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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. ♦ PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY BOS MAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered a« Second Class Matter July 23. 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year —7.50 Six Months .8 75 Three Monthsl.9s One Month - .05 One Week .... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST. LANDIS A KOHN , * National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subsoribers to: Transradio Press • International Illnstrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures jet: 1 .. • 11 1— 1 ROADS AND EMPIRE. Georgia !• about to launoh the greatsat road building pro gram In ita history. Governor Talmadge has won another fight for ths people of Georgia. Yesterday the federal government released $17,000,000 of highway funds to the state of Georgia and within an hour High way Department officials had announced that $2,500,000 worth of road projects would be under way within a fortnight. Political foes of Governor Talmadge, angered by his honest and outspoken criticism of the New Deal program, used their strategic positions in an attempt to withhold funds to which Georgia was entitled on an equal basis with every other stats. They had thus hoped to discredit the Governor in the eyes of his people. Had they been successful in stopping payment of the federal road funds to Georgia, foes of the Governor would have been able to cry: “This man has blocked the progress of your state. His dictatorial policies have brought about the loss of millions to the people of Georgia.” But again Talmadge, dictator perhaps, but statesman above all, has triumphed in his fight to make Georgia a greater state. The Romans built roads. Roads built the Roman empire. New Georgians will build roads, and roads will build a Georgia empire. For long the Empire state of the South was an empire of cowpaths and country wagon tracks. While Georgians poured millions into the highway fund through a high gasoline tax and a ruinous state automobile license fee, a ruthless highway de partment personnel rode in limousines whose expensive running gear smoothed out the bumps. Heads in the air, these limousined officials rode by the farmer and the average citizen, whose mod erately priced car struggled and sputtered in mud and rut and washboard highway. The situation came to the point where the late Harvey Granger, -whose fight for good roads was a by-word throughout the Coastal Empire, once remarked: “The people of Georgia have spent a billion dollars for roads, and the only place they can safely reach by road is Flor ida.” Then Governor Talmadge was elected. Sizing up the situa tion immediately, the fearless Governor threw out the erring highway officials and appointed a group through whom he could give the people of Georgia the roads they so sorely needed. De spite a recalcitrant Legislature, he gave the people a reasonably priced license tag. His highway department began building roads—real roads. Now, with a vast fund at its command, Governor Talmadge’s highway board can and will,give Georgia a system of highways second to none. Georgians, look to the new empire. Your empire will be built on roads. NOT—In the News COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION Some beaut; writers insist that you ean tell a great deal about a woman just by watching her hands. But a French shoe expert has gone the pulchritude dealers one better by as serting that It is easier to determine a womans character by studying her feet This may sound strange to you. but he has worked out a formula which he declares proved very reliable in its operation. We don’t know how he found out all theee things, but you L may be interested in learning how * he does It. A woman who has a duck walk, . with the toes turned out, suggests the I prevalence of fear and the lack of \ success in her makeup, or so he says. On the other hand, pigeon-toes, or toes pointing Inward, imply a lack of brightness. And If there’s a bunion, ib betrays envy and a depression attitude in its owner. When you see a woman sit down and plant her feet close together in front of her, you may be sure that She is afraid everyone is staring at her, and that she is Inclined to nerv ousness. But, if you can detect confidence In the action a woman in placing her feet, either in walking or in rest ing them in front of her when she sits down, you have an Indication th>4 ahe is confident of her appeal bo OttMM. Ke doom** say what It means Iwhta you trip and fall down, or if pour heel copies off. The scope of insurance is wider || than you might think. It isn't con- M fined to life, automobile, marine and the other usual types. There have ,been many policies Issued for many j strongs things. toking out insurance against rain, or PertMpe you have heard of people ♦ '..J toking out insurance for rain. Others | have obtained Insurance against war But we '-hint the strangest of all fl was the policy issued to a man in London. It insured him against risk of seeing a ghost. We don’t know jSN whether he ever collected. W Another Englander took out life in guranre covert*”’ •* A pipeline from the river to a reser voir nearby was being chemically cleaned and he was afraid the chem icals would kill the fish. A Londoner who had gone to Chi cago to live obtained an insurance policy which Insured him against the distortion of his accent by the dialect of the middle west. