Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE fjfljc f Established April Issued every In Spotlight — of — jl'itlt n!e Sfrilnmc morning by The Sait Lake x 1871 15 U S Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION one Pally and Sunday month $ 90 1050 Daily and Sunday one year The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere in the United States: r r $125 Oaily 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 Friday Morning October 16 the - have at their fingers’ ends It was rather participants difficult to determine which side won the argument since both eyes and nose seemed to have it It is encouraging to note the interest taken in civic affairs by the young people of our higher institutions With the enthusiasm of youth and the refining influence of female politicians there can be no doubt as to the future of this land of the free with its seminaries of the brave Edward and His Court WHAT is back choice of all this fuss and fulmination over King of a confidante? Hasn’t a potentate a right to choose his own companions? The most lowly subject of the realm or has that much personal liberty Any in the empire can pick his playmate Some English princes have transgressed all rules of propriety some English kings have beheaded wives for women' and turned scandals into history His democracy King Edward has been a model young man his abundant vitality and human inhis buoyancy his versatility on terest in all that is going among people have endeared him to his subjects and won him the admiration of citizens of this country rJhe youth who laughed when he tumbled from his horse who roamed the earth with an open mind who danced with any respectable girl that took his fancy who pitied “the poor fool” that attempted to assassinate him who refused to let courtiers tell him how to dress and where to sit cannot easily adjust himself to an environment of social serfdom or permit his inferiors to tell him who may be his friends k When the parefree Prince of Wales became the someign of empire he assumed grave responsibilities and found himself But any pampered scion of face to face with serious problems royalty who has gone through life for more than 40 years unmarried naturally becomes an object of solicitude solicitation and suspicion Still after reading or recalling one of the fundamental maxims' of English law one cannot help wondering why the press and people of that country are having convulsions over King Edward’s apparent infatuation for Mrs Wallis Simpson Whatever they may think of her they know that “the king can do no wrong” street-sweep- t Walking wood-chopp- er er and Crossing Party Lines SENATOR WILLIAM E BORAH is making an active WHILE campaign for reelection as United States senator from Idaho he has studiously refrained from showing any preference in the presidential contest He is willing to discuss public issues but not in a partisan way “Some of these cut across party lines1 he said in Spokane the other day "1 propose to inform thT people of my state how I stand on them which is only fair and honorable” Told Jhat was being criticised for aloofness from the national campaign he replied in a similar vein to the declaration of a distinguished but disappointed aspirant for Democratic honors that citizenship above partisanship: “I am opposed to a return to the gold standard and favor a larger use of silver for money silver should be placed Reside gold as a primary money and any return to the gold standard I would regard as a betrayal of the American producer of the farmer especially” he said In both major organizations are men who do not feel at home The line of cleavage which should lie between parties is found within each of them There are conservatives trying to placate or delude their liberal comrades and liberals trying to reconcile their honest opinions with affiliations As a natural result voters also are confused Many cling to the old party names impelled by hereditary passion and prejudice t Some are aware that issues have changed repeatedly during the seven decades that followed the war between the states A few are beginning to realize that the parties have exchanged traditions and traded patron saints in the general upheaval that is shaking citadels of power and tumbling heroes of history and tradition from their pedestals While “paths of glory lead but to the grave’’ the roads to political goals in this country are full of some with thumbs jerking one direction and some indicating another The only divergence from highway manners is that everybody is will- ing to give them a ride Juct where it may take them or how'con-tente- d they will be on reaching the destination are matters -to be he he-hol- hitch-hike- decided In the future rs -- By Highlights of New York As Seen by OO McIntyre Carlyle W Politics By O O McIntyre while strolling: None of the NEW YORK Oct newer