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PAGE FOUR SnwOOfflMjjffimts Published oy PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 802 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 Nw 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 MARKET GOOD BUSINESS BAROMETER. It is interesting to note the three phases through which the stock market went in the last six months. Composed of the con tinued, unprecedented rise which started in March, 1935, and continuing until April, 1936, the market fell off sharply between April 6 and 29, but then boomed again in a startling drive which produced an astounding fact. The prolonged gain in the market which started in 1935, far exceeded the expectations of the country’s most experienced traders. Based on moderate volume of trading, the rise gave way in the first part of April to the natural reactionary drop which was want to follow the sustained rise. The margin law which made its debut at this time then gave birth to a function which although appears unsound, had the effect of sending the market back to its former position not in the matter of volume, but strictly in regard to prices. On April 1, the requirements were boosted in order to allow the borrowing of the customers from the brokers, and on May 1, those same requirements were raised for the express purpose of allowing the brokers to borrow from the banks. Then too, there were many other factors which had the tend ency to control volume; the political outlook here at home, the taking over of the reins of the French government by Premier Blum with the Socialists and the Italian-Ethopian controversy. These glaring facts naturally would serve to unsettle the general outlook of the market in relation to volume. It must be borne in mind that the least tendency of the. world at large to become the least bit shaken in public confidence would bring about a reaction on the market, which after all, is the barometer of the world’s business. It must be borne in mind that the whole world suffers from a depression collectively, and at the same time, recovers in the same manner. Perhaps this fact is the solu tion to the discovery that the London market is running prac tically parallel to that of the United States. The British are faced with the same problem of price ranges overlooking volume as we are on this side of the Atlantic. But the one happy realization confronts us at this time. The sharp drop which continued throughout April is now being replaced with a slow and hesitant recovery which appears to make up for all the lost ground suffered in the drop. As this is true, then we must know that we are on the right track and that recovery is on the way to the world at large. OUR READERS’ FORUM (AU communications intended for pub lication under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters 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 imited to l«0 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 the Daily Times: I noticed in the Savannah papers on May 22nd. 1936, where our gov ernment is going to start a liquor drive and that dry states will be re cognized. This is the best news I have read in a long, long time, and I sincerely hope the government in cludes Georgia in its recognition of dry states. What, or who, is considered a boot legger? A man who is caught with liquor, arrested and convicted of violating the prohibition laws just because the liquor he possesses failed to have a government stamp on it, or the man who has possession of government stamped liquor and sells it without a state or city license? In my opinion, they are both in the same class, both bootleggers. Yet our police department allows the govern ment stamped liquor to be sold. Are they discharging their duties as they promised to do When employed? Or are they pleasing a particular group of people in Savannah. All Os Us THE WAY IT IS AN ARTIST has an idea for a drawing. Let us suppose it is a cartoon on this page. He sits and thinks about it, plans its arrangement, gets out his clean, white paper and his pens, goes to work. Probably he pencils it in, then inks it. Then it goes to the engraving room . . . First it is photographed. And etched on metal. And the metal cut is prepared for the composing room. Next it moves out to the flat form where this page is made up. Some times the newspaper is printed direct ly from this cut, from this type you are reading . . . But not usually these days. In most cases the metal form is locked and lifted onto a heavy metai table and a soft, square of- cardboard la placed on it . . . Then it is moved under a powerful roller under pres sure, and that cardboard takes the Imprint of every letter every line of About two months ago I happened to be in conversation with a high city offcial, mentioning that fact that liquor was displayed in many of the places where beer is sold. He, having the authority to do so promised to have this matter investigated and stopped. About a week later I went into a place with someone else, who went on business and I saw at one of the tables three men, on the table two bottles half full of beer and another bottle half full of whiskey. This particular table could be seen from the street. Such is a great tempt ation to our young men and women. Yet, what are we going to do about it? What will our boys and girls be if these conditions continue to exist? I also noticed in this