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Show N. D. A. PROGRESS Official National Organ of Natural Development Assn., A New Economic System FOR HUMAN VOL. 2 No. S PRICE $2.00 A YEAR Sc. ABOVE MONEY WELFARE-MA- N EDITED BY C. N. LUND. V POST OFFICE PLACE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. FEBRUARY 10. 1933 T N.D.A. of National Convention the High Lights THE IDIOTIC POSITION WE FIND OURSELVES DEMORALIZATION AT ITS VERY WORST about tba depression ae a spiritual winter, a "means of character building.. But the truth is that it ia one of the First Annual Convention Proves IF IN Very Interesting and Instructive THERE CAN DE Soma men talk the demoralizing experience race has ever passed through. Following la one example of demoral- NO SUCCESS nog isation at its very worst From a paper called the New Frontier, Chicago, we take the harrowing details: At one of the gar bage dumps in Chicago where the odor of decajing food was almost overpowering there were more than three hundred men making their homes, living in ramshackle hnta. In fire boxes from an abandoned kiln. For clothing they bad- the overall! and old ahoea which had been cast off aa ueeleaa and worth-lewhich they had picked up. For food they picked over the garbage dump and got old meat hones and meat remains, condemned canned goods, htt of bread and decayed fruit, etc. For water they walked a quarter of a mile to a railroad tank. And as they raked and scraped through the garbage they were haunted by the fact that three man had just died from eating the stuff they found. They entered cold and were always hungry. And this la the story of only one dump out of the hundreds in that city. Such is life for civilized American in the third largest and third richest city in the world in the glorious twentieth century!. WITHOUT PLAN IMPORTANCE OF PLANNING CHURCHES MUST DO MORE THAN CHARITY Owen D. Young "The churches must take more fearless action in meeting the unemployment or ilia . . . Above all else, the church must educate as to the fundamental causes of unemployment and the necessities for removing the conditions which cause the disease. Unemployment is an economic malady, which etrlkea down milHona in its trail and leaves in its wake all aorta of ailmenta from tuberculosis to chronic pauperism. Unemployment la not simply a matter of the depression. If we should produce aa much aa in 1929 there would till be 7,000,000 unemployed because of the progress our engineers have made in displacing - SPARKS FROM N. D. AS NATIONAL GATHERING OF LIVE WIRES PAPER WILL NOW BE PUBLISHED WEEKLY Dwilotm Made To Brad Representa- tives to Routhem end Eastern Cltie When Requested After having been published fourteen months as a biweekly paper the Progressive Independent will hereafter be published weekly, iseulng every Friday. This will mean giving the news while it ia news and getting the advertisers message over twice as often aa heretofore. It will be better service in every way but It will of course mean a greater expense. We trust readers and advertisers will rally to our support and help ut the N. D. A. message before the world. A great opportunity confronts us and we can only meet it by the loyal support of those who believe in the greet cooperative moveover By Owen Woodruff Report of visiting state and unit managers, telegrams and airmail communications from qll over the country expressing regret for inability to come, banquet hall, happy faces and technological music by candle light, chicken a la king, and toastmaster Glad's snappy repartee mingled with the spirited toasts of the gueata, are Just a few of the vivid impressions that will last along with the oratory of Warwick Lamoreaux and Will Dobson, the apprehensive prophetic forecasts of the immediate outlook nationally giyen by Elggren and C. N. Lund. The sweet sincerity of Mrs. Elggren in reporting the activities of the ladles department in the Salt Lake Unit. (Without capital the ladles started the last of July 1932 and have since done over 520,000 of buslneai and furnished over 2,000 days of employment). The wonderful grasp of technique of N. D. A. business procedure displayed by President A. O. Andelln of the Idaho State organisation. The educational prooeaa employed by General Auditor Volts with his sack of assorted fruits and vegetables used to demonstrate hla premises. Some Technocracy' I wish I had not started to mention names because it would be s shame to leave out such examples of technological development ae that giyen by Mr. Stokes of Ogden. He told how in his line (transportation) hla ability had grown from the day that ha was able to carry one hundred pounds a abort distance on hla back until with two green poles lashed together, he could drag two