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Show f 0 E h Deseret I Nw J 0 Sail Uka R dity, Utah 1 A . L ;S PEGLERl Candidates For New York Supreme Court Bench Are Discussed Further By Westbrook, Pegler NEW YORK In the contest for a place on thi New York State Supreme Court we have before us, among those competing, two men who have associated October 30, 1943 . We stand for the constitution of the United States with if! three departments of government as therein set forth, each one fully independent fn its own field. VJ with under-worl- gang-"- , sters. repudiated by both the Demo-- , cratic and parties Stepping Between Two Competent Courts following people of Salt Lake have a real interest in the apparent contest between the city judges and the juvenile court authorities over control of juvenile traffic violators. The city judges favor an amend: ment to the state law whiph would transfer all juvenile traffic cases from juvenile courts to the regular traffic court. The proposal is opposed by Juvenile Judge Rulon W. Clark and other au-- . thorities in the juvenile court setup.. The city judges' proposal is designed -- to improve traffic control in the city. The present state law ashcrtedly gives exclusive jurisdiction of all minors un- der 18 years of age to juvenile courts on traffic as well as other violations. It is explained that the judges recommendation is intended to improve ' traffic control in the city, partially by definite chedk. to see providlflg that a final disposition is made in tlpe case of every juvenile . given a ticket." Judge Clark contends that there is a good check on every juvenile violator. This apparent conflict is both interesting and important. It seems that the city judges are most interested in the traffic control features of these juvenile cases, which is quite natural. .The juvenile court, on the other hand, properly is most interested in thttfjuVfenile delinquency aspects of the cases. Thus we have two courts, equally sincere and competent, each suggesting what no doubt is the best way to meet the particular, phase of the problem which primarily concerns it. Without delving deeply into the matter, it seems obvious that the traffic Court could do a better job of handling juvenile traffic violators from a traffic control standpoint. And it seems just as obvious that the juvenile court setup is better "aore , One,, A. Au-- Thomas relio, has been , THE d equipped and qualified to handle the cases with a view to correcting juvenile delinquents. We believe that there will be no argument on this score frpm' anybody who has watc.hed is ty traffic court run cases through the mill. The thing to decide then is whether to let traffic control suffer slightly in the injerest of juvenile correction or"' vice versa. t It is our own opinion that juvenile correction is most important in these days of alarming juvenile delinquency. Further, that the traffic angle will suffer less at the hands of the juve- mle courts than the delinquency angle might suffer in the traffic court. Ac- cording to Judge- - Clark, the juvenile court can. do as muCh as can thecity, court except send them to jail, where ' we dont want 'them.1' Traffic violations probably are among the most common of delinquencies among youths in the upper teeq . ages. Yet, we can agree with Judge Clark, it often is unfortunate to have these youths get police records, which the present statute prevents. While we are inclined to side in --with the juvenile court in this conflict of opinion, we can agree wholeheartedly in some of the other recommendations made to the city commission by the city judges through Judge Wilford M. Burton. One is that soldiers and war' workers should receive the same punishment for traffic violations as others. From personal observation, we should say they are among the most frequent offenders. But before any statutes are changed to give the traffic court control over juvenile cases, certainly all sides of the problem should be given much more -- jr lawyer long associated with the union front, a lucrative field for . was pulled out of the hat by Alex, Rose, of the Hatmakers Union, as the candidate of .the miscalled American Labor Party, a New Deal subsidiary, composed in unleft-win- g equal parts1 of Socialists of vary' ing shaefes of pink, and Communists. He was put forth after embarrassment overtook AurellO. Mr. Levy, whoi calls himself a friend of labor, was counsel for New York Local 306 of the , dls- - of his i devotion and! political obligation to Frankie Costello, a slot- machine- - rack-- ; eteer. He (Au- 'relio) is defend- ant now in disbarment proceedings but Is still on the ballot. The other, Matthew M. Levy, a notorious Browne-Biof- f racket " of the movie industry from Aug. 1, 1936, to Dec. 31, 1941, except the year 1938 when he was on the bench. His pay was or $1300 a $18,000 a year month, a total of $97,500 . for .services which did not occupy him to the exclusion of other law practice. After he ceased to be counsel for the local Mr. Levy presented a bill for $28,917.75. In subse- - BtRfiN r THl ENGUSH CHANNEL r OWOC.W. or THE Or ssu.vra.WY UOSSO Atuw TnirtAV. .1 i tf-- foreign-inspire- d lessness or horseplay. As an illustration, Mr. Newman cited one Instance in which a shutdown in a -- war plant resulted from a short circuit caused by workers swinging on tfie guy wire of "a flower line pole. ne Imagine anything more ridiculous than - such r acts by supposedly intelligent adults? Children in the kindergarten classes might be expected to indulge