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ADMISSION OP FAILU&I.
The admission of failure to enforce the laws a* prescribed by
the statute hooks of the State of Georgia by Mayor Gamble ra
his conference with the Sunday school class of the Grace Method
ist Church, gives food for constructive thought.
The Savannah Daily Times, through its columns has been
consistent in its direct questions to Mayor Gamble as to the dis
crepancies in his program covering the functioning of hi* office
pertaining to other departments in his administration.
It is gratifying to see that the outstanding citizens and espe
cially our church men of this community are beginning to realise
that there is something wrong and that a careful analysis is
necessary. We hold no brief for Mayor Gamble’s administra
tion, or for that part, any other political administration. We are
merely trying to live up to our responsibilities to our readers
as we see them. Any poltical administration, whether it be na
tional, state or municipal which does not render to its people a
constructive program of service and action, is subject to criti
cism. These interests should be portrayed to the public through
the columns of its newspapers in no uncertain terms.
The newspaper that endeavors to live up to these responsi
bilities, is sometimes subject to criticism. But if we have been
responsible in the awakening of the people of Savannah who be
lieve in good government to the dangers that are now confront
ing them through the administration of some of their municipal
offices, we feel that we have been justified in our actions. And
we are only proud and eager to line up with the good citizen
ship of Savannah and accept whatever portions may be parceled
out, whether it be criticism or praise.
Who can tell but that further conferences by representative
citizens of Savannah may bring ont other admissions of failure
which will convince the good people of Savannah that their cus
todians of public ownership have been found wanting in their
peformance of service.
BE PRACTICAL.
The Savannah Daily Times notes with a great deal of con
cern the recent publicity concerning the development of the
Deptford Tract into a seaplane base.
This is a pipe dream, practical in no sense of the word.
First, the waters bordering this tract of land are not broad
enough to guarantee four-way landings in inclement weather.
Next, there has been a careful survey made of the Atlantic
coast by the Department of Commerce, Postoffice Department,
and last but not least, the business men who are putting their
time and money into this development. After a very careful
analysis by these experts, Charleston, 8. C., was chosen first,
because of the fog line, and next because of the natural facilities
of her harbor. Charleston’s physical assets along those lines
made it possible for the South to take the first large plum in
transportation circles from the Bast. Trans-Atlantic airplanes
stopping in Charleston will certainly mean more to Savannah
than it will mean to Boston.
Savannah has a fine airport. Plenty of money has been spent
upon the development of this project. The majority of seaplanes
are amphibians and can land upon this airport if they so desire.
There are many more practical projects that our good citi
zens may devote their time and energy towards acquiring for
our city. For example, why not build a bridge at the foot of
East Broad street across the Savannah river connecting an en
evitable short line between Savannah and Charleston, aiding
in the development of the wonderful South Carolina sea isles.
A seaplane base agitation in Savannah at the present time can
do nothing hut make it possible for the Bast to take the Trans-
Atlantic base from Charleston. Let’s be neighborly, sincerely
so. Let’s produce a little action in helping Charleston with her
problems. And may be then, Charleston will be influenced to
help us with ours.
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BRIGADIER GENERAL RANDOLPH 0. BERKELEY
The transfer of Brigadier General Randolph C. Berkeley
from the Parris Island command is a distinct loss to the Southern
coastal states. Immediately upon General Berkeley assuming
command of Parris Island, he began to identify himself with
civic movements conducive to progress in the immediate area
surrounding his command. General Berkeley, because of his ac
tivity in the development of the South, has been associated with
outstanding citizens from the major cities of North Carolina,
South Carolna, Georgia and Florida. Hi* charming personality,
keen insight and balanced judgment placed him in the inner
councils of Southern development. He will be missed. And
in our loss we can only congratulate the Marine Examining
Board upon their gain.
We welcome Brigadier General James T. Butterick and sin
cerely hope that General Butterick will devote the same keen
insight and understanding to the problems of this section of the
country as did General Berkeley.
SENATOR BORAH'S LIFE STORY IN SKETCHES
T —" By C. H. Crittenden. Central Press Artist—■ - ■■■ -1 ►
Senator William Edgar Borah,
of Idaho, was bora in Fairfield,
111., on June 29, 1865. The
solon was one of eight sons of
William N. Borah and Eliza
beth West, who migrated from
Kentucky. His father was a
fairly successful farmer and
stock raiser..
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—.
OPPOSITION CRUSHED
Within Italy As Ruthlessly As Ever
BY ITALIAN FASCISTS
? Central Press Staff Writer ?
IS THERE NO opposition in Italy
to war—even a victorious war?
