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MAYOR GAMBLE - LAW VIOLATOR.
In order to prove embezzlement under the law, it is neces
sary to prove the amount of money taken and to establish that
% it was taken with intent to convert those monies to the defend
ant’s personal use. With the accounting methods of the City
Clerk’s office under Mayor Thomas Gamble’s regime, it may" be
impossible to prove embezzlement by Gamble but there is a
•hortage in the city sinking fund in the amount of $287,125.
Even though embezzlement may not be proven, the Savannah
taxpayers are entitled to the facts. z
Legally there may be no embezzlement. Mayor Gamble has
diverted monies which legally should have been applied to the
linking fund. He has used these monies for other purposes, which
is a distinct violation of the law. Mayor Gamble and he alone is
responsible for this shortage. Discrepancies of this kind should
not escape the attention of County Solicitor Samuel A. Cann.
Whether the $287,125 was used for the personal aggrandize
ment of Mayor Gamble or whether it was used for political pur
poses, it has been spent in violation of the law. County Solicitor
Samuel A. Cann cannot fail to bring these facts before the pres
ent impaneled Grand Jury if he expects to carry out his oath of
office and retain the respect of the taxpayers of Chatham county.
The city audit, which Mayor Gamble has failed to publish
in an intelligent manner, would have revealed these facts and
showed whether we are correct in our assertions or not.
A public official has not the remotest moral or legal right
upon any exigency, if there be one, to deviate one iota from
the laws set up by the General Assembly of Georgia for the guid
ance of his conduct and official acts while in public office. The
solicitor general is charged with the responsibility of legal ob
servance by the public officials who are functioning in the county
in which he represents.
The Savannah Daily Times sincerely trusts that the Hon.
Samuel A. Cann will not be derelict in his duties to the taxpayers
of this county.
ATTENTION PUBLIC BUSES AND LAW-MAKERS.
Politicians are becoming active in their respective races.
At this moment, they are keenly receptive to advice and criti-
* cism as to their future official acts.
The major responsibility which a representative or senator
upon his pledge in the oath of office is public safety.
’ The Savannah Daily Times has carried numerous editorials con
cerning the laxity and carelessness in the operative personnel of
our bus transportation companies due to insufficient legislation
covering their actions.
i Every known phase of railroad activity has been covered
| by national and state legislation in order to guarantee to the
jrt public safe transportation. Why should this not be applicable
5 Jto buses? Why should not buses be properly manned by experi
enced men, properly examined, properly bonded and covered by
proper legislation? In many instances, the writer of this editorial
has been a passenger upon buses and has observed bus drivers
carrying on a conversation with passengers while the bus was
running fifty miles per hour. Is this safe for the passengers or
for those who are riding or walking on the highways? Proper
legislation would eliminate such procedure, would guarantee to
the public that safety which they are entitled to.
. It would be well for the voters of this country to take ad
vantage at this moment and discuss with their candidates for the
Legislature and Congress such legislation effecting the operation
of these public carriers. They should be made to promise the
-passage of such an act which will give the right to our state and
national authorities to properly inspect and govern their opera
tion.
The general public has been the recipient of much conver
sation concerning this subject from the law-makers of our
country. It is now time for us to receive more action and less
talking.
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Editor Savannah Daily Times:
The baseball fans of this fair city
want to know when we are going to
get a new deal in baseball.
By our continuous support of a
losing ball club we have shown our
desire to put new life into the Old
South Atlantic league, but due to
the fact that we have a manager that
knows less about baseball than the
bat boy, this desire has been denied.
The fans are getting fed up on such
baseball as played recently and many
more games like that one and instead
of searching for players the officers
< the club will have to etart look-
Ing for fans- Yes, we admit that
every team has its off days and nights
but the game I refer to was not lost
due to this season but due to the mis
management of the team. Every fan
knows that Roy does not seem to get
going until after three or four in
nings and removing him from the
game last night was a fine example
of mismanagement. When Roy was
removed from the game he was four
runs behind and when the game end
ed we were 11 runs in the rear. Look
back through Roy’s record and see if
there has ever been a game when an
opposing team scored seven runs off
of Roy after the fourth inning.
