Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE FRIDAY MORNING DECEMBER Basic Facts tribune fljc j&rlt Live Issues luutd every moraine by Tbe Salt Cake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OB’ SUBSCRIPTION 90 $ Daily and Sunday one month Daily and Sunday one year 1050 above sates epplyTrv Utah- - Jdahor Nevada- and Wyoming —-Th- e Elsewhere in the United States: Daily and Sunday one 1123 ia on aale in every Important city in the United TheTrlbune States- Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office By O O By Bertram Benedict Dispatches from Paris predict month' 4 eague--efNations has-call- ed se France wouldhave'had to for pay over J400000000 then due supplies sold after the war In 1931 congress assented to President Hoover’s request for a one-yemoratorium on all in tergovernmental obligations but added a stipulation that this was not to be interpreted as ’consenting to any reduction in the amounts due-th- e United States Congress rejected Hoover’s suggestion to recreate the war debt commission Injirder to examine ar the war debts problem: No More Payments France made no more pay ments after the moratorium end' ed Great Britain made one full payments of payment two token en $10000000 each-th- no more The debtors were bent on a joint the United conference States in which the reparations The Issue would be aired United States insisted on Individual negotiations and refused to admit that ’reparation payments ended since 1931 had any thing to do with war debt payThe debtors said they ments would listen to any proposals which the United States might with Sums in Algebra afid Longevity an brain-rackin- -- offerftha United States-sai- d for adjustment that-reque- must come from a debtor not from a passed the Johnson act forbidding the flotation of new loans In this country - by foreign governments In default on their obligations to the United States government The applies also to political subdivisions bf the defaulting states seems to have proved irksome to nations which now urgently desire to borrow In this country The 1932 Democratic platform "opposed cancellations of the war YEdvvard Still King debts — The 1936 Republican plathas been circulating In London an intimation that "the form condemned the Roosevelt GOSSIP proctor may take legal action to nullify the Simpson administration for having made no effort even to reopen negotiadivorce” and thus make Edward’s contemplated marriage with the tions on ths war debts and Baltimore belle impossible Such a contingency is difficult to reconevery effort to collect pledged cile with imperial majesty and the royal will of potentates by them Alfred E Smith in his which one is impressed in reading histories of the world Rulers Jefferson day address of 1932 have been assassinated defeated in war and confined in prison" averred that attempts to collect the war debts had proved harm- towers or subterranean dungeons but not frustrated while retain-- to the entire world includful ing regal power Ths ths United States ing a what Besides right has a mere proctor to interfere in king’s debtors did not have the money private affairs? What is a prpetor anyhow? The dictionary lists to pay Smith proposed that the’ him as an agent or attorney acting for another The king’s proctor ths United States ifofget-abo- ut for- - 20 years or else war debts must be his majesty’s legal representative What kind of a lawyer comtothem off for trade try is he who takes "sides against a client opposing his plans interTet in askmercial concessions fering "With his happiness meddling w(th his domestic affairs the Democratlc'national coning denying his rights? vention of 1936 not to renomiTo the tower of London with such a proctor! Let his kingship nate President Roosevelt Smith continue his courtship regardless of his court! Any social system condemned him for not having collected the war debts and fop that smiles at immoral relations and frowns on legal marriage having encouraged “by silence needs to be sent to the cleaner and other wise a continuance of the defaults" 1934 ban-whi- congress ch i -- Judicial Memories of Childhood Justice Frank Yuse of Spokane inaugurated a new of jurisprudence with reference to obnoxious inebriates erjfan-everoffering them the alternative of a workhouse-sentendose of castor oil administered iiv the presence of a practicing " physician he probably recalled some of his childhood tribulations but fofgot that the federal constitution forbids the infliction of - j ' “cruel and unusual punishments” No information is available as to the kind of prisons found in the state of Washington but conceding they are all that profane culprits describe them to be There is stilL-- a difference-be-twe- en a purgative and a purgatory As two of the offenders arraigned for drunkenness on the day the penalty was first prescribed were reported to be Polaeks from an adjacent lumber camp it is barely possible the judge desired to demonstrate his knowledge of the classics by linking the names of Castor and of Jupiter and Leda'n his calendar Pollux ce Indispensable! bellowed