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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ’ \ at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 33, 1935 at tbo Poet Office at Savanna h, Georgia » SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year...4* 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months... 1.95 One Month ...—... One Week ——- .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures ~ WELCOME NIGHT BASEBALL. To be ushered in with the blare of bands and attended by high dignitaries of the city, Savannah’s dream of night baseball will become a reality tonight when the Savannah Indians trot out onto the field to play against the Augusta Tigers. To make its auspicious start under the eyes of President Wilder who is to officiate in the ceremonies, Savannah’s debut into the select circle of cities with lighted fields will be watched with interest by the entire South. Little is known of the trials and tribulations which beset the best efforts of leading civic heads and officers of the base ball club before they were able to accomplish the task of instal lation of the magnificent flood-light system which surrounds the field. First, there were troubles with the City Council about the working agreements. Then the all important task of the final setting up of the lights which fought the best efforts of the city’s leading engineers, finally through perserverance and untiring zeal the final check-up was had and the system pronounced ready for work. This flood-light system is an important factor in the city’s hopes of regaining some of the lost prestige suffered through long years of dormancy in the national field of sports. One time a mecca for leading athletic enthusiasts of the nation, Savan nah’s drop in the past decade to the relative obscurity enjoyed at the present time, was a source of all-important worry to lead ers in the civic life of the city. The Savannah Daily Times takes this opportunity of wish ing the Savannah baseball club and all officers connected there with, together with those men who have donated their time and patience to the perfection of the floodlight system, every good wish for the continued success of the club, and its heart-felt felicitations for the task of bringing the city of Savannah to the forefront of Southern athletics. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communlcatioM intended for pub lieatlon under this heading must boar the name and addreos of the writer. Names will be omitted on reqneat. Anonymous letters will not bo given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted in this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be limited to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not Intend that the selection of letters pub lished in this column shall in any way reflect or conform with the editorial view* and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right, to edit, publish or reject any article sent ta.) Editor Daily Times: I am a constant reader of your excellent paper. I wonder if a few words of warning could be inserted In your “Our Readers Forum” col umn telling all the bonus boys to be on the lookout on every front for the barrage of Chislers, selling to them cheap “trash” at high prices, In gen eral, thing that are worthless. Gyp joints are machine-gunning for you; rackets have you on their suck er lists; snipers are set to pick your pockets. Get wise, buddy, do not throw your money away. Remember, the dollar is your friend. A Veteran. Editor Savannah Daily Times: The Towwsend plan is not merely ■■ ■■■■—— NOT—In the News • • • * » • COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION A MATTER of curious interest to Ue has been how some married cou ples over met in the first place. Perhaps you have seen couples, es peolally those varying in size, weight or age, who have aroused in your mind the question'- ‘'Now I wonder just how that started?” We have a strong suspicion that there are many interesting, if not amusing, stories associated with the beginning of romances that, unfor tunately, are never told. We don’t mean the usual procedure of a formal Introduction, keeping company, fall ing in love and marrying. We refer to romances that start from some un usual incident or circumstance. To Illustrate, we present the true story of Bill and Margie. Bill is a big, strapping fellow; Margie a small pee wee type, sweet and demure. Not long ago Bill and Margie work ed in the same office building in De troit. Margie worked on the eleventh floor and Bill on the tenth, but they never knew the other existed until one day they boarded the same des cending elevator. The elevator was crowded and little Margie found herself pushed into a corner. In front of her stood Bill, but to Margie he then represented only a pair of broad shoulders in a tweed suit. And to Bill, Margie then was just a whiff of perfume in a brown coat. The elevator slipped swiftly to the ground floor, but as it came to * • stop there was a lurching motion which threw Bill off balance. At tempting to retain his equilibrium, he stepped back suddenly—right on Margie's little toes I i J-t happened very quickly, but Mar- a pension plan, but a means of re covery from our almost perpetual “depression”. The first important thing is to find employment