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DO NOT TAI THE CRADLE.
, Aboat eighteen years ago, there lived a mayor m Savannah
aomewh&t Idealistic, at times set aside deeds with political
motive and bestowed his influence, energies and authority to
those who could not oast votes.
i JWe name was Murray Stewart. Faults, he had many, bat
at no time during his administration—or life—could on« accuse
him of neglecting his civic duties and ideals.
It was through the efforts of this man that juvenile Sa
vannah secured its happy haven —the municipal swimming pool.
Mayor Stewart, and those who helped him create this arti
ficial lake, did not intend for it to be a money-making scheme,
the motive behind its construction was to provide a place where
rich and poor children alike could enjoy the recreational spot
and have, at their command, a place of relief during Savannah’s
hot summer months. Mayor Stewart and his associates were
thinking of the little fellow who seldom, if ever, had the price of
transportation to the ocean’s beach. Certainly, with such Utop
ian motives, none thought of collecting pennies from juvenile
Savannah or placing any penalty or handicap upon them which
might, in any way, prevent them from enjoying the municipal
pool to ita fullest extent.
Small wonder it is. therefore, that those parents whose chil
dren enjoy this recreational spot, have promptly and vigorously
protested the action of Mayor Gamble and his Board of ( ouncil
men who, this week, placed a charge of five cents on every child
over six years of age for the use of showers at the municipal
pool. , ,
Daffin Park pool was built with taxpayers money. It be
longs to the city—not to any individual or group of people who
might lease concessions around it. There could be no legal
or moral right to place any charge on the use of its facilities,
however small that charge may be.
We agree with the Health Department which points out
that there should be a regulation forcing all persons to take
showers before entering the pool, but there is no good reason
why the city should place a charge upon the use of this part of
the plant any more than charging those who would enter the
pool.
Daffin Park’s pool is a city-made, city-owned and city-oper
ated enterprise. To place a charge upon those who would use
it, defeats the purpose of its creation.
Mr. Mayor, the younger generattion of today has enough
financial burdens to carry in the future because of the mistakes
of their sires. To tax them now will but add to lhe stigma of
your administration.
True, they cannot vote now—but it might be well and cer
tainly politically wise to consult their parents before sponsor
ing such unpopular avenues of revenue.
ILLEGAL CONTRACTS.
•
In no field has research been carried on with more diligence,
and greater results, than in that of the development of electrical
energy. Vast sums, undreamed of a few years ago, are being
expended by the federal government in almost every section of
the country, for the development, control, and distribution of
electrical current that every home and farm house in the na
tion may be supplied. Outstanding are the Hoover Dani and the
Tennessee Valley Development. It requires no comment of ours
to state the immeasurabale good, and reduction in the cost of
current, these activities have accomplished for the sections in
which they operate.
Already there has been investigated and approved, a pro
ject, the Little T. V. A., which, when completed, will serve our
immediate section, supplying electric current to the people at
greatly reduced costs. From the humblest to the highest of our
citizens, the hamlet, small town and cities, will be benefited.
The City of Savannah, when and if the project is completed, as
it surely will be, will save annually thousands of dollars. Mayor
Gamble should be more conversant with this movement, its plan
and scope, than the average citizen?
If he is so informed, WHY THE HASTE TO MAKE A CON
TRACT to supply the city with electric current FOR A PERIOD
OF TEN YEARS? No doubt good business on the part of Ihe
company, we have no criticism to make of their action, but, IS
A TEN-YEAR CONTRACT DISPLAYING PROPER BUSI
NESS JUDGMENT ON THE PART OF SAVANNAH? IS
IT FAIR TO EVERY MAN AND WOMAN IN SAVANNAH
WHO USES ELECTRIC CURRENT? Is it practicing economy
in government? Is this contract legal? We do not believe the
people of Savannah are going to stand for such tactics.
NO SET OF CITY OFFICIALS CAN LEGALLY MAKE
CONTRACTS RUNNING BEYOND THEIR PERIOD OF OF
FICE.
We quote first, the Code of the State of Georgia. Secondly,
we quote cases which have been determined by the Supreme
Court of the State of Georgia. AU capital letters are ours
placed for the purpose of emphasis.
Article 3: Limitation on Powers of City and its Officers.