movie swells top Menjou handing hat and stick to a butler d Ilka Chase’s expression suggests just spying a mouse Be fun to waltz Carole Lombard around to a Guy Lombardo tune wide-eye- thetize fears with soothing and in their know wholly as hearts to Diary of an Expectant Father their their the they nofallacious tion that once Mr reelected Will Roosevelt turn conservative present campaign has been unique in some respects with reference to an exchange of traditional patron saints and while the more active partici- seemed 8 1930 About the most uncomfortable citizens in this campaign are the Intelligent conservatives who assuage pain and anes- 1936 principles and pants have gone to extremes in passion and personalities the weeks have passed peaceably enough to justify faith in the perpetuity of In those fev foreign lands where opposition popular government vote or even to exist riots take the place to are permitted parties is maintained order of rallys by military intimidation and smolsometimes animosities burst into a consuming blaze of dering civil war To those wise precautions taken by the founders of this republic so that free speech and open discussion would serve ps an outlet to fermenting emotions and prevent patriotic explosions modern statesmen recently added the influence of the “gentler sex” as a further curb on the turbulence of excitable partisans in the heat of presidential campaigns The hope pride and boast of ell elements in this country is that we can settle our political dif- The benign 'inferences without fights feuds or firing squads fluence of women in public meetings in partyprocessions and at thepblls has been counted upon to keep cantankerous men from punching each other’s noses to punctuate arguments over ways and means to save the country from ruin every four years " It must have been with sinking hearts and blinking eyes' with' that the American public apprehensions and embarrassment of a political controversy on the campus perused the press reports of Smith college in Massachusetts the other evening This school is a strictly feminine institution of learning and of liberal training in citizenship Party spirit runs high but most of the parties are formal affars According to accounts obtained from eye witnesses who made observations from dormitory windows a group of Republican girls campaign songs came marching along the broad singing red-hwalk Approaching from an opposite direction with banners proclaiming' that “sunflowers die in November” and bearing other offensive legends were a number of Democratic girls From conflicting and varicolored reports it has been ascertained that the meeting was interesting while it lasted Parliamentary rules were dispensed with owing to the lateness of the hour and the debate was carried on in shrill soprano tones accompanied by expressive gestures which drovahome the points all OCTOBER! By Frank R Kent Party Spirit in Smith College WHILE FRIDAY MORNING L The idea is that he will drop cal his radi- - advisers Frank R Kent abandon his more giddy policies become an economical president eliminate governmental confusion restore national solvency cut out experiments be friendly to business Those who use this argument to explain their support of a man who for four years has been going in a direction they consider unsafe pursuing policies they believe unsound and contracting alliances they regard with do so for one or more of several reasons Some are regular Democrats holding public office or aspiring to public office or to political leadership or influence who feel their own interests best served by preserving their party status regardless of the degree to which their convictions are violated and their intelligence affronted It is astonishing how many there are of these — men who detest the new deal from top to bottom and have so proclaimed but now find it convenient to fall into line uHAbSA MArTtp iuiTh 'This WARD The Public Forum Brands New Deal frtAftWAlTV GULbi ' t r Letters appearing in this col umn do not exnrese the views of The Tribune They are the opinions of contributors with which The Tribune mav or mav not agree The following rules govern contributions 1 Letter limited to 300 words Preference given to ahort commuWrite legibly nications 2 and clearly on one side of the paper only 3 Religious and racial discussions barred Partisan comment can be printed only ‘with true name of writers 4 Personal aspersions prohibited 5 Poetical contributions not wanted 6 Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of fact or for statements which are it If they de not take a decided stand and vote against It then they are voting for it A vote for the new deal means that they approve not only of Roosevelt but of Farley Ickes Tugwell Frankfurter etc and the waste and extravagance they ad- vocate It is not a question of whether Roosevelt is a communist or