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LIFE INSURANCE WEEK
Touching the daily lives of practically every family in the
nation life insurance is the greatest plan yet devised by the in
genuity of the mind of man for the protection of his family, his
home, his nation, and, last, though not least, himself. It’s protect
ing mantle is today covering the entire span of life, from the
cradle to the grave. Yet, with all of its perfections, it still lacks
that supreme excellence which shall only be reached when medi
cal science shall demonstrate to the great life insurance com
panies that all men are insurable.
Infancy, vigorous youth, the middle aged and old age alike
are the recipients of its many and manifold beneficiencies. As it is
the bulwark for the protection of the home against the inexor
able loss of human values and earnings to the home, so it is the
anchor of hope for old age which must eventually come to those
who escape the grim reaper as he labors along the path of life.
The Savannah Daily Times accords a just measure of tribute
to the greatest business in the world. Specifically does it acclaim
the great army of life insurance men in the field to whom, more
so than to any other one factor, is due the building up of this
tremendous force for the social security of all. To them indeed,
as they have labored under many, in fact all the vicissitudes of
life, by day and night, neither storm or sunshine affecting their
indefatigable zeal to “carry the message to Garcia” is due the
credit of the success of the structure. Our compliments to all
the companies; our hats are off to the man in the field.
TWO MAJOR PARTIES
IN GEORGIA.
It is with extreme gratification that the Savannah Daily
Times notes the improvement of personnel and interest in the
Republican party in Georgia. The state convention held in At
lanta on Friday and Saturday clearly indicates the progress
which has been attained through the efforts of a few of Georgia’s
outstanding citizens. There is no doubt in the minds of those who
are familiar with political procedure, that with the constructive
program laid by this convention through its personnel of such
high caliber but what Georgia will be benefited through bal
anced political procedure in the future.
The South, in order to progress, must have two balanced
major political parties in order that the merits of each party may
be weighed upon its presentation to the people in the respective
state which it desires to serve. The publisher of this paper is a
Democrat with all the respect for Democratic ideals and prin
ciples; but this publisher thoroughly realizes that in order to
keep his party progressive and on its toes, it must have compe
tion. Competition of such weight and action that the Democrats
will realize that in order for them to retain the lead in Geor
gia they must give to Georgia a more constructive program with
more action and less conversation. They must be forced to real
ize that political jobs in Georgia were not created for Demo
crats, but were created for those men and parties who are will
ing and ready to render an honest and effective custodianship
to their constituents.
We have many Democrats in Georgia who have been feeding
at the trough of the taxpayers, merely because of the fact that
they proclaimed from the house-tops their loyalty to the Demo
cratic party. The Savannah Daily Times suggests that these hy
phenated Democrats, if possible, demonstrate their loyalty to the
taxpayers for a change through an efficient and effective admin
istration of their offices. They will then be rendering a far greater
service to the Democratic party than could ever be achieved
through superfluous conversation projected in public places.
If the entry of another major party into the state politics
of Georgia can accomplish this one fact, go to it brothers. We’re
for you!
St
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
HULL’S TRADE SPEECH
Urging Elimination of Barrierg
CONSIDERED IMPORTANT
Central Press
Washington Bureau
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Prtse Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May- 11.—Seer e
tary of State Cordell Hulls recent ar
gument before the United States
Chamber of Commerce, In convention
In Wa’ing'-.ou. lor uie elimination of
international trade barriers, as the
only means of preventing future wars,
has attracted rather leas attention
than It was entitled to.
“Only as the worlds economic
health is restored,” said Secretary
Hull, “will individuals and nations
develop again adequate resistance to
the psychological madness that makes
internal and external strife possible.’ 1
That is to say, if countries are
prosperous they will be too busy to
flghtr-will not feel like it, either. If
depression they will try to fight their
way out of depression. And they can
not be prosperous, the secretary rea
sons, unless they do business with
one another—there is no such thing
as a purely local prosperity.
• * *
A PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
I have had some personal experi
ence with trade barriers.
Just after the World war 1 was
running an English-language weekly
newspaper—the River Plate Ameri
■an —in the Argentine RepuoJc.
Yankee business wag booming there.
