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The soundest investment Savannahians can make is real
•state. Parties may rise and fall—but land stands by as a staple
quantity.
Real estate is something that is bought for all time. It does
not vary to the whims of a stock market. Land is ‘ real ’ ’ prop
erty—it means that you own a part of the earth I One buys real
estate for all times—for his children, and for his children’s chil
dren.
It is but natural that the “hombre specie’’ buys a home for
the family first. Such civilization as we have is based on home
ownership; tha greater the number of home owners, the greater
the stability of government and the determination of its people
to protect it.
There can be no question about the value of Savannah real
estate. Savannah will always be a desirable place in which to
live—and a place where one would wish to see his children’s
children reared.
A FREE MAN!
Last Saturday, Savannah closed its registration books to
prospective voters. Those who had not yet paid their poll tax
and properly registered their names were, at the stroke of the
clock, without a voice in the federal or state government.
In a democracy, voting is a duty, not a right. It should not
be used as whim or convenience falls. It follows, naturally, that
voting should be directed not by personal motives, by feeling, by
the suggestions or the persuasions of interested office-seekers,
but by calm and unprejudiced appraisal of a candidate’s fitness,
of his character, of his dependability and of his record.
Citizens of Chatham county who have performed the first
part of ther duty by registering—-16,000 of them—surely have
the opportunity to judge these points for themselves. They
would not be entirely good citizens if they did not avail them
selves of the opportunity to make that judgment between now
and the time they are called upon to cast their ballot.
The Savannah Times has but one interest in the situation—
which is, that the best men possible be selected, that they shall
be honest men and free men, bound only by their obligations to
the people who have selected them; that they shall not be con
jerned with the effects of their actions upon themselves and their
personal fortunes, but only with the effects of those actions upon
the public welfare.
Snap judgment upon candidates, impulsive voting, morally
is as bad »s not voting kt all—if not worse! The voter who goes
to the polls unprepared to make his choice—a choice which in
his heart and his conscience against all clamor and persuasion—
>s a voter who falls short of his duty.
The voter who is influenced by workers—and, since the reg
istration books of Savannah have been closed and the voters
known, there will be many—by card-shovers, by petitions and
outcries that beset him as he considers his ballot, is a cit
izen lacking obviously in strong convictions and an under
standing of his obligations to himself, to a democratic so
ciety in which his voice should be of equal weight
with his fellow-man.
He is a voter who looks into the needs of his community,
his state and his nation—and who votes. He is a free man!
WHO WON?
Haile Salassie, the “King of Kings” has been forced to flee
from his imperial palace. It appears to the outside world that
the cause of Ethiopia is lost. Certainly, the entire defense of the
north African empire was built around one man—Selassie—and,
with him in flight, there can be but one result to expect—
native riotry!
It took the French twenty years of fairly steady fighting to
complete the “pacifying” of Morocco. And the Riff did not pre
sent nearly the difficulties as did the Ethiopians. In this land
which Mussolini’s Italians invaded, the mountains are
high, the terrain difficult and the elements of rain and impass
able roads uncertain. It is invariably overlooked by the average
person that modern weapons, such as big guns, machine guns,
gas and tanks, are only valuable on solid front. If one’s enemy
scatters, or vanishes, what good does it do to put down a bar
rage!
Italy appears to have won a war without being “in” on the
final scene. Barbarian natives of Ethiopia seem to have sensed
what was coming. With the II Duce troopers knocking at the
very door of their capital, they suddenly went beserk. They
burned their capital; sacked their emperor’s palace and turned
guns on one another in the streets. When the enemy arrived, they
found nothing more than a city that once existed!
Such is the strategy of native warfare! It will remain for
the historians of tomorrow to tell in their test books—“ Who
Won!”
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
IS DISCOURAGEMENT A DISEASE?
Ths longer I live—and there are
time* when I feel incredibly ancient
—the more convinced I am that dis
couragement is a disease.
Something like a headache or a
cold or an affliction like a pain in
the neck.
I'm not sure tht it comes from a
germ; that is, the kind of germ that
scientists grow In a culture and
smear on a slide and peer at through
a microscope.
But I do believe It's some kind of
germ that is just as virulent as a
physical germ and that multiplies
enormously in the proper kind of cul
ture —and can be killed by the prop
er kind of treatment.
Some men and women seem to be
borh with a natural, sturdy resistance
to discouragement, while others seem
born with a tendency to the blues.
