Show J J - ? THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 12 1931 f fljcjalt lake filnwe Established April 15 1871 fuued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing I 4 '‘t U 1 A r Company '' TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday one month 90 $ Daily and Sunday one year t 1050 t The above Tates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming ' ? Elsewhere in the United States: Dally and Sunday one months $125 The Tribune i on sale in every important city in the United States Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office V) Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning September v ' i TALK is growing "louder and madder” in Europe Asia Africa The Pope of Rome is reported to be heartbroken ever the failure to reconcile fighting factions in Spain Father Venturing leader of the Jesuit order blames Russia for existing conditions "The soviets seek to grip Europe in a bloody plot and Spread their influence- westward— even to America” he recently declared In Numberg Germany the other day the nazis chanted a hymn of hate against the Russians and Jews Dr Paul Joseph Goebbels Hitler’s chief spokesman and propagandist denounced the Jews as authors of bolshevism saying: "We can warn the world of danger— crying: Jews guilty Jews guilty” Appeals to prejudice and passion incompatible with any pretense of culture or the claims of civilization are echoing around the world ' From Moscow comes the charge that Japanese are planning and beginning the subjugation of eastern Asia and that Hitler is shaping events to furnish an excuse for an era of slaughter in Europe "A provocative campaign of preparation for new political adventures” is an official statement by the soviet government concerning Hitler’s recent defiance of the League of Nations and his demand for a return of territory lost in the World war Mussolini and Hitler have agreed upon a confidential conference which will not have a tendency to aUay apprehensions Hitler has just ordered 1812000 men into military barracks for intensive training The German dictator boasts of "the biggest labor union in milthe world” claiming a membership of more than twenty-fiv- e lions This all seems strange in view of the fact that under a treaty aTgned at Versailles June 28' 1919 Germany pledged herself to abolish compulsory military service to reduce her army to 98000 tnen with 4000 officers to stop all importation' exportation and production of war materials to limit her navy to six battleships six cruisers and twelve torpedo boats to abolish submarines and all military and naval aviation the storm is about to break is no matter of doubt in ' many quarters where the wish may be father to the thought It la pertinent to note in this connection that official utterances are sounding more impassioned' and that relations are becoming more strained The one encouraging sign for us is that the United States government has ordered all war vessels withdrawn from the vicinity of Spain WAR 1 k I- - - j i a t 12 193S Ominous Mutterings in Europe t) i Zionists Rebuilding Palestine by the nazis and driven' from Germany fled to the "promised land” even as they escaped the pursuing hordes of Fharoah Forty centuries ago the Israelites I were a warlike pebple' led by men(pf valor and strategy who lal4 waste to alfregions that resisted ieir" dominion But there' are ' now descendants ofanptjier branch of the ancient race to dispute their possession of the land ' C When Hagar was banished from the presence of her people given a bottle of water and a loaf of bread and sent away with - Ishmael her little son to wander in the wilderness another nation was founded According to a prophecy Ishmael became "a wild man with his hand raised against every man and every- man’s hand against him” He grew to manhood became an archer and at leader of other wild men” £ From this beginning sprang the nomadic tribes of Arabia Pflor to the advent of Mohammed little was known of Arabian history but poets and romancers resurrected many legends that are accepted as parts of the story of the Arabians These ancient raiders lost contact with their relatives forgot the faith of their fathers and became easy converts to the Moslem creed These items may be considered in connection with the troubles Zionists are having in the resettlement of Jerusalem and Palestine Tere are 1200000 people who live in what is known as the "Holy Lind” Twenty years ago the Jews represented 10 per cent of the population Today they count 30 per cent and will reach half in a few years at the present rate of increase They have already t added more than $250000000 to the wealth of the land This in- of commerce line and of stimulated has flux gold industry every which profited the Arabs as much as the Jews Moreover these refugees have drained swamplands irrigated arid districts built