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Show l s America is Cjod and ( American Yes, its possible to build a new order Mans Last Make Chance to of mankind- -a fine Decent World W'aahlHgtMi tha No. 421) 217 VOL 4 No. 20. (Old KEITH BLDG. Was 4648 . Entered lav nM ahaaM Matter ai ft. wTwumcet8elt ai CN. are expressed la these calnmas, they aafl art ares srily of this newspaper.) .TUlaaaad Sr Waatara Wainupw Union. . HELP HUMANITY have been fighting for more than a thousand yearaa are being fought for again in the most desperate struggle of history. The French and English 4lood being poured out in riven is being shed in an effort to maintain all the values of Christian civilisation built up by twenty centuries of heroie effort. Prime feverite In tha Who can be neutral when every principle in hia country's Bill vice presidential of Rights la in vital danger of being blotted out? They only takes far President BeeeevaUs have rights who dare maintain them at any cost. Do naming mate (aheald ke you know to run") la Ben. James F. Byrnes what it has cost to secure to the common man the right to af Booth Carotins. It la own property, the right to trial by jury, the stood that the President made right to he codefinite everturee to the nfronted by the witnesses, the right to be secure in .your own to become Me partner on the tickhome and person, the right to resist unjust and illegal search et during a conference a reand aeiaure, the right to defend yourself and your family, the cent Potomac cruise. right to vote, the right to think and speak what you think, the right to read a free press, the right to worship hr not to STARS AND STRIPES: worship as yon plesse, the right to live and love, free and unSalute trammeled? It has cost lives of untold millions, seas of blood, If state laws so require, U. 8. oceans of tears and a whole univers full of anguish and sorrow. school children must salute the American flag, according to a deciShall all these rights fall away and be lost from men ae their sion handed down by the Supreme defenders perish, .while Americans, the chief beneficiaries of court. Reasoning: The Sag symthese thousands of years of struggle, stand idly by, and just bolizes a national unity which transcends aU internal differences relooking on? Have they grown too rich and fat and soft from ligious or otherwise, in its ruling easy living to lift their fists against powers that are destroying the court upheld action of a PennIn Madrid, Spaaiah stmdeaia, as deabt prampted bp Borne and Berlin, exschool board which had every one of these rights? 1 his does not mean that we should sylvania raeatly ataced demoBBtratleae urging return of Gibraltar, worlds creat-- pelled two children for refusing, on go to Europe to fight, but that we should prepare and fight fortress, from English eeatrel to Spain. Until shortly after the Munich religious grounds, to salute tha flag. in North and South America. to some leaned what she ailtht dap have face, trWt, when In the little coal mining town of on every home front Govern meM The legislature appropriated 910.000 and appointed a commission to arrange for Utahs Centenoial. The money is being used up in salaries by a couple of favorites who will use up the amount tn the cent in the six and years. A sort of pension. Why cant men like the secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, already handsomely salaried, and otners, do a little patriotic stunt and become dollar-a-yemen for Utah? We are told that commissi jn members reteive from 914 to 968 for attending w single meeting. Oh how Utah needs patriotic, unselfish service instead of the greedy dollar service. Here's something from the record: Backman'a salary is said to be 9750 per month from the club, 9150 from the Centennial and as much from Covered Wagon Days. From the city he received in 1039, $600, and so far in 1040 he has reciv-950- 0. one-ha- lf ar Besides using all taxes and fees and licenses the city of Salt Lake has an indebtedness of over 94,000,000. The special taxes collected in Utah has increased in the last ten years has increased from 94 000,000 to 917,000,000. ThihkI For ot df this high rlchetp fence separated the mlfhtp fertreae from the Spanish mainland. Since that time engineers bare labored anceaslnglp it protect this Achillea heel of the hep to the Mediterranean, la a war !lh England Italp map strike one of her first Mews at Gibraltar, fit ssrrender map be asked as an alternative to a German blitzkrieg seme war oracles claim. -a, MORE WAR: Big Push - With the sum deadly technique Bat has humbled Poland, Scandium, Luxembourg, The Nether-had- i and Belgium, Adolf Hitler tuned from bis triumph" la Flan-de- n to launch a mifihtp drive Brough central