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Ifcnf Ads 5-5131 THE KNOXVILLE NEWS-SENTINEL Tvne In WNOX Thursday July 1934 The Knoxville News-Sentinel Atlas Was A Piker! V-C lr A nj'imHomrd riwjiirr MARSHALL MrMIIL ft IH A I I' E'lis'rf i Virigrr Efl ts'-xl Pnetrt gjavtia Office Wt Crca Aini TFLEITlOXE 5-3131 ltcrc1 at Krn aa SfcA-j lai XliMr on Cbc Ugh I and the people will find their oirn way" THURSDAY JULY 9 1938 Wc Choose Browning rTODAY the three fcr v'ov-ernrr in tbe Primary ef Ancnst ener tbe last month of their campaign Between tb-eni tieis5 Burgin Ivvsscm Gordon Brcwning and Charles we choose Gordow Browning Why: Principally because believe lie n1 is ready to go to bat the fundamental question before State voters And what is that? It is the question of whether ct not we are going to permit those who have been In rower in Nashville these lai four years to continue their mis-govern-fient We brlieve Tennessee will not have the progressive the efficient and th-honest government it wants and needs until the present state at Nashville is evicted frrm office is the people versus a part wr what once might have been termed a and the undesirable part at Mr Browning said in hi opening address He was not just indulging in some pretty political rhetoric Mr Rrown-Inp we believe was statinc the truth It is because he recognizes the issue and because he stands on what we regard as the right side of the issue that we choose him What has been going on in Nashville these last few years is a familiar story to newspaper readers An investigation was ordered about two year ago Non-partisan experts the inquiry They found gross inefficiency They saw the evil and expensive spoils system prevail in government departments They saw public money In the form of salary checks to patrrnace jnb holders used to pay off political debts What happened? Nothing! We railed for a house-cleaning at Nashville months ago We showed hnw the clean-up rould he begun without the necessity of passing new laws or changing our Constitution We explained that it would take a real desire for a house-cleaning and real political courage to start the job Nothing happened Now many of the same group presently in charge at Nashville are seeking to keep their1" grip on our Government by supporting Mr Dossctt Maybe he cannot be blamed fpr this Perhaps he is a strong and atile man who could push through hia program over such an obstacle But we doubt it It ia a story joften told in American politics of how a man however able loses to his backers Mr Dnssett if he does not now sec eye io eye with the prespnt state will find himself chained to its program if elorted Tennessee if we understand the temper of -the State wants something a great deal better Tennessee we are confident wants a progressive state government a courageous one A government that ruin be depended upon to substitute efficiency for waste and supplant the spoils system with the economical and honest merit system The News-Sentinel does not see eye-to-pye with Mr Browning on every Issue Bui we choose him nevertheless ho-eause we believe be will if elected give Tennessee the type of government it needs and wants Mr Bibb's Job cleve we 1ve obtained only a email part of The County Court1! sub-commit re that InvofticatM alleged abuses anl maladministration in the County Highway Commission last Kail thus loft the gate open for further inquiry The suggestion that there is need for this inquiry is buried new along wi'h the rest of this important report on the of County Coup Joe Strong member of County Court and highway superintendent helped defeat efforts this week to take the report from the table But the sub-eommittee opened still another way for further inquiry also it concluded "that our county attorney bring- this record to the attention of the Attorney- General for such action aa is That suggestion wai made last October No one knows whether It is a good suggestion or not There is only one way to find out: That is for the Attorney General to study the report and take action aa Is The report has been printed its roll test appeared in yesterday1 News-Sentinel Even though County Court has refused to take it from the table declined to consider it and act on it even though this has occurred there is nothing we know of to stop attorney General Fred Bibb from following the investigating committee's suggestion It's Mr Bibb's JoK Life Goes On Composer Of Song Hit Too Nervous