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INTOLERABLE ADMISSIONS.
M nraat have indeed shocked the sensibilities, if not entirely
destroyed the confidence of the gentlemen from Grace Methodist
Church, in the result of their call on Mayor Gamble last Friday
and the reported admission of the head of the police power of
Savannah that he was unable to enforce the laws of the state
and city as regards the traffic in whiskey. Such an admission,
if made, can only point out two morals. First, that Mayor Gamble
is a weakling, or secondly, that he must be in league with or
have an understanding with those engaged in this nefarious, il
legal traffio. There is no escape from these conclusions.
That the law-abiding citizens of the community may know
who is the actual responsible head of the police department of
the City of Savannah, we quote the law as laid down in Atkin
son’s Code, 1918, as follows: “Paragraph No. 427—-Head of the
Police Department, and General Superintendence Over. The
Mayor, as the head of the Police Department, shall have and
exercise a general superintendence over the members of the po
lice force, and may, at any time, appoint the mode and places in
which the policemen shall be stationed, by written orders to the
officer in command, by whom such orders shall be obeyed and
promulgated.”
Again we quote a little law that places within the power
of the Mayor of Savannah the undoubted and unquestioned right
to stop the sale of whiskey in Savannah, should he honestly de
sire to do so. Paragraph No. 428 of Atkinson’s Code, 1918, states:
“May shut up public resorts, when, etc. By virtue of the powers
granted by law, to the Mayor and City Council, the Mayor shall
cause to be shut up any place of public resort when the main
tainence of order, the public safety, or tranquility, may, in his
judgment, require it.” These two sections of the law carry no
uncertain meaning nor or they capable of but one construction.
We ask the gentlemen of Grace Methodist Chucrh, has Mayor
Gamble made any effort to enforce either of these laws?
We have at the head of the police department a fearless
officer. He is known to be that type of officer who would not hesi
tate to execute an order of his superior. Has Mayor Gamble
ever issued a written order to his captain of police in accordance
with the above law? Except, as is often alleged, to punish some
not in sympathy with his political ambitions, can he name a
single barroom in Savannah which he has tried to close ? Put a
real man in the office of the Mayor, or let the present Mayor give
the necessary written order to John J. Clancy, Captain of Police.
This officer will never be cowardly enough to admit he is unable
to enforce the law. Give him orders and no further sermons
from the pulpit will be required to demand deceney and respect
for law and order in Savannah.
Do not hide behind the bootlegger as an excuse* Uncle Sam
has thrown fear into his heart and win give him the required at
tention. The Police Department of Savannah, a« a whole, is
composed of good men. Pay them a wage that wiM permit them
to live decently and beyond the temptations of the lawbreaker
to influence his acts, give him proper orders and support; he can
and will at least reduce the traffic to a minimum, if not entirely
■top its sale. Our judgment is that Mayor Gamble lacks the morefl
courage to give Captain Clancy the necessary orders to enforce
the liquor laws in the City of Savannah.
TIME TO TAKE NOTICE.
Now that the highest court in the state has upheld the con
stitutionality of the acts of Governor Talmadge, and the banks
have paid, or are preparing to pay over the funds in dispute, we
hear no more of the necessity of an extra session of the State
Legislature for the passing of an appropriation bill. The state
government is being carried on legitimately and at reduced ex
pense, and the mass of the people can turn their thoughts to
those measures of government that concern them most.
Touching the happiness and contentment of every citizen,
from the humblest to the highest, is the question of taxation. To
those blessed with riches, little need be said byway of argument
to convince them of the burden they are bearing. Having learned
their lessons in the school of experience, they have long realized
the underlying causes of onerous taxes, and, today are bearing
the brunt of the battle to correct the pernicious evils of waste
and extravagance in government.
To the average citizen, he who is today paying the bulk
of the taxes, those hidden taxes that are daily being paid by him
in the food he eats, the clothes he wears, and, we are almost
tempted to say, the air he breathes, must be brought home this
fact—it matters not how, when, or where taxes are placed, in
the end the ultimate consumer pays them. You cannot soak the
rich without soaking the poor. The professional politician knows
this, though he dare not so inform the mass of the voters.
