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PAGE FOUR SauanW*®ttW®nts Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .............. ................. 7.50 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 AFTER ‘ME’ THE POLICE It is gratifying to the citizens of the City of Savannah that there is a possibility of the Mayor and City Council restoring a portion of the policemen’s salary. At the same time it is saddening to note that the Mayor and council do not see fit to restore in its entirety, plus a substan tial increase over the 1928 salary basis, the full quota of pay cuts to the policemen. The police department who protects the citizenry, day and night are grossly underpaid, and it may be termed public crime Number One that the Mayor has seen fit to accept a raise in his behalf and neglect to raise the salary of the police department first. It may be said that in-so-far as Gamble is concerned “after me, the police department comes first.” It is with regret to know that the Mayor does not put his police department in the category in which it belongs, that is, a group of men who risk their lives for the people should draw a salary in accordance with their duties, which at the present time, even with the five per cent, increase, are grossly under paid. It is hoped that the police department will not be forced to tolerate much longer a Mayor who first seeks for himself with out the interest of the city’s employes at heart. And uses as an excuse the lack of the city’s finances, while at the same time there are sufficient funds for an increase for himself. OUR READERS’ FORUM | I (All communications intended for pub lication under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer, will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted tn this column so that it may represent a true public opinion In Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be Imited to 100 W< The Savannah Dally Times does not Intend that the selection of P' I’’ 1 ’’ lished in this column shall In any way reflect or conform with the editorial views and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) Editor, The Daily Times: They may be plain Joe Brown In overalls and felt-toped boots back home—but when they’re delegates at the Republican convention, “Solo mon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these." a Delegates from farm states, with their necks burned red from hours behind the plow, are setting the pace Jn fashions at the convention city. The principal item of nearly every farm delegates garb is a linen suit. And nearly every linen suit in Cleve land, it appeared, could be used in a pinch for an acordion solo. Damp winds which have swept in off Lake All Os Us By MARSHAL MASLIN HATS AND PEOPLE AS I STOOD on the comer wait ing, I put in part of my time looking in windows ... Not window flop ping, you understand, but just look ing and waiting more or less patient ly .. . And. in the big window of one little ahop that obviously sold hats to women, I saw forty-seven hats on forty-seven pedestals. All forty-seven hats were made of the same material, which I can’t describe, all turned up on the right at the same angle, all were the same shade . . . And those forty-seven hats were for forty-seven different women! Os course it’s not my business, sell ing hats to women, and I may be completely mistaken, but I asked my self as I looked: “How would those forty-seven hats appeal to a woman? Will she tell herself that she simply MUST have one of them because forty-six other women will be wearing that same hat, or wil Ishe decide that she doesn’t want one because THAT hat will be so ‘common ?’ ” Seems to me I have seen some shops that put Just ONE hat in the window and let that ONE hat sell itself to hundreds of different women . . . Some merchants use one ap proach, others use a different one, and perhaps both are effective. Perhaps men are different , . . I’ve seen many a man's shop that filled the window with men’s hats, all alike, and no man cared . . . The average man doesn’t mind wearing a hat that is just like Jack's and Pete’s and Frank's, but the average woma n.see ms to want her hat to be the same in style but different in de tail from the other woman’s We work on our characters in the game way . . . W ewant to be “dif ferent” but not so different that we’ll be lonely. We like the fellow with per sonality, but not the kind that sets him so far apart he can’t speak the same language we do or understand what we are trying to do ... We des cribe two individuals as being “as alike as two peas’’, but did you ever examine two peas? . . . They axe as different as any two human beings. Erie have raised hob with the fine creases left by the tailor’s iron—and the linen suits get baggier and bag gier as the white shoes get dustier and dustier. But if the suits and shoes are wanting, the neckties are not. Colors which would have made Joseph’s coat seem a drab affair clash on the throat of many a rural delegate in Cleveland hotel lobbies. Although their speech ranges from the nasal twang of New England to the easy going drawl of the Carolinas, their neckties, to