To Sleep By ERNIE PYLE ii Fair Enough I A By WESTBROOK TEGLER VTEW YORK July Once again old A Mr Lloyd George feels the sMr of life and somethin in the tone of hia remarks about the present British cabinet suggests that he is about to have another volume of hie war memoira Mr Lloyd George delivered an eleerioe speech in which he described the Baldwin Ministry as rats Thi ia strong language even for England where political repartee often smarka more of the Louisiana Legislature than of logic and culture and It is likely to make print wherever books are sold Even if it does remind the Knglish-rradlng world that Mr Lloyd George is an author and stimuli! business for his books nobody ran declare that he waa merely making ballyhoo Mavhe he actually does think that the present cabinet is composed of rats althouth it ia not always possible to discover what he thinks from what he says The old gentleman with the white mane has been stnee hia retirement one of the most prolific authors of intimate history in alt the world English politicians are prone to regard their cabinet as the hack staira and to keep diaries and files of miscellaneous papers for future profit American statesmen have not been very successful at this wort of tattling seeming to regard their secret informal material obtained under confidential circumstances as something which properly belongs to the nation and not to themselves Or it may be that they are merely careless forgetting to put by the stuff day hy day which would make commercial copy after the wheel has turned Prime Minister Bars TlTR LLOYD GEORGE did not get AU much pay as war Prime Minister The inrorne tax reduced his net to about 118000 a year and out oftbat he had to buy groceries and whisky and wine for a great iany unavoidable guests who went to Downing Street to discuss the war with him Miss Ishbel Mac-r Donald when she opened her road house Jn England a few months ago said there was very little difference between her rple as barmaid in a roadside gin mill and that of hostess for her father when he was Prime Minister She had served beer and liquor at Downing Street too and the only real difference was that the guests didn't pay for their drinks It appeared that Miss Ishbel itfver was quite happy serving beer and liquor in Downing Street without a cash register anywhere on the place Benito Mussolini also did a good business In memoirs but although be Js a journalist by trade he performed this work through the medium of a forger or spook Perhaps he was loo busy to do the job by hand but then too he was known as an awful faker when he was running around northern Italy and Switzerland with the seat out of his pants It may be that he did not trust himself A Prosperous Spook YOUR correspondent had a long visit with the Duce's forger or spook one day last winter and rerkbned from the mode of her lire that they must have cut up quite a nice hunk of American and British money The forger was a lady and as she spoke with great feeling about the noble sacrifice of the 'Dalian peasant women who toss-' ln8 thpf hold wedding rings and mis- rrable little trinkets into the melting pot she lay back on a divan twirling on her finger not only a wedding ring but a diamond ring wlfh two stones each the size of a bath sponge- Lloyd George la by far the heat of these back staira authors of the Old World The old gent has a knack for it He is tough truculent variable and without illusions about men who are accepted hy the world as great historical figures and national heroes His opinion of generals ia that of a man who was always having to help them out of their blunders make alibis for them and hang decorations on their tunics in gratify their own vanity and deceive the nation into a hellef that they were good He knew so niurh about medals and orders that he never accepted so much as a lapel button for hfmseir There is no telling whether he thinks the present cabinet Is composed of rats' or nqt During the war the old man sent armies out to rapture tha German colonies hut a few months ago he rose up in Commons and gave the government the devil for not turning them hark lo Hitler Also during the war he klrked the entire Heerst outfit out of England He detested Hearsl Jn those days hut in Simpson's Restaurant one night lest winter he met a Hearsl correspondent of the old war time and exclaimed as he shook hands "Well I see we are both writing for the same Hearst found out hia