Utah Statesman--Democratic | 1929-03-28 | Page 4

IHE UTAH STATESMAN, MARCH 28, 1929 FUTURE POLICY OF LAND BOARD r Pine Beetle Bow Not to be a Good Sportsman HINGES ON AUDIT Spreads To Woods RIVER BED TITLE PENDING Of Western U. S. Inference Proposal of Government Jolted Western States. Geologic VAST BENEFITS State Still Has, Much Valuable Mineral Land As Revenue Getter. From aga l) and a till to numbered endangered school Motions enquired from tha staia wara nullified and set aside, If you will recall. It waa determined by tha Land Board to Unit continue to defend all contest actions and, aecond to ondeavor, through our delegation In Congress and ty aroused public sentiment in this and other laud slat a o fore through tha Congreve of the United Btateo, such remedial legislation aa would confirm tha state's title and make operative the original intent of the grant. male Title Confirmed It la a pleasure Indeed, to cell your attention to a work that waa accomplished far beyond what waa Frank A. Arnold hoped for when the fight waa first Instituted many years ago. Securing Federal legislation which confirms Rural Community Aided the atate'a title to all minerals contained . In school eectiona and Moatly by National other granted lands, has. In my t achieveilii:i.o:i. been the Hookups. ment of this administration, and the mfct Important thing for Utah that has been accomplished during tha Biennuim or for that matter, Itural communities have bene in more than a generation. It has filed mo:it by the spectacular been declared by the Assistant growth of r.idiu aa a medium of Secretary of the Interior that the education and entertainment, in tho legislation will mean mere than opinion of Frink A. Arnold, direc1100,000,000 to the western states tor of development of tho National and no other state will profit more Lroadcastlng company, and a natherefrom than Utah. recognised authority on This office has been demanding tionally buslneia promotion and advertisJustice at the hands of the Inti r'or ing. department, protesting contests filMr. Arnold, who will spend all ed by thst department and doing of March on the Iaciflc coaat, has fer everything possible many years Just a radio aurvey of that have passed, particularly tha other completed sections of the country and last eight years, we havo had the is familiar with tha need and declosest cooperation and support of mand fur radio the Governor, Attorney General, public at large. programs, of the other stats officials and our dele"The transcontinental broadcast You are to carries to residents of gation In Congress. outlying be commended for the very sections, all the beat Intheentertainthorough and careful Investigation ment." esye Mr. Arnold. Until rewhich you made of the situation cently. a natlon-wld- o hookup waa shortly after you became Governor an event long to bo remembered. of the state and for your untiring Todey 23 programs come from efforts In carrying tha fight, not New York to toe rnclflc coast and only to tha other land grant states, Ban Francisco sends two features succeeding in arousing public seneast each week. timent against the arbitrary and "In addition, the broadcast reunjust mathoda of the Interior de- porting of Important national partment, but to Washington as events la an Institution. The apwsil. As a result of that effort. In Inaugural ceremonies cooperation with other members of proaching be carried to virtually every the land board, the attorney gen- will In the United States and also home eral and his very able assistant over ahorl-wav- e internationalW. Halveraen Farr and state geo- sent ly." logist. E. H. Burdick tha "Jones Mr. Arnold la the first of the bill was enacted In January 1117. eastern executives of tho NBC SysCoal Title Attacked. tem to visit here elnoa the estabTitle to hundreds of sections of lishment of tho Facific roast netland In the coal fields of Carbon work. He arrives In Son Franelacn and Emery counties and the south- Marrh 4 nit the Panama liner "H.S. ern coal fields of Utah was at- California" and will return In New tacked- Complete preparation and York via the new Cascade Tunnel presentation of tho Mate's defense route. His Pacific coast Itinerary Inhaa saved for the state of Utah, lf of the cludes San Diego, Los Angsles. approximately one-haInvolveddid This Oakland, acreage not, Fortlaqd, Rpokane and however, to remove the cloud on Seattle. While in San Francisco. those lands which had been ac- Mr. Arnold will bo the guest of quired from the state and were Dnn E. Gilman, manager of the Panow adjudged to be known minercific Coast National Division, al In character by application of Broadcasting company, who will the "geological Inference" at the accompany him to Los Angeles and time of statehood- - Under these de- through tho Farlflc norlhwest. cisions the state was deprived of SANCTITY OF THE HOME. title to most of the sections having Immediate value and whirh f Judge Tillman D. Johnson, of would become a source of great the Malt Lake bench, haa Just handrevenue to our schools. ed down a very sweeping decision With the convening of Congress tho rights, or wo might