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Show I , r A LIBERAL A PAPER PAPER WITH VISION VOL 1, No. 30 Address, 217 David Keith Bldg The New Age Continued Entered 400 SUGARHOUSE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, AUG. 27 1937. u Second Clue Matter at the Put Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March S. GOOD PRINTING FOR LESS Cost in 1937 May Reach 50 Billion, Chief Warns. Editorial D. C. The United Washington, Statea la squandering Its soil re- PEOPLE MUST BEEHEAD TAXEATERS It is no use temporizing any longer with this matter of raising taxes and creating new offices and bureaus. Some one must speak out loud enough to wake up the people who should appoint a vigilance committee to be on guard at the capitoL Recently a very good man needed an office and forthwith an office was created by, or at the request of the central committee and the man installed at $275 in a snug place at the seat of government. After ten..dollar..a..day men have been on the legislative journal revision all summer they now recommend that a legislative bureau be created with another two or three ten..dollar. a day men and a group of stenographers and office workers thus making a burocracythat would eliminate some of the work of a legislature. A committee of nine was created the other year to work between legislative sessions without salaries, but the committee lapped up a clean hundred thousand dollars in expenses.. All these things boost the taxes and burden the taxpayer. It is up to the people to see that the limit has been reached and the trend hereafter must be a downward revision of the taxes and a cutting down of the officials. There are today more than a hundred officials over and above the number of a few years ago. What are we coming to? Will you, the people, rise up in your might and see to it that this unwarranted and criminal extravagance stops? Get out land behead them politically. Do not leave this paper to fight the battle alone. Get in and help it by subscribing and contributing liberally and you will see a fight on taxation and official waste that will open the eyes of the politicians. $400,000,000 278,-00- two-thir- ! The stage is set for a new act in the drama and we, the actors, are not acquainted with the part we are called upon to us to know play. ,. We do not know our script. It might help in the great is new in is the age, the basic principle Things in them word, Righteousness - Right..use..ness. about things, and selves are all right; it is our wrong opinion trouble. our wrong use of them that get us into We have been making a wrong use of land and its resources when we use them for the private benefit of the few instead of using them for the benefit ofalL We have beei it making a wrong use of money when we have been using of benefit' of instead few the of the benefit for the private the many. We have been making a wrong use of human labor and the machine when we have been using them for the private benefit of the few instead of using them for the benefit of all of us. r When I was a boy my grandfather was a country doctor, and I drove with him from farm to farm in a rural district. I saw farmers and their wives working from the time they could see in the morning until they could not see at night, and the farmers wife working on the family sewing as long as she could' keep her eyes open. I saw labor working for 50 cents a day and living on fat meat and com bread. I wondered why it was that the people who got up early in the morning, before daylight came, and strove to make others rich and great were always in dire poverty and always in debt, with the mortgage of the farmer being inherited along with the farm from generation to generation. . Work ef Ages Whisked Away. Nature takes thousands of years to build an inch thick layer of son, . Bennett, said. If nature's protection for that soil grass and trees are removed, wind and rain may sweep away in a few hours the work of centuries. 'It is somewhat alarming to realize that over a vast area nature is removing this irreplaceable asset (soil) a hundred or a thousand times faster than she is creating it, simply because we have ignored her fundamental laws. Erosion, in the geological sense, is older than man. Even under primeval conditions rain and wind gnawed away the soil base, waging some topsoil down to the sea or scattering a little of it here and there by wind. But, probably no nation in history has been so wasteful of soil or so oblivious to the natural laws governing its stability as the United States. There are many reasons for this. "Only a little while ago this was a pioneer country, exuberant, im-- j about patient, and the inexhaustibility of its natural resources. It was perhaps inevitable that our ancestors should mine the soil with little thought of future consequences. In their eagerness to grow crops, and still more crops to feed the hungry mouths of an expanding industrial civilization, they cut down trees and burned the underbrush. They turned the sod and plowed the steep slopes, stripping the land of its native mantle of vegetation, leaving it unprotected against the erosive forces of wind and water. . double-dealin- time, checked through the'Columdus office. The Ohio . Association Farm Bureau serves 79 county -- wide farm in the state. bureau p wholesale In 1936 the rolled up a total business of $6,781,000. Co-op- co-o- ps co-o- Public Opinion g; . money-lendin- It the panic the beginning proved sent then it is sure in was this and it if doubt all case, beyond that a similar message was sent out in every other depres-LENNO MONEY TO ANYONE AFTER SEP- sion. TEMBER 15. WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEY FORECLOSING THAN GATHERING INTEREST. WE CAN OF THE FARMS WEST FORECLOSE ON OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND A LARGE PER CENTAGE That was worse and more disastrous OF THOSE EAST. war. It shows how planned and deof declaration than any liberate have been each and every depression. No wonder the people were nearly wiped out by the financial brigands and robber barons. God pity the international bankers once the people awaken to the truth. D Americans Begin to Lose Their Will Superstitions TWO-TIIIR- St Louis. Americans are becom ing gradually "wiU conscious" and arc losing ths fooling that they arc signing their own death warrant In making a win, according to Gil-- 1 h Nevertheless, not one American out at three with an estate leavea a will, Stephenson, said. There are four factors in social economy needed for the production and distribution of self-defen- ' of Banking. Four Factors In Social Economy that way engineer. Professor Moyer has found that wear on the right rear tire is almost three times as great as that of the left front tire. He recommends rotation every 3,000 or 5,000 miles to assure more uniform tread wear. Untreated gravel roads were found to require 10 per cent more gasoline output from an automobile than concrete and other high type surfaces. The high type surfaces also insure a maximum at safety against skidding and a minimum of tire wear. Oil consumption increases rapidly as speed is increased, Moyer and his assistant, H. W. Tillapaugh. discovered. On a test car used, it was found that five times as much oil miles an hour was used at fifty-tw- o miles an hour. as at thirty-thre- e director for the American Institute George C. Christensen One of the most important things in the world is informed public opinion. But it is very difficult to have both a n informed public opinion and a confused public opinion,1 the one rather tends to exclude the other. Much clarification is needed on the subject of money HUMAN CULTURE.. II but if we realize that new By Dr. John T. Miller of money can be used to issues Each element of the mind has its use and abuse. The use lower prices through price disof appetite is to remind us three times a day that we need to we will begin to have a count eat. Its abuse is in drunkenness and gluttony. The use of to is in to use better understanding of the accumulate times of harvest acquisitiveness in times of need; its abuse is in grand theft and when whole economic progress is countries are stolen and victimized, causing war. The use of possible now. Wealth taxation .thrift is to save things; its abuse is in petty theft and miser and wealth monetization liness. The profiteer has acquisitiveness, the miser has thrift excessive. The chicken has acquisitiveness, the should be used for social discounts. squirrel has thrift. The use of reserve is tact and discre- incomes and price tion ; its abuse is in hypocricy, policy, evasion, slyness punTickets to Wealth ning, trickery, secret diplomacy, lying etc. The use of energy is to give force, activity and life; its abuse is in temper and high pitched nerves. The use of courage When the people learn to and the protection of others ; its abuse is in retain control of the natural is in quarrelsomeness, bullying, fighting and war. Love of life resources and monetize these gives a desire to live in spite of all the discouragements of resources for Bocial incomes and life; its abuse is in extreme fear of disease and death. price dicounts as fast as they These are called the powers of They are needed for such monetizaare located in the side of the brain, in front, above and back tion of value there will be no of the ears. It is now generally recognized that the impulsin the world. Abunes are located in the base of the brain and that the intellect- poverty dant production and distribu ual, moral and spiritual elements of mind that should keep will drive poverty from tion the impulses under control are in the upper forehead and the top brain. The cause of the present world chaos is that the earth and an adequate fche abused impulses in humanity rule the intellectual, mor monetization of value for social al and spiritual powers. A true civilization must reverse incomes will accomplish this. this order. How foolish it is for vast populatians to live in need (If you like this matter send in a subscription,) when the tickets to wealth are The following order was sent by the International bankers eaiily made for distribution to g banks in this country just prior all the to all leading people. in 1893. has been of to Ames, Iowa. Diagonal rotation will aid materially in increasing the life of automobile tires, according to discoveries made by Professor R. A. Moyer, Iowa State college high- bert tive Ideas at that PUBLIC OWNERSHIP OF UTILITIES Incidents That Prove the Success of Public Ownership The Municipal Ownership League 7f Miama, Florida, has pointed out, through one of its experts, that if the city owned its water works it would earn' for the people $650,000 a year; if it owned its traction system it would earn $750,000 more; and if it owned its gas system it would earn another $250,000, making a total of $1,650,000 saved to the citizens to help reduce their taxes. Los Angeles has just made its seventh reduction in electric rates since 1929 and the saving to the people is now $6,000,000 a year. Its total cumulative savings from 1929 to 1937 amounts to $11,000,000. During the life of the project the savings to the people have been $17,500,000. Some tax reduction that would make. The Imperial Valley, Calif., after