Newspaper Page Text
PAGE FOUR
§fluanuWWtafi®uiK
Published by—
PUBLIC OPINION, INC.
PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY
at
302 EABT BRYAN STREET
Cor. Lincoln
Entered a* Second Class Matter J uly 'll, 1935 at th* Post Office at
Savannah, Georgia
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
On* Tear .............. ..... ..... ...... 7.50
Six Months 3.75
Three Months 1.95
One Month ... ....... J 5
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
WHY NOT MAKE REAL IMPROVEMENTS?
If, under the stress of conditions; if, under the flimsy excuse
bf giving employment to more men, that more good farm hands
may be induced to come to Savannah and become laborers and
Voters; if, city officials are to continue taking trip* over the
country at the expense of the taxpayers in search of more mdney
to be spent on questionable improvements, when present projects
have not been completed and it is stated that they are not em
ploying a full complement of workers, why not turn our thoughts
toward improvements that will be of lasting benefit to the en
tire community, city and county?
Why blind ourselves to what other communities are doing?
JWhy fool the people with promises of building overpasses over
railroad crossings that will not be constructed in the next five
jor ten years ? Why did Mayor Gamble time his trip to Atlanta
When the only people who could be of real influence were out of
the city? Why piddle after small sums from hired hands when
the proper thing to do is to go direct to headquarters—to Wash
ington—and request such a sum as will insure a permanent, last
ing, and much needed improvement for the benefit of all?
There is not a citizen in Chatham county but that realizes
the dangers of the present roadway to Tybee Island, its inade
quacy to serve the traffic going over it, and the dire necessity of
providing proper facilities for getting to and from the island. A
good start has been made on President street. Why not work
out a plan whereby this road may be continued on down to Wil
mington river touching the edge of Greenwich, which the city
has just added to its holdings; build a second bridge across the
river giving access to Oatland Island, then across Whitmarsh
Island coming out at a point about where the present road forks
to Tybee and Wilmington.
Such an improvement will be of inestimable value in open
ing up one of the finest sections of Chatham county. It will ma
terially shorten the distance to the entire section which it trav
erses, and will pay for itself in taxes derived from increased
valuations. From the point where it joins the present Tybee
road, this road may be, ap it must be, widened and raised beyond
the dangers of flood waters or spring tides. There is every reason
why the city arid county officials should join hands to bring about
a consumation of plans, arrive at costs, and then combine their
efforts to get the required funds. Miles saved to Uncle Sam from
a military point of view is also worth considering, not to men
tion the miles saved to the citizens of Savannah, Savannah Beach
and Chatham county.
TRADING IN SAVANNAH
The Savannah Daily Times has been very outspoken in its ef
forts to impress upon the people of Savannah the great benefits to
be derived by all in, so far as possible, trading at home. Loyalty
to one’s hoqge town, patronizing the home merchant, and giving a
decided preference to the products manufactured in Savannah—
by Savannahians. This is a sure index to the spirit of a com
muity. And it is this spirit that leads to progress and prosperity.
No city need expect to grow where such a stimulus is lacking.
That the Savannah Daily Times is largely due the credit for
forcing the administration to publish a new code for the City of
Savannah compels us to commandt the bold stand of Aiderman
Herbert Gibbons in raising the question, “Can al! the work be
done in Savannah?” It not only can, but, should be insisted upon.
|We have no interest in any of the parties bidding on the work.
Our interest is, the good of the city in which we live. We have a
number of firms splendidly equipped to do the work, printing and
binding. They have their investment in machinery here; they
pay licenses and taxes; employ skilled workmen to whom they
pay union wages and no part of this job should be permitted to
go out of the city where possibly scab labor may do a bad job
for a few cents less. Keep this job in Savannah or let us know
the reason why.
LISTEN, FOLKS!
-TO WILLIAM RITT—
NOW THAT the inevitable ques
tion of tho propriety of big league
baseball broadcasts being networked
to towns which have minor league
memberships has brought a ban pro
hibiting such widespread major league
airings a lot of headaches have de
veloped.
But in a sense, the move may have
eliminated a headache suffered by
the magnates controlling major lea
gue clubs. There really was no ans
wer to the pioblem of networked
broadcasts of their games for them —
until the ban took place.
The ban was the result of minor
league club owners protesting that
major league play-by-play broadcasts
by local stations wat competition they
shouldn't be, under strict interpreta
tion of baseball, forced to meet.
