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PAGE FOUR • Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ' at 102 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered aa Second Class Matter July 23. 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months —.... 1.95 One Month .... *65 One Week -.... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN 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 Pictures MALCOLM BRYAN’S ADDRESS. The address of Mr. Malcolm Bryan of the School of Com merce of the University of Georgia delivered at the Richard Ar nold High Auditorium was not conducive to the best interests of the university which he is connected. The University of Georgia is a state-owned university, sup ported by all of the taxpayers of Georgia, and therefore should not be drawn into a political controversy. The high peak of effi ciency maintained by the Army and Navy of the United States is because of the fact that these two units of government are en tirely dis-associated from political controversies. The University of Georgia has, at all times, received the major share of the state’s revenue devoted to educational pro gress in Georgia. The Savannah Daily Times believes that Mr. Bryan was employed by the taxpayers of Georgia to teach com merce to the youngsters of this state. It does not believe that he was retained for the purpose of bringing this proud univer sity with its glorious traditions into political controversies which certainly could do it no good. There have been other employes of the University of Georgia In the past, who have through misdirected energy, created an antagonism between the common schools of Georgia and our state-owned universities. One of the outstanding errors along this line was that of the attempted trade with former Governor .Walker on a special session of the Georgia Legislature for the purpose of loading the state down with a seventy million dollar bond issue for roads and a twenty-five million dollar bond issue for education, of which the University of Georgia was to receive the major share. That program projected by some of the faculty ©f this noble institution, created antagonism to such an extent that the good people of Georgia, who were interested more in the progress of the University of Georgia, than they w ere in the •alaries, rose up in arms, and defeated the bond issue. Destructive criticism is the easiest medium through which one may destroy a program. Mr. Bryan with his learned back ground followed that route in his address. When Mr. Bryan is ready to present a constructive tax program prepared ready for passsage which is acceptable to the clear thinking people of Georgia, the Savannah Daily Times will be one of the first to endorse the movement. Until then we would suggest that this gentleman give his undivided attention to that job which he is paid to do; the instruction of Georgia youngsters in the school of commerce. It would be unfortunate for this gentleman to be allowed to precipitate our grand old institution into a controversy in this state where possibly he would find in the final accounting, him self on the wrong side. . We do not think that Mr. Bryan need ever worry about his walary, the university will be taken care of, irregardless of what program may be adopted. NOT—In the News ••• * « • COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH SHENEY It takes brass, someone once said, to make gold. Os course, the author of that phrase was not suggesting his idea of the composition of the precious metal; he did not mean the alloy when he said brass. He meant the type of brass that is interpretive of impudence, effrontery and shameless ness. He must have had in mind some one like the college boy we once knew. TLs boy, in our way of think ing had more brass than a German band. • • • The boy, wfaom we shall call Jack, lived in a small Pennsylvania town. Tai and gawky, he presented a none too pleasing appearance, and be cause he gave the impression that he was an extreme egotist, which he was, he had very few friends. So, when Jack went to college in an Ohio city there was no one on hand to welcome him. Probably no one knew him, and if anyone did, he probably wouldn’t have been very anxious to greet him. In this college the first week of school was "rush week” at the fra ternity huses. New boys coming to the school, or the more fortunate ones, were invited around to the vari ous fraternity houses and pledged if they were up to the standards set by the organizations. Jack did not have an invitation to any fraternity, but he picked one out and went around to the house any way. He walked in as nonchalant as you please, Introduced hmself, and announced he was staying for lunch. Members of the fraternity gava each other a puzzled look, but said nothing. , So Jack stayed for lunch. Not only that, he stayed for the rest of the week, sleeping on the couch and making himself as obnoxious as pos sible. Jack’s name came up when the members voted on the prospective