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LEGION REPRESENTATIVE GROUP.
The recent American Legion Convention for the state of
Georgia held in Athens, has more than emphasized the true
import of this representative group of war veterans in the guid
ance of both national and state political affairs. In every walk
of life there can be found the “buddies” of war-days, when side
by side, they fought for the cause of American democracy, in the
battle-torn fields of the Western front.
It is not to be denied that these self-same veterans have
played an important part in the welding of the industrial and
political welfare of the United States. It is not to be denied that
they will continue to exert their influence into the well-guided
channels as of former triumphs in the every-day existence of the
country’s national life. And we all know that it is a foregone
conclusion that the “buddies” will have one of the most import
ant roles in the selection of the man to lead the United States in
the forthcoming election for President.
Foremost notables lead the destinies of America’s veterans.
Men who have filled an important part in placing the United
States in the niche she now’ occupies, are at the controls of the
mighty machine which rolls along with our war veterans as pas
sengers. They are not to be denied. The ideals which they fought
for on the battle-fields were won in spite of overwhelming oJds,
and the “buddies” are continuing their pursuit of both social
and industrial happiness in peace-time. They are fighters, and
are determined to pull through to attain their respective aims.
One of their major battles was the nursing of the present
bonus plan from a toddling infant into the full-grown specimen
of legislation which rode through Congress, backed by the na
tion’s leaders, into the finished tribute to the abilities of the men
who made good that the United States might stand as a triumph
to true democracy.
NOT—In the News
•*• * * *
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By WORTH CHENEY
x Here was a man who was an
enigma to almoet all the people who
met him. Only a few understood his
philosophy and his attitude toward
life. As a child and as a young man,
he spent his time working in the
boiler factories and shops of Birming
ham, England. Imbued with no en
thusiasm or idealism, stretching his
mind only to cover the exigencies of
his simple existence, he worked and
drudged from day to day, earning his
few shillings, carrying them home
dutifully to his courageous wife and
at least on pay day, if not on other
days, stopping in at the “pub” for
a stout glass of English ale.
The “mills of the Gods grind slow
ly,” but eventually the young man,
slowly losing his youth in the noise
and confusion of his workaday world,
found an opportunity at the end of
the World war to come to the United
States with his children.
America was still in the throes of
the war boom and he found no diffi
culty In obtaining a Job in one of the
boiler factories in the great rubber
center of Akron. Many times he
•at in his comfortable but small
apartment, alone with his wife, since
his children had gone out to seek and
to find for themselves, wondering at
the strangeness of living, disconsolate
at the changes the years had brought
him.
From his slim figure he had de
veloped into a man, ruddy of face
with beetling eyebrows, piercing eyes
and a figure remarkable for its ro
tundity. He also became slightly deaf.
As time went on his daughter, who
remained more faithful to him after
his wife died, urged and pleaded with
him to come and live with her and
her husband on a farm.
Each time she suggested the change
he felt cornered. He felt he had been
cornered ever since he had come from
England, his independence, his per
gonal bulwark against the attacks of
society weakening with each passing
minute and falling perceptibly with
each successive year.
But there came a time when he
could no longer rise early in the
morning, prepare his own breakfast
•nd hustle off to the factory. So he
did leave, finally, and commenced
what was to be a quiet existence in
the country, sitting in the shade of
trees all day and tending his pigeons
•nd rabbits. The first few days were
pleasurable, but soon he became
restless.
People could not understand why
•n old man, no longer actually physi
cally fit, was not content to enjoy
for nothing what many others are
willing to pay for. Talking with him
one day he made It clear Just what
he longed for, what he missed,
“The silence here gets on my
nerves go, in a manner of speaking,
that I’m driven fairly crazy with it.
I’ve ’ad the clang and bang*of the
ahoD in my ears for so long that I
can’t live without it. If only there
were some notae, I could stand the
country.”
