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“SOCIAL EQUALITY.”
ivannah Daily Tinies on Monday afternoon published
a prominent Savannahian quoting Aiderman
, • ; saying that he was a firm believer in social
. * *•: ''te and black.
known that some few of the lesser desirables
-.God forgive them, hold to such belief, but it is
of affairs when we find one of the duly
. ?his grand city advocating such Communistic
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yV V that the iUustrioua aiderman did not pub
j' ?' on this subject before he was elevated to
~ y. However, we live and we learn and while
we ifOt*-..- 2. t time to relieve the embarrassment he
has caused the decent-thinking people of our community, we will
know what steps to take at the time of the next election. Mean
while, we would have the gentleman understand once and for
all time that we, of the Southland, do not sympathize with his
ideas and will not tolerate the dissemination of such putrid doc
trine.
It would be interesting to know for whom Mr. Jarvis speaks
in making his assertion. Does he express the sentiment of labor?
Does he voice the desires of the many who have heretofore sup
ported him politically? We think not, but time will answer the
question.
It appears that Mr. Jarvis made his assertion when he ral
lied to the defense of the Communistic meetings now being con
ducted from time to time on Bay street, East, to which this pub
lication has heretofore called the attention of officialdom.
For the first time in our history, we of Savannah are having
an opportunity of a close-up view to Communistic activities, and
we count it a thing more than passing strange that at this par-
time, Mr. Jarvis should rush to declare himself in favor of
alien doctrine.
sl/ It is high time that our community take stock' of the activi
ties and attitudes of our officials; it is imperative that we call a
IT '■ In this connection, let us look at the record to date.
First, we have outlanders steeped in their filthy political lore
garnered from the cesspools of Europe, preaching their rotten
ideas to Savannah negroes, unhindered by the officials of our city.
Second, our chief magistrate, Mayor Gamble (?) declares he
will not discriminate between white and black;
Third, our Mr. Jarvis, member of council, representative of
our people, announces that he is firmly in favor of social equality
as between white and black.
Merciful Heaven, whither are we bound ?
Are we going to sit supinely down and permit a continuation
of this infiltration of radical and unhealthy propaganda?
We are not!
The “Forest City of Georgia” is of the old and deep South
and in our Southland there exists today the last stronghold of
American culture and white supremacy. The other parts of our
nations have been polluted by these imported theories and this
subversive school of thought. Insidiously and persistently the
apostles of this new thought have, for their own benefit, sought
by every means possible to inculcate their unholy doctrine into
the minds of our people, and particularly into the minds of a
certain class.
Through it all, however, the Southland has tenaciously clung
’-to and defended her principles.
Shall we now, at this late date, having observed the diaboli
cal results of these ddetrines, forsake and abandon our principles,
L the value of which has been proven by time and the necessity
has been demonstrated repeatedly by the blood and
of our people? ’
Shall we now take the first steps leading toward an un-
destiny! . ■
It needs at the newspapers of the day
chronicling di® z - - : . x J, the communization of France,
i Russia to see what may easily
those great American princi-
IfJefferson and Patrick Henry.
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
THREE MEN MENTIONED
(Norman Davis, Sumner Welles, W. C. Bullitt)
FOR HIGH STATE POST
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, July 22—When, in
the near future, as expected, Under
secretary of State William Phillips
goes abroad, In the role of United
States ambassador to Rome, rumor
hath it that he will be succeeded by
one of three individuals:
1. Norman H. Davis, America’s dip
lomatic on
missions dating as far back as Pres
ident Wilson’s day.
2. Sumner Welles, now assistant sec
retary of state, a less important post
than the undersecretaryship though
reasonably exalted.
3. William C. Bullitt., present Amer
ican ambassador to Moscow, albeit
momentarily on leave of absence In
the United States, presumably on bus
iness connected with the pending
presidential campaign.
• • *
Davis* Qualifications
Davis is mentioned as a suitability
for the undersecretarial job especial
ly because of his undoubted popular
ity with foreign statesmanship.