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. What section of the United States is said to have been the spot which Norsemen called Vinland? 2. In law, what is meant by “dou ble jeopardy”? 3. Distinguish between (a) concave, and (bg) convex. Hints on Etiquette An even temper is one of the most important factors if one wants to be an al-around success at any sport. Noisy exultation at winning, sulky depressldfi at lasing .and fiery im patience over the inexperience of a partner are blots on behavior. Words of Wisdom The flower of the sweetest smell Is shy and lowly.—Wordsworth. Today’s Horoscope Persons bom on ths day are some what reserved and have mechanical ability. ( They would make a success in the legal profession if they kept in one place long enough, which they should learn to do as they have abil ity to accomplish things if they sim ply stick. One-Minute T»t Answers 1. The New England coast. 2. Being put on trial twice for the same offense. 3. (a) Surface curve like the in terior of a circle, (b) surface curved like the exterior of a circle. When the righteous tumeth from his righteousness, and committeth in iquity, hs sir 11 ev*n die thereby.— TT 1 09• - * ‘ No. 1: Newsboy to Editor o Life Story in Sketches of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg Arthur H. Vandenberg, United States senator from Michigan, was bom at Grand Rapids, March 22, 1884, the son of Aaron Vandenberg, a harness maker, and Alpha Hen drick. At the age of nine, his carefree years were cut short by family finan cial difficulties, and he was forced to earn his own living and help his parents. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— LANDON’S SPEECHES Even Though Not Delivered Mellifluously READ WELL DAY AFTER By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 20.—The vir tually unanimous verdict of politi cians In Washington is that Gov. Alf M. Landon's recent radio interview was a corking good piece of propagan da for himself. That is to say,- it didn’t sound so well on the air, but in print it was excel, .lent. The governor, it is agreed, knows how to write a telling speech. His delivery of it is nothing to write home about. • • • “Diagnosticians” Puzzled Political diagnosticians are wonder ing— Which is preferable?— 1. A speech which doesn't mean much, but is wonderful to listen to— or— 2. A speech which has meat in it, tut which isn't very thrilling to listen to? In pre-radio days they would have gambled on meatiness. Most folk read speeches then; actual audiences were comparatively small. For ex ample, William J. Bryan was a spell binder to those who could hear him, but he did not overly well stand analysis It is of record that he rgeu larly was beaten when it came to a show down. But, today, with the whole country listening in “on the air” and few persons bothering to do any studying afterward, it may be different. Political calculators frankly are puzzled. TOBACCO ROAD . ( f Jr } 1T» - fl D flaMy *- -*—* X , .., • da 'to \ ' vk. liOrmllwMtn SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. WEDNESDAY. MAY 20. 1936 |||l He helped support the family by selling news papers and operating a pushcart service around freight depots. He was graduated from Grand Rapids high school in 1900. He set out to study law by making his way through the Uni versity of Michigan. He had to quit after a year because of his family’s financial needs. Personal Experience On the whole, the betting is on the radio. As a newspaper man maybe I shouldn’t say this. Well ,1 don’t mean to' admit that the newspaper is a back number. For news, the public still turns to news papers . But for speeches the radio has a certain handiness. Illustratively, take my own case: In the pre-radio era I listened, face to face, t omany political speakers. Having done so, I did not have to read the text of their addresses in print subsequently. Most folk did. however; not having heard, they had to read. Now I do not have to attend so many political meetings. I can tune in and hear what is said as well as if , I were present. True, I try to check up later between the inspiration of mellifluous accents and the sense of what was said. But that is one of my professional duties: I am an ex ception. I think that the average in dividual gulps down the mellifluous accents and never afterward ques tions whether or not thye meant any thing. «* * . Writer’s Summary President Roosevelt's speeches in Baltimore and New York, his latest ones, are recognized as having been masterpieces