Show 1 THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE 1 ® rfljc JMt I ibtmje — Behind the Scenes of Current News i 1 Established April 15 187- 1- Issued every morning by Salt Like Tribune Publishing Company r-- Thi Tribune Is a member of the Associated Press Tbs Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the nae 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 Saturday Morning: December 24 Christmas as Observed By Pagans and Christians While Christmas is celebrated by Chris- tian people as the anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ it was one of the several festivals held by pagans long before the blessed event at Bethlehem Four hundred years later the date was adapted to the customs of converts to the new religion It was a saturnalia of the Romans in honor of the sun god called the “birthday of the unconquered sun” It was observed by pagan tribes of Europe four centuries after the Christian era began and called Yule day one of the rites was lighting a log for both illumination and warmth to give comfort to celebrants ' In the general movement inaugurated "by Adolf Hitler and eagerly adopted by 11 nazi leaders for the obvious purpose of gradually stamping out the last outward manifestation of Christian religion jn Germany an official edict has been issued forbidding use of the word “Christmas” and reverting to the pagan designation of WASHINGTON 1938 an agent of the law but' from an ambushed killer that makes no distinction between the sinful and the righteous— heart disease He was born at Ephraim in Sanpete county and his right name Was Christiansen Irf boyhood he attended country dances atone of which he fought and felled his adversary with a blow believed to be fatal pSo he ran away and found friends among rustlers who were evading cattlemen- of westerp Wyoming Changing his name he cast his lot with the outlaws and drifted to southeastern Utah then a refuge for desperadoes who sallied forth in gangs to rob trains banks and paymasters of the mining sections Thirty years ago Robbers' Roost was raided the leaders were killed or imprisoned and Matt Warner turned over a new leaf married settled down and became a respectable citizen of Carbon county with-- 1 in a day’s ride of the old rendezvous He was the last member of the Butch Cassidy band Yuletime” In conformity with the ban placed on mentioning the word “Jehovah" the revision of scriptures to harmonize with the the closing of teachings of Nietzsche churches fraternities and clubs the persecution of Catholics Protestants and Jews this Yuletime ukase appears to be merely another testimonial concerning the devolution of nazi “culture” toward paganism Contrast between the compassion shown the weak helpless and unfortunate in this country regardless of race creed or color and the treatment accorded areas marks the people in difference between Christianity and paganism Here an effort is put forth to make everyone happy and comfortable There the aged and infirm the women and children are driven from their homes refused food or shelter herded like animals in a narrow land and left to shiver atrip of starve pray and perish in the coldest winter experienced in central Europe for a half century Christmas holidays are days of happiness in Christian lands— they are days of terror and torture and tyranny 'in lands reverting to paganism - Fiscal Skies Are Clearing And Better Times Are Coming -- law-abidi- nazi-controll- ’s Famous Man of Many Words Has Uttered His Own Last Word The man of many words the reviver of "old words that long had slept" the sponsor of new words coined to meet increasing demands upon language the famous arbiter of meanings and master of a million symbols of thought has just uttered his last word in a New York hospital Dr Frank H Vizetelly etymologist lexicologist philologist reference editor of a standard dictionary seeker of sources and indorser of slang expressions was unquestionably the greatest authority on the derivation and definition of words who ever lived Shakespeare had a vocabulary of 23000 words the average professional man has command of about 30000 words and the advanced scholar ought to know how to use correctly 50000 words The deceased who made a hobby and specialty of words as well as a remunerative pursuit was said to know 10 times as many as any educated person needs to remember He traced slang to its origin and discovered that Bowery slurs and Broadway hits were surviving witticisms of dark ages when people put no restraint on their tongues It was one of his original ideas that the dead languages taught as classics died because they became too precise and inadequate to put virility in speech and Utterly failed to keep pace with the times In his dictionaries were included words and phrases that distinguished the vernacular of elements sections and occupations He sanctioned the use of chiseler boloney kibitzer gigolo dunker nudist necker and He welcomed the words techdumbell nocracy and