Show 5 ' gtlje —THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNErSATURDAYMORNING7MA!lCtfi3 In Spotlight — of — jialt fake Sfribtwe ‘Established April 15 1871 Issued every morning by The Halt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Dally and Sunday one month ) 90 1050 Dally and Sunday one year The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere ln'the United States: Dally and Sunday one month (125 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 Saturday Morning March U S 1937 Politics By By Frank R Kent expressed the conviction that while the relief problem ought never to have The Senator — O— bun taken" states and away from the f hibitive” with institutional care the chief arguments in favor of it The annual cost of imprisonment in New York state was estimated in 1933 at about $450 per inmate whereas the cost of probation was about $55 a year per case In Ohio the cost of imprisonment in 1926 was $23 per inmate perjyear as compared with $32 for probation In Massachusetts the per capita cost of incarceration is estimated at $350 per year as compared with $35 for probation The general trend in American thought and practice is revealed in the words of the Wickersham commission which in 1931 concluded that probation is “the most important step we have taken in the individualization of treatment of the offender No man should be sent to a penal institution until it is definitely determined that he is not a fit subject for probation” The low cost of probation as compared Is one of Point to The Record CONSCIENCE troubles us considerably when we ponder OUR slogan under which the United States went to the rescue of the allies in the World war The doughboys if we recall fought gallantly with words from their homeland ringing in their ears: “Make the world safe for democracy" At this stage of post war history it is rather ironical to think that all the orgy bloodshed maiming and broken hearts resulted in creating a situation whereby democratic government is in a more precarious position than over imagined in 1914 While President Roosevelt has been preaching the “good neighbor" doctrine his administration has been forced by a critical turn of events to build our national defenses England sounds a warning evidently directed at Italy that Great Britain has not’ and will not relinquish her claim as- - master of the seas To back up that statement with Something more than fighting words the house of commons is informed that by the end of the year 148 new warships will be under construction for the British navy Feverish war preparation is going on abroad Financial problems are beginning to harrass governmental officials in disturbed nations on the continent New York market reports reflect increased! buying of war material The whole world peace machine seems to be pulling apart and the tempo increases There is one thought which provides- some comfort although it may be that we are grasping at straws Nevertheless it can be kept in mind that war costs have pyramided to the point where any estimate staggers the imagination Those blustering diplomats abroad who refuse to think in terms of conciliation - might do ome head scratching for their own edification Had it not been for the backing of borrowed American dollars how long could the allies have held off the German invaders? Had it not been for American financial help could the allies have fed their own people and kept peace at home while their troops fought on the western front? Had it not hern they completely forgot about the debt they owed the United States co'uld they have reconstructed a more vicious war machine abroad than the world has ever seen? When these war-ma- d nations come to us again need we’ go farther than call their attention to the record? - The Gall of Spring spring days turn yoqng men’s thoughts THESE exhilarating to step on the gas and stimulate It’s the time of the year when the driver after a winter of careful nervewracking and hazardous motoring wants to “let loose” and let Lady Luck guide him safely along the highways Safety clinics and educational drives by civic organizations do great good but there are those who will never learn Many drive on fend on showing no concern for themselves or for their motorists’-tendenc- neighbors State highway patrolmen plan to bring forth their motorcycles eh April 1 again to guard the highways against the drunken and '"the reckless motorist Recognized as one of the most efficient units of that type country Superintendent R W Groo’s men will not be clever enough to apprehend every man or woman who should be afoot rather than behind the wheel of a powerful speeding mo’tor car To the careful considerate motorist the disappearance’ of ice and cold the casting off of skidchains antifreeze solutions J and frost fans is such a relief that he sighs with thankfulness k nd easts off every care — except the fear of meeting a fool at the wheel who might be just around the corner llt K t From Sandpit