Show - THE SALTlLAK£ TRIBUNE THURSDAY MORNING - Established April 15 1871 buiedeverz morning by Salt La t rrlbuDe’ Publishing Company Germany Desires Peace But of Subjection or Solitude? Recalling Hitler’s assurance to the Austrian government that Germany had no designs upon her territory or sovereignty few days before the coup which littered relegated the ancient empire to the bone ominous to yard of European history it is of assurances receive distinguished ' visitors has no from" naziland that the dictator Czechoslovakia” on designs ' Baron Manfred Freiherr 'von Killin-ger- nazi consul general located in San Francisco assured American citizens of German birth or descent assembled at' the Lagoon Tuesday for their annual outing that his' government is "peace loving and anxious to c left alone in working out its destiny” He explained that the interest of the hazi regime in the' naturalized citizens of all other countries piade manifest in addresses of certain nazi cabinet members is merely to let them alone in their citizenship provided they "keep alive that German culture to which they were born” With bunds to which “only American citizens arc eligible” he claims his gov- -' eminent has neither connection nor concern although it has been revealed in the congressional investigation still in the head of all bunds and hyphenated nazi organizations in the United States is not only in close touch with Hitler but boasts of being able to get anything he wants from der fuehrer to ‘ help the cause along Of course Hitler wants peace Whether It is the peace that comes from force or There friendship is yet to be revealed is a kind of peace like Tacitus described— the choice between the silence of subjuThe peace gation and that of solitude that exists between Canada and the United States is not the same as that which has reduced the garrulous gaiety of Vienna to whispers which has stilled the facile pens of the greatest authors of central Europe which has stricken statesmen dumb and dubious and filled the cemeteries of Austria with new graves dedicated to eternal peace Every tyrant of history as well as of the household wants peace detests noise he does not make suppresses sentiments he does not express banishes all who tell unpleasant truths holds criticism as treason and chastises those who venture to think for themselves Japan desires peace but on her own Attila terms and to her own advantage wanted peace and he silenced opposition Cortez made peace in with the sword Mexico and Pizarro made peace in Peru in the way that Jenghiz Khan established peaceful relations with Asiatic nations are muzzled of supWhere newspaper pressed where alien correspondents relate facts under penalty of banishment where ministers of the gospel are imprisoned for objecting to revision of their creeds or veterans of sermons where battle-scarre- d a country are driven into exile and robbed of their possessions because of racial prejudice where intellectual freemen are trans- -' formed into automatons to save their lives and protect their families from degradation and abuse there is found a peace that passeth understanding and a compulsory culture that confines the promises and — halts thfr progress of civilization Sentimental regard for the land of one's origin is one thing while secretly nourished allegiance to any foreign putsch power or potentate is something else entirely Hitler hates democracies and has frequently expressed his contempt for the weakness of any government that bestows liberty on its citizens Those who hearken to dictators or put faith in the professions of the emissaries of despots have -- no --legitimate place in this republic i prog-ress'th- at -- Magisterial Misconception Corrected by City Commission The city commission took a stand that approval of citizens when it passed a' all resolution denying authority to municipal magistrates for releasing prisoners whom they had sentenced to serve out definite terms in the city jail Had this rule been made or enforced a month ago it would have saved a score of Salt Lake City homes considerable suffering anxiety and expense In an opinion submitted by the city attorney the law is interpreted to require (1) “the chief of police to see that prisoners are kept in jail until termination of sentence” (2) that a "prisoner must not be released except on order of the board of commissioners” unless sentence be set aside by a court of appellate jurisdiction This is a step in the right direction Some will think it does not go far enough that the commission itself should be restrained from interfering with the judgment of a duly constituted court However decisions of a board of commissioners are matters of record available to reporters and the public There can be no evasion of responsibility or submission of alibis for mistaken or inexplicable acts of clemency Judicial reputations for severity and impartiality are rendered transparent by subsequent acts of leniency however inspired or