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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 & KOIIN w, 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 Picture® 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! ’ ■ 7/ /:■' // ■■TV V • // / / H=l V___X2A I i y SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY. MAY 19. 1936 g ix r 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 ir "J ® imMI 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?’’