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• MARCH FORWARD WITH ROOSEVELT. M
This nation of free men must march forward. The past; few
years have caused every Aitlzen to reflect upon issues of govern
meat, the Kind of government he desires, and the temper of the
men who must guide that government. The great masses of the
people are as happy and contented under the superb leadership
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, his principles, policies and progress,
88 they are determined that never again shall their government
be entrusted to those Republican free-booters whose past record
warrants little good for the future.
Admittedly, as it was intended to be, the Republican plat
form is a vague, meaningless document which even its framers
cannot agree upon. Dictated by the same old crowd for the
purpose of gaining power, attempting in each plank and para
graph to becloud the real issues that now confront the people,
its efforts to place property rights above human lives, selfish
interests above the public welfare and create a class dictatorship
in this country, it is doomed to the miserable failure it deserves.
America must march forward. America must continue its
progress. Americans will never forget the debacle of 1930 and
1931 as they shall ever remember the rejuvenation under Roose
velt in 1933 and 1934. If for no other reason, the new born free
dom of labor from serfdom, and the breaking of the shackles of
slavery from the feet of women and children, will carry their
resounding cries for four more years of Roosevelt and all he rep
resents into every home in America. The time is past in America
when Republican hypocricy will outweigh Democratic principles
and practices. Watch America march forward with Roosevelt.
MASTERS OR SERVANTS?
The mayors of the First District of Georgia will meet at
Statesboro, on Tuesday, June 16, for the purpose of hearing a
discussion, to state it more bluntly, whether the people should
be given some measure of relief from the burden of taxation
now weighing them down, or that that octupus which has well
nigh strangled personal and private property shall continue
its destruction. The meeting is called for the purpose of hear
ing arguments, pro and con, on the proposed Fifteen Mill Overall
Tax amendment to the State Constitution.
We have consistently fought for reduced taxes in our state
and city. If the gentlemen attending this meeting will have
listened during the past year to expressed public opinion they
will easily understand what the people want, and what they are
' going to obtain regardless of any action their meeting may take.
A word to the wise, you gentlemen have been highly honored
by the people in your various communities, they elected you to
serve, not to boss them. They will no longer listen to the crack
of the whip from that type of politician, once he holds office,
tjiat he is the master, rather than the servant of the people.
“As Ye Sow, 80 Shall Ye Reap.**
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Bditxir, The Daily' Times:
I want to send you my sincere com
pliments for your paper, finding space
to print food news, at a time when
poll tics and crime abolishment take
th* limelight. Keep up your good
work. The amply fed, thopgh under
nourished public should be more vita
min conscious.
Indirectly, health education
help to combat crim*. A broad state
ment, but to be understood after
some study in this science.
As for politics and its relation to
food —down with vitaminized food
taxers!
Prisons, sanitariums, and hospitals
are emergency repair shops. Abolish
the modem food evil—highly taxed
and adulterated foods—so that peo
ple won’t need continuous physical
and moral overhauling.
MRS. J. L. M.
Editor, The Daily Times?
While handing out bouquets it is
my humble opinion that we should
all join together and give the cops
on downtown street comers who di
rect traffic a greet big hand for the
service they perform!
I. too, have been among those who
felt the sting that their little whistles
give when calling me back from cross
ing the street against a red light,
but I still take off my hat to them.
No sane person would deny that
th* service they render results ma
terially in lessening accidents on
these dangerous comer*.
A PHDBeTRIAN.
Editor, The Dally Timew
Let’s take a little trip to your of
fice. After seeing you work and work
so hard, I know Just th* place to
come X X want to get rich. But, I
will let the ads in your paper make
J me rich by reading them all just as
i other people do. Someone, the other
day, asked me how would I like to
J work on a newspaper and I said who
’ wants to work anyway. I want to
[ say if the ad is in your paper I know
it must be good and everyone knows
it. I want to tell you that you have
; a good paper and I know that it will
i make Savannah a real city. We have
i wanted a newspaper to wake up old
Savannah. Let’s put Savannah on
the map and keep it there. Ball games,
shows and do fix it so that I can get
a bottle of beer on Sunday, for I hate
to ride outside the city limits on Sun
day afternoon just for a bottle of
beer.
A SAVANNAH ROOTER.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. How many pairs of ribs doe* a
man have?
2. What is myrrh?
3. On which side of a carriage is
the “off” horse hitched?
