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SHALL DEMOCRATS DESERT?
ARE WE Democrats of the South and of the nation, who
have given unstinted support and loyalty to the President of the
United States during his three years of heroic struggle with the
problems of the Republican party depression, insane!
Have the President and the Democratic party and those of
us who have supported the chief executive in his determination
to bring back a living wage to the American working man, an
equal show to the American farmer, the opportunity to exist for
the average business man, and the relief of intolerable human
misery and suffering throughout the land; have we Democrats
of the South and of Savannah and Chatham county, by our in
dorsement and support of the policies of this administration in
placing human rights and human needs above property rights
and the greed of corporate wealth—have we driven the nation
to the brink of the “yawning chasm of despotism?”
According to the Savannah Morning News, always the cham
pion of the great aggregations of wealth in this country, we have
done just that!
According to the Savannah Morning News, this same mouth
piece of the overlords of finance and the most outspoken advo
cate of bloated plutocracy in all the Democratic South, we of
the Democratic party and our leaders at Washington, including
the President himself, have not only been mistaken in theory
and dishonest in practice, but we have actually been and still
are, insane!
And, according to the advice given by the Savannah Morn
ing News, in its leading editorial on the subject on June 12, the
only hope and salvation of the country is to be found in the presi
dential candidacy of the stand-pat, reactionary, gold-standard
Republican—Landon, of Kansas.
In other words, the only way by which we shall gain recov
ery from the depression and achieve national stability, is by re
turning to those men and those doctrines which brought on the
depression and created national instability!
The course suggested by the Savannah Morning News offers
the same escape from the “danger” of national despotism as
if, for instance, the Department of Justice, instead of using men
and measures and money to free the country from the menace
of kidnaping and gangdom, it should surrender its men and
power to the kidnapers and grant them free license to continue
their depredations. ! ‘W'
In the editorial to which we refer, it is adroitly suggested
that, in order to restore sanity in the affairs of government, we
Democrats should fuse with the Republicans, and thereby bring
about the election of the Liberty League candidate for President
of the United States —the candidate of William Randolph Hearst
and the powerful financial interests of the country and strangle
the middle class.
But the only fusion with real Democrats offered' by the
Savannah Morning News and the Republican party which it sup
ports, is that fusion which the ocean offers to the rivers it swal
lows.
No true Democrat will follow the advice of the Republican
Savannah Morning News by deserting his party—the party of
progress, the party of achievement and of humanity—for the
reactionary Republican party and its equally reactionary can
didate.
We want no more Hooverism and Mellonism in this country.
We want no increase in the number of wailing mothers, suicide
fathers, and starving children in these United States.
We want no man presiding over the destinies of America,
possessing the great powers of the office of the presidency, who,
the records shows, denied relief to the hungry and the naked of
his own state, while a benevolent national administration, under
the humane direction of a sympathetic Democratic President
and the divine guidance of a just God, sent the agencies of re
lief to the destitute thousands of the fellow Kansans of this
“Coolidge of the West” for whom our sufferage is now being
diligently sought by the Savannah Morning News.
And, furthermore, we Democrats of the South do not recog
nize, by our truly Southern spirit of tolerance, the right pre
sumed by a Republican mouthpiece, in matters pertaining to our
democracy—though it be our contemporary which so presumes.
Old-time Democrats, our counsel will be taken this year, as
in the past —from our friends and not from our foes.
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Editor, The Daily Times:
The payment ot ;he bonus to the
veterans will acme a minor inflation
in itself. I do not think M wfli be a
harmful one, accept in various *s>a
rate Instances.
I know several vote *ho hav al-
ready spent the major part of their
bonus, but such Is human nature. In
a few months a lot of them will be
back in the same rut as before, penni
less and shiftless. But let us hope
that these will be a decided minority.
Wisely planned spending of this
“windfall” can go a long way in re
habilitating many useful citizens,
whose Ilves seemed wrecked through
the combined experience of the World
war and the recent depression.
Savannah veterans, I am sure, will
think twice before throwing away
their hard earned cash.
ONE OF THE VETS.
ONB MINUTE PULPIT
A merry heart m&keth a cheerful
countenance. —Proverbs 15:13.
