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j 4 4 GREAT TO BE A GEORGIAN. ’ ’
Over $350,000 has been raised in Georgia for the flood suf
ferers of Gainesville and her neighboring communities.
Invariably it is true that when the grim hand of disaster
reaches out into a Georgia community to leave a trail of havoc,
the remainder of the state rallies to the support of the stricken.
So it was in the case of the Georgia flood sufferers. The
call to monetary arms was sounded by the Red Cross and there
was an immediate response. Officials in Atlanta on Sunday an
nounced the fund had passed the $350,000 mark. So long as there
be a need for additional food, clothing and funds, Gainesville and
her neighbors will be served.
No doubt it is traditional ‘‘Southern hospitality” that
prompts such immediate and generous response by Georgians
to those in need. Whatever it be, it is a proud heritage and gives
full reason for one to exclaim: “It’s Great to Be A Georgian.”
. ’ ’ WATCHFUL AMERICA
Clearly defining the United States policy toward arma
ment in his address before the Daughters of American Revo
lution, President Roosevelt has definitely informed the world
that this nation will continue to press for the limitation of arms
and will not increase the standing forces of America—unless
forced to do so by other nations.
President Roosevelt stated that the question of adequate
armaments was constantly changing because of the simultane
ously changing international situation.
In other words, the President discreetly informed Euro
pean nations that America is a constant observer of continental
politics, intrigues and international plotting and that the armed
strength of this nation will depend entirely upon overt acts of
Europe or threats against preparedness.
The American foreign policy, President Roosevelt remind
ed, is a disinterested, consistent and successful one. It does not
permit the thought of war by aggression. The nation stands
firmly by solemn treaty obligations renouncing war as an in
strument of national policy.
“If this were a disarmament world,” commented the Presi
dent, “It is obvious that our disarmament needs would be pro
portionately decreasing. I regret that today this is not that
kind of a world. I regret it deeply.”
President Roosevelt, of course, had in mind the constant
threat of warfare between France and Germany, with England
in the background. He was thinking of the “right by conquest”
invasion of Italy in Ethiopia.
The chief executive of this nation and his subordinate of
fices of warfare are not unmindful of the constant threat which
obviously stands out so long as the clouds of war hover over
Europe. Sojlong as America can maintain neutrality, it will do
so. But should the occasion arise at some distant day when the
safety, progress and honor of America be threatened, the Presi
dent nor.his successors will not permit the defense of this na
tion to be found wanting.
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LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS
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Returning to Grand Rapids from
the Spanish-American war,
Trooper Knox was a marked
man, for the Rough Riders were
a. famous regiment Many of
his letters from the front were
published in a local news
paper and following his return,
Frank was employed as a cub
reporter at $lO a week because
the editor realized that the
young man of 24 had “a nose
for news”.
—NOT IN THE NEWS-
She Knows When Anything
Has Happened To Friends
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
PERHAPS you have known per
sons who possess, or think they
possess, a premonitory sense that
tells them, in one way or another,
when trouble has come to some
one near to them. Some persons
are thusly “informed” through
dreams, while others somehow just
“feel” it when “something has hap
pened” to a friend or relative.
How such a sense is developed
and whether it has any foundation
we do not know. And, in mention
ing it, we do not have any inten
tion of expounding such theories
as telepathy or coincidence as a
probable explanation for the un
canny occurrences. We refer to
the existence of such a sense mere
ly in connection with a letter this
column has received from Mrs
Jeraldine Awe. or Shula Vista, Cal.
* • •
MRS. AWE is one who possesses
this sense of foreboding. Her letter
reveals some amazing experiences
that have occurred as a result of
her uncanny ability to “see” what
is happening to her loved ones
when she is not with them. Her
letter, in part, reads:
“In 1921 my father ran away
from home when we lived in Ta
coma, Wash. Six months after
wards I was sick in bed with the
‘flu’, and one day, when I w’as on
the way to recovery, I was lying
on a lounge talking to my mother
Suddenly the walls seemed to dis
appear, and I felt myself on a busy
street corner. I looked around to
get my bearings and saw a sign
reading Sixth street and Spring
street. I walked up a few doors
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1936
Cupid began throwing darts at
Frank and a romance with Annie
Reed which had begun at Alma
college came to full bloom when
the couple was married on Dec.
29, 1898. Friends saw in the
wedding a perfect match. Mrs.