Word* of Wisdom
i There Is nothing more fearful than
imagination without taste.—Goethe.
Today’* Horoscope
Persons whose birthday is today are
apt to have warm and devoted friends
but they are subject to melancholy
and at such times their friends us
ually leave them alone because they
cannot help them. If you were bom
on this day, you shuold learn to ap
preciate your friends.
One-Minute Test Answat*
1. Twelve.
2. An aromatic resin that is obtain
ed from several trees and shrubs in
Arabia and Abyssinia.
3. The right.
The longest ocean wave ever meas
ured with any degree of accuracy was
observed on the Atlantic a little
north of the Equator by a French
admiral. Its length was estimated at
more than 2,700 feet.
KANSAS IN THE SADDLE!
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LANDON’S MANAGER
Red-Haired, Youngish John D. M. Hamilton
DESERVES MUCH CREDIT
CLEVELAND, June 15—With the
nomination of Gov. Alf M. Landon
of Kansas for the presidency on the
G. O. P. ticket John D. M. Hamilton
virtually took charge of the Repub
lican party.
Hamilton it was who originally
thought of Landon for the presiden
tial race. It wasn’t Landon’s idea at
the outset. Hamilton put it into his
head. Then he proceeded to manage
the governor’s pro-convention cam
paign, personally directed all Lan
donesque activities in Cleveland, and
now he assumes the chairmanship of
the Republican national committee.
As I heard one of the Cleveland
delegates express it, “He was a child
reaching for the moon, and the child
got it"’:
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Hamilton Is Smart
Hamilton is not exactly a child,
however, but a very experienced Kan
sas politician.
He became a national celebrity
pretty suddenly, but the Sunflower
State already was wen acquainted
with him and he was prominent
enough to have been general counsel
for the Republican national commit
tee, a position from which he retired
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to promote the Landon campaign for
the Cleveland nomination. It was
his campaign more than It was Lan
don's.
He is a smart man.
He put on so fine a line of bally
hoo in Cleveland that there scarcely
appeared to be any candidate but his
own in the running. He also is an
able negotiator, or he wouldn’t have
been so successful in winning without
antagonizing opposition aspirants.
• • •
Analyzing Landon
I asked him how it chanced to oc
cur to him that he could put the
then comparatively unknown Kansas
governor “across” presidentially.
Well, be said, in the first place the
governor was not comparatively un
known to him; he knew all about
him. He knew that he virtually was
made to order for the White House
under present conditions—just the
right temperament, mental qualifica
tions and experience. Besides, he was
one of only four Republicans who
were elected to governorships in 1932,
and of those he was the only one re
elected in 1934. Hamilton interprets
his candidate’s statewide electoral re
cord as indicating that he is a vote
getter among folk who are acquaint-
ed with him, as in Kansas. As he saw
it, it only remained to get the whole
country acquainted with -him. That’s
what he's been attending to and will
continue to attend to as his cam
paign manager.
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Knows Publicity
Hamilton is a first-class publicity
man, too.
He is approachable, likable, and he
has the news sense well developed.
(The Republican national commit
tee has needed better publicity for a
long time. It has been terrible.)
The new committee chairman was
born at Fort Madison, la. He studied
law and has practiced at Topeka. He
has served in the Kansas legislature,
was defeated once for governor and,
as previously remarked, was the na
tional committee’s general counsel.
Oh, he’s no novice at the game of
politics.
His wife was Laura Hall, daughter
of the head of a large Topeka print
ing establishment. They have a son
and a daughter.
POEMS THAT LIVE
"Jenny Kissed Me”
Jenny kissed me when we met,
Jumping from the chair she sat
in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
Sweets into your list, put that
in! /
Say I’m weary, say I’m sad.
Say that health and wealth have
massed me,
Say I m growing old, but add,
Jenny kissed me.—Leigh Hunt.
DEMOCRAT FIRE READY
In Response to Republican Platform
AND IS IT HOT-WELL!
By LESLIE! EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
THE DEMOCRATS are preparing
to answer the Republican platform
immediately. There will be no wait
ing—the campaign is declared on at
once.
It is believed that the answers will
follow this line of thought:
“America is in peril.” (Says the
G. O. P. platform.)
It is (will be the answer). From
plutocracy—from vested interests.
“The welfare of American men and
women and the future of our youth
is at stake.”
