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PAGE FOUR . Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 802 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered ai 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 ,l€ 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 HARBOR DREDGING The presence of tugs representing three leading national dredging companies in our harbor and river on the stretch from Quarantine to Port Wentworth brings to us the realization that the country at large is watching the shipping activities of the City of Savannah. A part of a huge program by the government to increase waterfront facilities of the leading cities of the South, Savannah is to have a twenty-six foot channel from the mouth of the river to a point opposite Port Wentworth as her share of the proposed program. This gigantic dredging operation will place the city in the category of Southern ports well equipped tq take care of any exigency that might arise pertaining to any problems of ad vanced water transportation. Nothing is more pleasing than to have a waterfront busy with incoming and outgoing freighters who are destined to take their many cargoes to the far-flung corners of the world, in order to keep that vast system of all important transportation moving for the world’s needs. We all know that the only way that this can be accom plished is to provide suitable rivers, harbors and facilities for the loading or unloading of vessels who ply their trade. The government fully realizes this fact, and thus the interest which is being manifested in our harbor at the present time. Bids are to open soon for the letting of the contracts for the completion of this work, and upon the final say-so of the engineers who are in charge, Savannah will boast of a port which will be second to none in this section of the South. It is hoped that former days of prosperity will be quickened by the increased water traffic which has been shunning this port for the last few years. The idle wharves bring glaring examples of what Savannah can have if given the proper co-operation. In latter years, being merely a calling port, we hope that the city will now become a steamship terminus for a portion of the world’s business. OUR READERS’ FORUM | (Ml communications intended for pub lication under this heading; munt bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted in this column so that It may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be imlted to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not intend that the selection of letters pub liahed 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 Daily Times: Summer brings to me the realiza tion that the Chatham county police should be congratulated in the fullest sense for their remarkable work in keeping the traffic moving on the Tybee road during this busy season. The enforcement of the minimum speed law has brought many favor able comments in my circle of friends and I only hope that this summer will bring the same success enjoyed by this department of the Chatham county administration. Everyone knows the inconvenience guffered by travelers on the road when they are held up in a long string of cars tailing behind some driver who is jogging along under 30 miles per hour. I have been placed in that position a number oY times, and found it impossible to go around the cars because of an approaching line of autos. It appears that there are always some narrow minded drivers who de light in poking along and have no thought about those in the rear. Any normal driver certainly drives not slower than 30 miles per hour, but occasionally we are cursed with the picture of a car slowing rambling along holding up the entire string of cars in back of him. LISTEN, FOLKS! -TO WILLIAM RITT— SOME INTERESTING figures have been uncovered by the Colum bia Broadcasting system in its survey of public radio listening. After an intensive check 086 not only has discovered there are some 22,869,000 radio homes in this coun try but that the average daily listen ing period of families is 4.8 hours. The survey shows that in the wealthier classes, yearly incomes of SIO,OOO and up, the greatest number possess radios—99.4 per cent, but av erage the least number of listening hours —4.2. • • • AMERICA KEEPS its radio sets in good working order, too. The sur vey discloses that 96.1 per cent of lets checked were in good working order. However, more than 15,000,000 radio sets now in use are less than five years old and of this number more than 7,000,000 were purchased within the last two years. • Also Interesting, and this is logi cal, is the fact rural communities do more listening than the larger cities. I certainly wish to thank you for the opportunity of allowing me to place my thoughts in your “Read er’s Forum,” so that I can at least compliment the police of Chatham county for their worthwhile labors in trying to clear the above menace. AN APPRECIATIVE WRITER. Editor, The Daily Times: Anyone with a minimum of brains knows that few people