Show 9 alurdaj Morning !& awalFWit 8ilsvwfru$a 'W’ m- July 22 1939 Suit £akc tribune iTljc x Issued every morning by Salt Lett Tribune Publishing McNutt Deal Seen as Slap At Jim Farley Company The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the The Tribune Is a member of the Associated Press tug lor reproduction of ell news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper end elso news the local published herein Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning July Admission of Aliens fo Include Children in Quota Congress has been dclibeiating on the proposal to admit tomo 10000 German-bor- n children every year to give them an opportunity denied in the land their ancestors helped establish with industry "intelligence and military service The Wagner-Rogebill waa amended once to provide that the number of German youngsters annually entering this country" would be charged against the quota from that country In objecting to this amendment Sen- ator Robert F Wagner of New York issued a statement saying that “the proposed change in effect would convert the measure from a humane proposal to help children who are in acute distress into a proposal with needlessly cruel consequences for adults in Germany who are in need of succor and are fortunate enough to obtain visas under the present drastic quota long-pendi- rs restrictions” The senator seems to belong to that considerable number of patriotic Americans who allow their sympathies to run It is away with their better judgment true as his supporters repeatedly assert that the United States has “a habit of welcoming the poor and the oppressed of all lands” It is also true that the government once had vast tracts of unoccupied territory to be settled and cultivated It is just as true that the United States admitted over 38000000 immigrants But does it during the past 100 years follow that the door ought to be held open indefinitely when available land is finally occupied when farmers are having a hard time to meet obligations when factories are operating at half capacity and w'hen ten millions of idle people anxious for employment are being helped by the government in one way or another? How long does a man or a land or a race of men have to keep sending supplies to the stricken inhabitants of every continent while assimilating exiles from religious or political persecution in order to establish a reputation for benevolence or compassion? A record that cannot be questioned by altruists seemingly anxious to encourage despots to relieve their congestion at the expense of Uncle Sam No normal person can help sympathizing with the persecuted minorities of totalitarian countries including those of Spain Despoiled and driven forth to wander and perish are millions of mothers and fathers their offspring and the orphans of countless victims of inexcusable cruelty all of whom are entitled to a foothold on this earth jmd a chance to live But what is the use of overloading a supply boat when the only possible result will be the sinking or marooning of all1 The question of separating families raised by Senator Wagner is something for alien parents to consider as native Americans will have their woik cut out to hold their own families together if countries like Germany can add to their present quota lens of thousands of childien rery year Many homeless heads of families may be glad and grateful if their little ones are freed from privation without them and given opportunities they never would have realized even with them When Chairman Clarence Pickett of the nonsectarian committee for German refugee children declares that his organization would rather have no bill at all than to see children seeking food and shelter under the American flag included in the quota thus cutting down the adult entrants one is reminded of the man who preferred starvation to acceptance of a half loaf of bread Any pedestrian householder or government has to draw' a line somewhere or join the hungry thiong m the course of time long-standi- Pioneers Passing On After Long Eventful Lives 22 Joseph Alsop and Robert Kintner According to Director James V Bennett of the federal bureau of prisons “Utah has many attractions but none which attract the country's major criminals" That observation is a compliment for the people of this commonwealth to appreciate although it may be twisted into a double Heart diseases and ailments incident Utah’s population this summer Some of the more active business and professional leaders as well as many pioneers who helped build and develop the commonwealth aie listed weekly among those missing from their accustomed places in homes offices institutions and commercial establishments The passing of Dr Ficd Stauffer physi-cia- n surgeon and specialist well known throughout tho west leaves a vacant place in civic religious and profn- - innal codes sure to be very noticeable A native son a graduate of the state university and a missionary for his church fifty sears ago his experiences in Turkey in Pales! me and along