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Show Progressive- - Independent A PAPER HELP THAT STANDS SUPPORT FOR THE CAUSE HITMAN OF THE WELFARE LUND C. N. Entered aa Five Cents Per Copy VoL 3, No. 26. A second-clas- Sugarhouse. s Publisher asd Managing Editor matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March 217 David Keith Building, June 15, 1934. I The Progressive Confer People Most Be Led To TO THINK SERIOUSLY ON Cooperative Self Help ence was a success. It was the greatest since the Bull Association The National should be built Moose days. contends that THIS MATTER CHALLENGES from the bottom up from the people There will be a continup, and not from the government YOUR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION down, aa Is now being done. You who are following closely the rapid ec- ued meeting July 3. onomic changes and the Inevitable trend from broken down capitalism to Every true Citizen of the United States of America feels that KEY NOTE FOR TODAY some other system, know that some the Constitution of the United $tates is a DOCUother workable plan must take Its MENT to as does each it libcitizen guaranteeing1 the of life, the which right great Some The religious keynote, the econom-i- s plan by place. and of the citizen also erty machine feels of pursuit happiness. Every that production possibilities keynote, the scientific keynote of huSelf-Hel- self-hel- p p S, 1879. Five Cents Per Copy. $1.50 Per Year. Salt take City, Utah, MOVE A GREAT MEET SOMETHING FOR PEOPLE GOOD PEOPLE ; MAW WILL RUN SPLENDID PLAN Hon. Herbert B. Maw Great Political Unrest Found Everywhere has definitely announced that he will contest for the The time has come when everyas a means of nominatien for U. S. Sen- body, must modernize the financial system. It must be brought up to date and ator; keep pace with other progressive End of personal and public d methods. Although constant progress is made keeping up insurance premiums as the government dividends are ab- in science and industry, finance, by which man is enslaved, stands still in solutely certain. 7. End of the Hunger Duress which its tracks. Our financial system should have compells citizens to engage in dis- passed out of date with spear fighttasks or those for which they ing and magic lanterns. To compare under this Constitution there is no need for hunger, starvation, un- tressful are not adapted. It with the ox in competition with the and the many ills with which our people are now sufemployment, 9. End of the Charity Problem, for airliner would be an Injustice to the fering. ALL citizens receive ox, who, although considerably behind Within the last few years, ev-- .that require no wages to be paid, Common Stock automatically dividends thereby pro- the times, at least moves forwanL This system has become so rickety ents have proved that something .. that only demand a little lubri-i- s viding for them. not only endangers the foundthat 10. ecEnd of the problem of Depend- ation itand woefully wrong with our eating oil and power. These stability of modern Indussystem. Every true and chines have largely replaced the ent Relatives, as every man and wo- try, but is so decayed that it underman receive their dividends irrespec- mines and degrades the mentality, loyal citizen should know WIIAT worker thus depriving him of the tive of age. morality and spirit of everybody. It is wrong and IIOW to rectify wages necessary to purchase 11. End of the Prostitution Evil, is not only the most uneconomic thing We have been living under an inasmuch as no woman need sell her- that has ever been tied to man. but economic system which permits it Is the legal instrument through self In future to keep herself alive. whleh swindlers, fakers and sharper interest and profit to so accumu12. End of worries over expectant cheat everybody out of deliberately late that it has resulted in the as can the mother know the fruits of their labor and motherhood, keep concentration of large quantities her baby is going to be provided for people in continual want of the things on birth. of money in the hands of few are entitled to. they 13. Common Stock dividend protecThe two import things man must people. This concentration of tion for widows and orphans as they learn before he can get out of the money places the- purchasing receive their own Fed- rut are: (1) to know himself, and (2) automatically to know how finance paralyzed him. power in the hands of few peoeral credit. ple and prevents the great mas14. End of worries over dependent ses from buying according to old age as citizens receive their last Editorial their needs. highest dividends until death. And too, for the first time in 15. End of the Farm and Labor WE NEED A HEART TRUST all human history, machines problem, as the harder or more unPrea the the have begun to do the vast bulk task, pleasant higher For nineteen hundred years it seemferred Stock rating. of the world work machines ed