Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ttltfake Issued 1 Established April 15 1871 every Behind the Scenes of morning by Beit Lake Tribune Publishing Company Aeeoelated Preea la exclusively entitled to the Tha Tribun li a member of the Associated Free The to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also tie for reproduction of all news dispatcheslocalcredited news published herein tha Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning April 14 1938 7 set L Tracy have made Salt Lake City an offer of their celebrated aviary' to be removed from the grounds of their beautiful home on Second avenue to Liberty park where the captive birds may contribute to th$ enjoyment of the children of this community The only conditions Imposed by the donors is a suitable location appropriate improvements and proper care and improvement of the collection With the gift is tendered a cash contribution of $5000 to purchase additional birds and equipment while another $5000 is to be used by spec cial committee in carrying the enterprise to a point of perpetuity Writing the city commission'with reference to the matter Mr Tracy asserted: “For" some yfears Mrs Tracy and I have wished to do something which would best contribute to the health pleasure entertainment education and moral uplift of the boys and girls of Salt Lake City” Having before them an unsatisfactory experience with the “zoo” because of a lack of public appreciation and interest in the animals there the liberal donations of cash accompanying the Tracy offering may commend it to the favorable consideration of the city commissioners It is a generous gift and the public owes Mr and Mrs Tracy " a full measure "Of gratitude Forests for the Future Tree Planting a Public Service Tree planting is a service' to civilization It is a heritage that will be appreciated by unborn generations In spite of all that generous government can do it is feared that the ravages of greed pests and forest fires have gained a start that will eventually lead to desolation unless individuals take a hand That the women’s clubs of Salt Lake City have inaugurated a campaign for the plantingof trees is one of the most hopeful assurances received thatIf something will be done along this line the movement spreads to other towns cities and states the -- forestry service will not have to face discouraging odds in the splendid work it has been doing According to the announcement various churches civic groups schools and parent-teachassociations will cooperate during the next two Tveeks Should Such a drive be made in every community for the coming twenty years results would be as amazing In time it may be possible to plant the bare hillsides surrounding Salt Lake City Some will be too dry and manytrees are "seasons " not adapted to a struggle for life without- regular supply of moisture but seme sprouts will take 'root in some seasons and groves do spread after a start is made Think of the charm of timbered mountains the lure of shady nooks the richness er a drab monotony of with- Some of the most forbidding deserts in the world were- - once abodes of careless and thoughtless races who consumed their forest resources without replanting Wagonloads of evergreen trees are brought from the mountains In every Tioll-da- y season Unless at least five plants replace every one cut down the privilege should be abolished by law As this practice prevails in almost every locality where such trees are available the loss is incalculable About 400000000 trees of average size are cut forwood every year In this country Naturally distributed they Would cover an area of 15600 square miles equal to that of Massachusetts Connecticut Delaware and Rhode Island combined When colonization of white settlers began there were about 822000000 acres of forest land Now there are less than acres Poles for utility wiring and railway ties require millions of trees an-- ‘ nually and the building business many mil lions more As consumption of forests and their destruction by fires and insect pests continue at an alarming rate the only way to counteract the damage is by tree planting here and everywhere that people can be aroused to the needs of the future that would replace ered I New York Highlights By Was Versailles Treaty But a Signed Confession “No court In the United States would )hold a contract valid if one of the parties had been forced to sign at the point of a Raiguel gun" declaredatDr George Earle in his lecture Kingsbury liall “It was inevitable that Germany should"repudlate the Versailles treaty" The eminent gentleman’s illustration is distorted It fails to present a correct pic-- s ture of the situation Germany was a tres- passer a marauder caught looting the home land of a neighbor an arsonist apprehended with the torch in his hand an avowed and raider checked in his bloody march to power with a document in his pocket five times as harsh as the Versailles treaty which he would have forced the allies to sign at the muzzle of a cannon