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Srttarial fag, nf aMatti ulrtfhm? Home Owned, Controlled, Edited Oakland, March 17, 1939 STI LL TRYING FOR A FALL ADMITTING FAULTS I NEUTRALITY ACT, ADMINISTRATION URGESv RADICAL CHANGES OTHER FELLOW By AD SCHUSTER ABOUT NEW YORK By GEORGE TUCKER to exist, that be carried in all exports to belligerents must other than American ships, and When the present Neutrality Act was passed at the instigation and insistence of the Administration, its opponents voiced the prediction that it would not work out as intended. They went further to say that it that title to ican citizen. this provision v. 2" i If i 7 7 Frxy' and take a vote. them' must not rest in an Amer If Congress wishes to continue it must bring the matter up of Congress now, it appears, is slate clean and start over in written formula which may be keep us neutral.

In a recent might even work to purposes counter to the design. Comment of the kind, including some which appeared on this page, was assailed sincerely by lovers of peace believed 4 Vi a mm MAnMinA VnnriM a 1 iViftl "nail. Disposition to wipe the search for a guaranteed to NEW YORK, March 17. The Italians have what the French would call a provisions counter in Rockefeller Center, and regardless of your sympathies in the democracies vs. totalitarian argument it should be seen.

New. York, after all. has more Italians than any other city in the world, more-even than Rome. It ought to be seen by all who are press conference the President said what many said when the law was passed, that the Neutrality' Act in its present form is more trality" must exert influence toward that end. The country has had experience with' the act Today President Roosevelt, who urged its is dissatisfied.

He would make changes which would give the Chief Executive a lartror moacnra nf rlicrrpfi'nn in mpr. likely to promote war than peace. Congress, if it would change the whether the President should "pick the aggressor" in any war and deny that aggressor from America, or to out ---e- v. gency. Senator Hiram Johnson, also, would have the act repealed, but would establish policies to give the President less discretion.

There is agreement from both sides that the neutrality policy has not kept us free from entanglement It has acted to encourage strong Nations against the weak. Under it, liking it of not, we have aided Japan, because 1 within legislation, which would man who happens to be Chief any moment, the power to dis one side or the other1. The any neutrality act is to keep wars. Our written rules take sides though we have fighting. we are about to search for a japan nas snips 10 carry munitions unaer the "cash and carry" provisions, and China has no ships! In a sense, we have sided in the Spanish revolution.

On Mav 1 the "cash and carry" section of thffact, expires automatically. This is the onV which permits the President to declare, after a state of war abroad has been found formula in the belief that words, cemented into statutes, in any emergency which taay attracted 'td unusual assortments of fancy ad -rare foods because of the imagination shown, because of its artistic displays, its curious accumu- ft 1 lation of items, the sight of which leaves the mind disturbed and the palate excited. There was a pleasant looking fellow inside and when I asked him his name he "John Jacobs." Sure, he declared, he was Italian. A funny name, Jacobs, for the Italians, but it is a name you will find among the French' and the Danes and all over the world. You walk in arid At first you aren't -able to pick out the individual objects -because the impression is that of coming suddenly unon a field of wild and varicolored flowers.

Then the individual blossoms take shape. Here is a funght (a tiny, fancy, barrel) of mushrooms preserved in olive oil $12.25. To me a fruit mos-tarda was especially inviting. This was a blending of figs, peaches, cherries. VARIETY There is coffee from Africa, and giant Italian rice (20c and farina (from which macaroni is made) and little bags "of dried mushrooms (for the preparation of sauces) and a dozen varieties of Italian cheeses (some of which are made from goats' milk for grating), and skinless and pane dolche (sweet bread) from Genoa.

This is the equivalent of our fruit cake, all done up in the Earl Carroll manner at $3.50 each. There are baskets of figs stuffed with almonds, and hearts of artichokes preserved in olive oil. (to keep them from turning white), and giant salamis (maybe 30 lbs.) at 80e a pound, and demijohns of Italian" Vinegar, and nuts disguised as lake pebbles. You could wander around thert for two hours and inquire after names and prices and not touch the same subject twice. To me it was an interesting experience, and if I were a doctor besieged by patients with lagging appetites I would com- pel them to stand around this place for an hour a day.

