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WHEN WORLD BECOMES ONE
The summer of 1936 brings to us the happy realization that
there will take place in Germany, the renewal of the age-old re
vival of a proving ground for the abilities of world renowned
athletes, the Olympic Games. The huge stands surrounding the
fields and sites which shall be the testing places for the skill of
the teams which wear the emblems of their respective countries,
shall be packed with a roaring, screaming mass of humanity,
whose shouts shall reach to the high heavens as each individual
champion mounts to the rostrum to be presented with suitable
prizes emblematic of their supremacy among the huge classes
which go to make up the life of any nation, recreation lovers.
From the time that the fire is set off in the Olympic Bowl
which is the formal opening of the Games, until the dark shad
ows of night come creeping across the huge stadium site on the
last day of the trials, the whole world will be watching and
waiting with baited breath as thu cream of the universe vie
against each other for the coveted title of “champion of lhe
world.” One little realizes the stupendous thrill that predomin
ates throughout the spectators as a champion flashes across the
wire or tape with the stream of competitors running, swimming
or competing behind him. Do you remember in your school days
when daily contests were had for the title of ‘‘best man?” And
how you used to swell your chest when you came out on top?
This, naturally is a small feeling as the crowd seated in the
Olympic Stadium and watching with intent interest every event,
takes the name of a athlete and makes it echo from the surround
ing hills as only a sport-loving public can do.
Athletics always has been and will always be, a predominat
ing feature in anyone’s life. There are few people in this world
who do not have some semblance of a recreation satisfying whim.
Maybe its golf, tennis, swimming or any other type of sport, but/
everyone turns to some type of recreation for the easing down of
their high nervous tension, apparent after a hard day’s work at
the office, or mill. It’s in us to like to play, and no matter what
type business we are in, or how or where we work, there are al
ways various forms of athletics to be enjoyed.
The Olympic Games, with the exception of the war period
have proceeded in routine every four years for the past decade.
This event is attended by the world’s greatest figures in all types
of life spheres. Class means nothing as the pack rushed by the
100-meter runnng events or the 50-meter swimming events. There
is something in it that makes your blood tingle, and your hear!
beat faster, you know, you’ve experienced it.
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Editor Savannah Dally Times:
Regarding the controversy existing
amongst the members of the Board
of Chatham County Commissioners,
I think that Judge Solomon is right
in assuming the attitude he has. Be
ing a very astute business man. he
nor any other business man would ap
prove raising the wages of his employ
ees at this time on such a grand
scale. It is Indeed inconceivable that
a group of men alleging to be sound
business men would make such dras
tic wage raises. Ten per cent to
nearly fifty percent.
There are many educated and qual
ified persons in Savannah who woul(\
gladly give the equal if not superior
services for much more common sens:
wages than are being paid the Court
House Gang. People who will 'give
their services with a smile and not
have to harangue the tax payers when
they call for service for which they
are paying so dearly. This thing of
chewing and smoking cigars in the
side of the mouth and spitting wise
cracks out of the other should be
stopped. If this is to be done let it
be so outside the Court House and
not during office hours. These em
ployers should thank their God that
they have these soft well-paying jobs
and ever be mindful of the debt they
owe the "dear peepul” for letting
them stay there.
Let’s hope the commissioners will
rescind their action and put ALL the
public jobs over which they Ijave con
trol, on a sensible wage basis, if the
present employees do not want to
work for the established wages, there
arc many, as I have said, who are
well qualified to work for a decent
living wage.
If the commissioners won’t do their
duty and will not look after the
affairs of the people as they should,
then, let’s get some new Commission
ers next election, and get some new
employees in the Court House. Let’s
cut down government expense instead
of Increasing it and also cut out the
graft, chicanery and rotten politics
as now exists.
AN IRATE BLOOD-SWEAT
ING TAXPAYER & VOTER.
