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BEAUFORT S REGATTA.
The raising of the pennant of the Beaufort Yacht Club at
the start of the three-day regatta Thursday, on the beautiful
Beaufort river, will serve as another mile-stone in the hearts of
the sportsmen who make their homes in or around the Coastal
region of the Southeast. Known throughout the entire South as
a most gracious host, the town of Beaufort with its majestic
scenery and tradition-filled atmosphere, is indeed a fitting site
for the yachting races which draw a fleet of fast sailing craft
whose home ports will be any one of a number of prominent
clubs in the entire Southeast.
Beaufort is hailed as the originator of these races which are
held annually in Savannah, Charleston and Beaufort. The wide
stretches of the historic Beaufort river is indeed a striking an
swer to the imaginative powers of the pioneers of yacht-racing
in the Southeast. Everything that can be desired to make visit
ing water-lovers satisfied either in the running of the events or
enjoying the hospitality of the charming Beaufort citizens, has
been nutured carefully by the city fathers of the quaint South
Carolina town. Sportsmen, every one of them, Beaufort’s citizens
are prepared to turn their town over to the visiting sporting
fans who will make their headquarters in the historic spot.
It is indeed a far cry from the days when the South Caro
lina town had annual races with the large bateaus equipped with
s, cotton sails and manned by husky negro crews. It is indeed a far
? cry from the times when the sporting public of the major cities
in the South gathered bqneath the moss-draped oaks to eat their
lunch and watch the clumsy craft come beating up against the
tide and racking from one side of the river to the other. Nowa
. days wa sit in comfortable cars and watch the sleek parade of
racing sloops flash by with their gleaming spread of canvas, at a
spped which would make the old-timers gasp with amazement if
they but witness the present day event. The modern starting gun,
late type buoys, new masts made of steel, light weight canvas and
all of the late improvements which have been devolved from time
to time, until the old type racing bateaus with their clumsy gear
appears as something to be dreamed of, are but a few things
which the present yachting fans enjoy. Is it any wonder that
yachting is a sport fit for the kings?
Beaufort, we know that your regatta starting Thursday, will
again be an event which will be prai ;ed tc the utmost. We know
that you and your beautifully charming people who go to make
i -'JP y° ur beloved citizenry, will do everything in your power to
,y.make the races a success, and always know that we’re for you
4h.11 the way.
PUBLIC OFFICIALS MUST OBEY THE LAW.
The official duties and prerogatives of a public servant are
prescribed in special laws and enactments set up by the legisla
tive bodies of this state and nation.
For Mayor Gamble, or any other public servant, to set them
selves up as immune so that they can defy the law, smoke-screen
ing themselves behind supposed exigencies, is ludicrous and
dangerous, to say the least.
When a public official fails to comply with the law in every
respect, in toto and in detail, he has betrayed a public trust and
is liable to fine, imprisonment, or both, whichever the law may
prescribe. The taxpayers of this country expect and demand
respect for law by their public officials. The sinking fund dis
crepancy is just one of many such examples portrayed during
Mayor Gamble’s tenure of office. His slot machine and anti
gambling escapade is a joke within itself, especially so when a
member of his immediate official family, in fact his closest ad
viser, is operating slot machines in a commissary at the Union
Paper and Bag plant. At an early date, this newspaper will pub
lish a photograph of the interior of this establishment upon its
front pages so that the tax-paying public may see for themselves
the inconsistency of the present municipal regime.
One of the advisers of this publisher, as stated by the Mayor,
| was a delegate at the Cleveland convention. That was his pre-
I rogative but Mayor Gamble and the public may rest assured that
he was on a perfectly legitimate, patriotic mission endeavoring
J to. render a service to his country while at the same time the
$ Mayor’s chief adviser was taking money from high school boys
1 through the slot machine racket. This newspaper will be glad
for the public to decide which mission is most worthy of the
public’s confidence.
There has arisen the question in the minds of the Savannah
•• -Mblid as to just how sincere Mayor Gamble is in his law enforce
- ; program when he allows certain members of his official
jamiJy and other lesser lights in his administration to operate
houses and slot machines in the county while he is
the city. He will find that before he is again elected to
IL -. ys ce > h® h av ® to cease dealing in platitudes and deliver
WJU® the people a frank and honest explanation of his actions.
