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SAVANNAH S RESPONSIBILITY TO ITS TRADE AREA.
There has been much said in the editorial columns of Sa
vannah’s newspapers about the necessity of encouraging and fos
tering large industries to which the Savannah Daily Times
agrees, but we do all believe that more effort, time and space
should be given to the encouragement and development of our
immediate trade section so that the many outstanding people
surrounding Savannah will realize that her merchants thorough-'
ly appreciate their business co-operation and understanding in
the devefopihent and progress of our city. We want our out
standing neighbors of both Carolina and Georgia to realize that
Savannah is their city and as Savannah develops so will they.
The publisher and president of the Savannah Daily Times ac
cepted an invitaton from Jasper County, South Carolina, to at
tend a gala occasion of last Thursday tvhich dealt entirely in
government and meant much to the development of that section
of the country. The publisher and president of this paper are
deeply gratified that they could and did avail themselves of the
opportunity to mingle with, hear and discuss the problems which
a r e confronting the citizens of this section so important to Sa
vannah.
A people who accept their responsibilities in the spirit dis
played upon this occasion at Ridgeland, the county seat of Jas
per, and at Beaufort, the county seat of Beaufort, portray the
courage and understanding which makes it possible for communi
ties to grow.
Industries are most important to a city’s growth and should
have the undivided support of the city’s newspapers but in addi
tion to this we have the business merchants of Savannah who
are constant and tireless in their efforts to build Savannah,
therefore entitled to publicity upon their own problems other
than bought space through ads. Their personnel furnish the ma
jority of the actual work done in all civic drives. They arc in
their places of business at all times where they are subjected to
all manner aud sorts of subscription campaigns. They have to
give and work constantly towards the development of every type
of movement fostering Savannah’s best interests. In fact, it
would seem that they are so busy working on other movements
pertaining to Savannah, that they have very little time left to
devote towards the establishment of friendly feeling and co
. operation between the merchants of Savannah and the trade
a”eas which they desire to serve. It is no more than fair that
the newspapers of this city extend to the merchants of Savannah
a very effective and active co-operation in building a mind
amongst our rural brothers that Savannah merchants are sound,
honest and reasonable in the marketing of their wares and that
they desire the friendly co-operation and understanding of the
people with whom they desire to do business.
The Savannah Daily Times re-iterates its desire to serve in
the building of the spirit as above enumerated and we also wish
to assure these progressive citizens in our neighboring state that
they shall have at all times the co-operation of this newspaper
and its staff in aiding them in their problems.
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Editor The Daily Times:
If there were only Democrats who
doubted the strength of the present
administration or who felt uncertain
about the chances of Roosevelt be
ing re-elected they should have listen
ed to his speech last Saturday night,
or if they failed to do that, they
should read it.
It was stirring and forceful, but
at the same time adroit. As far as
the people as a whole are concerned,
however, the main attraction about
the speech was that- It was straight
from the shoulder. In the prizefight
ing right or in the political arena, peo
ple go for a hard hitter, and Roose
velt’s firm pronouncements certainly
hit the spot.
A ROOSEVELT BOOSTER.
Editor, Daily Times:
I, as a citizen of Savannah, can
not keep from making a few remarks
of condemnation in regards to re
moving the four Iron post at each
corner of Broughton and Whitaker
struts. These were put there a hun
dred years ago to protect life and
limb, and now to remove them, when
they are mostly needed to serve their
noble purpose, is a gross insult to pub
lic intelligence. I dare say, that pub
lic sentiment will resen* the removal
of those four noble iron sentinels,
when some careless drunken hit and
run automobile driver kills some in
nocent person standing on the side
walk by driving over the comers of
the side walks, and I myself, can
truthfully state, I have seen wtih my
own eyes careless automobile drivers
cutting these very comers short and
would have hurt several people had
it not been for these same iron post
or sentinels that stopped them in
their path which is more than any
traffic officer could have done. In
conclusion I dare say, lip and talk
safety, will never take the place of
safety devices to protect life and
limb. Hoping this letter will be re
ceived in the spirit it is intended for
the protection of human life and
limb.
THOMAS S. HERRON.
Your’e Telling
Me?
Black snakes, says an editorial in
a Cincinnati, 0., newspaper, will chase
all roaches from a house. But will
they drive out relatives, too.
* * •
The snakes are harmless to
humans, all right, but somehow
we can’t thrill to the idea of
waking up each morning wearing
one for a necklace.
