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U. S. AVIATION LEADS!
The inauguration of the new dusk-to-dawn air service
between the United Spates and South America, by the Pan Amer
ican Air Lines, is indeed an advanced step in the annals of world
aviation. A leader in the circles of major aviation, this com
pany with its far-reaching influence among the world’s courses
of air transportation has added another laurel to its already
large store of triumphs.
A passenger can now step on a plane in Miami, be comfort
ably tucked in, and the next morning day-break will find the
traveler at some point in South America, rested and fit for the
day's work. This is indeed a far cry from the days of the old
pusher planes with their wooden propellei* blades, and chain
drive motors. We wonder what the pioneers would say if they
took a ride in one of the multi- motored ships which daily trav
erse the country’s many air lanes with perfect safety and ease
at speeds exceeding 200 miles per hour?
Aviation has advanced by leaps and bounds in the last ten
years. From the single motored planes with their degree of un
certainty, we'have experimented and conducted tests to aid the
measures of safety until the United States occupies a niche at
the top of the world in advanced aeronautical engineering. For
eign countries have taken our ideas and transformed them into
ships and power plants suitable for the air travel across the At
lantic and Pacific. It is an acknowledged fact that the United
States has the fastest ships, best pilots and safest facilities for
the handling of transportation in the air.
Our transport lines operate at a higher speed, are more
comfortable and have a degree of efficiency which can’t be
touched by foreign air lines. Is it any wonder, with the stand
ards now in vogue as prescribed by the American public? We
wanted speed, and they gave us speed. We wanted comfort and
they gave us comfort. We wanted safety and they gave us safe
ty. Is there anything else that we might ask for?
The American public is becoming more and more air-minded.
The old days of being skeptical are gone never to return. The
average business man can now drive out to the airport and be
in some distant city, perfectly rested, and ready for the day's
work ahead of him. It is a known fact that the people of the
United States are the most exacting in the world, and in view
of this fact is it puzzling to know that we lead in the paths of
transportation ?
All Os Us
By MARSHAL MASLIN
MAKING PEOPLE OVER
What a lot of time you have wast
ed — trying to make people over.
How often you’ve said: “My friend
would be perfect if he were just a
little different. My child would be
perfect if he weren’t so impulsive.
My wife would be perfect if she’d only
get to places on time. My husband
would be perfect if he only knew
Where he left his hat.”
Always trying to make people over.
Always struggling with other people’s
habits. Always being “terribly disap
pointed.”
Perhaps you don’t do that. But
If you don’t, you are wiser than the
Your’e Telling
Me?
President Roosevelt is praised for
modesty in an editorial because he
said “Presidents do make mistakes.”
But, wait a minute—he didn’t say
ALL presidents did he?
The 1936 campaign slogan for
reckless drivers appears to be: “Two
crumpled fenders for every car.”
Now there is a rumor King Edward
VIII may become affianced to the
granddaughter of the former Ger
man kaiser. But newspaper head
line writers hope not. Her name is
Princess Frederica Louise Thyra Vic
toria Margerita Sophia Olga Cecilia
Isabella Christa.
The drought may be a dry subject
but everyone seems to be working
themselves into a lather over it.
Store advertises summer suits for
■nen which weigh only 43 ounces. But
not when we’re wearing one along
with a fountain pen jacknife, cigar
ette pack, match box, pocket comb,
card case, wallet, five pencils and a
Ting of 10 keys for which we’ve for
gotten the use.
New National league umpire says
major leagues just like minors. He’ll
discover, though there are more fans
to protest his decisions.
There doesn’t seem to be much en
thusiasm for the proposal to create
• national holiday in honor of the
Indian. Maybe congress is waiting
for the day when the Vanishing
Anaaricaa has xeallg vanished.
rest of us. Certainly wiser than I
am . . . because I shiver at all the
hours, all the trouble I’ve caused other
people at that foolish, presumptouus
game of making people over.
It took me a long time to realize
that the little faults in our friends
are so often merely the weaknesses of
their strengths. The man with a
sudden temper so often has a generous
nature. The woman who has no
“money sense” and is extravagant is
so often just as extravagant in her
kind feeling about you—about you and
her other friends. The child who
dreams may be a poet; the boy who
is always messing up the place may
be a mechanical genius. Human na
ture is such a bulging, careless, hard
to-handle sort of thing that you must
theat it gently. It cannot be ordered
it cannot be forced. Give it harsh
commands and it silently rebels.
Order a slight blemish removed, and
the quality you love best in your
friend may pass from your enjoyment
forever.
