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PAGE FOUR > v * Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at i 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Qeorgia . „ * SUBSCRIPTION RATES' Six Months - Three Months 4 .111"'“™" so- One Month • One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago , New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press ■ International Illustrated News - Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. - King Features Stanton Advertising Seryice • World Wide Pictures COMPELLING ECONOMY IN GOVERNMENT The proposed fifteen mill over-all amendment to be voted upon by. the people of Georgia during the latter part of the vear is phrased in simple language and easily understood as a protection to the taxpayer against indiscriminate spending of the office holder. The office holder who cannot balance-his expenditures to meet the requirements of this act is not efficient and should not be allowed to continue as a custodian of the laxpeyer’s fund. For our readers’ information, we are carry* the following proposed amendment in the editorial columns of our paper so that they can be fullv informed before voting. SECTION I “Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that Paragraph 1, of Section 2, of Article 7, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia be, and the same is hereby stricken from the Constitution and the following is substituted therefor; All taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws for public purposes. All taxation shall be uniform upon the same class of property subject to taxes within the territorial limits of the authority levying taxes. Property which is subject to taxes shall be devided into two classes, to-wit; Intangible and tangible property. Intangible property shall consist of money, notes, accounts, stocks, bonds and all other rights of action, and, or representa tive of value, but shall not include corporate franchises. Tangible property shall include corporate franchises and all other classes of property not embraced in the said definition of intangible properties. No taxes in excess of five mills on each dollar of the assessed value of such intangible properties shall be levied for all purpiscs of the State, and the County, the Mu nicipalities, and other governmental subdivisions of the State. No taxes shall be levied on the tangible property by this 3tate or any governmental subdivision thereof except as follows: 1. No taxes in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as sessed value of tangible properties shall be levied by the coun ties of this State for all county purposes. 2. No taxeg in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as iessed value of tangible properties shall be levied for school jurposes. 3. No taxes in excess of five mills on each dollar of the as essed value of tangible properties shall be levied by a rauni ipality of this State for all municipal purposes. The General Assembly from time to time may provide the method of returning, assessing, levying, and collecting of taxes and may apportion the same to the State and the governmental subdivisions thereof in accordance with the provisions of this Section. Provided that such property shall continue to be subject to taxation for the payment of the principal and interest of any legal indebtedness of the State and, or political subdivisions thereof, existing as of January 1, 1936, and such bonded indebt edness as may be hereafter legally created and validated. Provided, further, that nothing herein shall be construed to restrict or abridge the right of the General Assembly to assess and, or levy any form of taxes for governmental purposes, but the General Assembly is specifically authorized to assess and levy such forms of taxes as it may deem proper not in conflict herewith.” There are two additional sections to the act. Number two mere ly deals with submitting the amendment to the people and Num ber three is the usual repealing clause. It is commonly understood that Mayor Gamble is opposed to this amendment. The Savan nah Daily Times believes that the future progress of the people of the State of Georgia is dependent upon a prompt and equit able adjustment of the tax structure; of a drastic reduction downward of real estate taxes specifically and of the enactment of this amendment that will be a compelling and compulsory force upon those in power to reduce the cost of operations or get out of the way and permit others to do the job correctly. Mayor Gamble is the duly accredited