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Jr n ¥ Salt Lake City Utah Sunday Morning August ii 9 1936 Whither Bound Civilization? ! 6 it IN Colorado a group of educators clergymen and business professional men banded together in an association known as the National Institute of Human Relations is trying to find some logical explanation for the existing confusion of the human mind It wants to know if there is an adequate and intelligent approach V’ the question of group relationships in a day of heightened emotions social and intellectual chaos and economic distress So it is that people have come to ponder the progress of civilization Civilization the goal of intelligent citizenship admittedly is at the cross roads Whither is it bound? Where civilization is bound humanity is going Leadership does not survive mass disintegration Individual security cannot be attained or retained when group relationships crumble and - fail There can be no peace Where'human emotions are motivated by selfish impulses There can be no human brotherhood where greed selfishness and intolerance dominate the human impulse Civilization it seems now is back in the dark ages of savagery When the discoveries of science and intelligence are devoted to jmean ends civilization suffers There is no civilization where there is no tolerance no human progress where there is not charity nor sympathy ’Tis a worthy cause upon which this group concentrates attention There is Propeed of an answer to the problem which attracts them gressive human welfare civilization if you please is dependent upon the nobility of the individual Civilization today presents a sorry spectacle Nations are torn in civil strife The rule of forces asserts itself in many quarters Might is right The voice and conscience of the people are submissive to aggressive ambition Peaceful nations are exploited for other nations’ good The governments of peaceful peoples make ready for war NaSuspicion and distrust dominate the intercourse of nations tional thought is at outs and international discord is bound to 'result Within the groups outlaws set forth on despicable errands bf death and destruction Our owh black legion selecting defenseless targets at random belies national enlightenment Mobs impose their will upon hapless victims in defiance of law and order Such is the civilization of the enlgihtened era Justice hides her head in shame while virtue surrenders to the futility of economic confusion Millions starve in the midst of plenty and political corruption stalks the land Where' is civilization bound? Where is this human desire to perfect and perpetuate the race? Where is this enlightened progress of which we prate? Where the humility and the gratitude cf righteous endeavor? Where the basic virtues with which mankind hoped to overcome evil and install a progressive civilization? Civilization has come to mean artificiality We must go to the woods the uninhabited places to find honesty of effort and Integrity of purpose Only with nature do we find a full expression of the principle of truth By escaping people alone do Ve get back to the fundamental philosophy of civilization Only 3n this escape do we find the comfort of tolerance for all that is gooH ‘'Selfishness human selfishness selfishness which knows meither brother nor neighbor is the barnacle of civilization viciousness and intolerance these are the fruits of selfish Endeavor seeded and nourished within itself Wherever goes the Individual there goes the race and where the race goes also goes pur vaunted civilization Civilization can be no greater and no better than the people who make it OVER 1 s 1 - Cor-tupti- ?T— Is The Great Outdoors 2 cities offer greater facilities for summer comfort than Salt The attractions of the beach and the pleasures of the mountains mingle here A short drive takes the Salt Lake resident to Great Salt lake which affords all of the pleasures of salt A similar ride in Water bathing to be found at seaside resorts another direction takes the Salt Laker into the coolness of the In Salt Lake there is always a means of 'escape from canyons PEW torrid weather “ The increasing popularity of our canyons is reflected in a recent count of visitors conducted by the U S forest service During the month of July according to this count 51000 people visited Big Cottonwood canyon alone Other canyons City creek Modern Parley’s and Emigration likewise drew liberal patronage made has this possible transportation The forest service has done much to promote public interest Not so many t1n the recreation possibilities of the national forests years ago the public was more or less excluded from the national preserves At least people were not urged to come and stay a The week A few years ago the forest policy was changed recreational advantages of the forests were put before the people