Show rPR JMt §u k ©itae- -i 1 —Established April 15 1871 Uk Issued srsry mornlos b Balt da Trlbuns Publliblni Com pm Puss Ths Stsoclilsd Press Is escuslTelySBtltld to tb Tribuus ts mscnbsf it tor nDcoduetloa o all urws dispatches' ersdlted to It or not otherwise credited In this —paper and alto me loeirTwrrptnjmnwTirrMn Discouraged Indians Would Escape Civilization Within the past week a group of In- dians representing several tribes in the “west made a pilgrimage to the national capital for the purpose of presenting a pe--' tition during permission to retire from civilization With its highwaymen its gangsters its bootleggers its traffic perils its social ailments its periodical panics and Jlts endless political turmoil the red man L’ feels that Caucasian culture is becoming too :iax and existence too precarious for him to follow further They wish to migrate to some secluded Section abounding in fish and forests where jjhey can enjoy “a happy hunting ground" without waiting for one in a rather remote Hand indefinite hereafter The spokesmen included Jack Gouge Archie Simson John Proctor Timmie Wolf and Dan Yahola Col-ilijThey addressed themselves to John Indian commissioner who sympathizes jwith their request but cannot recommend a suitable refuge for aboriginal migrants I Allocation of acreage distribution of farm implements establishment of schools 2 and trading posts extension of suffrage Rights and decreed donation of medical attention have not counterbalanced many Inhibitions and discoiftforts experienced I'hor convinced the Indian that an individual is actually better off now than before the coming of Columbus L When the white man landed on the American continent he brought a strange ! assortment of good and evil of piety and Jcruelty of excellent advice and vicious jjiatyts of prudish manners and avaricious (Conduct all of which the red men studied Sampled absorbed or accepted U Natives then wore little clothings Clad dn beaded skirts that reached their knees Jthe dusky maidens met the pale face ad-- "' Venturers on the Unpolluted beaches of the new world With' belts and breech clouts the warriors saluted the blushing strangers Shocked refinement recovered its poise and set to work In time the women had to lengthen their skirts and the men to wear trousers Nowadays descehdants cf those children of nature are in turn shocked when they wander to the same sea shores They see men with no more clothing than the aboriginal residents wore They see women with scantier attire than the ancient mothers of America would have donned in the seclusion of their wickiups The early warriors were rebuked for wanton killing of enemies on forest trails Those of today see educated white men and women killing friends and strangers along the highways just as wantonly and maiming ' others in a manner no Indian f would have countenanced They have studied and imitated settled down and labored wrestled with religion and retreated from advancing greed until they are ready to acknowledge defeat and retire from the eternal contest between primitive impulses and cultivated chicanery If there is one spot left where men and women can be natural and honest with each other where they can enjoy life without hypocritical expressions of satisfaction in artificial surroundings let it be found for these discouraged children of despoiled ancestors - 27 1938 -- er boding creates panics The psychological effect of this chorus of salesmen throughout the land may distract attention from s calamity-howlerand set a candle in the window for the return of confidence Burro Baseball ' Sales Mean Business ’And Trade Makes Employment Sales smash slumps according to local salesmen taking part in the national drive to defeat depression This timely movement originated in Lincoln Neb by a well-known manufacturer who made up his mind that a campaign for consumption of necessities might start coin to circulating He based his Confidence on two facts— that there is no actual scarcity of money and that too much is wasted on nonessen- tials j r N He found the public interested and re-- f aponsive so that salesmen of 100 American cities are now acting as advance agents for returning prosperity The conference recently held in Salt Lake City was one of the many conducted throughout the country It was attended by 1000 salesmen representing all kinds of merchandise and marketable products Results are already noticeable in Utah and elsewhere Associated Press dispatches from east cm cities indicate gains in retail trade Although behind the volume of same period last year the 'improvement is noticeable and encouraging Industrial shares have been showing an upward trend with lead end zinc prices decidedly better than they have been for several months One element of success in this campaign is thq cultivation of optimism For various reasons some of them political and others personal there has been a mournful chorus of hopeless