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Show Paw PROGRESSIVE Two. INDEPENDENT THK PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT CAPITALISM ON TRIAL Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, in interest of Natural Development. matter April 26. 1932, at the Filtered ai eecond-da- u Post Office at Salt Lake City. Utah, under the Act of March 8th. 1879. & N. LUND PaUieher and Managing Editor Henri Fleslmr, Advertising and Circulation Dept. I have talked to many business men lately. I have found among them all a feeling that there Is a screw loose somewhere which needs to be located; that there broad every Frieea of Subscription One Year Six Mon the AAtww nil I- - LOO letteri to AFTER I 68 Poet Office Place. ALL. cannot be filled with gloom today qver the plight of the poor. asking for billions more Demanding employment for jobless men who beg from door to door. I ought to be mourning the destitute, the ragged and the lean; But out in the park the sun on the grass is flooding a brilliant sheen. And under the lea of the temple wall the tulips are showing green. 1 cannot be panning our currency What matter today that wicked greed has laid industry prone? What matter that stupid congressmen their endless speeches drone, Advising us all to swell our debts with just another loan? What matter today that poverty gripe hovels dark and cold? For out in the park a robin greets the sun with music bold. And under the lea of the temple wall a crocus flaunts its gold. Roy Morgan. BEHOLD! OUR AMERICAN MARVELS The human mind staggers a trifle when it contemplates the terrific versatility of some of Americas supermen. We refer to those strange beings known as corp- oration directors. Every year there is published a Directory of Directors listing the nimes and accomplishments of these begums of Mg business. One of them, this year, la director in 145 companies; another looks out for the destinies of 182 corporations. A score or more are concerned with the progress of more than 100 business ventures. The number of those piloting more than 60 concerns each is legion. We have always admired the average caliph of capital but we have no words to express our regard for the man who can convince 146 different sets of stockholders that he is capable of devoting intense thought to the welfare of their 145 corporations. The mans simply a marvel; we hope some museum has him spotted; he should be stuffed and placed on display for the world to goggle at But, on the other hand, we would like to make a small wager. It is that no director of more than 60 corporations can, within one hour, even write down the names of all these concerns, let Mono direct them, Ex. A Writer in Colliers. is some mysterious force which no one understands work somewhere in our existing economic system that our salvation lies in finding that force. at The socialist and the Communist think the whole machine is wrong. The Capitalist thinks there is something wrong, but only with some of the parts. Here is the way one of them put it: "It is certain that a system in which millions of people, through no fault of their own, are thrown out of work for many months and have no income in the meantime, cannot call itself perfect Thats from Daniel . Willard, president of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Hes not a red. Neither is Thomas L. Chadbourne. Hes a Mg Wall Street corporation lawyer. "The eapilistic system is on trial, he said. "If we think the people who are running the industries of this world can by reason of greed bring shout such a depression as this and not take steps to mend it no matter what the sacrifice may be to individuals, we are mistaken. We cant get away with it As a result of these views men are easting around for a plan to make capitalism serve society. Opportunity does not mean a franchise to grab. Individualism does not mean be haring like a predatory apimaL Profit does not mean mountains of private gain. Private property does not mean the liberty to use it to the public harm. Altogether this means, as Mr. Albert G- - Milbank a director of a great New York bank puts it. capitalism must be humanized, mutualised, socialised and stabilised. And all this, somehow, is getting to be referred to as The New Capitalism. Capitalism breaks down with discouraging regularity -tw- enty-two times in seventy-fiv- e years, as the Chamber of Commerce admits, nine of these breaks being more or less violent. This cause of certain accidental defects or because of basic flaws? Can these defects be cured? Up to now the mechanism which controls capitalism has been in the hands of certain parasitic interests. Can it be taken out of these hands and put into the hands of men who will operate it for the service of society? Certainly this ought to be tried. And of this we may be sure a way must be found to do this or some other system will be given the chance. Unemployment insurance, old age pensions, framers' allotment plans are not a cure. They are merely devices to correct maladjustments. The idea of the Chamber of Commerce trade agreements to limit production in my humble opinion, attacks the problem from the rrong end. i GIVE THEM WORK There are people who justify themselves for not doing anything for the needy by saying there are many able bodied men begging who do not need to beg. There are creditors who justify a hardhearted callousness by the plea that many who could pay are taking advantage of the times to beat their debts. There are landlords who make the same complaint about renters that those who could pay are escaping payment on the plea of the deTHE STORY OF AMERICAN CITIES pression. This condition exists. There are beggars who do not The facts of this editorial are taken from need to beg. There are debtors who could pay but do Colliers Weekly. not There are tenants who could pay their rent The jungles are full of hoboes who are living much better Tammany Hall is the mocking citadel that rules and today than they did in prosperity. Their apdebauches the worlds largest city. It is a symbol of all peals for food and clothing are now more effective. Nothat is absurd and demoralizing in government But body can put them off with the admonition to "Go to all other cities are the same and their corruption smells work. to high heaven. Chicago has its political stable and has This condition cannot be remedied by cruelty and permitted political brigands and buffoons to suffocate force. The remedy is work for the jobless. When every it under $153,000,000 of debts. It owes its school teach- man has a paying job, no renter, debtor nor beggar can ers $20,000,000 and the tax payers are in strike. Phila- escape Ms obligations by the present universal plea of delphia has its quagmire of debt and pay annually in- lack of work. The creditor and the landlord should be terest to the amount of $35,000,000. She cannot nay not only willing but most anxious to help replace this her bills and hosts of her people are starving. Los An- unworkable economic system which allows such condigeles has a debt of $1,800,000. Cleveland lacks $5,000.