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Show altered as Second Oaas Butter sttha Fort OfflcaatSolt Address. 217 David Keith Bldg f VOL 1, No. SUGARHOUSE. 19 SALT UkaCIty. UUh, undortha Act of March LAKEClTYr UTAH, FRIDAYTjLNE 1 a, 179 Published Weekly by C. N. Lund iTjMTT $L50 PER YEAR 1MERICAN REVOLUTION IS VIRTUALLY ON PUBLIC OWNERSHIP-LE- T THE ITS PERSONAL FORCES ARE READY TO TAKE r" Give em the Flowers Now r! ' , t 'The robber "i . ownership must be yested in the people ' - A (Next week we will begin publishing in this column the most advanced economic thoughts ever put out. In order to Adapted From Writings of Dr. S. R. Maxwell get it all you must get every issue of the paper.) Private profit is the widely heralded incentive to personal initiative UNDER THE CAPITALISTIC SYSTEM, but it r always accrues to a few and is paid by the many. "The law of the Old Capitalism is, Get the profits, no matter who is hurt Money is a symbol of wealth, but it is not wealth. a "Profits are only obtained when the increase is divided mong a few. The Profit System goes with the Private Own.ership System. But when ownership of everything rests in .the Mnda of all the people, then profits will cease to be, for cost not at cost, everything will be produced and done at Too often a prosper well has Ford said, .pips profit. Henry OUS bank means a mortgaged community. " How can any man under the present economic conditions .have the face to ask, hope, or work for the continuation of .the present capitalistic system which has brought us to where we are today? It has been taught and impressed upon oar minds since the time when memory of man runneth not to jthe contrary. Our capitalists have continually told us to get the money, but not a word about giving an honest service. The idea was to get the money by hook or crook, any old way, and get it before the other fellow got it. Struggle, our strife, war for personal advantage is thus the basis f Not of government. system age-oltimetaught present, but unity, but separateness; not us, but me; not ours, world of the minds in today, the mine, "is the only thought because men have been so taught and have not dared to 'think anything else. . Sfaw our present world economic condition is so deplorable and unsatisfactory to us all (except the capitalist), why not change our plan of economics, and by organized effort establish a new plan for the benefit of all and not for a few? Why not think and act for, and grant to every other person equally for ourselves? If all jig much as we now ask and struggle to the other consideration and men would give as much time would world the to does now himself, as he fellows interest isn t it live. At to least, which in different place far baa cannot we lose? to Certainly, worth trying? What have we be any worse off than we are now, under a system which has made millions for a few and paupers of many. d, . " ' TWO ENEMIES OF ALL GOOD That is the cry of the Profits! Profits! More Profits! Give us your chilmonster Tobacco and Whiskey Trusts. their souls ! and bodies their crucify dren, that we may polute Give us your daughters and wives that we may destroy their Give us your parity, their womanhood and their health.and turn them 0 their we efficiency may cripple fflfin, that Thus, comrades; the boose morons and criminals 1 in-1- 1 Newspapers and tobacco magnates of America. ed by juicy advertising contracts. wiagiritum are utter no protests; it would school teachers and Preachers cost them prestige and popularity 'Senator Copeland made a gesture to get a bill thru congress engross) H nbspunv:TrdN;etjecknK6 Bvbgkqj bgkqjgkq which would prohibit the wholesale foreclosure of mortgages grevious to note the against home and farm owners. It ismillions of honest peoracket that has been worked against else in the land, it and line. everywhere in this Locally, ple some and some weekly pub- -' for sinecure bas been a lawyers lieatiorrs until it has seemed that the whole scheme was put over in their, the lawyers and the papers, interest. MUST HAVE PEACEFUL CHANGE How can a firmly established status quo be changed bypeaceful methods? This is the crucial question of the perOur civilization can go iod on which we are just entering. human universal problem is solved: The no further until this within and Have-no- ts every nation are internationally at least the and of citadel demanding the privilege storming international in "Haves the The mighty hope of justice. and the industrial fields are fighting with bitterness and fear they can not gauge. against a peril the magnitude of which once concessions starts, where will If the process of making are their fears ? of Some justified. Yet undoubtedly it stop the alternative of making no concessions is being recognized as more dangerous. It is the British Tories that have voted to. nationalize the coal industry. G ?: Leading educators and economists throughout the world have long recognized the fallacies in the present educational Colsystem and Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President ofHe is one them. of is York New City, umbia University, quoted in the Chicago Tribune in making his report as President of Columbia University, as follows: ;VDr. Nicholas Murray Butler today assailed the dominance of the profit motive in society. In his report as president