Show THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE Established April 15 lasutd Ti7 mornln by Salt Lk Politicqs Pull ‘Push Aqt’ On Roosevelt 1871 Trlbuna Publishing Company Xb Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the The Trlbuna la a member ot the Associated Pres for reproduction ot all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local newa published herein Us Suit Lake City Utah Monday Morniijg July w 1938 18 By ’ MONDAY MORNING JULY 18 1938 Out of Control By Ding r Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner WASHINGTON— The 'death of Benjamin Cardozo robs America pf a distinguished liberal and weakens the "left wing” of the supreme court of the United States He can be replaced by another liberal but it will be hard to find anoth-juri- Ky —Somewhere westward the politicians are scrambling so hard to get close to the Great White Father that only a merciful Providence saves them from breaking their necks Here the have had time to catch their breaths frame the fragments of presidential coattail torn off for souvenirs and compose their dignified but homely countenances — the scenes In Kentucky and Ohio had to be seen to be believed and even then it was hard to credit one’s fcyes until one remembered the practices of certain savage tribes in the Congo These unlearned heathens believe that their high priests and leaders are walking dynamos of magical power charged as with electricity which they can pass on to their followers simply by touch The politicians hereabouts behaved just that way with the president pushing to get near him as though they thought one of his handshakes would assure them a permanent place on the people’s ' College Commencement Addresses of the 1938 Model College commencement in the United has become an institution of great importance socially as well as academically It is an established ritual to which tens States ' ' of thousands of Americans annually respond piorc or less emotionally notwithstanding our theoretical distaste for the archaic and our professed aversion for things medieval To the young men and women who are graduated it marks the formal completion of long years of systematic study To many of the parents of thesa same youths it is the vicarious realisation of a dream The address to graduates hasbecome an integral part of these June ceremonies An eminent person of known oratorical skill is usually imported for the express' purpose of telling graduates what is expected of them and what they will find a? they stand on the threshold of their new In recent years these ad- responsibilities have dealt largely with of course dresses social questions Indeed speakers are of-- ten chosen who themselves symbolize or can express the typical academic view of the great social questions of the day Addresses to this year’s graduates were fjuite typical in this respect As was to be expected the speakers dealt chiefly with the current problems of democracy the dangers of the alien “isms” and the vital role of education in preservation of liberty! Dr Nicholas Murray Butler president of Columbia university for example warned that democracy "“is moving in no small measure toward abdication” and can save itself "only by reasserting the moral principles upon which it is based” President Robeft Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago cautioned against demagoguery which he said “is essentially the appeal to the nonrational element in man on the part of those who know better” It is the endless task of education he said to “make rational animals more truly rational to subdue the passions and appetites to the rule of reason to extend the domain of the intellect” In an extremely practical address to the Johns Hopkins graduates Sir Josiah Stamp — recently raised to the peerage — reminded his hearers of the need to translate “correct mental habits into public thinking” While admitting the value of experimentation and the use of all the data available "free from’ tendentious selection” he courageously contended that “life is more than intellect and that the purely rational is often the impracticable” To the graduating class of Swarthmore college Dr Albert Einstein world-famou- s mathematician with characteristic simplicity emphasized the universtfl need for “tolerance in the widest Sense” In an oblique reference to Hitler and nazism he spoke of the “barbarization of political ways in our times” the result he said of a '“serious weakening of moral thought and sentiment during the last century" In lighter vein but equally profound were the comments of Lord Tweedsmuir governor general of Canada at the Yale exercises today’s graduates must show he said that “the patient methods of de-- mocracy are more efficient than any au thoritarianscheme” that “democracy which a few years ago was a platitude is now a cause a