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4 THE SALTLAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER fljc J&tlt $ttke t fuued every morning by The Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OP SUBSCRIPTION 90 $ Oally 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: $125 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 September 31 1936 Highlights of New York Seen by OO McIntyre From Sandpit By O O McIntyre hilarious and ribald roundelay from Lois Long and Sheila Barrett Also a cheerio from Adela St John And on my desk I came upon a note from Harry Richman promising in gay banter to bring me a cup of warm tea on his return flight from London Set about what thou intendest to do: the beginning is half the NEW YORK Sept 20— Diary: An battle — Caesar The human mind receives ideas —kind of smooth wall ideas — you keep on throwingideas against it and finally some of them stick These ideas enter into that mysterious maze sometimes called the brain and ultimately an idea are hatches Thus columns Basic Facts — on — Live Issues written War a Disease of Civilization A SYMPOSIUM devoted to “Factors Determining Human Beheld recently in conjunction with the Harvard tercentenary Dr Bronislaw Malinowski famous anthropologist of the University of London advanced the view that war is a "dated” Institution that is it arises not from a na’tural human instinct but develops with civilization He contends that war as we know it appeared fairly late in tlje evolution of human societies He defended the conclusion that “modern warfare has become nothing but an unmitigated disease of civilization" Such a view while rejected by many present-da- y biologists Is the generally accepted view of most historians and social scientists This sociologically orthodox explanation of war was admirably epitomized by the late Professor James H Breasted who in his last book “The Dawn of Conscience” said: “Every one knows that man’s amazing mechanical power is the product of a long evolution but it is not commonly realized that this is also true of the social force which we call conscience — although with this important difference: as “the oldest known implcreature man has been fashioning destructive ement-making weapons for possibly a million years whereas conscience emerged as a social force less than five thousand years ago” How may conscience become a social force strong enough to Inhibit and control the social and biological forces which in various combinations seem to plunge us involuntarily into war? In addressing the delegates to the third world power conference recently convened in Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull charged that “a disproportionate share of the skill and energy of scientists is now being devoted to the forces of destruction” We must therefore devise ways and means he said of redoubling our efforts to preserve peace “The people of tfra world must learn that war is a cruel mill whose stones are the misled hopes of national aggrandizement and the selfish ambitions of unscrupulous FIhavior” persons” But how is it possible for the masses of mankind to leam such lesson? Must each generation always learn afresh that is from its own costly experience? Or can we profit by the experience of our forbears? If as Professor Malinowski contends war is a disease of civilization then it seems entirely possible to control it If so will the scientists please discover and describe the specific factors which singly or in combination produce war? Such an Investigation would constitute “the research magnificent" Neutrality and the Spanish Rebellion tactful diplomacy of Secretary of State Cordell Hull in THE with the aerial attack by Spaniards on the United States destroyer Kane commands the unstinted praise of Americans of all political stripes Had we bristled with resentment or acted hastily in this situation we might have compromised ourselves unwittingly and thus jeopardized American interests and our nationals in Spain The recent decision to withdraw all our naval vessels from Spanish waters is a wise and commendable move In a recent statement from Washington Secretary Hull reiterated with unmistakable clarity our policy of noninterference with the internal affairs of other countries either in time of peace or in he event of civil strife With regard to the present crisis in Spain tie secretary has publicly and officially announced that we shall “Scrupulously refrain from any interference whatsoever” Such a olicy is not only sound in principle but amply justified by the facet that in the present circumstances according to Secretary Hull “both the government forces and the opposing forces in in 'the friendliest spirit have made every possibly effort to avoid injury to American nationals and American property” In sharp contrast to our own rigid neutrality toward the rebellion in Spain is the difficult and somewhat compromising position of certain leading powers in Europe In France for instance the Blum government is being constantly cajoled by strikes and other overt acts into assisting the Spanish