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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT The special taxes in the state of Utah have increased about a million a year since 1938. In that year they were $13,889, 454,55. In 1939 they amounted to $14,432,566.31. In 1940 they were $15,350,496.02. Of this the little sales tax tokens make up $4,000,000 There is a natural law of liberty whieh is the law of life And just the law of life was created by the Almighty so also was the law of liberty Unless the people unite to preserve the democracy of Lincoln and onnect it up with the exalted Liberalism of the Carpenter of Nazareth their government may fall into the clutches of totalitarianism. And what true American wouldnot rather lose his life than have such acatastrophe happeu? Oh men, you cannot afford to sacrifice any of your liberties. To doubt the strenght of democracy would be disloyalty to all the co intry's past. To falter in defending it to the last man would be dishonor and crime u "Man has made Ihe mess we are in. And all because lie keeps forgetting, or deliberately ignoring, the fact that God is his great partner, to whom he is responsible. God means to make this world a glorious world, full of righteousness, peace and joy. But he will not ina deep sense. He cannot bring iuch an outcpme until and unless man plays his part. Just so long as man plays the fool, the traitor, the selfseeker, just so long must the creation wait groanine and travailing in pain." Sometimes it takes retribution a long time to get its boots ' on and begin to execute judgment, but it never fails never. In 1919 the Polish leaders went mad and cruelly put to death 165,000 Jews, sparing neither age nor sex. Poland beleived she was doing the right thing and that her ills would be cured by this method of mass murder. But look at the condition of Poland today, twenty years later. In 1939 the jugernauts of blitskrieg were upon them and then they paid to the uttermost farthing and now are abject slaves to Russia and Germany. Just as surely as tomorrows sun will shine that which was visited upon France and the other countries will be visited onthe victors and they too will be paid in their own coin to the uttermost farthing. Retribution never failed in the past and it will not fail now. It cannot. It is Gods law. i i There is always a way provided for men and nations to save themselves against times of calamity and destruction. But almost invariably they refuse to accept the means offered. The greatest opportunity of all time was given the nations, after the first world war, to make a universal and enduring peace. A leader in the person of Woodrow Wilson came forward with a League of Nations, which, if accepted with faith and an honest purpose by every nation, and lived by, would have brought what everyone is praying for today. Under the elder LaFollette and the first Roosevelt the citisens of this country were given an opportunity to make their democracy enduring and secure. But they would not. And now they are seeing it fall. Like a giant electric light throwing its beams for miles and miles in every direction, so shines today in a chaotic world the noble deed of Mrs Cromwell, formerly Doris Duke, richest heiresin the world. She has recently made it known that she will take and care for five hundred of the orphan children of Europe, transport them, feed, clothe, shelter and educate them This paper feels to commend her and we invite all other wealthy people to follow her example. The childhood of the old world is helpless. It cries to God and man for help and those who give it are following the mandates of the Master and living to that extent his gospel of lov . But at the same time let us not forget our own American children who are hungry and without homes. Prosperity, that lives in opulence Upon another's toil, Prosperity that takes the eream of earth From those who till the soil, Prosperity, that dries the mothers breast, That robs the babe unborn, Prosperity that functions at its bes Whm countless thousands mourn. Was the immortal Abraham Lincoln wrong? Not He was as right as the stars in their courses. His declaration about government of the people, by the people and for the people was in line with the social doctrine of the Master, which aims to build democracy upon the spirit of the Golden Rule. How does this compare with government of the world by three men like Hitler, Muaolini and Stalin? , $ ' I! COMMISSIONER County BO DEN has found some good things in this paper and has decided to have it regularly in order to get all the inspiration it gives out, Mr. Boden is before the voters for another term and on his record as a man and an official he should have it. His department is a very important one and he has handled it well. Of all the county officials Mr. Boden has the best and wisest deputy smiling, happy and courteous Mrs. Frank Penrose. Success to him. Our old friend Jos A. Robinson is on the list again and welcome. He was one of our best subscribers in the long ago. If all men were as honest as he is it would be a decent world. D. F. Lochrie is a reader of this paper and likes it. She was in with her offerings one day last week. She is a right smart busine s woman. . Judge Nephi Jensen, lawyer, wit, orator, poet and philosopher, gets