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TRIBUNB PPBUSHINO CO Salt Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning April !t 7 1936 13 SEQUEL TO CONFERENCE BOLT The Great Game of By MORRIS SPOTLIGHT Crime Cost and the Taxpayers — By LEMUEL F PARTON— ' Special Dispatch to The Tribune Copyright 1936 NEW YORK April admits defeat In the fight against opium unless new methods are found The League of Nations lists 62 licensed factories in Japan Germany Switzerland Austria France Britain and the United States The eeepage Into illicit trade Is beyond estimate and coneneva TP7ITH final disposal of three celebrated murder cases during ’’ the past few days recording one acquittal by a sympathetic jury one dismissal for apparent futility of further prose- the public is pondering cution and one execution present methods of conducting criminal cases Tedious trials technical flaws in proceedings rehearings appeals reversals and disagreements of jurors have a tendency to discredit the domination of justice and to encourage a mob spirit that occasionally inflicts punishment without deliberation or respect for the- - majesty of law Of course in this era of lavish expenditures of both private and public monies the cost of crime is beginning to demand consideration Potential criminals need to be saved and crimes prevented while actual criminals are to be apprehended tried convicted and punished It is estimated that $13000000000 of public funds is the annual outlay for pursuit apd punishment of malefactors that robberies and forgeries cause the loss of not less than $5000000000 per year and crooks” clean up $25000-00000- 0 that confidence men and “top-hThese are official a year on fraudulent “securities” statistics While deliberate riflirder claims anayarage of over 13000 victims per annum about a third of then limber slain on our highways in the same length of time the urge to kill fellow beings does not seem compatible with any conception of a normal brain Rackets and racketeers aside from their efforts to wipe each other out cost the people and the government according to estimates by Senator Royal S Copeland over $30000000000 a year in the United States With all our alarm and agitation over the high cost of government federal state county and municipal "each of us who toils for a living whether as day laborer skilled workman in fields or factories in the professions or commercial institutions in public office or private business gives one day in every week to the local and general government and two days each week to the demands of crime and criminals Many trusted officials have been suspected and even convicted of partnership in ' underworld activities Law enforcement is one of the most expensive functions of government and an ever increasing burden of the taxpayer The public is inclined to treat it too lightly to wash its hands of the disagreeable duties and civic responsibilities involved in the prevention and suppression of crime Nor is the average citizen disposed to give the agents of justice that wholehearted encouragement they deserve and the support and respect they earn over and over again and again Two partial solutions to the crime problem which may in the course of time relieve the pressure reduce the expense and minimize tfie dangers may have to be referred to the two learned professions of law and medicine Expert examinations of first offenders and such medical treatment as may be deemed necessary to restore or establish a normal condition of the brain or nervous system seems one humane ityethod of preventing crime and an increase of criminals - A revisal of antiquated statutes simplification of criminal court procedure elimination of technicalities through which felons escape and pettifoggers “push on to fortune” would undoubtedly have a tendency to discourage outlawry as a comparatively safe and lucrative line of business at Passing of William G Patrick of Utah’s useful citizens a son of pioneer parents an ONE business man and one of the finest gentlemen to be found in any section of the country has passed away in the prime of life beloved by all who knew him and respected by everyone with whom he made contact in civic social or commercial circles William G Patrick combined with marked music&l talent and sincere religious inclinations a practical consideration of the realities of life In youth he sang in amateur opera performances in glee clubs of bygone days and in the celebrated tabernacle choir he also became an active church worker in his ward yet he found time to develop a rare business experience to organize and operate a prosplrous wholesale drygoods company to participate actively in community welfare organizations to rear an estimable family maintain a model home and accumulate a large and loyal group of devoted 'friends In a kindly unobtrusive way he gradually attained his modest aims for beneath a poetic temperament