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JUPITER PLUVIUS WINS.
The postponement of the battle between the beetle-browed
Max Schmeling, and the highly touted Joe Louis until tomorrow
night will serve as a source of great disappointment to the many
fight fans the country over. Many plans have been made to meet
the occasion of tonight’s fight, but it appears that Mother Nature
had the last word in the argument when she unleashed veritable
torrents of rain to make the staging of the match an impossi
bility.
There have been many prayers offered by leading sports
men the world over who are hoping that the German fighter will
go the full route in order to restore white supremacy to the ranks
of the leading fighters of the world. It has so happened that Joe
Louis, a negro, was blessed with the true killing power which
has so emphasized his debut into the professional fighting ring.
We have had great white fighters in the history of world boxing,
and it so happens that there is a shortage of white talent at the
present time which makes the star of Louis rise in its full as
cendency.
IVe concede the fact that Louis is a wonderful boxer and
a powerful hitter, but whether or not he can and will be able to
fight against a man who has not been cowed and awed by the
much publicized presence of the black menace remains to be seen.
It is hoped that tomorrow night he will step into the squared cir
cle against a man who will be man enough to step in and take
and give with the fervent hope that the full supremacy of the
white race in athletic competition might be restored in one par
ticular phase.
A MUCH DESIRED IMPROVEMENT.
The Savannah Daily Times does not know just where the
authority lies for naming by sign board or plates the streets of
the city, or, of having each home or place of business properly
numbered. Certainly the responsibility is some ones. In certain
sections of the city it is difficult, if not impossible for one to
know just where lie is without loss of time and embarrassment
in stopping the passing wayfarer to make inquiry, only to find
he too trying to locate himself.
We appreciate that, on certain corners in the city, in fact
a very large number, improvements in the way of service stations
have taken the place of worn out properties. There were at least
on most, if not all of these old buildings, street signs for the
guidance of the people. Many residents of the city, and practi
cally every stranger coming in to visit relatives or friends, find
it most difficult to locate streets. This is a simple matter to cor
rect and should have immediate attention from those on whom
the responsibility rests.
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Editor The Daily Times:
I read an amufeing account of a
club which had as its object the “pre
vention of hat tipping in elevators.”
It seems people will always swal
low a camel and strain at a gnat. Why
not, in this age of missing girls and
domestic upheaval, a society for the
prevention of under-dressed adoles
cent girls?
A CRUSADER.
NOT—In the News
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COPYRIGHT. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
(Central Press Association)
After keeping company for about
six months, Harry, a young newspa
per man, finally succeeded in hav
ing Shelia, also a young reporter, ac
cept his ring.
Shelia, while she liked Harry, was
reluctant to take the ring because
she was not so sure that Harry was
ready to settle down; she was afraid
his attentions were not confined
wholly and completely in her.
But Harry won her, after much
persuasion and considerable argu
ment. and she took the ring.
She was a little flabbergasted when
she saw the ring. It obviously was
a cheap ring, and not one she wr/'d
be proud to show to her friends, but
she took it anyway, accepting the
fact tht perhaps Harry could not af
ford a better one.
Then, one night, when Harry ex
plained he would have to work. She
ila dropped into a night club with
her sister and the latters boy friend.
On her first glance ground the room
she spotted Harry. He was sitting
at a corner table talking earnestly to
a heavily-rouged and mascaraladened
blonde.
Shelia managed to leave the place
Editor Daily Times:
It may be hot in Savannah, but
we don’t have to suffer like others
do. If we are walking down the
street, one side will always have a
line of overhanging shade trees.
Benches are conveniently placed in
parks every few blocks. A riot of
beautiful color greets one at every
turn, as Oapt. Robertson's efforts in
beautifying the parks and streets are
observed. There is almost always
some breeze or cooling wind blowing
through the city, with the ocean
only 20 miles away. And our average
temperature is no higher than other
Southern cities, probably less.. Our
climate is ideal—with few extremes.
So, what right have we to complain
about the weather? Let’s save that
stupid topic of conversation for those
who really have a “kick” coming, and
advertise the agreeable brand of
weather we enjoy in the “Forest
City!” Finding fault only makes us
hotter, anyhow I
A COMPLACENT CITIZEN.
without Harry getting sight of her,
and the next day she acted as Jf
nothng had happened when he spoke
to her.
