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Show 217 Keith W..358) jtfo.9 Bldg, Phone Wu 4648 SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH, FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 1939 Published Weekly by C. N.Lund as Second Clara Matter at tee Foal Qtflcn at Salt LakaCtty. Utah, andra tea Act W March A UTI Entered ' REVIEW B Y REUftBLE GOLUMNlSt pfffllNew Analyalr I 1 --Weekly DWUttd trim Drop Appeasement Weaker Now But Policy Even ty Joseph W. La Bine POUSHCOMDO OHMautiMfar rtic spirit rcry cipeeted tbi MOMBtaitty. city, prO'Mtil, ceded toGcnnciiy it radium far Lith- Tw iiiceenty uanian economic "tdveiifgcc.1 DANZIG PM CKjTi DOOQOQ Dy Oernuay to da t orguiai !i 730, it ppbtMMPlMil A fine t- - Thepn - Chaim POLAND .U.S.S.I RUMANIA Here Hitler prcrai ate Hke Slovakia andCnchia. old iti rtf ity&Co. I 1ITALY the march or c open I, ty . comnii Fox,ehi m- ! - tau be ri be ter less would es- -i government which wsr own if it means tom of But liter eight months of ftoreign policy" which is more conven--c gned with immediate than permanent direction, the ipeuc4ovihg Engliahmen are framing to believe Prime j of Chamberlain might have greater results with no risk by holding to n steady t crisis last Sep Mr. Cham-b- 'i ippeisemenf cries grew Hivriy weaker as Britain and strengthened their defense possible aggression from i the Czech jt until White House How to raise U. S. price levels is one of the administrations biggest problems. Republican laymen, and many Democrats, contend a retrenchment of federal spending would do tee trick. But the White House places more faith in Marriner S. Eccles, federal reserve chairman, and Sea Key Pittman, Nevada ate ver advocate. Even these two "doctors" find themselves at odds, how- During a recent public debate they outlined these two opposing pates to the coveted price leveL Pittman. Favors currency inflation, "since government billions rs Hitler and Mussolini. By wan 1 the taro democracies 1 toouh to suggest dictating i to the Reich, whoco econom- position hid grown intolerably Then, overnight, all aem-- t The of "policy" collapsed. derate! State tin sequence: grabbed Czechoslovakia, ns boundaries were guaranteed i autumn by Franco and Britain. Chamberlain said it was no 1) Hi Her i of his. Two days 9 later Mr. Chamber-- i whipped about-fac-e, Hitler of dishonesty Hddenly and I I IIS NEWS-- aggression. Russia, far IS years unwel-- i la British circles, was asked. h case FOUR of Britain ONLY nomt-natbi- its course protest when reverted id statute. ; , a Mot .. M ,...! MYt Yfc Yb i Yr. Yt ....I Yt ,.J ...1 Yfc ...I Yt ...I Yt Yt ... Yt :::1y -!S ".Yt ::.i yt 26 Is4 Yt Yt ,1 Yt I Yt .I Yt tODAM I surrender PITTMAN (LEFT) AND ECCLE8 agraa. The doctors did have completely failed to raise the Believes federal reprice leveL and Germany and Russia serve board! periodic Increase! decreases in reserve requirements ( "taaUy lock horns, fighting business. issue of Naziism I versus have had a bad effect on inflacurrency to the ruin of both. Against Eodca would It help tion. Partially agrees new raise price levels, but fears to use. bo not put would money Czechoslovak and Me-T'Lack ot opportunity to get n prow rehave EUROPE) la tee principal Impediment to Wicker, more definite covery today." eould than moat pooplo Whether the White House January, when Presl- - pub a definite monetary program bi from such an exchange of theories sitatfw. nud tterid augges-Preseneutrality law is doubtfuL But there are indicaa terrific tions teat the idea of Mr. Eccles, hoM Mmi uproar famed advocate of spending. President Roosevelt told his special favor. ortens reteaea to appropriation press conference teat ho But cut U. & spending until Private brouht guarantee jobs. KTJhow ot inter-part-y soli--t will ha favor repeal of "deterrent fouttediy temporary, but taxes, apparently, for he has mildly to iv and denounced advocates of a slain in HuL'rd, 7r I I re-,lk- KT k Isfcw". ftwi support and the federal budget But since Mr, that he Eccles Is on record as favoring govBe western heml-- ernment action to "remove impediments to the encouragement of pristal Sum-reci- vate capital White Housa and Ecboth Democrat cles do not Jibe. HiUcr Hu 00 pro-rate- er. month, interest on debts and no tax on income for exports. Repeals three titles