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Show ' A Liberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers . Entered as Second Closn Matter at the Post OHice at Salt Lake City. Utah. Underthe Act oi Congress ol March 3, 1879. dea ECOnmiC Saivationm"st come through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. V i" Vlll' Mo ' uvAdld ress' 217 David Keith Bldg. " Sugarhouse, Salt Lake Cityi Utah, Friday September 29, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. SOME PERSONAL 1 Friend John C. Quinn of Ba-salt, Idaho, writes: "I like your paper and the way you talk a man of ideals, and right ideas Best wishes." Thanks and regards to you and Mr. I.' H. Porter. Friend Newel K. Young was in Saturday and we had a good long, interesting talk with him He rocently lost his good wife He is 67 and has been a teacher Friend Mrs. Carl Petersen of Ogden visited us one day last week. She was recovering from a week's severe illness. E. Lynn Reed of Midvale has been placed on the list by a good friend and we trust that he will enjoy the paper and get in piration from it. Howard Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs A. H. Lund, was home from Ann Arbor during four days of last week, where he is doing very well in his studies. Just prior to his com-ing he underwent an operation for appendicitis. Neighbor Ada Collins wns in to learn how the world is run. The world runs itself perfectly. It makes its revolutions without the least bit of friction. But man makes a big mess of things for 45 years. 5 years in public schools and 40 years in chnrch schools and seminaries. He has helped the Lord considerably in populating the earth as he is the father of 19 children, 16 living. When we called him a good man, he said, quoting Pal iner: ' To bt a good man! Ah! It is more than half of life. Bet-ter miss wealth.fame, greatness and even learning than to miss goodness ' He would rather be a true friend than to be a priest, president, orator, schol-ar, expert or millionare. Friend George Greatereaux has renewed. We met him when he was on his way to the Sun-day morning meeting of the C. I. O. He had his family with him and he was just as in-terested in that meeting as any church goer is in his meeting. The rights of labor are religion to him. Mrs. A. H. Lund was taken quite ill on Friday of last week and has been confined to the hospital since then. She is recovering rapidly Owen Barlow. 56 East V So. has been placed on the list by Israel Barlow and is a welcome addition. 1 Additional I Friend Mrs. Margaret Hyde of Logan writes: "Iappreciate the pnper very much. Wish I could send a big contribution to help in your noble work. I ask God's blessing upon you and your noble helpmate and spare you a long time together, to bless each other and so many other people." i HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE TO ENTER A BETTER ORDER? Someone has asked us, "How long,' Mr. Lund, do you think it will take society to enter into thekind of world you picture?" Well, of course it will take time, but not so long a time as some people believe There are many reasons why spiritual and economic progress is so slow. Here is one, and perhaps the best reason. The system that prevails among men is virtually saying to preachers and teachers, somewhat as follows, speaking, we fancy, from Wall Street: "We understand that Moses was opposed to interest, profit, debt and private ownership of land, bur system thrives on these things and we grow rich, so we don't want you to tell us anything about Moses. We understand that Christ adopted the ideas of Moses and added to them the spirit of Love and Brotherhood, so we don't care to know anything about Christ. The presence of Christ in Wall Street would make it very uncomfortable for us. Your Christ will not fit into our profit systemjj Your Bible would be out of place in our business houses, ou attend to your business of saving souls and we will attend to our business of making money. Lead the people to heaven on Sunday and we will lead them the rest of the! week. You teach them on Sunday how to get the best of the devil and we will teach them the balance of the week how to get the best of their fellows. Teach them th Golden Rule on Sunday and we will teach them the rule of gold the rest of the week. You teach them on Sunday how to PRAY and we will teach them the balance of the week how to PREY. You spiritualize them and we will materialize them." ONE OF THE WAR'S TRAGEDIES Of all the tragedies of war time there is one that stands out boldly and sadly It is the tragedy of the lost talent and genius that goes down to death in the conflict. It is heart-breakin- g to see millions of youths with talents which might have blessed the world go down to wreck and dust. There are those who might have blazed new trails in science; those who might have filled the world with new melodies, new poetry, new song, new philosophy ; those who might have become saviours to society; who