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PAGE FOUR ’ „| w Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ‘ at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET </,' Cor. Lincoln Ent»r«d a* Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES Ona Tear 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months 22_._.22 IJS One Month . .65 Onq Week 2...22 ’ls • ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN t 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 JJtanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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.’’ Photo Flashes in the Life of lowa’s Senator L. j. Dickinson # MT IHBHI * /mK m JI > Jr ' a _ Jr, K, CAB j£ ’ ■ A Ji v L r —— i V // rK. “Talking It over” with Mr«. ■TZ Ljs. Dickin,on IBgffiHu mWMb -vk MMrm WKHHR. .~'~W l ifl K.y.not.r at G. O P- convention gs In < I Camera study 1932 - ' ' —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 ” SEE AMERICA—NERTS! > z L // / Avrett GWRYA < I I'LLIELLU IE FOLKSI y - I- a ]/ 7 -W I ABOUT IT VAIHEN ) You’re Telling Me? 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. - ' ■ ■■ 1— 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.