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BEAUFORT SETS THE PACE.
July 16th, 17th, and 18th in Beaufort were auspicious days
in the Southern yachting zone. Forty-five beautiful sailing ves
sels racing upon the historic Beaufort river was an inspiration
to anyone interested in the sport of kings.
Beaufort, S. C., with her traditional background and history
of sportsmaship cannot be excelled when it steps forth as the
host upon any occasion.
It is an inspiration and distinct example which has been set
to the larger Southern coastal cities. For a small city the size of
Beaufort, composed of around four thousand inhabitants, to
stage an event of this kind so successfully, worked out in perfect
detail, a charming yacht club where hospitality was the order
of the day, a yacht club conducted in such a manner where even
a novice could quickly realize that there was much expense at
tached to its operation, demonstrates to the casual observer just
what can be done when the people of a community are imbued
with the necessary civic spirit and enthusiasm. The writer of
this editorial became so interested and enthused with the spirit
which prevailed in this charming little city that he made it a
business to endeavor to analyze the reason for such a successful
event, a gala occasion, an occasion where people were not wor
ried by the depression; they were not worried by crop failure,
they were only concerned with making their guests feel at home
and happy. The general answer that this writer received was
that Beaufort was progressing and that it had to go forward,
her people were together and fighting. This is an example that
may well be followed by Savannah. The sportsmanship displayed
among the operating personnel of the regatta was superb. The
example set by their gentlemanly conduct made the race worthy
of notice and consideration. The Savannah Daily Times wishes to
congratulate Beaufort and especially the charter members who
have been active in the rehabilitation of the historic old Beaufort
Yacht Club, so steeped in tradition and history of sportsmanship.
This club will not only be an asset to the cty of Beaufort, but
is example of civic endeavor, an outstanding ex
ample to its sister cities of what can be accomplished when a
people of a community are together and fighting for the progress
of their community.
OUR READERS’ FORUM
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lished in this column shall in any way
reflect or conform with the editorial
views and policies of this paper. The
Times reserves the right to edit, publish
or reject any article sent in.)
Editor Savannnh Dally Timas:
Uncle Sam’s horde (or the U. S.
A.) is like a spacious, beautiful farm
home during the height of farming
season where the entire family lives
and has been working hard for long
atfenuous hours and is very tired but
happy. This family has been a very
happy-go-lucky group and never took
the time or money for repairs on the
Staunch sairs (aged people) and ver
andas (youth); it reservoirs and wells
(sink) almost dried, the carpets (mid
dle age people) moth eaten and worn.
Now we realize dimly that our day of
reckoning has come when the old
farm home will have to be repaired
on a nationwide scale.
NOT—In the News
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COPYRIGHT. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION
' Do you have a pet peeve? i
Unless you are one of those per
fectly contented souls—we’ve never
seen one yet—we’ll wager there Is
something about your life that irri
tates you plenty, some grievance that
. you wish you could remove.
In bringing up the question, we
don’t propose to present a method
of riddance for your favorite aggrava
tion, but we have an idea that may
help you tolerate your Irritated con
science,. On the theory that troubles
seem easier to bear If you can tell
them to someone, we are throwing
our column open to you so you can
air your pet peeve and get it out of
yur system, so to speak.
Now we don’t invite you to become
violent or offensive in broadcasting
your “gripe” through this pillar, but
we do welcome your observations on
most any matter that won’t let you
sleep. So send them in to this depart
ment, and set your mind at rest.
• • •
Our decision to embark on this
peeve-soothing campaign came as a
result of this letter we received from
B. R. Reddy, an Indiana reader. Here
is his blast:
"Dear Cheney—
"One great reason why employ
ment in this country has been so re
tarded is the fact that married wom
en are permitted to hold jobs that 1
Now the youth has started out on
repairing. We hope we are able to
conquer this costly Inconvenient bus
iness which should have received at
tention years ago, but never too late
to start.
That is why modern youth leagues
are being formed all over this nation.
We are realizing our future duty to
an extent that we are forming into
a body for nationwide house cleaning
and repairing.
GENEVA BARBER.
Editor Savannah Daily Times:
As a reader of the Daily Times,
the county’s best news, I want to con
gratulate you no its splendid makeup
of varied features, and a particul*
word of praise to the recent articles
“Adventures of Sue and Joe” so de
lightfully humorous which won two
subscriptions of my friends.
So, dear editor, give us more short
stories for the tired housekeeper to
relax after a busy day.
All good wishes and more success
and progress to the most interesting
parer.