the shores of the Meditc riancan sea would fill a book worth leading Brigham Young Randall's chatb at the Pge of four score and five was not unexpected but rocallH the part be plavrd in eaily days ns a chef a fireman a railroader of the era when Superintendent John Sharp was looking after the Utah Central and Utah Southern railways One of Snringville’s many distinguished residents Willis K Johnson died at the ege of 89 after an eventful career as an Indian fighter and fieighter of the rt days But most of those who settled and founded outside communities of the state who lived to honorable advanced age and passed on recently have been women There was Mrs Ella A Draper born in Nauvoo who died in Vernal the other day t the age of 83 There was Mis Maiy ox-ca- Utah has neither the geographical location the variegated population the diversified sources of income nor the lure of ostentatious opulence that combine to invite major criminals The long stretches of uninhabited country to" be crossed in evading pursuit the comparative scarcity of gullible citizens the unavoidable of new money-makin- g schemes the modest manner of living among the wealthy and the tendency of most people who make fortunes here to invest or squan- der them elsewhere render it both unprofitable and unnecessary for majors in criminal activities to come to Utah In some particulars these deterrents to lawless experts appear beneficial and may be gratifying to all residents of the state And yet there might be compensating advantages in a closer proximity to consumers and customers in the establishment of mills and factories for turning more raw materials into finished articles of commerce in an increase of circulating media due to added and longer payrolls in thq expenditure of a larger percentage of money made from Utah's natural resources in the stte of its origin However one cannot count on having his cake after eating it up If fortunes made in one locality ate carried to another — well that makes it unnecessary for these major criminals to settle here However when the new prison is completed it may prove more attractive than the antiquated institution now in service ty law-abidi- New York Highlights Practical Politician Charles I Driscoll NFW YORK— A church that has no (hurch building is one of the most popular of midtown religious institutions It is the Community church its minister the John Haynes Holmes Thousands of visitors to New York stopping in hotels in Grand Central and Times square areas attend Sunday services at Town Hall They hope most of them to hear Dr Holmes preach for they have heard of him more often than they have heard of almost any other New York clergyman Usually Dr Holmes does preach When he doesn't the preniher is one who has been selected because he can hold and inspire the snme kind of audience that responds so readily to ser- By world-renown- mons of Dr Holmes The Town Hall is In Forty-thir- d street just about in the heart of the busiest section of Manhattan island A little way from Grand Central a few steps from Times square this unique institution expresses in aned activities an Important phase of the life of New York and of the nation I won't go into Town Hall too extensively here it's worth a column or two of itself and this is about the Community church Rut for those readers to whom Town Hall means the official headquarters of the town a brief explanation The Town Hall In Forty-thirstreet has no official capacity in the government of New York City It is an institution designed to take the plnce so far as may be in a big city of the community halls of small towns It is a place where views are aired opinions expressed entertainment offered It fosters the Town Hull club one of the most progressive idea reservoirs in New York And it rents its big auditorium from year to year for Sunday religious services to the Community church which has no church building of Its own d Auditorium Leased Years ago the Ninth Church of Christ Scientist Irusrd 111 Town Hutl auditorium for Sunday services It worked Inward an objective ownership of a church edifice As lime drew nrar when the Christian Scientists could move out of Town Hull into llteir own building Dr Holmes became a regular applicant for lease of the hall There were others too Rut the management of Town Hall thought well of Dr Holmes and his orThe hall became his by lease ganization from year to year Dr Holmes hopes to he able to erect a church building suited to the purposes of the kind of church he guides During his tenancy of Town Hall he and his organization are raising money for tins objective It Is When the project making good progress reaches fiultlon you msy be sute the new church will he the latest thing in soi ial end community servic e Copyright Then too the president is believed to have made a vague promise to McNutt when he sent him to the Philippines to find him a job on hie return McNutt wae known as an able if dictatorial and shamelessly political administrator He had the Indiana convention delegation in