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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ■4, at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered ai Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES ')ne Year ........... 7cn lx Months Z-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ"” 375 ’hree Months _.._-.-.--__ZI_ZZ2ZIZIIZZ22ZZI”2ZI 1 95 >ne Month .........................__._____Z_ZZZZZZZZZZZZ '65 >ue Week ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: 'ransradlo Press • International Illustrated News ■ Central Press Ass’n Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures MAYOR GAMBLE’S FINANCIAL REPORT. We have consistently called for a DETAILED FINANCIAL REPORT of the operations of city government. Certainly the >ublished report which we have before us fails to give that de nied information which the people are desirous of having. It iems to be a smoke screen behind which is hidden the real cost if useless activitis. A camouflage of reckless spending of the axpayers monies on items is not entirely in keeping with that conomy consistent with present day conditions. According to this report, under the heading, “7 fiscellane- < us,” there was expended the tidy sum of ONE HUND IED AND SEVENTY-SIX THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGH TY-NINE DOLLARS ($176,489.00). A notation advises that this amount was spent for, “pensions, city market, abattoir, electrical department, recreation, auditorium and stadium, air ”ort, publicity and entertainment, Armstrong Junior College, etc.” The people may not be concerned over the cost of “etc.,” I ut, they are interested and entitled to know just how much was spent on publicity? And to whom this money was paid? Should tliey not be informed how, and where the city entertains? As i'iey pay the bills, should they not be told who is being enter l.lined, and for what purpose? Was the people’s money spent ler entertainment in Savannah, or was it lavishly handed out in Washington and New York? Are the people not entitled to know the amount of the bill I’.iey were called on to pay for the Armstrong Junior College? 'ot that they would object in the least to this splendid institu -1 on. That is beside the question. Tell them what it cost to < perate, how much income it has brought in, so they may ! am in actual dollars and cents and so exercise common judg iv.ent as to its value? And so should each and every item under ae heading, “Miscellaneous,” be explained in detail. Then we have jumbled together, “Industrial Development, ort Authority, Industrial Commission, Freight Bureau, etc.” Each and every one of these activities may have a part in city overnment. There was spent for them, ONE HUNDRED AND ! ORTY-TWO THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED AND NINE- I V-ONE DOLLARS ($142,491.00). The people want to know ,‘ast how much was spent on each and every one of them. It is • our plain duty Mr. Mayor to give them an itemized statement. A report of plain facts is all they ask for. Are they not en titled to it? VOTING AND CITIZENSHIP. According to published report, there are, in Chatham Coun nearly seven thousand (7,000) voters who have failed to pay heir poll tax, and who, if they do not act promptly, will be dis qualified to cast a ballot in the coming election. THE TIME IS SHORT. The last day to register for the state election is May 2nd. or participation in municipal affairs voters have until July, lomentus issues must be decided in the state election, issues ipon which improvement in city government, if improvement is iesired or to be had. This delinquency in registration is the largest in the his ory of Chatham County. Over forty (40) per cent, of a people ailing to place themselves in position to assert their independ nce, unmindful of the duty imposed by virtue of citizenship, areless or indifferent to conditions that must affect, if not con rol, their daily lives, is a sad commentary upon the prevailing ufluences which seem to have a strangle hold upon the com nunity. This delinquent list is a most happy omen to those that are ver on their guard, and constantly fight to control. Rest □red the professional politician, the members of the ring and he ringsters, have all been faithfully looked after. Their poll axes have been paid; they are registered, and they will vote. It s a matter of grave importance that every citizen pay his poll ax and register, at once. This is the only means