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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 _ T ** r Six Months 375 Three Months 2-1221222212222211 195 One Month 65 One Week .....22222121122 ’ls ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 1 , . 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 COST OF Passages of the Frasier-Lemke farm debt bill, calling for $3,000,000,000 in new money to bring about inflation in currency, Will be placed before the House on May 11. Democratic leaders of Congress have assured the nation that the bill is doomed to defeat. The nation hopes so—that is, the thinking part.of the nation. Briefly, the farm debt bill provides for dumping meaning less paper money into circulation, distributing it among the farmers of the nation to pay. off their debts and fixing the rate of interest at 1 1-2 per cent, plus a repayment of principal of 11-2 per cent. Sound prosperity has never been built upon false values. Inflation is just another word for false values. It simply means that a suit of clothes, for example, which, in reality is worth $25 will be stepped up to a selling price of SSO. A pound of meat worth 25 cents will cost the consumer 50 cents. - 1 It is obvidus to the observer that the fixing of an interest rate of 1.1-2 per cent, will do to those who have invested their money in sound enterprises and property at reasonable interest rates.. Worst,than ever, it will provide another avenue through which the federal government will compete with private enter prises. Not only will it affect enterprises, but it places Uncle Sam in the role of a direct competitor to the individual. The man who has a thousand dollars sunk in a first mortgage at 6 per cent, will find himself competing with Uncle Sam who offers money at 1 1-2 per cent. Inflation will be disastrous for the salaried man. The man on a modest salary—and their names are legion—-cannot hope for his employer to hike his pay to meet the increased cost living. Even if there be a few idealistic employers who might be ao generous, the employe will be no better off—he would sim ply handle more paper and receive no more merchandise in ex change. Shortly after the World War, Germany hit upon the infla tion plan as a salvation for a distressed monetary situation. The machinery at the mints were worked day and night turning out bales of paper money. In one instance, a newspaper in Berlin had to send one of its trucks to the bank to pick up the pay roll! Not until a frenzied mob invaded the mints and destroyed the presses was the fiasco of currency halted. The generation of yesteryear in the South will recall tales of their fathers who returned to a battle-scarred South, follow ing the War Between the States. Confederate money, bearing the portrait of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, had been used as a means of exchange at par value when the war started. As the tide of victory passed to the North, the barome ter of money values in the South approached zero. There were instances of a loaf of bread costing a thousand dollars in Con federate money. Those are fair examples of inflation. It will justly meet bitter opposition in Congress. LAUGH CLOWN, LAUGH. Invariably, the United States Congress has a clown. Some have been worthy of the title—others have been misunderstood. Senator Tom Watson, for example, was branded as a bombastic, blustering radical by his foes; to those whom he championed, he was a leader of unquestioned ability. Those who hated him, at least learned to respect him; those who loved him, loved him well. Then there was Senator Heflin from Alabama. Senator Hef lin continuously aimed his vitriolic oratory at the Pope of Rome, or, if fancy struck him, the Sultan of Turkey. Senator Heflin made good newspaper copy. Then came the dean of them all—Senator Huey Long. Sena tor Long entered Congress on a wave of protest, publicity and escapades. He was the newspaper man’s joy and grief. Long, however, was smart. He converted his headlines into power. Political factions learned to fear ihm. If it required circus methods to carry his points, he hired a calliope, rented a tent and barnstormed the country. At the time of his assassi nation, he was without a question, one of the strongest political figures in the nation. Experienced students in American politics stood by in amazement while this curly-haired master of organization mount ed from a Bath Sands Club house rest room incident to a recog nized candidate for the presidency of the United States. With these foregoing examples, the nation is beginning to wonder if the madcap congressman from the state of Washing ton, Marion A. Zioncheck is attempting to emulate the methods of Senator Long.