in such"by-playyanother antics equally absurd, but not matured men and women with intelligence enough to hold down any kind of a job in a .defense plant. It is not often that we quote from . the Scriptures in the everyday run of -- take-hom- e - Around Town By D. N. Things strangers wonder about (and so, metimes do we): Mail boxes on Main Street marked Packages'' and in which the citizenry post letters: doors that open inward on public buildmgsehow, when- on Mam Street, to get into a right hand lane - m order to make a right hand turn when said lane is consistently plugged with . . And things strangers ask ' about with. -- Interests The wide streets; the Temple grounds; the University of . Utah; the beautiful lawns and homes: Utahs "pretty girls"; Utah celeryf . e e , . Theres plenty of talk: abourhowrvari- ou? war-tim- e shortages, such as gasoline, meat, etc., are doing us good." To go without meat, it. seems, will do our waistline good. Itll do us good" to walk more and ride less. So. sporting our best itll do us good attitude, weve become quite cheerful about the various hortages. If Its In a cafe, we cheerfully smile . about the shortage of waitresses, and we try 'to be patient about the Jong waits between visits of the hired help. And whenjthey tell ns theres no beef or lamb or pork, we manfully grin and . - . , , -- Longest Way Round Not Always Shortest Way Home ve By Raymond Clapper WASHINGTON fTshouTtro ber and humbleus all to refle on the Russian progress on the eastern front. So far as ground fighting' is cQncernid, that, is . s Ger- - "" manN army Is takmgj its real punish ment. Our army peo-- , pie, far mot-than the rest iof us, can apwhat preciateRussia is doing e toward smashing the enemy. It should make us less boastful, and more willing to be ' Mr. Clapper . we what hope to do after the war. Russia . will expect to be listened to with the same respect to which we feel entitled. The Germans .have about 300 divisions. Most' of them are e- a In Sicily the real resistance Alcame from the Germans. though Italians had a dozen divisions in Sicily, they were of little value. Last summer I saw hunItalian dreds of surrendering soldiers march peacefully down the road. But the Germans fought It oat. They had only three and a half divisions in Sicily. We had the two best armies of the United States and Great Britain, wlthta total of 13 divisions. As Lt. Gen. Joseph T. Mc.Nar-nedeputy chief of staff, told a recent conference at the War Department, it took ns five the weeks to win, although withholdings but without appreciable increases or any at . all. Averages do not help kind of a' situation. It does not keep the 16 point per pound butter on the pointless bread. . ' ' When the treasury talks about syphoning off savings to save the country from inflation, It may be"advocating sound economies bit very bad war psychology. 'Our people like to spend and those who are y earning large wages in defense plants canrvot buy what they desire. When that is added to all the dissatisfactions about the difference between payroll ' and "take-hommoney, it explains the growing, widespread-in- g labor discontent. Statistics will not solve this problem because it is one of. attitude, of atmosphere. It is riot a matter of logic but of mass response to national necessity.in-th- theijL-mone- e - (Th opinions expressed herein ore the writer's awn and are published In order to prosen all sides of eurrent questions. They do not necessarily represent the opinions of this paper.) Whatever else you do, WAR BONDS BUY U. S. showing What Does Brokerage Service Cost? e over-com- -- milk. f There are undoubtedly frightful inequalities In wage payments. Workers employed in defense plants receive extraordinarily high wages as compared with miners or tailors or store clerks. 'These Inequalities do not appear in most figures .which are based efAmerican and British fectiveness at this 6tage is. more Jn the air. In Italy, whatever advantage Germany may have on the ground is overcome by Allied superiority in the air. Information is released from the Eighth air force fighter command in Britain that American fighter plane strength there will he almost doubled in the next two months. Many of the new planes will he the Lightnings, a favorite with the Eighth air force. . A $1000 purchase of General .Motors' common slock, - for example, carries a $7 broker- age fee. Call in, telephone or urfte information. for further Ji A.HOGLE &CO. ' 19 IS MIMBKU E:teblithii ttiw rojtj r ttocK txcmvoE Slt Ldk Sleek Exthmg end ether exchenget Sait Lako 111 South Main - Ogdon XmssI Building long-rang- twin-taile- eneftiys air rover had been re. moved and his supply- - lines had been paraljzed by over-- " whelming Allied air superior- d e It Is fortunate that we can bring this- additional protection Into play,- because bombing must be our big weapon for a while. If it is to be some months before the big drive can be expected, the hope for the winter is that bombing from England, and from Ital-lan bases ran be increased. With German armies taking defeats from the Russians In the east, it Is possible that the German people might crack under sustained pounding from ity. Today in Italy there are some -, Anglo-America- n OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed , 6 ., thlnklujr military men cant allow themselves to count on that. Buf air officers are hope-,fjIt m our best chance of an early defeat for Germany Unless the , combination of Russian ground fighting and heavy bombing breaks Ger- many iq the next