Salt Lake Tribune | 1937-08-19 | Page 6

f I i 'AUGUST 19 1937:11' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING -- f&ilt guilt r April issued every morning 1 by '4 15 1871 4--7 Salt Lake Tribune Publishing &raven Says Writer TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION Daily and Sunday ong month 90o IVO ' Daily and Sunday one Year 91050 The above rates apply lo Utah Idaho Nevada and Wyoming $I 23 in the Untied States: Daily slid Sundai one month to the The Tribune is I member or the Associated Press TN) Associated Press is exchisively entitled and also use tor reproduction at all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper the local news published herein By Elseivbers Salt Lake City ttah Thursday Morning August Senator 'Black 'Confirmed But May Linger One of the singular and'deplorable con- sequences of the controversy over Senator Black's confirmation is dubiety as to sanehas tity with which the highest tribunal from been regarded by the general public the time the government was organized Of course the justices were known to be human with personal likes and dislikes with individual peculiarities of temperament But once they were duly installed as members of the court of last resort they commanded the confidence and respect of all citizens regardless of political affiliations Or partisan prejudice Seldom if ever has the choice of a chief executive followed so closely after a battle of intense bitterness between two arms of the federal government Senator Black was a storm center in the reorganization fight He had antagonized many of his colleagues When his appointment to fill a vacancy on the supreme bench was placid before the senate for confirmation bitter Fords were spoken harsh accusations were made and objections were raised that reflected upon his character ability fitness and qualifications Nevertheless he has been Confirmed by a vote of 13 to 4 in the judiciary committee and by a majority in the senate of 63 to 18 He will take his place with the other members of the supreme' court As a member thereof the accusations against him will'reWill he be regarded by main of record attorneys in the senate who may some time practice before the supreme court as an incompetent exponent of constitutional limitations? Will not the query persist is to how many men have been appointed and confirmed under less exciting circumstances who might have been discussed in a similar fashion had a tension existed? There will be more or less hesitancy hereafter in accepting interpretations of justices as final and infallible The unfortua skepticism nate controversy has that may linger a long time in the public mind ' Public Works Money Allbtied For Intermountain Schools Announcement has been made by the public works administrator of the allocation 9f grants amounting to $742355 for the Completion of nine educational projects in Utah Idaho and Wyoming the total cost of which will be $1649678 This is part of the total of allotments for 41 states approved 'by the president amounting to more than eighteen millions of dollars According to a report from The Salt Lake the Tribune's Washington correspondent expenditures in Utah will be for two new school buildings ind repairs on a high school structure in Provo a high school building at Blanding in San Juan courtty where fire destroyed the old schoolhouse a grade school building and other improvements in the Tintic district and high school buildings at Panguitch and Escalante These outlays will be for educational purposes only while the surn of $150000 will go into the construction of the new post office edifice in Sugarhouse and $75000 into a post office at Helper Funds had already been set aside for the Provo and St George government buildings This will mean work for Utah laborers and accommodations for Utah patrons of the postal service and for pupils in school districts where buildings have been inadequate or destroyed by fire The programs for Idaho and Wyoroing are designed to meet the same demands Congress has appropriated $21629000 for vocational training This has been more than twice the amount given for such a purpose in any previous year In the exof this total the penditUre of one-thistates are required to match the federal of donation dollar for dollar In two-thirthe sum the states have to put up half as much as the general government Vocational classes already enrolled and giventraining numbered 13817)31 for the th of the last fiscal year About were students were farmers employed youths taking