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GUERILLA WARFARE
Yesterday, Mayor Thomas Gamble struck vigorously at the
New Deal as he welcomed 200 or more Georgia Cotton Manufac
turers to Savannah for the annual convention. And in the same
breath this amazing man praised the father of New Dealism, the
man who conceived and engineered its vast intricacies.
Mayor Gamble exercised his remarkable powers of political
sleight of hand in giving to the cotton manufacturers a speech
which he knew would please an industrial group chafing under
restriction by government regulations and at the same time
striving to keep In right with the Roosevelt supporters in Sa
vannah.
To quote from this oratorical attempt to play both ends
against the middle: The day of more abundant life, of which we
hear so much, and which we would all so heartily welcome will
not dawn through political domination of industry, nor through
|hat suppression for an indeterminate period of America’s in
rentive genius, which some economists so naively suggest.”
Again: ** I believe the common sense of the South would
gather trust the future of its textile industry to men who have
Jrown up in its development and who have been active and suc
cessful factors in its promotion than submit to the supervision
and dictation of theoretical innovators.” ...
“It will be a sad day for the South and for the country if
governmental control in any guise is substituted for personal
private administration of the industrial activities upon which
the creation of new wealth and expansion of employment rests.”
All very well. Most business men would probably agree
with the Mayor. But sandwiched into this statement we hear:
“Humanity’s hopes mount skyward under a leader of high
Ideals, I ADMIRE AND SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVES, THE
AVOWED PURPOSES OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and
praise his spirit of love and sympathy for humanity upon which
they are based.”
Which is also a very fine statesmen. Every Roosevelt sup
porter will agree with the Mayor.
But it can’t be done Mr. Mayor. You cannot possibly con
vince an intelligent public that you “support the objectives,
the avowed purposes of President Roosevelt” and at the same
time convince it that you are against governmental control in
industry. For that is one of our Presidet’s chief objectives.
You cannot be AGAINST the New Deal and FOR the objec
tives of President Roosevelt Mr. Mayor. For the New Deal is
the expression of President Roosevelt’s objectives. President
Roosevelt IS the New Deal.
Yon can’t stand on both sides of a fence Mr. Mayor. It is
a physical impossibility.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
BEING YOU!
Time flies, days change to weeks,
weeks to yeans, years into a lifetime
. . . You look back and perhaps it
occurs to you that you haven’t done
everything you hoped, you started
out, to do. . . . You haven’t been
everywhere, you haven’t become every
thing you dreamed of being.
Perhaps you’re a little sad about
this. Perhaps you’re angry, restless,
disappointed, disgruntled. . . . Other
people win so easily, without even
trying, what you longed so desperate
ly to have . • . Other people have
luck. You haven't had it. . . . Or
you’ve suffered the saddest of all
fates. You struggled for something,
got it, discovered it WASN’T what
you wanted.
It may be that you wanted promo
tion, responsibility, and didn’t get it,
while other* did. ... It doesn't
help much to know that there are
men and women who do NOT want
promotion, responsibllty, in this world
. . . You wanted to travel, but you
haven’t. All your life you’ve been
rooted in one spot, tied down. I
NOT—In the News
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COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
Leave ft to the youngsters to
foment embarrassing moment*.
Little Jean, 4, had never seen a
really fleshy person. Her mother was
quite slender, and so were *ll toe
relatives and friends of the family
•he had seen.
One day her mother was taking
Jean downtown on the street car.
Presently a very »tout woman, prob
ably weighing 250 pounds, waddled
into the car and sat down opposite
the child-
Jean gaaed at toe newcomer with
wide-eyed amazement. Then *h e
turned to her mother to inquire in a
voice heerd *ll over the car:
“Mummy, i* that all one woman?’’
You may have heard this amusing
•tory, but we think it worthy of repe
tition. It is one of toe better stories
told about Ignace Paderewski, fa
mous Polish pianist, composer and
statesman.
