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GAMBLE ON DANGEROUS GROUND.
An article appeared in the news columns of the Savannah
Daily Times as of July 15th date line carrying specific charges
made by Miss Eleanor Worrill Dudley of 410 East Bay street to
the effect that Communistic activities among the negro long
shoremen, led by white Yankee labor leaders, was making it
dangerous for her pupils to attend school. Miss Dudley has been
operating a school at this point for seven years. Miss Dudley
charged that she has frequently taken this matter up with Mayor
Gamble in person and that no relief or assistance has been given,
or even promised.
The editor of this paper is beginning to wonder if Mayor
Gamble is not beginning to play to the negro vote in a big way,
thinking that possibly he may need same in the general election.
Mayor Gamble went to such extremes as to have a negro Republi
can leader in Chatham county appointed as an executive in the
WPA allowing him to pick a staff of negro workers for special
service while many white men and women were being laid off
for supposedly lack of funds. It is but natural, following Mayor
Gamble’s usual line of procedure, that he would use all of the
prerogatives of his office in order to aid himself politically. The
Savannah Daily Times would remind the mayor that he is play
ing with a dangerous subject when he attempts to coalesce or
even pacify Communistic activities amongst the negroes of Chat
ham county in order to enhance his political future.
Miss Dudley has been rendering a signal service to this sec
tion of the country through her school which teaches afflicted
children to prepare themselves for the struggle in life. Miss
Dudley has been operating this studio school in Savannah for
over seven years. She is a speech specialist of note, teaching the
deaf mute, the hearing mute and lip reading. She specializes
in teaching pupils who cannot go to public schools because of
their affliction. As an outstanding example of her service to this
community, we will illustrate in two instances:
Young GodlCy Sims was unable to make the grade in the
public schools because of impediment of speech. Miss Dudley
put young Sims through a course of instruction, which enabled
him again to make the grade in the public schools and now is a
speaking child. Young Thomas Richardson five years ago was a
mute, totally deaf. He mastered speech and lip reading in Miss
Dudley’s school to such a degree of perfection that he wds able
to enter the public schools in the fifth grade and at an early date
passed the sixth.
Much of Miss Dudley’s work has been without remunera
tion. The city has never appropriated funds toward the sup
port of this institution. It seems that the least Mayor Gamble
sould do would be to render this deserving citizen the co
operation and protection which she is entitled to.
Mayor Gamble has been trained in a school of cold-blooded
politics, politics of the Chatham county brand, well known
throughout Georgia for its reputation, that reputation being to
win at any cost, with no consideration for ethics or dependabili
ty, with no consideration or thought of service to the people. But
as usual with such procedure, one always steps too far. Mayor
Gamble to our mind has gone beyond the bounds of propriety
when he attempts to tamper with the safety of the citizens of
Savannah and it is time that the public of this community rise up
and demand the good government which they are entitled to.
ELECT—APPOINT.
Since it has come to pass that by some unknown process of
political evolution that the city attorney of the City of Savannah
exercises greater political power than does the duly elected
mayor of the city, it is clear to us that the time has come to make
the office of city attorney of the City of Savannah one elective by
the people of this community.
We find ourselves in a most peculiar position, to-wit: The
keynoter of Mayor Gamble’s administration, now occupying the
office of city attorney and dictating the policies and activities
of the administration, is so thoroughly disliked by the populace
at large that he would not dare run for the office of dog catcher
if that office were elective. We believe that it is against the prin
ciples of American government that a great community should
be under the dictatorial thumb of a man for whom there is so
great a general antipathy.
The man Myrick is anathema to every clear-thinking man
who has the welfare of the community at heart; why, then,
should a community be forced to accept his dictatorship without
having the opportunity of registering its protests via the ballot.
Make the keynoter come out in the open w’here the people
tan get a fair shot at him and his policies.
Should'Myrick be forced before the people his political days
wvould be numbered, because when a man loses the respect of
'die voter he is politically dead.
Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
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state does Serator Arthur
represent?
is the mongoose regarded
in Indla?
“Point’’ the spoon toward you
when eating soup. Sip it from the
side of the spoon.
WORDS OF WISDOM
He is only a well-made man who
has a good determination.—Emerson.
