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INDUSTRIALISM.
Evidence that the South is advancing by leaps and bounds
in the sphere of industrial development has been accentuated
by the reports as carried in the Manufacturer’s Record that con
tracts for building, engineering and construction jobs in the first
six moths of the year totalled $423,355,000, which is an increase
of 80 per cent, over last year.
An unprecendented gain of 187 per cent, over the first half
of last year, gave industrial construction the leadership over all
other types of classification. Industrial construction alone has
totalled more than $125,486,000. It appears that the South is
coming into her own, by the huge expenditures given to the use
of detailed construction projects. Right here in our own city,
we have felt the guiding hand of American business with the
huge plant of the Union Paper and Bag Corporation, ready for
the opening day’s run. Capital the world over is turning its
head towards the South and its undeveloped resources of natural
energy. Eastern corporations are beginning to locate within the
Southern sphere, as they realize that undreamed sources of un
tapped industrial virginity are on hand waiting for exploitation
by large and influential corporations and firms. Even as late as
the month of June, there was the letting of the $5,000,000 paper
pulp mill at Charleston, S. C., by the West Virginia Pulp and
Paper Company of New York.
The paper industry alone is credited with the outlay of
$40,000,000 for the construction of new plants This is a tremen
dous development in the Southern states, and leading business
critics emphasize the fact that the opening of the doors for ad
vanced industrialism has already started with the ultimate goal
of advancing the South to an enviable position.
The Record commented:
“The new industrial enterprises and expansion pro
grams of established industries dot the territory from Mary
land to Texas and cover a side range of activities, providing
employment for skilled workmen in practically all lines of
endeavor, turning out products that, when listed, catalog
the needs of modern man, and creating a demand for build
ing materials and plant equipment turned out by factories
throughout the nation. For the South is not only producin'
heavily, it is buying in greater volume than ever before.”
In view of the above statement, there is one known fact
which occupies the mind of every person in the South. “We’re
coming to the top and coming there fast!”
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Editor The Daily Times:
The movies in this city during the
summer are far below par. In fact,
NOT—In the News
•«• * • •
COPYRIGHT, CENTRA L PRESS ASSOCIATION
By WORTH CHENEY
VIRGINIA LEE, famous writer for ,
Central Press association on love and ’
marital problems, relays this nifty:
A gms widow, just divorced, was |
mourning her plight after the finan- j
cial settlement that had been made. ;
“Just my luck!” she pouted. “I
got stuck with the house and HE
got the car!”
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FORGETTING anniversaries seems
to be a popular pastime with hus
bands. Some hubbies get away with
overlooking an Easter corsage, even a
birthday present but show us a wife
who wont flare and battle if the wed
ding anniversary has been forgotten.
George Breckett, a Canadian reader,
was one of the multitude of husbands
who just could not keep in mind the
date when he and the Mrs. walked
down the aisle together. Oh! once in
a few years he would remember it in
time, but generally he thought about
it a day afterward.
On their tenth anniversary, George
forgot it again. That evening, when
he came home, his wife was peevish
and pouting, and it was some time
before George could find out why.
Os course, it was because he had for
gotten the anniversary again, so
George decided to do something about
it.
The next day he went to a nearby
floral shop and told Its owned:
“Now look! I want to leave a
standing order for a big bunch of
roses to be sent to my wife every
year. You don’t have to contact me
first; just send them to her, and
then send me the bill.”
“Okay”, said the florist, and every
thing was arranged.
Days passed weeks passed and
months passed, and George of course,
forgot all about jnaking his little
arrangement with the florist.
they are nowhere near it. If the
managers of local theaters want a
tip from an all-year resident, here it '
is. Get at least a few good pictures
in the summer, if you can not main
tain the same grade of films as dur
Ing the winter season. The year
’round folks deserve some kind of
break, even if they have to be sat- |
isfied with fewer quality pictures.
There is no reason for deluging them
with a bunch of third rate stuff. You
might find that such a policy will
attract more patrons during the off
months.
A MOVIE FAN.
So, upon his arrival home one even
’ ing he was greeted with a fond kiss
i and a hug by his wife.
I “You dear,” she cooed, “thanks so
i much for the lovely flowers.”
Poor George was dumfounded.
“Er—er what flowers?” he asked.
I Your’e Telling
| Me?
AMONG OTHER overabundant
crops the New Dealers would like to
plow under are, undoubtedly, the Re
publicans.
• • •
We can’t wait until television
is here. Then horw sore the
neighbors will be when they can
not keep us awake after midnight
by tuning in their pictures.