France aimed di. rectly at that nations Full. capital. Ai usual this technique included thousands of hoops, supported bp the and highly feared dive bombers, strongly armored tanks sad the mightiest of heavy artil-ta- he well-equipp-ed now-frmo- y. Fun strength of the drive struck it the heart of the French line which ketches across MO miles of French oO along ths Somme and Aisne rives, This line of troope, under the ooomand of Gen. Maxima Wey-Pa- d, was hastily bolstered while Bs Nails were busy with their at tick on the British and Frsnch faces escaping from the Flanders battlefield vie Dunkirk and the Eng-b- b channel. But if the allied been line of battle had bolstered it was done with faach soldiers and not British Tommies. ' For from London Moweaqua, HL, four men, said to be members of a religious sect known as "Jehovah's Witnesses," re rescued from a group of aroused citizens who threatened alviolence after one of defamed "Old legedly Glory." mors injured and immense property In Waxahachle, Texas, 90 mem- -' damages Inflicted. The French retaliated with bombings of s Munich ben of e religious sect wen Jailed attempting distribution of litmotor; factory and military bases after erature described as cf "a pacifist near Frsnkfort-on-Mal- n. nature. Officials wen forced into PREPAREDNESS: action after a deluge of phene calls objecting to tha literature which Tragically urged nonallegiance to drive to build government As ths nation-wid- e 19 military defense! went forward with every governmental agency straining to tha utmost to bo help- Mr, Dies Goes South ful, Gen. George C. Marshall, army Hep. Martin Dice, chairman of the chief of staff, told congress that house committee investigating manpower is the army's "tragic activities, aimouncvd that And ha added it is the shortage. will be extended to take his probe that in a large measure, only thing in all of tha 21 American republics. can produce Immediate results. Earlier ha had said that procure- This newsoverreflects congressional mem report! reaching ment of equipment was the most teat German fifth colum-- 1 " Washington his when testimony vital need, but are active in South America. before a house appropriations sub- nista Mr. Dies laid that hia investigators committee was mads public It was gathering information learned that he believed the army's are already Mexican border. the along of maximum peacetime strength Closest cooperation with other 280,000 men would be unable to hanWestern hemisphere nations is bedle "emergencies stemming from the ing sought he added. current International situation." While he opposed suggestions that Indelible citizens military training camps be Voters at the Republic at Panama expanded to meet army personnel turned out in record numbers to demands, he favored a plan, now Dr. AmuUo authorized but never used, whereby elect as their Arise for trained could be young next president three or four months and then be This election had allowed to go back to their regular taken on particureserve a Thus huge occupations. lar significance of partly trained men would evenbecause of retually be built up. that the the-fou- Short PAN-AMERIC- I" fol-bj"t- bomb-fcdoln- C. O. D. military points, they added. fa fais first o raid about 1,000 How aU this (and the rest iff the at least that many defense program) was to be paid for ia proving a tough problem for congress. For as it now stands the new drive is going to cost in the news U. S. taxpayers soma five billions mainqf dollars. And as tha cost of increases EacacvcH became forces new these taining Pfanfather again as a boy was bom it is estimated that the annual bill Anas (Clark) Kseaevdt, wife for new defenses will he something per-"B- were killed, names youngest i"ovie Nis Executive sa son. Jesepk Bchenck York by a Jury on M counts of " wx fraud. A 1400,000 tax eva- involved, according to the "mments charge. lvctin president of Smith college mothcr-In-laof Charles A. JJBfaCKh. Mrs. Dwight W. Msrrsw sm Urged lmmediste sid to the ?" ssklng that we send them "crything that could help win . "fanfgls against Germany." "fafaesador William C. Bullitt jjjTj Bio secretary of date, Cor-nua dramatlo account of his a Nasi bomb during a Pari. Heavy bombs fell on HI i the building In which he h, s luncheon and one j. mat did not explode struck Mtiii fed of him, be said. Z faiefad in New fed-firan- d in-2- w ll, like 11,000,000,000. Most discussed plan for providing a major portion of this sum is out which calls for a broadening of ths Income tax bass to include all incomes of $800 and up per year. At present the base exemption is $1,000. Genial, smiling, i.Thi thoughts ia this editorial are taken from the June Num". A: ficials were taking no chances