GEORGE HAMILTON,
. A Consistent Reader.
single girls, or even men, should have.
When a woman’s husband is work
ing, and she has a job, they are tak
ing more -than their share of the
available employment, to my way of
thinking.
“No firm should be allowed to em
ploy any married woman whose hus
band is in a posit'on to keep her.
That rule should apply to all profes
sions and businesses.
“If a woman wishes to make a ca
reer, let her do so. But if she gets
married she ought to regard that as
her career, and let some unemployed
girl have ther job.
‘Then, after marriage, if she still
hankers for a job to keep herself busy,
let her confine her efforts to some
unprofessional endeavor, some hobby.
“It is grossly unfair. I think, to
allow a married woman to work
when a single girl, who can do the
work just as well, goes jobless. I know
this Is an old argument, but it rankles
in my brain so much that I have to
speak my piece.
• ♦ ♦
“What do you think about It?”
We’d rather stay out of this. (But,
do any of you want to take up the
Issue with Mr. Reddy?
WORDS OF WISDOM
The first years of man must make
'provision for the last.—Johnson.
HOW MUCH LONGER CAN WE HOLD THIS POSE?
ISRIWT I
Atlanta
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
WHISPERING CAMPAIGNS
Used in Attack on Presidents in Past as Now
CONDEMNED BUT GO ON
By LESLIE EICHEL
Central Press Staff Writer
CAN THERE EVER be a law to
cope with “whispering campaigns”?
Experienced campaigners say no.
President Roosevelt is ignoring sev
eral vicious ones against him. Other
presidents did the same—that is, all
Roosevelt, as a Bell Moose candidate,
brought suit and won 6 cents dam
ages.
There were extremely vicious cam
paigns against Woodrow Wilson. He
maintained his silence.
George Washington suffered several
—and Thomas Jefferson was the
most bitterly attacked of all. And
some of the poisoned darts directed
at President Lincoln were at an in
conceivably low level.
* * •
Angered
But, now, some people are becom
ing angry over the whispering cam
paigns against President Roosevelt.
When a pamphlet attacking Mrs.
Roosevelt appeared at the Gdass
Roots’ • convention of Governor Eu
gene Talmadge of Georgia, the na
tion seemed disgusted. There was
bitter backfire.
Now, reputable Republicans fear
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that a whispering campaign, made
up of vicious untruths uttered against
the president by persons with malice
aforethought, will prove to be a ser
ious setback for the Republican cause.
• *. •
An Indignant Citizen .
The indignation that is arising may
be gathered from this letter written
by a Republican. Rufus C. Oates of
Pawtucket, R. 1., to the New York
Times:
“Arthur Krock's article on the in
temperate abuse of President Roose
velt, circulated among th© 'rescued
rich and well-to-do residents of New
York’s stately envidons’, has made
me pause and think.
“I am a life-long Republican who
voted for Mr. Hoover in 1932, and I
am still of the opinion that he should
have been the party’s candidate in
1936. In default of his nomination I
am strongly inclined to vote for Mr.
Landon. My continued adherence to
the Republican party is perhaps a
natural result of family tradition
and social environment. I am fairly
well off in worldly possessions, and I
will admit that Mr. Roosevelt’s course
of action has benefited me mater
ially.
“Until recently I thought this in
temperate abuse of the President was
confined to a small group of people
here in Rhode Island belonging to the
same ‘class’ as that described by Mr.
Krock. The stories circclated in my
own group regarding the president
seemed incredible to me, and I had
ascribed them to the provincialism of
my little community.
“But a visit over the Fourth with
two cultured maiden ladies in one of
Boston’s high-class suburbs revealed
to me that the same stories are being
circulated among the members of
the same class in that center of world
cclture so well known as the Hub of
the universe.
“What troubles me in the situation
is that the people who have told me
these stories, and who apparently be
lieve them, are educated people of
genuine culture. Their informants, so
they tell me, are also of the same
type.
“I cannot help fearing that this
whispering -campaign will react
against my party, for it is a symptom
of an intolerance which is decidedly
opposed to the American tradition. It
certainly cannot gain any converts
to the anti-Rooeevelt cause. It con
notes a campaign of desperation
which does not harmonize with the
confidence assertions of Republicans
generally in this locality that Mr.
Roosevelt will surely be beaten next
November.
“I must say that I have yet to
hear of any such tactics being employ,
ed by Democrats against Against Mr.
(CONTINUED ON PAGE 8)
HOW U. S. FIGHTS DROUGHT
Losses Mount to High Totals in National Calamity
This is the second of three ar
ticles by Charles P. Stewart, on
the U. S. government’s efforts to
combat the drouth.
