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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 33, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia * SUBSCRIPTION RATES ©tie Tear ......................... —....—........ 7.50 fix Months ....... ......... ................. 3.75 £hree Months ............... .............. ...... 1.95 ne Month .65 One Week ................ ——— ...... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Ghicago - 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 THE SELECTION OF LANDON The selection of Governor Alfred M. Landon as the torch bearer for the Republican party in the forthcoming presidential election is Indeed a compliment to the endeavor expended by the delegates to the Cleveland convention from the country-at-large. Highly respected by both Democratic and Republican par ties for the marked ability shown in the disposal of the duties pertaining to his position as chief executive of his home state. Kansas, this nominee is indeed a good choice to carry his party s banner against the Democratic ticket, and will run as fine, if not finer race as any man willing to pit his fortunes in a fight, predistined to fail, in the face of an overwhelming foe. Perhaps one of the greatest tributes ever paid to any one person in the glamorous setting of American politics was to this diminutive, dynamic personality, as the entire convention se lected him as their choice, by acclamation. Probably such a sight will never before be re-enacted as the huge hall, packed from floor to rafters with a seething mass of humanity repre senting districts from the far-flung rocky promonitories of Maine to the gentle, shelving beaches of California, and from the icy blue waters of Lake Michigan to the tepid warmth of the Gulf stream at the tip end of Florida, rose en masse and paid homage to the be-spectacled political master. It is not to be doubted that both major political parties recognize the true worth of Landon in the role he Is now occupy ing in the niche of American political endeavor. Every state echoes with proud acknowledgement the sentiments of the Re publican party in bestowing its greatest tribute onto the shoul ders of any one person in its organization. Landon’s beaming personality, remarkable foresight and overwhelming courage promises to inject into the coming cam paign, a man who is loved by both friend and foe alike, and a man whose integrity and ideals have accorded him a place in both the industrial and political life of our country. OUR READERS’ FORUM (AII communlcßtlonn Intended for pub liratlon under this heading miat bear the name and addreag of the writer. Names will be omitted on requeat. 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 United to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does 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.) pditor of The Daily Times: The details of two contests for farm boys have been announced by the Agricultural Development Bureau of the Barrett Company. 4-H boys growing an acre of corn or cotton and using at least 100 lbs. of American nitrate of soda will compete for an educational trip to the National Club Congress In Chi cago, a trip being awarded to the winner in both cotton and corn. The second highest scorer in each crop will receive a S2O prize, while four gold 4-H emblems will be given to the four highest county winners in each of the state's four extension districts. This makes a total of 36 prizes, In ad dition to which the county agent whose boys make the best showing In these twin contests will be award ed a trip to the Congress. Students of vocational agriculture are invited to compete in a cotton production contest. Three cash prizes totaling S3O will be awarded in each of four districts, and vocational teachers will receive SBO in prizes to be awarded on th ebasis of the num ber of boys competing and their rec ords. The bureau is also again conduct ing the American Farmer Contest. The winner of this coveted award will be selected by the State Execu tive Committee of the Georgia F. F. A. and will be given $75 to be used to attend the National Convention of Future Farmers in Kansas City. In addition to these contests, the bureau is also sponsoring an eveping class attendance contest with prizes totaling $215. Besides the cash awards each teacher receives 200 lbs. of Amer ican nitrate of soda to be used on a supervised school demonstration proj ect. Reports are that this incentive has done much to promote interest in this important phase of agricul tural education. THE BARRETT COMPANY. ATLANTA, GA. Editor. The Daily Times: Having just returned from a trip to Washington, I pass on to your read »ra. an account of an episode I wit nessed there. A young thief in Washington must know his Greek mythology, especially that story pertaining to Atalanta, the young princess. Atalanta, you remember, agreed to marry the suitor who could outrun her. She was pretty safe because she could run faster than anyone in the kingdom. But one of the suitors beat her to the tape by dropping three golden apples which Atalanta stopped to pick up. Well, Washington’s young thief tried the same trick and got away with It. He snatched $64 from a street car conductor at the car barn and start ed running. Several of the men around started after him. The boy dropped, several of