Show g Saturday Morning- - Ije -- " —By On His Biggest Job November 30 19JQ -- Established April 15 UU Salt £ake Behind the Scenes of Current News Halt £afe iMued every momlni by Salt ?H)C j ftribune- - 1871———— Tribune Fubltoblng Oompeny entitled to the Th Associated Pres to exelujdTel member of the AmocUted Free Th Tribun 1 nee for renroduction of 1) newt dupa tehee credited to It or not otberwto credited la thla peper end alio new herein the local published By Frank R Kent By Paul Mallon WASHINGTON— The WASHINGTON — Wrapped up Mr Roosevelt’s decision to Salt Lake City Utah Saturday Morning November 30 19 W’ limit his new defense budget to legitimate defense projects was and-tha- t a brick which fell upon the heads confessed of have the all gang guilt Justice Black and Black Men— corroborative messages are being reof his spending theorists ' The In which th£y towns cities ceived and from public’ may have missed it but Responsibility and Reason operated they did not Even as the blow Whether the quintet will be turned fqll they were at work upon a Men are often misjudged by critics or vast supplemental defense proover to authorities from other states comby opponents whose opinions are warpedcongram of public works which with- warrants and inventories of stolof error some on ing or leased prejudice would require' untold extra bilact or reen held under the never and Dyer property duct the accused regretted ions for new express highways for having a stolen automobile In their Assumption of responsibility fretunnels and such peated bridges refpossession or arraigned on charges of But they bore their grief exquently changes one’s viewpoint with Mann act state the by crossing violating erence to issues of honor equity and fair ceedingly well Struck but not lines for immoral purposes has not yet dumb they are going ahead with play been determined their preliminary arrangements When Hugo L Black a senator from in expectation of working up a is event In whatever disposition any supreme Aiahama wasappointed be program within a few to confessed complete of these criminals made court of the republic the fact that he had months Analyzing carefully Mr whether the are to be tried in state or once Joined and soon left the Ku Klux Roosevelt’s words they found he federal courts the fqct remains that they Klan was urged against his confirmation had barred a big road program were gathered in by alert members of from the budget and they by the senate It was asserted in speeches only the Salt Lake City police department well knew It could not have been special articles and editorials and in peput in the budget anyway It was titions to tM tribunal he entered that nowhere near a finished state Black would be a bitter foe of the black Hitler and His Stars Furthermore they have comman that being a tenet of the Klans-man’- s forted themselves with the confaith and gospel May Separate Until Spring viction that Mr Roosevelt will For weeks and months he was assailed have to undertake a vast roadA local astrologist has brought hope and the attacks pontinued long after the way program for defense withirt from the Milky Way to gladden the hearts nominee was confirmed by his colleagues the next few months no matter shows of "Hitler’s an associate as horoscope humanity and accepted by the court how deep his present budgetthat he has passed his zenith” says Frank However all cases assigned to Justice trimming humor may run Bowman "but in the spring things in all A mild expansion of roadLast him receive impartial consideration will look better for him than a of probability reversal building recommended activity will probably be "he February Included in the budget neverthey do now” Florida district court sentence where contheless The war department has This means if it means anything that viction of a negro had been secured by been working Inside with the be will to have done der about Black something Justice methods “third degree” state roads commissioners and now next between fuehrer and spring was supported by his associates roads dmin Should -- his - personal astrologer “find— the — istration to strengthen and widen LasrMonday the ease ora negro un- same condition skies reflected from the der sentence for committing a criminal certain strategic defense roads one may count on a cessation of air raids assault on a white woman in Texas was Something may be done also until "a livelier iris comes upon the burr sitabout starting one or two express reviewed by this Alabama nished dove” of all mortals highways But what the spenders fellow on ting in Judgment have In mind to promote as soon Tennyson seemedllo have foreseen the races creeds and political affiliations He as the annual budget economy approach of Hitler in his Canto 64 “As found that negroes had not been accordtears are shed and dried is a comman whose in life somevdivinely gifted ed the privilege of serving on grand Juries plete transcontinental system low estate who skirts the began— grasps indictment which the In the county from with tunnels under vital rivers of chance blows of and breasts the happy had been returned’ This according to like the Potomac circumstance who grapples with his evil Justice Black was unjust discrimination star to make by force his merit known Blames Miss Perkins justifying a reversal and lives to clutch the golden keys to in to result racial “For diseriminatlon disappointed mould a mighty state’s decrees and shape t The momentarily the exclusion from jury service of otherspenders are inclined to attribute the a of throne” whispers wise qualified groups not only yiolates their setback to Madame Perkins