But that night when Harry arrived
home he found a small, matchbox
sized package awaiting him. There
was a big label which on one side
bore his name, and on the other,
these big, bold letters. “GLASS—
HANDLE WITH CARE.”
He tore it open and found, as you
probably have guessed, his engage
ment ring. Inside was this note:
“This is as cheap as you are,
and it glitters as much as your
big blonde. Suppose you kejw>
them both."
• • ♦
The blonde woman turned out to
be a missing witness in a celebrated
newspaper story on which Harry was
working. From her that night at the
club he had obtained an exclusive
interview for which his (fritor gave
him a SSOO bonus.
Harry took the hint about the
other engagement ring and bought
another .more expensive and more
beautiful. Besides, he brought an at
tractive wedding ring. And what girl
can reeist an attractive wedding
ring?
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A NARROW BATTLEFIELD
Confined to Most Populous States
FOR REAL 1936 BATTLE
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
There will be a few states which
will form the battleground in the
election —the few states that control
the most potent part of the electoral
vote. Thus the campaign will be
shaped to appeal to those states.
Those states are New York, Penn
sylvania,, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan
California, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Massachusetts, Indiana and Kansas.
The south is entirely Democratic.
The farm states, except Kansas,
have a strong Democratic tinge. The
epublican battle, therefore, must be
to gain the most populous states.
Winning a majority of them, plus
New England (which is counted Re
publican) could bring victory.
The Republicans claim New York,
the Democrats claim Pennsylvania.
The Republicans must have both to
win.
New York probably would swing
Connecticut and New Jersey with it.
Ohio, Indiana and Ilinois probably
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will swing together. They seem
Democratic at the moment
Michigan remains a debatable
state. If Senator Arthur H. Vanden
berg had accepted the vice presiden
tial nomination. Michigan might
have been carried by the Republi
cans. At the moment, it looks as if
the vote in Detroit will swing the
state into the Democratic column.
■ With all due respset to Colonel
Frank Knox, the vice presidential
candidate, he is not a Heavyweight
as a vote-getter.
Massachusetts is anybody’s guess,
although the Republicans claim it as
a certainty. Some of the editors
there are not so certain.
Kansas may be counted in the Re
publican column, even though the
Democrats plan to put up a stiff
fight there among the farmers.
California wil go Democratic, ac
cording to present indications
The foregoing facts were obtained
from observers who attended the
Cleveland convention. The observers
all Republicans admitted the
facts were not such as to breed op-
timism at the moment, but thev look
ed for Alfred Mossman Landon to
make a fighting campaign.
« A •
Too Many Disgruntled
The campaign will begin with for
mer leaders and other forces on both
sides disgruntled and sitting in their
tents.
On the Democratic side, the Alfred
E. Smith group has no place to go.
The Kansas governor is not the type
to appeal to the Happy Warrior and
his New Yorkers. Besides, the east
erners still do not trust Kansas on
money. Their suspicions on that
were confirmed the other day when
Jim Farley made known that Gov
ernor Landon’s representative at a
governors’ conference a lew years
ago had appealed to President Roose
velt to inflate the currency.
On the Republican side, Senator
William E. Borah —the Lion from
Idaho wh growls but never bites—
will go into a cave and hide.
And Senator Vandenberg, the sage
from Michigan, although he has de
clared he will speak with all his
power for the Landon ticket, has his
eyes upon 1940. Governor Landon’s
generalissimo, John D. M Hamilton,
pleaded with all his might that last
day in Cleveland for Senator Vanden
berg to take the vice presidential
nomination. But the senator lounged
back in his chair in his hotel suite
and smilingly shook his head no. It
is said he would have taken the nom-
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
HAMILTON’S STRATEGY
In Joining All Republican Forces
PRAISED BY OBSERVERS
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 18—While
leading Republicans, now that their
convention is over, do not express
(when they speak confidentially) very
high hcpes of electing Landon and
Knox, they do say that they think
the Cleveland gathering was remark
ably well managed.
That is, they feel that the Landon
management was excellent. Henry P.
Fletcher, who was chairman of the
G. O. P. national committee until just
after the nominations were made, is
not accorded much of the credit. To
the contrary, he and his organization
are described by politicians on both
sides as having been about the com
pletest wash-out in American party
history. But his successor, John
Hamilton, some declare, seems to
them as wily as Democratic Chair
man James A. Farley.
