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THE TENNESSEE REFORMATORY SCANDAL.
The public eye is focused on the floggings which have been
unearthed in a Tennessee reformatory. Brought to light by the
starting disclosures of neighborhood residents, and climaxed by
the grand jury indictments of six of the guards in the institu
tion, the case further broke in its entirety when the superintend
ant resigned, giving indications that he knew about the discipli
nary actions as administered by the guardians of the reform
school.
Certain disciplinary measures are necessary for the general
welfare and upbringing of any child. We all know that. But
to take a youngster and tie them to an upright and flog them un
mercifully with a lash calculated and designed to bring blood to
the surface of the skin, certainly is not intended as punishment
by any civilized community. The youngsters at the reformatory
in question, by a series of facts which have been brought to light
by an advance probe, have been subjected to numerous cruelties
which shows that their general welfare was not taken in consid
eration as wards of the state of Tennessee. Even though they
were boys committed to a reform institution for the purposes of
correction, should not be an excuse for the treatment so accorded
them in some instances. It would appear that the restoring of
any person or child to their rightful status as a true citizen by
bringing them to the full realization of their respective crimes
which was the reason of committment, by the use of harsh and
pre-medieval methods as used in the reformatory in question
would hark back to the days when the relation of lord and vas
sal was the predominating factor in every-day life.
We are indeed fortunate to be able to ascertain the use of
such measures before they gain a foothold in a place of commit
ment. We deplore the fact that there are such men in the world
.who have been given the positions of caretakers for the over
seeing in houses of correction. Such persons certainly should not
be allowed a place in the annals of advanced American reform
methods. The institutions of correction in the United States has
certainly marched along to occupy a high seat in the world, per
taining to the punishment of those people who break the laws of
civilized mankind. After all, such institutions are to be empha
sized as a integral function of any government to help restore
those unfortunates who were the hapless victims of runnig afoul
the laws of the country, to the full responsibility of their posi
tion as cogs in the huge machine which is to move our nation
forward.
k i NOT--In the News
• • • * * •
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By WORTH CHENEY
HUMAN NATURE has many queer
■facets, and one is the mania of for
getfulness. Some husband.-, invariably
forget anniversaries, some wives are
forever forgetting to press trousers,
and the proverbial umbrella is always
being left akr the neighbor's at the
wrong time.
A friend of ours so afflicted has a
propensity for forgetting his hat.
Never yet has he gone on a trip and
returned with the same hat. He sel
dom loses anything else, but simply
cannot hang onto his headgear.
RECENTLY this friend took a trip
to Norris Dam. He managed to get
to his destination with the same hat.
and. to his delignt, he noticed it was
still in his possession while they were
en route to his home in Cincinnati.
In the upper portion of Kentucky
he and his party stopped in a small
town to dine. They ate in a small
but comfortable restaurant in the
town, then returned to their auto
mobile and hurried on toward Cin
cinnati. But. as they were passing
over the Ohio river bridge leading
from Covington into Cincinnati, our
friend made the rather startling and
k disappointing discovery that his hat
was missing. To his utter disgust, he
realized that he was keeping his re
( cord clear by not having the same
hat with which he started out when
he atnved home.
The distance was too far to go
back, but he felt he should do some
thing about the hat.
SO, UPON arriving home lie wrote
a letter, addressing it to the postal
I agent of the Kentucky town in which
“ they had stopped for a meal. Not
knowing the name of the restaurant
but remembering that a dry goods
shop had stood next to it, he explain
ed to the agent Just where on Main
street he thought it was. Among the
details he mentioned was the fact
that the shop also carried a line of
women’s hats and that one particular
-1 ’ ly large, black chapeau, decorated with
M a guady ribbon and a pair of owl's
■ wings, had augmented the window
■ display.
Enclosing two dollars and asking
■ the agent to send his lost hat back
■ to him, he mailed the letter, fairly
• 1 | certain of the arrival of his panama
A quiet week parsed and then one
M day a conspicuously large but light
pockage arrived at his home by par
cel post.
In anticipation of having his hat
again, he hurriedly removed he
wrappings. But inside, surrounded by
crumpled balls of tissue paper was,
not the panama, but the large black
chapeau with the owl’s wings.
In an envelope underneath the hat
he found a note. It read:
“DEAR MISTER:
"Yours of the 10th instant receiv
ed. The hat cost $1.98 but the lady
in the store lowered the price sos
we'd have enough of the two dollars
you sent to mail the hat. I hope your
wife likes it."