of talk but as indicative of nothing in particular. Governor Landon had something to say but didn’t say it very well. It was good in print, indeed. It enunciated a political philosophy. It acquitted Landon of the oil taint. ESI on He became an office boy at the Grand Rapids Herald. In 1907, at 23, he was promoted to city hall reporter, and he be gan saving enough out of his small pay to buy two shares of stock in the pa per. Except for his tire less energy, he was an “average” reporter. His first “break” came when U. S. Senator William A. ‘Smith bought the Herald. You’re Telling Me? Now that Italy has won the cham pionship of Africa a lot of pessimists are wondering whom they will meet in the world series • ♦ * You'll notice that most of those who insist their laziness is due to spring fever, suffer from the same disease the rest of the year, too. « • e American slang has reached Eu rope. The League of Nations, thanks to Mussolini, has learned the full meaning of that grand old Yankee retort: “So what?” • » ♦ Eastern husband found $5,000 while spring house cleaning. At that, we think he was underpaid. « • • Most people blame our national troubles on three D’s —Dust, Drought and Depression. But any Republican will tell you the blame is but one D Democrats. It established him .as an anti.-monopo list. It cleared hi mos the Kansas prohibition stigma. . . Yet Landon was clever enough to dodge antagonizing the oil folk, the monopolists or the prohibitionists. (It is queer that prohibition still should be a factor, but it is, unmistakably). * « » Landon’s Abilities It isn't to be argued that Landon’s qualifications will elect him to the presidency. But they may win the nomination for him. In fact, it looks like it. a W 1 When Vandenberg heard the paper had been sold to Senator William A. Smith, he rushed to the office, cleaned out a back room used for storage, borrowed a chair, and ad vised the new owner where he could always find the editor, meaning himself. Senator Smith gasped but gave Vandenberg the job and appointed him gen eral manager as well. By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) It was a revealing fight that Sena tor William E. Borah put up in Ohio. In this primary campaign for presi dential delegates, the entire unfescap able politico-economic issue was un covered—and both sides tried to side step. Here was Senator Borah defying his own party, the Republican, as well as the Democratic party, to tell the truth. And here he was, too, faced with his own beliefs and not being able to satisfy with them. To those who followed this cam paign, as did this writer, there seemed a new epoch dawning—but an epoch which we, perhaps, will not enter. An epoch reserved for the coming generation. Not an easy epoch —rather, one of sharply contesting forces. Why does one write this? Well, to those of us not past) middle age the arguments used in this bristling, bit ter campaign seemed aged and totter ing. The words might have been ut t?red by gentlemen of the first water —yet they failed to satisfy. We ob served that a large part of the multi tude thought the words outworn. Nevertheless, more forceful words were spoken than will be heard at either major party convention. Here were issues debated with unreserved server. It was a revealing primary campaign to the student of political history. Not that it will go down into his tory; but it may’be one of the last milestones of a pasing epoch. * * • BORAH SPEAKS OUT Here was a senator speaking out at 71. fighting for a share in the pro ceedings of a political party which he declares is bankrupt of ideas and hope. If, at 51, this same senator had spoken as he now was speaking, he could have obtained the highest prize —and the party might have surged with vitality .But here he was 71 fighting against a united front of men who would dispose of him in short order. And what a fight! Even his enemies admired it. But he was beat at every turn. Robert L. Taft, whom the enemy put up a “favorite son,’’ was a “front” for putting the Ohio delega tion on a trading basis. Senator Borah asserted —and nobody denied. (“What of it?” asked politicians, forgetful of the original intent of primaries.) And who put up such a slate? Wal ter F. Brown, of Toledo, a boss whose political tactics have been denounced for years by many newspapers—Wal ter F. Brown, who was postmaster general in Hoover s cabinet. Yes, Walter F. Brown and State Republic an Chairman Ed D. Schorr put forth Mr. Taft—and when one voted for delegates supporting Mr. Taft. then. Senator Borah asserted, he voted “for the nomination of Herbert Hoo ver and the annihilation of the Re publican party." But thousands voted as the machine dictated —yes, tens of thousands. And you w’ho did not follow this campaign will ask why. Because the ptrsons who ordinarily wuold follow’ Senator Borah were Jn the Democratic camp. Not that they really desired to be there. But in 20 years Senator Borah's follownig had crostd the Rubicon —and he was in the wilderness. • ♦ • WHISPERS AND MUTTERS As usually occurs in an election, campaign, whispers were set afoot. “Borah had filibustered against the anti-lynching bill.” He had not. He had spoken 35 minutes in the senate against the “unconstitutionality” of that particu l?r bill. The damage, however, had been done not only among the large negro populations of the big cities, but among some other minorities. “I am just as much opposed to lynching as any person could be.