Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE f!)C ’ Established April 15 1871 Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 90 $ Dally and Sunday one month 1080 Daily and Sunday one year The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere In the United States: J125 Daily and Sunday one month The Tribune is on sale in every Important city in the United States Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning April APRlt 20 1936 aa Men Affairs — in the — National Eye Jklt £al tribune MONDAY MORNING By O O McIntyre By Mark Sullivan WASHINGTON April 19— The current feeling that Mr Roosevelt Is In the lead as respects next N o v e m b e r’s election rests on facts but on - C T many of which in their nature are f I u c t u g The most tangible p r e index is a poll published in many newspapers last Sunday which said Originality Becoming Circumscribed at-ln- nt THAT is plagiarism?” asked a Missouri farm boy who had Out of War and copied an essay on ‘‘Keeping America a $5000 award in for committee Cantor’s Eddie to turned it over "II the a peace proposal contest When the article was accepted and New to a was d corn-fetrip this given youth winner announced docuYork City arriving just as someone discovered an original ment with identical words Confronted with it the boy said: ‘‘Sure I copied the article it was much better than anything I could have done the committee wanted an argument to keep could this country out of war and I wanted the prize money so I articles I picked out what I go to college In a lot of magazine thought was the best” misEddie Cantor expressed sympathy for the lad who had misinunderstood the purpose of the papers submitted and had But the committee was terpreted the terms of the competition Sent home where his welobliged to reconsider and the lad was come was more cordial than he had anticipated As a matter of fact the critical discrimination and the literary acumen made manifest by a selection from among many articles published on the topic of one- that pleased everybody concerned indicated an intellectual discernment that may help the young man to become either an author of best sellers or a successful politician in their expressions Very few people are entirely original and none with ideas in this age of thinkers orators writers However it is only and perpetual conversationalists once in a great while that anyone is sufficiently idle or mischievous enough to search the records and expose the duplication repetition or plagiarism whatever it may be labeled Lincoln’s famous appeal for “government of the people by the peodeath to have been ple and for the people" was found after his No one accused Parker Theodore before by uttered twenty years the emancipator of plagiarism Nor was Wendell Phillips so of charged when he repeated as original the eloquent phrases other statesmen of his time Disraeli was witty original intellectual and versatile beyond his day and circle He wrote a classic biography of the Duke of Wellington yet a translator of Thiers found that the Frenchman had said the identical things in the same words concerning a celebrated marshal of France The talented premier called it “a recurrence of ideas” and said: “Literary men may comprehend these psychological curiosities but the world never can" One of the old classic poets exclaimed: “I would like to efface all memory of those who wrote long ago the things I have written since” If in the infancy of literature it was difficult to avoid plagiarism two thousand years of thinking speaking and writing have made it infinitely more hazardous The aphorism that “there is nothing new under the sun" may apply to ideas and expressions as well as to more material things Plagiarism is none the less a theft difficult of proof but actionable in the courts and is not to be condoned or encouraged It is a form of intellectual dishonesty that needs to be suppressed But with a thousand hungry and ambitious literati searching the earth the waters thereof and the ether above for themes and phrases it is not surprising to see them fighting occasionally over the same morsel of intellectual pabulum wise-cracke- rs Now Reaching Its Destination of the most difficult and delicate tasks ever accomplished mechanical skill for the aid of scientific investigation is almost completed as the gigantic telescope constructed at the Corning glass factory of New York approaches its destination in California Since the first telescope made by Hans Lippershey in Holland and used by Galileo in making celestial observations in 1609 Improved upon by Father Scheiner and employed by Kepler in 1911 there have been many improvements in size power focal disc now ready range and reflection culminating in the 200-into be set up on a site carefully selected The molten glass heated to 2800 degrees Fahrenheit was poured in 1934 and kept gradually cooling for almost two years circus ring the packing for safe shipment As large as a Careful crating and across the