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WELCOME BAR ASSOCIATION.
The convening of the Georgia Bar Association in the General
P ;lethorpe Hotel this forenoon, is bringing to Savannah one of
t e finest groups of representative citizens ever to assemble here
in the city. From all parts of the state will come the influx of
Hiding state renowed figures, men who have more than their part
Sfnr the political and industrial advancement of this glorious
state.
Savannah and its citizens are indeed proud of acting as offi-
J’al hosts for the association this year, and from all indications
a hich have been garnered from publicity and official spokesmen
’or the convention, it appears that this city will be the hub from
»vhich far-reaching ideals emanating from this group of men,
will traverse this country North, East, South and West in ques
-1 ons concerning both national and state affairs.
It is indeed a far-cry from the first convention that the Bar
Association ever held, to when the gavel is sounded Saturday
from a point which overlooks the marshes of Chatham county
with an unbridled view, but no matter where the place or what
1 he setting, it is an accepted fact that some of the country’s lead
ing personages have come from within the state of Georgia, and
the state is second to none in the interpretation and fulfillment
of state enactments both civil and criminal. The jurists which,
now grace the benches of our courts have had their time in the
rank and file of such representative groups.
The Savannah Daily Times takes this opportunity of extend
•;ig its most cordial felicitations to this group of men on their
.tnnual meeting.
LAW MAKERS AND RAILROADS.
Passing from a consideration of the paramount question of 1
safety to one of secondary but tremendous importance—eco- 1
| nomics. Savannah offers an excellent illustration of the effects
of non-regulation upon the business life of a community. The
earnings of the average railway employe in 1925 was $1,653.
The largest single transportation interest in Savannah a few
years ago had in Savannah and its trade territory 4,000 em- '
ployes, and today has a little less than 3.000 employes, a loss 1
W 1,000. It is safe to say that there has been a loss of at least
500 from the pay rolls of the other railroads in Savannah. Here
are 1,500 wage earners, at the lowest estimate, gone from Savan
nah’s trade territory. Last year they would have earned close
to two and one-half millions of dollars which would have been
spent in the channels of local trade. Every local enterprise from
butcher to banker has felt the blighting effect of this loss.
To be sure, loss of traffic due to the depression, was a factor
• in decreasing railway employment, but it cannot be denied that
sound legislative and regulatory policies properly enforced would
have prevented much of this decrease. Railway employes are sub
stantial citizens. They are tax-payers, home-owners, purchasers
of materials and supplies, supporters of civic enterprises. When
they go many of them are never replaced. If others come they
are often on a lower wage scale with a different standard of liv
ing which falls far short of putting the equivalent of the railroad
pay roll into the local channels of trade. Railroads must be given
the consideration they are entitled to by the law makers of our
country.
NOT--In the News
• • • • • •
COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
I (Central Press Association)
They used to talk a great deal
about woman’s prerogatives. But
lately the world seems to be leveling
oft as far as advantages for the sexes
are concerned, so we find these spe
cial privileges of the ladies getting
fewer and fewer.
For example. take fainting. Women
used to have the privilege of passing
out at the slightest provocation. And
they did. But, somehow, that right
has ’-een withdrawn, so the gals have
to stand up and take it like the men
these days. And how many hus
bands nowadays will tolerate a wife
changing her mind? Not many. But
at one time mind changing was an
Bniversai feminine pererogative.
Only one seems to be surviving:
That's screaming.
How can anyone stop a woman
from screaming? We give up.
• • •
To Illustrate the facility of the
•cream, wc present the story of a
young woman who until recently re
sided in Terre Haute. Ind., a city
that’s quite large enough for a
•cream to attract considerable atten
tion.
One day, while at work at a down
town office, she had the misfortune
to have the hem of her skirt become
lose and fall down. Quite busy that
day, she didn’t have the time to
apply the needle to the garment, so
she just took a straight pin and
pinned the hem b;ck into shape.
That evening, while walking home,
she saw a cute, little dog standing
on the sidewalk. She had a strong
desire to stop and pet the doi since
the little fellow seemed so friendly.
But she suddenly recalled that It
▼as "dog days” time, when it Is sup-
posed to be dangerous even to touch
a dog
She imagined herself having rn
infection from a dog bite, possibly
1 hydrophobia, and ,‘huddered at the
thought of an attack by the animal.
So she decided not to pet the dog.
But just as she passed, the dog
But just as she passed, the dog
came up to her and sniffed at. her
dress. The she became conscious of
a stinging sensation in her leg.
She screamed.
A dozen men came running to her
’ assistance.