representative of the tax payers of Savannah and they have the moral and legitimate right to know where he stands upon this most important sub ject. A concrete example of the necessity of the passage of this amendment is portrayed in the city treasurer’s report for the first quarter of this year, which shows an increase in the operat ing payrolls of Savannah for the months of January, February -and March of $3,687.95 against that of the same months of 1935. would not be possible if the proper regulatory legislation were enacted. NATURES TERRIFIC TOLL A touch of nature makes all the world akin. When misfor tune visits any section of our common country, Americans, true to every instinct of humanity never hesitate to reach across the boundaries of states to extend the hand of help born of the sympathetic bonds of a common brotherhood. When such mis fortunes are brought to our doors, aud the terror of tornadoes runs riot over our fair southland, then indeed are our sympathies aroused and every instinct of charity awakened. For stricken Gainsville, Ga., Tupelo, Miss., and the smaller communities affected by the terrific visitations of storm and fire we can but express that human sympathy felt by all. To that great mother of human woes and suffering, the American Red Cross, we must trust rendering the relief required. We can only do our part by placing within her hands the means with which to carry this vast task on, immediately, and surely. Savannah has never failed to do her part in the past, the call has come, she must not be found wanting NOW. For the dead, we can only with loving hands consign their bodies to the final resting place of all flesh. Their souls we trust may rest with the God that gave them. To the living, the crushed and the maimed, the widow aud the orphan, the unfortunates of an untimely fate, must we now bend our energies to alleviate in the fullest measure the miseries of their suffer ing arid want. They that giveth charity are twice blessed, it blesses those that receive, it blesses those that give. REMEM BER THE AMERICAN RED CROSS. -WORLD AT A GLANCE TOO MANY HOPEFULS PLUS RUMPUS BY RAMPAGING BORAH WORRY G. O. P. CHIEFS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer THE REPUBLICANS are coming to Cleveland in a fighting mood. The fighting is among themselves. There seems little doubt of that now. It Isn’t merely Borah. The Idaho senator could be crushed ruthlessly in the convention, that is to convene on the banks of Lake Erie In June. It’s the underground movements. There are too many Republicans who de3ire to become president. Such seems to be the opinion out in the field. ■ Even ‘‘unheard, of” men believe they have a chance for the nomina tion. LANDON AHEAD Landon is ahead in delegates. But he wijl enter the convention with far from *a, necessary majority. Borah may have a mere handful of delegates. But he may be able to kill off the strongest opponents with such withering fire as to make their nomination inadvisable—if an elec tion is to be won. The Old Guard is out to "get” Borah all along the line. It will fling all its power and wealth into Illinois and Ohio primaries to prevent .Borah from walking away with delegates. The Old Guard has some vicious look ing machines in those states. Tam mfny is outworn and outmoded com pared to these midwestern Republican machines, greased with money. “WORSE THAN F. D. R.”? Word undeniably has gone down the Old Guard line that “Borah is worse than Roosevelt.” For one thing, he favors regulating Big Business in favor of the small marchant. He is for those new regu lation bills before congress. He talks of the “unconstitutionality” of New j Deal measures and attacks them, but supports business “strait-jackets” Atlanta GETTING THE FLU? HOW DO I FEEL? ... I feel all right, why do you ask? . . . You say my face is flushed. It is always flushed, that is my type. Florid, you know, hypertension style, red ears, pink cheeks. It doesn’t mean a thing . . . You say my eyes look bloodshot, dull? That doesn’t mean a thing, either. Got a bit of sand in them yesterday. Very annoying, can’t seem to get it out . . . Pains in my back? Yes, but that’s because I threw a ball around the beach yesterday. Not used to that kind of exercise, using muscles I have not used for years. Getting to be an old man and have to be careful about such things. So you think I have the flu? . . . Who, me? . . . No, sir. Never had the flu, not even back there during the flu epidemic that swept the world in 1918. Never had it since. Me, I have a charmed life. I walk