The fans are not after roasting
the players, they are doing their part
they are playing good ball but when
they have a manager such as the one
we have what can you expect?
The baseball fans of this city ask
this question. We have changed
pitchers, we have changed catchers
and 'jfielders but just when are we
going to change managers????????
Mr. Manager get wise to yourself
and step out of the way for some
one that knows the game.
A BASEBALL FAN. ••
PULLING US OUT OF THE DEPRESSION
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—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
CUTTING OF RELIEF
By Legislatures in Opposition
VIEWED WITH ALARM
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Labor clashes are not the chief
worry of the government as to future
months—but relief riots.
Legislatures in several important
states —notably Republican-dominat
ed states—have shut down on relief.
The situation is especially precari
ous in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and
Ohio (where anti-New Deal Demo
crats control).
• • •
New Jersey
State aid to communities stopped
April 15 in New Jersey.
The American Association of So
cial Workers has issued a special re
port on the New Jersey situation.
Prior to the slash, the allowance
for a family of four was $9.70 a week.
Eight out of 41 communities con
tinued to maintain that scale
The other communities cut the
scale to $2.50 a week for a family of
sou nine cents a day per per
son.
Furthermore, in 16 communities all
persons were dropped from relief and
forced to re-apply. Investigations
were slow, cruel and aosurd rules
were applied in many instances—and
people left to starve.
In 19 cities a forced labor policy
was adopted-:—even as to young girls.
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savannah daily times, Monday, julyis, 1936
In Germany
In the German reich, also, there
has been forced labor for girls.
Now, according to reports which
seem fairly well authenticated, an
investigation of some of the camp of
ficers is demanded by numerous
mothers.
The German labor camps reduce
unemployment totals in the reich.
But they do not solve the German
economic situation any more than
forced labor solves the unemployment
problem in the United States.
• • •
Windfall?
Democrats claim Governor Lan
don’s message to the Kansas legisla
ture on social security as a windfall.
The Republicans say, no, it means
that the governor is awake to ( social
conditions.
The governor urged two broad
amendments to the Kansas constitu
tion to enable the state to conform
with the federal social security plan.
The governor also issued a state
ment asserting the necessity of a
“community through its government”
protecting “those -who by reason of
age or other misfortune may have
claims upon us.”
Kansas has been termed by social
workers as a backward state in so
cial legislation.
A British View
Here are two excerpts from a Brit
ish view of the Democratic conven
tion in Philadelphia—the view b'tng
that of the Manchester Guardian’s
correspondent:
“Compared with those at the Re
publican convention in Cleveland,
the ledaers here look younger and
keener and the delegates more varied
in types and age s A good portion of
them are thoughtful looking women.”
The correspondent then describes
in amazement the antics of delegates
and the accompanying din.
To which the correspondent adds:
■ “American politics are very phys
ical.”
* • *
Non-Politioal
Democrats who seek offices are
looking with alarm upon a newjxend
of President Roosevelt’s. He seems
to have created a super-civil service,
for the highest jobs.
No job seeker has been appointed
to fill vacancies in these choice posi
tions:
Under secretary of the treasury,
assistant secretary of the navy, di
rector of the budget, and comptroller
general, to say nothing of many other
posts in the hands of trainzi men or
“brain trusters.”
Now, when Postmaster General
Farley goes on leave, the active head
of the post office department as
sumes charge.
This situation is unprecedented, es
pecially in an election year.
Off the edast of Africa there are
red fogs—composed not of water but
of sand blown from the Sahara, hun
dreds of miles aawy.
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
HOW DROUGHT IS “MADE”
As Related By Writer From Farm Region
BY LAXITIES OF MAN
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 13.—About 40
years ago an old chap of the name
of Campbell ran in Sioux City (Iowa)
a weekly publication called “Soil Cul
ture.”
It was devoted to the development
of what was known as “dry farming.”
That is to say, it explained how
crops could be produced in territory
u’here the normal rainfall was scanty.
It advocat'd very deep plowing and
then the systematic scratching of the
plowed-up surface into what was des
cribed as a “dust mulch” about an
inch deep, to retain whatever mois
ture did fall, like a saturated blanket.
Professor Campbell w.|» regarded
then as a great scientist—he was
going to make the semi-desert blos
som like a rose.
