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A MINISTER SPEAKS.
Rev. John S. Sharp’s sermon Sunday, May 4th, on liquor
sales in Savannah are extremely pertinent at this time.
Conditions that exist in the city of Savannah today have
been brought about largely by the Mayor and Keynoter Myrick.
What better conditions can the Rev. Sharp expect in a city
headed by a mayor and a city attorney who campaign on a plat
form of law enforcement and when elected fail to carry out their
pledges, but to the contrary, license the sale of unlawful and
illegal beverages.
It is no longer a secret to the voters of Savannah that Key
noter Myrick and Mayor Gamble are fakers who have attempted
to play the gamblers and the churches at the same time. No bet
ter example of a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde has ever been played
than Keynoter and Gamble are now playing.
When a city has at its head a Mayor who accepts the gam
blers and liquor salesmen’s money for his election fund what
better conditions can be expected. At the same time he attends
all the churches and ask the members for their support at the
polls under the promise of giving them a clean city if elected.
A man of this character and caliber will soon be found out.
The Mayor of Savannah has the power to enforce the law
should he see fit, but how can it be done when this mayor allows
the city to sell the liquor salesmen a license to do an illegal busi
ness. The liquor salesmen have paid a high price to the city of
Savannah for protection and Mayor Gamble will not enforce the
law as long as he is allowed to carry on this shake-down racket.
Before being elected Mayor of Savannah, Mr. Gamble prom
ised if he were elected that he would enforce the law and give
the people a clean city.
The Mayor has attempted to pull the wool over the eyes of
the church people by having what he terms a clean-up campaign
which was a gesture to make believe that he was going to carry
out his pledges. Gamble drove from the city limits of Savannah
the slot and vendng machines. Yes, this was great news to the
churches but little did the people know the motive behind this
move.
In driving the slot and vendng machines from the city lim
its the Mayor has allowed a member of his official family to oper
ate slot or vending machines in a store within the limits of
his jurisdiction.
Mayor Gamble could not control all the gamblers in the city
therefore he has enforced the slot machine law within the city
limits and by doing this has forced those who wish to play
this type of gambling game into the county where the people
must play the machines that a member of his official family oper
ates at a handsome profit. The people in the city must not oper
ate gambling devices but it is all right provided
his official family operates these gambling devices and makes the
profit for themselves.
Mr. Mayor, if you allow your official family to operate gam
bling games within your jurisdiction, why not allow anyone who
wishes to operate the same type of gambling. You hav> no li
cense to gamble in Savannah 1
You allow whiskey to be sold in Savannah. Why try to fool
the people in the churches by telling them you intend to enforce
the law and at the same time license whiskey sales. Why not
tell the truth. If you wish to wink at the prohibition law tell all
the voters you do not intend to carry out your duties as mayor.
Do not lead the prohibitionist to believe you are go
ing to enforce the law and when elected do the opposite by sell
ing an illegal license.
The voters know that your city attorney, Keynoter Myrick,
in his skillful way has worded a license which you claim
is not a whisky license. It is an attempted legal shake-down to
do an illegal business.
We concur with Rev. Sharp that some of the people in Sa
vannah are without backbone and commend his sentiments,
AT LAST.
It is gratifying to the tax payers of the city of Savannah to
read in the local papers that Mayor Gamble has at last heeded to
the constant request of the Savannah Daily Times to make pay
ment into the city’s sinking fund.
According to an article in the local papers of May 4th, the
city has purchased $54,000 of 2 7-8 per cent, government bonds
at 101 for the sinking fund.
Even though tha above amount of bonds have been pur
chased, lowering the sinking fund deficit, the tax payers want to
know just how large a deficit now exists in this fund.
Mayor Gamble has been requested time and again through
the columns of this paper for a complete statement of facts as
to the condition of the city’s sinking fund, but this request has
yet to be answered.
Is it due to bad management of the city’s affairs by Mayor
Gamble that he will not give a true accounting of the condition
of the sinking fund?
Perhaps Mayor Gamble fears, should the true condition of
the sinking fund be known to the voters, his chances of re-elec
tion in December would be highly problematical.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
By MARSHALL MASLIN
The difference between giving a,
little boy a bath and giving one to
a dog is that the little boy yells to
stay in the bathtub—and the dog
whimpers to get out.
I gave our dog a bath yesterday
(though I’m not quite certain as to
whether I gave one to him or he gave
one to me) ... I followed all the
directions carefully. I drew luke
warm water into the laundry tub. I
staffed cotton in hU ears. I used
liquid antiseptic soap. I talked to
him gently and put him gently into
the water.