right through swarms of flu germs, swallow them, digest them, live on them, fellow! . . . They never touch me. I fight ’em off and don’t even know I’ve been in a fight. By WORTH CHENEY i WE LAUGH sometimes at the. odd given names some people pos- j sess. On other occasions we have, heard given names that absolute- 1 ly intrigued us, and led us to won der about the circumstances from which the names were evolved. Perhaps you, too, have met or heard of such people with unusual names. But have you ever met any member of the initial clan? We mean those people who have no given names, merely initials which represent nothing but the initials themselves. * * • AT THE START of a school term in Detroit a few years ago a teacher noticed that one student had recorded no given names on his record card, only the initials of “M. C.” Since it is customary for grade school teachers to call their pupils by their first names, she summon ed the student to her desk and ques tioned him. He was a negro boy. When ques tioned as to what the initials stood for, the boy seemed surprised. “Why,” he answered, “that is my name—my name is M. C.” “But are you sure?” persisted the teacher. “They must stand for some names you have been given. It’s odd that you would just have initials for a name.” “Well, teacher,” said the boy, “it was like this, so my mother tells me: When I was born my father was a porter for the Michigan Cen tral railroad. So, not knowing what to call me. my parents just took the Initials of the railroad and gave me a name.*' • • • • WE HAVE heard of a man whose fdven name is “J. P.” The initials are not abbreviations of names, they comprise his name. SAVANNAH BEACH ELECTION To Mayor Orrie Bright and his Board of Aldermen we extend congratulations and best wishes for a continuance of the splen did progress which has so marked the growth and improvement of their seaside community during the past few years. The town was indeed fortunate to have had two such tickets of out standing citizens from which to choose officials to guide the destines of their“town for the ensuing term. We are quite sure, winners and losers will continue to display the same spirit of sportsmanship shown during the day of voting, forget any dif ference that may have arose and continue to work as a unit in the upbuilding of Savannah Beach. f*** * * v All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN NOT—In the News •** * * • MEMBERS OF THE INITIAL CLAN COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 1936 that are “worse’’—because they may be constitutional. Such a man is ‘ dangerous’’ in the eyes of the Old Guard. 5 BORAH’S WEAKNESS Borah’s weakness at present always t has been his weakness. He is “neither fish nor fowl.” Liberals disown him, , conservatives fear him. r He might win if he were on one . side or the other. ' But where does he stand? That has bee nthe question since his entry into public life many years ago. Even the Townsendites, who desire ; to have a candidate, are perplexed over him. First they give him sup , port, then they withdraw it, then they . sit on the fence and wonder. Borah’s trouble has been that—too many people sit on the fence and . wonder about hlpi. That probably will lose Illinois and Ohio for him —unless something turns up in his favor within the next few 1 weeks. A sure to shooting liberal 1 could lick the machines. SMOOTH TALKERS The Republican national conven tion will be full of smooth talkers. They may not have radio voices, but they will have the quiet voices of power—and money. Borah will shout. He probably will say many truthful things. The Republican bosses, however, will interpret his utterances as aid ing Franklin D. Roosevent, who does not happen to be a Republican. They’ll curse him—beneath their breath, or in the back rooms— for “killing off” candidates they like. But on the convention floor, in smooth, cold, precise tones, they plan to nominate one of their own num ber. That’s the word one hears in the midwest. I Yet—this is what worries— there are too many little boys standing in front of the jam cupboard. Somebody will do some pushing aside. If I had any sense I’d go to bed and stay and and NOT be such an idiot? ... I will not! I WILL be an idiot, if I want.. . But I tell you I haven’t the flu. Guess I ought to know. Because you and you and you and YOU had the flu, because your wife had it and your children had it, that doesn’t’meanl have it ... I learned a long time ago that if I stay oh my feet and keep going, I can lick any germ that challenges me. The little white