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WISE SPENDING -
June times will bring happy times to thousands upon thous
ands of World War veterans who will be receiving the final
wind-up of their war compensation in the issuing from the
United States government of the long-awaited bonus bonds. To
mark an eventful day in the country’s history, the issuance of
the certificates will bring good cheer to many a person and fam
ily who are in dire straits and who will put their quota of the
compensation to a good end.
It cannot be said that the “boys” who made the trip across
to' the war-torn fields of the Western front in and through the
submarine infested seas, and then along shell-marked roads to
the front lines where they groveled in the trenches to the sym
phony of gunfire and rolling waves of cannonades, that they are
not entitled to their just reward. They took what was offered
and took it fighting for recognition of the United States, and
it is altogether fitting and proper that we give them some gift
worthy of the esteemed gratitude of the country for their serv
ice.
Naturally there will be vast amount of money in circula’
tion when the bonds are issued. This is altogether plausible be
cause of the purchasing of the many things which have been
needed for their luxuries or necessities in the thousands of
homes to be benefited. It is hoped that the purchasing of these
many commodities will be performed through the services of
eliable, reputable people and stores in order that the hard-earned
compensation, which might be properly termed “blood money,”
might not be exploited in the hands of nefarious agents.
It is hoped that this money will be put to good ends, and
naturally, as the result of wise and careful allotment, the coun
try, in an indirect way, will be benefited and further helped
along the path of recovery. The ranks of the unemployed will
be decreased, the wheels of the factories yill run in increased
tempo, idle farm lands will be utilized, and all in all, careful
spending by veterans will certainly raise the standard of living
beyond our fondest expectations.
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or reject any article sent in.)
Editor The Savannah Daily Times:
Some weeks ago, when K was de
aided to route one of the bus lines
of the Savannah Electric and Pow
er Company around Johnson
Square, a new traffic regulation
was effected prohibiting parking
along the north aide of the square.
Now I have no quarrel with the
Savannah Electric and Power Com
pany, nor do I object to the buses 1
circling the square. But it does
seem that the regulation prohibit
ing parking on the square was 3
made without much consideration
for the obviously acute parking
problem in downtown Savannah.
By prohibiting parking on the
south side of Bryan street along
Johnson Square, approximately 27
parking spaces were removed, where
as, if the no parking regulation had
been made to apply to the north side
of the street, only about 13 spaces 1
would have been removed. This
means that in one of the most con
gested parking areas of the city
there are 27 less parking spaces than
formerly. This number could be cut
in half by permitting parking along
the square and prohibiting it along
the north side of Bryan street for a
distance equal to the length of the
square. Then too, the spaces along
the square are of the “angle” type
much more accessible than the paral
lel parking necessary along the north
side of Bryan street.
Through the columns of your valu
able newspaper, I wish to submit this
suggestion to the City Council and to
the people of Savannah for their
thoughtful consideration.
ANOTHER MOTORIST. ,
Editor The Savannah Daily Times:
Will you kindly publish the follow
ing article which appeared in the
Waycross Herald the other day. I
think the letter hits home and should
be read by every Savannahian. I
feel sure you will grant the space in
your "Our Reader’s Porum” column
for it.
“80 united is the sentiment in the
United States for Social Security that
it is probable both the Democratic
Party and the Republican Party plat
forms will contain planks definitely
calling for Social Security Legisla
tion.
"We heard a business man say the
other day that any man who had
•ver served on a Grand Jury and had
•sard the applications for places qn
the pauper roll would be wholeheart
edly for some form of old-age pen
sions.
“That is a conservative statement.
“Probably the average opinion in
this country today is that there
should be a reasonable old-age pen
sion and that it ought not to be neces
sary for one to take a pauper’s oath
in order to be eligible for this pen
sion.
“That is to say, it is the hope that
reasonable old-age pensions will pre
vent pauperhood rather than that
pauperhood be a coifdition precedent
for a pension.”
A. SAVANNAHIAN,
Not In the News
BY WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
Sign seen in a roadskk eating place
in New York state :
“Our spoons are not medicine, and
must) not be taken after meals.”
* ♦ •
If you ever have been on the wit
ness stand, and found yourself the
target for long and involved questions
fired, by a hiighpowered attorney using
50-cent words, you can appreciate
this:
Attorney—Now, sir, did you or did
you not, in the date in question, or
at any other time, previously or sub
sequently, say or even intimate to
the defendant or anyone else, alone
or with anyone, whether friend or
mere acquaintance, or, in fact, a
stranger, that the statement imputed
to you, whether just or unjust, and
denied by the plaintiff was a matter
of no moment or otherwise? Answer
me, yas or no?