The Latin Americas are chiefly agri
cultural, paotorai and mineral. They
produce few finished goeds—mostly
raw materials. For manufactured ar
ticle sthey have been, in pre-wardays,
mainly dependent upon Europe. The
war shut off his source of supplies.
At its end there literally was a South
American f imine in the most ordi
nary manufactured commodities.
Europe, in »u;ns, wa< slow in get
ting back into :»ie market.
The United States, keyed up to a
maximum, could fill all orders.
WHAT TARIFF DID
Latin American buyers perforce
turned to the United States.
Yankee branch houses opened up
daily in Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro,
Montevideo and elsewhere, selling
goods wholesale.
Then the Fordney-McCumber tariff
was enacted practically barring South
American products out of the United
States.
Immediately Yankee sales in LatL.
America fell flatter than a pancake.
If the Latins could not sell in the
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11 1 OTTT r *' a**—
My.New*York
By
NEW YORK, May 11—The fun
niest book I have read in months
is Dick Hyman s “It’s the Law”, a col
lection of honey statutes from all
over, illustrated by O. Soglow.
Now, I have known Professor Hy
man these many years and even toil
ed in the same iaumalistic vime
yards with him, so I trust I can
thump for his tome with no cries
of “Log-roller!” from the gallery. It
would be a very dangerous thing,
however, to recommend an unfunny
book that was supposed to be funny.
With a serious novel you can have
your say and tolerant customers may
put it down as a difference of opin
ion. But a humorous effort that falls
flat leaves the folk who espouse it
in danger of lynching by trustful
souls seduced into spending hard
mnoey. I think I am safe in declar
ing that the dourest sourpuss will un
bend to a giggle over “It’s the Law.”
More, the book has a moral. Young
Hyman, who such a striking
physicial resemblance to Mr. George
Raft that dowagers faint in his pre-
Bence, has served a commendable
sociological purpose in collecting the
more asburd of the laws under which
we groan. It is the best possible de
monstration of the typical politician’s
mental processes.
If legislators, duly assembled at the
taxpayers’ expense, have solemnly
ordained in one state that animals
out after dark must carry tail-lights;
if in another they have acted favor
ably upon a law to prohibit people
from making faces at one another,
and If in the third they have yank
ed from their sombreros a law mak
ing it a crime to purchase a chicken
after dark —P is good clean fun for
researchers lik Mr. Hyman. But it is
more than that; it is sample of the
kind of law making that goes on every
day not only in the State chambers
but in the marble halls of Washing
ton.
Every trustful voter who believes
that the sorrows of the world can be
cured by nutting more and yet more
power into the hands of the politic
ians should peruse “It’s the Law”
for the good of his soul. Then he
should take a month off and read
four or five issues of “The Congress
sional Record” for a dilute sequel.
• • •
One of the chuckliest servant-and
mast relationships in Hollywood is
that between Victor McLauglen and
his Arab valet-butler-chauffeur-cook,
Abdullah. McLauglen’s principal hob
by is firing and rehiring Abdullah—
whom he rescued from a deserted
camp In Mesopotamia during soldier
days.
The flicker strutter keeps a chart
in his home of the number of times
Abdullah has been bounced and taken
on again. The count, according to
my West Coast tattler, is now 156.
Joe Cook's tall and side-burned but
ler is the only other similar case I
can think of offhand. A shell-shock
ed veteran of the heroic Black Watcn
regiment and an Englishman, he was
hired by Cook when he came to offer
a case of choice wet goods to the
comedian, in Prohibition days. On
his uppers, he said he knew of no
other way to earn a living.
Now visitors to the Lake Hopat
cong estate where Cook entertains
sumptuously always ask for the lat
est bulletin on his butler. Cook fires
him about once a months, “for disci
pline’s sake”—after which there Is
a joyous reconciliation.
LOVE
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul
drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me
grow slack
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, MAY 11, 1936
“’ZAMINATION” TIME!
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COPYRIGHT. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
Stories like this one have been re
sponsible for that oft-repeated and
very true phrase that “truth is
stranger than fiction.”
Picture, in your minds, a happy
family of four—a son, a daughter and
their parents. This family lived in
Buffalo. It was a contented, well-
Drew nearer to me, sweetly question
ing
“Truth, Lord; but I have marred
them; let my shame
Go where it doth deserve.”
