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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 Oftice at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year _ 7.50 Six Months ......... .......... 3.75 Three Months ...... .......... 1.D5 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 MAYOR GAMBLE - LAW VIOLATOR. In order to prove embezzlement under the law, it is neces sary to prove the amount of money taken and to establish that % it was taken with intent to convert those monies to the defend ant’s personal use. With the accounting methods of the City Clerk’s office under Mayor Thomas Gamble’s regime, it may" be impossible to prove embezzlement by Gamble but there is a •hortage in the city sinking fund in the amount of $287,125. Even though embezzlement may not be proven, the Savannah taxpayers are entitled to the facts. z Legally there may be no embezzlement. Mayor Gamble has diverted monies which legally should have been applied to the linking fund. He has used these monies for other purposes, which is a distinct violation of the law. Mayor Gamble and he alone is responsible for this shortage. Discrepancies of this kind should not escape the attention of County Solicitor Samuel A. Cann. Whether the $287,125 was used for the personal aggrandize ment of Mayor Gamble or whether it was used for political pur poses, it has been spent in violation of the law. County Solicitor Samuel A. Cann cannot fail to bring these facts before the pres ent impaneled Grand Jury if he expects to carry out his oath of office and retain the respect of the taxpayers of Chatham county. The city audit, which Mayor Gamble has failed to publish in an intelligent manner, would have revealed these facts and showed whether we are correct in our assertions or not. A public official has not the remotest moral or legal right upon any exigency, if there be one, to deviate one iota from the laws set up by the General Assembly of Georgia for the guid ance of his conduct and official acts while in public office. The solicitor general is charged with the responsibility of legal ob servance by the public officials who are functioning in the county in which he represents. The Savannah Daily Times sincerely trusts that the Hon. Samuel A. Cann will not be derelict in his duties to the taxpayers of this county. ATTENTION PUBLIC BUSES AND LAW-MAKERS. Politicians are becoming active in their respective races. At this moment, they are keenly receptive to advice and criti- * cism as to their future official acts. The major responsibility which a representative or senator upon his pledge in the oath of office is public safety. ’ The Savannah Daily Times has carried numerous editorials con cerning the laxity and carelessness in the operative personnel of our bus transportation companies due to insufficient legislation covering their actions. i Every known phase of railroad activity has been covered | by national and state legislation in order to guarantee to the jrt public safe transportation. Why should this not be applicable 5 Jto buses? Why should not buses be properly manned by experi enced men, properly examined, properly bonded and covered by proper legislation? In many instances, the writer of this editorial has been a passenger upon buses and has observed bus drivers carrying on a conversation with passengers while the bus was running fifty miles per hour. Is this safe for the passengers or for those who are riding or walking on the highways? Proper legislation would eliminate such procedure, would guarantee to the public that safety which they are entitled to. . It would be well for the voters of this country to take ad vantage at this moment and discuss with their candidates for the Legislature and Congress such legislation effecting the operation of these public carriers. They should be made to promise the -passage of such an act which will give the right to our state and national authorities to properly inspect and govern their opera tion. The general public has been the recipient of much conver sation concerning this subject from the law-makers of our country. It is now time for us to receive more action and less talking. OUR READERS’ FORUM | (All communication! Intended for pub lication under this heading must bear th* 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 Imited to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not Intend that the selection of letters pub lished in this eolumn 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 Daily Times: The baseball fans of this fair city want to know when we are going to get a new deal in baseball. By our continuous support of a losing ball club we have shown our desire to put new life into the Old South Atlantic league, but due to the fact that we have a manager that knows less about baseball than the bat boy, this