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COUNCILMAN JARVIS - SAVANNAH POLICE DEPT.
In Mr. Jarvis’ article in the Savannah Morning News of
July 20th date line, Mr. Jarvis severely criticizes the Savannah
Police Department for intimidating methods used around the
headquarters of the Longshoremen Union. This criticism comes
immediately after the severe condemnation of Miss Eleanor Wor
rill Dudley for lack of proper protection and co-operation by
Mayor Gamble. This condemnation was brought about by the
promiscuous use of obscene language and frequent Communistic
declarations from Communistic labor leaders and their consti
tuents loafing in and around the vicinity of Miss Dudley’s studio.
Miss Dudley’s condemnation and demand for action through the
columns of the Savannah Daily Times produced an immediate
investigation which resulted in the trial and conviction of at
least one of the disturbers, thereby demonstrating the soundness
of Miss Dudley’s judgment and request for protection.
The Savannah Daily Times employs only union men, demon
strating its high regard for the personnel of organized labor in
Savannah. This newspaper has upon many occasions come to the
front in defense of union labor and its policies, therefore we feel
justified in reminding the ranks of labor that they are treading
upon dangerous ground whe they allow their duly elected leaders
to affiliate and allign with a political clique for the purpose of
coalescing negro votes in order to perpetuate the politicians of
this clique in public office.
The news article of Mr. Jarvis is asinine and misleading
and should be brought before the labor body in convention as
sembled. Union labor should not allow Mayor Gamble and their
president to place them in an indefensible position, that of stir
ring up strife and Communism among negro workers in Savan
nah for the purpose of organizing these negroes at so much per
man under’the tacit agreement that the organizers will divide
the initiation fee and Mayor Gamble will receive the benefit
of the votes of such an organization in his coming campaign.
The Savannah Police Department, when not interfered with
by the Mayor or his political satellites, at all times renders ma
terial results and is known for its efficiency. They will give Miss
Dudley the adequate protection she is entitled to, if let alone.
Mr. Jarvis could render Savannah a real service if he would
use the prerogatives of his office as councilman and that of presi
dent of the Trades and Labor Assembly towards paying the per
sonnel of our Savannah Police and Fire Departmet adequate
compesation. They are underpaid, working under the obstacle of
political chicanery and in addition, subjected to unfair, mislead
ing criticism which should be more than they be demanded to
carry.
It is regretful that a man so highly honored as is Mr. Jarvis
would stultify his office in the endeavor to trade, both the
security of his city through the breaking down of American
principles and the destruction of white social standards in order
to line the pockets of unscrupulous organizers with money and
perpetuate an impractical mayor in office. Mr. Jarvis enjoys the
responsibility of citizenship—first, inherited from his fore
fathers ; second, because it was placed upon his shoulders through
the confidence of that great body of men which he desires to rep
resent. For Mr. Jarvis to violate this responsibility through his
digression from the principles of real American thought which
this great body represents would place him in the annals of
“tried and found wanting.” Such a epitaph placed upon the rec
ords of Mr. Jarvis’ activities in public service would not only be
a stigma upon labor itself but would be certainly a dramatic con
clusion to this gentleman’s public career. You cannot play with
fire, Mr. Jarvis, without being burnt. Your position is unsound
and dangerous.
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Editor Daily Times:
Mankind has always sought to pre
serve reverently those material ob
jects Intimately associated with the
lives of its great benefactors. Their
veneration in succeeding ages not
only links the past with the present,
but is the source of continuous in
spiration for all generations. There
fore in addition to the Living Memo
ral, It is proposed to create at West
Orange, New Jersey, the scene of so
many of Mr. Edison’s fruitful labors,
an Edison Center, enshrining the very
spirit of the man himself. This will
take the form of a simple but per
manent home to contain originals,
replicas and records of those inven
tions which have so transformed the
world. The preservation of his fa
mous library and laborator will be
an integral part of the plan.