Yes, according to a letter from an
Italian living in Paris, Carlo Roselil.
We quote from Roselli’s letter to the
Manchester Guardian famed English
paper:
“While the civilized world is justly
indignant at the bombing of open
towns and the use of poison gas in
Abyssinia, I believe it to be in the
interest of truth and of my country
to remind you of the frequent exam
ples of resistance to the war and to
fascism given by the Italian people.
•‘Within the last few weeks the
Special Tribunal has distributed 223
year* of imprisonment: 65 years of
the grouc of intellectuals accused of
belonging to the ‘Justice and Libtry’
movement; 24 years to the young
professor of finance of Cagliari inu
re asity, Antonio Pesenti (aged 24),
for having taken part, abroad, in a
congress of protest against the Abys
sinian war; 20 years to the workman
Guermandi; 102 years to a group of
17 workmen from Reggio Emilia
(names still unknown); 12 years to
Giglio of Leghorn, whose father was
murdered by the Fascists in 1932.
"The bearing of all the prisoners
was courageous, and during the trial
against the intellectuals of Turin
there were poignant moments. Against
one of them, Professor Monti, there
was no evidence, but the public pro
secutor reproached him with having
taken care, before his arrest, of the
two children of one of his compan
ions, Giua. (These children had been
left quite alone in their home after
the arrest of his father and mother.)
“Monti answered: ‘I certainly did
so, and I am proud of it. I am asham
ed that in a country which boasts of
being civilize dit can be counted as
blameworthy to have had pity on two
children left alone at home. Yes, I
did take them to school and to the
cinema, and I was only sorry I was
not rich enough, or I would have had
them to live with me, I would have
done more for them.’
Even the military judges betrayed
CALL OF THE OPEN ROAD
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1936
Parents and children of the 1
Borah family worked hard and
lived the typical life of farmers
of their section and period.
> Borah received his first training
•at Tom’s Prairie public school J
in Illinois, a few miles from the
I
Borah farm. A former college
professor was Will’s teacher.
some feeling. But superior orders
obliged them to condemn.
* * •
OTHER TRIALS SECRET
"Besides these trials, of which news
has come through, how many other
trials, how many other sentences, of
wich we kno nothing? Since the war
began te Fascist nespapers have re
ceived orders never to mention them.
News of Special Tribunal trials filters
abroad with the greatest difficulty,
and in Italy, except for the immed
iate circles of the men condemned,
nothing is known at all.
“Then there are the secret military
trials. A glimpse of these was to be
had when the Manchester Guardian
published a secret order to the Italian
press, dated Dec. 18, 1935, to the ef
fect that ‘No notice is to be taken of
the trial before the military tribun
al of Rome against five soldiers for
mutiny.’ How did this trial end? Who
were the accused men? No one knows.
Another secret order, dated Feb. 25,
1936, runs, 'No allusion to be made
to the departure of carabinieri (po
lice) for Africa.’
"There have been, too, a very large
number of deportations, especially
from regions with Slav and German
population.
"These trials, orders, deportations
show that enthusiasm for the war is
at least not general in Italy, even if,
as is natural, a part of the popula
tion is worked upon by the news of
victories presented as final ones, and
by a very natural unity of feeling
with tfie 400,000 sons, brothers and
husbands away in Africa, and is per
suaded that the war will shortly end
favorably for Italy. . .
* * *
FORGOTTEN MEN
‘ Finally, may I draw your atten
tion also to the situation of Terra
cini and many others who have now
been in prison for ten years? Terra
cini is seriously ill. He suffers from
troubles of the circulation so severe
that he often lies inanimate, almost
delirious, for days at a time, unable
to touch food. Instead of trying to
justify its bombing mission to clvi-
No. 1: School Days
— \
Borah as a young man.
You’re Telling
Me?
A recipe to end all your woes Take
four rubber tires, add one part gaso
line and too many parts alcohol. Mix
badly—then call the coroner.
* • •
America, too, has a caste sys
tem. If you don’t eblieve it—try
to borrow from your friends and
discover how many of them are
"untouchable.”
• • •
Never get into a fight with a por
cupine. He is bound to win on
points.
* • *
Mussolini can’t pose as another
Julius Caesar and be so proud of the
conquest of Ethiopia at the same
time. Ethiopia was one of the coun
tries the real Caesar thought was
too insignificant to bother about,
* * *
Summer will soon be here. Thk
morning we saw some ants mobiliz
ing for their annual invasion of pic
nic sandwiches.
't * m
A contributor writes that he
knows a girl who talks volumes
and that she probably will wind
up on the shelf.