* Senator Borah cried out. “It is a na tional disgrace. "My reason for opposing the anti lynching bill rested solely upon the proposition of its unconstitutionality. Congress has no power to pass any such measure. . • fl—of The new “editor-manager” walked on air the first few weeks, dreaming of a sal ary somewhere in the neighborhood, of $125 a week. He returned to earth when his first check arrived. It was for $37.50. This experience, plus his inherited Dutch thrift, caused Vandenberg to become a successful newspaper publisher. < To Be Continued. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— BORAH’S OHIO FIGHT With Its Bitter, Outspoken Words HIGHLIGHTED ISSUES Then Senator Borah launched into ’■l w ft V | Senator Vandenberg at his type writer. the “real issue”—“constitutional in tegrity.” But here is where he failed to an swer a question th;,t listeners were asking—any more than his opponents who als odemand “a return to the constitution” plus economy. The voters were muttering to themselves, “If it is unconstitutional to stop lynching, or provide farm re lief, or regulate wages and hours, or stop child labor, then something is wrong.” Now. the reader himself may agree with Senator Borah or his opponents, and writers, too, may agree with them, but the fact of the matter is. these Ohio debates stirred up ques tions such as the foregoing. And no body seemed ready among the politi cians to facethem- The Democrats, subject to no such bitter inter-party contest for presi dential delegates, kept quiet—but they would have given no more satisfactory answer to the crowd. They are slid ing through on “prosperity.” My New York By James Aswell NEW YORK. May 20—Rando musing: There’s a new profession for the gals, these last few years: profes sor of knitting . . . Most of the big department stores here hire ladies to teach knitting, crocheting and even quilt-patching as a wave of re vived interest in the domestic arts sweeps the town . . . Jack Dempsey’s eleven room flat in Central Park West will be one of the most eye-filling “digs” in town after decorations are complete . . Dempsey, by the way, still watches his weight and exercises regularly, now that the life of a res tauranteur involves rich food and late hours. ... • * * Laundry fashions in Manhattan point the lines between the wage groups more sharply than limousines. Spread out across Lower East side rooftops, like flags, or fluttering to dry from the cabins of barges off Coenties Slip ... Or rolling down Park Avenue in highpower, discreetly lettered delivery wagons, done up in packages like candy or flowers. Fif teen dollars a week for a family wash for two ... In New York the differ ence between a laundry and a blan chisscrie is about twelve dollars a week. . . . Then there are the private laun dresses who call at the great Fifth Avenue mansions—now growing few er and fewer with the years and the ingenious, envious taxes. .. . They are, i for the most part, solemn, sturdy wo- ] men with Gallic blood in them, big, muscled and competent . . . The Chin ese laundries are slowly infiltrating the upper class families . , . Mosst of : them will undertake a contractual I arrangement, whereby any amount cf 1 laundry is done at* so much a week, < through the years. . . . This way most < families have found the can save half < their laundry bills, although occa sionally a shirt will succumb to the < marvelously potent chemical, or what ever it is, that can shade a piece of 1 cloth through the spectrum to white in two washings. . . . Your confirmed auction buyer must tread warily in New York . . . Aline i MacMahcn and Miriam Hopkins thrill ] to the raised hammer and the “going, : going—” chant . . . But so many auctions here are pure gyps . . . Be ware of the bright light sector rooms, will loudspeakers outside, although. , of course, some of these yield bargains to the shrewd . . . The Post Office Department auctions of unclaimed mail and the Police Department of ferings of seized and abandoned prop- , erty are the most engaging, in these eyes . . . Every hotel has its auction, once a year, or so. of unclaimed bag gage . . . Sometimes it’s hard to believe that no one has taken a peck into the large and opulent-lookin; locked valises. . . There are some byways, though Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association By CLARK KINNAIRD (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) Wednesday, May 20; MecklenbuJU ' Independence Day in North Carolina, independence Day in Cuba. New moon. Scanning the