Editor Daily Times:
Please permit me as a citizen and
taxpayer of Chatham County to
•peak a few words of praise and’com
mendation for the recent noble acts
of our county commissioners in re
cognizing the fact that all labor is
entitled to its full part of the tax
payers’ money, regarcless of the lit
tle controversy that arose between the
Honorable Chairman and the Board,
which proves that Chatham County
is blessed in having such men as the
chairman, and his entire board nr
such high type men to administer !ts
i affairs, and I dare say if we had such
type men of the city akermanic
board, the entire police and fire de
partments, and all other departments
of the city labor would be getting their
just part of the taxpayers’ money for
their honest toil and labor.
Labor hasn’t a real friend in the
city hall who has yet, as far as I
know, even raised a voice in regards
to a just distribution of the tax
payers’ money for honest toil and
labor. O, but on the other hand, that
would-be master of mathematics and
boss of all his yes men and political
jumping-jacks has a well beaten path
leading from Savannah to Atlanta
fighting with all his power to retain
that most damnable unjust high rate
of taxation that has ruined real estate
values, and thereby causing real es
tate to become a liability rather than
an asset, which God intended it
should be.
Now in conclusion, Mr. Editor, I
ask you to compare these methods of
the wizards in our midst, then you
can readily see that Ponzi was a piker
in his methods, as compared to the un
just high tax rates placed upon real
estate, which is causing farmers and
home owners to be thrown out of their
homes and farms every day that the
sun shines upon Georgia soil. Why,
speaking of storms and floods, so dis
astrous and ruinous to real estate,
they will leave you your lands, but
the disastrous and ruinous and unjust
high tax rate placed upon real estate
leaves you absolutely nothing. Now
digest this one some of you high tax
advocates.
THOMAS S. HERRON.
DOUBLING UP
A company of army recruits had
received orders that they would be
drilled the next day on how to a'tack
a fortification.
After the company had been dis
missed, a big, awkward pr v : e ep
proached the corporal in har >f
his squad and ask
fortification?”
The corporal seemed to swell with
pride as he replied Don’t you
know any arithme c at all? Every
body knows that a fortification is
nothing more than two twe:
tions.”
The city of Chicago spent $75,000.-
000 on the Illinois waterway, linking
the Great Lakes and the Gulf of
Mexico, while the state of Illinois ap
propriated $20,000,000 for the project
and the federal government $7,500,-
000. Total cost was $102,000,000.
NOT ONLY DROUTH, BUT GRASSHOPPERS, BARE FARMS
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A corn field near Wichita, Kan., stripped of foliage by grasshoppers
Grasshoppers are an added scourge to drouth-stricken farm lands in states west of the
Mississippi. Millions of the hoppers, after eating all the alfalfa in sight, attacked the corn, ruin
ing large fields which had promised to give the largest yield in years. Photo shows part of a
half-mile long corn field owned by Virgil Beaver, near Wichita, Kan., stripped of all foliage.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
OUTSTANDING MEMORIES
Some Amusing, Some Painful
OF THE CONVENTIONS
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
“What is your outstanding memory
of the two political conventions?” a
reader asks.
Os the Republican convention:
Kansas women singing hjinns in a
crowded hotel lobby in Cleveland; 1
men—not necessarily Kansans—stag
gering down streets (but nothing in
comparison to Philadelphia).
Os the Democratic convention: The
700 motorcycle police escorting “dis
tinguished” visitors in sleek, high
powered automobiles at top speed; the
shrieking of their sirens one day,
scattering shoppers in a narrow,
crowded business street, finally to
come to a dead stop in a traffic jam
—and, inside the car, a blond; the
“lid off” in hotels at night, with un
believable noise, and man nearly at
his lowest.
• ♦ ♦
Philadelphia
The choosing of a presidential nom
inee, of course, has become a ghastly
mockery.
Yet, for the moment, that did not
annoy me so much in Philadelphia as
the outrageous prices and the drag
ging out of a show filled with hypoc- I
risy.
The coming of President Roosevelt
was as the coming of a breath of
fresh air.
Few of the leaders o! that conven
tion had any sincere interests in the
policies or ideals advocated by Mr.
Roosevelt.
They thought he was riding with
the people—and they desired to head
back into office on the same wave.
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the people—and they desired to head
back into office on the same wave.
• * *
Cleveland
The Republican leaders plainly said
what they desired.
They desired to go back to 1929.
