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Show I Page Four PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Machines now take 1,8000 Lake Unit, N. D. A. since organisaOne man with tion a year ago, and now reported. the machinery can Forty-fiv- e health workers have partiequal the work of 45,000 tailors. Where one man used to require cipated. There have been In excess flve and one-ha- lf days to produce a of 24 house calls, 45 consultations, 62 pair of Shoea one max can today examinations, 1022 treatproduce 1250 pain per day by ma- ments, 28 prescribed for 11 major chinery. Old time brick makers could pro operations, 1076 various minor operduos only 450 bricks per day. Now ations, 60 massage treatments, 42 one man with modern planU pro- various appliances; while 26 appliduces 400,000 per day. ances were repaired. Where they used to make 250 There were two funerals. In addicigarettes a minute they now make tion to nursing services were sender a minute. 2,600 cigarettes ed to three. Auto making machinery has done Most of this work has been accomout of every away with eleven jobs twelve. Today a stall of 208 men plished for scrip entirely. Some has can manufacture 10,000 autos per been part scrip, part cash. day. How then, can one "get rid his business 226 the electric minute. COST OF MAINTENANCE THE TAX MENACE AND OPERATION stitches per minute. latest textile Wa with at thla tima to express our appreciation for the aplendld work of the Department of Agriculture of our atata under the direction of Commiaaloner Harden Bennion Thla department la oompoaed of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Bureau of Dairy and Foq4, Bureau of Animal Induatry, Bureau of Sheep Bureau of Brand Inapeetion, Bureau of Marks and Brenda, Bureau of Registration of Stalliona and Jacks, Bureau of Bee Inapeetion, and the Seed Laboratory. The total appropriation by the 1131 Leglalature for the ensuing biennium was $205,500.00, being $102,750.00 per annum. For this period, $08,000.00 la apent on In power and wages; $18,000.00 for can produce the equivalent traveling expenses; $4,600.00 for employes men a few work office expenaea, and $400.00 for of the ago. of 1,850,000 years equipment. One man with machinery can proIn addition to the atate appropri- duce 20,000 tons of Iron ore per ation. approximately $100,000.00 cornea to the Agricultural Depart- year. man One operating a modern bulb ment from the State Bounty Fund making machine replaces 10,000 end the collection of fees provided by human electric light bulb makers of law for certain services for which no yesterday. made. are appropriations 80 men can produce as much What we are urging thla year la a Iron as 225 men did a few wrought state each within survey thorough ago. years of slashthe with object department A machine operated ing expenaea Business llrma and Industrial plant universally have made by two men can tear up an old street this survey and have reduced their and lay the finished pavement 60 overhead materially. Salarlea have feet wide at the rats of eight miles been cut, because people can buy per day. One man with a ditch digging mamore for their dollar than they could back in 1921 and 80, and thla de- chine can accomplish more in a day crease has been made without Im- than one hundred men with picks and ahovels. pairing efficiency or service. One man. In the control cab of a The money for these appropriafreight-handlimachine tions cornea from the farmer In the modern form of taxes. He has complained can do the work of 100 men. Oil burning ships are now fired by for a long time that he could not pay a crew of nine men Instead of the them, because foodstuffs have declined in price without a corresponding usual crew of 100 men. A machine now prodecrease in taxes. As a result, ha has had to mortgage his farm and duces 288 bottles toIn the time17that took by produce go without many of the necessities of formerly It. handcraft. life. There are now factories for makIf we dont take Immediate steps to lighten his burden by lowering ing completely equipped houses at 8 by 12 his taxes, wa