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•■ifr* A MASTER POLITICIAN.
Political observers of Georgia forsee in the stragetic ma
neuvers of the State Democratic Executive Committee which
fixed SIO,OOO as the entrance fee for the Georgia presidential
primary and June 3rd as the voting day, conclusive evidence
that Governor Talmadge will not, nor had he any intentions of
entering a primary race with President Roosevelt.
Had the Governor intended offering for the presidency, it
would not have been difficult for him to use his influence with
the committee to fix the entrance fee at the customary amount of
SI,OOO. It is not believed that the Democratic party would pay
an entrance fee of SIO,OOO for their candidate to enter a primary
in the “Solid South.”
The editorial columns of this paper, some time ago, made
H an outright assertion that there would be no presidential pri
mary in Georgia. In the face of the results of the executive com
mittee in Atlanta yesterday, this paper has no reason to retract
or amend that assertion.
3 There are many well posted political forecasters who in
terpret the action of the executive committee as a definite in
, dication that Governor Talmadge will run against Senator Dick
Russell in the state primary. The state’s chief executive, how
ever, has not yet committed himself and is not expected to do
so until July 4th.
An interesting account of the meeting yesterday is supplied
by a special correspondent of the Daily Times who attended the
session. According to this correspondent:
“The resolution proposed by W. S. Mann of Mcßae, Ga.,
staunch supporter of Governor Talmadge, provided a SIO,OOO
entrance fee for all candidates and that the State Democratic
Executive Committee shall ratify the votes.
“The nominee will be selected on the county unit basis, the
candidate receiving the highest number of county unit votes be
ing declared the nominee for Georgia and entitled to the vote
of Georgia delegates at the Democratic National Convention.
“A substitute resolution by Tate Wright, of Athens, calling
for a primary May sth with a SI,OOO entrance fee and a state
convention to select delegates was voted down by the conveu
tion, 83 to 11.
“The Mann resolution was adopted by acclamation. Wright’s
resolution was proposed on behalf of the Roosevelt supporters,
and passage of the Mann resolution was considered a victory
for Talmadge, even though the state committee gave into the
Roosevelt supporters in calling the primary.
“The Mann resolution provides that if only one candidate
qualifies there will be no primary.
“The Wright resolution was voted down over vigorous pro
test of Judge Newt Morris, of Marietta, who claimed the en
trance fee was too high, and assailed the Talmadge forces for
* railroading.’
“This is just an effort to penalize the only candidate who
will be in the race,” Judge Morris said. Immediately after
passing the primary resolution the convention adopted resolu
tions assailing the federal government for withholding federal
highway funds and using ‘federal grand juries to persecute the
political opponents.’
“As the convention opened the heretofore all-Talmadge
committee was split into two separate and distinct camps.
“Following passage of the primary resolution it was ru
mored around the convention that Governor Talmadge would
not be a candidate in the primary.”
Chairman Hugh Howell made the following comment after
passage of the resolution:
“The resolution providing for a preferential primary which
you have passed is fair to any candidate who wants to conduct
an honest race in Georgia. It should be satisfactory to every
person who might wish to qualify. There is no trickery or sub
terfuge involved.
■ “So far as the state committee is concerned, I am happy
to say that for the past four years not one time has it ever
dodged, twisted or squirmed, but it has always come out openly
and above board and treated all candidates and would-be can
didates fairly.
“It is not providing for a secret primary without notice to
any one or with only one candidate on the ticket. It is provid
ing for a primary to be under practically the same rules un
der which the last presidential primary was held.
“I have said before and I say now that the enemies of Tal
madge didn’t want this committee to hold a primary. Now that
we have ordered a primary, I seriously doubt whether those who
have hollered loudest for one will enter their candidate.”
j THE COASTAL HIGHWAY.
f Herschel V. Jenkins, Chatham County, and the entire
territory served by the Coastal Highway are to be congratu
lated upon the splendid progress reported looking toward the
improvement of this important artery of travel. While improv
ing, it may be well to build with the future in mind. As none
dreamed of the terrific load these roads were going to carry
when first constructed, with the experience gained, and the
knowledge that the automobile will be some years yet in gain
ing its peak or saturation point, we should calculate accordingly.