They still do. They said openly to
newspaper men they were not sure
of Governor Landon. They seemed
reassured by John D. M. Hamilton,
Governor Landon’s campaign man
ager.
There —those are impressions. They
may be right or wrong. You will
have to decide. Impressions are
merely impacts that may strike one
person one way, another person an
other way.
Powerless?
In the coming clash between the
huge steel and coal industries and
John L. Lewis’ industrial unions, the
United States government may find
itself powerless.
Both sides known that. Thus, the
girding for a tremendous battle.
Courts have stripped the govern
ment of most of its power.
President Roosevelt plans to use
public pressure.
The Philadelphia speech was seen
as a “warning” to the large steel com
panies .
But counsel for the steel companies
are believed to have informed those
companies that the government can
be estopped from using coercive pow
er.
The government may cancel and
withhold government contracts. But
where else could the government go?
A few corporations own a majority of
the steel mills.
Unionists have seized upon salary
statements for 1933, which corpora
tions doing business on stock ex
changes have to make.
The United States Steel corporation
reported salaries of $166,786 for My
ron C. Taylor, chairman; $124 513 for
William A. Irwin, president, and $91.-
056 for William J. Filbert, chairman
of the finance committee.
Socony-Vacuum (a Standard Oil
company) incidentally withheld the
compensation of its three highest
salaried officers, but it listed the pay
of nine directors at 5618,000.
Troops?
Would national guardsmen or fed
eral troops be used if there is a steel
strike—or lockout?
Not likely. Neither the Pennsylva
nia state administration nor the fed
eral administration is inclined to
use troops against workers.
The steel companies are not de
pending on troops. They have or
ganized their own private armies.
Trv to approach a steel mill if you
are not d sired there.
FACTOGRAPHS
Always the whoopee spot; the
name of Manhattan Island, New
York, is derived from an Indian
phrase meaning “the place of drunk
enness.”
Cyruc McCormick is referred to in
many schoolbooks as inventor of the
reaper, but courts decided that Obed
Hussey of Maryland, was the invent
or ,and McCormick had to settle
with him.
You’re taller in the morning than
you are in the evening! Your height
varies in 24 hours as much as half
an inch.
The famous American clipper ships
often spread 40,000 square feet of
sail whe ncarrying 2.00 tons of car
go. The Flying Cloud twice made the
trip from New York to San Fran
cisco, around Cape Horn, in 89 days.
-WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE-
WILL LEHMAN’S RACE
Which G. 0. P. Says Indicates F. D. R. Weakness
GUARANTEE VICTORY?
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street
B CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July B.—Republicans
are trying to convince themselves that
the circumstances of Herbert H.
Lehman's candidacy for re-election to
the governorship of New York imply
a consciousness of weakness on Presi
dent Roosevelt's part.
The argument is that the president
and his advisers would not have
deemed it necessary to bring such
tremendous pressure upon Lehman to
seek a third term if they had not fell
uneasy concerning Empire State pros
pects.
As the G. O. P. folk professor to see
it, a gubernatorial nominee is entitled
to count on winning by virtue of a
presidential landslide in his party’s
favor, but they do not think it so nat
ural for the presidential aspirant to
rely on lesser candidacies to help him.
* ♦ *
A Strong Candidate
It is agreed by all politicians that
Lehman is strong in New York, and,
had he said in the first place that
he proposed to run again, most of
them admit that he would have been
a Roosevelt asset.
But when he did not say it, but
said contrary, it seems to the critics
that the White House tenant’s best
policy would have been to reply that,
while he appreciated the governor, he
felt able to take care of himself. In
stead of which the Rooseveltians
showed signs of na;ir-panfe and liter
ally implored the New Yorker not to
desert them.
It was good advertising for Leh
man; it emphasized the value that the
Roosevelt supporters place upon his
political record and personality. It,
however, gives some color to the claim
that they are aware they need all of
that kind, of aid they can get.