whatever influence mi" have directed If the guilt and previous such reversals record of a defendant merits a harsh penalty which is imposed impressively and publicly people are apt to wonder why a magistrate should put a negative on his own' judgment a little later It is not a Should meet with the general law-abidi- '41 August 18 1938 wholesome practice and offenders are prone to bide their time and take advantage ’ “ of it - When culpability is appraised without fear or favor and a verdict is rendered in conformity with the law and the evidence and every offender stands on an equal footing there should be no interference from without or within unless at an open hearing by proper authorities it is shown that the punishment prescribed or inflicted mav be considered unduly rigid or unjust The action of the city commission is a tardy step in the right direction Grade Crossing tragedies Reduction of Perils Studied At the close of the last fiscal vear Utah grade crossings had been scenes of 17 tragedies an increase of 325 per cent over the year before according to statistics compiled by Eugene H MeYrill chief engineer In 29 of the public service commission accidents 17 persons had been killed and 29 injured in trying to beat locomotives over intersections After a study of 2000 grade crossings in Utah Commissioner Walter K Granger has made recommendations that are being considered pythe state highway commission' the "railway companies and ’the public service commission In some instances overpasses or underpasses should be constructwill have ed in 6ther places warning-sign- s to be made doubly conspicuous by night and day and in all cases the driving public should be cautioned to approach grade crosngs with the utmost care and vigilance Five persons were killed in a crossing accident near Salt Lake City not long ago and no reasonable excuse has ever been advanced The country where it occurred is open the view unobstructed the engineer saw the speeding of the passenger vehicle and sounded his whistle the roar of the" train' must' have been audible for a half mile yet the driver of the doomed car kept on going and took four companions with him to sudden death No one who studies human nature behavior or eccentricities can explain why drivers supposedly sane will proceed against signs and signals in the face of approaching peril heedless of bells and whistles or cries of terror beside them risking their own lives and the lives of those dependent on their sanity and skill for no discernible purpose whatever Yet they do such things deaf to the admonitions of friends and the pleas of passengers heedless of lessons to be learned from experience and the counsel of common sense adding to the shameful and distressing record of grade crossing tragedies New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK— What a baby can still do to a household-- There are' four generations in the home my wife and I visited in Forest Hills last night but that baby rules the roost She’s Pam daughter of Pam and Rennie McEvoy Rennie is a stepson of J P McEvoy author playwright radiocaster and movie maker Rennie who 's took his surname legally when he was just a kid is something of a writer and continuity man himself Further than that he’s one of those fathers who isn’t one little bit ashamed of being proud of his baby He never makes any excuses for talking about her an'd showing the pack of snapshots he carries around in his pockets step-father- are Dr and Mrs Dr Sweeney is a d gentle-spoke- n physician from the mint julep region of Kentucky His wife is descended from a Dutch family tree that took root in American about 1640 Pam’s grandparents Thompson T Sweeney white-haire- Lylle Shipley is 87 lively interested in New York history and in little Queen Pam She was born over In Second avenue and as a young belle used to go driving on Sunday afternoons up Blooming-dal- e road which we call Broadway Sometimes they’d drive away up to the Heights above where the George Washington bridge now stands and picnic in the woods There are few buildings standing in the city now that were there when she was a little girl Yet most of her ancestors on both sides were born in or near New York back through the do Pcysters and Banckers for many generations Measuring Time Dr Sweeney showed me a set of fireplace irons he has had wrought for him by an d artistic iron worker The fork is too heavy for a small woman to lift It has lines of sturdy beauty "That ought to last three generations” said the doctor judicially In a household of that kind time is measthree-pronge- ured that way Luncheon with Leon Gordon portrait painter is always one of the high spots of the year for me Gordon is a stimulating persong ality brusque laughing full of opinions and intelligence He is a huge bulk of a man towering above everybody with chest and waistline extended to include a good portion of any room The other day Charlie McAdam one of my syndicate chiefs and I had lunch with