Outgrowing his workshop in New
ark, N. J., the youthful Edison moved
on to Menlo Park, where he set up
his first laboratory. Marking this site
is a steel tower. Atop this tower is
the beacon into which current first
was directed as Mr. Ed-son threw the
switch on the occasion of Light’s
Golden Jubilee in 1929. It has burned
ever since. It is hoped to transform
this tower into a permanent structure.
The physical memorials will not call
for expenditure of large sums of
money, and it is planned that approxi
mately 75 per cent to 80 per cent of
funds made available shall be alloted
to the Living Memorial.
The Thomas Alva Edison Founda
tion will preserve a flexible policy Os
administration to meet changing con
ditions in industral and educatonal
progress, that permmanent and con
tnued vitality for the objectives
may be Insured.
H. ALDEN THOMAS.
Editor Daily Times:
The forthcoming presidential elec
tion promises to be above average in
interest and intensity. The formation
of a third party and the influence
wielded by the Townsendites will un
doubtedly make the two major parties
keep on their toes, spend more money
and sling more mud than usual.
While I am not in sympathy with
either the Lemke-Coughlin outfit or
the Townsend “party”. I recognize
the value of having such elements in
politics to supply competition and
keep the major parties from getting
tpo cocksure and arrogant. It wouldn’t
hurt this country in the least to have
a permanent third party with an even
chance of breaking into the spoils
once In a while.
A. a HAMILTON.
RUB A DUB, DUB-THREE MEN IN A TUB!
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NO MAJORITY FOR ANY
(Which History Indicates As Unlikely)
IN 1936 ELECTION
By CHARLES P. STEWART
Central Press Staff Writer
WASHINGTON. July 20—Occasion
ally one hears the prediction that no
single presidential ticket will have a
majority-over-all in the next electoral
college, thus throwing the decision
into the house of representatives.
The same prediction was heard in
1912, the year of the triangular con
test between Woodrow Wilson, Wil
liam Howard Taft and Colonel Theo
dore Roosevelt I. It was heard again
in 1924, when the race was a three
cornered one between Calvin Coolidge,
John W. Davis and Robert M. La
Follette I.
These 1912 and 1924 predictions
seemed likelier of fulfillment than
the present one.
Colonel Roosevelt and Senator La
Follette were stronger third-party
candidates than Representative Wil
liam Lemke, the current campaign’s
independent, promises to be, and a
mighty strong independent is needed
to create an electoral college deadlock
• • •
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If an independent aspirant could
unite, in his support, all anti-Dem
ocratic and antl-Republican elements,
he might tie the electoral college up
in a bowknot.
His weakness is that the disgruntled
folk are all split up.
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SAVANNAH DAILY TIMES, MONDAY, JULY 20, 1936
Four years hence, who knows?
President John L. Lewis of the
United Mine Workers unquestionably
has in mind the organization of a
Farmer-Labor party for 1940.
But even Lewis doesn’t think It
can be done now.
• • •
Not For Lemke
So Lemke, will not get the Lewisites
this time (if ever); they see their
bread pro-Rooseveltianly buttered as
to 1936.
He will not get the A. F. of L.; that
is non-partisan, not Lemke-ite at all.
He will not get the assorted Pro
gressives—the La Follette Wisconson
ians; the Norris Nebraskans; the
Borah-ites.
Os course, he will not get any con
servatives.
Assuredly he will not get any of
the extreme radicals —such as the
Norman Thomas Socialists or the
Earl Browder Communists. It isn’t
to be supposed that he wants them,
either. His sponsor, the Rev. Charles
E. Coughlin, denounces them.
• • •
Carry No States
True, there already exists a Farm
er-Labor party, which Lemke would
like to annex, but the Farmer-Labor
ites evidently are unamendable; any
way, their leader, Gov. Floyd B. Olson
of Minensota, has declared for Roose-
velt for the present—not necessarily
for the future, too.
The Townsendites the Coughlinits
and the survivors of Huey P. Long-ism
still may be serviceable, but can the
leaders deliver their followers?
