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PAGE FOUR SnWWWTmts Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Claes Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Oftice at Savannah, Georgia ' SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year - —— 7.50 Six Months ....... ........... ...... 3.75 Three Months ......... One Month .............................. ............. ..... .65 One Week ........................... ..................... .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Ti’ansradio Press • International Illustrated News - Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures BERNARR MacFADDEN STATESMAN EXECUTIVE. The crisis through which our American people have been traveling for the past eight years has developed an independent thought in economics and politics which has brought into the spotlight outstanding Americans, who have been successful in business and| patriotic in their sound expressions on politics and economy in government, oe of whom appealing to the South greatly being the Hon. Bernarr MacFadden, publisher of the Lib erty Magazine. Mr. MacFadden’s forceful editorials on govern ment have attracted the nation and especially those clear think ing people of the South who are interested in good government. There are many other American citizens, both in the Demo cratic and Republican ranks, who have been equally effective in building an American mind towards the stability of American government. It would be well for both parties, Democratic and republican, to identify these gentlemen in the counsels of their parties so that these parties would be benefited by their sound advice. The rank and file of the American people are looking more to these courageous, successful men in the bringing out of this country from the depression than they are to the moss back politicians in both major parties who are bound in thought and expression by narrow political procedure. The Savannah Daily Times, familiar with Southern thought and tradition, is convinced of MacFadden’s strength in the South ad Southerners as a whole are not satisfied with the steam-roller tactics adopted at the Cleveland Republican Convention and if the same tactics are adopted at the Philadelphia Democratic Convention, there may possibly be a mass movement of American citizens behind successful business leaders which will over shadow both Democratic and Republican parties. This is not at all impossible. The taxpayers of these United States in this coming national election are going to speak in no uncertain terms and will not be led into blind alleys by fancy-phrased plat forms. Such men as MacFadden may yet be heard from. It is for the future to decide. This newspaper understands that there is now in process a movement on foot in the South for outstanding Southerners from the thirteen Southern states to give a dinner in New York in honor of Bernarr MacFadden as an expression of the South’s ap preciation of his courageous manner in the discussion of the South and its problems. We wish only to say—Go to it, Southerners—Do a good job. We trust that you will pay the same tribute to other great na tional leaders who are interested in the South and her problems. I OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communications Intended for pub lication under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be jiven any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted In this column so that, It may represent a true IO " *" public opinion In Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be Imited to 100 words. The Savannah Dally 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 rluht to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) Doesn’t Uke Myrick Editor Daily Times: Your lambasting of the Morning News In Sunday’s issue of the Daily Times is most unfortunate and fool hardy, such piffle is not received with warmth and enthusiasm among the average Savannahians. I fear you are making a mountain out of mole hill. Personlly I think the Morning News’ editorial on "Landon for Pres ident" was a very fine article. It appealed to those with some sem blance of intelligence not connected in any way, shape or form with poli tics. There is some hope for the average citizen, if Landon is elected, if F. D. R. is re-elected all is darkness and the revolution will come before his next four year term is ended. I am a young man born and raised in Georgia. I am not now, nor ever have I been connected with any kind of politics. The lawyers and politicians all these years have tried to ram this “democratic party” talk down the throat of this genera tion, but to no avail. If you will take the trouble to check who the demo crats are in this community you will find that they are lawyers, 75 per cent of whom make their living by political intrigue, yes I mean that, tied in with the tin horn politicians of the Myrick type. They are able to eke out an existence. Then the other democrats are out and out politicians, thoee with jobs, whose salaries are paid by us, the “suckers.” There are pul- • lenty of voters right here in Chatham who will vote against F. D. R. next November. There are voters who feel that they are not lined, up with any party, for it is mean and principles with many, and not