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Continuing in the strain of anticipating the coming needs of
the American public for the next four years, the Democratic
platform which was adopted last night at the convention in
Philadelphia reflects the true sentiment of the nation at large.
Containing twenty-one planks which collectively struck at ihe
policies and platform of the Republican party and praised the
administration of President Roosevelt, the Democratic standard
for the coming election appears to meet with the approval of the
citizens of the country.
A compromise was struck in the adopted platform, which
appealed to both conservatives and liberals alike, which clearly
shows the true intent of the Democratic party in catering to
the needs of the country from coast to,coast with no specialized
problems of one locality being overlooked. It is to be noted the
proposed assistance to be given to the farmers and members of
rural districts. It is invaluable to know that the party is to
continue its efforts of the last four years in aiding the rural
population of the United States at large. Being the first to feel
the pangs of a coming depression, and on the other hand, the
last to recover, the American farmer is one of the many solu
tions to a slump in general industrial and social conditions and
it is fitting and proper that this huge mass of representative citi
zenry of the country be given consideration for their part in
seeking to maintain our nation at its proper level.
Another plailk to be noted which has struck a responsive
cord in the hearts of many is the insertion of a “youth assist
ance” program, which is certain to gain prominence among that
vast portion of the country’s “unknown” population who are
among the ages of 21 and 26. It is a sure fact that this group
of citizens have been overlooked until the present administra
tion came into power, and the separate provision which has been
made for the advancement of the young people certainly indi
cates interest on the part of the present administration.
A balanced budget which indicates that the present welfare
of the country is to he considered of main importance with the
natural adjustment of the needs of the tax problems as the prob
able outcome, is the predominant feature of the platform, and
which is a direct answer to the Republican charges as hurled
at the present Democratic administration. It has been long
awaited by the country to see the rebuttal of the administration
to the blasts by the Republicans, and now that a suitable solu
tion is offered, it all brings about on conclusion that will be the
dominant factor in the campaign. “The United States never
forgets.”
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Editor, Daily Times:
Leon Blum, the new premier of
France, indirectly pays his respects
to the only party in the United
States fit to govern. Concerning the
foreign war debts he says that the
You’re Telling
Me?
Another day off for the chauffeur
of th 4 column! Six kind contributors
havi mailed us these. You read ’em—
we’re of fto get a round of golf.
• ♦ ♦
••A stethoscope is a marvelous in
itrument. It enables medicos to look
Into your chest with their ears.” —
K. B. 0., Philadelphia, Pa
♦ * ♦
“Before railroad schedules became
infallible time tables came under the
reading of vacationists’ lights summer
vction."— Ronney, Wilkes-Barre, Pa.
* • *
■ Why isn’t a baseball park cool?
It’S full of fans*”—Doris M., New
fork. N. Y.
• • *
“There are two types of road hogs.
The idiot who tries to pass you and
•he idiot who won't let you pass
lim!" —Elsmere, St. Louis Mo.
• • •
“That chorus girl who played an
lastern golf course in a bathing suit
vnc shot an 81 couldn’t have gone
vround in much less could she?”—
31d Peak, Pittsburgh. Pa.
• • •
“There cannot be a perfect crime
because there's something wrong
about it—or it wouldn't be a crime.”
__v. B. Don, Tuscon, Ariz.
Hoover moratorium made it possible
1 for private creditors in Germany to
be paid. He further hints that the
moratorium, which put the United
States on record as not insisting that
she be paid, gave Hitler the incentive
to rearm.
American citizens who furnished
the money for liberty bonds are in
debted to Mr. Blum for throwing
some light upon the reason the debts
were not kept alive.
The British will never be slaves.
But on the other hand, Americans
will always be suckers.
.... TOM WEBB.
Fairfield, Conn.
Editor, Daily Times:
The active trading in print cloths
which enlivened the gray goods mar
kets a week or 10 days ago, broadened
out during the past week into a gen
eral covering movement, affecting not
only print cloths, but sheetings, to
bacco cloths, broadcloths, twills, drills,
jeans, osnaburgs and many of the
colored yarn goods. The week's total
ran far ahead of the current week’s
loom output, and added further to
the back log of unfilled orders that
mills are now building up.
One of the largest New York sell
ing houses handling a widely varied
line of gray and fanished goods in
cluding coarse constructions and fine,
reported the past week was the larg
est and most active experienced since
last November, with total sales ag
gregating more than two and one
half times the entire output of the
mills handled through this one selling
agency.
