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Show 'Jniv.'r:! tv Balt Lake the acenlc center la known that our acenlc attrac-tion- a are much underdeveloped and unadvertised. Utah abounda In attrac lions to the touriata In addition to these principal onea around Salt Lake Bingham, Timpanogaa and nations; parka of Bryce and Zion, there are other attractions too numerous to mention, but one perhaps needs more emphasis the attraction of wild life for the tourist X . Progressive-Independe- nt liberty and Economics It UfO CN Entered as VoL 3, No. LUND second-cla- 48. Sugarhouse, November if, 1934 THE AWFUL WEIGHT ss Publisher and Managing Editor matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March Organizing as producers is, organizing the servant side of our Uvea, while organizing as consumers is organizing as masters of our lives. Organizing ae roneumers into Cooperatives will give us ownership and real power. The dollar we spend is more powerful than the dollar we get 3. 1879. 217 David Keith Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, OF Editorial THE Five Cents Ter Copy. $1.50 Per Year. TIME THE PEOPLE GET TOGETHER I HAVE SEEN SOME OFTHE DESTROYED SOULS DEPRESSION A news item under a Pada date Hoe describing as marnlfimie thf' birthday party given by Barbara Hutton, Woolworth hrireea and witool prince" Alexis M'Divaol, on the occasion of her twenty-seconshould be comforting to the birthday U,roui,out United State, who wIlTnot mm ... hJL5Lve yrmT kng . Spending $10,000 to clone a London Casino to Paris by airplane la grim evidence of thTappXg Its the depression has worked Alexia who hue the fortune of one New York heTiea. end divorced her UP ot 0,6 Woolworth mlUlSST. accumulated at the expense countless hundreds of trudrtnr and ' P W up mill efft tomSS f0" Grown During .Depression Consumers' cooperatives have grown during the depression as they grew during tbe war. They feed on need. Consumers' cooperation grows gradually. It builds quietly unit by unit. It replaces commercial business and keeps the wheels going while rebuilds the economic structure of society. It does not require bullets or ballots to grow. It demands no violent revolution. The Ship of State on which we all ride need not be wrecked. The framework of our government is democratic. It will permit Utopia but not secure It. We, the people must do that for ourselves. The power rests with us. The collapse of the old system of capitalistic autocracy has greatly Increased our opportunity to build a Cooperative The method is by orDemocracy. ganizing and developing retail cooperatives in each neighborhood, and from them growing Into wholesaling and manufacturing. Will you do your part as a citizen, In the necessary economic rebuilding of America? We plead with all progressive thinking people Interested in progressive movements and the welfare of the people to join the Consumers cause. We are operating a grooery store and meat market, and dairy, and soon other units will be added. build as Consumers Cooperative they go. ht prineea spent per hour European broken down, arlitorrac11 m0ay tUk--d ment houses, etc. Fire and auto Insurance have proved to be live fields for cooperative progress. More recently cooperative credit unions or cooperative savings and loan banks are being organised in large numbers. We are beginning to learn, as older countries have, that cooperative finance is the real foundation of cooperative growth. And From These I Can Vision the 250,000 Boys and Girls Thrown Growth And Achievements . To Moral and Spiritual Ruin Of Consumers Cooperatives I have seeu on our streets some of the ambling, dirty, hungry, ragged and despairing boys and young men who are being destroy(This Department Is Edited by ed by the awful five-yea- r orgie of Mammon's collosal failure The Peoples United Cooperative) known as the depression. Yes,' I have looked into their faces and Citizens, Better Look Into This into their hearts until my soul lias sickened with grief. Each The history of the real consumers time I have seen one of them I have sincerely wished I might help cooperative system began in Rochto rehabilitate them and plant their feet firmly in new and safe dale, England, in 1844. It was on the and secure paths. But fate has .not willed it so. From those that 21at of December, tbe shortest day in the year and one of the coldest, when 1 have seen I have been able to Vision completely the 250,000 who twenty-eigpoor, destitute weavers are in human we conditions on that bonier today living jungles met to lay the Foundation of this now world-wid- e movement. might expect to obtain among Hottentots. These boys, and some girls, Mr. Smug Citizen, were just as