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Show : in lwfeispis.ii PRINTING PUBLISHING VOL. 6, NO. 35 David Keith Bldg., Dial SUGARHOTJSE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, SEPT. 23, 1942 Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR t Stems SadTffnA As Great MenSee ft Its a sad picture that the world peesents, and it is best to look the truth squarely in the face. ''The ship of civilization is not going to sink in five years' time or in fifty years' time. IT IS SINKING NOW!" Wells ''We are witnessing the suicide of a soc al order and our ts will marvel at our madness." Dean Inge in Century "Civilization is approaehing a long winter. ' Geo Santayana. "The historian will write that this most highly organized civil-ization deliberately committed suicide." Mrs Francis Gribbla "We are traveling step by step backward towards paganism." Ferrero. "I contemplate the greatest trngedy for American democracy as I watch her speeding to destruetion"McDougaIl. "We are enteiing a dark age, a period in which civilized val-ues will go into decline and the race be thrust back into the precarious existence of its primitive ancestors," Glen Frank. So it seems, and most terrible will it be. But remember,, all that is and all that will be, are but the birthpangs that precede humanity's entering in to the great Social Order that the Gods have been trying to lead it to for so many centuries V Editorials Well Worth Reaaing.. Bflterread and study these editorials. They touch some of the greatest tuths and will enlighten and inspire you. Try to do something to help spread truth Soul Building It is a great and good work to build a house a home, a shelter against the storm and the cold and the night. But a greater work is that of building up a human soul with the bricks and stones of truth. Men may have houses and lands that make them rich but the true wealth of man lies in the devel-oped and expanded soul. ' AB. , What Will Be Alter The War 1 Many are speculating on how it will be after the war. We j might tell a good deal about this but because it would border 4 op the religious many would not believe it. Let us say thi that the future does not belong to the totalitarians, nor does at belong to the English aristocracy, nor to American capitali-sm. Not by any means. The totalitarians will have their day during the war and will see their finish at the close of the war. The aristocracy that has ruled Britain so long, and kept itself so high above the common people has had its day and will not survive the war. So too has capitalism, as we .have known it, had its day and is doomed to end forever with the war. Political and economic power will no longer be cen-- "j tered in the hands of a few irresponsible magnates of money, I or grafting and corrupt politicians. The future belongs to the common people, a society of free men. working out a social s system which will work out the best social service system the world has ever had, with all the ideal forms of liberty, and t noying the fruits of all the abundance that the earth can be j made to produce i ... m m Air Radio -- World War I I 4" I : ' August, 1917. Army observers and Western Electric technicians stand by at ground station as the "flying radio" goes aloft for the first test of two-wa- y plane-to-groun- d radiotelephone communications. Flying Radio in Two World Wars August, 1942, marks the completion of 25 years of development in the field of aviation radio. The Western Electric Company, which demonstrated two-wa- y radio communication between plane and ground a quarter-centur- y ago and which is now turning' out aviation radio for the armed forces, last week observed the anniversary during ceremonies celebrating the award to the company of the Army-Nav- y "E" award for production. A look into the files of Western Eiectric's engineering department reveals that America had been at war with the Kaiser's Ger-many for barely a month when the Signal Corps handed the com-pany the task of de eloping radio voices and ears for the fighting planes of World War I. Three months later a sputter-ing Jenny (Curtiss JN-4- Train-ing Plane) bounced off Langley Field, Virginia, and began to circle the airdrome. Pilot and passenger were equipped with devices new to the air microphones connect-ed to the first "flying radio." On the ground, company engineers and Army techi.icians huddled over the equipment that made up history's first aviation radio ground station. One of the techni-cians spoke into a hand "mike." There was a . moment of tense expectancy and then the atmos-phere eased as the technician's earphones crackled. Through the roar of the Jenny's motor he could hear the pilot talking. The words that passed between plane and ground and vice-vers- a were probably work-a-da- y tech-nical talk. But though there was ; no "What hath God wrought?" or "Mr. Watson, come here; I want you" to go down in the history books in connection with radio's first flight, the