had the fortunes of war been otherwise It is folly for nazi apologists to try to justify Hitler’s repudiation of the ontreaty his by picturing the poor imperialist knees and in tears penitent and pacific as a pen was placed in his hand and the document laid before him The terms imposed ' were harsh but milder demands would not have met the situation Commilitarism plete overthrow of predatory was sought The issues could not await discussion at a peace table They had to be met and decided in the field to which terrorism had carried them That physical force had succumbed to superior force settled nothing Military despotism had to be humbled and disarmed While the victors were sympathetic with the vanquished people no quarter was considered for au- tocracy or militarism The treaty was not written in a spirit of vengeance as Hitler and his defenders would have the world believe but with a commendable desire to make a true and lasting peace Subsequent events indicate that the terms were too lenient and that German'' generals never had any intention to abide by their agreement As Phoenix rose from the embers of its vanity so has a greater menace to the world’s peace rfhd tranquillity risen from fumes of the corroding ink with which the imperial agents Signed the treaty at Versailles- With a mysterious influence Europe and fertilizes "seeds of sedition in other continents the greatest adventurer of all times never fails to win applause and approval as he tears treaties to tatters and proclaims himself an agent-o- f the Almighty rav-tag- er -- lion-hunte- rs jet-bla- public-spirite- It begins to look as though there’d be no chow puppy In our house Readers are writing in In great numbers but there’s a considerable anti-chomajority up to date They tell harrowing stories Of chow treachery and unaccountable savagery " Mrs William J Frank Miami Beach Fla merely agrees with our Mary that It wouldn’t be fair to Captain Kidd L K Campbell Kansas City tells me of a federal court stenographer in his town who was bitten so badly about the face by ’ a friend's chow that 21 stitches had to "be' taken to’ close the wounds-Wh- en Pat hears" those letters she’s silent - She still wants -the chow w -- -- -- Copyright 1938 for The Tribune 14 1938 Soon He Will Fall — by Bureaus Bill Vote r Seen as Move For DictatorshipT Manning GurrentNews By Paul MaDon WASHINGTON— On a cloudy day last week when few legislators were looking and some of those present seem to have been without their glasses the house passed’ one of the most Important pieces of business legislation of the session — without know- ing It their-'hand- s - as That cale- ndar contains the dull technical routine bills Upon it this time was a measure unanimously reported by a house committee containing several pages of technical authorizations for the census bureau to look into the Babassu oil situation Also Into sesame seeds and various other comparatively minor matters to the country at large f Soft Soap In case you had not heard Babassu is palm oil not the kind generally associated with po Iitical ward heelers but a product of the palm tree usedTn making soap generally soft soap Southern congressmen are interested In it because it competes with cot- to the house the purpose of the legislation was to get a complete picture of the competitive vegetable oil situation In the United States The house passed it unanimously sent it to the senate and then found out several days later that the author had not presented" ar eemplete a picture ttr ths house as he proposed to present to the country Then it was discovered that down underneath all the technical soft soap suds was an authorization In the bill permitting the secretary of commerce to go into every business concern of every character in the country every 30 days and get every detail of its operations The overlooked section 2 of the bill would let the commerce secretary direct the census bureau to gather statistics “on the quantity and value of production sales shipments orders and stocks of commodities and the activity and capacity of machinery or plants” of all business He could do it with unexpended balances of ap propriations for the census bureau and he could do it “either monthly quarterly semiannually or annually" whenever he wanted to “serve aihroad public need of urgent nature’’ concerns And the business would be required to cooperate under the same penalties carried In the general census act namely $1000 fine for refusal toan-swe- r questions or for answering them falsely' SoundAjIeep ‘ When thesprovlsion was discov ered the investigating house legislators thought it might be a planted preparation for the Rich-ber- g plan of joint business and labor cooperation through commerce department supervision or for wage and hour action The authors thought it was not and indicated they got the Idea entirely Innocently from the census bureau But at the census bureau a suggestion was offered that the idea originated in the budget bureau and beyond that no one has yet