| Show - I — - ' - - - '41 - ' - I 8 :: - itiondisy Morning - -- - Dalt galit Ttribunt Trbe i jnLt gakt : Established April 4 I Vibtneo--- 1 15 1871 - Issued every morning by Salt Lake Tribune Publishing Connally 1 The Tribune is a member of the Associated Press: The Associated Preis is exclualeety entitled to the use foe reproduction of all news dispatches credited to it or hot otherwise OreditAnt id We MOW And also the local news vublished herein - - 4 Salt Lake ClIty Utah Monday Morning December 1 1941 ) Reviving the Old Toryism :rhat Hindered the Colonials 1 : - : Consonant with our lenient bill of rights behind whkh seditionists and potential insurreetiordsts hide whett discovery seems Imminent is an equally clement custom pertaining to our system of jurisprudence An accused person is given a hearing even when caught "flagrante delkto" or when a voluntary confession of guilt becomes a matter of record moreover a lawyer is assigned him by the court whether he wants to defend himself or not While this is regarded by authorities as an excess of liberality and while it may sometimes defeat the ends of justice the practice is a distinctive feature of the American way of living and one of the principles considered necessary to our democratic form of government It has been a source of annoyance at times and a menace to public welfare' under certain conditions but it has been - thus from the establishment of our national independence down to this very date There were elements and individuals In the colonial period who protested ac- tion evaded responsibility favored appeasement and even defended traitors found bemeaning or betraying the leader of that immortal struggle Their names from histories have probably been deleted ' of the republic and their records have followed them into oblivion But in some moth-eate- n trunk in the cobwebbed attic of some ancient domicile it might be possible to resurrect a flimsy sheet of yellowed paper with some such characteristic comment as follows: - "Thank God for the tories! We need more 'Benedict Arnold& I don't know George Washington or any of his men but evidently they never got shot in the Indian wars A wonderful war for independence is this the purpose of which is and landowners to give money-grubbe- a chance to drive out foreign agents and have the country to themselves This is why our' American boys are encouraged to go with Paul Jones to attack enemy ships in alien waters A wonderful state of political evolution when congressmen can be induced to send our sons to the executioner in exchange for local liberty and enterprise - A wonderful prospect for rs government when a handful of can meet and pass a Declaration of Independence that invites attack---- No rnatter how this war goes the colonists wilt have lost their shirts their farms their future—all because George Washington Samuel Adams John Hancock Rob - Alexander Hamilton Ben Franklin big-wiare other nosing ert Morris and In the business of a German-bor- n king of the government to which we owe our dent of the state descended from pioneer stock and a worthy exemplar of early-da-y traditions expired in his office at the Deseret book store on South Temple street last Saturday omits Fate seemed especially unkind to the establishment he had conducted with marked ability and success to the various organizations civic and ecclesiutical in which he was a willing worker to the community in which he was a citizen of exceptional charm and character To the deceased this newspaper pays a tribute of appreciation and to their friends and families it offers such condolence as simple phrases may convey - t T ' 4 ! I hair-cover- - 'Keep 'Eva Flying' Until the World Gains' Peace : z 1 rs - A chair-warme- gs fealty" - We have the same sort of tories day—few but flamboyant and flatulent— who have no more conception of international problems and perils we are facing tow than had the hecklers of the nation's founders 165 years ago And we have congressmen in this critical epoch who are trying to explain their votes in opposition to the foreign policy of their gov— ernment They will need to put in a lot of time clearing up contradictory records to the satisfaction of patriotic constit- uents "Keep 'Ern Flyitgn is more than a' slogan for defense it is a watchword of democracy an inscription on the bazner of freedom It means that the United States has resolved to build and man the world's greatest air force not as a weep-o- n for aggression but as a shield against forces of military terrorism let loose on the world by madmen Since the early: daya of this ruinous European conflict it has been apparent that an invincible air force is as necessary to this nation as It musket was to the early settler of America Airplanes and pilots have become real "sinews of war" and whether America builds planes to be sent abroad to fight Hitler or to equip our own fliers in