rotten party politics. I am not a democrat or a republi can. The time is coming when there will be on such thing as a major political party. The people will see to that. This nation will never sur vive under the present political party system. It’s got to go and all the crooked politicians with it. The quicker we have a government who will conduct and have its affairs conducted like a rational business man would conduct his business, in stead of like inmates of a lunatic asylum would do, the quicker we will have normal business times and at first there will be terrific prosperity. Let’s forget parties and platforms and have men and principles. Until we do, I’m somewhat dubious about Ameica’s future. A YOUNG MAN VOTER. Editor Daily Times: It would be a great help to us vot ers if neither party bothered with platforms or conventions. They are useless and annoying. Anyway, who ever heard of a vote bein gcast on the strength of a platform? Let’s be honest withourselves. We vote for one candidate because his name begins with the same letter as ours; for another because his oratory is entertaining, much more so than a paid comedian. Os course, we rarely admit these reasons, even to ourselves, but once in a while they are bound to come out and then the absurd truth hurts. INTERESTED CITIZEN. - All Os Us - Some mothers run whenever a youngster yells for mama. Others don’t . . . They say he’ll have to learn I’m not going to come running whenever he wants me. Some parents discuss everything with their children, go Into long ar guments with them, take everything they say seriously. Others say that takes too much time. They've tried and it got so they had to spend hours convincing those youngsters about obvious things . . . No they say, “DO IT or take the con sequences!” Some parents boast that they have never laid a hand on their little ones. Others say bluntly, “Well, I have! There are times when there is only ONE thing to do to straighten them out —and that's to give them a sharp smack on the bottom!” Some parents think they’ve done their children a great favor by bring ing them into the world. Other parents think the favor is on the other side. Which kind are you? “LAFAYETTE, WE ARE HERE!” ,ji X lOBbiV ■ KI I ® yMpgfel?- Ik iSw Os If I v I * *• - ~ I —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- HOW MILITARISTIC Because of Armament Expenditures IS UNITED STATES? (Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street) By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, June 19.—1 s a man a militarist for advocating a formidable army and navy? The United States is scheduled to spend more during the 1936-’37 fiscal year on the development of these services than ever we spent before in pace time. A billion! Strictly speaking, the total is a trifle higher than that, by about 100 million dollars, which, however, is a picayunish sum in this day of 10- figure reckonings. Besides, the odd 100 millions are for what are de scribed as non-military purposes. Now is that or isn’t it a warlike program? * * * Two Contentions Paclfistic folk say that it is. They argue that a country which is well prepared for war inevitably gets into one sooner or later. SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOT UMS HIR NAdUfcE CARVED A Z///3 <REE IM ■ U 1 I J T ’ EDEN. PARK, CINCIHHA'iI /H Ik /r °^ lo SoME<yPES of Lice X I . ARE EH<I RELY DEVOID wO|l|l > OF AMY USEABLE- Ip | H ||H V S<OMACH<; - All &h; f t I fill \k Have, a remnant of f i ’IJM A SToMAcH LEFT, WHicH f \ ; {OiW ff WAS ONCE USEABLE BUT i- / 7 <Hey SecureTheir__ DICES-TED FOOD FROM <hlE AESOP DID NO< bloop oF-rftEiß hosts- write, FOOD IS USED direcTLy BY THeir. Isl Xx OWN PROBABLY DID I i fieAP-DRESS 'A Ma / lA WORN BY 1 E■ \II nupeHun<ers OF Lebanon— f pos<ace ISSUE oVerprinTec deceive-their. plane ( for airmail S<AMP -<t4EN,SECOND - CVERPRIN.T, "RECOUPS AUX REFUC*ES'z For C-UARIIV COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION AXiESIVE SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES. FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1938 The pro-preparedness element, on the oppose hand, contend that they are the true pacifists. Their reason ing is that a strongly armed nation is least likely to have a conflict thrust ■ upon it because other people are afraid to tackle it. That is, to be tolerably sure that 1 we are left in peace, we must stand ready Co fight for peace—for our own neutrality anyway. No Rule Holds Good The answer seems to be that there is not any satisfactory answer. Stronglj’ armed powers do get into wars, and sometimes, notwithstand ing their apparent strength, are beat en. For example, Germany. Very pacifistic countries are im posed on- For example, China. Neither rule consistently holds good, apparently. • • • , Contrary Views I Curiously enough, there are mili i tarists who speak pacifistically and pacifists who speak milltaristically. Illustratively former Congressman Fred Britten of Illinois, long chair man of the representatives’ naval af fairs committee and a strenuous sup porter of a big American sea estab lishment, always has taken the view that ocean armaments must be cut to a minimum, because, if they exist, ultimately they will clash. Contrariwise Congressman George Huddleston of Alabama maintains that