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PAGE FOUR *• <1 *» Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INO t PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at >O2 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entorod ** Second OU** Matter July 12, 1935 at toe Poet Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months ...... ..... 3.75 Three Months . M ........... M .. M .................. M .... M . M _. 1.95 One Month ........ M ...........-.-......_.....................65 One Week - ........ d 5 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 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* GUERILLA WARFARE Yesterday, Mayor Thomas Gamble struck vigorously at the New Deal as he welcomed 200 or more Georgia Cotton Manufac turers to Savannah for the annual convention. And in the same breath this amazing man praised the father of New Dealism, the man who conceived and engineered its vast intricacies. Mayor Gamble exercised his remarkable powers of political sleight of hand in giving to the cotton manufacturers a speech which he knew would please an industrial group chafing under restriction by government regulations and at the same time striving to keep In right with the Roosevelt supporters in Sa vannah. To quote from this oratorical attempt to play both ends against the middle: The day of more abundant life, of which we hear so much, and which we would all so heartily welcome will not dawn through political domination of industry, nor through |hat suppression for an indeterminate period of America’s in rentive genius, which some economists so naively suggest.” Again: ** I believe the common sense of the South would gather trust the future of its textile industry to men who have Jrown up in its development and who have been active and suc cessful factors in its promotion than submit to the supervision and dictation of theoretical innovators.” ... “It will be a sad day for the South and for the country if governmental control in any guise is substituted for personal private administration of the industrial activities upon which the creation of new wealth and expansion of employment rests.” All very well. Most business men would probably agree with the Mayor. But sandwiched into this statement we hear: “Humanity’s hopes mount skyward under a leader of high Ideals, I ADMIRE AND SUPPORT THE OBJECTIVES, THE AVOWED PURPOSES OF PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT and praise his spirit of love and sympathy for humanity upon which they are based.” Which is also a very fine statesmen. Every Roosevelt sup porter will agree with the Mayor. But it can’t be done Mr. Mayor. You cannot possibly con vince an intelligent public that you “support the objectives, the avowed purposes of President Roosevelt” and at the same time convince it that you are against governmental control in industry. For that is one of our Presidet’s chief objectives. You cannot be AGAINST the New Deal and FOR the objec tives of President Roosevelt Mr. Mayor. For the New Deal is the expression of President Roosevelt’s objectives. President Roosevelt IS the New Deal. Yon can’t stand on both sides of a fence Mr. Mayor. It is a physical impossibility. All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN BEING YOU! Time flies, days change to weeks, weeks to yeans, years into a lifetime . . . You look back and perhaps it occurs to you that you haven’t done everything you hoped, you started out, to do. . . . You haven’t been everywhere, you haven’t become every thing you dreamed of being. Perhaps you’re a little sad about this. Perhaps you’re angry, restless, disappointed, disgruntled. . . . Other people win so easily, without even trying, what you longed so desperate ly to have . • . Other people have luck. You haven't had it. . . . Or you’ve suffered the saddest of all fates. You struggled for something, got it, discovered it WASN’T what you wanted. It may be that you wanted promo tion, responsibility, and didn’t get it, while other* did. ... It doesn't help much to know that there are men and women who do NOT want promotion, responsibllty, in this world . . . You wanted to travel, but you haven’t. All your life you’ve been rooted in one spot, tied down. I NOT—In the News aaa • • • COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY Leave ft to the youngsters to foment embarrassing moment*. Little Jean, 4, had never seen a really fleshy person. Her mother was quite slender, and so were *ll toe relatives and friends of the family •he had seen. One day her mother was taking Jean downtown on the street car. Presently a very »tout woman, prob ably weighing 250 pounds, waddled into the car and sat down opposite the child- Jean gaaed at toe newcomer with wide-eyed amazement. Then *h e turned to her mother to inquire in a voice heerd *ll over the car: “Mummy, i* that all one woman?’’ You may have heard this amusing •tory, but we think it worthy of repe tition. It is one of toe better stories told about Ignace Paderewski, fa mous Polish pianist, composer and statesman. Once during a tour of th* western United State* the noted musician know of a very rich woman, rich all her life, who has never gone any where, never even traveled across her own country, never went around the world, still lives in the house where she was born. . . . Funny, isn't it? But the main thing isn’t entirely what you get, where you went. It’s what you are! . . . Maybe that’s no consolation, but it ought to be. You can stay in one spot all your life, seeming to be doing nothing and still accomplishing much, become some thing. . . . Ever hear of the Night Blooming Cercus? It’s a fragrant white flower that perfumes the des ert. All year long it grows, prepares itself for the one day in the year when it blooms. And it blooms only at midnight and its glory goes with the dawn. If a human being wants to see it he must stay up all night to enjoy that beauty—but it is worth seeing. Who wants to be a Night Blooming Oereus? . ■ . Oh well, any life should be SOMETHING like that glorious flower. . . . You can be YOU! was taking a walk in a small town when he heard the strains of a pi ano wafting from a house nearby. Pi ano music to Paderewski is like flame to a moth, and it drew him magnet ically toward the house. When he arrived there he saw a sign reading: "Miss Smith, Teacher in Piano; lessons 25 cents an hour.” Pausing to listen for an instant, Paderewski realized with some diffi culty that the pianist inside was at tempting to play one of Chopin’s noc turnes, but was doing it badly. Os course, if there is one tihing Pade rewski cannot stand, it is a poor ren dition of a famous number, so he marched up to the door end knocked. Miss Smith answered the door and immediately recognized the caller. She invited him inside and he ex plained why he had stopped. Then he sat down at the piano and played the Chopin number as it should be played, *nd *s only he can. When he had finished he spent the better part of an hour explaining her mistakes before he departed. S Life Story of Senator Steiwer in Sketch Strips • . —— - ' —By C. H. Crittenden, Central Pres* Artist'-—-" 1 ■€ Frederick Steiwer, United States senator from Ore gon, was born Oct. 13, 1883, in Jefferson, a small Oregon village, the son of John F. Steiwer and Ada May, pioneers. His grand father, Samuel E. May, served as Oregon secre tary of state for two terms in the sixties. His home now is at Portland, Ore. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— WHAT ARE ANSWERS Which Readers Seek of Writer TO THESE PROBLEMS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer HOW DOES a columnist obtain his news? Thus a reader questions. It is a fair question. It would be wise for all writers to record the sources of their information. • ♦ • A TEDIOUS JOB News gathering, in whatever form, is a never-ceasing task. It is a job that requires infinite patience, a good organization of sources and a mind capable of balancing impartially. More than that .however, it requires an open mind, a forever-questioning mind, one never satisfied in seeking to ferret out the last detail, the mer est iota, to balance the scales equita bly. Not many of us measure up to the requirements. It is the same as in other exacting professions. Some of us, however, try our best. • * « SOME QUESTIONS For example, in today’s data un der examination (in a Washington hotel room, it so happens) are such unanswered questions as these: 1. Could the tax bill be kept within the original Roosevelt basis and tax undistributed corporate income with out permitting large corporations to escape through distributing their in come in the manner they pursued in 1934? (This attack on the bill —os- tensibly to guard the little fellow against the big fellow —was made by Senator Byrd of Virginia, who has been notably anti-New Dealish.) Some answer that this matter could be ar ranged easily —by amending the cur rent tax bill to keep the present in come tax in addition to levying the BACK TO THE MINES DADDY W? it*' SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 22, 1936 When he was 15 years old, Steiwe* entered Oregon State college at Corvallis, the youngest student in his class. Too young and small in those days for sports, he took up debat ing and music. In his sen ior year he was leader of the school band. He re ceived his first diploma in 1902. tax proposed by President Roosevelt on undistributed earnings. But the entire matter has been complicated by belief in some circles that th president was “misled” and would abandon his original conception alto gether. The tax bill is worth a great deal of space. That is, provided one can make a detailed study, and write the results in simple, understanable man ner. • « • A RUMOR Then, there is a rumor that Sen ator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Mich igan, considered a Republican “dark horse,” ould “consent’’ to take the vice presidential nomination under Gov. Alfred M. Lqnlon of Kansas. The story would be considered near er the exact facto If Vandenberg's supporters did not believe he still had a chance for the premier post. • • • SPREADING Workers and liberals are looking with concern on the spread of fas cism to this side of the Atlantic. They would like to know what really is occurring in