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Show fe, 10 OF INCOME Vi A A ?ftdF r A dimt out of .very I - - PRINTING PUBLISHING i VOL. t, NO. 21. David Keith Bldg.y Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, June 19, 1942 Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR Gffeaft Speech ifVi2.Pr.Wallace One of Best Talks of Our Time. Good Political J and Economic Gospel For Common People weapons of modern war with a holy hatred. j. But because of that fact and be- - cause Hitler and the German peo-ple stand as the very symbol of war, we shall fight with a tireless enthusiasm until war and the pos-- j sibility of war have been removed from this planet. We shall cleanse the plague spot of Europe, which is Hitler's Germany, and with it the hell-hol- e of AsiaJapan. The American People This is a fight between a slave world and a free world. Just as the United States in 1862 could not remain half slave and half " free, so in 1942 the world must make its decision for a complete victory one way or the other. As we begin the final stages of this fight to the death between the free world and the slave world, it is worth while to refresh our minds about the march of freedom ift "for the common man. The idea of freedom the freedom that we in the United States know and love so well is derived from the Bible with its extraordinary emphasis on financed by men who wealthy their sincerely believe that wealth is Hkely to be safer y can hire men with Political it to change the sign posts and lure the people back into slavery of the most degraded kind. Unfor-tunately for the wealthy men and finance movements of this sort, as well as for the people themselves, the successful demagogue is a powerful genie who, when once let out of his bottle, refuses to obey anyone's command. As long as his spell holds, he defies God Himself, and Satan is turned loose upon the world. to go about it to build an enduring world-wid- e peace. We did not have the nerve to follow through and prevent Germany from rearming. We did not insist that she "learn war no more." We did not build a peace treaty on the fundamental doctrine of the people's revolution. We did not; strive whole-hearted- to create a world where there could be free-dom from want for all the peoples. But by our very errors we learn-ed much, and after this war we shall be in position to utilize our knowledge in building a world which is economically, politically and, I hope, spiritually sound. Enough To Eat Modern science, which is a by-product and an essential part of the people's revolution, has made it technologically possible to see that all of the people of the world get enough to eat. Half in fun and half seriously, I said the other day to Madam Litvi-no- ff : "The object of this war is to make sure that everybody in the world has the privilege of drink-ing a quart of milk a day." She replied: "Yes, even a pint." The peace must mean a better standard of living for the common man, not merely in the United States and England, but also in India, Russia, China and Latin America not merely in the Unit-ed Nations, but also in Germany and Italy and Japan. Some have spoken of the "Amer-ican Century." I say that the cen-tury on which we are entering the century which will come into being after this war can be and MUST be the century of the common man. Perhaps it will be America's op-portunity to support the freedoms and duties by which the common man must live. Everywhere the common man must learn . to in- -, crease his productivity so that he and his children can eventually pay to the world community all that they have received. No nation will have the God-give- n right to exploit other nations. Older nations will have the privi-lege to help younger nations get started on the path to industrial-ism, but there must be neither military nor economic imperialism. The methods of the 19th century will not work in the people's cen-tury which is now about to begin. India, China, and Latin America have a tremendous stake in. the people's century. As their masses learn to read and write, and as they become productive mechanics, their standard of living will double and treble. Modern science, when devoted wholeheartedly to the general wel-fare, has in it potentialities of which we do not yet dream. Satan-Inspire- d Fuehrer Through the leaders of the Nazi revolution, Satan now is trying to lead the common man of the whole world back into slavery and dark-ness. For the stark truth is that the violence preached bv the Nazis is the devil's own religion of dark-ness. So also is the doctrine that one race or one class is by hereditv superior and that all other races or classes are supposed to be slaves. The belief in one Satan-inspire- d Fuehrer, with his Quislings, his Lavals, and his Mussolinis his gauleiters in every nation in the world is the last and ultimate darkness. Is there any hell hotter than that of being a Quisling, un-less it is that of being a Laval or a Mussolini ? In a twisted sense, there is something almost great in the fig-ure of the Supreme Devil operat-ing through a human form, in a Hitler who has the daring to spit straight into the eye of God and man. But the Nazi system has a heroic position for only one leader. By definition only one person is al-lowed to retain full sovereignty over his own soul. All the rest are stooges they are stooges wo have been mentally and politically degraded, and who feel that they can get sonare with the world onh" "politically