He whimpered, but took it like a
hero while I soaped him and lathered
him and then dumped him into the
water up to his ears and then lifted
him out to a table while I ran out
the dirty water and ran in clean. . . .
He was a very nice lltle fellow and
when I told him not to shake him
self he tried to obey. But at last he
decided that just one shake wouldn’t
i do anybody any harm. So he did it,
shook the cotton out of his ears an
shook the water all over the walls
and the celling. . . . Then I put him
In the clear water and soaked him
again and then I rubbed him down
i with a towel and let him head for
, the sunshine.
Never was a meaner dog in all the
> world. Those spots we thought were
I grease on his back came up as nat
) ural black spots. That dirty white of
No. 3: Business and Political Rise —♦
Life Story of Alfred M. Landon Told in Sketch Strips
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Alfred M. Landon, budding
young oil man, who had wed
Margaret Fleming of Oil City,
Pa., in 1915, rejoiced in the
birth of a daughter, Margaret
Ann, in 1917. Rejoicing turned
to sorrow in 1918 when Mrs.
Landon died. Then at 30,
Landon enlisted in the chemical
warfare service.
My New York
By
JamesAswell
NEW YORK, May s.—Now there’s
an alumnae organization for former
Ziegfeld girls. The scheme, which
probably originated in the brain of a
press agent, is not without its points.
It develops that a number of former
glorified gals failed to get their mil
lionaire, or, if they got him, he was
of the avenescent 1929 plate. As a
result, lean times have overtaken
some of the ex-cuties and the pur
pose of the club is the sweet one of
charity.
Meetings will be called to order ap
propriately in Messrs. Leon and Ed
die’s high-toned saloon. There the
beauties of the 1920 “Follies” can
listen to Eddie yodel “Rolling Down
The Mountain,” sip their mineral
water and decide with satisfaction
that the clockticks have been as dam
aging bo their sisters as they have
feared. Indeed, this is the only sort
of alumnae organization which seems
to me to make sense.
Al the others are just clubs to
mourn lost youth.
* • •
The problem of hecklers and row
dies in the theater is one you seldom
see discussed in print. Yet it is a
very real poser for mimes and man
agers here.
Some of the episodes are comic,
some distressing. Scarcely a week
passes but that a cash customer, ineb
riate or sober, doesn’t rise to put on
a performance of his own in competi
tion with that upon the stage.
At “Saint Joan,” starring Kath
arine Cornell, I saw a magnificent,
matron, elegant in mink, come near
stopping the show. She sat at the
rear of the house with her white
mustachioed Peter Arno “Cunnel”
husband and kept up a running fire
of comment on the performance. At
last she was induced to depart be
tween the acts by a self-conscious
policeman.
The husband excited a good ten
yards ahead with a “who is that
woman?" air.
On another occasion, during the
premiere of a wildly communistic
drama, two patrons down front fell
to fisticuffing because of their dif
ferent studies of pink, politically. In
all fairness the show they put on was
far more entertaining than the an
cient sophistries paraded on stage.
Once during the run of “The Tam
ing of the Shrew,’’ in which Alfred
Lunt and Lynn Fontanne starred and
in which Christopher Sly was enscon
ced in a box to heckle and cup up in
formally, adding verisimilitude to the
comedy, a bejeweled dowager arrived
very late. Christopher Sly ad libbing
gayly, made some remarks about tar
dy theatergoers.
The lady drew up to her full
height, transfixed him with her lorg
nette, shriled. “I like your nerve
sir I" and stalked from the theater.
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A spring ritual here 1* celebration
of beginning of the frog leg season.
Ben Riley, the restauranteur, is gen
erally credited with having introduc
ed the dish to America in 1897, al
though they have long been eaten
abroad. He also agitated until he got
a law passed prohibiting the serving
of frog legs from September 30 to
May 1. There is a $lO fine for every
pair served during that period.
“Diamond Jim” Brady, next to
Riley, did more than any other one
man to make the jumpers tempting
to epicures. His huge servings—two
and three orders at a time —public-
ised the dish throughout America.
Nat Goodwin, another celebrity of the
mauve decade, was an insatiable frog
leg eater. For Douglas Fairbanks
and Cornelius Vanderbilt, Senior,
they are a favorite repast.
• • •
Comment in the letter of a corre
spondent: “Writers are increasing so
rapidly in America that before long
they will outnumber the readers. It
is conceivable that some day writers
will ask reader* for their auto
graphs.”
his coat was transformed into snowy
white. . . . And that young dog was
the happiest felow on the block. . . .
