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DROUGHT FARMER’S ENEMY
1 < Tt to needless to state the suffering that the farmers who are
freddents of the stricken drought areas are going through. Their’s
is a lot which is based entirely upon the moods of nature itself,
and if the climatic conditions are such that there is no relief
from their apparent natural problems, then it is they who bear
the brunt of the burden. Everywhere, farmers and those people
who are watching the present situation with increased alarm,
are offering fervent prayers for the salvation of their crops and
the grazing lands which go to make up their living, but day by
day with their faces lifted on high in search of one tiny cloud
which might foretell the coming of a shower to spell salvation
for them and their earthly ends, they stand mute with the reali
zation that the skies are bright and blue with no possible hint of
rain.
Georgia alone has suffered untold thousands of dollars
worth of damage which possibly will ruin the entire year’s crops
for those who make their living by farming. It is impossible for
city people to conceive the untold agony that these people whose
farms dot the landscapes in the many counties are going through.
When the city dwellers want water, they hasten to one of the
many hydrants in their home and turn it on and it is supplied
to them by one of the many water pumps which go to make up
the city’s water system, but to the people in the rural sections
of a state, they have to wait for Mother Nature to supply them
with the life-saving fluid.
Let’s think for them, and in one of our quiet moments offer
a prayer for those who need rain, as God alone can supply it.
’ SUMMER TIME IN SAVANNAH.
The weather that we have been experiencing the last few
days is real, honest-to-goodness summer time. Our every move
exemplifies the true Southern spirit when the “dog days” come
to town. Nervously watching the clock to see if we will have
time to play at least nine holes at the course or if we will have
time to to the dock and make a few,casts in the hopes
(that the bass which got away last summer might be lurking in
(he cool depths. Everything points to hot weather’s arrival.
Everything that a summer enthusiast needs is right here in
our laps. Golf courses, fishig grounds, tennis courts, boating,
baseball, anything that the average office worker needs to get
out in the open and have a good time is his for the taking. At
Tybee there is the beach with its broad, glittering expanse of
white sand, on which one might play, and as per custom, get
that coat of tan. If you would like to spend the day instead
roaming around getting some of Colonial scenery you can jump
in your car and drive back to Wormsloe where you can see every
thing from old fort ruins, fairly teeming with history, to beds
of beautiful flowers which have been cultivated with a passion
the last few years.
If you get tired of that, then climb back in the car and drive
out to the airport and take a joy ride in one of the luxury
equipped ships always in attendance on the field. Nothing is
more exhilarating than a hop in the clouds with nothing but
Mother Earth below you with her patterns of rivers and roads
which go to make up an immense checker-board. Tired of that?
Well, we’ll land and then run back for a shore dinner at any
one of the many delightful spots dotting the highways in Chat
ham county. First there is crab stew, then shrimp salad, then
a nice trout fried brown with sprigs of parsley decorating the
platter, then fried shrimp with a baked crab thrown in for good
measure. There’s nothing like it ’ Getting kinda late now and
think that we had better start going back.
Verily, summer time has arrived!
OUR READERS’ FORUM
Editor The Times:
I would appreciate if you would
give me space in your valuable paper,
ao that I can inform the public of
the unfortunate conditions, and the
dangerous conditions that exist in our
city.
I have noticed in numerous occa
sions that the trucks pulling a large
number of refus? cars through the
city allows these cars to sway back
and forth. In my judgment this is
caused by having too many cars
coupled to one truck. These cars sway
cut into the street and are liable
to do serious damage to automobiles
and passengers.
I Would appreciate it if you would
call this to the attention of the prop
er city authorities so that they may
correct same.
UNCLE JAKE
Editor, The Daily Times:
Insurance statisticians handed out
the announcement yesterday that
while there has been a decrease in
auto accidents Involving drunken
drivers within the past five months,
there has been an Increase in the
number of auto accidents Involving
tipsy pedestrians.
The report comes from the Travel
ers’ Insurance Company’s statistical
department. The statistics al:o prov
ed there was an eight per cent drop
in all types of motor vehicle fatali
ties between Jan. 1 and June 1, 1936.
Deaths were estimated at 11,750 for
the first five months of this year, as
compared with 12,765 for the same
months of 1935.
The accident death toll decrease
was ’ the first favorable showing for
any similar period since 1932 when,
because of economic conditions, high
way travel decreased sharply.
It just goes to show that safety
campaigns pay.
J. J. KEATING.
Edeitor, The Times:
I’ve a grievance, too, I would like
to bring to the attention of your
paper. And do you know what it is?