crusade an adventure” The timeliness and the vitality of such Utterances as these are another evidence of the fundamental virility of America’s in- stitutions of higher learning - Death of Samuel Insull Ends a Spectacular Career As the dividing line between genius and madness is said to be faint so does the in- terval between success and failure often seem" vague and vacillating This was illustrated in the variegated career of Samuel Insull whose death has just been anpounced from’ France Less than a decade ago he was listed as one of the financial giants of the world rated as a captain of industry controlling properties valued at $4000000000 but he dropped dead in a Paris subway with 84 cents in his pocket and no other known assets He rode to fame and fortune on the Crest of that tidal wave of prosperity whose sudden recession left so many financiers bruised on the rocks of disaster or floundering in the surf of suspicion Known as the “greatest utility operator in the world” without a partner a governing board or fyndicate support he organized companies consolidated interests and created a system of gas light and power concerns that dominated the utility empire The absolute ruler of 85 industrial corporations the most influential Individual in financial circles west of New York an angel of theatrical troupes and a patron of arts he stood Upon the pedestal of material achievement an example of what an immigrant boy can this land of opportunity accomplish-inFrom the time of his arrival in the United States in 1881 to the second year of the depression no criticism of his methods was uttered For 10 years he worked beside Thomas A Edison experimenting perfecting useful devices turning electricity to At the same time he was doing account that for which the wizard was not adapted —promoting the products of genius and selling the output of his laboratories to mankind He made electricity popular and electricity made Insull rich and powerful In 1931 Insull stocks began to decline and the companies to collanse They were not the onlv concerns in the path of destruction Some of the stonfest banking houses' were closing their doois Mills and factories were shutting down The wails of business men by the rattle of auction hammers Securities were dumped on the market for anything they might’ bring Insull slipped out of Chicago to be extradited from Greece afwere-accomp- ter one of the most sensational pursuits on record Taken back to Chicago and lodged in the Cook county jail he went to trial-- in the latter part of 1934 defiant and indignant ‘With 16 business subalterns hd was acquitted by a federal jury Embittered enfeebled by age disgrace and ill- -' ness he went to Europe where he passed the last three years of his spectacular existence His death from heart future in a subway station was as sudden and as tragic as his fall from' the pedestal of success Six years before Hitler Buys a Statue Sold Through Mussolini According to press dispatches from Rome one of Italy’s most famous art treasures the Lanrellotti copy of “the discus thrower” by Myron the Greek sculptor The price has been sold to Germany equivalent tir $327000 will he paid by the nazi government with credits allowed under clearing arrangements of the two countries The Lancellotti family in whose possession the marble has been for generations expect to get their money in lire from -- il du'ce There is another eopv of this celebrated statue labeled “Discobolo di Mirone" to be It is not beseen in the Vatican museum lieved that Mussolini would have sold the only copy in Italy or that the curators of the Vatican museum could be induced to part with the one over which they are custodians Besides the Vatican museum was closed and locked during Hitler’s visit so he could not have taken a fancy to work of art The discus shaped like a plate was an implement used in athletic sports of the With modern revival of the ancients Olympic games discus throwing has taken a prominent place on the program in track meets and field competition Just what dcr fuehrer saw in throwing a plate to warrant an expenditure of a third of a million dollars is not apparent at first glance Germany is in no financial condition to buy luxuries and in ho mood to spend money for anything except munitions of war However there is no accounting for the whims of a dictator Perhaps the pose the muscular figure the size of the discus suggested a method of “passing the buck” should hypnotic intrigue fail at some point in his' campaign of bloodless conquest New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll YORK— Vincent Richards tennis sensation of a few years ago is a sedate householder in suburban Bronxville not far from my home He is putting on weight and soon will be classed as a pudgy fellow unless the calories are kind Richards still In middle thirties