hundred pounds wth equal effort.. With a two wheel cart he wsa able to pull five hundred pounds. Today when he steps into the cab of hia locomotive, with one pull of hla left arm, he pulls six thousand tons and can keep it going many times faster end for many more hours per day than was possible with any of the other methods in the WE ONLY HAD A THOUSAND DOLLARS THE ALARMING CONDITIONS IN IS IT THE MONEY OR ITS YALUE THAT YOU NEED? Do you need a thousand dol- lars? And if you need a thousand doldo you need a thousand lars what OUR COUNTRY Illinois, Pennsylvania and New York W low tlie Drift of Tiuu-- s dollars for? You need a thousand dollars for the things a thousand dollars will buy. You need it for food, clothing, fuel, shelter, transportation, amusement, for everything required in Planless work la defeated before it Thil paper believes that the con- modern civilization. tarts. Strength cornea by cooperaditions which now exist in the UniIf you are an unemployed citizen tion. Civil strife and violent revoted States are the worst in all the and someone sayi to you, "I have lution threaten on the one hand and history of the modern world. There ten months work and its worth a on the other hand, cooperation la the are those smug and satisfied people thousand dollars to turn you in on to recovery. Building door open who do not believe this, hut it ia this work. must progress from the bottom uponly a matter of keeping one's eyes A an unemployed citizen yon will ward. Foundations must he well and ears open and reading about end truly laid. say Show me the Job. probably ment. men machines. by what is going on. Taking It all in Method: Only a Tho Swallow-U- p Because you need the things a all the situation la indeed alarming. great overwhelming constructive citithousand dollars will buy. Space will not permit telling it all. zens amalgamation, by uniform acBut if someone says to you, "I exus as three states take Lot Degreat tivities, can swallow-u- p violence. CO-O- P have a system in which there ia evamples. in swallowed victory. can be up feat erything humanity needs. In Illinois Hate can be swallowed np in Love. I have no money but If you will in The of swallowed fourth can be year unemployment Destruction up in Illinois finds the stupendous tote work for me I will make available construction. To qualify calls for of 1,600,000 unemployed, which 1s to you every article and every serthe goodness Ih every man. Nothing vice that money can buy. but a complete swallowing np can nearjy ha'f of the number normally As an intelligent unemployed citiHalf of suffice. employed in good time. Too little can neyer he this number are in Chicago where zen you will not say that la not sufenough. upwards of 200,000 families are on ficient that you want the money The Absorption Method: Ae food relief of one sort or another. The first. la dlgeatedand converted into highnumber of monthly evictions of poor But you will say I am your man. er forma, ao can vioiouaneaa he turn(By R. 8. Woodward) One of the large Cooperatives of ed from destruction into construcIf all we have to do is to give up families la nearing the 600 mark. Money is only a medium of exchange tion. Bnt, mere sentiment cannot Texaa gives the following advice to our selfishness and produce all that And the city and state are so hard that in these days has largely failed. cure. ' A cooperative society must he its worker and lists N. D. A. aa one we can for the good of all, allowing put for cash that they are thinking I will work for your products built atone upon atone. The same of the major organization. the surplus to go into a fund to be of reducing relief 80 per cent, and and the service you can afford me. In Block and order City Managers; used to further the causa of all, why if federal aid ia not forthcoming, energy that would take life can aava We, the people, we the citisena of SCRIP AS GOOD AS GOLD The same hand that wields to qualify, muat keep abreast of all not conform to something so simple cutting It off altogether. Words can- N. D. A. can make life. of to we the Should degree depend coyery similar movements of the toward major can wield tools. The same and secure that peace of mind so not picture the actual conditions. statements to each other now. stupidity on a medium that has fail- weapons hates can live. The hon- operation. The Hour Community In Pennsylvania mind that necessary for the advancement of the ed to satisfy our needs in a land For we have potentially the same Every sixth family in Pennsylvanest minds of this nation must maas Forums are the mental clearingrace? in Ufa's neoessltleaf all . houses for Issue. For we hare potentially tho And or relief. on ia la major private their powers. public Again, why should I desire