Until the delegates actually were
called to order there were all sorts
of threats of bitter fighting among
them, but nothing could have been
more peaceful than the proceedings
which followed.
Indeed, I have heard it suggested
that the Landonites deliberately en
couraged pre-convention rumors of
discord, in order to make the gather
more noticeable by contrast.
• • •
Borah Fails
Landon supporters do not care
much whether or not Senator William
E. Borah does sulk in his tent.
Their impression is that he has
failed utterly to score, and they be
lieve that he knows it —as witness
his failure to seek a hearing on the
convention floor ad his departure
from Clevelad before the assemblage's
adjournment.
That organized labor is dissatisfied
with the G. O. P. platform is a sub
ject of considerable perturbation
among Republican strategists, but
they hold that Governor Landon
largely counteracted even this weak
ness in his party’s cause by his mes
sage to the effect that the platform
didn’t altogether please him, either.
It is no secret that Colonel Frank
ination if it had been given him by
acclamation, but while he had been
sleeping during the wee hours, Col
onel Knox’s managers had tied up l
the Pennsylvania delegates.
It must not be forgotten that Sen
ator Vandenberg, no less than Gov
ernor Landon, was elected during a
Roosevelt landslide, and in a far
more populous state than Kansas.
Senator Vandenberg looks upon him
self as the No. 1 man for the future,
and does not desire to Injure his
cause by playing second fiddle now.
• » •
Three Lqng Years
Three long years from now, the
wealth that was behind such men as
Senator Vandenberg and the Elder
Statesmen of the Republican party—
for whom there is such happy weep
ing now—will show it is not dead.
The procession of has-beens from
Cleveland undoubtedly was the larg
est in the party’s history—but the
Power of Wealth went out with pomp
and circumstance.
Governor Landon may make that
departure permanent.
But it does not see so, in the light
of history. Nations are dividing into
parties of the extremes. The Repub
lican party is the natural haven of
the conservatives or the tories. The
Democratic party is middle ground,
thus is the more likely to disappear.
In four years from now, may there
not arise a united party of the Left?
If so, will the party of the conserva
tives, the Republican party, not have
a strong recrudaicense along reac
tionary lines? And will the Demo
cratic party not disintegrate because
it is neither fish nor fowl?
Hoover Done?
Again and again, the Republican
press has said goodby to Herbert
Hoover. But Herbert Hoover made
the only speech in Cleveland that
had any coherence to it. Liberals
laughed at it, radicals held their
noses. Yet it stated the cause of the
anti-liberals, the anti-radicals. It
struck no middle ground. It was far,
far to the right. It was what the
top sergeants of the Republican par
ty desired to hear. Herbert Hoover
remains a symbol. You can’t say
goodby to . a symbol.
You’re Telling
Me?
THIS IS National You’re Telling
Me contribution week so we will cele
brate properly by printing today six
gags from six kind-hearted contribu
tors:
* * *
“Is our language called the
mother tongue because father gets
such little chance t use it?”—
A. K. F., Topeka, Kas.
• • ♦
“The cashier in our office made a
mistake last week. He entered the
salary of Shuffling Sharlie, the office
boy. in the ledger under the haed of
running expenses.’ ’’ —G. Gubanix,
St. Petersburg, Fla.
♦ » ♦
“Maybe the reason a prophet is
without honor in his own country
is because the home folks know
him too well."—Sally, Sharon, Pa.
• * *
“Berlin. Germany, is proud of its
restaurant which serves nothing but
10-cent meals. Shucks. I know a lot
of restaurants that do that, only they
charge 50 cents up for them.”—Kit
Kat, Klttaning, Pa.
• « •
“Among those men who con
stantly attend to their duties you
might add custom officers and
revenue collectors.” Abie See,
New York city.
Knox was the Landonites’ second
choice for the vice presidency; they
would have preferred Senator Arthur
H. Vandenberg if they could have per
suaded him to accept the nomination.
Still, it went to Knox with a ap
pearance of enthusiasm that left
nothing, in that respect, to be desir
ed.
• * *
A “Beautiful Job”
In short, whatever the November
outcome may be, the whole thing has
been managed, Republicanly speak
ing. almost to perfection.
