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PAGE FOUR •Siiiiiinnul'.Wlliiiliittiinri 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 Mie Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 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 Jr- ■ - - 1 -- 11 11 - SPEAKER “JOE” BYRNS. The death of Joseph W. Byrns, Speaker of the House of Representatives, brings to an eventful close the life of a dis*- tinguished statesman and a man beloved by political friend and foe alike. Known throughout the country as “Uncle Joe,” this leading figure in both the political and industrial life of the United States had few equals in the study of masterful and artful political intrigue. From his early life, his was a career that followed the paths of political endeavor until he reached the pinnacle he oc cupied at the time of his sudden demise. Showing to the world his quiet but unobtrusive manner of accomplishing feats which would have ordinarily balked the best efforts of others, “Uncle ti Joe,’* possessed the happy faculty of being held in respect by his enemies and being loved by his friends. Always known as a fighter who gave nor took no odds, his many political opponents have always indicated that he was a fair fighter who never took advantage of any person either in private or public life. Such was the ideals which placed him in a niche to be immortalized in the hearts of our country-men. Marked by the distinguishing characteristic of restoring order ; out of congressional chaos, I?yrns continued his path of political maneuvering while in the Speaker’s chair in the House of Rep resentatives. Always playing a leading part seemed to be in the make-up of the tall, heavy-browed figure, who commanded respect from rich and poor alike. “Uncle Joe” is dead, but his memory lives on and on, never to be forgotten as a man who studied and lived his ideals as he himself would have others do. Always gracious and understand ing to the extreme, when the gentle notes of the last taps sound and echo from the rolling hills surrounding his burial place, it can truly be said that he was a man. OUR READERS’ FORUM | Editor The Savannah Daily Times: State Auditor Tom Wisdom has just completed and published an audit of the books and records of John B. Wilson, secretary of state, for the year 1935, and finds the same “in excellent condition.” There are certain special taxes, such as professional taxes, registra tion fees, etc., the collection of which by law is vested in the department of state, and the proceeds of which are allocated to that department for maintenance, as far ae they will go. Auditor Wisdom’s report shows that these collections in 1935 amounted to $67,032.15, and that the total expendi tures of the department for all pur poses were $81,215.25. e The department of state has four divisions. The constitutional diviaion in 1935 spent $16,260.53. The archives end history division spent $6,726.54. The securities division spent $9,513.63, and the examining board division epent in office aalares, maintenance, etc., $20,202.18. The balance of the total expenditures went to pay the per-dlem and traveling expenses of the members of th fourteen different examining boards. In concluding his rport on the de partment, Auditor Wisdom said: “The records of the department are kept In excellent condition, reflect ing a true and accurate account of all financial transactions.” John B. Wilson, secretary of state, was secretary to Governor Clifford Walker during a part of his admin istration, and was secretary to Gov ernor L. G. Hardman during his four years. Mr. Wilson was elected secre tary of state in 1930 and has served continuously since then without op position . J. C. WILSON, ATLANTA, GA. Editor The Savannah Daily Times: As one of your first subscribers I want to congratulate your paper as being one of Savannah’s and Chat ham county’s most valuable assets. We taxpayers ask you and expect your guidance as to who are the right men for public office. The good you have accomplished In the short time you have been a dally paper has made the taxpayer of this city one of your official family. I am sure your crusade for a bigger and better city, also one with proper government, will be a huge success. The taxpayers and citizens of Savannah are with you in your fight. There are many sore needs which should be brought to light and as a true Savannahian I am glad The Daily Times came into existence, and will bring these com plaints before the public. Keep up your good work and the people of Sa vannah and Chatham county will support you in every move. AN IRRITATED TAXPAYER. Editor The Daily Times: An article in a recent magazine on "Visiting” has attracted considerable attention. Visiting is nothing new, but according to the writer it is an art, and the foundation of sociable ness and good fellowship. In this day when the individual thinks and Works for himself, and leaves the other fellow, the writer insista that a revival is needed. Street conversa tions, chats at the drug store, are pleasant and help pass away the time, but it is the visit at the home that counts most. In this way people are brought closer together, they learn of each others problems, and the way is paved for future pleasure, provided the visits are timely, good mannered and cheerful. A visit to one in grief or sorrow and a tactful