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Show sofTimes- - Some ift of World T? knit. Items of Personal Interest Events PROGRESSIVE OPINION Ox 0. 1, LUND o PROFESSORS HAVE NO SOLUTION. A smart University student remarks that ourstatement that CU 00 or conditions except in applied B.18 . spiritual values is not true. We know that it is true. But let us ask, "Just AT.e B,nart men of the schools doing to solve the national and world problem-?- " They are doing little or nothing. In theircaseit may again be said, "The wisdom of the wise has One of the most popular and learned of perished. college professors, Dr Hutchins, head of the University of Chicago proves this when he says: The industrial organisation tha we have developed, carries us along, we do not know whither and we do not know why. We have more money, more food, more things, and more power than at any other time in history yet we are poorer, hungrier, more helpless and more confused than ever before. That is a fair specimen of the best that educators can say and do after 5000 years of progress And what an alarming confession it is when the head of ihat great university can give no more hope than he does in these words. 1 e famous doctor has neglected his bible. He cannot see, much lees understand and interpret the teroll of prophecy being unrolled. We like all people but we like the common people the most because there are so many of them. Neighbor Carl B. Pedersen and wife of Ogden Editor are among the best of the commade the remark that History is but A. Garfield mon people. They were in the icroll of prophecy. other day and added ther ttTtTi much less interpret the world crisis share to our life line. Mr PedLean understand, Ml I without a knowledge of biblical prophecy. It ia too ersen has had quite a varied experience and has done his of today cannot atm many ministers and theologians shsre of the worlds work The fiisis till the national and intern ttional happenings of the couple has raised ten children &-SJ fulfillment of prophecies made by proph-- i who, like theii parents are r years are the making honorable careers am' End thousands of years ago. The common people ong their fellows. WRONGLY ACCUSED May the such truth can truth. Men be in for prophetic Through only remaining days good am high place in Utah have complained that the adminkind to them. istration has how neglected to bring out the most important side of and such understand and see to why. mighty I the spiritual side. This is untrue. Notaepech preparedness kritlijJ have been unleashed in this day and age. The has been made by the two men, Roosevelt and Hull, but carChurch Historian Andrew T nat.ll. has no Jensen and wife ries the spiritual note full high advanced A hundred quotae negligence in giving heed to prophetic truth w Ki Bertha are ft tion! could be made from speeches of both. Here is one from in mens attitude toward any other great scientific enjoying a fine long vacation id Cordell hull: m, trip to Arsons and California. of the day. iry subject Without a triumphant faith in God, no material means of defense will suffice. We need today a resurgence of spiritual of devils are lit the in Revelations 16: spirits nyi Postmaster and Neighbor I. purposes and moral stamina. We desperately need today a fathering the nation to the final Armageddon. '.Smoot is a regular reader of revival of religious fervor, a renewed humility before God in in that many people have a blackout against proph' this paper and speaks very high support of whole hearted adherence to high standards of indiof it. Every once in awhile vidual and group behaviour. nth, and have shut their eyes against the prediction of ly he gently lays a nice token of bet Joel in 2:2, a day of darkness and of gloominess, ENORMOUS MATERIAL WEALTH. appreciation in the palm of our It is a great United States we have the best place and the Id clouds and thick darkness." No wonder some are right hand He is a dignified, upright man and is doing fine best people in all the world. Here are some of its resources.' ; Shepherds, what of the sheep? work for Uncle Sam. It has 92 per cent of the world's natural gas. 60 per cent of the luwl is oil, 67 per cent of the lead, coppep sine, asbestos, corn and Himsnity playing its parts today in the most stirrin riewi I Neighbor C. M. Bundy, eon cotton. It has 88 per cent of the world's nickel, 82 per cent tertr enacted on this planet. What is the matter? It ia aaid-of the sulpner, 43 per cent of the chemicals, 70 per cent of the cf Bishop Roy Bundy of Mt iful to I rthis: The nations have divorced themselves from Trumbal,Arii., had the govern- gold and 66 per cent of the silver. It has 69 per cent of the lit XI lank I sod all the things and institutions that stand in the ment bring to us a fine green known coal deposits of the world, 90 per cent of the movies, Irar I I Hid. his appreci. 