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Show Age Insurance, So- - iVs I EDITORIALS I .mm r r& t" M Living New Life. A Liberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers ' Entered as Second Class Mailer at the Post Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, Underlie Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. 6 A6 E?nmiC Salvation!ustcome through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. Vol Vlll XNo si" ' ' Uit dress' 217 David KeithBldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, June 30, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. l Some Very Timely Editorial Thought I (This is MUST reading and you should get stimulating ideas and inspiration from it.) Personal Paragraphs Of Interest Citiezns: Read the Ads of the Candidates for Governor n page 4. We guarantee that each one will keep the pre-electi-on promises he makes. Friend Otto O. Oblad, of 134 East 5th South, blacksmith and manufacturer of standard sheep camps, sends a subscription and says he enjoys the paper. He hopes that those in high places who . are crying "wolf, wolf," won't come any nearer succeeding than they did in in I93n We used to neighbor ''I have been a subscriber and a reader of Progressive Op-inion for a number of years. I do not remember a time when the paper contained so many thought provoking ariicles I join with others who voiced the prayer that you live long upon the earth to contend for light nd truth. One regrets that you are not younger because we need you I like you just as you are. Your mind seems blighter and your perception clearer as the years go by. G d bless and strengthen you in your desire to live to make this a better world in which to live. Geo. E. Manwaring. We have recently added three Jensens to our list of Neighbors and these added to the number we had makes quite a few Jen sens. John A. Jensen, of 110 South West Temple, Hans P Jensen of 511 First Ave., and Lars P. Jensen of 137 -- 2 West 1st North. May the Lord mul-tiply the Jensens. with Brother Oblad in the 9th ward and know him to be good man. Neighbor Keen Polk recently attended the National King, dom Convention of the United Israel Fellowship in Los Angel-es and reports that they had some very inspirational sessions The theme was the World Crisis in the Light of World Prophesy. He says he added to the vast store of know-ledge he has on this subject. He will continue to be a voice crying in Zion. We extend our sy mpathy to Mr andMrs.Jo.Lund and Beth of Mt. Pleasant, as they have Teeeived the end news that their husband of Beth, is missing in action overseas, Lt. Irving B. McNulty. Homer Mc dirty is si ill alive and waiting to get to read the book we received from Friend Sylvester Earl. He says Pro-gressive Opinion is the best weekly paper in the state. Elmo Lund, graduate flyer has gone over seas to aid in the big game over Europ eand Japan Capt. Hilt.on Densley, son in-- a w of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Jens en of Sandy, left here recently after a short turlogh, but- his health was not ihe best. He is now in a hospital in Texas HU wife will return home shortly. FROM MANPOWER COM. 55 West Bwdwy. At the. outset of the war there were substantially 40 1 million employed workers in the United States. Today, there are approximately 43 million men and woman on payrolls and 11 million in the armed forces. A Inrge proportion of the men in the armed services came from industry or agricul-Muean- d had to be replaced. Mrs. Emma Fellows of Cor-fu- e. N. Y. is visiting with her cousin, Sam F. Kiefer. on her way home from Texas where she visited her two pons in the service. Mr. Kiefer is up and around from a spell of s''cknes and looking much better. Utah's most persuasive and gifted orator Judge Nephi Jensen, visited the office Tues-day and left some encourage-ment to help the power of the press, Neighbor Georce E. Mar-cha- nt was in Wednesday and informed us that he has been ill for about six weeks and was in the hospital where he under-went an operation He is still very firm in the Democratic faith, and a mighty good man. A PEACE PLAN From Another Planet --Advt.- March 24, 1944 marked the passing of LeRona Martin Wil-son 82, who makes the re-markable claim to have com-municated with other planets. To substantiate that claim she has left behind her material to fill nine or ten books. Accord- - ing to her Uranus is peopled, and has passed through our phases. After the machine age was reached instruments of destruction became so deadly that civilization was threaten-ed. Then a great reformer was born who outlawed war. In her ' writings she undertakes to trace the economic struggles of Uranus from the time it was a warring planet drenched in blood to its present era of peace, power, and enlighten-ment. Mrs. Wilson was the mother of twelve children (all living) who are substantial citizens in their communities. She has 52 (i! grandchildren, and forty great grandchildren. 12 grandsons, 6 great grandsons, and 1 great great grandson, are in the arm-ed forces. A devout woman, she never "tuned in" by any method other than prayer. She testified that messengers came to her in the early morning hours 4-- 6 and read the story of Uranus from history, in a foreign ton- - gue, and then translated it. This gift was enjoyed by her father and her ancestors, the earliest instance on record be-ing that of a progenitor in France just prior to the St. Bartholomew Massacre, who was warned in a dream to leave the country. All' of her children possess this gift to a greater or less extent, and one of her grandaughters is especi-ally gifted. The title of her work is, WAS IT A DREAM? but she " ; said it was more than a dream to her, she knew it was true. L. E. ELGGREN Candidate for State Senator To the People of this Community The next time you write to your fighting man or fighting woman tell him or her what you have done about the Fifth War Loan. f T Y o u c a n S T3 take the JJctlJ I wGeonredroalf Ytf3? Eisenhower 000 4JC that your mm) y Ljjct. manor 'J lmk T rl woman in L ! 