Show n Saturday Morninf f Ijc -- gait fake ®filnwe -- Established April 15 1871- - Usued every mornlni by bait Lake Tribune Publishing C The Tribune Is a member of the Associated Preae use for reproduction of all uews dispatches credited the local new Salt Lake City I'tah “What does he plant who plants a tree?” asked Henry Cuyler Bunner a sentimentalist of beloved memory as the editor of “Puck” and the author of many poems stones and plays In answoung Ins own question ho mentioned the moling shade the home of birds he beauty of IuikIm apes the pillars of God's fust temples Lucy Larcom the talented New Kng-lan- d poetess also answered lhat “he who plants a tree plants a hope" an inspiration to rise in the world “So man's life must climb from the clods of time unto Iho heavens sublime” The “Quaker Poet” John Greenleaf Whittier paid a feivent tribute to the tree when he wrote: “Give fools their gold and knaves their power let fortune's bubbles riso and fall who sows a seed or trains a flower or plants a tree is more than all" “When we plant a tree” said Holmes “we are doing what we can to make our planet a more wholesome and a happier dwelling place for those who come after us if not for ourselves" While an officially designated dale for the planting of trees and shrubs was urged first by Secretary B G Northrop of the Connecticut board of education in 1 8(35 nothing definite was done about the matter until J Sterling Morton secretary of agriculture in President Grover Cleveland’s second cabinet secured legal recognition of “Arbor day” in the Nebraska legislature an occasion now observed in most states Planting trees on public grounds in honor of some historical event or worthy person is becoming a general custom Six women who arrived in Stilt Lake valley With their husbands on the 22nd of July' 1847 two days before the main company tinder leadership of Brigham Young are to be so honored on the capitol grounds this morning by “Daughters of Utah Pioneers” by state county and city officials and descendants of the vanguard These six women were Elizabeth Crow wife of Robert Crow and their five daughters Harriet Elizabeth Isa Vinda Isa Minda Almarene and Matilda Jane Trees are now growing that were planted some time ago in honor of three women who came out of Emigration canyon with the principal wagon train on the date observed as "Pioneer day” One cannot help contrasting the appearance of the treeless valley of 1847 with the shaded avenues that stretch today in every direction among habitations surrounded by orchards and groves The six women in whose honor the ceremony is conducted this morning could they return for the day would 'marvel at the transformation while the distinguished leader who entered upon the facne two days later would find his conviction verified and could lepeat in unison with thousands who live here: “This is the place” r sage-cover- ed i IX- - Improvement Assured Traffic Fatalities Reduced r- 0'-r- t vr Vtv § ‘ M - rl ? ’ A- -- V'V 4 Ji¥ V" ’' 1 ! 1 5 ) ! ' I ( a traf- n and motorists were apparently making every effort to keep the slate clean However there is something gained besides a reduction m the number of it has been demonstrated that most of these accidents are avoidable that dnv-et- s aie ically capable of exercising caution and consideration for others that pedestrians are learning discretion and that vigilance and cooperation of agencies aie obtaining desired lesuits What can lie accomplished m 87 das can be continued for another period of like duration What has been done along these lines in other cities can be done m Salt Lake City Pedistnaiis must learn to “slop look and listen” befoie stepping fiom obstructions or off curbs into the Drivers must hold their path of travel cars in check when approaching dangerous corners crossings curves guides groups playgrounds and hiding plans for heedless! children Sanity and safely aie making Ividuav in Utah and Salt Lake City M"Um ixts are beginning to take more pude in dean J coords than they once did in distances covered They are paying ninic attention to danger spots on streets and highways than to their speedometers The ntv is ledrcm-inits reputation with the national safety council and people ate beginning to breathe easier as friends and children ventuie foitn Upon the public thorough rai e- What has been done can be doin' a'cim Let us have another 671 davs of deathless tiaffic ' ' 9 Jonah's Role Reversed Wife of Prominenf Jurist Sentenced to a Prison Term Encouraging to all law abiding citizens ani reassuring to those who complain that statutes are enacted to control ordinary offenders is the news from New York that the socially prominent wife of a politically eminent jurist has been convicted of smuggling severely lectured by the trial judge and sentenced to a jail term The husband Justice Edgar J Lauer is a member of the supreme court of the Empire State The wife who was ordered to prison immediately after termination of the hearing is almost CO years of age and reputedly rich She was denounced