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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear ........ ... 7*so 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 PLATFORM LOOKS AHEAD. 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.” OUR READERS’ FORUM | (All communications Intended for pub lleatlon under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous tetters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted in this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion In Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be United to I<K> 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.) 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!” |l \ xWr AIL / II I \ JffvH y •\\ '\ \ ~ -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. SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT FREED FOUR 5 * /I' Sou<H AM ER \C AH , from SPAiMjfflK P&W AND W No.l oF KEW OLYMPIC VENEZUELA 'WjgOKKj) qAME<S STAMP |«UE For. cj erm Any lATIOM EH A Kinq Jan \ / j 1 ✓ f /jHE JAGUAR, once<he bane oF andYekas cattlemen »s i now Practically ex<Tnc<in The- 1 AREA - THE LAS<TeKA6 JAGUAR 1$ BELIEVED To HAVE BEEN KILLED COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION IH 1903 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*.