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PAGE FOUR §airaimab»#®ailii (Times PuDlisUed L»y PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 750 Six Months mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm . 375 Three Months 1.1111111111 195 One Month ' 65 One Week .... ”"”1111111"” .15 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 Pictures 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 | . Mr*. Borah in the library of their f \ Nk ' Hi -~ jUj \ m fflr i«M&. v IMM W ❖44<‘*K- i ’ My New York' 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 * * * • * * 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. I , ■ Ml u. !, n —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 h «r v- 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. * • ♦ 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. ■y * m 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 . ‘.? V ? iat w £ u l d you hke me imitate now* *ked the The ma> ,h< .rr 0 « about & ’Hr Z shadow?' . ’