ASSASSINATION ... of Rulers
Three Presidents of the United
States have died at the hands of as
sassins. One ex-President. Theodore
Roosevelt, was shot but not seriously
injured, when he was a candidate
for a third term. It was only acci
dental that the assassin who fired
at President-elect Franklin Roose
velt missed him and hit Mayor Cer
mak of Chicago and four others in
stead.
Assassination is a rißk which
every head of a nation constantly
faces. The President of France was
killed less than a year ago. Presi
dent Obregon of Mexico was assassi
nated in 1928. King George of
Greece, Prince Ito of Japan, Presi
dent Madreo . f Mexico, King Hum
bert of Italy, are only a few of the
national rulers who have died at
the hands of assassins in recent
years.
There is no effective way to p o
tect rulers from the irresponsible
attacks of lunatics. A president or
a king must show himself to his
people. In this country a guard of
secret service men always travels
with the President and with the
President-elect, but even their pre
cautions sometimes fail. The Presi
dent of the United States literally
takes his life in his hands when he
accepts that high office.
EYEWITNESS .... of Two
I happened to be present at the
shooting of two Presidents, Garfield
and McKinley. I doubt if there is
another person living of whom that
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is tnue. As a small boy In Washing- J
ton I was paSßlng the old Baltimore
Potomac Railroad station on
July 2, 1881, and went into the sta
tion to get a drink of water. As I
entered the waiting room men and
women were screaming and rushing
in every direction. I wormed my
way through the crowd boylike, and
saw one of the station guards strug
gling with a bearded man. who was
still holding a smoking revolver. On
the floor lay a figure which I rec
ognized as that of President Gar
field and bending over him was the
familiar figure of James G. Blaine,
Secretary of State.
General Garfield died two months
later. Medical and surgical science
was still crude fifty years ago.
There Is little doubt that if doctors
had known then what they know
now he would have recovered.
LUNATIPS .... with Guns
There is. no doubt that Guiteau
who shot Garfield, like Wilkes
Booth, who killed Lincoln, and Leon
Czolgosez, the assassin of McKinley,
was insane.
As a newspaper reporter "cover
ing" the Pan-American Exposition
n Buffalo, I was in the Temple of
Music when McKinley was shot on
September 6. 1901. The murderer
liad wrapped a handkerchief around
his right hand to make it look as
if it had been injured. but the
bandage concealed a revolver. Only
.hose closest to the President heard
the shots or realized for a few min
utes what had happened. I was
present when the Buffalo police
questioned him. If ever there was
a lunatic Czolgoscx was one. And
apparently, Zangara, who shot at
Franklin Roosevelt, is likewise not
quite sane.
As a result of the shooting of
President McKinley stringent laws
were passed providing the death
penalty for even threatening the life
of the President.
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Two weeks before being inducted
into office as President of the United
States, Franklin D. Roosevelt visited
Masonic ( HalJ in New York City,
there to 'witness and raise his son,
Elliott Roosevelt to the degree of
Master Mason in the Architect Lodgu
F. and AJL , , . The photo watt
taken of father and SOB at the lodge
hall
FLORIDA .... Canal Plan
Among all the projects for public ;
improvements to be financed by the
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
I cannot think of any that would do
so much good as the plan to exca
vate a sea-level ship canal across
the neck of the Florida Peninsula,
connecting the Oulf of Mexico di
rectly with the Atlantic Ocean. It
would give immediate employment
to tens of thousands. It would ben
efit everybody in the United Stateß,
from Texas east by shortening the
time and reducing the cost of trans
portation of commodities between
the Gulf States and the wealthy
North Atlantic seaboard. It would
pay for itself through tolls charged
for the use of the canal by ships.
I hear from Florida friends that
the railroads of Florida are oppos
ing this project. That seems to me
tike pretty small business, but it is
quite characteristic. The wide
spread and growing demand for a
complete reorganization of the rail
road systems of the United States
arises largely from just such an ar
rogant and selfish attitude on the
part of the country.
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RADIO . . . World-wide Report
We have got so accustoihed to
radio broadcasting that to most of
us it hardly seems like a miracle.
! But I cannot escape the feeling that
the world entered a new era on
February 17th when the League of
Nations broadcasted to the world its
report refusing to recognize Japan's
rights in Manchuria.
Two powerful short wave stations
at Geneva sent this fifteen thousand
word message in Morse Code around
the world for anybody and every
body to pick up. It took ten hours
to transmit the entire report, but
every word of it was picked up by
the New York Times and it was
published in full on the following
morning. Within less than twenty
four hours every newspaper in the
world was able to inform its read
ers that the combined nations of
the world would oppose Japanese
aggression in China.
It was the most impressive ges
ture the League of Nations has ever
made. And my guess is that it will
accomplish its purpose.
Rockford News
Miss Beulah Folger, of Rural Hall
was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C.
B. Davis Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Eubank, of
Winston-Salem, were the week-end
guests of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Daven
port.
Miss Versie Wilmoth spent a few
days last week with Mr. and Mrs.
Dallas Coe, at Stony Knoll.
Mr; and Mrs. Charlie Marion and
children, Ruth and Phillip, of
Ararat, visited relatives here Sun
day.
Mrs. Ralph Burrus. who teaches
at Low Gap, spent several days at
her home here last week.
The roads have been impassable
and school has had to close since the
busses could not be operated.
Miss Pearl Hicks, of Winston-
Salem, spent the week-end with Mr.
and Mrs. John Hudson.
ANDY MELLON SUED
Andrew W. Mellon and two of his
former treasury associates have been
named defendants in a $220,000,*
j 000 civil fluit—the largest ever filed
1 in the District of Columbia suprente
coußt. The suit charge? connivance
with..offleers of uQidentUied
steamship, companies,, t® eya.de pay* I
ment of income taxes.
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