Show v KjtxDun rmvnmntfrinn v ‘“ THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE TUESDAY'MOIINING' MAE 3 193d" XrrB Established April 15 1871 TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $ 90 Daily and Sunday one month 1050 Dally and Sunday oiwyear The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere In the United States: 3125 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 By Frank R Kent more brings a unity which it is to attain under prolonged successes This perhaps is the dominant hope or promise of the Republican state convention in Ogden The meeting which marked the plunge of Utah a peace Republicans into 1936 political waters was attended by more sanguine campaigns and harmony rivaling The convention wisely declined to commit itself to any of the presidential candidates although a move was made to obtain an indorsement for Senator William E Borah of Idaho There solon has a following perhaps is no doubt but what the Idaho There are some preference in Utah which gives his candidacy and neighborly a hold sympathetic friendly others too who interest in the candidate who undoubtedly is friendliest to this part of the country All of this however is unrelated to political demand for the would accept Senator Republican ranks also embrace those who Hence a and for personal reasons Borah reluctantly party to Utah the to commit delegation sizable and determined effort is now which discord a hopefully him might have precipitated absent The convention avoided this difficulty by leaving the in any delegates free to act in the full interest of the party of entele The movement to abolish capital punishment seems to have loBt ground In recent years— possibly because of the spirit of violence engendered by the World war and its aftermath and also because of widespread uneasiness at organized crime and gangsterism Seven states which once abolished capital punishment have restored It five of them since the World war These are Arizona Colorado Iowa Kansas Missouri Oregon and Tennessee Bills of the Kansas legislators restoring the death penalty were vetoed by Governor Woodring (now assistant secretary of war) in 1931 and Governor Alf Landon in 1933 but a similar bill was approved by Landon in 19$5 Michigan the first state to abolish capital punishment defeated by plebiscite in 1931 a proposal to restore it This leaves only seven states in which capital punishment remains abolished: Michigan (1847) Rhode Island (1852) Wisconsin 1853) Main (1876 and 1887 after restoration In 1882) Minnesota (1911) (1913) North Dakota Several of South Dakota (1915) these still inflict death for treason or for murderous assault by £ prisoner Under the Hammer It interesting to note the various ways in whicji the Roosevelt press agents official andun-officiare trying to “soak” him One argument assiduously promoted is that the “interests” are back of him and he has some nefarious with the Standard Oil Another new one is that he is supported by “reactionary politicians” who do not believe the party can win in 1936 and through Landon want to control the party machinery in 1940 Still another is that he is Is al life-ter- m Only for Murder connection just a poor Kansas dumbbell selected by some very sinister creatures whoso main Idea in Ijfe is to oppress the poor All these arguments tend to become ridiculous when they encounter the facts and the chief reliance of the new dealers in their campaign is not upon them Rather it is upon the “candidacy” of Senator Borah As the convention draws near certain facts about Mr Borah’s anti-Land- Ethiopian Capital Captured J ardent clear the emergency for the George W Snyder easily the choice of the convention a should prove popular and a post of national committeeman in the activities past have not commanding leader His political been pronounced but he is generally recognized as a man of ability and worth and one possessed of the qualities of leadership He should bring a new outlook to the Republican ranks in Utah which possibly is calculated to foster the unity which is essential to Republican hope and progress There can be no' doubt but what the Republican leadership can find a sound political mission in Utah at the present time Certainly not all that has been done under the new deal and the present administration is beyond reproach A whole lot of it invites criticism and ultimate reform in which the Republican organization can play a sound and constructive role The accord which attends the first Republican meeting of the 1936 campaign is a hopeful sign for the party Nothing at this time would appear more important to this party than unity United understanding of economic political and govemmenal problems is indispensable if the Republicans are to successfully contradict at the polls the philosophy and the effects of the new deaL all-nig- ht A-- Roosevelt politicians do not Frank R Kent think so They haven’t for months The belief of the Landon forces is that they will