Par.; 892 (Par.; 743) CAN NOT RESTRICT SUBSE
QUENT COUNCIL.—ONE COUNCIL CAN NOT BY AN OR
DINANCE BIND ITSELF OR ITS SUCCESSORS SO AS TO
PREVENT FREE LEGISLATION IN MAT
ERS OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
In Horken vs. Moultrie (136 Ga. 561) it was held: AU leg
islative bodies ARE LIMITED IN THEIR LEGAL CAPACITY
IB such a manner as NOT TO DEPRIVE SUC
CEEDING BODIES OF THE RIGHT TO DEAL
WITH MATTER INVOLVING SAME QUES
TIONS as they may arise from time to time in THE FUTURE,
and as the then present exigencies may require.
Williams vs. West Point (68 Ga. 816). The purchase of the
section IS TO PREVENT ONE COUNCIL FROM PASSING
ORDINANCES which would legally bind the citv and SO TIE
THE HANDS OF ITS SUCCESSORS IN OFFICE as to result
in great injury to the municipality. AND IF THIS CAN NOT
BE DONE BY AN ORDINANCE A FORTIORI IT CAN NOT
pr — B y CONTRACT.
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(89 Ga., 863) Without a popular vote, AS REQUIR-
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—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
EARLY CAMPAIGN SEEN;
Three Big Eastern States A Battleground
TO BEGIN LATE IN JUNE
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CONGRESS MAY be in session
until convention time in June, but
lhe presidential campaign will have
an early start this year. Both Demo
crats and Republicans believe peo
ple will make up their minds early.
President Roosevelt probably will
make the first speech of his cam
paign at the close of the Democratic
convention in Philadelphia the lat
ter part of June. The convention
will be used as a springboard to
jump straight in to the campaign.
It Is proposed that a monster pro-
Rjoosevelt demonstration be held in
Franklin Field, the University of
Pennsylvania stadium, next dor to
the convention hall.
If Governor Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas win- the Republican nomi
nation, he & likely to drop his
“stanclaside'’ attitude and Immedi
ately adopt a vigorous campaign.
He will have to work on two fronts —
the farm country, considered pro i
Roosevelt —and in the east (except
New England». The Democrats be
lieve they could carry New York and
New Jersey as of today, and they re
fuse to concede Pennsylvania. The
Republicans would have to carry all
three of those states to win.
* • •
LABOR FRONT WORRIES
It is natural to assume that the
position of organized labor would
worry the Republicans—especially
with all the anti-labor efforts of
large industrials being brought out
before a senate committee making
an investigation of anti-labor activi
ties. But the Roosevelt Democrats
also have become somewhat worried.
“Boss" James A. Farley tried to
put over Dan Tobin, head of the
teamsters* union, as chairman of a
labor campaign committee within the
national Democratic organization.
John L. Lewis, now the dominant
figure in Aerlcan labor, and his in
creasing number of followers, consid
er Tobin a reactionary and out of
sympathy with mass labor move
ments, sue has industrial unionism
ebracing everybody in each indus
try.
Now Lewis, of course, is strongly
Uro-Rosevelt, as are his followers.
But they refuse to be dominated. To
hold that powerful group, the Demo
cratic organization will have to heed
it.
Lewis wasted no time, therefore, to
make hi® objection to Tobin known.
He did it in a practical manner. He
backed the formation of Labor’s
Non-Partisan league, with George L.
Berry at its head. The dominating
figures, however, •-e Lewis and Sid-
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
MR. JONES criticized Mr. Brown
for “smoking too much.” He said
Mr. Brown lit one cigaret right as.
ter another all day long . . . said
it was bad for his blood pressure
. . . “Maybe you are right,” said Mr.
Bdown. “But you light one grouch
on another all day long. Nearly
everything that happens to you
makes you sore . . . and that’s bad
for YOUR blood pressure” . .
Mr. Jones didn’t like the reply.
A man who wants to sell me
something writes that he will call
on me in a few days to lay his
proposition before me . . I don’t
want to buy anything. My time isn’t
so valuable, but it’s all I have and
I don’t want to give him any of it.
. . . What an I do to stop him from
wasting HIS time? . . . Haven’t I
any rights—or is the answer “no”?
I knew a man 25 years ago and
ED by the CONSTITUTION, a municipal corporation
CAN NOT CONTRACT FOR GAS OR WA
TER on the CREDIT of the CITY FOR MORE
THAN ONE YEAR: and a contract which is to run for a longer
term is operative from year to year only, so long as neither of
the parties renounce or repudiates it, but. so long as it stands
and is complied wih bv one partv is bound bv it.
WHEN WILL MAYOR GAMBLE BE FORCED TO COM
PLY WITH THE LAW IN THE OPERA
TION OF CITY GOVERNMENT?