Prosperity seems back in our midst
again.
J. A. POETING.
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE .
Men born on this day are apt bo
sacrifice business to pleasure and be
come high livers. Women whose birth
day Is today may be fond of show,
and have a great love for display
and ornament. Still they are almost
certain to retain the love of friends
because they have personal magnet
ism.
ONE MINUTE TEST ANSWERS
1. Vice president of the United
States.
2. Do unto others as you would
have others do unto you.
3. Hard.
The U. S. navy spends 25 per cent
more on Its daily rations for its men
than the U. S. army.
“MISERY LOVES COMPANY!”
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-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
PERSONALITIES COUNT
And Not Platform of Opposing Candidates
IN PRESIDENTIAL RACE
(Cu»..*al Press Headquarters, Demo
cratic Convention)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
PHILADELPHIA, June 26. —At
every national convention there is a
deal of talk concerning the platform
of whichever party chances to be do
ing the convening.
In fact, the platform never is of
much consequence.
Its farmers take it seriously, but
no one else does.
The voters vote for candidates; not
on platforms. They don’t even read
the platforms. In a general way,
they think they know what the re
spective nominees satnd for, and
that’s all.
That 1932 Platform
There has been no end of com
plaint that President Roosevelt’s
policy has differed utterly from the
platform he ran on in 1932.
But I’ll guarantee that not one
elector in 1,000 has more than the
haziest idea what was in the Demo
crats’ 1932 platform. At least that's
my fix, and, as a newspaper man, I
have it on my conscience to keep
myself better informed on such sub
jects than the average individual.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JUNE 26, 1936
I know roughly that the Demo
crats promised four years ago to be
economical if they won and that the
government has spent more money
under the Roosevelt administration
than ever it spent before.
However, maybe the administration
was as economical as was possible in
the circumstances.
* ♦ ♦
Convention Pledges
Anyway, as a citizen I'm concerned
rather with whati each presidential
rival will succeed in “getting away
with” than in platform pledges.
I’m not so unsophisticated as to
assume that the victor, “up against”
realities, will be able to do just what
a mob of screeching, irresponsible
delegates has committed him to. I
don’t believe that many voters are
so unsophisticated, either.
In short, my notion is that plat
forms mean no more than the mer
est modicum, and my guess is that
that is the rank-and-file of the vot
ers’ judgment-
I think that they assess the men
and the parties, with small regard for
the platforms.
♦ • ♦
Personalities Count
For that matter, Gov. Alf M. Lan-
den already has signified that he has
his fingers crossed on Important de
tails of the Republican platform.
Folk who cast their ballots for him
will cast them for HIM, not for his
platform.
Yes, there are clauses in the Cleve
alnd platform that he refuses to in
dorse. But I’m convinced that th?
average voter doesn’t understand
just what they are. If he’s a Lan
donite, he takes Landon's word for
it. If he's pro-New Deal ,he doesn’t
investigate.
He doesn’t vote for a policy; he
votes for a personality.
* * ♦
Comparison
As yet it’s impossible to estimate
how Landon’s personality will “stack
up" against Roosevelt’s.
Roosevelt has a marvelously ap
pealing radio voice.
Landon’s is rather squeaky.
However, there are pictures also to
be considered.
Landon has a lovely smile—as good
as Roosevelt’s.
He also has a charmingly mid
western American family—no causes
in the divorce courts; no “pinches”
for exceeding the speed limits.
There likewise is a religious ele
ment to this fight which hasn’t yet
been taken considerably into consid
eration. Landon is a Methodist —an
Evangelical. It counts in this coun
try.
The Test
Platforms?
Phooey!
The test is—personalities.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
LIBERAL PLATFORM
As Viewed in Present-Day Light
FOR DEMOCRATS
Central Press Headquarters, Demo
cratic Convention
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
PHILADELPHIA, June 26.—Yes,
the Democratic platform will be far
ahead of the Republican platform, in
liberal thinking. The Republican
platform was largely taken up with
denunciation and evasiveness on any
real problems. The Democratic plat
form anturally will uphold the New
Deal and point away.
But ten years hence, we may be
looking back with a cynical, tovrant
smile on the anachronism of even the
liberal platforms of today.
President Roosevelt may be con
demned, not for going too far but
because he did not go far enough, or
move quickly enough.