to haye "Scrip la as good aa gold. Why At present, among the majdr cifam- means of satisfying every hnman are thousands to dose of Vic 'these Method: fellowmsn? Should mode Overwhelming than my Senator Long, of Louisiana, not? "balance te rings we mention I not be rather more pleased to know ilies on the borderline of starvation. need or can develop it n the floor of the United States Sen- tories ere achieved by Un1. and The particular general And all we need la cooperation per cent of the total of power. Victories are won not that my neighbor, brother, or slater, Thirty-foate, said: That la Jnat as good monself-hemovements. ovemployed an working population, or a million and one with another in balancing every hut "construction" by such even if Just have or I by enemy my at to we look as atop any. When ey The human need with a amount of "constru- 2. Industrial Planning, (write) Dr. he equally as much as I and that a quarter, are unemployed. corresponding it, Mr. President, I do not know hut erwhelming O. Eaton Howard of (Uni. state insufficient are Okia.), and funds Hate effort to its satisfaction. at le city high tide. want, Borrow and suffering through that this la better. Gold is not ction. Hate.overcome Okia. by "bluffing". Norman, This requires a bookkeeping sysfear, selfishness and greed are no and provide only about $2.00 per worth anything except for money. If cannot he must make this 3. Industrial Experiments. 420 Lexfamily per week. Men, women and tem of debits and credit citizens The honest we do shall with more? what But, tomorto be operating demonetised gold were ington Ave., New York. to live in. ell this leisure time that will be left, ohildren are actually starving. for the convenience of everyone and row morning, it would not be worth world actually fit Political 4. for New In Independent York League Method: on our hands?" If worry, and Hie Boring From Within for the convenience of those dealing as much as that much wheat or that In some of New Yorks Industrial with the association. overcome with hate. Action, 112 E. 19th St., New York. were eradicated from the much sugar. 8npposa we should de- Hate cannot be of the World, while the cruel' 6. United Peoples hearta of men; and in Its stead, love, centers 50 to 60 per cent of the So ns men. Give u men and monetise gold tomorrow. Gold is Standing afar off The state womengive am Colonial Hotel, Milwaukee, Wla. I on la flxlon hyprocracy. goes peace, harmony and a communal workers are unemployed. who are ready to Ignore the not worth anything except Just as no winning 6. Coumbit Conserve Co., Indianawelfare were substituted, how long haa 1,600,000 Idle workers. 360,000 mistakes of the past and aid in the a fiction to keep up purchasing pow- better then .thou has To Ind. aid. You must get doaq to misery polis, woud it take before another and families are in dire need of of a great and neceser, and serve aa a medium of ex- ways. in even a half way a organization cannot he 7- - Natural Development Assn., Salt days. in heal. to order Misery cause. superior type of man would be here administer sary change. It is not worth anything. Utah. The careful planning' of the pro- and they be taught to live the law of shlon to their needs will require unfulfilled promisee. Vio- Lake City, One of the moat useless metals we healed by Give us men and women who reThe above auhjeeta should be gram was a tribute to overcome by conversion. per month. If the can lence he personal liberty and thereby go on $12,000,000 intrinsicwhole world, alize have. In the that to help themselves they literathe ae and saved to be important, WIKord A. Glad. The muaical "loving their neighbor Get among them, hut not to spy on urged as them- states unemployed are must help each other. ally, ia god; and ao, from a practiBlock and all ture secured the City by destitution from and to collapse them. Meet them individually program, arranged by Olive selves, and education and advancecal, usable standpoint, there ia not That to help themselves they must federal government wll have to conon page four) convince them end to prove your sin- Managers. ment he the goal of all? anything hack of the currency. In hands in a movement that will Join Human degratribute win not $86,000,000. Yon will every ease, this case, however, they have stuff to cerity. dation has reached its lowest levels. solve the problems of today by realdecases. Be so win will but yon mg eat, and everything else, behind the Same Klunrlu-r- r izing that eyery Industry is a balliberate, he honest, and do not conN.D.A. CONVENTION GOES ON RECORD AGAINST USE OF VIOLENCE crip, which in a material sense ceal And it Is the same to a greater ance to every other Industry, that Then live Intentions. np yonr would