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Show We stand for and promote 4 (CV A. A. an economic system that VTT . Ec" HHHS iQl jT A rTTr iMfl1l1Wfl ' (uD) 1lfHDIfH ifiTilT' J'that promotes the good H V DV VT 'X fel V . r W V VW of all and makes for true l I V lH sJH I j and real Brotherhood. V-- NT tai af- t- J A Liberal American Weekly Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers. " Entered as Second Class Matter at th. Post Office at Salt Lake City. Utah, Underthe Act of Congress of March 3. 1879. 77. 7. Devoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development Vol. VIII, No. 11. City Address, 217 David Keith 1 " ! Kldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, March 31, 1944. Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. Some Very Timely Editorial Thought BELIEF AND UNBELIEF By C. N. Lund "There is no God," the scoffing cynic cries, "The Bible is a mass of myths and lies; Religion is delusion, born of fear; Let science reign and reason rule us here." A yearning youth, with faith and hope aglow, Stands listening in, and wonders if 'tis so; A doubt is planted in his mind, and grows Till on life's way he unbelieving goes. A mother, mourning for a dear one dead, And hearing what the hopeless doubter said, May wonder if celestial realms there be Where little children live eternally. A passing man gives heed, then Godless lives, And to his household all his doubting gives.. The social poison spreads and reaches far To many souls, their plodding lives to mar. What seed is sown what dark and deadly seed, Against poor human nature's greatest need! How does it profit thus to kill life's hope And leave the soul in starless night to grope? O youth, there is a living God above Whose reason for your deathless soul is love! O mother, bearing all your pain and God grief, keeps your child, who knows no unbelief! O man, there is a God, a future life, As truly as there's light and mortal life! The sun, the stars, that swing in heaven's blue, The earth, the soul, bear record it is true! DRESSING UP MILADY Editor Progressive Opinion: What six billion dollnrs can buy for milady. What woman wouldn't love an ensemble like tin's? The money spent each year for intoxicants would provide 60 million American wom-en with a budget of $100 eacli for clothing. The average per son has no conception of what six billion dollars would buy Translated into six different items dear to the nverape woman's heart hen; is wh .t six billion dollars would buy; 500 million new hats at $5 each, 200 million pairs of gloves at $3 a pair. 200 millions pairs of hose at $1 per pair, 325 million boxes of candy at $1 each, 100 millions handbags at $5 each. 250 mil-Io- n pairs of shoes at $7 50 a pair. Total $6,000 000,000 These figures are staggering! --C. V. Hansen. Some people complain and criticise. ; Let them know this: They soon will see times that will make the present seem like the seventh heaven. Utahns.put the Red Cross Drive over. Give your dollars to a cause that most nearly squares with the mercy and goodness practised by the great Master; We always have a prayer and a God bless you in our heart for the boys on the cruel war fronts. They are helping to prepare for the world of which we have always dreamed-helpi- ng to make life decent enough for the Master to come into. Bless them every one. m- - WHAT A RECORD OF DEPRESSIONS IS FOUND IN AMERICAN HISTORY Is it not a sad commentary on so great and good a country as the United States, with boundless wealth and resources, that so much of its history has to be told in terms of depression financial losses, bankruptcies, suffering and even riots? Verily it is. Fourteen depressions in 150 years averages one in every ten years. One of the worst was in 1837, when there was almost universal bankruptcy. Another bad and vicious one was in 1857, when the railroads went bankrupt and all but three or four of the banks closed their doors and when there were bread riots and much suffering. Another exceptionally bad one was in 1896, the year of the famous Coxey Army march on Washington. Hundreds of thousands lost their life's savings. Then came the disastrous depression of 1929 which is too well known to readers. These and many smaller ones make up the fourteen depressions of U. S. history. Why do they happen? Are they not man made for purposes of profit to the few? We believe they are. The money system and the competitive system are responsible. Shall the future be like the past? Must a terrible depression follow this war as it has all others? It is time to do away with the causes that make depressions that cause such upsets and so much suffering. THERE IS SO VERYMUCH GOODNESS IN PRESENT DAY GOVERNMENT SOME OVERLOOK IT Do people ever stop to ponder ana weigh all the goodness that there is in the present day government of their country? All too many look only at the faults. It is like looking on the sun