The naturally cheerful ones can
be exposed to a host of misfortune
and agony and gri** without catching
anything at all. They are not callous
—ln fact, they may be tenderly sym
pathetic toward the ills of their fel
lows—but they are equipped with
spiritual self-defense that is invul
nerable. . . . But there are those
others, poor devils, who catch every
misery that creeps or flies or walks.
Oversensitive, highly Imaginative,
selfpitying, they are a fertile field for
woe.
This happens because they are self
centered. Everybody is that, to a cer
tain extent, but they are abnormally
so. Some human beings catch a cold
whenever they sit in a draft of cold
air; the miserable ones live in a
continuous draft of worry, apprehen
sion and timidity. ... No wonder
they get the blues. No wonder they
find it so difficult t throw off those
persisting attacks of discouragement.
I guess I ought to know ... I’m
• nttie that way myself.
' * No. 2—ln Congress- ■ *- ►
Life Story of Senator Dickinson Told in Sketch Strips’
C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist—" 1— ,
I IL3TA
Senator Dickinson became a
member of the Republican state
central committee of lowa, serv
ing from 1914 to 1918. In 1918,
near the close of the World war,
G. O. P. leader* selected Dick
inton a* candidate for congress
from the Tenth lowa district.
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—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
NO WHEAT “BREAK” SEEN;
Crop Failures Abroad Would Boost Price;
SURPLUS REMAINS SMALL
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
WHEAT PRICES are not elect
ed to drop far. Even if the spring
wheat crop exceeds expectations,
the United States still will have
a large salable surplus. In other
words, there wil be little overplus
for foreign sale. The price will be
governed by demand within the
Jnited States.
If Europe or Canada should have
crop failures, prices would rise in
he United States.
Such is the best available opin
bn
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SOLD INFLUX
Government financial advisers
are worried over the renewed in
flux of gold from France. That gold
adds to the excess reserves (at a
phenomenal height). And excess
•eserves, if they ever break the
dam, would bring about a flood of
nflat'.on that migl.t wip<, out every
real value.
On the other hand, gold from
France is a distinct liability. If
Frances does not devalue, or does
devalue and stabilizes, that gold
will flow back suddenly—and
American security values, bolster
ed by the inflow, will sink sudden
ly and rapidly, with the outflow.
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QUEER
Earnings of soft drink concerns
ire higher with liquor in than with
iquor out
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"SABOTAGE
Senator A ioyal Copeland of New
York broug.it out a serious condi
tion in answering charges made
by Senator Lester J. Dickinson of
lowa that people had been forced
t-' the extremity of eating dog food,
which contained contaminated pro
lucts. Senator Dickinson said the
toosevelt administration had fail
ed to enforce the pure food and
drug act.
Senator Copeland denied the
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 4, 1936
Dickinion wu elected and re
elected, serving 12 years in the
house of representatives. At the
Republican national convention
in Cleveland, in 1924, Dickinson
was mentioned for the vice
presidency. However,' Charles
Dawes was nominated.
charge, but asserted that opponets
of pure food and drug inspection
had caused a cutting off of funds
to such an extent that the govern
ment could not properly inspect
foods and dru s any more. It was
only a year or two ago that pre
sent inspection was declared
wholly inadequate to protect the
health of the people, and an effort
was made to pass a new bill with
teeth in it. That bill was sabotag
ed. largely by Republican opposi
tion, in a fight in which large sums
were spent by private interests.
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FASTER, YET FASTER
Railroads quietly have speeded
important trains, particularly ,ln
'he area between Chicago and New
York. Schedules have improved
nearly 30 per cent in five years.
Air and bus competition has caus
ed this . .
Although old equipment has been
made over, old type cars will have
co give way gradually to the new
lightweight steel type. Both the
public and operating officials de
mand this —but whence will come
the money? ... , •
Railroads struck a bad low dur
ing the last Christmas season and
the subsequent record-breaking
cold. They did not have sufficient
good equipment—and the public
registered its disapproval.
Since then, operating conditions
have been improved mightily—but
the public, even with reduced
rates, seeks newstyle equipment.
BUILDING OPERATIONS
Building permits are registered
the largest increases in six years.
Largest sums being spent for
new structures are in these cities:
New York. Los Angeles, Detroit,
Washington, Chicago, Cleveland
and Pittsburgh. In the last-named
place the main item was a permit
for a $15,000,000 steel mill. |
Los Angeles consistently has
kept its place next to New York i
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At/a political banquet.