have not far from 300 votes on the first ballot and that their man will be nominated on the second or third It is possible this idea may not work out and an entirely different selection emerge It is possible the Landon candidacy may be dealt a damaging blow in the California primaries next week but at this time there seems considerable ground for the Landon confidence Of course effective work is being done in his behalf but his big asset unquestionably is the conviction that he fits the situation geographically better than anyone else ‘ Inexperience That Is Inexcusable American colony representing the richNEW YORK May The est phase of Parisian life continues to be depleted Not a handful remains Scarcely any of the social and luncheon club of Yankee membership carry on The Paris Herald's society chatter deals ? mostly with South Americans What has happened to Paris so far as Americans are concerned has happened to Monte Carlo Le Toqcet and the entire sweep of And the th French Riviera shops restaurants and hotels that depended so largely upon patronage from the States have hadcli-to close or winnow a different - the new deal journalistic allies heave rocks in hia direction It easily may be that some one else will be nominated but it is sometimes 'GNQRANCE of the law is no excuse” runs an axiom often 1 quoted Neither is judicial inexperience excusable There is an old tale of a carpet bag jurist who held that poker is a game of chance The western attorney for an arraigned gambler offered to demonstrate that his honor was in error After an session in chambers the judge appeared in court next morning broke and barefooted rapped for order admitted that he had played six hours without a chance wherefor he pronounced poker a game of skill and dismissed the prisoner Magistrate Anthony F Burke of New York City has just made a judicial declaration to the effect that "contract bridge is a game of chance and not of skill” It is very evident that the magistrate never sat in such a game It is doubtful if he could master it as easily as he learned the law The rules are almost as complicated as legal procedure the penalties are more binding and lasting than those he imposes from the bench the publications of experts are more numerous than law journals the bridge libraries of enthusiasts are as imposing as the law libraries of the police justices repeals amendments and interpretations are as perplexing as a legislative report and the combinations encountered in the course of an evening of contract call for the simultaneous application of intuition judgment mnemonics mathematics and courage which would drive a mere jurist to distraction “Game of chance” indeed As Oswald Jacoby says: “It may be a form of insanity but duplicate bridge cannot be correctly called gambling by any stretch of the imagination” In a political campaign there are a hundred elements of gambling where in contract bridge there is less than a fraction of one By O O McIntyre London's nomination at Cleveland is the increased energy with which the 5 1936 in charge of his army Haile Selassie was WHILEtopersonally k?ep the heterogeneous conglomeration of tribesmen who tendered their services to repel white invaders under fairly There are the Hamites of the south the Somali of good control the hills the Shangalla negroes of the west the Nubians of the north besides the Falasha of the central plateau who are of Semitic origin The ruling people like the emperor claim to be of Jewish descent but their religious creed is Coptic embraced by converts However in the fifth century they of St Mark to Christianity organized a sect called “monophites” affirming belief in Jesus Christ as wholly divine and not having had a worldly nature By reason of superior intelligence and the superstitious reverence he inspired Selassie has exercised a restraining Influence over the wild warriors within his realm that now the invaders will have to establish with force and maintain with garrisons Several times during the probably for many years to come undeclared war about ended dusky natives have given expression to hereditary hatred of all whites by shouting “Farengl farengi” meaning foreign foes and brandishing their weapons at every pale face in sight Six months ago press dispatches from Addis Ababa explained the difficulty Emperor Selassie had in preventing thousands of wild Gofa tribesmen from storming the capital city for the avowed purpose of killing all foreigners none of whom could be trusted according to their primitive intuition These Gofas with frenzied shouts flashing spear heads and rumbling drums tried to capture the stronghold of their allies last October to wipe out the alien menace and they have defied the ruler several times since Other tribesmen became infuriated and rebellious from time to time because of the killing of their women and children by airmen dropping bombs from planes The outcry against white intruders reached a climax immediately after the