St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 23, 1928
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Pe oe fe tated, A: cotton bb. wel s Socal Pe se “ier SONG " PE Prey ta al... demic: ED AAS a se Meg ‘ i Macey . ‘ : at) ae tn ae Pa md Ue Sa oe ot ia J au i PRT he ee ios ds R " Sieeid out d 5 bios fin ‘ " * ae ’ tik ' MP gt wdege ee. eed aes eth x , RL RE BI AE : AT Tee kak ee ee ae r n° " MES Pn Zt “Be We eget Perey tat eres weer re TE es ete ae tani caiy Sse KE 7 AS ea ae » we ic Metin Sse biiei SO RRR a BM 9 ck Pgh OTe RC te eS = eee” tere . sy d's of een ie pains. « : , ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Founded by JOSEPH PULITZER : December 12, 1878 ' ‘Published by The Pulitzer Publishing Company Twelfth Boulevard and Clive Street —" Lae | THE POST-DISPATCH PLATFOR»1 I know that my retirement will make mo difference in itg cardinal principles; that it will always fight fer progress or reform, never tol- erate injustice or corruption, always fight. demagogues, of all parties, mpever belong te any party, always oppose privileged classes and pablic plunderers, mever iack sympathy with the poor, always remain de- voted te the public welfare, never be satisfieq with merely printing news; always be drastically inde- pendent; never be afraid te attack wrong, whether by predatory plis- tecracy or predatory poverty. JOSEPH PULITZER. LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE A New Bridge Suggested. Te the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: APID transit, northeast approach, the southwest approach materializing, river front improvements, the contempla- tion of the removal of the entire produce district, street widening. air fields and finally the Illinois Traction System fran- chise, what a busy city we have. Some things we should have at once THE PUBLIC UTILITY BUCCANEERS. John B. Sheridan, director of the propaganda bureau of the public utilities trust in Missouri, de- clared in one of his enlightening letters concerning the pernicious activities of the trust that the Post- Dispatch is one of the best afternoon papers in the world. But because’ it refused to play the rotten game of the public utilities trust he tried to put the brand of socialism on it. The Post-Dispatch refused to print the lying propa- ganda of the trust. It printed all the facts revealed by the Federal Trade Commission's investigation touching the vicious activities of the trust, its lobby and its propagandists. It printed all the facts it could gather and denounced the wrongful purposes and methods of the trust, its lobbyists and propa- gandists. Therefore, something had to be done to blight its influence. So Mr. Sheridan charges that members of the Washington bureau of the Post-Dis- patch are socialists and that one of them has bol- shevistic leanings. ‘If the Post-Dispatch had printed the lying propa- ganda of the trusts and had thus deceived its read- ers; if it had suppressed or distorted the facts about the Power Trust, its lobbyists and propagandists; in short, if it had become the subservient creature of the public utility buccaneers and their tools in their effort to exploit and rob the people, it would, in their opinion, have been a highly respectable and useful newspaper. Mr. Sheridan does not accuse the Post-Dispatch of advocating public ownership, but he says it has leanings that way, on account of the socialistic lean- le THE AIRPORT SOND ISSUE. The city has abandoned its plan to finance the municipal airport by issuing notes. Yesterday the Board of Estimate, after discovering a flaw in that plan, approved a bill authorizing a $2,000,000 bond issue election to be held with the primaries Aug. 7. The bill has been sent to the Board of Aldermen. We believe this is the most satisfactory solution of the question. Objections were raised to the presenta- tion of the airport bond issue at the general election in November on the grotnd that it would be over- shadowed by interest in the presidential race and might, on that account, be beaten. But, since it is very important that action be taken on the airport before Nov. 15 so that the city may avail itself of options on 200 acres of necessary ground, it was sug- gested the city finance the project by the usual meth- od of selling notes to the banks. Ben H. Charles, the city’s legal adviser on fiscal issues, declared against that plan on the ground that it is doubtful that banks would take the city’s notes for more than a year. There is, however, an- other reason for opposing it: St. Louisans are en- titled to vote on such a project before it is put into effect. While we believe they are overwhelmingly in favor of a municipal airport, there might be some dissatisfaction if the city had adopted such extraor- dinary -means as issuing notes for the purpose. It would, moreover, set a precedent which might easily be dangerous. We trust the Board of Aldermen will pass the authorization bill promptly, and that the morning after the primaries will find us well on the way to- ward realizing St. Louis’ potentialities as an air ings of some of its staff. The Post-Dispatch has not advocated public ownership, and whatever leanings | it has ever