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NOT SURPRISED.
The editorial appearing in today’s issue of the Savannah
Morning News, which attempts to so vividly depict the alleged
faults of the present Roosevelt administration, and which seeks
to go on record as deploring future conditions which might hap
pen if he should he renominated and elected to another term as
President of the United States is a farce.
The citizens of this community are not to be deceived by
the reversal of form as shown by the Savannah Morning News.
Well do they know and remember various articles which have
appeared in the editorial columns of that newspaper which has
complimented the various agencies which have been and are
now operating in this community under the protecting arm of
the Roosevelt administration. It is hard to conceive that a
newspaper with the prestige enjoyed by the Savannah Morning
News would allow themselves to be placed in a situation whereby
their changing of horses would subject them to the withering;
fire of those persons who realize that Franklin D. Roosevelt was
the man who saved this country from utter chaos in the early
days of 1932, and who kept the country struggling along until
it occupies the position of firmness enjoyed today. Well do the
citizens remember the glowing terms of praise and confidence
exuded in the editorials of the Savannah Morning News when
the old CWA and Transient Bureau set-ups were working to
capacity with many Savannahians occupying positions with
these agencies, many of whom had been jobless %id penniless
until the protecting arm of the Roosevelt administration took
them in hand and offered a solution to their troubles.
Well do the citizens remember the editorials asking that
something be done about the street paving and other projects
which were necessary for the advancement of Savannah’s indus
trial and social growth. And that when they were made a reality
by our local PWA and WPA agencies, the Savannah Morning
News was the first paper to come out and praise the work of the
government in allowing our worth-while projects to be com
pleted. It is to be borne in mind, however, that as soon as Sa
vannah was on the verge of the completion of her quota of the i
funds allocated to local projects, that the Savannah Morning
News was the first to come off the band wagon and launch into
a bitter attack on the present administration.
We laugh when the editorial which appeared in today’s is
sue, \vent about telling the various faults and differences which
have occurred since 1932. It has sought to analyze the entire
situation and appears to be self-satisfied with the knowledge
that it is rendering the country a great service by depicting
what the nation needs and wants. There’s one thing certain,
and that is the one sure fact in our life: Roosevelt is not to be de
nied, and the end of 1936 will find a man in the White House
who lifted the country when experts said that nothing could re
store cofidence, and the man who has kept these United States in
front, and that man is Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Savannah Morning News being the house organ of the
Liberty League and a newspaper which represents only the mon
ied interests of its community is trying to spread its tenacles
like that of an octopus and strangle the party which has saved
our nation. What better could be expected from a paper whose
motto seems to be, “strangle the little man.”
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Editor Dally Times'-
j Please allow me through your col
umns to express my pleasure and ap
proval of the outspoken and cour
ageous attitude of the Rev. John S.
Sharp In his Sunday night and sub
sequent sermons on the liquor evil
in Savannah and Chatham County.
All good citizens should be proud of
him, for it takes real courage In this
day and time to espouse and cham
pion the cause of temperance and
sobriety in the face of such apparent,
existing official sanction and acquies
ence to the sale of intoxicants in open
violation of the laws of our state.
It is especially unfortunate too
that apparently he is fighting the
battle alone. Where are the rest of
the preachers, and what are they do
ing about it? Are they not proving
recreant to the divine commission
conferred upon them by the church?
All hail to Rev. Sharp and more pow
er to him. And now might be an ex
cellent time to inquire of the news
paper editors just how they feel about
this lax enforcement of the law?
HUBERT H. WATTS
Editor, The Times:
j The name of your paper has been
given me as being friendly to the
administration in as far as he (Gene
Talmadge) fights for the best inter
est of the people. About all that 1
cap do for the cause is conrtibute a
“squib” now and then.
I’m enclosing one and if you can
use it I would appreciate a copy of
your paper.
Ordinarily speaknig, a fellow has
no business with but one family and
he may find it necessary to raise
“Ned” with ’em once in a while to
keep ’em in line.
Thats the boat Genes in. He’s been
raising thunder right and left with
the Democrats to keep ’em' on the
• straight and narrow,” but if any
body t hinks he's got any notion of
giving up the ship,—well they don’t
know Gene.
J. N. FOREMAN.
Norman Park, Ga.
Don’t let a temporary setback
finish you. Remember ,the big
gest thing in our lives, the sun,
also goes into occasional eclipse.
