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AN UNIMPRESSIVE PAMPHLET.
We have before us, what, apparently was intended for, a
report. We are compelled to temporarily accept it as such be
cause its frontis-piece bears the imprint: “Report of Mayor
Thomas Gamble to the Board of Aidermen, City of Savannah,
Georgia.” At the foot of the page we are informed, “Depart
mental operations and financial operations.” Had it not been
for the information thus conveyed, we would have been sorely
perplexed as to just what to call it. Even the printer who did
the work, apparently was aahamed of it, his name not appearing,
as it usually does. We referred to a member of the Mayor’s
official family for further information on the report. His remark
was, “ That’s not a report, it is a lot of hooey.”
Possibly he was correct. Certainly no sane man, looking for
a detailed report of the operation of his city, would call it such.
Most probably it would be characterized ae an effort to evade
giving the public facts, an attempt to further fool the people as
to the exact manner in which' their money ig being spent. It
looks like a rehash and reprint from certain of the Mayor’s
publicity stunts in a local paper. If so, why not have purchased
and sent out the clippings from the paper. It would have saved
time and money. If the pamphlet issued is a Mayor’s report, then
shades of Herman Myers overwhelm us!
There is hardly a paragraph that does not contain an ex
cuse, nor a page that does not cry out som< self praise. Just
listen to this from Page Five, Second Spasm: “With regard to
intoxicants, it is to be regretted that the state has as yet failed
th put city governments in a proper position to license, regulate,
and in this way properly control their sale.” This paragraph
is respectfully submitted for the consideration of the pastor of
Grace Methodist Church and the gentlemen who, representing
the Sunday School, called upon Mayor Gamble.
He has not had the courage to reply to any of the questions
the Savannah Daily Times hag asked. Request of him to tell
you (we doubt if he will, with admitted knowledge of the state
law), why did he license these places! Is he in thorough accord
with the great churches which he attends in stating that it is
to be regretted they will not permit him to license the sale of
whiskey! Do the members of the Protestant Ministers Associa
tion of Savannah join with him in these regrets! Emphatically
not.
In all frankness, if the head of the police power in Sa
vannah holds such regrets, can it be expected of the offi
cers and members of the Savannah Police Department, sub
jdtet to his orders and dictation, to enforce this law! In a very
recent case in court, one of the officers of the Savannah Police
Department, in testifying under oath, stated, “He had checked
at least one hundred other dealers with similar licenses who were
still operating.” Again we request of the pastor of Grace Method
ist Church ask Mayor Gamble if he has taken any action to ascer
tain the truth of this testimony, on, given any instructions as
k> the places with which hit officer seems to be so well informed ?
The Savannah Daily Times believes in the maintenance of
law and order. It subscribes to no rule of reason whereby du
plicity or double dealing may be practiced upon the righteous or
those less gifted with the finer sensibilities of life. We hold firm
ly to the view that, when doing right, as the Mayor is entitled to
the respect of the citizenship of the community, so are the citi
lens of the community, whatever be their color, creed, or religion,
entitled to even balanced justice and respect at the hands of the
Mayor. Apparently this they have not been receiving. So much
for the promises of Mayor Gamble on the one hand, and his utter
failure at performance on the other. In our later issues we shall
deal with his miserable failure in giving the people of Savannah
a detailed financial report.
A BELATED THOUGH DESERVED TRIBUTE
The passing of time has strengthened, rather than dimin
ished, the reverence, amounting almost to idolatry, the South has
held for its heroes, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Nor
has the world failed to recognize and mete out to them a full
measure of that fame worthy of their great characters, and their
response to and the performance of those high duties demanded
by the times in which they lived. At last the federal government
is giving recognition to the heroic services rendered by these two
great soldiers to the nation, and to their beloved Southland.
An announcement was made last week that should hold the
interest of every Southern man and woman. After much consul
tation among the officials of the government, it was finally de
cided to issue a stamp bearing the likenesses of these two great
Confederate generaM. The two pictures will appear on the same
stamp, being a new four-cent issue. With distinguished careers
in the United. States Army prior to the War Between the States,
their services to the Southland indelibly stamped them as among
the greatest soldiers of all time. This act must at last impress the
unreconstructed rebel as well as the dyed-in-the-wool Yankee,
one war is finally over. '
Time, the great softener and healer of wounds, has played
its part in placing upon the pagee of recorded history the vertMet
that must stand for all eternity. States the Dictionary of Ameri
tan Biography:
“Lee has been adjudged one of the greatest of modern sol
diers and probably the most eminent American strategist. His
achievements did not owe their brilliance to contrasted medi
ocrity, for moet of his adversaries were able. Neither was he a
great soldier because he had a great lieutenant in Jackson. Lee
deyised wd Jackson executed. If Lee won fewer victories after
Jtjfcson ’1 death, it was not because he lacked strategical ability
**<>*•» but because his resources were diminished and
hecawSp he found no successor to “StonewaN.