pledges, but there weren’t enough black balls to go around. He heard he had been turned down, but he stayed around a couple more days. At last he moved his luggage out of the house, but he was back, unin vlted, every day for sme meal. He was around so much that the mem bers were frantic in trying to find away to get rid of him. They voted on him again, and again he was turned down flat. But he still came around. Three more times he was voted down, and then, in desperation, the members pledged him because they couldn’t get rid of him. ♦ * ♦ t Pledging Jack proved to be the smartest thing the fraternity ever had done. His brothers grew to like him better and better, and by the time he graduated he was one of the most active and prominent students in school. Yes, Jack had plenty of brass, but beneath his bold exterior he had a heart of gold. And, given a chance, he shwed himself well worthy of the fraternity that virtually had been forced to pledge him. Why Wool? Why does the bride choose all wool blankets in preference to part cotton —if she does, of course? Because it is light and warm. The reason wool is warmer tha ncotton is that the wool fiber is covered with tiny scales, and when the fibers are woven to gether and combed up into deep, fluf fy nap, these scales interlock and form millions of tiny air pockets. Just as the air space in a thermos bottle acts to kep its contents warm, so the air pockets in the nap of a wool blanket form an insulation between your body and the cold, keeping the warm air in and the cold air out Animals which are native of cold climates have thick woolen hides, you notice. Style Whimsies Printed trimming on a dressy solid colored dress is new. Life Story of Senator.Steiwer in Sketch Strips ’ —By C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist a 1 .•• v ■ fed! In 1911, Steiwer married Miss Freida Roesch, whose father owned Pendleton’s largest bank. To them were born two children, Elizabeth, now 23, and Frederick, Jr., 18. Stei wer’s marriage widened his circle of friends among influential resi dents, and the young law yer was ready to embark •n his political career. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— EMERGENCY SETUPS With Their Thousands of Workers DOOMED BY F. D. R.? (Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street) By CHARLES P. STEWART) (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 23.—1 f Presi dent Roosevelt is re-elected he will completely eliminate or radically cur tail emergency set-ups creatod earlier in his present term to deal with de pression conditions, according to talk in Washington. For that matter, the job will await his successor, even if today’s White House incumbent is defeated. It is a prospect to make any presi dential aspirant shudder. • « • Thousands to Go The very suggestion that Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes plans a 25 per cent reduction in his PWA staff has created a commotion that stirs the entire capital. Ickes is not actually reducing im mediately. He merely prepared a list of those who will go because the ad ministration and congress favor grant ing new relief millions to Harry L. Hopkins, head of WPA. But PWA workers are scared aplenty at the mere thought that their positions are endangered. They simply are inundating their senators and representatives with appeals and demands for protection. And there are, throughout the country or here in Washington, 9,000 of them. Only 2,250 are immediately f r.- tened, but they don’t know which are which; therefore the whole 9,000 are fright ened- « « • Friends Swell Chorus Nine thousand Isn’t the sum total, either. ANOTHER BUBBLE BURSTS! '"l' - 11- ■■ 'I ' WIH / 1 # > • A ° i AVANNAH DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, MAY 24, 1930 top; I z-v p/st/xoi I Shortly after his marriage Steiwer was appointed deputy district attorney for Umatilla county. In 1912 he was elected dis trict attorney, but refused to be a candidate for re election. Continuing his climb on the political lad der, he was elected, in 1917, to the Oregon state senate. The war inter rupted his career. Each of the 9,000 has friends, and many of them dependents, to swell the chorus. All of the 9,000 have more or less politicial influence, too, or they would not have been able to get on the gov ernment payroll initially. When the slash finally is made — and it seems a certainty—the numer ical strength of the howl will be trimmed from 9,000 (plus dependents and friends) to 2,250 (plus). iBUt it will be more int'-isive. Those who suffer will screech worse than at the mere danger of suffer ing. • ♦ ♦ Mukiply This! Now, multiply the difficulties in volved in this 25 per cent liquidation of PWA, by the difficulties involved in the 100 per cent or less difficulties involved in the liquidaton of the: ECW, EHFA. FCA, FCC, FDIC. FEAR, HLC, NBC, NLRB, NRC, NYA, REA, RFC, SBC, SSB, TV A, WPA, and other emergency setups (all listed in the Congressional Li brary)— z And it must become apparent that