* His escapades in and around the nation’s capital during the past ten days would serve as an indication. The big question now arises—if and after Congressman Zioncheck has attracted sufficient attention to put the nation on notice that there is such a person as Congressman Zioncheck—has he the brains to back it up? Is he a ‘Madcap” Congressman—or just another crackpot? REALTY VALUES. Awakening from a lethargy which has gripped them during the past few years, the investors of the nation are carefully watching the trend of the real estate market. While much of the activity may be credited to the federal government’s participation in the mortgage and construction fields, a careful analysis of the situation shows that private in terests are creating the larger volume of business. The masses apparently are becoming more home conscious; that is, an increasing number of people seem desirous of own ing their own homes. The carrying charges have become more reasonable; the outlook is bright for a drastic reduction in real estate taxation. The favorable term of years in which to liqui date the obligation all serve naturally to accentuate the desire to own and live in one’« own home. This splendid reaction from the inertia of the past few years is evident in every section of the country. It has been estmated that, on last Sunday not less than fifty thousand home buyers invaded the Long Island section of the city of New York, intent on purchasing new homes already completed, or to locate vacant property on which to build. The increased desire to own or invest has brought about a demand for vacant property which has been steadily gathering momentum. —.- bull Mooser Roosevelt— LIFE STORY OF COLONEL FRANK KNOX IN SKETCH STRIPS * ~ —Sketched by C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist- < 1 r- Wt sw L. ™ Chase Osborn, also of Saulte Ste. Marie, who had been trying for yean to obtain the Republi can nomination for governor of Michigan, viewed with interest the fights of Frank Knox, the young publisher at the Soo. Osborn saw in Knox a powerful •Uy. In 1910 Knox joined foreas with Osborn.. A com- < pl«te Progressive Republican ticket finally was nominated by Osborn and Knox in 1910. It triumphed at the polls. Atlanta —WORLD AT A GLANCE— STEiWER TALK GOES ON ♦. Behind the Pre-Convention Scenes THOUGH LANDON GAINS * By LESLIE EICHEL Central! Press Staff Writer AS THIS COLUMN remarked six weeks ago. wealthy powers that-be in the Republican party have “decided" on Senator Fred erick Steiwer of Oregon as the Republican nominee. Others pooh l|ooh this —but the wealthy pow ers-that-be still are for Senator Steiwer for president. John D. Rockefleler, Jr., is re puted to be behind the movement for Senator Steiwer. That movement may be too late, for Governor Alfred M. Landon of Kansas has been “cleaning up" on the delegates. If they “stay out” beyond the first ballot, Governor Landon will win the nomination. If not, Senator Arthur H .Vanden berg of Michigan may win. If he cannot, in turn, obtain a majority, the swing will be toward the “dark horse’’ secretly picked— Senator Steiwer. Senator SUlwer has this advan tage—both the big mcney men and Senator Borah could compromise on him. Senator Borah is not averse to him. • * • MANEUVERS There have been many back stage maneuvers preceding the rise of the curtain on the Republican convention. In that respect, this convention resembles the Demo cratic convention of four years ago. All that makes for an exciting play when the curtain does rise. Not In the News By WORTH CHENEY . (Central Press Assoliatlon) THE TEST of a man, someone once said, is his behavior in an emer gency. After receiving this story, sub mitted by a. New York reader, we think the same may be said of wo men. Our correspondent was riding in one of the New York city’s subways recently when the actions of a pret ty young woman, who was holding onto a strap, attracted his attention. The girl’s face was a portrait of dismay. She had just discovered that the lining of her coat was ripped and was hanging down below her ankles. As she picked up the bottom of the garment and gazed at it ruefully, oth er passengers in the car began to take an interest in her plight. But only one person, a young man, seem ed to think she might need help. He immediately stood up and offer ed the young woman his seat. With a smile for tne young man she ac cepted and sat down. Then she open ed up her handbag, extracted a small object which turned out to be a small sewing kit. With difficulty, due to the swaying motion of the train, she threaded a needle, tied a knot in the thread with an expert flip of her fingers, and set to work. She gathered up the ripped lining and coat bottom on her lap and the next five minutes she sewed with an adept hand. While she worked almost every passenger in the car looked on admiringly. This, indeed, was a rare occurrence in a subway, although al most everything else has been known to happen on one of the underground transits. Finally, when she had completed her task, a neat job of mending, she looked up. Suddenly conscious of their ill-mannered stares, the passengers scurried to cover behind their news papers. That is, all except one—the you ig man who had given her his seat. All through the needle operation the young man had watched the girl with intense interest. Then, when she had