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RELIEF FOR VOTES.
The temptation to exchange relief for political support has
spread its corrupt practice into the city hall here.
Thus, Savannah has an ambitious mayor who is attempt
ing to trade relief, not only to Democrats but to negro Republi
can leaders for their political support. Here Savannah has a
situation of a LITTLE MAN IN A BIG JOB, trying to muscle-in
on relief money supposedly for the people in dire need of the
necessities of life.
He is more than willing to force aside those hungry mouths
in order that he may obtain his selfish desires at the cost of
starving people.
Anyone familiar with the leakage which exists in city con
tracting work will not be surprised at the extortion practiced
upon the Work Relief program.
In Savannah today there is being built, purportedly for the
use of farmers and local consumers, a market known as the
Farmers Co-operative Market.
This is being built with public funds secured from Mayor
Gamble for a private party or parties, in order that these parties
may fleece the federal government at a later date under the
guise of some WPA or other alphabetical relief project. In turn,
it is hoped by the mayor, that his colleagues will refund to him
political favors and support toward his selfish reign as “high
dictator of Savannah.”
The market in question which is being built with public
funds, is being constructed at a cost far beyond its actual re
quirements and it is hoped that when completed, the owners
can go to the government and secure a loan to repay the city.
The balance of monies will be handled according to previous ar
rangements.
The question in the voter’s mind today is: “Is the city’s
legal department approving of such action and the illegal use of
the people’s money?”
Under the present city administration mismanagement is
being practiced in government to the highest degree. Mr. and
Mrs. Voter today are being given a lesson as to what happens
when a LITTLE MAN IS PLACED IN A BIG JOB.
Can it be that the people of Savannah are going to continue
to tolerate the tactics of a Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and the most
dangerous of all for the good of a community—a Gamble who
practices trading relief intended for the needy for his political
advancement and self-perpetuation at a time when his com
munity is paying its policemen and firemen a starvation wage?
“FIFTY PER CENT. RIGHT.”
Remarks made by Dr. Charles Herty, noted Savannah chem
ist, before the University of Chattanooga last week-end
in which he “deplored Chamber of Commerce methods” in his
appeal to college youths to use “research methods” should, and
perhas will occasion considerable Savannah comment.
In his address, Dr. Herty condemned methods of progress
and business employed by the Chamber of Commerce in advo
cating tha proposed “research methods” be fostered to develop
the South.
“Go north if necessary,” said Dr. Herty, “to get graduate
training but come back South when you have completed your
courses. There's enough problems in the South to keep you busy.
Love for the nation and for your section is necessary as well as
a systematic effort to accomplish anything.”
We agree with Dr. Herty only fifty per cent. The “Chamber
of Commerce methods” should not necessarily be deplored to
foster “research methods.” There should be and there is room
for both.
Educational methods, be they research or fundamental, are
necessary to the progress of any community. Chamber of Com
merce methods—the actual application of methods learned by
such research, are just as necessary. It is for that reason, we
therefore say that we agree with Dr. Herty—only fifty per cent.
SOMETHING “IN THE WIND.
Reports of current and planned activities to control if not
curb the alcoholic beverage business in Georgia which were
forthcoming from Atlanta this week appear to have spread to
various parts of the state.
It became known in Atlanta this week that there is a strong
possibility of federal and state officials combining efforts at the
key points of liquor distribution to enforce existing federal and
state liquor laws which forbid the sale of such beverages in
Georgia.
On the heels of this report comes the warning issued by A.
L. Crowe of the State Revenue Commission that beer dealers in
Georgia will be forced to pay their fees promptly or he will cause
their prosecution. Crowe said there are many dealers in malt bev
erages throughout the state who have not purchased Georgia li
censes. He warned that failure to pay subjected the dealers to
pay SIOO fine or serve twelve months on the chaingang, either or
both in the discretion of the court.
These significant gestures made by arms of the enforcement
branches in Georgia have caused the conclusion in various parts
of the state that something is definitely “in the wind.”
The federal law forbids the transportation of liquors into
a state where there is a state law forbiding the sale of such com
modities.