degrad-ing other people. These stooges are really psycholopathic cases. Satan has turned loose upon us the insane. The march of freedom of the past 150 years has been a people's revolution. In this Great Revolution of the peo-ple, there were the American Rev-olution of 1775. the French Revo-lution of 1792, the Latin-Americ-evolution of the Bolivarian era. the German Revolution of 1848. and the Russian Revolution of 1917. Each spoke for the common man in terms of blood on the bat-tlefield. Rome went to excess. But the significant thing is that the people groped their way to the light. More of them learned to think and work together. The people's revolution aims at peace and not at violence, but if the rights of the common man are attacked, it unleashes the ferocity of a she-be- who has lost a cub When the Nazi psychologists tell their mnster Hitler that we in the United States may be able to pro-duce hundreds of thousands of nlanes, but that we have no will to fight, they are only fooling them-selves and him. Four Freedoms the dignity of the individual. De-- " mocracy is the only true political expression of Christianity. The prophets of the Old Testa- - ment were the first to preach so- -' cial justice. But that which was sensed by the prophets many cen-turies before Christ was not given complete and powerful political ex-- 2' pression until our nation was ; formed as a Federal Union a cen- - tury and a half ago. Even then, j the march of the common people 5 had just begun. Most of them did j not yet know how to read and i write. There were no public schools 1 to which all children could go. J Men and women cannot be really jj free until they have plenty to eat, mj, and time and ability to read and Lso think and talk things over. fflj Down the years, the people of to the United States have moved ml steadily forward in the practice of democracy. Through universal they now can read and V write and form opinions of their :U own. They have learned, and are still learning; the art of produc-tion that is, how to make a living. . They have learned, and are still learning the art of March of Freedom If we are to measure freedom by ' standards of nutrition, education and we might rank, the United States and cer- - tain nations of western Europe very high. But this would not be a fair to other nations where educa-tion has become widespread only in the last 20 years. In many nations, a generation ago, 9 out of 10 of the people could not read or write. Russia, J for example, was changed from an illiterate to a literate nation within one generation and, in the process, Russia's appreciation of freedom was tremendously increased. In """j China, the increase during the past 30 years in the ability of the peo- - .J pie to read and write has been N, matched by their increased inter-est in real liberty. Everywhere, reading and writ. "T ing are accompanied by industrial I progress, and industrial progress sooner or later inevitably brings a strong labor movement. From a long-tim- e and fundamen-tal point of view, there are no backward peoples which are lacki-ng in mechanical sense. Russians, Chinese, and the Indians, both of India and the Americas, all learn w to read and write and operate ma-chines just as well as your children OTll ... .-1J The American' people have al-- , ' ways had guts and always will have. You know the story of bomber pilot Dixon and radioman Gene Aldrich and ordnanceman Tony Pastula the story which Americans will be telling their chil-- , dren for generations to illustrate man's ability to master any fate. These men lived for 34 days on the open sea in a rubber life raft, 8 feet by. 4 feet, with no food but that which they took from the sea and the air with one pocket knife and a pistol. And yet they lived it through and came at last to the beach of an island they did not know. In spite of their suffering and weakness, they stood like men, with no weapon left to protect themselves, and no shoes on their feet or clothes on their backs and walked in military file because, they said, "If there were Japs, we didn't want to be crawling." , The American fighting men, and all the fighting men of the United Nations, will need to summon all their courage during the next few months. I am convinced that the summer and fall of 1942 will be a . time of supreme crisis for us all. Hitler, like the prize-fight- er who realizes he is on the verge of being knocked out, is gathering all his re-maining forces for one last desper-ate blow. ' We may be sure that Hitler and Japan will cooperate to do the un-expected pehap.v as attack by Japan against Alaska and our Northwest coast at a time when German transport planes will be shuttled across from Dakar to fur-nish leadership and stiffening to a German uprising in Latin America. In any event, the psychological and sabotage offensive in the United States and Latin America will be timed to coincide with, or antici-pate by a few weeks, the height of the military offensive. Stifle Fifth Columnists We must be especially prepared to stifle the fifth columnists in the United States who will try to sabo-tage not merely bur war material plants, but even infinitely more important, our minds. We must be prepared for the worst kind of fifth column work in Latin America, much of it operating through the agency of governments with which the United States at present is at peace. When I say this, I recog-nize that the peoples, both in Latin America and of the nations sup-porting