Show t — - 4Tf ft 1 t - i- -f TOi i jV" fake ff ihm— Established April 15 - Jasued every morning by Sail utr rie Behind the Scenes of Current News : 1871- - Tribune Publishing Company 2 Salt Lake City Utah Friday Morning August rs iTfcuse-breake- inva-siqiL- 9f “ Land-grabbin- law-abidi- Democratic Discord Good for the GOP and USA Whatever Democrats may think of' Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s political acumen or strategic judgment no one will question thr courage and audacity with t which he singles out opponents of his pol- icies and antagonizes them in the midst of their friends followers and constituents willing to over- look the recalcitrance of some whose obstructive behavior was sporadic but not those whose hostility was persistent -and pretentious- -' Senators Tvdings of Maryland and ’ George of Georgia are the two members of the upper house of congress upon whom tithe president would put the Indian sign He wants them defeated in their primary elections and makes no secret of his attitude It is generally conceded that results in both these states will have an important influence on future achievements and aspirations of the man in the Whjte per-8or- al House As Senator George states the case his Constituents do not need to be told for whom to vote To this challenge the pres- ideht replies by indorsing an editorial in ‘the New York Post claiming that certain Democrats who crashed the gates of con- -' turned gress under the Roosevelt coat-taon him the minute they found themselves The Post ex- safely inside the arena plains the situation in this way:- “If men like Senator Tydings of Mary- land said frankly: ‘I no longer believe in the principles of the Democratic party as ‘ expressed in the new deal I’m running for reelection as a member of the Repub- lican opposition to the new deal’ then there would be no reason and no excuse for President Roosevelt to intervene against them The' issue would be clear The voter could take his choice between the new deal and Tydings’ record of consis-ten- t opposition to it But Tydings tellsi the voters he supports the ‘bone and sinew’ 1 of the new deal He wants to run with both the Roosevelt prestige and the money of his conservative friends on his side” i All of xvhieh explains and emphasizes the need of a realignment of political or-- l ganizations so voters will not be confused by the appeals and arguments of two kinds of Democrats and two kinds of Republicans- In so far as in every national campaign these interparty conflicts clarify the issues il v -- i i By Manning 19 1938 Tribute From a Traveler Estimating lotah's Attractions While it is not news to he told that the city and girls of Salt Lake are beautiful in a superlative degree it is gratifying to read a British journalist’s rhapsodies on When Sylvia Sidney' the familiar topic one of the most charming personalities in filmdom told Derek Tangye a writer on London’s largest newspaper to pause in his peregrinations when he reached Utah’s capital city she knew hlr opinion would receive the indorsement he has given it ‘‘Not only is Salt Lake one of the most beautifully built Cities in America but it has the loveliest collection of girls vou ever saw” said Sylvia and Depk testifies that she was correct in both statements ‘‘Never have I seen such streets with views of grandeur stretching xinto the distance at both ends" he assert describing Salt Lake City girls as "chicVand gaily dressed” not overpainted nor oyerdecorat-e- d who “go without hats hiding t)VirTove-l- y hair” nnd “wear stockings so fine that one doubts if they are wearing any t a'l ” Of course local residents are vaguely aware of these facts but have growh so accustomed to them that they seldom take notice until some enthusiastic visitor comes along to make them conscious of views and stockings' One observation madp bv the youn" columnist in his interview refers to a trait of which Utah people are particularly proud: The uniform courtesy and consideration shown travelers who anprecate a friendly rather than a financial interest in their presence Utah is proud of her scenic attractions her natural resources her fertile valleys and her inexhaustible water power: pleased with her daughters and patient with her sons kindjy disposed toward “the sjranger within her gates” glad to welcome travelers from all sections of the earth to make them feel at home and anxious to “come hack soon” New By NEW -- Charles B be will be recommended to the convention but what form it will take is not yet certain A F L Is just about fed up with NLRB The way A F L applications for elections have been delayed and the way A F L officials have been treated personally there have engendered considerable feeling Also the executive council is taking along a newspaper clipping of a national poll indicating 92 per cent of the people believe NLRB has favored C I OA 8 per F L cent believe it has favored Driscoll liv-lin- Texas May Repent Texas may repent its failure to renominate everyone Mr RooseAt least some velt requested Texas