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TAXPAYERS ON ALERT.
Any organization composed of the real estate taxpayers of
the state i« worthwhile and should be recognized as a potential
factor for good government.
Real estate is, and will always be the foundation upon which
a government rests. It is the permanent, visible, taxable prop
erty, therefore subject at all times to any new tax program
predicted upon exigencies caused by the failure of politicians
to properly analyze and set up reasonable budgets for the ad
ministration of the duties for which they were elected to per
form.
The Chatham division of the Georgia Real Estate Taxpayers
Association, headed by one of our good citizens, George W.
Hunt, will hold an open citizen meeting at the Auditorium this
evening at 8:30 o’clock. Prominent Georgians will address this
honorable body—Georgians who have had long experience in
the tax problems of our state. It will be worthwhile for every
citizen in Savannah interested in good government that they
attend this meeting. Tax limitation should be the order of the
day. Reckless and extravagant expenditures by public officials
must be curtailed.
We congratulate the good citizens of Georgia who are de
voting their time, efforts and money in building a Georgia mind
towards planting one more milestone in good government.
Political machines will naturally combat the passage of
the 15 mill amendment. To limit the revenue secured by drain
ing the pockets of the state’s taxpayers will ultimately mean
that those political pap-suckers who retain their jobs by voting
right will necessarily be droped from the pay rolls.
The payment of political debts at the expense of the tax
payers money has no place in the proposed amendment. It pro
vides only those funds necessary and sufficient to properly and
efficiently conduct the state’s business.
. “THE QUALITY OF MERCY.”
The world loves a successful rescue. Snatching two men
from the clutches of death—two men who had been trapped
far below the earth's surface in a Nova Scotia gold mine, ap
peals to the dramatic instinct of a reader’s interest.
Human nature often runs along strange channels. Salva
tion of 0 human soul, trapped under unusual circumstances will
lure an army of rescuers while those who befall the fate of the
commonplace will pass unnoticed.
Many years ago, a coal miner, one Floyd Collins, was
trapped in the bosom of Mother Earth quite similar to the man
ner in which Dr. D. E. Robertson and Alfred Scadding were im
prisoned in the Moose River gold mine. An anxious world
watched the progress of the rescue work with bated breath.
For three weeks, Floyd held out against the punishments of slow
death. Almost within the grasp of salvation—an hour, if mem
ory serves —death intervened to end the man's suffering. Floyd
Collins was brought out —but he was brought out dead.
Not so with the heroic Nova Scotians who pitted their skill
and energies to save the two men who, by their plight, had com
manded the world’s interest. Dr. Robertson and Scadding were
brought up from their frightful prison in the earth shortly after
last midnight. Today they are sleeping like logs—while a grate
ful and satisfied world gives thanks for their rescue.
LOUIS McHENRY HOWE.
In the passing of Louis McHenry Howe there has been re
moved one of the most devoted and loyal of the friends of the
President. As a newspaper man, he had won a high place in
the hearts of men of every shade of political opinion. As friend
and counsellor to the President, his outstanding characteristic
was his untiring devotion to the man whose friendship he
valued and whose poltical fortunes he espoused and defended.
In war, as in peace, true to every standard by which real
men are measured, his love of country was no less than loyalty
to individual friends which had won for him a deservedly high
place in the esteem and regard of all with whom he came in ocn
tact. Practically a member of the President’s family circle, he
will be missed more keenly as a member of that family than as
an advisor and counsellor.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
NO REVOLT IN MEXICO
Looked For By Observers
CALLES SEEN “FINISHED”
f - *** 7 ... By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
A revolution is not looked for In
Mexico. The principal figure, Gen
eral Plutarco Calles, not only is out
of the country, but has been counted
out. Actually, the government of
Preaident Lazaro Cardenas waited
until the opposition to Calles was
overwhelming prior to sending him
and his three principal supporters to
the United States. Labor had threat
ened a general strike unless Calles
departed.
The Roosevelt administration is not
likely to tolerate any anti-Mexlcan
government tactics from the United
States on the part of Calles. Thus he
seems finished.
