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AMERICAN POLITICS.
The convening of the Republican National Convention in
Cleveland tomorrow brings us face-to-face with the fact that
‘‘Presidential election year” is here with both its mud-slinging
and praise-packed drama. The lives of the nominees from their
cradle days to their present status will undergo the microscopic
«ye of the nation at large as the populus seeks to discover the
most minute flaws in a candidate’s make-up. The Republicans
unleash their full fury in their opening of the 1936 campaign.
No one knows their candidate at this date, and it can be said by
both parties that the men selected to carry the torch for either
the Democrats or Republicans will certainly be the most select
for the tasks allotted to them.
American politics with all of its ballyhoo and intrigue is
known perhaps the world over as a glamorous game which has
captured the fancy of a group of men numbering in the thous
ands whose every thought and whim narrows down to the age
old study of putting their choice in front of the public. We have
a very simple style of political maneuver which seems to be made
to order for the quick acting, fast moving type of politics which
reigns in this country. Some of the world’s most famous men
have had their home and training in America, and those men
who have had the world at their feet in all types of life, either
industrial or political, can, in most instances be traced to their
so-called dabbling in either the Republican or Democratic schools
of political thought.
Cleveland, is, at the present time, the mecca for all G. 0. P.
aspirants whose thoughts may revolve around small jobs, or
large ones, or for the idea of being helpful in having their can
didate chosen for a job, which will be instrumental in having
the United States still reign as the queen of world politics and
have her occupy in a fuller sense, the niche she now holds.
Let’s hope that the present convention with its bright array
of political talent who have been assembled from these forty
eight states will continue to move in the same fashion and with
the same zeal which has so marked its continued; success in other
years. Whether you be Democrat or whether you be Republican',
we have to admit that ours ig the best, method of naming the most
logical aspirant for our nation’s political head.
OUR READERS* FORUM
Editor The Daily Times:
Three St. Louis Judges who handle
50,000 traffic violations annually
agree upon these as the most fre
quent causes of automobile accidents:
First: The impatient driver.
Second: The careless pedestrian.
Third: The driver who insists on
being at the head of the pack.
Fourth: The driver who will hot
signal.
Fifth: The bluffing road hog.
Sixth: The double-parker.
Seventh: The driver who will not
dim his lights.
Eighth: The driver who turns in
the middle of the street.
Ninth: The driver who weaves in
and out of traffic.
Tenth: The horn blower.
Feeling sure that if you print this
letter we both will be helping the
cause of “Safe and Sane" driving I
am sending it to you.
INTERESTED.
Editor Daily Times:
What was the matter with Alex
ander Hamilton’s original idea of an
electoral college to choose a president
for the United States of America.
And why would it not be a good sub
stitute for the present so-called demo
cratic form of government.
I think that this idea, applied to
NOT—In the News
••• * * *
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
IN THIS day of new-fangled
theories of oh lid training and educa
tion, the precocious youngster la no
rarity. The unusual today is the
child who is brilliant but hasn’t the
propensity to display his premature
talents unsolicited. '
A youngster who hasn’t this re
straining ability Is six-year-old Bar*
bara, who resides in Detroit with her
parents. Barbara is one of those
smart kids who appears cute to every
one but her parents. She lacks no
devotion or love from her mother
and father, and they take pride in her
exceptional intelligence, but they
have found that encouragement has
made her disrespectful and impu
dent.
• • *
THE OTHER day Barbara was be
ing very noisy and boisterous while
playing with a neighbor’s child. Re
peated reprimands from her father
failed to curb the clatter, and father
was considerably aggravated.
“Oh”! he sighed, “what would I
give for a minute's peace and quiett”
Whereupon Barbara Immediately
atcpped her play and became silent.
She could be seen moving her lips
as if counting to herself. Then she
turned to her father.
\ all public offices, would eliminate
i much of the time and money now
’ .wasted in trying to give the people
■ of this country what they imagine is
a "voice in the government.” Actually
they are being bluffed and cajoled
into endorsing politicians to repres
-1 ent them who are both incompetent,
and what’s worse, insincere.
AN AMERICAN.
Editor, Savannah Daily Times:
Through the columns of your good
newspaper, I wish to express my opin
ion and the opinions of hundreds of
other Savannahians, as to the good
features of Sunda ybaseball in our
fair city.
There are in our city approximate
-1 ly 3,000 or more ardent baseball fans.