good roads established sanitation reduced the death rate and lowered taxes The Arabs acknowledge these benefits but resent all efforts to modernize a country and people content to remain Oriental in customs and appearance M Washington dispatches announce that "forty members of the senate and house including the speaker and many distinguished congressmen have wired Secretary Hull expressing the earnest hope and confidence that Great Britain will carry out in good faith its pledge to observe the mandate guaranteeing the estab- -' lishment of the Jewish national home in Palestine and the protec-- ‘ of Jewish interests there” tion ‘ Reciting the difficulties encountered by the Jews in Palestine the telegram makes this request of the state department: "Will you be kind enough to convey for us to the representatives of his majesty’s government in the United States our hope that the Brit- ish government as mandatory for Palestine will undeterred by violence fulfill the obligation assumed in letter and spirit in undertaking trusteeship for the establishment of the Jewish national home in Palestine” - ‘‘ Driven from pillar to post foruntold centuries this particular branch of the Semitic race has furnished patriots scholars authors artists actors doctors statesmen jurists and commercial leaders to every country in which they have located They have asked and obtained recognition not on account of race or religion but on their merits and achievements They deserve a country of their own and the logical land is Palestine PERSECUTED w ' - - Passing of a Pioneer Printer OF THE early-da- y employes of The Salt Lake Tribune who ONE away at his home in this city on Wednesday was buried in the yesterday Theodore Lovendale" known to every printing business came to Utah before his fourth birthday anniversary He became an apprentice typesetter at the age of 13 and rounded out an active career at 70 when he retired five years ago as vice president and superintendent of one of the largest printing establishments’ in the entire west Mr Lovendale Was a serious careful industrious workman a pleasant thoughtful companion a public spirited citizen and a friend whose gentle ways and kindly interest will be remembered long by all who knew him old-tim- ' t U Highlights of New Yprk As Seen by O O McIntyre Politics S " ‘ ' In Spotlighi — of— er ’ the United States government was as proljfio In tho production of figures as now From scores of adminlstratl 0 n press agents there pour dally atreama of statics relating to the multitudinous activities of the new deal and supposed to present Information in factual form For the moat part they are bewildering and aometimes R Kent flicting But few care because the speed with which the new deal whirls Is so great that checking up isn’t possible-even from the ineide figures for example are often as different from tomorrow’s as they were from yesterday’s There Is practically no stability about them but nearly everything is talked of in mathematical terms and it would give Professor Einstein himself a headache to coordinate them all Desirable Statistics The Public Forum ' Fears for Future Under Modern Ways Editor Tribune: I believe in gov- ernment— a government for the people by the people and of the people — under that document the constitution of the United States A government that does not lead its people blindly into communism a government without regimentation and a government that does n6t disfranchise their people that is the government that I believe in Do you believe that we should burn our Wheat plow under our cotton kill our pigs and a dozen and one other things such as pay God-inspir- -- Copyright 1926 by Baltimore Sun Disconcerting A speaker at a men’s dlnnett was much chagrined to note that during his address all of the guests with the exception of the man at his right had left one by one When he concluded and sat down he remarked to his neighbor “I am very happy to see that you enjoyed my speech enough to hear it through" The man replied: "Enjoyed nothing I am the next speaker" —Buffalo Courier Express Both Bight "Money is round and made to roll” said a spendthrift to the miser "That’s your way of looking at it” replied the latter "I say that money is flat and made to pile up”— Montreal Star "Yes Discovered my dear” said a very months I wondered where my husband was spending his evenings until one night I arrived home early— and there he was!”