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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 802 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter J nly 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, 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 FOREIGN ENTANGLEMENT. Americans seem to have recovered completely from their hallucination that it would be a fine thing to develop the United States into a great colonial power. Congress has started the Philippines on the road to inde pendence. It has abandoned Uncle Sam’s policy of interfering in Cuban affairs. American marines are out of all such little republics as Nicaragua and Haiti. Now Senator Millard E. Tyd ings is agitating, with considerable prospects of success, for leg islation granting independence to Puerto Rico. None of the American experiments with foreign dependen cies has resulted in anything except heavy expense, tribulation and some danger to Uncle Samuel. The dependents have not liked their status either. Ever since the Spanish-American War the Filipinos have fought, physically or otherwise, for freedom. Cuba has resented America’s big brotherly attitude. Nicaragua and Haiti naturally have not en joyed foreign domination of their respective governments. For that matter, the Cuban, Nicaraguan and Haitian situations, President Theodpre Roosevelt’s grab of Panama from Colombia and President Wilson’s invasion of Mexico have rankled per sistently in the minds of Latin Americans. Puerto Rican independence seekers recently expressed their discontent by as sassinating the Yankee chief of police of their island. The Virgin islands have been a white elephant —of which there is little hope of ridding ourselves. In short, both sides have been bitterly dissatisfied. Uncle Sam’s interests and activities have been a constant headache to him. Nor have his dependent peoples fancied his methods of running their various governments. OPPOSITION FADES. Business men are asking why the opposition to the admin istration ’s tax bill faded so suddenly in Congress. Even the Republicans have not put up much of a fight. The reason is the election. “Share the Wealth” ideas which are much more radical than the Roosevelt administration’s tax bill are rampant throughout the country. Many contenders for present congressional seats have committed themselves to such ideas. Senators who have a fairly good knowledge of taxing methods oppose the administration bill (secretly) not because it taxes undivided profits but because it seems to be a bungled and con fused bill. Yet, the pressure of the electorate on one side and the administration on the other causes them to remain quiet. No doubt reduced income tax exemptions catching the large middle class—will follow the election. “RED” CONVENTION. An overly hard-boiled capitalism tends to breed radicalism in the masses. How it works has been strikingly brought out recently by an unmistakably pretty Red gathering in Washington coincident ly with disclosures before senatorial investigators concerning certain big business plans to combat future labor trouble. Senator Nye’s munition committee revealed, at least in part, the extent to which various large corporations have been laying m supplies of arms, ammunition and poison gases for their plants ’ defense in the event of strikes. Maybe they are entitled to de fend their plants, but they cannot expect their workers to view such preparations with complacency. Senator La Follette’s civil liberties committee uncovered something of the systems of espionage which these same con cerns have created to spy upon union activities of labor with in their respective staffs. So much for hard-boiled capitalism. The radical gathering included delegates, said to represent 150,000 of the proletariat, in 35 states; of the Workers Alliance of America, in close touch with the left-wing Socialists; the Na tional Unemployment Council, affiliated with the Communists; the Natonal Unemployment League, sponsored by the Trotsky facton of communism and several of the independent groups, all of an I. W. W.-ish complexion. Surely it is fair to say this was a ‘Red” convention. HIS SPEECH LIKED Some writers and radio commentators have remarked that President Roosevelt’s speeches in Baltimore and New York were not well received. On the contrary, reports from the country at large indicate that the mass of people received with satisfaction his remarks favorng shorter hours with the same pay and accrual of the bene fits of mechanization to workers as well as employers. Whether one agrees with Mr. Roosevelt or not, he does strike a popular reaction with his spoken word. The majority of people are satisfied with his general appeal. All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN FICTION STORY (With Truth In It) I KNOW a man who became home flick for the past. The more he thougrt about it, the more e convinced himself that the little section of te past that sur rounded Ills childhood was the most beautiful in »U time ... He remem bered how the family of which he was a part used