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Atlanta
(Central Press Staff Writer)
CLEVELAND, June 13.—Have the
Republicans nominated a man they
do not know?
Such seems to be the opinion of
the old line Republicans (Old Guard
and others) who had to accept Lan
don.
They are in a fog.
Indeed, they are fearful.
Kansas has not been known for
tolerance of eastern ideas.
* • •
Money
The east is more fearful over
money than any other thing. Kan
sas may balance the budget, wiijch,
of course, is liked. But Kansas is a
farm state and the farm states are
afire with a desire for certain infla
tionary measures and continued farm
aid.
The Republican party, as now con
stituted, has veered close to the old
Democratic borderline. Furthermore,
It is closer to the Democratic party of
William Jennings Bryan than to the
gold standard Democratic party of
Grover Cleveland.
And if you do not believe that gives
the old line Republicans the shivers
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In Fear Over Candidate and Money
GO FORTH IN A FOG
By LESLIE EICHEL
SAVANIS H DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, JUNE 14, 1936
you have not met them face to face.
They return to New York with no
joy in their faces.
* • *
Which?
Which man can the Big Business
forces support—Roosevelt or Landon
—with any real degree of faith?
President Roosevelt has refused to
make the constitution 'an issue. Gov
ernor Landon has refused to make
money an issue. His people made a
compromise with Senator William E.
Borah.
But money will be the issue. No
one can prevent that. The western
farm people will demand silver and
expansion and the eastern people will
demand gold and contraction.
President Roosevelt may be a
spender, but he has held off the in
flationists so far. Governor Landon
probably would do the same, but
Kansas has had some doubtful ideas
in the past. There was a time when
mention of Kansas would cause a
shiver in the east.
* • «
Negatives
The Republican platform, analyzed
is largely negative.
The Democratic platform probably
will be much the same.
That may be plnving “safe”—but
le it?
As a matter of fact, these negative
platforms leave the way open for any
sort of action —in case of emergency.
The old line Republicans believe, of
course, that Governor Landon would
be a good chief executive, a far bet
ter administrator (in their opinion)
than President Roosevelt. But they
wonder whether he isn’t as much at
variance with them (because of Kan
sas and the farm states) as President
Roosevelt—or more so.
• • •
World Moves
Actually, the world is moving on.
And the political parties reluctantly
are tip-toeing on only gradually,
grudgingly.
Their platforms seem such futile,
empty mouthings.
One-Minute Test
1. Where will the Great Lakes ex
position be held?
2. By what name is the Society of
Friends commonly known?
3. For what purpose is iron gal
vanized?
Hints on Etiquette
At a summer camp people do not
“dress” for dinner, tht is, not In
evening clothes. Women should wear
house frocks and men may put on
flannel trousers, soft shirts and flan
nel sport coats.
OLD GUARD PUZZLED
Even At This Late Day
BY LANDON’S APPEAL
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
CLEVELAND, June 13. —Coining
out of the Cleveland convention hall,
“I’d like to know,” remarked ex-Sen
ator W. B. Pine, an Oklamoha dele
gate, ‘ what main interest is dictating
this year’s Republican presidential
selection.”
I have heard other delegates ex
press similar bewilderment. They
have acted as some unseen force
seemed to direct, but they don’t un
derstand it.
The G. O. P. “old guard,” as re
peatedly has been mentioned, is prac
tically defunct —politically and, to a
considerable extent, physically. Yet
have dominated the Cleveland gath
ering .
* * «
“One of Us”
“I can see,” continued ex Senator
Pine, “why Governor Landon has an
appeal to folk out in my section. He’s
one of us. But why are the delegates
from various down-eastern states en
thusiastic for him?
“I wonder. Can it be that one
group is in control of bo*h party or
ganizations, will run both campaigns
and can’t lose either way?
“Well,” concluded the ex-senator,
“I’m glad to have seen you again.”
(I used to know him in Washington.)
“It’s a pleasure to talk with someone
outside this crowd of boys who don't
even suspect that there’s any ‘funny
business’ in politics.” (For I had
agreed with him that the Cleveland
convention has had its peculiar as
pects.)