loyalists with In Soviet Russia also the Stalin governmoney and munitions ment is the victim of constant pressure from within its own ranks by those who insist upon lending aid to the Spanish government in pitting down the antired rebellion The Italian government has already compromised itself apparently first by supplying the rebel forces under General Francisco Franco with army bombing planes and the loan pf registered fliers These sympathies already so tangibly expressed help to explain Italy’s delay in accepting the British proposal for a Spanish noninterference pact to be signed by all of the other European powers It twill take a good" deal of patient and tactful diplomacy on the part of all the major governments in Europe if an international War growing out of the Spanish rebellion is to be averted Spiin Dtist tilouds Along the Milky Way savants versed in celestial lore lecturing at the Harvard told members of the American Astronomical iociety which has a part in the proceedings that the Milky Way is occasionally obscured in spots by clouds of dust It is not the ordinary pulverized sediment that automobiles stir up when they d leave roads but “a mysterious dust unlike anything known on earth” Whether the floating particles have always hovered over the luminous highway that winds among stationary stars and encircles visible space or have been stirred up recently by stellar scorches in an arid beltf astronomers have not as yet decided Having weighed a number of prominent stars assayed- their Constituents and timed the velocity of their movements these surveyors of the sky nave been examining the atomic parties with a spectroscope As a result of patient calculations Dr Paul W Merrill of the Mt Wilson observatory reported as follows: “I am completely unable to give any explanation of the cause the dust reveals itself as new stellar lines in the spectrum the most important ones being 6284 and 5780 angstrom unit wave lengths” Star dust is not a recent discovery although this particular phenomenon presents! a new variety of atoms or suggests the action of some chemical element unknown upon the earth There Is a dust that sifts through the stratosphere bearing as a few scientists assert the germs of both life and death Some kinds of celestial powder is held responsible for epidemics like influenza that baffle medical students for years before either a preventive or a curative is fund Other forms of star dust are said to convey from distant luminaries the rudimentary elements of plant and TWO main-travele- - animal vitality There are about 20000000 meteors flashing through space 'in the earth’s vicinity every day according to astronomers Many are disintegrated by friction and disseminate minute fragments through the air we breathe According to Tyndall “light is invisible and manifests itself by sunbeams reflected from these continually moving particles of dust without which the earth would be In perpetual darkness” Thus and therefore it may seem dust has its uses Whether or not the distant dust storms that cloud the Milky Way hold for humanity a promise or a threat the lecturers at Harvard’s celebration did not venture an opinion Under the circumstances nothing can be done but await developments Within a million years or so grains of this dust drifting through immeasurable space may reach the earth It will then be time to devise protective measures The Senator -- o- ibuiw Established April 15 1871 21 1936 The world may be divided into two dlasses— for convenience Life begins for both of them at say One a m and the other 830 And that is why boys and p m girls when sometimes as you punch in at 8:30 a m and you feel like nothing on a slick it simply means that you’ve been monkeying around with the 8:30 p By Bertram Benedict national comRay Murphy mander rf the American Legion predicts that the legion convention at Cleveland next week will demand that the profits be taken out of war as one fheans of keeping this country out of future conflicts The United States was one of aboht 20 countries which signed the St Germain convention of 1919 on controlling theT trade in munitions This Convention extended to parts of Asia the provisions of the Brussels act of 1890 restricting the arms traffic -- in parts of Africa and placed other limitations on arms exports The St Germain convention never went into' general effect because the United States did not ratify it m-e- Now that civilization has reached such an eminent stage some of our intellectual bright lights should try to find out what it’s all about Or so to speak who won! For it’s a terrible thing to raise the level of the world up to suph an intense pitch of perfection and not know the score But I digress What I started out to tell you was the method used in writing a column when ideas are scarcer than the proverbial hen’s teeth I use the method I sit at my typewriter and stare at something straight fixedly ahead Bimeby the thoughts go ’round and ’round and come out here Lots of times of course they’re not coherent— like today frinstance— but what th$ heck! It’s a living— of