little Mary "What-now- ?” asked mother — "Freddy’s gone away and won’t -play church with us any more” —"Well I suppose Freddy doesn’t have to play church if he doesn't want to” "But he was the collection plate” —Montreal Star "Wow!" -- sn in tbe admin- through relief end' maintain the the with Iem then a waiter an old friend insists on coffee and sandwich - He accepts flatteringly a membrane of memory releases some flare-- ’ back and ha fumbles for money Tha waiter! “Oh you paid the check" From him: "Oh yes thank you" Smiles A faint crumple into shady memories— a f ghost! v'v — identity- - of industry unemployment prob- - Up to now the new deal ‘baa chiefly helped small “enterprise The recent retail census shows that there are 10 per cent more retail outlets today than there were In 1929 In other words retail business has kept pace with the increase of our population where other forma of business have marked time or been rert duced— - Retailers were enabled to expand by two new deal policies relief spending and the "prevails ing wage" system which pegged mass purchasing -- power Work relief costs $170 for every dollar that a straight dole would cost but that extra 70 cents has kept business alive Stepping up the rate of demand for consumers’ goods also helps the durable goods Therefore argue the business new dealers the case for continuing Wp A is r One Way of Getting Ii Marigold— So you managed to get a loan from the bank? You must have had good paper Claribel— I did I have some love letters the president ones wrote me— Fathnder sts Thinks Congress Helpless In Current Period Editor Tribune: The free reciprocation required in commerce can be accommodated only by Improvement in the functioning of the courts the counting houses the common carriers and the corporations of the country The need is not for commerce by the circulation of controlled curThe" heed is for comrency merce carried on by the uncontrolled production and the quick clearing --tmd—cancellaUott'Of- the bills and checks of business The government finances require the rectification and fructification of the internal revenue laws And both the country and the government require clarification in the congressional conception of the factors involved In "legal and fiscal legislation — affecting coinage weights and measures banking currency taxation revenues and appropriations Balancing the budget in the form of a printed paper balance between authorized appropriations and projected yearly receipts is a farce which results in 1 — ’ Forum Rules deficiU-iinance- by-hiri-ng money from the banks and funded in a cumulative public debt Prevention of deficits should become the practical objective in the fiscal calculations of the government This should be effectuated by congress fixing an inexorable preference or order of procedure 1 Sometimes I wonder ff hurrying New Yorkers along Fifth avenue v pause long enough to notice changes in the town’s oldest congregational religious edifice— the Church of St Nicholas at tbe 48th street corner Organized in 1628- -' it is the oldest church organisa- - 1 tion Indeed in America with con-- The old iron tinuoua service fence and the shrubbery have been removed and tbe sidewalk widened For years it has offered a jet of pleasant serenity The ' pulpit or preaching desk is an anciently carved Gothic lectern The vista Is of quaint antiquity against a background of ultra- -' modernism self-evide- nt you T" The Bridge Well girls I'm sorry to be late but I just had to wait until my neighbor got a report from her operative who had been out'all Girls night looking for vice don’t you think it’s wonderful the things the club women are doing to clean up the town and make it a fit place in which to live and rear our children? I do And I thought I’d die laughing when that committee of club women went to the police station with the evidence they’d gathered about lotteries and gambling and the chief said he was baffled or something It must be terrible to be a chief of police or a detective and go home every night baffled My neighbor said there was- one place where her operative said they were taking bets on horse races so tbe women decided to see for themselves But someone must have - warned the gamblers - because when they walked in saw were some men throwing a lot of dice on a table and saying "That's a" horse on you!" And at another table some men were playing cards But they couldn’t have been gambling because the cards they were using were nothing but old street car passes! I think it would be better if thq women formed a secret society of vlgelantes like they are doing in Arizona or New Mexico Then they would all have a number and nobody would know who was —who— And - besfdes(— there wouldn't be any’ chance of the girls quarreling among themselves over the publicity Anyway I’m glad that somebody’s trying to do something about this terrible gambling thing’ I’ve often said to my husband that I would rather marry a man who drank than all-the- e— who-gamb- led Short Story Shs cannot paint a picture She does not lead a band A Short She never