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Show Fife PROGRESSIVE Two. THE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT at Salt Lake City, Utah, in lntereat of Natural Development u matter April 26, 1932, at the Entered as Iuiied every other Friday seeand-ela- Poet Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, tinder the Act of March 8th. 1879. Prices of Subscription C. N- - LUND Publisher and Managing Editor ..... $2.00 One Year Biz Months LOO Addreu all letters to 52 Post Office Place. THE N. D. - A- - HOPE Fronting Christmas and the New Year, may we set forth the N. D. A.'s hope for the futureT We hope and labor for the coming of a happy day j for humanity. We hope to see children freed from the terrors and sufferings of want We hope to see women liberated from the thraldom of poverty. We hope to see man freed from Industrial bondage and economic servitude, in order that he may develop to the full limits of his- - capacities. We hope to see replaoed by pesos and happlneu and Joy all the sordid misery in the world today. We hope to see the realization of the Christ dream of human brotherhood. We hope to see love supplant hate, human tenderness and kindness displace greed, and darkness diul-pate- d by intelligence and Ught We hope to see and help bring about the abundant life in which every soul shall share in fullness and equality. To help mankind in the realization of this hope we have set our hands to a task that ahaH lead ns like a star. o ON THE MAP OF THE WORLD Beginning in an obsc&re corner " a year ago the N. D. The old omnibus in which we have been riding has been patched up until Its use as a vehicle is almost over. It Is doubtful that It is even good for another parade. "Our present system is fit only for the museum in which are housed the pathetically inadequate political and economic theories of Plato, Marx and others. Faclsm, Communism and Socialism are likewise wholly Inadequate to cope with our problem. The social system on this continent is being forced into a revision and revaluation of all Its standards of The standards of the price (proflt) system value. have been found wanting and an entirely new set of standards must be erected. America Is witnessing the passing of the price (profit) system of production We are faced with the problem of having to desert a system that has become obsolete and at the same time of designing a system to take its place. "Is It any wonder that our ancient political system is hopelessly Incompetent to furnish the technical control necessary to save our highly powered Industrial system from collapse. - o GREAT SOUL'S WHO LEAD THE WAY The world can never pay its debt to the adventurous Uvea, the great souls, those who have stood on the firing line of truth. But of course, It' does what it can to reward those of them who come through to deathless fame. There are, however, a host who never come to real, man made fame, those who have been the forerunners, or stepping stones for the great ones; those who have borne the worlds scorn, derision, lashes and prisons, and carried the torches of truth until they could deliver them to the Christs and Washingtons and the Lincolns of history. There they stand, misunderstood and unappreciated. But they are the men and women who are bringing in the new social and economic order for America and the world. More power to them. What fruit from such an army? A. and Its payer, the Progressive Independent, have now Congress soon may be asked to help the ragged found a place on the map. of the United States and the world. Letters of recognition have come from China, young fellow that trudges along the highway or sneaks ride on a freight a wandering boy out of a Job. Holland, England, Canada, and elsewhere. We have, a "It la estimated that there are close to one million United the the Federated Press, Press, and through these wandering men and boys now on the road." of found our way Into thousands of papers read by mll-- ! "Fully 90 per cent of them are under 85. Homo Hems of people. The latest, and some of the best pub- -. are mere boys. llclty given us, is by the New Outlook, the national mag- 200,000 "These young men, most of them from respectable azine edited by Alfred E. Smith. This magazine is the on and substantial families, have been cast loose from now because Its tslk of the nation of articles just In the Deoember number the N. D. A. and Technocracy. this paper were given a page of space, the matter having been contributed by a member of tbs Ruseel Sage Foundation. And now we are expecting that the Associated Press will broadcast us. But not a favorable line in any local dally. o - ! WHAT IS IT THAT WE WORSHIP? their Jobs and homes by the depression. Right now they are swarming over the south, south west and the Pacific Coast Ohe individual states cannot afford to care for them from their own relief funds. "Being forced to