not Everyone knows' that he is not But the point is that the gang voters and the communists approve so thoroughly of the new deal and Roosevelt’s policies that they are casting their votes for the new deal Do your readers wish to align themselves with the votes of the not In accord with fair play and 7 The Forum is not an good taste advertising medium 8 Writers must elgu true names and addresses In Ink Letters unless partisan will be carried over assumed name if In ail cases writer so requests true name and address however must be attached to communication 9 The Forum cannot consider more than one letter from the same writer at one time communists? If not vote against the new deal Very truly wours EMILY B PROCTOR The Senator1 From Sandpit By Ham Park It Is always good to know if merger until debts do us part or only In passing charming human like Stevenson described it “a sort of friendship recognized by beings It refreshes one like fl6w ers and woods and clear brooks — the police” Now I can't get back Oh heck! into the dummy George Eliot the Hopkinses the Stanley the Aubrey Williamses Highs and the Harold Ickeses who carry the weight not the conservative Hull why’ has been more or less an administration stepchild and has got his results through sheer rather than W'hite persistence House encouragement To assume that this situation will be changed by a relected Roosevelt is to ignore the record and discard reason It is far more logical to believe that he will consider reflection an indorsement of his policies and a mandate to go ahead with his grandiose schemes for making America over the most cherished of which were kicked over by the No one who supreme court knows Mr Roosevelt believes ’he has abandoned these plans There isn’t a man in his confidence who Is not sure the effort to revive the N R A will be made if he Is in position to make it not one who really thinks he will “turn right” However that theory is the only one upon which these antinew deal conservatives now supporting him can justify their position So to it they cling The Bridge Club Meet Well girls am I the last one to arrive as usual? I’ve certainly been on the go today What with having to give a paper on music — and me who doesn’t know a grace note from a flyspeck— to a study group and having an argument with my husband I don’t know whether I’m coming or goGirls I don’t know what ing has come over that man! He’s that changed He used to be so straight laced that many’s the time he’s embarrassed me by rebuking people right to their faces for doing or saying things he didn’t think were proper But now be has gone to the other extreme He’s so broad minded now that he acts like he’d swallowed those Japanese or were they Chlnese7 monkeys whole — you knowJlhe ones that say “Hear no eyilr" e no evil speak no evil I just happened to remark this morning at breakfast that I felt so sorry for that poor Mr Sampson whose wife was carrying on so scandalously with King He knew Henry the Eighth whom I meant and he knows that I never can remember names or dafes but he had to say and right before our son and girls that’s something-never do — correct my husband in front of the boy— he had to say: “My dear Samson Simpson is the name is the guy who went to a lady barber by the name of Delilah and the king is Edward the Eighth ahd besides it’s none of our business’ And I asked him point blank if he approved of such carryings on and what would happen to marriage if they were kept up He said that not knowing jtheIadyhe didn't know whether he approved or not and what did it matter? What the king was doing was nothing new At least he said he was a lot more considerate of Mrs Simpson’s husband than King David was cf- Mrs Uriah’s when he started And marriage dating he up was vhat you made it It was either a lifelong partnership of give ahd take or a temporary 1 by the Baltimore Sun In Its campaign to improve agriculture Portugal is building a large number of silos ranging in capacity from 20 to 200 tons and some have been built of steel as an experiment City councilmen of Westminster England propose to establish the grade of leading idustman” with extra pay of $250 a week Only 50 men may hold this rank at any one time - Safety First We often think as time goes by That we’re the kitten's beard We know it all we take a chance There’s nothing to be feared If we should get a busted leg We should not rave or shout We have one more so with a crutch We drag ourselves about But someone hits us with a car Behind our good right ear Our lights go out the birdies sing They lay us on our bier The little wife sheds gobs of tears Hangs crepe upon the door She tears her hair and throws herself Upon the hardwood floor siprone By Our Readers Forum Rules As Third Party Editor Tribune: Will you not make It clear te your readers that whether they like it or not the new deal Is a third