penetrated The One thing seems Certain senate will kill the provision If not the entire bill House leaders now claim they knew all the time the hidden joker was In the bill but intended that the entire Their hill should not be passed story Is it went through when they were not looking However Republicans confess they did not know anything about it and they are howling mad — Two constructive results are noticeable: (a) the Republicans have bought magnifying glasses to read every phrase of every bill from now on and b) Babassu has supplanted banana as the oil most favored in congressional repartee Soma Spender Speaking of spending Mr Roosevelt has already done worth since hi has been in office This is the official treasury figure from the date of his inauguration March It in4 1933 to April 2 last cludes the bonus and payments to states for unemployment insurance In addition to all the regular and emergency government — outlays To furnish you with an Idea of the size of this almost inconceivable sum of money: It has been nearly 2000 years since the birth of Christ and only a little over a billion minutes If Mr Roosevelt had lived these billion minutes he could have spent $3g every minute up to the first of January this year and kept with-- " in his budget of the last five years Or if Mr Roosevelt had paved is road from Washington to San Franclseo - with - the money he could have made a super de luxe highway 238 feet wide out of dollar bills If he had just strung it into a single line of dollar bills between Washington and' San "Francisco he could have' made 1142 strings of dollar bills from coast to coast That is how much- $36884000000 is Copyright 1938 for The Tribune Franklin Jay By WASHINGTON— Since the great lssueat Washington was whether the national government shall use political power efficiently to deal with great social and economic problems or whether the national legislature shall be paralyzed and the people’s president discredited so as to prevent political action it followi'th'at the vote against the reorganization bill was a vote in the direction of dictatorship Miss Dorothy Thompson the has posed so long greatest living expert on the demise of Europe's democratic governments that 1 have hesitated to refer to my own observations in this same field Yet after experience with political pa ralysis and moral anarchy men do turn to one-m- an jay Franklin rule with a sigh of relief write 1 lived in Here I know of what I Italy Just before and just after Mussolini’s narch on Rome The thing which made fascism succeed in Italy was the same thing our big bankers snd manufacturers are trying to do here: A complete deadlock of par- They know It now and are not anxious to advertise it but their private inquiries have gone far enough to develop Indications that they have a very puzzling case on and they may need J Edgar Hoover It has' come to be known as the mystery of the Babassu oil bill Strange tilings are often done In congress but seldom when the unanimous consent calendar is under consideration i i rip' liamentary democracy a refusal to permit the political government tb deal directly with the urgent social and economic problems of the Italian people Rather than give up a little of their power and money for the general welfare they risked all of it and junked democracy for a mess of regimentation Also Germany I was In Germany in 1932 just before Hitler won Supreme power and I was shown the works by the nazi party "It happened in Germany asit had happened in Italy ten years earlier The big bankers and manufacturers had tied up parliamentary democracy In Germany so that the political government could not deal with the urgent social and economic problems of the German people Rather than give up a little of their power and their money for the general tonseed oil The author of the bill explained Driscoll Romantic Bus Driver My sister witnessed this Early Sunday ’morning the driver of the Crosstown bus on which she was riding drew up to the curb in the middle of a block The few sleepy passengers wondered vaguely The driver climbed out walked ahead a few steps and picked up a beautiful gardenia that had been discarded by some Saturday night reveler He climbed back to his seat smiling happily fastened the flower carefully above and in front of him and the bus roared away The driver was whistling softly! Paul Vincent Carroll the little Irish schoolmaster who wrote the play "Shadow and Substance” was a disappointment to the of the New York literary world He was asked tQ speak here and there hut his speeches were delivered in a low monotone and without force Mostly he liked to talk about Irish politics about which his hearers knew little He is not a handsome little man and has a head of peculiar shape But It’s a head that has a lot of stuff In It about writing good plays Harrison Cady the Illustrator who made fame with pictures of bugs with big eyes and wondering expressions has a large head It hair but now is was covered with getting bald Big round