of the Social Security Act Tltie 1, giving grants assistance; Title 11, providing for to the States for e e benefits to certain favored workers on the basis of payroll taxes of 6 earnings, and Title Vni, providing forTAX REPLACEMENT in heu of not be a Will cent. per and State of taxes county, but city, wily of these payroll old-ag- old-ag- old-ag- , LULU vi the Czech legation In Washington to the German ambassador. Bom in Pure-Bre- Carpathian he mountains, knew Magyar op- Cat Vladlmar a 8. Horbaa as ion press tha a years afo to accept warprofessor eollegs. czars tha In ship out When the World war broke foined Czecha other 70.000 be and Durin the Russian rmY- -Czechs made revolution taese to their historic movement collected where tee group Vtadl-vosto- d k. to funds to send Hurban There ho Joined D; Thomas tea Czech Maaaryk in founding government the After natioa to was established be returned atCzech military os Washington Egypt as tache. later going to Sweden as to daffaires, charge in and minister, His minister. Washington os hers greatest accomplishment Czech-it of toe Wss consummation now Waahlng-to- a a. trade treaty last year, proteo-torate- " abrogated under Hitler' regime. r K Secretary. Cows Going to Worlds Fair will This photograph shows the partly completed huildingateich house the "Dairy World of Tomorrow" at association! Ayrihire, Guernsey, the five pure-bre- d ia each have 30 ouUtamhng Jwsey and apccimens of their breed on display for the entire duration of the Fair. Theie amtnala selected throughout the United States and Canada, are chosen for outstanding merit. on a They will be milked three timea a day Rotolactor similar to the one developed at Laboratories. the Walker-Gordo- n The exhibit will demonstrate the production and handlingof milk under best saniCompany ia tary conditions. The Borden with the breed association! and will bear the ezpense of assembling, feeding and caring for the animals. Brown-Swisa-w- Becoming Ruaslo 10 soldier, ho went to child- - , utasks, ps vl. natioa that he refused to nt -..Yt VIAIL oslovak te :- ry I and Hungary, and o much pride in tee late Czech- Hcrturei would have more M temporary jolting effect on territorial ambitions. For din want! nothing to do with , fa fact, the fondest Tory ...,1 Yt ,...2 Yo Yt (General Welfare News Advocate) The moat conservative, sane and beneficial pension-recovemeasure before Congress ia H. R. Eleven. Aims to promote the welfare of all groups and all classes without coat to or guarantee by the government, which merely collects the money and pays it out, for which it is paidre--a and I handling charge. Proposes to make age, citizenship d Federal Antirement the only qualifications for a than $60.00 per nuity of not less than $30.00 nor more ' month to ALL citizens over 60. e relief as well. taxes for national recovery since It is the AMERICAN WAY to and relief on give those between it will rehabilitate those 20 and 60 jobs in private industry and on our farms to pro--I duce the things the old people will be able to buy with their (annuities of around $480,000,000 per month. It will go s combined long way toward ending unemployment, as the and the annuities with old of the people spending power for young people with SALARIES will spell prosperity to will tend It its to people. and America bring happiness cost of I governtremendous ltapn crime, cut down on the set-uand most reproducing. ment by eliminating duplicative the are prolific these And a $1000 year. of 42,000,000 wages the of weekly ditrack such as more to a keeping equitable Let those who will not now consent operations governmental and greatly systematize children of employees, means of one simple sysstribution of wealth beware lest the host of the our by government streamline and of redistributing the poor rise up and use their own methods tem whereby the annuitants are registered once, receive ot land. tho wealth their checks monthly and use them to create prosperity for the I the rest of us. The office of the Utah Buyers Curative Afomtion City, EMPTY AGAINI is located at 417 Atlas Building, Salt Lake Pension ca u of interested in helping this National call at the office for should 60 at month for persons $60 per detail information. LUND COL. VLADIMAB 8. HUBRAN Though a Slovak, and although Hitler has made