* * *
June is the month dedicated to
blushing brides and unblushing lawn
mower borrowers.
* * •
George Bernard Shaw insists
he has given up public speaking
because of his age. Hmmm —
maybe it’s his wisecracks which
are too old. *
• * *
Newton D. Baker suggests that
science be brought Into politics. Not
a bad idea, now that the public debt
has reached figures only an astron
omer could understand,
* * *
With the radio roaring polit
ical speeches day and night we
find ourselves longing for the
good old days, when we were
only annoyed by crooners.
* * *
Historian writes that Solomon
wasn’t so wise. We knew that—
didn't he marry 1,000 times?
SCENE AT DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
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-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
YES, BUSINESS IS GREAT
Yet Corporation Administrators Are Cautious;
HOW LONG WILL IT LAST?
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Business improvement has been
great. Business leaders do not ques
tion that for one moment.
The real question is, “How long
will it last?"
Many economists answer, “as long
as the inflationary process lasts.”
Then the question is, “How long
will that be?”
And the answer is, “Who can tell?”
Well, what ia the "inflationary
process?”
Borrowing and spending, bonuses
and credit expansion.
Suppose we should not have that?
There would be sharp contraction.
Whereupon, the average citizen
asks, "Is there NO solution?”
And the average economist shrugs
his shoulders and remarks. "Yes—
widespread distribution of the profits
of production.., etc.”
That is one reason why business
remains hesitant in the face of re
markable earnings. Business knows
it will pay in the end. Cautious ad
ministrators do not look upon pres
ent net earnings as likely to stay in
company treasuries.
* * *
Rails Leap Forward
The railroads finally are sharing in
the general upturn. Their business
is the best since 1931.
But the burden of the rails is
much heavier than in 1931.
And many of them are over-capi
talized.
* * •
Dividends
“Total dividend paymeftts will in
crease in 1936 for the third consecu
tive year,” says the Alexander Ham
ilton institute. “Dividends should
show a gain of nearly 12 per cent
over 1935 and 40 per cent over the
depression’s low."
And “income from production so
far this year indicates a further in
crease in dividend payments in 1937.”
* * *
Recovery
Here are some surprising state*
ments from the Alexander Hamilton
institute:
“Only five countries have experi
enced a greater industrial recovery
from the low of the depression than
the United States. The United States
however, is further away from all re
covery than all countries, with the
exception of four. This is accounted ]
for by the severity of the depression
in the United States.
“Only Poland and Germany suf
fered greater depressions than the
United States.
"Eleven countries now have recov
ered more than the ground lost dur
ing the depression while six other
countries are nearer full recovery
than the United States.”
* * *
Soviet Leads
Which countries lead in the manu
facturing index?
Here is what the Alexander Ham
ilton institute says:
"The manufacturing index of the
United States, on the basis of 1929
as 100 wa’fc exceeded in 1935 by the
SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1936
indexes of 18 countries. Only four
countres had indexes lower than that
of the United States.
"The United States’ index in 1935
was 75.6. The indexes of the coun
tries whic hhad higher indexes were
as follows: Russia 291.4, Japan
141.8, Greece 140.9, Finland 125.0,
Denmark 121.0, Chile 120.1, Rumania
120, Hungary 110.9, Sweden 107.5,
Estonia 106.4, Great Britain 105.7,
Norway 105.1, Germany 94.0, Italy
92.1, Spain 86.9, Canada 81.3, Belgium
80..,, and Austria 79.6.
“The four countries which had
lower indexes than the United States
in 1935 were: Czechoslovakia 69.9,
France 67.4, Poland 66.4 and the
Netherlands 66.3.”
* * *
World Paralysis
It will be seen that the greatest
trading countries, with the exception
of Great Britain, have suffered, the
most. Currency and trade barriers
have curtailed trade for them. They
?till are far from agreement on me
diums of exchange. Their peoples
have become strongly nationalistic.
France, once mighty trading nation
is in a dangerous way. Germany al
ready has disappeared from among
the buyers. Italy, too, has gone.
Disintegration such as this affects
every person in the United States,
as well as in Europe.
We speak of collecting debts from
France. Even to collect a tithe
might bring on such a world collapse
that none could escape. But there
is away to collect that debt, econom
ists are urging—open up the gates
of trade.