pririt and hired the wsr premier or England that he learned bark In the days when his supreme kmhltlon waa lo rondurt the department of public speaking In Oklahoma University And they always seem to go over They never appear lo grow cold or trite Though the book from which they rome may he th limited threadbare (he spirit of their delivery is never weak The United States Senate a body in whirh there ia no limit as to length of speech nisv as well start right now get ling Itself set for such a feast of erudition and flow of soul rome next session as never before experienced in the chamber It Seems To Mel -Bv HEYWOOD NW YORK July ll thought that Steel Institute was an extremely effective address Like a good many newspaper col-umnlita John peaks ben when he Is mad He was good and mad over thn radio but he height-nsd the offset of what said by imposing a considerable restraint upon himself There was no bluster and there were no threats Mr Lewis has been known as an autocrat Thin- charge is eM true than It may have been a rouple of years ago Of course la impatient of opposition and non-concurring opinion but hn has learned that his strength dependa largely on the mass behind him The whole tons of his speeeh was ons In whirh he saw ih rvnt epflkesman or organized and potentially organized groups which would be in support of the principle he advocated Certainly he gave the steel barons no whfh hang their ehnrgo of coercion or intimidation Surely it cannot be said that a well-reasoned and faetual argument over the radio la a kind of coercion Penetrates Police Cordon WAS excited because it seemed (o me A tMt libor now has a new ma3r bt dwaotaaeoua-ly 1th full warrant John Lewis spoke or the espionage system which prevail! in the steel industry The Institute itseir distinctly suggested in Its full-page ad that things would go III with such workers as attended union meetings or engaged In or union activities But even this well-knit and powerful five-billion dollar organisation cannot coma between tha eteel worker and the voice which rides tha ether waves Lewi' arguments rame through the walls end through the cordons of special police which guard tbe company towns in the steel regions He was able to talk face to fare with men to whom the goipel of organisation is till new And in all fairness to John be did not minimise the dangers He frankly told the unorganized workers that they might be discriminated against discharged or even roughly handled if they -attempted to form unions free from company domination But there is not only courage but a security which rises-out of numbers Thus one puddler who elands up lonely against the sky In an easy mark for tbe bosses If 10004 are with him he ia much safer and if thn entire half million skilled and unskilled workers in steel ran be induced to join together their power is sufficiently great to challenge even tbe might and majesty of the organized employers Getting Down To Cases LEWIS spoke for a full half hour but ho wasted very little time in oratorical flourishes And on the nlr it was not possible for him to use the dramatic pause which he likee to employ on tbe platform He drove ahead with facts and figures There waa nothing which could be called spread-eagle Of course he did pull one fast one on his listeners I imagine that many in the radio audience were aurtled when he named Lindbergh as among those who have attacked the Money Trust Nevertheless there are sections In the Middle West where the nimt Lindbergh still means the crusading farmer-labor political leader rather than tha brilliant young filer who once took his father by plane from meeting to meeting la Minnesota And I may say that I think that those flights of young Lindbergh were at least1 a glorious a his hop serosa the Atlantic to Paris Again it seemed to me extremely shrewd for Lewis to disown the role of being a purely unselfish knight in shining armor seeking to bring salvation into dark place He said truthfully that In part the effort to organise rubber textiles and automobile manufacturers along industrial lines was a defensive move to protect the United Mine Workers nf America After all even the most expertly organized labor group cannot he self-sufficient The weakest link may well be the test of tabor's strength Lewis Breaks New Ground OF course Lewis was breaking new ground in his very plain suggestion that united labor should fight along the political as well as the