MyNewYork
By
James As well
NEW YORK, July B—The Town in
Pieces: Wall Street, noon. A large
colored gentleman in gold-rimmed
specs is bending over the sidewalk
with a piece of chalk. He is writing
in a strange alphabet that may be
Hebraic or Persian. The crowd
grows and a couple of young men
with satchels, doubtless stuffed with
a king’s ransom in negotiable bonds,
join the crush. ,
The chalk-writer slowly straightens,
takes off his specs. “Now ladies and
gentlemen I want to address you in
behalf of that most cruelly abused
and misappropriated of countries, the
great and soverign state of Ethiopia.’’
M * *
Fifth Avenue, 3 P. M., in a deluxe
dime store. A mother and her four
year-old are making their way through
the aisles. The tot is a little to the
rear and his hands are full of bric
a-brac and odds-and-ends: a lead
soldier, a tooth-brush, a flour-sifter,
a roll of ribbon. As he marches by the
brimming counters he helps himself.
Behind him follows a distraught
floor walker. Twice the floor-walker
has attempted to relieve the young
ster of a new acquisition, but the lat
ter has let out a yell which , has
brought a beetling, angry scowl fro®.
mom. The little procession moves
on into the milling crowd of cus
tomers and disappears.
« » ♦
Rockefeller Center Rainbow Room,
1 A. M. Arezzi the headwaiter, tell
ing Frances Maddux the lady warb
ler, and the tango team of Maurice
and Cordoba, how he was Mussolini’s
trusty Number 29 Man in the Fascist
March on Rome, and how he might
be Minister of Entertainment, Prop
aganda and Beautiful Letters had he
remained in Italy—but that he is
content to have vamoosed.
* • •
The steep roof of St. Georges
Church in Stuyvesant Square (the
temple in which J. P. Morgan is
vestryman), seen from the window
of a neighboring apartment. A work
man repairing the apex of the roof,
walks nonchalantly along the blade
like crest, sits down near the bell
tower on a little ledge and withdraws
a sandwich and a copy of one of the
highbrow, “quality” magazines from
his overall pockets.
The Paradise whoopery, 2 A. M.
Albert, the headwaiter scrutinizing i
a large check offered by a merry
maker and commenting: “The signa
ture looks like chicken tracks, but it’s
probably all right. It’s the carefully
drawn paper that you have to watch.”
• * *
The Museum of Science and In
dustry, 4 P. M. A small boy is watch
ing steel ball-bearings fall and hop ,
with uncanny precision through tiny
rings. “Aw, dad, lemme catch one.
Lemme catch one, dad —I want to ,
see if it’s real.” ,
* • •
A second-hand bookstore in lower
Broadway, and the fantastic old lady
with the fluffy maribou neckpiece
and the jade earrings—she must have ;
been seventy—who breezed in and de- .
manded of the clerk: “I wonder, sir, .
whether you could supply me with
the collected poems of D. H. Law
rence?” (
** * <
Queensborough Bridge, 5 P. M. i
and the utter paralysis of traffic, due
to the one-brick-at-a-time replacement
of the paving with non-skid surfacing, i
And the gay prehensile truck driver j
who made a face at the lone traffic i
cop and yelled: “My kingdom for ]
an autogyro!” j
•• • t
The sign in the store in the ineffa- s
ble Fifties off Fifth Avenue: “Cus- i
tom-built shoes reduced to $45 a
pair. Are you shod for the season?”
Can He Carry State?
Well, Lehman yielded.
But, even if he is re-elected, query
the Landonites, is it any certainty
that he can carry New York for the
Democratic national ticket, too?
Governors of New York have been
elected heretofore in years when their
national tickets lost the state. Al
Smith, for example, was elected in a
year when his national ticket lost it.
In turn, Al lost it for the presidency
in a year when Franklin D. Roosevelt
was elected governor.
New York is a queer state in that
respect.
Most states go, nationally and lo
cally, the same way at the same time.
New York frequently goes two differ
ent ways at the same election.
* * «
Other Candidacies
The White House manifests a keen
interest in various other candidacies
of a local character.
Illustratively, it evidently is strong
ly behind Gov. Henry Horner, for
re-election in Illinois. It wants
Frank Murphy to win in Michigan.
