Show THE OGDEN SSTAfiuSHCD met? 70 t PUBLISHING COMPANY A I GLASMANN " EDITOR AND GENERAL MANAGER W Bowman Associate Editors Cox Aasoclats General Manager Prank Francis and Will W L N f AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER ” Published Every Evening and Sunday Morning Without a i Muzzle or a Club Entered at the postolflce at Ogden Otah aa second class matter according to Act ot Congress March 3 1879 Members of The Associated Press United Press NEA 1 Service and A B O The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor It or not repubUcatlon of all news dispatches credited tolocal news otherwise credited in this paper and also the SUBSCRIPTION PRICES Carrier 75o a Month By Mall — Must Be Paid m Advance— 65c a Month $700 a Tear lr Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming — All Other States $100 a Month By from taxation of all the people to assist in the housing of any of the people except those of unfortunate circumstances and limited income “We have better housing conditions than exist anywhere else in the world and there is no necessity for relieving municipalities of their responsibilities on the housing question and establishing a long-tim- e permanent policy of housing by the federal government “If a substantial number of families cannot pay an economic rent we recommend that the government extend rent relief or rent ’subsidy rather than to follow the course of building and permanently renting to a grpup of citizens public PHONE 4511 FOR ALL DEPARTMENTS The A A Standard-Examiner- 's Platform Modem City and County Building Government for Ogden Control ot a Pure Water Supply to Accommodate 120000 Persons v Vigorous Campaign ot City and County Road improvements Scenic Road to dount Ogden and Road From Ogden Canyon to Weber Canyon Another North and South Arterial Highway An Improved Highway to Great Salt Bake Establishment ot Rocky 7 Mountain Air Base Near Council-Manag- er Ogden STORMS ARE NECESSARY the close of the harvest season rain AT and snow are falling bringing to an end the cltfudless days of fair weather There are no regrets to be expressed This region must have moisture with a fall and winter of heavy storms if our range people and farmers are to prosper and the state as a whole is to go forward The early evidence of a wet season is encouraging CHILD KILLED J i accidents MOST shocking of automobile the smashups which take the lives of children Throughout the United States hundreds of little ones are being sacrificed in the collision of cars On Monday during the rain storm Salt Lake City had a number of serious accidents in one of which a boy of 10 lost his life when he was struck by an automobile the driver of which said he did not see the youngster for the storm obscured his vision Every day we are reminded of the perils of the highway and every day there should come to all of us the warning to drive cautiously through the lanes of travel When the person at the wheel causes a car to strike a child and death results that is a double tragedy The driver experiences a shock from which there may he no recovery arid a human life is sacrificed WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER WHEN Madrid is taken by the rebels there be a mopping up and a report comes from the Franco-Spahis- h frontier that after the insurgents march into the capital city there will be at least' 30 00Q executions of anarchists and communists If the rebels are resolved on that action and proceed to the slaughter Spain’s war will not end at the fall of Madrid The intense hatred engendered will go on to cause Spaniard to knife Spaniard at every opportunity It is estimated ‘the civil war which has been in progress less than four months has claimed 175000 victims in the list of dead with hundreds of thousands among the wounded The losses exceed the American dead lost on the field of battle in the World War Spain may not recover from this conflict in several decades i OWL AND THE CUCKOO WITH going on right and one has to be careful what he “de-bunkin- g” says nowadays For instance in complimenting a friend one might remark “Boy you're as wise as an owl” If the friend is versed in his ornithological lore he may plunk the one in the eye well-meani- ng For a re- STANDARD-EXAMINE- R SIDE GLANCES ODAY By ARTHUR BRISBANE ’ i (Copyright 1936 King Feature Syndicate Inc “Reg U S Pat Off" FEDERAL HOUSING THAT the federal government has been in some expensive experiments with regard to public housing and that all of them should be studied before additional projects are planned or money is spent is set forth by the report of the public housing committee of the United States Building and Loan league which was accepted by the executive counsel of the league meeting directly following the annual convention in New York City The report set forth nine general principles which it felt should govern the line of attack on the housing problem They were : “While it may be necessary in cies for governments to provide relief in the form of shelter to some portion of the people the - providing of houses or apartments for any part of our citizenship is not within the proper permanent activities of the federal government The whole question of public housing should be separated from the unemployment problem The initiation development and control of all public housing should be a matter of local government with state and federal