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PAGE FOUR S nuW®Wtaijlimrs Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln KatareS u Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Poet Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7 50 Six Montha 2 375 Three Months 195 One Month _——_ZZZ_ZZZZZZ 65 One Week ...ZZZZZZZZZZZ .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN V 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 AN UNIMPRESSIVE PAMPHLET. We have before us, what, apparently was intended for, a report. We are compelled to temporarily accept it as such be cause its frontis-piece bears the imprint: “Report of Mayor Thomas Gamble to the Board of Aidermen, City of Savannah, Georgia.” At the foot of the page we are informed, “Depart mental operations and financial operations.” Had it not been for the information thus conveyed, we would have been sorely perplexed as to just what to call it. Even the printer who did the work, apparently was aahamed of it, his name not appearing, as it usually does. We referred to a member of the Mayor’s official family for further information on the report. His remark was, “ That’s not a report, it is a lot of hooey.” Possibly he was correct. Certainly no sane man, looking for a detailed report of the operation of his city, would call it such. Most probably it would be characterized ae an effort to evade giving the public facts, an attempt to further fool the people as to the exact manner in which' their money ig being spent. It looks like a rehash and reprint from certain of the Mayor’s publicity stunts in a local paper. If so, why not have purchased and sent out the clippings from the paper. It would have saved time and money. If the pamphlet issued is a Mayor’s report, then shades of Herman Myers overwhelm us! There is hardly a paragraph that does not contain an ex cuse, nor a page that does not cry out som< self praise. Just listen to this from Page Five, Second Spasm: “With regard to intoxicants, it is to be regretted that the state has as yet failed th put city governments in a proper position to license, regulate, and in this way properly control their sale.” This paragraph is respectfully submitted for the consideration of the pastor of Grace Methodist Church and the gentlemen who, representing the Sunday School, called upon Mayor Gamble. He has not had the courage to reply to any of the questions the Savannah Daily Times hag asked. Request of him to tell you (we doubt if he will, with admitted knowledge of the state law), why did he license these places! Is he in thorough accord with the great churches which he attends in stating that it is to be regretted they will not permit him to license the sale of whiskey! Do the members of the Protestant Ministers Associa tion of Savannah join with him in these regrets! Emphatically not. In all frankness, if the head of the police power in Sa vannah holds such regrets, can it be expected of the offi cers and members of the Savannah Police Department, sub jdtet to his orders and dictation, to enforce this law! In a very recent case in court, one of the officers of the Savannah Police Department, in testifying under oath, stated, “He had checked at least one hundred other dealers with similar licenses who were still operating.” Again we request of the pastor of Grace Method ist Church ask Mayor Gamble if he has taken any action to ascer tain the truth of this testimony, on, given any instructions as k> the places with which hit officer seems to be so well informed ? The Savannah Daily Times believes in the maintenance of law and order. It subscribes to no rule of reason whereby du plicity or double dealing may be practiced upon the righteous or those less gifted with the finer sensibilities of life. We hold firm ly to the view that, when doing right, as the Mayor is entitled to the respect of the citizenship of the community, so are the citi lens of the community, whatever be their color, creed, or religion, entitled to even balanced justice and respect at the hands of the Mayor. Apparently this they have not been receiving. So much for the promises of Mayor Gamble on the one hand, and his utter failure at performance on the other. In our later issues we shall deal with his miserable failure in giving the people of Savannah a detailed financial report. A BELATED THOUGH DESERVED TRIBUTE The passing of time has strengthened, rather than dimin ished, the reverence, amounting almost to idolatry, the South has held for its heroes, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Nor has the world failed to recognize and mete out to them a full measure of that fame worthy of their great characters, and their response to and the performance of those high duties demanded by the times in which they lived. At last the federal government is giving recognition to the heroic services rendered by these two great soldiers to the nation, and to their beloved Southland. An announcement was made last week that should hold the interest of every Southern man and woman. After much consul