Do you know Robert Browning’s
“My Last Duchess’ ? That poem ex
pressed what I’m trying to say. She
was a merry thing:
“She had a heart—how shall I say
—too soon made glad,
Too easily impressed; she liked
whate’er
She looked on; and her looks went
everywhere.”
She smiled too much to please her
husband. She smiled at him, but she
smiled at others, too. “This grew”
he said, “I gave commands; then all
smiles stopped together.” And so she
died and there was no sweet Duchess
anywhere to smile on anybody.
He had tried, the foolish lover, to
make his smiling sweetheart over. He
failed most miserably, broke her
heart and broke his own mistaken
heart as well. And so will you if
you try too much to make men and
women over in ways that, after all
are not important.
When planting lilies, if the dram
age is not perfect, dig out the bed to
a depth of two feet, as shown in the
above Garden-Graph. Then put in
a base of coal ashes and gravel to a
depth of about four inches. Next fill
in a layer of ordinary good garden
or surface soil. On top of this put a
four-inch layer of a mixture consist
ing of loam, leaf mold and sand in
equal parts. This makes an ideal
soil in which to grew lilies.
Plant the lily bulbs on a cushion
of sand ,anq heap sanes about the
1 bulb to keep borers
The Bible Man, Who Built His House on Sand, Has Nothing Modern
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—WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE—
DEMOCRATIC STRATEGY
Countering Republican Offensive
IGNORES ATTACKS
(Central Press, Washington iß'ureau,
1900 S Street)
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 11.—As cam
paign strategy begins to reveal itself
it becomes evident that Republican
policy is to place the Democrats in a
defensive, explanatory, apologetic po
sition. The Democratic aim, on the
other hand, is to sidestep exactly this
position and figure in the role of vi
gorous assailants of a reactionary ele
ment, which seeks (as per the Demo
cratic account) to get back to a bad
system that the New Deal knocked
out.
The Republicans’ tasks is simpler
than the Democrats’ for the obvious
reason that the former are the outs
trying to break in, whereas the Dem
ocrats are the ins trying to stand the
other folk off.
And it is proverb! 1 that an attack
is more inspiring than mere resist
ance.
• • *
Pro and Con
Accordingly the Democrats’ game Is
to appear to be the attackers rather
than the attacked. They find it some
what difficult.
They have “three long years.” fresh
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in everyone’s memory, to answer for.
Preceding the “three long years,”
as Democratic orators have done their
best to emphasize, were “12 long Re
publican years.” However, the Repub
lican years are far enongh back to
have been more or less forgotten.
And, if they’re remembered, it is re
membered that more than two-thirds
of them were years of what was sup
posed to be super-abundant prosperity.
The Democratic version is that it
was a kind of prosperity which re
sulted in near-ruin—a near-ruin from
which the New Deal has rescued the
country.
♦ * ♦
What Is “Prosperity?”
That a boom is the very thing to be
followed by a slump is true enough.
No less an authority than Herbert
Hoover, then secretary of commerce,
assured me of this in an interview
I had with him in 1925. But he said
that what was prevailing at that time
was not a boom; it was a new state
of society.
It did not prove to be so. I am suf
ficiently convinced that it was a fake
affair, but I am nob so sure that the
average voter is convinced of that.
Nor am I sure of the average voter’s
belief in the genuineness of the New
Deal’s rescue of the country from the
slump. Business has improved but un
employment has not decreased much.
Now, business (big business, anyway),
despite its improvement, still notori
ously is anti-New Deal. And I cannot
imagine that a jobless workingman
believes that his lot has been much
improved.
* • •
Dissatisfied Elements
Agriculture is not well enough satis
fied to have headed off the Lemke
movement.
The Townsendites and the divide,
the-wealth group are turbulent.
‘ The white-collar class sees its liv
ing costs increasing and its incomes
remaining stationary.
* * •
Attacks Dsregarded
Well, the Landonites undertake an
attack on the New Deal in behalf of
all these elements.
The New Dealers ignore the attack.
Neither their platform nor Presi
dent Roosevelt’s acceptance speech
recognized it. None of their campaign
oratory thus far has done so.
They just do not propose to be at
tacked. If attacked, they do not in
tend to notice it. Their idea is to be
attackers—a nonentity from a “typ
ical prairie state”; “economic royal
ists.”
• • •
On Defensive
As a matter of fact, however, the
Democrats are on the defensive.
They do not like it. They would
prefer to be the aggressors.
Nevertheles, a defense can be so
strong that an attack cannot over
whelm it.
