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PAGE FOUR f , Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY * “W at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET i , • Cor. Lincoln , Entered a* Second Class Matter J uly 23, 1935 at the Post Office at . Savanna b, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... 7.50 Six Months ...... 375 Three Months ..... .... 1 95 One Month ..... .... .65 One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN y National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. , GUreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures H j •■ifr* A MASTER POLITICIAN. Political observers of Georgia forsee in the stragetic ma neuvers of the State Democratic Executive Committee which fixed SIO,OOO as the entrance fee for the Georgia presidential primary and June 3rd as the voting day, conclusive evidence that Governor Talmadge will not, nor had he any intentions of entering a primary race with President Roosevelt. Had the Governor intended offering for the presidency, it would not have been difficult for him to use his influence with the committee to fix the entrance fee at the customary amount of SI,OOO. It is not believed that the Democratic party would pay an entrance fee of SIO,OOO for their candidate to enter a primary in the “Solid South.” The editorial columns of this paper, some time ago, made H an outright assertion that there would be no presidential pri mary in Georgia. In the face of the results of the executive com mittee in Atlanta yesterday, this paper has no reason to retract or amend that assertion. 3 There are many well posted political forecasters who in terpret the action of the executive committee as a definite in , dication that Governor Talmadge will run against Senator Dick Russell in the state primary. The state’s chief executive, how ever, has not yet committed himself and is not expected to do so until July 4th. An interesting account of the meeting yesterday is supplied by a special correspondent of the Daily Times who attended the session. According to this correspondent: “The resolution proposed by W. S. Mann of Mcßae, Ga., staunch supporter of Governor Talmadge, provided a SIO,OOO entrance fee for all candidates and that the State Democratic Executive Committee shall ratify the votes. “The nominee will be selected on the county unit basis, the candidate receiving the highest number of county unit votes be ing declared the nominee for Georgia and entitled to the vote of Georgia delegates at the Democratic National Convention. “A substitute resolution by Tate Wright, of Athens, calling for a primary May sth with a SI,OOO entrance fee and a state convention to select delegates was voted down by the conveu tion, 83 to 11. “The Mann resolution was adopted by acclamation. Wright’s resolution was proposed on behalf of the Roosevelt supporters, and passage of the Mann resolution was considered a victory for Talmadge, even though the state committee gave into the Roosevelt supporters in calling the primary. “The Mann resolution provides that if only one candidate qualifies there will be no primary. “The Wright resolution was voted down over vigorous pro test of Judge Newt Morris, of Marietta, who claimed the en trance fee was too high, and assailed the Talmadge forces for * railroading.’ “This is just an effort to penalize the only candidate who will be in the race,” Judge Morris said. Immediately after passing the primary resolution the convention adopted resolu tions assailing the federal government for withholding federal highway funds and using ‘federal grand juries to persecute the political opponents.’ “As the convention opened the heretofore all-Talmadge committee was split into two separate and distinct camps. “Following passage of the primary resolution it was ru mored around the convention that Governor Talmadge would not be a candidate in the primary.” Chairman Hugh Howell made the following comment after passage of the resolution: “The resolution providing for a preferential primary which you have passed is fair to any candidate who wants to conduct an honest race in Georgia. It should be satisfactory to every person who might wish to qualify. There is no trickery or sub terfuge involved. ■ “So far as the state committee is concerned, I am happy to say that for the past four years not one time has it ever dodged, twisted or squirmed, but it has always come out openly and above board and treated all candidates and would-be can didates fairly. “It is not providing for a secret primary without notice to any one or with only one candidate on the ticket. It is provid ing for a primary to be under practically the same rules un der which the last presidential primary was held. “I have said before and I say now that