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THE BLOSSOMING CANDIDATES
’ ‘ In keeping with the weather political conditions in Georgia
are beginning to warm un a bit. The announcement of W. W.
Larsen, former congressman from our friendly and neighboring
town of Dublin, started, the ball, the ball in this case being the
candidates, to rolling. Immediately following his announcement
came that of E. D. Rivers of Lakeland, Speaker of the Georgia
House of Representatives. Both are well known Georgians and
have had long years of public service, and are seasoned cam
' paigners.
As the season advances, we may look' for lines being closely
drawn, issues created and defined, and debate indulged in. When
the political Sphinx, the silent and forceful Eugene Talmadge
speaks, many ambitions which have been carefully nursed dur
ing the past twelve months, will either be crushed or be per
mitted to blossom for the people, particularly the voters, to view,
pass upon, and either be placed back in the closet of oblivion, or
given position of honor in the service of the state.
We have, at this time, no concern with the ambition of any
particular candidate. The Savannah Daily Times, in thorough
sympathy with the commercial interests, industry, and that great
body of farmers who make up the backbone of all that is worth
while in Georgia, must insist that the governorship of this
great state be won upon well defined issues and not by the in
dulgence in personalities and the besmirching of the character of
men who have tendered conspicuous service to the state.
We have no hesitancy in saying that one of the greatest is
sues now confronting the people of the state is that of taxation.
Constructive plans have been developed and proposed for action
by the people, looking toward the reformation of the outworn
and outmoded system now in force. Unless, and until a better
plan can be put forward, pretty platitudes of speech belittling
the plan proposed, will now suffice to satisfy the people. Closely
allied with this issue is the practice—not the mere promise—of
r«al economy in every entity of government.
The fact that the changes proposed in our tax system is be
ing bitterly fought by the political cliques and rings in the larger
cities of the state is the best, if not theparamount reason why
the masses should vote for the change. Since the Institution of
the state as a government, it is the first, the only, and the real
opportunity for the people to apply the full force of public opin
ion against reckless expenditures or careless indifference, just
such apparent carelessness and indifference as has been shown
in the handling of the finances of the City of Savannah during
recent years, in the carrying on of government.
First ,last, and all the time, the Savannah Daily Times will
be found fighting for the maintainence of certain well defined
principles and issues that are to the interest of the great masses
of the people. As these issues are brought into the open, we
<hall discuss them, fairly and fearlessly, regardless of any par
ticular personalities which may be for or against them. There
are ample facts upon which to base argument, there should be
no necessity for mud-slinging. The first effort, on the part of
any candidate, to becloud real issues by such tactics, should
meet with the prompt and hearty condemnation of the people.
NOT--In the News
• • • * * *
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
Things twould have been different,
people say, if the market hadn’t gone
into a tail spin.
Truer words probably have never
been spoken. Still, we wonder some
times just how different things would
have been IF the stocks hadn’t taken
that tragic nose dive.
In registering our curiosity, we
have in mind the story of a man to
whom the fall of the stock market
meant more than losing his fortune.
It also meant disgrace, loss of pres
tige and prison.
• • •
This man came from a fine, old
family of a small Ohio town. He was
of the "upper crust,’’ as they say in
society, and the family name was
linked closely with the pioneer days
of the town.
As a youth he was popular in ath
letic circles, and at college he held
records as a runner. Throughout his
schooling he was considered by his
mates as one of the finer type of fel
lows, possessing a keen sense of wit
and humor.
After his college days he returned
home and entered the employ of his
father’s bank. He struggled through
the menial jobs at the bottom of the
ladder a,nd eventually he became the
bank’s cashier. He was regarded by
all as a man of integrity and sin
cerity.
• • *
Then, unbeknown to his family or
friends, he began to play the stock
market. He invested all of his own
funds and then, unfortunately, he
took money from the bank’s funds
and used it for his private specula
tion .