Everybody was happy but the cat,
and the cat had the worst day in his
life. Mr. Pup thought he had to
celebrate by ragging the cat and he
kept on the cat’s trail all afternoon,
fresh and rampageous . . . and mak
ing a nuisance of himself.
We haven’t had any private con
versation with the cat but he prob
ably thinks that silly family made
an awful fuss over getting that fool
dog clean just once in his lifetime —
when all these years they’ve had a
cat in the family that never lets a
single day go by withaut giving HIM
SELF a bath. . . . That’s the way
it is! More rejoicing over one sinner
saved than over a thousand angels in
spotless flight!
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1936
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Commissioned a second lieu
tenant, he was stationed at
Lakehurst, N. J., until his dis
charge in 1918. Landon now
began to take an increasing in
terest in Republican politics.
He was adept as county com
mitteeman. In 1922 he served
temporarily for six weeks as
private secretary to Gov. Allen.
—WASHINGTOM AT A GLANCE-
TAX BILL IS PUZZLE
•And Likely to Prove Fertile Field for Expert,)
FEW UNDERSTAND
By Charles P. Stewart
’ WASHINGTON,” May—The Sen
ate finance committee now is wres
tling with the tax bill recently
passed by the house of represen
tives.
It is a safe bet that not a dozen
men in Washington understand that
the bill.
There are member* of the house
committee, which framed it, who
admit htat they do not understand
it. There are others who certainly
do not understand it, although
they do not admit it. The treasury
department, which inspired it, can
not explain it comprehensively. In
part it is mathematically so com
plicated that it has to be expressed
in terms of logarithms. Even as
tronomers confess that logarithms,
are puzzling.
As finally adopted, the program
assuredly will be a glorious thing,
however, for legal tax experts to
fight over, at fancy prices for their
services.
• « *
AN OLD RULE GOING
Abrogation of the two-third rule
at the Democrats’ Philadelphia
conventions as proposed by Nation
al Chairman James A. Farley,
with President Roosevelt's in
dorsement unquestionably will be
a good thing for the bulk of the
Democratic party in future. It will
not, however, be popular with a
minority element within the party.
A bare majority is sufficient to
make a presidential nomination at
a Republican convention, but since
early in the nineteenth century, a
two-thirds majority has been nec-
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essary for a Democratic nomina
tion.
This has enabled a minority to
vote the majority’s selection.
It has resulted in deadlock after
deadlock, forcing compromise af
ter compromise—unsatisfactory to
all concerned, and politiaclly very
weakening.
SOUTHERNERS LIKE IT
Southern politicians are the folk
who like the rule, because they
never have a majority at any con
vention but generally they can con
trol more than one-third of the
delegates. Thus, while they can’t
get all that they want, they can
compel concessions from the ma
jority.
Probably they will oppose abrog
ation of the rule.
Still, this is the time to get the
rule abrogated, if ever, the current
year’s convention will be unmarred
by a nomination contest of any con
sequence. Maybe the chance can
be effected without too much ill
feeling.
* <• •
GOOD STRATEGY
The selection by the Democrat
ic bosses of Senator Robert F.
Wagner of New York for the chair
manship of their platform-framing
committee in Philadelphia looks
like good strategy.
If there is any serious dispute
in Philadelphia it will be over the
platform.
For the renomination President
Roosevelt will be practically unop
posed.
There. may, however be consid
erate argument as to the sketch of
principles for the next four years.
Si O
He accumulated a fortune esti
mated at several hundred thou
sand dollars in the oil business,
and likewise became a farm
owner. It is reputed that he
never bought or sold stocks in
oil companies. He continued on
his own. He became- known
also as a good political or
ganizer.
The clash will be between
liberality and conservatism.
Now, Senator Wagner is a liber
al almost to the point of radical
ism. Yet he is a Tammany Demo
crat. j
The east cannot find much fault
with him—a New Yorker.
The progressive west approves
of him.
The south? Perhaps not so much
so. But the Democrats have the
south in their pocket, anyway.
♦ • »
G. O. P. ALWAYS FIRST
The Republicans are rather tir-
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Our colleague, Miss Virginia Lee,
who soothes aching hearts with her
wisdom in affairs of romance, be
lieves there is as much folly in a
hasty divorce as a hasty marriage.
We believe so too, after hearing this
sad but true tale of shattered marital
happiness.
George was an executive of a radio
station in a mldwestem city. A self
important, conceited sort, he never
theless was able to command a fair
measure of respect from his fellow
workers through his ability. But de
spite his ability and his executive
position, George never was able to
command much of a salary.
