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Show it I ' ....... A Liberal American Weekly Dial """ Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers Second Class Mall., at Ih. Post OHic a) Salt Laic. City. Ptah. Und.ith. Act of Congress el March 3. 1879. D d h that Ecn0miC Vol. VIII, No. j7e City Ad.!dress, 217 David Keith RSlralrlvationmst come throug7Th Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. i g- - bugarhouse. Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday November 3, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. I The Story of Garfield mi aim , s i . - ,? J, - v4 The Garfield smelter, which treats approximately one-thir- d of nation's copper output is one of country's leading reduction plants and one of Utah's greatest Industries. (Zditor'i Note t This ti the first of a series j of eight crlcles titled "The Story of Garfield.") Garfield, Utah, situated on the north point of the Oquirrh range of mountains virtually in the shadow of historic Black Rock on the South-ern shore of Great Salt Lake, was named after James A. Garfield, twentieth President of the United States. Essentially a smelter community, Garfield constitutes one of Utah's industrial communities supported by the smelting works of the American Smelting and Refining Company, which today Is pouring approxi-mately one-thir- of the nation's copper Into the war effort. Treati-ng production of the world's largest open-c- copper mine, Utah Copper, together with' other ores, the Gar- - field plant Is one of the world's largest copper smelters. Organized in 1899, the American Smelting and Refining company first erected a smelter at Murray, Utah, and then acquired a number ot smaller smelters operating In Salt Lake valley. With development of the Utah Copper ore body the Garfield plant was constructed in 1905 and equipped with six rever-- beratory furnaces and three copper blast furnaces, together with neces-sary roasters and copper converters. With the advent of flotation and the depletion of high-grad- e direct copper smelting ores, copper blast furnace practice was abandoned In favor of reverberatery smelting. Improvement In the reverberatory smelting practice, together with the advent of basic lined converters, expanded the production that could be economically treated in a cop-per plant and today the Garfield smelter not only reduces copper concentrates but also handles a large tonnage of e sulphide concentrates and crude sulphide ores, together with tonnages of silicious gold-silve- r ores. The smooth, precision-lak- e opera-tions at Garfield causes one to al-most overlook the magnitude of the plant, and the industry it represents in Utah. As an example, average yearly figures show that 1,500,000 tons of ore and concentrates are smelted at the Garfield and Murray plants of the American Smelting & Refining company. This tonnage originates in Utah, Colorado, Nev-ada, Idaho and California, bringing Utah closer to the West as a smelt-ing center. In smelting this ore 5,800,000,000 cubic feet of natural gas are consumed. - A total of $3,100,000 is paid, out In wages and salaries to approxi-mately 1,200 workers. Expenditures for supplies and equipment amount to $2,000,000, and $2,500,000 is paid to railroads for freight on ores and supplies. (Succeeding articles in "The Story of Garfield" series will appear in this publication.) ' "Now at last we are setting ourselves seriously to enquire t whether there should be any lower classes at all: that is, whether there need be large numbers of people doomed from their birth to hard work in order to provide for others the requisites of a refined and cultured life while they themselves are prevented by their lverty and toil from having any share or part in that life. lhus the ' might and right of the social problem with the immensity and intricacy thereof are matched by the honesty and tne searching subtlety of the new conscience. what the candidates say, the We fear that no matter Old another battalion of death m Guard is banking on the senate to head off any world organization for peace. The Lodges and Borahs and Johnstons became responsible for every death in this war, and the Refolds and the Wheelers and the Nyes will become responsible all that shall die in a third war if the people do not rise and make their servants do their bidding. s s. BEWARE OF PEACE SCUTTLERS One hundred thousand Earl Browders would not be a fraction of the menace to the rising' generation of Ameri-cans that 33 isolationists in the United States senate can be and will be unless the leaders of both major political parties lay aside their personal animosities