They gave themselves the propheof the Equitable Pioneers. good as your boys and girls, just as fine and lovely. They once, tic name three basic principles they adoplike yours,, romped in good hofnes and life held out to them its The ted then have been the foundation of rainbow promises and golden opportunities. But the Mammon-mad- e the movement ever since. (1) One one vote; (2) minimum interdepression has robbed them of it all and sent them out into man, est on capital; (3) Refunds based the wastes to have their very souls ground out of them by hard on These fundamental purchases. grim circumstances. Thank God they have a great father in the principles to the heart of appealed White House who has at least fed them and sheltered many of honest men and women wherever conthem, and has saved 800,000 from a similar fate, and is right now sumers cooperatives have been estabthe movement has now working on a program that will aim to save all the people. But lished and to he grown biggest business In the hand of time turns never backward. No power can reach back the world. It the took these poor twenty-eigand save those who have been lost. Their lives, when once flung weavers a year to save up a away in the mire and misery of tramp and jungle life, cannot be pound apiece with which they bought reclaimed in this life. With staminy gone; with the moral fibre a arnal stock of groceries. They were at and called fools, but they broken; with utter despair gripping and holding the soul; with laughed and carried on. Today the persisted hope forever lost; with opportunity gone glimmering, little if any- cooperative movement has a memberthing can be done. It is too lateand the redeeming and regenera- ship of over twenty million in over ting work must wait until the great Judge takes their case. Let forty nations. us be mindful of these boys as they come and go. They are our Rochdale Plan brothers, our neighbors sons, loved by the same God and the same From the example of this RochSavior that loves us.' And seeing them, let us resolve that we will communities opdo our utmost to prevent others, from going their way, and exer- dale movement other one. one In twenty stores ened by cise the religion which Jesus emphasized most, love for and sertheir purchases were so later years walked vice to our fellows. lie did not Shun their kind when He great they established a wholesale. among men. lie sought them out, was comrade to them and geve Their demands grew and they estabthem the bread of life. How terribly He will judge this genera- lished factories. Today the Cooperative Wholesale Society (CWS) own tion for wrecking all these who were made in Ilis image! about 150 factories; the wholesale department does a business of 82 milALL PEACE CONFERENCES FAIL lion pounds, banking business of 600 ht ravot3r on the fairness and integrity of Bmdnesa", spending mlUlona of dollar annuity on a OwptlMng gullible public Into the belief Traw0 S2 a- -t JnS nroflteaiw ware m asr during the coming weeks In order that she may buy baby sister a COUnter & to 5ol k t our leglslatora . An, mUUons for n plttomTwIthX "UU SS; t SStofiJlKS -v InoomeXthe i- AUSTRIA CENTER OF To The Munition Makers" By MAIN TRADE ROUTES Geographical Position Gives It Undue Importance. posi"Geographical Washington. tion gives Austria a place of exaggerated importance in international affairs," anys a National Geographic society bulletin. "No leu than alx nations touch the borders of a country no larger than the state of Maine. Germany. Czechoslovakia, Hungary. Yugoslavia. Italy, and Switzerland, watch every event Inside these borders witli consuming Interest. Austria was reduced by the treaty of Versailles to a mere shadow of her former self. A vast empire waa whit tied down to one suiull state, overloaded with Industries, slid deprived of most iiiiturnl resources. Her wheat fields went to Hungary, her coal mines to t'xeelioslovnkla. and tier sea ports of Trieste mid Flume to Italy. Today Austria Iihs to import most of her eea I and much of her foodsluil'. Battles Handicaps. she has "Against these liandic.