♦ * *
Plausible Explanation
At the same time, there are poli
ticians who account for the Landon
victory rather plausibly.
Their version is that the Kansan
was the only Cleveland aspirant to
promise more or less Republican
strength both east and west of the
Mississippi. A candidt te, they say, like
Representative (and ex-senator) James
W. Wadsworth of New York might
reasonably have been expected to do
fairly well in the conservative east
but couldn’t have hoped to register
in the middle and farther western
states. On the opposite hand, such a
nominee as Senator William E. Borah
of Idaho doubtless would have been
pretty popular in the trans-Missis
sippi region, but the east certainly
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK. June 13.—The sad
lack of spectacular characters along
the boulevards where bulbs blink is
making chatter writers prematurely
gray. What we wouldn’t give for a
Daddy Browning, a Harry K. Thaw,
a Phil Plant or even a Judge Crater
or a Diamond Jim Brady!
My private suspicion is that Diam
mond Jim Brady was a dull and
pompous fellow, but he was in the
colorful tradition. He had the right
kind of publicity. He would, at the
moment, do very nicely. Tommy
Manville appears to have retired to
his rustic acres with a couple of
cases of Pol Roger 1911 and John
Jacob Astor 111 seems on the road to
domestication and withdrawal even
from the mild headlines he has in
the past achieved.
The other night when H. H. Ro
gers, Jr., emerged from the French
Casino and swapped some badinage
with the drivers in the hack line, all
the columnar babblers reached for
their notebooks. But there was really
no story. Thaw would have comman
deered the whole fleet and ridden
around the Island tossing confetti
and champagne corks at citizens.
Even Jimmy Walker in his heyday
was good for a paragraph every time
he stepped out.
Instead. w r hat sort of “personali
ties” must the reporters of flick
flack observe in order to fill up their
daily stints? There are occasional
movie stars to be spotted at the Ver
sailles, at “21,” at El Morocco and
classy joints of that caliber. These
now and then cut up mildly and if
you are willing to suffer you can
hang around them and get the new
est bulletins on their complicated and
depressing love affairs.
But the old-fashioned, 24-carat,
dyed-in-the-wool playboy is an ex
tinct species. I do not complain. He
was, in any quantity, a phenomenon
to get on the nerves. His antics be
came so standardized, toward the end
of his reign, tht you knew in advance
whether he would buy out the first
ten rows of a musical for a single
performance, pass out diamond rings
to a dinner party of chorus cuties or
try on the ladies’ hats. Heaven
knows I wrote about him. for enough
years to cry “enough.”
I do not complain, but the 1936
substitutes for the genus playboy are
none the less pale and unconvincing
gentlemen. There are the whoopsy
young Pinks, who write for the dra
matic, book review and movie sec
tions of the papers, and for the “lib
eral” weeklies. They flock to all the
case first nights at which free food
and drink are dispensed. There are
a few illustrators and even one or
two veritable scions of wealth, but
none of them is colorful enough to
make the ghost of Boni de Sastellane
trouble about getting through a
ouija board to look on.
All this is occasioned by the re
mark of a friend from one of the
midland states whom I had in tow
the other night. He wanted to have
a playboy pointed out to him be
cause he had never seen one in the
flesh.
The best I could do was a jour
nalist of sorts who inherited money
and who haunts the night spots and
caviar caravanserais.
“T h a t?” inquired my friend.
•Why. he doesn’t look like a playboy.
He merely looks hungry. Hand him
a T-bone steak and in, 24 hours you
couldn’t tell him from an ordinary
citizen I”
wouldn’t have been enthusiastically
for him.
Vandenberg, Knox, Dickinson and
other G. O. P. possibilities? Each
might have had a little local potency,
but it could have been only very
local.
* * *
Artificial
As for Hoover?
The ex-president certainly got a
tremendously noisy ovation at the
Cleveland convention.
However, nothing could have been
more obviously artificial.
As its titular leader pending the
Landon nomination, it behooved Re
publicanism to give him a fine recep
tion on his appearance in the Cleve
land auditorium, and it must be rec
ognized that the affair was wonder
fully well stage-managed.
