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Show HPH 'IT n TP2 T Ji JhioiLsgM Jrood j The war rages on many fronts. Our ' boys, these sterling i patriots, who are out on the far-flung battle lines, are doing their level best. The government is doing its very best to support sup-port them and the great majority of citizens are doing their best to produce the necessities of war. But there is an element el-ement on the home front as dangerous as the foreign enemy. They are going about stealthily with their daggers sheathed, ready to strike at some propitious monent, and dye their weapons red in the blood of their country May God have mercy on them and the country and the people when they begin their work of destruction. Men are more or less excusable for relying on material wealth in money, stocks, bonds, etc., as security against unfavorable un-favorable conditions that might arise in the future. But let us advise them that right now their holdings might better be mined into channels of human welfare than to be hoarded, like misers hoard their gold, because the best of securities will shortly peiish, in the cataclvsms that lie ahead. Better let go of s me of the hoarded wealth and help struggling humans while you have it, for when the day of destruction comes upon the land you will lose We have been about a little lately an I we are astounded by what we have learned by wandering just a very little ways from our dust spot. First, we met a man who said this war was started by the president. This caused us to remark that we would't stand under the same roof with anyone who believed belie-ved that. The way he looked when he said it was awful. He should have had his picture ta en that moment to hang i n all rest rooms. Then we caine onto a company of four, men berating be-rating England and the war effort, all of them prospering aod all enjoying life like kings. But there w s a boy among them a fine, typical American boy who spoke out, "You are fine Americans, you are." Then we, buy proxy, came in touch with a man who denounced the president and General Mc Arthur. The mood he was in is blighting his life and hurting his business. Such hatred eats out both heart and soul. Better Bet-ter stand by America in her hour of fiery trial so that she will survive and stand by you throughout your life. You profiteers who are taking from 100 per cent to 2000 per cent profit, and you who draw such high salaries as has been disclosed in the senate, had better make the most of your exploiting power while you have it because it won't be long that you will be permitted to do as you are doing. We raise our voice in protest and condemnation and we hold that ah wealth and all industry and all labor should be conscripted. When a nation conscripts life i should also conscript wealth. And we hold further that all who receive salaries above S2500 should have one-third of it, taken for war purposes, and all who receive above $10,000 should have half of it taken for go"einment use, and 75 per cent should be taken from all who receive over $20,000. All past wars have made the rich richer and left the poor poorer And mostly the poor it has been whose sons have been done to death. It should be different in this war and all should sacrifice and suffer alike, so far as ha t is possible. The nation needs to awaken to the full gravity of the peril that confronts it. It needs to appreciate how badly we have been defeated in four months of war. It needs to understand that it is possible for the United Nations and the United States to lose this war and suffer the fate of France and that that this possibility may become a probability if the present tide does not change. It needs to realize that there is grave chance of the Japanese Jap-anese pushing through India and the Germans driving through the Near East, to jo n their armies and resources in an almost unbeatable combination. It needs to get away, once and for all, from the comforting comfort-ing feeling that wtiile we lose at the start we are bound to win in the end. Only when fully aware of existing perils will the United States do its utmost. May God that awareness will not come too late, a3 it did in France! New York World Telegram I f there is any place in the world where an appropriation of money is needed it is the proposed appropriation for renovation reno-vation and modernization of the Salt Lake City "jail. Some one should go after the commissioners with a baseball bat until un-til they grant the mayor's request. How that jail needs it! We have not been incarcerated not yet, but wehave seen enough In the desolation of human understanding, divine Love hears and answers the human call for help; and the voice of Truth utters the divine verities of being which deliver mortals out- of the depths of ignorance and vice. Mary Baker Eddy In the fine endeavor to lift others we shall find that we raise ourselves. In endeavoring to make life better and sweeter for others we make life better and sweeter for ourselves. Thus are we to be saved. |