show of interest Is worth its weight in gold. Most men feel kindly toward oth ers, but they are absorbed in their own affairs, and often know little about those they like best. Social visiting makes room for confidence, makes room for intimate conversa tion, and usually both the visitor and the visited are helped. More sociableness means more friendships, and more friendships mean more contentment and greater happiness. KYL6 JOHNSON. - All Os Us - I BELIEVE in evolution and so do you. You may say that you do not, but in fact you believe profoundly in it ... or you are profoundly unhappy. I do not mean that you believe in it precisely as Charles Darwin did (or as some people distortedly be lieve Darwin did). Not in the sense that we are “descended from mon keys” or from some older brother of the monkey. No in that way . . . But you do believe in a growth that goes on from age to age, from genera tion to generation. And you can’t get away from that belief. It’s part of you. It’s hard for me to believe that the Creator of all this, this earth with its mountains and its seas, Its leap ing tigers and shrinking violets, its men and women and little boys and girls put it all together just as it is today . . . It’s easier for me to be lieve that this Power created His earth as a GROWING THING, mov ing toward completion and perfec tion. That would be more fun for him and I believe even the Creator would not despise fun. But even though we believe in evo luion, we are inclined to think of it as something that’s behind us or far ahead of us, and we forget that if evolution is a part of us—it is always with us NOW. And whatever we do now, what ever we think and feel and dream, is a part of our evolution. We are a link, not a recess, in the long process of growing and becoming. Keep that in mind and it holds up back from despair, it pulls us up from pessimism, lifts us when we fall, supports us when we weaken. . . . It transforms burdens into respon sibilities, gives significance to drudg ery, changes agonies into growing pains. Believe always in that kind of evo lution, here and now, and you carry within you a faith that is a living force for happiness. “AWAKE BELOVED, ’TIS MORN!” <4 / '' \ 'll -WORLD AT A GLANCE— A BRITISH ANALYSIS By An Observer Returned From U. S. OF F. D. R.’S CHANCES By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) It is interesting to read the com ment in foreign papers on the Amer ican political situation. The London Times has had the most dietailed account, the gist of which appears herewith. All that you read from here on is from the London Times: Sir Arthur Willert, in the course of a detailed analysis of the presiden tial election campaign in the United States writes: “Nearly everybody who possesses or earns any appreciable amount of money seems to be against Mr. Roosevelt. The president, one is given to understand, is a reckless radical and a danger to the existing order of society. There is much gos sip about his health, in the sense that he is on the verge of nervous or physical collapse, or both. “All this need not be taken over seriously, even with reference to the presidential election next autumn. ‘What you have been hearing,’ said a famous veteran of American public life, ‘will embitter more than it will influence the contest. It comes from the class that owns dinner jackets. Go beyond it to the places where the majority of the votes lurk and you will discover a different sentiment. I believe that the president will get back, though with a smaller vote than in 1932.’ SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK _ . by R. J SCOTT ifigl If n w\A /« Pf •. {/ V\v \ Cjsf ..w ’ wv W*’ <7 W 1 CJR »’ll wßp • 11 sa==g MW A I I vfck \ IT fl Wear /[HE COLLARS IN FRANCE A\ ENGLISH Horn - Broad Wooden collars m IS NOT ENGLISH » ARE PUT AROUND THE NOR ,1 " AHoR -H- NECKS OF The GEESE To wl W* tS A wood- KeepYhem from Pushing IL W,MD instrument WAy Through OF french Tie hedgerows ONA ITALIAN STAMPS PICTURE Ml ORGIN NEIGHBORS FARM VIRGIL'S oF_AENEIP, s*26 - copyright »W 6. centrai. press association SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 4, 1936 “A long tour of the United States makes me ready to risk the forecast that, barring the unforseeable, the polls in November wil prove my friend to have been right. And, what is more important, I found this to be the growing opinion this spring even of some of those journalists and poli ticians who in public most loudly decry the government.” • * • Fanning Interests “Mr. Roosevelt does not spare him self. He is at work in the morning early. After an informal dinner the remark, ‘I don’t know what you peo ple are going to do, but I must get on with my work’ may well preface his good night to his guests. Indeed, one could not help feeling that one of the most valid criticisms brought against him is that he centers too much in his own hands. But respon sibility rests lightly upon his nerves. He sleeps well. His eyes are clear, His complexion is that of a well-ex ercised, eupeptic man. He patronizes regularly the swimming pool at the White House. He escapes ocasionally on a fishing trip, if possible in south ern waters. His interests are wide and varied outside his official pre occupations. Unlike President Wil son, but like Theodore Roosevelt, he is accessible and has many personal friends. “Besides