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Show UTAH STATESMAN VACATION JUDD ENJOYS WITH FULL SALARY; COUNTY GIVES HIM WAGES THROUGHOUT SUSPENSION PANDERING CHARGE AGAINST HOTEL OPERATOR TO BE DROPPED; LIQUOR PARTY IN COUNTY JAIL RECALLED FIVE-MONT- H (Continued from Page I) turned the governor of this since EMBEZZLER RECEIVES $1350; PLANS TO countrytheyback iiuto the hands of the CONVICTED reactionary wing of the Republican APPEAL IF NEW TRIAL IS NOT GRANTED, For eight years they have party. stood empty-hande- d at the White House begging for concessions to proATTORNEY INDICATES. gress that they never receive, while the powers of concentrated wealth auccessfully guide the policies of practically every bureau and every departtreasof file Salt Lake T. convicted robbing county George Judd, ment Meanwhile the public press, from the vacation with a lias pay enjoyed ury, just I believe, but nevertheless efsame coffers from which he scooped $8000 for his own personal use, fectively, has become the medium of spreading abroad the delusion that unit appears. der Coolldge and his associates we official it'conls in the rouirty auditor's office reveal that the former his brother, former Treasurer E. J. have one of the most efficient and ecotreasurer drew his salary for that pe- Groesbeck, pleaded guilty to misuse nomicalis administrations of years. The rethat the riod from July 6, the date he was sus- of $680.32 and was sentenced to the truth been neither efficient nor has gime an for indeterminate conlie flee was oi penitentiary until from pended five-month- uncon-clousl- y s' Harding-Coolldg- term. Groesbeck started serving his victed on December 3. Computed on a basis of $3300 per sentence on Wednesday. Judd's defalcation occurred while annum, the treasurers salary, Judd drew down approximately $13C0 for he was redemption deputy under the "vacation." Treasurer E. J. Groesbeck Of rourse during the same period Groesbeck's rourage in taking his Waiter A. Day was serving as acting medicine" excited favorable comment, treasurer and his salary was the same, especially In view of the many moveso Salt Lake county taxpayers "con- ments of Judd in to escape the seeking tributed" $27u0 for the double deck clang of steel doors and the shadow of play. grey walls. County Attorney Wallace n. Kelly stated that Judd was entitled to his At Christmas and holiday times salary during the time he was under candlewax sometimes drops on clothsuspension and it was upon this au- ing and makes a stain. Such stains thority that the suspended treasurer usually consist of paraffin colored with was given the wages. pigment or dye. Remove the parafCounsel for Judd has announced fin as as possible by scrapthat in the event Judge M. L. Kitchle ing it completely with a dull knife, or usdenies the motion for a new trial, an ing a away piece of blotting paper and a apieal will be carried to the supreihe warm iron. If a grease stain remains, court. The arguments for a new trial use a solvent, such as carbon tetrawill be heard on January 21. Judd chloroform, ether, gasoline, was sentenced to an indeterminate chloride, or benzol, which may at the term in the stale prison but a stay of naphtha same time dissolve any dye on the was execution granted pending the riber.- Sponging with wood alcohol disposition of the new maneuvers. be tried if any dye reiuulns Will Groesbeck. chief deputy under may - Oath of Office Binding on a Catholic Above Any Other Call, Says Smiths Pastor A Catholic who takes the oath of office to administer the affairs of a community, state or nation. Is bound by his oath, no matter what interest, party or friend might try to swerve him from it. Mgr. John P. Chid wick, pastor of St. Agnes's church, declared from the pulpit of St. Pat- ricks cathedral. Mgr. Chidwick addressed more than ?Gb0 members of the New York Holy Name society at its annual New Years solemn high mass. Cardinal Hayes presided in the sanctuary and blessed those in attendance at the close of the reremony. Even if it could be supposed that a churchman should approach him for favor he would be compelled to stand by his oath of office and deny the favor. Mgr. Chidwick said. As this was the first time that anything resembling a reference to the present political situation had been made from the catiiedral pulpit. Mgr. Chidwick, who was chaplain of the battleship Maine, when It was sunk in Havana harbor, was asked after tfle mass if he had had Governor Smith and his caudidary for president in mind. That is just exactly whom I did mean, he replied. Mgr. Chidwick, who is pastor of the church which Governor Smith has at Arch-diocesa- n e economical. The president has achieved a reputation for silence, yet the fact is, that measured by the length of his speeches and messages lie has talked more and said less than any chief executive in many years. His fame rests securely upon an extraordinary capacity for doing nothing. When the delinquencies of Denby and Daugherty were pointed out to him, he did nothing. He sat for a year as