It was a beautiful job of intra
party politics.
When it comes to inter-party poli
tics—that's different.
The Republicans do count on one
thing:
After a prolonged period of Chair
man Fletcher’s feebleness, rather
than outright blundering, there comes
to the fore a capable, aggressive man
agerial setup.
The G. O. P. folk are of the opinion
that the effects of this change will be
felt immediately.
It will, undoubtedly.
That the new control will be equal
to putting a period to the New Deal
would be a rash prophecy; the bold
est Republican doesn’t make it with
any confidence.
However, the New Dealers will
know they’re in a fight, with John
Hamilton directing it for Landon and
Knox.
♦ » »
Vandenberg’s Reasoning?
Vandenberg?
Why wouldn’t he accept the vice
presidential nomination?
He surely would have accepted the
presidential nomination if he could
have had it.
Well, the presidential nomination
makes the nominee his party’s leader.
Beaten this year, he still will be the
premier cadidate for 1940’s nomina
tion, when Republican chances may
be better. It is a potential asset to
him, even if defeated.
But to be defeated for the vice
presidency?
Phooey!
MyNew York
B y y
James Aswell
NEW YORK, June 18—H. N. Swan
son is one of the br.ght young men
who prove over and over, for those
[ with eyes to see, that this country has
never ceased to be a land of such
vast and variegated opportunity that
there are only two classes in it—the
quick and the dead. He has reached
tops in a bewildering diversity of
fields. He never wilted and whined
“Depression!”
Just out of college (through which
he worked his way) he got the idea
for a magazine devoted to the fluff
and shin: of youth and soon was
editor of “College Humor,” with the
backing of a Chicago capitalist. The
magazine thrived enormously, but
yielded, like many others, to the
short-circuits of the dip years.
He changed horses deftly—and
landed in Hollywood with a movie
job. Soon he was an associate produc
er for RKO, one of the youngest men
ever to hold so important a post. He
stayed three years and saved enough
money for an orange ranch and to set
himself up as a literary agent.
The field, of course, has long been
overcrowded. Candid friends shook
their heads. Others, who knew him
better, chuckled and predicted, even
while rumors of disaster trickled East,
that he would land on his feet out of
any contretemps. He did.
I saw him the ether day on a brief
sortie from the Coast, and although
. he is the second most important agent
in Hollywood, with an imposing string
of high-priced scribes on his list
(many of whom he spotted while un
known and gave their first break
into print) he is full of even grander
schemes. All this in the amazing per
iod of a year and a half.
Luck? Don’t be silly. The man
has an unquenchable and unbeat
able vitality and a Swedish stubborn
ness in plowing toward a goal. Failure,
to him, is only a vague word in the
mumbo-jumbo of the “liberals” who
prate of “underprivileged Ameri
cans”; for at the tape he himself was
definitely “underprivileged” in their
connotation, but highly privileged in
his. He could try.
* • •
In a recent screed about the pau
city of Manhattan playboys of the
old, authentic stripe, I might have
remarked the recent death of still
another, Col. E. H. R. Green, son
of the fabulous and miserly Hetty
Green.
He was, perhaps, the only scion of
millions in recent history who was
really forced to nake his own way.
His mother refused to give him any
allowance at all, but after argument
consented to get him a job—as a
section hand on her Ohio & Mississ
ippi Railroad for $5 a month. When
he demanded a raise, pleating semi
starvation, she told him he wasn’t
worth it.
But he toiled with such a hysteri
cal diligence that in the space of
years the directors were insisting that
he be made managing director of the
road. He continued on from there
to make a fortune of his own. Later,
with his own money, he took his moth
er from a cold-water flat which she
had inhabited to save money (al
though she had millions unccunt.d)
and installed her in a suite at the
Waldorf.
His bizzare quixotries are still
legend in Manhattan. He had him
self built the wonder automobile of
his age, at a cost of $21,009, replete
with a glass roof because he loved
sunshine. He was one of the orig
inal “first-nighters” and his frown :
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 193fi. Central Press Asso
ciation, Inc.)
Thursday, June 18; 349th day,
160th year of U. S. Independence.
Morning stars; Mercury, Venus, Sa
turn, Uranus, Mars. Evening stars:
Neptune, Jupiter. New moon tomor
row.
