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PAGE FOUR Siwniim'fbVWiiilijirinigi Published by— PUBLIC OPINION, INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Claes 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 ——— ...... 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 BOUHAN—MYRICK The Savannah political pot is beginning to boil in its usual, unethical manner at the expense of the innocent taxpayer. It is generally known that there are two political factions in our city, one headed by Keynoter Myrick and the other head ed by Mr. John J. Bouhan. It is also generally known that these two illustrious gentlemen get along privately together about as well as the two proverbial cats thrown across the clothes line. But whenever an opportunity presents itself for a political trade beneficial to both, whether at the expense of the taxpayer or not, there is no question as to their being able to function side by side. It is unique in the annals of ethical politics for two gentle men to get along so well politically and so poorly privately. Our illustrious city and county attorneys are past masters in this peculiar game of Chatham county politics. Their associates are merely puppets in the game used for the sole purpose of trading for position. The echoes that are now sounding out from the back-room conferences are to the effect that Keynoter Myrick will support Talmadge energetically, soft-pedaling on the Redwine candidacy but promising both his undivided support. Johnnie Bouhan will blaze from the house-tops the Ed Rivers candidacy, soft-pedaling on the Dick Russell campaign. This trade, if consummated be tween Myrick and Bouhan, will place these two gentlemen again in the position of playing both ends against the middle at the expense of their supporters and the balance of the taxpayers of this county. It would be most refreshing if for once these gentlemen could put first in their minds the interest of the constituency which they desire to serve. Let’s analyze for the public’s benefit the outcome of such a trade, if made. If Talmadge wins and Red wine loses, Talmadge would naturally resent Chatham county’s not supporting his whole ticket, especially after having received the assurance that it would be done. Mr. Myrick would be voci ferous in the announcement that he had rendered much loyal service, therefore placing himself in the enviable position as con. ; tact man with the Senator in Washington, a position of much monetary value from a legal point of view. If Speaker Ed Rivers was to win and carry Chatham county and Senator Dick Russell was to lose, Mr. Bouhan would be equally as enthusiastic in his manifestations of loyalty to Mr. Rivers, thereby placing Mr. Bouhan as Chatham county contact man with the governor of Georgia, placing the two Chatham county leaders in the same old position with the public of “Tails you lose and heads I win.” There is a wonderful opportunity for the political leaders of ! Chatham county to step forward and render a real service to the community in which they live, if they could but for a moment forget this nickel and dime trading. Unfortunately, Chatham county has to carry the reputation of their misdeeds. The days of Boss Tweed are long past and gone. The people desire a voice in their government and the sooner these two politicians realize this, the quicker they will regain the respect of the voting public. The Savannah Daily Times is acquainting these gentlemen of the fact that no more trades, such as you-be-city attorney and I-will-be county attorney, are going to get by with the people of Chatham. The taxpayers of Chatham county will demand a clear, clean-cut deal above the table. No wonder Savannah’s little mayor is so dizzy at times and uses such poor judgment in some of his procedure when he is trying to please both of these master chess players at the same time. WHAT NEXT? In the Savannah Morning News of July 13th, Page 8, Savan nah’s Republican newspaper, has seen fit to play up a negro, Jesse Owens, Ohio State track star, which is entirely out of order at least to the clear-thinking reputable white people of Georgia. In the second picture displayed on the same page, they merely mention “Spec” Towns, the famed University* of Georgia track star. It is lamentable to think that the Olympic officials will allow negroes to compete in the Olympic Games, even more to think that a paper in the deep South would cater to negro publicity and at the same time put in the background the white race which that newspaper supposedly represents. It is now easy to understand why Savannah’s Republican newspaper* associated with Mayor Gamble, attempted to secure negro Republican leaders jobs in the Public Works Administra tion in Chatham county, when under the guise of economy Sa vannah white men and women were being removed from WPA and placed in the bread lines. The Grab Bag One-Minute Test 1. Translate the motto, "B. Pluri bus Unum.” 2. In politics, who is John Hamil ton? 3. What is a "suttee”? Hints on Etiquette When visiting friends who object to seeing women smoke, the feminine guest shuld refrain from indulging in this habit. If she feels she "just has to have a cigarette,” she should re tire to her room for that purpose. Words of Wisdom men think old men are fools: but old men know young men are fools.