evening instruction and one-ha- lf weregirls and boys attending full-tim- e class work in home economics trade and industry The plan may lessen applications for membership of higher institutions of learning but it offers opportunities for education to thousands who cannot afford college courses rd one-four- one-four- th Drouth and Hof Winds And a Carping Critic Farmers of the präirie states are'again pitting their endurance 'against siroccoan winds that combine with a blazing sun to shrivel vegetation and pulverize the soil until it is scooped from bedrock and car ried off in suffocating clouds of dust For three long years they have watched their crops wither and their fields disappear hoping against hope praying if they have not become embittered waiting with chastened patience for a reprieve from nature's punishment Ass &fated Preis dispatches iport temperature above 100 degrees and "searing Ninds spreading intense heat across the midwest's broad farm belt" damaging a record cord' crop destroying forage and preparing the soil to be wafted away as it has been blown from the dust bovil for -several seasons in tnese sectiofir— fenced their holdings erected houses and barns paid taxes for copstruction of highways established elevatiors- and granaries for 'surplus yields built towns and -- ' - --Farme- rs d whii-T3eltle- - - Jay 19 1937 w indiscriminate faultfinder War and Peace Other Points of View Guns brisk debate in parliament over the size of guns to be placed on Britain's five new battleships provides one more sad commentary on the degree to which the world has stink into the morass of arms competitionUp until two days ago it was assumed that the new British ships would mount guns So the admiralty had stated But it appears that admiralty experts are now trying to discover whether they can reconcile 16- inch guns with the 35000-to- n limit of the ships The implication is that they will choose the larger weapons if the ships can be made to carry them This difference in the size of big guns may seem trivial to the layman And there are even some naval experts who contend That the weapon is just as good from the The military point of view as the impoitant thing is only that a limitation on naval guns to 14 inches was one of the reitrictions which disarmament experts have tried hardest to obtainand one which for a time appear l to have a fairly good chance of success The United States navy almost alone among world navies has always frankly preferred the gun But at the London naval conference in 1935 its preferences were subordinated to a clause in the treaty which would have established the limit provided all other major naval powers would subscribe to it When the April 1 deadline set in the treaty for this adherence by all powers arrived Japan announced its refusal Anxious to clear America's Skirts President Roosevelt directed the state department to make one more effort to secure acceptance of the lower limit And again Japan regretted Innounced in Washingtittonwaelmmediately that the new American battleships would mount guns as permitted in the new limit were not accepted treaty if the There is no reaSon why Britain should not follow suit and adopt the bigger guns The treaty gives it the right and the United States But the incident navy has set the example serves to illustrate how complete is the break- down in naval limitation 0 Japan is not a signatory to the new naval treaty and is not bound even by the16-inc- h limit That Japan will exceed ft is doubted by many observers There is no factual information on' which to base any such assumption But the fact that Japan can do so has been the major reason given in American naval circles to justify the decision to mount the big guns on the new American battleships They don't want to' be caught with 14's if Japan goes to 18 or A 16-in- - say Presumably-the-sanle-- --' thought is in the minds of the British naval designers Suspicion and comWition in weapons of destruction seem to be the notes of the times Science Monitor RoHierrED 4 FROM TRIvING FoR MA m oor t Of DAYS - -- d PIED cAN SEC HE'S 8Ett4 DRPIKINGI LoUDGE Af - 0 1' ( r Sees Party Purge— So the politics of the "mandate" have been replaced by the politics of "enough rope" The purge which was to represent the outraged indignation of the new deal high command has become a purge by the voters who can be trusted —if the theory of democracy itself is valid to rid the Democratic party of its old men of the sea Ih the meantime age is t be treated with a tolerance which reflects an unwillingness to cheer when the poor fellows are dying out of public life The Bourbons are not to be massacred it is easier to let them hang themselves in illiberal votes and reactionary speeches And every solid ' slot) SomETHIMG Imk PuiSAJC 15 Fio ue ON y010 it hf 0 DatfiodKEN -- I graph jEng) Weekly Tele— I YOU 4 ! lif VA ocougt 2!