General Calles started out as a
revolutionist and ended up as a weal
thy land owner. Mexican labor began
to fear he would invoke fascism. He
seemed proceeding in that direction
• • •
LATIN AMERICAN TRADE
The Alexander Hamilton institute
finds that the foreign trade of the
United States with the Latin Ameri
can coua tries increase materially
during 1935. This country's imports
from all of the Latin American coun
tries were 24.3 per cent larger in
1935 than during 1934. Exports from
the United States to Latin American
on the ether hand, showed a total
increase of only 12 per cent.
A bulletin by the institute adds:
“The trade between tne United
States and Latin America clearly dis
proves the theory that th edevalua
tion of the currencyyresults in an in
crease in exports and in a decline in
imports. The foreign trade of the
United States with Latin America as
well as with other countries has defi
nitely shown that the movement of
International trade under present
conditions is primarily determined by
business conditions prevailing in the
various coux tries.
“The Improvement in business con
ditions in the United States has re
stulted in an increased demand for
various types of raw materials.
“Similarly the drought during the
past year, which materially reduced
the output of agricultural commodi
ties, necessitated an increase In im
ports of theso commodities.
“The trade of Latin Amrelca shows
the same tendency. Those countries
which have enjoyed Increase dbusi
ness activity such as Mexico, Argen
tina, Chile, Peru, have increased their
imports from the United States. On
the other hand, countries which have
not yet benefited materially from an
improvement in business conditions
such as Costa Rica, Hondu as and
Venezuela, have actually imported
less fr:m the United States during
1935 than during 1934.’’
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—WORLD AT A GLANCE—. I
TALK OF VANDENBERG
Perhaps Because States Seem Doubtful
IN INDUSTRIAL AREAS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer.
TALK IN THE Industrial dis
tricts remains largely Vandenberg
(as a dark horse) for the Republi
can presidential nomiation. (This
column has been of the opinion
that Gov. Alfred M. Landon of
Kansas would win the nomination
on the second ballot —as remarked
ten days ago. The lineup of dele
gates still looks that way. But the
talk in the industrial districts re
mains largely for Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg of Michigan—with
a share for Publiher Frank Knox
of Chicago.)
The queer part of It all Is that
Vandenberg’s own state of Michi
gan has begun to give Republican
insiders some doubts. Its citizens
have been showing strong pro-
Roosevelt manifestations. Yet there
is hardly a newspaper in the state
that is for the president. And the
Democrats have no organization to
compare with the Republicans. And
traditionally the state is Republi
can. It is “one of those things.”
• • •
COUZENS
Senator James Couzens will be
up for renomination in Michigan.
Wilber M. Brucker, former gov
ernor, has decided to oppose Cou
zens for renomination, in spite of
advice against such action given
by Governor Frank D. Fitzgerald,
titular head of the party in the
Governor Fitzgerald remarked:
“The task of the Republicans
this year is to defeat a party which
is not in sympathy with our pol
icies. Senator Couzens has been
elected twice (to the senate) on
the Republican ticket. He is en
titled to the re-nomination unop
posed.
“I do not believe we should at
tempt to drive out of the party a
public official who has a strong
Republican following.”
Does that mean pro-New Deal
Senator Couzens could swing the
votes anyway? It is so interpreted.
The Democratic high command in
Washington is sure of it, so sure
that it is supposed to have given
the word that there shoull be no
real Democratic opposition to Sen
ator Couzens’ re-election.
Brucker terms Couzens an out
and-out New Dealer
• ♦ •
VANDENBERG
If Michigan, therefore, 1s weak,
would the Republicans not be
tempted to nominate a native son
for president? Would that line up
Michigan, and probably have some
effect, too, on the sister states
of Ohio and Inidana, essential to
the Republican cause?
Such thoughts are in Republican
minds. Thus it would not be wise
to count Vandenberg out of th':
running until the fateful second or
third ballot in Cleveland.
• • *
EARLY CAMPAIGN
This column said the other da:
that the Roosevelt campaign woui
begin immediately following the
Democratic convention the latte,
part of June.
We are asked whether it hasn’t
already begun, with the present
series of speeches and trips.
They are ground work. But it
will be impossibl > to fire heavy
shots until there to
shoot at. Whom will the Republi
cans nominate? What will their
platform be? On what will they
center their attack?
« » •
UNSOLICITED AID
President Roosevelt, curiously
enough, is receiving chief aid from
unsolicted sources.