It rang true too; the man couldn’t
stand the silence. He went back to
the shop and his daughter received a
telegram one day which read simply:
“Mr. —collapse dtoday at his work
and died of a heart attack.”
So as he had begun life with the
noise of hammers in his ears, so had
he ended it.
• * •
IF YOU EVER have wondered why
Hollywood movie executives receive
such huge salaries, this little story
may throw some light on the sub
ject. Their jobs aren’t entirely mak
ing decisions on million-dollar firns,
as this anecdote, relayed by C. David
Vormeker, should attest.
♦ ♦ ♦
IN THE conference room of one
of the movie companies a very im
portant meeting *as being held. Direc
tors and members of the board were
present at this meeting, the purpose
of which was to shape the production
schedule of the studio. Altogether the
gathering was composed of some very
august persons in film circles and
each was thinking seriously about the
problems that were being discussed.
Suddenly, right in the midst of the
session a mourning dove, that had
flown down from the hills of North
Hollywood, alighted on the window
sill. Spying the window cord—very
good nest material—it began to tug
steadily away at it. But it met with
no success, even when it changed its
tactics by seizing the end in its bill
and attempting to fly away with it.
Time and again the bird seized the
cord and flew away, only to end up
with such a jerk that the few people
watching it feared it would eventually
break its neck. And although none
of them cared to show that a mourn
ing dove actually was distracting their
attention from the very important
business at hand, the chairman of
the conference could see that they
were obviously a little worried.
* * *
SO HE determined to do something
about it. Removing a piece of heavy
cord that was wrapped around a new
manuscript, he rose while another
member of the group was talking, and
walked over to the window. Then the
chairman tied the window cord inside
and draped the length of heavy string
upon the window sill.
The dove, which had flown away,
presumably to rest before renewing
the attack, was not long in returning.
There was an attitude of persever
ance in the way it stood upon the
ledge gathering itself together for
another attempt Again it seized the
cord, but this time there was no sud
den jerk and it flew away among
the palms and pepper trees.
“Yes”, some member of the board
was saying, “I am quite in accord
with the plan to produce 50 pictures
next year. What if it does mean 10
billion dollars . . , ?”
THE CAMPAIGN GETS UNDER WAY!
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
DEMOCRATIC SHOW
Which Could Be Run in Six Hours
STRUNG OUT TOO LONG
(Central Press Headquarters, Demo
cratic Convention)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
PHILADELPHIA, June 29.—-The
great trouble with this year’s Demo
cratic national convention has been
that it has had to be strung out too
long.
It was unavoidable, in order to en
able the hotel and other business
men, who put up the cash to have
the gathering held in Philadelphia,
to get their full money’s worth out
of the visitors.
However, everything it was neces
sary to do had been so completely
settled in advance that the proceed
ings easily could have been pushed
through in five or six hours. Prolong
ing them into a couple of days, to,
allow for some more or less super
fluus speeches, wouldn’t have been so
bad, but nearly a week of it has been
tiresome.
• • •
Newsmen and Radio
It’s been tiresome, anyway, to the
newspapermen, the photographers,
the telegraph folk and the broadcast
ing systems’ staff who arrived in
Philly already nearly prostrated by
what, they had been through in
Cleveland.
A delegate has only his own party’s
convention to attend.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1936
We non-partisan tollers have one
right on top of another—more than
that, some of us, who have to “cover”
the smallish affairs, like the Social
ists’, et cetera .
• • •
It’s No Fun
The actual work isn’t particularly
exhausting; we have to work any
way.
It’s the standing around in hotel
lobbies; all seats occupied. It’s the
traveling up and down ‘steen flights
of stairs at a time; all elevators
being so overcrowded that they won’t
stop for additional passengers. It’s in
being packed like sardines into the
press section of a convention hall; if
one has an inside seat he can’t get
out, but if he has an aisle seat all
j hands climb over him.