had towards public ownership have been | center. = a a MORE SPEED. e people who eg in & small woms® . come under her Midwestern 7 ¢ this woman, Hes- _ soo the pure, cold at- in which she lives, and . ghe will permit no cor- ' ‘a otions, are excellently ghey perhaps even merit on the oat be the ht uence = rato is not only but terrible until one actu- ester Linden with Ste- an obscurity that blurs} ppyree Pe ‘A ef W~ caused by the dishonest and plundering methods of | some public utility corporations. | When the stocky Ray’ Keech, in his three-engined | Public ownership of public utilities and public con- | speed car, hurtled acyoss the Daytona Beach sands | trol of public service of various kinds is not social- | at more than 207 miles an hour on April 22, the man ism. If it is socialism, then most of the large cities to whom 60 miles an hour is fast traveling said to frantic and crude. le extremes could be; jned, and between these two semes Stephen and Dora are ab- and impotent. and some we are told we must secure at once. Over 20 years ago attention was called to a location about Cass avenue where m 7 . .° aie » od oS. eee) em es : OT Ne tye a Ol GR: Det Are fog ee > Base ao Elam aap mor 5 - eer eo ee ee OP Pe, ~~ veined cn a ae ae with the proposed river front improve- topography and geography favored the location of a bridge. The city decided otherwise and the present Free Bridge is the result. While it has not realized the hopes of our people, it is used daily by thousands; in fact, it is frequently con- gested so that there is need of another ’ bridge, and it should be built if it weré not a matter of considerable expense. The building of the southwestern ap- proach will, in all likelihood, bring about a limited use of the railroad deck of the bridge; the building of the north- east approach an increased use. New, as to the northeast approach: the cost is indeterminate, running across the ctiy of East St. Louis, it is going to be considerable, perhaps $3,500,000, per- haps $5,000,000. Who knows? All esti- mates as to the bridge complete have been far from the mark. Perhaps a new bridge located about Mound. Mullanphy or Cass avenue would solve the problem more _ satisfactorily than the proposed northeast approach. The East Side approach would be within striking distance of a number of great trunk lines which should maintain freight depots in St. Louis. On the west side the railroad deck would meet Broad- way at an elevation sufficient to permit underground crossing to the territory immediately adjacent to Broadway which would, in its present condition, be easily available for freight yard purposes with-/ out damaging adjacent property. The upper. or vehicle deck, would meet Broadway at level. You need but refer to the map of the city to note the value of this bridge. Communication between the railroad | deck and the present municipal bridge should be along the river front. This | would hasten a contemplated project, would perhaps reduce its cost by bring- ing about a use of the present poorly used sections in a manner which the city might control so as to be in harmony tient. I doubt whether the project of bridge end approaches would cost more than the contemplated northeast approach, at least it is well worth while considering. as it may probably give us additional facilities at no increased cost. J. F. O. RELLER. A Specialist in Eyes, Ears and Nose. To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: OGETHER with many millions of voters, I am still dwwiling under the majestic spel] wrought et the Republican national convention. The complete soli- Garity of that great body on all the is- sues culminated, to the acute hearing of the chairman, in a unanimity of votes unaccountable, in fact imperceptible, to the less perfect hearing over the radio. This happened particularly in the ta- bling, or dishing, of Dr. Butler's motion and, again, in the resolution to make Mr. Hoover's nomination unanimous. Is it within the province of human hope and practical possibility that the gorgeous spectacle of a myriad of men with a single mind will be duplicated next week——-or next month, or after—at the city of Houston? Will the presiding genius of the Democratic convention be instinct with the same noble passion for harmony? Or, at least, will that great unknown accept the cue from Mosaic law for the performance, amidst a chaos of opinions, of the same cosmic miracle of harmony, solidarity, unanimity? The pt is simple enough. Thus says the Law of Moses: Count ayes, and don’t count noes-es. ' OTTO HELLER. Come On, Ohio Gang. ‘To the Bditer ef the Post-Dispatch: LISTENED by radio to the proceed- i | | of the United States are socialistic. St. Louis owns | Louis or any other city goes into public ownership i from the conscienceless plundering of private own- ership. When a newspaper is honest and fearless and tries to serve the people by telling the truth and giving an honest opinion about a plunderbund which is de- ceiving and robbing them, tools of the plunderbund fling at it the reproach that it is socialist or bol-| shevist. | | The element in this country that is doing most to. promote socialism and bolshevism is composed