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Show " " " ' - i- - ' fqictory(KY Ifqbmctory PRINTING PUBLISHING ; ' VOL. fc, NO. 33 David Keith Bldg.y Dial SUGARHOTJSE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPT. II, 1942 Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR :LowDcdwinHHighUp ofUteh Liquor We give here some (acts and figures on the subject of liquor as it concerns Utah. The gross income from liquor sales (or the year ending June 30. 1942 amounted to $5,820, 20.87, which was $ ,224, I 3.63 or 25 percent more thnn the gross iucome for the previous year. The cost of operation was, however, $922.64 less than in 194 , and there was a saving in labor costs salaries and wages over 1941 of $15,065.27. And having purchased its own trucks it has saved on deliveries over 1941 the sum of $19,07 .08, and has saved on enforcement costs the sum of $8,983,27, which is a good showing as far as money goes. The net profit to the state for the year was $ ,646,3 5,79, which was a profit increase of $565,758.36, or SO per cent over the previous year. The increase in sales is mainly due to two things, the government tax which raised the price, and the great influx of new people. The per capita cousumption has not, they say, increased, which is hard to believe. These figures are from the official records and are correct. Think of Utah, Zion, the home of the Word of Wisdom, laying over the counter m a single y ear for liquor the srm ot $5,820,126.87! All is not well in Zion. When men have fortunes iuade,more than they'll ever use.they should cut their inco eg, cooperate with the workers and bhare with them all the net profits of their business. Such actions would square with their preaching. I ..Editorials Well Worth Reading.. Proposed Tax Unfair The proposed Chain Store Tax is unfair. It exempts the 80 1. G. A. Stores, the Associated Grocers, the O.P.Skaggs stores, the 103 Red and White stores, end Auerbach's, while Penney would be taxed an extra $15,000 a year, and Safeway $22,000 a year. We trust that Utah people wi 1 not be so unfair that they will vote for such an unreasonable and unjust tax. - - Need to be Like Lincoln In these times of stress and confusion it would be well for many of us to develop the feeling expressed by Lincoln. "I know there is a God and that He hates the injustice of iJ, slavery. I see the storm coming and I know that His hand ltlL' is in it. If He has a place and a work for me, and I think He 4s has, I believe I am ready. I am nothing, but truth is every - lie tos thin . I know I am right, for Christ teaches it, and Christ in--. is God." Lincoln d. t m 8 m ,R A BIG MAN'S ESTIMATE OF PRESIDENT ' Pierre Van Passan, writing about Roosevelt in Liberty ljMagaziDC, closes his article with the following words: "Stran-fiig- e i it noti tnat 'n times of dying faith, when death chants nare intoned for all thac is best and noblest on earth, there also s"ppears those men on whose shoulders has fallen the mantle the prophets. These men are not always recognized But history knows them. History will know STranklin Delano Roosevelt as one of the greatest." Listen to Great Scientist We, from our little corner, have said it a hundred times that the only salvation for the country and the world is to turn to the things of the spirit spiritual development. This has been a favorite theme with us for many years. May we back it up with a statement from the great scientist Steinmetz? He says, "The great discoveries of the future will be along spiritual lines. . . . Knowledge has not brought people happi-ness. Material things will never bring happiness Scientists must now turn their laboratories over to a study of God and prayer. Spiritual power is the greatest of all the undeveloped forces and has the greatest future." Now, , reader, if you won't accept this truth from religionists, you surely will take it from so outstanding a scientist. Tinless 'Tin' Can Demonstration Senator Guy M. Gillette (right), chairman of special committee on J utilization of farm crops, is shown the new fiber, plastic-line- d container invented by Albert Robbins, which, it is hoped, will be an acceptable sub-stitute for the tin can. R. S. McMillan (left), president of a Los Angeles j petroleum company, plans to use the container for lubricating oil. JK?