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RESPONSIBILITIES OF CITIZENSHIP.
The unopposed ticket of county officers in yesterday’s pri
mary was an outstanding example of confidence expressed in
the integrity and efficiency of our present county government.
Chatham county administrations have been generally known for
their efficiency in operation. The taxpayers are, at all times,
grilling to express their appreciation of meritorious service ren
dered by the custodians of their property. The Savannah Daily
Times commends the citizens of Chatham county upon their good
' • judgment.
In the very near future, we are going into a municipal cam
paign of great importance in the City of Savannah and its indi
vidual citizens. The Savannah Daily Times through its editorial
columns has requested from the Mayor of this city, information
concerning many rumored irregularities in the operation of our
city government, all of which he has declined to answer. The
irregularities mentioned in the columns of this paper are dan
gerous to the fundamentals of good government, if continued
and pursued.
Mayor Gamble’s failure to answer the questions propounded
to him by this newspaper can only indicate one of two things:
Guilt or ignorance. We trust for his sake that on some future
date, he will endeavor to explain in a common sense manner,
his procedure. It is feared seriously by some of his friends that
k if he continues to carry the churches on one shoulder and the
saloons on the other, it will impair his growth, if not physically,
i certainly politically. The citizens of Savannah have a definite
I responsibility of citizenship inherited from their forefathers;
| a community well governed and prosperous. This responsibility
can only be fulfilled by constant and keen analysis of the public
L officers and their election to fill a public trust. The citizens who
B realize this responsibility should register, vote and carefully
■ guard their interests at the polls. They should demand from
' Mayor Gamble a denial or admittance of the charges launched
»Tby the Savannah Daily Times. The fight is near and the issues
are important, do »ot be found asleep at the switch because a
country worth fighting for in time of war, is certainly worth
Mlooking for in time of peace.
NOT--In the News
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COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
LEAP YEAR
"Just why,” asks Dick R., of Mon-
Poe, N. Y., “od girls have the idea
that It’s entirely cricket to propose
to a fellow in Leap Year?
“Maybe you’re not bothered so
much by the custom, Worth, but I’ve
been having a terrible time of it.-
What can a guy do baout It?”
Your Insinuation, Dick, isn't so
complimentary and it almost prompts
me to toss your letter in the furnace
and let you suffer on. However,
since it doesn’t sound like you are
bragging (oh, no!), I’ll try to answer
' your question and relieve your de
spair.
The proposal privilege of Leap
Year does have all the earmarks of
having been promoted by the Wom
en’s Suffrage movement, doesn’t it?
But that's not so. Girls were look
ing forward to Leap Year wth pos
sessive eyes long before they had the
idea they could vote, smoke, swear
and drive an automobile as well as
men. (Please notice I said “had the
idea.”).
The custom, as you call It, and we
suppose it is, wasn’t always just a
custom. Once, like it or not, it was a
law! Yes, a law. Scotland women
once had the legal privilege of pro
posing to the man of their choice in
Leap Year. And woe be to him who
rejected a proposer without a good
excuse! He couldn't just say no and
let It go at that. If he didn’t like the
idea he was arrested and fined!
The Scottish law giving women the
whip-hand in Leap Years was passed
In 1288. It read like this:
“Ilk yeare knowne as lepe yeare ilk
mayden layde of bothe highe and
lowe estalt shall hae liberte to be
speke ye man she likes.”
And unless he could prove himself
ineligible a man who saw fit to re
fuse a lady in marriage was "mulcted
in ye sum ane pandis or less,” ac
cording to his earnings and finances.
A law similar to the Scottish statue
giving the ladies the upper hand was
passed in France a few years later.
In the fifteenth century ladies of
Florence and Genoa also had the
same legal advantage.
' That’s how it all started, Dick, but
whi tyou can do about It, I don’t
know. Os course, you can always
< refuse. They won't arrest you and
fine you nowadays. Or do you w r ant
to refuse?