long enough to expose and discredit nationalistic isolationists who would barter security from war to obtain the profits of interna-tional commerce. The mercenary mind of Judas Iscariot never functioned with such avid and secret satisfaction as do the wits of modern money changers who infest the temples of our liberty and the sanctuary of our spokesmen. Editorial in San Francisco Tribune. HAS THE WORLD PROGRESSED MUCH? Compare Burning of Bruno With Intolerance Today For believing and saying that the earth' moves, daring to think for himself, and speaking opinions against some narrow religious beliefs, that great man, Giordana Bruno, was captured by order of the ruling church in 1600. There are those who would be as intolerant today. The Inquisition threw him in prison. There they tortured him for seven years. The suffering he endured will never toe told. When death stared at him, he was brought forth for trial. The living skeleton of skin and bones was wrapped about by chains. He could not walk, was dragged to the judgment seat before the Pope.- There he was cursed, damned, declared a church heretic and sentenced to be burned in the courtyard in front of the Pope's residence. No time was lost in executing the sentence. If delayed, natural death might claim the victim. The stake had, before sentence, been prepared. The fuel had been gathered and blessed by the Pope ... all was ready. Emaciated Bruno was bound to the post of death. The sacred faggots were arranged close about him. The priests blessed both the fuel and the flarrTe carrier, then ordered the carrier to execute his mission. He approached, torch in hand. Bruno watched him as he came. The priests carried an immense crucifix in front of the victim and and held it there as the angry flames ate their way to the shriveled form. An enormous mob of insane, demented, ignorant fiends mocked the thinker and chanted hymns as they milled about the 'execution blaze. Through the flames, slowly the quivering body was seen to shrink. It sputtered, crackled and burned. Only the chains that had bound the body and the ashes, their vengeance could not destroy, remained. A great light, a beacon of the year 1600, guiding an ignorant world toward intelligence and reason, had been put out . . . Bruno was dead. JUST ONE OF THOSE AWFUL BUREAUCRATS There are many great and successful men among the Bureaucrats. Here is just one, picked at random. His name is Frank Banks. He belongs to the Bureau that set up Grand Coulee Dam, greatest structure ever built by man. He was the government's chief engineer. He received a salary of $7,500 a year, while he was offered $100,000 a year by an exploiting public utility. He stuck by the. government like the patriot that he is. Another Bureaucrat who assisted him is John Savage. A writer says of these two: "A hundred years from now some stranger will ask who built the awe-inspiri- poem in cement at Grand Coulee. And the answer will be Frank Banks and John Savage. Their names will be on it a thousand years from now; it looks as indestructible as the Pyramids of Egypt." A score of other Bureaucrats might be cited who have per-formed marvelous works without thinking of the pay en-velope. . ; I Penicillin Will i Be Given Public Amazing Lifesaving Drug Now Made Available for Civilian Use. WASHINGTON. Penicillin is now to be made available to the civilian world on a restricted basis. Behind that news is the story of a miracle of production rivaling the amazing accomplishments of the drug itself. Nineteen United States and two Canadian Arms are turning out about 200 times as much penicillin monthly as was produced a year ago. They've lowered' the cost ap-proximately 85 per cent. By the end of the year it Is ex-pected that present production rates (one hundred billion units in May) will again be doubled for this drug which succeeds where the sulfas fail and which has proved a life-sav-er from childbirth to battlefront A year ago virtually all but a lim-ited fraction of the then meager supply was allocated to our armed forces. Within the past few weeks the drug has been made available to thousands of civilian sufferers through allocations to some 2,000 "depot" hospitals throughout the nation. At the present rate of a hundred billion units a month, at least 100,-00- 0 cases can be treated, includ-ing civilians, armed forces and al-lies, and patients in some neutral countries who are to receive small supplies. To Share With Others. The outlook for civilians in this country is summed up by a war production official who says "come hell or high water, we are going to assure at least 15 billion units monthly for