sorts auto-hypnos- is Does it ever give you the heebie-jeebie- s to think that for years and years to come— Ibng after you are counted out — people will still be giving amateur hours making up s and figuring out whazisses? That all the silly foolish and inane things which the world is now doing seem to Failed to Act knock-knock- be incurable? As you gaze out upon a world which seems to have escaped from the cosmic nut factory— and she looks all dark and dreary— there’s one consolation She can't get no worser— and therefore she must get better So take it all with a grin— you'll get a kick out of it providing it doesn’t worry you— and since you can't do a darn thing about it why worry? Smile a while And while you smile Another smiles and soon There's miles and miles Of smiles And life's worth while Because you smile —Anon Notes on the Cuff Department Note to Lew Lloyd: Whaddye mean calling me a "porch-bo- x weeder?" I’m a gentleman farmer and raise nothing but my hat Something I never knew before: “publican" such as are referred to in the Bible was one who bought the tax privilege from the Roman government and acjded a surcharge before collecting from I always thought he the people was a saloonkeeper A A lady stopped me on the street and said: "I'd like you to meet a friend of mine" And she presented me to Miss Jane Harvey And lo and behold she is the box office girl with the lovely smile! Isn’t the weather swell? This warm helped me out It began to look like Td have to choose between an overcoat and something to eat for the family spell-certain- If Dr Barlow Fox gets elected to the state senate there’s one thing I'm pretty sure'll happen And that is if he introduces a tax bill it’ll be a sort of painless extraction M Ward Rock Springs Wyo: Thanks for the pat on the back but what the dickens are “exegetical fancon dp par- Note to S lors?” Mayor Harman W Peery Chief of Police Rial Moore and W C Stewart of Ogden were just in They told me that at some doings in Tremonton last Friday there was a bucking broncho named after me Well I'm glad it was a horse and not a Rocky mountain canary the Record Off of Spain doesn’t If know how the other half lives it blows a side off the house and looks one-ha- lf The highest note ever struck in Hollywood— an F by Lily Pons — has just been recorded The lowest is purely a matter of opinion After riding three days on a d a Pennsylvania lass married the proprietor The blowoff goes when she discovers the ring is brass An eastern relief office has been asked to place a former pretzel baker The fellow has been without work two years and doesn't know which way to turn The Spanish revolt is more than a war of mutual extermination among guitar players Wholly innocent people are also Involved merry-go-roun- “Rrnnk trout" says a science’ note 'lose 2 6 per cent of their length in death ” And pick up six inthcs or so bv getting away Cop right 1036 North American Newspaper Alliance Inc In 1925 a broader convention on the subject was signed at Ge' neva For almost ten years ratifications came in very slowly with the United States one of the nations taking no action How1934 President ever in May Roosevelt asked the senate to ratify and the senate acquiesced Two reservations were added One made the treaty ineffective for the United States until ratified also by the other principal states The other said that ratification should not be construed as denying the sovereignty of Persia in the Persian gulf The second reservation provand ing contentious it the treaty ratified a second time in 1935 But the treaty is still ineffective because enough ratfica-tion- s have not yet been deposited In various international discussions on the arms problem the United States delegates had opposed not only the abolition of private munitions manufacturing but also licensing of it As late as October 1932 they were explaining that Uie government at Washington hfid no constitutional power over intrastate production But in the following month with the Hoover administration still in ofthe fice American position changed The power of congress to enforce treaties was recalled That is although congress might not regulate munitions manufacturing as a matter of purely domestic legislation congress might do so when necessary to fulfil a treaty No Agreement In 1934 the American delegation to the disarmament conference at Geneva proposed to let an international body control the international traffic in munitions The Americans suggested also that each nation become responsible for both the manufacture and the trade in arms In each case quantitative and qualitative limitations would be applied When it became obvious that no agreement could be reached on quantitative limitation the American delega- tion on November 20 1934 submitted a convention embodying its previous proposals except that one However the Geneva conference could reach no conclusion either on controlling the arms traffic or on limiting armaments All the conferees agreed that the traffic should be nationally licensed and internationally supervised and but Great Britain