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i A PUBLISHER S RESPONSIBILITY.
clear cut views courageously expressed by Henry L.
Mencken at the annual luncheon of the Associated Press at
Washington Monday pertaining to the responsibilities of
newspapers and their publishers was to our mind the highlight
in that conference.
Mr. Mencken of the Baltimore Sun newspaper declared
the press constitutes the only effective opposition in this coun
try and that one of the clearest duties of newspapers was to
keep a wary eye on the gentlemen who operate this great na
tion who only too often slip into the assumption that they own it.
This expression is of such importance that it warrants ana
lyzing in detail. Responsibilities of a publisher as we see it in
chronological form would be first, a clear dissemination of news
concerning the community which he serves and its municipal
and county government; second, his state government and
third, but not least, his national goverment. The publisher
should at all times be acquainted as to the activities and pro
grams of our custodians of public property.
Unfortunately for the taxpayers of this nation, some pub
lishers are inclined to follow the line of least resistance in the
editorial columns of their newsapers. It is easy for a publisher
to keep away from controversial subjects, where local conditions
are involved, by confining his editorials to national, historic and
international subjects which do not give their readers an oppor
tunity to analyze and discuss the local views and policies of the
newspaper involved.
In order for a newspaper to be an asset to the community
which it desires to serve, its publisher must be fearless in the ex
pression of his views as to local problems. Whether they be
civic, political or commercial, he should present the facts as he
<ees them. The public will then i*each a correct conclusion as
to the remedy, if there be one necessary.
The outstanding qualifications of the American people is
their ability to properly analyze their problems and their will
ingness to immediately correct their mistakes in their selection
of personnel, if there be a mistake. Good government is the
high ground of real Americanism. The Savannah Daily Times
dedicates itself to the task of presenting to its readers in no un
certain terms the news of the day with special regard to the
functioning of the state, county and municipal officers in the
immediate territory which we are endeavoring to serve. The
constructive criticism of our readers will at all times be wel
comed. The thoughts and suggestions of our public will always
be received graciously.
We congratulate you Mr. Mencken. You have presented
to the publishers of this nation a real program and if properly
carried out one which will place the newspapers hack upon the
pedestal in the minds of our people as the bulwark of good gov
ernment.
THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR.
Measuring by the experience of the past, due in many cases,
to the political conditions that at times control, it has been more
than difficult to find a conviction by the United States Senate
on charges preferred against a judge of the United States Court.
Therefore, the conviction of Judge Halstead L. Ritter of Florida
stands as a warning to those who would use their high office for
the benefit of self and friends.
It is unfortunate that one so highly honored, experienced in
the lore of the law and the prosecution and punishment of those
who dared to defy its authority, should have so easily fallen prey
to the glitter of gold or the influence of evil friends. In either
case, just retribution have at least overtaken one, if not all the
equally guilty parties in the division of the spoils arising from
greed for gain.
Unfortunately, when guilt finds one out, it is not entirely the
guilty who suffers most. More often the innocent are made to
suffer many fold the pains and pangs of the guilty. We do not
gloat or glory over the downfall of any man. However, in his
conviction, there is a lesson and a moral that may well be heeded
by many, especially those with the halo of high place above their
heads. Sooner or iater, “thy sins shall find thee out.”
WEAR A POPPY.
How long is public memory and how enduring national
gratitude? This question will be answered here Saturday,
April 25th. It will be answered in bright red poppies worn over
the hearts of all who remember and are grateful to those who
sacrificed their lives in the nation’s defense seventeen years ago.
The women of the American Legion Auxiliary will distrib
ute the flowers on the streets. They remember. Some of then
own lie in the poppy-studded battle cemeteries in France. Ever
since the war they hav been devoting their energies to aid those
left dependent, to help those who came hack disabled, and to
carry on in peace for the cause of American dmocracy. And
on Poppy Day they will give their services so that the rest 6f us
may show that we, too, remember.