— Exchange on ( 'I tlon out farmers not to raise things and grow things etc and at the same time import from other countries the very things that this administration destroys? Have you ever considered the thousands put out of work? It puts these people on By Our Readers relief Put a man or woman on the dole and it takes away the independence that made America That is exactly what they wanted to do in order to tell you your system has failed and that the constitution belongs to the days This is one of the ways of communizing America You eay what is government but regimentation? Under the constitution of the United States government is not regimentation Obeying laws- respecting other people’s rights is not regimentation Would you like a government where you couldn’t do and raise things on your own land you so desired? The supreme court outlawed such a law regulating potatoes Do you want to be told that you can’t worship God as you see fit? Religion is barred in the city of the Tennessee valley projC F ALLEN ect horse-and-bug- - By Ham Park Note to the editor: So you're at It again! Crashing my column behind my back! And witk such stuff! So you want some knock Knock knock knocks? Okay Who's there? Jenny Jenny who? Jenny Lee speaking I think it’s a punk type of humor Knock Who's there? Emma knock! Emma who? Emma going to be bothered this way often? Knock Who's there? Frankknock! furter Frankfurter who? Frankfurter borrow you bring into my life Knock knock! Who’s there? Alfred Alfred who? Alfred the needle if you’ll sew up the seam Knock knock! Who’s there? Ima Ima who? Ima 'fraid that this'll have to do you for today to columnist: Knock Note Java knock!- Who’s there? Java who? Java lost your sense of humor? Knock knock! Who’s Mission who? there? Mission Mission the funny business I expected you to get out of this 'gag Who’s there? Knock knock! Otto Otto who? Otto make ’em funnier Knock knock! Who’a Ida Ida who? Ida there? wanna write ’em for you Knock Who’a Joan knock! there? Joan who? Joan out and get some good ones Knock knock! Who’s there? Aisle Aisle who? Aisle be hoping the next batch is louder and funnier Nobody Else But You! When you’ve been workln' a long long time the best you can And you start to think about the day When you'll be an old old man— When you’ll want to fish and ' hunt and golf Or whatever you love to do — Nobody’s goln’ to save that money Nobody else but you! Ain’t no use to sit and dream About that pot of gold Or about the things you’d like to have When you find you’re growin’ old Human nature ain’t changed a bit— There’s really nnthl Nobody's goin' to send you 'round the world Nobody else but you! No use standin' along the road Tryln’ to thumb your way - so- - they pfobed dear old Dr- Townsend To what end? Every cause has Its effect Now and then an Innocent specimen of the genus home rises up and lo! all the world is afraid of him And of all men Is Dr Townsend one of them When the circus comes to town everybody thanks his lucky stags for the prosperous circulation Same with aoldiera money bonus Dr Townsend But frightens us I suppose I’ll feel better If I talk about the coming election I don’t care (much if Roosevelt is elected just eo he doesn’t murder any more of the beasts of the field The Senator From Sandpit Every human being is intended to have a character of his own to be what no other island to do what no other can do — Channing All This Talk Is Getting Nowhere 'Editor Tribune: And Or s tickin’ your dimes in slot ma- chines they will pay ’Cause the guy who owns them slot machines He has ideas too Ideas of makin' some profits— Off nobody else but you! Now if you’re Inclined to specu- late you wanna look out ’Cause the guy you’re speculatin'-wit- h Oh-o- h! ’ll Knows what it’s all about! And when the speculating over And the propaganda’s through You know who’s gonna be holdin' the bag— Nobody else but you! So I’ve been smokin’ and wonderin’ About a lot of fancy schemes Where I could get rich without any work — But I’m sure they're all just dreams ’Cause you'll find out as you go along And see things clear on through— Things worth while are the things that 'are earned Notes on the Cuff Department Drew and Lucy Standrod of Pocatello on their way to the American Hotel association's convention In St Louis stopped overnight to visit us Idaho’s contribution to the convention is beau-cospuds— all wrapped in cellophane Drew says when he comes back he thinks he’ll open up his lodge In Yellowstone or Jackson Hole or wherever It is ao that I can see "a piece of outdoors where the leveling hand of progress has never' set foot” up O O McIntyre is always writing about food Well be hasn’t eaten food until he has tasted some of E F Dreyfous’ barbecued lamb with corn Creole Bernle Love took us out for some the other night and we nearly foundered The prize for deathless headlines goes to a California paper for this: "Mrs Smythe Sues Hungarian' Countess Who Wedded Noble After Her Marriage With r Husband Who Had Llv-in- g Wife Was Annulled for y” Fortunate is the man who really deserves the opinion he holds of himself holy-roll- er Thinks Utah Looks Down on Nevada By nobody else but you ! —William L Miller Blg-am- I don’t care if he has the cotton plowed under — I’d rather wear ailk anyhow But what gets me Is how one is to get a