effects of the history-makin- g demonstra-tion were immediately plain to Army air chiefs. Western Electric promptly mobilized for mass pro-duction of aviation radio sets on Army orders. In 1918 President Wilson directed the maneuvers of a squadron of Army planes from a radio ground station set up on the White House lawn. Today, in World War II, the same company is once again mass- - producing aviation radio sets ;v this time in numbers "''cl. dwarf "s to insignificance the output of i, World War I. Today the company's aviation radio lines are matching the output of America's aircraft K. factories. In 1942 every U.S. Army plane is equipped with versatile, compact, rugged radio sets, direct descendants of that first 1917 flying radio. Through them, units of America's fighter and bomber squadrons keep in constant touch with each other and with ground stations. Prayers Were Said In Russia. A few days after Hitler flung his Nazi hordes on Soviet Russia, newspapers informed their startled readers that 12,000 people had thronged Moscow churches on Sunday and prayed fervently for Russia's victory. The Head of the Old Ortho-dox Church, Metropolitan Sergey, Acting Patriach, and 26 priests blessed Russian arms in Moscow Cathedral. In a call to his flock, the Patriarch said: "Hitler is an enemy of the people, an enemy of Christendom. We appeal to believers to rise in defense of their country." Behind this call to Russian Christians lies a story of a free religious tolerance and an end of the anti-Churc- h excesses which marked the early period of the Soviet regime. Unfortu-nately, the position of religion in the U. S. S. R. has too often been obscured by political passions which have made difficult any objective study of its past and future. James May--nar- d in the Protestant, Jan. 1942 J Challenge to Poverty Today we realize as we never d d in peacetime how im-- ', portant an all-o- ut production effort is to our national strength We are going at it like men killing snakes. We are building J the machines with which to wipe the tyrants from the face of j the earth. Our young men are fighting like tigers to keep this this a free world. Their courage will bring us final military victory at the end of which w shall have the greatest pro-ducti-of raw materials, the greatest industrial plant, and number of skilled workers in all history. All this will exist side by sidewirh intense want throughout every land. The bri ging of that, gap will present the greatest challenge any generation of young people ever faced Milo Perkins Moral Law for Nations May I ask you, then, to believe, as I do most devoutly believe, that the moral law was not written for men alone in their individual character, b t that it was written as well for nations and for nations great as this of which we are citizens If nations reject and deride that moral law, there is a penalty, which will inevitably follow. John Bright WHAT A PITY For years and yeari Americcan missionaries preached Christianity in Japan, trying to get the people to go to heav. en. What a pity they didn't succeed. Now its up to the U. S. to show them the way to hell And it won't be over a paved highway either. . B .... The Real People Pres. David O. McKay has joined our army of Friends and Neighbors and it is with some pride that we record bis name. For many, many years that man has been to us an almost perfect example of intellectual, moral and spiritual attainment. His spoken and written words are always of a high order and very inspirational, and he has a way of embsllishing his ser-mons and articles with choice poetic quotations. How earn-estly and eloquently he has pleaded for olean and upright living throughout his fifty or more years of distinguished public service. A prince am-ong men; a kind, tolerant, sym. pathetic and prophetic leader in Israel, whose life is proof that "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple fait'.i than Norman blood." Two poor, aged men, caring for themselves with old age assistance in their lonely and somewhat barren littie home at R 241 E. 6 So., have been separated by death, Wm Halli-ida- y, 84 remainin and Charles ' Ipson, 91, passing away. He died Sunday night and will be buried from the Deseret mortu-ary Wednesday a 1 p. m. Neighbor A. W. Parratt, one of our braintrusters, keeps his name right close to the top. If you want inside information on the war see him. Mrs. A Shaw was in the oth-er day and renewed acquaint-ance. If only all women were as patriotic as she is She is all out for the great cause of the country She has been with us a long time and we want her to continue with us till we come to the end of the road. Congratulations to Dr. and Mrs. John T. Miller of Los An-geles, who celebrated their gold en wedding last Sunday. There has been veins of gold in their lives and they have given free-ly of it to enrich humanity not gold of the realm, but the gold of the mind and the heart and soul. True wealth is made up of the things of