and 'cities s h o u d be handed back them it 'to would not be V By Ham Park back the and states cities would handed because not permit it He made that statement shortly after President Roosevelt following the discontinuance of his costly C W A experiment told the people that the government must get out of the relief business and that in another year— this was in 1934— he hoped to have it out — a hope which existing conditions three years later make seem to have had no foundation at all Subset quent events certainly have proven Governor Ritchie right The states and cities not only will permit the federal govern- ment to put the problem back where it ought to be but they will not permit the federal govern ment to lighten the load Every time Mr Roosevelt makes an effort in that direction he is blocked by his own friends and He makes plans to supporters cut the costs and he even gives orders to cut He has to scrap his plans and rescind the cut ‘Ought to Be Made’ Ho knows the reductions ought to be made and he knows— and so docs his WPA aid Mr Hopkins —that they can be made without causing anyone to starve If they do not know that the politicians packed the relief rolls before the last election and that there has been no real purge since it is because they keep their heads in the clouds and can thus ignore a condition which they said would not arise Further no one is better aware than Mr Roosevelt that the cost of relief is the key to the whole federal fiscal situation However great the increase in revenue from income taxes unless relief costs can be held down the last lingering hope of a balanced budget disappears With this knowledge Mr Roosevelt must be credited with complete sincerity in his desire to pare the relief costs and put the burden back on the states The time has come when it is vital to do that And yet just as Governor Ritchie predicted the states and cities avill not let it be done Right after his election and before he went to South America the president gave the order to reduce and then sailed away Mr Hopkins started in to At once carry out the orders Mayor La Guardia of New York Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City and other Democratic mayors and politicians rushed to Washington “bore down” on Mr Hopkins radioed Mr Roosevelt's battleship SAN FRANCISCO: this morning I awakened and felt a little hompsick so I started over to the United Airlines ticket office to see about a seat in one of today’s planes There was a huge crowd in the lobby and as I made my way through it I heard someone yell “HI Senator!” It was Paul M Seese down here for a Chevrolet convention With him were A T Crowl E A Snyder E L O J Brown' W F Coppock Ellsworth W' B Rawson N E Cotty L T Mortensen H R Wel- Frank R Kent Reduction Halted that the The net result was reduction program was halted abruptly Now theeffort is being renewed To make his budget calculations even seem plausible the president finds It necessary to hold the relief appropriations for the next year to one and a half billions - This will necessitate heavy cuts The announcement was made that 600000 would be removed from the WPA rolls before summer At once there was another rush — this time from the governors — Lehman of New York Horner of Tllfhois Hurley of Massachusetts La Follette of Wisconsin Quinn of Rhode Island — all friends and supporters of the president They "bore down” on Mr Roosevelt told him it was impossible for the states to assume the additional burden threatened it was reported to follow the federal lead and cut down their own relief rolls refusing to try “squeezing” out of their taxpayers the extra millions that otherwise would be needed It hardly seems credible they could have said that For one thing the taxpayer part of the alleged threat is absurd The governors know that the federal government has no means of rais-in- g money except—from the-ta- payers of the states If there is to he jio reduction it is only a question of who squeezes the taxpayers— th$ federal government or their own states It is particularly absurd for the governors of rich states to take this stand because their states pay more moncyto the federal government than they get back In other words they pay more than their share of the federal burden It is the poorer states which relatively get a free ride Leave Confident In the second place a threat to cut state relief rolls if the federal government eijts the W P A rolls is equivalent to saying that if Mr Roosevelt stands firm on the federal cut these states will turn loose a lot of those on relief to starve The governors certainly do not mean- to do that They either mean that there are people on relief ‘who can be put off and wouldn’t starve which nullifies their" argument or they are trying to bluff the president In any event they left the White House confident" that they had made an imnression and that the Scheduled cuts would not be made i -- one- McIntyre -- clear-heade- BYbation O O NEW YORK March 