climbed a mountain Nor yet an apple tree But by her simple little wink An ape was made of me She does not go for petting Declares she never could — Though I have spent my fortune Just hoping that she would She said we’d never marry— That she wanted to be free And I decided to believe her When I met her family —Ed R Partridge Provo Utah Notes on the Cuff Department Phil Gam says that your sober second thought is usually what you make the mistake of follow ing when you should have followed your impulsive correct first thought Professor B Roland Lewis and downtown together the other day and discussed Shakespeare Just try discussing anything but Shakespeare with Professor Lewis And see where you get ‘Anyway I was Reminded of what a small town dramatic critic once said of our repertoire show W had Just played Hamlet and he wrote: "Hamlet was presented at the opera house last night and nearly everybody in town went Just before the show the Ladies’ Study club held a debate entitled ’Who wrote— Hamlet— Shakespeare— or Bacon?1 That question should be easily solved now All we have to do Is to have the graves of the gentlemen opened and tbe one that turned over last night will be the author" Ij rode Who shall decide on oldagej new - eme- itlly'bcye— and some mirthless old men at 23 LotTather - - - That reminds me—how much a point are we playing for today? A tenth of a cent? My stars! ! beginning to work as is shown by the plea of the U S Chamber of Commerce for the abolition of W P A in order to let private inof the Wkl JorL known dustry “do the job” Industry is farOscar wide as A chef isn’t a beginning to need the labor on chef and at all and doesn’t care for in expenditures authorized by the work relief but it still wants that the appellation Once he wrote sweat-sho- p wages For appropriation acta with the posK ' labor at there is me so when I"classeniimrthusr’ demand for a example tive prescription that no approA compilation bf recipes years ago buttonhole makers in garment under the title ‘‘Oscar’s Cook priation shall be available except factories In the Cincinnati area Book" gave him that standing and as against funds actually accuWP A sewing rooms in the vicinhe baa qever been able to shake it' ity pay this class of labor a top mulated in the treasury every writer refers to him Nearly of $35 a month in "security The operations of the treasury as a chef He has occupied a The with factories longer are continuous operations upon wages" niche as a greeter or host in his hours and worse working He plana and both the revenue and expendiyears of service only $7 ” or $8 a week ture sides of the general fund acstandard of living 'cart arranges banquets And large dinWhat count Tbe notion that these you maintain on $365 a year? - -- ner parties and knows much about cuisine but has - never actually operations can be controlled in inIn other words’ the annual installments by a yearly dividualists want to rugged donned the chefs uniform He is break the budget is chasing an illusion But labor market in order to cut costs past Jd but at his desk every day the new deal politicians will take at the expense of the payroll The — among the last of the hoteliers known by name pay and plenty of pay for doing new dealers claim that if W P A just this labor is to be liquidated at all it The new dealers in cabinet and must be done very carefully— so The passing of James Whitcomb congress know next to nothing as not to depress prevailing wages Riley’s sister recently revived for about the substance of these —just as would be done in liquimany the poet's mention of her things They merely follow the dating the assets of a bank or the as “Baby Lizzie” In "The Folks practices of their predecessors at Home” poem Nothing to my cotton holdings of the- - AAA The seventy-fift- h congress will Somebody ought to tell these lads mind In poetry has so enchant--lngl- y be the most hopelessly helpless in the swival chairs that Landon described babyhood It runs congress elected in the contemwas not elected quotation is from memory jMhe —something like this: porary period SAMUEL RUSSELL - Only One Way Baby Lizzie with her lisp As though her velvet lips had The administration sees only one way in which this excess laEqual Property caught some wisp Of floss between them as the bor can be liquidated without Advocated Rights strove for speech knocking the bottom out of preEditor Tribune: We read: I vailing Which ever seemed just in yet By building up the wages: out of peach etc etc Timothy 2:12 "But I suffer not a “durable goods" industries and woman to teach nor to usurp In low-cohousa by particular authority overhis the man butto ing program on a very big scale - — That “velvet lips had caught be in" silence”-Tcondition Js The rate of construction is somd wisp of floss between them” somewhat different In this counmuch improved over the low point is the sori of stuff for which poets A remarked "You of the depression but it is still strive Certain - writers— Wpde- try foreigner Americans spoil your women” far from satisfactory house A'P Herbert and Tark- Private In