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DISFRANCHISING THE SOUTH.
The prediction, recently broadcast over the nation that at
Philadelphia in the June convention of Democrats the two-thirds
rule for nomination will be abandoned and the majority rule
put into effect, should cause every Democrat in the Southland
to vigorously protest to his delegates and demand that they
fight this change.
This rule has been the factor whereby Southern Democrats
in Democratic conventions could or would be heard, because theiir
voting strength is such that with a two-thirds vote of the con
vention necessary to nominate, their influence is substantal
enough to command respect. It can readily be seen that with
only a majority vote necessary, the Eastern and Northern Demo
crats, could and would be able to control, with the assistance of
a few other states, all future nominations. The result would be
most detrimental to the interests of the South in national poli
tics.
When the Young Democrats held their national convention
in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last June, there was considerable agi
tation from some quarters to recommend to the senior body that
this rule be changed and the majority rule adopted. Such vig
orous protest was registered by the Southern states representa- '
tives and the sponsors being unwilling to debate the subject on '
the floor of the convention, it was abandoned. (
The young men and women at that convention were looking <
to the future welfare of their party. The senior Democrats, now
arranging for the convention and the national committee who
will meet with the covention will do well to follow the example !
of their juniors. They should vote down any effort to change i
a rule whicn can serve no good purpose, particularly at this '
time, when there exists not even a doubt as to whom will go far !
more than a two-thirds vote for re-nomination for President
by this great party.
While the reports that a change is now being considered by <
the leaders of the party are no doubt well founded, Southern <
Democrats, at least, should look well to the interests of the <
Southland. They should protect this privilege which has so long
existed and so long kept Southern delegations feeling that they
are an integral part and bear a major share in the naming of
standard bearers for their party.
A GEORGIA NEWSPAPER MAN.
The recent appointment of Mark F. Ethridge, former man
aging editor of the Macon Telegraph, to be general manager of
the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times at Louis
vile, Ky,. meets with the hearty gratification of Georgia newspa- <
per men.
In his new capacity, Mr. Ethridge will also have general
charge of the Courier-Journal radio station, WHAS—so fre
quently tuned in by Savannah listeners.
Mr. Ethridge has had an active and eventful newspaper
career. At one time he was sent to Europe on a fellowship from
the Oberlander Trust to study political and ecnoomic conditions.
Returning, he joined the Associated Press staff in Washington.
Later he became assistant general manager of the Washington
Post and more recently was president and publisher of the Rich
mond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.
Mr. Ethridge gained his early training as a reporter on the
Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun. He is widely known throughout
Georgia and his new connections will be of pleasant interest to
a large number of Savannahians.
NOT—In the News
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
BY WORTH CHENEY
Central Press Association
A PHYSICIAN relays this almost
unbelievable story.
Several years ago the doctor was
practicing In a small country com
munity. His routine was that of the
typical country doctor; he was called
to administer the sick for miles
around.
One day he was summoned to a
farmhouse where a young boy of five
lay apparently seriously ill. He ex
amined the boy and diagnosed that
the lad was suffering from poison
ing, probably a snake bite. But a
very careful scrutiny of the lad’s body
failed to reveal any break in the skin
as might be made by a snake’s fangs.
He questioned the boy, but the
youth Insisted that he had not been
bitten by a snake, to his knowledge
and had not even seen a reptile. The
doctor was frankly puzaled, for’ he
was certain that the symptoms Indi
cated the boy was suffering from
snake venom.
Then he questioned the mother
about general matters and asked her
if anything unusual had happened
In the vicinity recently. She sud
denly remembered that their next
door neighbor, Mr. Jones, had been
bitten by a' snake while chopping
wood. He had been bitten on the
finger, and fearful that he would not
reach a doctor In time, he had taken
the ax and chopped off the poisoned
digit.
She said she had learned about it
when her son, the one now ill, had
found the finger and, wondering
what It Was, had brought it home to
her. She had instructed the lad to
take It out and bury It. It was cov
ered with dirt and blood, and there
were ants crawling all over it, she
said.
The information was enough for
the doctor. He proceeded to treat the
lad for snake bite and he recovered
rapidly. Re worked on the theory
that the ants had Injected the snake
venom Into the bnv’s body from the
se”*" •* ’ '■'‘•’■ently he
. . « ivr a period
Qi Uli minutes probably would have
been given you in the news columns,
an item taken from the police rec
ords.
Mary, daughter of a well-to-do doc
tor in a small town, had gone to the
city to make her own way as an art
ist. She worked diligently for weeks,
but she soon learned that success
wasn’t as easy to win as it was to
pronounce. Her finances ran low
and soon she was forced to move into
a dingy attic.