and charming manner lay purpose and persistence In William G Patrick were embodied the best qualifications of a substantial and desirable member of any community The successful man who cn set his goal and approach it without ruthlessly trampling on the toes of others who concedes to qompetitors in the struggle for existence the same rights he claims for himself who rises by industry and stands upon merit Is the sort of citifcen a state can ill afford to lose Such a friend fellowman and neighbor was William G Patrick An Uninspiring Anniversary THERE was not much interest shown yesterday in the fact it happened to be the nineteenth anniversary of our entrance as a nation into the mosdestructive and disastrous The World conflict in which warring nations ev§pepgaged war began without a reason and ended without a' settlement of issues involved Conceived in a union of envy and egotism the spirit of animosity survived the perils of battle and still lives nourished on hatred and humiliation It is not the sort of anniversary in which the people of this republic find inspiration or satisfaction The nation was tricked traduced and tormented by mischievous German diplomats who sought to involve us in a war with Mexico by arrogant imperialists who extended the deadline to our very shores and sank unarmed passenger vessels with impunity by the activities of spies who undertook to stir up domestic discord and destroy American industries by open defiance and deliberate ' Insults that inflamed the public With high motives without a thought of conquest indemnity or material reward without a purpose except to serve mankind and defend the principle of popular government the United States entered the qonflict to help settle differences not bitter yet adjusted and may never cease to be subjects-o- f controversy This government loaned its allies ten billions of dollars and expended the sum of $21354867000 in preparation and action after the declaration was made April 6 1917 The whole investment of dollars and support of loans and sacrifices proved to be a total loss in lives destroyed and equipment abandoned in friendship and in money so that the only gain the people and government have reckoned is an evident earnest and apparently abiding determination to keep out of foreign entanglements henceforth and forever or as long as mtmory lasts and reason holds its own ‘ i y - b By FRANK R KENT Farmer Laborites WASHINGTON April the other day of the alleged and rather vague ambitions of Mr John L Lewis riting the pro-Roo- se head bellicose ve11 of the United Mine trol Workers some day to start a Farmer-La- b or party the discerning Mr Raymond Clapper asserted that Mr Roosevelt had beaten him to It Already he has Adopts His Report Herbert L 'May a New York lawyer who became a world authority on opium ii the American representative on the world' opium supervisory board He has just been reelected to this post and the board adopts hi report explicitly noting the breakdown of the battle against illicit traffic As counsel for a drug company he became Interested and in time widely Informed in this field Hla “survey of smoking opium conditions In the Far East” attracted International attention He later was appointed minister plenipotentiary to Siam and continued hie researches there He was a member of the research staff of the foreign policy association his other activities ranging through city planning food administration and flood control His book “Leisure and Its Uses” was published in 1928 From Cornell Mr May is a native of Philadelphia educated at Cornell and the New York Law school turned the Dem o c r a 1 1 c Frank R Kent party Into a Farmer-Labo- r party The truth of this is obvious and has been for a long time There has not been In our history a more open class appeal than that made in behalf of Mr Roosevelt or which Mr Roosevelt has made for himself - New Deal Iolicies Aimed at This Goal From the start the new deal policies have been particularly designed to evoke response from the farmers and laborers That has been the drive Hundreds of millions of dollars have been distributed —and still are— among the first unprecedented concessions have been made to and support given leaders of the latter The administration plan of forming a nationwide “worker-fanrtealliance has been avowed openly by various Roosevelt spokesmen at various times The most striking came from Professor Tugwell head of a governmental agency employing 12000 persons in Los Angeles last September but there have been others The aloof and reserved W A r" The Forum $275-0000- Irvin fourth president of the United States Steel corporation has been much more cautious about prophesying than Charles M Schwab the first president His current vision of something like a boom in steel Is heavily Mr Irand' happily headlined vin gives his views to the Interstate commerce committee at g Washington as it seeks data In passing