* * *
Home-loving insects are bad but
we prefer them to reptiles which
might develop the habit of convert
ing your favorite bedroom slippers
into snug lower berths.
* * *
If you insist on having one of
these streamlined creations never
let them out for an airing on the
front lawn. He’ll turn out to be
just another snake In the grass.
• * *
A black snake, say zoologists, Is
very friendly and enjoys having his
back stroked. That’s fine but which
side of a snake is his back?
* t •
Serpents are by nature affec
tionate—we once read in a book.
That explains why boa constric
tors are always trying to hug
' somebody.
THE MASTER OF CEREMONIES!
" #
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
IS LEWIS READY
Or Did Steel Companies Rush Issue
IN LABOR TEST?
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer)
Eyes now turn upon John L. Lewis.
The president of the United Mine
Workers of America, the leader in
the industrial union movement in
America, is being forced into battle
by the steel com panes sooner than
he had anticipated. The companies
know that he is a powerful foe.
Lewis, it is seen, will amalgamate
labor as It never has been previously.
But labor can be defeated if farm
ers and small shopkeepers turn
against it. Or, rather, if those groups
can be led into opposition by other
movements.
Thus, Lewis and his lieutenants
cannot help but see in the Coughlin
Union for Social Justice a movement
designed to defeat and nullify the
objectives of the industrial unionists.
A surprise may occur. The Cough-
Unites may turn to the support of
Lewis. But that is improbable.
Lewis and his followers are for
President Roosevelt, whom the Cough-
Unites oppose.
.Lewis, presumably, will have as his
opposition not only the large corpo
rations, but many of the small shop
keepers, professional men and farm
ers who constitute the membership of
the Union for Social Justice.
That was found true by labor
abroad, concerning such groups. Thus
the constant cry of the unions to
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their members to beware of fascism
coming on them unawares. Fascism
does not tolerate labor unions.
• • •
For F. D. R.? 6
The forcing of the unionization is
sue now by the steel companies proh>
ably will embarrass Mr .Roosevelt.
The Republicans will seize upon the
strife as an Indication of “unrest”
under Mr. Roosevelt. The Republic
ans may go even further—they may
try to intimate to the farmers that
labor is getting more than Its share.
But that is dangerous. For Mr.
Roosevelt might make one of his
speeches denouncing the raising of
prejudices and sectionalism, In order
to defeat the common goo
* * *
Suppose This
Suppose, however, that Mr. Lewis
organizes the farmers as ue has or
ganized the workers. Suppose he
creates a “common fro:**,” as he
French workers and peasants have
created one. Then the reforms sought
by workers and farmer would become
national issues.
The gauge of battle thrown down
by the steel companies may lead to
more than they foresee. Undoubtedly,
however, they have reckoned their
own strength, and the strength of the
forces they believe will be with them.
And they may deem It wiser to tempt
fare now rather to permit fate to
overtake them.
The issues at stake are grave ones,
for every citizen. .
» • *
A Labor Party
If labor finally believes that many
groups have organized against it, then
it may be driven to organize a labor
party immediately. And it would be
a labor party that would hold out its
hands to the farmers, a party that
would trade favors readily between
worker and farmer.
Labor, however, suffered a severe
setback toward organizing a party
when It permitted Father Coughlin
to get into the field first with his
Union for Social Justice and Union
party. It may be difficult for the La
borites to explain to workers and
farmers that the Union party does
not stand for the same thing as the
Laborites, that there is a difference,
and wholly dissimilar fundamentals.
The Grah Bag
One-Minute Test
1. Give the proper name of the in
stitution known as M. I. T.
2. With what sport are the follow
ing terms associated: lunge, button,
thrust, parry, tierce?
3. What is a pravenu?
Hints on Etiquette
When there are others present,
never direct your conversation to any
one person in the group for a long
period. Always discuss something that
might interest the entire gathering.
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE
DEMOCRATS HARMED .
Because of Dullness and Smith Incident
BY THEIR CONVENTION?
central Press, Washinton Bureau,
1900 S street.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 3ln retro
spect:
The Republican convention began
rather glumly but ended in tolerably
good spirits.
The Democratic convention opened
up with a wild burst of enthusiasm
and adjourned somewhat bored and
weary. President Roosevelt’s accept
ance speech served to put a deal of
life back into the* Democratic situa
tion, but the convention itself fraz
zled out, whereas the G. O. P. gath
ering worked up to a climax.