-I'mo- yiNewti - 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Tr 11 By Our Readers Famed Words of Forum Rules Letters appearing in this column fro not express the views of The Tribune They are the opinions of contributors with which The Tribune may or may not agree The follow log rules govern contributions: Letters limited to 300 words Preference given to short commu2 Writs legibly and nications clearly on one side of the paper only 3 Religious and racial discussions barred Partisan comment can be printed only with true name of writers 4 Personal uperstons pro hibited 5 Poetical contributions not wanted 5 Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of fact or for statements Which are not in accord with fair play and 7 The Forum is not an good taste advertising medium 8 Writers must sign true names and addresses in Ink will Letters unless partisan be carried over assumed name if In all cases writer so requests however true name and address must be attached to communication 9 The Forum cannot consider snore than one letter from the earn writer at one time i F9r who knOws in what mood thing will be read?" the My heart answered back vBut I know better— You will have to tell him how was president of the church all put the locus of the vision and the words "This is the right place" at the Big Mountain pass where Brigham Young himself puts it in his journal entry for July 23 1847 In an address delivered on July 25 1121 William W Biter speaking of the road over which the pioneers came into the valley in October 1847 said: "A good many have claimed that they went Over what is called the hogback—this ridge right below here If you will go down theri and note how the hogback was originally you will see that was absolutely imSamuel Russell possible" Set New Deal 261 the historian Whitney (1892) at page 324 "The Life of Brigham Young" by George at Q Cannon and sons (1893) page 82 and the official pioneer Jubilee narrative published July 24 1897 when Wilford Woodruff If Forth - Editor Tribune: Senator Barkley was elected Democratic senate e leader by a majority Do we hear new deal sycophants squeal about the unfairness of n this decision? The last Democratic convention broke down the rule making it possible to nominate by one man holding the balance of Will some new dealer power please come forth with the usual kick Mr) Roosevelt made many false charges in his cowardly at- you've missed him Just to get it out of your tem!" sys- - —Sis Winner Life 1938 one-ma- the supreme court Those should bb beneath the dig- on Notes on the Cuff Department Roy Taylor was showing me the latest thing in shirts the other day It was a lovely Eleanor blue creation with detached collar and soft white cuffs "Just the thing" said he 'for you to make your notes on" As I was leaving the store I said that they certainly had some beautiful things there and I'd have to drop in oftener "Yes we have" he said "but I'm afraid she's going back to school next month" He caught me staring at- - Nellie Harter things nity of the president of the United States There seems to be no trick of word or deed intrigue or subterfuge beneath the new dealers Following the precedent set by the executive department of our the supreme court government could with equal propriety assail the president on ground of mental and physical inability This the court will not do There are no more profoundly men in the world today than the gentlemen of the United States supreme court Jube Hale gave me a snapshot enshrined in the Especially of Eddie West taken after he had hearts of Americans should be the landed a shark or a swordfish or white Democratic members of the some' other deep sea monster I osenate judiciary committee who showed it to the sports editor but saved the constitution from emashe said the picture was too dark culation by our enemies to make a cut But you can see In the United States we have it's Eddie pipe and all just as been taught that the vanquished plain must be a good loser This is sportsmanship as well as good While Dennis Murphy was in common sense Inversely the vicHollywood he met William Gartor should be magnanimous Did Preston Foster Mischa Auer gan anyone ever hear