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Show PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT day as reported by the Cincinnati Post How will these children look upon law and order when they Issued every other Friday at Salt Lake Gty, Utah, in interest grow up? Here are law and order coming into their meager rooms, taking their belongings . . . their beds, their scanty of "Natural Government" at office tables, all the things that they called home . . and throwing Entered as second-clas- s matter April 26, 1932, at the post them into the street. 1879. March of Act the Salt Lake Gty, Utah, under Will the children grow up to love law and order which do Publisher and Managing Editor G N. LUND this to them ? Will they respect a social institution which hurt them in their youth? Will they bow obediently to law and PRICES OF SUBSCRIPTION order which they will associate with the cruelty they suffered? 42.00 One Year Ten years hence some criminal will be caught. . . . "Elec. 1.00 trocute Six Month! . . By that him I Society must be rid of this enemy time these sad years will have been forgotten and no one will Advertising Rates on Application. trouble to observe that this criminal was one of the embittered, children of 1932. Class A and B Credits Accepted in Either Department disinherited, homeless, evicted, Worth-whicommunications invited, and your moral and financial Exchange. of support is solicited. Help us carry the saving message to the world. OBSCURING THE ISSUES SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1932 PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT 1 law-hati- ng le THE DREAMERS ARE THE LIBERATORS S If humanity had not listened to its dreamers we Would still be living in the cave-ma-n age. The dreamers have been the the liberators. In these good materialtorch bearers, pilots, the istic days many have been led to believe that the days of the dreamers are past and that the age of the practical is here to stay. But this is not true. Even materialism cannot live and survive without its dreamers. In all that we have achieved in this country the dreamers have been the directors. One of the greatest gifts given to man is the power to dream ideas and plans for human welfare. Without the dreamers to direct us we should shortly revert to barbarism. They keep the heights before our eyes. The great souls and minds of the dreamers carry to lesser minds the magic that enables people to catch the vision and do the work. The great Creator gave the universe a dream shape before he fashioned it for man. Joseph, walking and musing under the Egyptian skies, dreamed the way to temporal salvation for his fathers house and for Israel. Upon the Judean hillsides with his shepherds crook, David dreamed his poetry of song and psalm. Jesus was not idle from his twelfth to his thirtieth year. He studied and observed and dreamed the dreams of brotherhood and salvation. Columbus, tramping over Europe, dreamed of a new world long before he discovered it. Michael Angelo dreamed and wrought deathless beauty into ugly stone. Thomas Paine dreamed the rights of man against a world of tyranny. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a liberty, not only for his time, but for a thousand years. Lincoln dreamed and wrought the freedom of a race. Edison dreamed the world into a new baptism of light. Marconi dreamed of sound waves flooding the ether before the radio could come. Verily, the dreamers are the saviors. If these men had not dreamed the world would not be fit to live in. Today men of vision are drcatping the Commonwealth ; dreaming of the things that shall make this a brighter ahd happier ana less sordid world. And their dreams shall live to bless and save and make men free. The practical things will perish, but the creations of dreamers abide forever. UNMISTAKABLE It beats all how the old political parties are obscuring the real issues of the day with the prohibition question. It is kept to the front on the pages of the press all over the country, seemingly for the purpose of keeping the people's minds off their economic and financial and industrial problems. In all that comes from the political camps there is absolutely nothing that sounds anything like what a Lincoln or a Roosevelt would have said under similar conditions. Colliers Weekly, and other iournals which have some little independence, lament the lack if leadership-anvision. No real leader has come to the front. What the year may bring forth is problematical, but the people stand ready to go to progress and prosperity under the right sort of a leader whose mipd and heart beat in unison with their own. Little or nothing can be done until a great understanding and sympathetic leadership arises. Mime are crying for a dictator. It is not a dictator the country needs so much as it needs, a man who sympathizes with the wants and desires of the people; a man whose heart is in tune with the great, common heart of the hosts of the American people in this critical hour. AMERICANS ALL If better Americans than the leaders and members of the N. D. A. can be found, we do not know where to search for them. Their aims and desires and efforts are for the very best ijood of America and Americans. They ptand squarely upon the constitution and under the flag. Never has there been a in all the doings of the Assowhisper of anything ciation and never will there be . The officers and members are SIGNS landed together to promote their own and the countrys eco- nomic, industrial and business welfare. They believe that in these critical times they must act in order to save themselves, and in saving themselves in the economic confusion of today, they are pointing the way for others. They believe that intelis the need of the hour and to that end they ligent are doing their utmost, and to the extent that they are benefiting themselves and the membership they are helping their country. IF THE N. D. A. WERE NATIONAL Suppose Natural Development was extended to the nation and was in full swing as a national organization. What would be the results? It would make life better and freer and more worth-whilIt would make people happier, more content, satisfied and secure. Greed, which has held the world bound for ages, would be relegated to its place in oblivion. The root of all evil would be removed and cast to the winds. Inefficiency, graft, corruption and crime would be eliminated or reduced to a minimum. The war of competition