Os course, he knew that practice
was Illegal, but he really intended to
repay the amount he had taken. He
thought, like so many, that he could
make a "killing,’’ repay the abscond
ed funds and have a fortune for him
self left over.
A week before the market began its
tobogganing, a stock in which he had
Invested heavily was selling at 98
His broker advised him to sell.
T
"No,’’ he said, "wait until it reach
es 100, and then dump it all.”
The stock heVer reached 100. It
wavered at 98 and then sank, sank,
sank.
Eventually there -was an investi
gation of the bank’s receipts, and the
institution had to close its dors. But
the cashier was nowhere to be found.
He bad disappeared, not even his
family knowing his whereabouts.
The discrepancies in his accounts
were soon Learned, apd a warrant for
his arrest was issued. He became a
hunted man. For months he suc
cessfully evaded capture, but finally
he was found and arrested. He was
qiilckly convicted and sentenced to
prison, for a long term.
* • *
So, now this man is a convict. Two
more points in his stock might have
saved him from disgrace and he
might have avoided prison. But do
you suppose it would? Do you sup
pose he would have been content to
get out then? Or would he have
been like so many others and set his
goal higher, higher and higher before
selling, without a thought that ft
might sometime reach a limit?
REQUIEM
Under the wide and starry sky
Dig the grave and let me lie.
Glad did I live and gladly die,
And I lay me down with a will.
This be the verse that you grave for
me:
Here he lies where he longed to be:
Home is the sailor, home from sea.
And the hunter home from the hill.
—Robert Louis Stevenson.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Persons born on this day are apt to
go to extremes to accomplish things,
rather looking to their own benefit
than that of others. They are apt to
take much pride in what they accom
plish, and their principal aim seems
to be their own benefit. They should
not let this desire give the entire
color and quality to their life.
—— No. 1: Early Years *
Life of Representative Wadsworth of New York in Sketches |
I
James Walcott Wads-;
worth, Jr., representative S
from New York state and
former U. S. senator, was •
born near Geneseo. N. Y., ]
Aug. 12, 1877, the son of.
James Walcott, Sr., and
Louise Travers, aristo-1’
cratic land owners. His
home still is at Geneseo.
The elder Wadsworth, in
his time, also served as a
representative from New
_ York state.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
DRYS ARE TRYING AGAIN
With Washington As First Objective
TO IMPOSE PROHIBITION
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, May 18—It will be
interesting to note from time to time
what, if any, progress the prohibition
ists make with their effort to resus
citate their cause as a national issue.
Their first step is to try again to
dry up the remainder of the country.
A bill to that effect, introduced by
Representative U. S. Guyer of Kan
sas, already is pending in congress.
It is more than unlikely to be voted
on at this session. However, another
one is sure to be offered by Guyer
or someone else next winter.
• *
BUTLER A CONVERT
In the meantime under the name
of the United Dry Forces, the pro
hibitionists are campaigning.
At their initial rally in Washington
General Smedley D. Butler, retired
from the marine corps, who, several
years ago, as chief of police, made a
sensational attempt to make prohibi
tion stick in Philadelphia, was their
keynoter. His subject was *‘Tne
Boode Racket.” On his Philadelphia
assignment the general was not sup
posed to be personally particularly
enthusiastic for dry legislation; he
simply was endeavoring to enforce
the law as he found it. But now he
obviously is as ardent a prohibition
ist as ever was Wayne B. Wheeler.
Os course Congressman Guper
spoke too, and there was a prayer
by the Rev. Dr. James Shera Mont
gomery, chaplain of the house of
representatives.
In short, the gathering had some
thing of an official aspect.
• * •
GOOD PLACE TO BEGIN
Strategically speaking, Washington
is a good city for the drys to start
on.
It Is conspicuous. As the drys say,
CROSSROADS
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. MONDAY, MAY 18, 1938
Family tradition, deeply
rooted in the soil of the
beautiful Genesee valley,
played an important part
in shaping “Young Jim’s”
character. The family
lived in a large house
which overlooked the Gen
eseo-Mt. Morris road in
Livingston county. Boy
hood years also saw the
beginning of a father-son
friendship that lasted until
the death of “Old Jim”.
it is a guinea pig for the whole couiv
try.