1 uniform will W f I iH I be deeply interested. Your War Bond buying is a good 1 to them about the state of affairs in your home. The headlines in this newspaper on the progress of the drive, the items about par- - ticipating individuals, the char- - acter of the Fifth War Loan spe-- cial events all these things re- - fleet the morale back home. ' Do you like to read a sorry ; headline about the invasion fronts. Our fighting forces, made up of individuals with the same reactions to good and bad j as you, will not be heartened to read: "Fifth War Loan Lags." Your silence in your letter ' about your part in the Fifth War Loan will mean perhaps to the recipients. It's up to you to make j your letters cheerful. Write to-- ;' day. Write often. Write about ' your war work, your war sup- - port. Double your best previous War Bond buying record and then shout it to the housetops just to that special service man. THE EDITOR, i sorenson!'"" STATE SENATOR ' LEGISLATIVE RECORD L , r 1 Bills Sponsored ) , ; 1943 Session - j j City Employes' Civil Ser- - a ,- - vice Act, School Employ- - jirtii-t-ees' Retirement .Bill, BilUncludmg he $40.00 Old Age Assisunce Only PostWar Planning Bill introduced during the 1943 Session . , Vote for an Experienced Leg ator (P.id Pollticl Ad' I.? Mm. E"- -' 0 - DONT KNOCK THEIR CRUTCHES FROM UNDER THEM Better Be Kind and Generous to Them On Wednesday of last week while attending the Old Folks Party at Liberty Park we noted some two-sco- re very old men on crutches or leaning on canes to support their worn and bent bodies. What would you think of a strong man who would go about and knock their crutches or canes from under them, leaving them to fall and fare helplessly, as best they could? As these honorable aged were supported by their crutches and canes so are thousands in this "city and state supported by the generous and Christian system of pensions or assistance given by their state and nation. What do they naturally think about powerful reactionary agencies which go about trying to knock this supporting prop from under them? We cannot help holding to the opinion that it is wrong. As long as we" have breath we shall hold that these honorable and deserving aged should retain and have added to all the security gains they are receiving. It is one phase of Christian social evolution. Slowly, but surely, the Master's spirit has filtered into government. THE KIND OF PATRIOTS NEEDED TODAY Talmage Speaks From the Dust The following is from a Mormon patriot, the late Apostle James E. Talmage, taken from his address before the Congress of Religious Philosophies, San Francisco, Calif., July 29, 1915, page 47 in the pamphlet. He was a Republican and Woodrow Wilson, then president, was a Democrat. How we need his patriotic philosophy today. "We as a Church and as individual members of the Church feel it to be a part of our religion and part of our duty to God to be loyal to the nation of which we form a part. Let that loyalty be expressed in our united support of those in whose hands the Lord has entrusted the affairs of this nation. In every Latter Day Saint home prayer should be made for the President of the United States, for his cabinet, for the national congress, for all the officers of this nation, that they may be led to do that which shall further the purposes of God in the advancement of this people 1 PRAY FOR THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC THOUGH 1 rlAVili NEVER PROFESSED MEMBERSHIP IN THE POLITICAL PARTY TO WHICH HE BELONGS. He is to me no member of a political party but the President of the nation; and he requires the assistance and direction and inspiration of the Lord." Dr. Talmage never could have consented to turning the foul political sewers of the country into the channels of the church. m DON'T TELL THE BOYS, Please Don't. Don't tell the boys over there that U. S. women spent $500,000,000 for furs last year and will spend more this year. Don't tell them that the home folks spent $1,000,000,000 for jewelry in 1943. Don't mention that rich idlers crowd the race tracks which pay $65,000 for one winning horse. Keep quiet about the crowds at the prize fights where a pug is paid as much as $35,000 for ten minutes work in the ring. And keep a still tongue in your head about the war profiteer-ing! Today's senseless buying and profiteering may mean breaklines next. Too much talking about these things might make the G. I.'s weep when they look at their $50. But, in spite of this let everyone of them thank God and their good country for all the good things in the recently enacted G. I. law. That law, like all the social welfare laws is Christianity in action. The world has surely moved ahead some since the time of Napoleon when French reactitonaries voted to pay the soldiers $1.20, actually one dollar and .twenty cents per month! And left the wounded, the aged, the helpless to shift for themselves or die, as some few would have it now.