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BOUHAN—MYRICK
The Savannah political pot is beginning to boil in its usual,
unethical manner at the expense of the innocent taxpayer.
It is generally known that there are two political factions
in our city, one headed by Keynoter Myrick and the other head
ed by Mr. John J. Bouhan. It is also generally known that these
two illustrious gentlemen get along privately together about as
well as the two proverbial cats thrown across the clothes line.
But whenever an opportunity presents itself for a political trade
beneficial to both, whether at the expense of the taxpayer or not,
there is no question as to their being able to function side by
side. It is unique in the annals of ethical politics for two gentle
men to get along so well politically and so poorly privately. Our
illustrious city and county attorneys are past masters in this
peculiar game of Chatham county politics. Their associates are
merely puppets in the game used for the sole purpose of trading
for position.
The echoes that are now sounding out from the back-room
conferences are to the effect that Keynoter Myrick will support
Talmadge energetically, soft-pedaling on the Redwine candidacy
but promising both his undivided support. Johnnie Bouhan will
blaze from the house-tops the Ed Rivers candidacy, soft-pedaling
on the Dick Russell campaign. This trade, if consummated be
tween Myrick and Bouhan, will place these two gentlemen again
in the position of playing both ends against the middle at the
expense of their supporters and the balance of the taxpayers of
this county.
It would be most refreshing if for once these gentlemen
could put first in their minds the interest of the constituency
which they desire to serve. Let’s analyze for the public’s benefit
the outcome of such a trade, if made. If Talmadge wins and Red
wine loses, Talmadge would naturally resent Chatham county’s
not supporting his whole ticket, especially after having received
the assurance that it would be done. Mr. Myrick would be voci
ferous in the announcement that he had rendered much loyal
service, therefore placing himself in the enviable position as con. ;
tact man with the Senator in Washington, a position of much
monetary value from a legal point of view.
If Speaker Ed Rivers was to win and carry Chatham county
and Senator Dick Russell was to lose, Mr. Bouhan would be
equally as enthusiastic in his manifestations of loyalty to Mr.
Rivers, thereby placing Mr. Bouhan as Chatham county contact
man with the governor of Georgia, placing the two Chatham
county leaders in the same old position with the public of “Tails
you lose and heads I win.”
There is a wonderful opportunity for the political leaders of !
Chatham county to step forward and render a real service to the
community in which they live, if they could but for a moment
forget this nickel and dime trading. Unfortunately, Chatham
county has to carry the reputation of their misdeeds. The days
of Boss Tweed are long past and gone. The people desire a voice
in their government and the sooner these two politicians realize
this, the quicker they will regain the respect of the voting public.
The Savannah Daily Times is acquainting these gentlemen
of the fact that no more trades, such as you-be-city attorney and
I-will-be county attorney, are going to get by with the people of
Chatham. The taxpayers of Chatham county will demand a clear,
clean-cut deal above the table.
No wonder Savannah’s little mayor is so dizzy at times and
uses such poor judgment in some of his procedure when he is
trying to please both of these master chess players at the same
time.
WHAT NEXT?
In the Savannah Morning News of July 13th, Page 8, Savan
nah’s Republican newspaper, has seen fit to play up a negro,
Jesse Owens, Ohio State track star, which is entirely out of order
at least to the clear-thinking reputable white people of Georgia.
In the second picture displayed on the same page, they
merely mention “Spec” Towns, the famed University* of Georgia
track star. It is lamentable to think that the Olympic officials
will allow negroes to compete in the Olympic Games, even more
to think that a paper in the deep South would cater to negro
publicity and at the same time put in the background the white
race which that newspaper supposedly represents.
It is now easy to understand why Savannah’s Republican
newspaper* associated with Mayor Gamble, attempted to secure
negro Republican leaders jobs in the Public Works Administra
tion in Chatham county, when under the guise of economy Sa
vannah white men and women were being removed from WPA
and placed in the bread lines.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. Translate the motto, "B. Pluri
bus Unum.”
2. In politics, who is John Hamil
ton?
3. What is a "suttee”?
Hints on Etiquette
When visiting friends who object
to seeing women smoke, the feminine
guest shuld refrain from indulging in
this habit. If she feels she "just has
to have a cigarette,” she should re
tire to her room for that purpose.
Words of Wisdom
men think old men are
fools: but old men know young men
are fools.—George Chapman.