sharecropper or a southern mule to understand under” "plowing when we southerns have always "plowed up” Destroying things that humans consume is to me a great sin How often In the old days has Pop preached a regular sermon on the sin of wilful destruction if we boys even so much as throw away a piece of corn pone exhorting that we “might live to say oh how I wish I had the crust that once I threw away” Pop was a great talker anyhow Nothing pleased him better than to get on a string and stay there all day Nobody could heat him except Aunt Betsy an old lady who went to all the quiltings and logrollings One day some fine men candidates turned up for dinner on a logrolling day She began talking Pop began and the candidates began Nobody heard anything until the dinner was over and Aunt Betsy wheezed out last of all— “and then she turned in and had twins” She had told her story so had the rest but nobody was heard CHARLES ROBERT JACKSON Dr the by Editor Tribune: This is my first attempt to get into the Forum I have hesitated primarily because I am out ofstate Being from Nevada my interest naturally Is Nevada and that which concerns me However every now and thpn we see things which concern other people and which I think an opinion expressed on such is not something to hurt anyone As you know more than likely most of the ore from Pioche Nevn my home town is shipped to Utah smelters This naturally is an enrichment to that state The man power in our mines is derived southern Utah mostly from Equipment of all sorts foods and everything we use in daily life comes from our adjoining state Now with all our business going to Utah what should Utah’s attitude be toward Nevada In my opinion it should be a shoulder-to-shouldattitude Sorry to eay however in my estimation it is anything but that Utah seems to ivFTBe poor relation feeling Nevada in her opinion Is a thing of simple ridicule that I blessed only because she was fortunate enough in geographical position to adjoin her A NEVADA READER er President Pierce haA an opposition house In the second half of his administration and all attempts to alleviate the slavery issue by legislation came to naught The same thing was true of the second half of Buchanan’s term And the quarrels between President Johnson Democrat and a Republican congress finally resulted in the only Impeachment trial of a president Every president between Johnson and McKinley had at times a house of congress with an opposition majority Sometimes the two could agree aometimes they could not (Tariff pensions currency) Legislation was usually overshadowed by economic developments Taft had a Democratic house in the second half of his term and little important legislation could be enacted However the Democrats did come to the president’s assistance in getting approval of his abortive reciprocity treaty with Canada Wilson had an evenly divided house during the period of America’s participation in the Vorld war The Republicans cooperated wholehearted on all war measures But with the armistice the political truce was at an end— especially since the president had asked vainly for the election of a Democratic congress on the ground of patriotism- - The president and congress quarreled not only on the peace treaty but also on domestic legislation Coolldge managed to get along fairly well with an evenly divided senate during his last two years possibly because little important legislation was proposed by the White House Hoover had an almost evenly divided senate end house during hia last two years The Democrats cooperated on measures to fight the depression whenever sentlmontjeemed to fayer- such measures abut on details of this legislation and on other presidential proposals stalemates frequently occurred Both camps aware of the forthcoming elections of 1932 were sparring for political advantage 1 dent approv Mr r it v Copyright - 1936 aounde perm a Th( 1 ' Demc spons tires: 1 Thi provi : penas Indus for r Thi conf ulate whlcl prlvi Th bavii tlon oltioi secui "A legls toth into laws broa clal dare to a R is a deal A be 1 gran Ei Xl&tii intei is turn tion ’S eupi the tlon star whii bilit into t v McNaught “Yes she replied sweetly "what it you want to know?”