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Show American 7No. 3i (Old No.404) 217 KEITH BLDG. Was 4648 gJwLSSJjgL LakeClty. FEB Utafc 1 6. 1 910 under the Act el March 1, Published Weekly by C. N.Lund i7t $1.50 PER YEAR FOR THE PEOPLE? jvfKLY NWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH German W. URINE Peace Drive Eclipsed in Near East; By War Threats Politicians Hold U. S. Interest aptalou are npreiMd la these columns, they sews aariyaai aet aecessaeUy at this newspaper.) (vnlTOBU NOTE at lbs totktn CHI I Wbcx .Bateaaed hr Weston Newspaper Union. . Spotlighted on the Washington Scene: POLITICS: h the bsckf round since congress politics presidential Dem-joat- ie fukths show again when the nstionsl committee selected o sits. qjato as its convention T01fty Re-wh- scheduled their later in the hope that Dem-m- ti "tin DIm. It had only served to strengthen him and the causa of his Tam" committee. Next day FBI rounded up 12 persons charged with recruiting Americans for service with the Communist forces in Spain. CONGRESS: VOME m the neivs (Truth of . . . At Paris, tha duchess ri Windsor was credited with a new knitted "trench Inventing mitten with zipper attachment to free a o 1 d 1 a ra trigger Anger. In tha frozen Klondike campaigned Mrs. Normal Black, jj would set a convention date, resulted In gat outfoxed. This G. O. P. dissension among ghor to set whether debated who jgfen, I fate immediately or keep stalling, DUCHE8S two women parliament members, seeking votes in the forthcoming special election. At Baltimore, Mrs. Robert A. Taft announced she would hit tho campaign stump trail for her senator husband, who hopes to win the G. O. P. presidential nomina- third-termit- non-milit-ary ustice-commerce rt At, HOW GOVERNMENT IS RUN FOR TIIE or ca PEOPLE THE DEAR PEOPLE .,e U'ing is a picture from the top of bureaucracy, anil tins picture runs dear down to tlie smallest office in every state, a udy it and you will see how the is run in the inter-es- t government of the people. And this is only one instance in something like a onsand. We are 100 per cent for all the good in the New Heal, but there is much to oppose in all this bureaucracy. Salaries in Commerce Department Here are the salaries as listed on page 423424 of the newly proposed Budget: The Secretary of Commerce $15,000; an under secretary, $10,000; an assistant secretary, $9,000; two secretaries, $9,000 each; administrative assistant, r?11?1 $9,000; assistant to the secretary, $9,000; two special assistant secretaries, $7,500 each; two assistants to the secretary, $7,000 each; two assistants to the secretary, $6,000 each; an assistant to rtant, $5,800; two assistants to the secretary, vlnl'ntratVe $4,900 each; a secretary to the secretary, $3,800; confidential assistant to the secretary, $3,200; secretary to the assistant secre-ter$3,100; secretary to assistant to the secretary, $3,100; iccn-tarto the administrative assistant $3,100; to the Under secretary, $2,600; confidential assistant secretary to the assistant secrets These and 186 more are in the Secretarys own olffice. . tlthf ! A e; aphere-ri-influenc- st te0 Jta r". irtl f, The trend nine-pow- (..?; 'i ch ,ur Jeered E ffT?'lce icrop bu-,ho- rt Here and Abroad HEADLINERS min-Cra- JTs. Ea-eu- se -- 'SrMan Oratory Are Devoid of Substantial Facts i f! y, y HERE IS WHOLE TRUTH ABOUT UNEMPLOYMENT. WHY BUSINESS CANT TAKE UP SLACK. You may wonder why the relief coat and the W. P. A. dont show smaller every time business grows better. Let us you some figures. There are 9,000,000 unemployd, mor or Out of these 9.000,000 there are 2,000,000 on W. P. A. There are, perhaps, 1,000,000 idle workers in families that have one worker on W. P. A. There are 1,000,000 employable workers on direct relief. Thats 4,000,000. That leaves 5,000,000 unemployed workers with no W. P. A. jobs, no W. P. A. relatives, and no direct relief. Not many still have savings left. How do they live? Moat of them probably live on tlieir relatives, or by not paying their grocers and landlords. When they come to the end of these resources, they have to go on relief. These 5,000,000 forgotten men are the reason that relief does not go down when business goes up. Business will have to hire not 1,000,000 workers but several million before it crosses this gap of 5,000,000 and begins to eat into the number on W. P. A. or straight relief. If anyone asks you What are we going to do about