Georgia has such a law. Speculation has been rife as to what
part Uncle Sam will take in causing Georgia to enforce this law
which has been admittedly forgotten since the advent of legalized
beer and wine.
It has been reported that federal agents are making an in
vestigation into the affairs of the various large wholesalers and
retailers in various parts of Georgia. This would indicate that
some planned ac ion is not far in the future.
LIFE STORY OF COLONEL rKAINK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS
«•— — Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist— 9
| NEW HAMPSHIRE
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With the end of the Bull Moose
campaign and the defeat of both
Theodore Roosevelt and William
H. Taft by Woodrow Wilson,
Frank Knox was urged to enter
the newspaper field in New
Hampshire. Thus at 32 he, to
gether with his partner, dis
posed of their paper in Sault
Ste. Marie and established a new
one in Manchester, N. H. It
eventually absorbed two others.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, April 29—There's
Mr. Moriarity, the stage doorman.
He’s grizzled and laconic and in
clined to be cross with people,
clearly not of the theater, who in
quire for this or that actor, actress
or young lady of the ensemble. If
you are of the grease-paint frater
nity and have played Broadway
much you probably know him, un
der another —his real—name.
For all his gruffness he is at
heart a kindly soul. I e thinks he’s
pretty lucky, for h; has never
been out of work in his life. He
gets sl6 per week and that, with
his Spanish-American War pension
enables him to live comfortably in
a little cottage in Hackensack,
from which he commutes daily.
Married. One married daughter
whom he seldom sees.
He sits on a stool by the door
and dozes most of the time, but
nobody has ever succeeded in slip
ping by him. When he’s stage door
man for a musical he takes a pro
tective and fatherly interest in the
chorus girls. When young men call
who seem to him of a type that
bodes no good to his charges, he
often will fib, refuse to carry mes
sages and in other ways do his best
to discourage the courtship. But he
has never refused a tip; these are
rarer than you might expect and
less munificent.
His largest tip was a $2 bill (and
he is inclined to think that was a
mistake) in 1929.
He will tell you that the stage
door Johnny has virtually vanish
ed and he will tell you why. The
taxi dance halls now attract that
type of playboy. The young men
who wait for girls at the stage
doors now are regular boy-friends,
husbands and even brothers.
On a cord attached to a fire
extinguisher near his chair is a
little red book. In this are recorded
the unlisted numbers of all the oth
er backstage telephones in town.
Thus the actors in his show can
call their friends in other shows
without difficulty. It is understood
that the price of this service is
fifteen cents per call. Sometimes,
from one of the principals, he gets
a quarter and occasionally he looks
up a number gratis for penurious
showgirls and bit actors.
He reads a great deal, mystery
novels and, strangely enough, the
financial pages of the newspapers.
Figures fascinate him although he
owns not a share of stock. He gave
up chewing tobacco about four
years ago for his health’s sake
and will tell you that he has never
felt well since. He can spot an act
or—"a professional”, as he says—
at fifty yards. If you don’t look like
a professional he’ll probably tell
you the party you’re seeking is out,
or has gone home, or is too busy
to see you.
Mr Moriarity has a great memo
ry for names, dates and places.
Once he witnessed a holdup in the
street in which the theater he was
then serving was located and his
identification was so sure and ac
curate. when suspects were appre
hended, that they were convicted
easily. He has a clipping describ
ing his part in this episode and
will show it to you if he likes you.
He frequently takes it upon him
self tn lecture showgirls. He is a
foe of drink and if he smells it on
the breath of a girl in the show
he will tell her, without mincing
words, just where she is headed if
she persists in such habits.
"Now that young feller who call
ed for you last night.” he will say.
“That feller’s okay. You go steady
with him, girlie.”
The greatest m -stery to him is
why people line up in the street
waiting to see some star emerge
and demand autographs.
There is about him one truly
amazing peculiarl y. He has never
sat through a performance in a
theater in his life. Once, with two
passes for "The Green Pasures.”
he did attend the theater on his
night off; but the show bored him
so that he made his wife depart
with him at the end of the first
act, . ' • .
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936
id jkS
Six years after Knox moved to
• New Hampshire the United
States entered the World war.
