Show i THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE SATURDAY MORNING In Spotlight — of — Established April 15 1871 Issued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION 90 $ Dally and Sunday one month 1050 Daily and Sunday one year The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere in the United States: 4 $125 Daily and Sunday one month The Tnbune is on sale in every important city in the United States Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office 1 Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning May 16 1936 Ominous Rumblings in Austria U S ss in-u- - Defeat of an Inflationary Measure the Roosevelt administration won a signal victory over element in congress in defeating the farm debt bill by an overwhelming vote in the house of representatives it may be a costly triumph It comes on the eve of a campaign in which auxiliary supporters of the new deal who have labored e five years to secure favorable consideration of the to resentment stirred their express refinancing plan may be Whatever liberal tendencies the president may have shown in reference do a number of reform measures indiscriminately catalogued as radical he has consistently and persistently stood firm Reinforce by President William" against paper money policies Green of the American Federation of Baor who wrote a letter read in an open session of the house declaring opposition to the bill “because of its inflationary nature” administration leaders in the house were able to line up 235 votesagainst the 142 members who favored the plan President Green was roundly 'denounced by the Nebraska Republican Representative Binderup and Rankin of Mississippi for his stand The bill provided for the issuance of farm loan bonds secured by mortgages drawing one and per cent interest to be issued by the federal government to replace private mortgages now claimed to be gradually undermining agriculture by the annual exaction of more money than the burdened farmers can possibly raise In the event that such bonds could not be marketed federal reserve notes were authorized to the sum of $3000000000 All federal reserve and national banks were to be “required to invest their available surplus and net profits after paying dividends to stockholders in such farm bonds” Clearly it was an inflationaryfescheme to flood the country with flat money and members of all parties opposed the measure Their success in defeating it is a wholesome sign It reflects a desire to remain within the scope of stability while tinkering with money It is doubtful if this marks the end of efforts to inflate but it also indicates a determination to shun inflationary commitments which might become uncontrollable WHILE Frazier-Lemk- Democratic-RepresentativFrazier-Lemk- e one-ha- lf Snake Bites and Snake Shows wires are wriggling with snake stones A TELEGRAPH in Los Angeles is under arrest for holding his wife’s feet in a bok of rattlers until she died from effects of the venom Such a wretch was probably hatched from a mislaid has been arrested for supplying snakes reptilian egg An for such purposes A Canadian snake farmer is fighting for his life after being struck by an adder Panic almost emptied a Montreal hotel because 12 poisonous snakes escaped from the box of an Egyptian snake charmer giving performances in a near-b- y theater The sea serpent is expected to make its annual appearance in Puget’s sound and the skeleton of a prehistoric serpent has been uncovered in a Wyoming fossil bed Nor is this all the serpentine information gleaned from press reports during the past week New Yorkers announce an opening of “the first snake show ever held any place in the whole world” The unique and horrid exhibition is being held in the Grand Central palacce' and its purpose is to raise money for the Staten Island zoo although its backers say that it is an educational display As there have been some 2100 different varieties of snakes already discovered with but few remote sections to be heard from the ex-sail- reptilian underworld may be well represented Red Cross nurses have established a' booth in the enclosure In case anybody gets bitten or conjures up from past experience an halucination of delirium tremens Many snake fanciers are expected to have their pets in the grand parade This seems to be the latest fad in the way of morbid excitement Apparently people have forgotten what happened in the Garden of Eden i By McCutcheon Highlights of New York As Seen by OO McIntyre By O O McIntyre By Frank R Kent NEW YORK May 15 — This column goes into another dervish ! whirl today Round and round yo Gelett Burgess has turned in a swell performance with his volume “Too Good Looking!" Changing his pace entirely In Esquire I learn Gobi desert is tautology Gobi is Mongolian for desert It’s The Gobi — ho-o- WASHINGTON May 15-- Th death of Mr A Mitchell Palmer recalls the fact that in 1932 Mr Palmer was one of the email group of Intimate Roosevelt