of a smaller and several otter movie stars Little did they know that they more pusilanimous unsportsmanwere entertaining Salt Lake City's like act than dropping the name "Hoover" from Hoover dam or department store Ziegfeld the attempt to belittle Mr LindA Mr Muir called me up and bergh New dealers have been suggestasked me if I had seen the muing a purge of the Democratic nicipal rosegarden I had to con-Jethat I didn't even know party Their intent is to drive where it was He told me- that it real Democrats from the party was on the South Temple street Undoubtedly it is time for a purge side of the Holy Cross hospital —the white Democrats such as grounds behind the fence I guess the gentlemen of the judiciary that behind a fenceAs about the committee should fight for conto raise a municipal trolas opposed to thebew dealers only safe - way 'have to To oVer- and gardenLafayette Morrison takea look at it Delta ss - nr - -- But speaking of gardens and such I don't remember ever haying seen Liberty park looking quite es beautiful as it did last Saturday The grounds around the city and county building don't look so hot but what can you expect—wthpeoptiLpraetteallY410ing light housekeeping on them?' Like Alan Hart the novelist eityl don't think democracy will ever be much of a successAintil we get rid of the people"I -- A Few Ideas He "See that man over there? He's a bombastic mutt a windjammer nonentity a false alarm a )lot air shrimp a—" Woman: "Would yid mind writ:Tn—g that down for me?" He: 'Why?" Woman: "He!s my husband and I want to usó it on him sometime"—Bostoi Tranascript - Get t P f 0 It h 4 0 S ) ft I 1 i I 0 t 1 Everything Two commercial travelers were swapping stories fin the presence of an old countryman whom they were trying to Impress "You got a radio set?" asked one of the travelers "Yes sorr" said the countryman '7 got every good one" 16' "Does it have good selectivity?" asked the traveler with a knowing wink at his companion "Well yes" said the old fellow "it has The other night I was listening to a quartet and I didn't like the tenor so I just tuned him out and listened to the other three"—ProvI4 dence Journl I ss By BOB BURNS I never could understand why family ties ain't as strong in the city as they are in the country Every day you pick up a paper and you read where some city person is sum' a member of his family for somethin' or other They use the law to fight their own flesh and blood Down home the mem- bens of a family will stick up for each other in spite of the law It's like the time down home when Uncle Hod was 7r CN t d 41 trado ' - ? 000004t I were-yO- u I I I p out fishin' with Grandpaw jr atay"-Snelson They were sittin' on the bank just pul lin1 the fish in one after the other : when th ey looked up 'and the 'game warden com- - ' in' 'Uncle H od jumped up and started to run through the woods with the game warden at his heels After they'd been runninl about five miles' the game warden caught up with Uncle Hod and says "Show me your fishin' license!" Uncle Hod took histlicense outind the game Warden looked at it and said "Well What in aw 4 You I'll Tell WELL V unninl-for-1---Yoteve got-- license!" and Uncle Hod says "Yes but 1 was runnin' to give Grandpaw a chance to get away—he- ainVgot none!" ': Copyright 1937 for Th Tribune ii - : fr ' A One of Park avenue's lady wits has long believed that those in receiving lines at receptions paid no attention to the murmured banalities of arriving guests To test it she went down the line bobbing and smirking: "I've just Murdered my husband the and left him at home in the bath tub" Without exception all bowed' and murmured "So glad to see you" and the rest of it There used to be a crack auto salesman who could mingle in the manner of double talk vituperation and insults so cleverly with a saccharine sales talk that no prospect ever catight the Insinuations Proving that most of us hear only what we want to hear Copyright 1937 for The Tribunq one-vot- tack A lulu two-thir- —By Ham Park k left-hand- As Inconsistent- at page 1 So far as I can discover the dapper Reginald Birch is oldest illustrator in the field He is crowding the 80's One of his tokens of fame—and one that getsin his hair—was his illustrations for the original edition of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" Recently he has been collaborating with Authoress Laura G Richards on a book At 87 Mrs Richards is going good Incidentally her husband is hale and hearty at 90 Theater's Miracle Man George Abbott has become The Miracle