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Show I (i ; ;i A Liberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers ' Entered ga Second Clgsa Mailer at the Post Oiiice at Salt Lake City. Utah. Under the Act ol Congress ol March 3. 1879. evote to the idea that Economic Salvationmust come through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. VolVffl.Vo. 36. City Address, 217DavidKeUh Bldg. Sugarhouse; Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday September 22, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. l I SOME PERSONAL I Friend Mrs. Eva Winegar of Woods Cross is as honest as the year is long and calls regularly to lay her offerings nn the altar of our sanctum. She is doing her part bravely in the battle of life. Mrs. Clifford L White(Pet'ra) celebrated her birth annivers-ary Wednesday with all of her family about her son Leon who is somewhere on the West-ern front.' She has not been well for a long time, being bed-ridden all the time, with few signs of improvement. Neighbor Mrs Laura Scott never lets the year go by with-out remembering us She says she knows what poverty is but elie would much rather endure it than she would this wicked war in which her sons are en-gaged. For a widow she is doing very well. !' We had a teal visit from Friend Sum Pagett the other evining, he lives at Lake Point. He is the father in law of our good friend LeRoy Irish. He is 70 years of age, has been married to a good woman for 44 years, has eight children, four boys and four girls. His church activities include a three and one-ha- lf year mission, holdi-ng the office of b.shop, and having been superinlendent, of three different Sunday Schools He is a good man and a gent-- i lemiin. He says I sure enjoy the Progressive Opinion. Biother LeRoy Irish has pre- - suDted us with a good book, Outof Debt, Out of Danger, by Congressman Jerry Vorhis. If every citizeD would read that book we believe we could then take, our money awayfroin the robber money changers and have it issued constitutiona-lly as it was meant to be. Our sympathy goes out, to Friend James E. Hart because ofthelossin the war of his grandaughters husband, Chamberlain, leaving a wife & baby to mourn his loss. Fitting memorial services were held Thursday at which Aposc-l- e Mark E. Petersen was the principal speaker He is one of the martyrs of which we speak in an editorial on this i age, dying somewheie over there in an effort to ma e and keep men safe and free. He was a U S soldier, Trme to freedom's trust, And now the valiant soldier Sleeps in foreign dust. Folded in Old Glory, Let the hero resi There in silent glory Peaceful be his rest! Clair Duane Olsen, H A. Second Class, returned to the service in the Pacific Tuesday morning by airplane, after a pleasant two-wte- k visit with his folks, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Olsen of 2135 Green St, Mr. and Mrs Thomas E Murphy of Idaho Falls, Idahoi were Salt Lake visitors last week, calling on the lady' brother Mr. Wilford Lund and other relatives They paid us an hour's visit and were feeling fine and doing well. Mrs. Mur-phy is our first cousin. Friend Ackerman, formerly of the Kosmon Center, North Salt Ltke, and editor of the paper there, reports that he has severed all relations with Mr. Wing Anderson and the Kosm6n Center. He has pur-chased a little plot with a home on it near there and is determ n, d to carry on for humanity as best I e c.in. WE'RE FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE, SURGERY AND HOSPITALIZATION We have long been for socialized medicine, surgery 'and hospitalization, but never quite so enthusiastically as since we read about one of the best such systems in the world, the system in Russia, where they are really doing big and wonderful things for humanity. They say their system is not a matter of socialization or capitalism, nor of politick, but a matter of saving life. No patient, poor or rich, pays. No patient could pay if he wanted to. The very finest medical service is available to every man, woman and child regardless of his financial standing. Operations, sickness, nurses, hospital room, treatments, diet and all medical care are supplied according to the patient's needs.' These things are not for sale. Any one who tried to buy them would be thought insane, for, they ask, "who has money enough to buy a human life." An English surgeon who visited the great hospital in Moscow couldn't understand it. They asked him if they in England would think of sending a bill to the man whose house burned while the fire depart-ment was trying to save it. "And are not,' 'they asked him, "human lives more worth saving than buildings?" BROTHERHOOD SHALL SAVE HUMANITY THE ONLY HOPE Man's inhumanity to man was never more in evidence than it i stoday, but just as surely as we live there is a light beginning to glow out of the darkness and it is the light that shall lead unto Brotherhood. Ever since that tragic day in the morning of time when the first born sought to shield his guilt by asking the question, "Am I my brother's keeper?" the best men that have lived have been writing and preaching the Brotherhood of man, as-suring us that we are brothers in very deed, members of one another, parts of one stupendous whole, units in so-ciety, citizens of the same world, with one common pur-pose, and all traveling the same road to the same com-mon destiny.