Chief Askew's Diary: April 6, 1930

Sunday drivers on the road; Mohandas Ghandi completes his Salt March

It was a fair and pleasant Sunday in Newnan, Georgia, with “very little doing,” police Chief Askew wrote in his diary. “Lots of people out driving to-day, especially in the afternoon.” Remember the days of “Sunday drivers,” folks who drove slowly around neighborhoods on a Sunday afternoon, not in any hurry to go anywhere? Seems like a long time ago. Heck, it was a long time ago!

In far-off India, Mohandas Gandhi and his followers had reached their walk to the Arabian Sea, concluding a Salt March to protest the high British tax on salt. Paid subscribers can read on.

The 1931 studio portrait of Mohandas Gandhi was accessed via Wikimedia Commons.