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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR SnWilfol) wßflihjlimcs Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at th© Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 50 Six Months 375 Three Months .2222222222222222 195 one Month ——.22222222222222 65 One week 22222222222222 .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 PREVENT ACCIDENTS. Since the installation of the new bus schedules, which, we must confess is a decided improvement over the dilapidated street car system long in vogue here, many people have given patronage to the company who, heretofore have used their pri vate cars in going to and from their homes to business. These patrons are entitled to every safeguard the city and the Savan nah Electric Company can throw around them. There are cer tain dangers that, once they are called to the attention of Mayor Gamble, he will undoubtedly use his powerful influence toward correcting, if not entirely eliminating them. So many private cars have been removed from the streets to accommodate the new bus lines, we are sure a few more cor ners given to their use, and for the safety of patrons and pedes trians, will cause little adverse comment. Especially in the downtown district where the dangers are greatest, the bus driv ers have contracted the habit of stopping, anywhere from five feet from the curbing at corners to the center of the street. This is particularly true of East Broad, Broughton, Drayton streets, and the turns of the squares. This is dangerous and should not be permitted. Why not at each corner provide sufficient space, remove the private car privileges, as has been done around Johnson square, and give this room for bus stops. This should be done for the safety of the passengers. At Broughton and Drayton streets there are three lanes for private drivers. Woe betide him who uses the wrong one and causes an accident. Yet, every time a bus comes north, switches into the east lane for a stop, and then, without warning to the car coming north in the right lane, with out regard for the car immediately to his rear, swings at a left angle to the straightaway. Some day a serious accident is going to occur. Upon whom should the responsibility be placed ? Fast driving, in its proper place may be all right. Take a ride out on the line going south on East Broad street. He is in deed of tough fibre who can stand the jar upon body and nerves as the bus, traveling from fifteen to thirty miles per hour, slams on the air brake and comes to a sudden stop. This may be neces sary to keep schedule, but the passengers who have to undergo the ordeal have learned to grip their seats like grim death to a dead “nigger” and hold on until a complete stop is made. This does not make for holding to schedule. Here again, some elderly man or woman will receive an injury. Whose fault will it be? Correction and prevention is far better than cure. RELIGIOUS INTOLERANCE. The Savannah Daily Times does not subscribe to intolerance In any form, particularly of that dangerous type that may affect men because of their particular creed or religion. This danger ous perversion of the truth has no place in the American form of government. Nor is it permitted to germinate in that other great English speaking race, the British government. The Brit ish government was given a mandate over Palestine. From out of this has grown what is known as the Zionist cause, which is not a mere policy of a party, but an obligation of England by which all parties are bound and which all parties accept. His Excellency, the Governor General of Canada, a disting uished British statesman in a recent address said: “What are the facts on which our Palestine policy is based? The first is that Palestine has never been a nation since it ceased to be Jewish. Its Arab peoples were never given a nation; they were only the scattered fringes of the great Arab race, whose home was in Arabia, and for centuries they were an unconsidered fragment of the Turkish empire.’’ “The second fact is that it is desirable, in the interests not only of the Jewish race but of civilization, to provide for a Jew ish National Home. What does a National Home mean ? It does not mean a Jewish state. Palestine is, and I hope will remain an integral part of the British empire. It does not mean that Palestine is to be swamped by Jewish emigrants to the detri ment of the Arab inhabitants, for these older inhabitants have equal rights with any new comers. It simply means* that its gates art open for the return of Jews to their historic fatherland in such number as at any moment the economic situation permits.” “The prosperity of the old inhabitants, the Arabs, depends upon the prosperity of Palestine as a whole, and to this the new comers have most nobly contributed. By their new and scientific methods of agriculture they are raising the whole status of the Arab farmer. In their industrial works, like the great electrical power business on the Jordan, they are giving employment to thousands of Arabs, and making them skilled workmen. The consequence is that Palestine today is almost the most pros perous community on earth. I think, too, that their prosperity will continue.’’ It affords the Savannah Daily Times pleasure to record this tribute to a great race. We trust it gives a clearer conception of what is known as the Zionist movement. * " ——No. 2: Formative Years— SENATOR BORAH’S LIFE STORY IN SKETCHES * By C. H. Crittenden, Central Pres* Artist Having , absorbed what Tom’s Prairie school had to offer, young Will Borah was sent to Enfield, M., coHege (in reality merely an academy) some 25 mites from his home.- History and literature were his favorite subjects. Borah belonged to one of the Mterary sooieties and ** enjoyed debating. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— HOOVER WORRIES G. O. P. With Evident Efforts to “Dictate” DISTURBING HARMONY By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON, May 13—-G. O. P. managers have no notion of renomi nating former President Hoover, nor have they any idea that he will be renominated against their wishes. But he worries them, for all that. No, he cannot be renominated, but he can create a "scene” if he insists on trying, and they do not want a “scene’’. The Democrats would not object to a moderate amount of excitement to brighten up their Philadelphia con vention which promises to be pretty flat. The Republicans, however, are desirous of all the harmony they can get. And it will not look very har monious if they are compelled to be rough with the titular leader of their party to keep him quiet. * ♦ ♦ TRY TO DICTATE? Whai the G. O. P.’s real bosses wish to heaven is that the Palo Altonian would announce that he "doesn’t choose to run" again. Yet they are mightily suspicious that he no Intention of making such an announcement, or he would have done it long before this, they be lieve. Or, even if he doesn’t plan to run again, they are fearful that he will try to dictate the nomination of someone other than hiniself—and the Republican platform, too. If he does they propose to choke him off, but, as previously remarked, it inevitably will be at the expense of a “scene”. They were hopeful that the California primaries would convince him that he was a back number. Those pri maries somewhat strengthtened him instead. * * *• GENERALLY OPPOSED G. O. P. conservatives and liberals alike are anti-Hooverian. The liberals oppose him on general principles. The conservatives are sure he could not be elected anyway, and they want a candidate who, they think, may be NOW FOR THE MOTHER OF THE BROOD! SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1936 White at Enfield Borah bed his first taste of poWteai life. At tending a Republican cetebra • tion of Ciarfi.viH’s election he ' was called upon unexpectedly to giYe a speech as the scheduled speakers had not appeared. , Although somewhat nervous his speech was a success and at tracted attention. able to win. Not all of them would favor him, for that matter, if they thought he could win. It will be re called that some of their number des perately fought his nomination In 1928. It is his potential nuisance value which is so high. * ♦ ♦ NOT G. O. P. ENOUGH The irony of the situation lies in the fact that many G. O. P.-ites al ways have considered Hoover a bet ter Democrat than a Republican. He was something of a Democratic “possibility” for the presidential nom ination in 1920. For example, he verg ed on being a free trader; was a low tariff advocate at least. The Smoot- Hawley tariff law notoriously was passed against his judgment. When he was an aspirant for the Republican presidential nomination in early 1928, the then Senator James E. Watson of Indiana was an aspirant also. I was “rounding up’’ presidential “possibilities" at tjie time. Calling on Senator Watson in due course, I asked, “Well, why are your qualifications superior to Secretary Hoover’s?" (Hcover was secretary of commerce then.) "The ouUl nding one,” said the senator, “is that I’m a Republican.” ♦ * ♦ DESIGNATIONS FADE Today: Is former President Hoover a Dem ocrat, "gumming up" the chances of a Republican party, which now has become Democratic? —states’ rights, et cetera. And is President Roosevelt a Re publican (a Democrat, so- called), fighting for centralization? And what is Governor Alf M. Lan don, who, presumably, will get the nominal Republican nomination? An old-time Democratic? Or an old-time Republican? Or mixed? And what will he be opposing, if nominated? It is enough to make the politico economic brai~. reel. IllEs i Borah as a young lawyer in 1906. You’re Telling Me? The higher you climb the harder the earth feels—if you have to come down to it in a hurry. There is no price tag or tax on sleep but the way some folks avoid it one would think sleep is the most expensive commodity in the world. ♦ ♦ ♦ It’s a queer world in which the most kind-hearted women take pride in the feathers on their hats and the fur around