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PAGE FOUR SauffinaW««Bniii®mrs ’Jam** Published by -» PUBLIC OPINION, INC. [ PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter July 23, 1935 at th© Post Office at Savannah, Georgia x SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year j 750 Six Months ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 3 75 Three Months —Z-ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ 1 95 One Month ....ZZZ.Z ZZ 65 One Week Z.ZZZZZZIIZZZZZZZZZZZZZ .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 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 (All communication! Intended for pub lication under this heading must bear the name and address of the writer. Names will be omitted on request. Anonymous letters will not be given any attention. The widest latitude of expression and opinion is permitted In this column so that it may represent a true expression of public opinion in Savannah and Chatham County. Letters must be United to 100 words. The Savannah Daily Times does not Intend that the selection of letters pub 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 • * • • * • 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 SCOTTS SCRAPBOOKby R. J. SCOTT FR,OM METE.OR.rfE. / CLUE FOR. Hard nickel Zj facl '«'Yhe first" nickel steel vjas METEOR | -I STeel CROCODILE A/ORLP KNOW 111 ENTERS- <he youNC O; squeal so t / Lou DIV THEY CAN W'Z/ A/\fl BE HEARD AT Nv a \n a distance 'VfIF W SHELL. 8y Hl * anTics \ BU< He IS NO FARTHER . C oFF ,H Reason iNq . t -tHe sailor wHo f Bp' Scratches on a MAST” If il OR WHISTLES <o ROUSE < •' H;7 A LAZY BREEZE , qr. ; W * \ Austrians and y? ITALIANS WHO SHooT SWISS STAMP CANNON <o WARD PICTURES THE SoH V OFF HAIL oF WILLIAM Tku- .COPYRIGHT. 1936. CENTRAL PRESS ASSOCIATION, SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, SUNDAY, JULY 19, 1936 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 ~xr 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. » ♦ ♦ 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.