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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INO. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 802 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 28, 1935 at the Post Office at 1 Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months ................................. ..... ...... 1.95 One Month ........... ..... .65 One Week ...................... ........ .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc, • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures CHINA, FOOTBALL OF WAR LORDS. It hardly seems possible that China should slip from the high niche she once occupied in by gone centuries to the posi tion of a football kicked around by the selfish aims and purposes of war lords of the country proper, and of neighboring nations. The Chinese, as a rule, are acting in the role of human clods who have been performing as puppets for the wiles and intrigue em ployed by enterprising nations. From figures released by authoritative sources, the high gov ernment of China has set aside one-half billion dollars for the use of providing ways and means of ample protection and pro-, viding for war, and only fifty million dollars for the purpose of education. Then the answer to the whole problem must be that there is too much time and money devoted to the prepara tion of war aims than it is to the ever present need of education for the huge masses that call China their mother country. There are many people in China who do not even know that there are countries outside the sphere of their every-day exist ence. There are many people in China whose only ambition is to please the high and mighty presence of their war lords. Is it any wonder, in view of these circumstances, that the masses are controlled almost in their entirety by a handful of men whose very existence can be bought by other countries who eye the mighty reaches of the Chinese territory with gloating ap prasal? We people in America little realize the true condition of the human herd which has its home in the Far East. We little realize the influence that can be brought to bear on the people of a certain locality by one person who owns the very souls, figuratively speaking, of the subjects of that particular realm. It harks back to the days of the relationship of lord and vassal, only many times worse, as not even protection is afforded the hapless Chinese subjects in some instances. Education is the only answer that can be offered as a pre ventative and cure for this alarming situation. Education of the masses to the glaring realization that they are puppets to be employed only as cannon fodder and as a means to an end for the personal and selfish ambitions of some figure-head whose main track in this life pertains to greed and greed alone. It will be many years before this fact can be driven home to the minds of the Chinese people. It will be many years of seeing their territory taken away from them by selfish nations and home war lords. But in the end, due to the steadily increasing world wide pressure being brought to bear upon the high gov ernmental agencies of the Chinese nation, the masses will see the light and begin the gigantic reconstruction of their socal, politi cal and industrial welfare and future. NOT—In the News • • • • * * COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY FORGETFULNESS isn’t always a detriment. Sometimes it is an actual benefit, as this story should indi cate. Bill Ritt reports that his brother, Lou, once was going to the horse races when another brother, Carl, asked him if he would place a bet for him. "Put it on Black Knight to show in the first race,” instructed Car. "Okay”, said Lou, and pocketed the money. Now Lou is one of those people who can remember something if he doesn’t have to remember it too long. And, since the race track was quite a ways from home, by the time he arrived he had forgotten completely which horse he was to play for his brother. Desperate, he scanned the list of entries on the day’s card in an effort to recall to his mind the name of the horse given him by Carl. He vaguely remembered there was something dark about the name, but had forgot ten the race. So, when he saw the name of “Dark Hazard”, running in the third race, he decided that was the horse. The name didn’t sound just right to him. but it was the nearest to his vague recollection of the right horse, so he put the bet on him. But he didn’t bet the horse to show, as his brother had Instructed. He bet it to win. which, if you know racing is something very, very different. Well, incredible as it may sound, “Dark Hazard” won the third race, and paid $32.50 for a $2 ticket. And what makes this true story even stranger is that “Black Knight", the horse he was supposed to have bet on, came in last! ♦ ♦ * WHILE IN Genoa 81., recently, a friend of ours stopped at one of those small churches there to look, listen and perhaps catch a grain of wisdom from the good old-fashioned religion, as preached only in the coun try meeting houses. Our friend happened to join the congregation just