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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 Office 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’ll. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures AN ADVANTAGEOUS MOVE. The appointment of Justice Ferdinand Pecora by Governor Lehman to aid in the investigation of the so-called “industrial rackets” in the city of New York, is certainly an advanced step in this important probe which is now swinging under way. To assist Justice Phillip B. McCook in the trial and general routine of the investigation of the organized forms of racketeering which so predominate the every-day life of the metropolis, Pecora en ters into a picture with which he is absolutely familiar, having served in similiar capacities. In 1934, Pecora was appointed the director of the Senate stock market nvestigation in which role he pursued a probe which eventually turned the country into praising him to the house-tops for the fearless and efficient way in which the diminu tive lawyer handled the investigation against some of the lead ing lights of the nation with their battery of conflicting evidence and astute maneuvering gained through long years of practice in leading courts of the country. Pecora handled the probe to the very end, and brought to light a set of circumstances which left the nation at large gasping with the sheer audacity of the trans actions which were veiled under many guises calculated to off set the trusting souls who were merely acting m the roles of suckers to the schemes as formulated. The dark-skinned investigator with his vitriolic manner of questioning witnesses is counted on by Governor Lehman to make a thorough investigation of the various and sundry man ners of racketeering which is gradually bleeding the small pro ducer of his life earnings. Having been broken loose from the various pre-prohibition rackets whch made their exit at the re call of the Eighteenth Amendment, th modern mobsmen, turned to new fields, and as a result the various industrial commodities are taking the brunt of the vicious attack of organized crime. Certainly it is not to be doubted that New York is the fore most field for the start of a drive to wipe out this type of crime. The metropolis with its huge mass of citizens of cosmopolitan types has always been and always will be a fertile area for the exploitation of the unwary. The big city can be counted on to form a hot-bed for America’s criminal'school, and any attempt to probe into the affairs of the crime syndicate will be welcomed. It is believed that the recent investigation o fth artichoke rack ets which was prompted on the insistence of Mayor La Guardia, is the prime reason for the general clean-up and investigation of the rackets which so predominate. Whatever be the real causes of the crime wave which has turned from one field to another, the untiring efforts of Ferdinand Pecora will trace them to their sources. OUR READERS’ FORUM (All communication* intended (or pub- , lication under this heading must 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 lmited to 100 word*. 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 view* and policies of thi* paper. The Time* reserves the right to edit, publish •r reject any article sent in.) Editor, The Savannah Daily Times: I am writing the following for your Readers Forum. In a recent Walter Winchell Col imn Dick Hyman, publicist, writer ind author of the reoent book “It’s (he Law,” was guest contributor and this Is what he says about a freak law in Georgia: “The law says that every bathing beach guard must wear a “bright »olid red” bathing suit —with a har- Sess around his neck, attached to a fe line 200 ft. long. It is illegal to Hap a man on the back.” Wbll, about slapping the man on Hie back, that makes no difference lo me, but about the life guard, I tike that part about him wearing a Wit that will distinguish him from >ther men on the beach and if it Is a law, well it’s a good one. On July 4, I was down at Tybee ALL or US UNDER PRESSURE I PRAISED a man I know and a Iriend said, “Yes, as far as I know, le’s all right. But you can’t ever tell vbout a human being till you see him inder pressure That sounded like common sense, but the more I thought about it. the less important it seemed . . . Because, after all. nearly everybody I know is ander pressure all the time. There aren’t many big surprises in life. Almost every man meets death, borrow, humiliation disappointment, monotony fairly often and endures them well enough . . . Very few men achieve eminence, victory, power, great wealth without training for it and developing ability to meet these responsibilities. So life, for most of us, holds no and stood in a crowd of people, watch ing a man out in the water, that looked as if he would drown any min ute. I couldn’t swim, and evidently no one around could, or would, for there the crowd stood, taking deep breaths every time r breaker would sweep over the poor man, and fi nally through an act of God, he reached shore exhausted. We never did find a life guard, but late in the afternoon, one was pointed out to me and he bore no signs of being a life guard, with the exception of a