publicized Italy Japan and Poland opposed inspection on the spot These four countries were willing only to forward reports for study Then the United States went it alone The neutrality resolution of August 31 1935 set up a permanent registration and licensing system for the manufacture import and export of arms It also forbade export in case of a war between nations This prohibition does not cover a domestic conflict like the present one in Spain but the state department has been discouraging exports of munitions to either Spanish faction A special committee of the senate (Senator Nye chairman) reported last April that the United States government ought to produce all the war supplies except airplanes needed by its armed forces (At present the army makes its own rifles cartridges and field artillery The navy manufactures most of its own propellant powder all its own guns and of its battleships) The Nye committee agreed that private manufacture of munitions arms-produci- The Public Forum By Our Readers was-omitte- Sees Pitfalls in Federal Relief Editor Tribune: In the Prefers Democracy To Either Ism Forum Rules Assem- bly hall in Salt Lake City on September 9 Mr Harry Hopkins the president's humanitarian relief dispenser told his audience of works progress workers that in three and a half years he had distributed $70000001)00 of money belonging to the United States in the exercise of the discretion vested by congress in the presi- dent The dividend of these federal funds which of right should have come to the state government of Utah as a member of the public corporation called the United States would have been $35000-00- 0 an amount adequate to sup- ply the state general fund and public school expenditures for three and a half years Is there a person of probity and understanding who will contend that these moneys would not have gone farther for the public good if they had been paid carte blanche into the state treasury for appropriation and expenditure by the governor and the legislature in conformity to the laws and constitution of Utah? This would have been the correct course The real objection to federal relief is not that it promoted boondoggle and politics The real evil of the Hopkins disbursement is that 5000000 families of the states were brought into immediate conie horn-swogg- le tact with the federal relief bureaucracy thus establishing a direct personal relation between the citizen and the government at Washington on a nonfederal matter The bureaucrats who lobby appropriations through congress calling for "matched money" by the states want the power to deal out the congressional appropriations These federal dole dealers will fight for their jobs There are a legion of them I alloyved myself at the Hopkins meeting to take the impression that the assembled relief personnel were participating in a conscious mass movement This organization cannot too quickly be liquidated and dispersed SAMUEL RUSSELL Modern Trends Roundly Condemned Editor Tribune: There is one good thing about newspapers Because they are read by nearly everyone who is able to read editors are careful to see that no immoral or pornographic matter appears In their columns Although newspapers are fairly free from anything that offends agftinst sex morality this cannot be said of many books and magazines that teach false artd corrupting doctrines about sex There is an interest in sex in' our day which although not necessarily unwholesome in itself becomes unwholesome when it favors such depraved doctrines as birth control sterilization of thfe “unfit” easier divorce extramarital relations abnormal and perverted sex practices and the exaltation of the physical aspects of love above the spiritual aspects of love I know a doctor a man of reputation and a medical author who actually countenances sex practices which hitherto the whole world has regarded with horror and disgust And he is not the only doctor or sexologist who countenances these abominable practices Of course it is a lac k of religion and a spiritual outlook on life that results in our present day Letters appearing In this1 column do not express the views of The Tribune They are the opinions of contributors with which The Tribune may or may not agree The following rules gov- ern contributions 1 Letters limited to 300 words Preference given to short communications 2 Write legibly and clearly on one side of the paper only 3 Religious racial and partisan discussions barred 4 Personal aspersions prohibited 3 Poetical contributions not wanted 3 Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of fact or for statements which are not In accord with fair play and good taste 7 The Forum Is not an advertising medium 8 Writers must sign true names and addresses in ink Letters will be carried over assumed name If writer so requests In all cases however true name and address must ba attached to communication 9 The Forum cannot consider more than one letter from the same writer at one time depraved views of marriage and Rome lost respect for sjx When religion then nudism and immorality spread rapidly