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Whether we go, hat in hand, as beggars, or, as Mayor Gamble
has already complained, “be treated somewhat as a step-child,”
we should at least, first, reach some definite plan looking toward
the constructive upbuilding of the county, and then, not merely
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sufficient to bear the traffic imposed upon it, it is dangerous to
life and limb. A lateral road should be built and a portion of
the present road materially widened. This is the main project
that should have the undivided attention of our authorities.
I SMOKE STACKS AND PROGRESS.
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It is a happy omen for the future of Savannah that fires have
been started and smoke is now coming out of the tall chimneys
of our latest and largest manufacturing enterprise. That the
Union Paper and Bag Company’s plant, once in full swing,
will add much to our progress, as well as to the general pros
perity of our merchants through the large pay roll which it will
distribute through its employes, there can be no doubt.
We should, with a true progressive spirit, catch the full im
port of what this means to our community, and, become fully
imbied with its value to all, then determine to put our shoulders
to the whee| of progress, assisting in turning it round and round,
to the end that more of these manufacturing plants, large and
small, may be added to the activities of those already here. Situ
ated as we are, Savannah offers exceptional opportunities for
almost any kind or character of plant.
This is neither the time or place for croakers or fault-finders.
Business conditions are improving. Every factor for an increas
ing prosperity is favorable. Despite a presidential election year,
which usually affects trade, every indication is, this is one year
in which all the elements that go to create and stimulate business
enterprise, are alive to the prodigious possibilities of the future
and are alertly planning to keep step with that future.
The Savannah Daily Times is an advocate of a bigger and
better Savannah. Regardless of how many other attractions
which we have may add to our prosperity, and we have many,
there is, nor can there be, no safer, surer, or sounder foundation
upon which to build, than that stability which is brought about
by smoke stacks and pay rolls that bless a community. To get
them, we must go after them. Anything worth having, is worth
working for. Every Savannahian, however humble, or what his
calling, should learn all about his town, then proceed to shout its
possibilities from the house-tops.
•SO WHAT?”
That’s a good pair of words.
' Not exactly sympathetic, I’ll admit
. . . Not sentimental, either, nor
soothing to your sefl-steeem . . . But
you can’t deny that in those two
words is tonic, rebuke and challenge.
You’re moaning about your luck
You explain in great detail that if
things had been just a little different
ten years ago they’d be much differ
ent for you now. . . . You point out
that your fate has surely been tough.
And just about then some thick
skinned felow says to you: ‘So
what?”
You talk about your health, how
miserable you’re feeling. . . . You
make an inventory of all your aches
and paiiv, your physical disabilities.
. . . And then some rude individual
asks you: "So what?’’
You mention how sensitive you are,
how spiritual . . . You can compete
In this rough and tumble world of to
day. You’ve got something exceed
ingly precious in you. but you bruise
easily and in order to do your best
you must have understanding and
thoughtful treatment . . . And some
flip fellow jerks you up with those
two harsh words: ‘‘So what 2?
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
I could go on for page*. with Hus
tratlons of hw, right in the middle
of our pathetic explanations, apolo
gies an dabilities, the tough world,
having listened more or less impa
tiently wants to know “SO WHAT!”
And I’l admit it’s disconcerting,
and I’l agree it’s very rude, indeed,
of the world to ask “So what?” just
wen we are preparing te field for
sweet words of pity, agreement and
sympathy. . . . But there are times
when sympathy can be a dangerous
drug and pity can do more harm
than good. . . . But when we ask for
conslation, it is almost just the time
when we shouldn’t have it . . . And
the moment when we sit up and
plead for a lump of sugar is the ex
act Instant when the world should
smile grimly at our antics and ask
us:
“So what?”
Perhaps you do not agree with what
this wife says in Keith Winter’s “Im
passioned Pygmies”. She does not re
present the old romantic Idea of love,
nor even the modern superficially
casual attitude toward it . . . But
what she says deserves y«ur serious
thought.
No. 2: As a National Figure .
Life Story in Sketches of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg
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On June 14, 1918, Van
denberg married Hazel H.
Whittaker of Ft. Wayne,
Ind. They have three
children, Arthur Hen
drick, Barbara, and Eliza
beth. Vandenberg was
active as publisher of the
Herald until 1928, when
he was appointed United
State senator to succeed
the late Senator Wood
bridge Ferris. He had
served as chairman at Re
publican state conventions
in 1916 and 1928.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
“DOG FOOD” SPEECH
Prepared By G. 0. P. Publicity “Experts”
HITS DICKINSON BOOM
Central Press, Washington Bureau.