- - The most inspirational reading that we know of is the story of the great souls who have held up the ideal of Brotherhood and called to all men to come up higher and walk and work together as comrades and broth-ers ; those who have seen the vision and pointed to the day when "man to man the world o'er shall brothers be for a' that." The best reading we know of is to be found in the prophets and poets who have kept constantly on the great screen of time the beautiful picture of Brotherhood. We believe that one of the great questions that will be asked in the day of reckoning will be, "How much have you done to promote love and kindness and friendship and Brother-hood ?" If the barbarities of today are to be ended ; if man-kind is ever to be freed from war and strife and poverty, it must and will be done through the order and peace and harmony of Brotherhood. The true test of all religion, all civilization, all government and all society, is how it makes for the Brotherhood of man. 1 1 Additional I , J We met a friend from tlieold home town the oilier day who was wearing six stars. It was Tom Jensen (if Mt. Pleasant. We asked him if lie really had six sons in the service. "Yes," was his reply, ' 'we have six " That. '8 the contribution Mr. and Mrs. Jensen are making to the cause of freedom. Tom was n here looking for Democrats but he didn't get to talk to many as they are all loo busy running their offices to talk. Our good friend Mrs. Claire Stewart Boyer, come home lant week from Minnesota and other parts where she had spent sev-eral months as teacher and student in one of the new col-leges there which specializes in teaching spiritual as wll as social philosophy. She enjoyed her work immensely. She came ' in contact with many people of prominence and is spiritually and mentally much richer thun before She was also lecturer for a time before one of the army camps. She will shortly ' issue her poems in book form. A good letter has come to i:s from Friend Mrs Ida Van Voor- - hi?, of 143 Elm St Washington Pa. She says: "I addrecs you as friends because I believe all people who believe in living the way you teach should be friends. If people could live the way the paper preacher the niillenium would soon be usher- - '; " ed in. Your paper is very welcome and much enjoyed. I wish ycu success and the Master's 'Well done good and faithful servant,' for the good you are doing. " The Gleaner Girlsof the Hill Crest ward gave a shower for Mrs. Lelland Larsen Wed, Eve. DISHONEST MONEY MAKES DISHONEST MEN V. C. Vickers, former governor of the Bank of Eng-land, has written a book called, Economic Tribulation, a greatly worthwhile book which the common people could understand if they would take to reading it. Here is a paragraph from it: "Although it is the money system which is to be ac-cused of dishonesty, those who use and depend upon a his-hone- st system, knowing that system to be dishonest, can-not themselves be regarded as honest men. Moreover, it may be that the present system, which international fi-nance has forced our democratic government to adopt, up-hold and protect by every possible means, has undermined the character of-th- e people and forced them to alter their definition of the word honesty so that it may be made to comply more nearly with modern practise. It is a recog-nized and acknowledged fact that the economic structure of the world is out of alignment, out of truth: and natur-ally this has created an intense desire to discover how and why and. where it is at fault and how best to rectify the dsfects of our social system." There must be reform or we perish. And the time for reform is now. - mi AMERICA, OUR AMERICA, SAVE THYSELF Our country ! Our native land, loved like a mother ! Believing that it is the duty of those who know to tell the truth,- - We turn our thoughts to you in the hour of your tribulation and in the shadow of evil days ahead. We come to you saying these words in the same spirit that William Tell came to his native Alps, thanking God and you that we are free. It is our whole soul's desire to see you victorious in war and peace and toleadout in shap-ing a new and higher destiny for yourself and the world. But let us say, in truth and sincerity, that you cannot win the war and the peace and achieve the destiny while your sons and daughters stagger with drunkenness from border to border; while your cities reek with vice and iniquity; while Mammon rules and God is al 1 but forgotten. It cannot be done. You must call your people to repentance and ask them to turn to God. You must cleanse your land of its wickedness and bring the people into conformity with the laws of righteousness so the Almighty can bless you and give you the victory and the power to attain the destiny to which you were born. Arise, our country, and restore the righteousness of old. .... w .... PEACE IS SURELY COMING. IT IS INEVITABLE. "These things shall be ! a loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls And light of knowledge in their eyes. Nation