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Show Food For TlnoiiigM beginning made. Men willhave learned that it is the only way. If such a move were made today it would shake the financial fi-nancial and political world to its foundations But really a beginning has already been made. Mr. Howard B. Rand explains that a Royal Commission in Canada, appointed to excmine the present system and to find a way to solve the debt and tax problems, has had presented to it and is considering this very plan, and that it will eventually be adopted because it is the divinely ordained destiny of the nations to carry it through. , It is the one and only sure solution of national and world problems. Such is the program, pro-gram, Any other course will lead only to chaos. The story of what the plutocratic perversion of democracy democ-racy has done in Utah is one of t ie most pathetic chapters chap-ters in the history of . a thrifty, frugal and industrious people. Here the power trust exacts three times as much for electricity as is just; the oil trust collects at least ten cents a gallon too much for gas; the meat trust gives the farmer about 1-4 of what the consumer pays for his meat; j the milling trust by merely grinding the wheat into flour makes it worth twice as much as the farmer gets for raising the wheat; the lumbir trust compells builders of homes to pay three times as much forlumberas it costs at the mills, the milk trust pays the farmer as low as 8 cents a gallon for milk and charges the consumer as high as 48 cents a gallon. And yet there are still people in the state who wonder why Utah is called the "Poor rich state;" and that many of our boys leave the state each year to obtain a I FOUND A boy's leather fleece-lined Coat- Call this office I 1 Foljowing are a few lessons in public ownership of light and power. T'le Los Angeles municipal plants brought in a net profit of nine million dollars for last year. Corinth, Miss-; Miss-; issippi showed a net profit of 50,000. Knoxville, Tenn., had a" i net income of $1,111,437 for 35 months of operation, and the ' people were saved some $4,000,000 in reduced rates. Before ; the war is over it will all be public ownership because the owners depending solely on money will not be able to operate and the cities and states or government will have to takeover. II is not a good idea to stir partisan politics to the boiling point in this country in face of the world situation. The re- vival of contentions and strife such as have entered into some of the big campaigns will but sorve to further divide the people and lessen their chances of winning the war. "Never," says a commentator, "has this country seemed so near to defeat as now." This predicament requires a united front and the best effort, and the whole effort of every citizen must be put forth at once and for everv day of the struggle. Our attention has been called to the principles of the Bahai Faith whose members meet weekly, Wed. Eve at ' 50S Scott Bldg. As we believe in taking truth where we find it we publish here the twelve basic prineiples. 1 The oneness of mankind 2 Independent Investigation of trutn. 3 The foundation of all reiigion is one. 4 Religion must be the cause of unity. 5 Religion must be in accord'with science and reason. 6 Equality between be-tween men and women. 7 Prejudice of all kinds must be forgotten. 8 Universal peace. 9 Universal education, educa-tion, 10 Spiiitual solution of the economic problem. 11 A universal language. 12 An inernational tribunal. The recent meeting of Roosevelt and Churchill, the outstanding out-standing representatives of the two great Israel nations, waj providential and entirely in line with prophesies made 1 centuries ago. There was a crisis then, but there will be a greater one and these two men or their successors and others will meet again to discuss the carrying on of the program of deatiny. When things are a lot worse than at present there will be a solemn gathering and in that gathering there will be a discussion of ways and'means never before discussed in a political convention. Some distinguished leader will make a motion that there be set up then and there an ad- ; ministration wholely in line with the divine plan outlined ; i e Bible, the law of Moses and the law of Christ being the foundation. The motion will be carried and a |