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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 Savanna h, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 375 Threw Months 195 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 HUNGER MARCHERS. Disillusioned hunger marchers of New Jersey, defeated in their quest to force legislation from the state’s assembly which would provide relief for dstressed homes, retraced their foot steps homeward Wednesday after a vainless seige of a week. Os course it is admitted that these frenzied people sought irregular methods to gain their ends, but hungry mouths and parents with underprivileged children can hardly be expected to observe the rules and regulations of good ethics. Men, women and children do not leave their homes and march upon the state capitol without reason. They may be all wrong in their procedure, but they are not wrong in their ap peals for aid when faced with the grim spectre of starvation. Humbly they filed out when they saw they had lost their cguse. The expected demonstration which might have been oc casioned when a resolution was passed by the Jersey solons or dering the marchers from the building, was not forthcoming. Instead, they themselves passed a resolution thanking the cus todians of the building for at least providing quarters and treat ing them kindly during their eight days conquest. New Jersey’s problem is not solved by the legislators fail ing to act. The problems which face the needy in New Jersey are parallel to those in other sections of the country. There must be some principle of economics which would meet the requirements of these people. As yet, despite the al phabetical bureaus of relief, that solution has not yet been found and those cOncientious men holding the power of government in their hands must continue seeking until they find that solution. DERBY DAY. Tomorrow is Derby Day. It is a day when the eyes of the world turn toward Kentucky. Louisville is, for this week-end, the mecca for the sporting world. All other events of competition are shunted to the back ground while society, politicians, convention delegates who find it convenient to gather “coincidentally” in Louisville just this time of the year and the boys who wear checkered suits and talk out of the corner of their mouths, brush elbows in the paddock to view the nation’s finest horses. The Kentucky Derby is, perhaps, the fastest sporting event that the world knows. Invariably it starts around 5 o’clock, Savannah time, and is over in just a couple of minutes. Then the winner—perhaps a favorite, perhaps an unknown, instantly becomes to the race track world what Jack Dempsey was to the ring, Babe Ruth to the baseball diamond and Red Grange to the football field. In tomorrow’s race, Brevity and Grand Slam seem to be the favorites. Predictions are that the track will be wet—and this means much to the professional and amateur gamblers who will wager a king’s ransom on the nose of their choice tomorrow. It’s a grand event—an American institution and one which revives memory of the old Southern gentleman with his Van Dyke beard, linen cutaway and a mint julep at his elbow. Long ipay it live 1 A GLORIOUS PAST. Savannahians, descendants of those illustrious Georgians who have defended the honor and safety of the nation through the pages of American history, will pay homage this afternoon to the Chatham Artillery upon the occasion of its 150th anni versary. No military unit in the United States enjoys a more colorful and historic background. The Chatham Artillery has taken an active part in every conflict in which this country has engaged ■ince its organization on July 4th, 1786. When the call to colors came in 1812, the Chatham Artillery supplied the War Department with a well-trained, courageous body of fighting men. So it was when the United States went to war with Mexico. When Georgia reached a parting of ways with the national government in 1861, the Chatham Artillery stood by the sovereign state, threw its forces into Fort Pulaski and heroically defended that post. The Spanish American War found this ancient organization ready for battle as they were when trouble arose again in Mexico. Its enviable record during the World War is well known to this generation. Contract Bridge PERFECTLY PLAYED AN ADMIRER of Mr. M. D. Maier, one of our ablest players, has just sent in a hand played by him, with the comment: "The late Louis H. Watson was partner of Mr. Maier, and stated that he never saw a bet ter played hand.” This is very high praise, indeed, as Mr. Watson was considered one of the five best players known in this country. As reported to me, bidding went: South (Mr. Maier}, 2-Dißmonds; North, 3-Clubs; East, 3-Diamonds, to bother opponents; South, doubled; East, 3-Spades; North 4-Clubs; South, 4-Hearts; North, 5-Dlamonds, merely shifting to the red