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JL" t- fc -r t- tnf- Nr fe i hW it -(j 1 8 -lf f' -fll -rt 1 Vr" ijj rl 4 ayvijp 1 1 warf wis' IWiy-as tajc i Sw-resas sc 4f -Wjf wi-itts-sip'i1A i May 28 1939 11 A Sunday Morning Vht Salt £ake Tribune Unknown Soldiers By Observer Argues For rfljc gait £akc fibuuc-i I Established April 15 1871 Issued every morning by Suit Lake Tribune Publishing Company fiOx Tha Tribune la a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the Use for reproduction of ell news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning May 28 1939 faltering patients made their pilgrimages during the past quarter of a century -The professional firm made millions the bulk of which Was expended on the institution for its perfection and perpetuity As the deceased defined his attitude toward humanity his great ambition was to relieve all the physical suffering before his eye grew dim or his hand became unsteady or his life ended An ancient axiom was applicable to either of the Mayo brothers good surgeon must have an eagle's eye a lion heart and a hand The deceased had all of these and a knowledge the proveib maker never dieamed could be developed One of the leading of England is quoted as saying of Dr Charles II Mayo while they were still contemporaries is the most skillful and versatile surgeon operating with equal facility upon every part of the body and he has the soul and hands of an artist" His going although he had lived 73 years takes from humanity a helping hand and from this valley of shadows a shining light Treasury Reports By Ernest Linefley An illustration of the application of business methods of bookkeeping to the federal finances was put into the record of the temporary national economic committee on Tuesday This illustration uses the actual figures of treasury receipts and expenditures for the eight fiscal years through June 30 1938 during each of which the treasury showed a deficit But it separates expenditures Into operating expenses and investments Under operating expenses are put all the ordinary costs of government running the judicial legislative and cnjl establishments national defense pensions and benefits interest on the public debt all benefit payments to farmers and miscellaneous other items Also in the operating budget are placed three-fifths of the cost of work relief as now represented by the works progress administration and one-fourth of the cost of tha civilian conservation corps The final item in the -operating budget Is an allowance for depreciation of public works and for writing off bad loans and investments Now turn to the investment budget and you find four main headings Under the first come loans and investments in government corporations and credit agencies such as the RFC and the Commodity Credit corporation Subtracting repayments these loans and investments totaled $3 926 000 000 on June 30 1938 From this total is deducted $494 000 000 for write-offs The second section of the Investment budget is self liquidating public reclamation projects and hydro-electric projects which will pay for themselves over a period of years The third section consists of nonrevenue public works excluding those constructed by work relief Here are put federal outlays on highways flood control rivers and harbors PVVA grants to public bodies and federal public buildings These represent concrete physical additions to the national plant In the fourth section are put two-fifths of the cost of work relief and three-fourths of the cost of the CCC the portions of those expenditures which for the purposes of illustration were estimated to represent useful additions to the national plant Finally a deduction is made for amortization of all nonrevenue producing public works over a period of 25 years On this calculation the federal government made a net capital Investment of $11 -594 000 000 during the eight years ending June 30 1938 This is after deducting $2 900 000 000 for write-offs and which are charged to the operating budget During those eight years there was a gross increase in the federal debt of $20 980 000 000 Bnt more than half of it by this calculation represented investment Only $9 382 000 000 represented an operating deficit including of course the allowance for write-offs and amortization noted above Last year the operating deficit was only $167 000 000 The division between operating expenses and imestment could be made in other ways It could be argued that part of the outlay for national for example the cost of a battleship which may last 20 years or more in the investment budget It could be decided that only one-third or one-half of the work of the CCC represents addition to the national plant But the idea is clear enough in this illustration submitted to the TNEC by Peter Nehemkis who supervised the presentation of the SEC study of savings and investment No serious objection would be offered probably to putting loans and investments in government corporations and credit agencies into a separate investment budget Wherever the line is drawn there is a distinction between investment and operating expense in the finances of the federal government as well as In the finances of business concerns If the treasury made its reports on a business basis it should be possible to deal with the whole question of federal finance in a saner way (Copyright Register and Tribune Syndicate) iMtmic CAfrrTf jr5e4TI THE PUBLIC FORUM by Our Readers Four Foolhardy Fugitives Caught and Returned to Prison What a ptiable exhibition of misplaced cneigy and superficial bravado the four convicts staged on the sheep ranges after their escape