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PAGE FOUR Published by— PUBLIC OPINION. INC. PUBLISHED DAILY EXCEPT SATURDAY at 302 EAST BRYAN STREET Cor. Lincoln Entered as Second Class Matter J uly 23, 1935 at the Post Office at Savannah, Georgia SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year 7.50 Six Months ——...3.75 Three Months ....... 1.95 One Month .65 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 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. OUR READERS’ FORUM (AU communication! Intended for pub lication under thia heading mast bear th* 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 publie 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 ▼lews and policies of this paper. The Times reserves the right to edit, pubUsb or reject any article sent in.) 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! — -t —WASHINGTON AT A GLANCE- 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 • • • AU Split? 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. . b y R - J- SCOTT 1 a A I ■M wnirjMXr xyt-" - ' X '' deliver t wreath in z 7 ‘ / 1 // rW MEXICO 1$ WILD ELEPHANT ik >T~X. W ® mam -<he bush can <ell The / i ft O DIFFERENCE BETWEEN . 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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.