would cease. Every man and woman able and willing to work would have employment suited to their likes and abilities. Not a single soul would go hungry, unclothed or shelterless. All would have plenty and none would have too much. Production and distribution would go hand in hand according to the need of all the people. Peace would reign and real brotherhood would be ushered in. The glory and welfare of man would be supreme. e. Three items of unusual significance in these times appearec in one issue of the daily papers. They are as follows : Wm. H. (Alfalfa Bill) Muraay : Relief from economic pressure must be provided to avert a catastrophe. The Unitcc States m following the definite course of the great nations o: the ancientS' and practicing the same folly under the guise o statesmanship. Learn the past and you will know the future." The American Federation of Labor : Unless the government moves quickly to aid the destitute, men and women will be forced to return to primitive ways of getting food for themselves and their children. People do not starve by tens of millions when they see plenty all around. This is a break down of economic institutions which calls for federal action. If unemployment continues to increase at the present ratio 13,000,-00- 0 Americans will be idle by next January." The Salt Lake Tribune said editorially: A world harbor. ing starving hordes on one side, and rotting accumulations of the necessities of life on the other, cannot long endure. These are the unmistakable signs of the times. How is it that the leaders do not sense the situation and do something substantial and worth-whilShall history repeat itself and the age-ol- d story again be chronicled by the historian ? A TESTIMONY If it comes to bearing personal testimony of the wonderful benefits received from the N. D. A. we know of at least one man, among the hundreds, who can stand up and testify in the highest terms that can be put in words. He would say that to him and his it has proven a means of economic salvation. It has lifted burdens, chased away worries and caused his bosom to swell with feelings of gratitude. It has added to his store WHEN THE DAY OF RECKONING COMES of happiness. In short it has been and will continue to be a godsend in every sense of the term. In a years connection with After all, just what has been done so far to end the depres- the idea of Natural Development he can say that he has never sion? Billions of dollars more have been added to the nations heard a whisper nor seen a thing in the activities but what has already staggering load of debt. Pyramid debts were the cause been good and sensible and beneficial and uplifting and squares of it all. As a cure for this debt, congress has merely piled on perfectly with Americanism and Christianity. If this is dismore debt. And to show for it, what have we? Has any job- loyalty, make the most of it. less man gone back to work? On the contrary, more have lost e. theirjobs. Even if this insane piling of debt on debt had put our idle millions to work, the load of taxes saddled on the nation's producers leaves no hope for living wages. The standard of living can go only down. All above bare starvation wages must go for debt. Even if the present financial system can be temporarily revived by this desperate plunge into more debt, the reckoning day has merely been postponed. Our present bankruptcy must be followed in the end by a still greater breakdown. Debt and more debt is not the way out. These facts must be faced. Optimism has its place in the scheme of life, but an optimism that would plunge a nation billions deeper into debt is more dangerous bankrupt than the blackest pessimism. It is only a sober facing of the situation, to state that there must come a day of reckoning. When that day comes, what can we do to be saved? So far, only one solution has been offered for this problem. That ishe Natural Development Association. Natural Development is the ark that will ride the waters of the coming deluge. When the day of reckoning comes, the Natural Devef Swnent Association will be in shape to ride the storm. The Development movement is aiming to provide for the inevitable. It aims to help men and women to help themselves to free them from want to make their future safe. n stating these facts, there is no desire to accuse nor . anyone. Wealth and poverty, master and wage earner are alike the victims of an unscientific economic system. It is a rcnc of the stone age, and modern high speed machinery has made it obsolete. It is and the calls itself, destroying lor no bloody revolution, no force at all, only forprocess the orderly evolution of a more just and scientific system. That system is being established by the Natural Development Association. ar-rai- gn EVICTIONS 1.cnJi.tened Judge Charles W. Hoffman of the Cincin-nat- i, Ohio, Court of Domestic Relations, looks beyond the day. . . . And what will become of the children of families that are being thrown out of their homes at the rate of 20 a day or more? he asked the Club of Cincinnati in a talk the other .. ve SAVE AMERICA MARVELOUS ACHIEVEMENTS In our one hundred and fifty years of history we have made marvelous progress, achieved grandly and wrought wonderfully well. We have grown to be one of the largest, the richest, the most powerful, the most prosperous, the most intelligent and enlightened nations the sun ever shone upon. We have set a material pace and raised a material standard that makes everything that has gone before pale into insignificance. Our marvelous inventive genius has been the means of literally creating a new earth. It has given us the steamship, the telegraph, the telephone, the railroad, the electric light, the automobile, the airship, the radio, the motion picture, television, and all the modern marvels. Our financiers have given gold and wealth their high places in the sun. Our industrialists have spanned the continent and much of the world with their giant creations of cement and steel. Fortunes have been forced from the millions into the billions until there is such a colossal centralization of wealth as has never before been dreamed of. Our inspired scientists have made so much progress that it almost staggers the mind to comprehend it In short, we have in a measure, triumphed over the elements, and brought about so many wonders which earlier and less enlightened peoples would have thought that only the gods could bring. And in our wealth and ease and