This can’t be called a third-party
lineup calculated to produce a dent.
It will cast a vote, but carry a
state? No.
• * •
Will It Work?
John L. Lewis’ plan for the genuine
Farmer-Labor party (not the abortive
outfit, which has kept a senator and
two or three representatives in con
gress for the last few years) has some
sense in it.
If it can be made to work!
Agriculture and urban labor
OUGHT to work hand in hand.
In practice they are in conflict.
The farmer wants high prices for
what he has to sell; low prices for
finished stuff, what he has to buy.
The city workingman wants a low
cost of living; high pay.
Altruistically this conflict should
be easy to adjust.
In practice it is calculated to keep
the leaders guessing.
Campers, or anybody, can keep
food cool even in the hottest place,
with ordinary photographers’ “hypo.”
This chemical, hyposulphite of soda,
when mixed with water, draws heat
from the water extremely rapidly, just
as melting ice freezes ice cream. Two
parts of water with one part of granu
lar hypo cools water from 82 down
to 49 degrees Fahrenheit in three to
five minutes. Water at 49 is cold
spring tenjperature. By using the
cool water to dissolve still more hypo,
still lower temperatures can be ob
tained .
—WORLD AT A GLANCE—
COUGHLIN-OARP TIEUP
With Its Delivery of “Millions” of Votes
MAY NOT BE WORKABLE
By ESLIE EICHEL
(Central Press Staff Writer)
Political observers are at variance
over the effect of the political alli
ance at the Townsend convention in
Cleveland of the Rev. Charles E.
Coughlin. the Rev. Gerald L. K.
Smith, and Dr. Francis E. Townsend.
If the leaders could deliver and
merge their respective groups, the al
liance might have a considerable ef
fect on the American government.
But the leaders specifically stated
that the alliance was not a ‘ merger ’
of the National Union for Social Jus
tice, the Share-the-Wealthers and the
Old Age Revolving Pension Organi
gation.
In fact, they even have trouble
over the political alliance becav.se of
a revolt in the Townsend organiza
tion.
* • •
Undeliverable
This writer believes organizations
cannot be “delivered.”
Under stimulus of high emotional
ism—such as that displayed at the
Townsend convention—auditors will
stand on chairs and yell “their heads
off.”
On sober second thought they will
begin to question assertions and ac
tions.
The interests of the three organi
zations in question are not identical.
» » •
Revolt
After all, it was r revolt of south
ern Democrats within the Townsend
organization against a coalition that
caused Dr. Townsend to send for
Father Coughlin posthaste to come
to the Cleveland convention and
speak with all the vigor that he
possessed.
He outdid himself emotionally and
in vituperativeness.
He invited the southern delegates
to get out if they did not like what
he said.
He termed President Roosevelt “a
great liar and a great betrayer.”
He poured forth vitrol upon the
president. He denounced him for
“extending a hand to communistic
Mexico.” He said the president had
forgotten the constitution. He urg
ed his defeat.
Then he turned upon Gov. Alf. M.
Landon, the Republican ccandidate,
and denounced him for advocating
the return of the gold standard. The
priest added, “Landon does not know
whether he is coming or going.”
But the priest’s speech did not ad
vocate a broad social reform plat
form.
The speech was one of the severest
denuncations ever heard on an Amer
ican public platform.
Few of the auditors caught the
significance that the United States
virtually is the only country in which
the head of the government could be
My New York
By
James As well
(Copyright, 1936, Central Press As
sociation)
NEW YORK, July 20.—Rat-Tat-
Tattle: Gypsy Rose Lee, pie most
successful burlesk strip woman in the
world, makes a wish every night at
9:15, solemnly placing her hands in
the position of clock nands at that
hour. . . . Helen Morgan carries a
jar of theatrical lip rouge in her purse
for odd moment smears, a custom,
the show girls tell me, is except for
her, unheard of. . . . The movie
moguls swear they are hard put to
pick starring teams with boxoffice
lure—why not pair Jesse Mathews,
the English terper of the big brown
eyes, with Fred Astaire? . . . Spot
shot: Marlene Dietrich entering a cab
In front of the Waldorf, laden with
several hundred thousand dollars’
worth of jewelry, and the little knot
of autograph seekers suddenly clust
ering—after a vigil of many hours.