of the | magnates who, enjoying monopoly privileges and franchises under the guise of public service, are. treacherously betraying and plundering the public. | They and their servile tools are destroying confi-| dence in private ownership and operation. Aided and abetted by feeble or corrupt Public Service Commis- sioners, charged with the duty of protecting the pub- lic from exploitation, but who serve the greed of public utility buccaneers, they are forcing communi- ties to self-protection through public ownership and operation. The Post-Dispatch has fought and exposed the pub- honesty. a woman to live with an artistic‘husband. Witness, as the latest demonstration of it, Mr. and Mrs. Eu- gene O'Neill. Mrs. O'Neill says she is going to get a divorce from the man who has been called the greatest playwright America has ever produced. We submit there should be a scientific investigation to find out why men who write plays and paint pic- be scientific, that is, all current explanations should lic utility plunderbund from the time of the crude franchise boodlers to this time of the skillful manip- ulators who, under ferms of law, pick the people’s pockets through false valuations and excessive rates. The Post-Dispatch will continue to expose and de- nounce all forms of public utility treachery and dis- If this be socialism make the most of it. HOW DO ARTISTS GET THAT WAY? It is one of the hoary truisms that it is hard for tures are so unamenable to discipline. We stress the point that the investigation’.should be rejected and the subject studied with Baconian exactness. The most common explanation given is that artistic men are temperamentally different from their fellows and cannot be judged according to the same standards. This idea, of course, is amplified ad infinitum. Is there really any basis for it? Granted that writ- ing first-rate plays and painting good pictures re- quire talent of a high order, and very hard labor. But there are many other occupations equally ex- acting. Corporation presidents, lawyers, engineers, Statesmen, for example, are called upon to perform enormous tasks. But they do not enjoy the license in private behavior that artists have claimed from time immemorial. In advance of the scientific investigation which perhaps one day will be made, we hazard the sug- gestion that artists act like bad little boys simply because that is the role in which tradition casts them. The tradition, incidentally, is a false one, since many of the greatest artists have been very agreeable persons, kind to their wives, routine in| their work, and claiming no exemption from the or: dinary rules of peaceful living. i - A i i In most states it is a political disqualification to | have voted in the United States Senate for a New- berry or a Smith. Fourteen Senators who voted to seat Newberry were subsequently repudiated at the polls in their own states, and when the Smith cas- ualty list is complete it, too, will be impressive. However, Maine, is an exception. Maine, the unre- generate, still supports those who would make the Senate a directorate for the big corporations. Thus, UNREGENERATE MAINE. he will continue in the roll of obsequious servitor to privilege. Nor is this altogether because Hale is a member of the Old Guard in the Senate. He is also, as was Smith, an Insull man, and 75 per cent of Maine’s Senator Hale, chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs in the Senate, was easily renominated a few days ago over Gov. Brewster. Hale voted to seat both | Smith and Vare, and when he returns to the Senate hydro-electric power is in the hands of the Insull in- terests. Hale voted against the power inquiry, as did all good Insull men. He voted against the Muscle Shoals bill. He is a typmanum for the Power Trust. Titinois repudiated Smith himself, but the man who would have seated him can still win in Maine. = = | — a a 4 > Dog racing in Missouri left its tracks behind aaa eae himself that automobile speeds had about reached The race drivers, however, do not agree. next fall under the leveling influence of the autumn tides. Maj. Mario de Bernardi, the Italian flyer, «who holds the world’s record for airplanes at 318.62 miles an hour, is recognized as the world’s leading speed merchant, is grooming a Fiat speed car in an effort to take Keech’s automobile crown at Daytona next fall. Similarly, the little Stutz Blackhawk, in which the dashing Frank Lockhart was killed in Daytona in April, has been rebuilt for further trials, while Seagrave and Campbell, the British drivers, are also preparing machines for the competition. And so it goes. To the bright-eyed race of speed drivers the call of the roaring road is still. a per- 'suasive one. A fortunate thing it is for mechanical progress, too, since principles of unquestioned value to future automobile and airplane design are certain to be worked out every time one of the gasoline jug- gernauts whips its way across the speed course. = =_— —-= — —_— -_ FAREWELL, BLIGHTED DISTRICTS. Blighted districts are disappearing from St. Louis. Public improvements such as -street widenings and viaducts are wiping them out speedily. Progress is eliminating these eyesores, and this is an instance where progress is not a ruthless destroyer of land- marks and scenes hallowed by sentiment. On the contrary, it is only helping to make a more beautiful and livable city, with the pleasant incidental of boosting property values. Back in the nineties the central section between “downtown” and “West End”—between Twelfth and its waterworks and has made an extraordinary rec-| their limit—that it was not only unsafe, but vir- | ord of economy and low rates with them. If St./| tually impossible, to travel any faster on the ground. 