that, the realization here on earth 16. Incentive to invent machines to of SHALL AYE SCRAP OUR MACHINES? anything in the nature of he Lord's do the disagreeable tasks instead of prayer or the Sermon on the Mount THE GREAT CORPORATION, No man Of course NOT. them suppressed by selfish was sheer nonsense and impossible should do laboriously by hand dent to supply them with food, shel- having from an economic or material point Interests. ter and clothing. what is easier and better done 17. End of the necessity for the of view. Today we know the thing ' FOURTH, when this minimum secret ballot, as no man need be sec- Is easily possible from a material by a machine. Common Stock dividend has so re- retive of his vote in fear of losing his point of view, and that the essential to we How then are prorequisites are first, really vide a sound and steady buying moved the Hunger Duress, let the job. social machinery, and second, sympaGreat Issue thereafter Corporation 18. No disturbance of present Insti- thetic human hearts to perfect anl power for our distressed people? two classes of additional Preferred tutions nor dismissal of big brains at run that If machines have already demachinery. :k, one forHomestead Ownership, trust .fietd a.',heart-tuut"-of".present. gteaLJndustrial will creased and finally, practical an( iher'for lndUstryand "talent. in the Innate goodness of the human projects. abolish the peoples wages, ly 19. No chance for swollen predatory heart when it has not been warped FIFTH, let the Preferred Realty where is buying power to come as unspent yearly dividends by the mammon worship, the false fortunes homestead Stock, representing private anr the false economics of from to gradually, if ever, work ownership, Inare cancelled and be credits issued science, and the nineteenth century. out from under the mountains violate against any sort of attach- each January 1st. qew of bond issues that are already ment, foreclosure or predatory polit20. End of political bureaurocracy ical taxes. and costly banking systems, as the upon us? WHY SILVER CAUSE LAGS There IS an answer and a plan SIXTH, let the Preferred Merit Government has but the single acThe reason silver does not get its so simple and practical that only stock be Issued to reward individual count with each citizen. 21. Preferred Stock dividends for proper recognition is contained in the the Money Bund does not want Initiative, talent, industry or unselfindustry, and Initiative may following. The same reason applies the plain man to know anything ish public service, with all rights of talent, as total unhigh as $100,000 a year to to the Progressives: inviolate and property about. Frankly, it spells the end personal individuals. There were upw.inls of 20 differalienable. of the predatory Money-Bun- d 22. Optional retirement from indus- ent silver bills pending before variSEVENTH, let the whole people as try at 50 years of age with dividends ous committees, and the sponsors of forever, which is why it will not none were willing to make way for the Great Corporation be the great details Real The of any permit paid until death figured as of retire- others. Seldom If ever has a legisladeand the landlord, great employer ment date. Way Out to become openly tion fight developed such jealousy of amounts needful the goods claring of 23. economic True known or discussed through the to be independence and representatives. manufactured In any given year married women, giving each wife her On no senators controlled press. other has there been so suject to various pay the full totals of the own lawful Income and purifying much 'pride of authorship,' so much This plan, first given voice by Wildividends. determination to compel congress to marital relationship. liam Dudley Pelley, has been examinEIGHTH, let these dividends be 24. Dividends for each child: 1 to 7 take my bill or get none. Every sened by the nation's biggest economists represented and paid by bank credits years $250 : 7 to 14 years, $500: 14 tc ator and every congressman who Inand pronounced to be absolutely which troduced a silver bill came to regard the Great Federal Bank main 21 years, $750; at majority, $1,000. as sound and practical. It is known himself as an authority on silver, and tains each individual citizen, witii and 25. Maintainance of law, order, the plan of the Silver like the general run of experts, no a the citizen which writes against protection against aggression, because two agreed, and each thought the Legion, the outstanding points are as check exactly as at revolution would bank of type individual's others weree all wrong, The result follows: destroy present was chaos." dividends. FIRST, by a simple, lawful and NINTH, let the whole arrangement 26. Return to true Constitutionalto Constituthe practical amendment be kept politically clean and corpora ism because ballot and tion, let us Incorporate the whole tlon efficiency maintained by an a cltiz en's veto