by Federal Judge Vincent Leibell as “a woman of insane vanity" In September 1937 she was arrested for smuggling and her 32 trunks were offered in evidence At lhat time she was merely fined This time she was charged with bringing contraband goods into the country last December The fine was regarded as nothing but an added expense to one who could afford it Behind the liars she may not look upon the crime so lightly York Charles Highlights Driscoll B Tales of sliattei paled youth- ''(allowing live goldfish in the presence of adorning companions and- pictures of the pigmies wriggling between the lips of a throwback indicate that Euiope is not - - Paul Mallon one I write of bears ncross its facade " French title "L'Eghsc de Notre Dame meanBut a priest ing “the church of our lady” of the church's staff told me that the full title includes “of Lourdes'' The church is reproduction i hie fly noted for its magnificent Lady at in stone of the Shrine of Our Lourdes France The church fronts on Morningsidc drive The facade is impressive though this is not a large church The chief feature of the facade consists of four columns with (liter sets of double doors for entrance and exit The entire building is a of massive gray sandstone blocks and the is arc of t lie same material Tlieie is a permanence of appearance Unit is satisfying to the eye Above the center of the porch is n stone cross ini-l- Entering you find a church of unusual I presume the archishape and character tect had a problem to fit his building to the which seems to be of some- plot of ground what irregular shape Instead of the long nave and wide transept which characterize nearly all Catholic chore lies and a great many other Christian houses of worship this church has a wide foreshortened auditorium with a dome above and a skylight The sanctuary really begins almost in the middle of the lunch for beyond and behind it is the grotto The nltar is low with no superstructure above the table except a low tabernacle Six gold candlesticks are the only adornment on tile altar except for gold rntnhlitmex on the front of it The altar and pulpit were dc’i"iied by Charles Becker and made in France Copyright 1939 McNaught Syndicate By Her block j — The ongi-nate- will pinch the Hull trade policy again the pinch is of an emergency nature which will soften Mr Hull's objections Something will be worked out Third Term Mention A difficulty but only a temporary one has been encountercij administration officials in by their plan for the triple-placabinet shake-urecently outlined Largest difficulty is reported to he War Secretary Woodring Apparently he did not react enthusiastically to vague suggestions concerning his possible promotion to the diplomatic corps Until Mr Wondrmg goes quietly the plan of bringing Murphy over from justice to the war post obviously cannot be carried out Wise custom requ’ires that any merpber of the official family who has been on the inside rf long time must nuj be permitted ot go away angry The circumstances of departure would 'have to be provided on the usual "Dear Harry- - Dear Mr President" basis Friends of Mr Woodring are saying he would not be interested in anything less than London or Tans If Joseph Kennedy would return and permit the Bill Bullitt to be moved over from Pans to London the Paris post could be opened Were it not for this difficulty the triple play would have been engineered some weeks ago As it is more negotiation has been necessary The second incident concerns the Washington representative of a national magazine At a recent public meeting this individual made statements in favor of a third term for President Roosevelt Not long afterward he was warned by the advertising manager of the periodical that prospective advertisers had objected to buying space in the book because they complained that its Washington contact man was personally friendly to F D R's continuance in the pres- y p Publicity A little pro-II A publicity had been circulated in magazines and elsewhere praising the Fort Wayne project as an offset to the unfavorable F II A publicity resulting from the Garner housing F project in Uvalde But since then senators and congressmen have been receiving the magazine articles of The American Lumberman and Plumbing and Heating Business which are headed: “Fort Wayne housing authority gets F H A insurance of shoddy building sidesteps building codes erects on vacant lots clears no slums1' s of the W P A flout Fort Wayne plumbing code in crackerbox houses" The articles resulted from investigations made by these two trade papers and they deny the cost was $460 to $900 claiming the actual cost was $1500 and up Among other things one of the articles claims "d lyhght could be seen through open cracks on all four sides of the outside doors and that rain leaked in " The difference of opinion will at least prevent any further use of the Fort Wayne exajiple as movepart of the ment Czechs Played Trick Inside official reports bring confirmation of the triel played on the Germans by th retreating Czechs a