He was fanatically sincere and had
many followers.
The farmer who didn’t pulverize his
acres, preparatory to blowing away
down to hard-pan, was regarded as a
lazy cultivator.
Then—Dust Storms
The scheme worked faiyly well for
a while, before the blowing away
process had progressed far.
It probably did*not do much dam
age in lowa and adjoining regions.
For one thing that area is well rained
on and never has required the in
tensive Campbell treatment. Further
more the ground is known as “gum
bo”—too heavy and sticky to stay
pulverized, or to be wafted from its
moorings, anyway.
In other parts of the northwest,
MyNew York
By
James As well
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, July 13. with
the heat: It is untrue that a man
must go to the country to enjoy the
birds and the flowers. There are so
many of both in the country that you
scarcely ever get a chance to become
acquainted. JB’ut with the smallest ter
race or balcony jutting from a sky
scraper window you become intimate
ly concerned with the life and ec
centricities of, every sprig of ivy and
nighborhood pigeon or sparrow.
The trouble is that apartment dwell
ers, having made the acquaintance of
sparrows or other feathered citizens,
commence chatting with them after
the fifth or six year; particularly in
seasons when the thermometer jiggles
around 100. The real danger comes
when we start addressing the gera
. niums and potted tomato plants. I
have a tomato plant known as “Jack.”
» ♦ ♦
The picture “Public Enemy’s Wife”
is very good melodrama ,yet the title
suggests a continuation of the cycle
in the manner of the Rover Boys.
There could be “Public Enemy’s Son,”
“Public Enemy’s and
“Public Enemy’s Friend.” Or it might
go along with “Public Enemy at
Camp,” “Public Enemy /.i the Adri
atic,” “Public EnemV Among the
Eskimoes,” “Public Enemy at Yale,”
“Public Enemy in Congress” or even
“Public Enemy Among the Utopians.”
♦ ♦ w
Rubberneck note: The decorous,
Georgian front of the Chinese Cham
ber of Commerce; somehow you ex
pect a pagoda.
♦ * ♦
Expeditionists into Long Island re
turn with stories of “For Sale’’ signs
in the yard of the Petit Trianon at
Lake Ronkonkoma. William K. Van
derbilt, a prodigious cost, built this
gingerbread mansion at the turn of
the century and it becam? the best
known oasis for ths get-out-and-push
' motorists of the years before the war.
Jne man who sadly related the
, shuttered desolation of the Petit
, Trianon is 50 and was a cut-up in
t the last decade, 1905-15. “Every time
anyone mentioned a cold bottle and
a bird In those days, we winked and
intoned, ‘Aha, the Petit Triancti, is
it?’ Once I motored out there in a
1910 Stanley Steamer and was ar
rested by a village constable. He
swore I was go-ng all of 20 miles an
hour, but I contended this was im
possible because I was no conscience
less scorcher and dare-devil.’’
♦ • ♦
Reflection in the heat: Fifty years
ago the greatest actor of the time
couldn’t have lured a dozen people
into one of the theatric incubators
here, innocent of any sort of cooling
system. The first time electric fans
were installed in a Broadway theater
the noise of their whirring was so
loud that the audience went away
puzzled; no one had heard a word the '
actors said.
* ♦ *
Manhattan routine: promptly at
4:30 p.m., when the sun tilts out of ,
the tenement streets, the fire hydrants ‘
are turned on and the slum children, ,
emerging like little pale imps from ,
the dun doorways, splash into cas
cades of cold water. It’s a curious fact
that however many playgrounds the
city provides, replete with huge pools
and swings and ball courts, the young- {
sters would rather play among the .
trucks and cars of the ssrtet; there .
is a fascination for them about as- 1
phalt which puzzles the welfare work- '
ers. Maybe it’s the added fillip of c
squirming out from under the wheels. 5
"A family of Aswells was complete
ly wiped out by the Galveston flooH
of a generation ago,” writes a cor
respondent, “and I wonder if you are *
descendant of them, for I have never 1
seen the name elsewhere.” Did you 1
say completely wiped out? a
and some of the more southerly west
likewise, the soil is dustier (sandier is
too mild a word for it).