wander as they are they soon will become broken !h health, or diseased, unemployed and in many eases criminal or degenerate. o TOO MUCH FOR COAL The men and woolen of Christian nations have set People are paying too much for coaL Whyf It Is aside one single day in the year to commemorate and on good authority that Denver pays $4.50 a ton said fill with love emulate the spirit of Christ. Their souls we in Utah pay from $7.50 to $8.50 for the same while and sympathy and they send gifts and sweet messages and coal, consequently our state, pays about a million out send of cheer. They give freely to the poor and accordtheir Christmas greetings. On this one day they cele- dollars too much each year. Coal utthe mine, ton 75c a ton. to costs to from a $8.85 up kind, ing and true believe to be the brate what they spirit of loye cents to a ton. ton $2.00 a retailer The from up gets (4 do their best to follow the gospel of "peace on earth 8o ton. ton a to $2.10 railroad The from a gets $1.(1 men. and good will toward makes rate that and Is the the retail it freight proflt Just one day! And all the rest of the year the majorthe product cost the consumer so much, with emphasis ity of people .knowingly or unknowingly, bow to the on the exhorbltant freight rates. god of hate and fear and wrath, and proflt and compe- tition, whom they "ignorantly worship" claiming that might makes right, that proflt made In the market place is the only good, and that they who are the cleverest and the most cunning shall survive. Thus on all the other days of the year the Beast walks in their midst and takes its place In their palaces, their theatres and their institutions, outwardly pretending peace hut Inwardly the octopus whose tentacles are strangling and betraying humanity, and sending out its hatreds to create war and poverty and suffering. And yet Christmas is very greatly worthwhile. It has brought a message and a star to which poor humanity has anchored Its hope. And soon the spirit of It shall fill every day for every man and woman and child. o The Skeptics Told THE GULF BETWEEN INCOMES When one looks over the income tax returns for the is led to do some thinking, that Is, If he is given to thinking. 'Seven persons have Incomes of $50,000 or more and these seven report only four dependents. Nearly 15,000 report Incomes of $500 or less, mostly lee,, and these have 84,588 dependents. What a story there Is In these two reports! They show the chasm that exists between the two extremes. On the surface, and to the thoughtless, the condition msy seem all right, but looking deeper and doing some thinking we And that such a condition is aH wrong. Think of ono man and his wife, without dependents, haring more than $50,000 income for their needs, and another man and his wife, with a house full of children, being forced to exist on a gross income of $500 or less. Taken for the country at large the difference would be far greater. This unequal condition Is what makes the gnlf. Dives and Lazarus. This is the thing that Is paralysing the economic and Industrial world today. This is the problem before which politicians and statesmen stand without a remedy and appear as dumb as oysters. .This is the cruel inequality between men which has headed civilisation toward chaos. Just put your thinking into this story for a few moments. Thirty-liv- e thousand persons with their dependents, having to foed, house, clothe and educate the family os $500 or less a year. The amount Is so email that It Is a mere breakfast bite for the seven persons with the large incomes. We do not ask for a system that stand will tear down the seven, but we do ask and for a system that win bring the 85,000 up to a much higher standard. And until we do bring them up to a higher standard there can be so permanent security or either class. i state of Utah he ! I o- - oED ERA PASSING; NEW ERA DAWNING From a special article in a great magazine we Quote the following paragraphs. Study them and try to sense the condition we are In. "hhe United States is much nearer a complete Industrial collapse than the vast majority of Us citizens i I realise. "We must realize that we have reached the end of I an era. - Fulton, Marconi The Wrights Peary, Lindberg and Stringham That They Hadnt a Chance INDEPENDENT SOMETHING TO THINK TRUTH, FICTION ABOUT POETRY & PARADOX (You tell us which Is which.) (By V. A D.) "I dont care what they call Im for more money. They call It,It inflation; I call It common sense. William E. Borah In New Outlook. The Government lends the roads more money to keep fronk bankruptcy, at the same operating a competing barge which threatens the railroads bankruptcy. rail- them time line with world. The Government lends the grape growers money to keep them from going out of business then Instructs the prohibition department to put them out of business. We foreclose on our own debtors to give our European debtors