(Central Press, Washington Bureau,
602 Times-Herald Bldg.
By CHARLES P. STEWART
(Central Press Staff Writer)
WASHINGTON, July 18.—Several
government bureaus and agencies
have been mobilized to meet the na
tional drouth emergency.
Probably the most active is the
WPA.
President Roosevelt has authorized
75,000 jobs to be handled by this set
up.
Roughly, the work will consist of
water conservation, with an eye to the
future rather than the immediate
present. The menace of this new
desert, wind borne and man defying,
lays heavy on the consciousness of
officials. How can its spread be
checked; how can the acres which
new are as dead as the burned out
ashes of the pft be reclaimed? How
MyNewYork
By
James As well
NEW YORK, July 18.—I broke
down and confessed not long ago that
I had been looking for a country
place. It turns out to have been an
indiscreet thing to do in print. My
fan mail has increased to such, pro
portions that the office boy hands it
to me with a new gleam of respect in
his eye.
The fan mail is from real estate
agents. Some of them have sent
coldly factual reports of properties
and prices. Others have burst into
lyric prose and I am in receipt of one
30-line poem about a hillside para
dise which would be worth SI,OOO pel
line to the author if I allowed it to
fetch me utterly.
I thought I had made it clear that
I had intended to shop for a few
years longer. When you are just
looking, your friends and even some
times the real estate agents assume
that you have the wherewithal to set
yourself up as a wildwood squire
when you find the right place. It
costs you nothing to create this im
pression and I am beginning to sus
pect that a good many New Yorkers
buy country places largely for that
purpose
On second thought I tend to con
clude maybe it would be a good idea
to shop from now on. You see, I
spent a week-end recently in the
country. I had a fine time and was
entertained in princely fashion by
the two pleasantest hosts I know. I
should be sufficiently recovered from
the adventure in a week or ten days
to function normally again.
The sun blisters ought to heal, for
example, in five or six days and ar
rive at the itching stage. My thumb,
against which a firecracker exploded,
will be well enough to strika a type
writer key without making me wince
in the same length of time, and the
sprained, back, incurred while pitch
ing horseshoes, shouldn’t give me
any trouble after the first week. The
bee sting is nothing—it will only in
terfere with my right eye for a day
or two—and the poison ivy should
clear up promptly.
Now I hope you haven’t concluded
from this that I’m just a softie, per
haps even a city slicker, who can’t
take it. I can take it, but like Schmel
ing I wouldn’t attempt another ma
jor bout without the proper interval
of training.
The truth is that city and country
life don’t mix. Living in the coun
try is a career in itself, like dieting
or exercise, and it leaves no room for
doing anything else. You can’t live
in Manhattan five days a week and
expose yourself to the slings and ar
rows of outrageous nature for two
days a week, six months a year, with
out feeling like you’ve been processed
in a silo after each encounter.
The average New Yorker is a pret
ty brave man. He will mortgage him
.self up to the eyes to buy a farm, ne
gotiate by car the purgatories of traf
fic which separate him from it each
week-end, and return to town smiling
valiantly through the bandages an.i
laughing off his sprains and snake
bites. He will leave a cool skyscraper
apartment, fight nis way through
cops and crackpot drivers to swelter
in some “restored” bam built in 1608
in Mosquito Valley and lie brave
ly about his sylvan sanctuary, raising
property values and the glories of the
soil while he mumbles a salestalk in
which you catch the words “infla
tion” and “hedge against the revo
lution.”
Now you may think all this is an
attempt to minimize the pleasures of
country life. It is not. On the con
trary I say honestly that if I could
change the content of this chatter to
a daily dissertation on crops and
tractor tichnique without getting
kicks from the eidtors, I’d move to
the very heart of the ruggedest moun
tain or shore or prairies country I
could find in the geographies.
But I’d condition myself for the
regime. I’d train. I'd be in shape
for the grapple with the elements and
the fauna and flora or the Great Out
doors. Then I could enjoy Nature.
Thoreau was tough as a razorback
hog. If he had omy spent week-ends
or vacations in the country he’d have
been lukewarm towaird the life, I
haven’t a doubt.
Moreover, country people who come
to New York and plunge Into the life
of the town without preliminary
shadow-boxing and conditioning ex
ercises, are as unwise as those of us
who tackle the woods and dales with
out proper preparation. A country
dweller who tries a round of shows,
night fclubs, champagne cocktails
and 5 a.m. bedtimes, after being ac
customed to none of these things, is
likely to find himself as limp as the
city fellow who suddenly essays a few
miles of clod-hopping and hay-raking.
