Show fer THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 10 Issued every morning by 8alt Lake Tribune Publishing Company The Tribune la a member of the Associated Press The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use tor reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein Nation Fears Eventual German War ' Salt Lake City Utah Thursday Morning November 24 1938 bund members and hyphenated apologists fbr Hitlerism “Nazis we salute you! ' For your bravery! For your boldness! Hitler should be proud of you! In the face of every obstacle of unarmed men and old men and still older men you dragged women with their children from their beds and threw them to the floor in combat!” She tenders sympathy to the victors who were “left alone to battle with unresisting foes for fourteen bloody hours before Minister Goebbels went to their rescue” She predicts that Hitler will reward their culture and courage saying: “You have risen to greater heights in your valor than all the other killers of history combined! You faced a far greater danger! Your war was on women and chilat facing dren! Weren’t you terror-stricke- n them? Our American men couldn’t face thejn They only fight with men” No wonder der fuehrer demands suppression of the press and of ‘free speech as a condition precedent to peace When he is abld “to make a solitude and call it peace” as Tacitus described the peace of fear Hitler will have fulfilled his d mission in the Thanksgiving Observance For Peace Plenty and Freedom Thanksgiving is a festival for home folks and friends a holiday of feasting and family gatherings an occasion that awakens appreciation of blessings enjoyed a time to remember the unfortunate and satisfy the hunger of the poor a day of concerted thankfulness for favors received and evils averted The custom originated with the Pilgrims who weathered a season of privation at Plymouth on Capd Cod in 1620 to be cheered with bountiful crops the following year Fpom the famished remnant of colonists who survived the ravages of climate dis- ease and starvation returning thanks for deliverance a flourishing commonwealth developed that has played an important part in the establishment of a great nation When Governor Williarb Bradford by proclamation declared a period of worship and feasting the celebration continued for Several days Massasoit and his Wampa- noag warriors attended with Samoset the Interpreter who had learned English from Shipwrecked sailors and a treaty was made to which the native tribe adhered in all the wars that followed At irregular intervals from the tradi: tional observance of 318 years ago down to actual programs of the present Thanksgiving days have been set aphrt and solemnly kept after the manner of that first celebration There were wild turkeys then and turkeys have become the emblematic bird of Thanksgiving What have we to be thankful some dyspeptic malcontent may inquire Foy the grandest country in the wond For a freedom developed on its consecrated soil For prosperity unknown in any other land For peace and preparedness against predatory powers For free schools and untrammeled churches For a thousand blessings so usual they lie about us unnoticed Let pessimists listen to the old Estonian whose speech on a metropolitan corner near Madison square was reported by Edwin C He asked Americans Hill In a broadcast to take the word of an aging exile who found work here and freedom to enjoy his leisure unafraid and unmolested Let them read and heed the cry of Roger W Babson author economist apd financier on his recent retupnfrom a tour of Europe: “Get down on your knees and thank God you live in America and show your thankfulness by being just and generous to others” In a world full of trouble surrounded by races consumed with hatred or palsied by fear we feel reasonably safe from attack and able to work out our national destinies unhindered We are gradually pulling out of a long and stubborn depression with relations between industry and labor and between both and government becoming more clearly and convincingly defined and all elements more considerate of each other Viewing the oppression and depression In other lands the suppression of individual derights and liberties the persecution of fenseless people without a country o" a nne place to rest or rear their offsprin" cannot refrain from joining today’s chorus of Thanksgiving that there still stands unshaken this stronghold of democracy in a world of tyranny and totalitarianism nation-confirme- world Sale of ChristnnaaSbials To Combat Tuberculosis Christmas seals are to EeFplacefcLon sale n today to raise funds for disseminatibgin-formatioconcerning tuberculosis from remittances will not be available for treatment of any victim of the malady it is fair to state but will be used only for “educational purposes’’ Presumably patients will be warned against complications from exertion or exposure and the public will be Cautioned to avoid the contamination of tubercular germs Recently it was some reported that the disease had