to gater around the ceal-01l lamp, around the table that had the red cloth on it—and read and talk ... In the mellow light of the lamp the family read and talked and all of them* father and mother and children, were close together . . . It was pleasant to remmeber that family trougd the coal oil lamp and tre flame burlng brightly on the wick that wa» trimmed each morning, in the clear-glass chimney htat was washed and polished every day. He became a bit craay on te sub* s ject o fcoal-oil lamps They began, for him, to symbolize that lamp of Aladdin. If he had coal-oil lamps in his house instead of bnght electricity, and rubbed them every day they’d bring bacK the gentle past into his life and hold his family close to gether, forever ... So he dug coal oi amps out of various attics and installed them in his home and oom mande dthe family to sit around them and enjoy the past. They tried rard. But it didn’t work. The light wasn’t very good. He strain ed his eyes trying to read by it. One of the boys had to get glasses. Some times the flame smoked and tre smell was bad. Cnee he got coal-oil in the sugar bowl and the taste was terrible . . . And finally one night the lamp fell off the table and broke i and the oil spread and caught fire and the house burned up and then down. NOT—In the News ( *•• * * • COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY (Central Press Association Here is one of those true stories of sorrow and tragedy that might have been averted but for an almost fanatical obsession of. religious and moral principles In placing the blame for the sorrow, we have no in tention of berating the devout, and we wonder if you, too, won’t share our opinion as to the cause for the regrettable fate of the principals in volved It will be necessary, for obvious reasons, to keep hidden the real names of the parties involved. So we wil name the girl in the case Doro thy, since Dorothy is among the more common appellations. Dorothy, a sweet-natured, pretty Tirl of 16 or 17. was a student at a boarding school when she met an handsome but irresponsible artist al most twice her age. A chance meet ing brought on a romance which led to love and, finally a secret marriage. The daughter of a strict religious father, Dorothy was afraid to reveal her marriage to her parents. She knew her father would be opposed to an artist for a son-in-law, especially since he often had remarked about the loose lives led by artists, so she decided to wait until a tme more ap propriate. But she waited too long, for three or four months after their wedding, George left her. Her adolescent heart torn with grief, Dorothy returned to her par ents’ home. Somehow, she was able to mask the bitterness and sorrow in her heart, and her stubborn pride would not permit her to reveal her secret. • * * Sometime later the baby came. Her pious father was both aston ished and horrified when he learned the truth. But despite the legiti macy of the marriage, he feared dis grace and rebelled at the thought of a stain on the family escutcheon. Many a father might have decided to make the best of the unwelcome —WORLD AT A GLANCE— TRAINED MEN SCARCE Even Though Millions Are Jobless; DEPRESSION PENALTY By LESLIE EICHEI. Central Press Staff Writer THERE IS a shortage of trained men. Yet there are millions of men jobless. It was certain to occur. Organiza tions did not train men during the depression. Youth had to get along as best it could. The CCC camps help ed some —but were merely a begin ning. At both ends of life—youth and age—the United States is handicap ped. It cannot use vital, zestful youth became youth is untrained. It cannot lay aside older, womout men because there is no provision to take care of them. Any comprehensive plan is downed with the cry of “Socialism”, yet it is industry that is suffering the most because of this stalemate. * * * FARM PLANK The most important plank to be written into the Republican platform will be the farm plank. That be comes doubly true following the Illi nois primary. Farm districts ran up huge totals for President Roosevelt, although he was unopposed. • • • DIFFICULT POSITION Any farm plan adopted by the Republicans is likely to be as costly as the much denounced AAA. Other wise, farmers would not accept it. Thus, from now till election, criti cism of the cost of the AAA will be light. The chief criticism wil be that it was unconstitutional. There, again, is a quandary: Would any plan adopted by the Republicans be able to pass the supreme court? • • • QJUEER RULINGS The New York stock exchange is angering even its supporters. It re cently requested that corporations sub mit reports of 12 months’ earnings quarterly, instead of a simple state SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J, SCOTT COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION r 1* " r itsi *■■■■ ■ r" 1: Ats tfAUAM ROWING CREW V/HlcH -ToOIC PARrT IK <Ht RA CES AT OXFORD,ENGLAND, 1M 1932, Roweo from paviA. , i<ALy, emc;lamd, I —— lM 2.1 DAVS NATIVES svmr /X &jrs iN'fftE 15 LE fa • OF PINES ( CAH CL IMB \ ARCHER FISH A 100-FooT V v ft ** SHOOTS HIS PREY, • PALM -Tree wrfH A QUICKER <f(A!4 RAPID I to ten ... .