party and they have to vote for or against Ardent Friends sixty-poun- t !EtLfcD OVER Although the press agents later fanned up Mr Chaplin’s yen for deep literature and overplayed it a lot as they did Gene Tunney’s I knew at the time that it was genuine and later saw Mr Chaplin in some fast grappling and mat work in Sam Berger’s clothing store seminar in San FranSam had been national cisco amateur middleweight champion Bob Fitzsimmons’ manager trainer and sparring partner a town model of sartorial excellence and a contributor of learned dissertations on economics to the old New York Sun: Mixed Assemblage His really convinced and ardent friends are to be found in the ranks of the Farmer-Labo- r party the Progressive Republicans the more advanced labor union leaders and the academic statesmen of whom Dr Frankfurter is the leader These are the men to whom he is closest personally and politically who have had most Influence with him and who if he Is reelected will continue 'to have most Influence In the administration circle it Is the Tug-wel- ls Severe bites on the leg were received by J Binstead while landd ing a tope a species of shark with rod and line off S8uthend England recently jOSt OP ii ter a cobra” He used to arrange desks end to end in the main salesroom of his store with rows of bottles and -- 1936 on ? ' Then there are some not actively in politics but who feel Mr Roosevelt is certain to win that opposition is futile that this administration is thoroughly vindictive fully capable of punishing those who oppose it They have lost heart If the time seemed In the other direction they would be with it And there are others who have about-face- d for still different reasons The interesting thing about these antinew deal conservatives now supporting the new deal ticket however Is that they all offer os an excuse that a reelected Roosevelt will be a Roosevelt who will change his direction his advisers his policies and purposes If there is the slightest basis for this belief it does not appear on the surface For one thing to change his direction abandon his experiments and modify his policies would be for Mr Roosevelt equivalent to admitting that he was wrong No one really thinks he is going to do that For another thing if he is reelected he will not owe it to these reluctant conservative supporters but to a combination of all the in the really radical elements The genuinely enthusicountry astic Roosevelt aids and advisers are not regular Democratic leaders at all coming on “The little sucker really gets this stuff” Elmer would say “Today we had a 'workout on Veblen’s ‘Conspicuous Waste' He went after it like a mongoose af- l&SL T' — Psychology of Fear Copyright By Lemuel F Parton NEW YORK Oct 15— Years ago I knew in Los Angeles a mild gentle gambler named Elmer who wtLs also a philosopher and Charlie Chaplin’s mentor In Thorsten Veblen Dean Sumner Frazier and the like Elmer knew as much and had as good a mind as any professor I ever saw: After I knocked off work at 1 o’clock in the morning he used to meet me at the Saddle Rock restaurant and tell me how his pupil was v In attendance were a brace of Stanford professors Eddie Graney the blacksmith who became a famous fight referee) and a power in the town — also a philosopher: Haig Patigian the George Stirling the sculptor poet a mixed half dozen of cultural and sporting illuminati — Editor Tribune: The social seand Charles Chaplin act law national first procurity Mr and Mr Berger viding pensions for its aged poor were Chaplin the seminar in a leading is now a “law of the land” ' Its most important “Title I— spirited interchange over the deep inner meaning of the word e AsGrants to States for sistance” offers the states to meet “humility" in which as I recall It Mr Chaplin was quoting St them half way plus 5 per cent Some worried to give to all ten years U S and Thomas Aquinas five years state citizens over 65 and obsequious clerks interruptMr Berger that some years old’ whose incomes are ed to informwished to look at overless than $30 per month enough gentlemen coats and insisted that he serve to make it $30 by a monthly penthem sion “Tell them not to crowd" said Section 1 appropriates $49750-00- 0 the elegant Mr Berger with a for this fiscal year and “au thorizes to be appropriated for wave of his hand “Attend to the each fiscal year thereafter a sum most deserving’’ AU that was “far away and long sufficient to carry out the purr ago” and this story isn’t what it poses of this title” hence perout to be But it is perpetual Section 3 b) demands of started states: “Records showing the tinent to the more timely public interest in the pretty young thing number of (such) aged individ uals in the state” Utah has failed who now in New York won't to submit such records although tell the reporters whether she is the Utah pensioners furnished it or isn’t Mrs Charlie