friends and advisers It was Personalities -i- n— Palmer ? who before the convention as-- s e m b SHIFTING ignite Still smarting under humiliating relinquishment of power and territory at the close of thee World war suspicious of Germany’s designs upon her sovereignty disturbed by the ambitions of a royal representative of the old regime and menaced by the hostile heterogeneous population of Hungary Austria has been suffering from high blood ifressure for sixteen years The other day domestic discord approached a climax in Vienna when Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg was ousted by a political coup and Chancellor Kurt Schuschnigg a friend of the martyred Dol-fuwas appointed the actual but unofficial dictator of Austria The prince who has long been regarded as a close personal friend of Mussolini sent him an indiscreet message of congratulalt tion over the subjugation of Ethiopia embodying therein an to the League of Nations and to all governments retaining membership in that institution President Miklas not only sanctioned the dismissal of Starhemberg but authorized the chancellor to form a new cabinet and proceed with any reorganization plans in both civil and- military departments deemed essential to the welfare of the country Ominous repercussions from the African conquest are agitating Europe in diverse ways The nazis of Germany are jubilant over the failure of the league to enforce the only penalty within its discretion that of sanctions against a breaker of treaties The British government is apprehensive of the complete collapse of the league which English diplomats have found exceedingly useful France has an understanding with Russia on the north with the Balkan entente states of Rumania Greece Jugoslavia and Czechoslovakia on the east o confine the ambitions of Hitler Within reasonable bounds and keep also a wary eye upon il duce Ministers of these governments have concluded and declared In view of the successful invasion of Ethiopia that “no real protection of the independence of a smaller power in the event of a conflict with a great power can be expected by the smaller power either from the League of Nations or another great power” These Balkan statesmen have stood by the league loyally and have invited and permitted the council to adjust their differences and settle their disputes They have seen the league surrender thrice where larger powers were concerned — when Japan seized the northeastern provinces of China when Germany violated the treaty of Locarno by occupying a neutral zone when Ethiopia' a member of the league was annihilated by the very sponsor who recommended the African kingdom for membership With smoke ascending from embers of racial antagonisms in southeastern Europe liable to be fanned into flames by ifrecon-cilabl- e Magyars Croats and Serbs of Hungary it appears to its supporters that the time has come to reorganize the league for collective security-wi- th a dShiposite arm to enforce Its man- -' dates or abandon it and get ready for war Peace has never been more insecure in a time of ostensible tranquillity King Makes Page One Politics Mr the spotlight of evil portent from one place to another god of war is keeping mankinJspuzzled as to where of hatred will threaten the peace of the world blaze the next Mediterranean for a while it flashed to northover the Flickering back to the Rhineland and now its omito Asia then Africa ern nous beam is resting on southeastern Europe where the Turks arc taking license from fascist bravado and Austrians are piling up inflammable kindling for some international torch bearer to MAY 18 1938 1 Today’s News e d brought to Chicago the Roosevelt draft of the 1932 platform He showed that draft to friends before it went to the By LEMUEL F PARTON Considerable bipartisan support Frank R Kent resolutions committee Most of it was his handiwork and he was proud of it In the main it was adopted without change It was the shortest clearest most concrete platform In histopy and the completeness with whioh the candidate and the party pledged themselves to it were to use Mr Roosevelt’s own words “one hundred per cent’’ Looking Ahead The one' plank changed was the prohibition plank That as Mr Palmer brought It out expressed Mr Roosevelt’s personal views It g was a plank utterly unlike the one finally forced Into the platform by Alfred E Smith Governor Ritchie Governor Ely and others who held a clear-cIn all repeal declaration vital other respects the Palmer draft waa adopted The parts to the redemption of which Mr Roosevelt pussy-footin- ut most solemnly dedicated himself were those promising retrench- ment in governmental expenses and reduction of the federal bureaucracy It is now reported ' that aided by various advisers he is draftIn the ing his 1936 platform light of the fact that except for repeal the 1932 promises have not only been unredeemed but a record made which clashes both with the platform and the basic principles