the bills. The men stopped to pick them up. It was a grave error. The boy dis appeared. When the men pooled the bills, they picked up, they amounted to only sl4. How is that for fast thinking? If the youth decides to put his brains to upright endeavor, he may become a brilliant man, but if not let him remember that crime never pays and that you can’t win—always. AN UPLIFTER. Editor Daily Times: I herewith submit this interesting question to which I appeal to one of your readers for an answer: "Do birds follow each other by any of the senses other than sight and hearing? I believe that one bird can follow another of its own kind by the sense of smell . . . Many times I have seen one bird follow another through the woods, five to 15 seconds apart, with no chance for sight trailing, and, then alight on the same limb of the same tree. It can happen only when the air is still. By estimating the air drift with the smoke of a clgaret, I’ve found that the second bird al ways follows the first by taking a path a few feet to the right or left according to the a’rift. The second bird makes the same dips in flight, changes in altitude, and curves around the same tiees as the first. The phenomenon occurs frequently during the migratory and mating sea sons, and infrequently from June to September, except among the doves and members of the woodpecker fam ill. “It Is common knowledge among astronomers that in observing the moon, dozens of traveling birds cross its face every evening during the mig ratory season. It is well known, too, that when one bird is seen, one or more is likely to follow the same path immediately after, or within a few seconds. They are, of course, far enough part to avoid the drift of the bird immediately in front. By compar ison of silhouettes, wing motion, etc., I’m sure they usually are the same kind. In many cases this might be coincidence, for many birds travel in flocks. It is likewise true that many kinds migrate singly or in small groups. J. O. WYTHE. A well known woman who was asked to a public function, was as signed a place between a bishop and a rabbi. Eager to be the lady of the moment, she said: "I feel as if I were a leaf between the Old and the New Testament.” To which the rabbi responded: "That page, madam usually is a blank.” WHEN LANDON WAS NOMINATED MH PftKw® W' lE® ißiilr ~a_ A\\\ y/fA- s ‘‘ /? wHxdr ft * I / HP ■ / Sketched bv Alfred E. Buescher, Central Press Artist Atlanta (Central Press, Bureau at G. O. P. Convention) By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) CLEVELAND, June 12.—The Re publicans’ campaign policy evidently is to be one of attack upon President Roosevelt's way of running things rather than a fight for any particu lar constructive program of their own. This is assuming that Senator Fred erick Steiwer, in his keynote speech at the Cleveland convention, and Representative (Bertrand H. Snell, in his address as the convention's per manent chairman, correctly outlined the G. O- P.’s plans. Presumably they did. Convention keynoterj and permanent chairmen usually know what they are talking about. Neither Steiwer nor Snell suggested much as to what the Republicans, if they win, propose to do. Both dwelt upon what their party proposes to undo that *has been done under the Roosevelt administration. • • * A Distinction It was not so much the New Deal that the two G. O. P. spokesmen criticized; it was the Rooseveltian method of doing the dealing. Steiwer especially said that, at first, he thought rather well of some de tails of the present White House tenant's general scheme to lift the depression, and support them. But when the president began put ting his system in operation it turned out, the keynoter charged, to be al together different from what he, or anyone else except a few brain trus ters, had expected. F. D. R. Blamed It was Roosevelt personally whom Steiwer and Snell alike blamed for effecting what they described as a very radical change in the American form of government. To be sure, congress voted to him the authority under which he did it, but congress, as remarked by Steiwer, SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by g. J. SCOTT g&T" 1 .-Ji . BA<sTr.oKe , oFLicHYNiNq There 15 a British Ship? probably That never puts to sea, • , ' r 15 FORr ANQELO, IM' POWER ' T ” E MEDITERRANEAN, OF ENERCiV BUT jdL BUILT IN for such a "The short length Wt Form of df-tlmeThat » V a ship <HE-rtrrAL j AMOUNT Wk WOULD NOT V 4 Si MMk Mea< a-ToasTer AQ(X FOQ - ÜBk \ MBj —- Tvvo giraffes! 'OlarioT RAcmq showh oh A dREE< POSTAGE. MARKIMqS stamp for.the 1896 Olympic ~ qAMES- side panels show; k ~ >. IHLIPE, .6" 15 [copyricht.