suit the better sup ported; South, 6-Dlamonds, which was a very stiff contract. The opening lead was the 9 of spades. East’s 10 overtook. South’s Ace won. The Ace of diamonds was led, to try adverse distribution of the trunks. West and dummy played low trumps. East discarded his lowest spade, showing that West must win at least one trump trick. Evidently both sound Judgment and good Ipck would be required to make the small slam bid. The first thing was to rid South's hand of its dan gerous second spade. The K of clubs was led. followed by the 7, and won with dummy’s J. West followed suit with the 5 and 6, while East played the 3 and 9. Unless someone had false-carded West still held the < cf clubs which would permit South to rid his hands of its last spade. The Ace of clubs was led. East showed out, by discarding the 4 of spades. Declarer let go his last spade. The Q of clubs was led and declarer let go his lowest heart. West played his last club. As West hact originally held at least one spade, 5 diamonds and 4 clubs, the only guestion was what 3 unknown cards did West still hold. A spade was led from dummy and ruf fed with the 9 of diamonds. West followed suit with the 5. As Weet had led his highest spade and as all lower spades than the 9 were ac counted for West evidently still held, at the end of the seventh trick, 2 hearts and 4 trumps. That made the rest of the play an easy matter, now that South haci so ably conducted play up to that 'point. Declarer held A K 4 of hearts, and the K-Q-10 of diamonds, just one more heart and one less trump than West held. The Ace and K of hearts were taken, then West had to ruff the third lead of hearts. West could not avoid doing this. Having taken that single defensive trick, West had to lead from his J-8-7 of trumps, up to declarer’s diamond tenace, so that declarer finally made his apparently impossible small slam. GUARDS SELL PAPERS CHICAGO, May 1 (TP).—The smartly uniformed guards on duty at the Chicago Federal courthouse have turned newsbobsy. Usually, Richard Boehler, who is blind, supplies courthouse visitors with magazines and periodicals. Th-, blind salesman became ill two week? ago. •>— No. 1: Early Years —— Life Story of Senator Dickinson Told in Sketch Strips iy ■ -- - -- - By C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist ■ - * Senator Leiter Jesse Dickin* son, U. S. senator from lowa, was born on a farm in Lucas county, lowa, Oct. 29, 1873. His father and mother, of Eng* lish descent, had migrated to lowa from Ohio on a flat-bot tomed boat. The greater part of Dickinson's youth was passed on the farm in lowa. He was forced to walk many miles to the little red school house. —WORLD AT A GLANCE— TAX BILL NOT O. K.; Believed Unconstitutional in Some Sections; SENATE TO REWRITE By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) The tax bill will be rewritten by the senate becavs* many sections are believed to be unconstitutional. Fur thermore, the bill is so complicated that no one knows whether it will take in as much as present laws or more. It must take in nearly a bil lion more to be of any use. • • • NO INFLATION? Crashing security prices and de dining commodity prices seem to in dicate that fear (or hope) of infla tion has passed. That is not quite the case. A huge debt is in itself a form of inflation. At present, how ever, capital is frightened by the pros pect of punitive taxes. It is fright ened, too, by the ease that ’•Left” governments come into power—as in France. • • • IN 1940? There are many persons who be lieve that a Farmer-Labor coalition will win power in the United States n 1940—due to a failure of both Democratic and Republican parties to bring about fundamental economic improvements. It must be remembered, observers point out, that it is not only the citj unemployed, but the farm unemploy ed who are a problem. The United States has become largely a nation of absentee farm ownership. Wher ever that has occurred in the past, through the centuries, there has been a serious breakup. SOCIAL SECURITY Four years hence, also, our social security measures may be considered a failure. Few states have complied with the federal regulations, in order to participate. State legislatures are governed largely by forces opposed to social security. Proponents of the present measure assert that this opposition now may result in “drastic” measures later— against which this one will seem weak and watery. • • • STUDEBAKER’S BOOK Editors have been supplied for re view a book written by John W. Studebaker, U. S. commissioner of education. This small volume, pub lished by the National Home Library Association, is titled “Plain Talk.” In it, Dr. Studebaker asserts: "Today, democracy stands more than ever in a great shadow. In the midst of chaos and the complexities of a machine age, the people of many lands have forfeited the privileges