Show s THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE f Ijc lneeroun Record The Beckwith Special Aaencr Inc eattern edverlltlni agent New Vork St Louis PePhiladelphia Chlciio trol u Kansas City Atlantal M U Inc Pacific cout It Co Lot Anitlea Ban Krsnclsco Seattle Portland Porelan buretiit of Information of Tho Tribune art: No 1 Rut ttcriba Purlf rrtncti Pall Mali Den Linden 125 Eicelnor Hotel Hume 1931 London Berlin iiiit KnilerwD Qennauyj Fake Cancer "Cures” the public’ susceptibility In accepting as valuable the many alleged cancer “cures" It Is timely to repeat the warning of Lord Moynlhan president of the Royal College of Surgeon England and one of the world’s leading cancer specialists The British surgeon declared that "the cancer curer Is still a curse in every land and the most pathetic credulity as to hi claim is shown by people who should know better” In the 24 years’ regulatory operation of the federal food and drugs act the administration has Instituted more than 70 accancer “cures" In tions against the more than 40 Into enter fakes where rare such Instances Interstate comother merce today the government takes Immediate legal action under the law By reason of the fact that recognized surgeons claim there no scientific or medical evidence to show that any drug or combination of drug will cure the disease the governmental vigilance is worthy of unstinted praise The "eye” of our government in unearthing these fakes Is Dr J J Durrett who says "when taken in the early stages cancer may be cured by surgical treatment" He is convinced that the cancer "cures” results not only in economic sale of the loss to the buyer but and far more Important may give the purchaser a false sense of security at a time when immediate action must be taken if the disease is to be cured VIEW of ed 1 ed 7 ' The Senator from Sandpit Take a Walk BRITISH CENSUS (The New York Times) THE Orear'Brltairi71ms’done’o”mucji national stoclc taking and heart searching that one more assay and appraisal ought to make little differ ence But the recent assize was more than the ordinary scrutiny It was the regular decennial census for Oreat Britain and northern Ireland Obviously when the figures come to be tabulated and analyzed In the course of the next six weeks there la bound to be an added stimulus to national Will the results be conducive to greater cheer than has hitherto characterized the usual estimate of England Where and Whither? Only the facts can show An Increase in population La one of the certainties but that Is not an umnixed blessing at a time when Britons are asking themselves whether they have not several million people too many An Increase in working population will also be registered since the trend toward a greater percentage of the people in gainful occupations hns long been established In the latter figures there will be both gloom and comfort A larger working population means a larger army-o- f unemployed But on the other hand It does some- what brighten the picture to reflect that there are more Idle people be-in the estimate - was 44500000 about milone and three-quarte- rs lions In the decade instead of nearly two in twice that growth preceding decades The reason was of course In war casualties and a actual the THE FORUM lf U ' ‘ ng thea-incadlpw- ‘ - half-millio- n - one-ha- lf NEWYOIKP so-cal- er - Ip ’ — — Russia Those business leaders who predict rising world prosperity with good crops in the United 6tates have based their beliefs on precedent more or less History shows that recovery from most previous depressionary periods has begun In summer months when It became definitely known that crops would be larger than usual While such a condition this year would not be particularly advantageous or pleasing to farmers as & class because of low prices it would undeniably mean an actual In' crease In world wealth By taking such a stand these authorities are almost wholly discounting Russian agricultural progress- aslt might affect the world situation By weighing the multifarious and complex reports emanating from Moscow and elsewhere evidence would seem to lie heaviest on the side of those who are unafraid of widely heralded Russian dumping It seems only reasonable to believe tLit Russian developments along all commodity lines will be absorbed In Russia for some years to come especially in view of the deplorable economic conditions which have prevailed ever since the revolution Undoubtedly this continued Improvement In