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Show oney every dy-- k tion promptly ORGAN OF NATIONAL 1 3 No. (0UN-- 1 Program I or gobecription 217 Keith 3 Bldg, Phone Was 4648 SANE, PROGRESSIVE. HONEST POLITICS Income Leisure for Age This is the place! SOCIETY W"l4CuSr fo. Prat ItlLIGENT REVIEW BT RELIABLE COLUMNIST TJ 8erj pretty Kpw Analysis S. Surrey Seeks Explanation For Small Business Ailments I, ,it list Uy el iff Wmt Sdi i8et tiR Co. Joseph W. La Bine tha bin would also knock 1500,000,000 from President Roosevelt's budget estimate of Sl.TM, 000,000 for relief during the 1BSM0 fiscal year. Vj It, miwtHf- If reported favorably and approved by tha house, Mr. Wood-rumf-a measure will get a warm welSriAmericaz 4,000.000 waa come from tha senate appropriaUttto tions committee which la headed by nowaday make can-MP Carter Glau and has a Virginia's ri little to-their market nor conservative majority. Chief noncompetitiw praftlooa. partisan question mark is whether L,theeaue. state and municipal relief setups n --10 that an even may not handle relief fundi ao ine meaiure are amateurishly as to tores an evenRfiitinf that tual return to closer federal superjg k eonfircblind teflon would be vision. Another question mark: If reviUl. eongreu Barry Hopkln supervises relief aBoca-Uon- a d omen department recent-(g by states, win amendment of one auch result? rticidarly t, direct It of imall bust h, vital need and provide re-c-h Europe atopiie Sinn Mem el fen to Germany, facilities. Europe's four great powers have endirection thl In , tuheit itep In unprecedented diplomatic 10 Wyoming gaged led bit fall warfare. The French-Brltis- h drive C. O'Mahooey besan is to encircle Italy and Germany b U. S. buaineu develop-twiwith arms, thus preventing further 1500.000 appropriation counteraggression. com. hi (Killed monopoly move to thwart ii So encirclement find ml Thu far successful in highly perfected Is this warfare that pulse, the OMahooey France and tnt England have marked pltttt hu been liven another off their sectors of activity, London with find what's wrong jot to working with Poland and Russia in pd tha north, Paris with Rumania, tha msieed ilmultaneously by Balkans and Turkey in the south. and Exchange CommissionNorth Europe. Poland Is tha key nation In Britain's campaign, though Russian adherence to a Stop Hitler bloc la far more vital to tha British cause. But Poland will not allow Soviet troops to cross her soil, which means that Russia cannot aid foe bloc until Hitler wallows .. mors .. territory - and reaches Russia's frontier. r, Traditionally a Poland has signed a mutual defense treaty with England only after making important reservations. With a third of her border already facing Germany, Poland gains new hostile frontiers if the three Baltic statei (Lithuania, Latvia and Esthonia) accept Hitler's protection. Moreover, Polands friendship with Hungary is threatened because that nation refuses to bum her fingers on a Stop Hitler drive. Rumania, foe only remaining neighbor, has agreed milto make foe itary pact operative against Germany as well as Russia, but RuMCI JEROME FRANK mania is too far away and too comMaaqr fuadi, Jayeta prober. pletely under Germanys economic tane U. Frank is an SEC-m- d thumb to offer much helix Thus eon be Poland aurvey to be conducted Wfahoney funds by 561 chap-- d appreciated, especially since tha be U. S. junor chamber of mUd defensive gestures she has hmce. SEC wU drench itself made thus far have been enough to bets" on auch problems as (1) make Germany threaten to dek d unaU business friendh for capital nounce the IBM ahf : sources of capital and ship pact fioanciil channeli Booth Europe. Of the Balkan through k ansll business msy obtain states, only Rumania has received factors which prevent attention from both Franco and 1 awioeu from obtaining esp-- Britain. Tha latter nation has offered help in event of German ag"Jaycees" got their survey gression, while France chimed in J. SEC wae already work-- with an Important trade treaty. down special surveys. Main French efforts have been I hem: Omaha, to find prob-- 1 aimed at olldiflcation of Jugoslavia, local industry hi prairie Greece and Turkey into an Balkan bloe. Bargaining J by business hu been af- droughts; Birmingham, was started with Turkey to keep ""ibeni industrial - open the strategic Dardanelles and R MUliUm will bo developstudied; wr. ltas a typical New MOTS- -V R. pea f, half-dow- .daii .i-- 17 pork-barrellin- 1. Though recognition by the United fefeo again placed Gen. Francisco franco s Spain in the good graces oi international society (all other J powers had previously recog-- d tha Nationalist government) foa war-toIberian peninsula still cra a tremendous task. Franco's Ineffectual international gesture as a European power haa been to loin Germany, Italy and Japan In ha anti Comm unlit pact Having fous shown European democracies hi heels, the tired generalissimo could turn to more pressing Internal problem. Among them: Order, Though Spain needs manpower to rebuild, many moons will PM before unemployment will be solved. Still breathing in ftftf geo ond wind after S3 months of war, discharged Spanish soldiers will not