There is welcome gold in the sale
of broadcast rights to games for the
major moguls. But—ejery major lea
gue owner will freely admit that the
big time teams depend on the minors
for new material and that the minors
are an Invaluable training school for
youngsters.
So—since major league broadcasts
localised ware adding another bur-
en and a tough one to the struggles
of minor teams to survive, the big
tmle ball bosses could figure their
radio activities as eventually reacting
against the welfare of their teams in
the matter of new material. Besides,
a number of tig league teams, such
os the St. Louis Cardinals, own num
erous minor circuit teams which
might be sufferers from radio com
petition.
Therefore, it is easy to visualize the
big league magnates actually wel
comnlg the ban against broadcasting
their games through the smaller
towns.
The first presidential campaign in
which “campaign songs” were intro
duced, was in 1840, when the follow
ers of Harrison and Tyler added
much to the picturesqueness of the
race by the singing of ditties compos
ed for the occasion. In that cam
paign, there was another departure
—one, however, that lacked the last
ing quality of the song feature—and
this was the camp meetings at which
the virtues of “Old Tippecanoe” and
his running mate were lauded in
song and sermo»
• Life Story of Alfred M. Landon
/Agt
1
Alfred M. Landon suffered a
setback in 1930. Governor
Clyde M. Reed was defeated for
renomination in Kansas. Lan
don lost his own place as pre
cinct committeeman, thus being
forced out as Republican state
chairman. The Democrats won
that year, Harry M. Woodring,
now assistant secretary of war, -
having been elected governor., ”
NOT—In the News
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY I
We suppose there is no animal that
is more loved and more despised than
a house cat. There seems to be no
halfway affection for a cat; one eith
er loves the'animal, or just can’t tol
erate It in the house.
The Shepard family, which resides
on a farm in Pennsylvania, is one of
the group of cat • lovers. But it
wasn’t always so; at one time, Mr.
Shepard hated cats, and Mrs. Shep
ard couldn’t stand to have them
around.
That was before Plushie turned up.
Plushie was a gray angora cat, and it
was because of his thick, soft fur
that he was called Plushie. Mr. Shep
ard thought Plushie might have been
a pedigreed animfal, but he never
found out for sure, for he never knew
where he came from or how he got
there.
Plushie just) turned up early one
morning at the farmhouse. Mrs.
Shepard was cooking breakfast, when
she heard a crying meow outside the
door. She opened the door and
Plushie stalked in, as big as you please,
without an invitation.
Mrs. Shepard's first thought was to
get the broom and shoo the intruder
out of the house, but just then Junior,
the Shepard’s four-year-old son, came
into the kitchen. He saw the cat, and
with a cry of joy went over to him.
He petted Plushie and the cat brush
caress. Then, despite his mother’s
ed against the boy's leg in a loving
protests, Junior fed his new friend
and announced he was going to keep
him.
My New York
By
James-Asweli
NEW YORK, May B.—Manhattan
Medley: Katharine Cornell’s cocker
spaniel, Flush, who distinguished him
self in the play, “The Barrets of Wlm
pole Street,” celebrated his sixth birth
day with a party at the actress’ Beek
man Place home . . . Greta Garbo’s
new hospitality to the press has the
boys gasping; incidentally her tawny
reddish hair is curled, as in those early
pictures she made abroad . . . And
more people tried to horn in on the
publicity fireworks attendant to Miss
Garbo’s arrival than usually make
statements in connection with a fa
mous murder trial . . . According to
Fifi Dorsay, Greta’s intimates hail her
as “Gee-Gee.”
• • •
Now the pretty ladies on the up
pity dance floors are wearing long
scarfs, which are dandy for step-on
purposes . . . Fred Stone is willing to
admit that Hollywood has charmed
him utterly; he’s going to put his
Forest Hills mansion on the market
and move his residence permanently
to flicker land . . . Instead of closing,
the “Follies” will slice a dollar from
orchestra prices and brave the dog
days . . . Newest game to give draw
ing-rooms the sillies: names of well
known characters, living and. e’nd,
are placarded on the backs of— -y
--ers they must guess who laey
are. They can ask questions capable
of being answered yes or no . . .
First one to uncover his identity gets
the prize, the last pays a forfeit . . .
• • ♦
The best book about a city I’ve read
w r as Christopher Morley’s “Travels in
Philadelphia,” published some years
back ... He ought to do the same
for Manhattan . . . Russell Patterson
is packing a group of his best-known
puppet digplays to ship t London,
where they will decorate the foyer of
a night club . . . Patterson believes
no young illustrator can hope to grow
rich from his are in the future; the
field is too crowded and the artist
today must be versatile enough to
wrk in half a dozen media . . .