wailing reverberating from coast to coast The psychological ef feet was demoralizing to business With the whole country sinking in a maelstrpm of debt and radical reforms nobody wanted to invest in anything but personal enjoyment for the grand finale - Such a mental attitude would bring on a pinch of panic in average times' It was the sort of propa- ganda that might start a run on the best of banks It is always easier to destroyconfidence than to inspire it Nor can it be recalled by constantly bidding it farewell Those who deplore its loss and pray for Its restore tion are prone to intersperse their supplications with gloomy forebodings that defeat the avowed purpose of the supplicants “Confidence -- begets confidence” runs an ancient proverb Just as incessant fore- - ? ’ - ' Antidote td Depression Community park west of West Temple and south of Thirteenth South streets will be the arena for a good time today The Salt Lake Tribune and Telegram are entertaining boys and girls under 17 years of age jn observance of "Youth Day" The entertainment will be unique and humorous A game of baseball with mounted players will be eomething new but when the steeds are stubborn donkeys it may also be funny When the Persians grew tired of playing ‘shinny" on foot and took to chasing wooden balls on horseback the game eveA-tualbecame known as "polo” but whether in honor of the renowned globe trotter of the twelfth century or after the primitive pallets used by Orientals is not of record But baseball is not "shinny” and playing it from saddles is not polo Many donkeys have participated in ball games and tradition tells of some matches umpired by the same sort of animal But the actual introduction of four-footdonkeys is an innovation no youngster should miss It is said that "softbalf rules will apply” except that a batter on making a hit must mount his steed and gallop to first base Rules of the game however mean little to' the d quadrupeds In base running a burro Is just as apt to circle one way as another The beasts have no sense of direction nor any apparent desire to learn Considerable time is often wasted trying to convince donkeys of their errors in judgment Thus they display some hpman traits which raises a question as to whether or not men really descended from monkeys For obvious reasons the pitchers and catchers are unmounted Otherwise they might be dismounted Following the game today played for youthful guests of The rip-roari- ly j ed long-eare- Tribune-Telegra- four other equestrian m games will be played under auspices of certain civic clubs the proceeds of all to be used’for charitable purposes The only safe bet on such a game is that it will be hilariously amusing and well worth seeing New York Highlights By Charles — by Manning B Driscoll IN FLIGHT WESTWARD FROM NEW YORK— Diary: Mary and I have been looking forward to a June flight? from the city and here we gb Mary’s first flight to the Pacific coast and my third We go by day making many stops so we may see the coun- Comfortable plane of American Airlines every seat filled Off the ground at Newark at 10:10 in the morning smooth hop to Camden a few bumps to Washington i We see fields covered with daisies approaching Bristol partly in Virginia and Knoxville prosperous partly in Tennessee Nashville under bright sunlight and busy a city of many churches Memphis with Across the Mississippi and river traffic on to Little Rock Here we wander frpm the airport and Mary says ‘Td like to live in a town like this” try -- The Arkansas river did Itself proud I’ve been telling the girls for years about what a noble stream it was when I waded and swam in it as a boy Last year when I took Mary out to Wichita I had to pretend I couldn’t locate thfc great river It happened to be dry Now at Little Rock (lt is full and wide' with low grass-grow- n banks It almost justifies my boasting OIF Field Louisiana oil fields on our left with blazing gas flames lighting the early evening sky Now the scene is Shreveport over there southwestern becoming characteristically Plains large farms a feeling of vast space Dusk over Texas and that strange conviction of mysterious power and promise that always comes to me as I look down upon this vast empire whose productivity has hardly Here rather than in yet been tapped crooked alleys and city canyons lies the strength and future greatness of America - Wd’ spend the night at Fort Worth I show Mary the bronze plaque on the airport building in recognition of the work of Amon Carter for aviation here and elsewhere “Pretty nice getting that kind of monument while he lives" says Mary ' Wide streets thick steaks pungent odor of Cattle milk with good chile con tame cream in it and cream without water or corn starch in it Good coffee apple pie innumerable barbecue stands Big business and little business live’ happily side by side in fort Worth Plaint and Prairie Early at the airport next morning to board