the enemies of Tal madge didn’t want this committee to hold a primary. Now that we have ordered a primary, I seriously doubt whether those who have hollered loudest for one will enter their candidate.” j THE COASTAL HIGHWAY. f Herschel V. Jenkins, Chatham County, and the entire territory served by the Coastal Highway are to be congratu lated upon the splendid progress reported looking toward the improvement of this important artery of travel. While improv ing, it may be well to build with the future in mind. As none dreamed of the terrific load these roads were going to carry when first constructed, with the experience gained, and the knowledge that the automobile will be some years yet in gain ing its peak or saturation point, we should calculate accordingly. In Florida, as in many other states where new roads are be ing constructed or contemplated, only two lane roads are being considered. ’They cost more, but they serve best, not only now, but for many years to come. A two-lane road, with a parkway in the center, makes not only for safety but for beauty. An added charm is lent to highway travel by removing the gloom of sameness that gradually palls upon the sight and makes tire some and nerve-wracking what would otherwise be, as always intended, a trip for pleasure. GOLDWYN GAINING MAILMAN IN TROUBLE NEW YORK, April 16 (TP)—The CLEVELAND, April 16—(TP) cinema producer, Samuel Goldwyn, 3Q long years Chris Zimmerman is "resttaf easily” at Doctor’s Hos- hU mall route without a pital today The movie clef’s phy- b ~ * _ . ~ ,_ r Bician, Dr. Meeker, said Goldwyn’s complaint. Today, his spotless ser conditlou is not dangerous. Goldwyn vice record is marre dby charges o was rughed to the hospital directly thievery. Postal Inspectors ordered from tha Acqultania. when It dock- Zimmerman's arrest on charges of i ed from Europe. He Is suffering stealing S4OO from letters. Zimemr{ from intestinal toxemia. naan maintains he is innocent. Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Michigan’s Presidential Possibility —WORLD AT A GLANCE BETTER HOUSING PLAN TO MAKE UP FOR ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE URGED BY A. F. OF L. BY LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) NOT MUCH PUBLICITY has been given to a recent proposal of the American Federation of Labor. It urges a permanent federal housing authority, of non-partisan makeup. Appropriations then would be asked for housing for persons in lower brackets. The houses would be built by workers in the building trades at prevailing wages. Representative Henry Ellenbogen of Pittsburgh, Pa., has such a hous ing bill in the House. It probably will be smothered. Senator Robert F. Wagner of New York, with a bill less comprehensive, cannot get it through the Senate, The lobby against federal housing is one of the most powerful in Wash ington. Os the millions spent by the Roose velt administration, less than I per cent! has gone toward housing for persons of the lowest brackets. * * • SHARECROPPERS A scandal of the first water faces the administration. Evicted sharecrop pers in Arkansas have been left to starve by WPA and Rural Resettle ment officials locally. Washington stresses “local officials.” It says it Is powerless to force the local officials to act. Now, charges are being made that the local officials were appointed in deference to Senator Joseph T. Rob inson, majority leader in the Senate, and Washington fears to antagonize them. The senator, however, is re ported to have urged the local offi cials to give relief. Why Washington should fear Sena tor Robinson or the local officials, no body knows. Arkansas is a strongly Democratic state, and Robinson is far weaker in Arkansas than Presi dent Roosevelt. The tenants charge they were evicted from plantations because they joined the Southern Tenant Farmers’ Union. They add, to make everything appear “regular,” officials offered them places on other plantations upon “starvation conditions.” They say the plantations offered are so poor little could be raised. They in sisted upon being reinstated at orig- ■ inal plantations. They then were listed as “refusing to work’ ’and de nied food and relief. It is dangerous to defend evicted sharecroppers or to be a witness for them. Nightriders invaded a home and killed one witness before his wife. A conference was called the other day in Washington by Gardner Jack son, chairman of the National Com mittee on Rural Social Planning, to try to effect a means of forcing local officials to be just. “Whether Washington knows It or not,” said Mr. Jackson, “local AAA directors, appointed from national headquarters, have tolerated abuses whjfh the government should be the first to condemn.” The abuses, however, are as noth ing to a farm program that