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Show ' Page Two. INDEPENDENT PBOGKES8IYE when sleep came, the thought of was a great Paw-wotill with the future Chief aa he dreamland. The great Pow-woon the Kansas plains. Why had the President called K for Kansas City Instead of Washthere ington? There iwas public wonderment May-ha- p waa a reason. Thla man had flown to the largely hostile convention while It waa still hot".. This man had captured the public Imagination and how hid fair to hold THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT w General Pershing: "Now, Mr. Rockefeller, if we apply you with transportation, provisions for your employees, dwellings, education and all other necessities, and then forego your taxes, how much of petroleum products can you supply to the nation? Mr. Rockefeller: "I can provide an that la desired, and if the petroleum ahould be exhausted, oU and a substitute for gas can be produced agriculturally. Mr. Newton D. Baker; "Becauae of my experience as Secretary of War under the late President Woodrow Wilson, I feel competent to speak on the used for organising constructively In the Interests of peace. International projects, such as a road from El Paso, Texas, to be built by Americans with our modern machinery as a gift to the countries through which it will pass, (would forestall the enmities engendered by International trade warn Our superior industrial capacity Is our greatest protection, along with our National benevolence. War has been organised through all ages, WITH THE PROFIT SYSTEM DEAD WE CAN SUCCESSFUL- that with the money obstacle removed., thla charter can ba written Into tha lives of millions ofgreat children toand in tha years that are before ne, becoming a part day, sf the heritage of our race, to the blessing of all mankind. I pronounce upon yon my blessing, and assure you tee support of our educatilnal Institutions in furtherance of this forward etep of humanity. In the world we have planned hen the golden rule of the Master; "Let him who is greatest among yon ba your servant, It "It la more blasaed to give than to receive, in addL In the speech of welcome to the vial tore from afar ud tlon to many other profund truths of tha Goapel, will ba and near, the Big Chief said; Fellow Americans and understood In their full significance, no longer to be rehe paused as he looked around at the group and observed stricted in their application, many a warrior, many a man of influence and power. they heratofora have bean under tbs dmlnatlon of the money system." The defeated Socialist eat on the edge of hla chair beBarnard Barn oh: 'Tha possibilities of such a protween John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford. Oddly enWHArS WEALTH? ough Bernard Baruch elbowed William Z. Foster. The gram without money, overwhelm met When I reflect most clannish group were the economists. They aweeyed teat I have spent tha moat valuable period of my life A calm devotion to oaea native eod to feel that something was about to happen. The fate working tor money, and tee power to do that I considered money to have. Indeed my God has become dost. ed to feel that eome thing was about to happen. The fate That's wealth, I aee teat Instead of money being tee open eeeame to of the world trembled In the balanee and Civilisation's LY A faith Implicit In the living Ood, ORGANIZE FOR PEACE. advancement. It baa often damned the pate of tea had march been halted. would President How the guide That'a wealth; Mr. Owen D. Young. "I aee a giants task ahead of world's progress. I will now do everything the action? possible to us , The mechanisation of Industry has but begun. The have tee Well street crowd and tee Chambers A ft w choice frienda that feel llfea fuller meaning; of Com"Fellow Americana, began the Chief, "we are met and the our distribution all rivers, of of ment Who aenae reality yet prlae the dreaming. power actively interested in this program, and help to In a council of war. From many trails of life I have harnessing to our farms; the making of millions of motors to do a pnt it over before tha people choose other leaden in Who from the ekiea aee knowledge ever ith earning, called you, to Pow-wo- w as did the Indians who- swarmed billion tasks; the elimination of smoke from our cl ties their steed, who will put these Improvement over. this very spot In the generations that have passed. We by generating Thata wealth; electricity at tha mouths of the mines. women Frank O. Lowden: "The are met around the council-tir-e of the nation. Wo have These are Just a few of the labors that we must Plan for and children on millions of farina will date men, A body aparkllng with the health of youth, their liberahumilia- and execute immediately. Mr. Guggenheim, we will need tion from tela great three are endured, that the years past, during .' With the universal exThata wealth; tion of suffering and starvation in the midst of great An eye that feeda on flowera and flelda and aklea output from your great copper mines. We will tension of mechanical power, such as tela program ao plenty. I will not elaborate on our difficult situations. capacity need the largest runs of iron and steel, such aa will rival speedily aesuraa, life on tha farm will no longer ho