for the idle. The Townsend plan was devised to do this important thing, solely. Those who possess the wealth of this country are apparently blind to the actual conditions of our country today. Their money can be made as useless as waste paper, by the com bined vote of the people. Gold has al ready been made useless for monetary purposes, and other Issues can be thus declared of no use. Natural causes have brought this country to this crisis. The eagerness of some for larger profits has led to machinery which has thrown men out of employment. Now there Is a sufficient number who have no wages or means by which they may purchase the needs of life to make our finan cial conditions steadily worse. Nature in the past has been pro gressive, and never reactionary. Whether you want it or not, we have got to prepare for a change. The Townsend plan has been introduced for a better form of life. This change is based on co-operation, instead of selfishness. A Townsendite. gie’s ire was even quicker in rising She was furious; her eyes flashed in anger. “I am sorry,” said Bill. “You ought to be,” she shrieked, “you big, clumsy ox.’ Fuming, she scampered off the elevator. Bill, surprised and bewilder ed, watched her little form lose itself in the crowd. He turned to his com panion. Did he know her? No, but he knew who she was and where she worked. Would he arrange a meeting for Bill? Sure. The introduction was staged, and a fast romance resulted between Bill and Margie. So fast did it develop that about a month later Margie be came Mrs. Big Clumsy Ox. Do you suppose, after all, it could have been love at first sight? “Boot” shoes that cover the in step to the ankle will be worn in the fall. They come both with low cut or built up sides. Thermometers adorn some of the new Schiaparelli prints for summer wear. The red cercury in these ther mometers runs all the way from “In difference” at the bottom of the scale to “P assion” at the top. Radio sta tions, sound waves and zig-zagging airplanes are other summer designs. Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day are in dependent, fond of home and family, to whch they will sacrifice their con venience and comfort if necessary. They are loving In instinct and can odapt themselves to home circum stance. Their literary ability is above the average. ■ THE RE-WRITE MAN! lEi W"*' ■dSWWiJii i —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— CAN ITALY BORROW In View of Antagonisms Aroused MONEY IT REQUIRES? V. .xSHINGTON, June I—Com merce department officials hear that Premier Mussolini already has agents abroad seeking foreign loans to ex ploit Ethiopia. That he will be able to raise much money is spoken of as extremely doubtful. In the United States it is downright illegal to make financial advances to nations which are in de fault on their obligations to Uncle Sam, and Italy is one of them. The British and French, slapped in the face by the Italian defiance of their objecitons to Fascist activities in east Africa, are deemed unlikely to favor a bankers’ policy calculated to aid the new empire tn consolidating its posi tion. The Itlalian government not only has no ready cash of its own, but probably has exhausted its domestic as well as its foreign credit, while its taxation rate is so high now that it seems impossible It can squeeze out another lira by increasing it. And, anyway, it is semi-officially predicted that world capital will not consider the Italo-Ethiopian empire a safe field in which to invest. • » • Ethiopian Outlaws Another complication threatens. As was to have been expected, al though Haile Selassie is gone, Ethio- Jrtl wK peddled JwIIWb ’ »N Korea jSSMy 13 W .yirTlfl. l yP lh<e fig l‘ In wiv peanut ■ 7/ W// >J/ /v\lra // S/L fifj } f \ W </ other. PRfcSS 'MOSLEM MAID KIJ4iHT 'TSxteT'Her- by a Primitive S -^p E SAFETY-PIN WHICH HAS BEEN jW,| Y w U$E FROM 4\ ME IMMEMORIAL M Iwsfell ONE OF <HE S<AM PS OF YEMEN CARAB/A) A— CEN<RAL DESIGN AMP dZAN £ WALLOW HAS OUTLINE oFTwo I SHor< Swords. wiTft larger -tHan He )S . WORDING 6*3 -co^ | 0 (T - 1936 ' central wks association SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 1, 1936 pian outlaws continue to loot here, there and everywhere. Foreign sojourners’ lives and prop erties are endangered and Italy has assumed the responsibility of protect ing them. Indications are that Italy will not be in a position to give this protection on into the indefinite fu ture. “Mussolini may find that he has bitten off more than he can chew,” as one Washington diplomat, speak ing in the American vernacular, ex pressed it. • • ♦ Wrong Guess Il Duce, to tell the truth, went much farther than Old World states manship had anticipated. What it had hoped for, encouraged by military forecasts, was that the campaign, delayed by guerilla war fare and rainy seasons, would string out so long that the Italians would wilt under the financial burden of it, and have to compromise. The big powers looked for a cutting up of Ethiopia among them. Or, they thought, Mussolini would be satisfied with a mere mouthful of the African kingdom, leaving the re mainder to Haile Selassie. If they had sensed the danger that he would grab the whole thing, un questionably they would have resist- ed him more strongly—physically, maybe. Even yet they do not believe that he