of Columbia University, he declared that if profit, and profit alone, be the end sought itself to steady by human effort, then society must reconcileconflict between disintegration, constantly increasing the destruction. eventual and individual groups and nations, V Moralists have been pointing out almost from the begin- it is only when men rise ring of time, Dr. Butler said, that and learn to subordimotive above domination by the profit nate profit to service that the social, economic, and political orders begin to come in sight of a firm foundation and a continuing existence, with peace and happiness assured to the great mass of mankind, at least. . v It has remained for the happenings of the generation added, to force these fundamental lat past, thetheeducator of men everywhere and to turn attention truths upon the thought of mankind not by any means toward the elimination of profit, but toward its subordination to service. If helpful service to ones fellow men be the dominant motive, Dr. Butler said, then the greater the legitimate profit one makes, the more will he be applauded. Criticism and resistance come when the service motive disappears from sight and the profit motive dominates all. .Turning to education, he said : ' It is one of the crowning satisfactions of the scholars Ufe that the profit motive, when it exists at all, is wholly subordinated to the service motive manifested through d applications to human scholarship and its many-sideneeds. dumb-silenc- : t . DIRECT, DRASTIC robbed by has riches The tyrant is dragged by his chain The schemer is snared by his cunning The slayer lies dead with the slain." '.v, i THE DIE IS CAST The American Revolution, which this paper has predicted and warnecLagainst, is virtually on. One of the next gales that sweep across the country may bring the news of the actual clash. The following Revolutionary matter, which may be verified by anyone, does not come from a crackpot or a lunatic fringe organization, but from men rated as leading citizens and patriotic Americans. This statement shows what one of the fronts in the Revolution will be; but there are three others, the labor front, the capital front and the racial front. It is time we took our ostrich-Uk- e heads out of the sand and gave attention. On May 18, an open letter was sent through the mails to the president, cabinet members and congressmen. It was headed and signed, The Vigilantes and Affiliated Organizations. It said in part : Those of you who. march with the spirit of Washington and Jefferson will not need the admonition this letter conveys, but those who despoil the traditions of a Democracy, may well take heed. The patience of millions of good citizens has apparently reached the breaking point. Efforts to restrain are becoming more difficult. The grape vine brings reports of a rising temper. What may or may not happen depends entirely upon the course of this administration. It took only one thousand key men to effect the over throw of the Russian government The Vigilantes have many .times that number of men. The dead line has been reached, and UNLESS SUCH PLANS AS THE PRESIDENTS ARE COMPLETELY ABANDONED, the Vigilantes will take APPROPRIATE ACTION to preserve the freedom of Amer ica. IF CONGRESS SHOULD ACCEDE TO THIS COURT PLAN, MORE THAN A MILLION MEN ARE READY TO START MARCHING and this million will be quickly augmented by millions of others; The Vigilantes and Affiliated Organizations have a membership in every state. This membership is sufficiently strong TO MAINTAIN BY FORCE the traditions and principles of our American government. The editor of this paper could write up the story of what will happen, but people will not believe it Neither will they be warned. We say to those contemplating this as they may be : ' Dont do it. Try all action, legal and peaceful means. We plead with you to stand by that grand old American doctrine of majority rule. If you proceed by force yQuviJl but destroy yourselves and the government In the three hundred years since the boat of destiny struck Plymouth Rock, we have been building a nation. A single movement may lay all our wealth and mater ial grandeur in the dust and.make the United States one with Ninevah and Tyre. Half of the people would perish and there would be such woe and calamity as has never been imagined. DONT DO IT! USE THE BALLOT AND ALL PEACEFUL R .B. Brandon of Boneta, Utah, always throws out the lifeline in the niche of time. He has had the paper ever since the deluge and proves that he likes it. He has a mind of his own and does his own thinking, always along Progressive lines. May he live long and prosper and keep his eyes open until all Utahns become the beneficiaries of the treasures we have vice-preside- nt, here. Bishop Ralph Stewart is a regular subscriber and we are proud to have him on the list If you find better men you will have to explore other planets. If it is true, and it is, that the mind's the standard of the man then Bishop Stewart has in him all the meaning of the standard of manhood. May he live long to serve all those who will en- dure Bound doctrines. THE SITUATION action IN U. S. CONGRESS There are only two kinds of people in the world, men and women, but there appears to be another kind in congress. Of the 435 Representatives in Congress there are only a - baker 's dozen