(Signed) “CLEM FORREST.”
* ♦ ♦
One of the most interesting char
acters we have met is a young man
who is employed by one of those mer
chant bureaus which make it their
business to keep retail stores operat
ing on an ethical basis and stamp
out counterfeit enterprises and “wild
cat" schemes.
Matt's work is in the nature of that
of a detective. He is an investigator
of rackets, of illegitimate ventures to
dupe the public, and of attempts to
hoodwink business men with fake
benevolent purposes and investments.
Actually, he is a protector of the gul
lible and the "easy mark.”
It is interesting to hear Matt tell
of the incredible experiences he has
encountered in his work, of the ri
diculous schemes that have been de
vised to rob the hapless and unwary.
He relates, as an actual fact, the sale
of a high suspension bridge in Cleve
land by a suave “city slicker” to a
country visitor for ssoo—another ver
sion of the gold brick purchase. The
buyer in this case was swayed by the
prospect of making a toll-bridge out
of the city-owned span. He also tells
of the man who actually paid $lO,-
000 for the exclusive fishing rights on
the Ohio shores of Lake Erie.
As the result of this type of en
deavor, Matt has acquired something
of a sixth sense: a strong suspicion
of every type of business enterprise
that hasn't been tried and tested for
legitimacy. He is a human ferret of
shady deals, and might well boast
that he can smell a swindler a mile
off.
One of the longest railway bridges
in the world is the 33 span structure
across the Zambezi river in Portu
guese East Africa. It was erected at
a cost of more than $10,000,000.
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ULTRA-CONSERVATIVES
Looking Over The Political Field
WONDER WHERE TO GO
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 4—Ultra con
servative folk find themselves with
practically no place to go as the presi
dential campaign opens up.
No party offers them what would
have been considered a stand-pat pro
gram as recently a sfour years ago.
The extremely radical group, like the
Communists and the slightly milder
Socialists, of course, are anathema to
them. The Lemeke-ites don't suit
them much better.
The Democrats are much too far
to the leftward for them. And even
the Republicans show signs of lib
erality that shock all Bourbons and
all Old Guardsmen.
* • *
Are They 100 Per Cent?
Now, I am not sure that the con
servative leaders’ leftward trend is
genuinely as pronounced as their talk
implies.
Gov. Alfred M. Landon, for exam
ple, may have his fingers crossed
when he suggests tinkering with the
United States constitution. And I have
my doubts that President Roosevelt,
a hereditary aristocrat, is as truly
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liberal as his acceptance speech in
dicated.
Nevertheless, if they mean what
they say, neither one is as conserva
tive as such a 100 per cent rightist
as Al Suoth or Lammot (not La
mont) duPont should desire.
* • •
Liberals Have Choice
A radical voter has got some lati
tude for voice.
If Landon is too conservative for
him, h? can drift leftward to Roose
velt. If Roosevelt is still too conserva
tive, he can go on to Lemke.
If Lemke isn’t advanced enough, he
can go on to Norman Thomas or
Earle Browder.
But a conservative?
Landon is the most conservative
candidate in the field and he is not
very conservative.
* « •
On A Limb
So for whom can the old-time con
servative vote? The old-time liberal
party is radical. The old-time radicals
are as radical as ever thev were—So
cialists, Communists, Anarchists,
whatever you please.
No party remains for the conserva
tives at all as I see it.
A Canadian iVew
I asked a Canadian correspondent:
“What was .his opinion of the two
conventions?”
“Well.” he said, “the Democrats’
boiling point is lower than the Repub
licans.” They begin to scream and
yell sooner than the Republicans do.
“But the sooner the pot boils over
the sooner the ebullition ends.”
♦ ♦ ♦
Saved by F. D. R. Speech
The Republican convention then
ended with a crescendo.
The Democrats wound up with an
anti-climax. That is to say, it would
have done so except for President
Roosevelt's masterful speech at its
conclusion.
That speech took much of the
curse from what would otherwise
have been a fit fizzle.
WORDS OF WISDOM
Money is like muck, not good ex
cept it be spread.—Bacon.
TODAY'S HOROSCOPE
If you were born on this day, your
aims are usually high, and you have
a fair measure qf curiosity. You are
apt to be shrewd and have a love for
music.
Between 1541 and 1682, approxi
mately 130 so-called witches were ex
ecuted in England. Some were burned
at the stake and others were be
headed.