when the fat per spiring preacher was beginning his long-winded sermon. He told his flock In simple, understandable lan guage how to “live the good life”, and finally he finished, sitting down to wipe his wet brow while a hymn was being sung. During the sermon the attention of two rather spinsterish ladies had been distracted from the preacher by a discussion between them. They talked in low tones, of course, but once in a while the sound of their ahattter was audible in several pews around them. When the minister arose to deliver his closing prayer, the two gossipers were still involved in their deep con versation. And so, while the rest of the congregation bowed heads while the minister rendered the prayer in a loud, booming voice, the pair kept right on chattering. And then, right in the midst of the prayer, the preached lowered his voice almost to a whisper and during the lull from out of the audience came a high-pitched voice in crisp, sharp tores: “I fry mine in lard!” Plain Jealous The WPA worker, not being sup plied with a shovel, went to the fore man and objected to being overlook ed when the tools were passed out. Foreman —“Why should you wor ry? If you don’t have a shovel, you can’t work, so why worry about it?” WPA Worker—Well, it ain’t fair. The other boys have something to lean on.” Wrong For Once Mother (to very young flapper while watching animals at zoo) “And this, darling, is a stork.” Modern Child—“ Don't be silly, Mother. Don’t you suppose I know’ there isn’t any such thing.” Far •Removed “I asked a cute little hula hula dancer to dance for me last night.” “Did she shake her head?” "Heck no! Don’t you know how a ’ hula hula is done?' CORRECTION “Johnny,” said the teacher,, “you i must not say ‘I ain't going.’ You should say instead, 'I am not going,’ j 'We are not going, 'They are not s going'.” . To which Johnny responded: t “Ain't nobody goign?” SKY ROCKETS! r * —WORLD AT A GLANCE— THIRD PARTY ELEMENTS Not Stopped By Democratic Liberalization STILL DISTINCT THREAT Central Press Headquarters, Demo cratic Convention By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) PHILADELPHIA, July I.—The Democratic party is leaving the Phil adelphia convention behind without definitely meeting the third party i threat. It is true that a liberal platform and “speeches directly to the people” have gone a great deal farther than the platform and the speeches of the Republicans. The fact remains, however, that a large element in the northwest and in the industrial regions of Michigan, Ohio and western Pennsylvania is not at all mollified. It is queer that the Coughlin- Lemke group term the Rooseveltians "communists” for going too far, while at the same time revolting be cause the Rooseveltians do not go “far enough.” Within the Coughlin-Lemke group are three elements. There are the agrarian progressives, then the group that believes inflation is a cure-all, and, finally men (who, although they may not realize it) have Fascist ten dencies —and who are quite the re verse of Progressives. These last named object to the New Deal, as SCOn’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT 4)4ERE 1$ A DO<4 r( oH The ney/ // Jr \ Liner queen mary * CONsis<6 oF 2.6 * KENNELS VMrffl Po r<e.r 5 <o YtARE. for. Doq Mr INDIAN W is ELIGIBLE- T* BE PRE6>DENT/\/j) of<heuni<ep S<aTE5, S’UCE UME > ,924 * \S-5z FOR<HEIR SI-Z.E- and weight; are. ’’(SLAVIC EARLY RECKONED <HE_ VWS J I us. stamp sTron<sest Horses UsS j/ j in Yhe world — Wil I HI PRECAMCELS a 36-INCH Pony can 1p 7 carry a iso-pound jl MAN ALL DA/ COPYR(ChT | 936t central press association SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1933 much as do the reactionaries, yet have catch phrases that are popular. The Democrats cannot hope to mollify that particular group. But the Democrats could hope to make it powerless by dlsaffectng the down right Progressives from the others. In that respect the Philadelphia i convention probably has failed. • • • Not United It is obvious why the Democrats have failed to meet the issue square ly. The Democrats —as the Repub licans—have many divergent forces. Tammany and the south, and the south and the Progressive northwets, simply will not mix. President Roosevelt had tried to lead gradually. The speeches have been his words, not the words of the conventino. The cheers have been for party victory, not for principle or policy. The president, therefore, has pulled his punches. Much has been said militantly, but the isues whch the New Deal itself raised have not been fully met. Check them off yourself. It is possible that the president be lieves once he is in power again, he can fight for his cause as he did during hs first year. The Republicans realize that. In- deed. that is their campaign argu ment. They asert President Roose velt, no matter what words are spok en now, will go ahead with the New Deal. Paradoxically, the vast restless masses are not so certain. In brief, the “little to the left of center” policy of President Roosevelt is becoming less and less successful. Deft Hits The president was hit badly by the victories of the right during