It looks like it in this' instance.
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHAT PRICE DROUGHT?
National Income Had Made Large Increase;
WILL RECOVERY LESSEN?
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
HOW MUCH WILL the drouth set
back recovery? Financial interests are
busily discussing that. The United
States continues to remain dependent
largely on farm income. It is that in
come which keeps auto and steel
plants and dependent industries go
ing.
The drouth will cut total income
tremendously. The immediate effect
will not be felt because government
money will be poured into drouth
regions. First effect probably will be
felt by grain and stock carrying rail
roads with lines in the drouth reg
ions. Then farm implement firms will
feel the effect. Then Wall Street will
begin to discount the effect else
where.
» » •
Tremendous Income
Up to the time of the drouth, bus
iness gains in the United States had
been enormous.
For the first five months of this
year the national income totaled $23,-
305,000.000 against $20,651,000,000
last year, an increase of 12 per cent,
according to Alexander Hamilton In
stitute.
The total quantity of goods produc
ed by factories, farms an mines had
increased 12.6 per cent.
Yet there was no corresponding
increase in the employment of labor.
Thus the revival of “wealth-sharing"
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press Asso
ciation)
NEW YORK, July 11.—As recent
columns have hinted, I have been out
among the gilded organgrinders of
Tin-Pan Alley. There is a sense of
awe—and some uneasiness—in the
temples of “swing” over a startling
new drift.
The business of tune-smithing is
being taken over by women.
Indeed, the gals are muscling in
at such a rapid rate that the conven
tional sad-eyed professor of jazzique,
sitting at the piano with a cigarette
pasted on his lower lip, will soon
cease to convey the species from
screen and footlights. Instead, the
1937 version may be cutie in shorts
and Kiki beret, thumping out im
promptu melodies with finger-tips
painted to match the village fire
truck
Professor Irving Mills, one of the
economic royalists of the band-book
ing and song-publishing business, ad
mits the trend. I asked Duke Elling
ton, who was in the Mills office the
same time I was there, what he
thought about the situation, and the
allowed that he had heard some ru
mors but declared that his interest
lay in the field of interpreting the ne
gro soul in music rather than in com
piling statistics.
Anyhow, there is plenty of evidence
to support my thesis. To name a few
names:
First of all comes to mind the case
of the attractive Ann Ronnell, who
composed a tinkly melody called
“Rain on the Roof” and went on from
there to create the immortal “Big
Bad Wolf” for the Disney studios.
Hollywood was so impresses with Miss
Ronnell’s talent as composer of “The
Big Bad Wolf” that she was snapped
up to write an operatic score for the
next Gladys Swarthout picture. Para
mount evidently casts its song writers
strictly to type.
In this connection, I hear that
George Jessel will write the left of
Eddie Cantor for screen enactment,
after which Eddie Cantor will doubt
less write the life of George Jessel;
but this is beside our point. To con
tinue with the roster of female tom
tom beaters, there are Tot Seymour
and Vee Longhurst, a team which has
movie studios “swinging it” raptly.
They have written such ditties as “Ac
cent on Youth.” There is Jean Bums,
a free lance with a number of hits
to her credit and there is Dorothy
Fields, the lyric writer, who has writ
ten so many times she was in danger
for a time of cornering the market.
Dana Suesse is another comely lass
whose compositions throb out of the
horns of your favorite dance band.
She was commissioned to do a con
certo for Paul Whiteman. If you
heard “Little Man, You’ve Had a
Busy Day,” you know the work of
Mabel Wayne. She is one of the more
prolific of the ditty dashers-off. “The
Lullaby of the Leaves” gave Bernice
Petkere instant recognition and I am
told that Carrie Jacoba Bond, aware
of the bull market in songs by the
ladies, is dusting off her study desk.
Now whenever I mention the ac
tivities of a song publisher, or hint
that people have made money out of
this weird profession, I get a flood
of letters from my customers demand
ing the street and number of the pub
lisher. Mr. Mills says, let them fly.
Tunes which come to his office ac
tually get read, he says, and about
one in 1,000 get published. He’s lo
cated in the Brunswick Building.
But remember, he said tunes. Poets
with fetching lyrics, who only need
a musician to complete their songs,
are in an even less promising case.
There is virtually no market at all
for song lyrics in the raw state. It’s
the music, the melody, that counts;
most of the popular tunes would be
come popular if the noises which ac
company them from human throats
were intoned in Chinese.