• * ♦
Low Talk
Signs carrying the words “Silence!”
and “Quiet Please!” are readily un
derstood. Bvt we think there might
easily be some misunderstanding
about a sign seen recently in a li
brary in England by a reader.
The sign, printed in large block
letters, said:
“ONLY LOW TALK PERMIT
TED.”
This actually happened, says Elea
nor C., in a West Virginia first grade
class.
“Johnny,” asked the teacher, “how
many seasons are there?”
Johnny meditated for a second.
“Three,” he said, confidently.
“Three?” repeated the teacher puz
bled. “Well, what are the three?”
“Baseball, football and basketball.”
• • *
A YOUNG school boy, son of a
farmer, was troubled with his verbs.
“Father,” he asked, puzzled, “does
a hen set on a nest or sit on a
nest?”
“Well, son,” his father replied,
“that never worried me much. I al
ways have been more concerned
whether, when a hen cackles, if she
has been laying or lying.”
« • *
WE THINK this Uttle maxim con
tains a lot of worthwhile wisdom:
Money lost, little lost;
Honor lost, much lost;
Courage lost, all lost
• * *
A READER in Canada wonders if
we have heard the story of the “Weep
ing Princess ". We hadn’t, and unless
you are a philatelist, you probably
haven’t either.
In commemoration of the twenty
fifth anniversary of the accession of
the late King George V., the Canad
ian postoffice department issued a
green one-cent stamp bearing the head
of Princess Elizabeth of the British
royal family.
Shortly after it was issued, stamp
collectors discovered that in some
copies there was a mark just below
the right eye of the princess that
looked like a tear. Investigation re
vealed that there was a flaw In one
engraving plate, and that the “Weep
ing Princess” stamp was the left
stamp in the third row from the top
of certain sheets.
It is not known how many of them
are in existence, but it is easy to un
oerstand why copies of the “Weep
ing Princess’ command high prices
among collectors.
Unfortunately, however, not all of
the copies now in existence are gen
uine. It has been discovered that
someone has been forging copies of
the “Weeping Princess” by adding a
tiny green tear to perfect stamps.
• * •
SPEAKING of stamps, we under
stand that an India stamp is one of
the most valuable to collectors. The
first stamps were issued in India in
1852. They were nothing more than
embossed seals. Today one of those
seals is worth nearly SSOO.
IT’S A GREAT LIFE
Real Americanism: Quitting the
farm so you can be somebody; labor
ing long to get rich so you can retire
to a farm.—Exchange.
LIONS CAN’T CLIMB TREES!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
BORAH DISGRUNTLED
Over His Failure to Make a Dent
BUT MAY NOT “WALK”
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 27.—Probably
the most thoroughly disgruntled in
dividual in American politics is Sena
tor William E. (Borah. At least he is
the worst disgruntle dos any on the
Republican side of the sense. On the
Democratic side Al Smith’s disgruntle
ment may equal the Idaho states
mans.
Whether or not Borah “takes a
walk” at the Cleveland convention
must depend on the character of the
ticket nominated and the platform
adopted there.
Maybe he will swallow the G. O.
P.’s candidatorial selections and state
ment of Its policy anyway. He always
has. except once. It is i.ot quite true
that he never bolted in campaign
time. He was “off the reservation”
the first time William J. Bryan ran,
but even then he was not a very con
spicuous Republican outlaw.
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His Interests Complicated
Borah’s senatorial interests compli
cate the situation for him.
He is up for renomination and re
election this year.
And, for re-election, he has. for
quite awhile, faced the prospect of
stiff competition from Governor Ben
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Ross, who is sure to be chosen aa the
Democrats’ contender for his seat.
Many politicians have guessed that
he was not very confident of being
presidentially named at Cleveland;
he could account for being beaten on
i the ground that lie is too old —past
70. But it was surmised that he
. wanted to make a formidable show
ing at the G.O.P. gathering, byway
of increasing his Idaho prestige and
improving bis senatorial chances
against Ross.