tation among the officials of the government, it was finally de cided to issue a stamp bearing the likenesses of these two great Confederate generaM. The two pictures will appear on the same stamp, being a new four-cent issue. With distinguished careers in the United. States Army prior to the War Between the States, their services to the Southland indelibly stamped them as among the greatest soldiers of all time. This act must at last impress the unreconstructed rebel as well as the dyed-in-the-wool Yankee, one war is finally over. ' Time, the great softener and healer of wounds, has played its part in placing upon the pagee of recorded history the vertMet that must stand for all eternity. States the Dictionary of Ameri tan Biography: “Lee has been adjudged one of the greatest of modern sol diers and probably the most eminent American strategist. His achievements did not owe their brilliance to contrasted medi ocrity, for moet of his adversaries were able. Neither was he a great soldier because he had a great lieutenant in Jackson. Lee deyised wd Jackson executed. If Lee won fewer victories after Jtjfcson ’1 death, it was not because he lacked strategical ability **<>*•» but because his resources were diminished and hecawSp he found no successor to “StonewaN. •SENATOR BORAH’S LIFE STORY IN SKETCHES ~ * w- - By C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist - ■■ “I . " 111 " "r"’""" 11 r—TITJRT”" JELJEJP ■<. " ll amsu,m.is ■ ■ ■■ i > "...w IT™* ■■■— ■ I■■ ■ h—eb—— 11 jHARoa w Il -L waj ' 3,330 I I The burden us young Borah’s practice was not so heavy that he did not have some time for politics. He took an active part in* a Kansas sena torial campaign in 1888, speak ing in the north end of his county. The 23-year-old orator was warmly received. Soon Borah began to consider Lyons a poor place for a lawyer. He decided to leave Lyons and Kansas. In 1890, Will started uncertain where to locate. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— LANDLORDS FEAR If Government Housing Bill Passes U. S. COMPETITION Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 15—As a ten ant, my interest naturally is to favor governmentally - financed low - rent housing. Nevertheless there is one argument advanced by proponents of such a program that will not hold water. Opponents of public housing pro test that the government ought not to enter into competition with private landlords. If the pro-housing folk simply contradicted this statement, saying, “The government should, too, go into competition with private land lords,” the matter would be one merely of a difference of opinion. But what the pro-housers contend is that the government would not be going into competition with private landlords. They quote plenty of good authori ties to the effect that low-rent hous ing does not and will not attract pri vate capital. Therefore, they reason, since private capital will not provide that kind of huosing anyway, the government, in providing it, would not be a competitor of private land lords. • • • RENTERS WOULD GO It probably is true that low-rent housing does not attract private capi tal. However, private landlords are ex tremely fearful that governmentally financed low-rent living accommoda tions would attract their tenants, forcing them to reduce their own rentals, to prevent a wholesale exo dus from their more expensive quar ters into the lower priced govern mental ones. A smallish group of fairly opulent WHY NOT PUSH TOGETHER? JI ® c>r>s> SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 15, 1936 AyO F VvX mSs He decided on Boise and after being unable to join with a part ner, Borah opened his own of fice. The young lawyer fre quently served as counsel in criminal cases for the under world. He could not afford to be fastidious in his choice of clients. Not all of his criminal practice was on behalf of the accused. The Ada county dis trict attorney invariably called ) in Borah to assist in prosecu tions. families doubtless would sUok to their more luxurious apartments, but most folk would be greatly tempted by low ered rentals. So realtors believe— and it seems likely. • • • AN EXAMPLE Washington is a good place to judge by. Under the influence of war-time and New Deal conditions its popula tion hae nearly doubled in recent years. Building has not kept pare with this growth. There has been a great deal of it but it has been inadequate. Besides, most of it was done at boom ear construction costs. To pay inter est on these inflated valuations rent als have had to be exorbitant. There have been reductions during the de pression but they still are approxi mately 30 per cent above pre-war fig ures, and now again they are rising. The capital has not a consolidated slum, like the average city. Its very poor live in miserable shacks in alley,* scattered every where, often in close contact with very nobby apartment houses. • « • “EVERYBODY” WOHLD MOVR If passably comfortable, sanitary, well-lighted quarters were offered to middle class families at rational prices, it is a fair assumption