The Democrats spread their show
out too long: that is the truth of the
matter. All hands grew tired of it.
If there had been any excuse for
nearly a week of proceedings it would
have been all right, but there wasn’t.
• * *
Smith Banner Episode
The Philadelphia convention man
agement also made a mistake in its
handling of the attempted A1 Smith
demonstration on the third night of
the affair.
If A1 had a few partisans in the
convention hall, why, after all, had
not they a right to “holler” for him?
They could have been pooh-poohed a
deal more tellingly 'than to be given
the “bum’s rush” off the premises.
Considering that the formerly Hap
py Warrior was regarded as a suit
able Democratic candidate for presi
dent in 1928 it looked slightly queer
to see part of a gallery full of folk
booted out of a Democratic conven
tion for yeling for him.
It was much as it would have been
if the Landonites had given the im
pression that they were afraid of for
mer President Hoover when he ap
peared in Cleveland.
* * *
Taken Too Seriously
That is to say, the Rooseveltians
should have given three rousing
cheers, in memoroum, for Al, when
his name was mentioned. That would
have pulled his stinger.
Instead, they made what need not
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK, July 3—The New
York penthouse or roof apartment
seems to be going through a new
phase with the shifting tastes of the
people who dwell in them. Once the
costly sky bungalows were planted
with sod over stone floors and the
English type of shrubbery prevailed
on the terraces—privets and cedars
and boxwoods.
Now the trend is toward truck
gardening. I spent an evening not
long ago with a group of Manhattan
ites who remember the country only
from childhood and the conversation
was almost wholly devoted to the
technique of pinching tomato plants
to make them bear. The head of the
family comes home each P. M. to don
overalls and a straw hat and come
to grips with the truckgarden on his
100 square feet of roof terrace. He
figures that this year he will be able
to produce tomatoes much more
cheaply. They will only cost him to
grow, about SI.OO each. His radishes
reach maturity at an estimated ex
penditure of 20 cents each. So it
goes.
*4 * *
Male bathers at the surrounding
beaches have dispensed with shirts
this year and the lady hitch-hikers of
the suburbs have adopted shorts and
tops as standard attire. The author
ities of neighboring hamlets have
surrendered in their fight against the
abbreviated costumes.
It is a curious fact, however, that
the gals who gallop about in these
nifty togs always weight 200 pounds
or 94. There is a distressing dearth
of in-betweeners.
* • •
This town’s Welfare Council wages
a year-round campaign in an effort
to convince bedazzled girls that New
York is not the promised Babylon of
glitter and easy glory they may be
lieve.
The welfare agencies are enlisting
aid of daily babblers like your re
porter (who of course earn a living
trying to convince the world that New
York is all shimmer and folderol).
Most of the youngsters gravitate
here seeking stage or radio berths.
The hardships they face and the dis
illusion they court are truly mon
strous. But despite the fact that it
is idiotic for any young girl to in
vade the big town without funds for
at least a year’s support in the kitty,
each beglamored damsel thinks she
will be the exception to the rule.
And every now and then up bobs
some one-in-a-million cutle to seize
the lion of fame by the tail and swing
him around her shoulder. These in
stances make it difficult for the wel
fare ladies to win converts to their
perfectly sound doctrine.
* * •
And speaking of fame for girls—
so many of the starlets in Holly
wood get that way because of some
real or fancied (on the part of a
director) resemblance to a person
ality already established. This seems
to me a silly procedure, particularly
in view of the yelps that are aways
coming out of the studios for new
faces.
Yet now and then the youngsters
get their break in spite of eyelashes
like Joan Crawford's or shoulder
blades which are the image of Merle
Oberon’s. Bonita Granville, aged 12,
and Marcia Mae Jones, aged 11,
whom you may remember from the
film, “These Three”, got their re
spective chances because they “re
sembled” Ann Harding in the first
instance and Dolores Costello Barry
more In the seoond.
have amounted to much into a, nasty
incident.
To be sre, their version is that
“Reprublican hoodlums” started the
rumpus.
It may be so ,but they cannot
prove It.
Anyway, It ought to have been
laughed off; not magnified into a
“riot” in the convention hall.
* * *
Mistakes Show Up
This Al Smith episode is one of
many hints that Democratic publicity
is deteriorating.
Or possibly it isn’t so much Demo
cratic deterioration as Republican
improvement, which makes Demo
cratic mistakes more noticeable.