the footing will be formidable. Administration’s Theory The administration’s theory is that, with improving t:.aes (if and when), the government’s alphabetical work ers will drift naturally into private employment. But, '~>r some reason, folk appear to like to work for the government. Uncle Sam s jobs are secure, and pen sioned. Government jobs may not appeal to the super-ambitious, but the average Individual evidently likes one. It is an old saying of public No. 2—War and Politics ft LiX g The young state senator resigned to enter second officers’ training at Presi dio, Cal., in August, 1917. Commissioned a lieuten ant, he went to France in January, 1918, with the Sixty-fifth United States artillery. He saw active service through most of the major engagements until the end of the war. You’re Telling Me? WE PREFER the chuckle to the laugh. You never heard of any one chuckling bitterly, did you? • • • Maybe Max Schmeling, Jimmy Breddock and the other heavy weights can’t lick Joe Louis, but if our ball players keep battling on the diamond as they have been doing this season we’d like to see Joe Matched with, say, the Boston Red Sox. • * • And the Cleveland Indians insist that the charge their Pitcher Johnny Allen has revived the spitball is all wet. • ♦ * Florida native catches rattle snakes with his bare hands, ac cording to news dispatch from the Sunshine state. That’s news —we mean the fact that Florida admits it has rattlesnakes. As far as these Public Enemies are concerned, the word “G-men” means nothing other than just plain “Amen.” servants that “few die and none re sign.” Secretary Ickes’ policy is not to wait for death or the hopelessness of resignment. • ♦ * Not in Civil Service Alphabetical emergency jobs are not, to be sure, on a civil service ba sis. Their incumbents can be dropped unc eremon iously. However, they are trying to make their posts permanencies. To a con siderable extent, undoubtedly, they will succeed in doing it. Then their various bureaus will last forever. Steiwer was elected to his first term in the United States senate Nov. 2, 1926. In 1930 he was named vice chairman of the Republican senatorial campaign committee to elect western senators. In 1932 he campaigned cau tiously for re-election and won, despite an over whelming state vote for President Roosevelt* 'sggkg One of the principal anti-New. Deal ,i orators, Steiwer was chosen to de liver t the keynote J speech | at the Republican national I . * I He was mentioned also as I a "dark horse” possibility. His voice became the me- I dium * of the 1936 battle I 1 cry of seek- I ing to'oust Democrats., .The Endj -WORLD AT A GLANCE— NEW DEALERS SPEED Strategic Moves in Republican Regions TO AID PROGRESSIVES By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer THE DEMOCRATIC high command hopes for a strong old Guard platform at the Republican convention in Cleveland. With that end in view, a stronger drive than ever is under way to line up Republican Progressives for President Roosevelt. The plan of the Netw Dealers to pick Senator James Couzens of Mich igan as a Democrat is part of that strategy. Old Guarders in Michigan have refused to reaccept Senator Couzens. They charge him with being a New Dealer in principle. That de lights the New Dealers. Senator Cou zens, running for re-election as an Independent Republican, can be an nexed as a Democrat —and (according to New Deal hopes) this combination of Independent Republicans and New Deal Democrats will carry Michigan for Roosevelt. • ♦ • BORAH TOO? The New Dealers would like to an nex Senator William E. Borah and his following, too. Borah now real izes he has no chance in the Cleve land convention. He has been hinting a bolt since his "massacre” in Ohio. Borah, however, has hinted bolts in previous years Gov. C. Ben Ross of Idaho believes he could beat Borah .for senator. When re-elected as governor in 1932 for his second term, Ross carried every county in the state. He now is in his third term. The New Dealers may hint that Senator Borah should be unopposed in Idaho. But it is questionable whether Ross could be induced to step out of the race, except by being offered something better. « « • AND NORRIS The New Dealers persist, too, in supporting Progressive Republican George Norris for re-election to the senate from Nebraska. But the vet eran progressive insists he will not run again. His following is tremendous in the farm country—and the New Dealers would plough under any num ber of mediocre Democrats to back Norrie. Senator Norris, despite his years, is getting into a fighting mood again. All because of shenannigans by his arch-enemies, the utilities. His bill for rural electrification suf fered an amendment in the house which angers the senator. That amendment calls for loans to private utilities. Imagine the senator’s feel ings! .