The Salt Lake Tribune from Salt Lake City, Utah • 10

i 1 10 Saturday Morninp- Uljc Suit £ake tribune- -April 1 1939 April Fool By Manning Observer Decries Ijc gait £nkc gfibuuc- "-Established April 15 1871 Behind the Scenes of Current News r- TAX EC i New Dealers On High Tribunal tolled morning by Salt Like Tribune Publishing Company 4UAF Tbs Trlhnns member of the Associated Pre Iht Associated Press exclusively entitled to the Uee for reproduction of ai news dlapaicliea credited to It or not otherwise credited ID to paper and also the local Dews publtahrd herein Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning April 1 1939 1 I ps the whole performance had been a bucking nightmare Next morning they ascertained that all residents of the section had experienced the same thing It was extremely improbable that all of them had been having the same dieain So the question is yet when is an earthquake not an earthquake7 Sometimes it seemeth when a slandering motor vehicle Tuts the cornoi of a dwelling or when a whole family has the ague or when the loid and master of the household stamps his foot in angei But an explosion pr a snowslide or an outspoken earthquake should register on the sensitive seismogiaph when entering a peaceful community Utah on Treasure Island Let the Jury View the Exhibits This conlipveisy over the merits of Utah's exhibit at the world's fair on Trea-suie island in San Francisco bay should stimulate a desue on the part of each citizen of the state to go and see for himself whether the display is all that it should be Nothing insures an audience like a debate over the adequacy of di aperies and dec orations Howard Lealham member of the slate tax commission i cleaned from the coast the other day after inspecting the results of Utah's efforts and expenditures He pronounced it infeuor to the exhibits of other western states surrounding it" and asserted that he take an exhibit from almost any county fair that would do more justice to the Members of the Utah commission on participation in the Gold In Gate exposition natui ally as responsible parties resent this descuption and Ernest Holmes secietary of the boaid and financial agent savs that "the committee used its best and "the exhibit is drawing better than those of other smaller states" He also is quoted as saving that exhibit at the New Yolk wotld fair is merely a duplicate of that sent to San Francisco It remains for the people of Utah to weigh the oial evidence and make an effort to view the exhibits on file and ren-di a vndict accordingly UEWlS AMly GsuU By Paul Mellon WASHINGTON The thiee months business decline has come virtually to a stand still Industrial production will fall only 1 point this month It clc-c lined 3 points in February 3 in January All government economists (and this means a dozen of Mr best guessers privately polled) are betting the upturn will begin now' Their figures show' a pick-up In several industries already (chemicals furmtuie machine tools bufldlng materials) The machine tool pick-up is considered most Important This is the indmtry which furnishes the tools for industry Its acceleration means Industry is getting ready fur bigger production As the machine tool output was higher in March than in 18 previous months the realists among the economists are confident ft substantial expansion of business production Is at hand Another Reason The spending economists think so too for another reason Their unpublished figures (which reach Mr Roosevelt but not the newspapers) indicate Mr Morgenthau is going deeper in the red This means accelerated business according to their reckoning They gure red ink greases the business machine what the treasury spends above what it takes in is the inflationary shot In the crankcase About $280 000 000 of this red Ink grease was being put out at Mr filling station last October The monthly deficit has increased until It is nearly $300 000 000 for March In June or July it will get up to $350 000 -000 or $400000 000 they expect That is the government will then be putting back $350 000 000 to $400 000 000 moie In business than it is taking out in taxes The increases are certain because they have been pledged mostly under the A contracts allotted last winter and now just getting started with warm weather The spending theorists therefore expect business will continue to better its position through the summer You mav recall some spending theorists last fall expected "the biggest boom this country ever to start in the spring and reach a peak around April 1 Well they still expect it but not by Saturday They say they were off in their timing Inventories and Hitler combined to delay the bouyant effect of increasing government deficits Trend of Spending The trend of government spending for three months has been thus January $(93 384 703 February $662 463 512 March 1 to 25 $780 106 449 The measure by which business has been going clown the past tliieelnonths may be found in the following usual monthly chart Each figure represents a percentage of normal (192! 