Leon in his studio atop the tallest tower in Tudor City overlooking the East river Many times we’ve lunched with him at his studio in the Beaux Arts on West 40th street overlooking Bryant park That studio burned up acbuple of yea ago destroying most of a lifetime's artistic' work without insurance You might think such a disaster would dash the spirits of any worjery Leon Gordon takes such things in his regular stride If he could be beaten down by destruction of some of the best things he’d faint-e- d in 30 years he would never have got to the top of the ladder Manning ’ : 1938' for The Tribune Scribe Plans Trip To Find What US Is All About By Paul Mellon By WASHINGTON— Mr Roosevelt spoke vaguely the other night about agrand expansion of social security but did not disclose What he had in mind It will come out in time and when it does it will make bigger headlines than the president’s speech drew because it will affect every housewife rich enough to employ a servant and every farmer of the moneyed classes who hires help It may come out directly in the social security advisory committee’s report to the president next September 15 when he makes his recommendations to the congress Outnumbered Each maid or washwoman would be given a book issued by the government with her number maybe her pieture and identifipa--tio- n Then the government will sell S S btamps to the housewife just like postage stamps but probably not with anyone’s picture on them at least not anyone who wants to be elected to office again as this is one industry in which the employers outnumber the workers by about 3 or 4 to 1 "Each pajr day the maid would get her book and require the housewife to place therein a stamp bought from the government If the salary was $10 a week the old-astamp would be a for the housewife and a for the servant If extended to unemployment insurance the housewife would put in ge for that with another no contribution from the maid In any event it Would not cost the housewife more than 60 cents per week for a $10 servant that is unless the taxes are raised later on Something like the same idea would be applied to farmers for itinerant help Thus will the new deal in part be brought home to all Note— Or nearly all Inner arrangements call for extension of S S also to employes of charitable institutions but not to seamen or to government employes No one will be told that the government does not take this money and keep it for the old age or for the needy day of the washwoman but spends it as fast as it comes in for battleships cooling systems salaries mileage of congressmen and all the miscellaneous expense of government' Basic Revenue Source No one will say that this source of revenue will soon be the main reliance to keep the government going or that when the payments come due the money may have to be raised' all over again by other taxes or floating more debt No one here is worrying about that possibly because all expect to be dead or beyond political retribution by the time the biggest bulk of the payments become due And those whose money is thus in government custody cannot get excited about it because they know the government’s ability to raise money is still better than say th Boston wizard of finance Mr Ponzi who once tried a similar idea in a private way and went to jail for it The social security advisory has held that this committee method of not keeping what is known as the "reserve fund” is all right A subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee is studying the problem in hopes of finding a better way but it may be safely said as far as the spending element of new deal officialdom is concerned this way is all right with them Mr R’s equally vague reference to national health promotion probably will head up into a mere revival of the Wagner resolution directing a congressional investigation to be held on the idea of health insurance The resolution died in committee last session Agriculture department is conducting a confidential special investigation of cash farm income for this calendar year First fruits indicate it will be a billion less than last year when it was ' $8600000000 Copyright 1938 for The Tribune Slow Motion Motorist (protesting to magis- trate): nor 30 “But I wasn’t doing 45 ” nor even 25 "I must warn you” interrupted the magistrate "that you are in danger of ' backing into some- thing" ' ‘ So Disturbing Transient (in haystack) —Ray Sam do you feel a draught? Friend— Yes I must have left the pasture gate open— Toronto GJobe-Ma- il Wrong One "Were you presented in court when you were in England?" "Yes and had to pay a $10 fine" —Pathfinder Franklin a man writing about America under the new deal— which is an America taking orders from the west and south— to be stall-roote- Jay Franklin in the east d 10000-Mil- servants Employes Jay GENEVA N Y— Ever since the beginning of the- Hoover repression I have been Writing about America and the American people I know New England well New York