Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE iflbuuc gfljc Established April 15 1871 T Issued every morning by Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Company TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION $ 90 Dally and Sunday one month 1050 Dally and Sunday one year The above rates apply in Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming Elsewhere in the United States: $129 Daily and Sunday one month The Tribune Is on sale in every Important city United States Readers may ascertain agents in any city by telephoning this office In-th- Salt Lake City Utah Wednesday Morning March 24 In Spotlight — of U S WEDNESDAY MORNING MARCH 24 1937 Kite Flying Season — By Carlyle Politics Frank R Kent In view of the situation in the country and the outburst in the senate last week on the national menace of the 1937 is getting difficult and state governments cannot much longer ignore of the strike It involves something more Usually than the relationship of labor and industry something more than the rights of either or both It looms as a threat against the instisources now an forecast tutions of government in gencial and the courts in particular early statement of one concern automobile are Eight plants manufacturing from him on the ground that held by strikers in defiance of court orders to vacate his position is Enforcement of the edict of the court is resisted by threat of a Frank R Kent becoming u n- tenable and further delay not only general strike and so the whole affair is resolved into a deadlock tends to promote disorder but Btultifying the vitality of the forces of government executive as may easily precipitate an embarwell as judicial rassing demand to know where The despair of this situation Is its hopelessness It promises he stands This prediction may or may not be fulfilled but certainly Jio lasting aecree save that of force- - If the law the courts and the people as a whole are entitled the police power are devitalized by inability to enforce the decrees to know where he stands A lot of orderly government where is the victory of a lawless and of them are becoming perceptibly of livelihood? inactive occupation of restive at the unchecked defiance The dead end of this condition is that it dissipates the security of the law and are amazed at the policy of so articulate a president of law and order The law cannot secure the legal rights of labor in ignoring the existence of an if it cannot enforce the legal rights of property Hence the struggle epidemic of lawlessness described becomes one of might in which the weak and the innocent the by senatorial friends as a “grave national peril” Senator Hiram tionparticipants lose one of their greatest heritages No more Johnson of California who is not does the rule of might secure the advantages Which are sought by unfriendly to Mr Roosevelt and is these workers Their power coujd endure only as long as they very friendly to labor declared the could forestall other forcible entry Having destroyed the authority situation threatened a breakdown of the law the power of the courts it would be compelled to rely of government and that the end ' of the road was a dictatorship tipoir its owrr brute strength for rndurano It is unfortunate that the Washington administration has not Urge Intervention declared itself on this vital issue Perhaps its own assaults upon Neither Senator Johnson nor have too led it far afield to permit a demand judicial integrity the other senators who spoke on for respect of law and orderly conciliation Or it may be that the subject either Wednesday or Its failure to differentiate between unscrupulous employers and others has been interpreted too broadly and made to apply to all Friday mentioned Mr Roosevelt by name but they did urge that employers setting class against class In any event the adminthe government move to enforce istration has interposed no objections to the course of a misguided the law and stop a movement that and arbitrary leadership How long will official Washington permit toward chaos They made points on? to confusion this go this appeal to the government If the course is carried to its ultimate conclusion it means without mentioning the president there is no law and no government either state or national but the president is the government and the failure to lay this Force alone determines destiny under public silence and official baby squarely in his lap is another aloofness to governmental floundering The present situation borof the curious custom of ders on anarchy The orderly processes of government have spoken example avoiding ascribing to Mr Roose' and they have been ignored or repudiated Their jurisdiction has velt full responsibility for his acts been challenged because it' interferes with the use of a weapon From the start the disposition has been to blame the “brain trust” d bargain