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PAGE FOUR 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 Three Months 1.95 One Month .....1 ’es One W«ek .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 DISFRANCHISING THE SOUTH. The prediction, recently broadcast over the nation that at Philadelphia in the June convention of Democrats the two-thirds rule for nomination will be abandoned and the majority rule put into effect, should cause every Democrat in the Southland to vigorously protest to his delegates and demand that they fight this change. This rule has been the factor whereby Southern Democrats in Democratic conventions could or would be heard, because theiir voting strength is such that with a two-thirds vote of the con vention necessary to nominate, their influence is substantal enough to command respect. It can readily be seen that with only a majority vote necessary, the Eastern and Northern Demo crats, could and would be able to control, with the assistance of a few other states, all future nominations. The result would be most detrimental to the interests of the South in national poli tics. When the Young Democrats held their national convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, last June, there was considerable agi tation from some quarters to recommend to the senior body that this rule be changed and the majority rule adopted. Such vig orous protest was registered by the Southern states representa- ' tives and the sponsors being unwilling to debate the subject on ' the floor of the convention, it was abandoned. ( The young men and women at that convention were looking < to the future welfare of their party. The senior Democrats, now arranging for the convention and the national committee who will meet with the covention will do well to follow the example ! of their juniors. They should vote down any effort to change i a rule whicn can serve no good purpose, particularly at this ' time, when there exists not even a doubt as to whom will go far ! more than a two-thirds vote for re-nomination for President by this great party. While the reports that a change is now being considered by < the leaders of the party are no doubt well founded, Southern < Democrats, at least, should look well to the interests of the < Southland. They should protect this privilege which has so long existed and so long kept Southern delegations feeling that they are an integral part and bear a major share in the naming of standard bearers for their party. A GEORGIA NEWSPAPER MAN. The recent appointment of Mark F. Ethridge, former man aging editor of the Macon Telegraph, to be general manager of the Louisville Courier-Journal and the Louisville Times at Louis vile, Ky,. meets with the hearty gratification of Georgia newspa- < per men. In his new capacity, Mr. Ethridge will also have general charge of the Courier-Journal radio station, WHAS—so fre quently tuned in by Savannah listeners. Mr. Ethridge has had an active and eventful newspaper career. At one time he was sent to Europe on a fellowship from the Oberlander Trust to study political and ecnoomic conditions. Returning, he joined the Associated Press staff in Washington. Later he became assistant general manager of the Washington Post and more recently was president and publisher of the Rich mond (Va.) Times-Dispatch. Mr. Ethridge gained his early training as a reporter on the Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun. He is widely known throughout Georgia and his new connections will be of pleasant interest to a large number of Savannahians. NOT—In the News COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION BY WORTH CHENEY Central Press Association A PHYSICIAN relays this almost unbelievable story. Several years ago the doctor was practicing In a small country com munity. His routine was that of the typical country doctor; he was called to administer the sick for miles around. One day he was summoned to a farmhouse where a young boy of five lay apparently seriously ill. He ex amined the boy and diagnosed that the lad was suffering from poison ing, probably a snake bite. But a very careful scrutiny of the lad’s body failed to reveal any break in the skin as might be made by a snake’s fangs. He questioned the boy, but the youth Insisted that he had not been bitten by a snake, to his knowledge and had not even seen a reptile. The doctor was frankly puzaled, for’ he was certain that the symptoms Indi cated the boy was suffering from snake venom. Then he questioned the mother about general matters and asked her if anything unusual had happened In the vicinity recently. She sud denly remembered that their next door neighbor, Mr. Jones, had been bitten by a' snake while chopping wood. He had been bitten on the finger, and fearful that he would not reach a doctor In time, he had taken the ax and chopped off the poisoned digit. She said she had learned about it when her son, the one now ill, had found the finger and, wondering what It Was, had brought it home to her. She had instructed the lad to take It out and bury It. It was cov ered with dirt and blood, and there were ants crawling