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4 Published by ' PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at SOt EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Bntered as Second Claes Matter J uly 23, 1986 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months , „ r _ 3.75 Three Months .—2 1.95 One Month One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Frees • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures NEW LEADERSHIP! It appears that we are rapidly approaching a climax in po litical affairs in Savannah. It is regrettable indeed that Savannah people as a whole do not take a more active interest in the political affairs of their community. Many critics have said that our populace is entirely disinterested in public matters; that they sit supinely down and permit a few self-seeking politicians to preempt the prerogative and the rights which belong to a free electorate. Thus it happens that the rights and privileges which were handed down to us by bur forefathers have been lost to the people by their own in difference. If the people themselves are indifferent to their own affairs they cannot expect others to guard their interests and certainly they have no right to complain when a professional politician exercises dictatorial powers. Many critics of Savannah have said that we are in a rut. That criticism cannot be questioned, and particularly must it be admitted when the impeachment is applied to political affairs; and if it be true of political affairs, it must be true of all of our affairs. A community which does not guard its rights, weeps for its privileges in vain. It has been said, and with truth, that one of the greatest needs of the City of Savannah and Chatham coun ty today is a political upheaval. There is a gentle stirring be neath the apparently placid tide of local politics. Could this gen tle ripple possibly presage the coming of a vigorous flood, a ris ing political tide with unpredictable strength and consequences? Rumors are whispered—is a climax impending? Certain it is that the whole nation, as well as this particular community, is imbued with a spirit of political unrest. There is a feeling of acute resentment against political trickery, as it is often practiced, and the callous disregard for the rights and wel fare of the every-day citizen. Out of a vigorous and energetic campaign it is possible there might grow political leadership of a desirable type; men capable of leading and directing the strength and the fighting spirit of our people in such away that the aftermath of the battle will see the dawn of a better day. EAGLES OVER ETHIOPIA. Haile Selassie 1., Conquering Lion of Judah and King of Kings, surrounded by his family and the imperial treasure, is on his way to Palestine on a British cruiser. Il Duce’s imperial eagles carry Roman civilization to the heart of Ethiopia with ma chine guns, bombs and poison gas. The world marches on. The League of Nations with its sanctions, its internal jeal ousies and dissension, tried a colossal bluff and failed. The de fiant Mussolini, flouting the league and its individual members, can sit back and wait for the next move. The British, with the headwaters of the Nile in Roman hands, sit atop a powder keg in Egypt as the Nationalists prepare for a plebiscite intended to throw the foreign yoke from the land of the Pharaohs. The end of the Ethiopian adventure leaves II Duce stronger than ever at home and abroad. The Italians bask in his reflected glory. Again Rome has defied the world—in the eyes of a people, mad with imperialism and drunk with power, the return of the ancient empire appears at hand. Like a boastful prizefighter, Mussolini sneers at Britain, flirts with France—and Hitler, also enjoying the fruits of a successful bluff, faces the Reich’s tradi tional foe across the river Rhine. That the British lion has lost prestige, there is no question. Mussolini scared the British fleet out of the Mediterranean. He laughed at sanctions, the British-sponsored answer to his inva sion of Ethiopia. He chased the Negus Negusti out of Africa’s last independent kingdom, penetrated the British sphere of in fluence along the border of Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. And now Italy is indignant at the British for daring to supply the fleeing King of Kings with a warship for his escape to Palestine. It have been so much more like the days of Augustus Caesar if the Ethiopian monarch, dragging chains, could have been marched through the streets of Rome in a revival of the ancient Roman triumph. The boon of European civilization is to be visited upon the savage Ethiopians. The slaves will be freed so that they can work for the Italians at a few cents a day. The proud barbarian will be tamed, bathed and introduced to the diseases of civilization. “Better 50 years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay,” wailed Britain’s imperialistic Victorian poet laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, many decades ago but his vision was myopic, his per spective distorted and he could not have