might have gone far as great statesmen, great educators, and great leaders along many lines of the world's work, all lost in the dreamless sleep of death. What a tragedy to the world's society ! WE SAID NOTHING ON THE TRACTION SALE We had nothing to say on the sale of the Traction lines which has caused so much stir. We felt that there was little chance of any furtheA progress or a lessening of exploitation on the part of the home company. They had exploited to the limit and given as little in return as they could get by with. Any new company coming in would more likely give better service and, in time, possibly lower the rates. With this hope in mind we said nothing; bad as the sale seemed to be. BETTER THAT PRESS WAS HONEST As for us we would rather the press was a little less free and a lot more honest. An' honest press is what is greatly needed in this country. The dishonesty is so apparent in so many instances that it makes one despair of improvement. Hate! Hate! Hate! We met a g d man, a well-kno-churchworker, who said: "There is more hate in Utah against the president and his government than anywhere else I can cite you to some '"good Christian" men who are teach-ing their children to hate and despise-th- e president." - AUSPICIOUS HOPE "Let us most earnestly pray that the future historians will record that out of the fire of total wa America emerged with a faith stronger than any she had known before.' Gethsemene led Jesus of Nazareth to Calvary. But it did not lead Him there without a Hope far more profound and certain than any human mind has ever known. So may it be with us." America should have its soul relighted and by this war. But has she? Already we are in Paris with new ideas of exploitation and preparing to con-tinue the old system. We have not yet suffered sufficiently to see the light and turn into the better way. HOW ABOUT IT NOW? In the beginning, a special prayer was written for Hitler by Baldur von Schirachy as follows : "Adolf Hitler, we believe in thee. Without thee we would be alone. Through thee we are a people. Thou hast given us the experience of youth. Thou hast given us the name of Hitler, the most beloved name that Germany has ever possessed. We speak it with reverence, we bear it with faith and loyalty. Thou canst depend on us, Adolf Hitler, leader and standard-b-earer. Thy name is youth. Thou and thy young millions can never be sundered." How about it now ? C. V.Hansen. He Talks Religion. I have s'aid many times that there is more real religion in one copy of Progressive Opin-ion than in all of the Salt Lake Dailies combined. Sol won't be misunderstood! let me Jiast-e- n to explain that there is a world-wid- e difference between Real religion and the so called religion of our times. C. N. Lund has the REAL STUFF. Geo. E.j Manwaring NATIONAL GREATNESS "No nation or people has become great in all history unless it was inspired by a fundamentally religious ideal and moved by a dynamic faith. Nor has any nation or people remained great after it lost its faith." Are we as a nation likely to remain great when we have turned so far away from faith as we have ? There are many civilizations, great like ours, which sleep in the dust because they lost the faith and followed after Mammon and unrighteousness. - - 1 POLITICS J Our phone has been ringing with questions about Governor Maw's remarks on bureaucracy. You may love your enemies, governor, but don,t feed them. U. S. politics has run amuck. We're hounding our officials like ihey hounded Jews abroad The candidate for senator on the Socialist ticket in Colorado Mr. Bohn, says: "A healthy contempt for any law that con-flicts with conscience goes way back in our history. I am glad it survives among us." Does it? It is strarige what prank's the mind will play: Dewey imagin-es he's prosecuting gangsters. "Whom the Gods would de-stroy they first make mad." And next comes the mad wom-an Luce, whose family's great wealth has mnde it so aris-tocratic that it bows ouly to its gods. Voters sliould watch the pap-ers to see who's paying the big money io campaign funds. Can it be that the big $25,000 fund raised for the campaign of one man is for the good of the peo-ple ofUtah? Wish we had President A W. Ivins with us again. In 1932, when Pres. Grant was in the hospital, he was in charge of church affairs. He gave notice that none of the high officials should take part in thai cam-paign except Reed Smooi ihe candidate. Tims the precedent of 40 years was broken and for lack of the usual support the senator was defeated Some-thing needs to be said in this campaign. When you, Mr or Mrs. voter, eome to enter the voting booth, no man, not even God himself has a right to dic-tate your vote. It is said that Joe Bu h and Porter Spraynozzle have come to a parting of the whvs over politics. Joe just couldn't fol-low his psil Peter into I lip curip where he now is t n jnu, s ing that he is content n rcmnin with the great unwashed mtny of commoners and