that they would move into them in short order, leaving a large share of Wash ington vacant—unless rentals were cut drastically without ruining the landlords, who built at fancy prices. At best the vast majority of Wash ington’s landlordism is hanging onto solvency by its eyelids. Slum rentals are not low, either. In proportion they are much, high er than for fancier accommodations. Governmental low-reet housing un- No. 4: Borah Goes West I" f IQ W■> v — JRz'jwM i More and more civil suits i came the young lawyer’s way, ■ so that in time he practically * abandoned the criminal practice. , His work became very largely 1 that of counsel for sonie °f strongest corpora t’ons in Idaho. Borah never sou &ht a public office until he < <-'4? ra n for the senate in 1902, and ; ' IP or t,iat very reason his serv- ices were much sought after in A recent photo of Senator Borah ever Y political campaign. He » and his wife was chairman of the Idaho' ■I. 1 state central committee in 1892, You’re Telling Me? Don’t let any man tell you hs cares nothing for the opinions of others He shaves, doesn’t he? • * • Recently an unsuccessful poet ess mailed her latest poem to an editor and dared him to print it. She won the dare. * ♦ * The world is proud of the new giant liner, Queen Mary—but to the man in the moon it’s just a cootie crawl ing across a bald head. • • • In this world of plenty there is always a shortage of some com modities. For instance—enthu siasm. • • ♦ Mussolini celebrates now a “glorious victory” over Ethiopia. He could have celebrated it a couple years ago when he started to pick on a country he knew he could lick. If thou hast done foolishly in lift ing up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.—Proverbs 30:32. questionably would cut under them, giving a deal more for less money. ♦ * * COMPETITION CERTAINLY Thus a low-rentallzed government program would be calculated to clean out ths middle class landlord. ' And the slum landlord likewise. Even the very tony landlord might be indirectly affected. Governmentalization may benefit the tenant. But what is the use in trying to convince the landlord that, with a governmental low-rent system in operation, the public will not be in competition with him? -WORLD AT A GLANCE— BUSINESS “TOO GOOD” Bcause of Federal Spending and Largesses FOR CAUTIOUS BANKERS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer IT WOULD BE BETTER if busi ness were not “so good” now. That is the word some of the big bankers are passing dewn to their mercantile customers. The matter was brought to some what of a minor climax when one of the executives of a large depart ment store organization charged ‘a plot” because security prices were falling in the face of rising mercan tile business. Governmental spending on borrow ed money—as for example through the soldiers’ bonus —does make for increased business, but at the same time it increases the public debt and jeopardizes the government’s credit, the bankers responded. Governmental spending is a form of inflation. It benefits —for a while —even such anti. New Deal groups as General Motors and the Liberty Lea guers. Money jours into their coffers. But, then, two things occur—later. The government running more and more into debt, may depreciate mon ey, causing it to be worth less; and taxes are increased. ♦ * • DEPOSITS RISK Rising bank deposits are no cause for jubilation. Banks are fearful of them. Much of the increase is due to gov ernment borrowing—the government sells the banks notes and bonds in return for credit. The new credit is kept on deposit till dissipated The bonds are counted as assets, as vir tual cash. Yet they are I. O. U.’s— from the government, to be sure, yet I. O. U.’s whose repayment must be arranged for by the government out of the resources of the nation. The banks —Federal Reserve and members banks—have an overwhelm ing amount of reserves or credit. If the safeguards against a runaway speculation ever break, we shall see the dizziest “prosperity” we ever have had—and the wildest collapse. Thus say the pessimists. * * * DIFFERENCES The Roosevelt administration is viewed by observers as trying to bring about the recovery without sharp social readjustment. (That, of course, is contrary to the views of the majority of business men, but the observers point out that the Roooe velt administration is as much be wildered by the evolutionary course of events as is business itself. Be that as it may, the administratio nis try ing to promote recovery, as it has from the beginning, through a diluted inflationary process. That is the point the bankers now are discussing. They believe it dangerous.) To understand the situation, one must see the influences at work: 1. Those who would return to the pre-Roosevelt age—termed by oppo nents as “laissez.faire capitalism”. 2. Those who believe in the Roose velt method of spending, with a mo dicum of social readjustments in hours and wages, with all prices tend ing upward—termed by opponents as “wealth destroyers” or by an undig nified new term, “crackpots.” 