~i9367central association, —WORLD AT A GLANCE— CAMPAIGN OF ATTACK For G. 0. P. Battle This LIKELY TO BE POLICY SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 1936 who admits that he voted for several New Deal measures, had no idea what use he was about to make of the powers it conferred on him. Snell goes so far as to put It that he ‘se duced the legislative branch by bil lions in pork barrel patronage.” (Os course, the permanent chair man didn’t mean to imply that Steiwer was "s?duced.” Steiwer sim ply was deceived. The folk Snell meant to refer to as having been se duced were members of the Demo cratic majority on Capitol Hill.) And now, added the chairman, the chief executive “casts a calculating eye upon the judiciary”—the federal supreme court, which has knocked out so much of his legislation as un constitutional . A Dictator? Anyway, Steiwer and Snell agreed thab Roosevelt is a dictator. They appealed to the electorate to get rid of him next November, be fore he becomes too firmty Intrenched ever to dislodge, and let a Republican regime restore to the country the form of government it enjoyed until he landed in office. This can’t exactly be called con structive. It’s destructive of what we have now in order to have again what we had formerly. Turn Back? And will we be back where we were even if the Republic ans do win? Grant (for the sake of argument) that Roosevelt is a dictator. It doesn’t follow, however, that the folk who overthrow him will be able to re-establish just what existed until he dictated them out ert lb. To the contrary, "revolutions never go backward.” So it would be interesting to know what the Republicans plan in the way of reconstruction after they get through with the destructive part of their job—supposing that they suc ceed at it. —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— STEWART EAVESDROPS At Republican Convention; FINDS PARTY CHANGING Central Press Bureau at G. O. P. Convention. By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) CLEVELAND, June 12.—This year’s political developments bring out more clearly with every passing day how almost completely the two major parties have changed places since 1932. The Democrats now are federal centralizationiste, whereas they for merly stood pat for states’ rights, with as few exceptions as possible. The Republicans, erstwhile central izations, today defend the doctrine of states’ rights. » * * Split on Tariff Also on such issues as Secretary of State Cordell Hull's tariff policy the parties are at least mixed if not actually each in reverse. Secretary Hull, a genuine old-time low tariff Democrat, is framing up reciprocal trade agreements between the United States and other nations as fast as he can, with a view to getting world commercial barriers down. This is sound Jeffersonianism, but numerous so-called Democrats of the present era object to it violently, having become high protectionists of late. Contrariwise I have heard many delegates at the G. O. P.’s Cleveland convention speak well, with certain qualifications, of the reciprocal bar gains. They say that the last tariff schedules, enacted during the Hoo ver administration, were entirely too high. • • • Actually Treaties The reciprocal dickers in reality are treaties, but they cannot be call ed treaties. A treaty, after being negotiated by the state department, subject to presidential approval, then must be ratified by the senate before becom ing effective. Now, the administra tion, including Secretary Hull, did not want the new bargains delayed by senatorial discussion each time one was concluded. Therefore, congress was induced to empower the president, through the state department, to frame up recip rocal "agreements,” not “treaties,” independently of the senate. The concentration of so much pow er in the administration assuredly would have scandalized the average old-line Democrat. Now Democrats defend it in principle, even if they dp not like the cuts that are being made. It is the Republicans who are scandalized. They desire a treaty cal..led a "treaty,’ 'for the senate to act on to make it valid—even those of them who believe in the reciprocal idea do. (As a matter of fact, the system is of doubtful constitutionality.) • « « G. O. P. Gone Democratic? The truth Is that much talk at the Republicans’ Cleveland convention has? sounded Democratic, in the by gone sense. And much of the talk at the Democrats’ Philadelphia convention, in the same sense evidently will sound Republican. As I once heard the late Wu Ting Fang, famous Chinese diplomat, ex press it. "The bottles have been changed but not the labels.” * ♦ » Will Voters Sense Cange? How soon the voters will realize that this swap has been effected is problematic. Possibly they will begin to do so during the coming campaign. There are signs that some of the G. O. P. leaders sense it at Cleveland and possibly some Democratic lead ers will show similar signs at Phil adelphia. The trouble with political leader ship is that it senses various things which it prefers not to mention lest explanation fall to "take” satisfac torily with the rank-and-file of the voters. The latter are very slow to recog nize a change in the bottles, unac companied by any clarifying read justment of the labels. You’re Telling Me? OHIO WOMAN has a hen egg which she preserved for 50 years. Still going strong, eh? ♦ » * London scientist says the hu man race will be entirely bald Within another 1,000 years. How ever, it may be just another hair raising rumor. * * • Maybe the real reason most women lie about their age is that if they told the truth other women wouldn’t believe them anyway. • • « A suspect grilled after the shooting of a policeman said: "I wouldn’t hurt a dog—let alone a cop.” The police shouldn't get too sore about that—they finished runners-up. ♦ • * Clothing experts report that women today can dress more cheaply than at any time in history. Maybe that’s why they buy twice as much clothes as they need. ♦ ♦ ♦ Mounting climbing is increas ing rapidly in popularity. In fact, one