a sleeper plane Not for sleeping but for comfortable sitting in rooniy alcoves to view the western country Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner To begin with there Is— economically and socially speaking— no such place as Jersey City Like Brooklyn and Staten Island it is part of New York City and only the accident ot the New Jersey state boundary prevents "cities” such as Hobpken Bayonne Jersey City and Newark from being governed from the city All hall on Manhattan these places are of course influenced by Wan street and the big New corporations doing business on the “Jersey side” of the Hudson river Mr Frank Hague the mayor of this so- — called city is an Irish Cath-f-c olio political boss of the old Jay Franklin type of Tweed and Murphy He has made a business career out of politics as another man might make a career of banking or highway comrobberyti and Mr Hague has earned fortable fortune in the process On days of elections in Hudson county (“selection day” would be a better name) Mr Hague’s henchmen vote early and often using the cemeteries and orphan asylums and the telephone directories but— thanks to the political machine at the state capital— the New Jerseys legislature has never pinned unique tough investigation on Mr Hague’s ' ' Jersey City election returns WASHINGTON June lben W Barkley of Kentucky ma- ority leader of the United States senate is an amiable pompous Plains prairies vast expanse Mountains Mexico over there Stewardess Jane Bingaman from Milton Pa points out resting-features below and confides that she reads this column regularly Now Arizona desert stark unreal mouitains and the variegated beauty of the Valjey of the Sun! Yes we’re a long way from Broadway over many mountains through Last leg a pass between two snow-capppeaks Salton sea on the left more desert the Irrl A sea of white clouds gated Imperial valley beneath us shuts out all— and we're circling A hat-toto our left 'over Los Angeles looms the city’s one tall tower City hall and in a few more minutes we are on the ground Copyright 1938 for The Tribune El Paso inte- ed ss rather muddle-heade- d person with a taste for barbershop song and an engaging habit of telephoning Jimmy when in doubt Yet although his capacities are limited and his record is uninteresting he has a talent for bringing home the bacon In the recent session of congress the senator obtained two prime pieces of pork for Kentucky— a $112000000 TVA dam at Gilbertsville and $132700000 worth of flood control projects! Under his beneficent Influence the emergency agencies— WP A PWA CCC and the U S housing authority— plan to spend around $60000000 in Kentucky in the next 12 months New Kentucky post offices will come to $1600000 Kentucky farm benefit checks are unpredictable but sure to be handsome And Kentucky’s share in the ordinary expenses of government cannot be calculated The wildernesses of federal finance are hard to penetrate but with the Important exceptions already noted a fair estimate of th value of federal bacon brought home by the senator is $306000-00- 0 'As that comes to $107 for every man woman and child in Kentucky it must be admitted that the senator has done well To Highest Bidder These dry and Somewhat forbidding figures are worth recording at the moment because the senator is now engaged in a primary contest with Governor A B (Happy) Chandler As the send ator is the represenhand-picke- hard-boile- rd Lesser Sin Under the circumstances it’s worth recalling an old story of Speaker Nicholas Longworth’s In his Ohio district there were many negro voters and not all their leaders were above the temptations ef the dollar He used to tell 'of one negro precinct captain to whom he gave $100 to carry his precinct When the votes were counted he found to his surprise that the precinct had gone Democratic He called in the captain and asked for an explanation "Why Mr Longworth sir” said the captain "you see the Democrats gave me $50 too” "But 1 gave you $100” said Longworth “Why didn’t you carry the precinct for me?” "Well sir” said the precinct captain “I’m a good churchgoer and a religious man And after I’d took your money I got to thinking you and the Democrats had corrupted Kne and led me into sin The Democrats corrupted me least so I gave them the votes” It’s Improbable that the Kentucky voters will apply the moral logic of the Longworth precinct captain Reports come from Kentucky that the betting is about five to four on Barkley But if Chandler should win the Kentuckians will at least have disproved the memorable dictum of Speaker Longworth’s old crony John Nance Garner ‘You can’t beat a billion dollars" will no longer be a dependable rule Copyright 1938 for The Tribune Sn Baseball Baseball is a fast game but I can throw a speedy ball only when I ge about it slowly and take my time As a pitcher I meet a lot of youngsters They seem to have one thing in common these days— bustle and hurry