Knox later proved this by figur
ing prominently in the career of
Knox, supplying the “driving
power” that is a necessity to a
man fired with ambition.
and entered a restaurant, and there
I could see my father.
“Just the i I felt someone shake
me and the scene disappeared. It
was mother. When I told her what
I had seen she was frightened, and
so was I. We went to see our fam
ily doctor and he passed it off
lightly.
“But mother then told the detec
tive agency we had hired to find
dad. And not long afterwards the
detectives found him at Sixth and
Spring streets in Los Angeles,
working as a head waiter in a
/ restaurant!
“I might add that I had never
been in California.’’
♦ ♦ «
“FIVE YEARS ago I married a
sailor and three years ago we liv
ed in the Philippine islands. One
day after a strenuous round of
swimming and volley ball. I lay
down to rest before starting dinner.
Suddenly the room faded and I
found myself in another familiar
room where I saw my maternal
grandmother lying on a bed. The
entire family had grouped around
the bed, and I somehow sensed that
she was dying.
“Eight days later I had practical
ly the same experience, except it
was my maternal grandfather who
was dyi ig.
“One moth after this I got a let
ter from my mother saying my
grandmother and grandfather had
died within a period of eight days!
* • *
“ABOUT a month ago I was ly
ing in bed after doing a heavy
washing. All at once I felt faint
and I could see my brother an
xiously hurrying around his house,
calling a doctor and an ambulance.
And I could see my mother lying
in bed.
“My husband scoffea at my fears
when I told him about it, and he
said probably was because I was
tired. But that night we recived a
telegram from my brother, which
said: ‘Come at once; mother taken
to hospital!’
« • *
“AS A RESULT of these experi
ences, I have no fears when those
I love don’t write very often, as I
figure I’ll know if anything is
wrong.”
You’re Telling
Me?
POLITICIANS, like movie stars,
get lots of letters—however, in their
case it’s mostly pan mail.
Movie houses report boom in
business. Every crowd has its sil
ver lining.
The nice thing about a primary is
that it gives both parties a chance
to claim gains.
One thing we could never un
derstand is why people who are
so intelligent they wish to read
all your good books are so for
getful about returning them.
1
Mother love is wonderful but the
only time we’ve found stories on the
front page of mothers battling for ■
possession of their young ones is when
the children are either heiresses or
famous movie stars.
One Minute Pulpit
All things have I seen in the days I
of my vanity: there is a just man I
that perisheth in his righteousness,
and there is a wicked man what pro
longeth his life in his wickedness.—
Ecclesiastes 7:15.
PRESIDENTIAL
CLOSEUPS
That the widow of a vice president
who had died in office, was morally j
entitled to his salary for the full!
four-year term, was the position tak-'
en by Mrs. Thomas A. Hendricks, I
whose husband was elected with I
Cleveland in 1884. Mrs. Hendricks, |
on Feb. 2, 1888, demanded that she c
—Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Pres* Artist
With the burning desire to be
come a publisher and the fact
that his wife was pushing him
onward, Knox bought a weekly
newspaper in Sault Ste. Marie,
Mich. At the Soo the young
publisher of 25 found a rough,
tough town, filled with saloons
and brothels. He changed his
weekly to a daily and began
to clean up the town, gradually
drawing the better element to
leadership.
My New York
By
James Aswell
j NEW YORK, April 28—Theatri
t cals: No oldtimer has the gusto
1 of Jim Kirkwood, director of many
stars, whose hangout is the Play
s ers Club . . . Katherine Cornell has
joined up with the drama league
' guilders . . . Now the summer
; theaters bloom and blossom; Ivor
I Novello’s new comedj is called
, “Party”, sedately, and will have
1 its premiere at the Ann Arbor
r Drama Festival in May . . . Dan
Healy, the night club man, is one
of the few all-night bistro entre-
1 preneurs who continues to hold the
’ affections, year after of the
P run-around set . . .
r The only new comedian who has
soared to recognition this year is
[ Milton Berle at the Paradise; his
. clowning is drawing crowds that
I formerly haunted the revues for
laughs . . . The Ma/x Brothers ,1
I am told, have the most headaches
, getting people to compose their
gigglers . . . Humorists, with gen
uine talent, are the scarcest of
u writers on the Coast, commanding
J salaries in three to five figures
weekly . . . H. N. Swanson, who
began by editing College Humor, is
, now the second most important au
i thor’s agent in Cinemaland . .