paper same date where a certain man was sen tenced for violating the prohibition law. Why is it that the police depart ment picked on one man when there are so many more that are openly doing the same thing? The law should be enforced and without any partial ity. What are we going to do about it? The biggest trouble with us is we depend too much on the other fel low. Let him do It, well, he can’t do it by himself always, he needs some help. If I can get eleven men to see things as I do, to help me, we can accomplish something. Ask your self, will I be one? If you want to help, drofi me a card. Liquor con tinues to be displayed. P. A. MOISE, 414 E. Charlton Street the drawing. The cardboard, or “mat”, goes downstairs, where it is placed in a machine into which liquid metal flows and out comes a half-cylinder about an inch in thickness, of the shape you’d get if you sliced in half one of hose old-fashioned cylindrical phonograph records. i This half-cylinder is locked onto a press as big as a two story house .. . > It purrs, growls, roars and out comes ; your newspaper with your artist’s idea translated into line and ink and paper. What a lot of work, what a lot of ; activity before that artist’s idea for , one cartoon appears in the paper be i fore your eyes! He looks at it and if he’s like the . artists I know he says to himself: i "That’s terrible! I could have done • it a lot better than that!” That’s the way you are, too . . . j You have great ambitions. You carry i them through the roaring press of I life. Then you look at yourself and I say you ought to be a lot wiser, strong . er than you are . . . Don’t cry about » it . . . You tried and it was well r wnr+'h ANOTHER COAST TO COAST HOOKUP! * ‘fl l4O f I \ -''GT • /»■ *-4. uY , '/i- K\ s Bin —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- THIRD PARTY FOLK Including Lemke, Townsend and Rev. Smith NOT IN AGREEMENT By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Wrtier WASHINGTON July 2—Just as I predicted (it’s nice to have made a fulfilled prophesy), the groups Con gressman William Lemke was count ing on to combine in support of his Union party presidential candidacy are failing to get together. Dr. Francis E. Townsend already expresses doubts of his old age pen sioners’ liking for the Lemke move ment. At first the doctor seemed rather friendly toward it. Now, how ever, he says that the old age pen sioners won’t make up their minds before their meeting in Cleveland, July 15-19. He suggests that they may prefer to name their own candi date, ignoring Lemke. The trouble with these third party folk is that they don’t agree among themselves. Instead of forming a third party, when it comes to a show down their idea is to form several different and conflicting Independent parties, thus offsetting one another Differences Perhaps, as Dr. Townsend fore casts the old age pensioners will pick their own candidate. Perhaps not. Either way, it’s clear from the doctor’s SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT copyrTcht. 'i?36. central press association in • ~ 771 - 1 A 5 ~ ** by fire 11 between D and 1666 ’ im 798 ' S |2J Z ANP | <Me. , IN <HREE DAO/5 FLOOD oF 1913 iMltlEoHlO VALLEY CLAIMED 415 LIVES AND DESTROYED $ 180(000,000 oF PROPERTY, INCLUDING destruction of over ' 400 BRIDGES ANp FLOODING OF 60,000 BuiLDINqS J Central ASIA, A WOMAN IS 4 -| 4 forbidden 4o marry UNLESS SHE REACHES CERTAIN HEIGHT ST. BARNABAS AND ENTbMBED-CYPRUS WEIGHT/ STAMP oF 192.8 SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, THURSDAY, JULY 2, 1936 comment that they’re not wildly en thusiastic for Lemke. Lemke makes his appeal especially to agriculture, by a method involving monetary inflation. On that basis one might suppose he could command the backing, for example of Senator El mer Thomas. Thomas is from Okla homa, as agricultural a state as Lemke’s North Dakota. He also is an Inflationist. Nevertheless no Thomas onian cheers are heard for Lemke. Why? Why, Thomas knows that Lemke doesn’t stand a Chinaman’s chance. It pays him better to stay at least nominally Democratic. Labor shows no signs of getting on board the Lemke hearse. It sizzles with third party sentiment, but not for Lemke’s kind of a third party. • • • Long’s Followers The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith, who has assumed that he is the late Sen ator Huey P. Long’s successor ap pears mildly Lemke-ish. but the ma chine Huey Long organized manifests a disposition to toss the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith overboard as its leader, not caring to tie itself up with a los ing venture. Neither the Wisconsin Progressives nor the Minnesota Farmer-Laborites gravitate Lemke-ward. Father Charles E. Coughlin and Senator Lynn Frazier are the only outstanding Lemke-ites I know of. And I wonder if Father Coughlin can deliver his following at the polls. As for Senator Frazier, he was co-author with Representative Lemke, of the Frazier-Lemke bill, upon which the bill having been lost in the last con gress, Lemke is basing his campaign. In such circumstances he hardly can be otherwise than pro-Lemke. Paren thetically it’s noteworthy that Fraz ier’s North Dakota colleague, Senator Gerald P. Nye, is noncommital. Lemke’s Hope Congressman Lemke surmises that, with his Union party in the field, no candidate will win an electoral ma i jority-over-all and, consequently, that the presidential decision will be thrown into the house of representa tives. It’s the height of an improbability. The same prediction was made in 1924, when the late Senator Robert M. La Follette a far stronger cnadi date then than Congressman Lemke is at present, was.a thi?d party as pirant, and the senator carried only his own state of Wisconsin. A similar prediction was made when Theodore Roosevelt ran as a Bull Mouser and he couldn’t do it. • Congressman Lemke flatters him self. I Well, That Is Different! Vistor—“l can’t understand how your love for books brought you here to prison.” Prisoner—"lt was my love for pocketbooks, lady.” ONE MINUTE PULPIT Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow ' we shall die.