might say this sport is near ing its peak. • * • “Better late than never,” is an ex cellent proverb, the only trouble be ing that everyone believes in it—ex cept your boss. The earth is slowly losing its sup ply of oxiy.gen and will not be able to support life for more than another billion years, according to Prof. H. N. Russell of Princeton university. MyNew Yor By James As well NEW YORK, June 12—There is a story around that a man walked into the Waldorf the other afternoon and headed straight for the reservation clerk. "How far in advance do you reserve rooms?” he demanded. "Oh, as far as you like, sir. A month or more if you desire any par ticular suite—” "I don't care about a particular suite,” the man said, rather trucu lently, ‘ J just want a room and bath. For 1939—sometime in the summer, I am coming to the World’s Fair and I am going to have my hotel accom odations fixed. I tell you, it’s a shame and a caution. I'm so mad,l could chew nails.” "What's the matter, sir?” the clerk asked with the tone indicated by chapter four, paragraph eight, of ‘‘The Hotel Clerk and His Behavior.” "I've just been out to Cleveland and I couldn’t get a thing. I stayed two hours and caught the first train. It makes me boil, I tell j r ou—” ♦ * ♦ It’s a funny thing, and doubtless' of too little consequence to mention even in a column of bable like this but I have changed my mind about Jack Dempsey and. Gene Tunney. When Tunney took the championship away from Dempsey I was sorry. I liked Dempsey and I didn’t like Tun ney. Many people felt that way. Dempsey was a magnificent animal. Tunney was that, too, but his Shake spearian stuff was just the least lit tle bit revolting. There is a standing tradition that pugilists should have no mind, and when Tunney claimed one you thought he was putting on airs. Perhaps it’s the old resentment which runs in the mob; if a man has several talents, there’s a word all ready to take him down a peg—dilet tante. And if a prize fighter reads the classics, surely he must be pre tending; a man shouldn’t have every thing, body and mind, should he? But Tunney, by the good taste and sincere desire for knowledge which he has shown since his retirement, has won this reporter entirely on his side. He putters about his garden on his Connecticut farm, reads a lot, writes a little, keeps in condition. I don’t care, now, whether he licked Dempsey or not. Besides, I glimpsed Gene the other afternoon in Lexington Avenue, and I’m sure I spotted a fleck of gray at his temples. When he was arrested for speeding recently and behaved with perfect propriety (he wasn’t really speeding, it seems, but hit one of those constable-traps) the reporters kidded Gene about Shakespeare in writing him up. I felt like he ought to have taken a poke at the kidders, the first time he met them. ♦ ♦ * A friend, deep in thought and ac tivity with the Republican conven tion, postcards from Cleveland and sticks a clipping from "The American Mercury” to his card. The clipping reads: “On the eastern shore of the Adri atic lies the little country of Dal matia. Its people, though they lead generally happy lives, are much be deviled by one irritating nuisance. This is a great and gusty wind of hot air which blows over them from the northwest. ‘The wind is known locally as The Bora.” - All Os Us - GARLIC IN THE SALAD IF YOU want the salad to be "just right” you take a clove of garlic, cut it across and rub it all around in the salad bowl . . . Then, when you mix your green stuff in the bowl the en tire salad is suavely permeated with the flavor of the garlic and it has just the proper personality. (This isn’t meant for those odd human beings who don’t like even the faintest, suggestion of garlic . . . They don’t count.) If your salad is a success a guest will say: “Mmmh! How do you make your salad dressing? Mine doesn’t taste like this.” And then you ex plain that it isn’t the dressing, ex actly, but the garlic that was rubbed around the bowl. And .if you're a solemn amateur philosopher with so little sense of humor that you can t help preaching at the dinner table you proceed to discourse on the subject of garlic in salads and garlic in living. You compare that powerful stuff, garlic, so disagreeable in chunks, so pleasant In essance—you compare it with certain happenings in life that are unbearable in great chunks, but that give zest to life when they are mixed in proper proprotion with the rest of existence. Disappointments . . . Drudgeries . . Routines . . . Grief .». . Disillusion . . . Humiliation . . . Self revelations. Dis coveries about your friends. Insights into the business of living . . . The young bric’e learning that her hus band is sometimes “a big baby”. The young husband discovering that she isn't always as “sweet” as he thought she was ... A young fellow realizing that the world is bigger than he thought . . . The bright young lady forced to accept the unpalatable fact that she isn't even the center of her own world . . . The grim understand ing that life can be, and sometimes Is, harsh, cruel, selfish, rough, tough, gruff or even dull . . . Well, these are the garlic of living. These give it balance, contrast and savor. Without them a life is tame, tasteless, stupid . . . Avoid them, flee from the rougher side of experience and you have a salad that's not worth serving to human beings. (And I still insist that salad with out garlic is no salad at all . . . It’s just something to eat.) ONE MINUTE PULPIT So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.