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The burden us young Borah’s
practice was not so heavy
that he did not have some
time for politics. He took an
active part in* a Kansas sena
torial campaign in 1888, speak
ing in the north end of his
county. The 23-year-old orator
was warmly received. Soon
Borah began to consider Lyons
a poor place for a lawyer.
He decided to leave Lyons and
Kansas. In 1890, Will started
uncertain where to locate.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
LANDLORDS FEAR
If Government Housing Bill Passes
U. S. COMPETITION
Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 15—As a ten
ant, my interest naturally is to favor
governmentally - financed low - rent
housing.
Nevertheless there is one argument
advanced by proponents of such a
program that will not hold water.
Opponents of public housing pro
test that the government ought not
to enter into competition with private
landlords. If the pro-housing folk
simply contradicted this statement,
saying, “The government should, too,
go into competition with private land
lords,” the matter would be one
merely of a difference of opinion.
But what the pro-housers contend
is that the government would not be
going into competition with private
landlords.
They quote plenty of good authori
ties to the effect that low-rent hous
ing does not and will not attract pri
vate capital. Therefore, they reason,
since private capital will not provide
that kind of huosing anyway, the
government, in providing it, would
not be a competitor of private land
lords.
• • •
RENTERS WOULD GO
It probably is true that low-rent
housing does not attract private capi
tal.
However, private landlords are ex
tremely fearful that governmentally
financed low-rent living accommoda
tions would attract their tenants,
forcing them to reduce their own
rentals, to prevent a wholesale exo
dus from their more expensive quar
ters into the lower priced govern
mental ones.
A smallish group of fairly opulent
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He decided on Boise and after
being unable to join with a part
ner, Borah opened his own of
fice. The young lawyer fre
quently served as counsel in
criminal cases for the under
world. He could not afford to
be fastidious in his choice of
clients. Not all of his criminal
practice was on behalf of the
accused. The Ada county dis
trict attorney invariably called )
in Borah to assist in prosecu
tions.
families doubtless would sUok to their
more luxurious apartments, but most
folk would be greatly tempted by low
ered rentals. So realtors believe— and
it seems likely.
• • •
AN EXAMPLE
Washington is a good place to
judge by.
Under the influence of war-time
and New Deal conditions its popula
tion hae nearly doubled in recent
years.
Building has not kept pare with
this growth. There has been a great
deal of it but it has been inadequate.
Besides, most of it was done at boom
ear construction costs. To pay inter
est on these inflated valuations rent
als have had to be exorbitant. There
have been reductions during the de
pression but they still are approxi
mately 30 per cent above pre-war fig
ures, and now again they are rising.
The capital has not a consolidated
slum, like the average city.
Its very poor live in miserable
shacks in alley,* scattered every
where, often in close contact with
very nobby apartment houses.
• « •
“EVERYBODY” WOHLD MOVR
If passably comfortable, sanitary,
well-lighted quarters were offered to
middle class families at rational
prices, it is a fair assumption that
they would move into them in short
order, leaving a large share of Wash
ington vacant—unless rentals were
cut drastically without ruining the
landlords, who built at fancy prices.
At best the vast majority of Wash
ington’s landlordism is hanging onto
solvency by its eyelids.
Slum rentals are not low, either.
In proportion they are much, high
er than for fancier accommodations.
Governmental low-reet housing un-
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i More and more civil suits
i came the young lawyer’s way,
■ so that in time he practically
* abandoned the criminal practice.
, His work became very largely
1 that of counsel for
sonie °f strongest corpora
t’ons in Idaho. Borah never
sou &ht a public office until he
< <-'4? ra n for the senate in 1902, and
; ' IP or t,iat very reason his serv-
ices were much sought after in
A recent photo of Senator Borah ever Y political campaign. He
» and his wife was chairman of the Idaho'
■I. 1 state central committee in 1892,
You’re Telling
Me?