leadThat aeea the heaven In a baby's eye. Each of you la here for the reason that you represent a the war-time en drndgery. The tremendous waste that competitive production of our start plants, Mr. Schwab. That finda In Ufa the door to Faradlae; certain shade of Americas Kalledoscoplo thought and Over the long leagues from Omaha marketing entails can never he, under Carl R. Gray: planned mass disone each of you la anxious for the continued progress and to the Pacific, our trails parallel the highways. Wo win tribution. if we raise a surplus of cotton Thata wealth; . or wheat beadwelfare of our great country, rather than for theA home among the treea, the blue above, immediately place an order for one hundred automobile cause of our Improved production methods, we will store vancement of your own groups. me tee surplus, apd when we have eaffident for more than baggage can, the design of which was presented to Thata wealth; Aa In the ancient Pow-wothe old Chief gave rein many years ago Instead of the ears travelling the weary one years supply ahead, we will allow tha farmers In The perfect goodneie of a womana love. . to hla medicine man so now I turn this council over to miles over barren deserts, under their own power, we will that lino to taka a holiday for ona year rta will give and ear and driver can then the .land Its needed rest. Thata wealth; the distinguished general who led our United forces In drive the automobiles aboard,destination. 0 General Pershing. . "Do I hear any eritldani of our The aenae to grin when all the world looks wrong. the great War. As he directed the affairs of our victori- rest until they reach their muni- productive our a with "Mr. for Sloane: Mr. Gray, plan or to Its camIn now ous armies machinery, conflict so To take defeat with gameneaa and a song, I ask that ho plan the produce sufficient ability may not he for all of tha requirements of all of tea people all of tea garage in every city, your baggage-ear- s paign by iwhlch our people shall regain the road to eco- cipal To amlla a mile when worry eomea along, so popular. The tourist will be able to get Just the type time, acoomplUhlng tha program that you have proposnomic freedom and prosperity General John J. Perof car lie needs for the particular Job he has In band ed? There being no criticisms, then I suggest that wa Thata wealth. shing. in cadi section where be travels. An open roadster or use the simple device ao well known to military men Manistee School Bulletin. (Tumultous applause) the weather la fine or the scenery en- In such a situation, when tee source of needed supplies General Pershing: "Before planning our objective, touringacar where small type car for one or two persons Is well known and their location accessible." (General ticing, let us reconsider and discover where we are now. (Ad in a HOW COOPERATION IS GROWING hurry. A large seven passenger ear of the more lux- Pershing carefully erases that part of the chart markof Chief a dressing Roosevelt) (la there available chart urious type, where friends are along or when the Journey ed Financial system and draws In ten concentric cir. our present economic system 7 Is more tiring. This plan, and' the use of taxis and busses cles each emanating from ona of tha ten departments There are 10,000 farm marketing associations in the I The Chief (addressing Roger Bab son, Irving Fisher, In the congested sections of cities (which will be the uni- through a large supply conduit, then emptying through United States and 1700 cooperatives with a membership I Stuart Chase and other economists) "Gentlemen, will versal when there la no money involved) will ton small outlets back Into each of tha ten departments.) practice of 500,000. These figures show how cooperation la yon construct a chart for the General, demonstrating our solve the parking problem entirely, and will atop the In time of war, said he, onr objectives are never waste that we now sutler by having millions Impeded by tee mere absence of medium of exchange. thls country. All these cooperatives are self- - I wlngln Mr. Babson walked slowly unjustifiable Idle all day long on congested streets. Our system of distribution la not Inefficient when tea help organisations and are doing much for the relief of and thoughtfully toward the board, then, he Inquired, of cara stand I'm going to ask my good welfare of a nation at war and the Uvea of Its heroes Mr. Alfred Smith: people from the depression. Iftheie la any prosperity I "Do you want a chart of the riaa and fell of the stock friend Frank to appoint me to represent him In the Job are at stake. This then la tha plan I now present, Mr. around the oountry they are the foroea who will bring mnrket? Irving Fisher volunteered the suggestion that of rebuilding Americas houses. , President. The plan is that of the groat American peowould If mors ba to sketch the composite (Applause) appropriate it In sight. In Pow-woassembled." .. price levels of certain basic commodities. "I bad In ple President-eleFranklin D. Roosevelt: i. behalf of the executive departRoosevelt: Mr. , General Pershing shook hU head. No, gentlemen, mind appointing you to head the planning agency that ment, I thank yon. General! We will waste not one moY 1 and feeders, who can go