the clos ing hours of congress. When Sena tors Vandenberg of Michigan, Stei wer of Oregon, Townsend of Dela ware and Holt of West Virginia killed the Guffey coal bill, the president probably lost thousands of votes in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Vir ginia to a third party. The miners probably said: “Oh, what’s the use?” The blame falls not on the Repub lican senators and the revolting Dem ocratic senator, but on the New Deal ers who failed to hoi dthe fort suc cessfully. The last days of congress always are field days for‘the opposi tion. TERRIFIC BLAST “Her body is dynamite to that handsome costume designer she’s been running around with.” “Yes, and he knows how to set it off.” HAD NO CHOICE “There was a terrible picture on the screen last night, but Johnny had to look. He couldn’t help himself.” “Was he fascinated in spite of him self?” “No, his girlfriend‘wouldn’t pet.” -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE DIXIE THINKING HARD Os Third Term Suggestions Arising OVER MAJORITY RULE By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer PHILADELPHIA, July I—Demo ocratic Chairman James A. Farley speaks of the asininity of reports that President Roosevelt, if re-elected next November, will seek a third nomination in 1940. However, the very fact that Far ley had to term the reports asinine proves that they are current. They are; quite so. The southern delegates, in particu lar, at the Philadelphia convention, discussed them pretty freely • ♦ » Two-Thirds Rule Most of these delegates from Dixie were resentful of the president’s ad vocacy of the abandonment of the two-thirds rule at Democratic con ventions, and surrendered grudgingly when a voice vote swept the rule out of existence following a recommenda tion by the rules committee (by a vote of 36 to 13) that it be aban doned. The south hadn't enough votes in a convention to give a majority to a candidate of its own choice but it has had enough to prevent any can didate to whom it objects from get ting two-thirds. In other words, while the Dixielanders couldn’t win. they MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK, July 30—Mr. George Raft, the dapperly sinister heart breaker, who has moved through the movies with increasing acclaim dur ing the past dozen years received me in his hotel suite at half-past six in the afternoon (Daylight Time). He had not yet dressed for the day and wore a dark blue unfrilled dressing gown. There were about a dozen people in the suite, but they fluttered in and out and Mr. Raft and I had oppor tunity to chat satisfactorily, despite a half-dozen telephone calls (includ ing one from a vague gentleman who demanded, in no uncertain terms, that Raft surrender a slice of his earnings forthwith, on the ground that he, the vague gentleman, had not been able to provide money for him self). Mr. Raft was byway of being in a blue mood. He had, it is true, been up very late the night before enter taining a large party of “I-Knew- Him-Whens”, but he is a teetotaler. He has never had a drink in his life and so his mood could not have been induced by katzenjammer. “I’m tired of being made out a heel in pictures’’ he said with the same staccato directness lie uses in his scenarios. “It makes it so I can’t go out without having strangers come up to me and call me names.” At that moment Mr. Mack Gray, who has been described as the Raft ‘ bodyguard”, appeared and inform ed his patron that a wire had just arrived summoning them back to the Coast at once for retakes on the pic ture just finished. Mr. Gray does not look like a bodyguard; he is tall, thin and amiable. “He’s just an old friend,” Raft ex plained when I bodly asked about the bodyguard story. “That body guard stuff is bunk. The papers made a big story out of a fight I got into with Mack out in Hollywood six months ago. It just goes to show. “Mack went to the hospital to get his nose straightened and I went along to keep him company and get a little scar taken out of my ear.” Raft rubbed his left ear ruefully. “We got out of the hospital and, with the bandages still on, went to a case. Some guy started to pass remarks about ‘pretty boys’ who got them selves fixed in beauty parlors and I couldn’t take that. I stepped in, when this fresh guy kept on handing out insults, and mixed it with him. Mack started slugging, too. Wouldn’t you have done the same thing?” I admitted that I might have, if the man weren’t Schipeling. “Some of the stories make me out an actor who’s always having fights. I’m reasonable and peaceful fellow but enough’s enough. Also when I complain* it is usually about some thing worth while. For instance, some of the stories I get and every picture I’m in I’ve got to carry on my own. I don’t get the big stars, like some of the boys I could name. You never saw me with Dietrich, or with Garbo, did - you? Well, I think a man who’s been in pictures as long as I have might get a break with one of the really big box-office names once in a while, don’t you?” I knew George Raft had grown up in Hell’s Kitchen, and that one of his old boyhood friends was Owney Madden, the