legislators have that feeland Senator Sheppard ing Representative Dies went down to the White House the other day to ask for a $5500000 P W A allotment to build a Rockland dam project in the San Angeline river Texas has used up “Sorry all its P W A share” Southern congressmen are shivering for Senators George and Smith and incidentally for them— selves It seems Harry Hopkins dashed off to Memphis last week end to1 hasten arrangements for putting 200000 southern farmers oh the W P A pay-of- f rolls Of course there is no politics connected with it Hopkins announced he would do it in July before Mr Roosevelt decided to turn left But the government pay window will be opened before the Georgia and South Carolina primaries Mr First work will Hopkins hopes start within a week — AH have a chance of getting their money before they vote or shortly there- goofy-lookin- — er after WPA Figures W P A figures reveal that 564- 000 workers are now on the roils in 11 southern states The 200000 increase will bring W P A up be- — I can’t get used to the desertion of the big town over the week end I wander about on Saturday afternoons in disconsolately empty streets with nobody to talk to So I talk to the policeman's horse and find him complaining because those two heavy bits In his mouth make him nervous even Visit the movie show in mild weather in Grand Central with my wife when we find ourselves with nearly an hour to kill before New York Central will give us a train home and I recall when I smashed the glass out of the front of a trolley car in my home town with my bare fist because it wouldn’t stop on signal and there Wouldn't be another Poor Pat havcar along for ten minutes ing to attend summer school on this kind of a day! I'll have- - to take her to Washington as I've been promising as a reward for her I’d cut the thick fur off Caphardships tain Kidd today to give him relief only about half of my readers have written to say that I mustn’t do it And my family says so too Depressing Heat There is no relief from the heat in Chinatown and its grim environs The entire population except the sick and infirm is out in the streets hoping for a breeze In Doyers Mott and Pell streets crooked narrow crowded with swarming life what chance for a breeze? After 6 o’clock there’s hardly any traffic in these streets Chairs and benches have been moved to the sidewalks and then gradually pushed by influx of more sweltering neighbors to the outer edge and finally into the street itself The dejected orientals droop and chatter d The children quiet and do not set up the din that you’d hear in any similarly crowded group of Americans or southern Europeans It makes me unhappy to see these poor peofile Buffeting so quietly in such masses How ran they get through the summer? I think I shan't complain of the heat any more yond the 1935-3- 6 peak Hopkins has announced this as his contribution to the No 1 economic problem which also has become the admytiUtration’s No 1 political problem since Mr Roosevelt took up the ax and aimed at Senators George and Smith Mr Hull never looked better In fact the state secretary is feeling so good that he and most of his callers lately have been spending- their conference time talking about it Naturally the callers come out and ask reporters: "Do you think he is a candidate lor 1940?” General-respo- nse is: “No man ever turned down the presidency” - Copyright 1938 for The Tribune 1933 for The Tribune Webster's Rejoinder Daniel Webster the great American statesman was once sued by his butcher for a bill of long standing Before the suit was settled he met the butcher on the street and to that worthy’s em- barrassment said: “Why have you f or- - my-ord- er ?” "Why Mr Webster” said the man "I did not think you Wanted to deal with me when I brought this suit" “Tut tut” said Webster “sue all you wish but don't try to starve me to death”— Wall Street soft-voice- Copyright but packing their dictionaries for the fray and not their gloves Some action against NLRB Thinking out loud: Pearl White worked hard was well paid saved her g money retired while young and finished She entrtained millions before 50 with her acting in “Perils of Pauline” and never tried to play Hamlet I think she was a success and even though she died at 49 she had a change to do a lot of living Krum Elbow— what a name to fight over! g book the magazine carries a picture of me and my wife is upset about it I say "Well that was done by a camera and I happened to be looking a little sillier than usual We should never quarrel with a camera or an adding machine -- they tell the Yes the hot weather Is depressing truth” How I wish I were in Arizona for a couple of But that reminds me of my weeks! daughters when tHeV were little Take them walking and they’d wish they were in a bus: get on the bus and they’d cry “I wish We’re we were on thnt bumpy El train!” always wishing like children that we were somewhere else And after all Now York is New York and has some air conditioning In another generation it’ll catch up with Arizona iA