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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 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah. Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... ..... ... ... 7.5 C Six Months ..... .... 3.75 Three Months ...... 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 £ LET’S MAKE REAL PROGRESS. We talk' and write about bringing people to Savannah, that class which we are pleased to call tourists, as also that other class, of far more real worth to the community, those who would take up permanent residence and become a part of us. While talking and writing, our actions seem to be more definitely de voted to providing more convenient avenues for those who sim ply to reach some point far beyond our limits and have no in terest in our city. The Daily Times is for progress along every line of endeav or, including good streets and roads. As we see it, progress, like charity, should begin at home. Our efforts and energies should be concentrated upon the projects that most immediately con cern the vital interests of the people of Savannah and Chatham county, rather than those who are mere transitory pursuers of pleasure. 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 request, but demand that our fair share of the vast sums to be spent by the federal, state, county and city, be devoted to proj ects that will build for permanancy and anticipate the progress which shall be ours far into the future. The federal and state governments, as well as ourselves hold great interests in Tybee Beach. From a civic as well as a military point of view, fine roads to and from the island is one of the greatest assets we could have. Not only is the present road in 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. 1 L 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 <s>— MJ 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? y■ r ' 7^—4 l X «W ? ? ir Ww?<> \ \ JF JFV oVlagk ... pa v \feMwr* 17- \Wfe Wlhl& \ n ' wy» TijMlpffiSly -1/ 1 Wh \l % —r=— VUfe > ’ y i x»a3 I 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. » * ♦ 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. i ™ IXi ySwoKv 1 11 * u i .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- 1 i rww —w —■ I f'7 I afe ■ I » IB i-X X?- ' ’ V':' 1 ' J'' \. 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