—Psalm 90:12. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Nfiwyx per by Central Press Association (Copyright, 1436, Central Pvms JbflßO eiatdon, Inc.) Friday, June 12. Morning alnw: Mercury (stationary kn R. A.), Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Dvwntag atom: Neptune, Jupiter. Mocnt Loot quar ter. Scanning the sines: The ekmds nro higher now. In general, each type of cloud is higher in summer than in winter. In autumn, they’ll sink down again. In all seasons, clouds are high er over arid areas. The greater the phere, the lower are the cloud levels, water-vapor content of the atanos because moisture-laden aiir does not have to ascend so high to reach its "dew-point,” or condensation tempera ture. NOTABLE NATIVITIES Charles L. McNary, b. 1870, sena tor from Oregon . . . Anthony Eden, b. 1897, foreign secretary of Britain ... Sir Oliver Lodge, b. IBM, Brit ish physicist and spiritualist , . . • • • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS JUne 12, 1776—Foundation of Dem ocratic government in America was laid in the Virginia convention at Williamsburg, by George Mason, 51, planter, whose declaration of rights was adopted unanimously. It declared that all men are by nature equally free, and are invested with inalienable rights—namley, the enjoyment of life, liberty, property, and the pursuit of happiness and safety; that all power is vested in, and consequently de rived from the people; that govern ment is, or ought to be, instituted for the common benefit and security of the people and that when govern ment shall fail to perform its re quired functions, a majority so the people shall have the inalienable rights to reform or abolish it, etc. As may be judged, Mason’s declara tion suggested the Constitution of the United States. He even was a member of the Constitutional conven tion. but he refused to sign the U. S. Constitution and, with Patrick Henry, led the fight against its ratifi cation by Virginia. June 12, 1798—Samuel Cooper was born, in Hackensack, N. J„ son of a Revolutionary soldier. Though a north erner, his love of his wife, a grand daughter of the aforementioned George Mason, caused Cooper to re sign as adjutant-general of the U. S army and acting secretary of war, in 1861, to join the Confederates. He was made adjutant and inspect or-gen eral of the Confederate army and first on the list of generals. Thus a northerner outranked Lee in the southern army in the opening years of the rebellion! June 12, Among State Histories: 1775—First sea fight of the Revolu tion took place at Machias, Me., a victory for the Americans . . . 1838 Territory of lowa erected, inchiding all Wisconsin west of the Mississippi river, wtih Burlington as Ms capital . . . 1905—The highest speed ever attained by a passenger train was reached by the Broadway Limited of the Pennsylvania R. R., fa a stretch near Ana, O.—three decades before streamlining! It’s record: 127.2 m.p.h. FIRST WORLD DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Comulsory service replaced voluntary enlistment in the United Kingdom. Thus Brita n dealt with a shortage of manpower. There was no shortage of seapower. The government requisitioned 43 per cent of all shipping under the British flag for military and naval purposes, allocated another 14 per cent for car riage of foodstuffs and war materials, and placed the remaining number un der strict regulation as to use. Publication of Lloyd’s Register of ships on the first of June had shown how futile were Germany’s alms at destruction of Great Britain’s mar time power. In the 12 months preced ing; 655 new streamers had come from the ways or been acquired from other countries, whereas Britain had lost only 268 ships because of sub marines or other causes. British submarines were now tak ing heavier toll of German shipping. In one day, in the Baltic, about this time, a British submarine sank three German cargo carriers and shut up German steamers loaded with ore In the Swedish port of Oxlesund. (To be continued) The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1 • In what state is Lake Okeechobee situated? 2. What analogous document pre ceded the United States constitution? 3. Define gubernatorial. Hints on Etiquette Membership in men’s clubs should never be self-solicited. Simply cul tivate the friendship of members of the club you wish to join until some person suggests putting your name up. Words of Wisdom In every parting there te an image of death.—Gsorge Eliot. Today's Horoscope Persons born on this day are apt to be cfose-mouthed regarding their affairs except with their very inti mate friends. They seek advice but do not always follow it, especially if it is contrary to their own intuition. One-Minute Test Answers 1. Florida. 2. The Articles of Confederation. 3. Os or pertaining to a governor or the office of governor. King Faruk of Egypt carries a watch which shows the date, the po sitions of the moon and stars, the planets whose influrnce is greatest at the moment, the altitude, the tem perature and, of course, the time. It took a Swiss four years to make it. Twins are born more often ta blonde mothers than to brunettes. .tlon of Detn-