Man of the theater Almost every play that goes through his hands brings a Midas touch to the box office His most notable recent success of course was "Room service" which portrays the dead beats of the Broadway hotels with surprising reality They are a guild—these hotel beats—and that the stage has never dramatized them before is a shining example of overlooking the ntrilous Abbott is a big contributing cause to the stage holding on following so many knockout punches in recent years Thingumbobs: Fannie Brice has a daughter taller than sheAdele Astaire in London never missed one of her brother Fred's broadcasts from HollywoodMrs Will Rogers is writing her memoirs for the Saturday Evening PostEthel Merman is richest of the torch singersCharlie Chaplin plays The Roy Howards' the violin daughter Jane is gathering journalistic experience in the United Press office in Hono- W40CedireleCOV In st tion" Public opinion will support rigid justico against drunken drivors — I THE PUBLIC FORUM So-be- Only—loda t 1 !)s13 - baturs—ayegight " 142101 - NI) GET i vest-pock- et mistook nursemaid for me" "How strange darling! And she is stteh a pretty girl too" e:fAt of youR 11SilarcotiONTIEmSer I I 1(X''' LTI - USE t ' 'eou've 1 : Ai - ::A ( ft COW 0 11'1 drunken euvricmRA5v' I ri4) c malt of into a jam as a driving -----11r ' INTCAKATED DEPRivaIG O:FDTHE ' I0 is " IT vitu COST -- x-- - - - ' t i 1) r 1'41 He again 'W '4 - I 1111j -- - 4011 40— HAVE DEFIED f ''A‘ti if 6' '- WATS THIS? I SEE YOU ALSO - n 141'V' 4' -- He defies the court order lend thinks he can get ewey with it 111 ii74‘11: ItJTA:S ar ' F' i WIYING WHILE rv I 4 '4 I— 1 A8OuT ALL ol - 11 rt44 By O O McIntyre NEW YORK Aug 18—They are having a of former friends and admirers to pay tribute to Tommy Gray gone these ten years Tommy was one of the Brogdway gallants- a true wit actor song writer and a light heart churl along the buoyant boulevard His boon companion and confidant was the equally beloved Sime Silverman of Variety Sime liked nothing better than to corral Tom- my pilot him to the far away corner of a grit! surround hint with congenial companions and let bim ventilate hitramusing observations Tommy came back from England one time wearing the fink gray derby the town had ever Iseen outside th e English picture papers One of his memorable mots was a sunny morning when he passed Lee Shubert and Marcus Loew on a Claride corner in earnest talk As be swung by he called "Hi Lee Hi Loew" Nile was just getting into his proper niche— with producers seeking his lines—when he fell ill and passed away Among the other Broadway wits who have given freely and gratuitously of their humor were Dave Montgomery's brother Scamp and Frisco Memoirs of an Actor William Faversham now comfortably Jo- cated in an actbrs' home at East Islip writes me allegorically of his new life after years of top i3tage stardom: "Years ago I boarded a certain ship for a long cruise towards Everywhere Before we had gone far on our voyage I realized I was on a vessel that was not sea worthy and there was a premonition we should be wrecked sooner or later There was no safe shore within reach sp I decided to stand by and try to be of use when the fatal day came After sailing many seas with storms from all quarters of the compass the fatal day came and I found myself adrift—alone! I was soon picked up by a splendid boat that had aboard many People that I knew They took me to their island a beautiful place and upon it grew all that one's heart could desire—peace rest contentment and one need fear storms no more I asked them to let me live there and they very graciously consented So that is where I now live I call it The Island of Rejuvena- T 1 I — - - Ifo' efiKTY Ett ? JUST A FEIN WELL DR(NKS COME AND eaLl THE" IN AHEAD OF AND 'you coT O tE sure-foote- tt CoCKIAtL lb Wie 4-- 1 from driving hie car for thirty days H'E k b get-toget- - 'i (W1 11 4 01 -- - -'I- Mil is prohibited ' --- !