It’s an extraordinary thing that,
whenever a group of politicians
choose to fall into a huddle in some
hotel office or convention hall corri
dor, they invariably select a doorway
or similar bottleneck, where it’s im
possible to get past them.
But if a politician wants to get by
a newspaper man he shoves him
roughly.
• • •
Convention Feet
Being everlastingly pawed and
clawed in a crowd for the duration
of an entire national convention, and
then being similarly pawed and
clawed for the duration of a second
one, is mighty wearisome.
Standing up most of the time
is wearisome also.
There’s a technical name for what
it results in.
“Convention feet” they call it.
Likewise the continual yowling and
band playing and miscellaneous noise
making get on the human nerves aft
er a while. *
And two weeks of Kleig lights are
painful.
• • •
More Noisy
What’s more, Philadelphia’s con
vention has been a more uproarious
performance than Cleveland’s was.
The Philadelphia newspapers have
asserted the contrary. Their version
is that the applause in the Cleveland
hall scored more “decibles” of sound
than Philadelphia’s.
Maybe Cleveland did squeeze out a
few more “decibles” in some one spot
than Philly.
But Cleveland hat- only one rip
snorting outburst.
There hasn’t been a moment’s
peace in Philadelphia.
The Philadelphia hotels have been
worse jammed, too; Philadelphia’s
traffic control isn’t as good as Cleve
land’s; its prices are a lot higher; its
convention hall isn’t as convenient.
On all these counts it would appear
that this has been decidedly a more
enthusiastic celebration than the one
in the northern Ohio metropolis.
That is to say, it has if discom
fort and expense signify enthusiasm.
The reason, I think, that the Phila
delphia newspapers don’t admit it is
because they’re mostly Republican
and consequently incline to discount
the Democrats’ “decibles.”
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
DISGUSTED YOUNG MAN
After Attending Philadelphia “Show”
“AG’IN” CONVENTIONS
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
PHILADELPHIA, June 29—A young
man came along with this writer to
the Democratic convention in Phila
delphia. The young man never had
been to a convention previously. He
now rapidly' is turning Red.
“I had intended voting for Roose
velt. and probably will,” he remarks.
‘‘But this affair in Philadelphia has
disgusted me. Maybe I’ll forget what
I have seen. I’ve heard the Repub
licans were just as bad.
‘‘Why, I always had thought of
politican conventions as being digni
fied, a part of a great duty thrust
upon leading citizens. You smile at
that? Well, that’s what I thought.
‘‘Then, I come here and see a lot
of yelling hyenas, many of them full
of booze and incapable of sound
thought—and I find that these people
constitute at least part of the con
vention.
“You say they don’t? That con
ventions, like all other matters, are
directed by a few men. That may
be true. But these men are the sup
posed ‘deliberative body’, to whom
we literally entrust our destiny.
“And if they permit a few men to
direct, behind scenes, while they par
ticipate in rowdy vaudeville scenes,
then all the more shame—and all the
more shocking to us young men.
“Men ought to rise on the floor of
conventions, to debate the issues.
That would be democracy. But first
there is a Republican steam roller,
then there is a Democratic steam
roller: and only set speeches are
heard, never the voice of the people.
“I believe in the New Deal. I be
lieve in President Roosevelt. But I
don’t believe either the Democrats
or the Republicans can accomplish
anything under their present system
of holding conventions.
“Wlw not a presidential primary,
All Os Us
THE "RULER” WITHIN YOU
YOU HOLD a wooden “ruler” in
your hand. It is twelve inches long,
each inch is marked to indicate
halves, quarters, eighths and sixteen
ths ... It is straight, it is fairly
exact; for all practical purposes you
can rely on it ... It will not fail
you.
When the mercury goes down in the
thermometer it will shrink slightly;
when the weather’s very hot it will
become a little longer. But you can
usually forget these variations unless
you are trying to measure an atom
or a molecule, and then your “ruler”
wouldn’t do at all . . . Day in and
day out you can trust it.