Imagine her embarrassment when
’ she discovered that she hadn’t been
’ bitten at all, but had been stuck by
' the pin in the hem of her dress!
i
On another occasion she was
walking home late at night with a
young man who was telling her a
[ ghost story. He told her how a
ghost In an old English manor had
rebuffed repeated efforts to discover
, its source and Identity. Every inva
j sion of the haunted house had
brought a death. One night several
, men took some large and vicious
t hounds with them to the house.
Promptly at the stroke of 12 the
ghost began to walk. The dogs fed
dead in their tracks, and the men
! ran shrieking from the hou : e.
i The girl was completely absorbed
; In the story. She was imagining her
i self in the haunted house, and was
i feeling its cool, creepy atmosphere.
I Then suddenly she was a pair of
flashing green eyes ahead of her!
, Her scream broke the dead silence
; of the night. She almost fainted in
I the arms of her companion,
More embarrassment. The green
. eyes turned out to be those of her
; own dog who was coming down the
street to meet her!
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THE OCTOPUS!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
COUZENS IN DILEMMA
As to G. 0. P. Rejection, Democratic Support
IN RE-ELECTION FIGHT
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON. May 28.—Senator
James Couzens of Michigan probably
is the richest man in public life.
And when he feels like it, as gen
erally hs does, he is one of the most
politico-economically liberal. Occa
sionally, however, he takes what the
progressives consider the conserva
tive side of some national question.
They say he is erratic. His version
is that he is independent. He cer
tainly is.
The progressives in congress great
ly like him, but when he is opposing
them he makes them angrier than
the reactionaries do. They expect
opposition from the reactionaries, but
they cannot understand it, coming
from him.
♦ ♦ ♦
Hates System, Not Men
He consorts socially with pluto
crats. too.
“It’s a mystery to me.” Senator |
George W Norris of Nebraska said
to him. “how you can associate with
such folk—play golf with them, for
example; treat them as friends.”
I know that Senator Norris m?de
this remark; Senator Couzens told
me so.
“But,” explained the Wolverine
statesman, “it is the plutocrats’ sys
tem that I hate: I don’t hate indi
viduals. I don’t hate even Andy
Melon, personally."
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However, he fought the ex-secre
tary of the treasury bitterly when
the latter was in office.
♦ ♦ ♦
F. D. R.’s Popularity
The senator also told why, in his
opinion, President Roosevelt is so
popular.
“1 realize.” he conceded, “that
many Rooseveltian policies are im
possible; that many of his advisers
are impractical theorists; that ad
ministratively his system is terrible.
But he is the only president in my
time who ever has had a heart-throb
of sympathy with the underprivileged
—the common man.
“He has plans that won’t work,
but they can b? licked into work
ability; at least they’re a start.
“The old-time conservative piloso
phy has been, ’Let the rich grow
richer; the more bread they have on
their tables, the more crusts will be
brushed off for the poor to pick up
from the floor.’
I “I believe in an evener break, for
all the people, than that.”
* ♦ *
Remains Republican
Senatoi Couzens accordingly will
not ocpo.e Roosevelts re-election.
Positively not.
Yet he will run for the senate as
a Republican.
The Michigan Democrats would be
glad to put him on their ticket. They
have endorsed him among others.
“I’ll com? back.” says tne senator.
— ■■ . , >
“as a Republican or not at all.
’’Why?
“Well, as a Democrat I’d lose my
seniority. On all committee assign
ments I’d go down to the foot of the
list.”
• • *
A Senior G. O. P.
The senator is senior Republican
on the powerful interstate commerce
and banking and currency commit
tees.
As senior, even of the minority, he
has a potent voice—all the more so
because, as an Independent, although
a nominal Republican, the majority
has, in considerable measure, to de
fer to him. As a junior Democrat he
wouldn't speak with the same au
thority.
It may seem queer but it is parlia
mentary precedent.
• • •
A Notable Record
“And all the fun I’ve had in Wash
ington,” added the senator, “has been
in committee rooms.
“I’m not an orator on the floor.
“My activities don’t appear in the
official record.”
Senator Couzens is mistaken in this
respect; he has a notable record.
EASY ON THE EYES
This is a wonderful age in which
to live. Especially about this time of
the year when all the girls ar? dressed
up in their light) and airy summer
frocks. 7* y’re really easy on th?
eyes.—Exchange.
Horoscope for Sunday
Persons whose birthday Is* Sunday
love children, but their affections do
not always run In very deep channels
outside of their own families. They
are fond of dress and like to have
their children dress well.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
“INNOCENT” MEASURE
Found to Aid Utility Against Investors
BRINGS A STORM
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
VIGILANCE is necessary in con
gress to prevent passage of bills
harmful to the people.