desire has been denied. The fans are getting fed up on such baseball as played recently and many more games like that one and instead of searching for players the officers < the club will have to etart look- Ing for fans- Yes, we admit that every team has its off days and nights but the game I refer to was not lost due to this season but due to the mis management of the team. Every fan knows that Roy does not seem to get going until after three or four in nings and removing him from the game last night was a fine example of mismanagement. When Roy was removed from the game he was four runs behind and when the game end ed we were 11 runs in the rear. Look back through Roy’s record and see if there has ever been a game when an opposing team scored seven runs off of Roy after the fourth inning. The fans are not after roasting the players, they are doing their part they are playing good ball but when they have a manager such as the one we have what can you expect? The baseball fans of this city ask this question. We have changed pitchers, we have changed catchers and 'jfielders but just when are we going to change managers???????? Mr. Manager get wise to yourself and step out of the way for some one that knows the game. A BASEBALL FAN. •• PULLING US OUT OF THE DEPRESSION W? J i / fl / / // y/ / / / / / / / / 11 » —•• . | | 'I I —WORLD AT A GLANCE— CUTTING OF RELIEF By Legislatures in Opposition VIEWED WITH ALARM By LESLIE EICHEL (Central Press Staff Writer) Labor clashes are not the chief worry of the government as to future months—but relief riots. Legislatures in several important states —notably Republican-dominat ed states—have shut down on relief. The situation is especially precari ous in New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Ohio (where anti-New Deal Demo crats control). • • • New Jersey State aid to communities stopped April 15 in New Jersey. The American Association of So cial Workers has issued a special re port on the New Jersey situation. Prior to the slash, the allowance for a family of four was $9.70 a week. Eight out of 41 communities con tinued to maintain that scale The other communities cut the scale to $2.50 a week for a family of sou nine cents a day per per son. Furthermore, in 16 communities all persons were dropped from relief and forced to re-apply. Investigations were slow, cruel and aosurd rules were applied in many instances—and people left to starve. In 19 cities a forced labor policy was adopted-:—even as to young girls. Bby R, |. SCOTT fi BLACK Sv/AM ▼j A. NATIVE- oF U K IT BEEN ! " 'TAKEN-16 OTHER PARTS oFTHE ■ram WORLD postal and N ATI ON A L FLA Ci S Cold and new) on-THiS ONE J apanese I IHEQHEA.Ifc.SsI I / HU MAM / The MARATHON Sr. BMMVoLoMEM RIDERS eve- Becan,/ V u io Times AUCb 24, 1512., By '< - 1 A WHILE-! ORDERS FROM CHARLES IX » sSM ‘ RACINq AND OF FRANCE., AT<HE- AVE-R,AqE_ instigation of his mother, FI 2 each CATHARINE DE‘ MEDIGt -DURING A RACE- COPYRIGHT, 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION savannah daily times, Monday, julyis, 1936 In Germany In the German reich, also, there has been forced labor for girls. Now, according to reports which seem fairly well authenticated, an investigation of some of the camp of ficers is demanded by numerous mothers. The German labor camps reduce unemployment totals in the reich. But they do not solve the German economic situation any more than forced labor solves the unemployment problem in the United States. • • • Windfall? Democrats claim Governor Lan don’s message to the Kansas legisla ture on social security as a windfall. The Republicans say, no, it means that the governor is awake to ( social conditions. The governor urged two broad amendments to the Kansas constitu tion to enable the state to conform with the federal social security plan. The governor also issued a state ment asserting the necessity of a “community through its government” protecting “those -who by reason of age or other misfortune may have claims upon us.” Kansas has been termed by social workers as a backward state in so cial legislation. A British View Here are two excerpts from a Brit ish view of the Democratic conven tion in Philadelphia—the view b'tng that of the Manchester Guardian’s correspondent: “Compared with those at the Re publican convention in Cleveland, the ledaers here look younger and keener and the delegates more varied in types and age s A good portion of them are thoughtful looking women.” The correspondent then describes in amazement the antics of delegates and the accompanying din. To which the correspondent adds: ■ “American politics are very phys ical.” * • * Non-Politioal Democrats who seek offices are looking with alarm upon a newjxend of President Roosevelt’s. He seems to have created a super-civil service, for the highest jobs. No job seeker has been appointed to