• • • WALL STREET VIEW? Large wagers are being offered in Wall Street at 11 to 5 on Roosevelt’s re-election. • • • MORE BUSINESS Utilities, by the way, aren’t doing so badly. Revenues from sales of elect ricity in 1936 may reach a new high record of two billion dollars, accord ing to the Alexander Hamilton In stitute. This economic Institution adds: "Lower prices promise to be more than offset by increased out put.” • * • STARTLING A startling item occurs in the last bulletin of the Alexander Hamilton Institute: "Great Britain may yet settle the war debt due to the United States despite omission of his item in England’s 1936 ’37 budge ... It has been suggested in certain British financial circles that the war debts to the United States could be settled out of the profits which will ultimately be derived from the revaluation of the Bank of England’s gold holdings when the gold standard is restored. At the present time the Bank of Eng land holds about 200,000,000 pounds of gold, which still is carried on the books at the original parity.” Reval uation would bring an estimated pro fit of $700,000,000. This would be of fered in a lump sum In full settle ment of the war debt, according to the suggestion. « • • MORE TAXES Whatever is the eventual outcome of the present tax bill, Wall Street expects constantly mounting taxes. It cannot be otherwise. Taxes will have a deflationary effect on prices, ■ 1 -I ' M • Steiwer Speaking ' it is assumed, all other things being equal. But there are so many attempts at inflation, such as the inflationary farm mortgage bill, with its provision for three billions in new currency, that even the best guessers do not have any strong convictions. The farm mortgage bill was defeated but Wall Street expects it to bob up next term, with stronger support than at present. The only certain tiling is uncer tainty. MyNewYork By James As well (Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso ciation) NEW YORK, May 23.—Out of the Mailbag: "I have just come home from a visit to New York,” writes a lady who prefers anonymity in San Antonio, Texas, “and I’d like to men tion at least one Manhattan experi ence that perhaps no male reporter would ambit on. I refer to the de light of shopping for food in the various New York stores, large and small. “Os course T didn’t buy any food while I was there. I ate in restaurants and lived at a hotel. But it was a revelation to me to see the food de partments of the big department stores and even the shops which sell nothing but strange and rare and im ported stuff. ‘‘The big department stores knocked my eye out. To be able to buy Ken tucky and Virginia hams ready cook ed and those yard-long sausages they call bologna. I never knew what Al Smith was talking about, exactly, un til I saw some. And by the way, what’s the difference between bologna and boloney? My little daughter, age 12. said she was sure boloney was the plural. “There was one funny thing, though. In those huge department stores you could buy everything to eat except what most of us eat every day—steaks and chops and things like that. Now I am going to tell you something I have never seen men tioned in any of the columns as a possibility in avoiding starvation. “A girl I know went to New York some time back and she has a good job now. But she says she was pretty blue the first few months. Couldn’t get work. Finally she was absolutely broke and the food problem began to loom. You know what she did? She toured the department stores every day and always found they were “in troducing’ some new product, jelly or jam or pickles or canned ham or caviar, and samples were passed around. “One day she had four servings of caviar for breakfast, two dill pickles and a piece of angel-food cake for lunch and her dinner consisted of a large bowl of new breakfast food. Well —she lived to get a job, any how. Only one trouble. It makes her ill now every time she enters a de partment store —or passes a delicates sen window. “I never knew how many different kinds of cheeses there were in the world until I saw one of those heaped counters. This may sound common place to you, who are accustomed to it, but it’s really a sight for those from other ctiies. Os course the canned rattlesnake meat was no nov elty to me; we raise ’em down here. But the cheeses were actually a sight for the eye; wonder why artists don’t paint them in the profusion of yel low, orange and pale lemon colors in stead of fruit and game for dining rooms. "Os course I could probably buy all the different kinds here that I wanted, but seeing them together was what was striking. “Oh, yes. I wonder how the Nor mandie feels now that the Queen Mary is about to steal some of the spotlight. It occurred to me that if the Normandie wanted to be naughty it could sail out in the bay and then sail in alongside the Queen Mary as that ship docked in New York on its maiden voyage That would be an idea, wouldn’t it?” Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association SUNDAY IS THE DAY First Sunday after Ascension, May 24, Zodiac sign : Gemini. Birthstone: emarald. New moon. (First quarter: Wednesday). * • • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Benjamin N. Cardozo, b. 1870, as sociate justice of the Supreme Court of the U. S. . . . Jan Christiaan Smuts, b. 1870, South African soldier and statesman . . George Grey Barnard, b. 1863, great American sculptor . . . Harry JfcflCTson Fosdick, b. 1878, fam ed New York clergyman. * * » SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS May 24, 1816 —Emanuel Leutze was born in Gmund, Wurtemberg where he grew up to become the artist who executed a dozen of the most famous American historical paintings. His best known work, Washington Cross ing the Delaware, was painted in Ger many, and this caused hi mto commit glaring anachronisms in it. Criticized because of these, he made the then difficult journey to the base of the Rocky Mountains, ot prepare himself to do Westward the Star of Empire Takes Its Way, which is in the Cap itol at Washington. « • * May 24, 1819—Amelia Jenks was bom in Homer, N. Y. Her married name, Bloomer, is immemorially as sociated with bloomers, which she wanted to replace skirts, but she didn’t invent them. In 1849, when editor of a women’s magazine, she took up the idea of wearing garments which she described “of more grace ful and convenient character,” pre viously originated by Mrs. Elizabeth Smith Miller. The stir her campaign made caused the garments to be nam ed for her. One of her pleas for bloomers says: ‘‘if delicacy requires that the skirt ; should be long, why do our ladies commit the indelicacy of raising their ; dressing, which have already been j sweeping the sidewalks, to prevent 1 their draggling in the mud of the , streets? Surely a few spots of mud t added to the refuse of the sidewalks 2 are not to be compared to the charge t of indelicacy, to which the display t they make might subject them.” t* * * May 24, 1899 —That popular Amer . ican Institution, the garage, was bom. The first public repository for auto moblies was opened in Boston by W. s T. McCullough, who called it the Back Bay Cycle and Motor Co. l FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY May 23-24, 1916—For a change, Washington did some protesting to London and Paris. The Secretary of State wrote a sharp note to Great Britain and France expressing in -1 dignation over interference with . American mails at sea, and declar ing it could no longer be tolerated. It was. *♦ • « ! Saturday, May 23: 148 anniversary 1 of the ratification of the Constitution 1 of South Carolina, the eighth Sae. ■ Morning sars: Venus, Saturn, Uranus, ; Jupiter. Evening stars: Mercury, Mars Neptune. 1 NOTABLE NATIVITIES Elizabeth Holman Reynolds, b. 1906, . known as Libby Holman, blues-singer i and mother of a multi-millionaire • baby . . . Douglas Ullman, b. 1883, ' known as Douglas Fairbanks, one-time . cinemactor . . . Mabie Walker Willie brandt, b. 1883, famed woman law -1 year . . . James Gleason, b. 1886, . cinemactor . . . Herbert Marshall, b. r 1890, cinemactor .. . Henry W. Keyes, [ b, 1863, senator from New Hamp . shire . . . Alfred P. Sloan, Jr., b. ( 1875, president of General Motors i, Corp. i May 23, 1707 —Carl Linne was born in south Sweden, the minister’s'son who was to become best known as ; Linnaeus, founder of modem botany, i His writings, classics today, were bar ’ red from some European countries in i the 18th century because they des cribed his discovery of a sexual system in plants. He was first to establish ■ that the vegetable kingdom is made up of males, females and neuters, too. ♦ ♦ * May 23, 1805—Napoleon Bonaparte, a small town Italian boy who made good in the biggest French city, made himself king of Italy by placing the 13 century-old iron crown of Lom bardy upon his head and declaring, “God has given it to me, let him be ware who would touch it!” You know what happened to Bonaparte. • ♦ « May 23, 1823—" Home, Sweet Home” perhaps the most enduringly popular American song, was first heard pub licly in London, as part of an opera written by an Englishman! It was sung by Anna Maria Tree when the opera ‘‘Clari, Maid of Milan,” had its initial performance. Ironically, the composer of Home, Sweet Home, Sir Henry Bishop, is as little known to day as the opera, for John Howard Payne, the librettist, is usually given all of the credit for the song. * » • May 23, 1825—Rev. Mason Locke died at 66, having established an en during reputation by creating a fict itious George Washington who over shadows the Washington portrayal by factual historians. This parson who gave Washington his fame as a truth teller, was himself an unconscionable liar! For instance, he repeatedly des cribed himself as the "former rector of George Washington’s parish,” which he never was; and he inventel the cherry tree story. (To Be Continued) Now that he’s an emperor instead of a king, we bet Victor Emmanuel of Italy feels he has become more powerful—until he remembers that a fellow named Haile Selassie was an emperor, too. ONE MINUTE PULPIT Every wise woman buildeth . her house: but the foolish plucketh M down with her hands.— Proverbs 14:L