—George Chapman. Today’* Horoscope If your birthday is today, you are apt to be commanding, self-willed and capable of attaining great poise. You attract people to yourself for guidance and advice. You may be argumentative, but you are a clear and sound reasoner and generally have a good disposition. One-Minute Test Answers 1. It means, “One Out of Many.” 2. New chairman of the Pepublican National committee. 3. A Hindu widow who cremates herself or is cremated on the funeral pyre of her husband. HEAT LIGHTNING! Hr \ -A. i (/ -- gU. /) ’••• ■■ A-*' ■pi Bru- ‘°WBn¥ ** lA "Kl ”S! If . y .—■..Tf--- svß? u V/Av- V*"— W* <■ r 'r.v i&X*. ■•A.TjjlKra? J? -WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- G. O. P. CRIES FOR PROBE (But Committee Is Pro-New Deal) OF SPELLBINDERS (Central Press, Washington Bureau, 1900 S Street By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central P.ess Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, July 15.—When rJiairman Augustine Lonergan’s sena tirial committee on investigation of c. mpalgn methods gets into action, one of the things which Republicans are saying ought to be inquired into is the Democratic system of recruit ing orators on the administration’s ■ e in the already incipient political i fight. The speaker’s bureau of the Demo cratic national committee boasts that it has 2,000 spellbinders enlisted to pl:ad the New Deal’s cause. The G. O. P. argument is that the 2,000 will be Democratic office holders almost to a man—the presi dent, the cabinet members, a battery of senators, a goodly force of repre sentatives, a dozen or so oT governors probably. Thus far, o. k.; all that is customary. But there are nothing like 2,000 of such moguls. ~ SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOK by R. J. SCOTT — —— -" i W Zff Tv l# au •!-nW " 1 »/ ' '’l i Po R<ABLt RES'tAURAhtr • comsis-ts ofasioye, KE-r<j_E5 t RICE Aho SHOULDERS or A CooHE O N rS <RoLLEy 7j- ■ \ \ ' L,NE - ,H early Vx mF streetcar, days, X 4UE Horse pulled gE Mohkey<V <hecar up <he Hills ' cannot t \ wk a hd rode dowh Swim WslmW/ ghtherear. pST frnTh platform / L k Various PLAq Postmarks * \ 4 . 9 USED IK CANADA V ' 1 * 'COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1936 G. O. P. Protest The Republicans surmise that the New Deal committee must have drafted lesser lights wholesale to pad its list—assistant secretaries, under secretaries, departmental attorneys, divisional chiefs and many other classifications. The government, say the G. O. P. critics, evidently is to be run until next November by a staff of petty clerks and office boys while upper of ficialdom tours the country, salaried by the public, preaching New Deallsm. This, assert the Reuublicans, is a prospective situation which the Loner gan committee ought to look into. The committee, however, seems in clined to concern itself only with ac tual campaign contributions, disre garding oratory. •• • . Pro- Administration Anyway, it is a pro-New Deal com mittee, three or four to one— Chairman Lonergan and Senators Minton and Schwellenbach (New Deal Democrats) with Senator La- Follette (Progressive New Dealer) versus Senator Austin (the only Re publican) . It takes a mighty hopeful anti-New Dealer to expect an anti-New Deal report from a quintet like that. Intrepid Investigator Some folk do say that an honest to-goodness investigation is promised from the fact that Louis R. Glavis is slated to be the Lonergan commit tee’s chief investigator. It may be so, but there is consider able mystery about Glavis. He will be recalled as the agent who was principally resu nsible for making out a case against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger - Alaskan administration in President Taft’s day. It is gossiped by old sourdoughs, however, that Ballinger was framed —that Glavis was “sicked” onto him by the late Presidnet Theodore Roose velt and by Gifford Plnchot, who hated Taft, in an effort to discredit the latter, and that Glavis did a good job. • • • Clashing Investigators In any event he won a reputation, as a Progressive, to recommend him to the Roosevelt regime and he was -absorbed into the New Deal as a premier investigator for PWA. He had a rival premier investiga tor, however, in Secretary of the In terior Ickes’ administrative assistant (CONTINUED ON PAGE 7) -WORLD AT A GLANCE- TWO MAJOR OBSTACLES (Summer Slack-Off and Pensioned Workers) FOR STEEL ORGANIZERS By LESLIE EICHEL Central Press Staff Writer JOHN L. LEWIS’ steel organizers face two major obstacles. 