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’ n ' THE MAYOR’S BUSINESS (?)
©overoor Talmadge has never been questioned as to the effi
e#Mi»y and fairness in the administration’of his office as Gover
nor of the State of Georgia. His distribution of state funds
Whether they be for highway or eleemosynary institutions have
bhem in strict compliance with the law and fair to all the coun
ties in the state.
During the fight upon Governor Talmadge when his status
was questioned, our mayor was conspicuous by his silence, a very
unusual position for«him to be in. It is rumored that during the
time that the fight upon Governor Talmadge was hottest, our
Mayor confined most of his attention upon Miss Shepperson and
conspiciously kept away from our state capital, so that he might
not be caught at any time in the Talmadge camp. Now, after
the battle is over and Governor Talmadge is on the crest of the
wave, highway funds pouring in at his command, our Mayor is
loudest of all in the demanding of Chatham county’s share.
Governor Talmadge is smart, he has proven this by his ad
ministration. He knows his friends, also his enemies, and mo
doubt he is doing a great deal of chuckling upon our Mayor’s
industrious play for the spotlight.
As the Savannah Daily Times understands it, the highway
system of this county is under the direction of the county com
missioners of whom which are composed as able talent as can
be found anywhere in the state of Georgia. Talent in fact, which
would be most complimentary to Mayor Gamble if he could
measure up to. The Savannah Daily Times ventures to prophe
size that Chatham county will get all of the highway funds she
is entitled to, but it will not be because of the ballyhooing of the
mayor, it will be because of the efficiency and honesty demon
strated in the administration of this county’s affairs by our Chat
ham Board of County Commissioners. If Mayor Gamble will
confine his activities to his duties of running the Mayor’s busi
ness and stop attempting to assume the preogatives of the Chat
ham Board of County Commissioners, and that- of the Mayor and ,
Council of Tybee, possibly he would have less criticism heaped
fcipon his city’s administration.
I EQUITABLE SUPERVISION.
There has been considerable loose talking and inaccurate
thinking concerning the nation’s transportation problem, much
of it because it has been attacked from the angle of self interest
by propagandists of the opposing forces at issue. The interest
of the average citizen, the tax-payer, the man who is neither an
employe or a security-owner in any transportation enterprise is
frequently overlooked in the welter of argument.
It cannot be successfully denied that justice to the average
citizen and the welfare of the public as a whole will be best
jnrved by the suggestion heretofore made by the Savannah Daily
that “the law makers of our country pay more attention
to sane equitable legislation affecting all transportation so that
each group may have a fair chance to deliver to this nation the
efficiency and operation which is necessary to “good govern
ment.” No fair-minded or right-thinking citizen can take ex
ception to that program. It carries with it a recognition of hu
man rights, a topic foremost in the minds of the nation’s leaders.
M hatever else may be said for or against the railroads it
cannot be said that their employes are ill-treated or under-paid.
Present standards in railway working conditions and railway
pay are in large part due to governmental regulation. In times
of depression they may prove onerous to the employer, but the
Insults are happy for those in railway service in that they have
reasonable hours and good wages, while their working condi
tions include rigid governmental regulation and inspection of
safety appliances, locomotive boilers, air-brakes, etc. The results
are fine for the public too, in that last year there was not a
single fatality to a passenger from train derailment or collision.
Contrast this record with that of other transportation agen
cies, largely unregulated and unsupervised, and you can reach
but one conclusion, that other transportation groups should in
the interests of public safety and public welfare be regulated
as are the rafiroads.
- All Os Us -
/./ A “BUM” CHECK
.A man came to see me a coupl? of
years ago and slid he'd spent all his
mon<y and needed a few dollars.
. . . Would I guarantee his ch'.ck
for $5? ... I didn’t know him, but
I knew who h? was and I’d seen him
occasionally with a friend of mine.
... So I took the check down to
the cigar stand, signed my n?me on
it, too, and gave him the money.
. . . He was very thankful. ... I
said It was nothing, It didn't cost ME
anything.
But it did . . . because the check
came back and I never saw that mm
a "tin. I know his name, I know the
little town he lives in, but I haven’t
done anything about It. . . . What
good would it do me? He's just a
petty swindler and he hasn’t the
money, and I couldn’t get it out of
him . . . And I’ve heard that every
body in town know what h?’s like
and he has to go out of town to do
his little thieving.
I know about him now and then,
however . . . and whenever I do. I
appreciate how he narrows his life
whenever he passes one of those lit
tle worthless chitcks. ... He has to
check off one more human being on
his memory, one more Individual
whom he must never meet face to
face, whom he must duck away from
if he encounters him on the street.