Besides racehorses, Bing Crosby has
a weakness for jack-knives . . . One,
in his collection, has 200 blades . . .
When Jimmy Durante goes to Eng
land for a vaudeville tour he will draw
about $5,000 weekly . . . What the
British income-tax dalle a tors won’t
do to that stipend! . . . The best
show —and a free one—roundabout in
in months was the lifting of the cen
tral span of the Tri-Boro bridge into
place, a piece of steel weighing 4.000,-
000 pounds . . . Only a few loiterers
paused on either shore of the East
River to watch the drama . . .
• ♦ •
Among the articles to be auctioned
off by the Police Department in their
unclaimed goods sale is a ninety-ton
schooner . . . Husbands with auction
conscious wives are nervous. Roman
tic job N. 51-A: that of the man who's
hired to go through one of the big
movie office suite? here, untwisting
telephone cords . . . There are still a
few monkey problem answers for those
who send a stamped, self addressed
envelope.
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 193«
si til
Hi,
If
I
Hi'
Landon quietly began solidify
ing the party and thus be
came the leading G. O. P. pow
er in the state. In the mean
time, in January, 1930, he wed
for a second time—twelve years
after the death of his first wife.
His bride was Miss Theo Cobb
of Topeka, Kas. Two children
- were born, Nancy Josephine, in,
1933, and John Cobb, in 1934.
Mother disliked cats, bub she did nod
want to disappoint Junior. So sht
decided bo let the cat stay for a while
and thought they could get rid oi
him later without Junior knowing
anything about it.. But a little later
that very same mofrnmg she changed
her mind.
* * *
Junior had been in the habit ol
teasing the chickens. And there was
one old hen in particular that hs
liked to tease. This old hen always
got so angry when he pulled her tail
leathers.
That morning Junior went out to
the barnyard and by his side trailed
his new friend, Plushie. The chick
ens were scratching in the dirt and
Junior spied the old, fussy hen. He
crept up and grabbed her by the tail
and witb a loud and angry cackle
s/he sprang away from him, minus a
few feathers.
Junior thought it was fun. He
leaped after her and cornered her
between the barn and a fence. This
time the hen didn’t try to get away;
she turned and faced her foe, pre
pared to fight for her life. And, as
Junior crouched over to pick her up,
she flew at his face, and pecked a
deep gash in it.
Mother saw her son’s plight from
the porch, but she was not near
enough to help. As she ran toward
him, she saw .. furry form fly at the
enraged chicken before the hen could
strike again. It was the new cat.
The cat’s claws lashed wildly as
the hen pecked at her new foe. Her
beak found the animal's eye, but the
cat fought on ferociously, his paws
tearing feathers and ;kin from the
chicken’s head. By the time Mrs.
Shepard arrived it was about over.
The hen backed away and attempted
to flee, but after a few steps it fell
dead in its tracks.
Plushie lost an eye in that encoun
ter, but he had won himself a home.
And from that day on the Shepard
family has loved cats. And who can
blame them?
EDITOR’S NOTE: This syndicated
column welcomes contributoions from
readers an subjects of human in
ertest associated with personal ex
periences. Address contributions to
Worth Cheney, in care of this paper.
It Is 'estimated that 50,000 school
children visit the United States Cap
ital In Washington, D. C., east year.
GOOD NEWS FOR THE NAVY!
s'"
z > *--r—•
: . Z‘'''W>.- -x<-■ .v?. - ■•■•’■'■•>- .-
/ ( ■<■ v, x^.#.---;. r . A ss»/
"- £ ~*
._zS AI-W- - .
, I-j ISLi
. -*S3—®K» A” • r
—I 2SZ--—Sib
||||R
° « © «
' '"' *jSfwK% '/ r ~~' ~~~
'/ z /
..^»S-'» >r, y? ~“A X"' / S 4
\k i sJ. / / / / ;
//7 //// /
'Ay' - y y y// / / /
' x&i uS W /// // / / / /
////l
No. 4: A Setback, Then Victory
>y A. J. Buescher, Central Press
.141 J ■
n i ■
~ '■
Governor Landon at hi* desk
The Grab Bag
Uinta on Etiquette
When carving is done on the table
and there are no servants, guests
may pass plates, but if there is some
one to wait on table, guests should
not pass plates unless asked to do so.
Words of Wisdom
Censure is the tax a man pays to
the public for being eminent.—Swift.