readiness to repel rash foreign foes they are recognized as con stituting our most effective and indis- ' i pensible weapons Fortunately for this nation it has the facilities the will and the skill to develop the greatest air force in the World Blessed with limitless raw materials for building planes and an industrial organization which is speeding up production each day the United States also has a vast reservoir of courageous and intelligent youths eager to become members of the army or navy air corps Evidence of this is found among draftees entering the service at Fort Douglas according to officers' who report that many of them seek air corps: duties regardless of longer terms of enlistments required and despite greater Asks by many of them in training So It is that civiliams plane factory workers air corps mechanics and pilots all join in the nation's war 'Em Flying" war-worshippi- ng ed 1 During the past few days so many prominent citizens of Utah have crossed the rim of our terrestial horizon to disappear from mortal vision in the haze of an ever awesome sunset that neither time nor space is available for the tributes they deserve nor could printed words do justice to their lives and labors Christian Willie a native of Switzerland a tailoc by trade a devout church2nan and a citizen who appreciated the privileges and opportunities found in the country of his adoption passed away two years and a few days before he became another centenarian to increase Utah's list from which a record for longevity is being made Alonzo F Bardwell almost four score years of age a native of Brooklyn and a graduate of Columbia university came west in 1885 where he soon established a splendid reputation as an assayer and chemist in mining matters He was the proud possessor of a legion of honor award given by the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers OA the result of a half century of honorable affiliation with that organization Both of these highly esteemed citizens died after long careers df usefulness in their respective lines of endeavor each with his circle of associates and relatives probably unacquainted in life but equally deserving of promised rewards here- after - Thomas Albert Hooper one of Salt Lake City's eminent and enterprising citizens a native son and a lifelong rest press' WUflam It Castle V 4 0 - 4 ' ' ' ‘ ' C - e ' re-4- 41l't 14 6' "' 't — -- -:' t---- A C- : - coto 0) kr J ( r0 ( ee (-0 p - :4 'Af ) -1 a -- k - - le-t- 1 4 "I r- ti c b regard - 4: 41 1 "would-b- e poet" dear Mr Foote and you ought to know it For a poet's a man with a song in his heart And he'll sing that song though ' it not start After Morgenthau is through mopping up the American pocket remind us to ask what ever ) '''1"r11 1 47 ) el 1 6 mind Of most wise or stupid:human' kind be blind The sun though man throws lights Into his house and mountain heights Rise just as high before the lame Sun and mountain—their beauty the same As the poet's — wait not on rnan's desire - reports But isn't that what Editor Dana said? awoke of a Monday feeling undefeated united and unacored upon 1 mince we 1 i -- I I i I I I 1941- -t ) I ' - 11 tIP 17 N ) 4 000' 000A - Aessmoo"'"-- A' - monomer " — dp"sa e OW 1' & A M 1 0 t ig " Ham Park a After that I'm I Ile 4 1 By Ernest Lindley The labor problem before the government can be viewed at three levels: First the specific case of which the most recent and most troublesome was the captive mine strike Second legislation establishiNr a labor 'policy for the war period and machinery tO carry It out Third the enlistment of labors enthusiastic cooperation in defense production The prevailing expectation in Wa &tangton is tpat the arbitration board will grant John L Lewis substantially what he asked The union or closed shop raises in many minds fundamental questions of principle But as a practical matter the difference - between a union shop and what the United Mine Workers already have in the capuve mines is not very great Since 1934 they have had the voluntary check-of- f By contract the employer deducts the union dues and sends them to the union offices In practice a miner rarely withdraws from the union and 95 per cent are now union members Both captive and commercial mines had the voluntary check-of- f until the latter took Lewis' offer of penalties for unauthorized strikes in return for the union shop Under the penalty clause a miner forfeits to the employer $1 every day he is out on an unauthorized strike If the employer fails to deduct the fine he must pay a double penalty to the union The miners under union shop contracts who struck in sympathy tolast week probably are technically liable these fines and the employers likewise liable if they do not deduct the fines Some employers have hinted that they are willing to forget the incident The sympathy strikes indicated however that the penalty clause is of limited value