much satisfaction from our paper and sees to it that it comes regularly. The poet had him in mind when he wrote of the tall man ahead of the crowd. if I: i. i.. The people's Indnpendent council, originated by W. W. Whitney, is organised for the on the pso-- i purpose of carrying .. . i 8 deliberations in council or town meetings, arranged to be held each Tuesday evening at City and County building. The 2nd meeting .was held last Tuesday, evening. Among the ones present were W. W. Whit ney, the main speaker, J P Moss, W J. Leaker, A. E Blackner, J. H. McKnight, J. A. Hess J. E. Edmunds, O. Tangren TOWNSEND The delegates who attended the Townsend national convention, vis: Mr. J. A. Ecton.Mrs Sadie Herron, Adolph Sorensen Mr. and Mrs. Geo Watson and J. E. Snyder, are home again and are very much pleased with their trip and the convention. They report that the cause is growing by leaps and bounds. It is well understood that at least two of Utahs high school buildings were erected at a cost of $1,000,000 each. This photo-electr- m io Roosevelt proposed the idea to congress, but that was small potatoes compared with what la coming. And X hope that the topic doea become one of the really great issues of a political campaign because nothing more vital as a national policy has coma over the horizon in a long, long time. I aat in the gallery of the senate the other day and listened to half a National Policy Requires Vast Amount ot Thought It strikes me as quite silly to speak and vote for a national policy vit VJevdu?n-- i ary, as this one only wave of hysterical emotion. That, however, ia just my opinion. I dull continue to feel, nevertheless, that enactment ot legiilation that permit! a government to take a year or two yeari out ot the Uvea at any people in peace time require! a vait amount of thought an amount ot thought tar greater than the current program haa received. And to my conviction further, have to urge that what ia moat needstatement ed of all is a clear-cfrom the head ot the nation! In an effort to find out what the army officer! would do with the program I have talked with a great many of them. Individually and unofficially. Since I am not trained in the field ot mUitaiy training or strategy, it was necessary that have fundamentals explained to me. Perhaps, it ia a alight exaggeration to say that enactment ot a universal compulsory military training program would overwhelm the army. It ia not an exaggeration to ay, however, that wholesale induction of young men into the military service would present this country with Its finest mess in governmental management yet to be observed. In short, the army is not prepared to handle those extra tena of thousands of recruits and, therefore, any move in that direction without preparation from the standpoint of officers and housing and guns for training ia simply laying the groundwork tor greater waste even than we witnessed in the in fated PWA, the dam and the Florida hip canal rolled Into one. It would be comparable to having 10 cowboys handling a 100,000 range cattle. The army knows thia tact The army la trying to expand as rapidly aa it can, but the army will be asked to do the impossible if it has thousands upon thousands ot men tossed into Its lap, with no arrangements for training them. ut MILITARY TRAINING PARNELL HINCKLEY TO RUN AGAIAN Parnell Hinckley has decided to again make the ra:e for statb representative, in which capacity he served so well last timo And your spare time in the employ of a local of the Annuit Benefit Federation for a period equal to three full yeara.wiU 7 cure for you when you are 65years of age or older,an!annuity $26.75 A MONTH FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE the amount for your wife if or when she is f plus 65 $38.62 for the iwo of you ss long as you both live, Do not oh Iect thia wonderful opportunity to PROVIDE FOR YOUR OLD AGE See or write T. C. Winn, Pres., 150 No. Main, Salt Lake one-hal- never would accept the responsibility then the morale at your fighting force la gone. Any one knows that maintenance of high spirit among a fighting force to the first essential Moreover, If the army was discredited, smeared, blackened by political attack, who among those wilting to enlist will want to be associated with it thereafter. The number would be surprisingly few. I have omitted reference thus far to the fears that I have concerning use of such a national policy upon the nations general attitude. Once before, in these columns, I wrote that the fall of every nation, disintegration or Its subservience to dictatorship, was preceded by forced training of all civilians. They became the tools of a few leaders and those few leaders eventually were knocked off, even ss Hitler and Stalin end Mussolini have done. Yes, I am convinced that universal military training constitutes another and an important step towards dictatorship. It may be called in principle. Sines tha war in Europe gave Mr. Roosevelt an excuse to get excited and to spread hysteria throughout tha nation, to seek and gain appropriations of 110,000, 000, 000 more from congress, this compulsory military training Idea haa been spawning. It was due to follow the proposals for the sensational expansion of the army end the navy. It was the next and the logical step. With plenty of