However if Hitler’s guiding stars rethe labor secretary They say our constitution and the laws enacted unturn lent and their faces toward endless she has fed the president a lot der It but is at war with our basic conspace there may be some chance for civiof employment figures which incepts of democratic society and a reprelization yet dicate the defense program will His declared he sentative government” sop up the unemployment rolls opinion was Indorsed by a unanimous more than they believe possible court" Dies and His White Book— Miss Perkins has contended deMany a man has been Induced to join fense will abolish unemployment some supposedly patriotic organization to Detecting With a Brass Band by December 1941 She expects renounce the movement after discovering it to create 5000000 or 6000-00- 0 Representative Martin Dies like certain a sinister purpose behind itr- Many a lawjobs and estimates only 7000-00- 0 local "witch-huntershas entered upon are unemployed now The yer steeped in prejudice against some his campaign to make America over with spenders have counter figures person group or institution opposed in such a fanfare of enthusiasm that he is claiming 8000000 to 9000000 court or the political arena is alrribst sure now unemployed They contemaccused of doing more harm than good to take stock of his emotions and to direct plate absorption of no more than The bear hunter who shoots at every chiptheir expression by cold logic and un4000000 to 5000000 in defense will sees munk he never bag any big game biased reasoning when the weight o reThe president in his public He scares drives it or to it away deeper comment however did not tie sponsibility rests on his conscience’ coverts thus making it more dangerous his budget restriction decision to and difficult to catch the unemployment situation He In his "white book” to be sold for a indicated W P A would be con‘Help That Comes Too Late tinued apace fancy price at many book stores he will that safety lies The president however notify all For Our First Line of Defense launched most of his economists in greater secrecy or an entire change of into a sea of confusion with his Following in the footsteps of procrasprogram When the Dies detectives raidpromise that collapse ’at the end tinators whose governments have ceased ed nazi headquarters in New York City of the defense boom would be to exist the congress of the United States inforcut of off channels valuable they avoided by a large public works Great Britain at of America has glanced mation by which the federal bureau of inDefense expenprogram then over her concern some had plight been a expressed vestigation gang rounding up ditures will run up to $10000-00000- 0 is situation decided that the of dangerous plotters dangerous annually and there are More coordination and less and admitted that the security of this renot enough prospective pubjust lic works projects in sight to would produce better results and public depends to a very considerable exstart anything like a comparable tent op the pluck and endurance of the justify a portion of the expenditures this federal fostered building operBritish army and public then having Impatient Texan would like to have conation afterward— to say nothing the situation the canvassed tinued Indefinitely thoroughly of the money involved congress has again postponed financial -- - tO-t- he Officials of both army and navy Confessed Criminals Caught By Alert Active Local Police Salt Lake police are alert efficient and deserving of commendation not only for the regular apprehension of culprits Who rob automobiles burglarize stores and play confidence games on unsuspecting countrymen but for the celerity with which interstate criminals also are taken into custody A recent case in point is the arrest in a local tourist camp of five suspects having possession of several thousands of dollars’ worth of miscellaneous articles stolen from several states along the route of the robbers from Chicago to Salt Lake City Three of the prisoners are men allegedly with criminal records and two are young women caught trying to dispose of pome of the plunder It is reported that 1 I New York Highlights Charles B Driscoll NEW YORK— I heard a preacher pronounce herb as spelled sounding the h recently That reminded me that the keeper of an herb shop away downtown also pro-- ’ nounces It that way Not only was I always taught to call it urb but nearly everybody I know pronounces it that way So I looked it up Webster’s International latest edition gives both pronunciations with urb preferred In a note it says that Urb is best usage in America but that in England since about 1800 the hurb pronunciation has been gaining favor By Somebody in San Diego wrote In to say -- that I am all wet about there being such a place as King of Prussia Pa There’s no autfh place she says That ought to be pleasant news for the good people who live in and near King of Prussia in Montgomery county Pa How does it feel to be told you don’t exist T I know how I felt soon after coming to New York when I was told by a telephone operator that there Is nfe such place as Wichita Kan A correspondent In Equality 111 when I remarked about the interesting quality of her town’s name reminded me that in Indiana where her mother was born there are Solitude Bean Blossom and Gnaw Bone to say nothing of the now famous Santa Claus Equality I’m Informed was named by Etienne Volney French writer who visited the placewvhen shortly after the French revolution it was called Salines of the Wabash a rather awkward name The French in those days were all excited about the words Liberty