Eva was a small town girl who
went to the city and was smitten by
the bright lights. She liked the night
clubs, he liked the cocktail lounges
and she liked the theaters. She liked
to be on the go all the time.
She wasn’t the type of girl who
hould have married a poor man.
But she married George. George
liked the night clubs, too, and so they
haunted them frequently together.
But from the first there was trouble
about money; George wasn’t making
enough for that sort of life.
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In 1928 Landon was selected
by Clyde M. Reed to manage
his campaign for governor.
Reed was nominated. Landon
was chosen Republican state
chairman and the entire Re*
publican ticket won, along with
Herbert Hoover nationally.
To Be Continued
ed of having to hold their conven
tion first, with the Democrats meet
ing afterward, to take advantage’
of any mistakes the G. O. P. may
habe made, and scream about
them.
It would be better to have the
G. O. P. do the post-screaming.
Both conventions cannot be last,
howeber. Precedent prescries their
order. The G. O. P. can’t get away
from it any more than the Demo
crats habe been able to escape
from the two-tLirds rule, much as
they habe not liked it.
Eventually they were compelled to
settle down and stay at home nights.
Then the baby came, which gave
them all the more reason for staying
at home instead of gadding about the
night spots.
But they found home life rather
dreary and boring after their old
lives, a fire of restlessness burned
in their hearts. They were moody
and they fought. She accused him
of being a pauper and regretted the
day she had married a poor man. He
cmplained that she spent too much
money on her clothes, keeping his
nose to the proverbial grindstone.
If there had been more money
things probably would have been dif
ferent. But there was no money ex
cept George’s meager salary, So, be
cause of money, or the lack of it,
they decided to separate, and event
ually agreed on a divorce .
She went back to her old home to
get her divorce. He did not contest
It; he knew, as she, they never
could be happy, and why.
A year passed. George fell in
love again, this time with a widow
who had a small income from her
dead husband’s estate. It wasn’t
much, but friends wondered if her
Income was a factor in George’s de
cision to marry her. Anyway, he
did, even though his associates
thought him still in love with Eva.
When Eva heard about his mar,
riage she cried bitterly.
Then, a few weeks later, Eva re
ceived an unexpected Inheritance. A
forgotten uncle died and left her
1100,000 in cash.
Eva Is rich now—Eva the wife
who helped break up a home because
her husband wasn’t rich. But she
isn’t happy—she and her baby are
alone.
George may be happy with his new
bride, but friends doubt it. There
has been some talk about trouble over
money matters between George and
his new wife. . . .
You’re Telling
Me?
By WILUAM RITT
SHORT STORY: He hacked
savagely at the dense undergrowth
The tangled green mass seemed to
defy him. Weary and worn, he
gave up. “Dear”, he cried, “I’ll
never get all these weeds out of
this flower bed.”
* • »
There are two types of hus
bands. Those who boast they
are boss in their own home
and those who are honest.
• * ♦
A correspondent writes to tell
us about a major general who be
came angry because a letter he
received was marked “private’”.
Perhaps we would have
been better off, after all, if
grass really had grown in our
streets, as the G. O. P. feared
it would four years ago. Then
we pedestrians would have had
some means of hiding from
these mad motorists.
Though Spain has been a repub
lic for only a few years, just 30
per cent of those entitled to voted
in the latest Spanish election
What are they trying to do, ape
us Americans?
What has become of that
young fellow who used to stay
up all night? He still does—he
married and now they have
a new baby.
The new boy king of Egypt had
to quit school when he became
ruler of his country. That’s enough
to make any American schoolboy
wish this was a monarchy.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Press Assorts tion
Tuesday, May s—Primary election
day in California, Indiana and South
Dakota. Morning stars: Venus, Sat
urn Uranus, Jupiter. Evening stars:
Mercury, Mars, Neptune. ‘
Scanning the skies: It has been
customary to assume that' there are
seven colors in all manifestations of
the solar spectrum, including the
rainbow. Actually a pure spectrum
shows an indefinite number of color
graduations. Moreover, the colors of
the rainbow are quite variable. A red
sun at sunset or sunrise sometimes
produces a rainbow in which no color
except red can be seen.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Alice Faye, b. 1912, cinema cutie
. . . Freeman Gosden, b. 1899. the
Amos of Amos ’n Andy . . . Chris
topher Morley, b. 1890, poet, novelist
and anthologist. . . . Joseph P. Tu
multy, b. 1879, secretary to the pres
ident in Wilson administration. . . .
