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Show r A LIBERAL A PAPER PAPER WITH VISION 5 Vs. VOL 1, No. 24 Arwui, 217 David Keith Bldg Entered SALT LAKE CITY.UTAH, SUGARHOUSEi u Second CLus FRIDAY, JULY 16; 1937. Matter at ft Post Office at Salt LeJu City. Utah, under the Act of March 1; 1879 Published Weekly by C. N. Lund $L50 PER YEAR SOME ENUGHTENMENT ON CONSTITUTION tIEW UNDERSTANDING OF . SERVICE SYSTEM FUNDAMENTAL LAW IS ' ' OUT IN THE DESERT THEY WANDER . There has come directly under our observation the past month or so several fine, upstanding, intelligent young men seekinig employment in Salt Lake. We have seen them knock at practically every business door in the city. Day after day they have gone about searching and inquiring, and exhausting their meager means, but all in vain. Apparently there was no work to be had. Nowhere was there encouragement and at no time or place was any sympathy shown. These are not isolated cases. Millions are in the same predicament. Denied practically everything that makes life enjoyable and worthwhile, these boys have to look on more or less hopeless while their more fortunate fellows earn and spend and attend parties and dances and shows and resorts and get the things they need and want. What does that do to young people? It gets into their souls and leaves a great hurt there. No Apparwonder so many of them are led into wrong-doinor them understand not does states the leadership ently their problem, and understanding them there is no sympathy for them. There are few, it any, who are trying to throw out a life line to them. There is none willing to go into the desert to find my sheep. What a reckoning there will be . - - tht - g. Mr.-Kee- n . . 1 PROGRESS MAY BE SLOW BUT IT GOES FORWARD In the year 1857 what has been termed the last slave ship was launched at one of the countrys eastern seaports. Mind you, it was a ship, which anyone might have known had M1 1 they taken the trouble to enquire that was going out to gather human beings and bring them to the land of the free to be the devil sold into slavery, a traffic so vile that it himself. Before sailing it was dedicated and the minister offering the prayer used these words : O Lord, bless ths ship and make it the means of doing much good in Thy Bervice. Such was the status quo of that day. To take by force ; to buy; transport and sell human souls into a life of slavery, was good business and the elect and the elite thought little or nothing about it. It paid and that was enough. But there had out-devil- ' STORY WITH A TEAR IN IT has always been in A man, in the greying years of life, who " As long as our Federal Government needs to conduct a deare trained as rogues to catch rogues partment where and are trained to shoot more accurate than rogues to kill -' rogues, there is no use of talking about discovering anyonspirhis itual truths. As long as every policeman carries a gun to Bhoot men, spiritual hip not to shoot wild animals but as the thieves of nations As be not will long truths perceived. ldU off innocent men by the millions as they did in the World War and as long as all nations center upon a war as they tore now doing in Spain, there will be no demand for the spir itual truths already discovered. As long as parents kill their children and children kill their parents as many are now dodiscount. As long as crime ing spiritual truths will be at athere must be a cleaningup is tke nations biggest business, demand for will spiritual truths. The be any before there burden of that work is upon education and religion such as Horace Mann and Dr. Maeser gave the world. G-m- en . PROGRESSIVE ITEMS AND SOME GOOD COOPER- ATIVE And Peisonal Views On Production for All A monetization of vaue for a aodat income to people over forty five yeara of age and adequate relief for the unemployed. An equitab a taxation system to retire outstanding purchase medium beyond a dollar in circulating and deposit credit for each dollar unit in production capacity each period of time that the total in credit revolves once within the total of national income. George C. Christensen Social Finance Measures There are several measures that may be taken to establish an independent income syatem distributing one fourth of the technological production of the nation to he older one forth of the population. Among these are the following 1 Acceptance of goods and produce in part payment of public dues and issuance of a purchase medium to the value of the goods received. 2 An increase in income taxes to enlarge purchasing power where goods and produce are accepted in payment of these public dues. 3 Issuance of tax lein certificates as a medium of exagree-men- t through change of the well-to-d- o. i standing in lifes early twilight looking sometimes through suffused eyes, into that awful specter, the road that leads to the charity counter, which appears to be about the best society can do for one who, for upwards of three score years and ten years has given his toil and devotion to his state and humanity. Such cross might be borne with bravery and fortitude were it not for the fact that those of better estate are so prone to look down on the poor and to torture them with their idolatrous display of wealth. But just wait a little while. God is good and his grinding mills have a way of equalizing things. If the equalizing does not come before, it is sure to come in the grave. But there is something that will survive the grave It is the immortal soul that has built itself large in the service of the poor, the forgotten, the taxpayer with his taxing unit. 4 Monetization of land values owned py state or nation thru measures that retain public ownership of water power and mineral resources for public development under a social finance system. 