Unseen, within every man and wo
man, is another ruler, another meas
uring stick . . . With this you meas
ure life, you measure experience, you
measure happiness and melancholy,
you measure other men and women,
you measure time, you measure your
self.
And sometimes you wonder why
that “ruler” changes. You look back
into the past and remember exper
iences that gave you great joy; they
would not give you the same joy
now . . . You remember great suf
fering that almost broke your heart.
The same sad experience would not
wreck you now . . . You reflect that
some days you can endure any dis
appointment; other days some small
irritation shakes you tremendously.
. . . Some days time flies swiftly, is
streamlined; other days it drags along,
with a broken leg. on weary wings.
. . . There are days when you like
human beings; days when you are
fairly satisfied with yourself; other
days when you do not like yourself
at all.
This “ruler” that is within you
seems strangely untrustworthy.
But, in fact, it is not . . . The ex
planation is that we are ALIVE . . .
We are not rigid; we are growing.
We are not set in our ways; we flow,
we change, we become! We are on
our way!
Were we carved in stone and set
on a pedestal, unchanging and un
changeable, then we might worry
and distress ourselves . . . The real
“ruler” inside of every man is not
how he feels, but what he does. And
we can measure him by that!
The Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. Name the Republican party’s
vice presidential candidate for 1936.
2. What is the small goat-like an
telope of the Alps called?
3. Who is the Democratic U. S.
senator from Pennsylvania?
TODAY’S HOROSCOPE
If your birthday is today, you show
persistence regarding your undertak
ings and cannot be turned from your
goal, but you may, because of the
nagging of some busybody, throw the
whole thing over in disgust and never
touch it again. You do not always
show good judgment in permitting
such persons to force you to abandon
projects.
ONE MINUTE TEST ANSWERS
1. Col. Frank Knox, Chicago pub
lisher.
2. Chamois.
3. Joseph F. Guffey of Pittsburgh.
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
On entering a restaurant, a man
precedes the woman and stands - few
steps in advance of her until he
catches the eye of the head waiter.
WORDS OF WIS.'OM
The only way to have a friend is
to be one.—Emerson.
A big league ball player sent
to the minors because he can’t
hit must feel like the pitch that
was his downfall—low and out
side.
with all the issues freely debated by
everybody? Then, there would be a
real choice —and perhaps a real de
mocracy.”
• • •
Platforms
There have been one or two objec
tions to this column’s assertion that
party platforms embarrass candidates
and seem useless and that the Re
publican platform was written to a
large degree by “old fogies”—thus
embarrassing Governor Landon.
Ask any ten citizens casually met
on the street what he thinks of party
platforms and you’ll get your an
swer.
This writer asked more than 10
persons. Only one—a Washington
correspondent—had read the Repub
lican paltform.
But they had heard of the vindic
tive preamble.
The weakness of the Republican
platform lies in that preamble, w’rit
ten by the oldest of the Old Guard.
It leaves the way open for countless
attacks by the Democrats—and those
attacks already have begun.
Traveling Jim
James A. Farley, national Demo
cratic chairman, actually is confident
of a Democratic victory in November.
He has traveled 40,000 miles since
Jan. I—and asserts privately that he
is not joking when he does not con
cede a single state.
He may not concede New England,
but nearly everybody else does.
Radio Voice
The Democrats still place a great
deal of confidence In the Roosevelt
radio voice.
It is not the radio voice of Gover
nor Landon against which the pres
ident will be pitted but the radio
voice of the Rev. Charles E. Cough
lin—according to present belief.
MyNew York
, By
5 James Aswell
i NEW YORK, June 29—Rat-Tat
-1 Tattle: Bob Hope, most ingratiating
g of -the young light comedians, a frail
; youngster who started out to be a
1 prize fighter, has placed his squiggle
1 oi a contract to appear in “ —But
s Millions which should qualify with
-1 out contention as the most provok
ing title of the incipient season . . .