retdlly bow to anything lets than military law. Francos answer is expected to ha a 1,000,000-ma- n army until early 1940. Health. Substantiated reports from Madrid tell of a scurvy Ilka disease sweeping former Loyalist -- -- fence-straddle- Polish-Rumani- fence-straddlin- g ortrsji d late COTflt Ig to ad am ate ft ibe am Nazi-Polis- I!. anti-Itali- Y :EA0H ioo Ti 7inetioa. - where business hu depression and from other sac- typical mountain- - Visaed by Mr. Frank Wtlbility that his SEC bbme. tinea regia for atnsU zecuri-e- t liberalised a year tesulunt increase by small JUGOSLAVIA GREECE iLUEl with other Plity-mil- s Strait of sentiment has Otranto when Italy could sRainet faatmtnt relief bottle up Jugoslavia's Roosevelt outlet to Mediterranean December that ha If the controlled Albania. 7 5 n investigation this Sb economizing legie-- k vote deficiency ((?? ITALY'S COUNTER MOVE L 1Lft a July i) before Who ho isos iht Ueditemnranf they lopped the original 5875,000,-r?rC- y French-Brltis- h Bosphorus so that When the warships could protect Rumania In cut be the Black sea. In exchange, France mtl cached such was reported willing to give Turdistrict In was key a 000000 01 It Syria. Alexandretta, WPA itself, mS tackle But Italy replied quickly by Jrwb-committe- e went threatening seizure of King Zog's Rinla's economix-A- . tiny Albania, which would giva him In n,fl Woodrum. a key foothold on tha Balkan peninsula. Controlling the narrow Strait tpihika?1, Democrts and of Otranto Tree map), Italy eould mefUre P- - block Yugoslavia's outlet to foe HU'odrum himself, to Mediterranean, a threat which bid a d mf? ?lslrtl00 ver to fair to explode Francos plans. At b U & the same time Italian and German Shi? with aUo-- troops moved steadily Into African t land, , , 10 wlP Libya In anticipation of a drive WHiressiunnl tr' od mff Tlatl 22 W r'r " rbi?,r- W JULIAN BESTEIRO A kuaunitariaa anas taurhmartialai. territory, caused by lack of fresh fruits, vegetables and milk. Its medicine chest emptied, short of bandages, iodine; salves and medicines; orders to Spain has sent hurry-u- p cope with the sorriest physical plight an enlightened nation has suffered in modern times. Rawing. Though intent on restord Catholic churches ing In Madrid and other limner frontier points. Franco faces a ter greater carpentry Job in placing roof over several hundred thousand who fled the capital in war, returning in peace to find their metropolis a shambles. Revenge. Most Loyalist leaders like Gen. Jose Miaja fled Spain after hoisting the white flag of surrender. Two notable exceptions were Gen. Segismundo Casado, war minister of the defense council, and Julian Besteiro, a moderate Republican who took no active part in tha war except to supervise feeding women and children during Madrid'! two-yesiege. Humanitarian or not, Senor Besteiro wae arrested and court martiaied along with General Casado. Finance. Before the war Spain's gold reservt of 5740,000,000 was exceeded only by tha U. S., Britain and France, Alio on hand were vert hoards of silver. By April, 1938, tha U. S. federal reserve bulletin reported Spanish gold had dropped to $525,000,000, and by this month, as General Franco entered Madrid, nobody apparently knew when any Ont vagua Spanish gold might hint was that Marino Gamboa, a rich Filipino; had moved most of It to Mexico and thereby insured the solvency of Loyalist refugees. Meanwhile Nationalist Spain held an empty bag. shell-pocke- ar b. Politics business. Be organisation, against Tunisia. Published Weekly by C. N.Lund in. $1J0 PER YEAR EDITORIALS WORTH READING WHAT SEN. GROVER What the world needs is pure and true Americanism and the old and open Christian Bible! Russia an I ntcgpftion SAYS Since Mrs. Harry Hopkins died two yean ago; motherless Diana, aged seven, haa been eared for by her father and by President and Father Hopkins Mrs. Roosevelt. S. for hu bounced about the U.York to years, coming from New coF become what Republicans crown prince of the administration, first as WPA director and later as secretary of commerce. Without home roots, Mr. Hopkins began rummaging for some in February when he went speechmaking in hit native Iowa, a gesture critics thought might be a bid for the 1940 presidential nomination. Hence the press was skeptical when he announced hli home address would henceforth be Grinneli, Iowa, where he had Just been named a director of Grinneli cot The Hopkins explanation: He was motivated only by a desire to establish a home for Diana. If a political significance can indeed be attached to tha move, It Is that Mr. Hopkins would stand a considerably better chance of winning tha 1940 nomination as an Iowan a resident of New York, than where ha has almost no political following. u N TALK TO PROGRESSIVE LABOR LEAGUE HE EXPRESSES SOME VERY to this, or Is her doom certain? STRONG OPINIONS Tho Night Democracy wot slain, Liberty, her lister, dlodl 1 When one is denied the right to live by his own labor, then all the other rights people boast of are mere nothings. If you will sise up conditions in this world you must conclude that the life hereafter cannot possibly hold any terrors. That stalwart and neptesdbie Doctor of Humanity, and