-ipwaged a sturdy battle increasing production and developing water Niwer as a substitute for coal, i lie fertile plains north of llie liunulie have Imcii under intense cultivation agricultural school were established, and every istssllde etTurt was nuiile to aid ami educate the funner. "tin the other side of t tie scales are lo-- r mines and tier industries, al ways provided that she can find a for eign market fur her product. The iiiiiuntains of Ktyriu. a province III the Southeast, are rich in iron, and the Imi furnaces and steel work of , lien and Ihuinwitz supply the country witli Oil per rent of the metal used. tsirint liism iron was familiar to the Unmans, and later greatly In demand fur the armor and trnppings of knight C. N. L. Maka your big swords sharp and long, Of finest steel, cold and strong. To pierce the bodies thru and thru Of Christian brothers brave and true. Make your great guns that fire fast And rain their death with every blast, So they may slay your fellow men When the war lords speak again. Make liquid fire and gases all. And bombs that know just where to fall. To spread their death dew on your kind. And every living thing they find. Sow your seeds of hate and fear; Raise up war scares far and near. What to you is war's grim day Just so profits come your way? Nor a new war's destroying fire. s Gi-nz- hood. "Austrian salt mines, also old In history, were known to the people of the Bronze age. In addition to upper Styrla there ire two other Important districts Vorarlberg, faindustrial mous for embroidery and eotlon weaving. and Vienna with Its textile mills and innchine shops. "Factories and uinchinery make a mnr introduction to the gay mistress of tlie Danube. Hut the Vienna of today Is a city of sharp contrasts and puzzling contradictions. The Baroque facade of Hapshurg paliteea Mill line , lint beyond rise the wide Uin-- sl the clean, straight wall of a huge municipal apartment block. TlieSehon-lirunpalace, luxurious residence of Maria Theresa, Is now tin orphanage for workers' children. Ideals of modern socialism mingle with imperial I For you must reap from blood and tears, Sighs and groans and trembling fears, Fortunes gained at the awful cost Of your own souls, seared and lost. Ply well your traffic while you may Till Armageddon comes your way. Soon cometh One to scourge your kind From all the counsels of mankind. NOTICE Murray E. King will speak on The of Abundance at the regular meeting of the Forum, City and County building, 8 oclock Sunday evening, November 18. Economy The Government Adopts Principle OfN.DA. The government in going ahead with its relief and self help work Is patterning its program after the N. D. A. program in vogue here in Salt Lake for a couple of years. This is encouraging to the sponsors of the N. D. A. plan and Mrs. Benj. B. String-hathe originator, may look up with pride and feel that he was really ahead of his time and that he a very great work. Just now it looks like prosperity will flood us like a tidal wave. But beware of false lights on the horizon, readers. There tradition. will come a time, just as surely as ' "For years Vienna lias been we live when the principles involved a e.ipital W! limit an empire. The in N. D. A. will be needed, and it will wealth and power are not be long. Just keep your eyes and sources of gone, but there is one thing that trea- ears open. We all will welcome prosties could not take away, and tliut Is perity but we want tbe kind of prosher gisigrapliieiil location. She lira at perity that will be permanent. t rni'-sc- MXti-e- lo-- r Butte, Mont. Western sheepman, wliu fought tlie cattlemen for ranee rights In some of the bloodiest range war of the Old West. fare s new enemy. according to A. A. Evans, president of. the North American Sheep aiiMsrars' - union. Eastern si Mirtsmea, t trf he uld. were backing a have sheep ruled off large tracts of million annual turnover; Insurance sowith a premium income of over Because a Sinister and Traitorous Influence Sits in Every One cieties 5 million pounds. There are over The news reports that the London naval conference haa failed. Norman families belonging to the CoDavis, pur representative at Geneva, porta thaMie fears unseen Influences operative movement, over half the ' may Mock peace plans. Both statements are true' and there"! a" reason. families of Great Britain. In 193S The munition makers sit in everywhere and use their influence against they did a RETAIL business of over In other demo300 million pounds. peace. They either own or control the most influential newspaper and cratic countries as Denmark, Scanda-navi- a. to magazines in every nation. They control law makers and politicians Belgium, etc., with a large whatever extent is necessary to put through their nefarious schemes in order membership, they have successfully broken down and taken over trusts that private profit and insatiable greed may be served. and operated them for the benefit of Prior to the great war we had few resources for peace but thousands the As soon as the proconsumers. of resources for war. After the war we at least tried for peace. First there ducts of their own factories appear in was built up the League of Nations, an inspired plan by which the world their stores the cooperative member-owneswitch their trade from the might