Witness—Yes or no what?
We do not approve of people talk
ing while watching a movie, but this
retort is too good to pass by.
A young friend of ours was sitting
in a thaater behind two women who
persisted in commenting on every new
scene that was flashed on the screen.
The chatter distracted Our friend
and he soon found it unbearable. He
leaned forward and touched one of
the women On the shoulder.
“Pardon me, madam," he said po-
Ittely, “but I can’t hear,”
“Well, you impudent youngster,"
she exclaimed, “you’re not suppos’d
to. This oenvereatioft is strictly
private.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: This syndicated
column welcomes contributions from
readers on subjects of human Interest
associated with personal experiences.
Address contributions to Worth
Cheney, in ©are The Savannah Daily
Times. x '
The Pled Piper of Hameln is a
myth, but Hameln did lose all its
children. Responsible for a religious
w, the ‘‘children’s crusades" and
a devastating plague,
GIVING IT A FRESH START!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
HAVE THE DEMOCRATS
Adapting Themselves to Popular Trends
BECOME A MAJORITY?
WASHINGTON, June 2—Normally, 1
according to former Senator George
H. Moses, of New Hampshire, "a ma
jority of American voters are Re
publicans.” The Democrats, he says,
normally are a minority party.
This undoubtedly used to be true.
I am not so sure that now “nor
malcy" is not the other way.
• * •
Clever—Formerly
Formerly the Republicans were ex
traordinarily clever at adapting them
selves to popular trends; they swam
with currents, changing as currents
changed.
The Democrats always tried to swim
in the same direction.
Just after the 1928 election, when
Al Smith was beaten so flat that it
seemed doubtful whether Aunty
Democracy could survive, I asked the
present speaker of the house of rep
resentatives, Congressman Joseph W.
Byrns, how he accounted for the fact
that his party so almost uniformly
was on the losing side of the pre
dominant issue on election days.
"I think," said the congressman
(now the speaker), “that the explan
ation is, we Democrats have prin
ciples, which we stand by, win or lose.
The Republicans,, seeking only to win,
regardless of principles, are free to
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* • •
Opportunists of Today
Today the Democrats are trans
formed into the party of opportun
ist adjustability.
The Republicans are trying to buck
the current.
As I have had occasion to remark
previously, Republicans and Demo
crats have not exactly changed places,
but they are re-shuffling themselves.
Progressive Republicans are becom
ing Democrats. Conservative Demo
crats are becoming Republicans. The
progress isn’t completed but it’s go
ing on.
New Division
Presently there will be two new
parties, probably - under the time
honored names—which will mean
nothing.
1. Democrats— the liberals.
2. Republicans—the conservatives.
(A certain stigma attaches to the
term “conservative.” I don’t Intend
to employ it so. Caution is a good
thing.)
• * •
What Is Trend?
But is conservatism the majority
side in the United States of today?
Shortly before the boom burst Sen
ator K. Wheeler, who surely is to
the leftward, said to me, “This coun-
try is the most conservative in the
world."
And it was—then.
Now, however?
Sir Wilmott Lewis, Washington cor
respondent of the London Times,
who reasonably may be expected to
take an international view, is of the
opinion that Uncle Sam has become
an old man overnight, and must adopt
an old man’s policies.
* • •
Conservatives
There is something to be said in
favor of this reasoning.
The gobblers of resources, which
they already had gobbled, wanted to
keep them; therefore naturally were
conservatives.
With the frontier gone, folk be
come jealous of what has been gob
bled —and are conservatives.
• • •
Radical?
Age, for instance is supposed to be
come conservative.
Yes, if it is provided for.
But look at the appeal of the Town
send plan! Radical?
One-Minute Test
1. Define the term "foot pound.”
2. What is a cabin class vessel?
3. Distinguish between (2) ingeni
ous, (b) ingenuous.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. The amount of energy required
to raise one pound one foot.
2. A ship in which all passengers,
except those in steerage, enjoy the
same privileges.
3. (a) Evincing«skill or cleverness,
(b) artless, frank.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHAT WILL BE SAID
Regarding Supreme Court and Gold
BEHIND G. O. P. DOORS?