all over it, she said. The information was enough for the doctor. He proceeded to treat the lad for snake bite and he recovered rapidly. Re worked on the theory that the ants had Injected the snake venom Into the bnv’s body from the se”*" •* ’ '■'‘•’■ently he . . « ivr a period Qi Uli minutes probably would have been given you in the news columns, an item taken from the police rec ords. Mary, daughter of a well-to-do doc tor in a small town, had gone to the city to make her own way as an art ist. She worked diligently for weeks, but she soon learned that success wasn’t as easy to win as it was to pronounce. Her finances ran low and soon she was forced to move into a dingy attic. Proud and determined, she worked on desperately, but to no avail. Her paintings and sketches were turned down as rapidly as they were sent to market. Her bride would not permit her to tum to her father for help, and when she finally ran out of money she decided to end it all. She made up her mind early one morning. She had tried and she had failed. There was no turning back— she shuddered at the disgrace of going home. Death was the only way out. Closing the windows, she next stuffed a towel under the door. Then she turned on the gas of her little hotplate she had used to cook with, and lay down on the bed to wait for the fumes to do their work.' She soon lost consciousness. ' ’ When she awoke the landlady was standing over her. The windows were opened and she breathed the cool, fresh air. “Lucky I came in when I did," said the landlady. “The gas was going and the windows were closed. Why, you might have asphyxiated your self! It’s a good thing these letters came for you, or I might not have come up at all." Regaining her senses, Mary some how felt glad the woman had inter rupted her death plot. Then she glanced at the letters—there were two. She tore open the first, and a check fluttered to the bed. She read the letter; it said the check was In payment for one of her pictures. The other contained an unsolicited check' from her father. Fairly successful now, Mary still I lives In the garret. It has soma at i traction for her. ■ >— ■■ No. s—Manager and Publisher of Large Papers— —j LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS t , —Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist - ” Mt A leader in the fight against a state income tax in New Hampshire, Knox became a candidate for the Republican nomination for governor in 1924. 'He was defeated by 2,000 vote, by John G. Winant, wealthy young progressive Re publican, who now is chairman of U. S. social security board. —WORLD AT A GLANCE— A CANDIDATES PROBLEM Whether He Be Democrat Or Republican: MACHINE SUPPORT OR NO By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) President Roosevelt passes over his embarrassments in an easy manner. He made a “happy” speech the other night in New York at the Jefferson day dinner. It was a speech that “tied up” the agricultural middle west with the sidewalks of New York. It had to be a “happy’’ speech. For the agricultural west was not particu larly happy over the “prominent men” (as a glib radio announcer called them) who sat at the presi dent’s right and left. They smacked of Tammany. The president gibed somewhat at My NewYobk By James Aswell NEW YORK, April 30.—The death of Percy Hammond removed from metropolitan dramatic criticism one of the taiants it could least afford w lose. Urbank kindly and possessed of a rapier wit and sense of the sound and lilt of words, he was an orna ment to a department of journalism Whch for the last few years has nad tc do with many second-raters. Pai tic: ’.a fly in these times has he been a valuable stanchion against the rabble-writers, the propaganda play wrights, the nostrum vendors of the theater. He saw clearly and wrote lucidly: he asked that the theater present recogn'iable human beings In recognizable human situations, and when a play was less than fine his article upon it was often the mer riest and most memorable monument Hammond was not, like so many of his brethren, simply a playwright who had failed. He was a critic from the beginning and a very superior critic, as much an artist as any of the playwrights whose works he as sayed. I can think of no one the theater will miss more. Cynthia White is in these eyes the town’s most extraordinary press agent and promoter. A pleasant, plump, handsome lady in the middle years, she packs twice the vitality of Ruby Keeler and Eleanor Powell put together. Her piece de resistance each year is the Greenwich Village Ball. This season she made a special trip to Mexico in order to give the fete a new decor. The result was a carnival as Mexican as a tamale and as tangily seasoned No one got home while the sky was dark. Next day after a ball it is Cynthia s custom to hold her annual levee. Every celebrity of Greenwich Village and the uptown reaches pilgrims to her lower Fifth Avenue apartment, where she is fresh and gay with re partee as a debutante. Few callers are aware that she has not been tb bed all night in the performance of her duties as hostess for the ball. • • • It is a bromide by now that no New