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PAGE FOUR § nii HimabWtau ® m f 5 Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ........ 7.50 Six Months 375 Three Months ......... Z_IZZIIZ2IZZ2ZZ2ZZ 195 One Month .... ZZZZZZZZZZ 65 One Week ........------__ZZZZZZZZZZZ .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 Picture* RELIEF FOR VOTES. The temptation to exchange relief for political support has spread its corrupt practice into the city hall here. Thus, Savannah has an ambitious mayor who is attempt ing to trade relief, not only to Democrats but to negro Republi can leaders for their political support. Here Savannah has a situation of a LITTLE MAN IN A BIG JOB, trying to muscle-in on relief money supposedly for the people in dire need of the necessities of life. He is more than willing to force aside those hungry mouths in order that he may obtain his selfish desires at the cost of starving people. Anyone familiar with the leakage which exists in city con tracting work will not be surprised at the extortion practiced upon the Work Relief program. In Savannah today there is being built, purportedly for the use of farmers and local consumers, a market known as the Farmers Co-operative Market. This is being built with public funds secured from Mayor Gamble for a private party or parties, in order that these parties may fleece the federal government at a later date under the guise of some WPA or other alphabetical relief project. In turn, it is hoped by the mayor, that his colleagues will refund to him political favors and support toward his selfish reign as “high dictator of Savannah.” The market in question which is being built with public funds, is being constructed at a cost far beyond its actual re quirements and it is hoped that when completed, the owners can go to the government and secure a loan to repay the city. The balance of monies will be handled according to previous ar rangements. The question in the voter’s mind today is: “Is the city’s legal department approving of such action and the illegal use of the people’s money?” Under the present city administration mismanagement is being practiced in government to the highest degree. Mr. and Mrs. Voter today are being given a lesson as to what happens when a LITTLE MAN IS PLACED IN A BIG JOB. Can it be that the people of Savannah are going to continue to tolerate the tactics of a Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin and the most dangerous of all for the good of a community—a Gamble who practices trading relief intended for the needy for his political advancement and self-perpetuation at a time when his com munity is paying its policemen and firemen a starvation wage? “FIFTY PER CENT. RIGHT.” Remarks made by Dr. Charles Herty, noted Savannah chem ist, before the University of Chattanooga last week-end in which he “deplored Chamber of Commerce methods” in his appeal to college youths to use “research methods” should, and perhas will occasion considerable Savannah comment. In his address, Dr. Herty condemned methods of progress and business employed by the Chamber of Commerce in advo cating tha proposed “research methods” be fostered to develop the South. “Go north if necessary,” said Dr. Herty, “to get graduate training but come back South when you have completed your courses. There's enough problems in the South to keep you busy. Love for the nation and for your section is necessary as well as a systematic effort to accomplish anything.” We agree with Dr. Herty only fifty per cent. The “Chamber of Commerce methods” should not necessarily be deplored to foster “research methods.” There should be and there is room for both. Educational methods, be they research or fundamental, are necessary to the progress of any community. Chamber of Com merce methods—the actual application of methods learned by such research, are just as necessary. It is for that reason, we therefore say that we agree with Dr. Herty—only fifty per cent. SOMETHING “IN THE WIND. Reports of current and planned activities to control if not curb the alcoholic beverage business in Georgia which were forthcoming from Atlanta this week appear to have spread to various parts of the state. It became known in Atlanta this week that there is a strong possibility of federal and state officials combining efforts at the key points of liquor distribution to enforce existing federal and state liquor laws which forbid the sale of such beverages in Georgia. On the heels of this report comes the warning issued by A. L. Crowe of the State Revenue Commission that beer dealers in Georgia will be forced to pay their fees