are going to "kill the the rate of 30 to 50 miles ofless than foot sections a day (with goose that laid the golden egg." 200 men In the plant. A rayon factory In New Jersey can HOW THE MACHINE run every hour of every day for a IS REPLACING MEN year without a man In the plant and manufactures many times the ClothWhatever is said for or against ing formerly made by a factory full technocracy It must be admitted that of people. the machine is replacing man at a And this list might he extended gratifying rate. The following facts indefinitely. prove this very conclusively and from these facts are must not turn of scrip?. IS ROGER BAB-SO- N IGNORANT road-maki- ng glass-blowi- A GROWING CRISIS HE WILFULLY DISTORT THE TRUTH OR DOES Dr. Franklin 8. Harris, President of the Brigham Young University, told Utah Farm Bureau members last week that the causa of this deA far as pression is Ignorance. the general public la concerned, Dr. Harris is right. But it la hard to asorlbe to ignorance the utterances of such men us Roger Babson. Yet Babson is ignorant or he wilfully distorta the truth. Take hla By FRANCIS H. SISSON friiiinl Amtriem Btmktri duMfetfae economic or social, more danger, NO seriously menaces our Ufa happiness and prosperity than tbs rising tide of taxes which threaten to engulf aa This Is not slm ply n problem of the depression, it has been develop-In,-Toineny yearn growing mere e rlnns all ihe tlipe. The deprrsxljn merely brought it to a climax. UnBwmrwBMMBt AMW1 less drastic steps Theee charts shorn the meaning of are taken to re verse this trend Natural and unnatural government, tbs problem will A detailed study of them should he not end with the depression, it will a revelation to many. We have to- continue to weigh down and retai d Indefinite an for period. progress TECHNOCRACY ENIn city, county, state and nation the DORSES N. D. A. estiIs on. It orgy of spending baa run mated that in the United States the any have naked members of the total coat of all government la nearly N. D. A. If Natural Government enfive times what it was before (be dorse! Technocracy. They atate the backwards. World War. Many localities bare been proposition From all brought to the verge of bankruptcy hy that haa appeared eo far on Technotheir expenditures, while many have cracy, it endorses tha theory of NaWhat Howard addled their citiseni with a debt bur- tural Government den that will darken their lives and Scott la telling the world In scientific terms, Benjamin 8trlnghsm has hamper their progress for years to been telling the world In plain every coma day language that an can under. The total coat of Federal, atate and stand. That aeema to be local government In the United States difference between Naturalthe only Governis estimated at forty six million dollars ment and Technocracy. a day. Baaed on national Income in to truth, haa been said hy someTruth, sage, the wherever you find 1920, this represents about Also, whattotal Income of our people, or about ever you cell It, Natural Govern$110 for every Individual iu the na- ment or Technocracy.. tion. Total taxea In 1921 era estimated to have taken more than 22 per cent of the national Income. It In occasion for serious thought on the part of veryono when one days Income out of very four or fivo must bo contributed to the maintenance of govommnt maWanted Good fresh cow for Salt Lake Unit or National Headquarters chinery. See EUlngeon, Mgr. Balt Coupons. Reduction! Possible Lake Unit United 8taiei Government expenditures were reduced one hundred and WANTED All electric radio onA forty million dollars during the first Credit!. For Information call quertur at the current fiscal year. Tbo 4(48 or 52 Post Office Pleas. Was, recent action of banker In calling a halt to unnecessary expenditures or Any farmer having 500 Iba. of New York City as prerequisite to loans Kaffir corn seed please notify thla will reducs the cost of government in the countrys metropolis, which is secA FINE TRIBUTE ond in its expenditures to only tbe Federal Government. No slate In the Editor of Progressive Independent: In the columns of your