If you have some pretty verses
which you believe would be hits if ac
companied by a few well-placed saxo
phone bleats and drum throbs, there
is nothing for it but to remove the
punctuation, rhymes and capital let
ters and publish your work in a thin
volume. That way may lie fame. Look
at Gertrude Stein and E. E. Cum
mings.
plans and the readiness with which
recruits have joined John L. Lewis’
industrial unions.
♦ • •
Unprecedented
The recovery of the automobile in
dustry has been unprecedented.
We learn from the Alexander Ham
ilton Institute that sales of passenger
automobiles in the first quarter were
22 per cent larger than a year ago
and 24 per cent above the depression
low. •
Constantly dropping prices through
the years have enlarged markets and
increased earnings.
On the other hand, steel corpora
tions have maintained their old prices
and were it not for the automobile
industry would operate many of their
plants in the “red”.
• • 1
Gloomy
The Wall Street Journal looks at
the political future in this gloomy
state of mind;
“The political approach to basic
economic problems has been of the
stop-gap variety and a vast reshuf
fling may be undertaken at any time
after election, regardless of which
party is in power. The New Deal
capacity for quick decisions and sud
den changes is well known and it
hardly can be doubted that every at
tempt has been made merely to get
by this year somehow with a min
imum of disturbance. The enormous
government expenditures which have
been concentrated in this particular
year, whether so designed or not have
helped that cause.
“As for the Republican outlook, Mt.
Landon is quoted by Senator Robert
D. Carey of Wyoming as being opposed
to farm "benefit payments as a per
manent part of the nation’s farm
policy. No doubt many of the present
stop-gap policies must be revised or
dropped if any attempt at budget
balancing or an ordered outlook is to
emerge.”
♦ • •
Odds Unchanged
Republican Chairman John D. M.
Hamilton continues to claim a sweep
ing victory for Landon. Wall Street,
however, has not changed its bet
ting odds—B to 5 in favor of Roose
velt. There are predictions in New
York that these odds will lengthen
considerably. Not much money is be
ing wagered.
I • •
Dangerous
The large steel corporations, com
prising the American Steel Institute,
find themselves in the most peculiar
spot in which they ever have been.
In the past, they have had matters
their own way. They have controlled
everything within their sphere, in
cluding police and “justice” in steel
regions.
Now John L. Lewis is organizing
their workers. They issued that war
like defi, which did not react with
the public as had been expected.
Then Lewis made his radio speech,
virtually tracing every move they
would make, if they acted as former
ly. and dared them to make those
moves.
In other days, they would not have
cared. Lewis would have been demol
ished. But Lewis knows he can give
evidence to a senate committee head
ed by Senator Robert La Follette of
Wisconsin, which is empowered to in
vestigate intimidation of employes.
And Lewis knows, too. he can count
on Democratic state administrations
and the Democratic national admin
istration.
And—perhaps worst of all —the
steel executives have the Republicans
fearful of accepting any aid from
them, or of promising any assistance.
Lewis singled out J. P. Morgan &
Co., as the leading force behind the
American Steel Institute. The Mor
gan company and the duPonts also
are the leading force behind General
Motors, in the auto industry, as well
as public utilities.
That group was the leading attack
er of the NRA and the Wagner Labor
law. It still refuses to recognize the
lazor board.
John W. Davis, the Morgan attor
ney, is the chief legal adviser in
these various fights.
And Lewis will tie up the American
Liberty League, dominated by the
duPonts with all those organizations.
Lewis, with President Roosevelt in
the background, has become the great
est antagonist the steel corporations
ever have had to meet. They are pre
paring “warfare” on a "grand” scale
for him.
The Grab Bag
One-Minute Test
1. What is a tumverein?
2. Name the device that enables
submarines to observe the sea’s sur
face while just below the surface
3. What are the two capitals of the
Union of South Africa?
Hints on Etiquette
Many of the common rules of eti
quette do not apply in the business
office. For instance, when you are
seated at your desk you need not rise
when your employer or any member
of the office staff approaches you.
Words of Wisdom
Love is sunshine, hat is shadow, life
is checkered shade and sunshine.—
Longfellow.
Todya’s Horoscope
Persons bom on this day often
labor under great mental tension and
when in this condition they retreat
within themselves. They are fond
of travel and are keen and successful
students of men.
One-Minute Test Answers
1. An association of turners or gym
nasts; an athletic club, German in
origin.
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Saturday, July 11; 46th anniver
sary* of admission to the Union of
Wyoming, the 44th state. Moon in
perihelion.
