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PAGE FOUR Published Dy PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN, STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months ... ............. 3.75 Three Months ............................ ........... 1.95 One Month ...... .65 One Week ................. .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass'n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communkations intended for pub lleatlon under thia headinc must bear the name and address of the writer. Nauiea 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 public opinion in Savannah and Chatham Coonty. Letters must be imited 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 th® right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) 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 ♦ • • • • • 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? “IN CONFERENCE!” tWWI ■r . MB 1/j 1 IF/ WvWr ACil E MREUROPE M Bl II Atlanta i ? . ; i —WORLD AT A GLANCE— 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 SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT M 12 OF Los Ahc? ELES, while Heavily blindfolded and in a .Baffles Science by ANSWERinq tENIIFIC QUES/lONS,OUTLINES PICfURK IN magazines. imiTaTeS Tie moijon<; qF PeoPLE AROUND Him , WILL PICK BOOKS W from shelves and openthem at desired PASSA<qES , AND WILL Point T: WORDS ASKED HIM FROM WHOLE PAqES OF PRINTED 1 MATTER. - j Caterpillars of ' most butterflies jz TIEIR SKINS like SNAKES, 7 <4 row /i Oh BBMRg Ck wfcs hSMi Before. ,cel and celebrates 1824 A committee of /r * •t OOO years of CONGRESSMEN NAMED AK PARLIAMENTARY QoVERN- C AND ID ATes for PRESIDENT- MEN< W I<H STAMPS 0330) IN Tl aT YE ar sTkTe. Scene on THIS ONE- LEGISLATURES BEGAN To * MEDIEVAL VIKING NAME CANDIDATES , AND BY SEA-ROVER DISCOVERING IB3X A PAR<Y contention AND NAMING a MEW LAND SYSTEM WAS ORGANIZED copyright 19J6 central press association 6~Z2 SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1936 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. / z 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.