23 averages equal 100) at inters aW given amt euh except pavrolLs is seasonally adjusted THE PUBLIC FORUM by OuSReaders Ominous Outlook With Dissensions and Inventions People wonder why the two national divisions of organized labor seem unable to -meet on common ground especially when urged by the president and encouraged by 95 per cent of the membership of both groups Meeting after meeting has bepn held committees hae counseled delegates have debated proposals and counterproposals have been cunxuhttd and the situation seems just about as bad as it was before negotiations began Two distinct propositions have been submitted: 1 President John Lewis of the Congress of Industrial Otgamzation made this offering in the interest of coordination and peace: That the heads of both labor factions having been accused of protracting the warfare for selfish reasons resign fiom the presidency of their respective organizations 2 President William proposal is to dissolve the rival organization and repudiate its leadership before the American Federation of Labor will welcome peace As a matter of fact the two bodies are striving to assist labor by two very different methods Lewis believes that wage earners should be oiganized according to industues Green clings to the plan of organizing ciaft unions Lewis holds that all workeis in a certain industry regardless of the class of service ought to hold mutual allegiance Gieen in-irts that crafts should be unified wherever the individual may be employed An electrician in a coal mine for example if Jie belong to a union must join the industrial union wheie the problems of all miners aie his own concern iFhe listens to Lewis Should he hearken to Green he-will affiliate with the craft union These plans cannot be reconciled: one must give way to the other the result will be determined eventually by development of quantity production with the aid of automatic machinery Theie is apt to be a lessening in the demand for skilled craftsmen in many lines but long bcfoie the problem presents its own solution the country will suffer labor will lose millions and ingenuity driven by neoessiiy will have installed machinery in many industues sure to send thousands yearly to enter the-rolls of the unemployed These changes and inventions are already making their presence and potentialities felt The only check to their ominous growth is a compromise between labor factions apd a better understanding between emploveis and employes in every line of endeavor April Always Welcome With Her Varied Repertoire Apul makes her bow this morning to take her place on program of the months after a year of absence She is always welcome in spite of hei changing moods and tantalizing fickleness because of her versatility and sense of humor Beginning her act with a senes of jokes she has long supplied the calendar with a comic strip upon which are pictuied victims of each pranks populatly known as "April Fools After this prelude the mirthful maiden dances across the valleys climbs the mountains and slides down their glistening slopes alternately weeping in gloom or laughing in the sunshine ready for anything the way of sports from motonng to marbles She is the fust full-throated soloist of the springtime concert in whose magic "the young fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love" Singling her out from the triplet sisters of the season Shakespeare paid her tender homage when he exclaimed: "Oh how this spring of love resembleth the uncertain glory of an Apul day Most wise men even weather regulators have some idea of what to expect fiom other members of the yeaily troupe but they confess bewilderment under the spell of scintillating vacillating charms of this eccentric and temperamental star of tho zodiac "April April" chided the poet Sir William Watson "Laugh thy girlish laughter: then a moment after weep thy girlish Thinks Editor Kills Too Many Soviets Editor Ti lbtine Sandwiched in between the other Tribune editorials which are more or less based on fact there have been appearing some weird tales about the execution of millions of innocent people in the soviet union These goiy tales do uedit to thur author's imagination for not even the accomplished writers of the old dime novels could slaughter their Indians so expeditiously as this writer slaughters his millions of them Not that any one begrudges the editorial writer his hobby of making millions of Russians bite file dust Only a hobby can be ridden too far and this hobby may lead to a strange end After all thue aie only some 175 000 000 people in Ruxsu And if they are to be killed off at this alainung