thor ough coat of tan, showing that he had been in the sun many days. At this time he was playing ball on the beach. Where is the life guard of yester day, who wore a marker on his suit “LIFE GUARD” and where, oh where, are the boats that used to patrol the water and refuse to let people go swimming beyond a certain distance. I would say the law isn't so funny, but a real necessity at Savananh Beach and I’m for the red suit, and if necessary, the harness would be alright with me. Something should be done about this matter, and I am taking the lib ertyof writing this letter to you, hop ing that if you publish it, in some way, the matter may be remedied and possibly save a life, mine or yours, who knows? ANXIOUS ONE. great and overwhelming encounters for which we are not prepared. All day, nearly every day, we live in a certain amount of pressure. We have tasks to do, obligations to fulfill, prob lems to solve ... and those with whom we work and live have a reasonably accurate idea of what we are and what we may become . . . Whether a man works at a desk or builds a bridge or farms a piece of land, his neighbors know what he is and what he will do. They form their Judgments by what they see him do every day, by the promises he makes and keeps or breaks, by the strength he shows, or the weakness he betrays ... He tells his story in little ways and few men are clever enough to confuse their close companions So I tell you you need not wait for “Big Pressure” to know a man or a woman . . . The little pressures of our little living, that follow each oth er from day to day, make a human being what he is and prophesy his future. HEY! -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE OLD PARTIES WORRIED Because of New Three-Way Trend OVER LABOR SPLITS By CHARLES P. STEWART Central Press Staff Writer WASHINGTON. July 10—Labor is as bewildered as anyone by the mix up of alignments of the two major political parties. The managements of the major political parties are equally bewildered by the mixup of labor alignments. Progressive Republicans are flock ing over to the Roosevelt group. Conservative Democrats are enlist ing under the Landon banner. The Republican elephant and the Democatic donkey don’t know which is which. Neither does labor. But politicians also are at a loss how to choose between labor factions. * * • The Lewis Movement The prospects of a finish fight be tween employers in the steel industry and the forces behind President John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, which are trying to organize the steel, automotive, rubber and other big trades on the industrial or “ver tical” plan, is bad enough from the politicians’ standpoint. SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. j. SCOTT One of Major. [JTsMm'. Ike from Wjj PECULIAR- EXPEDITION "To 'Jr FIRE PRODUCING W/V > INSTRUMENT'S £/ BREA<N FOR / -GJE v jP 64 SECONDS AT / / 1 SEA LEVEL/ BUT MALAYS- § y could T PRODUCED BY By 14 SECONDS AT AN -A j AIR COMPRESSION (/ ALTVfuDE oF yvy fr *“\ 2LI ( 000 FEET / \ ' ****eHSJT AMIH-Hcnew EQYRTIAN HlS'ToQ.y Su<SCHSTe.D BY STAMPS ofi<f/z£V OF <HAT COUNTRY COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION 7-/* SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1936 Still, that is the old conflict be tween capital and labor; the parties have had much experience in strad dling it more or less deftly. • The split between the industrial unionists and the old-time craft or “horizontal” unionists under the lead ership of President William Green of the A. F. of L., is not so simple a question to deal with. * * * Parties Puzzled What shall a political party do? Favor employer against employe, or vice versa? That is an issue for a clean-cut decision. Os course, no party ever explicitly announces that it has de cided either way, but it has been pos sible to guess at their respective pre ferences. Now, however? If a party is pro-employer it has all labor against it. Employer-dom’s financial influence, which is important, always has been predominant but the employes have done the bulk of the voting. These potencies could be weighed, the one against the other. This year the estimate is triangular. 1. The employers’ influence. 2. The A. F. of L.’s influence. 3. The Lewis, or industrial union ists’ influence. Three ways of betting isn’t as sim ple as two ways. Other considerations enter into the computation—the Lemke ticket’s pos sibilities, for example. Ido not think that Lemke will count materially but the Lewis-Green split is significant. Yet the other factors are confusing. They may count in closely balanced areas. . Your’e Telling Me? Now that all Europe appears to have turned him down Haile Selassie might appeal to Wilhelm II for sym pathy. At least the ex-kiser, only other emperor in exile, knows how Haile feels. • • * The ex-kiser has spent his lonely years chopping trees and sawing wood. But, like the ex-emperor of Ethiopia, in his plea to the League of Nations, he cut no ice. * • • Haile has nothing to lose by drop ping into Holland for a visit with Mr. Hohenaollern. He's in Dutch, anyway. * • * They might compare beards since both of them sport a full crop of chin spinach. Or they could talk over their own