you have of isserting your power, correcting existing evils in government, •ind reducing the burden of taxes. You cannot exercise the right of franchise unless you are registered. You cannot vote, unless you are registered. Signs are plentiful that, before the end of the year every citizen will give praise for the precious privilege of participating in placing in power those who would guide the destinies of his nation, state, or city. Speaking for the great public which we would serve, as did Spartacus to the Romans, “IF YE ARE CATTLE, STAND AND LIKE OXEN, WAIT FOR THE BUTCHER’S KNIFE. IF YE ARE MEN, FOLLOW MEN, FOLLOW ME.” A word to the wise: Register that you may vote. PEACE HATH ITS GLORIES To those who experience the horrors of war and come through inscratched to win the plaudits of a grateful nation this is writ en. Returing heroes from successful campaigns, find some ex 'liliration, excitement and recompense in tumultuous shouting of he crowds for the suffering and torture of mind and body en lured in the trenches and on the battlefield. There is too, even n the possibility of death, some consolation in the thought that he nation never forgets those who make sacrifices in her name. L’hat is war. There are glories to be won in peace no less that in war. How ever, the peace heroes and heroines do not receive the plaudits of he crowd nor the recognition of duty done at the sacrifice of tealth, even life. We have in mind, and desire to pay a short trib te to those splendid types of Americans who have always an wered every call and demand made upon them namely THE >OCTORS, NURSES, and AMERICAN RED CROSS WORK iRS OF AMERICA. Through flood, fire and famine, they face dangers unafraid, ighting hunger and cold, placing a merciful hand to alleviate >ain here and ministering to the necessities of starvation there, feroic acts are performed silently, without thought of renown or iward, working constantly and steadily so that human suffer ig and miseries may be removed. No doubt many such cases :.ave occured during the past few weeks that will never find • icir way to the public prints. All honor to these heroes and loroines of My New York By James Aswell NEW YORK, April 15 (TP)— Out Os The Mailbag: “Dear Sir: I would not give 2 cents for the is land of Manhattan. I do not sei ow you stand to stay there just to write it up. It is a town of gyps and thieves. “I have been in your city twice. One time a man stole my wife’s expensive coat when she went a way and left it for only about 8 minutes across a in Grand Central Station. The same trip 1 was cheated out of $42 by some men running a game of chance in 6th Avenue near Radio City. They were gone when I went back the next day. I also got a cinder in my eye and it cost me all my sol. dier’s bonus in hospital bills. “All so-called night clubs and theatre are hold-up places and ought not to be tolerated in a de cent city. What you don’t say in your writings is that it costs a man sls or S2O to go to these places once. No value rec’d. I am told that you writers get paid by famous peo ple for putting their names in the paper. Is this true? Os course, you won’t answer yes or no as you have not the nerve to print this letter. “New York makes me sick, so stuck on itself and not worth 2 cents. Sincerely, (please do not use name. I am ashamed I was in New York.” • • * And from Piedmont, California, ocmes the following contrastingly acute letter: “Was glad for the few words of commendation you gave the pro duction, ‘Ethan Frome.’ I’ve not seen the play, but have always con sidered the book the Great Amer, lean Tragedy. It made a profound Impression upon me. As you say. it should be refreshing to one and all to witness a play (or read a book) which was written for the worth of its human emotions rather than to disseminate propaganda of one sort or another. “But what have you to say a bout that extraordinary super-mid victorian offering called “The Old Maid’? A writing friend and my self saw it a month or so ago in San Francisco, and were hard put to it to decide if it were intended to be burlesque. “Oh, well, we knew, of course, that it was Intended to be taken seriously, but really . . . “Os course, you saw it. Maybe you commented on it at the time. I don’t recall. But to get If off my chest want to say that of all the insane, purposeless, monotonous, real, ridiculous plays I’ve ever seen, it takes the Grand Prix. How could it possibly have been a success on Broadway? (if