corpuscles get going, whole armies of them, and they attack and they overwhelm and they devou. the microbes and clean them up—and maybe I don’t feel ) fine for a few hours, but I wake up in the morning feeling fine as ever . . . Every time, without fail, that happens . . . So, you see— no flu, and even if I did have it. it wouldn’t make any difference, I’d lick it ... So I’m a stubborn, dan gerous and anti-social idiot and I ought to be .n jail? So thats what I get for knowing whether I’m get ting the flu . . . or not? Come a round and see me tomorrow —I’ll be right here . . . perhaps. » He received the initial-name in .a very odd manner. When he was (born there was the usual difficulty ! about selecting a name. But while j his mother had no names she fa ' vored, she did like the initials “J. P.” and that the parents would se lect names to fit the initials later on. But they never came to a deci sion about them, and he went through school with teachers and playmates referring to him as “J. P.” Now a man nearing middle age he still is known as just “J. P ” DETECTIVE TURNS SOLDIER TO FIND DOPE FAG VENDORS NEW YORK. April 8, (TP)—Detec tive Tom Mason is back in the rank-: of New York’s finest today with two new arrests to his credit. Mason was essigned to the Fort Haml. n arrry poit when authorities 1 there complained of a fl:od of Mri iuana cigarettes. Posing as a rookie. Mason lived the army life, took tbe top sergeant’s sarcas;n and tumb'ed out of his cot each dawn at reville. while he kept his eyes and car-' onen. Finally, Mas?n earned the trust of other r:ldlers whom he saw sm'king the Marijuana cigarettes. Thev gave him the names of two vendors of the forbidden weed and Ma on made bis arrests. Armv life, says the detectivr was greet—but it was fine to be ab’e to sleep this morning with no baglrr heralding the dawn. DEAD MAN ELECTED KEWASKUM. Wis. April 8. (TP>— Voters in the prosDerou c litt’e village •f Kewaskum elected a dead men to represent them the W-shlngton County boa~d Emil Beckhaus. win ning candidate for the position, d’ed just before the. voters went to the oolls on Wisconsin’3 state, ele-tion day. Chicago Fears Fatalities in Election As Kelly Machine and Dr, Bundesen Fight Renomination ot Gov. Horner MAYOR EDWARD J. KELLY “St Patrick drove tho snakes out “that distinguishad Irishman. of J r .i an d an «| i am goinf *«, d r j v . By EDWIN LAHEY Central Press Correspondent , CHICAGO, April B—The keeper of Cook county’s morgue is dusting off a number of slabs in expectation cf some business on primary day, April 14. The bitterest primary fight in liv ing memory is raging in the ranks of Chicago Democrats, due to the un ceremonious dumping of Gov. Henry Horner by the Cook county machine dominated by Mayor Edward J. Kel ly and Pat Nash, national committee man. Not since 1928, when the Robert E. Crowe Republican machine was brok en, has there been a really bloody election in Chicago, but newspaper editorial writers, police officials, and sideline observers now are predicting that the Democratic primary in April will be Cook county’s worst. Early Violence Already, with several weeks still) remaining in the campaign, there has \ been violence, including a number of assaults, window breakings sign smashing. Violence so far In advance of voting day is unprecedented. Sup- : porters of Governor Horner expect [ strong measures from him on pri- ; mary day, to keep from being count ed out. One thing expected from the governor is the assignment of state police to watch polling places. One police captain expressed the : private opinion today that if state MASS. STATE POLICE NOT TO INTERFERE IN TANNERY STRIKES BOSTON, April 8, (TP)-*State police have orders to stay out of two strike zones today. Governor Curley gave the troopers instructions to keep away from picket lines at Lynn and Peabody, after heads cf two tanneries appealed for state police protecti-n. The tannery officials complained that strikers clashed with non-union workers who tried to move hides into an open shop. The governor, in refusing the ap peal, said state laws pr hibit strte p:lice interference in industrial dis putes. BEGINNING OF A FRIENDSHIP A FRIENDSHIP begins quietly— One man meets another man, or a woman meets another woman and not much Is said. But a little warm ing glow is felt—Something about that other human being appeal;. It may be a tone of the voice, a glance of the eye. an expression of the face —Each feels at home. That may be all. The two may nev er see each other again . . . Life Isn’t simple. We move in