- - The hf$ JfcPEOPLE Neighber Eugene Middleton 'rre pressible and indefatigable worker for cooperative efforts for humanity, remembers us oc-casionally with the fruits of the earth and some fruits of Mam-mon. He has been preaching about as long as Noah did but unlke Noah he has not yet con-verted his own family. May we inform him that one man, after reading what he said in this paper that all the United Order people, Socialists and Collectivists and their kindred cranks could not in 10,000years built up so good a system as Capitalism has built up in a hundred We told him to keep his eyes open and go out and see how Gene has laid the cor-ner stone. One of our good .Neighbors and subscribers, was living com-fortably and happily at 443 So. 7th East when all of a sudden a greedy landlord decided he wanted more rent, He couldn't get it under the law so he be-gan tearing down and remodel-ling right over the heads of Mr Prahl's family. They were for-ced to drag their furniture out on the lawn and leave it there i until they could find another house. What a condition we would have if greed was allow- -' ed to have its own way. For faithful, constant and appreciative souls we cite you to Susie Wilson of Hurricane, Utah, who has been wit h us ev-er since Moses Strinuham led some of the people to good food and shelter and good clothes. She enjoys the paper and prov-es it by her good works, From Friend and Neigh-bor Major Fisher Harris, now stationed at Charlottesville, Va. He says: Dear Friend Lund: I hope you are very well and that you are still carrying on your fine work with youraccus. tomed spirit and courage. s volunteered and le t a family, a high positio and a good salary to help I. is coun try. We wish him well and hope that he will win plenty of honor and renown. He sends us a card on which is an engraviDg of the University of Virginia, founded by Thomas Jefferson. Ronald White, son of C. L' & Petra White was operated on for appenjicittis last Friday and is now about recovered. Mr-- . Iva Willis came out of the campaign with some oOO friends. At one of the rallies a technocrat speaker said, "We can control and solve every problem but you, Mrs. Willis. You talk loudandrtell too mnch (Continued or1 page fo r) The People's Shame By Marion Bellamy, daughtet of Edward Bellamy, author of Looking Back-ward, which has just been voted an American Classic As a people we have sat idly by while our fabulously rich natural resources, the heritage of all the people of the nation, have been greedily appropriated bv a few, squandered and wasted carelessly and then sold back at monopolistic prices to the very people to whom they belonged! And we have smiled at these masters of ours and bowed before them, called them great! We have stod idly by while their hirelings have passed legislation which has strengthened their master's grip on our throats, and bound tighter the ec-onomic chains of the entire producing population of our nation We have stood idly by while these interest have swallow-ed o r newspapers, our radios, our magazines, our moving pictures. For" many years these interests have dictatedjthe maaag-me- nt of most of our edncational institutions, including public schools and kindergarten suppoated by the people. To such conditions have we been gradually reduced that year after year we vote eomplacently for their representatives and watch with but iittle comment as more and more of the departments of our lives are encompa sed by their restrictions and commands When People Were Happier During the Golden Age of America, which we call the age of Emerson and the distinguished men who lived in or near his time, the great majority of good, plain Americans were on their farrrn and knitted together in small villages and towns. They were happier and more contented by far than the people are today. They believed in getting little more than the ne-cessities and bad few wants above that. They had learned to do with little and with the few things they had they lived better.nearer to nature, nearer to each other and nearer to God J But when people were wooed away from their villages and farms and turned to the industrial centers and so many got the desire to become rich, society began to deteriorate. To-ja- y they have too many things and too much wealth with which they are literally burdened and true happiness and con-tentment have fled away from them. One man says somewhat as follows about one little village of that time: The place don't amount to much. The people don't am-ount to much. But if you're sick or disabled and you have no money they will provide for you and doctor you, and if you get past their doctoring they will send for a doctor and pay the bill. If your house burns down they will build you another. If you die they will take up a collection and bury you. We think we're about as near to heaven as we can get here on earth. WHAT SHALL BE DONE ABOUT IT? One of Salt Lake's prominent persons has recently gone the rounds of all the beer saloons in the city and found some shocking sights. Hundreds of girls, many of them mere children, were reveling in drunkennes to such an extent that it was very disgusting to see. And their male escorts, more than half who were not soldiers, were in the same condition. How times have changed. Time was when righteous fathers would use force, sometimes violence against those who thus debauched their daughters. But nowadays some of them set the example, So What? GIVE THE POWER CO., ITS DUE. We believe in giving corporations their dues when they have any coming to them. We say it, and mean it, that Salt Lake and Utah were fortunate to have at hand a development of power sufficient to carry the load for all the war industries which have been set up, and to do as well as has been done in number of passengers to and carrying the greatly increased from' the various work centers. 