the days of Utah people building contracts for 1936 stand ington occur to me — have the true on lines a dividing politiparty at less than four billion dollars light touch Seldom do they bring -cian publicly-remark- ed “We let as compared with seven billion in the heavy brasses But keep our women go before us to show dollars 1927 Public and semithe upper keys and using in tickling how much we think of them” public construction raises total the lighter wood winds Thi This is somewhat at variance makes for delicious humor Carbuilding to seven billion dollars with I Timothy’s injuction Outwith the as against a total of eleven billloiv toonist have side of being a provider men are dollars in 1927 In short conin need of tagging tyke saitj "to be small potatoes and struction is at ths low levels of Peter Arno more modem "With tew in a hill in a family” 1931 the uniformed flunkey or musNow that women it is said taches of the window club Major This is' in the face of ail absocontrol the greater part of realty lute I roaV at their sweeping ram's shortage of 8000000 dwellin the nation if this as six or seven mil-- " horn curves 1 don’t know as'well ings true women in such a lion more buildings which need but I do That Is playing onwhy the right may reverse the statement renovation or replacement to renOn 'the oboe rather upper keys of I Timothy This condition of der them fit for human habitatthan the double brasses! j placing the cart before the horse ion This failure of the good old is not likely to prove advantalaw of supply and demand to do It’s been moons since I sue- geous to either sex! its stuff is reflected in a dangercumbed to that gesture of looser Laws are made and provided ous increase of rents which will evenings — the Turkish bath But ’ by man so soon as he signs on soon bounce back at industry in for the heck of it I did last evethe dotted line the wife ima demand for higher wages or a ning The rubber a ringer for mediately has a third Interest in decline of purchasing power Man Mountain Dean sans whls- his real estate and which he canLow-co- st housing— and lots of it kers gave me the big bum his not dispose of without her say Ms our next move if we are to entire routine I no longer look but the wife holding a deed to send the present boomlet over the upon myself as a tough bird I' property is permitted by law t 1929 top and make a real advance not only bruise ouch like any- sell her roperty-without conin living standards and general but tear easily Under the" thing with her husband ferring Why a welfare Otherwise if we go into wing They almost had to tote husband should not haVe the the spring of 1937 with a break me home in an ambulance same rights in a wife’s real esin the consumers’ market and no tate that she has in his does not housing program F D R will be Copyright 1936 MeNaught appear logical or just to either ' economically stymied at the outSyndicateparty “Now the state legislature! set of his second administration is soon to convene it might not st How and where to start a Well Mean!" be out of order for them to conia another The kind old lady had just used ’ program housing sider the matter of equal proper--t- y story and not a very pleasant the public telephone for the first rights to both woman and man one If the new deal is to give it time and Had given the operator - Rousseau affirms: "The dig- a happy ending the administrat- quite a lot of trouble - After she nity of woman consists in being ion will have to get in touch with had finished her conversation shs unknown to ths world Her glory little things' like Interest rates " called the exchange is the esteem of her husband her industrial prices and the Amer4 “I’m very sorry to have given pleasure the happiness of her lean Federation of Labor Has you so much trouble mlss” she -family” This surely laher-nat-ur- al the neW"deal got the necessary said “so I’m - putting another -career - nerve td break up the present nickel in the- - slot for yourself”— J H MIDGLEY with Big Business by Telephone Topic direct action in the housing field? What a War! The young officer sat talking Ills Style Copyright the Register and A Londoner rang up to inquire reverently to a distinguished genTribune Syndicate eral in the smoking room of k the fare to Ealing but the man i famous club overlooking Greey at the other end of the line Clrfwly Linked — In a kindergarten class flags couldn’Ljnl£h£beTOe--pftbpark —“And what" sir “ hr askeawitS" tSere Shown"and tifansweFlo a station so in desperation hs reim“were awed respect asked the Inquirer to spell it your question a little girl gave the The reply came as follows: sponse that was expected of her' pressions of the last war?” "This his Is The general tried “E— for ’Erbert A— wot the the flag of my country” port and "And what 4s the name oftyour raised his eyebrows: "The Great ’orses heat yer goes — too War my boy terrible too when yer dies I— wot yer sees country?” was the next question ”’Tls terrible Oh the noise and the of thee” was the prompt wif N— wot lays hegg G (long reply— Exchange people" — Exchange fause)— Gor