Today's Horoscope
Persons whose birthday is today
desire beautiful and artistic surround
ings, are easy going and found of
amusement. They are likely to be bit
ter in their hatred and demonstrative
in their love.
<lne Minute Test Answers
1. Places on the earth’s suiface
diametrically opposite each other.
2. In India and other south Asiatic
countries.
3 The dromedary.
Factographs
In the three centuries that followed
the inception of the African slave
trade by the Portugese in 1481, more
than 9 000,000 negroes were trans
ported to other continents.
• * •
Sable Island, off the coast of New
foundland, is sometimes known as the
Isle of Lost Ships. It Is also known as
the “Graveyard of the Atlantic.”
1. What are antipodes?
2. Where is the water buffalo a
common beast of burden?
3. What is a one-hump camel called?
DINNER STORIES
JUST AS WE SUPPOSED
A widow visited a spiritualistic
medium who satisfactorily produced
the deceased husband for a little chin
fest.
“Dear Jom,” the widow questioned
eagerly, “are you happy now?”
“I am very happy,” the spook as
sured her.
“Happier than you were on earth
with me?” the widow continued.
“Yes,” John asserted, “I am hap
pier now."
“Oh. do tell me, John,” the widow
cried rapturously, “what is it like in
heaven?”
“Heaven?” the spook snapped. “I
ain’t In heaven.”
Told
in Sketch Strips
Artist
QfL 0»I
Landon surprised Kansas by an
nouncing as early as January,
1932, months before the pri
maries, that he was a candidate
for the Republican guberna
torial nomination on a platform
of economy. Landon won the
nomination and then made a
vigorous campaign in a “Demo
cratic year”. His organizing
ability was proved.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
CHINA’S INTELLECTUALS
Betrayed to Japan By Political Leader*
SEEK TO SAVE NATION
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CHINA’S DESPERATE FIGHT to
escape being swallowed by Japan is
told in a dramatic manner by T. A.
Bisson in Foreign Policy Bulletin.
This portrayal of China’s struggle
is worth reading, for the succinct and
complete maimer in which it des
cribes the situation.
Mr. B f sson says:
“The sudden elevation of Shigeru
Kawagoe, former consul general at
Tientsin who worked closely with the
Kwantung army, to the post of am
bassador at Nanking offers one more
indication of the pressure steadily
applied by Japan to reduce China
to the status of a protectorate. This
policy is officially formulated in the
‘three point’ program, elaborated by
Premier Hlrota when he occupied the
foreign ministry, which calls for re
cognition of ‘Manchoukuo’ by Nank
ing, suppression of anti-Japanese act
ivities in China, and joint Sino-Jap
ansese military action against com
munism.
* * •
ENCROACHMENTS
“As its main weapon in enforcing
Nanking’s acceptance of the ‘three
point’ program, Japan has dismantled
and refashioned the political struc
ture of north China. Unwillingness
to risk an open military occupation
led to the collapse of Major General
Doihara’s ambitious five-province
‘autonomy’ scheme last November,
bu tin Hopei and Chahar provinces
Japanese domination has become
nearly complete.
“The former ‘demilitarized area’ in
northern Hopei is now ruled by Yin
Ju-keng’s puppet regime. With its
capital at Tungchow, only twelve
mllca from Peiping, this East Hopei
Autonomous Anti-Communist Coun
cil has been gradually assimilated to
‘Manchoukuo.’ Its armed force of
about 15,000 troops is officered by
Japanese, while several hundred Jap
anese troops are also stationed at
Tungchow.
“A second body, the Hopei-Chahar
Political Council, set up at Peiping
last December under Japanese pres
sure, occupies a much less clearly de
fined position Its chairman is Gen
eral Sung Cheh-yuan, who controls
Jr —
Although Franklin D. Roosevelt
swept the nation, winning the
presidency, Republican Landon
won the governorship in Kan
sas. Roosevelt carried the state
by approximately 75,000. Lan
don had a plurality of 5,600
over Governor Woodring, Demo
crat, and Dr. John R. Brink-
> ley, independent.
To be continued
the 29th army—a force of some 55,-
000 men. His council consists mainly
> of a set of notoriously pro-Japanese
i figures, including one or two mem
bers of the former Anfu clikue. Sev
eral Japanese advisers are attached
to the council, but It also maintains
direct connections with Nanking,
from which it receive* a monthly
subsidy said to total approximately
one million yen. This ‘semi-auton
omous’ pollltcal status Is matched by
the undefined limits of its territorial
control.