on "repeaters" voting. Each voter had to present his identification certificate and have his forefinger dipped in indelible ink. POLITICS: Clear Field As the roar of Europes war becomes louder, its effect upon the American political scene to daily beIn the coming more pronounced. mein, it has been most decidedly felt in the Democratic party, where condiparty leaders feel these war tions wiU surely force" President Roosevelt to seek a third term. It appears that he has the nomination of his party safely tucked sway should ha want it. Paul McNutt has withdrawn from tha opposition: Vice President Garner Is quiet and his boom apparentiff ly has fizzled; Senator Wheelerlike Montana has said, "It looks Roosevelt Still there are many insiders who AGRICULTURE: believo Secretary of State Cordell conpyii will get tha nod, coma Prospects this guessAmid all time. S. vention farmU. for Income June cash out as fact: ers Is estimated to remain at about work this much stands have conditions the same figure for ths month as in International Demo000.000 acplopped the choice of the the past two year-$5- 00, In cording to current reports of the de- cratic party's candidate directly ExecuChief nations the of of agriculture. tha bp partment While prices of several important tive. He ean have the nomination farm commodities have hit ths skids if be wonts it and if not ha can and declined sharply In recent d boy ho wants p,m, tha weeki, due to Influence of war on to make the bid. Until November, the markets, no startling losses will Franklin Delano Roosevelt has ba evidenced currently in the form- then, er's Income. fair-haire- BETTER LATE THAN NEVER. of Utah is endeaWashington. Senator William H. King relief annual appropriation voring to secure an increase in the of those who were taken off relief rolls care take to adequate since the first of May. He also has been pressing for an amendment to the bill which would require that in hiring men be ou emergency army and other defense projects, preference off the relief taken who were during given to those workers month and a half. past Pioneer. Begin it in the American weekly, the magasine distrubuted Sundays LOS ANGELES EXAMlNer.. works. For every 9 000 of Come forth and prove your faith by your can, i you wfll.employ one extra peison-Cyou have over$3000 you and Bowen and Adams and Benmon and. Clark Brother ahead and do it. But yon will not do q say that it can be done. Ghhy and nil of you who taken thal literally, and you are not that much Your word, are not lobe let the doW come. of your brother's keeper. So 1 ed :i with next For Public Ownership of All Electric Power The reduction of rates under municipal ownership is dy no means the greatest or most important edvsntage. the greateee advantage ie in the fact that with the. lowered rates under municipal ownership, the plant is being paid for and at the end of the period for which the bonds run, twenty years or so, the public will own the plant all paid for and out of debt with no more interest or capital charges to pay. The geatest difference, therefore, and the geateet advantage of municipal ownership is the value of the plant which along with lowered ratrs, the public acquires - it may be 9 500,00 or 9 50,000,000, depending upon the eise of the plant and the cmmunity served, under private ownership, on the other hand, the public pays higher rates end never acquires the plant. Pathfinder Polls of but well may go down," said Hitler, take the world in flames with us." What then shall it profit him? to the parting of the ways, and humnity is The question is: Which way shall wc oj roads. at the crooss to go? Shall we keep straight on the decide this generation toward human road of animal competition or make a right turn Animal competion still leads to war, famine, to destroy is now so great that pestilence; but man's power of man's achivemcnts that have all out would wipe ts full use marked man as the most civilized animal large-heart- When death stalked the Mormons. The story of the long trek along the plains and mountains by the followers of a great religious movement seeking a haven in their Promised Land" of Utah told by Joseph E. Robinson, Noted Mormon i' : Public Opinion W We have come happy-go-luck- y, ed well-rea- No Victory by Force of Arms. Spiritual Awakening. Churches Ignore Prophesy -- broad-mind- d and Wilford Owen Woodruff is a candidate for the high office of U. 8. Senator. Ha announced hie candidacy through a gas mask while marching through Main street - yesterday . His platform j&.as . follows: t 1 Peace. 