Once during a tour of th* western
United State* the noted musician
know of a very rich woman, rich all
her life, who has never gone any
where, never even traveled across
her own country, never went around
the world, still lives in the house
where she was born. . . . Funny,
isn't it?
But the main thing isn’t entirely
what you get, where you went. It’s
what you are! . . . Maybe that’s no
consolation, but it ought to be. You
can stay in one spot all your life,
seeming to be doing nothing and still
accomplishing much, become some
thing. . . . Ever hear of the Night
Blooming Cercus? It’s a fragrant
white flower that perfumes the des
ert. All year long it grows, prepares
itself for the one day in the year
when it blooms. And it blooms only at
midnight and its glory goes with the
dawn. If a human being wants to
see it he must stay up all night to
enjoy that beauty—but it is worth
seeing.
Who wants to be a Night Blooming
Oereus? . ■ . Oh well, any life should
be SOMETHING like that glorious
flower. . . . You can be YOU!
was taking a walk in a small town
when he heard the strains of a pi
ano wafting from a house nearby. Pi
ano music to Paderewski is like flame
to a moth, and it drew him magnet
ically toward the house.
When he arrived there he saw a
sign reading: "Miss Smith, Teacher
in Piano; lessons 25 cents an hour.”
Pausing to listen for an instant,
Paderewski realized with some diffi
culty that the pianist inside was at
tempting to play one of Chopin’s noc
turnes, but was doing it badly. Os
course, if there is one tihing Pade
rewski cannot stand, it is a poor ren
dition of a famous number, so he
marched up to the door end knocked.
Miss Smith answered the door and
immediately recognized the caller.
She invited him inside and he ex
plained why he had stopped. Then
he sat down at the piano and played
the Chopin number as it should be
played, *nd *s only he can. When he
had finished he spent the better part
of an hour explaining her mistakes
before he departed.
S Life Story of Senator Steiwer in Sketch Strips •
. —— - ' —By C. H. Crittenden, Central Pres* Artist'-—-" 1 ■€
Frederick Steiwer, United
States senator from Ore
gon, was born Oct. 13,
1883, in Jefferson, a small
Oregon village, the son of
John F. Steiwer and Ada
May, pioneers. His grand
father, Samuel E. May,
served as Oregon secre
tary of state for two terms
in the sixties. His home
now is at Portland, Ore.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHAT ARE ANSWERS
Which Readers Seek of Writer
TO THESE PROBLEMS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
HOW DOES a columnist obtain his
news?
Thus a reader questions.
It is a fair question. It would be
wise for all writers to record the
sources of their information.
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A TEDIOUS JOB
News gathering, in whatever form,
is a never-ceasing task. It is a job
that requires infinite patience, a good
organization of sources and a mind
capable of balancing impartially.
More than that .however, it requires
an open mind, a forever-questioning
mind, one never satisfied in seeking
to ferret out the last detail, the mer
est iota, to balance the scales equita
bly.
Not many of us measure up to the
requirements. It is the same as in
other exacting professions. Some of
us, however, try our best.
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SOME QUESTIONS
For example, in today’s data un
der examination (in a Washington
hotel room, it so happens) are such
unanswered questions as these:
1. Could the tax bill be kept within
the original Roosevelt basis and tax
undistributed corporate income with
out permitting large corporations to
escape through distributing their in
come in the manner they pursued in
1934? (This attack on the bill —os-
tensibly to guard the little fellow
against the big fellow —was made by
Senator Byrd of Virginia, who has
been notably anti-New Dealish.) Some
answer that this matter could be ar
ranged easily —by amending the cur
rent tax bill to keep the present in
come tax in addition to levying the
BACK TO THE MINES DADDY
W? it*'
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936
When he was 15 years old,
Steiwe* entered Oregon
State college at Corvallis,
the youngest student in
his class. Too young and
small in those days for
sports, he took up debat
ing and music. In his sen
ior year he was leader of
the school band. He re
ceived his first diploma in
1902.
tax proposed by President Roosevelt
on undistributed earnings. But the
entire matter has been complicated
by belief in some circles that th
president was “misled” and would
abandon his original conception alto
gether.