Most annoying problem: how to
deal with folk who say I am be
ginning to look like Heywood
. Broun, with increasing plumpness
... The only retort is to insist that
the resemblance is only pounds
deep . . . This reporter has never
yet devised apologias for failure
. . . Parlor Pinkos have depressed
me since early Greenwich Village
days . . . Franklin P. Adams, the
humorist, is at work on a saucy
new revue to be labelled “Spring
Tonic” . . .
Pert daughters of notable men.
Leslie Ruth Howard, who is head
ed for a career at the painter’s eas
el .. . Marcia Tugwell, daughter
of the sleek young Brain-Truster,
who has her own dog-laundry at 35
cants per pooch . . . Marlene Diet
rich’s youngster bids fair to be
as much of a knockout for looks
as her n.om . . Basil Fomeen, the
tango chef, is a Russian who
bounced to Greece after the ar
rival of the New Dispensation and
More Abundant Life in Czardom
. . . Later he played for the Queen
of Greece and the King of Spain
and ended ui in sanctuary on the
Waldorf Starlight Roof this spring
. . . The Joseph Urban decor for
the St. Regis Roof has been dis
carded. which should make news
for a gencratioi. of collegiates . . .
Lawrence Colwell, who concocts
movie sets, has redone the jernt to
resembl- a pastel Italian palace
and garden of the Seventeenth
century
Anne Nichols, who wrote ‘Abie’s
Irish Rose,” is presenting a new
show to be called “Pre-Honey
moun”. . . . The are whisper
ing among hemselves, in some con
failure for Miss Nichols’ other ef
cern, because they all predicted
fort, and it was one of the greatest
1 hits of all time . . . Everett Mar
shall, the baritone, will be whisked
down to Forth Worth, Texas, to ap
! pear on the spinning stage that has
made Billy Rose a Southern news
item . . . Chalk up pleasant suc
cess number two for this season;
Gus Edwards, the old-time picker
of vaudeville talent and his new
j vaudeville-revue that is clicking on
Broadway . . . The other most
warming hit was “Ethan Frome”,
from Edith Wharton's memorable
novelette.
be paid that part of the salary for
the term which had not been paid
Mr. Hendricks. According to the
newspapers of that day, the lady was
quoted as follows:
"It is not that I need the money,
but I demand it as a matter of prin-
I ciple. The widow of Vice President
' Blair received his salary after his
I death in office, and I intend to re-
I ceive that of Mr. Hendricks. I find
I the Republicans take far better care
lof their people than do the Demo
crats.'*
But newspaper publishing in lit
tle Soo was not highly profitable
business, even after outmaneuv
ering the competitor and buying
him out. Public approval of his
policy, however, kept Knox go
ing, which brought about a bat
tle with one of the two utility
companies seeking to develop
the water power of the Soo
rapids.
(To Be Continued Tomorrow)
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
NO RELIEF IN SWEDEN
(A Remarkable Story Told By a Native)
BECAUSE NONE NEEDED
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, April 28—Eric
Bark, a Swede, naturalized in the
United States, recently came back
from his home land, and tells me
his story:
Everybody fat and prosperous.
No beggars. No unemployment. No
illiteracy.
Sweden, first country to come
out of the depression, due in large
measure to a parliament that
doesn’t attack capital unduly, but
gives their due to both labor and
consumed Socialists in power.
First country in the world to be so
ruled. The rule a sort of middle of
the way; government the umpire.
♦ * *
ITS LIQUOR SYSTEM
Liquor legislation begun in 1905.
Now famous Bratt system. Every
body entitled to four quarts month
ly. Also just enough with each
meal. All spirits controlled through
a central organization. It is run and
owned by private capital, as are
all underlying distributing centers.
Stockholders elect three members
of the board of directors. The city
where located elects three more.
The government apopints the chair
man. Owners are allowed 7 per
cent profit. The remainder is turn
ed over to education. Works fine.
No bootleggers.
♦ * *
AGED ARE PROTECTED
Old age pension. Everybody
from 16 years old pays an annual
premium of sl. Is collected togeth
er with taxes and turned in to
pension office. At 65 everybody
who needs to do so automatically
retires. Pension collected every
month through the postoffice. Men
and women get same amounts. No
more alms houses. Old couples con
tinue to live together. Pension
enough for all necessities.
Labor legislation. All labor dis
putes submitted to government
agency, as umpire. Contracts
drawn for a certain time. Upon
expiration, process repeated. Lit
tle labor trouble.