- SYLVESTER EARL'S BOOK A perusal of the book, My Life's Philosophy, by Sylvester Earl of Virgin, Utah, is somewhat refreshing in more than one way. Standing in the sunset of life he looks back across more than three score years and recounts some of his ex-periences and gives some of his beliefs and conclusions which are interesting indeed. Of his controversy with some church leaders we have little to say except to advise him in a Golden Kimball way, "It's alright to put your head in the lion's mouth but don't twist its tail." It is rather saddening how they weighed a cigaret against his soul. He speaks of a time when the Mormons were a community of brothers, no rich, no poor, all faring alike. He tells about the United Order and how leaders appropriated the property. He tells of striking oil and how near he came to possessing a fortune. He has controversy with the church on Word of. Wisdom, Priesthood, One Mighty and Strong, etc. The book is well written even though he had very little scholastic, training. A college course would have put him in the first rank of writers. In presenting us with a copy he said: "In remembrance of a friendship that will never grow old, A gift from God, infinitely more Precious than treasures of gold." Thanks. (He sets no price on the b0i but we are sure that a dollar sent to him will bring it by next mail.) World nearing end of old order Don't Stand In Way of New It is the end of the old order, the old age. The old is dying and the new is being born. It is change that is coming chcange in political, social and religious practices and institu-tions. Many conservatives and reactionaries look with con-sternation upon the changing conditions. But change should not be resisted. They should not continue to cling to the wrecks of outworn things and institutions. To bring in the necessary chcanges many old and cherished landmarks must disappear. There must be some disrupting, some smashing, some chaos. The destruction of things and ideas which humanity has outgrown is in process, and nothing can stop it. It is destiny's way, because man will not let beneficial change come in any other way. It is high time that we make way for the spiritual age of man. Humanity must again find itself. Its eyes must be opened to and glow with a new vision. We must begin to reap knowledge from spiritual mines and with it begin to fashion chains that will bind and hold, and make "new armor for our souls." A New Industry for j Southern Utah illlfiP I : '.- - v '. . , . v. !r v ' ' , ' 'if,',' " - t , J , i - tar i ' I View of surface plant of Cougar mine near Milford, which is being opened by Tintic Standard A new industry for southwestern Utah is now virtually assured as a result of the active development policies of the Tintic Standard Min- - ing company. . The mining company has ac-quired the Cougar mine, situated in the Needle Range of mountains, southwest of MilEord and is now encaged in the construction of a milling plant for the production of fluorspar. Development work already per- - formed at the property has exposed sufficient ore to warrant the con-struction of the milling plant which Is designed to treat 100 tons of ore per day. The plant is now nearing completion and production should be under way May 1. While deposits of fluorspar have been known to exist in Utah for a number of years, the program of the Tintic Standard is the first large scale development of this mineral and its development will mark the addition of another im-portant member to Utah's long list of productive resources. The Tintic Standard company up to December 31, 1943 had expended $163,551. S2 in an effort to bring successful flour spar production to Utah. A total of $137,224.78 of this was for development and mill con-struction costs. While much fluorspar is used in the steel industry and enamels, it has found expanding use as a war mineral in chemicals and for fusion of othpr metals and in explosives Political ' How thankful the Republans should be for the New Deal. If they hadn't had it, to criticise the speakers wouldn't have any thing t.i say. Everything they proposed doing is already being done and done well. SOMETHING GOOD FROM THOMAS PAINE Which Would Do Credit to Statesmen Today The soul of that great man, Thomas Paine, was built into the foundation works of our government and we are happy to find that he at one time made remarks like the following: "The duty of man consists of two points, his duty to God, which every man must feel; and his respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by. I believe in one God. The mortal duty of man consists in imitating the moral goodness and beneficence of God." And hear these noble words spoken against war: "Surely there is something in the heart of man which calls upon him to think. Surely there is some tender chord, tuned by the hand of the creator, that still struggles to emit in the hearings of the soul a note of sorrowing sympathy. Let it then be heard, and let men learn to feel that the true greatness of nations is founded on principles of humanity and not of conquest." If there is not religion in the following then where is it? "When it shall be said in any country in the world, my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them' my jails are empty of prisoners, my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want, the taxes are not oppressive. . . . When these things can be said, then that country may boast of its constitution and government." How that should shame us! And here are his other .noble words: "The world is my country, mankind is my friend, to do good is my religion." ... itim THE DENTAL NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE Only a Third Get What They Need As we go about we can't help noticing the thousands of people who need dental work. And then we read from author- - itative sources that only one-thir- d of the people get the dental attention they need. That's in great, prosperous and free America under the "free" enterprise system. If that is the true picture today what must it have been before the war prosperity came to the country, and before government and state assistance came to the aged and needy. What should be done about it? Let the Dental fraternity think out a solution to the problem. |