Wearing the poppy is the individual act of tribute to the
World War dead. Everyone can wear a poppy. The Auxiliary
women will offer them in exchange for a contribution for the
welfare of the war’s living victims. No price is asked for these
little flowers, shaped by the hands of disabled veterans. A few
pennies, if that is all the person is able to give, or a ten dollar
tuj}l, if that amount can be contributed, it is all the same. The
s%ne symbolic poppy will b e given in exchange.
The; Money which goes into the coin boxes of the poppy
wTirkers :' Poppy Day will all be expended in the welfare work
oivkhe L -3n and Auxiliary during the corning year, the hulk
r . M V rr- ; own city. Thus the little poppy will give
that our memory and gratitude for
America during the war still endures by
-for whom we can do more and aiding
A Pictorial Glance at the Life of Idaho’s Senator William. E. Borah
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By
James "AsweU
NEW YORK, April 22—One of
the most versatile celebrities of
the last couple of decades is John
Held, Jr., whose pert sketches first
visualized in line the flapper of
the 1920’s . . . When the flapper
era faded, "he turned to short
stories, many of them about dogs,
and currently he has an exhibition
of water colors showing Manhat
tan’s streets and towers. . . . Rus
sell Patterson has become the
most highly paid producer of life
sized mannequins for smart store
windows . . . He employs 16 peo
ple and his puppet “Personettes,”
Punch and Judy, are booked into
a new departure in sophisticated
many uppity boits for the summer
season . . . He has just made a bet
with a sceptical friend that |he
can earn $1,000,000 in three years,
. . . “Earn it,’’ he added sheppish
ly, “I didn’t say keep it ... ”
* • *
Eye-blink: the girl on Park Ave
nue with the transparent hat which
seemed to be made of gllass . . .
Alexander Woollcott has renounc
ed radio speeling for a year , . .
The mike gabble cut down on his
scribbling time too heavily . . .
Now there’s a firm here which, for
a small fee, will undertake to re
mind you of a dozen important
dates throughout the year—anni
versaires, engagements undertak
en far ahead or anythin t . . . That
jewelry firm in East 48th Street
does a boom business in a sur
prising sideline: drilling out the
glass of perfume bottles
which have stuck. . . . The man
who does it gobbles aspirin for his
perpeutla splitting headache from
the scent, . . . Col. Tim McCoy,
the two-gun movie man and ex
ponent of th- strenuous life, who
lassoes six galloping horses in
his circus turn, occupies the prem
ier suite at the Savoy-Plaza and
has two valets to peel his grapes
for him.
• • •
Random oddment: a publishing
house 1 know moved to the 13th
.floor of a skyscraper in East 52nd
Street recently, in the 13th year of
its existence, accomplishing the
NQT--In the News
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iLAUGHS IN “STORE TEETH”
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
BY WORTH CHENEY
Personally, we never could see any
thing funny about false teeth, for
losing one’s molars, we think, is just
as tragic as losing one’s eyesight.
Still, if you can forget that aspect of
“store teeth,” as they often are
called, they an provide a lot of
laughs due to the fact that the plates
seem to be involved in so much trou
ble.
Perhaps you have heard of the
man who bit himself on the hip when
he sat down with his false teeth in
his pocket. We can’t pledge the ver
acity of that incident, but here is one
that is recorded as true.
Tilly, a housemaid, had been ar
rested on a charge of theft: she had
stolen a set of false teeth owned by
her mistress.
“Why,” asked the judge, “did you
steal the teeth? I don’t see how you
could benefit by stealing someone !
else’s teeth.”
"Well, your honor,” answered Tilly,
“it was like this : she wouldn't give
me very much to eat, so I took her
teeth and them away so she
couldn’t eat 4. a
• • *
Last fall a man was fishing from
a boat in the Gulf stream. He sud
denly sneezed violently and plop!—
dropped into the water.
.'.JwSMUy he gave them up for lost
arrangements to have a
.^•Mif/iwimade.
&wj&»‘(few weeks later a large lUh
off the coast of Florida.