pretty well and Washington better than many of my fellow columnists but I am far better acquainted with' western Europe and the near fast than I am with' the country and people that lie west of the Mississippi river and aouth of the Potomac and Ohio This doesn't make much sense if I am to serve as a reliable interpreter of American opinion and A week in Mempolitics phis a fortnight in the Caroiinas brief excursions to Chicago and Cleveland — that is the extent of my adventuring outside of tha northeastern region where I was born brought up and educated It does not I repeat make much sense for next year or possibly indirectly and unofficially later when amendments are proposed in conThe fact is the step has gress been decided upon by those who are guiding social security on the inside and the method by whiqh they chose to move will not make much difference The move is assuredly under way The administration has been ducking it for three years Announced reason was the tremendous bookkeeping involved in trying to collect social security taxes from every wife and farmer able to employ help The socializing securitists however have now worked out a scheme to take care of that difficulty at least in its major application to domestic loud-talkin- Copyright By Current News member of tha Associated Press Tht Tribuna la fba Associated Press- Is escluslrelg entitled to the use for reproduction of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein Salt Lake City Utah Thursday MQrping Anything Can Happen Behind the Scenes of i wv S--y AUGUST 13 1933 ' - V n 1A- V- - V - i vV ' V- j- 5 a ’ V V - VVvvu J e-Nid- THE PUBLIC FORUM Suggests Cure for That ‘BackJo Nature' Yen - - cutoff As you stand on the" top of the hill looking down a steep path don't forget to inhale the beautiful scenery trees a rippling stream a cement road lawns flowers and beautiful homes beyond This view will fill you with "youth” The hill will not look' too steep and you will start down As you near the middle your legs As you enwill rush ahead deavor to catch up you discover your brain is a racer too for head first you go You are stunned Coming to you find your face buried in God’s earth and your mouth full Upon feeling- something move within your mouth you spit out thgmor-se- l and discover an ant has been prospecting for a place to build Now you feel smarts and pains and explore your body Knees and arms are bruised and bloody - Letters appearing in tms column express the views of The They are the opinions 01 contributors with which The Tribune The follow may oi nav not agree mg ruie$ govern contributions: 1 Letters limited to 300 words Preference given to short commu2 Write legtMy and nications clearly on one sine of the papei oniv 3 Reileimis and racial barred Partisan or personal political comment cannot be primed 4 Per sonai aspersions prohibited 5 Poetical contributions not wanted b Letters may be barred tor obvious misstatements of tact or tor statements which are not In accord with 7 fair play and good taste The Forum is not an advertising medium 8 Writers piusl sign true names and address In ink Letters will be carried ovet assumed name it writer so requests in at) cases nowever true name and address mus be attached to communication The Forum cannot con9 sider more than one letter from the same writer at one time do nut Tribune Your chest Is sore your clothes are torn and muddy A car stops and a voice asks “Are you hurt?" As you stand up you decide you are lucky after all no bones broken and a lift home TIT youF home as you bathe and bandage sore places you remark to yourself: "I never want to get so close to nature again" Clara Melehes Senator From SandpiM Let our teaching be full of it has been stuffed only with fadts— Anatole France ideas-Hithert- A PRAYER FOR TEACHERS O Lord of Learning and of Learners we are at best but blunderers in this Godlike business of “ ' teaching Our shortcomings shame us for we are not alone in paying the penalty for them: they have a sorry immortality in the maimed Thinds of those whom we in our blundering mislead We have been content to be merchants of dead yesterdays when we should have been guides into unborn tomorrows We have put conformity to old customs above curiosity about new ideas We have thought more about our subject than about our ob- ject We have been peddlers of petty accuracies when we should have bgen priests and prophets of abundant living We have schooled our students to be clever competitors in the world as it is when we should have been helping them to become creatiye cooperators in the making of the world as it is to be We have regarded our Schools as training camps for existing society to the exclusibn of making them working models of an evolving society Wehave counted knowledge more precious than wisdom Wc have tried to teach our students what to think instead of how to think We have thought it our business to furnish the minds of our students when we should have been laboring to