Recently, a bill to amend >he bank
ruptcy act was introduced in the
house by Representative Randolph
Perkins, Republican, of New Jersey.
It was reported from the house com
mittee on judiciary and was passed
by the house. Thence it went to the
senate, which sent it to the commit
tee on judiciary.
The law now permits three credi
tors owning SI,OOO or more of debt
of a corporation to file a petition in
bankruptcy and cause reorganization
proceedings. The bill changed that.
It provided that the three creditors
must own at least & per cent of the
total indebtedness.
Undoubtedly the existing law per
emits unscrupulous attacks on corpo
"rations and this brought about ap
proval by the house of some change.
Apparently, however, few members
realized what 5 per cent of the in
debtedness meant. It veritually meant
immunity for inside interests in very
large corporations, for it is a prac
tical impossiblty to get together per
sons owning 5 per cent in order to
bring reorganization proceedings.
1 For example, the 1934 figures of
Associated Gas and Electric Co., of
which Howard C. Hopson is the dom
inating force, showed a total bonded
debt of approximately $268,000,000.
Five per cent would mean that
creditors would have to collect $13,-
000.000 or so of debt in order to
bring reorganization proceedings. The
Associated Gas is mentioned because
of proceedings already under way
against it.
♦ * *
An Amendment
Senator Frederick Van Nuys of In
diana, chairman of the subcommittee
of the judiciary committee which
considered the bill, offered an amend
ment to the bill on the floor of the
senate which later created a storm
among liberals. That amendment
would make the bill apply to all pe
titions under existing Section 77,
Paragraph B, of the bankruptcy law,
where petitions were filed prior to
the effective date of the mandatory
act and where p?titions had not been
approved prior to that date.
Bondholders of the Associated Gas
and Electric have proceedings pend
ing in federal court in New York to
compel rcorganiatzion and to remove
the existing Hopson management.
The management has delayed action j
' for more than a year. The amend
ment to the bill in the senate would ,
compel bondholders 0 obtain 5 per
cent of creditors’ claims before they 1
could continue the action against As- j
sociated if the federal court mad? no
decision prior to the effective date
of this amending act.
Liberals, who accidentally stumbled
on the measure, asserted Hopson in
some manner had seen that this
1 amendment was put up.
Senate leaders thereupon recalled
the measure—and everyone, including
' persons closely concerned, expresses
ignorance of the bill.
’ <B’ut the bill came within a hair’s
breadth of passing.
• » ♦
Statement Attacked
In the m antime, the statement of
the Associated Gas and Electric for
1935 has been subjected to severe
New Del ascrutiny.
For that statement discloses ex
penses of $1,810,246 in connection
with the corporation’s fight on the
Wheeler-Rayburn holding company
bill as well as leg.?.] cases and “in
• vestigations." Part of the fight was
th? sending of telegrams with faked
names. The legal cases happen to
b? the management’s resistance to
efforts of the bondholders to oust the
management and force reorganiza
tion—the bondholders assetr. They
add that thus it is investors’ money
which is fighting investors.
But the New Dealers chiefly are
You’re Telling
Me?
By WILLIAM RITT
New York fight fan tossed a
liquor bottle into a prize fight ring
the other night. He probably thought
both boxers needed more punch.
♦ ♦ ♦
What probably is worrying the
League of Nations isn't so much
the fact Mussolini has swallowed
Ethiopia in one gulp as the possi
bility he may start looking
around for a dessert.
♦ * *
Don’t ipank your boy if he plays
hookey from school. He may be pre
paring himself for a carer as a
statesman by aping the behavior of
congressmen during campaign time.
• » »
Texas man loses job he held
for 50 years. He shuold have ,
gone into something permanent.
Mussolini and Hitler think
they are dictators but they re
semble a couple of “yes men” ‘
compared to a matron when she
is wielding the carpet sweeper
during housecleaning time.
« * *
This must be summer. A neighbor t
has given up his six-month lease on j
our snow shovel and now is making <
eyes at our lawn mower.
** * <
Light travels at the terrific i
speed of 180,000 miles a second— s
or, almost as fast as a success
ful candidate forgets his cam- t
paign promises. v
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Hints on Etiquette /
When a woman enters a room, a £
man shsuld rise and remain standing F
'be Is .
interested in the fact that this large
sum as well as “expenses of $1,150,-
274 in connection with re-arrange
ment of debt capitalization, was
charged to corporate surplus. Like
wise, ether expenses were charged to
corporate surplus. By this means, the
company showed a small operating
surplus for the year Instead of a
loss. In other words, the figures have
been arrangrd—in a legal manner—
to show a bright picture instead of
one not so bright.