One would think he should be. He
was the treasury department’s war
time adviser on overseas loans, then
American finance commissioner In
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peace negotiations. The Old World
powers, which got approximately a
dozen billions of Uncle Sam’s money
on the strength of the advice be gave
and then, Finland excepted, welched
on almost the total of the indebted
ness, surely would be thankless if
they did not like him now.
Otherwise he is very experienced,
too.
He has been Washington’s spokes
man in nearly 20 years of Internation
al conversations. As a result, to
quote Sir Wilmott Lewis, the London
Times’ Washington correspondent, in
a recent address before the National
Press club. Uncle Samuel uniformly
has been found “holding the hat”.
(Oh speaking "off the record”,
Europeans know which side their
bread is buttered on).
Likewise, Davis has been training
in the state department itself. He
was an undersecretary and, for a while
acting secretary in 1920-’2l, and
knows the routine at home as well
as abroad.
• • •
WeHee
My contacts with Norman Davis
have been such as I have had at press
conferences, but it happens that I
am personally acquainted with Sum
ner Welles and Bill Bullitt.
Sumner Welles was first secretary
of the United States embassy In
Buenos Aires, when I was running a
newspaper there. Welles, I will say,
was persona grata' among the Ar
gentines. He speaks their language
well. He is what they call “simpxtico”
—sympathetic; friendly. As Amer
ican ambassador in Cuba, near the
end of the Machado regime, he was
considerably criticized, but I believe
that anyone, in the circumstances,
would have been criticized.
If. as Is suggested, the Americas
are approaching a “rapprochement",
he unquestionably is a competent
functionary to engineer it.
It Is common talk that Secretary
of State Cordell Hull and Assistant
Secretary Welles are a bit jealous of
each other in this Latin American
matter—Secretary Hull having his
own very decided ideas and Assistant
Welles believing that he is the real
expert.
It such friction exists, it should
be eliminated. Hull’s Latin American
ideas are all right. Wells understands
details and psychology.
« * *
Bullitt
I know William Phillips, too.
He was first secretary of the United
States embassy in London, when I
was European manager there for an
American news service.
He is a cautious diplomat, who
doubtless will do ac well as anyone
toward keeping Uncle Sam out of
trouble id Ethiopia. It is safe betting
that he will not collect any European
war debts, however.
But nobody could do that, they are
uncollectible.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
NORRIS GOES ON BALLOT
Without the Backing of Any Party
IN PETITION LANDSLIDE
By I iFwST .TF. £lO BBL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
A remarkable demonstration is oc
curring in respect to Senator George
W. Norris, veteran progressive, who
just has passed his seventy-fifth birth
day.
The people of Nebraska are refus
ing to permit him to retire.
In spite of 100-degree temperatures,
more than 5,000 signatures a day
have been attached to Norris peti
tions.
James W. Lawrence, editor of the
Lincoln Star, chairman of the Norris
committee, remarks:
‘'Never in American history before
has any man been projected for pub
lic office without either the backing
of one of the older parties or a newly
formed third party where the can
didacy involved was was the United
States senate."
Mr. Lawrence has 20 times the legal
number of signatures necessary to
put Senator Norris on the ballot
again.
• • •
Farm Plans
Rumors have it that Gov. Alf M.
Landon has modified his campaign
plans in the farm states because of
the drouth. Both major parties have
had trouble over farm plans for years
now. That which suits the east doesn’t
at all satisfy the farm regions, and
vice versa.
Editor Lawrence speaks of Gover
nor Landon’s problem in an editorial
in the Lincoln Star, remarking:
“At Gov. Alf M. Landon’s Estes
Park retreat, recently, Senator Carey
My New York
By
James Aswell
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(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, July 22.—Rando-mus
ing: Local suggested to the sleuth
story writers as a good setting for a
murder —the dark and barren unfin
ished lesser approaches to the new
Tri-Boro Bridge, on the Long Island
side. ... Or the noman’s-lands that
are being tom up in preparation for
the 1939 World's Fair on the Flush
ing meadows. . . . Joe Dineen, the
newswriter, has scripted a thriller
which will presently be filmed with
a freakish variation of the “murder”
title sequence: “Shake Hands With
Murder” . . .