blond and agreeable plays tennis often but no longer in championship class He broke a shoulder three years ago when his car skidded Into a pole on Sedgwick avenue along the Harlem He’s writing and broadcasting about sports now and is looked upon as a considerable success NEW Talk about the city’s buying the subway lines It doesn’t already own is being revived This time it’s suggested that the city take over the bus lines too and operate all transit as a unit The customers don’t know what to think about it and the New York newspapers seem What every New Yorker disinterested knows is that you can’t get any kind of information in a subway Just try asking one of those guards or platform men how to get to the zoo in Brooklyn Subway employes generally seem to have a grouch They battle enormous crowds all day or all night and they don’t think in' terms of individuals Many of the guards hardly understand English and speak it in a most discouraging manner Memories Picking up cigarct cards along the old Hydraulic road on the way to and from school Slick pictures of actresses some in tights Then we knew the Burwell boys sons of the banker who owned the farm south of us had been out to see the farm They wcre( the only ones who smoked tailor-mad- e I suppose there are complete collections of those cards in existence today If sAthey should jog many a memory yElmcr Adler one of the greatest living authorities on type and printing showed me his printing plant the other day The shop is called Pynson Printers It devotes itself to slow and careful printing on small presses of artistic jobs The boys were working on an edition of Stevenson’s “Kidnaped” for the Limited Editions club They’ve been at that one job thi? way and that for a Year and a half But it’ll be a dandy when it’s done cig-are- ts Frank Craven one of the most popular He actors on Broadway is a used to smoke his pipe as he strolled along the street In the play "Our Town” he has smoked so much on the stage that he has had to cut down on his regular smoking Now you seldom see him puffing his pipe off stage pipe-smok- The Johii-Rockefeller home on 54th street has vanished almost completely under the hands of the wreckers For years it has been unoccupied but the formal gardens had been kept up the lawns mowed- and the win- dows washed The house was a brownstone graceless A long carriage" house on the unbeautiful right separated from the mansion by a stretch of lawn still stands Nobody seems to know whether it will be left or when it will come down Wlule-lheyjast- st of equal tual power and clarity Mr Hoover is entitled to credit for the appointment ot one of the post distinguished members of the supreme court in ourr recent history The fact ft at Tifr Cardozo reached the! supreme court as a resiUtl of his unquestioned merits! as a learned and liberal jus- tice ia not proof of the sincerity of those conservatives who are always talking about "the in dependence of the judiciary” I3y an “Inde pendent” judiciary they seem to mean judges who will share”their opinions and prejudices and who owe them abject political allegiance Virginians payroll Considering that some of these gentry are distinctly hard political eggs: the beginning of the president’s campaign trip was a startling testimonial to his continuing hero-worsh- Crowds Came to See the big open touring car swept up to the speaking platAs forms one couldn’t help wondering whether the cheering crowds realized the relationships between the president and the office hunters They did not seem to do so Both at Marietta and at Latonia the main stop in this state the settings were remarkably pretty Marietta is a simple pleasant town of broad streets and overarching trees with neat Victorian houses The in long comfortabld“ws park where the president talked was almost at the angle where the Muskingum flows into the OfrfS river and what with bunting and greenery and an orange and high school band the scene was charming So it was at black-cla- d tonia where the little jormd race track with green and old-fas- whitjk gingerbread-work-ituste- was done It was for these watchers of course that the circus of political hypocrisy was enacted and reenacted Strangely enough it went over big Copyright 1938 for The Tribune Decidedly Unhealthy Fo'cas’le kissing is Pete- - Do unhealthy? you think Cute ’phifltf— It would be right U now My husband is looking S Naval Training Station News Norfolk THE PUBLIC FORUM Urges Abolition Of Grpund Tax exempting of homes from taxation but just as surely as the sun will rise tomorrow we are heading for it unless the tax officials of this state wake up and see that our tax laws are enforced equitably” It is a moral- - impossibility to equalize the groun-- tax I heard one of our most prominent citizens assert thaf some supreme court had decided that ground is worth