ssy. tho in December, 1920, the fight to on of federal which I referred In my report for limitations of authority agents In searching prilt2t was renewed to obtain it pos- prohibition vate homes for Intoxicating liquor. sible, such legislation as would a still was found In a afford complete relief, and give Although home, with intoxicating private to tha public land states that mealiquors and beverages, which waa sure of benefit which was intend- admitted the ho suped under the various enabling pressed thebyevidenceowners, and dischargacts. tha defendants owing to ths fact I have etready referred to the ed that tha prohibition agents had exsuccess which attained our ef- ceeded their in making forts through the passage of the the arrests. Wsauthority read from this that "Jones" school land bill In Janu- tho eminent Judge, his rendered ary. HIT. derision In order to uphold the The act, after confirming the sanctity of the home from unlawsec- ful and original grant of unjust search under our tions, extends the same "to em- constitution, than from the rather brace numbered tahnol sections fart that he ia in sympathy with Mineral In Character," exrept those the bootlegger or moonshiner. Hie tracts which are held under a val- many derisions In liquor esses show id subsisting right by a third partv that he has no sympathy with the or those involved In pending court traffic, but we ere glad to see that proceedings or Included in reser- his dislike for It does not so prejn-dlr- o vations- The rules now promulgathim that hs Is blind to the ed by the department of the inter- abuses which might arise front ior, construing the act and gov- giving officers too much latitude erning land office procedure, are n their activities. -- HPon Juan liberal, ar.d open to the state a procedure wherehy lie rights may be fully protected In the cases FORMER OGDEN KIRK t'H IKK where a subsisting valid right st DIES IN CVJIXJRADO. the time of the passage of the bill OGDEN Word has been receivla advanced, either by the United ed here that W. T. Blnford died in States or a third party. Ueovrr Maturday from a paralytic What The Grant Means.' stroke. Briefly, tho grant means that the state becomes the owner of Mr. Blnford was nt one time In the real rotate business in hundred of thousand of acres of and a street Is named for valuable mineral land. gdn As tha construction of the act by him. lf alto started the Blnford the' department of the Interior set's "ddiilnn. Old residents recall thst glide previous land office decisions hr wsa fire chief from about 111 , as between tha United States and j' IM under Mayor Robert Lund;-(Continued rre-Uns- . al Ite-cor- d. rd the etete. those sections previously I adjudged "known mineral" with state'a title denied, again revert t this commonwealth. Utah now owns practically all of her four sections in each 'ownship through out ths great undeveloped .nal fields of tha south. Title Is con-- . hundreds of firmed, or granted to sections In tha Carbon-Emer- y fields, many of which are adjacent to the outcrop and susreptl- bio of development at the present day. Thousands of acres In the met- alllferous seres now become the property of the state, and with conservstlvs forecast as to mli.er-- 1 al dovlopment. will eventually yield revenuelarge sumo In royalty Thousands of acres pass to ths tats- - Titles derived from the state In years past art now cleared and forever removed from danger of attack. Immediate monetary return has Treadv been aehleved. Coal leases granted on school sections, mate's tttlo to which Is now confirmed or which g susceptible of enn- under tho school hill, flnnatlon will yield nn Immediate minimum of around 111,000,00 a - RETORT IW.VF. XI.s WHEAT INCREASE:. An increase of more than ino per rent .f wheat on Utah farms Marrn ?' 1 -' compered to March I. 1934. re- InthesprUigrePort ths statisticians leased Tuesday by I he United States department of agriculture. Bushels on farms March 1, 1939, mteled 1 293.000. against 1,023,000 for March 1. 1929. Barley show-e- l n 300,uno JfStJ" being office, of ewuist s bushels tho same date I Spread of tho mountain pine beetle (Dendroctonua Monties las) serosa the Continental Dlvlda in areas of Wsatsrn Montana and Eastern Idaho has virtually doom rd a largo and fins aland of lodge-popins timber In the Beaverhead, Flalhead and Bitterroot National Forests, It waa stated orally by tha Department of Agriculture November 31. As the result of a recent survey the Bureau of Entomology and tha Forest Mervice and conierence uf representatives of tha iwu it haa Bureaus, It was limn decided tv abandon tho tlm per to the ravages of the beetle Ui the Uesverhesd reserves oust uf the Divide end In tha Flathead and BItterfoul areas west of the Divids. To treat tha whole area Infested by the insect in this region of the united tftstee, it waa declared, it would coat at least I2.0uu.uuu next Control measures In tha year. Beaverhead National Forest alone, to tho Department, according would coat I400.UUU in 1U3U. ihe r orest Mervice, it woe stated, has been making every effort to Bull umber In the national toreete concerned, although