— Ex- change A ceries d cue-tom- er -ans’ Tribune 'Not ’In the Know "John makes a wonderful dance partner don’t you think?” “I don’t know I’ve never sat out with him”— Exchange Mi d Dem aymi tioni Obliging ana-adde- o In la' Syndicate Easily Suited man was buying some groat a near north side store when a second man entered in a great hurry Throwing down a $1 bill on the counter he the other man’s order interrupted °m® dog food” he to the other "Hope you don’t mind” "Not If you’re th Folic Ventloi Bourbi The policeman on point duty managed to leap to safety as the car flashed past The young at the wheel waa obviouslyladya novice and when ths car stopped the policeman hastened to reprimand the driver "Do you know anything about traffic rules?” he demanded heat-edl- y Is Mt entinj man P of con For my money Wayne King plays the waltzlest waltz tunes Eddie Guest keeps a scrapbook of roasts and reads them when he feels a bit cocky The most exact likeness I have is a two-frasilhouette snipped by that venerable caped cutter along the Rue de Rivoll No colored entertainer had the tug to my notion as did Florence Mills Time for a few statuesque Lillian Russells In musical shows Too many pallid hipless anaemic torch singers For a celebrity who expresses tho least show-of- f ry in public: Irving Berlin Rattling the skeleton: Governor Albert Chandler of Kentucky was a crooner at A it doesn’t always take a voice to smack over a song Billy Gaxton for example who never misses fire Lost American art: Carving at the table Ms no acc defeatc doing one-legg- Opposed in sec Immi ination Issues However of extending federal aid to individual citizens in difficulties has become so deeply established that in the present campaign both parties are pledged to coritinue it so far as the unemployed and ths farmers are concerned The question is whether it can be stopped there Every day sees an increase in the number of individuals who rent their homes from the government or who owe the government for loans on farms or houses or chattels Every day sees the government forced to consider the question of whether to foreclose on farms or homes or evict tenants In the next congress there will be a real drive either for the cancellation of these loans or the reduction of the Interest In the end many of these borrowers to all intents and purposes will become wards of the government living in government owned homes but paying neither interest nor rent What seems most important Is the tendency The experience of the country with war pensions is given as an example of the way government benefits to a particular group tend to expand What begins as pensions to the wounded and widows gradually turns to pensions to all veterans and then for their wives and children Actually today the government is paying several pensions based on service in the war of 1812 The contention is that once government aid in the form of subsidies or pensions is extended it is never withdrawn Political competition for votes in a country afflicted with universal suffrage makes It impossible tq retreat once launched upon the bounty policy The pressure is always to go farther £nd give more Now that fede: has been distributed so to so many the point congress can resist th sure to be applied from others not yet among the beneficiaries but anxious to be And finally the question is whether sufficient taxes can be levied to meet the increased cost of more beneficiaries Some statistics on this would seem worth while in — on — To-‘da- Where Is End? In the pas! three years the policy Maw : Basic Facts con-Fra- there is one question concerning life in America today which It would be both interesting and useful to have answered statistically It happens that it is one upon which no new deal agency ever figures and concerning which It is impossible to get anything save piecemeal information The question is how many people today one way or another have become dependent upon the federal government for financial aid? Thoughtful men feel that that is as grave a question as can be asked and that a complete answer to it is highly Important A true and full picture of the extent to which federal aid has been extended to citizens has not been No ons knows the presented number now being supported by the government wholly or in part or receiving regular compensation from the government or in one form or another the beneficiaries of cash from the federal treasury What we do know is that every month in the past three years has seen an increase in such beneficiaries and that the total is stupendous Se Bj O O McIntyre NEW’ YORK £ept 12— Purely personal piffle: The first clown X ever saw scampered up and chucked me under the chin chill Scaring me so grandma took me home with a congestive Arm each with reels: the see in we wrestlers neys for Suggestion a meat cleaver Required reading: “Gone With the Wind” since For the best play on words Dean Swift: James Jeffrey Roche’s "Her Majesty the King” men who I warm to pipe smoking stroll with dogs at sundown Billy Roes can demand— and get— the highest pay of any American And five years ago ho waa known M "Fannie Brice’s husband" High in marital mlxups: Tompretmy Manville sailing With his ty stenographer his third and'di-vorce- d wife on the same boat and By BERTRAM BENEDICT' hia fourth and current wife waitSome of Governor Landon’e suping for him in England Not many porters are urging hia election on enjoying life so fully can look the ground that' the next senate aa glum as Damon Runyon ' Is certain to have a Democratic