everything except climato and scenery Letter from Everett Hadley Lake Charles La asks if he and I weren’t classmates at Friends university And says that my picture at the top of the column in his local shows-- !' haven't changed a bit Now Everett that’s stretching isn’t it? And do you know what happens to boys that don't tell the truth? Deserted Town privately prcparng agenda for the national convention Journal i No Danger ' "You'll be very careful on my polished floor won’t von?” “That’ll be all right ma'am ” replied the plumber “we 'as nails In our boots’’— London News Mark Sullivan Tammany visitor had talked with the president about the New York City primary for mayor Mr Roosevelt was angry He reproached the newspaper men privately Publicly Tie had Secretary McIntyre denounce the stories In part the denunciation said: “The president repeated foj the thousandth time that he has not taken part is not taking pripart and will not take part in anyjocaltown mary election except in his own home and home county” That angry negation was repeated many times about primaries in various states For repetition and emphasis Mr Roosevelt invented a formula When newspaper men at press conferences asked him if he had a choice in this or that primary he said he wouldjtbve his press secretary Stephen Early “trn on the same old phonograph record” moaning the record which said he “has not is not and will not” - Conflict of Desires How Much Kick Last year the president sent a commission to Europe to study — Nothing— eame — of — eeoperat may be filed by one eommittee-ma- n (American Rolling Mills President Hook) Less polite consideration will be given N L R B by the executive committee of A F L next week at Atlantic City The committee will keep the blinds down as it will YORK— news--pap- By that either Next year’s commission probably will study the comparative kick in French wines and the more complete relaxation offered by siestas on the Riviera Note— A minority report urging some change in the N L R B ait Hiqhhghts Y-ork Sullivan Muses Oh Roosevelt Purge Campaign WASHINGTON —Almost exactly a year ago on August 7 1937 President Roosevelt waS "it' Hyde Park There he was visited by a ‘New York City Tammany lea'der who lunched with him The name of the Tammany man was not on the list of visitors given out to the newspaper men But some of them recognized the visitor They took note of the omission from the list of visitors giveji them They wrote about the visit giving their stories a color to the effect that the WASHINGTON — The presi- -' dent’s committee to find out why labor conditions in England and Sweden are better than here" has slipped into the country unannounced The sea air was wonderful The cuisine of American boats was excellent This seems to sum up the constructive results of the junket The committee will get together secretly in New York August 24 to complete a report but the substance of it has already been written or agreed upon No recommendations for legislation will be offered Specifically no changes in the national labor relations board will be suggested The gist of the report will set forth the impossibility of comparing employer or employe conditions there and here Several who have read advance copies haire gained the idea that the main reason for labor peace in England and Sweden may be that both employers and employes are organized collectively and deal with each other with restraint and fairness the employers without spies and the employes without communists simplify the policies and nullifythird term propaganda they are 'of equal benefit to the Republican organization and the nation at large A former student of the Utah State Agricultural college Hari Teshigori now a resident of Tokyo with sojne" official position under the Japanese government returned to the United States recently and expressed surprise at the change nf sentiment in America toward his country An occasional nazi or fascist visitor gives ut- terance to the same sort nf astonishment Either Mr Teshigori’s amazement is simulated or his ten years in Utah taught him nothing of the people around him Without racial prejudice religious intolerance or national envy the masses of citizens in this repubjic cannot help showing antipathy toward trespassers kidnapers or whether individual or organized local or international Thev cared nothing about Selassie and his Ethiopians but resented their domain and slaughter of their women and children Not concerned with the issues over which the Soaniards are killing each other they naturally take sides with a government against those who seek Ameri-Tans- r to overthrow it assassination instinctively favor duly elected and established authority Thev had no choice between Berlin and Vienna but deplored the extinction of an ancient realm to gratify the vanity oc vengeance of an Austrian “renegade “pnt look how vou Americans took n continent awav from the aboriginal natives" exclaims Mussolini in a tone of inAn dignation echoed 'by his emissaries Italian born in Genoa started all that g was