This number would be increased dou
ble If those who are handicaped by
having to work have the opportunity
to attend Sunday baseball. The reve
nues derived from these games would
be equally divided among different
businesses whereas at present only a
chosen few reap the profits of Sun
day businesses. Other cities as large
or larger than Savannah have! Sun
day baaetall, and flr|i that their prof
its increase doubly. WHY CAN’T WE
HAVE SUNDAY BASEBALL?
A FEMALE FAN.
"Well, what will you give? I’ve
Just given you a minute's quiet!”
• * • »*
•ON ANOTHER occasion Barbara
was being scolded by her mother for
some infringement of rules set up for
her. Mother told her that unless she
became a good girl mother was going
to leave her and never see her again.
“What would you do if mother
went away and never came back?”
Barbara was asked.
Barbara was quick to retort.
“Oh,” sha answered carelessly, “I’d
get me another mother—and make it
a good-looking one this time.
• • *
A RESTAURANT in Monroe. Mich.,
is exceptionally explicit In a warning
to Its guests. A sign over the check
rooms says:
“Keep your Checks!
"VOID If lost!"
You don’t say?
* * •
WE LIKE this little verse:
Hearts, like doors, open with
ease
To very, very little keys.
And don’t forget that two of
these
Are “I thank you”, and “If you
please”, ;\Y:
THE THUNDERING HERD!
—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
SUPREME COURT ISSUE ,
Hoped For By Republicans
DELAYED BY DEMOCRATS
" a ■
WASHINGTON, June B— The ques
tion whether or not the federal su
preme court’s power should be cur
tailed clearly will not be .fought over
duting the national campaign just
beginning.
The Republicans would like to have
the issue raised, with their party on
the negative side of it, because their
managerial group believes that a
majority of Americans are opposed to
a stricter limitation of judicial author
ity. However, they can’t make it an
issue, with themselves on the nega
tive side, unless the Democrats come
out affirmatively. And the Democrats
are too crafty to commit themselves.
President Roosevelt exidently agrees
with the Republicans that a proposal
to hamstring the "nine men"
would, be unpopular. Consequently,
much to the G. O. P’s annoyance, he
discreetly refrains from declaring for
such a policy.
* * *
Delay Sought
It would seem as if the New Deal
ers MUST w'ant the supreme court’s
power further restricted.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 8, 1938
1 T*« court has knocked their leg
islative program into pretty much of
a cocked hat, by Riding so many
of its essential features unconstitu
tional. Yet it is understandable that
the administration may prefer, to
wait until it is safely in office again,
for another four years, before pre
cipitating a doubtful struggle.
There are even radicals, like Sen
ator George W. Norris (a Republi
can but a New Dealer), who argue
that the showdown should be delayed
until after next November.
• * *
Rule Can Be Modified
The supreme court’s rule can be
modified in four different fashions.
1. It can be done by a constitution
al amendment—a slow process, re
quiring two-thirds vote 6 in each house
of congress, with affirmation by
three-quarters of the states’ legisla
tures.
2. It can be done by a general con
vention to amend the constitution.
There never has been one since the
original constitution’s adoption, nor is
(Hie likely.
3. Congress can, by legislative act,
regardless of the court’s wishes, in
orease the number of justices, en
abling the president to make enough
New Deal appointments to outvote the
anti-New Deal justices. That is not
a probability, either.
• • •
Then-,-Nat 4 '** ■*
*'■ 4. Os the “niite "old' mess” “on the
federal bench six are VERY bid. 1
If President Roosevelt is re-elected
it is reasonable to assume that there
will be several deaths or retirements
within the next four yean, and it
will be simple to fill their seats with
New Dealers.
But the oldest of the nine, and
therefore the most precarious of the
liberal outfit, is Justice Louis D.
Brandeis. If he drops out, the like
liest candidate to follow him is Sena
tor Joseph T. Robinson of Arkansas.
Any liberal tyho reckons that Senator
Robinson will be a supreme court
liberal certainly is an optimist.
* * *
Will It Liberalize?
The query, then, is:
Suppose the administration really
gets a chance to liberalize the su
preme bench!—will it do it?
Os the 10 best selling novels pub
lished in the U. S. in the last 60
years, Gens Stration-Porter wrote
four.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE
PLATFORM PROBLEMS
With Many of ’the Planks Double-Edged
WORSE THAN USUAL
B(y LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
CLEVELAND, June 8. —It has been
said that nobody reads party plat
forms. The Republicans this year
wish that were quite true. They have
difficulty over a platform.