a 21 year struggle has just voted 8 to 1 for publicly owned power plants and the distribution of power. Utah should look well to the possibilities along these lines. If you want to be rid of tax tyranny then make a study of public owned utilities income. Diagonal Tire Rotation Is Tested to Even Wear trust-researc- and Coopera- wealth; industry, agriculture, taxation of wealth, and a monetization of value. These four produce goods, produce, or purchasing power for the general public and when we operate these four to the extent needed for a commonwealth of adequat purchasing power poverty will no longer remain in the world. The difference between incomes and EXCESSIVE TAXATION KILLS THE PEOPLE prices should be paid to the When Israel desired a king it was the prophet Samuel people as a continuing who said that kings would bring slavery and taxes and wars. established policy of public And he was right. And so will political kings. Excessive finance. taxation caused the first break down in ancient Israel and Ohio Cooperatives brought on a rebellion. In the long and illustrious line of contests all and battles have the great English history Increase Business hinged around the question of taxation. The beBt writers and the best orators have been exercised deeply and the Cooperative League News great souls have suffered 'in an effort to free the people 8crvice With business nearly from tax tjTanny. In fact it may be said that the love of million and a half dollars a liberty in England and America has largely been responsible taxes. the same period than for the fight against burdensome greater And just as it did anciently, so today the tyrannous bur last year, the Ohio Farm Bureau den of taxation is sure to force a rebellion. People will not CooperativeAssociation finished consent forever to have their taxes raised year after year its first six months of 1937 with until it almost breaks them to pay, in order to support poli- a volume of $4,416,719. This tical machines and to keep in office thousands and thousof was a 5o.l gain percent over ands of hirelings whose sole ambition is to benefit from the half of last for the sales first will a unto band .like Soon, some David, leader, spoils. gather of the oppressed tax and usury payers and strike for free- year when $2,941,656 worth of dom from the bondage they are in. commodities, the record volume O ic T. Stephen aon, PER YEAR Progressive T5he Wasatch Press IN SOIL YEARLY '' adopting this method. ? The new order is not a system; it is a living principle in arti"n through man. It is natural, spontaneous, the smooth as it passes outflowing of the energy of the universe, and it transand in time space, activities his into through man forms him and them into conformity wilh itself. It is the Supreme One ministering to the whole. the I AM, not a dead it starts with the living individual, or syllogism. The living system, creed, formula, theory, of which this system out individual is the originating cause flows as an effect This stream of power will sweep away the accumulated rubbish of the past and find the answer to all the pressing questions of the times in man himself. Man is the mmiture expression of the universe; thereman must be fore the answer to everything concerning measure of all is the found in the man himself, for man in even The word is nigh thee, as Moses said, things. The word is I AM. thy mouth and in thine heart. That sole purpose of bringing into exuniverse exists for the I AM. pression the tremendous potencies that are in the !If the acorn could speak it would say, I am the giant oak and suntree. Give me the environment of good soil waterAM. So I what AM I shine, and I will demonstrate that free of land, environment with the man in the new order, and free money, will demonstrate his freedom and unfold his capacities. The old system would chisel the living foot. Without exception the old system was of the past was an mutilated the living man in arbitrary, artificial thing that order is living principle, and new the fitting process. The man, of out expanding as he expands. It the living it flows will take the I Am in man out of reverse and put him in the forward movement. Moses did this in the economic orderc he established. Moses saw that all forms of property must be used to lie latent in the I AM bring in to expression the powers thatmust be made the conof rnan The material and temporal will grow. eternal and the ditions out of which the spiritual each he established which he gave order economic In the So the resources. its land and to access the free family economic became subservient to the mental and spiritual. and The material became the workshop where the mental individual each spiritual found expression. In his plan fonid himself in possession of the economic tools of his own freedom, all it was up to him to use them for his own enrichment and the enrichment of the nation as a whole. $1.50 OPERATING MILLION LOSS sources at the rate at more than a year, according to H. H. Bennett, chief of the soil conNEW AGE CONTINUED servation service of the Department will be no temptation of Agriculture. In the economy of abundance there Bennett, who has been crusading attributes that for ten years for soil conservation, to engage in robbery or crime. The God-lik- e estimated 100,000.000 acres. of agricultural land already has been into and materialized be expression. will man in are brought ruined or seriously Impoverished by .The divine capacities that are in man will be released. As erosion during the past 100 years. Erosion has gained headway on anwe Mud previously: The old system has fed the animal in