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THE WAY TO TEMPERANCE.
Sunday, 117 Catholic children stood before I*lie sacred altar
of their church and pledged themselves to absta-in from alcohol
at least until they reach the age of 21, as the Most Rev, Gerald
P. O’Hara, Bishop of Savannah, administered the oath of temper
ance following their confirmation in their faith.
The raising of those 117 childish hands was a mighty signal
of joy for every mother who has ever borne a son or a daughter.
It was a harbinger of hope to every woman, every child, who has
seen the horror of a drunkard’s life. For every patient woman
who has suffered the torture of seeing a husband, father or son
take the path that inexorably drags humanity down to ruin, the
clear ringing voices of those 117 children as they pledged them
selves to tread the way of sanity and temperance, sounded the
tocsin of humanity’s new battle against alcohol, ite newest at
tempt to achieve Godliness.
The Savannah Daily Tinies congratulates Bishop O'Hara and
Catholicism. Through its ordained representative, a great re
ligious denomination has taken a tremendous stride toward
bringing humanity into its own. Men’s achievements have clearly
shown that no man was meant to lie drunk in a gutter; no man
was meant to befog a God—given intelligence with soul-destroy
ing drink. We have the Holy Bible for our authority that God
made man “in His own image.” For countless centuries man has
striven to live up to that destiny. Since the dawn of civilization
intoxicating drink has been one of the chief obstacles in his
struggle.
Beasts were made after another pattern. Man was not in
tended to emulate them. But under the influence of drink, there
are few men who do not.
Legislation, as proven by the late lamented “Noble Experi
ment’’ has always failed to bring about temperance. Prohibition
in the United States was not a new thing. It had been tried in
other countries and in other ages. Prohibitions of every kind,
have never succeeded in doing anything more than arouse the
resentment of those against whom they have been directed. To
misquote Shakespeare, “I will” has always followed upon the
heels of “Thou shalt not.” Says the prohibitionist: “You shall
not drink.” Answers the liberal: “I shall drink, if I want to.
Am I not man enough to regulate my own affairs?”
Education has been the solution of every major problem
confronting humanity to date. The problem of drink is no ex
ception. In childhood the man of tomorrow must be clearly
shown what lies in store for the victim of intemperance. The
child is just as easily led into good habits as into bad. But he
must be led, not driven.
NOT—In the News
••* • • •
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
WE ALWAYS have contended that
while work and ability are important,
the breaks in the game usually count
for more than anything else. We
appreciate that such a statement
leaves room for argument, but it isn’t
our intention to haggle over the point.
So, to save a dispute for another day,
perhaps it would be safer to say that
it is true in some cases.
The theory is mentioned because
we think it is appropriate in the ca
reer of the famous English actor,
Henry Wilcoxon, who is now in Holly
wood. Wilcoxon won his dramatic
spurs on the English stage, but for a
single break he might have launched
his career in the United States, or
even abandoned his aspirations and
turned to another pursuit.
The actor’s early life was a strug
gle, but through a series of hardships
he nursed a strong desire to become
an actor. After attempting work as
a tailor’s assistant, a traveling sales
man and a buyer, he turned to paint
ing, in which he proved a failure.
Then one day he was given the op
portunity of acting as chauffeur for
a noted spiritualist medium who was
going to America for a tour. The
position appealed to Wilcoxon, for it
suggested a shortcut to Hollywood.
But his sole capital totaled approxi
mately 1125, and that wasn't enough
to satisfy the immigration author
ities, so he lost the opportunity.
He had pinned so much hope on
that one venture that the' decision
of the authorities was a crushing blow
to Wilcoxon. But this bit of ill luck
was the break which gave him his
Start in acting.
Left stranded and jobless with only
$125 to his name, he decided on a
desperate course. Throwing caution
and care to the winds, he took his
entire little fortune and spent it for
clothes —suits, shoes, shirts and ac
cessories. Then, dressed in his best,
he tarted to make the rounds of the
theatrical agencie in search of a job
as an actor. He had no contacts in
the theater, but struck out bodly
with his desperate game.