1 Note: tell Monsieur Aswell that he
ought to be ashamed of himself, quar-
• reling with the accredited critics the
• way he does and then refusing to see
-a show they all pan, and the first
1 show of the 1937 season at that • . .
, But an opus called “Kickback” or
> something, a graduation to commer-
• cial Broadway from the WPA ex
ploded the other night and. reading
1 the reviews, your reporter’ decided
c that the accredited critics slto.;ld not
- be too harshly handled; after all they
7 have to see these things . . .
f • * •
A dozen of us, all practising news
. snoopers, were gathered in a tavern
t recently and the various top talents
t came to comment . . . The only thing
- we could all agree on was that Eddie
1 Davis, of the scandalous Leon and
. Eddie’s bistro in 52nd St., knew how
5 to put over a song to an audience
, better than any of the song-singers.
. radio or otherwise, that we knew . . '
j The talent appears to be born in you;
j Harry Richman has it and so has
r Lawrence Tibbett, if Lawrence doesn’t
f mind the grouping which is really
highly complimentary . . . Among the
i women I should name Helen Morgan
without hesitation as the greatest
• dramatizer of simple lyrics . . . She
can make moon and June sound like
, original rhymes . . .
* ♦ ♦
I have just discovered that there
is a set of ten volumes, retailing at
, $5 per copy and privately printed
which purport to reveal the whole in
side on New York for the last hun
dred years, books in the library of
all well-known people from John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., to Franklin D. Roose
velt . . . Anything I (have omitted dur
ing the last four years you can set
down to my failure to bone up in
these invaluable tomes ... I can
only console myself by the thought
that the best-known of all the chat
ter-scribblers since the racket be
came popular never read a book
about the town in his life . . . And
Fred Astaire never took a dancing
lesson I am told, and Bugs Baer’s
library doesn't contain a single hum
orous book . . .
Faith Bacon, the girl who really
invented the fan dance on Manhat
tan stages, is cavorting at the Para
dies . . . She is a looker and she has
the technique down pat, but how
many would fail to identify Sally
Rand as the Edison of the art? . . .
Irrelevancy: I have not heard a lady
say thank you for a subway seat
since 1929 . . . Maybe the practice
collapsed with the boom . . . Famous
gentleman few New Yorkers recog
nize roundabout: Buster Keaton, who
is starting a sedies of shorts at the
Long Island studios and who in this
opinion—from flashes previewed—
will stage the biggest comeback of
any former big-time comedian during
1936-37. 8
All over America and the northern
hemispheres the winds tensd con
stantly to turn to the right. If it
starts from the north headed directty
south it becomes a northeast wind.
If it starts as a west wind, it be
comes a northwest wind. The reason:
the earth rotating on its axis turns
the cardinal points under the moving
air.
Honor is never really lost forever.
You can get some of it back if vou
really try,
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Monday, June 29; Tammuz 9, 5696
in Jewish calendar. St. Peter’s Day
(Saint Peter and Paul In Greek Cath
olic calendar), a holiday in 20 coun
tries. Venus passes her superior con
junction with the Sun is now an
evening star.
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
William J. Mayo, b. 1861, world
famous physician of Rochester, Minn.
William E. Borah, b. 1865, senator
fritn Idaho . . . Edwin W. Kemmer
er, b. 1876, Princeton’s “financial
doctor to sick nations” . . . Harry
A. Franck, b. 1881, professional trav
eler . . . Robert Laurent, b. 1890,
sculptor in wood and stone . . .
Lathrop Stoddard, b. 1883, publicist
. . . Ludwig Beck, b. 1880 chief of
the German General Staff . . .
George Ellery Hale, b. 1868, astrophy
sicist.
* » »
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
June 29, 1577—Peter Paul Rubens
was born at Siegen, Westphalia, son
of an Antwerp druggist who was
forced to flee his native land for his
life because he was a Protestant.