economic front If an efficient farmer-labor party Is in the national field In 1940 the broadcast whleh John Lewis made on Monday night will be one of the cornerstones of rhe movement It Is eaid that the president of the United Mine Worker of America i politically ambitious for hlmnelf That may nr may not be true My own impression Is that Lewis la far more interested In the movement than he is in any particular personality ineluding hia own But if he has ambitions I see no resaon why that should be used against him He doe stand out at the moment as the most vigorous and effective leader In the labor field If hi name ia mentioned as a potential political leader the impel it nf the suggestion does not rome rhlefly from him There he 1 Who can deny that he has raptured the popular imagination as a man competent to take command of a labor party? He la not of course the perfect In-iruinent But he suffers from no delusion of grandeur He still thlnka of himself as a member of a group murh bigger and more Important than himself I hope he takes to the sir egsln times within the next few months To me he rarrled the impression nf utter slncrrlty I think he had the lame effert on most of his listeners Of all the people who have approached the microphone recently John I Lewie stands out as a man who is able to be both concrete end eloquent he factual and to he moving to be inspiring and clarifying All at the same time It waa a good broadcast Our Gain TTENTUCKY paid Neil Basa a fine compliment in offering him an important prst with the Highway Department there We're glad Kentucky has recognized his ability And we're equally glad that Mr Bass decided to continue as admln-islra'ive assistant to Dr A Morgan 1 TVA director in rharge of the program Together these two'ntbn are in charge of one of the most important phase of the Authority's deelopment Together the will sneered Sunshine Moonshine Bv MILLER WELL it seems in for another drouth The unfairest thing of all about the drouths is that no matter how short the water mosquitoes are thick as ever The hoondogglera may have eliminated the malaria but the mosquitoes gre still with us Summer won't really he at Its peak until the atraw hats go down te half price 1 Sty what you will about the late home brew but Izsy Inch-cape-says at least it never was put up in a can New Knox Jail fa to he ready for opening just about-the time Bastille Day comes next week Dossctt Is out on tour shaking hands with the voters That explains the poll tax The poll tax ruts down the number of voters Therefore It ruts down the number of voters' hands the politirlana have to shake The next step will he to make a poll tax a requisite for shaking hands with politicians It is true what they say about Dixie according to Issy and Maurice but they didn't tell on her EXAGGERATION Gallor Memphis Political Leader Dina" saya a Journal headline But the atory tinder the headline saya that Mr Gallor son or the late bishop and Shelby County truaten since 1924 will retire from politic to practice law Being nut of polities and being dead may be the same thing In Memphis In fart it Is almost But not quite The gypsies must leave town The Journal saya thia morning And after Meurtre Plann went Into one nf the Gay Street palmistry shop to get a manicure the gypsies will bn glnd to leave in some kind of row with- the radio people and aren't letting any of their stuff out for a while Consequently every thing Hoagy writes goes on the shelf until this row bloyfs over He ha turned out about IS in the last six months He thinks there are some hlta among'them Hoagy says you don't write songs you dlsrnver them He sty the melody has always existed somewhere and that you don't rreate it you just happen to find it He saya he knew the minute he hit the first bar of "Star he hummed it over for me between sentences that he had something great "Star Dust'' has been on the air every night for five years It has been popular right through hut in the laat few months has picked up new steam The sales are double what they were three years ago Hoagy has made money But not aa much as he should have That's another thing ho didn't want me to tell how murh has made him He says the public likes to think Its song writers make vast fortunes and you might as -well let them think so HOAGY goes In for New York You'll find hlir at night in the places where there' musip He's one of Broadway's boys He was married last March Met hia