If that didn't cure them, nothing would. mm, iL? I FOR EFFICIENCY Before 1 Congress two bills have beea projected. It that a fight on the floor will i amendments. Out of the considerations we may have a bill to save money to the taxpayers, reduce the number of red-tape agencies and work for efficiency, or pass a measure which will do little or Senator Harry F. Byrd, Democrat, has chal "I'm glad it was me instead those words in bronze.

The thought may' join that Southern it honors an "alien" who was assassin and said to a President, the bullet was directed, "I'm instead of you." had been Cermak died nobly. DAY says that "the whole world is Seventeenth of March!" better world 4f, on one or could express jollity, wit and better or worse and the odds we might give thought to over the practical. Sure there dancing over the bogs and men LETTERS TO THE lenged his party and Congress. asks for a reorganization to crisis in fiscal affairs. The Democratic Senator Byrd says that "since 1932 our expenditures have increased from three and a half billions to nine and a half billions.

A vast number of have been placed on the pay natu aaanrfaa ind nam (tiv'ttoa nf onvprn. WIM VTW i a 4 4 ment nave oeen esiaDusnea. wnue is recognized that; reorganization of the executive folk-lore and old songs. a great missionary and all daughters of Eire proclaim patriotisms and yearnings in poetry and determinations. Isle, a chip on its shoulder and heart, carries on as a land of an area of patriots and WH1MHEY The Emerald of Kelly, the Jade ot Flanagan, The Bloodstone Dennis Kearney, the Bryl Hanrahan, The Diamond of Brady, the Jewels of the Past.

The Rosary of Irish names blown on some faerr blast Surely Life's saddest moment will be when we forget Their old time flare and foment, the old names with us yet! There's nothing stirs the blood beat or shivers in the bones When we tread the stately minuet Vfith some queer old egg called Jones. I do not care for Ronald, and Berty leaves me cold. Though on some far field's splendid scroll they may be writ in goldl do not fall for Manuel or Ferdinand at all: There's something lacking in my voice when on these saints I call; But how the heartstrings jiggle, and how the senses swim When you go outside to watch the moon with an Irishman called Jim! MAY' S. GREENWOOD. Vermont is considering a law to require pedestrians to wear reflec tors.

Daddy is in jail tonight Under a bushel he hid his light EYL'S VIEW OF ISLE Sir: Piles of sand and muck and stone, steel and concrete, flesh and bone; brains and blueprints, sweat ana toil; rivets, bolts and lots of oil; art and treasure, "Gayway" shows, just the place to drown your woes; 'lectric lights, fountains, tile this, my friend, is Treasure Isle. H. A. EYL. TOMORROW'S DINNER I wish I could be there beside 'em And watch as the waiters supplied em; I hope there'll, be eats, Enough for repeats, And no food and drink be denied em.

When each poet's back in his attic, With spirits elate and estatic, He'll write verse galore For a season or more Before he again becomes static. A. MERRIAM CONNOR. DRAMATIC DEPARTMENT (Lakeview, Observer.) The cast's performance even in spired lowly root beer bottle into an unparalleled performance. Brought onto the scene to quench the thirst and nerves of a romantic young Alice Sycamore and Tony Kirby, portrayed by Helen Greullch and Glen McK'enzie.

the bottle literally exploded with pride in McKcnzie's face, showering Mc-Ke'nzie and Miss Grculich as it spputed a full 10 feet into the air. It was some two. minutes before the audience quieted and allowed the wet, but still determined, lovers to continue in their parts. Hopes of the Czechs are leveled and, as Chamberlain lets it be known: "Nobody loves a flat man." "Nazi Group Urges Law Upon Congress." Is it so nominated in the Bund? LAKE MAGIC Lake Merritt lay demurely, Nun-like in tranquil rest; Attended by pale tapers The crescent on her breast Then a magic buttonl And Heaven' light is gone, As she with proud head lifted," Puts Sheba's necklace on. -GERTRUDE LA PAGE.

Then there is the fellow who said that Hitler just had to do something to make his public forget Dr. Goebbels and that joke contest STOCKED UE, (Capitol Daily, Washington) The United States Government yesterday issued invitations for the submission of bids on 8,584,704 inches of red tape, delivery to be made in Washington by May 2. NAME CLUB Mt. Sterling, 111., has as" judge, J. Q.

