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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY At 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered a« 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 A DYNAMIC TRIBUTE, The dynamic tribute paid to the present Democratic admin istration by Senator Joseph T. Robinson in his address last night clearly shows the sentiment of the United States towards the re nomination of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the Democratic banner bearer in the forth-coming presidential race. The newly appointed permanent chairman of the Democratic convention in a series of withering blasts directed at the Repub lican convention held in Cleveland explained the many differ ences which had occurred in the Republican regime over a period of years extending from the Coolidge era to the end of the Hoov er dynasty, and went on to say that the present Democratic ad ministration would sweep on to higher and bigger glories than experienced in the last four years. The Arkansas senator went on at length to rally the cause of the Democratic banner in the coming election in order to assure the country at large that the citizens of this great nation would not revert back to the “defeated and disheartened leader ship of the Republicans.” Taking this statement as a yardstick as a measure to the certain success of Franklin D. Roosevelt in the coming election, it seems that the possibilities of the Demo crats winning the race with an even greater majority than that of 1932, is the resounding echo from the country at large. Rob inson, with his fervent plea for concerted action on the part of all loyal Democrats shows to the world at large that the United States certainly has not suffered by the Democratic administra tion, but has swept on to far greater and better things as has been experienced in the last decade. Stating that the Supreme Court had exerted the “effect of slowing up national recovery,” Robinson was vitriolic in his running fire of sarcasim directed at the enemies of the present administration. Expostulating at length on the decisions of the high tribual, the dominant figure o the rostrum of the coven tion interpolated cutting remarks which were tempered in ef fect with his conclusion, “Oh, blind and impartial justice, what blunders are committed in thy name!” OUR READERS’ FORUM I (All communication* Intended for pub lication under thia heading must bear the Mme and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and spinion is permitted in this column so That it may represent a true expression of >ublic opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. 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 the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) OUR READERS FORUM Editor The Daily Times: Why the hub-bub, the chatter, the ceaseless and equally useless fretting concerning politicians. Politicians never have and never will add to the wealth of a nation. Honest states men, no doubt, do aid the progress or retard the fall of a country, but never -All Os Us - I don't like dotted lines • . . and never signed on one enthusiastically. The other day I told a garden ad dict that I knew the names of only three flowers. ... I know the names of a lot of them. I know roses, dah lias, poppies, violets, geraniums, marigolds, carnations . . . yes, and nasturtiums and chrysanthemums and little wild butercups . . . and •alia lilies. But I hardly ever wear one in my buttonhole . . . though I used to know an old gentleman who had worn a red rose, a new one every day, for 36 years. It was the thing he was proudest of. When people ask me how I am, I say fine. . . . But occasionally I hold 'em with a glitetrlng eye and give all the details. About the time I get a pair of shoes all soft and sloppy and comfortable I need a new pair and then they look so disgraceful that I hesitate to wear them into a shop. I can stand and look at a steam shovel for five minuets. . . . But I can watch a good carpenter for hours . . . most interesting thing I used to see in the war was the way a big naval gun would fire a projectile, recoil and then slowly stick Its nose out as if to see what damage it had done. . . . Silly looking thing. Elevator men separate their pas sengers Into two groups: those who talk about the weather and the two or three who don’t He and I used to He on the river bank, nudist, between swims, and talk about what we were going to be when we were grown up ... I saw him the other day and he told me he’d been married four times. .. . And I remembered that marriage was one of the things we’d NEVER thought of mentioning. do they add to its wealth. ' The present administration, the New Deal, is taking an uncharted course directly opposite to a sane and natural adjustment. As long as the government main tains its present scarecrow to capi talistic enterprisers it will never feel the strong, healthy pulse of business which an unrestricted United States once knew. FRED SERVING. Editor The Daily Times: We people are responsible for the