what it will bring in the market Everybody knows that you cannot get acre or square ground quotations from the morning papers Notwithstanding the profundity with which some su Senator From Sandpjt I care not who writes the nation’s poems if I can write the puns — Isaiah Jr TO TEMBRANO —By Ham Park Commissioner Goggin and Calvin Wilson of the parks department have been at their wits’ end trying to curb the nocturnal jaunts of Mr and Mrs Chris Columbus two of the seals ET AL I Myton be a poet but— Can you stand a shock? You Myton be one either Judging bythe way Utahk Liberty park For the past fortnight Mr Wilson has had little or no sleep Practically every night since the urge to see America hit the animated fur coats he has been called by the park night watchman to come and get the seals back into their watery habitat To do this he has to get a bucket and walk along the bank of the canal leading back to the seal pond throwing pebbles into the water The seals think he’s feeding them and if they happen to be hungry follow joyously If they’re not they give his pebble throwing the Bronx cheer and start playing in And now I’m growing Boulder With my criticism Sevier You need a bit of New Harmony To make your meter clear VIZ: On the Dewey Hite of Teasdale Heber sat upon his Pinto Watching Annabella in the Woodland she went into She wore a Garland of Clover And she Haddon Marysvale When she stepped upon a Thistle On the Sunnyside of Castle Dale by Our Readers - - - preme court may pronounce a piece of patent nonsense it remains nonsense nevertheless The Tribune for April 30 carried a news item that in the federal court sitting at Ogden the government had condemrled 39 acres of ground required for the Bear River bird refuge In this case The Tribune reported that expert witnesses on ground values went on the stand and swore in the name of God that this ground was worth in the market all the The way from $300 to $10000 jury found that the government would have to pay $1583 for the 39 acres The judge in that ca?e had the power to lock the jury up until they fixed some dollar figure on the ground The impossibility of equality in ground appraisals for the computation of taxes is but one among many reasons why the archaic and confiscatory curse of the Utah ground tax should be absolutely abolished Of course the mortgage companies do not think so They are the only concerns that are getting any money out of ‘Utah real estate Samuel Russell Editor Tribune: The Tribune on January 9 last printed an article by a professional real estate loan operator which opened with the declaration: "One of the greatest calamities that could happen to Utah and one of the greatest disappointments to home owners would he ' After the frrst escapade a four-foheavy mesh wire fence was erected around the pool Chris and his consort’ answered that challenge' by vaulting over it Then a couple of feet of wire was added but they neglected to join the two sections securely so the rascals pried them apart and clambered over At this writing the fence is one piece nearly six feet high If they get over that then the parks department intends to throw the matter into the laps of the grand jury or to ask the court for ap injunction or the governor to call out the militia ot Heber bolted down to Helper She was Holden for dear life "When he Tucker in his Mammoth arms And said "Honeyville you be my wife?” d stands nestles in a circlS of green hills They were very native very American places and the crowds were at home in them The crowds were plain people simple people The men were unashamedly coatless The women or the older ones at least waved palm-lea- f fans Children crawled about wherever there was room for them and sqqalled and chattered and asked to he held up to see The countryside seemed to have turned out not especially to hear the president but just to look at him They gaped They craned They pointed him' out And they shouted for him far louder at the first sight than when his speaking rs ss he would As the - Let’s look at the record! Who could have been more indignant at g what they call the president’s plan” (the judiciary reform bill) than Senators Carter Glass and Harry Flood Byrd of Virginia? What two senators stand higher in the esteem of the than these old Romans of the Old Dominion? Well— Mr Carter Glass and Mr Harry Byrd have announced that they will “resist the confirmation of the U S judge appointed for the western Virginia district in defiance of their wishes” (I quote from a vigorously anti new deal newspaper) President Roosevelt appointed Judge Floyd Roberts of Bristol Virginia for the vacancy on the federal bench instead of the Byrd-Glacandidate Judge A C Buchanan Here is the important thing: There is no question of Judge Roberts’ abilities or qualifications for the post Judge Buchanan himself has