Proud and determined, she worked
on desperately, but to no avail. Her
paintings and sketches were turned
down as rapidly as they were sent to
market. Her bride would not permit
her to tum to her father for help, and
when she finally ran out of money
she decided to end it all.
She made up her mind early one
morning. She had tried and she had
failed. There was no turning back—
she shuddered at the disgrace of
going home. Death was the only
way out.
Closing the windows, she next
stuffed a towel under the door. Then
she turned on the gas of her little
hotplate she had used to cook with,
and lay down on the bed to wait for
the fumes to do their work.' She
soon lost consciousness. ' ’
When she awoke the landlady was
standing over her. The windows
were opened and she breathed the
cool, fresh air.
“Lucky I came in when I did,"
said the landlady. “The gas was going
and the windows were closed. Why,
you might have asphyxiated your
self! It’s a good thing these letters
came for you, or I might not have
come up at all."
Regaining her senses, Mary some
how felt glad the woman had inter
rupted her death plot. Then she
glanced at the letters—there were
two. She tore open the first, and a
check fluttered to the bed. She read
the letter; it said the check was In
payment for one of her pictures. The
other contained an unsolicited check'
from her father.
Fairly successful now, Mary still
I lives In the garret. It has soma at
i traction for her.
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LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS
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A leader in the fight against
a state income tax in New
Hampshire, Knox became a
candidate for the Republican
nomination for governor in
1924. 'He was defeated by
2,000 vote, by John G. Winant,
wealthy young progressive Re
publican, who now is chairman
of U. S. social security board.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
A CANDIDATES PROBLEM
Whether He Be Democrat Or Republican:
MACHINE SUPPORT OR NO
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
President Roosevelt passes over his
embarrassments in an easy manner.
He made a “happy” speech the other
night in New York at the Jefferson
day dinner. It was a speech that
“tied up” the agricultural middle
west with the sidewalks of New York.
It had to be a “happy’’ speech. For
the agricultural west was not particu
larly happy over the “prominent
men” (as a glib radio announcer
called them) who sat at the presi
dent’s right and left. They smacked
of Tammany.
The president gibed somewhat at
My NewYobk
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, April 30.—The death
of Percy Hammond removed from
metropolitan dramatic criticism one
of the taiants it could least afford w
lose. Urbank kindly and possessed
of a rapier wit and sense of the sound
and lilt of words, he was an orna
ment to a department of journalism
Whch for the last few years has nad
tc do with many second-raters.
Pai tic: ’.a fly in these times has he
been a valuable stanchion against the
rabble-writers, the propaganda play
wrights, the nostrum vendors of the
theater. He saw clearly and wrote
lucidly: he asked that the theater
present recogn'iable human beings In
recognizable human situations, and
when a play was less than fine his
article upon it was often the mer
riest and most memorable monument
Hammond was not, like so many
of his brethren, simply a playwright
who had failed. He was a critic from
the beginning and a very superior
critic, as much an artist as any of
the playwrights whose works he as
sayed. I can think of no one the
theater will miss more.
Cynthia White is in these eyes the
town’s most extraordinary press
agent and promoter. A pleasant,
plump, handsome lady in the middle
years, she packs twice the vitality of
Ruby Keeler and Eleanor Powell put
together. Her piece de resistance each
year is the Greenwich Village Ball.
This season she made a special
trip to Mexico in order to give the
fete a new decor. The result was a
carnival as Mexican as a tamale and
as tangily seasoned No one got
home while the sky was dark.
Next day after a ball it is Cynthia s
custom to hold her annual levee.
Every celebrity of Greenwich Village
and the uptown reaches pilgrims to
her lower Fifth Avenue apartment,
where she is fresh and gay with re
partee as a debutante. Few callers
are aware that she has not been tb
bed all night in the performance of
her duties as hostess for the ball.
• • •
It is a bromide by now that no
New Yorker knows anything at all
about this town ol his. The tourists
quickly become experts and a visitor
I once knew from. Minnesota used to
delight in telling how he had direct
ed a metropolitan cop lost in Uie
subway mazes beneath Grand Cen
tral.
Sally Ellers, a New Yorker born
and bred (to the age of six. anyhow)
returned here not long ago with her
husband, Harry Joe Brown, the pro
ducer. They decided to find out
something about New York for the
flrtt time, so they went on a
rubber-neck spree—the Empire State
Building, Grant’s Tomb, Chinatown,
the Statue of Liberty and the Aqua
rium.