The tax bill is worth a great deal
of space. That is, provided one can
make a detailed study, and write the
results in simple, understanable man
ner.
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A RUMOR
Then, there is a rumor that Sen
ator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich
igan, considered a Republican “dark
horse,” ould “consent’’ to take the
vice presidential nomination under
Gov. Alfred M. Lqnlon of Kansas.
The story would be considered near
er the exact facto If Vandenberg's
supporters did not believe he still had
a chance for the premier post.
• • •
SPREADING
Workers and liberals are looking
with concern on the spread of fas
cism to this side of the Atlantic.
They would like to know what
really is occurring in Brazil under
President Vargas. Tales from there
are filled with descriptions of Fascist
terrorism. What is the truth?
• • *
RELIEF
Suppose relief were thrown back
on the states—then what?
A writer who has traveled around
would like to say, in answer to that
one—Heaven knows!
But it is for us to know.
Relief will not be turned back to
the individual states. Nor will any
thing else that has been centralized
in Washington.
The states will not permit it. The
•No. 1: Early Yea
\ U
Senator Steiwer at hi* desk
You’re Telling
Me?
The United States navy which has
been suffering from dirigible disease
ought to hire the right doctor for a
cure. We understand he will be avail
able soon. His name is Dr. Hugo
Eckener.
« * •
Dr. Eckener has gotten in bad
with the Nazis who run his na
tive Germany. Which puts the
good doctor in Dutch in more
ways than one.
* • •
If the Nazis don’t want him,
the United States could borrow
Dr. Eckener to show us how to
make dirigibles come down as
slowly as they go up.
• * *
The trouble with some dirigibles is
that when completed they proved
just a big bag of trouble.
However, some day the Zeps
will be safer than sitting on your
front porch. At least the pas
sengers will be above the mos
quitoes’s cruising range.
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Remember, the first locomotives
built were off the tracks oftener than
they were on. And we’ll lick the
dirigible problems the same way—
drop by drop.
Mint* on Etiquette
Leafy salads should not be cut with
a knife, but may be cut with a calad
fork and the bits folded, over before
they are put into the xnout.
people would rise up and all business
would be dislocated.
Such is the view of observers.
The groups becoming most power
ful —pension, monetary, etc., are for
complete centralization, whether they
realize It or not.
This is a world movewient—in one
form or another.
i C
The young graduate
taught school lor a year
1 prior to resuming his stud-
I ies at the University of
Oregon at Eugene M in
1903. Again debate in
! terested him, but he was
older and huskier, so he
, played football during his
freshman year. In 1905
; he became manager of the
university football team.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
SEE HOPE IN HOOVER
Idea to Capture Anti-New Deal Vote By
CALL TO DEMOCRATS
Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S street.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 22.—Many
Republicans think there is a deal of
merit in. ex-Presdent Hoover’s con
tention that the G. O. P, should
make out-and-out overtures to anti-
New Deal Democrats.
Their theory is that tere are nu
merous old-fashioned Jeffersonians
who will, indeed, sulk at home on
election day, but wil not actually vote
Republicanly unless they are offer
ed some inducement to do so. To be
sure they wil lhave a value to the
G. O. P. as mere Democratic stay-at
homes, but only a fraction of the
value they will have if they can be
persuaded to become Republican vot
ers.
However, an element of Republican
leadership is rather , fearful of too
much of a Democratic dilution of
ther party, on the ground that it
probably will be at the sacrifice of
principles which, in the it has
stood for.
♦ • »
PARTIES TRADE SIDES
If these latter folk did not realize
it, to a great extent the two major
parties have flopped sides already.