It is. Fascism endangers it. Plu
tocracy endangers it—the plutocracy
of concentrated wealth, “dominating
the Republican party and all its
words.”
“Liberty ... is threatened by the
government itself.”
What liberty? The liberty to oper
ate sweatshops, to concentrate wealth,
to disregard the rights of workers
and farmers and small shopkeepers?
“For three long years the New
Deal administration has dishonored
American traditions ...” Name
them! Is aid to the weak—as well
as large business—a “dishonor” to
American traditions?
• • •
Further Responses
Down the platform the Democrats
will go, trying to turn every denun
ciation into a ringing clarion call to
the people in their behalf.
“The powers of congress have been
usurped by the president.” Name the
occasions. Congress pased the sol
diers’ bonus and innumerable other
measures in opposition to the presi
dent. Congress has tried to force ad
ditional power on the president to
inflate the currency, etc. Republicans
as well as Democrats have voted for
these measures. President Roosevelt
has stood against such measures.
“The integrity and authority of the
supreme court have been flaunted.”
By whom? The constitution calls
upon congress to legislate in behalf of
the people and the president to ad
minister such laws. Can either one of
those branches of the government—
Republican as well as Democratic
members of congress—know what a
majority of the supreme court mem
bers will declare unconstitutional?
The supreme court itself does not
know until it debates and divides,
perhaps five to four—usually a year
or two later. Shall all legislative
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MyNew York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso
ciation)
NEW YORK. June 15.—Salma
gundi: Charles Laughton, now in his
native England, will return to Amer
ica with a pair of enormous mus
tachios, reddish of hue, which he
grew in captivity for a movie role.
. . . Herbert Krapp, the theatrical
architect, is the only member of his
tribe I know who offers speed as a
major inducement to clients. . . .
He built the Ambassador Theater in
93 days, a record, and now is going
about the town building overnight
bars for hotel owners. . . . His rou
tine is to take over a room at clos
ing time, around 3 a.m., and have
it completely renovated and ready for
business by noon of the same day, to
the dismay of rounders who pop in
and out. . . • Raymond Griffith is
the only comedian I can call to mind
who ever shifted to producing and
became tops. . . . His newest Is the
Loretta Young opus, “Private Num
ber” . . . Wonder why he doesn’t
do that screamer in which he starred
years ago, with sound now: “Paths
to Paradise” . . . Remember?
“It was magnificent. For that, it
was worth traveling around the
world. It was young and powerful,
something before which we in France
can only stand timid and respectful”
. . . The words are Jean Cocteau’s.
. . -He’s the perennial enfant ter
rible of French literature, author of
loony moving pictures and loonier
books. . . . What was he describing?
. . . The Manhattan skyline? . . .
The American soul? . . . No, ladies
and gentlemen, he was describing a
performance in Mr. Minsky’s burles
que temple. . . . Cocteau and Charlie
Chaplin traveled together for a month
after a hap-hazard meeting, and be
came great friends although neither
speaks a word of the other’s lan
guage .... Now Cocteau is bound
home to write for a leading Paris pa
per his impressions of the Pyramids
and the Minsky strip-tease technique.
♦ • *
Various exhibitions, centennials,
fairs and hooplas are draining the
city of stars. . . . Billy Rose has ex
ported a flock of cuties and princi
pals to Texas, where I am told the
goings-on are of a merriment and
grandeur to make the Chicago whirli
gig of recent memory seem tame.
. . . Stoopnagle and Budd have de
parted for the Great Lakes Exposition
in Cleveland. . . . Phil Baker, Jack
Benny, Ken Murray and Bob Hope
have bought railroad tickets for the
’same fete, while Jerry Cooper and
Connie Gates are packing up. . • .
It will be difficult this sumemr to
cast for the incoming musicals if the
emigration continues. . . .
Harry Salter, the musician, de
fines a “violin virtuoso,” something
that has been worrying me. . . . “It's
a fiddler who needs a haircut,” he
says. . . . And speaking of musicians,
there’s Frank Black, who has directed
many a full orchestra: the baton
wavers are, as a rule, timid and
cloistered gentlemen who don’t know
one end of a tennis racquet from an
other, but Black volleys with Tilden
and Vines and keeps himself in fight
ing trim. . . .
Vignette in the McAlpin lobby: a
tall, gray, impressive gentleman seats
himself In a big chair, spreads out a
sheaf of important looking papers,
leans back and goes to sleep. [
measures in behalf of the people there
fore be suspended? That would be an
, absolute rule, not by the people, but
’ by the judiciary, which the framers
of the constitution never contem
; plated or intended.