hairraising adven tures. —WORLD AT A GLANCE— ROOSEVELT CAMPAIGN Interpreting His Acts in Light of Past BASED ON JEFFERSON? By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) President Roosevelt is setting the tenor of his campaign. He will try to prove by the past that the real guard ian of the people’s rights is one who breaks the bonds of tradition and en larges the scope of administrative ac tion. That is in answer to the Republic ans and their states’ rights’ cam paign. In his speech on Thomas Jefferson at Monticello, President Roosevelt spring his keynote, to wit: “He was a great gentleman. He was a great commoner. The two are not incompatible. “He applied the culture of the past to the needs and life of the America of his day. His knowledge of history spurred him to inquire into the rea son and justice of laws, habits and institutions. His passion for liberty led him to interpret and adapt them in order to better the lot of man kind. “Shortly before taking office as president of the United States he wrote to a friend, ‘I have sworn on the altar of pod eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.’ His life served that consecration. Constantly he labored to enlarge the freedom of the human mind and to destroy the bondage im posed on it by inorance, poverty and political and religious intolerance.” • * 4 Jefferson Thomas Jefferson, in his own age, was attacked as no other American has been attacked for his ideas and ideals, now looked upon as the basis of democracy. President Roosevelt may desire, by quoting Jefferson, to draw an analogy. A revealing paragraph on Jeffer son is contained in “The Rise of MyNew York By James Aswell NEW YORK, July 10—The other day it was my privilege to meet the sort of New Yorker that swarms here in uncounted thousands and yet Is very, very seldom written about. She was a little girl, possibly eighteen, with a grave, trustful face and only the haziest conception of what New York is all about. She lives, you see. in a “tenement” in the neighborhood of Hester and Allen Streets—where the population density is about ten to the square foot and where the poverty is so great that it transcends mere lack of money and becomes away of life, a char acter element, a sort of faith. Her boy friend, who is a waited in a restaurant where I occassionally dine when my family is out of town, produced her proudly and suddenly one evening when business was slow. She will not see this, for she is mag nificently innocent of the babble or professional chatterists, so I can set it down without danger of puzzling her even more about tbe town and ts curious dwellers. I took them that evening for a round of the various glittery places: the night clubs which had only been a rumor before. Indeed, I don’t think she had ever been north of 14th Street more than a couple of times in her life.- for she wanted to see the Rockefeller Center of which she had heard, and Times Square at night and she asked where the zoo was and seemed disappointed when I told her it was several miles cptown. She was the perfect Cindella. She remained awake valiantl yand loaded up with the various toys the night clubs dispense: noise-makers and swizzel sticks and stuffed dogs. She wanted to play Santa to her numer ous brothers and sisters. At the end of it all she professed to be deliriously happy. I asked her what the lesson of it had been. For a moment she frowned. And then she said: “Well, I always wanted to be a chorus girl. Now I dont think I’d like to be one. It seems they have to take off more of their clothes in public than I had imagined.” I was pleased to see that Broadway could even be a Good Influence. Her face clouded then. “The trou ble is.” she added, “although I had such a wonderful, wonderful time, none of my friends at home will be lieve it when I tell them I actually saw Rudy Vallee in the flesh. That’s something that hadn’t occurred to me. What can I d oabout that? It’ll be terrible to have them not believe me. if I’d thought ahead of time, I could have got you to have our pic tures taken together—mine and Rudy’s—or something, for It’ll be tough not to be believed.” But by then I could see that she didn’t more than half believe it her self. Which was just as well. * * • Odds and end-pieces: New York has her mama’s boys—who wouldn’t thin kof attending a first night, go ing to a new restaurant or turning up at a cocktail party without their par ents . . . Richard Watt’s, Jr., Beraie Sobel and Clifton Webb are three of these, almost as celebrated for their devotion to their mothers as for their other accomplishments . . . Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the swimming star, never “trains” for her splashing . . ! She eats what she likes, goes to bed when she pleases and between cross country rambling with her husband’s band, movie and radio engagements, she scarcely ever gets a chance to practice . . . But she manages to stay in the top flight of lady swimmers . . . And come to think, the swimming division is the only one of the ath- • letic departments which consistently turns out lookers among its female stars. < American Civilization,” by Charles A. and Mary R. Beard: “If reason was to he the guide m politics, religion and education, it fol lowed that freedom of press and speech must be an essential element in the human scheme of things. This theory Jefferson also carried to Its logical conclusion; utterly rejecting the tyrant’s plea thatliberty can be best protected by ‘beating down licen tiousness,’ he went the whole length in asserting that the government should not interfere with the expres sion of opinion until it merged into an overt act. Even open resistance to government, which logic forced him to face, was not so dreadful in his eyes. When he heard of Shay’s uprising in Massachusetts, he ex claimed: ‘God forbid that we should ever be for 20 years without such a rebellion.’ ” It was no wonder that when Jef ferson first was elected to the presi dency, in 1800, Alexander Hamilton, as the leader of the defeated Fed eralists, sought by a legal gerryman der in New York state, to prevent the presidential electors from voting ac cording to the popular will. But Gov ernor John Jay, listening to public opinion, refused to permit this dis graceful act. » * • Another Clue? Another “clue” to the Democratic campaign may be gathered from these words, delivered by Attorney General Homer S. Cummings before Tam many in New York: “The theory of our government has not changed, but the times have changed and invention has altered the scope and tempo of our life. There are many influential and intelligent citizens who are disturbed by these things and indulge in fears, largely artificial, that something terrible is happening in America. “They seek to interpret the law and constitution in such fashion that they will check rather than guide the stream of life. They fling themselves athwart the currents of existence and order them to pause. These futile gestures bring only disappointment and bitterness to those who indulge in them. “Nothing is going to happen to America, except that it is growing and that it is insisting that it shall not lose its freedom in the process/ * * * Increase All Around Bus traffic has not dropped because ■ of lower rail fares. Instead both bus ■ and rail traffic have increased. This bears out Henry Ford’s belief that a constantly decreasing price will broaden markets and increase business and earnings. Many economists also hold to that belief, but the world has been tend ! ing in the other direction since the war. The constant effort has been to force prices up. Senator James Ccuzena of Michi gan. who once was a Henry Ford part ner, told this writer a few months ; ago that in casual conversation with a steel corporation president he had suggested that a lowering of steel prices, not an increase, would open ’ wide new markets for the industry. 1 It would make unnecessary, too, the 1 high “protective” tariff. But the steel chieftain would not be convinced. Not In the News ONE OF THE better syndicate edit ors has a mother-in-law who makes regular trips to fortune tellers and mediums. Recently she was told by one of them that her daughter would be the mother of twins. Since then the editor has been scouring New York City for insurance against the possibility of a double blessing! • * * LEARNING OF our pet peeve socthing campaign, a Cleveland, 0., mail carrier, who doesn’t want his name published, responded quickly with his favorite aggravations. He says he didn’t have to sit down and figure out the things that irk him; they have bothered him for years. He writes: “I am a mail carrier, and, be lieve me, my job gives me plenty to ‘beef’ about. A lot of people think that all we postmen have to worry about is to get the right mail to the right people. I wish that were so. ‘The thing that bothers me most is how some people regard us as ma chines instead of human beings. On my route there are some who think I ought to be at their houses every day at the same minute. There’s one old lady who bawls me out regularly every time I am as much as five minutes late. She wants her mail at 10:45 sharp, and if she doesn’t get it she rants and raves and threatens to notify Washington about me. “Another woman has been trying j for years to use me as an alarm clock. I reach her house about nine o’clock in the morning, and she wants me to ring the doorbell so she’ll know it’s time to get up. Well, if i have any mail for her, I ring the doorbell, but if I haven’t, I let her sleep. After all, my job is to carry mail— not to rout lazy women out of bed! “Another thing that burns me up is being asked to charge postage-due on letters and packages, it seldom amounts to more than a few cents, but there are some people who have the nerve to ask you to put it on the cuff. The funny thing is that I have to tell the same people, time after time, that it’s against the rules. And why don’t people keep their dogs tied up when they know it’s time for the mail man? I like dogs, but I don t like to be bitten. My legs i are covered with scars from dog bites ' that might haw been avoided if peo- ] pie had been a little more consider- i ate. j 'I guess there never was a man 1 carrier who wasn’t called nosey at one 1 Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIBD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Friday, July 10. Morning