Once the Democrats were for
states’ rights and a minimum of gov
ernment. The Republicans favored
plenty of government, in. the interest
of a privileged class, perhaps, but
they never subscribed to the Jeffer
sonian doctrine that the less there
is of it the better. And they sub
ordinated the states to their prefer
ence for a large measure of control
of the whole country from Washing
ton.
Now the Democrats are engaged in
regulating nearly everything and the
Republicans are howling their heads
off about it. And t here never was so
much governmental centralization
before in American history. The Re
publicans yell bitterly that it almost
amounts to a dictatorship.
* * *
TARIFF STILL IS POINT
In fact, if it were not for the tariff
issue the two parties might be said
practically to have swapped positions.
The Democrats, traditionally for a
certain amount of moderation in im
port taxation, are scalin gprotection
down more or less by means of the
reciprocal trade agreements into
which the administration is entering
with foreign nations. And the Re
publicans continue to stand pat for
very high customs imposts.
Yet even on this question the
alignment no longer is clean-cut.
John J. Raskob, former chairman
of the Demoratic national commit
tee, for example, is a severe critic of
Secretary of State Hull’s reciprocal
agreements, as calculated to under
mine the protective system, which he
believes in.
On the opposite hand, Henry L.
Stimson, secretary of state in the
Hoover administration is one among
several outstanding Republicans who
praise thereciprocal bargains.
♦ * *
DISINTEGRATION!
Briefly, both parties have gone to
pieces. To say that they have split
would be to express it too mildly.
They simply have disintegrated. Bpt
they don’t know it yet.
Uuaware that there has ceased to
be any such thng as what formerly
was known a Democrat or a Re
publican, partisanship is re-aligning
itself.
But it hasn’t accomplished it yet;
hence all the confusion.
Four years from now probably the
re-shuffle wil have been pretty well
completed. The voters will under
stand who’s who and which is which,
but they don’t at present and neither
do many of their leaders.
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NEW GROUPINGS
Presumably the re grouping will be
into liberal and conservative parties.
It was a re-grouping which the
late Senator Robert M. La Follette
attempted to effect in 1924, but the
time wasn’t ripe for it.
This time a re-division inevitably
must follow. /
It’s in process now.
The old names may stick, but they
"3MBE:
Ml Y ’<>
uni
Senator Steiwer received
his aecond diploma in
1906, and then went to
Portland to attend the
umversity’s law school.
Two years later, at 25, he
was » graduated. With
three diplomas to his
credit, he was admitted to
the bar in 1908. In 1909,
at 26, Steiwer turned
toward Pendleton.
He began his law career
as a member of the firm
of Phelps A Steiwer. Two
years later he quit the
firm and opened an office
of his own. Mis youthful
zest, and the debating
skill he acquired at col
lege helped him win court
cases and public recogni
tion quickly.
To Be Continued
i,. will have a new significance. It is
possible that it will become apparent
at teih coming conventions. It will
be amply apparent by 1940 anyway.
Senator George W. Norris, a Re
j? publican, is a Democrat already. Al
f Smith, a Democrat, is a Republican.
There are plenty more such cases.
i
MyNewYork
! James Aswell
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e NEW YORK, May 22.—False
-• Alarm: The thin young man with
* the hollow eyes and long gluey hair,
. glances about more fanatically than
furtively. He slips into the tene
j ment doorway and quickly pours a
0 smal bottle of gasoline into a baby
j carriage. It is 2 o’clock in the morn
t ing and thef lame mounts quickly.
f ‘Then he runs, as fast as he can
5 run. Slowing to a quick walk when
he sees a figure that might be a po
liceman on the dark Hast Side
streets. Ten blocks, fifteen blocks,
twenty. He sidles up to a fire alarm
• box, expertly pulls the lever. Within
30 seconds there is a scream, of si
rens and a hook-and-ladder wagon
truck careens around a corner two
' syuares away. The little red road
; sters with the red lights, bearing fire
J officials, roar up .