deplorable conditions here. Some have sold their heritage for a mess of pottage, as did Esau. They have i given their votes to political racket eers for favors; they also have sold their neighbors’ welfare to dema gogues. Others, the greater part of our citizens, have lapsed into polit ical inertia. While they slept, the enemy overtook us. The Esaus will always be with us. They are joined to their idols as was Ephraim. The other group, victims of the political «topus, I would urge to rally to the standard of democracy and reclaim this section from its ex ploiters. We should strive against deception, vote faithfully and urge others to do likewise; that that any necessary aid in ballot casting be inteligently, courteously Ind fairly given by the Inspectors; that the county commis sioners appoint honest, intelligent citizens as poll inspectors; that no endorsers of candidates be within 15 feet of the polls and that the votes are not fradudently counted. AN OLD FASHIONED DEMOCRAT. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. What political office does Wil liam Gibbs McAdoo hold? 2. Were there Anglo-Saxons in Bri tain when Caesar landed there in 55 B. C. 3. Who was Sappho? Hints on Etiquette If an unmarried woman wishes to add a touch of formality to her let ters, she should put the prefix “Miss” in parenthesis before her signature. (Miss) Mary Ann Morgan. Words of Wisdom Freedom exists only where the peo ple take care of the government.— Woodrow Wilson. Today’s Horoscope If your birthday is today, you have much self-reliance and love to rule. You are truthful and just, and the ; spiritual nature within you is strong. One-Minute Test Answers 1. He is United States senator from California. 2. No. They invaded Britain in the fifth centry. ; 3. A Greek lyrio poetess who lived about 600 B. C. A TALE OF TWO CITIES zn ? ? / TO MAKE. IT 1 \ J \ OUT IT SEEM I / (Cleveland ' Y f /HOW l\h\ 7 ( TO MAKE IT VshTH- ) U I OUT WAVING IT y k TOO .LIBERAL? j ** vAf Atlanta z —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- NO CONSOLIDATION Among Groups of Dissatisfied Elements FOR THIRD PARTY MOVE By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, June 25—The Rooseveltian management is repre sented in some quarters as badly worried by Congressman William Lemke’s announcement of his “Union Party” candidacy for president. Though of course they don’t ad mit it. it’s true that the Roosevelt folk are a bit worried by the Lemke development. If all the voters who want a new party could be brought together and kept together they would constitute a weighty consideration, but there is very little prospect that such a con solidation can be effected at present. Each of several groups of the dis satisfied element wants it own par ticular kind of a new party, differ ing from til the others * ♦ • Followers Father Charles E. Coughlin, to be sure, is out for Lemke, and presum ably he has enough authority over his National Union for Social Jus tice to secure its indorsement of the North Dakotan. But Father Coughlin seems to proceed on the assumption that his SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT MM 1S USE-D TO FREEZE foV 1 CREAM BECAUSE THE MIX— OF AMD ICE GIVE vC z OF 2.1 IB f/’ h d FAHRENHEIT WHICH IS JI/ ’L V GOLFER THAN ICE jll alone. JFI i IrWW 1 IH H * IBBIo* wllw® jr I Ir if ft' Wjaj&w. ik jo* T Washington GR£Ar .EDUCATOR * > At> Ko when he y 1 Went 4o School Ue Found j|L I I j OTHER. CHILDREN HAD * j names and he made one DRUMS not BELLS up for one CALL -The FAITHFUL To By WHICH TfrlE WORLD CHURCH SERVICES AT UGANDA • AFRICA , „ COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL* PRESS ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JUNE 25, 1935 Social Justice cohorts will be joined by Dr. Francis F. Townsends old age pension following and by the late Senator Huey P. Long’s the wealth aggregation, under the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, when the three hold their scheduled conference in Cleveland soon. This amalgamation, however, doesn’t appear to be so likely. • • * Hatchet Buried The Long organization, since the senator’s death, has more or less bur ied the hatchet with the Roosevelt administration, is getting its share of Louisiana patronage, no longer is being prosecuted on charges of in come tax evasions and probably has more to gain by staying regularly Democratic than it could hope for by bolting to a movement which can’t win anyway. And the Townsendites don’t con sider their plan inflationary. As a matter of fact, I think it is, but that isn’t their opinion of it. They want their S2OO a month to be a full S2OO worth; not to have most of its value inflated out»of it. I heard the doctor say so in a talk at the National Press club in Washington some time ago. Now the Frazier-Lemke program admittedly is highly inflationary; it is expected to relieve agriculture. * * * “Tragic Mistake” Father Coughlin puts it that Lemke will rally “agriculture, labor, disapopinted Republicans, outraged Democrats”, et cetera. Yet Howard Y. Williams, the Farm er-Labar party’s