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Show A LIBERAL A PAPER PAPER i L ' . '' j. v:.. SUf(OL V Na ' )U t WITH VISION if.' fi'- & J' St' AddreSs, 217 David Keith Bid Entered e New Day SALT LAKE dTYTDTAH. FRIDAY, AUG. 13 1937. SUGARHOUSE, Clue Matter at fbe Boat Office at Salt Uke City. Utah, under the Act of March 1, u Second OPERATING PERSONAL NOTES Hard Shell oi Rugged Individ ust ; ualism Is Breaking from Writings of Dr. S. R. Maxwell To " The state hands the boy and girl and man and woman a bottle of liquor and says : Take it, drink it, and come back often for more; the state needs the money." The boy girl, man and woman does as the state tells them and then they go before the city' judges who say, A hundred dollars or thirty days ; the state needs the money. How wise we are. The taxes will be $4.00 more per thousand than they were last year. Oh, you patient, people, how long will you stand it ? How long will you let your "servants" drag torture chambers they have you through the created? There are one thousand reasons today for the people rebelling against their political officials for every one the colonists had for rebelling against England. But the herded and driven voters havent the guts to turn against a single politician. They should lay every legislators ears back before he comes into the capital and pour hot molten words into them to this effect: If you consent to even the hundredth part of a mill increase in taxes you wont be permitted to live in this community any longer. And if you help to create any new offices for politicians you will be our subscribers how we would get the gold with which to pave the streets of the New Jerusa- ' long-sufferi- The March of Time declared that fully one half of Englands population is undernourished, very greatly undernourished. The president of this country has declared that one third of our population is undernourished, under clothed and improperly housed. And so it is in every country. Why is it ? If we had the will, and big business didnt stand in the way, we could, in very short order, arrange it so that by the touch of a single button machinery could be started that would abundantly supply every living bouI with more and better clothing, finer and better homes than common humanity has ever enjoyed. But the powers that be will not let us. Rather will they let things run into revolution with a result that only God has he imagination to forsee. . FOR HUMAN BS 3 Readers, you will have to wake up. You read and enjoy the paper; it is passed to hundreds other than subscribers who read and enjoy it ; it is praised from all sides. You must find a way to pay us something for it. Please dig up and send the money, or call in. The need is urgent. there is not a voice anywhere that can reassure and comfort and calm all the troubled souls. What we say about conditions has been gleaned here and there from the remarks and writings of authorities. A cloud of distress is reigning over the world and upon every nation both those which are threatened and those which are the aggressors. A great bearing-dow- n weight is oppressing humanity. Three mighty Is war upon us? questions are being asked everywhere: Will civilization perish? Has God forgotten us?" If there could arise a man with a voice and a spirit which could remove the awful nightmare from the people, he would be one of the greatest benefactors that ever lived. lf of all their income to The nations are devoting reimbursements 6n their internal debts, and more than half of the other half is devoted to the building of armaments. What then, is there left to insure the normal economic life of the nations? How can the grave problems be solved? Erstwhile great and powerful nations have lost their industrial supremacy. Practically all nations are given over to vanity, hatred; to pride, duplicity; to violence, pleasure-seekin- g, selfish and brutal materialism. God is forgotten and the things of the world take first place in all our activities. The world is suffering with gangrene and decomposition. The real cause of all the trouble in the world is in the political and business leadership and in the people themselves. Nothing can be bettered without a deep, internal transformation, a thing which none of the politicians or statesmen" is able to direct and carry forward. The hope of the world, in the present hour, is in the spiritual realm, and none of the leaders mentioned even conceives this. The choice is between Christ and chaos, between unity and death. And this choice must be made very soon or even this hope will perish. . S sr K? r '"n t- Our recent article on Th Progress' paign, was not relished by some of the iyes. Let them be assured that we have nothing but stood will toward them. But we are not insympathy with their methods of attempting to herd voters in carder that a few may profit from the spoils A voice, a voice! There are many voices in the world, even strange voices. But where is there a voice that can stir unite and lead the people to their economic salvation?. Nothe people, where, because they will not listen. And as with so with their business and political leaders. MAs with the with the priest. As with the buyer, so with the ponrOa seller. Very few realize just how much the voice of a true voice, a