His step proved the wisest he ever
had taken, for at the very first agency
he entered he found a Jeb. He had
been there only a few minutes when
someone approached him and said:
•'You’ll dol” He was almost forcibly
bundled into a motor coach and driv
en to a studio where he became a part
of a mob scene in a motion picture.
It was his first acting job, and it
was the start of a brilliant and prof
itable career.
’♦ * •
REFERRING TO a recent article
here, Sally Mason, a reader, says she
doesn't know whether dogs have a
sense of time, but she does know a
mule that is smart enough to know
when to stop work.
The old mule is owned by a farmer,
and will work steadily in the fields
without balking until half past three
in the afternoon. Then it will stop
and refuse to go on, no matter how
much coaxing and whipping it is
given.
The mule never varies more than
two or three minutes in its quitting
time, usually hitting 3:30 right on the
nose. Its owner has learned that he
might as well take the animal to the
barn, for it absolutely refuses to do
any "overtime” work.
The Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. What animals are used to sym
bolize (a) West Point, and (b) An
napolis?
2. What are the seven cardinal
virtues.
3. What unit of measurement is
used to describe the height of a
horse?
WORDS OF WISDOM
Safety lies in the middle course.—
Cicero.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
Persons born on this day are full
of vivacity and anxiety, uncertain at
times which way to turn, but apt to
follow in a headstrong way the im
pulse of the moment. Fear and doubt
rule you at times, but you can be
capable of heroic attainment and self
sacrifice.
ONE MINUTE TEST ANSWERS
1. (a) A mule, (b) a goat.
2. Humility, liberality, chastity,
meekness, temperance, brotherly love
and diligence.
3. A hand (four Inches).
— ——No. 2: Political Life <
, Life of Representative Wadsworth of New York in Sketches
*- By C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist— - ——— -■■■'«
James Wadsworth was
elected to his first politi
cal office in 1905 as a
member of the New York
assembly. A "young
ster”, in office just a year,
he was elected speaker of
the assembly in 1906, and
he was re-elected from
Geneseo in 1907, 1908,
1909 and 1910. His home
district has repeatedly
given him substantial
margins of victory.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
INFLATION BILL DEAD
After Being “Snowed Under” in House
OR JUST KNOCKED OUT?
Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S street.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 19.—1 f con
gressmen read the country’s wishes
aright, a large majority of the Amer
ican people have had all the currency
inflation they want.
To be sure, it was not expected
that the inflationary Frazier-Lemke
bill would become law at this ses
sion of the national legislature.
However, even its foes thought
that it might get through the house
of representatives. Many represen
tatives have a habit of voting for
measures that personally they don’t
like, depending on the senate to beat
them. AU hands were confident that
the senate would turn thumbs down
on that bill. But if, by any chance,
the senate did pass it. it was well
known that it would be vetoed by
President Roosevelt, and no inflation
ist was so optimistic as to predict
that his veto on that subject, could
be overridden.
Snowed Under
Anyway, inflationists felt sure, and
anti-inflationists admitted, that the
Frazier-Lemke plan would be defeat
ed in the lower house, if at all, by a
very narrow margin.
Instead of which it was snowed
under 235 to 142.
The inflationary leaders’ Idea now
is to campaign agains the “antis”
and beat so many of them next No
vember that the former’s pet scheme
will be adopted by the Seventy-fifth
congress.
But if the 235 correctly assessed
sentiment in their respective baili
wicks (and poliicians are pretty ac
curate folk at this sort of calcula-
IDIOT’S DELIGHT!
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY. MAY 19. 1936
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Trying for a higher
post, Wadsworth was
elected U. S. senator
from New York in 1914.
