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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at the Post Oftice at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year .... ..... 7.50 Six Months .... ... 3.75 Three Months .................................. 195 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 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!” OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communkatlong intended for pub lication tinder this heading mu«t 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 imlted to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not Intend that the selection of letters pub lished in this column shall In any way reflect or conform with the editorial views and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, publish or reject any article sent in.) Editor The Daily Times: 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!” •* ♦ z 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. “MASSA’S” IN DE COLE, COLE GROUND!” - - k W . -C-; W y- MU ... .jrw.. .<* <•£ x., li WEAK 4<jOib’ ■ \ j .ar'’’ KB Wf IglsggMife -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE— 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 SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT -Z'" —■ “■ - r m S.i ’ -'. WAS STiLL IN USE. \ AS A SCHOOL )N MARY DIE-D IN 1889 BI \ /THIS IS PROBABLY W \ -The. BiqqesT nose- < \ BAq you HAVE EVER T \ SeeN aEZ.FAS7- | iW IB# \ A WHIRLWIND STAr-Is ON |h wf Z , VfilE GROUND And can be. iJ? \SEE-N By<HEpusTi-rwHißi6: I K \UP- A-fon-HADOSYARTS 4 If/ ■* \iMTH-E CLOUDS AHD WORKS: So S upward <he ground,am- ‘ JtSit. W>, \( COMPOSED OF CLOUP OR RAPIDLY CjAMES STAMP ISSUE ]% I 1 FOR GERMANY, Slz7 .COPYRIGHT. !936. central press association SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 193$ ' 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.