Llttie by little, walls close in upon
him. ... So what he did must
bother him more than it can ever
bother me.
What troubles me —as it probably
troubles nearly everybody else—are
the “bum checks" we pass at various
times in our life on people who
thought us better than we are. I
mean th? false impressions, the small
treasons, the mistakes, the mean
nesses, the cruelties, the neglects, the
disloyalties. . . . Nearly all of us are
guilty of these "bum checks’’—and
they are the ones that hurt.
GHOSTS OF THE DEPARTED DO RETURN!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
HUDDLESTON’S PLIGHT
Due to His Opposition to New Deal
PERTURBS ANTLF. D. R. MEN
HUDDLESTON’S PLIGHT
WASHINGTON, May 29-Anti-New
Deal Democratic lawmakers are con
siderably perturbed by the difficulties
Represenaative George Huddleston is
experiencing in his campaign for re
nomination in the Birmingham con
gressional district of Alabama.
Representative Huddleston is in his
eleventh term Capitol Hill.
Once nominated on the Democratic
ticket, in that section, a candidate
ordinarily is as good as elected, but
occasionally there is competition for
the nomination. Representative Hud
dleston never has had much, how
ever; eleven times in succession be
has won with scarcely a contest.
Now he has a fight on his hands.
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A Conspicuous Example
His, too, is a conspicuous example.
Not only is he a veteran congress
man, from a district where it was
assumed that he was virtually un
assailable; he is one of the ablest
men in the national legislature. The
“little giant from Alabama” was the
fashion in which his associates refer
red to him.
And, until the New Deal's advent,
he always was considered an advanc
ed liberal. Organized labor swore by
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him —and Birmingham is a working
man’s town.
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Opposed F. D. R. Measures
A genuine liberal is what he really
is, bua he is an exceptionally capable
economist, too, and many New Deal
policies struck him as uneconomic; as
false liberality, in fact.
He opposed them in debate and vot
ed against them. He fought bitterly
such measures as the anti-holding
company bill.
What he said, for he is a vitriolic
speaker, counted more than his lone
ballot.
He is a terrific states’ rightser. For
instance, although his district is dry
he voted against the 18th amendment.
Not that he isn’t a dry himself. He
is, but only a statewide dry.- Consider
ing the section he corfies from it was
going some to vote against that
amendment. The Rooseveltian tend
ency toward centralization worries
him. And devaluation of the dollar
added to his distress.
He has been especially irritating to
the New Dealers because of his pre
vious liberal record—not that he isn’t
a true liberal still, but he is anti-New
Deal.
A Losing Fight?
Being the outstanding Democratic
anti-New Dealer in the house of rep
resentatives, the New Dealers natur
ally were most desirous to “get” him
in the recent Alabama primaries.
They succeeded to a certain extent.
They did not beat him outright. He
had a plurality of the primary votes,
but not a majority-over all, which is
necessary to nominate.
Consequently there must be a run
off early in June between Huddleston
and his leading opponent, who is
Luther Patrick, a Birmingham New
Dealer. There were several other New
Deal candidates, eliminaaed because
their votes were too small to signify.
But if th New Dealers unite on Pat
rick they will win, about 3 to 1.
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Causes Fear
Miscellaneous anti-New Dealers are
upset by the reflection:
If so solid a candidate as Repre
sentative Huddleston is defeated, by
reason of his anti-New Deal attitude,
what chance will they stand?
They do not care so much for Hud
dleston’s prospects.
It is with their own thermometer
that they his outlook.
Th a way of an eagle in thi? air;
the way of a serpent upon a rock; the
way of a ship in the midst of the
sea: and the way of a man with a
mild.—Proverbs 30:19.
The hoary head is a crown of glory
if it be found in the way of right
eousness.—Proverbs 16:31.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
SOCIALISTS AID G. O. P.
Unwittingly Yet in Neat Jabs
WITH ANTLF. D. R. BARBS
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
The Republicans did not expect
the Socialists, preceding them in na
tional convention in Cleveland, to
help them—but thye did. Sage Re
publicans are clipping excerpts from
speeches of the Socialists in Cleve
land—to be used against President
Roosevelt’s re-election.
To be sure, the Socialists do not
desire to elect the Republicans, nor
even to aid the Republicans in the
slightest manner. But the Socialists
seem to have apter speakers than the
Republicans and have put into con
cise terms telling arguments against
President Roosevelt.