81 per cent of the autos, 63 per cent of the telephones. Now if I his truth are being swept away. .The old order is being tokn that proves 1 I only it had a spiritual wealth equal to its material wealth all It not atiou of thL,Jeper, . Thank orsd to duke way for the New Order wherein man" will hull We are not acquainted with would be well. minor I ' dly tnd permanently redeemed from economic bond him but knowing his father we hu 1 SURPLUSES AND SCARCITY. are willing to bank on him. given real opportunities to develop spiritually. But here is a picture which is not so pleasant to look upon. Before the country began helping others in the field of war it SONNET TO MANKIND There was a near riot in had on hand 615,000.000 surplus pounds of pork, 100,000,000 to most of ueg'sd the state's publish this poem from one Congress last week. One of pounds of surplus beef, 237,000 000 pounds of surplus lamb, Mrs. Claire Stewart Boyer.) ports, our papers was sent into their mutton and mutton 1 rd, 86,000,000 pounds of surplus poultry, midst and there was such a uncounted millions of bales of surplus cotton, 50,000,000 bush Most the wind, the trees are netted on a hill. scramble to read it in both els of surplus whea t Most the night, the sheep are melted in a mound, In spite of all the surplus of the nation there was a great housed that they had to adet man in conclave the world over can be found in men the scarcity of food and clothing among more than half the peojourn fora day. If Plotting in wrathful vengeance against man to kill; received the least. Why knew senate house snd only ple. Those who produced the most ming the use of each device and every skill in abundance to distributed enormous is snd the before not were surpluses upon human mind has just what conceived or yet has found yet and therefore a wouldn't it be Because in want? would profit, those pay the country they To very bring man, master of the world, to bite the ground there are not that Is d it was of wise. possible and much it destroy much more united II And stifle all his thirst for good with dust of ill; the surto find sane a to in bring America way brains enough 3or tree nor And not. seems dumbest animal can seem to teach It the together? needy people pluses and Ccntinuous Adam that in Fri-n- d and Neighbor Mrs. that is why there has to be a war to take up the surpluses loving unity h ill protection, and the comfort man would reach Leah Meaie came in like a and to dispose of some of the people. IJs in the me breath cf spring and had the unastonished, living victory X The big Writers Project Book on Utah should be on every peace that cornea to flocks well shepherded, to each name of a firend placed on the Wish we could find a way to get it on our desk tree contented with integrity liar. Ph" has at heart the good shelf " this uses c? to be found in the Claire Stewart Boyer war news Wh tium for. stands 1710 Herbert Avenue paper ton many men are being drafted that authorities visions she Some world say t e beautiful Command may bo realised and iha" ahe who would be more useful in industry. The Service and inmav live long to e ijoy it' Unit at Ft Douglas has made arrangements for testing fitted best are .(11m opinion, oxpmooi In this aoham aro terviewing each selectee to determine what they thoaa of tha writon, and aro not noomrily districts Monrod In hr tho oditor and minmomont of for and will notify the newspapers of the respective thli papor.j the strr Earl, Neighbor Sylv BIG THINGS DOING AT OGDEN Sane of Utahs Dixie, has writ de-Lopsided Economy Retards Eternal Progress Last Suturdsy we visited the governments great big unn ten a thrilling alory enormous the was buildings f First Ptopaiive Opinion: nse works at Ogden which hi ;a rigu'i"? on pub'Lh construction at the Supply Depot, the only one der Previous will be stored cloth J epistle this writer called attention to the fact that unde' ing. He always lias n gi od the Mississippi and the West coast, where Then we saw the oc'l and economic setup, we, the offspring of deity, aie forced w rd for ns and the paper. He in-, shoes and food for 1,000,000 men. will be over-fa- n enBeV ,0 much time and effort to the problem of earning an ex the ut air firld where planes from West and East says: "Wisling you Theu manufaetured. snd iheieby ed and repaired and parts for planes are prevented from giving due thought and attention good things and all 'be pleasmun-nunlimited where the Fielu. largest, went to IIil"s 'primary purpose on earth the evolution of Gods and Goddesses ant and joyful yei rs that the we ns will be stored in the hundreds of Igloos, and where all Wnce of which our progress is impeded or entirely am sled. And noble n ml rnevolent efforts manner of shooting and bombing shells will be manufacured. for defense. the world has made tremendous strides fai the fields of' invention you have put forth for the benAll citisen