shown in inconceivable is which in Utah increase view of the healthful climate the healing air and the campaign of education so vigorously prosecuted in the past Tuberculosis is a chronic lingering tracewasting and communicable affliction usualable to a peculiar breed of baccilli It but may ly attacks the tissues of the lungs make itself manifest in any part of the body— bones joints intestines or coverings of the spinal cord Once supposed to be congenital it is now aid to be the result of infection which of course may take place in early infancy for Seyeral theories have been advanced its spread Inhalation of dust containing particles of sputum from affected personsof breathing spray emitted on the breath milk d tubercular patients While the microbes — from diseased cows of decay may be transmitted in any or all of these ways there may be others EnSanitary measures should be rigidly forced and frequent inspections made to out for prevent tuberculosis from reaching Cures once regarded additional victims as out of the question are now effected by careful nursing and prescribed diets Pqo-cee- ds germ-infeste- il : ' !f“ ‘ 'Twas a Famous Victory' Peculiar to Nazi Tactics One woman of New York City who appreciates gallantry and culture pays a tribute to heroes of the current war on de- fenseless Jews by addressing them through the medium of the Times Her letter should be preserved for careful perusal by all NOVEMBER To YOU Instead of WPA What? Asks News Observer : By Maiming IF YOU CANT THINK OF ANYTHIN C T'Bfc THANKFUL Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner FOR WASHINGTON v Nothing Is more stupid or more harmful n than alarmist discussion of affairs Yet the fact should be faced — the new orientation of American foreign policy is squarely founded on the conviction that “we’re on the list" The phrase was used in all seriousness the other day by an exceedingly shaper of America's course abroad And his simple meaning was that a time would come when this country wbuld have to knuckle under to the German reich or force the reichi to knuckle under For the sake of honest realism It must be stated: War is what is feared Not war now or even five years from now but at the WASHINGTON— Why is W P A so much less popular than P W A the C C C rural electrification and federal aid to highway construction? If the public were primarily budget minded WPA should be more popular than these other work programs In over-a- ll figures it has been the biggest single item in' the federal budget for four years But on the average it costs less per person employed than do its more popular alternatives Throughout the last few years it has been proved much easier to obtain money fronj congress for P W A the C C C and several other federal programs than for W P A That fact has gradually been sinking into of members of the Roosevelt administration Petite a few of them have reached the conclusion— which seems altogether sensible— that the public is really worried less about cost than about value received P W A work is done by private contractors using the most efficient methods C C C is direct public work and most of the C C C youth are wholly unskilled when they enter the camps A great deal of the work done by the C C C has been necessarily extremely simple manual labor But the C C C has been immune from criticism almost from its incep tion Without attempting to measure very accurately the value of the work done by the C C C the public seems to feel it is getting its money’s worth Added to Wealth TODAY JUST TURN TO THE 'FRONT PACE AN' SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OTHER fpr-eig- I PEOPLE ed the-mind-s moment when the power of Hitler Germany grows so great that the world cannot hold two such nations or such vitality and interests as nazidom and th(e United States Perhaps that moment may never come yet again for honest realism’s sake it must be stated: The best state department opinion looks for no real check in the growth of German power until the point t of German-Amerlca- n conflict is reached The fact is ugly and but once itr is happengrasped the ings in Washington become com- WPA and its predecessors — the civil works administration and the work program of the federal emergency relief administra-tion--hav- e added vastly to the national wealth Unquestionably it has been profitable for the nation to pay the difference between the cost of straight cash relief and the cost of the WPA program The value of the work done must greatly exceed the extra costs above those of cash relief for materials supervision and wages And that gain takes no account of the saving in morale by providing work instead of idleness and of the stimulating economic effects of the work program But WPA rests under a cloud Together with many useful projects it has undertaken somi foolish ones Too often it doesn’t use' the most efficient means of production it does work by hand that could be done more cheaply by machinery And despite the loyal defenses of Harry L Hopkins and his aids anyone who keeps