Equality and Fraternity Monk the Killer the big police dog that nearly finished Captain Kidd while Kidd was muzzled has taken to killing squirrels in our neighborhood There are thousands of fine old trees on our hill and they are inhabited by many squirrels Monk maintains a sort of comradely friendship with Midnight the big female 'Newfoundland who lives up the street His idea of a gallant gesture Is to pounce upon a squirrel that is digging up a hidden nut crush it to death with one snap of his jaws and then carry the limp body over to Midnight and deposit it at her feet The old fashioned dry goods store had an aroma that I do not sniff in any store today It seemed to be a perfume based upon new shiny black sateen with wholesome overtones of cotton print goods and silk Released by McNaught Syndicate Inc 5 Heavy Cushions Heavy cushions for the fa might be provided Maintenance of the kind of fleet and army we are preparing may run to $6000000000 a year (This of course is not public works) A housing program might be whipped up Some new power projects might be started A backlog of the least needed P W A applications (formerly turned down) might be brought forward But they may have to wait 50 years or so until the new post offices schoolhousesand federal buildings constructed in the layt few" yean grow obsolete before they can whip together a new public works scheme sufficiently vast to meet the expected situation Distributed by King Features Syndicate Inc Paragraphically Speaking By Olin Miller If the cartoonists would omit the mustache from Uncle Sam this might help to dispel the too prevalent idea that the old boy is Santa Claus Civilization would have more if China hadn’t been usiitg it for such a long time to recommend it “What will you do with your spare time this winter?” asks a writer Sit around and wish it were spring “From the standpoint of knowledge and Information the mental age of Americans has risen from 14 to 17 since the World- War" says a War Department official Hold it right there America—that’s just abput perfect There’s scarcely anydoesn’t know thing a - Of all products of fOlltical Immorality the kept voter is the most profligate Copyright 1940 Esquire Features Inc Chicago lnsia that this does not in the least mean that the Y M C A the Jewish Welfare board the ire-eate- aid until next year There is an old song about "the help that comes too late” but our national lawmakers would scarcely grasp its meaning While some Americans might be willing to sacrifice their own country if by so doing they could carry Great Britain down at the same time and others like Senator Nye believeGermany will become - so exhausted by capturing the British navy and collecting fresh fortunes from the Jews they will not feel able to cross the Atlantic and still others like Senator Hiram Johnson would scorn to feed a debtor engaged in putting out a threatening fire in the Johnson home it Is generally believed that a large number of Americans are willing to furnish the ammunition if the British will do the shooting If Great Britain should fall beneath the cruel and relentless blows beginning finally to make her flinch what sum will the Johnson bill save or what war will the Nye policy avert tProcrastinatlon is worse than a thief of time— it is a promoter of selfishness and an auxiliary of the totalitarian plotters Senators Johnson Nye Holt and Wheeler by their perverseness and persistence may b£ doing more for the nazi cause than all the fifth columnists now functioning in this country are able-t- o accomplish well-inform- ed Still Have Place -- ” apprehension !? quarters volunteer welfare organizations whlch?l so noble a part In the last war be wifi to a secondary role in our new defense set-u- p finds sorpe justificative facts recently printed In the KaS e£ Star Buffalo News and other pane£ Among other things it is there that the national youth administration Cl ed by Aubrey Williams one of the a radical of the new dealers has leased land adjoining Fort McClellan Ala a training camp scheduled to become one of the largest in the country In addition the W P A has already established a recr e a 1 1 o n ft center -- at -- La wtoni-O- kla where the big field artil- lery cantonment will be located Similar steps by these administration agencies are contemplated in other sections In brief army and navy training activities which this year affect over a million young Frank K Kent men ere to be linked with the NYAand In certain In - Army Recreation Plan Leaves Out Independent Units By Our Readers The Public Forum Sees Right as Victor I " Editor Tribune: A scientific world with God in the mind of half its inhabitants cannot revert to savagery There is already political and economic chaos in part but out of this disorder will arise tranquillity Out of religious skepticism and infidelity will emerge a more secure and confident faith in God and in our fellow man Faith In our fellows produces Individualism in them and in us Totalitarianism or regimentation will produce serfdom and abject bondage to the state Only freedom grants an opportunity for and an incentive to individualism And only individualism prodices geniuses Without the latter we would have no science and no art True Christianity was never stronger than it is today Britain holds the title deed of the kingdom of God on earth Britain and the United States will be punished according to the degree in which we have forsaken righteousness and violated God’s law No nation nor combination of nations can win the present conflict Right will survive because evil will exhaust its resources Skeptics have always sung a song to