SAVANNAH DAILY TmES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1936
IT’S TRUE
Samuel L. Clemens (Mark Twain)
, predicted the exact date of his death
a year before.
Once, when Gabriele D’Annunzio
was at the height of his popularity
as a Don Juan, all Florence used to
gossip about a beautiful masked
horseman who galloped up to the
poet-novelist-dramatist’s villa night
after night. Eventually it turned out
that the “masked woman” was D’-
Annunzio himself, putting in a lit
tle over time at eels advertisement!
The oxygen requirement for walk
ing increases at a great rate with
increasing speed of progression than
that for running.
The youthful beauty at 60 of Diane
de Poiters, celebrated favorite of
Henry 11, who was 16 years younger
than himself, was abscribed by con
temporaries to witchcraft. The proof
of it was that she bathed two hours
every day!
shift on Friday the 13th and get
ting a new telephone number,
Plaza 0193, which, adds up to 13
. . . This reporter’s favorite lady
hoofer —Tamara Geva, a Ziegfeld
discovery. . . . Mystairy plants are
the latest embellishment of swan
ky drawing rooms here . . . They
grow in hermetically sealed glass
globes, subsist on chemical food
and thrive for years . . . It's good
work if you can get it: Myra
Kingsley, high-priced astrologist to
credulous theatricoes, divides her
year as follows: three months in
Hollywood, three in New York,
three in Ixjndon and three in
Paris. . . .
• • •
I dined the other night in a lit
tle restaurant I us«d to frequent
seven years ago but hadn’t enter
ed since moving to a new neigh
borhood .. . The proprietor, a
Greek who has added several
score pounds to his 250 heft, stop
ped by our table . . . “Good even
ing, Mr. Aswell,” he chirped bland
ly, “your lady frigid left her hand
kerchief last time you were here.
I save it ... ” Sure enough, the
bit of linen had reposed in a cash
register drawer for nearly seven
■ years as if it were no longer than
last night . , . What wouldn’t I
1 give for a memory like that!
“This weather,” said an old timer,
“reminds me of the time I was in
1 Alaska. It got s„ cold one night that
the lamp flame froze.”
“Yes, you low-down scoundrel,’’
. said another as h* got to his feet,
' “and I’ve been looking for you for
1 20 years. You broke that flame off
[ and threw it out. right against my
shack. Next day the flame melted and
i burned it down.”
In its stomach was found the set of
false teeth. They were returned to
the owner.
* * •
We have said that false teeth are
not funny; we mean it. But we
wonder what we would have done if
we had the experience a friend as
relating recently.
He once atteiyjed a swanky party
where there was so much dignity and
sophistication that he was afraid to
cross his knees There was only one
individual who seemed to be having
any fun at all. He was a short, fat.
bald-heade dman who told a lot of
stories, and laughed louder than any
one at his own jokes.
During the course of the evening,
the life of the party was telling a
store near the bowl of spiked punch.
He interrupted his saga at Intervals
by sipping his drink, and it so hap
pened that he toe* another swallow
just as he reached the climax of the
story
He tried to laugh before the liquid
had passed safely to his stomach,
and there was a clash between the
laugh and the drink in his throat.
He caught his breath, sputtered and
coughed in an exploive fashion. The
cyclonic pressure from his windpipe
loosened his “store teeth," which
left his mouth, dropping with a sick
ening splash into the punch bowl.
Unfortunately, the hostess saw the
Incident. But a majority of the
guest* to this das’ do not know why
the party-ended so early and abruptly.
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
G, O. P. SEES 1936 RACE
And Subsequent Control of Congress
AS PRELIMINARY TO 1940
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 22—While
Republicanism will do its level
best to win the presidency in Nov
ember, not a few G. O. P. leaders
quietly are saying, among them
selves. that what their party es
pecially should concentrate upon
is a recovery m congressional
strength in the next election.
Presidentially they look ahead
rather to 1940 than to the coming
autumn.
