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PAGE FOUR > Published by * t PUBLIC OPINION, INC. ‘ 'X r PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET *r- Cor. Lincoln Sntered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mx Months ”222 .... 375 Fhree Months —2._22222222222222”"”” 1 95 One Month ....... . —222 ——————————— oy week 22-22222222222222222”2222222 .15 / if • ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION £ FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta * Subscribers to: PraiMradlo Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures ’ n ' THE MAYOR’S BUSINESS (?) ©overoor Talmadge has never been questioned as to the effi e#Mi»y and fairness in the administration’of his office as Gover nor of the State of Georgia. His distribution of state funds Whether they be for highway or eleemosynary institutions have bhem in strict compliance with the law and fair to all the coun ties in the state. During the fight upon Governor Talmadge when his status was questioned, our mayor was conspicuous by his silence, a very unusual position for«him to be in. It is rumored that during the time that the fight upon Governor Talmadge was hottest, our Mayor confined most of his attention upon Miss Shepperson and conspiciously kept away from our state capital, so that he might not be caught at any time in the Talmadge camp. Now, after the battle is over and Governor Talmadge is on the crest of the wave, highway funds pouring in at his command, our Mayor is loudest of all in the demanding of Chatham county’s share. Governor Talmadge is smart, he has proven this by his ad ministration. He knows his friends, also his enemies, and mo doubt he is doing a great deal of chuckling upon our Mayor’s industrious play for the spotlight. As the Savannah Daily Times understands it, the highway system of this county is under the direction of the county com missioners of whom which are composed as able talent as can be found anywhere in the state of Georgia. Talent in fact, which would be most complimentary to Mayor Gamble if he could measure up to. The Savannah Daily Times ventures to prophe size that Chatham county will get all of the highway funds she is entitled to, but it will not be because of the ballyhooing of the mayor, it will be because of the efficiency and honesty demon strated in the administration of this county’s affairs by our Chat ham Board of County Commissioners. If Mayor Gamble will confine his activities to his duties of running the Mayor’s busi ness and stop attempting to assume the preogatives of the Chat ham Board of County Commissioners, and that- of the Mayor and , Council of Tybee, possibly he would have less criticism heaped fcipon his city’s administration. I EQUITABLE SUPERVISION. There has been considerable loose talking and inaccurate thinking concerning the nation’s transportation problem, much of it because it has been attacked from the angle of self interest by propagandists of the opposing forces at issue. The interest of the average citizen, the tax-payer, the man who is neither an employe or a security-owner in any transportation enterprise is frequently overlooked in the welter of argument. It cannot be successfully denied that justice to the average citizen and the welfare of the public as a whole will be best jnrved by the suggestion heretofore made by the Savannah Daily that “the law makers of our country pay more attention to sane equitable legislation affecting all transportation so that each group may have a fair chance to deliver to this nation the efficiency and operation which is necessary to “good govern ment.” No fair-minded or right-thinking citizen can take ex ception to that program. It carries with it a recognition of hu man rights, a topic foremost in the minds of the nation’s leaders. M hatever else may be said for or against the railroads it cannot be said that their employes are ill-treated or under-paid. Present standards in railway working conditions and railway pay are in large part due to governmental regulation. In times of depression they may prove onerous to the employer, but the Insults are happy for those in railway service in that they have reasonable hours and good wages, while their working condi tions include rigid governmental regulation and inspection of safety appliances, locomotive boilers, air-brakes, etc. The results are fine for the public too, in that last year there was not a single fatality to a passenger from train derailment or collision. Contrast this record with that of other transportation agen cies, largely unregulated and unsupervised, and you can reach but one conclusion, that other transportation groups should in the interests of public safety and public welfare be regulated as are the rafiroads. - All Os Us - /./ A “BUM” CHECK .A man came to see me a coupl? of years ago and slid he'd spent all his mon<y and needed a few dollars. . . . Would I guarantee his ch'.ck for $5? ... I didn’t know him, but I knew who h? was and I’d seen him occasionally with a friend of mine. ... So I took the check down to the cigar stand, signed my n?me on it, too, and gave him the money. . . . He was very thankful. ... I said It was