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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 |
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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.
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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 .
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-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-
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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.