Although more than 40, he en
listed with the militia as a priv
ate, was sent to training school,
went overseas as a major in the
78th division, saw active service
at the front and returned home
a lieutenant colonel. Thus
Knox has served at the front in
two wars.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WALL STREET GUESSES
And Begins to Quote Odds
ON NEXT PRESIDENT
By LESLIE EICHEL
Contra! Press Staff Writer
WALL STREET DOES NOT al
ways guess correctly, as any one
who does business in that short,
narrow thoroughfare knows. Mere
ly for your information, however,
Wall Street is betting on the re
election of President Roosevelt at
odds ranging from 6 to 5 to 2 to 1.
It was even money in January.
There is no betting on the Re
publican nomination.
In Cleveland, scene of the Repub
lican convention, now merely a few
weeks away, there is no betting
either. Cleveland seems likely to
be carried by President Roosevelt
in November, even though it will
be host to *he Repubicans in June.
In fact ,as matters look at pres
ent the Democrats may carry the
city by a considerable majority.
Philadelphia, see le of the Demo
cratic convention will, on the oth
er hand, remain Republican. That
is the present consensus.
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HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS
It is rumored that the Republi
cans may try to stea» a march on
the Democrats and dim a “stunt”
planned for the conclusion of the
Democratic convention President
Roosevelt, it has been rumored,
will make a night speech in huge
Frauklin field —stadium next to the
Philadelphia convention hall —at
the end of the convention.
Now it is whispered that the
Republicans may parade their nom
inee to the still “huger” Cleveland
stadium near the convention hall,
as a grand finale to the G. O. P.
convention. The Cleveland stadium
seats 89.000—and tens of thous
ands more could stand on the
shores of Lake Erie and hear the
nominee by means of loud speak
ers.
• * *
HOW TO STRETCH
The Democrats are having diffi
culty trying to figure out how to
keep their convention going six
days in Philadelphia. The city was
promised that, in return for the
large sum put forth to gain the con
vention. Ringmaster James A. Far
ley is thinking up stunts, incidental
to the renomination of Messrs.
Roosevelt and Garner.
• • ■ •
PLENTY OF NEWS
There will be as many writers
“covering” the Republican conven
tion as there were delegates a de
cade back.
Provision has been made for 750
You’re Telling
Me?
MAY IS RAPIDLY catching up
with June in popularity as a wedding
month, according to a statistician.
“Oh the marry month of May—”
• • *
When a crook is down and out
is he a wolf in cheap clothing?
...
While dancing for joy over the
fact that spring (according to the
calendar) is here, be careful you do
not slip and fall on the ice.
• • •
The controversy over elevated
highway construction proposed
for Chicago has a lot of motor
ists up in the air.
* • •
The average Martian day is some
40 minutes longer than an earth day.
If Mars is uninhabited think of .all
that daylight saving going to waste!
♦ ♦ •
Another eternal puzzle that will
never be solved is how the in
come tax people figure S4OO will
support a dependent for one
year.
• e •
No matter which party wins the
' national election this year we all
Ihope we continue to be a democracy
with a republican form of govern
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While abroad Knox, then a ma
jor, demonstrated his organiz
ing ability. He was in charge
of a section of the ammunition
trains serving the front Com
ing home from the war, Knox
returned to his newspaper work
in New Hampshire. Theodore
Roosevelt had died, but a friend
of “Teddy’s” was appearing on
the political horizon—General
Leonard Wood.
inside the Cleveland convention
hall besides photographers and mo
tion picture and radio men.
More than 1.000 applications for
seats in the press section are on
file.
There will be 550 inside the
Philadelphia convention hall.
Hundreds more ’n each city will
be "covering” hotels, unable to
gain entry to the halls.
The Cleveland coverage will be
the greatest in the history of the
newspaper world.
♦ * ♦
DISTANT
The press section will extend
so far into the hall that the first
row of the delegates will be 55
feet from the speakers’ platform.
The last row of alternates will be
two blocks away—down that huge
hall.
PRESIDENTIAL
CLOSEUPS
The impression is general that the
slogan, "The Full Dinner Pail” irig
inated in the McKinley-Bryan cam
paign of 1896, as the rallying cry of
the Republicans. Ever so wrong! It
did not originate in that dhmpaign,
and it was not of Republican origin.