In Florida, as in many other states where new roads are be
ing constructed or contemplated, only two lane roads are being
considered. ’They cost more, but they serve best, not only now,
but for many years to come. A two-lane road, with a parkway
in the center, makes not only for safety but for beauty. An
added charm is lent to highway travel by removing the gloom
of sameness that gradually palls upon the sight and makes tire
some and nerve-wracking what would otherwise be, as always
intended, a trip for pleasure.
GOLDWYN GAINING MAILMAN IN TROUBLE
NEW YORK, April 16 (TP)—The CLEVELAND, April 16—(TP)
cinema producer, Samuel Goldwyn, 3Q long years Chris Zimmerman
is "resttaf easily” at Doctor’s Hos- hU mall route without a
pital today The movie clef’s phy- b ~ * _ . ~ ,_ r
Bician, Dr. Meeker, said Goldwyn’s complaint. Today, his spotless ser
conditlou is not dangerous. Goldwyn vice record is marre dby charges o
was rughed to the hospital directly thievery. Postal Inspectors ordered
from tha Acqultania. when It dock- Zimmerman's arrest on charges of i
ed from Europe. He Is suffering stealing S4OO from letters. Zimemr{
from intestinal toxemia. naan maintains he is innocent.
Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Michigan’s Presidential Possibility
—WORLD AT A GLANCE
BETTER HOUSING PLAN
TO MAKE UP FOR ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE
URGED BY A. F. OF L.
BY LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
NOT MUCH PUBLICITY has been
given to a recent proposal of the
American Federation of Labor. It
urges a permanent federal housing
authority, of non-partisan makeup.
Appropriations then would be asked
for housing for persons in lower
brackets. The houses would be built
by workers in the building trades at
prevailing wages.
Representative Henry Ellenbogen
of Pittsburgh, Pa., has such a hous
ing bill in the House. It probably
will be smothered. Senator Robert F.
Wagner of New York, with a bill less
comprehensive, cannot get it through
the Senate,
The lobby against federal housing
is one of the most powerful in Wash
ington.
Os the millions spent by the Roose
velt administration, less than I per
cent! has gone toward housing for
persons of the lowest brackets.
* * •
SHARECROPPERS
A scandal of the first water faces
the administration. Evicted sharecrop
pers in Arkansas have been left to
starve by WPA and Rural Resettle
ment officials locally. Washington
stresses “local officials.” It says it Is
powerless to force the local officials to
act.
Now, charges are being made that
the local officials were appointed in
deference to Senator Joseph T. Rob
inson, majority leader in the Senate,
and Washington fears to antagonize
them. The senator, however, is re
ported to have urged the local offi
cials to give relief.
Why Washington should fear Sena
tor Robinson or the local officials, no
body knows. Arkansas is a strongly
Democratic state, and Robinson is
far weaker in Arkansas than Presi
dent Roosevelt.
The tenants charge they were
evicted from plantations because they
joined the Southern Tenant Farmers’
Union. They add, to make everything
appear “regular,” officials offered
them places on other plantations
upon “starvation conditions.” They
say the plantations offered are so
poor little could be raised. They in
sisted upon being reinstated at orig- ■
inal plantations. They then were
listed as “refusing to work’ ’and de
nied food and relief.
It is dangerous to defend evicted
sharecroppers or to be a witness for
them. Nightriders invaded a home
and killed one witness before his
wife.
A conference was called the other
day in Washington by Gardner Jack
son, chairman of the National Com
mittee on Rural Social Planning, to
try to effect a means of forcing local
officials to be just.
“Whether Washington knows It or
not,” said Mr. Jackson, “local AAA
directors, appointed from national
headquarters, have tolerated abuses
whjfh the government should be the
first to condemn.”
The abuses, however, are as noth
ing to a farm program that does not
take into full account the actual
status of tenant farmers and share
croppers. Nothing really can be ac
complished until these virtual serfs
are freed economically—and that is a
tremendous problem.
• * •
CENTRALIZATION
Talk against centralization of gov
ernment in Washington has died
down the last few weeks.
There is a reason the floods and
the dust storms (again).
No single state will be able to solve
this tremendous problem, local plead
ers are saying.
But the federal government cannot
solve it either, unless it is given tre
mendous powers, and unless it disre
gards some few private interests for
the benefit of the whole.
Scientists fear that any further de
lay may do two things.
(1) Bring on still mor edevastatlng
floods.