- 17 - 14 1 Brigham Young Disputed wanderings in the political wilderEditor Tribune: President Brigness until the old the stubborn ham Young is not the inventor of and the infirm have been pushed ithe myth that on July 24 1847 from the national scene It took Ihe had his carriage hauled out Roosevelt two elections the head of the "hogback" on the G O Pi old guard If or a row to the Fort Douglas military reserof ballot boxes It will take at vation in order to get on a spot least as long to make the GarnerGlass-which he could make sure HarrisonBurke - Wheeler - from that he had really arrived in the Copeland gang say "Uncle!" to valley of the Great Salt lake Uncle Sam whereupon he pronounced the words "This is the place" No Conservatives Thinning syllable of this fiction was printed And all the time old people are in Tullidge's authorized and apare and babies dying being born proved biography of Brigham The post-wa- r generation is comYoung which was published in into 1940 nearown its and by ing J876 before President Young's de- our half of ly mise on August 29 1877 population will consist of individuals to whom the The myth of ''Pioneer View" phrase "Republican prosperity" :has been built up from some exwill mean nothing and whose partemporaneous remarks made by ents have discovered that in time Wilford Woodruff on July 24 of hunger only the big corpora1880 in which he said: "Preltdent tions are allowed to eat the conYoung arose from his bed and stitutitn took a survey of the country The balance is shifting ehiftWhen the vision had passed he ing shifting The relief clients said: 'It is enough This is the who have been kept alive by right place Drive on'" Roosevelt are still here The farm- The historian Bancroft (1889) ers whom he saved from bankruptcy eviction and want are still here The citizens of the "new immigration" — the races which produced Tony Cermak Morello LaGuardia and Rossi of A letter shows toile man it is San Francisco—are still here The written to as well as the man it southern croppers and the northi3 written ern negroes are still here The 4 rnass of socially conscious Cath Harddock 1Iarr1iii-- Writes Again olics and public -- spirited ProtesHowdy son! Ya know Ham tants are still here—and ejections after reading' yore artical t'other are coming up all the time—in day on that golf sociable I sez towns and cities in states and myself Hardrock that there guy in the nation oughtta be kicked What weak sisters this world is bein' filled Future for N7w Deal with! Here's a guy who can't cook sowbelly an' beans for hisself and In the light of these facts it does not much matter whether Vice winds up in the waste bin has ta have a nurse sink a length of glass President Garner pulls a fast one whether the senatorial stooges for stick candy in his trap ta see if his clock's still tickin' then his superprofits stage a wife goes an' quits a good 8 hr rebellion whether the constitution is kept safe for another job ta put him back on his feet 15 hrs doin' it So now year of speculation 'whether an' works an' onions Roosevelt ibecomes impatient or after a inch of tastes good again he goes ta yaIndividual new dealers exaspehooln"round a dignified cow pasrated rubberThe old order is fading—like a ture all afternoon -tired onionsInta gopher boles Cheshire cat—under our eyes and runt-siz- e shovel an' finalthe greatest of tory victories now with a is no more than a rear guard ly staggers home all' greased up on BUTTERMILK! action against the twentieth cento the The future belongs tury Hell man out In Kimberly new dealers—that is to the Men White Pine county Nevada one and the institutions which accept night Barney Haffner ast his surthe inevitability of change and face boss Swede Nelson are willing to adjust themselves ta have a Gallopin' drink an' the G S sez to it In the meantime hats off Well Barney I'm on the wagon to the courage—if not the intellian' Barney sez came on just cum stubbornthose whose gence—of hart yal When they had ness has turned the respectable won't feet on the rail Barney ast tradition of political conservatism their the Swede ta name blien Butter- into an admittedly lost cause" milk sez he an' ya know what They are paving the wtiy for reBarneycollapsed in a forms far greater than the best happened? dead faint an' was gently assistdd which we can now imagine outside by Pete White Tony Manzoni Art O'Connor an' Steve Copyright 1937 for The Tribune Myers What's more Barney ain't spoke ta the Swede ta this here Expert Informafien day As my pal George Harmon sea "My dad must have got into all sorts of mischief when he was next thing ye know you'll bejskini a boy" up cubebs an' ya know what comes after that "What makes you thin sot" careful of "He knows exactly what quesloose rockon your roof an' keep tions to ask me when he wants yore carbide dry Be leein' yal to find out what I've been doing" HARDROCK HARRIGAN —Stray Stories 'rwo Sides to tverything And I said 1 in my mind Allis is Lead Him Around 81d: 7siwpthtr "I'm so worried about my hus- : I write a mushy -- 1 :411 I 1 I t-7- f bug-hunt- pos- PIHAT A FARCE l i -- 30 isvri? 