trick whs li has prevented Germany frrtL producing the armaments fxpected in Czechn Fleeing Czech avijfitors not only flew out with their planes as reposted but took alargc quantity of blueprints drawings plans anil specifications for armaments with them They took enough to impede the workings of the armament plants when Hitler took o er The Germans are now tediously replacing the blueprints by working back from the completed armaments they found in stock But it is naturally a difficult i prm ess Most Skoda products lately have hem going to Italy some to Ru- mania withdrawn nominee to the I C C Tom Amlie us due to get an appointment in the ration which does not senate confirmation and one u h cli Will pay $10 000 a year like Die one he lost on I C C -news-maHitlers l here Kurt Sell (who goes to Mr Roosevelt's press conferences Mr Hull's and others just like a domestic ) is leaving on a trip abroad lie is going hack for reschooling 111 revised nazi ideas Virginia’s Senator Harry Byrd ally of the south's only nn-ons'ructed rebel Carter Ci'ass has been chosen for the Gettysburg nddre-- s this year the frst time a “Johnny Keb" speaker has been invited re see-al- news-man- n six-we- CepMfcnl THE PUBLIC FORUM Pro-FH- -- fif iV Those Fort Wayne houses may not continue to be advertised as an official example of what F II A can really do when its sets its mind to a good job Flotsam Franklin old-lin- e Pinches Hull Plan It Jay For an American to express opinions favorable to the government of his own country or to refuse to attack that government has not hitherto been regarded as an unpatriotic attitude deserving of censorship Yet three recent cases havef'’'”"'”11""1' come to my attention cases! it appears that in which there is a growing regimentation of independent opinions favorable to the new deal" The first case involves a writer on public affairs who agreed with a highly respectable publisher to write a book on national '! N i The contract was® politics dis-was the outline f signed the! cussed and approved advance was paid and the t 4 writer did the job As the Z SniA last sections of his manu- ay Franklin script reached the publisher the writer received a letter from the firm stating its unwillingness to publish the book The reason was not that the author had failed in his contract or had written subversive libelous obscene or unacceptable material The publisher simply wrote "We are not in sympathy with your views” What makes the matter important is that the views to which the publisher objected were views involving a vindication of the trends of the new deal Sections criticising the new deal had been hailed enthusiastically state department went to some trouble to put out the impression that the Byrnes plan for trading cotton and wheat for rubber and tin is primarily a defense measure — but the defense branches of the government — war and navy —were not in on its preparation did not even know the announcement was coming One inner version is that Agrid culture Secretary Wallace the idea and tried it on State Secretary Hull last' January without success Another is that Senator Byrnes worked out the plan with Ambassador to London Joe Kennedy who sounded out England and gave Byrnes considerable information during the last two months Both versions are probably true The original instigator was undoubtedly Byrnes himself who became interested in the subject w'hcn he was a member of the house appropriations committee during the World W'ar While 1939 Franklin Charges Political Ban Hits at Scribes By stop-Gur- Tins ( hurch is operated by the Fathers of Mercy an outer of priests having headquarters in Frame When the church was built in 1°14 there were many French families livof these have ing ill the neighhni hood Most Now there is only one French moved awav one priest on the parish staff of‘Ho preaches serthe Smidav sermon in French at one A good many French students of Covices lumbia university attend this service The pastor is the Rev George K Mr Gee -and the name of the pastor indicates something of the change in the congregation since 1914 Most of the parishioners now are American born folk who speak only English Trying to Gang Up on Me Huh? ’ “Fumblc-plumbcr- NEW YORK -- The Church of Our Lady of Lourdes at tilth street and Morningsidc drive in the Columbia university sector of Morningsidc Heights is an architectural gem of There is another Church of Our Lourdes in Manhattan near 143rd street and Amsterdam avenue How the two are told apart in every day affairs I do not know The the c Freaks s'4 15 1939 the only section of the globe where supposedly civilized beings are reverting to type Considerable competition has been aroused among students of certain institutions and even between colleges themselves in demonstrating the dexterity with which juvenile intellectuals can transfer" fell from one tank to another Whether the act is pirentcd ns evidence of (opacity or i opacity has not yet been explained in any of the college catalogues for 1939 Lothrop Worthington a Harvard freshman