5 Issuance of consumer credit certificates receivable in payment or part payment of public dues. 6 A sociai credit account entering our capacity to produce needed goods and produce during each period of time the total in circulating and deposit credit revolves once within the total in national income as the measure of needed purchase medium for the production and the forefront of the fight for human welfare, was in the other day and told his story, which, in brief, was as follows: When I look into the big business and professional places into the palatial homes, and upon the very lavish display of wealth all about me, I sometimes feel that life has cheated me, (or have I cheated life?) Had I given myself to the idolatries of money and the hypocracies of the politicians; had I flattered their vain breath and bowed a cringing knee to their schemes and machinations, and prostituted pay mind to But I aimed their service, I too might have been at a star they did not see, the star of hope for the underprivileged, the poor, the neglected, the under dogs. And I have followed my principles to my utter undoing financially. consumption So, being poor, I m counted for nothing. Worst of all, I am share-croppe- rs ; ed been a few demagogues like Garrison, Phillips, Beecher and Mrs. Stowe, who believed that there could not be private ownership'bf human souls. And there was one, a towering, mighty oak in a human forest who raised his right hand to heaven and vowed to end this unholy traffic. And so, somewhere today there must be one, who like Lincoln has vowed that he will no longer tolerate, consent to, or aid the industrial slavery of these times. When will destiny bring him ng - LIVE MANY ARE DISAPPOINTED Many of our readers are very much disappointed because the predictions made concerning the end of the world did not come true. Here they predicted it would end in April ; then they postponed it until June; now they have put ?it off until September. What shall we do with the extra time By E. Chase, Ogden HOUR OF . (CJt.L.) Dust storms sweep the nation bringing droughts and misery. THE NEED : ' Crops burn up, people go hungry and animals by the thou0 sands die of thirst and starva' From Writings of Dr. S. R. Maxwell Forestshave becomegreat tion. not will not or (There are too many people who either dare and see if the Read you ly depleted through the avari following v look the truth in the face. Bar American 1921 In the this. of ciousness of lumber companies Think them. of one ue Association recommended 1st, that the appeals to the Su- and the inadequate control of preme Court be limited ; 2nd, that the number of judges be fires. Cities are filled with increased to 11 besides the chief justice! Ed.) smoke and soot which congest -. : and principles of the Constitution were put in- the lungs and make people who the If spirit ' to operation in the realm of economics, the old capitalism are forced to breathe these would ' vanish, never to appear again. harmful fumes from coal more ' The old system has polluted and perverted everything to disease when, it has touched, and, as we have said, it has polluted and susceptible with proper governmental con; perverted the Constitution. When the beneficiaries of the ' none of old system say they are defending the Constitution they are trol and immortal of that there things would be permitted ' defending their own perverted conception document. Their conception is a distorted caricature of the All heating and mostof the labor would be done with gas and original. It is the counterfeit of the genuine. ; (ConMnarf Ob Pi, Vann The present banking system is a perversion of the Con-stitution. The Constitution invests the people with the right of making and distributing their own money. This right has Public Forum Lecture Polk will give the been taken away from the people and given to a selfish group whose interests are at variance to the interests of the peo- address at the Open Forum on ple at large. Sunday, July 18 at 8 P. M. The ownership and control of land and its resources, and at the City and County builddii the ownership and control of the means of production aqd vioHis subject will be -' ing. tribution by the few for their own private benefit, is a Isra?lism National. of the spirit and principles of the Constitution. The Constitution makes provision for the whole of the nation and not a part. It provides for the part in such a way that the Personal Notes whole is benefitted. - Monopoly by the few, or by the government, itself, in any About the form is utterly intolerable under the Constitution. The spirit Faithful of monopoly and the spirit of the Constitution are in direct Give em the Flowers Now opposition to each other. The spirit of the old capitalism, Monopoly is , which is selfish greed, culminates in monopoly. Oliver Pedersen, a faithful the spirit of greed operating for the benefit of the few. The-' service of operatis patron, lives in a house set on the spirit spirit of the Constiitution enthrones old a hill north of the Capitol and The of the capitalism benefit many. ng for the The amass to life and property. his