Visitors were made welcome The forests were made public playgrounds as well as conservation areas The result has been more Jhan satisfactory The success of the venture is reflected in this Recent count which showed people flocking into Big Cottonwood ocanyon at the rate of nearly 2000 a day A Tragic End -- TRAGIC DEATH of Representative Marion A Zioncheck THE playboy congressman brings a hectic career to an close In the shadow 6f death his critics no doubt will Ignoble ’’Iind the only logical explanation for his recent activities When men destroy themselves we concede their mental Charitably and graciously we waive the element of Zioncheck’s plunge from a fifth story window is responsibility a case in point 2 “My only hope in life" wrote Zioncheck in his last note “was to improve an unfair economic system" Greater minds than his have been deranged by this problem So it is that Zioncheck wins in death what he could not claim in life a sympathetic understanding that excuses much and forgives all —It Won’t Be Long Noyv! the word of the weatherman the worst of the weather is over Cooler weather is about to set in which means that the average citizen can begin to revise his complaint Notwithstanding the fact that the word from the weather bureau was intended to imply comforting relief it is doubtful if t brings complete contentment When the hot weather is over autumn is in sight and if autumn comes can winter be far behind? It is a far cry from current temperatures to shoveling snow and firing furnaces but a lot of people can make it in one leap Now that the weatherman has spoken they will cease to feel disturbed by the heat but they will begin to worry about next winter’s fuel bill and weather that goes to another extreme YOU will take IFwarm What W orkers — Buy — On Easy Terms SUNDAY MORNING AUGUST 9 193 Highlights oL New York As Seen by OO McIntyre —By Ding How Is Everybody Getting Along? a' By O O McIntyre NEW YORK Aug 8—1 have been impressed lately with the complacency of the aged I refer to men and women past 60 They are the least concerned by the alarms of the world It might be said they are nearing the hofne stretch and it does not matter But I do not think that’s the answer The truth is nothing is so terrifying as old age want It By FREDERIC J HASKIN D- - C WASHINGTON The typical wage worker in the east-- ern section of the United States will go into debt for clothing more readily than for anything else Thle is shown in a study recently made by the department of labor - Bsic Facts and the Russell Sage Foundation The basis of the inquiry was the Incidence of wage executions for debt in 31 urban areas mostly in the east Records are maintained of cases in which creditors have to take steps to attach a part of a worker’s wages in order to obtain payment of what is due This is the information which has been classified and analyzed The wage executions on account of debt contracted for clothing account for 46 per cent of all actions and for 30 per cent of the total amount of debt involved Three ether classes of indebtedness account for 7 per cent each of the total number of wage executions Loans made by workers from credit unions industrial and commercial banks and other money lenders some unlicensed gave rise to 7 per cent Of the ac- tions Furniture and household appliances account for 7 per cent and so do groceries and meats - The average amounts which were owed on these accounts are of interest The average owed for clothing before the creditor atkes action is $2158 The average ‘amount of the loans was $5735 The average owed for furniture and household appliances was $4844 and the average for groceries and meats $2003 Board and housing make up 5 per cent of the total number of cases of wage executions This category includes house rent room rent and board house repairs and moving The average for the group is $5550 but the high item is for rent which is — on — Live Issues Reports from Roma on the attitude of tha Catholic hierarchy toward tha political activities of Father Coughlin have stated that the participation of tha Detroit radio priest in domestic politics Is proving an obstacU to efforts of the Vatican to for a papal legation at Washington The state department says obtain-recognitio- Tthai noknowledgebfahyefforti to thla end by the Church of Rome The Vatican ia at present represented in the United States by an apostolic delegation at Washington headed by Archbishop Amleto The duties Giovanni Cicognanl of the delegation are confined to reporting to Rome on ecclesiastical and possibly political affairs in the United States It has no official dealings with the Washington government Similar delegations ara maintained by the Church of Rome In Canad- - Turkey China Japan and other countries with which the church lacks diplomatic relations Papal embassies or legations with full - $6380 diplomatic powers are maintained by the chyrch In countries by which it is accorded recognition France Italy Including Germany and most of the other countries of Europe and of Central and South America In the years from 1848 to 1867 the United States maintained an American legation at Rome accredited to the Vatican Previously it had been represented at Rome by American consuls! Careful distinctions were drawnl however by American secretaires of state in their instructions to ministers at Rome between the pope as temporal sovereign of the Papal States which were then extensive in area and tha pope as the head of a great religion with which the United States had no official relations and could have Great-Britai- Burial Expehses Met As medical and burial expenses are of a type which are in many cases unavoidable it might be expected that a higher percentage of the total cases 'would apply to them but the survey shows that they constitute only 3 per cent ofalL The average of the whole group moved against on account of wage executions for debt is While the number of $4453 burial cases 'is small it shows the largest average which is $100'34 The hospital cases show an average of $9045 Cues involving debts for jewelry accounted for 3 per cent of all the average amount being $2360 Then we come to the automobile cases They account for only 3 per cent of the total and the average amount of each hill to collect which action was taken waa 4764 Far and away the largest item for which wage executions were obtained waa on account of liability for injuries The average was $55595 Only One Cab Fare Finance companies had claims resulting in average wage executions of $12124 repair men had bills averaging $1780 supply In tha entire companies $1381 survey there was but a single case of wage execution on account of a hired car The bill was $4404 and one cannot help speculating on just how spirited the argument over this cab fare was before it reached the stage of wage execution The individuals who most frequently get in the toils of money lenders or of mercantile establishments of one kind or another which extend credit to them are in the class salaries so low as to represent little mar-'gi- n for even The most numerous group having wage executions for debt against them were In the salary elase between $10 and $15 a week In the group below $10 a week there were but 7 per cent of the total the reason probably being that merchants and others would not grant credit to such But the class shows 35 $10 to per cent of ail covered in this broad study Next comes the group from $15 to $20 a week who have proved unequal to prompt payment of their bills They account for 32 per cent It will be noted that In the two groups covering the wage span from $10 to $20 a week are to be found of the debtors against whom wage executions were obtained near-luxuri- two-thir- Which Owns What By FRANK A GARBUTT Does the government own us or do we own the government? From the actions of our various governmental bodies in dealing with helpless individuals it would seem that they think they own us and it looks Hke they do for The Public Forum --- By Our Readers M Pays Tribute to Treat Death Drivers As Criminals ' Forum Rules Honored Dead Editor Tribune: I note that the church is erecting a monument in the long neglected cemetery at Winter Quarters where Ue mingled with the dust the bodies of 600 souls 300 of whom perished during the dreadful winter of 1846-4- 7 when a people were literally cast out from home and country to become brothers and sisters of cold and hunger and despair There is hardly a sadder story in all the annals of time Looking backward they could vision the spires of their holy temple and they could almost touch and feel the kind and comforting warmth of the firesides they were forced to abandon But from their improvised homes in wagons and tents with the snows beating upon them it took an almost superhuman effort of the mind to look forward over plain and prairie and desert and vision a Zion in the tops of the Hopeless and everlasting hills despairing they bravely faced the perilous situation until weak and sick and famished the 300 of their number sank into the arms of their last sleep and were rushed away to their poor shallow-graveon the bleak hillside May the great kind Ruler of the unl- - Editor Tribune: There appears to be an increase of automobiles and of fast driving Some time ago the newspaper conducted an automobile safety campaign But they seem to have grown weary in well doing for the campaign Meanwhile the lags at present slaughter of the innocents goes L Letters appearing in this department do not express the opinions of The Tribune They ere the views of contributor with which The Tribune may or Letters may not be in accord are limited to 200 words Preference is given to short communications