eyeglasses set in black rims give the eyes a wondering hevy You can’t help saying it: Cady put look a lot of Cady into the countenances of soma of those amusing bugs! ' Caricaturing Sell But it’s just as natural for an artist to put' himself into his characters as it Is for a writer to put himself into the lines One of the notable examples is George MqManus who caricatures himself in Jiggs his famous funny man Ham Fisher's Joe Falooka doesn't look anything like" Ham who' is short dark and heavy-se- t But he’s Ham’s boyhood idea of the fellow he’d like to be Aviary Offered the City Rare Bird Collection Donated With a characteristic gesture of generosity emphasizing the civic pride of two d citizens Mr and Mrs Rus- - B NEW YORK— Filling In th river on the Manhattan side goes on at top speed under the direction of the Indefatigable Robert Moses Any morning you will see three or four groups of barges lashed together and moving slowly under power of a steam tugTto depoifTmasslve rocks' alongYHe’sBSTST Mountains of stoneware being dumped carefully into the stream to form a foundation for parks drives and amusement areas that will be integral parts of the finished Henry Hudson parkway Some of the stone comes from subway excavation under Sixth avenue But there is no waiting for stone of dirt to happen to come along from this or that excavation The mountains must be moved into the river and they're moving Already most of the roadway is completed and in user An ugly railroad that was an eyesore for generations puffing black smoke up along the ramparts of Riverside drive has been electrified and almost completely hidden from view under steel and concrete that has been covered over with soil grass and trees The whole project will be completed and slicked up in time for opening of the world's fair Spot jottings: Truck drivers are the most courteous users of the streets and highways ' and also among thi most skilled drivers Henry TreffUch the animal merchant lives in Pelham In Westchester county and hasn’t an animal not even a dog on the home premYe Olde Temperance House has ises been discovered by New Yorkers motoring over Into Pennsylvania for week ends It adWell that vertises “Beer on Draught" wasn't what they meant by temperance In Kansas when I learned temperance hymns Clifford H Click sells time out there He comes from Emon the air for WOR A Is and Kansas grandson of a ior- -' poria mer Kansas governor—As— -- youngster I used to hear the exclamation “Great Governor Glick!” and thought It swearing -- weeds in summer! - That Charles APRIL THURSDAY MORNING I wel-far- THE PUBLIC FORUM - by Our Readers - - S Urged to Thwart Drive on Democracy necessary courage? Such a call made with sufficient firmness and a generous display of teeth would be a guarantee against any war in the near future - — It seems to be up to Uncle Sam to assume this role Why we? The real issue in this worldwide conflict is the fate of democracy and the United States is the Editor Tribune :The patrons of reincarnation should take solace in one Adolf Hitler who theoretically should be Alexander the Great making a return visit to this mundane sphere The modern Alexander seems to be quite as successful In broadcasting an acute case of jitters as was his ancient prototype Alexander of “Macedonia sighed deeply when he had conquered everything within reach and there was no prospect of continuing his favorite pastime Will his modern disciple one day heave a sigh for the same reason? Undoubtedly unless his bluff Is called but where is the logical champion of this great cause This does not mean a dec- laration of war but a declaration of readiness to defend that principle Preparedness does not mean war It Is not necessary to create an immense standing army We need only put the entire person nel of the unemployed army under physical and mental training with the view of making that personnel available for soldiers in the event of war or more efficient in the event of peace In we discovered hoW deficient the American people were when called It would pay us as a nation to improve upon this condition whether for war or peace As an added economy this army while in preparation might be utilized to produce its own The cost of such an equipment undertaking would thereforq’not be ail loss and might helpt to settle a few other problems not — mentioned here J F WHITTEMORE workers 1917-1- 8 Reader Gives Views Pension Needs Editor Tribune: Mr Morrison may be one of those very few semicentenarians who have been fortunate enough to acquire and hold enough of this world’s goods to keep the “wolf from the door” Congratulations! I heartily agree with Mr Morrison in all his recommendations except those regarding old age Note he writes “as pensions long as people are able to work” On Senator From Sandpit-"'1- Poets utter great and wise thing which they do not them-selvunderstand— Plpto Dear Senator: I note with some amazement that I have developed a public of one in Ogden Tsk! Tsk! Who am I to refrain from writing