. . . .Scott Fitzgerald, whom the
reviewers like to paint as a night
clubber and dance-jernt addict, has
danced twice in 5 years. . • .
Pressed by a wire for the name of
the best Swedish restaurant in New
York, I interrogated the wife of Jack
Shuttleworth, editor of True Detec
tive magazine: she is a native Swede,
but she retorted: “Oh, I never eat
Swedish food. I never did, even in
Sweden. It's too rich.” . . * Tapped
as the must startling gainer and
loser of poundage in America —Paul
Whiteman. . . . His tailors go crazy
taking up and letting out. ... Ir
relevant befuddlement: why is there
so much hullaballoo over spies ana
spying when the history fcooks recox’?'
no major war that has been won or
lost by the activities of the peek-and
tell gentlemen. . . .
I ferried within eyesight of the
Statue of Liberty on Bastille Day not
long ago and noted the French tri
color flying—in honor of the nation
which gave us the symbol of man s
highest dream. . . .
♦ ♦ •
Looking down with a catch in the
throat: the ridges in the sidewalk of
East 59th street which inform the
feet of the blind that the portals of
the Lighthouse, where baskets are
woven, brooms made and rag rugs
fashioned, I.ave been reached. . . .
Pat O’Brien and Jimmy Cagney,
roommates in New York, once went
48 hours with a nickel between them.
... An anonymous postcard from
Ada, Oklahoma quips: “Old Smartie—
just because Billy Rose is in Texas
ain't no sign he has to ride a horse.
I betcha you look funny going down
to work through a hole in the ground
like them subways yore always atalk
ing about.” . . . But I still would
like to see Billy Rose riding a horse,
preferably with a cigar in place. . . .
Tommy Manville, the silver-thatched
asbestos hair, recently grabbed the
Normandie “to get away from wom
en.” . . • Th? ship news reporters in
formed him blithely that his third
wife had engaged a stateroom a few
doors down.
denounced in such scathing terms
in perfect freedom —and with perfect
right.
« • •
Frenzy
The Townsendites were eager to
point out that their convention was
not as dull and circus-like as the Re
publican and Democratic conven
tions.
But to observers it was no quiet,
unemotional deliberative group.
It seemed quite the reverse. It
gave itself up to an emotional frenzy
seldom equalled except at a revival
meeting or at a Nazi gathering in
Germany.
And the speakers seemed to play
up to the occasion.
The Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith was
purely emotional and demogogic. He
made a great ado about drinking
from a pitcher instead of a glass. But
he offered no broad social program
for the common man. Instead, his
hot words resembled those of the
Ku Kluxers of the recent past.
Dr. Townsend, himself, whose ideas
have imbued thousands of aged,
proved himself an adroit, bargaining
individual, trying to hold his thou
sands in line, endeavoring to shut
off critcism, even pushing the ouster
of one of his vice presidents, Gomer
Smith, of Oklahoma. Smith dared
to denounce the Rev. Coughlin and
the Rev. Smith for their attacks on
President Roosevelt.
• • •
What Is Aim?
After all, what is the aim of the
new coalition Coughlin - Smith,
Townsend?
These leaders cannot possible hope
to elect William Lemke as president.
They probably are trying to obtain
the defeat of President Roosevelt, but
it was President Roosevelt who put
the Coughlin silver policy on trial —
disastrously; and it was the president
who first gave the nation a national
security law.
Can it be, observers are asking,
that Coughlin and Smith are “seiz
ing” the Townsend organization in a
broad plan to gain control of the gov
ernment through congress? A cam
paign of intimidation of congressmen
has been carried on now for several
months.