Write legibly on one Ids of the paper only 2 Rellgloue and racial discusPartisan dlscua-ilon- a sions barred restricted to writers’ beliefs on merits of tpeciflo Issues Indulgence in personalities and personal aspersions prohibited Poetical contributions are not The Tribune reserves courted the right to reject contribution! for violations of rules or for statements which art not in accord with fair play and good teste 3 Writers mutt sign thflr true names and addressee In ink Typewritten signatures will not If the writer to resuffice contributions will be quests published over an assumed name In no instance however will a communication be published If the writer falls to glvt his true name and address as evidence of good faith s on The killing of Innocent people by automobiles will not cease until reckless drivers are defined by law as criminals and punished by the criminal code Driven of cars that kill people must be considered by law as guilty of manslaughter and sent to the penitentiary for long terras It is a mockery of justice to fine these killers A personwho is killed by an automobile ia just as dead as if he were murdered The law must be written anew to place drivers who kill and injure people in the criminal class— and to place them alio in prison Jay walking must stop but drivers must be rudely shown that pedestrians have the right of way at street crossings Let the law makers and the police get to work on this matter if they have any regard at all for the sanctity of human life CHARLES HOOPER Coeur d’Alene Idaho verse make up to them all that they lost and at the final reckoning may they be counted among those arrayed in white who have come up through tribulation C N LUND The Senator From Sandpit By Ilam If I only have the will to be grateful I am so— Seneca "We thank Thee for this place in which we dwell for the love that unites us for the peace accorded us this day for the hope with which we expect the morrow for the health the work the food and the bright skies that make our lives delightful for our friends in all parts of the earth and our friendly helpers in this foreign isle Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind Spare to us our friends soften to us our enemies Bless us if it may he in all our innocent endeavors If it may’ not give us the strength to encounter that which is to come that we he brave in peril constant in tribulation temperate in wrath and in all changes of fortune and down to the gates of death loyal and loving one an- other" —Robert Louis Stevenson NOTES ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT all practical purposes We have a theory that we own The department of justice say the government but it appears to that the average American famamount to little more than theory ily pays an annual crime bill of that is pretty well exploded Well we sure get a lot of $24p When the government says to "crime for our money the governed you can’t do business until I give you a license— I kinda envied Major John W McCormick you must give me half of what you Friday when the make— you must give me 10 per Thirty-eight- h Infantry paraded in cent whether you loss or not— his honor It seemed to me that the boys put a little extra snap your life savings are mine when in their step because they liked you die— I will run you in debt the major You’d have to be a beyond your ability to pay— it is apparent the government thinks congenital old sour puss not to it owns the people— they become like him A regular guy is Jack its subjects Its only excuse is “the general We were down in the editorial rooms when Captain "Swede” Olgood" — a fiction' it has created to son asked me if I’d like to go up justify unjust actions The government cannot do juswith him to the parade I aald tice to any majority by doing inthat I’d be glad to but I’m not so sure now You eee Captain Olson justice to a few The people should say to the adhad arranged for the etaff phoministration I pay you to protographer to take some pictures tect three things my life my of the regiment As the hoyt Your swung past in review I stood near property and my freedom have failed and ahamefully overtha photographer and Swede charged me to boot You work Hardly a man but had a pleasant for me— or I will kick you out look on his face But after they -- Park j' had stood out there in tha - hot sun while the photographer took shots at them from every conceivable angle I noticed a change Boy were they getting burnt up! Forty-fiv- e minutee after chow time and that newspaper guy waa to blame I left Swede and the photographer and wandered casually over to where General Sweeney was standing I felt safer there The last company had been “mugged” and Captain Cain told the sergeant to take command As he stepped smartly forward General Sweeney sajd: “It's the sergeants who make this man's army what