« s. £-7 SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 6, 1936 situation, but not he. Many a father might have given his daughter money and alowed her to rear the baby herself, but not Dorothy’s fa ther. He decided on another course, one that was severe and unnatural. Despite the protests of the young mother .he took the baby girl from her, adopted her and made her a member of his own family. All this he did with the provision that the baby never was to be informed as to her true parentage. He was to be known as her father, and his wife as her mother. * * * Under bhs deception the girl, Mary, grew to womanhood, graduated from college, and began a career as a teacher. It was not until after she had passed the thirtieth milestone in her life that she found out. One day, by chance, she overheard two of her own pupils talking about it, one of them having been told the real story bv her mother. You can well imagine the shock bhat it gave her. And when the man who had posed as her father admitted tht it was true, she became furious because she had not been informed of it earlier in life. She left his home and never returned. The Tevelation left Mary so bitter that she retired to a solitary life, al most that of a recluse. She had no desire for the company of men, nor for marriage. Her friends are few and her happiness small. * * * It is almost ironic to note what happened to Dorothy. Mary’s real mother. At the insistence of her father ,she divorced George shortly after the baby was born. Then, a few years later, she broke the shack les of her father’s domination and re married him! But they didn’t live happily to gether ever after, as the romancers would have it. Their love turned to hate and their happiness to strife, and eventually Dorothy divorced George a second time. ment of earnings for the quarter, com pared with the previous quarter and with the same quarter last year. The corporation* gladly acceded. As a result, investors are up in the air. Even the Wall Street Journal re marks: “ . . the new style report either simply makes it harder for the stock holder and might-be-stockholder to find out the latest trend of profits, or it makes it impossible for him to do so.” The last report of the American Telephne & Telegraph company was unintelligible to the vast majority of its many thousand stockholders. * • • NO RIGHTS Stockholders of large corporations are learning they have few, if any, rights. Some invaded recent annual meet ings. They were treated much as if they were anarchists. A stockholder may complain at home of management, of large sal aries, of reckless spending—but he has no standing in a company meet ing. * • • CIVILIZATION? Harlan county, Kentucky, remains In the dark ages. But the mine owners charged with that condition live far from Harlan county. Thomas C. Townsend, counsel for the United Mine Workers of Amer ica, told the La Follette sub-commit tee of the senate committee on edu cation and labor of almost unbeliev able denial of free speech, free assemb lage and free political rights. How? Through “privately paid sher iffs”—paid by coal operators. These deputies, following the in structions of their overlords, threw 22 men into two six by six cells, in tended for four prisoners. , WRY ME NOT ON THE LONE PRAIRE-E I WISH— I WISH I didn’t have to wear glasses. I wish I had a deep bass voioe. I wish I’d been born a hundred years ago. I wish I could be bom again a hundred years from now (just out of curiosity). I wish I had detachable wings and could fly. I wish I liked spinach (but I don’t know why I wish that). I wish I had a phlegmaeic tempera ment. I wish my ears were smaller and my feet bigger. I wish I didn’t forget things. I wish I were six feet tall and had red hair (but not curly). I wish I didn’t have to shave. I wish the kids wouldn’t laugh when I try to do a graceful dive. I wish I could play the piano like Horowitz or Paderewski. I wish two hours of sleep a night were enough for me. I wish I could remember my dreams. I wish dogs wouldn’t bark at night. I wish I were a mind reader (and could turn the power on and off at will). My New York By 1 James Aswell ♦♦o ♦ 0 NEW YORK, May 6—There’s Lou fia. She s’a “reader” for one of the large circulation magazines. All the anxious authors in remote towns of the land, addressing their brain chil dren “To the Editor” are in reality addressing Louella. For she see everything first. She’s tall and has hazel eyes. She’s very thin and you can hear her com ing down the hall because of the clank, clank, clank of the costume jewelry, bracelets and earrings and heavy-duty chokers. She’s married. Her husband is salesman in a book store. Louela Is a bright girl and she has worked her way up from recep tionist in an outer office. Os course she can’t buy anything for the maga zine. All she can do is send a story up to one of the real editors, with a little aiip attached reading something like this: “Nice feeling here. This is the old triangle situation, but