The Rev. Mr. Smith seems to have
supplanted the aged Dr. Townsend as
the real power in the Townsend or
ganzation. He even has pushed a
change of name to Townsend Recov
ery Plan. His plan includes a Youth
Movement. That is the manner in
which the National Socialists organ
ized and gained control of the gov
ernment in Germany.
You’re Telling
Me?
A hostess, says an etiquette expert,
should wait 20 minutes for a tardy
dinner guest and then begin the meal
without him. Because, we Jgure, if
he is tardier than that it must be
due to a dislike for soup.
• • •
The inconsistency of man; just
when he begins earning enough
money to afford a change of shirts
every day he starts wearing dark
colored ones'.
« • •
No American likes to be called
“small town stuff’’ until he starts
running for office. And then he makes
speeches boasting about it.
• • •
The British government plans to
equip every inhabitant of the British
Isles with a gas mask. We can’t fig
ure whether it is preparation for an
other war or another political cam
paign.
* * *
This is a world of illusion. The suit
in the clothing store window never
looks like that on you.
* » »
Politicians who like to have their
pictures taken while making speeches
overlook one important fact. No one
apepars at his best with his moilTh
open.
Moscow has forbidden Russian air
enthusiasts to make parachute jumps
purely for pleasure. This is the first
inkling we’ve had that jwxachute
jumping is considered a pleasure.
aFoTus
WHEN JIM COULDN’S SLEEP
JIM COULDN’T sleep—and it wor
ried him.
All his life it had been his boast
that he fell asleep the instant his
head hit the pillow and that it took
a sledge hammer to waken him.
But one night he lay awake and
it was an hour before he slept.
The next night he remembered he
hadn’t fallen asleep immediately the
night before and wondered how it
would be this night . . . And again
it happened ... He lay awake wen
dering WHY he couldn’t sleep. He
told himself he wasn’t exactly WOR
RIED, but he was puzzled. He told
and everything will be all right” . . .
and everything wil Ibe all right” . . .
But it didn’t work. He couldn’t get
his mind quiet and in an hour he was
tense and wide-awake. He got up and
drank a glass of hot water but that
didn’t help much. It was another
hour before he slept and in the morn
ing he felt tired.
And that continued for days, until
at last Jim did worry and was irrit
able and haggard and his friends be
gan to say he needed a vacation . .
Then he went to a doctor, who look
ed solemn and played the game of
20 questions with him and prescribed
a bottle of medicine for him.
But a lot of good IT did! . . .
Jim took the medicine but remem
bered the solemn look and still
couldn’t go to sleep.
So he went to another doctor who
looked him all over, checked thia and
Today is the Day
By CLARK KINNAIRD
Copyright, 1936, for thia Newspa
per by Central Press Association
Monday, July 20; Ab 1, 5695 In
Jewish calendar. Jumada First 1,
1355 in Mohammedan calendar. St.
Margaret’s Dady. Independence Day
in Colombia. St. Elias’ Day in Rou
mania. Venus is close and to the
south of Castor and Pollux, with the
new moon nearby and of & similar
phase, a large crescent.
• • •
NOTABLE NATIVITIES
Mahai, b. 1922, ex-king, present
crown prince of Roumania . . .
Frank P. Walsh, b. 1864, eminent
lawyer identified with liberal causes
. . . Ernest Hutcheson, b. 1871, com
poser and pianist . . . Arthur Jar
rett, b. 1908, orchestra leader ...
Errett Lobban Gord, b. 1894 . . •
\• • •
TODAY’S YESTERDAYS
July 20, 1402—0 n the plains of
Angora, the army of 69-year-old Tim
our, better known as Tamerlane,
numbering 200,000, met that of the
Turkish sultan, Bajazet, totaling
300,000. Tamerlane routed the
Turks, made Bajazet a prisoner and
slave, extended hs dominions over all
Asia Minor as well as Asia, and left
as one momenta of his invasion a
tower built of 90,000 human heads!
