Show ' THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE alt fab u 1871- - Established April 15 Issued every morning by Ball Lek Tribun Publishing Company ’ I ' Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning April 23 1938 r V Progressive Education The Demand of Modern Times The “Progressive Education Association of Utah" is holding its initial convention 4n Salt Lake City While special sessions-arbeing conducted in various school buildings the general assemblies are called to order in the East high school building Dr Charles H’ Skidmore state superintendent of public instruction presides at the' principal functions although the conference was opened by Dr Adam S Bennion Daily programs to be concluded tomorrow present an array of speakers of national reputation seldom seen at similar gatherings in the west The list includes Dr 'William H Kilpatrick teachers college Columbia university Dr Lois Hayden Meek teachers college Willard W Beatty formerly superintendent of Bronxville public schools now director of Indian education Washlngtotj D C Dr LouiV'Ellaths Ohio State university Theodore Rice Denver public 'schools Elsie Ripley Clapp editor the Progressive Education Journal M Paul R Ahrens Denver public schools Hana Stanford university Robert H Lane Loy Angeles public schools and C L Cushman Denver public schools Exhibits of children’s artistic efforts collected from 35 countries are to be studied and the needs and methods of progressive education are subjects of vital4 importance under consideration according to a Progressive education fair Interpretation of the term means a system of instruction that keeps up with the times that devotes more attention to the beck of the future than to reveries of the past that prepares youth for the responsibilities of citizenship equipped with wisdom as well as knowledge with character as well as refinement with courage as well as polish with high ideals and a ca-- 1 pacity for initiative and cooperation This is an era of piogressive movements The American Medical association is confronted with a revolt demanding more modern methods in the practice In religion in politics in education the demand is for progress The day of the reactionary in' every line of human endeavor is about ever The world moves mankind advances human ingenuity is filling the markets with new devices new machines new articles of comfort and convenience new instruments of entertainment Progressive education will keep youth abreast of the times Editors in Convention Discuss Freedom of the Press The American Society of Newspaper Editors during the week end have held a convention in Washington City had a conference with the president heard the secretary of state explain foreign complications and then proceeded to discuss economic problems and freedom of the ’press In his opening address President Alfred H Kirchoffer of the organization stressed the “black plague of censorship" encircling the globe While the United States of America Is probably the only country in the world where the press is free and the pulpit untrammeled where such liberty can be abused without repression by executive authority where writers may malign and misamenable only to litigation represent where ministers are permitted to preach politics in pulpits or over radios there are nevertheless those who complain that freedom is curtailed in this country Fascists insinuate that liberty is lack-1- ’ ing when their seditious screeds are re— jected by patriotic papers Communists assert that newspapers are owned subsidized or controlled by capitalists who designate Politicians howl the policies to follow about a “muzzled press” at stated intervals for obvious reasons In “the conning tower” of the N Y an intensely partisan paper contemplating the coming of a journalistic assemblage it was remarked: “There will be a lot of talk about freedom of the press —a freedom which will probably never be threatened most of this kind of talk wearies oneto tears” Almost very newspaper in the United States has a forum in which the public may air its views no matter hdw contradictory to those of the organ giving them publicity Defending the forum idea President Franklin D Roosevelt recently said: “It is doubtful if the United States ever had an administration since the days when Washington was accused of despotism and aspirations to kingship that had the slightThe un- est desire to muzzle anybody checked virulence of assaults on almost every administration since the beginning of our history in itself is best proof of that statement” e license cancellation and discontinuance of 18 inspection stations' asserted: ' “We are in dead earnest in attempting to make the inspection law work as it should because we Relieve it is one of the outstanding safety measures on the statute books Its object is to eliminate unsafe motor vehicles from the highways" From time to time unidentified agents of the commission will drive defective cars to various testing