Show ' 4 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING piU §filmue ) Established April 15 ' 1871 Y' Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company '"' t ' ' ' ' : TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION I 90 Oaily and Sunday o$e month 1050 Oaily and Sunday one year The above rates apply In Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere In the United States: $125 Daily and Sunday one month The Tribune Is on sale In every Important city in the United States Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning September By FRANK R KENT It is interesting that in this campaign eo little ie heard of what normally was expected to be ar Problems ol Drouth and Storms OF THE climatic anomalies to which weathermen of the have been Introduced during the past three years is now on exhibition While the presidential party is consulting with distinguished residents of the ordinarily humid Mississippi-Missoubasin trying to devise ways and means to alleviate suffering caused by successive seasons of drouth in certain valleys of the arid west where farmers never depend directly on rainfall there have been a aeries of destructive and devastating storms flooding fields washing out roads and buildings drowning livestock and poultry causing damage find disaster to whole ’settlements Minersville has suffered seriously in three heavy torrents dur-- the past year and the country between Beaver and Milford has ing fared but little better Reports relate that a cloudburst similar to that which overflowed Willard last month rushed down the mourn tain sides bearing tons of gravel with boulders as large as automobiles covering the fields with rocks and sand destroying crops and carrying away hay and grain stacked and stored for the coming winter “Every home in Minersville was menaced and many were flooded filling basements and depositing silt on rugs and carpets" Culinary water was cut off and sanitary regulations have been ’ Invoked On the other hand two presidential candidates met in the corn belt of the middle west to discuss relief measures for the impoverished farmers of the two Dakotas Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma these drouth victims would have welcomed the storms that are causing such havoc in southern Utah Dams and dikes to keep the waters sway are needed in many Sections reservoirs and canals fSr irrigation are indispensable in other parts of the country watersheds covered with verdure are essential to both arid and humid localities Forests hold moisture Induce rainfall keep snows from melting too rapidly and rain from running away precipitously thus preventing floods in the spring and insuring a gradual distribution of water during the summer ONE ri ed ‘ months Relief is imperative but the correction of such an erratic climate shifting sides from year to year transposing swamps and deserts and keeping mankind forever guessing will have to begin back of any storm of dust or rain It must start with the watersheds of the continent and will emphasize the benefits of reforestation and forest protection ‘ Straw Votes and Elections THE approach of another general election straw polls attract an increasing share of public interest The results wfll be followed with gleeful satisfaction by those whose political hopes are borne out by the returns and with critical skepticism by those whose wishes run counter to the figures There will be applause and brickbats for every poll in the land and both perhaps wUl be prompted by a misunderstanding of what a straw poll really Is and what it can reasonably be expected to show “ The Salt Lake Tribune strictly as a matter of stimulating public interest in a very important function of the electorate and of giving its readers the most reliable political information obtain-abl- e Is offering two polls One "America Speaks” is national in scope and the other more thorough and comprehensive deals only with the state We believe the public will find these polls stimulating and Interesting but in offering them The Tribune feels impelled to add this word of caution Remember that a straw poll is only a straw p&ll and not an election Results of today’s balloting show cully the trends of today A thousand aijd one things can happen between now and election day to radically alter the political picture Even an official election held today could not with certainty forecast what would happen in an election twp months hence Mach less can a straw poll In following “America Speaks” and The Tribune’s 1936 statewide poll then bear in mind that the poll figures are offered Only to showcurrent trends Don’t assume that this newspaper or any other can tell you how the electorate will vote next November by sampling public opinion today In brief- - remember that straw polls are only straw polls As the campaign progresses and the number of votes in a