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You’re Telling
Me?
By WILLIAM RITT
IF THE ITALIANS completely
conquer Ethiopia we hope Mus
solini will remember the old pro
verb Elightly revised: “Charity
should begin at Rome”.
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Women probably are known
as the weaker sex because
they weep when they are hurt.
While men only yell their pos
sibilities.
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A cynic writes that he has never
heard an important man say any
thing important. Os course not, im
portant men keep important things
to themselves.
* * *
What most gossips overlook
is that the human animal
never looks so dumb as when
he or she has his or her mouth
open.
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A whispering campaign defeats
itself because everyone knows that
in this country at least, the truth
may be spoken right out loud.
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Mowing a lawn, according to
a garden expert ,1s an art.
That explains why our lawn
mower is always so tempera
mental.
There are a great many customs
and superstitions centering around
the Luman tendency to sneeze. The
Greeks would go back to bed if
they heard someone sneeze while
they were dressing in the morn
ing Aristotle makes reference to
the belief that to sneeze between
noon and midnight was a lucky
sign, while among many other an
cient peoples a sneeze v’as an evil
omen.
for the last few years. Detroit and
spurts recently—chiefly because of
new residences Chicago’s suburbs
also are gaining.
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Then Dickinson ran for the son
ate. He was elected in 1930
his term expiring in January,
1937. In the 1932 Republican
national convention in Chicago,
Dickinson was the keynoter. Ho
became known as one of the
staunchest of the conservatives.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
SOME “BAD BREAKS”
Most Brought On By Disgruntled Democrats
DISCOMFORT G. O. P.
, By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 4—The Re
’ publican high command is being
laughed at by Democrats and bit
terly blamed by many Republicans
for having created a “brain trust”
of the G. O. P.’s own to aid the
national committee in formulating
a campaign policy.
There is a certain amount of in
justice in the charge that thL was
• a piece of rank stupidity.
The complaint all along has been
i that the Republicans haven’t had
an issue—that they have done
nothing except find fault with the
New Deal without offering a sub
stitute for it Now, when Chairman
Fletcher of the national committee
surrounds himself with a board of
experts, to frame simethng con
structive for him, his latest pro
i cedure is variously condemned and
• laughted at as a worse mistake
' than ever.
MISFORTUNE?
The Republican bosses are out of
luck rather than unintelligent.
They did not foresee that their
board of experts immediately
would be dubbed a “brain trust.’’
Maybe they should have foreseen
it. but, even so, they needed the
experts.
They are unlucky, too, in having
the uninvited friendship of certain
folk who are trying to help them.
They are not responsible for the
American Liberty League or for ,
the Talmadge Kirby southern con
stitutionalists’ activities. These
outfits undoubtedly are improving 1
President Roisevelt’s prospects, ]
and the G. O. P. committee cannot (
prevent them from doing so.
|LACKS"MASS APPEAL”
The Libertj league assuredly is
not a popular organization.
It has considerable money, but
what are i.s few millions in com
parison with the administration’s
billions in relief funds? It turns
out what looks as it it should be
an excellent line of publicity, but
it lacks mass appeal, somehow —
is addressed too much to the ultra
prosperous, possibly.
The league’s big dinner of a few
months ago. at which Al Smith
made his “take a walk” speech, to
day is Republicanly recognized as
having been a Roosevelt vote mak
er. It was an unpopularly swallow
tail function, for one thing, and
was widely so advertised. More
over, Al Smith has won the reputa
tion of a grouch; he isn’t the Al
of 1928 —and even then he was
beaten.
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A BOOMERANG
The Talmadge-Kirby group’s
scheme of broadcasting pictures
of Mrs. Roosevelt attending a
gathering of negroes promises to
turn out to be a terrible boome
rang.
It generally is agreed to, by Re
publicans as well as Democrats,
that Roosevelt will carry the
south anyway.
And in the north, where the ne
groes vote, it appears that these
pictures will swing black support
any white ballots. Parenthetically,
to him solidly, without costing him
there are big negro colonies in
cities like New York, Chicago,
Cleveland and St. Louis
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DISGRUNTLED DEMOCRATS
This anti-Rooseveltian bungling
hasn’t been done by the Republican
management.
It has been done, at the Repub
licans’ expense, largely by dis
gruntled Democrats —mostly so in
the case of the American Liberty
league and exclusively so in the
case of the Talmadge-Kirby ag
gregation.