blime”— Exchange st By Ham Park muit begin Though she cap make an average with his grandmother— Voltaire man ache to hold her hand Just Club Meets a man A Hollywood news Item states movie couple divorced last week were remarried yesterday that a They ought to adopt a burnt child to teach them something for — months over a Aignln-goldoulined with pale blue in the en tranoe of the dance place known as Roseland It reads! "A place : where you can turn golden mo- ments into idle memories” It must" mean something but vrtr have muffed It eondi-tlonsoff- er TheenatorJromlSandpit To reform Speaking of memories Henry Sell and I have been puzzled By Our Readers lttMT-ippefci1nTW“'coT umn do not sxpreM th view of The Tribunt They art tht ©pin-oof contributors with which Tht Tribune may or may not agree The following rulta govern contributions: 1 Letter limited to 300 word's Preference given to abort communications 2 Write legibly and clearly on one tide of the paper only 3 Religious and racial discussions barred Partisan comment ran be printed only with true name of 4 Personal aspersions pro writers S hibited Poetical contributions 6 Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of or fact for statement which are not In accord with fair play and 7 The Forum fa not an good taste : advertising medium 8 Writers must sign true names and addresses In Ink Letters unless partisan will be carried over assumed name if writer to requests In all cases however true name And address must be attached to communication 9 The Forum cannot consider more than one letter from the same writer at one time -- - Helps Wages This is because W P A wages are in effect the minimum wages in many parts of the country and stand as an unsurmountable barrier to a general degradationaof wage scales hours and conditions of labor in private industry This side of the W P A program is just The Public Forum 4 hut now and He never "orders to v — ticker -- al WHEN covery An average of 04 per cent was applied 'to the settlement With min--str- el Persecuting public confidence istration the new dealers are taking stock of their experience over the last three years aadhavi worked out plans to continue re- case “fixeJ"anaverage high as 8V4 per cent - The settlement with France finally signed in‘ 1926 provided for an average Interest rate of 1 6 per cent The settlement was unpopular In France Frenchmen generally demanded some guaranty that Germany would continue reparation payments out of which France could meet her own obligations The chamber of deputies found it politically wise not to ratify the agreement with the United States but at ths same time to appropriate funds for the payments stipulated in the agreement just as though it were in effect Ratification came in 1929 when other-t'Wt- AUSPICES of El Kalah temple "Nobles of the Mystic UNDER will hold a dance tonight for their own enjoyment and that of their friends and for the benefit of crippled children who are cared for in the Simmers’ hospital of Salt Lake City Utah The proceeds of these entertainments added to annual assessments levied under the rules of the order are turned into a hospital fund to assist in correcting physical defects of the young patients and promoting their mental training at the same time No wiser invitation was ever extended no happier sentiment —was ever uttered no sweeter words' were ever sung by lyric than came from the lips of the Master when He said: "Suffer little children to come unto me and forbid them not for of such is the kingdom of heaven” And again He said: “Whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me" In an effort to modernize and make practical this appeal the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine have established a hospital ward for the care and comfort of crippled children to give them homes and medical treatment and surgical attention Some are beyond physi-Icrelieved of sufhelp but not beyond consideration 'They-ar- e fering as far as possible and made to forget their handicaps by providing games and occupations suitable to their individual “—infirmities' Neither creed nor color has any bearingon the admission of these patients Many have been cured their twisted limbs straightened their distorted or wasted bodies rebuilt their outlook on life made brighter Those who desire to assist in this philanthropic work may do so by purchasing tickets for the dahee this evening whether they expect to attend or not - C This settlement was opItaly posed by Cordell Hull then a member of the house ways and means committee Representative Hull felt that the rats was too low so that the arrangement really- - amounted to cencel-latio- n Dancing for Crippled Children T WASHINGTON— F a d - With the probability of an early downturn in business and an ebbing of Opposed by Hull cor-reet- HUNDRED SEVENTY YEARS AGO-teyears before the ONE of Independence was adopted an English mathe-jnaticibegan working on an algebraic problem which has —claimed the attention of scholars end prodigies in all succeeding g concendecades It was figured and ciphered with tration