throughout what I want la an economic map of the terrain we are In, will correspond to a cabinet position. I will ask you not ment In carrying tela plan Into execution. I wlU teletheae cooperatives on a common foundation like that ao that I may, with your help, plot the course of our con- only to cause that every American family shall have a Immediately for tha Governors of every State to graph which the N. D. A. Is building, if this can be done then certed drive toward the objective we shall deride upon. home fitting Its needs and desires, but also put Into ophere In Kansas City for a conference on assemble we can soon getnumb era sufficient to capture the coun- The "economists' were unanimous In admitting, though eration plans for landscaping the continent. The vory Thursday, Friday and Saturday, next week, I shall ask reluctantly, that they bad none of than aeon a chart of face of nature Itself will be altered through the plana of each Governor to bring ten man from the appropriate try and put our program over on a national scale. Thla I our economic system. , your department. I will have you plan and plant forests, state agencies corresponding to the ten departments would save the nation from revolution and Chaos and Pershing: "Gentlemen, I am astonished that men and plant them where engineers feel that they will best hero outlined by yon. I will also grant each Governor begin building a civilisation that would be translated of your Intelligence and responsibility should have been serve tq prevent floods, halt erosion, also take marginal the of Inviting an additional ten men from Urt in your duty to the nation. It pains me to farm lands out of high cost and wasteful production. My his privilege into human welfare. The older people, who have borne I IB0 state, at hla discretion, if ha feel that ha has men you here, but such negligence In thla campaign commitments on this subject were sincere. I the burden may be able to stand the strain of the evils have to reprimand creative work of Interstate scope, whose presence machine age la difficult to excuse. With your assistance ask that you plan sufficient work on such projects to In that are trailing and will continue to trail capitalism we will now proceed with such a chart. What la needed keep all our surplus army of otherwise unemployed men here would he helpful in carrying out thla inspiring will Its program. In tea convention here next week we work but we must make a better world for our children and to start your economic system?" fully busy. We will try to restore our land to divide Into onr respective ten departments, for tee Golden the from Chorus: "Plenty of money, a make and It our childrens children. If we are not willing to work park pristine beauty, of Instructing the state representatives in the details of Pershing: "What Is the unit of your money? Gate to Grand Central. and fight for our own freedom we should be willing to over tela national project. In tee meanwhile carrying dollar the Edward A Filene. "General Pershing, It Is the dol"Gentlemen, Evans Hughes: Charles the details of the program shall be worked out work and light for something better for those who are lar which turns the wheels of Industry. so of Justice administration affect the does not directly coming after. Slaves who will not strike to make themPershing: "Very well then, we will outline a silver far as the Supreme Conrt Is concerned. However, In and presented to the appropriate cabinet officers dollar as the beginning of our chart (Puts down a cir- your deliberations for a planned economy, If you can so ed out and presented to the appropriate cabinet officer selves free deserve nothing but slavery. cle In center). "Now what are the industries which this arrange that Impersonal money can be left out, yon will for their approval, so that Instruction may he printed have eliminated most of the crime, lawlessness and liti- for the convention. On tee adjournment of onr convendollar affects? ROGER BABSONS HALF TRUTHS 81m peon: "Agriculture, air. We have cotton gation In our country. Can you gentlemen think of any tion next week, tee governors duplicate our convention, John ' Roger Baboons attack on Technocracy has some enough for a year beyond our needs; wool, wheat meat crime or infraction of the law which Is not enoonraged on a state basla In their home states. When tee state truth In It but a half truth Is often worse than a fell and every product nor can we sell for enough to pay our or prompted by the love of money? Bootlegging or the conventions have been held and Instructions given counhood. He aays the trouble la not the machine nor over costs, becauae of the seeming impossibility of having our open saloon, whether one may be wet or dry; the objec- ties, cities, Industrial and trade leader; I will declare for dollars. tionable and well nigh Insurmountable problems of the a state of emergency to exist, and on a certain day ws production but under consumption, and the remedy la goodsDr.exchanged Mayo: "General, the health of the people alao liquor question, all appear In their worst form In re- will forever abandon the oost and profit system end salesmanship to reach all those who are not buying at brings us into sharp conflict (with thla dollar of the