You're Telling
Me?
JUDGING BY the widely smiling
campaign photographs of the two
leading presidential candidates this
election will be fought out, tooth for
a tooth.
* * *
One improvement radio has
, brought in politics is this: it’s
impossible to stage a whispering
campaign with 100,000.000 Amer
icans listening in.
* * *
That strike of Spanish snake
charmers you’ve read aobut on the
front pages undoubtedly is being con
ducted with considerable venom.
* • *
Those Spanish serpent soothers
certainly are stricklers. They re
fuse to be bitten by anything less
than a genuine union label cobra.
* * ♦
A true conservati. e is one who can
not determine the difference between
a radical and a redical.
* * *
Scientific expedition has just
left for the Arctic circle to study,
say the members, the Eskimos.
And, incidentally, we might add,
escape the heat ufcve.
MyNew York
By
James As well
NEW YORK, June 24—Rando
musing: There is an echoing loneli
ness about the Bth Avenue subway
stations, particularly on a Sunday
afternoon . . . Now and again you
pass a well-dressed and clear-eyed
old gentleman occupying a bench
there underground, hands propped
on a cane and he full of unguessed
meditations . . . Also, why are the
Byzantine lounges of the movie pal
aces always sprnikled with people
mysteriously waiting? . . . The lights
are dim and you have a feeling these
folk have been here all day, perhaps
for weeks—that sunlight would blind
them and they have fled to sancauary
here because they couldn’t find enough
stones . . .
Sudden decision: I’d like to see H.
G. Wells executing a waltz . . .Joe
Cook, Jr., is rapidly winning his
Broadway spurs as a dancer ... He
has the flair for timing and show
manship that children of theatrical
families seem to absorb so easily . . .
The impalpable something that dif
ferentiates the professional from the
amateur . . . Yet few children of big
name show folk ever achieve absolute
front rank in the same profession:
I’ve often wondered why. . . . Off
hand, I can think of only Mrs. Maur
ice Barrymore and her daughter
Ethel ... • *
From Washington comes the yam
that when Congressman Bankhead
was elevated recently to Speaker of
the House, colleagues in the cloak
room asked him how it felt and he
quipped: “I feel almost as famous
as my daughter, Talullah!”
Silliest of the new “handies”: press
thumb to forehead, make winding
motion at ear, pop out tongue— that’s
a cash register . . .
The ecstatic followers of “Father”
Divine, leader of the strange Harlem
religious sect, have an official sweet
meat: chocolate peanut bars . . .
Fried chicken is the official entree
. . . Adrian, the Hollywood exquisite
and costume designer, is not a mar
celled Frenchman, as many think,
but hails from Naugatuck. Connecti
cut . . . There is a rumor around
town that Fredric March may collect
SIOO,OOO from Mussolini for exacting
the role of Columbus in an official
Fascist film ...
Fifty-second Street, throughfare of
the flashy niteries like “Leon and Ed
die's” and “21” and “The Onyx”
(where “The Music Goes ’Round and
Around” first caught Manhattan’s
ear) is beginning to rival Broadway In
ground-floor rentals . . . Yet for resi
dential purposes it still is cheap; the
flaring signs and thump-thump of
swing music attend to that . . . Once
I lived in a Manhattan flat which
overlooked a red-and-blue on-and- off
sign which said "DANCING” all
night long ... I have never been able
to dance with much enjoyyment
since . . .
WORDS OF WISDOM
The revelation of thought takes
men out of servitude Into freedom.—
Emerson.
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
REPUBLICANS GAINING
And Farley Has Made Some Serious Blunders
SINCE CONVENTION
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON, June 24—Ever
since about the middle of the Cleve
land convention the Republican party
has been gaining steadily in strength.
Correspondingly the Democrats have
been losing.
It still is too soon to say that the
Republicans have gained enough to
have a bright prospect of winning
next November or that the Demo
crats have lost enough to be in seri
ous danger of defeat at the polls.
However, Republican gains and
Democratic losses. can’t go on much
longer at their present respective
rates without beginning to give at
least a 50-50 look to the coming elec
tion.
* * *
Hamilton Energetic
Republican strategy and publicity
are recognized by Republicans them
selves as having been perfectly terri
ble under Henry P. Fletcher’s chair
manship of the G. O. P. national
committee.
