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PAGE FOUR ~aauaniW)W®ffltjj®inrs Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at X 302 EAST BRYAN STREET ■h Cor. Lincoln Sired as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES . i Year 7.50 ! J Months 3.75 \ '.je* Months 1.95 rjr Month .65 Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: fransradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Mlreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures GIVE the railroads a chawce. The railroads of this nation, privately-owned and operated, j have in the last fifteen years been subjected to more different J kinds of competition than any other business operation. The first A important competition which presented itself to railroad opera - A tors was that of improved barge service on inland waterways. iThis new method of transportation, with the encouragement and , subsidies received from the national government, practically put line railroads out of existence. The second problem which K■resented itself was that of freight and passenger transporta- Mtion by truck and bus, they being allowed to use the public high- ■ ways of the nation, adding another burden upon the shoulders of I the operators of our railroads. Third, the perfect set-up of trans continental commercial air lines with their fast schedules will have to be reckoned with by railroads. The three transportation systems mentioned rn competition ■ to railroads are without question a great asset to our country ■ but for the government to allow bus, barge and airplane com panies to run wild in competition without governmet supervision ■nd at the same time ham-string railroad operators with red tape Hnd regulations is unfair to them and not conducive to the best ■glterest of the public. In many of the small counties in the states !pa|>ur nation, the railroads are the largest, tax payers, therefore, ■uld be given the protection and co-operation which they are HHftly entitled to. SSB&gl There are various safety appliance acts and regulations per gßKiing to equipment and personnel that effect railroads. Why ffiild not all other transportation be subject to the same super ■>nf For instance, we have freight buses which operate across MSVcontinent on a day and night schedule. Why should not the require that there be two licensed operators and a helper eac h These trucks and buses, if not properly oper- MBkI, are a real menace to the tax payers of this nation who use ■Arnation’s highways. read in the daily papers of many passenger bus acci- I dents with great loss of lives in which many instances govern- I ment investigators fail to fix responsibility upon equipment or I operation personnel. In the early development of this nation, L there was much time and money spent by the government in the F promotion of our present railroad systems. These railroad sys- I terns were the dominant factor in placing this country of ours L in the leading position in international governments. It does Bayern practicable that we should tender them the same co-opera- and consideration which is now being extended towards ■newer forms of transportation. It is natural for us to enthuse ■ over new methods but our enthusiasm should not be allowed to ■go to the extent of injuring other sound business operations ■ which are necessary to the prosperity of this country. President Roosevelt is wise in his move to allow railroad I operators, elected by the stock and bond holders of their cor | porations, to run their business. With the competition which rail roads are now presented with, it is necessary that the smartest Brains in the railroad world be allowed to proceed with their B’wn judgment untrampled by red tape and superfluous govern- Mnent supervision. Our railroad companies have produced the ■finest railroad executives in the world. They know their busi | ness. They are good American citizens and can be depended upon to give us a real job, if let alone. The Savannah Daily Times suggests to the law-makers of 1 our country that they pay more attention to sane, equitable leg -1 islation effecting all transportation so that each group may have a fair chance to deliver to this nation the efficiency and opera tio which is necessary to good government. FIFTEEN MILL AMENDMENT Overall limitation of taxes by state, county and municipali ties is not a new idea in government. Reduced to a simple state ment, it places a limit which may be levied upon all the taxing units of government against any one piece of property. This re acts to keep expenses down and thus throws on the brakes against extravagant spending and compels compulsory economy in government. The state of Georgia has been practicing economy during the past three years with results that have astounded the nation and have been of material benefit to the people. In addition to economizing, there has been a material reduction in taxes. Even the most partisan among us are compelled to admit this truth. The city of Savannah can but profit by the example set by the state and thereby giving the people further relief from the bur den of taxes. Eight states in the