Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE MONDAY MORNING FEBRUARY ‘Amateur Pilots Dropped By Administration fljc ’j&rit £itke pilwtw Established April 15 1871 Iisued every morning by rhe Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIP'hpN $ 90 Dally and Sunday one month 1000 Dally and Sunday one year ’ The above rate! apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere In the United States: (129 Dally 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 February 8 1937 Hogtieing the Court toss PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT wanted to IFpublic complacence anent the affairs of popular bombshell into government he could not have chosen a more powerful detonator than his message to drastically reorganize the judicial branch of the American government It is by far the boldest move that any chief executive has ever taken and Constitutes the greatest change without submission to the people that has been proposed in the basic form of oilr government The proposals as they relate to the simplification of Judicial procedure to speed the way for tests of constitutionality cf enacted laws increasathe efficiency of federal courts and the transfer of judges to clear up congested court calendars are right and proper but the proposal to appoint six new supreme court justices at one fell swoop arouses doubts as to whether the immediate objective is to change the court or change the form of government Endless Possibilities D G—The White House seems to be dropping Us volunteer pilots almost as rapidly as Queen Marie and Lou Fuller bounced annoying deadheads from the' royal train in the days before the panic Last week it was Mr Louis Brandels Wehle who felt the ground slip from finder him This week it is Dr Stanley High who is on the receiving end of a hearty hint that the president is doing his own thinking Mr Wehle is a Harvard fJtoosevelia-anc- the-193- years igo today the Boy Scout movement 'was in the United States The anniversary is being celebrated this week by some 5000 scouts who live in Salt Lake county a fair fraction of the 7000900 who have enrolled their names in this organization throughout the world The American roster shows A membership of 1069165 according to statistics quoted in the report of President Malcolm A Keyser of the local council Few movements have accomplished so much for the youth of America or laid a more stable foundation for the fufore Heredity may put its thumbmarks on the framework of characterj educa-tio- n undoubtedly equips boys and girls for the battles religious teaching will have a tendency to exalt the grave and bore the gay but environment is the sculptor that carves out the finished product Of manhood and womanhood What this organization has meant to millions of growing lads whose energies are constantly surging for an outlet is beyond the historians to compute It can be vaguely ability of present-da- y estimated by those who have seen the scouts on' serious errands or at play individually doing their daily deed of helpfulness or In camp enjoying wholesome recreation Their fine 'traditions become indelibly imprinted on their hearts and minds and give meaning to their daily lives They emphasize — Honor service brotherhood adventure and good appearance These are essentials of useful citizenship helpful to the - nation and to civilization They will dear the way for better politics for greater interest in the precepts and promises of religion for health and contentment longer spans of life and a rational approach to obstacles that ignorance intolerance avarice and ambition are continuously placing in the path of peace ofj-lif- e Qualifications of a Diplomat of merit bestowed by the Mexican government upon X its young" vice consul Emilio Calderon Ptiig located in Salt Lake City is a fitting testimonial to his ability and by all with whom he has made contact Having represented Mexico in several foreign assignments before cpming to Utah Mr Puig is apparently destined to go far in the diplomatic fTPHE reward personality-appreciate- service Among the varied qualifications essential to a successful discharge of duties in the consular branch of foreign relations are included familiarity with trade and labor conditions respect f the government to which he is assigned a pleasing personality and an aptitude for making complimentary remarks on appro' ' priate occasions To be polite and agreeable under norjnal influences is a ' national characteristic that Mr Puig shares with millions of his countrymen to impress hearers with belief in the speaker’s sincerity is a personal trait that adds to Mr Puig’s popularity When he fecently remarked that “Salt Lake City is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and one of the most pleasant in which to live" he paid a compliment to this community especially valued" since he has lived in both Washington and Mexico City ' “'For a man to come from the ancient and fascinating capital' of a picturesque land a city of magnificent parks and paseos surrounded by lakes and mountains fanned by tropic airs of romance abounding in relics of remote ages and extinct