national organizer refers to Lemke’s candidacy as a “tragic mistake”. Which doesn’t sound much as if the Farmer-Labor ites would flock to the Dakotan’s banner. Senator George W. Norris assuredly speaks for an agricultural state (Nebraska) and is so badly disap pointed a Republican that he is an enthusiastic Rooseveltian—but not a third party man. Senator William E. Borah of Idaho is another disappointed Republican but I have it from the Washington manager of his recent unsuccessful presidential campaign that he will seek senatorial renomination as a G. O. P. candidate, keeping quiet about the Landon ticket, but remaining in side his party. Al Smith is an outraged Democrat I can even imagine him as supporting an independent nominee—but not a nominee like Congressman Lemke. Gov. Eugene Talmadge of Georgia is outraged, too, but he says he still is a Democrat. —WORLD AT A GLANCE— JIM FARLEY IN ACTION, Congenial, Suave, Cold and Shrewd IS CONVENTION THRILL Central Press Headquarters, Demo cratic Convention. By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) PHILADELPHIA, June 25.—The most interesting sight to the onlook er in Philadelphia is James A. Far ley in action. The national Democratic chairman is congenial to all—shaking hands with everybody, even his enemies. But behind the scenes he gives or ders. to his subordinates that cause them to sweat and frown. They obey .however. Farley is not an inept general. He is a far more suave general than John D. M. Hamilton, new national Republican chairman. Hamilton, as Governor Landon’s campaign manager, was here, there and everywhere in Cleveland. He was the young executive, plowing his way through at high speed. Farley seems to have no speed. But in his eye there is a cold shrewd ness that bespeaks hard punches— perhaps when one isn’t looking. Democrats The crowd in Philadelphia is en tirely different from that in Cleve land. Republicans seemed the solid type, whether wealthy or not. The Democrats —well, they seem demo crats. There are more women among them, too. And, strange to say, the Demo crats seem better dressed than the Republicans. Not that such external things should count. But the Republicans looked as if they had been away from the banquet table for a long time. * * * Telling Blows? The Democrats believe that the adjourning congress delivered some teling blows at the Republicans. It must be remembered that the Democrats expect to go before the people as liberals—and discount what is said against them in what they term the Tory newspapers. MyNew York By James As well (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) NEW YORK, June 25 (TP)—Man hattan Daguerrotypes: Sully is a pri vate policeman. He’s fifty, wears a gray-blue uniform and a badge, “Spe cial Policeman.” He carries a .45 au tomatic in a holster but he has never had to use it- He plods back and forth after mid night in front of one of the big town houses. Most of the time his boss is away, in Europe or Florida or some where. There’s only the house and its contents to guard—some art treas ures, silver, things like that. Sully likes his boss. He knows that the big man started from scratch and accumulated his fortune in a world of savage envy and fierce com petition. Sully has intelligence enough to know that he is handsomely paid for the work he does. He feels no envy of his boss. During the elevator strike a couple of pickets, for no reason Sully has been able to fathom except that his uniform allied him with the forces of decency and order, crept up from behind and slugged him. That’s his single collision with violence in 10 years as a private cop. But he imagines his work is ad venturous, glamorous, romantic. Over a beer, on his day off, he - will tell you that he narrowly escaped a hum drum career. He had a chance once, in his youth, to go to some “craay is land a million miles away” as a clerk for a copra importing company. “There was no action in that job,” he says. “I’m a man of action, a sort of adventurer, so I turned it down. Thank goodness I had the sense.” Abe is press-agent for a steam company. He’s writing a novel, of which the title happens to be “Hot Air.” Mabel is chambermaid for one of the old-line theatrical hotels near Times Square. She has had the same job for 19 yaers. Os late she has be come a bit garrulous and will talk to the guests if they give her half a chance. “It was back in 1920 when it hap. pened. Maybe 1919. Anyway, John B’unny, the famous movie comedian, stayed right here in this hotel on this floor. I remember, because he gave me a dollar as a tip. “He was sick at the time. Had heart trouble or something. Remem ber? He died a little late And you know what he said to me? He said, ‘A girl with a face like yours ought to be in movies. You’ve got the fun niest face I ever saw.’ 1 “And then he gave me a slip of paper with his name written on it. Said if I came around to one of the movie studios —right here near New York, too—he’ see that I got a job. Well, he died and so nothing came of it. I guess my face isn’t so funny as it was then. I was