well told,” or "Violates the jealousy ta boo but so well done I thought you’d like to see it.” But she can reject. She’d be the last to admit it—she insists her greatest pleasure on earth is the ac ceptance of a story—but she also gets a kick out of stopping them. Once she sent out stories to all the maga zines herself. ''She never sold any thing. Now her hazel eyes sparkle greenly and her firm lip compress when she finds a story which has great promise in the writing but whch treats of one of the subjects magazines don’t tolerate. She sends it right back—with a rejection slip. She particularly likes to reject the stories of women. It is her secret conviction that women can’t write If course, some of them, by luck and, perhaps, politics, have wangled them selves niches as regular contributors. She never sees the work of these women. It goes straight to the big shots. Once or twice she has made “dis coveries.” Picked out things from the huge morning load of manuscripts that were accepted for publication. The first work of budding authors. It is the policy of the magazine to let readers who have made discoveries pass on the next few stories by that author. Louella usually sours on a writer as soon as she has helped that writer make a sale. The next story meets a cold and hypercritical eye. It is rejected, nine times out of ten. Otherwise the author is likely to get conceited and think anything he writes will sell. Louela is not malicious. But the scar of those years when she tried to , become an author herself remains. Being able to sit there in her cubicle • office and say, “Thumbs down on this one! Back she goes!” gives her a vague, pleasant sensation of Diety. She can blast a hope now just as neatly and firmly as her hopes were blasted long ago. Os course she knows too much about magazine publishing now to feel tht she really can hold back i anyone with talent. She used to think there was some “pull,” seme “inside track” to selling the maga zines. Now she knows better. But in her small way she has a great deal of power. Louela is a “liberal." She has not gratified her own dreams, so she reads “The Nation” and “The New Masses,”—publications which reas sure with the suggestion that fall- : ure on anyone’s part may be the re sult of some sinister plot by “the interests” or “the capitalist.” It is her particular delight to reject stories in which long-haired socialists are derided, even though thye may be entertaining and well-done. She knows quite a few other bright young readers on the big magazines who Pastimes For Child Suggested AN ACTIVE YOUNGSTER FINDS GAMES, RIDDLES VERY INTERESTING By GARRY C. MYERS, PH. D. Head Department Parent Educa tion Cleveland College. Western Reserve University. IN CASE YOU, mother, find time moving slowly with you and your active child from three to five years of age, some of the follow ing types of amusement may prove alluring and worthwhile to him. For each type you can easily make up many more samples, from time to time. Ask him: 1. Which is the heavier, salt or flour? (Maybe he will want to find out for himself). 2. Which is the bigger, ship or cow? 3. Which costs more, top or tricycle? 4. Finish this: “Little Bopeep—”, 5. How many bears in the story of Goldi locks? 6. Say ice ,rice, spice. 7. Which an run the fastest, boy, turtle, horse? 8. In what way are a newspaper and book alike? The make up riddles like this: I am thinking of something. It eats bugs and flies and worms. I can find it in the garden. It hops. What is it? Here is a captivating exercise for the child from three to five. Get several small cardboard boxes. On the side of each fasten an ob ject as nail, screw, match stick, pebble, piece of crayon. Then have a lot of all these objets mixed up in another larger box. The game will be to assort these articles into the respective boxes. The mental process involved is of a high order and the activity very fascinating. This game can be varied in all sorts of ways. You could set the games without boxes at all. The articles could be placed in piles on the table. Nevertheless, boxes make the game more interesting. Big brother or dad might want to make a specia set of wooden bins joined together for this purpose. For Older Child Jokes and onundrums are always interesting to the child of school age. Fortunate the child whose par ents encourage him in efforts at observing and expressing humor. What is more delightful than to hear a child of ten or fifteen freeyl and naturally expressing himself in the family conversation? Those who do have parents who under stand children and treat these children with deserved respect. For your encouraging letters to me and to the editor of this paper about my column, I am always grateful. Never do I consider it a hardship to answer personally all your letters, although I spend on the average a day a week doing so. have chalked up a god score in this division. She reads these publications at home with her husband, who is also a “liberal.” But when she goes on vacation alone, to Atlantic City, once a year, to rest and sleep and read she takes along a great load of pulp pa per magazines of the love and ro mance type. The magazine that gives her the biggest kick of all is “True Confessions.” She tears ’ off the cover at the newsstand. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD •(: Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper by Central Press Association Wednesday, May 6; 306 day, 160 year of U. S. Independence. 47th day of Spring. St. George's Day (o. s. calendar) in Bulgaria and Yug oslavia. Full moon. SCANNING THE SKIES: Smoke is of some benefit to a city. Smoke hanging over keeps citieß warmer in winter by as much as 10 de grees, it has been found. ♦ * * NOTABLE NATIVITIES Sigmund Freud, b. 1856, Vien nese founder of modern psycho analysis . . . Frederick William Hohenzollern, b. 1882, formei crown prince of Germany . . . Amadeo Giannini, b. 1870, Califor nia banker . . . Mrs. Elzire Legros Dionne, b. 1909, mother of the quin tuplets. * * * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS May 6, 1604—Sixteen years be fore the Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymouth, a company of Jesuits, soldiers, artisans, farmers and con vites led by Pierre du Guast, Sieur De Monts, came to Neutral Island, in the St. Croix River and estab lished the first settlement in what was to become known as New Eng land. So you’re wrong if you be lieve the Pilgrims were the first settlers in New England. In fact, John Smith had already mapped the coast of Main and call id it New England, before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth * * • May 6, 1758—The No. 1 French revolutionist, Maximilian Robes pierre, was born in Arras, of Irish ancestry. He was a tender-heart ed poet, who resigned an appoint ment as a provincial judge rather than sentence a guilty criminal to the gallows, yet as master of the Red terror In the revoution, he sant 1,200 persons to the gallows in two weeks! * * * May 6, 1840 —The first Adhesive postage stamp was issued in Brit ain. It was of one penny denomina tion. Previously, letters had to be imprinted with a hand stamp. The U. S. mail service didn't adopt them until after they had been widely used in the country by aprivately owned postal ser vice. For further information on Amer ican gummed stamps, Ralph W. Anderson, an inquirer, is referred to Louis Melius’ “American Postal Service.” * * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The first wireless telephone conversation be tween a land station and a ship at sea was conducted between the Navy Department, Washington, and U. S. S. New Hampshire, in a demonstration of one of the de vices developed in the prepared ness program of the Navy. An or dinary circuit was used in the land connections. Private concerns always take fche-v --credit for putting the United * States in the lead in the develop- • ment of wireless telephony and l broadcasting. Actually, the Navy was the leader. Wireless experi- ■ ments upon which it had been working for years, without notice, f were suddenly brought into the ; limelight by the preparations for the war which the Army and Navy knevr the U. S. was going to get into long before the public realiz ed it. (to be continued) > * * * IT’S TRUE The Crown Prince of Hesse, who hired out his soldiers at S3O a head to Britain to fight Americans in the Revolution, paid 3,000,000 thal ers for a wedding gown for his daughter, Princess Louise. It was so heavily laden with gems that it took 10 pages to carry the train. Less than one third of the Amer icans who engaged in the World War were volunteers. All John Milton ever received from his classic “Paradise Lost” was the equivilent of about SSO. The Oerro silver mines in Boli via used to be open to the public week-ends, and any visitor could keep all the silver he mined. The rarest of American coins is the 1804 silver dollar, because all oxcept a dozen or two of the mint’s output that year were shipped to China for Savy payrolls and the ship went down in a storm. An old law still in effect in Ham sin, Germany, provides that “not a pipe may play, nor a drum may beat,” in the street down which the legendary Pied Piper led the children. POEMS THAT LIVE “He’d Nothing But Hie Viofin’* He’d nothing but his violin, I'd nothing but my song. But we were wed when skies were bhie And summer days were long; And when we rested by the hedge. I The robins came and told How they had dared to wo and win, . When early Spring was cold. We sometimes supped on dew-berries. Or slept among the hay, But oft the farmers’ wives at eve Came out to hear us play; The rare old songs, the dear old tunes— » 1 We could not starve for long While ms man hath his violin, And I my sweet love-song. The world has aye gone well with us Old man since we were one— Our homeless wandering down the lanes It long ago was done. But those who wait for gold or gear, For houses or for klne, rill youth's sweet spring grows brown and sere, love an d beauty tine, the -i°y of hearte : That met without a fear h . en _ J' ou ha d but your vioMn |i And I a song, my dear. V —Mary Kyle Dalle* ,