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EFFICIENT POLICE WORK.
'A letter from one of our readers, which appeared in yes
terday’s Savannah Daily Times, complimenting the efficient
work of the Chatham county police force in handling the traf
fic situation on the Tyhee road during the summer months,
brings us to the full realization of the alert and careful patrol
ling of this highway by our county officers.
Perhaps the major part of our county summer driving has
as its terminus, the facilities and natural advantages of Savan
nah Beach, and the huge maze of travel which makes the trip
each Sunday is clearly indicative of the many varied traffic
problems confronting the police. Hundreds of cars are always
on their way to and from Savannah’s beach resort, and due to
the width of the road and number of cars, it is a serious situa
tion when one driver disobeys the laws in force, as one car can
hold up traffic for many miles.
It is an amazing fact that the police have more trouble with
drivers who drive under the minimum speed law, than with
drivers who drive over the maximum regulation. This appears
ridiculous, but in order to keep the line of traffic moving, it is
necessary that the cbunty enforce a minimum law.
Thirty miles per hour has been the speed set for this re
quirement, and it appears that this minimum is clarifying the
traffic problems in the utmost. Nothing can be more exasperat
ing than to have a car hold up an entire line of autos when there
is absolutely no need for driving under the law. Everyone has
experienced this occurence and it runs true to form that there
is no possible way to go around the automobile in question be
cause of the approaching line of cars. It can be traced to the
fact that most of the accidents which occur on Sundays, which
claim the bulk' of Tybee road’s traffic, happen because of a car
trying to run the gauntlet of approaching automobiles in order
to pass a car which has been driving under the minimum law.
All of these many problems are but a few which confront
the daily life of an average Chatham county policemen. Always
courteous to the ninth degree and willing to help in any emerg
ency which might arise, this band of men are to be congratu
lated for their work in past seasons, and it is hoped that we
might again experience their efficiency for the current summer
months.
OUR READERS’ FORUM |
(All communications intended for pub
lication under this heading must 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 imited to 100
words.
The Savannah Daily Times doee not
Intend that the selection of letters pub
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:
The American Gold Star mothers
have asked the federal government
to give life pensions to mothers who
lost their sons in the World war.
Delegates to the Gold Star moth
ers convention In Detroit drew up a
resolution asking for SSO monthly
pensions, and free hospital and med
ical care for the mothers of World
war victims.
The chairmen of the resolutions
committee, Mrs. Alice Davis of Los
Angeles, explained that Gold Star
mothers have been receiving $57.50
a month since her son’s death but
that these payments from govern
ment insurance w’ll stop in 1938.”
This is a worthwhile movement and
I hope your paper will be for it. The
LISTEN, FOLKS!
—TO WILLIAM RITT—
A radio spelling bee which Is ex
pected to draw thousands of high
svhool students to more than a dosen
stations in six states is being ar
ranged by the Lake Erie exposition
in Cleveland.
The spellers will do their stuff in
two half-hour program* per week
over each station. The result will be
two winners from each studio, to be
brought to the exposition for the
finals, July 24-25.
Stations WJW, Akron; WHBC, Can
ton; WE Al. Cincinnati; WAIU, Co
lumbus; WSPD, Toledo, and WKBN,
Youngstown, in Ohio, and WLEU,
Erie, in Pennsylvania, are reported
among those stations participating.
• • •
A BEMI STUDJO, operated by the
national government, 1* planned for
the new Interior Department building
in Washington.
The plant, which would be the first
government radio station, would have
no other equipment than a set of
microphones and switchboards with
which it could connect local studios.
The station would be for the use
of all federal agencies.
boye got their bonus, now it’s time
to do something for mothers, who
lost their sons in the same war.
A GOLD STAR MOTHER.
EDITOR, Daily Times:
I read with interest letters ad
dressed to your column praising
county police for their vigilance in
keeping traffic moving on the Tybee
road, which is, I agree, very com
mendable. However, I do not believe
that we should pass lightly over the
service city police are rendering in
apprehending reckless and foolhardy
drivers within the city limits. Every
day in police court many persons are
meted out stiff punishment, which
is well deserved, and which is evi
dence of the alertness of our officers.