cockeyed but held that “oakie-dok- e was the affirmative of an immature mind The son of an English printer Dr’ Vizetelly published a number of books on “slips ©f speech” “simple words” and “words misused" and thus contributed liberally to popular education along lines of correct speaking He was a student to the end of his long and busy life Matt Warner — Onetime Outlaw ! Died a Respectable Citizen As “Beadle’s Dime Novels" or imitative thrillers that told of adventures in the "wild and woolly yvest" kept yqungsters of 50 ' years ago reading when they were sup posed to be asleep so would a biography cf Matt Warner affect the impressionable and imaginative youth of any period were ' it told with embellishments considered in dispensable to the charm of such lurid lit' erature Zane Grey may have caught fleeting glimpses of this “Mysterious Rider” who fojlowed the “Lost Trail" through the "Purple Sage” of southeastern Utah in the days trhen “Robbers’ Roost” was ruled by Butch Cassidy Matt Warner died the other day at his home in Price one of the' most enterprisHe cities of Utah ing and lacked a few months of being 75 years old when death came suddenly as it had threat ened a hundred times in the dare-dev- il period of his colorful career however it cam not from the “six gun" of a rival or law-abidi- By Paul Mallon Another optimist has come to town Louis S Cates president of Phelps-Dodg- e corporation one of the largest producers of copper in the world on a tour of inspection to various properties of the company in western states and the republic of Mexico stopped in Salt Lake City to visit the Utah Copper mine and mills as a guest of Vice President D D Moffat who succeeded him as general manager at Bingham and Magna It was here that Mr Cates began his mining career as a timekeeper 34 years ago to rise through application industry and earned promotions to the high position in the mining world he now occupies with marked distinction and increasing influMr Cates expresses confidence in the future because labor has seen its mistakes industry has acknowledged its errors and the indications are that producers and consumers labor and industry congress and the president will get together during the next few weeks which should make the amicable adjustment of all differences possible and practically assured With some amendments to the Wagner act to equalize responsibility between contracting parties a few changes in the utility program retention of the tariff on copper imports and closer cooperation among leaders in government industry and labor nothing can stand in the way of a revival in almost every line of endeavor Cooperation is to economic rejuvenation what unity is to the defense of a nation Pessimism and disparagement will close a bank It will injure a country and delay recovery after a depression Optimism leads to confidence which in turn leads to re covery' New York Highlights Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK— The Broadway Presbyterian church Is one of the flourishing: churches of the Columbia university neighborhood It faces Broqdway and 114th street with a wide facade entrance and broad dignified steps Most of its attendants reside in the apartment houses that crowd this region There is not a large attendance of regular students from Columbia But parents and relatives who come in from Out There to spend week ends with sons or daughters brothers or sisters in the university make up a goodly proportion of some of the audiences Summer school students at Columbia swarm to this church They are mostly school teachers from towns and rural places through-- " out tho country Lonely in the city they seek out the church that seems most like the church they are accustomed to attend back home Although this church faces the busy traffic of Manhattan it is quite remindful of the First Presbyterian church in any one of a thousand towns in America Dr John Hess McComb pastor preaches at Sunday morning and evening services which are always crowded Likewise at the Wednesday evening service: This church has no complaint to make about the decay of religion failure of members to attend church services or stinginess of church-goer- s It is a prosperous-lookin- g church and its ministry seems to live on terms of friendly familiarity with its' members Dr McComb came to this church from Baltimore in 1935 He is a native of Lancaster Pa A bronze tablet on the facade tells us that this church-waat Bleecker street from 1325 to 1853 on Fourth avenue from 1854 to 1910 and that the present edifice was erected 1938 Unsung Heroines By Carlisle in 1912 It is a building of native stone remindful of many English-lookifi- g churches in this country There is 'a square tower mounting a peal of belle that strike jhe hours and quarter hours Rev W D Buchanan who was pastor of' this church for 34 years and died in 1934 was one of the best known ministers in New York Under his direction the present church edifice was built There have been