-00- 0 tions. Too many of the creditor class are kicking over of the money required to maintain municipal gov- their own playhouse by resisting every enlightened ernment Out of every dollar the tax payer pays in movement toward a decent civilisation. 54 cents goes to pay off debts. St Louis has mort- The loudly acclaimed inalienable right to life, liberty gaged coming generations to the tune of $25,000,000. and the pursuit of happiness has been taken away from Baltimore is so heavily in debt that it is forced to raise millions of American citizens. Until it is restored, its tax. Boston has a deficit of $7,000,000. Pittsburgh neither rich nor poor, debtor nor creditor, worker nor is so plundered by grafting politicians who have virtu- bondholder can enjoy any "rights in this nation. It ally put her into the bread line. And so it goes, all can be restored only by offering every man, whether across the country. he wants it or not, a job at living wages. Then the man WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT? The truth who refused to work would have no excuse for failing is that money, that is borrowed money, only aggravates to pay hia debts or for begging. the difficulty and if these great centers of American life are going to be saved it will have to be by some RENOVIZINa plan that works without money. Why not try We hope the relief forces of Salt Lake City do ell the renovixing they have planned to do and more. It The following idea is taken from a San Francisco is very necessary work in any community. It is one of In the dawn of our history the shameful features of our present capitalistic system publication called Man. d lots to Mot the picture and when the legislatures was considering the adoption of that it allows FREEDOM, WHERE ART THOU? weed-choke- shacks to mar the effect of beautiful mothe constitution, the Virginia legislature made the homes dern and essential landscaped grounds. Renovixing will the "That reservation: rights, among lowing the liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be can- remove at last a few of the worst of our community celled, abridged, restrained or modified by any authority eyesores. No trace of this is to be found But renovixing is not going to remove any of the cauin the United States. ses of the depression. To set men to work at these Americans this of generation. among temporary jobs will only defer the day of catastrophe. The jobless must be put back into the productive jobs AN EARLY AMERICAN SCENE they have been discharged from. Production is the only Whatever possible solution of the economic problem. The following poem depicts Washington at Valley stands in the way of production stands in the way of Forge and tells what he wrought out of "that camp of human progress, and is as certainly doomed to extinction death. It is worth reading and committing and should as were feudalism and black slavery. help to lead us out of our Valley Forge of today. England has never had a day of "prosperity" since Behind Mm lay the army in its huts, the war. Her millions of unemployed, fed by the dole, Fighting the last great foe the deadly cold; like a millstone around her economic neck. The liig And freedom was a broken dream, grown old one thing that has deferred catastrophe is the stiff Britruts And left to die along the blood-stainish income tax seising the hoarded wealth of Mg inThat marked the road to Valley Forge. But he. comes and redistributing it in doles. It does nothing Standing alone, could see beyond the night. toward reviving industry, merely keeps breath in the Past poverty, defeat and British might, economic body. How long Britain can go, living like a The mighty vision of a land set free. camel on the fat in its hump, is a question. Perhaps not much longer. Out of that camp of death he raised mens eyes Englands plight should open the eyes of American To see that virion as he saw it then, Our R. F. C. dole is not the way out Reeconomist Deathless and glowing In the winter skies; not is the solution. Shorter work days will novixing men And down the ranks of ragged, weary than more not delay the end. The profit system is New hope was born as they looked up to mark its sponsors can do will more than doomed. Nothing dark. the silhouette . His gallant against economic of the defer day justice. BRUSE CATTON. fol- ed tumble-dow- n ! (2) 1 Some of the 4,000 Nebraska farmers gathered outside the new state capitol in T.fain to -from the legislature a moratorium on farm mortgage foreclosures and lower , 8 Striking dairymen of Southern Wisconsin dumping truckloads of milk on the highway in their emprign for Mgher pret, 8 View at the statehouse in Indianapolis where about 10,000 farmers assembled to threaten a general tax strike l relief were granted them (8) The national orange show at San Bernardino, Calif., this year was turned into a of the Tha navel shows exMMt of the the Riverside orangephotograph of the first the Mrthday depicting plMtSeg navel orange tree sixty years ago. (4) 1 Guiseppe Zangara, in jail at Miami where he was held after trying to kill President Roosevelt and wounding several other persons. 8 View of the ancient city of Jehol. capital of the province of that name Manchukuo. 8 Architects drawing of the $8,000,000 post office in Clevewhich Japan is determined to add land, Ohio, the cornerstone of wMch was laid recently. ti |