In 1920 he was re-elected
for the term ending March
3, 1927, defeating his
Democratic opponent by a
plurality of 500,000. In
a race for re-election in
1926, he was defeated by
a plurality of 116,000
votes, Robert F. Wagner,
Democrat, winning.
tions) maybe they can’t be beaten.
Contrariwise, maybe they will make
inroads against the 142, and the
Seventy-fifth congress will be more
anti-inflationary than this one.
Considerable Inflation
For the information of folk who
perhaps never studied it, the Frazier-
Lemke program was framed with a
view to enable farmers to pay off
their mortgages on an easy, long
term basis.
That part of it was all right with
the “antis.”
Their objection was that the pay
ments were to be made in printing
press money—ihree b’ll'on dollars
worth of it.
Ar.d numerous anti-inflationists
were growing fearful of inflation.
Devaluation of the dollar was infla
tionary. Much relief legislation has
been inflationary. The soldiers’ bonus
is to be paid in printing press money
—more inflation. Plus three bilions
in Frazier-Lemke printing press
money!
City folk began to get jittery.
♦ * ♦
Good Prices
Temporarily, inflation is not so bac
for a farmer.
His crops sell for higher and high
er prices. And he doesn't have to
spjend much in actual cash. He has.
his shelter If he is a good farmer
he sets his own table. His wardrobe
is not expensive. He has enough ma
chainery to last him for awhile.
On the other hand, the urban work
er’s cost of living soars, and his in
come rises reluctantly.
Ultimately, with the decline in the
urbanite's capacity to pay mounting
farm prices, the farmer is certain to
feel the effect of the shrinkage. In
the meantime, however, he will have
;lf WINS
' 0500,000 I
ftojgALiTY| |
i Ad I
On Nov. 8, 1932, Wads
worth was elected to the
house of representatives
from New York’s 39th
congressional district, de
feating two other candi
dates by a plurality of
15,000, and was re-elected
to the last, or 74th con
gress. A thoroughly con
servative Republican, he,
created a sensation in G.
0. P. circles by declaring
wet when the party offici
ally was dry..
You’re Telling
Me?
A POINT most folk overlook is
that the fact you may be proud of
your ancestors doesn’t really count.
What is important is thisJare your
ancestors proud of you?
• • •
Women, says a fashion writer,
buys three out of every four pair
of men’s socks sold. And men
will consent to wear but one pair
out of every four they buy—so
that makes it even.
* * *
Someone is always taking the joy
out of life. Now someone has sug
gested the invention of pre-dunked
doughnuts!
• ♦ •
The Hapsburg lip, writes a
geneaologist, has remained un
changed and a characteristic of
this royal family for six centu
ries. But not as unchanged—if
we are to judge by the arrogant
behavior of many of the Haps
burg rulers—as the Hapsburg
cheek.
had much the better of the bargain—
just as the urbanite had the better
of it while agriculture was being de
flated.
He may be getting his revenge.
But, ’Revenge’’ (Jv.venal) “is
sweeter than life itself —so think
fools.”
* « «
To Remain An Issue .
The Frazier-Lemke plan will be an
important 1936 campaign L-sue, any
how.
It is immaterial to the Frazier-
Lemke-ites that it is inflationary.
They favor it. not as inflationary, but
as Frazier-Lemke-ism. The inflation
ists favor it, not as Frazier-Lemke
istic, but as inflationary.
rRRS
OWR
rMtnL j.;.-
Representative Wad s
worth is proud of his an
cestry, his home, and his
three children. Reverdy
is a student at Yale uni
versity, while his other
son, James J., is the pres
ent assemblyman from
Livingston county. His
beautiful, talented daugh
ter, Mrs. Evelyn (Eve)
Wadsworth Symington,
made her debut as a sing
er in a fashionable New
York night club last year.