paUnion, in fact, no other government per wa read sentiments ofunique appreciaon this hemisphere, spends half as tion for the accomplishments of the much as this ons city. These savings Movement In Balt Lake in Federal and mnnlcipal costa are only City and Utah In general. Seldom tha beginning of a movement needed do we hear much favorable comment throughout tbo country, if wa are to on tha timely Journal which voices bo led out of depression into pros- the principles of Natural Development. When inch to the ease, these i perity. Unless tbo people can be mado to kindly expressions usually come from distant localities. Apparently these i realist that money for governmental grateful readers are seeing somei expenditure can coma only from tbelr thing, to which we local folk are own pockets as taxpayers, casting de-- blind. A year ago a copy of the Progrespressing effects on both Individual effort and general business, there to an sive Independent earns to my home a After scanImminent threat that wa may ba forced by the hand of friend. few momenta headlines a for its ning to meet economic difficulties similar to I shouted, "Eureka. Being thus rethou Oat have sq ertoualj lieved I settled down to honest readcountries. Tha question ing. Bo far I have preserved a copy to cot primarily one of merely paring of every Issue and given many away. government salaries or shaving budg- A biased attitude, a mental atate. ets, but rather of curtailing govern- created here, hy this little Journal, ment activities for which ws cannot which I can neither explain nor understand. But somehow the spirit afford to pay. to me; I like to Tbe Idea that mousy for these mount- of the paper appeals read the Independent. Prograaelva foling extravagances can ba raised by I call this little, cosmopolitan lowing tbo slogan Soak the Rich" is chronicle my paper. In lta columns utterly fallacious, for such a policy I can hear Ben. Franklins homely will simply exterminate "the rich" and logic, feel the Spirit of '76, and see eliminate sources of raver us. It to also Bam Adams compiling his Circular ' Important to realise that corporals Letter." business. In this country Is in no post Some people will toll yon thla la tion to withstand tha effacta of Indell all nonsense. May bo It to; hot "for nlte advances in tax rates. Correal a that and a that," I Ilka to read earning reports reveal that fact be- the Progressive Independent In the columns of my paper I can yond shadow of doubt. The tax base must be broadened, and It therefor ace Ben Lundy and Bill Garrison seems likely that Congress will be poring over the Liberator and hear Lovejoy called upon to reconsider tbe sales tax, the clarion voice of Elijah cause of Abolition at at least as a temporary measure to help riii(Tig the This too, may meet a critical condition In tha nation's the hare of Justice. ho sentimental or imaginative, I finance. dont know. Judge for yourselves. But I do like to read tha Progressive r uamr day all the fruits of the unnatural system and we are doing our best through thj paper to show what tha natural system of government will WANT ADS of-fie- self-guidi- ! Wallpaper Credits H.F.Hanks& aa SHOP Ensign Shoe Service Clinea Bargain Store, formerly located at 210 South State Street, the store which has been selling clothing for half scrip and half cash haa moved and la now open for business at 47 West Broadway, the building formerly occupied by the N. D. A. Furniture Store. Tha Furniture 1417148, the same being the pro- Store to noiw located upstairs at 65 perty of William Wolfram, the lien West Broadway. Clines will confor storage being held by D. Y. Levy tinue to sell for half scrip and half and Pat Rosxelle. cash. To Whom It may concern: Notice la hereby given (hat tha following described property will be old at the hour bf 12 oclock M., j Monday, January 80, 1933, at Ramp Auto Garage, 40 West Broadway, Salt Lake City, Utah, One Ford Coupe, Motor No. It ons-fift- to-w- lt: D. Y. Levy, Jan , INSURANCE , For N. D. A. Scrip YOU CAN NOW BUY WIRE GRIP BRUSHES with Your N. D. A. Scrip ON B" CREDITS SEE THE UTAH BRUSH