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Show PROGRESSIVE AMERICA UBER ALLES National News our of Personal Fear Without Interest or favor Some SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT , They may as well tell us that the earth does not revolve as to say that anew era, a new day, is not a thing of the near future. It willbe the glorious aftermath of the terrible things that are today transpiring. It warms our heart to know it will soon be at hand for all those who are agonising under despot-- ism, war and all thealtars of poverty. Vv an will cease, poverty will be overcome, brotherhoo I will be established in the new day. It is coming! We cau see its dawn and its streaming sunrise! We can hear the rustle of its sheltring wings and feel the healing power in their silken folds. Take Lope and courage all you suffering people and pray that you may live to see that glorious day in which jus- to be alive will be a joy. long-piomis- ed - i Samuel Eastman is out with a new pamplet, a Message of Warning. Following is a striking paragraph. The wicked Gentile nations will go forth in battle array against each other and the wicked slay the wicked, as the sacred scriptures declare. God's patience and towards them will not avail. They will only go from bad to worse, as it was in Noahs time, when the Great Flood swept them off the earth. Even if they would repent, they will not do so until it is too late. Christ foretold the human raee would be in a similar moral, social and religious state as the people were in Noahs time and as ignorant of the day and hour uqon them. This is a sorrowful picture to forecast of our day and hour, but the scriptures of divine truth give it in plain terms that no one can misunderstand. long-sufferi- ng Our good Neighbor, L. D. Mecham of 258 No. 5th West, has been made Bishop of his ward. And we know he will make good. John J. Lechleiter of 362 Jeremy St. was in with the annual offering and reported that not all of the eons of Zion in his close neighborhood are living their religion. He says he has been disturbed, robbed, borrowed from and plundered than any other man since Adam, and be cays he can get no protection from the officers. 1. company. National Preparedness Drive It does not cost the eity as much to plant as it does a private concern. Lloyd George says of the Belgian king's desertion of his al lies, It is the blackest perfidy in history. You can rummage in vain through the black annale of the reprobate kings of the earth to find a blacker, more equalid sample of perfidy and poltoonery than that perpetrated by the King of the Belgians. His government, true to their sense of honor, promptly repu- dieted his deed of shame Tax collections in Utah for 1933 direct, indirect as well as those obtained by the U. S. Internal Revenue Collector totalled $23,200,000. By 1939 these had jumped to $43,851,000. in an increase of 89 ' seven years In that period the U.S. Internal Revenue collections scorned from' $1,436,252 to $9,608,000, or an advance of 570! During the past twenty years the State Road Commission has spent $102,489,721 5,165 miles of State highways Of this amount $67,475,652 was spent during the past ten years or an average of $6,745 000 per year. The average annu al expenditure from 1910 to 1919 was but $865,000,000, but- of the current payments. In one calendar year the travel expenses of government in spectors, regulators, and investigators was $76,000,000 one sixth of our total passenger revenues. Then business firms had to fill 153,000,000 reports to government authorities. on-th- e one-seve- ut ; ; News WNU otherwise sincere and honest Indi- viduals in places of responsibility are lending aid to this chicanery end The cold fact is that while patrifolks are giving otic and the best efforts available to the development and execution of the national defense program, fumes and tench ere beginning to arise from boring-from-withi- n. 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It's a welcome departure from the usual love story, combin- ing action and romance into one of the finest serials ever to come from the pen of talented Vera Brown! Serially jnoney bull-dc- It 111 (Sta.CU.nytAt credit-- no Ha ckoaa M duagraa. An Exchange Opens ' For furthr dmtaJb aaanjll HERBERT HOOTER The condition is upon ui end thus far there ia no apparent effort OLD AGE PENSION . i on the pert of anybody In authority Utah State Old Age Pension to check It One hears end sees how the deGroup meets weekly Tuesday fense program ie being speeded. 2.30 p. m. Chapman Library One naturally offers commendation. Branch corner 6th South and 8t But hardly la that applause given through the cracks and tbs west. Wednesday 7.30 City when crevices comes the information that Hall Branch, City and Co .Bldg polities is preying upon the whole Room 106. Thursday 2.p m. scheme. Some of it already smells high heaven. The length to which Salt Lake City Branch at 41 to some men will go to further their Place. Office Poet selfish political aims at the expense of all of us is beyond comprehension. And in the midst of these serious endeavors, also, cones the shouts A Commodity Exchangee is end the threats of some racketeerlabor leaders. As usual, that opening on the corner of 2nd ing type is simply getting on the bandwill be wagon for the sake of North and 6th West. publicity that i they can get for their mou things. known as the Swap Shop. It makes them appear important to People can exchange. Goods benighted followers. TRAILER GIRL Jn These Columns one d a united people behind the program. The President, hinted broadly Jn various utterances that anyone disagreeing with him wee pretty much of sourpuss. Former President Herbert Hoover considerable disagreed, as did number of representatives end senators, with some phases of the deThe President fense program. ought to quiet them all by making fireside chit another speech There were holei in that speech, and scores of newspapers pointed at them, editorially. Mr. Hoover took issue with some of the President's plans in radio speech. Two days after Mr. Hoovers radio speech. Assistant Secretary Johnson, of the war department went on the air with reply to Mr. Hoover. Notwithstanding the President's contention that there was no politics in the defense program, Mr. Johnson's speech wee released by the Democratic national committee. President and Hie Friends Have Right to Bach Plan 4. Publie ownership reduces rates as we have shown. 