shepherd at humanity is needed. It must be a kind voice whose a authoritative an and voice, sympathetic voice, has felt the heart beats of the common people. . " The powers . usurped by the tax authorities are destroying the people and it is about time something drastic was done. Millions from liquor, millions from sales taxes tens of millions from propyear. erty taxes and incomes Up and up they go year after TBrfiw and higher go the salaries of the armies of employees and rlrrtnt and appointed officials. Greater and greater grows the waste. Larger and larger loom the shortages as they come to light What shall the people do? Utah county has done the right thing. - 1 A ES w & V TH Vi rtf iyltt . r - knr1' tf Shall We People Of Utah Face Facts? Geo. J. Fox. so-call- self-select- too many of us have no stabilizer, no no truth sura knowledge, upon which we can with absolute our social, our domestic future. our economic, bs certainty We want truth but where is it to be found in this day of instability? America with all its industrial immensities, its aMfriai invincibilities, its religious leadership and so on is wavering before an hysterical uncertainty that will finally 'drive us somewhere either on our knees or upon our backs. God's laws of economics, business, finance, social relations, and worship must without compromise take the place of our business policies. present day We sell the throne o f angels for a short and turbulent pleasure." Promssfves will show us that they are out solely for prinlocal conditions, we will go ciple and for the betterment of hand in hand with them. d CULTURE Editor Progrejrrive Opinion: Dr. Maxwell sent me an autographed copy of I AM IN ACTION. I have just read it ft is a keen criticism of things as they are and in the last chapter gives a plan for changing them. I have read it with interest and profit It hss the spiritual superstructure that most social reform lacks. Your price is only half the usual cost of such books I like the spirit of Dr. MaxweU and believe he will be one of the first to adopt Horace Mating human acience that is now being revived by the greatest educational celebration ever held, sponsored by the largest edu Icational society in the world. This revival will bring about a revival of Dr. Karl G. Maeserswr . Jnthe Rockies. The method and spirit of these two pioneers are one. ' More than fifty yean ago Dr. Maeser tried to remedy the evil of young people marrying without any training for parenthood. He eras the first (President of the Brigham Young University and there taught classes in sex education for young men; Zina Y. Card, the Matron, taught similar classes for the young women. Forty yean ago I continued the classes for young men in the B Y U, and Susa Young Gates taught classes for young women. Later her daughter, Leah, now the wife of Dr. John A. Widtsoe, continued the classes for young women. Some of the students reported yean afterward that this was the best part of their education and felt that dt should be universally adopted. I have since continued the work in more than 1,000 cities around the world. Human science should teach the whole science of right living. If you will give space to short articles on human culture I will send you one every week. for human betterment, Sincerely your John T. Miller It might help us to know pliy, We do not know ouris script. that tha basic principle in the new age, is in the .great 3 ng tax-payi- ng - - Right..use..ness. Things in them is ire all right ; it our wrong opinion about things, and them that get us into trouble. e?selves j ; use ofWrong Use of Money and Land been making a wrong use of land and its resourc-- i famies whin we use them for the private benefit of the few using them for the benefit of all. We have been Iwuld k making A wrong use of money when we have been using it soura for the private benefit of the few instead of the benefit of the man. We have been making a wrong use of human labor and the machine when we have been using them for the private benefit of the few instead of using them for the benefit of all of us. The right use of things means: First: That we must rec- ST ognize the Universal Creative Principle as the sole creator m and owner of all things. Second : We must recognize that . KRthis benign power created these things to be used, not for the private benefit of the few, but for the benefit of all. The Sc law of use in operation will abolish private ownership of land 5 and its resources and they will be used for the benefit of all. Third: Money is a dead thing in itself. It was invented as a means of exchanging things. In the new age the people will m s! exercise their constitutional right to make and distribute Sm their own money. They will use it not for the benefit of the Sr few but for the benefit of all. Banks will be service stations to distribute money to the whole, not toll gates. Fourth: Machines.. Machines are things. The tremendous energy j itarfMMUMMl in machines of production, distribution, and transportation will be used, not for the private benefit of the a few, but for the benefit of all. The unifying desire will be for 3 ahnnibMB and complete social security.When these factors Ki are put to right use, then man will have leisure to develop the artistic, mental and spiritual