whirls and tonents and two who might have been friends touch hands and move away from each Oiher, to the end of the earth . . . It’s a pity, but that’s how it happens . . . too often. But the feint beginning of a friend ship is not always so close to its end. Sometimes the little g’o wbeeomes a blaze of understanding and a strong irtimacy that lests to the end of two lives. These two who meet and recognize their pleasant appreciation of each ether come closer together . . . They find, when they meet again, that each face lights up in pleasure . . . They talk, and they discover that for neither is it wholly necessary to finish his sentence. Though they have never known each other, though their lives have been utterly differ ent and their ages far apart and one might say they cuodl have “noth ing n common,” they learn that they have everything in common —and are friends! their minds, their emotions, their reactions touch and dovetail and even talk is unnecessary. I wrote in that first paragraph of friendship between two men. two women ... But this same friend sh’p can exist between a man and a woman. It need not lead to marriage, it can be a precious part of mar riage, surrounding, strengthening love . . . Many men some women, will say. a friendship between men and women Is not possible ... I know that it IS. THE GRAB BAG In how many statees la the gover nor a representative of the fa;m laborite party? What post doss Major General E. M. Markham hold? What Is the capital of Brasil? Correctly Speaking The expression “above any” should »'* v r police invade Chicago April 14 to , protect the interests of Governor Horner, bloodshed on a wide scale will be a certainty. A record-breaking registration con firmed widespread opinions that pri mary day this year will be hectic. When all revision® in polling lists have been made, there will be a reg istration in Chicago of not fewer than 1,700,000 votes, an all-time rec ord for the city. Whistling Leaders of each faction, of course, concluded publicly that the heavy registration meant indubitably that a wave of public sentiment was wash ing In for them. Privately, however, every politician is whistling in the dark, with full knowledge that the big registration means a jackpot that can’t go to everybody, j The fight between Governor Hor ner and Mayor Kelly has become so j bitter that as far as publicity is con cerned. Mayor Keelly’s candidate for 1 governor, Dr, Herman N, Bundesen, has been all but lost in a cloud of recrimination between Horner and , Kelly. Mayor on Defensive ; Kelly is not a candidate, but he Is the most busy man in the campaign, defending himself against radio at tacks by Governor Horner, who has surprised even his close associates | : with his capacity for carrying the * fight to the enemy. 1 LAGGING EMPLOYMENT WITH JOBLESS INCREASING ONCE MORE BAFFLES OBSERVERS By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Pres* Staff Writee WASHINGTON, April B—With bus iness rapidly getting back to a high ly satisfactory prosperity level, why is employment lagging? Economists do not answer this question at all convincingly. That business is much better there Li no d:ubt. Income tax collections are up about 35 per cent. The gov ernment’s industrial figures are rosy. Financial publications all speak of greatly advanced earnings by the country’s big corporations. Retail trade is good. It would seem as if jobs should be available nearly normally. Yet the American Federation of Laker e:t mates that 12,550,000 work ers still are idle, and the peak of un employment was only approximately 13,000.000. * * * FALSE EXPLANATION? The stock explanation of unem ployment is the mechanization in re sponsible for unemployment; that is to say, one man now can produce as much as half a dozen or more men formerly, thus pitching the extra half dozen or more Into the discard. It is not an explanation, of course, which holds water. It Is the theory of over-production. And, as Congressman Geeorge Hud dleston, the house of representatives’ premier economist, repeatedly has pointed out, there can be no such thing as over-production until every one has what he wants up to a sur feit—and there are precious few folk in the Lnited States who would not consume more, indefinitely, if they could pay for it. MECHANIZATION RESULTS Mechanization does. Indeed, dislo cate employment. Senator James * Couzens aptly brought this out in a report he made a few years ago, when the mechan ization process was younger than It is today. What he emphasized was that a man who has been trained to a trade, and finds his job jerked fr;m under him by hit particular trade’s mech anization, finds small consolation in the prospect that some new occupa tlon presently will offer an orrxrtu nity for re-employment. At best he will have to re-learn a calling. At worst, if he is old, he is a derelict permanently. 