The Republican bosses can’t be
accused of fat-headedness for the
blundering of the Liberty league
and the Talmadge-Kirby-ites.
They simple were unlucky.
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ANOTHER "BRAIN TRUST”
Business has improved, but un
employment hasn’t decreased ap
preciably.
President Roosevelt takes the
position that this is because busi
ness has gobbled all the benefit,
disregarding labor. <
The Republicans want to prove <
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With th* advent of the New
Deal, the lowa senator became
one of the severest critics of the
Roosevelt administration. Dick*
inson, thus at 62, found himself
mentioned as a “dark horse”
possibility. His home address
is Des Moines..
that business isn’t to blame. S<
Chairman Fletcher takes on i
corps of expects to demonstrate i
—and his experts immediately an
referred to as a “brain trust”, am
get the ha-ha.
More bad luck for the Republi
cans!
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A NEW SITUATION
The fact is. the Republicans an
accustomed only to being the dom
inant party.
Hitherto, even when they hav<
been beaten, they have not beei
beaten badly.
To bo “smacked down” is a nev
experience to them.
They do not know the techniqw
of being a minority.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, May 4—Rando
musing: I am thirty years old to
day ... It is not a great age, per
haps but it comes within a montl
of coinciding with the fifth anni
versary of these Caily scribblngi
about that rock that lies East of
the Hudson . . . Thinning hair
thinning illusions, they say, are th<
only thing you can look forwarc
to from thirty on . . But if onlj
the illusions could thin without the
hair! . . . Come tc think, there’s
an idea fcr the Broadway (and
Park Avenue) cure-all sellers: a
tonic which, rubbed in lightly once
a day, will keep your illusions from
falling out . . .
Was it Scott and Zelda Fitzger
ald who announced, early in the
Twenties, that they were going
to commit sucide at thirty? . .As
I remember, they advanced the
date discreetly and progressively
until finally they forgot about tha
pact altogether . . . Birthday
thought: when I was 20 I used to
read the department in "Editor
and Publisher’’ entitled “Shop-
Talk at Thirty”, firmly convinced
that the writer used this caption
because he was thirty years old
and therefore a symbol of abso
lute maturity . . . Later I discover
ed “30” was the mark with which
reporters ended their stories, signi
fying “Finis” .
And only yesterday a professor
this niZty first sentence in an ex
in a local high school showed ms
amination essay by one of his
students: “At thirty years of age
Rupert Brooke had been dead
three jears.” ’ ’ . Thirty is not
really a baa age; you are too
young to be sure yet that your
dreams will never materialize and
you are too old (unless somehow
retarded) to bob eve in Something
for Nothing which seems to be the
current Greenwich Village credo.
But enough of such Irrelevant
philosophizing: although I’d be in
sincere to claim, in a birthday Ran
domusing screed, that my musings
were elsewhere . . . I’ll tell you a
little story Instead, of the type
that, like most actual happenings,
it is too incredible ... I got it from
Albert Jkvons Crockett, the Ches
terfield newspaperman and pub
picist, to whom it happened years
ago . . ;
Crockett, impressed by some
eerie psychic occurrences follow
ing a death in hL family, decided
to write a book abi ut them . . .
News of the project reachedu the
ears of the man fur whom Crockett
was then working . . The man. a
high-pressure business executive,
wagged his head gravely and said
that he was 4ist~esed to hear that
his employe was going balmy . . .
If he continued with the book,
hinted the boj3, he would probably
end up in some institution, in the
basket-weaving class . . . Six
months later the boss himself went
crazy and h?d to be so confined!
. . . Crockett, on the other hand,
rem', ins today one of the sanest
on I know . . .
The book 1 e wrote, which creat
cd quite a stir when it appeared
circa 1920, was called "Revelations
< f Louise” . .
Today is the Day
c By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Association
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Monday, May 4; first anniversary
of the send-a-dime chain lettef ,
craze’s height. National hcliday 11 •
Scotland and Nicaragua. Iyar 11.
5696 J. C. Zodiac sgin: Taurus. s
Birthstone: Emerald. i
Scanning the skies: Most person!
prefer summer to winter, yet thre<
times more persons die of the effects
of heat than of cold!
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Harold Bell Wright, b. 1872, author
of two of the best selling American
novels of the last 50 years: The Call- f
Ing of Dan Matthews and The Shep- '
herd of the Mills. . . . Clark Kin- f
nalrd, b. 1901, historian and column
ist.