unemploy0 ment? you ask him if he thinks business will invest the annually which are reuired to solve the unemployment problem. WHAT ONE KILOWATT HOUR WILL DO FOR 3 CENTS At the Bonneville and TVA rates one kilowatt hour will wash 70 pounds of clothes in a washing machine, about 2 weeks wash on a farm. It will light a lamp for 25 hours. It will grind 200 pounds of wheat or rye, or shell 30 bushels of com.. It 'will shear 40 sneei, or grind 250 pounds of meat. It will grade 600 bushels of potatoes, or mix 2 yards of concrete. It will cut 300 pounds of green feed or grind 90 pounds of bone. It will take care of a household refrigerator for 18 hours or cook 30 waffles. It will separate 2,000 pounds of milk and cream, or wash 2,000 milk bottles. It will natch four chickens, or brood one chick through the entire season. . . . One kilowatt hour will f do about the same amount of work as gallon of gaadline. The gaa costs 9 cents, the kilowatt coats 3. - $20,000,-000,00- 40-wa- tt one-hal- smooth-workin- ri oyment Latest Blasts of Political ape-el- The house continued kipping millions from President Roosevelts budget, and the senate continued restoring them. The senate voted tion. down a $1,000,000 cut in Civil AeroAt New York, Merry Fahrney, nautics authority fundi, bringing the patent medicine heiress, shed her the dominated offices Independent bill back to gin fourth husband. observers But It was still 55 mil. meeting, Democratic i there would bo strong lions under budget estimate, providing a good start on the NEUTRALITY: 01 to renominate Prea-jde- at 400 millions congress Roosevelt in the hopes to save by way of Aid to Finland city where he was first 1932. new defense in avoiding Early this month a Gallup poll dsn taxes. Meanwhile the showed the majority of U. S. clti-seAi Chicago became a house slashed away at (58 per cent) favor a political focal point, so the state did Illinois. There were ban to Finland. Same day department ap- as the survey wsi released, the senlips that both President ate began consideration ri a bill to gsotevett and Vice Presipropriations bill dent Gamer would bo double the Export-Impobanks ' LABOR: entered in the April 9 capital, permitting an additional John Lewis' C. I. O., $20,000,000 loan to the preference primary, which has been striking Finns (they already have $10,000,-000- ). while in New York the at the New Deal lately, G.O.P. backers of young ACCUSER HOOK turned a partial about-fac- e Tan Dewey challenged ffe apologized. The same Gallup poll showed 61 Ohio's Sen. Bob Taft by defending the per cent ri the nation opposes a loan labor to national a relations act against to Finland for aid other Republican hopefuls purchasing war supA. F. of contest in the same primary. changes. Before after the survey eras the house NLRB committee, C. I. O.'s plies. Day Prentiss published, Michigans : Philip Murray read a statement in Brown proposed in the senate that which Lewis charged "reactionary Ended was the episode in which all ri Finlands 95,891,000 war debt Frank Kook and anti-labRep. Michigan's corporations are dic- payment should be made available charged that Martin ( tating A. F. of L.'s proposed amend- for munitions purchases. There was Dies was working in cahoots ments. At Miami, A. F. of L.s execa good chance the Broom measure with William Pelley, leader of the utive board was also getting hostile Silver Shirts. When toward the New Deal, urging en- might pass. (The (Male did adopt 65 to 3 a PeDey surrendered and admitted couragement of private enterprise resolution asking ike securities and as. that letters used as evidence were and charging the administration commission to expedite regison the with trying to place labor "under its change forged. Hook apologized tration of any government bonds sMck boast floor. If this had been a thumb. The entire Finlend may try to seU private U. & consign. to smear irrepressible picture waa pretty complicated. investors. Prompting factor seas Seo-- . retary of Slate Cordell HulTs revelation that Russia kad violated tsv o pledges of Us recognition agreement EUROPE: untk ike U. S.: (I) Permitting Communist interference mitk U. S. affairs; Rumors (2) failing to safeguard 17. S. citisenP While the western front remained right in Russia. Still, a congressional, effort to break relations with tho Soviet Viet, and while Finland continued failedj a shambles king out of Russias Meanwhile the state department mated armies, taro