continued bv explorers and conciuerors from Spain France rmd Great Britain The hemisphere was colonized bv exiles and emigrants from a H'V'm From Labrador ‘to European countries Patagonia from the Atlantic to Urn Pa- cific these Europeans came and took forc- ible nossession of two continents When the United States sprang into existence 150 years ago the new republic was hemmed in bv possessions of Euronoan ' rowers It nurchased territorv from France in 1803 from Spain in 1819 from Mexico in 1848 and from Russia in 1867 It azouired all troubles deputes and native claims pertaining to the several tracts Most of these were settled by additional payments orexchange In many instances the record is not'as flawless as it should be hut still so much better than that of " any Eurbnean nower that no dictator with a knowledge of history or a sense of shame would use it as a justification for 20 centuries of pillage bloodshed slave driving and cruelty by his own antecedents The peonle of the United States are not jn fheir 9vmpathje bv anv mo ! fives the aggressors in these international controversies seem eaoable of comprehending The American attitude is that which citizens of any land most naturally take when they see a burglar entering a neighbor’s house or a souatter jumping his c'aim or a rustler stealing his livestock There is nothing personal or racial or selfish about it Peace °llerin9 By Paul Mallon published Instinctive Sympathies For Victims of Brutality AUGUST” 1941938 ° The Tribune Is a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press ts exclusively entitled to the use for reproduction of ell news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper end also the local newa herein' claim-jumpe- FRIDAY MORNING THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE IZ r m- X-- X - ' But as the present year’s primaries approached Mr Roosevelt evidently was stirred by the wish td defeat those Democrats in congress who had opposed his court proposal and to have in congress only men who would support his rneasures fully Still there remained with him also the wish to preserve the attitude of “has not is not and will not” The’ Conflict of desires wassolvecLas conflicting desires often are by indirection of undesired candidates Condemnation approval of their opponents was achieved by James proxy In Florida it was who said that the administration wanted ' v v' v 'si xVv THE PUBLIC FORUM Housing Committee's Plan Questioned Editor Tribune: With a desire only to be helpful I respectfully submit the following questlo'ns to housthe members of the ing committee recently appointed by the mayor of Salt Lake City 1 In view of the many apartment house vacancies now found low-co- in Salt Lake City can it be possible there Is an actual housing shortage? 2 If general economic conditions should improve would not most individual laborers be able to pay existing rentals or otherwise provide for their own hous- ing needs? 3 Isn’t there more need for stimulating employment for la- borers in private industry than trying to invent ways of giving them something for nothing at public expense? 4 Wouldn’t your efforts be more commendable and fruitful if turned to "helping men to help themselves" in some kinds of co- operative projects? 5 Do you honestly believe that housing units built and operated by the government cou'd be rented substantially cheaper than prevailing rates? (That is without loss to the government ) 6 If government housing can’t be done cheaper then why compete with private industry? Won’t by Our Readers anti-cou- Forum Rules Letters appearing in mu Cuiumn do nut exurese ine views of The tribune They are me upmnms ol contributing wilD wmcD l'he inbuilt i’he follow mav of nav not agree tng rules govern contributions 1 Letters limited to JUU words Preference given to short fnmmu 2 ntcations Ante legibly a no clearly on one sine ut the pnpei onlv A ra 01 Ken’iniift barred Partisan or personal political 4 comment cannot oe printed Per & Poonai aspersions prohibited b etical cuntribiit lutia itot vuniteo Letters may be barred fot obvious misstatements ol fact or toi state merits which are not in accord with fair piay and good taste 7 ihe Korum is not an advertising medium H Writers must sign true names and address in ink Letters wiit oe carried ovet assumed name In all cases writer so requests nowever true name and addres tn cornmninca must he attached 9 The Forum cannot con tlon alder more than one letter from the tame writer at one time ii vd such a program prove a disappointment and a boomerang? 7 Hava the existing housing agencies (the H O L C or F H A) of the government solved the housing problems of the really poor people? Will any similar setup do any better? 8 In view of present costs of materials and labor do you think it possible for the government or private capital to build and maintain modern housing units at lower prices than those now prevailing? 9 Will your low-caprogram benefit only a few and exclude st Senator From Sandpit-!