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Show (Jj- ; - VOL. 5 No. FRIDAY, SEPT.19, 194i Published by C. N. Lund $1-5- PER YEAR 34 David Keith Bldg., Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, :TMm Tlhiat'Leai to Moboaraey The Signs of The Times-Dri- ft Of World Events The forces that make for disunity and revolution are now working overtime in America and some of their activities are beyond the borderline of treason. They are dividing the peo-ple preparatory to the downfall of the Republic They have done their worst to break down army and navy morale. They claim to have won many of the police forces of large cities to turn against the go' ernment when Coughlin and his fascists are ready to strike and set up their kind of tyranny. The same kind of a crowd that betrayed, struck down, s Id and delivered France are ready to do the same to America and they will stop at nothing, not even wholesale assasinations. They have "invaded"' this country; they are ready and pre-pared and await the touch of a button to begin. But God help them when they, beginl Add to all this the dark epots and portents on the capital-labo- r front. Mobocracy that will be nation wide is treading on the heels of many current events If one cannot see revolution in the offing he is somewhat blind to the drift of the times The forces mentioned never amalgamate with true Americanism. AS IT WAS WITH MORMONS IN MISSOURI-ILLINOI- S So it will be again in America when the above forces get into action. Rice hatred will again tread the Constitution in the mire. (We saw two of their papers this week and found 'em full of vipers and serpents which, adder like- are ready to sting democracy's administration to death ) Families were driven from their homes and farms and buisness. Buildings were burned. Men, women and children were massacred. Among the noble martyrs was David W.;Pat en, who shouted ?in the midst of it: "I would rather die than live under the rule of mobocracy." And then he passed on into martyrdom. There are right in this city, and in every city, scores who are on the inside, who say that at any moment such a condition will break out against a proscribed race in this city and country. Right in the shadow of F.B.I offices men are planning, and rejoicing at the prospect, pogroms worse, if possible, than those in Germany. You don't believe? Well, we know, as surely as we know the sun shines! But for our effort to warn the nation and help to hcadj off or mitigate it, men will not give dollar. What light we dispense has to come from the thej corners of want and neglect, while millions are spent which only add to and incrase the danger. But. we know this too: Men will lose 'thir millions all of tbem in the com-ing catastrophe. Better spend a little of it no w in this cause. PROGRESSIVE OPINION EDITORIALS By C. N. LUND O SERM N TTE IT IS a modern tragedy that church and social teachi gs have been unable to reach the majority of Americans who are rural and industrial workers. The modern church's ignorance of the needs of the masses and its lack of a program to meet their needs are also symptoms of our failure to recognize the social nature of personality. The individual cannot live unto himself; he cannot be saved by himself. . . The church muat be concerned with the way people make their living because this is one of the chief ways personalities are made and marred. Whenever Christianity retreats from man's material concerns it fotces men to become materialists, leaving them no reason to seek any further for reality. Rev. Dr. John B. Thompson. . Prophesy Re--! duced to Law i Not Guessing . THE NEXT NINE YEARS An Analysis and a Prophecy by Wing Anderson First Printing, July 1938 Prophecy is not guess work. Absolute rules govern all ) things. ' Astrologers of today attempt to forecast events by a method similar to that in use by the ancients but having lost most of the rules and secrets pertaining to the celestial sciences their I prognostications Iqck the accuracy of those of ancient seers. 3 It has only been since the birth of Kosmon or Aquarian J Era and the recovery, by the Essenes, of the ancient wisdom that it has been possible to prophecy as a science and forecast event of tomorrow with assurance. There are three methods of prophecy. The ant and the bee and many kinds of of animals prophesy in regard to approach-- A ing winter. Birds fly toward,tropical regions while the weather Jj is still warm. These creatures prophesy by the direct action of Cosmic currents upon them. They feel approaching changes because the unseen cause is already at hand. Man can learn to acquire the same type of prophecy but when he prophesies by this method, without rules or emulations, he lacks the wis-dom to check and prove the time of the events he senses. To attain this kiind of prophecy, the following dscipline is requisite: To live in the fields and