verse only to disappoint my public? The fact is that I have been very busy after a five-ye- af vacation and 'haven’t "had the chance to do much writing It seems that the balmy April air crept Into my blood and to my surprise I awoke to find myself somewhat married But Senator it gave me quite a thrill to learn that I had been missed (Sotto voce: Not such a thrill though as the time I was shot and and missed) To give my Ogden friend a treat you may if you will anoint your column with the following: Lo Comes It Easter Easter time will soon be here when comes the Easter bonnet Trimmed In many varied hues with vegetables on it My lady has one every year— to to me they are quite funny Each and every one of them would shame an Easter bunny And the one Oho just now bought — gee I can hardly bear it 'Cause indeed if yoq ask me —I’d sooner eat than wear it ' I shall have to write oftener —or shall I? Toodle-o- o and pip-pi- p from CHARLES of the LOGAN DOGGERELS -” yells: “Eat one of What’s-hia- name’s hot meat pies for me! It’s just like I tell the kids — there’s some things you never ef forget Now before I —Flossie Fisher Notes on the Cuff Department Two of the swellest pepple I know are Mary and Jim Hogle Jim plugs away ly supplying the funds while-Mar- y uses them to help the unfortunate And with no strings attached The other day although as busy as the proverbial bee—what with sponsoring the National Recreation association and acting as hostess at the luncheon for the delegates time out and guests— she took to go to her office to see what could be done to aid a colored family stranded here And I recall a time when she was president of the Humane society she got her car out late at night in response to a call and went out to rescue a litter of starving kittens Another time someone dumped a herd of famished cows on her hands to shelter and feed There is one natural law in which I have implicit faith— the law of compensation It’s working constantly and plays no favorites And there's a lot of truth in the old saying that everything comes to him who waits although things have come to me that I wasn’t waiting Jfor and would have done my besttotdodge But that’s neither here nor there What I want to say is that when life's accounts are audited and balanced Mary and Jim Hogle’s on the will be sort of redit side In r lop-sid- you said last week: The only rtyme Is the paradoxic "stupid” That’ why we rhymsters seldom use the word Poetics has us dup-ed- r Acutely Accents we must 'use in dubs and thirds —i m A Mused Dear Senator: The reason I am up here— it's on account of th kids I wanted them to see what a real town was like If any smart alec says I am up here ll all they’re looking wrong I don’t care if I never see that big bumagairuand ms and the kids are getting along just swell without him As I was saying Senator I wanted the kids to have a peek at some real mountains swim in a lake where they canVilnkr let 'em taste real food and let ’em see’ how real folks live Speaking of food reminds me of brother-in-la- w Well Ed m Ed's not' doing anything at the moment (that moment has been 25 year long) so he goes with me and the kids as far' as the highway In Pomona Just as we are climbing up onf a truck he makes a horn of his hands and d ' high-pressu- re U Dear Senator: e' they risked all ttf ifcand junked 'German-democra- cy for totalitarianism Now it ' is happening here Everyone streamknows the origin of the lined opposition to President Roosevelt's effort to hold his own completely victorious party to its word to make it keep faith with the people who voted for him and to enact the necessary social and economic reforms In the general welfare of the American people Everyone knows that it is the' big bankers and manufacturers and their hired mouthpieces who have prevented any legislation on wages and hours of labor who blocked ratification of the child labor amendment who delayed judicial reform for a year I gaw a wire-phot- of the po- o 'taking Richard Whitney shackled to a gunman to Sing The gunman’s face was Sing masked by a bundle he was carrying apparently because he was lice ashamed-t- be photographed in the company of (he convicted stock broker and socialite And while everything Whitney did was reprehensible I got little satisfacIntion out of his degradation stead I confess to a sneaking feeling of admiration and sympathy for the man He hasn’t whined like a certain New York hanker dig when he got his just desserts Whitney is taking" his" punishment as imperturably as he for-we- did his friends’ money -o- And speaking pf just desserts pests those got his the other day A motorist had killed his engine and was frantically trying to get it started Back of him in the resultant traffic jam another driver kept honking his horn which only added to the confusion Finally a little elderly man standing on the curb ne-of horn-honki- lost his patience and went over and slapped the honking driver’s face And the crowd cheered - again) (quote and “able-bodi- 1 haven’t the