Yorker knows anything at all about this town ol his. The tourists quickly become experts and a visitor I once knew from. Minnesota used to delight in telling how he had direct ed a metropolitan cop lost in Uie subway mazes beneath Grand Cen tral. Sally Ellers, a New Yorker born and bred (to the age of six. anyhow) returned here not long ago with her husband, Harry Joe Brown, the pro ducer. They decided to find out something about New York for the flrtt time, so they went on a rubber-neck spree—the Empire State Building, Grant’s Tomb, Chinatown, the Statue of Liberty and the Aqua rium. The foray was so succesful that Sally has made up her mind to see Los Angeles and Hollywood in the' same way when she returns to the Coast. * • • I spept an evening not long ago in the company Os Henry Dennis, editor and publisher of the Henderscn, N. C., “Dispatch,”—and came away warmed by the thought that not much evil could befall a nation ih which the organs of news still have editors like him: sound, quiet, patrio tic folk who are not to be panicked or converted by the crackpots and pink-flag waivers. Living in New York you are apt to forget how many rugged, original mold Americans survive. It is good to be reassured. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, APRIL 30,1930 MF J Knox’s ability as a publisher had spread throughout America. Thus, in 1927, William Ran dolph Hearst engaged Knox as publisher of the Boston Ameri can and Boston Advertiser. Knox’s success was such that, after a year, he was named general manager of the Hearst newspapers. economists during his able campaign' talk—both workers and farmers found In the speech considerable sat isfaction—but listeners afar would rather that the president had been sitting with economists than with Tammanyites. Yet the president believes he must sit with such groups (or, rather, po litical machines) to win. AMONG THOSE THERE Among those on hand was, of course. Postmaster General James Far ley, high chief dispenser of jobs. Then there were James Dooling, Tammany chieftain, and Gov. James M. Curley of Massachusetts, plus a thousand or so Tammany lieutenants high and low. True, there were men there whose names meant considerable to the peo ple—such as Senator Robert F. Wag ner of New York, Gov. Herbert H. Lehman of New York, Gov. Wilbur L. Cross of Connecticut, Gov. George H. Earle of Pennsylvania, etc. There is no denying, however, that the sit ting down to break bread with the New York, New Jersey and Massa chusetts machines does no good in the country west of the Mississippi, or even farther east. The Republicans are in much the same position. A Republican candi date faces the fact that the utilities’ dominated Roraback-Hilles machine controls New York, New Jersey and New England (and perhaps the southern delegates) Republicanly, that the Mellon-Reed machine domi nates Pennsylvania, that the succes sors to the “Ohio gang” still dictate Republican politics in Ohio, etc. When President Roosevelt goes on his western tours and perchance passes through Chicago again, will he this time sit next to the Kelly-Nash machine—or Governor Horner? And in Wisconsin and lowa and Minnesota, if he goes into those states, will he break bread with the Democratic machines, or will he call to his table his real supporters, the Progressives? Both Democratic and Republican candidates have their banquet prob lems. Maybe they would be better off if they did eat with economists. » * • JIM CURLEY Gov. James Michael Curley of Mas sachusetts —who undoubtedly has been an embarrassment to the Roose velt administration—plans to become a greater embarrassment. He plans to enter the United States senate, taking the seat now occupide by Mer cus A. Coolidge, a sedate Democrat. Curley’s machine will crush any op position. Old families in Massachusetts have looked with horror upon the seizure of their commonwealth by the Curley machine. Every state office now is occupied by a machine member. Liberals are in agony. Free speech almost has disappeared from Massa chusetts. Yet here is one of the machines that President Roosevelt must de pend on. He would like very much to carry Massachusetts. At the mo ment he stands a 50-50 chance, chief ly because of Boston. • • • TWO OTHER STATES In Ohio, President Roosevelt seems to have made peace with the Gov. Martin L. Davey machine (under con stant attack for bad government) and in Indiana the Gov. Paul V. McNutt machine is tooting its whistle for the president Scouts say the trend in Ohio is Democratic and that Indiana is over whelmingly so. The United States remains a na tion of political machines—in both major parties. MB k One of the airmail stamps issued by Greece in 1935 is pictured above. The illustrations portray stories from the various Greek I mythologies. Knox continued in this position for three years (until 1931), then resigned and "planned to go into semi-retirement in Man chester, where he had built a house especially adapted to a troublesome throat ailment suf fered by Mrs. Knox. But, sud denly the Chicago Daily News came upon the market You’re Telling Me? AUTHORSHIP may not be as thrilling or glamorous a