One of the most noteworthy is
Msgr. John A. Ryan, noted sociol
ogist of the Catholic university,
Wash;
Msgr. rffan remarks:
“For'(4'l years the old theory of
unres: l o'ed competition obtained,
ending it. this worst of all depres
sions. it was fine so long as there
was free land to furnish an out
let Even now it we would use
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 1936
technological advance and distri
bute properly the fruits of industry
we could have the more abundant
life.
“It is all a matter of the defini
tion of ‘opportunity.’
“To Mr. Hoover ‘opportunity’
means freedom from interference
by government except in cases of
violence, fraud and monopoly. Mr.
Roosevelt’s ideal is that ‘opportun
ity’ means not merely freedom to
compete, but a reasonable mini
mum of positive econofic goods
such as a legal minimum wage,
care of unemployed, legal limita
tion of working hours and effective
opportunity to organize into labor
unions.
“The National Manufacturers as
sociation, the American Liberty
League and all so-called conserva
tives do not want effective legis
lation for protection of labor or
effective restraints upon the anti
social practices of capital ...”
Not one of the alphabet organiza
tions, adds Msgr. Ryan, “violates
any moral or legal rights of any
individual; not one is socialistic
or unpatriotic or un-American.
Every one of them is in accord
ance with humanity, Christianity
and social justice. The only thing
they interfere with is the liberty
of the economically strong to op
pose the sconomically weak.
“Some critics of the New Deal
honestly, perhaps, fear it is or may
become alien to the democratic
processes of American govern
ment; other critics, however, and
the most numerous, most vocal and
most influential, are fearful their
profits will not be so large and
their economic domination so ef
fective and comprehensive as in
the old days ”
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BY WILLIAM RITT
SOMETIMES WE really feel sorry
for Mussolini and Hitler. It must
get boresome at times —the business
of every day thinking yourself the
greatest hero of all times.
♦ ♦ ♦
Woman pays a record price for
a prize Angora kitten. Os course,
just a plutocat.
♦ * •
The world improves. Plutarco Cal
les is ex-president of Mexico. Today
that “ex” stands for “exiled.” Not
so many years ago it would have
meant “executed.”
* *
The difference between a good
idea and a r>d one usually de
pends on or not you like
the person l£o it.
To all those fans who weep in sor
row for poor, old Babe Ruth, because
he no longer can play big league
baseball, remember this: Mr. Ruth,
retired and wealthy, wouldn’t trade
places with YOU.
« * «
How can a rabbit’s foot be
lucky for you when, as is obvi
ous, it was so unlucky for its
original owner?
As IT SEEMS TO A CHILD
A little girl sitting in church,
watching a wedding, suddenly ex
claimed:
“Mummy, has the lady changed
her mind?”
“What do you mean?” the mother
asked.
“Why,” replied the child, ‘she went
up the aisle with one man and came
back with another.”
THE USUAL THREAT.
“And if I refuse you, Cecil, will
you commit suicide?”
“Well, that has been my usual cus
tom.”
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
“MORE MEN TO WORK!”
President’s New Campaign Slogan;
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
/ By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 23.—P resi
dent Roosevelt’s recent Baltimore
.speech generally has been taken in
Washington, and I suppose elsewhere
throughout the country, as Implying
that the White House tenant is par
ticularly interested now in the relief
of unemployment.
This is accepted as a highly praise
worthy program.
Business is improving. Maybe that
does not need to be much further
worried about—if business continues
on the upgrade. But unemployment
is nearly as rife as ever. That, then,
is the problem to be concentrated on
henceforward.
* • «
PRESIDENT’S PROPOSALS
The president has quite a clear
idea as to what should be done.
In the first place, shorten the
working day or the working week, or
both.
Second, give the worker a guaran
tee of a fixed annual income; many
who are quite well paid while actual
ly employed are the victims of such
frequent lapses between jobs that
their living allowances are altogether
inadequate, annually speaking.
Third, keep youth, below the age,
say, of 18, out of the labor market;
also pension off superannuated work
ers, at 65 or thereabouts.
* * •
“SHARE-THE-WORK
Shortening the day or week or both
was the earliest suggestion, made un
der the Hoover regime, when the de
pression set in. It was referred to
as a share-the-work plan.
Employers were friendly to it, but
they wanted to cut pay in proportion
to time reduction. That is to say, if
an employer had two eight-hour per
day workers and thought he could do
with one, he was willing to retain both
cn a four-our each per day basis,
. but at one-half of his previous eight-
I hour per day per worker.