reducing armaments accom plishes nothing: peoples who feel the urge to fight will fight with primi tive weapons if they haven’t up-to date ones. Peace, he maintains, is in the heart; not a mere matter of me chanical equipment, or of treaties— except az they mean something. Other Reasons? Uncle Sam’s billion-dollar prep arations are represented as purely defensive. Unfortunately they also are men tioned as directed against possibilities of domestic discord. Their proponents suggests that labor may become obstreperous and have to be squelched here at home. Defense by the navy against a for eign invasion and use of the army in a local capitalistic-labor clash are two different propositions. Words of Wisdom Knowledge is the only fountain, both of the love and the principles of human liberty.—Daniel Webster. -WORLD AT A GLANCE— PLATFORMS EMBARRASS Candidates Who Do Not Dictate Views BY THEIR ABSURDITIES By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer PARTY PLATFORMS are an em barrassment to candidates. The Re publican platform probably will prove an embarrassment to Governor Lan don. The Democratic platform has been flung at President Roosevelt again and again—but it won’t be after Phil adelphia. The president will write his own platform there. You see, platforms are written I prior to the nomination of a man— j if he is not re-running for office. The Old Guard of the Democrats shaped the 1936 Republican platform in Cleveland. No sooner had it been made public, than the presidential nominee-to-be, wired to the conven tion repudiating two sections —one section inserted by the liberals (un der Borah), the other by the reaction aries. As it is, the platform draws fire from organized farmers and organ ized workers. * * * Farmers and Workers Organized farmers’ opinion of the platform is voiced by Edward A. O’- Neal, president of the American Farm Bureau federation, in these words: ‘We are badly disappointed that the Republican platform does not con tain any provisions for giving farmers away to control or adjust their own production, so as to prevent sur pluses from. throwing prices out of line. “I can find nothing in the Cleve land program which advocates con trol of production by farmers. On the other band, the Cleveland plat form attacks the AAA program and its methods, the Republicans forget ting that they advocate d positive pro duction control in their 1932 plat form.’’ For the American Federation of Labor, William Green announced that the platform did not meet the MyNew York By James Aswell (Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso ciation) NEW YORK. June 19.—Being a sucker for magic, thought-transfer ence and all manner of sorcery and mumbo-jumbo (except in govern ment), I responded to the invitation of Messrs. R. J. Sales and Bernard Matz,, who. as “the Two Mystics” are currently the rage at the gargling parlor of Drs. Leon and Eddie. They guaranteed to make me feel pretty silly and they did. They told me my mother’s first name and my great-grandfather’s last name; they read the inscription on my watch and hinted that I had nothing to worry about in that con nection from the embargo on gold; they deciphered my laundry marks and the numbers on the dollar bill in my pocket, explained my age, favorite color, flavor and previous condition of servitude. Professor Sales, who was foresighted enough professional!, to have been born in Alexandria (Egypt, not Virginia, he hastily added), is a pretty slick number and I haven’t the slightest idea how he did any of it. He told me that he worked mostly among the Vanderbilts, Atterburys, Stotesburys, Reids and Asters and spent a good deal of time in Palm Beach. Th? ultra-fashionables, he said, are ’more co-operative” when he begins to count the fillings in their teeth at a hundred yards blindfolded. Mind-reading, asserts the Two Mys tics (Dr. Matz was not bom in Egypt and so he is still only an apprentice wizard, bearing to the master much the same relationship as R. Tugwell would to K. Marx if that pair had an act on RKO time), has been much injured in scientific dignity by the activities of mere tricksters. The phonies have made it harder for the true seers and created so much public skepticism that twice the normal amount of concentration is required to penetrate the simplest mind. “Well then,” I suggested, "if mind reading is a science you should be able to perform an act of thought deciphering in its pure state. I am thinking of a word. What is the word?” Professor Saies burned me with his mesmeric glance. “I can, and I know the word. But I wouldn’t tell you. You know why?” “I haven’t the slightest idea.” “It’s those fakers and trickesters. They have created such a state of mind in the public—and unodubtedly you share it—that sincere scientists like ourselves must not allow our selves to prove how baffling our art really is. If I told you the word you are thinking of I wouldn’t get any credit for it. That would be pure mind-reading—and yet you’d be sure there was some sort of trick. There fore I won’t do it, because I wouldn’t get credit for doin~ it.” 1 told him I thought the explana tion perfectly reasonable. But the Two Mystics are only one pair, and the saucy bistros are be ginning to hire them by the dozen. Night club proprietors, always quick