poll mounts the figures can safely be given increasing weight It has been demonstrated pn many occasions that trends of public sentiment can be determined by the sampling method but judgment must' be based upon the entire picture not on a mere fragment When all of the ballots in The Tribune’s poll are in and tabulated the results will be offered to the public for what they are t worth— an expression by some 29 per cent of Utah’s registered ' ' voters of how they would have voted at various times between h t August 29 and October 31 We expect this to indicate with reasonable accuracy how the entire electorate will actually vote on It V Npvember '3 but no one can guarantee that 'a large number of voters will fiot change their minds h I I 1 f guments against Governor Landon’f election as president This is that while if he should win enough Republican congressmen would win with him to give hie party control of the hpuse there is no conceivable way in which Frank R Kent the Democratic majority in the senate can be wiped out There are 34 senate seats to be filled by the voters this fall If the Republicans won all these they would still lack two of being in a majority even if they counted as Republicans such maverick senators as Mr Couzens of Michigan It of course is impossible for the Republicans to carry anything like all the senate contests At least 13 of the seats at stake are In -- the --safely Democratic south and will undoubtedly he won by Democrats— In most cases without a contest worthy of the name By no matter what majority Mr Landon should win the Republicans would be lucky if they made a net gain of four in the senate Another Rea on Secondly it would be argued that if Mr Landon Is elected It will be with the help of a good many million Democratic votes and that this would constitute a Democratic support which Democratic senators could not afford to flout— that Is If they wanted to stay In politics Thirdly there is the argument that the Landon program would be largely in the direction of economy retrenchment the abandonment of costly and futile governmental experiments and budget balancing If he gets into the White House It will be because public sentiment is in favor of these things There is also the argument that most of the Democratic senators who are publicly supporting Mr Roosevelt are themselves as Individuals in favor of these things Furthermore it could be pointed out that Mr Landon would not be likely to propose a program repugnant to these Democratic senators and that opposition to his proposals would be so flagrantly partisan that It would be unhealthy for Democratic senators coming up for reelection in 1938 to join in such opposition Most of such senators realize— and a number do not heeltate to say— that they have got to make an “economy record" next year And finally there is the contention that in the event of Mr Roosevelt’a election he will have far less cooperation by Democratic senators than in his first term It is even conceivable he may have more recalcitrancy from the senata than a Republican president One reason would be that federal patronage having been all distributed Ms power to reward and punish would be vastly diminished A second is that there being no third term possible Democratic senators would feel more free to vote their real convictions— which mostly run counter to the Roosevelt Ideas— especially as there would be strong support for such independence in their states Copyright 1933 by the Baltimore SUn Insufficient Supplies Bos—Did you wash the floors this morning? Green Worker—No Boss— No what? G W— No soap— Exchange To Show Tve put your shirt on the clothes horse Jim" Jim: “What odds did you get?” — Sidney Bulletin Wife: it ?' ne Majority Assured A very real Democratic majority In that body for at least four years Is insured Under ordinary conditions this would seem to mean that a Republican president would be doomed to complete frustration With a hostile majority In the senate he would be unable to redeem his promises enact a legislative pcogram or possibly gain confirmation for his appointees At least that Is the way it appears on the surface — particularly when it is recalled how completely the Democratic majority" in congress blocked Mr Hoover in the last two years of his term— going to the point of refusing cooperation in the most obviously nonpartisan economies It would seem natural for new deal propagandists to point out the futility of Governor Landon and stress the silliness of electing a president whose hands would be tied The reason this la not being done is because there appears a rather complete answer from the Landon angle For example if Mr Landon should elected It would mean that the people of the country were strongly behind him and publio sentiment strongly with him for at least a year or two That kind of sentiment would make Democratic efforts to frustrate