fill vacancies in these choice posi tions: Under secretary of the treasury, assistant secretary of the navy, di rector of the budget, and comptroller general, to say nothing of many other posts in the hands of trainzi men or “brain trusters.” Now, when Postmaster General Farley goes on leave, the active head of the post office department as sumes charge. This situation is unprecedented, es pecially in an election year. Off the edast of Africa there are red fogs—composed not of water but of sand blown from the Sahara, hun dreds of miles aawy. -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- HOW DROUGHT IS “MADE” As Related By Writer From Farm Region BY LAXITIES OF MAN (Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, July 13.—About 40 years ago an old chap of the name of Campbell ran in Sioux City (Iowa) a weekly publication called “Soil Cul ture.” It was devoted to the development of what was known as “dry farming.” That is to say, it explained how crops could be produced in territory u’here the normal rainfall was scanty. It advocat'd very deep plowing and then the systematic scratching of the plowed-up surface into what was des cribed as a “dust mulch” about an inch deep, to retain whatever mois ture did fall, like a saturated blanket. Professor Campbell w.|» regarded then as a great scientist—he was going to make the semi-desert blos som like a rose. He was fanatically sincere and had many followers. The farmer who didn’t pulverize his acres, preparatory to blowing away down to hard-pan, was regarded as a lazy cultivator. Then—Dust Storms The scheme worked faiyly well for a while, before the blowing away process had progressed far. It probably did*not do much dam age in lowa and adjoining regions. For one thing that area is well rained on and never has required the in tensive Campbell treatment. Further more the ground is known as “gum bo”—too heavy and sticky to stay pulverized, or to be wafted from its moorings, anyway. In other parts of the northwest, MyNew York By James As well (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) NEW YORK, July 13. with the heat: It is untrue that a man must go to the country to enjoy the birds and the flowers. There are so many of both in the country that you scarcely ever get a chance to become acquainted. JB’ut with the smallest ter race or balcony jutting from a sky scraper window you become intimate ly concerned with the life and ec centricities of, every sprig of ivy and nighborhood pigeon or sparrow. The trouble is that apartment dwell ers, having made the acquaintance of sparrows or other feathered citizens, commence chatting with them after the fifth or six year; particularly in seasons when the thermometer jiggles around 100. The real danger comes when we start addressing the gera . niums and potted tomato plants. I have a tomato plant known as “Jack.” » ♦ ♦ The picture “Public Enemy’s Wife” is very good melodrama ,yet the title suggests a continuation of the cycle in the manner of the Rover Boys. There could be “Public Enemy’s Son,” “Public Enemy’s and “Public Enemy’s Friend.” Or it might go along with “Public Enemy at Camp,” “Public Enemy /.i the Adri atic,” “Public EnemV Among the Eskimoes,” “Public Enemy at Yale,” “Public Enemy in Congress” or even “Public Enemy Among the Utopians.” ♦ ♦ w Rubberneck note: The decorous, Georgian front of the Chinese Cham ber of Commerce; somehow you ex pect a pagoda. ♦ * ♦ Expeditionists into Long Island re turn with stories of “For Sale’’ signs in the yard of the Petit Trianon at Lake Ronkonkoma. William K. Van derbilt, a prodigious cost, built this gingerbread mansion at the turn of the century and it becam? the best known oasis for ths get-out-and-push ' motorists of the years before the war. Jne man who sadly related the , shuttered desolation of the Petit , Trianon is 50 and was a cut-up in t the last decade, 1905-15. “Every time anyone mentioned a cold bottle and a bird In those days, we winked and intoned, ‘Aha, the Petit Triancti, is it?’ Once I motored out there in a 1910 Stanley Steamer and was ar rested by a village constable. He swore I was go-ng all of 20 miles an hour, but I contended this was im possible because I was no conscience less scorcher and dare-devil.’’ ♦ • ♦ Reflection in the heat: Fifty years ago the greatest actor of the time couldn’t have lured a dozen people into one of the theatric incubators here, innocent of any sort of cooling system. The first time electric fans were installed in a Broadway theater the noise of their whirring was so loud that the audience went away puzzled; no one had heard a word the ' actors said. * ♦ * Manhattan routine: promptly at 4:30 p.m., when the sun tilts out of , the tenement streets, the fire hydrants ‘ are turned on and the slum children, , emerging like little pale imps from , the dun doorways, splash into cas cades of cold water. It’s a curious fact that however many playgrounds the city provides, replete with huge pools and swings and ball courts, the young- { sters would rather play among the . trucks and cars of the ssrtet; there . is a fascination for them about as- 1 phalt which puzzles the welfare work- ' ers. Maybe it’s the added fillip of c squirming out from under the wheels. 