return would Strenuous efforts are being made power busione United States into gigantic mendment to the Constitution, making government to our people. to further the cause of the Utah Tax ness firm, to be thereafter known aa it that whereas no func27. Most Important of all the above, Reform League and the people should or tionmandatory SECOND, let every native-bor- n of Constitutional Government the adoption of the Silver rally to its support if they desire any naturalized man, woman and child is rhall be disturbed, all legislation af- Legion Plan would do away forever real relief from their present tax the nation becomes the owner and ter Mr. Wilkinson, the organoriginating and being fully debat- with the growing crime wave, for burdens. and women holder of one share of Common Stock ed In halls of State, shall come back racketeers and extortionists could not izer, is out with his men utmost to get a In The Great Corporation of the Unitto the people for final ratification ano operate, there being nothing but Fed- workers donng their who would benresponse from those ed States, to be theirs inviolate so approval, thus returning this ravish- eral Credits in the Great Government efit most by their plans. There must live. as long they ed and debauched representative gov- Bank for use as tribute or ransom be tax reform in Utah and the only THIRD, let the Great Corporation ernment back Into the hands of its moneys. It can come about is for the peoway nation-wide census of the phystake a people and maintaining thereafter a This is the first Progressive Plan to ple to organize, take interest and see ical needs of its 120,000,000 stockthat the men elected to the legislature true democracy derivine its just pow- be publshed. Silver Shirts furnished are such as will stand solidly for the holders and prepare to pay a Common ers from those who are to be governdetails of this plan. For further peoples interests and see to It Stock yearly dividend to each, suffi- - ed. P. information write Silver Legion, they get relief from the heavy burIS THIS NINE-POINPLAN NOT BETTER THAN COMMUNO. Box 155, Salt Lake City, Utah. dens which are crushing them. ISM, OK PREDATORY CAPITALISM? Consider the following 27 items of initiative, industry and talent. advantage over our present inefficiA yearly dividend providing ent methods which have been responslifes necessities for every man and ible for our present national condition with Its attendant unemployment woman, married oi single. One banking account solely beand distress: Is as different from cooking as the oil lamp is Full freedom to choose vocation tween the Federal Govermnnet and from electric lights. the citizen, abolishing interest and according to qualifications, with freeneed for taxes. dom of residence and religious priv5. When a husband and wife have ilege. Stock built up a Preferred Stock HomeAmple Preferred to the Money Interests, stead Equity, it can never be wrested dends to award for constructive work. from them. 6. sub-an- GOD-GIVE- N may be used to properly satisfy race man needs and yet not make a of idlers. Dangers from the dole are looming before us and now is the p time for the cooperative plan to come into its own. A Perfect Example. Following is a perfect example of true self help. Everyone could not receive 40 acres of land, but tens of thousands could be placed on smaller tracts, and in other ways could be led to find a way to sustain themselves if we had the leadership. Read the following and ponder its mean- -. ing and then reflect on the limitless possibilities along this line. Road To Rehabilitation Cecil Allen of Jasper County, Missouri with a wife and ten small children, found the road to rehabilitation on a farm which the local relief administration rented to them at $2 a month, and now under the Federal relief administration is pointing to them as an example that it hopes will be multiplied some hundred thousand times in other states. Two dollars a month from the relief administration persuaded the tract to let Allen owner of a work the land, but there was no house. Three tents were put up by the relief workers, one of them with board walls and floor. With a team loaned by his brother, Allen worked the tillable portions of the land in garden truck and corn. After feeding 50 fhtrfcens which the reliefe administration provided, he had more than and manenough corn for his cow, on credit. A aged for a second one him two pigs second brother loaned 'which fattened, on the remainder of the corn. Mrs. Allen canned 500 qts. of garden produce. the new age must be the overwhelming realization that mankind now has such mental control over nature that the doctrine of the struggle for exist- self-hel- ence Is dee finitely outmoded and placed by the higher law of When re- becomes a living reality in the spiritual sense of the term, when we have defined certain broad objectives which we all want to attain, when we can feel the significance