filaunch out Into planned production and distribution. to the greed for money profits. home and the 600,000,000 In India and China who are nancial system. Never were phyalriana and surgeons, sponse "In making thla change, and while the state of naenlaw or law of "One may analyse every problem tional dentists and other workers better prepared to aerve the forcement emergency exists, all ordinary process of law, exnot buying. this can we If found be that operate and it will break powers will eeaaa to function. By presidencept polios feel aa On the surface thla sounds good. But suppose we public, and never did we find it more difficult to such you gentlemen imi on a aystom of Plenty, now. than barrier waste, extravagance, violence and dollar tial this hoarding, edict, nathrough human will erlme practically disappear make It ao that all these can buy, what then? In it enDr. Fosdlck: "I too would register a complaint la possible,will crimes and ante will be puneonetitute wUl obstruction manner such remarkable that a ture Itself respond In ough to go on in the old way, the millions existing, only that religion, as education In general, la hampered by America will lead the world into a Golden Age of Peace, ishable. The police will he especially careful to regard servants of tea American people In to beexploltad by the few, fortunes piling up for about that same dollar. aa Plenty and Culture such as has been the dream of man themselves theirtha broad to discretionary powers. down la five per cent of the population and poverty engulfing the flow abut exercising Mr. Rockefeller, Jr.: "Our oil for ages. Representatives of Ameri-Patrick Cardinal Hays: ninety-fiv- e "And, gentlemen, tela waa no dream, but tea foreper cent. Shall we continue to have deprea-- 1 k friction of capacity In order to maintain the priee level,shadowing of oomlng events, though It la uncertain aa to : When President Hoover called the White House conakm after depression? Shall wars continue to destroy? In spite of all we can do, competition la so keen and purwhether It waa Indeed Franklin D. Roosevelt, Norman child-life ference on Child Wrtfere, It appeared that or soma other with both tea vision and the Thomas ones the little be safeguarded, and the welfare of to do things, who prorod to be a chip off tee tage? No, Mr. Babson, running the machines at full cause the dollar refuses to transact an exohange and we would ability Government. The Alas! become a primary aim of our capacity and selling to the unemployed and the millions And like conditions with our mines and minerals. that block gave us Teddy. eo many other worthy docu' "Our roads are in excellent Childrens charter, alike General Atterbury: WILFORD OWEN WOODRUFF. in Aria will not curs the situation. We must have a assured am mere I of become paper.' has ments scrap orconcrete change of systems. The old order can never condition, but they have not enough use to keep our efficient.' correct Its wn mistakes, can never overcome the ilia ganlsation Mr. Henry Ford: "Include my business, and that In There la no better way of boosting that have broken It down because they are Inherent of friend Sloane in your manufacturing department. We two 8. M. Taylor next In E. L. Egli years the cars than highnew We and must to take could make the capitalistic system. enough N. D. A. than by subscribing for a moje tiu road. The cars we could er ground. We must resort to cooperation If we wish to replace every ear on make would be better than any produced heretofore. We bundle of Progressive Independents to save ourselves. too, are hampered by the price system. I recorded In and sending them out to your print last October Just what I think about the strangu- friends. Try It. lation of trade caused by dollars. You have been trying I ft to crowd every activity of life and even life itself into a We Repair Bicycles, Phonographs. Over 26 years in Salt mold that Is wniataraL Thank God I have survived my AmeriBaby Buggies, Electrical Fixtures. when behold the could so I day that operation, Welder Embalmera. Expert Mechanic and cans squarely face their problems instead of eternally Shoe It happened on an eventful evening in December, In1 I talking about them and leaving them unsolved. WORK. B" AND BODY FENDER Credits Accepted the year of the conservative rpudlatlon. tsnkMn Je-Hr Alfred Smith: "Representing the construction Battery Charging and Repairing. 14)6 South Main St lano Roosevelt 1445 So. State St lenglneers, I will say that very many of the buildings on We Uae Best Materials. laraad every other Friday at Salt Laka (Sty, Utah, in intemt of Natural Development. Entered aa second-clas- s matter April 28; 1332, at the Poet Office at Salt Lake Gty, Utah, under the Act of March 8th. 1879. Pricea of Subacriptioa C. N. LUND PuUiaher and Mtmgim Editor One Year 2.M Six Moo the Address all lettera to 63 Poat Office Place. w jj u toAr-gentln- a, - Pow-wow- - w one-aeate- r, PriniJ0aSutton, w Z1 rr? ct T WE SHOULD LEARN sssssst Thla appeal la destitute but tee destitute of tomorrow. In hope of encouraging mm of teem at least, to convert their exhausting supply of energies to a worthy causai teat It might yield fruits and maata teat they wlU have something to live on the day after tomor- - If yon had