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10 Wednesday Morning Tljc Salt £akc I August 16 1939 California You Come Here By Her block alt £ixit Established April 15 1871 Franklin Doubts Western States Support Garner issued every morning by Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company The Tribune Is a member ot the Associated Piesa The Associated is exclusively entitled to the Use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein Salt Idle Ctty Utah Wednesday Morning Avgust 16 1939 because the Scots he said are "the healthiest most uptight and most of the races inhabiting the British Isles and that the Scotch joke is a of the London press is to miss the point and make oneself ridiculous According to the Times London the jibes about the pioverbial meanness of the Scots did not emanate from England at all While the English tell these stories about the Scots they were in fact "originally manufactured ort the other side of the Tweed and told by the lest of Scotland about the Aberdonians And the Aberdonians of course tell them about the Yorkshiifmcn when they are not telling them about But as the Times concludes it would do tio good to explain these facts to a nazi By Jay Franklin By no stretch of the imagination can th Chicago Tribune be described as a pro-Roosevelt journal or its editorial policies as friendly to the new deal Its special correspondent Fred Parley has embarked on a tour of the southwest to sound out political sentiment by the sampling method Mr Parley is now' in Texas and more particularly in that section of Texas which includes John Nance Garner's home town of Uvalde A poll was taken on the third term issue both in Uvalde and in Amarillo Uvalde was against the third term and for Garner by about 60 per cent But Amarillo voted that Roosevelt was the strongest presidential candidate for 1940 giving him 42 per cent of the votes Tom Dewey 21 Jay ranklin per cent Garner 9 per cent and Hoover 1 per cent These figures lead the Tribune's poll to the conclusion that Mr Garner is the "forgotten man of and that his candidacy is a hollow shell Here is the conclusion: "As 1940 nears it is becoming increasingly evident that the Roosevelt popularity with the masses is practically unimpaired while his power within the party organization Is still of tremendous scope despite the failure of purges and revolt in "Too Conservative" --4 Tax Trends Demand More National Income There is no rojal load to iccovery Neither national nor local government can tax us out of depression Boi rowed money forestalls but does not dissipate fiscal problems Taxes hie are increased to overcome decreases in income offer relief but not senility Higher taxes on decreasing income make higher taxes and decreasing income axiomatic No tax problem ever was solved permanently without new sources of taxation revenue The National Industrial Conference board some time ago completed a study of tax trends It heais out the axioms that have been uttered about taxes over these many years It suggests that the power to tax is the power to destroy It indicates that you cannot tax a nation of people out of their fiscal difficulties As national income goes down taxes go up With each succeeding change the margin of tax' absorption increase Take the average of the years 1925 to 1929 as compiled by the conference board The annual income was in excess of seventy four billions of dollars the tax collection almost nine billions! Twelve per cent of the national income went into taxes Look at the figures for 1938 and you find the income down to about sixty two billions and the tax collections up to nearly fourteen billions Twenty two per cent of the income goes into taxes The percentage trend has been steady since 1929 The tax collection percentage figure jumped from twelve per cent for the five-year average ending in 1929 to 14 2 per cent in 1930 15 4 per cent in 1931 17 4 per cent in 1932 and finally to 22 per cent In 1938 The current trend presents anything but a rosy outlook When income goes down and taxes go up the field of private initiative becomes restricted tax sources disappear Fear and stagnation result so that the trend becomes worse instead of better Prohibitive taxes narrow hope of improvement because this factor reduces the field of taxable sources We are living in a trxing period Many of our people are on the bounty of the government They can pay no taxes Others must pay more and more so long as they are able But ultimately more taxable sources are affected and more people go on relief The demand for taxes increases and the ability to pay decreases The vicious trend continues becoming more aggravated as time goes on It forestalls the day of reckoning but promises no solution Sooner or later there must be a change which looks toward the self-sufficiency of the individual for this is the foundation upon which democracies rest THE PUBLIC FORUM ---by Our Readers Confirmation of this wormVeje view of in the Garner country comes from the northwest where the new deal is regarded as somewhat too conservative to meet the needs of the people Here is a letter from a leader in west coast politics on the new deal side of the fence: "So far as the west is concerned for the Democratic party it's Roosevelt or defeat There is little doubt now that should Roosevelt be replaced on the ticket by someone of the Garner stripe there will be a western revolt comparable in proportion to the Bull Moose party hich gave Teddy a third term try too both Washington