(2) Turn an Immense part of
America into a desert.
* • •
LATEST CHARGE
The latest charge against large
power firms especially these in
which Andrew Mellon reputedly is
interested —Is that they have been In
} strumental in blocking flood control
in the watersheds above Pittsburgh.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936
If sc, they have been caught in
their own meshes—fer the damage to
power plants in the Pittsburgh dis
trict has been large.
The allegation is that the power
corporations fight government flood
control dams because they generate
electric power. And such power
would undersail private power
• • •
RELIEF
No state insists upon states’ rights
when it comes to relief.
The pressure from flood-stricken
states —among the most powerful in
the Union—for relief indicates an in
creasingly large permanent federal
burden.
When such large industrial states
as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir
ginia demand a comprehensive fed
eral relief program—and make those
demands prior to a national election,
as now—you may be sure there will
be relief. Whether there will be a
far-seeing program is another matter.
Contract
Bridge
PARTNER’S DUTY
AN IMPORTANT duty of partner
often Is disregarded. When partner
has made a bid, which presumably
shows at least one defensive trick,
If he cannot win a trick, and in case
he expects one or the other opponent
will ruff the first or second lead of
his toples suit, so that even if you
hold top honors therein you cannot
expect to win more than a single
trick, he must rebld In case you make
a business double of an opposing
contract. The following hand shows
how important such a rebld is at
times.
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4QJ9B 6 5 3 2
! 4' 9 v N ♦A Q J
¥ K 7 5 3 T—JS — 10 2
♦ A K J y V 8 6
10X6 2\> ' ♦Q9 8 4
+ 4 il 1 3
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4K 6 4
¥ A Q J 10 4 -2
♦ 6
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Bidding went: South, 1-Heart;
West, 2-Diamonds; North, 3-Clubs;
East, 3-Spades; South, 4-Clubs, that
• certainly was a concession to partner,
[ when such powerful hearts were held;
1 West, 4-Diamonds; North, 5-Clubs;
! East, 5-Diamon4>; South, doubled;
North, 6Clubs, which East doubled,
' with both sides vulnerable. South
j showed considerable annoyance at
1 his partner’s rebid, even if nothing
' was actually said. As a matter of
' fact, West can make 5-Diamonds.
5 Unless South Is carful about his play
1 0-odd Is a possible diamond score.
For example; supp>ose the hand to
be played at diamonds; suppose North
leads his lone heart and South leads
back the Q of that suit, thinging to
1 give partner a ruff. Having no trumps
the K of hearts will win for West.
1 One of dummy’s honors can be estab
lished in spades, enabling West to
! discard his lone club, so ra trick over
■ his doubled contract.
An odd coincidence will be noted
’• In each suit bid except clubs, each
- suit is headed by 100 honors, and
■ each misses the K. As East did not
’ like to make an opening lead from
his major spade tenace, he led the
■ fourth-best card of his partner’s dia
monds. North ruffed. Dummy was put
« In lead with the 10 of clubs. The
Ace of hearts was led, followed by the
r Q. West did not cover. North let go
a spade. When the J of hearts was
led West covered with the K. North
ruffed. That left dummy’s hearts es
! tablished. Dummy was entered with
i the K of club 6, and the declarer dis
i carded hi* three remaining spades
upon dummy’s slam. Os course that
trick over doubled contrary was very
nice, on his contract,
I
My New-York
By
James/Asweli
NEW YORK, April 16—Byway:
It la amazing that a section like
Bowery Bay, on Long Island in the
shadow of Manhattan, should have
resisted the march of electric ice
boxes and commuters’ hives. I
stumbled on it the other afternoon
—a scant 8 miles from the Empire
State Building—and I thought I
was in suburban New York of half
a century ago.
Even the real estate men have,
through a miracle, overlooked this
forgotten strip of small, thriving
farms upon which the past’s heavy
hand Is everywhere both oppressive
and invigorating. To the east a
cross a stretch of mucky water
lies Riker’s Island. There the dump
heaps smoulder day and night and
you can almost see the big rats
scurrying. It Is an evil vista.
And yet here around you are
green, productive farms. No hint
of indoor plumbing anywhere. The
homes aro bleak and weathered.
Ten acres, 20 acres, 50 acres. It is
incredible in a neighborhood which
for 20 years has talked in terms of
lots and front footage.