It is more than a strike designed to drive a or the "new dealers” or his adNew Dealers’ Banquet against the employer it 'is a disavowal of the rights and powers visers or anyone except him And of government The indifference of governments to this crisis Criticised by Writer now senators say the government is beyond reasonable understanding should move well knowing that Editor Tribune: On March 4 the government can’t move unless 3937 a great victory feast was Mr Roosevelt moves because given by the new dealers attend- Goes On they are identical The effort to ed by their party chief and 1300 caniot point with pride to her January 1937 traffic record lay the blame on the supreme UTAHWhitney Groo court is too absurd to be seriously principal “job” holders — they revsuperintendent of the state highway patrol discussed It is significant that eled over their great power asserts that Utah led many other states in traffic death toll The during the two days of debate no broadcast their speeches — but unMr received Groo the national increase as 253 by figures give like the Babylonians were left in voice was raised in justification utter darkness as to their fate strike per cent for January Utah might have hoped for a decrease at of the n Hail Franklin Delano Roosevelt! this season Inclement weather should have made drivers more To Clarify Position A simile — 959 B C a greaf chief cautious Storms should have reduced the number of machines There is a feeling that Mr held a victory fett attended by on the highway Adverse weather conditions of course increase 1000 of his lords They gloated Roosevelt will shortly “clarify his the hazards of driving but they also reduce the volume of traffic over their great power until they inarticulate Continued position" If the" national record seems appalling what of the rate at were stilled by the appearance of Inactivity upon his part it is held a hand which wrote upon the wall which Utahns were killed during the same month? This state's will be increasingly construed as that they had been weighed in increase in automobile fatalities during January was 63 per cent the balances and found wanting over the same period one year ago In January 1936 there were approval of and encouragement to the strike which has Hail Belshazzar! eight deaths chargeable to automobiles in Utah January 1937 The broadcasting of the new outlawed by the courts and been -- accounted for 43 dead dealers was listened to by all the Ts not defended by any respon ration They gave out great symThe fact that only ten states report decreases during the sible person Continued silence month in question indicates that in the majority of states the lends substance to the charge that pathies for the and held out flathe is under the domination of traffic hazard is growing So many factors enter into the problem to the poor they L Lewis whose C I O has John tering promises of safe driving that efforts to provide a remedy prove futile spoke also of the “economic roycreated this situation and for Laws are useless unless there is a public desire to obey them alists” who were placing obstacles some reason is unable or unwillin their path and official determination to enforce them Mechanical defects ing to take a firm stand for law They pleaded with the people and order— the only defendable are not entirely responsible although the presence on the highways support them in changing of improperly equipped and mechanically dangerous vehicles pre- - thing forto adopresident-o- the United to their form of government so that States sents a serious peril to life and limb It is already being pointed out they would be able to help them The basic problem still is the human element We have yet that there has not come from him still more and step harder on the necks of the "economic royalists” to devise some method of reaching those who pilot the cars to or from any member of his adbut somehow the people could not ministration with the single exconvince them that forethought and caution are more desireable quite understand the new dealers ception of Secretary of Commerce than regrets or sudden death giving a banquet at $100 a plate Roper who hastened to say ha and broadcasting on time released spoke unofficially a single word by a great money changer and adindicating disapproval either of of ditional time by another "royalthe strike itself Or the ist" Mr Wrlgley long have pursued aft unwritten policy blazing defiance of the courts by FEDERAL departments the public on such matters as were favorable Turning to an ancient book one the strikers although violence and finds this language: "None call-et- h to the projects concerned Subjects which were inflammable weFe disorder have followed in various for justice nor any pleadeth sections and the local authorities just as cautiously kenttyay from the flames of public opinion for truth have been