of the forces at work not merely in our own lives, not merely in our own class, not merely in our own nation, but in the world as a whole then the vision of Isaiah and the insight of Christ will be on their way toward realization. DICTATORSHIPS Dem-cra- Roosevelt. An Old TffOffISEDECisIONS The decision made by Attorney General Joseph Chez that wages and salaries made by working for the F. E. R. A. are not subject to garnishment and the judgment of the court where Judge McKonkie presides that banks or trust companies cannot foreclose on the homes where the home loan payments are in default, show that we have some very liberal and sensible men in court and in office. Their decisions are wise and timely and are looking more to human welfare than to dollars and cents, which is well. Many telephones are being connected again each day in this community and others. touch with Back in everyone, these families once more can use the telephone as often as they like. No longer are they dependent on neighbors. Honor to those who are fighting to make America everything it was intended to be, which can only be done by substantial changes in law and in its administration and in the economic life of the nation. Social justice is the objective of America. This is the great, the great, ideal of the white race, particularly of America. We have during this crisis in human affairs lost many important and many more not so important values. But if we preserve this aspiration of our race, if we refuse to surrender to those who seek to stratify Americans into economic upper and lower classes, then we will have proved ourselves worthy of the centuries of faith and toil which have given us every good thing America today possesses. If you are without a telephone, why not get in touch with us today? Any employee will take your order or call our office The Mountain States Telephone & Telegraph Co. ic . it - In Italy, if you are objectionable to the Dictator there, and should attempt to hold a meeting, you would be caught by a quintette of black shirts and administered a pint of castor oil, and no judge would convict the offenders. A dozen pints of castor oil cures the most skeptical. In Germany, if you happen to be an opponent of Hitler, a Communist or a Jew, or an obnoxious Catholic, you are caught and dumped into a concentration camp and there you work on orders of a man with a good blacksnake whip, until you sing the praises of the Hitler regime or die of exxhaustion or lack of food. In America also the hand of the Dictator is upon us. In Russia it is the dictatorship of the common people: in America it the dictatorship of Wall Street administered by it unt. dercover man, Bernard Baruch. He was almost a daily advisor of Herbert Hoover, and he now acts in the same capacity to Franklin D. 40-ac- re Friend Returns ma-onom- , - up-to-d- x. Nine-Poi- nt non-secr- et Nine-Poi- nt iu. T THE OF YOUR LIFE AT THE ELECTRIC COOKING ed lamed Sky Bide . . . the elaborate exhibits . . , spectacular lighting e fleets . , . The a thousand-and-on- e unique and Inspiring attractions in- ce vite you to the Worlds Fair at Chicago this summer! Go via Union Pacific Railroad save time and money, and travel in comfort. Low round trip fares, daily. In addition, summer reductions everywhere. with varying return limits according to fares used. observation cars, dining cats and allroom cars (drawing rooms and compartments) on many Union Pacific brains this summer. For lull particulars see your local agent UNION PACIFIC SERVIC E In this period of wide spread unemployment the Federal Government has been developing a service known as the National Reemployment Service" which is a FREE SERVICE to both employers and employe ?s and is maintained for the dual purpose of assisting those out of work to find suitable employment, and for the selection of such employees as they may be able to employ. Alt placements are on a basis of QUALIFICATIONS as this Is not a Relief Service. This office and service is at present maintained at 117 South Wast Temple, Wasatch 4194, where a staff of trained workci are stationed to meet the needs of present and future conditions. HERES WIIAT THEY THINK Said in a meeting of the big Wall Street Bankers, in Decembebr, 1919: "Gentlemen, we must contract the currencsy until every bank of the Federal Reserve System is closed with frozen assets, allowing the weaker members of the Federal Reserve System to gradually fall by the wayside, always remembering that every bank that joins the silent majority makes us who remain just that much stronger. We need bigger banks and more chain stores. non-memb- er i OUR SIDE OF T1IE DEAL No one of us alone can man a facdie things tory, or alone do any modern production and distribution requires. What then 7 Simply that we must organize our side of the deal before we can start ; : ; ECONOMICAL CONVENIENT CLEAN Ask the Housewife AVho Cooks Electrically. ; ; UTAH POWER AND LIGHT CO. ij |