Russia presents a potential threat 'to American business and agriculture at some time In the future' but as In the’past our nlerchants and producers very likely ' will command their share of - world markets 7' - 1 during business depressions Henry Sell a Whitewater Wls boy who made good in the city Nothing makes a man look so awkwarde as looking at his wrist watch Lawrence can never remember names they say The town’s most highly educated head waiter— Eugene of the St Regis Walrus mustached white wings who wear- - caps backward and smoke bred dogs pipes upside down Well named Rob Roy Sign on a Seventh avenue lunch : “Cafe au lait and per Oer-trud- sinkers” A girl in a movie ticket a drag from a clgaret cage sneaks Robert Reud a Hickory N C boy wit h a pink camellia bud In his lapel Whatever became of sleeve garters? Jack Lalt who can turn out a short story faster than any American writer And Is a grandpa Nearly always’ e For many years when weather and permit I walk the entire stretch of the Harlem speedway out of the pedestrlanlo jangle and offering a straight away stroll without crossing Intersections Another regular promenader Is an elderly gentleman with whom I formed a bowing acquaintance And now and then we exchange opinions of the weather For several months I have missed him Today he was there again to bestow a friendly smile and passing hand wave And of such consequence Is even a remote contact with cordiality In a big city’s aloofness that I finished the walk In a sort of glow time two-mil- e state for the benefit of thousand of readers Just why we have to wait on Europe or a bunch of “foreign debtors for sn International permission to coin sliver at an ratio of 16 to 1? We would to know I think an editorial like on this subject would be of great value as the subject is of such monumental interest that It deserves handling by your editorial writer whom we all look up to and respect— and the west and east should know why a nation with $350000000000 In assets can not go ahead without Uie consent of Europe OLD SUBSCRIBER Crosby gathers much matehis 'lovable cartoon character "Sklppy” prowling about poorer districts of the East Side Here childhood remains elemental Kids are Percy rial for kids sans Eton collars coats and varnished hoops aoo- - ' Sr By Our Readers FRIDAY and SATURDAY SPECIALS JSK”- - CasUegatc Halibut Frying Chickens lb 31c lb 33c s lj-- j Young tender gian Harei Bel- 29c T a t y ippetl ring Shad Roe 39c lb 54 lbs to 33c Fresh Fillet Sole lb 29c FrCSh EfJQSs Pabalette Cbesss Plain Swiss Pimento Pkg United Crisp Shoestring Potatoes pkg 35c United Spicy 10c United CINNAMON ROLLS doz E2nethU1 Sau- - Smoked 28c 36c £!? 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Ppnfnco AUIUI3V f JLlUalI prePrd Very fine and appetizing LB GET READY TOR i 23o BERMUDA WAX ONION8 SPRING CARROTS BATTLE CREEK A M-OHUKiEHnrs- -- Frrsh Tender Meaty Spring ' Forty-sevent- lb 29c 6 lb average Utah - - to 5 Giant Hens Freeh Northers Itogers Most Useful Man in America Calls Will Editor Tribune: When our opinion of any institution threatens to become too low we strive to think of something good about it and in connection with the picture business we choose to think of Will Rogers Here Is one In the business who is legitimately entitled to be called the most useful man In America Whilst others argue he rushes to the relief of the distressed — not as a mere publicity seeker but unselfishly as effec tively putting to shame his talented colleagues In Hollywood whose only participation in the drive against famine consisted In speaking a few stilted sentences over the radio But for his dally doses of pure unadulterated common sense we love him most No variety of hypocrisy or sham Is too subtle to him to detect and reveal and his greatest contribution to his lellow countrymen has been hts simple and understandable presentation of things as they really are This modest comedian is today greater than” those 7hT’industryhe serves He Is one Will for whom the industry never needs to apologize of whom the industry can be genuinely proud “UNCLE” BERT MARTIN FREE CITY DELIVERY 32c velveteen Crosby a few year ago very gener- a midget along West asked me to express a preferstreet And I hear they are Invari- ously ence for an original cartoon of bis ably able to make a good living de- limning— which Incidentally framed handicap spite thslr autographed Is one of my cherLads who drirt to Times Square and ished around dusk looking for a break And