of the party— In ‘the light of that fact to frame the 1936 platform is clearly a tough job There are three ways by which it can be approached The honest way is to n state plainly that as Mr says Mr Roosevelt acquired an entirely new set of political principles after his inauguration that these conflicted not only with his 1932 pledges and the party doctrines but the constitution as well that these newly acquired ideas made It lmposslblsJto keep his promises and the supreme court has made It Impossible to put them into effect that he still cherishes these ideas despite the constitution that If reelected he will revive them and change either court or constitution— In other words do whatever is necessary to make them a permanent part of our system Lipp-man- As to Prohibition That would be the truth but the trouble is that it would be politically destructive If Mr Roosevelt made any such declaration he would be beaten in 1936 just as surely as he would have been beaten in 1932 had he avowed his purpose among other things of putting 300000 additional federal jobholders on the pay roll increasing the deficit to fifteen billions and doubling the cost of government The second way to deal with the platform is to explain failure to redeem the promises on the ground of an "emergency” and dwell upon the “recovery'’ as due to new deal policies adopted to pull The us out of the depression trouble with that is that it is obIt conviously not the truth flicts first with the fact that recovery is clearly not due to new deal policies and other countries which have shunned those policies have made a greater recovery than ours secondly it clashes with the openly admitted view of the president that these new ideas are not designed merely for an emergency but to effect a permanent change in our economic system That he has made abundantly clear is his desire— and that of the men who have most influence with him There is a third way of handling this platform problem and if Mr Farley and inspired White House journalists are to be believed it is The the one that will be taken contention will be that the 1932 platform pledges have not really been violated Reliance to sustain this contention will be partly upon the power of the government propaganda and partly upon the gullibility of the people It will be a false contention and the men mak- ing it will know it to be false They are in a position where they cannot tell the truth or be on the level with the people One of the worst indictments against Mr Roosevelt is that he has lowered the whole levefpf politics in America by his bad faith in the matter of his pledges It would not have been ao bad if he had not gone so much farther than usual in proclaiming them a solemn obligation And it is not pleasant to find individually honorable men whose personal' word can always be taken justifying his breach of faith on the cheaply cynical ground that “few public men nowadays take platforms seriously anyhow” If we have gotten to that stage in America there isn’t much hope for us has developed for the billintrod-duce- d by Senator Pops (D Idaho) on May 13 to provide a federal system of insurance for farmers against crop failure Even though time is probably too short for passage of the bill in the present congress the subject is of growing interest and will undoubtedly receive 'increasing attention in the future No general insurance against crop failure is at present availMore than 10 able to farmers billions in agricultural fire insurance Is now in' force and in some cases this copers loss of standing grain by fire Hail insurance is common as is tornado or windstorm Insurance In some sections notably the south insurance is in effect against frost damage to fruit but this protection has dwindled in recent years of the agMore than one-haricultural fire Insurance in force bai been written by farmers’ mutual companies operating at relaIn 1933 the tively small expense cost was 288 cents per 8100 divided into actual losses of 213 cents and expenses of 73 cents This mutual fire insurance is especially prevalent in the northern middle west also in New York and Pennsylvania Some of the insurance against hail is provided by a state fund in half a dozen states notably North Dakota The North be autoDakota system usdd-t- o matic That is the farmer was covered unless he specially exempted himself and his premiums were added to his tax bill Now the North Dakota farmer must apply in order to be covered by the state hall insurance lf The Public Forum Tariff Policies On the Grill Editor 'frlbpune: "New deal ers” are censuring industry for not resuming normal activities Two fundamental reasons prevent it First our “faulty monetary system” and second and most vital "reciprocal trade agree- ments” based on plan Manufacturers find themselves confronted with tariff reductions which may measure the difference between success and failure of their industries Under such circumstances what incentive