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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. I PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY ■t 3Q2 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered m 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 ——.— m.——————— ..... '65 One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN Rational Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta, Subscribers to: Traneradio Press «International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath. Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. - King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures • 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.** OUR READERS* FORUM | i ... - ' ' (AU communication* Intended for pub- Ueatlon under this heading muit bear the name and address of the writer. Name* will be omitted on request. Anonymou* 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.) 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! W W Wl* ■’ \XI - •*££. \Vw 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"’: • « > 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 SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT W W jfff - ■ i l- rXffi Mag*- 1 / ' ,'SfSr 'Efe. i « fl 4 fl|Mw sAsPffBsW jASH ■Bme areas SMef NUMEROUS haly t1 . are. -JL/i Ki BHBBW v If in R rB uln IWTTT ’ A IF / C^LAN wfj si I -r STRUCTURES- 7OR//-ARE FOUND ALLOVER and indicate that jmT lOk ACRE & SPoTS ARE IM Their r 1 vicinity Vido\Muc;o7rr 15 SAID t ALWAYS STOOP / JR To write Nls Novels-/ ft®!* •HE HAD A TALL DESK / WfcsGLz \ VaTiao . > (VHIGH HE CARRIED Wttfi / \ AND FAsCls<f n m when he Vs • AN altar, and an so He could stamp V open bible are shown IF He WANTED lA 1 ON THIS iTAiy 1932. write. STAMP, WITH LATIn MoTTo CENTRAL PRESS *' JAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 15,193 S 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. * * a 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 I Kli.V.— ■' " "'SSSSSSS 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. * s • 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. • » « “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?”