late by the cditonal wtitei we will certainly wake up some morning and find that this huge nation which had once covered one-sixth of the worlds surface has vanished it itas met the fate of those poor mortals in Lewis Carroll's fable who went hunting the Snark and met the Boojum short we will find that it has and suddenly vanished away and will never be heard of again I submit that this wholesale evaporation of an entire nation would be a spooky affair but that apparently soviet Russia is going to come to just such a ghostly end Elva Pierron Indorses Use of Sidewalks For Bicycle Riders Editoi Tribune In the long ago some prophetic impulse instituted wide streets which may ultimately provide a way of slicing off sideways for the augmented army of bicyclers Recreational training lures the aspmng sets a pate for action Instructors not always being law- By Frank Kent Before the tough-talking Mr Douglas the president's most recent supreme court appointment actually takes his seat on the bench the White Houy advisory group is considering the next vacancy So far from this being a secret fact is pubbluly presented! by various journalistic gen-I f- tlemen who more nr less! I regularly reflect the thought 1 of the radl-l cals With considerable unanimity they aver that another resignation impends and that this wall give the president his fifth appointment in two years thus establishing a clear new deal majority on the court That is the goal at which they aim and the odds are it will be attained beforp the end of Mr term It Frank Kent of course Is not particularly complimentary to the judicial selections thatthe soundness of their new dealism should be considered more important than the character of thefr legal attainments Nevertheless such is the fact Notes 'Rules' The first requirement demanded of a judicial aspirant by the little "inner whose influence is so potent with the president is that he be one hundred per cent In tune with the new deal policies and philosophy as understood and promulgated by themselves If in addition the candidate is learned in the law and experienced in the courts so much the better but no matter how vast his learning how ripe his experience or how great Ins ability he will not get the job if his new dealism is even slightly diluted 3 hat is the rule laid down in the beginning It has been rigidly adhered to by Mr Roose velt in the past and so his intimate advisers say will be in the future Black Reed Frankfurter and Douglas all meet that test of undiluted new dealism Only one of them Mr has a reputation for great profundity as a student of the law though that was hardly sustained by his extraordinary concurring opinion in the recent decision affirming the constitutionality of state taxation of fedeial salaries Aside from the somewhat amazing chiding of Chief Justice Marshall for his unfortunate remaik" about the power to tax involving the power to destroy it seemed to some lawyers that Mr concurrence shed no illuminating light on the issue and was a rather unnecessary exhibition of his erudition Questions Custom If this custom of individual concurring expression which Mr Frankfurter commends as is to be followed the dignity and reputation of the court will hardly be enhanced as those of Mr Frankfurter's colleagues most likely to emulate his example can only feebly imitate his piofundity The temptation will be to make up for it by rounded rhetone It will not prove an edifying idea Particularly will this be true if the White House have their way in filling the next vacancy Their first choice for this is the redoubtable Senator Sthwcllenbach of Washington One or two of them favored Mr Sthwellcnbaeh over Mr Douglas He was strongly supported too by Mr John Lewis of the CIO and there is no doubt that the president seriously considered naming him If by either death or resignation he is given another appointment within the next year the Sc Inv ellenbach claims certainly will be pushed stionglv Chiefly they consist in the fact that ho is a per cent new dealer" who has never wavered in support of any Roosevelt proposal and second that the opposition of his colleague Senator Bone makes it unlikely he can be reelected to the senate next year Therefore it is argued he ought to be care of" These are not it is true very noble reasons for putting a man on the supreme bench but they are noble enough for some of the young radicals in the White House group who think the essential thing is to make certain of the new deal flavor of the court for years to come Copyright 3939 bv the Baltimore Sun Christopher Billopp Says: April Fool Father comes home whistling meirily because he has had such a good day at the office and embraces Mother without first examining the mail on the desk Johnny is standing by with his hands and face nicely washed and his hair neatly brushed He