’ This reasoning might been all
right if events had transpired ac
cording to Hoyle.
Idaho selects its senatorial candi
dates considerably later thjin the Re
publican national convention. Thus
. Borah is in a position tq seek sena
, torial renomination even if presiden
tially defeated.
And, assuming his display of a deal
of presidential strength in Cleveland,
it is conceivable that the Idaho elec
torate should say, "Here's too big a
man to lose.” A senator isn’t too
old at 70.
* * •
Will Make No Dent
But Borah evidently will mak’ no
considerable dent at the Republican
• convention.
I The primaries have proved that,
i He appears to have so little influ-
ence that it is doubtful that he will
create much of a sensation even if
he “takes a walk.”
Besides, suppose he does “take a
walk?”
Then he will have to run ssna
torially as an independent'. Chances
of independants always are dark.
Why Not Vote for F. D. R.?
Former Senator Simeon D. Fes of
Ohio “said it” whan he remarked:
“A conservative who wants to vote
conservatively may as wlel vote for
Roosevelt as Borah.”
Yet the progressives of both parties
always have reckoned that the Idaho
senator never was progressively de
, pendable in election time.
[ Tragedy?
i It is tragic that, in the evening of
his life, the country’s foremost rad
ical is a “red” to conservatives and
. unreliable to liberality.
Like Al Smith, he is a poor loser,
. too.
CORRECT
“Darling, there’s only one thing
that prevents my play from making
a hit with the producers.”
“The idea!”
“How did you guess it?”—Ex
change
THAT IS, WE SHOULD
All of us with our trival troubles
forget them when a fellow human be
ing is in real suffering.—Exchange.
> MOST ANNOYING
Professor—“ You can't sleep in my
class!
Student—"lf you didn’ talk so loud
■ I could!"—Exchange.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
AN INFLATIONARY BOOM
Due to the Vast Gold Store and Excess Reserves
OR PRODUCTION DECLINE?
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
AN ADVISORY investment service
advises:
‘ Credit inflation or monetary in
flation, prices of both commodities
and securities will rise. The chances
are that we will have both currency
inflation and credit inflation. But
the latter will come, anyway.
“Colossal expansion possible: The
10 billions of gold in the United
States can be expanded to a grand
total available credit of 280 billions!
This compares with 55 billions at the
peak of 1929. Within a few years you
are likely to see the greatest spending
program and industrial activity ‘boom’
in history!
“We have, in addition, more than
three billions of excess reserves in
the member banks of the Federal Re
serve systme. This is five times the
reserve of 1929!”
• • •
Contra
Then we read these headlines in a
report of the Alexander Hamilton in
stitute:
“Sharp decline in automobile pro
duction due in near future. Annual
output this year will be lower than in
1935 unless abnormal demand of last
two years is maintained. Such a de
mand is not in prospect.”
We read also:
“Unemployed reduced in March, but
12,714,000 persons still out of work.
“However .only 7,770,000 fewer per
sons employed than at pre-depression
peak.”
• • •
Another Factor
The Alexander Hamilton Institute
also remarks:
“The situation in France Is of con
siderable importance to the United
States. As is well known, there is a
considerable amount of French cap
ital in the United States and it is be
lieved that, if the franc is devalued,
a considerable portion of this capital
will be repatriated.
“Repatriation of French capital will
of course result In the liquidation of
securities in the American security
markets. Under present conditions in
France, however, it is not likely that
devaluation will result in any very
large repatriation of French capital.
“The new government to be formed
in France early in June will apparent
ly adopt policies not dissimilar to
those of the New Deal in the United
States. This would involve not merely
measures dealing with currency and
with the central bank but also the
imposition of new taxes and the adop
tion of measures to help agriculture
and relieve unemployment. Such leg
islation is bound to create a great
deal of uncertaintly and apprehension
on the part of the monied classes
which will deter the repatriation of
French capital.