* The sentiment of its Inhabitants
is overwhelmingly wet, but its cit
izenry is voteless. If the drys can scare
congress, congress will not care a
picayune for the feelings of Washing
tonians. True, many congressmen,
who have to spend much of their
time here, like their own drinks. But
they know they can get them any
way, prohibition or no prohibition
So can anybody.
* « •
NOT “SMACKED DOWN”
It many seem as if the prohibition
ists should have been fairly well
smacked down by the 1932 election
and what followed, but they do not
see it that way.
The wets always contended that
prohibition was put across in a na
tional fit of war hysteria—everything
potentially drinkable being needed,
instead, to feed Uncle Sam’s soldiers.
The drys’ contention is that repeal
was the child of depression hysteria
—the theory being that liquor sales
would create a lot of employment in
the brewing and distilling industries,
and also yield barrelsful of revenue,
thereby heading off much other pain
ful taxation.
Well, say the dry’s, unemployment
has not been appreciably decreased—
and look at the present tax bill.
A DRY HANDICAP
The drys face one grave handicap.
By a vast majority senators ano
representatives always loathed pro
hibition.
Those from wet constituencies hat
ed it, naturally.
Those from unmistakably dry con
stituencies favored it, just as natur
ally.
But most legislators were from
constituencies of which they were not
K
.J
“Young Jim” received
his preparatory education
at St. Mark’s school in
Southboro, Mass. From
there the handsome youth
went to Yale. He was
graduated from Yale in
1898, and immediately
made a decision that was
to keep him from his
home and his political ca
reer for three more years.
Wadsworth enlisted in the
Pennsylvania artillery.
You’re Telling
Me?
Mussolini may have conquered the
Ethiopians, but he has not conquer
ed Ethiopia. He must first get rid of
the Ethiopian fly which, as a fighter,
makes the native warrior look as
feeble as a crippled goldfish.
• * *
The reason Ethiopians were
able to brave Italian bayonets so
long was they were used to being
stung by their home town flies
and those babies never pull their
punches.
* • •
The Ethiopian fly when met alone
is not a hard fellow to handle. But
he is never alone. The chief trouble
is, he has too many relatives.
♦ * *
When the war correspondents
cam? to Addis Ababa last year they
were under the impression that
the national language consisted
of but one word—“ Ouch!”
♦ * *
The Ethiopian fly is bom with a
bad disposition. He has the temper
of a bulldog suffering from a hang
over —and he doesn’t mellow with
?ge.
* ♦ *
In colonizing Ethiopia the men
of Mussolini need not follow the
traditional business of beating
their swords Into plow shares.
They will need to beat them, if
they can. Into fly traps.
sure. They simply despised the wet
and-dry isue, because they did not
know which side of it to straddle
on. It is a question that they distinct
ly do not want to have reopened.
When a dry bill is introduced in
congress, in the regular routine it Is
referred to a committee.
That committee is quite aware that
its job is to smother it.
Prohibition never will get back into
the constitution, anyway.
-
He played an active part
in the Puerto Rican cam
paign in the summer of
1898 and served in the
Philippines before he was
mustered out in Philadel
phia at the close of the
war. Returning to Gen
eseo, he took over the
management of his fam
ily’s vast farm. Livestock
and general fanning kept
him occupied from 1901
to 1905.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
G. O. P. BATTLE LINES
Under Vigorous New Leadership
TO TIGHTEN AFTER JUNE
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Democrats who believe that the
present lackadaisical Republican
management will continue are doomed
to disappointment. After June 15
there may be a different story to tell.
If Governor Alf M .Landon of Kan
sas is nominated, an aggressive young
man in the person of John Hamil
ton, his campaign manager, undoubt
edly will become national Republican
chairman. He will be abetted by a
strategy board which, up to the pres
ent, have been shrewd and able —and
probably will become more so.
