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Show ' t ' "If thepeople of Salt --JVVV V 8 o VN. VV xLake City live by wTj ) ST ' V V Do not fail to Permanent home. fiifiBiii Qg (iiiHimi p1 Ahumble soldier V I I V v w rIIs 1 which is need 1 H1 ir J. ; of the times- - A Liberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers ; Entered ng Scond Clam Mailer at the Poet OUice at Salt Lake City. Utan, Under the Act ol Congress of March 3. 1879. - G- tHe 'dea that Vo .No. 3V - Econmic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. City AddressJ17 David Keith Bldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday September 1, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. J Some Very Timely Editorial Thoughtj 114.111XXlJ.llJ.iJ,XJJ,Hl.J.J,4.tJ,J,tU.XXHHU,J.i,Hti,Xt.tJ,4.tHtitJ.4.4,X4.J,Xi4.,4.J.J-J.4.4- .j. Personal Paragraphs Of Interest If any of our readers know of couple who have been marr-ied and lived together 75 years please advise us. Mrs. A.F.'I horngren of Kim-- j berly, Ihaho, writes: "I real y have enjoyed your paper very much. I get so much help out of its columns on past and future prophesy We are studying most of them in our class in Sunday School. 1 wish to cont nue taking it. Is the paper published by L. D. S. people? I've heard that it wasn't." Yes, sister; the pub-- t Ushers are L. D. S. people. Thanks for your remittance. American Legion women of Utah have obtained Utah War Finance Committee approval for a war bond sales campaign from Sept., 5 to 19, having as its goal the purchase of a hos-pital service plane costing $125,000 Friend George O , son of George E. Manwanug, is doing things up in Billings, Montana ;' He plays in a baseball club; he has been elected lion tamer of the Lions Club; is associate ed itor of a trade pn per called Tb.3-Poirre-and takes a leading part in a big employe outing. , Mr. A W. Barratt of Logan, is on the list through the court-- ! esy of Friend C. V. Hnnsen of Provo. Mrs Barret, is his sist-er and is 78 years of age. May they enjoy the paper in their declining years. Friend Hol-lerma- n says: "Just one issue of Progressive Opinion is worth the subscription .prce." i ' "Why build your citiees glorious i If man unbuilded goes ? ( , In vain we build the world ' Unless the builder also grows. We are blind until we see ) That in the universal plan l j Nothing is worth the making ' If it does not make the man." STATE FAIR 'I he Utah State Fair, which, j of course, will be tin; best eveT, wiH open Sept. 3 and run until Sept. 9. There will be a varied nrpKrum to please everyone at prices that are very reasonable The great Grandstand Revue will be free daily and nightly to all visitors who p ty tlm sinal entrance fee. The Tooele Ordinance Depot is expanding and is in dire need of 500 munition handlers. A note has come to us stat-ing that Mr. and Mrs. Spencer W. Beasley of California have given a million dollars to a EvangelCol-lege- . They said they were able to do this hecause they always paid their tithing. If tithe pay-ing does that then the bishops had better order a hundred thousand new receipt books. We could hardly believe that burglars were heartless enough to rob one of our subscribers But they surely did it to the Perchon Paint and Wallpaper Co., stealing a good part of the year's profit. Burglars are no respecters of persons. Our siacere sympatny goes to Friends Mr. and Mrs. How-ard Christensen who have been informed that their sonHoward is missing in action overseas. May they soon 1 a u that he is. alive and well and that shortly he will be home to greet them. THE TOW S ND move ment.for a national pension, is growing but it still needs much united support to become law. Get in and help if you want to benefit. i Our good Friend Mrs. Bertha Jensen remembers us and we extend to her our thanks and appreciation She is still poor-ly in health but fighting the batte bravely, patiently await ing the time when she can at tend the. great reunion on the other side. She has lived a food life kept the faith and her reward is sure. To Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Pet-ersen of Kanab, Utah, a son, born Aug. 26, and to-b- named Karl Ali. Congratulations. Mrs Edward R. Mckay, for-merly Lottie Lund.is here from New York visiting with her husband's parents, Pres. snd Mrs. David O. Mckay. Her husband is in the army medical ?