continent was another problem a specially constructed freight car were necessary A route without tunnels had to be selected and armed guards accompanied the n mirror lens as it proceeded slowly from one welcoming city to another at the speed of 20 miles an hour' For the next four years the huge disc is to be polished by a mechanical whirling device under grinders inside of a bomblaboratory and it is hoped the proof cork-line- d Meantime telescopfe will be ready for use by the year 1940 astronomers will have to content themsejves with the Mount Wilson instrument having a range of mere 1800000000000000000 000 almost two sextillions of miles through which Dr Edwin-Hubbglimpsed the distant nebulae which has aroused some recent speculation When completed the great monocle will enable astronomers to penetrate celestial space for a distance of about 1200000000 light years being three times the power of the largest telescope 1 now in use More than 1500000 stars will be rendered visible and at least 100000 new universes are to be revealed — separate solar systems with suns more potent than our own Is is estimated that on a clear course an electric sign in New York City might easily be read from Mount Palomar its chosen location 45 miles in a northeasterly direction from San Diego The interval of space is about 3300 miles Palomar has a poetic sound that will roll easily from a babble of tongues over the world repeating in a few years hourly messages from there concerning the conduct of stars very different m importance from stellar reports emanating from Hollywood The cost of the telescope with its transportation mounting and incidental requirements will be approximately $10000000 JJhen it begins to reveal the secrets of unfathomable regions in the boundless realm of endless space the "big eye” may help to solve many of our atmospheric problems and satisfy longings for knowledge that have agitated mankind since the beginning of time ONE ch ot 15-to- le ' Corn Whisky and Dynamite Kansas City comes a press dispatch announcing discovery process by which dynamite can be made from corn The finished product is said to be more powerful than nitroglycerine While no specific reference is made to another explosive traceable to the cornfield it is assumed that this newer agency of destruction is almost as effective as “bourbon whisky” Indian com an American grain unlike the corn Joseph sent home from Egypt has yielded so abundantly in the United States that the market price thereof has been too low for profit except as the staple is fed to hungry or thirsty hogs in solid or liquid form Think of what this chemical disclosure means to the farmers of the middlewest! They have become munition makers over night they may not only furnish the sustenance but the sinews of war they can hurl ears of dynamite at foreclosure agents from the sheriff’s office they can obliterate city slickers who kill chickens along the highways by feeding explosive grain to their poultry This element extracted from corn this dynamic force of nature Is now called “inpsitol" It is apt to be called other names If it lives up to advance notices FROM v Mr Roosevelt favored by 645 per cent of Mark Sullivan these whom the poll asked to state their preferIs ences The deduction favorable to Mr Roosevelt is increased by the fact that it was the fourth poll taken by the same organization with some weeks intervening and that on each occasion the proportion favoring Mr Roosevelt increased slightly ever-spru- Will Ebb and Flow The expectation of victory for Mr Roosevelt in November will both rise and fall during the intervening months It has risen and fallen during the recent past About three months ago judgment that Mr Roosevelt would be defeated was as common as is the present judgment that he is In those three likely to win months what has happened to account for the change in the estimates of those who guess? The factors accounting for apparent betterment of Mr Roosevelt’s chance are mainly three Of the three the most tangible is continuation of recovery Reoovery seems likely to go on It will create among many a psychological condition of satisfaction with the party in power Yet if the recovery before the election reaches a point where the public mind is free' from anxiety completely completely normal that state of mind may lead to a calm examination of the innovations of the new deal If the time comes when those innovations and their implications are fully understood it is difficult to conceive that a majority of Americans should vote in favor of them Recede From View A second factor favoring Mr is the receding of Roosevelt N R A and triple A into the background Were those Institutions still alive and functioning few would say that Mr Roosevelt’s chancei of reelgction would be good Almost certainly the In creasing groups that opposed one or the other or both would if added together make a majority unfavorable to the new deal It is nearly a year since the supreme court