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“DR. JEKYL” GAMBLE.
Have we a “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde” political situation in
Savannah ?
The picture has some very peculiar aspects. Let us consider.
We have on the one hand, Mayor Gamble, visiting, from time
to time, the several religious congregations of the city, unctu
ously sympathizing with their aims and sanctimoniously under
taking to assist in giving this city a clean government with law
enforcement. We discovered him making many eloquent ges
tures in public print and instituting his highly publicized anti
gambling campaign. Gambling, in all of its iniquitous forms,
he said, was to banished from our midst, the youth of Savannah
was to be protected from this major temptation; by the tenor
and by the word of his forceful utterances we were so assured.
Just leave the matter in the hands of Dr. Jekyl, he would remedy
the situation.
. Let us now observe the other side of the picture. On yester
day, this news organ published a charge that Mayor Gamble’s
political alto ego, Keynoter Myrick, observing with his ack
nowledged political acumen, the growing cloud of determined
opposition thought it wise to augment the funds of their cam
paign war chest. The old keynoter sensed that in order to re
elect Mayor Gamble and maintain himself in power, it would be
necessary that they have plenty of money for political purposes.
The only question in his mind was “where to secure it?” He
naturally turned to the same sources from which the funds of
the previous campaign were secured, to-wit: The Gamblers of
Savannah. This charge was definitely and specifically made —it
has not been challenged in the public prints—it must be true.
Where is the consistency in this administration?
If Mayor Gamble is sincere in his stand, why is one of the
keynoter’s leading henchmen permitted to conduct his activities
within the shadow of one of the leading churches of the city?
If Mayor Gamble is sincere in his stand how does he permit
his right hand political aid to seek funds for his re-election from
the gambling fraternity? If he is sincere why should they sup
pose the gamblers would contribute to their slush fund?
Must we not come to the conclusion that the gamblers are
being secretly protected while Mayor Gamble foregathers in the
churches?
On what carrion do the vultures feed that the effluvium of
their activities smells so sweetly in their nostrils.
POLICE PROTECTION.
Do the taxpayers of the City of Savannah pay their police
department for the protection of all its people or only to protect
a few chosen favored gamblers and racketeers who kick into
Mayor Gamble’s campaign fund each two years?
The opinion that prevails at the City Hall that they are fed
up with the ball park does not come as a surprise to the tax
payers of Savannah. It is known that the Mayor has chosen to
take all powers away from the chairman of the police committee,
a man who is more than capable of handling his department.
The Mayor in doing this has brought about a condition in the
department that can only be expressed by the word, “Rotten.”
If the heads of the departments would be left alone by the
Mayor these conditions would be corrected. Should the heads of
these departments be incapable to handle their respective jobs
they should be removed and replaced with men who are capable.
The baseball situation, despite all of City Hall’s cries to the
contrary, is not a bad one-, nor is it a hard one to handle. The
first time in many years that Savannah has had a baseball club
in any league, the Mayor refuses to do his part to help. It is
ridiculous to think that police protection will be denied the base
ball club. The stadium is city property and the citizens are not
only entitled to, but will continue to receive protection from its
. police at all times despite the opinion at the City Hall, is as they
•tate, to drop the policing of the ball park in the baseball asso
ciation’s lap.
NOT—In the News
• « • * • •
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
One of those stories you can be
lieve if you want to Is told by Les
Gordon, Cleveland aviator.
Gordon, who pilots his own plane,
recently was approached by a man
suffering from stomach ulcere who
asked him if he would please take
him for a plane ride and make the
» plane go into a slight spin.
> Curious, Gordon questioned the
# man and learned that he had a very
I unusual motive for the air ride and
eMithe spin. The man informed him he
been told that if he rode in a
‘ Jane when it was being stunted his
-fleers would be cured., The maneuver
a plane going into a spin, the man
was supposed to be helpful
releasing certain gastric juices in
stomach which would bring about
;f“ure of the ulcers.
fw*jci”.'i’he request was an odd one, but
’"'pidfin decided to help the man if he
So pilot and passenger climbed
t the open cockpit plane and
into the heavens.
plane was a heavy type of ship
WM Very dl ff lcult - to handle in
%-• air, * n< t WM ky no mwins
adapted to stunting. However, Gor
don had taken a spin in that very
same ship when he took his examina
tion for a pilot’s license, he believed
he could do it.