a moratorium. When American markets begin to shrink, we wipe them out almost completely by shutting off the wages of 12 million workers. To reduce Federal, state and local taxes, we remove thousands of officeholders who must then receive government relief, thus adding to the burden of taxes. . Whether times be bright or normal; Only fair or simply rotten. Uncle Bara keeps teaching farmers. How to boost the yield of cotton. But as soon as he has taught them All the farmers need to know. Then he 2ms them plowing under Every other cotton row. The Seattle self-hegroup Is probably the biggest In the counto this and the Los try. Referring Angeles organization, the national railroad weekly, LABOR, gives us the following gem of truth: Zloneheck in Seattle and Dr. Kirk in Los Angeles have got more men at work on enterprises thah the R. F. C. with its $1,600,000,000 of Federal credit has been able to place thus far. "If battered, moneyless men, knocked Into the ditch by the Indus-tria- l machine can make such strides toward self supporting society, how can we excuse a government with such resources as ours permitting hungerf lp "self-liquidati- Out The World Tomorrow telle of the wreckage of capitalism by chronicling the rich people who have committed guiclde as the way out of their troubles. In the membership of u single fashionable club lu u recently weallarge eHy thirty-fou- r, thy business men have taken what they called "the easiest way out, In the past eighteen months. And o It goes all over the country. The loss of money makes cowards of them. There are those who praise Mussolini for what ha has done. Well, let them ponder over these things, which are part of his achievements: Abolition of parliament; abolition of the eonetttutionul powers of tha king; abolition of the press; abolition of ths right of public association and Freemasonry; abolition of free suffrage; abolition of freedom of the magistrates; abolition of free speech; abolition of Independent courts; abolition of Inviolability of private homes; abolition of the right to ohoose u business or profession; abolition of the right of free movement within the country; curtailment of the liberty of conscience and religion; abolition of guarenteo against unjust taxes; suppression of all municipal liberties non-Fuset- at "Deny thyself, that thon might know; Wa have on our desk some very That thru this means alone good articles, ono of which Is by A Are selfishness and pride oereome. Dost thon not seek the Throne? J. Barnes, Secretary of tha Educational Department of the Arison N. D. A. Ono by A. c. Candland and "Deny thyself thy worldllnese, one by B. O. Grant of Texas. They Deny thyself thy mad pursuit will appear In an early issue. A Of fragile wealth or tinseled tame. Time doth their lure refute. splendid article by Hyrum Kay of Idaho la too long for use, aa is also "Deny thyself, thon knowest then. a very good and timely article by That Ha who rules above, Arthur E. Fullmer of Loe Angeles. Can never then deny to thee, His meroy end His love. Writers, confine your articles to 500 words or under. "Deny thyself," when love of God. And love of man tranaeend Thy love of earthly things. DENY THYSELF Thou hast made Christ thy friend. WILFORD A GLAD Jesus said, "deny thyself." It could he said today. Man, can thon not deny thyself, And find tha narrow wayf Horseshoe Shine and Magazine Stand "Deny thyself the appetites, That aerve no human need. "Deny thyself the impulses. That Justify thy greed. 50 Weat 1st South. In timet like these, "deny thyself The right to overlook The claim thy brother has on thee. God made the common folk! THE BEST SHINE IN THE CITY Patronise in American Shop. We dye shoes any color and wa Clean and Block Shine 5c cash 5c scrip. WANTED USED MAGAZINES. Used Magazines For Safe, BILL FARRELL A GOOD BARBER 56 W. First South Credit Accepted. a Trial. AU work guaranteed. House, Mgr. Wasatch 6188, Give us BUI R. H. SANDERS TEACHER OF PIANO AND ORGAN 174 Commonwealth Ave. Hyland A S623-- CREDITS Ohio has drafted the heat and most sensible unemployment Insurance bill yet It is a model. The worker pays in one per cent of all his earnings and the employer two per eent of hie total payroll, which Is made into a central state fond from which unemployed will receive one half the normal earnings np to a maximum of $15 per week for sixteen weeks iu each year. TINY ANTS COOPERATE WHY NOT HUMANS? Did you ever watch a colony of wee, woo ants busily engaged lu In balancing the Federal budget. building their tiny homeT .One by Congress further unbalanced the al- one, back and forth, hour by hour, ready unbalanced budget of the When the banker is asked to help Increase the volume of business, he refuses to do business. Doctor Graph, our Statistical phe-noinforms us that the nation, states and people together owe more money than there is property in the nation and that the Interest