Evening star., 1941-03-30
kaury Maverick
Just Wants 10 Be
Mayor Again
I Have q Job to Do
Says San Antonio's
Chief Executive
BIZ the Associated Press.

BIZ the Associated Press.
SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March %
Well-intentioned. the gentleman
visitor from the East mushed across
the carpet and offered his hand.
Mr. Mayor, it is a pleasure. I
am told YOU are the La Guardia of
the South"
His honor, the mayor of San
Antonio, burned back:
Sir, it is a pieasure-but don't
you mean that La Guardia is the
Maverick of the North?"
Ruler of a Storied domain where
mission bells still clang in down.
town business canyons, Fontaine
Maury Maverick - descendant of
trail burners, lawyer, hobo, business
executive, soldier, eX-RepresentatiVe
political reformer, author, tax COL
lector and mayor just wants to be
mayor again.
Ambassador to Mexico? Congress
again? Hell, no! I want to be mayor
Of San Antonio"
"Original Anti-Nazi Man"
On May 13, the folk of San
Antonio will decide Maury Ma
verick's immediate future. They
vote on him again that day.
The folks are divided on Maury.
Some bitterly denounce his ad-
ministration; infer that he, as an
individual, has slightly red
tinge. Others. the majority expected
to roll him back into Office, insist
his administration is the most pro-
gressive in the city's history, and
that Maury is just a liberal.
Maury labels himself a liberal.
laughs Justify at the charges of
Communism.
ct was the original anti-Nazi man
In the United States"
Boundless energy takes him over
countless jumps every day. When
he wants something in Washing
ton he jumps in plane and gets
it.
Where is our wandering mayor
tonight?"
Maury sWears. arranges another
trip, comes back home with more
money for a project.
And He Has His Reasons.
mot long ago I went to WASH
ington and got million dollars for
an airport I returned home and
found the papers giving me hell for
spending S145 for the trip. One of
them wise-cracked:
"Mayor Maverick visits city brief
""
But Maury wants to be mayor
and he has reasons.
81 maintain the only way we are
going to save the country is by local
responsibility evaluated in national
terms. We've got to think of our
duties in national terms-not by To-
calities.
Il want to be mayor because I
have a job to do-a serious job. 1
believe Americans will have to learn
to face national problems through
local governments.
But let me say this: My ambi-
ton is to do a good job as a public
executive.
But when and if, the time comes.
Ill be what the President wants me
to be-ambassador, chauffeur, door,
man to the mems washroom in the
House of Representatives or any
other job"
Maury, who, as a member of Con-
gress in 1886, once shouted for the
same 50.000-plane Army Air Corps
that is the goal today, says the de-
fense program is commendable, but
too slow.
L. S. Must Sacrifice.
THE worker has 40-hour mind.
The industrialist has a Saturday
and Sunday of mind. You know
no war on the week ends.
''Mr. Hitler is going seven full
days and is 40 per cent ahead of US.
We must arouse the American mind.
Hitler produced 100 billions for his
defense. We have been arguing
about spending 10 billions.
personally, I believe we should
spend so per cent of our income on
defense-if that's what it takes. 1t
might mean giving up a new car
or some electrical gadget. But we
have to do it.
Maury argues the only way to pre-
serve Americanism is to preserve To-
cal government, but that the power
of the Federal Constitution should
dominate all. He doesn't believe in
Centralzation of power, but in CO.
ordination of power.
This squat, dynamic man of slight
" less than so who once went out
and roamed the hobo jungles of
Texas in tattered rags to get to the
root of unemployment, modestly
opines that those nights in box cars
and f1ophouses may have formed
the basis for organized relief in this
country.
Has a ColOrful past"
He took his findings from that
Representations with hoboes, ex-
convicts and drifters-and gave
them to Gov. Ross Sterling of Texas
and the National Government.
Out of his trip came suggestions
for establishment of migratory
camps, homes for juvenile de-
linquents and a broad base for a
relief plan.
Maury's past" is full of stories.
When IL years of age he was
hunking his school work.
But, hell, you know why? 1 was
spending all my time reading Greek
philosophers. When I was Is I had
read as much as many a man of so. -
Master of political skullduggery
IN high school, where st never tried
TO be elected myself, but was always
testing my ability to get someone
else in Office" Maury moved into
the University of Texas law school
He became a character.
Entered Law Practice.
Buried in books, digging for a
law degree, Maury chose compare
tive peace for couple of years
But he broke his bounds in his
junior year.
The freshman class was holding
its election. Candidates for the pres
idency included, among others
Maury Maverick. From campus
steps to soapboxes to statues
climbed Maury, making oratory.