be a Bounder currency If it or less extent in every state in tlie every necessary activity ia the supcan be were not for the fact of the 'govern- to yonr promises. Revolution RESOLUTION NO. 1 . Our whole civilization ia port of every other one. union. sopmust be Revolution topped. ment' being behind k." (Congresbecause the WHEREAS, of broken demoralized down with Yon are that man, you are that condition economic a bad being by hunger and sional Record of January 16, lilt, ped. Replacing ia a condition of great unrest existing hrough-o- ut there system to the above the Add woman. revolution. We invite yon to examine privation. will one a atop good Page 1661) the United States and the world, and anarchy cannot the N. D. A. and become members patriotic, Diplomacy Diplomacy: Who or what is the government? WHEREAS there have grown up in the United States which ia prevalent all acrou the of it. too much diplomacy. The people themselves should he, win. We hav and nations other ia many in the matter of mortgage with organizations intention of country motivation the When We Invite you to associate your' with their character and abUlttes for Do not conceal. the said economic condition, avid, correcting and tax sales, together with the selves with us in a conceal to la there nothing movement for servloe. Bnt are they ao In fact? righteona WHEREAS it is reputed that some of these organizacrime situation, and we have a con- human under susprogress and freedom. No! Gold has governed. Who or Secret diplomacy la Justly tions have watchuse of war or violence for the purdition that shoud make the suggested the are wise to the what la back of scrip? The people, picion. The people pose of correcting the evils; men on the towers tremble for the to are entitled Tba trick. people commodities. with their services and NOW Be WANT COUPONS It THEREFORE, safety of the republic. Resolved, that the Natural Let light trnth. yonr Then scrip is better than gold. It la the naked The Worst Element Development Association in National Convention assembled the Tell house-top-s. IN MISSISSIPPI the rilina from to aa we are to dull amusing that this 28th day of January. 1933 at Salt Lake City, Utah, go The worst element in the whole allow onr services to waste to the vicious that yon are going to help on record as favoring and adopting unpleasant situation la the spectacle their riotousness, bnt progressive, construcstaggering anm of $16,600,000,000 them not Word cornea from a aubocribi the thousands of millionaires and in methods correctionof tive, the peaceful in of the will Join but and if present they per annum, through idleness, censed them, on economic multimillionaires and down in Mississippi saying thi as toway sitting tight evils, to to and refuse will all win unalterably opposed by the "gold exchange" and the the construction we all la Mr. Clark ia anxloua to in take method- of correction which would result that their believing wealth, part any cell a plsi to say nothing of gether. "price system in violence, war or bloodshed. well, that the situation will cure it- whloh he calls issues: The only "issue which Kudin end that 1 the commodities unproduced, wasted Be It Further Resolved that a copy of this resolution be self, and that things and condition! or destroyed. In the midst of all we ere promoting la Natural Develwill take half N. D. A. scrip ai will elwaya be as they ihava been the and that forwarded spread upon minutes, copies abo be our plenty, poverty appalls. - Onr opment. Until the people deliberatalf cash for same. Hia ad in th to old under the to the President of the United States, the President of the order, and refusing to be gold worshipers are waiting for their tely take it upon themselves will be issue tell the story. That they wl rare that let done United States Senate and anything no the Speaker of the House of Repgold end silver gods to deliver us. cooperative, no issue can eyaili We can understand take N. D. A. situation. the Governor the of memthe State to of correct. Utah and resentatives, how matter a scrip in Mississippi scientifically Let us deliver ourselves, entering how men can make great wealth but proof that all other atatra can be li bers of the Utah delegation in Congress. new era, with the reaonreea we have From this point all lasses should be we cannot understand how they can duced to take it soon and v NATURAL DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION, at onr very doors. courageously studied. The next atop hall have a national circulation. Act through N. D. A. Bengamin B, Stringham, President. la ACTION. (Continued on page four) Benjamin B. Birin gham. - w nt TEXAS SAYS STUDY THE N.D.A. le lp man-pow- er nt ed WHY DESIRE MORE THAN OTHERS HAVE? ur aelf-lshne-ss |