Well, i’ll tell you. It's about this
confounded swinging door menace
with which this town seems to be
sorely afliicted. Nc, I’m not referring
to the sa.oon problem. I mean swing
ing doors, that and nothing more.
I’ve almost had my blasted head
knocked off several times in passing
certain grocery stores in Savannah
that have screen doors which open
outward. You’ll be walking along
peacefully and all of a sudden some
body busts out of one of these places
and you have to jump to keep one
of these doors from flooring you. I'm
tired of it, I tell you. I’m an old
man, close onto 75 and I want to die
in bed —I don’t want to have my head
cracked by these thoughtless fools who
haven't sense enough to look where
they are going.
GRANDPA.
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
When a girl of high school age in
vites friends of a party in her home
she writes each an Informal note and
extends the invitation in her mother’s
name as well as her own.
WORDS OF WISDOM
The more virtuous any man is, the
lees easily do:s he suspect others to
be vicious.—Cicero.
“THE LEAFY MONTH OF JUNE”
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QUEER WALL STREET
Still Denouncing Regulation and F. D. R.
SEEKS REGULATION!
WALL STREET is peculiar. That
is nothing new. But it seems to be
turning more peculiar.
It shouts its head off against regu
lation. Its vituperation against Presi
dent Roosevelt is unparalled. In the
next breath, however, it demands
more regulation. And it speaks with
pride of the great upward turn of
business.
As a matter of fact, Wall Street
does not trust itself. It is like a mean
tempered child, needing a parent’s
guilding hand—and protection.
The particular regulation now de
sired by Wall Street is this: it de
sires that industrial corporations be
forced to issue monthly statements
similar to those issued by the railroad
companies under compulsion of the
Interstate Commerce commission.
Statements of the majority of com
panies are not understandable and
usually are full of hidden deals and
implications.
“Even if a man buys into a corpora
tion for the purpose of holding his
stock for years, he is entitled to fre
quent and regular reports," remarks
the New York Sun's financial column.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, JUNE 7, 1936
Democrats are rumored ready to
answer the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin
radio priest, who remarked he was
ready to og over to “a renovated Re
publican party standard bearer’’ in
whom he could “ repose complete con
fidence”. The priest added, “Other
wise the re-election of Roosevelt is
inevitable, with the result that our
liberty will be likewise exploited.”
The Democratic response: “Can
you name one liberty that has been
exploited or curtailed? We have been
trying to free people—and have been
balked at every turn. And the people
know that.”
Incidentally, that probably will be
the burden of the Democratic cam
paign.
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Traveling
All eastern railroads have had to
reduce their passenger fares, upon
order of the Interstate Commerce
commission, as of June 1. Every east
ern railroad opposes that order— ex
cept the Baltimore & Ohio, and its
allied Philadelphia & Reading and
Central Railroad of New Jersey.
Yet—the bets are in Wall Street—
every one of the railroads will bene
fit largely.
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It is the bus lines that have to
look closely. They have had to re
duce their fares below the new low
coach fares of the rail lines.
The opposing railroads have made
the reductions like bad boys. They
have eliminated virtually all round
trip and excursion rates. That still
gives the bus lines some edge in many
cases.
Reduced pas-enger rates have been
in successful operation for some time
on southern and western roads. And
those roads continue to sell reduced
roundtrip tickets.
Rail lines badly need increased
passenger travel. They need it espe
cially in view of the fact that then
old equipment is wearing out and they
must earn enough to replace it with
new streamlined lightweight equip
ment to hold old business and to re
duce operating costs.
The public likes the new stream
liners. The new trains are, indeed, a
revelation.
Belief exists that the famous Twen
tieth Century Limited of the New
York Central, between New York and
Chicago, will become a streamliner of
super-deluxe pattern before the year
is out. Just what the Pennsylvania
would do with its competitive Broad
way Limited, in that event. remaLis
to be seen. It, also, probably would
be renewed.
PROVE IT
Hostess: We’ve heard a great deal
about you.
Prominent Politician (absently):
Maj be so, but you can’t prove it.
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
BLACK LEGION NIPPED
Before Its Doctrine Became Widespread
WASHINGTON BELIEVES
1900 S. Street
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, June 7.—Director
J. Edgar Hoover’s G-man subdivision
of the federal justice department pro
fesses to be taking no present part
in investigating the so-called Black
Legion because it has not yet become
apparent that the Legion is an inter?
state organization.