live to be over 70. I would not be a party to a pension scheme to prevent the old people from getting an annuity after earning and spending money so many years. Give a pension to the people from 60 up and you will be doing something. Don’t wait till they are ready to be buried. Most of them are dead before they are over 70. We owe our existence to old people; why not ap preciate it? Everyone knows that those over 60 are not wan/ed on jobs and are too old to work anyhow. A VOTER. Editor, Daily Times: If corruption exists here, as is rumored, it’s because the clique is practically undisturbed at election time. Crookedness, if any, can only exist when a political setup becomes a clique which has the power to ex tend its protecting influence into all i organizations supposedly for sound law and business enforcement. i Shuffle the setup at election time. ’ Vote in the men who don’t get along. I Antagonism is stimulating Cliques ; bring stagnation When politicians ■ quarrel, they don't hoodwink the peo ; pig who wail about rank politics in ! this column CHARLES BADJIAN. Towns up to 25,000 produce listeners who average 5.6 hours with their radio sets on against 4.6 for cities of 250,- 000 or more. THERE HAS BEEN a steady in crease in listening hour averages with in the last five years. A survey tn 1931 showed an approximate average ■ of four hours against the 4.8 average of today. In the Income brackets of SIO,OOO ■ and up it is interesting to note the ' large number of families owning two or more radio receiving sets—s4.s per cent. L♦ ♦ ♦ NOTES: Among the radio stars, ’ Joe Louis seems to be a favorite to ! defeat Max Schmeling in their forth l coming bout. Those who like Louis’ i chances include Graham McNamee, ■ Jack Benny, Fred Allen, Ozzie Nel- I son, Bing Crosby, Lanny Ross and Frank Black . . . That Nickelodeon program switches from 10 p. m„ E. > D. S. T., Saturdays, to 10:30 p. m., . E. D. 3. T., Thursdays . THIS STREAMLINED AGE! <_ •* Ji w kw ( ® arsssiam. Mk?W ./! ?: IB tw IMi ® -WORLD AT A GLANCE— NO DEMOCRAT DESIRED As Running Mate on Republican Ticket BY G. O. P. DELEGATES By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) CLEVELAND, June 10.—Republic an delegates hope conservative Demo crats will come over to the Republic an ticket —but they do not desire a Democrat as the vice presidential nominee. That much seems certain. The believe that an all-Republican ticket would develop more strength than a hybrid ticket. Besides, the Republicans weren’t at all keen over the Democratic names suggested by the New York Herald- Tribune for a “Coalition” ticket. Former Governor Joseph B. Ely of Massachusetts lost his grip on Massa chusetts two years ago, when the present Governor James M. Curley stepped into state Democratic leader ship. And Newton D. Baker of Cleveland has been leading forlorn hopes in Ohio’s Democratic party for so long that it was with a sigh of relief he stepped out of the Cleve land leadership recently. In fact, he stepped out just in time to prevent being pushed out. That is not to say the men them- SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT & KWWW» \\ T- I . 'll 1 | «t—l‘L. <■ ■■ JHjJr •*f Ajr , /I \ hbi //al / A SHIP Wl<Hou<A HOME- SS.WEIKI 1$ AMD FLIES E- AUS<RIAK FLAq as au sir i a -Has ho O VESSEL HAS NO home port ■CdgEgk TcXAS has ( \ 1 / TV V , BEEN UNDE* Y. IK \ ' SIXFLAqS- ? '1 MAN * F/SAA-CE, * EVEN MILE gw- - MEXICO, Il WSiffMWIIIIUbHII KHECRY cF _ FW A REPUBLICS W. ABBOTT; CHAMP COUPEDERA.C /I H was heard 8 ™at far off united JI Cyprus Postage stamp SHOWS AM Cl ENT C-OIN OF AMAkNITAuS AS CENTRAL DESIGN ’ COPYRIGHT, 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 1930 selves are not men of ability—but, po litically, they offer nothing. NOT SO GOOD Furthermore, Newton D. Baker has been the leading attorney for the utilities in the attack on the holding company regulation act. That may fit in well with Republi can policies—but it would mean no votes. A “big corporation” lawyer, battling against government regula tion, has little popularity, among the masses. Baker has been decidedly “big cor poration” for years—and much of the time he has been against the gov ernment. SOUTH?—NO As for the suggestion of Senator Harry Byrd of Virginia: No. He would get “nowhere” in the industrial north. Besides, even rambunctious south ern Democrats will reman Demo crats—if they desire to stay in pub lic life. The Republicans do not seem in terested in trying to gain the south. They can win by concentrating on the Midwest and the East. DOUGLAS? Lewis Douglas of Arizona, former director of the budget, was the. best Democrat mentioned. People are genuinely interested in cutting ex penses. But even Douglas isn't so strong as the weakest Republican hitherto suggested for the vice presidency. He comes from a multi-millionaire copper family and the region from which he hales is no “gVat shakes” in the electoral college. MEN DESIRED Actually, the Republican delegates desire Republicans with votegetting power—Republicans from big states that G. O. P. leaders believe could be swung over. Representative James W. Wads worth of New York has proved him self a vote getter. So has Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan. In fact, Senator Vandenberg has proved himself much more of a vote getter than any Democrat mentioned. The rank and file of the Republi cans believe antl-New Deal Demo crats will come over to the Republi can party anyway. Where else can they go?. A Danger But the Borah group in Cleevland voices a warning that more Repub licans may go over to the support of President Roosevelt than Democrats will leave him to support the Repub licans. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— COURT’S CLEAVAGE As Between Conservatives and Liberals BECOMES MARKED Central Press, Washington Bureau. 1900 S street. By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, June 10.—Justice Owen J. Roberts’ vote with the Unit ed States Supreme court’s majority ot nullify New York’s law prescribing a minimum wage for women workers Is accepted as aligning him among the ultra-conservatives in the high tribunal. Hitherto there has been some un certainty concerning Roberts’ con stitutional philosophy. No one ever supposed that he was as liberal as Justices Louis D. Bran dels and Benjamin N. Cardozo. Still, when appointed to the bench in 1930, his views were supposed to be far enough to the left of center as to oc casion many expressions of surprise at his selection by so conservatve a White House tenant as President Hoover. But his judicial record, in passing on New Deal legislation, has been such as to convince all Washington that the former chief executive made no mistake in naming him. * * * With Conservatives It took the New Deal to bring out the conservatism in him. Until its advent no issue was raised really to test him. Since then he has been almost uniformly with the judicial supporters of the old or der. His agreement with Justices Willis Van De van. er, James C. Reynolds, George Sutherland and Pierce Butler that the New York minimum wage act is unconstitutional generally is regarded as settling any remaining doubt that he is of the ireconcilably conservatve faction. • * * Outlawed That 5-to-4 decision is spoken of, even by numerous conservatives, as reactionary. The court already had held that congress cannot fix minimum wages within state lines, for that would be respective authorities. Sound stateC respective authorities. Sound states’ rights reasoning possibly .Now, how ever, it has held that the individual states cannot do any local wage fix ing either. In short, minimum wage fixing is outlawed, either on a federal, a state wide or any other basis. ft ♦ ♦ The Division If Justice Roberts has classified himself, Justice Harlan F. Stone also has classified himself. Roberts was expected to be a mild liberal and turns out to be a con- " "■ L-jt.-.- assess MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK, June 10—Do you Re member (I don’t)? — When, away back in horse-and buggy days a country woman who kept a boarding house near Lakewood, N. J., hit the front pages by remarking the following about John D. Rocke feller, Sr., shortly to become 97 years old: “He ain't much of an eater and they say you could board him for $5 a week and still make money, even with milk high as it is.” * ♦ ♦ When the New York papers solemn ly printed Thomas A. Edison’s com ment on his friend, Henry Ford's project: Henry was on the right track, Thomas thought, to defy con vention by making a a gas-combustion horseless carriage when the fashion was for steam. * « • When Joseph Hodges Choate shock ed the 19th Century equivalent of the Dutch Treat Club with the toasty “I give you the Pilgrim Mothers. They had to live with the Pilgrim Fathers!” ♦ ♦ ♦ When Garden City, L. 1., was be ing boomed by A. T. Stewart as a development that was to duplicate Dublin, Ireland, down to street names and cathedrals. * * * When the tuxedo first appeared as New York’s lower East Side —worn with white satin ties, white satin aistcoats, embroidered shirts and dia an evening rig among the swells of mond studs; and was scorned by the sassiety set. ♦ * • When coal scuttles were gaily paint ed with landscapes and floral de signs. • • * When every well-to-do family made the neighbors ache with envy because of their statue of Venus de Milo, a clock planted amidships. • « • When no lawn was complete with out an iron deer. • * • When every whisk broom had a pink ribbon floating from the handle ring. • • • When the town thrilled with the first shipment of cuckoo clocks, direct from the Black Forest. • ♦ ♦ When the smart set went in for nature with the bark on and framed their pictures in ‘‘rustic’’ limbs. • ♦ * When every really fine home had its “Turkish cosy corner.” • « • When Peter Cooper, who negotiated the laying of the first trans-Atlantic cable, was the town's most popular citizen and drivers made way for his shay whenever it appeared on the streets. • • a When success was no crime, when the builders of America were revered for their courage