It was used by the Democrats in the
Harrison-Cleveland campaign of 1888.
The slogan was coined In that cam
paign by H. C. Dodge, cartoonist,
then, of the New York World. But
popular belief, erroneous though it
is, is that "The Full Dinner Pail,” lid
and all, belongs to the G. O. P.
Biri What If The King Marries—
aKH
Colonel Knox became floor lead
er for the Wood forces at the
convention in Chicago. There
finally was a . deadlock, with
Warren G. Harding of Ohio, a
“dark horse” candidate, and an
Old Guarder, winning the nomi
nation and the subsequent
election. Knox returned to his
newspaper property for three
more years.
To Bo Continued.
NOT--In the News
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COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
DOG MAKES FRIEND WHO
SAVES HIS LIFE
Copyright, Central Press Assn.
By WORTH CHENEY
THIS INTERESTING dog story
is reported to our column by
Georgiana Richards Wilson, of
Glen Falls, N. Y.
This is ner story:
“Connebert”. a beautiful Irish
setter, lived in Warrenburg with
two devoted ladies who gave him
a wonderful home. He was such an
excellent breed that men visitors
at the home always expressed re
great that such a fine bird dog
hunter should be spoiled for sport
by living with two women.
One very cold day in winter Con
nie was taken out for a run follow
ing a sleigh which we were taking
down to an Indian encampment to
get some blankets for Christmas.
Connie was wild with happiness.
Most of the time he would keep
close to the sleigh, but once in a
while would disappear into the
woods. He was having the time
of his life.
* • •
AT THE INDIAN camp there
were many dogs, and they were
friendly to Connie. We had expect
ed a battle, but there was none.
After making our purchases we
hurried back to the sleigh, as it
was growing colder. But Connie
was nowhere to be found, and it
was some time before he came in
answer to our whistle.
When he finally did return to the
sleigh he was not alone. He was
being followed by one of the dogs
from the camp. As the sleigh start
ed home, we noticed that Connie
seemed to be urging the other dog
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He still ride* well
to follow him. Connie’s friend
seemed reluctant at first, but as we
neared the city he was having as
much fun running in the snow as
Connie
When we arrived home we invit
ed the new dog inside the house,
but he would not leave the outside
piazza. And then we lea ..ed to our
surprise that Connie would not
come in without his friend. We
pleaded, but he would not budge,
so we hau to leave both outside.
Connie never had .slept outside be
fore and, fearful that he could not
stand the rigors of the woather, we
took blankets and food out for the
dogs.
** * •
THE NEXT morning we were
surprised to find Connie all alone
on the piazza. He .vas whining
sorrowfully, and when we appear
ed he dashed out on the lawn. We
followed and found Connie’s little
friend lying in the snow—dead!
Just then the gardener came up.
He told lis that an apparently de
mented man in the neighborhood
had placed some poisoned meat in
the yard daring the night, expect
ing Connie to eat it. But Connie’s
friend reached the tainted food be
fore Connie did.
The visitor saved Connie’s life,
and we think the whole incident
must have been predestined—the
way they became friends, how they
refused to leave each other, even
on a cold night. It was so strange
that we cannot overlook it as a
mere coincidence.
JUDGE RAPS LAW
PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 29
(TP) —Judge Frank Patterson at
tacked Pennsylvania’s divorce, law
because it lacks any provision for
punishment of brutal husbands.
The judge granted Mrs. Guy Muto
a divorce decree as soon as he
finished his remarks.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD o
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
Wednesday, April 29; Walpurgis
Night, an European festive occasion;
St. Vincent Ferrer’s Day, a Spanish
holiday: Emperor Hirohito’s birthday,
a holiday, naturally in Japan. Zodiac
sign: Taurus.
Scanning the skies: Lightning does
strike more than cnee in a place—
every time it strikes! What appears
to the eye as a single bolt may con
sist of two to a dozen quick flashes
in the same channel. This is the ex
planation of its destructiveness. Sin
gle flashes would do little damage.
