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About Savannah daily times. (Savannah, Ga.) 1936-???? | View Entire Issue (July 17, 1936)
PAGE FOUR £nWBiMWBp!n!KS Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at >O2 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered m Second Class Matter July 23. 1935 at the Post Ottice at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear 7.50 Six Months 3.75 Three Months 1.95 One Month J 5 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 “DR. JEKYL” GAMBLE. Have we a “Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde” political situation in Savannah ? The picture has some very peculiar aspects. Let us consider. We have on the one hand, Mayor Gamble, visiting, from time to time, the several religious congregations of the city, unctu ously sympathizing with their aims and sanctimoniously under taking to assist in giving this city a clean government with law enforcement. We discovered him making many eloquent ges tures in public print and instituting his highly publicized anti gambling campaign. Gambling, in all of its iniquitous forms, he said, was to banished from our midst, the youth of Savannah was to be protected from this major temptation; by the tenor and by the word of his forceful utterances we were so assured. Just leave the matter in the hands of Dr. Jekyl, he would remedy the situation. . Let us now observe the other side of the picture. On yester day, this news organ published a charge that Mayor Gamble’s political alto ego, Keynoter Myrick, observing with his ack nowledged political acumen, the growing cloud of determined opposition thought it wise to augment the funds of their cam paign war chest. The old keynoter sensed that in order to re elect Mayor Gamble and maintain himself in power, it would be necessary that they have plenty of money for political purposes. The only question in his mind was “where to secure it?” He naturally turned to the same sources from which the funds of the previous campaign were secured, to-wit: The Gamblers of Savannah. This charge was definitely and specifically made —it has not been challenged in the public prints—it must be true. Where is the consistency in this administration? If Mayor Gamble is sincere in his stand, why is one of the keynoter’s leading henchmen permitted to conduct his activities within the shadow of one of the leading churches of the city? If Mayor Gamble is sincere in his stand how does he permit his right hand political aid to seek funds for his re-election from the gambling fraternity? If he is sincere why should they sup pose the gamblers would contribute to their slush fund? Must we not come to the conclusion that the gamblers are being secretly protected while Mayor Gamble foregathers in the churches? On what carrion do the vultures feed that the effluvium of their activities smells so sweetly in their nostrils. POLICE PROTECTION. Do the taxpayers of the City of Savannah pay their police department for the protection of all its people or only to protect a few chosen favored gamblers and racketeers who kick into Mayor Gamble’s campaign fund each two years? The opinion that prevails at the City Hall that they are fed up with the ball park does not come as a surprise to the tax payers of Savannah. It is known that the Mayor has chosen to take all powers away from the chairman of the police committee, a man who is more than capable of handling his department. The Mayor in doing this has brought about a condition in the department that can only be expressed by the word, “Rotten.” If the heads of the departments would be left alone by the Mayor these conditions would be corrected. Should the heads of these departments be incapable to handle their respective jobs they should be removed and replaced with men who are capable. The baseball situation, despite all of City Hall’s cries to the contrary, is not a bad one-, nor is it a hard one to handle. The first time in many years that Savannah has had a baseball club in any league, the Mayor refuses to do his part to help. It is ridiculous to think that police protection will be denied the base ball club. The stadium is city property and the citizens are not only entitled to, but will continue to receive protection from its . police at all times despite the opinion at the City Hall, is as they •tate, to drop the policing of the ball park in the baseball asso ciation’s lap. NOT—In the News • « • * • • COPYRIGHT, CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION By WORTH CHENEY One of those stories you can be lieve if you want to Is told by Les Gordon, Cleveland aviator. Gordon, who pilots his own plane, recently was approached by a man suffering from stomach ulcere who asked him if he would please take him for a plane ride and make the » plane go into a slight spin. > Curious, Gordon questioned the # man and learned that he had a very I unusual motive for the air ride and eMithe spin. The man informed him