While perhaps the local speed limit
of 15 miles per hour is antiquated,
speeds of 50 and 60 through the city
streets are certainly not to be tole
rated. Such drivers, who apparently
believe they are specially licensed to
speed through our city, overrunning
boulevard stops, crossing traffic
lights, driving with improper lights,
etc., should be dealt with exactly as
city police seem to be doing so ef
ficiently.
A bouquet to our city police, as
well as to the county officers!
A return to popularity among broad
casters and sponsors of the bonus
radio show is seen in the increasing
demand for time spots of that length
for next season.
Popularity of such hour-long shows
as Fred Allen, Rudy Vallee, “Show
Boat,” Major Bowes’ Amateurs, and
several of the recent full-hour
straight dramatic shows.
However, not all radio stars relish
the long time, believing a half-hour
sufficient for their types of program.
These stars probably will continue on
a half-hour basis.
LINENS EASY TO LAUNDER
Light weight and sheer linens are
cool and easy to launder, and hand
kerchief linen is staging a comeback
this season. For those who prefer
something heavier, however, even in
a summer dress, there are the lawns
and cambrics. Handkerchief linens
this year may be had in clever em
broideries and colors. Hand blocked
designs are striking for those who
wish something daring.
REVAMPING THE OLD SLOGAN!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
HAS FARLEY OVERDONE
In His Effort to Have Smooth Sailing
DOLING OUT OF JOBS?
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 3 Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, June 11.—Although
young Senator Rush D. Holt of West
Virginia is by far the noisiest of
Democrats in accusing his own party’s
administration of playing politics
with relief in his home state, he by
no means is the only one to make
the complaint.
The others simply are more dis
creet; they murmur instead of shout
ing.
Os course Republican charges of
the kind are be expected; that
there are so many disgruntled Demo
crats is more surprising.
Explainable
Yet it is explainable.
If politics had been played to the
angry Democrats’ liking they would
not have been angry. To the con
trary, they now would be denying
that there has been any politics-play
ing.
But such of it is may have been
done has been done mainly at the
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dictation of Democratic chairman
(and Postmaster General) James A.
Farley. And Farley has dictated large
ly in what he evidently has conceived
to be President Roosevelt’s re-election
chances without much regard for the
prospects of local candidates—repre
sentatives and even senators.
• • •
Did Farley Go Too Far?
Os course, there are a few moguls
in both houses of congress whose
recommendations have had respectful
consideration, but those of the rank
and file of legislators have been
rather cavalierly treated.
Naturaly, the ones whom the ad
ministration has pooh-poohed in the
matter of appointments are mightily
indignant. ,
It is not altogether certain that
Farley has not overdone his policy
of subordinating local candidacies to
the national administration’s sup
posed advantage. It may prove to
have bred a deal of influential Demo
cratic disaffection, which will profit
the G. O. P. on election day.
If it was an error it is too late to
correct it now, anyway.
• • •
“Antis” Given Jobs
Farley has gone to the extreme of
giving many of the New Deal’s emer
gency jobs to anti-New Dealers.
This may sound very non-partisan
and open-minded, but another inter
pretation it is open to is that his
alm is to keep the “antis” quiet.
In Washington this is very no
ticeable.
This town is full of newspapermen,
many of who mwere jobless, when
the New Dealers came into power.
The New Deal agencies needed pub
licity experts wholesale, and it em
ployed them from the unemployed
journalistic class by scores of hun
dreds—and most of them were
“antis.”
It Doesn’t Work
Far be it from me to find fault
with the New Deal for giving a job
to a jobless anti-New Deal news
paperman.
But if the New Deal reckons that,
by hiring that chap, it has him con
verted it has another guess coming.
He faithfully turns out mimeo
graphed pro-New Deal propaganda,
but he sits around the National Press
club and talks to his fellow-scribes
(to whom that same propaganda is
being franked by Postmaster General
Farley) as anti-New Dealerishly as
ever.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
SOME DIFFICULT PLANKS
In Regard to Labor, Isolation, Social Security
FOR G.jO. P. BUILDERS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CLEVELAND, June 11 —On one im
portant platform plank both Repub
licans and Democrats promise to
agree—that the hours of labor must
be shortened, in order to relieve un
employment.
But organized labor does not prom
ise to be satisfied. It desires to know
the answers to a few other questions,
as for example:
1.,Wi1l the parties agree that col
lective bargaining and all its con
comitant essentials be written deep
into fundamental law and upheld in
practice?