unable to Gope with the they trust in vanity In this program all tne elements of human nature are revealed and speak lies they conceive missituation It is further being Recent years have witnessed a rapid growth in federal propachief and bring forth inquiry pointed out that-- if during -- the cockatrice-eggs General-Motoand come ganda activities AlongwitlLJtheexpansion—has strike - he had They-hat- ch their taken the position that the court weave the spider’s web parallel system of disseminating “information” Governmental feet ruh to evil be respected Governor wasting and public relations efforts carries a dual obligation in that it calls for order must destruction are in their paths was who is conceded it Murphy release of such facts as are desireable as well as those which the They have made the crooked under White House inspiration ere not so pleasing at least to responsible leadership would have performed very difpaths: We grope for the wail like Under the existing form of organization of the public’s busithe blind and we grope as If we A presidential appeal ferently " Isaiah had no eyes chapness the public Is th$ victim of something of its own creation would have brought them out of ter 59 the plants and without violence No valid argument can be presented to justify complete darkYes too have "heen they ness on any matter except where the broadcasting of information Must Take Stand weighed in the balances and found would jeopardize the national safety or prove detrimental to the W E DE WITT wanting The stagg has been reached now nation as a whole WherS silence is maintained for patriotic reasons where friends of Mr Roosevelt no one can have complaint are convinced Re will suffer real Troubles of Labor Were it not for agencies which make it their business to search damage unless he takes the sort Draw Writer’s Ire of stand the nation as a whole is In dark corners for evidence of what is going on the public might justified In expecting of its pres- -' Editor Tribune: Estimating remain in total ignorance of the real background of its own affairs ident The demand for action rethree to a man— five is the usual This presents once again the vital necessity for maintenance of flected in the senate last week number — 6000 workers represent free speech and a free press Dictators of the world have demon--ytrate- d Is likely to be repeated and a fecl- - some 18000 citizens involved in most forccfTllly "Vh5tlT5ppgn'g TtherT‘“g5gTUle”lsSppncd "big'of" resent and arouhd Michigan’s labor troufested in various jyays at the bles AsBume 3000 to be children public information and public business White House inertia' in the face there are still some 12000 citizens of an intolerable and indefensible of Michigan threatened with punstate of affairs The belief is that ishment for activity in upholding Home the in his own Interests as well sls their right (o control restrain or RECOGNIZING the need for recreational and welfare facilities those of the country Mr Rooseto drive out invaders from a neighINfor the blind in Salt Lake City the velt reluctant as he clearly is will bor state New York legislabe forced into action If he fails ture met a common accord and performed a lasting public service Dropping all issues pertaining to act out the situation “to of Universal indorsement attends the endeavor of the legislature to may get rights' or wrongs of labor in the hand and of the case we contend there Is a by perils spoken make the lot of Utah’s sightless colony more hopeful In attaching the senators realbecome friendly higher and much mftre important his signature to the bill appropriating $15000 for this purpose ity If once the idea permeates principle involved the proper adGovernor Henry H Blood brought to fruition the dream of the reason the Mr Roosevelt igthat justment of national activities nores this contemptuous flouting blind people to obtain a home of their own th'at progress may make way for becourts Is and the law of the Utah’s blind colony has displayed commendable expansion and improvement In courage and In his cause own fight against the national industry the living cost a serious and earnest-endeavo- r to make its people of the workers should not be supreme court his chief support Against many obstacles it has for years maintained a workshop comes from the labor leaders who charged to the products entirely for its members The blind leadership has worked toward this are responsible— if once that idea They must be cared for anyhow becomes general the temper of An outside corporation should not goal of a permanent home for its people for a long time will be allowed to hold or control acres not be pleasant As the people The colony fortunately with the help of the state has been it is things have anything but a upon acres of the land of another able to purchase the old Unitarian church on Second East street look It is