only Seven pastors since the founding of the Bleecker Street Presbyterian church anccstet of this church ’in 1825 The location was near the Bowery considered ’way up town then- - There were 12 original members of the congregation with Rev Matthias Bruen as pastor There came a time when the neighborhood no longer seemed suitable tof the church Members moved away as the orientals and the closed in upon the’ congested area Despite considerable opposition among his parishioners Dr Joel Parker then pastor He built a new church at Fourth moved avenue and 22nd street and called it the Fourth Avenue Presbyterlah church That was in 1855 Dr Parker was strongly criticised for moving away out in the suburbs with his church Copyright 1938 for The Tribune By Frank R Some Election News senate comThe mittee which has been restrained will ly investigating elections surprise- the senate with some recommendations now being written No senators will he accused at least not by name But the primaries in three states will be mentioned specifically and W P “A activities will he openly deplored Several straight correctives are likely to he suggested: 1 Creation of a permanent senate committee with a permanent staff to look into all senatorial elections (Haphazard selection of investigators just before each election usually results in many greenhorns being chosen whereas a systematized method of policing senatorial elections would be more efficient) 2 Existing law should be amended to permit wider authority for investigating prt maries (Court rulings have clouded the right of congressional investigators to delve further than strictly congressional elections thus exempting allied guberna torial candidates for instance) - Will Condemn Politicking The report certainly will condemn political activity by government officials (mentioning bureaus hut not officials by name) It may also say officials who call in their clerks and announce "Now I am not coercing you but this administration has given me a job and I am voting for should be stopped Just what the senate will do with such recommendations is not yet apparent Senator Carter Glass has been working for two months on the speech he will deliver opposing confirmation of Judge Roberts to the western Virginia federal judgeship Those who have seen snatches expect the dissenter from the new deal to cover the entire pending political situation in his usual caustic style Glass was requested by the White House to recommend two names for the job- both his choices were turned down and the appointment went to a nominee by Representative suggested Flannagan of Virginia i Copyright 1938 for The Tribune - successor For example there was that unctuous exchange of letters between the president and Mr Roper in which each praised the other’s "liberalism” and' both registered woe at parting The facta of course are that Mr Roper is an old time South Carolina politician who got into the cabinet largely because of his relations with Senator’ McAdoo and for whom no one particularly cared He is getting out because the young intellectuals of the White House “inner circle” who have always regarded him as a backward looking nonentity campaigned to force his resignation in order t Frank R Kent make a place for Mr Hopkins Hopkins Out With WPX THE PUBLIC FORUM Delta Man Disagrees - Letters appearing in line column tbe views of The Tribune They are the opinions of contributors with which Tbe Tribune may or may not agree The follow log rules govern contributions: 1 Letters limited to 300 word a Preference given to ehort commu2 nications Writs legibly and dearly on one sloe of the paper only 3 Aelldoue and raeiai fUscnsstnns barred Parueaa or personal political comment cannot he printed 4 Per6 Posonal asperalone prohibited & etical contributions not wanted Letters may be barred for obvious misstatements of fact or tor statements which are not In accord with Tbe fair play and good taste Porum is not an advertising medium g Writers must sign true names tand address tn ink Letters will be carried over assumed name it in all cases writer so requests however true name and addrese must be attached to communica0 tion The Forum cannot consider more than one letter from the same writer at one time as bad as Mr Paul says which I doubt Som credit should be given American employers for the wage earners’ high standard of living Most employers have been progressive in the matter of paying moved ' A paragraph in the paper stated that the Salt Lake Advertising club' held its third annual Christmas party Wednesday afternoon and light refreshments were’ Well if what I saw and served partook heartily of were light refreshments it would never do for me to attend an Ad club banquet The table fairly groaned with the weight of choice and various viands when the party started but when I came back for my third helping there wasn’t enough left to satisfy an anemic locust I asked Fielding K (Smat) Smith just to make conversation how he was feeling and