does not take into full account the actual status of tenant farmers and share croppers. Nothing really can be ac complished until these virtual serfs are freed economically—and that is a tremendous problem. • * • CENTRALIZATION Talk against centralization of gov ernment in Washington has died down the last few weeks. There is a reason the floods and the dust storms (again). No single state will be able to solve this tremendous problem, local plead ers are saying. But the federal government cannot solve it either, unless it is given tre mendous powers, and unless it disre gards some few private interests for the benefit of the whole. Scientists fear that any further de lay may do two things. (1) Bring on still mor edevastatlng floods. (2) Turn an Immense part of America into a desert. * • • LATEST CHARGE The latest charge against large power firms especially these in which Andrew Mellon reputedly is interested —Is that they have been In } strumental in blocking flood control in the watersheds above Pittsburgh. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1936 If sc, they have been caught in their own meshes—fer the damage to power plants in the Pittsburgh dis trict has been large. The allegation is that the power corporations fight government flood control dams because they generate electric power. And such power would undersail private power • • • RELIEF No state insists upon states’ rights when it comes to relief. The pressure from flood-stricken states —among the most powerful in the Union—for relief indicates an in creasingly large permanent federal burden. When such large industrial states as Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir ginia demand a comprehensive fed eral relief program—and make those demands prior to a national election, as now—you may be sure there will be relief. Whether there will be a far-seeing program is another matter. Contract Bridge PARTNER’S DUTY AN IMPORTANT duty of partner often Is disregarded. When partner has made a bid, which presumably shows at least one defensive trick, If he cannot win a trick, and in case he expects one or the other opponent will ruff the first or second lead of his toples suit, so that even if you hold top honors therein you cannot expect to win more than a single trick, he must rebld In case you make a business double of an opposing contract. The following hand shows how important such a rebld is at times. ♦ 8 7 5 a: ¥9 ♦ None\ _ 4QJ9B 6 5 3 2 ! 4' 9 v N ♦A Q J ¥ K 7 5 3 T—JS — 10 2 ♦ A K J y V 8 6 10X6 2\> ' ♦Q9 8 4 + 4 il 1 3 *7. 4K 6 4 ¥ A Q J 10 4 -2 ♦ 6 I+AKIO I Bidding went: South, 1-Heart; West, 2-Diamonds; North, 3-Clubs; East, 3-Spades; South, 4-Clubs, that • certainly was a concession to partner, [ when such powerful hearts were held; 1 West, 4-Diamonds; North, 5-Clubs; ! East, 5-Diamon4>; South, doubled; North, 6Clubs, which East doubled, ' with both sides vulnerable. South j showed considerable annoyance at 1 his partner’s rebid, even if nothing ' was actually said. As a matter of ' fact, West can make 5-Diamonds. 5 Unless South Is carful about his play 1 0-odd Is a possible diamond score. For example; supp>ose the hand to be played at diamonds; suppose North leads his lone heart and South leads back the Q of that suit, thinging to 1 give partner a ruff. Having no trumps the K of hearts will win for West. 1 One of dummy’s honors can be estab lished in spades, enabling West to ! discard his lone club, so ra trick over ■ his doubled contract. An odd coincidence will be noted ’• In each suit bid except clubs, each - suit is headed by 100 honors, and ■ each misses the K. As East did not ’ like to make an opening lead from his major spade tenace, he led the ■ fourth-best card of his partner’s dia monds. North ruffed. Dummy was put « In lead with the 10 of clubs. The Ace of hearts was led, followed by the r Q. West did not cover. North let go a spade. When the J of hearts was led West covered with the K. North ruffed. That left dummy’s hearts es ! tablished. Dummy was entered with i the K of club 6, and the declarer dis i carded hi* three remaining spades upon dummy’s slam. Os course that trick over doubled contrary was very nice, on his contract, I My New-York By James/Asweli NEW YORK, April 16—Byway: It la amazing that a section like Bowery Bay, on Long Island in the shadow of Manhattan, should have resisted the march of electric ice boxes and commuters’ hives. I stumbled on it the other afternoon —a scant 8 miles from the Empire State Building—and I thought I was in suburban New York of half a century ago. Even the real estate men have, through a miracle, overlooked this forgotten strip of small, thriving farms upon which the past’s heavy hand Is everywhere both oppressive and invigorating. To the east a cross a stretch