and the empire fell There are many astonishing parallels between the corruption of Rome and that of our own country Love and marriage have a reWe are ligious spiritual basis not animals that we should act as animals act (or rather much worse than they act) We are men and women made in the image of God When we spiritualize love we purify our entire sexual and moral life and cut off all the immoral degrading sex teachings and conduct so prevalent today "God is love” Therefore all the manifestations of love should be pure in His sight CHARLES HOOPER Coeur d'Alene Idaho Thinks Roosevelt Pulled Him Out Editor Tribune: In the next few months our great American pubFor Rooselic maikes a decision velt and the new deal or against him Opinion expressed at the polls will not be for his opponent but either for or against the Roosevelt policies I am more fortunate than some voters My mind was made up how I would vote in this election several years ago when our president showed his feelings were toward the forgotten man I wasn't a forgotten man but I was a bewildered one Being from a town whose support wasn’t agricultural I wasn't able to pick my eats out of a near-bgarden Roosevelt changed that he gave us a price for metals He gave me the opportunity to work like blazes with the chance of getting paid for it The Republicans hammer the words “an orgy of spending” They harp upon the national debt They can’t find anything to criticise about the principle our leader has shown in putting relief of our people above everything so they’dolefully sing about the burden generations hence must bear because of now It’s six of oqe and a half dozen If of the other in my opinion we don't take care of our people now chances are there won't be future generations to howl about anything Sure we owe money— I owe money personally Suppose I went home some day with the conviction I was too far in debt Suppose I said to my family: “Well dearies this spending has gone too far From now on there won't be any spending for anything 'cause daddy is going BUD LLOYD Republican" Pioche N'ev y Editor Tribune: “Which side are you for fascism or communism?" This question was asked me the other day I am for neither I am for an- American system of democracy which not only guarantees political freedom but economic freedom as well and which carries in every fiber of it? structure the idea of human welfare and places it far above money and profit For information I give here the substance of the “Bill of Rights" of the new Russian “constitution and I wish some one who can would give us the fascist or nazi constitution In chapter 10 and running from article 118 to 129 the soviet supreme law in substance is as follows: Citizens are guaranteed employment and payment for their work The right to work is ensured to all Citizens are guaranteed the right to rest and leisure a sg(ven-hou- r working day and annual vacations with pay They are guaranteed the right of maintenance in old age and in cases of sickness and loss of capacity to work Social insurance free medical at state expense service and access to a wide network of health resorts The right is ensured to all children and young people to receive education up to and including the university free of charge Women are accorded equal rights with mei! and accorded state protection and aid in pregparfcy and child bearing All theS6 rights are by the constitution made an immutable law and their restriction is vigorously punished It provides for complete separation of church and state and school from church and guarantees freedom of religious worship and freedom of irreligious propaganda Freedom of the fcress of speech and of assembly Toilers are enare guaranteed sured the right to form trade unions cooperative organizations cultural youth organizations technical scientific societies etc The citizens are guaranteed inviolability of person and home Some limited private property rights are provided for in other parts of the document - C N LUND Local Exchange Medium Urged Editor Tribune: As the poor must be fed God help the rich By reason of smart salesmanship designing men have got control of the people’s distributing agent for labor and products in that the unsophisticated have been led astray in voting interest bearing stocks and bonds which gambling plan has resulted in making slaves of the masses It is money centralizing into so few hands that increases the need for more and more borrowing and taxing methods This enslaving condition must grow more acute in our wealth centralizing regime until the masses become as rebels and talk of resorting to blood shedding in the hope of becoming free men There is one if not only one way to avoid such a calamity namely by producers using a local exchange medium their own The worker’s medium would enable afl to have an opportunity to be industrially free and independent whereby they may own and control the machines created by them instead of by the few Then is the example set and a guarantee sure with those using a local trade device to replace the rich and with no stocks or bonds reJ H MIDGLEY quired one-ha- lf should pressed not iut be completely supshould be strictly controlled The members disagreed on how that control should be exercised Since the Nye committee submitted its report the socialist government of France has prepared to nationalize the French arms industry Must Have Known Nature is wonderful! A million years ago she didn't know we were going to wear glasses yet look at the way she placed our ears!