him for political reasons pretty dangerous to the frustrating Democrats At the time Mr Hoover was frustrated things were different Mr Hoover had lost prestige with the people In 1930 Public sentiment was against him not with him and he could be blocked with entire Impunity NEW YORK Sept 4- -1 thought it mght he diversion today-dive- rting to me If not the reader—to pretend to be at the barrier crack of the pistol for a columnar sprint Aid at the the awaiting bang begin writing furiously without stop from scatter notes We’re off! Are you a member of the Greek Toe club? I am My eecond toes' are longer than my great toes My only touches of graco and unhappily denied to the world Albert Paysoo Terhune says dogs nosing about 'under tables read character from positions of feet I believe that The third world power conferI kndjv a disciple of diiw-i-nt ence convening In Washington Harry" ’Staton to’ a lit- on Labor day will devote many whoat poker games drops someof its discussions to the problem thing purposely on the floor and of extending rural electrification then swoops down to study the In the United States idiosyncrasies of foot positions HI can diagnose nervousness Although electricity Is of alwhen all above the table Is remost universal use in American Not neat I shrink from pose evcities and towns only one In neatness ery eight 'farms in this country Yet I hate newspapers someI’d h enjoys electricity from a central one else has read have a butler iron-mievery plant In western Europe on’the a m I hate a half Open closet other hand most farms have elecdoor gloves turned Inside out tricity The answer 4t course is And a picture hanging-aske- w to be found in the relative denStill I gives me the fidgets have the most disorderly desk sity of the population ' in those countries France has 23 farms in the world and drop my clotheson the floonvhereverTemoved per square mile the United States only two The United States has A letter from Parle says waiters 41 inhabitants per square mile at Frunier’s are striking One France has 197 Italy 849 Gerof their demands Is: Better Food many 331 Japan 433 Belgium Fm window fUrting with one of 699 and Great Britain 742 those electric shavers Shaving Utah at Top eventually becomes mankind’s Rural electrification in this greatest Irk Joseph Cummings Chase has become an electrical country is fairly prevalent where shaver Now that he has no the population is heavily concenWhen beard clubs societies or or trated where power lines transblanks to be reverse the landscape More than firms enclose turned for bills why do they alone-ha- lf of all farms get cenways supply envelopes just one tral electric power in California size too short? Grand Shiver New Hampshire J7ew Jersey Utah Between 40 and 50 per cent book: Julian Green’s “Mid of all farms are electrified in night” Massachusetts Rhode Island A new trick in the bars That Washington The figure ls beof wrapping a clgaret tightly in tween 30 and 40 per cent In AriThen yott can bend cellophane zona Connecticut Idaho Maine the clgaret double without break” New York and Vermont-Lest it Even pound It with a than 10 per cent of all farms are ing hammer they say Milt Gross Is electrified in the south and also clever enough Yet his “What’s In North and South Dakota MonThis?”’— a brochure of the handle tana Wyoming Minnesota Kancraze proved the biggest flop of sas Nebraska Missouri West Virthe hair trigger publications ginia Even publishers Although ruralelectrificatlon is could- not put It across Many relatively behind In the United a "rage” die that way An inStates it has sharply increased spired reporter calls the summer since 1923 when obly one In every companies “turnpike 85 farms had central electric powdrama” That’s aptitude in phraser At the beginning of the twentieth century the extension of ing electric street railways from the I had an old aunt who always took off her spectacles when you city to the country was expected to bring electricity to many farms talked to her She professed to But these line finally were conhear better Another physiolofined pretty much ’to suburban gist reversal: An uncle never rather than rural areas Then had a pain in his life At 62 he came the period of the Individuhad all teeth yanked and was al electricity plant on the farm full of pains the rest of his days This development proved less A simile never forgot— I think helpful than had been hoped Harry Leon Wilson’s In telling of an English remittance man Costs Axe High coming to the wild and woolly west— “with straw-colore- d musThe great obstacle in extending rural electrification has been the tache and two front teeth like high construction costs of power piano keys!” Silliest ever Jelti lines In July 1935 a commitVisiting 221 Baker street in London to see the home of Sherlock tee of the private utilities re’s ported that the average figure was