their shoulders. » ♦ * The flivver plane is almost upon us, says a news dispatch. Gosh, we hop ethey honk before they hit us! ♦ * ♦ Success hint: Keep your chin up in the air—and your nose down! Why do most people who try to be the “life of the party have such a deadly sense of hu mor? The anti-prohibitionists were right when they said the old-fashioned saloon would not come back. None of the new bars—which are on every down-town corner—contains a cus pidor. Factographs The expression “Rome was not built in a day’’ is believed to have originated with the poet Claudius Claudianus, one of the last of th' Latin poets (about 400 A. D.) Claud ianus wrote: “What Roman power slowly built, an unarmed traitor in stantly overthrew." The provert gradually became modified' until it survives in its present form. Birds locate earthworms through their sense of sight, although it is commonly believed that they have r strong sense of hearing. This belief is fostered by the observation of bird: “cocking the'r heads" as though to listen, but scientists have determined that this physical act is merely an aid to vision. Borah remained at Enfield only one year and did not complete the preparatory course. He had no political ambitions at the time and was at least not planning to go to congress. He merely liked political campaigns for the opportunities they pre sented for oratory. He liked the drama of the thing. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— WHAT WILL FRANCE DO With Monetary and Arms Policies UNDER SOCIALIST RULE? By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer WHAT WILL a Socialist govern ment of France do? Well, strange to say, international financiers seem less distrubed over it than the election of a nationalist government.. It is the nationalist gov ernments —the Fascists and the Nazis —which have been disturbing world affairs. A Socialist government in France is less likely to disturb monetary con ditions in favor of French bankers. It is likely to have an "international mind” —to endeavor to reach out for a monetary stabilization agreement rather than resort to a monetary war to keep the French franc on top. That seems to be the reaction among international bankers. * « * Halt Arms’ Ra«e? Furthermore, a Social government is likely to try to hal the mad arms’ race which has seized the entire world. That is another belief among well-informed men. But such a halt cannot be put into effect if Nazi Germany continues arm ing. A French Socialist or Commun ist remains a Frenchman—and a Frenchman is deadly afraid of a Ger man Nazi. There is a danger, however, that arms’ expenditures will reach such a figure that peoples will refuse to bear the burden. There may be up risings. Net every ruler can bring in a victory to have the days —as did Mussolini. Much more is being spent on arms in the world today than on relief or on measures of public welfare. The United States leads in arms’ expenditures. In this nation, arms expenditures total half as much as relief expenditures. Yet the cry has been to lower relief expenditures and to rake rms’ expenditures. Similar conditions apply in Great Britain. • * * In U. S. It is not the Socialists who will amount to anything in this year’s na tional election in the United States. Nor the Communists. No; it will a body of protestors embodied in such organization as the Townsend and Coughlin groups. Both are to hold na tional conventions in Cleveland, fol lowing the conventions of the Social ists and the Republicans in the same city. The Townsend and Coughlin groups are composed not merely of sincere protestors but damagogues as well. These organizations contain the germs of Fascism, which could de- The Grab Bag One-Minute test 1. Where is the Black Forest? 2. What is pewter? 3. Is anthracite hard or soft coal? Hints on Etiquette A hostess should lead the conver sation when her guests are strangers to one another. After the usual in troductions she should try to steer the conversation into channels that might interest the entire group. Words of Wisdom Knowledge is powe.—Bacon. Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day usually ha\e literary ability and originality. They are ( close-mouthed regarding their own affairs, and their circle of friends is usuall small and circum scribed. Horoscope for Sunday Persons whose birthday is Sunday are apt to have some pessimism in their nature, and although they see the bright side, are still conscious of the cloud overhead. One-Minute Test Answers 1. In southeastern Germany. 2. An alloy of tin and lead or other metal. 