The citizens of Georgia may never again have an opportuni
ty to pass upon readjustment of the tax system of the state
should there be a failure to pass the fifteen mill overall amend
ment to the State Constitution in the coming election. They may
never again be permitted to relieve their homes of heavy taxes
and readjust the tax structure of the state that all forms of prop
erty bear its just proportion of carrying on government eco
nomically run. If the act accomplishes nothing more, it will be
• sompelling factor to enforce the practice of economy*
SENATOR BORAH’S LIFE STORY IN SKETCHES
By C. H. Crittenden,' Central Press A*
Hyiri
Kk 1
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Borah’s father desired him to
become a stock dealer, but this
ype of work did not appeal to
orah. * The answer to Will’s
prayer for more schooling came
from Lyons, Kas. One of his
elder < sisters, whose husband
was a lawyer, lived there. They
invited Will to come to Lyons
and he left Fairfield with high
hopes. Receiving some help
from his sister, Borah spent a „
' / .year in school there..
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCJE— '
STEIWER IS A GUESS
Because of Being Chosen Keynoter
FOR VICE PRESIDENT
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 14.—The G.
O. P. management’s selection of Sen
ator Frederick Steiwer of Oregon to
"keynote” at the Cleveland conven
tion has led to considerable talk of
him as a vice presidential possibility.
Vice presidential guessing, how
ever, necessarily is very wild until the
presidential choice has been made.
The politicians’ idea is to “balance
the ticket.”
Consequently the second place
nomination is dependent on the
nomination for first place.
GEOGRAPHY *WRONG
If Governor Alf M. Landon is
named in Cleveland, Steiwer may be
considered to have a certan amount
of suitability. His geography is
wrong. Geographically speaking, an
easterner should be picked to match
the Kansan But Landon himself
seems to be suite popular among
conservative eastern voters. In fact,
he is popular enough in that quarter
to have caused western progressives
to voice suspicions that he is a dis
guised reactionary. Now Steiwer is a
mild liberal. As a running mate with
Landon, he might give a measure of
reassurance to the uneasy progres
sive element.
On ;he other hand, he wouldn’t go
at all well wtih Senator William E
Borah.
He doubtless would be satisfactory
to Borah, indeed, but such a ticket
would be as badly balanced as it is
easy to imagine. Two western men!
And two more or less progressives!
The east disregarded! Conservatism
ignored completely! Not that Steiwer
is immoderately progressive, but that
would be his atmosphere, in combi
nation with the Idaho statesman.
BODAH’S STATUS*
Even some conservative Republican
politicians would be reconcilable with
Borah if he were not so uncomprom
ising.
They honestly he would
They honestly think he would
ITALY’S BIG PUSH NOW
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1936
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ISISI
After this he taught a country
school for a year or so, never
forgetting his ambition to be
come a lawyer. Thus in 1885
Will announced that he would
enter the University of Kansas.
As a sub-freshman Borah did
most of his work in Latin and
English., The next year, 1886,
he took as many courses as he
could get in history and litera
ture, with one course each in
elocution and composition.!
make a formidable campaign. He has
the natural qualifications to make
him a dangerous radio competitor of
President Roosevelt. And he isn’t
actually, upon an examination of his
record, so very radical. He has that
reputation, but he never has voted
very radically in the senate. The
progressives never have considered
him dependably one of themselves.
Moreover, he is old—past 70 al
ready.
If elected, he reasonably could be
counted on to die in the White
House, making way for a real con
servative to succeed him—provided,
of course, that a conservative was in
line for the office.
UNCOMPROMISING *
Conservative G- O. P. politicians
are sure that Borah will not consent
to run on the same ticket with a vice
presidential candidate of their selec
tion.
If he would accept the presidentia l
nomination iwth. say, Depresentative
James W. Wadsworth as his partner,
they might be glad of his campaign
ing ability to win at the polls, reck
oning on his associate to finish his
term for hm.
But they know that he wouldn’t
acquiesce in a Wadsworth.
And a Steiwer is too liberal for
them.
STEIWER AND BOD*AH
Yet Steiwer unquestionably wqs
picked as the Republican’ “keynoter”
in part with a view to placating
Borah.
The G. O. P. management wants
him to THINK that he has had the
predominant voice (though not nom
inated) in dictating his party’s plat
form and the choice of its candidate.
And Steiwer is one of his best sen
atorial friends.
The impression given is that he
has been deferred to.
It will be difficult for him to "tafce
a walk” after this concession has
been made to him.
Besides, Steiwer has the oratory
and the presence to make film a good
keynoter.
•No. 3: Borah Enters Law
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* Borah in 1912, at 47.
1
You’re Telling
Me?
DR. ZADOK DUMBKOFF, who is
capable of more dumb ideas than a
half dozen movie producers, was in
again today with his latest brain
storm which, he believes, will assure
him a front seat in the ranks of in
come tax worries.