light is not hid because he or exploits things, property, Constitution enthrones life, and makes things or property makes his own power and light. subservient thereto. He operates a garage to which were in full if the spirit and principles of the Constitution owners should find the way car ' operation, the national income would be distributed in pro-- . One of our subscribers died portion to the amount which each citizen would contribute J thereto. By such an arrangement each citizen would be guar-- . last week, Hon. oseph Ririe, snteed the opportunity to create, own and control property ex.auditor and trersurer. He was a prince of a fellow who up to the measure of his ability. The old capitalism prevents and thus robs the citizen of his rights under the Con- helped to make life better and stitution. will help to make it better on The major object of the old capitalism is to accumulate the other ride. We had a huntowering skyscrapers things by the sacrifice of life buildtheir alprofits; construct dred talks rith him and he filled with men scheming to increase disease-breediand slums; ways rang rue. big cities with their palaces erect ugly factories where toilers suffer; possess huge planNephi Jensen, another good who eke tations sustained by thousands of is in the hospital a subscriber, foundout a miserable existence. The major object of the this year. He will time second be would was that it ing fathers in framing the Constitution men of and live to see recover to have the type to highest instrument develop used as an and women who would be the incarnation of righteousness the economic redemption he and who would use things to minister to life to give it wider has fought so long and hard for. freedom and a fuller happiness to each citizen. Thus the old Of course 8t. Peter wants good and pur fPjrftniiam is completely at variance with the spirit men buf he can train some who pose of the Constitution. have gone over JTo the beneficiaries of the old system we have this to say. When you rush to the defense of the Constitution are you Theres not another place on sure you are defending the real Constitution? It may be that earth where a poor man with substitute that you his morher would you are defending a counterfeit, a false and own satisfy a false to greed have created justify your he got in our welcome conformity with get the patriotism. We shape the Constitution into and B. Heinrich was office. It our own views instead of shaping our views in : conformity Conwho their on were mother way with the Constitution. Chief Justice Hughes said The station old assistance in a the to send matter subscription,) age this like (If you stitution is what the judges say it is. Instead of dragging He paid in two dozen eggs, just the Constitution down to the level of our desires, we should as welcome as the rich mans spirit and principles. dollar. lift our desires up to the level of its lofty wallowed in depression, ' For eight long years the country to recovery One day we were out trying Constitutional the pathway that not realizing was blocked with numerous precedents, interpretations and to find some of the bread that were littered we had cast opinion- - The original foundations of the nation upon the w iters knee-dee- p with rubbish. The banks were firmly entrenched and we met W. A. Hudson who enin their unconstitutional privileges. Privateto profit, the laid down the silver coin in our all desire the you above grab life, thronement of things turned hand. We were concan and keep all you can grab were deeply rooted. Every- up been vinced had that it was just as blesand the people thing was steeped in selfishness as it is to give. of receive money. altar to Making sed at the making taught to worship and to be hell. was of it the even follows deprived Hudson was Mr. heaven, money we might have recovered how show shall we his week does his and of tenor (Next way easily by the Constitutional pathway.) world's of work. the share last from week) (Reprinted Just when we were needing ' A wise teacher said, in regard to systems : Ye shall know an encouraging . wird in came them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs our Good friend Anton Christthistles? ensen and bought all the papA study of the statistical abstract of the United States ers we had left of last weeks wemment reveals the fact that just before the crash In issue. He gave us more encour29, 511 men had an average income of over $7,000.00 per agement than we have had in a y each. Is it righteousness to turn over $7,000.00 per day long time. Too bad he is gothe national income to one citizen, and at the same time- ing home to Denmark because prive another citizen, equally as worthy, of the opportun- this country needs him. of a job? THE Editorial PROFIT SYSTEM VS of wealth. I Cooperative Day The following on Cooperative Day and the article last week on Democracy and Cooperation is from the Cooperative League NEWS NOTES but we appeal to every organi-- 1 zation within the Alliance to intensify its efforts to make Cooperatre Day this year a still more effective and world wide manefestation of cooperative principles, and the will of the millions o f conperatora grouped within the Alliance for universal peace. ; National Convention The National Convention the Workers Alliance America recently held Milwaukee, Wisconsin, of of in was attended by eight hundred and fifty delegates from forty five states in the Union. The