money to spend and no pln for spending It, comes now the program for universal training. Things like that happen when the wedding takes place after a courtship of two days. City Formation ot a national policy require! a vast amount ot thought Compulsory training might affect the morale ot the army. History shows that dictatorship usually follows forced training of civil-IanNaming of Knox and Stim-o- n might be a political trick. One must go back a few months to understand these appointments, when the war gave Roosevelt an excuse to get excited. s. THINK REPAIRING SHOE O.K. Right Thinking Brings Good Reratta Whea yoR think of hiving yow Show Repaired SHOESHOPt Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 Sa State Street t t laming Knox and Stimeon Right Bo Political Trick Nor can I figure out why Mr. Roosevelt reported to the appointment of two Republicans CoL Frank Knox and Henry L. Stimson to be heads of the navy and war departments, respectively, unless it was a. political trick. While these two men may be, and probably are, good men, it strikes me that there surely were two good Democrats available somewhere among the 135,000,000 Americans. One has to go back several months to understand $ese appointments. have recorded in these columns before the hapless type of Harry Woodring, who was forced out of the job ot secretary of war. I have told likewise how the late Claude Swanson was unable to do his job ss secretary of the navy because of illness. I have told of the strife within the war department and it was common knowledge that Charles Edison was named secretary to succeed Mr. Swanson only to boost his political stock, now shaped up in a campaign for governor of New Jersey. All ot these things obtained through months past, when as wa are told these days the Chief Executive knew the war in Europe was coming headon. The fact also remained that there was no great movement on the part of Mr. Roosevelt or any of his advisors to place "big men in the jobs whieh direct military preparedness. I wonder, in view of all of these filings, whether any one can be blamed for smelling politics? I wonder, also, whether any one ean fed that the appointment of Colonel Knox and Mr. Stimson represented anything more than the cheapest type of polities, stirred into the bowl Just a few days before the met in their national convention to nominate Mr. Willkie. It is to be hoped that the two new secretaries will be able to do a good The secretary of war, of job. course, will be the man to have charge of the universal training, if congress ever enacts it into law. But Secretary Stimson, a Republican all of his life, becomes the mouthpiece of the President of the United States who appointed him. He cannot, he dare not, be anything else, and it is not a situation that convinces me of a real desire for national unity. So, instead of all of thia why not have soma honesty and common sense? Why not let the army go ahead with its program Would Destroy Morale ot expanding slowly and as it la Of Our Fighting Force capable iff taking cars of the This may be said to be an un- That would bring us nine great job? diviimportant argument I say that it sions, ready to move on 24 hours la vital. The reason is that once the notice in ease Mr. Hitlers airplanes army la discredited, as it surely started landing In Kansas City, as would be, by failure to do its as- Mr. Roosevelt once said was possigned Job because the politicians sible. of now fear of the Nasis put a padlock on ' Paradise in lovely j in lovely South Sea Tahiti throwing dancing girla out of work j and discouraging visitors. An illustrated feature ' feature, in i the magasine distributed with next Sundays Los ANGELES EXAMINER 1 when President two-thir- ly seems high, especially when we read in last week's issue of this paper about a high school building ereeted in Tennessee. It was built of white concrete and faced with fine brick. It is three stories high, has 46 rooms, has cells, ceiinter-roocommunications, hospital clinic, sound-prostream-line- d a radio brick desks, system, glass lings, stairways, great library, an auditorium seating 750, and a complete radio system, all for $307,000. By WILLIAM BRUCKABT WNU Service, National Frets Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Since It is apparent that the question of compulsory military training la certain to become a much discussed subject during the coming presidential campaigns. I think it may be well to delve into the subject again with the idea of reporting and analyzing recent developments. There was a first flush of heat churned up News AND GOOD WILL TEN (10c) CENTS A DAY Has Come Nothing More Vital as a National Policy Over the Horizon in Long Time; Might Destroy Morale of Army. Organization Was King Leopold's surrender a Tragedy? Was it due to the "Curse of the Coburgs, or u fatal hereditary weakness, dangerous to friends And allies in times of stress? Dont miss these startling revelations in the American weekly, the magasine distrubuted with next Sundays LOS ANGELES EXAMlNer.. 