“In addition, the extremely difficult
European political situation must not
be overlooked. The occupation of
Addis Ababa and the annexation of
Ethiopia by Italy marks the end of
the League of Nations in its present
form and changes the entire European
system of collective security. This,
in turn, will result in increased arm
aments in Europe and the conclusion
of bilateral and multilateral military
agreements which are bound to exer
cise an unsettling influence on econ
omic conditions in Europe.
“Under these circumstances it is
not likely that foreigners will be in
any hurry to repatriate their capital
from the United States. On the con
trary, it is possible that the influx
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. In what country is Cracow?
2. What is “chamber music”?
3. What term is commonly applied
to a tariff policy under which two
nations exchange commercial privi
leges?
Hints on Etiquette
When introducing two men, the
younger or less eminent is presented
to the other.
Words of Wisdom
I am not ashamed to confess that
I am ignorant of what I do not know.
—Cicero.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day dress neat
ly, like pretty surroundings and are
fond of their families. They like flat
tery and are charming companions,
but cannot stand much critical nag
ging.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. in the section of Poland called
Galicia.
2. Music suitable for private homes
and played by a small ensemble.
3. Reciprocity.
PAST TENSE
Mrs. Peck—" When you married me
you deliberately deceived me.”
Henry—“ln what way, dear?”
Mrs. Peck—“ You told me you were
well off.”
Henry (making his way towards the
door)—“Well, I was well off. In fact,
I didn’t realize how well off I really
was.”—Exchange.
OUT IN THE FIELDS WITH GOLD
The little cares that fretted me,
I lost them yesterday
Among the fields above the sea,
Among the winds at play.
Among the lowing of the herds,
The rustling of the trees,
Among the singing of the birds.
The humming of the bees.
The fears of what may come topass,
I cast them all away
Among the clover scented grass,
Among the new-mown hay,
Among the husking of the com.
Where drowsy poppies nod,
Where ill thoughts die and good are
born,
Out in the fields with God.
. —Louise Imogen Guiney.
of foreign capital to this country will
continue no matter what measures
the new French government may take
concerning the French franc.”
• • •
Take Your Pick
Thus, in the confusing rush of
prophecies, you must take your own
pick. There is, however, one tried and
true axiom:
“What goes up must come down.”
• • •
A Straw?
Betting in Wall Street has settled
down to 2 to 1 odds in favor of Pres
ident Roosevelt’s re-election.
♦ * •
That Utility Joker
That joker in the corporation bank
ruptcy bill which would have saved
utility managements from bankruptcy
proceedings filed by investors has
been laid at the door of Tom D. Mc-
Keown. According to a statement
made to the senate judiciary sub
committee, which unwittingly sponsor
ed the amendment, Mr. McKeown re
presents Associated Gas & Electric
dominated by Howard C. Hopson. He
says, however, he did not represent
Associated at the time the amend
ment was drawn. Mr. McKeown is
a former Democratic representative
from Oklahoma.
The joker in question, as previously
explained in this column, would re
quire 5 per cent of a company’s In
debtedness to be represented in any
suit for reorganiztaion. The real jok
er was a- retroactive clause, which
would have inavlidated proceedings
against Associated by bondholders and
would have permitted Hopson to re
main in power.
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of
Indiana, who presented the retro
active amendment, remarked in mov
ing to kill the amendment: “If the
Hopson case is placed in jeopardy, as
is contended, I will ask that the re
troactive amendment be withdrawn.”
Progressive senators had warned
Democratic leaders of the possibili
ties. One of the actions jeouardized
was a government tax claim of $50,-
000,000 against the Hopson company.
MyNewYork
By
James As well
NEW YORK, May 27—1 like people
with healthy minds. Dr. Logan
Clendening, the health columnist and
author of “The Human Body” and
“The Care and Feeding of Adults”,
has that sort of mind, which is rarer
than you might think.
He does not fall for baloney; fads
and milleniums leave him cold. And
so I seek his society as avidly as I
seek the door when the young ladies
with thin lips and icy eyes bsgin to
carry on about the evils and injustices
of an imperfect world.
