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From the crest of gigantic Chickamauga Dam, which backs up the waters of the turbulent Tennessee River eight miles above Chattanooga, President Roosevelt this week made his first major address since he accepted the Democratic nomination for the Third Term. Hatless in the withering sun, he sat in the back seat of an open car that had been run up on a hastily-built slack pine ramp. Sweat poured down the President's face, soaked through his seersucker suit...
...Potomac, returned to Washington for two days, left for Hyde Park again. Presidential travels made it plain that citizens faced a delicate problem in discriminating between the actions of President Roosevelt and Candidate Roosevelt. It was announced that he would speak at the dedication of TVA's Chickamauga Dam near Chattanooga on Labor Day, speak again in the Great Smoky Mountains. Then the President will inspect a naval armor and gun plant at South Charleston, W. Va. Recalling that President Roosevelt had declared during the Chicago convention that he thought it unwise to leave Washington during the crisis, statisticians...
...Warm Springs, Ga. for ten days or more went Franklin Roosevelt, detoured to Chattanooga to inspect TVA's Chickamauga Dam. Twenty-one drunks were let out of jail...
Died. Major General John Lincoln Clem. 85, U.S.A. retired, "Drummer Boy of Chickamauga"; in San Antonio. Tex. Last Civil War veteran on the active list (until 1916), and youngest U. S. soldier ever to win a sergeant's chevrons. Orphan John Clem joined the Army by stowing away at 10 in a baggage car bound for a mobilization camp at Covington. Ky. He met the Civil War President in 1864, and decided to take Lincoln for his middle name...
Unreconstructed Southerners regard the Civil War as a series of tragic blunders, can still wonder what the outcome might have been if Bragg had not been so dilatory after Chickamauga, if Longstreet had not been so slow at Gettysburg, if Lee's genius had not been hamstrung by Jefferson Davis' defensive policy. Even some Northerners, looking around at what the U. S. has become and back at what the South was, can see that the Civil War might have been a tragic mistake, can wonder whether reducing the South to the lowest common denominator of the Union...