counted on so complete a conquest. Pure, blind luck, they rec kon, was with him. • • * Anything Won? Diplomacy and militarism alike are skeptical that Italy has won anything in the long run worth while. They think that Ethiopia finally will prove to be a liability. But momentarily, from the stand point of prestige, they agree that it is a huge asset. Danger May Spread The United States is not immediate ly concerned. It will be, however. Italy cannot get conveniently to its new dependency except through the Suez canal. Britain can close it. Technically it is not entitled to do so—but. in an emergency, who cares for technicalities! Today the Brit ish are mobilizing in the eastern Med iterranean. Let a war start there and it will not be a war exclusively between the Italians and the British. The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.—Proverbs 26:15. SONG I saw the day’s white rapture Die in the sunset’s flame, But ail her shining beauty Lives like a deathless name. Our lamps of joy are wasted. Gone is Love’s hallowed light; But you and I remember Through every starlit night. —Charles Hanson Towne. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— U. S. PRISONS FILL In Costly Physical Drives Against Crime AS ENGLAND’S EMPTY By LESLIE EIOHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) An American educator recently ex pressed deep concern over the in creasing number of American youths being doomed to the electric chair. The number of executions of persons under 25 and even under 21 has reached an appalling figure. As executions have risen, murder and other crime have increased. There is hardly mention of the put ting to death of “unknown” indi viduals any more. The entire proced ure is accepted as a matter of course. Critics imply that we are turning barbaric and have accepted crime, its causes and its consequences as a matter of course, and expect police and courts and electric chairs “to straighten out the istuation.” Os course it is not being straight ened out. Prison population reaches new high levels in the United States —while prison population in England drops, and prisons even are aban doned. Why the difference? Nobody seems to know. There has been no v de termined effort to find out. ♦ ♦ ♦ Keeping Them Out In Ekigland, efforts are made to keep people out of prison. In the United States costly efforts are made to put them in. Prison population in the United States is 15 times that of England. (The United States has only three times the population of Eng land.) Regaring the English situation, the Manchester Guardian comments: “If Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Webb are right in supposing that “the most practical and most helpful of “prison reforms” is to be found in processes which ’keep people out of prisons al together,’ then the newly issued re port of the prison commissioners for 1934 may well be regarded as offer- My New York . By James Aswell sasssss=s=3C= ] »" - (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As elation) NEW YORK, June I.—lnterview with an expert riddler: Q. So you came 2,000 miles to at tend a meeting of the New York Riddlers’ society? A. Well, it was my vacation and since I am a member of the National Puzzlers’ League I thought it would be a good idea to drop in on a meet ing of the Riddlers. They gather once a month in New York, you know. Q How much time do you devote to puzzles and riddles? A. Oh, when business was bad dur ing the depression I fooled with them eight or ten houis a day. but now that there is more to do I can’t af ford more than three or four hours a day. I’m a dairyman, you know, and I often tell my family I could work on a good puzzle until the cowscomfe home. Q. Do you enjoy crosswords? A. Oh, they are kindergarten stuff. I let my eight-year-old son practice on them, but he finds the ones in the daily papers too easy most of the time to be worth solving. Q. How did you become so inter ested in puzzles? A. Good gracious, man, I’ve been interested in puzzles all my Mfe. The universe itself is just one big anagram that no one has ever solved. When I was a boy I whittled interlocking rings and other puzzles for myself. Once I whittled one that I couldn’t solve when I was about 14. I worked on it for weeks, neglecting my school work, and I was very unhappy. Fi nally I took it to an old-time riddler and he pointed out to me the fact that it couldn’t be solved. I can’t tell you how relieved I was. I think that was the happiest moment of my life. Q. I suppose at meetings of the Riddlers and the National Puzzle League there are plenty of strange rings-and hooks and knots to be un crossed and unhooked and untied? A. Oh, not so many. Most of us have graduated from the purely me chanical puzzle stage. The riddles we attack in meeting are for the most part mental. Cryptograms, anagrams, rebuses. Take the firstclass anagram. It can have drama, pathc. and even humor. Q. Would you mind giving me an example of pathos in an anagram? A. Not at all. An anagram, you know, is the reshuffling of the letters in a word or phrase into another word or phrase with a similar mean ing. Well, not long ago an ana gramatist took the phrase, “Board of Aidermen” and what do you think he got? Why, “Hard men after boodle.” There’s pathos in that, isn’t there? Q. Plenty of