— The Kalends of the Waver ly Press The Dionne Influence "How's the wife George?" "Not so well old boy She's just just had quinsy” How many is that "Gosh! you’ve got now?"— Montreal Star Howard Acton rounded in just back from Cincinnati with news that Alfred Segal famed middle west reporter Is to retire at 55 having two years to go And blackaFrank Crowninshield’s moor brought an original George Belcher drawing of two cockney ladies in a pub So with my lady to Roslyn to dine at the serene Washington inn and back to the city dropping in on the §ruce Bartons a moment And the way home a fellow who stuck his head In the car surlily asking an alms became threatening when I told him he looked more prosperous than L And called: “We’ll by dynamiting you guys soon” Scientists are again debating If the dog has a sixth sense Every dog owner will respond in the e affirmative Albert Payson has collated many proofs from his Sunnybank kennels My conviction comes from this: In a Los Angeles hotel one dawn our Boston Billy begap to bark furiously and race about the room In terror He never did this before or afterward Twenty jninutes later the building was in the gentle sway of a tremblor with pictures swinging and bottles upsetting in the bathroom Richard Washburn Child once hada setter pulf him by the coat out of a room Ten minutes later a gas explosion underneath Ter-hun- For the word beaglers: A word of two syllables six letters using only two different letters and three of each Give up?— Deeded years Bob and Pat have spent their summers on Brinkerhoff island a e strip ehtirely surrounded by water they purchased off For 18 Brin-kerho- ff two-acr- Me Mrs BrinkerMeddybemps hoff has m£de the baby clothes for most of the babies born in the neighborhood for 15 years and Bob lives in a bathing auit from May 15 until September 1 When the Brlnkerhoffs have a visitor they plaster the village with signs and the guest of honor boat is escorted across the lake by all the Briggs villagers in their boats and Webster also bought islands' - there I Personal nomination for the most seraphic of the comic smiles: Fannie Brice’s Someone tells me the poet famous Joyce Kilmer’s poem ’Trees” was his most hurried effusion Done in less than an hour— an inspirational gem on which not a single line or word was changed Every poet — every writer indeed — has one of those flashes that flits miraculously out of nowhere and often proves the most enduring poetical lines or paragraph they ever wrote They are tucked away in a membrane of memory and zigzag out like a streak of lightning James Whitcomb Riley observed that such illuminations were his chiefest security that somewhere just beyond man’s feeble mental grop-ing- s were beauty and culture of which he never dreamed There’s a legend O Henry after an experience in Union square one fall evening went to his hotel near by and turned out one of his better known short stories “The Gentle Grafter” in less than two hoijfs Kipling wrote one of his long poems while trying to escape the worst blasts of a khamsin in a slovenly lunch place in the Sudan Somerset Maugham’s short story from when came the dramatization “Rain” was dashed off on the Blue Train from Paris to Monte Carlo And so on Bagatelles: Graham McNamee the richest tadio announcer Lucien LeLong Paris dressmaker is planning to move to New York as are several others of his guild Grover Whalen was once a Gacrack baseball pitcher briel Hess movie attorney has one of the finest collections of H G Wells had ship models pneumonia four times and tuberculosis but is now in perfect health Liqnel Barrymore never misses an Amos and Andy Joe Lauria Jr broadcast smokes a big black cigar while shaving before breakfast Is I like those pert blondes of the Broadway movie ticket cages and their ripostes for the flip talkers d A boy as smooth as a goblet of rosolio in front of me last evening was giving her his line A shame to be boxed up that way all day etc As she tore off my ticket she nodded toward him: "Just another Romeo panting to career me" belt-coate- Copyright 1936 McNaught Syndicate The Color Chart "Now Mary when you bathe the baby be sure and use the thermometer to test the water” Returning an hour later the mistress asked: “Did you use the thermometer?” “No ma’am I can tell without that If It’s too hot the baby turns red and if it’s too cold he’ll turn blue” — Exchange Easily Pleased Mr Kickbush— So you want to marry my daughter Can you give her everything she desires? ’Young Rollo— I think so she says she wants only me— Pathfinder ' Like ij Ida Slink— Did Kiriko take his bad lurk like a man? Snoop— Exactly he blamed It all on his wife—Pathfinder