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PAGE FOUR S nii anfibWßnttu® nits \ ■ g Published by / PUBLIC OPINION, INC. [ PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ' at z 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Sntered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at th* 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 V- FROST. LANDIS & KOHN T* National Advertising Representatives * Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Tranaradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures * , " IM ' "■ "" 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 ••• • * • 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! TO VOL* ? \ ffF-J ’ w/ ' v 1 —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. - z ♦ 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 SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK by R.L SCOTT Bi ,h '' V / * More V// IqJkM WOME.M I f I VIV " use. face Powder. ? <HAN I|' | I ; 1 abou< Half of r-Ar L— ALL AMERICAN WOMEN USE- A. MONUMEM< BES-N ERECTED <o <HE- POWDER , BU< > BOLU WEiV 11-, PEST IN AMERICA, ONLY ABOU<ONE. E.N<ERPR.ISE, ALABAMA, — THE PES< BECAME So iki/uoFt Boucuce IN <HE AREA COY<ON RAISINC WAS C'VEN UP NO PEAN , WHICH HAVE So CREATIY L --fl- —Clean" housefly ABOUT I Xjtiz ->22- 1,000.000 CERMS of VARIOUS SORfS* V WHILE A FLY FROM >FIL<HY SURROUNDINGS A FEW SCENES OF CERVANTES' MAY HAVE AS MANY "DON QLIIXOTE.*ON SPANISH STAMPS AS 8,000,000 Bony copyright i? 36 centbai ppf% awjtiation <-’o SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, MAY 27. 1936 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. * ♦ ♦ 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. . . . » ♦ * 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) » » « 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’’’-'!