Slovaks indeCoL Hurban pendent of Czechs, bHao much dislik for Germany of these disjoined k that Britains "appeaie-tfie- y hai given way to no i rial It can well be doubted pterion sincerely hoped ita Rus-- ' . .6 N ....I treaty. I TnitK U Truth and a floor is necessary if we are to have a A Someone ,ent ui e leaflet on conditions inGer-- reservewiling fund," so they have set the minimum of $30 per -and Hitler the maximum $60. Now when this reserve month conquered many which is an amount the of instead recommend raising i8 established they unemployment in no time. W hen the O.uuu.uuu it may foun more advisable to gradually reduce the age .. if by unemployed were put to work he lifted. In the financed on a pay- magic, 1 5,000,000 souls out of pauperism. ig to pengion or to basis by a universal monthly gross income tax industrial field he has increased production per two of per cent,, with an exemptiemof the fi$100.00 from 50 to 2500 per cent! These are facta they a deduction of all amounts paid for wages, taxes and Headliners statute ..6 .... ... sur . ELLIOTT BOOSEVELT Carnsr in the driver's soot. carry out bis New Deal philosophy. : John Gamer would not bo apt to '' . do this. at' Dewey. New York's district to poptee lost governorship torney ular Herbert Lehman by less than 1 per cent of tee popular vote teat say. fall but the mere fact that he lost and that a few weeks earlier his For keeping some of the accounts of the money dished out case against James Hines had been month. tossed from court coat Mr. Dewey to the poor and aged a married woman is paid $220 per much popularity. But since last Nothe wife on his has public A Judge who receives $4000 a year vember old guard Republicans have constitutional right, Morn-- 1 payroll at $200 a month. They have that dropped from the picture. eeen a have could Sea wish like Michigans over, able men they of course. But by the eternals, we rein Arthur H. Vandenberg have shown office an etorm men hundred of Balt Lake idle young disinclination to ran. Realising a have never G. soon. found be must candidate sponse to one little ad for an elevator boy! They settled unofficially ' had O. P. voter have steady jobs and cannot get them. on Dewey since ho "came back to conconvict Hines on the racket Labor spiracy charge. Whereas The childrens Bureau of the National Department of InpoU by the American of the children of the to one-fift- h reports that from one-eigstitute of Public Opinion gave Dew-- I o Forty-twof cent of the popular country suffer from malnutrition because poverty. ej only 27 per U. S. has incomes under Republican vote, a monte later be per cent of the population of the had jumped to SO per cent in down on its refusing any than the useless Hre" Conti ibuteJ WEEKLY MESSAGE Through the courtesy and cooperation of Progressive Opinion, a National Pension Weekly Message will be found in the columns of this paper from this issue on. Utah Buyers Cooperative Association is affiliated with the General Welfare Federation pf America which is sponsoring II. R. Bill Eleven. The General Welfare Federation is a States. national movement organized in forty-fiv- e persons to The petition to Congress for pension-minde- d sign is at local headquarters, 417 Atlas Building. The House Ways and Means Committee has invited some of the Nations Foremost Economists to analyze the National Pension Bill for them and, incidentally for ua. Work that would have cost the old people thousands of dollars in the way of expert opinions is being done at the expense of the government, as it should be. Foremost among those faappearing was Dr. Studenski of New York University, red. out of York the mous tax expert who kept New Dr. Studenski ia in full accord with Clarence Jackson, the Tax Administrator of Indiana, and William Bor thwick, tiie Tax Administrator of Hawaii, both of whom have indicated that the gross income tax should be our National tax base. EXPLANATION OF NATIONAL PENSION BILL ELEVEN IN BRIEF ' eve-open- Britain backed ith Russia, r R1CHE8 By Heber J Grant Published in Contributor, 1891, Volume XII, page 467, 468. Laws are enacted presumable for the benefit of the people and protection of the weak against the strong, but the growth of trusts and combines and the crushing out of existence of the smaller industries suggests that the