was the originator of this modern test of meptality A sophomme in the same university to demonstrate the advancement attainable in one more year of intensive application swallowed 24 goldfish at one sitting or standing as the ease may have been A junior at Boston pollege in a burst of pride and a spurt of emulation swallowed 29 Then a dignified and superior senior in an Institute of Technology downed 42 emptying the reservoir in which the finny victims had been disporting themselves but a few short moments before When Gordon Southworth of Middlesex university established a record of gulping dowm 67 live specimens of carassius auratus without a pause or qualm the contest was apparently over for the season However the west is not to bo altogether outdone in scholarship Two high school lads of Twin Falls Idaho are said to be competing in the annent and supposedly obsolete pastime of swallowing angle worms The score will not be available until the contest is over Now that war clouds seem to bo gathering over the earth and the rumbling of distant thunder rattles the windows of our isolated homes let us join in singing the patriotic refiain entitled: “I did not raise my boy to bua soldier” By By April 13 Salt £akc (irilmrtc Behind the Scenes of Current News WASHINGTON g 5 A published herein New days passed without fic fatality in Salt Lake City liolding the list of deaths on municipal thoroughfares since the first of the year at six as compared with 15 for the same period last year It is a matter of disappointment that the goal of 1(H) days without loss of a life could not have been reached The police were hopeful the public was anxious Sixty-seve- Wjrf The Associated Pres la exclusively entitled to the to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also Saturday Morning April Observing Arbor Day With Appropriate Ceremonies 9 Company Co Uijc Forum Rules Goak Writer Letters appearing in this crtlmrm do not cxnroa the vfevss rf lh Tribune llU’V are the opinion of contributors with which The 'Iribun may or mav not surer The lollow Inc rules civrrn contributions: 1 letters limited lo 2riO words arid preference gieu to short inns Write lepihlv and clearly on 2 one side of the paper only 3 Kellciniis and racial discus-alonof a ilrropatorv or sectarian nature are barred Partisan oi personal political comment cannot be printed 4 Personal aspersions prohibited a not Poetical contributions Wanted fi Letter may be barred for or obvious misstati merits of fact d statements whuh are not in with fair play and coorl tasie adver-tlstnc 7 The Korum la riot an used medium and cannot t for advertising purposes Writers must flip’ll true names 8 letters will be and addresses In Ink rarrnil over assumed name if writer In all casts however so requests true name and address must ba to cormnunkalion 9 The Forum cannot consider more than one letter from the earn® wider at one time Says Editor Tribune: Six years have rolled by since the spring of 1933 when the new deal was born and confidence in our republic restored But those six years out of the lives of millions of men and women have meant blasted hopes and a bare subsistence six years of bonding to pay for the miserable government "keep” that could easily have been blessed six with industry and plenty years of promises unfulfilled six years of calling names but never naming the real cause of our national chaos though its identity is well known: six years of "finger pointing" though our own house is not in order six years of experimenting with the plans of the "backers" of our dole system six years lost six years that can never he "made up” in the lives of a passing generation All this is causing more and more people to say has tried hut you “Roosevelt can’t patch up our capitalistic system" But Roosevelt has never attacked the fundamental cause of our economic troubles and because "he" refuses to do so is g WASHINGTON D C— At 3:30 m I timidly knocked pt the west entrance of the White House and asked if Mr Roosevelt was at home A policeman (imagine having to have policeman at all your doors and windows and secret service men hiding 'in the trees said he was and would be men at 4 seeing o’clock "I am" I said with pardonable pride straightening the — what's the masculine for dowager? -- hump between my shoulders "a newspaper columnist and I am attending the press conference" "That s what you think" said the officer irypt cully and yet it seemed to me with a cerJiM then Bill tain deference Collins and Bill Donaldson superintendents of the senate and house press galleries respectively hove around the corner "He's harm— he's okay" they chorused each taking an arm and Ruling me into a large reception room with a huge round table in the center "I’ut your hat on the table and come with us" said Bill Collins I placed my new gray fedora carefully on the edge of the table Immediately a rather plump lady who had been leaning against the table smiled gratefully at me hoisted herself up and sat on my hat I followed my guides over to a door where a group of