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Show PROGRESSIVE AMERICA UBER ALLES SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT Swedens trust busting cooperatives hung up another record in 1939 when the business of retail consumer cooperatives increased 11.5; volume of sales handle through kooperative Forbundet, the cooperative wholesale owned by the retail coand the amount of goods producrd in ops, increased 17 19 factories owned by consumer cooperatives rose with equal rapidly, retail cooperative societies affiliated with kf reported sales of $154,800,000 11,5 greater than the preceding year. The Stockholm Cooperative Society, largest of the retail handled business totaling $21,500,000 a gain of 14.5. Allowing for a rise in food prices of 4.7 per cent the increase in volume of goods was 9.4 per cent. Tnirty eight new p shops were opened in Stockholm during the year bringing the total to nearly 500. Wholesale trade for cooperatives, clearing through Kooperativa Forbundet. amounted to $67,338,000, an ncrease of $9,875,000 or 17.19 per cent. co-op- s, co-o- Major Accomplishments of W P A Listed by the W P A as major accomplishments are the following completed projects: 17,600 new public building for cities, counties and States; repairs and improvements to 46,300 and additions to 1,700. 280,000 miles of highways, roads and streets constructed or repaired; 26,100 new bridges and 23,500 repaired or improved 26,700 new dams for conservation purposes; 4,100 new storage dams. 6,100 miles of new water mains, equeducts and distribution lines; 8,900 miles of storm and sanitary sewers. 1,800 new athletic fields, 1,500 improved; 1,100 new parks, 4,200 improved or enlarged; 1,600 new playgrounds, 5,000 improved. 8,700 miles of new and 5,000 miles of improved ditches for mosquito control; 11,500 miles of other types of ditches excavated or improved, exclusive of roadside drainage in connection with road projects. Beside the thousands of miles of sewers and water lines laid or improved, there were constructed 400 pumping stations, 300 sewage treatment plants, eighty water purification plants and thirty five garbage incinerators In rural areas no fewer than 1,144,000 sanitary toilets were erected. More than 1,610,000 acres of lowlands and swsmp were drained by the excavation of 8,730 miles of mosquito control ditches, a large percentage of them destroying breeding places of malaria-bearin- g National News of Personal Interest Without Fear or favor doing good and bringing his surplus into Brueharfe Waahington Digeat the store house. Looking on a heading in a Catholic paper which said: This church will S. be the Peacemaker, If I beloved that," he said, I would join it.1 to Norway and Denmark Brings Wilford P. Horne is a Pro- Conflicts Spread Problem of Neutrality to Attention of gressive from the center of He has received Nations Statesmen. a for a being many blessing ' cheerful giver. He haa infu-eoin Democratic circles and he may have courage to use it. ce The sum of $11,500 a year is allowed for travel for judges attorneys and court reporters. Utah also pays its share for a U.S. district attorney and one assistant. With all this legal talent, paid for out of taxes, the people should get unlimited "Justice." The Law of the Standards W. W. By Whitney Heres my philosophy of democratic and constitutional gov ernment: Short terms at a nominal fee to keep the overhead of government and industry low for the people in each generation that they may enjoy thei homes and businossand not be taxed to death. Short terms of 2, 4 and 6 years that make opportunity for indiuidual to serve and get credit for service rendered to country and fellow men and keep the system and budget balanced orf eaoh generation.. Welles appointment was announced, there was a good deal of undercurrent gossip in Washington that tha whole plan was conceived and engineered by a little group of New Dealers. They thought tha mission might lead to peace negotiations and Mr. Kooaavdt would become a sureshot for a third term In the WhiU House. As usual, the By WILLIAM BHUCKART Service, National Press Bldg., Washington, D. C. WASHINGTON. Mora and mora people aaem to ba expressing doubt that tha United Statea can stay out of tha new world war. Ona heart tha talk ' in many Mrs. Sadye Herron, prominent official in the Townsend Club, is an ambitious and enthusiastic worker for the cause quartan, official of the aged and .believes in do- and unofficial. It frightens me. It Is ing some of it through this pa- disturbing because per which she contributes to ao many aeem to feel that tha war is and reads regularly. to us Organization News "Inner circle" had no knowledge of what tha real fight was about overseas. As against tha things that might causa trouble and thereby endanger our neutrality and more about our neutrality below it surely U a commendable thing that the members of congress are keeping their tongues atm for ones in their collective lifetime. I do not mean that aenatora and repreaanUtives are quiet I do not mean that the halls of the house and the senate are not ringing with the usual amount of Far from it What demagoguery. I mean and what I am commending la first congress as a whole has exercised tha finest caution in talking about tha war. Whether they realize It or not the members of the house and senate, by maintaining alienee on the subject of the war, are Inducing millions of other people to quit talking about tha war. growing closer and they are, therefore, taking the view that wa cannot stay out of To all of those who it era laying that It GENERAL SECURITY appears we era The Ham and Eggi unem- doomed to get Into ployment compentatioa program provides seven dollars per week to unemployed individuals between twenty and fifty rears of age, twenty doDan over fifty. The May Fourth Security Committee suggests those desiring to form a committe to further principles of general security meet at City-CBldg. 