for industry to expand? So manufacturers only purchase raw materials from “hand to mouth” to play safe This is not conducive to increased employment and if there is anything more needed than ’“jobs --for -- worker S- the “brain trust” has not yet discovered it The “reciprocal idea” is a revival of 1911 policy when "Canadian reciprocity bill" was first considered But that was opposed to “new deal policy” in principle and apThat principle was plication based on the assumption that the end in view always is to be opening up new markets for American products by granting concessions to products of other lands What we need and cannot9 pro- - By Our Readers Forum Rules 1 Otters limited to 300 words 3 fa Wr'to on one side of the paper onlv 3 b) write legibly (at Religious racal and partisan discussions barred (b persons aspersions not desired must Writers true names and (a) sign residential addresses Only true names can be published 5 Poetical contribu6 Views extions are not considered pressed In this department are those of the 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 duce which Involves no loss of labor to Americans tends to Granting concessions on materials not produced in America that will not jeopardize our workers’ pay envelopes is a “common sense policy” adhered to by Washington Jefferson Jackson and Lincoln That is reciprocity real Americans believe In but Secretary Hull Insists the "most favored nations agreement” must prevail Thus gradually he is bringing about a complete reduction in tariff rates not only to nations with whom agreements are made but to all favored nations “New deal reciprocity” is feeding the paupers and laborers of By allowEurope and Asia nations to ing the favored dump billions of dollars’ worth of goods on America annually The Senator From Sandpit By Ham Park t Men’s fame is like their hair which grows after they are dead and with just as little use to them -- Villiers The other day at a motion picture theater I saw some shots of Senator Elbert D Thomas being interviewed The film announcer said it waSenator Elmer Thomas of Oklahoma There is considerable confusion caused by the similarity of the names and quite often the senators are embarrassed by being mistaken for one another But when aews dispatch says that "Senator Thomas D Utah) running his fingers through his flowing locks arose etc” folks out here know something is wrong TIRED I’m tired oh so tired of thq whole new deal Of the Juggler's smile and the Barker’s spiel Of the mushy spee’ch and the loud' bassoon And tlredest of the leader's croon Tired of the tax on my ham and eggs Tired of the “payoffs” to political yeggs Tired of Jim Farley’s stamps tti a my mail Tired of my shirt with its tail g I'm tired farmers to laws Of millions of itching jobholders’ paws Of fireside talks over commandeered mikes Of passing new laws to stimu- late strikes goose-steppin- And terribly tired of sharing my wealth I'm tired and bored with the whole new deal With its juggler's smile its barker’s spiel Der Lord out of all the available men Please fsnt us a Cleveland or Coolidge again —Author unknown to me NOTES ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT A scientist says that a jellyfish has its moments of sadness And 1 Imagine the saddest are when the voters find him out 0 “Our worst enemy during the summer though innocent-lookin- g to all appearance is the fly Beware of this pest On rainy days you may notice that some files sting Those are the stinging flies”— Medical journal So I’ve felt After all it must be pretty difficulty for a politician to keep his ear to the ground without getting his nose in the mud A political candidate was incensed at certain remarks which had been made about him in his home townrpaper He burst into the editorial room and exclaimed: “You are telling lies about me in your paper ahd you know it!” "You have no cause for complaint” said the editor coolly "What would you do if we told the truth?” Something I didn’t know beThe word '‘Rubaiyat’’ is the plural form of "Rubai” meaning “quatrain or stanza of four I’m tired of the hourly increaslines” And “slough” when refer ing debt tired of the promises still to ring to a place of deep mud or "mire as in Bunyan’s "Slough of be met Despond” is pronounced to rime Of eating and sleeping by governwith “How” When it means a ment plan wet or marshy place the pronunOf calm 'y forgetting the “Forciation is “sloo” We live-angotten Man” learn I'm tired of every new Brain Trust And then there's the Scotchman thought Of the Ship of St ite — a mere who chews tobacco after which he' dries it to smoke in his pipe pleasure yacht I’m tired of cheating the court by and then saves the ashes to use stealth for snuff h- - fore: made by cheap and child foreign labor thus forcing millions of Americans into unemployment IRVAN ROBISON 31 North Sixth West street Sees No Burden In Initiative Move Editor Tribune: Gan any attempt to enact law by initiative petition