Today’* Horoscope
If your birthday is today, you are
apt to be commanding, self-willed
and capable of attaining great poise.
You attract people to yourself for
guidance and advice. You may be
argumentative, but you are a clear
and sound reasoner and generally
have a good disposition.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. It means, “One Out of Many.”
2. New chairman of the Pepublican
National committee.
3. A Hindu widow who cremates
herself or is cremated on the funeral
pyre of her husband.
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-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
G. O. P. CRIES FOR PROBE
(But Committee Is Pro-New Deal)
OF SPELLBINDERS
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central P.ess Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 15.—When
rJiairman Augustine Lonergan’s sena
tirial committee on investigation of
c. mpalgn methods gets into action,
one of the things which Republicans
are saying ought to be inquired into
is the Democratic system of recruit
ing orators on the administration’s
■ e in the already incipient political i
fight.
The speaker’s bureau of the Demo
cratic national committee boasts that
it has 2,000 spellbinders enlisted to
pl:ad the New Deal’s cause.
The G. O. P. argument is that
the 2,000 will be Democratic office
holders almost to a man—the presi
dent, the cabinet members, a battery
of senators, a goodly force of repre
sentatives, a dozen or so oT governors
probably. Thus far, o. k.; all that is
customary.
But there are nothing like 2,000
of such moguls.
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G. O. P. Protest
The Republicans surmise that the
New Deal committee must have
drafted lesser lights wholesale to pad
its list—assistant secretaries, under
secretaries, departmental attorneys,
divisional chiefs and many other
classifications.
The government, say the G. O. P.
critics, evidently is to be run until
next November by a staff of petty
clerks and office boys while upper of
ficialdom tours the country, salaried
by the public, preaching New Deallsm.
This, assert the Reuublicans, is a
prospective situation which the Loner
gan committee ought to look into.
The committee, however, seems in
clined to concern itself only with ac
tual campaign contributions, disre
garding oratory.
•• • .
Pro- Administration
Anyway, it is a pro-New Deal com
mittee, three or four to one—
Chairman Lonergan and Senators
Minton and Schwellenbach (New
Deal Democrats) with Senator La-
Follette (Progressive New Dealer)
versus Senator Austin (the only Re
publican) .
It takes a mighty hopeful anti-New
Dealer to expect an anti-New Deal
report from a quintet like that.
Intrepid Investigator
Some folk do say that an honest
to-goodness investigation is promised
from the fact that Louis R. Glavis is
slated to be the Lonergan commit
tee’s chief investigator.
It may be so, but there is consider
able mystery about Glavis.
He will be recalled as the agent
who was principally resu nsible for
making out a case against Secretary
of the Interior Ballinger - Alaskan
administration in President Taft’s
day.
It is gossiped by old sourdoughs,
however, that Ballinger was framed
—that Glavis was “sicked” onto him
by the late Presidnet Theodore Roose
velt and by Gifford Plnchot, who
hated Taft, in an effort to discredit
the latter, and that Glavis did a
good job.
• • •
Clashing Investigators
In any event he won a reputation,
as a Progressive, to recommend him
to the Roosevelt regime and he was
-absorbed into the New Deal as a
premier investigator for PWA.
He had a rival premier investiga
tor, however, in Secretary of the In
terior Ickes’ administrative assistant
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 7)
-WORLD AT A GLANCE-
TWO MAJOR OBSTACLES
(Summer Slack-Off and Pensioned Workers)
FOR STEEL ORGANIZERS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
JOHN L. LEWIS’ steel organizers
face two major obstacles.
1. A summer off in steel, when
the corporations will try to force the
issue—finding a “legitimate” excuse
to lay off union men.
2. Determination of veteran steel
workers to stay out of the union, to
protect their pensions.
• • •
Rails
Railroads east of the Mississippi
and southeastern “coalers” will have
the largest gross earnings this month
of any like period since 1930—if car
loadings may be taken as an indica
tion. /
If traffic continues at this rate, con
siderable renovation of plant is ex
pected.
Western roads in drouth regions,
however, have been hit a mighty
blow. Some need plant renovation,
long overdue, but where will they get
the money?
* * *
“No Trouble”
Foreign investors, although with
drawing from American speculation
because of lack of quick profits now
see nothing disturbing in the Amer
ican political situation. They see noth
ing except a political campaign in
the United States whereas all of
continental Europe is considered of
uncertain stability.