Lawless. Voice teacher in Chicago is Juluet Barker. DOLLAR CHANGES Oh, once held de rigueur, An excellent figure," By those with blSod thought to be blue, A round million dollars Amazed bums and scholars As miracle managed by few. Then, ma. with a million Need join no cotillion; He could dance in a class by himself.

Good folks thought it awful, Opined no means lawful -Could gain one lone man so much pelf. But today just a million, Compared to a billion, Is only small change, we affirm; And when billionaire splurges To satisfy urges, A millionaire seems -a mere worm. OSCAR ROESNER. BIG JOB The owner-driver of a smart little blue two-seater car permitting his friend to inspect it 'By Jove!" his friend said, "you must have dbne a lot of touring this year. I see you've done 10,000 miles." "Ah!" was the reply, "that was mostly through looking for parking places in the town!" Detroit THAT 'H' AGAIN A "scene-shifter ln a London the ater has never seen a stage per.

formance in his life. Haul work and no play seems to be his. motto. and Lady Gregory have recreated and a McCormack has sung Sentimentally and practically, old machinery win not in itseii produce sumcient economies to balance the outgo with Federal income, yet no one familiar with the vast bureaucracy at Washington can deny that substantial economies can be thus effected. While we must frankly face the fact that a balanced budget within the capacity of the people to pay must require either the elimina- tion or reduction of activities engaged in-during the past few years, yet the task of reducing present governmental expenditures from the present high level must be approached from every angle, and the elimination of waste and inefficiency is obviously one of the first steps.

"For three years," says Byrd, "I have advocated legislation to eliminate It is lip to law, to decide have power line a policy, deny to the Executive at new neutrality reorganization is anticipated accept or defeat In his bill he meet an existing new employees roll, and many 1 vvyf .1 Ireland, now thoughts. St, Patrick, "The blessings Executive vast reorganization bill, has teen possible with thinking, of the founded, left-wing and capacity for dinary civil war, a place within the the Senate Bjll without the sur The moderates, ceive the necessity prompt action in ment of reform. still in. doubt. New Deal have 1 We wonder if litical civil war ernment.

while country watched At the moment helpful reminder, glad it was me unite on a great to future foreign arms and munitions criminate against idealism, behind us out of foreign have made us kept out of the Apparently well-intentioned will serve arrive. icari President, of you." Miami has put wide American city when slain by an toward whom glad it was me Whatever he ST. PATRICK'S An old song Irish on the It might be 'a many days, it fellowship. For are on the better, the romantic are fairies, may love legends, St, Patrick was of the sons and him. There are the -Irish soul, The Emerald a song in its bards and dreamers, programs'.

Yeats legends the songs. genial and warm St. Patrick's good fellowship brated now on and San Francisco. "Let the whole of March," fancies, legends which to a civilization WHILE RECOVERY It' has been often so narrow, sb cause of the highly sacred phrases and can compare for inability to -Here is, no doubt, tial mind, between advisers and the leftists who have reform refuse to being The views before. They vail today.

President who could cards which and handed out to "Does It Contribute it view of the himself expressed. however, as evidence part to the Mr. Roosevelt. The two 'things the attack and the scant have in anything reform. The New Peal last It succeeded depression.

It has It has begun a war mass of Americans drive Eire, is established in all who is honored today, said: of God upon you all." His benediction made no distinctions. Day proclaimed as one for and good will. It is cele waste and duplication and overlapping of effort The attempt to enact legislation to reorganize the Federal Government failed last year because economy was subordinated Treasure Island, in Oakland world be Irish on the Seventeenth for the Irish have the sentiments, loyalties, superstitions and give color, vigor and romance in sore need. to the effort to confer upon the and unusual powers." Today in introducing a reorganization bill on behalf of the "Select Committee" on In FORUM THE NEW ZOO PLAN To Editor Tribune: In answer to A. Taxpayer in the Forum of March 13, last, the Oakland Park Board welcomes 'every opportunity to "come before the public at large and explaW'lhe how and why" of the proposed solution to the Oakland Municipal Zoo problem.