Now, investors are crying that the
government still has not got strong
enough laws to protect investors.
A Trustee Sues
In the meantime, creditors of the
vast Van Sweringen interests finally
have demanded action—in regard to
one transaction at least.
Guy A. Thompson, acting trustee
in bankruptcy for the Missouri Pa
cific railroad, has filed suit in federal
court in Cleveland demanding the re
turn of $3,200,000 which the Missouri
Pacific, under Van Sweringen domi
nation, paid on account for terminal
properties to Terminal Shares, Inc.
Terminal Shares had charged the
Missouri Pacific a mere $20,000,000
for these terminal properties, but
bankruptcy and court action stopped
further payments after $3,200,000 had
been collected.
Mr. Thompson asserts in his peti
tion to the court that O. P. Van
Sweringen and associates used the
Missouri Pacific as a “puppet” to re
ccup their losses in other ventures.
Mr. Thompson adds that the ter
minal properties are “practically
worthless.”
Mr. Thompsons petition charges
furthre that Terminal Shares, Inc., is
insolvent financially and that the
financial condition of Alleghany Cor
poration, a senior Van Sweringen
holding company, is such that a
judgment against it would be of little
value. Thus the suit was brought
against individuals.
Congressional investigation of the
various Van Sweringen holding com
panies is blocked by failure of the
senate’s auditing and finance commit
tee to report out to the senat? floor
an appropriation of SIOO 000 for the
interstate commerce committee’s in
vestigating body. That is the case
even though all 20 members of the
senate’s interestate commerce com
mittee voted for the sum to carry on
the investigation.
MyNewYork
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, May 28.—After
months of hilarity New York is ton
ing down somewhat. Th? la-de-da of
the night clubs and cocktail lounges
has diminished and there are nights
when the big girly-girly restaurants
are empty enough to make a head
waiter cry.
I don’t know what this means-
One of the factotums over at the
French Casino, a sort of umbrella
carrier for the h'lid-waiter-in-chief,
bells me that bhe portent is ominous.
“You can always tell about pros
perity from the night club business,"
he says. “Look otu! It was just like
this a few months before the end in
1929. I predict a crash before the
summer is out —and remember, we’re
doing a good business here, all things
considered, too. I feel it in the air.”
Or it’s just possible that the slack
is due to people going to the coun
try. I was out Greenwich way the
other week-end and noticed some of
the more spectacular estates being un
shuttered for the first time in four
years. A real estate agent conifded
with candor:
“Os cours? the really large places
are difficult to sell. But the ducky
little estates go like hot cakes. You
know the unpretentious onse,
which require only three or four
servants and maybe a gardner. Four
teen or 15 rooms.”
Sure. Places for roughing it.
• • •
Ambitions unearthed: Fred Allen
has a secret pash so r the writing
racket. He thinks that it woud be
ideal to write heavy books for the
intelligentsia, with no worries about
sponsors or the Federal Radio Com
mission .
No worries about income tax,
either, chances are.
John Sampson, the ship news re
porter, has uncovered a honey from
the passport office. He says a man
came down the other day to get him
self the proper papers for going
abroad. He wanted to visit the home
folks in the old country. Was an
American citien, naturalized, but
his folks never had followed him
over.
The clerk noted that he hadn’t
filled in the blank fully and began
going over it with him.
“Well, it’s great to be going back
home for the first time since I was a
child. Never could save up the money,”
the man chatted gaily.
“You didn’t fill in here where it
asks for your occupation,” the clerk
said, getting down to busines..
“Occupation?” blinked th? man.
“Oh, I haven’t anv. I m on relief.”
* * *
Katharine Brush, the novelist, has
turned to the writing of screen orig
inals, but she does it the ideal way.
Sh? wouldnt hear of going to Holly- ■
wood. Said she had a specially built
duplex workroom, designed by Joseph
Urban before h? died, and why should
she do her work on the West Coast? 1
The producer succumbed and she 1
turned out the story of a rich girl •
who turns to dress-modeling when
the family fortunes collapse. “You’re <
All I Want” is the title—a nifty, too. •
She just mails in the story and the •
produo r mails her* a check. It's t
grod work if you can get it. t
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Prese. Association
Thursday, May 28; Feast of Weeks
in Jewish calendar. Moon: first quar
ter. Zodiac sign: Gemini. Birthstone:
emerald.