1 Such a situation is hard in indl- not be used when “more than any’* Is meant. , Words of Wisdom Great men are not always wise.— Job. , • Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day usually are strong in their determination to | further the well-being of this fam * v f * «r V V Kelly has been placed in a pecu liarly unfortunate defense position by Governor Homer's strategy. The gov ernor hammers on this point: “The issue is between the Demo cratic voters in the primary and ‘Boss' Kelly." Dr. Bundesen, who after all is Gov ernor Horner’s opposition on the bal lot, never is mentioned. Mayor Kelly himself has been forced to answer these attacks of attrition with the declaration, now becoming lame, that “the people elected me, I’m no boss.” The Battleground The Horner forces privately hold no fear of losing to the Kelly-Nash machine downstate, and are concen trating their attack in Chicago, where they hope to win a number of wards. The greater part of the city’s 50 wards are failry well wired for the local organization, but in at least five o fthem contests are so bitter that it is anybody’s fight. Mayor Kelly’s deefnse suffered at his own hands St. Patrick’s day, in the opinion of many observers here. He referred at a dinner in St. Louis to that "distinguished Irishman, Mr. O’Horner.” Governor Horner immediately seized on the implication of racial hatred inherent in the alleged remark, and termed Kelly a “boa constrictor.” The governor followed with the vitriolic 1 blast that “St. Patrick drove the > snakes cut of Ireland, and I’m going • to drive ‘Boss’ Kelly out of Illinois.” t ' vidual cases, but it is subject to grad ual readjustment. There are no signs of one. MANUFACTURER’S VIEW President C. M. Chaster o fthe Na tional Association of Manufacturers makes the assertion that readjust ment is retarded by capital’s unwill ingness to Invest in the machinery for society’s new needh, while in a state of uncertainty as to the politi cal-economic future. “We stand,” says Prseident Ches ter, “on the threshold of air-condi tioning, television, transportation through air, twentieth century hous ing. “But we are asked to subject our selves and our workers and our proc esses to the ideas of men who never have produced anything and who cannot point to a single enterprise under their control competently and productively managed.’’ •» * * WHAT ABOUT RAILROADS? He did not mention the private in dustries which have been terribly bungled. For example, the railroads? However, it may be true that prop erly regulated enterprise (rather than capital, which seems to be stupid, more than anything) is handicapped by uncertainty. * * * A SLOW PROCESS But why does re-employment lag behind business recovery? Major Ralph H. Case, a competent economist, who grew up on the west ern plains, puts it: “After a very arid season, when the well has dried up, and then a wet season follows, does that well begin to flow again immediately? No. It is a slow r process of infiltration.” Dictators can’t be so tough. We’ve never heard of them punishnig the cameramen who take those awful pic tures of them. Many a congressman probably re calls the good old days when his constituents were satisfied with noth ing more than the annual package of seeds. WEALTHY EUROPEAN offers $lO,- 000 for a sure cure for insomnia. Don’t try for the prize. We are sure to win it. having sent him the names of a half-dozen or so radio programs. ilies and friends. They generally . possess good intellect and a strong j will which often leads them to posi ■ tions of prominence. Answers to Foregoing Questions 1. One, Governor Floyd B. Olson, of Minnesota. j 2. Chief of U: S. army engineers. 