The Riker estate itself Is a tum
bledown metropolitan Bleak House.
Its shuttered windows and rotting
porches are eloquent of vanished
grandeur. For Bowery Bay, even
such a little while ago as 15 years,
was a watering place as prosperous
as Coney Island on a June day and
faintly fashionable Into the bar
gain. The ruins of an old casino and
dance pavilion sleep under the gray.
April skies. The pieces they played
here were "Dardenella’’ and “The
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Japanese Sandman.” It is an Itgl
, ian neigborhood and in the neit
apartments and 2_family houses Si?*)
yards away the dark-eyed girls
who danced and made merry here
are plump and dreamless matrons
with this year’s baby in their arms.
From a skeleton pier that the waves
have gnawed black juts a sign:
“Moonlight Excursion Tonight.”
But only ghost ships call at the
silent Wharves. The water where
thousands frolicked is too polluted
now from a city’s waste to tempt
even the bravest urchin.
On a hill an Italian farmer tills
his acres oblivious to the onpress
ing city. He takes no note of the
raw earth turned by workers build
ing a broad, new parkway that will
open up this last virgin farmland
in the very squeeze of the metrop
olis. The real estate promoters will
soon have their kiosks up.
Below the ridge where the farms
are lies. Municipal Airport Number
Two. A vast expanse of muddy
ground behind steel fences. The
hangars are crowded and the air
above hums with planes. A 1927
tri-motored transport rusts in the
open. On the fuselage is the in
scription: "Chicago Flyer.” A lim.
ousine pulls up before the main
office and three swarthy gentlemen
in afternoon rig alight. I make in-,
quiries and am told that they are
emissaries of the King of Kings,
ibuying old planes for the Ethiopian
front.
And so I climb the hill, plod
through rich, dep loam and knock
on the door of a tatterdejnalion
farmhouse on the ridge. A pleasant
lady in the middle years greets me.
I mention the For Sale sign down
by the gate.
"Come in, Signor," she says, with
the mellow musics of Italy in her
voice and accent. "I know nothing
of business, : Signor. Did you not
know todav is a holiday, a fiesta?
There is much time for talk of bus
iness on another day. My man will
You’re Telling
Me?
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PERHAPS THE REASON so
man people are boastful is because
it’s too hard to act modest with
out others suspecting It’s just an
act.
* • *
A politician is not necessar
ily a liberal just because he
is liberal with other people’s
money.
* • *
Cuba is modeling her new con
gress after ours, which is the first
inkling many Americans have that
we have- a model congress.
* * •
Which interests Americans
most —protected lives for small
children or a good drink for
themselves? Oh, yeah. Then
why is it taking the several
states longer to ratify the child
labor amendment than it did
to o. k. prohibition repeal?
* • •
The wheels of progress would be
a greater boon to humanity if so
many of us weren’t always being
caught in them.
•• * •
After talking to . many, voters
we still have no idea just whose
favorite these Favorite Sons
are.
talk it with you. But enter now and
join us in a glass of wine.”
I drove back to town pinching
myself. This, certainly, had not
transpired five minutes’ ride from
Jackson Heights and in full view
of the Chrysler spire. • :
Today is the Day
® By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Presa Association'^
BY CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation.)
Thursday, April 16; De Diego*
Birthday, a holiday in Puerto Rico.
Zodiac sign: Arlee. Moon: Last quar
ter/ * „ . ,
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Notable Nativities.
Charles * Spencer Chaplin, bom
1889, of British parents. He Is sttH
a British citizen . . . Lily Pons, bom
1904, French-bom opera and cinema
singer, who is becoming an Ameri
can citizen . . . Frederick Van
Nuys, bom 1874, senator from Indi
ana . . . Samuel Davis Mcßeynolds,
chairman of House Relations Com
born 1872, chairman of House Fore
ign Relations Committee . . . Grace
Livingston Hill, bom 1865, American
novelist . . . William "Billy Deßeck,
born 1890, cartoonist —Barney Google,
etc. . . . Jacob S. Coxey, born 1854,
famed leader of "Ooxey’s Army” in
the ’Eighties.
• • •
Today’s Yestersay*.
April 16, 1681 —Heirs of Sir Georgs
Carteret, the late lord proprietor as
East Jersey, put the province up for
sale in England—for approximately
$25,000! There were no takers.