Brazil under President Vargas. Tales from there are filled with descriptions of Fascist terrorism. What is the truth? • • * RELIEF Suppose relief were thrown back on the states—then what? A writer who has traveled around would like to say, in answer to that one—Heaven knows! But it is for us to know. Relief will not be turned back to the individual states. Nor will any thing else that has been centralized in Washington. The states will not permit it. The •No. 1: Early Yea \ U Senator Steiwer at hi* desk You’re Telling Me? The United States navy which has been suffering from dirigible disease ought to hire the right doctor for a cure. We understand he will be avail able soon. His name is Dr. Hugo Eckener. « * • Dr. Eckener has gotten in bad with the Nazis who run his na tive Germany. Which puts the good doctor in Dutch in more ways than one. * • • If the Nazis don’t want him, the United States could borrow Dr. Eckener to show us how to make dirigibles come down as slowly as they go up. • * * The trouble with some dirigibles is that when completed they proved just a big bag of trouble. However, some day the Zeps will be safer than sitting on your front porch. At least the pas sengers will be above the mos quitoes’s cruising range. » « ♦ Remember, the first locomotives built were off the tracks oftener than they were on. And we’ll lick the dirigible problems the same way— drop by drop. Mint* on Etiquette Leafy salads should not be cut with a knife, but may be cut with a calad fork and the bits folded, over before they are put into the xnout. people would rise up and all business would be dislocated. Such is the view of observers. The groups becoming most power ful —pension, monetary, etc., are for complete centralization, whether they realize It or not. This is a world movewient—in one form or another. i C The young graduate taught school lor a year 1 prior to resuming his stud- I ies at the University of Oregon at Eugene M in 1903. Again debate in ! terested him, but he was older and huskier, so he , played football during his freshman year. In 1905 ; he became manager of the university football team. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— SEE HOPE IN HOOVER Idea to Capture Anti-New Deal Vote By CALL TO DEMOCRATS Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S street. By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 22.—Many Republicans think there is a deal of merit in. ex-Presdent Hoover’s con tention that the G. O. P, should make out-and-out overtures to anti- New Deal Democrats. Their theory is that tere are nu merous old-fashioned Jeffersonians who will, indeed, sulk at home on election day, but wil not actually vote Republicanly unless they are offer ed some inducement to do so. To be sure they wil lhave a value to the G. O. P. as mere Democratic stay-at homes, but only a fraction of the value they will have if they can be persuaded to become Republican vot ers. However, an element of Republican leadership is rather , fearful of too much of a Democratic dilution of ther party, on the ground that it probably will be at the sacrifice of principles which, in the it has stood for. ♦ • » PARTIES TRADE SIDES If these latter folk did not realize it, to a great extent the two major parties have flopped sides already. Once the Democrats were for states’ rights and a minimum of gov ernment. The Republicans favored plenty of government, in. the interest of a privileged class, perhaps, but they never subscribed to the Jeffer sonian doctrine that the less there is of it the better. And they sub ordinated the states to their prefer ence for a large measure of control of the whole country from Washing ton. Now the Democrats are engaged in regulating nearly everything and the Republicans are howling their heads off about it. And t here never was so much governmental centralization before in American history. The Re publicans yell bitterly that it almost amounts to a dictatorship. * * * TARIFF STILL IS POINT In fact, if it were not for the tariff issue the two parties might be said practically to have swapped positions. The Democrats, traditionally for a certain amount of moderation in im port taxation, are scalin gprotection down more or less by means of the reciprocal trade agreements into which the administration is entering with foreign nations. And the Re publicans continue to stand pat for very high customs imposts. Yet even on this question the alignment no longer is clean-cut. John J. Raskob, former chairman of the Demoratic national commit tee, for example, is a severe critic of Secretary of State Hull’s reciprocal agreements, as calculated to under mine the protective system, which he believes in. On the opposite hand, Henry L. Stimson, secretary of state in the Hoover administration is one among several outstanding Republicans who praise thereciprocal bargains. ♦ * * DISINTEGRATION! Briefly, both parties have gone to pieces. To say that they have split would be to express it too mildly. They simply have disintegrated. Bpt they don’t know it yet. Uuaware that there has ceased to be any such thng as what formerly was known a Democrat or a Re publican, partisanship