his pocket and had announced hat he would support the president for a third term He was a practical politician of a 6ort sadly lacking among the president's personal lieutenants He could serve as a political organizer if Jim Farley should decide to make trouble He was disliked by the which the president also regards as growAnd so apparently ing uppish he was offered the big job and snapped It up like a trout after a Mav f!v Mercifully enough the White House group states that McNutt is not a crown prince quite ns emphatically as Jim Farley savs hat he cannot be Under the pressure of events the new deals “politics of principle" are tending to become opportunist but McNutt's record is still remembered Tossibly McNutt's blandishments and promises will convert the president and the men around him But if the president decides not to run and inclines toward McNutt there s'lll the fortunate fact that labor which will possess a veto on any now deal candidate would greatly prefer a Republican Thus the chance are Mi Witt cannot be a crown prince even if the president wishes to make bun one It remains lo be seen how far Mi Nutt will “behave himself" a a member of the adnnnist ration rohtirallv he has thrown in his lot with the president Time no doubt about that Rut these are all sorts of other wevs m q as the distribution of the t patronage of hcx new sgrnev in whieh he can achieve conspti misbehavior Judging bv his management of the Indiana government he will CIO Town Hall 133 McN'aught Syndicate Seeks Advice of Experts When McNutt became governor in 1933 one of his first undertakings was to reorEven before ganize the state government Roosevelt's inauguration as president McNutt had called in to assist in this reorganization two groups of experts One group consisted of specialists in penal and correcIt began with Sanford tional problems Bates then director of the federal bureau of prisons F Lovell Bixby chief of the federal division of probation and parole John Ellis head of the New Jersey prison and correctional system — and Included other persons recognized throughout the nation as the foremost experts in this field The other group of experts was concerned with other phases of public welfare It included Frank Bane then director of the later execuAmerican Welfare association tive director of the federal social security board and Fred K Hoehler present director of the American Public Welfare association McNutt sought the advice of the best people he could find—and what is more in the main he followed their recommendations in modernizing the public welfare system of Group! Astonished Some such words are put In his mouth as “When Iget back from my holiday I'm'golng to forget for once that Pm a Democrat and remember I’m an American first of all" His entourage angrily deny that he could have 6aid anything of the sort but even so the report that he did say it may have reached the president And although sudden rebellion is quite inconsistent wuth Farley's previous attitude the president may have believed the report Such things do happen especially in Washington The president's decision to name McNutt was certainly made on the spur of the moment In both wing of the administration it was greeted with incredulous astonishment In both it is said that the notion of making the offer to McNutt popped into the president's mind almost at the moment when the pushing Indianan strode into the White House Besides the problematical desire to put Farley in his place several other factors are stated to have influenced the president First of all the federal security post had proved hard to fill Arthur J Altmeyer chairman of the social security board was blackballed by Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins who hold him responsible for the establishment of the security agency outside her beloved labor deClarence partment Dykstra president of Wisconsin university had refused the place No other really promising candidates existed Inc i i Released by the North Aimrian Newspaper Alliance Inc Something Similar “I want the book railed 'Who Is Your Principal1' but I don t know w ho w rol e it " After due deliberation and skillful questioning the librarian that 'I longer Sc hool-ma'ir- r’ was the book desired— Pittsburgh Post Gazette Ernest Lindley What does Paul McNutt know about social security? What Is hts record in this field1 These questions are being asked about the new federal security administrator not only in Washington but all over the country by public welfare officials N Y A directors public health workers and others for whom McNutt has become the “boss” Officials in Washington have dug up and mimeographed a speech which McNutt made In 1936 while still governor of Indiana before It the American Public Welfare association recounts his work in reorganizing the public welfare services in Indiana and in cooperating with the federal government after the social security act was passed Farley-Rooseve- " se to age are taking heavy contributions from By WASHINGTON— Now that the dust