3. Hard. ARID. INDEED’ Ar easterner visiting a small town in the west attempted to start up s friendly conversation with a native. "Can you tell me," he said, “what ‘s the status of the liquor supply around here?” “Status? ’Veil, sir, I don’t get you." “I mean, do you encounter much difficulty in obtaining liquor in town?" "Well, sir," said the native “all I can tell you is that a little while back they turned off the water supply fo~ a week and nobody knew about it until the church caught fire." SOe Returning to his home at Tom’s Prairie, young Borah told his father that he desired to be a lawyer, but he received ne en couragement. His father de cided not to send WiM back to school, partly because of finan cial reasons. Will turned to the ' stage, but his first show failed. To Be Continued. velop under a dosage of hysteria, critics assert. Such groups may follow President Roosevelt in the campaign, or they may organize themselves into blocs, supporting nobody. That would aid . the Republican candidate. Ammunition for hysteria is pro vided, unintentionally, by wealthy in terests backing the Republicans. The i return to huge salaries, the fight on moderate measures for the middle class, etc., have coagulated large « masses of despairing people. Father Coughlin, at the same time, , cries "red" at nearly all the Roose [ velt measures (which, ironically, • many of his folowers say do not go ; far enough). Thus we have a situa tion much like that which preceded the Nazi rise in Germany. (Read the L early Hitler speeches against the So cial Democratic government. Amer ican labor, however, is somewhat more wary of promises, for when Hit . ler rose to power labor unions were abolished.) ♦ * ♦ Many Truths Spoken Many truths, however, are spoken within these blocs. As all types of convention pass in review before ob servers in Cleveland, it will be inter esting to disentangle the wishes of the people from the skeins of de magogic oratory. Those wishes signify hopes unre warded. Perhaps the political lead ers of the nation ought to sit through all the conventions to be held in Cleveland this summer. People are searching for real lead ers the word over. That is why they often entrap themselves, for, in their eagerness to escape despair, they fall into the pit, covered with silken webs of oratory and demagoguery. My New York By James Aswell . (Copyright, 1936,, Central Press Association) NEW YORK, May 13.—The Bow ery begins again in the One Hun dred and Twenties along Third Ave nue. The clean poverty of German town vanishes and you find again some of the drab hopelessness of the lower end of the island. Scratch Park (no one in the neigh borhood knows it by any other name) is a daub of pleasant green, but in it lounge the most depressing folk imaginable. Ib isn’t that they arc ragged or dirty. They have, many of them, faces lined by a malevolent despair. Once upon a time this was one of the most dangerous purlieus in town Gangs roamed the streets, eager tc rob and murder. Lost brownskin women leaned from windows. It we; suicide to be ou taster dark. Now most of that has been cleaned out only the dregs of the early depravity remain—too dazed or too lazy tc move on. And a little blue-eyed, golden haired girl, romping merrily acros: the green, unaware that she was, per haps, the herald of a new and bright er civilization. ♦ ♦ ♦ Indeed all the parks of the town are warming sights on the first days of warm weather. You can look out the window, as I do, and tell what the weather is by the number of peo pie in the park and their apparel. Now it chances that ths hive in which I have a cubicle overlooks ?. park, long somnolent, which ha' sprung to life this winter with the painful labors of the WPA: they are erecting a wading pool for chjl cren. A hospital flank the park or the other side, and I am told tha! the directors of the hospital are pro testing t.bout the wading pool. They claim it will be noisy and disturb pa tients. I can’t understand that. If I were ailing on a hospital cot I should be soothed by the distant clamor of small voices, the shouts of boys and girls at play in a pool. Those are among the pleasantest sounds or this earth and to the sick they should signify youth and health. But the grave msdicoes sem to feel dis ferently. Instead they equip their hospita’ rooms with radio earphones, on th assumption that the nasal yearnings of crooners and the lush promise of the rabble-rousing politicians ar more comforting sounds than the laughter of children in a pool. It ir a strange world and a stranger town ’ ♦ * ♦ There is mystery afoot at the Para dise, that tinkly temple of noctuma’ mirth. Mrs. Franklin D. Roo*«*«»tt Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD » Copyright, 1536, for this Newspaper by Central H?ss Association Wednesday, May 13; 312th day. 160th year of U. S. Independence; 40 days till summer. Zodiac sgn: Tau rus. Birthstone, emerald. Moon; last quarter tomorrow. Scanning the skies: In Britain government studies have proved that the best catches of herring may al ways be expected at full moon. The greater degree of moonlight may at tract the shoals to the surface, or the movement of the water caused by the moon may affect the ocean currents ano cause concentration of the my riads of tiny ocean creatures and plants which form the food of her rings and other fish. ♦ ♦ ♦ NOTABLE NATIVITIES Joe Louis, b. 1914 in Lafayette Ala., prizefighter. Born on the 13th, he won