his eyes open as he travels around the country knows that the WPA shovel leaner is not altogether mythical WPA lias fallen short too in that it has never been conducted on a big enough scale to provide jobs for all the employable persons on the relief rolls Throughout the last four years there has always been a long waiting list of employable persons on the 'relief rolls of local governments In addition to persons on relief there has always been a great group of unemployed outside the relief rolls It is obviously unfair to penalize the man who has been thrifty enough to put aside some savings by requiring him to exhaust those savings before he becomes eligible for prehensible The mear fear of an internacontest over tional South American trade was never enough to explain the vast new armament program the president’s sterner and more daring attitude toward Germany and all the rest The fear of eventual war does explain these events And when you ponder the smallness of- the modern earth the international character of modern trade and the ungovernable dynamism of the nazi state you will see why the fear of eventual war is reasonable however broad the Atlantic ocean happens to be face-maki- Associated Press dispatches carry an announcement by the curator of the Southwest Museum at Los Angeles that a rare tools of prehistoric flection of “stone"discovered oplcsr” has been among the Palos Verdes hills ‘in “four stratjof cul- The assortment of strange implements' includes stone drills about an inch long made from chert a false flint utilized by the most backward cave men The relics are said to have a marked similarity to mieroliths occasionally found on the margins of Lake Bonneville All such weapons and utensils should be preserved and kept in good condition for sale to nazi warriors of the future when they shall have receded a little farther from civilization present-da- y 'Collective Bargaining' Between Workers and Employers An inquiry has been received as to the meaning of "collective bargaining” and the scope of its exactions with reference to scales of wages It is a term referring to the method of employment rather than Direct negotiations specific remuneration between chosen or official representatives of employes and prospective employers constitute “collective bargaining” Trade unions usually insist in their formal agreements upon employment of members of their own organizations but this stipulation may be waived by mutual coftsent New York Highlights By Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK Nov 23—'ThanksgftVing day g feast days in our is one of the stnc£' the recent in years Only ily fans have football daughterSshave become than thaOarmly by celebrate£Kotherwise we see gathering feastingfld talking wich of the the to traditionanture so suitable home-stayin- day This year football takes most of the household for the afternoon But we look for a full table at dinner and an evening of doing in nothing sitting before a good burning log the fireplace part of my wife’s Thanksgiving code "to have someone to dinner who might by some mischance eat alone iija public place through thoughtlessness of fnends Bachelors in the city men and womer of advanced age or students away from home are considered and one or more invited to share with us the turkey aqd dressing that make the dinner hour festal My wife has been impressed I believe by to have my stories of lonely holidays I used when working on a newspaper in a strange Christcity More than one Thanksgiving and mas I have spent without exchanging a word with anyone except the waitress who brought be ray food Through a feeling that I might intruding in home circles on such family feast days I used to refuse Invitations Foolish for I now” know that householders like to have fyiends even strangers share their ocjoys and satisfactions on such important It is casions Memory: A Thanksgiving day when I In our part of the world the played hookey rural school did not recognize Thanksgiving Under— som- e- Uachers—'there as - a holiday-would be an entertainment with most of us day I pretending to be Pilgrims But on the remember best we were required to go to school in the usual routine There was a parhard arithmetic lesson that day ticularly ' Alvie and Frank Miller who lived across the road declared on the way to school that they would run away if my brother Van and I would do the same We held a council under one of Steve Balch’s big apple trees and took a votev Unanimous Searching among the leaves we found half a dozen good sound apples We had our lunches in tin buckets In home of my boyhood the custom of audibly giving thanks to God for the food on the table was never neglected on Thanksgiving day It is followed in our home today as I believe it is in millions of homes of all shades of religious belief throughout the country Copyright 1938 for The Tribune i Ernest Lindley By post-Muni- abouif t By THURSDAY MORNING IRee Manning ' The White House ‘Inner Circle’ senate the Their the reaction f - Theresults to the retirement from