to be hoped that state (or of any state) unless it It is centrally located and is ideally adapted to the needs of the nice Mr Roosevelt will take a stand produces product for which it blind people both as to work and to recreation Both the governor was authorized which will completely-dlspe- l these Here are two men from New notions prove them unfounded and the legislature are commended for the sympathy and York heads of great combinations support accorded the blind petition The gift is in complete harmony 1937 the” Baltimore of money and brains who would Copyright by t: with the spirit of the people of Utah Sun dictate the activities of well on to IEDERAL sit-do- From Sandpit sit-do- the-mea- By Our 'Readers one-side- Forum Rules tattert this eot Appearing nmn do not express the views of The Tribune They ere the oplo tons of contributors with which The Tribune may or may not agree The rules The Slaughter for Blind twenty-second-Ut- to-be In contrlbu govern following buttons: Letters limited to 300 words I s Preference ghen to short 2 and Write legibly elearlv on one side of the paper only 3 Religious and racial discussions barred Partisan comment ran be printed only with 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Wynn gets really fluttery didn’t the authorities of the “rich est school in the world” trim their when his son is out front Nora Bayes once held a scene five minheating expense by tapping a priutes when she learned that two vate gas line? of her were in the Centuries ago Seneca said: “We are but stewards of what weJront rows Katharine Hepburn is twittery about all critics and falsely call our own yet avarice is so insatiable that it is not in gives a smoother performance the power of abundance to conwithout them Mary Eaton altent it” ways gave an off performance if Ziegfeld was in the theater Raymond Hitchcock was tongue tied BIRD CAGES Life and’ song! They thrilled you with Erlanger in the house And I hope you read Dorothy Thompson’s article in Tuesday’s Tribune If you haven’t I commend it to you While deploring The Public Forum sit-do- Vllv’ McIntyre The Senator O' strike n it O O NEW YORK March 23 — One of Manhattan’s unique annual charities is the butlers’ ball held in one of the large hotels every winter Here the fiick of the gentlemen’s gentlemen and their ladies exploit the social graces with which they are so familiar in the roles pf Jeeveses There Is nothing of the "servant look” about this gathering Many are the haughty English type to be seen swinging out of their London clubs after their posttheater Scotch and soda Soma come in the limousines of their employers and all are top hatted white tied They are on the highly trained By Ham Park staffs at the homes of the Astors Vanderbilts Morgans and such FoJIy consists not In committing Boxes are bought by the most folly but in not hiding it when opulent and the class arrangecommitted — Graclan ment has the same regimentation of the diamond horsjshow at the The above quotation Is from little book “The Art of Worldly opera The most Important butlers In the most important boxes Wisdom” written by Balthasar Gracian in Spain about 350 years Many butlers’ wives are trained ladies’ maids and know as much The paragraph following ago about style as a Peggy Hoyt or the quotation says: Mrs Harrison Williams And their "You should keep your desires manners are impeccable Somesealed up still more your de times employers drop in during fects All go wrong sometimes the evening to have a look-se- e but the wise try to hide the errors The receipts are turned over to a but fools boast of them Reputation depends more on what is hospital social service hidden than on what is done if a street Is the East Fifty-fift- h man does not live chastely he latest thoroughfare to go all cafe must live cautiously The errors in the manner of West Fifty-thir- d of great men are like the eclipses of the greater lights Even in running off the avenue The bell wether was John Perona’s sucfriendship it is rare to expose to one’s friend one’s failings And so far cessful El Morocco about 20 others have lodged in Nay one should conceal them from oneself if one can But here the street Some of the facades one can help with thatofher great suggest amoving picture street larule of life: learn to forget” the Hollywood studios— a mimic I have just been wondering If pagoda a country store a dock anybody has accused Mr Gracian pier and so on Incidentally Barof plagiarism or at least of not ney Gallant is making another For It seems to bid for the night crowds with a being original me that I read something written new salon In University place several hundred years before he was born which said: “Let not Putting on the ritz at a Harlem thy right hand know what thy shoe shine parlor: “Pedal ex left hand doeth” Or words to tremities artistically illuminated — 10 cents” that effect