has cleared and gaping mouths have shut again a remarkably interesting reason is being offered for the Incredible McNutt appointment In brief it is that James A Farley and Paul V McNutt are mortal enemies that the president thinks Farley Is becoming dangerously and that he named McNutt federal security administrator In order to take Farley down a peg or two The sources of the story while usually most authoritative are decidedly unfriendly to Jim Farley The story is also admittedly speculative so that a double discount must be made Yet the fact remains that the president's choice of McNutt for such an important post looks like an undeniable slap at Farley Farley has made no secret of his intense distaste for McNutt' Thus politicians throughout the country w'ho watch for such signs are bound to regard McNutt's sudden elevation as a plain commentary lt on the relationship The story begins with Farley's return from his transcontinental trip While he certainly informed a number of his cronies that he woyld support the president in' case of a third term effort he is said to have showm a more rebellious mood to others Ann Muir Grant a' native of Woods Cross who died in Bountiful at the age of 85 There was Miss Georgia Mather former school teacher and later an instructor in home economics at the state university who was 85 when she died There was Mrs Esther Lv Hatch a native of Franklin a well known church worker and mother of missionaries There was Mrs Patricia Sorensen Jensen a pioneer of 1857 who died in a local hospital at the age of 92 There were Mrs Emma Beck resident Goring 87 yeais old a long-tim- e of the state Mrs Ellen Lundblad Fullmer a native daughter and Mrs Mary Jane Grier born in Tiovo who passed away at the age of 85 All of these women were well known and useful citizens of the state where their services and influence will be held in grateful remembrance Observer Lists McNutt’s Ability for Job By 1939 No Major Criminals Here Utah Does Not Attract Them -- by Manning j Among Europe's Oppressed Indiana THE PUBLIC FORUM - - - by Our Readers sales lax now If the state or government preferably would issue $1 prosperity bonds the size of a dollar bill which reduce 2 cents in value each time they are indorsed and included in a $1 sale the discount to be stood by the dealer this would eliminate our unemployment problem and all these taxes and government debts about which we hear so much C R Dodge Plan Similar To 'Ham and Eggs' Editor Tribune: Sometime back the w'riter was at a banquet and during discussion of unemployment and the W P A workers a sheepman's son was complaining about their not being able to get men to work because they could get more for half the time with W P A and stay at home I commented in the forum about the matter and a worker answered by saying he was able to pick up extra work earn a load of hRy or wood etc and with the W P A and this extra work he could get along but could not properly take care of his family on the wages offered if he had to put in full time at it On $40 a month a worker can only pay his grocery bill and $10 rent and where is the extra money coming from if he has to put in full time on W P A for about half he really needs to live on? How is the business man who sells furniture washers radios etc going to do any business if men can only buy groceries and how is the doctor et al going to get his money? The government taxes the rich and those who run the industries have to tack the tax on what we buy which makes an eternal round of troubles The people pay 2 per cent Senator From Really the nonexistent crown for the best he told at the club's annual "liars’ luncheon” should have gone to Earle Gardemann for saying that it would be a contest It was no contest “By" Butler won hands down He said that he awakened one morning with a dear head and nothing to worry about His breakfast was perfect— that toast browned just right the coffee delicious and both eggs were fresh Then he asked his wife if she needed any money and she said “No" I don’t even remember the rest of the yarn Ixmis Manwaring told about having a bathtub nbout the size of Mountain Dell reservoir into which he put 6000 rainbow trout He fed the trout on alphabet crackers and in appreciation some of the fish formed a line on the surface of the water ea h with a letter on his nose the line-umaking words “Kiwanis Kt-wa- related from Would End Waste Editor Tribune :We are paying between 30 and 40 per cent of Exour income toward taxes cessive taxation causes nine out of ten of our personal and public troubles However citizens in various parts of the country have struck a key in eliminating waste and extravagance out of government without necessarily bothering about party politics It can be properly called "the Arnold program" which audits the w a In- dians by using Oklahoma watermelons for boats the seeds for oars and paddling to safety ai revue a dry lake or something ribald stories were Slightly told bv Reed Stevens Charley I'chr Bill Pollock Bill Carter and Bob