MAN N. D. A. or at 01 East Third So. life, Health Insurance with Best Company HALF CASH AD and Accident Biggest and in World. HALF SCRIP FIRE AND AUTO INSURANCE B FULLY GUARANTEED CREDIT Call F. L. Hickman. Wasatch 6745 or leave order with Mr. Howe. Approved by Good Housekeeping Isstltute KEEP UP WITH THE NEWS OF COOPERATION Subscribe For The Progressive Independent . Wanted Wool and Pelts CONSIGN OR BELL TOUR WOOL OR PELTS TO the N. Dl A. We can secure better price for yon aince we prepare all wool and pelts property before marketing. GIVE US A TRIAL. N. D. A. 55 West Broadway Salt Lake City, Utah Mur. 225 Phones: Wasatch 10847, Hyland 6142-- 9 R, 0111091 Of ttOOOOOOOOOOOOtOOOOf 60000 OitOHMOitOtOO I RALPH C. NELSON GARAGE 50-6-2 Poet Office Place. ALL MAKES OF AUTOS REPAIRED Motors Rebored Feeders Repaired Radiator Repairing Car Painting Rebuilt Batteries Battery Service Washing Polishing Greasing; ALL WORK GUARANTEED Day and Monthly Steam-Heate- d Storage. Phone Wasatch 8139. Bcridence Phone Hyland Teddie SKILLED and UNSKILLED Cabinet Shop 50 per cent cash 50 per cent coupons McAllister Groceries and Meats Half Cash and Half N.D.A Coupons 8045--J. Labor Furnished it st , Pat Roselle. 20-2-7 J Zanol Quality Products do. In following nature one la not likely to go wrong. Mr. Strlngrkma book, Natural Government,? explains onr aystorn in detail. CLINES IN NEW LOCATION NOTICE article, "Technocracy Been A Mistaken Fad, In the Salt Lake Sunday Tribune of January 22nd. There are a number of atatementa in It that none but the most Ignorant reader could accept. AU the country needs, according to Babson, Is salesmanship. Salesmanship and advertising must create a desire to buy. away. SOME WONDERFUL If they are unable to do the Job A man on the farm with two oxen PROFESSIONAL BENEFITS adequately," he says, then let the hitched to the plow could turn an While some, possessing N. D. A. Federal Government epend two per acre of ground In about six hours. tractor scrip have "wondered how they cent of Its budget for a national Today the great being planned will permit one man could get rid of it, as they have campaign of advertising to Induoe to plow an acre In a few minutes. sometimes very sheepishly remarked, people to purchase goods. With InTime was when one man could and others have, like young children creased buying us an objective, somegrind a barrel of flour with two Urge week. a stone In about playing with gold certificates, have thing like the Liberty Bond camToday ,flat a single mill turns out 80,000 bar- sold valuable scrip books (and poten- paign put on hy Hoover's national That committee rels a day, and one man in a mod- tial, valuable services) for a "song", Relief Committee? ern bakery can produce 5,000 loaves only hi labs life to repent of their used page after page of free adverof bread a day. peruile actions; yet others wiser than tising space in the national magThe best that a person could do by their fellows, have taken advantage azines and larger newspapers on hand sewing was sixty stitches per of their opportunities, and have wise- that very campaign. It didn't make ly "spent their scrip for the bene- a trace of a dent In the depression. fit of themselves and their loved Mr. Babson should get away from who might thereby have their hla desk long enough to try out hla ones, Furnished lives eased and lengthened in use- proposed sales campaign for himself. He should bo naked to demyears. fulness for many B and on Much has been accomplished by onstrate. He would find on getting ESTIMATES FREE the health department of the Salt out among the people that the men who bought Liberty Bonds in war ALL LABOR A CREDITS Exterior Decorating. time haven't any money nor any All Kinds of Interior and credit today to buy with. Prahl & Kirten House Painting, Sign Painting. Business in any event, he PAPER HANGING AND argues in one paragraph, la going Sons CLEANING. to recover. Indeed, recovery la al838 Roosevelt Ave. Good Work, Reasonable Charge. ready under way." But In the final Hyland 4539. CaR Hy. 5118-- R paragraph of hla article ho contradicts this with