SCANNING THE SKIES: The first
total eclipse visible from the earth
since February, 1934, starts today, af
fecting Alaska. Tomorrow: It will
darken southern Greece, northern
Turkey, the Black sea, Siberia, north
ern Japan and the western Pacific
ocean •
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Jeanette MacDonald, b. 1907, cine
mactress . . . James Montgomery
Flagg, b. 1877, artist and illustrator
. . . Philip Barry, b. 1895, play
wright . . . Lou Gehrig, b. 1903, New
York Yankee baseball star . . . Rob
ert R. Reynolds, b. 1886. senator from
North Carolina . . Wells,
b. 1886, humorist and novelist . . .
Blanche Sweet, b. 1896, actress . . ,
Nichols Horthy de Nagybanya, b.
1868, regent of Hungary. -
* • •
June 18, 1812—The United States
declared war on Great Britain. The
senate had divided 19 to 13; the
house 79 to 49. New England threat
ened to secede. There were anti-war
riots in New York, Baltimore and
other cities. Authorities in various
places blocked preparedness measures.
Yet this was the war which estab
lished U. S. Independence. It was
what Benjamin Franklin had antici
pated when he reproved a person:
“Sar, you mean the Revolution; the
war of independence is yet to come.
It was a war for independence, but
not of independence.”
June 18, 1815 —Exactly one year
after the Lord Mayor of London gave
$125,000 dinner to the rulers of Bri
tain, Rusisa and Pressia to celebrate
the downfall of Napoleon, the armies
of Britain, Russia and Pressia finally
brought- about the downfall of Na
poleon on the battle of Waterloo —
which wasn’t fought at Waterloo! It
centered around La Haye Sainte, some
distance south of Waterloo, and none
of the action took place within the
environs of Waterloo.
* * *
75 Years Ago Today—Thaddeus S.
C. Lowe, 29, made the first flight
for miltary purposes in the western
world, rising in a balloon near Wash
ington to make observations for th<
Union Army of the Potomac, and
from it transmitted the first tele
graph message from the air of Presi
dent Lincoln.
Military authorities didn’t see any
value to either the balloon or th<
aerial telegraph messages, and Lowe
quit the army long before the
was over, to turn his hand to the in
vention of one of the first mechanical
iceboxes.
But the Lowe flights served a no
table purpose. Count Zeppelin, 24-
year-old German army observer with
the Union army, made his first bal
loon ascension in a Lowe craft, and
got his idea for airships while watch
ing artillery fire being directed from
a Lowe blimp.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Bugles called
throughout the United States. Presi
dent Wilson, as commander-in-chief
of army and navy, ordered the mobil
ization of the militia of 45 states and
the District of Columbia for service
on the Mexican border. The militia
of New Mexico, Arizona and Texas
were already on duty there.
The army's high command had em
braced the opportunity provided by
the Mexican border troubles to begin
active traniing of forces for the in
evitable entry of the U. S. into the
fTo be continued)
European conflict.
The Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. Give the source of ths following
quotation: “Beware the Ides of
March.”
2. What is a carboy?
3. What state is named after a
Bourbon king of France?
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
Women should not smoke at fortnal
dinners. This rule also applies to
men unless ciragettes are served with
the coffee.
WORDS OF DISWOM
Labor to keep alive in your breast
that little spark of celestial fire,
called Conscience. —George Washing
ton.
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TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
If your birthday is today, you have
a motherly, sympathetic, loving and
solicitous nature when it comes to
the welfare and' happiness of others.
ONE MINUTE TEST ANSWERS
1. From the play “Julius Caesar,"
Act 1, by William Shakespeare.
2. A large colored-glass bottle pro
tected by basketwork.
3. Louisiana for Louis XIV.
could reach print and stymie the
run of a play.
Once, passing through Dallas, Tex
as, he saw a run in progress at a
bank of which he knew nothing. He
walked in, put SIOO,OOO in cash on
the counter and the depositors, aston
ished, decided that their funds were
safe. The bank was saved.
On his Massachusetts estate he
built the largest and best-equipped
private flying field in America and
was generous in aiding the develop
ment of flying. Few knew—or know
today—that a secret skittishness pre
vented him from ever flying a mile
himself.