STYLE WHIMSIES
A laoe jacket used over a wash
able crepe dress Is one of the style
points noted recently. White ground
prints used under dark net redin
gotes are another. Tailored net
dresses with crossbars and geometric
patterns are smart; and everything
comes in short sleeves for dresses
and three-quarter for jackets.
A shirred elastic rubber bandeau
is suggested by a rubber company to
hold the coiffure in place during
strenuous games, or to ornament t
plain swim ap. It is called “wind
blossom,” and is made with a snap
fastening concealed under a rubber
flower. It is ally colored.
lize Abyssina with the noble object
of freeing Abyssinian slaves, the Fas
cist government would do well to re
member the many Italian slaves and
martyrs in its own prisons.”
.... w.j
mmM
Study was a pleasure at Tom’s
Prairie, and so were the oppor
tunities to make little orations
and speeches. Willie was good
at speech-making from the start,
and he was often singled out
to do the honors on special occa
sions. However, young Borah
joined the other toys in pranks.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
"WELL, WHAT NOW?”
League of Nations Is Asked
IN REGARD TO ITALY
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street) 9
By CHARLES P. STTWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 12.—Italy’s
conquest of Ethiopia leaves League
of Nations’ diplomacy with about as
severe a headache m it suffered from
while Haile Selassie still was fight
ing.
Call off their Italian sanctions? If
What are the League powers to do?
they do that they tacitly admit that
the League is toothess; with com
pletely ineffective sanctions it can’t
ite. It may as well expire, in
short.
Or shall the League folk refuse to
recognize Mussolini's acquisition of
the Ethiopian realm? If they "ic
that they simply will prolong a can
g "ous situation indefinitely.
* * *
GRIEF AHEAD?
It is not as if Italy really had
pacified the Ethiopians.
Capturing a capital like Addie
Ababa and policing Ethiopia are two
different things.
Frai.ce technically conquered Mo
rocco, but had 70 years of subsequen'
guerilla warfare on its hands. Spain
technically conquered the Riff, but,
nearly ageneration later, the expense
of keeping it conquered cost King
Alfonso his throne.
Military men surmise that the Fa
cists have decades of grief ahead of
them yet to make their Ethiopian
conquest stick.
* * *
PERILOUS CONDITION
And if the League powers all this
time continue to refuse to recognize
that the Ethiopians are conquered,
and continue trying to apply sane
tions to Italy, and continue lending
a certain amount to aid to Ethiopia?
Why! the possibility of interna
tional friction is manifest.
It would be a perilous a state of
affairs for Italy as for the rest of
the world, to be sure, b-.t Italy evi
dently is disposed to run the risk.
# * *
MUSSOLINI’S ADVANTAGE
Mussolini has gained one Important
advantage over his League of Na
tions’ critics.
Until Haile Selassie fled they per
sisted in reprobating hs army’s ad
vane on Addis Ababa, but with the
Negus’ flight and the outbreak of
disorders in his capital, they had nc
choice but to appeal to 11 Duce, “For
heaven’s sake, hasten your troops’
progress to protect our legations.”
Thus the Fascist leader is in a po-
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is common stock called in
Great Britain?
2. Who is the present governor of
Kansas?
3. What is a palfrey?
Hints on Etiquette
Only a rarely brilliant person can
dominate a conversation and remain
popular. The average man appears
at his best when he ‘ chats’’ a bit
and then draws others into the con
versation.
Words of Wisdom
Confidence is a plant of slow
growt in an aged bosom.—Pitt.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons bom on this day are cou
rageous. When things are going
against them, they may utter a
prayer for help, but they keep on
fighting.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. Ordinary sharea.
2. Alf M. Landon.
3. A saddle horse.
“QUEEN OF HOUSEWIVES”
“Que:n of housewives” Is the title
offered to any Turkish woman or girl
who wins a contest in which con
testants must take an examination
in all subjects with which a model
housewife must be familiar. The
award also carries with it a prize of
$2,500, cookery, needlework, child
care, hygiene and embellishment of
the home are the subjects on which
the housewife must pass examina
tions.
For beach and cruise wear a new
group of scarfs admits that fishing
is a favorite feminine sport, and
uses the fish motif freely. For in
stance, a small linen square may have
a sailfish motif appliqued in a cor
ner, or all over fish designs appear
on solid boarded squares of crepe oi
bajrtiste.
During these early school days
he had much sport with horses.
He went to the county fair
where Kentucky horses raced,
and he developed a delight in
fine horses that never has left
him. His father allowed him to
call a family horse his own.