♦ ♦ *
FREE MEDjCAL SERVICE
State medicine. Free doctors,
free medicine, free ambulances and
free hospitals to all who need and
cannot pay for
Contract
Bridge
PSYCHIC DOUBLES
OCCASIONALLY a psychic double
so confuses strong opponents that
they fail to bid a slam that easily
may be made, as was the case with
the hand hown. Only North and
South were vulnerable.
Scuth -dealt. He could count game
in his own hand. If partner hap
pened to hold the missing minor Aces,
or held one of them with a void in
the other minor suit, a grand slam
was assured. Partner’s possession of
the Ace of diamonds assured a small
slam, provided partner held as many
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as three spades. Even two spades
would suffice, if the balance of trumps
were evenly divided adversely. Bidd
ing went: South. 2-Spades: North, 3-
Spadcs, showing at least four trumps
plus one of the missing Aces, or per
haps the K-Q of hearts; East, 4-
Hearts: South, 5-Hearts, to show no
losers in that suit, now satisfied that
Colonel and Mr*. Frank Knox
FORESTS SAVED
Forestry. All forests under gov
ernment supervision. No owner
can cut without providing for re
turn growth. Free advice “ad lib”’.
♦ ♦ ♦
GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP
Natural • monopolies. Telephone
and telegraph governmentally own
ed. Ditto a large- percentage of
railroad mileage, and electrical
power. Efficiently and courteously
operated —and actually making
money. No holding companies per
mitted. Seven per cent earnings
allowed; rest to state.
♦ ♦ ♦
AGAINST CORRUPTION
Check. Prosecuting attorneys
being to investigate corruption or
provided by governme;.t, their duty
favoritism. Anybody can make
complaints, about anything.
♦* ♦ .
FARM BONUS
Farm plan. Bonus to producers
of anything. Premiums, advice,
medals and encouragement for ef
ficiency. Interest-free loans for
drainage. Large farms being pur
chased by the government, split up
and sold on 20-year amortization
basis to farmers without money.
Share-croppers unkonwn. An inde
pendent family for every 100 acres
the goal.
• • *
NO SLUMS
Housing. Slums unknown. Gov
ernment building and selling
houses on same plan as for farm
ers. Individuals select their own
types of houses.
CO-OPERATIVES
Co-operative organizations. Forty
per cent of all trade through co
mills, factories and department
operatives. They now own sone
stores. Also ihuch successful co
operation among farmers, both for
selling and buying. Encouraged in
directly by the government.
♦ * ♦
OPEN-MINDED
Outstanding impression: Every
body reasonable and open for dis
cussion.
• * ♦ *
BUT HE RETURNS!
It sounds beautiful.
Nevertheless, after revisiting it,
Eric came back to live in this, his
adopted depression-inflicted coun
try.
partner held an Ace and expecting
North to show the suit of which he
held the Acs; West, doubled, for no
other purpose than to confuse oppon
ents; North, 5-Spades, when he should
have bid 6-Diamonds, to assure a
small slam; East, doubled, for no
other purpose than to prevent South
from bidding a slam, Curiously en-
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ough the psychic double served Its
purpose well, for South and North
both passed.
The opening lead was the 9 of
hearts. Declarer won the trick. Dum
my ruffed a club. Decarer won a
diamond trick. Dummy ruffed another
club. Declarer took dummy's diamond
Ace. A cross-ruff of diamonds and
clubs followed. Dummy ruffed four
club leads, then declarer pulled
trumps, making a grand slam, at the
doubled value, but the defenders saved
money, as at least a small slam would
nave been bid except for the psychic
double. When East bid his game in
hearts it is safe to say he knew that
South was too intent upon bidding a
slam to bother with a business double,
which might yield greater reward
than bidding and making the desired
slam.
South plays a grand slam at hearts.
The opening lead is the 6 of hearts.
Befor tomorrow see how many tricks
declarer can win against the best sub
sequent defense.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
Tuesday, April 28. 148th anniver
sary of ratification of Constitution by
Maryland, fifth state. Morning stars:
Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Venus. Eve
ning stars: Mars, Neptune. Moon;
first quarter.
Scanning the skies: Air in a tor
nado’s vortex sometimes revolves as
fast as 500 miles an hcur, which ex
plains the terrific force the tornadoes
possesses. Byway of comparison,
winds in a tropical hurricane seldom
blow faster than 100 m. p. h„ and
a wind of 500 m. p. h. is not five
times, but 25 times as strong as one
of 100 m. p. h.
