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PAGE FOUR f SnimmiSOWfiainits 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 th© Post Ottice at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ——... 7.50 Six Months .... .... 3.75 Three Months .... ....... 1.95 One Month .65 One Week .15 ADVERTISING RATES ON APPLICATION FROST, LANDIS & KOHN National Advertising Representatives Chicago New York Detroit Atlanta Subscribers to: Transradio Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM | (AH communications intended for pnh ilcation under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous fetters will not be given uny attention. Tlio widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted In this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah und Chatham County. Letters must be United 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 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 **■-. j -- r '<*■.>•• <■’ 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. They thought he was riding with a by R. j. scon & ' I ' i' ? W ili /ep J /a SEAWJfer-' WAS /> .. /'I - f I R ,KS 1 1 > J k A ? stamp X sMeepsk ' m PoRIRAVS OF COAn VV/OR.N 5 if /-.JW SLAVONIAN 2S <hRE-ATe.st S&/ Hunler. 47 Both wILHtLM LEIBNI-rx, BOR? ... I\ £73 . I*l 1646 -He invented AN p Ilffl ( ADDING MACHINE. IN THE r V V*>X '• ' J fKI /1 Ilia CENTUR?/ AMD WAS TtiE FIR.ST PR.ESIDENT’ ♦ ' of The academy of sgiences ( of Berlin ' r . - _ . . - COPYRIGHT. 1936. CtNTRAt PRESS ASSOCIATION ’ SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 193$ 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.)