It hints at a Democratic indorsement
of Senator James Couzens, likewise
of Michigan. Couzens calls himself
a Republican, but he suits the New
Deal’s purposes. If he is re-elected
with a New Deal 0.k., presumably
Michigan will go New Deal. ’
The truth is, the Democrats and
Republicans, respectively, do not care
much as to who is a Democrat or a
Republican.
They are interested in the differ
ence between “pro” end “anti” New
Dealers.
• » »
Republican Beliefs
Republican strategists furthermore
note that President Roosevelt, mak
ing a speech or so in the south re
cently, took one kind of atone, and,
in his acceptance speech in Philadel
phia, a tone of quite another char
acter.
It was a corking good speech, but
it was utterly unlike his* southern
ones.
The Republicans surmise that he
found a deal of Landon enthusiasm
in the “great open spaces” and con
sidered it wise to modify his utter
ances.
Indeed, they would like to believe
that he’s “jittery.”
* ♦ *
Landon, esque?
All this may sound Landonesque.
It is not so intended; it simply Is
what the Landonites are saying.
The Rooseveltites are getting sortie
breaks, too. I presently shall discuss
them.
Your’e Telling
Me?
Now that the Republicans are try
ing to win the Solid South away
from the Democrats, the G. O. P.
theme song might be changed from
“Three Blind Mice” to “Is It True
What They Say About Dixie?” Any
way, it’s a much better tune.
♦ ♦ ♦
Dr. Jean Piccard now offers a
trip to the stratosphere in his
balloon for SIOO,OOO. The price, it
would seem, is even higher than
the ride.
Divorces are becoming a habit in
the Spanish royal family. Ex-Orown
Prince Alfonso face ssuch court ac
tion by hiswife. And a few years ago
Spain got her divorce from his dad.
• ♦ •
Mexico spent millions of dol
lars completing its new national
highway. Can you imagine a na
tion spending that much just to
inflict itself with Sunday drivers?
♦ ♦ ♦
To be a success a man must pos
sess more than curly hair, soulful
eyes and perfect teeth, writes one of
these hearth-and-home columnists.
Not if he is a movie star.
♦ ♦ *
We notice most of th-- more
recent photos of Presidential
Candidate Landon show him
wearing riding boots. He may
not look like a polo player, but
they’re an improvement over the
cowboy hats and Indian war bon-,
nets of past presidential cam
paigns.
♦ ♦ ♦
“Radio comedians who depend on
gagmen for their jokes are no better
than ventriloquists’ dummies,” reads
an editorial. Maybe so, but the pay
is better.
All Os Us
I’ve done many silly things, but I
never did greet anybody I’ve met
once with the remark: “I’ll bet you
don’t remember ME!”
The man who does that is sure,
eventually, to meet somebody who
counters with: “Why should I?”
I’m tired of shaving.
I know only one man who comes
back from a vacation all rarin’ to go
and eager for work . . . Work is
a habit that is easily broken.
Height of annoyance: Slamming the
door of an automobile and then dis
covering that you’ve left your keys
inside.
A man. genially intoxicated, stopped
me and asked for a quarter. ... I
said, like a smart aleck: “You haven’t
a quarter now and you’re happy. If
I gave you one you’d probably worry
yourself sick trying to decide how
to spend it.” . ..He sad: “Well
give me a dime and I’ll try to stand
up under the t’rlfiic responsibility.”
I met a man who looked me straight
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Wednesday, July 8; Cecil Rhodes
day in Rhodesia. Ziodac sign: Can
cer. Birthstone: Ruby. Moon: last
quarter Saturday.
• • •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
John Davison Rockefeller, Sr., b.
1839. In his lifetime, the span of
life of the average man has increas
ed nearly 20 years. . . Percy Graing
er, b. 1882, pianist and composer . . .
Alex Waugh, b. 1898, novelist —like
his brother Evelyn and father Ar
thur . . . David E. Lilienthal, b.
1899, director of Tennessee Valley
Authority. . . . John H. Bankhead,
b. 1872, senator from Alabama and
brother of the speaker of the house
. . . Claude R. Porter, b. 1872, mem
ber of Interstate Commerce Commis
sion . . . Percy Bryant Baker, b.
1881, sculptor who created Okla
homa's famous “Pioneer Woman.”