Tsl find that there is a vast difference between a pictur
.’’.£oter and a practical performer. Savannah needs honesty
j honesty with its people and a clear under
''T'jß h° w its municipal affairs are being operated.
p?. lavannah Daily Times may again remind the solicitor
tt is about time that he begin to function. People
to won( i er j us t where he stands in this matter.
& Daily Times would like to prophesy to the solici-
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HAMILTON NO TYRO
G. O. P. Chairman Has Wide Experience
OPPONENTS MAY LEARN
Central Press, Washington Bureau,
1900 S Street.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 14—John
D. M. Hamilton, new chairman of
the Republican national committee
and manager of the Landon cam
paign, worries some of his associates
by talking so much.
Their theory is that no politician
can express himself as freely as
Hamilton has done without, sooner or
later, saying the wrong thing.
Democrats, contrariwise, are hope
ful that that is just what he’ll do.
Hamilton ha£ not, as a matter of
fact, fallen into any serious errors
thus far.
He has made some probably exag
gerated claims, but that isn’t bad
technique. He has said nothing need
lessly to antagonize a considerable
bloc of voters, such as Democratic
Chairman James A. Farley’s refer
ence to “typical prairie states.”
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No Tyro
The truth is that politicians of
both parties have made the mistake
of assuming that Hamilton is a
tyro.
He isn’t.
He is in his middle 40’s. He stu-
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1936
died politics under the late David
Mulvane, than whm there has been
no craftier political manipulator in
recent American history. He has
been speaker of the Kansas house of
representatives. He ran for governor
and although he was beaten, it was
in a year when no Republican could
have won.
He is mentioned as “young” John
Hamilton, but in reality he is well
out of the kindergarten and up in
the grades, if not in high school or
above.
He is old enough to have judg
ment; not too old to have pep.
• • •
Good Manager
Young John put on a dandy show
for Landon at the Cleveland conven
tion, completely drowning out the
clamor for all other Republican as
pirants.
Yet he did not anger Landon's G.
O. P. rivals.
Hoover got a fine reception. Knox
seems satisfied with his vice presi
dential nomination. Vandenberg is
a pro-Landon campaigner. Borah
supports the Republican ticket.
Considering tht the Cleveland con
vention was expected to be a cat-and
dog fight the accomplishment of such
harmony was a remarkable achieve
ment.
It was due mostly to young John’s
good management—no youngster’s
stunt.
• • a
Too Snappy?
Hamilton’s one weakness has been
a certain snappishness in dealing
with the newspaper men.
He has irritated several of them
by the shortness of his temper. I
can’t charge that he has fratted me
personally, but I have heard a num
ber of members of the corps speak
harshly of his attitude.
The great strength of Postmaster
General Farley (now on laave of
absence from his cabinet job) has
been his popularity with the group of
Washington correspondents. Many
of their papers have been anti-ad
ministration but their representatives
have liked Farley individually. He
has been uniformly polite and accom
modating. Hamilton is accused of a
brisque impatience with the scribe
even those who are disposed to be
friendly to his cause.
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Contrast
Farley is strong on Broadway but
weak in the “prairie states.”
Hamilton is vice versa.
The balance is what is to be reck
oned with in the coming election.
Annual per capita expenditure in
the United States for crackers is
only one-tenth of that in England. It
is probable that the demand in Great
Britain for jams, marmalades and
cheeses adds to the popularity of bis
cuits, as they are called.
-WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHAT A LONG VIEW PLAN
Wall Street Asks in Fear Because of Cost
FOR STRICKEN FARMERS
By LESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Wr.ter)
Wall Street awaits with trepidation
the announcement of definite plans
by President Roosevelt of a long
range farm resettlement program for
the stricken grain states. This pro
gram is expected to rival if not sur
pass the TVA program.
The stricken farm sr.tss, of course,
await the plan with some eagerness.
Wall Street fears the taxes.
Farmers say that Wall Street
should fear, rather, that not enough
will be done to put them on tne r
feet again. Farmers assert they are
the basis of national buying, hence
all prosperity.
Feed Tariffs
Senator William E. Borah began
his campaign for renomination by
declaring for higher tariffs off. Prices
already are out of reach for many.
Many manufacturers now are favor
ing the lowest kind of tariffs, so that
financially European nations can sell
in the United States and in exchange
buy American products.