“In Hopei the council exerts no
influence ever 'tin Ju-keng’s ‘auton
omous’ state.
“In Chahar, the northern and east
ern district are dominated by Gen
eral L! Shou-hsin, also a Japanese
puppet. The rest of Chahar is pre
sumably undjr the jurisdiction of the
Hopei-Ohs I. ar council, although Jap
anese military missions at Kalgan
and other cities are directing further
advances In Charhar and Suiyuan
provinces.’- . . .
♦ * ♦
ANTI-JAPANESE CHUSHED
“Since December, 1935, a broad
movement of resistance to Japanese
aggresslo nhas developed among the
Chinese people. Touched off by the
student mass demonstrations, this
movement has spread to college pro
fesses and intellectuals, middle and
primary school teachers, women’s or
ganizations, newspaper reporters and
editors, workers’ and farmers’ groups,
and business organs.
“At Peiping and Shanghai, these
various groups have co-ordinaetd their
activities in local National Libera
tion associations, with an uncompro
mising anti-Japanese program. The
Peiping association's manifesto calls
for the uniting, organizing and arm
ing of the Chint-e people in a war
against Japan, ,o be financed by con
fiscation of Japanese properties in
China. It demands complete freedom
of assembly, speech and press, release
of political prisoners, and an end to
civil war.
“Despite rumors that the Nanking
regime is preparing to fight Japan,
Chiang Kai-shek has taken vigorous
steps to suppress the growing antl-
Japancse movement, thus carrynig out
one of the items in Hirota’s ‘three
point’ program.
“On Feb. 20 the Nanking govern
ment issued an emergency law to
cope with anti-Japanese activities. By
this law, troops and police are em
powered to use ‘foreq. or any other
effective means to dissolve meetings
and parade*, to suppress propaganda
in the form of wriitngs, pictures or
lectures, and to punish all persons
who give shelter to violators of these
provisions. Since the issuance of this
edict, the Chinese police have raided
the dormitories of Yenching and
Tsinghua universities at Peiping, and
Futan university at Shanghai, in or
der to arrest the leaders of the stu
dent organizations. At times the
whole student body has resisted these
arrests, suffering brutal clubbings
from the police.
“Publications issued by the Liber
ation associations have also been sup
pressed. Despite these measures, the
studen. agitation continues, new per-
are appearing, and the work
of the associations Is gaining wider
support.”
COMMUNISTS GAIN
“A tniid factor in the Chinese po
litical situation is the emergence of
communist armies in the northwest
ern provinces, where their program
of drastic land reform and establish
ment of Soviets has gained wide pop
ular support.
‘‘Eighteen months ago the main
body of the Shinese communists be
gan a long trek from Kiangsi prov
ince, their old base, westward toward
Szechuan. In the spring of 1935 this
army effected a juncture in western
Szechuan with the second largest
communist army in China. After sev
eral months’s rest, the combined
forces moved north and defeated the
main government army blocking an
advance in to Kansu.
“In the autumn of 1935, after this
victory, the communist armies again
divided. One force, under Chu Teh,
moved back into western Szcehusn
to consolidate a base in that area.
The other force, under Mao Tsetung,
marched north int oKansu and Shen
si, where it joined local communist
armies. Early in 1936, a section of
these forces crossed the frozen Yellow
river Into Shansi province, where It
Is still operating.
“Consolidation of this northwestern
base would have two Important ef
fects. It would offer resistance to the
spear-head of Japanese penetration
into Inner Mongolia. Small commun
ist raiding partlse, seeking to cut the
Pelplng-Sulyuan railway along which
be Japanese are advancing, have al-vad
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspaper
by Central Pres* Association
r.iday, May 8; Arbor Day in Rhode
Island and Dominion of Canada,
General Prayer Day in Denmark In
auguration Day in Costa Rica. Zo
diac sign: Taurus. Birthstone;
emerald.
Scanning the skies Jupiter i»
at its best in May, June and July. It
will be nearly occulted by the moon
tomorrow, Saturday, when rising in
bbe evening. Sunday Venus will be
in close conjunction with Uranus,
only about the apparent diameter of
the moon apart.
♦ ♦ *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Ernest W. Marland, b 1874, oil
man-governor of Oklahoma. . . .
Michael Mac White, b. 1883, first min
ister of the Irish Free State to the
U. S. . . . James Rowland Angell, b.
1869. Yale president. . . . Maj. Gen.
Paul B. Malone, U. 8. Army, b. 1872.
. . . B. F. Britten Austn. b. 1885,
British playwright and novelist.