Foreigners seem to prefer the re
election of President Roosevelt, be
cause he is a “known quantity” and
MyNewYork
By
James Aswell
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NEW YORK, July 15—People 1 Jose
Iturbi bids fair to become New York's
most lionized conductor, now that
Toscanini—always a reserved and shy
fellow—has returned to his native
shores. Iturbi made a mid-career shift
of a type few musicians have been
able to execute.
In post-war Paris he operated as
an expert concert pianist. He was
an idol of all the Bohemians who
made the Left Bank notorious and
alluring. He belonged to the now
haloed coterie which assembled in
such quaintly conventional interna
tional drinkeries as the Case du
Dome; Ernest Hemingway, Louis
Bromfield, Somerset Maughman (more
as amused spectator than participant),
The Prince of Wales, pert Caresse
Crosby, the ineffably chic Gabrielle
Chapel and others.
Suddenly he got a chance to con
duct —the secret dream of every solo
ist —and the huzzahs of the crowd are
still echoing. He had the manner and
the mood. He was a good actor, a
talent without which no baton waver
can hope to captivate the tune fanat
ics.
Then a few months ago, travelling
by plane to fill South American en
gagements, Iturbi had the bad luck
to be in a freak plane crash during
the takeoff out of a southern port. His
hands were injured, but not seriously,
and when he returned to New York
it was to trundle quickly up the ladder
of symphonic recognition—a ladder
with rungs as slippery as those of
theatrical or “400” climbing.
♦ * ♦
But the subject of notables who
have about-faced at crucial moments
in their climb is full of colorful dig
gressions. Instantly. I think of Alan
Hale, the movie villain, whose eye
brow tilts with a blond and shuddery
meance for the flicker fans.
He took as sharp a turn as any.
Os late his sinister features glower
less often at the screen’s beauties. He
has taken to inventing with a will
and cloisters himself daily in the
laboratory from noon to midnight.
Already he has a dozen patents in his
name and the royalties have begun
to roll in. Many of his devices are
wierdly ingenious gadgets which make
sense in the gizzards of complex ma
chines.
• » *
I suppose you are already ahead of
me with the name of Ruth Roland,
the lass who escaped death in the
cim romanzas of early serial cinemas.
Her million dollar real estate deals
in the priceless soil of Hollywood
are legend. She wonders why she ever
wasted her time in front of cameras,
where the most she could hope to
make was a few thousand a week.
♦ ♦ ♦
Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the darling
of the aquaria, sings scorchy ditties
into microphones with her husband's
orchestra on tour. But she remarked
not long ago in New York, despite the
enthusiasm of her fans for her new
spotling-grabblng, “Every time I sing
a song, I keep saying to myself: T
hope all these people know that I
am a first rate swimmer anyhow?
And more, rapidly: Elsie de Wolfe
stalked through some of the better
footling dramas before she found out
that an interior decorator who is also
an actress has a gold mine under
the stoop . . . Molyneaux, the man
who contrives the darlingest frocks
to set Amerclan debs in Paris to
gurgling was a war ace of grim and
selfless valor, the scourge of the
enemy aloft . . . Fred Keating got a
movie role on the strength of being
able to make a canary in a large
cage disappear into thin air; since
clicking in the talkies he hasn't both
ered to materialize his birds and
cages . . . Charles G. Dawes could
live comfortably, even If he could not
enjoy the more abundant life, on
the royalties which derive from his
musical compositions . . . Jack Demp
sey, of course, is known to the Rectors
of the Broadway sector as “a born
restauranteur” . . . Lawrence Rivers
is the nom de theater of a Wall
Street broker who did so well with
Broadway hits that he decided to stop
risking good money on the exchanges
when a play had one chance in five
hundred of being a scccess.
has shown friendship to other nations
through trade treaties.
In the United States, applause for
’ Governor Landon in movie theaters
is said to be mounting.
Nervous John Bull
England seems to be as nervous
concerning spies as are other coun
, tries.
Protests have been made in parlia
ment against the German Zeppelin
Hindenburg flying low over British
fortifications, shipyards and docks.
Alarmed Britishers say the Zeppelin
takes a different route each trip.
The Germans maintain a bored at
titude over such protests.
France refuses to permit the Hin
denburg to fly over its territory.