career as baseball, but name just one work ing ball player who is as old as George Bernard Shaw or H. G. Wells. • • » Never hurt the person you hate. That would make two hates grow where but one flourished before. • • • Just because a politician is im pervious to criticism is no sign he is a great statesman. All baseball umpires have that same knack, too. • « * The United States doesn’t believe in the monarchial form of government, but this coun try has more queens than any other. Every campus add 4P ple festival has one *''■ ■ - • ♦ " * Maybe there is hope after all — another European'country ha* held a general election, without benefit of machine guns. • • • Things are never so bad as they could be. For instance, you don’t have to be a member of the Philadelphia Athletics baseball team. THAT WOULD BE BETTER The warden of a prison was inclin ed to overdo the facilities for enjoy ment which he gave his prisoners. Despite numerous reforms, the con victs were still dissatisfied . “Say you guys,” he told them, angrily. “I’ve given you movies and baseball and everything else I can think of. What do you want now?” “Well, warden,” said a voice, “what about a cross-country run?” So small are ‘possum babies at birth that a litter of 18 may rest secure in a teaspoon. Contaminating The Whole Barrel < S2l > W " JjZ / r*w z ik d& A \ z-s Ob' , S A:. % ~; ■\ £smZ'> * / S-. tSsSHr. v ;>MMwfflS&L< k k. vffiPFMg* A?c x *!~ AMERI ■• Wf I lw ! W ® »/«' - WM<■ -yv tM V/ K Mr Knox did not have enough money to bid alone. He filed an offer with Theodore T. Ellis, New England manufacturer of press accessories. The paper went to Knox and Ellis. As publisher of the Chicago Daily News Knox has been an out-, spoken critic of the Roosevelt administration. THE END. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- SECRET “INVESTIGATION” Os New Deal By Hidden Forces ‘ WORRIES DEMOCRATS By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON; April 29.—Demo cratic party managers would greatly like to know what interests are fi nancing the unofficial investigation which unmistakably is in progress, and on a large scale, in New Deal activities of all sorts. Reports have come into headquar ters from local administrators in many different and widely-scattered parts of the country to the effect that they are sure alphabetical af fairs are being “probed.” There has been several inquiries here and there by the government itself, but this is described as being, apparently, a systematic campaign of “snooping” engineered by some out side influence. It would seem to be an opulqnt influence, too, considering the number of investigators it must lUve in the field, to ps complained of from such V multiplicity qf areas at once. • 1 ,>'■'4 • ♦ » AGAINST “NEW DEAL’’ Presumably the information which this supposed staff of inquisitors is gathering is to be used against the New Deal in the coming presidential and congressional fight. Democratic strategists take it for granted that it will be placed at the disposal of the Republican national committee in charge, respectively, of G. O. P. candidacies for seats in the senate and the house of represent atives. If so, it is assumed by the Demo crats that it will be used for basing charges of New Deal “skullduggery.” • * * “SINISTER”? New Dealers do not care to admit that they fear investigation, even by hostile investigators. All the same, they sense some thing sinister in this quiz. There is a mystery about it that worries them. Besides, they are conscious that a inj mSMKmMk llk3k MbMB! " ,' W ’’ ' «S2k . J|| raw fflM® lagftu , w v iOrt'**W x> I# - \JMM ? III HEHH He often u heard on the radio. battery of “alphabeticals” which has been spending money in billions in the last three years will be lucky if it can’t be revealed as having spent more or less of it unwisely, to say the least. They don’t enjoy the prospect of having a succession of such revela tions sprung on them suddenly, from day to day, as the campaign wags along. * * * UNCOVERED TOO LATE? The senate and the house of repre senatives do, indeed, have a commit tee each to investigate campaign practices, as the campaign progresses. These committees of course will be Democratically dominated this year. They may, between now and next November, discover what outfit in spired the current “snoop,” if any, and hold it to be unfair. But what good will that do?—if the snoop already has yielded results?— and changed votes, on the strength of its publicity? No good at all. * * • WHOSE CASH IS IT? The G. O. P. national committee/ to tell the truth, is not much sus pected. Not that the New Dealers don’t think the G. O. P. commitee has the disposition to investigate the alpha beticals or that it will hesitate to use any anti-New Deal stuff that investi gators may dig up, but they don’t believe that the committee has the money to pay for such seemingly in tensive an inquisition as this appears to be. Their notion is that fell: affiliated with the American Liberty league, the Sentinels, the Southern Commit tee to Uphold the Constitution or maybe members of the United States Chamber of Commerce or the Na tional Manufacturers’ Association are putting up the cash. It has the earmarks of an expen sive crusade, anyway. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD • Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press By CLARK KINNAIRD (Copyright 1936 Central Press Association, Inb,) Thursday, April 30; St. Cather ine of Sienna. 124th anniversary of the admission to the Union of Louisiana, the 18th State. Fast Day in New Hampshire. May Day’s Eve, a holiday in Preece. SCANNING THE SKIES: It isn’t a rule that the higher you rise in the air. or the further you get from earth, the colder it is. In many cases the air is warmer up to con siderable altitudes. These in stances are called “temperature Inversions”. Their existence was unknown and unsuspected until aviators began making weather ob servations. • • * NOTABLE NATIVITIES Franz Lehar, b. 1870,... composer, “The Merry Widow”, etc. . . . Jul iana, b. 1909, only child and heir ess to the kingdom of the Nether lands . . . Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.. b. 1898, would-be 'journalist and novelist . . . Homer S. Cummings, b. 1870, attorney-general of the U. S. . . . Mary S. L. Harrison, b. 1858, relict of President Benjamin Harri son. TODAY’S YESTERDAYS APRIL 30, 1789—The fiirst Presi dent was in fact what nearly every successor has been maliciously ac cused of being—a ‘WaR Street Pres ident. Mr. Washington stood upon a balcony at Wall and Nassau, clad in plain, dark brown suR with knee breeches a,.d whit's silk stockings, as ho took the oath' of office from Robert L. Livingston, chancellor of New York State. * * * APRIL 30, 1798—The Navy de partment was established. Benja min Stoddart of Maryland, the first Secretary, was a cavalry officer! * » • APRIL 30, 1803—The aforemen tioned T. R. Livingston, who had been sent to Paris to buy the city of New Orleans and obtain control of the mouth of the Mississippi, bought without autho”ity the entire Louisiana territory, comprising all or part of 13 present day States. All or nothing, said Barbe Marbois, acting for Bonaparte, so all it was; Mons. Marbois thought he made an excellent deal in unloading a lot of wilderness and savages on Liv ingstone for 27 million ddllars. • • ♦' APRIL 30, 1800 —At 3 a. m., on a Monday mor ring, locomotive No. 638 of the Illinois Central R. R., was rolling toward Vaughan, Miss., pulling the Cannonball' Express, and “All the switchmen knew by the engine’s moans that the man at the throttle waff Cas-*y Jones”. A freight train didn’t pull into a aiding fast enough, and No. 638 hit the rear end of it at 50 m. p. h. f Thus died John, Lrfther Jones. And thuj was bom*one of the best known American folk-songs “Casey Jones.” Living today are widow Jones, who never marrie “another papa on the Salt Lake Line”, and Sim Webb, Casey’s fireman. He jumped, was unhurt. Eudie Newton and T. Lawrence Seiberg wrote the popular song, basing it, however, on a spontan eous song Wallace Saunders, a round ho ..se-helper, used to moan about his good friend, Mr. Jones. FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 YEARS AGO TODAY—The main body of Irish insurgents sur rendered in Dublin. They could not cope with increasing numbers of British troops, the fire from the gunboat Helga, and the shortage of supplies. Patrick Tearse. “president of the Irish republic,” surrendered un conditionally, and wrote notices to the vari ms “commar dens” to fol low his example. By the dawn of May Day, the world wide day of revolt, they had. Much of Dublin now lay in ruins. In the struggle 17 officers and 504 British soldiers Lad been killed. 800 civilians had been injured, and 180 insurgents and innocent bystanders slain. Fifteen more were to die —before British firing squads, including Pearse, Joseph Plunkett. Thomas MacDonagh. Thenceforth, Ireland was the same as out of .he World War, but, nevertheless, a land of sudden death. (to be continued) IT’S TRUE At Geneva, world’s newshawks have often hung anxiously about outside midnight conferences be tween Litvino” and Harriot —to learn later they were talking A* bout Myrna Loy or Ginger Rogers. They both see all the American films shown in the League of Na tions city. Anthony Eden prefers the French films. It's prizefights hr America and bullfights in Spain. In Switzerland the big 'sport is cowfights. Beautiful but bright: Cleopatra spoke 40 languages. She knew all the answers, too, it sterns. The radio hasn’t produced any new jokes, but it has given folk* new preferences in.music. At Mr. Rockefeller’s Rainbow Room, in New York, at cocktail time, Brahm’s Hungarian Dsnce Nd. 5 is called for as often as Alone, the other leading request numbfer. At least 15,000 aliens who have entered the country illegally are apprehended in the U. S. each year. But think of the, ones who get away. A water spring was once form ally and seriously brought to trial like a murdere, or thief in Put nam county. Tenn., on tne charge of being undependable, and found not guilty The po.to, which was first in troduced into North America from Ireland (in 1719) really originated in South America, where it was a common item of food for centuries before. •• •" j