peoples and be able to note the newer attractions of this intermountain center Indicates a discerning mind free from prejudice and open to modem impressions- - JEUN uto O' bucks ELSE DflUE a IS (JotflH Pay it or From Sandpit VKAlK Background Story -- Register and Tribune Syndicate Copyright Off the Record It becomes clearer every minute that Kentucky should havs appointed admirals Hillbillies are mountain people with guitars who make up sad ballads about things that happen in g the flood areas low-lyin- Living on a mldwestern river fork is okeh if you figure on water pole in the downstairs game room Pensions of $154135 a year are still paid widows of Mexican war veterans We are solemnly assured however that the French and Indian wars are paid for It Is pretty widely agreed that the president is at his best in a dire emergency As things have been in the last four years no one knows how he would grapple with a lull The saloon was differwas called a saloon and while It had loungers there was no lounge old-ty- ent It Our hearts go out to a giraffe in the London soo reported down with a sore throat and to all centipedes with charley horses Looters have been notably few 'in the Inundated areas jiotwith-standin- g that in many cases "a second - story workercould row ' right In J937 by the North Copyright American Newspaper Alii- ance Iso ol er Behind each of these snubs there is a considerable background Story Last fall Mr Wehle was called in to assist in the conferences which were studying the power pool in relation with the T V A He was a sort of technical and legal expert Who it was hoped would help get the ‘White House seized occasion to suggest that Dr High too spoke only for Dr High Another pilot overboard and without a life preserver The point however is not that they make a splash when they hit the water It is that they didn’t get away with 1L If Mr Wehle had actually succeeded In his T V A negotiations the president would have overlooked his bumptiousness If Dr High’s writings the purposes of the new deal administration Mr Roosevelt would not have objected any more than to Mrs Roosevelt’s daily writings For dn national politics as elsewhere nothing succeeds like success and nothing falls like failure By O O McIntyre NEW YORK Feb 8— Diary: A bid from Adela Rogers St John for us to dine with her and her husband and Heifetz and Miss Vidor And a chirky note from James Forbes wh6 wrote a favorite play “The Chorus LadyJ’ So breakfasting on sausage and cinnamon spiced apple rings and stretched before a crackling Sorting desk papers I came upon letters from John Rlngling Arthur Somers Roche and Karl Kitchen all no longer of this vale of tears And so with my lady to the Algonquin to Bertha and Frank Case’s tea’ for Constance Collier and much hanky-pank- y and Dinner at El Morocco with Dudley Field Malone in a deep dolor and he off to some plushy affair Then home and a letter from By Ham Park Roslta Royce who told ef-hNo kfe is so hard that you can’t trained doves how they sulk act make it easier by the way you coy when flattered and become take it— Ellen Glasgow temperamental after a bath To bed thrilling to essays by Addison for lessons One of the hardest What a penman! as life it take to is me to learn comes and try to make the best There is deserved wonder about those impudent dance dens of it Just the other day the slotted cheek by jowl alongside editor said in that kindly understanding way of his “The trouble magnificent Broadway amusewith you Is that you’re always ment temples Their entrance Is a narrow hallway dim lit over getting indignant about somewhich a seedy doorman indifferthing” It’s the Don Quixote ent to trade stands adder-eye-d I guess guard There are enticing cabiDo you ever seethe? I do and net pictures of dlaphonousljr clad But on the slightest provocation “dancing hostesses” one never I do it privately most of the sees inside and suggestive plactime now because I’ve been acards about the good tiftie to be cused of being "emotionally unhad by all The truth is sound” I come to a boil too are yokel traps sinister many clip easily they said But I am rapidly that take the Good Time joints followdefect by overcoming that Charlie for his roll They are in ing a regular schedule Six days cahoots with nighthawk taxi an hour Week set aside I a usually drivers who collect their perfrom 9 to 10 a m as my “seethcentage of the gyp time I that During ing” period court and get mad at the supreme George McManus is dean of the sympathize with the president or comic strip men— having dished feel and get mad at the president up his Jiggs and Maggie hilarities sorry for the supreme court get without break for 26 years And Motors General ail riled up at the is one of the few who stuck to his or ths shipowners and decide to original formula Most limners I when go either walk or swim who started with him have passed from the 'picture or have joined anywhere or else cuss the unions in general The seventh day when the serial cycle— the next episode reserve for tomorrow metier McManus also the family Is home I a discussion of the state legisladoes all the pen lines of his creature