4. Those who would readjust the entire social structure, making a vir tual co-operative state, dooming cap italism—termed by their opponents as “Socialists” or “Communists.” <1 • • A PRE VIEW One of the moat widely quoted criticisms of the Roosevelt economic policy was written a year ago by Benjamin Stolberg and Warren Jay Vinton. It will be recalled that they wrote a volume entitled, “The Eco nomic) Odnsiequences of the New Deal,” which became popular. In Chapter seven, which they head, ed “Stalemate”, they said: “The economic consequenes of the New Deal have been exactly what might have been foreseen by a com petent Brain Trust. Capitalist recov ery, on the classic lines of laissez faire, has not only been impeded but arrested. And its only economic al. ternative, social planning on socialist lines, has been sedulously avoided. “The New Deal is trying to right the unbalance of our economic life by strengthening all its contradic tions. For big ownership it tries to safeguard profits and to keep intanct the instruments of its financial dom ination. For the middle class it tries to safeguard their small investments, which only serves to reintrench big wages, Increase employment, and as sure some minimum of economic safe- Uli SV ; Nt 1 i Up to this time the social ac tivities of Borah were negligi ble, due mainly to his intense study of law and the necessity of making a living. However, after establishing his practice in Boise the young lawyer met Mamie McConnell, daughter of Gov. William F. McConnell of . Idaho. They fell in love and were quietly married on April 21, 1895. It has been a “per fect” match. To Be Continued. ty, while at the same time it opposes labor's real interests through its scarc ity program. In trying to move in every direction at once the New Deal ' betray the fact that it has no policy. 1 “And it has no policy because as a ! liberal democracy it must ignore the overwhelming fact of our peoch, the ’ irreconcilable conflict betwen capital ! and labor. The result is that we are ’ today neither an economy of balanced scarcity, nor an economy of progres ! sive abundance, nor in transit from ■ one to the other. We are in an econ omy of stalemate.” • • • J AN AXIOM . On the frontispiece of their volume, I Messrs Stolberg and Vinton quoted t from Francis Bacon, statesman-phil osopher cf Shakespeare’s day: t “Above all things, good policy is to , be used, that the treasures and ; monies in a state be not gathered into few hands, for otherwise, a state may have a great stock, and yet starve; and money is like muck, not i good except to be spread.” AlFof Us By MARSHAL MASLIN A few months ago one of rur suc cessful writers, F. Scott Fitzgerald, confessed that he had “cracked up” . . . I don't know whether he has put himself together again or nob— he didn’t sound very cheerful about it at that time. It seems that Mr. Fitzgerald dis covered, more or less gradually, that he wasn’t being very happy. He was not enjoying the kind of life that used to give him pleasure . . . Even to himself he had been pretending to be alive, and without really intend ing it he was pretending to his friends and his family ... His life was hollow, he, was living on momentum long after what you might call the “initial impetus” of his youth had ben dissipated ... He was going through the motions and was also go ing through the emotions. Mr. Fitzgerald didn’t write as tlwugh he thought his was a special case, something unique in human his tory ... He was merely telling about lb because it Interested him and might interest other men or women Well, it should . . - Because that sort of thing, to a greater or less de gre, at some time or other, happens to nearly everybody ... A man who upsed to like operas accidentally dis covers that for some time he has not been enjoying them at all ... So he quite going to them ... Or per haps he has some youngsters growing up who should have a chance to see an opera, so he kep going ... Or a man who used to think it was fun to get drunk discovers that it is not fun any more and quits racketing around ... Or a hunter is surprised to learn that he has developed an ob jection to killing wild animals ... Or a man who thought he was an athiest comes upon profound religious im pulses that he didn’t know were a part of him . . . You team that you are not as conventionally good as you thought, nor as conventionally bad . . . That is, you are not now what you used to be or what you thought you were. So, if you have sufficient sense or courage, you decide to live the of your life as you are right now And that decision gives you a new Impetus for zest in living . . . Thij may sound rather involved, but it really isn’t. Style Whimsy For summer parties in the country or on a cruise, printed Peasant cot ton dresses, also those of plaid cot ton madras, novelty voile, crinkle cottons and cotton laces are recom mended as bein..g new, smart and able to “take it” after being packed and carried In the case and generally “roughing it.” New Flavor Keep a quantity of sweet chocolate on hand. When baking a cake or oustards, or cookies, shave some on top before placing in the oven. This !