invalidated N R A and more than four months since In proit invalidated triple A portion as those Innovations fade into the background there is increasing ease of the public mind There is a human disposition to assume that because they are gone We forthey are gone forever get that it is the supreme court and the constitution to which the increased sense of safety is due We forget also that It is precisely the supreme court and the constitution which are at stake in the coming campaign When Mr Chief Justice Hughes last week reached the age of 74 the ages of all the justices were as follows: One Is 79 one is 77 three are 74 one is 70 one is 66 onle is 63 one 61 Here is a body of nine men of whom six are 70 or more In the course of nature vacancies are likely to occur between now and 1941 Whoever is president dur term may ing the next four-yehave opportunity to make the court over That Mr Roosevelt would remake the court to his and the new deal’s desire few can doubt This opportunity that may come to- Mr Roosevelt if he is reelected through the mere operation of nature is only part of the extent to which the supreme court and the constitution are at issue The Republicans will be inept if they fail to show the country that resurrection of N R A is consciously and continuously in the minds of the new dealers that a regimenta tion of farmers as drastic as triple A Is indispenable to the "planned ar ay 0onrus The Public Forum Laments Modern Sacrifice to Speed Editor Tribune: The human sacrifices of the ancient Mayan civilization make us shudder with horror— youths slain under the bloody knife as they reach the end- of their journey after a life full of beauty and beautiful virgins thrown into the sacred well to disappear forever in its slimy depths — but just as revolting and useless is the bloody sacrifice of the youth of today to the god of speed! Last Sunday's terrible accident No one ever la only one example knows just how these things happen but the blowing out of a tire on one car may have caused it to crash into the other making scrap Iron of the cars and wreckage of their human load snuffing out useful young lives and bringing weeks of suffering and mental anguish to the survivors If youth could only realize that 70 miles an hour is dangerous even with no traffic in sight But to youth there is no danger only a supreme confidence that nothing will hapen that life will go gladly on And youth is not to blame! They learn by example and surely what others can do they can do just a little better Speeding to save time we rack our brains to usrthat time as we click off the dangerous miles and Death keeps pace with hovering wings along our way The ancient Mayans knew that courage in the sacrifice brought honor and they were prepared to face death calmly Must we steel ourselves to feel that when our loved ones venture forth they might be called to make the supreme sacrifice? More bloody than war more deadly than disease — and how futile our efforts to stem the tide of death by motor accidents BERNICE GIBBS ANDERSON - which Mr Roosevelt economy” still favors and that the new deal must change the constitution and reduce the power of the courts or else itself cease to exist Of all the conditions that account for increased confidence of the new dealers in Mr Roosevelt’s relectlon the most potent psychologically is the present silence of opposition to him within the Democratic party A year ago some of the most powerful Democratic leaders — Senators Glass and Byrd of Virginia Senator Tydings of Maryland and others— were giving voice to the most forceful criticism of the new deal made by anybody Leaders Lined Up At that time it was thought that the Democratic national convention would at least see a for midable protest against renofni-natio- n of Mr Roosevelt and probably a successful attempt to write which a Democratic platform would ignore or disavow much of the new deal Today substantially all the active Democratic leaders have fallen In line and are silent Such criticism of the new deal as comes from prominent Democrats comes from ones who bear “ex-- ” preceding their name Democrats who no longer expect to hold office and therefore are not dependent on Mr Roosevelt’s blessing But if expediency has compelled silence on Democratic leaders and office holders it Ls not certain their mute hearts have changed And to whatever degree officeholding leaders may have con eluded to "go along” with Mr Roosevelt in the campaign no such necessity of expediency af fects the large number of rank and file Democrats who in the November elections will vote anti-nedeal convictions w New York Herald Tribune Syndicate By Our Readers Forum Rules 1 Letter limited to 300 words 2 on one side of the paper only 3 (a) Religious (b) write legibly racial and partlran discussions barred aspersions not desired (hi personal must sign true names and (a) writers residential addresses Only true names 5 Poetical contribucan be published 6 Views tions are not considered