civilians." , The latest development Is this: For the first time, the domestic j; supply of penicillin will be shared with foreign nations. Up to now they have received only occasional mi-- i; nute supplies for emergency cases. (The United States produces 95 per cent of the world supply.) About a week ago, South Ameri-can republics were allocated 1,000,-000,0- units. Arrangements are be- - ' tag made for export for restricted civilian use to European neutrals, the middle east, the French areas, and other countries. Under this program less than 1 per cent of our total production will be allocated for use abroad. In a sense, the large scale produc- - tion of this medicine described by many scientists as the most amaz-ing drug that has ever been pro- - duced outshines the production of ships and planes and tanks. At the outset aU thaf was known about making the drug was that it was produced by the same mold (penlcillium notatum) which grows on stale bread and on cheese. To - produce it on a commercial scale, special processes had to be devel-oped to grow the molds. ' Grow Mold Faster. The Peoria, 111., laboratory of the " United States department of agri- - culture made a revolutionary con- - tribution. Its scientists showed that the addition of corn seeping liquor to the medium used for the growth of the mold made it grow many COMMUNICATION Some people say, Why don't the Lord stop this war and bloodshed? Others say, Why does God permit war? The answer is that, life and the universe is governed by law. What ye sow ye shall reap. If ye sow to the wind ye shall reap the whirlwind If we sow weedseeds in the garden we must not expect to raise vegetables. To get down on our knees and implore the Lord that he change the crop and give us vegetables in place of weeds could not bring results : it would not change, the law. For years we have been seeding down the world to cockleburrs and thistles and now we are reaping ourharvest of disappoint-ment, suffering and pain. We have sown selfishness and greed and hate, and now we are gathering the crop of war and death. O how slow do the nations learn wisdom! Forty centuries have looked down since the great law-giv- er warned mankind: "Thou shalt not kill." Yet today the nations resound with their cry for blood, and the earth groans beneath its burden of armaments and death. C. V. Hansen. VINDICATED IN OUR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE STAND This paper has been fully vindicated in its stand for socialized medicine, surgery and hospitalization. A poll has been taken by experts in California and elsewhere which shows that the vast majority of the people favor this idea. The medical profession has come to the conclusion that socialization is inevitable. Following is what the California Medical Association has found out from its expert inves-tigators : 1. Although 88 of the people believe the majority of doctors are doing a good job, only 35 are in favor of the present medical system. 2. Fifty per cent of the people are definitely in favor of socialized medicine. Sixteen per cent haven't made up their minds but most of these probably would choose social-ization. 3. Even people in the highest income brackets show "phenomenal" percentages for a federal system. The top income group representing 280,000 Calif ornians, is 36 for it. The lowest income class, embracing 1,050,000 people, is 56 favorable. The middle groups also give it a majority. 4. Men are stronger for socialization than women 54 to 46. 5. Among the 36 who consider doctors dishonest, more than one-thir- d think the dishonesty lies in the way they charge. Another 17 think they prescribe too many unnecessary treatments. Read This and See His Ad on Page 4 FOR U. S. SENATOR, HON. ELBERT D. THOMAS We have read a lengthy magazine article on the career of U. S. Senator Elbert D. Thomas. We have perused his scholarly and timely books. We have read his record, and we are unqualifiedly for his reelection. He has very ably represented Utah; he has patriotically and signally repre- sented the nation, and his name and fame have gone far beyond the boundaries of this country. He has every pos-sible concern for his state and nation and he has a world outlook equal to that' of the leading statesmen. Looking him over it seems to us that every minute of his career has been a training for the position he holds in these times. Utah will honor itself by reelecting him. Let the voters see to it that he is given another term. The state needs him, If all crime, extravagance, waste and selfish exploita- tion were eliminated, there would be no poverty, and no lack of material necessities, but an