free their minds And we confess- that 'we have fallen into these sins of the schoolroom because it has been the easiest way It has been easier to tell our students about theT motionless past that we can learn once for all than to join with them in trying to understand the moving present that must be studied afresh each morning From these sins of sloth may we be freed Help us to realize that in the deepest sense we cannot teach anybody-anything- : that the best we can do is to help them to learn for themselves Help us to see that education is after— all but the adventure of trying to make ourselves at home in the modern world - ' Hm mind Give us O Lord of Learners a sense of the divinity of our under-takingGLENN FRANK CITY LIGHTS lights the valley nightly gleam - that Like opal sequins on a dancer's dress Above the stars that map the sky and seem Heaven’s beacons dear an(j pas sionless —Olive McHugh S L C NOTES ON THE CUFF DEPARTMENT My congregation and I want to do some fishing but we want to go to church too So for the rest of the summer we will hold our regular Sunday morning services on Wednesday evening— Church notice in Montana paper A1 Stibich sent a clipping of the column about the 1907 high school football squad to Harold Horlick in Del He replied as Wilmington follows: “Thanks for the clip ping and your note marked 'Memories' The note on the cuff about Rod Korns is interesting It goes back a long way but I well remember the football sq&ad and“ thc'picture I do not blame them for commenting regarding the advances made by humanity" Chatted with Colonel Waiter S Fulton the other day and he said that Captain “Swede” Olson sent his regards to his friends here "Swede" is stationed in Washington D C at present I’d sure like to see the old When I yqs young it was my ambition to have a gig and a gal a decade later my brother wanted a flivver and a flapper and now my son talks about a plane and a jane I wonder what it will be next? Sylvia Nydeggcr says a man doesn’t necessarily have music in his soul jqst because his shoes squeak Bert Manley and I were talking about how nice it must be to be rich and how tough it must be to suddenly lose one’s riches Then Bert said that he had just lost a fortune I asked him how come and he said: "Well last night I felt like a million and now I feel like 2 cents" Editor Tribune: I often won- - some people go to trouble to torment them- der why selves I was passing a small store my attention was attracted by an article in the window: I went in I was greeted by a man with— "Yes I want to sell but no one wants to buy There is no money no work no business The country is going to the dogs and I'm too old anyway “Roosevelt is a nut the senate and the house are organized bodies of grafters “Hitler thinks he is God Mussolini is an atheist and Great Britain is compromising because she is afraid to fight “Spain has lost half the world she once possessed and now she is fighting her last battle CzechoChina will slovakia is doomed soon be growing rice for Japan II duce an3 Hitler will divide Europe between them the Jew’s have had their day and Russia will conquer the world”My answer was — "And then I suppose the Eskimos will supply the world with ice" That man says he is not a pesIf he isn't then I'm a simist Hottentot I have noticed that type of He man is never a Christian does not vote and he does not take an interest in civic improvements He does not enjoy a joke If he goes to hear a rendering of the “Messiah” he tries to get out in the middle of the oratorio He doesn't like children or dogs and he is afraid to de Andrew A Van Brunt So Long i ( Politics So far as politics are concerned I am ready to give them a y so far as possible I am leaving an east which is far more deeply interested in a heat wave than in the Democratic primaries and where the first thought of the day is of the thermometer and not of the elections So far as I know nobody has yet blamed Mr Roosevelt for the humidity so I am ready to let it go at that and conclude that Americans are human enough to prefer their politics on the half shell in cracked ice when the mercury goes go-b- I cl over 90 I’m sorry to miss Texas and Jack Garner’s effort to rally the rugged individualists into opposition to refofm but I shall see Madison Wis and get some dope on Phil LaFollette’s third party while in Montana I hope to be able to- report on my carpetbagger Senator Burton K Wheeler in his crusade — or is it the constitution that is worrying him? All I know is that in Geneva N Y where this column is written nobody seems to be talking about the constitution or even about Mr Roosevelt's third term possibilities They are instead going Around1 with their coats off and their collars unbuttoned and their conversation seems limited to: “Gus another seidei of genesee beer!" ' May we be shepherds of the spirit as well as masters of the Below by Our Readers Chronic 'Gripers' Draw Attack Forum Rules Editor Tribune: If you ever long for