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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered aa Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year7.so Six Months ...3'75 Three Months -....Z1-..-LZ 1.95 One Month '65 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 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All eommunloatioh* intwdfd tor pub lication under this heading mult bear the name anfl addrea* of the writer. Namea will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion la permitted In this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must bo 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 1 vlewg and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, publish 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! 4 z ? —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 SCOm SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT ill z *Wk j hßecomes Hf ) 1 Jr J ALMOST / ■ y J.A ) \ priceless r I '> j < ) if i-r f n z 7 J) ) Happens qoDDARc/ jl A PIECE- OF ROSWEUL .NEW MEXICO?) AMBER. HAS BEEN rocke.<s for asyEAw- 4o REACH /I Moon a rocket >7 • IHr would Have <0 KJSS! Travel 6,000 ‘ : miles A SECOND OR BHT<ER. // . « A rare bird- X BLACK SWAN OF z ™ e TriPLE- : ’IA)L-6 Lobotes Surinam ens/s') AUSTRALIA ASALT-wATer fish - Portions ofThe DORSAL and ANAL Fins HAVE THE APPEARANCE ofTAILS - . e r COPYRIGHT. 1936. CINTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION 6*4- SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 1936 grab at every passing opportunity.” * • • 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.