150 Years Ago Today—" The Con
trast,” by Royal 1 Tyler, the first
successful stage play written by an
American had its premiere in New
York City.
The figurative and symbolic Unci*
Sam of today had its inception in
the character Jonathan in this play,
April 16, 1818—Willingness to kill
another person won Abraham Thorn*
ton legal freedom from punishment
for murder.
Thornton was the last person t*
benefit from an ancient English le
gal right known as "Appel of Bat
tle.” Under the law, which dated ta
ancient times and was rarely invoked,
a man charged with murder might
fight with the accuser, thereby U,
"establish” proof of his guilt or inno
cence.
Thornton was suspected of having
violated and killed a young girl,
Mary Ashford, and in the court pro
ceedings in England, challenged the
girl’s brother to battle. The brother
refused the challenge, and Thornton
was discharged. Soon afterward the
law, which had been resorted to in
the American colonies in several in
stances, was struck from the statutes.
* * *
First World War Day-By-Day
20 Years Ago Today—Working with
extraordinary cohesion, a Russian in
fantry division and a naval squadron
attacked and captured Trebizond, a
key Black Sea port and shook the
German hold. It was the first time
that Russian maritime and military
forces had worked together in two
years of war with complete success.
For this, officers sent from Brit
ain and France to reorganize the Rus
sian war machine were partly respon
sible. They had been fighting for two
years, but the Russian army, largest
in the world, still needed to learn
ABC's of warfare.
* • •
It's True.
The American Constitution Is
phrased like the Treaty of the Five
Nations (Mohawks, Senecas, Cftion
dagas, Oneidas and Cayugas), adopt
ed in 1520.
In the last 34 centuries, less than
34 years have been peaceful! In the
last eight centuries, France has been
involved In 197 wars.
H. B. May, M. D„ of Stockdale,
Texas, sends us another Interesting
letter on snakes for which we thank
him. He says:
"A few days ago the writer report
ed that two men here had witnessed
the phenomena of snakes swallowing
their young, in both instances the
rattlesnake. Since that report I have
Interviewed two other men who said
they had seen the same thing and in
one instance two men witnessed the
incident at the same time. In each
instance the men stated that the
mother snake made a peculiar noise
and the baby snakes lost no time In
going right into her mouth. All of
these four men are personally and In
timately known to the writer and
none of them are in the habit of
drinking to excess, so, therefore, If
men are to believe their eyes, it must
be a fact.
“When we take Into account th*
fact that a very small snake caR
swallow a relative large object, thf
feat would net be out of the rang*
of possibility.
“Another very curious thing ha*
been reported here in regard to th*
so-called chicken snake, from thf
fact that they catch small chickens
and steal eggs from the nests, is that
the chicken snakes have been know*
to swallow an ordinary porcelain doof
knob, no doubt thinking that it was
an egg. The door knobs are placed
in the nest as nest eggs and when
Mr. Snake comes along and there are
no real eggs in the nest he just put*
himself or herself, as the case may
be, around the door knob with the
result that the snake soon dies be
cause the door knob, of course will
not digest, and the snake is also bad
ly handicapped in moving about. It
seems to me that it would be much
more difficult for a snake to swallow
a door knob than it would be to swal
low young snakes. However, it has
been reported on good authority, that
the snakes have been found dead
with the door knob inside the snake
and other snakes have been killed
and cut open these what was causing
the lump and it was found that th*
lump was a door knob.
"It has also been reported that a
snake cannot hypnotize a bird or
small animal. Well, call it what you
will, oharming, fascinating or hyno
tizlng, a snake can catch a bird by
simply waiting for the bird to come
in reach without any effort on the
part of the snake more than just
turning his head from side to side In
unison with the movements of the
bird. At the start of the perform
ance the bird may be several feet
away from the snake, but it seems
to be attracted toward the snake by
some irresistible force that brings It
nearer and nearer to the snake until
the snake is able to strike out and
seize the apparently helpless bird.
The bird will hop about from side
to side, up and down, but all tha
time it gradually comes* nearer to
the snake, while the snake does not
seem to be anxious to pursue the bird
and Just plays a waiting fame until
the bird comes in reach.”
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Queries, reproofs, etc., tw|»
corned by Clark Ktnnaird.
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