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 1936
ney Hilman, president of the Amal
gamated Clothing Workers (with its
membership chiefly in New York,
where votes are vital to President
Roosevelt).
Berry, truely enough is President
Roosevelt’s Co-ordlnator for Indus
trial Co-operation —but he belongs to
the Lewis wing of organized labor and
owes allegiance there.
Democrats are fearful a real labor
party is geting under way in the
United States. That may mean trou
ble in 1940.
DAMAGING
Industrialists in the Pittsburgh re
gion are bitter over (he testimony of
J. Warren Madden, the Pittsburgher
who became chairman of the Nation
al Labor Relations board, and Heber
Blankenhorn, economist of the board
before the senate subcommittee on
labor and education headed by Sen
ator Robert M. La Follette.
Both told of alleged terrorist meth
ods employed In the Pittsburgh dis
trict.
Blankenhorn estimated that pri
vate detective agencies had supplied
135,000 industrial spies in recent years
at cost of aproximatelp $60,000,000 a
year. (The figures seem incompre
hensible.)
Chairman Madden was militant in
his testimciy. He asserted that the
“right ot workmen to organize into
unions has become an Important civil
liberty.”
He added: “it would seem that if
an American government, state or
federal, were to enact a statute for
bidding working men from organiz
ing unions, that statute would be de
clared unconstitutional as a depriva
tion of liberty or property. Yet there
exists large enterprises which at
tempt to prevent workmne from do
ing what even American governments
may not do.”
Chairman Madden continued with
extracts from testimony that had
bee ngiven before his board detailing
how private detectives and a company
official burned reports of spying; and
how a spp who had worked himself
into the treasureship of a company
union embezzled* e the funds.
Madden concluded: “Perhaps the
most discouraging offense to public
decency was the fact that reputable
lawyers for the company and the
State Manufacturers association As
sert that there Is something in that
constitution of the United States
which prevents American governments
from doing uny thing to correct this
outrage.
“If one likes thi® kind of thing that
may be his own affair, but why he
should smear the constitution it is
hard to understand.”
1 I thought then he was about 70
I years old ... I met him the (‘•vt
. day, asked him his age, and he said
I he is just 71 . . Foolish youth.
! to think a man of 45 is ancient and
. decrepit! And how young do you
1 think that man of 45 considers you?
1 My friend had a quarrel and told
I me about it. asked me to "be on his
. side” ... My friend, is THAT I'zir?
May we not still be friends even
> though 1 think you wrong in this
I quarrel? ... Is THIS a friendship,
s or an offensive and defensive alli
: ance against all comers?
I I see a little fellow on bis way
. to school, clutching a bunch of
1 flowers in his hand . . . And when
I he gets there, the other boys will
’ tease him ... I know. It happened
to me It happens to all small fel-
l lows.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK. April 17— Rando
musing: To the usual tribe of inven
tors who beleaguer the Patent Office
hourly with flexible golf clubs and
perpetual motion machine, Manhat
tan adds another delegation of eager
genuises. . . . These are the gentle
men (and ladies, too) who devote
their time to devising new effects fcr
the revue stages—trick lights, cello
phane headdresses and dating cos
tume effects, disappearing stages and
magic • fountains the draping of
nymphs. .- . • Actually it is a weary
ing profession for almost everything
has already been thought of. yet
Emile, a ladies' hairdresser of Rocke
feller Center, ha® discovered a lumin
ous hair wash which will make the
tresses of the kickers shine like cat
eyes in the dark. . . . Each natural
tint of hair will glow in a different
shade and the effect will be very
spooky and exotic. . . • Elsa Maxwell
tells me she is getting up a “glow
party” at which all the guests will
walk about with their thatches shin
ing like fireballs. . . • Earl Carroll
will rinse all his cuties in the stuff for
his next production. . . .
♦ * ♦
New talents on the rise: Ray Bol
ger, well known already, who bids
fair to snatch the collective crowns
of Fred Astaire and Paul Draper as
a hoofing marvel. . . . And Lau
retta's Taylor's daughter, Marguer
ite, just signed as assistant stcry
editor by Sam Goldwyn after a bril
liant career as associate editor of
“Fortune” • • . . Jackie Seail, the
only juvenile “heavy” I can recall
in movie history, who is winning his
spurs by the convincing unpleasant
ness cf his impersonations ... I
am tcld that in the flssh he is a
polite and winning youngster who
minds his elders an eats his spinach
regularly. . . . Unlucky gentry:
the men whose names correspond
with those of characters in comic
strips . . .