- ! Friendship is the privilege of private men for wretched great- ness knows no blessing so sub stantial— Tate It was my privilege to attend the go!f tournament and banquet given Wednesday at the Country club in honor of Orval Adams In these cynical and sophisticated times it Is heartening and encouraging to witness such a display of genuine friendship as was accorded Orval More heartening and encouraging perhaps because he has no set formula for making friends and influencing people but is just himself — honest outspoken fearless considerate of the other fellow and tolerant of You may not agree his opinions with Orval and there are many who do not but if you admire forthrightness you’ll admire and respect him I did not enter the tournament but I talked a good game with Bill Carter Frank Haymond and Bill Guild as we sat near the eighteenth green and watched the players come in Leon Sweet made an approach shot that would have A done credit to Bobby Jones hush fell over the gallery as a foursome appeared on the other side of the canyon I heard someone say: ‘‘There's Orval now he’s going to drive for the green!" There was a marked contortion by a sturdy figure In white followed by a sharp "pop" like the report Of a distant rifle and a golf ball overshot the green a few feet I tried to think of a phrase to describe thatEgim "Poetry of motion” wouldn’t do There was plenty of motion but At the banquet no poetryToastmaster Budge in quoting Jim Ingebretsen the poet of the club gave the perfect description He said: of Orval's golf form “He (Orval) swings at the ball with everything he has in wild unison” - Among those seated at our whom I knew were Lei sehall Paul Keyser Charles L Smith C D “Chuck" Smi£hWalt Pyper Dr Bob Allison and Dr ta-h- le Senator Pepper renominated In Iowa it was Harby Hopkins and others close to Mr Roosevelt who publicly said they wished an opponent to beat anticourt-proposal Senator Gillette The method of Indirection was not effective in the case of Senator Gillette That was disturbing because Senator Gillette was the first of the proposal senators to ' come up in- a primary There were eight more ahead Condemnation by proxy would not be enough In this situation Mr Roosevelt solved his inner conflict of opposing wishes by formally and publicly splitting his personality in two In his “fireside chat" of June 24 he said: “As president of the United States I am not taking part in Democratic primaries As the head of the Democratic party however I feel that I have every right to speak” Thus equipped with a formula for composing his inner conflict Mr Roosevelt on July 7 set out on his western trip In Kentucky he forthrightly indorsed Seaator Barkley In California he gave sup- Senator McAdoo port to M Neher f Eceived Walt Pyper conthe idea of taking a straw vote on the political situation and passed around slips of paper upon which we were to write our politics anonymously I thought he meant for us to write our political forecasts— you know the party we thought would win— so I put down "Democratic” Walt glanced over the little pile of paper slips and said: "Gentlemen there is a traitor among us” After we had finished gating we moved up where we could hear the speakers Jube Hale president of the club welcomed GovWallace ernor Blood Mayor Haber J Grant J Reuben Clark Jr Wilson McCarthy Henry Swan Gib Marr W M Jardine E A West and other distingushed guests and then introduced the toastmaster Jesse Budge It was the first time I had ever seen Mr Budge in that capacity and I was I greatly impressed However don't suppose there is the slightest chance that he will see these words of mine because judging by his remarks and repertoire of stories he reads nothing 'on the editorial page of The Tribune exGeorge cept Bob Burns’ stuff Curt HawThomas Eddie We ley Royal Dayncs Lincoln Kelly Rube Jolley Frank MeGanney Bill Stark Bill Loos D D Moffat Orson Wheatlake "Alphabet” John ftyde “Cully” Culbertson Rudy Orlob Gail Moffat Ken Yeates Ambrose Seitz and quite a number of fellows noticed it and drew my attention to it which wasn’t necessary I had been siting expectantly -- for—himta move over toward the lower center part of the page but he didn't budge hundreds of others just as deserving? What effect will such an incomplete program have upon those excludeir and upon you? 10 To what extent must government building standards be lowered or ignored in order to ' make the housing costs within reach of the lowest wage groups? 