2 Employment 9 Economy And solemn promises to work for thepeople just like Robert M. LaFolIetteand Huey Long did. It takes some co rage to contest with the other candidates, Sen. King, Congressman Murdock and Delbert M. Draper e" to vote as they were being "denied I Just what the right of franchise. he meant wasnt exactly dear but one thing wss evident Election of- U.S. Senator . her of Destiny. DICTATORS OF ONE MIND. All three of the dictators are of one mind and have one objective the destruction of the British Empire. Mussolini's campaign ia clearly set forth by the prophets and what he did and will do could not be set forth more plainly after it has happened. It is the passing of the old older. The Babylonion system of economics which has caused so much destitution, strife and war is falling. Thus the future is ominous for the allies. The prophets show that the dictators will not gain ultimate victory, and neither will the allies be able to wholly defeat the dictators. There is to be no victory by force of arms i thil conflict. AWAKENING SPIRITUAL ie sure for Great Britain then destruction When it looks like ay the prophets, a great spiritual awakening, a nationel repentance, will bring deliverance. When the Israel nations art facing a hopeless situation, Egypt overrun by Italy, and ths enemy in Palestine, then will the spiritual awakening affect every man, woman. and child in the Israel Common wealths, and there will he national and individual repentence and fasting and prayer, then God will show that it is His battle and He will go forth to win the war by bringing overwhelming disaster upon the enemies of Israel. IGNORANT OF PROPHECY What a predicament the people are in. They are left withports out understanding shepherds. AU that is transpiring has been government had aboran has been ignored by tie nipped previewed by the prophets, but it tive scheme to disworld burns. They should while the are who fiddling churches rupt ths election to study the prophets them led and the people and turn the day warned have into an occasion Dr. Arnolfo Arias of faith. The negleet backbone is the very because propheoy for a revolution. of this important phase of Bible teaching has destroyed the In addition, the other presidential candidate, one Dr. Ricardo Alfaro, faith of both leaders and members. This generation to which leader at the oppositionist popular the prophesies are directed is blind, deaf and dumb to all that ' front withdrew his name at the last moment and urged his backers not is occurring. man-mad- came word that fa ths time being France would be faced to bear the brunt of the Ger-Biattack as the English in esesp-- I ths Nazi trap in Flanders, Belgiums capitulation, had Compulsory? bom forced to leave behind From some congressional sources huge fas of equipment Until these cams the prediction that if Germany miliBctd be replaced the British army wins the European war, such could do little to will become compultraining allies tary their help the continent sory. Setting up a training system iff this type has been widely discussed since the Presidents recent frwgj Over Paris ' proposal to give him control of g were only the German and Organized their work on the battle-?- t the National Guard was announced. they penetrated much for- - Reserves It ia argued that under such a plan the troops. For the long Pccted bombing attack on Paris a defense system would prove less costly than attempting to build up a carried out Bvtdently the first air raid was large army of permanent troops. Com.) claims ""lined at the dtp Itself but at Rep. Smithof (Dem., the 1,500,000 youths half that and other military objecJJJfats each year on iu outskirts. Even French who reach military age BcUls admitted that it did not look could be trained and would provide Ifa bombing of an open city" an adequate standing army during their terms cf training. Under such fail they promised to repay p a system these men would receive "jnany, bomb for bomb, their less pay than regular soldiers. much also be directed at stra-- 5 n PER YEAR LUND. Can it be that the United States of Ameri:a is having the issuea of its own liberty, freedom and manner of life for years to come decided on the blood-soake- d fields of France? The life and death struggle going on there is a fight for every principle of freedom that has been cherished and enjoyed here from the beginning principles which it has taken thousands of years to ecun. All the rights every one of them for which the mas-e-a am analyst ihJ 91.50 Editorial ciples of which Americans are Beneficiaries (EDITOBSNaTE-WbeanpIxI-aBS the Published Weekly byC. N.Lund They Are Spilling Their Blood For Prin- Full Strength of German Army Hits New French Defense Line; First Nazi Bombs Fall on Paris an these at New America! A Y iTiulTiT"77L LtfcsClty. UUlu under the Ad of March 2. 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