from the Idaho state ptison last week' The same amount of ingenuity exertion and enterprise properly and legally applied might insure any one of them a good Job and an independent living They not only made themselves ridiculous but incurred additional punishment and lessened theT chances for leniency in future attempts to secure liberty by legitimate methods of procedure Their bombastic boasts to it and be taken weie as empty as they were futile Surrendering without a struggle was the first sensible Jhing they did after sawing their way out of the penitentiary While it is only natural for men to seek liberty whether they deserve it or not the chances of escape fiom lawful detention in these dajs of airplanes highway patrols telephones radios and telephoto transmission are becoming more doubtful and desperate all the time Methods of identification of communication of observation and of apprehension taken into consideration with the increase of an aleit inquiring proportion of the population make it extremely difficult for fugitives to make much headway Crime does not pay A Children to Be Educated For Duties of Citizenship Horace Mann reminded the American public! that form the first line of fortifications for a democracy Edward Everett once remarked that is a better safcguaid of liberty than a standing army What is this democracy held to be so deserving of defence by a cordon of According to lexicographers democtacy is a form of government in which the supreme power is retained by the people exercised either directly or indirectly through a system of representation periodically renewed It is an organised independent sovereign state in which every member who has not forfeited the right of participation has a voice and a vote Lincoln defined a democracy as "a government of the people by the people and for the In this sententious summing up of democratic characteristics the essentiality of our public school system is clearly indicated Three years ago a query was submitted to hundreds of thousands of school boys and girls in certain eastcin cities with a request to make it a matter of serious inflection upon which each would be ex-'pected to render an original answ'er am I being given an Prizes were offered and many of the outstanding essays were published The gist of all thoughtful responses emphasized the purpose of education to be the development of citizenship As stockholders of a corporation in which their all is their heritage of the past their holdings of the present and their hopes of the future individual citizens or a luling maiority of them should have intelligence character and a knowledge of the government they help maintain and administer In the complications arising from a constant increase of population the consequent overcrowding of certain countries the erasure of artificial boundary lines by the hand of invention the keen competition encountered in foreign trade the intricacy of international relations the tendency to' ignore agreements and replace diplomacy with intimidation it is obligatory on citizens of a republic to study economic problems and issues obviously vital to government in which they have responsibilities that cannot be shifted or disregarded The underlying purpose of education is to make young people more capable more confident more efficient units in the competitive economic system and more intelligent factors in the preservation of democracy from manifest designs of despots In this connection it is encouraging to note the character of commencement exercises in many up-to-date high schools Take for example the program of the Cyprus high school in Granite district the other evening All orations were devoted to the several phases of democratic government and to freedom guaranteed in this American democracy Freedom1 was the general theme Gloria Orr discussed the of in a forceful patriotic address and Nelson Bennion eloquently explained the of fiee-dom Margaret Pritchaid and Margaiet Anderson presented brilliant arguments in defense of of speech the press and of assembly and petition of was advocated by Verne Hale "freedom of by Vandis Ric hards and of the bv Merritt Memmott a Other features of this democratic entertainment were as follows of property bv Virginia Boicait "freedom from search and seizure without warrant" by Joan Jannery of trial by discussed by il PouKen and American bv Richard Anderson To find an entire program devoted to topics of current interest and pressing Importance with addresses worthy of utterance in the halls of congress expressing sentiments that justify recognition cf schoolhouses as first line of fortifications for a is gratifving to every American whose faith in his country and its institutions keeps hope alive for unchecked advancement of Christian civilization Especial credit is due Principal Brockbank and his corps of teacheix for the cultivation of practical patriotism and citizenship as shown in the commencement exercises Forum Rules Letters appearing In this column do not express the views of The Tribune Thev are the oplnl ms of contributors with which The Tribune mav or mav not agree The follow Ine rules govern contributions 1 Letters limited to i'vO words and preference given to short com mu 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president posed the basic question of our is to be done about an economic system which Is Clearly out of kilter His phrasing was suave his delivery unusually good humored But the speech was a fighting speech as aggressive in intention as any he hes ever This is true for reasons both of which seem to have escaped general notue In the first place by answering