Union have in operation laws limiting taxes. The operation of the law has been entirely satisfactory. The state of Ohio has had this system in force for sixteen years. In 1919, the limitation was set at fifteen mills, the same as now being proposed in Georgia. The law gave such satisfaction that in 1933, the citizens of Ohio by an overwhelming vote again re duced the constitutional limit to ten mills. Indiana, Michigan, New Mexico, Oklahoma. Rhode Island, Washington and West Virginia are all successfully and satisfac torily operating under such laws, either by constitutional or statutory requirements. Experience has shown the wisdom and value'of such limitations and in none of these states does there exist the threat of bankruptcy. If Mayor Gamble is conscientious and has the. necessary con fidence in his ability as an executive, he will endorse the passage of the. fifteen mill amendment in order to stabilize the function ing of city government. MyNewYork By James Aswell NEW YORK, May 36—Rando musing: Boxing sane and officials live in constant terror lest an exuberant fan do something that will so blacken the eye of the sport that it will again be legally tabooed in the town . . . For instance, bottle throwers are a particular bugaboo of the fistic moguls . . . Recently during a bout, two -pop containers were tossed into the ring and a deathly stillness descended on the gathering—as full of foreboding as the hush on a Tugwell dinner party after somebody quoted from Adam Smith's "Wealth of Nations" . . . The offenders were pounced upon and promptly hustled off to jail where six-month sente”cr', the maximum, were imposed . . . You see, pop-bottles, well aimed, can kill and maim as ef fectively as bullets. . . Jimmy Walker, who dearly loves a prize fight, scarcely ever bestirs him self in public except to attend them ... He has nev.tr, I am told, visited City Hall since his return to America from long exile . . . But he did, one day, my spy declares, wander past the old pile, musing with a damp eye upon former glories . . . Incidentally, Jimmy’s attire is not quite so resplen dent as it used to be in the old days ... It must be a relief to relax a bit now sartorially . . . Once a man in public life gets the reputation for natty cressing he has tokeep at it diligently, rising to newer and ever newer glories ... If he quits Beau Brummeling the voters are likely to rebel . . . And I never knew until recently that the big-money gamblers never seek the absolutely best seats in Mad ison Square Garden for a bout. They congregate in Section 5, which is a bit back and to the side ... At the ball park, similarly, their pews are located, not behind first base which is considered ideal, but opposite third base . . . That, an expert insists, is merely habit—they know where to find one another and keep asking for the same positions . . . • * • Rooftop vignette: two small boys, painting an inscription on a water tank, in large white letters, laboring diligently for an hour in the hot sun . . . The inscription: "O. K. Pal." . . . All the big musical shows have stringent rues against sun bathing by chorines—because the tan doesn’t show up to best advantage, particular ly when it is slightly uneven in dis tribution, behind footlights . . . Cir cular in the morning mail: "Are You a New Yorker Who Knows the Spirit ual Value of Nudism?" . . . Ans.: No. • * • Now the sidewalk picture-snapping has flowered into a racket here and there . . . Some of the snappers re member to forget to insert a little film in their boxes first—and of course when the quarters come in. via the thoughtful mailing cards distribut ed after each candid click, the matter is promptly forgotten . . . Except, per baps, by the bilked "subject" . . . “Pre-Honeymoon", the new Anne Nichols farce, bids fair to repeat the strange success of "Abie’s Irish Rose" . . . Once again the critcs have damn ed with all the adjectives at their command and once again the lines have begun to form at the box-office . . . Seats, I hear, are selling eight weeks in advance . . . And lastly comes the story of the Englishman, visiting New York for the first time, who saw the following sign picked out by lights on a movie marquee: “Desire—Pronounced Suc cess" . . . “What illiterate idiots these Americans are!" he breathed. “Any fool would know that’s not the way Desire is pronounced.’ ONE MINUTE PUtPIT The righteous shall flourish like the palm-tree: he shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. —Psalms 92:12. SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT BL. One o f< he 'Tallest ZieodoßoF lALLEST CLOTH USUALLY MEN EVER KMOWM ARISES FRjOM KZy RUSSIAN. SHLPHONATeD MACHNOW, EXHIBITED o,L ,WHICH IN EUROPE BEFORE ST ALMOST ALBATS YUE WORLD WAR- gF USED To SOFTEN HE WAS 9 FEET; ,AKC> LUBRICATE q IKl z-Up< -Tk) 1— SSL, The FIBRES /dp 1 woven so The/ rN ? A ' (S’ | WILL. WITHSTAND about 2 felet yg i highspeed ® ‘I WEAVING OF W- \ Machinery,and Jlvlj Bi rarity feel softer -y g! I To <he touch gMBMIBI Medieval I WEAPON I [ I Bln Surviv es I i / I | in Some I X E VILLAR ? M V / \ I II |tt are held Il( We H between \ Tfe ) Il\ W P'VAL ' \ ZaWwIK iff 1 X MARKSMEN t \\ \ -'I Kalian stamp i 2 r oss- bow yyj PICTURES a soccer COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATICm r> ’ A SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. TUESDAY, MAY 26, 1936 HOW MUCH LONGER CAN WE KEEP IT UP? MESk \#a * : >7 0 uZA \ /V /‘'l. \\ \ T nr—- £ You’re Telling Me? MAN IN MEMPHIS, TENN., *ay* he is going to get rid of his 1909 model auto and go back to the horse a:id buggy. He knew the new fangled invention wouldn’t work • ♦ • “War ”, says a pholosopher, “is humanity’s greatest curse be cause it recuces the world's sup ply of everything.” Except taxes. • » ♦ The world does improve. We can remember when, and not so long ago, either, that some radio announcers thought three strikes were out—in a football game. • • • The children of politicians al ways know when campaign time is near. It’s when Daddy gathers them all around him and calls up the photographer. • « • England -has a new boat, the big gest in the world. Germany has a new dirigible, the biggest in the world. And Uncle Sam has a new hope Europe will pay us its debt, the biggest in the world. ♦ ♦ ♦ This will have to be the last paragraph in today s column be cause it's past quippign time. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— ALL SOCIAL LEGISLATION Subject to Attack Similar to Guffey Law SEEN ENDANGERED By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, May 26.—The fed eral supreme court s outlawing of the Guffey coal act was not in itself so much of a shock to New Dealers. At least, they were expecting it. What does perturb them is the implication in the high tribunal’s rul ing that no imaginable kind of social legislation of national proportions will stand the constitutional test. Not only are they alarmed for the future of such new agencies as the Social Security and Laor Relations Boards. The suggestion is heard that older setups, like the Federal Trade Board and even the Interstate Commerce commission might be put out of busi ness if attacked on grounds similar to those upon which the Guffey law was invalidated. The Guffey decision was not entire ly satisfactory to all anti-New Deal ers, either. • ♦ ♦ A Sick Industry Bituminous coal mining is a no toriously sick industry. Not only the miners but many of the big mine owners suffer from the ma.’ady. The latter were as hopeful as the former that the Guffey remedy w’ould ease their sufferings. Now it appears that the proposed medicine is illegal. A considerable number of conserva tive as ’.veil as liberal congressional voices are raised to the effect that, to keep up with changing conditions, various new enactments are needed, whether or not they are unconstitu tional. ♦ ♦ * Issue May Be Forced Rooseveltians seemingly have not been in favor of fighting, during the coming campaign, for a limitation of the supreme court’s power to nullify acts of congress. Some time ago the president hint ed at the is. Ung of such an issue, wnen he :poke of the undesiraoillty of returning to “horse and buggy” days, as defended by the court’s “nine old men” in their opinions. It was a "wise crack” which evidently did not “take,’’ however, or apparent ly he thought it did not, for he did not fellow it up. But today, with the august "nine’s" -WORLD AT A GLANCE— POWERFUL INTERESTS Tying Up Senate Investigation Funds HALT RAIL PROBE By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press St ass Writer) WASHINGTON, May 26—Power ful interests still have powerful sway in Washington. That is the word emanating from the forces trying to bring about an investigation of railroad holding com panies. The public has 20 billion dollars in vested in railroads, according to Washington estimates. The railroads, of course, have been heavily over capitalized, ‘ watered," in the past. That is their trouble now. But, worse, the watering has continued through holding companies, liberals assert. And the chief offender has been the Van Sweringen interests, the lib erals charge. The Van Sweringen roads have blocked every effort by whcih the government could unravel the skeins of their empire, much of which has gone through reorganization with terrific loss to the Investor. * * * Blocked Last year, the senate’s interstate commerce committee of 20 members with Senator Wheeler of Montana as chairman, unanimously recommended that the senate allot $25,000 to its special senate committee investigat ing railroads. The senate’s auditing committee gave consent to the measure. This special senate committee thereupon employed as its counsel Max Lowenthal, brilliant young law jeer of New York, who has special ized in investments. Lowenthal is the author of “The Investor Pays,’’ a startling resume of the means by which the investor does pay. Lowenthal immediately proceeded to uncover facts for the special com mittee that put the railroads on their guard. In particular, the Van Swer ingen roads, enveloped by a multi tude of holding companies, resisted. Enough “pay dirt’’ was uncovered to indicate conditions that, if expos ed, would bring strict regulatory laws, because of public indignation. But here is where the committee's money ran out. And, fundless, in vestigators could not.proceed. Whereupon the 20 members of the I r , rrin .. rcp COmmlt . ■ All Os Us - ONE KIND OF LOVE IN A BOOK I have just read, a woman who has been married many years to a man says to a much young er man: "Do you know what love is, Caul?” "I thought I did. I’m not so sure now.’ She spoke with faint bitterness. "Then I’ll tell you. It’s giving and giving and giving, and when you feel that you've nothing left to give, you've only just begun to love. Want ing to have someone all to yourself isn’t love: that’s enjoyment. If the man you love prefers other company, then he must have it, and if you look like a martyr it isnt love, and if you feel like a martyr, it isn’t love. You’ve got to give all the time, but he must never know that, because it will embarrass him, and there’s no place for embarrassment in love. You’ve got to appear selfish some times just to give him a feeling of equality. You’ve got to give him an oc casional fight, otherwise he’ll find you monotonous. You’ve got to be obstinate sometimes so that he can have something to kick against. You’ve got to be just jealous enough to flatter his vanity, but not so jealous that it will irritate him. “You’ve got to make him believe that you're the one person who’s al ways the same, and to give him that illusion you’ve got to be different ev ery single day of your life . . . You’ve got to be completely natural and that means you mustn’t stop acting for a single second, because love isn’t natural, and if anyone tells you it is, don’t you believe them . . . It’s nat ural to want to own someone, but I tell you there’s nothing in nature that makes you want to spend your life thinking of another person’s hap piness. If I’d li“en natural, Marius wouldn’t be with me now.’ majority manifestly determined to block his whole program, he may have tc. Frank Healy, prominent in NRA’s legal counsels, once undertook an in quiry into worldwide social legis’a tion. He had a competent staff to hulp him. and he iouad. he tells me, that nearly every cl’Tized country on earth has social laws of a sort that Uncle Sam’s high court considers ua constitutional. “Which,’’ he assures me, "is be cause these countries have not such inflexibly written constitutions.” Senator James Couzens of Mich igan raises the point: "What is constitutional, anyway? "I vote for a law that I think is constitutional. "The supreme court holds that it’s UN-constitutional—but by a 6-to-3 or 5-to-4 majority. "On my side are three or four of America’s pre-eminent jurists. “Am I to think that I am wrong, with this minority agreeing with me? —and I’m not even a lawyer.” A Conservative Court The queer thing is that the out standing supreme court appointees wer chosen by conservative presi dents: Justice Brandeis, named by Presi dent Wilson, not so very radical. Justice Stone, named by President Coolidge, surely a conservative. Justice Cardozo, a Hoover selection certainly not a "red.” Even Chief Justice Hughes was a reformer in his youth. Justice Roberts was regarded, when nominated by President Cool idge, was considered a mild liberal. But It is a conservative court. Justices Van Devanter, Mcßey nolds, Sutherland and Butler pre dominate. tee again voted unanimously—this time to request SIOO,OOO to carry on. The measure calling for the appro priation went to the senate’s audit and control committee. There it has reposed for some six weeks—although ths committee usually gives its judg ment in two or three days. But here this particular measure has lain— and liberal senators wonder how it can be forced out on the floor of the senate for passage. Senator Byrnes of South Carolina is chairman of the senate’s aduit and control committee. Other members are Senators Tydings of Maryland. Bachman of Tennessee and Town send of Delaware. All are anti-lib erals. * * * Bankruptcy The 1933 railroad reorganization law has been especially helpful to railroad holding erm panics and dis astrous to investors. Insiders, who dissipated the money, actually are given court protection while investors are robbed of their rights. It is as if a man were held up by a robber and when the robber was caught the victim were forced to pay a fine for being robbed. The Missouri Pacific, a Van Swker ingen line, has been cited to this writer as a case in point ♦ ♦ ♦ Victim a- Intruder Then, the othe. day, a senator, probably guilelessly, offered an amendment to the federal bank ruptcy act which caused the hair of liberals to stand on ends—when they accidentlly read the contents of the bill It would further intrench the few men who manipulate a holding com pany They would be supreme in an organization, be legalized The in vertor would be an intruder. At least, so an able attorney in terpreted it to this writer This amendment was desut by the Howard C Hopson interest it has been freely asserted in Washing ton. Hopson, it will be recalled, was the utilities promoter who disap peared when desired for questioning by the senate lobby investigating committee Chairman Black finally had Hopson produced. Some of his stockolders later