• • •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 8, 1709—Charles XII, greatest
of Sweden’s kings, was routed by
Peter the Great at Pultova, Russia,
in one of history’s most significant
battles.
Napoleon studied Charles’ cam
paigns and used him as a military
model, yet his downfall followed his
repetition of Charles’ error in invad
ing Russia ill-times and ill-prepared.
The Swedes had been delayed in
the country for months by a winter
so cold that firewood would not ig
nite in open air: brandy froze into
solid masses of ice; birds could not
fly; saliva congealed on its passage
from mouth to ground.
Os the 44,000 men with which he
left his country, he returned with
only one!
.Pultrova started Peter on the
Europeonization and modernization
of Russia.
• ♦ ♦
July 8, 1784—David Lee Child was
bom in West Boylston, Mass., where
he was a newspaper man when, a
century ago this year, he established
the sugar beet industry in the United
States. He had gone to Belgium at
his own expense to study cultivation
and processing of the beets, and he
opened the first factory. IL did not
lessen his attention to his journal
ism; the same year he published a
series of attacks on salvery of far
reaching consequence and opposed
the annexation of Texas.
Curiously, his wife, Lydia Maria
Francis Child, is better known—be
cause she wrote the poem, Home for
Thanksgiving.
• • •
July 8, 1862—Patents No. 35-846-7-
were granted Theodore Ruggles Tim
by, native New York stater, on the
first revolving turrent guns, which
had been used in the iron clad U. S.
S. Monitor three months before in its
historic victory over the C. S. S. Mer
rimac. Timby had first suggested
iron ships and revolving turrents 20
years before, and both had been de
clared impractical!
A century ago tills year, when he
was only 14, and possessed of only a
common school education, Timby in
vented a floating drydock. Every
army and navy in the world today
utilizes his method of firing heavy
guns by electricity, but he was a pro
ponent of pacifism!
July 8 Among State Histories—l 797
—The U. s. Senate expelled William
H. Blount as a member. Tennessee
thereupon elected him president of
the state senate . . . 1889—John L.
Sullivan and Jake L. Kilrain fought
two hours, 16 minutes, in the last
bareknuckle championship bout in
America, at Mississippi City, Miss.,
while police looked for them to arrest
them—for fighting . . . 1906—Ches
ter GiL.lette murdered Grace Brown
at Big Moose Lake, N. Y., and pro
vided the original of “An American
Tragedy.” . . . 1907—First perform
ance of first Biegfeld Follies was
given in New York. . . . 1909—First
night baseball game was played at
Grand Rapids, Mich., between Cen
tral league teams.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Yeqrs Ago Today—Lord Robert
Cecil, undersecretary of war and
minister of blockade, abandoned the
Declaration of London, under which
the rudiments of internaticnal law
concerning blockade has been ob
served. Under its rules, cotton and
other conditional contraband could
net be touched to long as the car
goes were being discharged at such
neutral ports at Rotterdam and Co
penhagen.
It was easy for Allied agents to
trace many of tiv.se cargoes into Ger
many.
Now all goods suspected either of
enemy origin or enemy destination
were made subject to seizure, with
blockade squadrons as judges and
juries. Even neutral vessels were
forced to enter Allied ports for search
since examinations on the high seas
had been made untenable for block
ade ships by submarines.
With total abandonment of the
Declaration of London, Britain adopt
ed the principle of rationing, even
decideding what quantities of mate
rials concerns in neutral countries
were entitled to receive. Now, in
deed, it had become the World’s war.
(To be continued)
in the eyes and said in two years at
the front during the war he’d never
been frightened. ... -If he told the
truth there’s something about a man
like that that’s much worse than
being scared.
Most of the liars I’ve known CAN
tell a lie without a revealing quiver
of the eye or the mouth. . . . Chil
dren are best at it.
Why are grandmother? so fond of
babies? . . . The' shallowest answer
is thatthey can enjoy them wiithout
having to raise them. . . . But the
truth is that older people, despite
heartache and disappointment, do
like to know that the human race is
going on.
Don't look over my shoulder when
I’m writing; it gives me the jitters.
I like to stare at people. (You can
stare back, if you wish.)