the agencies through which the fifth columnists work, are over-whelmingly on the side of the de-mocracies. We must expect the offensive against us on, the military, propa-ganda and sabotage fronts, both in the United States and in Latin America, to reach its ap.ex some time during the next few months. The convulsive efforts of the dy-ing madman will be so great that some of us may be deceived into thinking that the situation is bad at a time when it is really getting better. But in the case of most of us, the events of the next few months, disturbing though thev may be, will only increase our will to bring about complete victory in this war of liberation. Prepared in spirit we can not be surprised. Psy-- chological terrorism will fall flat. As we nerve ourselves for the su-- ! preme effort in this hemisphere we ' must not forget the sublime hero-ism of the oppressed in Europe and Asia, whether it be in the moun-tains of Yugoslavia, the factories of Czechoslovakia and France, the farms of Poland, Denmark, Hol-land and Belgium, among the sea-men of Norway, or in the occupied areas of China and the Dutch Ensf Indies. Everywhere the soul of man is letting the tvrant know the slavery of the body does not end re-sistance. j No Half Measures ' There can be no half measures. North, South, East. West and Mid-- . ' die West the will of the Ameri-can people is for complete victory. No compromise with Satan is possible. We shall not rest until all the victims under the Nazi and Japanese yoke are freed. We sha" fight for a complete ,peace as well as a complete victory. The people's revolution is on the march, and the devil and all his angels can not prevail against it. They can not prevail, for on the side of the people is the Lord. "He giveth power to the faint; to them that have no might He strength. . . . They that wait upon the Lord shall mount un with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary;, they shall wplk and not be faint." Strong in the strength of the Lord, we who fight in the people's cause will not stop until that cause is won. Common Man Must Control And modern science must be re-leased from German slavery. In-ternational cartels that serve American greed and the German will to power must go. Cartels in the peace to come must be subject-ed to international control for the common man, as well as being un-der adequate control by the respec-tive home governments. In this way, we can prevent the Germans from again building a war ma-chine while we sleep. With inter-- , national monopoly pools under con-trol, it will be possibe for inven-tions to serve all the people in-stead of only a few. Yes, and when the time of pease comes, the citizens will again have a duty, the supreme duty of sac-rificing the lesser interest for the greater interest of the general wel-fare. Those who write the peace must think of the whole world. There can be no privileged peoples. If we really believe that we are fighting for a people's peace, all the rest becomes easy. Production, yes it will be easy to get produc-tion without either strikes or sabo-tage; production with the whole-hearted cooperation between will-ing arms and keen brains; enthu-siasm, zip, energy geared to the tempo of keeping at it everlast-ingly day after day. Hitler knows as well as those of us who sit in on the War Produc-tion Board meetings that we here in the United States are winning the battle of production. He knows that both labor and business in the United States are doing a most re-markable job and that his only hope is to crash through to a com-plete victory some time during fhe next six months. And then there is the task of transportation to the line of bat-tle by truck, by railroad car, by ship. We shall joyously deny our-selves so that our transportation system is improved by at least 30 per cent. There is going to be some denying. You'll hear plenty about it soon. I need say little about the duty to fight. Some people declare, and Hitler believes, that the American people have grown soft in the last generation.' Hitler agents continu-ally preach in South America that we are cowards, unable to use, like the "brave" German soldiers, the Are On the March Everywhere the common people I are on the march. By the millions, they are learning to read and a write, learning to think together, A learning to use tools. .1 nese people are learning to tn'nk and work together in labor movements, some of which may be J extreme or impractical at first, but ja which eventually will settle down 'Je to serve effectively the interests of the common man. When the freedom-lovin- g people march when the farmers have J j an opportunity to buy land at rea. sonable prices and to sell the prod-- . of their land through their own TO, wganizations, when workers have )0. the opportunity to form unions and ' "argain through them collectively, S and when the children of all the Pple have an opportunity to at- - nd schools which teach them truths of the real world in which they ljve when these opportunit- ies are open to everyone, then the world moves straight ahead. in countries where the abil-- y to read and write has been re-- I ' eently acquired or you know Fl J??4 62 per cent of the people in '"is world won't yet know how to wad and write where the people nave had no long experience in """g themselves on the basis W ot their own thinking, it is easy for ,eff Synagogues to arise and prostitute mind of the common man to 9 l"eir own base ends. Such a dem-tJo- ? aKffue