tn this department are those of he contributors and do not necessarily 7 reflect the views of The Tribune The department cannot be used as an ad8 The Forum does vertising medium not court more than one contribution a week from the same author fa) Wr'te Talks of Taxation And Age Benefits Editor Tribune: At last we have heard one voice on the side of the board of public welfare It is the demand to play fair with the taxpayer In fact this plea might have been made by “the taxpayer” of the tribes that roamed these hills and vales when the old squaw was left beside the dying embers of the campfire because there was not enough to go the round But why the scarcity? In part because there was a group of drones in the community The proud buck laughed and lingered about the wigwam while his helpmate was the mainstay of the family Then who was the real taxpayer in the tribe? It was the one who no longer useful and no longer comely had no value in a world in which brutality and cunning were the outstanding virtues! e If the problem is a matter of taxation then the sexagenarians are demanding to be heard according to the real taxes they have paid But the more basic problem is: How far with our “peculiar” culture do we stand above the aborigines? They dare not say there ls not enough to go the round! Then I repeat why is there not enough in the treasury? It is because our savage understanding allows the drone to have his fling before the old people are allowed to live! Our state budget like our own Is the measure of our sense of value We pay for that which appears to be the most worthwhile under the circumstances If it is to be art while the old folks are in need then the silence of the Sons of the Utah Pioneers will be a monument without words upon our path of progress old-ag- A BORGQUIST Murray N C M: See rule 3a s easy-goin- vote-gett- er The Senator From Sandpit -- Post-Gazet- te red-hea- Off the Record Since he abolished Paul Revere and Betsy Ross we expect any minute to be told by Represents: tive Sol Bloom that John Hancock was illiterate A nudist slipped into Easter morning service at St Paul’s in London A thing like this can throw a fashion reporter completely off her stride A congressman from the west gives rolling 80 times a day as the secret of his abounding vitality Does he mean logs or personally? Once more dread season we approach that housecleaning time — when there’s no place like home even at home If and the conservatives take a walk from his party and Borah and the liberals from his will they speak a they pass by? A1 Cornell has found that It can prolong the lives of rats by feedHas it ing them certain foods thought of not doing this? Copyright 1936 by the North Amehcan Newspaper Alliance Inc red-hea- bouil-labai- se ts Hair-Raisin- ef ‘ ce -- bon-t6n- That Mr Roosevelt was favored by 845 is one way of putting it Another way would be to say that 455 per cent took a position which amounted to saying “anybody but Roosevelt” It is an advantage to Mr Roosevelt Just now that no one knows who his opponent in the election will be That “you can’t beat somebody with nobody” is an axiom of politics which presumably applies as much to informal polls as to formal elections After the Republicans have nominated their presidential candidate the newspaper and periodical polls will have a more accurate meaning Only after the Republican national convention has substituted a name and a personality for the present "anybody” will the voters be able to make comparison If the Republicans choose their candidate wise- ly there should be soon after the conventions a change downward" in the figures which now show Mr Roosevelt having 845 per cent of those consulted by the poll The mere affirmative popularity of any personality whom the Republicans are likely to nominate should be material addition to the 455 per cent who now prefer a vague and undetermined anybody rather than Mr Roosevelt Gal-low- ed Put It One Way to NEW YORK April 19 — Diary: Out in as sunny i glare as I ever beheld outside San Diego And near Scribner’s a constable Then sat with Ewing gave me a dusting off for in plummy palaver over Kentucky hams grits and pot likker ' greens turnip Home and wrote a long letter to Irvin Cobb the new motion picture star and packing autographed books to fre'ight to Ohio And came a picture from Dean Cornwell with an inscribed aentU-men- t that touched me mightily Then to Margaret Pemberton’s tea to the London star Gilda Varesi Dr George Ellery Hale’s faDined at Papa vorite harmony is the music of Moneta’s with my alady to moment talking the spheres which he never finds Marshall Neilan who has become sad The "grand old man of an author’s agent And ambling is laden with new honthrough Chinatown past Irving ors and garlands by seven faBerlin's old stand and back to my mous scientists at Harvard where ' Floyd Gibbons If the scientists ever tag the lodgings and Dean Ackerman of Columbia sun spot as cosmic enemy No 1 had called So reading “Tom