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, May 21.—The
smallest things can inflate or punc
ture a pYesidentrarl boom.
Senator L. J. Dickinson's boom was
not such a big one. Still, the lowan
classified as a Republican dark horse
with some few possibilities. No list
of candidates for the G. O. P. nomi
nation was considered complete un
less his name was on it.
Now he Is referred to in Washing
ton as “Dog Food Dickinson.”
What chance does any man stand
of being named for the presidency
handicapped with such a nickname
as “Dog Food?”
• * »
Striking Appearance
The appellation is particularly
ridiculous In association With a per
sonality like Senator Dickinson’s.
The senator is an impressive-look
ing Individual—bulky, white-haired
and handsome. He has a fine ora
torical delivery. So far as appear
ance is concerned, and lung-power,
and maybe ability, he should be a
creditable candidate for any exalted
office.
But what an anti-climax when, as
surely wouM happen in the midst of
any address he undertook to make,
if some hoodlum in the audience
yelled, “Dog Pood”
• ♦ ♦
Where Blame Lies
The Republican publicity staff
wished the “Dog Food” curse upon
Dickinson, quite unintentionally—un
intentionally as a curse, that is to
say.
The G. O. P. publicity folk meant
well by the senator. They thought
up\the yarn to the effect that “many
Americans’’ are so hard up that they
are compelled to live on canned dog
food. They needed a very prominent
WILL HE-OR WON’T HE?
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936
~ By C. H. Crittenden, Central Press Artist ———————
WH
After completing the un
expired term to which he
had been named in 1928,
Senator Vandenberg was
elected Nov. 6, 1928, for
the short and long term
ending in 1935. He was
the nominee of Republi
can senators for president
pro tern of the senate in
1933, and in the past year
has been one of the out
standing members of the
committee investigating
the munitions industrv
person to broadcast this story in a
way to attract a maximv.m of at
tention. And they hit on the Hawk
eye statesman to do it, from the sen
ate floor. They approved of him be
cause he is exceptionally sonorous
and they reckoned that he would
give it a good send-off. They thought
they were doing him a favor. The
speech would add to his prestige ac
cording to their calculations.
It might have done so If the pub
licity experts had been satisfied to
supply Dickinson with the necessary
“dog food” (raw) material and let
him attend to the rest of it.
• • *
In the first place, they wrote his
speech for him.
Then they wrote an article de
scribing the breathless, horrified
fashion in which a crowded senate
listened to him. They mentioned the
cans of dog food on the lowan's
desk, as he spoke.
Next they combined speech and
description, mimeographed them and
distributed copies to the press—be
fore the speech had been delivered.
Several of these copies fell into the
hands of Democratic senators—pre
maturely. When Dickinson got up to
speak they absented themselves.
There wasn’t a corporal’s guard pres
ent while Dickinson was speaking.
There was no dog food cans on the
lowan’s desk, either.
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All this was poor advertising for
the G. O. P.
Not that human beinght ought to
have to eat dog food, but the whole
proposition was ridiculous—the w’orst
imaginable thing in politics.
The Republican hgh command
showed its realization of it by hiring
a new publicity agent—Bruce Bar
ton, advertising man and author, to
do his best to improve the G. O. P.’s
publicity.
It needs it.
When the Roosevelt wave
was sweeping the coun
try, Senator Vandenberg
prepared for re-election.
Political observers say
that indorsement in 1934
of the “good in the New
Deal”, was an important
factor in his re-election.
At any rate, he was
among the few Republi
cans re-elected to the
senate in the Democratic
landslide of 1934.
You’re Telling
Me?
THAT EMINENT pseudo scientist
and semi amateur athlete, Dr. Zadok
Dumbkopf, announced today he would
attempt to win fame and glory in
the Olympic games in Berlin, Ger
many.
♦ ♦ ♦
‘‘Of course,” the good doctor
said, “I won’t indulge In any
running, jumping or swimming
events. I shall leave that sort of
thing to the—er—younger and
more vigorous generation.
« * •
‘‘However, I am entering my name
as representative of the United States
in the buck passing contest —if one
is held. When it comes to buck pass
ing even a congressional committee
chairman is no match so rme.