for the president to preserve longer his strange silence on this subject Censorship 60 By By more A Form Highlights of New York As Seen by McIntyre a million citizens of another state They have rights as well as other workers for the same company One the president drew $374505 as his yearly salary This Is practically five times the salary of the president of the United States The of the second-in-comma- same company took $325869 as his share Two men thus took over $700000 of the earnings of labor for the one year Would any sane man say that two employes of the same corporation should draw nearly a million a year while hundreds of thousands of real workers in another state sweat and tug at actual kbor for the same year for possibly a little old thousand or less? J A WHITELOCKr" Reader Hits U S On Civil Service Editor Tribune: Assuming election careful-s- ofappointeesMr estimates from long experience and careful checks that every job on the average was worth 40 votes in the 1936 electionf Some are worth 1000 votes There is no legal method of course of recording the secret vote of an appointee but if everybody's allegiance holds according to the Farley tables of American-moralit- y there were corralcd some 11800-00- 0 votes for Mr Farley’s presidential candidate in the 1936 election (on the basis of 61000 replacements of personnel in antihew deal agencies added to the 235000 new jobs The only defense political clearance ever to come from the White 'House isChe augg"es tion that in the emergency of 3933 (there was no time for the establishment of civil service routine for the new agencies The point however falls before the fact that in the wartime expansion of the Wilson administration the number of positions In the federal executive service increased by S15533 in a single year and all were filled under civil service The vigorous methods this herculean labor was accomplished still stand in American history as the high mark of fidelity to the merit principle Not only were emergency places laboriously classified but hundreds of examinations were devised Later the pressing shortage of manpower enforced a relaxation of competitive standards all along the line but never was the emergency deemed so compelling as to demand the abandonment of the merit system President Roosevelt wrote the Civil Service Reform league under data of August 1933 that the Farley h civil service is in no danger in my hands button the contrary I hope it will be extended and improved during my term as president The public would very much appreciate the information showing what the Roosevelt administration has done to promote the merit system as it was intended to be in the executive branch of the United States government of the people by the people and for S H W the people Contributor Comments On Edward Wally little bird The sun was up I watched and I heard Your notes were joyous and hymned the day I could not hail who silent and gray You’ve golden beauty and a so on you you am Editor Tribune: Times' ain’t" soul what they used to be Creation that sings seems on edge Inhabitants of far-oOf marvels in Its our comely earth are agog Nations are on their mettle — like But Icarrolings am dumb as you must be fine specimens of horseflesh: their when age heads turned toward town — or to ' Reveals to you you're singing in work They don’t care just so a cage — E S Van Zandt in Life 1923 they get going They’re all in a ff fidget The world sees afar these days as “coming events cast their shad- NOTES ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT The topic a one While enjoying our and only worldly-wis- e marriage cigars Frank Wilson Everett ceremony “A common consumShewe and I reminisced over the mation” you say? old days when we made the lohg Not yet But an ominous Imtrip to and from Ely iVev and to this union of port prospective the main line “When "Colonel” two natural but unusual persons House the conductor would join We can not see the way right us in a game of "solo” and Abraclearly just now because of the ham Lincoln Porter the porter times being too nearly a reality would see that certain refreshWe can not see closely around Us ments were supplied They were Later the activities of today will happy days only I'm not sure that take shape and perspective we all realized it then e All the world on with t Someone who signs himself anxiety and weary waiting Same as you and I All the world In love “One of the Proud Smiths of Murlovers the with There are those takes exception to the rewho love whom they have never ray" quest made by a correspondent seen Remember what Robert that he be spared any further reBar-rett? Browning wrote to Elizabeth counting of “What Ham Park said to Jim and Sadie Smith on They had never met She 'wrote to himi“I love your poetry— Ham's last visit to Murray’— He wrote to her: “I love your “The Smiths who live in