Persons born on this day are apt
to be quiet and secretive in manner
and not always fair with themselves
and others. They should strive to
overcome this trait for they are good
talkers, shrewd reasoners and likely
to be leaders in their communities.
MORE SO, THAN EVER, THIS YEAR!
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-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
MANY TAX “EXHIBITS”
Put Before Public By Manufacturers
TO INDICATE COST
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, Julf 16—Industrial
leaders have shown a remarkable un
animity lately in letting the public
known just how heavily taxation is
represented in the prices they are
compelled to charge (or so they say)
for the products they market in their
various different lines.
Quite a series of such articles has
been appearing recently and more,
it’s stated on reliable industrial au
thority, are to come.
Now, the question is:
Did the industrialists think up this
idea among themselves or was it put
into their heads by the new G. O. P.
management?
It is excellent Republican prop
aganda anyway.
Its purpose obviously is to let con
sumerdom know the price it is paying
for the New Deal. It takes the cam
paign into the country’s homes. It is
conceivable that it will be made the
overshadowing issue of the season’s
presidential contest.
• • •
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pays goes to the tax collector because
most of the collection is so indirect
and roundabout.
Throughout all history it has been
the policy of governments to main
tain this system of indirection, to
avoid irritating the 90 per cent or
mere of folk who foot the bill and
ca*t the votes. It’s a vast service to the
masses to enlighten them as to the
fashion in which they have been be
fooled.
Those who are doing the enlighten
ing doubtless are actuated by no
altruistic motive. In the past they
themsleves have profited by concealed
taxation.
Just now, however, it suits their
ends to expose the cheat.
• • •
Can We Afford It?
For example, it Is disclosed that
the lion’s share of many a price which
the consumer pays goes to the tax
gatherer rather than to the produc
ing company’s workers, its stockhold
ers or its executives, high-salaried
though they may be.'
This doubtless was true in pre
depression days, but it seems to be
even more emphatically true now,
with New Deal expenditures.
The New Dealer's story is that the
country can afford higher taxes today
than ever before, on the ground than
national income is increasing, but the
point is arguable.
In any even, no one likes higher
taxes, which apparently are inevitable.
• * •
Many Taxes Here
It also is contended by the New
Dealers that, at the worst, taxation
is not, proportionately as to natural
resources and population, as high as
in England.
The comparison is questionable.
England’s tax is ONE tax.
Here taxation is federal, state and
local.
And state and local taxation are re
flections, to a great extent, of federal
taxation policies. They’re interwoven
and may, in the aggregate, be higher
than England’s.
• • •
How High?
How much taxation America can
stand is a matter of opinion.
President Roosevelt, quoting un
identified bankers, assumes that the
national indebtedness safely can reach
70 billions.
Senator James Couzens of Michigan,
generally accepted as a competent
financier, puts the figure at 40 bil
lions. And the debt already is half
way between 30 and 40 billions.
It is a debt which, of course, will
have to be met in taxes.
During the first Dutch period, be
ginning in 1623, the territory now
known as New York state was govern
ed by a director named Adriaen Joriss
zen Tienpoint.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHY A RELIEF CRISIS
With Which Individual States Cannot Cope
AS BUSINESS BOOMS?
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Relief again has reached a crisis.
In a half-a-cozen of the most im
portant states, thousands of persons
are on the ragged edge.
Relief marches are bring discussed.
Yet business continues at a high
rate of speed. There is a fairly good
degree of ‘‘prosperity.”
What is the solution?
* * «
Monopoly?
A plank in the Democratic plat
form—said to have been pub in to
woo Senator William E. Borah and
his followers—denounces monopoly.
,But how does one break up monop
oly? Such meager laws as Senator
Borah favors would not turn the
trick.
Breaking up monopoly is a serious
business. It requires a central plan of
tremendous scope.
Henry George recommended a
single tax on all the land, to make
land common property, yet title to
be retained by individual owners.
.Socialism goes further. Socialism
looks strongly toward government
ownership of all natural resources.
Communism goes still further. The
government then would be the monop
oly.
We hardly believe the United States
will turn to any of these—for the
present. The trend, at the moment,
is in the other direction —both po
litically and economically—indeed to
ward. larger private monopoly.
* • *
Powerless?
Individual states are finding them
selves powerless to cope with relief.