their efforts were fruitless, due to tho inacmsilbillty of tho trees to lumbering operations on a largo scale. Tv Sate Fork Trees The Department docs plan, bow aver, it waa aisled, to devote $30,-0U- 0 to tha prevention of tha jumping uf the mountain pine beetle across the gap from iiic Beaverhead Nullonul E'urc-sto a group of naliunal loreals with Yellowstone National 1'ark, in Wyoming, as a nucloua. Government controlled land in the latter group, Iho Department said. Includes the Gallatin. Madison, Targhse, and Talon National Forests, and tha $15,000,000 National Fork. Lvdgepols plno in the areas concerned. tho Department stated, is used chiefly for construction timber. railway ties, mine props, and extensively locally for farm purposes. The heaviest infestation of Dendrotonus montlcaiao is on the western side of the Great Divide. Murveys of tha Bureau of En- tomology, tha Department slated, first found the mountain pins basils killing lodgepole pine in the vicinity ot Bwan Lake on tho Fiat-hea- d National Forest in Montana in 1909. Front there, the Department stated, tha Infestation gradually spread up tha Mwsn Kiver, across the Biackfoot, and thus into the Bitterroot National Forest, still on tho western slope uf tha Great Divide. From there. It was explained, the epidemic spread to tha east of the Continental Divide on Into the Big Hole River on tho Beaverhead National Foreet. At present the pests the threatening the National Forests including and grouped round tho Ycllowstons National 1ark. Cost bold to be I'rolilbltlve l'rohlbitlvo cost of control measures to the west uf the Yellow-aton- e National Fork area, .the Department pointed out, is shown In one spot of the Bitterroot National Forest. A block in that forest of approximately four square miles in dicated an infestation of 303,000 trees during the attack of 1921. it would cost $3 a tres to control the mountain pine beetles in that one block. In May and June, 197, the Department said. (30.000 wee devoted to control, in the corresponding period of 1921 tho Forest Mervlre fought tha insects at a coat of llOO.oeo, Next year tha Forest Service, it waa stated, plana to abandon control, except In protection of the Gallatin, Madison, Targheo and Teton National Forests anj tho National 1ark. Thu Ber-viplana to surround this area on the threatened portions with a con tant and complete surrey. Infested Trees Tagged Trees In ths forests under reconnaissance, it was stated, are spotted by the pitch tubes adhering to the bark. Earh tree is tagged with a white tag. These labels call the attention of crews of from three to flvo men to the trees. Ths crews, it wsa explained, fell Ihe trees cut the infested holes into log lengths and with horses skid them Into piles. The piles are then burned. Bonis trees lhai stand well alons are burned standing by piling brush round the bases, or throwing oil over them, and then Igniting them. In the past shout 14 per cent of the infested timber has been disposed of in this way. Firing Ihe trees It wsa explained, kills ail the beetles under tha hark, co this prevents them multiplying In the bark and coming out and attacking other green trees Dendroctonua Montlralse, the Department stated, romes from tho dead tree In August. During the same month they bore through and round under the bark of green trees Lay Eggs 1'ndcr Bark Under the bark they lay eggs which come out aa grubs The next year the new beetles start all over. Each tree killed furnishes enough new beetles to attack and kill from 2 to 10 trees. The mountain pine beetle. It waa d explained, is a small, black, insect, tarely more than a quarter of an Inch long. It attacks severs I. species of pine by boring holes through tho bark and long tunnels under the berk, these tunnels girdling the tres and causing its early death. The Ineect is one 'f Ihe most dealrurtlve of four or lvn pine beetles that pine timber throughout the hard-shelle- at-I'-- Western Slates. tints decreased from 421.OO0 bushels March 1, 1921, to 699,000 Celery seeds are So small that It March 1, 1929. Is difficult to distribute them even-!It Is much easier to do the work properly If the seed la mixed year. This sum should be augmented from year to year- with several times ils bulk of some Several valuable tracts of coal material such at finely sifted white land, contiguous to working mines send or moist musk soil. which have been under protest, are now being voluntarily surrendered Freventlng diseases and paraallta by third pnriv clmmante. and among livestock la the business of leases from the state applied fnr. the farmer. When these troubles Ths minimum royalties provided ere present, liowaver, It Is usually for In the coal leases already la Beat to eell In a good veterinarian! force. ad to do ft oarlyt y. On Military Forces le t Factory Used to Fight Crime From the Inside I Canada Spends (Continued From Page 1) training alike. . Otherwise a main objective js to maintain sufficient unity of organisation to permit of tho rapid mobilisation of a fully equipped first Un ot defense In thg tlm of noed. From tho Royal Military collage at Kingston, Ontario, rated