The present Inadequate, unsanitary and inaccessible site of the Municipal Zoo has long been the subject of numerous complaints and constant criticism. Seeking to solve this problem the Oakland Park Boat-d over a long period of time has conducted exhaustive surveys of management and operations of municipal zooi throughout the country. The plan to be submitted to the voters of Oakland -at the April election is held from survey to be the best possible solution. The Park Board asked that the proposal be placed before the voters. By unanimous vote the City Council placed the plan on the April ballot.

Briefly the proposal is to add section 65A to the city charter empowering the Park Board, with the approval of the City Council, to enter, 'Into a contract with nonprofit, semipublic corporation (such as the Alameda County Zoological Society) for the operation of the Oakland Municipal Zoo, providing such expenditures do not exceed $5000 per' year. The present zoo is costing the Park Department between $4800 and $5000 per year. It is proposed to turn over to the society sum, not to exceed what it is now costing the Park Department to. operate its present inadequate, unsanitary zoo. Therefore the plan will not increase taxes nor cost the taxpayers one cent in additional expense.

Thus the plan simply means that the Municipal Zoo will be housed in a climatically correct and sanitary site, easily accessible to the public and in a manner assuring the best humane treatment for the animals. 1 The Alameda County Zoological Society, of which Earle G. Linsley, prominent Oakland scientist and director of Chabot Observatory, is president, has title to the" property formerly known as Durant Park. In, this' 450-acre tract of natural Wdodlands. the so-ciety under development, in accordance with a master plan, a natural history park, 'which will give the animals home closely related to their natural habitat and thus" create a municipal zoo of which Oakland will be proud.

I can definitely assure A. Taxpayer that the society, as title-holders to the property, has no intention of'seeking to. sell the property to the city. Past events in the history of Durant Park are a closed chapter as far as the society is concerned. The present development of the zoological gardens as a center of enjoyment and education in nature studies and natural history for school children and adults is the definite objective of the society.

At least 50,000 people have enjoyed the educational ahd recreational features since the plan was evolved. I In conclusion may- I point" out, that approval of this measure by the voters in April will solve the jnuniclpal. zoo problem and in no way put additional burden on the taxpayers either for purchase or maintenance ot what 'was "once called Durant Park. WILLIAM W. HOFFMAN, Park.

Board. QUITE ALL SIGHT Mother Now, 'Junior don't go so far out in the water, Junior Yes, but you let daddy do it Mother Well, that's different Daddy has his life insured. Wor-cester Evening Gazettt, vestigation of Executive Agencies of the Gov ernment, in a spirit of cooperation and the WAITS remarked that there la no mind prejudiced, so set, as a radical's. Be WHERE IS IT? To Editor Tribune i Some Americans are wondering where money formerly used in financine nrivate business en deavors has gone and why? The New York Federal Reserve Bank states the United States Government in the past six years has ab-i sorbed the bulk of the Nation's investment capital by taxation and tax-exempt bond issues. Commercial and savins banks, insurance companies and other great capital pools have put about Into Federal tax-exemDt securities instead of Into private investments.

The report said wealthy Investors found tax-exempt Government issues more profitable than corporation investments. Investment trends is a major topic in view of the Federal Government's attempt to revive business and encourage capital to take business risks. "At the bottom of the 1933 depression," says the reserve bank's report, "the' aggregate amount of individual incomes of $50,000 and over after payment of Federal income taxes-was about $620,000,000, as compared with $5,400,000,000 in 1928 a reduction of 85 per cent. In 1938, the omnnnt wna nhnllt 20 Der cent less than that of 1928 and- from 1932 the National debt had been increased about 20 billion dollars. All of which means that the United States Government New Deal regime in the past six years has absorbed by taxation and tax-exempt bond issues, through the aforesaid financial agencies, most of 1he money that formerly was invested in private business enterprise which provided work for millions of workers and helped make these United States ot America the most prosperous Nation on earth.

Now the New Dealers have "tied up" the speculative mine of wealth and "scared" thrifty Americans with "money in the bank and other hideouts" so that; they see no fnr Investments of. their savings. The Administration, itself, is becoming afraid they may be removed from office, and are begging for private investments, with a promise of governmental assistance by reduction of taxation. Thrifty Americans realize no Nation can squander billions of dollars without its citizens paying for the jamboree, and they are asking for acts, not promises, for better governmental treatment before they "invest their hard-earned savings." EIGHTEEN SEVENTY. Oakland, March 13.