1. A summer off in steel, when the corporations will try to force the issue—finding a “legitimate” excuse to lay off union men. 2. Determination of veteran steel workers to stay out of the union, to protect their pensions. • • • Rails Railroads east of the Mississippi and southeastern “coalers” will have the largest gross earnings this month of any like period since 1930—if car loadings may be taken as an indica tion. / If traffic continues at this rate, con siderable renovation of plant is ex pected. Western roads in drouth regions, however, have been hit a mighty blow. Some need plant renovation, long overdue, but where will they get the money? * * * “No Trouble” Foreign investors, although with drawing from American speculation because of lack of quick profits now see nothing disturbing in the Amer ican political situation. They see noth ing except a political campaign in the United States whereas all of continental Europe is considered of uncertain stability. Foreigners seem to prefer the re election of President Roosevelt, be cause he is a “known quantity” and MyNewYork By James Aswell == ========3c=======s===sb NEW YORK, July 15—People 1 Jose Iturbi bids fair to become New York's most lionized conductor, now that Toscanini—always a reserved and shy fellow—has returned to his native shores. Iturbi made a mid-career shift of a type few musicians have been able to execute. In post-war Paris he operated as an expert concert pianist. He was an idol of all the Bohemians who made the Left Bank notorious and alluring. He belonged to the now haloed coterie which assembled in such quaintly conventional interna tional drinkeries as the Case du Dome; Ernest Hemingway, Louis Bromfield, Somerset Maughman (more as amused spectator than participant), The Prince of Wales, pert Caresse Crosby, the ineffably chic Gabrielle Chapel and others. Suddenly he got a chance to con duct —the secret dream of every solo ist —and the huzzahs of the crowd are still echoing. He had the manner and the mood. He was a good actor, a talent without which no baton waver can hope to captivate the tune fanat ics. Then a few months ago, travelling by plane to fill South American en gagements, Iturbi had the bad luck to be in a freak plane crash during the takeoff out of a southern port. His hands were injured, but not seriously, and when he returned to New York it was to trundle quickly up the ladder of symphonic recognition—a ladder with rungs as slippery as those of theatrical or “400” climbing. ♦ * ♦ But the subject of notables who have about-faced at crucial moments in their climb is full of colorful dig gressions. Instantly. I think of Alan Hale, the movie villain, whose eye brow tilts with a blond and shuddery meance for the flicker fans. He took as sharp a turn as any. Os late his sinister features glower less often at the screen’s beauties. He has taken to inventing with a will and cloisters himself daily in the laboratory from noon to midnight. Already he has a dozen patents in his name and the royalties have begun to roll in. Many of his devices are wierdly ingenious gadgets which make sense in the gizzards of complex ma chines. • » * I suppose you are already ahead of me with the name of Ruth Roland, the lass who escaped death in the cim romanzas of early serial cinemas. Her million dollar real estate deals in the priceless soil of Hollywood are legend. She wonders why she ever wasted her time in front of cameras, where the most she could hope to make was a few thousand a week. ♦ ♦ ♦ Eleanor Holm Jarrett, the darling of the aquaria, sings scorchy ditties into microphones with her husband's orchestra on tour. But she remarked not long ago in New York, despite the enthusiasm of her fans for her new spotling-grabblng, “Every time I sing a song, I keep saying to myself: T hope all these people know that I am a first rate swimmer anyhow? And more, rapidly: Elsie de Wolfe stalked through some of the better footling dramas before she found out that an interior decorator who is also an actress has a gold mine under the stoop . . . Molyneaux, the man who contrives the darlingest frocks to set Amerclan debs in Paris to gurgling was a war ace of grim and selfless valor, the scourge of the enemy aloft . . . Fred Keating got a movie role on the strength of being able to make a canary in a large cage disappear into thin air; since clicking in the talkies he hasn't both ered to materialize his birds and cages . . . Charles G. Dawes could live comfortably, even If he could not enjoy the more abundant life, on the royalties which derive from his musical compositions . . . Jack Demp sey, of course, is known to the Rectors of the Broadway sector as “a born restauranteur” . . . Lawrence Rivers is the nom de theater of a Wall Street broker who did so well with Broadway hits that he decided to stop risking good money on the exchanges when a play had one chance in five hundred of being a scccess. has shown friendship to other nations through trade