asks Father which chair he prefers Father inquires if Johnny would like to look at the comics and Johnny replies that he is in no hurry for them as he would prefer to work out a few algebra problems before dinner Father asks Mother if there have been anv tragedies in the household during the day and Mother says she had rather not mention them as she does not think thaft Father should be annoyed by such matters lather notes that the mail consists largely of bills He looks them over and announces that the bills are painfully small He says he is forced to the conclusion that they have been denying themselves many luxuries and that they really must spend more money He suggests that they all go out to a movie in the evening but MoLher says she cannot do it with a dear conscience until she catches up on her darning and Johnny says he is reading one of the plays of Shakespeare and is so interested that he would like to devote the evening to it Father saya he Is glad to hear that as he himself wants to attend to a number of odd jobs around the house that have already been put off too long Father lights his pipe and Mother inquires whnt new tobacco he is smoking She says the tobacco Is so fragrant Father asks where the dogs are He opens the front door and finds them Hitting silently on the doormat waiting patiently to be let in They enter the living room and select unobtrusive places In whith to he The clocks all over the house strike 7 and Mother notes how beautifully they are synchronized She compliments Father on the attention he gives them On the clot dinner la announced and they sit down to partake of a meal of fish and carrots followtd by bread pudding Everybody asks for secootid helpings of everything and they congratulate Mother on her selection of i oi i Le dishes And Mother savs It is a pleasuie to catrr to people who enjoy what is put before them and never complain CHRlSTOrilER BILLOrP Senator From Sandpit Ham Park makers cannot empower their curricula with the means of making the way effectual and safe for these things The premise is that cyding is recreational accupa-tional It trembles in the balarfce of hazard Solution? Mayor John Wallace saw a dignified demonstration of hceman veisus boy" on a Thirteenth- East sidewalk per item The Tribune The circumstance furnishes the writer an urge to relate personal observation last Thanksgiving The stream of every vintage of automobile extant whirled on South Temple street to and from the umveisity football game Some bicyclers taking advantage of freed sidewalks induced a discussion about agitating intet est in creating causeways for these young people who are now forced by law to risk their lives in uncertain traffic on thoioughfares I ardently advocate the idea but being a timid elderly person lost the initiative till this specific opportunity to respond to the bu-gie call encouiaged a suggestion and an urgent appeal to remove peril by putting into operation a methodical plan for a safe cycling path applaud the timely cnisode of 'boy versus 'cop'" envisaged by our mayor It may mate-ialize into srdeways made feasible by the wisdom of the early 'engineers who laid out these wide ttreets Mrs Robinson Dream Gives Writer Hop Editor Its so strange You know this awful talk of war in Europe and everywhere is strange Things happen over there too and in other places that make one stand aghast When such fearful times exist I grasp around as it were to hear of something encouraging and restful As an answer to my prayer for peace my neighbor told me the following dream: will come Libprtv and freedom for the people will triumph A silver bullet sped by the son of a mortal mother and a one-eyed god will pierce the forehead of the monstpr who is the root of all this evil word the golden handle of which forms a crescent will arise out of a aouthern sea and propelled by fish that can fly will cut the head off the monster after he is dead to make sure Umt he stays I know whether I should believe In dreams all so strange but hopeful Anderson 119 106 0 110 4 107 111 117 110 103 8 102 0 78 92 59 4 1929 19j7 IS) 18 Jan 19o8 heb 1938 Mar 1938 Jan 1939 heb 19 49 Mar 1339 86 80 79 79 101 98 97 8o 8 90 0 88 0 87 4 91 7 91 3 915 77 3 73 0 7b 9 77 1 83 2 83 3 88 0 iix 4 Map Makers Bewildered By Both Nature and Nazis Gieat changes aie taking place in the map of this earth not only with reference to national boundaues but in natui al features Futile soil has been earned on mischievous winds leaving barren hardpan wheie piodiptive faims once flourished A popular lake in Florida has leaked or ovapmated until the bathing lesoits atound its slioics aie left high diy and Useless Where once the hot winds of northun Aiizona scorched the vegetation of southern Nevada and wandeieis staggcied thiough saiul-stouns suffeung fiom thnrt a coast guaid in a patiol