SCANNING THE SKIES; The
clouds are getting higher now. They
are always higher in summer than
in winter. The difference in height
is due to difference in humidity. The
greater the humidity the leas height
of which a body of air must ascend
to become cool enough to form a
cloud.
* ♦ •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
The Dionne quintuplets, Yvonne,
Annette, Cecile, Emelie and Marie,
born two years ago. They are the
only quintuplets known to have lived
more than 50 days . . . Morris Shep
pard, b. 1875, senator from Texas
. . . Edouard Benes, b. 1884, president
of Czechoslovakia.
• • •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 28, 1357—Alfonso the Proud
died, leaving the Portuguese throne
to his son, Pedro. The new king’s first
act was to have the body of his dead
secret wife, Inez de Castro, golden
haired Spanish princess, exhumed,
and the mummy crowned queen of
Portugal in a magnificent coronation
ceremony at which the nobles of the
kingdom had to kneel in homage and
humbly kiss the withered hand.
Thus did Pedro accomplish his re
venge for the assassination of his
beloved Inez by three conspirators
acting in sympathy with nobles who
did not wish their crown prince to
have a Spanish corsort.
May 28, 1754 —George Washington
fought his first military engagement
for the British, to help present the
partition of Prussia! The engagement
resulted in a victory over French and
Amerindians at Great Meadows (near
Uniontown), Pa. This was the out
break of the fighting in America that
was an outcropping of a war in Eu
rope In which England and Prussia
were lined up against Austria, France,
Russia, Sweden and Saxony, which
were seeking dismemberment of the
largest of the German states. In Eu
rope it was called the “Seven Years’
War,” though it lasted only six, but
in America it continued for eight
years.
The 22-year-old Washington was
then in command of Virginia militia.
May 28, 1759—William Pitt was
born near Bromly, Kent. He never
went to college, and he was defeated
in his first campaign for office, but
he was prime minister of Great Brit
ain at 25, and such genius for state
craft did he display that he was con
tinued in the premiership for 20 years.
» « •
May 28; 1891 —Motion picture his
tory began. Thomas A. Edison reveal
ed and demonstrated to New YoA
newspapermen his latest invention—
the kinetograph, and he predicted
that the shadows of humans it threw
upon the screen and made move
would be joined with a phonograph
to give audiences words and music.
The first Edison moving picture:
A black-haired, curly-headed boy danc
ing, laughing and waving his arms.
The first movie actor: Alfred J.
Thompson, apprentice in the Edison
laboratories.
• » *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Without
knowing it, two great fleets were ap
proaching each other for a conflict
that was to occur two days later.
For the next three days these notes
will be devoted to it.
One of the ablest summaries of
what happened is that given by Lid
del Hart in his classic history of the
war:
“Only once during over four years
of war did the Grand Fleet of Britain
and the High Seas Fleet of Germany
meet. It would be more exact to say
that they ’hailed each other in pass
ing. No battle in history has spilt so
much—ink.
“On the afternoon of May 31, 1916
the fleet that had been built to dis
pute the mastery of the sea stumbled
into the fleet that had held it for
centuries. In the evening these two
fleets, the greatest the world had
seen, groped towards each other,
touched, broge away, touched again
and broge away again. Then darkness
fell between them. And when the
‘glorious First of June’ dawned a
sorely puzzled Grand Fleet paraded on
an empty sea.”
From the outbreak of the war Brit
ain naval strategy was governed by
appreciation of the fact that main
tenance of sea supremacy was even
more vital than defeat of the Ger
man fleet. Winston Churchill later
spitomized the issue, “Jellicoe was the
only man on either side who could
lose the war in an afternoon.”
On the other hand, the alm of
German naval strategy from August,
1914 had been to avoid the risk of
a decisive action until the British
fleet was so weakened until prospects
of success were greater. Mines and
torpedoes were the means on which
Germans relied to achieve this pre
liminary weakening. Fear of such
underwater weapons infused an extra
degree of caution into British strat
egy.
More about Jutland tomorrow.
(To Be Continued) ‘
••* . ,
IT’S TRUE
Perhaps you think they’re the Mme
thing, but hares and rabbits are dis
tince species which cannot interbreed.
More of the British Empire is in
Africa than on any other continent.
Arnold Schultz, of Angola Ind
served in France with the A ’ E P
when 13 years old! But he wasn’t the
youwst member of the American
Army in the war; that was Frank
Sauliere, who managed to enlist in
the Engineers when only 12 years and
seven months old.
In nenmark, when you feel gener
ous, you place surplus postage stamps
on 5 our mail. The pastoffice cancels
them and, after deducting the post
age, credits the balance to children’s
o’Thenpge funds.
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