being a landed proprietor on the Hudson, where his family es- tate lies, Mr. Roosevelt is a farmer in Georgia and takes an active inter est In the large hydropathic establish ment he has built up in the same state around a spring that he himself has found beneficial. He collects naval and sea prints and pictures, many of which are on the walls of the White House. He has a keen eye for the oddities of life and, again like his cousin and predecessor, has an astonishing memory for facts and pertinent stories.” “And if Mr. Roosevelt knows how to relax in private, he carries easily the public state of his office. One does not notice, when he enters the room on a ceremonial occasion, that he is helped by a stick or by the arm of an aide-de-camp. One sees only six feet of forceful manhood, a mas sive head, a handsome, cheerful, dig nified face set upon muscled neck and solid shoulders. He is a fine speaker, and his use of the wireless has become proverbially disconcert ing to his opponents. He is a mas ter of political appeal as no other president has been except (if the parallel may once more be drawn) Theodore Roosevelt. “In this he is helped by Mrs. Roosevelt, who is a Roosevelt by birth as well as by marriage, her father having been a brother of Theodore. She, too, understands pub licity, and practices it to a greater extent than the wives of other presi dents have done. She writes regu larly in the press; she talks on the wireless; she lectures. She is criti cized for this. But one is inclined to think that she knows the practical side of her business better than her critics, and tht she, also has the dinner-jacketless vote pretty well with her.” —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— FARLEY’S INEPT REMARK Terming Landon “A Prairie State Nonentity’* PLEASES REPUBLICANS (Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, June 4. Post master General James A. Farley’s ears must burn as Democrats poli ticians criticize, in strict confidence, his recent reference to Gov. Alf M. Landon as a Prairie state nonentity. Calling the governor a nonentity might not have been so bad. The implication, however, was that anyone who lives in the prairie state region, is, ipso factor a nonentity. Anyway, that is the interpretation which Republican spokesmen in con gress are placing upon the P. M. G.’s remark, and Democrats are conscious that it is not an interpretation cal culated to be at all pleasing to Prairie state voters. Maybe Farley intended his slur to apply only to Kansas, but Kansas isn’t the only prairie state by any means. Eight or ten of them are so describable and Democratic candi dates, from President Roosevelt on down, may need, all of them on elec tion day. • * * Too Eastern? Moreover, as the Democrats see it, the Republicans themselves could not have chosen a more Democratically damaging individual than Farley to speak slightingly of the prairies. Democratic politicians all along have been uneasily aware that the P. M. G. as chairman of the Demo cratic national committee, is too em phatically eastern. And he represents a president who virtually is a Man hattan suburbanite. They know, too, that many New York city folk are regarded in the west' as ignorant of the fact that there is any United States beyond the Hudson river. Now it is implied by Farley that MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK, June 4—Rando musing: A holiday in New York is always a mystery . . . Throughout the day the streets are silent and deserted almost, as Addis Ababa two hours before the Italinas’ arrival . . . But after nightfall a ferment of act ivity begins: the theaters and night clubs boil and groan with crowds . . . Where do all these people come from so suddenly? ... If they went out of town for the weekend they wouldn’t obviously, be back for the night’s fes tivities—and if they were visitors they’d be more in evidence during the day ... So what? ... So I stroll abroad in the daylight silences and flee to my cubbyhole by night . . . Sorry to have been out of town and missed Ted Saucier’s wedding recep tion . . . Probably a medley of big names present, for he knows them all ... He is, incidentally, the only press agent of my time whose nup tials got attention from the society writers and the only one, to boot, who can stir abroad in frock coat and spats without seeming absurd. . . . • ♦ • The Broadway cellars hum with a dismaying rumor: that Haile Selas sie may tour the American vaudeville houses at SIO,OOO per week ... I in cline to doubt it . . . New York merri ment dies the death at 3 A. M. of a Sunday morning . . . For the first time in many months I had occasion to poke about during these ghostly hours ... An insistent visitor from Hollywood declared that certainly they didn't roll up the sidewalks at 3 here—the veritable shank of the even ing . . . But such proved to be the case, now that even the innocuous little restaurants of German York ville, which used to serve beer to gar rulous patrons into the dawn, have lost their licenses for this crime . . . So to ham and eggs at Childs, where, for the first time since collegiate days, I saw a tipsy lady hurl a platter of flapjacks at a startled waiter and score a bulls’-eye . . . But such h’gh jinks have somehow lost their tang and I was glad to hie to my cot . . . Jeeves, the wheelchair! « * « The arrival