governments in the role of leadership and planning and possibly very modest assistance in financGermans are eating candy made of coal ing where local bodies initiate projects and substantial hack their judgments with tar Now it must be harder than ever to amounts of local money There is no justi- make little Heinrich fire up the coal befication for taking public funds derived ing potential fudge - high-pressu- John D Rockefeller Jr moves from his private house on W' 54th street in New York to one of many apartments in a Park avenue build' A few years ago nothing was respectable except a house of your own separate from aU others The late Albert Brisbane returning from Europe in the last century suggested the building of apartment houses with central heating for numbers of families He was told with indignation that Americans would never sink to that level They have sunk these days of many automobiles and much gas from exhausts every wise man moves well r up above the ground floor 1 New York’s stock exchange wants a work day one hour longer from ten until four Instead of closing at three p m Many shares of stock might be sold in that extra hour “Prosperous brokers” asking for an extra working hour while the majority of workers ask for fewer hours need not surprise us The stock broker is in business for himself the hired man works for somebody else If a man owns even a bootblack stand he never talks “shorter hours” Any money that comes is his That fact keeps farmers on their farms in spite of hard times and agitation Professor Einstein says truly that nothing in the Darwinian theory justifies the idea that men must compete destructively to live up to the survival of the fittest doctrine The real truth is in Kropotkin’s important work “Mutual Aid As a Factor in Evolution” which shows that those that help each other are the ultimate survivors In many places where deer and wolves were once plentiful you now find deer but no wolves Wolves fought each other deer warned and helped each other On the Aaland islands half way between Sweden and Finland there lived a family named Salminen consisting of father mother and twelve children Sally one of the sisters came to America found employment as a housemaid worked at night for a year on & novel which she called “Katrina” She has received the prize of 50000 marks for writing the best novel in the Swedish) language and is going back to see her eleven brothers and sisters and her mother the father is dead This reminds you that many intelligent young women and mien are working in domestic service not a few more Intelligent and worth while than those that hire them heavier-than-a- ir re : Ma Streeter Fight Ended pipe-drea- m un-Americ- Opinions of the 20-ye- ar an Press $350000000 ended by death Monday Known familiarly to Chicagoans of a generation ago as the “empress of Streeterville” Elma Lockwood Streeter died penniless and alone but grimly belligerent She joined Capti George Wellington Streeter In the battle on their return from a houseboat honeymoon He began the fight in 1889 claiming squatter’s rights to 186 acres of land immediately north of 'the Loop- Over her protests she W£s removed from her little cottage where she lived in ’seclusion to the She died SatRemorseful wives are always county hospital urday wanting their letters back—Frank Neighbors said the aged woman Ellis assistant superintendent of to sold out eke a precarious service postoffice Washington livingaprons to and end she rethe that D C tained within easy reach the shotgun she frequently brought into I got tired of losing money on play to defend her claims Clark Gable’s and Bing Crosby’s 1924 she filed a suit for $1000-0000In — tips John Boles film star exdamages against the Chiplaining purchase of racing stable cago Title and Trust company and 1500 lake shore property owners The three topics for loss of the land but it was disduring "bull sessions” are athletics missed on the grounds her marIf a college girls and religion man has reached his personality riage to Streeter was -illegal v he must touch reality-—- ! Dr R B ‘LUCKY’S’ KIN DIVORCED Ogilby president Trinity college LOS ANGELES Oct 20— (AP)— Hartford Conn Baldwin M Baldwin grandson of the late E J‘ (Lucky) Baldwin Nutritional conditions and phys- millionaire sportsman was divorced ical vigor of our nation have deteriorated — due possibly to the fact Monday by Mrs Nell Maxine BaldShe testified that Baldwin dethat only about 10 per cent of our win serted her eat people good well selected foods in adequate amounts — Dr Clifford Barborka Northwestern university nists and the Democrats as useless medical school as the fascists The political racket is due to be washed up in a few Technocrats feel the Republicans years anyway — Howard Scott V 3 DANGER IX DENIAL OF CIVIL LIBERTIES (Washington Post) In refusing to permit Earl Browder communist candidate for president to hold a meeting in Terre Haute the mayor of that Hoosier action city advanced an --extraordinary excuse for his high-hand"We are not going to allow communism to become established in Terre Haute” he is quoted as saying “Both of th? major party presidential candidates — Mr Landon and Mr Roosevelt —recognize communism as a menace to this nation Therefore communistic speakers are not welcome in Terre Haute” But this frank acceptance of nazl principles along the banks of the Wabash will hardly meet with the approval