Mr Irvin puts in a bad word for the Wheeler bill to abolish the present basing point system of freight rates No Hail Fellow As he moved up from the ranks they tried to tag him “Big Bill” but the name never stuck He is not of the chatty or gregarious type which induces nicknames and Id his home town Indiana Pa he Was a Western Union messenger boy at 11 and a telegraph operator at 16 His steel career began with a clerkship for the H P Lauf-man- n company at Appollo Pa He first hit the higher success plateau as president of the American Sheet and Tin Plate comHe smokes big cigars pany never meditates silently and shoots a conclusion until he sees He has the whites of its eyes-been president of the corporation for four years He went quite a ways with President Roosevelt in the N R A days but his practice is to make no unnecessary commitments— political or otherwise He acts and talks care- By O O MdNTYRB the ace NEW YORK April 6--AU A flutter a are la crooners money threaten old of time singers group to lope up from behind and crowd The them from the microphone first upset was caused by Benny Fields who couples an old tims ballady style with the modem croon As a result the street which for a couple of years meant only constant bailducking In doorways to dodgt with fams hla iffs began blazing Min"Your banners and lights strel Man” they proclaim And the minstrel motif is Indeed descriptive of the sudden change Honey Boy Evans were he alive could write his own ticket in cabaret or on the air The veteran John Steele thought incomplete discard is again climbing to new favor So are a half dozen others who combine the prosy art of the music hall balladist with the Rudy Vallee nasal style Frank Fay came out of undeserved obscurity In this sudden backwash And art critics Iryslnt A1 Jolson Harry Richman andcther must adopt favorites the newer technique to hold their started throwback The fans agency angling for Irene Franklin and even the old Avon Comedy Four was-wahe- rs I saw an unashamed snuff user in the foyer of the Biltmore the other evening He was of the old cane dating school a him and listening to an orchestral gold-head- concert with a chattery Katharine g He Hepburn-lookincompanion carried his tortoise shell snuff box in a vest pocket and twice opened it ehowilv for pinches which he carried with a seventeenth century laced cuff flourish to his nostrils A bell boy said he was a regular visitor from New Orleans and everybody called him colonel A Charles Dana Gibson double with goatee and thick stock of hair price-basin- Kaysville Writer Galls For Curb on Criminals Support by Groups Counted as ‘Sealed’ The spoilsmen politicians Df the Farley type in charge of the Roosevelt campaign frankly base their calculation upon the solidity with which the farmers and laborers are expected to support him Between the flood of checks from the A A A and the personal obligations under which the admin- ’ istration has put certain labor leaders these elements are counted as irrevocably tied up sealed and delivered Some in the inner Roosevelt circle believe the farmer-labo- r combination will be sufficiently solid and effective to elect with nothing else Their desire is to make no propitiatory gestures toward business and no promise of any sort Indicative of a Roosevelt intention if reelected to return to safe and orthodox ways For one thing they urge it is misleading and insincere to make such gestures and promises for another thing they might alienate or at least weaken the ardor of the farmer-labo- r support for another they are unnecessary Reelection Sought Without Promises Supplemented by the weight of the federal machine and the Democratic politicians who however personally out of step are compelled to fall in line for and political reasons Mr Roosevelt can be reelected without making any pledges he will have to break after election Such is their belief The more practical politicians however take the other view and it will prevail There is they urge no use taking Chances Probably Mr Roosevelt can be reelected against the solid opposition of business and professional people But no president ever has and inasmuch as there is no conceivable way to lose the support and of the farmers radicals it seems politically smart so far as possible to soothe the hostile business interests and keep disgusted Democrats in line by persuatdtng them that a reelected Roosevelt would be more conservative or at any rate that voting a Republican ticket is a dreadful thing— in brief to make goats of them Basis of Campaign Already Is Outlined In any event those are the lines upon which- the campaign will be allimade with the farmer-labo- r ance as the base Confirmation of this alliance on the labor end was furnished last week when Mr George L Berry professional labor leader and just reappointed “industrial coordinator’’ by Mr Roosevelt announced the formation of a “Nonpartisan Labor league” the