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
There is no debate on the floor of a
national convention. The average citi
zen probably dors not realize that,
quarters, but none of that is for the
Thera may be arguments in closed
public.
A convention is a place of secret
trades and chicanery. Those are not
the words of this writer, but of a
Republican senator. This writer, how
ever, concurs in those words.
One can merely guess as to what
will go on behind the closed doors at
the Republican convention in Cleve
land.
The machinery will be well-oiled,
no doubt of that. Opposition will be
effectively steam-rollered. Senator
William E. Borah can. attest to that
already. His followers are pointing
out that’th? Old Guard spent, offi
cially, $84,911 to put Robert A. Taft
over as “favorite son" tai Ohio. That
is a bagatelle to the money available.
* • *
A Mere Assumption
There is, however, an assumption
gaining ground that, d.?ep behind the
locked, doors, there may be an argu
ment such as this:
"Isn’t the supreme court going just
a bit too far even for use? That con
servative majority is hitting every
thing in sight ,and soon will have
touched every segment of the popula
tion.
"Besides, there 1s some truth in the
charge that it is arrogating our leg
islative power. We are the elected
representatives of the people.
"We shall have a difficult time
writing a platform that will explain
what we mean when we urge ‘con
stitutional measures.’ How do we
know what ths supreme court ma
jority will declare constitutional or
unconstitutional?
“That decision nullifying the mu
nicipal bankruptcy law was a 5-4 de
cision, with Chief Justice Hughes on
the minority side. A switch of one
vote would have mtde the law con
stitutional.
‘We may ly on shifting sands
whsn we base an entire program on
constitutionality—as it will Jje de
fined by the supreme court majority
when the supreme court gsts to it.”
That conservation, of course, is
purely imaginary. But if you would
go behind the locked doors at the
Cleveland convention, you would hear
such words by a few—merely a few.
Yet, it la only a few who ever have
a say anywhere.
• • •
Gold Standard
Republican clubs here and there
have been calling for a .rttum to
the “gold standard.’’ But economist
advisers to the Republicans are urg
ing softer pedal on that.
“Gold standard,” yes—but not on
the old ratio. As a matter of fact
(which few of the clubs stop to real
ize) the old gold standard moved up
and down glibly. Nothing in the
world is static.
You’re Telling
Me?
The earth’s supply of oxygen is
gradually being dissipated, says
scientists, and after a billion years
there won’t be enough left to support
life. But don’t let that worry you—
the human race is rapidly getting
used to a lack of air.
♦ ♦ ♦
Modem m a n—and woman—
seems to thrive in a night club
atmospere made up of one part
cigarette Smoke, one part liquor
odor and no part oxygen.
♦ * •
Don’t envy the pioneer fathers.
They were sissies. They had to have
fresh air. Their descendants can
spend a night in an underground bar
and live to do It again the next day.
* » *
The average big town resident
knows as little about fresh air as
a Zulu chief does about talcum
powder.
* * *
Big city folk have little sympathy
for the people of the drought areas
because, to our soot-swallowlng,
smoke-inhaling citizens a dust storm
would seem like a refreshing breeze.
Our metropolitan moles are
under the impression the word
"ozone" means just another traf
fic ordinance.
ONE MINUTE PULPIT
The race is not to the swift, nor
the battle to the strong.—Ecclesi
astes 8-11.
POEMS THAT LIVE
To Age
Welcome, old friend! These many
years
Have we lived door by dodr:
The fates have laid aside their
shears
Perhaps for some few more.
I was indocile at an age
When better boys were taught,
But thou at length has made me sage,
If lam sage in aught. •
Little I know from other men,
Too little they from me.
But thou hast pointed well the pen
That writes these lines to thee.
Thanks for expelling Fear and Hope,
One vile, the other vain;
One’s courage, the other's telescope,
I shall not see again:
Rather what lies before my feet
My notice shall engage.
He who has braved Youth’s dizzy
heat
Dreads not the frost of Age.
—Walter Savage Landor.
Words of Wisdom
Employment and hardships prevent
melancholy.—Samuel Johnson. t
The urge, at the moment. Is for a
stabilization of world intercourse.
Money will adjust itself with trade.
Peac? and trade, however, must come
first. And trade cannot come until
many barriers are removed, chief of
which are the subduing of the rag
ing nationalisms and prejudices of
the present.
Suppose it were possible suddenly
to bring back the old gold standard?
The bottom might drop out of prices.
Men could buy nothing with their
products, debtors again would be
without means of paving. Probably
every course in the world would
close.