They want to make good by noon They want to be doctors lawyers writers mechanics but It takes too long They've decided instead to be baseball players and they want to find out right now the secret of pitching and batting Whizz! "It’s a fast game" I tell them "But you've got to slow down to play it” And life lag that way too I think— Carl Hubbell in the Amer- ican Magazine ri York-direct- ed MANUIH6-- the tative of the White-Houswhole prestige of the new deal depends Qn his victory The choice confronting the Kentucky voters is not an appetizing one On the one hand is the senator— not a man to get excited about at the best of times And on the other is the governor d a gladhanding politician in the brash and loquacious tradition of southern demagogy The voters of Kentucky are not to be blamed if they choose the candidate who bids the highest The governor has his state machine He has the spending of certain federal moneys such as road appropriations and social security benefits And he is reported to enjoy heavy backing from big business both Republican and Democratic both in Kentucky and out No wonder then that the new deal has been lavish with the senator — The Gilbertsville dam for example was killed in the house and then authorized at the last moment in the senate after the proper people had - passed the proper word And as for the flood control projects more than one-thiof those authorized for the entire country in the last congress are Kentucky projects The real issue in the Kentucky primary will of course be the new deal but Kentucky voters are to be forgiven if they think of the new ‘beat as the new bacon Sermon Mayor Hague Just ‘Front Man’ for WallStreetCang 22-A- - r By 1S38 ' Recovery? Barkley Has Edge in Ballot Drie t Salt Lake City Utah Monday Morning June - — JUNE 27 MONDAY MORNING THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE THE PUBLIC FORUM by Oar Readers - - - Reader Point to Irony Of Extravagances Forum Rules Editor Tribune: Whither are Lettara sppeuing in lilts column So not express the views of 111 we drifting and where are we Tribune They are the opintone ot contributors with which The Tribune to radio the going? Listening may or may not agree The follow Ins tules govern contributions: last night not with pleasure but 1 Letters limited to 300 word Preference given to ehort eommu with contempt to hear 80000 per2 Write legibly and nlcationa dearly on one sloe of the paper only sons paying $1000000 to see two 3 Rellrloua and racial Uscueelonf Partisan or personal political men brutally beating each other : 1 barred comment cannot be printed d Per S Posonal as and i as $30 aspersions prohibited up paying high etical contributions not wanted a Letters may be barred for obvloue seal betting going on in every misstatements of fact or for statebeer parlor then reading Utah is ments which are not m accord with one in for hard fair play and good 'taste 7 The spending liquor Forum 1s not an advertielng medium is what of outside $3500000 year 8 Writers must algo true names more and and address In Ink Letters will beer for $1000000 spent be Carried over assumed name If for tobacco we should be so In all cases writer eo requests ashamed to talk about people however true name and address must be attached to communicafamof lots on relief and being 9 The Forum cannot contion sider more than one letter from the ilies actually starving earns at one time writer handCan you rich men see the writing on the wall? Why close your mines your industries to to oblivion We are are watching keep men out of work and you and waiting for things to happen keep your money in what you ’and open up for better timea when think safekeeping I do not bewe can see the light again lieve in revolution but it is sure Cecelia P Lund to come If you men who can waste such amounts on pleasure J L: Your contribution carries and let your Own fellow man be a legal responsibility which The to than worse povdown dragged Tribune cannot assume erty M L C Pi See rule 1 down all not to are We go ready 'Hard Way' It Easiest Writer Point Out Editqr Tribune: the field Shout out your numbers clear and TWO! strong-O- NE Where e’er you go you will always know That the caissons go rolling along —Artillery Song Watched the impressive- "retreat" excellently performed by the One Hundred and Forty-fift- h and the Two Hundred and Twenty-sefield artillery regiments of the Utah national guard at Camp y G Williams Jordan Narrows Friday evening and then enjoyed the officers’ mess as guest of Captain Tracy R Welling The only criticism I have of the mess iaihat the dinner plates aren’t large enough to ' hold all the food they serve you - cond After mess I paid my respects to Generals W G Williams and Carl A Badger and then Majors Curt Clawson and Arnold Rich and I sat in front of Curt’s tent andf swapped reminiscences of onr West high school days My first year of high school was at Easl formerly the old