I surmise, however, that the G-folk
are keeping in close touch with the
Michigan authorities’ inquiry into the
activites and scope of the recently
revealed terroristic society.
Stories of the movement’s propor
tions probably are eraggerated or
there would have been earlier leaks
concerning it. Still, it is rumored to
have enfiltered from the Wolverine
state into adjoining commonwealths,
and it would not be like the G-oper
atives altogether to have ignored re
ports of the ixiMence of so danger
ous a body.
Not Equal To K. K. K.
The Legion evidently k in process
of being nipped some whatdn the bud,
anyway.
It certainly has gained no such
headway as the now practically, if
not quite defunct, Ku Klux klan,
which it seems strongly to resemble,
and of which perhaps it is an imita
tion.
The Klan attained a strength suf
ficient to make it politically very pow
erful—to elect a few senators and a
considerable number of representa
tives, not to mention many local offi
cials of smaller caliber. Newspapers
in a large section of the country hesi
tated to critize it; some maybe even
sympathized with it. In slmrt, it was
difficult to combat, it was so power
ful.
Members Tired of It
The K. K. K., briefly, was a malig-
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, June 6. —Giving You
the Run-Around: Visitors to the
Qv.een Mary during that behemoth’s
tarry here are very cross, I am told,
because they weren’t able to make
off with as many ash-trays, towels,
glasses and even silverware as they
usually filch for souvenirs. . . . The
guards were too vigilant. . . . Turn
ing a mob of gapers loose on any boat
is equivalent to letting Vandals into
Rome, as a rule, but now the tech
nique of the watchers has so im
proved that I am assured only a few
odds and ends were pilfered, to a
damage of only a few hundred dol
lars. . . . When souvenir hunters de
scended on the Marshal Pilsudski
here the boat carried some 4,000
beautifully and expensively moulded
ash-trays; and when the Polish liner
headed for home search high and low
by the crew could only proudce one
—which the crowds had overlooked.
. . . The Normandie also had a stiff
charge for replacement after one
public showing. ...
• * •
Not long ago I mentioned the folk
here who make it a hobby to be
“first riders’’—on new subway,s new
bus lines, across new bridges. . . .
Now I am told that I. J. Fox, one of
the big-time fur merchants of the
land, is also a confirmed maiden
tripper, but he does it more grandi
ously. ... He goes for the big boats,
trains and air giants. . . . The Hin
denburg saw him booked for in ad
vance, and so did the Queen Mary.
- . . Has been doing it for years and
counts most of the big craft among
his ’firsts”—ever since he got the
habit with the maiden voyage of the
Roma back In 1926. ... My own
hobby is making maiden trips on es
calators. . . . The long one to the
street from the Hoboken Tubes, near
Herald Square, was a Dandy. . . .
Most titivating of movie titles this
year is the projected tag for a
Charles Boyer opus: “History Is
Made at Night.’’ . . .
The scribbling folk once again
have taken to the boats for Europe
and I hear there will be almost as
many temporary expatriates on the
boulevards of Paree this summer as
in the lushest bloom of the Twenties.
. . . Philip Wylie, the novelist, is
headed for a summer of typewriter
tapping across the water and his
brother. Edmund, who is editor for
a publisher, will go along to do a
book of his own. . . . Katharine
Brush will trip to the Riviera and
finish a flock of short stories before
beginning a new novel in the fall.
... I always thought it would be
swell to do my chores abroad, under
the influence of older and mellower
civilization untl that time I tried
to purchase a sheif of carbon paper
in Vienna. . . . it’s no cinch, either
I found, to scare up a typewriter rib
bon in Hamburg. ... ‘
But to return to the Wylies, Ed
and Phil. . . . That seems to me an
ideal combination: one brother a
novelist and the other an executive
with a publishing house. . . . What
could be sweeter? ... I have a cous
in who is an editor on one of the
heavyduty “unhappy end” publica
tions, but somehow it has never done
me any good. . . . Years ago he re
turned one of my breeziest yarns
with the scribbled comment: “I just
don’t care what happens to these
characters.” . . . The characters
later disported themselves in one of
the magazines with a huge circula
tion but there ended all hope of a
profitable rapprochement in the fam
ily. . . . Come to think, the only
job a relative ever got me was
tramping out grain in a silo. . . .
Os course, I was a page on the Floor
of the House at 12, but whoever call
ed that a job? ... It only gave m?
a life-long conviction that there are
more Zionchecks than appear in the
headlines.
rant post-war growth which reached
alarming magnitude before intelligent
Americans were aware of it.
Then they couldn’t stop it.