and California "Even with Roosevelt as a standard bearer the job won't be easy in the west unless stops his present appeasement program He has missed some good chances One to come out vigorously in favor of Josh Lee's pension plan That would have stymied some of the pension party proponents in the west Second a more vigorous espousal of an embargo on the shipment of war materials to Japan backing Schwellenbach's resolution And third he never should have committed the blunder of saying can't strike against the Western reliefers sympathetic to Roosevelt have a hard time explaining that one to themselves and the Republicans out here are not helping any By fnislung off the spending-lending drive the Tory coalition in congress has laid out a very definite gauge of battle for all of us and it is high time the president picked it up by taking the issue of continuing reform versus reaction directly to the country He doesn't need to maneuver merely to explain that the people are with him Washington to "Point Way" "I want to make this prophecy: That Washington will have the first instructed delegation for Roosevelt in 1940 That Washington In the northwest corner rather than Maine in the northeast will point the wmy to the national election results and that in '40 as Washington goes so will go the nation We were the first state in 1932 to instruct a delegation for Roosevelt and the convention will probably be called this January in order to permit the state to duplicate its role of This despite the fact that Emil Hurja insists that the slate ot Washington is in the bag for As a matter of solid political foresight I think it would be a good idea to analyze the claims of Mr Garner's numerous friends that "Cactus Jack" represents the wishes of the west Both Amarillo and Seattle say that he does not New York Highlights By Charles Driscoll NEW Spot joltings: This summer's drouth Killed thousands of shrubs in New York parks nnd gardens Tops in hauteur is achieved by certain Park avenue doormen when walking the dogs early in the morning Greetings between two neigh-' boring doormen are cold bows at that time Later in the day dogless they will converse affably never seen a New York policeman in uniform smoking Against the rules of course but think somebody would violate the rule some time Sam Rosoff suhway builder nnd John Raskob financier are always getting mixed up in my mind Yet quite different Raskob 6(4 is a careful dresser an ideal personage for tahles at banquets Rosoff 54 wears baggy pants and is apt to be without a necktie He likes to shout his sentences away out In the open air Culture Seekers The Wednesday Culture Club That Meets on Friday actually met on Wednesday recently and all the members were chagrined at the thought that people might think they were really seeking culture Reason for the confusion: Edward lungerford invited the club to be his guest at the Railrdads on Parade show at the fair lnadverdently he set the time without remembering how carefully the club has always avoided Wednesdays and culture Luncheon was served aboard a model Pullman car that is used in the railroad show The side of the car toward the audience has been removed When the club was entertained the car was filled with tables In the midst ot luncheon the car answering its cue rolled upon the stage with Its load of Culturists While the club people were slightly embarrassed the audience evidently thought it was a regular part of the show The Wednesday Culture Club That Meets on Friday is headed by George Bye literary agent it has no dues no duties Its rules me whatever George says for as long as he suggests It meets for luncheon at some midtown restaurant changes the meeting place every'once in a while Several of its members have a strong Interest In railroads old locomotives and cars At the Fair The railroad show having reduced its price to a quarter and tightened up Its performance is packing In the crowds I spent some time at Gardens on Pnradc and admired the neatly trimmed box hedge transplanted from Virginia bv Evan Harding of West-port Conn But the garden and lawn at the British pavilion are far better kept and brighter than most of those in the gardens exhibit for whuh you pnv a quarter Dinner with Leo Casey new press director at the Italian pavilion and what a dinner! Spent hours at Washington House patriotic contribution of Messmore Kendall lawyer and collet tor of Washington memorabilia Mr Kendall built the house and filled it with priceless relics There are many letters hv and to the first president surveying instruments and other tools used by him from boyhood to old age Copyright 1933 McNaught Syndicate Inc Forum Rules Letter appearlne In thl column do not express th views of The Tribune Ihev are the opinions of contributor with which The Tribune mav or mav not acTee The follow Inc rules eovern contribution 1 Letter limited to 2oO word and preference eiven to thort com municanon 2 Write letrlblT and clearlv on one side of the paper only 3 RellRimis end racial dlsrus Slons of a dcrocatonr or sectarian nature are barred Partisan or per nal political comment cannot be printed 4 Personal aspersion probity Itcd 5 Poetical contribution not wanted 6 Letter mav barred for obvious misstatement of fact or for ststementa which are not tn accord with fair 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stratagems by which the Democrats temporarily kidnaped the vital northern negro vote In the new deal's political hierarchy he used to yield