nothing, It didn't cost ME anything. But it did . . . because the check came back and I never saw that mm a "tin. I know his name, I know the little town he lives in, but I haven’t done anything about It. . . . What good would it do me? He's just a petty swindler and he hasn’t the money, and I couldn’t get it out of him . . . And I’ve heard that every body in town know what h?’s like and he has to go out of town to do his little thieving. I know about him now and then, however . . . and whenever I do. I appreciate how he narrows his life whenever he passes one of those lit tle worthless chitcks. ... He has to check off one more human being on his memory, one more Individual whom he must never meet face to face, whom he must duck away from if he encounters him on the street. Llttie by little, walls close in upon him. ... So what he did must bother him more than it can ever bother me. What troubles me —as it probably troubles nearly everybody else—are the “bum checks" we pass at various times in our life on people who thought us better than we are. I mean th? false impressions, the small treasons, the mistakes, the mean nesses, the cruelties, the neglects, the disloyalties. . . . Nearly all of us are guilty of these "bum checks’’—and they are the ones that hurt. GHOSTS OF THE DEPARTED DO RETURN! '■ -i- ... ~jKk ° •< , <<uanlL —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— HUDDLESTON’S PLIGHT Due to His Opposition to New Deal PERTURBS ANTLF. D. R. MEN HUDDLESTON’S PLIGHT WASHINGTON, May 29-Anti-New Deal Democratic lawmakers are con siderably perturbed by the difficulties Represenaative George Huddleston is experiencing in his campaign for re nomination in the Birmingham con gressional district of Alabama. Representative Huddleston is in his eleventh term Capitol Hill. Once nominated on the Democratic ticket, in that section, a candidate ordinarily is as good as elected, but occasionally there is competition for the nomination. Representative Hud dleston never has had much, how ever; eleven times in succession be has won with scarcely a contest. Now he has a fight on his hands. • • » A Conspicuous Example His, too, is a conspicuous example. Not only is he a veteran congress man, from a district where it was assumed that he was virtually un assailable; he is one of the ablest men in the national legislature. The “little giant from Alabama” was the fashion in which his associates refer red to him. And, until the New Deal's advent, he always was considered an advanc ed liberal. Organized labor swore by SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT ' <4 Lacier. - A MArfIIRAL FoRJAA-rfoHMk , Co M MOH O>X HIM * BY A SLAB OF r 7oME. Rock, falli Mq ok To -tUe_ I DE '< OUl ' M^ )U WEAR. A WISP <SF HAIR, oh FROM -lUe. 'fop ©F 'Their, Heads im 4he_ of-tuesum Belief at mahomet iMIO PARADISE. WATTER. BUFFAI.O • ‘ 11 15 Strongest l \,l ANIMAE IM<HL World, for. SIXE - Ji W 1 b <HIS 5-TXmP OF COLUMBIA / . SHOWS A SIDE-WHEEL rAND A MODERN PLANE copyright. 1936. central press association A~A- SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, MAY 29, 1936 him —and Birmingham is a working man’s town. ♦ ♦ • Opposed F. D. R. Measures A genuine liberal is what he really is, bua he is an exceptionally capable economist, too, and many New Deal policies struck him as uneconomic; as false liberality, in fact. He opposed them in debate and vot ed against them. He fought bitterly such measures as the anti-holding company bill. What he said, for he is a vitriolic speaker, counted more than his lone ballot. He is a terrific states’ rightser. For instance, although his district is dry he voted against the 18th amendment. Not that he isn’t a dry himself. He is, but only a statewide dry.- Consider ing the section he corfies from it was going some to vote against that amendment. The Rooseveltian tend ency toward centralization worries him. And devaluation of the dollar added to his distress. He has been especially irritating to the New Dealers because of his pre vious liberal record—not that he isn’t a true liberal still, but he is anti-New Deal. A Losing Fight? Being the outstanding Democratic anti-New Dealer in the house of rep resentatives, the New Dealers natur ally were most desirous to “get” him in the recent Alabama primaries. They succeeded to a certain extent. They did not beat him outright. He had a plurality of the primary votes, but not a majority-over all, which is necessary to nominate. Consequently there must be a run off early in June between Huddleston and his leading opponent, who is Luther Patrick, a Birmingham New Dealer. There were several other New Deal candidates, eliminaaed because their votes were too small to signify. But if th New Dealers unite on Pat rick they will win, about 3 to 1. • • * Causes Fear Miscellaneous anti-New Dealers are upset by the reflection: If so solid a candidate as Repre sentative Huddleston is defeated, by reason of his anti-New Deal attitude, what chance will they stand? They do not care so much for Hud dleston’s prospects. It is with their own thermometer that they his outlook. Th a way of an eagle in thi? air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea: and the way of a man with a mild.