of either of the two candidates behind whom Mayor Beecher and his police chief have sought shelter in violating the ‘cardinal American principle of freedom of speech and assemblage During the course of the present campaign both President Roosevelt and Governor Landon have made it abundantly clear that they stand foursquare for the maintenance of the civil liberties embodied in the constitution They are confident enough of the esntial stability of American institutions not to fear the Browderian Llnsts Not so some of their would-b- e disciples In denying a hearing’ to those whose views they fear or dislike these individuals reveal themselves as totally devoid of that Americanism they so ardently profess Indeed it can be argued that American institutions are In far greater dangers from the excessive zeal of the Mayor Beechers than from the speeches of the Earl Browders Such action as that taken by the Terre Haute authorities is meat and drink for the communists There is more than a grain of truth :in Browder’s assertion that: “The action1 of the chief of police will make hundreds realize the importance of things I’ve said My stay in jail will be more important than any speech I could ever make” are as impractical as the commu- - technocrat leader ed V most-discusse- ? d NEW YORK Oct 20— Bob Burns doesn’t make up all those gee-hanames he mentions as living in his native Van Buren Ark I have a note from a lawyer there— Clyman E Izard—who sends a special Bob Burns edition of the Van Buren Press Argus A journalistic whoop for their No 1 Citizen Just as Will Rogers put Claremont Okla on the map so has Burns less auspiciously made Van Buren known Every day the tiny burg swarms with auto tourists who want to have a peak at the place As a result the town has enjoyed what its proud citizenry calls The Bob Burns Boom I The visitor buys something as a souvenir A high pressure (Chamber of Commerce could not possibly achieve what the hillbilly comedian has by the simple expedient of spoofing his native heath But it is not aU just acting His sentimentality is at times on the IeveL He likes the town Whenever he has a chance to slip the Hollywood halter he lights a shuck for Van Buren to take up life where he left off and show off his Sunday clothes And of course on these visits he dredges much yokel yamer for his radio broadcasts His income now nudges ' w I i No one Is more disconsolate hn t newspaper man who has just been sacked To him it’s the end of the trail And a detour to some obscure journalistic niche without hope One of the office t failures to whom even cubs speak X" Old Mr Soandsol patronizingly I tried to comfort one today who J had found a new and younger face at his accustomed desk But I could put little ring into it I was too conscious of the lanclnation Out of high drama into drab comFor few Jobs appear' monplaces exciting after a career of news-- 1 8 clntyre Mr Rockefeller Moves Brokers Want More Work Einstein Right As Usual Best Swedish NoveL ings )) si middle-age- d cent news item revealed that the owl far from being the sage creature of fable really is a dead mental loss “He doesn’t say anything because he doesn’t know anything” was the consensus of those who gave the bird the slam Nor is it wise we learn now to tell anyone that as a cuckoo” According to a statement just issued by the National Parks service Zion National park cuckoos flock to the park entrance to greet Mr Pan American Airbig eastern cars and dine on the grass- ways Trippe’s carrying passengers across the Pacific ocean California to hoppers and insects stuck! in their radia- Manila a new air fleet each tors 3 And say? the biological survey cuc- machine orders with a wing spread of koos “lay’ their eggs in the nests of others 153 feet cruising about 200 miles hour ships twice as big as the force other birds to feed their young and — an present “Clippers” They are machines gets away with it” Hardly crazy —what ? genuine Next will come the ‘stratosphere flight Chicago to London in time for luncheon San Francisco to UNAMERICAN PROJECT Tokio in time for dinner ""VNCE again we read of some misguided Belgium proposes to send a full American trying to raise a private army fledged minister to Canada in adin this country after the manner of Ger- dition to the present Belgium council Perhaps the Belgian governman and Italian Fascists ment realizes that Canada Is the This time it was a New Yorker He was most solid part of the British empire oceans on both sides the out to enroll some 800000 men who would Arctic on the north the United be uniformed drilled and equipped with States on the south no near eneunlimited possibilities The rifles and who it was reported would stand mies day may come and probably will by to combat “the growing influence of Jews when Canada will be the real British empire with London for its and Reds” European headquarters The mere idea of a irreoutfit such as this sponsible strong-anr- i would make cold shivers rim down one’s back if it were not for the obvious fact that nobody can put such a thing over in this country The American people know what Ameri- Death Lifts Claims' On Lake Michigan Shore canism means no one ever can persuade Property them that it means anything like this It is worth mentioning only to em- CHICAGO Oct 20— (AP)— “Ma” Streeter’s fight for the phasize once more how utterly and ever- rights to Gold coast property such projects