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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’n. Gilreath Press Service - Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service - World Wide Pictures 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 c= T/e36> —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. 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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 ,