stations of the state to observe the method and thoroughness of checking by attendants in charge As this policy will be continued periodically for an indefinite period no inspector will feel safe in slighting his duty If drivers could be examined&rom year to year as to their qualifications their waning faculties failingf eyesight faulty hearing increasing nervousness or reversion to detrimental habits another step would be taken in the right direction There was a time when driving licenses-we- re issued for life or during ability to sit behind a steering wheel No thought was given to fickleness of fortune mutations of mentality collapse of nerves or caprjcigus temperaments Annual inquiries might reveal developments in drivers as surprising as diagnoses of pa-- ’ tients do in the practice of medicine Defective machinery is not as dangerous -ss defective driving An alert experienced motorist will be very apt to detect and remedy Imperfections in the running of his vehicle while a good car can do nothing about a bad driver except submit to hiJ control For Lax Inspection Revocation of licenses held by lax testers of automobiles is a decisive step in the direction of safety on highways Whether inadequate inspection eomesfrom IncSmpfe-tenc- e indifference favoritism or yearning for custom it is not only a menace to travel and a betrayal of public confidence but is the unfair to competitors honestly-exercisinsame authority Vice Chairman Preston G Peterson of th state road 'commission in explaining g v' r — 23 1938 v National Arthritis N By Ding ' S H A excuse is economizing Nick-nam- less-favor- with-poiice-- or -- If the pump- president’ e e buildings Wrong Source ICC1 WASHINGTON— If' However when a bureau chief starts economizing on Farley in this government you may rest assured it is not the ordinary news case of a man biting a dog but an elephant All are keeping mum for jobvi-ou- s official family reasons but here Is what seems to have happened: Straus borrowed Latlriner from Farley at the outset of U S H A Straus did not want to be bothered with patronage troubles and Farley who is big hearted that way agreed to take care of them for him However during the past six months Mr Latimer discovered he was not the only patronage dispenser in U S H A if in fact he was a patronage dispenser at all He had not been able to do much to prove it His influence was dismantled bit by bit until he wound up with little left except a desk 1 By Frank R Kent priming program goes through except In a much emasculated and earmarked form it will be because members of congress find It impossible to resist the lure of federal f Jr funds for their states and districts in an efection year 9 ' That is the plain truth about it and there lsp’t a prac- tical man In politics who does not know it Actually - this program has no mors convinped friends in congress than the reorganization bill or the supreme c6urt bill It does not it is true arouse the same sort of resentment nor raise the same sort of Issues hut it is heavily baited with public money and that makes It very "hard indeed for congressmen coming up for renomination and reelection this year not to and rising above submerge their principles vote for it It may foe that as in 'the 'reorganization bill fight' a public opinion will develop against the new spending proposals strong enough to maks It seem politically unprofitable to support them It may be that the people generally Will register a disapproval so marked as to convince members of congress that more votes are to be lost by running counter to the popular will ‘than could be gained with new money for dubious public works and unneeded federal Charlie Michaelson's right-han- d publicity dispenser Farmer Mur- phy The official U is that Mr Straus ' — WASHINGTON — Ldw Cost Houser Nathan Straus has been having a high cost political housTwo of ing problem at home his aids have cleared out of his alums clearance organization under quiet circumstances which are causing repercussions Gone but not entirely are: General Farley's right - hand patronage dispenser J Austin Latimer The last Incident arose when a head man wanted 40 stenographers In a hurry No available -- sources can now remember what B -- Driscoll By Charles "was wanted with 40 stenographers but they were wanted at' NEW YORK — On a recent Tuesday noon 8:30 a mrthe following day The I stepped into Old Trinity church at the head civil service bureau was unable t6 fill the order on a moment’s of Wall Street The noonday service was just notice and agreed to waive civil beginning I have been in Old Trinity many service requirements The 40 times but never before at noon on a week-day- 'l stenogs were obtained from a local business college which is no part was surprise to find the pews apparof the Farley organization ently filled Indeed the ushers drew silken That finished Mr Latimer 1 across aisles few a the minutes after ropes What ended Mr Murphy was had taken my seat The capacity of the