foreseen the Europe of today. His smug, tight little British mind could not have grasped a conception so fantastic as that of a third-rate power like Italy in the role of a Roman eagle screaming defiance at the British lion. British imperialism in those days was not prone to naval displays, sanctions and other such childish bluffs. The elegance of Anthony Eden could not serve then as a satisfactory substi tute for the bark of British guns. The future of the League of Nations, like its past, promises to be futile and inglorious. Woodrow Wilson’s dream, dying a slow death since Versailles, is passing rapidly into the limbo of forgotten things. Who, unless it be Mussolini’s Teuton prototype, Hitler, dares defy the supremacy of the Roman eagle? Not Britain, certainly—her day to call II Duce’s bluff passed when Badoglio’s legions penetrated the Lake Tana region. The British have a habit of protesting while there is still time for a bluff in the international poker game. After the winning player has raked in tht chips, as Mussolini has done in Ethiopia, it is usually more convenient for the British lion to stop roaring and accept things as they are. Britain faces again the days of the first Bonaparte; how long uuUl the second Waterloo? —Miami Tribune. -WORLD AT A GLANCE- A FEW IFS AND ANDS By Stewart, Veteran Political Observer ON G. O. P. CONVENTION By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 7—The fact that Gcv. Alf M. Landon of Kansas undoubtedly will start with a plur ality of votes at the Republicans’ Cleveland convention doesn’t at all prove that he finally will get a ma jority, presidentially nominating him. He wil’ fall short of the nomina tion on the first ballot. He never may get as many votes subsequently as he probably will get the first time. STEWART’S VIEW Certainly he will get no accretion from Senator William E. Borah’s fol lowing. But neither will Borah get any ac cretion frem Landon. After that maybe Landon will pick up Knox’s and some other strength and oe nominated. But Landon is too conservative for the Borah-Ites and others. Perhaps these will swing to Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, who is not so progres sive as Borah, but more so than Lan don or Knox—and he will be nomi nated. IF ALL FAIL? There is considerable speculation among politicians as to who the Re publican vice presidential candidate may be. It is impossible to tell until the presidential candidate is chosen. If the agricultural west gets the All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN By MARSHALL MASLIN In the honeysuckle vine over the door a pair of bush-tits made tneir home. The bush-tits aren’t much larger than humming-birds, but their love of home is as great as the eagle’s. Tney are tiny things that travel about, after the nesting season, in bands of twenty or more and keep up a continuous chirping as they take their short flights from tree to bush and bush to tree. But they retire from merry society when tney raise their families and it was thus with these bush-tits over the door ,ln the honeysuckle vine near the little oak tree. Tney made their nest—of grass and cotton and bits of spider web—and hatched two tiny creatures from two pink eggs. You can imagine how they had worked over that nest. They spent three weeks in building it, and even after the brooding was under way they continued to put in improvements. T-en the babies were hatched and food had to be brought. All day long they foraged and fed, those wide mouths. Tnis was hap piness. Then came tne bluejay. Now, the bluejay has his virtues. He is brave, he is intelligent, he is gay, blue color across tile green of the woods. But nature made him a thief and a murderer. Tnrough no fault of his, you understand, but that’s what he is. And Mr. Bluejay saw this mild and gentle domestic scene and perceived the possibility of death and rapine. He came down to a branch of the oak, examined tne situation, then boldly ripped open the small home and carried away one of the children. The bush-tits cried and fluttered and appealed to heaven, but rescue was WILD DOG KILLS DEER FREDERICK, Md., May 7 (TP) The finding of a slaughtered white deer has spurred on the hunters of Western Maryland in a drive to free the woods of packs of widl dogs. The dogs have been rving the sec tion of forest aroun Frederick kill ing deer. The albino was the leader of the herd of deer —a snow white animal with a red streak down its back. Its death lent new vigor to the polishing of guns in the drive to rid the section of the wild dogs. SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK . by R. J. SCOTT ? 0 k X>r k COPYRIGHT. 1936. 