people were gathered "Now" wmspered Bill Donaldson in my ear "when that door opens you go in with the crowd to the president's office” "Ami remember" said Bill Collins in my other ear "that the president is never directly quoted without his pernnssion If he says 'This is off the record' then you can say 'Upon high authority it is stud etc'" new-spap- Pretty soon there was a terrific jam around the door More than 150 writers representing newspa- pers all over the world were gathered tin re Leaning against the door on one side wws a husky lad who looked lke a heavyweight I asked the man who wrest hr hail his elbow in my ribs who lie was "lies with the United Pres" he said "Is the man in the other corner the Associated Press?" I a'eked instrument that caused concentration of wealth to the detriment of the general public was private manufacture of our medium of exchange Let's be sensible enough to establish a scientific debt-fre- e medium of exchange and “keep our republic” V E De Witt Wants Money Put Into Circulation fur coyotes in the middle of a lake The honorable governor and the honorable gentlemen who are for the state must legislating know how to catch trout in the desert as they appear to think that money just grows in mortgaged homes and on farms that have long since ceased to belong to the operator for the very reason that they could not nor did not produce sufficient to fuel the bodies necessary to operate them Money does not grow on the farm neither on shadxcales greasewoods or pricklypcara If the farms and homes were a money-makin- g the proposition people in the banking and insurance business also would be in the farming business In a recent report I read that between 14 and 18 billion dollars were being held in the U S banks for more paper titles and interest and 20 billion by the insurance companies A sportsman knows enough to fish where there is fish Legislators should know enough to fish for taxes and revenues where the money is to pay them with In 1929-2there was 0 in circulation in 1932 there was $26 000000000 In 1937 0 000000 and in 1938 $33 0 no reason why we should be willing to give up our republic anrl establish— what? Danel Webster once said: “That (he concentration of the country's wealth fastens aristocracy upon us no matter what the form of our government" Now the ono By Ham Park "No’11 he replied "that's Young of the Star He's one of the oldest correspondents in Washington Came here during the Grant administration I think The Associated Press man Lx there in between them” I stood on tiptoe and peered Sure enough there was a littlo fellow all sot to go He was in sort of a sprinter's crouch Over in one corner in an easy chair aloofly smoking a cigaret w as a tall distinguished looking gentlom in asked "Who's he?” I nodding in his direction my arms being pinned to my sides so I couldn't point "He's Sir Wilmot Iewis of the London Times" was the reply 9 ' 000-00- 000 The sovereign citizens are say-in- g for all they are worth to the servants elected to serve them: "Get that money back in circulation" Until that is done the United States is a fertile breeding ground for facism and comD C Grundvig munism alongside the desk but the United I’ress man got that Just a case of brawn over brain The president looked fine to m than A little grayer perhaps when I last saw him but not so worn and" tired Grouped at the sides and tn back of him were secretaries aids and secret service men Then a voice said "All in!" The door was closed and the conference was on The State of The Nation By Olin Miller “The war department wants to defer action by congress on legis- lation proposed to take the profits out of war in order that a scientific study of such proposals can be made Officials of the department said that some of the taxes proposed ranging up to 98 per cent were so confiscatory they would paralyze industry in an emergency Press dispatch Junt why many ask should the profits be taken out of war? What fun could those of us who remain civilians get out of a war if we couldn't nuke some money out of it" Why we might ns well join the army! Rut if the government is set and determined to take the profits out of war it could do o very easily It would only have to pursue a little further alrrady established policies which have virtually taken the profits out of pence "Th’ Perkinw snvs: Squire gravel ttds are full o' folks that thought th' world couldn't git " along w it bout 'rm "Ladies and gentlemen" wild the president in his genial way "1 haven’t a thing for you today ” At onoe there were calls from various correspondents "Mr President are you in favor of this?