ANNUAL FIESTA To Editor Tribune: Now that San Francisco and Oakland have shown the world how, why, not have a fiesta every year, setting a time of some historical day of California history, and having the same tQ.ryn for a duration of three days, starting Friday, 'September 7, 8 and 9. Also as we look forward "to the Fair being prolonged year, hold another fiesta for three dayi in Oakland. This would cause" a rivalry of both cities for a better display. The merchants could giv valuable prizes, as it will stimulate their business and bring-more people to town. J.

EDWARD. Alameda, March 13. ANIMALS AT FAIR To Editor Tribune: I visited our Fair for the" first time last "Saturday. and thoroiilily" n-joyed every, minute until -1 came upon a concession on the Gayway where several little monkeys obviously terrified, were fastened into small racers which tore around on tracks. The human eyes ot these pitiful little animals pleaded eloquently for their cramped little legs, whiqh should be io free and WASHINGTON DAYBOOK By PRESTON GROVER March 17.

On of the ways to win a war is to lose it. nnH pertain bands of Indians now are cashing in on such a loss. Some of the best stories surviving frnm the twirlinff twenties arose from the division of spoils from sale of Indian oil lands in UKianoma. Hundreds of Indians found them-sp1v wealthv overnieht from oil leases. Earlier they had been driven out of the sunny south or ueorgia and Alabama to be deposited on the near desert stretches of sections of Oklahoma.

When oil was hitHhey cluttered up the highways with rich cars and shiny hearses, and of course there were a few fortune-hunting women eager to marry a befuddled red man to get a nip of his fortune. Present day divisions are on lesser scale. Congress and the In-riian nffire took over control of the big money, but even now there art some nice pies to be cut. POOR INDIAN Years ago the Klamath Indians of Oregon were granted a reservation. At the time it was thought they hpinir dealt a shyster trick, for they were herded irtto some of the heaviest timber in the nortnwesi.

wasn't worth so much then. Now it is almost priceless. After the grant was made, me Government, by some odd mistake, oavp a nart nf tht Klamath reserva tion to the State for park purposes. The Klamath Indians brought suit and a while back the Supreme Court upheld their claim against the Government for $5,000,000. 'Oftly part of the money will be split 'lip among the 1400 Indians on the reservation.

The balance will be held in the Indian office here lor icc iatr in imnrovinff the reserva tion and to help out future genera tions of Klamaths wno mignt nice a share of the kitty. Even so, ih otiit is likpiv tn be two or three thousand dollars apiece, although the terms of division nave not yei Deen written. Shoshoni Indians on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming come in for a like piece of change. They were 1 vinff auietly (more or less; on their reservation in 1878 when the Government suddenly decioeo that California had too many Indians. Several hundred Arapahoes were gathered up and delivered to the Wind River reservations.

Tf tnnv fin vpars to decide it but the Supreme Court has upheld the Indian claim lor ior mc na thoir 'reservation occupied by the Arapahoes. Each of the 1190 Shoshoni Indians on the Wind River will get $2350, which is nice money. That also leaves some" for future Shoshonis. EXCEEDED "I was in hopes' when I that I could give my wife every thing she wanted." "I didnt think yearning capacity' Would be so much greater lhan my earning capacity." Philadelphia Ledger. The editor of The Tribune disclaim responsibility, for opinion! and statements expressed in this column.

Contributions should be held to one hundred and fifty icords. No contributions will acceptable unless accompanied by the name and address of thejtiriter, which, if desired, will be withheld from publication. active, and for their poor, jangled nerves. Farther along, in front of another concession, paced a lion in a cage hardly any larger than itself. Even the wild life in the Oregon exhibit was without shelter of any kind.

In their natural habitat, these birds and animals are sheltered by brush, trees, rocks, etc, but at the Fair they have no shelter from rain, wind and cold, being enclosed in roofless wire netting. I do not know how many other animals are being tormented or neglected on the Fair grounds, but surely the S.P.C.A. should look into these cases and stop these senseless cruelties. I am sure that all kind-hearted animal lovers will enjoy the Fair more if they know that no helpless dumb animals are being made to suffer for the amusement of the thoughtless. R.