pro- Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD 1 Copyright 1936, for thte Niwpo per by Central Press Association Tuesday, May 2«: mornipg atan, Venus. Uranus, Saturn, Jupiter, eve ning stars: Mercury (till 31st), Man, Neptune. Birthstone: emeral<J. Scanning the skies: There is a common idea that people need vaca tions in summer. Studies published in Ellsworth Huntington’s "Civilisatioß and Climate" show the need is ap parently greater in winter than in summer, for it is winter that causes the greatest atrain. NOTABLE NATIVITIES • Mary, Queen of England, b.' IM7 . . . Paul Lukas, cinemactor. . . . George B. Everett, president Mont gomery Ward and Compnay . . . Euj gene Goossens, b. 1393, composed and orchestra conductor. . ... Shall er Mathews, b. 1863, religion* educator. » '» »' • * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS ’ May 36, 1793—Samuel Pepys die<l at 70, after four years of blindness. He was unknown for 122 years after his death, then he became one of the most famous persons In literature! It wasn’t until the eighteen-twentiea that his diary, which he had writte,n without thought of publication, was found, deciphered and made public. May 26, 1799—James Burnett; Lord Monboddo, died at 85. He a Scottish judge, not Darwin, first advocated the theory that apes and men had com mon ancestors, in his monumental, “Os the Origin and Progress of Lan guage.” 100 Years Ago Today—The first "gag” rule, i e., curb on debate or ac tion on a legislative subject, was adopted by a hous? or congress, the house—to quash anti-slavery agita. tion A resolution adopted 117lo68de creed that “And whereas it is ex tremely important and desirable that agitation of this subject should be finallj’ arrested, for the purpose of restoring tranquillity to the public mind ... all petition';, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, re lating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery,- shall without being either print’d or referred, be laid upon he table, and. that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.” May 26, 1857—Dred Scott and his family were emancipated, in St. Louis. Mo., by Taylor Blow, after their case had made the War Between the States inevitable and ’‘further action’’ by congress mandatory. No one knows wh.-t beet me of the negro who stands out as one of the most important figures in American history. He disappeared after his free dom was granted voluntarily, two months after he had Induced one of the most celebrated of all the supreme court’s decisions. FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The German government reluctantly appointed a food administrator. It was an admis sion to the Allies that th'ir blockade, designed to starve out the civilian population, was having a measure of success. It was another argument with which proponents of ruthlees submarinewarfare could beat < down those who were against it. Actually, however, appointment of a food dictatorship was not actuated by a shortage so much as a demand for checkmatirj of profiteering. The bread tickets were issued; at first, to enable the poor to- have cheap bread and force those who wanted to buy more food than the bread ticket prescribed, to pay heavily for the indulgence. ■ • .... About this time the -rations of the common soldier in the Kaiser’s army became. Breakfast—coffee -or a sub stitute, with dry bread. Lunch—soup with occasional small pieces of msatl vegetables and bread. Supper—bread and marmalade. There are always those who will profit on human misery in any coun try. A flood of "substitute” begad to appear in Germany coincident with the tightening of the food dictator ship in staples. One of them was a "soup cube,” a swindle consisting of 96 per cent cooking salt and 4 per cent coloring matter! (To be continued) • * * IT S A FACT Thomas Alva Edison wasn’t chris tened that. He adopted the Alva when he was 15 years old, after hav ing read about an exploration trip of the Spanish Duke of Alva. Hot water pipes freeze more offer in winter than cold water pipes. Rhode Island had two state cap itals for many years. Murad IV Turkish sultan decreed that none among his subjects might drink coffee or intoxicating liquor or usetobacco, upon penalty of death, and had 18 persons executed in one day for violation of this edict. He himself died a drunkard before he was 30! The cuckoo lays her eggs on the ground and carries it in her mouth to her nest. One of the reasons why she’s considered cuckoo. tested his spending $75,000 apiece for lawyers and a million or two (of stockholders’ money) to fight the utilities holding company bill Bui the stockhlders found that their in vestments entitled them to few righto. ♦ ♦ ♦ What is What? Railroad holding companies are pe culiarly tangled The senate’s inves tigators, trying to enter the Van Sweringen maze, have been balked because the holding companies that control the holding companies that control the railroads are not railroad holding companies, but innocent-ap pearing investment or real estate holding companies They are shocked when asked anything concerning rail roads And ther documents ara some were else