have saved Itself from war. Following it came the Kellog Pact and to their own cooperative private the Washington treaties, and others, which struggling humanity set up as a brands defense against a recurrence of the World War. But in every Instance the Belgium is an example of how the munition makers, by using all the powerful resources at their command, profits are used for public service; broke down the work of these institutions and continue to deceive the people. the savings are used for building Peorecreation As one writer says: "We have run through all our resources for peace and ples Houses, for education, In Switand other cultural purposes. sacrito will be have thrown them aside. It matters not how many boys zerland and other countries they own ficed, bow much destruction must take place, what rivers of blood and tears their electric power plants. They must flow, the profits of the munition makers must go on to add other bil- maintain tbe upkeep of th entire city places. lions to the cofferes of the worst menace that confronts humanity. Let the in certain to I desire quote the following from over. government take them Mr. E R. Bowen, General Secretary of the Cooperative League Ameri- movi-mcn- western lands as a means uf pro-selug game. Eva us Mild that charges needed for tliut sheep destroyed game were false, s they usually ranged on lands unsiiited for wild game in any considerable numbers. n rs ca's Answer, Consumers THE CASE OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN AMERICA You will not spare the lives you sell Into red wars living hell. You will not halt destruction dire, Sheepmen Confronted With Threat From East U. S. Lagging, But Something Will Be Done During the Winter The case of social justice is prominently before tbe bar of the public opinion of this country at the present time. And it is well for practically nothing has been done by this groat, rich country. All Europe leads us and it now becomes our humane duty to do something substantial. President Roosevelt has a committee at work on tbe matter of old age pensions and other forms of social insurance. People by the tens of millions have signed petitions for the Townsend Revolving Plan. Politicians by the thousands have promised that they are for these things and we may rest assured that there will be action by tbe next congress. There are only eighteen of our states which have any provisions for the relief of the aged and in some of them the amount given is an insult. But considering that the U. S. has always stood aloof from any form of social legislation, this does not seem so bad. From these states 100,000 aged people are receiving relief at a cost of $25,000,000 a year. Of the ones over 65 only one in thirty is receiving old age help or pension. Wisconsin leads the states and her old age pension law will likely be a pattern for the president's board, which will consider the matter from four angles: Accident and Workmens conpensatlon; sickness and maternity benefits; old age and the inability to earn a living, and forced unemployment. Canada has had unemployment insurance since 1911 and spent last year to that end $250,000,000. The British plan in England pays to a man out of work $3.81 a week; to a woman $3.37; for each adult dependent $2; for each child dependent 50 cents; for a young single woman $2.68; for a girl $1.69; for a boy $2 weekly. They also have liberal sick benefits. Old age pensions are compulsory and tbe maximum for those over 65 is $2.31 a week. In Germany both unemployment insurance and old age pensions are compulsory and small sums are paid weekly. They also have maternity and sick benefits, being quite liberal In the former. But these would not suffice for this country. We must be far more liberal and must at least come within hailing distance of the Townsend Plan. Under the Wisconsin law workers laid off may draw from $5 to $10 a week for ten weeks. The fund la contributed by the employer and the employee. Roosevelt's plan for old age pensions Is said to ho around $30 per month and that only to those who need it. But this will not do. If we take all the billions we are now spending for relief and charity; all the cost unemployment, and add a small sales or transaction tax we can easily put over the Townsend Plan and keep our aged people In respectability and comfort The dally transactions In Utah amount to at least $3,000,000 per day. A 2 per cent tax on each transaction will pay $200 a month to every person over 60. The same applies to the nation. pco-neer- ed SUBSCRIBERS, YOU ARE LEAVING ME TO FIGHT THE BATTLE ALONE Surely You Will Help In The Great Cause of Human Welfare Dear subscribers: Why are you falling me in the great fight for human welfare? You are leaving me to carry it on alone. Don't do it. Don't desert the cause. AH of you can contribute something. Send it in by all means. Address, Fublic Opinion. 