departure of Haile Selassie last Saturday Caucasian men women and children barricaded themselves awaiting the coming of the Italian troops Ten alien residents including an American woman a doctor’s wife were killed by stray" billets and no discrimination has been shown between friendly and unfriendly residents of the city Most tribesmen distrust and despise all white people alike With the fall of Addis Ababa it may seem that the conquest is about complete although the exiled qjnperor says war will be continued as long as an Ethiopian lives to fight Sometimes an army of 100000 men can conquer a land which it may take 500000 No government can afford to gartroops to control afterwords rison every town to preserve order and protect inhabitants against sorties by guerrilla bands accustomed to the climate acquainted with local topography and fanatically fighting for what they regard as their rights their homes their religion and their prlda of prowess with their fatalistic rashness and primitive courage One might imagine that Mussolini’s troubles in Ethiopia had just begun Highlights of New Y ork As Seen by OO McIntyre WASHINGTON May 3—Perhaps the best evidence of the Increasing probability of Governor The Republican Convention adversity -- Politics S U Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company POLITICAL - Tt In Spotlight — of — alt fake ffibuue Salt Lake City Utah Tuesday Morning May 'OriXiTrxnTtVia-rTVIiruTTXv- “candidacy” become clearer One that his most enthusiastic supporters are the new deal political managers his best publicity from new deal writers No secret is made that nothing would delight Mr Roosevelt and Mr Farley more than success for Mr Borah In various primary contests and the rolling up for him of a big convention vote is Age a Handicap ' From the day Mr Roosevelt had him to lunch at the White House he has been running with the new deal blessing They know of course there is no chance whatever of Mr Borah’s nomination So does Mr Borah They know now his convention vote will not be very large If there were no other reasons his age alone would be an insuperable bar to hie selection as a candidate What they hope and expect is that Mr Borah will have enough convention strength to havg a big nuisance value and that after she is turned down true to the creed of the professional liberal who can’t get his way he will howl to heaven about the domination of the “mercenaries” and “reactionaries” of Wall Street It really is an absurd situaDemtion Here is the ocratic administration busily engaged through its politicans and press agents in building up an alleged Republican candidate with the expectation that he will turn on his own party when he fails to 1e nominated And here is this alleged candidate bitterly assailing his own party hut saying almost nothing whatever critical of either the mart or the party he professes to want to turn out of power does seem that if the people do not see through this "setup” they are blind Indeed The efforts of new deal newspaper It writers to make the Borah look real and give the Idaho senator an excuse for animosity toward Governor Landon are so open that they would seem to be transparent to the casual eye The idea that It is dangerous to nominate a candidate unapproved by Mr Borah was originated by Mr Borah is fostered by the new dealers and promoted by a group of sympathetic writers At the moment they have raised the Borah hand against both Landon and Knox Another turn of the wheel and they may find cause for him to excommunicate Stelwer The game is to put the Borah cujrse on any candidate with a chance to win A more absurd piece of political fiction than that the Borah curse Is a deadly thing has not been put over in our time It is a tribute to the publicity talents of Senator Borah that he has been able to get so far with so thin a notion Copyright 1936 by the Baltimore “cin-didac- y” 'or Sun Exact Guide— These mountains are 2000000 years and four months old Traveler— How do you know magnificent their exact age? Guide— A geologist studied them four months ago and he told me they were 2000000 years old then —Royal Arcanum Bulletin Some states impose the death The Public Forum Urges Returns To Old Philosophy Editor Tribune: Unearned money has fleeting wings come easy go easy No wonder the government relief plan is a failure when half a dozen men consume the time to perform work that one of thehi could do You editorial "Utah Merits Further Distinction" calls to mind advice given by pioneers “to keep out of debt and be It is a surprise In our con- tinual borrowing the ‘the bonded indebtedness of Utah both state and local is the lowest among western states according to a report of the Utah Taxpayers’ association but is far below the average of the United States” Then why is that so many farms and other property must go under the hammer By ail means let us borrow up to the limit while borrowing is good and spend the money like drunken sailors! Because