12— All my remembering years I have been a pushover for a clear cold winter night Night with the glitter of mirror and scattery stars atwinkle in a heaven of frost blue No sound like the zip of the crunch of snow or the ringing sharp jingle of sleigh bells Others may' sing or the almond blossom and the cherry sprays but my vote goes to a stark lonely tree silhouetted on a snow flung hill bathed in the glow of a distant moon I was thinking tonight of our hemmed-i- n winter on a Missouri farm before I went to Ohio to live with grandma Mc- A couple of years before he died the late Governor Albert C d Ritchie In hie way 13 1937 THE addition of Governor Blood’s signature the adult probill recently passed by a large majority in both houses of the legislature becomes a law The new statute empowers the state board of correction to supervise convicted persons placed on probation by the courts to appoint probation officers by “merit examination” and to maintain clinics for the purpose of investigating the personality and social background of all cases referred to it These provisions place Utah in the front rank with 36 other American sfates and the federal government in the modern and economical care of first offenders Probation is a system of treatment for delinquency in which the offender remains in his ordinary environment and to a great extent retains his liberty but throughout the probationary period is subject to the watchful eye or care and personal influence of a trained agent of the court known as a probation officer It is an Instead of surrenderalternative to institutional confinement ing a convicted person to a penal institution the court retains The probation officer unlike the jurisdiction over the offender parole officer is an agent of the court and not of the prison Contrary to popular belief probation is not the equivalent-oexoneration and freedom As a matter of fact the liberty of the probationer is restricted with respect to his recreation his association his employment as well as his place of abode The terms of probation Squire him to report to the probation officer at frecjuent The probationer whose sentence has been thus susIntervals constant surveillance with respect to all of his under is pended If a probaconduct until the probationary period has expired tioner violates his probation he may be rearrested imprisoned and fined or the probationary period lengthened and made more exacting He may be also required to make restitution or regular payments in support of his dependents In 1930 the New York state legislature created a commission to investigate prison administration and construction In 1933 this commission made the following report and recommendation: “While the general population of the state during the last ten years increased only 212 per cent the total prison population increased 752 per cent We must look for an extension of the pro- - ' bation system therefore if for no other reason than the fact that the mounting cost of the construction of penal institutions and the confinement of inmates therein must eventually become pro- Highlights of New York As Seen by OO McIntyre —By Orr Noiv for Some Fancy Footivork Jr ter G P Shea Fftd Kohlenberg P J Moffatt J D Collier S J A Gibson H Humphrey M J Mikan Bert Giran G Schoenfeld and R L Anderson There Is nothing that makes you feel quite ao good as to meet friends from home in a strange city and have them greet you with genuine warmth The only thing that sort of took the edge off the pleasure of meeting the Salt Lake City gang was when Paul Seese told me that on March 19 he Is to be transferred to Great Falls Mont Well it’s our loss and Great Falls’ gain but such is life Grant The Public Forum Story Illustrates View On Confidence Need Editor Tribune: A good story A traveling grows old salesman said to the clerk In a small town hotel “Will you picase keep this $100 bill in your safe I do not iike to carry much money on my person while knocking around town” The clerk said "Certainly” and put it in his safe The town butcher who furnished the hotel with meat came in and presented his bill for $100 The clerk happened to get the salesman's bill- - which he handed to the butcher from whom he received a receipt The butcher used it as payment on his car the automobile man paid his doctor the $100 bill The doctor had his office in the hotel paid it on rent and the clerk put it in his safe Later the salesman came in and got his $100 bill As he walked out he said to a friend: “This $100 is stage money whenever I want to make an impression I ask these clerks to keep it in the safe” Next day it leaked out that "the $100 bill was stage money they all had a good laugh but they also had their receipts Moral — Even stage money will transact business and buy the bacon All we need is confidence The legislature of Utah Is up a stump — not enough money State institutions are crying for help and the populace for relief and In such exemption from taxes a predicament stage