stars: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Eve. ning stars: Venus, Neptune, Jupiter. Moon: last quarter tomorrow. * * * NOTABLE NATIVITIES Rexford Guy Tugwell, b. 1891, No. 1 “Brain-Truster” and director p 1 the Resettlement Administration ... Nicola Telsa, b. 1857, discoverer of I alternating current and 700 other * notable inventions . . . Liliaue Carre Flynn, known as Lili Damita, b. 1906, cinemactress . . . Graham McNamee, b. 1889, radio announcer . . . Joan Marsh, b. 1911, cinemac-’ tress. * * * TODAY’S YESTERDAYS July 10, 1777—William Barton, 29- year-old Rhode Islander, abducted a British general from his own head quarters. Robert Prescott, commander at Newport, had made himself especially obnoxious to local patriots, and Bar ton revolved to capture him With 38 men in four whale-boats, he crossed Narrangansett Bay, slipped past three British warships, to land near Newport. He surprised tha guards on duty in the sleeping Mmp used a negro’s head as a battering ram to break down the general’s door and carried him, undressed, to the American lines, to be presented to George Washington. Congress rewarded Barton a sword for his exploit, yet after the Revolu tion allowed him to remain in jail 14 years because of debt. * * * July io, 1780—The military find imval force sent by Louis XVI to aid the American Revolutionists, arrived at Newport, R. 1., in command, of Lieut. Gen. Jean Baptiste de Vim our, Comte de Rochambeau, A few days later the 8,000 soldiers joined Washington’s army on the Hudson, above New York, and began to play a vital part in the defeat of thd * British. Revolutionists cut off Louis’ head a few years later, and the aid he gave American revolutionists was a reason. The expense entailed com pleted the bankruptcy of his govern ment. !'* * * July 10, 1863—The United states ■ went to war with Japan, without the knowledge or authority of Congress! When deaths of four Britons led Britain to make demands on Japan 1 a nd cause all foreigners to be order- i i ed to leave the country, the Ameri can minister refused to leave, and his : legation at Nagasaki was destroyed < by a mob. Simultaneously, an Amerl i can steamer was attacked by twq Jpanese ships. > The American minister on his ■ own initiative ordered the nearby U. > S. S. Wyoming to attack the city. It i did, blowing up the two Japanese at tacking-ships and silencing six lord batteries. The U. S. s. Jamestown x ‘ . was sent against Yokohama, and tha ; minister, Robert Hewson Pruyn, 48, i of Albany, N. Y., chartered and armed ; l a Chinese ship, Ta-Kiang, to join [ French and British shps in a fur* L ther attack. There were no cable facilities, and > mails were months in transit between [ Japan and Washington. Thus while the Union battled the Confederacy, the U. S. was engaged in another • war, with a foreign country, unbe , knownst to the government! By the > time Washington did know of tha war, Pruyn had forced Japan to pay heavy indemnities and established ' > peace. «| i* * * July 10 Among State Histories: 1790—Three Carmelite nuns and a sub-prioress, arrived at Port Tobacco, Md„ from Belgium to establish the first convent in the U. s.—the moth er house of all religious houses for women in the country . . . 1865- First rail of the first railroad be tween the Missouri river and the Pacific and Union Pacific, was laid at Council Bluffs, lowa . . . 1925 Dayton, Tenn., was the center of the world’s attention, with the opening of the trial of John T. Scopes for teaching high school students “evolu tion.” * * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY! 20 Years Ago Today—ln one day, July 1, Sir Douglas Haig’s Somme offensive had broken through the German third line for six miles east of Fricourt and one mile west. For the next 12 days he gained only yards, clearing the way to the sec ond line. A number of outer bas tians, island fortresses, had to be taken before there oould be a gen eral attack on the second line. Here a complete picture of the pow er of modem weapons of destruction was drawn. Before the Somme there had been havoc beyond anything oth er wars had. known, but never so complete. Picardy’s smiling countryside with rolling hills and deep valleys cut by chalk streams—a land of prosperous farms ,sown with small villages—was •* smitten by a storm which did not I s pas away but endured for weeks and for months. Over an area 10 miles wide by 20 long the whole face of * j the earth was changed beyond recog. nition, the heart ox the hills was blown out, the smoothly rounding slopes of other elevations were splotched with craters, like volcanoes: and everything in between was like f an ancient Pompeii or Messina through which had flowed streams • of lava and burning ashes not only to engulf but to endure. Gone was all there was of human habitation and the fields of human : effort, and the earth was sowed with * steel and deadly gases, and overturn ed with the sterile understrata, as t if there was never to be any return to of life here till the end of time. (To be continued) tune or another. I hate to deliver tj postcards because of the ‘I hope you liked what you read on the back’ looks that I get. As if I would b« interested in the trips that people write on postcards!”