But the thin young man is not
‘ there. Not any longer. He is on hts
5 way back, deviously to watch the
fire he started nearly a mile away.
‘ The equipment, summoned to the
false alarm, won’t be able to combat
the real fire quite as quickly as
otherwise it might have. The young
‘ man’s eyes bleam as he sees a dull
; red glow mounting against the East
’ River sky. Closer now, he hears a
’ woman’s high-pitched yell of panic.
1 He moistens his lips luxuriously.
’ Meanwhile there has been an ac
’ cident at the scene of the false
alarm. Turning the last comer, a
fireman has been hurled from his
seat. He lies motionless on the pave
ment with a fractured skull. The
ambiance shuld be here any minute
now. But his brother firemen can’t
wait. They must rush to the real
fire. . . . It’s already a two-alarm.
♦ * *
Ship Sailing: On the West - Side
Elevated Highway cars drone by ob
livously. One of the great, dark piers
has a facade blooming with lights.
The porters hang about the entrance
and taxis wheel up one by one to a
narrow door. The women dismount
ing from the taxis, and from occa
sional limousines, wear orchids on
their shoulders.
It is 11 p.m. Somewhere a ship's
whistle dirges once. Inside the big
pier building an elevator bobs up anti
down the three flights to the main
pier, where passengers embark. A
moving escalator carries baggage up.
Ovre all there is, for those staying
at hme, an atmosphere of subtle
bloom; almost of menace.
A few piers down the line two
melancholy pickets pace up and
down before a darkened doorway.
Their signs, which canont be easily
read in the half light, warn passen
gers from such and such a boat, or
steamship line. But now the crush
increases at the doroway to the pier
where a ship is about to depart. The
usual drunk in evening dress is pour
ed out of a taxi amid great hilarity
who jostle folk trying to get inside,
and generalyy make nuisances of
themselves under the misapprehen
sion that they ate charming playboys
and playgirls.
Only a few minutes now. The long
stone pier is lined with people, get
ting their passports checked, their
tickets approved, sending telegrams.
There are many pretty girls, all ap
parently about to sail away on this
boat. They troop up the gangplank, 1
orchidaceous and merry-eyed. Now
the whistle glooms all over you, loud 1
and sad. Hurry increases in the <
throng. Ten minutes now. I
A stowaway is marched down the
gangplank from tourist class, with a
brace of officers.
Another whistle blast. The jangle
of a warning gong floats out from
the main salon, the promenade decks. ,
Suddenly all the pretty girls troop
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Friday, May 22, National Maritime
Day. Rabia 1, 1355 in Mohammedan
calendar. Zodaic sign: Gemini. New
moon.
Scanning the skies: Studies dis
close that during an average “spsll
of weather” people are least efficient
as workers on clear days; moderately
efficient on the partly cloudy days,
and on the first cloudy day; and most
efficient at the end of a storm. Be
fore a storm we may feel depressed,
bub at the end, when the rain or
snow is almost over and the air be
gins to have that excellent quality
which makes us forget all about it,
we bend to our work with a steadi
ness and concentration which are
much less common at other times.
* * *
NOTAjBLE NATIVITIES
Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, b. 1854,
educator and diploma. Dr. Robert G.
Sproul, b. 1891, president of Univer
sity of California. Rev. Frederick H.
Hnubel, b. 1870, president of Lutheran
church in America. Richard W.
“Rube” Marquard, b. 1890, famed old
time baseball pitcher. Prof. Charles
C. Hyde, b. 1873, authority on inter
national law and diplomacy.
♦ * ♦
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 22, 1813—Richard Wagner wa«
born in Leipzig, where at 13 his colos
sal career in musci began. Although
regarded as the greatest composer of
his time, he plagarized. At a rehear
sal of Die Walkure, Wagner said to
his father-in-law, Franz Liszt, “Now
Poppa, here comes a theme I took
from you.”