of democracy for the paternalism of die tatorshp. A wave of despotism sweeps over the world in this hour of crisis. We are testing whether this or any democracy can solve the prob lems forced upon it. To us falls the historic mission of making democracy work. . . . "Let those who want to establish an intellectual paternalism to protect the people from what is considered dangerous doctrine advocate such control, not in the name of democ racy, but as part and parcel of a fascist program. Those devoted to democracy will resist such paternal ism and intellectual straight-jack eting. . . . Sally's Sallies ly-dIKT LEAVE \ . k ME A blank. ) (•/ • ? / CHECK, DEAR-J ? I’ll fill > C IT out ? • Few people realize the value of money until they’ve spent it all. SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 1, 1936 —-i - Dickinson entered Cornell college. Mount Vernon, la., to work his way through. He hired out as a farmhand to a neigh* bor, was a clerk in a hardware store, and after studying ste nography at night school he be* came secretary to the president of the college in his third year. He played football and baseball. In 1898 Lester was graduated with a B. S. degree. "If our (educational) profession be lieves in democracy, it must do its part in safeguarding our schools from the beginning of dictatorship. To me, that means vigorous and unit ed effort on the part of teachers anc patriotic American citizens, not only to thwart specific threats to academic freedom, but to improve our educa tion so that we may more adequate ly and competently meet the heavy demands which democracy makes upon its citizens for intelligent ac tion.” • • ♦ CREDITORS Depositors in closed banks, stock holders in both sound and bankrupt companies, are beginning to fight for publicity. These creditors have been treated as disloyal outcasts. Yet it has been their money which the of ficers have used and with which they have paid themselves handsome ly and made deals. Both the law and regulations (such as stock exchange regulations) have militated against the nivestor-credi tor. Insiders have obtained all the “gravy"—and still do. The chief revolt at present is within Wall Street itself. The con dition has been frightening money away. Thus, investment leaders are fighting to bring about publicity— and confidence. • • • ANTI-SOCIAL MILLIONS Some stockholders also are ques tioning the right of “their corpora tions’’ to wage anti-social fights to the extent of millions (of stockhold ers’ money). Disclosure before the senate lobby committee that large corporations had paid 80 million dollars a year to detective agencies to spy on work ers and to crush labor organizations has brought on an incipient storm. “Ah, Sweet Mystery Os Life” -LdlMI z ill z> xife (**•*’•* **L 111 kO / - II X-— At- 6 ffl 0 / /jrai z si« X 1 rSi s S •' I j? \ ‘ ' Ji.',*’ : 'I ■ - K'' WN/w Senator Dickinson speaking. You’re Telling Me? LONDON IS attempting to stamp out the cockney accent in its grade schools. The authorities probably have discovered American radio comedians are too much competi tion. » ♦ » French imperialists are at tempting to revive the empire of Napoleon. Other countries, too, have archeologists who dig up the ruins of the dead past. ♦ ♦ ♦ Denmark will probably enjoy a ireat influx of American tourist trade this summer. It has just been announced that a hotel in Copenhagen, the Danish capital, is piped for beer as well as water. ♦ ♦ * The louder a man insists he is right the greater, usually is his doubt that he really is. • • « U. S. Grant isn’t the only one who had to plan to "fight it out on -his line if it takes all summer.” How about the man who is trying to pay the bills incurred by his .'amily during the summer? • • • Indian college student turns author. Ah. the noble Read Man! ONE MINUTE PULPIT Yet a little sleep, a little slum ber, a little folding of the hands to sleep: So shall thy poverty come as one that travelleth, and thy want as an armed man.—Proverbs S: 10-11. Lay not up for yourselves treas ures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where theieves break through and steal.—St. Mat- I thew 6:19. —m —1 waj One year later, he received the degree of LL. D. from the Uni* versify of lowa. Dickinson set* tied in Algona, la., a town of 4,000, to practice law. He be* came popular among the towns* folk, and was appointed city clerk, a post he held for six years. This appointment proved , to be the starting point of Dick* inson’s political career. He al* , ways has been a “regular” Re* ****Miran. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- CONVENTION CONTROL In Spite of Steiwer’s Keynoter Post WON BY CONSERVATIVES By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May I—As pre viously remarked in this column, the Republican managers appear to have picked Senator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon as their Cleve land keynoter with a view to plac ating Senator William E. Borah of Idaho. But do they imagine that Senator Borah will be satisfied with a tea spoon of liberality in the form of Senator Steiwer in the keynoter's role in comparison with two whole tureensful of conservatism in the form of Representative Bertrand H. Snell of New York and ex-Re presentative John Q. Tilson of Con necticut respectively as permanent chairman and parliamentarian of the G. O. P. convention? If that mixture goes down with the Idaho statesman he is easy to please—and he hasn’t that reputa tion. • * * A MILD PROGRESSIVE Steiwer, to be sure, as also has been said before, is a very mild progressive and a close legislative and perhaps personal friend of Borah’s. But all that a convention keynot er does is to make the initial speech. The platform doesn’t have to fol low what he says. The nominee doesn’t have to be the individual he indicates. Generally the keynoter, the plat form-framers and the nominating Influences all are of one mind, but this time maybe it will be other wise. ' • * * MAY CAUSE SPILL If Steiwer makes a pro-Boran speech such managers as Repre- npu* K& Romance entered Dickinson’s life and he married Myrtle Call* of Algona on August 21, 1901. After the honeymoon the cou ple returned to Algona, where Dickinson continued his law practice. In 1909 Dickinson was elected county attorney of Kos suth county, lowa. He served for two terms. To Bo Continued sentative Snell and Colonel Tilson certainly will disregard it. That will cause a split. And if Steiwer is not vehement- • ly pro-Borah’s program the Idaho ■ solon assuredly will remain un . reconciled. Borah will be alienated in eith [ er case. He will “talk a walk.’’ That is what the G. O. P. man- • agers want to prevent. But the . compromise they offer? It isn't f much of a compromise. A weak j kneed liberal offered to Borah! An j ultra-conservative control claimed > by themselves! I♦ * * • ULTRA-CONSERVATIVES Congressman Snell? He is a likable old cheese-maker ! from Potsdam, N. Y. But politically and economically he is reaction i ary—not to say conservative. • His nickname is “Hard-boiled • Bert”. And the convention’s parliamen tarian, Colonel Tilson? The colonel is as likable as Snell, but he was leader in the house of representatives in the most ultra conservative days of G. O. P. con trol. Both are 100 per cent Old Guardsmen. Steiwer is 10 to 15 per cent a liberal —no radical whatever. ♦ * * CONTROL MACHINERY At the Republican convention? Steiwer will make his speech. How liberal it will be is problem atic. Then Representative Snell will assume authority. His rulings will be dictated to him by Parliamenta rian Tilson. If Parliamentarian Til son is momentarily off the job his place wll be taken by Lehr Fess, son of former Senator Simeon D. Fess of Ohio, one of the most con servative statesmen who ever sat in congress. Sons often are differ ent from fathers, but Lehr was parliamentarian of the house of representatives when (perhaps not because of the fact that) his fath er was a leader of the majority party in the senate. * * * A CLASH? All this is not to reflect adverse ly upon conservatism. But it seems to threaten a clash between conservatism and liberal ity at the coming Republican con vention. All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN NIGHT WALK CAN’T STAY inside on a night like this . . . Must go out and take a walk . . . Don’t feel a bit sleepy, even if it is late. This night’s too precious to waste in snoozing. Even a sleepy head must go out and see the moon and hear the night birds and feel the cool wind blowing against his face. Just half a moon up there in the clouds. . . . Not bright enough to flood out all the stars, just right. When it’s full you lose all the stars and that’s a pity because stars always stir the heart to mys tery and wonder. Even a cynic can’t look at the stars without be ing impressed and even humbled a little. Even astronomers, who know so much more about them than we do, don’t lose that natural primitive feeling about them . . . Lot’s walk. Blossoms are- all gone from the trees along the street. Leaves are out and each tree has a black and friendly shadow ... A bird in that « tree sings intermittently. His song isn’t exactly lovely, but it’s nice to hear a bird sii.ging in the night i . . . Here comes a little white dog, ; wagging his tall, sniffing. I know i you, you rascal, you’re the fellow ] that barks so loud when I’m try- 1 ing to sleep. Don’t bark at me—l’m i a friend. Most of the houses are s dark. People gone to sleep . . . « There’s a room where the light 1 was just switched off. Windows < are all up. They can hear my foot- i steps on the walk. ... A student j is studying up there in that attic < room . . . They’re having a party t in this big house. All lights on, ‘ c Today is the Day Sy