• • •
Lakes Higher
In spite of the northwest drouth,
■ the Great Lakes are at a slightly high
er level than last year and the year
previous.
This will mean larger shipping pro
fits.
• • •
Farley Poor?
Rumor has it that Postmaster Gen
eral Farley made a real sacrifice in
taking a leave of absence for four
months to devote his entire time to
; the chairmanship of the national
, Democratic committee. He enjoys be
ing a cabinet member, but close ob
servers say he has become a “poor”
man by devoting himself to politics
instead of business.
To Head Off Lehman
Republicans are said to be looking
for an upstate New Yorker to run
, against Governor Lehman. Reason:
They believe nobody can cut Leh
man’s total in New York City, but
they think upstate will swing strong
ly Republican to a man it knows.
Republicans believe further that
i businessmen in New York City will
vote for Lehman but not for Presi
dent Roosevelt, thus causing the
President to lose the state.
British View
A British view of American sub
sidies to vessel owners is expressed
in this London Times’ editorial:
“There is no real dispute over the
nature of the danger threatening the
British flag on one of the main water
ways of the empire. Other factors have
‘ doubtless contributed to the losses in
' curred, but the main cause has been
the subsidized foreign competition
against which the government have
; repeatedly declared their determine
’ tion to find methods of defense. A
1 correspondent of The Times last week,
1 writing as ‘a friendly visitor to this
country’, made an inegnious attempt
to belittle the amount and the effect
of the state support received by the
American rivals of the British lines.
The facts and figures given by Mr.
Cleminson of the chamber of shipping
are a sufficient reply.
“There can indeed be no denying
the extent to which American ship
ping in general relies upon the Amer
ican taxpayer. A report last year by
the federal postmaster general gave
the annual cost of mail contracts as
S2B 850 000—nearly half a million
dollars more than enough to cover
the running expenses, including wages,
maintenance, subsistence and repair,
of the 2828 American vessels certified
for operation upon ocea« routes.
“Not content with covering the run
ning expenditure, the govenment have
provided most of the captial. The
companies’ own share in the value of
their fleet is given as a little over
$80,000,000, while they owe the gov
ernment more than $112,000,000 ad
vanced at a low rate of Interest. Brit
ish companies dependent upon their
own resources can scarcely be expect
ed to stand up to competition subsi
dized on this lavish scale. They have
a legitimate claim for assistance from
the British governments (in the
dominions), including, of course, the
government of Great Britain.
“It is, of course, equally clear that
in this case, as in every other, assist
ance can only be given under condi
tions which will insure that it is ef
fective and that the public gets an
adequate return.”
Your’e Telling
Me?
Sound engineers say Washington,
D. C. is the nosiest city in the na
tion. Whoa! Don’t tell me why—l
thought of the answer tool
♦ ♦ ♦
A radio network reports the two
major conventions cost it $265,457.
That’s nothing. Thnk of the appal
ling cost to the American people. Two
full weeks of absolute boredom!
* * *
A drink addict may be cured if he
gets on the wagon. But a speed ad
dict’s only chance for survival is if
he gets off.
♦ ♦ ♦
While pasing out bonuses how
about one for the fellow's who got
married in 1917 to escape the draft.
Some of the poor devils are still fight
ing!
* • •
Canada doesn't know what to do with
its caterpillar plague. The west is
helpless before its grasshopper herd.
The problem is easily solved—breed
grasshopper-eating caterpillars and
caterpillar-eating grasshoppers.
• * •
No man need be schooled in music
appreciation to learn the beauty of
a note, —the sound of the quitting
whistle.
• • •
We don’t think about horse and
buggy Ideals or rocking chair philos
ophy but we certainly are having
palmleaf fan weather.
It isn’t the heat of the sun that
gives you your sunburn, but the acti
nic rays. You can get sunburned as
badly in the Arctic as in the Tropics. l
Today is the Day I
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
Wednesday, July 15; St. Swithin’s
Day. Morning stars: Mercury, Saturn,
Uranus, Mars. Evening stars: Venus.
Neptune, Jupiter.
NOTAIBLE NATIVITIES
Garry C. Myers, b. 1884, educator
and distinguished writer on child
psychology for Central Press Associa
tion . . . Eugene Ysaye, b. 1858, con
ductor and violin virtueso Al
fred Hertz, b. 1872, another orchestra
conductor . . . Marie Tempest, b.