should see these mammoth preparations "Pioduction, when it comes to sociology and religion, we are .still efit of suffering humanity hone and FROM MEN.5 buggy" period. t.tle you to. ABE LINCOLN ON LIFTING WEIGHTS Declaration of ecn kuly and pertinently stated that "the glory of God is his In 1861 Abrahafn Lincoln said of the great what great of And it can be stated with egual pertinency that the failure Independence: "I have often inquired myself bo 0edalion of man-iwritlong tothis confederacy due to his lack of intelligence. In fine, the gulf If you have any type principle or idea it was, that kept from colonies of the at call k'ta'sta God from nun is one of ignorance. For if man were It was not the mere separation ing you want dona gether. of Declaration the si he thinks he is, he would realise that he is running about this office. Good work done the Mothei-Lan- d but that sentiment in future all for I1 to the people no worth while objective. He blunders into the world at reasonable price. . Independence which gave Liberty that in due time the k coune which his determined is gave appe-He was promise that by chiefly through time. It from the shoulders of all and that all He wttmets. He becomes a product of his environment. . weights would be lifted smerieu Way Beal is the sentiment embodied -,nJ taught the three R's and something of the geography should have an equal chance. This W have found by experience , wr wrvs tnsUtulloos of the world into which He a tends .t American ho haa been inducted. in the Declaration of Independence. He could J purpose better than and sublime rch is and thrilled teachmy the with Abraham Lincoln was somewhat of a prophet. kS.Ii ,ln other country. w are humamty bearing. that see and he knew that the weights "jj16 f the Man of Galilee, and is then turned lorie in the to safeguard our He did his mightiest to lift want ucurltf lifted. be some would day n(f swordfish, with which it b in- - also down in bondage and having fulfilit the good things of no Punishment he takes some of these weights from those soon converts him into a ski pic or a told, however, by defeatists o sr as left to others the work of religion b concerned, and develops in him predaory in- - cannot hsva both. led his mission he passed on and the people down between freedom means of killing burdens that are bearing and economic sufficiency. It take say; choose earth soon shall of death! They he security. spoke the And liberty to '"I coov'nce I h" dial the beautiful pattern of life promul- - up ona in order U gate the otter. to any with its glory and redeeming power. b incompatible with the selfish inspired and profit-mLet us not surrender I te n Some Things to Think About editorials 8ome years ago some 28,000 families in a certain valley in Mexico were living and working on land owned rich men. by They were peons and serfs, miserably poor, their children nak-- e were I8 a dey. Ignorance, disease d, ana filth od all sides. The govern u.ent bought and divided the land and set up a modern cooperative system. Soon there came decent homes, schools libraries, hospitals, an agricultural co lgef good wages and security and civilisation, by their own efforts. You bet it can be done, time, any where. No any matter how lost and abandoned and trampled people may be they can be salvaged. fine point of agreement in all the prophecies and all the forecastings of scienre is that the new day is to be far brighter than this night, the shaping world is to possess more beauty than the decaying forme, humanity is tr reap m ire of the reward of its labors and its travail. Let us have confidence in the promis id land to which we move and not be dismayed bv the wildernass throug which ws now wander, nor by the Red Sea of troubles we have to cross A r J One cannot avoid being deeply impressed by the number of eigne declaring this is a period of vast upheaval for which many prophets in many lands through many centuries have 1 looked What the student reads in the Pyramids, eeonomio pressure indicates is here. Stars tell astrologers lessons that technocracy shouts abroad. For some, the Bible reveals the coming of a day thatscience foretells in less symbolic terms. Yes, for many elements of exinence, these must be the last days 12-1- 6, irl A thousand signs point to the decade in which we live as the most significant of all history, declared a noted minister. 'These era history's days of vast import, he said. f'Ins itu tions are'Tieingemade. Ideals are in the forge for reshaping Humanity approaches a rebirth. For many concepts and established forms, these are the last days.1 . "The oily hope of world peace is to get back to the teachings of the Bible which all Nations have, for the time being, thrown out of the window. Notwithstanding the preaent dastardlv lying campaigns of every nation, the world ia still getting better. 