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PAGE FOUR SSSißWiiilMmts Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUB4.I6HRO DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 30t 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 ' STOOGE GAMBLE’S Mayor Tom Gamble’s refusal to comment upon the editorial endorsement of the Republican candidacy of Gov. Alt Landon by the chief supporter of the Gamble regime (the Savannah Morning News) has not only created grave doubt of the Mayor’s loyalty to the Democratic party, but has actually convinced thousands of Savannah Democrate that Mr. Gamble a. sympa thies are with the Republican, rather than the Democratic cause. True, Mr. Gamble, as usual, sought to throw up a smoke screen behind which to conceal the real reason for his refusal to come to the defense of the party which has honored him; but nobody will be deceived by the flimsy excuse rendered by His Honor to the effect that, if he cared to comment at all, he would not do so to a publication edited by one who formerly sought office at the hands of the Republican party. Mr. Gamble, astute politician that he is, reinforced as he is by a band of astute professional politicians to dictate his policies and public utterances, should have been able to hatch out a more plausible excuse than that given a Savannah Daily Times reporter for his refusal to reprove the Savannah Morning News for its inspired attack upon President Roosevelt and his policies. a , We have known oi no instance in the past wherein the Mayor desired to create upon the Savannah public a favorable impression on behalf of himself or his administration, that he did not issue one of his famous and lengthy Gamble statements through the columns of the Savannah Morning News; and even though we readily concede that His Honor harbors a deep per sonal prejudice against the Savannah Daily Times, and probably for that reason would not care to be quoted through its columns, we still believe the great majority of loyal Savannah Democrats, who elected him to office as a Democrat, upon a Democratic tick et, and through the use of the machinery of the Democratic party, are justified in their indignant attitude toward him un less and until he shall repudiate and condemn the chief pro ponent of his administration for its constant abuse of the leader of his party. It is generally known that the Mayor has from time to time contributed many political articles for publication in the Savan- j nah Morning News. It is also known that such articles were not j out of harmony with the general policy of that paper in its a espousal of the cause of the vested interests and moneyed classes of this city, the state and the nation. It is likewise well known that the Mayor has been a tool not only of the politicians of Sa- < vannah during his tenure as Mayor, but of the interests which have burdened the masses of our people with oppressive laws and excessive laws and special privileges for the “Big Classes.” ( The Savannah Morning News knows that the Republican < party is and has ever been, the champion of the protected classes in whose interest the Savannah Morning News is and always has ( been published. It just as well knows that President Roosevelt ; is the greatest foe dishonest capitalism has ever encountered in l a Chief Executive of this nation. Hence its support of Landon ' and the Republican party and its unjust and foul attacks upon , Mr. Roosevelt and the Democratic party. And the Mayor, being a servant of the Savannah Morning News and a tool of the interests it represents, dares not com ment unfavorably to the political position of the Savannah Morn ing News or to the interests represented by it, for which he is the pliant stooge. The Savannah Daily Times challenges and defies him to take issue with his masters by causing to be published, not in the Savannah Daily Times, but in the Savannah Morning News, a statement denouncing that “Landon For President” editorial appearing in the Savannah Morning News on June 12th, thereby leaving unquestioned in the minds of Savannah Democrats who elected him, any pefradventure of doubt as to his own loyalty t» the Democratic party. In view of the Mayor’s undeniable connection with and ap proval of the general editorial policies of the Savannah Morning News, and in view of the fact that, for reasons best known to himself and as yet unexplained by him, he has seen fit to pass unchallenged the “Savannah Morning News” constant assaults upon the President and the Democratic party, may we, in con clusion, leave with our readers these queries: Was His Honor the Mayor consulted in advance of the pub lication of the Savannah Morning News editorial under discus sion? Did His Honor the Mayor advise, collaborate and consort with the person on the pay roll of the Savannah Morning News who wrote that editorial denunciation of the President and the Democratic party ? Or, did His Honor the Mayor, himself, frame that editorial as a paid writer for the Savannah Morning News? Speak up now, Mr. Mayor, or forever hold thy peace I OUR READERS’ FORUM I (All communications Intended for pub* Mention under this heading must bear ths