« « •
The office Democrat insists that
maybe the reason Al Smith decided
to take a walk was because he suf
fered from cold feet.
« • •
“St. Louis Browns American
league tail-enders, need pitching,’’
says a sport story. And batting
and fielding and —most important
of all—fans.
• « •
Radio announcer’s wife sues
for divorce because he never
showed enthusiasm over their
home, her meals and the like.
No wonder —the poor fellow could
not talk shop all the time.
♦ • ■
When an unpopular candidate be
gins to hand out campaign cigars his
motives are obvious —he’s ju<t laymg
down a smoke screen.
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DROUTH, FARM WOES
Usually Blamed on Administration
MAY AID DEMOCRATS
(Central Press, Washington (Bureau,
1900 S Street)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 7.—Generally
v crop failure is held, in the agricul
ural states, against the dnrnistra
cion in power in Washington at the
cime it occurs. Os course the adminis
tration isn’t to blame for the weather
and the insects that destroy crops.
Nevertheless, it usually has been
blamed heretofore.
This year, however, the Democratic
ticket seems likely to profit from
drouth, duststorms and grasshoppers
in the west.
Democrats think so and many Re
publicans are afraid of it.
• • •
Grateful Fanners
If the stricken areas were to be
left to their fate, as in the past, un
doubtedly they would be as resentful
as ever before.
But this time farm relief is to be
dispensed liberally.
The afflicted farmers, then, pre
sumably- will be grateful to the re
gime which has helped them —the
Roosevelt regime. The Landonites
may rejoin that they would have
done the same thing, but they will
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not be able to say that they DID IT.
* • •
Soil Conservation
Roosevelt preachings in favor of goil
conservation also are much to the
point in connection with duststorms.
The president’s contention that
American land has been misused has
a deal of merit. Some of his economic
theories may be open to formidable
attack, but there’s no question as to
the validity of his assertion that, in
wide areas, the soil has been sys
tematically robbed.
He’s in an excellent position to say,
“I told you go,” and to reason that a
reclamation policy is of major im
portance.
• * •
Farmer Roosevelt
Say what one will of Franklin D.
Roosevelt’s economics, it’s undeniable
that he’s a highly scientific farmer.
H? knows what land should be
planted to crops, what land should be
left to forage, what land should be
kept afforested. He understands drain
age and problems of waterfall and
erosion.
All this erudition should commend
him to the middle west.
It is doubtful that Governor Lan
don, the Kansan, is as deeply and
broadly acquainted with agriculture’s
puzzles as is this suburban New
Yorker.
• • •
Labor Troubles
Labor troubles, which are a-brew
ing, are in President Roosevelt’s
favor.
The steel industry is on the verge
of a fight to prevent in the industrial
• unionization of its workers. Other
industries promise to be involved,
notably rubber and aluminum.
It is a contest which promises to
. “break” soon.
President Roosevelt’s attitude is
■ “pro” industrial unionization.
; The employers have much financial
i strength against him, but the em
. j ployes have voting strength. They are
> on his side, and have so declared
L themselves.
* * *
Middle Class
Between capital (which hasn’t many
• votes but a lot of influence), the
farmers and the urban workers, is an
enormous middle class.
How it will view the situation is any
man’s guess.
Roosevelt won’t get many of cap
ital’s votes—but it hasn’t many.
He probably will get most of la
i bor’s; there’s a dissenting element,
i but it shouldn’t be comparatively
I large.
I think the middle class, like me,
is suspicious of him; we think he’s
inflationary—will boost our living
I costs without increasing our incomes.
And there are th? farmers.
Finally, there is the middle class—
I half urban, half rural.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
BOYS ARE “REFORMED”
In More Than One Reformatory
WITH LASH, TORTURE
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Conditions disclosed in the Tennes
see Agricultural and Training School
for Boys near Nashville are believed
also to exist elsewhere in the United
States.
Sadistic, barbaric rule prevails in
more than one “reformatory.” Just
what causes man to believe that by
sending youth to these horrible insti
tutions they will be reformed is a
mystery. Youth, once there learns
merely of the cruelty of man, learns
of crime, learns of immorality—and
comes out either hardened criminals,
determined to revenge this unjust
world, or men broken and unfit for
the world.
Grand jury testimony in Nashville
w’as repete with descriptions of
drunken guards torturin ghelpless
boys.