he been told that if he rode in a ‘ Jane when it was being stunted his -fleers would be cured., The maneuver a plane going into a spin, the man was supposed to be helpful releasing certain gastric juices in stomach which would bring about ;f“ure of the ulcers. fw*jci”.'i’he request was an odd one, but ’"'pidfin decided to help the man if he So pilot and passenger climbed t the open cockpit plane and into the heavens. plane was a heavy type of ship WM Very dl ff lcult - to handle in %-• air, * n< t WM ky no mwins adapted to stunting. However, Gor don had taken a spin in that very same ship when he took his examina tion for a pilot’s license, he believed he could do it. Well, the ship had gained an alti tude of approximately 5,000 feet when Gordon decided he was high enough for the spin. He signaled his passen ger of his intention and operated his controls quickly. The big ship seemed to hesitate momentarily in mid-air, then its nose pointed downward and it began to circle slowly toward the earth. • • • Gordon had planned to allow the plane to stay in the spin only a few hundred feet—just enough to take care of his passenger s ulcers. But the plane, which had been gathering mo mentum with every foot it dropped, was not as responsive to its controls as is a lighter craft. And, to his utter amazement and horror, Gordon dis covered that he could not bring it out of the spin and level off! IF HE COULD ONLY GET RID OF THE REST OF IT! Erw Si HOW U. S. FIGHTS DROUGHT Losses Mount to High Totals in National Calamity THIS IS THE FIRST OF THREE ARTICLES This is the first of three ar ticles on the government’s efforts to combat the drouth. (Central Press. Was zton Bureau, 1009 S t .et By CHARLES P. STEWART (Central Press Staff Writer) WASHINGTON, July 17. The drouth of 1934 was catastrophic. This year's is worse. What of the next year or two or more? Is America merley beginning upon an indefinitely pro longed series of dry seasons? Some authorities say that weather is cyclical, and argue that the period of aridity has about run itself out. Others take a less hopeful view. They assert that a desert in the very heart of the most productive grain areas of the United states is in the making, and that the process already is completed in vast sections. Nature, they gloomily reason, has begun the collection of a long overdue war debt. • • a Water Leet Sinks The picture is a grtwsome one, in which the warm colors of growing crops, of wheat yellowing in the sun and corn waving silken tassels have been blotted out, oter thousands of square miles, by the shadow of drift ing sand. Billowing clouds of gray oblivion cover an enormous terrain where once cattle grazed and where, SCOTT’S SCRAPBOOKby R. J. 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The temptation of wartime prices for grain laid millions of acres open ing of cereal crops could not hold the to ravage by The surface root light soil as did the earlier turf. Consequently the subterranean wa ter level began sinking. Where, in the range days in these sections, moisture could be found sometimes inches and never more than a few feet below the surface, the level now goes down as low as 50 feet. And it 1s spreading. A National Calamity This drouth already has assumed the proportions of a national calam ity, and as yet no Joseph has appear ed to point to Pharaoh a path of deliverance. Fully 80 per cent of the cereal crops areas have felt the blight of the merciless sun. Five million farmers (government agencies call this a con servative estimate) have seen their crops wilt, wither and die. Other mil lions (no one will hazard a guess as to the exact number) will pay their proportion of the uncollected war debt in rocketing food prices by the time snow flies. Wheat crop estimates for the year, released by the agriculture depart ment, just as figures on the acreage blasted by the sun began coming in, put the total at 638,399,000 bushels, 15 millions above last year’s low pro duction. Then revisions began and now the figures are sliding steadily downward. Where will they stop? No one knows, but latest calculations place the destruction, already wrought, at 60 to 70 millions of bushels in spring wheat alone. What this will mean, translated into bread prices, no one has the temerity to guess. Officials Horrified Privately pfficials, with an earnest plea of “don’t use my name,” pile horror on horror. “Corn,” they agree, “will be our salvation, if it, too, doesn’t go.” Rivers have dwindled to creeks, creeks to brooks and brooks have dis appeared in the sand. It is wholly beside the issue, yet it serves to cast light on the dismal pic ture to read reports from the field agents. One wrote to the agriculture department the other day: “Have seen cattle, colts and pumas, side by side, licking the moist sands of a vanished water hole." Disaster has awed even the brute creation, it would seem. Next: Relief by WPA A sweet job: Molases Is being used for road surfacing In