Ground to powder, it yielded results
if immediately rained on.
Otherwise the winds scooped it up
and it began to vanish in dust storms.
It took a little time for this ten
dency to manifest itself. Now it is
doing so.
♦ ♦ ♦
Water Holes done
Another item:
In my day in the middle north \\. t
(nearly half a century ago) the coun
try was covered by little lakes and
sloughs (called “slews”). They fur
nished a water supply from which the
sun could suck up moisture and re
dispense it judge-matically.
Practically all of these Ititle water
holes have been drained off, to make
room for cultivation, and the lack of
them has upset the rainfall.
In brief, the climate has been
changed.
• * •
Beavers, Too, Gone
I can remember when beavers
regulated irrigation. For instance,
“Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.”
They did not supervise the lower
reaches of streams like the Missis
sippi, but they regulated them from
their headwaters. Now the little ani
mals are exterminated.
Game wardens have tried to check
the destruction of wild life, but they
haven’t been very successful.
* • •
New Deal’s Aim
The New Deal has manifested an
inclination to get back to first pirn
.ciples.
It named “Ding” Darling, cartoon
ist, as one of its conservatosr.
Elxt “Ding” couldn’t get any action
—he resigned as a public servant be
cause he recognized that his cause
was hopeless.
What Program?
Conservation!
It is a New Deal principle.
However, one would like to hear a
program enunciated.
How and where re-plant farmers
from the stricken districts- to pros
perous districts? There is action now
in the drouth crisis, but what is the
specific long-term program?
ALL or US
I ... 1... I
I OWN a High Horse ... I ride
him when my feelings are “hurt”.
I am probably the world’s cham
pion procrastinator . . . But it’s not
much fun. Too often I discover that
I have put off doing the things I
wanted to do and done the things I
didn’t want to So.
I know a man to whom the idea of
taking a ride down the highway on a
Sunday afternoon is always attract
ive .. . So he yields to it. and then
spends it cursing the stupidl.y of every
other motorist on the highway.
I’m not superstitious but the idea
of lighting three cigarettes on a match
is always embarrassing . . . One of
the other two may object and I’m
embarrassed by HIS superstitiousness.
The most annoying job in the house
is fixing a leaky faucet . . . First you
must find the place to turn off the
water. Then you get the faucet
apart . . . Thqn you discover that
none of your washers will fit . . . So
you put it together again, leaking,
and tackle the job another day.
I saw' a small boy rough-housing
his small dog ... If I treated that dog
just half as roughly, he’d yowl for
help . . . But a small boy—well, HE
is different.
I’ve never lost any friends through
lending money . . . Those who didn’t
pay it back were never my friends.
Those who did, still are.
Chitting the lawn isn’t so bad. Trim
ming the*edges is the tedious business.
Who chooses the young men who
sell gasoline in service stations? He
does a good job, and so do they.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is the capital of the Ter
ritory of Alaska? •
2. Name the trophy competed for
annually by amateur golf teams re
presenting Great Britain and the
United States.
3. Define “fiduciary relationship.”
Hints on Etiquette
The proper introduction for a gov
ernor and his wife is “Governor and
Mrs. Brown.”
Words of Wisdom
We sleep, but the loom cf life never
stops and the pattern which was
weaving when the sun went down is
weaving when it comes up tomor
row.—Henry Ward Beecher.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons hose birthday is today have
an intense desire to make people and
things better. However, they are apt
to be considered indifferent and cold,
but this does not swerve them from
what they consider the strict line of
duty. They are appreciated by those
who learn to understand them.
One-Minute Test Answers 1
L Juneau.
2. The Walker International Ama-
teur Golf cup. It was first offered in 1
1922 by George H. Walker, former *
president of the. United States Golf i
association. j
3. One of trust or trusteeship. <
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Monday, July 13; Tammuz 25. 5696
in Jewish calendar. Nathan Bedford
* Forrest's Birthday, a holiday in Tenn
essee. Foundation Day in Dominican
i ! Republic. Moon: last quarter.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Mary E. Woolley, b. 1863, president
' of Mt. Holyoke College . . . Raymond
• Leslie Buell, b. 1896, president of
; Foreign Policy Association . . . Sid
ney Webb Baron Passfield, b. 1859,
British Labor statesman . . . Phillipa
Lord, B. 1092, radio actor . . . Carl
E. Milliken, b. 1877, president of Mo-
t tion Pictures Producers and Distri
“ butors of America .. . Walter L. Main,
[ b. 1867, circus operator. In 1896 the
. biggest attraction in his circus was
, one of those wonderful new machines
' called automobiles . . .