Balder of Character, John T. Miller of Los Angeles, formerly of Utah, has sent us a of copies of his latest and best Character Builder which we are distributing to our subscriber!, in the hope that they wifl order more from tha Dr. It is afine number filled with inqmliona! rending The nation should read it What this paper wants for the people is an orderly, scientific system based on production for use and enjoyment ; the abolition of poverty forever, and the abundance realised which the government's own body of scientists and engineers have proved is possible. We want achievement instead of unemployment, plenty instead of privation, security instead of uncertainty, mounting taxes, possible war and chaos. ng man-mad- Loyallst-eympathizi- ITALY Utah, undar foa'Xct of March I, In these day of commotion and confusion that fine magasine Destiny cries out: "Whom shall' we believe and whom shall we follow? Let ue not be deceived for there is no man nor any group of men in or out of office capable of solving human problems today. Some have been led to cherish a false hope e that national salvation is coming by way of a The the truth. magasine speaks p.ogram." Humanity has reached the condition that only a returned Christ working among men can set things in order. Back to the Bible system of economics s the only hope. Se-U- rn UPri cSIn ?AY, APRIL fact-findi- Italo-Germa- n 0.H Jtali Spain jfh er Office at JUU Lak Opportunity for Youth Conservation of Human Resources Technocracy was very ably expounded MondaV night by Mrs. R e Glendening of Los Angeles. She had a very splendid audience of intelliAD that she said about the collapsing gent listeners who leaned much. capitalistic syrinx ii true. Her optimistic dainufor Technocracy may be and ought to be put into practise but can the people be uniied to put it over? Will the captains of finance let it come whhont some great conflict? A New Angle on Getting Something for Nothing For quite some time the air about tia has been filled with dissertations on getting "something for nothing." We wish we could lift the curtain and show all the noble works of goodness that have been accomplished by great souls giving to other great souls "something for nothing." Here are just a few il lustrations. Had it not been tor a rich uncle giving "something for nothing" to Isaao Newton when his mother was forcing him into a menial work for which he did not have any adaptation, the world would have lost the service of this immortal genius. The world might never have heard of the great composer Handel had it not been for that great Austrian duke who, when Handel was discouraged and unable to go ahead with his work, came to hie rescue with the necessary sums of money to see him through, The immortal composer Haydn was down and out and in despair and discouragement and would have been lost to the world of music had not the three noblemen come to his rescue with money and patronage. When hope was gone in the early life of Verdi, composer of II Trovatore, a rich merto money chant came to his aid with sufficient of wanted Gunsaulus Frank Dr feet. Chicago put him on hie to build an institution for saving poor boys and girls and preached a rerraon setting forth how he could do it if hea had a million dollars. Phillip Armour came out of the audience and gave him hia check. It was a poor cobbler giving the money he saved by starving himself to put another poor boy in whom he believed through school that gave the British empire her famous World war statesman, Lloyd George. George Cohan has spent off the street a ad helpts a vast fortune in taking of them. Yes thousands ing them to make good, thus saving be a lift, some it whetner for nothing1 giving something has rescued other or of many things, money kind words, gifts a discouraged genius and given to the world the fine fruits of th-kind of giving might never many a great soul who without of. have been heard Reported by Progresrive Labor League SENATOR GROVER SPEAKS AT LABOR MEETING Senator Wendell Grover was the speaker at the weekly' meeting under the auspices of the Utah Progressive Labor .7?1 speaker said he was the anthor and of the Enabling Act of the Low Cost Housing Act.sponsor He intimated the l&st Utah Legislation was a huge flop so far as appropriations for aiding those most needing it was concerned. The Socialized Medical Bill was vetoed by Governor Blood because it would help the poorer class who needed it most. Poor people now must take their chances of living or dying. If they havent the money for private doctors they are simply out of luck. Senator Grover said he gete hot under the collar whenever he thinks of the rank injustices done by not passing bat bill. The Home Owners Loan Corporation is strictly for the benefit of the big financial interests, not for the poor home owners, or would be owners. The Federal Housing Act is practically the same only worse because they are handled by private banks and they have the right to choose the location of property. They will not loan a dime on west side property which is where most of the poorer class, who really need financial aid, live. He said something simply must be done for the down and outers, or ? May