Chaplin This department’s dossier on free to the state long ago Hence Utah’s poor are all “paupers" not Paulette Goddard Mr Chaplain’s leading lady is quite persistent pensioners through a period of four years The noble objects of this act of congress are to inaugurate in in its report that Miss Goddard is even a taller brow that Charles the United States the real brothWhile she refuses to Chaplin erhood of man equality independo any exhibition brain work for dence social security to the aged the reporters there is a certain and unfortunate as its title indiamount of evidence in support of cates without regard to race color sex religion or politics Utah the above contention Wes Henderson shrewd Hollywood scout must secure such a law occasionally checks for this It is gratifying and praise- who writer on fUm people and events worthy to note the renewed efforts of our churches especially writes as follows: “Yes the Goddard girl goes for the Mormon church to aid their the deep stuff I understand that It will Charlie poor worthy members got her to reading a lot surely require the best efforts of d books and now he church and state to accomplish of it Loyal faithful citizens of both can’t call her off Economics is have earned and are entitled to her specialty and she has some ideas about what's more than this small allowance going on 'in the world She likes during their last days on earth If you aid in accomplishing this to curl up by the fire with a nice great purpose you will some day sheaf of carloading and steeL rehear: “Inasmuch as ye have done ports" it unto one of these the least of Work of Elmer mine ye have done it unto Me Ronci the ‘eighteenth century enter into my kingdom” Italian puppeteer whose “Pinoc-clo- ” I C THORESEN thrilled vast crowds became First and Only Chairman of a man of letters and a philose Utah opher Whether Charles Chaplin Pensioners and Paulette Goddard are gossiping about price curves as they stroll down the road In their conBy FRANK A GARBUTT Now that the heat of discusventional fadeout isn’t hot news sion has diminished it is wise to but interesting to this writer reflect dispassionately upon what thinking that maybe the intelthe supreme court means to the lectual zeal of Elmer the pallid night-haw- k United States and to every was relayed to the e follies beauty through person in it To those who scheme to usurp Charles Chaplin of the errant feet political power the third arm of and nimble wits our government will always be —Miss Goddard now 24 years old anathema It stands between them was in rompers when Elmer was and the absolute power of desgetting Charles Chaplin all stirred up over Veblen’s ‘Theory of Busipotism ness Enterprise” She was picked When the people of the United States turned this government over from many entrants for Rio Rita to congress and a president they where the curves weren’t price curves" She went to Hollywood specified just exactly what the president and congress could do in 1932 Samuel Kayzer was her dramatic coach and what they could not do He also commented on her keen intelligence The president could not make laws that is too dangerous a Last March at Shanghai when she was touring with Mr Chappower to entrust to any one man lin their engagement was reportThe people also reserved cered and then denied and the questain rights to themselves forever among them being freedom free tion of whether they are married has become a standard opening speech a free press and protection for interviewers for their property Miss Goddard was once the wife No man's life freedom or prop- erty was to bo taken away The of Edgar James New York clubman frequently seen at Mayor supreme court is the only protecWalker’s gay parties Since her tion the people have against government oppression Those who professional association with Mr would interfere with it are plotChaplin her blond hair has been restored to its natural warm ting against our freedom brown tint and her dress reOur supreme court must not be dominated or subverted by any strained to a narrow rangq of brown chestnut or mahogany other branch of our government Praise Church For Aid of Poor Old-Ag- four-poun- Old-Ag- Supreme Court - 'Tis not that we were worth a cuss Or had a handsome beak But she will miss the forty bucks We brought to her each week rlght-Intention- ed one-tim- So why not practice Safety First And keep our limbs intact And shun the bird who takes a chance And gets his Ivory cracked? — J B' Salt Lake City Note on the Cuff Department My felicitations to Mr and Mrs J H Midgley who are celebrating-thei- r sixtieth wedding anniversary today I haven’t been alive quite that long but I've been married so long that my memory runneth not to the contrary I’ll bet If we could only see it that Mrs halo Midgley has a around her brow J R Taylor was discussing a current movie which was taken from a book that