the amateur light-heavyweight championship on Friday the 13th. —Jean Starr Untermyer. b. 1887 poet. . . . David B. Robertson, b’ 1877, presdent of Brotherhood of Lo comotive Firemen and Engineers. . . Samuel Rufus Rosoff, b. 1882, builder of New York subways and steamship line operator. YESTERDAYS May 13, 1607—At a place they named Jamestown, in Virginia, con struction was begun on the first • dwellings of the permanent English settlement in America. A total of 105 Englishmen had arrived in three ships in an expedition led by Rev. Robert Hunt, Edward M. Wingfield and Capt. John Smith. All three overruled Capt. Bartholomew Gos nold, commander of the ship, in his opposition to the site selected’for the settlement. He argued that the marshy isthmus would be unhealthy Before autumn 50 of the colonists were dead, including Gosnold! Same date that construction of Jamestown was begun, the first gov ernment council in America was hel* there, with Smith, Hunt, Gosnold Wingfield, Christopher Newport,’ John Ratcliffe, John Martin and George Kendall as members. May 13, 1857—Sira Ronald Ross was born in Almora, India He was 35 when he began the series of in vestigations in which he discovered malarial parasites in the body of a mosquito, and proved that the chain of infection was from man to mos quito to man. He established that only the anopheline mosquito could transmit malaria and from that mo ment began the war of destruction against this species which was to make life in the tropics tolerable, th© building of the Panama Canal pos sible, and Sir Ronald one of human ity’s greatest benefactors. (Later researched established that yellow fever was likewise mosquito borne.) May 13, 1888— ’ Casey at the Bat” was first recited, by DeWolf Hopper, of course, a few days after its first publication in a San Francisco news paper. The poem was written by E L. Thayer, Harvard graduate and son of a wealthy textile manufacturer. The original Casey was Daniel M. Casey, and the immortal strikeout didn’t happen in Mudville, but in a game in Philadelphia between the lo cal teams (this was 1887) and New York. Casey was a pitcher and his batting average was only .200, and he might have been expected to strike out. However, he had knocked a ho mer earlier in the game, the fans, and he himself, thought he could do it again. (A copy of the poem will be sent to readers who enclose an addressed en velope with three-cent stamp.) ♦ ♦ ♦ THE WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Tnother great assault, the ninth against Verdum and the third west of the Meuse, was begun by the German Crown Prince. Three divisions, including fresh Pom eranian troops, were employed. Cap ture of the whole of Hill 304, where the Germans had gained a foothold on May 5 and 6, was the objective Seven attempts in all were made here' The culminating one carried the Pomeranians up a ravine and brook, eld to the top of the divide between Hil. .1 304 and Le Mort Homme, and resulted only In an insecure tenure of trenches still swept by French fire from two directions. For this posi tion the Germans paid an estimated 15,000 casualties in the week’s effort. (To be continued) IT’S TRUE The mechanic who made the first phonograph from rough designs of Thomas A. Edison, didn’t know what the machine was! Just supposing there had been birth control: Charles Wesley was the 18th child, Franz Schubert the 13th, Sir Walter Scott the 9th. The Alps were once covered by a sea! Hares can jump 15 feet. Volcanic energy, piped like steam, is used for heating and cooking in houses on Mt. Etna, Italy. Comfort for the neighbors: Studies of 50 child prodigies f 10 years ago shows “gifted" children grow duller as they grow up. While Britain spends $10,000,000 a year on royal trappings half of the population of the United Kingrom, or 22,500,000 are rated undernourished by Sir James Boyd Orr, economist. Nine million of these must subsist on $2 a week or less. The preceding paragraph is an an swer to a Pennsylvanian, who evident ly forgot this is supposed to be a democracy and resented a recent ’•slighting" reference here to kings. Typical of other letters with which your co-Tesponaent was straffed this week: "What is the explanation of the statement, ’Twins do not have to have the same father’?” "Did New York ever use red bandit-chasing cars?” "The first shock in the greatest American earthquake was Dec. 16, 1811, not March 26, 1812, as you stat ed” . . . "How many candidates are admitted to West Point annually?” Queries, reproofs are welcomed. Ad dress them to Clark Kinnaird, cars of this paper. my spies affirm, frequently visits the cabaret with parties of friends be cause she has a protegee in the chorus, a grave-eyed little girl named Judy Williams. Judy sits with the President’s wife and chats awhile, but she refuses to reveal what they talk about. Indeed, when I got wind of the business and sent word back that I'd like to ask Judy about her fine friend home In a panM

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