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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INO. . PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ......... ............. 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months ...... ... ..... 1.95 One Month ..............................—............—...... .65 One Week ......................... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News ■ Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. - King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communications intended for pub lication unde* thia heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous lettera will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion ia permitted In thia column ao that It may represent a true expression of public opinion In Savannah and Chatham County. Lettera must be Imitrd to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not Intend that the selection of lettera pub lished In tills column shall in any way reflect or conform with the editorial views sod policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) 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. \ wo 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 SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT BJoSepU VerediiX brook LYN, M.y./ holds » O N LY UOB OF : rrs Kihd im Y+it VJF U N I<E.D SYA-TeS /s HE. 15 A du m BELL- 1// | POLISHER. / A <?Hamois are. j 'WSgjr/ WP SO SHY AHO ■■■■■■ Hard <o SHooT THAT HUMTerS 1H V W M JUGO S LAV IA USE DECOYS '-W ft OR DUMMY CHAMOIS TTj. H.-gL J®> R -Io LU RE. THE AN IM ALS Plw 1 WITHIN RAJ4GE. W® . * U t I r itO Per Siam 51AMP PIC-fUR.ES Wirt* 7 &UIHS OFT4E Palace oFPerSePolis DARIUS SAT u OH HIS TI4ROHE. .COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAJ. PRESS ASSOCIATION; AND NO DETOUR IN SIGHT! OLD LINE REPUBLICANS 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