Sir Douglas Mawson, b. 1882, Austra
lian Antarctic explorer. . . .
• * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 5, 1600—Jean Nicot died, aft
er having won immortality as the
man who made tobacco-smoking
popular in Europe—under the im
pression that the leaves had curative
qualities! He made his “discovery”
while French ambassador to Portu
gal. There, when Oviedo brought
•ever the first tobacco plants from
the New World, it was regarded as
merely a kind of potted blossom of
no practical value.
May 5, 1811 —John William Draper
was bom in St. Helen’s England,
which he left at 22 to emigrate to«
the United States and become a phy
sician. An early experimenter in
photography as a hobby, he was 29
when he took the first photograph
ever made of a human face. The
subject was his sister, Dorothy Cath
erine Draper, who sat for six min
utes, the back of her head clamped
and steadied between two steel
prongs while fee exposure was made.
The fact that a photograph could
be made in only six minutes was
hailed as one of the greatest scien
tific achievements of all time, for the
earlier photos made by Daguerre and
Neipce es landscapes and objects had
required five or six hours.
May 5, 1818 —Karl Marx was bom
in Treves, Germany, son of a Jewish
family which embraced Protestant
ism. Founder at 29 of international
socialism and author at 49 of Das
Kapital, testament of Communists
and so-called workers’ parties, he was
never a worker. In fact, he never did
a day’s labor in his life.
May 5, 1883—Josiah “Uncle 81”
Henson died in Dresden, Ontario, at
86, after having seen the stcry of his
life become the best selling American
novel and play of all time. It was
upon an account of his adventures he
Rave Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe
that she based "Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”
In Canada, when he escaped vie
the "underground railroad,” he learn
ed to read and write at the age of 55.
became pastor of a church, finally
went to England where he was enter
tained as a distinguished visitor by
Queen Victoria.
Though the story about him writ
ten by Mrs. Stowe brought on a war,
when he published a story about
himself, it attracted no attention.
♦ * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Germans
took Hill 304 at Verdum. Glen Spring,
Texas, was attacked by Villa while
Pershing was in Mexico looking for
him.
♦ • •
IT’S TRUE
Alesandro Scarlatti and Francesco
Gasparini, Italian composers, carried
on a long correspondence by musical
compositions using tones instead of
words to express meaning.
Studies show a man trembles more
than a woman when faced by dan
ger.
Evidence both supporting and op
posing the belief that so-called chick
en-haws are the biggest roost robbers
Is pouring in. Mrs. Robert McCrtck
en questioned a statement here that
they weren’t, and now M. S. Calla
han says, "I was reared in those
knobs round about Monroe county,
Tennessee and many times I saw this
keep-eyed rascal swoop down like an
arrow from his hiding in fee tall
trees and swoop down upon the old
hen and her brood. He seldom failed
to carry off his prey, notwithstand
ing the frantic attacks and loud
squawks of the mother hen. I can
stil hear the distressed and waning
cry of that baby chick as the chick
en-hawk wafts his way back to the
tall timber.
A. B. Cooper that there are sev
eral varieties of hawks common to
this country, of whch the Cooper’s
end American Goshawk varieties
have well established reputations as
poultry-killers. But, as pointed out
by Mr. Cooper and also by Mrs. H.
R. C., the red-tailed and red-shoulder
ed varieties of hawks, commonly
known as chicken-hawks, were
shown to have been poultry-killers
in only a minority of cases by ex
aminations made of stomachs of hun
dreds of them. Out of 220 redahoul
dred hawks’ stomachs, only three con
tained remains of poultry, Mrs. C.
said, “The red-tailed hawk, a very
powerful bird, lives chiefly’ on frogs,
snakes, lizards, mice and insects. I
have seen them flying many miles
away from farmyards. The weasel,
or ermine, will devastate a chicken
cop, and even the pole-cat is a dan
gerous enemy of barnyard fowl.”
So the Justification for the evil
reputation of the so-called chicken
hawk is still in question. And so,
too, is the legend that the crow is
the worst enemy cf the corn-planter.
The bird Is blamed, apparently, for
the depredations in com hUls of cut
worms, May beetle larva and other
pests seklng the sprouting com in
the soil. Studies of crow stomachs
show larva and other pests predomi
nate over grain and friuts as food.
It’s the larva the crow is after in
the hill, not the ocm. The woodpeck
er is condemned by many persons be
cause it drills holes in trees, but it
is mining for larva which are ruin
ous to trees.
Are there no defenders tor the
clever crow, which makes an acmir*
able pet, can talk and count?