name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted in this column so that it may represent a true expression of publie opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be Imited to 1M W °The Savannah Daily Times does not intend that the selection of letters pub lished in this column shall in any way refleet or conform with the editorial views and policies of this The Times reserves the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) Editor, Dally Times: I have always found that when giving a blind address when advertis ing for help that 95 per cent of the applications received give little if any Information about the applicant, which means that 95 per cent have their letters Immediately thrown in the waste basket. Among this num ber might have been found a suitable employe. And of course, they wonder why, although they answer many ad* vertieemeotaj they never receive are- Pfr. With so many now unemployed, I believe you will be doing a kindnees to the jobless if you will publish this letter. A JOB SEE KER . Editor The Dail, .y Times: Many people, at least the thinking ones, are getting weary of seeing this Zioncheck in print, his foolish face appearing in more scenes, etc. The antics of a drunken man are far from entertaining. Just why is it? Are we going back to the dark ages—when a nitwit fool was considered necessary in the Eu ropean courts to amuse the people ana send their, into peals of laugh ter? The hysteric giggles of so many American people at this silly speci men taking off his socks to wade in a pool, smashing autos, throwing suit-cases out of windows are crazy. If men like Zioncheck can be elected to congress and pull down a salary from the people’s money, I have grave doubts for the future of the richest country in the world. A WORRIED VOTER. ANOTHER “SHOT” IN THE DEPRESSION WAR! 1 \ JIBB >kA lw/ rW —WORLD AT A GLANCE- SOME G. O. P. GIBES Contained In Republican Platform ANGER THE DEMOCRATS By LESLIE EICHeL (Central Press Staff Writer) OF ALL the charges made against the New Deal in the Republican plat form, this one is likely to catch the most voters: “It has been guilty of frightful waste and extravagance, using funds for public partisan purposes.” The Democrats, of course, will deny that. In their most innermost cir cles they believe that the doling out of relief funds is a handicap rather than an aid. They wish they were rid of it. There is no denial that there has been waste and extravagance— but what machinery could be set up quickly enough to cover such a vast area of misery that would be perfect? That is the response. The necessity, when the Roosevelt administration came into office, was to conquer the misery, to alleviate suffering—immediately. And—ask the New Dealers—when did the extrava gance creep in? Why, when every congressman, Democrat and Repub lican alike, began clamoring for his share. That clamor continues. Suppose—ask the New Defers— when did the extravagance creep in? Whj\ when every congressman, Dem ocrat and Republican alike, began SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. 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CATCHER ,IT MAY BE SEEN WHAT A NARROW SEMI-PosTal STAMP margin of Time is LEFT A BASE STEALER., O F RECENT ISSUE Z r-lft COPYRIGHT I9M «NTHM PRKS ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 1936 clamoring for his share. That clamor continues. Suppose—ask the New Dealers— that the expenditures which now are termed “wasteful” and “extravagant” should be discontinued? How long before there would be a revolution? What would occur to business then? That is—and will be—the answer of the Democrats. • • • “Fear?” The New Deal “has bred fear and hesitation In commerce and industry, thus discouraging new enterprises, preventing employment and prolong ing the depression,” says the Repub lican platform. The Democrats in answer, will say, “Please look at the financial state ments in the Wall Street Journal.” The G. O. P. platform continues, in its indictment of the New Deal: “It secretly has made tariff agreements with our foreign competitors, flood ing our markets with foreign com modities.” Consult your friends, Big Business, on that, say the Democrats. Ask them how much business has in creased with the resumption of friendly trade relations, wherever we are fortunate enough to get them. If a nation does not buy from another nation, it cannot sell; and if there is no interchange of trade, there are no jobs for workers, nomarkets for crops. Where? The G. O. P. platform adds, of the New Deal: “It has coerced and intimidated voters by withholding relief to those opposing its tyrannical policies.” Where? Name an instance. That will be the answer of the Democrats. “It has destroyed the morale of many of our people and made them dependent on the government.” By preventing them from starving? That have replaced reason and tol erance.” This angers the Democrats more than any other statement. They will assert that no more vicious attempts to raise prejudice and hatred than the “calumnies” of the Republicans . ever have been recorded in the na tion’s history. Is it wrong—ask the Democrats— to seek protection for the weak? Or