only to see the spots and complain about them. To us the government is the most Christian that has ever been extended over a nation on this earth. - Never" before was government administered in the interest of that class of people who have been so shamefully neglected in all past history. It has listened to and heeded the cries of the poor and served them. It has been mindful of the widow and the orphan, the lame, the blind, the sick and all the underprivileged. Across the centuries we hear the compassionate voice of One who stood for these people, worked for them, walked with them, and, as we live we believe that He has entered into the spirit of government in these times. WEEDING OUT DEAD THINGS IN INDIA. WHAT DOES IT MEAN? What does the invasion of India by Japan mean? Will it be for the worse or for the better? Do you know that in India one-thir- d of the 400,000,000 people never have enough to eat from the minute they are born until they die? It is true. Two hundred million of the people in that unhappy country go to bed hungry every night. Countless young people borrow a small sum of money when they marry and pay interest all their lives without ever paying off the principal. Such a condition has autocracy, imperialism and free enterprise forced that people to submit to for a long time, and there will be no relief for them until the war levels all ranks, classes and conditions.' The change must come. IF PEOPLE ARE TAUGHT AND LIVE CORRECT PRINCIPLES THEY NEED NO LAW When the majority of mankind come to the conclusion that it is best to live a law of love instead of living laws of hate and strife and competition, they will be living in a state where they will need little if any law. The only reason for law today is that people too many of them, are still living and groveling in the jungle of animalism. There are laws because people do not know how to maintain the proper relation between man and man, in short, how to love one another. Look around you and behold the 'fine and wonder-ful electric light effects, and then compare- that with a squalid, pioneer log cabin where one little candle fluttered and gave all the light. Mankind, we believe, will come into a con-dition where the comparison between it and the jungle life they live, for the most part, will be as great as the com-parison of the two systems of light. They will look back and wonder how and why they were stupid, ignorant and prejudiced enough to continue so long in the conditions that obtained before they reached the New Day. WHAT COUNTS FROM NOW ON At the present stage of conditions the old sectarian and political ideas count for little or nothing. There are now but two forces two issues and mankind must choose one or the other. Either the world will live for many years under bar-barism, infamy, injustice; or it will live under a New Order of liberty and justice for all peoples. .These are the two choices. SODOM AND GOMORAH EST HOLLYWOOD From the evidence in the Chaplin trial, and from many other sources, is it unreasonable to assume that such is largely the life in the motion picture world? People have a right to expect something finer and better from those who entertain them and those who lead in so many movements. Character and nobility of soul, whence have you fled? Dear "Neighbor" Lund: We're going to get some good ideas out of this campaign if we keep our eyes and ears open. Candidate Willkie gives us a good one. He says: "The Republican party, since it is out of power, is entitled to make legitimate criticism of and take advantage of errors of the party in power." Fine. We don't object to that, but keep the criticism "legitimate". "But " says Willkie, "it cannot win, or be entitled to win, by presenting nothing but a bill of errors and complaints." And Willkie might have added for good measure England's Min-ister of Information, Brendan Bracken's caution to Church of England newspapers: "Although this is not exactly a function of government, this point has been well put by various American newspapers which have observed that ecclesiastical newspapers ought not to dabble in politics." Geo. E. Manwaring. Personal Paragraphs Of Interest Our very good friend William (Bill) King of 2b7 East 4th So., and a guardian of the City & County building for years, was recently operated on at S It Lake hospital and has been very ill for several weeks. Ho w- -i ever, he is gaining and will soon be liomeagain. We trust that he will have a complete and speedy recovery He is profuse in bis praise of Commissioner Boden and the good treatment lie has had while at the hospital. All men should rush out to barber Howard Christensen at 1874 South 5r,h East street and he will preach you such a sermon as you never heard be-foi- e. He was in and preached to us until the walls shook and the ceiling cracked. He quotes more passages of scripture than theauthorsof the bible believed they had put into it, In