of the British sea mon ster, the Queen Mary, evokes memor ies of last summer when I tripped to America on the maiden venture of the Normandie . . . Some of these recollections are merry, some sad . . . The whole junket could not escape beclouding because of the tragic death of Harry Acton, best known of the ship-news reporters, during the voyage East to board the Normandie . . . Now thinking back, the thing that popped my eyes widest was the huge emerald worn in the turban qf the Maharajah of Kapurthala . . . And Lucius Boom er, the hotel czar, sending a 500 word radiogram without benefit of press rate or code . . . and, oh yes, the dogs barking on the hurricane deck and interfering with the broadcast ing activities which went on there day and night near the kennels . . . ♦ ♦ ♦ Fashion note: a black coat for a tuxedo is as rare these summer nights in New York as a white one used to be . . . And the men are going in, actually, for gayly colored vests . . . I saw one in the Weylin the other evening which glowed a bright scarlet . . . Ballyhoo note: the electric signs grow more and more elaborate, and there is always a movie amateur or two grinding away at that dazzling gum ad flare at the corner of 44th and Broadway . . . But the stilt walk ers ,once legion along the Rialto, have become almost extinct ... I wonder why . . . But the sidewalk ad I miss most is the old gentlemen with the Southern Cul’nel mustaches who used to walk gravely up and down, flashing on and off an illuminated starched rest, which extolled the merits of a cigar and later a brand of gin. this guess is correct—the administra tion does consider the prairies of no consequence. • • • Ffoolsh Os course it is foolish to say that the administration looks down on the prairie states; it really is very re spectful of the west. Nevertheless, the P. M. G. gave offense. Newspaper comment and congres sional speeches prove it. E*ut the Republicans are delighted. They expect it to make plenty of votes for them—perhaps not enough to win with, but enough to be very helpful. And the cream of it is that it was a Democratic contribution. * * * Aided Landon Another things: Farley is regarded as having prac tically cinched Landons nomination at Cleveland. He recognized, in effect, that the Kansas governor is the Republican candidate whom the Rooseveltians fear. Farley did him more good, than could have been done by any amount of pro-Landon propaganda. * ♦ * Another Error Farley also took an indirect, unin tentional jab at the Rooseveltian policy of experimentation. Landon, he said, would be an ex periment . Considering the fashion in which President Rooeevelt has insisted upon the experimental course in dealing with the depression, it is difficult to think of a more inept suggestion. « * • Farley Slipping? P. M. G. Farley generally has been called as a shrewd politicial manager. Democrats are beginning to won der whether he isn’t slipping. The Republicans’ difficulty is that they haven’t any substitute to offer. The Democrats seem to them as sailable but the Republicans haven’t any shock troops. Not In the News BY WORTH CHENEY (Central Press Association) By WORTH CHENEY Geologists, in their search for specimens of earth formations, have a profession that often is dangerous. Unfortunately for them, they cannot carry on their researches in the back yard, but must devote much study to formations found in canyons, cav erns, mines and other such broken sections of land. It readily can be seen how climbing about a cave or deep crevice can have more than a mild element of danger. We give this explanation as an in troduction to a story about a' well known geologist who flirted danger ously with death and lived to laugh about it. The geologist was studying rock formations in Montana, an: ?ne day decided to make a trip down an old, abandoned mine. Securing a rope ladder he tied one end to a post and ' dropped the other end into the open shaft. Then, taking a torch and some tools, he began his descent to the bottom. He had gone down what seemed to him only a short distance when he felt the ladder slipping. Dropping his torch and tools, he snatched at a tiny ledge in the shaft wall, caught it and hung suspended over the dark abyss below. His cries for help brought no an swer from the dim opening of the shaft far above him. Meanwhile the strain on his fingers, barely gripping the short ledge, grew worse. He knew he could not hold on much longer. A man of courage, he pon dered the situation; his fate seemed assured —certain death at the bottom of the mine. He resigned himself to that fate, loosened his grip and dropped. But his fall was halted suddenly, for six inches below he struck solid ground—the bottom of the mine! Fortunate? Yes. But think of the terror that man underwent for a scant six inches! • « • The best treatment for burglars we have heard for a long time is re ported by an Ohio reader. A dentist in a small Ohio town had his office and equipment in the front part of his house. Late one night a burglar entered the office through a window, and without knowing it, set off an alarm which aroused the dentist. Having good presence of mind, the burglar knew his cue when the den tist .revolver in hand, stepped into the room. The intruder clapped one hand to his cheek and said: “Sorry to bother you this way, sir, but I’m looking for a dentist.’’ “Yes,” retorted the dentist, not fooled by the act. “Well, I am one. Sit right down here.” There was nothing for the burglar to do but to sit down. He was promptly strapped in by the dentist, who extracted six teeth without an anesthetic before calling the police. The Grab Bag ONE-MINUTE TEST 1. Which of the following Ameri can national holidays is also cele brated by the British: Christmas. Eas ter, Thanksgiving day and Independ ence day? 2. Give the titles of the (a) nomi nal, (b) actual heads of the Canadian government. 3. At what city did Cornwallis sur render to George Washington? HINTS ON ETIQUETTE A hostess should eat slowly enough so that she does not finish her meal before all of her guests are through eating. If she happens to finish first, Today is the Day By CLABK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Thursday, June 4; Morning stars: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter. Evening stars: Mars, Nep tune. Full moon tomorrow. Zodiac sign: Gemini. Scanning the skies: Human sensa tions of temperature are affected by air temperature, radiation from the sun and terrestrial objects, humidity and wind, thus a thermometer can not indicate the degree of human comfort. Widely different combina tions of these external factors pro duce the lame feeling of warmth or coolness. As you all know, hot dry air feels cooler than humid air of the same temperature. * * * NOTABLE NATIVITIES Frank Nathan Buchman, b. 1878, Y. M. C. A. secretary who became leader of the “Oxford religious move ment . . . Fontaine Fox, b. 1884, cartoonist, Toonerville Trolley, etc. . . . The Keys sisters, Mary, Mona, Roberta and Loota, of Hollis, Okla., b. 1915, oldest quadruplets known to be living in the U. S. • * * WEDDING ANNIVERSARY Fifth: Anne U. “Flfi” Stillman, 57, and Fowler McCormick, 38. * * * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 4, 1624—James Herriot was wed to Elizabeth Josey at Bermond sey, Surrey. This is memorable 300 years later only because the bride groom was one of 40 living children of his father. Another vital statistic appropriate to this date: on June 4, 1866, Cle mentine Pernon, aged eight, gave birth to a normal child in Puis Close, France. ♦ ♦ * June 4, 1784—The balloon Le Gus tave ascended from Lyons, France, with Count de Laurenein and Mme. Thible, wife of a waxworker, and gave the latter the historical distinc tion of being the first woman to make a flight. She volunteered after the Count was unable to find a man willing to risk his neck. They reach ed 9,000 feet, remained up 45 min utes. Mme. Thible was so moved by the occasion that she sang an opera tic selection to the crowd below— the first broadcast. • * ♦ June 4, 1814—The British Admiral ty declared it the government’s duty “to discourage the employment of steam vessels as . . . their introduc tion was calculated to strike a blow at the naval supremacy of the Em pire!” ♦ ♦ A June 4 in State Histories: 1792 First Kentucky legislature met at Lexington and chose Frankfort as capital. . . . 1812—Congress created Missouri territory out of Louisiana purchase. . . . 1845—Mexico declar ed war against U. S. over Texas. . . . 1912—Nation’s first minimum wage law was enacted in Massachu setts. , * . • * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—A Russian of fensive was begun on a front 250 miles long in Colhynia, Galicia and Bukowina, a development which brought the attention of the Central Powers with a jerk to the eastern front. Their anxiety was made all the greater by realization that their own defensive in the west faced failure. The Verdun undertaking had cost heavy sacrifices. On the Somme an English-French attacking force threatened disaster. The offensive of the Austro-Hungarians against the Italians in the Venetian mountains, had been unproductive. The turn of events called for the most momen tous conference since the war’s be ginnings in Berlin. At their own conference in March, Alies had fixed July 1 for the open ing of a general offensive on all fronts. The Russian attack was not an anticipation of this, it was a move to relieve the hard-pressed Ital ians by forcing diversion of Austro- Hungarian reserves to the east The Russians had saved Paris, now they must save Italy. (To be continued) You’re Telling Me? British government reports the English consumed 127,000,000 pairs of boots and shoes last year. A rec ord. Probably due to the fact they have more to kick about. ♦ ♦ * Sour cream, says our household hint department editor, will re move rust stain from white fab ric. And your appetite for cof fee, too. • * • Huge sale of calendars is reported in Scotland this year. Os course, of course, in 1936 there’s an extra day. • * * When a man begins seriously studying his family tree he often proves to be just the sap. * * * American wine may now be labeled with foreign nimes but don’t you 100-percenters worry—they may still have that good (?) old (??) Ameri can tang. • • * ‘ Baseball men lack real hu mor,” moans a sports columnist. And the next day we read: Yan kees 25, Athletics 2. Want to bet I can’t name two of six most popular songs now aired on the radio? Pay up! ‘‘You." "Lost.” she should nibble on a piece of bread or something until everyone is through. • * * WORDS OF WISDOM I fear three newspapers more thafi a hundred thousand bayonets.—Na poleon I.