• ♦ ♦
‘ Get a load of this”, said the
eminent mountebank in his best
Oxford English, “I’m about to go
into the business of renting my
ears to the radio business.
• * *
“I have just been reading,” he con
tinued, ‘ that the great drawback to
radio is the sponsor and performers
have no means of knowing how many
folk are listening to their program.
In fact, they are not certain anyone
is listening.
♦ * *
“Now, here’s where I come in.
I, Dr. Dumbkopf, will listen to
their program—for a price of
course. I will sign contracts to
listen to any program, assuring
said sponsor and said players
they are really being litened to.
• * *
“Here is my price list: I will lis
ten to a symphony orchestra or a
cracking good dance band for $1 an
hour. I will listen a radio comedian
for $5. Applause or laughter on my
part will, of course, be $2.50 extra.”
“How much,” we wanted to
know, “will you charge for lis
tening to a politician making a
campaign speech?”
• * *
“One hundred berries a minute or
a flat rate of $5,000 an hour. And,
as you will agree, I will be under
paid at that!”
NOW HE’S SILENT
“There’s plenty of time for Joan to
trunk of getting married,” said the
husband. "Let her wait until the
right man comes along.”
“I don’t see why she should wait
that long,” answered the wife. “I
didn’t.”
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Borah left the university in the
early spring of 1887, being
threatened with tuberculosis.
He soon regained his strength,
but he never returned to the
university. The uncompleted
freshman year at the university
marks his farthest advance .
toward a formal education. Yet *
he later became an authority on '
constitutional law.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WALL STREET’S WORRIES
(And Why Does It Have Worries?)
NOT SHARED BY OTHERS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
THIS WRITER has been mulling
over thoughts gathered at the annual
convention of newspaper publishers
in New York. More optimism was
displayed than at any convention
since 1929. That is true, too, of other
conventions and trade meetings.
Yet Wall Street is gloomy.
There surely is an underlying rea
son. Markets are sensitive to changes.
Is is that Wall Street sees France
turning to the left?
Even if France does not turn left,
will it not devalue the franc, causing
the “necessity” for a currency read
justment through the world?
’
My New York
James ?As-weU
NEW YORK, May 14.—Alfred Lunt
and Lynn Fontanne are undoubtedly
the most ornamental and colorful of
al theatrical married pairs Their
current vehicle, “Idiot’s Delight,”
which has just been tapped by the
Pulitzer Prize Committee, is only a
so-so play in these eyes, but the sound
and fury of the piece signifies more
than it otherwise would because of
the bright presence of the Lunts.
She began her career in England
as a child sprite on a high wire in a
fantasy, and he in Wisconsin’s Car
roll College Glee Club. They have
been married about 16 years and
never once have the gossip writers
been able to whisper a rift in their
felicity. They like the same books,
the same plays, the same movies.
They think alike, and even look alike
from some angles. They have the
same political convictions and always
quarrel spiritedly over the same
things and make up immediately.
They take their vacations together
and refute the legend that opposites
attract.
♦ * ♦
Now the gals are invading another
field once traditionally consecrated
to males. I refer to the profession of
“sandwich man”—or “sandwich wom
an.” Time was when you could scour
the streets of New York without turn
ing up a single lady parader bearing
an advertising poster front and back,
her head through the middle of the
hnge—but no longer.
Also the old-time sandwich man
was an unkempt and often a tatter
ed figure, pacing out his alloted span
of hours t get a meal or change with
whch to purchase a slug of hooch in
some Bowery “smoke joint.” The
girls have prettied up the calling.
Resplendent in Gypsy garb they
ballyho tea rooms (I am reliably in
formed that none of these is a real
Gypsy, among whom such lowly la
bor is considered undignified) they
advertise beauty parlors, their locks
freshly crisped into the newest fash
ion in permanents, or show off chic
hats in behalf of millinery stores.
There is one serious-looking
sandwich lass who carries a double
board upon whch are affixed samples
of stamps for collectors offered by a
Nassau street firm.
For the first time in many moons
I peeked in at "Connie’s Inn,” once a
Harlem oasis of renown and now
Times Square’s citadel of colored en
tertainment.
It seemed to me that the chocolate
tinted performers were lighter of hue
than I had ever seen them. Most
of them, indeed, looked as though
they had merely had a slight sun
tan. I Inquired of the redoubtable ,
Conniet whether this might have
some anthropoligical significance.
He said no, he had only developed a
special spotlight, a sort of gray
green beam, whch lightened the skins
of al who basked in It.