5. With lower rates more people can use the service. 6. Under publie ownership the plants pay for them out of the earnings. 7. The profits of publicly owned plants go into public fu and are used either to reduce rates, to extend the lervio reduce the tax burden. 8. A municipal plant keeps the surplus earnings at he 9. A municipal light and power plant with low rates sttn industries to the eity, helps develop those that are sire located, and creates new industries. 10. And finally, if the eity owns its municipal light andp er plant it ia then in a position with other ei and with state and federal power systems. to'co-npera- te The Most Marryin' Man o the Mountains, A dor page illustrated feature about romantic Uncle Frank, the of his 74 years loving and leu billy who spent 9 wives, finally taking his tenth when she was 12. Bead i the magasine distributed with next Sundays Los ANGSI two-thir- EXAMINER. ' At least the copy which came to me was on the stationery of the committee. I do not mean to say that either the President or Mr. Johnson should not defend the program which is their responsibility. I do insist however, that there is no excuse for accusations of politics when they, themselves, ere playing politics. In addition to the Roosevelt-Hoovinterlude, any observer must have seen the deluge of propaganda coming from various places in tiie government The press agents have been working overtime In thinking up ideas that link their department's Job with the develop ment of a national defense program. Some of the efforts ere pretty ridiculous, as silly as trying to make the love life of bull frog appear important in the training of e soldier. That sort of thing la going on the promotion of President Hoosevelfe candidacy for third term. On top of this situation, canes another request from President Roosevelt for congress to appropriate additional money. He etarted out by asking something over a bil- tin lion dollars. One hundred of this was to be turned over to him, personally. But now, ho has asked for one billion more. He told congressional leaders that the terrific debacle among the allies, die surrender of the Belgian! by their king, Leopold, and some other successes of the Hitler murder drive necessitated faster spending. Those needs may be genuine. Army end navy people tell me end they ought to know that wo have no army that ie "ready to go, ready to carry on if we ere attacked. But those same army end navy expert! eld this wee not n new condition. They Inilsted that rebuilding of the army end the navy should havo been undertaken dozen years ago. er the midst of this very serious they do not need for goods they do need This Shop will be managed by Mr. George J. Fox and ie sponsored by The Utah Division of the American Foundation for Abundance. P 3. The city under publie ownership retires its bondi ln gradually gets rid of its indebtedness and finally eliminates Washington Correspondent Sees Defense Program RackBeing Turned Into a Vehicle for Selfish Use; eteering Labor Leaders Climb on Bandwagon. Tues- Organization build and a interest. sol-di- es Temple, day night, June 18. 2. Encounters Political Bickering Ownershi The city ean borrow money more cheaply than Bmckarfs Washington Digest pe-a- ns 168 So. Weat Comes High Some Advantages of Public By WILLIAM BRCCKABT Service, National Press Mr. and Mrs. Hyrum Hand Bldg., Washington, D. C. are here from California for a WASHINGTON. It is exceedingly difficult to meintein a balanced twenty day visit and the first viewpoint in the national capital place they visited was this of- theee days. War hysteria la flowing fice to swell the tithing fund. at higher tide than in any other eity of the land. Washington is the nerve They are good people and are center of the plans for great end living oiit the evening of their proper national defense scheme. lives in peace and quietness. That is bad. Yet. a calm perhaps would settle down end the serious They have dona their share of Job confronting the nation probably the world's work and. done it would be accomplished more effectively end efficiently if some other well. and more dangerous factors were in on the situation. Neighbor Karl J. Edgling not homing be so clear to the not It may was in and said some one told faik. outside yet of Washington, but I him sbatall the crooks were in must report that the urgently needhis home town, Ogden. But ed national defense program ii being turned into a vehicle for selfish after two or three months in use. There is no longer room for Salt Lake he knows that only doubt The tragedy is that many It takes some optimism to. declare, in the face of world ev ents, that a new spiritual dispensation is opening to those who have the vision to see What is happening across the face of the earth is but the birth pang of this dispensation. The most a small per centage of the real stupendous changes in the physical, mental and spiritual life of crooks live and work in Ogden. man are beginning to take place. The commotion that is shak- Mr. Edgling haa been with us for many years and - we know ing the