among tho world's finest military schools, a small number of young man pass yearly Into the British army. Most of thee seek service In India, or other distant parts of tho British empiro .rather than in the dominions became there they gat more opportunity for active service and promotion. A few get Into tha Canadian active militia, but the larger number take up civil employment, and these seek In the militia, generally. The enrollment et the collega averages between 171 and 110 yearly. The permanent militia detachments are so widely scattered that, with tho oxrsptlon of the fortress corps, they seldom get together In strength that woud make a regiment of Infantry or cavalry or a reasonable showing in artillery units. But thsir instructional services are available all across the country, and there are few area where the volunteer forces have to suffer for lack in that regard. a Ate Force Work. The air force always has far more applicants than it can enroll. It operates seaplanes as part, of Its work and enters Into combined maneuvers with the naval unite at times. and fisheries It aida in forest-fir- e protection patrols in ths unorganised territories works with ths customs preventlvt patrols and haa rendered valuable services In tho western wheat fields in the battle against rust and other enemies of tho grain crops. On of Its unite recently completed II months of patrolling, surveying, photographing nnd mapping in the Hudson Bay and Hudson Straits territory in conjunction with thu government railway to that region, now nearing completion. That unit made a great record for hard work well done and for some remarkable flights in the Arctic. AH R members have been given three months leave of absence end bonus pay on the scale of war time. Borne of them were not so keen about the laava being desirous 'of trying out with tha new fighting planes which recently arrived from Britain for the force. air Tho formation' of civilian cluba which will bo auxiliaries to tha Royal Canadian Air force In military an wall aa In peaco duties. Is a new governmental plan which has got under way with promise of olid success. The government supplies a plan or plane and Instructors according to tho active membership of a club. Its willingness to provido suitable grounds for an airport and the requisite amounts for upkeep. The increased use ef the airplane for mineral prospecting in tha north and northwestern areas of Canada has given n stimulus to tho civilian b movement that la welcomed by tho Royal Air force as asa suring plentiful supply of skilled aviators, if and when they are wanted for national defense- com-mlalso- na Mincemeat With Rum, Old Age Pension, Margarine Tax, Home For Feebleminded Head Laws L'talina may now have mince- meat rptked with rum; they have to walk more than a mile if they want to ace a tobacco advertisement on a billboard or on w-l- poatera; A 123 a moilth penaion la new possible for the Impecpnlus aged; the appropriation bill which calls for the expenditure of waa rtgned by the governor; the oleomargine tax bill waa algned; auto owners miiat show property tax receipts before getting an auto license: women may now serve on Juries; divorcees must dwell in tha fair state of Utah for one year; there will be built a home and training school for the feebleminded of the state, there will be a building commission. Bills providing for these Items have been signed by Governor Dern. The governor has nlao signed other measures. In fact he didn't swing hie veto ax with any degree of persistence, vetoing only two measures out of a hundred panned up to him by the eighteenth neaelon of tho leglela-tur- r. Vo vetoed a bill by Hollingsworth which would havo tho various state collection agencies turn their money into the treasury once each month. Ha vetoed this because of a defective title. A defective title also led to tho death of a bill by Griffin which would hava permitted fishing for common fish in certain streams in L'arhe county. The measure establishing an In- d stitution for ths calls for appointment of a commission of five members to select a site for the new institution. Once the silo Is selected this commission la to go out of existence and the management of the school is to be vested in a board of seven trustees to he named by the governor. The two bills for taxing corporation capital Block levy a license lax based on the proportionate hare of the capital used for business In this state. Provisions of the laws make the tax retroactive to cover tha lost two years and are so framed sa to allow corporations credit for the amount of the tax paid during these two years. In Iwhair of the mince meat bill several UihIi manufacturers urged that they were being subjected to unfair competition by reason, of brandy ami rum flavored mince meat from other slates bring permitted fo rsnln while local manufrom facturers were prohibited using these liquors In manufacture of their own products. Mome 12 car loads of the "spiked" product were shipped Into ths slate last year. It was represented. As this now stands the governor and the state warhouse manager are permitted to