Well, the ship had gained an alti
tude of approximately 5,000 feet when
Gordon decided he was high enough
for the spin. He signaled his passen
ger of his intention and operated his
controls quickly. The big ship seemed
to hesitate momentarily in mid-air,
then its nose pointed downward and
it began to circle slowly toward the
earth.
• • •
Gordon had planned to allow the
plane to stay in the spin only a few
hundred feet—just enough to take
care of his passenger s ulcers. But the
plane, which had been gathering mo
mentum with every foot it dropped,
was not as responsive to its controls
as is a lighter craft. And, to his utter
amazement and horror, Gordon dis
covered that he could not bring it
out of the spin and level off!
IF HE COULD ONLY GET RID OF THE REST OF IT!
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HOW U. S. FIGHTS DROUGHT
Losses Mount to High Totals in National Calamity
THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE ARTICLES
This is the first of three ar
ticles on the government’s efforts
to combat the drouth.
(Central Press. Was zton Bureau,
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By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 17. The
drouth of 1934 was catastrophic. This
year's is worse. What of the next year
or two or more? Is America merley
beginning upon an indefinitely pro
longed series of dry seasons?
Some authorities say that weather
is cyclical, and argue that the period
of aridity has about run itself out.
Others take a less hopeful view.
They assert that a desert in the very
heart of the most productive grain
areas of the United states is in the
making, and that the process already
is completed in vast sections. Nature,
they gloomily reason, has begun the
collection of a long overdue war debt.
• • a
Water Leet Sinks
The picture is a grtwsome one, in
which the warm colors of growing
crops, of wheat yellowing in the sun
and corn waving silken tassels have
been blotted out, oter thousands of
square miles, by the shadow of drift
ing sand. Billowing clouds of gray
oblivion cover an enormous terrain
where once cattle grazed and where,
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later, the farmer’s plowshare tore up
the roots of native grasses, to replace
them with fields of waving grain.
The temptation of wartime prices
for grain laid millions of acres open
ing of cereal crops could not hold the
to ravage by The surface root
light soil as did the earlier turf.
Consequently the subterranean wa
ter level began sinking. Where, in the
range days in these sections, moisture
could be found sometimes inches and
never more than a few feet below the
surface, the level now goes down as
low as 50 feet.
And it 1s spreading.
A National Calamity
This drouth already has assumed
the proportions of a national calam
ity, and as yet no Joseph has appear
ed to point to Pharaoh a path of
deliverance.
Fully 80 per cent of the cereal crops
areas have felt the blight of the
merciless sun. Five million farmers
(government agencies call this a con
servative estimate) have seen their
crops wilt, wither and die. Other mil
lions (no one will hazard a guess as
to the exact number) will pay their
proportion of the uncollected war debt
in rocketing food prices by the time
snow flies.
Wheat crop estimates for the year,
released by the agriculture depart
ment, just as figures on the acreage
blasted by the sun began coming in,
put the total at 638,399,000 bushels,
15 millions above last year’s low pro
duction. Then revisions began and
now the figures are sliding steadily
downward. Where will they stop? No
one knows, but latest calculations
place the destruction, already wrought,
at 60 to 70 millions of bushels in
spring wheat alone.
What this will mean, translated into
bread prices, no one has the temerity
to guess.
Officials Horrified
Privately pfficials, with an earnest
plea of “don’t use my name,” pile
horror on horror.
“Corn,” they agree, “will be our
salvation, if it, too, doesn’t go.”
Rivers have dwindled to creeks,
creeks to brooks and brooks have dis
appeared in the sand.
It is wholly beside the issue, yet it
serves to cast light on the dismal pic
ture to read reports from the field
agents. One wrote to the agriculture
department the other day:
“Have seen cattle, colts and pumas,
side by side, licking the moist sands
of a vanished water hole."
Disaster has awed even the brute
creation, it would seem.
Next: Relief by WPA
A sweet job: Molases Is being used
for road surfacing In India
Mrs. Thomas L. Havercamp, Som
erville, Tenn., gained 45 pounds while
engaged in walking 34,000 miles.
The rarest form of death is "nat
ural death”! '
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
IMPENDING CONTEST
Between Organized Groups and Business
WORRY WALL STREET
Central Staff Press Writer
BEFORE THE WRITER lies a pile
of the most conservative and the
most radical journals in America. He
has been struck by the simiarity of
comment in all—the similarity of
comment, even though the difference
in point of view.