For example, he used pressure too
late on a dying congres to save the
housing bill and a dozen otjier meas
ures of vast importance to the wel
fare of the people. Those bills per
ished. Congress remains reactionary
at heart.
The Republicans, of course, were
against those measures, but they
were expected to be. It is misses
such as this on the part of the lib
eral command of the Democratic
party which cause the potentiality of
a third party.
“Not Worried”
Political leaders in Philadelphia
assert they are not worried over the
candidacy of Representative William
Lemke of North Dakota on a third
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, June 26. —One of the
strangest books I have read in months
is a volume about New York written
in 1930 by Paul Morand. Mr. Mp
rand is a Frenchman and his Man
hattan revelations, coming to my eye
off the stall of a second-hand book
dealer, make me wonder whether
any foreigner ever is able to go to a
great, strange city and report the
phenomena he encounters accurately.
Is the stuff which Americans (in
cluding this reporter) have written
about Paris, Berlin and Vienna to
be trusted? Or is it so romanticized
and pink-goggled that it is no more
factual than the comments of for
eigners visiting New York —and, for
that matter, Chicago and San Fran
cisco? My impression is that out
landers may be interesting and
glamerous, £ut they seldom escape
writing a good dsal of nonsense.
M. Morand’s book is well-written,
like all his compositions; it is color
ful and full of enthusiasm. Yet it
contains a number of disclosures
which no native New York could
hear without laughing.
For example, he would have you
believe that the good burghers who
go to Coney Island of a Sunday to
peel bananas arg in the habit of
traipsing through the surf in the
nude. This is so far from the truth
that the publishers were constrained
to soften the statement with a foto
note.
And later on Morand reports a
visit to Harlem, during which, at the
witching hour before dawn, several
sepia hags invade a night club as the
cry of “Hot Stockings” goes up and
the brownskin chorines rush to pur
chase, for a song, the hosiery which
has been stolen from the town’s de
partment stores during the day. He
implies that this is a routine af
fair.
The book is full of starting, im
aginative and nonsensical items in
that vein. It makes me wonder
whether some of the things I thought
I saw in Paris and Berlin were ac
tuality or illusion.
♦ ♦ ♦
Despite the charge of one reader
that I like to print Horatio Alger
success stories of New York, I can’t
resist commenting on a young man
I met the other night.
His name is Eugene Voit. He is the
“front office” manager of the Wal
dorf Astoria, a job which, you would
imagine, would entail the suavity of
a Menjou and the background of a
Rhodes scholar. Mr. Voit is 32.
Thirteen years ago he stowed away
on the “Reliance” and worked out
his passage in the steward's depart
ment to America from his native Ger
many. Now he has flown back to
Europe on the Hindenburg for a sort
of goodwill tour in behalf of his ho
tel. He has come up via jobs of dish
washer, bus-boy, waiter, headwaiter
and the front office gamut.
♦ ♦ *
There is no more terrifyingly beau
tiful sight in Manhattan than to
watch a summer electrical storm. I
used to be rather goofy on the sub
ject of lightning; at the first grum
ble of thunder I’d dive for a clothes
closet and seek sanctuary among the
moth balls. But I have recovered
enough from the complex to enjoy
thunderstorm pyrotechnics.
And, too, the physicists assure me
that Manhattan is one of the safest
places from which to view summer
lightning. Every skyscraper is a nat
ural lightning rod, grounding the
bolts before they can harm pedes
trians below. I have seen a charge
seem to’ crash into the spire of the
Empire State building as if it were a
gigantic spark plug; and when I
waited for the structure to totter,
nothing happened.
Not all damage from lightning is
electrical. The other night, awakened
by a shuddering crash of thunder
and blinding light, I leaped from my
couch, tripped over a drawer from a
wardrobe trunk and fell headlong,
banging my head against one of those
angly chromium wall lights.
My wife hollored: “Was that
somebody at the door?”
party ticket.
Yet they do considerable talking
in proving they are not worried.
As a matter of fact, however,
Lemke has little pulling power, and
a third party will find it difficult to
get on the ballot.
But a third party with real pulling
power is in the making.
John L. Lewis, president of the
United Mine Workers, sat in the sen
ate gallery when the substitute Guf
fey coal bill was lost—and grimly, he
probably concluded there was no fur
ther hope with either old party. If
ever his industrial unions unite with
the farmers—as is probable by 1940
—then we shall have a formidable
third party, a balance of power that
will sway the nation.