Some months ago the Republicans
were denouncing President Roosevelt
for departing from the Democratic
platform. They probably regret now
that they have made a sacred insti
tution of party platforms.
There are many embarrassing ques
tions to which there are no answers.
The Republican party—tradition
ally the party of business—must ap‘
peal also to fanner and to worker to
win. Thus the task is to insert plat
form planks that will be general
enough to be all inclusive yet
satisfy.
That would be easy enough (for a
politician with any knowledge of
language) if the three component
elements were not inquisitive—and
insistent.
* * *
A Few Planks
An attack on government spending
will be okay—provided no specific in
stances are cited. For when one gets
to specific instances, a Republican
congressman is as loathe to cut off
appropriations for his district as is a
Democratic congressman.
Upholding the supreme court’s pow
er probably is safe enough if the
plank is general—but it may not be
wise to be too specific on this, either.
If the Republican party gets into
power, it does notdesire too much of
this states’ right business. The Re-
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936. Central Press Asso
ciation)
NEW YORK, June B.— Few who
have not lived here for years realize
the difficulties in store for the san
guine New Yorker who undertakes
the chore of finding himself a plot
of ground in the remote fastnesses
of Westchester or Long Island or
Jersey, upon which he can relax and
feel like a landed squire in the heat
of the dog days.
In any ordinary city everybody
knows, after a few years residence,
the location and advantages of the
nearby commuting zones. For ex
ample, when I lived in Washington,
D. C., I knew 1 perfectly well that' it
was possible to flee to Alexandria;
V*., la one, direction, and* .£<*■ Silver
Spring,dMd., In the other, and escape
the fetid airs of Capitol Hill. lr I
: had been an adult in' those <Mys,
with a family, it would have ,Jfceen,
the simplest thing in the worldto
choose a few acres of verdure in one
direction or the other and know
precisely what I was getting.
Manhattanites, however, face a
dilemma well-nigh pa.st solution.
Where to go? The average New York
er has been into the country perhaps
a half-dozen times in as many tears.
He has seen a single environment
each time; either the mansion of a
friend with far more money than he
has and hence in a community where
the value —or price—of land is away
over his head; or he has visited some
one with a cottage in on? of those
real estate developments replete with
community center, club house, com
mon toothbrush and even, for all I
know, a tribal yell-
When he sets about finding a place
for himself he knows he has a job
of eight or ten years’ duration on his
hands. It is no good to go cruising
about the neighboring suburbia in his
automobile, in the hope that he will
find just the little hillside plot or
vine-clad cottage of his dreams. If
he spies either, investigation soon
brings out that the land is part of
the Croton Reservoir tract and the
property of the state, and the cot
tage is the caretaker’s lodge on the
thousand-acre tract of a General Mo
tors vice president.
He has another alternative. He
can place himself in the hands of a
real estate salesman, or a series of
them. We embraced this device, I re
member, about the middle of
second summer of search.
Now nine-tenths of the real estate
agents In the nearby Wildwood—at
least those catering to the dreams of
New Yorkers hunting a haven—are
women. They fiftyish wear hiking
shoes, multicolored Bohemian sport
blouses, wield eight-inch cigarette
holders and keep cats. These good
ladies will actually try to sell or rent
you a country plaoe on the grounds
that several ninth-rate New York
writers live nearby—when you have
come all the way out there to escape
writers -and the heat.
There are the classified advertise
ments. These are fun to read—they
are, indeed, the only section of a
newspaper tha professional newspa
permen can read year in and year
out to the grave with the pristine de
light of cubhood—but they have not,
so far, helped me find a modest coun
try seat. The poetic ones, beginning
something like this—“A ducky-wucky
cottage fanned by cunning breezes, a
little dream by the side of the road”
—invariably turn out to be unin
habitable by anyone save editorial
writers for “The Nation.” And the
ones which read like veritable bar
gains turn out either to have been
sold yesterday or to be located 300
miles away by bua, oamel train and
ferry.
It is discouraging—or was. I have
just made up my mind to forget all
about buying a nook in the country.
Perhaps we didn’t really want one
after all. Instead, we’re just going to
keep looking. For four or five years
longer, anyhow. You spend as much
time in the open air that way as you
would with a place of your own, and
it is much, much cheaper.
