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-tr It Pi -March' 23 1939 S' Saturday Morning Saltakc Tribune The Boss Tells a Joke (laughter) r1 ByMannmgf Scribe'Sees Need 1 For fo Support Roosevelt i 4 Behind the Scenes Current News alt al rl)tme-i -Established April 15 1871 Ijwued every morning bf tail Lika Tribune FublUhlng Company a 1 TIM Tribune la a member of tha Aeeoclated Heee Tba Aaaoelatcd frw la aicluilraly antltled to tha if (o a production ct ail new dUpatcbea credited to it or not otbarvlaa credited la tbU paper and alao tba local new publUhed herein By Paul gallon VHA NO what' mi it? HO-HO-HO tiPS HAN i Saltiaka City Utah Saturday Morning March 2S 1939 i i 3 11 i' I i By Jay Franklin Presldent Roosevelts relation to" the world crisia supplies the acid teat oLAmerican patriotism according to conservative observers of the Washington scene They are asking themselves whether the Republicans will follow tha example of 1917 or that of 1920 Will the back up Roosevelt as It backed up Wilson during the World war or will it oppose the national interest in orjier to gain a partisan i advantage as in the fight against the League of Nations? The elements in this political equation are clear enough The world crisis strengthens the hands in domestic politics Jay Franklin It has long been taken for granted In tory circles that If there is a European war before the next national election Roosevelt must be reelected on the ground that he is the only man who can hold the country together In 1 the face of a major crisis Even those who long for another Harding or Hoover to give business confidence realize that in time of war it would be a mistake to have either man in the White House The Cuban war we fought under McKinley was an orgy of mismanagement confusion and graft and twentieth century politics make short shrift of King Log 1 Measure of Influence What the tories fail 'to realize is that influence in the world' crisis Is measured precisely by President position as a great democratic leader that his donjptic reforms and the resulting trust and affection of the American people for thlr president provide the sole political guarantee that tht nation could act with vigor and unity It now seems probable that the world crisis- will become continuous even if It does not lead to the dreaded "next Faced with this crisis our national safety demands Intelligent executive leadership at Washington and would not be served by indecision inexperience or weakness in the White House So the course of world events seems to support the growing conviction in conservative circles that Mr Roosevelt must he drafted for a third term in 1940 and that our public policies must be based on considerations of social unity and economic reform This will obviously put a heavy strain on Republican partisanship The last world crisis timed itself so as to haft Woodrow Wilson's program nf domestic reform and allow a shift of party control as soon as the war was over Whatever else happens It Is certain that the present crisis will not blow over before November 1940 To handle emergencies we need liberal Democrats who can represent both the southern regions and northern labor in a government of national unity World Scene Changes Six months ago It looked as though the Chamberlain policy of appeasement would succeed and as though German ambitions would be satisfied with the annexation of Austria and the Sudeten Germans Now we see that this was only a prelude to an era of great change in world affairs So once again as in 1932 it looks like Roosevelt or ruin for the conservative business Interests of this country In 1932 they chose Roosevelt and submitted to a period of painful reform as a condition for survival In 1940 they may well conclude that another trip through the Roosevelt wringer will prove less expensive than to lose their shirts Copyright 1939 by Consolidated News Features Inc ments in private institutions where performance is the criterion of fitness It is generally agreed that 'civil service rules should govern the acceptance and retention of those whfr discharge the duties pf various departments of government municipal county state and federal The spoils system ought to have been discontinued long ago Millions of dollars are wasted every month in this republic because capable employes trained at the expense of the taxpayers until their efficiency saves time and money have to make way for inexperienced applicants whose chief qualification is party fealty or personal attachment Any method by which an incompetent assistant may be retained is just as objectionable as a plan that might enable such a person to obtain employment It may be years befofe taxpayers become cognizant of this drainage upon-pub-lic resources and revenues" but is inevitable Men and women who want the best service for the least outlay compatible with honesty and decency who mourn little for vanishing partisan ties and have no fear of obsolete party whips are not Inclined to surrender to any clique or group much of the rights and opportunities that properly belong to all the people Under the circumstances if the resolution referred to is given the full force and effect of a statute it would seem that the application of its provision should not be imposed so suddenly as to impair public service or result in hardships for faithful employes In this particular the industrial commission of Utah has presented a plan which acquiesces in the mandate as far as private employment is concerned In a resolution unanimously adopted last Thursday the commission resolved-that "from this date no married woman or married man whose spouse is employed in private industry will be taken into the employ of this commission and that each married man and married woman in the service of this commission whose spouse is employed at the wage which will enable the one so employed