Democratic Chairman James A. Far.
ley has made a number of them late
ly. Republican Chairman John D. M.
Hamilton has the news judgment to
take advantage of them —which his
predecessor, Henry D. Fletcher, did
not.
Democratic management could af
ford to make a few publicity mistakes
In Chairman Fletcher’s day: he did
not recognize them. It cannot afford
to do any blundering in opposition to
Chairman Hamilton; he Is a live pub
licity wire. Even when he cut him
self, shaving, and had to wear a piece
of sticking plaster on his chin at the
Cleveland convention, he publicized
It favorably.
♦ * *
Odds Narrowing
Briefly, following the conventions:
The odds remain pro-Roosevelt, but
not as “pro” as they were previously.
Six weeks ago I should have
thought 2-to-l a fair ration. Now they
tell me that profesional betting is
8-to-5 which seems reasonable. Some
say that the gamble will be even be
fore November. I doubt it.
But it will be more modtifying to
Roosevelt, if beaten, than to Landon.
To Landon, beaten, it wijl be a case
of hard luck only.
To Roosevelt it will mean—
“ Tried and found wanting.”
Not In the News
By WORTH CHENEY
Probably nothing is quite as annoy
ing, when you get right down and
analyze it, as snoring. Os course, if
you never have been in the position
of trying to get to sleep when some
one else is ripping his windpipe with
rattling snores, you may not be able
to share our opinion. But if you have,
we uefy you to name something more
disturbing.
Somehow or other, we have gained
the impression that fleshy people are
the best sleep grunters; that is. the.
loudest. This may not be so; prob
ably no one could give a good, sound
physiological reasoning for such a
tehory. We can’t. All we know is that
practically every obese person we ever
have had the pleasure to hear —yes,
hear—sleeping has been quite accom
plished in this er—universal art.
• • •
One of the better snorers to cross
our path was a Mr. Bard, a pot
bellied, waddling man who has been
getting better than 200 pounds worth
every time he spends a penny on the
scales. Although a quiet-spoken fel
low ,he has a snore that would fright
en a lion out of its rc r.
Not long ago, Mr. Bard, a traveling
salesman, was in a small Wisconsin
town and decided to take a train one
night for Chicago. Informed that the
Chicago train would pick up a sleep
ing car in the small town at an early
hour in the morning, B’ard arranged
to board it immediately so he would
be able to get a good night’s sleep
before his arrival in Chicago.
He had not been long when
he was rudely awakened by a rough
hand pushed through the curtain of
his berth. A voice in the aisle of the
car said gruffly:
“Say, fellow, perhaps you don’t
know it, but you’re keeping this
whole car awake by that foghorn of
yours. How ab ut cutting down the
steam?” •
A gentleman always, Mr. Bard
meekly agreed to try to stifle his
snores. But no sooner had his irri
tated caller departed than Bard was
asleep again, and pretty soon the
buzzsaw was sounding louder than
ever through the car.
Once more he was awakened by
the same hand, this time more vio
lently.
“Hey, guy, how do you expect us
to sleep with that kind of thunder
in our ears? If I had a snore like
that I'd cut my throat. How about
putting on the soft peddle?”
Again Bard promised to try to
muffle the throat Battles. Being
awakened twice so harshly did nob
please him any too much, but he
held his temper in view of the fact
that, after all. he was the cause oT
th: commotion.
• • •
Bub, when, after he had turned
over on his side and once more had
fallen deep in slumber* he was awak
ened a third time by a rough awak
ened a third time by a rough shaking
of his shoulder, he could control him
self no longer. He couldn’t help it if
he snored, could he? And whab right
had anyone to bother him so much.
So, with his dander up, he pushed
off the blanket and brushed the cur
tain aside. And meeting his angered
gaze in the aisle was not the pajama
clad passenger he had expected, but
the big, burly form of a uriformed
policeman.
“What’s oing on here?” demanded
the officre. “I got a report someone
was disturbing the peace in this car,
and I guess it must b# you.”
EDITOR'S NOTE: This syndicated
column welcomes contributions from
readers on subjects of human interest
assccated with personal experiences.
Address contributions to Worth
Cheney, In care of this paper.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Tress Association
Friday, July 3. “Dog days” begin.
46th anniversary of the admission to
the Union of Idaho, the 43rd State.
Turkeys Independence Day. The
earth is in aphelion, at its furtherest
point from the Sun, or 94,452,100
miles away—3,113,600 miles more
than when it was at perihelion, Janu
ary 4.