Nor will the Republican lack for
all the money they desire.
The campaign will be a standup
fight, from the moment the Republic
an candidate is “notified” of his
nomination in the huge Cleveland
stadium adjoining the auditorium,
where the nomination takes place.
Both sides will take an immediate
aggressive attitude. President Roose
velt, two weeks after the Republican
nomination, will “accept” his nomina
tion in huge Franklin Field, adjoin
ing the Philadelphia convention hall
—and his speech is expected to be a
fighting one.
♦ ♦ *
MORE DIFFICULT SIDE
If Governor Landon is nominated,
it is presumed the Republican cam
paign will be based on economic meas
ures. The Republicans will have the
more oifficult side, for the matter of
economy involves fewer largesses, low
er prices, perhaps decreased wages.
President Roosevelt will speak large
ly on social mesaures and recovery
under his economic program of refla
tion.
There will be liberals who will de
spair of both campaigns, as “not
reaching fundamentals.”
There will be liberals will de
spair of both campaigns, F as “not
reaching fundamentals.”
Whether the Republicans win or
not some of the arguments they put
forth will be borne out, conservative
economists say. If we do not tighten
our belts on prices now, we shall have
to later—for pricas will come down,
eventually, agai.n
But neither the Republicans nor
the Democrats will sek the “real
road,” liberals ascert. Pulling in one’s
belt is not enough—it is merely the
beginning, the liberals add. . What,
then, is the “real road?" Liberals al
ways give the same answer —and that
answer is important, for in 1940 lib
erals may swing the election: “Co
operative sharing of earnings and re
sources—only that will provide the
purchasing* power and provide work
for millions.”
♦ ♦ ♦
LAND OWNERSHIP
Much has been said of farm land
drifting into absentee ownership in
large acreages. Much has been said of
the evil results that follow the pass
ing of farm land from individual own
ership to monopolistic ownership.
A similar development s occurrng in
cities. Chain organisations have bought
real estate at distress prices. Some of
this property will be worth more to
oil companies than neir oil refining
business in a few years.
At least that s the “tip” handed to
this writer by a man who is “sup
posed to know.”
That is somewhat confirmde by an
article in ti e Wall Street Journal de
scribing the new aggressive attitude
of a mercantile chain organization in
purchasing store sites-
♦ * •
ECONOMIC AGE
This is an economic age—and par
ties and governments that try bo
avoid the issue and its Implications
simply will be plunged into the pit.
Ask China what the most serious
consequences of the Japanese pro
gram have been, the physical con
quest or the economic penetration,
and the answer will be the economic
penetration—or folly.
Os the Japanese-Chinese situation,
T. A. Bisson writes in Foreign Policy
Bulletin:
“Japan’s economic penetration of
North China has assumed serious
proportions. In recent years enormous
quantities of Japanese sugar, rayon,
cotton cloth, salt and flour have
been smuggled into North China with
connivance of Japanese officials.
“According to Japanese sources,
goods worth 250 nMllion yuan were
smuggled into OhizJ in 1935. These
n
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court Miss Alice Hay of I
Washington, D. C.» daugh- I
ter of the late John Hay, |
secretary df state under I
President Theodore Roose- I
velL Married in 1902, I
the couple has three chil- I
dren, Reverdy, James and I
Evelyn. Between farm- I
ing and romance, he also I
found time to prepare for |
his first venture into the I
field of politics.,'*
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As a young man
operations have recently been facili
j tated by Yin Ju-keng’s admittance of
goods into his area at rates from
one fourth to one-tenth these of the
Chinese maritime customs. As a re
sult, he is obtaining revenues of two
million yuan a month, while the
Tientsin customs receipts was re
duced by three million yuan in
March.”
That’s an easier way of conquer
ing a nation than with arms—but in
this manner of conquering is not a
large mass of people removed as buy
ing power? Do tl y nob become per
manent dependents and a perpetual
drain?