My first time out at grand’ a’ dowager socked to the opera is that The argument majority crown with diamonds clucked: Landon aa president would have “Boy bring me a program” And to conduct a nonpartisan adminisme in a drees suit! Ask an where he’d like to dine tration- making concessions to all and it’s usually Jack Dempsey’s representative points of view InYork res it534 stead of a factional sectarlah'and taurants: “No 21” class administration On many occaslqna In United String beans are best cold with States history the president was vinegar A Samuel Pepys favorite Nova Scotia always sounds of one party and the majority in Most original of all coolish one house or both houses of conVaudeville singing acts — Eva gress was of the other party Sometimes the result was a more Tanguay’s Give me Patsy Kelly or less harmonious compromise on and Gene Lock&rt and Til promise legislation and on the conduct of they’ll steal the show from any the nation’s affairs— especially Wars you name This is so gtfod it must be old — Silence is the colwhen a crisis confronted the nation But more frequently the relege yell of the School of Exsult was an acrimonious partisan perience Corkscrew is the most squabble resulting In deadlocks difficult English word for a Frenchman to pronounce It gets and stalemates between the legexecutive islative1 clotted up In the back of the the and mouth near the tonsils where the branches of the government French “r” lives Add consuming Jefferson Quit hates Scientific books with huWashington tried to conduct a morous illustrations nonpartisan administration and When a boy anyone who could had both Jefferson and Hamilton in his cabinet But the party spirit whistle through his teeth was my hero No New York theater has was not to be denied and Jefferglamour of the old son left the cabinet to go Into the statelySwell fiction name— Empire in Washington’s early opposition For whimsy not N6ro Wolfe second term Before Washington many writers top Heywood Broun left the White House hia adminAnd in a radical vein none is eo istration was recognized as a Fedboring MymLoy seems to havo eralist one For a time after the collapse of bequeathed her vulpine smile to a lot of imitators Oddest of the Federalist party no new party newspaper names: Wamby Bald arose to take its place and the period from 1817 to 1823 has Men He’s a sophisticate who has succumbed to the movies Goes to called the "era of good feelings” two or three a day Too much Monroe kept aloof from disputed Robert Taylor on the screen He’s Missouri the legislation including not that charming and was reelected compromise with only one dissenting electoral I know a sky writer who is tervote But John Quincy Adams rorized by a bumblebee No one was a minority president and got has touched Will Rogers’ descripalong badly with congress Van tion of Calvin Coolidge: “A cloee Buren’s party lost its working machewer and a tight spitter" Any jority in both houses during the' country that thrills to bull fightsecond half of hia administration ing could easily go the way of and aside from the independent Sid Solomon is trying to Spain more ’debated fof treasury bill sell England the hamburger stand no than six months Important legidea Kathleen Morris is an eager islation was enacted although deShe is known cryptographer pression ha & set in again the guild as Cayenne Noamong Tyler was another president body can beat Royal Brown writwith a congress of a different poing of wondrous boy and girl love litical complexion and the two house The Next big radio sensation: A L quarreled incessantly adopted a resolution of censure Alexander’s Good Will Court on the president and refused to Loveliest of the blonde socialites: record his protest against it Polk Janet Ryan A gripping moment lost control of the house to the in the theater Barbara StanWhigs during the second half of wyck’s scene in ‘The Noose" No his term and even war did not periodical has shown such venom for newspaper men and publishproduce unity The house passed a resolution declaring that the war ers as Time And no magazine Is eo widely imitated as Reader’s had been "unnecessarily and unconstitutionally begun by the presDigest Embarrassing moment: ident”’ Another house resolution Being accosted by Fleurette the called upon Polk to state the obcocotte on white crutches along the Boulevard des jectives of the war and the terms of peace open to Mexico The presThe most popular Capucines ident refused to comply On the poem over the air I hear is the other hand President Tyler Whig one Major Bowes reads frequently managed to gat the compromise Sunday mornings: "The best of 1880 through a Democratic things In life are free” Wonder senate and an almost evenly diwhat those peddled puppies think vided house the first night among the lights of Broadway? Pierce ' R KENT Thera wai never a time when By FRANK p ( |