to support his or her family in a standard of health and decency will be displaced as rapidly as can be done without impairing the efficiency of this organization or "increasing the administrative cost While the industrial commission by the wording of its acquiescence merely changes the scope of the class of employes affected it is practically certain that the language legislative resolution will govern in such matters To forestall any temptation mentioned by the commission break up the home in order to hold a paying job the enforcement authorities would have to exclude applicants for reappointment who had been divorced for the obvious purpose of remaining on a payroll However that is a contingency to be met if and when the rule is put into effect THE PUBLIC FORUM by Our Readers Premise and Performance Irreconcilable in Naziland German have no intention of doing harm to the rest of the asserted Adolf Hitler at the reception just given him- by the German element of population in Memel As an expression of intent that statement is reassuring even though it lacks the finality of a pledge is paved with good intentions" according to Samuel Johnson and some of the highways of central Europe are surfaced in the same way One cheerless quality of Herr promises qr resolutions is cphemeraiity He may mean to abide by them when uttered but he is a busy man with many matters of importance claiming his attention a new line of thought may be encountered and followed an old grievance is suddenly remembered a new opportunity il presented and away goes der fuehrer to answer a piteous call from some suffering minority almost before he knows it he is welcoming another home-sick colony into the loving embrace of the doting fatherland When Hitler declared that Germans have no intention of harming the rest of the world he added: injury which the other part of the world inflicted upon Germany had to be repaired I believe that now in the main we have arrived at an end to this unique process of One of first testimonials of integrity presented to the world was soon after he attained supreme power Referring to the Saar controversy he told the reichstag in a formal address on the 30th of January 1934 a little more than five years ago: solution of this question the Geipan government is willing and determined to accept in its innermost soul as well si external formulation the pact of Locarno" In about a year the Saar basin was restored to Germany but German troops under his orders marched into the neutral zone of Rhineland trampling the pact of Locarno in the mud Pardonably elated over the w'ith which his word the pact and all entente powers had been disregarded Hitler again addressed the reichstag saying: three years I believe I can today regard the atruggle for German equality as over We have no territorial demands to make in Europe" Accused later 6f having designs on the territorial integrity of Austria Hitler made another speech in the reichstag in which he eaid: has neither the wish nor the intention to mix in internal affairs of Austria much less to annex or unite with Hqwever an excuse was eventually found for mixing and subsequently for marching into Vienna and asserting his authority by imprisoning the chancellor filling detention camps with former officials and morgues with' desperate and perfected peoples He made another high resolve to go no further and told the world in an address delivered in the former capital of the ancient empire that eternal dream of the German people has been reaffirming his solemn assurance that wants only peace she does not 'intend to add to the sorrows of other Two months later he was hammering at the door of Czechoslovakia while Prime Minister Chamberlain with a parasol under his arm was flying to Berchtesgaden and back with this olive branch in "his beak: told privately and last night 5 he repeated it publicly that after this Sudeten question is settled it will mark the end of territorial claims In Europe" But Hitler was not satisfied with the Sudeten alice ao he sent his army to take ever the entire first subduing the Czechs and then the Slovaks Returning to Berlin to enjoy the reception previously-- arranged he immediately embarked on the battleship timed to reach Memel for his latest assurance of peaceful intentions It may be assumed will make the same promises after he visits Hungary and Rumania Owing to an apparent understanding between Hitler and Stalin it is possible that Poland and Ukraine" may be left alone at least for the present promises and oaths" may be bracketed together in the chronicles of future developments rible abuse of its power which is possible only when greedy non-national groups can corner and speculate with any part of the world supply The militarists already have since Senator error made new "scraps of and seized the $80000000 in gold held by a tittle democracy at Prague Europe We the United States acted as banker for the old world in three decades of this century and are surely cured of such avarice Delbert White Jenkins Camp Chester Defines Views On Money Editor Tribune: Let us get this money thing straight: If we money reformers and technocrats are not sound in our arguments why do not some of the usurers come forward with some frank arguments of their own besides the one word It is probably because the let them talk Listen to Robert Hemphill ex-credit manager of the federal reserve bank of Atlanta Ga: "The executive vice president of a large New York trust company admitted he knew nothing about money that he had never studied the reports of the controller of the currency that he did not know the relationship between the national income and the purchasing power of the nation and Writer Finds King's Gold Policy Untenable Editor Tribune: Senator King proposed In congress March 13 to again allow free coinage of gold and require issuance of gold