is re-aligning itself. But it hasn’t accomplished it yet; hence all the confusion. Four years from now probably the re-shuffle wil have been pretty well completed. The voters will under stand who’s who and which is which, but they don’t at present and neither do many of their leaders. ♦ ♦ * NEW GROUPINGS Presumably the re grouping will be into liberal and conservative parties. It was a re-grouping which the late Senator Robert M. La Follette attempted to effect in 1924, but the time wasn’t ripe for it. This time a re-division inevitably must follow. / It’s in process now. The old names may stick, but they "3MBE: Ml Y ’<> uni Senator Steiwer received his aecond diploma in 1906, and then went to Portland to attend the umversity’s law school. Two years later, at 25, he was » graduated. With three diplomas to his credit, he was admitted to the bar in 1908. In 1909, at 26, Steiwer turned toward Pendleton. He began his law career as a member of the firm of Phelps A Steiwer. Two years later he quit the firm and opened an office of his own. Mis youthful zest, and the debating skill he acquired at col lege helped him win court cases and public recogni tion quickly. To Be Continued i,. will have a new significance. It is possible that it will become apparent at teih coming conventions. It will be amply apparent by 1940 anyway. Senator George W. Norris, a Re j? publican, is a Democrat already. Al f Smith, a Democrat, is a Republican. There are plenty more such cases. i MyNewYork ! James Aswell e j, e NEW YORK, May 22.—False -• Alarm: The thin young man with * the hollow eyes and long gluey hair, . glances about more fanatically than furtively. He slips into the tene j ment doorway and quickly pours a 0 smal bottle of gasoline into a baby j carriage. It is 2 o’clock in the morn t ing and thef lame mounts quickly. f ‘Then he runs, as fast as he can 5 run. Slowing to a quick walk when he sees a figure that might be a po liceman on the dark Hast Side streets. Ten blocks, fifteen blocks, twenty. He sidles up to a fire alarm • box, expertly pulls the lever. Within 30 seconds there is a scream, of si rens and a hook-and-ladder wagon truck careens around a corner two ' syuares away. The little red road ; sters with the red lights, bearing fire J officials, roar up . But the thin young man is not ‘ there. Not any longer. He is on hts 5 way back, deviously to watch the fire he started nearly a mile away. ‘ The equipment, summoned to the false alarm, won’t be able to combat the real fire quite as quickly as otherwise it might have. The young ‘ man’s eyes bleam as he sees a dull ; red glow mounting against the East ’ River sky. Closer now, he hears a ’ woman’s high-pitched yell of panic. 1 He moistens his lips luxuriously. ’ Meanwhile there has been an ac ’ cident at the scene of the false alarm. Turning the last comer, a fireman has been hurled from his seat. He lies motionless on the pave ment with a fractured skull. The ambiance shuld be here any minute now. But his brother firemen can’t wait. They must rush to the real fire. . . . It’s already a two-alarm. ♦ * * Ship Sailing: On the West - Side Elevated Highway cars drone by ob livously. One of the great, dark piers has a facade blooming with lights. The porters hang about the entrance and taxis wheel up one by one to a narrow door. The women dismount ing from the taxis, and from occa sional limousines, wear orchids on their shoulders. It is 11 p.m. Somewhere a ship's whistle dirges once. Inside the big pier building an elevator bobs up anti down the three flights to the main pier, where passengers embark. A moving escalator carries baggage up. Ovre all there is, for those staying at hme, an atmosphere of subtle bloom; almost of menace. A few piers down the line two melancholy pickets pace up and down before a darkened doorway. Their signs, which canont be easily read in the half light, warn passen gers from such and such a boat, or steamship line. But now the crush increases at the doroway to the pier where a ship is about to depart. The usual drunk in evening dress is pour ed out of a taxi amid great hilarity who jostle folk trying to get inside, and generalyy make nuisances of themselves under the misapprehen sion that they ate charming playboys and playgirls. Only a few minutes now. The long stone pier is lined with people, get ting their passports checked, their tickets approved, sending telegrams. There are many pretty girls, all ap parently about to sail away on this boat. They troop up the gangplank, 1 orchidaceous and merry-eyed. Now the whistle glooms all over you, loud 1 and sad. Hurry increases in the < throng. Ten minutes now. I A stowaway is marched down the gangplank from tourist class, with a brace of officers. Another whistle blast. The jangle of a warning gong floats out from the main salon, the promenade decks. , Suddenly all the pretty girls troop Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Friday, May 22, National Maritime Day. Rabia 1, 1355 in Mohammedan calendar. Zodaic sign: Gemini. New moon. Scanning the skies: Studies dis close that during an average “spsll of weather” people are least efficient as workers on