said that the appointee is “a very capable judge” Messrs Glass and Byrd propose to battle against Senate confirmation of Judge Roberts on the sole ground that his appointment is “offensive” to them This sort of thing is pretty confusing to honest con- servatives Do these two gentlemen from Virginia believe that they— and not the president— possess the legal right to nominate federal judges the constitution to the contrary notwithstanding? And do they believe that if their candidate for appointment is passed over it is patriotic of them to plead the hoary principles of “senatorial courtesy” to prevent the confirmation of an honest judge? Those who know the Byrd-GlaVirginia "Tammany” believe that this is exactly the attitude of these two professional friends of thja judiciary judge-hugge- The Happy Hypocrites Amid the dust and heat and it and bellowing was hard to remember the human realities of the situation but now that it is passed they are what In Ohio it was first stand out announced that Governor Martin Davey would sternly avoid the presidential presence He however As the presence drew nbar he could resist no longer He hastened to Marietta He greeted the president He rode in the presidential car to the speaking engagement He He did his smiled He bowed best to make it seem that he and the president loved one another " like 'brothers As for the brash Governor A B (Happy) Chandler of Kentucky his case was even more entertaining He and the president do not love one another to be sure but there is more to it than that At the momeqt n his primary fight against Senator Alben W Barkley "Happy" Chandler is trying to stick the longest sharpest kind of knife into the heart of thq new deal’s political prestige It is reported here that he is being backed heavily by the president’s bitterest enemies— large business in both parties He is doing everything his inventive mind can suggest to distress the White House And he never even considered staying away He climbed on the train He grinned He blandished He smiled while He backstopped the president firmly indorsed his rival The truth is that he and Davey made much bigger shows of themselves than the men whom the president had come to bless the maladroit unhappy Senator Robert Bulkley of Ohio and "Dear Alben” Barkley whose habit of telephoning Jimmy when in doubt is so agreeable to the new dealers x Suh “court-packin- magic wonder-workin- g intellec- - thought ed regrets and declared stay away president and Governor Davey detest one another with an equal heartiness the governor's absence wiauld not have been surprising to the simple mind Some years back they had a violent and searing quarrel over the works progress administration and since then they have been on backslap-pin- g but not on speaking terms That did not deter the governor Franklin Jay By LOUISVILLE anied Franklin Praises i Liberalism of a Justice Cardozo There was Sunshine in the Fair-fiel- d And it seemed She consented to the Union For a Newhouse of goodly Price He gave her a ring of Sterling They were wed on a Vermillion Bluff Now tell me Temprano et al Why did Juab to start this stuff? —Eve N So Monroe Utah ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT NOTES Mrs George Y Wallace Holla-da- y sends in following puzzle copied from an old scrapbook: (Fill in the blank spaces with seven words using all the letters dressed in an gray Sat watching the moonbeams’ A play On a keg which in the bushes toy And thus did he merrily sing: “Thou that the brave that the strong 'The of great battles to thee ’’ belong Each leaf with its took up the song Wohn Barleycorn my King” r' Social note: There is talk of holding a street dance on Second South between Douglas and Thirteenth East in celebration of Commissioner Matheson’s marvelous If the mending of the pavement plans go through those participating will be: The Dr Petersons the Packs the Rooklidges the Allens tfe Westbroeks the Shel-by- s the Childs the Dixons the Hagans the DeBusks the Hartmans the Parks and the Lloyds It has been suggested in the interest of historical data that a tablet be installed stating “This was once a Pioneer ox team trail” Before Mr Matheson got busy and smoothed it off such a sign was unnecessary You knew instinctively that it was anything but an automobile highway Deplores Inhumanity Man to Man Of Editor Tribune: From my newspaper files of October 1935 I recount a scheme sponsored by the Republican party of Minnesota to disfranchise by constitutional amendment all persons on relief rolls war veterans receiv ing compensations from the government and all those in soldiers’ homes Mr Kay Todd brainy leader of the Republican party of that state proclaimed publicly this atrocious scheme' and prided him-sein the opinion that it would He meet with public approval said in part: “The fairness of the