—lsaiah 22:13. -WORLD AT A GLANCE - CAMPAIGN STRATEGY (And Errors in Opposition Parties) BEING DISCLOSED By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) President Roosevelt’s Philadelphia speech has had a favorable reaction. It towered above the mass of verbiage in a too-long drawn-out convention. More, it has set a pace—and a stand ard. Republicans realize it would be folly not to recognize that. They are beginning a shrewd, “silent” cam paign of their own to counteract the president. Governor Landon, it will be observed, is living a simple life. His efforts will be contrasted with the “showmanship” of the Demo cratic candidate. And although Governor Landon is a comparatively wealthy man and President Roosevelt is not, the pic ture drawn may be that of a silent, simple, cautious man as against an ‘ extravagant” landed squire. * * * Errors? John D. M. Hamilton, the national Republican chairman, however, has made some errors. In his enthusiasm to beat the Democrats to the gun, he actulaly has lost some ground. MyNew York By James Aswell New YORK, July 2.—When the summer theater movement first be gan to take hold of the imagination of the citizenry a few years ago and every hayloft within a radius of a hundred miles was likely to contain Ina Claire or Osgood Perkins on a summer night, there was a lot of talk about how these sylvan temples of Thespis would “give the young and experimental playwright a chance.” The assumption was, of course, that the young and experimental playwrights often could get to first base with the hard-boiled producers of Broadway, whose eyes glinted for ever yellow with the lust for gold and whose souls never vibrated to the non-commercial poesies of the young and experimental playwrights. Such bold and gripping dramas would be unfolded in the suburban barns that a cry spontaneous and not to be de nied, would thunder from the throats of the playgoers to have these geni uses given their just deserts of fame and, if they liked, Hollywood. Alas, there is no case, so far as I know, of a first rate play being un veiled among the cows which would not have be nesnapped up by Broad way had it been sent the rounds there first. The summer theater is as popular as ever yet the trend is more and more toward the proven commer cial successes of Broadway. The su burbanites, in some cases, have begun to exhibit a stubborn recalcitrance, when it comes to paying money to witness all the crude and rejected scripts that were knocked around in bureau drawers of the metropolitan area. Take the case of one of the best known of the Summer theaters, the Westchester Playhouse near Mount Kisco, N. Y. The management, I am told, has decided to confine its 1936 program to such seasoned plays as “Personal Appearance” and "Fresh Fields.” It will produce a few new plays, if it can find them, and all of the plays imported from Broadway will not be in the smash-hit category. Sometimes a moderate-money play, ! or even a semi-flop, will do well enough where the gay week-enders gather, brown from tennis and cheer ed, it may be, by a number of long, cold drinks on country house ter races. But the burden of my sermon to day is that there is no abundance of first rate plays knocking around and needing only a courageous and art conscious sponsor to give them foot lights. And, taking one thing with another, the Broadway boys are just about as willing to take a chance on something giddy and novel as the be frocked and bohemian Belascos of the suburbs. Indeed, they pant for fair to-middling scripts with any sort of adaptability to the spoken drama, so poor are the pickings from the mss. which descend upon their offices day after day. If there were plenty of good—or even literate —plays pouring into the producers’ offices it is conceivable they would discard the artier and more far-fetched efforts in favor of pieces which seemed sure-fire, how ever low-brow these might be. But they are desperate: the bulk of the so-called plays submitted to them are of the sort written by railroad fire men in spare time on wrapping pa per. Or they are of the sort produc ed by graduates of correspondence courses in playwriting—neatly typed and professional-looking and hackney ed as a campaign speech. Thus we have seen ordinarily sane and even shrewd professional produc ers putting on all sorts of weird and phoney drama. We have witnessed the inrush of the propagandists—the scribblers George Jean Nathan calls Little Red Writing Hoods—with their painful psychopathic complaints against their betters! If there had been a dozen fairly competent unpro duced playwrights hiding in the gar rets of Manhattan on one would ever have heard of any of them; or else Clifford