prescribe rules nnd regulations governing the rale and and distribution nr runt brandy to mince meat makers was Mil The old axe pension signed after some rut her extensive lnvestlg.it Ions during which both evisides pren nteil dence In behalf nr and against the Mil. The net xlvea county honriis the power to grant a monthly pension of $23 from the county treasury to persons 43 year or older who are In impecunious cir Tho commerce department haa of published Us annual calculation tho past year's receipts and payments on international account. It arguea that the war debt payments by Europe are being made, and will continue to be made, without tho exported disturbance of exchange. In hla foreword, Secretary Hoover points out that in 1927 from 9200.000,000 was rerelved Europe by our government on acThis count of such payments. of fhe maxiwas nearly one-ha- lf mum annual payment provide by the debt agreements. Yet it was counterbalanced more than three lines over by $900,000,000 "invisible payments mads on American account to Europe, of which $417,000,000 was contributed ly xpendituro abroad of oar tourists, $201,000,000 by remittances of immigrants to their old homes, $41,000,000 by chariiabls remittances and $13,000,000 by payments for American freight carried In foreign vessels. Further calculations of the department's expert show that, in addition to tho $20i.0on.00u pay, mrnta on the war debts, foreign sent governments and Individuals to tho United States in 1927 no less to either pay than $977,000,000, off old American loans or for InFrom vestment in this country. tho fact that remittances of capital were actually made to us last year so greatly In excess of the payments, ths stipulated war-dedepartment Infers that the eld Idea of a heay merchandise "import ' being necessary to pay off surplus tho war-tim- e obligation wee mistaken. Tha argument U Interesting and feeble-minde- ron-ldrrn- cumstances and incapable of earning a living. Governor Dern criticised the measure as being something in the nature of a dole yet he declared it a step In the right direction and he would sign It In the hope that futura legislature would work out the defects. Governor Dern Tuesday put hie approving signature to the Leathern bill for creation of state building commission of five mem- bers and for a building program over the next two year period at state Institution!. This law places In the hands of the governor the appointment of a board of five men no more than three of whom ahall belong to one rolltlcal party. This board la to serve without pay other than actual expenses Incidental to performing their duties. They have the power to Initiate plans purchase grounds ahead a building program contemplating the expenditure of approximately $1,190,000 at stats institutions during the next two years. A definite building program la prescribed calling for building additions at ths University of Utah amounting to $219,000; at the Utah Agricultural collega amounting to$ 200,000; at ths Branch Agricultural collega amounting to and-carr- $!,-90- 0; at the mental hospital amounting to $179,000; at the state blind school for the deaf and amounting to $139,000; nt the elate Industrial school amounting to $90,000. Tho law also calls for building n etete school for tho feeble minded at a coat of $300,000. Ths last art to recelvo executive approval waa tha bill reducing the carrying charge made by building and loan companies from 9 to 2 per cent. Boms opposition developed to this bill hut It wee approved on' tho recommendation of the state banking department- The law making It Illegal to ad vertiae tobaccos on billboards or display posters was completely changed from tha form In which It was originally Introduced. Georgs A. Crlirhlow. representative from Balt Lake sponsored a measuro to wipe off tha statute hooka a law which prohibits ths advertising of tobaccos, this lew having been held unconstitutional by the supreme court On the floor ef the house this bill was amended so that its purpose was changed to a form where It prohibited billboard advertising if tobaccos only and In this form It was approved by both houses The oleomargarine excise tax law sets up a certain administrative procedure whirh has not yet been compiled with and In view of thin It la probable that it will be a few days yet before the tax can be made collectable.The state auditor and state treas- urer are to prepare suitable stamps and forms for the licensing of all Under dealers In oleomargarine. 