There is one line of work that re
ports no unemployment problems: the
managers can’t get enough chorus
boys for their musicals . . • The
scarcity has upped salaries. ... I
have been privately puzzle for a long
time about the need for having the
pretty boys in musicals; I question
whether girls in the audience like to
watch them traipse about—certainly
they add nothing to the entertain
ment value of show for male specta
tors. . . . Jack Oakie, I am told,
began his career as a chorus boy, but
was quickly transferred to virile roles.
. . . Incidentally, I cannot remem
ber ever having read a magazine
story or novel with a chorus boy for
hero. . . .
I wonder what became of Captain
Dingle, who used to write those salty
sea tales for all the magazines? . . .
What a name that was for a sea
story author! . . • And Rafael
Sabatini; his monicker hasn’t crossed
this glance of late. . . . And does
Michael Arlen still turn out those
gossamer tales wtih the patent-leath
er sophistication? . . . Charlie Chap
lin is wandering the darker streets
late at night plotting a film in which
to star his girl friend, Paulette God
dard —but in which Charlie himself
will not appear. ... “A Woman of
Paris,” which Charlie directed but did
not act in, was one of the memorable
movies. ... He is also planning
ahead for another characteristic flick
er featuring himself. . . •
• • •
The Paramount, in Times Square,
has gained a subtle folksy aura by
spotting a young man called “Mogul
the Mystic” in the lobby, to read the
minds of giggling girls. ... A
Rialto cut-up asked him to name the
horse fated to win next day at a lead
ing track. . . . Doubtless you have
guessed his comeback: “Sorry, but I
can’t read horses’ minds.” . . . Now
the streets are pack-jammed with an
unwonted multitude of sidewalk sales
men, who hawk everything from “pa
tent” radio-static removers to Rube
Goldberg canopeners; the phenomen
on is a sure Index on more easy
money floating about. . . . Vignette:
the doorman for that 52nd St. oasis
with the large Landon sunflower in
his lapel—he gets a fresh one every
morning and they cost him 15 cents
a day out of tip money.
• * •
There were some gloomy nights re
cently for Broadway legitimate shows
. . . The heat was withering and
yet I passed Claude Greneker, the
Boswell of the “Follies” (which will
reopen soon) and he was cheered to
find eight—count ’em—shows had
survived the sizzlers . . . Among
them were those two perennials, “To
bacco Road" and “Three Men on a
Horse.” ... In the cases, the boys
are wondering and wagering on the
profound question: will Congressman
Zloncheck be re-elected? . . . The
odds, which are slightly ironic with
few takers, seem to favor his getting
the toga for another session in Wash
ington. ... A miniature golf course
—remember?—has had a rebirth out
Long Island way and is doing well,
to judge from the crowds seen from
the highway. . . .
• • •
The new taxis here, with tops
which slide back, are grand for gap
ing up at the cloud-grazing architec
ture, but whenever I take one I sit
under the al fresco arrangement
rather gingerly. . . . Yesterday I col
lected two burning cigarettes, a beer
bottle top (well, after all, it might
have been the bottle) and a wad of
gum while riding through Wall street.
of Wyoming, in a statement to the
press, said he had talked with the
governor on the agricultural plank
and the Republican candidate was
seeking away out without direct pay
ments to the fanner.
“In Topeka, later,ln conference with
former Gov. Frank O. Lowden of Illi
nois, the Republican candidate for the
presidency was told he must continue
the direct payments in a soil conser
vation program to be participated in
by middle western fanners.
“So it is apparent Governor Lan
don is receiving his baptism in the
joys and privileges of endeavoring to
reconcile two .sharply conflicting
views within his party. Its answer
will be given in the acceptance speech
which Governor Landon will deliver
at Topeka late this month.”
• B ♦
Foor Congressmen!
Congressmen are having night
mares this campaign.
If a congressman voted against the
Lemke-Frazier farm mortgage inflar
tion pill, he Is being fought by Father
Coughlin—no matter how good a con
gressman he might have been.