Bryant school Arnold asked me who the cadet officer in command was but I couldn't tell him I never got to know the officers with the exception of Dick Young who was because I never got out of the awkward squad ser-gea- nl Many Improvements have been made since the last time I was out to Camp Williams The Hostess house has been completed and the largest swimming pool Jn the state has been constructed The entire area is in excellent condition and reflects credit upon the stRte and those responsible for its care t t dictates or allurements persuade Some one has said that “if you want to make life easy make it bishop ex-sta- te hard” and James Thompson tells us that "real glory springs from the silent conquest of ourselves” Accepting the foregoing phil osophy as fact we must concede that one of the ways is made easy by making it hard the other route is made hard by making it easy and of the two we make our choice and seal our destiny The hard way is the path strewn with thorns and thistles hardships and adversities temptations of the adversary and every conceivable thing to decoy man’s of wavering step into the life- - It is the conquering of these opposite forces and overcoming the difficulties strewn along one’s devious course that makes this the easy way in the end The easy way is the path of least resistance the way of the pro' digal a life of ease of wealth and luxury and easy morals that allures one away into the realms of an imaginary utopia whose ultimate realization is but bitter tears of remorse At the end of the hard way which is the easy way the weary traveler enters his haven of real where 'the fragrance of flowers and thaefful-gencof a glorious ahd perpetual morn greets the lonely wayfarer and peace and contentment love and supreme joy is the noble prize for the conquest of a wicked and adulterous world At the enF of the easy way which is the hard way the crafty knave who has traveled life's wanton course reveling jn luxury wrung from the honest hand of toil who has dissipated and procrastinated the' nobler purposes of life meets a bond of indebtedness which must be paid to the last farthing before the bars pf his imprisbned conscience can be opened to set him free And thus we receive a crown of glory or pay the price of our folly according to' our desserts Sylvester Earl by-pat- group of song and dance numbers by local talent a boxing and wrestling card and recitations by little Parley Eccles Jr Parley stole the show ( While everyone’s attention was centered on the contestant in the ring I sneaked quietly out got into my car and drove home It was an extremely pleasant afternoon and evening for me but I always enjoy myself when in the company of the boys of the national guard A Salesman's Lament She stood bestde the counter ' The day he’ll ne’er forget She thought the muslin dearer Than any she’d seen yet He watched her playful finger The silks and satins toss The salesman looked uneasy? And felt a little cross "Show me some velvet ribbon! Barege and satin turc” She said "I want to purchase!" Then gave the goods a jerk The salesman all obedience— Brought satins silks and crepe At length with hesitation She bought a yard of tape! — From an old scrapbook Notes on the Cuff Department I finally received the pictures the candid cameraman at Warner Brothers’ studio- - took of Bette Davis Errol Flynn and me They were addressed to me in care of The Salt Lake Tribune Ogden Utah Imagine that I’d just as soon they hadn’t sent them They give me an Inferiority complex that’s a beauty In each picture-MisDavis and Mr Flynn gaze at me and register intense interest You don’t wonder when you see the facial contortions I’m pull-tri- g In one I looked like I had my false teeth in my mouth cross-waI didn’t get the one taken with Anita Louise It must Mve been bad of her too -- s Getting Closer Hiram walked four miles over the hills to call on the girl of his dreams For a long time they sat silent on a bench by the side of her log cabin but after a while Hiram sidled closer to her "Mary” he began ’Tvs 'got good clearin’ over thar an’ team an’ wagon and some hawgs on build and cows an’ I ” In’ a house an’ Here he was interrupted by Mary’s mother who had awak ened "Mary” she called in a loud voice "is that young man thar cal-laa- te yit?” - Back came the answer: 'No ma but he’s gittin’ thar’’— Santa Fe Magazine ys At the recreation building where the entertainment program was held I sat near my old friend C Clarence NeslSn exor We are ever crossways of life there are roads leading in distinctly opposite directions and each Individ' ual chooses the course that fancy at the Senator From Sandpit-- 8 And it’s hi— yl—yee t sena- tor chaplain major senior recreation officer ahd state commissioner of Insurance A regular guy in spite of his numerous titles Near by were Colonel and Mrs Lloyd H Duffin and Mr and Mrs Irwin Clawson The show was a diversified affair Including selections