Don’t let any man tell you hs cares
nothing for the opinions of others
He shaves, doesn’t he?
• * •
Recently an unsuccessful poet
ess mailed her latest poem to an
editor and dared him to print it.
She won the dare.
* ♦ *
The world is proud of the new giant
liner, Queen Mary—but to the man
in the moon it’s just a cootie crawl
ing across a bald head.
• • •
In this world of plenty there is
always a shortage of some com
modities. For instance—enthu
siasm.
• • ♦
Mussolini celebrates now a “glorious
victory” over Ethiopia. He could have
celebrated it a couple years ago when
he started to pick on a country he
knew he could lick.
If thou hast done foolishly in lift
ing up thyself, or if thou hast
thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy
mouth.—Proverbs 30:32.
questionably would cut under them,
giving a deal more for less money.
♦ * *
COMPETITION CERTAINLY
Thus a low-rentallzed government
program would be calculated to clean
out ths middle class landlord. '
And the slum landlord likewise.
Even the very tony landlord might
be indirectly affected.
Governmentalization may benefit
the tenant.
But what is the use in trying to
convince the landlord that, with a
governmental low-rent system in
operation, the public will not be in
competition with him?
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
BUSINESS “TOO GOOD”
Bcause of Federal Spending and Largesses
FOR CAUTIOUS BANKERS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
IT WOULD BE BETTER if busi
ness were not “so good” now. That
is the word some of the big bankers
are passing dewn to their mercantile
customers.
The matter was brought to some
what of a minor climax when one
of the executives of a large depart
ment store organization charged ‘a
plot” because security prices were
falling in the face of rising mercan
tile business.
Governmental spending on borrow
ed money—as for example through
the soldiers’ bonus —does make for
increased business, but at the same
time it increases the public debt and
jeopardizes the government’s credit,
the bankers responded.
Governmental spending is a form
of inflation. It benefits —for a while
—even such anti. New Deal groups as
General Motors and the Liberty Lea
guers. Money jours into their coffers.
But, then, two things occur—later.
The government running more and
more into debt, may depreciate mon
ey, causing it to be worth less; and
taxes are increased.
♦ * •
DEPOSITS RISK
Rising bank deposits are no cause
for jubilation.
Banks are fearful of them.
Much of the increase is due to gov
ernment borrowing—the government
sells the banks notes and bonds in
return for credit. The new credit is
kept on deposit till dissipated The
bonds are counted as assets, as vir
tual cash. Yet they are I. O. U.’s—
from the government, to be sure, yet
I. O. U.’s whose repayment must be
arranged for by the government out
of the resources of the nation.
The banks —Federal Reserve and
members banks—have an overwhelm
ing amount of reserves or credit. If
the safeguards against a runaway
speculation ever break, we shall see
the dizziest “prosperity” we ever have
had—and the wildest collapse. Thus
say the pessimists.
* * *
DIFFERENCES
The Roosevelt administration is
viewed by observers as trying to
bring about the recovery without
sharp social readjustment. (That, of
course, is contrary to the views of
the majority of business men, but the
observers point out that the Roooe
velt administration is as much be
wildered by the evolutionary course
of events as is business itself. Be that
as it may, the administratio nis try
ing to promote recovery, as it has
from the beginning, through a diluted
inflationary process. That is the
point the bankers now are discussing.
They believe it dangerous.)
To understand the situation, one
must see the influences at work:
1. Those who would return to the
pre-Roosevelt age—termed by oppo
nents as “laissez.faire capitalism”.
2. Those who believe in the Roose
velt method of spending, with a mo
dicum of social readjustments in
hours and wages, with all prices tend
ing upward—termed by opponents as
“wealth destroyers” or by an undig
nified new term, “crackpots.”
4. Those who would readjust the
entire social structure, making a vir
tual co-operative state, dooming cap
italism—termed by their opponents
as “Socialists” or “Communists.”
<1 • •
A PRE VIEW
One of the moat widely quoted
criticisms of the Roosevelt economic
policy was written a year ago by
Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Jay
Vinton. It will be recalled that they
wrote a volume entitled, “The Eco
nomic) Odnsiequences of the New
Deal,” which became popular.
In Chapter seven, which they head,
ed “Stalemate”, they said:
“The economic consequenes of the
New Deal have been exactly what
might have been foreseen by a com
petent Brain Trust. Capitalist recov
ery, on the classic lines of laissez
faire, has not only been impeded but
arrested. And its only economic al.
ternative, social planning on socialist
lines, has been sedulously avoided.