poetry— and I love you” Murray are just like the Smiths I can never efface from the who live in Salt Lake City They have happy families andfthey pages of my recollection the magically soft beautiful tones in have their friends and they don’t which distressed and depressed like to be singled out as having young Edward VIII pronounced consorted with Ham Park Them's the four immortal words— "The fighting'words Mister" woman I love" Inspiring piercIzzat so? Well I married one of the Smiths of Washington D ing as an arrow to kindred hearts they yet made music for the C and I’ve found it a family trait spheres— these words of a heart’s for the Smiths always to have the last word agony and anguish of soul Make no mistake about EdThe inhabitants of a California ward’s anguish Put yourself In his place Edward is too honest town built a bridge It was a fine to make believe The marriage of structure and should be decothese two comes of a love strong rated they thought with a suitable inscription The brightest enough to link continents to- ows before" after-lunche- tip-to- He-sa- gether CHARLES ROBERT JACKSON Ogden Off the Record with-ththe— problem but nothing quite expressed the pride and satisfaction of the community The tablet that was finally put up read “This bridge was made town-grapple- here” Perhaps the referee In the La r classic ought to make a second examination of the hands across the sea Guardia-Hitie- A dietetics bulletin calls the mackerel our richest fish It was our impression that the shad had the most bones I “No matter what happens Mrs Simpson will write no memoirs” says a London cable which has been turned over to the remalns-to-be-sedepartment What ever did the Irish hospitals do ‘about a free ward for heart cases among the holders of sweep tickets? en Copyright 1937 by The North American Newspaper Alliance ' Inc mindiof Art Treasure A London hostess who was en- tertaining Baron Kayashi the Japanese ambassador had in her possession a gay and decorative Japanese panel which she hung over her drawing-roodoor Asked his opinion cf this treasure of art and antiquity he rem plied: “M’m Panel upyes yes side down It is the flag of the third Section Tokyo Fire BriM’m gade very nice'— Windsor Star Calling Her bluff "There was something about you I used to like” said the wife testily "I know” he replied “but since I marsied you I’ve spent it’ all”— Washington Post e Memories: The whirr of the mowing machine wafted through the gnarled old apple orchard on a drowsy afternoon The aroma from the vegetable garden after a sudden shower The smell of the red sealing wax for the mason jars at canning time Going barefoot through the jimson weed patch Old Ring’s comforting bark in the middle of the stormy Wheat straw under the night rag carpet The mincemeat bucket where the yellow sugar was kept The flock of geese waddling down the dusty lane of mornings Chopping pumpkins with the corn knife for the cows on frosty Blackbirds with red mornings splotches following the plow Also: The jangle of iron trace chains The innocence of a wobbly baby calf Games like marbles top spinning jacks and mum-bl- y peg which marked the sean sons jars of apple butter The coffee mill nailed to the kitchen wall The big catfish that lived In the cistern The cluck of fat hens at feeding time Sasafras tea The old smokehouse door with leather-hing- es that never had a lock The old willow chair that crept to the porch edge as you rocked Ten-gallo- Peter Arno who once repre-sente- d the gay Lothario about-tow- n at least in public thought has gone firesidey Debonaire well tailored handsome and at 33 But now venomously cynical goodbye to all that! He is still a rebel at convention but the bright spots 3e him little since his recent marriage He has done much to deflate the stuffed shirt the dried up dotard and the heavy bosomed dowager with his limning lampoons He also thinks New York 80 per cent phoney Arno goes to work about 4 p m and sometimes not until after the theater His studio said to be the in town occupies an entire floor in the East 50s AH’ his drawings are with chartopsy-turvie- st coal One of those giant mastiffs startled the gee whizzes out of a Wallaco Beery looking man waiting for his bus near our corner last night by a friendly lick of the hand en passant When the bus waiter looked cMyn and saw the enormous pooch he did a standing jump to one side and Jittered: "Shut that dog off from licking or I’ll policeman for a cop if you could” Copyright 1937 McNaught Syndicate Inc Just the Man One of the inmates of a certain prison was called into the governor's office "You were sent here I believe for writing a glowing prospectus for an oil company" “Yes” said the prisoner "I was a little too optimistic” "Well” went on the governor "the authorities want a report on conditions in this prison I've decided to let you' write It"— Montreal Star r |