* * *
. TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
; July 13, 1488—Supposed birthday
f of one Ursula Southiel, author of the
famed Mother Shipton’s prophecies,
i who is supposed to have foretold by
centuries invention of the flying ma
chine, submarine travel, etc., and
various catastrophes.
, Her 15th century prophecies actual
ly were the 19th century forgeries of
one Charles Hindley, who when he
. announced the end of the world in
1881 as a Mother Shipton prophecy,
caused hundreds of rural English
folk to desert their houses, give up
their belongings and spend their days
. and nights in the fields praying.
His forgery was a greater achive
men than that of William Francis
Mannix, who while in Honolulu jail,
wrote “Memoirs of Li Hung Chang”
which the world seriously accepted
for years as the autobiography of a
distinguished Chinese statesman.
* * ♦
July 13, 1793—Marie Anne Char
lotte Corday made herself an immortal
by killing Jean Paul Marat, Swiss
born leader of the French Revolution,
in his bathtub.
Charlotte, 25-year-old miss from the
provinces whose lover Barbaroux had
been executed by Marat’s order over
came his guards with her maidenly
innocence and got into his apartment
to jab a knife into his heart and
change the history of France—and of
all Europe and the western world.
Condemned immediately to death
she sat gayly for the painting by the
artist Hauer which you may enjoy
today, then walked calmly to the
guillotine.
, Marat’s body, buried in the Panth
eon with highest honors, was cast out
15 months later to public applause.
• • •
July 13, 1821—Nathan Bedford
Forrest was bom in Marshall county,
Tenn. 44 years before his enemy,
the Union General Sherman called
him “the most remarkable man the
civil war produced on either side,”
and 46 years before he founded the Ku
Klux Klan. His cavalry campaigns
are still studied as models in military
colleges all over the world.
He himsef had little schooling. In
his report of the capture of Fort Pil
low he wrote: “We busted the fort
at ninerclock and scatered the nig
ers. The men is still acillanem in
the woods.” When a soldier made a
third request for a furlough, Forrest
scribbled across, it. “I told you
twist Goddamit know.”
July 13 Among State Histories—
-1787: Congress enacted the North
west territory ordinance, which star
ted a rush of settlers into the Ohio,
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis
consin country . . . 1890: A cyclone
upset a steamer on Lake Pepin, Minn..,
and drowned 100 . . . 1934: San Fran
cisco’s general strike called.
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The Span
ish government suspended constitu
tional guarantees and declared martial
law throughout the country because
of a railway strike.
What the government didn’t know
at the time w’as that the strike had
been promoted by foreign agents de
sirous of interrupting of movement of
war supplies to belligerent countries.
The United States wasn’t the only
neutral country in which the war
was going on.
(To Be Continued)
Your’e Telling
Me?
HOW TO KEEP COOL: Read to
day’s weather forecast about the even
greater heat wave now op its way.
That will make you break into a cold
sweat.
• • •
Motorist runs down three hitch
hikers. Maybe was just trying to
plow under an over abundance of
thumbs.
The Emperor Nero, now writes a
historian ost his throne because the
Romans did not like his singing. Let
that be a lesson, you crooners you.
Natives so Ethiopia occasionally see
mirages in thier deserts. One very re
cent mirage they thought they saw
was the League of Nations.
• • •
“I’m the most popular man !n
America,” says George Bernard Shaw.
How did he find out? We did our
very best to prevent him from know
ing.
• * •
The government shelterbelt pro
gram may have fallen through but
we’re not worrying about that now.
What has us gasping is the nation’s
swelterbelt— and we seem to be in the
middle of It.
We must be going in for records
in 1936; record blizzards, record dust
storms record floods, record drough,
record heat wave. If it keeps up Amer
icans will need to show record en
durance.