are along Chicago’s Lake Michigan lastingly shore valued at was he’s-“crazy penheim in another tome predicted dictatorship for Italy and the crack-u- p of Spain Gy George Clark 00 'Grace believes you should know every word that is said on bqth sides oc you haven’t any business votma’ BEHIND THE SCENES IN THE CAMPAIGN Standard-Examin- er ' papering The Death Watch contains two new faces at theatrical - openings this season — Richard Watts and Douglas Gilbert Bums Mantle is now the dean of critics And Eu- - f'’ gene Kelcey Allen continues tc' spread that aura of persiflage that stamps the lobb wit The reviewing stand this season is to have a short parade Productions have been shucked down 50 per cent ? Rumors that the last American against the Paris exodus Gilbert White the portrait painter! may soon abandon his chateau outside the city and move across the channel to London to return to America White brother of Steward Edward and a replica of Bryan in a Latin Quarter hat has been the bounding spirit of the Place hold-o- ut ' ’ -- Vendome hoop-de-d- o for 20 years Recently he visited the Ritzbar at — $150000 a year cocktail time to find he was the Another citizen of Van Buren only Yank there That inspired writes: Tt’s so prosperous down his decision to vamoose The Ritz here since the Burns Boom you ladies’ bar is no more by the way can’t get anybody to mow the lawn Mine would strain the neck of a A talker to himself was in today i giraffe to see above the cockle pleased as Punch over a triumph I burrs All the lawn cutters have On a lonely stretch of street he become guides for tourists” was mumbling great-gun- s when conscious of footsteps behind He “Rehears- Many sizable burgs are known by turned and beamed: names of former sons When a Ing a banquet speech for tonight” v Santa Fe goes tootling through He thought it a dandy alibi— and Emporia Kansak it’s a cinch some one he can use in the future — i passenger will observe: “This is William Allen White’s town” “Pa-ducr Ky is known as “Irvin Cobb’s town” And so on Even New York Is known far and wide as O Henry’s Bagdad on the Subway All of which is remindful of how shamelessly a Tammanyized WASHINGTON Oct 20— (UP)— city has immortalized many ofits The Washington state tax commisgrafting officials But there is not sion Monday was granted supreme even a marker at the little hotel' in court review of a lower federal the 20’s where O Henry was a court ruling which held the state gentle lodger and wrote so many two per cent sales tax unconstiof his immortal stories tutional as applied to purchases outside the state made by contracGift of prophecy note: In look- tors on Grand Coulee dam ing through an E Phillips Oppen-heiThe companies sued to prevent published In 1905 last eve- collection of the tax on $899390 ning I plopped into this — “I will of purchases outside the state of tell you a thing which you can to be used - in construction think of when you are an old man goods of the dam as well as that of transand there are great changes and portation costs of $21798 events to look back upon A war The eastern district of Washingbetween Germany and England is ton federal court held the tax unonly a matter of time — a few short constitutional as a burden on inyears perhaps even months” Op- - terstate commerce ? I By RODNEY DUTCHER Washington Correspondent ? v ST LOUIS Oct 20—In Missouri’s f demands that he remove the Kansas capital Jefferson City is a big City election board also He is a building which newspapermen lob- Pendergast man As things stand byists and some legislators call now it’s guessed that Kansas City “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” will turn in a Democratic plurality The fact that this building is the of perhaps 100000 state capitol will give you some idea One reason Stark seems sure to how important is Tom Fendergast’s run behind Roosevelt is William Kansas City political machine in Hirth former head of the Missouri Missouri politics and in any state- Farmers association who polled wide election 180000 rotes for the Democratic The Pendergast machine and gubernatorial nomination Hirth fraudulent elections are the chief stressing the issue of machine rule Issues in the campaign The ma- has thrown his support to Barrett chine with its ability to deliver a but remains 100 per cent for Roosehuge vote is one of the chief velt Kansas City has registered 281-0props for the commonly held theory as compared with a population that Missouri Is in the bag for Roosevelt of 415000 That means 63 per cent At the same time revelation of of the population which is said to huge registration frauds in St Louis be more than the adult male and Kansas City may prove to be population P D R’s outstanding campaign Old Tom Pendergast friend of Jim Farley and liability Democrats - are ' predicting that perhaps locally the most powerful Roosevelt will carry the state by political boss in America lies on from 100000 to 250000 More what may be his deathbed But his neutral observers are inclined to boys seek a record-breakin- g vote as ja sort of present far him shade the former figure consider‘ ably FELT MACHINE POWER The way the machine can opREGISTRATION SETS RECORD ' both St Louis erate is still fragrant in the nosParadoxically whose voting lists have just been trils of able and popular Conscrubbed clean after exposure of gressman John J Cochran of St the worst election fraud in