it Is” And a splendid lot the sergeants of the Thirty-eight- h have beeii and are now As Major Gent and Captain Olson and I aat at' a table in the can-tee- n Sergeant Bob Quinn came We were introduced and by Sergeant Quinn said he had enjoyed my account of my trip to Seattle I told him he was a gentleman and a scholar and a judge of good literature and would like to have him meet my editor Sergeant Quinn retiiw from service soon and If they give I’ll be there In the him a send-ocheering section J ff I talked for a moment with Colonel Fulton and Lieutenant Colonel McQarthy They teemed a trifle hoarse from their yodeling experience Aa I walked away a voles said: “Hi Lance Corporal!" It was Betty McCarthy She presented me to Miss Jane Diebold a visitor at the post Both are tree chqrmant and I hung around until I thought everybody had eeen me with them Helgh-h- o a till Company M has invited several of the editors to lunch They are going to serve beans as the piece It's being done in de resistance who honor of the editor-in-chistill thinks the srmy and navy lives chiefly on them If this keeps us we ell will be hated up there Townsend Plan Urged on Youth Editor Tribune: When you reach the age of 60 years chances are eight to one that you will ba poor and dependent upon public or private charity A risk so great that any insurance company would charge hundreds of dolShall this lar to underwrite practice continue? Youth of America we turn to you for common sense and sane business arrangements You are young intelligent and the world is yours toshape Are you willing to accept the task? You need not pilot toward such certain ship wreck misery and despair in old age There Is a better way a workable plan whereby all of you may obtain Insurance against poverty in old age by merely pay- ing Uncle Sam 2 cents from each dollar you receive Such a plan will erase the entire dependent aged class and You make them think this would be fine It is the Townsend plan tha only opportunity for you the common youth to insure against poverty when you are old F B DOTSON Burley Idaho Finds Monuments Galore in Zion Editor Tribune: Just returned trip into the land of Zldn A sort of a revelation trip Tha evidence of the laborof love comfort and relief were plainly visible all along the road The little square top domed buildings bedecked the landscape of each city and town through which we passed The fellows referred to these little monuments as “Relief Labor Legandary” “Scenting Sedatives” “Sensuous Sentinels" while some darn fellow (I believe he was a Republican) referred to them as the “Roosevelt Monuments" This seemed to be the most appropriate name and was unanimously REX adopted from a " none a curious fact that the diplomatic mission’ to the Papal States was established at a time when the native American movement had won wide supprinciport for its ples Irf 1844 there had been religious riots in Philadelphia and Charleston In which Catholic churches were burned The homes of Illsh Catholic workmen had been destroyed in other cities And in 1847 the native Americans had held a national political convention at Philadelphia Full diplomatic relations were retained with the Papal States for two decades— until they were tottering to their fall before the movement for a united Italy In congress it was contended in January 1867 that tha Holy See had ceased to be a recognizable political government and a proposed appropriation for the legation at Rome was stricken from the bill making appropriations for the consular and diplomatic establishments for tha fiscal year 1868 An amendment adopted in the house 82 to 18 provided that there should be no expenditure to maintain the diplomatic mission to the Papal States “from and after the 30th day of June 1867" The present “unofficial legation” of the Church of Rome at Washington under an apostolic delegate was established in 1893 The present apostolic delegate was appointed to the Washington mission on March 17 1933 From time to time since the restoration of the temporal power of the pope in Vatican City by the Lateran Accord of February 11 1929 the question of raising the apostolic delegation to the status of a diplomatic mission has been discussed but there is no evidence that any official proposal to this end has ever passed between Rome and Washington It is American ic i) Off "I — the Record It begins to shape up as a cam- paign which will produce an apology so blunt that it calls for an apology Nothing is more stimulating in the quardrennial year than to see the political leader racing across lots to get in front of some followers Just because our Mr Bowers hak moved the embassy to a ship don't run away wifh an impression that he is the only diplomat now at sea Lemke's running mate is also a candidate for United States senator Tx much success could be embarrassing or are