1866, actress.
• « •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 15, 971 A. D.—Swithin, late
bishop of Winchester (England), was
translated (i. e., conveyed from earth
to heaven) with ceremony. Ever since
July 15 has been St. Swithin’s Day,
although he was not canonized, and
there is an adage that as it rains
or is fair on Swithin’s Day, there will
be continuous wet or dry weather for
the 40 days ensuing.
Origin of the superstition lies in
the tradition that Swithin made a
dying request that he be bured in
a pathway where his grave might be
trod by passersby. Instead the body
was placed in a tomb. A storm and
rains followed that lasted 40 days,
and this was interpreted as an indi
cation of divine anger at the attempt
to contravene Swithin’s wishes.
July 15, 1099—What is known as
the First Crusade ended with Jeru
salem’s capture, after a seige of five
weeks, by an army of 200,000 from
many countries led by Godfrey de
Bouillon, a Belgian. He thereupon re
fused a kingly crown, became instead
“Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.”
Actually the first crusade was the
“Peasants’ Crusade," which repre
sented the first stirring of the com
mon people in European history. (H.
G. Wells calls it the birth of democ
racy.)
July 15, 1783—Claude Francois
Dorothee, Marquise d’Abbans, 32,
gave a successful demonstration of
his steamboat, the Pyroscaphe, on
the River Soane, near Lyons, France
—years before Fitch, Symington or
Fulton built their first power-driven
ships. He had produced workable craft
as early as 1776, but neither then
nor in 1783 was the world ready for
them.
July 15, 1876—The first no-hit game
recorded in organized baseball was
pitched by George W. Bradley of St.
Louis against Hartford, in a National
league game.
It was the fourth of four shutouts
Bradley pitched in four consecutive
days!
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The British
penetrated the German second line
and aaptured Longueval, a key posi
tionon the Somme.
The victory showed usefulness of
cavalry not over. Two cavalry regi
ments were sent to fill the gap be
tween an infantry division fighting
for Longueval and another which was
being launched from reserve a L’nst
high wood. The infantry had to ad
vance a few miles only, but the day
was hot and the shelling heavy. On
reaching High Wood they were ex
hausted and all efforts to induce
them to dig themselves in were un
availing. The cavalrymen, owing to
the maze of trenches and -.’ire, moved
more jslowly, but they dug themselves
in with such vigor that by morning
they were completely underground.
The most brilliant role that can be
alloted to cavalry is intervention on
unprotected or weak flanks. In the
war on the western front after 1914,
and until, 1918, few examples oc- „
curred of this, for the simple reason
that unprotected flanks of a length •
as to give cavalry the scope they re
quired did not exist.
(To be continued)
All Os Us
I don’t mean your irascibility, I
don’t mean your tendency to blow up
in anger when something goes wrong
with your plans.
I mean.the temper of your char
acter .that unseeable and untouch
able element in your nature that
keeps you steady, keeps you sharp,
keeps your ambitions and ideals young
and vigorous . . . The temper we
talk about in saws, knives and axes.
. . . Thats the only temper worth
while.
In my pocket is a knife and it’s no
good. It will sharpen a pencil after
a fashion. I can cut an apple with it.
Or chaw off a small limb of a tree.
With considerable effort I can cut a
rope through with that knife. Or dig
out a dandelion in the lawn. . . .
/.nd when I have sharpened it it
will hold a fair edge for a day or
two.
But that’s all.
I don’t know why I keep it. Per
haps I have an affection for the poor,
worthless knife, because it IS so
worthless. I know what it can do,
I don’t expect it to do precise work;
so it isn’t fooling me any . . . And
I can’t seem to lose it. I lost all
good knives I ever had because I was
always using them and leaving them
where I used them.
The fault in this knife, obviously,
is that it was badly tempered when
it was made and it’s too late now for
me to do anything about it.
But a man’s not a knife. He can
think and feel and teach himself if
he has average intelligence. ... He
can force up his courage, stimulate
his ambition, remember his vows. He
can be like a friend of mine who told
me that when he was younger he
was a scatterbrained kid who couldn’t
concentrate on anything, and he
COMPELLED himself by rigorous
training to concentrate and become >
an able engineer. V
Almost any man, if he wants
enough, can maintain his edge, hold
his true temper and make something
of himself. We know it CAN be done
but we must WANT to do IL