presiding officer of the United States senate while the rape of the Teapot Dome.at the hands of Fall and Sinclair was being exposed and he did nothing. The historian will search In vain for a single constructive act of his p administration, and when the expenditures of the government are actually totaled on the adding machine, it is found that they are increasing rather than decreasing. Do you not remember how a few years ago. the press of the country was almost aflame with criticism of Secretary Daniels and the navy department? Yet the plain fact Is, that more sailors have lost their lives and more American naval vessels have gone to the bottom of the sea during ada single year of the peace-timministration of Secretaries Denby and Wilbur than during the entire administration of Secretary Daniels, Including the whole period of the world war. Secretary Daniela transported more than 2.000.0CO men across the seas without the loss of a single soldier, but Secretary Denby had scarcely taken the oath of office and reorganized the department before a whole fleet of destroyers ran aground on the Pacific coast. Such a disaster might be attributed to unavoidable accident If it were not for the fact that in the air and on the sea one disaster follows another while protesting naval officers are muzzled. The Shenandoah blew up in the midst of an advertising trip undertaken at the orders of Secretary Wilbur against the advire of its commander. That was several years ago. Within the last month, a submarine sent to praccoast of New tice off the Engla'nd in the midst of the raging winter storms was rammed and sunk with another great loss of life. Yet we are asked to believe that this an efficient administration! , I shall not attempt here to discuss the delinquencies of Daugherty and Forbes and Fall. The country knows that it is true, as Senator Borah of this stale has so vividly put it, that under this regime, the hand of corruption has stretched out to the very door of the White House. But I shall challenge the assumption that under Coolldge and Mellon we have had an extraordinarily able financial leadership. The fart Is that over and over again, the Mellon financial policies and tax bills have been repudiated by coiiKi'ess, and the truth is that credit for ilie reduction of the national debt does not at all belong exclusively to NOTED Secretary Mellon, except in so far hb CALLED BY he is to be congratulated for having wist-lfollowed the policies that were laid down by his Democratic prede- - Former Assistant Secretary of Labor resso rs. Under Wilson is Called I am well aware that such a stateby Death. ment will be received with increduWith the death of Louis F. Post, relous amazement in maney quarters so ported from the national capital on widespread has been the fiction that January 10, Democracy loses the servhas built Mr. Mellon up as the great- ices of a strong man whose activities est secretary of the treasury since have been a credit to the party for Hamilton. The proof of the state- moie than 40 years. Louis Freeland Post was a native ment, however, lies in not assertion of mine but lu the words of Secretary of Vienna, New Jersey, but spent most Mellon himself. In his letter of De- of his life In Chicago, where, for more cember 2 last, to the president of the than 20 ypars he was editor and pub1'nited States chamber of commerce, lisher of "The Public, which he charexplaining why there should not be a acterized as A Journal of Fundamenreduction of more than $2!.flno.OOO in ts! Democracy. He left the "Public." the tax burden this year, Mr. Mellon of which he was the founder and ownacknowledged that of the. two billions er, to accept the post of assistant secof national debt paid ofr since Presi- retary of labor during the eight years dent llarding aasuined orflee. one bil- of the Wilson administration. lion seven hundred million dollars was While assistant Secretary of labor accounted for by the sale of CHpItal as- Mr. Post rendered distinguished servsets which had been accumulated by ice to his chief. President Wilson, esthe Wilson administration to win the pecially during the period of the greatwar. est war hysteria, when government Let me read the exact language of war contractors were attempting to Mr. Mellon: deport as dangerous radicals, everyThe chamber of commerce laya one who opposed their grafts. At great stresa on past surpluses. Ana- that time, the steadiness and levellyzing some of the factors which con- headed, good Judgment or the asslatant tributed to these surpluses, it is inter- secretary proved of great value to the esting to note that, tf we exclude back administration. tax collections, less lnteriml revenue Prior to accepting the assistant secrefunds, and the receipts from the dis- retaryship of labor, and during the posal of such capital assets as rail- period when he edited The Public," road securities, farm loan bonds, as- Mr. Post for many years was a memsets of the war finance corporation ber of the Chicago city school board, and surplus war materlul. In the year a position he filled with such credit 1923 there would not have been a sur- that the voters of that city, regardless plus, but a deficit of fiD.fit'O.OOO; In of politics, counted him their friend the year 1924 & surplus of but $169.