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I What Rights?
The Democrats, with increasing
' fervor, will pile up the answers to
questions like these:
“The rights and liberties of Amer
ican citizens have been violated.”
Name a single right that has been
violated. Don’t you mean that large
Interests have been forced into collec
tive bargaining with workers?
“Regulated monopoly has displaced
free enterprise.”
' All right—we are willing—dissolve
the monopolies, put everything under
government control, as we did with
the utilities’ holding companies. But
you fought that tooth and nail as
an “invasion of liberties.” What lib
erties we do not know—except the
liberty to exploit the people.
"The New Deal administration con
stantly seeks to usurp the rights re
served to the states and to the peo
ple.”
We have been trying from the
beginning to force states to assume
their own relief burdens. They have
found it ispossible. Shall we permit
people to starve, because they divided
into 48 imaginary divisions? We have
tried to regulate hours and wages
nationally because unless that is
done nationally, the employers of one
state would be undercut by employ
ers of another state. We have tried
to regulate monopolies nationally be
cause no one state oan cope with
these huge concentrations of wealth
and power.
» * •
Yes?
The next causes the Democrats to
smile.
“The New administration . . .
has insisted on the passage of laws
contrary to the constitution.”
How does congress know which
laws will be declared unconstitutional.
Do the Republicans know? Do' the
Republicans desire a list of Republic
ans who have voted for laws later de
clared unconstitutional?
“It has intimidated witnesses and
interfered with the right of petition.”
Name the instances, if any. Don’t
you mean it has tried to force reluc
tant corporation lobbyists to admit
they faired telegrams to congress and
, juggled their books, etc.?
“It has dishonored our country by
repudiating its most sacred obliga
tions.’’
“Yes, for examples, It forces bond
owners to acecpt the same value
money everybody else uses—one dol
lar for one dollar instead of two dol
lars for one. Yes, dt repudiates the
, tradition that the taxpayers and the
creditors shall be squeezed dry for
gold, but with scraps of paper, checks,
the men who bought bonds—not with
There, you have some of the an
swers. There will be more.
We shall follow with other answers
—and the Republican rebuttal. There
will be no letup in the gunfire now.
The war is on.
- All Os Us -
Does anybody want a nice, lively
fox terrier? ... He barks at every
body who passes by and his voice is
more penetrating than Bugle Ann’s
If you don’t watch him he chews the
fringes off rugs and cracks nuts on
the rug before the fireplace. . . .
But he Is friendly and has a sweet
disposition. So on second thought
you can’t have him.
■
I’ve never heard a really good art
ist drool on the subject of art.
I’m never wholly comfortable in
banks.
I don’t like it when people who
don’t know anything about it tell me
what’s wrong with newspapers . . .
Something is wrong with everything
that man does and we all know it.
. . . For example, I can tell you ex
actly what’s wrong with , doctors,
lawyers and all business —but why
should I?
When I make a pun and everybody
jeers, I know it’s a success.
When I’ve been smoking too much
I know it . . . But I won’t admit it.
Why is it that immediately after
we have made an irrevocable deci
sion, we feel slightly melancholy?
... I thought that was my own
personal emotion, but I asked around
and discovered that nearly everyone
else is constructed in the same way.
I wish the old-time vaudeville could
come back. . . . But I suppose it
never will.
I don’t understand those human
beings who go beaming around in hot
weather. . . .I’m not an expert
beamer, but I come closest to it when
there’s a snap in the air.
If I live to be 90 I may be able to
understand men and women who can
hold a long conversation over the .
telephone . . . Right now I can't '
see how they do it.
!
Kept Asking for Punishment
Bob—“ Well, Joe, your sister has
promised to become my wife.”
Joe —“I knew something would
happen to you if you kept coming
around here every night.”
Sympathetic
Gent—“ And I’ll have you know
that I’m nobody’s fool.” I
Lady—“ Well, don't feel too badly d
about it. Some woman will get you s
yet.” e
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
’ Monday, June 15; St. Vitus’ Day.
Magna Charta Day in England. State
Centennial of Arkansas; Pioneer
Day in Idaho. Income tax payment
due. Moon In perihelion. Zodlae
sign: Gemini. Birthstone: Pearl.