it. Now how about an anagram with humor in it? A. Offhand I remember the prize winning effort with the words, “The Music Goes ’Round and Around.” The result, using those same letters, was “Damned Tune on Radios, Hu man Scourge.” That’s comical, isn’t it? Q. Well, I think there is humore and pathos in both of those, almost equally distributed. But now that you’ve attended your meeting do you propose to look a’ound New York? A. Oh, no. Not interested. But I’m dining with a few riddling friends to night and I wonder if you’d do me a big favor? I wonder if you’d drop by my hotel around 6:30 this evening and render me a real service? Q. I’d be glad to, but what is it you want me to do? A. Well, you see, I must put on a tuxedo and I want you to tie my bow tie for me. I never got the knack of the dem things. ing evidenca of great advance in the direction of reform. “As compared with what was hap pening when our late king came to the throne we are keeping people out of prison with marked success. One sign of that is th? actual decrease in the gaols themselves; whereas there were 56 local prisons in this country in the year 1910, there are now 26. At th? beginning of King George's reign people were being received into prison at a rat of moer than 186,000 a year, but 25 years later the figure has dropped to well short of 57,000. Some of them, of course, are the same people who have gone to prison two or more times in the same year, but that aspstc of 'reception’ figures applies to both periods, «n!d the daily average ‘prison population’ of the country also shows a handsome re duction from 20,826 in 1910 to 12,233 in 1934. “Obviously people are being kept out of prison in very considerable numbers, and the difference between now and 25 years ago may be under lined by the reflection that the pop ulation of England and Wales has increased by some four and a half millions in this period which has seen the ‘prison population’ drop so steeply. . “Another point which the commis sioners emphasize is the difference in the prisons themselves and the great er efforts to create a more wholesome and active atmosphere within the ■walls of >a goal. Idleness, physical and mental, which does nothing to dim inish degradation but has precisely the opposite effect, is the besetting danger of prisons. In all the efforts which have been made during the past 10 or 20 years to reduce that danger th? ccmmisioners claim that their aim has been ‘r.ot to make pris ons pleasant, but to construct a sys tem* of training such as rill fit the prisoners to re-enter the world as a citizen.’ ” * * * Cruel The Manchester Guardian calls at tention to an injustice that still ex ists for thousands. The prison report of 1934 showed that 51 per cent of the commltals in England still were of persons unable to pay fines or oth er money orders. In other words, those who have the money do not have to serve; but the tunfortunate who do not have the money must serve. The same applies in th? United States—through the inequity of fines,. * * * Chief Reason? The Guardian intimates that the reason fewer persons are being sent to prison in England lies in a fuller lift, a better economic life, thus a better social life, enjoyed by a larger and larger part of the population. Economic and social betterment therefore becomes the chief dfeterrsnt of crime. You’re Telling Me? Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg, the old meanie, has taken away the pri vate and personal army of Austria’s Prince von Starhemberg. The least Kurt could have done was to have given th? prince a box of tin soldiers and a popgun in exchange. * ♦ ♦ However, news dispatches say Schuschy permitted Prince Ernst to kep his uniform so he could continue to look at himself in a mirror and imagine himself a ' rsal-for-sure, honest - to-goodness general. * • * Maybe the prince didn’t mind las ing his personal troops. It was get ting near pay day. anyway. • ♦ ♦ The Starhemberg storm troops were an idea Ernst had borrow’d from the old Roman ■emperors who maintained household bat talions because they were afraid of burglars—with a weakness for stealing thrones. » ♦ ♦ The Roman household battalions had but one job. This was to clout any visitor to th? palace, whom the emperor didn’t like, over the head. Sometimes the troops, to keep in practice, would clout the emperor himself. Then the Roman people would have a change of administra tion- * * * In one year the Romans ex- * perienced a half dozen emperors. The household battalions had a lot of fre? swingers in the line-up that season. Now Prince Ernst will never realize his ambition of being a dictator. <But he should worry. He never did have the kind of face that fitted a Charlie Chaplin mustache or. a Grade A, No.' 1 scowl. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test .1. Has the American flag always had 13 stripes? 2. Why is Friday generally con sidered an unlucky day? 3. How many columns are there to a page of the ordinary-sized Ameri can newspaper? Hints on Etiquette Conversation between persons not well acquainted with each other should be kept on an impersonal basis, especially at formal affairs Words of Wisdom Knowledge is, indeed, that which, next to virtue, truly and essentially raises one man above another.