powers that lie latent wither. in him. The old system has fed on the animal in man and 85 starved the God. doomed Many little to suffer lasting ill effects of mallnu'rition. Many old folks compelled to eke out an below the subaistam-- one-ha- exir-t&n- ce , e level. Many fathers walk our streets in a vain effort to find steady employment. Confused and bewildered because the door of opportunity is closed against them. When deprived of an opportunity of earning an honest living necessity forces a choice of accepting charity or turning to dishonest methods. Paupers and criminals are considered undesirables. All around us people are sinking into the cesspool of an economic disorder that destroys both body and soul. (CmUbmI Oa Fin hai) (If you like this matter send in a subscription,) The Aim of the Politicians Honesty is a bygone thing. Justice is a misnomer. What counts is violence and cunning. Those who succeed in swindling their fellows are too often admired as great men. Thisia our whole modern structure, and evil is and communities. Insidiously nations of life poising theinto Political parties are only coallife. it penetrates public itions of private interests, blending of personal greeds and business. The politicians do not mean to strengthen the af--' fairs of state but to exploit the people. They do not think of serving the country but of e nslaving it. They do not consider that they should give the state or country something but that they must get all they can out of it for themselves. honey-combi- ng True Progressives system. and Cooperative Ideas Editorial ' j wonL'-Righteousne- Prosperity Plan They perform miracles for us. Send em in r -- Pro g'ressive Members WE TAKE THE BONDS lem. It will be easy. Look at the twelve billion stored under (Adapted . ,.V ground ;n old Kentucky close )f whi It is refreshingly encouraging to note that the hard and handy. So jrou sec the shell of rugged individualism is breaking up and the chicken 11 Ufa emerging. Up to a certain point the shell was essential in gold that has wrought all the the development of the chicken, Without the shell there worlds sin and misery is to be :1 Clinicould be no chicken. When the shell has performed its part the very foundation of heaven. and the chicken emerges, the shell is of no value. George Child, 84 years of 3R jn the - evolution of man to higher forms of and practically blind, wse age and v ri sion. Afl around us we can see the old shells cracking in the other and said he f "fiUbreaking up and a new type of individual is emerging. This wanted the day paper. He could is the result of the Universal Creative Principle acting not read man. to see it but he thought the evolving through ac-r- jf world is new a man into of the of well so he would get sure, emergence it that Tope compelled by much pain, suffering and confusion. Imagine someone to read it for him. He the predicament of an animal, emerging from its old world at that advanced age, and so tter into S MW: world of human understanding. Its old world into handicapped, with no one to whieh.jt was born, to which it is accustomed, and which it had just received pc httimagbies is the only real world, is crumbling away all around help him, notice his relief allowance that that is supposed to be real, becomes unreal, or pension had been cut $3.' He V lie faritastkillusory. 3 To be sure it will be understood by the reader that until is entitled to the full $30 and such A Mpg begins to realize the reality of the new world a letter to that effect was writfatowfekh, it is emerging and that this world is infin-n- rl ten for him to the. proper more beautiful and real than the old world from which itely U or authorities. So nor be not satisfied will today happy. is departing, it inAmtirica, and all over the world, men and women are em C. Yolmer, who has been erging bom the old shells of past dogmas, shibboleths, theo- employed at the offices of tl e ries and versions. Ancient theories of government, religion, Prosperity Plan was in and philosophy science, and economics lie in shivered fragments deposited another bond in the all around us. We have not as yet learned what it is all exchequer He believes in the about This is especially true of economics. The old system paper, reads it and profits by ia shattered, and whether we like it or not we are emerging it. He is a very competent acinto a new order. countant and should have no .The stage is set for a new act in the drama and we, the ac trouble finding work. ton, arunot acquainted with the part we are called upon to ' $1.50 PER YEAR GOOD PRINTING FOR LESS Give em the Flowers Now It has long worried one of v Published Weekly by C. N. Lund 1ST "lohe Wasatch Press The Associate editor was cussing the devil out of things and he said: Satan, if you have anything to do with it get behind us and push us toward some filthy lucre so we can make ends meet." for Men A 1 28 must head Into the new I : George C. Christensen Technocracy i Gesell PrinciWarns the U. S. ple Explained Scolt Howard in The E. S. Woodward in the Aug. The Technocrat Citizens o f the issue of Free Economy North American Continent, you form of money advocated by are on the verge of thcgieatest Silvio Gesell was" Demurrage- -' Money money subject to a social breakdown in history. designed