• • •
July 20, 1859 —Baseball became a
business. Adimision (50c) to a game
was charged for the first time when
Brooklyn and New York city teams
played in the center of a Long Island
race course, 1,500 paid. Players
weren’t paid. (They didn’t begin to
get money until four years later,
when they were given a share of gate
receipts.)
• « •
July 20, 1932—There was an ioe
storm in midsummer in the vicinity
of Chisholm, Minnesota!
As noon the temperature was high
and residents were sweltering. Early
in the afternoon t he mercury began
to drop rapidly and skies to darken.
At 5 p.m. hail began to fall. As the
storm continued, the hail grew in
sibe until many of the pellets were as
large as baseballs. Trees and crops
were leveled, windows broken, roofs
cracked, automobiles wrecked and
flattened, and the ground covered
thickly with ice.
• • •
July 20 Among State Histories:
1628 —First election was held in
i America and John Wilson chosen as
pastor at Salem, Mass., by ballot . . .
1775—Georgia notified Congress of
its accession to the general associa
tion. It was henceforth one of the
United Colonies.—lß3s—First R. R.
train entered Washington, D. C. . . .
1847—First electric locomotive in U.
S., built by Moses Farmer, demon
strated in Dover, N. H. . . . 75
Years Ago Today—Confederate Con
gress convened in Richmond, Va., for
first time. . . .
• • •
FIRST WORLD WAR DAY BY DAY
20 Years Ago Today.—Col. C. Rep
ington recorded in his diary: “Went
down to Combe. A large party for
the week-end. The American ambas
sador, and the American Mr. Beck
who has been so active for the pro-
Ally propaganda.”
That was James M. Beck. The
United States was still proclaiming
its neutrality and President Wilson
was campaigning on a “He kept us
out of war plank,” but scores of
prominent Americans, close to the
president, were working openly to get
this country involved in the war.
They were being helped by the vast
propaganda machinery being oper
ated by the British government on
this side. Sir Gilbert Parker, one of
the directors of this propaganda, has
given some idea of its extent:
“Among other things, we supplied
360 newspapers in the smallest states
with a newspaper section, which gave
a weekly review and comment on ths
affairs of the war. We establish’d
connection with the man in the
street through cinema pictures of the
Army and Navy, as well as through
interviews, article,s pamphlets, etc.
We advised and stimulated many peo
ple to write articles; we utilized the
services and assistance of confiden
tial friends and established associa
tion, by personal correspondence,
with influential and eminent people
of every profession in the U. S., be
ginning with college presidents, pro
fesors and scientific men, and run
ning through all the ranges of the
population. We asked our friends and
correspondents to arrange for speech
es, debates and lectures by American
citizens. We had our literature sent
to great numbers of private libra
ries, Y. M. C. A.’s, colleges, clubs
and newspapers. . . ”
(For instance, Theodore Roosevelt
was asked to arrange for J. M. Bar
rie and A. E. W. Mason to meet lead
ers at universities upon whom they
could impress the British case.)
The British controlled the cables,
and they gave Allied news and propa
ganda, in so far as the two were dis
tinguishable, first access to the
American mind. British censors
scanned dispatches from American
correspondents in the Central Pow
ers or neutral countries, too, and
either threw them out altogether or
rewrote them to suit their own pur
poses. Mail stories from other coun
tries was likewise intercepted and
either “lost” or mutilated.
The point to all this is that what
Americans knew about the war in
1916 was chiefly what the British
and French chose to tell them, and
for a purpose.
(To be continued)
counted that, and laughed at him . ..
Not hilariously, in any slap-on-the
back style, but quietly, and told him
there was not one thing wrong with
him ... He was just an idiot who
had gotton on the Worry Toboggan
and didn’t have sense enough to fall
off.
So now Jim sleeps. He goes to
bed expecting to sleep, and does
sleep. And he goes around telling his
friends that he has the greatest doe
tor in the world—and if they com
plain of their ills he laughs at them
and tells them they havent a thing
in the world the matter with them
. . . Jim knows.