♦ ♦ ♦
A young doctor I know, practic
ing in a suburb full of hardworking
Italians, was roused out of bed at
7 o'clock the other morning by sev
eral patients in his anteroom. . . .
Their ailments were minor and he
couldn't understand why they had
come at such an unheard of hour,
particularly since he had been up
half the night with a serious case
and was in an irritable mood. . . .
But then one of them pointed out
that his sign said. Office Hours 6-8
and told him that if h emeant six
Io eight P. M. he ought to so speci
fy. . . • Incidentally and irrelevant
lj-, store hours are changing subt
ly here; more and more shops re
main epen until midnight, unshut
tering their doors at noon or there
abouts. . . . Fourteenth Street and
Broadway are the thoroughfares of
the shops with eccentric hours— de
signed to catch the business of those
who work from nine to five and
have no time to shop in those con
ventional hours. . . . Lou can buy
anything from an encyclopaedia to
a suit of clothes at 1 A. M. here if
you are of the mind. . . .
♦ »
Latest of the social magnifioces to
take up performing in the night
places is Adelaide Howell, of Atlan
ta, Georgia, who engrosses patrons
of the Russian Eagle with her sweet
voiced caroling. ... Her uncle is
Clark Howell, editor of the Atlanta
Constitution and in private life she
1> the Baroness Adam Henrych de
Pavlowskl. . . . sill yof the meft:
There is a case here called the Rcr
mandie. whose manager is one Nick
Carmaris. . . He related that the
other midnight a taxi drew up at
the curb in front of his swanky boite
and disgorged a gentleman in eve
ning clothes, along with trunks,
bags, golf sticks and the usual ap
purtenances of a European voyager.
... He was beautifully boiled. . . .
So Nick investigated and discovered
that the steamship Ncrmandle was
sallin gin half an hour. . . . The
1 estauranteur hired a cab. poured his
charge aboard and dashed for lhe
pier. . . . Thera the embarkee came
to, k>oked arcund in dazed fashion,
cried: “You can’t shanghai me!"
and pasted Nick in the eye!
Contract
Bridge
NO EAST MADE THE SLAM
HERE IS A hand that appeared
last evening in an invitation game
for experts of the Knickerbocker
Whist Club. It was a Howell move
ment, and for the moment my part
ner. Charles E. Norwood, sat East,
with only his pair vulnerable. Op
and John Rau. Several North and
posing us were Joseph Rothschild
South pairs bid game and made eith
er 5-Spades or 5-No Trumps. G.:r
small slam attempt gave us bottom on
the hand, causing us to come in aec
ond for the Evening; fulfillment of
the small slam contract would have
given us top score for the evening, so
close were the three highest scores.
♦ J 10
V J 4
♦ 10 4
♦QJ95543
♦AKQ3 4 8 5’
„ . VKIO 7 3
IS!! W 4AQJS
J 8 \ B2 LsJ *akio
♦ 9704
♦AB 6 2
♦ 9768
+ 2
At our table bidding went West,:
1-Spade; East, 3-Diamonds. showing
slam prospects; West, 3-Spades; East,
4-Hearts; West, 5 Hearts. East, 6-N0
Trupms, which Rau doubled.
The opening lead was the 4 of
.pades. Dummy'* Q won. The re
turn lead was the 2 of diamonds, that
went to the J. A low' heart was won
with dummy's Q. The normal adverse
division of the six missing hearts was
4-2, but hew did the Ace and J lie?
As readily may be noted from dia
gram, a return lead of the low heart
from dummy would have given us 6-
cdd. Instead of leading low from
dummy and picking up North's J
with the K, declarer led the 9 from
dummy, causing the K to 1 oee to
doubler’s Ace. Worse than that it
gave South a second stop to the
nearts with his 8, eectuaUy stopping
us from winning more than two heart
trucks. Three spade tricks, two heart
tricks, four diamond tricks and three
club tricks were now needed for the
small slam.
South led spades for the second
titre and dummy's K won. The sole
remaining hope for game was the pos
sibility cf winning three club tricks.
The 8 of clubs led at this juncture,
letting it run to the 10 unless North
covered with Q or J, was the ‘ only
hope,” and shoul dhave been tried, as
both spades and hearts w’ere subject
to the loss of a trick if led the fourth
time. In case North split his equals,
by covering the 8 of clubs with the J,
the K would win. Dummy could be
put in lead with its K cf diamonds
and the last club led from there, in
suring fulfillment of the contract, by
overtaking with the 10, if not covered,
and with the Ace In case the Q cov
ered. However, East did not think of
the clvb possibilities, but cnly of at
tempting the impossible, by trying to
squeeze South, which could not be
accomplished, as that player held as
many diamonds as declarer had. and
finally South had to be given a major
suit trick or else North had to be
given a club trick.