tendency of the legislation of this day is in the direction of aiding the rich to grow richer, while the poor must of necessity grow poorer. The world is disgrowing in mealth all the time, and this wealth is not being with of any degree tributed among the inhabitants the earth of equality. And if things shall go on as at present for another hundred years, it requires no great amount of foresight to see that the vast majority of mankind will be little else than slaves of the few. The big fish eat the little fish. And it ia said that there is no use for us poor mortals to try to change THI8 STATE of AFFA1R8.I cannot for a single moment agree with bounden duty any such proposition, but must feel that it is the well to D. L. 8. upon the the of old and ponder of the young best of the to labor to and as of exist, condition they things divito the reference with about a to change our ability bring sion ol wealth. There are very few who retain the finer feelings of the human heart and a strong sympathy for the well being -. of their fellows after they become possessed of a great abundance of wealth. NATIONAL PENSION PLAN COLUMN . ilgnature of the h ERATIVE ASSN Word ce The following words, written nearly fifty years ago, by the distinguished gentleman who ia now the venerable head of the L. D. S. church, are very timely today and we commend them to our readers. They contain the idea and the ideals for which the editor of this paper has battled for all of these fifty years We have not changed, but we have learned long since that he who atanda out boldly and forcefully for social justice must often stand alone and embrace what the world of money calls failure, because the seed he sows has to be reaped by others. He must be content with poverty and follow the road of self denial and renunciation in the hope of biasing a trail toward the economic resurrection of the masses. ll no t sccupta Memei, whose owning hr Lithuania was guaranteed Rhitish-Frenc- Pre-Conferen- ht a pact to con-- P future German ag- and mads A ry ion London hi lGAZINES Smart politicians never eount chickens before they hatch. But neither do astute political observers forfet that It is a nlfb-weimpossi-U- a job to bounce a favorite from the saddle. Although more than a year remains before Republican and Democratic parties hold their g conventions. New York's Republican District Attorney Tom Dewey and Texas' Democratic Vice President John Nance Garner have emerged definitely as men of tee I hour. Gamer. Sometimes disgustingly Independent to President Roosevelt, the vice president has led a powerful Democratic revolt this session of congress and today controls approximately as many house and senate votes as tee White House. Though 70 years old, ha holds tee favor of Emil Hurja, astute party analyst who has indicated there is little chance Gamer can be bounced from favor in 1940. Unpredictable as his father, Texas' Elliott Roosevelt gave politicians a puzzle by announcing teat Mr. Gamer is "in the driver's seat, well in the lead as a likely Democratic candidate for the presidency in 1940." That Son Elliott bolds White House favor for this remark is seriously doubtful. Franklin Roosevelt prefers not to run again in 1940 but will do so unless tee party accepts another man who will and can PER YEAR UTAH BUYERS COOP- Polities lc and Republican praise for his diplomatic protest against Hitlers seizure of Czechoslovakia. it). Neutrality legislation expiring May 1 permits eash and carry" salo to belligerents of anything but war materials. Nevadas Sen. Key Pittman has asked that munitions be placed on the allowed list Utahs Sol Elbert Thomas would give the President power to designate an aggressor nation and forbid shipments to it (I). Washingtons Sea Homer T. Bane has offered, with support, n bill to tax profit out of war. Tha plan: Greatly increased tax rates would bo imposed in can of conflict, lowering exemptions and imposing surtaxes on highest brackets ranging up to 93 per cent for individuals. Corporations would be taxed 100 per cent on net incomes I per cent of their adjusted declared value. -- ope from a Kb cuter to hoot at boxer within. II kidt the ropes than S. citizen were an I iTtrift U. All goes EMPIRE EASTWARD and objectives. W inacfcf cuuqtusU supply 4 EDITORIALS WORTH READING SUM) O ill |