'We are not saying much about municipal ownership just now because we feel that with the gearing collapse of the capitalistic profit system there will be such a condition that the owners will be glad to have the Public take o er. THE DEBT WE OWE TO FORBEARS. "Sy the toil oc patriots and the sacrifice of martyrs have bcen built into democracy the great institutions of liberty and order which are the people's free, inheritance today. We .'re what of vanquished lives saenhc we are because of generations e(1 in behalf of freedom.and he who ignores his obligation is a tr"itor to the race. All are debtors beyond the power to pay. What be worth if the would any man's money or property Wuntry goes to defeat." Wait just a little and you will see some of your luxuries rmovedand you will be exceedingly glad to rush to a suv-ln- S system. Salt Lake City, Utah. 1942 Editor and Mgr. Progressive Opinion, Dear Mr. Lund: For fifteen years plus I have been living on borrowed time, and during that time I have been interested in and instructed by your valued paper-- I herewith repeat what 1 have often said to prominent state and church offi" cials that you have the courage to tell the plain, simple and ungarnished truth. The chips that fall from your broadaxe in vigorous editorials are by no means enjoyed by the Fascist-minde- d. I have full confidence in your honesty, integrityy and love for truth. I quite agree with our mutual friend Mr. L. E. Elggren in his very splendid article of Aug. 2 I . "It is encouraging to note that we still have one paper in our midst which is unshakled, andjso (rce from partisan influence and obligation to special iuterests, that it can fearlessly speak and declare the truth in any matter, and to interpret religion in general terms of man's present day needs and best welfare Keep up your good work for remember TRUTH is the mightiest of all and must prevail." ( It is my sincere wish that every Mormon Democrat in Utah was a was a subsriber to Progressive Opinion. Moreover I believe it is the duty of every city, county and state official to subscribe for it, for you are vigorously and eternally fighting their battles. They are, in my opinion, lacking in gratitude if they don't do it. Come on boys, don't be ungrateful. ours for more Progressive Opinions. Keep the chips flying, for lo, God is with you. Sincerely, James E. Hart 'The Better W 4C-- f- "iHEr vLsJ A war correspondent who is covering the scrap In North Africa sits at his "desk" in a slit trench in the desert batting out his "piece." There is no city editor to bawl him out, no clatter of teletypes, and life would be just grand if it weren't for the shells, dive bombers and strafing j planes, not to mention the heat in the daytime, the cold at night and the continuous water famine. C. V; H. Says Recently a commentator was telling "the public how much it would have to give up by rationing in order to win the war. No more autos, very few tires, about one tenlh of our reg-ular supply of sugar. He went on to say that before we have an army of ten million men, we will be doing without wool in our clothes and that shoes would be made of wood. Cans would disapear from-th- grocery shelves, and that the old fashioned straight edge razor long hid away would havS to be brought out (if you have one.) It seems that every essential in life ha? to be curtailed. Of course if this will win the war there is not a single nephew, or niece of Uncle Sam but wculd gladly do more than their share to go "all out." However, during the time when we were being lulled into a false security we had no strikes in the unnecessary tobacco industry nor distilleries that was making a non essential commodity. There is a popular son about just a letter from home, which should be an appeal to the folks on the home front to remember the boys out there on the far-flun- fronts of this terrible war. Make it a business, brothers, sisters, sweethearts friends, parents to remember them as often as 3'ou can. But always write the good news not the bad. You little know how letters will cheer them in their marching and fighting by day and through the many lonely nights out there so far away. To Be Made on Canadian Assembly Lines j " 3. i , " S"""" W V t An excellent view of the Lancaster, first of England's mighty bombers, as it arrives at Dorval airport in Montreal, Canada. It will be demonstrated and then produced on Canada's assembly lines. This bomber can carry eight tons of bombs, has a top speed of 300 miles per hour and a range of 3,000 miles. It has ten machine guns. |