Mrs. Mollie B. Stone, for 18
months a matron at the reformatory,
told of brutal punishment meted out
to the inmates by guards and of
drinking parties.
She added, “There wasn’t any need
of treating the boys like that. If
you were kind to them, they would
die for you.’
One boy— perhaps more—did plead
for death when the lash fell 95
times on his back. Officials put slits
into their clothing co that ;he bare
backs of the boys could be uncovered
quicker for the beatings.
The former ■ matron asserted, “Ire
got two boys of my own, and I’d
rather folow them to the grave than
see them go out there (to the refor
matory).”
But the boys “out there”—many
sent for minor offeases —could not
get away from the horror and the
t< rtuie.
They were punished for things
that the guards themselves stole, ac
cording to testimony. They were
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso
ciation)
NEW YORK, July 7.—Hush and
Hullabaloo: A blaze of sartorial glory
in a Fifth Avenue shop halted me
recently and I went in to belabor a
sleek, adenoidal salesman with fool
ish queries. ... He swears that the
King of England is nobody any more
as far as the Brummels of the town
are concerned; he isn’t the fashion
dictator he used to be as Prince of
Wales. • . . Now, believe it or not,
Gary Cooper is supposed to be the
epitome of masculine dressiness. . . .
We are, alas, in a time of decadence
in many things. . . . Oh, yes—l for
got to tell you, when I jott'd down
a little of my interview with George
Raft ths other day, tl'at George
bought 23 new suits for his latest pic
ture. ... He pays from $175 to $275
apiece for them and chips it off his
own pay check, not the studio’s . . .
“It’s hard to make th? income tax
people believe that a man needs 40
! or 50 suits a year, but if I appeared
I in two scenes in the same picture in
I the same suit my followers would
think I was letting them’down.” . . .
Your reporter never knew anything
about suits being charged off in an
income report, but it’s something to
look into. . . .
• * *
No trace now of the old Biograph
Studios at 11 East 14th street, but
i I get a twinge every time I pass. . . .
, There the late Henry B. Walthall
got a job at S3O weekly and the pro
vision that his name remain a secret
from the fans. . . . Others in the
lazy-going flicker factory, a down-at
heels loft building—this was circa
1909—were Mary Pickford, Owen
Moore, Florence Lawrence. . . .
None was identified in the jumpy
shadowplays of that era until audi
ences demanded unmasking of their
idols. . . .
Walthall, who died recently, rocket
ed to fame as “The Little Colonel”
in “The Birth of a Nation.” . . .
Few knew—or know—that he played
himself in the movie; his father
owned one of the great Georgia cot
ton plantations, going back to pre
war days. . . . Walthall staged such
a resounding comeback during the
last year that he worked himself to
death responding to heavy Hollywood
demand. . . .
* * •
Silvia Minsky, daughter of the bur
lesk baron, has never seen any of
her pop’s naughty shows—bless her,
and she’s 16, too! . . . Moreover, she
wouldn’t pose for ship news photog
raphers, the boys tell me, with the
customray ankle-revealing postures.
. . . “What would father say?” she
countered, aghast. . . . Nunnally
Johnson, highest priced of the screen
scribes, is off for Europe en famille
to spend some of his $3,000-a-week
vacationing. . . . Fashion note num
ber two: the society boys buy their
summer neckties, so I’m told ,at six
for a quarter and ashcan a scarf twice
a day. . . . Seems kind of wasteful,
but doubtless being wasteful is part
of being fashionable in these times...
Newest of the nationally knowu per
sonalities to adopt the Rockefeller
technique of hiring a high-pressure
public relations counsel for a build
' up is Major Bowes. . . . The gentle
-1 man with the apple cheeks and silver
hair who rings the gong will be spot
-1 lighted as a public benefactor by the
! same firm which induced the elder
| Rockefeller to leave a trail of shin
ing new dimes wherever he went. . . .
By the way, John D„ senior, will be
97 this month. .. . ’Tis a great age
—and three years ago this reporter
sab up nights doing a rush biography
of the oil giant when he was ill. ...
Thinking of him I recall the non
agenarian Count in Hemingway's “A
Farewell To Arms” who said, “I would
like to live forever. I very nearly
have.”
forced to do work for private -nter
ests, helpless slaves that they were.
Mrs. Stone related that she found
bits of bloody flesh stuck to the
sheets of a bed occupied by a boy
who had received 100 blows of the
whip the night previously.
And not a boy there but who per
haps could have been “reformed’ la
some private home, quierly and de
cently. Not a boy there who perhaps
could not have become a valuable
citizen eventually.