was possessions My afirst choice rural sun"Sklppy" viewing tho former burlesque comedian who rise and exclaiming: rIt is so beauroams with a clouded mind talking tiful I could bust somebody in the to an Imaginary dog Wonder how But Mrs Crosby had long ago fellow happens- to take up cracking eye” claimed that one and who could whips as a career? I love to pro- blame her? nounce Helen Gahagan’s last name Hurried dunkers In The Coffee Life had a cover— I think by Pots Over perfumed ladles who dab- Crosby—once showing the side yard of a ble in henna and call their boy friends village home with a tiny pair of ‘Sugar" Broadway is only sinister on a clothes line A after nightfall By daylight it is as tender flopping of about six frank and open as a county fair A stood at sentimentalist the fence gazing at them police dog drags a giggling chorus The caption was “Hers” No other girl along on tip toe and I’ve trotted through the Furtive felloes with bloodless lips picture Louvre Luxembourg and Florentine who are always perspiring Any mo- galleries remains so fixed In my ment a narcotic officer may tap them memory on the Shoulder I'm getting the creeps On a night like this I'd like This column Is couched today In to stretch out on the banks of the idle vaporlngs about nothing in parOhio under a sky eyed with stars ticular In such a mood were I a Watching a golden moon shed petals poet I might snap out a verse with along the lazy river Cr something the crack of a whip As It is I can Star gazers who occupy the benches only fumble along until I reach the in Bryant park these warmish nights end of the page which Is happily are cheered somewhat by a strolling enough right here you big stiffs guitarist He sings and thrums a short program without taking up a (Copyright 1931 McNaught Syncollection and moves on To further dicate Inc) 1 '4 WASATCH six-ho- ur of business leaders who attended the STATEMENTS of Commercs meeting livWashington last week that good crops this year In the United States will serve as one stimulant to general business may serve to becloud the average mind In view of the many reports coming from Russia' auYet because of the wide variance of opinion of thorities on what Russia may mean to the world most people are at a complete loss’ to determine anywhere neat the 7 exact status of Soviet probabilities Russian authorities and some economists are claiming that Russian farm development will In the near future displace the United States and Canada in supplying grain to Europe On' the other hand Thomas D Campbell who not only Is a gIn Montana but also an adviser to the igantic wheat-raisMoscow government on farm matters sees no demoralization of the world’s grain market by Russia within the next five years at least Any Increase- no matter how great he believes can only serve to supply continual rising requirements at home ' PHON one-ha- applied Brock Pemberton’s brother Murdock an art critic Phil Baker's “stooge" Mr Muldowney who thinks “puny” Is a small horse Dance schools pros- 4 ' 4 Discounting Russian Progress w Ship To An Points m Utah Idaho & Nevada We i home-lovi- i 1 1921 census showed an increase of ed ‘ Is genuine when A man’s (“Dick") Burkhardt writes It Is due popularity fact that he isnt to the office his In in that one of the boys aware of it has hay fever so bad that he sneezes a widow a time he passes grass every ofPossibly the dentists call their because “drawJunior came home from school and fices dental “parlors” too suggessaid that his teacher had called him ing rooms” might sound a “scurvy elephant” Upon Investi- tive a a gation I round that he had misquoted ANCIENT WISECRACKS her— she said he was a "disturbing element” No matter how clever a remark may be the chances are It ha been People who believe only what they said before under similar circum- stances Following I quote a numthat their big share of the reutms of such ber of interesting “wisecracks” a transaction Of course capital is have been dug up from the debris of wisdom: mediaeval very shy of Innovations unless as- ancient and sured a big turnover promptly and Nothing venture nothing nave— naturally Its cohorts are concerned In French enough wfl a law entailing either temporary or Through not spending — Spanish permanent loss spend too muchwater takes the form Many economic writers see the Advice like world debacle of Industrial depres- of the Vessel it is poured Into— sion as a direct cause of sliver’s de- Hindu basement On the other hand