It stoppad. ors itself when its own
membership tired of it. Parentheti
cally, some nasty scandals, involving
its high officialdom, were helpful in
the same direction.
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Intolerance
However, thsre is an element which
appears to be proof against even
annul and scandals.
This element supposedly furnished
the nucleus for the Black Legion.
But the time seemingly had not
come for a recrudescence of intoler
ance.
Historical precedeiit hints that one
of these outbreaks is due about once
in a generation.
There was the original K. K. K. in
post-Civil war days—a movement
which had some reasonable excuse in
the South, during the reconstruction
period. Then there was Know-Noth
ing-ism—before my time, but clearly
an intolerant uprising. Next came
the era of the American Protective
association, which I remember—a fair
parallel to previous manifestations,
but directed especially against Roman
Catholicism. Then the K. K K.—
anti-every thing.
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Unpopular Methods
Each of these movements frazzled
out in turn.
But each had acquired a orf
heacway before it began to frazzle.
But each had acquired a deal of
headway before it began to frazzle.
The Black Ltgion clearly began to
frazzle in its mere incipiency; it
hadn’t waited long enough for the
K. K. K. to dissipate itself before at
tending a new era of intolenranc?.
Its work is too rough, too; it is
trying to introduce Fascist and Nazi
methods prematurely.
One would not think that either
: one would be popular in this country.
Not In the News
BY WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
By WORTH CHENEY
Millie, cur efficient secretary, is
thinking of taking up golf. She has
had her first tas:e of it, and, as you
may know, getting out on the golf
course forth? first time Is like eat
ing popcorn—you always want more,
even though you know you’ll be
sick!
Ordinarily we don’t liks to inter
vene in anyone’s pursuit of happi
ness, but Millie is a good sort, and
we wouldn’t like to see h"r make a
mistake. So we have decided to de
vote our column today to tell Millie
what is what about golf. Then, if
she still wants to go crazy, we won’t
feel conscience-stricken.
• * *
In the first place, Millie, golf is
a from of work. It is a form of
work that you have to pay for doing,
while you labor under the illusion
that it is exercise. (A golf course
is usually started by someone who
wants a bit of rough land leveled off
so he can plant crops.)
It is the simplestdooking game in
the worlds—when you decide to take
it up. But after 10 or 15 years of
practice you eventaully discover that
it is the toughest game in the world.
It is the one game in the world in
which practice makes you more and
more imperfect.
For your information, most golf
courses have 18 holes. You may have
heard about the nineteenth hole, but
that is the place where most of the
bragging is done. That particular
hole is played with glasses, ice, soda
water and whatever you have in
your locker.
The general idea is to get the ball
from a given point into each of the
18 holes. Now a “hole” is really a
worn-out tincup placed in the center
of a "green.” A “green” is a smooth
piece of ground usually surrounded
by a dense forest, a lake, sand traps,
or located on the top of a mountain.
The “green” is covered by grass that
costs in the neighborhood of 97 cents
a blade.
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The gam? is played with little
white ■balls, costing anywhere from
15 cents to sls eaclY, and clubs, the
number of which is governed by just
how nuts the player is. The balls
aAe made to be hit once or twice and
then lost; if they could be found
again and sold, they would bring
enough to kep the national budget
balanced.
Each of the clubs, in case you
didn’t know, is especially designed to
provoke the owner. You are told
that every club has a particular pur
pose, and there are some who get
to know what the purpose is, even
though it seldom works. Most clubs,
by far and large eventually are
tossed into the nearest river when
the golfer finally decides they don’t
hit the ball right.
The number of strokes it takes for
each hole depends on the par score
for the hole. Here’s how it works:
at the completion of the hole, count
the number of times yc_ actually
swung at the ball—whether you hit
it or not—then subtract enough to
make your score, t|y, two over part.
If you’re playing for money, better
cut it down to one over par or even
par, if your partner isn’t watching
very close.
Always remember, Millie, that the
LOod golfer is the one who cannot
add very well. Some golfers can’t add
above 77, while others have sufficient
intelligence—and fairness—to counts
up to 87.
The difference are the golfers who
can count over 100.
QUITE A LOSS
Mrs. Brown: Land sakes, I can’t
see how a woman could get so fat.
Mr. Brown: Why, this paper says
a woman jn England lost 2,000 pounds '
in less tHan a week.
Today is the Day .
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Saturday, June 6, Ember Day
morning stars: Mercury, Venus, Sa*
urn Uranus, Jupner. Evening star.’