the question is to be done about the economic the president obviously disclosed his rhoice for the major issue in the 1140 campaign In the second place by careful implication he read out of the Democratic party all those who do not stand with him on that issue His cure all for the economic system was spending as described in the January budget message Already In January he had abandoned his former shame-faced excuse for unbalanced budgets as a disagreeable necessity imposed by the many needy and jobless He had offered spending as an end in itself The significance of this doctrine's incorporation in a general political speech need not he underlined Perhaps it is necessary to point out however that by going out of his way to denounce the Republicans for their "national debt week the president also intended to pin a Republican tag on all antispond-ing Democrats Again the watchword to dissenters is 'Go along with me or get out No More Struggles This double-barreled interpretation of the presidents speech may seem a bit far-fetched but it is the interpretation almost unanimously agreed to by contributing new deal advisers and economists For that matter the fact that none of the administration budget balancers was really consulted on the speech is proof enough by itself Previously each such utterance of the presidents was the signal for a life-and-death palace struggle in which men like Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr and Chairman Jesse Jones of the RFC sought to keep the president from going all out for the extreme new dealers views Now the struggles in the palace seem to be at an end The spenders are triumphant Most economic theory is a dreary abracadabra but since the spending theory is now the real motive force of the new deal it is worth trouble to understand As has been remarked here before the spending theory is best summed up in a little book called An Economic Program for Amur-lean Dcmoracy by seven young economists at Harvard and Tufts universities will find this little book in every new deal book shelf Many of the most influential new dealers accept its words as gospel and the president himself is understood to have been vastly improved by it In essence its thesis is that our capitalist economy is breaking down because of under investment The seven young economists say that for various reasons the investment of private capital in wealth producing projects has been steadily diminishing over a considerable period of time As investment in wealth producing projects has diminished nation cl income or the product on of wcclth has also tended to decline Unemployment and other svmptoms of disor-g unzation have appeared tv plague us Noon resulting social unrest will disrupt the ei onomy forever Urge Borrowing There the seven voung economists propose that the government undertake the vesting function annuallv borrowing huge amounts of capital from the public and setting it to work producing wealth They argue that the resulting increases in the national debt would be of no consequence since increases in the national income would make it possible to rarry a larg debt They sum up rather blandly as follows 'We HdvocHte a long-run program of pubhe investment financed through the hori owing of savings which would otherwise go to waste This investment will increase the re il weilth of the country both dinitlv and indirectly bv uurecsiii' the demand for the prod Is cf industry The result will be a steady mere axe in nation il income aciompanving the inc tease the public and private debt If the policies advorated are stcad-fistly pursued the national income can reasonably be expected to increase at a sustained rate of $4 000 000 000 to $5 000 000 000 a vear This increase in the national income will be aeeompa-i led bv a rise in the Interest charge on the public debt of at moat $100 000 000 a year Whether that sound too much like a perpetual motion michine will be the issue llic-voteis must decide in 1110 If the president has his way 1 Released by the North Americ aq Newspaper Alliance Inc Bespeaks Square Meal For Zoo's Elephant Editor Tribune It seems about time the people of Salt Lake City awaken to the fact that even their elephant Princess Alice wno has given the children so much pleasure is in a half starved condition in an unsanitary condition and otherwise a disgrace to the community When a zoo keeper or veterinarian from another state comes right out and tells us what is wrong seems that something should be done about it If we can take the proper care of Princess Alice and the other animals at Hogle Zoo they should be sold to some city where they will be provided for Utah is far down the scale In its treatment of dumb creatures and things transpire here that would not be tolerated anywhere else hy can something be done about Surely there Is enough money In this great intermountain em-pne to provide the necessary things for one lone elephant MacDonald Expresses Sympathy For 'Cake Eaters' Editor Tribune' I read in The Trib of recent date that in picketing the state capitol in San Franclsio one of the wimen carried a placard reading as follows wimen eat Single wimen cant even get Well now I am an amcncan citizen and under the constitution of these United States I claim a few inalienable rights among them to ad or subtract the same number from both the numerator and the denomenotor of a fraction it doesent change its value One woman taken out of the home and another put back dont efect the labor market in the least and its sure to bad those poor married wimen have to eat cake when bread is so much better and better for them too All the single