being called to account for issuing a publicity handout he had church 750 worshippers had been reached never seen Some editor out in who came in later entrance the packed Thoqj the country picked up this parand waited for a later song service ticular U S H A handout and flailed it with its own figures These were not tourists It was too early until nothing was left of it exin the season You recognized the lower Mancept the pulp on which it was v printed hattan business type Successful hankers Naturally the U S H A authorbrokers merchants aijd in the same pews ities did not like it— until they and Mr Murphy ascertained that stenographers filederks policemen off duty the statement had been authoriAll singing the good old hymns Not such a zed by Straus himself d world after all! Murphy has a tongue as sharp I counted the ’men and women within as hTs wits As he walked out range A little more than half men So this he is said to have unburdened isn't a ladies' society affair after all Mostly himself on a line which has bebusiness and professional people Many of come classic in new deal publicity them forego lunch for the lift they get out circles: of a brief hour of song and worship ’’Low cost housing promotion is not to be obtained solely by The minister (fairly high church but not getting your picture in the paper tiptop high) delivered in excellent English a every day” discourse on church unity appealing to sensiThus are the trials and tribuble men and women to forget prejudices lations of life in government ocPrayer silent then vocal another song and casionally manifest the audience filed forward out thsough the Note— Latimer Is back with doors facing the ancient graveyard at the Farley: Murphy 4s back with rear while the new audience crowded Into both are reported glad the pews to be alive Was Old in 1776 Railroads Flirting Again house of The railroads are edging around Trinity was a inside toward an application for worship 79 years old when General Howe another 5 per cent rail increase occupied New York In 1776 and a great fire from destroyed a large area of Manhattan includAlso Uncle Daniel Willard Among the tombs in its ing the church president of the B & O yard past which Broadway and Wall Street is privately sounding out' labor throngs hurry daily is that of Captain James on accepting a 7 per cent wage Lawrence who made history with his dying cut command “Don't give up the ship!" The first These two doubtful moves are person buried in this churchyard has been furnishing whatever hope still boy Well lying here since 1681 A exists in the railroad situation well what matter how many years they lived? All hands seem to have abandoned Here they are and here they have been most any idea of getting beneficial legof them for at least a century The world islation this session The roads seems far away as you read the seem backward about taking adlines on these gravestones though the vantage of equipment loan offers financial capital of the world towers around from RFC They already have you more equipment than traffic The only advantage they think they acquired In youth in small will gain frojn the president’s towns and country places often stick through message is’ the land grant rate life I have a brother In Kansas City who is revision which means only $8000-00- 0 known to family and immediate fiends as and that only to land grant Van and so signs his name All because in roads mother’s absence from the farm he once atThe 5 to 6 split in I C C against tempted to tell a younger sister how to cook increasing passenger fares leads pork and beans We called him Van Camp them to suspect they might get for that Busy Arnold New York publisher an additional 5 per cent freight of comio magazines was christened Everitt Increase if they try again Labor but few of his most intimate friends know of is not enthusiastic about the Wilname him A but teacher lard 7 per cent cut proposal any given Busy for in a New England grade school praised him Ickes Lectures Xiberals for being “always busy" and the boys in the room took it up as a derisive term Weekly private meetings of the house liberal bloc are being held Common Objects Made Funny in a cafeteria near the capitol of under the toastmastering Whiskers delicatessen and psh cans were all made comio by Rube Goldberg Maury Maverick Welt This Is the only officially ormaybe he had a little help here and there ganized bloc in the house but like But Rube made a practice of picking upon all liberals the Mavericks ara insome commoji object or phase of life and dividualists who do not congeal I think laughing it into the comio class easily Their latest speaker was he’s the fellow who started calling whiskers Interior Secretary Ickes who told To Rim anything in a delicatessen spinach them ao shop is a loud laugh Ash cans were rather Ickes also tried to lay ground dignified appurtenances to a household until in his unreported speech for a Rube started laughing pjt them in print Now permanent P