* • *
G. O. P. Danger
If the Republicans chortle in glee
over elements rising now to hamper
the Democrats, they may live to re
gret the day.
Some Democrats believe that Re
publicans may put forth minor “new
party” figures to divide the vote, then
try to step into power and bear down
; on everybody. That was the proce
duer used by some of the present Euro
pean dlcators in gaining power.
But it would be dangerous for the
I Republicans to aid in the creation of
| a third powerful group. People are
I waiting for just such a group. It
, would become such a mighty force, it
! could destroy the Republican and
' Democratic parties in the process.
. • .
Relief Riots
: ' States are committing folly in cut-
I ting down on relief, in throwing it
| back on home communities, in the
opinion of welfare advisers.
j New Jersey’s return to the home
community method of handling re.
lief, has brought that state probably
to the lowest level of all the states
in relief, welfare observers assert.
Now the Ohio legislature limits re
lief to from $9 to sl2 a month per
family. Os course, no family can ex
ist on that.
Even before the conventions are
forgotten, food riots may take place.
Then, community rights and states
rights wil be flung to the winds by
frightened politicians. They then will
begin wondering what measures
broad enough to take care of the
situation will be constitutional —as
the supreme court majority interprets
constitutional.
Not In the News
’ WHY ONE GIRL WON’T PLAY
ANY MORE JOKES
“DEAR WORTH CHENEY.” writes
Jack Armstrong, of Piermont, N. Y.,
“I am sure the readers of your col
umn would appreciate the beautiful
sentiment, the great longing express
ed in the following lines from Scot
land:
“Workin’ in, a brewery,
‘ Swimmin’ ron the vate,
“Wouldn’t it be glorious.
“Gae hae a job like that?”
Lesson
i
> THERE IS nothing blatantly met
' ropolitan or urban about the country
, along the Cuyahoga river valley, some
t 30 miles distant from Cleveland.
1 There, in a sleepy rural loveliness
. reside a few prosperous farmers,
whose parents and grandparents were
, among some of the first settlers to
> move from Connecticut and take up
. land in Ohio under grants from the
Western Reserve Land company.
Among the many visitors who go
there to enjoy its rustic beauty is an
ultra-modern girl, beautiful of face
and form. It is about her that we
write, for in this rustic setting ghe
was taught a lesson that probably
will never escape her.
♦ * *
Too Quiet
THE ROAD into this valley runs
straight and brown down to a bend
where the graveyard is situated.
Nearby is a house that is occupied by
one of those familiar red brick school
houses, so typical of the country years
ago, where itinerant preachers ap
peared erratically on week-day even
l ings and on Sunday.
The girl, whom we shall call Gale
was young and unsophisticated. And
in her blood ran a strain of humor
characteristic of the well-known prac
tical jokster. So it came about that
on one meeting night Gale decided
to inject a little excitement into the
quiet peacefulness of this dull coun
tryside.
One of the inhabitants of the com
munity was a high-strung, nervous
farmer's wife. It was this woman that
Gale picked for her fun. The fun
was to consist of a pretended holdup.
* • *
No More
CARRYING A pistol, with which
she practiced shooting while riding,
she lay in wait behind the graveyard
hedge about the time the object of
her thoughtless prank would pass by.
As the woman approached. Gale not
iced that she was alone. As she came
near her place of concealment, Gale
leaped over the hedge brandishing
her gun and sternly commanding the
woman to “put up her hands.”
But the woman did not put up her
hands, non did she flee. So great
was the Shock to the woman that she
collapsed in a dead faint.
After several days the woman re
covered from the heart attack
brought on by Gale's 111-timed joke.
Eventually she forgave Gale with a
reprimand, but none really was need
ed. Gale has staged no more such
jokes, and never will.
EDITOR S NOTE: This syndicated
column welcomes contributions from
readers on subjects of human inter
est associated with personal exper
iences. Address contributions to Worth
Cheney, in care of this paper.
WORDS OF WISDOM
The lamp of genius burns quicker
than the lamp of life.—Schiller.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Friday, June 26; 148th anniversary
of the ratification of the Constitu
tion by Virginia, the 10th state.
Moon: first quarter. Zodiac sign:
Cancer.