it was). I kept thinking how perfect it would be if offered in the mood of The Drunk ard and that type of play which was in the mode recently. “If you have a word in its de. Tense, or an explanation for its ex istence at all, or—mayhap—an a greeing remark, maybe you’ll pub lish it. I don’t wish my name to appear inconnection with the sub ject. however.” The only defense I can think of offhand is that at least one play must be written every year suit able for the Pulitzer Prize, which “The Old Maid” copped last sea. son. Os course, that’s pretty flimsy when it is recalled that at least two first rate plays have won the ac colade. As for the success of plays like “The Old Maid” in New York, I "an think of but one fair explana tion. "The Old Maid” was a "safe” nlay; that is, visiting famines could ‘ake the kids to see it, and residents booked seats for it in advance, an ticipating the visit of sninster Aunt Agatha. It wasn’t really the worst nlay ever written; it appealed res pectably. Strange as it seems, that last is often a box-office asset in a town where most offerings are plenty sul. phuric. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— WILL F. D. R. TURN RIGHT - AS CONSERVATIVES NOW BEGIN TO BELIEVE IF HE IS RE-ELECTED? By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Frees Staff 'Writer WASHINGTON, April 15—Assum ing, for the sake of argument, that President Roosevelt will be re-elect ed next November, one hears a deal of wondering as to what his second term’s policies will be like. His current one is what may be described as an emergency term. He entered on it with the admis sion that he probably would have to undertake a considerable number of experiments, and we’ve had them. Next, it would seem that, having learned by experience, his aim will be to put permanency into the New Deal. Besides, if re-elected, he presum ably will not count on being re-re elected, and consequently will be rreer to work for what he sincerely thinks best than during his Initial White House tenancy. In other words, politicians take it for granted that, being human, he has been more or less influenced thus far by consid erations of his personal 1936 chances, but that, once re-elected, he will feel at liberty to proceed as he sees fit. * * * GO TO RIGHT? Perhaps it is altogether a wrong guess, but there is an unmistakable idea among conservatives that he will turn their way. given -four more years in the executive mansion. I cannot ascertain that it is any thing more than a "hunch.’’ Nevertheless, I have talked with not a few legislators and others in pretty close touch with such centers as Wall Street, and there is general agreement among them that the fi nancial district thinks more favorably of "P. D.” than it did. Maybe that is natuial, business undoubtedly having improved, and business sentiment, in Improving SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1936 Hauptmann, Even Though Dead, Figures Decisively In New Jersev’s Hotlv-Contested Political Battles HOFFMAN DETERMINED TO GAIN NOMINATION FOR U. S. SENATORSHIP By JACK YARMOV Central Press Correspondent TRENTON, N. J., April 15—Brun Richard Hauptmann is dead, bu even dead he may play a dccisiv. part in the forthcoming primary and election an New Jersey. Two months ago it was a certain ty that Gov. Harold G. Hoffman New Jersey’s Republican chief ex ecutive, would have little opposi tion in obtaining the G. O. P nomination for the United State Senate. His sole opponent appeare. to be the incumbent, Warren Bar aour, millionaire senator who bare ly defeated an unknown Democrat ic opponent civ years ago. Likewise, two months ago it was an odds.on conclusion that David Wllentz, the state’s Democratic at-, torney general who was catapulted I into the national limelight by vir-’ ture of his adroit command of the prosecution in the Hauptmann case, would be the senatorial candidate of his party. Wilentz, at that time, ahd no opposition for the covert ed post. Hague’s Announcement Approximately a month ago, the political situation took a surprising turn. State Senator William H. Smathers of Atlantic county, had been groomed for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Smath ers-for.Governor clubs were, in fact, being organized throughout the state. Suddenly Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and the Dem. ocratic leader of New Jersey, issu ed a statewide release that the party had selected Senator Smath ers as the organization