W A He has been I actually snicker every time I pass an escongressional leaders to tablishment on Third avenue' near Thirty-four- th pushing get the idea inserted in the pendstreet bear this sign: “International ing spending bill Leaders have Ash Can Co” It just doesn’t seem that anydefinitely -- turned thumbs -down so as an on it thing should have amusing an international character fbreed upon it House members noticed a newcomer sitting on the floor listenMemory: The bag of hard candy ing to debate the other day InDad sometimes brought us when he had sold quiry among themselves developed a load of hogs at the stockyards The bag he probably was a 'former memwas white with pin stripes of green red and ber but one inquisitive legislator blue and the top edge was irregular as though went to the doorkeeper and asked done with a pinking Iron Two little holes the identity of the stranger The like ears at the top How We counted out doorkeeper did not know so the those pieces of candy discussing the merits stranger himself was approached ' and politely asked if he had the of each privilege of the floor Morton Downey is a favorite “Oh no" h4 said “My name's and it’s hard to imagine him paying a Plunkett and I'm just looking fme-faround” overparking He never refuses an inHe was told to Plunkett outvitation to sing— and whistle— at a police side having enjoyed the distincbenefit anywhere within motoring distance i 1 tion of being the only sightseer ever to have sat in congress Copyright 1938 lor The Tribune hard-boile- Congressmen Eye Political Value Of Spending Plan By Paul Mallon New York 'Highlights ash--ca- State Licenses Revoked Behind the Scenes of t Current News APRIL SATURDAY MORNING ' Th Trlbun li a member of th Associated Press The Associated Pres Is exclusively entitled to the credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also reproduction o all new dispatches h (or the local news published herein v V THFPUBLIC FORUM - - - by Our Readers ( Might Arouse Sentiment There Is reason to believe that If there were time enough to let the dangers and futility of the president’s plan percolate to the people such a sentiment might easily be aroused— and another demonstration of the 'lack of faith in Mr Roosevelt be given But if that does not happen and the Whits House bills are enacted without major restrictions it will be for political reasons and not because congress wants either to follow the president or believes in the efficacy of his program The undeniable fact is that the Roosevelt leadership has been repudiated in congress and his control over that body is a thing of the past There exists today among Demo---cratmembers a disbelief both In bis wisdom and his smartness as a politician The feeling toward him personally And politically is in striking contrast to that existing a year ago— and the openness with which sturdy party figures such as Vice President Garner and Senator Harrison differ with him on - fundamental policies la highly significant Recently without a roll call vote the senate in which there are only 16 Republicans passed a tax bill branding the Roosevelt tax policies as a mistake and in the face of personal protest from the president repealing the undistributed profits tax to which he is committed on the ground that it stood in the way of business recovery While Mr Garner’s devotion to the Democratic party ad his sense of propriety keep him 'from an open break with the president there la no room for doubt that In the last year begin-in- g with Mr Roosevelt’s silent acquiescence in the strikes the vice president has seen eye to eye with him on hardly any issue all at Nor has he kept this a secret from the president ic n Writer Points Out Value of Mining Editor Tribune: I was looking over the ads in The Tribune foF 'the address of a mining supply couldn’t find the word firm Mep are “mining” mentioned not advertising for any minerals nor the sale of any mining supplies They are shipping in millions I dollars worth of products proand manufactured in other states while Utah has billions of dollars in minerals laying unof duced touched and thousands of men unemployed The leading men of state this are asleep The prospector Is entirely nored laughed and hissed at ig- un- able to get a helping hand m any ehape form or manner Everything else is advertised Farmers are stockmen and contrac- assistance from state and federal goour founty vernments There is no movement tors getting Senator From thing in this world Is not so much where we are but In what direction we are moving — great The W Holmes O Bridge Club Meets girls I suppose you read The Well where those women played bridge while in an airplane flying over I’ll Of all things! the city? never forget my first trip in an hundred airplane if I live to be But I can’t imagine playing cards with cotton in my ears my heart in my throat and my stomach a But I guess things have changed a lot since then and people don’t think any more of getting into an