Mis- Louis In the 1934 senatorial prihe had a plurality of souri In “history and Kansas City maries - outside Kansas City Penderwhere ' critics say the registration lists are padded with 60000 “ghosts” gast gave the new Senator Truman have had record-breakin- g registra- 137500 rotes In Kansas City and tions this year Although the Pen- Jackson county and Cbchran 1500 Pendergast is said to control dergast machine Is given almost full credit In Kansas City argument everything in Kansas City Recalcitrant businessmen are said rages as to the proper interpretation of this phenomenon in St to be punished by increased assessments The machine is said to make Louis “The employers are against Roose- the political business profitable for to exercise virtual velt the employes are for him and its leaders over old-tiare monopoly one the farmers gambling slot masplit” says Democratic leader in St Louis chines vice handbooks and liquor “The workingman and the farm- Barrett charges it holds businesser along with the businessman have men in subjection and allows pickcome to realize that only Landon’s pockets' to operate as part of its election can save them from a alliance with crime The machine also operates an disastrous future” says a Repubelaborate lican philanthropic organizaAt any rate the Democrats con- tion and hands out charity 365 days trolling the governorship the two a year The educational police and senatorial seats the whole Congres- fire systems are said to be efficient sional delegation the municipal set- And of course true to tradition ups in St Louis Kansas City and Uncle Tom is a good family man other cities along with most other quite religious and always true to offices have a much superior or- his word ganization for campaign and elecMANY FARMERS SWITCH Y toral purposes v Between St Louis and Kansas City are the farmers Many are reBARRETT GIVEN CIIANCE turning to their old party allegiBusiness is good and throughout ance but no one knows how many the state are many who have been suffered from the last two They federal sweetened by spending drouths— great although five southJesse W Barrett Republican eastern counties are now happy with candidate for' ‘governor seems to and big crops high prices Federal have a much better chance of dedrouth relief has been a big help feating Maj Lloyd Stark DemoCoughlin has a following cratic and Pendergast ? candidate inFather Louis than Landon has to beat Roose- fact Stthat 7000 Judgingoutfrom the turned to hear v:- ” velt speak And there are still those Stark 'extols the new deal Bar- bim rett says nothing ' about national who swear by Jim Reed although Jim Issues and makes his slogan in on Republican and always depended effect “Clean up Kansas City” State-wid- e resentment against ma- independent votes for election But these seem minor factors and chine domination may elect him two big issues in Missouri are the St Louis expects to have the most honest election any large American election frauds and the popularity ot Unpopularity of Roosevelt and city ever had A bitter primary fight his policies between Democratic factions led by 1936 NEA Service Inc) (Copyright Mayor Bernard Dickerman and — — — — William L Igoe developed a scandal in the Mound City which revealed a “ghost vote” ! v of something like 45000 The St Louis Star-Tim- es and the St Louis began to investigate before the primaries and WESTPORT Conn Oct 20— continued to apply terrific heat A (UP) — Ethel Smith Atwell divorced grand jury has indicted £4 persons wife of the stuttering radio for election frauds and probably comedian and her second husband will have 200 persons— mostly DemCyril Tolley pleaded guilty in town ocrats— under Indictment before court Monday to of intoxilong Election Judges and clerks are cation and breach charges of and were peace scared stiff! an ’ alternative of given 60 spending Gov Guy B Park under tre- days In or leaving town “for jail mendous pressure removed the local good” election board-anappointed a new They chose the latter sentence one which everyone agrees is honest and were one week by Judge and efficient Voting lists are be- Frank R given McMahon to settle their ing thoroughly purged through - a affairs ' process of check and double-chec- k GOERING GIVEN CHARGE INDEPENDENTS TURN OUT BERLIN Oct 20— (AP)— Reichs-fuehrMeanwhile registration In St Adolf Hitler issued a brief Louis is 427000—which is 30000 order Monday charging Air Minister more than ever before even when Hermann Wilhelm Goering with registration lists were padded The execution of the four-yeplan for increase ‘ appears to represent a German which he large group of independent voters announced at the Nurnberg Nazi Governor Parks is resisting heated convention - 00 1 ah Tax Commission Wins Case Review m ' 96-0- 00 me Old Oscar Pepper has been one of America's favorite whiskies since 1838 Distilled from' American grain by the slow old-fashion- method that takes one-thir-d ed longera Every drop of Old Oscar Pepper is WHISKEY — not just ont straight whiskey but several blended together for finer flavor— at a reasonable price) FRANKFORT DISTIL LERIES- - Incorporated LOUISYILLI BAITIMOM 7 A Blond of Straight WhUklos 90 Proof FULL PINT CODE NO 253 FULL QT CODE NO 253 - acid-tongu- Post-Dispat- ch ed ex-Sena- tor Must Leave Town Or Serve 60 Days 5 - - er ar self-sufficien- cy vi 1 I k l ? 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