CONTENTS OF WHISKY
Whisky is 99.75 per cent ethyl
alcohol and water, says Industrial
and Engineering Chemistry. The
remaining quarter of one per cent
is a complex mixture which sup
plies smoothness, flavor, and pot
ability A mixture of grain alcohol
and water is extremely irritating to
the sensory nerves of the mouth;
therefore this small fraction serves
as a palliative for the astringent 1
mixture so that it can pass easily
into the stomach. The bouquet and
mellowness characteristics of whis
kies rest solely in the composition
of these minute quantities of organ
ic “impurities” in ethyl alcohol and
water.
ALABAMA SOLON QUITS
MONTGOMERY, Ala. April 13
(TP) —The Alabama legislature was
not active enough to suit Repeeaen
tative A. L. Hanks. The legislator
from Talladega served notice on the
body that he is quitting. His resig
nation stated that, “the legislature
*sn't doing anything to help Alabama
I refuse to waste my time bring a
member."
—Washington At A Glance —
Is a Strike
On a Ship
A Mutiny?
ROPER SAYS YES, BUT
LABOR SECRETARY
THINKS OTHERWISE
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 17—Presi
dent Roosevelt has plenty ot troub
le within the ranks of his official
family.
His advisers quarrel bitterly a
mong themselves.
For example:
The row between Secretary of
Commerce Daniel C. Roper and
Secretary of Labor Frances Per.
kins as to what a strike on ship
board amounts to.
Secretary Perkins says it is a
strike.
Secretary Roper says it is a mut
iny.
A mere strike is not punishable.
It may lead up to incidents which
are. but the strike itself is not.
Mutiny at sea is severely punish
able, however.
CONFLICTING VIEWS
There haven’t been any strikes
actually as sea, but there have been
several of them on shipboard, in
port, and they have delayed some
sailings.
Secretary Roper takes the view
that the mariners, having signed ;
on, were at sea to all intents and |
purposes. Secretary Perkins’ season
ag is that a fo’mast hand simply
is a workingman until his ship
casts off and after it has docked
—that he is at perfect legal liberty
to quit his job whenever he pleases,
except when his -craft literally is
n the bounding billows.
Precedent is rather in Secretary
toper's favor.
Under martime law a sailor gives
his services for a round-trip cruise,
and is not supposed to resign and
og ashore on an intermediate wharf
any more then he may refuse orders
» the ocean.
However, times, under the Amer
'can flag, are changing.
• ♦ •
POOR CONDITIONS
Illustratively, it is charged that
the Morro Castle disaster would
not have occurred except for the
low pay and poor living conditions
of officers and crew on the unlucky
vessel, coupled With consequent bad
discipline, 'and inadequate steam,
ship inspection—for which Secre
tary Roper’s department is respon
sible.
The loss of the Vestris. which
simply turned turtle off Hatteras in
1928. also is attributed to insuf
ficient inspection. The Vestris, to
be sure, was a British, not an
American craft, but she operated
out of New York and was subject
to American clearance regulations.
All the same, American seaman
ship has been much more string
ently protected under Yankee law
than by any foreign power.
• « «
ACT FAILS TO PROTECT
The LaFolette (elder TjaFol
lette) seamen’s act of a couple of
decades ago was designed to place
American sailormen on an equal
basis with all American workers on
land.
Theoretically it should have done
so.
In practice?
American trade, within its tariff
wall, has been able to fight outside
competition at home, but It cannot
fight It on the free seas
Prices of building, equipping and
manning ships are relatively high
here. All very well for American
coastal trade, which can be con.
trolled. But in foreign markets a
merchant shipping subsidy is call
ed for.
The shipowners want it, for ob
vious reasons.
They do not seem to want to di
vide it with the fo’mast hands.
TodayistheDay
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1935, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
By CI«ARK KINNAIRD
(Coppright, 1936, Central Press
Asociation)
Friday, April 17, Arbor Day in Colo
radi and District of Columbia; Arbor
and Bird Day in Northern Ilinote.
* * *
Notable Nativitefc
Thornton Wilder, b. 1897, novelist.
. Ray Stannard Baker, b. 1870,
publicist, biographer and noveliat
(under the name of David Grayson.)