the Lord help them, for no one else will. Not even the state where they live and pay taxes and vote. Most of the laboring class of persons' salaries is far too low for them to rent a decent place to live in and eat also. What is really needed in this state is houses, built by the state and federal government, that poor people can af- ford to rent cheaply and still have enough money left to get by on the low W. P. A. wages.. The apartment house ' owners fought such a bill vigorously in the last State Legis- lature. Naturally they would, because then they could not continue to bleed the very lifes .blood from the poorer class of renters. Naturally money changed hands among those who would, maybe, have voted for the Low Cost Housing Act bill. Consequently, such persons changed their votes, and killed the bill. People have been sent to prison for less than that, but its a case of catching before hanging. The leaders of the Apartment House League got a number of banks to coincide with them. The bankers were told that such a bill would be a mistake. Our Honorable Governor . Glood was led to believe such trash, too, and, of course, . vetoed the bill. Senator Grover said he got up and offered i to take the apartment house leaders out and let them see how the poorer class has to exist. But of course the leaders . could not, or rather would not, spare the time. They were too busy, so they claimed. Actually they were too busy making money from their renters, from the poor working class. So long as they have enough for themselves they dont i give a damn about the poorer classes. Why should they? They dont know what it means to go hungry and without clothes just to pay the rent. He intimated the atmosphere at the Senate was so surcharged with animosity and hatred that it almost exploded. The suspense of those who were fighting for the enactment of the Low Cost Housing Act was terrific. About Negroes he said: It makes no difference what color one's skin is, they have the same rights to try to make an honest living and live decently. . . -- ; : Senator Grover roundly criticized the system of the Old Age Pension Act and the way it was being carried out. People over sixty-fiv- e years of age were commanded to go on Old Age Pension, leaving, in many cases, a lucrative job to do so. Even those living on small farms, with a good living from the farm, go on Old Age Pension. In some instances they have a chance to get a S3, 000 appraisal value on their property, so they could get tax exemption as well. Then, in some cases, they have been known to turn their property over to their children so they could draw a check of $30 a month, or $60 for man and wife over 65. That is, strictly against the principle of the Act and should be thor-tough- ly investigated. He said that the old folks should be made to sell their farms for money and then live on that money. By so doing some 3,000 old people could be cut off the Pension, and leave that much more money for those poor old unfortunates who have absolutely nothing to depend upon but their Pension. By so doing the Pension could very easily be raised to $50 a month instead of $30. lie also said a small minority of the Senate have worked we heard have the That against the welfare of the aged people, for one reason or cry "Practical! Be practical! another. They are the ones who should be ridden out of counfor done the forages. But what has "being practical" the State on a rail! Another group who may be college misery and who do nothing, or next to nothing, about the try? It has brought depression, unemployment, graduates, call practical econOld Age Pension class, or its backers, should also be ridden discouragement. From running what they omics and government a condition was forced upon the country out on a rail. of Fost in 1932-3- 3 that drove 200,000 citizens to suicide because We all, tiie laboring class, if we could, or would, only recruel were And those fortunes. years vanished and organize and stick together, could put some great pressure hope and girls, and millions of to bear where it would do the most good. What good would homeless boys for 300,000 sponsible on the be the enactments of such bills as would help the working men and women starving for food that was rotting class as a whole. We could do it if we would but try. It is I" Wouldnt groui.d. That was from being perfectly "practica our interests to do so. Even though it does take all our impractical men the for itlbe a good idea to let the to do it, it would be to our tonefit. time "cranks and crackpots try it for a while? They couldnt down-and-ou- possibly make it any worse. , making matters worse. Here too, neighber. ' , brothers, organize now! Join the Utah Proup and coming organization especially organized to benefit the poor W. I. A. workers and Old Folks of Utah. Organize and help your brothers and sisters, and at the same time you are helping yourself. Organization doesnt cost It Pays! So, my gressive Lalxr League, an CanMen! You had better begin to think! The adian WeUare Council has admitted that the political and financial juggling that is going on is but , honest-to-goodne- ss Mrs. Hazel Black. Chairman of Educational Committee. |