the effect that the mar- - tially strongest nation wins That is not true A high standard of morale is more destructive to evil than is bombast and munitions Our greatest calamity would lie in civil war It is not enough to teach patriotism we must teach the reasons for patriotism to offset communistic atheism The economic can’t be patched It must be discarded in favor of distribution of work and wealth Cheer up We still live Andrew A Van Brunt system Hits Un-Americ-an Editor Tribune: Every citizen of these United States should do all that he or she can to assist in locating every principle idea and individual that is in any way responsible for the activities now carried on in our nation Our society is now reaping the crop from the seeds of dissatisfaction that have long been sown In a people’s government the people must be masters of their own destiny Freedom of speech press and assemblage is 100 per cent American and constitutional regardless of the brand of propaganda it wears Equal rights to life liberty and happiness necessitate a social order of each for all and all for each Moneys held out of circulation Senator From Sandpit The automobile may be putting a few railroad trains out of business — but not when they meet on a grade crossing — Los Angeles Times What He Forgot He wore his rubbers when it rained He slept with his window open every night He stuck to a diet with plenty of spinach He relinquished his tonsils He traded in his worn-oglands He never smoked drank or swore He did his daily dozen daily He was all set to live to be a hundred But the funeral will be held next Wednesday He is survived by 18 specialists four health Institutes six gymnasiums and numerous manufacturers of antiseptics HE FORGOT THAT TRAINS ut CROSSED GRADE CROSS- INGS! - — Scottish Rite Torch But Don’t Start Anything Though you have come from foreign soil You’re welcome to our shores If you'll stick to honest toll And do your daily chores I care not how you vote my friend Or what your creed may be I care not how much gold you spend Or what your pedigree Don’t care what kind of clothes you wear What kind of home you've got If you’re a well-fe- d millionaire Or sleep upon a cot And I don’t care what kind of car You drive to work each day Or If you smoke a fine cigar Or humble pipe of Clay But don't you start a red parade Or bund of any kind Of any colored-shibrigade Or any foreign blind And listen fellow lend an ear— rt Acts By Ham Park I’m telling you take care — If vou don’t like it over here Then get back over there —Tom Fox for “The Prophet of Oola Khan” Notes on the Cuff Department Note to Miss Laredo Klingbile Beaver Utah: There have been others who have suggested that my picture be run but I think it better to remain Incognito sort of As for Thrifty— she had her picture taken once with snow fbr a background but it didn’t do her Justice She merely looked like a lump of coal A woman who said she was the mother of three children phoned to ask if I couldn’t do something to get the present ordinance prohibiting the riding of bicycles on the sidewalks— at least in the residential districts —repealed She says the ordinance was passed during a time whdn more people walked tlyin rode and the sidewalks were crowded Now the streets are crowded and the sidewalks practically unused As a motorist I’d like to see bicycles back on the sidewalks but perhaps the pedestrians wouldn’t At any rate the traffic commission might look into the matter ' I wag talking to Jay C Newman of the F B I- - on Main street the other day when Jim Ivers and Johnny Rice walked by They looked at me sort of and Johnny said surprlsed-lik- e for me not to talk without advice of counsel They thought I’d been taken into protective custody or something Imagine that Lee Higginbotham was in town a day or so ago He was on his way to Alaskrf where the army is building something He said he was looking forward to a hard winter Joe Titley Ogden spoke highstreet decorations and lighting effects during a recent visit ly of our V prevent the normal exchange of commodities that is so necessary to the fullness of life This condition agitates those who suffer because they fail to make ends meet and cannot provide as they desire Bankers and insurance companies name the price they want for the use of this money held what for? Ransom in the form of securities and interests Industrialists have assumed the right to name the price they pay for labor and likewise the price labor must pay for the product of labor The merchant names the price he pays the farmer for the product of the farmer’s labor also names the price of all commodities the farmers boy fr6m him It is this unfair exchange that does the agitating Those dominated with the profit-motiidea must harvest the crops from the seeds they have sown D C Grundvig ve Human Life Cheap Editor Tribune: How very cheap is human life in the world today! In many countries it is thrown awpy as though it were useless and had no meaning save that of bolstering the hands of hate and force and death In spite of this we must remember that life is a gift of God that it is priceless Some of the philosophies being fed to the people are simply soul sickening They place man almost entirely on the animal plane It was Spencer who said that man is “a cursed one on the ground" And many have interpreted Darwin as meaning that man is brother to the ape When it was being debated whether man was Bpe or angel it was Disraeli who said: “As for me I am on the side of the angels” It was David who said that man was created a little lower than the angels It was Jesus who revealed man’s value and set him up in