- - and gave him their overwhelming OCOUUO, Instead of in the votes. Ills most distinguished work year 1925 a deficit of $93,fih0.ro; In the on the school board centered upon year 1926 a surplus of $lti2.i,iii,nti0. In- his ceaseless and tireless effort to restead of $377,000,000, and in 1927 a cover for the school children of the Instead of Windy City, several parrels of ground surplus of $22I.O(,ii.UCU, $635, (M.'O.OOI). while the sui pluses of in the hpart of the business section, 1928 and 1929, exclusive of special re- worth between $10,000X00 and which, he contended, had ceipts from the above named sources, are estimated at $137.i rn.(i:u and been illegally taken by powerful pol$199,000,000 respectively. itical leaders and business Interests, These figures will Imnliy support from the rity. Mr. Post wss a member of that wing your contention that there is ample reason lo believe lhat cui tent reven- of Democracy which was, and Is. ues can be reduced by $l"n,ii o.ifi u per by such men as Tom Johnannum with safety. Or tin $2, (0,0(0,-00- son, fnmed former mayor of Cleveapproximately of debt retired from land; Newton !. Baker, secretary of surplus during the live llsral years war In President Wilsons cabinet; ending Juno 30 last no less than Henry George, editor, economist and Is accounted for by these rather of the Slnglp Tax movement; siNclal or temporary Items, including Willlnin Marlon Reedy, editor and no less than $900,000,000 from the publisher and founder of the Reedy realization of capital sssets. It must School of Literature; William Jenh conceded Hist there could Is no nings Dran and many others. e bomb-strew- tended since the removal of his legal residence from Oliver street to the Hotel Blltmore, declared in his address that a person assumed a great dignity and trust in taking an oath of . office. Your church teaches you that the man who swears to safeguard, protect and properly administer the affairs of a community, state or nation is bound by his oath, no matter wliut interest, party or friend may try to swerve him from it," he said. "The violation of an oath is a serious sin for which repentance and amendment are required before forgiveness can be obtained. It matters not who or what may be the persons or object to be favored. The oath to fulfill the office comes first and Lefore all other considerations. You Catholic men of public trust Your cliur'-know this obligation. will luld you responsible for every breach of trust against the people. She cannot and will not ask you to sin against the God she serves and bring contempt uiwn the name of Him you invoked to witness your fidelity lo the oath. Your sworn duty to the people roust be fulfilled. The church herself cannot and will not be an Influence which would in any way cause such a breach of faith. better application of the proceeds of the sale of capital assets than to the reduction of the national debt" Surely we can ask for no better testimony than that of Mr. Mellon himself! The Republican reputation for economy baa been built upon the use of the savings of the last Democratic administration! If as is thus completely demonstrated by the record of the navy department and of the treasury department, the Republican party has given us neither economy nor effl-- , clency what can It offer to compensate us for the gross materialism that has marked the last eight years? Mr. Coolldge sat silent In the vire-residency during all the active corruption of the Harding cabinet Mr. Hoover, who is now suggested as his successor, sat egually silent In the cabinet If Hoover did not have the measure of Daugherty and Fall; If he could hold hla nose and bis job while Forbes squandered the money that a generous republic poured out for the care of Its wounded veterans; If he is willing now to give his approval by his silence to the expenditures of the Pennsylivania and Illinois senatorial primaries, he is altogether too innocent a cherub to be placed at the head of this country. We need a president of fiber and courage and voice. .We need a man who is not afraid to speak out. We need a man with the soul of an Andrew Jackson. We need a leader like Woodrow Wilson who will reawaken the conscience of America. Such a man will never be nominated by a party that is controlled as the Republican party is controlled. Not a single aspirant for the Republican nomination who has a ghost of a chance in the convention has had the courage to denounce the tactics of the Republican senator-elec- t from Illinois who, as chairman of the public service commission of that state allowed the pub lie service corporations under the Jurisdiction of his office to finance his campaign. What would you think of a judge who allowed a litigant before him to furnish his, campaign fund? Yet that is exactly what Mr. Smith