and complicated calculations through the French revoluwar the tion the American revolution the Franco-Prussia- n con- Spanish-America- n war the World war and scores of smaller "“Tliets" in the Balkan"KatesaM"LatirTAmerican countries- through the evolution of transportation and communication during the rise and fall of powerful dynasties down to date to be solved the other day by Professor Leonard E Dickson of the University of Chicago -- While his explanation is bewildering 4o other-figu- re experts of the present day it seems that they are not in a position to question the process or refute the announced result Just 'what —the problem signifies or the solution proves may never be clear to —the average mind However most people will reach the conclusion - that any branch of study presenting "sums" that require 170 years to figure out ought to be deleted from every course of study until further progress is made in the prolongation of human life —Will— Check Slump — By Jay Franklin— nerrinxr -- but once magnificent shade who ho very in the barooma of the Plaza He alta muaing in one of the big black leather chairt Every hour or so he rises and totters to — the newg' ticker still for ail the ‘world the noble patrician Adjusting an' ancients steel- on a trembling rimmed pince-n- e moist nose-en- d he carefuly reads the market reports Replacing his ’ he returns to hi deep pince-n- e Fifteen J years n cushioned ‘chair ago he was a guest who agitated for the installation of that same How Nevv Deal - rate as j hotel onyx away from the drab back hall loom now and rekindle memories of prosperous days that are gone There is for example a seedy at-tripartite 1936 McIntyre 3—ThosI!ving ghosts tyhtfhatmf the great V1 lobbies! Fugitive shadows from an Opulent past Only in the and gilt splendor— which is free—do they seem able to get —NEW YORK'Dec negotiations will soon be undertaken Cby the United States Great Britain and Francs In order to 'explore possibilities of settling the war debts owed the United States by the ntlier two countries- - and also the war debt owed Great Britain by France The fanning of public -- opinion l the war debts for political purposes is admitted to be ons of the graverobstacles’1n the way of settling the war debts problem And that goes for both sides of the Atlantic However the record thowe that -- opposition to settlement weakens when a concrete plan is once presented In creating the World war foreign' debt commission in 1923 to fund the war debts the con-- ’ grees of the United States stipulated that the time of maturity was not to be extended beyond June 15 1947 and that the funded obligations were not to bear interest lower than t'A per cent Yk— whan— the —term -- proved Impracticable congress ratified Settlements which In some cases extended payments tintil 1887 -a meeting vt delegates to to civil the war in Spain and to devise topics pertaining ways and means of confining the commotion to the Iberian peninsula The 'council is to begin its deliberations on the tenth of December This is the first intimation received by a wondering 'vorld as to the probable termination of the sanguinary conflict amce the league is not in the habit of trying to stop fights until Ihey are over Of course if the slaughter shows no signs of abatement on the date given pacifistic proposals may be postponed indefinitely After the conquest of Ethiopia had been consummatedand the southward" course of empire paused temporarily to appropriate that little realm of Solomon’s descendants" the deposed ruler was given a most respectful hearing in Geneva Sympathy was shown Selassie regret was expressed for his spoliation guarded mutter-ing- s against Mussolini were caught by members of acute hearing and a vacation was announced as spoils fell into the hands of the — victors —— If the League of Nations should muster up sufficient courage to remonstrate with all belligerent elements in Spain and could induce them jQconfintlheix-activities-fo-theiE--own-p- lay ground such idealistic efforts might not be construed as intervention The league never obtrudes its desires upon active combatants inflamed by hatred excitement or insanity which drive dupes to death after wars have been started by agitators demagogues and muni-- ‘ ’ ' tion makers Even should the war in Spain subside by reason of exhaustion or extermination it will prove both difficult and dangerous to restrain alien spectators occupying ringside seats in the European arena They have paid to see a finish fight and will not be satisfied with anything else Even should the league put out the fire in Spain what about sparks that have been settling on the dry roofs of a dozen powder magazines in the continental vicinity? It is to be hoped that the League of Nations has guessed jy and that peace may hover over Spain within a week In such event it would be interesting to learn how the league did it rIE Highlights of New York' As Seenby’OO McIntyre- - on Established April 15 1871 Salt Lake CityrUtah Friday Morning December 9 1938 -- nose-blo- w - -- 4 low-co- — love-fea- st Lr-w’-ere 4 |