7 And 80) and operation of its public utilities it will be be- | plans are going ahead for further conquests over | cause it is compelled to do so to save the people time when the Daytona sands smooth out again | a antec a | There may be households such > “WE ARE RAISING A LOT OF THOROUGHLY DRILLED ‘YES-MEN’ IN THE BIG CORPORATIONS.” —VJ. B. Sheridan. Grand boulevards, generally speaking—was an at-| tractive residential district. 1904, out in Forest Park, opened a new horizon, | and the population shifted westward rapidly. Busi- The World’s Fair of | ; | ness did not follow, and the result was to leave a gap of shabby old dwellings, which became boarding houses, That was the chief blighted district. | | ; Several years ago we got a start in eliminating it, when Washington boulevard was widened between Jefferson avenue and Grand boulevard. In the mean- time, the gasoline age had dawned, and Locust bou- levard became “Motor Row,” wiping out a little more blight. It remained for the newly widened Olive street to break the spell of decay; the shiny asphalt on its 100-foot surface has not quite been finished, but already the character of the thorough- fare has changed. Now Market street is soon to be widened for a greater distance, from Third street to Vandeventer avenue, and we may look for stil! | more signs of progress there. On the other side | | of the commercial district, widening of Morgan street and Franklin avenue is going to spread the offen. | sive against a stronghold of Victorianism. Out near the city limits the Delmar boulevard viaduct over | the Wabash Railway, just opened after 17 years of. delay, has lifted the blight from three blocks of a/| fine street. a «A.» ~~ HEART’S DESIRE. From Brule, Wis., comes the wail of an unhappy | outfit of newspaper men. The rain falls and the | woods are lonesome, and there isn’t any news, and for four days they haven’t seen the President. “Little informition has trickled through from Cedar Island | Lodge concerning what the President is doing,” the | Associated Press reports. Scarcely anybody Sees | him. Scarcely anybody could see him. “Rising ma- | jestically round the little clearing, the virgin etek | extends far on all sides, so dense in most places it is virtually impenetrable. The nearest highway, of dirt. | is more than two miles from the President's front | door.” Turn back a year and read another story: Today the President donned chaps, a cerise shirt, purple and green neckerchief and the 10-gallon cowboy hat he has been wearing while fishing, and led a horse given him by the mount- ed Boy Scouts of Custer back and forth before the clicking of cameras. So many feet of mo- tion-picture film were consumed by the after- noon’s program the news-reel men had te send back for more, and at one time kept the Presi- dent standing in the hot sun out on the lawn several minutes waiting for a néw supply. Interpret the difference any way you like. At- tribute it merely te the fact that Wisconsin is not South Daota, or explain it on the ground that a President who its no longer a potential candidate can let the clicking cameras go to glory. At any rate, 1928 is mot 1927. Mr. Coolidge is out in the woods on the edge of nowhere. Who believes he is not hay- | i ; } ' | Notice to the Houston Convention Delegates Now Know Exactly Where Smith Stands on Prohibition; There Can Be no Ground of Complaint if Smith’s Arguments During the Campaign Do Not Agree With Platform; Smith, by Announcing His Position Definitely, Has Justi- fied the Faith of His Followers in His Intellectual Integrity. From The New York World. N his arrival at Houston the Demo- () | - F i * K a _ * vo eS pe the Linden house terrible even. But by insistence on the crude- and stupidity of the Frys, Miss has perhaps defeated her _ Myrtle Fry is done an intensity that sne be- almost a caricature and her ue bdiatancy, more often =» not, arouses laughter. It is commonplace, obese drab that,/ neredible rather than er Linden or those whom she drawn to her by such a strange shantment. ga 8 Faae that of the Frys. It may be that Latimer is setting down cet carefully recorded observa- There is something about relentlessness with which ie Fry is done to incline one this belief. But nevertheless © blundering sentimentality, her “wousness, her stupidity partake the qualities of caricature. And |. nly she was not intended as ture. | ge however, a minor point. remains true, despite any s€c- ary considerations, that Miss)... r has written in “We Are) bie” a book of genuine Ppow-) in and beauty. And it is not a tour le force by any means. 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