of mucky water lies Riker’s Island. There the dump heaps smoulder day and night and you can almost see the big rats scurrying. It Is an evil vista. And yet here around you are green, productive farms. No hint of indoor plumbing anywhere. The homes aro bleak and weathered. Ten acres, 20 acres, 50 acres. It is incredible in a neighborhood which for 20 years has talked in terms of lots and front footage. The Riker estate itself Is a tum bledown metropolitan Bleak House. Its shuttered windows and rotting porches are eloquent of vanished grandeur. For Bowery Bay, even such a little while ago as 15 years, was a watering place as prosperous as Coney Island on a June day and faintly fashionable Into the bar gain. The ruins of an old casino and dance pavilion sleep under the gray. April skies. The pieces they played here were "Dardenella’’ and “The 1 I ' . - ’ , ’ * r •» , I . . , - y Japanese Sandman.” It is an Itgl , ian neigborhood and in the neit apartments and 2_family houses Si?*) yards away the dark-eyed girls who danced and made merry here are plump and dreamless matrons with this year’s baby in their arms. From a skeleton pier that the waves have gnawed black juts a sign: “Moonlight Excursion Tonight.” But only ghost ships call at the silent Wharves. The water where thousands frolicked is too polluted now from a city’s waste to tempt even the bravest urchin. On a hill an Italian farmer tills his acres oblivious to the onpress ing city. He takes no note of the raw earth turned by workers build ing a broad, new parkway that will open up this last virgin farmland in the very squeeze of the metrop olis. The real estate promoters will soon have their kiosks up. Below the ridge where the farms are lies. Municipal Airport Number Two. A vast expanse of muddy ground behind steel fences. The hangars are crowded and the air above hums with planes. A 1927 tri-motored transport rusts in the open. On the fuselage is the in scription: "Chicago Flyer.” A lim. ousine pulls up before the main office and three swarthy gentlemen in afternoon rig alight. I make in-, quiries and am told that they are emissaries of the King of Kings, ibuying old planes for the Ethiopian front. And so I climb the hill, plod through rich, dep loam and knock on the door of a tatterdejnalion farmhouse on the ridge. A pleasant lady in the middle years greets me. I mention the For Sale sign down by the gate. "Come in, Signor," she says, with the mellow musics of Italy in her voice and accent. "I know nothing of business, : Signor. Did you not know todav is a holiday, a fiesta? There is much time for talk of bus iness on another day. My man will You’re Telling Me? i PERHAPS THE REASON so man people are boastful is because it’s too hard to act modest with out others suspecting It’s just an act. * • * A politician is not necessar ily a liberal just because he is liberal with other people’s money. * • * Cuba is modeling her new con gress after ours, which is the first inkling many Americans have that we have- a model congress. * * • Which interests Americans most —protected lives for small children or a good drink for themselves? Oh, yeah. Then why is it taking the several states longer to ratify the child labor amendment than it did to o. k. prohibition repeal? * • • The wheels of progress would be a greater boon to humanity if so many of us weren’t always being caught in them. •• * • After talking to . many, voters we still have no idea just whose favorite these Favorite Sons are. talk it with you. But enter now and join us in a glass of wine.” I drove back to town pinching myself. This, certainly, had not transpired five minutes’ ride from Jackson Heights and in full view of the Chrysler spire. • : Today is the Day ® By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Presa Association'^ BY CLARK KINNAIRD (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation.) Thursday, April 16; De Diego* Birthday, a holiday in Puerto Rico. Zodiac sign: Arlee. Moon: Last quar ter/ * „ . , * * * -yj, y Notable Nativities. Charles * Spencer Chaplin, bom 1889, of British parents. He Is sttH a British citizen . . . Lily Pons, bom 1904, French-bom opera and cinema singer, who is becoming an Ameri can citizen . . . Frederick Van Nuys, bom 1874, senator from Indi ana . . . Samuel Davis Mcßeynolds, chairman of House Relations Com born 1872, chairman of House Fore ign Relations Committee . . . Grace Livingston Hill, bom 1865, American novelist . . . William "Billy Deßeck, born 1890, cartoonist —Barney Google, etc. . . . Jacob S. Coxey, born 1854, famed leader of "Ooxey’s Army” in the ’Eighties. • • • Today’s Yestersay*. April 16, 1681 —Heirs of Sir Georgs Carteret, the late lord proprietor as East Jersey, put the province up for sale in England—for approximately $25,000! There were no takers. 