prime purpose of which Is the reclection of Mr Roosevelt The movement is indorsed by Mr Lewis and Mr Berry intends to make it the vehicle for general Roosevelt support by the American organization has never before indorsed but one presidential candidate—the late Robert M La Follette In 1924— not it may be said with marked success Declares Bourbon Traditions Lacking The fact is as Mr Clapper says Mr Roosevelt has converted the Democratic party Into a Farmer-Labphrty Under him it no longer jias a trace of Democratic tradition or a vestige of Democratic principles His policies clash with the historic doctrines of the party as well as the plat- or form upon which he was elected Under him it is lncongurous to march as a Democrat d The Democrats are ridiculous and unhappy following label-boun- By Our Readers New York Day-by-Da- y TODAY Politics 4! IN THE Editor Tribune r Scarcely had the ghastly murders of last October been entered into the annals of Utah crime when we read of the criminal assault and murder of a decent young woman her body flung aside in a bleak deserted canyon Ruth Shaw is dead Fashions the cinema literature and sexual symbols are the hands of the assassin who clutched the throat of Ruth Shaw while Utah justice sits impotent before waves of criminality which clatter the structure of her civilization Brains are being developed by every known device of modern education and we are seeing these same brains at work in society in business and in politics without the moral restraint and discipline of a higher thought We are endowing this wonderful generation with a knowledge of facts but these facts are monopolized by sophisticated writers exploiting in books and magazines pagan (deals of thought new schemes of philosophy cynical creeds articles full of disillusionment and despair and immoral codes of marriage and social living At this time our country with its boasted progressiveness and its higher education leads 'even pagan countries in the number of its inhuman crimes It’s about time the parents form a committee to cooperate with law enforcement agencies Make every Forum Rules Itmtted tv - 300 word ) Writ! on on aid ot tha pab writ legibly 3 per only Rallfloua racial and partlaan dlacue-alon- a barred (b) pereonal aeperaiona not deelred 4 (a I Wrltara muat algn trua namaa ana raaldenttal Only trua namaa can ba 3 Poetical contributlona art not coaeldared 6 Vlawa expraaaed In thia department ara Uioae o t tha contrlbutori and do not nacaaaarlly reflect the vlewa of Tha Trlbuna 7 Tha departmant cannot be uaed aa S an advancing medium Tha Fomm doea not court more than one contribution a week from tha earn author 1 2 Lett-r- e fights capital but also competes with alien labor which in turn undermines the American standard of living Many aliens dernot Intend to be- come permanent citizens working here and sending their savings to their native land Many strikes and riots accrue from foreign agitators Too many come from the nations that are spending billions for armament and owe us war debts while the American taxpayer goes on paying relief costs for aliens No wonder capital can dictate wages to American laborers when capital con employ alien labor Unemployment means two things too free-bocitizen an officer of the much machinery or too many peolaw if necessary but don’t tolerate ple And by too many people means this free exploitation of your sons too many aliens or daughters’ morals It’s your exCapital in many cases is responsible for the alien problem Pracpense ARTHUR M PENCILLE Kaysville Utah tically everywhere one goes he can see this condition The foreign eleW R H: Your contribution car- ment is imposing on American traries a legal responsibility Which The ditions and standards Labor condicannot assume Tribune tions oan be made into a racket with alien labor competition It is no common wonder large and Correspondent Assails ungainly fortunes can be built up U S Policy on Aliens when alien labor is used and the American people consumers of merEditor Tribune: If a foreign foe chandise or services Why not use the Monroe doctrine In tinlform should invade this nation we would be up In arms im Internally? CURTIS E ALLRED mediately Yet with 8000000 aliens Fairview Utah in this nation everything seems to C M: See rule 1 be all right It is this alien labor that brings on sweated hours and sweated wages Also a half billion Present ‘Managed in relief funds for their welfare Is it the American- citizen’s duty to pay Currency’ Assailed taxation to support aliens on relief? Tha American laborer not only Editor Tribune: For 15 years our government has maintained a sys tem of managed currency Its management is appointed by the presl dent of the United States its owners are an aggregation of individuals its charter is international and doIt’s not made him healthy nor mestic and its business is hoarding the peopl’s cash in vaults and exwealthy nor wise But