If he opposed the Townsend old
age pension plan and its sales tax,
he Is being fought by the Town
sendites, even though he favored so
cial security on a broad scale.
If he voted against the Guffey act,
he is opposed by union labor.
If he voted for measures desired
by union labor, he is opposed by the
United States Chamber of Commerce
and other organizations,
is opposed by the American Legion.
If he voted against the bonus, he
1 If he votes “yes” on new deal meas
ures, he Is sniped at by the American
Liberty league-
If he pushed the pure drug bill,
patent medicine and advertising in
terests seek to unseat him.
But nobody tries to organize in his
behalf for being a good congressman.
And so on down the line.
1 A congressman is not a rubber
stamp to the president.
He is a puppet tossed around by
a score of organizations, which
seek to gain control by intimidation.
Ironic
Take the case of Representative
Arthur D. Healey of Somerville,
’ Mass.
Representative Healey is co-author
of the Walsh-Healey act requiring
contractors doing government work
to pay standard wages, an act high
ly desired by labor, one of the few
progressive acts passed by congress
at its last session.
But Father Coughlin has decreed
that Representative Healey shall be
defeated because he voted against the
Frazier-Lemke bill.
How Widely Armed?
How widely armed are the private
police of the steel corporations?
Nobody can ascertain. Newspaper
reporters and photographers are
.chased away from plants by armed
guards. No nation has such an‘effi
cient “border patrol” as steel plants
have at present time.
Labor continues to make charges
of violence. And it demands congres
sional investigations—which are cer
tain to come.
One New York financial column
boasts that a union organizer was
“escorted” out of a steel town. Labor
asserts that this is no less than ab
duction —and demands action.
(But many steel towns still are domi
nated by “corporation” officeholders
and police. Newspaper photographers
coming to these towns have learned
that. Union organizers can expect no
safety.
Rubber union leaders assert there
is a concerted effort on the part of
They cite their own experiences in
corporations to iniimldate organizers.
Gadsden, Ala., where there Is a
branch of an Akron, rubber plant. Or
ganizers from Akron, including the
union president, were.
You’re Telling
Me?
A new four-mile race track is being
built on Long Island near New York
city. But we’re afraid It won’t be
able to stand the competition of the
state highways on Sunday.
Self-restraint was once a wide
spread virtue, but that was before
the perfection of headache powders
and hangover pills.
• • *
It’s an ill wind that blows no one
good—for instance, those radio polit
ical speeches make us really appre
ciate other air entertainers.
B * •
The human body is a complex
mechanism which we can’t under
stand. Proof: It is always hotter sit
ting at your desk in the office shade
than out on a golf course in the
broiling sun.
• • *
“It is the material and not the
man who uses them that makes for
success,” reads an editorial. Hmmm,
that makes the inkwell more Impor
tant than the comic artist.
• • •
In these days the smile worth
while is one that you can photograph
and sell to an advertising agency for
use in toothpaste promotion.
• • •
A vacationist Is a fellow who takes
a lot of snapshots to prove to you
that he really had the good time he
only wishes he had had.
• • •
The British government has a plan
.for a poison gas-proof cover for baby
carriages. That’s fine, but is the
cover bomb-proof, too?
w* * •
A pessimist is a fellow who thinks
the telegraph and telephone were in
dented just so we could get the bad
news quicker.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright, 1936 Central Press A»’n)
Wednesday, July 22, St. Mary Mag
dalene. Mercury becomes an evening
star, tomorrow, with Venus, Neptune,
Jupiter. Morning stars: Saturn, Uran
us, Mars. Zodiac sign: Leo.
* • •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Stephen Vincent Benet, b. 1898.
poet and novelist ... Phillips Holmes,
b. 1909, cinemactor . .. Ely Culbert
son, b. 1891, Hussian born profession
al bridge player . . . A. S. W. Rosen
bach, b. 1876 Philadelphia bibliophile
of world renown . . . Morris Fishbein,
b. 1889, medical publicist.
• • *
WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Third (muslin) Elliott, Roosevelt,
son of the President and Ruth Goog
ins.