"And know you not,” says Love,
"Who bore the blame?”
“My dear, then I will serve.”
"You must sit down,” says Love,
“and taste my meat.”
So I did sit and eat.
—George Herbert.
If I lack anything
“A guest,” I answered, "worthy to be
here;”
Love said, “You shall be he.”
“I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my
dear,
I cannot look on Thee.*
Love took my hand and, smiling, did
reply,
“Who made the eyes but I?”
balanced group, and 10 years ago
there was no inkling that the family
ever would be separated by anything
but death.
But, as we say, that was 10 years
ago. Now—well, let's look at the
strange fate that befell the members
of this happy family in one short
decade.
* * •
The daughter, about 22, had been
working in Buffalo. Then she secur
ed a position with a dress manufac
turing firm as a traveling represent
ative.
For several months she traveled
about the country, making a brilliant
record with her work. Then one day
her family was notified that she had
entered a convent in a Southern city.
There was no explanation given for
her action, and no member of her
family has seen her since.
About this time the father was
stricken with a lasting illness. For
months he lay on his back hardly
able to move. Conditions in the home
became strained and finally the son
decided he could stand living there
no longer.
With little money and jobless, the
son eloped to another city with his
sw’eetheart and was married. They
got a cheap room in the other city
and almost starved before he found
work.
They were happy for a year, then
they began quarreling. Each had his
own friends, and they seldom ever
went anywhere together.
A short time later he obtained a
job in the West Indies. She went
with him but couldn’t stand the new
life. She returned to New York City
and obtained a divorce. Eventually
she married a rich widower.
When the son returned to the
United States he again was penniless
and jobless. As a last resort he ob
tained a job as caretaker of an estate
in the Adriondacks. While there he
met a rich widow and married her.
* ♦ •
It was only a few months after the
son left home that his father died.
After the father’s death the mother
found a position as traveling com
panion for a wealthy woman. While
on a tour the mother met and mar
ried a young gambler; there must
have been 25 years difference in their
ages. Os course, the marriage didn’t
last, and within a short time they
were divorced. After her divorce
friends lost track of her.
Perhaps her son knows her where
abouts, and perhaps he doesn’t. At
any rate, there is no real affection
between them.
And so, in 10 years, the family was
completely broken up—in spirit as
well as in fact. What a dismal, re
grettable fate!
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Today is the Day
8 By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright,’^ 6 ’ to* Newspaper
by Central Association
Monday, May 11; lya 19, 5696 in
J. C. 78th anniversary of the admis
sion to the Union of Minnesota, the
32nd State. Zodai sign: Taurus.
Birthstone: emerald. Moon: last quar
ter Thursday.
Scanning the skies Perhaps most
persons think of winds as always
blowing horizontally or else at a
slope corresponding to that of the
ground. However, winds may blow
at any angle to the horizon, and
some blow straight up and down.
• • ♦
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Henry Morgcnthau, Jr., b. 1891,
Secretary of the Treasury . . . Irv
ing B’erlin, b. 1888, millionaire song
writer whose first song brought him
royalties of 37 cents . . . Stanley
King, b. 1883, president of Amherst
College . . . Frank Schlesinger, b.
1871, astronomer-
* * *
May 11, 1752—Johnann Friedrich
Blumenbach was born in Gobha, Ger
many, where he grew up to become
the founder of anthropology and the
first to teach natural history on the
basis of comparative anatomy. This
German who divided the human
species into five races; the Caucasian..
Mongolian, Malay, American (In
dian) and African or Ethiopian,
didn’t mention an “Aryan race.’’
Blumenbach’s ethnological system
set up Caucasians as the highest
type of the human family, includ
ing nearly all Europeans, the Jews,
Circassians, Armenians, Persians,
Hindus. He gave it this name because
of a skull obtained from the Caucasus
which he regarded as th? standard
of the human type.
May 11, 1792—The first ship en
tered the fifth largest U. S. river—
Captain Robert Gray’s Columbia, for
which he named the river. The Co
lumbia had already been the first
ship to carry the U. S. flag around
the world.