'i Compulsory Military Training To Be Live Topic in Campaign and girls trained for military ice under government compulsion. Four of those speeches were favorable to the program, but I could not help noting how each one of the senators supporting the Idea skated an OLD AGE PENSION around the vital points. There was Utah State Old Age Pension an entire lack of foundation In their They appeared to beargument Group meets weekly Tuesday lieve such a course as universal 2.30 p. m. Chapman Library training was necessary only because Branch corner 6th South and 8t the President had said so. In other of the argument west. Wednesday 7. 30 City words, thus far advanced for universal Hall Branch, City and Co .Bldg training has been predicated upon Room 106. Thursday 2 pm. the sayso of somebody else, an arguthe senator or ment Salt Lake City Branch at 41 die that permittedor the member representative Post Office Place. of the Prealdenfs official family to make a speech and use the words TOWARD PEACE for our national defense. ''i. "Rung-ln-The-Fami- Brackor?s Washington Digest Neighbor J. F. Whittemore dozen apeechea about the Burke bill emptied his apricot orchard on which zeemz to carry out approxiour desk and for the time being mately what President Boosevelt has In mind about having all boys the force was full. serv- Talking about a city making money through municipal ownership there is a splendid example right at the door of Salt Lake. The city of Murray reports a net profit from its municipal light and power plant for the year 1939 of $26,141. What a fine record. Sait Lake might net a saving of ten times that sum if it owned its own power and light utility. What can awaken the people to this? 'll I', , National News of Personal Without Fear Interest or favor Some Items hniu-ballo- o, Moreover, wa might go ahead and build a real national defense that will stand the test because there surely ia money enough available under tha recent appropriation!. It can be done. All army officers say that, and every one elie says it can b dona. It will fail miserably, as it ought to, however, if the governmental plan ia to build tha house first and construct a foundation for it later. You may recall how one of the federal heuseng projects In West Virginia flopped because tha houses wore built of one dimension and tha foundations ot another. 3a Ijou fCtuuu Jfoat ia jbial? -. Salt Lake dial telephones will come to life. Now is the time to learn to dial. For your convenience, dialing demonstrations are being given daily at the new telephone business a- office. 77 East 1st South A demonstration requites but a few minutes. Stop in or call us, and we will arrange a demonstration at your convenience. Wa$otch 3841 m uousms states telepbobe md teiegraph cl Utah Alines Dependent on Outside Mart for Revenue The Inexorable laws of snpply aad demand affect all Indus tries, Their affect upon metal prices la extremely important in Utah where mining la tha most important in-- dustry. Mines are dependent entirely up-on an outside market for their pro- They produce the metals ship them east for sate and tha money te brought back to ba used in local trada aad Industrial ehanneje. and to consume products Grown It within the state. te Interesting to note how metal prices are established. In the newspapers and other journals, wa ea mentioned various tor the pries of copper: quotations The Else- trolytlc Price, the Cathode Price, tha Connecticut Valley Pries and ,or ExP0Pt Copper. The medium for the quotation of theae Prices accepted officially in the trada te tha E. A M. J. Metal and Mineral Markets which te the week- ly market Information Issued by publisher of tha and Mining Journal In Engineering New York. All settlements in this for the purchase and ante ofcountry copper in rei and concentrates art based upon tha figures published by this This Journal haa tha eon- fidence of both tha buyers and sell- ra of copper and obtains from and sellers 100 Percent Information practically on sales ot re-- SS? ta Un,t4 sales, tha,1, of thess of ln.? lh8 'i1t0,i I? r,ch date. !,'m7w MbU1 copper f.o.b. refinery, inrli copper being in tha ordinary forms of wire bar and ingot bar. Quoting from the Journal itself, The Spur era net prices at refineries at theAtlantic Seaboard. These refiner' are principally located la . Jersey and Maryland. This ot e brtle price is used as a basis me tlament between the mine and smelters in many eases, Prior to having been melted into wire bar and Ingot bar, the copper. aa It eomaa from tha electrolytic cells, te known aa Cethode Copper which te usually sold at 1S cent per pound less than the copper called electrolytic copper scribed above. Sometimes this tha quotation used In tha purchsm and sate of copper ores and trolytlc Copper eteetro-dnets- centrates. , The seat of tha braes Industry historic tha United States ia, N In tha Connecticut Valley In ton England. It coats 14.50 a e transport a ton of electrolytic to refineries per from the eastern tne Connecticut Valley points oo average or .226 cents perIs pwjj This transportation charge to tho quotation tor electrolyse the copper at tha refinery andthe conbecomes figure suiting naetleut Valley price tor lerT lytic copper. The Connecticut nw lay price Is that which isngreenwms wage In Union tomarily usd is a fixed and doflnitaB. tlon aa established by t he W J. Metal and Mineral Market auotatlcm tha ta merely adding . the electrolytlo coyer st as explain d .226 cents per d Mineral for lmrPo,s of their hAiS!1 quotations, ths pries of Elao-- above. !? cop-th- ' P i |