Heads Agree cfp a p- 2 By Our Readers ON to die- - v Captive Coal Mine Workers Gain Little by Walkout une trams L- Has Traffic Ideas noticed in Editor Tribune: your Monday's edition that it had been decided to change the amber lens in the traffic lights to of a red lens which would mean that they would hereafter show one green light and two red lights In my humble opinion that is superfluous as two red lights will not bring about the result aimed at any more than one red light will accomplish I believe a much better method could be obtained at a much lower cost to the city which would be more practical Over six months ago I wrote the traffic department at police headquarters and called attention to the fact that I had daily observed pedestrians starting across the intersection on the amber light expecting possibly that the green light would be on before they got halfway across and that the auto drivers at the same time crossed from the intersecting street on the amber light believing they were not required to stop until they saw the red light My suggestion was to eliminate the confusing amber light by painting it black and if necessary plugging up the lamp that illuminates it That would be a very inexpensive operation and would give only two traffic signals a red and a green light the red light requiring both pedestrians and auto drivers to stop and the green light signaling them to cross the intersection I would further suggest that every person who then disregards the traffic regulations should be given a printed violation ticket calling attention to their traffic violation and warning them against a repetition of same The Boy Scouts to handle this for a week: As I was not favored with even an acknowledgment of the receipt of my letter by the traffic department I take this method of contributing my Idea for the improvement of - that the traffic lights William R Krummel Makes Inquiries going to retire from the spotand for recuperate light Editor Tribune: Ali sweet is the holidays Any of you folks To think that "poor little fame! who think it's an easy job to be me" rate the attention should a master of ceremonies or a the great and mighty in a toastmaster ought to try it of leading editorial! But still if I some time While I seem to Inferred that our boys were behave gotten fat doing it it isn't ing sent into a foreign war I a healthy fat Far from it wonder how they did get there A friend asked how "Ace" ' Were they just but on a joy Reuben James? Campbell was getting along and 'ride in theme a nazi sympathizer Calling I hadn't even heard that he was shows lack of a good answer to sick I inquired and learned my implication if any and is that he had undergone an operation a :buple of days ago and - one of the easiest ways of avoiding the issue was doing nicely I missed Ray I would have more sympathy Hendry and found that he'd been on the sick list too This is a for this war effort if we had not consisteney shipped the implefine time of year for guys to mentsof war to all the belltgerwhen get Eck—just everybody ents: to Germany through Porwants to be happy and stuff Well all kidding aside I hope tugal Spain and Finland Speaking of naivete do you perboth Ace and Ray will be up chance think these countries inand around and as good as new creased their imports for their right soon own use by several hundred per J J Kelly said that another cent during these last two year had passed and I didn't years? I refer you to the conseem to be any nearer to the gressional record of June 20 1941 $1000 credit balance that he's been after me to save So I Once two armies fought One just up and told him that one signaled it was out of ammuniof these days there'd be more tion The other politely ceased than $1000 but it would be in firing and divided the remainder of their ammunition with their my wife's account and before it got there he'd probably have enemies and then resumed the the opportunity of gazing at battle That was a real civil me and saying: "My doesn't he war and good for business too look natural" You see I'd just If you draw any conclusion from that it can scarcely be the paid my life insurance premium and was broke again wrong one Gladys Higgins 4 - i a A -- - trto :One single ripple in one placid rj':'' 1 id A ban-:cou- nt - Al 0 ' —Tod ' : - Notes on the Cuff Department Mrs Robert Easton Wa:ker asked me to be toastmaster at a party at the Jackson school a week from tonight but I'm going to be in Springville with the Associated Contractors that night so I couldn't accept I suggested that she ask Harry Clarke or Sam Kiefer to take over the job Either one of them would make an excellent toastmaster and as the affair is to be held for the purpose of ing funds to supply the school children with milk and hot lunches I'm sure Harry or Sam would be glad to serve if not otherwise engaged Whoever takes charge I hope the party will be a grand success Friday night I am to M C the British relief dance and then on the eleventhI'm to be master at the installation quet given by Acacia lodge No My became of pork chops China absorbs 'the invader which works out very well and we wonder why Britain doesn't just naturalize Hess and add him to his majesty's loyal opposition "A man's bite is more serious than that of any animal" a southern medical journal now It's been years ' my friend—It's song you require Off the Record ' ' Be humble r- - - 601 Senator Frorn Sandpit - i : thing-a-maj- i ! 