airplane And than they do a streetcar as I said to my husband the girls of our club don’t need an airplane turning somersaults get them up In the air All need I said is for me to one of those little common perfectly natural mistakes that everyone makes one time or anto they make other a kite and up they go higher than But there’s something else I wanted to talk to you girls about It’s this new direct primary thingamajig It just doesn't make sense to me Does it you? reading about how they were going to pass a law to elections out of the con- take I remember the but ail trol of the politicians they seem to have done is to just take them out of controL And I did so want to vote this fail I said to my husband that I didn't see how it was possible for our lawmakers to get a thing’so mixed up liar And he people" said “We are a pecuAnd I said well I that's any reason why wa should send the most peculiar of us to tha legislature - And I don’t either I wonder who the Republicans are going to run for United States senator? My husband says he doesn't care he's afraid it would be just a waste of time and money He's in favor of declaring the Office vacant and sending the president a proxy Inwould save $10000 a stead year he s&ys and would be real political economy But wouldn't know about that Is it my deal? don’t think It I When Ham And It Do We Eat? with all their joking I think the fun poking that they’ve peen time that you and I call their bluff For no doubt a little is should swing-tim- e Is quite proper' in the springtime So if you will get their numbers on your cuff Up to Zion I'll be coming If I can get there by thumbing A in the way of mining except the mines that are well developed Three hundred and fifty students k a year have been taking a course at the University of Utah beginning about five years ago But what is the use if our leading men do not care anything 'ive-wee- about mining The leading men of the counties' ought to get the books published and by the chamber learn what mining means to Utah It is reported that metal mines of Utah produce $12000000 annually About 17000 men are employed 90 per cent Is in the northern part of the state The southern part is getting no benefits and Is getting no attention As a prospector schooling himself for 25 years and one well acquainted with the different minerals found in southern Utah I fully realize the immense value that could be produced Has the diamond lost its luster? Have gold and silver lost their value? C C Willis Sandpit-8- ”! see how Salt Lake t But I don’t beat Kanab can ’Twill be fun I’m not denying When you see me start to shying At your streetcar and that yellow cab Now if Sancho’s talking turkey Though I feel a little jerkey I’ll be starting just as soon as telephoned invite the missus parties such as this is I’m afraid to venture out unBut do please For to chaperoned —Ed R Tuttle Kanab Notes on the Cuff Department Ever since the snow melted a certain man has been cultivating a tiny patch of mint he fopnd in his yard The plants responded immediately to his tender care and sent out Bhoots covered with green leaves After a round of golf the other afternoon this certain gentleman whose name I won't mention went home to enjoy a flock of mint juleps he had prepared and put in the icebox That evening the neighbors noticed that he was acting strangely — in fact they do say he isn’t quite normal yet Why? Well the truth is— the mint wasn’t mint at all-r-it was catnip! And you try drinking catnip-- ' juleps and see how you act One thing Korns is the other The next I like about Rod his willingness to let fellow tell his story time we Roy says he’s going to let me tell him about my dog get-toget- ' Sports note: It Iboks like Rudy is going to be a holdout in ‘the marble machine tournament this spring Those in the know say they think Rudy is a bit temperamental because D T Broun has been putting the red ball in the double-bol- e quite regularly ' There are times when you’d just as 'soon there weren’t so many honest people In the world I left my car to be washed at a service station and somebody got my auto robe by mistake It was an old one but ! told the service Evans owner that I valued it because of sentimental He said 'he knew just how I felt and he was so sorry but ’the best he could do was to replace It with a nice new one station greatly reasons which he did The other night when I got home I found a note on my desk which said: “Rdbe phoned to say that he'd found your auto robe and for you to come and get it before the moths 'eat him out of house and home" Darn such lucki Practical Systfms Declared Need Editor Tribune : There is no use kidding ourselves about spiritual and temporal matters You cannot get much spiritual satisfaction floating around on the clouds with an empty stomach The Lord helps those who help themselves Every blessing is predicated upon a law And the law of eat is to earn it by the sweat of our brow But if unscrupulous people corner the eats