City life or country life, it seems
to me, shuld be entered, like a cold
polo, one toe at a time. Once im
mersed in either, your life work is cut
out for you.
can the five million farmers be as
sured food and shelter?
There is the pattern.
What is the answer?
Honestly, it has not been found.
* * *
Present Efforts
Here is what is being done:
At a conservative estimate each of
those farmers may be assumed as
having three depenaents each, 20 mil
lion persons, who must be fed. The
Works Progress Administration is put
ting them to worx at sls a week. A
family of four can live on that.
Those men are building dams, some
in dry watercourses and others where
a trickle still works its weary way
to the sea, to prevent a recurrence
of the course of 1936. By this means
it is also hoped to raise the subter
ranean water level to its former
proximity to the surface. Wells are
being driven in an almost frantic
hunt for water; for life itself. Deep
rooting grasses, which give to rather
than take away from the soil, will be
planted where climatic conditions
permit.
The whole fight is being waged
against imponderable forces, forces
wholly beyond the control of man.
• * *
Beyond Man’s Power
For instance, the weather bureau
explained the prolonged drouth by
pointing to what the scientists de
scribe as a mass of ocean cooled air
hovering above the Pacific, somewhere
between Alaska and Hawaii.
There it had been hanging between
sea and sky, and there it was to stay
until nature herself decided to start
it inland to bring rain, relief and sal
vation to almost all of the United
States lying to the west of the Ap
palachian mountains. It could not be
towed ashore by dirigibles or blown
from its moorings by bombing air
planes.
It was almost as mysterious and
malignantly perverse as the subter
ranean flow of the waters toward the
Gulf of Mexico, which now is being
studied more closely than ever be
fore.
• * *
Water Level Problem
Years ago this water level problem
was studied casually in the citrus fruit
section of California.
In the early days .of the industry
water could be found in plenty 20 or
30 feet below the surface, and it was
used; its moisture was converted onto
orange juice and shipped out of the
country. The level began sinking,
sank some more, and continued to
sink, until now finding water beneath
the surface there is a major under
taking. Impounding the waters of
mountain streams and rivers solved
the problem for California.
But there is no such salvation for
Montana, North and South Dakota,
Minnesota and Wyoming now. There
is no water there, available for
quenching the flames of the burning
granary; there is no water to be had
to revive the drying corps nor to give
life to seeds whose roots would hold
the soil firm against the plucking
fingers of the wind.
A Vivid Picture
A vivid picture of the spread of the
drouth and the rapidity with which
it has moved is furnished by depart
ment of agriculture maps.
The one as of June 1 showed ex
treme drouth in the northwest, in the
upper Missouri country. Also, some
sections of Alabama, Georgia, Tennes
see and Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee
and Virginia. Conditions elsewhere
were sectionally distressing, but not
as now, appaling.
Now—two-thirds of the United
States is involved!
Next: Action Taken to Alleviate
calamity.
All Os Us
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You can make a fairly accurate
check on yourself by asking yourself
what you are afraid of? and why?
and what you can do about it?
Nearly everybody is afraid of some
thing.
Some men are afraid of dogs. . . .
Perhaps they were frightened, or bit,
by dogs and can give you several good
reasons for their dislike. . . . The
fact is, deep underneath they fear
them.
Cats frighten some men and wom
en. . . . They don’t yowl when a cat
comes into a room, but they can’t
bear to touch them. The fear may
go far back into the past, beyond
even that time in Egypt when cats
were worshiped—partly because men
feared them. . • . Not much can be
done about that. After all, there’s no
law compelling anybody to love cats.
Some women fear mjee and rats or
any insect, or men kill even harmless
snakes because they are really afraid
of them.
Some grownup men and women
can’t endure even a little blood flow
ing from a cut. They turn pale and
faint.
For they get dizzy at even low
heights, or shudder in the dark, or
can’t stand a close room, or are afraid
when they are alone. Or get desperate
when in crowds, or shrink away from
any strong emotion.
Almost every man or woman or
child has some small, apparently iso
lated fears. . . . And these are not
terribly important unless they are
“babied” and encouraged.
But there are others, tragic people,
who are afraid of being alive. They
were boni, physically, like everybody
else, but they have never been fully
and joyfully bom into the lively,
fascinating, challenging experience of
living on this exciting earth. .
They are afraid of the most important
experience we can have,' and they
must do something about that.