to sense the trend, have hit upon the growing willingness of Americans to believe in the incredible. It is scarcely possible now to go out in the town after dark without finding your pock ets full of live chicks and hearing your most secret thoughts read out to the multitude. It is fun to believe in these mild thaumaturgies just as it is fun to be lieve that when you are 60 years old you can quit work and receive S2OO a mont hfrom a citizenry properly mindful of your achievement in reaching that age. Both are illusions, and only the night club owners seem to know where illusion stops and reality begins. The clink of their cash registers is no illusion. expectations of labor—only two of 20 demands having been incorporated. * * * Ambiguous To tell the truth, the Republican platform builders had their own dif ficulty over the supreme court. They had to hedge. They were not certain the supreme court would declare con stitutional that which would be good politics to write into the platform. The platform, therefore, is one of i ambiguities on social welfare. i Lloyd White, labor editor of the I Cleveland Press, a close observer at the convention, puts the case into these words: "The statement of Governor Lan don for a minimum wage amendment if necessary, was an additional ges ture toward labor and liberals beyond the platform. The platform left the problem at a stalemate since the su preme court has closed the doors to legislation on minimum wages, maxi mum hours ,and working conditions. The platform held the Republicans believe it can be done under the con stitution. “If such legislation can be carried out under the constitution, the Re publicans are losing some of their thunder for condemning the New Deal for attempting to legislate on such subjects under the constitution.” To Clarify It is presumed, in view of the plat form contradictions, that Governor Landon will make further amend ments during the campaign. The entire business of platform writing is absurd. Men never heard of during a four-year interim turn out a document in two days that is supposed to be a Bible, not merely to a president and a congress, but to 127.000.000 persons. Those old fogies —for that is what they are—never take into consideration that the world moves rapidly, that new problems arise every minute and that the words they put down usually are just so much trash when reviewed in the light of day, away from these liquor soaked conventions. Can one man out of 10 million name the members of the recent Re publican platform committee? And what professions do the platform writers follow during theintervening four years? We have looked that up, as to some—and it seems incon ceivable that a nation would trust itself to their “wisdom’’. Not In the News By WORTH CHENEY AN UNUSUAL story of a dog’s sense of duty is told by R. L. Flynn, a reader of Michigan. The story is concerned with his own dog, Paddy, an Irish setter. One night Flynn and his wife de cided to attend a motion picture in a theater located directly across the street from their home. They left Paddy locked inside the house, and as they were leaving they saw him watching them from the front win dow. Scarcely an hour later, in the midst of the movie program, Flynn noticed a pressure against his leg. Looking down he discovered a dog at his feet, and upon closer exami nation found that the animal was his own, Paddy. Unable to understand how Paddy had been able to get out of the locked house, Flynn sensed that something had gone wrong. Paddy was an obedient dog, and had never fallen into the habit of following his master when he had been told to stay at home. So Flynn decided to return to the house to investigate. Once outside he noticed that Pad dy’s head was covered with scratches and blood. Shocked by this discov ery, Flynn raced home to find that someone had forced open the rear door, evidently intending to burglarize the place. But try as he did. Flynn could find nothing missing. Evidently, Flynn says, Paddy fought the intruder and drove him away before he was able to steal a thing. Then, somehow sens ing that his master should be noti fied, Paddy had obtaned entrance into the theater when the doorman was not looking, and picked out his master from an audience of more than 500 people. * * * J. A. RICOS, reader In Wisconsin, wonders if some dogs do not possess a sense of humor. After seeing his amusing story of his own dogs, we would be inclined to say that they do. Ricos has two dogs, an airedale and a cocker spaniel. Living with their master on a farm, the two dogs have plenty of freedom, and often are gone for an entire day, either visiting neighbors or romping in the woods. One day the airedale returned home with a dead porcupine in his mouth. The condition of his head and mouth indicated that he had not captured the animal without a fight, and there were several quills sticking in his nose. Moved by admiration for the brave dog, Ricos removed the quills, petted and fed him, and then put him to bed. But the spaniel showed his disgust of th? whol: affair. Jealous of the attention bestowed on the other dog, he snorted and dashed off. But he reappeared a few minutes later with an object in his mouth. Then, with a triumphant sway to his body, he walked up to his master and put the Object—his