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Writing to a friend of mine (Strick land Gillilan, the broadcaster) the governor says: “I have done my share of kissing the babies and waving the flag, but whenever I have been faced with the necessity of what seemed to be a vital issue, I have always done the thing that my heart told me was right, and such a thought always has been accompanied by the decision: “ ‘To hell with the votes; they'll take care of themselves.” “Participation in the Hauptmann case, which is considered so bad that even my best friends tell me about it, followed one of these decisions, and I have a deep and abiding belief that time will prove I was entirely right in the matter.” not at hand. The lady of the r-tm tried to frighten the bluejay away, but back he came, as boldly as be fore, and soon the small father and mother had no more duties to attend no more responsibilities upon their tiny selves. What happened then? ... I don’t know, but a man who knows birds more intimately than I do told me that those bush-tits made another nest, laid other eggs—more tnan be fore —defied that blue-winged squawk ing death and raised another family. You’re Telling Me? By WILLIAM RITT Haile Selassie ought not be too angry with the League of Nations which he thought would save his country. The league really does feel sorry for him. • * « The, weather bureau has a bal loon whicn will ascend twenty miles to record weather changes. That will be a big help—knowing what the weather is twenty miles above us. ♦ ♦ * An optimist is a fellow who fig ures that tne masts of those thirty eight new battleships Great Britain plans to build will afford just so many more roosts for the dove of peace. • • * There’s danger of warfare in the Orient, again. China and Japan have just signed another treaty. * • • Those Wall Street fellows never seem to know when winter is ended. We see by the newspapers that stocks have been on the toboggan again. * * ♦ The New York City anti-noise campaign must be a huge success. You now can hear the thunder during a storm. * • ♦ Max Scnmellng says he knows the right method to use in fighting Jbe Louis, the Detroit knockerout. How, Max? With a ball bat or in a suit of armour? ANOTHER SHOTGUN WEDDING ZkxXM' (i sufpos* A f \ <tz/ A AV-K 7 ItIMAVE ) / bO'TOU \ Zkl \ ‘ ror V I tak:ews j \ B TfeJ o & X ''- \ WOMAN,- > ' r J&h'- 0 W \etc. ? Z t A (WA /•> °WW IWSwW'm u 1\ - HR. <wßpf ifeJu NOT—In the News COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY QUITE APPROPRIATE in adver tising slogans, we think, is this one seen in the display window of a beauty shop: “Many a Bachelorship Has Been Wrecked by a Permanent Wave!” • • • CIVILIZATION HAS penetrated the desolate Sahara desert. As evi dence, one now can find gasoline filling stations spotted irregularly along the trans-Sahara highway. Fur ther evidence might be found in this tragic story which indicates that the natives have some knowledge of mod em business methods. A native operating one station in the interior was expecting a new supply of water. So certain was he that the water would arrive on the following day that one afternoon he agreed to part with the supply he had on hand. It was wanted by a passing motor ist. His drinking supply was exhaust ed and his car was badly in need of water. The native realized his des perate need of water, so he told the motorist he would have to pay for it. He demanded $1.50 a quart for the liquid, so precious then to the autoist. The latter protested, but to no avail, so he paid tre unscrupulous native and went on his way. Two d?ys later the truck carrying the water arrived at the station. It had been held up by a sandstorm. The attendant was not in sight. Investigating, the truckman found his lifeless body in front of the empty water tank. His tongue was parcred and Ids mouth dry. Death, they de termined, was due to thttst. THIS, ACCORDING to a lawyer . friend, actually happened: , A defendant in a burglary case, about to go on trial, was warned by 1 his attorney that he must be careful in his replies when he was cross- i examined by the prosecuting attor ney. He impressed upon his client that a good way to avoid getting caught up in his answers would be 1 to say that he didn’t remember. The hour for the cross-examination arrived, and the defendant was re membering too well the advice of his attorney. To every question of the prosecutor he was answering: “I don’t remember.” After several such answers, the prosecutor saw through the man’s game, an then began to pepper him with questions so fast that it left the defendant dizzy. But to each query re gave the same answer: *T don’t remember.” Finally, exasperated, the prosecu tor shouted: ‘‘Where are you now?” “I don’t remember.” ‘‘What do you remember?” ‘‘l don’t remember.” The prosecutor turned to the judge, who was hearing the case without a jury. “Your honor, the defendant seems to rave a failing memory. I suggest that you award him a five-year schol arship in a memory course at the state prison, and since de dose not even recall his name, I suggest that he be given a number.” The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. What is “Black Damp”? 2. Who is the present governor of Michigan? 