CLARK KINNAIRD • Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press Association Friday, May 1; Feast Day of St. Philip and St. James the Less, Apostles; Child Health Day; Labor Day in Philippines; Arbor Day in Washington State and Wis consin. SCANNING THE SKIES: Day' light has a different meaning every month. The light from th whole sky is about eight times a great at 9 a. nr. on>a June or Jull morning as on a January morninj and the average June noon is sou. or five times as great as in Decern ber. •£ * • • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Kate Smith, b. 19p8, in Washin* ton, D. C., an eight-pound babj now a great big radio star ... Si Philip Gibbs, b., 1877, novelist wh used to be a newspaperman hin self . . . Walter C. Teagle, b., 187? oil magnate . . . Leila Hayms, b 1908. cinemactress. - • * • ’ .•:» TODAY’S YESTERDAYS MAY 1, 1638 —Charles I issued decree forbidding emigration < Puritans from England to the co ony in Massachusetts, “a breedin place of nonconformists and r bels.” The decree caused the detentio of a ship on which Oliver Cron well was to sail. So Cromwell ata ed home, and in the course • events became the man who cau ed Charles’ execution and becan his successor! MAY 1, 1672—Joseph Addisc was born. After he wrote the Sir Roger de Coverly papers, the Dr. Johnson said, “Whoever wishes to attain an English style, familiar but not coarse ,and elegant but not ostentatious, must give his days nights of volumes of Addison.” j 100 Years Ago Today—The first steamship to round the Horn, ths first steamship ip the Pacific, ths BEAVER, arrived at Victoria, B. C. 168 days from London. Sailing ships usually made the voyage in ’ faster times. t 50 Years Ago Today—The 8-hour j day was established as the stand j ard by organized labor. The Feder ation of trades unions which met in Washington the previous Decem ber, had adopted a resolution de claring that beginning May 1. 1886 eight hours would constitute a l ’ day’s work. T _____ MAY 1, 1898—The squadron com manded by Commodore George 1 Dewey, defeated a Spanish squad ron that was not match for it, in ‘ the battle of Manila Bay, and es tablished American naval power ; in the Pacific. „ 7 .A MAY 1, 1924—Adolph Hitler was ' sentenced to prison In Germany, ( for preaching Nazism. FIRST WORLD WAR bAY-BY-DAY 1 20 Years Ago Today—Great Brit- tain, France and Russia concluded a secret treaty partitioning Tur key. Russia was to get Constanti ’ nople, the Dardanelles, Trebizond. Erzerum, Bitlis, Vqn and Territory ■ in southern Kurdistan. France’s share was to be Syria, The Adana vilayet, and western Kurdistan. Britain's loot was to be southern Mesopotamia, with Bagdad. and two ports in Syria, Akka and Haifa. Russia agreed to incorporation of the “neutral zone’’. Persia in the British sphere of influence and agreed with France not to object to Britain’s annexation of Egypt. Already, in 1915, the Allies had agreed to large divisions of Austro- Hungarian and Balkan territory for the benefit of Italy, and Vien na’s politicians had taken it to a death warrant for the empire and its mere existence sufficient rea son for fighting to the bitter end. These were two of the secret treaties about which President Wilson knew before the United States entered the war, but which he declared unequivocally and un conditionally before a Senate com mittee in 1919, were a secret to him. too, until the Paris Peace Conference. (To be continued), * * ♦ IT’S TRUE There is an extraordinary sim ilarity between the sign languages I of Amerindians, Australians abori gines and deaf mutes. * * * Life is no more perilous" today than it was in ancient times. Com parative statistics show that where as suicides and accidents cause 9.5 per cent of today’s pop ulation to die violently, an estim ated 12 per cent died violently in ancient Greece and Rome. ** * ’ Kansas should never try to kid Californians about earthquakes. Tornadoes rage around northeast ern Kansas with greater frequency than any other section of the en tire world —lhere are an average of more than three a year. Torna does are notoriously more common in the U. S. than any other land. • * * You're wrong if yop believe cir cuses appeal primarily to children. Attendance figures show a ratio of 3.1 of adults over children! cars out in front—they’ll make a noise when they say. good night. Here comes a couple, youth and maiden, walking our way, close to gether, arm in arm . ... Don’t bark at them, dog, they’re friendly . . . Nice old couple live here. They go to bed early, get up early, work in their garden . . . Somebody’s sick in the next house. We saw a doctor going in yesterday. Knew him by his little black bag and the caduceus on his cay,. . . Well, here we are home again, doggie. Good night and behave yourself. Don’t do any barking . . . People want to sleep ... We had a good walk» didn’t we? • " 7.