They assert that the American
farmer will be better off when the
American workers has been assured
work and is able to buy more—and
that interchange of trade between na
tions is a vital element.
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Busy Detroit
From all indications, Detroit has
made the greatest comeback of any
large American city.
Plants have been expanded on a
large scale.
Ford Motor Co. has not been able
MyNew York
By
James Aswell
NEW YORK July 14—‘ It’s amaz
ing,” said the young man in the blue
pants and the ascot shirt, “that you
can spend your time writing about
such trivial things. I’d think you
would echo at least a few of the new
voices that are sweeping the land. The
American Youth Movement, for ex
ample.”
All right, I’ll go serious and tell
him—and you, if you're still reading
—what I think of the American Youth
Movement. I think it is the bunk.
It is the bunk because it is based
on a fake premise. It assumes that
the human race is cut up into sharply
differentiated segments according to
age. It assumes that the interests of
youth and the interests of age are
different; that other people “don’t
understand” and that the viewpoint
of the young must be constant and
their aims capable of simple statement
in behalf of all of them.
If what the leaders of “youth move
, ments” say is true were really true,
their “cause” could succeed only by
insuring the darkest frustration for
all the young people who so bravely
battled to bring their ends, social,
economic and political, about. For if
it were true that the interests of youth
and the interests of age were so
sharply at odds, then success of the
Youth Movement would only assure
all its members an old age of bleak
collision with a society dominated by
youth.
Even the leaders of youth move
ments must grant that in time they
and their followers will cease to be
young. And there, really, you have
the most cogent objection to the bana
ing together of youth as youth, for
the attainment of ideals which they—
thinking and acting admittedly as
young people—believe desirable. That
is the trouble with the Youth Move
ment: there is no future in it.
Here in New York you hear a lot
of loose talk about youth being “for”
this or “against” that. But if there
is one thing sure about the human
mind it is that it does not form its
prejudices, react to its envies and
adjust its hates according to age
groups. After the age of about sixteen
boys and girls do not even pick their
heroes out of a common, healthy
callowness. Usually they pick them
because of the influence, subtly or
overtly exercised, of some older per
son with whom they are in contact.
They pick them, indeed, with about
the same independence the average
American woman exercises when she
retires into the little green booth to
vote.
You can’t erect a philosophy or
even build an intelligible “movement”
on a social strata which is subject
to constant and violent flux. The
Youth Movement leader with silver
hair and magisterial build is only ab
surd and, althouhg the ranks may be
recruited anew from burgeoning hosts
of fanatics, the captains and major
generals of any successful popular
agitation must stay in their jobs long
enough to learn them.
Some of the same vulnerability
pesters the lads who espouse Commun
ism and its allied dogmas of organized
envy. By the very nature of their
creed, they are unable to get leaders
who remain on their side of the fence
in the fabulous “class war” of which
they prate. As soon as a truck driver
or banana vender with a mellow
voice is raised to the leadership of
the party and gets his paws into the
party treasury, he becomes an econom
ic royalist of the first water: and a
xaint note of insincerity is likely to
creep into his voice as he bellows
against the “haves”.
iaJ'lnV I’* 1 ’* folk Who make proletar
ian anti-success whoopee and the boys
have fS%° f < the youth m °vements
viT / 1 m the first c “ e - Pro
wcLS r « th !>, <!emOraUzing accide nt of
Inn the Case of their Baders;
and. in the second case, the apostles
of youth have failed to provide for the
fairly inevitable onset of age. And
both groups sesk to parcel out the
human race with an arbitrariness
equally preposterous.
lomorrow: Back to Broadway.
to expand its power plant at River
Rouge fast enough to keep up with
the demand.
The plant, greatly enlarged, now
could supply the power for a city
the size of Chicago. Still, the enlarg
ing continues-
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More Money
American automobile buyers are not
confining their purchases to smaller
cars.
The percentage of increase in car
purchases this year is larger for high
er priced cars than for lower piced
cars. Os course, the lower priced cars
still form the bulk of the industry,
by far.
Magic Wand Bank
In the darkness of the bank-crash
ing days, Detroiters were fearful the
city had been drained of money for
ever.
’General Motors and othe industrial
giants began a new bank then—the
National Bank of Detroit.
It had $10,500,000 in preferred
stock, $5,000,000 in comomn stock.
The big men were fearful of selling
the little fellows any stock. Bank were
a risk in those days.