When he was 32 his paintings stopped
a war! Spain’s ruler sent him, as
the greatest artist in Europe, to the
British court to paint the rulers as
a good will offering. It led to es
tablishment of peace between the
two countries.
He left 1,300 compositions worth at
least $13,000,000 at present day
prices.
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June 29, 1776—Bravery of William
Jasper, 26, caused towns and counties
in 15 states to be named for him.
A sergeant in the 2nd South Caro
lina Regiment, he leaped through an
embrasure to the ground, during the
bombardment of Fort Moultrie, Char
leston harbor, by British, and re
trieved the flag which had been shot
from its staff. With the enemy’s
. fire flying around him, he waved it
in defiance to show the fort had not
. surrendered, then attached it to an
k other staff and raised it over the
fortifications.
This was not Jasper’s only con
spicuous act of bravery. On another
occasion, actuated by sympathy for
a Mrs. Jones whose husband was a
. prisoner of the British awaiting ex
ecution, he took one companion and
' routed the strong British guard to
5 release Jones. Eventually he was
j killed in action, trying to fasten the
regimental colors to the parapet in
1 the battle of Spring Hill, Ga.
s« « •
t June 29, 1815—To the country he
despised Napoleon Bonapart now
• turned to make his home. He had
• sold Louisiana territory asofnoprac
-3 tical value. He had punished his
- brother Jerome for marrying an
: American. But now he attempted
: to escape from Rochefort to meet his
b brother Joseph in America. A' brief
- and unnecessary delay In making a
r decision enabled a British warship
- to intercept him, and one of the most
- fascinating ifs in history was left
; poised—what would have happened
1 if Napoleon had come to the U. S.?
t Brother Joseph, the former king
jr of Spain, became a farmer near Bor
dentown, N. J., and remained 20
years inconspicuously. Napoleon
- would not have been so content.
i • • «
5 June 29 Among State Histories:
J 1794—First church for colored estab-
J lished in Philadelphia by Methodists
I . . . 1869—First bank organized un
r der national banking law, at Daven
-5 port, lowa. . . . 1896: The first pub
. lie moving picture shows in the U.
. S. began in Union Square theater,'
; New York . . . 1925—Earthquake
5 killed 12, did $10,000,000 damage in
t Santa Barbara, Cal. . . . 1927—R.
r F. Byrd and three companions, Bal
s chen, Acosta and Noville got lost
t looking for Paris after flying Atlan
; tic and landed on French coast.
♦ • »
! FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—On the 15th
anniversary of the renewal of the
> triple alliance of Italy, Austria-Hun
( gary and Germany, Italians stormed
Trappola, in Trentino, in the counter
offensive which was forcing Aus
trians to retreat along the entire
front between Adige and the Brenta.
There Austrians had made their
gains in the offensive they began in
May.
The Austrians had lost 150,000
men, without realizing any notable
advantage. They had nos averted
the Italian movement on the Isonzo,
where Cadorna’s army was able to
smash through the fortresses of Sa
botion, Podgora and San Michele,
and drive the Austrians from Gori
zia. They had been stopped from
sending divisions to their eastern
front to help fend the Russian offen
sive.
(To be continued)
You’re Telling
Me?
NEWSPAPER DISPATCH telli
about octopus trying to wrestle dredg
ing machine. Just another gripping
drama.
« * •
Sunshine bad for Redheads,
says Dr. Henry Vouvain, famed
London medico. Maybe that ex
plains why we see so many in
night clubs.
• * *
Explorer visits Asiatic country in
habitants of which have never heard
of radio. Ah, discovered at last—the
Garden of Eden!
* * *
Pa is still happy over the Dad’s
Day gift the family gave him.
For full 24 hours no one bawled
him out.
When investigators of a criminal
case catch one of the higher ups he
is always discovered to really be •
,low down.