precedence' only to James A Farley Now he is great no longer yet despite the temptation to philosophize the fact is of more than philosophic Interest It may mean that the president will not have the Pennsylvania delegation at the 1940 convention It is not unlikely to mean another Republican senator from Pennsylvania after the next election Chief Aids Rebelled What happened to Joe very simply was that his chief lieutenants rebelled against him last year The factional fight which centered around the Democrats' choke for the governorship was ostensibly ended in the primary Actually it left smoldering hatreds which are all the more bitter because the Democrats were licked Joe's party enemies are inclined to blame him for their troubles and are -all the less willing therefore to forgive him The anti-Guffey chieftains are the Philadelphia Democratic leader Jack Kelly a shrewd personable energetic business man with a genial grin and the build of an Olympic athlete (which he was) and David Lawrence the cold calculating and extremely smart state chairman Besides such federal appointees as remain loyal to him Guffey's principal adherent is the Democratic state treasurer Clair Ross protege of formidable sister Mrs Emma Guffey Miller Tries to Heal Breech Joe has been trying frantically to heal the breach between himself and his former friends going so far as to secure a federal judgeship for Charles Alvin Jones the man whom he opposed so angrily for the gover- -norship Nevertheless his efforts have been quite unavailing and the best informed men here believe that enemies are now far more powerful than Joe In terms of the convention next year strength is now put so low that it is said if the anti-Guffeyites wish to make a fight they can snatch all but about 20 per cent of the delegation It is also stated that they can either nominate another man to succeed Joe in the senatorship or cause hts defeat by a Republican Conferences among the anti-Guffey chieftains have already been held to discuss the wisdom of slapping Joe down It is clear that both Lawrence and Kelly are tempted by revenge and the only question remaining is whether the revenge is worth the trouble With regard to the convention delegation Joe has already come out for a third term for the so that a struggle for delegates would require Joes enemies to take un nnti-Roosev elt stand As for the senator ship if the rare for Joe's place is to entail another factional fight the Democrats may ns well kisS Pennsylvania good-by for a long time to come Bourbons Split The Democrats of couise are not anxious to do anything of the sort They argue that the antilabor anti-relief policies and strong big business flavor of the Republican administration have now reunited the same voting elements which drove the Republicans from power in the first place Then too Governor Arthur James and his cronies openly sabotaged the movement for a much needed Philadelphia city charter The Philadelphia city government has been comically dreadful nnd Kelly has been shrewd enough to tie up with the uty chatter movement in putting his local ticket in the field If the Democrats can make a comeback in the Philadelphia city elections this autumn they will believe they have a good chance for a stale-wide comeback in 1910 fate currently depends on the Pennsylvania Democrats' office hunger plus the outcome of the struggle for power in the national Democratic party He Is as usual preserving the self-conficboit manner which hns carried him through one of the most chequered careers In American politics (He was for example a lobbyist for the first public utilities holding company ever a couple of decades before lie ardently supported the holding company death sentence In the senate) Possibly his self-confidence will bo unexpectedly justified once again as It has been In the past Released NANA Inc Says Inventions Ruin Power to Consume Editor Tribune: In Mary article of August 4 she says technology has rendered these time-honored concepts anachronistic and the laborer is fast becoming It is very plain to be seen that Mary Shelton and millions of others are unable to see and understand that the new inventions and the use of machinery are destroying the power to consume This modern machinery put 15 million men on the unemployment list in 1933 and our national income dropped 25 billion dollars If this modern machinery is such a great benefit why did our national income drop 25 billion? Then this modern machinery replaced horses a decrease of 4G million since 1910 This rohbed the farmers of three of their most valuable crops forcing the farmers to make an over-production of other crops causing a consume it All these people get the idea that because the old inventions of the ninteenth century caused no serious trouble the new inventions ought to he the same there is a vast difference between the old and the new inventions They are not the same and they are not giving us the same benefits They are killing the power to consume Willis Cannonville Utah Reader Lauds Study Of Crime Parole Editor Tribune: Is My Wandering Boy That used to be sung a generation ago and was beautiful and pathetic I remember as a child I would hear it and visions of some boy wandering in a snow storm hungry cold and alone would fill my mind and bring tears to my childish eyes The other day I beheld a man who though in his home showed signs of having imbibed too much of some intoxicating liquor He was very emphatic in declaring that all crime should be punished