The Russian Soviet anthem, the In
ternationale, was written by two
Frenchmen who were never in Rus
sia and weren't Communists.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WILL ENGLAND ESCAPE
In Its Supposed Tory Isolation
LEFT, RIGHT SWEEP?
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CAN ENGLAND escape the leftist
and rightist movements that have
swept the remainder of Europs?
Votes of confidence by a Tory par
liament in a Tory government do not
signify confidence of the people.
England’s government is more uncer
tain today than in years.
Movements do not stop at a nar
row body of water like the English
channel. Movements do not even’ stop
at oceans.
Which direction will England go?
♦ ♦ *
Will Fascism Die?
Obserers believe fascism may spread
for a while yet. Then, they expect
to see it collapse of its own sins.
But man lives through a terror in
the meantime.
Democracy is expected .to conquer.
Democracy moves more slowly, with
severe toil—and severe toll.
Once upon a time, it leaped across
an ocean, from America to France,
to bring a revolution.
A few years later American Tories
mere fearful the newer democracy
would sweep back into the United
States.
So it goes.
* * •
A New Constitution
The Roosevelt administration is be
lieved to be secretly worried over the
rise of intolerance in the United
Floggings of labor organizers, lack
of punishment for the perpetrators
refusal of free speech for such or
ganizes of both workers and tenant
farmers respeak the m Idle ages.
Fear is expressed too that many
injustices will be inflicted on workers
in steel-controlled communities m
the battle between the steel corpora
tions and unions.
An added outgrowth will be the
rise of fanatics taking what they
deem moral laws into their own hands.
Such a band already has arisen in
North Carolina, and it has perpet
rated floggings.
MyNew York
By
James As well
NEW YORK. July 4.—Balancing
the Books: I like New York because
of Fifth Avenue and 57th street,
where all the prettiest ladies parade
of a summer afternoon and I say
‘•Ugh!” at the thought of Broadway
and 47th Street, where all the least
attractive gals promenade . . . Man
hattan is agreeable because of the
presence In it of people like George
M. Cohan and I am made slightly
fidgety by the presence of people like
Elsa Maxwell. . . . The town stirs
and excites me because of plays like
•The Front Page” and ‘ The Chil
dren's Hour”; I am bored and dis
tressed by plays like ‘‘Triple A
Plowed Under and the concoctions of
Mr. Noel Coward. . . . Chinatown,
for all its manufactured melodrama
and tourist catch pennies, remains a
section of strange and ineffable glam
our, while I never, after the first
month, reacted to the touted and arty
charm of Greenwich Village . . .
I like New York because of the kids
who dance on the Mall in Central
Park of summer nights and I get
creepy when I view the tired-eyed
debbies going into a musical crouch
on the dance floors of the 00-la-la
oases ... No place in the world is
more comfortingly lonely than the
crowded main reading rooms of the
New York Public Library and no
place in the world is more coldly
lonely than the reception rooms of
big broadcasting studios . . . This
city is worth all discomforts wnen it
makes you feel the bite of its gran
deur at dusk on a Staten Island fer
ry boat; it is darkly revqlting, past
al sv.fefrance, when it makes you feel
the sullen crowd-minded in a subway
crush. . . .
I like New York because of the
heart-twitching courtesy of blind
news dealers and I despise New York
for jostling pickets who monopolize
sidewalks which used to be public
thoroughfares . . . The town yields
a warming wallop out of the custo
mary good behavior of its crowds at
sporting events and yields a blush of
shame for the customary behavior of
its motorists. ... I like New York
cops and firemen and taxi drivers,
on the whole, and I dislike New York
politicians, theater box-office czars
and theatrical first nighters, on the
whole. . . . Manhattan has the
pleasantest pin-neat restaurants, ease
and west of Fifth Avenue in the
Fifties, with foods French and Scan
dinavian and many of the more exo
tic nationalities; and the Manhattan
has some of the goofiest tea shoppes
and most poisonous dinettes where
the prices should bespeak excellent
chow but don’t ... I praise the
town for its genuine actresses like
Katharine Cornell and I deplore it
for its rash of torch singe. s like—
well, run over the list.
♦ * »
One for the cross-file; there is a
N»w York Stock Exchange page boy
nobody knows by any other name
than Abba Dabba who is getting
rich by contracting with all the
financiers to supply them with dark
pink carnations for their lapels. He
charges $1 a week for the service and
I hear he has 200 customers.