diametrically was rubbing noses with Britain's nosed offensives were taking Ambassador Lord g dupe-o-ne for war, the other for peace: Lothian, recipient ri many a fiery In exprotest in recent weeks. hce Drive. Berlin denied It, treatment ri U. S. better for hot reports INDIA change persisted that Nazidom mold offer the allies a settlement hips at British contraband ports, the two governments decided to riithe League of Nations' economic One keep future quarrels quiet. mnmittee at The Hague. Terms: U. S. notes to Recent reason: strong G no SPOT TROUBLE NEW reparations; (2) return of London have stirred up too much But wiU ike olliet attack fust? colonlei; (3) Nazi retention American opinion against Britain, to Sudetenland and the Polish cor-ritAdolf Hitler's benefit concentrated (4) an Austrian plebiscite, the Black sea Turkey tally managed; (5) restoration troops on the Russian frontier, Iran sf Chech, Polish and Slovak and Afghanistan doing likewise. One JAPAN: states. Russia planned One M the Reich's denials arerw sin--, explanation was that Way Out o observers wondered why Herr a drive into this British As exTokyo's war in China entered (tea map). Another fler tried so hard to minimize month, northern forces thirty-firits allies the was that planned planation relation with Moscow, arch-fo- e on Russian oil reported they had entered distant attack a deliberate democracies. No wells In the Caucaiua region, there- Ningsia provinca for the first time. net exists. said the Reich, military nor wffl armies were locked in by drawing Soviet troops from the In the south, near help Russia fight the Wlngsun, Kwangsl cut- bitter battle and front Finnish . Peace gossip only increased beleaguered Two mors discouraging sources. province. Nazi off petroleum ting Berlin called home its naval envoys whethsigns for Japan were (1) a Finland and Russia. Would Ger- - Observers asked themselves Chinese that warning auipokesman's was the reason French W try to settle this war? Kao, er this the Russian planes may soon begin raiding 11 Pnluda to peace In tho thorities had raided that 800 commercial office in Paris, delib- Japan, and (2) tha report Chinese veil? when killed were troops Soviet reprisals. Jap erately inviting War Drive. on the Overnight tho Balkan was it the reason Turkey, a artillery sank a transport mobilized their armies to full Also, British-Frenc- h ally, unceremoniously Yangtze river. members of tho Little En-Jz- seized the German-owne- d Mostly, however, Tokyos troubles ship yard Rumania against the in tho Bosporus? were with tho western powers. Imwittorial demands of mediate source ri trouble was a v was seen Joining them.Hungary. protest combined U. Across Wars bombing ri the Jap against the In the West. France reported railway in southwestern quietest period since the war began n.in. Both protests were rejectalmost six months ago, and Nazi and tha Japanesa parliament i raids on North sea shipping were ed, fwmri itself seriously considering slackened perceptibly. two drastic steps to avoid future In the North. Finnish troops re- protests. First, it was suggested ompany I "eyed the pulsed one Soviet attack after an- Japan should Junk the Jof h,,Kbond fleld nd found other, territomoat activity being confined Chinese treaty guaranteeing a drop of $364,- to the area around Lake Ladoga. rial integrity. Second. Foreign MinPer cent) under estimatobservers Finnish military uter Hachiro Arita admitted Japan bonds Issued. Among ed that reckless use of manpower U asking U. S. citizens to leave flnane-Xe- h had cost the Reds 20,000 dead and China, probably as a threat to make riorinkhing birth rate, wounded in a single week. the U. S. renew it expired trade I tewer schools, R vriovU increasing rhythm treaty. Nevertheless, announced Out of Soviet attacks was wearing the taUvT v 0Uld rationed ef-rFinns down, a situation that dis- AGRICULTURE: u- - Already ra-- I Folar bulter turbed the allies increasingly.British-FrencCotton for Stamps bam and h ha con lowing a meeting ri the anHaving successfully disposed ri was war council, it the stamp Europes war bo surplus foods through nounced concrete aid would Henclear of P.nmeri- Minister plan, Secretary ri Agriculture Prims ones. at rushed I this system announced m,rin underwriters han ry Wallace told the house ri comto help solve hU w,r ri insurance Chamberlain addle France kept will be adopted as mons much, I thlt wU 1 farm problem, cotton. No. which Britrelaying Italian warplanea many 320.