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PAGE FOUR * Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INO. , PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered M Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Poet Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months 1.95 One Month .65 One Week ...........—... M ..... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representattvee 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 Picture® 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 CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE 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 From my first entrance in Knox’s Career Glimpsed in Pictures ( T r ' - " - - ■ ==-! - 1 gSKUilaudn ’ - i 4 w ■ "»■' wifey .... - flMflw raßSHßadg^v ; , fl .whWwBK 'y ~ Il 4w*~ I «M^Kr la**" -- —r-..? ""' wßWsk,. >x. L t ::: ni:: HMIBf JK. -V X Ml 1B& «»:«" IS" <»WrM IMM. 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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! ir~ i 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.” *** * w 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 -■ w w* 0 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. - I 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.”