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Show Some Things to Think About Here in the gathering dusk of world chaos we stand before the soldiers without words. A large share of civilization'sjjculture has been wiped out by the guns and bombs of war. The children., child-ren., you thought to fortify with the pledge of security have scuttled down the bullet spattered roads of Europe into slav ery. The old men and women are hostages of an order that-sets that-sets no worth on spiritual vilues. The young men are strag gled out again along a hundred battle fronts to kill, to maim, and to fill the world again with misery. Kirk in Spokane Paper It was Will Rogers who said, ''I never met a person fhat I did not like." What a fine soul ho had. And because he liked people he was universally liked himself. One of the best things to do in the game of life is to learn to love everybody. As a writer says, "There is always more good than bad in people, and seeing the good tends to bring it forth. Love is the greatest healing and drawing power on earth. It is the very reason for our being, and that explains that people should have something or sompbody to love. The life that has not loved has not lived. It is still dead. People are dying for love, for real human interest, for someone to tell them that they are all right. Love and cooperation will yet be found to be the greatest business principle on earth." ' The purpose of the world-wide war is for nothing but the destruction of false and iniquitous systems, for clearing away all the dead forms, for overcoming the spiritual death that has settled upon men everywhere, and for restoring the soul of the race, so long lost in the worship of mammon. The ' war is meant to bring about a universal cleansing prepara- ' tory to ushering in a new and better day the kingdom of the Brotherhood of Man. We take pride in "Proclaiming things that are to be.... The rise of humans to their place, The coming of a nobler race." While we are for the government and against any and all of its enemies, within and without, yet e feel that some truth is being overlooked, and that this truth should be told. We say boldly, and in the name of all the prophets, that no national power or combiuation of national powers can save the old order known as the present economic sytem from destruction. de-struction. The Almighty has pronounced judgment upon it, because it is responsible for all the evil? and distress and misery mis-ery and poverty in the world. This Babylonic system has been sentenced to death everywhere even in our own land. It has at last been set apart as a product of perdicion by the same mind and hand that warned Belsbaazar and there is no salvation for it. America going into the war will not save if; America staying out of the war will not save it. Struggling, fighting and dying soldiers, what have we to say to you, now that the dark terror of war is on the loose? Why do you leave the sacred precincts of youth with all their hope and promise? Just to come to the grim cul de sac of death in glory's name? Why do you cancel all the potent ialities of the young? That the old and the infirm might live in peace? Or do you dream that out of the tragedy of war should at last come to a better day, that the lads of 1941 might- unfold the plans God meant them to unfold in a world serene with security and full of the promise that is the birthright birth-right ot youth? The truth is that every problem that confronts mankind today was solved for him nearly twenty centuries ago. A great Wayshower came and pointed the way and by his life proved how all these trouble could be prevented or overcome. His words were and are THE PLAN His life was and is the incontrovertible in-controvertible evidence that the plan will work for every man, woman and child, and for every nation. All man has to do is to follow Him, and by so doing lift himself up to the best Comradeship Com-radeship ever offered to human beings. Though the whole world be destroyed his supreme commandment, ' Love thy neighbor as thyself," and His Golden Rule will stand, and there will never be peace, nor abundance, nor security, nor true liberty and universal joy and happines until the race makes these two a literal and active part of its very life. How easy and how near to men is then the solution for all and ev erything that is wrong, closer than breathing, nearer than hands and feet. Now that Gov. Maw and the congressional delegation and the very libeaal national administration are doing so much for Utah let the citizens unite as one man behind ever detail of every program and proceed to make the state one of the real wonder places of the world. All join hands for Utah. In whatsoever direction one may turn his eyes he will see trouble disaster, suffering and confusion. War is making a shambles of the whole world and poverty and slavery are killing kil-ling both bodies and souls of whole populations. And before it all poor, patient humanity stands apparently helpless. A thousand voices are shouting solutions but not one can solve Hundreds of plans are offered but all are hopeless. Division , confusioD and commotion are everywhere present. It is all because men have turned away from instead of embracing the one sure and unfailing remedy and solution. It is soon one hundred years since a little band of outcasts and wanderers made a clearingtin the sage brush near the place where the Center Theatre stands and began to build shelters and plow and plant that they might subsist hereon one of the far west frontiers. From that very humhle and obscure beginning all that we see in every direction has come. What sought they in this very uninviting desert and wilderness? I hey sought a home and the means of sustaining life They sought a shrine for their faith. They sought the freedom for wh.ch some of their forbears had fought in the Revolution. They sought to live at peace with men and God and to set up a community and an ensign here that should speak of them to all the world. When we honor them we honor ourselves. We need today their faith, their courage, their fortitude and their will to work out temporal and spiritual salvation. God bless their memories. |