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PAGE FOUR Publi*had Dy PUBLIC OPINION, INC. " PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered a* 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: Transradlr* Press • International Illustrated News • Central Press Ass’n. Gilreath Press Service • Newspaper Feature, Inc. • King Features Stanton Advertising Service • World Wide Pictures 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- the line of least resistance will be a most diffi 'avel. \ 4e want acting WILL IT EVER COME? \ A 1 ! . Z'Z* z . \ .f"' ■■■ v''#* WSYZ Z/ ' ZY /.- ■■s * ’ z ' -'Z • " / ■' z l '?/M ( fll ''A ’ / Z -' z< -Z- is * 7 lif* -- Bi J F -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- 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.” • « * 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- SCOTTS SCRAPBOOK b y r j SCOTT Melo m ADA so>< i W v MEXICAK S 3 PLAy wi<ha i /.I iwl ball CLUB j . IIM 'WaHFZ amp mold Job Mos<~ | 111 *EAU<IFUL Wi'i 11 1 PISH IM Wll fl IO tfiE Sea gill a ggjg] Moon FISH “ST '(■ ™ DO NOT ENCLOSE - L >N A ARTICLES Op VM.UE )’'* INOROIKAW LETTERS — ~ > L- DHields OF Kekyam IN<ERE<<KI< RRIII<U WAWS-lOR.S CArR/CA} ARE OF<Ehl INTERES-riNC BRITISH ADORHELD WITH HAIR -TAKEN from P°SiMA,RK WITH A MESSAGE- THE HEADS OF SLAIN ENEMIES COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION 7-/fi 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. * * « 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. » « « 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- * ♦ * 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. * • ♦ 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. » ♦ ♦ 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. • ♦ * 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. f