Holmes Near by was Mme wax works In the ro$1353 per mile Including meters transformers and services for 36 tunda I asked the policeman where to get tickets To discover customers The rural electrification administration claims now to I was talking to wax! have cut the figure to under $1000 Johnny Gruelle the artist and In Europe rural customers are Kent Cooper A P chief used often assessed a fixed service to work together on an Indianapcharge plus a low rate per kiloolis paper along with Roy Howwatt hour Bnna European counard Ray Long and Kin Hubtries vary the first charge acbard Cooper recently built a the value of th to premcording Miami castle across the polo ises as shown in tax assessments rate is' generally fields from Gruelle’s hacienda An off-peBoth are musical By' ear Coopavailable for water heating fodder boiling soli heating etc New er can play any tune you mention composed during the past 89 lines often require a' guaranteed Gruelle in the same gross annual revenue of 20 per years fashion can play any orchestral cent of the cost of the extension Instrument save the French horn In France rural electrification -- hands Incidentally among the attracof priis largely tions at Gruelle’s are a nest of vate companies but the government and local subdivisions give trained rattlesnakes generous subsidies and also loans America few aristocratic at low rates Germany relies writers Suchhasas Cora Jarrett for largely on publio plants Great Instance I lift an invisible tankBritain uses both private and public systems In most of Europe ard to her’e as the most distin’prose Far mors than much rural electrification comes guished Edith Wharton's Odd the tops also from cooperative ventures for literary elegance is of foreign which are to be found here and origin Conrad as an example 1 there in the United States try to turn my hack on such eleAlmost 60 per cent of the non-farlacking ideas big enough homes in the rural areas of gance for the grand manner But secretthe United States now get elecly Fd rather Write like— say leak tricity from a central plant It la Dlneson In private the Danavailable to about another 20 per ish Baroness Bllxen— than dance cent up those steps tike Bill Robin- Basic Facts — on— Live Issues probably ot - - By O O McIntyre 5 1936 FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT and Governor Alfred PRESIDENT of Kansas met in Des Moines exchanged cordial discussed the drouth problem with other executives from greetings the great dust bowl east of the continental divide parted with ex pressions of mutual respect and continued their respective jour neys one to complete his investigation of relief necessities and the ether to resume his campaign for election President Roosevelt after an exchange of salutations manifested his appreciation of the “long hard motor trip” of the Kansan to attend the conference Governor Landon asked his impression of the president replied: “He is a very fine charming gentleman" This is the way men worthy of high honors ought to conduct themselves It is an example that should not be lost upon their aupporters In this age of enlightenment in the twentieth century of Christianity in our sixteenth decade as exponents of the advantages of popular government candidates should not descend to personal animadversion nor become beneficiaries of the vituperation or misrepresentations of their adherents Whispering campaigns are undignified unpatriotic unfair and Unmanly Spellbinders who resort to abuse of opponents and distortion of their utterances ought to be rebuked by the aspirants they seek to serve and by the public they try to mislead Nothing lit the way of electioneering is more absurd than an assumption that all the virtues the wisdom the clean motives and the honest intentions are on one side while adversaries in general are disloyal dishonest incompetent or insincere Newspapers that yesterday condemned a man’s course and character when he dissented from their creed and today praise his honesty and sagacity because he has joined their procession can--nhope to retain the confidence and respect of the reading public 'The foundation stones upon which freedom of the press must rest are veracity fairness moderation and consistency When these principles are ignored the press forfeits its freedom and falls back ort license To th? campaign managers orators editors and pamphleteers Who would mould public opinion and participate in directing the destinies of a great nation there could be no better lesson in deportment in civic propriety in real democracy in fitness for popular government than may be learned from this meeting of the chief contenders for the highest position in the greatest government on earth WITH Highlights of New- York As Seen by OO McIntyre In Spotlight — of— U S Politics Cordial Greetings in the Corn Belt ' SEPTEMBER 5 1835 The Public Forum Wants Pensions Not