What are you afraid of?
Latest estimate of the number of
vessels in the American merchant
marine, on seas and lakes, is 3,692.
This included only ships of 100 tons
or more.
The name of the Territory of Alas
ka is said to have originated from
“Al-ay-es-ka.”. a native Eskimo word
meaning “great country.”
Today is the Day I
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for this Newspa
per by Central Press Association
VI Sunday after Trinity, July 19:
Zodiac sign, Canfer; Birthstone, Ruby.
* * «
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Charles H. Mayo, b. 1865, phiysician
etxraordinary. He and his brother
William J., made small Rochester.
Minn., one of the world’s biggest med
ical centers . . . Merlin Hall Ayles
worth, b. 1886, broadcasting and mot
ion picture tycoon . . . Paul V. Mc-
Nutt, b. 1891, governor of Indiana.
♦ ♦ •
SUNDAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 19, 1814—Samuel Colt was
bom in Hartford Conn. He was only
a cabin boy on the brig Carlo on an
East India voyage, when in watching
the helmsman swing the wheel, he
noticed that each, spoke came directly
in line with a clutch set to hold it.
His imagination replaced the wheel
with a cylinder, revolving so that Its
chambers came successively in line
with a gun barrel. By the time the
voyage ended he had whittled out a
model.
After he had made and patented
the first revolver for sale, two Army
boards decided it was impractical!
Texas were first to prove the Army
wrong.
July 19, 1848—The first women’s
rights convention in the world con
vened at Seneca Falls, N. Y., at the
call of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan
B. Anthony and Lucretia Mott, as a
result of a movement which grew
out of exclusion of women delegates
from the anti-slavery convention in
1840.
The first “bloomer girls” timidly
made their appearance at this time.
The garment, devised by Mrs. Eliza
beth Miller, took its name from Miss
Amelia Bloomer, who sponsored it as
a garment for women to wear as mark
of their new formed determination
to have eqcal rights with men..
July 19 Among State Histories—
1877—Riots in Pittsburgh and Chi
cago resulting from nationwide rail
way strike caused martial law to be
declared . ■ .'l9l9—Race rioting swept
Washington, D. C. . . . 1934—100,000
went back to work in San Francisco,
as general strike ended.
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY-BY-DAY
July 18-19. 1916 —Socialists in Ger
many raised a new demand for
peace. The recent conviction of
Liebknecht on treason charges for ed
manding a peace conference, had not
muted them.
Be
Your’e Telling
Me?
Republicans and Democrats are
charging each other with fooling the
public with propaganda. What’s this
—the two old parties actually con
gratulating each other?
• » *
The weatherman says he sees rain.
ißut Millie, the red-headed office riot,
says its just the perspiration pouring
off his brow.
It has been determined that the
average man makes use of merely 12,-
000 words in a lifetime. But we know
a number of women who can use
more than that in an evening.
♦ • ♦
No man will ever be able to under
stand his wife now. French fashion
experts say the new fall hats will
give a woman two distinct personali
ties. - z
♦ * ♦
A California factory has determined
that women workers are happier and
contented when operating violet-col
ored machines. Quite correct—if the
violet-colored machine is a 16-cylinder
automobile.
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The old saying is that rain falls on
the just and the unjust but what
does that make the farmers who live
in the drouth-stricken area?
Some men taek any job seriouW'.
For instance, the Cincinnati chap
who shot another in a quarrel in an
old folk home over the question of
who was to get the task of cleaning
the cuspidors.
• • •
A friend has offered Chairman
John Hamilton an elephant to ride
in a Portland, Me., political parade.
He has been anticipated—Big Jim
Farley has been riding the telephant
ever since the Democratic conven
tion.
However, summer does have its
happier side. For instance, it is im
possible now to lose money betting oh
the wrong foottball teams.
The Grab Bag
ONE MINUTE TEST
1. Does a person always come up
three times before drowning?
2. Name the southernmost point of
the Dominon of Canada.
3. Who are the U. S. senators
from Ohio.
HINTS ON ETIQUETTE
It is not considered a breach pf
etiquette to use a handkerchief at the
table. However, it should be used as
unobtrusively as possible.
WORDS OF WISDOM
A man is very apt to complain of
the ingratitude of those who have
risen far above him.—Samuel John
son.
CRUSHING ANSWER
Timid Husband: Woman, er, ah, If
you and your mother keep on nag
ging me, you’re going to bring the
animal cut in me.
Sarcastic Wife: Then ;ve must be
careful. A mouse always scares US
half to death.