who believe that the profit system will never again function satisfactorily, and that it must pe replaced by a planned eco nomy in which the service motive supplants the profit motive. There are about 40 other very liberal members who, while they still believe in private - capitalism, are nonetheless willing to go so far in helping the underprivileged that they would place a burden on the economic system beyond its present strenght. Altogether, there are probably 75 or 100 members who would go as far as Roosevelt would like to go if he had the necessary political support. The other 335 are either Republicans or conservative Democrats. well-meani- ng ed MEANS. Editorial (CJOi.) take Prosperity Bends and Support the great Plan. The paper Nine Months for One Dollar, Send em along We the nations treasure house of potential wealth. Someone must answer for this crime against the youth of Utah and dont you forget it .The officials of the N.Y..A say that something will be done. Alas, they mean well, but very little, if anything at all that is substantial and fundamental can be done. IT CANNOT BE DONE UNDER THE PREVAILING SYSTEM GREAT FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES MUST BE MADE AND YOU CANNOT MAKE THEM, WORLDS WITHOUT END, BY PERMITTING RESIDENT AND CAPITALISTS TO DRAIN AWAY THE WEALTH THAT SHOULD BE THE HERITAGE OF THESE YOUNG PEOPLE. It is time to quit condemning those who demand change and to go to work and affect the change. It is a burning shame to see these youths go unemployed and penniless, and to see families of eight or more children subsist on $62.50 per month while their more fortunate fellow citizens are piling up wealth like Croesus. If men do not change this diabolical system, then their Creator will condemn them and permit their Babylonic system to fall with a crash that shall be heard around the earth. Accordng to the National Youth Administration the unem ployed youth of the city, a majority of them come from families which have an average of eight children and where the head of the house earns an average of $62.42 a month. Half of the youths examined, ages 18 to 25, had never been em-- 1 ployed at all, and the average earnings of the other half amounted to $6.20 per week, and the work was very irregular at that. The statement admits that 28,000 young people have had to leave the state in 10 years. This is not in Russia or Germany, but in Utah, the Queen of the West, which is TIME TO MAKE WISE CHANGES NON-RESIDE- THE PROFIT SYSTEM VS BETTERSYSTEM By E. Chase, of Ogden The sagacious man throngh artifice and trie h is seized the birthright of his weaker brethren and left them to drift cold and hungry, homeless and deipairing, to an ignoble end. Instead of feeling compassion for the unfortunate ones and using their knowledge to smooth m I life's rough places providing work and educational facilities thatwould raise them to higher levels, they think only of the profit which can be gained from them. Lacking the intilligence and power to combat these SUPPOSE that, a wealthy proffiteer should set up a great factory in a central part of the United States and begin to manufacture virulent disease germs and build up a business that could supply enough germs to innoculate every person in the country. What would be the government's and the people's usurpers and traffickers off duty? Would they not set about to destroy the business? other men's lives and property, Suppose again that a profiteer should manufacture morphine the common man has become a for wholesale distribution among the children and young people slave groveling at the feet of of the country with the view of fastening the dope habit upon his masters for a mere existence, rhem. Would he not be arrested forthwith, and would not or less, and instead of nature's his goods be confiscated by the government? bounties being a blessing they WE havo something just as b?.d, or worse, which flourishhave become a curse. They are es in this country, and every other for the sole object of profit destroying men's souls, bodies Back in New Jersey we have the largest poison gas factory in and minds. For profit and mo- the world and it manufactures enough gas each day to kill o netary gain vegetation intended every soul in America. This gas is made for but one purpose-twill be used to that for beautification and healing kill human beings in time of war, and it maker One munition manner. wholesale says: "We is a in converted end into purposes drugs and intoxicants which paralyse dont care who buys it as long as we get the order." Would minds and wreck bodies; forests it not be in the interest of humanity to take every munition have been depleted and hills plantinband, confiscate or destroy their product before that and plains stripped of their ver- product is let loose on the men, women and children of the nabefore dure thus causing droughts, tions? We should act in the interest of flonds and famine. it is too late. I PROGRESSIVE ITEMS AND COOPERATIVE NEWS INCLUDING PARAGRAHS relief reductions and disemployment. The relief workers ON PRODUCTION FOR All union is supporting the Boileru An independent income system bill pending in Congress for for people oAer forty five yesrs of federal appropriations for age and sdeqnatc relief for the larger unemployep. Social Incomes to be reemployment and