Old-Ag- e Bji Our Readers Forum Rules Assistance Editor Tribune: The compliments Paid the governor and legislature for enacting an unemployment Insurance law ao Utah labor can receive the benefits provided by the U S social security act are meritorious and approved Said U S act was approved by the president August 14 1935 as "a necessity and a stepping etone for U S pensions” needed Insurance for the unemployed and relief for helpless widows and children qualified residents of accepting states But why In our country of eqiial rights Is the labor part °f said act legally approved and the pension part thereof giving our aged poor its benefits repeatedly refused legal acceptance by the enactment of a Utah pension law? We have none Certain “rules and regulations” made by a questionable authority without U S or state law backing are forced upon our aged poor by an antipenslon board hence no social security whatsoever is granted them During the past year these old folks have canvassed the state and filed with the governor over certificates of qualified pensioners asking the allowance-pensio- n— of $30 a month to be provided jointly by the U S and the state but not a single applicant has “been granted or denied” we officially Informed This combination 12-0- tetters appearing In thle column do not express tbs views of The Tribune They are the opinions of contributors with whioh The Tribune may or may not agree The following rules govern contributions 1 Letters limited to 300 words Preference given to short communications 3 Write legibly and clearly on one side of the paper only 3 Religious racial end partisan discussions barred 4 Personal aspersion i prohibited 3 Poetical contributions not wanted 3 Letters may be barred lot of fact obvious misstatement or for statements which are not accord with fair play and good in taste 7 The Forum 1 not an advertising medium 8 Writers must sign true names and addresses In Ink Letters will be carried over assumed name If writer ao requests In alj cases however true name and address must be attached to communication 9 The Forum cannot consider more than on letter from the same writer at ope time Is antipension and as said act forbids state denials “without an opportunity of a fair hearing” nothing whatever has been done about these A few of our indlgents have been given temporary relief-paup- ers’ doles— by promising to repay etc but their rules say positively: “No pensions” Thousands of Utahns are ashamed of our record in the premisei as coihpared with other states Our old settlers—state builders— are admitted to be more worthy of pensions than those of other states having done more public community work for less L C THORESEN pay The Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park The rich are too Indolent the poor too weak to bear tha Insupportable fatigue of thinking— Cowper I don’t know how It is with you but my chief fault Is that I talk too much It’s a devastating weakness It has put more men In the penitentiaries and kept more out of the White House than you can shake a stick at I suppose you're saying to yourself right now “Well why doesn’t the poor goof try thinking first?” I have tried it Lots of times But I had to give it up because by the tima I got ready to speak they had changed the subject There’s something that Tve been trying to figure out lately And that’s the cause of all these clouds bursts we’ve been having I’ve about come to the conclusion that the Boulder lake is to blame You can’t put a lake the size of the state of Kentucky out In a desert where it gets to be 120 in the shade and no shade without upsetting the climate They teU me that around Las Vegas on a hot day the evaporation is so great that it reverses the order of things and rains upward Think of that! d Then the clouds float aimlessly about until they’re all tuckered cut and have to let out ballast It’d be all right If they only used a little discretion There are hundfeds of dry lakes scattered about But no the darn fool cloud skims gaily over them to spring a leak In eome poor farmer’s duck pond It ju$t doesn’t make sense Of course something will have to be done about It We can’t go along like this forever rain-fille- How about a C C A (cloud control Professor Tug-wel- l? administration) Notes on the Cuff Department Governor Landon advocates that w pay as we go Goahl If they ever make us do that there’ll be a lot of us who won’t go anywhere “There was a young lady named Glnter Who married a man In the winter The man’s name was Wood And now—as they should— The Woods havs a cute llttlq splinter” There’s no use trying to be the life of the party unless you can talk louder than the radio She? “Exercise reduces fat” He: “Nertsf Look at your mother’s chin” Add misnomers: Idle gossip Who ever heard of gossip being idle? America is still the land of opportunity When a man has failed at everything