7:30 P. M o. PROGRESSIVE' LABOR LEAGUE The Utah Progressive Lador League has changed its meeting night to Friday of each week after May 1st. On May 3rd there will be a get together party for memberships etc. 168 So. West Temple, On May 10. the organisation holds its anni- versary dance. Color$ Co thm South American Way . ; "Hip-Htp-P dm war which remains, as before, simply Europes war, and to every ona else I want to present this question: Why la it necessary for us to get Into It? That is tha question. It la not how can wa stay out. but why should wo get Into There la no doubt of course, that extension of the war, ipread of the flames to Norway and Denmark touches more American hearts. It la sad, indeed. But it would sad. den many more hearts in these United SUtes If wa get mixed 19 In tha conflagration. Moreover, no one has presented so far aa I know any reason why tha United SUtes or any of 1U people or any of 1U interests should be involved in a war that represenU fundamentally nothing more than the thirst for power of a very few men in all of the people. Again, It U sad, but it la not a quarrel of our making and I fall to see any reason why or how the United flutes should shoulder any responsibility. Tha American government U taking precautions. Soma of them seem to be rather silly, rather an excitable reaction.. For instance, Senator Walsh, of Massachusetts, and RepresenUtive Vinson, of Geor- it Attitada in United Statea la Net Really Neutral Indeed. Analysis by Joseph W. La Bine Gives our readers each week a comprehensive report of the important, verified happenings in war-tor- n Europe, and in our own country. You can rely upon it as being authentic, free from the countless unconfirmed rumors and from the propa- ganda with which European nations are flooding us. Quote it as your source of information regarding the activities of the war. aghnWlihCSfln oJUm fixss erxo isus eojoo Inr ton. la aisTo potato. t aii to As . ftihUn totolli nans; ittOOO dprts d MB' jkvr. VnO. h witers, Mafficti Berlin toiflrsl chAed vetfsa lend 1 paA dsn aitrsti Bwi dDon nlitar Old Prof. Telequiz M felk hestoo MW Sags It's Thrifty Ann .bn dfts feme idled Md To Telephone! chimi heks heir fcrior, Brit Mb None air to is His Question ft for Today . hi awl iesre QUESTION: Suppose you have a boy or girl at coll one hundred miles away. (You may have, of so hero goea). ad ... What would a call cost? night or Sunday slat At were h pufle to-stati- on with She Didyouaayonedollor? Twodollara f nft Sevenly-fivec- ci into Sli Ml ANSWER: The answer is forty cents. Your telcpli takes you to other towns at little expense. Et The President haa extended the "combat zones" which no American ships or citizens may enter, legally. Very wisely, I believed, he did not delay in Issuing a proclamation that the war zones of Europe included the waters at Norway, Sweden, and similar areas. That will go far towards preventing greedy, daring individuals from and chance-takin- g getting their ships idiot to pieces. Some of them would take that chance, you know, because the profits are large. But always the rest of us must think of what our government la forced to do when citizens of tha United States, on legal business, are slaughtered by a foreign navy or army. Wa have only to look back to 1915 and 1918 to sea how such killings, step by step, took us into World war No. 1. Thera la considerable doubt; however, about tha wisdom shown by tha Preaidant in tending Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles on that European Junket Mr. Welles has been home a month now. Somo of tha results can be appraised Tha answer la that inproperly. sofar as tangible results are the trip was a flop of the tint water. That is, unless the trip may have aroused suspicions of our motlvei, it was a flop. If tha suspicions were aroused suspicions that America eras planning on future entry then, of course, tha trip waa a moat dangerous thing. d, Private expressions from soma News Enjoy txsveloomiort at low oostoa last, nodars Union ItnWrinnndintiMinsrMnnl. . . . ixaedoss irons highway hazards . . . ooasioxt . . . Begiatesad aarvios. LOW PARKS- - tad European Rulers Might Mitjudge Welled Mianon Weekly ON THE TRAIN Here Preudent Hat Extended Foreign Combat Zonet Hava you ever been to Havana? Costumes of the natives lent Inspiration to tha designer of thla "Hip-Hisuit which Mias Kay Johnson model for tha Auerbach Company, Salt Lake City. Fashioned of Britany loomed tweed, in ombre stripe. The jacket furnUhaa sweat repose for her lapel lounger, a rhinestone plu in the ahapa of tha daffodil. Movable ataman . . . and piatal . . . movable petals. Smart, ftB About our neutrality: That is not a proper description of the position of the United States. We are not neutral. We are, as a nation, certainly favoring the cause of the British and tha French. I am that gia, chairmen of the senaU and house naval committees, respectively, held a long conference with President Roosevelt the other day at which they discussed the proposition of an expanded navy. 9. Utah officially employs a large number of attorneys at very substantial salaries, and yet the state, for special' things, hires extra attorneys at great expense All saddled on taxpayers. The Attorney General receives $4,500 a year. His four assistants receive $3,500 each a year. There are seven district