• • •
Now begins the season of the sky
writers and a little-known drama goes
on every morning after dawn when
the aerial advertisers call the Weath
er Bureau to learn what the tempera
ture and consistency of the upper at
mosphere will be. So many of them
called last year that Dr. Kimball, an
acquaintance of his reports, has com
manded his weather wizards to make
a special study of the high air.
Black Legions and White Legions
and all sorts of additional secret or."
ganizations may spring up to terror
ize, turning civilization back to the
dark ages.
• * •
Labor Case
Here is the announcement of a
labor case appealed to the U. S. su
preme court by the General Defense
Committee (of workers to the left
cf the American Federation of Lab
or). The case is considered an im.
pertant one by both sides. Here is
the General Defense Committee’s
side:
“Mike Lind way worked his way
from the coal mines to the position
of master mechanic in Cleveland’s
National Screw & Mfg. Co.
“He also worked his way into the
hearts and confidence of his fellow
workers.
‘‘The company held him largely
responsible for the organization of
the plant by Metal & Machinery
Workers’ Industrial union No. 440 of
the I. W. W. When the employes
struck in February, 1935, to force the
company to adhere to its promise of
a wage increase. Lieutenant Glock
enr of the ‘vandal squad’, personally
interested in the company, set out
to ‘get Mike.’
‘‘When Mike was away from home,
the ‘vandal squad’ entered his home
without a warrant, and with no wit
nesses present proceeded to find a
number of dynamite bombs. Full
page ads paid for by the Associated
Industries ,and front page streamers
obligingly contributed by the pub
lishers, speedily convicted Mike des
pite the protests of the General De
fense Committee that the ‘evidence
was not evidence at all, for it could
readily have been—and we believe
was—planted.
“The Ohio court of appeals agreed
that such evidence could not be ac
cepted in court, and Mike left the
penitentiary to go home to his wife.
The Ohio supreme court, directly con
tradicting its previous decisions m
numerous bootleg cases, and openly
declaring that the search and seizure
provisions of the federal constitution
did not apply to Ohio officers, sent
Mike back to the penitentiary.
“Now to prevent this injustice, and,
more important to make sure that
planted evidence cannot be used to
frame labor organizers and union
men, we are appealing this case to
the supreme court of the United
States.”
The prosecution of course, asserts
the evidence was’ not planted. It
looks for the supreme court to up
hold the conviction.
Your’e Telling
Me?
OUR COUNTRY has not suffered a
disastrous invasion for nearly 125
years—except, of course, the annual
one by flower-picking, forest-fire
staring picnickers and tourists.
♦ ♦ ♦
The next time you feel like
getting mad at a traffic cop ask
yourself this question: Would
you swap jobs with him?
♦ ♦ ♦
The quaintly named hamlet, Tam
azunchale on the new highway from
Texas to Mexico City, has already
been renamed “Thomas and Charlie”
by slang loving tourists. Just another
p~ool of our civilizing touch.
♦ ♦ ♦
Not until election day do many
politicians learn that their speeches
which they thought made history,
only made fools of themselves.
• * «
Don't beat a dog because he
chews your bedroom slippers.
What other creature human or
otherwise, thinks enough of you
to try to eat your shoes?
♦ ♦ ♦
Thirteen candidates seek the con
gressional seat of Congressman Zion
check. That number means more
bad luck, we fear, for the fun-loving
lawmaker.
* « «
The loudest noise ever heard, ac
cording to scientists, was a volcanic
explosion on the isle of Krakatoa. It
was heard 1,400 miles away, beating
the record, by 350 miles, of the 1936
political convention.
• • •
Man is completely the lord of
creation. He gives picnics of
which the ants get the greatest
benefit.
• ♦ •
Haile Selassie is now discovering
just how unimportant even a King
of Kings may become—when he’s
out of office.
• • •
Those European. dictators who
are saying that liberty is silly
and foolish are lucky. They’ll
never know what the historians
of the future will say about
THEM.
♦ • •
While discussing amendments to
the Constitution, how about one elim
inating hill billy bands and singers
from the radio?
• » ♦
One of life's little ironies is to
spend a year's savings for a trip
on the Queen Mary, greatest of
ocean liners, and then have to
stand on deck and watch the
Hindenburg speed by overhead.
• • •
That strange silence you have no
ticed the last several days is easily
explained. All the political candi
dates have been nominated.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
IV Sunday after Trinity, July 5;
Independence Day in Venezuela. Zo
diac sign: Cancer. Birthstone: Ruby.