wf through McClelland Barclay the artist They live in a beautiful apartment on East 52nd Street They have a pet monkey named Harvey who leap upon everything Including the guest'a head There Is of tourse a grand piano In the apartment Hnagy hasn't been out to Indiana for a year and a half Some of these days he experts to he sent to Hollywood to do music for the pletures When he was In Hollywood eight yeara ago he couldn't rren get In to see the Information clerk NEW YORK Hoagy Carmichael wrote And if that isn't enough then he wrote and 'Washboard Want to know what a' big-time song writer la like? Well take Hoagy for an example: He's aa nervous aa-a witch and cap't sleep at night When he does go to sleep he dreams that cows are walking aerosa hia bed He ia 38 years old weighs 128 pounds has a long thin face and in 18 years lost any hair or put on any meat around thg middle He loves New York His real name is Hpagland He ia a Hoosler hoy Been playing the piano sinee he was 10 Never took lessons Couldn't read music until a rotiple of years ago and even now he can't play a new piepe from ntuair But he's a demon on the keys He played hia way through Indiana University and into a law degree In 1928 Went to Tslm Beach to practice and made 1840 the first mnqth But something happened to the law I forget what He landed In New York for good in 1929 Worked in a financial house for 912 a week and then music engulfed him He hasn't done an honest day's work as we rarniers would say in three years That is he doesn't keep office hours nr alt at a desk Consequently he has a lot of time on hfs hands and doesn't know what to do with it Ha plays tennis lot and monkey with the stock market Every morning about 10 he goes around Ihe corner to the Waldorf-Astoria and watrhea the figures flash hy THIS doesn't do his nervousness any good He lost a rouple of hundred while we were sitting there the other morning Didn't exitrtly lose It Just didn't make It He frets over things like that and talks about swearing off the market He doesn't resd anvthing stronger than the New Yorker and Reader's Digest Can't get into a book somehow Last fall when he was alek he did Torre himself through "Outline of History" hut It was like lekfng castor oil He goes to his nffiee a rouple of limes a week and hangs around on the piano He's liable lo get the Inkling of a melody there or nn a train or at home or watrhing the stork market figures When he gets one then he goes Her It until he has the whole thing The moat amaxlng thing abiut this song writing business la hnw quickly you knock one nut after you're nnre started Dust" was written In one evening And was wrapped and tied up wnrda and all 20 mlnuiea after Hoagy got the flrat note Hoagy wrote "Star Dust" two yeara after he left school at hia parents' home in Indian-apnlla I'd like in tell you about the evening he wrote It hut he naked me not to because he says the public (Ikes to think these sweet songs are rnnrelred tinder moonlight amid roara and soft hreesea "fttar Dust" lay on a pith-lliher'a shelf for two years Hoagy ilnally gotfi going by having friends play It at da area In Chicago When It hit New York by storm the publisher shouted "My God we've got Anri Hnaay said "Yes that'a what I've been frying in tell you for two HOAGY I now corking linder rontrart atilt ihe Music rubliaktrs Holding Co Thry'ra SIDE GLANCES By George Clerk vU'mL' Better Late Than Never NOTHING the Amiable Alf does between now and election is news whether roasting weenie or tucking his napkin undr his chin In view of the small beer or vacation-time items that trickled from the Rockies we don't blame lb Topeka correspondents for letting themselves go when the Governor fame down out or the mountains and delivered himself of a message to hia Kansas Legislature asking for a social security amendment to th state constitution Front stcrits running at grrat Irngit in Republican newspapers one gets the impression thsl Mr Landon is pioneering in social legislation that with on hand ttgl't on the budget been stretching out the other bulging with Rid for ins state unfr-rtunatc The record howftcr doesn't h'-ar out this theme For four jears during the depression Mr Landon has hern Governor of Kansas Jn that tune the more progressive cat' have been modernizing and l'itnknizing their laws In a tempo geared to the unusual needs rif their poor N-'W fora's Gov Lehman like tiny before him hs led In many refnr11 'n