1 . I ' kifao-- 1 1 1 i BADERS OPINIONS fi We-ler- i I iT; f s one-ma- rt T lad-1IK- ! 1 ft,"4 l fra" uf'ware T tl o- j. i u I counsel of despelt.- "ion,y existing, and that socalled Christianity lias been warped oomale m "ta byproduct of thb pernicious economic fallacy. If Intelligence inherited from hb creator, he b soon convinced . that the theologians are far more coacerned with the issues Claehn Waiobee Ones BmaB ",v nnd monopolistic features and patented gadgets, particularly were w orUtnaUV Watches character, than they are in securing the adoption of dock, and were went nmgfcowo bwtuw thy cJe and incorporating it into our lives and social structure. ' tht firdl for tho pockot. lirgi (Continued) "QUEER." S 'S'06'11 tin .... CONSUMERS CRYING FOR HELP I he advances Tin oncT u d KO theliriceB of the necessities. for and we hold that the law should t1 Consumers, write the and your governor your and congressman, VOur senator .Dd protection. And do it now. IWtc thorn d Md M,or you from robbery. protect SfflStKSik pres-fjfl- Based upon my experience in World War No. ' II do not believe two thirds of the dispatches from the capitate of Europe Asia, and Africa. Christianity today is so ignored that every nation believes it is Right to Lie. Although I head a large statistical organisation, scouring tha country for facts I am utterly bewildered at times trying to separata the Truth from Falsehood. Since time immemorial, lying has been recognised as one of the ten basic sins. not do 't does salaries poor mens souls any good to read that list in the good old- U. S. jA. Think of itl paid top Salaries running from $50:000 a year to over $600,000 a year for one man. More pay for me man in a year than the bodies and souls of 2000 poor men on the lower levels fcould be sold for at public auction. .About three quarters of the people on this globe have in the past been content to eat their cruet, bought with the pittance they are permitted to earn, but they will not be content with that much longer. One man, a dyed in the wool American of California, who contributes his mite toward that $600,000 salary, V wore in court that in a year and a few months he paid $52 interest, penalties and what not on a debt of $30, without reducing the debt one .cent. a fine way of life. of - . . Don't think for a moment that conditions can continue as they are, or have been in many countries Take India for instance. One third of the teeming millions never get enough to eat from birth to death. Millions on pillions go to bed hungry every night. Other millions actually starve to death year in and year out. Hundreds of thousands live and die in the clutches of the usurer. T hey borrow a paltry sum to get married on and slave the balance of their lives to pay tbs robber interest, never being able to.rsncel the debt until death brings relief. It is much the same in China, in Brasil in Mexico snd many another land Everywhere the poor ar robbed, oppressed and exploited to th limit. This system cannot continue. It will not continue. Even God ie repudia. ting it and destroying it in order to usher in His own system. , Why Cambodias king grieved himself to death. It was bad enough when his country was invaded, his revenues cutoff and his templesdesecrated, but when he was about to lose his last d joined his 100 wives, Sisowath Monivong simply gave his and exotic existence his poignant end. ancestors. Read of as told in TheAmerican Weekly, the magasine distributed with this week's LOS ANGELES EXAMINER. up-an- SOMETHING NEW BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE PLAN OF "KOSMON" the realization of Groups of men and women who have come to have put aside babies and unwanted and of need the great orphaned have organized themselves in all personal interests and ambition and education of these the care in SERVICE THRU guidance LOVE To the Spiritual and studious individual awakened to the need of better living conditions and a new order of things in places where there is an abundance for all, and in which war and crime can bccoine work to do; especially in permanently abolislied there is tremendous the education of the new generation. A PLAN is provided to establish in going apart- -a colony or m1nni in which to live free from the present material, VnaiIcJ?2 Califditioni and limitations. This PLAN ia being carried out by the ornia Group free from personal leadership or gain, a plan of living . All for One and One for AIL The Plan comprises a collected groups drawn together m devotion to render SERVICE without exploitation of talents or penou, without greed, gain or profit from anyone; and to follow the inspirafundamental tion of the HIGHEST SPIRITUAL POWERS and Creator. The of principles inborn in all ions and daughters mew-agThe teachings are constructive in the New Era (Kosmon) the for latent all of powers spiritual and for the development - e, (Continued on page four) : t v . |