to secure Read your newspapers. They it against hoarding and to ren? have given up trying to hide dcr it inherently proof against or usury. Ordi- the truth. From every dircc-to- n money-jnterein the world of finance, bus- nary money commands a plus iness and government is coming charge of from five per cent to the admission that only disas- twelve per cent from wares ter is ahead. Technocracy is which is called interest", and Americas only future. We can it cannot be induced to enter put that solution into b?ing. the investment market unless' that charge is paid. Gesells Incomes And Prices proposal was that money should The costs of industry to be be issued subject to an adequate recovered in trade may be listed minus charge which would as rent, interest, dividends counter its usury - generating and compel the conwages, salaries, and expendi- properties o f money circulation stant tures of each industrial unit for under all Most circumstances. equipment or raw materials In his followers of are present day 1929 national income had risen for reasons agreed practical to ninety billion but the costs to be recovered in trade were on making the counter - usury several billion more than this charge twelve per cent a year and included in those costs orono per cent a month. Gesell made two alternative suggeswere debt interest charges tions by which the demurrage, almost equal to the income of all those engaged in agricul- principle could be applied. tural production. But had 1. By the periodic affixing of states and nation accepted stamps to national currency notes and 2. By allowing the . goods and produce in payment of public dues no depression notes to depreciate by the would have occurred for sur- fixed legal amount, the value of the note for any week being plus production would thus have been absorbedand utilized found by reference to a table printed thereon. for the public need. time-char- ge . st op Congress to Meet Cooperative League News Co- - -- Service The Cooperative League of tho U.S.A. announced today the selection of delegates to ths Fourteenth Trienial Congress of the International Cooperative Alliance which will call together representatives of cooperatives of cooperative organizations with more than a hundred million members in 39 countries for a four day con clave in Paris, Sept. 6 to 9. Heading the American dele, gation will be Hoaard O. Cow-den- the Coand operative League president o f Consumers Cooperative Association, KorthKansasCity, E.R.Bowen, general secretary of The (Cooperative League, N'ew York, E. G. Cort, manager of Midland Cooperative Wholesale, Mincapolis, Robert L. Smith, educational director, Eastern Cooperative League, New York, Lional Perkins, registrar, The Cooperative Institute, New York, and Mrs. Howard O. Cowden, North Kansas City. A number of other American cooperative and educational leaders will vice-presid- ent of ; Douglas Social Credit The proposals of the Douglass Social Credit plan are to pay an income to the people through social dividends and price discounts equal to the net annual increase in wealth and to set up a social credit account based on the annual capacity o f the people t o produce neeeded goods and produce. Shauld prices rise the rise in prices would increase the valuation of production capacity with resulting increase in the total of credit for price discount thus restoring prices to the level before the raise. But in age of abundant prudu tion prices are not likely to rise with an increase in pur- chafing power as such increase is an increase in effective this demand and an increase in effective demand brings greator production and a lowering of the level of prices. Production and Purchasing Power There are four classes of eco- -' that can supply either production or purchase medium to the general public. These are agriculture, industry taxation, and a monetization complete the delegation. of value. If the margin between conference on Co-- 1 incomes and prices A one-dwere paid operative Education and a to the people as a confining fimiliar conference on the Co- established policy of public finance and goods and produce operative Press will draw toaccepted in payment or part eduand editors p gether payment of publio dues an era cators from all sections of the of economic security and social globe immediately preceeding progress would dawn in state and nation. the I.C.A. Congress. nomic activity ay co-o- PEOPLE CAN BE STIRRED A voice- - The glory and prestige of the worlds kingdoms might well be lost if the losing would bring THE VOICE and call and that could stir deep down into human hearts lead people out of their bondage and fear. How they would respond if once they knew the voice, knew that it was kind and sympathetic, that its possessor was not here to fori them or to exploit or swindle them, but to be one with them, to go down into the abysses of their lives with the sole purpose of lifting them up, to love them, and to lead them by walking side by side with them and seeing them through. Such a man would be worth more than all the fine gold in the universe. Let humanity call until he comes. coming city campaign will be the most bitterly partisan of instituted, and thus the any since the primary system wasdefeated. be law will of the whb purpose . |