gentleman whose name was once a power in New York rac kets and who has now married and settled down in Arkansas. “He’s a white guy, through and through.” Raft spoke with fervor. “I don’t know why he took the wrong road, or why I didn’t take one just as bad. Things just happen and sometimes a man is pushed into a way never intended to take. Owney always seemed okay to me and I never saw the things in him I read about in the papers.” George Raft is a likable young man. He is almost totally lacking in self-consciousness. He speaks candid ly. quickly and to the point. He was a dancer in Texas Guinan's place when the movie scouts found him. He has never been out of a film job since, and despite his several frac ases he has certainly failed to "go Hollywood.” • ' What do you want to do most of all?” I asked, because I couldn't think of a better question botween telephone calls. “I want to be a director," Mr. Raft said. always had been able to force a com promise. The south prized this veto power and exercised it, too, as when it euchered the late Champ Clark out of the Democratic presidential onmi natlon. Calrk had a majority, but he couldn’t run it up to two-thirds; so finally his supporters had to yield and thq convention agreed on Wood row Wilson, which, despite the fact that Wilson won for their party, was mighty aggravating to the Ciarkites. • « • Roosevelt’s View President Roosevelt took the posi tion that it’s unfair for a minority to dictate to a majority. He also held that it’s bad politics, on the ground that a convention ma jority’s first choice of a candidate is likely to make a more formidable run than the gathering’s compromise sec ond choice, with which, in all prob ability no element will be altogether satisfied. At first thought this seems like sound reasoning. Nevertheless, Dixie ha<J an an swering argument of some cogency. * * * South’s Argument It’s true, admit the southerners, that their delegates were in a minor ity at Democratic convention. But when it comes to an election — THEIR STATES GO DEMOCRAT IC. The OTHER states, though with a majority of convention delegates, may almost all go Republican electorally. That is to say: A certainly Democratic state like Alabama, for example, disliked to have a probably Republican state like Pennsylvania pick the candidates for Alabama Democrats to support, and then go Republican in November, while the faithful Alabamans did their Democratic duty. The Alabam ans have felt that at least they should have some little check upon the selection, as under the two-thirds rule. That’s more or less color of justice in this contention. • • • Unimportant This Year To be sure, the dispute’ has been only academic as applied strictly to the present instance the Roosevel tian renomination this year having a foregone conclusion. However, the southern delegates In Philadelphia, with a few exceptions, expresssed violent opposition to the two-thirds rule’s abrogation. What the president appears to them to have undetaken, I have heard many of them charge, is to gain absolute convention control in 1940 by the abandonment of that rule and another modification or two, making it perfectly possible for him to renominate himself or to designate his successor, anyway. That that’s what he really has had it in mind to do is a question for anyone to guess one, but it’s what numerous southerners have main tained that his program has been cal culated to render practicable. There are anti-New Deal north erners who whisper the same suspi cion. 0., t ♦ * In 1940—What? I don’t honestly suppose that there’s a definitely deep-laid plot at this stage of the game to make Frank lin D. Roosevelt America’s first three term ppresident. Still, when the time comes! If there’s a demand for him, and the thing’s manageable? Who knows? It looks asinine to Chairman Far ley now. But in 1940?. The suggestion’s been made, any how or Farley wouldn’t have had to notice it. Your’e Telling Me? THE POLITICAL conventions brought one boon, at least to radio listeners. It prevented the horror of having to listen to a couple of hours of toothpaste, liniment an< beauty cream ads. • ♦ * The aquarium in New York boasts an average yearly attend ance of 2,500,000. Well, by this time the fish in the glass cases should have a pretty fair idea what a native American looks like. ♦ ♦ ♦ Everj r speeder overlooks one fatal truth —the faster he drives the quick er the law—or the undertaker—will catch up with him. • The value of political conven tions may be guaged from the fact that now leading adherents of the two major parties are quarreling over which convention made the most noise. • ♦ The man who holds his head up suffers less when adversity assails him. A punch on the chin is never as painful as getting it in the neck. « * * Chinese are reputed never to be surprised at anything, no mat ter how incredible. But they must have gotetn a shock the ether day when their army actually won a battle. We think the old parties made a mistake in picking the elephant and the donkey for their emblems. After listening to their convention speeches we think a fitting symbol for either party would be a parrot. One-Minute Test Answers ?; T R fP rcsentative William Lemke of North Dakota. 