of hardships suffered By Our Readers by progenitors settling Utah their descendants merit a more and better distinctive condition than foolish borrowers have forced upon them Should the rising generation ever have a chance to enjoy civic life they must be g debt-fre- e Its sponsors In a farm locality is the place to lay the foundation by using a check medium their own plus silver money 60 cents and under the controlling agent of Thus it will enable resources them' to build industrial concerns which lenders or outside manufacturers are powerless to harm Proving te be a success where started other localities would copy Surplus wares of one place exchanged for that of another the difference to be paid in US money industrial prosperity takes place with all concerned J H MIDGLEY Eskimo? "My father was a Pole” "Really how interesting North or south?” — Pearson’s The Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park A politician is like you try to put your finger on him you find nothing under it— Austin O'Malley quick-silver- if THE BRIDGE CLUB MEETS Well girls if you’ve never been to a political convention you ain’t seen nothing yet! We went up to Ogden earjy Saturday morning and found the city all decorated with banners and welcome signs We didn’t have any trouble' finding the place where the convention was to be held because there was a band playing in front of it Besides there was a sign which said: "Double Feature Two in the Dark and Corruption” and then a big banner just below which said: “Republican State Convention” The American Legion had girls out selling carnations end one political Candidate had workers pinning roses on everyone My husband got them mixed up and gave a distinguished looking gentleman a dime The convention was as they say called to order but I never saw so much confusion in my life Then the chairman who was a dark handsome man with the loveliest smile introduced Mrs Cleone Rich do you girls know her? Well anyway she's awfully awfully attractive atd sweet But it was when they started nominating people that the fun started One man objected to Senator Borah being classed as a Republican in fact about the only people that man approved of were George Washington and Abraham Lincoln And you remember reading about how pictures of Mrs Roosevelt being escorted by aome colored people were being circulated through the south to influence the voters against the president? Well they tried to defeat one of the candidates at the convention by showing a picture of him sitting at the same table with Senator King It was frightfully exciting The chairman pounded with his gavel and the delegates all seemed to want to talk at once When at last they got to voting many of them objected to what they called Salt Lake City's control of the delegation And as I said to my husband judging by the way Salt Lake City gets it In the neck when the legislature meets you’d never Ec-cles- think we controlled What’s the bid? anything Notes on the Cuff Department Things certainly have changed Instead of the customary well-oilmachine operating silently and efficiently the Republican convention was in an uproar a good deal of the time Saturday And when Arnold Rich Allan Tlngey William J Lowe and Harry Joseph spoke they always prefaced their remarks with the statement that this was a Republican convention They did that I suppose so that no would make the mistake of thinking he was at a meeting of Democrats ed late-com- er About iunch time there was a heard in the hotel It kept up so continuously that a number of guesses were made as to what caused the racket One man seeing Dra Bar-loFox and Joe Davis around said he guessed some dentists were demonstrating teeth filling Another noting the number of politicians figured a family of woodpeckers were getting ready for action Finally Chauncey West solved the mystery It was a man operating a riveting machine in the corner where some new shops are going Ala O O: Two of my favorite people are Mrs John Spargo and Mre Larry Dee Gracious and charming hostesses— both loud lobby rat-at-a-t- at w In the Hollywood Citizen-New- s Bud Landis discussed Salt Lake He says: City in hia column “First impression in this town is that the streets are so wide that a stranger really needs a road map to get from Curb to Then next In attraction curb are the traffic lights which whistle every time the traffic changes It’s a great idea but it drives the local dogs nuts trying to find out where the call is coming from’ Someone Is always taking the joy out of life Just "when plans are being made for the redistribution of wealth someone comes out with the statement that if the wealth of this country were to be distributed 90 per cent of it would be lost through the act of distribution Reader Gives Resume On Bank Clearings Editor Tribune: The checks debited in Salt Lake banks inft935 were reported at 3660647299 in The Tribune of January 10 last The clearings were reported at The checks which 