else he can still run for office The chief trouble with the "average man” is that the average Isn’t high enough Eating your words wouldn’t be so bad if you didn't have to swallow your pride for dessert Bob Cameron says the brunettes that keep so many gentlemen from preferring blondes Sometimes you can find out how the other half lives by looking to see what their women folks contribute to the church supper It’s Defends Modern Course of Government Editor Tribune: C F Allen writing in the Forum says: "Did we appoint the Tugwells Morgen thaus Warburgs the Richberge and all other “bergs’ to commu-nlz- e regimentizfe and disfranchise our people?” No it Is true we did not appoint them but they were approved by representatives of our people And that is as hear government by popular approval as It Is possible to go without that government becoming too burdensome and complex To the charge of communizing: What has been communistic? The colonization projects have not been communistic The attempt has been entirely to establish these families on their own through the aid of government credit There has been no at tempt to submerge the family In the state There has been no attempt to institute common ownership In fact the entire aim of new deal legislation has been toward patching capitalism rather than substituting an alternative system To the charge of regimentation f What is government but regimentation? Unless Mr Allen is an anarchist surely ho must beWhether lieve In government we are overgoverned or not Is entirely a matter of opinion It Is simply a question of does a nation move faster toward Utopia with a policy of survival of the fittest or with one In which the strong are controlled to aid the weak? To the charge of disfranchising: Disfranchise defined: To deprive of a chartered right to dispossess of the rights of a citizen or of a particular privilege as of voting What rights have been taken and from whom? Whose votes? Whose access to the courts? Whose right to worship? Whose right to speak or write what he may? The only rights that have been taken are the rights of capital to exploit labor of banks to become bankrupt of stock markets to run wild and other equally harmful privileges DON WALKER Delta Utah Tender-Hearte- e Star ' One After Another Owner— Here what are you doing? Don’t you know you’re not allowed to take fish out of tbs water? Angler (three hours without catch)— Fm not taking them out Fm feeding them!—Kansas City Railwayman Might Think So ’arris I “D’you know Mrs sometimes wonder If me husband’s grown tired of me” “Whatever makes you say that Mr igg?” “Well 'e ain’t been ome for seven years”— London (Onto Adw vertiser ' Nothing Really Mr MeekA— John! Mr Meeker— Yes my dear Mrs Meeker— There’s a corner torn offyouf pay check' What did you spend it for?— Pathfinde A $ 1 ' s A i 1 I high-pressur- e— - stock Tus-saud- t A ak In-th- Br-r-r- -! Hi m son Off the Record d The Market Man— I have some very fine shell oysters all fresh and alive ' Mrs-JunBride— You may send me enough for my husband and myself and have them killed and dressed I couldn’t bear to chop their heads off myself— Montreal T Swing music Is defined as a form nervousness of dssp-seats- d Whereas modernistic painting is only spots before the eyes Termites are found to 'have infested a public building in Oklahoma When ’the desk Is eaten right from under a jobholder’s feet It’s bad ' If doesn’t show up clearly In the photos but the regulation uniform for dictators has chips for epaulets An Iowa burglar stole a collec- tion of Viennese phonograph records and a rocking chair This would seem to fix him up except for a bottle of beer Those Americans who persist In stsying on In Spain had better hurry home as the season is about over for changing seats in a canoe "A new Spain will arise from the dust of the present order” cries a faction leader With a parking lot on the site of the Alcazar Copyright 1936 by the North American fNewepaper Alliance Zne f Rebecca West phrases exquisite lines so casually Last night I came upon this by her: “The saintly beauty of gray splrea on a clouded day over monotone flat lands” A lino such l that would make a writer purr Sometimes when I think I’ve dashed off a I walk over scratch my back on a doorsill and sing polly-woldoodle ah the day! I 0 Jim-dan- dy ly Copyright 1938 McNaughflyiT dicate Tho Trouble! Foreman (to small son of workman who has met with an When will your dad bo fit for work again? Boy— Can’t say for certain but It won’t be for a long time Foreman— What makes you think that? ’Caus compensation’s set in -- Montreal Star V acd-dent)- Oh! Th other night a waiter In one of the cafes was confiding that he intended to become a band leader “Do you know music?” he was asked "No but Fve been waving a tray for about 15 years” he said "eo I guess I could wave a baton!” — Pittsburgh Post-Gaxett- A 11 1 |