statistics at my fingertips which give the percentage of people past 60 in these United States who find them- selves financially unable vide for the necessities much less the pleasures to pro- of life or even They are greatly In comforts the minority over Well however 90 per cent of those and “able-bodie- d able-minde- d" citizens past 60 or even past 50 have done their part in building up the commonwealth and producing the present vast wealth of the nation - that our posterities’ are to enjoy The many tiptes ma jority of these fine people who are passing down the home stretch through no fault of their own find themselves financially unable to obtain the pleasures and joys which they have justly earned but for various reasons have Lost The writer whose one alias Is and who were crop control farmer It forced to pass the too late -- to help the same group which has reluctantly a law year the ia picked on this simple practical undramatlc minor pfece of overdue reform as an excuse to smash the Roosevelt administration and paralyze congressional democracy in the United States Problem Won't Wait The problems which beset the American There is a limit to the people will not wait time for which a man can go without food a limit to the time for which he will patiently watch his wife and children sicken or starve The tory opposition offers no program except to give money to the rich and hope that some of it will trickle down to the poor This Is history and not opinion If the Democratic party shows that It cannot be trusted to keep its word to the people WHO voted for its can be no one-ma- Jesser flfthe evils—dictatorship or two an- - “foes of fascism” archy— which the are forcing upon us Please don’t misunderstand me Here Is' no deep-dye- d plot No little group of willful' men gathered around a table in a smoke-fille- d room that All the amash-Roosev- gang are conscious of doing Is an' attempt to hold everything an attempt to keep the new deal from taking away a little of their power and a little of their money Some of them doubtless feel that they are saving what' they regard as the constitution But you can’t eat the constitution and you can’t take It with you and the poor and underprivileged people of this country require not talk but action If they are to be saved The reorganization bill is beaten Roose- -' velt ia discredited and congress paralyzed and all that I can say Is that the situation! in this country is like what it was In Italy' In 1922 and In Germany in 1932 — so alike! as to be alarming The tories are talking as though they hated dictatorship but the things they are trying to do to our govern- -' ment if successful will make dictatorship! more and more likely -- Copyright 1938 But Not Out” does not believe in useless idleness very much the contrary but I do believe that the best means by which the present unjust prac- there program hope of responsible party government in this' country So the people will be forced In the n direction of government' as the -- for The Tribuns “Down' The' Old Young politicians and may be counteracted and the unpleasant situations of the majority of peoremoved to pass a sion (see- not “old or Old Yoitng know what a age benefit” nor‘‘re--lie- f the needy” but honest rer for valiant labor for ail veterans past middle age for embarrassed finajicially sufficient - to supply them with not only the bare necessities of justly earned that they may feel free to apply themselves tosome constructive and interesting hobby without being harassed with of poverty - Knight -- — — AuroraiUtah landed Down — J Jqhnnie (looking out of the window) — O mother a rhotor car has just gone by aa big as a barn Mother — Johnnie why do you I've told exaggerate so terribly you 40000000 times about that habit of yours and it doesn't do a bit of good !— Montreal Star Well matter get you see he didn’t! with It so he called' consultation— Los Angeles Times WELL - Tell You I’ll By ! Bob Burns At heart most actors are jest real andwould like to live a Simple life but folks every-tim- ’spose you’ll name your son after something that’s very m mg to your heart ?’ — and WfJ — actor says "Yea I’fe Cs£T named him Homer” Alma —— could car to have charged me a new bus 'liiey do or say anything the publicity! people start weavin’ some drama deep romantic around It Not long ago an actor’s itGe son was"born—"and some publicity people called on the actor and says “I life but with the comforts and a few of the pleasures they have so visions Doctor— was the my new man garage Medico — You for that would be for congress law providing a pen Webster for pension) ward those who are I took and the $200 that matter 60 for Doctor— it repaired tices of “crooked greedy capitalists” ple past 60 Story T ’ ' They all got out their pencils and said “We’-l-l write a wonderful etory here about you bein’ an ardent follower! of that great Greek poet Homer” The actor says “I don’t know nothin’ about) I" keep homing pigeons”! anyGreek poet ' Copyright 1938 for The Tribune a’ ’ I |