for one year amounts to more then all the money In the United States. m, The Forgotten Man says that Is the science of taking the wealth from the useful for the benefit of the useless; giving big houses and big ears to little families and little houses and little ears to big famines and making loans to every man but the one who really needs it They toll us that grass is already growing on Wall Street as the result of the recent election and that the New Yorkers like it as they havent seen anything green smoe 1829. In his farewell message to Congress, the Great Engineer declares: "We must cooperate for organised In another paraworld recovery. "Ours Is a graph he proclaims: government consciously dedicated to a faith in the Inviolable sanctity of the Individual human spirit . . . . We have build ed a system of IndiMake up your mind, vidualism. Mr. Hoover; are you for cooperation as you declare or for Individualism as you proclaim? If you dont like this column write one yourself, see If we care." "Mau must learn how to make a heaven on this earth." (Words of a great Empire. Builder.) "My concern is to get the people to understand that if they do not take care of themselves they will not he taken care of; That if we do not lay the foundation to foed and clothe and shelter ourselves we shall perish with hunger and cold (Words of a great Empire Builder.) HENRY OLSEN GARAGE We Repair Bicycles, Phonographs, Baby Baggies, Electrical Fixtures. Expert Mechanic and Welder they work, each carrying a tiny particle of soil and depositing it beside a tiny comrades bit, building a little mound which enlarges so slowly the eye can scarcely detect it, and yet before long without foroed effort on the part of any tiny ant, tha mound Is completed, and their habitat Is finished. It la all dona by cooperation, never a murmur, never u complaint from anyone, bnt all work together for a common remit If the members of tha N. D. A would taka a lesion from the little ant bow much faster would the units improve. If each member In the unit would do his pari, working In unison with every other member who was striving for the same goal, efforts would take form and remits would he evident before anyone realised ha hud expended much real energy in the undertaking. Soon tn organisation of International ooope eould ho bullded, an organisation of which every member could proudly say, "that Is our N. D. A. and I did my full share to help create It and to put In motion the wonderful work It to doing for humanity today. Readers, think thto over seriously, Are yon real eooperators tirelessly doing your hit to build tha great mound of the N. D. A or are yon quawkers destroying the work and cooperation of all your brother WE MUST GO ON Why should wo refor to the work of the pioneers as If it were finished? The stream of Tima flows ever on. So must the march of progress. Beginning when time began, it must never cease while Time endures. The day. win never come when there are not new worlds to explore. We stlU most face dangers, endure hardships and build ampins. Wa need the seme courage, stamina and Idealism we honor In our fathers. If their sufferings end sacrifices do not bring ns Inspiration, then they were aU In vain. If from tba Ught of their campfires there to not kindled in onr hearts a spark of their burning seal, then we are unworthy to hour their names. They dared, planned and sweat, not that wo might fatten at ease on the fruits of their toll, hut that we might push on Into tha uncharted economic world aa they ventured ont serose the trackless Plains. We must take up the burdqn where they were foroed to lay It down. Their splendid deeds, like bugle calls, summon us to action. If we are worthy of such sires, we will carry on. When the state to most corrupt the laws are most multiplied. Water will seek Its own level, so also do men.' BODY AND FENDER WORK. Battery Charging and Repairing. But they Won Japan la at fiha Judgment bar of mankind. Bhe is defying the host moral Judgment of the world in her unrighteous aggressions is Manchuria. Thoughtful men are asking, "Will Manchuria prove to he another Belgium of world war time?" The communist state, of which her imperialism is building in bba rich heart of the far west, is today the world danger so lie and tbs terrible retoonalblUty is upon her for being the cause of u condition which observers say may easily load to another war which will drew into Its vortex all the principle nations of the ARTICLES CROWDED OUT GAR STORAGE 1062 Vi Eaat 21st South. Res. 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Pamphlet entitled N. D. A. Explained". 8. Book entitled "Natural Government 4. Suggested articles of organization. Incorporation by- law and progressive steps, available upon request at $6.00 per set Address inquiries to ' N.D.A. NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS Judge Building, Salt Lake City, Utah. |