The Republicans must gain the in
dependent voters—and the Socialist'
arguments all are aimed at the inde
pendent voters. The Socialists have
found themselves much in the same
predicament as the Republicans—
their hold on s the independent vote
has been drained by the New Deal.
The Socialists are hit on two sides:
(1) the New Leal on the “conserva
tive” side; the Communists on the
“radical” side.
They may be exting-uished by this
pressure—and realize it.
Beware!
« • •
Norman Thomas, titular leader of
the Socialist party, told the conven
tion in Cleveland (as Republicans
smiled):
“For Socialists openly or tacitly to
support President Roosevelt would
be the one unforgivable act of the
year.
“To support Roosevelt as a method
of fighting reaction is to repeat the
mistake of 1916, when we supported
Wilson because he kept us out of
war. It is to repeat the mistake of
the German Social Democrats who
voted for von Hindenburg because
they did not want Hitler.”
But' do not mistake the Socialists.
They desire you to vote Socialistic,
not Republican.
For Thomas asks: “How can we
escape economic catastrophe under
Roosevelt or Landon? How can the
Roosevelt Democrats or the Governor
Davey Democrats of Ohio say that
we have prosperity now? They can’t,
and the only hope is Socialism.”
Thomas then reiterated the So
cialist program:
Modem interpretation of the Dec
laration of Independence, pioneering
in social adventure, social ownership
of the means of production, and the
end of private ownership of banks,
mines and public utilities.
CHOICE G. O. P. BITS
But the choicest morsels (from a
Republican standpoint) garnered
from Thomas’ various talks in Cleve
land are these, concerning doings in
Democratic states:
“In spite of some encouragement
that labor has found to organize, the
outlook for civil liberty is dark. Flor
ida is a Democratc state. It is the
state which the presiment makes the
base of his winter vacations, it is the
state were the perpetrators of a long
line of floggings, kidnapings and
murders have gone almost vnwhipped
of justice. . . . (Thomas added,
later, that he was thrilled over the
conviction of several floggers, but
doubted that the judge would do
much.) . . .
“Arkansas is another Democratic
state whose cotton planters are rep
resented in the United States Sen
ate by Joseph T. Robinson, Demo
cratic floor leader. In three Arkansas
counties there is a strike of white
and colored cotton field hands against
the worst tyranny in America. They
are striking against wages of 50 to
75 cents a day. Only today I have
received a telegram saying that in
Crittenden county, these men, who
have been guilty of .no violence, are
being herded into a stockade, some
thing I suppose of the sort that Hit
ler uses in Germany.
“I have communicated today with
the federal government to find out
whether the administration, which
has so profoundly interfered in the
cotton economy of the south, the ad
ministration which is so proud of its
G-Men, can or will do anything to
protect American citizens against
peonage.
"Perhaps the answer is that states’
rights includes, especially in the
Democratic south, the right to treat
You’re Telling
Me?
The Italian army is teaching the
conquered: Ethiopians how to eat plain
spaghetti. What, no meat balls?
♦ ♦ •
So the Italians have taken the
Ethioptens’ fly-infested, raingoak
ed country and -given them a
plate of spaghetti in exchange.
We don’t think it is th? Ethi
opians who were gupped.
» * •
As the dirt begins to fly in this
political campaign we can’t help but
think what a boon it would be to
politicians if some siccntist would
only invent a mud.-proof vest.
* • •
A genius is a man who can
convince everyone he is great—
and that includes his wife.
• ♦ ♦
A South American republic Is a
place where often, on election day,
the ballcting is overshadow'd by the
bulleting.
♦ • ♦
One of the major medical mys
teries which have nevsr been
solved is the fact that onyy those .
who can afford it ever had a ner
vous breakdown.
* • *
If you live in the country or along
the seashore you are now approach
ing the season when all your city
relatives will begin to become as
clubby as the names in the phone
book.
| American citizens as Hitler treats his
victims. ...”
A Chuckle
The Republicans .although hoping
the Socialists do not achieve their
own aims, even indulged in a chuckle
over this Tomas attack on the
president:
“It is interesting to note that the
president who so bravely was at
tacking the constitution of the horse
and buggy age a while ago at a press
conference, is now profoundly silent
while the Supreme Court piles up
evidence that there is no govern
mental authority in America ade
quate to the control of industry and
the protection of workers. Obviously,
by keeping still, he hopes to keep
the support of his Bourbon Demo
cratic colleagues and at the same
time carry along a labor support
which has learned to be thankful for
small favors and a few kind words.”