3. What are the first two names of H. G. Wells? Hints on Etiquette When entertain mg at a restaurant the host or hostess srould arrange beforehand for a table, and make plans to pay the check in such a way that guests know nothing about the financial transaction. Words of Wisdom There is no refuge from confession but suicide, and suicide is confession. Webster. Today’s Horoscope Persons bom on this day are ideal istic and artistic, but do not find it easy to get within reach of their ideals. They try to carry everything through with a rush. One-Minute Test Answers 1. A term used by miners to de scribe the conditions of mine air when it contains a sufficient quantity of carbon dioxide to extinguish or dim a light. 2. Frank D. Fitzgerald. 3. Herbert George. A ROUNDEL OF REST If rest is sweet at shut of day For tired hands and tired feet, How sweet at last to rest for aye, If rest is sweet! We work our work not through the heat: Death bids us soon our labors lay In lands where night and twilight meet. When the law dawns are fallen gray And all life’s toll and ease com plete, They know who work, not they who play, If rest is sweet. —Arthur Symons. NEVER TESTED “Excuse me.” said the dear old lady, “do those tattoo marks wash off?” “Can’t say, lady,” replied the old salt. “Tve never tried. My New York By James Aswell ♦M I HHHt 4 8 041 »«♦»»+♦♦ (Copyright, 1936. Central Press Association.) NEW YORK, May 6.—Children and savages (it might be put “and other savages”) make the best picture per formers. This has been demonstrat ed so often in late years that the adult practitioners of celluloid strut ting are beginning to blush and feel a bit silly, when any tot from ‘six to ten can out-act them all over the lot. Perhaps the movie moguls were un wise to let the moppets have the rein they have enjoyed the last few years. The public, soon or late, will wake up to the fact that there is about as much “experience” and “art slowly mastered” in the success of a film magnificoe as in the process of diges tion. The art of making faces before a camera is a natural art. You have it or you haven’t it; but as you grow older you pick up self-consciousness and the soft life and rich food of Hollywood tend to make you less con vincing. Soon you admit, In the pri vacy of your Spanish villa in Holly wood Hills, that it’s not a rare trick or one that can be much improved. There is, notably, Miss Shirley Tem ple. Her screen emotions are as in geniously and convincingly portrayed as Garbo’s. What has she to learn? What can experience teach Shirley that she doesn’t already know about acting? And take the case of tnat amazing little girl named Benita Granville, who steals the sh'iw in “These Three.” She’s thirteen. She plays along with Miss Merle Oberon and Miss Miriam Hopkins, whose ages are certainly not great, but just as cer tainly not included, with the pub licity releases from their studio. Benita Granville has twice the fire, the sureness, the lack of tricks ana mannerism, the convincing fervor: twice the skill and the knack of her future sisters of the lens. In short she acts with the burn ing awareness of children and sav ages. She is magnificent. She makes her elders seem a little stuffy along side her, a little camera-conscious. Here is one of the most intelligently made and nearest adult pictures of the decade. Benita Granville, aged tnirteen. runs away with it. I doubt that she will ever be able to get across a truer performance. There ought to be a lesson in this. The lesson, if any, may be this: the art of the motion picture, where tnere is any art at all, has for its repohltory the skull of the directors. Good direction accounts for nine- t c nths of the first-rote pictures, and given good direction, Freddie Bar tholomew can send the picture of a flesh-and-blood human being across the screen as effectively as Walter Huston or even Charles Laugnton. But professionals in many fields like to give an air of mystery and im mense difficulty to what they do for fees. Lawyers write in a prose so prolix and high-toned with polysyl lables that if they wrote a no-tres passing sign you wouldn’t be able to see the farm behind it. Doctors scrib ble prescriptions in sinster Latin ab breviations. Professors, incapable of earning money, write sucn profound definitions of it that the politicians are dezzled to prostration. The adult motion picture stars had better have a core. The veil of mys tery and occult glamor about their guild is trembling. Every time Mickey- Rooney walks before tne cameras and wows audiences with the fidelity of his miming the veil gets a bad shake. If he can do it at his age, what’s all this bother about tne time and fierce concentration Paul Muni needed to be worthy of stardom? The film grownups had better start yelling for the romper roles them selves. People already suspect, from a single sample, that the Dionne quintuplets could put Bette Davis in the snade with a few thousand more feet to show their full talent. ONE MINUTE PULPIT For there is nothing hid, which shall not be manifested: neither was anything kept secret, but that it should come abroad.