They find themselves equally un
able to combat monopoly.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, July 16—Randomus
ing: More Manhattan made diets be
gin—or begin again—after a glance
at that 300-pound wax figure in a
union suit displayed by the store
which deals only in garments for fat
men (it’s located, oddly enough, in the
Bowery—where passersby often* don’t
eat too well) ... I asked a lower
Third Avenue pawnshop proprietor
whether he carried any college frat
ernity pins—for no particular reason
... He had none; but he showed me
a tray full of war medals awarded
heroes and inscribed ‘ for valor’’ and
things like that . . . Incidentally, he
volunteered the Information that his
stock had been even larger, but after
the bonus and one thing and another
many of them were redeemed . . .
Thomas Burke, the English author
of ‘‘Limenight Nights”, gets crochety
’if the bock, which made his reputa
tion, is mentioned in his presence . . .
Considers it one of his least success
ful (artistically) productions . . . It’s
the same with Milt Gross and his
“Nize Baby” of decade-ago best
seller dom ... I mentioned the time
praisefully in this place about four
years ago and Milt has been court
eous but cool ever since.
• • *
Gypsy Rose Lee, the most famous
strip dancer in the world is retiring
from burlesk to enter the more ex
alted purlieus of the “Ziegfeld Fol
lies" . . . The occasion will have all
the grave festivities of a Bernhardt’s
farewell tour . . . There was even a
contest, at Leon and Eddie’s, to de
termine a successor for this Illustrious
lady, for what will burlesk be with
out Gypsy? . . . Actually, she is a
lass of the most exaggerated offstage
modesty and decorum; doesn’t drink
or smoke, they say, and always
blushes when she rounds a windy
comer or has to step high for a bus
or street-car ... Os course Gypsy’s
“Follies” initiation, with attendant
ceremonies is the inspiration of the
press-agents—but her rise can scarce
ly be attributed to sheer ballyhoo . • .
She ha sabout her a curious ethereal
—now don’t laugh—quality and even
a kind of repressed propriety; her
abandon is almost genteel . . . But
what a depressing career for a girl!
... I’d think she’d be bored half
to death . . .
• • •
Mony Woolley, the aptly named be
whiskered comedian of the musical.
“On Yom- Toes”, is a learned gentle
man who was professor of drama at
Yale for many years ... He got into
directing and guided such hits as
“The Third Little Show” and “Jub
ilee” . . . Then he broke down and
confessed the most tenderly cherished
ambition of all—to act on Broadway
. . . Hence his role of grotesque com
edy in the lilting 'Rodgers-Hart- Abbott
fest . . . Private conviction: that Mr.
George Gershwin will retain his niiche
as the really vital American composer
long after more pretentious classic
ists, Including Prof. Deems Taylor,
have been forgotten . . .
* * •
Pathos: the pigeon, at the corner
cf Herald Square and Thirty-second
Street, feet firmly imbedded in melt
ing asphalt, fluttering vainly to rise
. . . And the ancient lady who sells
newspapers there, heavily shrouded in
a shawl with the temperature at
101, hastening to the bird’s rescue
. . . The new Tri-Boro Bridge is a
mighty span and the recent cere
monies which opened it to a perspir
ing public were properly lofty in tone,
bet with so many billions floating
around I see no reason why the East
River shouldn’t be paved solid . . .
Oh yes, there is one reason : the only
way anyone can be made to remain
in New York (and what would the
town be if no one remained here?)
is the awful difficulty of getting out.
over the congested bridges or through
the crowded Holland Tube . . . Out
of-towners should visit New York if
for no other reason than for the chai
lege to human ingenuity and patience
afforded by the drive across the
Queensboro Bridge.
Monopoly is more powerful than a
single state. Ib can even grow beyond
the power of an entire nation to con
trol.
Then, what? Like the mastodons
of old, will it exterminate itself by
its own huge size?
If relief and monopoly tie in to
gether, who has a plan to control
both? After all, relief, embodies in
millions of jobless men, can be the
nemesis of monopoly. Thus the direc
tors of monopoly EhemSctves shuld be
interested in means of salvation.
Solution?
Many suggestions pour into this
writer.
William Owen of West Palm Beach,
Fla., offers this solution: ,
“Without a market there can be
no business; w.thout incomes there
can be no market; without jobs there
can be no income; and the way to
furnish more jobs is through national
planning and shorter hours.