Perhaps this would have been some
I consolation to the worker who, other
| wise, was due to go 100 per cent over
i board, but 50 per cent less than none
;to the one who hped to be retained
j 100 per cent on the payroll.
I In other words, the notion was to
make labor bear the whole expense
of the depression.
» ♦ *
NO WAGE CUT
President Roosevelt proposed that
hours or days shall be cut with no
cut in wages.
Which, from the employers’ stand
point, must be equivalent to a stiff
aggregate wage increase—no more
per man, but more men to deliver
the old-time volume of producticn.
What follows?
Why, the employers, to maintain
the profits of their respective indus
tries in the face of an increasing
overhead, boost prices to consumers.
Living costs rise; the worker, while
getting, in dollars and cents, as
much as ever, can buy less with it.
In effect, hs pay has been cut any
way.
THREE GROUPS AT ODDS
Or else:
Labor’s pay isn’t cut. Consumer
dom isn’t mulcted.
Then the difference must come out
’ of the industry’s dividends.
There are three groups at odds.
MANAGEMENT’S PLIGHT
There is a fourth group and a mis
erable one—management. It has con
sumerdom to reckon with. Also la
bor. I can see how they may be
reconcilable. But when it turns to
capital, which has financed the whole
thing upon billions of watered stock,
it gets the answer:
“Our dividends upon billions! —that
never were invested!”
Thus, even inteligent management
is andicapped.
* • •
NOTHING MUCH TO SAY
As to a fixed annual income, the
federal government, of course, has
nothing to say.
Nor can it promise regular annual
comes.
The question of youth in the indus
tries still pends on the correspond
ing amendment to the constitution.
Old age pensions are dependent
also on state legislation in part.
My New York
By
James Aswell
Copyright, 1936, Central Press
Association.
NEW YORK, April 23. —Paragraphs
in Asphalt:
No New Yorker could really qualify
as a true connoisseur of the town's
savor unless he had attended a
“chorus call”—at which hundreds of
hopeful females storm the stage door
of some bleak and untenanted theater
seeking jobs in the line.
The motives which actuate certain
of the girls are difficult to decipher.
I mean those who. by no stretch of
the imagination, could be termed
lovely. Often 200-pound matrons ap
ply for kicking positions behind foot
lights and when they are turned down
wait for the next “call,” usually ad
vertised In the theatrical papers.
The other afternoon I dropped in
while Bobbie Hale was selecting 16
lookers for the show which will en
liven Mr. Ben Marden’s fantastic
“Riviera,” on a crag of the Palisades,
during the summer roadhouse sea
son. Hale had intailed a full-length
mirror topped by a sign:
“Take Another Look. Be Honest
With Yourself. There’s Still Time to
Change Your Mind.”
Incidentally, truly beautiful girls
are so scarce that Marden offered
SIOO weekly to eight showgirls. The
tilted salaries filled the positions in
one afternoon. Models forsook the
swanky photographers to apply.
* * •
Jimmy Lewis, the artist, unfolds a
touching rigmarole about hiring a
midget to pose for a photograph.
(Most of the big illustrators snap a
few pcses now and work from these
instead of from the models.)
The little fellow got ths address
of the photographer wrong, where
Today is the Day
° By CLARK KINNAIRD ej
Copyright, 1936, sos this Newspaper
by Central Press Associatum ?
Thursday, April 23; St. George’s
Day, Safar 1, 1355 In Mohammedan
calendar. Stephen A. Douglas Day
In Illinois. National holiday in Tur
key.
Scanning the skies lightning flash
es may look bigger to you than they
are. Observing engineers have de
termined that the average channel
of a lightning discharge through the
air is about four-fifths of an inch,
about the thickness of a thumix
* ♦ ♦
Notable Nativities
Edwin Markham, b. 1853, Ameri
can poet. His, most famous poem
“The Man With the Hoe,” was pub
lished and made him famous only
because a newspaper reporter heard
him recite it at a private party and
liked it. ' Previously Markham had
been unable to get his work publish
ed . . . Leonor F. Loree, b. 1858,
railroad magnate . . . Charels G,.
Norris, b. 1881, novelist husbJtnd of
novelist Kathleen Norris . . . Shirley
Temple, b. 1929, cinemactress . . ,
Yandell Henderson, b. 1873, ¥ale
physiologist.