forests and study the action of un-- 0 seen forces upon himself; to eat no fish nor flesh nor anything that comes from an animal; to bathe daily; to permit no pas-- t sion to enter his mind; to abnegate self and love the Creator; " to practice benevolence to discipline the mind to think in any j given direction, on any subject for days if ecessary; to become oblivious to pain. After which he shall receive anointment from one previously attained to seership. L To attain such prophecy is to forfeit sexual powers, to for- - feit appetites, ambition and care little for the opinion of the world. ' it !? Readers familiar with some of the Yogi systems of training, i will find a similarity between the two schools. There is also the type of prophecy wherein man prophesies " by spirits speaking through him. This is done while the med-ium is in a trance and is unreliable for lying spirits may control i him. It is also dangerous, for the medium becomes negative 1 while in trancee and risks the dominince of evil and vicious spirits. It is far safer and surer for the prophet to seek to be-co-one with the Creator, making close observations of cos-J- J mic phenomena, fo in this he provides for the development of all his talents and faculties. All learning,, sciences and relig- - ions are stepping stones to lead man to an understanding of H his Creator. To acknowledge this and to call upon Him con'- s" stantly is to keep open the road to receive His hand and hear U His voice. 01 Some Items Of Personal Interest The editor and his wife were dinner guests of Historian An-drew Jenson and his good wife Bertha Monday evening and spent tnrec very enjoyable and profitable hours. At ninety Brother Jenson is still very ab-ly carrying on his church hip. torical work through which he has done such an immeasurable .amount of good for the L.D S cause He says that his wife reads this paper to him every week and they both get inspir-ation from it. He has incor-porated his family into the An-drew Jenson Memorial Assoc-iation, believing that his family is his greatest fortuno and he is proud of them It's fine to ) ave a neighbor and friend like Sylvester Earl of Virgin, Utah And whet a pleasure we have in finding so much human good as there is in him. He and his good wife have given the norld fifteen children and not one of them has ever been in jail or served the interests in a legislature. Mr. Earl is preparing to pub-lish a book and he is assistin his friend Mrs. Whipple to pub ' lis-- a book of poems, of which announcement will be made later. The fault, with many a leader is that they do not know the common people, and they cannot know the common peo-ple until they touch hearts with them; that not money or high station is the true hu-ra-touch That's what Lin coin and Jesus had. From California comes agood word from our friend Mr. Hy ' rum Hi-nr- who is sojourning in L s Angeles We rank him a being a mighty good man ?nd we trust hat life is mighty good to him. ''Don't give up" he says, 'you are doing a good work in the cause of truth and enlightenment. Give my re-gards to Bro. Keen Polk." Friend W. C. Clos of Mt. Pleasant has sent us a long ar-ticle abo t Russia where he h"s traveled and done much business. He speaks well of ihe agricultural and livestock and other indusrial conditions there. More of this later. Friend Mr A. C. Carlson, the best Jeweler on State St., is al-ways on good terms with this paper, together with his Neigh bor, the Shoe man, Friend Christiansen make a team of philosophers that is hard to beat. President Roosevelt's Enemies Like Lincoln's History repeats itself. The enemies of president Roose-velt are using the very same methods and almost the same words that the enmies of Abraham Lincoln used against him A similar elass of men as tried to hamstring Lincoln at every step are today feeding fat their grudges against democracy's leader and hating him because of personal bias and prejudice. They charged Lincoln with prostituting men and mo ey in-stead of perpetuating the integrity of the country They charged him with incendiary declar tions that plunged the. country into war. They cried out that he was iolating the constitution and that he stoo with those who held the con-stitution as a covenant wth death and a compact w ith hell. They charged that l.e protracted the war in order to f II more graves Ar.d worst of all they charged him with trang to destroy the Union that God raised him up to save They called him ape and monkey and traitor. There is no better way of judging a leader than by the implacable hate and mal-ignity of his enemies, and Roosevelt's enemies are worse than those of Lincoln As in Lincoln's time they are doing the things that led and may lead again to assasination and then like Lincoln, the man raised up for the leadership of these times, will go on to immortality while they go on to oblivion to be remembered as