A
publican party always has been the
party of federal power. Besides, some
shrewd farm and labor lawyers have
been reading the constitution and
they now say that Article 111, Sec
tion 2 of the constitution limits the
original jurisdiction of tha supreme
court to maters involving ambassa
dors and states. In other cases, the
supreme court "shall have appellate
jurisdiction, both as to law and fact,
with such exceptions, and under such
regulations as the congress shall
make.”
There may be a demand for con
gress to make certain regulations. In
fact, the demand may become an is
sue in regions vitally needed for vic
tory. Thus, a supreme court plank
also has a double edge.
Agriculture
Some substitute for the AAA must
be found. That is the chief order to
the platform of Kansas, out in the
lead for the presidential nomination,
has been consulting with many per
sons, Including men who would be
called “brain-trusters” on the other
side of the fence —and; if his plank
prevails, it is believed that the Re
publicans will come through on this
question satisfactorily.
Pensions—lnflation
Old age pensions present a ticklish
question. Nobody, not even a Borah,
favors indorsing a Townsend plan.
Yet, to prevent the folly of a Town
send plan, indorsement of a federal
security act similar to the one passed
by the Democratic administration is
essential. Indeed, the majority of
voters seem to believe the New Deal
ers have not gone far enough on this.
The Republicans, desiring to be the
solid, conservative party, do not want
to go further than the Demooratts.
Yet, even the furtherest left is not
far enough left to bring in the
Townsendites.
Tied up with the Townsendites are
the Coughlin inflationists. The Re
publican party, of all parties, mufft
oppose inflation, any sort, otherwise
it has no reason for existence. But
in Senator William E. Boraji of Idaho,
if he remains within the party fold,
the Republican party has the nearest
to an inflationist of any presidential
possibility. And, worse, the Republic
ans cannot afford to lose this infla
tionist following, which extends not
only through the northwestern farm
states but into such dense industrial
states as Michigan, Ohio and Penn
sylvania. Yet party leaders undoubt
edly will decide to risk this loss.
There is a reason for this surmise.
It must be remembered that Fa
ther Coughlin is a sllverite and his
denunciation of the "dictatorship” in
Washington is based on the standpat
attitude of President Roosevelt against
’change in the monetary policy. The
(Republicans are very much with
Roosevelt on this one item
a. traditional Republican policy.
After all—the men who are putting
'up the, funds for the Republican
party ask—where will the inflation
ist* go, with both the major parties
■for "sound money?”
• * •
Centralisation
There probably will be r.o great
hullaballoo over centralization. The
“danger of centralization” may be a
good talking point—it undoubtedly
does go in well with dictatorship—
but in the back of their heads the
Republicans are not worried much
concerning centralization, if they are
to get into power. Large corporations
do not desire centralization, for
states are not as capable of regulat
ing them as is a powerful central
government. The Republicans, how
ever, will be “sane” (they say) if they
get into power. Which means, "hon
est business may go ahead without in
terference.”
Senator Borah has stirred up the
monopoly issue with his continued
shouts. He asserts that the Roosevelt
administration has permitted the
growth of monopoly—and what are
the Republicans do about it.”
Well —maybe this is the age of
monopoly. Anyway, we’re keeping the
government out of business. We are
against dictatorship. . . . That’s the
view.
Then, there are the social ques
tions. And they seem the most difficult
of all.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is an idiosyncrasy?
2. Give the antonoym of the word
cynonym.
3. With what science does the neb
ular hypothesis deal?
Words of Wisdom
There is nothing more frightful
than an active ignorance.—Goethe.
Hints on Etiquette
Brevity is the essence of & courte
bus telephone - conversation, especial
ly when the call is being made from
a. public telephne booth.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons whose birthdays are today
tend to have pure desires and have a
love of justice, but sometimes are dis
couraged by their failure to accom
plish their 'desires. They should
learn to concentrate their force and
energy.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. A physical or mehtal peculiarity
of constitution or temperament.
2. Antonym.
3. Astronomy. It is a theory ad
vanced to account for the origin of
the solar system.
Why Go to a River Rank?
“If there is one thing that I en
joy more than another,” said Spru
cer, “It la to get to the rivar bank
and lie about fishing.”
"Why, I fail to see the necessity
for your going to the banks of the
river to do that,” remarked Mrs.
Sprucer, quietly.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press .Association
Monday, June 8; St van 17, 6696
in Jewish calendar. National holi
day in Rumania. Full moon. Za
diac sign: Gemini. Birthstone; pearl.