2. Will the parties agree that con
gress “assume its prerogative" and
curb the supreme court’s “anti-labor"
tendency (as labor sees it)? For ex
ample, in the Guffey coal act deci
sion, the court upheld the right of
the government to regulate the in
dustry to maintain prices for owners
but denied the government the priv
ilege of regulating wages and hours
uncer the act.
3. Will the Republican party (and
the Democratic party) push for arti
fication of the child labor amend
ment?
The foregoing are three of the most
important questions. There are many
other questions to which labor desires
an answer. And the parties will find
it difficult to give answers.
No leading candidate will give a
direct answer. Governor Landon’s
answer to a query on regulation of
hours and wages, in an interview, was
unsatisfactory to organized labor.
The Republican labor plank is not
likely to please either side.
Some advisers are urging that la
bor be won by a cry against “regi
mentation” and “dictatorship". La
bor leaders smile at that.
• • •
Isolation
The Republicans will continue with
an isolationist plank in their plat
form, in so far as foreign policy is
concerned.
But that will not satisfy either the
international traders and bankers of
the east or the automobile and ma
chinery manufacturers of the middle
west.
Leading financial interests are iso
lationist no longer. They desire bar
riers broken down, they desire inter
national trade, they predict economic
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, June 11—People and
Palaver: George Abbott, the gangling,
gray-templed producer and author, is
one of the few playwrights I know
who writes exclusively in long-hand
... He is now in the midst of three
compositions—a comedy of his own,
a collaboration with Rodgers and
Hart (musical) and a version of “Un
cle Tom’s Cabin” ... He hops from
one to the other without ever getting
writer’s cramp, and turns up at all
the uppity Broacway parties into the
bargain . . . Carl Brisson, the Danish
warbler and movie hero, has a smile
the tooth-paste manufacturers dream
about ... I don’t know why, but
there’s a giggle in the idea of Billy
Rose in Texas: I’d give a nickel to
see him on a horse . . .
William Powell apparently goes on
enactnig echoes of ‘ The Thin Man,”
which was such a hit . . . “The Ex
Mrs. Bradford" is the deftest of these
versions so far . . . But why not try a
new tack? ... A merry tale of how
Vincent Price, who plays Prince Al
bert In “Victoria Regina" and whose
papa is a candy manufacturer, had a
box of all day suckers emblasoned
with the name “Helen Hayes" made
and presented to the star ... It is im
possible to suck the name off the
candy, and cast and stagehands have
tried diliegntly . . . Incidentally, Miss
Hayes has received thousands of dol
lars worth of strange and ingenious
Queen Victoria memorabilia since she
began playing the part, including a
portrait of the queen done on the
inside of an eggshell and jeweled . . .
• * *
The most memorable act in any
night club, at the moment, is for this
reporter the turn done by a brother
and sister at the Hollywood Cabaret.
. . . They are Charlotte and Charles
Lamberton and they are said to be
absolutely deaf and incapable of
speech . . . The drummer gives them
a heavy beat during their whirls and
tango tapping, which they pick up
through their feet . . . Red-heads,
they are both In their teens and
Charlotte is a raving beauty . .
Phil Spitalny, the bandman, tells
me that he nearly went crazy trying
to find 32 girls who combined beauty
and musical ability ... It was for
one of those so-popular gal jazz ag
gregations . . . Dorothy Parker’s lime
nek might be re-written; “Men sel
dom make passes at girls who blow
brasses.” . . .
How to put on the ritz: The Hud
son River Day Line's Show Boat
Rides will be known this season as
The Day Line Evening Cruises."
The iaotic game of “handies”, which
involves the representation of the
names of songs and popular phrases
through cute poses and gesticulations
continues to make parlors hideous
roundabout . . . But your reporter,
donning his beard, solemnly predicts
that "handies" will be forgotten in a
month and will not even form a foot
note to some future historian’s “Only
Yesterday” researching ... It lacks
even the exotic appeal of Mah-Jong
when that wierd game was first in
troduced . . . The Monopoly boards
seem to be gathering dust, also, and
I'm told stewards had to search clos
ets to find a backgammon board at
the Union League Club the other
night.
chaos and disaster without it.
The Republicans, therefore, face a
fight over the traditional high tariff
plank.
Thus, there may be a straddle
isolation on international affairs, but
“vigorous endeavors to regain for
eign trade” without cutting the tariff.