They all agree that a contest is on
hand. They do not refer to the polit
ical contest, but a contest between
organized business and organized
labor, between ofganized business and
organized farmers, between organized
business and organized “inflationists.”
And each wonders which way the
great middle mass of people will turn
—tempted as they are by the bait
here and there.
Companies, here, there and every
where are batling demands for collec
tive bargaining with “outside unions”.
They refuse to recognize orders of the
U. S. labor board. They stand by their
company unions. They close plants,
consolidate them. If production be
gins to drop off now, due to an over
production (which some Wall Street
economists are saying to be the case)
the unions will have a difficult time.
But they no longer fear the crushing
of strikes by troops for the majority
of the states are in New Deal hands.
• • •
Farmers’ Bounty
As for the again increasing outlay
to farmers: Organized capital merely
can view with alarm. No direct action
can be taken against that. After all,
farmers are being wooed in a business
and political way. Nevertheles.s if
there were some manned in which a
pereptual bounty could be estopped
men in Wall Street would feel easier.
But perhaps the worst fear of all
My New York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, July 17.—Interview
with a “Swing” Music Fanatic, aged
18:
Q. What’s all this I hear about y<ju
people who are as crazy about
“swing” music as Henry Ford is about
“Turkey in the Straw?”
A. Oh, we’re much crazier than
that. I belong to two swing clubs and
subscribe to three swing magazines,
one English, one American and one
German. I saved up my allx#M«k
for three months to buy one “Or g
inal Dixieland Jazz Band Record”
and I studied German for six months
so I could read the German maga
zine.
Q. What is swing music, anyhow?
A. There ought to be an article in
the Encyclopedia Britanica on it and
there probably will be. B*ut it’s really
very simple. An orchestra that plays
hot lets the boys riff a tune: they
jam it, avoiding the corny stuff, and
then a couple of them begin to give
and that starts the duel, after
which—
Q. Walt a minute! You’re way
ahead of me. You must remember I
don’t speak your language very well.
Let’s take it gradually. Isn’t swing
music simply jazz music and nothing
else?
A. Absolutely not. Jazz can be hot
or sweet. Take Whiteman, or even
Gershwin. They played and composed
jazz, but never swing. Swing appeals
strictly to the red corpuscles. You
never know what Is going to happen
next. If you scored a swing piece it
would cease to be swirr.
Q. Then swing is where the mem
bers of the orchestra improvise as
they go along?
A. That’s an unimaginative way of
putting it. Take Fats Waller, or Red
Nichols, or any one of a dozen of the
great geniuses of swing. They im
provise—but they do it in such an in
spired manner that you feel they
sense the music four or five beats
ahead—maybe as Columbus felt in his
bones land was near.
Q. Then you feel about swing mu
sic almost as if itwere a sort of cult—
a religion, almost?
A. Oh, sure. I want to murder
bands that play the corny stuff.
Q. What do you mean, “corny?”
A. Oh, sweet and old-fashioned
stuff.
Q. Then Beethoven was corny?
A. Yes, I should say he was pretty
corny, but maybe not at the time he
was writing. Maybe at the time he
was writing his music he was the Bill
Handy of his day.
Q. You said you subscribed to a
German and an English swing maga
zine. Surely the best publications
dealing with this sort of jazz are pub
lished in America?
A. Oh, no, the Germans are more
enthusiastic than we are and the
English are, too. There are five maga
zines published in Germany dealing
with nothing but swing. One of them
carries the picture of Duke Ellington
on the cover every month.
Q. Bub it seems to me I heard this
so-called swing music a long time ago.
And you yourself admitted you had
saved up to buy a recording of “The
Original Dixieland Jazz Band” —a
phenomenon of at Last a dozen
years back.
A. Oh, sure. They swung. it from
the beginning of jazz. But the real
swing is being played now. It’s less
inhibited even than the jazz orches
tras in the South of a dozen years
ago. And, of course, I collect the
early platters the record companies
put otu just as you might collect
Early Americana or Byzantine Art.
Q. What do you think will be the
next musical fad—after swing has
had its day?
A. The next musical fad? Why,
you must be either illiterate or jok
ing. Swing is no fad. It is the most
dynamic thing in musical history, the
apex of all the strving of man through
the ages to express his restless soul.
Nothing can come after swing. Swing
is the absolute top.
concerns money. With France defi
nitely drifting away from a gold an
chorage, merely the oound sterling
and the American dollar offer a
haven.