—Addi son . i Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Mnday, June 1; Feast of the Holy Ghost in Greek Catholic calendar. National Cotton*’ Week. Moon: first quarter. Zodiac sign: Gemini. Birth itone: Pearl. Scanning the skies: Communities with “daylight saving” time may think they have an hour of It a day, yet they don’t. Nonuniformity of the Earth’s motion around the Sun in its orbit, causes the Sun to dis agree with “standard time” by as much as 16 minutes. * • • NOTABLE NATIVITIES John Masefield, b. 1875, novelist and England’s poet laureate. . . . John Drinkwater, b. 1882, British dramatist and biographer whose favo rite subjects are Americans . . . Clive Brook, b. 1891, cinemactor . . . Frank Wupperman, known as Frank Morgan, b. 1893, cinemactor. . . . Arthur Curtiss James, b. 1867, rail road magnate whose favorite means of travel is by ship . . . Peggy Fears, b. 1907, stage and screen actress. ♦ ♦ • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 1, 67 A. D.—<<o,ooo Jews were massacred when 58-year-old Titus Flavius Bespasianus, Roman general, captured and destroyed Jotapata, Ju dea. Only Josephus the general and historian and 40 men were able to survive the holocaust by hiding in a cave. ‘ The men refused to permit Jose phus to surrender and were resolved to die,” it is recorded. “At his sug gestion th yecast lots, and the first man was killed by the second and so on, untl al were dead except Jose phus and (perhaps) one other. So Josephus saved them from the sin of suicide and gave himself up to the Romans. He had prophecied that the place would be taken—as it was —on the 47th day, and now he pro phecized that both Vespasian and his son would reign over all man kind. Te prophecy saved his life.” Vespasian and Titus did become Roman emperors. Surprisingly un der them—the men wh had caused 1,000,000 Jews to be slain in their conquest of Jotapata and Jerusalem —Jews enjoyed equal political rights with non-Jewish subjects and free dom of conscience in the Roman em pire for the first time! * * * June 1, 1789—The first-law enact ed by the Congress was approved by George Washington. It was “an act to regulate the time and manner of administering certain oaths.” The citizens may have felt like uttering some oaths. Congress had been in session for three months before it squeezed out that first law! June 1, 1831 —James Clark Ross, 31, discovered the north magnetic pole 78 years before it was found! On his second trip to the Arctic he, the son of the first Arctic explorer, made observations wheih enable him, on this date, to establish the position of the. pole by mathematical calcula tion. It is to the magnetic pole, not the North Pole, to which compass needles point, of course. June 1 Among State Histories:— 1691—William 111 seized for a royal province . . . 1774—Brit ish closed Boston harbor in retalia tion for tea destruction by anti-tax mobs . . . 1792—Kentucky admitted to Union, 15th state; 1796—Tennes see admitted, 16th state . . . 1861— First pitched battle in War Between the States at Fairfax Courthouse, Va. . . . 1861 —Richmond, Va., became capital of Confederacy. ... 20 Years Ago Today—Louis D. Brandeis of Massachusetts, was confirmed by Senate as first Jewish member of U. S. Supreme Court after bitter fight. ♦ * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The world got its first inklings of what Berlin announced as a tremendous victory at Jutland. An outline of this No. 1 naval en gagement of the war was given here last week. Summing up its effects, Liddell Hart says: “For the British navy, Jutland would better not have been fought at all . . . It undoubtedly depreciat ed British naval prestive in the eyes of Allies and the home public more than the fact of Britain’s continued supremacy at sea could redeem. That supremacy was to ensure the ultimate downfall of German power to con tinue the war. But no victorious battle helped, as such a battle might, to shorten the process of exhaustive slaughter on land. Jutland merely insured what was already insured without a battle. “On the technical side. Jutland was more significant ... It showed that the German standard of gun nery was far higher ... In mate rial, Jutland showed also that the Admiralty had failed to see or profit by experience as well as the Ger mans.” Germans were likewise superior in organization, training and aggressive ness—in everything except numbers —to the British. Those readers intrigued by the de tails of*Jutland, the most fascinat ing naval subject In modern history, are referred to the chapter in ths revised edition (1935) 6f Li(JdelJ Hart’s “A History of the World War,” “The Riddle of Jutland,” by Gibson and Harper; and “TM Battle of Jutland,’ by H. H. Frost, Comman der U. S. N. (To be continued) * ♦ • IT S TRUE (Help me tell the truth.) Speaking of the compass, as wa were above, you can used your watah for a compass by pointing the hour hand toward the sun. Due south is then exactly half way between the hour and the figure XII. June was the fourth month in the calendar originally, and derived its name from the fact that It was dedi cated a Junioribus, that is to the jun ior branch of the legislature. Tennessee was named by Andrew Jackson, who got it from the chief town of the Cherokees, whom he fought! Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom ed by Clark Kinnard.