Now, the profits of those original
investors is something to write home
about.
That meager bank—for a city the
size of Detroit—today has resources
of $427,413,179.24.
It is tremendously solid. To meet
its $398,609,398,196.65 in deposits it
has on hand $180,033,196.13 in cash,
$183,453,578.86 in government securi
ties, $6,377,946.8 in other securities,
$6,377,946.68 in other securities, etc.
Its loans and discounts amount to
merely $45,789,117.14.
Bankers will have to say whether
that is too liquid.
Unusual
Some “experts” in Wall Street are
predicting a “bull” market straight
through election year.
The immense flow of government
money, finding its way into all forms
of business, is given as the reason.
That of course is inflation. The real
guessing is on when the bubble will
burst. That, however, will be some
time after the election.
The worst feature—as some Wall
Streeters see it—is the encourage
ment given the Lemke-Coughlin in
flationists and the Townsend Pen
sionites. They will see business mov
ing upward from government expendi
tures (in spite of drouth and dis
aster) and will assert that their own
brand of inflation would cause busi
ness to move upward still faster.
In opposition, the conservative Re
publicans and the Socialists probably
join hands for the first time. But
the Socialists desire a co-operative
world, which the Republicans de
cidedly don’t want. Yet only the ex
treme conservatives and the extreme
liberals see disaster in public spend
ing-inflation policies.
Not In the News
By WORTH CHENEY
No matter where you are or what
you are doing these days, there seems
i to be no escape from America’s latest
craze, .Handies, the sign-language
guessing game with the freak answers.
But we aren’t devoting our column
today to a discussion of the “Dizzy-
D. pastime; not after a number
of our readers have adyised us that
they are tired of having Handies for
breakfast, lunch, dinner and between
meals. We want so tell you about
another parlor game that ought to
, keep any group from thinking of
Handies for a whole evening.
As far as we know, there is no
name for this indoor sport, and ths
only entry requirement is a knowl
edge of geography. So pull up a stool
and join the armchair travelers.
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The rules are simple enuogh. Some
one starts the game by naming a
city, any city, add giving its loca
tion .Schenectady is a good one. The
next person then gives the name of
a city that begins with the last let
ter in the previous one. In this case
it would be Y and if you know your
geography you should be able to
think of Ypsilanti in no time at all,
leaving the next person with an I.
Each person is given three minutes
to think of a city and if he fails on
three different occasions or fails to
give the proper location three times,
he is out of the game.
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It doesn’t sound difficult and it
isn’t for the first few rounds. But
the trouble is you have too many
cities ending in the same letters, like
E, Y, N and A and too few beginning
with the same ones.
If someone leaves you a city ending
in N, clip in a fancy one like Natchez
for the next victim. He may respond
with Zanesville, Zurich or Zoar. But
when those are used up you can
tantalize your opponents by slipping
in La Paz, Coblenz and Chemnitz.
Whenever possible, use a few end
ing in X. Phoenix and Halifax are
examples. Yes, we know one that be
gins with X, but we’re saving it for
future use.
Cities beginning with E and A will
be easy for a while, but they aren't
as plentiful as -hose ending in simi
lar letters. You’ll soon get discour
aged trying to find answers to cities
like these Belleville, Coffeyville,
Louisville, Atlanta, Peoria, Helena and
Columbia. And there are dozens of
others like that.
Take a tip from us and stock up
on a few cities beginning in K and
I if you want to keep in the game.
You’ll find use for Inverness, Istan
bul Independence, Kiel, Kiev, Khar
barovsk, Kenosha, Kankakee, Keokuk
and Kalamazoo.
♦ ♦ ♦
As a final bit of advice, if you
want to win, remember plenty of
cities ending in Y and pass them out
freely to your opponents. You’ll have
them worried after a few rounds of
Sidney, Perth Amboy, Oil City, Dan
bury, Gary, Sioux City, Kansas City,
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Tuesday, July 14; Bastille Day In
France. Second week of Dog Days.
Zodaic sign: Cancer: Birthstone:
Ruby.
♦ ♦ ♦
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Owen Wister, b. 1860, novelist—
The Virginian, etc. . . . Arthur Cup
per, b. 1865, editor and senator from
Kansas . . . Irene Dunne (Mrs. E.