Sorensen all of which were ruled out ns being in nmpr-ten- t irrelevant ami immaterial John Talrnage and I who wrra the judges went into a huddle before handing down our decision e did that just for appearance's s ike our minds were already made up We ruled that there was some probability of fact in the experiences related by Messrs but and McGuire Manwaring none In the preposterous statement made by Mr Butler Imagine a wife not needing money' It can't be did Y The golf tournament was funnier than the liars' Contest Alex MiCafferty had an income tax expert figure out the handicaps I think There u no other expla- - expendi- tures of political subdivisions from the state on down to the town and then compares what cities counties school districts etc are paying for items used in common The results are astounding in that the average citizen of that community is taxconscious for the first time This is not theory but proven fact as will be substantiated by the Ne- - Sandpit-- 8 Liars— past all shame— so past all truth —Shakespeare International " Warien MiGuire thrilling tale of Believes Arnold Plan HmP'1' nation for the weird way they arrived at the figures Eill Eldredge and I watched the players tee off Bill had to because he was on the committee— I did it just for my own amazement The first twosome was Lewis T Cannon and Simon Shapiro and I waited for them to finish and then I went home Simon whose handicap was a mere 81 chalked up a neat net sebre of 93 but was forced to concede the game to Mr Cannon who heat him 1 up I think "Mr Cannon plavrd a beautiful game" jsaid Mr Shapiro generously as lie made his wav wearily to the showers “hut I had quite a lot of trouble with my put— with my clubs " Note on the Cuff Department I don't suppose it was done diliberatelv hut when a guy writes a rhyme like I did in yesterday's (Olumn and has "embedded" to rhyme with “wedded" and someone makes it "embraced ” it's doggoned discouraging Right now I'm toying with the plea that it might be sabotage Orson Rogers savs the thing he rrmombeis best about the jubilee parade in 1897 is the Chinese dragon It was nearly a him k he says Guess I didn t long sec it Dave Com soy wauled me to lake a couple of pills that lie had in his pm ket Saul (hey would hr Ip mv knee He nd he hnd the same thing and it was mixed by and I told him I hadn't been near Rny acid let alone kneeling In It Ho got sarcastnal and wild It was Internal add caused by eating too muh alkali I got siarcd and thought I'd humor him so I asked where it hit him lie said In the knee first and then it went lo his big toe and It hint like Hail Columbia The guj's got gout and don't know it And he’s still got his pills or he did when he limped away Talk about hauling roals to Newcastle — t hes re having a blind motnriist give an exhibition on Mam etreeti braska Federation of County payers’ Leagues the Tax- Colorado of Tax Research association which Mr Frank Arnold is president and director respectively Also from the tax article m a national weekly magazine which was published last week regarding Oak Park 111 Now if the Townsend organization were to support a program such as the one outlined in the above paragraph along the lines suggested by these tax authorities who have been through the mill they could steal the support of the American people overnight and naturally do something constructive toward accomplishing their immediate objectives To provide for old age pension by means of 2 per cent transaction tax on every tangible article turning over from the time it leaves mother earth in some wmy to the finished article Cyril A Cojne Points to Omission Of Early Explorer Editor Tribune: I read wilh great interest in last Sunday's issue your editorial on the subject of the Colorado river After reading the article I felt a deep sense of regiet that the name of the first white man to explore the Colorado was not True this exeven mentioned plorer did not cover the whole length of the river but he did explore a large part of this turbulent stream and that more than 40 years before the history-makintrip of Major Powell This first explorer had only such equipment as he could construct from the material nature supplied along the banks of the g river The Powell expedition In 1809 was greatly surprised to find inscribed on the rock wall of the river gorge — "William H Ashley 1826" — that same mountain man explorer and trapper who brought the first fur trapping expedition through the south pass onto the head waters of Colorado and the Rear rivers and into tho Great basin Personally I feel that General William II Ashley has never received the reiogmtion that he la entitled to Please do not consider this as a criticism as it Is written just to call altention to one of the greatest characters in the early exploration of the west Sincerely W M Stookey M D The State of The Nation By Olin Miller Several mghls Hgo an area of 2o0 square miles in Otegon '1 he was considerably shaken shocks weren’t mild enough for the natives to classify the as ail earthquake