-- n 000) having decreased since the Germany refused to let cross bsva taken out fed-- I ain stopped taking U. 8. surpluses cotReich. Murarca on the barter arrangement, wheat How Italy p cooperating with the un1i 1M0 under the stamp offered be eompared with Finwill ton hit yt Finns waa revealed in Rome by within a fcw nish Minister Eero Jaemefclt, who plan experimentally U. K census clients purchasril,3-n- ,a Relief Plan: weeks. at reported 8.000 Italian volunteers bava no $1 worth ri cotton goods because ing down have been turned will be given $1 worth stores hundreds retail But n ."mUUonbaleaoflttha farmers annual visas wen available. market of cotton stamps tree. hava been granted, too. Other farm news: announced C The weather bureau in frost damage to truck crops uniouthem states from January overhad been expected cold snap losses were although Jusestimated. Florida to C Enthroned: Supreme Court from way the all U Earto y U. S. tice Frank Murphy, President heavy taler to n? InlU,B.arU; F1ridaa David Roosevelts fifth ippolntce. farmers watched with ComBi"-ai- a as the ft Defeated: Earl Browder, emotions tThrcn,,, ,tcr mixed and terest munist leader convicted ri passport .?? Irish Premier and means commitler d(. who ran a poor third in a house way. bill renewing the adfraud, flovwnment, a h. election, .proved a, Sbta the outlawed New York congrcaaional by ministration's authority to negotiate Offf ft Filed: Tax lien tor $2,H4.954 ,fmy tW of head reciprocal trade agreements. executed by against Howard C. Hopson, bureau brilain. farm American lb A a aim: Seizure ri tha giant Associated Gas St Electric icially National Grange dissented. UliU-r- . relatives. octopus, an? several ri his Stag Bruckartt Washington Digest SOME THOUGHTS ON DENTISTRY Why Not Make It Cooperative? There is only one dentist to every 1498 persons in the state of Utah, and, which is even worse each dentist treats an average of no more than 400 to 500 patients yearly. These statistics. County. Thousands are in need of work they cannot get. FROM A TRUE FRIEND Editor Progressive Opinion. I have been impressed to write you for some time, in fact for a year or more, aa I have read your magnificent little paper for many years, and for the paat year or two I have been deeply concerned lest yon were loosing ground in your heroic battle m the cause of suffering humanity. I have been following you closely all these years, and have seen and felt the impact of tyranys vicious hand falling upon you without stint or mercy. I warned you several years ago, if you remember, that you were laying down a challenge to those despots of the infernal region, and to look out or the goblins would get you. I knew even then that the political sharks were on your trail, and having been in constant contact with you through careful perusal of your paper, I am even so concerned. I believe the battle of Armageddon is on; that the first of the seven vials of wrath is, in this veiy hoar, being poured out in death-grip- s upon the earth; that the hosts of hell and hate are with each other and with all who will not surrender to their tyranical and despotic rule, and that old generalissimo Lucifer is leading them m to their own destruction. In your courageous and beneficent struggle for the better-i- t of conditions among the common classes of people, you have not had the moral support, the financial support; the friendly attention; tlie brotherly contact; the fair and impartial consideration that your noble efforts have so graciously merited. But remember, brother, there is no jumping off place; there is no "Seam Stitch in this old aock; there is but one road, and that one is straight ahead. . Remember, too, that, failures are but rungs in the ladder of broken stones, and fame; that tlie pathway strewn with thorns its feet traverse that the lonely course, blead and that gald weary is the flowery dell of peace and contemptment to the courageous soul who dares to pioneer and blaxe new trails through unexplored jungles of intellectual obscurity. the ship. Keep on and on, and dont give up Yours to the finish, SYLVESTER EARL "There will be more joy in heaven over the tearful face of 100 just men. a repentent sinner than over the white robes of A Mothers Legion has been organised and has t ouTto One of their speakers remarked. Oh, stop the war and all wars. it and never let it happen again. could