3648247799 did not go through the clearing house were less than 2 per cent of the checks deposited for debit and credit in the accounts The Tribune at the same date reported the December 31 1935 resources of Salt Lake banks at 398377429 One per cent of the total 1935 debits or 36605000 is equivalent to 67 per cent annual interest on the total resources This means that a 1 per cent clearing fee or exchange charge on canceled checks would have equaled legal interest on total resources and would have made the banks quite as much money as their present loan and Interest practice But the principal point is that the public would be given a much improved and more valuable serv ice by paying a fee for actual check exchanges and cancellations than by paying interest on loans for transfer of deposits The banks would then become Interested in the multiplication of transactions producing wage and price checks because the more checks the greater the material for exchanges and cancellations and the greater the business and earnings of the banks There would be an end to complaints about overdrafts Wage and price checks would then come promptly to the banks instead of coming in from 60 days to six months later Every bill would have a chance for clearing before finding its way to the bad debt category or bankruptcy schedules Settlements by return of canceled checks could be made quarterly in order to afford adequate time for cancellation and clearing Currency increase propagandist propose in fact to abrogate check exchanges and cancellations That would mean monetary retrogression SAMUEL RUSSELL penalty only for murder Others add rape or treason or both Other crimes punishable by death in certain states are robbery arson train wrecking assault by a life prisoner poisoning perjury to convict an Innocent person of a capital offense and now kidnapElectrocution and hanging ing are about equally favored as the method of execution Utah gives the option of shooting and Arizona Colorado Nevada North Carolina and Wyoming provide lethal gas The federal government uses hanging Some of the smaller European and many of the nations have abolished capital punishment and in others it has Under the fallen into disuse political dictatorships now prevailing in Italy Germany and the soviet union the death penalty is used for political and even for Latln-Amerlc- economic crimes Both Quote Statistics Comparative statistics On mur-ders In death penalty and penalty areas are cited both by those who call capital punish-- a deterrent to crime and those who insist It is not Such statistics are probably inconclusive because the number of murders is affected by the cultural and traditions of the population economic and social conditions the mental and emotional status of the individual criminal drugs and alcohol and' similar factors The punishment camp insists that only the severest penalty deters criminals these days This group complains that life Imprisonment Is often commuted through political influences Against the argument that the state has no more right than the individual to kill it points out that the individual may properly kill to protect himself The opponents of capital punishment hold that juries hre less apt to convict when the irremediable penalty of execution may result instead of the remediable sentence of life Imprisonment This camp believes that most potential murderers do not visualize the punishment at the time of planning or committing their crimes that they regard execution as preferable to life Imprisonment and that they are deterred more by speed than by severity in the penalty non-dea- th back-gsou- pro-capit- al Opportunity By Frank A Garbutt Stops There “Opportunity knocks at our door Restaurant Patron—Hi waiter but once"— “the day of opportunity I' found a piece of wood in my is gone”— ‘T never had sausage False statements all Walter— Yes sir but Tm sure The truth is there le more opporthat— er—ah— tunity today than ever before and Patron— Don’t try to stall me there will be still more tomorrow off I don’t mind eating a little “This is your last chance"— “you dog when pork Is high— but I’ll will never have'an other opportunity be hanged if Pm going to tackle like this” is the “come on” of the the doghouse too— Pathfinder bunco artist I always decline the wonderful opportunity that is never He’ll Go Far! going tq come again The trouble is we dovnot recog Gotrox— I can’t let my daughter marry a man who doesn’t make nize' opportunity when we see it at least 35000 a year that’s what coming but it is easy to recognize after it has passed We Bee things it costs me to support her Splffen— Then suppose we com- that have happened much more I make 32000 a year clearly than we can foresee those promise you’d save money by letting me that are going to happen' Opportunity is everywhere It is marry her and then contribute 33000 toward her support— Pathright under our noses so close that our vision is obscured This is one finder