Adventures in thrift: There’s a
place near Coenties Slip, on lower
Manhattan, which offers free fire
wood to those who will carry it away
. . . That big biscuit factory, on
Long Island, dispenses broken crack
ers and wafers at a dime a pound
from a side door. ... In East 13th
street there is a shop which vends, at
a fraction of the reglar price, cakes
and chocolates whch have been
cracked or had their designs damaged
in transit. ... A retired lawyer has
advertised recently that he will un
dertake to give advice and mellow
wisdom to all comers affected with
travails of the heart or Big Problems,
gratis—because it amuses him. |
A aJl x
Borah returned to Lyons to read
law in the office of his brother
in-law. . Thus in 1889 he had
met the requirements for admis
sion to the bar. Will nW* a
special study of evidence, hop*
ing to become a great trial lew*
yer. His first experience with
the law came with cases in the
justice’s court, cases with which
his brother-in-law did not care
to trouble himself./
To Be Continued.
And if France stabilizes its franc
on a lower basts will the European
money invested in America not return
to Europe? Would that not precipitate
general liquidation of securities?
Who can answer such questions?
QUESTIONS UNANSWERER
The very fact that such questions
cannot be answered indicates how lit
tle we have progressed since 1930 in
searching for the actual causes of
general disaster.
The rise and fall of prices remains
a mysterious gamble—often fatal.
Why has there been no real effort
to get at causes?
The answer may be this: The gov
ernment could not carry on its “pros
perity by spendingy” polic nor could
private business put forth huge capi
tal issues and run up prices if causes
were uncovered for the general view.
Both government and buiness are
in the dangerous process of pyramid
ing again. The time for the break may
not have arrived yet. Indeed, infla
tion is looked for prior to a break.
But what people do not see is the
fact we already are existing on money
that we owe—not on our earnings.
« « «
WHY?
What seems to be the reason for
this:
We, therefore; have underconsump
tion, not because we haven’t enough
money to go around, but because we
have found no means under our pres
ent setup to give these workless mil
lions the chance to produce and to
share in what they produce.
The circle is narrowing and nar
rowing—thus, we shall have larger
and larger underconsumption (or
“overpoduction”, as it is falsely term
ed).
And we spend more and more on
these unemployed, but never enough.
Finally, we may begin “pr|nting”
money when the real money giveh
out.
But nothing will have been solved,
yet more men will be out of work.
x • * *
ANY BRAVE MAN?
There is no likelihood that the is
sue will be looked squarely in the
face by either political party.
Both parties fear being called “rad
ical”.
Yet the soundest thing that could
be done for business and for Wall
Street would be a forthright redistri
bution, not of wealth, but of earning
participation. In brief, shorter hours,
broader distribution of jobs, co-oper
ative sharing of earnings would be a
bull point, not a bear point, in the
long run.
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
Well, what do you know?” says he
to me.
“Nothing at all,” says I to him,
politely and he went his way and I
went mine.
But my answer wasn’t true . . .
You can’t pass 40 years without gath
ering a considerable amount of fact
and opinion. Some of it sticks to you
some of it blows away like dandelion
fuzz. Some is useful, some is just a
burden. Some is solemn stuff, and
•some is trivial but pleasant. . . .
So, whatever they may be worth, I
guess I know a few things.
I know that some sunsets are mag
nificent and others are just smears
across the sky . . . that it’s fun t<
watch a baby getting older and learn
ing things . . . that a meadow lark
on a fence post makes a thrillin;
song . . . that wild geese flying over
in the night, honking as they go, d<
something to the heart . . . that
chickens are silly things . . . and
seem to have.
that cows have more sense than they
I know that friendships is good.
. . . that responsibility is better thai
no responsibility . . . that child
childhood isn’t altogether a happy
time of life . . . that children mai
shrewd analyses of their parents . .
that worry is futile but practically
unavoidable . . . tha tyou waste
your time crying over spilt milk but
that’s why you cry . . . that when
you’re getting a cold you’re likely to
be peevish.
I know that women think men an
funny . . . that men talk a lot
about women . . . that a fellow
needs his sleep . . . that though
you lose what you love it’s a bless
ing to have had It . . . that ever
man or w ( oman carries a flamin?
torch from the dark past to the shin
ing future ... and that selfishness
is its own defeat.
1 I know that beauty is good . .
that an ugly life is a. tragedy . .
I that the human heartis oatient. dur.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD •
Copyright, 1*36, for this Newspaper
by Centra] Hess Association •'
Thursday, May 14; Independence
Day in Paraguay. Morning stars
Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter; Eve
ning stars: Mercury, Mars, Neptune
Moon: last quarter.