which they seem to be Intent on Sawyer” for the steenth time — tornacurrent clocking doing does and floods for evidence — Manhattan’s most astonishingly they will assign much of the credlacquered newspaperman topping it to Dr Hale the sidereal “G” even the fabulist man who first showed up the Richard Harding Davie and sun spot for what it is The George Buchanan Fife great astronomers of the world was Algernon St "John Brenon a have lauded him for shoving who the in man’s understanding countless the Renold Wolf days on the into space light years Morning Telegraph They still recall the time Pierre Loti arrived Humanist Philosopher in America and sent for the press He is a humanist and philosoThere was no interpretsr and Loti a wider unity pher Seeking always in the fantasy of his fabulous of knowledge In 1922 he was fatigue professed to speak only named as the American member French and that in faint whisper of the League of Nations commitBrenon arrived late like a musitee "to study and suggest methcal comedy prince in afternoon ods of intellectual cooperation togs high hat boutonniere and alL throughout the world” He took entire charge and in of 70 he is the author Nearing French as voluble as pis English of books the and possessor many shot question after question As medal virtually every honor and the scribes trooped out David which can be bestowed in his Wallace heard Loti make sarfield of research He is a native castic remarks in perfect EngTU C— n Mubwr A4i fcrrW m educated at many of Chicago lish about the proceedings Anfl M Loti— roughed cheeks stained universities here and abroad and now director emeritus of Mt Wilnails and all— got a magnificent son observatory kidding in the papers next day Wild-man George Ade is in the last lap Former Senator Smith of his “Looking Back from 70” Brookhart the cowhide liberal of Iowa who once promised articles which many believe will ' Urges Tax for attain an autobiographical altl-- 1 his constituents that he would tude in American letters Ade All Surplus Funds to senate in the brogans'and go was the first columnist and the Editor Tribune: Those birds overalls if they wanted him to-ionly one I know to become a' that threaten to "take a walk” back In the running He enters the 'millionaire and landed gentleman Republican primary against Senshould take a sea "ride” instead although his fortune came chiefly ator L J Dickinson on a “guano ship” followed by from play royalties Another auMother Carey’s chicken doing the A A A All Right tobiography which makes pubhorn pipe Tell the ways and lishers expectant ls that of Ed This writer has observed Mr means committee that "all” corHowe of Kansas He has only J Brookhart around Washington exbe should taxed (no porations vision now but wants to go months the last three within apslight inwhich on surpluses emptions) on with his memoirs His prob-- ' parently engaged in build-u- p clude banks and insurance comlem is to learn to dictate That g work In his amiable panies Honorable bankers know this is way he has insisted that the A must come hard in the 80’s A A was all right but didn’t go fair and would not object alPersonal nomination for a most far enough It would appear that racketeers” the “money though exciting impersonation among the he is out for the votes veering will mimics— Norma Terris’s of Helen leftward In the corn belt They know too that the “averHayes as Queen Victoria Field defeat his After by Henry has victim been the t age” banker 1932 was Mr Brookhart for in One of the few public events of the money racket system (like to trade a time adviser special where J P Morgan moves about everyone else) and the "all poweRussia having been an early adwithout body guards and with n6 ' rful” of He vocate Russian recognition fear of usual brash overtures toTo “rhess up" the corporation entered the senate in 1922 achievtax now would be just “too bad” ward celebrity is at the annual Foreign stockholders were not ing so much prominence in his flower show at Grand Central palace He is a devoted horticulconsidered heretofore and there is denunciation of wet Wall Street dinners and the like that it’s hard no good reason to give them spe- -' turist and not only attends each to believe that his main outlines cial consideration now Their govday's sessions but always wins several prizes He is especially ernments would be only too glad —although bulky— have become so dim But he ls a sagacious to have us drive the Incomes out adept growing iris violets and once gave the rein the open to prevent escape from amaryllis and freeslas Every doubtable old Senator Cummins morning and evening at his Glen taxation from that source just the a grand trimming Even withCove estate he strolls for 15 minsame as ours Later if necessary out the eighteenth amendment as utes among his posies These are the matter can be taken up Just a springboard he may again make now we want a clean understandcontemplation interludes and servants have learned must under able corporation