promptly or he will cause their prosecution. Crowe said there are many dealers in malt bev erages throughout the state who have not purchased Georgia li censes. He warned that failure to pay subjected the dealers to pay SIOO fine or serve twelve months on the chaingang, either or both in the discretion of the court. These significant gestures made by arms of the enforcement branches in Georgia have caused the conclusion in various parts of the state that something is definitely “in the wind.” The federal law forbids the transportation of liquors into a state where there is a state law forbiding the sale of such com modities. Georgia has such a law. Speculation has been rife as to what part Uncle Sam will take in causing Georgia to enforce this law which has been admittedly forgotten since the advent of legalized beer and wine. It has been reported that federal agents are making an in vestigation into the affairs of the various large wholesalers and retailers in various parts of Georgia. This would indicate that some planned ac ion is not far in the future. LIFE STORY OF COLONEL rKAINK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS «•— — Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist— 9 | NEW HAMPSHIRE jI Jx J i With the end of the Bull Moose campaign and the defeat of both Theodore Roosevelt and William H. Taft by Woodrow Wilson, Frank Knox was urged to enter the newspaper field in New Hampshire. Thus at 32 he, to gether with his partner, dis posed of their paper in Sault Ste. Marie and established a new one in Manchester, N. H. It eventually absorbed two others. My New York By James Aswell NEW YORK, April 29—There's Mr. Moriarity, the stage doorman. He’s grizzled and laconic and in clined to be cross with people, clearly not of the theater, who in quire for this or that actor, actress or young lady of the ensemble. If you are of the grease-paint frater nity and have played Broadway much you probably know him, un der another —his real—name. For all his gruffness he is at heart a kindly soul. I e thinks he’s pretty lucky, for h; has never been out of work in his life. He gets sl6 per week and that, with his Spanish-American War pension enables him to live comfortably in a little cottage in Hackensack, from which he commutes daily. Married. One married daughter whom he seldom sees. He sits on a stool by the door and dozes most of the time, but nobody has ever succeeded in slip ping by him. When he’s stage door man for a musical he takes a pro tective and fatherly interest in the chorus girls. When young men call who seem to him of a type that bodes no good to his charges, he often will fib, refuse to carry mes sages and in other ways do his best to discourage the courtship. But he has never refused a tip; these are rarer than you might expect and less munificent. His largest tip was a $2 bill (and he is inclined to think that was a mistake) in 1929. He will tell you that the stage door Johnny has virtually vanish ed and he will tell you why. The taxi dance halls now attract that type of playboy. The young men who wait for girls at the stage doors now are regular boy-friends, husbands and even brothers. On a cord attached to a fire extinguisher near his chair is a little red book. In this are recorded the unlisted numbers of all the oth er backstage telephones in town. Thus the actors in his show can call their friends in other shows without difficulty. It is understood that the price of this service is fifteen cents per call. Sometimes, from one of the principals, he gets a quarter and occasionally he looks up a number gratis for penurious showgirls and bit actors. He reads a great deal, mystery novels and, strangely enough, the financial pages of the newspapers. Figures fascinate him although he owns not a share of stock. He gave up chewing tobacco about four years ago for his health’s sake and will tell you that he has never felt well since. He can spot an act or—"a professional”, as he says— at fifty yards. If you don’t look like a professional he’ll probably tell you the party you’re seeking is out, or has gone home, or is too busy to see you. Mr Moriarity has a great memo ry for names, dates and places. Once he witnessed a holdup in the street in which the theater he was then serving was located and his identification was so sure and ac curate. when suspects were appre hended, that they were convicted easily. He has a clipping describ ing his part in this episode and will show it to you if he likes you. He frequently takes it upon him self tn lecture showgirls. He is a foe of drink and if he smells it on the breath of a girl in the show he will