by law and that was how to deal with crime He further discussed a young man who had gone astray because of following his father's example A friend said to me that if parents would be sure to teach their children right there would be no crime That sounds too simple Then I read in The Salt Lake Tribune that certain government men were meeting In convention to discuss crime and parole That made me fool better because I am convinced that mothei's wandering boy is In far greater danger than that from hunger and cold and that there are ills that be cured by punishment nor preaching Anderson groat surplus that they know what to do with People Senator From Released by Consolidated News Features Inc Christopher Billopp Says: Climbing Roses Climbing roses have a way of climbing In the wrong direction They should he trained to climb on an arbor or trellis On some fine afternoon when ou are feeling particularly militant go out into the garden and set to work on the educational process Reach for an errant shoot and proceed to weave It around the arbor or trellis You will immediately be aware of something tugging at your back It will prove to be another shoot that has seized both you and the opportunity to get In on the rear Turn around quickly and face the shoot The first shoot seeing you off your guard will now7 grab hold of you Other shoots emboldened by the first will take you by the pants leg ami harry you with swift sharp thrusts in the arms nnd head With a mighty effort writhe and twist to rohase jour arms and kick as hard as you ran to free jour feet Never mind a half dozen scratches Disregard the thought thnt you are plaving the coward Even the best of genernls knows when to retreat And after all you ore not being licked but merely yielding ground In the face of overwhelming odds As soon as you have fled the field of hat tie and are assured there is no danger of further pursuit pause to count your wounds and remove the more conspicuous thorns Your experience should have taught you not to attack a superior enemy force without adequate preparation Next time you undertake to train a climbing rose gird yourself for the fray in steel gauntlets a helmet and visor and a coat of mail And it might not he a bad Idea to ap-proaih the scene of battle in a tank Christopher Billopp Influencing Public Opinion By Cartoons and Anecdotes In an age of gadgets we are apt to forget that after all the greatest of all inventions is language that amazing system of symbols by which we expiess an infinity of meanings The necessity of communicating complex ideas in a simple way has mothered the invention among other things of such useful forms as the caitoon and the anecdote The cartoon is a most effective means of expressing opinions Subloties of thought and attitude are often better expressed through this graphic medium than In any other way It is ideally suited to controversial issues and to subjects about Which public opinion may be freely expressed In the field of journalism It is of course an indispensable adjunct to the printed word As illustrated by our own' custom bigned cartoons usually appear on the editorial page of a newspaper whete they assist in a critical comment on the news Newspapeis often reproduce each other's cartoons just as they often quote from each other's oditonals The virility of the caitoon as a factor In public opinion is nicely attested by the rerent Amenean publication of Cartoon History of Our Times" by the inimitable David Low probably the best known foreign cartoonist of ourduv As stated in Ihc introduction by Quine Howe the honk might well be described as "a putoriai history of the world from the depths of the depression to the collapse of the Munich accord" Low a New Zealander by birth draws regulaily for the London Daily Express and the Evening Standard whose proprietor Lord ISeaverlnook wholly disagrees with his cartoonist's political sentiments penetrating earl eatures of the dictators and their "ships" have done and if the present nl lime achieves the sale it deserves they will do much to piomote the cause of democracy The anecdote is also in a sense a catl-cature for it plays up a weakness or an incongruity Here again Is a language device which helps to mold public opinion While the anecdote is a common medium for the expression of contempt for one group by another it is usually employed with reservations with our fingers crossed so to speak To take it ltleially or to trace Its histoileal oiigln as when for instance a well known Get man publicist rreentjy appealed to the pi ess of his auntry not to print Jokes about Scotsmen opposite of practical Is From an examination paper When I was back east a man prominent in national affairs asked me why we send a certain highly successful and unquestionably able citizen to the senate I told him Id inquire Well I buzzed around asking every Tom Dick Harry and Harriot I met what he or she thought of this man ns a candidate And I have found out that the virtues and achievements which we admire in private high Intelligence ability to make money outstanding distinction in all become serious handicaps the moment a man aspires to public office The result Is that our politics recks with the worst form of hypocrisy and the type of men elected to public office gets worse each jear For generations tens of thousands of mothers have cherished the hope remotely perhaps that by a stroke of fortune their son might occupy the While House Today a mother seriously ambitious that her son