May 11, 1832 —The political parties
began making promises to break.
The first national platform of a
party was adopted by 295 delegates
from 16 states and the District of
Columbia to the Republican conven
tion in Washington, D. 0., before
they nominated Henry Clay for Presi
dent.
May 11, 1864—Gen. U. S. Grant
telegraphed his famous message, to
the Secretary of War: “I purpose to
fight it out on this line if it takes
all summer.”
Do you know what line?
The Wilderness, in Virginia, where
Grant did fight it out with Lee all
summer in the bloodiest campagn
ever fought ~ the New World.
May 11, 1917—The Chicago Board
of Trade stopped trading in May
wheat when hte price reached $3.25
a bushel.
♦ ♦ *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY S Y-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—All Ameri
cans were warned to leave Mexico.
Germany offered an indemnity for
the American lives lost in the sink
ing of the British channel streamer
Sussex, as its reply to Washington’s
second strong note on the subject,
which ended with the memorable
phrase, “Responsibility in such mat
ters is single, not joint; absolute, not
relative.”
(To be continued)
• * *
IT’S TRUE
You’re wrong if you believe the
Great Pyramid of the Nile was built
under the supervision of astronomers
for casting and measuring the shad
ows of the sun. Its location was
mere accident, and it was designed
as a tomb for King Cheops.
Not even one-half of digestion oc
curs in the stomach. “About 60 per
cent takes place in the intestines,
some in the mouth and the rest in
the stomach,” contributes Earle W.
Alexander. Mr. Alexander adds that
we’re wrong if we believe that—
Diabetes is caused by eating much
sugar. It isn’t! “Actually diabetes, in
You’re Telling
Me?
Congressman has an idea men
should wear coats which no
pockets. Some voters have an idea
what we need is a congressman with
out ideas like that.
« * •
Don’t get swell-headed when
people ask for your autograph.
They may ~e just trying io learn
whether you actually can write.
The controversy over whether it is
pronounced “Kentucky ’ Derby” o
“Darby” is foolish. Anyone from
New York can tell you it's “Doiby.”
It was Shakespeare who said
“All the world’s a stage." But
modem dictators hav£ tried to
revise it to read “stooge.”
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Aged Ohio woman owns an appl<
nearly 7 Oyears old. Unforunately,
she failed to kep statistics on how
many doctor bills t has saved.
• ♦ * *• .7
Haile Selassie, says cabled dis
patch, shaved off his beard to
disguise himself on his flight
from Ethiopia. We don’t believe
thats the reason. The man Is
probably hmeaded for Hogywood.
The Grab Bag
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One-Minute
1. What two internationally famous
boxers are scheduled to meet in New
York’s Yankee stadium June 18?
2. “Saffron” is a variation of what
common colors?
3. Define amortization.
Hints on Etiquette
No comment should be made about
food at a formal dinner, but guests
may say something complimentary
about food at an informal affair.
Words of Wisdom
Man never falls so low that he can
see nothing higher than himself—
Theodore Parker.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are pleas
ure loving, and are fond of games
and the theater. They are capable
and precise and lay their plans with
much judgment.
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Horoscope for Sunday
Persons whose birthday is Sunday
are great readers, and have judicial
minds . They are lovers of music,
poetry and art, and loving and just
In their home relations.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. Max Schmeling of Germany; and
Joe Louis, Detroit’s “Brown Bomber.”
2. Yellow or orange.
3. Gradual extinction of debt
through partial payments.
most cases, derives from excessive
starches!”
Gasoline turns into water fa pro
pelling an automobile! “When gaso
line is burned in the cylinders,”
writes T. D. jancaster, “one of the
by-products of the chemical action
la water vapor. The hydrogen in the
gasoline combines with oxygen in
the air and forms water. More than
a gallon of water is ‘manufactured’
for each gallon of gasoline burned.”
In a Montana copper mine a fire
has been burning continuously since
1884 respite all eforts to extinguish
it. This from a B*utte reader.
A normal, healthy animal can
take in water equal to a fourth of
its body weight and suffer no harm.
Thanks are due to contributors for
making this an interesting column.
They are hereby made members of
the “Write-a-wrong Club.”