all appearances, were de signed by the same mad genius. Shirts range from pink to purple and back to pink again. Suspenders are of many hues, with no one pat tern enjoying preferences. Collars range from the vertical, ear-grazing type to the byronic, low-hung model which sets off the Adam’s apple. Let it be said, however, that the women delegates, be they from Man hattan, Georgia, or Minnesota, are smartly dressed. In their cool whites and pastels, they form a welcome re lief to the acordion-pleated, vividly neck-tied menfolks. A GEORGIAN IN CLEWELAND. Trouble with father fc, he really doesn’t know how to carve a roast. But then, he never has boasted that he did know. Out in his house, as in most of the homes he knows, it seems to be the thing to assume that the father or usband will feel hurt, or inferior, if he doesn’t do the carving. But father doesn’t know how . . • He has sat and envied the precision with which some other fathers, sit ting in their chairs, follow the subtle lines of a piece of meat and cub thin with fork and knife, and don’t get a slices surely and deftly, .and lift them DROP of gravy or a SCRAP of meat on the clean cloth. Father can’t do that ... He can’t even sit down at the job. He has to stand up and tackle the thing by what is practically main force. He hacks it off and serves chunks to his polite guests. The other day father saw a mo tion picture of an Arabian meal In Africa ... He saw the cooks pre paring whole carcasses of mutton over an open fire, then carrying the meat on wide platters to a table and laying it before the hungry shieks in their spotless robes or togas or whatever you call them . . . And then he saw those chieftains picking off scraps of meat with their fingers, neatly and efficiently, without knives or folks . . . And he almost envied them, because there was no "head of the table,” and nobody had to carve. But the worst thing aboub father’s carving—the family seems to agree— Is that he doesn’t carve enough . . . Something about being on his feet before a roast loosens his tongue, and, instead of carving, he talks . . . He bells tall stories, he makes atro cious puns, he laughs at his own jokes, he keeps people waiting till the food gets cold. i Something should be done abqpt it, but I don’t know what . . . Per , haps it would be better to serve , chops. CAMP FOLLOWERS! fCONOtA*:\ UN*esT\ i •> j .CFt.. /to - *~ ■ j —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— THIS CONVENTION DRYER Because Liquor Costs More, Says Stewart THAN ONE IN “DRY” ERA Central Press, Bureau at G. O. P. be they could do it by concentrating Convention. . > By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) CLEVELAND, June 9.—Cleveland enjoys the distinction of bein the first city to entertain a post-war con vention with legal drinks. Not that the earlier ones really were dry, but they were supposed to be. The Republican convention of 1924 when Calvin Coolidge was named for the presidency, also was a Cleveland affair, and in the same auditorium as this year’s. The nomination was made in a ringing prohibition address in the course of which the expression, “The law reigns,” was used again and again. Now, about half a city block from that convention hall was a neat little speakeasy, where customers could and did sit, sipping their hooch and listening to the nominating orator’s words as they were brodacast by ra dio. Dry?—Ha! Prohibition officialdom swore, In advance of the 1928 conventions, that they actually would dry Kansas City and Houston up, and I thought may- SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R, J. SCOTT wZ . 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It said editorially that that city was as well supplied with speakeasies as any town of its size—at least twice or thrice 75. And it argued that I should have counted drug stores, too. • • « Not Arid Here, Either Houston had a whole row of drink ing joints right across the street from the auditorium. There, as in Cleveland in 1924, it was possible to quaff a glass of moonshine on the front porch of one of these places (they even served the stuff outside, in plain view of pass ersby) and follow the convention I speeches at the same time. The Houston oratory wasn’t dry, : however. That was a wet conven tion—the one which nominated Al Smith. Chicago, of course, was simply dripping as always, in 1932. ♦ * • Prices High In Cleveland Yet inebriety in Cleveland this year, with drinks legalized, has seem ed to me less prevalent than I have observed at prohibition-day political gatherings. For one thing, the prices are al most ruinous. They are everywhere, for that matter. Forty cents for a small shot of in different liquor, plus a sales tax on top of it, is too much for the average convention delegate’s pocketbook to stand very long. This as compared with a maximum of 15 cents for a similar dose in the pre-prohibition era. In fact, it is only 10 cents less, not to mention the sales tax, than ordinarily was charged during the prohibition pe riod. No Fun Any More Besides, there is less fun in walk ing up to an open-and-above-board bar and buying a perfectly lawful