— or has your attention been called tn that? Or what is the present status of such and smh a situation?” was the gist of them Some of them he answered In the the affirmative some negative) and at some he merely shook Ins head smilingly declining to answer one way or another Onco he looked directly at me and my heart stood still for I thought ho recognized me If ho had said "How are you Senator?” I'd've dinl happy But his gaze wandered nway and then a voice said "Thank you Mr Piesidint" and the oonfer-em- e was ended Unimportant s it was the memory of It will linger on as long as I do 111 Copjright 1939 Features ’f'JS - $38000-00000- $35-00- The door opened and the grand rush carried me with it right up in the front line near the president's desk There was a chair - Back Editor Tribune: As I passed the mental hospital near Pueblo Colo I had the opportunity of watching some of the inmates fishing in a dry wash But I have never heard of a sportsman fishing for trout in a dry desert or trapping fr Senator From Sandpi- tp by Our Readers - - New Deal Missed lt v by Inc Esquire idem y The third man was the Washington correspondent of a reputable Republican newspaper He was relieved of his post as head of the paper's Washington bureau and reassigned because the management wanted him to editorialize his news stnricsNigamst the jTew deal Since the man is'a thorough conservative and far from friendly to the new deal his case is that of a professional would not allow journalist whose him to take orders as to what form of censorship he should apply to Washington news I hnvc stated all three of these cases temperately— though all three of the men involved are well known to me personally and the facts are clear— because of the issue raised by this secret censorship Agencies of Public Opinion Here you have three agencies of public opinion— a book publisher a magazine and a daily newspaper — all of them widely respected and directed by reputable men taking a position which parallels a communist "party line" or a Gocbbcls "coordination” The position of the book publisher is that — contract or no contract— he will try to avoid publishing a book friendly to the new deal because he is not in sympathy with the author's opinions The position of the magazine advertisers is that with the space they purchase for the sale of their goods they are buying the right to censor the personal opinions of the periodical's Washington contact man The position of the newspaper is that "news is what the managing editor would like to have writ- ten” This is a form of clandestine repression which comes close to insurrection against civil authority for the views to which exception is taken are not politically or socially subversive They are views friendly or fair to the constitutional government of this country to its legally elected chief executive and to the policies previously approved by large popular majorities And the objection to these views is that they are friendly or impartial to President Roosevelt Every new deal supporter knows that the real money in political writing is to be earned by turning and knifing the new deal along with Stanley High and Hugh Johnson and that those who remain loyal are automatically limiting their chance to earn a living or get another job What is the answer? Politics of course and it's the toughest brand of direct action this country has seen since 1896 Copyright 1939 for The Tribune Christopher Billopp Says: Welsh Rarebit ’ A3 you slowly regain consciousness you find yourself lying on the floor of a dimly lit cabin In the semidarkness yon can distinguish the faces of three sinister looking men and you have a feeling that several others are somewhere about You try to move but your legs are seized with a sort of paralysis The men apparently are indifferent to your presence With their heads together they sepak in subdued tones Possibly they are deciding your fate A chill runs down your spine One of the men a towering giant displaying all the characteristics of the brute and obviously the lender of the gang impatiently fingers a long shiny object and occasionally A dirk steals a glance in your direction From where you are lying you can make out its fine blade and sharp point Once more you try to move but physical fear of the most compelling sort renders you Try ns you will you rannot make helpless your legs respond and a heavy rope binds your arms to your sides Is there no way to escape? If you were to cry out would anyono hear you? The three gangsters bring their parley to a close The monster with the dirk rises and As he approaches moves In your direction you perceive a livid senr across his check Ills mouth opens in a fiendish grin and he raises his hand above his head His massive gnarled fist grasps the dirk pointed downward In a second hp will be upon you Gold beads of perspiration soak your brow Once more you try tn move hut your muscles fail to respond In that (riticnl moment the whole of your past life flashes vividly before If you could only cry for hoi p The you monster is now upon you the dirk poised in tho nir ready for the fatal stroke With ono Inst desperate effort you kick and writhe struggling to release your bonds overcome the fear which has made you speechless and utter a long piercing shuck From the darkness entries a familiar voice asking petulantly: "What on 0 rt h Is the matter? Really if you go on having nightmares like tins you ought to see a dot tor” Billopp “ |