nature I recommend the following cure: Take a walk up the hills prefer(I think you ably Gilmer drive should be at least 40 years old) On your return decide to take a m e Trip So I am doing something about It For the next three months I shall be burning up the highways of this country on a 10000-mil- e trip which will take me through twenty-fiv- e states and 50’ major cities in an honest effort to fincLout and report what the American people are thinking about yhat the Amercountry' looks like and feels like what ’ ica is all about in 1938 My route will takane— through the chief steel centers of the country — Buffalo Cleveland Youngstown Gary Chicago Birmingham Alabama and Pittsburgh It will take me through the copper country In- - Montana Idaho Nevada Utah and Colorado It will take me to the four big government power projects— at Bonneville and Grand Coulee at Boulder dam and in the Tennessee valley It will take me through the grain fcountry— Minnesota and the Dakotas Kansas and Missouri It will take me through the cotton Tennessee Mississippi country— Arkansas Alabama and Georgia It will take me to industrial centers like Detroit and to big commercial cities like Chicago Baltimore It will take Philadelphia and New York me down the west coast— Seattle to Los Angeles And if I have eyes to see and ears to hear I should come back to new deal Washington better equipped to understand and interpret America than I have ever been before 'Old Timer' Protests Cut in Pensions Editor Tribune: Our legislature the passed a law to provide for maintenance of old citizens of the state a pension of $30 per month The state now has an organization of approximately 400 persons to administer this pension and to tell the old people to go hungry So far as there are no funds they only extended the time This amount of money if the pensioner has no home is barely sufficient for room rent food and inlaundry I wonder if in the terest of economy these executives would be willing to sacrifice or10 days’ pay they and their asthird the to down ganization ice the of warden sistant deputy water coolers? It is asserted that in sending out these checks on the 10th that before they are paying out money it it is received Whose fault ismen Are these executives business or just political appointees? Why the did they not find this outsat st&rt? It would be interesting to know what per cent of the dollar givenis in relief for old age pensions consumed by expenses? It is very to tell some easy for an executive old people who in their humble of Utah to way built up the state draw $250 or go hungry while they $300 per month These old people have not long to live Don’t let them go hunold and gry The writer 76 years sick has lived on 10 cents for the last three days I am not alone There are many old perThe legissons in my condition lature should appropriate suffi-us cient funds to take care of land appoint business men to administer the fund A Disgruntled Old Timer No Danger “You'll be very careful on iny polished floor won’LyQU?" "That’ll be all right ma’am” replied the plumber “We 'as nails in our boots"- - London News Copyright 7938 for The Tribune Off the Record ’I Okeh Tokyo but if our spies see a large steel object being put together at the water’s edge they’ll know what to think The “average woman" if she existed would be of no interest to the average man In Italy bachelors are aghast atlha new taxes heaped upon them They had gone on' in thejr innocence supposing one could live as cheaply as two A San Franciscan who has seen everything offers his right eye for $1500 and with a tedious political campaign to go we dare say one could pick up a bargain in ears Let’s be fair Among its unsung services to mankind radio has virtually done away with he spellbinder who pauses for a reply -- A national authority on matters musical thinks the possibilities in swing are well nigh exhausted which virtually makes it unani- mous What did our inventors — the artful fellows a waste basket with elastic sides for the campaign years? — ever do about Something new in organizations of one time warriors will be Japan’s Veterana of Foreign Incidents Copyright 1938 WELL for The Tribuns I'll Tell By You Bob Burns Jobs are pretty scarce now and you have’ta stand such a rigid examination to get one that you can’t help wondering sometimes how some of the men got in Maybe it's like the time my Uncle Potchy put an ad in the paper for a farm hand and picked one man out of three that applied for the job I - was anxious to ' ( see how he went about get-tithe one he wanted so 1 says "Potchy hbw did you know which of those fellas to pick?” And Uncle Potchy says “Well Robin T put ’em to a little 'test I asker’emTiovy many legs a giraffe had One said four one said five and the other said nine You know yrhich one I’m gonna hire ?”v And I said “The one that said ‘four’" and Upcle Potchy said “No -- he one that said ‘five’— he's my wife's cousin" f n’ Copyright J 1938 for The Tribun I |