Lionel Blythe, known as Barry
more, b. 1878, cinemactor. . . .
Hugh L. Cooper, b. 1875, distinguish
ed American civil engineer who built
Soviet Russia’s greatest dam and
power project. . . . Harold Bauer, b.
1873, distinguished pianist and com
poser.
Today’s Yesterday*
April 28 1794 —Jehudl Ashum was
born in Champlain, N. Y., destined
to be the only American to establish
a foregn nation—and remain an
American. He was 28 and a Congre
gational minister .when he set up the
colony in Africa for freed American
slaves which became Liberia.
April 28, 1797—The most famous
mutiny in maritime history broke
out. Mutineers led by Clark Gable—
I mean Fletcher Christian .rebelled
against the discipline of Lieut. Wil
liam Bligh and set the commander
and 18 men adrift in a small boat in
which they made a remarkable voy
age to safety.
The Hollywood movie version
makes it appear Bligh’s official cruel
ty was extraordinary in the British
navy and that the mutiny caused
whipping of sailors to be ended. It
wasn’t extraordinary, and sailors con
tinued to be lashed for another 100
years.
It wasn’t Bligh’s cruelty, but the
regret of the men at leaving their
paradise in Tahiti, that caused the
mutiny. The average age of the 25
mutineers was 26.
April 28. 1817—Richard Rush, 37-
year-old Philadelphian who was min
ister to London, signed for the
United States the pact with Canada
(known as the Rush-Bagot treaty),
which created the longest undefended
frontier in the world.
There is no parallel elsewhere for
the 119 years old unbroken peace
between the two neighbors resulting
from the treaty.
Rush was one of the most out
spoken advocates of war against Eng
land at a time when the country was
split on the question!
First World War Day-By-Day
20 Years Ago Today—The Irish
Revolution was far bigger news in the
United States than the World war
itself during this week after Easter
Monday. For half a century the U.
S. had been the rallying ground of
the Irish independence movement; in
fact, the Irish Republic had been
proclaimed years before upon Ameri
can soil. In its Easter Monday proc
lamation, the Pearse provisional gov
ernment had declared, “supported by
her exiled children in America. . . .
she strikes in full confidence of vic
tory.”
Nevertheless, in the U. S. it was
little understood just what had final
ly fanned the revolutionary sparks
that the Green Isle had been throw
ing off for so long, into a conflagra
tion. They were the British War Of
fice’s casualty list, notably from
Gallipoli, showing that the highest
percentage of casualties was among
the Irishmen drawing the the king’s
Is. 2d. (29 cents) a day.
It was hard for many Irishmen to
believe that their sons and brothers
and fathers were not being deliber
ately sacrificed. One day at Gallipoli
1,000 Dubllns and Munsters had
been sent ashore in an open boat un
der fire of Turkish rifles, machine
guns and artillery, and 700 had been
killed, drowned or wounded; and
there were other days.
Ireland could bleed itself white for
England, but England couldn’t make
a sacrifice —or even keep its prom
ises—to give Ireland home rule.
If Irish must die, why not die fol
Ireland? They would!
(To be continued)
* * *
IT’S A FACT
It rains inside when the sun if
shining outside of Washington monu
ment! The rain falls so heavily that
attendants have to wear raincoat!
and rubbers.
Thomas Jefferson had an abhor
rence for public speaking which he
never conquered.
The total cost of the Lindbergh
kidnaping case was largest in Amer
ican criminal . history, estimated at
$2,131,173.
Os 18,134 Virginia high school stu
dents answering a questionnaire, 16,-
000 could net name three prophets of
the Old Testament: 12,000 could not
name the four Gospels; 10,000 could
not name three of Chrst’s disciples.
A tornado in Georgia drove a
straw through a beard, small- sticks
through iron plate!
Queries, reproofs are welcomed by
Clark Kinnaird.
WHEN HE RETURNED HOME-!
A lady was entertaining her friend’s
small son.
“Are you sure you can cut your
meat?” she asked, after watching his
struggles.
“Oh. yes,” he replied, without look
ing up from his plate. “We often
have it as tough as this at home.”
A DISAPPOINTMENT
“What did you think of the horse
show, dear?”
• I didn’t see a single dress I liked.”
2s&•£’.
This stamp was issued by Malta in
1935 during the time the late
King George V of England wai
celebrating the silver anniversary
of his reign.