one some stop if only Where is the power to stop it? now long, oh how long will it take humanity to learn just will save the world one word of that grand credo, which Brotherhood! and When people compromise with the sins and abusesthat will of the present, they are acting in a manner children a children. to enslave their children and their bv brute force and is spawned it of bom is compromise; Slavery all the evils. darkness and is tlie foulest brood of Do it now Of course, you want to suliscribe for this paper. as vou find in this issue. matter such reading to and continue get 52 issues of this kind. What is $1.50 measured against (Continued on page fourl Honest Abe Gets Many Fine Tributes From Republican Speakers, but U. S. Voters Receive Minimum Of Basic Governmental Information. By WILLIAM BRUCKART WNU Service, National Press Bldf., Washington, D. C. figured out that the annual Interest on this debt is about $1,100,000,000 a year. And thus, according to tho calculations, each man, woman and child in the United States is paying almost $8.50 per year in interest. Going further, if there is a family of five, that familys share ri the interest on the national debt la roughly $42.50 a year, or a little more than three dollars a month. i WASHINGTON. About half ri tha Republican representatives and senators in eongreaa, moat ri the Republican governor and scores ri lesser lights are back home aa these lines are printed. They have been away on speech-makin-g trips. They used Abe Lincoln's birthday aa the Now, most ri tho speeches conrallying point. They concentrated tained a few plain and simple facta on February 12 just aa their arch that Moat ri them hit around rivals concentrate annually on An- like But not a single one ri the mark. drew Jacksons birthday for bally- the speeches laid down a real barhoo and money raising. failed miseraHoneat Abe received many, many rage ri facts. They to apply the facta to the affairs fine tributes. Hia services to.hla bly of the individual voter. So, even country were told by good oratora tho Republican orators did and bad. The tributes were Justly though ask me for advice, I am going deserved. But I could not help won- not to offer some: if they really want to dering, ai I read page after page restore this nation to its native, of throe speeches, juat how Abe Lincoln would feel about some ri tha conservative way ri doing things, will tell the factual story of things that were said, some of the they Deal and its theories and New tho national policies that were advocatto dreams. And the voters ed, some ri the solutions that were ask for facts instead ri ought general offered for national problems. ctatementsl In these conclusions, I It may have been just my imagi- believe Honest Abe likely would Abe nation, but I thought Honest was a bit restless as his great statue site out Its unending days in the vast memorial on the banks of the Potomac river. The memorial Is so arranged that Honest Abe gazes through daylight and darkness at a vista that includes the tall and imposing monument to George Washington and, beyond, to the capital ri the United States. The things that have been going on beneath the capitol dome and the things that were said by Republican and represented as being Lincolnian, it seems to me, have been quite sufficient to make the Lincoln eyes heavier, to make the lines ri his stoney face deeper. Just as the Democrats, last month tailed to convince very many people that Jackson would do as the New Dealers have done, so the Republican orators failed to prove they are ticking to Lincolns traditional philosophy. The tragedy Is that each major party is attempting to streamline a national figure, and the result obviously is that neither Jackson nor Lincoln has been presented to the newer voters in the light ri the genuine services which they rendered their country. : i i : i agree. Taft Challenges President's Handling of Budget Senator Taft lately got right close to specific statements when he chat longed President Roosevelt on tho question ri balancing the budget He took many ri the federal agencies that have come into being under the flag-wave-rs Republican Presidential Nominee Aspirants Have Field Day Throe speeches, to which I have referred, included, ri course, resounding statements by five or six ri flic men who aspire to be the Republican presidential nominee. There were Senators Taft ri Ob to, ri Michigan, and Vandenberg