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Show PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT GOOD IN SPITE OF EVIL Issued every other Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, in interest of "Natural Government" Entered a second-clamatter April 26, 193 at the post office at Salt Lake City, Utah, nnder the Act of March 8, 1879. ss C. N. LUND One Year Six Months Publisher and Managing Editor PRICES OF SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 1.00 , Advertising Rates on Application. Class A and B Credits Accepted in Either Department communications invited, and your moral and financial support is solicited. Help us carry the saving message of to the world. Worth-whil- e SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1932 DIPORTANCE OF HOME INDUSTRIES DONT THROW IT AWAY! In spite of all the evil inherent and growing out of the prevailing system, it is truly marvelous that we find so much good, so much kindness, so much mercy and charity, so much nobility. But these things are not news. They are not played up by the papers which feed on the evils and the ugliness and cater to perverted mental tastes. We have seen a detailed list of the charities performed last winter by a single stake and we know the records of some wards and some associations and societies. Their deeds performed for the unfortunate men, women and children have not been blazoned or heralded and have not. been done to be seen of men. But when they are brought vividly to the attention they are marvelous indeed. The religious and civil authorities are entitled to praise. No one needs to speak for them. Their good unstinting works go before them and testify of the goodness of their lives. How suddenly we would revert to barbarism if we did not have Christian characters among us who deem it their duty to go about and minister to those who are in need of their ministrations. May they never become weary in g and may the same measure they mete out be measured to them, heaped up and running over. In as much as ye have rendered service to one of the least of these my brethren and sisters, ye have done it unto Me. Have it welded and spend the difference between this and a new one with the N. D. A. RUST BROTHERS WELDING ELECTRIC and ACETYLENE No job too big or too small All work guaranteed. Will Call and Deliver General Repair and Contract Work Hyland 4514--J 61 West Stratford Ave. FIVE MINUTE INSPIRATIONS By C. N. Lund (All rights reserved) OUR FIRST PRAYER One of lifes most beautiful sentiments is woven around our first and simplest prayer, "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep ; If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take. It is safe to say that this prayer of thirty words has done more for the right guidance of humanity than any other supplication ever written in our language. It is the humblest petition that ever ascended to the great white throne. It has but two ideas, one to keep the soul that wakes to another morning here, and the other to take the soul that passes on. That is all there is to it, and yet a more sincere petition to the Creator was never uttered. For two centuries this little prayer has been the plea of countless children and millions of grownups. Just before his death John Quincy Adams uttered it and acknowledged that in all his life he had never laid his head upon his pillow without repeating it. If the life stories of all the men and women who have lived in the United States since the time the prayer was given out, 1737, were open to read, it might be known that millions could have said the same, or could say it today. Whatever of childhood may have been left behind with the years of business and care and responsibility, the memory of that short, earnest prayer remains and clings like the remembrance of one who was dearly beloved. Along with the millions of little children who nightly lisp this prayer at the knees of mother or father or grandmother, old men and white haired women add it to their heaven-sepetitions. Worn and weary travelers say it as they remember the dear and home. Prodigals murmur it in their penitent hours. Heroes, grown weary of hon-o- rs tliat are empty, breathe it to call back real days of joy and happiness, when the quality of boyhood and girlhood was one of the finest things in life, and still is. In the simplicity of this humble prayer countless souls have found the peace that passes understanding, the peace that cannot be known save to those who believe and trust in the love and mercy of a kind Father. In the shades of its sweetness, like the shade of a way-sid- e tree, millions of worn souls have found rest denied elsewhere. How often has it cleared the troubled waters of the souls cares, calmed the stormy days, banished the clouds, let in the light, and comforted the heart. How often has it been the means of bridging the night of death and led the soul to the dawn that opens on eternity! The Natural Development Association is a positive" factor in community life. We are not