MyNewYork
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, May 18—Small Tales:
Pierre is a bellhop on the Norman
die. He is 2i. From childhood it has
been his life's ambition to see New
York, to go to the theater and view
Times Square. He has made six trips
to New Yotk—and has never seen
anything but the skyline from the
harbor and the pier.
His parents were simple folk in the
provinces. They were willing for
Pierre to ship aboard the Normandie;
indeed they ■ considered it an honor.
But they had heard fantastic tales
about New York, the modem Baby
lon. They were afraid that if Pierre
stirred abroad in the cynical city he
was likely to be set upon by bandits,
racketeers and kidnapers, lose his
money and have his head broken into
the bargain.
So they arranged things for Pierre
to be kept aboard ship during the
big liners brief sojourns in port here.
He wanders the vast decks by night,
in his red uniform with gold buttons,
peering at the glow above Broadway
and the shining lozenge of the Em
pire State spire.
Back home he is looked up to as
an expert on New York. His former
playmates ask him questions about
the town and he answers proudly,
albeit imaginatively. He has never
admitted to themlTthat he has yet
to set foot on shore in the New
World. Paris is different. His parents
permit him to go to Paris and have
as much fun as he wants. Paris,
after all, is a simple, conservative
city. New York is full of snares.
♦ ♦ *
Ruth is a nurse at Postgraduate
Hospital. A night nurse. She’s a grad
uate, and of course she has served
in several other hospitals and even
in private hornet but for the past
six moths she has been St Postgrad
uate; she has had three cases there
in a row, one lasting four months,
another two weeks and she has been
six weeks on this one.
She works twelve hours, from seven
P. M. to seven A. M. When a pat
ient is convalescing, as tno current
one, she ; can snatch a few minutes
sleep in the rocker by the window,
but sometimes she’s kept up all night.
She never has learned to get her
sleep properly in the daytime. She
hates nursing—Heavens! how she
hates it!
But a girl must eat. When, at
eighteen, she entered training, she
thought the career would be glamor
ous and rewarding. She had read
about Florence Nightingale and her
head was full of dreams of Service
to Mankind. Now she only looks for
ward to the day when she can es
cape.
The day is not far off. She is en
gaged to a young doctor at another
hospital. They Will he married in
September. She feels sorry for the oth
er nurses who. must toil on in the
traces. Twelve hours a day!
Os course, Ruth’s husband is poor
and won’t be able to afford a nurse
for his office for the first five or six
years, probably. Ruth will take that
job. And she’ll do the housework,
too, in order to help save. He’s also
writing a book, a study of blood cor
puscles, which win tvoe for '
T' day is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Monday, May 18: Iyar 26. 5696 in
J. C International( Peace Day; Na
tional Flag Day in Haiti. Zodiac
sign: Taurus. Birthstone; emerald.
New moon: Wednesday.
Scanning the skies: It might be
supposed that the more heat the sun
sends out the warmer we are. Thia is
true in the long run for the Earth as
a whole, *but not for brief periods.
Precipitation, coludiness, prevailing
winds, a dozen factors upset what
seem to be a natural law
* • »
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Frank Capra, b. 1897, onetime bar
ber who became a topranklng cinema
director —It Happened One Night, i
Mr. Deeds Comes to Town, etc. . . .
Bertrand Russell, b. 1872, English
philosopher and liberal educator. ♦>. .
Josephus Daniels, b. 1862, newspaper
publisher and ambassador to Mexico
c . . Samuel Vauclain, b. 1856, loco
motive builder. . . . James Hamilton
Lewis, b. 1866, senator from Ulnote.
. . . The TV A, created three yean
ago today.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 18, 1631—The first election *b
America was conducted. Not by a
democracy, but by a theocracy. Prior
to election of John Winthrop as gov
ernor, the general court of Massachu
setts Bay colony had debarred all
non-Purltan and non-churchgoers
from citizenship.