it gets him away from his tending credits to select interests Under representative governfamily” ment managed currency cannot Someone wants to know the exist controlled by a one-mdifference between mortar boards power Our president appoints the used by plasterers and those worn United States treasurer the compOne answer might troller of currency and members of by professors be that the former has cement on the federal reserve board to maniptop and the latter concrete under- ulate the gold silver and currency of the nation neath Things I often get but don’t The cost of managed currency to want: the American people has been about Advice $160000000000 in depreciated prop Wrong telephone numbers erty values $75000000000 through rn - The Senator From Sandpit Encouraging thought — Spring cannot be more than twenty-fiv- e cold wave lengths away — Life ODE TO SPRING and If spring would come and-far wide Weuld bring to life the country- side And carpet all the dales and hills With violets and daffodills I’ll make myself a song to sing In celebration of the spring For it’s not meet that man be dumb When nature shouts that spring has cotne! So up and down the town I’ll go And sing my song to high and low To rich and poor to great and Hell Dirty looks Trade lasts The opportunity of my life One more chance small Just learned that Clare and Jo Woods have keen transferred to Helena Mont What is Helena’s gain is our loss but such is life Sayonara! folks brute is not meet that man be mute The family gathered in the living room while papa qpened the afternoon mail consisting of one To one to sundry and to all For this I know and know full well— That when the spring in dale and dell Is welcomed by both bird and It an NOTES ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT Then there was the Scotchman who upon reading about the large number of payroll robberies cut his employes’ salaries ten per cent "Pete” Peterson Beuntiful says there' is more' power in friendliness than in force While there may be more room top I’ve noticed that I always get the bottom drawer of the bureau at the "Early te bed and early to rise Is the motto of old John Ham ley the new deal banner Supinely they bemoan the fact that there is “no place for a Democrat $o go’’ It would be far more honest if the convention which nominates Mr Roosevelt should drop the label and call itself openly the Farmer-Labo- r party That is what he has made it Copyright 1936 Baltimore Sun letter A hurry call was sent out for an ambulance by the neighbors The whole family was taken to the mental ward for observation For the landlord had written to papa reducing the rent “Do you ever spend a half hour before retiring thinking over what you have accomplished during the day?” queries a psychologist Why brother if it took me half an hour to do that I should remain awake the rest of the night thinking what a wonderful fellow I was Melvin Flegal says dancing is like eating and long been observed that man will eat anything and fight anything and now he’s getting so he'll dance anything an instinct just fighting It has Some men fear death They are called cowards Others fear the word "coward” They are called heroes loss of employment $100000000000 in products and goods and about $450007000000 as an increase In pub- debt Managers of currency have not overlooked their Interests in a monetary way On March 12 1936 our treasurer held a balance of there were $10170000000 of gold held for international currency managers and $8028011000 of cash held from use by our federal v reserve banks Our currency Is managed to" create unemployment and prevent small property owners from obtain ing money from banks Our government issues no currency for use against its gold silver or assets of the nation and specializes in Issuing tax exempt bonds in exchange for credits of banksThe United States has about four times the amount of gold it required to carry on the World war artd about three times the amount of silver and the constitutional right to issue currency and our government under pretense of managed currency with all the gold silver and assets of the nation must Issue tax exempt bonds in exchange for credits of moneyless banks J E EDMUNDS lic - C K: See rule 3 AHA! Banker: "1 have figured out what is wrong with this country” Broker: “What is it?” Banker: “We are trying to run this country with only one vice president!’’ t back-slappi- Ted Woodyard young publisher is an authority on snuff lore with a library shelf on the subject tells me snuff using is far from a lost art in America In 1934 for instance more than 40000000 pounds were used and earnings totaled seven millions The modern enuff users— two of the big names among orchestra leaders indulge— holds his pinch in his cheek Only the old timers actually snuff Included in the list of illustrious snuffers through the years are Ben Jonson Frederick the Great Napoleon Voltaire Talleyrand Swedenborg Lafayette and Mary Lamb So far as known Lillian Russell was the first American feminine celebrity to smoke a cigar at private dinners She never indulged in public Her cigars were midgets and especially rolled in Tampa Cigar smoking today among women Is no longer catalogued as curious Wright of the Social Register often lights up a man-size- d pana-tell- a Co-bl- na and handles it with Joe CanOne of the more sestars calms herself before curtain rise by puffing a fragrant Havana perfecto and there fully is a hoyden of the movies who burns rattailed stogies when wifh Conservatives seem to worry up friends she feels won’t "peach” One less about printing press inflaof whom ha ha told me tion and more about the vast and possibly inflammable bank reThe thimble pipe for milady— serves They 'fear a runaway wasn’t Irene Castle first with it?— boom Bankers credit and processors meet In the New York made a fumbling bow several years but quickly withdrew Theatriforum of the Academy of Politi- ago cal press agents worked overtime cal Sciences to suggest means of exploiting' pews pictures of chorines control lighting up Avenue tobacconists As to Inflation displayed various models in their Professor James Harvey Rog- windows and a literary lady who ers of the Yale faculty of ecohad just authored a risque book apnomics finds that the federal rehere and there with one But serve board has power to raise peared the idea was a mild flurry that died reserve requirements and check dangerous inflation but he doubts whether it can be used The govMany of the heaviest male cigar ernment he concludes must leave smokers are of the stage Such as thqj door open for heavy borrowOf the moderns Frisco JohnDreiy ing to meet its exigent problems with his “heaters” probably tops the He finds the prospect of inflation list lighting one upon awakening "very grave indeed” chain fashion until he He is an authority His book and puffing off the bed lamp at night snaps in of "The Process Inflation Joe Jr is a runntrup selFrance” is a searching and deep- dom Laurie one in full glow Robwithout bely grounded study of the ert Woolsey is another aa is Bobby havior of uncontrolled money Clark And of course there are He is the author of many monoGeorge Jessel and Francis Albertan-- ti books in this and theses graphs who puff the fastest longest field He is a native of South fiercest made One after anCarolina with a Yale doctorate and He began his distinguished aca- other Awk! demic career as an Instructor Tm wondering what will happen in economics at the University to the male garter business Most of Missouri of my friends as well as myself use elongated hosiery with woven elastic bands at the top to hold them in a place King Edward kicked the idea onto the first pages when he revealed a garterless calf at an inBy FRANK A GARBUTT dustrial exhibit The - change just Qopy right 1936 by the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc about shears my only distinction I cannot make my own living For a number of jears I was bead am a mining engineer by education man of the Sidewalk Garter Drag-ge- rs a millwright by trade a fair car penter a mediocre machinist agood Copyright 1936 McNaught oil well driller have farmed for ten Syndicate have am salesman a fair and years sold stories for as much as twenty five hundred dollars yet I cannot Sanctions and make a bare living without the aid Gondolas of many of my fellow men If left on my own resources tO' Times v From the London morrow I would probably starve and at best could only hope to eke Sanctions have given new life out a miserable and painful exist- to the gondolas It is announced ence from Venice that the local prefect It seems to me that for my own and podestas have banned the and taken out from good if from no higher motive should take an active interest in the the yards of the commune and welfare of my fellow men upon prefecture the whom for my food gondolas with their tradiclothes fuel light water and the tional and graceful black felza The gondolas of the old Venetian many things that are necessary to make my life safe and more or less aristocracy numbered 300 at the fall of the republic and the ordinary comfortable I know that most men whether ones about 3000 Latterly the pamechanics or the white collar va- trician gondolas had been reduced riety are not aa resourceful nor as to six and the plebeian to not more well equipped to make their living than 500 a melancholy unjust and unaided as I am and I want to urge unjustified decadence The motor-launc- h them to join in doing something to may be the Grand canal aid the others upon whom we are but the gondola is Venice he traf- all dependent for our welfare and fic the social intercourse the very of more Importance the future wel- soul of Venice are inconceivable and fare of our families unintelligle without iU Making non deftness rious women Living time-honor- two-oar- ed |