611 - L ' ::-- cover the technocratic modus operand' when I encountered this statement: "Industry mining transportation etc shall be unified under their respective commands And the entire command shall be under the unified direction of the commander in chief of the United States" To me this meant that the whole country was to be under the autocratic command of one big technocrat plus a lot of gauleiters That is why I told a friend who asked what I thought of technocracy that it was the American form of national socialism At that time I had not seen the banner with the the technocrats use in place of the "hachen-Kreutz- " nor did I know' anything about their gray backs shirts ties and saSamuel Russell lutes - - ':°:- : erature he distributed to col-um- 1 : - - ' Oss OA t -----:2 e ' The Public Formn the-spiri- 4 ' ( Editor Tribune: My first information about technocracy was its claim to do away with the price system My concern then went no farther than a curiosity as to how they intended to do this impossible thing The first technocrat that I encountered was asked how he would value the work of a locomotive engineer and the section hand who worked on the track The technocrat answered promptly: "In gram calories" Now a gram calory is the heat required to raise about of an ounce of water 18 degrees on the scale of the Fahrenheit thermometer This technocrat was not conscious of the absurdity of his answer butI said nothing about was asking for informaIt tion and that is what I got then looked through the lit t ofr d'771r"471 Mt More on Technocracy $ IN moso"0- Illbeb ti 43) - - ktiS ' - : ° 0'1 - 0- o - 1'':-- (3- 0 1 s' Ø'' -t it''40646 66 - N 1 P Thte-0-- l'A& ' —'''N ' tkt WI 1:::r:r A 140 -- kr ) -- red-hair- ed o0e it t ' - - 0 '' '''''' on 0 E NEW YORX—Diary: The family let Slug the pup go to young David Stinson on a farm near Johnstown Pa 'Mary who held out longest against giving the dog away voted with the rest of the jury when the excited Slug nearly threw the 'mistress down while crossing the So I have a trip ahead street on leash It is delivering the dog to the boy strange that fountain pens are so easily lost and so difficult to replace I become as attached to & pen as to a watch and wander about in a fog when my favorite pen disappears Lawyer Torn Lynch of Los Angeles comes in to visit while on a brief visit to New York lie was a rising young lawyer in Omaha when I was a cub reporter covering courts there Louis Bromfield who hails from Mans- field Ohio and has achieved great success as a writer of good novels that reach a large audience has done it again with "Wild Is the River" Florida I learn is represented in Statuary hall Washington by the figure of Dr John Gerrie credited with the invention of artificial refrigeration I have had mazy letters from Florida calling attention to this distinction But just now in our less balmy New York we'd like to honor the memory of the man who invented the idea of piping steapi under the streets to serve many buildings It's what makes life possible in many congested areas Released by McNaught Syndicate Inc -- ' ting - cil has agreed to — N 47 ial !' i - Mr Castle and other diplomatic authorities who took the same view emphasized that their criticism was entirely aside The money that makes money from the truth or falsity of the is the money that makes work article concerned The president ' —Boston Herald a assert has they perfect right to blast any American publicaAfter it has been admitted tion or speaker whose statethat bread is absolutely easenments he disapproves He has a tial I am then willing to conright further to tell foreign cur in the statement that man governments or individuals that cannot live by bread alone But he regards such statements as the trouble with most idealists "disgusting Bee damaging to is that they take the bread for democratic solidarity and hence granted I contend that the mahelpful to Adolf Hitler terial man must first be satisAssumes Responsibility fied and that the first duty of human society Is to satisfy the The vital point these authorieconomic needs of its members ties say is that t h e United ot one person in a thousand States government now for the can get any enjoyment out of first time ILSSUMeS responsibility Byron or Browning Beethoven for a protested press 'statement or Chopin before breakfast The it for