The foray was so succesful that
Sally has made up her mind to see
Los Angeles and Hollywood in the'
same way when she returns to the
Coast.
* • •
I spept an evening not long ago in
the company Os Henry Dennis, editor
and publisher of the Henderscn, N.
C., “Dispatch,”—and came away
warmed by the thought that not
much evil could befall a nation ih
which the organs of news still have
editors like him: sound, quiet, patrio
tic folk who are not to be panicked
or converted by the crackpots and
pink-flag waivers.
Living in New York you are apt to
forget how many rugged, original
mold Americans survive. It is good
to be reassured.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 30,1930
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Knox’s ability as a publisher had
spread throughout America.
Thus, in 1927, William Ran
dolph Hearst engaged Knox as
publisher of the Boston Ameri
can and Boston Advertiser.
Knox’s success was such that,
after a year, he was named
general manager of the Hearst
newspapers.
economists during his able campaign'
talk—both workers and farmers
found In the speech considerable sat
isfaction—but listeners afar would
rather that the president had been
sitting with economists than with
Tammanyites.
Yet the president believes he must
sit with such groups (or, rather, po
litical machines) to win.
AMONG THOSE THERE
Among those on hand was, of
course. Postmaster General James Far
ley, high chief dispenser of jobs.
Then there were James Dooling,
Tammany chieftain, and Gov. James
M. Curley of Massachusetts, plus a
thousand or so Tammany lieutenants
high and low.
True, there were men there whose
names meant considerable to the peo
ple—such as Senator Robert F. Wag
ner of New York, Gov. Herbert H.
Lehman of New York, Gov. Wilbur
L. Cross of Connecticut, Gov. George
H. Earle of Pennsylvania, etc. There
is no denying, however, that the sit
ting down to break bread with the
New York, New Jersey and Massa
chusetts machines does no good in
the country west of the Mississippi,
or even farther east.
The Republicans are in much the
same position. A Republican candi
date faces the fact that the utilities’
dominated Roraback-Hilles machine
controls New York, New Jersey and
New England (and perhaps the
southern delegates) Republicanly,
that the Mellon-Reed machine domi
nates Pennsylvania, that the succes
sors to the “Ohio gang” still dictate
Republican politics in Ohio, etc.
When President Roosevelt goes on
his western tours and perchance
passes through Chicago again, will he
this time sit next to the Kelly-Nash
machine—or Governor Horner?
And in Wisconsin and lowa and
Minnesota, if he goes into those
states, will he break bread with the
Democratic machines, or will he call
to his table his real supporters, the
Progressives?
Both Democratic and Republican
candidates have their banquet prob
lems. Maybe they would be better
off if they did eat with economists.
» * •
JIM CURLEY
Gov. James Michael Curley of Mas
sachusetts —who undoubtedly has
been an embarrassment to the Roose
velt administration—plans to become
a greater embarrassment. He plans
to enter the United States senate,
taking the seat now occupide by Mer
cus A. Coolidge, a sedate Democrat.
Curley’s machine will crush any op
position.
Old families in Massachusetts have
looked with horror upon the seizure
of their commonwealth by the Curley
machine. Every state office now is
occupied by a machine member.
Liberals are in agony. Free speech
almost has disappeared from Massa
chusetts.
Yet here is one of the machines
that President Roosevelt must de
pend on. He would like very much
to carry Massachusetts. At the mo
ment he stands a 50-50 chance, chief
ly because of Boston.
• • •
TWO OTHER STATES
In Ohio, President Roosevelt seems
to have made peace with the Gov.
Martin L. Davey machine (under con
stant attack for bad government)
and in Indiana the Gov. Paul V.
McNutt machine is tooting its whistle
for the president
Scouts say the trend in Ohio is
Democratic and that Indiana is over
whelmingly so.
The United States remains a na
tion of political machines—in both
major parties.
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by Greece in 1935 is pictured
above. The illustrations portray
stories from the various Greek
I mythologies.
Knox continued in this position
for three years (until 1931),
then resigned and "planned to go
into semi-retirement in Man
chester, where he had built a
house especially adapted to a
troublesome throat ailment suf
fered by Mrs. Knox. But, sud
denly the Chicago Daily News
came upon the market
You’re Telling
Me?
AUTHORSHIP may not be as
thrilling or glamorous a career as
baseball, but name just one work
ing ball player who is as old as
George Bernard Shaw or H. G.
Wells.
• • »
Never hurt the person you
hate. That would make two
hates grow where but one
flourished before.
• • •
Just because a politician is im
pervious to criticism is no sign he
is a great statesman. All baseball
umpires have that same knack, too.