certificates so that the war-making nations may use our national treasury a their bank and so that a little group of old world financiers may get a corner on all- gold not bought outright by our governmemtr That same week a little democracy holding $80-000000 worth of gold is wiped out by military aggression Gold long ha been the money of governments or else of muni-tlons-of-war makers If that little group should now become able to corner the remaining war chests they could run the price of gold high enough to cause countless disasters and then cut the price from under It a was done witnV silver about the close of the World war The world war today is an economic war between the producers and consumers of the world Let us keep it limited to just that and eventually create economic stability by giving the consumers an equal break with the producers For the first time in the Christian era a peaceful nation now controls the world price of gold No person able to read American economic history unfogged by economic royalists will ever forget the value of gold nor the ter WASHINGTON An official grapevine hints Russia" ha developed some military rigidity in her spine A sound military source advised the high command here that Russia is now "adequately prepared to defend herself simultaneously against Japan on the Manchurian border and Hitler In thj From a slightly less notable source ha come a similar tip that the reds have a fleet of stratosphere bombers which can go high as 50000 'feet with 6500 pounds of explosives something for Berlin to worry If these things were true Russia would have the key to the stop Hitler movement but even the au-thorities who receive the Information here doubt that such Is the case Lack of loyalty and energy (the usual spawn of communism) in the red army is believed much deeper now than under the czar Furthermore the capacity of those planes is probably exaggerated As far as is definitely known the best of the red bombing fleet la about on a par with our Boeings The reds cannot stop anyone except Russia Shy From Wagner Act Changes Announcements said the senate education committee postponed a decision on taking up the Wagner labor act amendments Technically that Is true: No objection was made But the technicality covered as sizalmg an inside argument as ever divided a senata committee Actually the line-up stood 6 to 9 on fixing a date for hearings on the amendments Against hearings were the new dealers Thomas of Utah Murray Pepper Lee Hill of Alabama and La Follette Favorable were Walsh of Massachusetts Donahey Holt Ellender Davis and Taft TJiat left the decision with Senator Borah who Is for but not now Consequently both sides agreed to postpone a decision in order to work on Borah The incident adds to evidence that the White House would like to hold this situation as a club over the A in the labor peace negotiations now being conducted under Mr Roosevelt's sponsorship The A would give nearly anything to get the Wagner act amended possibly even some concessions to the CIO Anyone who has a wet finger In the air will know why A Is not overanxious to sacrifice any principles for peace just now In case you cannot wet your finger look: The New York union of Office and Professional Workera quit the I 0 the other day and Joined A adopting a resolution which stated: "The sorry of our union to organize office0 workers "was due to the fact that the' union was by an organized machine which violated Its oath to serve the membership by placing the Interests of the communist party above those of' our In Memphis tht president of the Southern Tenant union announced Withdrawal from CIO charging "communist control and dictatorial procedure" In Detroit soms auto union withdrew In Nantlcoke Pa a United Mine Worker local withdrew and joined A in Hershey Pa the chocolate workers' collective bargaining vote showed: A 1125 CIO 733 in New York the barbers and beauty culturtats severed with CIO and joined A Relief Fund Slash House leaders hurried into secret meeting with the relief appropriations subcommittee because they had been tipped Mr new relief request would be cut more than half to 370000000 They pleaded with the committee In the behalf Their unreported words led the committee to believe Mr Roosevelt's feelings would not be wounded If hie request was pared a little say $25000000 Gossip around su-prems court concerns Justice Frankfurter- aupersedlng Chief Justice Hughes as dominating influence with the new appointee Douglas thers will bs a new deal group of four on ths court The older group has five but Frankfurter Is likely to be with Hughes as often as anyont slsq Mr Garner the Is being' deluged with requests to autograph the current Issue of Time which features him Mathews who raised euch a commotion with ths Shirley Temple testimony befors the Dies committee has been appointed rtsearch director fotlh committee An elderly lady of Little Falls instructed the social security board to send her claim for $10519 to the Dies committee but the committee cannot accept contributions Wanf Copies of Speeches So many people are asking for copies of the speeches of Chief Justice Hughes Speaker Bank-head and President Roosevelt at the 150th anniversary of congress 500000 copies are to be printed Every person In tha country should read all threO particularly the Hughes masterpiece Write your congressman Michigan Republicans are somewhat apprehensive about the accession of 80-year-old Lieutenant Governor Dickinson to the Michigan governorship on the death of Governor Fitzgerald A political realignment or creation of a new job of executive secretary is that if bankers generally studied such things they would lose their When Mr Hemphill got on to the eubject of the banks buying government bonds with mere-pen-and-ink money this banker was astonished that anyone except the "big on -Wall street knew this "secret" So it is evident why Mr Eccles the other day in an attempt to answer the congressman from Idaho on the proposition of the government Issuing the currency direct to the public for capital projects belittled the part currency played in our money structure because he said currency was merely the small change of business But did you notice how jrafty he was not to reveal what was the "big They are always wary lest the public learn that SO to 50 billions of our money is made out of mere nothing and they the superbankers create 90 per cent of such money and destroy it at their pleasure by granting and then retiring loans Knowing the avariciousness of human nature is it any wonder we have spurts of good times and then slide into depressions panics starvation for the masses etc? Geo A Startup Provo Writer Sees Chance For More 'Crabbing' Editor Tribune: It seems some people help but crab and I guess I am one of the many who have nothing else to do but sit around and crab at what someone else does I see in a recent issue of The Tribune that our dear governor has signed the bill to raise some state salaries from $3500 to I also notice in the same paper that if congress vote the large sum of $150000000 our president is asking for there will be another cut in A rolls If this happens there will be another bunch to walk the like myself Then perhaps there will be some more crabs who would really be more than happy if they received their $40 per month Less Driscoll Price Utah Senator From Sandpit Ham Park New York Highlights By Charles Driscoll NEW Thera is a publio school building in Kitchen that gives me a depressed feeling every Urns I pass it It was built some time after tha inauguration of Mr Lincoln ai president but soma time before architects got it quite clear in their minds that there should be a difference between schools and prisons This long dismal four-story building has naVjow windows facing on a street that carries heavy traffic to steamship piers on tha Hudson river It is a noisy street dusty exuding strangely unpopular odors A breeze from the south which started out to be an Invigorating sea breeze has paused long enough at the meat packing plant on 11th avenue to pick up a fins collection of smells There are no windows at the ends of tha achoolhouse because tha ends were until recently blocked up by tenement houses At the rear qo the prospect was one of tenement walls and roofs until last summer Soupy With Dust Construction of approaches for a new tunnel under the river together with depressing of railway tracks In this vicinity caused demolition of a block or two of the old tenements For a year the schoolrooms were soupy with swirling dust arising from wrecking operations Noise of compressed air hammers and chisels roar of falling wails shouts of foramen rattle of bricks being loaded into trucks these ware the accompaniment to which children recited and teachers tied to hold attention of their classes One naturally hopes that the tunnel approach will eventually require that building ba pulled down and that the city be required to erect for these children and teachers a modern srhoolhouse with some liint of beauty and health in it It stands now In a waste of rubble too badly blighted to grow weeds Christopher Billopp ays: Compassion Mother says the mice are getting perfectly terrible in the house and Father really ought to do something about them And Father says he has set the traps but it Isn't his fault if the mice touch the traps Mother says Father has baited them with the wrong food She says naturally they won't eat plain bread and that he should put cheese on them And Father aays it Is an exploded theory that mice are fonder of cheese than of anything else Mother says Father always thinks up good excuses for not doing anything She says meanwhile the situation js getting terrible She says you can hear mice scampering around In the wall and they have chewed a hole in a box of crackers In the pantry and eaten most of the crackers and thers are signs of them even in the medicine cabinet Mother says they have been In the back hall closet too She says the whole house Is overrun and that if Father continues to be indifferent and refuses to do anything about it then she will have to employ a professional exterminator and heaven knows Jhow much he will charge And just about that time they hear a cry from the cellar -And the cry comes from Johnny and they call to ask him what is the matter Johnny says there is a mouse In the ash can and he get out and what shall-Johnny do? And Mother goes to the cellar and Father goes after her And when they get there they look into the ash can and sure enough there is the mouse running around and looking quite terrified And Father picks up a broom and moves In a menacing attitude toward the ash can And Mother asks him what he is going to do And Father replies that he ra going to kill the mouse And Mother says she wouldn't do that And Father asks her why since she has just told him what a plague the mice are throughout the house And Mother says the knows she did but that she has changed her mind and she would rather have Father move the can to the yard and turn the mouse out there She says she bear to have Father kill the poor little mouse hs looks so Christopher Billopp Pff the Record Thomas Mann sees an economic break-up Just ahead for the totalitarlans as no matter how long you boll It a cannon is not te eat A cocktail bar Is to be Included In the replica of Independence hall at the New York fair and patriots are aghast Now to write a swing number for the Liberty bell Simile: As routine as a bailiff administering the oath in the film drama's big courtroom seene Copyright 1839 for The Tribune i SANTA FE M-Wa wera unfortunate In being here on one of the few days that we were not having a fiesta but we saw enough of the oldest city in the western United