catch—at his feet. It was an old scrub brush! All classes of people hoard gold in India as a reserve against famine. The wealthy princess have accumu lated enormous sums, estimated at one time at a total of approximately $2,500,000,000. Pavements in New York city con sist of 15 different coverings. The cheapest is water-bound macadam and the most expensive is granite block • Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Friday, June 19; Festival of ths Sacred Heart in Madeira. New moon Zodiac sign: Gemini. Scanning the skies: There are “thunderstorms’ without thunder. Whenever there is lightning from a clear sky, it is not accompanied by noise. Thunder follows lightning only when there are clouds. There can be and are long thunderstorms with thousands of bolts and brilliant flash es in which there is no thunder. * • • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Rush Dew Holt, b. 1905, “baby’ senator from West Virginia . . . James J. Walker, b. 1881, onetime playboy mayor of New York . . . William A. Brady, b. 1983, t heatrics producer. . . . ♦ • ♦ TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 19 1819—the 300-ton Savan nah, first steamship to cross the At lantic, at Liverpool from Se vannah on its maiden trip. She nsec sails more than steam on the 26-day voyage. June 19, 1867—Maxmilian Haps burg, 32, Austrian archduke who wrote verse and travel books, died before a firing squad because he had allowed the French to make him em peror of Mexico. The United States. Whose Monroe Doctrine he had flaunted in attempting to establish European rule in Mexico, was the only one which tried to save his life from the infuriated patriot Benito Juarez! * * * 25 Years Ago Today—The nation’s first moving picture censorship board was created by Pennsylvanias legis lature. The legislators forgot to make an appropriation for it, so it didn’t begin to function until Feb. 1, 1914. » » * June 19 in State Histories—l7s4: Congress of seven colonies met at Al bany, N. Y., to plan defense against the French, and consider union . . . 1846: The first regular baseball club, the Knickerbockers of New York, played its first game, against a club at Hoboken, N. J., and lost 23 to 1 . . . 1873: Susan B. Anthony was fined in New York for voting in a presidential election ... 1885: Statue of Liberty received from France for New York harbor . . . 1917: Cotton reached 27 cents a pound on Exchange. . . • » • FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Allted gov ernments demanded that Greek forces be demobilized, and the minis try of Premier Skouloudis fell. The new government formed by Zaimis acceded to demands for guarantees of an attitude of “benevolent neutral ity,” meaning that Greece wasn’t to help anybody except the Au.es. (To be continued) • • > IT S TRUE Tears you shed in crying are so antiseptic tht even when diluted they kill microbes. One New York bank has 64 vice presidents and 67 second vice presi dents. The Union of South Africa has two capitals—Capetown and Pretoria. Francis Wilson reproves us: “You called New York the world’s largest city. You are probably aware that the population figures for New York and for Greater London are 6,930,446 and 8,202,898 respectively, making London considerably larger, but per haps you do rot <Voose to recognize the concept ‘Greater London’ as rep resenting a city only. London is ex tending its boundaries has behaved little differently from many an American city. Americans should ad mit the validity of Greater London population figures for they were ob tained in a manner widely used by Americans.” Yes, but in th? same amount of territory encompassed by Greater London, New York has twice as much population. Dave Winbray, one of my favorite correspondents, often quoted here, responds to the statement that the "Irish” potato which was first In troduced into North American from Ireland, originated in South Amer ica. “I was cruising timber for the government in the Sitgreaves forest, Arizona, when at an elevation of about 8,000 feet I found some wild potatoes. . . I have every reason to believe that these potatoes were na tive to that region ... If the po tato is also a native of this country, granting that our present potato originated, or came from South America, wouldn’t it be interesting to establish the fact that the potato is also indigenous to this countryt Let’s see what this might bring forth from botanical-minded readers of the column.” • * • Queries, reproofs, etc., are welcom ed by Clark Kinnaird. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. Give the next line after: “We are lost!’ the captain shouted”. 2. Dinstinguish between (a) anode and (b) cathode. 3. Near what large city are the fa mous pyramids of Gizeh? Hints on Etiquette If a man desires to meet a woman staying at the same hotel, he may ask a hotel official to introduce him to her. Today’s Horoscope If your birthday is today you are tolerably contented, although you are not a stranger to reverses, which at times weight you down. Your great trouble Is that you fail to appreciate your true worth. One-Minute Test Answers 1. "As he staggered down the stairs.” (From "The Captain’s Daugh ter”, by James T. Fields.) 2. (a) The positive pole of an elec tric current, (b) the negative pole, 3. Cairo. Elgypt.