and covyrt not severe enough to he ered s n fire In nrws for outside The theory was consumption advanced that the tremors were raused by collision with a huge about meteorite A group of sc lent hts and nltic rs now searching for a meteorWe ite in tho territory Involved hope they don’t find one With are things as shaky ns they already are In this country It would moke us sad to he fore ed to the com lumen that tho elements have set In flinging roc ks at us Squire Perkins says "Th’ reason women live longor’n men is 'iRUve they gltx more enjoyment out o’ forlm' misrnhle" Distributed hv K'quitr PrHtures Inc Peprcuiuct ion strlc tly prohibited Gets New Laws Quickly After the social security act was passed he called the Indiana legislature into special session and in 12 days put through the three laws needed to mesh Indiana into the new federal-stat- e programs for unemployment public health work and ascompensiftion sistance to the aged the blind and dependent children In his speech before the American Public Welfare association in December 1936 McNutt took a strong position on several points He advocated the merit system for public welfare workers including those in the counties He pointed out that there was however a deficiency of properly trained workers He said that special attention would have to be given to training personnel “with emphasis on workers for the rural mining and other areas of economic distress if we are to eradicate Elizabethan standards of relief ” giving “I firmly believe" he said "that the fate of social security and the administration of public welfare should not be left to the whims of the political spoilsmen" McNutt advocated also that the costs of assistance to the aged the blind and dependent children be shared by the counties as well as by the states and the federal government If local autonomy in welfare matters was to be continued the local taxpayers should bear part of the cost he said He pointed out however that some counties were bankrupt and that flexibility was therefore needed to prevent hardship The third point on which McNutt spoke forthrightly was aid to dependent children He said that under the social security act the children were short changed He asked why federal aid for dependent children was on a ratio while federal aid for the aged and the blind was on a ratio He asked why the aid was limited to children under 16 and why the assistance wax limited to $18 for one child in a family This compared to $30 for an aged person section of the law is liberalized in the amendments now before congress Finally McNutt spoke for federal grants-in-ai- d to rare for the people left on direct relief This has been advocated by many pubThe Roosevelt adminlic welfare officials istration has tried to fight shy of it since it embarked on tho W I’ A program In 1935 partly berause it has feared that federally aided direit relief would be used to break down the work-reliprogram Register and Tribune Syndicate one-to-o- Christopher Billopp Says Superb View A superb view is best had by climbing a mountain Age proves no excuse as you wiU be told of someone between the ages of 70 and 80 who made the ascent within the last week As there are no hotclx restaurants or even g stands on the tops of most mountains And It lx customary to take lunch along though there 18 a spring not far from the summit the chances are some nature lover will have defiled It with banana or orange peels so a few bottles of ginger ale are generally carried by the foresighted climber A sccater to keep you warm a rainront to keep off rain and a camera to take a picture of the view complete the standard equipment As a rule donkeys do not abound in our mountain country so that the climber can count upon being his own pack animal And of course no one Is selfish enough to want to have a superb slew all to himself so that he will probably take his family along if they bee nine exhausted he can carry the lunch swraters rainroats ginger ale and camorna People who mark trails are notoriously The experienced optimistic about distances climber therefore tnvarmhly notrs the nulrs lo the top shown mi signs and multiplies them hv two Usually there are two trails up a mountain one short nnd steep the other long and gradual This enables ynp If you took the short and s'eep to regret that you did not take the long and gradual and if vnu tnnlr the long and gradual to regret that you did not take the short and steep But you can return the other way and discover that in the fust Instance you were hot-do- mistaken Though climbers long before they reach the top frequently think of dropping in their tracks they seldom do because there are no St Bernard dogs In our mountains to give them brnmly So they forge upward a king themselves why they were so foolhardy as to Undertake the expedition For nine on top thev ran sit down take off their shoes ami fount the bilkers on their frrl and rnjev the superh view That Is if ax is very hkrlv nnst or fog or hnr has not set in to niwuit it CHRISTOPHER BILLOIT |