money might be a fine thing But why stage money when we have a legislative enactment authorizing the issuing of the Gesseil system of prosperity certificates passed four years ago by the legislature signed by the governor — and duly pigeonseldom holed Every family could have had food and fuel aplenty But instead — “we choose to run” — to Washington D C for grub and coal money — with 200 billion tons of coal just over the hill DANIEL H MAGDIEL -- Contributor Lauds Legislative Session Editor Tribune: During the present legislative session I think there has been more accomplished in a short time than at any previous regular session I also think there have been some very timely and helpful measures suggested and passed I think Honorable Herbert Maw the fairest shooter we ever had before in the state senate in fact I am proud of all who have so ably1 sponsored and backed up the old age pension and Of the home exemption bills course there has been quite a checker game played with the pension bill It has its enemies as also has the exemption bill Its friends must look out the enemy is alert they (the enemy) have their two bills nqw just of federal relief The vital necessity of lightening the load Is conceded but the pressure to prevent it is almost irresistible The president with his mind on controlling the supreme court talks about his wish not to leavq for his successor a national condition such as Buchanan left Lincoln If he lets this federal relief situation get out of hand and if he lets those who press now for an- -' other four billion appropriation and program have their way what he Will leave of the national solvency won’t be a trace Copyright 1937 by the Baltimore "'San T By Our Readers Forum Rules tattars cn Ihl appearing omn do not express the view! of The Tribune They nre the opinion of contributor with whirh The Tribune may or may not Agree The contrlbu-buttongovern following rule In 1 Tetters limited to 300 words Preference given to short commuiVrite 2 nications and legibly clearly tin one side of the paper only 3 and racial discussions Religious comment can be barred Partisan printed only with true name of 4 writer Personal aspersions proft hibited Poetical contributions 8 Letters may be pot wanted barred for obvious misstatements of fart or for statements which are not In accord with ifalr play and good taste 7 The Forum Is not an advertising medium 8 Writers most sign true names and addresses In Ink tatters unless partisan will be carried over assumed name If In all rases 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 where they have been wanting them for some time — pyramided together before the public and trying to make them mountainous Gentlemen we impossibilities the voters of the state of Utah signified through our ballots that we wanted the home exemption law passed Why quibble? There are many legitimate ways of replacing this revenue Would you dare come home and face your aged constituency without passing a consistent pension law? Now men the time is short get busy and get these two measures through A special session is costly J WM WORKMAN Vernal Utah Contributor Urges Tolerance Wisdom Civil Service Figures Discussed by Reader Editor Tribune: Referring to events of political news happenings that occurred in the year 1932 Prior to the election of that year the background of the Democratic platform pointed very strongly to a definite program being contemplated and put into execution whereby the eighteenth amendment of the constitution was going to be replaced and that it woald be a great factor in carrying the election for the Democratic party in 1932 Be that as it may we are not discussing that particular feature of the election now at this time Suffice it to say the liquor question did become a political issue in the way it was intended and finallywas the reeighteenth amendment pealed no doubt in harmony with the plan precontemplated by the Democratic party But there was another political issue in the campaign of 1932 of which James A Farley as Franklin D Roosevelt’s political adviser was very familiar and that was the merit system which had been closely complied with by The civil service branch of the government by each and every administration for 49 years since it became law in 1883 Between the time of the Roosevelt election in 1932 and 1936 the present administration has added in round figures 235000 persons to e the payroll of the government but only one in 107 among the new personnel is under civil service the civil service comwas happy to report mission Every president since the civil service commission was enacted has extended its scope by executive order and each congress finds new avenues for the activities of the commission Under Mr Hoover 808 per cent of those in the executive civil service were there by virtue of merit 'requirements But in 1935 the percentage had slipped back to 57 per full-tim- the momentous Supreme court question I plead for the exercise of tolerance