Throughout his political
career, Wadsworth has
maintained his hold “back
home’’, where he is a fa
vorite speaker at meet
ings of the grange, politi
cal rallies and at openings
of county fairs. He par
ticipates in many social
affairs at Geneseo, and
when he is not in Wash
ington he can be found
usually in his office in an
old stone building at one
end of the village.
The End
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
SOCIAL SECURITY FIGHT
Made By Republicans in New York
MAY PROVE BOOMERANG
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Some observers b;lieve that the Re
publicans have lost hundreds of thou
sands of votes through their opposi
tion to several states to social security
measures. That is particularly true
in New York state, where the Re
publican-dominated senate three times
killed Governor Lehman’s social se
curity bill. This bill would have en
abled New York to come within the
scope of the federal social security
measure.
The Republican opposition has been
congratulating itself on the blow given
to the New Deal—but some of the
cautious observers among the Repub
licans believe the blow may be a de
vastating boomerang.
* * •
SOCIAL SECURITY
Nothing at the moment is appeal
ing more to the mass of people than
social security.
Scouts afield report this constantly.
The movement is growing, not les
sening.
Roosevelt measures are considered
too moderate, if anything. Killing
them, or preventing them from func
tioning. may lead to drastic measures
by forces that are gaining recruits
daily.
And, worse for business, those dras
tic measures will be strongly infla
tionary.
Such is the report of reliable
scouts. .
UNBALANCED BUDGETS
Financial news from overseas is
not reassuring.
The d.bt of the American federal
government, and its unbalanced
budget, are proportionately much
smaller than similar manifestations
abroad. (This is not to “excuse” this
man.’festation here.)
France, ti)c last country to hold
out on public spending, now is to en
ter upon it in a big way.
Germany and Italy are spending
furiously. The more they spend the
lees their money is worth.
And “cautious” England is madly
handing out the money on arma
ments.
The Soviet Union seems the best
adjusted. Its expenditures on arma
ments as well as improvements, how
ever, total high.
The p-ople of the world seem bent
on unbalancing budgets—and mak
ing money worth less and less
through the process of making it
“more plentiful.” In a majority of
the countries, the printing of more
money and the extension of credit is
mistaken for the fundamental spread
ing outof wealth and the consequent
increase in purchasing power through
co-operative sharing.
* * •
FEARFUL
The two most fearful countries in
Europe are France and the Soviet
Union-
France, of course, fears Germany.
The Reich has one-and-a-half times
the population of France.
Th: Soviet Union’s problem is ex
plained by David H. Popper in For
eign Policy Reports, in these words:
"Military leaders in the U. S. S. R.
must envisag esimultaneous hostilities
in east and west, thousands of miles
apart.
“On the analogy of the pre-war
Schlieffen plan, under which the Ger
mans crossed .Belgium into France,
the buffer states on the Soviet west
ern border are not deemed complete
protection against Germany aggres
sion. Soviet authorities fear a Nazi
attack on their territory, with Ger
many using Finnish airports and ad
vancing on land through Lithuania
“Other observers, citing the defec
tion of Poland from the ranks of
Frances allies, envisage a Polish
the Germans to gain territories in
German assault on the U. S. S. R. —
th? Baltic region while the Poles at
tack in the south nd retain a por
tion of th- Ukraine.
•‘Meanwhile, Japan’s rearmament
and recurrent incidents along the
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Wadsworth
.in speaking pose
Manchurian and Mongolian frontiers,
as well as the Japanese policy of
constructing strategic railways facili
tating an advance into Eastern Si
beria, give rise to fears of war in
Asia.”
My New York
By
James As well
NEW YORK, May 19.—Those who
say harsh things about the cruel and
cynical city, where the milk of hu
man kindness is supposed to be al
ways clabber, may find ammunition
for their condemnations in New
York’s great nearby plebeian play
ground: Coney Island. They may
find arguments on the other side at
Coney, too, but it canont be denied
that Coney is perhaps the only sum
mer resort in the world where parents
deliberately “lose” their children.
