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PAGE FOUR O' 1 Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Batorod m Second Class Matter J uly 23, 1935 at the Poet Office at . ' ; , Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ono Year ..—....7.50 Six Months 3.75 Throe Months 1.95 Ono Month .65 One Week «... J 5 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 Service • World Wide Picture* 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. . ille Improvtment, Gas and Water Co., vs. City of (89 Ga., 863) Without a popular vote, AS REQUIR- Colonel Frank Knox, Chicago Publisher, a Strong Potentiality for G.O.P. Nomination RsBB bobby >» horsvs| * J lOt 10l Jk r AO V"’ Br? wJ'JF BwJI JKL iL Y Ju. ■’j- JA-L •. ffjßW AmwmbMß W WJHE K ; IwWUmQw Si * w B *> '' IQMr ' • -M [Td« w | w, ; „ v.. k„o, .fcjit —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.