. . Wlllia Van Devanter, b. 1»W,
associate justice of the U. S. Supeme
Court. . • • Clarence H. Mackay, b.
1874, chairman of the Board, Postal
Telegraph Co . . -
Wedding Aniversary
7th: George Herman Erhardt Ruttl
and Mrs. Claire Hodgson.
Today's YesJerdajw
April 17 1683—The trial o< Hester
Prynne, the heroine of Nathaniel
Howthome's novel, “The Scarltet Let
ter,” ended in the Court of Assistance,
Boston. x .
Her real name was Elizabeth Pain,
and the offense upon which she was
tried was not adultery, but murder
of her illegitimate child. And instead
of being sentenced to wear the scar
let letter, she was given 20 stripes—
with a whip.
April 17. 1741 —Samuel Chase was
bon in Somerset County, Maryland.
He was a signer of the Declaration of
Independence, yet when he was an as
sociate justice of the U. S. Supreme
Court he was impeached for a charge
to a Baltimore grand jury in which
he asailed the adoption of manhood
suffrage in Maryland, and concluded:
“(Modern doctrines) that all men
in a state of society are entitled to
enjoy equal liberty and equal rights
have brought this mighty mischief
upon us; and I fear It will rapidly
progress until peace and order, free
dom and property, shall be destroy
ed."
He wasn’t the only signer of th®
Declaration of Independence who
didn’t believe in democracy.
April 17. 1745—John Rudge be
queathed to the parish of Trysull. in
Staffordshire, England, twenty shil
lings a year that a man might be em
ployed to go about the church during
the sermon, and keep the people
April 17, 1860—The bout for the
worlds heavyweight championship
between John C. Heenan, American,
and Tom Sayers, Briton, at Famboro,
England, ended in the 42nd round —
two hours and 20 minutes after it be
gan—because local toughs, Irritated by
lack of action, climbed into the ring
to make it a fight.
* * *
First World War Day-Bff-Dar
20 Years Ago Todap—Captains Van
Papen and Boy-Ed, late attaches at
the German embassy in Washington,
were Indicted by a U S grand jury
along with Captain Hans Tausciter,
charged with conspiring to blow up
the Welland canal.
One of his men, Capt. Frans von
RJntelen, had been striving tp per
suade Mexican belligerents to buy up
all the U. S. munitions, to keep them
from goin~ to the Allies.
On to-' of this, a German spy was
caught trying to go through the Al
lied blockade to Germany and on him
was a letter, from Von Papen to his
wife:
“I always say to these idiotic Yan
kees that they’d better hold their
tongues.”
The indictment was an empty ges
ture, for Von Panen had already left
the country, by request. But it serv
ed to further inflame American feel
ings against Germany, and that was
one of Its urposes.
• * *
It’s A Fact
In the days when dueling wa« com
mon, if your friend was unable to
keep a duelling engagement because
of lines® or other god reasons that2did
not reflect upon his honor, he could
call upon you to fight for him. To
uphold your own honor, you had to
fight for him!
Nero never got over being called
stupid by his teacher in boyhood. Sen
ca. After he became emperor he sent
Seneca a command to destroy hlm
selef. Seneca had to!
The first gun in the War Between
the States was fired at Fort Sumter
was set off by a 75-year-older, but
more than 75 per cent of the soldiers
on both sides in the conflict were 21
or younger.
Henry Clay, wh osaid he would
rather be right than be president, was
defeated for the presidency three
times.
That *amed beauty, Mary Queen of
Scots, was bald, and -ore a different
colored wig nearly ever" day in th®
weke.
Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel
comed by Clark Kinnarid.
(To be continued)
! You’re Telling
I Me?
HISTORIANS REFER to the Mid
dle Ages as the Dark Ages. But
women past 40 will Insist they are
only slightly tinged with gray and
hardly a wrinkle at all.
* * *
It’s too bad the Italians are
licking Haile Selassie’s amateur
army. They’ll never be able to
turn professional now.
« • *
Persia severs diplomatic rela
tions with the United States
following arrest fortrafflc vio
lation of her minister to Wash
ington. Which news will make
every traffic cop break down
and weep for bitter sham.®
* * •
Maybe the real reason the
threatened European war did
not take place was because the
various nations hadn’t reached
he read hot hating point.
♦ * ♦
Dizzy Dean shouldn’t have signed
so quickly with the St. Louis Car
dinals. Think of all the things he
has thought up to say—without an/
reason for saying them.