To bo continued.
sition to argue henceforward that he
acted just as the League countries
begged him to act; not in defiance of
their wishes.
• * *
PAYING THE BILL
Diplomats lake it for granted that
Mussolini will be very popular with
his country for a while, now that hit
campaign appears to have been so
successful.
Their guess, however, is that dis
content will begin to develop as the
home folk atrtt paying the bill for
his venture.
This may not be the case if the
Ethiopians accept Italian rule peace
fully, instead of continuing guerilla
warfare indefintely, and if their
country proves to haye sufficient nat
ural resources to make it look like
a good bargain.
But, as previously remarked,
France’s and Spain’s experiences by
no means suggest that the native?
will be peaceful for years to come.
And persons who have visited it
insist that the territory is not worth
having. A$ one former resident o;
Addis Ababa observed In Washington,
earlier in the war, “If the Italian,
get that country, it will serve 'em
right for starting a fight with no
just provocation.”
• * *
WRONG TACTICS?
Military men, by the way, are oi
the opinion that the Ethiopians made
the great mistake of trying to fight
regular battles, with thfir primitive
weapons, against Italy’s up-to-date
equipment.
At the outset it was expected that
their strategy would be to harass the
invaders by a series of swift raids
without conning to grip in strong
force anywhere, in formal engage
ments. They lid not stick to this
policy and, in large scale encounters
Italian discipline and arms were too
much for them.
To quote an Italian diplomatic
functionary who spent several years
at their capital, “The Ethiopian is a
wonderful warrior but no soldier.”
♦ ♦ *****)
MyNewYoek
By
James<AsweU
NEW YORK, May 12. —Randomus-
ing: I passed Clarence Budlngton
Kelland’s huge manor house out Port
Washington way the other midnight
and it was lighted up from cellar to
attic like a Christmas tree. ... A
tinkle of merry voices drifted out on
the clear spring night and it occur
red to me that poverty is not the in
variable lot of scriveners. ... A
drop-in at the home of Walter Hoban,
the cartoonist, who regaled with
ominous anecdotes about Long Is
land’s “candle burglar,” who has
been making off with the good burgh
ers’ silverware and jewelry for five
or six years running, to the dismay
of the police. . . . The thief appears
gifted with a whimsical and unbusi
nesslike fancy. . . . He will pilfer
some knick-knack worth a few cents
in preference to a valuable bauble
which fails to take his eye. . . . Fel
dora hats are a particular weakness;
he has stolen dozens. . . . Hoban told
of a householder who was awakened
late one night by footsteps in his
bedroom. ... He lay still and
watched the sinister candle burglar
tiptoe about the room. . . . Finally
he remarked causally: “How’re ya
doin’? Remember, if you find any
thing of value we’re in fifty-fifty.” ...
The thief said “Sh-h-l” and tiptoed
to the window and out. . . . Candle
wax on carpets is the invariable
mark of this marauder, but the Long
Island Sherlocks have no other clue
* * •
The land that will harbor the 1939
World’s Fair is being leveled and
graded near Forest Hills. . . .
Sketches are even now being prepar
ed of the eye-popping wonders in
prospect. . . . And my Gee Whizz
Men insist that the prevailing decor
will be modernistic, like many of the
buildings in the Chicago hoopla. . . .
The Fair will serve at least one ex
tremely meritorious purpose: trans
portation facilities between Manhat
tan and Queens will be much improv
ed. what with the huge Tri-Boro
bridge spaning the river farther up
town and another subway being dug
to facilitate the travels of harried
commuters. . . .
• ♦ •
Carmela Ponselle (Rosa’s sis) who
is byway of being a Grade A opera- i
Today is the Days
4 By CLARK KINNAIRD •§
Tuesday, May 12; National Hoapifcl|B|
Day. Morning stars: Venus, Saturn,
Uranus, Jupiter. Evening stars: Mer
cury, Mars Neptune. Moonc last quar
ter Thursday.
SCANNING THE SKIES: On the
Sun. a man weighing 180 pounds on
Earth, would weigh two tons!
* * * .■ p.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Lincoln T. Ellsworth, b. 1880, ex-,
plorer who put 300,000 more square
miles under the U. S. Flag. He tfla,
the writer at a cocktail party the
other day that he has one of the
world’s worst memories for names ...
Rt. Rev. William T. Manning, b. 1886,
Episcopal bishop of New York . . .
Leßoy “Baby Leroy” Winebrenner,
b, 1932, cinemactor.