(),'P- - Our good old Friend and de-pendable supporter, It M. Brandon of Boneta visited us Wednesday .feeling well and fit. was formed in the taxpayer's own hands for travel, recrea-tion and culture for himself and family. God's system of taxation actually left part of the taxes in the taxpayer's hands. There were never anything on earth to match this system, yet this very system once operated here on earth!" MOST SCIENTIFIC PLAN OF TAXATION Thinker Interprets Ancient Law of Tithing One of the intellectuals of these times is Henry Ford's . man W. J. Cameron. One of his lectures has the heading, "Economic Law of the Lord." He sets forth in eloquent language the order that he thinks should prevail among the people because it was given by the Lord to ancient Israel and when they lived it all was well. In this lecture he sets forth his interpretation of the law of taxation, or tithing, as given anciently. He says: "And now let me show you God's system of taxation, the only scientific basis of taxation known to this ed world. God's taxes are called tithes and offerings. Thev were not based on property, they were based on the produce of property, the natural produce of the land. And even that hardly describes it, for there was no tax at all on a family's living. Let us say that it was only the surplus nver and above a livelihood that was wasu, aim uiau m slio-h- t degree. The tithe or tax supported all public activ- - jti much more than our taxes do. government, religious chin all public services such as law, lneuicme anu edu-cation were supported by the tithe. In addition, a fund ITS GIVLNG, NOT GETTINC "The glory of manhood and womanhood is not to have something, but to be something; is not to get something, but to give something; is not to rule, but to serve. We are too prone to reckon cost in cash. All the raking in of dividends, and building up of mansions; all the swindling and racketeering, all the heartless vanity, luxury and vice, we should think of what they cost in men and women and children; in brain and brawn, and honor and love what they cost in human souls." HAS THE WORLD NOT HAD ENOUGH OF WAR? How Much Longer Must We Trace Its Blood-Staine- d and Tear-Staine- d Path Across the Earth? A great writer has said : "The final triumph will be the union of the nations into one Brotherhood, and the aboli-tion of war." The words are prophetic for on no other basis can humanity expect to build enduring peace. To this end we plead with men to lay aside their little prejudices and join in a militant unity to destroy; once and for all the hideous monster that has so sorely afflicted mankind from the beginning. We plead for salvation from de-struction of all good men, for the protection and welfare of the world's . fine womanhood, and for shielding from death the countless children who should fbe sweeter to life than all else. We plead for security and decent life for the generations unborn. In the name of all that is just, all that is true, all that is sacred and noble we plead with the people to stand unitedly behind the movement now in preparation for peace. If they do not, if they once more close the door to opportunity then a catastrophe such as was never known upon this planet will overwhelm them and the coming generation. Has not the earth been sufficiently tear-staine- d and blood-staine- Has not life been suffi-ciently robbed of its beauty and goodness and nobleness by the monstrous curse of war? Politics. If all Democrats were loyal ' as William Waterfall and Dav-- id Athay the victory would be as sure as sunrise. The big four Republican can- - didates were pictured with thumbs up. And what a study in thumbs it was. They should ', get a graduate Palmist to read them. Wonder if that was a prelude to turning up their toes in November? The Demoerats will have their big platform convention tomorrow.Saturday. May tlipy make a platform that they can not only net in on, but one they can stand on after election Friend J. A. Hess is 73, and wise enough to say that il there is anything worse than a mach-ine Republican it is a machine Democrat. He loves them both li" e the Devil loves his father. He swears we were wrong in saying Utah is in the Demo-cratic column. He pays its j, Demo-rat-ti- c. He says lie may go on the stump and if he does the people will hear something. Someone told him he was too honest for politics.but he won't let that keep him out of it. We are indeed thankful that candidate Dewey and the Saturday Evening Post Ameri- - lj can enough to have no part lj whatever in the underground ; insanities that are going the ' rounds to the effect that Roo- - sevelt started the war. They not only want to kill him but they have a burning desire to dance on his grave. ... MONEY CONSPIRATORS Under a smoke screen of the world currency stabiliza-tion, a group has concocted a scheme to promote an Inter-national Bankers Bank to buy and sell money and so . to control the economic life wages, prices, exports, emplo-ymentin every nation in the world. This is not entirely a new idea, they seek to extend and to intensify this control over the value of our future purchasing power; the newer phase