his true light and dignity He claimed him as brother and said he was indeed a child of God As one has said: "He counted the poorest man as worth the weary trip to Calvary” Every life that is being sacrificed in the savagery overseas crucified on the cross of brutal greed force and selfishness is valued very highly in the economy of Him who came to earth to captain the soul of every man The soldiers and sailors and fliers who perish go down as martyrs to the new flames of freedom and peace and the loftier rac 4 that is to be low-lyi- ng C N Lund Here and There Radium is worth about 24000 times its weight in pure gold 20-ca- diamond “maxi-mu- N Navy Takes Over In behalf of the navy It Is explained that thr navy has taken over the work formerly performed by the volunteer welfare organizations "within the reservations" that they can devote themselves In order to providing "outside the for the leisure of enlisted men reservations” or on “shore leave from ships" The point to all this It seems is that In 1917-1- 8 the volunteer welfare agencies wen Inside the reservations This time apparently they are going to be outside In other words the volunteer organizations are going to play second fiddle to the WPA and the NYA Certainly they are not going to havs the kind of contact with and control over the social life of the enlisted men they had 25 years ago n There is a huge difference between being inside the reservation and being outside the recreation activities inside are to I taken over by the WPA and the volunteer organizations are to be kept outside then the volunteer organizations are going to contribute Infinitely less to the social life o! the soldiers and sailors than the WPA The objections to this are obvious and numerout one of the clearest being that it gives the whole business of recreation activities s die tinct political flavor and provides a marvelous opportunity for the spreading of new deal propoganda In the past the WPA entertainers and federal theatrical productions have beei among the most effective of all administrAlso they have been ation propaganda advanced of the ram more of hands the Ihe cal wing of administration supporters is natural that these should want to mwj the entertainment and welfare end of defense program primarily a W P A project but It Is natural too that that Idea show not be relished by the volunteer organization! which did the whole entertainment job-- ai did It extremely well— last time 11 Christopher Billopp Says Early Wanting n the time when a person who finished digesting Thanksgiving hardly ner Is brought up short by the consclentl oo early shppper who Inquires "What want for Christmas?” It does no good to protest that ChrWWJ is three and a half weeks off and It ® seem you might be allowed to settle to your newspaper once In a wlVle- have to start thinking right away begins with your head and hair brushes and and bedro straight through to your feet slippers w dc Picture to yourself what you willha lng during 1941 and whether yoube equipment for doing it You’llcalendars desk in the office How about dirac stands fountain pens trick telephone tories? But you’ve already got them What You’ll be going to parties stiff shirts black bow ties and white ties shirt studs and cuff button coats and silk mufflers and white m l and black silk socks? How can what you need without runnnaglnf the bureau drawers? Sports goods? But you "Vi0U equipped for the sports in You could solve the problem by toking new sport such as golf or fishm8 t ButBo sailing-Noing or skiing or skating or at your age h(Vit Books? As a Matter of fact youz books read all your birthday etaw had a hobby like photography or editions! first or collecting lectlng haven’t In0 ft 0" In fact the more you look lready J(nl more apparent it becomes that yo conseq wori4 have everything and that n in should be the happiest person And you would be too if P°P nd d Novem stop Interrupting you inanswer t mandlng an immediate for want do "What you lop: Now is 1 Sea gulls break open shellfish by dropping them from a height onto rocks below A Knights of Columbus and the Salvation Amt upon which the draftees of 1917-1- 8 depended for recreation entertainment and social relaxation are to be pushed aside On the contrary it is insisted these are scheduled to play an jmportantrole “outside the reservations” and their cooperation is earnestly desired Moreover satisfactory conference with heads of these organizations have been held and their expansion planned All of which spunds well but still leaves those in position to know the --facts convinced that the administration plan so far as it can be done is to take over the recreation activities and social life generally of the million and more young men who will this year be In the army cantonment! And naval reservations as a great WPA project So far as the N Y A Is concerned the war department officially explains that advantage will be taken to Increase employment of NYA personnel at army posts and stations in order to relieve enlisted men from special-dut- y activities ta devote their full time to military training In each corps area It Is explained a retort officer has been designated to act as a liaison officer between the NYA and the army in’ "matters pertaining to expansion and maiY A work projects” ntenance of army-- was found in a piece of the great meteorite that fell to earth in Arizona and formed Meteor Crater A robin will eat 18 feet of earthworms in a day When green goggles ate placed over their eyes ’ chameleons turn green The moon is approximately 240000 miles from the earth a short distance as astronomer! view things & |