bilities WASHINGTON recent election of the Jittle group of presidential America Intervenes Hitherto thd career officers of the state department have been the guardians of the isolationist spirit among the makers- of American foreign policy Trained to regard only the practical interests of their country and to ignore moral issues" convinced by long experience that the people are fundamentally isolationist the high career men of the department advocated great restraint in dealing with the fascist nations Empty gesture of defiance or disapproval however brutal the fascist provocation were always opposed by the career men— As a conspquencC liberal critics who have the unpleasant trait of suspecting the motives of their opponents have called the career men j ' - "pro-fascis- t” Nothing could be more significant therefore than the sharp alteration of opinion among the career men The president's denunciation of the current paroxysms of nazi bestiality is a case in point persons who think this country can be the world’s moral mentor without assuming a mentor’s responsibilities glory in the president’s defense of decency without thinking through to the possible conseqilences The career men on the other hand thoroughly understand that the president’s words were a step toward intervention abroad They see the chance that Ambassador Wilson) and Ambassador Dieck-honow both homeward bound mayufever return to their respective posts They know the meaning of a possible break in diplomatic relations And they ap the "inner cir- ’4 1 cle” to whom ?Jj: their journalis- tic admirers so modestly refer as “intellectual liberals" is lnte resting not t hough very important The report which apparently originat- -' ed with themselves is that there is a great m o v ement to “drive” them from the White House and “outo of the public service" For the sake of their “progressive principles” and the great cause of “intellectual liberalism” these noble fellows are piptured as patriotically determined to resist to the death the “forces of reaction” (pet phrase to describe Independent Democrats) which yearn to dislodge them Bosh! They flatter themselves and have reversed the facts which In the first is entirely typical place the political Mr Roosevelt opponents The Worst !s War Opinion among the career men has changed for a simple reason Before Munich they and everyone else in the state department clearly foresaw that economic conflict with Germany was inevitable But they expected the conflict to end there because like everyone else they thought the democratic nations of Europe were a first line of American defense If Germany goes too far they thought she will have to fight England England will win perhaps with some assistance from us toward the close of the struggle and that will virtually let us out Munich’s meaning as it has finally been digested is that the supposed first line of defense just There are certain isn’t there possibilities to be sure The will and the power to resist may be stronger in Great Britain than it now seems A vast eastern European empire has already been resigned to Germany but half the empirp remains to be conquered and perhaps Germany will stumble in hfif march to the east The process- of subduing their new empire may also be too much for the German allies Italy and even more likely Japan But these are only possibilities Meanwhile besides the public difference on the Jewish question this country is already involved in a bitter dispute with Germany over Brazilian trade The prospect is for constantly worsening relations And the United States must be prepared for the worst One way of preparing for the worst — strengthening potential friends abroad— is repeal of the Spanish embargo and the mandatory clauses of the neutrality act The state department is likely to test the country’s capacity for realistic thinking by asking for one or both of these when con gress convenes of and his policies would hardly be foolish enough to desire the removal of thele ebullient individuals from the “inner circle”— and they do not On the contrary they regard— and with reason — the Corcorans Cohens Lubins Hendersons and Jacksons as distinct political lia- : ff prove president the position of “close friends” speech writers and advisers o'n political and legislative strategy would be a real disappointment to anti new dealers who pleased at the setback given the new deal in the elections are eager to accelerate its progress down the hill advisers known as - The0 de Favorite Target Disappearance of the “intellectual liberals” from the White House circle would deprive Mr Roosevelt's opponents of one of their favorite targets and remove a source of constant and increasing irritation to congress and the From first to last this public little group has gotten Mr Roosevelt Into more trouble and caused him to makp more mistakes than all the rest of his friends together To a considerable extent his defeats in' congress last session his defeats in the primary purges last summer and his defeats in the elections November 8 