proposal is so apparent that it needs must if presented to the people meet with 'overwhelming lf support” About this time as I remember another specie masquerading as savants of the holy alliance were advocating the enactment of a tow to put the painless quietus on ail the invalids the aged and maimed and the blind and all who were not able to support themselves for the purpose of ’getting them out of their misery and to save the meager means expended to maintain a bare existence and use the money for better purposes At pr'Ment we have another brand of “intellectuals” who are posing as sentinels on the watch towers of state and who would adapt the lingering process in doling out to the dependents at starvation rations money and other means or shut them off entirely that the means might be appropriated to more worthy - What Wonder? What wonder that Senator Byrd’s apt pupil and admirer across the mountains— Governor “Happy” Chandler of Kentucky— saw ' nothing strange in his suggestion that the should shift Senator Logan of Kenpresident tucky to a place on the federal bench in order to make it possible for the “Happy” crooner to take Mr Logan’s seat in the U S senate? This sort of trafficking in judicial appointments seems to come quite easy to south and north of Mason and Dixon’s line Let’s be realistic about this! The judiciary has been in national politics since the days of John Adams We all want judges like other federal officials to favor our own particular political philosophy and to be considerate of our own particular social or eco nomic interests The new dealers were frank about it it has remained for the Boubbons marching behind the banner of "judicial independence” to give the show away and to admit — as Messrs Byrd Chandler and Glass have admitted—that the only sort of judges they will admit to the bench are judges who are members in good standing of the Reconstructed Southerners’ association men who will do the bidding of the state machines and northern interests which dominate Dixie life and Dixie politics 1938 Copyright for The Tribune Worth the What is this strange new Britain where a national leader says to another “Don’t look now but I think they’re bombing one of our boats”? of the jury you have heard the facts of both sides Mr Vernon had a public fight with Mr Goodwin Mr Vernon had in his possession at the time one butcher knife a club and a shovel Mr Goodwin had on his person one hatchet an iron “Gentlemen wrench and an iron bar Both men plead ‘not guilty’ each asserting a plea of self defense Have you reached a verdict?” “We have your honor” “And the verdict—” the jury “We have cheerfully paid $1 per man to have seen the fight’’— Wall Street Journal Hoping for the Worst “Does my practicing make you nervous?” tusked the man who was learning to play a saxophone ‘‘It did when I first heard the neighbors discussinglgt" replied the man next door "but now I don’t care what happens to you” — Washington Post fl ly Off the f Record Price f ss purposes And these same people bereft of bumhne principles steeped in conscience depravity would be seen of their fellows as the pure in heart the guardians of democracy the supporters of the constitution the celebrants of all that is good and pure and holy Thank heaven for the few who are fighting for the cause of suffering humanity such as Paul H Allred C N Lund and others as worthy of mention whose beacon lights are burning eternally on Mt Sinai and permeating the earth with a living hope of a better day If there were no brighter hopes for the future then I woudl say: “Give us the painless death dope and forget it ” Sylvester Earl Virgin Utah c A Texan of 21 had never seen a phone until this month when he made his first call Under the beginner's luck he got his number Some prince whose name we forget has thought of tearing up his social security card and marrying Babs Hutton The winner of the silver mug in a western bathing beauty contest is an Indian’ maid by the name of Pretty Bear apparently a misprint It can be stated as a broad general proposition that a white suit in a show window is white A wheat shortage looms ahead but speeches by the Caesars are plentiful The standard sandwich we hear is to be a slice of bread between two of boloney Copyright WELL 1938 for The Tribune I’ll Tell You By Bob Bum$ Honesty is not only the best policy but it’s a privilege to be able to do an honest deed because you'll make friends that'll never forget you Grandpa Snazzy lost his umbrella in town one day and the ’next Sat- urday when he came to town he called on nine j stores lookin’ for it and at last he found it in the ' 'jf j tenth He says “Boys I sure am much obliged— this is the only honest store in town I’ve been to nine stores already and in every one of ! ’eTn they told m they didn't have it” Copyright 1938 for The TribUB f |