• • •
Physchological
Senator James Couzens, wealthiest
man in congress, asserts that Presi
dent Roosevelt pursued the proper
course for the welfare of the nation
when he devalued the dollar.
“The debtor no longer could, pay,"
Senator Couzens said. “What good
did the gold standard do when all
the business was tied up?
“Thousands of persons hopelessly
in debt had said, ‘Take all.’
"Everything had become worthless.
What good was a gold standard
then?
“The very moment that devalua
tion came and we went off the gold
standard, the wheels began turning,
men began paying off their debts and
the upward climb which has not yet
stopped, begun.
“The psychological effect was tre
mendous.
"Who complained? Men who
bought bonds payable in gold. But
had they paid gold for the bonds?
No. They had put up bits of paper.
"And, in the end, those men have
ben the gainers anyway—for the
comeback of business has been to
their benefit."
Senator Couzens has many millions
of the bonds which were payable in
gold.
MyNew York
By
James As well
NEW YORK, June 2—Manhattan
Daguerrotypes:
Susie is 67. She sells newspapers
in Times Square. She has had the
same stand for nearly fifteen years,
and although few in the nightly mob
realize it, she doesn’t do badly on
the financial end. Good weeks she
clears $30 —which means that she
must sell 3,000 papers; but of course
many of her customers don’t wait for
their three cents change when they
drop a nickel on her packing box
counter.
Susie looks old and tired and pa
thetic. She’s old. but she’s neither
tired nor pathetic. She has $4,000
in the bank. And life for her is sheer
romance. She can never forget that
her husband was a policeman for six
months before he died of y ~ 'umonia.
That compensates so everying.
• • •
Marge is a taxi dance hall hostess.
She lives with her mother and comes
home obediently and virtuously every
morning shortly after 3. She’s pretty
and popular in the dime-a-dance em
porium where she labors. Her only
problem—real problem—is her feet.
Dancing six or seven hours a night
isn’t the best treatment for bunions.
Her life is unexciting. She has no
boy friends. She averages $lB a week
and she brings it all to her mother.
They save a little each week, aided
by the Federal pension her mother
receives because Marge’s father was
killed in action.
Marge has a consuming ambition
that none of the girls at the dance
hall know. As soon as she has saved
enough she’s going to attend a theo
logical seminary and become a mis
sionary, she hopes, in China.
• « »
Lew is a negro red-cap at the
Grand Central terminal. He plays
the trumpet in the Red. Cap Band.
He has absolutely no worries. He’s
as happy as the day Is long.
His wife works as a lady’s maid.
His two daughters have good jobs,
one as librarian in a Harlem Car
negie branch, one as a relief investi
gator. His son had a lucrative job as
one of the minor characters in “The
Green Pastures.” Now he plays in
a night club orchestra. His brother
is a preacher and has a large flock
which pays him a pleasant salary for
his eloquent voice nd vehement mes
sages.
The whole family lives in an ele
vator apartment with liveried black
amoor doormen in Harlem. They are
solid citizens of the black belt. Ev
erybody chips in to pay expenses and
their apartment has nine rooms and
three baths, very elegant.
What Lew enjoys more than any
thing else is to go away on his day
off with his wife, to the country. He
always carries a heavy bag because
it gives him a lift to holler at the
doorman in his apartment house:
“Here, boy. Take dis bag!”
♦ • *
Mike is a bartender in a. tough
West Side saloon. Two things worry
him. One is that he is never able to
take much of his weekly pay home.
He puts it into the machine with
the moving derrick, which picks up
watches and fountain pens and pipes
—sometimes.
His other worry is peculiar. At
twelve he took the white ribbon tem
perance pledge and he has never tast
ed liquor. After going so long without
touching the stuff, he hates to spoil
his record by even sipping beer. But
he sees people driking all day long
and he worries because he doesn’t
know what it is that appeals to them
in booze.
Before he dies he’s afraid he’ll
weaken and touch a little beer to his
tongue. Curiosity will wreck him yet
[he's certain.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Ncwopa
per by Central Prew AMOciatt6n
Tuesday, June 2; Sivan 11, 5696 in
Jewish calendar. Confederate Me
morial Day in Louisiana. Zodiac sign:
Gemini. Mercury in aphelion, i.e.,
the point in its orbit furthered from
the sun.