May 18, 1652 —The first anti-slavery I
law was enacted in America—to
emancipate both whites and blacks.
The general court of Rhode Island
colony, meeting at Warwick, ordered
that no man, white or black, should
be held to service more than 10 years
after coming into the colony: “and
that man will not let them goe free
or sell him elsewhere that end that
may be inslaved to others for a longer
time, hee or they shall forfeit to the
Collony 40 pounds”
* * ♦
100 Years Ago Today—Joseph Nor
man Lockyer was a day old resident
of Rugby, England. He was 32 when
he first discovered helium on the
sun, 93,000,000 miles from the Earth,
before anyone found that it also
existed on our own globe! To this fact
it owes its name, derived from hellos,
the Greek for Sun.
Lockyer, who took up astronomy as
a hobby while a War Office clerk,
noted a brilliant yellow line of light
in the Sun’s spectrum, the ribbon of
different colors that is formed when
sunlight is passed through a prism
and split into its various wave
lengths. This light Was characteristic
of no element known on Earth until
27 years later. in fact, until the
World war, when the government had
imperative need of a non-burning gas
for airships, helium continued to be
rare susbtance costing $2,500a cubic
foot.
May 18, 1868 —Nicholas Romanoff
was born. He, as czar of Russia, mod
estly designated his own birthday as
World Peace Day by calling the first
Hague Peace Conference to meet on
this date in 1899. It happened that
Germany and France were equipping
their armies with new and more pow i
erful artillery. Russia did not have
the money to folow suit and rather
than admit weakness, the foreign
minister, Witte, and the Russian gen
eral staff concocted the first Hague
parley ~
In 1914, when Nicholas 11 could
have stopped the greatest war in his
tory ,he didn’t. Yet peace societies
still attach special significance to
May 18. »
* ♦ ♦
THE WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Kiffen Rock
well, North Carolinian, spotted a
plane behind the German lines, and
with bis machine-gun sent it spin
ning to earth—first of the 58 victims
of the Lafayette Escadrille, famed
American-staffed unit of the French
flying corps. The Escadrile, which
had gone into action for the first
time in April, was now with the de
fense forces at Verdun.
Most active of the Americans there
was to be Victor Chapman of New
York. An account o shim says, “Fear
less ,he always flew deeper into Ger
man territory than any of his co
horts; sometimes fought as many as
four enemy planes single-handed,
never landed until his fuel was near
l..y exhausted. His plane was a
patched sieve of bullet holes. One
afternoon Chapman, Norman Prince
and Raoul Lufberrv encountered «.
number of German planes. To divert
the enemy’s fire from his comrades’
planes, Chapman nosed his plane into
the midst of the German planes, eent
one into a tailspin, forced two others
off.”
(To be
* * *
IT’S TRUE
The Allied armies didn’t use ma
chine guns in • airplanes until the
World war was months old, yet the
U. S army had a plane equipped with
a machine gun as early as 1912.
Electric light was first used oa e
shpi, 25 years before Edison perfected
his magic lamp.
On idea for Hollywood: When pret
ty Catherine Langton was cnvicted of
highway robbery in England in the
18th -rentury, and sentenced to be
hanged, in accordance with the cua
tom of the time, sentimentalists sue
ceeded in ihaving her sentence
changed to banishment. Barbary pi
rates attacked the ship on which she
was bound to Australia, and she was
taken to Constantinople as a prisoner
The Grand Seignor of Turkey fell is
lover with her and married her.
Frau Barbara Schmotzerin of Boen
nigheim is shown by German pension
records to have borne 38 sons and 15
daugters, including four sets of trip
lets.
She would have been a fitting mate
for one of the famous 17th century
Crosius brothers of Germany. It fr
recorded that the five brothers had *
total of exactly 100 children, and all
five families lived in the same house!
and do research on in her spare
hours.
She’s jubilant. Khat a relief itl
to sret away from the old grind!
I