here to tear down or ob-- i struct any worthy undertaking. We fully sense the importance' of fostering and encouraging home industries and enterprises. We believe that it is good business in making purchases to give preference to home manufactured products, thus providing labor for local people and keeping money at home, even though TO HAVE OR TO BE the price paid may in some instances be slightly higher than that asked for foreign made goods. In the early settlement of this state, under the wise leaderWhich do you choose : to have, or to be? Foolish men have ship of Brigham Young, special importance was placed upon thought they could achieve both. But more than nineteen hunhome industries, and the state (then a territory) started off on dred years safe a and sane program of producing practically all of its re- You can ago the Savior told us men cannot serve two masters. have, or you can be. Your ideal can be service, use, quirements; but as time went by and transportation facilities helpfulness, the world better; or it can be to live better brought us into close contact with the merchandise of the east, than others making off their labor. by living and money becoming comparatively easy to obtain, Utah All down the centuries the words of Christ have echoed, were weaned away from Utah goods; they were not people men to leave the stylish calling of the Golden Calf. At times enough. And so, one by one, our; factories and mills were not even those who haveworship been loudest in claiming His name forced to dose their doors. Little by little the state became less have seemed to hear His words. But the seed He sowed in the until we came to import most things that we hearts of men could never be entirely destroyed. required for our comfort and sustenance, and the labor of manHere in America, the ideal of having came very nearly ufacturing was transferred from our own people to those of eclipsing the ideal of being. But now the gTeat disaster greed other states or foreign countries. has brought upon us, industry wrecked, finance paralyzed and Then the depression struck, and money became restrictec humanity starving in the midst of plenty, has sobered us. The and practically impossible to obtain in sufficient amount to little meet our needs. In a depression, the region that feels it to seed of decency planted in our hearts is having its chance grow. most is the one that manufactures nothing, but depends upon A turning point has come in the ' other sections of the history of the nation. It country to supply all its needs. That is is marked by the organization of the Natural Development Asperhaps why we have felt the depression more severely here in sociation, and the groups. The Natural DevelopUtah than they have in many of the manufacturing centers. ment Association offers every man and woman a character test. This depression, whatever else it has done, has caused peo- It challenges every man not merely to declare his ideal, but ple to think and take stock of their surroundings. It is sendto live up to it. If there still lingers in him the hankactually ing a lot ot people back to the land, which was being deserted to live off the labor of others, he will not ering join. Thus for the higher wages obtainable by city dwellers, and they are automatically, he rates his own character, and nothing he can of an glad opportunity to at least insure themselves against can conceal the final score. N. D. A. forces you to make starvation. Tillers of the soil are fairly safe in this respect. say choice : to have, or to be. The depression is also causing people to be less exacting in what your they wear and use in various ways. It makes people glad to labor and produce anything that adds to their It MAY WE TELL THE TRUTH? makes them more considerate of their fellow man, and anxious to see his job made more permanent and secure, for every adThere should be no objection to telling the truth and comditional man deprived of an opportunity to labor increases the menting burden on the community and adds to the disorder and misery. dailies. on it, especially after it has appeared in the stand-pa- t Truth is not always beautiful. If our factories and mills already established can be kept From Chicago comes the news that starvation faces 500,000 a lot of want and distress can be avoided. Natural Cook operating, county, Illinois, people and that the emergency relief Development affords a plan for accomplishing this without the commission is working frantically to obtain funds to provide use of money, which is impossible to obtain. Natural Developood. The commission complains bitterly about rich citizens ment, by its facilities for exchanging labor and commodities, is wh() refuse to give in this crisis. They have appealed to the able to absorb and distribute the merchandise produced, pracresident for aid but relief from that source is not encouraging. tically without the use of money. The small amount of cash From Los Angeles comes the news, also in the daily press, THE NECESSITY FOR A NATURAL SYSTEM