B. Griffin) b. 1905, cinemactress . . .
Martha “Toby” Wing, b. 1915, cine
mactress . . . Lord Sundany, b. 1878
Irish poet and dramatist . . . Ger
trude Margaret Bell, b. 1868, English
geographer who was a wartime spy.
* * •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
800 Years Ago Today—The Hos
pital of St. Cross was founded at
Winchester, England, by Bishop Hen
ry de Blois, brother of the British
king, to provide food and lodging for
men.
It is believed to be the oldest exist
ing charity institution. Slices of
bread and a mug of ale have been
given away all wayfarers at the gate
every day in the ensuing 900 years.
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July 14, 1789—The Bastille fell,
an event commemorated ever after
ward by all Frenchmen as liberty
day. Yet the Bastille wasn’t destroy
ed that day, there were no political
prisoners in it to be freed, and Louis
XVI continued to be king for three
years longer! Instead of the hun
dreds of sufferers from tyranny
which the mob expected to find in
the Bastille, there were only seven
inmates, and none were political of
fenders.
There was no trace of the “Man in
the Iron Mask” the Bastille’s m 094
famous prisoner, although it was as
serted at the time, and long after
wards believed, that the skeleton of
the celebrated Count Anthony Matt
hioli hhd been found chained in a
lower dungeon with the awful mask
still upon theskull.
The key to the Bastille is in the
U. S ~a present to George Washing
ton from French revolutionists.
* * *
July 14, 1850—The world’s first
ice machine was first used as a re
frigerator, by its inventor, Dr. John
Gorrie, in Apalachicola, Fla., then
an important seaport.
It was also the first air-condition
ing apparatus. Dr. Gorrie was pri
marily interested in lowering tem
peratures of rooms and hospitals
filled with sufferers in a fever epi
demic.
The supply of natural ice from
New England had been exhausted
and some Frenchmen in Apalachicola
were distressed over the prospect of
having to eat their Bastille Day din
ner without chilled wines, when Dr.
Gorrie thought of using his air-cooler
to make ice for them.
The possibilities of his invention
were slowly realized. He received no
profit from it. He gave it to the
world as freely as he did the prin
ciples of malaria control, which he
worked out, and saved. Florida from
being made a wasteland by fevers.
• * *
July 14, 1908 —Captain George W.
Johnson arrived in New York after
rowing from St. Augustine, Fla., in a
boat made of paper! (Pressed pulp).
He had averaged 30 miles a,day.
His feat is overshadowed by that
of two Norwegians who rowed across
the Atlantic to New York in 1898.
• * •
July 14 Among State Histories:
1788—Continental congress ratified
the Constitution of the U. S. . .
1853—First world’s fair in U. S.
opened in New York . . . 1864—Gold
was discovered in Last Chance
Glutch (now Helena), Mont. . . .
19178—Lieut Quentin Roosevelt, son
of the ex-president, was killed in ac
tion in France . . .
• • •
20 Years Ago Today—An economic
conference of representatives of all
the Allied governments met in Paris.
At last it was realized that the war
was as likely to be won by economic
measures as by military force.
(To be continued)
Your’e Telling
Me?
NEWS DISPATCH says a dog leap
ing in recognition upon a small boy
pushed the lad through a candy store
window. The child was uninjured.
However, we bet that candy was badly
damaged.
* • *
President of National Restaurant as
sociation says the ideal waitress should
be pretty, have an engaging smile,
possess good manners and possibly a
college education. Gosh, if they were
all like that we’d probably forget to
eat.
• « «
While you are cussing out the gov
ernment as the worst in the world
remember there are half a dozen na
tions in Europe that would slap you
in jail for just doing that.
♦ • *
Why do cartoonists always depict
the God of War as a horrible skeleton?
It s civilization that looks like a
skeleton after every bout with Mars.
We can’t understand the Republi
cans’ criticism of Farley. What do
they expect a postmaster general to
do—to pay any attention to the pest
office?
And Millie, our red-headed secre
tary, declares Big Jim Is no different
than any other postmaster general
weve had. They are all politicians
she says, of the same stamp.
A policeman cannot enforce the
law unless he carries a gun. Look at
the League of Nations.
Bay WrSe City ’ Sandusfe y and Green
This may sound as bad as Handies
to you, but it’s different and interest
ing enough as a time-killer when rain
keeps you from your favorite sport.
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