• « *
The United States doesn’t
believe in the monarchial form
of government, but this coun
try has more queens than any
other. Every campus add 4P
ple festival has one *''■
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* Maybe there is hope after all —
another European'country ha* held
a general election, without benefit
of machine guns.
• • •
Things are never so bad as
they could be. For instance,
you don’t have to be a member
of the Philadelphia Athletics
baseball team.
THAT WOULD BE BETTER
The warden of a prison was inclin
ed to overdo the facilities for enjoy
ment which he gave his prisoners.
Despite numerous reforms, the con
victs were still dissatisfied .
“Say you guys,” he told them,
angrily. “I’ve given you movies and
baseball and everything else I can
think of. What do you want now?”
“Well, warden,” said a voice, “what
about a cross-country run?”
So small are ‘possum babies at
birth that a litter of 18 may rest
secure in a teaspoon.
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Knox did not have enough
money to bid alone. He filed
an offer with Theodore T. Ellis,
New England manufacturer of
press accessories. The paper
went to Knox and Ellis. As
publisher of the Chicago Daily
News Knox has been an out-,
spoken critic of the Roosevelt
administration.
THE END.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
SECRET “INVESTIGATION”
Os New Deal By Hidden Forces
‘ WORRIES DEMOCRATS
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON; April 29.—Demo
cratic party managers would greatly
like to know what interests are fi
nancing the unofficial investigation
which unmistakably is in progress,
and on a large scale, in New Deal
activities of all sorts.
Reports have come into headquar
ters from local administrators in
many different and widely-scattered
parts of the country to the effect
that they are sure alphabetical af
fairs are being “probed.”
There has been several inquiries
here and there by the government
itself, but this is described as being,
apparently, a systematic campaign of
“snooping” engineered by some out
side influence. It would seem to be
an opulqnt influence, too, considering
the number of investigators it must
lUve in the field, to ps complained of
from such V multiplicity qf areas at
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AGAINST “NEW DEAL’’
Presumably the information which
this supposed staff of inquisitors is
gathering is to be used against the
New Deal in the coming presidential
and congressional fight.
Democratic strategists take it for
granted that it will be placed at the
disposal of the Republican national
committee in charge, respectively, of
G. O. P. candidacies for seats in the
senate and the house of represent
atives.
If so, it is assumed by the Demo
crats that it will be used for basing
charges of New Deal “skullduggery.”
• * *
“SINISTER”?
New Dealers do not care to admit
that they fear investigation, even by
hostile investigators.
All the same, they sense some
thing sinister in this quiz.
There is a mystery about it that
worries them.
Besides, they are conscious that a
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He often u heard on the radio.
battery of “alphabeticals” which has
been spending money in billions in
the last three years will be lucky if
it can’t be revealed as having spent
more or less of it unwisely, to say
the least.
They don’t enjoy the prospect of
having a succession of such revela
tions sprung on them suddenly, from
day to day, as the campaign wags
along.
* * *
UNCOVERED TOO LATE?
The senate and the house of repre
senatives do, indeed, have a commit
tee each to investigate campaign
practices, as the campaign progresses.
These committees of course will be
Democratically dominated this year.
They may, between now and next
November, discover what outfit in
spired the current “snoop,” if any,
and hold it to be unfair.
But what good will that do?—if the
snoop already has yielded results?—
and changed votes, on the strength
of its publicity? No good at all.
* * •
WHOSE CASH IS IT?
The G. O. P. national committee/
to tell the truth, is not much sus
pected.
Not that the New Dealers don’t
think the G. O. P. commitee has the
disposition to investigate the alpha
beticals or that it will hesitate to use
any anti-New Deal stuff that investi
gators may dig up, but they don’t
believe that the committee has the
money to pay for such seemingly in
tensive an inquisition as this appears
to be.
Their notion is that fell: affiliated
with the American Liberty league,
the Sentinels, the Southern Commit
tee to Uphold the Constitution or
maybe members of the United States
Chamber of Commerce or the Na
tional Manufacturers’ Association are
putting up the cash.
It has the earmarks of an expen
sive crusade, anyway.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright 1936 Central Press
Association, Inb,)
Thursday, April 30; St. Cather
ine of Sienna. 124th anniversary of
the admission to the Union of
Louisiana, the 18th State. Fast
Day in New Hampshire. May Day’s
Eve, a holiday in Preece.
SCANNING THE SKIES: It isn’t
a rule that the higher you rise in
the air. or the further you get from
earth, the colder it is. In many
cases the air is warmer up to con
siderable altitudes. These in
stances are called “temperature
Inversions”. Their existence was
unknown and unsuspected until
aviators began making weather ob
servations.
