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Show ; V- - We stand for and nromote fc f.Cr Jy I Cr- - x1"" -- "V k a an economic system that V fri .mm StMnmt 111101 of all and makes for true fk ji I and real Brotherhood.' r"J - V" Mi 1, A Liberal American Weekly C. N. Lund, Editor . EotTed as Second Claw Matter at the Post Office at Salt lake City. Utah. Underthe Act ot Congress ot March 3. 1879. " " Devoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development y01 yjjj ' ' 7 ' 'y Address 217 David Keith BIdg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, March 3, 1944. Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. Personal Paragraphs " Some Very Timely Editorial Thoughts j Of Interest Neighbor E. H. Williams of 1344 Gilmer Drive, was in the other day and told iu a few things about his family history as a matter of information. He is 84. He is descended from a sturdy Welch family which lived under the common that-ched roof of the time. They came to this country in 1832 and settled in Davis county where they built the same kind of a thatched roof house they had in the old country, and that very house became the first church building in Kays-vill- e having been donated for that purpose. He has had a varied experience and is living out his days in peace and quiet-ness, having long ago done his share in building a common-wealth. J. A. McCarthy , a friend from the auld sod, paid us a visit Monday and showed that he has faith in our works. He ad-ded bis might to end all wars during World War I and is sad-dened to see the boys at it again. He is a good man and his government is good to him. We have had few better friends, if "any, than Mr. and Mrs. Frank W. Penrose. And j we have appreciated them Mrs. Penrosecame from a prom inent family in St. George and has always been prominent in Democratic politics in Salt Lake and is at present executive ex-ecutive secretary for commis-- l sionerHoscoe Bnden Frank is j postmaster at Camp Kearns He is a son of' that grand old churchman Pres. Charles W. Penrose who truly belonged to the nobility of both church and state. He ha3 always liked politics but it must be the pure and unadulterated Democratic brand, no mixtures; no counter-fiet-s. He looks to the president as a true political and spirit-ual guide and is strongly for a fourth term. If St Peter should offer him a pass to one of the many mansions be would say before accepting it: "I will take it on condition that it is sur-rounded on all sides by all V e good Democrats of the past and present." The good Saint Peter has been interviewing several of our Neighbors lately, among them William (Bill) King, who has been ill for a couple of weeks and went to the hospital Mon-day. We are anxious that he omes through safely to live and enjoy life for a long time. ' Thomas Hepworth, father of of Mrs Kenneth Larsen, died on Wednesday of last week and the funeral was held on Tues-day of this week. Mrs Julia Lund Olsen of Mt. Pleasant, came to Salt Lake Sunday to help ce'ebrale her parent's 45th wedding an-niversary and will spend the week here visiting ' Where Barren Rock . Becomes Fighting Metal if :lf V Vs'' i ''''1 'VS . js : a . i f;v1j Inside the Utah Copper pit at Bmgham where new production records have satisfied war needs. Hitler and Hirohito will not be exactly cheered by what haa been done and what is being done at Bingham. Coming at a time when this coun-try has reached peak production in all needed war materials ia the an-nouncement that copper is no long-er a critical metal; that certain substitutes are no longer necessary. This means tnat production has exceeded consumption, an accom-plishment that looked hopeless shortly after Pearl Harbor, when demands for the war metal were swollen far beyond all previous production limits of the nation's copper mines. At Bingham copper mining iB really big business, business done on a large scale, as the Utah Copper mine produces approximately one-thir- d of the nation's copper. This one mine alone produces more cop-per than Japan and Germany, the super empires, together. Sweeping all obstacles aside this mine has increased production far in excess of even the most fantas-tic peace-tim- e records. Prior to the war a yearly production of 350,000,-00- 0 pounds of copper per year was considered large for the Bingham porphyry. Now it is nearly twice that figure. Getting back to the "bigness" angle of Utah Copper, it must be pointed out that a huge mountain of e copper ore was known to exist at Bingham by early pioneers. But for nearly 40 years it was considered valueless and early prospectors tunnelled Into Bingham Mountain in search of other metals. The great copper deposit, averaging 1 per cent cop-per, was