of their conspiracy is to compel the taxpayers to finance the project, to furnish free the gold needed to en-slave ourselves. Our only hope of breaking this Money Power is through Conrgess, who constitutionally' has the sole power "to regu-late the value" of our money and of "foreign coin." That new and better World so long looked for by the suffering millions on earth, will not come CANNOT COME until our insane and criminal Monetary System, together with its legitimate offspring, the capitalistic Profit System, have been consigned to limbo. And this will not be done until the awakened intelligence or the unbearable suffer-ing of the people have forced them to act. C. V. Hansen. m mw WORST THINGS PREVENTABLE "It is bad for men to be rich and idle ; it is bad for men to be ill-fe- d, unhonored and unloved. While we have the idle rich, and a hungry and ignorant poor, we cannot get rid of vice and crime. No man should be idle. No man should be rich. No man should be ignorant, no man destitute. Every man should have a chance to earn the essentials to a wholesome, happy, tem-perate and useful life. Every child should be nourished and taught and trained. Crime, vice, disease, poverty, idleness: all these are preventable." Why a Farmer Should Buy and Keep War Bonds by W. E. Grimes . Head, Dept. of Economics and Sociology Kansas State College, Manhattan, Kansas AMERICAN farmers, more than business group, typ-ify American freedom and Ameri-can democracy. The farmer of America has the right and exer-cises that right to conduct his business and live his life as he chooses. He must and does ac-cept responsibility for the success or failure of his business and the well-bein- g of his family. The pro-duction of his farm, in large meas-ure, is a reflection of his ability and ingenuity and initiative under our system of free enterprise and individual freedom. This is the essence of American democracy. American democracy did not just happen. It was established by long and constant struggle against the forces that would have prevented it. It is a heritage from our forefathers who fought for it. It can be maintained only by con--" tinuing the fight for it. This fight goes on whether we are at war or in peace. It is the constant strug-gle to make democracy work. To make it work, every citizen must do his part as a member of a freedom loving, freedom acting people. Democracy works if we make it work. Today there are forces that would destroy the freedom of the American farmer and his family and the freedom of every other person who loves and cherishes our democracy. These forces stem from three sources. First are those outside the borders of this country that are attempting to tear away the very foundations of our democracy and to make farm-ers and all other businessmen the henchmen of dictatorial powers. Under such a rule the job of the farmer would be to carry out the orders of the dictator. It is to pre-vent this that the boys from our farms and cities are fighting on farflung battlefronts throughout the world. This answer to this threat is it shall not come to pass. Within our country, forces are ever seeking to undermine the de-mocracy which permits freedom loving farmers to conduct their Jarms in peace and with profit. These are the forces which encour-age inflation with its soothing but deadly effects. Price controls, ra tioning of scarce goods, limitations of credit, repayment of debts, and the purchase of War Bonds are some of the weapons being used against these enemies that strike from within. These are the weap-ons of the home front. The third source of forces that tend to destroy American democ-racy are those which undermine the stability of our farms and other businesses which typify so well the exercise of American de-mocracy. Our democracy can be no stronger than its component parts. If the business stability of American farms is impaired, our democracy totters. Under our sys-tem it is the responsibility of the farmer to maintain his own busi-ness, and most American farmers do so. They are repaying debts, avoiding new excessive debts, and buying War Bonds from their in-comes. The income to American agriculture in 1943 was more than nineteen billion dollars the high-est in all history. Income in 1944 probably will be equally as large. It is to be expected that a sizable proportion of this high income will be invested in War Bonds invest-ed in the democracy which makes it possible for the typical Ameri-can family farm to exist. American farmers have been buying War Bonds and they will continue to buy them and to hold them after they are bought. They appreciate democracy. The Amer-ican farmer is deeply and practi-cally patriotic. His patriotism is the kind that says little but does things. He has a