by formally apologizing stomach is more insistent 'than If this becomes accepted prac- tice they insist it inevitably Why should a man have to must lead to censorship be- - apologize because his life work cause the government cannot Is the production of cheese as permit either newspapers or prilong as be made the best cheese vate individuals to speak for it The custom of sneerpossible? In September this Early ing at material prosperity is related that a Detroit A fat bank sheer hypocrisy manufacturer not only had been and a well stocked pancharged as high as 15 cents a try do not constituteI a perfect pound for zinc upon which the recommendation to the society government had set a maximum of man There are other values cents of he when 73 but price y e t in stressing these other protested the president of the values we need not affect a zinc producing company who cabscorn of corned beef and was sitting in Washington as a bage member of the zinc and copper Well fed well groomed well division of 0 P M refused to mannered success needs no apoihave further dealing with him gy Rags and misery are not In a statement now the ofa reconunendation fice of price administration fully :The man who by his labor confirms the overcharge b u t feeds clothes- and shelters himsuggests no remedy except that self and his family Is doing what "buyers of the zinc might well he should do I can cheer hint of the propossibilities explore : 'a lot easier than a good-fopeedings (presumably by private law suit) to recover We ntling who talks about spirvalues while his children itual overpayment" go hungry ' i To Zino Foote There is no such thing as a coun- t Z e '° them' By Charles B Driscoll iir ‘dg3--- -- z 0 -- New York Highlights eet A 6 ifat 4' ‘' ‘' 4 ( I 41 r i)' e t? 4! !" N tio 1 ' 11 1 : 7:7 " ally so regarded them But always the official reply was the same—that the American preu is constitutionally free and the government is forbidden by the constitution to censor it "In addition to official encroachment on freedom of the press which the president's statement clearly implies state department people must be concerned over the diplomatic precedent it creates When foreign governments protest against American press attacks thenceforward the American govern' ment either must apologize or leave itself open to the implication that it approves of what was said Certainly other governments will not fail to cite thirChilean case in asking that the same action be taken repecting publications offensive to Camouflage is a French word which came into the English language during the first World war and its meaning is fairly well known wherever either tongue is spoken It is defined in one dictionary as "artificial scenery used ta hide milttary secrets" In its broader sense it is any sort of "window dressing" which is used to disguise the true state of affairs The recent dispatch from Vichy which designates poor occupied Franceas "Free France" proves that the nazis and their collaborators in that puppet state are If occupied still master camoufleurs France is free then Norway and Austria free and so are are free so is Indo-Chithe German people "free" Free in this case means at liberty to do as one pleases as long as it is what the nazi masters direct Belgium is free and Holland and Denmark Let us hope that the United States may never become "free" in this manner Yes camouflage Is the art of covering up but it is becom- lag more difficult every day e: eve do ) 'c-- 2 ALA r '4 tr1 i t P 0t -No --- C' ) t) 0 1: '' 'e C - ta Frequent Calls "It was a rare morning In the early 1930s" Castle said when I did not receive a call from the Italian ambassador Giacomo de Martino for the purpose of protesting some article or speech which attacked Premier Mussolini or his fascist regime Sometimes the statements made were atrociously untrue and I told the ambassador that I person- Not Concealed by Camouflage o:00oolteo"::e 4a) I 4 r I ' 7 and Hoover today recalled his Europe's Enslavement - - 4 0 tary of state during the admin istrations of Presidents Coolidge cry--"K- eep 0 0 0 ntele ' :: 1 t to 1 undersecre- own experience with this 1 - I t IMi -- (—— - G - 1 r 4 1 Hayden North American Newspaper Alliance WASHINGTON — President Roosevelt has broken many long established precedents and nothing he has done previously in this line was more weighted With consequences than his statement on Tuesday that "the government of the United States has been forced to apologize to the government of Chile for an article written in Time maga zine--- a disgusting lie that appeared in that magazine" re International authorities that never before in t h e Whole history of American diplo macy has the United States government publicly apologized to a foreign government for any thing printed in the American press Literally thousands of times foreign governments have protested such publications as