clear days; moderately efficient on the partly cloudy days, and on the first cloudy day; and most efficient at the end of a storm. Be fore a storm we may feel depressed, bub at the end, when the rain or snow is almost over and the air be gins to have that excellent quality which makes us forget all about it, we bend to our work with a steadi ness and concentration which are much less common at other times. * * * NOTAjBLE NATIVITIES Dr. Jacob Gould Schurman, b. 1854, educator and diploma. Dr. Robert G. Sproul, b. 1891, president of Univer sity of California. Rev. Frederick H. Hnubel, b. 1870, president of Lutheran church in America. Richard W. “Rube” Marquard, b. 1890, famed old time baseball pitcher. Prof. Charles C. Hyde, b. 1873, authority on inter national law and diplomacy. ♦ * ♦ TODAY’S YESTERDAYS May 22, 1813—Richard Wagner wa« born in Leipzig, where at 13 his colos sal career in musci began. Although regarded as the greatest composer of his time, he plagarized. At a rehear sal of Die Walkure, Wagner said to his father-in-law, Franz Liszt, “Now Poppa, here comes a theme I took from you.” Wagner, the “colossus of music," could neither play nor sing! And curi ously, Hitler, who has ruthlessly tried to eliminate every other Jewish influ ence from Germany, is still a devotee of Wagner’s music. When he stole the wife of Hans Van Bulow, the orchestra conductor 1 went to a shooting gallery, practiced, i then went to Wagner’s house. A friend dissuaded him wtih the argu ment, “You can’t kill the Master.” I Von Bulow agreed, and went back to rehearse Wagner’s opera, "Tristan,” . for its first performance! May 22. 1834 —The events hap pened which causes May 22 to be ob served as National Martime Day.At Savannah, ssembly of the John Rajf dolph, the first; iron ship launched in this country, was begun. The engines, plates and other parts had been brought over on a wooden sailing vessel, so the first American iron ship made its firstvoyage on another ship! She was 110 long with a beam of 22 feet and depth of 10 feet, and the 1 first iron ship built after John Laird ■ of Birkenhead had been denounced i as crazy because he believed irom craft would float. (There must have , still been some skepticism about it, i else the craft would have been setn over the icean by itself, instead of in pieces.) i Some day, at Savannah, the Savan i nah, the first steamship to cross an ocean, was being prepared to sail two days later on her first transatlantic voyage. May 22, 1849—A patent on a "new and improved method of buoying ves sels over shoals” was granted—to Abraham Lincoln. The idea was to have a buoyant chamber on each side of the ship. The chambers were to be collapsible. As the vessel approached shallow water they were to be inflat ed, lifting the ship and making it draw less water. It was something like having a man lift himself by his bootstraps and it never proved prac ticable . May 22, 1859—Arthur Conan-Doyle was bom, 28 years before the most enduring of 19th century literary characters, Sherlock Holmes, first ap peared in A Study in Scarlet. Doyle tried repeatedly to kill off the char acter, because he wanted to be known for his historical novels, The White Company and Brigadier Gerard. This writer advises you to read The White Company, to give it to your boys. ♦ • * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—ln an at tack at Vimy Ridge, as British divi sions attempted to recapture 1,500 yards of trenches lost the previous day, Germans introduced a new gas, called "stink” gas, from its odor. Not in itself dangerous, it was . .ixed with poison gas, and introduced into shells. It was designed to affect the eyes. It was, in fact, the first tear gas. (To be continued) * * * IT’S TRUE Telephones aren’t increasing in number. There are half a million few er phones In service now in the world than in 1933. When capitalists join the bread line: the free lunch served to stock holders of the U. S. Steel Corp., at tihe annual meeting, consisted of sand wiches, pie (pumpkin, apple or cus tard) and coffee. King Henry VIII of England and King Francis I of France engaged In a public wrestling bout. Dan O'Leary walked 100 miles in 23 hours, 43 minutes, on his 78th birthd'.y! Lynne Starling, who laid out Co lumbus as Ohio’s capital, had mich big feet that when two young women knit him a pair of stockings which fit, he ci-ve them $25 each and left them SB,OOO in his will. Sir Bleachcroft Towse, who has b:en blind for 36 years, plays golf on a regular 18-hole course, and designs and builds furniture. "You’re wrong if you believe that hot cross-buns are properly served on Good Friday,” writes Roy McCullough, a . regular Write-a- regular Write-a wronger. “Originally these sugar buns rich with fruit and spices, were dis tributed in churches on Easter Sun day. it’s an error of long standing, but an error, nevertheless, for them to be served on a holy day that finds altars stripped of ornament and cele brant: in black vestments.” back down the gangplank. They are not sailing after all. They are mere, to make male passengers think the voyage is going to be a gi eat success. Now the gangplank is rising. . , ,