Although, at the moment, no predic
tion can be made —for such planks
are difficult to construct.
* * *
Munitions
One of the queslons bobbing up is
one that the Republicans would like
to shun:
Shall »ve nationalize munitions’
manufacture?
The public is very much for it, the
duPonts very much against it.
If only munitions were at stake,
the question would not cause such
perturbation. But “nationalize” has
an unwelcome sound to the Republi
cans. And if one industry can be na
tionalized, will there not be a demand
for the nationalization of other in
dustries—in the end, all industries?
* * *
Taxes
The writing of a tex plank by ths
Republicans will be easy. It will be
a mere matter of condemnation.
But the aftermath will not be so
easy. Some of the wiseacres are be
ginning to vision that.
The minority that now cries for
social regulation through taxation
may grow into a majority—under
“demagogues”. The Roosevelt plan,
halted by the senate, to force out un
distributed earnings through taxation,
pleased that minority. But they be
lieved it did not go far enough. There
you have the cause for worry.
* * •
Social Security
And here is the worst hurdle ctf all
to surmount, in writing a platform—
social security.
Neither Republicans nor Democrats
will surmount it. That is, to the sat
isfaction of those desiring social se
curity.
In short, there is a growing minor
ity in the United States that may
form a third party by 1940—0 r ab
sorb one of the two old parties. The
Republicans insist they will not be
the ones to be absorbed. They will
remain the stronghold (and haven)
for conservatives. They believe the
United States will remain a conserva
tive country. They are staking vic
tory on that assumption.
You’re Telling
Me?
A central European genius has just
Invented an electric bell attachment
for church collection plates. This is
the world’s first alarm clock designed
to awaken one’s conscience.
• « •
A newspaper in Surat. India,
recently made a front pag? ..tory
of a wedding there between two
monkeys. Why the excitement?
That happens often in the Unit
ed States.
• • •
Maybe the reason the poet wrote
that “Flowers are the language of
love” was because he knew no girl
ever won a breach of promise suit by
exhibiting a withered bouquet in
court.
« * •
Another paradox is that while
the railroad fare between New
York and Philadelphia has
dropped to SI.BO New York and
Philadelphia are farther apart
than ever—in the American
league.
• * ♦
“Rome,” wrote John Heywood,
“was not built in one day,” Ha! So
the WPA project boys had a hand in
that one, too!
♦ ♦ •_
We read that Alex Woronka, a
Canadian miner, has won a prize
by eating four pounds of sausage
at one sitting. That sounds like
a lot of baloney.
* * *
Haile Selassie, ex-king of Ethiopia,
at his first press conference in Lon
don. served thirsty reporters glasses
of Italian vermouth. First thing we
know he’ll be suggesting a toast to
Mussolini.
- All Os Us -
Outside my window I heard the
squeal of sudden brakes, and then a
crash. ... I knew what it was, a
collision of automobiles, and it was
none of my business, but I had to
gawk.
That’s what it was. all right, and
straight across the street I saw a
splendid new car with a crumpled
rear fender and its bumper hanging
crookedly. ... Down the street a
few feet was an old, oM. car that
didn’t sem to be hurt a bit . . . and
from the positions of the cars it was
obvious that the old car had smacked
the new car and was in the wrong.
Out of that new car stepped a
handsome lady—and was she furious?
(She was.) . . . Costly her apparel
as h&r purse could buy, not so young
as she had been, but with a challeng
ing air of authority. . . . Out of the
old car lounged a young fellow, tall,
broad shouldered, curly hair, not so
well dressed, not a bit afraid, and
with a grand SMILE on his Irish
features.
What happened? . . . Well, I
couldn’t hear the words, but I could
see what happened. . . . She frowned,
he grinned (not impudently, just
pleasantly). She made abrupt ges
tures, he was polite and friendly, ad
mitting everything, I think. . . . They
stood in the street and had a pleas
ant conversation. ... I’m sure he
flattered her, I’m just as sure she
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for thia Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Thursday, June 11: Corpus Chris
ti, a holiday in 26 countries. Kema
haha day in Hawaii. Moon: Last
quarter tomorrow.
Scanning the skies: Before the
change in calendars .the 11th of
June was the summer solstice, cele
brated as St. Barnabas’ day. Thig
was expressed proverbially in Eng
land:
.... ‘Barnaby bright,
"The longest day, the shortest night”
And the weather on June 11 wa«
taken as prophetic for the summer.
« * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Richard Strauss, b. 1864, famed
composer of Salome, Elecktra, Rosen
kavalier, etc., who is not to be con
fused with the Straus who wrote The
Blue Danube or the Straus who com
posed The Chocolate Soldier. . . .
Jeannette Rankin, b. 1880, first
woman to be a member of Congress
. . . Alvin M. Owsley, b. 1885, U. S.
diplomat. . . . Ralph Pulitzer, b.
1879, newspaper publisher. ... Dr.
Leland O. Howard, b. 1857, chief en
tomologist of U. S. Department of
Agriculture—your No. 1 sentinel
against insect enemiea.
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 11, 1776—Chance made
Thomas Jefferson, 33, the author of
the most famous document in Ameri
can history.
Richard Henry Lee, who lhad in
troduced the resolution for indepen
dence into Continental Congress, waa
called to Virginia immediately after
ward, and Jefferson was given his
place in the committee assigned on
this date to draft the declaration to
accompany ‘ the resolution. Actual
composition of it fell to Jefferson,
and the rest is history.
The other members of the com
mittee were: John Adams, 41; Rob
ert R. Livingston, 30; Roger Sher
man, 55; Benjamin Franklin, 70.
Livingston, co-author, never signed
the Declaration of Independence.
100 Years Ago Today—Andre Am
pere died in Marseilles, aged 61, hav
ing achieved immortality as discov
erer of electro-magnetism and father
of modem physics. His father was
of the opinion that a well-endowed
mind must of necessity find the men
tal food that best agrees with it and
for that reason did not send Andre
to school. Without regular school
training, young Ampere had at 18
invented a universal language, learn
ed mathematics and algebra, com
posed a treatise on conical sections,
proved differential and calculus, mas
tered Greek, translated Horace into
French verse, worked out aerostatic
apparatus and instruments for ob
serving the stars!
• • •
June 11, 1859—Penrod Comstock
discovered the so-called Comstock
Lode Six Mile Canyon, Nevada. He
sold out for a few thousand dollars
and went on to another field. What
he left behind turned out to be the
richest and most remarkable find in
American history. Subsequent own
ers took more than $300,000,000 in
gold and silver from its four-mile
long compound fissure vein before
the end of the century. In one year
—1877—539,000,000 was dug out. It
was the foundation of the Mackay,
Fair, Flood and Mills fortunes.
* • •
June 11 Among State Histories—
-1796—U. S. flag of authority was
first raised in Michigan territory, at
Detroit . . . 1861—Wheeling conven
tion opens to organize West Virginia
State government . . . 1878—Perma
nent government of District of Co
lumbia was Instituted by Congress,
with a board of three commissioners
and no local legislative body. Thus
Washington became the first com
mission-ruled city.
♦ * •
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—British forces
under General Jan Smuts took Wil
helmstahl, capital of German East
Africa, where for two years a small
force of German officers and native
soldiers had been holding out against
overwhelming odds. But the cam
paign was not over yet. Germans
still held Maunsa, on the southern
shores of Lake Victoria, in which
there were strongly defended islands.
To get to these, Smuts’ army had to
transport ships piecemeal by railway
from Mombasa to Nairobi and then
overland, a truly Herculean’feat lost
sight of in war dispatches. Not only
that, but Smuts had to construct a
branch of the railway from Mombasa
to move his army and supplies.
(To be continued)
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. Where and when will the Demo
cratic convention be held this year?
2. Distinguish between (a) a bas
soon and (b) a monsoon.
3. What is the French system at
measurements called?
Hints on Etiquette
When guests are introduced to the
hostess, the latter should rise and
offer her hand whether the guest is
a man or woman. A younger woman
should rise whenever she is presented
to an older woman.
Today's Horoscope
If your birthday is today, you tend
to be proud, energetic, fearless and
impulsive. You have many friends,
a sufficient number of enemies but
are not malicious or unjust tn your
dislikes.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. It opens in Philadelphia June 23.
2. (a) A wood-wind musical instru
ment, (b) a periodic wind In the
Indian ocean.
3. The metric system.
liked it. In less than two minutes
she was smiling and laughing. . . .
She gave him her card, he wrote his
name on one of hers, he walked back
with her to her car and helped er
in with not-tooobvious a gesture.
. . . She waved her hands to him
as she purred away.