Thus it is with anxiety that men
whose business and fortunes depend
on the stability of money view any
flirting with such organizations as
the Union for Social Justice and the
Union party in the belief that they
will take votes away from President
Roosevelt. That is a silverite-inflation
-Ist group.
On the other hand, such a group
promising “reforms” by such means
is less dangerous—to money—than
a labor-farmer front with a socializa
tion program.
Neither choice is desired.
* * *
For Example
In this year of confused politics,
Wall Street fears all parties may tend
toward the Communist party’s farm
plank. And why the plank of the
Communist platform, of all platforms?
Because the Communists seem to
have gathered up the ideas t'hat have
been buzzing around the farmers ever
since the days of the populists. '
This writer has dug up this plank,
and you readily can see the tendency
cf all parties in the same direction.
Even the Union party, which is op
posed to the Communists, has word
ing on farm problems that reads
similarly in some instances. (There
is no such agreement concerning
labor or money or economics. The
Communists differ in tbier farm
plank by advocating the breakup of
large holdings through graduated tax
ation —but even that is old, having
been advocated by the Single Taxers
nearly 70 years ago.)
♦ ♦ *
The “Feared” Plank
Here is the farm plank in ques
tion. And you readily can see how it
outlines a trend which Wall Street
fears:
“We declare that the American gov
ernment is obligated to save
the American farmers from dis
tress and ruin, to guaraantee the
farmers and tenants their inalien
able rights to possession of their land,
their homes and chattels. We demand
for this purpose the immediate re
financing of the farmers’ debts with
government loans at nominal interest.
“We demand a stop to evictions
and foreclosures and a long-term mor
atorium on all needy farmers’ debts
and that measures be taken to pro
vide land for the landless farmers
“We favor immediate relief to the
drouth-stricken farmers by the govern
ment. We favor a graduated land tax
to prevent the accumulation of large
land holdings in the hands of the
insurance companies, private and gov
ernment banks, and other absentee
owners.
“We favor exemption from taxation
of small operating farmers and farm
co-operatives.
“We are unalterably opposed to the
policy of crops destruction and cur
tailment.
“We support government regulation
of farm prices with the aim of guar
anteeing to the farmer his cost of
production. We urge scientific soil
conservation under supervision of the
elected representatives of farmers’
organizations with compensation to
farmer-owners and tenants for loss
of income.”
• * •
The American wheat crop is below
the nations’ needs for 1936-’27. . . .
The three top officals of E. I. du
Pont de Nemours & Co., received
$323,209 in salaries last year, while
28 officials, including two top of
ficers, received bonuses aggregating
$1,195,500 . . . Railroads are rumored
to be ordering streamlined trains sec
retly, with the latest innovations, and
many new runs will be announced
during the autumn and winter.
All Os Us
EVER LIE TO YOURSELF?
I went to have my eyes examined
and the man in the white coat sat
me in a chair and flashed a light be
hind some letters on the wall across
the room.
He asked me if I could read the
top row. ... I could.
He asked me to read vhe secoHa
row. ... I did.
He flashed the light to tne th/d
row. ... It wasn’t so clear, but I
read it.
Well, how about the next row of
leters? Could I read them? ... I
couldn’t, but I thought I remembered
what they were and recited them
glibly.
Then he blew me up. . • . “Listen,
fellow,” he said, “you’re not try mg
to get into the army. You're here, pay
ing me to find out what’s the matter
with your eyes and to fit the proper
glasses to you. This isn’t an argument,
it's an ey? examination. Can you or
can’t you read those letters? If you
can, do it. If you can’t, say so.”
And I felt several degres lower than
an idiot!
But it wasn’t the first time I’d
done that sort of thing, and something
tells me it will not be the last time.
It happened many years ago, and
you’d think a supposedly grown-up hu
man bemg would be able to take one
lesson like that and shape it into use
ful experience, into some sort of uni
versal gadget that would always come
in handy.
The lesson I learned should have
been:
“Don’t fool yourself! Don’t lie to
yourself!”
But sometimes it seems shat the
proud human mind doesn’t want the
truth. It twists and turns and seeks
out temporary consolation, rather
than enduring fact. ... It lies tb
us. and expects to be praise.
But it was small comfort to me
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Friday, July 17; Munoz Rivera day
in Puerto Rico! Memorial Day is Do
minican Republic. New moon tomor.
row.