» ♦ ♦
A Different Story
A different story comes from Mem
phis, metropolis of the same state.
William McClanahan, U. S. district
attorney there, was called upon tc
prosecute a 17-year-old boy, from
Philadelphia, a thousand miles from
home, for transporting a stolen auto
mobile across a state line.
The federal judge sentenced the
boy to three years in the national
training school, on a plea of guilty.
Whereupon the prosecutor, who
has three small children of his own,
said:
“He’s a fine youngster. I can’t
bear to see him go to a reform school.
Last night It alked it over with my
wife. We decided that, with the
court’s permission, we would take
him into our own home to live with
us.”
• ♦ *
Administration Stand?
It is believed that the Roosevelt
administration’s stand in regard to
the steel strike is similar to that of
Pphilip Murray, chairman of the
Steel Workers’ Organizing committee.
Murray asserted that the American
Iron and Steel institute, by shouting
“general strike,” was seeking to pro
voke walkouts and thus turn public
opinion against the unions.
It wil be observed that Secretary
of Labor Frances Perkins added that
she saw “no reason for panic,” as the
“attempt to extend organization does
not necessarily mean a strike.”
The union, however, charges that
the steel companies are doing every
thing in their power to prevent ex
tension of organization.
A campaign of provocation al
ready is under way as workers al
ready have been discharged for join
ing the union,” Murray aserted. “In
addition, Claude Kramer, one of our
organizers was abducted in a Steu
benville, Ohio, hotel by eight men,
put on a train and told never to come
back.”
Incidentally, unions may invoke
the Lindbergh law against abductors
—ostensibly instigated by corpora
tions—if men are taken over a state
line. And the penalty is death, under
that law.
* • •
“Disheartening”
The London Times remarks that
the Republican platform is “so thor
oughly midwestetm in some of its
planks as to be extremely disheart
ening to those who believe that the
greatest single obstacle to world re
covery—including the recovery of the
United States—is economic national
ism.”
* *’ *
Recovery
Item from the New York Times:
“The country is working below its
productive capacity, and people still
have wants unsatisfied, and if the
recovery is kept moving with all the
elements in balance and without in
terference, it can go on indefinitely.
This is the conclusion reached by
the National City bank in its July
survey of business and finance.”
AU Os Us
A LITTLE BOY AROUND THE
HOUSE ‘
TjTTTT.HI MR. THREE-YEAR-OLD
is always tagging after his father, al
ways asking questions, always under
his daddy’s feet.
Whatever his father is doing, Mr.
Th -e--Ycar-Old is always right there
If that father is washing the car.
or changing a tire, or pulling up weeds
or fixing the fence, or cutting a board,
or driving in a nail, or cleaning the
basement, or making a fire, or chang
ing his shoes or reading a book, or
just sitting—
Mr. Three-Year-Old is on the spit.
Asking questions, picking up bits
of wood, demanding a hammer and
a handful of nails for himself, want
ing to know where that screw goes, or
why his daddy is doing THAT.
He runs away with tools, he knocks
over the paint, and his father has
to watch him every minute . . .
With that child under foot, that
man takes twice as long as he should
to do anything ... He must stop to
answer-those questions, and when one
is answered he must think how to
answer the next ... He must leave
his work to hunt up those tools that
have strayed . . . It’s one thing right
after another when Mr. Three-Year-
Old is around and when a small boy
asks questions his father MUST pay
attention. It’s a law.
If other people bother that man
when he’s working he doesn’t like
it ... If he has to leave his job
and go into the house to answer the
telephone, he • growls about it. A
man's chores are special and people
ought to have sense enough not to
break into them . . . But does he ever
complain about Mr. Three-Year-Old?
Does he ever call to the Lady of the
House to get that child out of here
because he can’t do a lick of work
while HE is around? Does he, or
doesn’t he?
Well, I’ll tell you confidentiially
that he never does, he never did. Mr.
Three-Year-Old is a privileged char
acter. He can go anywhere, say any
thing, get under anybody’s feet; what
he' does is big business and sacred—;
and his father wouldn’t have him
less of a nuisance for A Million Dol
lars . . . What else can you expect
when you a little boy around
the house?
Today is
By CLARK KINNAIRD r 1
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
Tuesday, July 7; Fast of Tammuz
in J. C. Primary election day in
Oklahoma. Morning stars: Mercury,
Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Evening stars:
Venus, Neptune, Jupiter.
* * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Lion Feuchtwanger, b .1884, exiled
German novelist—Josephus, Success,
etc. . . . Frank B. Noyes, b. 1863.
president of the Associated Press . . .
Jackie Searl, b. 1921, cinemactor . . .
Jacob Kranz, known as Ricardo Cor
tez, b. 1900, cinemactor . . .
♦ * ♦
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
350 Years Ago Today—Thomas
Hooker was born in England, which
he had to be smuggled out of to es
cape death for nonconformance to
doctrines of Church of England. He
became one of first pastors in New
England. Three centuries ago this
summer, he moved his entire con
gregation from Massachusetts to es
tablish the town of Hartford and
colony of Connecticut.
July 7, 1768—Philip Syng Physick
was born in Philadelphia, where he .
lived to become “father of American. ,
surgery.” He was the first American
to be elected to the French academy
of medicine and—a century ago this
year—to the royal medical society of
London. Despite all of the develop
ments he made in medicine and sur
gery, when he fell ill of fever, physi
cians “treated” him by bleeding him
of 176 ounces!
July 7, 1853—The U. S. navy sail
steam frigates Mississippi and Sus
quehanna, commanded by Commo
dore Matthew Calbrfith Perry, head
ed into Nagasaki, Japan, against the
wind, aweing thousands on the shores
who had never seen anything except
sailing ships. He had come to force
Japan s ports open to the world and,
unsuspectingly to begin Its rise to the
greatest rival of the U. S.
Until his time alien sailors ship
wrecked on Japan’s shores were put
to death. Natives who left Japan were
forbidden to return, lest they con
taminate the Japanese with western
ideas.
After unhappy experiences with
missionaries, Japan had expelled all
foreigners except one small group of
Dutch East India Co., traders, who
were under obligtaion to stage one
public ceremony a year. They had to
enact an orgy of drinking, to show
Japanese children what horrible crea
tures westerners were!
July 7, Among State Histories—l7s4
—King’s College, the future Columbia
university, opened in New York . . .
1865—As Mrs. Mary E. Surratt stood
on the gallows at Washington, with
three men, to die for alleged com
plicity in the assassination of Presi
dent Lincoln, a gallant gentleman
held a parasol over her head “to
shield her from the sun” . . . 1898—
The 20 Hawaiian Islands (about the
size of Delaware and Connecticut
combined) were annexed by the U.
S. . . . 1927—The six-mile Moffat
Tunnel, longes trailroad bore in the
U. S., was holed through in Colorado.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
20 Years Ago Today—David Lloyd
George was appointed Britain’s secre
tary of state for war, in place of the
late Lord Kitchener, a reward for his
having shown the greatest energy
and resource in the war as a civilian.
At the same time, Sir Edward Grey,
whose secret trading with France had
forced Britain into the war, went
to the House of Lords as Viscount
Grey of Fallodon. He retained the
foreign secretaryship, but was saveS
from having to face the Houes of
Commons by his undersecretary. Lord
Robert Cecil.
Casualty lists carried the name of
Alan Seeger, American poet who had
penned immortal lines in “I Have a
Rendezvous with Death.” He had
loved France enough to give his life
for her, in the Foreign Legion. He
fell near Belloy-en-Santerre, mortally
wounded in the stomach, as one of
a line with which France sought to
drive a wedg? in support of the Brit
ish Somme offensive.
(To be continued)
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is the capital of Louisiana?
2. How did the United States ac
quire the Island of Guam?
3. part does Frances Perkins
play in the New Deal?
Hints on Etiquette
It is considered proper for men to
keep their hats on in a business ele
vator even when they meet women
friends.
Words of Wisdom
The surest pledge of a deathless
name is the silent homage of thoughts
unspoken.—Longfellow.
Today’s Horoscope
The maternal instinct is apt to be
very pronounced in persons whose
birthday is today. They are usually
original, daring in thought and fear
less in investigation. They are in
ventive and imaginative and not eas
ily driven.
One-Minute Test Answers
1 Baton Rouge.
2 it was ceded to America by
Spain in the Tretay of Paris on Dec
ember 10, 1898.
3. She is secretary of labor.
White damp” is a term used by
When raine air con tains
carbon monoxide. it i s colorless
with le th P and WUI explode when mixed
t^ e .P r °P er amount of air. How
ouaniHe S i nOt - f ° Und in suf Hcient
quanities in mines to cause an ex-
P and°fe the iS exfcremely poisonous
ana is the same gas that kills mo
torists when they start their engine
in a closed garage.