• » *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Pearl Sydenstrlcxer Buck Walsh,
b. 1892, novelist—The Good Earth,
etc. . . . Sidney Howard, b. 1891,
dramatist . . . Joseph B. Eastman,
b. 1882, federal co-oordinator of rail
roads. . . Richard Crooks, b. 1900,
opera and radio tenor . . . Octavus
Roy Cohen, b. 1891, novelist and hu
morist. . .
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 26 1794—Napoleon, who fail
ed to realize the potentialities of the
steamboat and submarine, did recog
nize the possibilities of the balloon;
and in the battle of Fleurus, in Bel
gium, he became the first to use it in
warfare. Capt. J. M. J. Coutelle, as
cended as the world’s first areo ob
server to “spot” enemy formations
for the French artillery, and informa
tion he signalled from the air wm
a big factor in the French victory.
Curiously, aircraft had to wait an
other half century before it was rec
ognized as necessary “eyes” of
armies.
* « •
June 26, 1861—Prof ThaddeuS
Lowe was formally enrolled in the U.
S. Army as its first aeronautical ob
server, at $lO a day. He had al
ready made demonstration observa
tion ascensions and obtained infor
mation of value to the Army, and
from one of these he had telegraphed
messages from the air for the first
time in history. Lowe flew 800
miles in nine hours, from Cincinnati
across the heart of the Confederacy
to Pea Ridge, S. C., where he man
aged to escape Confederate marks
men by giving the Masonic distress
signal. As his balloon neared earth,
Prof. Lowe saw a colored farmer
beating his mule. Leaning over tho
edge of the baloon basket the profes
sor called down: “Stop beating that
mule!”
Startled by the voice from on high,
the farmer dropped his plow lines,
and, forgetting his mule, disappeared.
Confederates never had but one
balloon. The envelope made of silk
dresses contributed by patriotic
Southern belles and sewed together.
♦ ♦ ♦
June 26, 1903—An American wom
an became the first to fly alone. Aida
de Acosta, now the wife of Mr. Henry
Breckinridge, Democratic opponent
of Franklin D. Roosevelt, took aloft
the big dirigible with which Alberto
Santos-Dumont had been thrilling
Paris. She had been the first wom
an to take lessons in dirigible pilot
ing.
* * *
June 26 Among State Histories:
1788—Virginia ratified the Constitu
tion, despite opposition of Patrick
Henry and James Monroe, and be
came the 10th state . . . 1819—First
bicycle patent was granted, to Wil
liam K. Clarkson . . . 1870—Atlan
tic City’s first seaside “boardwark”
was opened . . . 1917—First of A.
E. F—15,000 men of First Division
landed in France.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—Responding
to preparedness appeals, the United
State House of Representatives passed
the biggest Army budget in history—
slß2,ooo,ooo. This was less than the
amount the World War was costirg
the Allied armies monthly.
Same day, with militiamen of al)
the 48 states mobolizing, Washing
ton sent a peremptory demand to the
Carfanza government in Mexico for
the release of men of Pershing's army
taken captive at Carrizal.
(To be continued)
-All Os Us -
THIS I DO KNOW
I DON’T KNOW where the great
winds go when they cease to torment
the earth.
I don’t know where all my good
resolutions go.
I don’t know where the great
eagles wing to die.
I don’t know where the stars go
that flame up and break to pieces in
the skies.
I don’t know where my money goes,
nor where I may find again all the
time I have frittered away.
I don’t know where lovely complex
ions nor soft voices, go, nor whither
the sweet perfume of the rose has
drifted.
Nor do I know where the magician
puts the lady when he maketh her
to disappear before my skeptical eyes.
Nor where the lovely flames of the
fire have gone when only a faint
glow lingers on the stones.
But I do know that if you light a
fire of faith and courage and happi
ness in me it will not die down to
nothingness, nor fade with the rose,
nor wander with the winds, nor fail
when I have need of it.
It will stay, it will be mine forever.
Though I am foolish and weak
impetuous and careless and blind,
this flame will warm me. will be al
ways a part of me.
It will leap up again in my time of
need. Though the darkness creep
close, this fire you have built in me
will keep it away . . Round me will
be a small, stable circle of light in
which 1 shall be safe. And if I carry
a brand from it with me it will light
me safely on my way and I shall be
grateful to the end of my days.
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. Who is John Nance Gamer?
2. What is the Golden Rule?
3. Is anthracite coal classed as
hard or soft coal?
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
In homes a short distance from the
city is customary to have tea ready
for guests upon their arrival. While
they are being refreshed, their bags
should be taken to the guest room*.