• « «
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
James Cagney, b 1904, and William
Gargan, b. 1905, cinemactors . . .
Sanford Bates, b. 1884, penologist.
. . . Maxim Litvinoff,- b. 1876, com
missar of foreign affairs of the U.
S. S. R.
• • •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 17, 1676—Marie d’Aubray,
Marquise de Brinvilliers, 46, the most
celebrated murderess in French his
tory, attempted to commit suicide by
swallowing a pin. Vigilant warders
frustrated the attempt, and prevent
ed the disappointment of the nobil
ity and the gentry, including the
reigning lades of fashion and beau
ty, who had gathered in a Paris
square to see an axman decapitate
her that morning.
The Marquise was herself one of
the reigning ladies of fashion and
beauty until her husband’s fortune
was spent. Then, having worked out
what she regarded as a perfect pois
oning scheme oy experimenting with
deadly biscuits distributed to hos
pitals and the poor, she dispatched
her father, brothers and sisters one
by one to collect inheritances. She
made attempts on her husband, too,
but a lover-accomplice who was
afraid he would have to wed her if
she became a widow, secretly gave
the Marquis antidotes.
Her crimes were not detected un
til the lover, the Seigneur de Sainte-
Croix, was poisoned by mistake. He (
didn't know it was a mistake, and
vengefully blurted out her evil deeds;
July 17, 1790 —Thomas Saint, Eng
lishman, received a patent on what
was probably the first sewing ma
chine This was half a century be
fore Howe, the American, whs made
rich by what is popularly regarded
as the first sewing machine. Appar
ently Saint got no further with his
machine than patenting it, for it
was not even known he had received
a patent until more than a century
later!
* » »
75 Years Ago Today—The first
“greenbacks,” the first paper money,
was authorized by Congress; but it
wasn’t legal tender!
The $50,000,000 in notes ($5 and
up) weren’t even printed by the gov
ernment a New York engraving con
cern issued theip, and all were signed
by government employes with their
own names “for the Registrar of the
Treasury.”
They were simply IOUS payable
on demand at certain designated sub
treasuries. The “on demand” soon
became meaningless, for the hard
pressed Treasury was forced off the
gold standard. Some of the notes
were never paid.
The first paper money issued in
America was printed by Massachu
setts Bay colony in 1690 to pay off a
bonus voted for soldiers who served
in the war against the French,
though authors of the plan to pay
off the World war soldier bonuses in
fiat money thought they had some
thing new!
July 17 Among state Hstories:
1754—King’s College opened in New
York with 10 students, and started
growing into the Columbia, of today,
the world’s largest university. . . .
1812—First steam ferry placed in
operation between New York city and
Jersey City. . . . 18989—Spanish
surrendered Santiago, Cuba, to Amer
leans . . . 1904—First news of Alas
kan gold strike reached U. S., and
gold rush began ... 20 Wears Ago
Today—Federal Farm Loan Board
was created, with authority to estab
lish 12 land banks, and joint stock
land banks.
• • »
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—lt was an
nounced in Petrograd that in a se
ries of battles fought in Volhynia,
Russians had broken through the
salient opposite Vladimir-Volhynsk
over a stretch of 12 miles and had
taken 3,000 German prisoners
(To be continued)
Your’e Telling
Me?
YOURE TELLINI ME EDIT PG—4
Even if the League di Nations
turned down Haile Selassie he ought
to be at least comfortable. On the -
same day he received a cool reception, /
the cold shoulder and a chilly re
sponse. y
• * *
Each of the major political parties
claims at least 49 states for their can- ■
didates. Let’s see—that adds up to 80
—or has the heat got us, too.
*» ♦ X
French financiers are attempting to
hoard U. S. dollars, says a news dis
patch. It won’t work. After trying for
a lifetime none of us natives have
been able to get away with it.
• • »
A locomotive and three cars ran
over a Green Bay, Wls., infant and
the child was uninjured! So —now we
have streamlined babies, too!
« * *
Boston Red Sox fans boo their
team when it sinks into the second
division. It isn’t the heat, it’s the
humility.
British speed demon sets 60 new
world records in a day. But don’t
worry—wait until some of our Sunday
drivers start shooting at that tnark.
“What will the veterans do with
their bonus?" asks a politician That’s
easy—at the moment they are spend
ing It for electric fans and ice cream
cones.
when the eye-man told me I was no
exception: nine out of ten people who
get into his chair fib about what they
see on the chart.