luxury, we have trusted to these things to bring us safety, contentment and happiness ; to make us secure as a nation. But, with it all, are we really safe? Are we content? Are we happy? Are we secure? Will all or any of these things save us in this day of strife, commotion and calamity? Is it well with our national soul? Can it be that with all this wonderful progress, all this achievement, all this wealth and material grandeur, that there should be danger that the glorious results of our efforts should be tumbled into oblivion in a mad whirlwind of strife and rebellion? God forbid I But we must look well to our condition, search our souls and' study the situation. The past rises before us with some very stern warnings which stand like haunting spectres along the shores of time. FIVE MINUTE INSPIRATIONS By C. N. Lund (All rights reserved) OUR FIRST FRIEND The oldest emblem of affection is the love of a mother for her child. Mother love is the one thing unchangeable, the one thing that remains and endures, the finest and purest influence in all the world. The mother is lifes first and truest friend. Her love is the ministering angel that has blessed the world from the beginning and will continue to bless it forever, A careless, hardened and condemned criminal sat sullenly in his cell two days before the time set for his execution. The guard brought a telegram and passed it through the bars. He snatched it and tore it open with an oath. But as he read, a change came over him. His countenance became white. He threw up his hands and cried until tears coursed his furrowed cheeks. There were but six words, "Your mother is loving you yet She could not be at his side; she had not seen or heard from him for many years. But here was her message to her boy, straight from her heart. Her son could not become so mean or stoop so low, but mother love would follow him. What a holy message in those last hours I What a light to pilot a sinner to the grave What a memory to take into eternity! A wretched looking tramp who had been taken in for vagrancy was being searched by the officers. In an inner pocket of his shabby coat they found a soiled photograph of a young woman which he declared to be the picture of his mother whom he had not seen for many years. "Save it for me," he said, until I am free. Shes an old woman now if shes still alive. I have carried that picture in the Union. I did not follow state through every the path she marked out for me, but her face and her memory have been with me. I would not part with that picture for anything in the world." Such is the influence of the love and memory of mother. It runs through the worlds life like a thread of burnished gold beset with jewels rare. How easy it is to forget and how short the bridge that spans the years back to yesterday. Men sink themselves in the pursuit of success and build a wall of selfishness between themselves and the past until they feel they have traveled a long way from the little mother and home of childhood. But there would be more good men and women and less ' crime if we held closer to the ties that bound us in and to our youth. It is well that we sometimes go back to the early days and conditions so beautifully described by Walter H. Brown in his poem about Q 1 mother. Sometimes in the hush of the evening hour, When the shadows creep from the west, I think of the twilight songs you sang, And the boy that you lulled to rest; The wee little boy with the tousled head, That long, long ago was thine; I wonder if sometime you think of that boy, O little mother of mine." UTAH By C. N. Lund Just the fairest bit of earth Seen by man since Adams birth. Just the loveliest stretch of sky Ever rolled out from on high. Just the purest breeze that blows, Cooled by lingering canyon snows. Just some flower-strew- n vales of light Guarded by the mountains height. Just a gorgeous wonderland Carved by Master Artists hand. Just a wondrous saline sea Laving shores of destiny. Just a wealth of minerals rare To enrich the men who dare. Just the finest fertile fields That bounty yields. Just some templed piles of stone With a soul thats all our own. Just the busy grind and whir And the builders magic stir. Just the warm and mellow beam Where the happy home lights gleam. Just the laughs of children gay, And their songs along the way. a people aiming high, leighbor folks worth living by. Just a place made purposely By the Gods for you and me. life-givi- ng Human Faces Reveal Human Minds ; that iu uie ni around every thot lies with virtues ull fair or hopes profoui every vice or secret sin. We chi our thots in the face. Emotic paint unawares. With our feelii and thots we trace our joys a gnefs and cares. It i. love, it hate, we write whatever we thi or .f It is doubt, it is faith light, whatever is woe or wi Whatever we choose we may pa Jee,Jng refined or . the tl of hero or mint, whatever love and will A sculptor of s we may be, chisel as Phid wrought, carve in the face what may see, a soul by the mast uught. Character Builders. There are face cold a the; ice and face warm a the sun. There are face all marred with vice and face we ever will shun. There are face vacant of (hot fair faces but There are face nothing more. with sunlight caught, sweet faces we half adore. There are faces so hard we shrink to greet with a word or a Ids. There are faces from which we drink and faces that we ever miss. There are faces dark as a cloud portending storm or rain and faces that are gay and proud revealing a soul all vain. There are faces kind with a love that reflects the love benign the love that shines from heaven above UTAH AND and is of a friend the sign. There THE NEW T A are faces that wear a frown, drivThe new government tax I ing the world away and faces that tefl of a crown as bright as a cloud- lust enacted means just this to less day. There are cynical faces people of Utah: It will take i mean that sneer with never a word of this state $21,000 a day: $1. and faces composed and serene by M0 week; $588000 month; I the power of the truth once heard. 800,000 a year. Some tax. And here the Chamber of Cc There are beautiful faces oft but not of the powder or paint and merce and relief agencies have j faces quite of a saint. God pity given out that this county net some faces we seel They speak of right now $250,000 a month to t: a life of shame. God pity some care of our 12,000 unemployed n faces we seel They tell of no llare in dire need. Some system. O |
