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PAGE FOUR (Hints Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 28, 1935 at the Post Office at ta Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES ■ One Tear 7.50 •/btx Months 375 gLTiiree Months ......11-11195 ’♦ I*’ne Month ZZZZZZZ 65 Week Z———ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION I FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives \ Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta A Subscribers to: rinsradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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! v A THE OCTOPUS! 4 --'-/a; ' •- —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." SCOTT'S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT Women! in <he Southern SI , pa r< of Serbia Seldom wear Now 4HAT CißcuS LESS <HAN 30 POUNDSoF tLJW AMD CARNIVAL DAVS CLO<HINC, , AND OFTEN "<HE ARE HERE,HOW WEIOH< oF<HE!R JARMEN'S WOULD YOU LIKE CACHES 60 POUNDS < o <AKE A RIDE PER PERSON, EVEN A A x zmeiid WHILE "TNEY areaT ON <HIS SERBIAN W VX vHB* work in -<he fields ''■ '' '' \ FERRIS WHEEL Or 11 jre t? \ \\ Vk'W 7TM' vvinFi \?‘ ' /*^7^^^..?J * X / • MbS y ' HL COMMON AMERICAN BULLFROG » EA<5 BIRDS- xS. a-T'Cacks "The low \ NES<S OF SWAMP BIRDS 9 By Jumpi n c , <o $eT s 25 E y OUN C ropypicMT i<>?6 cfntuai euess I SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. THURSDAY, MAY 28, 1936 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 t 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. k »