shall concentrated wealth be the only judge. of what the underdog may seek? But to get back to the basic charge —"class prejudice”—what can the Republican “distortion of truth, • shouted in high emotionalism” lead i to except some sort of fascism with complete destruction of the rights of all classes except the one which then finally usurps the power? That is the Democratic answer, endeavoring to tie up the Republicans, not with liberty, but with fascism. The Democrats believe that the Re i publicans are getting into a difficult position on this, and hope in the end ■ to denote them as the “anti-liberty” i party. -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- BOTH MAJOR PARTIES With Liberal Forces Riding to Power PUZZLED ABOUT SELVES By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. June 16—With, the nomination of Gov. Alfred M. Landon of Kansas as the Republican presi dential nominee an accompished fact,- voters find the two major political parties in a contradictory state. Complications began with the de cision of large eastern financial and . industrial Interests that Gov. Alt M. Landon of Kansas would make a good Republican candidate for president. They reckoned that he would have a strong appeal to the west. Their intention was to enable him to carry the east, too, if they could, but they did not wish him to appear too pop ular in their own section of the coun try, because it seemed to them that an eastern boom for him would hurt him with prairie state voters. They were for him because their ' judgment was that he would be man ageable, much as the McKinley ad ministration was amenable to Mark Hanna s control. ♦ * * Popular in East To their embarassment he did prove MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK, Jcne 10—The two nice old ladies had read an ad extoll ling the hotel in a magazine long be fore they left their pleasant South ern town for the Big Week. They were sisters and they had planned a vacation in New York for a half dozen years. The hotel was in the Broadway sector. They liked that. It made it convenient to shop, to go to movies and theaters, to feel In the midst of things. The afternoon they arrived they were atwitter with excitement. The big lobby seemed to them very grand and ornate as they bus tled to the desk to register. Neither of them noticed the strawberry blonde who was being propelled to the street between two waiters from the cock tail lounge on the right. Neither of them was aware that, twenty feet from the counter as they inscribed their trembling squiggles on the reg istry card, a man with a hawk’s face and deep-set, pale eyes, was selling an eighth of an ounce of heroin to tfhe tall man in spats with the falsetto laugh. In their room, which overlooked a side street, they remarked together how different New York was from what they had expected. So much more courtesy. So much more hos pitality, Even the belLhop had been so kind and genial. (They couldn’t know, of course, that the party in 908 had handed him four fingers of scotch not half an hour ago.) Presently there was a crash and a .scream in what seemed to be the adjoining room. The nice old ladies gasped and phoned the manager. The manager came, after a few more crashes and another muffled scream and, following a brief investigation, reported to the nice old ladies that the suite down the hall was being redecorated and what they had heard was the noise the carpenters and paper-hangers made. He would move the nice old ladies to another, quiet er room. He didn’t explain the screams, and they overlooked the omission. That evening they went to Carne gie Hall and heard a deliriously mov ing concert. They met some friends, too —a lady who had lived in their town many years ago and was now a prominent social service worker. When the nice old ladies told her the name of their hotel she frowned a little and stared at them sharply. She smiled faintly. “We like it so much, so quiet and homey,” the nice old ladies said. “Oh, I guess it’s changed then,” said the old acquaintance. “I didn't know it had that reputation.’ Back at the hotel a funny thing happened. One of the nice old Wies was sure she lost her pocketbook coming up in the elevator, which had been crowded. Certainly she had it when she got out of the taxi. But maybe not ... It was careless of her and distressed her, but there wasn’t much money in the bag; about SB. She cashed traveler’s checks when she needed them, as did her compan ion. It was a little difficult getting to sleep because of the singing in the room above, but the manager, again consulted, said that this was unavoid able —the room was a rehearsal hall for the next edition of a big musical. “The Follies,” unless he was mis taken. The nice old ladies were thrill ed by this. Imagine listening to a York! Os course the sound of splin tering glass a litle later, as though someone had thrown a tumbler against the wall, was puzzling, but of course rehearsals were mysterious affairs anyway. Then they heard the shot. They were just dozing off when they heard the shot. Both of them sprang up in bed, asking each other if their ears could have deceived them. Then voices and running