• * •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Ralph Barton Perry, b. 1876, au
thor of the 1936 Pulitzer prize win
ning biography “The Thought and
Character of William James.” . . .
Haakon, b. 1872, king of Norway . . .
A. Harry Moore, b. 1879, senator
from New Jersey . . . Richard B.
Bennett, b. 1870, prime minister of
Canada . . . Mrs. Ida B. W. Smith,
b. 1871, national W. C. T. U. leader.
• * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 3, 1754 —George Washington,
fighting for the British, surrendered.
The 400 men he commanded, chief
ly Virginians, were defeated and
forced to capitulate at Ft. Necessity,
in Pennsylvania, by French and In
di ans led by M. de Villiers.
Washington was so distressed over
his action that when he got back to
Virginia he offered his resignation
as colonel of Virginia militia to the
House of Burgesses.
On the 19th anniversary of his
Surrender, he took command of the
Continental Army to fight the Brit
ish.
* • •
July 3, 1898 —Captain Joshua Slo
cum sailed his 36-foot sloop The
Spray into Fairhaven.., Mass., where
h was built, and completed the first
circumnavigation of the globe ever
made by a ship with a crew of one.
The story of his trip still available
in popular priced book form, is one
of the most fascinating of maritime
chronicles.
July 3, 1898—The United States
Navy won its most notable victory by
defeating a fleet led by a man who
knew he would be beaten. Before
the battle of Santiago, Cuba, the
Spanish Admiral Cervera cabled his
superiors in Madrid’ that an engage
ment with the American fleet would
only result in slaughter of ships and
crew. That was what happened.
Down before the deadly fire of the
American fleet went six Spanish
ships, including the Vizcaya, which
had been in New York only a few
weeks before as a good will messen
ger.
• • •
WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today—The Russian
Duma gave, and it took away. It
passed a bill granting peasants full
rights of citizenship. It permannent
ly prohibited the sale of drink con
taining more than one and one-half
per cent of alcohol, which meant no
vodka. Both were war measures;
one to build morale, the other to
preserve it and grain. But Russia’s
reforms were beginning too late.
(To be continued).
ALL or US
I have a friend who goes to sleep
when she is bored.
If she is at the theater and does
not like what is on the stage, she
doesn’t fuss and fume and get into
a state of profound irritation.
Instead, she composes herself as
comfortably as she can in her seat
and quietly goes to sleep.
She wakes up refreshed and happy,
and does not go to sleep as early as
usual that night. . . . Instead, she
reads or works and has no regrets
over the hours she spent at a dis
appointing play.
If you ask her what she thought
of that performance, she politely re
plies that she went to sleep. . . .
And that’s a very complete dramatic
criticism, it seems to me. ... Be
cause if a play isn’t able to keep &
human being awake, it can’t amount
to much.
I can’t do that sort of thing. But
I wish I could.
When I’m bored it’s an active thing
like a raging fever. • . . When I’m
in a theater face to face with a pro
duction that’s silly, shallow, unreal
and worthless, my mind is at rattle
snakes’ nest buzzing and writhing. I
curse the day I was born and damn
the luck that brought me there. . . .
In other words. I can’t take it and
besides, my curiosity keeps me fas
tened in my seat, treacherously whis
pering that perhaps, just perhaps, the
next act will be worth seeing and I
might as well stay to the end.
My friend is much wiser. . . . For
her, if a thing is bad, it is bad and
It’s better to let ib go.
And she is like that In all her ways.
• . . She pushes boredom out of life
with the sweet alternative of sleep.
. . . She drives sorrows and pain
away, also. Illness envy and worry—
these find no place anywhere in her
heart. \ T o comer in her being Is set
aside for v.: tern ess, for resentful grief,
for agonized regret for the days that
are feone and will come no more on
this round earth.
And I wish that I could be more
like my wise and gentle friend.
Words of Wisdom
It isn’t the fact that you’re dead
that counts but only, how did you
die? —Edmund Vance Cook.
Today’s Horoscope
If your birthday is today you are
sometimes taken advantage of despite
your insight into men and things.
You may be deeply wounded by the
defection of a friend, but you do not
show it. Not many doors leading to a
deep understanding are closed to you.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. Massachusetts Institute of Tech
nology.
2. Fencing.
3. A person of obscure’ origin wh#
has gained wealth and position.