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Frank Lloy Wright, b. 1860, world
famous American architect. . . .
Robert F. Wagner, b. 1877, senator
from New York.
♦ * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 8, 632 A. D.—Mohammed
died, aged 62, in the house of his
ninth wife, Ayesha, at Modina, hav
ing founded a religion that was to
grow to have 300,000,000 adherents.
To Mohammed we owe our race
horses and coffee. He founded the
blood-lines from which all “thorough
breds” horses of today are descended.
And legend has it that coffee first
became widely known and popular
after it was given to Mohammed as
a medicine when he was 111. Years,
perhaps generations before, an Arab
ian - goat-herdsman had noted that
when his animals ate the berries of
a plant that grew upon the hill
sides, they became stimulated and
skittish. He hmself chewed the ber
ry and felt its effects, and in time
he dried te berries that he might «1-
joy their tonic effeets the -year
around.
15 Years Ago Today—lce cream,
an American improvement on Euro
pean ices, came to popular public
attention. It was advertised for the
first time by A. Hall, the New York
er who was first to manufacture it
commercially, after it had been a
novel refreshment among the aristo
crats for several years.
* ♦ *
25 Years Ago Today—A burglary
was committed in a loft building in
New York City. Only a few dol
lars worth of linens were stolen, but
it was an historic crime. The bur
glar, Charles Crispi, was the first
man to be convicted in the United
States on fingerprint evidence.
The jury in Crispi’s trial didn’t
want to believe that persons cor Id be
identified by fingerprints until the
massed fingerprints of the jurymen
were separated and identif'vd by
Lieut. Joseph Faurot, of the New
York police department, who had
trapped Crispi.
* * *
June 8 Among State Histories: 75
years ago today—Tennessee seceded
from the Union by popular vote . . ,
1917—Maj. John J. Pershing arrived
abroad to lead the American Expedi
tionary Force . . . Five years age
today—Body of Starr Faithfull, beau
tiful artist model, found afloat at
Long Beach, N. Y., in a murder mys
tery still unsolved.
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Russians re
captured their fortress city from the
Germans, who had held it nearly a
year.
This was the first major achieve
ment in the offensive begun on the
sth. As Liddell Hart remarks, "it
had such an astonishing initial suc
cess as to revive enthusiastic dreams
of the irresistible Russian "steam
roller,” that was perhaps the great
est and most dangerous myth of the
war. Instead, its ultimate achieve
ment was to sound Russia’s death
knell. Paradoxical In its consequen
ces, it was still more so in its course
—an epitome of the delusive objec
tives, of the blunders leading to suc
cess, and the successes leading to
downfall, which marked perhaps tha *
most erratic war in history."
When the Germans started the
Verdun attack they figured Russia
was too crippled from the crushing
Mackensen offensive of 1915 to be
a menace. The enemy’s surprisingly
rapid, but superficial recovery en
abled it to dislocate German plans
for 1916. The Czar’s high command
was planning a major offensive for
July when Italians, struggling to
stave off the Austrian offensive in
the Trentino, appealed to their Rus
sian ally to prevent Austrians releas
ing forces from the eastern front for
Trentino. So Brusilov meved against
the Austro-German forces on such
short notice that there was no con
centration of forces or preparation
to warn the enemy of his intentions.
Consequently his attack took the
enemy by complete surprise and the
front crumbled like a piece of toast.
The first day 40,000 prisoners were
taken at Luck, and within a few days
more than 200.000 prisoners were In
Russian hands across the Strypa.
With both flanks collapsed. Austro-
German forces were in danger of a
route, but Russian reserves had been
concentrated In the north for tha
offensive and oould not be moved
south quickly enough to deliver the
coup-de-main. Russia’* military staff
had neglected in the year* before ths
war to build up lateral railways
(Te be continued)
You're Telling
Me?
WE ARB SLOWLY but surely be
coming civilised. You never meet any
one any more who thinks "I should
worry” and “So’s your old man” are
witty remarks.
* * *
What is so rare a* a day In
June—in which there la no po
litical convention convening?
• • •
When a writer tails you ha believes
in "art for art’s sake” it’s a pretty
good bet he hasn’t sold any stories
lately.
• * *
Eating your words wouldn’t be so
bad if you hadn’t also to swallow
your pride as a desert.
• • •
The British probably will b#
very proud of their new naval
base, planned at Oape Town,
Africa. They’ve a right to be—
since they are paying the bill,
and what a bill 1 '