Mars, Neptune. Full moon. Don
believe anything the songwriters hav»
said about June Moon. There is lea
light from a full moon in sununei
than in winter!
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NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Thomas Mann, b. 1875, Germa* •
novelist of world fame who can’t livi
in Germany. . . Will James, b, 1892,
cowboy artist and novelist . . . Leo- '»
pold Friedman, b. 1891, orchestra ~
leader known as Ted Lewis. . . ...
Samuel Untermeyer, b. 1853, Jewish
leader and lawyer who gets $1,000,000
fees . . . Emylyn Pique, b. 1915,
dancer known as Mitzi Mayfair. <
TODAY’S YESTERDALS
June 6, 1683—Franz Daniel Schae
fer, called Pastorlus, sailed from
Gravesend, England, in the shii
America with a group of Mennonites
and Quakers, the first Germans to •
settle in the American colonies. They
laid out Germantown, at Philadel
phia, on land sold by that super-real
tor. William Penn.
At the time, any Quakers who at
tempted to settle in New York, Mas
sachusetts and other colonies could
be and frequently were put to death.
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June 6, 1798—Congress abolished
imprisonment for debt, at a time
when persons could be kept in jail
longer for owing $lO than for mur
der. Women who didn't pay and pay
were imprisoned Indefinitely, too;
and marriages of wom?n in debtors’
prisons with condemned criminals
about to be execi ted was a common
practice, for if a woman was mar
ried her husband became responsible
for her debts.
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June 6, 1809—Timothy Shay Ar
thur was bom on a farm in Orange
County, N. Y., the f.ture author of
100 novels, Including “10 Nights in
a Barroom.” He never spent even
one night in a barroom! He didn’t
drink.
SUNDAY IS THE DAY
Trinity Sunday, June 7. Fast of
Tammuz, in Jewish calendar. Zodiac
sign; Kemini, Birtbstone: Pearl.
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NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Carmela Ponselle, b. 1882, opera
ringer sister of opera singer Rosa
Ponseile . . . Andrew O’Connor, b.
1874, American sculptor.
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SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 7, 1520—France’s king, Fran
cis I, 26. and England’s monarch
Henry, VIII, 29, met upon the “Field
of the Cloth of Gold” betweei
Guines and Ardes, for the most ex
pensive wrestling match ever held.
A gorgeous palace was especially
erected for the occasion and furnish
ed with gold dishes, gilt furnitura
and rarest ornaments. The most
beautiful women and distinguished
men gathered in magnificent dress.
More than 2,200 sheep and other
viands in similar proportions were
prepared for the feasting that fol
lowed. Altogether $5,000,000 to $lO,-
000,000 was spent upon a bout at
which nothng was at stake and en
trance was free! Neither of the kings
was a good wrestler!
June 7, 1778—George Bryan Brum
mell was born In London, the future
“Beau Brummell” the bon vlvant
commoner who set the styles for the
kings of his day. He who spent for
tunes (derived from gambling) upon
dress, died penniless in an asylum in
France, where his last words to his
nurse were, "I have never been so
happy in my life as while here.”
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June 7 in State Histories 1769
Daniel Boone reached the Red River
with five hunters from North Caro
lina who were to become the Ken
tucky pioneers . . . 1775—American
colonies proclaimed to be United . . .
1776—R. H. Lee presented to Conti
nental Congress the resolution favor
ing Independence which led to the
Declaration of Independence.
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FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
June 6-7, 1916—Germans captured
Fort Vaux, at Verdun.
(To be Continued Monday)
You’re Telling
Me? ,
When an ordinary citizen fails to
do a good job, he’s fired. And when
an international statesman fails there
is also some firing—but usually by
the field artillery and battleship guns.
♦ • •
Troubles double with age—and
that’s true of the world as well
as Individuals. Twenty years ago
the world feared one man,
Wilhelm 11. Now the world is
scared of Mussolini, Hitler, the
Mikado of Japan and a lot ors
other guys.
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Suggestion for a slogan for tbe
League of Nations: “Tsk! ’lfek!"
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The British government has
ordered 40,000 gas masks.
You’re wrong—they are for use
in case of war and not for the
next political campaign.
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California housewife wins national
cooking title with a recipe for cook
ing pumpkin good}’ She must be •
wonder—we don’t even know wtagt
‘pumpkin goody” means.
Another reason we are against
war « that we like our akies
dressed in plain blue, trimmed
with white clouds—and not polka
dotted with battle and bombing
planes.
A word fitly spoken is like apples
>f gold in pictures of silver.—
’poverty 25:11.