He is a vast man with red cheeks
and thick curly hair. Observing him
you reflect that he could probably do
damage to a walloping steak, with a
side order of hashed-brown potatoes.
It so happened that I first saw
him in the flesh immediately after he
had written an article for a popular
magazine entitled, “How to Reduce.”
His system, I decided sadly, must be
as fallacious as all the rest, or else
he had never tried it on himsfclf. But
then I went home and read the ar
ticle.
The gist of it was that plumpness
is, for the most part, ordained by God
and Mendel and there is no use and
some danger in dosing and worrying
and starving yourself about it. Eat,
stay fat and be happy. That was his
message.
And there Is the sort of physician
I like. He adduces sound scientific rea
sons for doing what you have secret
ly made up your mind to do anyhow.
But Logan Clendening, who writes
better than any medico since Somer
set Maugham forsook his prescription
tablet, is more than a conscientious
Hippocrates toiling to keep men from
paying the penalty for their sins. He
is, in his way, philosopher full of wis
doms as salubrious to the American
solu as any Ed Howe or the late Fin
ley Peter Dunne ever loosed.
To use his own phrase, he is tough
minded. He believes that the habits
and usages of the society into which
we are born are the result of many
centuries of trial and error. He doubts
that the Utopians could do a better
job overnight. He sees much unhap
piness around him, but he is skeptical
of the merits of panaceas. He is the
despair of the World Savers and
Quick-Change Artists of the Millen
ium, because they cannot transfix him
with the label of reactionary. It won’t
stick. If he is a relic of the horse-and
buggy days it is only because he dif
fers in knowing which comes first,
the horse or the buggy.
Thus this articulate physician with
the tough mind does his patients (or
I should say his readers, of whom
there are several million) more good
than all the psychiatrists and Freud
ian bogey men of the land put to
gether. He reaches them, too, almost
unawares. They come to him seeking
to find out what is wrong with their
lives and before the yknow it he has
injected a test-tube full of sound, mel
low, common sense.
I chatted with him for an hour
during the recent Publishers’ Conven
tion here. He gave men an item for
the column—to wit, that there is a
bartender in the Ritz who looks more
like H. L. Mencken than Mencken
does himself —and went on to reveal
that he might be interested in touring
tne various night bistrots, cabarets
and hoopla emopria of the town. Sed
ately. of course, with his wife, and as
an observer with the clinical attitude.
I volunteered as guide. We set a
tentative date. But next morning he
sent me a copy of his newest book,
inscribed:
“Dear Professor of Bright Lights:
Some day, when I am younger, we
will do them.”
Proving again that he has a healthy
mind.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Wednesday, May 27, Jewish Pente
cost; 327th day, 160th year of U. S.
Independence: 25 days till summer.
Moon: first quarter tomorrow.
Scanning the skies: It’s hard to
exaggerate the size of hailstones. One
picked up in Potter, Neb., measured
17 inches from tip to tip—a statistic
attested by the state weather bu
reau. The size of hailstones is sim
ply explained. An ordinary hailstone
is a raindrop that hs been forced up
by a current of air to a level that is
freezing cold, and then dropped down
again. A large hailstone is one that
had been whirled up to the freezing
levels several times, getting a heav
ier coating of ice each time. Hall
stones COULD be as big as pump
kins.
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NOTABLE NATIVITIES
(Samuel) Dashiell Hammett, b.
1894 in St. Mary's county, Md.. de
tective story writer (“The Malteea
Falcon,” “The Thin Man,” “Girl
Hunt,” etc.), who used to be a de
tective himself. . . . Joseph Clark
Grew, b. 1880, career diplomat, am
bassador to Japan. . . .
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Notable Wedding Anniversary
Seventh (Copper or woolen):
Charles A. Lindbergh and Anne Mor
row.