3. Rio De Janeiro. *V’ * ' \ My New James Aswelll| NEW YORK, April B—Rando. musing: Out late and into the dawn ing not long ago, I meditated that > in at least one department the horse has not been replace ... I mean the beasts that haul the milk delivery wagons . . . The vehicles are rubber tired, in the modern craze to make New York whisper silent, but they still plod their ac customed ways—more economical ly than any gasoline buggy could . . . The gas bill for stopping and • st rting would be enormous and no flivver has been trained yet to follow its master from door to door . . . Vignette: two stray cats frisking , about in front of the old Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals rescue home in 23rd Street ... And the human flotsam a stone’s throw away, lounging on the steps of the municipal free bath house . Portentous thought: in* Greater New York and its satellite cities 1 there are more people than in all \ of Canada, than in all of Argentina ' ... Richard S tee re, dean of the old time profession of humidor keepers, now guarding the tobacco stores of an-uppity Fifth Avenue shop, re- » veals that the generation of expen. sive cigar smokers has almost van ished . . . J. P. Morgan, the elder. Judge Gary,* John W. “Reta Mil lion" Gates, James R. Keene and his son Foxhall, used to drop in and • order a thousand dollars worth of smokes in a morning and think nothing of it . . . The most costly cigar of those times was a Partega, retailing at $6 each. . . . • * • Escudero, the classical Spanish dancer, looks his role less than any of the hoofing Dons ... At the Club Gaucho, where he nightly terps for a sieek coterie of Castilian magniflcoes, he slouches in a chair between numbers hair uncombed, dress careless, eyes abstracted . . . Escudero, who is the Astaire of the bullfight acres, is grooming a 21- year-old nephew to continue his familys dancing tradition . . . The mannequins of the Paris dress shops consider Barbara Hutton’s feet the most beautiful of any American woman’s ... I like the mellow hope expressed by George Ade, that the regimenters of the future will leave young men of talent and ability “elbow room to move around and achieve their proper reward. I got mine” . . . * * * If I had a few days in New York and I wanted to see some plays, I’d pick them in this order, knowing what I do: “First Lady”, “Boy Meets Girl”, "End of Summer,” “Call It A Day” and “Ethan Frome” . . That underscores the enter tainment angle, which is precisely what should be underscored . . . Unfortunately all playwrights fail to give it the proper emphasis . . . Os course, if it were a fete and a musical were to be chosen. I’d grab a pair for the “Follies” . . . Comes word of how the stage, doorman pick up a little extra change: back stage phone numbers are never list ed in the directory and a stage door guardian who has a notebook cram, med with them can earn an honest penny dispensing the digits to in terested performers who have friends in other productions who they want to meet at Dave’s, Leon and Eddie’s or “21”. . . Sunday night, once the slumpiest session for the dawn bistros, has been turned into one of the crowd ’em-in-with-a-shoehorn evenings for night club headwaiters . . . Sherman Billingsley started the movement at his who_ho-de-ho salcn, the Stork Club, by raffling off bottles of champagne and, on special occa sions, automobiles. YOU’RE TELLING ME By WILLIAM RITT JUST BECAUSE something wears a long, white beard and supports » supply of wrinkles it doesn’t indi cate membership in a Townsend Old Age Pension club. It may be just a radio gag coming back from the studio. * * • Sometimes it pays to put all. the eggs into one basket. Easter Rabbit gets away with it every year. * * * Oklahoma congressman Is taking teits and plans a movie career. Natu rally all his films will be talkies., • * * Why mar people fail of suc cess is because they have dis covered that Easy street is at the top of the hill and there 1$ no taxi service up. * * * Money may not bring peace of mind but at least one can worry in comfort. * * * Another difference between nine justices of the supreme court and a baseball nine is that the court is made up of nine pitchers and no catchers. * * * Many a man has come to the con clusion that the world is a weary and gloomy place in which to live when, in truth, it was just a bad sandwich from the night before. BUILDING WAVE SEEN AS i AS BIGGEST AID TO PROSPERITY’S RETURN PHILADELPHIA, April B—(TP) The chairman of the committee for economic recovery, A. S. Freed, says prosperity can come only on a build ing wave. In an address before the engineers’ club of Philadelphia, Freed urged in dustrial leaders to help launch a vast program of home building. So far, he said, better housing moves have been a mess. He said that every ef fort thus far seems to have made the housing campaign only a failure. Freed ur~ed that financiers and industrialists should interest them selves in a national drive to furnish decent homes for American people. He stressed that the program would pay big dividends. *■ r • ■w *■ r ’ f » ■ • * * a a * .. , mhJ