“Under conditions like the present,
selfishness should not be allowed to
rule. Industries should not be al
lowed to stay closed when men need
work and the country needs their
products.
“We could solve our economic ills
if we had a system under which each
person was guaranteed the equivalent
of what he produced, with a fair al
lowance deducted for capital’s invest
ment. The first requirement of such a
system would be to plan ahead the
amount of goods needed. The second
requirement would be to see that such
an amount was manufactured. The
third requirement would be to see
that hours of labor were maae short
enough to guarantee every available
man a job. The fourth requirement
would be that the total wage was
high enough to enable people to buy
back what they produced.”
Centralization?
Mr. Owen, calling for more central
ization of government instead of less,
adds:
“In other words, our country’s
productive industry should be organ
ized as a systematic whole; with a
central planning board over all, and
separate planning boards over each
industry. The duties of these boards
should be to plan ahead the amount
of goods to be produced and to allot
to each individual factory its sepa
rate quota. If the factory failed to
produce its quota it should be fined
for the amount that it failed to pro
duce and the money derived should be
used for the support of the unem
ployed.
“The first requisite of any unem
ployment relief program should be to
prevent unemployment; the second
requisite should be to take care of
those who are unemployed. The above
plan would do both.
“Millions of unemployed could be
returned to work in private industry
if the government would only figure
out the demand for staple commodi
ties, and then see that industry sup
plied this demand.”
All Os Us
By WORTH CHENEY
Any intelligent man has at least
one pet peeve, according to C. David
Vormelker, who today relates the
causes of some of his irritations. We
guess he is intelligent, if the num
ber of his peeves has anything to do
with it.
« • »
Pet peeves are not uncommon,
they usually indicate some facet of
one’s character and are not always
beneficial, when aired, to the one
who is apprising the public of one or
another of his aggravations.
One of these personal and, one
may even say, general dislikes, is the
decrepit, unpainted, rickety sign that
reads, “Sleeping Rooms," adorning
houses in many of the large cities of
the United States. To me, they al
ways suggest a stuffy, unclean room,
and a house filled with people that
one has to bear simply because they
are in such close proximity.
Another rather intense dislike of
mine is the antipathy against those
who appear to great advantage by
discoursing at great length concern
ing certain topics, conducting them
selves with the attitude of being an
expert in the matter or maters. List
ening to such a person, one gathers
the Impression that the individual is
worthwhile , knowing—at first. Later,
after the person has teen known for
a short time, one discovers the depth
they have shown previously is nothing
more than a shell; a person not re
ceptive to new ideas and certainly
not receptive to the idea that per
haps there is very much in the world
about which he or she knows nothing.
Such people are stung to the quick
when it is apparent that, even per
haps on the topic about which they
have ventured upon such a learned
and authoritative discourse, they
know actually little or nothing and
may even have caused a faulty im
pression or built up a collection of
misinformation and inaccuracies.
Such people we do not care to meet.
In addition to not liking this sort
of individual, indulging in such a
practce makes clear to everyone a
fundamental character defect in the
person who does it. In other words,
a fool may keep his mouth shut and
no one will be the wiser, but a fool
who does not certainly never will be
thought a wise man.
Another source of irritation is the
sham presented at many small so
called parlors, where ale and liquors
are dispensed, by an attractive front
which may have Venetian blinds,
flowers and draperies. An exterior
view makes one think the spot likely
to be pleasant and cool inside, but
upon entering the scene is usually
one of great disorder and uncleanli
ness.
We cannot help but think that
some people are like these liquor
“parlors.”
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Thursday, July 16. Constitution
Day in Brazil. Mercury in perihel
ion. Zodiac sign; Cancer. u "
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NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Virginia McMath Ayres, b. 1911 in
Independence, Mo., cinemactress
known as Ginger Rogers . I . Kath
leen Thompson Norris, b. 1877, novel.
Ist whose pen earns her SIOO,OOO a
year ... Dr. Vela Schick, b. 1877,
American medical discoverer of the
test for susceptibility to diphtheria,
etc. . . . Ruby Stevens, b. 1907,
cinemactress known as Barbara Stan
wyeck . . . Hoyd Phillips Gibbons,
b. 1887, newspaper man and broad
caster . . . Mike Riley, b. 1905, co
author of “The Music Goes Round
and Around.”