Yet it was hard to forget that:
1. Numerous Republicans who
cheered him in Cleveland didn’t vote
for him in 1932.
2. The watchword among G. O. P.
bosses during the pre-convention
period, while candidatorial possibili
ties were under discussion, was,
“Anyone but Hoover.”
3. And finally, within a very few
hours after the magnificent pro-
Hoover demonstration in the Cleve
land public hall, the convention went
right ahead with the selection of a
different nominee, without any fur
ther reference tothe availability of
the Californian.
That is to say, the demonstration
was “hot air,” purely.
- All Os Us -
MOODS ARE PERMANENT
You say, “I’m not responsible for
my moods.” No, perhaps you’re not,
but you get credit for them just the
same.
If your mood is a happy one, you
get the friendliness of other human
beings out of it. . . . They like to be
with you and tell their friends how
excellent you are.
If your mood is a dismal one, you
get paid for that, too ... in the
avoidance of others, in their common
agreement that you may be a solid
enough fellow, but hardly one to seek
out for companionship and ease of
heart.
But you say. “I am what I am and
what I feel is beyond my power to
change. I cannot be other than I
am. In some ways we human beings
are like chemicals, and some of us
respond to darkness and some to
light. And how we react to the hap
penings of living and fixed qualities
in our nature. Some men throw off
trouble lightly, some take it in and
brood over it. Some of us are phleg
matic, some are mercurial. . . .
What do you say to that?"
I say there's much In what you say.
But I say, also, that a man’s moods
are not wholly outside of his control.
I know that sometimes a man feels
waterlogged and heavy, and if he
goes and takes a cold bath he feels
better: his body is stimulated and
the logglness goes away.
I know that sometimes a man feels
mean because he has not played fair
with someone to whom he owes an
obligation, and that when he shakes
himself out of his selfishness and
makes amends —he feels cleansed and
light of heart.
I know that many of our moods
are basic, as much a part of our na<
tures as the grain in a tree is a part
of that growing thing: but I believe
that most of them are superficial—
that we can throw them off, or that
we can pamper and nurture them
into permanent residents of our na
ture.
You can take your choice—and pay
for it.
Not In the News
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
OWNERS OF big names in the en
tertainment world haye their trou
bles, just as you and I.
Take the case of Johnny Green, for
example. Johnny, who direct an
orchestra for your enjoyment over
the radio, can't play the song he
would like best to play. And this
song, strange as it may seem, is of
his own creation.
The composer of many “hit” tunes,
Johnny has an agreement with a cer
tain publishing company to turn over
all songs he authors to it. So, in ac
cordance with the contract, Green
submitted his newest song to the pub
lishers several months ago. •
But about the same time the mu
sician’s union made a charge against
the firm and instructed its members
that they were not to play any songs
published by the company. And. be
ing a member of the union, Green
must refrain from playing any of
their tunes, including his own!
* * •
AN AMUSING dog and cat story
is relayed to this column by Dora
R.. a reader of Indiana.
Our correspondent has both a ter
rier and a black cat for pets, and,
as is often the case, the dog bitter
ly resented the presence of the cat in
the same home. The dog was con
tinually snapping at the cat, and any
favoritism shown the latter was a
signal for a vicious growl.
But one day last winter, the dog
was seen lying in front of his kennel,
?s though guarding something. In
vestigation revealed that inside was
his erstwhile enemy, the cat, with
three tiny kittens.
For three days the dog maintained
his guard over the kennel, and per
mitted no one to get near it, except
to deliver food. But, on the fourth
day, the dog apparently considered
that his charges were able to be mov
ed elsewhre. So he barked and snarl
ed until the mother cat took the kit
tens, one by one, into the cellar.
After that the dog returned to his
former mood, and was just as bitter
and furious with the cat as ever.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Saturday, June 13; Feast Day o<
St. Anthony of Padua. End of 24th
week of the year. Moon: la?t quarter.
Birthstone: pearl. Zodiac sign:
Gemini.
* • •
NOTABLE NATTVITEEa
William Butler Yeats, b. IMS,
Irish poet and dramatist . . . Carl
Van Doren, b. 1894, editor, critic and
anthologist . . . Bradley Fisks, b.