Then we all get mad But tions There are some who merely the net result is I am able to make the pencil sketches and Have assistants finislrths chore present a calnr demeanorwheirl appear in public You ought to and do the lettering in the baltry it loons McManus is on the of 60 but as lively and inNot to change the subject and terested in life as the college apropos of nothing in particular One of the fashion freshman adof to a bit here want I inject plates of his on the subvice to brides-to-b- e ject of physiognomy It’s this: Memory: The old time theater chins are no indication of char- - program that listed its'castof acter The reason I make this characters thus: “Albert — (In love statement is because when I asked with Myrtle)" to my wife if she were willing Too there was one familiar set trust her future to me she said for the patrons of the she was because of my chin Well melodrama that alup until then no one had ever commented upon that portion of ways enchanted this galleryite This was a railroad station eating my map My mother and other puffing and admiring relatives had spoken of room with to denote arrival the breadth of my brow but my and departure of trains Now and chin apparently was something then the conductor with lantern the less said about the better So would hurry through And back being one of those to whom a fit the counter the bosomy Sophie little encouragement is a dangerTucker serving woman with enous thing I have gone through life nui ln'her face talk and manners disassticking out my chin We knew the innocent post leantrous results er reading a newspaper was a There was another thing of Sherlock watching waiting The was which I scene would be programmed: inordinately proud That was that no woman of our "Paddington Station — Shortly afmean clan had ever worked I ter midnight” for money Nearly all of them There's a trick beauty about care were worked to death taking Helen Wills Moody one rarely sees of the numerous progeny but they didn’t get paid for it among the feminine celebrities — a gloss that somehow does not So when our one wee lamb fade Even had she not attained grew up and began to tell us fame people would turn as she things my wife decided she was passes along Lights come and go getting nowhere playing bridge How could such in her face and got herself a job lovely hands be so strong? And I haVe I am happy to say bethat cold steel gaze—the poker come sufficiently modern not to face of the headline boys— become feel that I have lost face in my so alluringly soft and sweetly hesI but after condition changed itant? Incidentally the hardest have spent the day among pots eyes in men and women will aldishes and and and pans dirty ways glow when they gaze into planning meals I do resent her the windows of a puppy shop O coming home from the marts of yes I saw Mrs Moody execute a trade where she meets and sees graceful rhumba at El Morocco too people and will talk only about mark-dowsales budgets and It isn’t fair Bagatelles: DeQulncey had no sense of smell Sidney R And besides when the editor’s Kent film tycoon once rode the G K Chessecretary who I am not sure can range In the west terton had a dime museum confry an egg says to me: “Senator tell me as one woman to another vex mirror in his guest room do you really like to cook?” I Tom Geraghty went bath resent that also to London to stay three weeks e Then I go Into an and has been there three years seethe when I get a letter like Daniel Frohman and Fanhle this: Hurst have dined together weekly know: Senator: dear Didya “My for years “That a dishrag should be Gastronomic puzzle: Why is it rinsed and washed thoroughly so hard and shameful to get the after each using: “That the prongs of forks pope's nose of a turkey in a smart should be scrubbed well with a public cafe? Every epicure knows it’s the tld bit of the bird The brush after serving eggs: next best part' is the neck al“That once a week the cook stove (gas or electric) should be though as difficult to handle as taken apart for scouring: frog legs Also- why can’t one "That if you use a step-pa- ll for get pork shoulder chops twice garbage it should be carried out as sweet and toothsome as rib each night and dumped into the and' loin chops? And what can be done with dastards who goo can in the alley the delightful "doughnut with (whoops) or in the front yard: ‘That I’m betting a colemnister chocolate icing? And what the as a cook would give any cast-iro- n blazes has become of hog’s head cheese? stomach indigestion? "Anyway don’t invite your edi— — Copyrights 1937r McNaught — tor TO ONE OF YOUR Syndicate Inc meals If you hope to continue eating three squares a Affected the Motion day The other day I heard of one “Just a tip from of these baby autos speeding 50 ' “MERRY FOOLER” ' miles an hour on 'one of our main H’m And every 60 feet the highways little trinket would hop right up same time these industries are In the air about five feet A moraising prices and making promtor cop finally overtook the ’ ises that thy will produce things midget motor and brought it to a cheaper by using machinery and stop cutting down labor expense “What’s the big Idea of that car These industries are raising asked the prices to pay dividends to people jumpin’ that drawing salaries above $15000 a cop The driver answered: year It is easy to understand "Why officer there’s nothing that these salaries and dividends wrong with the car You see I— are coming dlrqct from the government through the hands of I’ve got the hlo— the - hiccups”— Vancouver Province the people What In the world will we do if we have another flood of maNot Feasible “Be like me and pay your taxes chinery saving devices As I see with a smile" advised Mrs Wise this last flood was more disit “I should love to” said Muss astrous than the floods of ths middlewest river- Sharp “but they insist bn cash" —Exchange GG WILLIS The Senator — o— 6 So the N - fwuaf j nephew of the great liberal Associate justice Brandels of the supreme court Dr High took an active part in campaign and functioned most efficiently as the organizer of the Good Neighbor league Dr High Out TWENTY-SEVE- ®jY ffclEMO a l y" Anniversary of the Boy Scouts lftI Mint Highlights of New York As Seen by OOMcIntyre ‘ class-n)ataof- Our government is essentially and properly a government private utilities in a proper frame cf the people In it is set up three elementary branches of governof mlnnd ment the executive the legislative and the judicial If the people Mr Wehle flung his weight choose to alter this basic form of their government if they desire around a good deal and gave his associates the Impression that he to change or desert the principle of checks and balances as inwhs the personal representative corporated in these three branches of government that is their of the president His intervenprerogative It however is not within the province of one of the tion complicated the issue and branches of the government to take over the prerogatives of deepened the feud between Mr David LHlenbhal and Dr Arthur another without the expressed authority of the people them- selves Herein lies the chief criticism of the contemplated move Morgan of the T V A When the president appointed Interpretation of a flattering popular vote to mean the delegation finally his power committee to formuof power to change our form of government is bound to be challate a general policy on federal lenged power production Mr: Wehle It is of course possible that the people will accept this"with' again tried to crash the gate no more protest than that which emanated from congress when He was met by two experienced bouncers Tom Corcoran and Ben the executive seized legislative control in the guise of a passing Cohen Then the president at branch of now With the the government legislative emergency! one of his press conferences acidthe executive new dominion of the under the completely proposal ly Intimated that Mr Wehle repas it relates to the supreme court drives directly at the one saferesented nobody but Mr Wehle That was that guard of government one which has been treasured and revered Whether by design or by accident this concentration of power if More Complex enacted by congress becomes an approach to dictatorship at least " The case of Dr is 'somefor the present administration which would have the power to what more complex High An a radio expert a young appoint si new supreme' court justices and vigorous crusader for liberalIn the proposals for changes and additions in the lower courts ism he was duck soup for the the way is pointed for some necessary reforms even though the hew deal 1836 and did seem does unmindful of the character of the services of a swell job In hiscampaign plan appointed sphere veteran jurists But should age alone be the determining factor of drumming up votes in the holier sort of political bull rushes of reasoning capacity? Is life to end at 70? Should this age limit Wherever you went you seemed also apply to the members of congress who are supposed to make to strike Stanley High rushing the laws that are passed upon by the judiciary? from or to White House conInthe executive' circle and council in recent years we Lave ference and awhen the campaign seen many youthful theorists come and go Many youngsters who ended he seemed headed for even more responsible work in Mr obviously were attuned to some beautiful Utopian ambition stumRoosevelt's political powerhouse bled and fell when faced with the job of putting those theories Dr High had only one weakness into practice They are strangely missing in the president’s adfrom the White House angle He visory council today Youth no more than age can measure inbegan writing articles in the more telligence or vision mental capacity or reasoning power in terms prominent magazines upon the of years subject of national politics No doubt he needed the money as What of the men who will succeed the supreme court memso many of us do but this way bers or render them impotent? Will they be selected for judicial of getting It scarcely matched the ability and wisdom or1 recruited from the rank of those who' president's audible request for ascondemn all that is old as obsolete and useless? If we are consistants with “a passion for anon-imitfronted with a problem