tell her, without mincing words, just where she is headed if she persists in such habits. "Now that young feller who call ed for you last night.” he will say. “That feller’s okay. You go steady with him, girlie.” The greatest m -stery to him is why people line up in the street waiting to see some star emerge and demand autographs. There is about him one truly amazing peculiarl y. He has never sat through a performance in a theater in his life. Once, with two passes for "The Green Pasures.” he did attend the theater on his night off; but the show bored him so that he made his wife depart with him at the end of the first act, . ' • . SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29, 1936 id jkS Six years after Knox moved to • New Hampshire the United States entered the World war. Although more than 40, he en listed with the militia as a priv ate, was sent to training school, went overseas as a major in the 78th division, saw active service at the front and returned home a lieutenant colonel. Thus Knox has served at the front in two wars. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— WALL STREET GUESSES And Begins to Quote Odds ON NEXT PRESIDENT By LESLIE EICHEL Contra! Press Staff Writer WALL STREET DOES NOT al ways guess correctly, as any one who does business in that short, narrow thoroughfare knows. Mere ly for your information, however, Wall Street is betting on the re election of President Roosevelt at odds ranging from 6 to 5 to 2 to 1. It was even money in January. There is no betting on the Re publican nomination. In Cleveland, scene of the Repub lican convention, now merely a few weeks away, there is no betting either. Cleveland seems likely to be carried by President Roosevelt in November, even though it will be host to *he Repubicans in June. In fact ,as matters look at pres ent the Democrats may carry the city by a considerable majority. Philadelphia, see le of the Demo cratic convention will, on the oth er hand, remain Republican. That is the present consensus. « « * HUGE DEMONSTRATIONS It is rumored that the Republi cans may try to stea» a march on the Democrats and dim a “stunt” planned for the conclusion of the Democratic convention President Roosevelt, it has been rumored, will make a night speech in huge Frauklin field —stadium next to the Philadelphia convention hall —at the end of the convention. Now it is whispered that the Republicans may parade their nom inee to the still “huger” Cleveland stadium near the convention hall, as a grand finale to the G. O. P. convention. The Cleveland stadium seats 89.000—and tens of thous ands more could stand on the shores of Lake Erie and hear the nominee by means of loud speak ers. • * * HOW TO STRETCH The Democrats are having diffi culty trying to figure out how to keep their convention going six days in Philadelphia. The city was promised that, in return for the large sum put forth to gain the con vention. Ringmaster James A. Far ley is thinking up stunts, incidental to the renomination of Messrs. Roosevelt and Garner. • • ■ • PLENTY OF NEWS There will be as many writers “covering” the Republican conven tion as there were delegates a de cade back. Provision has been made for 750 You’re Telling Me? MAY IS RAPIDLY catching up with June in popularity as a wedding month, according to a statistician. “Oh the marry month of May—” • • * When a crook is down and out is he a wolf in cheap clothing? ... While dancing for joy over the fact that spring (according to the calendar) is here, be careful you do not slip and fall on the ice. • • • The controversy over elevated highway construction proposed for Chicago has a lot of motor ists up in the air. * • • The average Martian day is some 40 minutes longer than an earth day. If Mars is uninhabited think of .all that daylight saving going to waste! ♦ ♦ • Another eternal puzzle that will never be solved is how the in come tax people figure S4OO will support a dependent for one year. • e • No matter which party wins the ' national election this year we all Ihope we continue to be a democracy with a republican form of govern menu > I While abroad Knox, then a ma jor, demonstrated his organiz ing ability. He was in charge of a section of the ammunition trains serving the front Com ing home from the war, Knox returned to his newspaper work in New Hampshire. Theodore Roosevelt had died, but a friend of “Teddy’s” was appearing on the political horizon—General Leonard Wood. inside the Cleveland convention hall besides photographers and mo tion picture and radio men. More than 1.000 applications for seats in the press section are on file. There will be 550 inside