of Illinois did, and neither Coolldge nor Hoover, nor Lowden nor Dawes has had the sturdy Americanism to repudiate him! The preservation of popular government from the destructive hand of private greed is the paramount issue of this generation, just exactly as it was in the days of Andrew Jackson. Special privilege in those days was represented in the national bank which did not hesitate to engage the services of senators and representatives and which felt Itself more powerful than the government Itself. Jackson had the courage to accept the guage of battle when Nicholas Biddle threatened him with political defeat unless he supported the policies of the bank. Now again the Democratic party has the opportunity and the duty to resist the encroachment of special priviledge upon the government at Washington. The public service corporations that purchase aenatorshlps in Illinois, the gigantic industrial corporations that back the Vares and the Reeds and the Mellons In Pennsylvania will be happy enough if they can split the Democraissues. tic party on The world Is waiting for the leadership of America. Let us not be led astray, but taking courage from the Illustrious example of the great presidents our party had given the nation, let us. take up the torch where Wilson laid it down and turn our feet from the paths of materialism into which the Republican party had let us. rock-boun- d SPIEGAL PLEADS GUILTY TO VAGRANCY CHARGE; DISTRICT ATTORNEY WILL PROBABLY DROP FELONY COUNT. Sam Spiegal, alias Izzie Izner, has been sentenced to six months in the Salt Lake county jail by Judge N. II. Tanner in the city court following his plea of guilty to a charge of vagrancy. District Attorney E. A. Rogers announced Thursday, when Spiegal was at the jail. scheduled to go on trial on a panderThe sheriff reported that Deputies ing charge that the complaint would Douglas Naylor) Charles Larson and probably be dismissed for lack of evi- Sam Howard attempted to quiet the dence. disturbance and that the women were The pandering cnarge arose last No- finally subdued and placed In sepavember when Spiegal was alleged to rate cells. The four other prisoners who were have received a portion of the Illicit held under federal charges told earnings of Grace Moore, who lived being at the Alamo hotel, 143 West Broad- their side of the story to department way, a place operated by the defend- of Justice agents. Immediately following, Attorney II. ant and his wire, a and The sudden turn of the tide that G. Hlnkley, counsel for the Moore women, applied for a writ of brought about probable dismissal of Baldwin the pandering charge was a surprise habeas corpus, but the girls bad preto many who have been following the viously been released by the sheriff, ease. Sharp rumblings and "anglings" according to reports. Spiegal was bound over to the dishave been constantly rumored. The disappearance of the Moore wo- trict court for trial following a prelimman and her companion, Ethel Bald- inary hearing before Judge Tanner. Moore and Mrs. win, the two material witnesses was At that time Mrs. to the Baldwin testified alleged transheld as the reason for the lack of actions In the Spiegal establishment. evidence." The girls are said to have vanished Into thin air following their release In December from the county jail where they were being held by the sheriff as Finds material witnesses pending the trial of the Spiegal case. Expression The girls just before their release were the center of a federal investiMONTGOMERY, Ala. It is not gation, in which government female prisoners had complained against an likely that Alabama's solid vote will alleged Babylonian party conducted in ve cast for any candidate at the next their presence and in which the Moore Democratic national convention. state executive The Democratic and Baldwin women and deputy sheriffs were the alleged participants. committee has ruled that Alabamas The explanation offered by the sher- delegates will vote by districts at the iffs office was that the two witnesses next convention and that the delegahad been allowed to go to their room tion will go uninstructed and untramin the Windsor hotel to obtain some meled. Action was taken at a meetbelongings during which time they ing, at which a motion to bind the eluded the deputies long enough to se- states delegation not to vote for Govcret some liquor and then smuggled ernor A1 Smith of New York was the moonshine back into their ward voted down. Alabama Vote Liberty of HERE IS MY SUBSCRIPTION THE UTAH STATESMAN 111 ATLAS BLOCK, Salt Lake City, Utah. Inclosed find check for which please send me The Utah Statesman for months. :years SUBSCRIPTION PRICES $1 Year; 50c 6 months. Name Street City State DEMOCRAT DEATH y When Sunday Dinner Brought Folks Together In horse and buggy days Sunday dinner used to be quite a social event to bring folks together. Nowadays the occasional social contact afforded by Sunday dinner has been increased to daily visits by telephone. 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