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Show , - .. A Lberal American Weekly Dial Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers - Entered cs Second Class Mailer at the Post Oiiice at Salt Lake City, Utah. Underthe Act ol Congress of March 3. 1879. ' C"te 'dea that Econoimc Salvationmust come through Spiritual Development A New System of Thought, A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. ; VL ' ' ddreSS' 217 DavidJeithJ31dg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, October 6, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. ! SOME PERSONAL I iRead! j Some Timely Editorial Thoughts Thinklf j ..PARAGRAPHS Many are COLD but few are FROZEN. John E. Paget of the U. S. Merchant Marines is enjoying 30 day leave visiting relati-ves and friends of this city and ' Tooele. " He is the son of Mr. A Mrs. Samuel Paget of Lake Point. Th honorable name of D.H. Chiistensen will not die out very soon. There is now D H. I, D. H. II and D. H. III. We will greatly appreciate ir. if someone who knows will call in and inform us as to just how many Old Age organizations there are by this time. We got up to four and then lost the count. R. M. Brandon of Boneta is greatly interested in politics and labor as well as real religion. He sends his eontributions.?. Friends Mr. and Mrs. Fred C. Muller of Baltimore, Md., send exceptionally fine regards from way back there. "We enjoy the paper. Yours for a better world.' Thanks. So we shall count ihem among our good friends and neighbors from now on. We are pleased to learn that our brother Leonard Thomson of Ephraim, has been selected as second counselor to Stake president Barton of the South Sanpete stake. Con-gratulations (and good luck. The. family-- can be, proud al this promotion. He was bishop for a number of years and has taught in the pu blic schoolg and the Snow Academy. To The State: Hundreds of dollars of Sale Tax money are being lost because some clerks do not take time to make tok en change. Better look into it. r Good Friend and Neighbor A. 0. Miller called in the other day and saw to it that we were not without oil in our lamps. 5 We look upon him and his :j wife as good people who have J done their share of the world's work and (lone it well. Their 5 hearts are with their sons who X are far away in the service and are doing well their part. : Friends John Mattson and wife Eva. of 1192 Windsor St., believe in this paper like they believe in the gospel. They ate as faithful in remembering tis as humans can be and we "j surely appreciate it. May they -i continue to receive knowledge 3 and inspiration from the paper ' j as long as we live to send it. ei May blessings attend them ii ." Born to Mrs. Irving McNul-s- " ty of Mt. Pleasant, a son. The father is a prisoner of war in gj Germany. Mrs. McNulty is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs.'Jos tl ph L. Lund, 1 3 Friend T. G. Rosser is help ' laj out his country and the world by having three sons and J a in the service, i!;, Thomas is in France and has been in Afiica.Si.ily and Italy. i Donald is in England, EAan L. with the navy in the Pacific, the training in Kan IS". SPIRITUAL REDEMPTION DEPENDS ON . ECONOMIC REDEMPTION The plan and purpose of the great Creator is not only the restoration of fallen humanity, but is just as much for the setting up and functioning of a perfect social order. Speaking of the earth life we will say that it will be utterly impossible to attain to the perfect spiritual life without first attaining to the perfect social order of living. And we are about as far from that as we can be. Men believe that conditions will go on as they are. If they do it will be impossible to make further spiritual progress, because the spiritual does not fit in with the present material set up. Where shall we look for the perfect social order? For ourselves, we know ! But to convince others, there's the rub. The perfect system will never have soup kitchens and bread lines. Depressions, crises, poverty, exploitation, war and strife will be done away with. Men, women and chil-dren will have the right to live in a world where the power and privilege of money has been abolished, where honest work, devotion, merit and talent alone can buy the honors. Under that perfect order a man would be thought danger-ously insane if he sought to make money and fortune out of the spoiled blood of his country's boys. None would exploit, none hurt or destroy. As himself each would love his neighbor and the good of each would be the aim of all. Let us all dedicate our lives to bringing in that glad day. SEARCH THE HEART OF THE MOTHERS FOR SUFFERING We Try to Answer Their Question A mother is quoted by an exchange as saying: "How we have worked and loved and dreamed; for that boy of ours, and now he is dead overseas ! For what has that clean, fine young life, with all its possibilities, been sacrificed?" May we try to answer to this heart-cr- y of one out of the thousands of bereft mothers. The people are bound to these youthful martyrs by ties that never can be severed. Their shed blood fertilizes the soil for new freedom, for new justice, new brotherhood and a new earth life; and that blood will run in the veins of the future until these ideals are attained. The world knows not the objectives of this war. Men will neither believe nor listen. But we tell them solemnly and truthfully that this war is a literal forerunner for the coming of Christ, which will follow the real ending of the war. It is a preparer of the way. In no other way will humanity let the path be cleared for universal peace and good will, and the reign of the Prince of peace. So we say unto the mothers : Your boy, in giving his life, has become a martyr for the cause and truth of Jesus, and has