can all be traced to it The extraordinary conceit of the members of the group now causes them curiously to misconceive the situation It isn't those who wish Mr Roosevelt ill politically who want to “drive” them away from the White House — it is those who wish him well It is the friends of Mr Roosevelt who would like to return the “intellectual liberals” to the obscurity from which they sprang To his enemies not his enemies they are a gift from the gods But with their smug their superior airs their talent for aggravating members Forum Teachers Proclaimed Autocratic Editor Tribune: VI wonder Why some country school principals adopt the attitude that they own the schools in which they teach doing sometimes very indiffereht-l- y a job which is paid for from taxes by the parents those principals resent? In any store "the clerks are taught that the customer is always right wifh some school tcKSrs the parent is never rfgnt Moreover it i impertinent for a parent to criticize even when there are glaring faults — according to this same school of autocrats! One mother had a child who was not made quite as other children are When the time came for this little unfortunate to attend school day after day he came home other tearful because youngsters had teased and bullied him He was physically different from them The mother told the country principal what was happening asked him to look into the matter and correct things He replied that he found that her child was not being teased or bullied and inferred that she was telling untruths for he said that she not being at school did not know-wh- at toolLplace there He being omnipresent and knew omniscient everything! This mother had to go to school herself have her crippled child point out the offenders and deal with them herself One country teacher after being absent from the classroom for a few minutes returned to find the children making an uproar and shouted at them: “Pipe down you mugs!” What can we expect from the mouths of our children when teachers use such language to them? Another teacher became so angry with a student that to he flung a book to the back of the room jumped up and down ' in rage and broke a ruler to pieces And we pay these people to guide our young! J H Johnson By Resident In Out Readers Cites Mishaps Urging Light ' Editor Tribune: This is a question I should like answered: Is the cost of a light (semaphore) worth more than a life? We who live on Ninth South and Fourth East would like to know About a year ago we petitioned for a light and were refused on the grounds that it wasn’t necessary I don’t know who turned down our petition but I wish whoever it was had to live on this street for just one week be forced to cross the street to catch a car or go to the store during the busy hours of the day I wager he would not only have a light posthaste but would want a body guard armed with a sawed-of- f shot gun Last Thursday night about 7 p m we had one of our periodic crashes This time it came to the notice of the police Unfortunately most of them don’t Conservatively there is an average of about three per week in nice weather and almost da’ily when the roads are icy Most of them are the common garden variety of smashed fenders dented bodies etc with very little personal injury" to the offenders but sometimes there is considerable the police ' The Jjght and being notified telephone poles near thisTcorner hftve some lusty battle scars from crashes and bne in particular is a bit tipsy from its last impaot Any time an officer finds things dull I would suggest he station himself on this corner He would find business lively with “thru-stop- ” runners and hunting fruitful with speeders This is not written In the spirit of criticism of the police — heaven knows they are doing their best and are kept plenty busy— but an appeal for protection particularly for old folk and children who aren’t too adept atid trained in the art of "dodging" soeeders So let's have a light instead of a death! M J Berryman of the degree to which they have smelled up the word “liberal” and their wide unpopularity with the people— to Mr Roosevelt's friends these things make them a source of acute embarrassment not to say a pain in the neck if there is a movement to relegate them to the rear it comes from Mr Roose-yeltadherents who have looked the facts in the face and are tired of having to deal with those half-bakyoung radicalswfio still insist upon making America over ’s ed illstone Carrier If there is danger of their separation from the payroll upon which all of them are so sweetly ensconced and a prospect of their No aWPA going the Tugwell route it lies in the attitude of Mr Roosevelt not in the “forces of reaction” Mr Roosevelt is no man deliberately to carry a political millstone around hs neck once he recognizes that it Is "a millstone and is around his neck It would seem that even a casual survey of editorial opinion in this country or perusal of only a portion of the speeches of his opponents in the recent campaign would be enough to convince Mr