of no economic value then. Not until men of broad vision, capa-ble of organizing and financing a company to maintain production on a large scale, did Bingham moun-tain become a resource of great value. Thus, a mineral deposit, unworka-ble for economis reasons by indi-viduals and small operating com-panies, became the source of a working industry when operations were consolidated into large operat-ing units, thereby resulting in mass production and the low cost neces-sary to meet the low grade charac-ter of the ore. It would not and could not have been developed by the expensive and spasmodic cam-paign of prospecting within the scope and power of a small operat-ing company of limited capital. Before the e .. copper mountain was brought into success-ful production, several million dol-lars had been expended in develop-ment, testing and in the construe-- 1 tion of large milling plants. Millions of dollars are spent each year in their maintenance. All of which lead3 to the conclu-sion that it is great to have big industry. i SOMETHING ABOUT WAR, THE AGE-OL- D SCOURGE OF THE RACE We abhor war as much as anyone. It is, in the main, a barbarous practice which has persisted since man began to walk the earth. A thousand battles have been fought where men are now fighting on the continents of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and one wonders if the ghosts of the dead in each of these do not arise and talk with the ghosts of those who are dying today. Each and every time the silent soldiers have been told they were fighting for freedom. What waste! What destruction! What woe and want and tears! But there have been wars which served good purposes. Had not Christians gone to war at the battle of Tours the West would have been a Moslem and not a Christian world. Every liberty that Americans enjoy was carved by the sword of Washington in the Revolution. The Union was saved and slavery abolished by the armies under Lincoln. Today men are again given an opportunity to fight for a permanent world peace. The soldiers are doing more than their part. But will statesmen and politicians do their part or will they fail as they did after World War I? Some say force cannot command peace, but let them know that while men depend solely on human aid the security of society rests squarely on force. Take away the police forces of the country and there would be anarchy and chaos. When packs of hydro-phobic dogs are at large what else but force can conquer them? When insane men come with their firebrands to burn homes, and with intent to rape and murder can anything but force stop or conquer them? Many of those talking against war talk only against their own country, not against the monsters in Japan and Ger-many. If the prophets have written any truth into the Bible it is this: The United States of America and the British Empire constitute the Lord's battle axe in the present con-flict, and they will win eventually, for truth and freedom. Political Items Mrs. Hazel Black has written In burning letter to Sen. Bark-- i ley which should sooreli him and the chair he sits in for his stand with the greedy against the needy. She tells him what he should be told and says she thanks Go he is not from her state. She has the courage. Reactionary true-to-for- m pol-iticians are opposing coopera-tion and will, if they can, undo the whole splendid plan. And if they get power they'll break up labor unions' The battle cry of the Progressives should be Beware the Reactionaries. People must plan their homes and their buisness; states must plan their schools, their public buildings, their water systems, etc; the nation must plan its battles of death and destruc-tion to the point of perfection, but, according to reactionaries, it must not plan its resources and their deyelopment and how to square them with human needs. They call the planners crackpots and place them on the lunatic fringe. They are afraid planning for the public good might slow up their ruth- - less race for profits. ' VML ROUJIG r vJatA 1 Your money goes into battle every time you invest in War Bonds goes up to the German lines in the form of tanks, planes, asanult boats as pic-tured here in the Mediterranean area. Success of our troops depends upon the help they get from the home front. Bullets fixed yesterday won't win tomorrow's battle. War Bonds bought last month won't pay for our next offensive. Give your dol-lars action: Buy More War Bonds. U, $, Treasury Deportment ' IT IS THE GREAT SOULS WHO HAVE DEMANDED CHANGE Among the falsest words ever published are these: "A common symptom of an inferiority complex, or of personal failure, is the desire to change the social order." The truth is that those who have had the desire