* « *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Edouard Herriot, b. 1872, French
statesman who doesn't resign M
mayor of his home town when he is
called to be cabinet minister or pre
mire . . - Frederick Lewis Allen, b.
1890, popular historian —Only Yes
terday, . . . Dwight Davis, b. 1880,
ex-secretary of war and donor of the
Davis Cup, symbol of world tennis
supremacy. . . . Andre E. Douglass,
b. 1867, astronomer-director of Uni
versity of Arizona world renowned
observatory . . . Wilfam J. Hutch
ings, b. 1871, president of Berea Col
lege and father of University of Chi
cago's president . . .
• * *
July 5, 1801—David Glasgow Far
ragut was bom at Campbell’s Station,
near Knoxville, Tenn. He was only
12 years old when he commanded a
vessel for the U. S.- Navy. A mid
shipman aboard the U. S. S. Essex in
the War of 1812, he was placed
aboard a British ship captured in the
Pacific as prize-master. When h»
gave his first order, the captain flew
into a violent rage, declared he “had
no idea of trusting himself to a
damned nutshell,” and went below
for his pistols. Whereupon Farragut
assumed complete command, had
his orders obeyed, notified the cap
tain that if he came on deck he
would be thrown overboard, and was
thenceforth master of the ship,
which he took into Valparaiso.
• • *
July 5, 1810—Phineas Taylor Bar
num was bom in Bethel. Conn., with
a future as the world’s gVatest show
man. At 19 he was editor of a news
paper in Danbury, Conn., aVI great
er than any of his triumphs as show
man was his ambition to be a great
publisher and writer. He poured
profits of his museum and exhibi
tions into the nation's first ilustrat
ed weekly. It didn't develop into a
success for him, but it did for his
foreman, Frank Leslie, with whom
he had imbued the idea.
• • •
125 Years Ago Today—Simon Bo
livar, 28, started the war of indepen
dence in Venezuela, first of the
Spanish colonies in America to throw
off the yoke. Later Bolivar was to
win the freedom of Colombia, Ecua
dor and Peru, and inspired Argen
tina and other countries to revolt.
Upper Peru became a separate na
tion and was named Bolivia in his
honor. Venezuela whose liberty he
won, drove him out, and he died un
wanted by any of the other countries
he had made free.
• • •
WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
July 4-5, 1916—Germans captured
Thiaumont, at Verdon, for the
fourth time, after it had been in
French hands less than a week. No
point changed hands as many times
during the war as this bit of terri
tory, and holding it was never of any
advantage to either side.
(To be continued)
ALL OF US
‘‘BE ON MY SIDE”
1 SAY TO my friend: “Be on my
side. In this battle I am fighting,
stand with me. Love my other
friends. Hate my enemies. Believe
as I do. Strike when I strike. Fall
when I fall."
What blind, dull, idiotic nonsense!
To ask so much of a friend! To
ask him to be, not himself, but me!
... Do I love myself so profuondly.
so abjectly, that I must convert even
friendship into myself?
What, then should I say to my
friend if I may not ask him to be
wholly on my side in whatever I am
doing? ... Is friendship something
else than this, something more, some
thing less? Is it not ‘‘twinship ’'
identically?
No, it is not . . . My friend may
be audacious, I cautious. I may be
careless, he precise ... He may be
dreamy, I bound for action. I may
be hot-tempered, he of a sweetness
that passes understanding . . . And
yet we may be true and lasting
friends.
My spirit brightens when I come
upon him. I know he is glad when
he encounters me. Somehow in this
mass, in this odd procession of man
kind, we have met. shaken hands,
understood each other. He has
friends who are friends of mine. And
I may have friends who would be
alien to him and his thoughts. .
Nor is it even necessary that wt
should share everything that is In
our hearts. He does not want all of
me, nor I all of him. We are two
human beings with a-boundary wall
between us and we respect that
boundary that is the edge of our per
sonalities.
When I call to my friend. "Be on
my side!” and cry “treason” if he
coes not yield himself unquestion
ingly I am a fool and unworthy of
his friendship, of his love . . . And
I am forgetting that my friend
WOULD be on my side, whatever
happens, whatever I do . . . That is
our friendship.
The Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. Back Bay Is a part of what Amer
lean city?
2. Where is the Sistine chapels
3. What is an abacus?
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
Social calls should never be made
during business hours. If your visit
is important make it as' brief J
possible •
ONE MIM TE TEST ANSWERS
1. Boston.
2 In the Vatican, at Rome.
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sliding on rods. *