• • •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 22, 1793—Alexander Macken
zie. 38, first white man to cross the
Rockle Mountains and North Amer
ica north of Mexico, reached the Pac
ific in Latitude 51 degrees 21 minutes
N., four years after leaving Montreal.
He went all the way west through
what Is now Canada.
He had already been the first to
explore Canada as far north as the
Arctic Ocean. Mackenzie river Is nam
ed for him.
July 22, 1797—U. S. S. Constitution
sailed out of Boston on its maiden
voyage in command of Commander
Samuel Nicholson, 54, and Lieut. Isaac
Hull, 24, bound into history as the
most famous U. S. warship. Nichol
son, a Marylander who was John Paul
Jones’ lieutenant in the Revolution
superintended the building of the
Constitution.
The ship of that name preserved
today Is not “Old Ironsides.” Every
piece of her has been replaced since
she was launched.
The original was 1,576 tons, with
32 long 24-pounder guns and 20 32-
pounder carronades.
July 22. 1833—Benjamin H. Hanby
was bom near Rushville, 0., where
when he was in his twenties, he wrote
one of the most popular American
songs, “Darling Nellie Gray,” as a
singing exercise for his gradeschool
pupils. The song was suggested to
him by the grave of Joe Selby, a
slave who had escaped from Kentucky
and tried to obtain the freedom of
Nellie Gray, a slave girl on a neigh
boring plantation. All Hanby ever
received for it was $25.
July 22 Among State. Histories:
1796—Moses Cleaveland located Cleve
land, O. . . . 1871—Exposure of Tweed
Ring in New York which had stolen
$50,000,000 in public funds was be
gun by New York Times. The editor
refused a $1,000,000 bribe to stop It.
. . . 1896—Silver Party had its first
national convention in St. Louis and
nominated W. J. Bryan for President.
. . . 1933 Wiley Post completed his
solitary flight around the world at
New York, In 7 days, 18 hours, 49
minutes. 1934—John Dillinger was
executed by F. B. I. men as he left
a movie theater in Chicago.
• • *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—lt was “Pre
paredness Day” in the United States.
Bloodshed seemed far away, though
French were extending their gains
north and south of the Somme, in
support of the British; Russians were
completing the conquest of Armenia,
and hammering away at Austrians;
Austrians were pouring coals of fire
upon Italians in Trentino.
The streets of San Francisco ran
red with blood, too. A bomb killea
six and wounded 28 marchers and By
standers in the Preparedness Day
parade there the crime with which
Tom Mooney and Warren K. Billings
were to be charged four days later.
(To Be Continued)
All Os Us
Once I moaned in self-pitying com
plaint: “Nobody ever tells me any
thing. I never know what’s going on.
Why doesn’t anybody ever tell me
anything?”
And the family laughed and one of
them said: “If you’d only keep your
eyes and your ears open, you would
hear and you would see what Is go
ing on. Everybody tells you every
thing, but you don’t listen.”
So I went outside, with my eyes
and ears open, and a great green oak
leaned down to me and said: “I told
you to be strong and patient.”
And the green grass looked up •
and murmured: “I’ve warned you
many a time to make the best of the
rain that falls, to make the best of
your short season and to bend with
the heavy winds."
And the wind blew against my
face and said: “How often have I
told you that life is good and that
I can blow your worries away?”
And a dog came up to me ana
rubbed himself against my knees and
said: “Haven’t I told you there is
loyalty and friendliness in the
world?”
And a cat crept out of the shrub
bery and lingered near and said:
“Have I not given you a lesson in
self-sufficiency, In dignity, in mind
ing your own business?”
And I saw many a light in many
a home, each a symbol of a human
being, and they all said tome: “Doi
not speak to you of courage and pa
tience and strength and quiet hap
piness?”
And ten times ten thousand stars
shining l n the great blue heavens
said to me: “Have we not taught you
reverence and wonder, have we not
instructed you in quiet humility and
reminded you of the immensity and
magnificence of the univer* and to 1
you of your Creato’- |
And ‘ tolaiv
spirit—l
everyth!
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