vision of the day when the boys will return from foreign battlefronts, when the threat of foreign dictatorships is wiped out for keeps, and when stability within our country is as-sured. And he realizes that the financial stability of his own farm business plays an important part in this struggle to defend, to main-tain, and to strengthen democracy. So he buys Bonds and holds them pending the day when the pur-chasing power which they repre-sent can be used to further strengthen the American farm of which he is a part, and thus his farm may play its part in main-taining a strong and vigorous de-mocracy in the America he loves. U. S. Treasury Department W "' A BRIEF ANSWER TO SOME WHO DISAGREE Read This About the Leaders and Ponder Every Word. -- . Now We.Alone Say It, But Soon AK. Will Say It, and Others Get the Honor Some few do not agree with what we said last week abbut the leaders, Roosevelt, Churchill and Eisenhower. Wp should have included Stalin, as much raised up for his mission as the others. One says they were raised up by the Devil and are fighting to maintain their Capitalistic Imperialistic system. The very opposite is true. They are fighting, unknowingly, to destroy that system root and branch, and that is why the Lord has set them to their mission. Take down your Bible and read the story of ancient Babylon, so wicked and intolerable that the Almighty de-cided to destroy it. He called one Cyrus the Great and set him apart as "My Servant" to do the destroying. So the wonderful city, Queen of the World, was completely laid waste. But the system was revived and has persisted to this day. Modern Babylon, which means the present commercial, religious and political system, is as bad as it was anciently, and worse, and is ripe in iniquity. Long since the divine word has gone forth that it must be destroyed to make way for the New Order and the New Age. And to this end the leadecs and the enemy leaders are working out their mis-sion. No more spiritual or moral progress can be made under the old system. Of course the leaders, American and British, aim to save the old svstem. In this they will utterly fail. They can no more saye the old system, with its all-ti- record of wrong-doin-g, than they can empty the ocean with a spoon. They are being driven by an irresistible force to a destiny that they know not of, and they will be surprised when they see Babylon swept from under their feet and the path made straight and clean for the great day of Promise. The best of the bedrock fundamentals of America may be saved but all the awful evils of the old capitalism will vanish like burning stubble. If God is not in this world affair then the sacred books have lied and every prophet has been an imposter. We know that He is in it and through it and over it. It is the biggest thing since the flood the 'great finale, the cyclonic passing of the world's accumulated wrongs. O FOR THE MEANS TO ENABLE US TO SAY SO VASTLY MUCH MORE TO LAY BEFORE THE EYES OF THE PEOPLE THE GREAT VISION, THE PANO-RAMA OF THE MEANING O FTHE MIGHTY EVENTS OF THE WORLD'S HIGHEST TIDE OF TIME! BUT, ALAS HOW VERY FEW WILL HELP US TO DO IT! Manwaring Speaks Up The News expresses deepest sym-pathy for families of soldier boys but works unceasingly to destroy Pres. Roosevelt, soul and body, encourag-ing as'sination. deceiving the people, to satisfy the base and implacable hate of one man who dictates policy-G.E.- Lesson In Patriotism. BUT CURSES ON This KIND The head of the great Doug las Air Corporation was asked; "What will happen to your plant when the war ends?" He replied: "We'll close the damn shop up!" That would turn iu,t on the country 130,000 em- - ployesnnd stop dead still a $7:C00,000 a week payroll. Tl at would be nothing to the company as it has made about a billion from war contracts. If the returning- service men depend on such as these for help, God pity them. O Greed, nnd Money, you tire nil of hell and what's in it. The.Crcator will destroy His creation before He will let you rule man any longer! ; j The New i TOWN SEND PLAN BILL j I i In Congress j PROVIDES f not convicted of crime-- All Americans. kjng J, J B Allien, between 18 ,nd 60 JJX Ht living by illness, being crippled, deaf, & gets benefits after 6 months disability-unde 18, ; m; C All mothers who are sole support o children ? -- d service men. This will give all children a good hon. J il Meetings City & Co. BldgesdayEven.ng, 8 p.m-R-I We Vote for Those Who Support This Plan j; (Paid Political Ad J Ten per cent of your Income in War Bonds will help to fj build the planes and tanks that will insure defeat of Hit-ler, and his Axis partners. Alfred Sorenson. Progressive Jeweler 75 East Second South Jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAKjD CITY, |