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 16, 622 A. D.—The Mohamme
dan Era began with the hejira
(flight) from Mecca of Mohammed
Hashim, 52, founder of what is to
day the faith of more persons than
there are Protestants. (World count;
Mohammedans, 210,000,000; Protes
tants, 207,000,000.).
He fled as Meccans threatened to
kill him because he committed sacri
lege in denouncing the Koreish gods.
Today Becca is the holy city which
devout Mohammedans must visit be
fore they die.
July 16, 1216—Giovanni Conti,
Pope Innocent 111, died at 55 after
having reigned over Christendom
since he was 37. He forbade public
worship anywhere in Britain! The in
terdict, imposed after King John re
fused to recognize Stephen Langton
as archbishop of Canterbury, closed
all churches and ended all religious
marriages and other services for four
years.
July 16, 1779—Brig. Gen. “Mad
Anthony ’ Wayne, 34, who was crazy
like a fox, reported to Lieut. Gen.
George Washington.
“Stony Point, 16th July, 1770 2
a.m.
“Dear General—The fort and gar.
rison, with Colonel Johnson, are
ours. Our officers and men behaved
like men determined to be free.”
Thus in 28‘ words did he dismiss
his capture of Stony Point, British
fortress and arsenal on the Hudson,
one of the most brilliant and impor
tant achievements of the Revolution.
• • •
July 16, 1704—John Kay was born
in Bury, Lancashire, 29 years before
he invented the “fly-shuttle," which
he kept in his attic and worked sec
retly at night. With this and the
“powerloom,’ which he invented for
narrow goods, he produced yardage
which brought him what was for a
weaver in those days huge amounts
of money, and attracted the curiosity
of hs neighbors. They discovered
his secret, saw the machine as a
threat to their jobs, wrecked it with
axes and burned the house. Kay nar
rowly escaped death by fleeing to
France where he died destitute.
But Richard Arkwright adopted
Kay’s ideas, made sonie improve
ments and discoveries of his own, and
instituted the machine age.
• • •
July 16 Among State Histories:
1790—The District of Columbia was
established, for seat of national gov
ernment . . . 1821—Mary Ann
Morse Baker, the future Mrs. Mary
Baker Eddy, was born in Bow, N. H.
. . .1849—Pittsfield, Mass., had frost
the day after the thermometer had
reached 90 degrees . . . 1864—Infla
tion brought gold dollar’s value to
$2.85 . . . 1920—World’s first public
radiotelephone service began be
tween Los Angeles and Catalina Is
land, Cal. ... 1934—Business para
lyze in San Francisco by general
strike.
« « •
20 Years Ago Today—Germany
notified Britain that it was sending
2,000 British captives to occupied
Russian territory to work. This was
Berlin’s way of retaliating for Brit
tain’s action in putting 2,000 prison
ers to work at Rouen and Havre.
Later, both sides were to charge that
the men were compelled to work un
der the fire of the guns of their own
countries.
(To be continued)
Your’e Telling
Me?
THOUGH REPEAL may have put
an end to the prohibition question we
still think the majir political parties
miissed a bet by not inserting wet
planks In their platforms. What a
hit one would have made with the
farmers in the drouth area!
« • •
“Bolting the Republican party Is not
part of my plan,” says Senator Wil
liam E. Borah. All of which os trem
endous interest—to Senator William
E. Borah.
Radio will play a tremendous part
in the 1936 poitica campaign, agree
broadcasters. That’s right. The can
didates have shaken hands and at
the bell we expect them to come out
miking.
• • •
Utilities magnate, who is also a
famed sportsman, says he has given
up fishing because it bores him. May
be all he was ever able to catch were
electric eels.
• • •
We think the Democrats have
shown remarkable restraint. The
campaign has been on for several
weeks and none of them has sug»
gested changing the theme song,
“Happy Days Are Here Again,” to <
“London Bridge Is Falling Down.”
• • •
New Yorkers are nothing if not
inconsistent. The mayor launches an
anti-noise campaign and then the city
begins building another subfay. .
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Postmen’s caps will be changed
next autoumn. we read. But wtet
most of the weary fellows need is •
new pair of feet.