helped to prepare the way for vastly better things for humanity, and when anyone dies in such a cause they become enshrined in the great universal hpart and will join the noble army of martyrs who have gone 'before ; and they will not be forgotten in that day when the great Judge makes up His jewels! Somewhere out there our boy is dead, He sleeps in a lonely grave ; I The birds sing there above his head, And the lilies wave by his lowly bed And weep for a soldier brave. Holy the ground where our soldier sleeps Who died at his country's call ; On with the heroes his spirit sweeps, Over his memory a loved one weeps, He has given America ALL! C. N. L. POUTjiCSl J Many are nominated but on- - ly half of them will be elected. Its quite a gamble. BOOST FOR SALES TAX ; A Californian-boost- s for its' Sales Tax which brings $134, 000,000 annually. The Secre-tar- y of State says it is the fair-est method of supplementing other tax revenues so they do not become burdensome. And here in Utah some are thinking of doing away with it. Dont! Wonder of wonders! The world really "do" move. The U. S. Chamber of Commerce has come out with a program for Social Security. Of course we already have a good working program but to know that those who have been against it at every step are now for itjs very encouraging, "Dick" Brandon says: "The stirred up refuse, Peglei and Kent, paid to put their smear in the dailies, and bitterly op- - ',. pose and condemn Union and Communist members for contri- - j buting a small fee toward elect- - jj ing the best administration ' they ever had. But the editors 1 and the smear writers use ihe money from patrons to spread j! falsehood and to corrupt poli- - tics and seek to cast us bac to l; Harding and Hoover. They are willing for Union men anil ' Communists to go on the bat- - .tle field to keep Hitler's tyran- - ny off their necks, but when they contribute a small fee to- - ward the best Commander in- - v., Cheif they ever had that's treason. WILSON SPEAKS FROM THE DUST "For us there is but one choice. We have made it. Woe be to the man or group that stands in our way in this day of high resolution when every principle we hold dear is to be vindicated and made secure for the salvation of nations. We are ready to plead at the bar of history, and our flag shall wear a new lustre. Once more whe shall make good with our lives and fortunes the great faith to which we were born, and a new glory shall shine in the faces of our people." Woodrow Wilson. We fear that no matter what the candidates say, the Old Guard is banking on another battalion of death in 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 Reynolds and the Wheelers and the Nyes will become responsible for all that shaU die in a third war if the people do not rise.and make their servants do their bidd-ing.- OUR VERY SOUL CRIES OUT AGAINST IT We have some genuine sympathy for the common people of Germany and other countries, but none for the overlords of wealth and position. The aristocrats, the high ranking military authorities and the rich land owners are secretly transferring all their movable wealth to neutral countries, some- - to- - South America elsewhere. Many are buying estates here and there.? They have ex-ploited their people to the limit, gathered in all the wealth that results from the people's toil and sacrifice and will, if they can, make away with it and live comfortably in other countries while their common people, whom they desert, will starve and suffer in their privations. Think of the millions of German mothers whd: have sacrificed sons, of the countless wives who have sacrificed husbands ; think of the dispossessed aged and the brave, toiling masses who will be left to bear all the burdens in a devastated country. Our very soul cries out against the system there, or anywhere else, which lets the few and powerful, the un-scrupulous and cunning economic thieves get away with the cream of the country's good things by preying upon and exploiting the patient masses to the limit. Their day is about done and don't you forget it. The system where the strong and rich thrive by stealing from the many poor is on its way out just as surely as the sun shines. BUY MORE THAN BEFORE rrrrrrrrrrrrrjrrrrsrsrrrsrsrfrrrrrrrrrs A thundering blast 1 at our national phobias yK A fighting book that fights with facts. A brilliant and devastating VVS broadside aimed at the fears that tffi obsess our national life: X alliances , Fear 0f entangling Oj I of England and Russia ' ' J 2. Fear I fff 3. Fear of idealism I 1 I Vff Fear of revolution l j&J ! The Senator from Utah makes I fWrtVfl vividly clear that all four fear, are I mF Xy I bseiess and dangerous ,0 I J attain the Four Freedoms we must I 'yS first eliminate the four fears. I' Loaded with cold logic and horse V- - sense, THE FOUR FEARS is a clear-- analysis of our muddlec 11Wl IS outlook ... a powerful antidote ta U UU lia cynicism and defea,ism' raics iff by Senator Elbert D. oml " fjL SOOKS. AT VOU tOCM ff Ziff-Dav- is Publishing CHICAGO Comply , 0 540 NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, I TOWNSENDISM The Townsend Bill, known asHR 1649,iB coming nearer and nearer to the front in con- - gress. It now lacks but nine signers to get it on the floor of the house when it will be de-bated and sent along for pas- - : - ' sage. It means a reliable and permanent security for the aged and for the nation as well. Many bel eve that it is the only measure that will save the coun" try from revolution. A LIVE VpiCE FROM THE SHEEP FOLD Progressive Opinion, Dear Mr. Lund : In your issue of September 29 you write that Joe Bush and me, Peter, have come to the parting of the ways over so shabby thing as politics. Joe Bush and me Peter have weathered many political