Scanning the Skies: Venus is rap
idly approaching the Sun and disap
pearing from view as she nears her
time of superior conjunction, June
29, when she is on the opposite side
of the Sun from the Earth. Early in
July she will reappear as an evening
star low in the west.
♦ • *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Ernestine Roessler Schumann
Heink Rapp, b. 1861, world famous
singer who began her career at 17,
is still singing. . . . William McFee,
b. 1881, ship’s engineer who became a
distinguished novelist. . . . Harry
Elmer Barnes, b. 1889, sociologist , . .
Mary Ellis, b. 101, stage and screen
star. . . . Malvina Hoffman (Griiri
son), b. 1887, sculptor.
* •
TODAY’S WES TERDAYS
June 15, 1215—John Plantagenet,
49, king of England, signed against
his will the Magna Charta (Great
Charter) at Runnymede, near Wind
sor, and laid the foundation of per.
sonal liberty and civil rights in the
western world and began modern
constiutional government. (It passed
into American laws as a funda
mental.)
Nobles forced the king to grant
the common people the sole right to
make tax laws, trial by jury and pro
tection of property rights by due
process of law.
For several centuries Britons took
no steps to mark and preserve the
meadow by the Thames where the
basis of ther constituttional rights
was laid. It remained for an Amer
ican woman to buy and make it a
monument,
June 15, 1844—Patent No. 3633
was issued to Charles Goodyear, 44,
on the process of vulcanizing rubber,
two days less than seven years after
he had obtained the first rubber pat
ent of importance—on a method of
destroying the adhesive properties of
rubber by application of nitric acid
with copper. Until Goodyear’s time,
rubber goods melted in summer’s
heat or stuck to whatever they
touched. He lived to se rubber have
600 uses, but e died in debt.
June 15, 1869—John Wesley Hyatt,
32, obtained a patent upon celluloid,
the product of his method of dissolv
ing proxiyline under pressure. It
was one of 200 inventions which he
began devising in his t eens, after
only a fragmentary formal education.
Others: composition billard balls,
school slates.
• • •
June 15 Among State Histories:
100 Years ago Today—Arkansas was
admitted to the Union, the 25th state
... 100 years ago today—Act en
abllng Michigan territory to be form
ed passed by Congress . . . 1846
Great Britain conceded Oregon to
the U. S. by treaty which settled the
northwest boundary and averted a
threatened war . . . 1904—1,200 pen
sons, mostly women and children,
were killed when S. S. General Slo
cum burned in East River, New
York, while on church excursion. . .
191—Jack Alcock and Arthur Whit
ten-Brown completed the first non
stop transatlantic flight in 16 hours.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—U. S. Caval
ry was attacked at San Ignacio, Mex
ico, by Villa forces. The news shared
headlines with the matter-of-form ap
proval of Woodrow Wilson and
Thomas R. Marshall as the Demo
cratic nominees who were to raise
the ironic standard, “Wilson Kept Us
Out of War.” The Republicans had
chosen Charles Evans Hughes and
Charles Warren Fairbanks. The Bull
Moosers, so-called Progressives, had
again provided a sounding board for
Theodore Roosevelt and John M
Parker.
You’re Telling
Me?
CLEVELAND, 0., June 15—Today
Dumbkopf withdrew his can
didacy for the Republican presiden
tial nomination. “I do this in the in
terest of party harmony,” Dumkopf
announced. “I’m afraid there would
nave been some opposition to my slo
gan: “Be Dumb With Dumbkopf.”
“Though I willingly sacrifee all
personal ambition for the sake
of unity, I do not do so for any
reward. However, if—ah— the
boys wish me to serve in—say—a
cabinet post or ambassadorship,
why, I stand ready to obey the will
of the people.
• • •
By the way, what Is the pay of a
cabinet officer and an ambasUdor?
I must look that up.
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“Well, I've got to move along,
now. I've a swell scheme by
which the G. O. p. can make this
convention more interesting and
much shorter. Save expenses,
too.
off to toll the remaining
-peakers on the program that I’ll
Sladiy help them as speech stooge.
My plan is to cut the speeches ex
actly in half. Here’s how:
“While each speaker is reading
the first half of his speech, I'll
be upon the platform reading the
last half. In that way the speak
er can have his entire speech de
livered in half the usual time.
“The public should appreciate that.
Huh? You think no one would un
derstand the speeches under that
system. Well, whats the differ
ence?”