Scanning the skies: Everybody
knows that the gravitation pull of
the moon causes ocean tides, but do
you know that when the moon is in
a certain position whole continents
are stretched as much as 60 feet?
This gravitational force is keeping
the whole land mass of Europe and
Asia in a state of movement.
* • *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Bertie Charles Forbes, b. 1880, fi
nancial writer and editor. . . .
Frank Gillmore, b. 1867, president of
Actors Equity Association. . . . Bruce
Rogers, b. 1870, famed designer of
books. . . . Julian Eltingo, b. JBB3,
actor. . . . Albert Einstein, b. 1879.
He was an obscure patent examiner
in Berne, Switzerland, when he
brought forth his celebrated theory of
relativity.
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 14, 1685—The first American
president was chosen. “President of
New England” was the title conferred
by James II on this date upon Joseph
Dudley, 38-year-old clergyman who
went into politics and was sent to
England as agent for Massachusetts
colony. Though - he was the first
president, he became so much of a
royalist that New England disowned
him, and he became the first native
American to run for and be elected
to parliament.
250 Years Ago Today—Gabriel
Daniel Fahrenheit was born in Dan
zig, Germany, where, when he was
28, he first used quicksilver instead
of spirits of wine for thermometers—
then a century old—and established
the thermometer scale named for
him. He fixed his freezing point at
32 degrees to avoid negative measure
ments.
On the first centigrade thermome
ter scale the zero degree mark was
at the boiling point and the 100 de
gree mark at the freezing point!
Eight years after it was first invent
ed, in 1750, the scale was inverted by
Marten Stromer and it is final form
, which is used today.
Fahrenheit died two centuries ago
this year.
May 14, 1799—Jonathan Grant of
Belchertown, Mass., had a telegraph
line operating between Boston and
Martha’s Vineyard, 90 miles away.
Witnesses of the demonstration re
ceived answers to questions put to
persons at the other end of the line
in less than 10 minutes.
This, of course, was 45 years be
fore Morse began operating his tele
graph system, but it was seven years
after Claude Chappe set up a system
in France.
May 14, 1804 —45 men led by Meri
wether Lewis and William Clark, two
army officers in their thirties, left
St. Louis to proceed up the Missouri
valley on the most epochal explora
tion expedition ever undertaken in
the U. S.
The government had refused to ap
propriate more than $2,500 for ex
penses, and the expedition—which
had to be financed by the American
Philosophical Society!
»* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Austrians
launched the great offensive against
the Italians on the Trentino front for
whch they had been preparing for
nearly a year. The first shock of it
sent Italian forces into retreat, but
the withdrawal was orderly and tena
cious. ,
• * *
(To be continued)
IT’S TRUE
You’re wrong if you believe the
bite of the tarantula is deadly. 'Con
trary to popular belief, this species
of the spider family is harmless.
Hyman Shorenstein, commissioner
of records in Brooklyn, N. Y., cannot
read or write.
Mrs. Kibbie Comer of Texas,.has
read through the New Testament 125
times, the Old Testament 63 times.
Noah Webster, at the age of 80,
mortgaged his house to publish his
dictionary. Harvard would have
nothing to do with it, because he ad
vocated simplification by dropping
the old-time ‘u’ from honour and
candour, and the final ‘k’ from mu
sick, and many of his changes he had
to restore later.
Columbia University, largest in the
U. S., was established by churchmen
with the profits of a lottery.
There isn’t a Mormon Church. E.
Miller of Vincenes corrects our state
ment concerning the “Mormon
Church,” explaining that it is correct
ly known as Church of the Latter
Day Saints.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is a narghileh?
2. Who first said “The Lord’s
er”? .
3. To what does the expression
“Free Silver” refer?
Hints on Etiquette
Avoid being a bore wh»n talking
with friends or strangers. Don’t “try*'
to be funny. Be your natural self and
give other people a chance to say
something.
Words of Wisdom
Tradition wears a snowy beard, ro
mance is always young.—Whittier*
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are witty,
original, sympathetic and kind. Most
of their unpleasant conditions are of
their own generating.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. An Oriental pipe for smoking to
bacco.
2. Christ during the Sermon on the
Mount.”
3. The struggle between the east
and west for the unlimited coinage
of silver dollars. It provided the pres
idential campaign issue in 1896.
c.ble and stanch . . . thab all huffian
bemgs want to be good.
What do I know? ... My friend,
I know as much as I have written,