♦ * *
Today’s Yesterdays
April 23, 1616—Red-haired William
Shakspere, or Shakespeare, Shaxper,
Shakespear, Shakespere, Shagspere
(by all of which names he is known)
died of fever on his 52nd birthday
Upon the slab erected at his grave
appears:
“Good friend for Jesus’ sake forbear,
To diegg the dust enclosed heare;
Bleste be the man that spares the
stones,
And curst be he that moves my
bones.”
The Shakesperean play that cur
rently is receiving most attention i«
this country, “A Midsummer Night’s
Dream,” was not written for th<
stage. He did it as an outdoor pre
sentation for a court festival.
♦ • ♦
April 23, 1616 —The only contem
porary who could be ranked with
Shakespere, Miguel de Cervantes, died
the same date, but not the same day,
of dropsy. A 10-day difference in the
English and Spanish calendars made
this the case.
i Don Quixote, the novel Which
made him immortal, was written
when he was 60 and in prison,
charged with theft.
He spent most of his adult years
in imprisonment, having been for
years the slave of Algerian pirates,
who employed him to write their let
ters. In recognition of his superior
mentality, they fettered him with a
silver chain!
• e •
April 23, 1635—The first publie
and secondary school in North Amer
ica—Boston Latin school, was estab
lished in the kitchen of Philemon
Format’s home.
* • •
April 23, 1797—James Buchanan
was born near Mercersburg, Pa., 66
years before he entered the White
House as 15th president. He was
the only bachelor elected president
who remained one. Because the lady
he planned to marry in his youth
died, he would never wed another]
but he raised five orphaned children,
of two of his sisters.
He, not Lincoln, was president,
when South Carolina and other states
seceded and the rebellion got un
der way ,a fact not usually remem
bered. Because he did not take
forcible action against the secession
ists, he was perhaps the most un
popular retired president the country
ever had. He was openly called, a
traitor ,a weakling, and worse, and
virtually forced to remain in seclu
sion at his home in Lancaster, Pa.
• * *
First World War Day-by-Day
20 Years Ago Today—Revelations
in the wake of the indictment of
Von Papen, deposed military attache
of the German embassy in Washing
ton, and others in San Francisco, on
the charge of conspiracy, provided an
illuminating footnote to the history
of German - American relations.
Agents of Von Papen had deliberate
ly discredited loyalty of German-
Americans, it appeared—for the pur
pose of creating hostility which
would force them back to Germany
and into military service.
♦ * ♦
It’s True
Isabella, the queen of Castile and
Aragon who is erroneously credited
with having financed Christopher
Columbus’ explorations, was a wom
an who controlled her emotions to
such an extent that she did not cry
cut even in childbirth, a contempor
ary affirmed.
Most of the Elmers of yesterday
and today derive their name from El
mer Ellsworth, first Union officer to
be killed in the War Between the
States but Elsworth’s real first name
was Ephriam.
Mary Queen of Scots was bethroth
ed at five years old to the French
king man whom she married at 14.
She was widowed at 17, and two
kings, an English prince, an Austrian
archduke, three of France and
a Spanish prince then wanted to
marry her. But she chose a com
moner as a second husabnd!
The litigants in the first case
argued by a woman before the Su
preme Cour otf the U. S., in 1904,
were al Imen.
* • *
Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel
comed by Clark Kinnaird.
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they vzere to meet, and sailed far
up on Riverside Drive. Two hours
later, still cruising and trying dif
ferent numbers and streets while
racking his memory, the midget
finally stumbled on the right place.
Lewis was waiting outside, ready to
summon police because he had called
the midget’s hotel and found he had
left for the non-existent address.
But the midget, after Inducing
Lewis to pay a $5.60 taxi bill, de
manded double remuneration on the
ground that his own time had been
wasted. He was exactly the type and
so Dlewis capitulated—but ctuldn’t
resist asking, after the sitting, why
on earth his model hadn’t called up
the photographer, whose telephone
number (unlisted) he had with him
all the time.
“I only had a nickel,” was the
quick reply, “and I was afraid to
spend it. I might have missed this
job and needed it for a hamburger.”
• ♦ *
Sudden thought: W. W. Chaplin’s
“Blood and Ink” is the best of the
war correspondents’ personal histories
in Ethiopia. Makes you feel the high
altitude, smell Addis Ababa.