skies: Some astron omers refer bo the Earth and Moon as a double planet.,There is no other case known .to astronomers in which a satellite bears such an important relation to its primary, despite the disparity in their sizes. Although the mass, or weight, of the earth is 81 times that of the moon, an object on earth’s surface weighs only six times as much as it would on the moon. A man weighing 180 pounds would weigh 30 if he were transport ed to the moon. That is because the force of gravity at the surface of two spherical bodies is not directly proportional to their masses, but Is M the mass of each divided by the square of the radius. • « • Notable Nativities Lyda Roberti, b. 1909, stage and screen actress . . . Augustine Loner gan, b. 1874, senator from Connecti cut • . . Estelle Taylor, b. 1900, act ress and vaudeville performer . . . Rt. Rev. Ernest M. Stires, b. 1866, P. E. Bishop in New York. • « * Today’s Yesterdays May 20, 1506 Cristobol Colon, called Columbus, died in Spain aged either 55 or 60—no one knows. His last wish was that he be buried in the chain in which he had been sent from Haiti to Spain. He had four graves! The body was buried first in a monastery near Seville, later moved to Santo Domingo, then transferred to the cathedral in Havana, and fi nally taken back to the cathedral in Seville. * * • May 20, 1861—North Carolina se ceded from the Union, on the 114bh anniversary of Mecklenburg country’s ! declaration of independence from Great Britain. *♦ • » One hundred years ago today— Samuel Baldwin was buried at the bottom of the Thames, at Lymington, England, in accordance with his last wish. He picked this strange burial place because his wife, in domestic squabbles, had assured him that he intended to enjoy herself dancing on his grave! « « • May 30, 1909—An historic day in moviedom. The first animal picture, "Hunting Big Game in AfricA," had its “world premiere.” It aws to set a record for attendance' and showings. Audiences thought that it showed Ex - President Theodore Roosevelt shooting a lion in Africa. The picture had been filmed in Chicago, with an impersonator of Roosevelt and a lion purchased for $75! It was notable as the first) picture of more than one reel. Exhibitors bad opposed two reelers previously, be caussthey kept audiences in the the aters too long! * * * First World War Day-By-Day Twenty Years Ago Today—The German Crown Prince's Pomeranian divisions were repulsed in another as sault on Dead Man’s Hill, at Verdun, which lived up to its name. There after it could have been named 20,- 000 Dead Men’s Hill appropriately. * * « All Britain was placed under fuel saving rules,. While the men at the front sang, “Keep the home fires burning,” the government told their families in England, ,r Don’t keep the home fires burning.’’ (To be continued) ♦ ♦ ♦ Carlyle’s grim jest that “the French nobles laughed at Rousseah’s theories, but their skins went to bind the second edition of his books,” was founded on fact. There was a tannery at Meudon where skins of certain guillotined aristocrats were turned into leather. Jam s Whitcomb Rile/s first poems were published under the name of Edgar Allen Poe! He claimed they were lost poems of Poe, a hoax which he later explained as a ruse intended to attract editorial attention. But this wasn’t his only offense against literary ethics. He got the idea for “When the Frost is on the Pumpkin and the Fodder’s in the Shock,” from an unpublished poem by a fel low guest at a house party, Donn Piatt. The latter called his, “When the Bloom is on the Alder, and the Tassel's on the Corn,” A sleepwalker in Pava, 111., slipped out of btd without waking his wife, went to his garage, drove 12 blocks to the home of a friend and, still loud, worried voice, “I've come to fix that furnace.” asleep, got them up to announce in a Thanks to us: Hall Csiine left $1,000,000; Rudyard Kipling nearly the same amount; Thomas Hardy $500,000; John Galsworth $450,000; George Moore $350,000 chiefly be cause of the enormous royalties each earned in the U. S. This country provided the major part of the in come of all of them. More than 200 cats are on the official payroll of the British govern ment at sl2 a year each, as mousers in government offices into which the inveterate bargain* chaser may penetrate with safety . . . For instance, the Goodwill Industries Inc., in Brooklyn, a charitable pro ject . . . All goods are donated and sales enrich the treasury of Salva tion Army ... I am told that several canny shoppers have picked up price less antiques for a song in this bai zar . . . But the visitor with average luck can browse among the memor abilia of vanished years . . . Yellow satin sofa of the 1880’s, brocaded love scats out of fine old Brooklyn homes, flowers under glass and dining-room oils depicting great bunches of fruit md geese hung high . . . And books: “Cur Missions in Japan”, "A Tech nological History of Coal Mining in West Virginia.” * The Plastic Age” and other such thrilling items.