—St. Mark 4:22. Today is the Da By CLARK KINNAIRD < Copyright, 1936, for this Newgpajr by Central Press Association Thursday, May 7; Morning sta i; v enus, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter. Ee nlng stars: Mercury, Mars, Neptuie. Full moon. Scanning the skies: Most inters ing paenomenon connected with Mer ° ccaslonal transits over [ InnnH Sk SU “ ‘ DOTH K «. T hese OCCur onl y wben € pla ? et ls J? ear one of its nodes at the time. The earth, in its orbital revolution, passes through the line ° f tb ® Podes of Mercury about May 8 and Nov. io of each year. It is only near one of these times that a transit can occur. The periodic times an £ the earth ®re such l h < e translts are generally re- Peatef 1 I] ? » cycle of 46 years, during wheih eight transits occur in Mav si * November. The next tran ' sit is due Nov. 11, 1940 NOTABLE NATIVITIES Frank “Gary” Cooper, b. 1901 cinemactor. . . . Richard Walton Tully, b. 1877, dramatist— “The Bird of Paradise,’ ‘ etc. . . Archibald MacLelsch, b. 1893, poet’ . . AlfSd E W. Mason, b. 1867, English n™. Ist. • ♦♦ ♦ > May 7, 1774—William Bainbridge was born in Princeton, N. J., which he ran away from at 15 to become a sailor. Within four years he was commander of a sailing-ship, and he was only 22 when he became a cap tain in the Navy and began scoring more victories over the British than any other naval commander In his- May 7, 1812—Robert Browning was born in a London suburb, gifted equally as artist, musician and writ er and as drinker. The last was the only talent he inherited from his father. The old man, Robert used to relate, would become Indignant over being offered water to drink: “Water Y Or *’ a;hln & purposes, I be lieve, it is often employed, and for navigable canals I admit it to be in dispensible; but for drinking* Robert. God never intended it.” May 7, 1833—Birthdate of Johan nes Brahms, one of the three greatest compose™. He was set to playing the piano before he could reach the ped als, so he could help his father pick up a few thalers an evening playing dance tunes in Hamburg’s red-light district, and when he was only 14 he ’ began composing. Critics of his time recognized his genius, and to the con temporary public he was chiefly memorable for his eccentricities. He was addicted to trousers too tight and t 00 Short, never wore a collar, and like Scientist Albert Einstein, scored socks. May 7, 1915—The British liner Lu sitania was torpedoed and sunk off I Kinsdale Head, Ireland, by the U-20, and 1,195 persons went down with ’ her. One, Robert J. Timmls, came back' all the way from the bottom. ThA force with whch the ship settled into his grave knocked hm loose from the wreckage to which he was pinned 3nd clear of the ship Itself and he rose to the surface, to be rescued and to tell the tale for many a year after wards in Gainesvile, Texas, his home. Surviving today are 10 of the 36 deck and engineer officers aboard the Lusitania that fatal day. FIRST WARLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—lt was dis closed in London that the cost of the war to Britain had passed the $25,- 000,000-a-day mark. By comparison it was costing Italy $4,600,000 a day: Siberia and Belgium, $3,000,000 a day between them—all of it advanced by the Allies: Germany $16,000,000-a-day, Austria-Hungary $9,000,000 a day. These ratios prevailed until the end of the war. Incidentally, about the same time, ' it became known that the Krupp works had earned a profit of $32,000,- , 000 in 1915. (To be Continued) IT’S TRUE France’s Louis XIV spent 14,000,- 000 francs for one costume, but never took a bath. Well today any Tibetlan who wash ed from the day he is bom till the day he dies, is a freak. “Robinson Cruso” was first pub lished as a newspaper serial. One of the rulers of France issued a decree that no more than; 600 francs might be paid for any lady or gentleman for a pair of silk or lace panties. When Lyman and Charles Gilmore, Californians, applied for a patent on a flying machine, in 1898, ther pe tition was rejeected oh the - ground that that the device had to do with perpetual motion and a craft ■with out a ballcon couldn’t fly. Both women and men wear their hats in church in Holland. 1 A corba’s bit is harmles to anoth-- er cobra but poisonous to everythng else. Take our word for it. Queries, reproofs, etc., are wel comed by Clark Kinnaird. Factographs The famous horses of St. Mark, large bronze statues near the cathe dral In Venice, have eld positions in four cities. They were brought to Venice in 1204 A. D. from Constanti nople. Napoleon carried them to Paris as trophies of his Italian cam paign. After his defeat in 1815 they were returned tc Venice, but during the World war they were removed to Rome to safeguard them. ** * i Purple was the first dyed color to be fixed on wood and linen. It b* s been regarded as the royal color for centuries. Discovery of purple !»« been attributed to the Phoenicians and its origin is placed at Tyre, j No person is under legal obligation | to accept more than 25 cents in nick els or pennies as payment of a debt. According to the laws governing le gal tender, silver coins are legal Wi der for amounts not exceeding slo> whole minor coins, nickels and pen nies are legal fender for amounts up to 25 cents. A split infinitive is one in which an adverb is introduced between the word to and the verb form, such *• to healthily laugh. ;/