scurrilous and untrue and calculated to do great harm Just as the Chilean government did in this instance Quite often American officials have sympathized completely with these foreign complaints But always before their official reply has been that however much t h e United States government might deplore the offending publication there was nothing it could do about it because the American press is free and our constitution forbids law any freedom of the "abridging na The Passing Caravan Still Calling for Comrades -- de-da- - - T I nazi-fasci- st ' Jay 1 INP I He &thus to Hama Weakness to r Those Napoleon Hats —By Orr ve- U S Apology To Chile Breks Rule By December : The heads of several steel companies are understood to have agreed informally among themselves last spring to accept the union shop in their coal mines There were dissenters chief of whom was Eugene Grace of Bethlehem Others did not w1 It to sign for the union shop unless all captive mines did In the end only three steel companies signed union rhop contracts with the United Mine Workers Benjamin Fairless of Ti S Steel is reported to have been inclined toward acceptance of the union shop in the mines last spring Dr John R Steelman head of the - U S conciliation service is the conciliator who persuaded the commercial mines to take the union shop With himself added Lewis could hardly hope for a more favorable tribunal But the real stake in the controverry is not the captive mines but the steel plants to both The precedent seems The solution therefore favored parties by some in the government was to grant the union shop in the captive mines but to accompany it with an agreement by the national leaders of labor that there should be no more strikes for the closed shop dur ing the defense period This could be followed by legislation The defense mediation board felt that the government should not impose the union shop but in effect urged the employers to accept it voluntarily Door Closed The strike was unnecessary just because the union was secure in the captive mines If Lewis gets the union shop or something near to it but the door is closed against fur- ther strikes for a similar objective he will have won the battle butlost If not the war at least for the duration of the war Regardless of the arbitration boards decision legislation establishing a labor policy for the war period is now almost certain The fight will be over its content The a4- 1ministration wishes so far as possible to avoid compulsion For its higher aim Is to obtain the maximum contribution from labor as well as from other groups to the defense effort This can be achieved only when labor is recognized as a partner The policy must be such therefor as to command the general approval of labor and compulsion must be reserved for obstreperous minorities Beyond that however labor must be accorded an important place in the planning and direction of the defense effort That was what the president had in mind when he made Sidney Hillman associate director general of 0 P in both industry Owing to and labor the policy of collaboration has not made satisfactory headway The administration is looking around for zneans of reinforcing it Register and Tribune Syndicate -- short-sightedne- -- - ss Christopher Billopp Say's Blue Monday pretty bad to have to spend Satand Sunday trying to get your houseurday hold back on an even keel It is no fun thinking up how to stop your dog from scratching when you don't know whether his trouble is fleas what he eats or the exercise he doesn't take It is discouraging to hear a report like a pistol shot in the cellar get there to find gas has exploded in the smoke pipe and blown a hole where the pipe enters the chimney Well maybe some cement will plug the hole' so the furnace will draw It is distressing to learn that when the vacuum cleaner was plugged in there was a flash and sparks flew in every direction Thai means taking the plug apart and reattaching the wires on the cord about as delicate an operation as removing tonsils It isn't nice to be told that there is a strong smell in the cellar and an equally strong probability that one of the rats which ate the poison has died in the house You had better go down with the flashlight and see if you can locate him It is distinctly depressing to be in- - formed that the water scarcely moves out of the bathtub waste pipe that a limb on the willow tree is dangling perilously that leaves are clogging the gutter and that all these things must be attended to However at least there la the prospect that Monday morning will come and you can return to the serenity of the office What then is your disappointment upon your arrival to discover that the secretary is out with a cold the boss is in a terrible humor your best customer's order hasn't arrived and that if anything the office is even more disorganized and restful than the home Christopher Binopp It is |