was extremely popular years ago with Drt Elmer “Of course you’ve I Goshen read the book” said Dr Goshen We had it in our library when I was a boy” replied Taylor “but I never could bring myself to read it” “Why not?” askqd Dr ChJhen I guess it was because it always stood right next to the family Bible” said Taylor “ Copyright Copyright 1936 Or something Memory: The boys who used to drive to town on band concert night end walk about with their whips and laprobes Erlanger's favorite nephew and one of Broadway’s favorite sons— Lennie Bergman Edna Ferber’s becoming feathers of gray Eight consonants and one vowel word: Twelfths Journalism’s greatest need — another Frank O'Malley Gene Buck has been about the most loyal of the Jimmy Walker pals Always expect those platinum girls to begin babbling like Gracie Allen Memo to George Burns: Don't make that “Thank you thank you thank you” so patronizing You’re not that sort of a guy at all What a book Lindy the cafe man could turn out about Broadway phonies I always wince at the passenger buses off for the The Vanished type: airports dancing master of the 90's For the most appealing Juliet I’ll take Katharine Cor’ wasp-waist- nell Add the unspoiled by success: Kate Smith All the bar-fl- y girls strive for that tremendous Bank-hea- d voice husk The more jobs Lowell Thomas takes on the plumper he gets Be my luck to awaken some morning with a letch for one of those Dick Powell mustaches - so On Tenth and Eleventh avenues with threaded tenement squalor there are a number of what are known to residents as “day olil bakeries” They sell the bread buns and confections that are unsold at the fancy boulangeries in the more opulent areas the day before And at a price almost one-hatop-flig- ht lf And a visit to the foot of street between jostling Forty-fit8 and 8:30 each morning reveals st New York’s excursion complex'’ Here more obscure holidayers depart on the day line boats for an outing along the Hudson Mostly mothers and children with picnic lunch baskets Mothers often in aprons but with tired faces sudFor denly lit with happiness many it’s the ace day of the year — a release from domestic tedium Spindly-legge- d children of the sort Brigs used to draw— in ginghams with pigtails freckles and teeth wide-apa- rt Fashion writers like to stress relative superiority of American dress over British cousins Robert Taylor is sprucer than Leslie Howard etc I’d like to string with the American side but candor demands the truthful sum-u- p that the ordinary feljow in England may wear relatively more badly cut awkwardly finished clothes but in the upper brackets Albion generally outdresses the Yanks Their army officers are better uniformed largely because soldiering is a profession No first night audience excels sartorially that in fine London theaters Added up: England in the matter of dress presents both the dowdier and the most finished Incidentally few know this fashion fact: For its size Tulsa Okla is considered by those who know one of the better dressed American cities Louisville second For the male stylists: Hollywood now leads the world Before Floyd Gibbons sailed for Spain he bought many flags to decorate his bulletproof motor Prior to thd day of airplanes a correspondent used only a small flag on each side of his car for identification But Gibbons in the most recent emergency not only covered the front back and sides but the entire top with the Stars and Stripes Floyd Incidentally is a fellow of violent personal likes and dislikes but I have yet to find anyone who ever heard him speak an unkind word of anyone When there bobs up a name of someone he doesn’t like he grows suddenly silent A trait somehow of great travelers They had an upset in one of the satiny bars off the avenue the other cocktail hoijr The salon was filled with a glossy gathering chattering of the coming season at Palm Beach Through the swing doors came a middle west towner with store clothes and a pineapple haircut He smacked a dime on the bar and ordered whisky The collegiate bartender with a widow’s peak manicured nails and pitying glance patronizingly: “Sorry but we do not serve 10- cent liquor here” Picking up the dime the visitor remarked: "I’m sorry too but I can’t stand that nickel stuff” 1936 McNaught Syndicate Copyright Off the Record In the main the campaigners are keeping" their None has achieved the emotional peak of the Pittsburgh candidate in ’32 who screamed at an opponent “you big you!” Poise would be where a Spaniard went right ahead with plans for a fire prevention week at this time No one knows the exact agt of the farm problem It depends on the date of the first farm Digging in the Aleutian islands Dr Hrdiicka finds the skull of the brainiest man who ever lived It will be hurried te Washington without the formality of a campaign Copyright 1936 North American - Newspaper Alliance Ino |