Wagner, the “colossus of music,"
could neither play nor sing! And curi
ously, Hitler, who has ruthlessly tried
to eliminate every other Jewish influ
ence from Germany, is still a devotee
of Wagner’s music.
When he stole the wife of Hans
Van Bulow, the orchestra conductor
1 went to a shooting gallery, practiced,
i then went to Wagner’s house. A
friend dissuaded him wtih the argu
ment, “You can’t kill the Master.”
I Von Bulow agreed, and went back to
rehearse Wagner’s opera, "Tristan,”
. for its first performance!
May 22. 1834 —The events hap
pened which causes May 22 to be ob
served as National Martime Day.At
Savannah, ssembly of the John Rajf
dolph, the first; iron ship launched in
this country, was begun. The engines,
plates and other parts had been
brought over on a wooden sailing
vessel, so the first American iron ship
made its firstvoyage on another ship!
She was 110 long with a beam of
22 feet and depth of 10 feet, and the
1 first iron ship built after John Laird
■ of Birkenhead had been denounced
i as crazy because he believed irom
craft would float. (There must have
, still been some skepticism about it,
i else the craft would have been setn
over the icean by itself, instead of
in pieces.)
i Some day, at Savannah, the Savan
i nah, the first steamship to cross an
ocean, was being prepared to sail two
days later on her first transatlantic
voyage.
May 22, 1849—A patent on a "new
and improved method of buoying ves
sels over shoals” was granted—to
Abraham Lincoln. The idea was to
have a buoyant chamber on each side
of the ship. The chambers were to be
collapsible. As the vessel approached
shallow water they were to be inflat
ed, lifting the ship and making it
draw less water. It was something
like having a man lift himself by his
bootstraps and it never proved prac
ticable .
May 22, 1859—Arthur Conan-Doyle
was bom, 28 years before the most
enduring of 19th century literary
characters, Sherlock Holmes, first ap
peared in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle
tried repeatedly to kill off the char
acter, because he wanted to be known
for his historical novels, The White
Company and Brigadier Gerard.
This writer advises you to read The
White Company, to give it to your
boys.
♦ • *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—ln an at
tack at Vimy Ridge, as British divi
sions attempted to recapture 1,500
yards of trenches lost the previous
day, Germans introduced a new gas,
called "stink” gas, from its odor. Not
in itself dangerous, it was . .ixed with
poison gas, and introduced into shells.
It was designed to affect the eyes. It
was, in fact, the first tear gas.
(To be continued)
* * *
IT’S TRUE
Telephones aren’t increasing in
number. There are half a million few
er phones In service now in the world
than in 1933.
When capitalists join the bread
line: the free lunch served to stock
holders of the U. S. Steel Corp., at
tihe annual meeting, consisted of sand
wiches, pie (pumpkin, apple or cus
tard) and coffee.
King Henry VIII of England and
King Francis I of France engaged In
a public wrestling bout.
Dan O'Leary walked 100 miles in
23 hours, 43 minutes, on his 78th
birthd'.y!
Lynne Starling, who laid out Co
lumbus as Ohio’s capital, had mich
big feet that when two young women
knit him a pair of stockings which
fit, he ci-ve them $25 each and left
them SB,OOO in his will.
Sir Bleachcroft Towse, who has
b:en blind for 36 years, plays golf on
a regular 18-hole course, and designs
and builds furniture.
"You’re wrong if you believe that
hot cross-buns are properly served on
Good Friday,” writes Roy McCullough,
a . regular Write-a- regular Write-a
wronger. “Originally these sugar buns
rich with fruit and spices, were dis
tributed in churches on Easter Sun
day. it’s an error of long standing,
but an error, nevertheless, for them
to be served on a holy day that finds
altars stripped of ornament and cele
brant: in black vestments.”
back down the gangplank. They are
not sailing after all. They are mere,
to make male passengers
think the voyage is going to be a
gi eat success. Now the gangplank is
rising. . , ,