absolutely required can be obtained by the sale of surplus that there are 36,000 families there entirely dependent on the stocks in the open markets. But this represents a negligible county ; that the funds are exhausted, and that to save the day amount. Others Are Seeing The Light As N. D. A. Sees It. a bond issue for $12,000,000 must be voted. If it is not, they Natural Development recognizes the wisdom of the piothere will be violence. neers of this state in establishing factories and mills to produce say, And so The physical body is the type of a perfect social organizacomes the news from all parts of the their own goods, and is committed to a program of returning rom country, and tion. As each cell and organ of the physical body gives of its every nation for that matter. And the crisis is well along to this condition as fast as possible. With the of in its third and to the circulating blood stream for the energy products leaders have not come forth with year. other manufacturers and the people generally, there is no reason a of the whole so every human being should cregood solution. have organism; been promising content to drift along why all our factories and mills cannot be running at capacity depending upon luck orThey chance to be able to muddle through! ate produce for the good of human society, and receive freely again, furnishing employment for a large proportion of our bhall we be condemned for offering sane and sure solutions for according to his needs. people, making necessary commodities available without the AS THE CIRCULATING forces and fluids of the ard setting forth a plan which will assure ProJ.es use of money, and restoring to a great extent the purchasing such conditions can be overcome and set aside once and flow to the heart center which governs the circulation, andbody that Cut power of the people. tor all? Rather than condemn us, people should come and to the exeremities, so the productiveness and again it fight takes a small prosperity amount of cash to make this proTrue, of human shoulder to shoulder with us should be controlled by the governing heart gram operative, but if only a portion of the contributions gra- tions get worse and worse and for the common welfare. Condi- center and beings be circulated for the common welfare. unusual be must done something made to alleviate human suffering was subscribed to if the nation is Every one tuitously to survive. That something unusual will be should have all he needs and can use, but no more ; none should an effort of this kind it would shortly make the populace found in Natural Development. store up or hoard more than he can use. and relieve society of a perpetual dole system, which SUCH AN IDEAL state of human society, PATTERNED weakens initiative and robs recipients of ambition. AFTER THE SAVE AMERICA COMMONWEALTH of the ' Surely the aims and objects of Natural Development are Ss Human can become Body, commendable and worthy of the encouragement and support o: operative in this world only as ll becomes the motive that inspires all human humanity all We welcome people. your aid or constructive then, is the most criticism. (The following is the first installment of a lecture prepared by activities. quality for the evolution and perfection of the human necessary family, as well as for the universal welfare of the races of mankind. the editor on the above subject.) A CALL TO ACTION RECOGNITION of the fact that every human being is constituted just as each of us is, has indeed, the same identical The discovery of America was the most dramatic incident needs that "Today we find in American life a political alignment that in the secular you and I have, and that he is entitled to an equal history of the race. Among human events there opportunity to gain an honest livelihood such as is largely meaningless. There is no essential difference between has you and I need been nothing more inspiring than when Columbus first be- and a willingness to work with the economic and social creeds of the Republican and Democraand main in a construcmight held the dawn on the shores of the New World. We all are tive tic parties. Both stand essentially for the interests of the few way to bring about such righteous relationship in human as opposed to the many. Both are in the hands of corrupt poli- agreed that one of the greatest days in human history was that affairs, will be a manifestation of that "Love-for-alspirit. tical machines. Neither has any adequate solution for the burn- which witnessed the creation of the American government and And tie necessary supplies for human maintenance must dito mankind the priceless thing we delight to call Amer gave of of be distributed human to ing questions insecurity, rectly gross inequality, of industria icanism. beings that are now produced in autocracy, of imperialism. Neither has any sense of the direcThe birth of the Republic of the United States of America abundance; no money of any kind can ever take the place of the tion in which our economic system should