Scanning the skies: The ancient
belief of farmers that to grow big
potatoes the seed-potatoes must be
planted in a particular phase of the
moon, is supported by experiments
made by Leon Mercier, Ittnch re
searcher. He concluded that rays of
the moon Me more potent in some
respects than rays of the sun. One
finding: “If the seeds of beans are
subject the light of the moon in a
lead case curing the last quarter and
then planted, they germinate much
more quickly than if sown without
being exposed to moonlight.”
• • «
Notable Nativities
Peter John "Johnny” Weismuller,
b. 1904, onetime champion swimmer,
cinemactor. He was crippled by in
fantile paralysis in his youth and
overcame its effects by swimming.
Grover Whalen, b. 1886, New York
merchant and politician famed «s of
ficial greeter of notables. . . . Mrs.
William Howard Taft, b. IMI, widow
of the late president.
June 2, 597 A. D.—The man orig
inally responsible for the fact that
most Anglo-Saxon descended peoples
are Christian, was baptized. This
was Ethelbert, Baxon king of Eng
land, whose conversion by St. Augus
tine, was the most important since
Constantine the Great was baptized
on his deathbed at Constantinople.
Ethelberts Christian zeal caused
10,000 of his subjects to bs baptized
in the River Swale the following
Christmas Day, and firmly estab
lished the faith in the west.
June 2, 1800—Napoleon, Italian,
captured Milan with a French army.
Naturally, upon entering Milan, he
opined that Italians pose ?ssed nogenius
for handicraft, just as Americans
who have been to Italy say Ameri
cans have no genius for handicraft.
“I doubt,” the Emperor is quoted,
"that there is a shoemaker hers who
could compete with the poorest cob
bler in Paris."
Italian hearers defended their ar
tisans, so Napoleon said, “send me
your best bootmaker. We shall ese.”
The craftsman who came simply
glanced at the emperor’s foot; he
made no measurements. A few days
Icter he returned with handsome
boot which fitted, so perfectly that
the emperor expressed the highest
praise. “And this exquisite creation
without the use of a cast dr a tape
measure! How can yo do it?”
“My art," responded the Italian.
“A glorious art," said Napoleon.
“And now where is the other boot?”
"I brought but one,” replied the
shoemaker.
Napoleon exclaimed: “Lunatic!
Wheire am I to find the mate of this
boot?”
"Probably in Parts,” retorted the
cobbler.
June 2, 1840—Thomas Hardy was
born, the future peer of Victorian
poets and novelists. He was an archi
tect for years before he took up lit
erature, and his ftrot published work
vas “Colored Brick and Tern, Cotta
in Architecture!”
June 2 Among State Histories: 1851
—First State prohibition law enacted,
in Maine -.. 50 years Ago Today—
Grover Cleveland of New York, 49,
the 22nd president, became the first
president to wed in the White House.
The bride: Frances Folsom, 22, his
former ward.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today— U. 8. Ma
rines landed at Santo Domlngb to
restore order, Gen. Garranza de
manded the withdrawal of U. 6
forces from Mexico. The forces had
been sent there to fight villa, Car
nmza’s enemy! The U. 8. House of
representatives passed a naval appro
priations bill of record proportions.
- Air of Us -
YOU GET WHAT YOU WANT!
Perhaps you don’t believe.that you
get what you want ... I don’t want
to behove it, either.
But think about it for a few mo
ments and you’ll agree that you and
I and nearly everybody else get just
about what we wanted.
There’s a difference between vague
longing and wishing desire and dy- •
namlc wanting. ... We ait in an
easy chair and dream of what we
want to be and have. We plan whet
we'd do if our wishes came true and
we had what we wanted and wA
spend many a pleasant hour enjoying
what is not yet duns.
But our dreams do not come true,
even though they may be reasonable
and possible, because we do not cart
enough about their fulfillment to roll
up our sleeves and go to work in
their behalf.
So, finally, we become and acquire
only what we actuary WANT . .
Suppose we have no great talent tor
popularity, but wish to be popular.
Well, nobody can acquire popularity
without becoming the sort of human
being that other human beings trust
and like. • . And that means doing
something about it.
Or we want to write a book that.
a publisher will take and sell, that,
men and women buy and read and
about. . . . But you can’t write
a book unies you have something to
say and ipiow how to say it . . .
unless you are willing to go some
where by yourself and work hard and
Uke your licking if you fail . .
So you don’t write that book and
you re cynical and unhappy about
your failure. . . . well ,you pre
furred that failure to the succeca you
dreamed.