The Socialists favor a farmers’ and
workers’ rights amendment to the
constitution “which will give con
gress power to do what is necessary
.for the economic and social well-be
ing of the American people.”
A resolution to put such an
amendment before the people was in
troduced in congress recently by
Senator Benson, Minnesota Farmer-
Laborite.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, May 29—The inter
national Philatelic Exhibition. or
stamp collectors’ show, now current
at the Grand Central Palace here,
should stimulate both those who col
lect and those who do not to form
a number of interesting conclusions.
Os course it fascinated me, because
the first writing I ever did, at the
age of twelve, was for stamp journals;
and even now my wife is an ardent
collector.
The exhibition is rich and grand.
The dealers’ stalls are well patronized.
Men and* women wait for hours in
line to purchase stamps specially
Issued by the government in. honor of
the occasion. And yet I think that
such large, well-ballyhooed and flam
buoyant exhibitions do a disservice to
stamp collecting.
For stamp collecting, to use the
terminology of the psychologists, Is al
most pure Introversion. It is a fierce
withdrawal; it is a protest against the
external, workaday world. Your stamp
collector flees with his album into a
magnificent fictitious habitat, into an
intensely private temple where he
worships at the shrine of pure Rarity
—a rite at once touching and absurd.
The collection of nothing else —
neither jewels nor paintings nor plate
—involves a dedication to scarcity and
scarcity alone in its absolute sense.
The most valuable stamps are almost
without exception the least pleasing
to the eye; indeed the botched and
careless printings, the ineffable “er
rors”, are the costliest of all. Here
then is anestheticism which trans
cends mere prettiness and goes to the
hidden springs of acquisitiveness and
the desire for uniqueness where they
bubble noblest in the human heart.
For acquisitiveness and the desire
to own something (1. e., to be) unique
are both noble emotions. Don’t let
the collectivists tell you otherwise:
they are merely the ones who have
failed in the gratification of both. No
Communist at heart—no one. that is,
who clings frantically to the shirt
tails of the mob hoping only to be
fed—has ever been a stamp collector
in the true sense, a philatelist.
But what happens to this thrilling
interior flight, this worship of the
extraordinary and unique, in the halls
of the Grand Central Palace? Collect
ors march up and down aisle after
aisle past huge glass showcases filled
with blocks of four, panes, sheets of
the scarcer stamps. They see rarities
in profusion. Their eyes ache and
their heads swim with the abundance
of Rarity: a paradox. For instantly
and subtly it ceases to be Rarity for
them. The vestal flame of the phil
atelic instinct wavers, grows dim and
—and at least temporarily—vanishes
like the sense of shock and a nudist
colony.
There is, indeed, something a little
Indecent about these album pages re
moved from their binders and public
ly displayed to the gaping crowds,
row on row on row. You observe the
neat script of the owner, painstaking
ly Inscribed in the privacy of his
study through how many rapt mid
night hours. You peer at various
small, cryptic notations and symbols,
set down for a purely private com
munion of a man with himself. And
you feel, if you are sensitive, a subtle
sense of outrage.
No, stamp collecting can’t be “ex
troverted”—can’t be whooped up and
made the excuse for conventions and
rallies and proselyting compaigns.
Strange old men can swap peeks at
their especial rarities in the dim
rooms of the Collector’s Club, but
when the masses besiege the Grand
Central Palace as if they were attend
ing a radio or an automobile show, it
may make stamp collecting less ec
centric in the public eye, but it does
damage to the essential impulse.
Os course the collectors who as
semble stickers bearing the faces of
Famous Men or Mountain Peaks or
Birds of the World are not phila
telists at all. They are like people who
paint china or gather trays ornament
ed with butterfly wings. Their hobby
is at home in the Grand Central Pal- 1
ace. But the ecstasy of the man who
would spend (and doubtless has
spent) a year's salary for a tiny bit of
paper simply because it is Rare—
with an “i” undotted, perhaps, or a
cloud disarranged in the design— i
must be pursued in lost loneliness.
He is sentenced to the cabinet—
which Dr. Caligari knew how to en- 1
joy- 1
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Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Friday, May 29, 146th anniversary
' of the ratification of the Constitution
by Rhode Island, the 13th state; 88th
anniversary of the admission to the
; Union of Wisconsin, the 30th state.
Moon: first quarter.
Scanning the skies: It w common
to regard the last day of a hot spell
as the worst, regardless of what the
thermometer registers, and this is
true. Humidity is highest, buildings
have b:en heated through, and peo
ple’s strength has been ■ weakened by
, the previous hot days.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Gilbert Keith Chesterton, b. 1874,
mammoth-seizrd English novelist and
eswjytot . . . Josef Von Sternberg,
John Emerson, b. 1874, playwright.