Odets, Elmer Rice (in his second manner) and others in their club, would have been compelled to settle down, stop whining and turn out straight, dramatic plays for the royalties they love so well. And, given a number of Industrious and talented unproduced piaywrignts hammering from below, people like the fantastic M‘kt Gold could not even have gott m a job with the WPA theater. The sad fact is that there axe no unsung Miltons or even unsung Anne Nicholses hiding in the playwrighting woodpile, so far as the most diligent searchers can discover. For example, it was straightforward bub not wise to visit Oil Magnate Pew in Philadelphia during the Dem ocratic convention, to discuss the Re publican war fund. Mr. Pew, chief G. O. P. fund raiser, guaranteed a large one. It will be. A person need merely to traverse the financial districts of New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Boston and Chicago to ascertain the hatred of Mr. Roosevelt’- The same is true in smaller financial centers. The Republicans say they are fight ing an “immense” Democratic cam paign fund in form of relief expendi tures. Even so, the flaunting of mil lions coming from industrialists will have a contrary effect on the mass of voters. In fact, it lends point to the presi dent’s speech—underscores it. Then, Hamilton evidently made a break, also, in welcoming tha Cough lin-Lemke party—not because he de sires to see it win, but because it will take votes from the Democrats. The new party is abhorrent to Re publicans—as it has as its chief plank the revelation of money. To invite such a party to step in to take all it can, on the chance that it is Ikiely to take more from the Democrats than from the Republic ans, does not seem sound judgment to many G. O. P. leaders. An inde pendent movement can become more damaging than a known opposition party. Favoring F. D. R.? Father Coughlin's continued asser tions that President Roosevelt’s poli cies are communistic and that people who favor them are communis'ticEllly minded also are having a reverse effect. Opposition to Fathei- Cougl| in has been trying to pin on him the Fas cist badge—and now that opposition believes it has the circumstantial evi dence . Democrats think the president will gain through the Coughlin attacks be cause liberals—which includes many workers—were disappointed in the generalities of the Democratic plat form. Now, here is Father Coughlin say ing that the president, in spite of the restrained platform, will do exactly what the liberals hope he will do. And, in another breath, the Cough lin-Lemke-ites assert the president does not go far enough—on mone tary changes. That in turn may bring “sound money” men to the sup port of the president. To the charge of "communism,” the New Dealers will beg x. question: “Is it communistic to regulate the hours of labor, to protect the rights of collective bargaining, to restrain monopolies, to prohibit child labor, to guard the public welfare? No? Well, then, how can one accomplish this except by placing the power into the hands of the government, even if amendment to the constitution is necessary? And what is communistic about amending the constitution?” Co-operatives An article by Henry A. Wallace, secretary of agriculture, in Scribner’s magazine, is attracting attention. Wallace asserts that, to save democ racy, competition must be abandoned in favor of “co-operatives of consum ers, of producers and ultimately of industries.” He adds that the supreme court, in the AAA decision, “chose to interpret the constitution in the light of a handicraft) age.” He continues: invoked by the supreme court, was ‘The doctrine of states’ rights, now a barrier to progress even in 1787, and was the cause of a terrible con flict in 1861. Today the states mark no economic boundaries that make sense, and they provide only limited instruments for action to meet mod em problems. "Long ago the great corporations managed to break down states' rights when they interfered with corporate expansion. Today it is clear that, states’ rights are being invoked not" for the rights which they defend, but privileges they protect. “They are being invoked by groups which have already obtained central izing powers under government but which, by this means, seek to pre vent extension of centralizing power to other groups such as farmers and labor. “Oply the large corporations, the Republican party, New England, the Liberty league and most of the news papers of the country are apparently for states’ rights today.” The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. Name the governor of the Phil ippines. 2. How is malaria spread? 3. Give the literal meaning of the Latin phrase, “sanctum sanctorum”. Hints on Etiquette When a man asks as question of a woman he does not know, or directs her attention to something, he should raise his hat as he speaks. Words of Wisdom There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.—Addison. Today’s Horoscope Persons born on this day have a desire to be know and usually are iOnd of teaching. They are loving and expect to be loved in return. They are not often disappointed in anything. One-Minute Test Answers 1. Frank Murphy. 2. The germs are carried by a mos quito. 3. It means “Holy of Holies”. Well, as I was saying before I was i so rudely interrupted—l may be mis taken, but THIS is my opinion. I +h‘-'k— Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Thursday, July 2; morning stare: Mercury. Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Eve ning stars: Venus, Neptune, Jupiter. Jupiter is again close to the moon. Zodiac sign: Cancer. Birthstone ruby. ♦ * » NOTABLE NATIVITIES George Williams, Cardinal Munde lein, b. 1872, R. C. archbishop of Chi cago . . . Louis W. Douglas, b. 1894, one-time director of the budget . . . Olaf, b. 1903, crown prince of Nor way ... Dr. Frederick P. Keppel, b. 1875, professional philanthropist, president of Carnegie Corporation . . . Robert Zuppke, b. 1879, famed college football coach who never play ed on a college team . . . Jack Hyl ton, b. 1892, orchestra leader . . . TODAY’S YESTERDAYS July 2, 1750 —Francois Huber was born in Switzerland. He learned first most of what is known today about bees. Yet he, like at least two famous astronomers, was blind. He had others make observations and made his de ductions from them. Thus, he said, he eliminated any chance of error that might occur from one observer and solved age-old mysteries about the creatures which were the source of the world’s sweetenings before the development of cane and beet sugars in comparative modern times. July 2, 1774 —William Goddard, edi tor of the Maryland Gazette, pub lished at Annapolis, published an edi torial destined to have a decisive ef fect upon our history. Goddard called for an independent postal system in opposition to that of the British government, because letters carried by post riders of the Crown were subjected to tax and par ticularly to espionage, and he pre sented a plan of operation. The editorial was circularized throughout the colonies and caused the establishment of “constitutional” post routes between Portsmouth, N. H., and Williamsburg, Va., over which flowed the secret correspondents which finally drew the principal col onies into co-operative union and made a successful Revolution possible. Goddard himself was given the job of opening up roads and post routes. You look in vain in most histories for mention of Goddard’s name. Born in Connecticut in 1740, he established the firstprintshop at Providence, where he established the Gazette, and was a pioneer in journalism in New York and Philadelphia before going to Annapolis. July 2, 1776 —Goddard’s good words bore fruit: the Continental Congress, sitting at Philadelphia, adopted the resolution of Richard Henry Lee of Virginia that the colonies should de clare themselves free and independent states. The Philadelphia Evening Post, the first newspaper to announce it, de voted only three lines to the event: “This day the Continental Congres: declared the United Colonies free and independent states!” A notice of « runaway slave took four times as much space. As has been repeatedly stated in this column, July second is the real Independence Day. The resolution of independence was simply a declaration of what had al ready taken place, for prior to it, seven states had set up independent governments, four had drawn up con stitutions, and Massachusetts had adopted a provisional government. 15 Years Ago Today—The World war ended. The United States was in a state of war with Germany as long as Great iß'riatin or France, for it was not until this date that Presi- 1 dent Harding officially proclaimed the war at end. The armistice had prolonged, of course, «y the differ ences in congress over the peace treaty. Thus it is that thousands of men who did not enlist in the army or navy until after Nov. 11, 1918, ar< rated as war veterans. July 2, Among State Histories: 1776—Women’s suffrage was adopted in New Jersey ... 100 Years Ago Today—Congress authorized the first “express mail,” to convey newspapers and letters faster than ordinary post routes. Triple rates were charged. The system cut the mail time between New York and New Orleans from 13 days to six, which is about what it takes now, if you ask us . . . 1881—Presi dent Garfield was fatally shot by an assassin in Washington . . . 1890— Sherman anti-trust act became a law. ♦ ♦ ♦ FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The British attack on the Somme eased for day, of necessity, for every regiment of every division had been shattered in the first day’s terrific impact. The British losses there were correspond ingly greater than tho»e of the Ger mans at Verdun, a fr/it denied until long after the war, when Winston Churchill admitted it. William Seaver Woods, in “Colossal Blunders of the World war,” which we quoted here yesterday, also has this to say of the Somme: “The German commander-in-chief knew the effort to pierce his line would fail; but the British leaders did not seem to sense it, and kept up their costly assaults from mid summer until - the middle of Novem ber. "The failure to realize the facts the situation were laid by Hindenburg to a lack of imagintaion . . A little imagination, for example might have led the British com manders to suppose that mountainous and elaborate preparations on a cer tain sector for a mighty assault would cause the Germans to make equally complete preparation L nable defense. n-h3 hat ’ 88 matter of fact, was what occurred. The German lines were equipped with bomb-proof caves, dug-outs and cellars where men took refuge during the preliminary bom bardmnet, an dthen rushed out as the barrage lifted and mowed down the advancing British with hundreds of wheat ” G BUnS aS reapers mow th« (To be continued)