2. Tables used in insurance compu tation on risks and premiums. 3. Resemblance to remote ancestors rather than to parents; recurrence of disease after intermission of sev eral generations. Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) Wednesday, July 1; first day of fiscal year, Domniion day in Canada. Commemoration day in Newfound land, Independence day in Iraq. Sum mer holiday in China. Mars, Invisible for several weeks, is reappearing in the east, rising about 4 a.m. • « « NOTABLE NATIVITIES Charles Laughton, b. 1899, stage and screen actor. . . . E. P. Cosbigan, b. 1874, senator from Colorado . . . Madge Evans, b. 1909, cinemactress . . - Albert Bushnell Hart, b. 1854, historian . . . • * • ‘ TODAY’S YESTERDAY July 1, 1859 —The man who in spired and was ridiculed by John T. Trowbridge’s famous poem, “Darius Green and His Flying Machine,” which made him out a fool for pro phesizing that men would fly through the air with the greatest of ease, made the first transcontinental air mail flight. John Wise sailed from St. Louis, Mo., to Watertown, N. Y„ 1,150 miles, in 19 hours and 15 min utes, in a balloon in which he hoped later to cross the ocean carrying two other men and a bag of letters. Wise had intended to reach New York city, but was forced down. July 1, 1862—Everybody went bo work for the federal government. On the 71st anniversary of the imposi tion of the first federal taxes (on distilled spirits and carriages) upon citizens of the U. S., the first taxes were laid upon incomes and tobac co and the Internal Revenue Bureau was created. The income levy extend ed to all incomes over S6OO a year, including those of federal officials and employes. The extraordinary thing about these taxes was that they were repealed. One supreme court even ruled in come taxes unconstitutional. July 1, 1879—Illinois, first state to have sex equality legislation (enacted in 1872), decreeing that “no person shall be precluded or barred from any occupation or employment (ex cept military) on accuonb of sex,” was the first state to have a law prohibiting their employment! It went into effect on this date and barred them from working in coal mines. Shortly thereafter, President Gar field issued an order excluding wom en from holding any government po sition. July 1, 1919—The first airmail service began between New York and Chicago—at a slower speed than that of Wise 50 years before! July 1, Among State Histories: 1859 —The first college baseball game was played between Amherst and Williams .. . . 1861—First daily overland mail route opened, between St. Joseph, Mo., and San Francisco. 1863—Bat tle of Gettysburg, biggest battle ever fought on American soil, began . . . 1872—Spain ceded Florida to U. S. . . . 1874—Charles Ross, 4, was stolen from Germantown, Pa., in the first great kidnaping case, and never seen again. 1898—Theodore Roose velt won fame with his rough riders in the battle of San Juan Hill, Cuba. 1875—First League of Nations—the postal union—became operative, with U. S. as a member . . . 1921—First state sales tax became effective, in West Virginia . . - * * • FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—Allies raised the blockade of Greece. French divi sions recaptured Thiaumont at Ver dun, which had become a bouncing ball. But the big news, of course, was the great assault launched at the Somme by the British, with Belgian and French support on the flanks. William Seaver Woods places it among the “Colossal Blunders of the World War,” one of the most inter esting books among the thousands on the conflict. He said: “It was on July 1, 1916, that the great British assault was launched against the German lines north of the Somme. In all the Allied lands the highest hopes were pinned on its success. The British armies were at a pinnacle of perfection never at tained before, and never reached again. “By a curious exchange of roles, the British were now to try out the same kind of attack the Germans had used at Verdun, and were to meet the same kind of failure. “The British assault on July 1 was terrific; the losses were also terrific. Between 50.000 and 60,000 British soldiers were killed, wounded or taken prisoner before nightfall, nearly half of the total number who went over the top that day. It was the most disastrous day the British army had ever knew.” (To be continued) The Grab Bag I One-Minute Test 1. Name the presidential candidate ° f n tl^J l€wly ’ organized Unl °n party. 2. What are actuarial tables? 3. Define atavism. Hints on Etiquette _D° nt forget your good manners when someone accidentally spills something on you at a party or din thl' S ?° W yOUr tem P« r - Smile a J cid ? nt aw ay. Remember you may do the same thing some day. ’ Words of Wisdom n ° Place more delightful than ones own fireside.— Cicero. Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day are ant to be rather silent and reticent at time? IW w n ui k if lt aulte sSch Th? f One can force their T ? elr sensil3 iHties are fine a d,ep tove “