the following: Bual-neAcross the street from the Holy Cross Hospital as registered by the Babson now stands at IS per eent bechart HOME B RBER Which statement low ago. 1018 East First South Street Shall the reader believe? A. D. BEDFORD, Prop. If there were money among the people, outalde of the banks, the Also Open Evenings. Ladies' Haircutting a Specialty I people in want would not be turnN. D. A. Credits. ing to scrip ns a means pf exchange. The hoarded money, Mr. Babson would have us think a aales campaign could loosen, is all in the banks. The bankers would like to Phone Was. 5719 577 East 1st South lend It, but there is no one to lend Independent and feel a kindred spirCall and Deliver Service East of 2nd East to 17t!h South. Bag-Bait to, except those who ere already Haases to those old patriotic souls who arThe debt. load a of The under Seth sunk late Bnddhlmal, wealthy it Special Rates to Members of Natural Development Association. for a nation ver the forgea wrought tificial stimulation of trade by meana and pi ons banker of Slhora, Central that burn for humanity. Frank J. Edyel. of loans has boon overworked. So India, left $100,000 to build and endow has Mr. Bab son's sales campaign in perpetuity three rest bouses into which Insects may withdraw from the Idea. world. Poor travelers will, be allowed Mr. Babsons inability to adhere to deep overnight in these bug-reto the truth la further evinced fat houses, will even be paid a small anm PACKAGE GROCERIES for doing so, aa long aa they lie atm atatementa aa the following such Cosmetics, Soaps, Shaving Cream, Tooth Paste and of and kill no bugs. 8hould a deeper Inatead about Technocracy: Household Necessities. kill a bng, even by accidentally rolling 52 Post Office Place ' eurblng new Inventions and machinover, ha will be ejected from the bug mr. Was. 4648 we ery, as the Technocrats advise, house by attendants and forfeit hla 667 8outh 7th East Street. Salt Lake City, Utah. AH Kinds of Cabinet Work should enooursge It deep money. No lese than 200 Insect B" Credit. Technocrats do not advise curbing rest houses of a more or less similar Kitchen Cabinets a Specialty new inventions nor machinery. They nature are maintained throughout InFUBNXrURB MADE to ORDER dia by pious natives who realise that welcome new machinery as hastening Repaired and Rofintohed the deliverance of the worker from no bng to too insignificant to contain B Credits his slavery. Not even ignoranoe can the rein mrnated soul of an ancestor. Time Hagasln . We Now Have a Stock of explain such a misstatement aa Mr. Babaons. Such looae handling of facts tends to discredit Mr. Babaona Paints, Varnishes and Try Yewaiag If you would fortify your wilting reputation aa a atatlclan. Isto It the nerves before walking Into the boas' Lacquers or iwllful blindness Half Cash REASONABLE PRICES for Half office nek to that Sgrip troth? raise or for that luscious higher job, WE ARE CONTINUALLY INCREASING OUR VARJuat yawn and Indulge in a hearty IETY OF GROCERIES stretch. The procedure to guaranteed We Welcome You to Sp end Your Coupons Here DC by one authority to give renewed courage and vocal tones that will reflect A GOVERNMENT X-R- . aal-arl- ea NATURAL AND UNNATURAL IN ANY QUANTITY Labor Department Wasatch 10347 V d Brimley Exchange Store 70S South State St. s Magic Cleaner A UTAH PRODUCT OF MERIT For all cleaning purposes Laundry scrubbing, dishes. Large package BBe A 8Se scrip Free Delivery Call Was. 6622 confidence la the crucial interview. Helen Hathaway, author and contributor to many noted periodicals, ays that bodily poise to directly allied with mental balance through correct poeture end regular breathing. One way of acquiring the elusive quel-- ' lty, rite says, is through osdtancy (English for yawning"). HowAre You Rxed For Lamps? "If Its Electrical, Leave Radios Bought It with Shurtliffa. and Sold fiHIUKTLIFF ULECT1UC CO. 49 Weat 1st South Street We era a Member of N. D. A. Motors, Vacuum Cleaners, Electric Irons, Etc. Electric and Radio Repairing of all Kind Supplies See Ua About Getting 65.00 fa Tmde for lOe In Scrip Bcao i0 1 |