“The New Deal is trying to right
the unbalance of our economic life
by strengthening all its contradic
tions. For big ownership it tries to
safeguard profits and to keep intanct
the instruments of its financial dom
ination. For the middle class it tries
to safeguard their small investments,
which only serves to reintrench big
wages, Increase employment, and as
sure some minimum of economic safe-
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i Up to this time the social ac
tivities of Borah were negligi
ble, due mainly to his intense
study of law and the necessity
of making a living. However,
after establishing his practice in
Boise the young lawyer met
Mamie McConnell, daughter of
Gov. William F. McConnell of
. Idaho. They fell in love and
were quietly married on April
21, 1895. It has been a “per
fect” match.
To Be Continued.
ty, while at the same time it opposes
labor's real interests through its scarc
ity program. In trying to move in
every direction at once the New Deal
' betray the fact that it has no policy.
1 “And it has no policy because as a
! liberal democracy it must ignore the
overwhelming fact of our peoch, the
’ irreconcilable conflict betwen capital
! and labor. The result is that we are
’ today neither an economy of balanced
scarcity, nor an economy of progres
! sive abundance, nor in transit from
■ one to the other. We are in an econ
omy of stalemate.”
• • •
J AN AXIOM
. On the frontispiece of their volume,
I Messrs Stolberg and Vinton quoted
t from Francis Bacon, statesman-phil
osopher cf Shakespeare’s day:
t “Above all things, good policy is to
, be used, that the treasures and
; monies in a state be not gathered
into few hands, for otherwise, a state
may have a great stock, and yet
starve; and money is like muck, not
i good except to be spread.”
AlFof Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
A few months ago one of rur suc
cessful writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald,
confessed that he had “cracked up”
. . . I don't know whether he has
put himself together again or nob—
he didn’t sound very cheerful about
it at that time.
It seems that Mr. Fitzgerald dis
covered, more or less gradually, that
he wasn’t being very happy. He was
not enjoying the kind of life that
used to give him pleasure . . . Even
to himself he had been pretending to
be alive, and without really intend
ing it he was pretending to his friends
and his family ... His life was
hollow, he, was living on momentum
long after what you might call the
“initial impetus” of his youth had
ben dissipated ... He was going
through the motions and was also go
ing through the emotions.
Mr. Fitzgerald didn’t write as
tlwugh he thought his was a special
case, something unique in human his
tory ... He was merely telling about
lb because it Interested him and
might interest other men or women
Well, it should . . - Because that
sort of thing, to a greater or less de
gre, at some time or other, happens
to nearly everybody ... A man who
upsed to like operas accidentally dis
covers that for some time he has not
been enjoying them at all ... So
he quite going to them ... Or per
haps he has some youngsters growing
up who should have a chance to see
an opera, so he kep going ... Or
a man who used to think it was fun
to get drunk discovers that it is not
fun any more and quits racketing
around ... Or a hunter is surprised
to learn that he has developed an ob
jection to killing wild animals ... Or
a man who thought he was an athiest
comes upon profound religious im
pulses that he didn’t know were a
part of him . . . You team that you
are not as conventionally good as
you thought, nor as conventionally
bad . . . That is, you are not now
what you used to be or what you
thought you were.
So, if you have sufficient sense or
courage, you decide to live the
of your life as you are right now
And that decision gives you a new
Impetus for zest in living . . . Thij
may sound rather involved, but it
really isn’t.
Style Whimsy
For summer parties in the country
or on a cruise, printed Peasant cot
ton dresses, also those of plaid cot
ton madras, novelty voile, crinkle
cottons and cotton laces are recom
mended as bein..g new, smart and
able to “take it” after being packed
and carried In the case and generally
“roughing it.”
New Flavor
Keep a quantity of sweet chocolate
on hand. When baking a cake or
oustards, or cookies, shave some on
top before placing in the oven. This
!• gives a fine new flavor. I
TodoyistheDoy
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, for this Newspapa
by Central Association
Friday, the Ides of May. (In the
Roman Calendar the IdfS—the day
the Senate sat—were the 15th of
March, May, July and October).
Straw Hat Day. National Holiday in
Latvia—where they don’t wear straw
hats. Zodiac sign: Taurus. Birth
stone: emerald.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Constance Cummings (Levy), b
1902, actress . . . Henry L. Doherty,
b 1870, utilities magnate . . .