might gain this supreme honor would have to teach him to aviod material sueeess to shun doing business with a large corporation to keep out of club and organizations frequented by men of affairs So when we see our public affairs conducted by shjster lawyers lazy mendicants visionary Idealists crackpot economists and Incompetent blow-hnrds not whine or grow Indignant over the mess they create Rather he honest with om selves for once nnd say "Well we asked for To the Poet of Obscurity I have no figs but If I had a fig I wouM not give It for a hundred verses In whuh some Irresponsible rehearses Small thoughts In words he hopes will make them big I know he fancies It Is Infra dig 'Io talk plain language so he nicely nurses Ills words and through his sentences disperses Striking obsairities nnd claps a wig Of frizled curls on bald And pads the bosom of his sterile muse And gives some simple everyday event Quirks and incomprehensibilities He thinks or hopes may for a while abuse Our patience into wondering what he meant Chapman Notes on the Cuff Department It a small world and something to prove it' In the lohby of the Hotel Monnn Honolulu an attractive voung ladv was mailing some letters One of them fell to the floor A gentleman standing near by picked it up and in handing it back noticed that it was addressed to someone in Utah "Are you from he asked Salt Fake she replied "So am Do you happen to know Virginia Hilton mean that's her married "Of course I do! 1 went to the with Virginin nnd I Know her husband Horace Whitney ton "Vnginla is my daughter" "Well of all things' My nnme Is Adcle Whitlock and I'm here with my mother Mrs Whitlock am William A Hilton Give mv regards to jour will nnd you remember me to Virginia and "I eertainly will Good-by" Note to the traffic dept: There's a good chance of catching some slop sign runners through nt Sixth South and Ninth Fast streets The stop sign nt the foot of the hill Is completely hidden In a elump of bushes Edgar Hoover Mr Pnrk: Mv attention hns been rnlled hv MG Jay Newman special agent In charge of the Salt Inke City field division of this bureau to your article In The Salt Lake Tribune under the dale of August 3 1919 nnd I just wanted to drop you a note nnd let you know tbnt in the event I do get to the I'aiifie coast and have the opportunity of going through Salt I ake Cil I will certainly stop long enough for a greeting" The State of The Nation By Olin Miller A federal district court hns held that the Sherman antitrust act could not be made to apply to the practice of medicine the opinion being handed down that the practice of medicine is a learned profession rather than a trade Many will take the position that the expression should be qualified The medical profession has learned a lot of things but there me perhaps ns many things it learned It hns never learned for Instance what the samhill to do about an ailment that probably causes more loss of time and general exasperation than any other Indisposition We refer to the ordinary garden variety of common cold Under a physician's care the average cold lasts a week with home treatment or no treatment at all It lasts seven days Squire Perkins says: any gal will throw at a man if she thinks he's a good Distributed by Esquire Features OH the Record moulder of public opinion finds that Americans French and British admire one another more than they do anyone Under our neutrality set-up boys this mustn't become too mutual Now Britain among others views a falling birth rate with alarm It would be ardly of posterity not to be here to shoulder our debts The polite file on a suspect picked up in the west shows 13 aliases For those seeking aids with a passion for anonymity here your boy The Poles may be outnumbered but are unafraid says a sie-up of the sides In them the fuehrer would meet foemcn worthy of bis steal From indulgent Miami comes word that authorities "will do nothing about bathing suits" as (ho ablest prosecutor has to have some evidence As regards the far eastern situation It Is thought something mav be keeping the gods who destroy those whom they have fast made mad Das Sc hwarze horps traces the macabre trend in millinery to the effete democracies The Goenng uniforms are tile own Idea No doubt fills new and noiseless celery is a step forward But how are we to let the waiter know we are through with the soup? The average pay of governors jump this year from 1 6 to $3133 It la not bad considering how average the average governor Is Along the ruilto one hears that Elaine It ime receives a fat weekly sum for not acting and why not if others do" Democracy Is that great prim iple beloved of liberals and despised by despot lliat even the Phillies deserve a time at bat On the surface the plan for duplicating Coney Island seems but could he make himself heard abov the crowd on the roller-connter? Progressive educators had Just got through telling us thnt fairy stones are pause when a 13-year-old Chicago lad Inherited ft big league ball team 'Die new grab teihmque is to stnd tmi hv droves into the coveted areas If they're like many know they bring it back piece by pices About 580000 Inhabitants of Alexandria Egypt have been vaccinated against smallpox in a campaign lasting nine months Five times a many persons are employed in Australia gold mining industry as there were lu 1929 the latest figure show To encourage planting Formosa will distribute 138 0(H) camphor trees free of charge to bring the total number in the Island up to 4896500.