abundance for all. WE THINK WE ARE WISE We have come to think that we are a very wise people in this modern day. The truth is we live in an age of financial ignorance and economic bondage which result from the system which had its origin in ancient Babylon where it was born in the mind of the adversary of human good. Its reign has done some good but it has caused the enslave-ment of the physical man and the destruction of countless souls. Its weapons have been exploitation, war, poverty and sin What human waste it has wrought ! What myriad hopes it has crushed! Its trail over the earth is an ugly one indeed, and its sin and wickedness smell to high heaven. In spite of this the many still cling to it and refuse to let go Fearing to fly to other evils they patiently endure the ones they have. So it is up to the few who see the necessity of something new and different to do their utmost to show humanity the way out of its difficulties and to seek with all their might to remove the mountains of ignorance, Dreiudice and greed which are impeding the world's progress toward the end for which it was created. Theirs is the duty to prepare the minds of men for the acceptance of the plan which will shortly be set up. War Bonds as Investment for Farmers by Warren W. Hawley, Jr., President New York State Farm Bureau Federation IN CHECKING figures of the Credit Administration, I find that farmers are paying off mortgages faster than at any oth-er period in the history of the Fed-eral Land Bank. At the same time, farmers are building up cash reserves, but the wise investment of this money is an extremely hard job for farm-ers to undertake. The temptation is to try and obtain as high an interest rate as possible. Many of us see no reason why we should not get as much inter- - est on our money now as we had to pay the bank when we were forced to borrow during the de-pression. The answer is that today money is cheap "expanded", as the bankers express it. Therefore in-- 1 terest rates are low except in very speculative securities. Nat-urally no farmer wants to risk losing his hard earned cash. We farmers know our own busi-ness and we can invest money in it safely because we understand it. However, when we branch off into other fields, especially the highly technical field of invest-ments, most of us encounter sad experiences. In these days it is virtually im-possible for farmers to put their surplus cash back into the farm. War-tim- e conditions prevent us from repairing buildings, and buy-ing new machinery, automobiles, trucks and other equipment we must eventually have if we are going to stay in business. So the smart thing for farmers to do is to invest their surplus money in War Bonds where it is as safe as a dollar bill. These bonds increase in value the longer they are held; they can be cashed after sixty days in case of need, and they will provide a reserve for in-vestment after the war in the business the farmers know best the business of farming. I confidently predict that if farmers will do this, the dawn of peace will signalize a new day for agriculture. U. S. Treasury Department Play Safe. Vote Nov. 7 DEMOCRATIC STRAIGHT! Salt Lake County , ' t ls0utofDebt-- l !! Thanks to the efforts of : , j Commissioner Boden and the . olher two Commissioners. .ms, ' f They arc striving to make - Salt Lake County a bott,er , plice in which to live. ' : . " An Efficient t t j Public Official BODEN c SSI0NER RE-ELEC- T HHALTHandCl.ar.ly ROSCOE BODEN Democratic Candidate -- County Commissioner ar Teird) r TT- - .1 i! If ii , t j V' : j ' i V Mle-ele- ct Dr. 1. . Monson Secreiary of Si ale Experienced litiicient Executive Vote Democratic Straight (Paid political advertisement by Dr. W. U. Hcndrirki) A GREAT "PROPHET" WARNED US Just before Woodrow Wilson died, when he sat up in his sick bed after having been martyred by the wicked, wilful group which defeated his peace plan and brought on the present war, and, in his weakened condition, sent the following prophetic word to the nation and the world : "IT WILL ALL HAVE TO BE DONE OVER AGAIN IN TWENTY YEARS AT TEN TIMES THE COST." And so, if we do not act well our part in the present crisis history is sure to repeat itself. BIG TASK FOR VOTERS To ffet rid of the last poisonous remnants of the wreckers and replace them by decent Americans confrontinS A6311 torate. It is the main task th5 transcends any domestic issue and cuts across both political parties. sms are joiner to be elected or reeW.ted senate Sen. Ball said that on their international "j 1? senators now seeking reelection ought to be de-- 1 flated He did not name his 13.-M- owrer, Columnist. |