♦ ♦ ♦
Notable Nativities
Wiliam Randolph Hearst, b. 1863,
publisher and editor. . . . Lorado
Taft, b. 1860, sculptor. . . . Corey
Ford, b. 1902, humorist and short
story writer. . . . Frank Parker, b.
1906. radio singer. ... Sir Thomas
Beecham, b. 1879, British composer
and conductor.
♦ * *
Today’s Yesterdays
April 29, 1759—John Adlum was
born in York, Pa.
Our one-man campaign to get him
Into histories and encyclopedias of
biography hasn’t progressed yet. Pos
sibly he doesn’t deserve any com
mentary as a brigadier-general in
the Revolution, and a judge. But how
can the man who established the first
agricultural experiment station in
the country, and introduced the
Catawba grape, among other things,
be overlooked?
Some of the WPA-endowed histo
rians have been calling on this corner
for information. We commend Ad
lum to their attention as a fit sub
ject for research.
* * *
April 29, 1792—Matthew Vassar
was born at Taddenham, Norfolk,
England. The $1,200,000 he devoted
to the establishment of a school for
yov.ng women "which should be to
their sex what Harvard and Yale are
to young men,” was his profits as a
brewer.
April 29, 1769—Arthur Wellesley
was born in Dublin, Ireland. He, the
First Duke of Wellington, conqueror
of Napoleon, received his military
education in a French army school at
the expense of the French govern
ment.
Welington was paid the largest
soldier bonus in history—s2,ooo,ooo
—for defeating Napoleon, and then
had to do it over again!
April 29, 1857—An electric loco
motive was operated in the U. S. be
fore electric lights! On this date, a
locomotive built by C. G. Page had
a trial run between Washington and
Baltimore on the Baltimore and Ohio
• Railroad and attained a speed of 19
miles an hour before the jars of the
overworked batteries providing the
energy cracked under the strain. He
used no fewer than 100 cells of pri
mary battery.
Transportation men of the time
couldn’t see the possibilities of it;
the old, old story.
First World War Day-By-Day
20 Years Ago Today—After a seige
of 143 days, 13.760 British under
General Townshend in Kut-el-Amara,
Mesopotamia, surrendered to the
Turks. A relieving force was only
16 miles away.
There was another war scandal for
the British public, for the surrender
was the ultimate result of a foolhardy
attempt to conquer with less than a
division of ill-equipped and inade
quately supplied troops a region to
whch Turks were able to send un
limited numbers of soldiers better
able to withstand the climate.
Enver Pasha announced the prison
ers would become "the honored guests
of the Turkish government.” The of
ficers were sent to Baddad by steam
er. The men were marched the 100
miles to Bagdad, in stifling heat, with
no sort of organization for food
transport or medical care for those
worn out by the exhausting seige.
The Turkish commandant promised
the day’s march should not exceed
eight miles. He kept his promise for
one day, and thereafter the men were
herded like sheep from 12 and 18
miles a day, and stragglers were
flogged. At night they lay without
shelter.
Les than half were to withstand
the rigors of Turkish prison camps
.for the succeeding two and a half
years.
(To be continued)
♦ ♦ «
It’s a Fact
Washington monument was built
upside down and inside out!
President Roosevelt has a good ex
cuse to get out every night in the
week: he’s a member of the Masons,
Eiks, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pyth
ias, Macabees, Eagles, Shepherds and
four other lodges.
Ordinary automobile engines pro
pel a two-seater plane faster than
they can a car, with supplying all
the lifting power required.
The ancient Egyptians thought red
haired women were witches too, and
they annually went through the cere
mony of burning a maiden alive who
had the misfortune to have a red
head, as a sign to the gods of their
displeasure
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Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel
comed by Clark Kinnaird.
SO THAT’S IT?
The workman approached the fore
man of the factory.
“Can I have the afternoon off?”
he asked, "to see a chap about a job
for the missus?”
“AH right,” agreed the foreman,
you 11 be back in the morning, I sup
pose?”
"Yes, if she doesn’t land the job.”
11!
Franca issued this stamp recently*
to supply funds for use in help,
ing the many refugee* from vari* 1
ous countries. The design fe*.
I ture* the Statue of Liberty £