other 200,000 acres, he said. Millions of gullied farms, washed man and starved theGod. bare of top soil are grim evidence that the people of this youthful naThe right use of things will fulfill all the demands of tion have been squandering their rich heritage of productive soil ethics, bring into realization all the dreams of the poets, more rapidly than any other nation, civilized or barbaric, of which we iJuifiR all the visions of the philosophers, answer have any record, Bennett said. More Fertiliser Required. cor-- . prayers of religion, solve all the problems of economics, The nation's soil plant is becomless and less productive because rect ail the faults of government, abolish all forms of mis- ing of wind and water erosion, Bennett said. Fertilizer must be used in ever ery, and bring in the Natural Economic Order and cai increasing quantities, he said. This Tnnn to march in step with the harmony of the universe. A had added considerably to the cost of crops. Unless we make rapid advance great business who inclines to the new order, says: I got against the inroads of soil erosion, world That no exists longer. the cumulative cost to the nation my experience in a world that the next fifty years is likely has vanished never to return. In seeking to be successful during to exceed $20,000,000,000 and may extend to beyond $30,000,000,-000,- " in the new world of business, the methods and rules of the easily Bennett said. oldworid would be of no value to you, because this new He recalled a recent tour of the southern Piedmont, where he 0 ;wbrld is strange. The old world of rugged individualism; crossed a country embracing of which was acres, competition with its motto Grab all you can and ruined for further cultivation by meas- - erosion. Gullies tens of thousands of keep all you grab; exploitation; the few rich beyond them have hideously slashed the con-me; the many very poor; the rich trying to salve their : bosom of the rich earth, laying waste the land and, with it, the fine science by donations to churches, charity organizations, old plantation homes that formerthe countryside; and, business our graced of ly Most etc. colleges, community chests, most of an, impoverishing, socially Thai been predatory in the past and has followed the idea of and economically, those who have known no way to live exceptor the successful in beneficence of the land, 5.,-e- tt exploitation, but business can no longer be said. Samuel R. Maxwells new book, Published Weekly by C. N. Lund 1879 j Readers, you will have to wake up. You read and enjoy the paper; it is passed to hundreds other than subscribers who read and enjoy it; it is praised from all sides. You must find a way to pay us something for it. Please dig up and send the money, or call in. The need is urgent. I Job March To Washington Job marchers on the way to Washington D. C. to ask Congress to pass the Resolution not to disemploy people from W.P.A unless they have found Schwel-lenback-All- en employment available in private industry were in Salt Lake City for about a day. Their demand on Congress is a very reasonable one and it is very difficult to understand why anyone should regard this proposal as a radical one in any general understanding of the term. Public works should employ more people and not less in this age of unemployment and vast potential abundance for all the people which could be made available now to drive poverty from every state in the nation. Public Ownership Public ownership of public utilities is a progrestive measure and natural resources of all kinds should also be retained in public ownership or control. Lands and all mineral resources should not leave the ownership of the general public except on condition that such values be monetized to the extent necessary to establish and maintain a commonwealth of adequate purchasing power. The resources of the world must be available to man anp only in proportion as they are so available will we have social progress in the ooming years. Radical & Conservative A radical as been defined s one who when he learns of something that may be of value to the general welfare may tell it to the people while a conserva-wi- ll tell it oniy to an expert. The resources of the Great Salt Lake in mineral values are very large but you do not hear a great deal about them. The people own this resource at the present time and the Magnesium Chloride content of the lake water is two per cent. Two per cent of the area of the lake is foity two square miles and metal is worth Magne-iuover a dollar a pound by quoted market values. m Chief of Technocrats To Lecture in Salt Lake City Soon Howard Scott, Lecturer and Engineer of interna- tional reputation will lecture in the ballroom of the Utah Hotel on the evening of Oct. 3rd. ' But here is the challenge to our democracy: In this nation a citizens-millions of its substantial part of I see tens of its whole population who at this very moment are denied the greater part of what the very lowest standards of today call the necessities of life. I see millions of families trying to live on incomes so meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day by day. I see millions whose daily lives in city and on farm continue under conditions labeled indecent by polite society half a century ago. I see millions denied education, recreation and the opportunity to better their lot and the lot of their children. I see millions lacking the means to buy the products of farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and productiveness to many other millions. d of a nation ill housed, ill cW I see ill nourished. so-call- ed one-thir- |