he told me Some people will you know Anyway he said that he was far from well— that he had been nursing a cold for three months and his friends who are legion had been prescribing their pet cures and he being a loyal sort of cuss had tried each and every one The cold he said had become chronic' and he hardly noticed it anymorrf because the remedies he had been taking had made him feel so rotten A Christmas tree which looked as though it had suffered from a bad case 'of limb and trunk arthritis when it was but a twig was set up in one of the rooms From its gnarled boughs hung a varied array of old' socks some darned and some not and a placard which said the tree had been donated by the U S Forestry Service Great hilarity took place when the gifts were presented They were of wide variety and two in particular I recall brought forth a gale of laughter They were first: A pair of dark glasses for Torn Muljin Tribune ‘business manager upon the lenses of which was written in white letters this injunction: “Read The Deseret News” The second was a large package for Charley Pin-cmanager of the Centre theater fair wages It is noteworthy that American real wages reached unprecedented heights under the system of free enterprise without any dictation from the government Actually the wages of labor are the products of labor and cooperation between labor and management can do more to create prosperity than can government decrees It is tragic that stupid agitators have been permitted' under the ntfw deal to undermine the foundations of American prosperity Richard S Morrison Delta - do not express Senator From Sandpit The advertising man is a liaison between the products of business and the mind of the nation Hs must know both before he can serve either— Glenn Frank by Our Readers - - - Forum Rules With 'Capitalist' Note Editor Tribune: A wise old man once said to "me: “Anyone who owns two pairs of shoes is a capitalist One of the pairs of shoes is a product of labor not needed today but saved for future use That is capital” In that I have two pairs of shoes' I am a capitalist but I am not one in the sense J H Paul’s letter published December 19 I do not represent any Implies other "capitalists" The opinions expressed in my letters are my own Nor did I have anything to do with the government 70 years ago I am not yet 70 years old nor even' half that age ho I beg Mr Paul not to include me with his capitalists who “may not now complain because they are required to pay for the damage they did” I don’t see why I should have to pay for any damage that more opulent capitalists did before my time even if they were nt Intensive Practice ‘You cough with much more ease this morning” said the doc tor ‘That is not remarkable” re torted the patient “I’ve been practicing all night”— Pathfinder Kent WASHINGTON— There is always a lot ol bunk about the publicity attending the resignation and appointment of cabinet officers Politeness oozes from every political lore and the truth is generally hidden from View beneath the grease This has been particularly true concerning the recent resignation qf Mr Roper as secretary of commerce and the prospective appointment of Harry Hopkins as his — The jusUce you are treated properly or adequately and if you do not come to him at the end of a long hard day in which he hid already treated more persons than his salary justifies But even if this arrangement is legally like an Insurance company the justice department still will have to face several court decisions in which insurance companies have been ruled to be outand side interstate commerce therefore exempt from the antitrust law Competent' outside legal opinion expects the first judge may throw out the Indictments in which case the government will make an Immediate appeal to the supreme court and get a prompt ruling The government did not stress Its biggest point In the indictment — a resolution allegedly adopted November 3 1937 by the District of Columbia Medical soThis resolution referred ciety to the possibility that physicians could obstruct “the successful operation of Group Health Association Inc if it can prevent patients of physicans in its em ploy being received In local private hospitals" I Cabinet Revamps Opens Place f For WPA Director "7 If He's an Expert That is his will be expert attention if the physician you draw happens to he expert in the particular disease from which you are Buffering and happens not to be working on a monthly salary merely because he cannot make a living in competitive medicine Also if ha is the conscientious kind of & man who does not appreciate the fact that his salary will be the same whether or not s flop-hous- es DECEMBER 24 department is none too sure of its case against the American Medical association If you can catch the prosecutors in chambers you will find no bets at even money that the government can prove the indicted groups of doctors were restraining "trade and commerce" by opposing group health ‘No one