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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 tho Post Office at Sarhnnah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months ....1.95 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 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. --a —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 • « * 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. t ♦ * ♦ QUEER Earnings of soft drink concerns ire higher with liquor in than with iquor out • * • "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 TIME MARCHES ON! .A '' // ft I HOl f|llll ?w| M;'. Vi HI 11 I ter*** - SfeWk * I' igtew ’ J I • WSMr z rftSroMlp Sri' L [MMaaL 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. ♦ ♦ • 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 E ? At/a political banquet. —1 ■' ~, 1, , „ 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”. * * • Women probably are known as the weaker sex because they weep when they are hurt. While men only yell their pos sibilities. • ♦ ♦ 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. • • * A whispering campaign defeats itself because everyone knows that in this country at least, the truth may be spoken right out loud. ■•• • « 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. \ll 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. « • • 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 * • « 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. • « * 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 < 7~ — • "" Ol XW I 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! ♦ ♦ * 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 t• » , 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. * * * 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. d 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) r , 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. •• • " 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.