tax system with quite a splash in Iowa no circumstances be interrupted “no frills” JOHN R JACOBS Variety George White's fisticuffs With "Yes I like to give my husRuddy Vallee back stage recently L L D: See rule 3a band variety in his meals esprove again the doughty producer pecially at dinner time” is the scrappiest of his guild A do how The Cause yoik manage "Really bantam with sharp spurs When it?” Mother: "Why are you making he is crossed he lets fly with “WelJ I give him boiled ham faces at that bulldog?” gusto a throwback to the rough Small Child (wailing): "He but I buy it from a different shop and tumbling days when he was started it”— Torohto Globe every day” — El Paso World News known along Broadway aS “Swift the messenger boy!” There was that memorable premiere of his revue several years ago when as the lobby thronged with fashionables White and Lew Brown By Ham Park stood to? to toe in one of the most reckless slug fests ever seen outmembers of congress Forty-fou- r forethat time they were prac-gav- e side Madison Square Garden as much as $1 each to retically nil That the import of one 1000 mean a would or one cow of T Webster when H a distressed habilitate family pig Bagatelles: per cent increase from Tomaeight You see how it is when traveling registers Is that so? Well here are some A1 Jolson is reit’s their own money — Pittsburgh hawk Wis to In addition quanhuge figures puted to have almost his entire tities of pork mutton and beef fortune in safety vault cash And besides the fpmily lived our was also into there brought Ernest Hemmingway 1s a In the District of Columbia and 1935 267324000 pounds country in eater Arthur Hopcan’t vote 256525000 pounds of of hides kins was once a police reporter in cartallow 158758000 pounds of Cleveland Robert Ripley is I Would If I Could But— pet wool and 69762000 pounds of the richest American cartoonist Td like to haul the garbage canned meat Laugh that off being in the millionaire division In a huge mechanical truck Rebecca West’s next novel Is That would gather up all sorts Arrested Glimpses to deal with the litof things The three attractive young erary set In New York and will bs With a monstrous vacuum suck more fun women at the table near me Each a foil for the other— a brunette Td roll about the nation “How” wires a fond father from d The a blonde and a Through cities from coast to brunette has classic features — Portland Ore "can my son becoast a columnist without going rather severely attired with the come And pick up all the dirty things to any C3:pense?” exception of the jaunty little panFrom mayors to burnt toast Give him 100 yards of words cake hat with its white ribbon and let him go mad! —exotic mysterious d The The rotten politicians earrings— large golden loops Panhandlers swin dlers Her Copyright 1936 McNaught — fascinate me The blonde has grouches Syndicate me All can I towards her back owes me a living” The “world see Is a wealth of hair like spun Astonished guys gold and topped by a black beret And all the mental slouches A litile fellow was on a visit to I wonder with a white flower his uncle and grandfather who they are? Shucks my I’d zip the scandal mongers "Uncle” he said after his cold who i4 But all Right up into the mess had left the room grandfather food in the preswouldn’t1 neglect Of liars cheats and bunco men "how old is grandpa?" ence of such beauty? And then of course I guess “I couldn’t tell you" answered Dr Garland Pace of Provo and his uncle “without looking It up I’d rumble past my neighbors in the family Bible” W J Halloran engaged in earnest And pay off a personal grudge “My word!” gasped the child brewconversation Something's By sweeping two or three of them “is he old enough to be menbet I'll ing Up among the sludge tioned In the Bible?— Tit-Bi"Tinks” Morrison's brown sqit Then I’d roll out to the ocean No Prospects Swanky no end And dump ’em— what a splash! “Are you getting First Typist: I guess I’d get a medal ’cause Joel Priest Jr at a table with on well In your new Job?” I’d save a national crash a group who are strangers to me Second Ditto: "No I am’ not Judging by t£e undivided attenThe boss hasn’t complimented me I’d me leave? whom (You ask tion they are giving their food on anything but my work”— ExDo I see your doubled fists? I’d say they were politicians change Well I dunno— but yes I guess The blonde just looked my way I’d leave the columnists) g — Sancho Boy!!! “I told Jim all my past history Note to Carl E Hayden: Thanks Notes on the Cuff Department yesterday” "What did he say?” for the credit line My attention Someone says that the reason Incolumn ft’ called He just took out "Oh nothing was If to Nick our Imports of farm products a comb and smoothed his hair and I wondered but was flattered creased so much during the down’’— Montreal Star debacle was becauM b- - just the same Good luck jay-walki- slender quite facts and facts 20 1936 Highlights of New York-A- s Seen by OO McIntyre y MORRIS The Call o Spring |