Henry M. Waite, b. 1869, Army engi
neer who became the first manager
. Gerald B. Lambert, >. 1886,
safety-razor manufacturer . . •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 15, 1602 —Capt. Bartholmew
Gosnold landed on Cape Cod (he
named it that) from the 100-ton ship
which had borne him, his crew ol
eight and the 20 persons who became
te first English settlers in New Eng
land, across the Atlantic in 18 days
The swift passage proved what he
had long contended, that there was
a shorter northern route to the New
World; and caused navigators to
abandon the longer southern trail
blazed by Columbus. Thus he changed
the course of exploration and coloniza
tion in North America.
• • *
May 15, 1775—Congress authorized
paper money, the first federal cur
rency, to avoid the collection of
taxes! The bills were issued in denomi
nations of one, two, thre, four, five,
six seven, eight and 20 Spanish dol
lars, as a means of financing the de
fense of the colonies. Though “12 con
federated colonies” (Georgia wasn't
included) were pledged to redeem it,
the currency depreciated to virtually
nothing. So what was intnded to pro
tect the people from taxes, actually
was the first federal tax upon them!
May 15, 1776 —Resolutions that had
been drafted by Edmund Pendletoq
were approved unanimously in o con
vention of delegates at Williamsburg,
and Virginia declared for separation
from Britain. This event is the rea
son why July 4 has so much sig
nificance for us, for the Williams
burg delegates instructed their repre
sentatives in the Continental Con
gress to urge similar action upon the
other colonies, in only a few of which
had there been any talk of independ
ence and all of which needed Vir
ginia’s example. Richard Henry Lee
did, and caused the Declaration of
Independence to be drawn up.
* * •
May 15, 1862—The Dpeartment of
Agriculture was established by Con
gres, and Isaac Newton, self-educated
farmer of Delaware county, Penn,
who had ben agitating for 20 years
for such a department, was made the,
first commissioner. But it was made •
part of the PatentOffica, in the De
partment of Interior!
••• • ‘
FIRST WORLD WAR DAYBY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—New York's
Governor Whitman signed “prepared
ness bills” rushed through the war
thinking New York legislature, pro
viding for compulsory military train
ing in public schools, and empowering
the governor to draft for military
duty all able-bodied mate citizens be
twen 18 and 45.
The war news that ran in parallel
columns of the newspapers didn’t gD
come from New York. Pershing was
still chasing Villa in Mexico, and the
U. S. Marines had landed at Sant-
Domingo, “to guarantee the free elec
tion of a provisional president.” Uncle
Sam was looking for trouble—and
finding It in all directions.
(To be continued!
IT’S TRUE i
You’re wrong if you believe tfoet
the identical nature of lightlning and
electricity was first established by
Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite ex
periment. The discoverer of this fact
was Dr. M. Dalfbard, a Frenchman
in 1752.
Margaret Krasiouno, of Koninla
Poland, who married Gaspard Ray
kon, 105, when she was 94, bore him
thre children in the 14 years they
lived together!
Though the American Mother's
Day goes back only to 1906, England
has had a “Mothering Day,” ob
served on the 4th Sunday in Lent
for centuries.
New Egnland newspapers in Revolu
tlonary times carried advertisements
of counterfeit money which patriots
oould use to victimize British sympa
thisers .
The Union forces were defeated b
the Confederates m the last battle
of the War Bfetwen the States, wt
Brazos Santiago, Texas.
Daybreak
A wind came up out of the zeej.
And said, “O mist, make rom for
me!”
It hailed the ships, and cried, “sail
on,
Ye mariners, the night is gone I*
And hurried landward far away,
Crying, “Awake! it is the day!’’ n
It said unto the forest, “Shout!
Hang all your leafy banners out!”
It touched the wood-bird’s folded
wing,
And said, “O bird, awake and sing!”
And o'er the farms. “O chanticleer,
Your clarion blow, the day is near!”
It whispered to the fields of corn,
“Bowk down and hail the coming
mom!”
It shouted through the belfry-towee.
“Awake, O belli proclaim the hour.”
It craved the churchyard with a
sigh,
And sadi, “Not yet! in quiet lie.”
—Henry Wadsworth LongfelW.
The Kentucky Derby is more thao
a week in the past, but today we
found the fellow we were looking for
—we mean th? chap who admits he
never had a hunch to put 4 bet «■
Bold Venture.