—Proverbs 30:19. The hoary head is a crown of glory if it be found in the way of right eousness.—Proverbs 16:31. —WORLD AT A GLANCE— SOCIALISTS AID G. O. P. Unwittingly Yet in Neat Jabs WITH ANTLF. D. R. BARBS By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) The Republicans did not expect the Socialists, preceding them in na tional convention in Cleveland, to help them—but thye did. Sage Re publicans are clipping excerpts from speeches of the Socialists in Cleve land—to be used against President Roosevelt’s re-election. To be sure, the Socialists do not desire to elect the Republicans, nor even to aid the Republicans in the slightest manner. But the Socialists seem to have apter speakers than the Republicans and have put into con cise terms telling arguments against President Roosevelt. The Republicans must gain the in dependent voters—and the Socialist' arguments all are aimed at the inde pendent voters. The Socialists have found themselves much in the same predicament as the Republicans— their hold on s the independent vote has been drained by the New Deal. The Socialists are hit on two sides: (1) the New Leal on the “conserva tive” side; the Communists on the “radical” side. They may be exting-uished by this pressure—and realize it. Beware! « • • Norman Thomas, titular leader of the Socialist party, told the conven tion in Cleveland (as Republicans smiled): “For Socialists openly or tacitly to support President Roosevelt would be the one unforgivable act of the year. “To support Roosevelt as a method of fighting reaction is to repeat the mistake of 1916, when we supported Wilson because he kept us out of war. It is to repeat the mistake of the German Social Democrats who voted for von Hindenburg because they did not want Hitler.” But' do not mistake the Socialists. They desire you to vote Socialistic, not Republican. For Thomas asks: “How can we escape economic catastrophe under Roosevelt or Landon? How can the Roosevelt Democrats or the Governor Davey Democrats of Ohio say that we have prosperity now? They can’t, and the only hope is Socialism.” Thomas then reiterated the So cialist program: Modem interpretation of the Dec laration of Independence, pioneering in social adventure, social ownership of the means of production, and the end of private ownership of banks, mines and public utilities. CHOICE G. O. P. BITS But the choicest morsels (from a Republican standpoint) garnered from Thomas’ various talks in Cleve land are these, concerning doings in Democratic states: “In spite of some encouragement that labor has found to organize, the outlook for civil liberty is dark. Flor ida is a Democratc state. It is the state which the presiment makes the base of his winter vacations, it is the state were the perpetrators of a long line of floggings, kidnapings and murders have gone almost vnwhipped of justice. . . . (Thomas added, later, that he was thrilled over the conviction of several floggers, but doubted that the judge would do much.) . . . “Arkansas is another Democratic state whose cotton planters are rep resented in the United States Sen ate by Joseph T. Robinson, Demo cratic floor leader. In three Arkansas counties there is a strike of white and colored cotton field hands against the worst tyranny in America. They are striking against wages of 50 to 75 cents a day. Only today I have received a telegram saying that in Crittenden county, these men, who have been guilty of .no violence, are being herded into a stockade, some thing I suppose of the sort that Hit ler uses in Germany. “I have communicated today with the federal government to find out whether the administration, which has so profoundly interfered in the cotton economy of the south, the ad ministration which is so proud of its G-Men, can or will do anything to protect American citizens against peonage. "Perhaps the answer is that states’ rights includes, especially in the Democratic south, the right to treat You’re Telling Me? The Italian army is teaching the conquered: Ethiopians how to eat plain spaghetti. What, no meat balls? ♦ ♦ • So the Italians have taken the Ethioptens’ fly-infested, raingoak ed country and -given them a plate of spaghetti in exchange. We don’t think it is th? Ethi opians who were gupped. » * • As the dirt begins to fly in this political campaign we can’t help but think what a boon it would be to politicians if some siccntist would only invent a mud.