• • *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Franz Lehar, b. 1870,... composer,
“The Merry Widow”, etc. . . . Jul
iana, b. 1909, only child and heir
ess to the kingdom of the Nether
lands . . . Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr..
b. 1898, would-be 'journalist and
novelist . . . Homer S. Cummings,
b. 1870, attorney-general of the U.
S. . . . Mary S. L. Harrison, b. 1858,
relict of President Benjamin Harri
son.
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
APRIL 30, 1789—The fiirst Presi
dent was in fact what nearly every
successor has been maliciously ac
cused of being—a ‘WaR Street Pres
ident. Mr. Washington stood upon
a balcony at Wall and Nassau, clad
in plain, dark brown suR with knee
breeches a,.d whit's silk stockings,
as ho took the oath' of office from
Robert L. Livingston, chancellor of
New York State.
* * *
APRIL 30, 1798—The Navy de
partment was established. Benja
min Stoddart of Maryland, the first
Secretary, was a cavalry officer!
* » •
APRIL 30, 1803—The aforemen
tioned T. R. Livingston, who had
been sent to Paris to buy the city
of New Orleans and obtain control
of the mouth of the Mississippi,
bought without autho”ity the entire
Louisiana territory, comprising all
or part of 13 present day States.
All or nothing, said Barbe Marbois,
acting for Bonaparte, so all it was;
Mons. Marbois thought he made an
excellent deal in unloading a lot
of wilderness and savages on Liv
ingstone for 27 million ddllars.
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APRIL 30, 1800 —At 3 a. m., on a
Monday mor ring, locomotive No.
638 of the Illinois Central R. R.,
was rolling toward Vaughan, Miss.,
pulling the Cannonball' Express,
and “All the switchmen knew by
the engine’s moans that the man
at the throttle waff Cas-*y Jones”.
A freight train didn’t pull into a
aiding fast enough, and No. 638
hit the rear end of it at 50 m. p. h. f
Thus died John, Lrfther Jones.
And thuj was bom*one of the best
known American folk-songs “Casey
Jones.”
Living today are widow Jones,
who never marrie “another papa
on the Salt Lake Line”, and Sim
Webb, Casey’s fireman. He jumped,
was unhurt.
Eudie Newton and T. Lawrence
Seiberg wrote the popular song,
basing it, however, on a spontan
eous song Wallace Saunders, a
round ho ..se-helper, used to moan
about his good friend, Mr. Jones.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 YEARS AGO TODAY—The
main body of Irish insurgents sur
rendered in Dublin. They could not
cope with increasing numbers of
British troops, the fire from the
gunboat Helga, and the shortage
of supplies.
Patrick Tearse. “president of the
Irish republic,” surrendered un
conditionally, and wrote notices to
the vari ms “commar dens” to fol
low his example. By the dawn of
May Day, the world wide day of
revolt, they had. Much of Dublin
now lay in ruins. In the struggle
17 officers and 504 British soldiers
Lad been killed. 800 civilians had
been injured, and 180 insurgents
and innocent bystanders slain.
Fifteen more were to die —before
British firing squads, including
Pearse, Joseph Plunkett. Thomas
MacDonagh.
Thenceforth, Ireland was the
same as out of .he World War, but,
nevertheless, a land of sudden
death.
(to be continued)
IT’S TRUE
At Geneva, world’s newshawks
have often hung anxiously about
outside midnight conferences be
tween Litvino” and Harriot —to
learn later they were talking A*
bout Myrna Loy or Ginger Rogers.
They both see all the American
films shown in the League of Na
tions city. Anthony Eden prefers
the French films.
It's prizefights hr America and
bullfights in Spain. In Switzerland
the big 'sport is cowfights.
Beautiful but bright: Cleopatra
spoke 40 languages. She knew all
the answers, too, it sterns.
The radio hasn’t produced any
new jokes, but it has given folk*
new preferences in.music. At Mr.
Rockefeller’s Rainbow Room, in
New York, at cocktail time,
Brahm’s Hungarian Dsnce Nd. 5
is called for as often as Alone, the
other leading request numbfer.
At least 15,000 aliens who have
entered the country illegally are
apprehended in the U. S. each year.
But think of the, ones who get
away.
A water spring was once form
ally and seriously brought to trial
like a murdere, or thief in Put
nam county. Tenn., on tne charge
of being undependable, and found
not guilty
The po.to, which was first in
troduced into North America from
Ireland (in 1719) really originated
in South America, where it was a
common item of food for centuries
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