No matter how they may express
themselves for publication they
are not highly hopeful of beating
the present White House tenant
this time. They do believe that
they stand a good chance to cut
down his majority in the house of
representatives very materially
and to capture a few seats in the
senate.
* * •
G. O. P. AIM?
Some Republican strategists are
optimistic enough to suggest that
they may regain control of the
lower congressional chamber. They
cannot regain control of the sen
ate. even if they win every seat
that is at stake this year—which
they are quite aware that they can
not do, by a long shot.
However, it would be heavenly
from their standpoint, to get a
LITTLE BROWN JUG, HOW I LOVE THEE!
lower house majority. It could start
no end of investigations of New,
Deal activities and expenditures,
and create an infinity of trouble. ,
But really rational Republicans
do not expect to wipe out the Dem- 1
ocratic margin in the house of re
presentatives in November, 1936.
All they count on is to narrow the
Democratic margin discouragingly
(to the Democrats) in both houses
leaving it to 1938 to place “F. D.”,
in the position of being a Demo- j
cratic president with a Republican 1
congress on his hands.
* * *
RECOGNIZES THREAT
The Democratic high command
recognizes all this, perhaps not as
a danger, but as a threat at least.
It is quite confident of re-elect
ing President Roosevelt, but it
wants to re-elect him handsomely.
It does not (confidentially) antici
pate that he will win, personally
and congressionally, as overwhelm
ingly as he did in 1932 and 1934,
but it is somewhat worried as to
the possibilities of a conspicuous
slump in his prestige.
Democratically speaking, this is
not alone a campaign to win; it is!
a campaign to win 2 to 1 or at
some such ratio.
* * *
“SAVING” VANDENBURG
Astute Republicans weigh the
same considerations.
For example. Senator Arthur H.
Vandenberg of Michigan undoubt
edly has been advised by his
friends to keep out of this year’s
G. O. P. presidential race.
Vandenberg has become a pretty
fair presidential presidential pos
sibility.
Governor Alf M. Landon of Kan
, sas is in the lead, but without e
nough delegate votes at Cleveland
! to nominate him. Apparently Sen
ator William E. Borah will not
' have enough votes, either.
Vandenberg might do as a com
promise.
Still, his friends reckon, at the
polls he will be beaten —which will
be no good advertising for him in
j 1940.
| He will be only 56 then; still
1 eligible.
He should be saved up, his sup
porters calculate.
*♦ * •
A 1940 CAMPAIGN?
Nineteen-forty, indeed, is a long
way ahead.
The Democratic argument is
that business and employment will
have improved so much in the
meantime that it will be impos
sible to upset the New Deal —then
or at the 1938 congressional elec
tion.
The Republican argument is that
even though business and employ
| ment have improved, the country
i will not acquiesce in a third term
, for one president—and the G. O. P.
does not believe that the Demo
crats will have an electable can
didate to nominate.
In short, this is the 1938-’4O cam
paign—particularly 1940.
Today is the Day
® By CLARK KINNAIRO •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Feeea Asaoda^on
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Wednesday, April 22; Arbor Day
in Nebraska. Morning stars: Saturn,
Jupiter, Venus. Evening Stars*.
Uranus (until 25th), Mercury, MATS,
Neptune, Mars approaches near the
Moon.
SCANNING THE SKIES: The fol
low who swears he saw “hailstones
as big as baseballs’ may not be
straining the truth. The Nebraska
state weather bureau certified that
hail that measures 17 inches from
tip to tip fell in Potter, and hail that
weighed a half pound fefl near Cal
cutta, India.
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Ellen Gholson, known as EBen
Glasgow, b. 1874, Virginia
. . . Emile Jefferson Gough, b. 1886. i
newspaper and radio executive ... j
Denis E. Nolan, b. 1872, major gen
eral, U. S. Army.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
April 22. 1692—Edward Bishop
was imprisoned in London for doubt
ing witchoraft.
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April 22, 1724—Immanuel Bant
was bom in Konigsberg, East Prus
sia, to become one of the greaieet
philosophers Germany has ever pro
duced. But he was of Scotch an
cestry.