17 YOu ARC Senator From Sandpit Big 14-in- r Today they regard the performance with the scientific curiosity of a watching the last wriggles of a beetle on a pin Since the Virginia primaries gave the new deal candidate for governor an victory over the Glass-Byrmachine a calmd er more attitude has replaced the "do it now!' mood of the Roosevelt mandate of MI6 The president has at last realized that the Democratic do not intent to allow personal loyalty party regularity or the expressed will of the voters to stand in the way of Wall Street The president also realizes that the American people can be depended upon to ampute the reactionaries from the public payroll Weep no tears however for the victims of the coming "purge" —they have all qualified for well-pai- d jobs as corporation lawyers and should rake in the shekels from the utilities reform the conservatives are simply hastening that general break with past traditions which is characteristic of revolutions So on the whole it is probably best that we should continue our Has Lethal Possibilities ) ! t6ei witi fitirirBOTPe l(r404441144AT 144 ' Howartf 'DEADLY - ottlEAft ItscouRAGE THAT Highlights and Bright! ights of New York '—by McCutc4eon ZRIvING voilLE 11410mCATECI Eli 2 vveRC TRYING ro senate without debate'or a record vote and thenLvpretending that was what the'' administra tion would have had' the new dealers raging even a month ago- - sible a third Roosevelt candidacy in 1940 By hamstringing orderly When President Roosevelt refused to approve a bill that seemed to dignify the use of gas in warfare he declared that although apparently necessary for national defense gas for slaughter should be considered as inhuman as it is effective While gas unquestionably has its uses In one form or another it must always be regarded with suspicion and handled with care It neutralizes pain in the chairs of dentistry enables balloonists to rise to any occasion keeps the home fires burning to say nothing of some of the homes Besides being useful gas may be as deadly in peace as in war According to a road sign at the entrahce of a western town given publicity by the Autorhobile Club of California there are different methods of making gas a lethal aeriformfluid The marker reads:"Four thousand and seventy-si- x people died last year of gas—thirty-nin- e inhaled it n thirty-seveput a match to it and some 4000 stepped on it" There seems to be nothing in the way of comment to add to that terse recapitulation of vital statistics 0Q Franklin victory makes more in i 0' Vice President Garners slick work in railroading the meaningless judiciary bill through the churches and schoolboyses are about to be' driven out by the freak behavior of Keen tric elements Through no fault of their own no act of the government no lack of foresight or preparedness they are watching the fruits of their labor disappear their torture-tinge- d toil turned to a grim jest their plans for the future of thejr families wrecked they are conscious of ambilions mocked and feeling their faith in Providence shalVed Some of them are fleeing from conditions they cannot overcome nor longer face Under these circilmstances it must afford that irrepressible genius of Baltimore the versatile H L Mencken infinite satisfaction to prod these distracted farmers with his brilliant but brittle pen by calling them "mendicant pseudo farmers" who are merely victims of that scapegoat of reactionaries the new deal It may be true that these colonizers of the great plains were not 'rich when they settled on the sod lands of the Middle west it may be true that they are impoverished after fighting for a foothold through one or two generations it may be true that experience has weakened their pride and destroyed their usefulness but they are still human beings whose lines have lain in hard furrows who have a right to live in spite of their failure to add to the wealth'of the nation and the comforts of its favorite sons What does this critic of all men and all their acts know about farming and the trials and tribulations of the man who sows and reaps that parasites as well as workers may eat and enjoy life? He is a caustic critic a clever writer a fair fiddler a scholarand a high-broBut when he ventures out among the crickets grasshoppers weevil and cut worms that fight the farmers night and day and sees livestock perishing from drouth and soil carried off in clouds of dust one might expect more sympathy and less censure even from such an Gas Curbing the Drunken Driver Bourb 6n Bolt gfibune----- 1 : -