nations, the wars, famines, pestilences, earthquakes drourhs, ect , are but the fermentation of unrest which will him to be a royal Neighbor and work out the necessary purification for the spirituaf era, whose an upright, honorable man. He dawn already is dimly discerned. Even now the angels of pre--- sorrows deeply for the condiparation for this glad day are upon the earth or in the air; tion of his native Norway. psychic gateways are being prepared for the entance of new John Smith of the original messages of truth, for deeper words of wisdom, for grander Smiths, was in as a home misof harmony than have hitherto blessed the world. sionary for Technocracy, which he believes will save the nation THE AMERICANS CREED Neighbor James E. Hart is in I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people; whose just powers poor health and is confined to are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in the hospital. We trust he will a republic; a sovereign nation of many sovereign states; a recover He must, because St. perfect union one and inceparable; established upon those Peter is too busy taking in and refugees, principles of FREEDOM, EQUALITY, JUSTICE and HUMANITY for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. Townsend Meeting I, therefore, believe it is my duty to my country to love it; Editor C. N. Lund will adto support its constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag dress the Townsend meeting at and to defend it against ail enemies Plenocracy. i w .DvU KelthjjM,, OPINION Opponents o t Democracy Arc Boring From Within 4 New Telephone Directory Going to Press You may be missing a lot if your name and number are not in tbe telephone directory. When people have good news for you . . . new job, a business opportunity, a party for you to attend . . . they look for your name in the directory. Order a telephone now to your name will be listed. Cost id SOfiOO Fiance Ie Ten Billion Dollars Strangely, the request fur additional money did not reach congress until newspapers throughout tha country began celling attention to the total cost involved in the Presi If you have service, please let us know if list' you want any changes in your present ing or any additional listings. dents call for 50,000 new planes. Mr. Roosevelt subsequently had said that the planes ranged In cost from $133,000 to $350,000 each. Well, if one takes an average that must be below the minimum end figures the cost at $200,000 per plane, 50,000 planes would cost 510,000,000,000. Ten billion dollars is lot of money in anybody! language. A deSo, a tax bill Is proposed. cision ie made to Issue defense bonds which would bo paid off by the "defense" taxes that have been proposed, end the Job will have been date In five years. It ell sounds reasonable and logical, but the taxes proposed would amount to around $650,000,000 year end It ie planned to Issue three billions in defense bonds. Which leaves tha question still unanswered to how wo ere to pay for 50,000 planes that must cost around 510,000,000,00a It lean o confusing to country boy, liko Behind end beneath all of these things that era to be deplored Is the creeping and gnawing of the termites who would be most happy to destroy our form of government. They ere seizing upon the hysteria and the patriotism of the day to worm themselves into the spots when their concealed efforts will attract the least attention until the floor falls in. I have complained bout these fellows many times before, end I shell continue to write bout the dangers from them. They ere in our government to the tunc of several thousands. Again, little is being done about those, or the thousands that ere at large. Let us begin with sane details of the politics of the situation as it has existed now for several weeks. We should begin at the top. President me. Roosevelt la not less guilty than It remains only to bo said that many of hie supporters in the mat- there is no great reason to bo conter of playing politics. fident shout tha success of our deThe President's speech to confense program. The program is gress wee a good speech, speech needed in view of world conditions that should havo aroused a sleepy which cannot bo ignored. For the nation. It did. But there were most part, it is good program. some peris of it about which there But I still am why there la asking could be, and was, disagreement cell for national unity when responOf those who disagreed, the Presisible authorities are breeding disdent immediately laid. In effect that satisfaction or are permitting conwere they playing politics. He went- - fidence to wane. Thera has been one agency of the Defense end Politics government that has become AmeriWith the national drive for canised. The civil service commisU. 8. defense gathering steam, sion has shown its colors. Notwiththe unnecessary element of polistanding that tha commission has tics is rearing its ugly head, acbeen shorn of much of Its authority cording to William Bruckart He during the pest few years, it has feela that if this trend of political tokefi a definite etond on the metier bickering continual it will seriof communists end fascists and othously affect the entire military ers who do not believe in Ameriprogram. Ho urges that the nacanism. It has announced nono of tion's leaders forget their silly, those will be certified for Jobe in selfish interests and get down to the government. Which ie ell to tha the grim business of moking good, except that patronage Jobe America a secure place in which oulnunibrr to live. jobs under tha New DcbL civil-servi- ce Call us 3841 today--Wa- s. dOi i SHOE REPAIRING O.X. Right Thinking Brings Good Reautta SHOES! When you think of having your Shoea Repaired Jobs at Moderate ftk 414 Sa StatejM We can serve you better than evef |