For 30 years he rose every day at
5 a.m. and had only one meed each
24 hours.
April 22, 1766 —Anne Louise Ger
maine Necker was bom in Paris as
Mme de Stael she wrote letters that
made Napoleon furious and herself
a literray immortal. Typical De-
Stael line:
“I love men, not because they are
men, but because they are not wom
en.”
April 22, 1832—-J. Sterling Morton
was born. He was a Nebraska news
paper editor, who foresaw nearly 50
years before anybody else the inevit
able droughts, duststorms, eroded
acres, etc., which must follow if all
the West’s trees were cut and all its
sod plowed under. He originated the
idea of Arbor Day, and as state sec
retary of agriculture persuaded the
legislature to put it in the calendar.
Most ether states now observe Arbor
days on Friday, but Nebraska p’ants
its commemorative trees on Mor
ton’s birthday.
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April 22, 1884—Thomas Stevens
left San Francisco on what was to
be the first bicycle trip around the
world. He completed it two years
and eight months later. The Atlan
tic and Pacific were crossed by boat,
ts course, so he actually pedaled
about 14,000 miles.
* * •
April 22, 1924—Harry K. Thaw,
incarcerated since the killing of
Stanford White in 1906, was. adjudg
ed sane by a Philadelpia jury and
freed.
* • *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The Cap
tain of H. M. S. Bluebell, on patrol
duty 90 miles off the Kerry coast
of Ireland, became suspicious of a
vessel flying Norwegian colors when
he saw two boats loaded with men
put off from it for shore.
He sent a detail to investigate. Be
fore his men reached the boat they
had landed a passenger, and before
thye could beard the “Norwegian”
ship a bomb explodod in the after
hold and it sank. The survivors of
the crew who were picked up turned
out to be German sailers of the dis
guised freighter Libau, in which
Capt. Karl Spindler had brought an
Irish patriot back to Ireland from
conferences with officials in Ger
many.
The capture led to the revelation
cf Sir Roger Casement’s plot and
raised the curtain on an uprising
that had all Ireland in turmoil with
in the week, and confronted Britain
with the most serious Irish revolt in
their joint history.
(To be continued)
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
The Old-Timer said:
“I’ve been around a long time and
I’ve had a lot of experience and some
of it did me gcod and some of it
didn’t help a particle. But I have
learned a few facts of life that come
in mighty handy now and then.
“I never did get married, but I’ve
seen a lot of married life—l mean
other people’s married life—and I
might say, without boasting, that
I’ve always been popular with the
ladies (I mean with the married la
dies, none of the unmarried ones
ever took a second look at me, and
I turned around many a time to see
if they were looking back at me—and
not one of them ever was!)
“One reason I have been popular
with the wives is I always praise
’em. They like it even when thejr
think I don’t mean what I say .
And I never criticize their husbands
in public. ... Os course, if a wife
gets me in a corner and starts tell
mg me how terrible Jim’s been act
ing, I sympathize properly with her
and agree that perhaps he ain’t
treating her right, but I tell her he
don’t look so well to me and he’s
probably worried about his job or
his business.
,'® ut 1 never criticize any man in
public when is wife’s around. , m
I learned a long, Jong time ago that
that’s the surest way to get he:
down cn you. After all, he’s her
property and she can abuse him all
she wants but you can’t. If you
start taking Jim to pieces in a
crowd, she gets mad because you've
hurt her proprietary pride, reflected
on her judgment and you might as
well pick up your traps and go, be
cause from then on you’re out.
“You don’t get invited to dinner
any more and Jim doesn’t dare bring
you around the house, hardly ever,
and Jim doesn’t like you, either!
Not as much as he did. ... And
of turn” hat y ° U f ° r spcakin * out
THAT’S TELLING HIM!
For two hours he had been the pest
. !r, e P art L His imitations were
terrible ranging anywhere from
George Arlisa to a hummingbird. In
t r ,*£°*u er had heen the
man with the screwed-up - 4>A
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