and ballot now post the taxbearers any great sum of money? The answer is emphatically no However there would be just fear of unnecessary expenditures were the state treasury in possession of large surpluses as the laws now stand The initiative laws which constitute the rules of procedure for volunteer citizen sponsors say that the secretary of state shail print one and a half times as many copies of the proposed law as there are voters in the state and that he shall provide postage and other mailing expenses to the county clerks But there is no appropriation fonsuch foolish expenses Besides prohibitions on any unnecessary expenses a recent law makes operative the board of examiners’ power to prevent the making of any claims against the state without their approval by allowing them to make adjustment of state funds for absolute necessities Another recent law makes amendments submitted to popular vote with modern methods of putting it before all the people via the newspapers It can be assumed that the legislature would have amended thle initiative law also if it had known of its existence Under these circumstances it is only obstructive to the sponsors of direct legislation to declare a prohibitive cost for submission of direct legislation to a voffe of the people By the initiative method we can organize lawfully ‘and peacefully to be both obviously and actually much more than of puMic costs We Utah people cannot allow the production of our stats to go to New York before it Is taxed while we beg for doles from the federal treasury D W JENKINS Tremonton Utah Civic Competition Draws Criticism Editor Tribune: A word of explanation of the Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers and Indian War Veterans’ organizations of the state of Utah Our organization was not organized for commercial purposes nor for money-makin- g but for the sole purpose of honoring our old pioneers and veterans of the state of Utah to foster brotherhood among their descendants and to promote an annual encampment of the descendants of the pioneers and veterans of the state of Utah At our state officers’ meeting held February 26 1936 it was unanimously decided we hold our 1936 encampment at Cedar City Utah At this meeting the matter of Nephl city advertising their “Second Annual 'Ute Stampede” linking it with the Blackhawk was denounced by all state officers present and the secretary was instructed to notify Captain P L Jones of the Nephi post that we do not approve of his actions in opposition to our annual encampment to be held st Cedar City The reason the encampment being such a success at Nephi was that our organization stood behind them 100 per cent and we expect Nephi and our organization to i Gigantic Risk forms of protection against specific causes of Crop failure have survived because the losses fccur only in a localized area But a general crop failure due to too much or too little rain too much or too little sun plant pests and diseases etc may cover a number of states General crop insurance therefore has to apply to the whole nation or at least a large section to avoid bankruptcy and to allow for successful reinsurance inIn 1917 and 1919 state-wid- e surance (private) against crop failure was tVied An Nilrth Dakota but faileevnen most of the state met agprqbural disaster In 1920 a largi private eastern insurance company wrote crop insurance over the whole country but the actuarial basis was faulty For one thing Indemnification was on the basis of prices when the policies were written and farm prices tumbled severely that year The experiment was discontinued and its result has deterred other companies from entering the field These Prefer Private Plan Many students of the subject however feel that private insurance on a national or a sectional basis is practicable and is preferable to a federal system For one thing a private company could make the rates proportionate to the risk and could also allow for differences in soil fertility whereas the federal government could not very well discriminate along these lines The benefit payments under A A A in a sense amounted to crop insurance That is the farmer completely ruined by drouth still' received payments for having reduced his acreage When the AAA amendments were pending in 1935 a proposal was urged to expand the insurance feature by prorating ‘the benefit payments by the size of the crop reduced The farmer with a bumper crop would have been paid at a lower rate per acre for the land taken out of cultivation than the farmer who had a poor crop on land he harvested But the proposal was not pushed of p crop Insurance Advocates point out that agriculture is less able than industry to protect itself against lasses which are not related to personal efficiency stand by Cedar City 100 per cent as they did with us Cedar City is centrally located amid Utah's scenic attractions including Bryce's canyon Zion national park Mt Carmel Cedar Breaks and Boulder