in the judiciary it might have been apThe article In the Saturday Eveproached with more consideration for the people and more respect which seems to have ning for the members of the high court A similar change in the basic been Post the payoff was ballybooed of been have government the might editor as coming from one plan accomplished regularly by by of Mr Roosevelt’s confidential adsubmitting a constitutional amendment to the people Or the issue visers and contained some pretty could have been raised and met irt the recent campaign to court forthright prophesies about what the sanction of the people As it is the departure is radical and was going to happen to the southdangerous more so because congress the legislative branch of the ern Democrats and their northern allies the municipal bosses government and the deciding factor is now Well under the heel in the next four years cf the executive branch of the government - By Carlyle HjoMtf etT$ NOTHIM 'TO CAT 4JkxttO HERE DA ON ©ML A these aeee sittimT fcmW rretrtts Vou ftftES 4a flu ' JaV or? SUNDAY! Me am ENttETAiM MV By Jay Franklin—— WASHINGTON 8 1837 I'M SETTlN RIGHT HE-R- E ONTU-- VoO DCClOt TO PAV Ml MY SPECIAL RATI OF32P an ( in-m- e HOUR— I r JUHtCRS GOME ON STRIKE WANTS T O STAV UP lit Till Ten o'Oot and Have ws ALLOUANtfi rrs’ a to -- -i INCREASE wtn off--ed- ge The Public Forum Writer Corrects Forum On Title to Article Editor Tribune: I wish to point out if I may without offense that the title “Gives Views on U S Reserve Bank System" you wrota for my article published in The Tribune January 29 is misleading It supports the- - proposition government that the United States has a reserve ‘ banking system which It operates This popular opinion is erroneous as I and other contributors to the Forum have been endeavoring to point out The federal reserve system alluded to is privately owned A board of six members a majority of them bankers is appointed by the president The board is supposed to operate the system in the interest of Industry and agriculture but they have failed utterly witness the depression of 1920-2- 1 and 1930-3- 6 Section 18 of the federal reserve that the board shall estahlish a rata of interest to be paid to the United States treasury act provides on federal reserve notes Contrary to this provision federal reserve banks pay no interest to tha government for the use of these notes The government however pays interest to the banks on the bonds placed with It to secure federal reserve notes whlch constitutes the only money the small being issued except certificates amount of silver Through this system banks not only receive their money “free” but a few large banks are permitted to control the amount of money in circulation and thereby the value of money In other words the price paid to labor and the price of commodities No system so vicious as this could possibly prevail In a democnot for racy like ours if it were the misunderstanding the public has of it Why should the government’s sovereign pbwer be delegated to a few individuals and they instead of the government be permitted to control Industry and agriculture even the very lives of the people of this nation W E DE WITT Writer Reviews Plan Of Company Unions Editor Tribune: A recent issue of The Tribune quotes President Alfred P Sloan Jr of General Motors as saying he would not negotiate with union leaders re-so strikers long as main in General Motors’ plants Let’s analyze this statement It is very plain his object in making this statement is to save the company’s unions Every union man knows that a company union is General Motors’ greatest asset in holding off a real collective bargaining agency For proof of this all that is necessary is to know nearly all railroads in the United States abolished company unions by decisive majorities when the employes received a chance to have a secret vote' on this question Nearly all the company unions on the railroads were formed during and after the 1922 shop strike As far as any relief or wage Increases or better working conditions the rail employes found they had been deceived and that they were dominated by company officials The facts are they were being used to keep a real union —out When once settled theprecedent “sit-dow- By Our Readers Forum Rules Letters appearing in thla do not expreee the views o t The Tribune They are the optn with which otis of contributors The Tribune may or may not agree The following rules govern contributions 1 Letter limited to SOO words Preference given to short commu2 Writs legibly and nications clearly on one side of the paper only 3 Religious and racial diaouseions Partisan comment can be barred printed only with true name of writers 4 Personal aspersions prohibited 9 Poetical contributions not wanted 6 Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of fact or for statements which art not In accord with fair play and 7 The Forum ie not an good taste advertising medium 8 Writers must sign true names and addresses in Ink Letters unless partisan will be earned over assumed name tf In aii cases writer so requests 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 