If John D. Hamilton, Fletcher's
successor, can keep up the lick with
which he has started he promises to
be a wonder as campaign manager
for Governor Landon.
On the opposite hand, Democratic
publicity, as directed by Chairman
James A. Farley, who has been sup
posed to be luper-astute, appears to
have gone completely haywire within
the last two or three weeks.
* * *
A Bad Break
Farley’s reference to Landon as a
nonentity from a “typical prairie
state’’ was the Democrats’ first con
spicuous bad break.
The speech in which the post
master general indulged in this slur
at the west was written by Charles
Michelson, chief of ahe G. O. P.'s
publicity staff. Now, Charles Michel
son is a good “smearer”, but Gov
ernor Landon obviously isn’t easily
smearable. Also Charley, while a cap
able newspaperman is unacquainted
with the west.
Well, he wrote the “typical prairie
state” speech.
Farley, as dyed-in-the-wool a Man
hattan Islander as Michelson, but a
little more conscious of his provin
cialism than Charley, submitted the
thing to Presidential Private Secre
tary Stephen Early, who knows his
stuff. Early promptly edited the con
aemptuous western references out of
the speech. Mutilated as it was by
Eearly, Farley didn’t know exactly
how to deliver it and re-submitted it
to Michelson.
Charley thereupon flew into a rage
and edited the excised lines back in.
* * *
Michclson’s Words
Farley spoke as per Michelson.
Thereupon Steve Early called the
postmaster general on the long-dis
tance phone and reproached him bit
terly. They say he spoke of him as
“bald-headed” and that he used other
uncomplimentary terms, which
wouldn’t look well in print.
Farley, returning to Washington,
tried to make his peace with Early,
but couldn’t do it .
There is a rift in the Democratic
lute a foot wide.
A Blow at Farley
Then Farley issued his statement
following the Republican convention,
poking further fun at Landon as of
no consequence and at the Republican
platform as something he did not
understand.
Which left him open to Chairman
Hamilton’s counter statement that
there probably were other paragraphs
in the G. O. P. Statement that he
probably did not understand—as
"private honor” and “public credit”.
Even pro-New Deal publications
recognize that, in this answer, their
campaign management got a resound
ing sock on the jaw.
* * *
Farley A Liability
It is clear that Farley is “done” as
a Democratic propagandist in the
west.
But the Democratic organization
doesn’t know it apparently.
Or maybe he can’t conveniently be
unloaded.
It would, indeed, be embarrassing
to change Democratic chairmanships
now.
Neveraheless, Farley is a liability
the New Deal has hung onto too long.
-All Os Us -
WE'RE GOING home at night and
we pass a lighted playground and see
two teams playing a game of softball.
. • . So we stop to watch —and who
wouldn't?
It’s a close game and a good one,
and the pitchers know their stuff.
. . . The score is 5 to 4; the game’s
going into the last half of the sixth,
when up comes a playground direc
tor and tells them they’ll have to call
off the game because it was supposed
to be ended by 8:30. . . . Well, the
team that’s behind demands its licks
and gets them.
Up comes the first baseman and
fans. (That pitcher is good with nice
change of pace . . . fast balls, curves,
slow balls). Up comes an outfielder
and hits a fly that drops nicely into
the right fielder's hands. . . . Then
up comes the losing pitcher, a big
fellow who pitches with his pipe in
his mouth, but hits with his pipe in
his hip pocket. ... He swings at
the first one and tips it. Foul ball,
one strike. . . . The next one is a
slow bail. It’s high and does not even
cross the plate, drops behind the tall
batter’s shoulders into the catcher's
mitt. ißut the umpire misjudges it
and calls it a strike. . . . Yowls of
rage and derision, and the batter is
so mad he walks off and starts to sit
down. The yells, “Get back
there.'” and he “gets.” His face is
red, his jaw is set. Boy, is HE going
to tear the cover off that ball!
So what? The very next ball that
comes over the plate he meets with
a mighty sock and it flies up, up, up
into the night and clear out of the
playground and across the street and
into a yard, and our hero goes tear
ing around the bases for a home run I
—and saves the game for his side.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso
caltion)
Wednesday, June 24: Feast of Saint
John, the Baptist, a holiday in nine
countries. Primary election day ki
North Dakota. Indian Day in Peru.
Carohobo (battle) Day in Venezuela.