Workers Alliane is an organ zation of relief, unemployed, and part time workers and is founded on the principle that all people are entitled to either an industrial or a social income. The Convention urged a large measure of cooperation between the Workers Alliance and other organizations working for progressive principles economically or politically. Monkeys And Men There are a large number of taxpayers who could make a remittance in goods or produce for the payment or part payment of their public dues and n ho are not in a position to remit in cash. Social welfare dpartments lack funds for adequate relief and reason dictates that goods and produce be accepted in part or entire payment of public dues and directly credited to the needs of Bocial security and general welfare. But the force of habit and the power of finance dictate otherwise hence we hear of a lack of money for re.i.f, overproduction of goods and produce, and a lack of cash for the payment of taxeB all at the same time and place. No community of monkeys would starve because they lacked either rilver nuggets or a bankers loan to transfer coconuts from one tree to the ext but ten thousand county communities throughout the Nation see an abundance of goods and an abundance of need and taxes unpaid for lack of cash. Monetize tax values through public commodity reserves and utilize surplus production for economic security and public welfare. - News Service. Millions of members of in 39 countries held a meet of special festivals Satur-bay- , Finance Capitalism July 3, to celebrate Interof financial national Cooperative Day i n I sometimes are reform. reminded to rededicate their mov ment does that not money grow on to the cause of Democracy, trees be ' a but it fortunate might We shook his hand and said, God bless you, brother. We Cooperation and World Peace. if senticondition could were such soul raised entertain would rather have a that money The International Cooperative ments than all the sounding brass and tinkling cymbals of Alliance, which represents in the seme way as apples or wealth. 139.000000 individual mem- plums. There would then be a ' natural relationsip between bers of cooperatives in 39 (If you like this matter send in a subscription,) and a medium of exchanGe ' goods The amount of the national income which went to these countries, declared in issuing since the scarcity of either . would be a stimulus to its ' favored 511 men was greater than the amount of the income the call for the celebration that went to all the wheat and cotton farmers of the nation the present circumstances of greater production. But under ten million American citizens. Was such an unequal world unrest it is essential to the interest Bystem of finance as a class, depend on an distribution righteousness in action? demonstrate on every possible capital, artificial recitizens scarcity of money and This same statistical table shows that 26,860 occasion the possibilities of the credit to asure a profit margin ceived more of the national income than 20,000,000 other of one per cent of the cooperative movemet as an to the renters of credit money. citizens equally as worthy. instrument of economic peace And by this scarcity they mainpopulation received as much of the national income as 42 per the domination and clasa cent of the rest of the population. In other words, 144,000 and good will The influence of tain of private centralism position persons received as much of the national income as 47,000,-00- 0 our International Coopi rative in the finantial structure of distribua such Was other persons equally as worthy. Festival is steadily increasing, on Advocates 1 under-privilege-d. ,In One-ten- th (Continued tion righteousness in action? When the founding fathers framed the Constitution, they framed it so that the application of its spirit and principles would create a commonwealth where each citizen would enjoy the right of participating in the national income in proportion to the amount he contributed thereto. The old system has perverted the Constitution, and we could multiply instances of its destructive effects. The of the old system have modified and perverted it and made it the instrument of their own selfish greed. The Declaration of Independence was an expression of the J demands of the I AM in man: of life: means to the access of freedom for First, Second, for the development and expansion of the powers that are in the I AM of man : Third: for a system of government that would guarantee these natural rights. ben-efficiar- ies I . page four) According to the study of Berle and Means in their book, The Modern Corporation and Private Property, in 1929 there were 300,000 corporations doing business in the United States, and 200 of these, or less than seven hundredths of of all one per cent, controlled and directed nearly one-ha- lf the corporate wealth of the country. As a result of this, approximately 2,000 individuals out of a population of 125,000,000 controlled and directed nearly the entire income of the whole nation. Was this righteousness inaction? Such a condition was reversal of the principle of "equal rights to all and special privileges to none. Since this principle of equal rights to all and special privileges to none is the principle that pervades the Constitution of the United States, the economic system that created such an unequal distribution of the national income is unconstitutional and should he abolished. |