though band implied by an mi-floridly legislature So have Wisrnn-Mo La Eollnte Indiana's McNutt I llt-t Horner Rhode I'and Green Con-recMc-ji Cress Nnrh Carolina' Hiring 1 Alabama's It i uvr Kan-na uni among Me that tuatked time Kansas r'g'iar ia'ure sessiit on tied lastviar The i-'ion wa rein 1 ks'dr Inr Ihe ta I He only piece ff social i gisia'irii fvficd was ni-e providing for state ue or prison made ft' Iles Kansas one of the Cl states that have refurd to ta'ifv fie Al i IRi-or Amendment js oi-e of me fiat not arriptMj fi-c still J'ei A'ts ptovtsmps o- frie pit) tie tin lit vrliange Aa for social w-n-ti't it is nfi-r wit at while r8 ether vitit Jave nnop'id approved o' 1-age a tv-'eus o'her s'ie bate 4- inetide in nt Iviiiin' -j oi'cr i tales hair s-i t- pindent children proviti K-i-m -t row Is tietng Ms'e to com tii'ion to allow iooprra'io t-e ldrsl Govsrnrr for then service Karra is co-operating only in aid fr crippled children toairroal and ibi'l If llotiit'-r VI' wp'-i-f of i ij i -t i Kansas I flai'i'y I 'c it II gev Cf Cnf Is of c-m I1: it rrrifit for i now to hi 'a tr nei 'me with the more i rum tionwSt'a tinlv bat snd rn'hjnj pi 1 ei ft i nl t-i i pj 'mi l-iWAilh InlUl la'V tUll iilivr I Josh Lee TVM the lights risy "Hearts sod Josh Lee is headed for the Senate Winning out In Oklahoma over the attraciite old trooper Gore anil over the Governor Marland and Gomer Smith tycoon as the saying goes of the Townsendites this unique campaigner will by all the dope be roundly victorious in the run-off over hia opponent against whom will he directed all the accumulated hltternrsa of the primary a bitterness which Lee himself escaped hy proceeding on Hie serene principle of sweetness and light and poesy there iq anything whatsoever In the rerent ly expressed idea of Raymond Motev that the nation pants for calm that the people are fed up with strife and billingsgate Lee is the beneficiary For Ier Is an rloculinnlst Aa such he galhrrs no haired a he mils slnng Flonitinn Is his voralion polities hi avncailnn Essentially he is a speaker t( pieces nringliiE lo Ihc hustings his islenl of redl'iiinn he quickly won a seat in the llnuse fe has now applied jhe ssnic i lie higher purpose with the same SHricsiiflll results He operates on the theory that In a political campaign I tie populace prefera Hamlet to Hamilton and Macbeth to Mlchelson So wherever two or three are gathered together or two nr thren thousand he declaims front the hooka anything front "Rain nn the Roof' and "That (Hd Sweetheart of in thn Twenty -third Realm and "Rlenzl to the Hipping generously Into lh" library he come up with everything from Iretiiosthrnes to Dante and hating aeijulred gnat agility of motion he flu funi gmup group helm able easily In cot a whnle community from aew-lm circle In Uhamhrr of fonunerce In nrl japan of onesnfternnnn and an rtniiig For cruising radius bn ia said t) bate no riin I And the Inierrstiiu thin: I that when i Ijuer with a claa-ie like Inr i ttp 1 1 lieu In tin IH a Inti- huge n-t ntir Its t'l 1 It 1) hr jit i lhit he Jo: rte I g'vlei- I-1 in pit only fnj dellv ctv i-it for anti oi -n nppnpi it's hi and sla'n at'l r-ll i--I'm and oiher in to' m--' e' 1 1 p-a in vi language of noiHiti o'ii Jn Ip-iii hi rarefied fi'ilium dtii-ti ratiu uM urallou Off The Record GEORGE SANFORD HOLMES A rlsrlon cry nils through the evening mists A Vranklln Roosevelt stirs a popu-lace To wm new freedom In the market place Front Tniy "n-nnomle Who hold no nffiee lake no Federal vow Yet forge the terms toil its hours and wage The real din a tors of this Dollar As Who press their eron of greed on labor'a brow Matk well this challenge like an nrl flauime To "privileged of monopoly With f-arles fighting phrases that proclaim A mu inside the White House wholly Hoc For nnl such whalc'er his lime or name Hiali harc our "riiidrztuu with A Point Of View WAR the spirit of such men as Jeffey ann the spirit of a Golden Ao gone now and never to be repeated In our history? Was the feeling nf fundamental freedom whirh lighted the fire nr their ability a miracle we shall never see Main? That not my hellef It la not beyond our power to relight that sacred fire There are no limitation! upon the nation's rapacity to obtain and maintain true freedom except the strength of our natlon'a desire end determination (President Rooeevelt In hia July 4 address it Moatlcfllo1 ever wire YUUK folks when "Sny I Why don't you were broke! I.