storms and some minor religious ones, Joe in one party and one religious creed, me Peter in another, but there never has been a time in more than half a century of palling and neighboring round, and here and there doing this and that to or for them and those we have and will "continue as friends even though he will vote for Dewey, while me Peter will vote for Franklin D. So we will vote, Mr. Lund, he in his voting booth and I in mine, in the same voting precinct as we have for many years. We always go together, some times in his car, some times in mine, with the same friendly difference as when in years gone by we rode our saddle horses to the voting place, when U. S. Highway No. so and so was just a sage brush trail, jack rabbits far more plentiful than cars and the gas shortage worried no one. It might surprise you Mr. Lund, to know that Joe Bush, a Democrat, will vote for Mr. Dewey, while I, a Republican, am voting for the president, while both Joe and me Peter are voting for Bracken Lee. It is always a source of great satisfaction to Joe and me Peter to be mentioned in the Progressive Opinion. It compensates us for never being mentioned in the column of the Senator from Sandpit. P.S. You say that Joe is content to remain with the great unwashed army of commoners. Joe says that most of the great army of commoners are well washed even behind the ears and those who are not washed now will be washed up in Utah in November. With our greatest respect to you and Mrs. Lund, who Joe and me Peter regard as one of the very first ladies of the state we are, Very truly yours, Joe Bush Peter Spraynozzle of Sheepfold, Utah, U.S.A. FOR U.S. SENATOR, HON. ELBERT D. THOMAS Utah Should Honor Him With Reelection 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, the nation needs him and the world needs him. AN OPEN LETTER TO DEWEY Hon. Thomas E. Dewey, PERSONAL, Governor's Mansion, Albany, N. Y. Dear Governor: For more than a half century I have watched closely tv, Hrift. of international politics, and the forces behind the various upheavals of the world. So naturally, I am keenly watching your remarks to see if you sense the basic cause of the sickness of the world, and what remedies you propose. I may have missed some of your statements; but todav I notice you being; quoted as saying, "There can be inM for all only if business, industry and agriculture are able to provide those jobs. There are no clever short cuts tn the froal It cannot be achieved by some ingenious scheme roncocted by a social dreamer in a government bureau time there are not sufficient jobs m private em-ployment to go around .then government can and must " create additional job opportunities It is just such remarks that justify me m my second nararaph above. Occasionally I find in my purse currency reading: "TTNTTED STATES NOTE. The Ltaited States of Africa will pay to the bearer on demand FIVE DOLLARS. the small print) : This note is lega tender at its iA" v'iue for all debts, public and private." Aio "SILVER CERTIFICATE. This certifies that fwoi on denosit in the Treasury of The United States of America, ONE DOLLAR in Silver, payable to bearer on demapiease allow me to point out the true SIGNIFICANCE CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 new Antiaircraft Gun Is Messing Up Germans ROME, ITALY. An American 90 millimeter antiaircraft gun, which hurls explosive shells at terrific velocity, is being used against enemy troops in Italy with devastat- - ing effect, and has proved an ideal dual purpose weapon, the Allied command said recently. This highly mobile weapon, which can be fired at distant targets in much the same fashion as a sniper's rifle, is an adequate American an- - ' swer 'to the Nazis' famed 88 milli- - meter gun. German prisoners told graphically of the terrible effect of its shells on the enemy troops. An official source reported the 90 millimeter gun, which is called the "Baby Long Tom," because it is e fit companion for the 155 millimeter f rifle known as the "Long Tom," has ' been used as a ground weapon since Cassino. A READER'S ADVERTISEMENT Is the Deseret News Anti-Labo- r? When the first organizers of the U.M.W. and the A.F.L. started out in the State of Utah, when the mines and smelters had an arsenal of rifles, sawed-of- f shotguns, when they paid gunmen $8 to $10 per day to beat up all organizers and union men, when they threw the household things in the road, then told the striker or union man to get his family and get going, and keep going until you are off the Company's holdings, that was some 3 to 4 miles away. This was in November and very cold. I took my wife and three months old baby, moved into a tent furnished by the U.M.W. We had no cars in those days, walking seemed to be too good for union men and strikers, and if you didn't walk fast enough to suit the gunmen you were punched in the ribs with the long end of a rifle. That wasn't all. A union man was black-balled. Two years after this strike in Sunnyside, Utah, I was in the coal camp of Clear Creek. I was told by one of the gunmen to get going and stay out of Clear Creek. We were denied the right of the U. S. Post office. The union men and strikers showed no violence whatever. They could not; their homes were searched and all weapons of any caliber were taken away. Then the mine owners had the (Continued or paire fo r) Stern of Destroyer Is a Veteran; Bow Is Rookie WASHINGTON. - The bow of the destroyer Murphy saw action for the first time in the invasion of Nor-mandy, but it was the third battle for her stern. The Murphy, a veteran of inva-sions of North Africa, and Sicily, split in two in a collision last Octo- - ber. The bow sank, the stern was saved. She was fitted with a new , bow in time to screen troops moving into Europe. , i |