* * •
"My long, if not successful ca
reer, has also fitted me for a
crack at the pride pointers'
championship, too, and when it
comes to viewing with alarm—
hah! your old Uncle Zadok (Edi
tor’s note: He is NOT our uncle!)
has the best eyesight In 48 states.
• * *
“You say there are no Olympic
events for buck passers, prile point
ers and alarm viewers? I have taken
care of that, my dear friend (Editor’s
not: We are NOT his dear friend,
either!) I have written the president
and demanded such events be arrang
ed. I know my rights as an American
citizen!”
* * •
“But,” your correspondent
wanted to know, ‘ how are you
going to get to Berlin? It takes
dough, you know.”
• * «
‘‘Precisely,” said the dignified
dumb-bunny, ‘‘that’s why I’m here —
in behalf of the Get-Dumbkopf-to-
Berlin fund. Could you donate four
bits?” We made it a buck —it’s worth
it.
VfcW
Since 1935, however, Sen
ator Vandenberg has been
a persistent critic of the
Roosevelt administration.
He has been looked upon
as possibly the foremost
critic of the New Deal in
the senate during that
period. He has offered
alternatives, especially on
relief administration, with
his criticism. This caused
many Republicans to look
toward him.
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.Senator Vandenberg
made no campaign for
delegates to the Republi
can convention in Cleve
land. He, nevertheless,
was corwidered a “dark
horse”. Michigan pledged
its delegation to him as a
favorite son”—and vari
ous contesting groups
considered him . a strong
possibility should there be
any fight.
The End.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
GOV LEHMAN’S POSITION
In Fighting It Out With Political Groups
GIVES HIM UNIQUE ROLE
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
GOV. HERBERT H. LEHMAN of
New York is in an odd position—for
a banker. He has been trying to
put through liberal legislation, and
both Tammany Democrats and Old
Guard Republicans have ganged up
on him and defeated his program.
Thus a banker, who happens to be
governor, battles the side on which
bankers customarily are supposed to
be.
Stranger still, liberals dot not count
Governor Lehman as one’ of them.
They wish for a “stronger, more lib
eral” man in the governor’s mansion
in Albany,
Yet, in spit of this opposition from
both sides, Governor Lehman prob
ably will be re-elected—he is counted
as an uncanny vote getter—and his
program will go through eventually.
• * •
TWO FRIENDS
Governor Lehman has two power
ful friends—President Roosevelt and
Alfred E. Smith.
The governor succeeded President
Roosevelt. And he is said to have
given the most toward Al Smith’s
presidential ventures.
But he seems to have a, power
within hiself that does not depend
cn powerful friendships. He is that
phenomenon of a banker setting him
self to a practical solution of social
problems.
* ♦ *
UNIQUE FIGURE
Another unique figure in New York
Is U. S. Senator Robert F. Wagner.
Although Senator Wagner is a mem
ber of Tammany, and Tammany is
proud of him, he is considered one
of the foremost liberals in the United
States. He is termed an “idealist” by
his political friends. Even President
Roosevelt “lets him talk”, but doesnt
push the Wagner measures very hard,
so the gossip goes.
But all the wnile Senator Wagner
is gaining a tremendous following.
He never can become president, for
he was born in Germany (having
been brought over as a child). He
can, however, exert a powerful in
fluence.
My New York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, May 21.—Showshops:
The close of another dramatic sea
son leaves this reporter with a dis
quieting thought. Either he is an
old meanie who oes not have in his
heart the proper reverence for the
temples of Duse and Booth or else
he has witnessed the sorriest aggre
gation of dramaturgic blah ever de
vised to catch the customers’ dollars.
That could be passed over There
are good seasons and bad seasons.
But what annoys me to distraction,
at the moment, is to see the accred
ited assayers of the drama giving
their hands a satisfied dry-wash and
gloating over “a season far above
average both in the quantity and
quality of hits”
What hits? There was the lofty
“Winterset,” chosen as the best play
of the season by “The Critic’s Cir
cle,” whose floor whip and “record
ing secretary” happened, by an ex
traordinary coincidence, to be the
press agent for “Winterset.” You
know what I thnik of this pretentious
lollipop.