the Philadelphia convention hall. Hundreds more ’n each city will be "covering” hotels, unable to gain entry to the halls. The Cleveland coverage will be the greatest in the history of the newspaper world. ♦ * ♦ DISTANT The press section will extend so far into the hall that the first row of the delegates will be 55 feet from the speakers’ platform. The last row of alternates will be two blocks away—down that huge hall. PRESIDENTIAL CLOSEUPS The impression is general that the slogan, "The Full Dinner Pail” irig inated in the McKinley-Bryan cam paign of 1896, as the rallying cry of the Republicans. Ever so wrong! It did not originate in that dhmpaign, and it was not of Republican origin. It was used by the Democrats in the Harrison-Cleveland campaign of 1888. The slogan was coined In that cam paign by H. C. Dodge, cartoonist, then, of the New York World. But popular belief, erroneous though it is, is that "The Full Dinner Pail,” lid and all, belongs to the G. O. P. Biri What If The King Marries— aKH Colonel Knox became floor lead er for the Wood forces at the convention in Chicago. There finally was a . deadlock, with Warren G. Harding of Ohio, a “dark horse” candidate, and an Old Guarder, winning the nomi nation and the subsequent election. Knox returned to his newspaper property for three more years. To Bo Continued. NOT--In the News ♦•* * * « COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION DOG MAKES FRIEND WHO SAVES HIS LIFE Copyright, Central Press Assn. By WORTH CHENEY THIS INTERESTING dog story is reported to our column by Georgiana Richards Wilson, of Glen Falls, N. Y. This is ner story: “Connebert”. a beautiful Irish setter, lived in Warrenburg with two devoted ladies who gave him a wonderful home. He was such an excellent breed that men visitors at the home always expressed re great that such a fine bird dog hunter should be spoiled for sport by living with two women. One very cold day in winter Con nie was taken out for a run follow ing a sleigh which we were taking down to an Indian encampment to get some blankets for Christmas. Connie was wild with happiness. Most of the time he would keep close to the sleigh, but once in a while would disappear into the woods. He was having the time of his life. * • • AT THE INDIAN camp there were many dogs, and they were friendly to Connie. We had expect ed a battle, but there was none. After making our purchases we hurried back to the sleigh, as it was growing colder. But Connie was nowhere to be found, and it was some time before he came in answer to our whistle. When he finally did return to the sleigh he was not alone. He was being followed by one of the dogs from the camp. As the sleigh start ed home, we noticed that Connie seemed to be urging the other dog I y v '■ '' *• * ' VHFWF ’ He still ride* well to follow him. Connie’s friend seemed reluctant at first, but as we neared the city he was having as much fun running in the snow as Connie When we arrived home we invit ed the new dog inside the house, but he would not leave the outside piazza. And then we lea ..ed to our surprise that Connie would not come in without his friend. We pleaded, but he would not budge, so we hau to leave both outside. Connie never had .slept outside be fore and, fearful that he could not stand the rigors of the woather, we took blankets and food out for the dogs. ** * • THE NEXT morning we were surprised to find Connie all alone on the piazza. He .vas whining sorrowfully, and when we appear ed he dashed out on the lawn. We followed and found Connie’s little friend lying in the snow—dead! Just then the gardener came up. He told lis that an apparently de mented man in the neighborhood had placed some poisoned meat in the yard daring the night, expect ing Connie to eat it. But Connie’s friend reached the tainted food be fore Connie did. The visitor saved Connie’s life, and we think the whole incident must have been predestined—the way they became friends, how they refused to leave each other, even on a cold night. It was so strange that we cannot overlook it as a mere coincidence. JUDGE RAPS LAW PITTSBURGH, Pa., April 29 (TP) —Judge Frank Patterson at tacked Pennsylvania’s divorce, law because it lacks any provision for punishment of brutal husbands. The judge granted Mrs. Guy Muto a divorce decree as soon as he finished his remarks. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD o Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press Association Wednesday, April 29; Walpurgis Night, an European festive occasion; St. Vincent Ferrer’s Day, a Spanish holiday: Emperor Hirohito’s birthday, a holiday, naturally in Japan. Zodiac sign: Taurus. Scanning the skies: Lightning does strike more than cnee in a place— every time it strikes! What appears to the eye as a single bolt may con sist of two to a dozen quick flashes in the same channel. This is the ex planation of its destructiveness. Sin gle flashes would do little damage. ♦ ♦ ♦ Notable Nativities Wiliam Randolph Hearst, b. 1863, publisher and editor. . . . Lorado Taft, b. 1860, sculptor. . . . Corey Ford, b. 1902, humorist and short story writer. . . . Frank Parker, b. 1906. radio singer. ... Sir Thomas Beecham, b. 1879, British composer and conductor. ♦ * * Today’s Yesterdays April 29, 1759—John Adlum was born in York, Pa. Our one-man campaign to get him Into histories and encyclopedias of biography hasn’t progressed yet. Pos sibly he doesn’t deserve any com mentary as a brigadier-general in the Revolution, and a judge. But how can the man who established the first agricultural experiment station in the country, and introduced the Catawba grape, among other things, be overlooked? Some of the WPA-endowed histo rians have been calling on this corner for information. We commend Ad lum to their attention as a fit sub ject for research. * * * April 29, 1792—Matthew Vassar was born at Taddenham, Norfolk, England. The $1,200,000 he devoted to the establishment of a school for yov.ng women "which should be to their sex what Harvard and Yale are to young men,” was his profits as a brewer. April 29, 1769—Arthur Wellesley was born in Dublin, Ireland. He, the First Duke of Wellington, conqueror of Napoleon, received his military education in a French army school at the expense of the French govern ment. Welington was paid the largest soldier bonus in history—s2,ooo,ooo —for defeating Napoleon, and then had to do it over again! April 29, 1857—An electric loco motive was operated in the U. S. be fore electric lights! On this date, a locomotive built by C. G. Page had a trial run between Washington and Baltimore on the Baltimore and Ohio • Railroad and attained a speed of 19 miles an hour before the jars of the overworked batteries providing the energy cracked under the strain. He used no fewer than 100 cells of pri mary battery. Transportation men of the time couldn’t see the possibilities of it; the old, old story. First World War Day-By-Day 20 Years Ago Today—After a seige of 143 days, 13.760 British under General Townshend in Kut-el-Amara, Mesopotamia, surrendered to the Turks. A relieving force was only 16 miles away. There was another war scandal for the British public, for the surrender was the ultimate result of a foolhardy attempt to conquer with less than a division of ill-equipped and inade quately supplied troops a region to whch Turks were able to send un limited numbers of soldiers better able to withstand the climate. Enver Pasha announced the prison ers would become "the honored guests of the Turkish government.” The of ficers were sent to Baddad by steam er. The men were marched the 100 miles to Bagdad, in stifling heat, with no sort of organization for food transport or medical care for those worn out by the exhausting seige. The Turkish commandant promised the day’s march should not exceed eight miles. He kept his promise for one day, and thereafter the men were herded like sheep from 12 and 18 miles a day, and stragglers were flogged. At night they lay without shelter. Les than half were to withstand the rigors of Turkish prison camps .for the succeeding two and a half years. (To be continued) ♦ ♦ « It’s a Fact Washington monument was built upside down and inside out! President Roosevelt has a good ex cuse to get out every night in the week: he’s a member of the Masons, Eiks, Odd Fellows, Knights of Pyth ias, Macabees, Eagles, Shepherds and four other lodges. Ordinary automobile engines pro pel a two-seater plane faster than they can a car, with supplying all the lifting power required. The ancient Egyptians thought red haired women were witches too, and they annually went through the cere mony of burning a maiden alive who had the misfortune to have a red head, as a sign to the gods of their displeasure ♦ ♦ * Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel comed by Clark Kinnaird. SO THAT’S IT? The workman approached the fore man of the factory. “Can I have the afternoon off?” he asked, "to see a chap about a job for the missus?” “AH right,” agreed the foreman, you 11 be back in the morning, I sup pose?” "Yes, if she doesn’t land the job.” 11! Franca issued this stamp recently* to supply funds for use in help, ing the many refugee* from vari* 1 ous countries. The design fe*. I ture* the Statue of Liberty £