to change the social order have, in the main, been the spiritual philosophers the prophets, the seers, the poets of the ages, and were it not for them and the glorious pages they have written into history most of us would still be in the cave-ma- n state of being. A band of slaves with a great leader, coming out of Egypt, asked for a change and eventually got it in a civilization which produced the ancient prophets and the Bible, and the lineage out of which came the Christ. The people of Greece asked for a change which resulted in the Age of Pericles where human intellect reached the loftiest heights ever at-tained. Jesus. Christ demanded a complete change of the social order and humanity, will yet flower into that change. Elizabeth Fry asked for a change in the hell of prison life and created better conditions. Florence Nightingale demanded humaness and mercy on the battlefields and it was granted through the institution of the Red Cross. Washington and his colleagues demanded a New Order of the Ages and wrought it with their brains and the sword. Abraham Lincoln de-manded a change in the social order and abolished slavery. Joseph Smith demanded a change in the order of religion and lo, new and eternal truth was made known to men. The names of those who have demanded changes and who have been instrumental in blessing the race are legion. They have been the truth-giver- s, the torch-bearer- s, the angels of light, the watchmen on the towers. - The Baha'i Meetings The Salt Lake City Baha'i Assembly announces a new series of programs entitled "Conversations on the Princip les for a New World Order" to be held Thursday ,Mar.9, 8 pm, in the Hogle Foundation; Room 506, Scott Building. The sub ject Thursday will be "The Eliminntion of Prejudice. 'Prof Elmer Smith, Florence Lillien-da- hl and Hazel Robertson will speak.Earnest Hirahara preside commenents and discussion will follow each "Conversation." The public is cordially invited. No charge. Adv Will Their Work Be Done When War Ends? . V v Wis f, i I t ' . - . i f n - t' ! Above the maze of problems fol-lowing in the wake of the cessation of hostilities, the spector of unem-ployment stands as the most im-portant to be solved. While the winning of the war is the first endeavor, states are begin-ning to look into the future and give serious consideration to jobs for those who return when the war is ended. Utah is vitally concerned, probably more than many states, as the influx of war workers into his area has been comparatively large. For many years prior to the war, metal mining was the state's lead-ing industry furnishing employment for nearly one-hal- f the population directly and indirectly and furnish-ing some business for virtually ev-eryone and a market for products of the farm. The effects of mine pur-chasing and mine payrolls was and 3t ill is felt in every hamlet in the state. During the war period thus far mines have been affected as all in-dustries by the shortage of man-power. The mines have found it necessary to place available man-power on production, leaving de-velopment as a secondary consid eration. Hence sizeable quantities of the state's known metallic re sources have been mined. If the life of one of our greatest industries is to be perpetuated, a pound of ore must be developed for every pound mined. When hostilities are brought to a successful conclusion there will undoubtedly be large quantities of copper, lead, zinc and other metals in the hands of the military. If these stocks are allowed to flood the market there will be a collapse of the metal price structure and subsequent closing of the mines, ac-companied by widespread unem-ployment. By freezing the metals on hand when the war is over, and maintain-ing a reasonable price structure for metals, orderly rehabilitation can be accomplished. The number of workers can be augmented, develop-ment work caught up, the state"s resources brought to a normal basis and business and industry within the state maintained. The stocks of metals thus acquired by the gov-ernment will not deteriorate and will stand as an insurance policy against any future emergency. The following verses from Oscar Wilde's famous poem, Reading Gaol, have done wonders toward prison reform in England and America. They are published by request, i FROM THE BALLAD OF i READING GAOL I know not whether Laws be right, i Or whether Laws be wrong j ' All that we know who lie in gaol ' Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long. But this" I know, that every law That men have made for Man, Since first Man took his brother's life, And the sad world began, But straws the wheat and saves the chatf With a most evil fan. This too I know and wise it were i If each could know the same That every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame And bound with bars lest Christ could see , How men their brothers maim. With bars they blur the gracious moon, . ' And blind the goodly sun: I And they do well to hide their Hell, 1 For in it things are done That son of God nor son of Man Ever should look upon. Oscar Wilde. 