obstructionists and defamers You can't possibly build a fo ndation for peace out of malignant hearts and malevolent tongues Had Christ tried to do it that way His mission would have failed utterly Some Truth About Utah We are reliably informed, from what is said to be the record, that the increase in manufactured articles in Utah for 1931 amounted to $157,000,000, and that out of this employ-ed labor received a little over $20,000,000 On what the labor eis received there was paid to th state as sales tax 1208,940, whereas if sales tax had been paid on theincrea e in manufact-uring the state would have received $21,524,400. about ten times as much money It is also said in the record that in the last ten years 34,700 people-hav- lefr, Utah to secure em ployment or business elsewhere, after it had cost the state someth ing like S3 000,000,000, it issaid to educate them. Isn't it time to do some thinking aboufour beloved Utah? EditoriaT (CONTINUED) do what is necessary and let the poor get thebnefitof homes they can afford to purchase or rent. Why So Little Slum Clearance and Building? There is one thing we are very greatly interested in and that's slum clearence and the building of homes for the people in the lower income groups. Some facts about this as follows: A survey looking toward slum clearance was made in this city and state at a cost of $58,000 of which the state paid only $3,000 and the government $55,000. What is there to show for this money? Some shameful and intolerable con-ditions were found but little or nothing hag been done. The government stands ready to build any number of low priced homes at low rentals or low monthly payment on the purcha-se, but it takes a state law to do it and this the legislatures have failed to do. A bill was passed during the previous ad-ministration but was vetoed by Gov. Blood. Let the state Continued in Next Column We Pass This to the Able Tribune Editor The spirit of the immortal Thomas Paine, it is said, has been abroad in Washington, D. C, and from the dome of the Capitol he read .to his countrymen these noble words from his book, The Crisis: ' It is the object of war only that makes it honorable. And if there ever was a just war since the world began, it is this in which. America is now engaged We. fight not to enslave but to set free, and to make room upon tns earth for honest men to live in." .... m ' 1 V KOSMON CENTER, 3ox 664, HOW. Commonwealth Av Salt Lake City, Utah. . - Advt. Origin Of Townsend Plan Good and great as millions of people believe the Townsend Plan to be, it must be remembered that the good doctor did not originate the plan, but, as one writer puts it, the plan was originate by Thomas Paine During the Revolution he wrote a pamplet entitled "Agrarian Justice," etc. In that pamph-let he proposed the following plan : "A plan for ameliorating the condition of man by creating in every nation a national fund to pay to every person, when arrived at the age of 21 years, the sum of 15 pounds sterling (about $75) to enable him or her to bngin the world; and also 10 pounds sterling per annum during life to every person now living of the age of 50 years, and to all others when they shall arrive at that age without wretchedness, and go decently out of the world." Paine proposed to raise funds for such a pension through an inheritance tax of percent. "It is a right, and not a cha-rity, that I am pleading for. It is proposed that the payments as already stated, be made to every person, rich or pooi . Such persons as do not choose to receive it can throw it into the the common fund." It was his contention that in the course of 3o years 1 generation the bulk of the real and personal property of the entire Nation would have become subject to the tax. In dis. cussing eligibility for such a pension. But Dr. Townsend must be given credit for bringing out a practical plan ready to be used by the people. Why not try it? We hear a great deal about loyalty and patroiism hut 'J! he way that certain people speak and act it would -m that j they don't quite understand the meaning of loyaltv. First to be loyal means to be "True and faithful to one's sovereign; devoted to the maintenance of law at, I order." Second, io be patriotic means, to "Love one's country; and to be zealous in defending and supporting its interests." Those who do not adhere to and govern their lives according to these principles f are not truly patriotic. ,t We wish we might reach all th- - rutins power: and 'lo wealthy people of 'he whole world with a voice like unto thun der and tell them how many millions of plain people there are $ on the lower levels of life who, if iven a little lift of H e right kind, a bit of a life line and some encouragement, would be--" come be aMe to pull through and become as good and useful as any of the more fortunate citizens. It is a Pay your debts, men, es pecially to your newspaper. |