India Mrs. Thomas L. Havercamp, Som erville, Tenn., gained 45 pounds while engaged in walking 34,000 miles. The rarest form of death is "nat ural death”! ' -WORLD AT A GLANCE— IMPENDING CONTEST Between Organized Groups and Business WORRY WALL STREET Central Staff Press Writer BEFORE THE WRITER lies a pile of the most conservative and the most radical journals in America. He has been struck by the simiarity of comment in all—the similarity of comment, even though the difference in point of view. They all agree that a contest is on hand. They do not refer to the polit ical contest, but a contest between organized business and organized labor, between ofganized business and organized farmers, between organized business and organized “inflationists.” And each wonders which way the great middle mass of people will turn —tempted as they are by the bait here and there. Companies, here, there and every where are batling demands for collec tive bargaining with “outside unions”. They refuse to recognize orders of the U. S. labor board. They stand by their company unions. They close plants, consolidate them. If production be gins to drop off now, due to an over production (which some Wall Street economists are saying to be the case) the unions will have a difficult time. But they no longer fear the crushing of strikes by troops for the majority of the states are in New Deal hands. • • • Farmers’ Bounty As for the again increasing outlay to farmers: Organized capital merely can view with alarm. No direct action can be taken against that. After all, farmers are being wooed in a business and political way. Nevertheles.s if there were some manned in which a pereptual bounty could be estopped men in Wall Street would feel easier. But perhaps the worst fear of all My New York By James Aswell (Copyright, 1936, Central Press As sociation) NEW YORK, July 17.—Interview with a “Swing” Music Fanatic, aged 18: Q. What’s all this I hear about y<ju people who are as crazy about “swing” music as Henry Ford is about “Turkey in the Straw?” A. Oh, we’re much crazier than that. I belong to two swing clubs and subscribe to three swing magazines, one English, one American and one German. I saved up my allx#M«k for three months to buy one “Or g inal Dixieland Jazz Band Record” and I studied German for six months so I could read the German maga zine. Q. What is swing music, anyhow? A. There ought to be an article in the Encyclopedia Britanica on it and there probably will be. B*ut it’s really very simple. An orchestra that plays hot lets the boys riff a tune: they jam it, avoiding the corny stuff, and then a couple of them begin to give and that starts the duel, after which— Q. Walt a minute! You’re way ahead of me. You must remember I don’t speak your language very well. Let’s take it gradually. Isn’t swing music simply jazz music and nothing else? A. Absolutely not. Jazz can be hot or sweet. Take Whiteman, or even Gershwin. They played and composed jazz, but never swing. Swing appeals strictly to the red corpuscles. You never know what Is going to happen next. If you scored a swing piece it would cease to be swirr. Q. Then swing is where the mem bers of the orchestra improvise as they go along? A. That’s an unimaginative way of putting it. Take Fats Waller, or Red Nichols, or any one of a dozen of the great geniuses of swing. They im provise—but they do it in such an in spired manner that you feel they sense the music four or five beats ahead—maybe as Columbus felt in his bones land was near. Q. Then you feel about swing mu sic almost as if itwere a sort of cult— a religion, almost? A. Oh, sure. I want to murder bands that play the corny stuff. Q. What do you mean, “corny?” A. Oh, sweet and old-fashioned stuff. Q. Then Beethoven was corny? A. Yes, I should say he was pretty corny, but maybe not at the time he was writing. Maybe at the time he was writing his music he was the Bill Handy of his day. Q. You said you subscribed to a German and an English swing maga zine. Surely the best publications dealing with this sort of jazz are pub lished in America? A. Oh, no, the Germans are more enthusiastic than we are and the English are, too. There are five maga zines published in Germany dealing with nothing but swing. One of them carries the picture of Duke Ellington on the cover every month. Q. Bub it seems to me I heard this so-called swing music a long time ago. And you yourself admitted you had saved up to buy a recording of “The Original Dixieland Jazz Band” —a phenomenon of at Last a dozen years back. A. Oh, sure. They swung. it from the beginning of jazz. But the real swing is being played now. It’s less inhibited even than the jazz orches tras in the South of a dozen years ago. And, of course, I collect the early platters the record companies put otu just as you might collect Early Americana or Byzantine Art. Q. What do you think will be the next musical fad—after swing has had its day? A. The next musical fad? Why, you