few months, then a western invasion 'must go ahead. That will be hard. Those are some of the things one thinks of after sitting for a -- while in the Senate gallery listrrr. " lng to the dreary, aimless dehats ' of the Connally 'double-tal- k reso lution. Unless the public demands action, the Senate will without strengthening adopt amend- ments, this double-talresolution and leave our allies in a(i much doubt s ever as to whether th , Senate is getting ready to wreck'-agaithe chances of ' organizing ' a lasting peace. l. INSURANCE . does the Best Job! Anglo-America- n -- - . . . k good. : show 388.2, take-hom- thing more than 20 divisions against us and it may take us three or four months to pomplete our campaign. . General McXarnfy says that at present, Germany Is capable of opposing any attack on her vital fortress with at least 10 times the force she had in Sicily. fighting the Russians. Without Russia, so some of our military odds would be people Say,-thfour or five to one against us. - tie Hyde." 1943 jwould Will German People Crack Under Continued Pounding From Air? lifir, Comment heard yesterday Jn the Capitol corridors after the Supreme Court had ousted Gordon vsvlor Hyde as chairman of the Finance Commission: J1 yon hear about Governor Maw? He had to go to the doctor for a grafting operation eeems he lost a lit. , Wages' on averages. But the cost of living has gone up for everybody. Take, for instance, pro-- , fessional men, doctors, lawyers, yea! even newspapermen, or those living on fixed salaries like teachers," policemen and firemen and all sorts of government- -, employes they have to take the increased cost of living, the higher taxes, the or Alstaph bear It and tell the 'waitress to bring ns the baked halibut. And we smile grimly and mutter to ourselves, Oh. w ell, its doing us good. ut, 'vait vintil Hitler has turned up his heels, and the war is over. Were goto wander into this ing place where we ve been waiting halfeating an hour before even seeing a waitress,' and if that postwar waitress doesn't show up at our table 4Vltfyfi 30 seconds were going to growl loud enough to be heard all over the place. And anv waitress dares tell us. "there arent anv todav," we'll get to our feet and walk out, querying loudly: bmd of a joint IS this, anyway?" while the manager follows along behind us, apologizing profusely and telling ithereU be plenty of steaks next time. And believe u, there's even some-- thing about dreaming of such things that does ns 'Take-Hom- e an iricreafe in weekly wages of nearly 100 per cent. But for the same years, the cost of living has risen from 146 to 180.9,-roughly 25 per cent. But the weekly wages are calculated on a paybasis. roll, but not a That explains, w'hv a 100 per cent increase does not pensate psychologically even if it does economically for a 25 per cent increase in the cost of living. Nearly all cost of living data is false because it does not Include taxes, which is a cost of living as much as bread or CUPPER y -- opinions of this pepsr.) e , d (Ths opinions sxprsotod herein nr tha writers own and nro published la ordtw to present all sides of enpeot toestioos. They to oot necessarily represent the 4 -- Can-anyo- - The distinc- wages. e tion is often ignored. A worker, let us say, receives $50 a week. 'That, for steady work, is good-pay- . His pay envelope will show, in a plant with a checkoff, that amounts have been deducted for social security, the withholding tax, union dues and his bond" pledge. What remains in the en- ' velope, less than $35 depending upon deductibles, is what he actually takCs home. Let us call the 'wage. lon may argue that social security guarantees him against unemployment and the econom-i- c tragedies of old age; 'that' he., will receive back some of the withheld tax; that he has personally- -to'and volnntarithe take ly pledged bonds, and that J the union dues are of whatever value he gets from that. The arguments are logical, but they - do not serve to overcome the psycho. logical effect of opening the pay envelope and finding about $35 when he expected $30. It e is the wages that determine the workers attl. tude toward his life and his work. Most of the figures published on this subject, particularly those which make a comparison with the last war, are misleading be- cause whereas they use as a base for their indexes of the last war 1914, when it started, they take as the base for current figures 1941, when we entered. The distortion is enormous.. If the years 1910-1are used as a base, wre get a long, consistent view of the problem. Thus, for 1938, the last full peace-timyear, the weekly wages per factory worker is giv-e- n he index of 195, r and calculated m the same way, July of . one on the back and knocking his dentures half way across "the street, are either bright or funny. There is plenty of good, clean, wholesome, innocent fun in the world without having to resort to sheer assininity to make sompone laugh. Let us try to act mature for the dura- tion of the war, at least, even though it might be a difficult task for us to do so. Only in this manner can we be sure that our childishness will not aid the enemies of democracy by interfering with the war effort ' -- By George E. Sokolsky Much of the Current labor discontent arises from the spread between "payroll wages" and "take-hom- . editorials in these columns, but It seems that this would be an appropriate time to do s6. In the eleventh verse of the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians Paul said: When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man I put away childish things. How unfortunate it is that so many . persons who appear to be matured men and women retain the mind, the thoughts and the understanding of a child. The -- years- that have developed- - their bodies-hafailed to make much impression upon their minds. The things that loomed big and important upon their mental horizon in childhood, appear the same to them now-- and the jokes and tricks that amused them then remain hilariously funny to them until this day. There-mabe many whowiIl declare that we have nonsense of humor, that we have a jaundiced outlook upon life which prevents us from seeing the funny side of everyday occurrences. With that view we have no quarrel, although we disagree. For we do not believe that one has to be childish and moronic to be funny. We do riot think that throwing a crust of bread at someone and destroying the sight of his eye, swinging on a guy. wire and putting a defense plant out of business, or slapping some- 806, nniots were notorious when he lavished praise on Browne in June, 1940. been By that time It 'had shown that Bioff was an old brothel-keepe- r who had never worked and he was in JaiL Nevertheless In his official report, Browne eajpgized Bioff as a martyr who Was suffering horribly so that the members and their loved ones might enjoy a better life. Levys only ' comment on the report was that It was "thought-provokinHs took no exception to the praise of Bioff. The judiciary committee of the City Bar 'Assn., indorsed Levy but Hiram C. Todd.in a minority wrote that he copld not report, concur "because of hif unsatisfactory explanation of his relations with George E. Browne and his praise of him in a public speech in 1940 in the light of the publicity which had been gjven to the charges against . Browne and the conviction of Bioff for pandering. Payroll Wages Not Funny? You Tell Us What You Think RELIEVE it or not, but practical jokes D and hoyseplay have done more harm to the war effort in America than any actual, planned sabotage. We have no less an authority than J. Edgar Hoover, chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, upon which to. base this statement, surprising as it may seem. In a recent speech before the members of the Salt Lake Junior Chamber of Commerce, Jay C. Newman, special agent in charge of the local office of the FBI, quoted Mr. Hoover as follows: Sabotage has yet to develop as a serious menace in this war but aggravated horseplay and practical "joking, which accomplish the same results, are costing our war effort substantial sums every day in material destruction and wasted manpower. Mr." Newman also declared that there has not been a sin- gle act of sabotage in America- in this war, and went on to explain that the actual sabotage discovered has been far below the level which might reasonably be expected under the circumstances of this war. He concluded that many cases which first appear to be sabotage are really the result of care- hut they and their SOKOLSKY. take-hom- Wasjt counsel for first became . -- BY, WAY off-han- to watch the Interests of the quent litigation, with the union, which- - demanded the return of workers and, as . late a June, 1940, after Bioff had been reimportant papers, he said that he had $40.000'comlng and probably vealed as an underworld gang, more. Levy refused to hand over ster, Ji lavishly extolled the unions property untiV he was Browne at the convention of the mob in Louisville. paid $30,000 on Jan. 17, 1942, when the dispute was settled by The minutes of the convention agreement between him and the report also that In February, unions new counsel, Nathan 1940, Levy attended the meeting Frankel, who does the job for of the executive' board In Miami $10,000 a year. Mr. Levy, labors and that Browne there IntroducIdealistic friend, was firm, tnot ed him as an attorney who had soft, in his financial dealings with the or represented parent Browne-Biof- f the working man. union, on numerous occasions." The nature of In September, . 1935, after these services and the amounts . Levy had become counsel for were Local 306, the wages of the , paid .Levy by Browne not revealed. , ranjr and file were cpt 12V4 After Levy ceased to be counper -cent by reason of a conspirsel for 306, the local, acting on acy between George Browne disclosures made In the Browne-Biof- f and Willie Blofl, the Chicago trial, sued several motion hoodlums, and the employers. No suggestion Is made that picture ' 'companies . for the amounts which the members had Levy knew of this secret agreelost through the conspiracy to ment by which Browne and Bl reduce their pay.--- The petition off received a large snm. But charged the he was getting $18,000 a year employers with bribing Browne- and Bioff. Twb of the defendant companies settled Lowes for $97,500 and RKO r for $52,500. Levy may have had no ink-- . ling of the character of Browne and Bioff when he xpmimM hr1a ora th opinion In order prraent oil aldra of entrant goration. Thwv do not neeeearfl rtpwnai ike pinion of thio pnptf) AU the money in th world can't equal the value el your family. Yet only a pent . of your in- tome, invest'd it Lie hv auranre will rilfi'-- to tect them- - oaoinst Jwaot and insure the entay ment of food, ehe.ter, clothing, and education. e V See four liksntiil Reprcttntathrt today. (Th "My postwar problems hare me worried all five of them promised to wait for me! V torlttra own and ora poblUhid to Rome Offices leuAdai KUdin - flebw J. Grant. TresMent |