'ho new law a tax of five cents pere nound is levied sgainst all nleomar-garlnuncolored and of ten cents ngair.st all oleomargarine that li-Is artificially colored. An agent's cense fee of $9 per year Is aleo imposed. plausible. If It is not entirely convincing, tho reason is that it does not fully allow for tho Influence of tho very large Investment of American capital abroad. The department's figures reckon our gross export of capital last year on all taknew foregln securities en by American investors, purchases .of foreign securities or property made abroad by Ameri can capitalists, and loan of American funds on foreign money markets as $1,071,000,000. Even when this gross sum la readjusted through allowance fer refunding or paying off of foreign securities previously held In this country, tho outflow of American capital was Immensely great. Taken by itself. It would serve to offset many times 'the stipulated Combined war-depayments. with tho remittances from America for other purposes, aa already summarised. It actually turns the balance of payments In Europe's favor, even with our substantia! excess of merchandise exports over Imports. There are two possible difficulties, however, In the way of accepting such settlement aa necessarily permanent one, tho possibility that the present Immense In-In vestment of Amerlea capital Europe may ba checked: the other, that In eours of tlm tha Interest due by Europe on this accumulatheld ing mess of Its own securities by America might itself become a formidable item on the balance sheet. The actual Investment of European capital In American securities la an extremely Intareating tent. It surprised ell financiers when tho estimate eomswrea department' ta bt air-clu- JTBW HAMF&HIRES FORESTS BAYED From New Hampshire comes tha news that tho negotiations for the publlo purchase of ths famous Watervlllo Notch virgin forest, and of tho Old Man of tha Mountains," near Franconia Notch, have been completed. The former been added to tha Whit Mountain national forest. Tha latter has been acquired by tho staia of New tha Hampshire and tha society for forprotection of Now Hampshire funds to prithanks ests, pertly vately subscribed. Including a donation of $100,000 from tho estate of tha late James J. Storrow of Boston. Thus these two bits of rare New England countryside have been mad oaf for future generations. It te true that national forest are net so Immune from destruction as ere national parka, owing to the tact that tho forests may be lumbered under government supervision, whereas the parks are to be preserved unspoiled. But in an area like New Hampshire the forest lends In possession of the national government are of no immediate commercial value compared to similar lands In ths west. With the exception of the Watar-vlll- e hi Work Tried as a Way of Giving Marshall Criminals Hand Bettor Occupation Extend Stillman Group Hopes to System Profit-Sharin- g for "Knockabout Boys. Waldo Walker, In N. T. Timas. To fight crims from the Inside and to blip toward reducing a national crime bill they estimate at 910,000.004,000, John McK. Bow-maIrving T. Bush, H. K. Malta-soJulae Bachs and othar directors of tho Marshall Stillman Movement aro experimenting la an attempt to chock tho criminal's head by giving It something better to do, something also better for eodoty. On Jan 1 this group of men will take over a women's leather handbag factory In West Twenty-sixt- h street. They havo been actively affiliated with It for the last several months. Thfjf will operate It to provide steauy employment on n g baste far Now York's "knock-aboboya" meaning. In tha undarworld's own vernacular. Its youths who have gone wrong. If tha present experiment they further announce, they may do even mere along this lina In an endeavor to aalvaga what they call n genuinely clever element in. or rather outside of society. They have sent out scouts looking for other desirable Industrial plants that can be turned to tha same purpose, and are considering investment on a much larger scale to maka eventually a chqjn of such enterprises. Chain of Social Block home. These men say they are actuated In this move by a belief that the alarming growth of tha "racketeer" and professional guerrilla indeed, tho growth of tha whole sinister psychology of criminal violence has become an urgent social problem. They say its attempted solution can no longer be defaulted by leaden or followen of the present order. They liken the setting up of a chain of enterprise such as these to tha erection of a strategic string of social blockhouses along tho underworld frontier. Believing that society te at e disadvantage in remaining merely on the defenbtve, they feel these outposts would establish contacts essential to starting a humanitarian offensive. They argue that aa darkness la absence of light, much of erimo hs proved to ba absence of better opportunity or incentive. They propose now to try to help turn a negative into more of a positive. Ttie Marsh ail Stillman Moysment for the pest twelve years haa been working in tha crowded districts of New York. It has established various social cluba to provido a wholesome alternative te the life of the streets for growing boys in these congested sections. Its avowed purpose is to help keep boya out of crime, end also to help win them hack once they have drifted Into it believes the new Industrial program will broaden th scope of this work. From experience In this" work, tho Marshall Btlllmap directors report that a surprising number of knockabout boys roach e time in their lives when they themselves weigh the chance of turning over a new leaf. Disillusioned, they would take a better Job. If all, if even a good share, were caught and helped to find a new Job. enough could