•* • |
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
George W. Norris, b. 1861, senator
from Nebraska . . . Clarence Bud
dington Kelland, b. 1881, novelist
. . . Howard Vincent O’Brien, b.
1886, novelist and columnist . . .
Walter Pach, b. 1883, painter and
author.
* * *
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 11, 1775—Joseph Blanco
White was bom in Seville, Spain, a
future Roman Catholic priest who
become an Anglican and then a Uni
tarian clergyman. He was 53 when
he wrote “To Night,” called the
greatest sonnet in the English lan
guage. It goes:
Mysterious night! when our first par
ent knew
Thee from report divine, and heard
thy name’,
Did not tremble for this lovely frame,
This glorious canopy of light and
blue?
Yet ’neath the curtain of translucent
dew,
Bathed in the rays of the great set
ting flame,
Hesperus with the host of heaven
came
And lo! creation widened on man’s
view,
Who could have thught such dark
ness lay concealed
Within thy beams, O Sun! o® whq
could find,
While fly, and leaf, and insect stood
revealed,
That to such countless orbs thou
mad’st us blind!
Why do we, then, shun death with
anxious strife?—
If light can thus deceive, wherefore
not life?
* • *
July 11, 1767 —John Quincy Adams
was bom in Braintree, Mass., son of
the second president. He was to be
come the sixth and to enjoy himself
leaving the White House in the early
morning to swim in the Potomac,
without a bathing-suit. A girl re
porter, one Anne RoyaU, who knew
of this habit, went to the riverbank,
gathered up the president’s clothes,
sat down on them ,and demanded an
interview on the state banking ques
tion, a matter about whch he had
refused to talk to other reporters.
The president said plenty.
• *
July 11 Among State Histories!
1798—Congress re-established the U.
S. Marine Corps . . . 1799—U. S.
concluded its first treaty of amity
and rights, with Prussia . . . 1804—
Vice President Aaron Burr shot Sec
retary of the Treasury Alexandef
Hamilton to death in a duel at Wee
hawken, N. J., over a newspaper criti
cism of Burr which he believed Ham.
ilton had inspired . . . 1863—Anfiy
Draft riots broke out in New York
City in when more than 1,000 were
killed . . .
SUNDAY IS THE DAY
V Sunday after Trinity, July 12;
Foundation Day in Dominion Repub
lic. Orangeman’s Day in Northern
Ireland. The orthodox day for plant
ing winter turnips.
• * *
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Anthony Eden, b. 1897, Great Brit
tain's Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs . . . Oscar Kammerstein, 11,
b. 1896, librettist—Show Boat, Rosa
Marie, etc. . . . Sidney Lenz, b. 1873
gamester . . . Irving T. Bush, b.
1869, big businessman . . . Olin
West, b. 1874, secretary of American
Medical Association ... Jean Her
sholt, b. 1886, cinemactor.
♦ * ♦
SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS
400 Years Ago Today—Desideriua
Erasmus died of dysentery. Illegiti
mate son of a physician’s daughter
and the young man whose story is
told by Charles Reade’s classic novel,
“The Cloister on the Hearth,” Eras
mus became the greatest scholar of
the 16th century, started Europe out
of the Dark Ages.
* ♦ •
July 12, 1809—Robert Barclay Al
lerdyce, 30, British army officer
known as Capt. Barclay, completed a
walking record never bettered. He
walked one mile in each of 1,000 coi>
secutive hours, at Newmarket, Eng.
land. His time varied from 14 min
utes, 54 seconds a mile in the first
week to 21 minutes, four seconds the
last.
Factographs
The Free City of Danzig, establish
ed under the Treaty of Versailles to •
create a port for Poland, is a sov
ereign and independent city and
state, and is under the domination of
the League of Nations. The city bag
a population of nearly 500,000.
* * •
Under a decree issued in 1927,
foreign clergymen, irrespective of re
ligious faith, were not permitted tp
enter the Republic of Ecuador in
South America.
* « •
A temperature of 56 degrees below
zero has been recorded at the sum
mit of Mt. Lassen, in the state of
California.
• • *
The world-famous Rhodes scholar
ships were established under the will
of Cecil J. Rhodes, South African
statesman.., who died in 1902. Thir
ty-two of these scholarships are as
signed annually to the United States,
• • •
Diplomatic agents of the united
States are divided into three classest
ambassadors, legates or nuncios; en
voys, ministers or other persons ac
credited to sovereigns; charges d’af
faires accredited to ministers for io ,
eign affairs.
• • • 41
The airways distance between Lon
don, England, and Paris, France, ia
only 205 miles. 1 ,