States to make us reluctant to leave Instead of tearing down the ancient landmark and erecting filling stations or placing plaques Santa Fe ha gone to the other extreme They even let them pave the streets except In the -business district Some of them present a problem difficult for anything but an ox-team in wet weather Most of the new residences and practically all the public buildings are a blend of Indian and Mexican design The effect is delightful antj makes the tourist postpone his departure as long as possible In the museum they have the Donald Beauregard Memorial gallery I was very proud to see the tribute paid to Utahn In case you don't know it Donald Beauregard was born in Fillmore and went to the University of Utah His painting are highly regarded here but I don't remember hearing much of him at home either before or after he died On one side of the plaza is the palace of the Governors the residence of the governors of New Mexico from the time of the conquering of the territory by General Vargas There are a great many rooms in the ancient edifice and each contains relics of the past three centuries One could spend hours In those historic rooms and still not see all they contain In one room a card atfys: this room the governor suspecting treachery killed the chief of the Ute Indian with on blow ef his A -few blocks north of the plaza 1 the of the A large cross marks the spot where the Catholic priests vere massacred by the Indians In August and impressive ceremonial commemorates their martyrdom The inhabitants meet at the beautiful old cathedral and at an ap pointed hour all the light in the city are turned out Then the town parades en masse carrying lighted candies to ths hill where the ritualistic ceremony is completed Then the lights come on and joy again reigns supreme On the foothills southeast of the city is an unusual building called "The House of Navajo Architecturally it is an interpretation in modern form of the Navajo ceremonial hogan and is designed for the exhibition of sand paintings and as repository for the myths music poetry se-cred lore and objects connected with the Navajo religion the intention being to perpetuate for the general public for research students and for the- Indians themselves a great example of a primitive people's spiritual culture The building is an endowment by Mary Wheelwright and one of the most Interesting places In a fascinating city Carrying out the general theme is the famous Hotel La Fonda probably the most notable hotel in the entire Country We strolled about the beautiful lobby and were shown one of the suites the tariff of which-would make a Rockefeller shudder Theretare several beautiful- -4mlng- rooms but we just peeked in It was my turn to" pay the food (beck and I had heard that you could get a good cup of coffee for a dollar and a half so I pretended I was not hungry and preferred to spend our time sightseeing Down the street we got a generous bowl of chili for a quarter each and I felt the Indigestion it gave me waa worth It Tomorrow turn our face east and will leave this beautiful end hospitable country with sincere regret There Is an undeniable charm to this part of the great southwest and I do not wonder that my brother and his family love it so much be back one of these days when we can stay longer Somedhe has sounded the mess call and hungry so eur you'll pardon me So long Purges and Public Policy Efficient Service Comes First Windowlew School The State of The Nation By Olin Miller There are so many organizations taking polls these days that we are contemplating making a survey to ascertain what percentage of readers are getting darned tired of polls Almost every day some poll-taker pulls out pencil and pad and flatters (he pants all but off the American citizen by asking his opinion about this that these those or them Although the average citizen Is totally devoid of Information on many subjects it Is rarely that he is found without a decided opinion on any subject under and beyond the sun He will promptly and positively answer any question yes or no under any conditions or circumstances with the notable exception that when he ii being cross-examined on the witness-stand his response to almost any question is that he know or remember The American citizen is a funny fellow aren't you? Squire Perkins says: con-stitootion gives you th' right to say what you please but don't for git you do it at own Copyright 1939 by Esquire Features Inc In a neighborhood like this like to sfee the board of education try out my theory of the windowless building A school building without windows soundproofed air-conditioned supplied with plenty of artificial light No dust streaming through windows no drafts to make tha youngsters and teachers catch cold in winter Pure air quiet and such tasteful furnishings as could ba kept In good condition In such an atmosphere nothing helpful here for tha children to sea through tha windows ao why have windows? Copyright 'mg McNaught Syndicate Although the legislature defeated a bill to exclude married women from public employment proponents of the policy secured 'the passage of a senate joint resolution (No 13) authorizing and all officials boards and commissions in charge of any branch of public service pertaining to the state of Utah it aubdivisions counties cities and school board to immediate to discharge all married women whose husbands or children are employed In private industry or otherwise" Ostensibly this plan proposes to make places for persons who are unemployed but it also presents a temptation to reward workers many of whom prefer political jobs for obvious reasons or find themselves incapable of meeting require A witness once remarked somewhat sen tentlously to tha lata Lord Darling "My lord I am wedded to tha 8wlft came Darling's answer: "Indeed? And how lorig have you been a Synopsis A "I.