M. GARDINER. Berkeley, March 15. WAS SENT TO HIM To Editor Having waited in vain for its appearance for days and, particularly, having noted your editorial of March 10 regarding "Litters 'Left Out'," I have cbm'e to the conclusion that my previous letter in answer to Mr. B.

Smyth's reeent- set of questions was considered "too long" to be published, "or something." Please allow me to say the; following at '1 It is' apparently impos'siDle" to give anything even approaching "authoritative arid explicit answers" to Mr. Smyth's questions in the definitely limited space available in the Forum. 2 The best source for information on Socialism, in general as wpll as in reference to its application in the United States, is the Socialist Labor party, which will commemorate the 50th anniversary of its formation next year. If Mr. Smyth is sincerely and seriously interested in this question, he should address an inquiry to the Bay area office of this organization at 2091 15th Street, San Francisco.

"Dorothhy Thompson's Political Guide," which was suggested by Mr. Adams in the March 7 Forum, will be found worse than useless. The good woman might model as Emotion, but never as Science. S. L.

P. JUST FOLKS By EDGAR GUEST TYRANNY I wonder if tyrants ever feel Hurts that are not their own Or is the grief that sighs reveal Something to them unknown? I wonder if tyrants notice pain Which those about' them bear. And if when agony'U so plain Unmoved at it they stare? ft "must be tyrants cannot sense The quivering 'neath a blow, And have no past experience-Of shock and bitter woe. i It must be that untouched they stay By all the pain they see And have no thought of it," or they Could never tyrants be.i (Coevrisht. 193S, lor Th Tribune) emotional quality extremist anxiety to enact a worth-while plan, the Senate Committee made to conform wherever hates and envies upon which it is philosophy tends.to lose flexibility growth and become' the slave of House legislation now pending.

"It is my belief," says Senator Byrd, "that shibboleths. No Old Guard conservative with a convince collectivist forgive, to forget or tew learn. the explanation of the extraor Congress is anxious and desirous of a reor ganization for economy, simplification and battle to the death, which is taking White House around the presiden efficiency. The people of America are de manding it. It offers opportunities for sub the Corcoran-Cohen -wing of his Morgenthau-Hopklns group.

The always pushed for more and faster yield an Inch in favor of recovery. stantlal retrenchment Under all this can be accomplished render by Congress of essential authority- to preserve the right, in an orderly way, to by nature more realistic, per for a shift of policy, and are urging behalf ot recovery and a postpone' The issue of the struggle is plainly left-wing stand-patters of the always won Mr. Roosevelt to their approve or disapprove vital changes in our Governmental structure, which may include are battling desperately to pre' there has ever been a parallel of a not make up his mind, of a po going on within the ranks of a Gov not only legislation affecting the administrative machinery but actual policies and functions of the Government as well." REMEMBERING CERMAK recovery marked time and the whole and suffered. the battle centers around the blue Morgenthau caused to be printed his aids and callers. They read: to Recovery?" a sensible and Within a week a bronze plaque has been dedicated in Miami The words placed, upon would seem, of the new point ot it to endure are these: "I'm instead of you." The ceremonies which dedicated this re minder summon American thought back to the time when 'Anton J.

Cermak of Chicago, Administration which the President had The extremists seized upon it, of disloyalty on Mr. Morgen-thau's New Deal more particularly, to 'episode, small in itself, reveals personal bitterness of the radical interest' that these extremists except change, experimentation or year achieved one rare distinction. in creating a depression a now achieved second success. within war. While the great are eager to forget.

politics and then Mayor of that city, was riding with President-elect Roosevelt through the Miami streets. A madman, Guiseppe Zangara, fired at the carriage' and his, bullet hit not the President-eleet but Cermak. All of this was six years ago. Cermak, whom we may call an "alien" received in his chest a punishing bullet and said to an Amer- for recovery, the stand-patters SAFETY FIRST Carrying bagpipes, an ex-soldief'J has set out on a walking tour of Europe, i He would be well advised break into a run now and then. Exchange.

of the New Deal insist upon fighting but their grudge battles within their own ranks before a wheel can be turned or a new job created on the road to prosper! ty-New York' Herald-Tribunt.