217 Keith Bldg., Salt Lake City. Utah. The paper can do a world or good if you will lend a helping hand. Send in something right away. Surely you have something that will help a person to live. FROM THE BRADFORD LABORATORY 812 East 21st South Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 'Phone Hy. 3663-Health seeker I come again! Why? Because the last time I was with you I promised to let you see a part of my garden of health. The seed I planted haa come forth. Listen it is really talking. Weston, Idaho, Oct. 29, 1934 Dear Dr. Bradford: It Is with a grateful heart I can give this statement. In 1926 I waa operated on for cancer, right breast taken off. In 1928 I got this treacherous disease in the left breast. The growth was as large as an apple, and what pain. The doctor said no other thing to do but operate but I could not think of doing that again. I considered myself thru with this life In a very short time. I went to Logan the same day, although I could not understand what for. I waa Indeed sick. The ride to Logan tortured be. the breast was so heavy I had to hold it up. In Logan a friend spoke to me on the street and asked me what In the world was the matter with me. I told her, and also what the doctor had said. She told me an aunt of here was using a Black Oil. I was in a few minutes at the agent who had tbe oil. When I came there he hesitated. He thought I was too far gone, but after I told how I got there he sent for the oil. I took it to my doctor, who lived in Preston. Idaho. He smiled a sorry smile, but was game with me, and agreed to examine me once a month. Aftter three months use the pain was gone, and the lump had started to get smaller. After one year it was not there. Nobody can blame me for saying Bradford and his oil is a Godsend. For me it was. I am never without it. It keeps my blood moving and clean, and because it goes to the blood so quickly it belps tooth ache or blood W Coopera- tion. State Control Consumers' Cooperatives have in been subjected to State control Russia, Italy, Germany, and Austria, for the time being. But the Cooperative spirit has never been suppressed. Freedom must eventually win and voluntary cooperative control be restored in all of these countries. Consumers' Cooperation in America dates from 1845, only one year later than the original beginnings in England. There have been many waves but all have subsided until re cent years. Tbe soil in America was not yet fallow as long as the safety-valv- e of free land was left. Since the beginning of the 20th century the invention of power machinery and war and speculative emotions have largely prevented sound thinking about the necessary changes in our distribution system to match Automatic Power Production. "However, among farmers, the pressure of low prices for farm products and comparatively higher prices for manufactured goods resulted soon after the war in sufficient stimulus to start cooperative organization on a large scale. Sound cooperative principles were adopted and the present growth is well founded. Feed, seed and fertilizer were naturally the first farm supplies selected for cooperative buying. Already one cooperative organization does a thirty million dollar volume of purchasing and another millions. Cooperative oil purchas- untll todllv the jjg WM then statistics for the year 1933 remll-poison. port a total volume of thiry-fiv- e to lion dollars with a savings-rctur- n If I should tell here all I have seen oils have accomplished it would the erageV lcT per ntor $3,500,000, be too long. Maybe I better come I wj,jcj, WOuld otherwise have gone into again. increased dividends to a few stockMy husband has bad prostrate holders. One cooperative life insurtrouble and the oil surely gland ance company has made a record of him. He is doing fine. Doctor helped In in million dollars policies fifty fifty Bradford has never been in our borne, months. but thru his oil he brought sunshine and happiness In our home and also Growth In America in the homes where I have adminis"Consumers Cooperatives in towns tered it, nnd that is in many. s ml cities in America are of even I hope, anyone who is sick and reads older growth although of smaller size will try it. It is, thanks to kind this of as yet. Some groups cooperative no drug. e providence, old. years stores are over twenty-fivVerv truly yours. There are outstanding profits of the MRS. LARS FREDRICKSON. success of Consumers' Cooperatives Adv. in dairies, bakeries, cafeterias, apart f . of I -- I |