candidate for the United States senatorial nomination. Almost immediately after Ha gue’s release Smathers issued a statement, believed to be binding on the party, that Wilentz would make the ideal “organization” nom inee for governor. Wilentz, at this time, seems to be virtually assured of that nomination, though he has been silent concerning the senator ial fight Political observers were stunned, narticularly after the innumerable measures that had been taken to nrepare Smathers and Wilentz for governor and senator, respectively. Hague is said to be making his moves with a “national eye”. It is believed in New Jersey that Hague may become the successor to Post master General James A. Farley if "•nd when the latter resigns his cab inet post to devote himself entirely ‘0 the chairmanship of the national ?amnaign. The G. O. P. ranks, meanwhile, have been torn asunder with in. ternal strife due to four factors: One, the governor’s efforts in the POEMS THAT LIVE PRAISE Dear, they are praising your beauty. The grass and the sky; The sky in a silence of wonder, The grass in a sigh. I too would sing for your praising. Dearest, had I Speech as the whispering grass, Or the silen tsky. These have an art for the praising Beauty so high. Sweet, you are praised in a silence. Sung in a sigh. —Seumas O’Sullivan. ICEBERGS PERIL SHIPS BOSTON. April 15— (TP) All ships plying the North Atlantic be tween Europe and America were warned today to bandon the northern route and follow what is known as track "B”, or the southern route. Icebergs have been sighted in the North Atlantic and warnings are be ing broadcast by the International ice patrol boats. times, always being against "rocking the boat.” Not that I think business regards the present president as a safe pilot for a long cruise, but it seems willing to run ricks with him for another four years, for the sake of profit in the meantime. « • • LABOR PRO-F. D. R. Labor, however, has not benefited appreciably by the bulge in business. Employment has increased only a lit tle and wages have advanced scarce ly any. Yet. curiously, the organized work ers appear to be as pro-Rooseveltian as ever. The American Federation of Labor, while it does not take po litical sides, at least is not anti- Rooseveltlan. John L. Lewis’ lineup, led by the American Mine Workers, is militantly pro-Rooseveltian. And the Lewis organization will cast mil lions of votes. Briefly, I think that business is in fluenced by currently increasing divi dends, labor by the president’s prom ises and his enchanting radio voice. * * • WINS BOTH SIDES? There is a hardboiled conservative element which believes him to be es sentially a constitution underminer. There is a radical element which Assesses him as only a pseudo liberal. And there are hereditary Demo crats and Republicans who swear for or against him on the line ot party designations, no matter what they may mean. But generally the question is: "Has he sold himself?— alike to liberals and conservatives?” Unquestionably he "sold” himself to the liberals "from the jump.” Now apparently he Is "selling’’ himself to the conservatives, without losing the liberals. Which readies political gcod man agement. /t L w k Z JEN Frnnk Hague, of I City, Democratic ' 'Z leader of i>ew Jersey. ‘ Wl i— KM 11 i s Wf ; ML- ''Zj Hk. H| Attorney General !| Gov. Harold G. State Senator William H. || David Wilentz H The Rev. Lester Clee, of __ Hoffman, who is Smathers, of Atlantic City, || pushed by Demo- |? Newark, aspires to be fighting for Re- groomed by “Boss” Hague | cratic organiza- Republican gubernatorial publican senato- for the Democratic sena- I tion for guberna* nominee. rial nomination. tori al nomination. ' [torial nomination. Hauptmann case; two, his whip of patronage which he has unspar ingly used to obtain complete con trol of the party; three, his fight with the Rev. Lester Clee, state senator and Republican leader of Essex county and, incidentally, the outstanding G. O. P. candidate for the gubernatorial nomination; and four, the governor’s past and pres ent insistence in favor of a sales tax. Governor Has Upper Hand Republican county leaders of the various party strongholds have giv en up their blattle against the gov ernor, realizing that without pat ronage their own organization could not compete with the WPA ma. chines now ~apidly gaining control in a majority of the counties. Even Clee has been reported to have "forgot minor differences” in an effort to