would serve as a basis for labor settlement in the steel industry which is rapidly being organized and no doubt will soon be hav- ing "sit-dow- strikes Is General Motors going to make the big profits of 1927 and 1928 or are they going to pay higher wages and divide with the employes? I settled this question for my- self last November I voted Democratic although I have been a socialist for years If the Democrats can’t make good that plank in their platform saying they believe in collective bargaining then myself and thousands of other voters who helped to make the big majority for President Roosevelt will have no other recourse but to vote socialist next time GEORGE S PEAY Provo N P: See rule 1 G A: See rule 3 Writer Outlines Views On State Revenues Editor Tribune: The new State revenues required to lift from the property of both the inhabitants and the corporations of Utah in all counties of the state the coets of the public schools public pensions and public roads may be found by this terse constructive and direct legislative enactment: “Be it enacted by the legislature of Utah: “Sectional That in lieu of the tax imposed by section Revised Statutes of Utah 1933 every bank or" corporation other than a national bank and corporations exempt by section for the privilege of exercising its corporate franchise or for the privilege of doing business in tha state ehall after July 1 1937 pay to thr state a tax equal to two per centum of its gross receipts from business assignable to this state to be paid monthly as such gross receipts shall have accrued Section 3 With respect to corporations the two per cent franchise tax imposed by this act shall bs in lieu of the two per cent sales tax imposed by section 4 of the emergency revenue act approved August 3 1933” The obstructions to this plain practical and prolifio tax arq ths school teachers’ soviet and the incorporated cupidity which loudly declaims that the homestead exemption bill Shall not 9s passed unless new state revertues are found when in fact these vociferous obstructionists are mortally afraid that' such new revenues will be found That is the crux of the fiscal difficulties of the etate government SAMUEL RUSSELL -5 -5 Greed and Lust Held Basic Crime Cause Editor Tribune: A Forum ter recently asked for let- comment on crime prevention With the space allotted it is only possible to brush a few high spots Greed and lust for wealth and power are the basic cause of crime Members of our 'society who suffer most from the wealth craze have acquired control of our monetary system They very seldom commit murder yet they are often and in most cases the underlying cause Industrialists and business men all the way up must collect the interest for these money sharks above their compensation This state of affairs places the toiling masses in abject poverty Too large a percentage of our population should have been trained in d a school for the but poverty prevented them from being trained in any school These are ofttimes persuaded induced or hired to commit mob violence or murder In the case of Frank P Little Butte Mont 1917 praise to the culture of the common citizens there was none of that type to get to do the job So lenders otherwise known as respectable citizens did the job themselves They do not go out and force a man off the land he has earned many times personally they send the sheriff The Joseph Shoemaker case Tampa Fla 1935 They got five policemen to do the job Seven policemen have just been convicted of second-degre- e murder in Arkansas It’s the same story Hence they also use the state to protectJtheir loot The action of the G M C in the present auto strike is more concrete evidence Shall we place the responsibility on these individuals? Remember the majority of voters voted for the individual or private ownership of the wealth that society collectively produced feeble-minde- the-mon- ey D C GRUNDVIG Huntington Utah Rise In Machinery Made Goods Noted Editor Tribune: I was very -- much interested in reading the article written by Mark Sullivan Walter Lippmann and Dorothy Thompson but mostly in the article by Mr Sullivan He says what good times we will havs by the new inventions of machinery Our readers should pay attention to ths good times we are having now with steel mills inventing new machinery to cut down labor expenses to produce articles cheap But we note the fact that they have raised the price of steel from $2 to $4 per ton We also notice the advertisement of women’s shoes and slippers produced by machinery for $7 $8 and $12 per pair Yet they tell us that they will produce these artlcles cheaper by cutting down labor expenses These men do not seem to realize that Uncle Sam is paying all this labor expense as Uncle Sam is compelled to furnish employment for pur 11000000 unem' -ployed These technologists want Uncle Sam to reduce the tariff on agricultural products to open up foreign trade for these manufactured articles In President Roosevelt's inaugural address I carefully noted how many people in 'this nation are At the and d ill-fe- er off-sta- ding-dongi- w-it- off-tim- ten-gall- ' HOME-COOKE- - D ' ' - |