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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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-
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Friends Swell Chorus
Nine thousand Isn’t the sum total,
either.
ANOTHER BUBBLE BURSTS!
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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.
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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
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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.
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And the Cleveland Indians insist
that the charge their Pitcher Johnny
Allen has revived the spitball is all
wet.
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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.
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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*
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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
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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.
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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.
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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!
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WALL STREET VIEW?
Large wagers are being offered in
Wall Street at 11 to 5 on Roosevelt’s
re-election.
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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.”
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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.
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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,
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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! 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.
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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.
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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.
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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