bolster party solidarity and keep a Republican governor in th° capitol rather than permit Wilen’.z to slide in, as it has been quoted “on the strength of a murder cas»/’ Senator Barbour, however, is de termined to defeat Hoffman and se cure the nomination again. He is relying mainly on what he beli ves to be the unpopularity gained by the governor because of his efforts in the Hauptmann case. Walter E. Edge, former governor, senator, and ambassador to France, also is in terested in the nomination. Edge, like Barbour, is a wealthy man, and has the added distinction of having the president of the Stand ard Oil Company of New Jersey as his brother-ln.law. Edge un questionably would make a stiff in the primaries should he Inally tosa ms hat int«. ;h> ring. Edge I? mentioned, als’\ is per- SCOTT’SSCRAPBOOK by r j. scon - f ■ r*'WTSBE*,. K, / * : '""’•’**-*’i -x.._ X' ~'* * x " W r •&$ v '1 x"ftr j«nEinfc~ l ' *x ..r-• ■■--' T/I ’XL— . ■ <«MIiML\ v '':,y. Y tx *"£2 UVW *<W*Wh®^wX > *A i ?i a" 1 1 iXwwl - ®rtw:|B» P ’4;. k. ■■' A'djfc.v jl wk* < a E . p’vßßt” Second Largest Pyramid in Tie. world irA l$ <ME - PWM ‘t> °F Tie $uN, hear Mexico crfy - 1T 1$ 2.16 feet Hiqn and BASE \$ 1 761 B Y 7 2-i feet |BpS| ATM IM NorTSerm Jg! T1 BRAZIL, CATTLE V K In S £RVE - FARMERS BAYONET PRACTICE pip 1 P v-v \R AS STeeds < * oN Rumanian -4-10 kv •*■<%» £Tamp COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION manent chairman of the National Rrpubi’oan convention in Cleveland one time thought he might be nom inated for vice president. Hoffman Has Edge In spite of the intense opposition In New Jersey, Hoffman stands the best chance of winning the senator, ial nomination because of the pat ronage he controls. Regardless of the dozens of rumors that have been circulated concerning his intense interest in the Hauptmann case, All Os Us Big, Black Cigar I SAW HIM. With my own eyes I did ... A small boy. about 13 j’ears old .sitting on a curb, smok ing that big, black CIGAR! He trisd to “ditch” it as I went I mean he thought of dltch it. but changed his mind. Stuck 1 the corner of his mouth, took puff, blew out the smoke, the cigar between his fingers ■ : n exaggerated way. looked sus ;c:ously at me, pretended NOT to ee me. And I pretended not to see him, n nid no more attention to him than f he’d been a grown man having a moke. I was casual, he was of the ssence of dignity . . . But at the 'st instant, just as I was passing "yond the edge of his glance, I saw him grin . . . You see, he couldn’t 'reep it up. He knew he was just a small boy, smoking one of his fa ther’s cigars. He knew I knew he wasn’t a regular smoker. He knew I knew it was the first cigar he had ever smoked, and that he was Hoffman has won thousands of ad vocates to his banner, people who believe Hauptmann to have been innocent of at least being alone in the Lindbergh kidnaping. On the other hand, thousands nave been turned from the man who won the governorship in a “Democratic” year (1934) when the odds were heavily against him. Thus, Hauptmann, dead, still is a decisive factor in New Jersey pol itics. By MARSHAL MASLIN more than half afraid it would make him sick . . . Just a small boy pre tending to be bigger, tougher, old er than he was, and wondering how he could get away with it. Did I stop and have a talk with him? . . . Not I . . . Did I stop and warn him in nice-old-gentleman fashion against the dangers of small boys smoking big cigars? ... No sir, I didn’t. Should I have done so? . . . No, I don’t think so ... It was just a stunt, and I knew it. It was part of the business of be ing a small boy, adventurous and curious and daring, in this odd world. Part of growing up and learning how things are, what things are like . . . That BIG BLACK CIGAR, for him. was jus' a symbol of the future. It stoof for growing older, becoming a man taking on responsibilities, doing r job, being somebody, accomplishin something, making mistakes an< ! ■ paying the price of them . . . Wh thinks I should have interfered? ! TodayistheDay * By CLARK KINNAIRD • Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press Association By CLARK KINNAIRD (Copyright 1936 Central Press As sociation, Inc.) Wednesday, April 15; Arbor Day in Utah. Morning stars: Saturn, Jupiter, Venus. Evening stars: Mer cury, Mars, Neptune, Uranus. SCANNING THE SKIES: This Is one of the four days of the year (others: June 14, Sept. 1, Dec. 25) when the Sun reaches the meridian at 12 noon clock-time. On