we being academic? A Detroiter is' held for derailing a train with bis sedan The revised standing of locomotives in the crossing league shows: Won 295 lost L The scent of formic acid on one's person tells a dog that 'one fears it says Author Terhune Socially one must keep on the ajikallne side even with dogs Copyright 1936 by the North American Newspaper Alliance Inc strikes among them with the greatest cruelty Youth is resilient can take Its trounclngi and bound hack with a hop skip Ag loses much of its elasticity I’m inclined to believe the hopefulness of the agedls a refining of experience Only the other day I talked to a fine old school of 74 He has taken sevthe eral financial drubbings worst In ’29 with the rest of us and was left with only a few thousands His future If he lives much longer is not bright for he is past the age of useful work and has no relatives to support him Yet he is no forecaster of American doom He has aeen too much devastation by panic drouths wars and has found that and what-not- s somehowthings turnout H right “There have been three timea in my life" he said when I wouldYiot have given a scrub acre In the middle of the Mojave for America or her prospects Each time my fears were foolish just as so many are today The dream is passing and soon wa shall be back In the sunshine again" Rut what started me on this valetudinarian vein was this little essay plucked from a letter from a lady of 81 living in New Orleans Among other things she said: “It is a gloriously cheerful morning I have been working a little in my garden and was impressed with the way the flowers lifted up their beautiful faces to the sun for warmth heart and life I like to think of a God that spreads His gentle presence in just the same way for those who look up to Him “This may he a little for the modern thought hut the idea has sustained hope and faith for many generations before us! Everybody about me is taut with anxiety I have but a little while left but I am confident my children will be taken care of by a Providence that has taken care of the generations now dust “All In the world we need just now is just a little mountain-movin- g faith And faith la such a blessed and simple thing I cannot understand why we ever lose it” We hearing the whine have-bee- of youth and middle age for some time Perhaps we had better cup an ear a little to the cheerfulness of the aged! Sudden thought: There Is no excitement In sleeping any more since they fix the slats so they won’t fall out of bed And I like Uncle Ezra's obser- vation: “They say you can’t fool a horsefly but one lit on my radiator cap the other morning" Mark Leuscher announces that the D’Oyley Carte Opera company is returning to give New York some more of the Gilbert arid SulAnd In the first livan opera night audience as usual will be Miss Ada Littlejohn who has not missed a premiere of the D’Oyley troupe in 30 yeare She came over from England on the last visit and is coming again this fall She is the most ardent Gilbert and Sullivan fan in the world One of the most enthusiastic in America is Alexander Woollcott who rarely ever misses a performance The swift change in the Childs places is one of the restaurant aurprisea They used to be hurry-u- p quickies— flapjacks and bean soup havens Today many social affairs of real Registerites are given In them The haughtiest one is in the Savoy Plaza hotel building People coming in from their country places have been giving many dinners there this summer Ed Sullivah tells of lounging on the beach at Atlantic City with a group of pallid Broadwayites trying to soak up a little healthful sunshine A fellow Broadway-it- e paaslng in a push chair called out: “If anyone tells you guys you look well slug him!" Garbo Dietrich & Co and thedr disciples of the Slow Cow school of acting including several male cows all bore me What's a face for? Only to turn slowly and gaze? A face should dance and sparkle with animation One sits impatiently for the slow cows waiting for them to happen I’ll take Bette Davis Never mind about Woodrow Wilson and the Indian dialect O K wa first popularized by an old comedy back in the ’89s It waa full pf initials and it started the old PDQ Girls used to eay CYK also for "Consider yourself kissed" And in grandma's day that was considered hot stuff of dictionaries file Compilers away all neologisms and slang in- terpretation for ten year If any survive they get in the new editions Ninety per cent perish— and deservedly I hear that only bout three slang phrases of the present era will survive Copyright 1936 McNaught dlcate Syn- -' No Stltchee “Mammie I'm sura daddy didn't sow the grass seed properly" aaid little Mabel "What makes you say that dear?" ssked mother "Well I've been outside" said Mabel “and I have looked ever so hard but I can't see the atitches anywhere”— Exchange |
