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PAGE FOUR Published by I PUBLIC OPINION. INC. I . . PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 802 EAST BRYAN STREET f Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at . Savannah. Georgia I SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ...7.50 toil Months 3.75 ■Three Months —1.95 One Month... .... .65 One Week ——...— .15 . • / ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION i.A ■ FROST. LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives / ' Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta —-•- Subscribers to: Treneradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures WW -•- 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” rw*t<w w-.. * Y meLv*** Uh w ) IwMll 1 Wl- .4 < i i i —WORLD AT A GLANCE— 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. bCOiTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT found at a Height IrSL b oF 17,000 FEET a K O? I IN'fKEANDES Mountain*; f AT ONE f Time THE AMOES WER.E BELOW The LEVEL. oftAe TfiEy \ / were Forced up \ (£RADU/\LLy \ \ In OLDEN tTmes, bezoar. ATONES/ pebbles / / WSI FOUND IN<AE__ l\B £/ WW x ihtestines of and A t \ ofitWANIMAW maX.c V WERE USED MAGPIE, X w as antidotes ON this blacked \ iTaIIM ' _ ALI - AND BUIL<A \ POISONS are. FIRE-PROOF \ SHOWN BEINq nest of Wire '/ suckled bv ’ Aq^EA< WOLF- month The / from the. FEMALE WAS , err-uts Bits pF wire Found i Nq of A WORKSHOP, AND lined"®** K.OME rs WITH WOOL* ALSO STOLEN , FROM A RU<5 copyrichf. >936. central press association £-2 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. • • • 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. ./ « X- 1 ‘ Vt ■* < 'V-. . ■■^'?si- Z <v ;: *' ‘M * &• X 1 V * \ i fi Jr j 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. • • • 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. • • * 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. ■♦ ♦ • 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! * • • 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. • • » 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. ♦ ♦ ♦ 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. * * » NOTABLE NATIVITIES Carmela Ponselle, b. 1882, opera ringer sister of opera singer Rosa Ponseile . . . Andrew O’Connor, b. 1874, American sculptor. • * ♦ 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.” • * • 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. ♦ ♦ • 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. * * • Suggestion for a slogan for tbe League of Nations: “Tsk! ’lfek!" * * * 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. * • • 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.