The practice has grown apace with
the increasing efficiency of the Co
ney police force. Parents, out for a
day of sport among the waves and
banana skins, have discovered that if
their pestiferous tots should stray be
yond sight in the crowd they can be
certain of retrieving them at the po
pice station when day is done.
Coney cops have a sharp and prac
ticed eye at spotting the lost and hun
gry child. They herd them in in
droves during the day and keep them
under duress until the parents, sheep
ish or defiant or sincerely frantic,
drop by at dusk tor eclaim their off
spring.
There is a very strange and cal
loused type of human who will de
liberately abandon a child in the
crowd, in order to spend hours on the
beach without a care in the world.
Even the children, in some cases,
have caught on to the heax and fix
mama and papa with a cold and ac
cusing eye when thye are at last res
cued from confinement. One lad, I
am told, spent a dozen days in jail
last summer that his parents might
disport themselves unannoyed.
* ♦ »
The day when air commuting from
the nearby countrysides will be a
humdrum part of the mechanics of
city life draws closer constantly—al
lowing many grains of salt for the
rather silly and pompous prophecies
of “Things to Come.”
Nicholas Ludington, the airplane
man, will offer the hosts of suburbia
a combination airplane and automo
bile as son as next summer. The
planers already have their eyes on
numerous Manhattan rooftops as pos
sible landin. ,g fields.
But all this can scarcely be called
a modern idea, at bottom. In 1865
a gentleman with a Wellsian imagi
nation bought two observation bal
loons (which had proved a lamentable
flop so far as military operations were
concerned) and sold stock in a com
pany which would provide regular
aerial commuting into New York from
nearby spots.
Bankruptcy wrecked the venture
before it started—and doubtless saved
several lives
All of which brings vs, logically
enough, to the fanfare over the ar
rival of the great Hindenburg in
Lakehurst, N. J. Your reporter set
his alarm for 5 a.m. (daylight time)
in order to glimpse the silver sau
save slide through the sky above Man
hattan's towers.
He wa.s properly impressed. But,
being an arrant coward in the mat
ter of air travel, he was even more
impressed by the nonchalant manner
in which those first trans-Atlantic
ferriers took the journey. Tey not
only, from all accounts, met the haz
ards of the journey with a bland in
difference but actually clambered
about the exterior rigging of the Zep
in flight.
Yet one story is reassuring. It
may be pure fiction but it suggests
that there are other nerves as jittery
as mine. Franz Wagner, the pianist,
was a passenge ras you know. The
main salon of the Zep was crowded
w'ith first-flighters who chattered
merrily, 2,000 feet up over the wide
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Tuesday, May 19: Independence
Day in Estonia. Morning stars: Ven
us, Saturn, t ranys, Jupiter; evening
stars: Mercury, Mary, Neptune.
SCANNING THE SKIES: Sunlight
beats most strongly at the tops of
high mountains, although the midday
temperature on them may rarely be
above freezing. Such spots may re
ceive one-sixth more intense solar
rays than places at sea level.
* ♦ •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Lady Nancy Astor, b. 1879, Virginia
born members of Parliament . . . Lord
Astor, her husband, born the same
day in New York . . . Samuel G. Bly
the. b. 1868, political economist . . .
Tom M. Girdler, b. 1877, steel man
ufacturer . . . Manley O. Hudson, b.
1886, educator and League of Nations
advocate . . . Edna,, Wilma, Sarah
and Helen Norlok, quadruplet daugh
ters of Mr. and Mrs. Carl A. Morlok,
of Lansing, Mich., b. 1930.
* ♦ •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
400 Years Ago Today—Anne Bol
eyn, second wife of Henry VIII of
England, was beheaded at his com
mand on the charge of adultery, after
having borne him the daughter who
was to become the great Queen Eliz
beth. He had granted her one last
request—and permitted her to send
to Calais for a French executioner.