150 Years Ago Today—" The Con trast,” by Royal 1 Tyler, the first successful stage play written by an American had its premiere in New York City. The figurative and symbolic Unci* Sam of today had its inception in the character Jonathan in this play, April 16, 1818—Willingness to kill another person won Abraham Thorn* ton legal freedom from punishment for murder. Thornton was the last person t* benefit from an ancient English le gal right known as "Appel of Bat tle.” Under the law, which dated ta ancient times and was rarely invoked, a man charged with murder might fight with the accuser, thereby U, "establish” proof of his guilt or inno cence. Thornton was suspected of having violated and killed a young girl, Mary Ashford, and in the court pro ceedings in England, challenged the girl’s brother to battle. The brother refused the challenge, and Thornton was discharged. Soon afterward the law, which had been resorted to in the American colonies in several in stances, was struck from the statutes. * * * First World War Day-By-Day 20 Years Ago Today—Working with extraordinary cohesion, a Russian in fantry division and a naval squadron attacked and captured Trebizond, a key Black Sea port and shook the German hold. It was the first time that Russian maritime and military forces had worked together in two years of war with complete success. For this, officers sent from Brit ain and France to reorganize the Rus sian war machine were partly respon sible. They had been fighting for two years, but the Russian army, largest in the world, still needed to learn ABC's of warfare. * • • It's True. The American Constitution Is phrased like the Treaty of the Five Nations (Mohawks, Senecas, Cftion dagas, Oneidas and Cayugas), adopt ed in 1520. In the last 34 centuries, less than 34 years have been peaceful! In the last eight centuries, France has been involved In 197 wars. H. B. May, M. D„ of Stockdale, Texas, sends us another Interesting letter on snakes for which we thank him. He says: "A few days ago the writer report ed that two men here had witnessed the phenomena of snakes swallowing their young, in both instances the rattlesnake. Since that report I have Interviewed two other men who said they had seen the same thing and in one instance two men witnessed the incident at the same time. In each instance the men stated that the mother snake made a peculiar noise and the baby snakes lost no time In going right into her mouth. All of these four men are personally and In timately known to the writer and none of them are in the habit of drinking to excess, so, therefore, If men are to believe their eyes, it must be a fact. “When we take Into account th* fact that a very small snake caR swallow a relative large object, thf feat would net be out of the rang* of possibility. “Another very curious thing ha* been reported here in regard to th* so-called chicken snake, from thf fact that they catch small chickens and steal eggs from the nests, is that the chicken snakes have been know* to swallow an ordinary porcelain doof knob, no doubt thinking that it was an egg. The door knobs are placed in the nest as nest eggs and when Mr. Snake comes along and there are no real eggs in the nest he just put* himself or herself, as the case may be, around the door knob with the result that the snake soon dies be cause the door knob, of course will not digest, and the snake is also bad ly handicapped in moving about. It seems to me that it would be much more difficult for a snake to swallow a door knob than it would be to swal low young snakes. However, it has been reported on good authority, that the snakes have been found dead with the door knob inside the snake and other snakes have been killed and cut open these what was causing the lump and it was found that th* lump was a door knob. "It has also been reported that a snake cannot hypnotize a bird or small animal. Well, call it what you will, oharming, fascinating or hyno tizlng, a snake can catch a bird by simply waiting for the bird to come in reach without any effort on the part of the snake more than just turning his head from side to side In unison with the movements of the bird. At the start of the perform ance the bird may be several feet away from the snake, but it seems to be attracted toward the snake by some irresistible force that brings It nearer and nearer to the snake until the snake is able to strike out and seize the apparently helpless bird. The bird will hop about from side to side, up and down, but all tha time it gradually comes* nearer to the snake, while the snake does not seem to be anxious to pursue the bird and Just plays a waiting fame until the bird comes in reach.” * * * Queries, reproofs, etc., tw|» corned by Clark Ktnnaird. **/