Bridges ri New Hampshire, and district New Yorks racket-bustin- g attorney, Thomas EL Dewey, Governor Bricker of Ohio, Republican Leader Martin of tha house ri representatives, and former President Herbert Hoover. Anyone who heard the speeches or. read than must have come to the same conclusion that I readied. The days oratory, with tha possible exception ri Mr. Hoover1! speech, was as devoid of good substantial facto as a frog la ri feathers. There was outburst after outburst ri bitter criticism, reference after refers cnee to New Deal failures, repetition repetition at charges ri waste and assertions at danger to our national welfare. All ri these things were said, with the usual pounding ri the table and slapping ri hips. But the Republican orators either forgot their facts or neglected to use them in the excitement ri the occasion. What I am aecking to aay is that no campaign la worth much in any political battle unless the attacking forces base their charge! in the simple tacts that Individuals understand. Generalities mean nothing any mare. President Roosevelt has been the greatest generallzer ri all history, and the folks have been digging up some of his earlier general statements to esk about them. Such presentation of attack or defense leads definitely to a lack ri confidence on tho part ri the voters. I referred above to Mr. Hoovers speech. Let us take one section of it as an illustration of what I mean Mr. Hoover about generalities. talked about tho $45,909,900,009 national debt Ho went further. He upon REPUBLICAN FIELD-DA- Republican politiciani who used Lincoln's Birthday as aa occasion to fill the air with speech-makinfailed to stick to the real facts says William Bruckart. Attempting to slreumline Honest Abe as national figure, as the Drniucrals hove done to Andrew Jackson, they failed to prove that the G. O. P. is stirking to Lincoln's philosophy. i i i SENATOR ROBERT TAR New Deal alphabet and pointed out tho cost ri each and how little worthwhile ho believed them to be. It was something Mr. Roosevelt could not answer without resorting to generalities. The Senator, however, has slipped awsy again from the channel he appeared ready to paddle. Like the rest of tho candidates on tha Republican aide, he Is no longer using the ammunitiaaf available. These references to the necessity fro the use of facts recalls how thoroughly tho National Labor Relations board has been discredited by a special house committee which is investigating the funny looking activities ri the board. Thus tar, tho investigation has had vary little in the way ri sensational statements except those from the record ri the board, itself. Its own papers, its own writings, tho exchanges between Its own members and staff workers has served to show better than volumes ri argument what ridiculous policies the narrow-minde- d officials and employees have Inflicted upon an unsuspecting public. Why? These were facts. Another Illustration: tho administration is determined to gain congressional approval fro another three-yea- r extension ri Its right to negotiate trade treaties. Now, then la no doubt that tha trade treaties help in some places and hurt very much in others. But I sat in the house ways and means committee room one day listening to administration testimony in support of Its extension. request fro the three-yea- r The witnesses, all government officials that day, had the facta. It la i true that they used those facta to how what they wanted to demonstrate. They were careful that the sordid side of the story was not told. They failed alao to break down the facts to individual application, but ! they pieced together a story that was understandable. It was effective and opposition was difficult because tho opposition was not equipped with a complete record. On the story thus built up, it la likely tho extension will be voted. I have observed the activities ri the Republican national committee fro some months. It has flopped completely in the most obvious ri its Jobs, presentation ri factual information to the country about what the New Deal has been doing. Day after day, delivery boys bring copies ri speeches to my office, and day after day, I look vainly for facia. I do not mean to aay there are no facts at all; I do insist, however, that there are heaps ri opinion thuL convinces none whereas the facts underlying those opinions would have important weight i i t I ' M I I r i , a !. i L i i |