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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered aa Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Ofttce 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: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All 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 lmited to 100 words. The Savannah Dally 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: 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 Arizona eas-Tern rah.«ay KT \ enters V YUMA, ARIZ.ONA, -NND ISSUE FOR SAN Di EC|O, CALIFORNIA fc GERMANY .COPYRIGHT, 1936. CENTRAi PRES) ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 3, 1933 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.