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TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 4, 1626—F0r trinkets wortl
60 guilders, Dutch got control of
- Island from the 40(
Amerindians living on it.
The surrender of the island for
such a price has always been r»
garded by' most as an amusing exam
pie of the stupidity of the natives
Actually, it is proof of the unscrupu) ft
ousness of the early European set
tiers, for the Amerindians were lei
to believe by sly Peter Minult, wh(
was a Prussian, that they were onlj
renting hunting and fishing rights.
Anyway, there are still 400 full-blod
ed Amerindians living on Manhattan
Island. Recently their chief petition
ed the mayor to establish a reserva
tion for them in part of the 40,004
acres of unoccupied land within th<
boundaries of the world’s largest
city.
May 4, 1796 —Horace Mann was
Io born in Franklin, Mass., destined to
a become founder of the American
it common school system. Until he was
, e 20, he himself never had more than
j six weeks of schooling in any one
year.
b May 4, 1796—William Hickllng
Prescott was born in Salem, Mass.,
where he continued to live during
the years he won his fame. He wrote
•e 16 thick volumes which are classics
a- without ever reading a word!
One eye was destroyed, another
■q made useless by a schoolfellow’*
n prank when he was 16 and a fresh
man at Harvard. Nevertheless h<
w completed college and chose to
make history a profession. Assis
tants read to him six hours a dav
ie the vast source of material which he
assimilated—memorizing as much as
50 pages of printed matter at a time
> l —and dictated into enduring ac-
counts of Spanish conquest in the
»• Americas. His first volume was com-
I pleted a century ago this year.
May 4, 1825—Thomas Henry Hux
ley was born in Ealing, England.
Like Horace Mann, he had little for
mal education. He himself said: “I
had two years of a pandemonium of
> a school (between 8 and 10) and aft--
er that neither help nor sympathy in
any intellectual direction till I
o- reached manhod.” When he reached
r . manhood, he had already begun the
career as researcher in biology whch
h was to make him an outstanding fig
i- ure in science. Like Mann, he exert
ed a notable influence on popular
' education, but he warred on scholas
ff tic methods which wearied the mind
r, in merely taxing the memory. He
saw physical training as most impor
e tant task of schools.
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y FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Germany:
made its response to the American
s threat to break off diplomatic rela
d tions. It informed Washington that
submarine commanders had been or
a dered not to sink merchant vessels
e without warning and without saving
a lives ,and indicated its willingness to
comply with U. S. demands in all re
.. spects provided Great Britain was
e induced to relax its restrictions upon
„ neutral trade. As long as Britain
’ tried to starve German women and
children, Berlin argued, the use of
8 the usbmarine in self-defense could
f not be abandoned.
3 Washington’s self-made Messiahs
f were not disposed to listen to reason.
> (To be continued)
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IT’S TRUE
i George Frederick Handel was
5 stricken blind while composing “To
I tai Eclipse,” based on blind John
Mil ton’s story of blind Samson!
The deadly king-cobra, poached in
‘ white wine sauce, is a 'favorite dish
in Siamese wealthy families. They
probably think it’s just as strange for
us to eat lobsters boiled alive.
r It took Thomas Gray seven years
- to write a poem, but Ben Hecht wrote
j a novel in 48 hours, and Paul Arm
j strong a popular play in one day!
> There are twice as many American
[ towns named for "Old Hickory*
Jackson as for George Washington of
' Abraham Lincoln.
It used to be fashionable in Eng
. land for men to carry muffs suspend
ed from the neck by ribbons.
Crickets are used as “watch dogs”
I in Japan. Kept in cages, they stop
chirping if a stranger enters the
dwelling in the night. The sudden
silence wakes occupants.
Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel
comed by Clark Kinnaird.
Factographs
The only species of parrot native
to the United States is believed to
have become extinct about 1906.
This species was vivid in coloring,
having green plumage, yellow
heads, red faces and blue and yel
low blotches on the tail.
Snakes can neither wink nor
cose their eyes. They do not have
eyelids, but their eyes are protect- ‘
ed by imm -able sections of the
outer skin which permit the eye
balls to move underneath and
which are shed when the snake
loses its skis periodically.
Giraffes have very poorly de
veloped larynxes, perhaps the poor
est of any four-footed animal, but
despite popular belief, they do
have voices, and are abla to utter
lowing sounds.
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The state of Indiana was one of
the fiist interior territories to P**
yisi'ed by white men. the explor
LaSalle having landed at what*
now South P<ud, ind., In 1679.