1854, naval authority and Inventor.
. . . Robert E. Wood, b. 1879, presi
dent of Sears, Roebuck & Co. . . .
Tyler Dennett, b. 1883, historian and
president of Williams college • . .
Bertram Thomas, b. 1892, British ex
plorer of desert countries . • •
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 13, 1925—Television was given
its first demonstration in the U. S.,
by C. Francis Jenkins. He transmit
ted images from Washington over a
distance of five miles, using the scan
ning disc principle. Television was
then already 50 years old!
The basic principle of picture trans
mission over wires or through the
air was Introduced as early as 1880;
and the idea of television was 20
years older than that. As early as
1860, Senlac in France and Nipkow
in Germany were experimenting with
it.
• • •
June 13, Among State Histories;
1838 —Governor of Florida offered
S2OO reward for every Amerindian
found in the state, dead or alive. 1860
—Ground was broken at Atchison for
construction of Atchison and St. Jo
seph R. R., first railroad in Kansas.
. . . 1866—Congress submitted the
14th amendment to the states . . .
1888 —Department of Labor created
by congress.
• • *
SUNDAY IS THE DAY
I Sunday after Trinity, June 14.
Flag Day. Morning stars: Mercury,
Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Eve
ning stars: Neptune, Jupiter.
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
John McCormack, b. 1884, world
famous Irish singer . . . Livingston
Farrand, b. 1867, president of Cornell
university . . . Spooner, b.
1856, English engineer and leader of
the world campaign for reduction
of noise.
• * •
SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 14, 1623—The first breach of
promise suit in America wm filed,
by a man against a woman!
The plaintiff: Rev. Grevllle Pooley
of Charles Gay county. The defend
ant: Mrs. Cicely Syley Jordan, wid
ow, whom he claimed had jilted him
in favor of one William Farrar.
In those days Virginia had a law
providing either corporal punishment
or fine of breach of promise third
offense!
June 14, 1642—The first compul
sory education law in America was
also the first child labor law. The
General Court of Massachusetts Bay
colony decreed that children should
read and understand the principles
of religion and the capital laws of
the country, and “The Court, taking
into consideration the great neglect
of many parents and masters in
training up their children in learn
ing and labor and other empolyments
which may be profitable U the com
mon wealth, so hereupon order and
decree that . . . the chosen men ap
pointed for managing the prudential
affairs of some . . . shall have
power to take account from time to
time of all parents and masters, and
of their children, concerning their
employment of their children.”
• • •
125 Years Ago Today—Harriet
Elizabeth Beecher was bom in Litch
field, Mass., the future wife, at 25, of
Dr. Calvin Ellis Stowe. She was 40
when she wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”
with her children playing in the
wastebasket under her desk during
time she could spare from cooking,
washing, ironing, sewing. She gave
SI,OOO she received for “Uncle Tom”
to finance the first school of higher
education for negro girls established
in the world.
• * •
June 14, Among State Histories:
100 Years Ago Today—U .8. standard
weights and measures was established
. . . 1846—American settlers began
the so-called “Bear Flag” revolt in
California, by occupying Sonema un
der a flag bearing a star and bear
and the words “California Republic”
. . . 1900—Hawaii became a U. 8.
territory.
• • •
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
June 13-14, 1916—Canadians took
Zillebeke from the Germans. An eco
nomic conference of the Entente al- '
lies opened in Paris, to determine
means of tightening the blockade on
Germany and its allies.
(To be continued)
IT I
Words of Wisdom
Every man should measure hhnsoM
by his own standard.—Horace.
Today’s Horoscope
Persons born on this day are apt
to doubt and criticize themselves tbo
much. They should try to overcome
this feeling.
POEMS THAT LIVE $ •
DaMee
Over the shoulders and slopes et
the dune
I saw the white daisies go down to
the sea,
A host in the sunshine, an army to
June,
The people Gr>d sends us to »et ow
hearts free.
The bobolinks rallied them up from
the dell,
The orioles whistled them out of the
wood;
And all of their saying was, “Earth,
it is well!”
And all of their dancing was, "Life,
thou art good.'”
—Bliss Carmaa,
SUNDAY’S