young. But I might be in the movies if he had lived, mightn’t I ” * * • Luke is a college graduate. One of the honor men of his class. He’s change-man in one of the Broadway pin-marble and bagatelle emporiums. He likes the work. “Some day I’m going to own one of these places myself,” he will tell you. “I never wanted to go to col lege, but I did it to please ,my par ents. They’re dead now so it doesn’t matter. I can do what I want to do. “Say, there’s a million dollars in these I did learn some stuff in school that will help in my career. I’m inventing a new pin marble board that uses trigonometry. It’s a wow. It’ll be the biggest thing in the business when it comes out.” Thus, the Democrats count as their greatest asset the new tax bill. They assert that the bill “will end evasion of taxes by the big fellow.” The chief New Deal organ aserts it is “a good start toward the ending of an old abuse.” This paper adds, “In the past, personal holding corporations have been utilized by many wealthy persons to escape surtaxes.” The tax bill, in short, probably will become a campaign document, with the Democrats exulained how it “aids the people.” Tax bills seldom are understood. If the Democrats can utilize this one by means of a paragraph-by-paragraph explanation, it will be an unique and important action. ♦ » » Not AU To be sure, not all Democrats ap prove the tax bill. There arc con servative Democrats who joined with conservative Republicans in fighting it. But those Democrats are in what the New Deal high command believes to be safely Democratc territory. The opinion seems to be growing that the Democrats may lose New York but gain Pennsylvania. Chair man Farley still smiles when that is mentioned. He continues to refuse to “give” the Republicans a single state. V * • A Danger The Democrats do not sense dan ger so much from regular Repub licans as from the loss of “on-the border” votes. Representative William Lemke of North Dakota, who has the support of the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin as a third party candidate may make no splash in the electoral college, but he may skim away just enough votes in certan states to en danger President Roosevelt. The New Deal cannot hope to gain the vote of the Republican group which so thunderously attacks them. The high command, however, believes that vote to be a minority, in spite of its thunder. But the New Dealers mi’.st have the Liberal vote. The Republicans could do nothing more damaging than to see that the Liberal vote is split. It was the splitting of the Liberal vote in Ger many among several parties that permitted the minority Nazis to seize control. * • • A Dud The Al Smith note of advice to the Democratic convention was a com plete dud. One of the shrewdest of present newspaper reporters, a friend of Al Smith’s, remarked to this writer: “Since Al Smith tied up with the duPonts he has been fighting every thing he himself used to battle for. Hd has killed himself. So has every body who has joined with him.” In reality, the Smith note read hm and the other signers out of the Democratic party—if the temper of the delegates may be judged. Not In the News By WORTH CHENEY Names are often Identical, and once in a while there are faces that are somewhat the same. But when two people have the same names and they look alike, it’s something to write about. And that’s what we are doing. 1 While searching for a job recent ly, Patsy Ann O’Brien, Cleveland girl, joined several other girls in a line at the desk where applications were be ing taken for positions at the Great Lakes Exposition. The woman in charge looked over the group and said: “Sorry girls, we are not taking any more applications today.” But as the disappointed contingent started to file out, the clerk motion ed to Patsy, and when she had re turned to the desk the woman in formed her: “I couldn’t resist the temptation to call you back and tell you how much you look like a niece of mine. And while you’re here, you may as well fill out an application blank. I’ll see what I can do for you.” Whereupon Patsy began recording the necessary information on the blank. When she handed it back, the clerk took one look at the name and almost collapsed with astonish ment. “Why—why, Ann O’Brien is my niece's name!” Wonder if Patsy will get a job. What do you think? ♦ ♦ * We have heard of such people be fore, but we never knew anyone had it quite as bad as this one. We are speaking of the uncanny fear that some people possess of being any place but at home—agoraphobia, we guess they call it. Perhaps you re member reading of the case of that university professor who went no place but to his classes, and back home again, because he had a deadly fear of railroad trains, automobiles, etc. Frank G., reader of Indiana, writes to tell us of a woman he knew who had agoraphobia so bad that her life was one of almost absolute seclusion. Our correspondent was only a child when ths woman was emplc * I by his family as a maid. The w~man, as a child, had been in an orphan age asylum, and had never been out on the streets alone. What’s more, she was afraid to be on the streets. That was when she was 16 years of age. The woman remained in the serv ice of the family for 50 years until she died, and not once did she ever pass beyond the front gate. Very devout, she refused even to go to church on Sunday, despite assurances of protection. She would content herself by reading the Bible on Sun day mornings. Her only recreation outside the house was in the garden in the back yard, which was surrounded by a high fence. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) Thursday, June 25; morning stars: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Evening stars: Venus, Neptune, Jupiter. Birthstone: Pearl. » * • NOTABLE NATIVITIES Jesse Isador Starus, b. 1872, depart ment store magnate and U. S. am bassador to France . . . Arthur “Street Singer” Tracy, b. 1903, radio entertainer . . . James Joseph Tun ney, Jr., b. 1934. ♦ • • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS June 25, 1728—William Smith was born in New York city, an Ameri can, who was to be chief justice of New York, an office his father had declined, and then became chief jus tice of Canada. He took the latter office 150 years ago this year. While he was chief justice of Canada, his “Revised Laws of New York,” con tinued to be a standard work in his former home. June 25, 1 873—Charles Tyson Yerkes was born in Philadelphia. He was to become the first big public utilities magnate in the country, con trolling street railways in Philadel phia and Chicago and a variety of other interests. He immortalized him self by donating the great observe tory bearing his name, but his repu tation would have endured anyway, for Theodore Dreiser wrote two novels about his career, “The Financier” and “The Titan.” With Yerkes in the gallery of cele brated American literary characters drawn from life are a host of per sons identified by Earle Walbridge in his new book, “Literary Characters Drawn from Life.” Some others: Adler in Edna Ferber’s “The Girls”: F. P. A., New York colum nist. Dallas O’Mara in Miss Ferber’s “So Big”: Neysa McMein, artist. Mina Raff in Hergesheimer’s “oy therea,”: Lillian Gish, actress. Cappy Ricks in P. B. Kyne’s stories: Capt. Robert Dollar. Tommy Twitchell in Saunders’ “Columnist Murder”; Walter Winch ell. Tyler in Tarkington’s “Lily Mars"; George Tyler, producer. Durwood in Van Vechten’s “Peter Whiffle”: H. L. Mencken. Rita in Edmund Willson’s “I Thought of Daisy”: Edna St. Vin cent Millay. Hatcher in Thomas Wolfe’s “Os Time and River”: Prof. G. P. Beker of Harvard. June 25, 1868—The eight-hour working day was first recognized by law. President Andrew Johnson signed a bill providing that “eight hours shall constitute a day’s work for all laborers, workmen, and mechanics who may be employed by or on be half of the government of the United States.” The government was 18 years ahead of private employers with this policy. The eight-hour day was adopted as standard by the National Federation of Trades half century ago this year. June 25, Among State Histories: 60 Years Ago Today—Brig. Gen. G. A. Custer’s command was killed to the last man by Sioux and Cheyennes in the battle of Little iß'ig Hom. . . . 30 Years Ago Today—Stanford White, nation’s most famous archi tect, was shot to death in Madison i Square Garden, New York, by Harry Thaw, Pittsburgh millionaire youth. FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Artillery preparation—to last a week —was be gun for the great French-British- Belgian offensive on the Somme front which the entente had been planning for six months. With the Russian of fensive having been so successful that the Czar’s armies were in possession of the whole of Bukowina; with Ger many having ben repulsed in Its Verdun offensive, and Austria’s drive against Italy in Trentino a failure, it seemed that the hour had arrived to strike a decisive blow. (To be continued) You’re Telling, Me? It seems Germany just can’t help making enemies. Now Joe Louis has joined the list of the Fatherland’s foes. Dictators believe in the peo ple having a voice in govern mental matters as long as that voice says “yes.” That new third party calls Itself the “Union party.” We don’t know what that means but then, neither do we know the meaning of Repub lican or Democrat. There is one group Bill Lemke, Union party presidential candi date, can be sure will vote for him. With a short name like that he’s got the newspaper headline writers in the bag. We were going to give odds on Roosevelt until we saw what hap pened to Joe Louis. He couldn't lose, either. A playboy is a fellow who goes to the big town to see the sights and then falls in love with one- When a man is able to insult you in such a manner you feel compli mented it’s 100-to-l he is a politician. No Doubt About That “Hbw many in your family?” “Nine.” “Are you the oldest?” “No, my Father.”

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Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-????, June 25, 1936, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4