boat has just rescued time shipwiccktd fislieimen stiug-ghng against the foam-capped waves of an inland sea With vast farming aieas being turned into bunn wastes and and deserts made Mo blo'som as the with nomadic mountains seeking now locations and tui-gid mcis cany mg countless acres of soil to the seas Vith new frontiers of travel beckoning adventurous spa its to the skies and sun-spots mixing up established climate and storm schedules it may get to be as difficult for map-makeis to locate lakes and rivers as Hitler has made it to locate former governments in Euiope New York Highlights By Charles Driscoll Feats of memory always astonish me perhaps because I can hardly ever remember where I put my glasses with whom I have a lum heon date tomorrow or what was the name of the architect of the Woolworlh building Hop 1 clerks are among the citizens whose memories are best developed Ur perhaps it is more accurate to miv that hotel clerks who expect to get ahead must have good memories I recall one who huln In a New' York hotel he tried to hold me for a long distance telephone call I had never made He rememhrrer) all about it Happened on a previous visit of mine tl had never been In the house before and secretly swore I never would be again Ho kept me at the desk 15 minutes accusing me of trying to beat that phone bill bcfoie he discovered his mistake Oh it was another fellow 1 Well he confided phil osophwally we all make mistakes How this for memory7 As my friend Me Nitt and I walked up to the desk of the Benjamin I1 ranklin hotel In Philadelphia Ed Baer the room chtk greeted us by name and said "You two stopped here a week ago Would you like to have the same rooms 1102 and 1194 Yes7 'I hank you The bertioom slippers you left behind will he sent right up to your room Mr Drisrcill" I had forgotten where lost the slippers But a bov delivered them before I had my overcoat off Now this Is a big hotel in a big citv It seems to be full all the time How does a man get that wav7 We hunted out Old Bookbinders the ancient seafood restaurant where generations of Philtuli Iphmns have dined at ease and tn gaiety It is one of the most famous eating places In America and though it is down by the river far from the retail center It Is al-vvavs Well tilled nt clmmr time We downed enormous steaming platters of ovsteis fish and scallops tastilv served and felt well fortified for a long evening stroll through the histone sheets in this We were ferried over the Mississippi the new bridge is under construction and wont be finished for some time I had a letter to Governor Richard Leche from A Brown but the governor Is at some Texas health resort so I meet him But his of force dldn let tie miss anything Helen Emm-lin Wurzlow the official hostess escorted us through the capitol one of the most beautiful buildings I havd ever seen In the senate and house the member gnal their votes electrically They merely press a button on their desks and their ayes or nays are regiotercd and counted on a machine and flashed on a board back of the seat The governor also has a board in his office that gives him the record In 41 seconds a vote can be recorded If there is any debate a loud-speaker in the governors office can be turned on so he can listen in It would lake too murh space for me to tell you all the things we saw in and about the building One thing they stole any space in corridors and rotundas The coiridor in which Senator Iluev Long was shot is not over six feet wide Ths pillar where the murderer stood which In the new pictures looked so Urge is about on foot diameter The building cost $3 000 -COO and was built in one year and judging fiom appearances the taxpayeis got their moneys worth I met Harry I) WiNori iom-mixoioncr of agucultuie and immigration and he asked to be remembered to David Smith whom he met at some convention Wo estopped for a moment at Huey Longs grave which is directly in front of the capitol An old white-whiskered gentleman seated near the grave volunteered to read a poem he had written about Hucv but when I saw that it contained some 50 verse I (old him we have the time to listen ell suh he said "Ah give Vou that between yo se'f and Cod Retail trade at 88 is within 1 point of a years peak and will have more than a seasonal advance in April due to the start of outdoor work of all kinds and the payrolls increase Installment buying is holding up well includihg autos and fur-nituie Outside of coal cotton and copper inventories are low (Coal was storked as a precaution for John negotiations with the operators) No jea 1 1 it In improvement in whole-si pines is expected hirst quarter profits are going to be substantia'lv higher than last veir Let-down building umtiacU means only that the out! at Is (me ludmg A) were let last winter Farm income i 1 decline no moie than seasonally