wimen that I know live with their parents and dont have to stinch on any thing there no inger of them trying to elbow the cake eaters away from their feed No-sir-ee Dad Streeter Ogden Utah Tax Tokens Provoke This Reader Editor Tribune Tax tokens are a nuisance to everybody concerned Some business transactions use them and some do not The consumer or buyer is made to carry the burden when he is least prepared to shoulder it The cost of the tokens is considerable They entail extra labor and responsibility on everybody The tax commission docsn want the tokens and the people detest them The only one who does ask for them is the embarrassed clerk who has no choice in the matter The tax must be paid in United States Money-cash currency or checks 2 per cent of the monthly volume of business Everybody is already required to keep books to determine his income tax Everybody knows what his monthly turnover is His monthly remittance does not depend upon the amount of tokens in the till nor even upon the amount he has received In fact he woukln use them at all if he could make the change Without them Then what does his remittame depend on and why all this unnecessary trouble and Whv not let the public In on this deal and let them have a say The people are the sovereign power and have the right to elect and dismiss We suggest the ehmini-tion of the tokens and that the collection be made on the basis of the monthly volume of business Why not let the man who gets the money pay the tax rather than to demand it from the one who has Andrew Larsen work If I choose or to loaf if I feel like it and it's nobodies business and i'm willing to give the other feller the same chance whether male or female married or unmarried old maid or batch-ler or any one that realv wants to work should be allowed to get their fill of it the sooner the better The director of the unem-plo'yment census reported 11000 -000 wimen were employed outside their homes (but I dont believe half of it) And he never said a word about the ones they hired to do their housework at home Thats like the rule that I learned when a boy at school that If you Senator From Sandpit-8 Mji" Pjtt New York Highlights 'By Charles Driscoll You often hear it said that there's no such thing as friendship in the Big City that any man will cut his friends throat for his own advancement and that true friendships can exist only in small towns and rural plnces Of course it isn true and yet there is that shadowy vein of truth running through the picture that is almost enough to deceive The element of truth in this popular misconception lies in the fact that conscienceless men do sometimes achieve a certain degree of business success by betraying friendships It is true that men who are incapable of real friendship do occasionally get their heads above the crowd in New York 'Ihey are always pitiable persons trving to buy the comradeship that they have lost because they have not been true to their friends They learn too late in life the converse reading of Shakespeare imous line 'This above nil to thine own self be true and it must follow as the night the day thou canst not then be else to any man The false friend learns the bitter lesson that he cannot be true to himself if he has been false to any man Rube Goldberg father a fine old gentleman was visiting in nn workshop one dav a few years ago He had come on from San Francisco to visit his son the famous cartoonist He was having a birthdcv his eightieth I think Someone asked him 'What have you learned in 80 years Mr Goldberg that might be passed on to younger men'1 he said thoughtfully the greatest lesson I have learned is that I must not despair of mankind when a friend proves One Friendship Some people of rouisp have greeter capacity for friendship than others Odd McIntyre a shy retiring man craved close friendships hut his reticence prevented hint from making many friends with whom he might be mi to be intimate The friend ch between McIntyre and Will Hogg of Texas was one of the closest and finest friendships I have ever known Hike so many such harmonious relatlonshi it came about in tha most ordinary anil unpromising way Hnj had read Me Inty re column for years admired it and wanted to meet the author as did so many thousands of readers Once when he saw a chance Hogg simply walked up to Odd and Introduced himself The two were fast friends sharing confidences and thoughts traveling together visiting one another Informally until Hoggs sudden death in Germany while on a trip Odd was really brokenhearted and never recovered from his grief The friendship between Cuptain Dennis OIrien theatrical lawyer and George Cohan ae tor manager elates from childhood and cannot bo soiled by any of the mundane affairs that so often part old friends In New York From I'royichnec to North Brookfield to New York and all around the world these two fast fru nds have traveled through the years Often associated in professional work no matters of finance or mamgement have eyer come betwren them Distributed by McNaught Syndicate Inc Off the Record Then there was the fair Philadelphian who spent muih for insurance on her husband she had hardly any money left for arsenic 'We are raising a rare which from birth looks to others for its bread cries a senator That was last year Now they want it ready-sliced A suggestion that Argentine canned meat Is superior brings howls from the range country When better beefs are made our angry stockraisers will make them Now that Charlie Ross has been Identified how about having him searched for tha missing Jefferson The government in Moscow Is urging the people to swill champagne which