one ward they set the F. B I on hiiu and he preached a two- - hour sermon to them and made tliem understand that there were things in the bible th y! had never dreamed of. Instead of taking him in they paid hi into stop quoting scripture to them. ' The Utah Slate Old AgePen-sio- u group will hold its annual convention Thursday, April 6; at 41 Post Office Place, and will elect state officers for thej ensuing year, l he members are expecting to be addressed - by Governor Herbert B. Maw. LattimeJ Mr. and Mrs. D. A report that their soldier son David was married last week in Sau Francisco. We wish every leader would secure lor us at least one new subscriber. We will send the paper every week lor four mouths to any iif.uie you send us for 50c. Or, we will find tlit uames if you will send Uie money. See what you can do. Mrs LeRoy W. Irish has just had a visit from her brother who is in his 31 year inlhenavy Oue delinqent came very near to paying his bill this week. His Intentions were good but as he stood before us lie reached into his pocket and felt the silktn long green his heart, puckeied up and he got iiis five dollar bill only half way out and let go of it. As he went out the bill caught on the door knob and it was torn to shreds. ''Damn the .uck,'' he said, I ought to hav! paid that to the editor, now bad luck will follow nie and the Devil'll take me in the end." A brave country editor once said his most, delinq i)t subscriber was in church dis coursing on the Golden Rule. Monday morning lushed the office to beat the k'r out him, believing he meant tlii'in personally. Political Items The Democrats will not hold any love feast for Lawrence Nelson of Murray. After lift-ing him up and bringing him to local fame he abandons them in the time of their need. We doubt, if the Republicans will do as much for him. They have plenty of good wheel horses who have stood and pulled throughout the years of defeat. Is it any more wrong for a pre-sident to have three or four terms than it is for a senator or a judge to have six, seven or eight or more terms? Not al all There will be a bonfire of bonds tomorrow when the county pays off its indebted-ness on I he City & County Bldg Will some one tell us just how much interest has been paid We know it is more than the t original debt. he legislature is in session. They should feel honored that they I ave a state like Utah lo represent, and service men like the Utah boys to make a law for. As Oklahoma went so will go the nation, unless Lawrence Nelson's oral thunderbolts turns the tide. But we fear he will be like the ant telling the elephant to get out of its way. Please pass us two fickets co the Jefferson Day banquet at $25 per. Of course, they need the money as they ca, 't win in "the 'districts "without " work and " ji' work costs noney. But. we doubt if Jefferson would lot the people pay $25 to $100 a plate in his honor, were he living-Bu- t money makes politicians and politicians win elections. ? ' A" Sen Murdock good work for home state and the West. Case of W.L.Grover and 1 0,000 Other Poor People While the Church Welfare setup is a grand and commendable plan so are the fine government security plans which wisely take in the whole country We are for the poor, the unfortun-ate, the We could not be otherwise. Those who have plenty and revel in luxury cannot sym pathize withyhem, or even be just and merciful unto them cannot und-erstand them as they should. Those who have never eaten their bread in the shadows of want and sorrow can-not sense the situation of the poor. If the Capitalistic system waa what its special pleaders claim, or if the Lord's economic plan was set up there would be no poor, no Thir ty centuries ago the prophet Amos proclamed that the Lord was the God of the poor and those who were in bondage. Men have hardly reached that standard even in this latter day. Take the case of Friend W. L. Grover, with an honorable family name reaching back to the pioneer trail of '47, a former bishop and high counselor, father of a fine family. He has helped build state and nation. At one lime he was worth $35,000 of which the money lenders stripped him clean. Consequently in his eight-ies he and his good wife faced the dark gulf of want. Where should he turn? He soon saw a rainbow of hope shining from a Christian govern mnt and a Christian state, which not only spoke the words of the Master but put them into practise by giving him a monthly assistance check which keeps the wolf from his door and hi Ips to smooth the path of life m his declining years. There are some ten thousand other Utahns like unto him. And now he and the others are called upon and asked to give it up! He makes answer, in effect as follows: "I do not feel to do it. It would take away my freedom and my agen-cy, I am satisfied and believe I am right in abiding by the law. I love the gospel. It is a very part of my being. 