must be either illiterate or jok ing. Swing is no fad. It is the most dynamic thing in musical history, the apex of all the strving of man through the ages to express his restless soul. Nothing can come after swing. Swing is the absolute top. concerns money. With France defi nitely drifting away from a gold an chorage, merely the oound sterling and the American dollar offer a haven. Thus it is with anxiety that men whose business and fortunes depend on the stability of money view any flirting with such organizations as the Union for Social Justice and the Union party in the belief that they will take votes away from President Roosevelt. That is a silverite-inflation -Ist group. On the other hand, such a group promising “reforms” by such means is less dangerous—to money—than a labor-farmer front with a socializa tion program. Neither choice is desired. * * * For Example In this year of confused politics, Wall Street fears all parties may tend toward the Communist party’s farm plank. And why the plank of the Communist platform, of all platforms? Because the Communists seem to have gathered up the ideas t'hat have been buzzing around the farmers ever since the days of the populists. ' This writer has dug up this plank, and you readily can see the tendency cf all parties in the same direction. Even the Union party, which is op posed to the Communists, has word ing on farm problems that reads similarly in some instances. (There is no such agreement concerning labor or money or economics. The Communists differ in tbier farm plank by advocating the breakup of large holdings through graduated tax ation —but even that is old, having been advocated by the Single Taxers nearly 70 years ago.) ♦ ♦ * The “Feared” Plank Here is the farm plank in ques tion. And you readily can see how it outlines a trend which Wall Street fears: “We declare that the American gov ernment is obligated to save the American farmers from dis tress and ruin, to guaraantee the farmers and tenants their inalien able rights to possession of their land, their homes and chattels. We demand for this purpose the immediate re financing of the farmers’ debts with government loans at nominal interest. “We demand a stop to evictions and foreclosures and a long-term mor atorium on all needy farmers’ debts and that measures be taken to pro vide land for the landless farmers “We favor immediate relief to the drouth-stricken farmers by the govern ment. We favor a graduated land tax to prevent the accumulation of large land holdings in the hands of the insurance companies, private and gov ernment banks, and other absentee owners. “We favor exemption from taxation of small operating farmers and farm co-operatives. “We are unalterably opposed to the policy of crops destruction and cur tailment. “We support government regulation of farm prices with the aim of guar anteeing to the farmer his cost of production. We urge scientific soil conservation under supervision of the elected representatives of farmers’ organizations with compensation to farmer-owners and tenants for loss of income.” • * • The American wheat crop is below the nations’ needs for 1936-’27. . . . The three top officals of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., received $323,209 in salaries last year, while 28 officials, including two top of ficers, received bonuses aggregating $1,195,500 . . . Railroads are rumored to be ordering streamlined trains sec retly, with the latest innovations, and many new runs will be announced during the autumn and winter. All Os Us EVER LIE TO YOURSELF? I went to have my eyes examined and the man in the white coat sat me in a chair and flashed a light be hind some letters on the wall across the room. He asked me if I could read the top row. ... I could. He asked me to read vhe secoHa row. ... I did. He flashed the light to tne th/d row. ... It wasn’t so clear, but I read it. Well, how about the next row of leters? Could I read them? ... I couldn’t, but I thought I remembered what they were and recited them glibly. Then he blew me up. . • . “Listen, fellow,” he said, “you’re not try mg to get into the army. You're here, pay ing me to find out what’s the matter with your eyes and to fit the proper glasses to you. This isn’t an argument, it's an ey? examination. Can you or can’t you read those letters? If you can, do it. If you can’t, say so.” And I felt several degres lower than an idiot! But it wasn’t the first time I’d done that sort of thing, and something tells me it will not be the last time. It happened many years ago, and you’d think a supposedly grown-up hu man bemg would be able to take one lesson like that and shape it into use ful experience, into some sort of uni versal gadget that would always come in handy. The lesson I learned should have been: “Don’t fool yourself! Don’t lie to yourself!” But sometimes it seems shat the proud human mind doesn’t want the truth. It twists and turns and seeks out temporary consolation, rather