move. Attempts of actual nourishment. This is what people must begin to realize. reformers to purge the old parties of their reactionary elements was a literal fulfillment of the promise of the ages. It was times A system of distribution must be inaugurated that will actually have proved futile. A new and powerful political party con- burst of dawn to the poverty-strickeignorant, tyrant-ridde- n supply every human being at all times with an supply trolled and directed by the plain people of the country on our and oppressed peoples of the world. It was an inspired project; of nourishment regardless of any kind of moneyadequate or no money. a of natural true, just, system government set up for the poliMANY MILLIONS are denied the farms, in our factories and mines and in professional life is opportunity to earn an needed to start our country on its way to comfort and security tical, economic and spiritual salvation of mankind. The na- honest livelihood and are suffering hunger and cold, deprived tion its career with a given mission and set up a new of all comfort and began for the masses, to peace and democracy; to bring hope, where does happiness. not meet the urgent Charity there is now despair. The time is ripe for the new alignment. hope and a new vision. It set out to lead to a condition where need and stress of the situation. Production and distribution justice, equality, opportunity and truth should reign supreme-wher- must be adjusted and fully meet human necessities. A just baltrue and lasting liberty should become the personal ance must be established in the economic and social relations A BANKRUPT WORLD of of every man, woman and child; where soul mankind, unless this is done insurrection, revolution and war should find life grandly worthwhile, and where allevery the sup- are inevitable. But bloodshed and wholesale destruction Federation Bulletin.) pressed longings and aspirations of the struggling masses might of (Thoughts Taken from the Anglo-Saxo- n will settle nothing. A violent disruption and overproperty The world is bankrupt. Interest on its indebtedness is find complete realization. The infant republic recognized God throw of the existing order of business and social system will greater than the earning power of its people. The evils of in- and His scheme of things; accepted as a fact the fatherhood of settle nothing permanently. terest taiking are killing initiative and enterprise in all our in- bod and the brotherhood of man; believed in the SOME ORDERLY, peaceful exit out of the dustrial activities. The ability of interest to continue and mul- simple religion of Jesus qnd worshipped atimplicitly rigidity its unpolluted of the social order and system of business mustpresent be sought for, shrines. of and taxatiply, regardless earnings, plus inequitable unjust discovered and entered upon and inspire the thought and action In the light of these truths it is proper that we now ask of of all tion, finds industry increasingly entering its accounts in red. men and women in all the nations of the world. The good our souls have the searching questions, "Have we been not seen the economic unsoundness of interest until Many the soulless, impersonal dollar it has plunged us deeper and deeper into the abyss of financial m a C0Vr,se that is true to the early steering and ING MAN, the crown of must be dethroned and THE LIVip. principles and economic oblivion. ideals. Have we, with all our progress and achievement, made consideration m all human creation, given unqualified primary affairs, as to his maintenance requireThe world is not facing depression. Instead it is witnessing sure of the stability and perpetuity of the heritage which came ments and everything else that can contribute to his uplift and the disintegration of the whole fabric of our economic and to us from the great minds, the clean hands and the hearts happiness. No longer must any one go hungry; war must pure industrial foundations. Business will not give out, or news-PP- of of our government? Have we been, and are cease; and the savage transformed into natures nobleman. publish, the pessimistic outlook. The Wall Street crash we keeping faith with the great souls in the forefront of our Llano Colonist. will be but a ripple in ? Are we the present and the future with the comparison to the impending collapse of fronting our whole industrial and credit system. Men are drifting and faith, the honor, the noble purpose and the high resolve that sras to be small hope, indeed, for the Soldiers m their failure to recognize the cause of the trouble no present characterized the patriots who pledged their lives and fortunes bonus bill. The money power seems to be passing up their bes and honor for their own and their help is in sight that will avert complete disaster. chance for relieving the financial stress, at least posterity and welfare? temporarily. well-doin- nt far-aw- ay well-bein- g. grief-burden- ed Up-to-da- te ng Love-for-a- right-thinki- ng Love-for-a- ll, l" n, e pos-sessi- on ste ef s his-to- ry |