feet in the hall outside. One of the nice old ladies cautiously opened the door an inch and peered outside. Two policemen had passed on their way to the ele vator with a struggling form between them. Their friend the manager followed at a little distance. The nice old lady demanded of him what the trouble was. He stammered, looked annoyed and then told her frankly that one of the big movie companies was tak ing a scene here in the hotel. He was scrry the play-acting had annoyed any guest. The old lady sighed happily and went back to bed. This was a fine, refined hotel —so interesting too! A place to recommend. to be overly popular in the east. At least his popularity with the rank and file of eastern Republicans was so obvious as to produce just the ef feot that the conservative big inter ests had foreseen—it began to damage him in the west. To counteract this tendency his western managers resorted to the ex .pedient of advertising him as increas ingly radical. His eastern supporters, in short had built him up in the west, on the supposition that they would bilk the farmers by inducing them to submit them to shout for a candidate who was not as liberal as they supposed him to be. In turn his western man agers undertook to bilk the eastern in terests by taking advantage of the lattens’ missionary work to put the governor into office as a radical when ' the easterners thought they were getting a conservative. ♦ ♦ * Then Court Decision At this jucture the federal supreme court rendered its highly unpopular decision nullifying New York’s min imum wage law. Thereupon Landon's western ad visers deemed it desirable to place him in the position of advocating a constitutional amendment curtailing the supreme court’s powers. Originally the eastern conservative Republicans had expected the Demo crats to campaign for a supreme court amendment, with the G. O. P. oppos ing it. The New York wage law de cision turned the whole situation topsy-turvy. Landon beat President Roosevelt to an attitude of favoring modification of the supreme court’s authority. In fact, Landon became, in some respects, more New Dealish than President Roosevelt. ♦• • " Their Criticism The Landonites are critical oi Roosevelt policies, indeed, but not on the theory that they , are unduly ad vanced—rather on the ground that, while the liberality of their inten tions is all right, they are bungling and needlessly extravagant. However, in the ultimate purpose that they suggest the Landon folk’s expressions outdo Rooseveltlanlsm. Anyway, they appear to do so. How much they really mean is & question to be pondered over. • The conservative easterners who promote the Landon candidacy in. the . first place!do not exactly acquiesce in them but they, keep mum. They are so anxious to beat Roose velt that they arrived at the Cleve land convention prepared to promise anything. Parenthetically, campaign promises are not always kept. The easterners tried to put over their own ideas in the platform, and did in certain passages—merely to have those passages repudiated by Governor Landon the following hour. Can It Be? But on the face of the situation everything is bottom side up. The supposition wafc that the Re publicans were to have taken the con servative side against Democratic radicalism. Instead, it almost seems as if Re publicanism is trying to surpass Dem ocratic liberality. But that the con servative G. O. P. element hasn’t got its fingers crossed is a question for anyone to guess on. You’re Telling Me? WHEN A MAN calls you a snake don’t get mad. Snake experts say only one serpent in 10 is even mildly dan gerous. We wonder if man .measures up to so high a standard. / • * * An optimist is a fellow who looks forward to seeing this head line in the Savannah Dally Times: “Tax Collectors Go On Strike.” • * • Florida fishermen report finding skeletons eight feet tall. So far, Cali fornia’s press agents haven't report ed but we have no duobt that they will beat that easily. • * • One Republican says he be lieves his party made a mistake in naming Landon presidential can didate because it’s so hard to find something to rhyme with “Landon” for a campaign theme song. Oh, yeah? What rhymes with “Roosevelt”? ♦ * • All those improvements the polit ical speakers promise us are very fine, indeed, but what are they going to do about the St. Louis Browns? • • • If G. O. P. campaigners attack New Deal relief expenditures the Democrats might start quoting Abraham Lincoln—up to now a Republican prerogative. Wasn’t it Lincoln who spoke about “Char ity for all”? * « * A French wine expert thinks Americans not quite civilized because we don’t drink more champagne. It isn’t a question of civilization, mister, but after an evening of Scotch and gin washed down with beer and ale we just don’t have room for anything more, that’s all. Make the Best of Lt Wilt your collar And don’t holler! Soon your knees Will start to freeze! Boy, You Seem to Know! Wife—“lt takes two to make a quarrel.” Hsuband—“Nonsense! You need four to play bridge.” —Valdosta Times. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Tuesday, June 16: Sivan 25, 5696 in Jewish calendar. Morning starg: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Evening stars: Neptune, Jupi ter. Scanning the skies: There can be, and often is, a- variance of from 10 to 40 degrees within a few feet. Some parts of the surface absorb heat readily and become much hot ter than others. Bare earth may reach a temperature 30 degrees high er than that of adjoining ground cov ered by vegetation and 40 degrees higher than the air temperature. * * * NOTABLE NATIVITIES Stan Laurel, b. 1895, cinemactor, comedian. . . . Tom Howard, b. 1885 stage, movie and radio comedian. . . Gustavus V. b. 1858, king of Sweden. He was the first king to have a So cialist government. * • * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 16, 1497 —In his own unsup ported story is true, Amerigo Ves pucci, 45-year-old Florentine sailor, first landed on the South American cntinent. There is evidence that he lied; that he was in Spain at the time. Nevertheless letters he wrote describing a trip to the New World fell into the hands of Martin Walde seemuller, German geographer, who used them in a book and suggested that the new land be named for Amerigo. « • * June 16, 1804—Alvin Adams was bom in Andover, Mass., 36 years be fore he established the railroad ex press service between Boston and New York which was the foundation of the nation’s railway express busi ness. • • • June 16, 1829 —Hailstones “bigger than pumpkins,” fell In Cazorla, Spain, crushing hpuses! Some of the hailstones weighed four and a half pounds. • « * (One hailstone of similar size fell through the tile roof of a house in Germany, in 1925. The occupant pick ed it up on the floor of'the upper story and found its dimensions to be 9.8x5.5x4.7 inches.) June 16, In State Histories: 1774 First permanent settlement in Ken tucky was established by James Har rod and 40 companions at what is now Harrodsburg. . . . 1857—Riot ing swept through New York City as metropolitan police endeavored to .oust borough forces abolished by law. Mayor Fernando Wood was arrested. . . . 1871—Ancient Arabic Order of Nobles of the Mystic Shrine was es tablished at Masonic Hall, N. Y. C., by Dr. Walter Fleming and Prof. A. L. Rawson. . . . 1897—Treaty an nexing HawaH to U. S. was signed. • • • FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The Austrian offensive against Italy halted, and Italy launched a counteroffensive. The Austrian drive had been frus trated by the pressure suddenly ex erted by Russians in the east. That day Russians captured Cernowitz, capital of Bukowina. The French chamber of deputies began the first secret session in the history of the Third Republic, to hear the plans of the French general staff to win the war before autumn. (To be continued) * * * IT’S TRUE There are 249,850 cases of World war profiteering in France still to be adjuticated ,and at the present rate it would t ake 1,000 years to hear them. Which shows you how self sacrificial the French people were when their country was invaded and all but overwhelmed. The pivot office-chair is the inven tion of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration of Independence. Newspapers held him up to ridicule while he was president because of it, saying that he constructed it “so he could look all ways at once.” You’re wrong if you believe “jump ing beans” are beans. They are seeds of a plant belonging to the genus Croton. They themselves have no power of “jumping,” this being fur. nished by the caterpillar of a small moth which gets into the seeds in larval state. The “jumping” results from the activity of the caterpillar within the ripened capsule. George B. Winton of Vanderbilt university, referring to a statement here, tells us Alexander Vi’s papal bull did not divide all of America be tween Portugal and Spain: “The line drawn by Pope Alexander did not touch the American mainland. A year later the two kings agreed to move it 270 leagues further west, cor responding then closely with the 50th degree of longitude West. It clipped off the eastern elbow of South Amer ica, entering near the mouth of the Amazon and striking the Atlantic just about the northern border of Uruguay. That region thus became Portuguese. The papal bull was in form a deed, conveying not only lands but peoples.” Oliver R. Smith correct* a corre spondent who corrected “Mormon Church” to “Church of the Latter- Day Saints.” “May I point out,”, he writes, “that the significant part «f the church’s name is still omitted, it is Church of Jesus Christ of Lattei Day Saints. The length of the title is doubtless responsible for the com mon use of the name Mormon. This is derived from the Book of Mirmon whch adherents of 'the church con» sider an inspired volume of scripture. Latter-day Saints believe the Bibls too, and since the Book of Mo'mon is a history of early Israelitish peo ples on the American continent, they consider it a valuable supplement to the Bible.” Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom. ed by Clark Kinnaird.) Hints on Etiquette When a man escorts a woman to the theater, he should not leave her during every intermission, although it is quite proper for him to leave her for a short smoke at least onoe during the performance.