and will, when the world owed nobody a living and when citizens loved the American system and the American dream. servative. Stone was expected to be an extreme conservative (President Coolidge appointed him), yet he has voted with the liberals on the Su preme bench concerning New Deal enactments as consistently as Rob erts ha svoted with the conservatves. Indeed, Stone has said some pretty tart things concerning the conserv atives’ attitude. The court divides: Brandels, Cardozo and Stone ver sus Van Devanter, Mcßeynolds, Suth erland, Butler and Roberts. * * • The Chief Justice Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes is a problem. He has liberal traditions —in his comparative youth was a regular re former. Nevertheless, he has one of those judicial temperaments—some times votes, on legal grounds, against what one would suppose to be his own natural instincts. Anyway, he voted against outlaw ing the New York minimum wage act. It does not matter; even when he is on the liberal side he is with the minority. • • • Demands Equality Wouldn’t one think that the ultra feministic Woman’s National party would have favored New York’s min imum wage law for women? Not so. It acclaims the Supreme court’s decision. Its reasoning is that such laws are intended to keep women out of jobs, by making them too expensive. It eposes minimum wages and mini mum hours and anti-night work for women. It demands absolute indus trial equality between the sexes. You’re Telling Me? / AGAIN, the United States supreme court finds a new deal law uncon stitutional, with the same score, 5 to 4. You’ve got to admit that Wash ington nine plays close games. ♦ ♦ ♦ Literary critic complains we no longer have poets with great im aginations. We have so—they are all in the advertising busi ness. You have to hand it to that Chi cago judge who jailed 120 reckless drivers in less than a month. Maybe the drivers won’t heed the lesson but think how much safer the streets are ■ while they are in jail. ♦ ♦ ♦ A big wind did $300,000 dam age to Cleveland this week. Now the citizens won’t even feel all that national political convention oratory. ♦ * ♦ The downtrodden masses never get any breaks. Now that the railroads have reduced their fares for paying passengers, about making the rods a little softer for the tramps? * • • Most people become sentiment al about wedding bells. But not father. He’s too busy thinking about the wedding bills. - All Os Us - AMERICAN FAMILY There were fine to look at, that mother and her three daughters. . Not beautiful, any of them, but they had that keen, eager look about their eyes that told everybody they were glad to be alive. Not a rich family, either. ... I mean, as far as money goes, but enormously wealthy in their own right. Mother, about 36 or 37, with a bit of gray In her brown hair, three little girls, one about 15, one about 10, the third about 6 years old . . And you could see they were go ing away for vacation. Mother car ried a suitcase, older sister, too: 10- year-old and six-year-old carried lit tle overnight case. . . . They weren’t going in their own car. if they had one, father needed it at home while his family was away. .... So they were going by train. . . . (And, do you know, I know one young lady of 11 years who has lived all her life in a city and hasn’t yet ridden on a steam train. ... and I think she’s been cheated of a very precious ex perience, not to have ridden in a train and heard the click of wheels on the track and gone through tun nels and counted the poles flying past.) So mother said they could each buy a magazine at the station to read on the train. . . . it’s a good thing they were early, because they took at least 10 minutes to choose those maga zines. . . . But, finally, mother and the older girl had a women’s maga zine apiece. The middle one had a movie magazine, and the littlest one clutched a book of “funnies” . . . And as they went out of the waiting room to the train that little one looked up at her mother, her face all shining with joy, and said: “Mother, mother! This is a treat!” And she smiled back at her happy child . . . and if you were looking at them your heart sort of turned over in your breast and you had a lump in your throat for the clean, sweet joy of that American family. I’l bet their father's proud of them —and maybe he has their pictures in his pocketbook to look at while they’re away. According to latest estimates of the earth's area, there are 33 000.000 square miles of fertile regions, 1,000.- 000 square miles of steppes and 5,000,000 square mites of deserts. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Wednesday, June 10; 341st day, 160th year of U. S. Independence; 11 days till Summer. Zodiac sign: Gemini. SCANNING THE SKIES: Jupiter, which now becomes an evening star, is at its greatest brilliancy, being op posite the Sun. For the rest of June this giant planet will be at its best. Since April Mars has faded out rap idly. It reaches its conjunction with the Sun today and Is invisible. Look for it again about July 1, in the east in the morning. * * • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Clyde Beatty, b. 1905, famed circus animal trainer . . . Mrs. Leslie Gar ter, b. 1862, celebrated actress . . . Henry Floyd Byrd, b. 1887, senator from Virginia . . . Guy B. Park, ,b. 1872, governor of Missouri . . . John W. Studebaker, b. 1887, U. S. Commis sioner of Education . . . Charles S. Wilson, b. 1873, U. S minister tn Yugoslavia . . Dr. Frederick A. Cook, b. 1865, Arctic explorer who may haw discovered the North Pole. * * » TODAY’S YESTERDAYS 300 Years Ago Today—John Winth rop, governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony, sent to his son, John, “at the mouth of the Conecticot” a let ter containing one of earliest refer ences to communications in New England. He wrote: “Mr. Hooker went hence upon Tuesday, the last of May, by whom I wrote you and sent all your letters, with one from England, and all such news as came to hand.” The Hooker mentioned was Rev. Thomas Hooker, who with 100 members of his congregation, set out from near Boston to settle at the present site of Hartford, Conn. The 100 journey required two weeks. ♦ ♦ ♦ June 10, 1809—Transportation and communication passed a new mile stone. The first steamship to make an ocean voyage, the Phoenix, built by John Stevens and son, Robert, at Hoboken, N. J., steamed out from Sandy Hodk for Philadelphia. A violent storm forced it to put in at Bamegat, but it later proceeded to Philadelphia, and it plied between there and Trenton for six weeks. The Phoenix was a sidewheeler, but Stevents had already built the first screw-propelled vessel, and worked out the first principles of streamlining, so that his ship could travel at the dizzy speed of 13 1-2 miles per hour. Stevens couldn’t send his Phoenix into New York, because Congress had granted a monopoly on steamship navigation in the Hudson to Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston! ♦ • • June 10, 1835 —Pauline Cushman was born in New Orleans, of Creole ancestry, a future famous spy of the Union army. In 1863, she was act ing in a play in Louisville, Ky., then in Union hands. Her role called for her to drink a toast to the Union. In Louisville at the time were a num ber of captured and paroled Confed erate officers, and one of them offer ed the actress SSOO to drink a toast to the Confederacy instead. She secretly reported the offer to Union officers and they, seeing a chance to use her as a spy, told her to drink the Confederate toast. Next per formance she lifted a glass before a crowded house and cried, “Here’s to Jeff Davis and the Southern Con federacy! May the South always maintain her honor and her rights!” A riot resulted, and Pauline fled the city. She toured Southern cities triumphantly and was enabled to obtain important information from Confederate officers which she passed on to the Union army. Inevitably sus piclon fell upon her and was twice sentenced to die. Each time her se ductive beauty and acting ability sav ed her. The Union army commis sioned her major in recognition oi her services. She is not to be confused with Charlotte Saunders Cushman, famous actress of a later day. ♦ * * June 10 Among State Histories: 1610—First Dutch settlers reached what was to become New York . . . 1692—Bridget Bishop was hanged at Salem, Mass., as a witch . . • Women suffrage granted by Wyoming . . . 1889—United Confederate Veterans was formed at New Orleans . . . * ♦ ♦ FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The Italian cabinet of Salandra resigned follow ing failure to obtain a vote of con fidence on its budget. Six days were to pass, six crucial days during which Austrians hammered at Italy relent lessly on the Trentino front in a major offensive, before Baselli suc ceeded in forming a new cabinet. Initial successes of the Austrians in the Trentino and on the Asiago plat eau was the first setback which the Italian troops had suffered and it re sulted in the first enemy occupation of any part of Italian territory. Com ing after a long period of only minor Italian successes, combined with heavy losses suffered, it caused a re vival of anti-war tendencies. Clericals, who had never approved the war, were suggesting that peace might be ob tained by agreement. There was a “defeatist” campaign in at least one big paper, La Stampa of Turin, and the Socialists had never given up their agitation against the war. French diplomats, aware of the’eon sequences if the agitation ran its course, hit upon a timely expedient: they provided money with which one of the best known, though discredited Socialists, one Benito Mussolini, could conduct a newspaper to defend the war and the Allied cause. JUST LIKE A WOMAN Polly—“ When Freddie and Elsie came back from th:-ir bridal trip he still had $2.50 in his pockets." Jessie—“ The stingy thing." The roar of the Grand falls on the Hamilton river in Labrador can be heard a distance of 20 miles. The river drops 200 feet over rapids five miles long and then makes a final plunge of 302 feet.