• • ♦
TODAY’S YESTERDAYPB
May 8, 1792 —Congress told the
army to say it with music. A law
authorized each brigadier-general ar
commanding officer of a brigade, to
raise a “band of music.” First or
ganized was at Weet Point, constat
ing of five clarinets, two flutes, two
French horns, one bassoon, one trum
pet, one trombone, one bugle, one
drum and no saxaphone.
May 8, 1835—Augusta Evans Wil
son wa* born In Oolumbta, 6. C. With
out having attended school, sihe wrote
three novel*, “St. Elmo”, “Beulah”
and “Miarcarla,” which made her
rich. They attained world wide clr
culation and still have some readers
today.
“Marcaria,” a Confederate novel
about the Wai- Between the states
published In newsprint in Columbia
in 1864, became so popular with
northern soldiers that General Grant
had all copies found within his lines
seized and burned.
May 8, 1878—Paul Hines of the
Providence team of the National
League, made the first unassisted
triple play In baseball history. He
was a centerfielder! A high short fly
just beyond the shortstop, with men
on second and thr, provided him
with his opportunity for sports Im
mortality.
May 8, 1879—George B. Selden, an
attorney of Rochester, N. Y., filed an
application for a patent on the first
gasoline-propeleld automobile. The
patent was not granted for 16 years.
The idea of an automobile had
flashed on him when he saw a steam
road-rol. .Jar. In a shop in his home,
he built a gasoline-engine in 1877 and
made drawings for a carriage to be
driven by a three-cylinder engine
mounted crosswise on the front axle.
For 15 years thereafter he endeavor
ed without success to get financial
backing for its manufacture. He
even went to Europe for the 20 years
ahead of his tme.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—One year and
a day after the U-20 sank the White
Star Liner Lusitania off Ireland, an
other U-boat torpedoed the White
Star line Cymric not far from the
same spot. Same day the U“. S. re
sponded to Germany’s conciliatory
note concerning torpedoing of the
British liner Sussex. The department
of state said the U. S. would “rely
upon scrupulous execution henceforth
of the now altered policy of the im
perial government, such as will re
move the principle danger to an In
terruption of the good relations ex
isting between the United States and
Germany. The government of the
United States takes it for granted
that the Imperial German govern
ment does not intend to imply that
the maintenance of its newly an'
nounced policy is in any way contin
gent upon the course or result of dip
lomatic negotiations and any other
belligerent government.
This was Washington's way of say
ing that it wouldn’t accept any
promise of Germany to behave that
was going to be kept only If Britain
also behaved.
(To be continued)
♦ ♦ * **•
IT'S TRUE
Even after he became the most fa
mous musician of his time, Beethoven
dressed so shabbily that he was once
arrested as a tramp.
Until 1771 when a prize was offer
ed by the French government for the
discovery of a food whch would fill
the place of cereals in place of fam
ine, the potato was regarded as suit
able only for cattle.
In colonial days, books which of
fended were publicly punished as if
they were humans, by beng whipped
or burned by the common hangman.
George Frederick Handel, the com
poser, rebelled at having to listen to
the tuning of instruments and believ
ed that musicians should tune their
instruments before audiences arrived
for concerts. Once he expressed his
displeasure at having to listen to tun
ing by flinging a kettle-drum at the
leader of a band and kicking to
pieces a double-bass.
■ Most suggestive statement we have
read In months: Three time* in one
century King Muni Tesnpo of Tibet
distributed al the wealth In the king
dom and each time it got back into
the hands of a few men.
ready been reported in Suiyuan pro
vince. In the second place, direct
communist operations against the
Japanese would afford additional
stimulus to the anti-Japanese move
ment in north China, and thus expert
further pressure on the Nanking re
gime.
“Mao Tse-tung, the political leader
of the Chinese communit movement
has openly offered to join,forces *th
Chiang Kai-hek in a united faint
against the Japanese invaders. De
spite repeated threats, the leaders
of the Kwantung army have so fax
failed to move Papanese troops
against the communist concentration
in the northwest. Instead, they have
permitted Chiang Kai-shek to send
six divisions of government troops
into Shansi province to fight the com
munist forces.
“The Nanking government is now
faced by opposition on htree front*:
continued Japanese aggression, grow
ing resistance to Japan from the Chi
nese people and communist advances
in the northwest. It cannot waver
much longer between the clear alter
natives raised by this sityation. Chi
ang Kai-shek must either choose to
become an outright tool of Japan, or
mobilize the country for a united and
determined struggle against Um W