direct relief. financed by a monetization of value to maintain among the people a EPIC ADVANCE dollar In purchase medium for Members of the Epic League each dollar in consumer goods available few purchase. and oi her progressive groups in and about Los Angeles are George C. Christensen planning the establishment of an Arbortorium or whatever the Four Requirements for institution will be called where Progress public meetings are held in the Some historians estimate civ- center room and farm products ilizations by the cultual attain- raised in the wings. The latest ment of those who occupy room developments in chenr'culture at the top but the true cultural will be employed and financial progress of a civilisation is in returns used to defray current the degree of popular owner- expenses and expansion of unit ship of land, tools, houses and activities. Several pioneer tank income. Deny to any group or farms have recently been class any one of these by either reported from Pasadena and political or economic law and San Diego and similar experithere is made of that class a ments successfully had at other slave. A social credit income points along the coast as far system will free the people for north as British Columbia. true individual and social proCOOPERATIVE gress and will enlarge the FEDERATION general ownership of these four California has a number of requirements of cultural proland, tools, houses and cooperative producing associagress tions and possibly s larger numincome. ber of producing cooperative Vacations For All industrial units than other In an issue of the Epic News state in the Union. any Cannery during May 1936 the present and bakery units have been writer described a self liqudat-in- g established for some time and credit system in part as several cooperative units are follows. Wbat the Epic News reported considering an exten-tio- n and other progressive groups of their aotivities into the require is a vacation fund plan field of chemiculture for to enable every family in the the production of agricultural nation to have a at products. Many of these least once each year. Such a are affiliated within fund could be established as a the California Federation of social credit account based on Cooperatives with headqudrters ten per cent of the capacity of in Los Angeles. the people to produce needed EMPLOYMENT goods and services. This would be about $450 per year per family in the U. S. at the preEmployment societies and sent time by the report of the cooperative labor associations Loeb Survey. Exchange certifi- have existed in both northern cates of this vacation fund plan and southern Europe during should be paid in equal amounts the present century. Coopera, to all the people and could be tive labor associations existed redeemed by a counter interest in Italy before the Facist period, charge of or about one per cent building public projects of per month. The holder of each various kinds on contract with sertificate at the end of eech municipal organizations or state monthly periob will sustain the departments, and furthering depreciation charge or pay the the employment of their memdepreciation fee for redemption bers in various ways. 8tate if stamps are employed. labor exchanges and state aided Canadian Resolution employment societies have In April 1935 a cooperative ekistedin Denmark for many commonwealth member of the years. Cooperative dairy assoCanadian House of Commons ciations have made rapid prothis resolution gress and most of the dairy introducep which was not adopted by products of Denmark have been that body due to conservative handled through these associaand liberal party oqposition. tions in recent years. "This House is of the opinion FORESTS AND that the government should PROGRESS take immediate action to insure Food scientists have about the fullest and most equitable solved the problem of an distributiot possible of our meat substitute by socially-create- d wealth and appetizing their attention to the turning that, as a first step in cellulose in wood pulp. The the measures which may forest resources of the United be necessary to meet the States would furnish food for pressing needs of the farmers a large population for an and the unemployed should be indeffinate period of time. financed by the social credit of Scientists forsee the use of Canada, thus avoiding a further cellulose splitting enzymes to increase in the debt burden of convert wood pulp into palathe country. table food. In some warm or FOR NEEDED torrid regions of the southern Social va-atio- n SOCIETIES RELIEF hemisphere Btarcliy foods are obtained from beneath the bark Public meetings of W.l.A. of certain trees and the product workers and the unemyloyed on American the appearing against reductions in reemploy- markets known as sago or ment and relief expenditures is obtained in this way. the tapioca have been held throughout Pacific Northwest and other PROSPERITY FOR parts of the Nation in recent ALL weeks. David Lasscr, national I To have prosperity among president of the Workers all the people the margin Alliance spoke at mass meetings between incomes and prices in Seattle and nearby localities be must paid to them as a during the last week in May and voiced the protest of a continuing established policy million relief workers against of public finance. THE PEOPLE |