reason why “distant pastures look greener” For Flavor Most opportunity Is created some Outfitter: 'Yes sir here are very little comes the boots for your polar expedi- Is discovered at our door although it tion Were you satisfied by the knocking often tries its best to indicate its exway with the boots we supplied istence Sharpen your facilities of you with for your last expedi- observation everything you see that tion?” is wrong may be your Explorer: “They were the best Ae long as anything is opportunity wrong and boots I ever tasted"— Pearson’s as long as there is a service to be performed there will be opportuWouldn’t Know If you don’t see It you alone nity Professor’s wife— A truck ran are to blame over your best hat! Absent-minde- d 1936 by the North professor— Was Copyright American Newspaper Alliance Inc I wearing It?— Exchange In the same fashiort the Amerart colony in the Montparnasse area has also evaporated The only fixtures are the Amer- lean newspaper correspondents and of course that lively old time sports chronicler the Incredible Sparrow Robertson Paris with its usual optimistic effervescence shrugs lightly and declares it’s only the depression Boom times and Paris will be overrun again But those who know say Americans are hep to other delightful places and it will take Paris the hussy years to recapture the old fervor ican Anna Hangs on Anna Gould and her withered prince still cling to the marbly pink palace on the edge of tho Bols He totters about the garden In a shoulder cape and she knits They have never bqen a part of the American1 colony but rather truckled to the royalist crowd Print do Sagan was once one of the flaming young bloods He liked to of the boulevards wine and dine the stage beauties and was the first Parisian dandy to encircle a huge diamond finger ring around a However -- four-in-ha- Diamonds for men I am told were in their highest upswing during the Ed Stokes and Jubilee Jim Fiske era Then a gentleman could sport a fair sizer sparkler without being classed & vulgarian There was a period too when It seemed all right for Nat Goodwin Owen Wlster and Bob Davie to wear diamonds Then the corner saloonkeeper make it his badge of opulenoe and gamblers' and crooks copied them' One of the finest homes In the Paris Bols Is owned by Pierre Cartier the New York jeweler But there’s a legend he stays at a hotel on his visits to Paris now As tho story goes he returned there after several years’ absence looking forward to being home again His butler after greeting him inquired how long he Was to remain His valet while dressing asked him the same thing and so did several other servants It was not the sort of welcome he expected and somehow he completely lost a taste for what had long been a pleasant home ’ Mourning Suite Then there was the "mourning suite” at the old Waldorf consisting of six rooms with three baths In it passed away the beloved wife of a retired manufacturer The couple had lived there since the hotel opened but when she was gone he could no longer linger in the environment But until the hotel was torn- down he maintained the apartment and nothEach year at ing was changed the anniversary of her death and at the hour she expired he went there and sat by the bedside for a brief spell just as he did when he lost her Keeping rendezvous with a sacred memory! Bill Hamilton has become one of New York’s perennial birds of passage and always on the wing A retired banker in his 40s his converted stable home In East Nineteenth street has long been a rendezvous for people of the stage and screen and the literati He has acquired that knack of entertaining by inviting people worth while and then letting them severely alone This formula always clicks While his base Is New York he circulates as frfVnlllarly In Paris and London and holds a state position in Lux- 3 - embourg where he Is considered the most popular of all Ameri- cans A Ring Lardner enthusiast in Enid Okla sends me a copy of a lyrical autograph the late author wrote In one of his early books It read: All my life I want to roam-- a Around God’s country Oklahoma Settling down at last In Enid Am I spoofing?— No! I mean Id Copyright 1936 McNaught Syndicate Off the Record American fine print likely to b gress by te tax 1: 249-pa- who don’t read the accident policies are represented in conows who don’t read lila Then there was the taxpayer who studied hlpiself In a bock beer sign under the impression that It was a mirror A theatrical pafer thinks a poll would show a majority sentiment for a returri of vaudeville In Ziincheck’S disRepresentative trict it already has Extraordinarily clever the Japanese: They buy our scrap iron for scrap iron not for “a late 1933 sedan In perfect Running condition" j “The return to prosperity is midway to the 1928 high” says an analyst Walters in night spots are again adding in the date but not the phone number -- J— Copyright 1936) by the North American Newspaper Alliance Ine f J -i- - |