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PAGE FOUR 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 the Post Office at • * Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months ...... ........ ...... ............. 3.75 Three Months ....... ............... .... 1.95 One Month ........................................ .... '65 One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN t National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: I Transradlo Press • International Illustrated News - Centra! Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. ■ King Features / Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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 ' \ • r— ~ C \\ ' ' Xi -—Cg* SkS • w 5 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 But he did find time to I 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.,'* |g» W ♦ : 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