treaties. In the United States, applause for ’ Governor Landon in movie theaters is said to be mounting. Nervous John Bull England seems to be as nervous concerning spies as are other coun , tries. Protests have been made in parlia ment against the German Zeppelin Hindenburg flying low over British fortifications, shipyards and docks. Alarmed Britishers say the Zeppelin takes a different route each trip. The Germans maintain a bored at titude over such protests. France refuses to permit the Hin denburg to fly over its territory. • • • Lakes Higher In spite of the northwest drouth, ■ the Great Lakes are at a slightly high er level than last year and the year previous. This will mean larger shipping pro fits. • • • Farley Poor? Rumor has it that Postmaster Gen eral Farley made a real sacrifice in taking a leave of absence for four months to devote his entire time to ; the chairmanship of the national , Democratic committee. He enjoys be ing a cabinet member, but close ob servers say he has become a “poor” man by devoting himself to politics instead of business. To Head Off Lehman Republicans are said to be looking for an upstate New Yorker to run , against Governor Lehman. Reason: They believe nobody can cut Leh man’s total in New York City, but they think upstate will swing strong ly Republican to a man it knows. Republicans believe further that i businessmen in New York City will vote for Lehman but not for Presi dent Roosevelt, thus causing the President to lose the state. British View A British view of American sub sidies to vessel owners is expressed in this London Times’ editorial: “There is no real dispute over the nature of the danger threatening the British flag on one of the main water ways of the empire. Other factors have ‘ doubtless contributed to the losses in ' curred, but the main cause has been the subsidized foreign competition against which the government have ; repeatedly declared their determine ’ tion to find methods of defense. A 1 correspondent of The Times last week, 1 writing as ‘a friendly visitor to this country’, made an inegnious attempt to belittle the amount and the effect of the state support received by the American rivals of the British lines. The facts and figures given by Mr. Cleminson of the chamber of shipping are a sufficient reply. “There can indeed be no denying the extent to which American ship ping in general relies upon the Amer ican taxpayer. A report last year by the federal postmaster general gave the annual cost of mail contracts as S2B 850 000—nearly half a million dollars more than enough to cover the running expenses, including wages, maintenance, subsistence and repair, of the 2828 American vessels certified for operation upon ocea« routes. “Not content with covering the run ning expenditure, the govenment have provided most of the captial. The companies’ own share in the value of their fleet is given as a little over $80,000,000, while they owe the gov ernment more than $112,000,000 ad vanced at a low rate of Interest. Brit ish companies dependent upon their own resources can scarcely be expect ed to stand up to competition subsi dized on this lavish scale. They have a legitimate claim for assistance from the British governments (in the dominions), including, of course, the government of Great Britain. “It is, of course, equally clear that in this case, as in every other, assist ance can only be given under condi tions which will insure that it is ef fective and that the public gets an adequate return.” Your’e Telling Me? Sound engineers say Washington, D. C. is the nosiest city in the na tion. Whoa! Don’t tell me why—l thought of the answer tool ♦ ♦ ♦ A radio network reports the two major conventions cost it $265,457. That’s nothing. Thnk of the appal ling cost to the American people. Two full weeks of absolute boredom! * * * A drink addict may be cured if he gets on the wagon. But a speed ad dict’s only chance for survival is if he gets off. ♦ ♦ ♦ While pasing out bonuses how about one for the fellow's who got married in 1917 to escape the draft. Some of the poor devils are still fight ing! * • • Canada doesn't know what to do with its caterpillar plague. The west is helpless before its grasshopper herd. The problem is easily solved—breed grasshopper-eating caterpillars and caterpillar-eating grasshoppers. • * • No man need be schooled in music appreciation to learn the beauty of a note, —the sound of the quitting whistle. • • • We don’t think about horse and buggy Ideals or rocking chair philos ophy but we certainly are having palmleaf fan weather. It isn’t the heat of the sun that gives you your sunburn, but the acti nic rays. You can get sunburned as badly in the Arctic as in the Tropics. l Today is the Day I By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) Wednesday, July 15; St. Swithin’s Day. Morning stars: Mercury, Saturn, Uranus, Mars. Evening stars: Venus. Neptune, Jupiter. NOTAIBLE NATIVITIES Garry C. Myers, b. 1884, educator and distinguished writer on child psychology for Central Press Associa tion . . . Eugene Ysaye, b. 1858, con ductor and violin virtueso Al fred Hertz, b. 1872, another orchestra conductor . . . Marie Tempest, b. 1866, actress. • « • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS July 15, 971 A. D.