11 Won’t some plan have to be devised whereby the cost of home construction is greatly reduced before the plan can righthousfully be called "low-co— ing"? The success of the whole program it seems to me hinges on the last question Unless it and the other questions can be answered honestly and satisfartor-il- y the whole scheme should be abandoned Robert McOmie Salt Lake City st Raps Federal Reserve Credit Withdrawals Editor Tribune: The federal reserve board was preparing a major money panic and depression before Mr Hoover was inaugurated president of the United States They were manipulating the nation's gold currency credits and reserves and advising aU member banks to reject loans on securities Under topic No 3 is a reply to a letter from the chairman of the federal reserve board by the federal advisory council recommending a procedure that would prevent about 90 per cent of the peoThe ple from obtaining loans is quoted verrecommendation batim from the federal reserve report dated February 15 1929 and is as follows: “The federal advisory council approves the action of the federal reserve board in instructing the Federal Reserve bank to prevent as far’as possible the diversion of federal reserve funds for the purpose of carrying loans based on The federal advisory securities council suggests that all member banks in each district be asked directly by the Federal Reserve bank of the district to cooperate in order to attain the end desired" Prior to 1932 the federal reserve system withdrew $2303 000 000 of its loans from member banks de0 creased its not circulation and increased its cash re$1659-37600- serve's from the people's deposits $3640200000 making a total of cash and bank funds retired from use Under the federal reserve deflation system 281995 bank and commercial failures tookplace property values depreciated about $160000000000 about 15000000 people wlre unemployed and the federal reserve" system controlled our nation's gold currency credits and bonds During the depression period the people’s homes about and properties were confiscated by foreclosure failure to meet required payments or sold for delinquent tax Policy holders withdrew about $13000000000 'from insurance companies to maintain an existence and the federal government established a dole System in -- honor of the federal reserve board J E Edmunds one-ha- lf Just Ruined After the various golf prizes had been awarded there were prizes for the nonwinners and noncontestants I received an electric iron Imagine that Thei) after listening to some short but appropriate remarks by Gib Marr Rert Chamberlain and Sam Ken- - “Why don't you advertise?’’ asked the canvasser of a man in a small way of business “Because I'm against advertising” the man answered “But why?” “It don't leave a man no time” was the reply "I advertised once from Orval I went home feeling that I had spent not’only a very pleasant but a very profitable day was I was so busy I didn’t have no time to go fishing the whole summer”— Exchange -- rt Silent in Nevada In two states in which senators were uo for renomination— in Colorado Senator Adams and in Nevada Senator McCarran— Mr Roosevelt was silent Common belief said that he wished to blacklist these two But common belief said he found them certain to be renominated and therefore "laid off” Common bplief said also thal this silence this surrender of impulse to prudence this thwarting of himself by himself made him irritable On August 9 Mr Roosevelt returned to the United States On August 11 he cast off restraint He forthrightly opnosed Senator George On August 16 in Washington he took a hand in the New York Citv primary denouncing Representative O’Connor That was almost to the day a year after he had angrily “blown up” over newspaper statements hat he was taking a hand ip the New York City primary of that year— a year after he had emphatically asserted that he "has not is not apd will not" Listening to Mr Roosevelt outlaw Representative O’Connor (and also Senator Tydings) he looked iust like the president of the Upited States He was in the president's office sitt'ng In the president’s chair True it was a hot day and he had his coat off' - Maybe that is what makes the distinction between the "president of the United States” and the “head of the Democratic party" The serious aspect of Mr Roosevelt’s sequence of actions lies in the light it throws on his verv unusual personality and on the question whether anything in his past is any assurance about anything in his future That is something for the country to take account °f— if there is any possible way for the country to take account of such a condition 1938 Copyright for The Tribune Off the Record It has been an off week for the rough element Italy's internal economy begins to irk the duce they’re shipping Adolf to the country and Capone is off his rocker He who laughs last at the radio comic may be one gag ahead A Minnesota town bars the further dispensing of beer to residents on relief A chaser of plain water is good enough for any man Tokyo may never have heard that old Chinese proverb about first downs not counting in the payoff 1938 Copyright WELL for The Tribune I'll Tell You 9 By Bob Burnt There’s an old sayin’ that it takes two to make an argument and I've alwaysfound that 'one ia jest about as much to blame as another I use’ta live with an aunt and an uncle till he started arguin’ with her and it got so noisy I Kad’ta move out Some time later I met my uncle on the street and I tasked him if the argument was still going on over at his house and he says “No — the argument's all over with— I'm back to again” Copyright' 1938 4' If' for The Tribun t |