your car In tea desert a considerable distance from a gas station and your guolln supply waa nearly exhausted, would you alt there With tha angina Idling waning up the small supply on hand, whllo you wars dlacnaalng who waa to blame tor tela unpleasant circumstance? Or would you us thla energy to carry yon to a more pleasant surrounding? Llndberg one time realised that ha waa extremely low on gaaollno white flying above tee clouds. Did ha continue on, and on. Ignoring the feet,? No, ho used these precious drop in making a successful landing. Robinson Cruaoa being stranded on an ialand salvaged from hla wreck ed ship, lumber, tools, clothing, food, seeds and so on. Did ha alt around and oat all the food beford looking' and laboring for something more? The author tolla teat ba used hla exhausting supply to a good advantage. Ho planted barley and rloe as woll as helping himself In other ways. By doing ao, he avoided teo suffering of being a victim of starvation. Our problems of today are for more serious than thorn of those individuals, for thay Involve all people, and tee danger la Just aa great to every Individual person aa it was to Robinson Crusoe. May tee people use good Judgment and ao act as to avoid acuta suffering. Awaken and realise tha confusion and uproar test will take place at the final breakdown of our price system. The old saying is, never croae n river till yon get there," but preparation very often avoids disaster. Tha necessity of Immediate action ahould ba urged. It la needed far more than it waa at tee time Alexander Hamilton made tela statement "Shall wa atrike now, or shall ww wait till wa are completely disarm- William U. Limb I . 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Phone: Was. 2268-- Ameri-hunxere- not r those dollars that ODStruet erary trans- WP as well as every section of our traffic world, his action, head his President-to-b-e rested upon weary The could be made releasing man from long wot Juatmenta was cold; waa The and night desk, asleep. and totting theaetonr days over timmtoaprceonrnaeda. the blown plains tha Chinook had warmly or potential turt Ch- - Neverwastha natural follow within days; no doubt tha winter freese-n- p would greater than now, and even mors next few hours Then was much to ha done on tha wealth of our country -nrouncll. Thay difficult to develop. I the dollsr wen rugged men. who net their problems tounsfnld. ' General Pershing: An them eny department of observe II Yonnx Teddy, living in the Dakotas was quick into ona of tt ten sections not fit do life that allent logically nodded or hla opinion that each man expressed in-- 1 here illustrated? Ma took man . each boas spoks sent, hut whan the 6 I noI wm dleoovered the General next strnctlons, pnt hla foot In stirrup and went to work. ns--1 ThlaA, we are. Thera ls plenty wd them where Illustrates tha to aoene moved Teddy, Africa, BwifUy the on a big flam bunt. to spare in every department of life. The dreolutlng tiona Idol had gone down-undall In one concentrated pool, and With him In Imagination had gone all the nation's medium, however,ofiecirculation. People in each departbad bean there la a dearth hoys, both old and young. A noble Hone In. Whet ment are suffering for things teat tee other departments wounded. The natives wen slowly beating we know onr condition, let Should ba done? If tea gained teat rugged decline a have In abundance. Now that la your first valuable trophy would be lost and the hunter's code ua determine what eourse to puraua. What would be violated. Teddy raised bis band. The native need, gentlemen? Chorus: "We need bnelnem! nearest him bounded to bis aide. Btraaga guttural General Perahlng: "Mr. Woll, la It work you need sounds wera uttered hr the black. A tow eeconda of mmiirii, than a command. "Every man to hla place. for your men? Yea, regular work, good workMr. Matthew Woll: The emergency had been met. aroused with a start. "Was ing conditions, a full dinner pall, a chicken In every pot, The Prerident-to-b- e in every emergency and a car in every garage. Also teortor working noun it an evening dream? Strange how custom of primitive pm irMCf and elimination of child-labo- r. ."Teddy had reverted to the age-ol- d In General Perching: "That sounds Ilka a Mg order. naoole. Nothing new about teat Hoover had called win make a notation of It" i of every Industry at tha craah of tha ato tea "brains" Dr. Mayo: "We wish to prevent aickneae, but failtha people moat ottocU market ' But in that conferenceThe great ones had la jug jn that wa hope to cure or alleviate It Wa dont ed had not been represented. Piert- to have to worry about paying the eoata of treating teosa thin teat would he most wished for by the mind wish our patients out of our own pockets, facing old age sh-martv- ea Witt an enlightened own families." Roosevelt retired to hla big bedroom, but out security for ourselves and onr n Scrip Accepted on B Credit Also Hat Cleaning. GEO KOPOULOS, Prop. ot; Intermountain Funeral Home Repair Quality conit-ructi- Legs ' HENRY OLSEN Health Service. Phones: Office, Was. 4988 212 Boston Bldg. Rea., Was. 6669-Salt Lake Cfty N. D. A. Credits Accepted $' 7 AO Karl Weiss 553 South 3rd l&et WEISS PLASTERING CO. 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