those vroday Is yesterday’s pupil— Old wise advocates of silver rehabilitation English on a suitable Lofty towers fall down with the and real ratio with gold Is the only way to greatest crash — Horace Industrial salvation— Indeed if not Speaking without thinking H heeded some kind of a world revo- shooting without aim —Cato lution will follow more bitter and Who moves picks up who stands devastating than the late war etgr ftrles up—Italian 4 He who toils with pain will begun to be when “brother against brother” will be the contestants! with pleasure— Chinese Our rich plutocrats would better The branch Is seldom better than seek a translation of the “writing on the stem— Danish the wall” now being inscribed and They who seek only for faults see cooperate With his 85 per cent breth- nothing else— Scotch ren who comprise a so essential a Tho way to make ourselves admired to be what we expect to be thought part of our economic structure and must be reckoned with I wish I had """ SocrfttCs more space to elaborate on Keeping from falling Is better than D P FELT helping up — Italian With perhaps 1400000 people In northern Ireland the recent count should give a total of 46500000 The reduced birth rate The war also showed In the excess of women over men In 1911 the female surplus was about 1300000 and the ratio was 106 women to 100 men In 1921 the female surplus was 2000000 and the ratio was 110 women to 100 men Our own federal census of 1920 showed an opposite ratio of 105 men to 100 women This Is a difference be tween the two sides of the Atlantic that may be found reflected In so- Why do they call them “blue” laws when they make sensible people seared? ' Rl O Great Britain than formerly cause In part there are more peooccupied ple who want to be census in June The last British 1921 gave Great Britain a shade In 43000000 less than population 1929 who was asked by his ach-e- r: “Does the sun ever set in tue east Harold?" “I don’t know ma’am” he replied “I ain’t never been no farther east than Denver yet are lull of stories about persons being “taken and the phrase- has a sinister meaning Like- 7 wise “hiking" Js a term gradually being accorded the sanction cial conditions and psychology - of good usage but it connotes an energetic enthusiastic not to In 1929 after the law say strenuous form of activity What has become of the good female suffrage on a establishing completely custom of "going for a walk?” men by lowering the equal basis with 30 there of from women age ”’r Bees and birds and buttercups roses and rock gardens trees' oting were on the registers 13655000 men Reader Tells Ilis r- 7 and trellises Fear hold no charm for the automobillst whose eyes electors and 15195000 women elec must be glued to the highway as he hurtles tons of metal mile tors The general belief that a genRules for Contributors Of Big U S Rail Strike election today would bring back after mile or outguesses the other fellow at bridge or crossing eral the Conservatives with a clear ma- Editor Tribune: On 1 letter limited t 8A0 words May 6 the OreS (s Write on one side of the PaThere Is exhilaration for him but not enjoyment jority Inover the ot her two parties is letonlrt b Writ legibly ¥ s) out railroad per sent Line Short on gon the assumption that Bees and roses and trellises are both exhilaration and en- - eased part Relirtoua sod partisan discussions women are Conservative voters by ters to Its local officials demanding (b) Personal aspersions not barred joyment and they bring health and happiness to him who Is nature— a doctrine not quite borne further reductions at once This will desired (a) Writers must furnish true names and residential addresses 1929 elecof the the results out content to revert to the somewhat by of pastime ef food faith) (b) These mean evidence reduction as of manpower the tion It Is to be hoped that the Britn request except are withheld walking Perhaps It is a habit of older countries associated ish people In looking over the only for the reason that manpower Is where direct accusations are made with the green hedges and flowering fields of England or the recent national housekeeping bal- now so reduced that the few who are acalnst Individuals or eorporatlons when the true names must be printfind support lor a cour- working are working overtime which storied beauties of the continent But it may well find oppor- - ances will ed S Poetical contributions ar not and hopeful attack upon calls for time and ageous considered Views