makes Ilf rr Hitlers strength through-joy crusade look pretty amateurish It is hard to say what form static would be likely to tike In television unless its millinery Britain might as well make up to the Russian comrade When the lights go out in Europe there will be no time for introductions Those who might have used the now-abandoned Florida canal will have to take the long wnv around But what is time to an Here and there a putt of light appears In the Stygian darkness of Europe The Danes have agreed not to attack Germany Texas admirers have given Mr Farley a white horse With a few plumes a spotless shield and a motto genial Jim would seem to be set for '40 We laugh at the nazi who Is ordered to give up cream on his we the inventors of the ersatz or stucco shortcake breezing the patient Is a new strategy In the war on disc i ce When feeling below pir you crawl into the icebox with the other leftovers "A team of army cooks has won ft cooking contest at the Newi York fair" This must he the world of tomoriow' It Isn the world of yesterday A Biltish air force candidate during a medical eximlnation held his breath six minutes although no Hilltr speiih was on the air Released bv the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc bacon corn meal turnips apples warm comforters and a lot of jellies and other delicacies for the sick ones To Anna on a Rainy Decoration Day AboVe your grave fair lilies bloom Wet with the falling rain Beneath their breath of sweet perfume A thousand hopes lie slain Mv eyes with falling tears are dim With longing and with pain Aain to hold you in my arms Safe sheltered fiom the rain While dripping rein on lilies fair Is desolate and drear No happy creed my heart can share I need vou so mv dear Morgan Malad Idaho Note on the uff Department I didn steal the bird your honor said the prisoner to Judge Fllett Imst carried it home for a joke He was fined however for carrying a joke too far do Hitler and Mussolini asks a writer Perhaps It would save time to make out a list of what they don want Great thoughts from little thinkers 'No measures will do good imli ss they aie committee It Is wrong to have the impression that the averege government employe sits down all day doing nothing for a high salary says a Washington department head Is he suggesting that the pay Is in the modi I si bools of the future the students comfort and convenience will be studied" gtutes a educ ationist Won they study anything elseT What men usually ask for when they prey to God is that two and two may not make Russian proverb Top's The pastor of a little church In a rural community met with severe affliction one winter His wife and children fell ill and being his modest salary having been unpaid for months he is naturally in great distress The leaders of the church decided they would meet at the pastor home that night and hold a prayer service While an elder was engnged In pious and fervent supplication punctuated by equally pious and fervent "Amens' from the assembled party a knocking was heard at the door When finally the door was opened a cheerful ruddy fai rd Marnier bov stood before them He was not one of tlieir congregation 'What do you asked one of the eldc rs Ive brought pops prayers" answered the youth simply grinning good naturedlv "This Is not time or place for levity" admonished the elder severely 'What do you Well you see" explained the hoy somewhat abnshed pop heard as how the been hue a spell of bad luik what with sickness in the family and one thing and another and that you folks was all for him tonight so he sent me over here with his pravers 'His repeated the puzzled elder Y'ep Ive got pops prayer out hi re tn the wagon and if a couple of you men 11 help me we 11 get 'em in In a few minutes It whs dis-lovcred that pop a pravers' mutilated of a load of potatoes flour The State of The Nation By Oli Miller Hugh Bennett chief of the United States soil onserv ition servile says the country Is losing the eqtilvali nt of 200 40-acre farms daily as a result of erosion The various and complicated farm problems are most confusing to the "man in the street' who knows as much about them as anyone else Farmers continue to pile up surpluses and yet the rain and the wind must not be allowed to reduce farm acreages The government pays the farmer to conserve his own soil and further pavs him to keep It out of production 'ihe boll weevil earnestly sets in to prevent the annual cotton surplus and the government aids the farmer In poisoning him And so it goes II a wonder Henry Wall ice doesnt have one nevous breakdown riht afler anothei Squire Berkun says 'i on cant git aroun' th' federal gov ment now Its bound to give you or take sump away fiom vou Distributed by Fsqulre I'uiturcs Inc Famous Surgeon Succumbs After Prolonging Many Lives Physicians cannot always hial themselves no matter how many others they may have saved from suffciing and untimely dissolution As Shakespeare said "By medicine life may be prolong! yc death will seize the doctor too However Dr Charles II Miyo whoc brilliant and beneficial carter has jurt been closed by the clammy hand he parried so often with skill and scalpel was not only a physician but a surgeon whose fame encucled the earth With hu elder brother Dr William Mao now recovering fiom a major operation he established the celebiated in Rochester making that little city the best known municipality of Minnesota and the institution itself a Mecca to which hundreds of thousands of Traffic policemen In Brussel Belgium ai to be given portable mle rophones and loudspeakers so thru they ran re-proarh jrvwilkrrs and bid drivers 3(KJ yards away I.