• gives a fine new flavor. I TodoyistheDoy By CLARK KINNAIRD • Copyright, for this Newspapa by Central Association Friday, the Ides of May. (In the Roman Calendar the IdfS—the day the Senate sat—were the 15th of March, May, July and October). Straw Hat Day. National Holiday in Latvia—where they don’t wear straw hats. Zodiac sign: Taurus. Birth stone: emerald. NOTABLE NATIVITIES Constance Cummings (Levy), b 1902, actress . . . Henry L. Doherty, b 1870, utilities magnate . . . Henry M. Waite, b. 1869, Army engi neer who became the first manager . Gerald B. Lambert, >. 1886, safety-razor manufacturer . . • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS May 15, 1602 —Capt. Bartholmew Gosnold landed on Cape Cod (he named it that) from the 100-ton ship which had borne him, his crew ol eight and the 20 persons who became te first English settlers in New Eng land, across the Atlantic in 18 days The swift passage proved what he had long contended, that there was a shorter northern route to the New World; and caused navigators to abandon the longer southern trail blazed by Columbus. Thus he changed the course of exploration and coloniza tion in North America. • • * May 15, 1775—Congress authorized paper money, the first federal cur rency, to avoid the collection of taxes! The bills were issued in denomi nations of one, two, thre, four, five, six seven, eight and 20 Spanish dol lars, as a means of financing the de fense of the colonies. Though “12 con federated colonies” (Georgia wasn't included) were pledged to redeem it, the currency depreciated to virtually nothing. So what was intnded to pro tect the people from taxes, actually was the first federal tax upon them! May 15, 1776 —Resolutions that had been drafted by Edmund Pendletoq were approved unanimously in o con vention of delegates at Williamsburg, and Virginia declared for separation from Britain. This event is the rea son why July 4 has so much sig nificance for us, for the Williams burg delegates instructed their repre sentatives in the Continental Con gress to urge similar action upon the other colonies, in only a few of which had there been any talk of independ ence and all of which needed Vir ginia’s example. Richard Henry Lee did, and caused the Declaration of Independence to be drawn up. * * • May 15, 1862—The Dpeartment of Agriculture was established by Con gres, and Isaac Newton, self-educated farmer of Delaware county, Penn, who had ben agitating for 20 years for such a department, was made the, first commissioner. But it was made • part of the PatentOffica, in the De partment of Interior! ••• • ‘ FIRST WORLD WAR DAYBY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—New York's Governor Whitman signed “prepared ness bills” rushed through the war thinking New York legislature, pro viding for compulsory military train ing in public schools, and empowering the governor to draft for military duty all able-bodied mate citizens be twen 18 and 45. The war news that ran in parallel columns of the newspapers didn’t gD come from New York. Pershing was still chasing Villa in Mexico, and the U. S. Marines had landed at Sant- Domingo, “to guarantee the free elec tion of a provisional president.” Uncle Sam was looking for trouble—and finding It in all directions. (To be continued! IT’S TRUE i You’re wrong if you believe tfoet the identical nature of lightlning and electricity was first established by Benjamin Franklin’s famous kite ex periment. The discoverer of this fact was Dr. M. Dalfbard, a Frenchman in 1752. Margaret Krasiouno, of Koninla Poland, who married Gaspard Ray kon, 105, when she was 94, bore him thre children in the 14 years they lived together! Though the American Mother's Day goes back only to 1906, England has had a “Mothering Day,” ob served on the 4th Sunday in Lent for centuries. New Egnland newspapers in Revolu tlonary times carried advertisements of counterfeit money which patriots oould use to victimize British sympa thisers . The Union forces were defeated b the Confederates m the last battle of the War Bfetwen the States, wt Brazos Santiago, Texas. Daybreak A wind came up out of the zeej. And said, “O mist, make rom for me!” It hailed the ships, and cried, “sail on, Ye mariners, the night is gone I* And hurried landward far away, Crying, “Awake! it is the day!’’ n It said unto the forest, “Shout! Hang all your leafy banners out!” It touched the wood-bird’s folded wing, And said, “O bird, awake and sing!” And o'er the farms. “O chanticleer, Your clarion blow, the day is near!” It whispered to the fields of corn, “Bowk down and hail the coming mom!” It shouted through the belfry-towee. “Awake, O belli proclaim the hour.” It craved the churchyard with a sigh, And sadi, “Not yet! in quiet lie.” —Henry Wadsworth LongfelW. The Kentucky Derby is more thao a week in the past, but today we found the fellow we were looking for —we mean th? chap who admits he never had a hunch to put 4 bet «■ Bold Venture.