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4 Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at SOt EAST BRYAN STREET Cer. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter J uly 23. 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .. 7.50 Six Months -.-« u 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, Ina. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service World Wide Pictures 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 > ' By A. J. Buescher, Central Press Artist ■■ ... , g - tWwWiKw 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. * * * 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 TITk~~ | ICTQ “pL Is 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- NEXT! i I I I S I ) ill.. ■ t ’ It i. ijgak Ik fl -Ir /-Jr & iSct ujjl Axgk |S z&iSjagi i CE& jym [ ' I Gov. Landon making a speech 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- NOT—In the News COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION 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. iii IIIZ3I REEpy>/A Z' ~ 73/r t— <Mi $S ~*»— ■>■'<. / =TF- -»> I 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?