There is "Idiot's Delight,” which
sets out to prove that war is wicked
and that when it breaks out a lot of
people, even non-combatants, are
likely to get hurt, along with the
fact that Lynn Fontanne can talk
and look somewhat like Greta Garbo
and that Alfred Lunt would starve
to death as a tap-dancing master of
ceremonies in a third-rate night
club. This is the Pulitzer Prize
choice—or had you guessed that al
ready from the description and the
title?
There is “End of Summer” Here
we mount immediately to much high-
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Senator and Mrs. Vandenberg
It is interesting to observe that
Senator Wagner, whose housing bill
now is having hard sledding, contin
ues to make predictions of reforms.
Senator Wagner predicts passage
of New Deal legislation to regulate
wages, to provide minimum labor
standards, to inaugurate government
health insurance, to have relief re
sponsibility definitely placed on the
government, to make complete em
ployment surveys, and to extend pub
lic health and child welfare serv
ices.
* ♦ *
LEHMAN’S PLEA
Governor Lehman, pleading for his
social security program, defied the
opposition by making a “practical”
plea in these terms:
“The social security program of
the state brings our state laws into
conformity with the federal act. The
program will bring to the state and
its municipalities about $20,000,000 of
federal moneys.
“Through these federal grants and
through a very moderate state ap
propriation which will be much more
than offset by direct savings to our
municipalities, we will be able to help
hundreds of thousands of our needy,
aged, sick, crippled and blind, through
the following services:
“1. Provide financial assistance to
men and women who reach the age
of 65 years.
“3. Establish a state-wide system
of financial and other assistance to
the blind.
“4. Initiate services for the health
of mothers and children, especially
in ruarl areas.
“5. Establish and maintain ade
quate public health services.
“6. Provide medical, surgical, cor
rective services and care for crippled
children.
“7. Promote local child welfare ser
vices, especially in rural areas
“8. Expand vocational rehabilita
tion of the physically disabled.
“Can there possibly be any sound
objection to our doing this? Can
there possibly be any valid opposition
to such a program?
"It is inconceivable to me that any
one should want to defeat a bill of
such tremendous social consequences."
er ground. It’s swell theater, well act
ed, magnificently written and pro
duced And it is the work of S. N.
Behrman, who has as much talent
in hs little finger as four Maxwell
Andersons, 12 Robert E. Sherwoods,
578 Elmer Rices, 1,760 John Howard
Lawsons and 76,989 Cliford Odetses.
It has, in addition, some more
strong points: it was not chosen by
either the Critic’s Circle or the Pu
litzer Committee as the best play of
the year and Heywood Broun dis
liked it. There is really only one
thing against "End of Summer”
That is its preoccupation with the
problems of a pair of singularly un
pleasant jitney Marxes trying to horn
in on the exchequer of a fine old
family under the cloak of saving the
world. It’s old hat thematically, but
it’s worth anybody’s $3.30 to hear
the Behrman dialogue
There’s “Boy Meets Girl”—a
chuckly spoof at Hollywood. There
are many laughs and some deft char
acterization. But does anyone in the
house remember “Once In a Life
time?" That was the same tune
only, I suspect, somewhat louder and
funnier.
I recall “May Wine,” a pleasant
operetta which even a so-so season
ought to be able to bring forth at
least once. And “Call It A Day,” a
moderately true and moving play fujl
of believable characters. And “First
Lady,” which is acute, if rather fe
line. satire. And “Co-Respondent
Unknown,” rewarding farce with the
best portrait of a taxi dance hall girl
extant. And of course, “The Chil
dren’s Hour.” a holdover; and “To
bacco Road,” a survival from the late
Mesozoic.
But w'hat's al) the shooting about 9
Has everyone forgotten seasons
w-hich produced truly memorable
plays? Does no one remember “The
Front Page,” and “Coquette,” and
Meteor- and "The Second Man”
and ‘ The Last Mile” and—but the
list is endless. Think back, profes
sors, think back'
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
By CLARK KINNAIRD
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation )
Thursday, May 21: Ascension, a
national holiday in 40 countries.
Morning stars: Venus, Saturn, Uranus,
Jupiter. Evening star: Mercury, Mars.
Neptune, Zodiac sign Gemini.
Scanning the skies: The oceans act
as equalizers of land climates, espe
cially on islands and lands freely
opento prevailing winds from the sea,
presnting extremes of heat and cold.