with nation, land with land, Unarmed, shall live as comrades free; In every heart and brain shall throb The pulse of one fraternity." This is the promise the promise of hope, the promise of truth, the promise of prophets and poets. It shal Ibe ! AMERICA, BEWARE YOUR PROSPERITY A writer has said to America. "Beware your prosper-ity ; it is the reward of freedom ; it can also become the most insidious enemy." COMMUNICATI3N Editor Progressive Opinion: Here is something that should be understood by everyone: If you are a critic of the Deseret News and its policy you ar not criticising the church nor the church leadors Criticism is directed at the editorial writers, their reactionary ideas and their subservience to and their worship of Mammon. This ttie readers should understand. Geo. E. Manwaring .... .m-- THE BOYS ARE THE MODERN MARTYRS If, as they say, the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the church, what then shall be the seed of the rivers of blood soaking the soil of earth today? They too are martyrs, these millions who are dying at the mad behest of war. Of old time, they say, salvation came by water and atoning by blood. Now redemption is coming by blood and fire. Every soul killed by the war is, figuratively, being burned at the stake as a martyr for tr'uth the sublime and greater truth of which we now see but the foregleams. Their blood will prove to be a rich fertilizer for such a harvest of truth and justice as can hardly be imagined; it will become the seed that shall bring a new flowering of humanity, beautiful to behold, a flowering of all the things that our elder brother visioned when He dreamed so nobly in Galilee; of all that the pro-phets and poets and humanitarians have beheld above the world's waves of sin and shame; a down-pourin- g of the glory that the banished disciple saw from his narrow cave on the lonely island. Make no mistake about it, God is "trampling out the vintage." He is "standing in the shadows, keeping watch above His own." Bad as conditions are, poisoning all heal-thy life and beclouding all the visions, they do but hide tne saving splendor of the future's royal sunlight that shall soon stream forth to bless mankind with never ending peace, security and abundance. wrrrrrrrrirfrrri7rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr A thundering blast at our national phobias A fighting book that fights with ,V; I facts. A brilliant and devastating j'f:-'- " broadside aimed at the fears that Jr obsess our national life: ! i of entang,ing alliances I i and Russia , 2. Fear of England I ff J P 3. Fear of idealism I jJlJli I 4. Fear of revolution I 'ttl I The Senator from Utah makes I frVf1 vividly clear that all four fears are I 'V.U ... that to I baseless and dangerous I J Freedoms we must IdJ attain the Four the four fears. I - first eliminate . T j Loaded with cold logic and horse V- -- sense, THE FOUR FEARS is a clear-- muddled world nnnra eyed analysis of our ... powerful antidote to outlook a UuULb cynicism and defeatism. W by Senator Elbert D. om OR DIRECTLY HOM ' AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSELLER Ziff-Dav- is Publishing Company Cj 540 NORTH M.CH.GAN AVENUE, "1 can see no propriety," said Washington, "in pre-cluding ourselves from the services of any man who, on some great emergency, shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public." If it wasn't thit the war must be won it. might be well to put, a roof over the country and some bars around it. and call it an insane asylum, for such it seems. There is running and raving and taring and rag-i- n; and every effort to break down and destroy, hardly any effort to build up, to expound principle Suppose they were to carry on in such a manner i in corporation and church rs As much hate is being generated on the home front as there is on all the battle fronts Its a far cry from national and efficient democracy. In line with some of the arguments against the president they should charge that he went out on the high scan and set in motion the hi hurricane just for the fun of how much it could de-stroy and how many it could kill. That would win voles We fear that it will not be likely that any peace plan, even if Christ should lead it into the senate, could get by the 33 senator votes needed to defeat 'it. It is up to the people to stand so unitedly for peace that the senate will be forced to do their bidding. The weakness of the nations, this once included, "has a root cause. Its root is definitely spiritual. Something is withering in the soul of our people. The signs of spiritual debility are apparent everywhere. SOMETHING WORSE THAN POVERTY We need not mourn too much because people are poor, even though poverty is a social crime and a disgrace to civilization. But we should mourn when we see the light go out of their souls, when we find that no ray of spiritual light penetrates their minds. That is something to mourn over The body may be strong but what does it amount to" if the soul be dwarfed and blinded and all butannihilated. This is tragedy. "UNLESS YOU KNOW THAT SOCIETY'S SICKNESS IS MORAL AND THAT THE REMEDY IS SPIRITUAL, DO NOT ATTEMPT ANYTHING; YOU WILL BUT ADD TO THE CONFUSION." Destiny. |