than enduring fact. ... It lies tb us. and expects to be praise. But it was small comfort to me Today is the Day By CLARK KINNAIRD Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa per by Central Press Association Friday, July 17; Munoz Rivera day in Puerto Rico! Memorial Day is Do minican Republic. New moon tomor. row. • « « NOTABLE NATIVITIES James Cagney, b 1904, and William Gargan, b. 1905, cinemactors . . . Sanford Bates, b. 1884, penologist. . . . Maxim Litvinoff,- b. 1876, com missar of foreign affairs of the U. S. S. R. • • • TODAY’S YESTERDAYS July 17, 1676—Marie d’Aubray, Marquise de Brinvilliers, 46, the most celebrated murderess in French his tory, attempted to commit suicide by swallowing a pin. Vigilant warders frustrated the attempt, and prevent ed the disappointment of the nobil ity and the gentry, including the reigning lades of fashion and beau ty, who had gathered in a Paris square to see an axman decapitate her that morning. The Marquise was herself one of the reigning ladies of fashion and beauty until her husband’s fortune was spent. Then, having worked out what she regarded as a perfect pois oning scheme oy experimenting with deadly biscuits distributed to hos pitals and the poor, she dispatched her father, brothers and sisters one by one to collect inheritances. She made attempts on her husband, too, but a lover-accomplice who was afraid he would have to wed her if she became a widow, secretly gave the Marquis antidotes. Her crimes were not detected un til the lover, the Seigneur de Sainte- Croix, was poisoned by mistake. He ( didn't know it was a mistake, and vengefully blurted out her evil deeds; July 17, 1790 —Thomas Saint, Eng lishman, received a patent on what was probably the first sewing ma chine This was half a century be fore Howe, the American, whs made rich by what is popularly regarded as the first sewing machine. Appar ently Saint got no further with his machine than patenting it, for it was not even known he had received a patent until more than a century later! * » » 75 Years Ago Today—The first “greenbacks,” the first paper money, was authorized by Congress; but it wasn’t legal tender! The $50,000,000 in notes ($5 and up) weren’t even printed by the gov ernment a New York engraving con cern issued theip, and all were signed by government employes with their own names “for the Registrar of the Treasury.” They were simply IOUS payable on demand at certain designated sub treasuries. The “on demand” soon became meaningless, for the hard pressed Treasury was forced off the gold standard. Some of the notes were never paid. The first paper money issued in America was printed by Massachu setts Bay colony in 1690 to pay off a bonus voted for soldiers who served in the war against the French, though authors of the plan to pay off the World war soldier bonuses in fiat money thought they had some thing new! July 17 Among state Hstories: 1754—King’s College opened in New York with 10 students, and started growing into the Columbia, of today, the world’s largest university. . . . 1812—First steam ferry placed in operation between New York city and Jersey City. . . . 18989—Spanish surrendered Santiago, Cuba, to Amer leans . . . 1904—First news of Alas kan gold strike reached U. S., and gold rush began ... 20 Wears Ago Today—Federal Farm Loan Board was created, with authority to estab lish 12 land banks, and joint stock land banks. • • » FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY 20 Years Ago Today—lt was an nounced in Petrograd that in a se ries of battles fought in Volhynia, Russians had broken through the salient opposite Vladimir-Volhynsk over a stretch of 12 miles and had taken 3,000 German prisoners (To be continued) Your’e Telling Me? YOURE TELLINI ME EDIT PG—4 Even if the League di Nations turned down Haile Selassie he ought to be at least comfortable. On the - same day he received a cool reception, / the cold shoulder and a chilly re sponse. y • * * Each of the major political parties claims at least 49 states for their can- ■ didates. Let’s see—that adds up to 80 —or has the heat got us, too. *» ♦ X French financiers are attempting to hoard U. S. dollars, says a news dis patch. It won’t work. After trying for a lifetime none of us natives have been able to get away with it. • • » A locomotive and three cars ran over a Green Bay, Wls., infant and the child was uninjured! So —now we have streamlined babies, too! « * * Boston Red Sox fans boo their team when it sinks into the second division. It isn’t the heat, it’s the humility. British speed demon sets 60 new world records in a day. But don’t worry—wait until some of our Sunday drivers start shooting at that tnark. “What will the veterans do with their bonus?" asks a politician That’s easy—at the moment they are spend ing It for electric fans and ice cream cones. when the eye-man told me I was no exception: nine out of ten people who get into his chair fib about what they see on the chart.