Roosevelt that these accordion-playin- g young thinkers with their Ideas at least are doing him no good politically— and are really cherished by his foes Once that exceedingly sound notion permeates the presidential mind the gay days of the Georgetown “liberals” will be over Mr Roosevefc owes these lads no debt of gratitude It is true they have been of use to him in many ways but the net of their service is a distinct loss They have gotten vastly more benefit from him than he from them and he is free to unload whenever he It is the hope of his pleases opponents that his emotion will continue to becloud his judgment and the “inner circle” remain intact The chances are however that Mr Roosevelt who is pretty quick on the uptake is preparing to curtail their activities and reduce if not their numbers their conspicuousness during the coming session There is a suspicion that perhaps awareness of this may have inspired recent reports of the alleged “drive” against them by the "forces of reaction” and the equally strange stories of efforts along this line by Mr Farley whq merely laughs at them or by Mr B M Baruch who hardly knows they are The truth about these “inner-circle- ” boys Is that they are nothing like as important to others as they seem to themselves th Copyright 1938 for The Tribune Overeducation Kind Lady— My poor man how did you ever come to such a con' dition? Weary Bill—Ma’am I'm a victim of overeducation When I was a kid I read so much about the blessings of poverty that I jes’ natchally couldn’t Arcanum ’Bulletin: 1(1 work-Koya- r Clean Living The reporter was interviewing a prosperous soap manufacturer "It is a well known fact” he said “that you made your fortune out of soap Mr Lather Now to what do you attribute your success?” “To clean living my friend: to clean living" was the reply — Philadelphia: Bulletin Too Jocular “I iiid not steal the chicken” “I just took said the poacher it for a joke” ‘Two months” replied the magistrate “for carrying the joke tpo far”— Pearson's Weekly job Business Half-Wa- y W P A is a kind of half way program Partly because of concern for the federal budget and partly because of "a persistent overoptimism in the White House and in congress concerning the prospects for economic recovery W P A has never been given enough money and enough assurance concerning its future to do a first clss job Hence there is growing sentiment in the administration for funneling more money into the special kinds of spending which seem to meet with general approval— the C C C the N Y A slum clearance the building of hospitals and health centers as proposed Under the national health program In this category must also be included rearmament which will bulk large in the next budget If the level of federal spending is sustained by these special programs and if general economic improvement continues the residual spending through W P A can be decreased gradually Probably some kind of flexible program of "light works” will always be needed to take up the economic slack Eventually even this “light works” program could be opened up to all unemployed whether or not they are in immediate need of relief That is what Harrv Hopkins was in at his New York City speech last getting week when he said that the “relief test" over a period of years is on the way out and that “unemploymfent-fhagot to be treated as a All in all s problem of unemployment Copyright 1938 per se” for The Tribune Off the Record So closely do the newer radios resemble the familiar airtight stove a westerner turned the damper down Sunday night and got Winnipeg The president is irked and rightly so at allusions to the “dream” cottage at Hyde Park Life is real life is earnest In a house with only one clothes closet Why the losing candidate must eat crow we gever knew as there should be red her- ring for all left over from a campaign like this It used to be rumored that Hitler was in his great decisions by astrology From now on we hear it will be vice versa guided "Sooner or later every star will get a bad play and make a bad picture”— Marion Davies “What I need now is a lot more tennis”— Helen Wills Moody Nix on the Nagger “Get rid of the nagging teacher" says a recent report to the New York board of edu- cation1 Why not" thumbs down on all naggers? Nobody loves them a The The nagger is a person teacher parent wife husband or boss who is healthy versatile and emotionally balanced can usually find ways of getting things done without using sarcasm and repeated direc- - 1 tions He makes the automobile go under its own power instead of pushihg it r For most people mental growth and happiness come from developing their own ideas not from being constantly told to do this or that The successful leader Inspires interest and a desire to Cooperate rather than a reluctant obedience The nagger is a continual thorn in the flesh a poison to the soul He accomplishes almost nothing because after a while his victims learn to ignore him He is lucky if they do not also learn to te him-- Dr Ira S Wile This Week one-ide- |