5 "A family of Aswells was complete ly wiped out by the Galveston flooH of a generation ago,” writes a cor respondent, “and I wonder if you are * descendant of them, for I have never 1 seen the name elsewhere.” Did you 1 say completely wiped out? a and some of the more southerly west likewise, the soil is dustier (sandier is too mild a word for it). Ground to powder, it yielded results if immediately rained on. Otherwise the winds scooped it up and it began to vanish in dust storms. It took a little time for this ten dency to manifest itself. Now it is doing so. ♦ ♦ ♦ Water Holes done Another item: In my day in the middle north \\. t (nearly half a century ago) the coun try was covered by little lakes and sloughs (called “slews”). They fur nished a water supply from which the sun could suck up moisture and re dispense it judge-matically. Practically all of these Ititle water holes have been drained off, to make room for cultivation, and the lack of them has upset the rainfall. In brief, the climate has been changed. • * • Beavers, Too, Gone I can remember when beavers regulated irrigation. For instance, “Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.” They did not supervise the lower reaches of streams like the Missis sippi, but they regulated them from their headwaters. Now the little ani mals are exterminated. Game wardens have tried to check the destruction of wild life, but they haven’t been very successful. * • • New Deal’s Aim The New Deal has manifested an inclination to get back to first pirn .ciples. It named “Ding” Darling, cartoon ist, as one of its conservatosr. Elxt “Ding” couldn’t get any action —he resigned as a public servant be cause he recognized that his cause was hopeless. What Program? Conservation! It is a New Deal principle. However, one would like to hear a program enunciated. How and where re-plant farmers from the stricken districts- to pros perous districts? There is action now in the drouth crisis, but what is the specific long-term program? ALL or US I ... 1... I I OWN a High Horse ... I ride him when my feelings are “hurt”. I am probably the world’s cham pion procrastinator . . . But it’s not much fun. Too often I discover that I have put off doing the things I wanted to do and done the things I didn’t want to So. I know a man to whom the idea of taking a ride down the highway on a Sunday afternoon is always attract ive .. . So he yields to it. and then spends it cursing the stupidl.y of every other motorist on the highway. I’m not superstitious but the idea of lighting three cigarettes on a match is always embarrassing . . . One of the other two may object and I’m embarrassed by HIS superstitiousness. The most annoying job in the house is fixing a leaky faucet . . . First you must find the place to turn off the water. Then you get the faucet apart . . . Thqn you discover that none of your washers will fit . . . So you put it together again, leaking, and tackle the job another day. I saw' a small boy rough-housing his small dog ... If I treated that dog just half as roughly, he’d yowl for help . . . But a small boy—well, HE is different. I’ve never lost any friends through lending money . . . Those who didn’t pay it back were never my friends. Those who did, still are. Chitting the lawn isn’t so bad. Trim ming the*edges is the tedious business. Who chooses the young men who sell gasoline in service stations? He does a good job, and so do they. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. What is the capital of the Ter ritory of Alaska? • 2. Name the trophy competed for annually by amateur golf teams re presenting Great Britain and the United States. 3. Define “fiduciary relationship.” Hints on Etiquette The proper introduction for a gov ernor and his wife is “Governor and Mrs. Brown.” Words of Wisdom We sleep, but the loom cf life never stops and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up tomor row.—Henry Ward Beecher. Today’s Horoscope Persons hose birthday is today have an intense desire to make people and things better. However, they are apt to be considered indifferent and cold, but this does not swerve them from what they consider the strict line of duty. They are appreciated by those who learn to understand them. One-Minute Test Answers 1 L Juneau. 2. The Walker International Ama- teur Golf cup. It was first offered in 1 1922 by George H. Walker, former * president of the. United States Golf i association. j 3. One of trust or trusteeship. < Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Monday, July 13; Tammuz 25. 