Since climate is the average of all
weather, it is obvious that oceans
must also influence the weather of
the continents.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Lazaro Cardenas, b. 1895, president
of Mexico. Nenyon Nicholson, b.
1894, dramatist—Sailor. Beware; The
Barker, etc. Richard Bennett, b. 1873,
actor father of actresses Constance,
Joan and Barbara Bennett. Dr.
Richard Cabot, b. 1868, famed physi
cian, researcher and author. Dorothy
Tree, b. 1909, actress.
♦ ♦ ♦
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
May 21, 1527—Philip of Bourbon
was bom, the future Philip, n, of
Spain. When he was 41, he signed
the most stupendous death warrant
in all history. It ordered the deaths
of all the persons in the Netherlands
who refused to accept Spanish rule—
-3,000,000! The Dutch had set up a
republic, which the Inquisition de
cred was a heresy punishable by
death, and gave Philip authority to
destroy them.
He actually attempted to carry
out the mass execution, and thou
sands were slain by his army, caus
ing, a 40-year war from which Dutch
emerged victorious, with their repub
lip recognized.
(It was from histories of the Dutch
republic that the founders of our na
tion got the idea for a republic here.)
♦ ♦ ♦
May 21, 1688—Alexander Pope was
born in London, a prodigy who grew
to greatness. His couplets and his
criticism began to influence the litera
ture of his time at 17, yet he hired
“ghosts" to write for him! A “ghost”
even had a hand in Pope’s classic,
the versified Essay on Man, which
has the classic lines:
Know then, thyself, presume not God
to scan;
The proper study of mankind is man.
May 21, 1832 —The first national
convention of the Democratic party,
as th- Democratic party, opened at
Baltimore to nominate its buss, An
drew Jackson, for a second term, as
president. He had been elected to his
first term as a Republican!
Here was born the famous “two
thirds” rule that has been the in
surmountable barrier for many a
Democratic hopeful: “Resolved, that
two-thirds of the whole number of
votes in the convention shall be
necessary to constitute a choice.”
30 Years Ago Today—Louis Henry
P-.-lman became a great benefactor
of motorists. He applied for the pa ;
tent which he received on the first
automobile demountable tire-carrying
rim.
May 21, 1927- -A new world hero
stepped from the plane in which he
had flown alone from New York and
announced, “I am Charles A. Lind
bergh.”
But Lindbergh was an assumed
name! His grandfather, Ola Manson,
who was a member of Swedish par
liament, assumed the name of Lind
bergh when he came to the U. S.
FIRST WORLD DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The tide
turned against the Germans at Ver
dun, a tide of blood. French counter
attackers regained a footing on Fort
Douaumont in a furious attack which
brought about the recapture of the
stron;-<old two days later. Simultane
ously they regained the Haudromont
quarries, east of the Meuse-
But the same day Germans broke
through in the north, taking trenches
from the British on Vimy Ridge.
(To be continued)
• •
IT’S TRUE
The English town Puncknowle is
pronounced Punnel, and the correct
way to say Ulgham is Uffam.
One baby or small child is aban
doned by parents or relatives every
15 minutes in the United States.
None of a British peer’s servants
may be arrested for any crime except
a felony while Farliamont is sitting
and 20 days before and after any
session.
An argument seriously advanced
in British Parliament against the con
struction of railways was that manu
facture of rails probably would ex
haust iron supplies and deprive in
dustries of the material.
Passengers in an airplane 10.000
feet up may see the sun rise 10 min
utes earlier than persons below on the
ground.
Eleven per cent of all the first
babies are born to mothers under 18;
most mothers have their first babies
between 18 and 24.
You’re wrong if you believe that
baseball or football is the most popu
lar sport in the country. Basketball
outdrew all other sports during 1935.
UNGUARDED
! The Mistress of the Roses
Is haply far away.
And through her gwelca
What strange intruders stray.
See on its rustic spindles
The sundrop’s amber fire!
And the goldenrod enkindles
The embers on its spire.
The dodder’s shining tangle
From the meadow brook steals In,
Where in this shadowed angle
The pale lacemakers spin.
Here's Black-Eyed Susan weeping
Into exotic air,
And Bouncing Bet comes creeping
Back to her old grave parterre.
Now in this pleasant weather—
So sweetly reconciled—
They dwell and dream together,
The kin of court and wild.
—Ada Foster Murray