finished, he caught her eye. Grinning broadly, he looked down at ragged post of threads which once had held a button, and which now he was fingering purposefully. The girl gave him an understand ing smile and directed a question at him that was inaudible to other pas sengers. Evidently she had asked him for the missing button. Anyway, he rummaged through his pockets and finally brought forth the button, which the girl then proceeded to at tach to the coat while the other pas sengers looked on amused and chuck ling. But both man and girl seemed entirely oblivious to their stores. When the subway rumbled to a stop at one of the downtown stations they got off together. It looked to onlookers as the start of a. friendship, and perhaps, a ro mance. Who knows? Anyway, it was rather an original meeting. SAV^ >T "' ,TV ’ V 10% rwl Knox, however, continued to de vote his time to his newspaper business and to his post as chair man of the Michigan state cen tral committee. There he was when the great storm of Pro gressivism began brewing in the middle west, and‘President Taft summoned Knox to the White House to ask him to conduct the Taft campaign in Michigan. He replied that he would if Theo dore Roosevelt did not run. Eastern observers say that there is no question as to who is doing the most bossing. That person is J. Henry Roraback, Connecticut utilities magnate who directs from his office in Hartford . Charles Hilles, veteran New York political boss, works in concert with Rora back. Hilles has had another adept po litician C. Bascomb Slemp, of Vir ginia, rounding up delegates in the South. Thus Rbraack-Hilles- Slemp now have a bloc of 190 southern delegates foi “trading” purposes. The chief purpose is to stop Landon and o force through a “favorable" candidate. • » ♦ AND SNELL Choice of Senator Steiwer as keynoter of the Republican con vention is satisfactory to the groups opposing the Roraback-Hil les-Slemp combination in the con vention. But the choice of Rep resentative Bertrand H Snell of New York as permanent chair man of the convention is not to their tastes. Representative Snell is an ultra conservative who is in thorough agreement with the Roraback- Hilles-Slemp group. Furthermore, New York state is to have still another dominant figure in the convention—Repre sentative James W. Wadsworth, who has been mentioned for the vice presidential nomination. Wadsworth likewise is ultra-con servative, although a shrewd vote getter, and a tactician of consider able ability. Yes, the chief actors are putting on their robes. But who will play Caesar? And who will gain the up per hand as stage director? Some men would give a fortune to know. —And We Call Ourselves Civilized! '* 3 ' F Ik I But Knox was eager to induce Roosevelt to run. The colonel was iron in his refusal to throw his hat into the ring. Roose velt’s stand finally was broken down somewhat by Knox and others and Roosevelt sent Knox on a tour to sound out senti ment for the Republican nomi nation. There was considerable favorable reaction. Roosevelt finally said he would run if the demand arose. All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN By MARSHALL MASLIN “DON’T YOU LOVE ME ANY MORE?” There’s a guaranteed, tried-and tested formula for killing love . .%• or, at least, discouraging it. It isn't a secret. Millions of men and women know it and use it and can testify badly to its effectiveness. It’s merely a question, a sentence of six words. You look sad, or you sulk, or you whine, or you let a tear roll down your cheek and you moan: “Don’t you love me any more?” Say those six words and you ’put love on the defensive. You kill it 3s completely as Othello suffocated Desdamona with a pillow. You drive it away. You bore It to death. You change Love to Pity or to Contempt. Or you put it in chains it never quite gets free from again. Just these six words do that: “Don’t you love me any more?” These make ycu a beggar, a pite ous mendicant of love. These show you are desperate and afraid and that you believe can be claimed as a right, as a debt. Well, it cannot. You ask. “Don’t you love me any more?” and the man or woman who hears your pa thetic cry turns cold and shrinks from the appeal. The woman feels contempt for you —you are not manly, you are not strong, you are not Ivable then. The man despises you—you are too weak for him, you have no charm at that momenty, you are a clinging vine and he wishes you’d take your arms from around his neck. The answer to your cry may be, “Os course, I love you,” but even ycu can’t believe it. Love never uses that impatient, distant tone. Love speaks with a glance, with a touch of the hand and needs no trumpeting inter preter to announce his presence . . . And if he does, you may bring him back—but not with that beggar’s cry of defeat: “Don’t you love me any more?” It’s a wise politician who un derstands his own speeches. I [ROOSEVELT - IB i Sab I /sF FOR L Knox took T. R.’s message to the conference of Progressive gov ernors held at Chicago in 1912. The governors definitely wanted Roosevelt to run. What hap pened to most of the Roosevelt | delegates at the 1912 conven tion is history. The Taft forces won. Knox was for Roosevelt ’ to the end and the Bull Moose convention that followed saw him as chairman of the commit- i tee on credentials. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— SPEECHES OF F. D. R. Viewed In Retrospect By Democrats . RECEIVE FAINT PRAISE By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 2—President Roosevelt’s recent speeches have been damned with rather faint praise in politic'l Washington. It was to have been expected that Republican politicians would damn them, and they have done so with praise sufficiently faint to be decid edly below zero. However, very sotto voice, Democrats have done a bit of the damning, not violently, like the Republicans, but in a tone of mild disappointment. Not, they say, that the presidential speeches in Baltimore and in Ne’-’ York were otherwise than excellent, but * s ’.v were not quite as excellent as the Democratic critics had expected them to be. This is faint praise, as I interpret that kind of damnation. It is the consensus that the New York speech was better than the one in Baltimore, but even the New York address unmistakable is assessed as hardly up to the maximum Roosevelt standard. * * * TOO GENERALISTIC? The stock complaint of the presi dent’s oratory is that it deals too much in generalities—stuff that no body can dispute, but which does not guarantee anything specific. For example: In New York the White House tenant pointed out that rural and ur ban interests in the long run are identical. Certainly. But it is obvi ous that the farmer and the “city slicker” don’t feel that way about it in practice. How reconcile them? The New York speech left the ans wer to that question to the imagina tion. At Baltimore Jhere was a ringing appeal to youth to “stand by” for better times, but no explanation of the fashion in which times are to be bettered. « * * DON’T STAND ANALYSIS? Briefly, the political verdict is that, » ♦ A TOO GENERALISTIC? x ■ ■ CoL Knox on the stump while the presidential talks are won derfully inspiring over the radio, in print they don’t stand much analysis. And radio experts are beginning to whisper that the national chief exec utive tends to grow a trifle “stale" on the air. They don't profess to know exactly why. Maybe, they say. the listeners-in are getting used to him. The suggestion likewise is made that the White House suffers from the lack of a Louis McHenry Howe. The president’s late adviser was out of commlsion for months before his recent death. The slump, if any, in the quality of presidential utterances, post-dates the beginning of Howe’s final illness. Howe assuredly was not, in the literal sense, a “ghost writer", but he was was an extraordinarily as tute counsellor. He may not have known much of the science of govern ment, but he was a publicity man par excellence. • • ♦ • A PARADOX However, what of wr • The Democrats are confident that they wlil win in November, regard less of everything. This is not a mere claim. They honestly believe it. So does everyone who follows politics. The Republican management is in eluded. It hopes to gain a little, but not to win. And it realizes that Roose veltlanism has been gaining lately. It is paradoxical. Poor presidential speeches! Never theless. presidential gains- It loks like fate—or something. ♦ ♦ ♦• A "RATIFICATION MEETING” The Democratic convention in Phil adelphia simply will be a ratification meeting. President Roosevelt will be renom inated automatically. The administra tion doesn’t like Vice President John i,’ bufc b® ren ominated, just the same, to avoid any appear ance of discord. Republican conventions have artificially prolonged to prevent them from seeming too per functory. Democratic conventions, as in New "lork, in 1924, have dragged out unpleasantly. This time the Re b? hu C B a flM o ’?l entO C. ,n Cleveland must a a ” a PP® ara nce of a ciasn. The Democrats’ Philadelnhla convention must be dragged out to men f hilad ® iphla hotel and business men a run for their money. My New York By James Aswell Y ORK I May 2—Giving You the Run-Around: Up Riverside Drive. rhnS s had ow of the Rockefeller and painters be stir themselves furiously through these nrinn er r nO ° n ?' gettin « the Old Claremont Inn in shape for earlv opening . . . This eatery,' once so ex that you could hardly watch the dazzling panorama of the Pali a? 055 the Hudson for worrying about the check, is now a city°S b- a bit the tariffs wih oe a bit more moderate and I heai that a young orchestra kader has * l )'* d “he Clare expensive % lo °o 1s always -w bifor" • The~T On But ,S, 1 “ ke<i ‘hto y« r - “ r ° throu g h y ihe wuple or hundred thrusaAd W o/tff’L, 0 ® 0 ?® S ’ Kaufman, richest of t..e play doctors, collaboratorsan authors, standing in the lobby durmg 'azCC.—> Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD • j .Copyright, 1936, for this NewspaMr | by Central Press Association SUNDAY IS THE DAY Third Sunday after Easter, May 3: National Hearing Week. Constitu tion Day in Poland. Zodiac sign: Taurus. Birthstone: Emerald. NOTABLE NATIVITIES Edgar Wilson Howe, b. 1859, writer and editor. ... Sir Ronald Lindsay, b. 1877, British ambassador to the U. S. . . . Juliette Compton, Aline Me- Mahon and Mary Astor, cinemac tresses shy about telling their ages. • « • SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS May 3, 1493—A papal bull, issued by Alexander VI, divided all North and South America between two men, the kings of Portugal and Spain, without knowing that two new con. tinents lay between the boundary lines he fixed to settle an argument between the sovereigns. 75 Years Ago—President Abraham Lincoln called for 100,000 volunteer* for three months, to put down rebel lion May 3, 1932—Al Brown, alisas Ca pone, entered the federal peniten tiary at Atlanta, to begin serving an 11-year sentence for income tax viola tion, the only charge upon which America’s No. 1 murderer, bootlegger, white slaver, etc., could be convicted.' * * * ... FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY May 2-3, 1916—An official report issued by the Belgian government fixed the number of buildings de stroyed in the whole country by in vaders as 43,198 —at least half of them “set afire by German armies under pretext of reprisals.”- Belgium was a comparative zone of quiet now. Verdum was the axis of the battle line, but the German onslaught on Verdum had slackened because of air raids which interfered with lines of communications with stipply depots 'in the rear. The army attacking Fort Vaux received ammuni tion and re-enforcements over a rail road that ran via Cons lans and Metz. One night 17 French planes from Verdum flew over this line, dropping •0 large calibre shells, and returned unharmed. On another night 42 shells were dropped. And by day flying machines, for -he first time in history, were tak ing place in the actual fighting. When the Germans were bringing up a battery to shell Pepper Ridge a squadron dropped bombs upon it, kill ing 30 men and nine horses. With other horses frightened, the guns could not be moved and the men had to abandon them and run for cover. (To be continued Monday) IT’S TRUE Preshident James Monroe died so poor that he had to be buried at the expense of relatives. * * * President Harding’s favorite mu sical instrument was the zither and he used to Invite Rear Admiral Hugh Redman to come to the White House and play for him by the hour. • • * Sijce Thomas R. Marshall made the country aware it had a vice pres ident by saying, “What this country needs is a good five cent cigar," the number of five cent cigars sold has increased from 29 per cent to 88 per cent of the total. * * * Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom ed by Clark Kinnaird; address him care of this paper. You’re Telling Me? WHO SAID women cannot keep a secret! How many Lave told you their correct age? • • * And it is a much wiser politician who doesn't give any. • • • The modern world certainly holds many dangers for the pretty girl. She is liable to be come a movie or stage star, ad vertising model or the wife of a handsome, young million aire, * * * Commander Byrd’s Antartic voy ages were held too soon. He should have gone this year. Then he would have missed the whole national po litical campaign. • * * The real difference between failure and success in an office worker is that one watches the clock and the other watches himself. * * * Fame itself means'nothing. Whai counts is what you do to achieve fame. Remember, we’ve had cham pion flaglope sitters, marathbn dancers and hog callers. 3, play intermission the other night . . . His high, dark pompadour and horn rims gives him an expression of perpetual surprise . . . Legends flock ’bout his career, which has known amazingly few flops, and one of the iest anecdotes concerns his telegram, dispatched between the acts to a 'omedlan in one of the hits he wrote: “am watching your act from the back of the house. Wish you were here" . . There is no fan roundabout. like the baseball fan , . . His jay in vic tory for a chosen club is limitless, hl* nisery in defeat bitter . .He win io out to the park on a day of ley ’lasts—as he did by the thousand the other day—and-if his extremities suf 'er from frostbite he will light bond fires 'in the concrete aisles of the stadium . . Incidentally newspapers live baseball clubs which are, after til. private enterprises, more free ad vertising than any other business in he word, except, it may be the bus ness of the. various politician* . , , The fans demand it . . . jack White, he song-and-dance man, now whoop ng it up at Dan Healy’s all-night car avanserai. is certainly 'no world-beat er as an entertainer; yet I think the customers warm to him simply be cause. in a town of wild and uns trained baseball fans, he is the .wild st and most unrestrained .. . Used to ’ e a big leaguer himself ... As did lob Ripley, who retired from • th* liamond when he broke his hand, to nake a million dollars drawing car tOOXu>.