drink than there was in sneaking into a dirty hole-in-the-wall and en i joying the sensation of fracturing the United States constitution. Cleveland’s, Kansas City’s, Hous ! ton’s and Chicago's speakeasies were packed to suffocation in 1924, 1928 and 1932. This year my observation has been i that their barrooms have been the least crowded spots in Cleveland’s , hotels. I HOROSCOPE FOR SUNDAY Persons whose birthday is Sunday ’ ma; be close in money matters, but sometimes show a marked generosity, especially toward friends. They are faithful and loyal to what they con sider their duty. —WORLD AT A GLANCE- YOUTH IN DESPAIR For Failure to Meet Realities AT CONVENTIONS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer CLEVELAND, June 9—There. ifi one marked thing concerning this convention: The despair of the new young newspaper man—the man with ideals—covering his first convention. The convention itself is largely col orless. But the men who come to write of it are interesting to observe. To all of them, names mean nothing. To the majority of them, accomplishment means a great deal. They are eager to find a man of accomplishment. They desire to write of him. Newspaper writers ever are in search of a hero. When they are young, they believe there are heroes. But when newspaper men become older, they realize thre are few heroes. And they realize, too, that progrss comes only with the bitterest of struggles. « * * Youth Hopes If the spirit of the young newspa per men at this Republican conven tion represents the spirit of the youth of the nation, then the Republican party is a long way from victory. Rather, if would seem on the road to oblivion. Matters discussed by political lead ers Seem so far from the realities of the times —which may be true of the Democratic convention, too—that youth out on the street, and in plants and in offices. This writer has stopped to hear them—many of them—in Cleveland. Were it only youth that turns away, party leaders still would have a considerable following. But age, now, is far more radical. Youth and age are walking hand-in-hand at the moment. And party conventions go on in the same tweedle-dum-tweedle-dee man- MyNew York By James As well - --i—l-1 n NEW YORK, June 9—lnterview With a Tango Team ’- Q. Why do the very fashionable restaurants and night clubs always book at least one tango team? A. (He) Because they’re all alike. It’s a standard article and they can be sure of what they’re getting. If they hired a comedian he might ad lib and distress the patrons. But tango teams, like middle-aged women who sing piquant songs at the piano in low lights, can always be depended upon to serve up the trademarked commodity. Therefore the very fash ionable night clubs always employ one middle aged lady to sing piquant songs and one tange team. Q. Is your work hard? A. (She) Certainly not. If it were difficult, like juggling or wire acro batics, we would be worth only SIOO a week as a team. Because it’s a cinch we draw down SSOO. Q. Have you ever danced abroad? A. (He) Sure. But whenever you see a dance team advertised as “just back from a triumphal tour of Europe’’ you know that they have had rocky going for a while. Those European joints don’t pay any money, and sometimes it’s had to take what you do earn out of the country. Some times when business is slack we go to Europe as a sort of vacation and we’re lucky if we make expenses. Q. I notice the lady wears a beau tiful but very gossamer and traily gown while dancing. Aren’t you ever afraid of stepping on it? A. (He) Ido step on it! Once my partner had a very special danc ing gown made. There was 175 feet of train and flying ends. Actually 175 feet! One night I fell on my face when it got under me. After that I discovered hoW I could simply get aboard and ride during most of the number. So she got a new gown. Q. How often do you devise and present new numbers? A. (She) Oh, frequently. But the ballroom dance is really as rigidly formalized as the sonnet—only easier to do well. It’s really a series of poses. It always gives us a laugh because the audience never sees the difficult steps. But let my partner whirl me eight or ten times in any direction and the applause is thunderous. Q. Do you ever forget your routine? With so many dances, I should think an off-beat in the music might con fuse you. A. (He) Once in a while I forget. My partner (bowing humorously) never forgets. But after we had been doing a dance of years, the newsreels asked us to do it on the terrace at a Southern resort. As soon as the cam eras started griding I completely for got every step in the routine and had to sit down on the balustrade to think it over. Q. Do you think a tango team is necessary to the entertainment of patrons in the uppity cases? A. (He) Oh, sure. I wouldn’t say no, would I? But the elderly folk who frequent these places put them selves in our places, as it were, and imagine that they are sailing about airily without benefit of rheumatism. It’s good psychology. But the young folk always go to a supper room be cause of the orchestra that’s playing there at the time. They never even think about the acts. Q. What was your most embarrass ing moment? A. (In Chorus) That time we found the joint was bankrupt, in Czechoslovakia, and we weren’t going to get paid at the end of the week. Q. I mean on the floor—your most embarrassing moment while perform ing. A. (She) Oh, we once danced in a mountain resort in New Hampshire. The altitude was 2,500 feet. After one brisk number we both fainted in the middle of the floor. ner, oblivious to realities. • * • There They Sit One young newspaper man remark ed, after observing party leaders of long standing sitting in judgment on delegate contests: “There they sit—as they sat twenty years ago. They do not seem to have suffered. They speak of unreal things, in parables, at that. ‘Paragraph such and-such, section so-and-to —amend- ed.’ “There they sit, condemning and determined to hang on till they totter with age. “But out in the world terrible things have happened. And what are they offering?” Perhaps Governor Landon will offer something. In fact he is offering something—a sort of states’ lights’ New Deal, requiring a constitutional amendment or two, which makes the hair of the Old Guard stand on end. The bitter-end attitude of the Old Guard toward Landon develops from the fact that he is viewed as favoring social evolution to a degree. The Old Guard shivers when it thinks of that. * * • Insurmountable? Actually the problems of the Dem ocratic administration suddenly have become the problems of the Repub lican convention. Efforts of the newer blood within the G. O. P. to write a constructive platform have brought the party face to face with the voters. There is no denial now, the su preme court, in its 5-to-4 decision kill ing the New York state minimum wage law, and denying states’ rights as well as federal rights in the mat ter, dealt the Republicans a blow. Even conservative men begin to fear that a judicial oligarchy— perhaps merely five justices—could vitiate ev ery forward movement. Also, what kind of a farm act would be constitutional? it must be remem bered that even Republicans cannot forecast what five men on the su preme court bench may Interpret as constitutional or unconstitutional. Furthermore, if an anti-monopoly plank is adopted, will it hold water? Some well-known Republicans and anti-New Deal Democrats have been using every legal effort to vitiate anti monopoly New Deal laws. - All Os Us - OCCASIONALLY I receive a kind letter from someone who praises my “philosophy”. And whenever that happens I feel like a faker . . . Because I know I am receiving praise under false pre tenses. After all, the test of a “philosophy” is: Does it work when it’s needed? Does it support a man in poverty and riches, in sickness and health, in victory as well as in defeat? ... Is it a good tool, or is it merely a doo dad for the mantel-piece? . . . There’s your test of a sound philo :ophy, be cause wisdom is in action, uci Just in words. Back in the first year of the war, in 1914, that great Frenchman, Ro main Rolland, who hated war because he loved mankind, refused to change his principles and became unpopular in France . , . When his friends beg ged him to find reasons for support ing that war, he said he did not see why he should abandon his prin ciples just when they were necessary to him. That’s how I feel about any man’s philosophy, that’s the way I feel about my own . . . And I cannot accept that praise before I know I have earned it ... I have been happy, I have been well, I have had friends, I have al ways had a Job when I needed one, I have known no great tragedy, no suf fering except what I have brought upon myself, I have never, known months of illness, I have never been abandoned and friendless, I have far better fortune than the great major ity of human beings ... So far I LUCK HAD THE BREAKS op Can any man who has lived that sort of life, a life that has made no extraordinary demands upon his wis dom or his courage, accept praise for his “philosophy”, blandly, smugly, as though he had properly earned it? Once I paid good money for a saw. ... It looked like a fine tool, it was guaranteed to be of good steel. But it lost its edge quickly, and when I took it to an old fellow to have it set the teeth broke under his setting tool and he told me it was worth less: the steel in it was poor and I might as well throw it away. Noth ing could be done for it. Praise no man’s “philosophy”. Learn first hether it is a true re flection of his character! The Grab Bag ONE MINUTE TEST 1. What is a philatelist? 2. Who succeeded the late Joseph W. Byrns as speaker of the house of representatives? 3. Where is Lombardy? HINTS ON ETIQUETTE Once considered the height of rude ness, it Is now proper to suggest defi nitely the length of a guest's stay when inviting someone to your home. The invitation should be short, cov ering only those points which apply to the visit. HORD OF WISDOM The ripest peach is highest on the tree.—James Whitcomb Riley. TODAY’S HOROSCOPE , If your birthday is today, you tend to be willful, determined, shrewd, penetrating, harsh at times, but gen erally kind and loving. J Today is the Day ' By CLARK KINNAIRD. Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Tuesday, June 9: Children’s Day. Morning stars: Mercury, Venus, Sat urn, Uranus, Jupiter (which becomes an evening star tomorrow). Evening stars: Neptune, Mars (which becomes a morning star tomorrow.) SCANNING THE SKIES: This is a notable weather anniversary. The first tornado recorded in America struck the new town of New Haven, Connecticut colony, at 2:30 o’clock p. m., June 9, 1682. • « • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Raymond B. Fosdick, b. 1883, law yer and humanitarium —president of Rockefeller Foundation . . . Fred Waring, b. 1900, architect who became a popular orchestra leader . . . Titta Ruffa, b. 1877, opera singer and de signer of wrought iron . . . Count Felix von Luckner, b. 1886, German sea raider famed for gallantry and hum anity . . ? • * * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 9, 68 A. D.—Nero, 6th and most illfamed of Roman emperors, died at 31 by his own hand, after servants had contemptuously denied bls last request and refused to kill him. Thus he fulfilled a prophecy of seers who had also warned his moth er that he would become emperor and kill her. “Let him kill me, but let him reign,” she had said, and mar ried and poisoned Emperior Claudius to pave the way for him. To kill her, Nero had a boat built that would fall to pieces at a given moment, and affectionately coaxed her into taking a trip in it. She escaped by swimming out of the wreckage, so he sent soldiers to mur der her in her home. ♦ ♦ ♦ June 9, 1628—“1f you don’t lik/ this country, why don’t you go bade to where you came from” may have been uttered for the first time. The first man was deported from one of the American colonies—Thomas Mor ton was sent back to England from Plymouth colony for “licentious con duct.” Specifically, Morgan “became a lord of misrule, and maintained a school of atheism, spending one pound ten worth of liquors in a morning, setting up a May-pole, and drinking, frisking, and dancing about it like so many fairies or furies.” Morton was a lawyer, and the au thor of the first book published about the country and the Indians. * * * June 9, 1672—The child who was to become Peter I, the Great, might iest of Russian czars, was born. He developed a powerful army, then in stalled a substitute emperor secretly while he joined the army’s ranks as a private to see if it was properly of ficered. The woman he loved most, Ludy Mary Hamilton, an English woman, he had beheaded when her child was found murdered, and her head is preserved today in alcohol among the imperial archives. As his empress he chose the laundress of a Protestant clergyman. • * • June 9, 1791—John Howard Payne was bom. He was 18 when he be came the first native American to play “Hamlet,” and 31 when he wrote the words of “Home, Sweet Home,” the best known. American non-patrlot ic song. But it isn’t an American song; the music was adapted by an Englishman from an old Sicilian air. June 9—Among State Histories: 1625 Sarah de Repelje was the first white child born in what is now New York, the world’s largest city. Her parents were French Huguenots . . . 1732—George II granted a charter for a colony in Georgia to James E. Oglethorpe. ♦ • * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Americans were not permitted to enter Mexico at El Paso. That news was in the paper. Something much more import ant wasn’t, because Americans weren’t allowed to know about it. Washington learned France and Britain made a treaty relative to Turkey. Both powers “afe prepared to accord recognition and protection to an independent Arab state or a confederation of Arab states”; Eng land to obtain the ports of Haifa and Ancre and rights elsewhere; France "is autorlzed to establish such ad ministration ... as they desire . . . to establish after the agreement with the (contemplated) state or confed eration of Arab states” France is given commercial right, etc. This was one of the Secret Treaties about which there was to be a bitter flurry in the U. S. Senate in 1936, dhen President Wilson was declared to have falsified his testimony before a Senate committee in 1919 concern ing his pre-knowledge of the treaties. Wilson declared that he knew noth mg of these until the Versailles Peace Conference. But the British govern ment, Colonel House’s published ‘Papens”, Walter Lippman and oth er authorities have furnished evidence that Wilson did know long before Verdailies of how far the diplomats £ Pari5 ’ and Rome had gone m dividing up the loot the U. 8 was to enable them to win. (To Be Continued) one minute test answers 9 ws^ llector of stamps. 2- William B. Bankhead. 3. In northern Italy. As early as 1794, the United States supreme court indicated that it had declare an act of However, it was not until 1803, in the case of Marbury held US <J2 a ? + L ? n ’ that the court held definitely that the power was one of the necessary corollarie® of the constitution. One of Harold Lloyd’s films, "The Freshman" took in more money than any Charlie Chaplin movie. In playing Hamlet, Edwin Booth used a real squll of a Hamlet, that of George Cook, first actor to play Hamlet in America.