expressed in in modern Salt i their problem tunlty to satisfy in full its moderate demands which In all conthis department ar those of the Eyery railroad In the United States ' ' contributors and do not necessarily 7 Is following this same course and science are serious enough Lake City reflect the view of The Tribune T with only one object In view namely The department earn not be used as Take a walk among the shady streets) and the hlossortilpg j j 0 REVERSING JUDGE tLYDSEY within the next sixty days all railThe an advertising medium shrubs of that part of Salt Lake just north of the university Forum doss not eoatt more than “How Is ft I seen Jones and his road men will be called upon to take from week one the contribution ft cut campus Watch the progress week by week of the landscaping former Wife together so much lately? a wage lent contributor This I presume is In line with their were I they separated” thought at the capltol grounds and of Memory park adjacent Stroll “Oh theirs Is a companionate di- promise to Hoover to keep all men employed If possible along the bench lands rapidly filling up with beautiful and vorce”— Boston Transcript The wage reduction Is a nation- lion workers who are neither emcitmodem homes well kept by a prosperous wide move engineered by Wall street ployes nor members of their organFEEDING THE FELINE Enjoy the pleasures ol Liberty park or any one of a izenry and the powers that be however izations Hostess—' "Aren't you afraid your cut will While no doubt the Listen to dozen others of the dty’s playgrounds 7 husband witl- - nfegtecv ihe !cSt-- WfjHe they are depending on the Ignorance be asked and some’ big wage bluffs will be of the employes In ana blindness lark’s song in the fields to the south’ of the used the United States government up you are away?” this through Gambler’s Wife— "Oh no Bill al- carrying an adjacent canyon if you have a Saturday or a Sunday after- -' In my estimation they are not go- will not let the railroads force a ways likes to see plenty In the kitty” ing to put this wage cut over not be- strike or even cause a strike noon off Take time to examine the interesting things natural — A railroad strike at this time would Boston Transcript cause the employes are strong enough and artificial assembled for your pleasure at the City and to stop them but because there Is at be a spark In a keg of powder A1X that is necessary at this time EARFUL CHEERFUL LITTLE this time a communists County building grounds 7 Admire the velvet lawns around some In the United States and ten million to set off the keg of powder would be The orators no longer rage of the stately old homes on South Temple street View from more hungry laborers W'ho are willing a reproduction of the outlaw strike To get the center of the stage 1920 or the shopmen’s strike of the north bench the sunset over Oreat Salt lake or from the Even now sounds forth a mighty to Jump at any form of government of ever think that our tone that is different from what we have 1922 and I don’t east watch the lights as they begin to sparkle light diamonds cries “Give me that mtcro- In other words the railroad employes government Is going to let anything And of kind over tha city 7 that A7 7 happen and organizations are fully protected phone I" And when the wage reduction is mtl- at this time by ten and Take your time about it Walk Don’t ride Don’t rush —Washington Star asked the employes should come T You will learn to appreciate just how beautiful the city is back with a demand for a day and double time for overtime You will gather an intimate and real knowledge of Its progress A HAS BEEN ' You will b$ satisfied that4 you live in a community where the people are proud of their homes Old Subscriber Asks You will gather health contentment joy And you will be Information on Silver the touch of romance to a crowded HEW YORK May a better citizen he wears a black velveteen while strolling: Who remembers when square tam And looks like Wallace Beery Editor Tribune: Will you kindly to fresh cuts? cobwebs were NEWSPAPERS SlrTPHarold The attack on the San liquor supply by hlgh- Jackersmay demonstrate to the rest of the world that the United States has been’ dried and found wanting -- Happiness Is a flivver that has to be cranked up but trouble has a self starter that has never failed to work embassy’ The Tribune li a eharter member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation! 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