attorneys at a yearly cost of $14,500 . In addition there are in the state several assistant district attorneys. There are 29 county attorneys and nine assistants. There are also nuiner--ou- s city attorneys and some assistants. There is one liquor commission attorney, but often some assittants are employed at very high remuneration. EVERY MINI Keeping Out of Europes War Is Order of Business for U. From this month's Destiny we take some ideas about the war and these are backed up by the Holy Scriptures which contain a blue print of the whole human story. The three leading dictators, Hitler, Stalin and Musolini are to become preeminent and continue with their work until the end of the ae, or the downfall of the present system. They will make the most destructive warfare on the British Empire and her Allies as they go forward. Germany will continue as she has begun. Russia will sweep southward with fury and initial success against the British life line. Italy will7march on North Africa and take Egypt and then proceed into the Holy Land. Success wjll seem assured for the agressors and numerous initial victories will be won with tremendous loss of life and destruction. America will not escape as the dictatorial forces are at work within this nationand will work much ruin and destruction. With it all there will be the inevitable economio collapse for all nations. But, as the scriptuies say so plainly, the battle is the Lord's aud he will come to the rescue of the Israel nations and sse that the tide is turned in their favor. Read thisinJoel 1:9-2- 1 and Zechariah 14:1-Plain as light. THANKS SENATOR, FOR THE RECORD Senator King sends the Congressional Record to our good friend J De Xwarte and Mr. DeZwarte brings it to our office regularly. Ho is duly thankful to the senator and so are we. YOU'LL work he is alwaas uld be a way to go out and get them. People should never neglect the little things, the amall kindnesses courtesies and thoughts for the welfare of others. They are what make up the whole worth of life. They are among the true things in human existence. Mystery of the lost cities of 'Brasils Green Hell. An ancient manuscript throws new and startling light upon the stories of piehiatoric ruins with Eternally Shining Towers" gaurded by batmen Indians who walk only at night. Read Harold T. ' Wilkins, English explorers thrilling account in The American Weekly, the magasine distributed with Sundays LA Examiner Some Items The cloek never stops on Neighbor J. DeZwarte because Aa children of God every man, woman and child haa the right to comfort, plenty, joy, aucceaa and happineaa, and there sho- OPINION diplomats here have caused mi to believe there la soma suspicion about us in Europe now. It is natural, I suppose, that tha dictators and even tha French and the British would ba looking for hidden reasons for such a mission as Mr. Welles executed. They are always double dealing themselves, ao wa ean suppose that they look for similar traits In any event, among Americana. nothing of eon sequence came out of that tour of the European capita la, not even political prestige for tha President Which reminds me that when Mr. WAB TALK Talk of the United States entrance into tha European war ia growing in many quarter!, according to William Bruckart He maintains that auch talk ia not Because tha conflict necessary. haa spread to Norway and Denmark, Americana believe that It may some day be impossible for us to atay out of the tight But Bruckart asks for Just ona good reason for our involvement SUMNER WELLES AND WIFE . . . Hit mission asis judged? way, myself. I really do not care who blowi Hitler and all of his Officially, however, gang the United Statea la still friendly, with Germany and Russia. It la ao ridiculous that one haa to laugh. Evidence of how our siding In with the allies obtains even in governmental affairs was given just the other day when tha President proclaimed the new combat zones around Norway and Sweden. It waa a proclamation that avoided saying tha countries of Sweden, Norway and Denmark were at war." Why? WeU, if the United States government, acting through the President had said those nations were at war, another law would have become operative and Mr. Roosevelt did not want that law to be operative. If those nations had been declared formally "at war, another law would have prevented any money being loaned to them. Mr. Roosevelt wanted to keep the door open so that help can be extended if It become! necessary. There, again, you ean see the possibilities of danger. Also, tha definite evidence of the American desire to help Germanys enemies ia plain to see. If wa think, however, that tha lending of money to a foreign nation that ia engaged in war does not lead to additional steps and additional dangers, then wa have become an ostrich and are trying to hide our head in the sand. The dangers of these various acta are apparent. It seems to me. I make no charge that Mr. Roosevelt la trying to lead us into war. X believe quits the contrary. But with conditions aa they are with a dozen nations with their backs to tha waB-cv- ery move made here requires tha greatest of care and the greatest of understanding before It ia made. The examination, aa I insisted at the beginning of this discussion, should be made from the standpoint: Why ia it necessary to stick out our necks? Wa can find no valid reason to get into the war. Tha whole Western hemisphere has nothing to gain and everything to lose by participating. I entertain the hope that staying out of the war will become a major issue in the forthcoming political campaigns. 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