and wisdom I plead with men to try through study and thought to arrive at the real truth which lies between the two extremes I wish we quarter-centur- y retrogreshad a Lincoln to make another cent sion These patronage raids on Cooper Union speech and go into the civil service have broken the the minds and hearts of the founof the whole federal perders on this question as he did morale sonnel S H W on the slavery question and seek to read there all that they meant Utah Idaho Liquor to imply in the general walfare clause of the constitution Profits Discussed Washington and his fellow paEditor Tribune: I am told that triots created an era in whirh the retail sales of the Utah and every man was his own social security law They cxeateda bul- - Idaho— liquor — commissions — are about equal and the Utah liquor wark of liberty that has stood like an eternal rock against the commission net is about $500000 beating waves of time and the and the Idaho iiquor commission greedy aggressions of men Tlry net is about $800000 yearly An upreared the firmest pillars of explanation of this difference is that the Utah liquor prices are government ever set up by human beings Were they able to lower than Idaho prices Th$ following is a list of Utah vision the era we have created? and Idaho prices on eight brands Were they prophetic and broad selected at random: and sympathetic enough to extend the human welfare clause to ah the complexities of cur time? If we knew that then we might proceed more wisely It is true we have sepai-ateourselves from much of the spiritual power that actuated them that we have obscured muchof the dawn of spiritual light they caused to flood the world But let us hope that we have not sepThe Utah liquor cotnmission arated ourselves from the love of liberty and the will to mainshould explain the $300000 diftain it! This nation is the world's-las- t ference A TAXPAYER hope of liberty? If we fail then all that men have wrought — F O B name of liberty will be disLet us seek A negro minister was preaching solved at our feet division wison the horrors of hell "There will unity instead of rabble-rousing be weeping and wailing and dom instead of As I said between the two exgnashing of teeth" he prophesied Let us tremes lies the truth “But Ah ain’t got no teeth" beware lest we So rock the sh p moaned Mandy of State that this sacred truth "Teeth will be furnished" the shall sink into oblivion minister assured Lor Penn-yiva'CTLTIUNir nia ploughman On in-t- he Then Ernie Williamson the assistant manager of the St Francis hotel informed me that Guy and Mrs Toombes would arrive That’s the way it this evening goes— just when I get ready to leave people I like a lot arrive Miss Florence Gardner of the San Francisco Advertising club just phoned and asked me to have lunch with them at noon today I don’t know how she knew I was down here but I suspect Dave Coursey Anyway it was nice of them to ask me Maybe I can help entertain them when they come to Salt Lake City for their national convention next June I think I’ll take a night plane back because I have never flown at night I have had the joy of being above the clouds during the daytime and I want to know how it looks to be up there at night with the stars almost within reach as it were I can get lost in this town easier than any place with the possible exception of Detroit The streets there it seemed to me went in a circle while here they shoot off at every which angle If I go out the Powell street doors of the hotel I’m all right but if I happen to use the others I have to ask a traffic officer for directions And if I had to drive a car down here I’d go nuts Where some of the streets merge into Market street there are so many traffic lights that I can’t figure them out If I've been bawled out once I've been bawled out a dozen times by exasperated motorists and hard-boil- ed cops One had the nerve to yell "Hdy- Rube!” yesterday I've-bee- n wish I had brought my camwith me so I could have taken some pictuers of those boats that were on the rocks down at Land's End There are two of them — one just sunk the other day after being rammed by a big passenger liner All day long people drive down to see two big ships being slowly pounded to pieces My affections are divided I love our mountains and I love the sea I’d like to divide my The fresh clean time between mountain air invigorates me but there is also an attraction to the queer pungent smells of the water front I like to go down to the wharf and watch the boats come and go and I try to picture to myself what the strange ports they visit are like— Singapore Calcutta Tokyo and others Ever I era do that? Off the Recorch Next to having a door knob come off in the hand the emptiest feeling is to lean on influence that isn’t there Anyone who can launch a new in publishing may have a bonanza How about a digest of digests to fit the watch pocket? trend When the patriotic nazi longs for butter he will ask himself: “Have I had my iron