not even the justice department is ready to contend physicians are in “trade or com- -' merce" and therefore subject to antitrust laws when they are healing the sick This is recognized even by law (which sometimes develops astigmatisms) as a purely professional service So the government's case will rest mainly on Jhe idea that group health is in “trade and commerce”— a possibility which might stretch an ordinary imagination to the legal limit if not beyond 'Group health has a facial resemblance tp an insurance company The resemblance does not run very deep in fact because health groups do not invest their income for profit They are cooperative organizations in which you pay 50 cents a week or month and expect when you are ill expert medical assistance from a physician who is on a ’monthly salary ence By SATURDAY MORNING It turned out tobe a ticket to the Roxy the- ater After the gifts had been distributed and everyone had eaten his fill and the conversation and laughter were being punctuated with Chinese expressions of pleasure and enjoyment Paul Clowes —By Ham Park that a committee be appointed to present the Christmas tree to the Exchange club which was holding its annual banquet in the Lafayette dining room But before the motion could be acted upon Frank McLatchy arose to a point of perso'nal privilege and stated that it would be an act of moral turpitude to make such a presentation because there were ladies present and the tree was the resolustripped Whereupon tion was tabled ' and everybody went home — I think Inscription on a Column To be chatty amusing And slightly instructive To catch iridescent bubbles from The spray of town gossip To have a taste for poetry an eye For drama and a nose for news To be able to write vers de ' societe Like Austin Dobson t Sentimental rhymes like Eugene Fjeld Stirring ballads like Rudyard Kipling To be able to rally contributors Around you like a demagogue And to purge like a dictator To be as humorous as P G Wodehouse graceful as Joseph Addison As slangy as a sports writer jAnd as witty as an angel— or a devil — This is the formula for the perfect fAs Newspaper columnist —Chicago Tribune Notes on the Cuff Department Acknowledging Christmas cards from Mr and Mrs Lancelot P Bowen Mr and' Mrs Wallace Bredemeyer Mr and Mrs Georgs R Corey “By”- - Woodbury G A Rogers Frank (Pat) Gallagher Rosa Lee and Lew Lloyd Ethel June and Frank Reynolds Omaha Neb Mr and Mrs Clarence Judd Evans Washington D C Major and Mrs Ray Cooper Brooklyn N Y James McCabe New York City Ernest G Williamson San Francisco Howard Strickling and AleX EVelove Hollywood E-Bertling sent me a copy of the Chicago Tribune’sl938 Line Bodk to add to my collection And just in case you are Interested 1 am going to postpone publication of my own book of excerpts until spring when I expect to have several items of especial interest to add to those already compiled Winter Colds Blamed On Changing Modes Editor Tribune I noticed In The Tribune a news item with this heading "Children Want Snow" So they can use their new sleds? Observation leads me to believe that parents and college boys and etc bachelors stenographers want winter weather so that they may have an excuse for wearing their new overcoats furs mufflers and other such winter apparel The high school university and type have been eyes for the last three months These are the same aristocracy that last 'April were seminudists longing for July and the sego lilies Ye writer has been out every day for many years regardless of weather conditions and hasn't once had the snivels Yes I have an overcoat A common cold Is usually the result of cold wet feet an superheated office buildings saleslady muffled to the America's ever-- f luctuating styles of'dress have sent many an unwise person to an early grave Now to get back to that "Children Want Snow” item Weather conditions are not regulated to suit man Man must suit himself to conditions “He (God) makes it rain on the just and the unjust alike” The birds do not sing or wear beautiful plumage to please man The song and the beauty are to attract a mate The wild flowers don’t grow for us The hills and the meadows were a riot of bloom before Adam was born Instead of trying to adapt nature to suit you try adapting yourself to suit nature You will live longer!' Andrew A Van Brunt Granger Man Favors Bus Tragedy Inquiry Editor' Tribune: A public 'Inquiry is needed in the death of 24 school students and injury to others at West Jordan 1 Could a lookout man have ’ been employed? 2 Why was there not a red light Signal swinging to- and fro - telling of the approaching train? 3 Why wasn't a torpedo put upon the rails to stop the train? must be made 4 Every-effor- t to prevent another similar occurrence during stormy weather Prevention is better than cure 5 Are these accidents neces- UUW nary? John BerryGranger C'-ee- The woman candidate at a by was canvassing and election called at Mrs Grimm’s "And I hope” she said in conclusion “that your husband is going to support me" "Lumme missis — you’ve got some ’opes you ’ave! Why I’ve been married to ’im for nigh on twenty years an’ scarcely ’ad a penny out of ’im!”