be salvaged permanently to pay for the effort and materially to reduce the pseeent crime population. Prejudice against them, however, makes such Jobe scarce. The trick is, these men say, to catch a "knockabout boy" at this precis period. It does not last long. II is likely to harden and. with a cynical shrug, decide te play the grim gem te the end. Given the right contact, the right opportunity, tha right Incentive then, these men say. a great deal could m n, profit-sharin- ut sue-coe- it-an- be accomplished. It la only the proved existence of so critical a time In the Uvea of many "knockabout boya" that takes an offer of aaelatance, they say, out of the realm of sentimentality, and makes It practical and worth whlla. Tho same poverty and tenement Ufa that many of these youths com from, also produce boys who fight for education, go industriousto work, mako something of ly themselves and win noma of tbs highest places In the community. Tha "knockabout boy" obviously has a distinguishing atreak or' he would not be one. Hla gravitation into tho Juvenile court, tho protectory and the cell block spells failure as much sa tha other boys rise pells success. The point the eponeore of the present theory etroM le that In the cumulative bittarneea of such experience some ef these hoys, enough of them, finally begin to cgpie to their senses. They sen 1 that It te failure. And that brief moment of self realisation te held Notch district, most of them h re covered with timber. Tho cast of lumbering is on of tho reasons why the virgin forests In the higher reaches of the White Mountains have escaped But tha AJ'atervlll destruction. area, had It not been bought by have soon gone would tha state, bo socially negotiable. The West the way of other like tracts. Pre- to Twenty-sixt- h street factory 1a acsumably publlo opinion will preplanned aa a place fo exvent Its being disposed of by the cordingly change such old codes for new. forest service. "Knockabout boys' themselves The setting aside of this region Initiated whatever better destiny end of the country surrounding the the present experiment holds for Old Man of tho Mountains' indi- them. leather goods factory cates a new public Interest In con- haa beenTheowned by servation. Tho Watervlllo Notch Frederick J. Groehl, defense counteglon was mad available primar- sel for Gerald the mail ily through the activities of a small robber executed Chapman, in Connecticut group of forest lovers In New Eng- Groehl will also continue aa Mr. presiedland. who conducted a vigorous the reorganisation. Harry ucational campaign having as Its dent of Groehl's factory manager, objective to induco Congress to sot Nadler, and with Groehl'e aside the money to obtain this out of sympathy took on a "knockabout permission, land. Newspapers and commercial bodies throughout New England boy applying for a Job. The first others, and. in the and tho east were quick to respond "boy brought to tha call. Finally Congress voted helping hand spirit that te one of the authentlo characteristics of ths the necessary sum. Ten even five these brought still years ego such a thing would underworld, more. Eventually tho factory was have been almost Impossible. manned 100 per cent by "knockabout boys." and their very quickfor 113$ gave $$$$,000,000 aa tho ness of hands and wits made them total of "American stocks and herd to beat as workmen. Their bonds sold abroad" that year. Yet patent desire to develop some mere It may bo open to question wheth- reliable means of livelihood then er any such movement bf foreign crime made them steady above the capital into our own Investment ordinary. markets would have been possible Harry Nadler reports that not but for tho feet that so great a part only have the "knockabouts" been own for of Europe's requirements to pick tip the new trade new capital had been met by Amer- quicker than moat but they coma to When all ia said, work aheadothers, ican Investors. of time, show no dishowever, the department's figures position to "beat tha dock" in gutexplain the present exchange mar- ting home and even "erep" among ket situation. They show why. not- themselves for chances to work withstanding an excess ef merchan- overtime and maka extra money. dise exports in American foreign Nadler cites thalr willingness to trad end an excess cf Imports In 'make" extra money instead of Iht foreign trade ef Europe, foraa we.e eign exchange rates ere running "takingto it, aaformerly they do, proof to hla mind heavily against New York, so that prone upward of $500,000,400 gold haa thnt they are rerlaimable, and he been sent abroad In tha part nlao say the local police seem' to agree with him. Now loxk Time month f . eacond-growt- . I i At first he said, the police kept en eye on the "boys," wondering if the change could be true. Now, says, the apparently convinced, hecom near police scarcely bother to them aa long aa they remain at the factory, accepting the fact of employment ae certificate of good Intentions. - t Nadler began by teaching the first cutters, framers and pocket-boo- k makers himself. Now, ho says, they teach one another. More than