* » *
May 27, 1817—Julia Ward was
born in New York City, the future
wife of Samuel Gridley Howe, whose
own fame she eclipsed by writing the
enduring “Battle Hymn of the Re
public” The words for the hymn
came to her as she lay in bed one
night 75 years ago, after she had
spent the day watching soldiers
marching in Washington, D. C. to
the tune of “John Brown’s Body.”
The hymn became the marching
song of the soldiers.
Another thing for which she
should be remembered: she was the
first to advocate publicity sex edu
cation m the schools.
♦ ♦ ♦
100 Years Ago Today—Jay Gould
was born in Roxbury, Delaware coun
ty, New York, a farmer’s son who
had to go to work at 14. At 17 he
was a surveyor whose services was
in demand, and at 21, with money
he had earned in land deals and ac
quired by marriage and with fore
sight which other men of the day
did not possess, he bought the bonds
of the Rutland and Washington, R.
R., at 10 cents on the dollar and
began the career as railroad finan
cier which enabled him to control,
when he was 40, more than 10,000
miles of railroad. But he was still
regarded as an upstart gambler and
manipulator by older Wall Street
financiers, who tried to squeeze him
out. He marched before them and
spread out stocks having a face value
of $53,000,000 and offered to produce
$20,000,000 more if they desired. Aft
er that Jay Gould dominated the na
tion’s railroads and telegraphs, in
creased his income to $5,000,000 a
year and built his fortune to more
than $100,000,000 before he died es
tuberculosis, unlamented, at 56.
Unfortunately the watered-stock,
frenzied finance era he had created
did not die with him.
♦ ♦ ♦
75 Years Ago Today—A president
defied an order of the Supreme
Court of the United States. The
president was Lincoln, only two
months in the White House.
The chief justice. Roger Taney,
had denied the right of the presi
dent to suspend the writ of habeas
corpus, affirming that such a power
was vested in Congress alone and
had ordered the release of one John
Merryman, of Maryland, which, in
cidentally, w as Taney’s own state.
But Lincoln ignored the ruling and
ordered the military officials in
Maryland to continue to disregard
writs of habeas corpus
♦ ♦ ♦
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The Rocke
feller Foundation appropriated sl,-
000,000 for war sufferers in Poland,
Serbia, Montenegro and Albania.
The donation should also have pro
vided for sufferers in Greece, for on
this date a Bulgarian army invaded
Greece. Just as the world was ex
pecting in the spring an Anglo-
French drive on the Western front,
which the Germans forestalled by at
tacking at Verdun, so again while
the French and British were pre
paring for an invasion of Bulgaria,
the Bulgars got ahead of them by
invading Greece. They entered
through the Rupel define by which
the river Struma makes its way
through the Belashitza range to the
sea. The Greek garrisons along the
Struma had been instructed by their
government to surrender them on
the approach of the Bulgars; but in
some cases they refused to yield.
With Bulgarian forces on her soil,
the neutrality of the Greeks ceased •
to be farce-comedy and became
tragedy. In turn French and Brit
ish troops had occupied the Saloniki
district, and Serbian armies, reor
ganized on Corfu and other Greek
armies, now organized it. Greece
was in the midst of war without
wanting to be, and without being a
belligerent. Her lot w’a» as tragic
as Belgium’s.
(To be continued)
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IT’S TRUE
There were more troops of German
blood in the War Between the States
than any other race.
Gunpowder was once widely used
as a dentifrice.
In the time of Charles 1, the aver
age male attire even in mild weath
er, weighed 20 pounds.
The great French chancellor
D’Aguesseau, noting that his wife
always delayed 10 or 12 minutes com
ing down to dinner, devoted the
time to writing a book. The result
was, at the end of 15 years, a three
volume work which sold In several
editions.
You can be a king for $20,000.
Five islands—Ensay, Groay, Lingay
and two Saghays—located north of
Scotland, are for sale. The largest
is 2 1-2 miles long by 1 1-2 miles
wide.
Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom
ed by C’ark Kinn’’’-'!