smok
ing that big, black CIGAR!
He trisd to “ditch” it as I went
I mean he thought of dltch
it. but changed his mind. Stuck
1 the corner of his mouth, took
puff, blew out the smoke,
the cigar between his fingers
■ : n exaggerated way. looked sus
;c:ously at me, pretended NOT to
ee me.
And I pretended not to see him,
n nid no more attention to him than
f he’d been a grown man having a
moke. I was casual, he was of the
ssence of dignity . . . But at the
'st instant, just as I was passing
"yond the edge of his glance, I saw
him grin . . . You see, he couldn’t
'reep it up. He knew he was just a
small boy, smoking one of his fa
ther’s cigars. He knew I knew he
wasn’t a regular smoker. He knew
I knew it was the first cigar he
had ever smoked, and that he was
Hoffman has won thousands of ad
vocates to his banner, people who
believe Hauptmann to have been
innocent of at least being alone
in the Lindbergh kidnaping. On the
other hand, thousands nave been
turned from the man who won the
governorship in a “Democratic”
year (1934) when the odds were
heavily against him.
Thus, Hauptmann, dead, still is a
decisive factor in New Jersey pol
itics.
By MARSHAL MASLIN
more than half afraid it would make
him sick . . . Just a small boy pre
tending to be bigger, tougher, old
er than he was, and wondering
how he could get away with it.
Did I stop and have a talk with
him? . . . Not I . . . Did I stop and
warn him in nice-old-gentleman
fashion against the dangers of small
boys smoking big cigars? ... No
sir, I didn’t. Should I have done
so? . . . No, I don’t think so ... It
was just a stunt, and I knew it.
It was part of the business of be
ing a small boy, adventurous and
curious and daring, in this odd
world. Part of growing up and
learning how things are, what
things are like . . . That BIG
BLACK CIGAR, for him. was jus'
a symbol of the future. It stoof
for growing older, becoming a man
taking on responsibilities, doing r
job, being somebody, accomplishin
something, making mistakes an< ! ■
paying the price of them . . . Wh
thinks I should have interfered? !
TodayistheDay
* By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright 1936 Central Press As
sociation, Inc.)
Wednesday, April 15; Arbor Day
in Utah. Morning stars: Saturn,
Jupiter, Venus. Evening stars: Mer
cury, Mars, Neptune, Uranus.
SCANNING THE SKIES: This Is
one of the four days of the year
(others: June 14, Sept. 1, Dec. 25)
when the Sun reaches the meridian
at 12 noon clock-time. On all other
days clocks and watches are eltheir
ahead of or behind the sun.
* * *
Notable Nativities I
James J. Jeffries, b, 1875, one
time heavyweight champion pug- 1
ilist . . . Stanley Bruce, b, 1883,
Australian statesman .. . Henry O. ,
Havemyer, b, 1876, sugar magnate
. . . Lita Grey Chaplin, b, 1908, sec
ond wife of the comedian and |
ress.
* * *
Today’s Yesterdays ** fl
April 15, 1676 —Martha Skavrons
ka was born in Lithuania, daughter '
of a peasant who sold her to a
soldier as a slave. She became
Catharine I, empress and sole ruler
of Russia at 46, though she could
neither read nor write Russian. The
last Romanoffs were descended
from her.
* • *
APRIL 15, 1768—A mob destroy
ed the London house in which the
first clinic for the vaccination of
persons against smallpox was open
ed believing the operators to be
dangerous, irreligious radicals.
« • *
APRIL 15, 1814—John Lathrop
Motley was born in Dorchester,
Mass. He was the American who
wrote the best histories there are
of Holland, "The Rise of the Dutch
Republic” and “The History of the
United Netherlands”, after he had
been a failure as a novelist of the
American scene.
“The Rise of the Dutch Republic”,
1500 pages, is a literary classic, one
of the great books of all time.
Motley spent ten years in writing
it.
• • •
50 YEARS AGO TODAY—The
world’s first successful public elec
trict trolley system began operation
in Montgomery, Alabama. It was
the product of 40. year-old Charles
J. Van Depoele, a Belgian engineer.
It no longer operates, but lines hav
ing replaced it. Van Depoele’s first
electric cars were circus attractions
that attracted immense, amazed
throngs.
• * •
APRIL 15, 1912—The “unsink
able” Titanic, largest ship in the
world, sank, and 1,635 lives were
lost.
One of the survivors, Charles Her
bert Lighttoller has been in five
other shipwrecks without suffering
injury—the unsinkable Mr. Light
toller!
There were numerous persons
who went down with the Titanic,
and yet survived. They were forced
up to the surface by compressed air
and managed to grasp pieces of
wreckage which kept them afloat
until saved.
♦ • ♦
First World War Day-By.Day
20 YEARS AGO TODAY—The
big war news in U. S papers came
from Mexico. Forces of Villa and
Pershing met again in a skirmish
battle. It was just a skirmish be
cause Villa was playing cat and
mouse with his pursuers, with no
i tention of facing them in battle
f he could help it. Napoleon in Rus.
da never faced more negative op
position than Pershing in Mexico.
Is Col. Frank Tomkins, who was
of the cavalry, relates:
“We campaigned in a wilderness
vhlch, save wild cattle and corn,
iad been stripped of all food sup-
?li©s. At all times we were sur
. bounded by our enemies who were
■ posing as friends; and we made
(our own roads and laid our own
1 ‘elegraph lines, both of which we
. uarded for several hundred miles
. >f their length.”
j Requests made to natives for in_
or mation regarding the trail of
Villa were answered either by
evasions or by replies unquestion
ably false and intended to deceive
and delay. Native guides would dis
appear after they had led the
marchers to the edge of a cliff
or to the border of an impassable
stream. At one point the men were
quickly led from the depths of a
hot valley to a height of 3,000 feet
above sea level, where as one sol
dier described it ,our canteens were
full of frozen water and our whis
kers of icicles.”
To be Continued
It’s A Fact
He was a practical reformed:
the clay-pigeon for target.shooting
was invented by Henry Bergh,
founder of the Society for Preven
tion of Cruelty to Animals.
The church organ was evolved
from the instrument about which
they kid the Scotch so much: the
bagpipe
Bill Norney, only 39, of Greens
boro, N. C., has been sentenced to
the road gang sixty-one times!
Empress Catherine of Russia
couldn’t speak a word of Russian;
King George I of England couldn’t
speak a word of English; and Em
peror Charlemagne of the French
couldn’t read or write any language.
Seats for the first concert of Jen.
ny Lind in America sold for as
high as $225!
That Harvard professor who
recently made news by suggesting
that women will be able to bear
children without the aid of men in
the future is over 100 years behind
Auguste Comte, the French philos
opher. with the forecast.
Herman Pomeranz wrote a book
in which every word begins with
the letter C.
She—After all, darling, we have
only one life to live.
He—With prices the way they are
it's a lucky thing that one is our
limit.