dam such scenery is not equated in the world now is the time to visit and see this beautiful scenery and to ipake the encampment it Cedar City the greatest every held It is the desire of the state officers that the captains of our local posts see that they take all the old pioneers and veteran to and from Cedar City without any cost to them and Cedar City will take care of them there JOHN J BANKS Secretary Sons and Daughters of the Pioneers and Veterans’ Organization of the State of Utah Still lives & human being so conscienceless as to make extra money biting off puppy dogs’ tails An unsolicited letter from him has been sent to the S P C A in his city I have been show- ing a Frenchman around What interested him most was the splendor of our five and ten-cestores Somehow this vagrant line from a poem has been taking me for a ride: ‘The cuspid hill yearning toward the crying sea” Much of my life I’ve been ‘trying to memorize those smooth flowing lines of Goldsmith They begin: “When oVely woman stoops to folly and ” finds too late that men betray Right there the valve of memory sticks Some of the most entertaining stuff is “Letters to Editors” departments Washington Irving once said every one suffered at times from a plethora of intellect and sat down and discharged a parcel of observations to ye editor Roscoe Peacock writes some dandles nt The Ham Tree - The heartiest laughs I’ve heard in the theater were inspired by McIntyre and Heath in “The Ham Tree” that classic founded on the psychology of human hunger In it ths pompous Heath described to his starving fellow track walker McIntyre the bounties of that wonderful land just around the next bend Where the hams grew on trees where there were rivers of brown gravy and biscuit bushetf! Recently I read an old Chicago Tribune office yarn Some cubs were sent into the Loop by the city editor to comb hotel registers for imposing names to interview All but one came back with bang-u- p pieces The lone exception reported he found nobody ly worth Interviewing Neither had the others but they used imagination It was added these resourceful fellows became notable figures mostly in the theater world and one was Charles B Dillingham But to assure readers the cub who came back empty-hande- d pretty well in life it was stated he was none other than Ffank A Vanderllp In fact he topped them all In the cartoon world there' is a standing joke about hiding by one trick or another things hard to draw This accounts for the repeated use of the high board fence —an “out” of even such industrious limners as Ding and Web- ster The reader imagines what is behind the fence The hind legs of the horse and the dog are among the most difficult to draw hence they are obscured where Hands are stumblers possible Also shoes Briggs loved to draw ears Just Plain Talk And most of us who juggle words chant an evoe in returning to the dispassionate remarks of the erudite in the encyclopedias Men devoted to plain statements of fact and insist on chucking emotion overstatement and the like Plain statements plain talk! How the old world needs them One of the original Armours— P Danforth as I recall— was strikingly plain spoken After he became a millonaire many times over he was in court one time and was asked his occupation “I’m a butfcher!” he boomed He hated false fussiness Once he said to one of the showy office boys: “Roy I suppose of all the people around here you could run to the postoffice fastest But heaven only knows what you’d do when you got there” There’B only one time I ever remember drinking coffee to stay awake I had come home drowsy and before dropping off got into one of Booth Tarkington's word pictures of the old college town Spreading elms Iron deer croquet the clop clop of hack horses The mandolin club wrestling with "William Tell" The lads at ths frat house harmonizing in “Ths Maple Leaf Rag" and "Dearie” around the piano I did not go to college but after reading Tark- ington I always felt I missed something In the Poet’s Corner in Westminster Abbey are those remembered lines "Life’s a jest— all things show it— I always' thought ao—now I know it” But I can never recall who wrote them And then there was that amusing Punchinello guide who used to intone about Milton: “He wrote ’Paradise Lost' his wife died and he wrote 'Paradise Regained”’ Unconscious humor out of the high-falutin- g Abbey! Copyright 1936 McNaught Syndicate Off the Record By improving its crossing time each attempt who knows?— The pew Zeppelin may become at an overnight bag Little guide to political rhetoric: The word after “vested” is "interests” The one following "entrenched" is "greed” Jack Johnson and Harry Wills say it will be a good counter-punchwho takes Joe Louis Others agree it will be old age er A little difference you may have noticed in the federal technique: The “G” man doesn’t pose with an arm draped fondly around the gorilla 1936 by the North Copyright American Newspaper Alli- ance Ins |