Because she had six fingers on one
hand, she made wearing of gloves
by women fashionable and instituted
a custom which continues unabated
today.
‘Try me, good King,” she wrote
him from what was to be her death
ell. “But let me a lawful trial,
and let not my sworn enemies sit as
my accusers and judges. Yea, let me
receive an open trial, for my truth
shall fear no open shames. So that
whatsoever God or you may determine
of me . . . mine offense being so law
fully proved, your Grace is at liberty,
both before God and man, not only
to execute worthy punishment on me
as an unfaithful wife, but to follow
your affections already scuttled on
that party whose name I could some
good while since have pointed unto.”
Anne’s own uncle, Duke of Norfolk,
presided over her 26 judges and pro
nounced her doom.
♦ * *
May 19, 1800—George Washington
Whistler was born at Fort Wayne,
N. W. Territory, now Indian, the
future father of James McNeill Whist
ler, the artist who made his mother
wold famous. He became the greatest
engineer of his generation, the man
who built Russia’s first railroad, and
internationally known as soldier, top
ographer, explorer, and inventor.
James Abbott (which was the artist
Whistler’s real name) was immensely
proud of him, but never painted him.
So he is little known today, while his
quiet, self-effacing wife, is an im
mortal.
* ♦ ♦
May 19. 1852—The nation’s first
compulsory State school attendance
law was signed by Governor George
S. Boutwell, of Massachusetts. It pre
scribed that children must attend
school between the ages of eight and
fourteen, for 12 weeks a year, six
of which had to be consecutive. Its
enactment occurred almost on the
200th anniversary of the passage of
the first compulsory education law
in the colonies by the General Court
of Massachusetts Bay.
* ♦ •
May 19. 1862—President Abraham
Lincoln opposed emancipation! He
countermanded the order of Maj. Gen.
David Hunter, commander of the De
partment of the South which de
clared slaves in South Carolina, Geor
gia and Florida, free.
♦ ♦ ♦
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Russians sent
from Persia joined the British on the
Tigris in an advance toward Kut-el-
Amara, where Townshend had sur
rendered an army of 20,000 on April
29.
Austrians, with their great offensive
against the Italians gaining momen
tum, took Col. Santo, south of Rov
ereto..
(To Be Continued)
* • •
IT’S TRUE
In the 18th century skins of paupers
were used for children’s shoes manu
factured in Tewkesbury, Mass.
A 6-year-old Lexington, Mass., boy
walked a mile and a half in his
sleep!
A bushel of fruit in Tennessee isn’t
the same as a bushel of fruit in
Idaho! Measures differ from state to
state and vary even for commodities.
Henry James was so disgusted with
persons who left uneaten any of the
pie served to them in his home, that
he would have same plate with
the leftover set before them at the
next meal.
Sometime ago a reader asked this
oracle why American drive to the
right, whereas English travel to the
left, and we replied that back in
Revolutionary days patriots were so
determined not to do anything the
English way that they changed the
rule of the road. “Well, then,” he
talked back, “why do English go to
the left?” We couldnt answer then,
but now we can. The custom is an
outgrowth of the days when travel
lers held their reins with their left
hands, thus causing their animals to
move to the left, so their right hands
would be free to deal with highway
bandits or antagonists.
A single pod of an orchid oftw
yields a millions seeds, but it
at least seven years, and sometimes
up to 40 years, for a seed to produce
a blossom.
“Beer is 40 times as strong an
antiseptic as carbolic acid,” it is stat
ed by “Fact but is it?
ocean, of their utter lack of fear. It
was a piftnic, thye agreed, less danger
ous than a subway ride.
Wagner drifted to the piano and
began to plunk out a twinkly tune
just -ks a mild rain squall pelted the
glass sides of the salon. A lady
sighed, “Marvelous, Mr. Wagner!”
He started, blinked, stood up.
“Oh.”’ he cried “was that dm
playing?’’