* • *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS j
May 12, 1789—The Tammany Bo
ciety or Columbian Order was found* |
ed in New York—as a Republican or
ganization t Formed as a benevolent
and fraternal organization, its pur
pose was to “combat the influence
of the aristocrats in politics”*
The name, borne originally by a
sachem of the Delawares who sold
land to William Penn, was suggested
by a “Society of St. Tammany”
which grew out of May Pole festiv
ities.
* * *
May 12, 1820—The girt from whom
the girls named Florence get their
name, was bom In Florence, Italy,
which is where she got her name.
This, of course was Florence Nightin
gale, daughter of a wealthy English
family who became one of the
world’s greatest humanitarians against
the opposition of her family and the
British army. >
All of her arguments about need
less suffering on the battlefield
; wouldn’t move the British War Os
; fice to agree to send women to the
Crimea to nurse the sick and wound
ed of the Russo-Britieh war. But elab
orate graphs the 33-year-old woman
made up to show how many of
, the men could be restored to quick
usefulness on the battlefield by com
petent nursing, were effective! Then
, her own family opposed the Scheme.
“Mark”, said Lord Stanley about
that time, “why, by breaking through
customs and prejudices, Miss Night
’ ingale has effected for her sex. She
has opened to them a new sphere of
usefulness.”
* * *
May 12, 1885—Maggie Clark died,
age 24, a few months after her mar
riage to George Washington Johnson,
with whom she had fallen in love
while he was her schoolteacher in
Glanford, Ontario* She was the in
spira tion of his poem “When You
and I Yere Young, Maggie.” which F
when set to music by J. A. Butter- *
field, an American, became one of (
the most enduringly popular ballads.
She was 18 when she became hto
pupil in his firs£ term as a teacher
in a little red schoolhouse that long
since disappeared.
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY-DAY '
20 Years Ago Today—James
nolly, commander-in-chief of the
Irish Revolutionary forces in the
Eastern rebellion was executed In
Dublin by British soldiers, the same
day the British prime minister ar
rived in Dublin in the role of peace
maker !
| (To be continued)
i* * *
IT’S TRUE
Smoking was interdioted by the
1 i n t ] ie 16til Century as a pagan
! *fte. 80 far a* is known, the inter
» diet was never removed.
Johannes Brahms was a wit, too. He
■ « • 1° chamber music with his
> riend Billroth, the Viennese sur
geon whose instrument was the cello,
a* “*** flatbed playing a new son
ata by Brahms Billroth cried: “My
) God, how you did punish that piano;
I could hardly hear myself. “Lucky
’ you,” replied Brahms.
The Irish Capt. Thomas Blood stole
the crown and royal regalia of Brit
ain from the Tower of London, akme,
da £ lif £ t! He was caught be
fore he could dispose of the loot, but
11 ®° a£, mlred his auda
clty that he set him free and gave
him a pension.
o fiTst well in the U.
• v'r 7 , by accident at
, the town au thorities
quickly ordered it walled up because
’ 2L t i*L? ffcnsive odor - » was three
, years before anyone thought of using
the gas as an illuminant.
The Little Minister” has earned
STjamre f ° r
yf a” &
of human pathos, and so I pass it
on. ... a young man wrote enclos-
W** na Pkln bearing the im
print of one of the well-known low
price cafeterias. ... He asked her
to place her squiggie on the napkin,
explaining: "I take my girl to eat in
this cafeteria because I can’t afford
tne more expensive restaurants. H
you signed it I could tell her I saw
you there one day and her opinion of
the place would be improved. She
wouldn’t feel badly about eating
there so much.” . . . Carmela oblig.
ed. . . . But speaking of opera folk,
Arturo Toscanini, the famed conduct
or, left New York in a blaze of tem
peramental fireworks such as only his
profession could produoe. ... He
was so distresed by the flare of a
photograph’s flashlight at hta fare
well performance that he sulked In the
wings and refused to take another
how. . . . Then, when he sailed on
the Champlain a couple of days later,
he walked up the gangplank in a
heavy overcoat on one of the hottest
days so far this year, stationing
guards to keep the photographers
and n- wshawki back from his state
room coor—guards and, of all thngs.
a press-agent. These musicians are
certainly cards! . .
Some time back I ran a column
about check-room cuties and ciga
rette girls m the various cut-up salons
of the town. . . . i omitted the most
engaging trio of all: Irene La Bonte,
Lillian Karkruff and Irene Bartish,
of the Rockefeller Center Rainbow
Room. . . . They are incorporated
under the name of Bonkabar, a neut
welding of their last names, and each
of the three put up capita! to float
the venture. . . . They were the first
gais in town to own a cigarette con
cession in a night club. ... At th*
moment they s.re engaged in writing
their joint memoirs.