all other days clocks and watches are eltheir ahead of or behind the sun. * * * Notable Nativities I James J. Jeffries, b, 1875, one time heavyweight champion pug- 1 ilist . . . Stanley Bruce, b, 1883, Australian statesman .. . Henry O. , Havemyer, b, 1876, sugar magnate . . . Lita Grey Chaplin, b, 1908, sec ond wife of the comedian and | ress. * * * Today’s Yesterdays ** fl April 15, 1676 —Martha Skavrons ka was born in Lithuania, daughter ' of a peasant who sold her to a soldier as a slave. She became Catharine I, empress and sole ruler of Russia at 46, though she could neither read nor write Russian. The last Romanoffs were descended from her. * • * APRIL 15, 1768—A mob destroy ed the London house in which the first clinic for the vaccination of persons against smallpox was open ed believing the operators to be dangerous, irreligious radicals. « • * APRIL 15, 1814—John Lathrop Motley was born in Dorchester, Mass. He was the American who wrote the best histories there are of Holland, "The Rise of the Dutch Republic” and “The History of the United Netherlands”, after he had been a failure as a novelist of the American scene. “The Rise of the Dutch Republic”, 1500 pages, is a literary classic, one of the great books of all time. Motley spent ten years in writing it. • • • 50 YEARS AGO TODAY—The world’s first successful public elec trict trolley system began operation in Montgomery, Alabama. It was the product of 40. year-old Charles J. Van Depoele, a Belgian engineer. It no longer operates, but lines hav ing replaced it. Van Depoele’s first electric cars were circus attractions that attracted immense, amazed throngs. • * • APRIL 15, 1912—The “unsink able” Titanic, largest ship in the world, sank, and 1,635 lives were lost. One of the survivors, Charles Her bert Lighttoller has been in five other shipwrecks without suffering injury—the unsinkable Mr. Light toller! There were numerous persons who went down with the Titanic, and yet survived. They were forced up to the surface by compressed air and managed to grasp pieces of wreckage which kept them afloat until saved. ♦ • ♦ First World War Day-By.Day 20 YEARS AGO TODAY—The big war news in U. S papers came from Mexico. Forces of Villa and Pershing met again in a skirmish battle. It was just a skirmish be cause Villa was playing cat and mouse with his pursuers, with no i tention of facing them in battle f he could help it. Napoleon in Rus. da never faced more negative op position than Pershing in Mexico. Is Col. Frank Tomkins, who was of the cavalry, relates: “We campaigned in a wilderness vhlch, save wild cattle and corn, iad been stripped of all food sup- ?li©s. At all times we were sur . bounded by our enemies who were ■ posing as friends; and we made (our own roads and laid our own 1 ‘elegraph lines, both of which we . uarded for several hundred miles . >f their length.” j Requests made to natives for in_ or mation regarding the trail of Villa were answered either by evasions or by replies unquestion ably false and intended to deceive and delay. Native guides would dis appear after they had led the marchers to the edge of a cliff or to the border of an impassable stream. At one point the men were quickly led from the depths of a hot valley to a height of 3,000 feet above sea level, where as one sol dier described it ,our canteens were full of frozen water and our whis kers of icicles.” To be Continued It’s A Fact He was a practical reformed: the clay-pigeon for target.shooting was invented by Henry Bergh, founder of the Society for Preven tion of Cruelty to Animals. The church organ was evolved from the instrument about which they kid the Scotch so much: the bagpipe Bill Norney, only 39, of Greens boro, N. C., has been sentenced to the road gang sixty-one times! Empress Catherine of Russia couldn’t speak a word of Russian; King George I of England couldn’t speak a word of English; and Em peror Charlemagne of the French couldn’t read or write any language. Seats for the first concert of Jen. ny Lind in America sold for as high as $225! That Harvard professor who recently made news by suggesting that women will be able to bear children without the aid of men in the future is over 100 years behind Auguste Comte, the French philos opher. with the forecast. Herman Pomeranz wrote a book in which every word begins with the letter C. She—After all, darling, we have only one life to live. He—With prices the way they are it's a lucky thing that one is our limit.