1 have committed no sin and feel that I am right before the Lord. Can it be possibible that it is wrong for an American in need to take leg-al assistance from the government and right to take it (rom a chnrch? No-- 1 his is the hardest trial of my life, but which 1 believe a 1 cannot give up that God of love and justice has inspired my c untry to give." The tears fell down his cheeks as he arose to go This seems cruel to us We cannot understand why men far afield from the fine have to go so things of the spirit and cause people to weep and mourn and tremble and tear. Rather should they scatter joy and gladr.eis among the poor whom Jesus took into His fold as His very own. Finding New Mines " Becomes More Difficult ? V f , Tap - S Silver King, one of Utah's early producers; Discovering them becoming more difficult. The future of the mining industry is largely dependent upon the suc-cessful development of small mines, and the performance of adequate development in the producing areas. Since the development of small mines has been comparatively dormant during the past decade, virtually no new ones have been .opened up and there are evidences that several of the major producing districts have passed their peak period of production, due in a meas-ure to the absence of sufficient man-power to perform necessary devel-opment during the war period. Mines are "wasting assets." Their ore bodies are eventually worked out and mining operations are sus-pended. If the industry is to per-petuate itself new mines must be developed, and it is conceded that the finding of new producers is be-coming increasingly difTicult. The obvious surface indications have been explored and the finding of new ore is becoming a science. Owing to the importance of min-ing m Utah, citizens are becoming concerned over the future of the industry. With the cessation of hostilities ther-- will be larger quantities of copper, lead and. zinc mined and in the hands of the armed forces. If this is .turned loose upon the market, mines will undoubtedly be forced to close down until the surplus is consumed. Two proposals have been ad-vanced for necessary rehabilitation of the industry. One is the freezing of stocks of metals in the hands of the government with the cessation of hostilities and the creation of a governmental stockpile of metals as a reserve against any future emergency. This would present an opportunity for producing mines to "catch up" on development. Secondly, encourage the return of venture capital into the develop-ment of promising prospects and the development of new districts for future metal production. OfflACan Find For Not Yi Jfp J Upping Your Mj$jmW Bond Buying Will jfe? Please Hitler PI The World's News Seen Through - The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily Nevsgptr Ti.e.y .nd Ins.ru and .It, -E- ditorials Are. Features, Together with the WeeKiy "'"fc the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. r 1 2.00 Yearly, or $ 1 .00 . Month. Price f Section $Z.60 I ear. Saturday Issue, including Magazine 25 Cenu. Introductory Offer, 6 Saturday Issue. Obtainable at: READING ROOM CHRISTIAN SCIENCE 702 Mclntyre Bldg. i Salt LakeCityl BONDS OVER AMERICA Typifying the old time ' copper miners of 1890s Miner s Memorial stands a huge concrete, copper -- covered figure ?f near Bisbee, Arizona, symbolical of Free (is Labor. J,vf ; ;..VJK; J.J Mines of conquered i Jrr Europe still provide iS5-?,- - Hitler with war mate- - rial and only by resist- - jry ing to the death can hmmii these slave miners free themselves from their master's shackles. Buy Extra War Bonds "Let s an Back the Attack," with War and Hold 'em Bonds. Alfred Sorenson Progressive Jeweler 75 East Second South jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAK.5 CITY. New Baha'i Program. The Suit Lake City Baha'i Assembly will continue its pub- - lie "Conversations" on its pi in" ciples for A New World Order ench Thursday at 8 PM, in the Hogle Foundation , Room 506 Scott Building. The schedule is: April 6, "Religion Must be the Cause of Unity; April la ' The Foundation of all Religi-on is One;" April 20, "A Uni-versal Language, Universal Education;" April 27. 'A Spir-itual Solution of the Economic Problem;" May 4, "An Intern-ational Tribunal, Universal Peace.'- - You are cordially invited. There is no chargo.-A- d. Legal Notices NOTICE OF STOCKHOLDERS' MEETING Notice of Stockholders' Spe-cial Meeting of the U. S. Metals Company, to be held at 207 East 3rd South St., Salt Lake City, Utah, on Saturday, April 8, 1944, for the purpose of amending Article 8 of the Con-stitution and By-La- so as to read: The limit of the capital stock agreed upon is $100,000.00, di-vided into 2,000,000 shares of the par value of Five (05c) Cents each, and to transact any other business that may prop-erly come before the meeting. Called by the Vice-Preside- nt and the Secretary. O. W. Merritt, Secretary. Last Pub. Apr. 7. i' t' I.'. |