Cotton and tobacco puces are already so low that these two commodities now are moving The hejdcial Surplus Commodities corporation stopped buying butter In the open market early in March and the price fll off 3 cents The third Morgenthau alternative on old-age taxes will go through eongiess the one holding the 1 per ecru tax until 1942 No social security taxes will be reduced Olid Copyright 1939 Here and There BATON ROUGE The Mis- sus tucked me whit Baton Rouge meant and I told her Red Stick Thais as near as I could trans-late-he French bv guessing and sheflAokcd a bit skep'Hal Shes been having a little trouble with the foreign hnguages in these parts and has to ic'v upon my knowledge Most of the time Im wrong A'ter ronoiderable coaching I got her to pronounce the in 8p crush woids like You know like San Ho-sav and "fan when we got into Louisiana she read a road sign and said "We aie now in Hefferson Davis parish But wdsnt far wrong for the meaning of Baton Rouge The French named the town after (he Indian Totem poles whnh had red crayfish as a prominent design My stock a a linguist is slightly over par right now I got off the road in the Ca- jun hev le the Ac a-diuis Iamgfeilow wrole about in his They speak their own particular patois French and I had to find an interpreter to get me headed in the right direction I like to suggest to the citizens of Louisiana that it wou'd be more helpful to tout 1st if they put up more road signs and not so many advertisements fur political administrations past and present If they patch a hole in the pavement they put a tngn up stating that the repans were made during the administration of Governor So-and-So and hiw staff Out west you know how the jaekrabbits get killed trving lo cross the highwavs in flout of the automobiles Down here they don have jaekrabbits they have turtles We were traveling along about 50 and I noticed the cars ahead were swerving out at a certain spot 'the ear dliectly ahead of us signaled for a stop Me stopped in bat of it and saw the time get out and pick somethin's up and earjy it across the toad It me a turtle which had been trving tq get home in time for supper I suppose Hid poke h)s head out from shell take one look at the traffic and pull it back In again and hope I reckon that fellow will lie able 4 -tell his folks some tall tales about ur biesdUi Ci apes from unit he got carele mi an i landed in nomcones to ip Temblor Proves an Alibi Was Not in Utah Last Thursday When is an catthquake not 5n caith-quake? This query is suggested by contradictory reports coming fiom the east bench of Salt Lake valley Poisons living on that sightly elevation fiom which they enjoy gazing upon a pictuiesque panorama of paradisal prospects weie startled out of their reveries or slumbers a little be-foie midnight last Thursday bv the sudden shaking of their beds the swinging of chandeliers the sliding of putuies on the walls and the rattling of windows long consideied the outward and unmistakable symptoms of subterranean convulsions Leaping fiom their several couihes of repose or lecnmination as the case may have been the residents ru bed to their rioois porches and telephones to demand an explanation of the untimely distuib-nnre To their suipnse the device used by the state univeisity also located on the east bench showed no agitation and made no resold of anything unusual In ditad and disappointment prople i clumed to their respective cubicles convinced that Secs Order Progress Awaiting World Editor Tiibune" Out of the present whirlwind of circumstances that is sweeping humanity off its feet carrying with it all customs morals ideals and standards and when this equinoctial transition has spent itself there Will emerge a new era The waters of progress now in a maelstrom of doubt and discontent will become calm Hope confidence and aspiration will be re-borh tn the hearts and minds of -men New customs new morals new Ideals ami standards bill be established to direct humanity in its renewed search for happiness But he who will formulate those changes who will control the destinies of those who survive will be he who will have developed the greatest im tgiuatiou who will have the strongest tight aim and who will possess the will to do iullmer True Utah Sf 3 4 i i I faimlon his a new jewelry uae Ilalv has extended Its at ric ron-trol of prices Biazil recently shipped 230 nit) bags of coffee to Germany Childi pla grounds In London aie lo be floodlighted German nunc is now work the longest hours 111 the world More people I iil cud ill miking an planes than ships We drove through- the campus of the Louisiana State university one of the finest in the lend More than 10(88) students are iegitered many of whom live in large modern dormitories on the campus Then on a beautiful paved highway through a Ihu cypress foicst lo New Oilcans.