Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-05-10 | Page 4 | What May Day Proved

WHAT MAY lUAY DAY PROVED i MAY JAY Y DAY is the day of all days for Communists Com Com- LL mun and other radicals to demonstrate demonstrate demonstrate demon demon- strate their strength and try to provoke trouble trouble trouble trou trou- I ble with th the authorities and the May Day of of 1932 after more than two years of a business depression passed as quietly and peaceably as the staunchest lover of law and order could have wished wished- Once more the thoughtful man is bound to come to the conclusion that the American people are among the most conservative the least impulsive of all the earths earth's inhabitants During the bright years of prosperity it used to be said that the American people would show unsuspected depths of radicalism If ever their industrial machine stopped working smoothly but the last couple of years have shown how completely false that assumption was Radicalism today seems to have little more appeal than it had three years ago The soil solI of this country does not seem to be good soil for the growth of Communism C