5696 in Jewish calendar. Nathan Bedford * Forrest's Birthday, a holiday in Tenn essee. Foundation Day in Dominican i ! Republic. Moon: last quarter. NOTABLE NATIVITIES Mary E. Woolley, b. 1863, president ' of Mt. Holyoke College . . . Raymond • Leslie Buell, b. 1896, president of ; Foreign Policy Association . . . Sid ney Webb Baron Passfield, b. 1859, British Labor statesman . . . Phillipa Lord, B. 1092, radio actor . . . Carl E. Milliken, b. 1877, president of Mo- t tion Pictures Producers and Distri “ butors of America .. . Walter L. Main, [ b. 1867, circus operator. In 1896 the . biggest attraction in his circus was , one of those wonderful new machines ' called automobiles . . . * * * . TODAY’S YESTERDAYS ; July 13, 1488—Supposed birthday f of one Ursula Southiel, author of the famed Mother Shipton’s prophecies, i who is supposed to have foretold by centuries invention of the flying ma chine, submarine travel, etc., and various catastrophes. , Her 15th century prophecies actual ly were the 19th century forgeries of one Charles Hindley, who when he . announced the end of the world in 1881 as a Mother Shipton prophecy, caused hundreds of rural English folk to desert their houses, give up their belongings and spend their days . and nights in the fields praying. His forgery was a greater achive men than that of William Francis Mannix, who while in Honolulu jail, wrote “Memoirs of Li Hung Chang” which the world seriously accepted for years as the autobiography of a distinguished Chinese statesman. * * ♦ July 13, 1793—Marie Anne Char lotte Corday made herself an immortal by killing Jean Paul Marat, Swiss born leader of the French Revolution, in his bathtub. Charlotte, 25-year-old miss from the provinces whose lover Barbaroux had been executed by Marat’s order over came his guards with her maidenly innocence and got into his apartment to jab a knife into his heart and change the history of France—and of all Europe and the western world. Condemned immediately to death she sat gayly for the painting by the artist Hauer which you may enjoy today, then walked calmly to the guillotine. , Marat’s body, buried in the Panth eon with highest honors, was cast out 15 months later to public applause. • • • July 13, 1821—Nathan Bedford Forrest was bom in Marshall county, Tenn. 44 years before his enemy, the Union General Sherman called him “the most remarkable man the civil war produced on either side,” and 46 years before he founded the Ku Klux Klan. His cavalry campaigns are still studied as models in military colleges all over the world. He himsef had little schooling. In his report of the capture of Fort Pil low he wrote: “We busted the fort at ninerclock and scatered the nig ers. The men is still acillanem in the woods.” When a soldier made a third request for a furlough, Forrest scribbled across, it. “I told you twist Goddamit know.” July 13 Among State Histories— -1787: Congress enacted the North west territory ordinance, which star ted a rush of settlers into the Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wis consin country . . . 1890: A cyclone upset a steamer on Lake Pepin, Minn.., and drowned 100 . . . 1934: San Fran cisco’s general strike called. * * * FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The Span ish government suspended constitu tional guarantees and declared martial law throughout the country because of a railway strike. What the government didn’t know at the time w’as that the strike had been promoted by foreign agents de sirous of interrupting of movement of war supplies to belligerent countries. The United States wasn’t the only neutral country in which the war was going on. (To Be Continued) Your’e Telling Me? HOW TO KEEP COOL: Read to day’s weather forecast about the even greater heat wave now op its way. That will make you break into a cold sweat. • • • Motorist runs down three hitch hikers. Maybe was just trying to plow under an over abundance of thumbs. The Emperor Nero, now writes a historian ost his throne because the Romans did not like his singing. Let that be a lesson, you crooners you. Natives so Ethiopia occasionally see mirages in thier deserts. One very re cent mirage they thought they saw was the League of Nations. • • • “I’m the most popular man !n America,” says George Bernard Shaw. How did he find out? We did our very best to prevent him from know ing. • * • The government shelterbelt pro gram may have fallen through but we’re not worrying about that now. What has us gasping is the nation’s swelterbelt— and we seem to be in the middle of It. We must be going in for records in 1936; record blizzards, record dust storms record floods, record drough, record heat wave. If it keeps up Amer icans will need to show record en durance.