-proof vest. * • • A genius is a man who can convince everyone he is great— and that includes his wife. • ♦ ♦ A South American republic Is a place where often, on election day, the ballcting is overshadow'd by the bulleting. ♦ • ♦ One of the major medical mys teries which have nevsr been solved is the fact that onyy those . who can afford it ever had a ner vous breakdown. * • * If you live in the country or along the seashore you are now approach ing the season when all your city relatives will begin to become as clubby as the names in the phone book. | American citizens as Hitler treats his victims. ...” A Chuckle The Republicans .although hoping the Socialists do not achieve their own aims, even indulged in a chuckle over this Tomas attack on the president: “It is interesting to note that the president who so bravely was at tacking the constitution of the horse and buggy age a while ago at a press conference, is now profoundly silent while the Supreme Court piles up evidence that there is no govern mental authority in America ade quate to the control of industry and the protection of workers. Obviously, by keeping still, he hopes to keep the support of his Bourbon Demo cratic colleagues and at the same time carry along a labor support which has learned to be thankful for small favors and a few kind words.” The Socialists favor a farmers’ and workers’ rights amendment to the constitution “which will give con gress power to do what is necessary .for the economic and social well-be ing of the American people.” A resolution to put such an amendment before the people was in troduced in congress recently by Senator Benson, Minnesota Farmer- Laborite. My New York By James Aswell NEW YORK, May 29—The inter national Philatelic Exhibition. or stamp collectors’ show, now current at the Grand Central Palace here, should stimulate both those who col lect and those who do not to form a number of interesting conclusions. Os course it fascinated me, because the first writing I ever did, at the age of twelve, was for stamp journals; and even now my wife is an ardent collector. The exhibition is rich and grand. The dealers’ stalls are well patronized. Men and* women wait for hours in line to purchase stamps specially Issued by the government in. honor of the occasion. And yet I think that such large, well-ballyhooed and flam buoyant exhibitions do a disservice to stamp collecting. For stamp collecting, to use the terminology of the psychologists, Is al most pure Introversion. It is a fierce withdrawal; it is a protest against the external, workaday world. Your stamp collector flees with his album into a magnificent fictitious habitat, into an intensely private temple where he worships at the shrine of pure Rarity —a rite at once touching and absurd. The collection of nothing else — neither jewels nor paintings nor plate —involves a dedication to scarcity and scarcity alone in its absolute sense. The most valuable stamps are almost without exception the least pleasing to the eye; indeed the botched and careless printings, the ineffable “er rors”, are the costliest of all. Here then is anestheticism which trans cends mere prettiness and goes to the hidden springs of acquisitiveness and the desire for uniqueness where they bubble noblest in the human heart. For acquisitiveness and the desire to own something (1. e., to be) unique are both noble emotions. Don’t let the collectivists tell you otherwise: they are merely the ones who have failed in the gratification of both. No Communist at heart—no one. that is, who clings frantically to the shirt tails of the mob hoping only to be fed—has ever been a stamp collector in the true sense, a philatelist. But what happens to this thrilling interior flight, this worship of the extraordinary and unique, in the halls of the Grand Central Palace? Collect ors march up and down aisle after aisle past huge glass showcases filled with blocks of four, panes, sheets of the scarcer stamps. They see rarities in profusion. Their eyes ache and their heads swim with the abundance of Rarity: a paradox. For instantly and subtly it ceases to be Rarity for them. The vestal flame of the phil atelic instinct wavers, grows dim and —and at least temporarily—vanishes like the sense of shock and a nudist colony. There is, indeed, something a little Indecent about these album pages re moved from their binders and public ly displayed to the gaping crowds, row on row on row. You observe the neat script of the owner, painstaking ly Inscribed in the privacy of his study through how many rapt mid night hours. You peer at various small, cryptic notations and symbols, set down for a purely private com munion of a man with himself. And you feel, if you are sensitive, a subtle sense of outrage. No, stamp collecting can’t be “ex troverted”—can’t be whooped up and made the excuse for conventions and rallies and proselyting compaigns. Strange old men can swap peeks at their especial rarities in the dim rooms of the Collector’s Club, but when the masses besiege the Grand Central Palace as if they were attend ing a radio or an automobile show, it may make stamp collecting less ec centric in the public eye, but it does damage to the essential impulse. Os course the collectors who as semble stickers bearing the faces of Famous Men or Mountain Peaks or Birds of the World are not phila telists at all. They are like people who paint china or gather trays ornament ed with butterfly wings. Their hobby is at home in the Grand Central Pal- 1 ace. But the ecstasy of the man who would spend (and doubtless has spent) a year's salary for a tiny bit of paper simply because it is Rare— with an “i” undotted, perhaps, or a cloud disarranged in the design— i must be pursued in lost loneliness. He is sentenced to the cabinet— which Dr. Caligari knew how to en- 1 joy- 1 i Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Friday, May 29, 146th anniversary ' of the ratification of the Constitution