the spirit. Mrs. Hilma Sorenson, Friend and Neighbor for years, visited us the other day and showed her appreciation. She is a good kindly woman and is deeply interested in old age and hum-an welfare and doing very good work. Mrs. Emma Dalby of Levan came to Salt Lake last week to greet a new grandson born to her daughter Jewel. Mrs. C. L. (Petra) White, who is confined to her home with illness, was tendered a pleasant, birthday (.arty last Sunday. II O Ncilsen of Idaho Falls, has joined the Good Neighbors and expresses himself very phi-- i losophically. He says: "There is so little independent truth and opinion today that what little is available should be treasured independent in the (Continued or page for) Agin' the Goverument The newspapers which devote their editorial pages to sev-ere and constant criticism of the government and engage com-mentators who do the same, and those who go about cussing over everything that is being done to win the war, better be-gin to realize that if they keep it up it may soon happen that they will not have any government to kick against. They are dividing the people, breaking down morale, slowly turning the key that unlocks the doors to civil strife and to admit the en-emy to our mainland. Then they will learn a thing or two. Better had editorial pages be devoted to the great world upsurge for economic freedom of the common man, to the striking off of the shakles that hold three-fourt- hs of the race in bondage ignorance and poverty. To reach the people and really help them there must be something more than shouting down from high pedestals. Not Long Shall Souls be Owned In the heat of the slavery abolition debates in this country Charles Sumner arose in the senate and made a great speech In it he used these noble words: "Say that you own the surl, and the moon, and the stars, but do not say that you own a human soul." For his stand he was beaten within an inch of his life. Just as we thought slavery was at an end, a condition present itself under which more human souls are literally owned by dietators and ruling aristocrats than ever before. Everyone knows how it is in the conquered countries. In India there are some 500 princes of the realm who own 95,000,000 human beings just like men own horses and cattle. All these peop e are slaves under cruel and greedy masters to whose pockets flow all the fruits of their toil. From the cradle to the grave they are like dumb, driven beasts, al ways hungy, never having any of the comforts of modern life, uneducated, untrained, undeveloped. The day will soon be gone forever from the earth when one human soul will own another, when every slave will be free, and every life will partake of the abundance of mother earth andevery life will be intell iccually, morally and spiritually developed as it should be. C. V. H. Philosophises We are informed by some of the grocery merchants that a number of people are grumbling and some of them almost get angry when they call for some things that are off the shelv-es and cannot be replaced. Those individuals who ever they are better pipe down, and get it through their heads that Am-erica is in a desperate war. There will be many more things yet that will not be on the shelves before we are through. But whatever we may have to do without will be of little consequ-ence, if we can only win the war and preserve our freedom. Suppose it would happen h(rj in the fair State of Ulah, wl a has happened in Poland, and other places It would, if the Hitler regime should win the war. Better get on our knees and thank God that we are living in the good old United States of America. Don't let us loose it! The Utah Sugar Beet Association, with 6000 members, has called upon all of them to vote against the proposed Chain Store Tax No. 2. at the November election. And we ask our readers to do the same. 'The Mghtrn ' THERE WILL BE PEACE AGAIN Because of the heart Of the 'common man, And mother love's part In the wondrous plan, There will be peace again. Because of life's truth, And humanity's prayers, And the soul of youth As it fights and dares, There will be-peac- again. C. N. LUND. i in :' i' !i' n i!' 'i 'i 'i r The only kind of social order that will bring un nding prosperity and peace to the world must be constructed, to quote Edward Bellamy, "on a human heritage, which is an estate in common, essentially indivisible, to which all human beings are equal heirs. Hitherto this community and equality of right have been disregarded, the heirs being left to scramble and fight for what they could individually get and keep. Thanks to the growth of human intelligence, a world in revolt testifies today that this insane injustice is to be tolerated no longer. Unless humanity is destined to pass under some tit is but one Present inconceivable form of despotism, there possible. The world and everything that is in it will ere of all and adm long be recognized as the common property inistered for the common benefit of all." |