or the wherewith to buy them We must help ourselves to to some system for get a proper system of distribution to buy what we need What we need is a system of the little “1 and the big U" May i use the Will Rogers style and in speaking in the first person use the little "i”? Every time someone starts or suggests a proposition it seems from past experience we wonder if there is not some graft in the scheme and if we are safe in trusting them Someone runs off with or improperly uses the jackpot I have been trying to work out a plan that won’t permit any cheating or misappropration sit-do- g Oppose Neither the White House denials nor the refusal of Mr Garner to talk alters the facts Too many people know them Like Senator Harrison the vice president is at bottom a g realistic Democrat who Pump-Primin- budget-balancin- does not — and never did —believe in pump-primiand who is convinced as was Mr Roosevelt in 1932 that no nation can continue for long to live beyond its income without danger to the whole people Moreover freed from pressure and politics the bulk of the Democrats in congress would register along the Garner-Harriso- n lines They do not really believe that a renewal of large-scal- e federal spending is the cure for the depression ' ng I am about convinced also that the pension lde Isn’t so good either and that instead we should adopt the slogan "If I’m able I’ll work or starve but give me a job or a pay check right now" And let’s not expect a man and his family to live on $55 per iponth when we ourselves have two or three times this amount and have to skimp at that God cursed the earth for man’s sake that he might have the joy of earning a living and of etc Let’s not cheat ourselves out of our n birthright This is the reason “i” have been talking in enterfavor of semihome-owne- d prises as against community enterprises except as to things we all must use in common such as light water gas railroads etc In other lines let each develop his own initiative and run his own business but divide the profits with the people who make his plan workable Claudius Dodge ‘ self-relian- Clod-give- Writer Suggests Way To Defeat Roosevelt Editor Tribune: I do not belong to the Democratic party but after listening to President Roosevelt's speech I came to the con- clusion that if he possesses enough force to make congress dance to his whip and can carry out what he claims to be his purpose the only way the Republicans can defeat him' is to spend a few million dollars and hire the biggest liars in the United States and if they fail to convince the American public that Roosevelt is a rascal perhaps if they go to England And hire a few of the king's tories who could come over and give them a lift O E Parsons It' the Limit The midget had obtained a 'job in a factory At the end of the first week however he gave notice The foreman expressed his surprise “Well you see sir" explained the midget “one of the first questions my mates asked me was how tall I was I told them I was exactly three feet high” “Didn’t you like the question?” “Oh I didn't mind that" came the response “but I do object to 'being picked up every five minutes and 'Used as a three-forule”—Montreal Star 1 They know these proposals have corns from the radical group of' presidential intimates that they are not in accord with tha views of his more solid advisers that they Ignore the recommendations of both big and little business men that they do not harmonize with the promises of the Democratic platform or even with the words of Mr Roosevelt himself They know they move toward inflation and of that they have ait instinctive dread Yet despite all this ths prevailing opinion at the moment is that th program will go through— for the reasons given above and One or two others more or less closely related among them the deairs to do something and adjourn The combine tion is of politics pressure and purchase That’s vthat it amounts to Copyright 1938 for The Tribune French Made Easy I once asked an Englishman if he understood French He replied: “Yes but only when another Englishman speaks It”— s James Agate in the London Sunday Times Never Right “So you lost your job in the city because the weather didn’t agree With you What did th climate have to do with It?" "I was the weather ’forecaster"— Telephone - Topics WELL I'll Tell You By Bob Burns - There’s no question about it bein’ mors blessed to give than to receive in fact I’ve noticed that when a husband buys somethin’ for his wife he makes surs that the blessing is there before he buys it 1 was in a music store tha other day when a fella come in and wanted to buy a violin for his wife I thought to myself" “Well now there’s ap unselfish man" But after a while the storekeeper says “Welt now do you want 'a chin rest for the violin?" Th fella says “Oh yes and give me the most comfortable one you got The only time my wife’s poor chin gets anv rest at all is when she’s playin' the fiddle"1 ” ot Copyright 1938 for Tha Tribuna l |