for today?” and buy another cannon Lapsing into poesy an explorer says he must once more turn his face to the arctic He has bad It weather-strippe- d we trust Northern states have been reveling in a spell of Indian summer weather Tle Consensus is that we are backing into spring Under the freshman rule Franco couldn’t use a tramp mercenary until his second season in Spain-- Intyre The Stork"’ club’s glittering dazzle never had the luster and cheer of flat flare from the backlog in the family sitting room with the cat asleep on the carpet footstool and old dog Clay the red setter stretched’ out pleasantly atwitch with dreams of the chase of Sheepnose apples handy Grandma Young on one side of the parlor lamp invariably smudged black up one chimney side knitting Grandpa on the other reading the Farmer’s Almanac as the day grayed and chickens took to roost At 8 o’clock prayers warming of flannels and up the creaky stairs to dreamless sleep A hamper Shortly before her recent passing my sister in Kansas City resurrected out of an old humped back horsehair trunk salvaged from the Missouri attio our old fashioned coffee mill — the sort put between knees and vigorously turned The little drawer where ”und eU 7as tU1 aromati of coffee I’ve heard coffee had the most clinging of all odors and this rather proves it The mill had not been used for 25 years The tang from the kitchen as the breakfast coffee was being ground was a scent from Araby A benison of a crisp winter morn To the kitchen Jed the hired man his d hat abaft ungloved hands the wimpled raw red of the rooster comb came plunging with his load of freshly The gleam and chopped wood zing-- ' of p bright ax biting into wood is always provocative somehow and I don’t know why It has caught poetical fancy down the ages Jed’s great coat and muffler were powdered with snow and his stubby mustaches rimmed with frost In later years one of the rustic characters in "Way Down East” Hi Holler was so much like Jed I sought him out in his dressing room In Dayton Ohio But it was only footlight Illusion He was a Brooklyn boy smoked Turkish Trophies and was on the mash Copyright 1937 by the — Amtrra itn hv s pa per ance Inc North “A l IN 4 11 4 sweat-staine- t The highlights of our Missouri winters were the "sociables” at the clapboard meeting house and the twice a year arrival of Mr Solomon the Polish pack peddler Mr Solomon had a stragfever-m-iggly coil of beard deep-seyes a ringer for Warfield in “The Auctioneer” He was to us the acme of worldliness traveling from Lincoln Neb to St Joe hawking tinware machine oil dishes needles and thread etc All carried on his stooped shoulders He always remained for dinner and all night A shrinking little man with the remote and nervous smile of a sunlit rip- pie The kindly wandering Jew whom life had borne down to a gentle bleakness ht et There was the night of the big blizzard standing out vividly to this moment It came up after a still ominous gray of glowering skies The livestock fidgeted Grandpa built up a roaring fire to us from Hawand was reading thorne’s “The House of Seven Gables” when came a calm the wind suddenly rose and through the windows we could see the sturdy oaks and mighty maples in strain topsy-turv- y Jed started for well water but turned back "Ain’t fitt-infor man or beast” he grumbled There was eerie whistling in the chimney As Foe once wrote: Windows tugged at hasps and doors chittered Terrorized birds wheeled and flung frail chirps against the boom We heard a thud and the cow shed flattened out like a pancake filling the air with startled Old Clay’s rufous fur mooings d rose as he circled with throaty growls Sister and I were in the delicious ecstasy of fear and thrill The end of the world per- haps! stiff-legge- The old four-poster- with— Its-- — x " mountainous pile of feathers was especial joy that blizzardly night — Now and then I could hear grand- i pa clumping up and down the stairs and grandma calling: “Pa f don’t you go out!" So morning j 1 came with the sun in a burst of ' gorgeous splendor a gauzy spread of violet orange and pink The air clean cold brittle Our farm land waa a freshly swept world in glittering enchantment They brought in Aunt Dora’s pet lamb n from the south meadow but wrapped in blankets and put behind the kitchen stove -it was soon itself again Mr Dock-ert- y the mailman was unable to reach us for two days and the Kansas City Star called it the worst storm of the century Anyway It was an interlude in rural -monotony and we had something to talk about until the robins -- half-froze- came again' 1937 McNaught Syndicate Inc Copyright : A visiting Dane marvels at the zest and youthfulness of our oldest inhabitants What he took for palsy turns out to be the rhumba f : le Prizes!! this magazine at random and select a word Double the number of the page and multiply by 34ff521 Add 5 And If this is nil you have to do'voi) would h Tar "better off taking a nap"— Weekly New (Auckland N &) Open ' d |