4 THE POOREST AND THE MEANEST MAY BE SALVAGED It is our belief that if society were properly organized and every agency and resource could be utilized to the limit for human welfare we could change the weakest of the weak into strong, worthwhile human beings, and we could win the criminally inclined to the path of rectitude, especially if the conditions that make for crime and criminals were done away with by a sane economic system. Here are some cases. A boy turned criminal and went from bad to worse until he was sentenced to a long term of imprisonment. In prison and out he was declared a natural born criminal, incurable, incapable of being reformed, given up. He was beaten, starved and thrown into the solitary dungeon to rot. But in the cruel fierceness of the dungeon a light dawned upon his mind and he became a changed man. He was released many years before his time and is now one of the best writers and speakers before the American public. A boy in hopeless slavery, cowering before the whip of his master, resolved to get away, learn to read and make something of himself. He became a Douglas. Alexander Pope would have been condemned as unfit physically had some philosophers had their way. Once upon a time seven of the lowest type of savages were about to perish by drowning. They managed to swim to a ship and found a place to secrete themselves. Upon being discovered ,they beheld white men for the first time and became so frightened that they ran and six of them jumped into the water, the seventh being cap-tured. A certain educated man took him in charge, took him into his home, taught him to read, entered him in the local school and finally saw to it that he was graduated from Oxford. He became a cultured and honorable and useful citizen. Yes, the unfit may be made fit and the weak may be made strong. Any one who has the desire and the means and the faith may go out among the poorest of the poor slum people and amongst the ordinary criminals and so far reclaim them that they will become happy, radiant, intelligent and prosperous in fact be made into new men and women, reborn, as it were. . f n fcjr $ a ..... .rv; Not aH the victories are on our side; not all the losses are our enemy's. Here you see barrel upon barrel of good American fuel going up in smoke after a Jap strafing. The boys cannot be replaced but the material can that is, if all real Americans do their utmost in the war effort and buy War Bonds. Make your dollars work for y: Buy More War Bonds. U. S. Treasury Department The World's News Seen Through The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily Newspaper une, o, Free Sensational-- ed-rro -E- ditorial, Are and Inrucnve Features, Together with the weekfloyr the Home. the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper Yearly, or fl.OO M. Price JS12.00 Secnon 2 0 ear. Saturday Issue, including Magazine Saturday Issue. 25 Cenau Introductory Offer, 6 Obtainable at: READING ROOM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 702 Mclntyre Bldg. i Salt Lake Cif-ta- h 3 -- Jm - Alfred Sorenson Progressive Jeweler South a , 75 East Second Jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAKS CITY. COMMUNICATION MORAL OBTUSENESS Editor Progressive Opinion: ' Everett M. Dirksen, (R), of Illinois, delivered a political speech in Boise, Idaho, Saturday night, Feb. 13th, in which he declared that there were 10 forces which menace liberty and equality in the nation today. Mr. Dirksen is a presidential candidate and should know whereof he speaks. I am quoting No. 10 from the press report of that speech: "Moral obtuseness which prevents us from de-veloping righteous anger one of the great forces of good government." We are reminding Mr. Dirksen that this moral obtuse-nes- s which he believes is a development of the last dacade, does not prevent some people from developing an unrighteous hate and hate is not one of the great forces of good govern-ment. Between now and the presidential election in November of ftiis year we are going to be reminded by many political spell binders that we get confused about hate and righteous anger that they are the exponents of "righteous anger" which candidate Dirksen tells us is dead as the dodo bird. Geo. E. Manwaring. Here's Something Worth Looking Into VltL HE f h . "u 'SlT ATTHS ' - KW:W'mXHViT&& - " c.r-- yable: ? ,' VI-- - I'- - '! I'i j ., ,. - Wa8 |