—Providence Journal As for Mr Hopkins the reasons there has been a campaign to make a place for him in the cabinet are clear For one thing his political activities and general belligerence as well as specific remarks along the spend spend tax tax elect and elect lines have made him so vulnerable that hiq continuance as head of the W P A seems equally undesirable for him for the president and for the relief problem which grows worse all the time For another thing the W P A is not working it cannot be made to work and It is certain to be modified changed revamped and generally overhauled by congress No one knows all this’ better than Mr Hopkins He has gotten himself into d hot spot and is anxious to get out Perhaps he is not to blame for the failure of the W P A Perhaps no one could have done a better administrative job But It is his own fault that he has become recognized as an aggressive and offensive political partisan— known as one of the president’s political advUers Of course he cannot blame anyone but himself for his indiscreet utterances and it Is xer- tainly his own fault that bis garrulous aid Aubrey Williams has been permitted unrebuked ’to inflame relief workers with class hatred speeches and encourage the Workers alliance which is dominated by communists and is in new deal politics as its leader says “with both feet” Natural Opposition It is not surprising that with this background the suggestion of putting Mr Hopkins in the cabinet should arouse opposition in the senate It is surprising that regardless of his intimacy with the president there has not come a stronger public demand for his removal as head of the relief organization It Is possible of course that the president may not name Mr Hopkins as Mr Roper’s successor but there Is no doubt at all that he wants to As for the idea that if named he will not be confirmed there is no foundation for that He will be confirmed all right For one thing Mr Hopkins has done a lot of favors for senators Thers are few who have not had to ask him for money For another certain well known "economic royalists’’ of the type most derided and abused by new deal spokesmen “and particular targets of the Corcoran-Cohe- n group are behind him In the eourse of the last few years while belonging to the group of new dealers who most violently rant against wealth ahd most constantly sob about the ' "underprivileged third” Mr Hopkins has become great per- sonal friends with a number of wealthy men and frequently has been their guest in New York Long Island and other places Some of these are among his strongest backers for the cabinet post Some of them were for him for this new job ahead of the “inner circle" Some of them have considerable influence with antiadministration Democrats in the senate Aid From Economic Royalists If Mr Hopkins Is confirmed— and there Is every indication he will be— it will be due more to the influence of his “economic royalist" friends than anything else If he had to rely entirely upon the "intellectual liberals" he would not get to first base in the senate Fortunately for him he has other advocates Some time ago It was suggested that one idea of putting Mr Hopkins in tho cabinet Was to build him up for the 1940 presidential nomination That is no longer taken seriously even by the “Intellectuals” It would take a good deal more than two years to build Mr Hopkins up as a Democratic presidential possibility It could hardly be done in 20 The practical party politicians just laugh at the notion He is being promoted now in order to save him from attack—not to groom him for higher honors And despite his complete lack of business experience there is one thing to be said about his occupancy of the business portfolio— to wit his political activities will be much less offensive there than in a position where he has billions of public funds to distribute fer relief ' Copyright 1938 for The Tribune ' -- " Argument For Insurance “Hurrah! Five dollars for my latest story" "Congratulations young man From whom did you get the money?" “From the express company' ' They lost it”— Cleveland Plain Dealer WEll Ill Tell You - By Bob Burns I just want you to know that you don’t have to worry about me going society out here in Hollywood' At least I won’t try it as long as my kinfolks are still with me You just can’t mix the two factions Not long ago my Uncle Gus Rookes came out and brought me two hound ‘dogs from home Tbs bther day some friends dropped In to see me and one of ’em was a very elegant actress wearing some very exclusive imported furs When she walked out Into the yard one of the dogs started rearing up On her and barkin' and when she complained Uncle Gus says "Oh don’t blame the dog— he's trained for buntin’ and he just goes crazy when he smells a rabbit!” Copyright 1938 for The Tribune V |