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PAGE FOUR ISmtoabW BiihiSiiiies Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET • Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter J uly 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savanna h, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ... 7.50 Six Months.... 375 Three Months ... 1.»5 One Month .65 One Week .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 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. . . LAND? the . ML vUk ZMMMMI Iff — f x^w ; ®r — .<m» / 7 7*' ■■•• WP / / . .~-~-..v~ ynff V‘% ! •‘ ■ 1 L • lll " l^"^*l '’ , ~ . - ; YtMSWwlwlff ■ \s‘ x --. •♦.’*« X ~ 'ST - "\rf^^* > "s. —>" x r^ tP ' J '^_^»^~~*^ c x iT J - ' yt <p No. Z —btart in IVewspaper Business LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS H z 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 4 10 9 8 6 5 487 3 2 4 A 10 7 4 4 None 4 None 47 3 [ M ~~~| VK Q J 4 9 6 4 10 5 4Q J 9 3 4852 494 3 2 —J 4AB 7 6 5 4AKQJ42 4A 4K6 4K Q J 10 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- 4AK Q 8 4A Q 5 4K 7 4A J 9 6 4J2410 9 5 3 46 3 . 4 K 4109 6 4 2 UI4AQBS 3 S. 4 Q 4 3 2 4 10 8 7 5 47 6 4 4J 10 98742 4J2 4K 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.