—Swithin, late bishop of Winchester (England), was translated (i. e., conveyed from earth to heaven) with ceremony. Ever since July 15 has been St. Swithin’s Day, although he was not canonized, and there is an adage that as it rains or is fair on Swithin’s Day, there will be continuous wet or dry weather for the 40 days ensuing. Origin of the superstition lies in the tradition that Swithin made a dying request that he be bured in a pathway where his grave might be trod by passersby. Instead the body was placed in a tomb. A storm and rains followed that lasted 40 days, and this was interpreted as an indi cation of divine anger at the attempt to contravene Swithin’s wishes. July 15, 1099—What is known as the First Crusade ended with Jeru salem’s capture, after a seige of five weeks, by an army of 200,000 from many countries led by Godfrey de Bouillon, a Belgian. He thereupon re fused a kingly crown, became instead “Defender of the Holy Sepulchre.” Actually the first crusade was the “Peasants’ Crusade," which repre sented the first stirring of the com mon people in European history. (H. G. Wells calls it the birth of democ racy.) July 15, 1783—Claude Francois Dorothee, Marquise d’Abbans, 32, gave a successful demonstration of his steamboat, the Pyroscaphe, on the River Soane, near Lyons, France —years before Fitch, Symington or Fulton built their first power-driven ships. He had produced workable craft as early as 1776, but neither then nor in 1783 was the world ready for them. July 15, 1876—The first no-hit game recorded in organized baseball was pitched by George W. Bradley of St. Louis against Hartford, in a National league game. It was the fourth of four shutouts Bradley pitched in four consecutive days! FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY 20 Years Ago Today—The British penetrated the German second line and aaptured Longueval, a key posi tionon the Somme. The victory showed usefulness of cavalry not over. Two cavalry regi ments were sent to fill the gap be tween an infantry division fighting for Longueval and another which was being launched from reserve a L’nst high wood. The infantry had to ad vance a few miles only, but the day was hot and the shelling heavy. On reaching High Wood they were ex hausted and all efforts to induce them to dig themselves in were un availing. The cavalrymen, owing to the maze of trenches and -.’ire, moved more jslowly, but they dug themselves in with such vigor that by morning they were completely underground. The most brilliant role that can be alloted to cavalry is intervention on unprotected or weak flanks. In the war on the western front after 1914, and until, 1918, few examples oc- „ curred of this, for the simple reason that unprotected flanks of a length • as to give cavalry the scope they re quired did not exist. (To be continued) All Os Us I don’t mean your irascibility, I don’t mean your tendency to blow up in anger when something goes wrong with your plans. I mean.the temper of your char acter .that unseeable and untouch able element in your nature that keeps you steady, keeps you sharp, keeps your ambitions and ideals young and vigorous . . . The temper we talk about in saws, knives and axes. . . . Thats the only temper worth while. In my pocket is a knife and it’s no good. It will sharpen a pencil after a fashion. I can cut an apple with it. Or chaw off a small limb of a tree. With considerable effort I can cut a rope through with that knife. Or dig out a dandelion in the lawn. . . . /.nd when I have sharpened it it will hold a fair edge for a day or two. But that’s all. I don’t know why I keep it. Per haps I have an affection for the poor, worthless knife, because it IS so worthless. I know what it can do, I don’t expect it to do precise work; so it isn’t fooling me any . . . And I can’t seem to lose it. I lost all good knives I ever had because I was always using them and leaving them where I used them. The fault in this knife, obviously, is that it was badly tempered when it was made and it’s too late now for me to do anything about it. But a man’s not a knife. He can think and feel and teach himself if he has average intelligence. ... He can force up his courage, stimulate his ambition, remember his vows. He can be like a friend of mine who told me that when he was younger he was a scatterbrained kid who couldn’t concentrate on anything, and he COMPELLED himself by rigorous training to concentrate and become > an able engineer. V Almost any man, if he wants enough, can maintain his edge, hold his true temper and make something of himself. We know it CAN be done but we must WANT to do IL