hn lie pas tures there are still plenty green. SUCCESS - A Worthwhile Poem Success in childhood I was told, Meant laying up vast stores of gold; A rich man was my hero then, Although he landed in the pen. In youth, my ideas of Success Had altered somewhat, more or less, And I thought one who reached the heights. Like Lincoln, studied hard at nights, And dreamed vast dreames beside a fire i If tb success he did aspire, And some day, without accident, He'd be the nation's president. In young manhood, my thought had changed, And up and down life's ladder ranged; To be an actor, author yes, A doctor, banker, spelled Success. . The years slipped by time turned the page, And found me close to middle age; I'd won renown, and garnered wealth, , But now to me, success meant health. I traveled everywhere to find That boon of youth I'd left behind, And now, as toward old age I plod. To me Success means finding God. James Edward Hungerford CHILDREN WILL MAKE WORLD OF TOMORROW If the world is to be a better place tomorrow than it is today it will be made so by the children, and con-sequently they must be led to imbue the spirit of the new world and the new life with all their hearts and souls. They should be given everything that society can give them, If this nation does once more allow them to become the "Lost Generation" then it is not worth saving. We must give children amusements fitted for children, pictures spe-cially made, musicals to suit their age, lectures they can understand, all free. We must give them the right' kind of schooling and make it free to all from the kindergarten to the University. It will pay. Only one class in this country should be privileged the children. w- A thundering blast 1 at our national phobias A fighting book that fights with facts. A brilliant and devastating aimed at ,he fears ,hot y''" 1 bradside ' y I obsess our national life: V, I Fearof entangling alliances I i ' rfA I of En9land and R0SSi I 1 ljjff I of revo,u,ion I hhf7uhji The Senator from Utah makes 7JriP all four fears are vividly clear that I 5t I baseiess and dangerous ,hat to I J Freedoms we must JjJi attain the Four I - first eliminate the four fears. f'? Loaded with cold logic and horse X " sense, THE FOUR FEARS is a clear- - nn nn nalys'is of our muddled wor!d antidote to outlook ... a powerful UlftJLS cynicism and defeatism. mm CMS Elbert D. Iftoma by Senator 50 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE. ONE KIND OF "FREE" ENTERPRISE Investigations have brought to light one kind of "free" enterprise which is one of the worst practices known. It is the loan shark business. Down in Texas they found that honest working men who needed a little money were charged all the way from 120 to 1000 on small loans, and some of them were all ruined by it. There were a dozen different devices in connection with the loans that were as devilish as man can make them. That's how men prey on their fellows for profit. There are some phases of life insurance that do not look so good, but of course, it's "free" enterprise. The enormous profits and the way they are handled are spoken of as follows by one competent to speak : "The quick assets, about $22,000,000,000, is a menace because of the breaches of trust committed by men of high reputations, the payment of exorbitant salaries and com-missions, the control of legislatures, and by the practice of deliberate and profound deception of the public." STATEMENT OF THE OWNER-SHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCU-LATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACTS OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912, AND MARCH 3, 1933 Of Progressive Opinion, published weekly at Salt Lake City, Utah, for October 1, 1944. State of Utah, County of Salt Lake ss. Before me, a Notary Public in and for the State and county afore-said, personally appeared C. N. Lund, who, having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor and Man-ager of the Progressive Opinion and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management (and if a daily paper, the circulation), etc., of the afore-said publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, as amended by the Act of March 3, 1933, embodied in section 537, Pos-tal Laws and Regulations, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addres-ses of the publisher, editor, man-aging editor, and business man-agers are ; Publisher, Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Salt Lake City, Utah. Editor, C. N. Lund, Salt Lake City, Utah. Managing Editor, C. N. Lund, Salt Lake City, Utah. Business Managers, C. N. Lund, Salt Lake City, Utah. 2. That the owner is Cecelia P. Lund, Salt Lake City, Utah. 3. That the known boldholders, mortgagees, and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securi-ties are none. (Signed) C. N. Lund Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day of October, 1944. (Signed) Earl Jackman (Seal) (My commission expires July 16, 1948.) |