by Rhode Island, the 13th state; 88th anniversary of the admission to the ; Union of Wisconsin, the 30th state. Moon: first quarter. Scanning the skies: It w common to regard the last day of a hot spell as the worst, regardless of what the thermometer registers, and this is true. Humidity is highest, buildings have b:en heated through, and peo ple’s strength has been ■ weakened by , the previous hot days. NOTABLE NATIVITIES Gilbert Keith Chesterton, b. 1874, mammoth-seizrd English novelist and eswjytot . . . Josef Von Sternberg, John Emerson, b. 1874, playwright. Brooklyn-born cinema director . . . . . . Allan Roy Dafoe, b. 1883, physi cian who attended the birth of the Dionne quintuplets. TODAYS YESTERDAYS 20 Years Ago Today—Patrick Henry was bom tn Hanover county, Virgi nia, of Scotch father and English mother. On his 29th birthday, in Vir ginia's house of Burgesses, he made the speech which led to the Stamp Act Congress and organized resistance to British taxation without represen tation; the speech in which occurs the celebrated phrase, “Give me lib erty, or give me death.” The speech caused the Burgesses to pass five fiery resolutions offered by Henry. They became scared next day, when Henry wes absent, and re scinded them. But when copies of his speech reached New York and Bos ton and were published in newspapers they inspired in other colonial legis latures more radical .resolutions that Henry had framed! When the Revolution for which be had pleaded burst upon the land, Henry wouldn’t fight in it! * » ♦ Miry 29, 1826—Ebenezer Butterick was born in WorChester county, Mass., a farmer’s son who was apprenticed in his youth to a tailor. About the time that he opened his own shop in Fitchburg, he got the idea that a set of graded patterns for children’s clothes would be a greet advantage to him and other tailors. After ex periments, he cut his first saleable patterns in 1863, without realizing the enormous possibilities of his inven tion. The patterns were confined at first to children’s garments, then to men’s, only after sometime, and an indifferent success, were women’s patterns b?gun. Sales zoomed quickly to 50,000,000 & year and E’utterick had the money to retire to ease and to tinkering which produced several other inventions, including a folding bed. • * • May 29, 1914—The big news of the day was the loss of 1,024 lives in the sinking of the Canadian Pacific steamship Empress of Ireland, which collided wtih the Danish collier Stor stad in the St. Lawrence biver. A major catastrophe may have a smaller impress upon human affairs than a few well-written paragraphs or notes of music, and the most sig nificant happening on this day was the publication of the first install ment of one of the greatest books of the 20th century—Spoon River An thology. This was in a new non-ex istence but memorial St. Louis Week ly, Reedy’s Mirror. The first install ment of this masterpiece of Edgar Lee Masters consisted of the Hill and three qpitaphs. FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 Years Ago Today—To continue the account of the battle of Jutland: Back in August, 1914, the German light cruiser Magdenburg had b&m sunk in the Baltic, end upon the body of a German officer, Russians found cipher and signal books, as well as German squared maps of the North Sea. These were sent to London and thereafter, by intercepting the enemy’s enciphered wireless messages, the British intelligence wes able to ob tain advance information of many of the enemy’s movements. Although the Germans made variations in codes from time to time, their efforts to seal up the leakage of information was offset by development of direc tional wireless as a means of locating the position of ships. Thus the British were forewarned when Admiral Sheer, commander of the German high seas fleet, sent his scouting force of battle and light cruisers, under Admiral Hipper, to demonstrate off the Norwegian coast His plan was to thus dtiiw part of the British fleet into a trap and de stroy it. The main section of ths British Grand fleet under Admiral Jellicoe, put to sea, and Admiral Beatty, with his battle cruisers, sailed from Rosyth to join him. Before they met, Beatty’s cruisers sighted Hip pers, end firing began. The (British immediately suffered heavy tosses The Duke of York, servtog Jackson” aboard the H. M. S. Colling- '■ wood, was captain of a gun turrent In the engagement, and sent shell aft er shell hurtling at the Derffiinger. He cam? about as close to war as any of George’s sons in the war. More about Jutland tomorrow. (To be continued) ITS TRUE The oldest existing sport, except running. is bull-fighting. It started £ Egypt, and only reached Spain thou sands of years later via Rome and tne Moors. T h h^pines6: Most luna tics are happier than normal per- It has b«, studies. Some are dominated by up. convictions of their own im portance . others are always happv because their emotional reactions are always exaggerated. Th? Duk? of K-nt, who was fourth removed from the throne, was told bv a gypsy fortune teller th»t he would be the father of a princess who would great queen. He was. The child bom to him a few months later became Quen Victoria-