that, they "run themselves. Iia says he feels small executive responsibility, knowing that they are all quietly watching one another to see that no untried newcomer spoil things. On of tho pocketbook makers te to be elovated to tho board of directors ae the lab representative under the Marshall Stillman reorHo la ths strongest ganisation. fore for good among tho man. Tho once him listed among had pollcs tha first ten" of tho city's moot desperate gunmen. He spent ten years nt Auburn, then married uA settled down. Another 'knockabout boy" recently borrowed $21 from Nadler. What did ho want it for? II wanted to mako tha first payment on piano. Music at home, bte wife, hte two children that was all ha wanted now, evenings. Formerly he mad mueie with a rapid at $$0 a "Job," official records show, and $29 In those days wee tha else of hie fee for lesser On services. night detectives topped at hla home to check up on what ho was doing. Opening the door and aeelng them, he did not go tens ae be one had, but threw beck hte shoulders: Tm workln'l Another boy wee placed at the factory on nppeal of tho lead sr of hte brother's "mob" hte brother was serving a Ilf sentence for one of eommltlng single-handthe . most spectacular murders in aide Tho leader east gang history. baaed hte appeal to Nadler on: "I got to keep him off th etroeu bad enough to hava hte brother up in the can. It might have been, of course, the boy's earninrs would lighten th fixed charged on the "mob" of supporting their Incarcerated colleague's family. It 'night have been more than that; Nadler says It te. Anyway, th boy te at leader's tha factory; and th phrase, "the streets," as a synonym of snares and pitfalls, recurs frequently if unconsciously in all "knockabout" conversation. Corporation Formed. Still another knockout boy." enlisted In tha 'Marshall Stillman Movement finally brought Alpheua Geer, the founder, to see the facto broad-e- n tory. urging its scope. Out of Mr. Geer's study and investigation has developed the present decision to taka over tha factory entire. A corporation, Marshall Stillman Movement Industries, Inc., has been formed with a capital of $100,000. Its declared purpose is toward securing. organising and Incorporating a number of Industries capable of placing at profitable employment ell members of Marshall fitlll-ma- n Movement Service Cluba Inc who are in need of positions." The factory workers will par tlcipata in at least 90 per cant of the profits, to bo divided every sis months. Ths factory recently haa been admitted to the ranks of organised labor, through th good offices both-o- f the Leather Workers Union heads and of William Green, of American Federath president tion of Labor, and Spencer Miller Jr. director of workers' education of that body. With orders on hand already exceeding $26,000, the factory haa more business than it can handle, and expansion te planned to enabte It to caro for mors of ths existing demands upon It. Various New York department stores have agreed to servo as an outlet for much ae the factory can produce, both In a spirit of help and because of tha quality of tho products. Th Marshall Rtlllman Movement directors backing th enterprise. In addition to those already mentioned, aro George Arenta Jr., George N. Armaby, James T, Bryan. James I. Bush, Hugh J. Chisholm, Howard R. Cullman, William FoX, Kerwln H. Fulton, Humbert J. Ftigaxy, Vivian Green, Edward F. Hutton. Robert Law Jr., Louie S. Levy, Arthur Upper, Leopold J. Uppmann, Carl H. Pforxhelmer. J. Rich Steers, Frank Vanca Btorrs, Eugene V. R. Thayer, Clarence M. William H. Woodin. Woolley. George MacDonald, H. E. Talbott Joseph C. Baldwin Jr., Francis Jr, P. Garvan and Mr. Gear. Mr. Bowman, as chairman of . the directorate in discussing tho new factory and th occupational formula for crime reduction involved, said: The need Is very great for a constructive effort not only selfishly to reduce th crime hill but In a sound and human way to br'ng back those who have atrayed and who are looking for a chance to com back. This (the factory) offers th beet chance of the sort that has come to my notice. If It were made nation-wid- e it would be a good thing. There te a vast quantity of excellent human material not only going to waste but being permitted to work agelnet us. Crime hae never before been fought Intelligently from th ined - side." Irving T. Bush said: I cannot conceive ef a more sensible way to handle the rehabilitation system in combating crims than In giving employment to men of prison record under the right leadership 'The polle have their duties end their work must he upheld On the other hand, w must not forget that protection, apprehension, conv'ctlon and incarceration are only part of th process of law; the other part Is to draft back into society thnt element thst is working against Its best Interests and Its security. "I helluva this new way can reduce the tremendous erimo bill of America and add to the ranks of our workers much clover, enerrellu and valuable material. T consid- -r title way worthy of a big, serious business effort, and beUevs it enn ba mad to pay larva dividends."