San Juan Day in Puerto Rioo.
• * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
William Harrison, “Jack” Demp
sey, b. 1895, restauranteur and one
time champion prizefighter . . .
Gustave Charpentier, b. 1860, French
composer—Louise, etc. . . .
* * *
TODAY’ SYESTERDAYS
June 24, 1497 —Britain’s flag was
brought to America for the first time
by an Italian! John Cabot, a Vene
tian in the service of Edward VII,
landed at St. John’s Island (which
name he gave it because this was
the sain’t day) and Europeans saw
the North American mainland for the
first time since the visit of Nroseman
400 years before.
Cabot thought he was in Asia, and
explored Nova Scotia, which ne
named Prima Vista, for a short route
to India!
His fellow Italian, Columbus, was
then bound from Spain for Trinidad
on his third expedition across the
Atlantic, also looking for a short
route to India. Exactly two years be
fore Columbus had instituted slavery
in the New World by shipping off
five boatloads of Haitian natives to
Spain to be sold as laborers.
June 24, 1784—America’s first air
passenger was a 13-year-old boy! A
Baltimore newspaper of the next day
tells the story as follows:
‘‘Yesterday the ingenuous Peter
Carnes, Esq., made his curious Aeros
tatic Experiments within the limits
of this town, in the presence of a
numerous and respectable congress of
people, whom the fame of his superb
balloon had drawn together from
East, West, North and South, who
generally appeared delighted, with the
awful grandeur of so novel a scene as
a large globe making repeated voy
ages into the region, which Mr.
Carnes’ machine actually performed,
in a manner that reflected honor on
his character as a man of genius, and
could not fail to inspire solemn and
exalted ideas in every reflecting mind.
Ambition, on this occasion, so fired
the youthful heart of a lad (only 13
years old), of the name of Edward
Warren* that he bravely embarked as
a volunteer on the last trip into the
air, and behaved with the steady for
titude of an old voyager .The gazing
multitude below wafted to him their
loud applause, the receipt of which,
as he was soaring aloof, he politely
acknowledged with a significant wave
of his hat. When he returned to our
serene element he met with a reward
from some of the spectators, which
had a solid, instead of an airy, foun
dation, and of a species which is ever
acceptable to residents of this lower
world.”
This is all the story says; what the
“reward” was we’ll all have to guess.
The ■' Carnes-Warren flights followed
by only eight months, the first ascen
sion of man in history, at Paris, and
preceded all others in America.
June 24, Among State Histories:
1664—The territory comprising the
state of New Jersey was granted by
the Duke of York to Lord John
Berkeley and Sir George Carteret un
der the title of Nova Caesaria • . .
1675 —King Philip's war with colonists
began at Swansea, Massachusetts.
. . . 200 Years Ago Today—Laws
against witchcraft repealed in Eng
land and American colonies. . . .
1861—Tennessee seceded from the
Union. . . . 1898—First land engage
ment of Spanish Aemrican war was
fought by 10th Cavalry and Teddy
Roosevelt’s Rough Riders against
Spaniards at Las Guasimas, Cuba.
The Spanish were defeated and 11
killed. Sixteen Americans were killed
and 50 wounded.
* * *
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—-The world’s
first cargo submarine, the Deutsch
land, nosed out of Kiel and glided to
ward America to run the British
blockade with 800 tons of dyestuffs
worth enough to pay the whole cost
of her construction, and mail for
German agents. The 800-fcon craft,
275 feet long, with crew of 29 was to
reach (Baltimore, 3,600 miles away, on
July 10.
(To be continued)
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. Distinguish between a perennial
and an annual plant.
2. What do the designs and colors
of Scotch plaids indicate?
3. Define an ingot.
Hints on Etiquette
Never prolong a formal call. Five
or ten minutes in the drawing room
should suffice unless the hostess re
quests you to remain longer.
Words of Wisdom
A useless life Is an early death.—>
Goethe.
Today’s Horoscope
If you were born on this day, you
love to sit in the midst of an ideal
world, and are happy in seclusion. At
times you may exhibit a temper and
are secretive, somewhat covetous and
fond of appreciation.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. A perennial lives several ymrs,
while an annua lmust be planted %-
new each season.
2. The clans or regiments to whioh
their wearers belong.
3. A mass, usually, oblong, of cast
metal, especially gold, silver or *teel.