Brooklyn-born cinema director . . .
. . . Allan Roy Dafoe, b. 1883, physi
cian who attended the birth of the
Dionne quintuplets.
TODAYS YESTERDAYS
20 Years Ago Today—Patrick Henry
was bom tn Hanover county, Virgi
nia, of Scotch father and English
mother. On his 29th birthday, in Vir
ginia's house of Burgesses, he made
the speech which led to the Stamp
Act Congress and organized resistance
to British taxation without represen
tation; the speech in which occurs
the celebrated phrase, “Give me lib
erty, or give me death.”
The speech caused the Burgesses
to pass five fiery resolutions offered
by Henry. They became scared next
day, when Henry wes absent, and re
scinded them. But when copies of his
speech reached New York and Bos
ton and were published in newspapers
they inspired in other colonial legis
latures more radical .resolutions that
Henry had framed!
When the Revolution for which be
had pleaded burst upon the land,
Henry wouldn’t fight in it!
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Miry 29, 1826—Ebenezer Butterick
was born in WorChester county, Mass.,
a farmer’s son who was apprenticed
in his youth to a tailor. About the
time that he opened his own shop in
Fitchburg, he got the idea that a set
of graded patterns for children’s
clothes would be a greet advantage
to him and other tailors. After ex
periments, he cut his first saleable
patterns in 1863, without realizing the
enormous possibilities of his inven
tion. The patterns were confined at
first to children’s garments, then to
men’s, only after sometime, and an
indifferent success, were women’s
patterns b?gun. Sales zoomed quickly
to 50,000,000 & year and E’utterick had
the money to retire to ease and to
tinkering which produced several
other inventions, including a folding
bed.
• * •
May 29, 1914—The big news of the
day was the loss of 1,024 lives in
the sinking of the Canadian Pacific
steamship Empress of Ireland, which
collided wtih the Danish collier Stor
stad in the St. Lawrence biver.
A major catastrophe may have a
smaller impress upon human affairs
than a few well-written paragraphs or
notes of music, and the most sig
nificant happening on this day was
the publication of the first install
ment of one of the greatest books of
the 20th century—Spoon River An
thology. This was in a new non-ex
istence but memorial St. Louis Week
ly, Reedy’s Mirror. The first install
ment of this masterpiece of Edgar
Lee Masters consisted of the Hill and
three qpitaphs.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—To continue
the account of the battle of Jutland:
Back in August, 1914, the German
light cruiser Magdenburg had b&m
sunk in the Baltic, end upon the body
of a German officer, Russians found
cipher and signal books, as well as
German squared maps of the North
Sea. These were sent to London and
thereafter, by intercepting the enemy’s
enciphered wireless messages, the
British intelligence wes able to ob
tain advance information of many of
the enemy’s movements. Although
the Germans made variations in codes
from time to time, their efforts to
seal up the leakage of information
was offset by development of direc
tional wireless as a means of locating
the position of ships.
Thus the British were forewarned
when Admiral Sheer, commander of
the German high seas fleet, sent his
scouting force of battle and light
cruisers, under Admiral Hipper, to
demonstrate off the Norwegian coast
His plan was to thus dtiiw part of
the British fleet into a trap and de
stroy it. The main section of ths
British Grand fleet under Admiral
Jellicoe, put to sea, and Admiral
Beatty, with his battle cruisers, sailed
from Rosyth to join him. Before they
met, Beatty’s cruisers sighted Hip
pers, end firing began. The (British
immediately suffered heavy tosses
The Duke of York, servtog
Jackson” aboard the H. M. S. Colling- '■
wood, was captain of a gun turrent
In the engagement, and sent shell aft
er shell hurtling at the Derffiinger.
He cam? about as close to war as
any of George’s sons in the war.
More about Jutland tomorrow.
(To be continued)
ITS TRUE
The oldest existing sport, except
running. is bull-fighting. It started £
Egypt, and only reached Spain thou
sands of years later via Rome and
tne Moors.
T h h^pines6: Most luna
tics are happier than normal per-
It has b«,
studies. Some are dominated by up.
convictions of their own im
portance . others are always happv
because their emotional reactions are
always exaggerated.
Th? Duk? of K-nt, who was fourth
removed from the throne, was told bv
a gypsy fortune teller th»t he would
be the father of a princess who would
great queen. He was. The
child bom to him a few months later
became Quen Victoria-