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PAGE FOUR OBoawfc Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. I eUBLKHED 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 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: Transradlo Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures — ‘ . - - ..JZ. 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 •*• * * * COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION 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! ■ A VM&a ItwimSlir —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. SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J- SCOTT 4Hls STAMP FROM ASCE-NSION ISLAND,I / A sea Swallow iS V. /Ihe. CALLED Tie SooTy <ERN BIRD- _WAsHlNoort ASCENSION BELONGS MONUMENT <REA<BRI<AIN wA$ NO<* Ji ”OH <HE SEASON * declaration' /(here is of independence The memoriai A SPRING ibl A6 GREATER BUILDING AT acMesTnu-T /Pan His work >t+4e base of r iWf s Tree near as president <«e shaft B valley, _ 1 £ ; CALIFORNIA KI MIHIIIPIIJIE t ?""_ ' " ■ djAu,- COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRA!. PRESS ASSQGIATIOL 2>.. I 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. * 4r « 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.