by the Two Hundred and Twenty-secon- d F A band under the direction of Warrant Officer H L Snyder a If takes the French to appreciate Shakespeare The passage "Frailty thy name is woman" is translated "Mademoiselle Frailty is the name ot the lady” It is said that the male wasp does not sting But as1 the male and female wasp wear the same kind of dirndl and look' as much alike as twins the only way to distinguish their sex is to catch one If it stings it’s a female if nol then it’s a gentleman wasp Too Bad An American visitor was taken where his eagle eye "soon spotted the Nelson column "Who is that guy at the top?” he to Trafalgar Square asked “That’s Nelson” replied his English companion “Who is he anyway?" "Oh!” the Englishman answered proudly "he’s the man who made England what she is” "Too bad” said the other sadly “Too bad to blame it all on one man”— Tit-Bi-ts ’ Bipartisan Gang Mr Frank Hague calls himself a Democrat and is vice chairman of the Democratic national committee but the New Jersey ma-- " chine— as in ConnectlcUl that other moral suburb of Wall street— is a bipartisan gang The state Republicans and Democrats are two finders of the same hand and that hand has an itching palm and knows nimble tricks Now a political boss in Mr Hague’s position does not go sticking out his neck for nothing He went down the line for the new deal in 1934 and 1936— when it was worth his while politically to go along with the reformers My guess is that it has recently been made worth Mr Hague’s while— politically speaking— to let Jersey City become the laboratory for an instructive little experiment in Wall street fascism Nothing for nothing is an old rule in machine politics and it would be Interesting to know why Mr Hague thinks it profitable politics to pose as an American Hitler recommending concentration camps for “reds” and the exile of “radicals” to Alaska Early In 1937 the C I O began to stage a series of Impressive strikes As soon as the first big strikes succeeded the country was swept by and John L Lewis replaced the late Huey 'Long as bogey-ma-n of the bourbons Now early in 1938 Mr Frank Hague stages a flaming fascism in his bailiwick violating human decency political caution state laws and the federal constitution I can only assume that Wall Street’s big idea was that Mr Hague’s example Would be followed by a nationwide wave of official hoodljimism against working men and women who had organized for better conditions and fairer treatment sit-do- ns Present Throughout S U Certainly the elements of Jersey City fascism are present throughout Industrial America: The chamber of commerce pixies who think that underpaid workers will mean better business for local merchants the ic war veterans (now alas! a bit too thick around the middle and above the ears to be much use in more than a parade) those sections of the American Federation of Labor who will stick at nothing to defeat the C I O organizers and that variety of religious maniac who sees the whole world as a prey to "communism” and would inject Into American politics all the furies and intolerance of old world religious warfare Influential members of the clergy who are thinking more about Catholicism in Spain than about social justice in America also allow their Influence to be directed into this five-cefascism of Mayor Hague’s And thal of course is why the thing is being fought so fiercely If Mr Hague makes It work in Jersey City it will be tried elsewhere super-patriot- nt 1938 Copyright for The Tribune Off the Record With a Maine hamlet asking annexation to Canada Nantucket talking secession and Jersey City already a separate principality our union shows some raveling along the hem ed While a torch singer smouldered in a New York night spol the ceiling fell It’s toufch to bring down the house and be under 11 A Pullman porter In the west retires to a farm after 27 years on the road It will seem strange to dobbin’ being curried with a whisk-broo- 1 m ’ A 1 - shows all our ventriloquists else offers they can always catch on with a candidate sounding the people’s call check-u- employed p If nothing It must be momentum that keeps the caissons rolling along inv Spain as the war has already been lost by all hands - WELL ( 1938 for The Tribune : I’ll Tell You By Burnt Copyright jlob Men are usually crude blunt and matter-of-faand it’s all right as long as they're ct dealing with other men But I honestly think they should take a course in art and culture just so they'll be able to understand the finer and more sensitive qualities of the women folk I know a newly married man who sat down to hlsj wife’s first breakfast and when she called his atten-- l tion to how pretty the table) was fixed with flowers she had gone out to gather herr self he said ‘Yea the table looks mighty pretty but where's the coffee?" She says “Oh you’re so unappreciative— I can't think of everything” Copyrighl a a 1938 for The Tribun t’f |