may get financial help N "m some person of wealth who if M t Syarbee. oWf itwh hat end the result this backing, the .m?gogue may dominale the ,, of the People, tend, from '0 Whatever degree of freedom they tJi nave, lead them back into a most graded slavery. Herr Thyssen, H16 wealthy German steel man, lit-'- l realized what he was doing M t en ne gave Hitler enough money 'Zi of ! e him to Play on the mnds the German people. a?ne demagogue is the curse of 'e modern world, and of all the .pp emagogueS) the worst are thoSe 'i The people are on the march to-ward even fuller freedom than the most fortunate peoples of the world have hitherto enjoyed. No Nazi counter-revolutioni- st will stop it. The common man will smoke the Hiter stooges out into the open in the United States, in T ati America, and in India. He will de-stroy their influence. No Lavals, no Mussolinis will be tolerated in i free world. The people in their millennial and revolutionary march toward manifesting here on earth the dig-nity that is in every human soul, hold as their credo the Four Free-doms enunciated by President Roosevelt in his message to Con-gress on January 6, 1941. These four freedoms are the very core of the revolution for which the United Nations have taken their stand. We who live in the United States may think there is nothing very revolutionary about freedom of freedom of expression, and freedom from the fear of secret police. But when we begin to think about the significance of freedom from want for the average then we know that the revolu-tion man, of the past 150 years has not been completed, either here in the United States or in any other na-tion in the world. We know that this revolution cannot stop unti freedom from want has actually been attained. Four Duties And now, as we move forward Freedoms of the realising the Four people's revolution I would like to Socak about four duties: The duty to produce to the limit The duty to transport j rapidly battle. as possible to the line all that The duty to fight with is in us. The duty to build a peace just, charitable and enduring. The fourth duty is that which in-spires the other three. We failed in our job after World War No. 1. We did not know how Utah Needs Development . " ' I Utah's greatest need today Is more prospect shafts such as this one In order to insure her future well-bein- What has happened to the pros-pector? What has happened to the small mine operator? Are the producing mines doing sufficient development work? These are questions that are being asked throughout Utah and other western mining districts. They are all important to the pre- sent war effort and are not suf-ficiently in evidence t- - warrant a comfortable feeling toward metal production in the future. The producer, the small mine operator and development work have all been neglected during the past ten years and as a result the reserves of s metals are below what they have been during the past 25 years. The resources are here, but. .a, stimulation is needed to revive prospecting, small mines and de-velopment work. When a pound of ore has been mined it is gone; there is no second crop. More must be found to offset what is taken out or else the mine must close down. What has happened? The incen-tive has not gone, as prices are good for newly mined metals since the government recently offered a premium for newly mined or excess production. The nation needs met- - 2 als and is willing to pay for them. f The answer seems to lie in reg-ulation. The small operator and the prospector have virtually ceased to function because of a fear that exists of regulations of the Securities and Exchange Com-- ij mission, and development work In the producing mines has been cur- - ii tailed by mounting costs in other directions. All great mines were once mere i prospects and many prospects are now worthless holes in the ground. Mining Is a gamble and mining al- - ways will be a gamble. If future mines are to be developed by private.nterpris&-rathe- r than gov-ernment loan, then the burdensome and complicated restrictions of the Securities and Exchange Commis-sion should remove. The future of the mining Industry Is at stake and the future develop- ment of Utah resources are at stake. It is time to call for a revival of mining development if Utah is to continue its growth. I'Pcrsonall pISSl Hems. 1 For Friends & Neighbors. Readers, be sure to read the Vice President's speech on this page. It talks the people's language and may make Mr Wallace president. Neighbor Thomas J. Rosser made a visit to the office Mon-day. His oldest son Thomas L., was home from a camp in Georgia for a short time and was married on June 8 , and took his with him back to the camp, A younger son is sta-tioned at Spokane,Wash. They write fine etters to the folks. An elderly gentleman who long has been ' a friend and neighbor was in and engaged us in au inspirational conver-sation. He doesn't have any-thing of this world's goods but is head and shoulders above many who are well to do. He goes about doiDg good. The big and beautiful New York Magazine Tomorrow, for July, conta ns a poem, War Prayer, by Christie Lund Coles. Among the many economic plans referred to us for reading since depression began we havo lound hone so good as one sub-mitted this week" by" Neighbor Carl S.Fors. More about it later A note from Neighbor Geo. E. Manwaring wonders if the earthquake at Mt. Pleasant came because the best part of our force visited there week be-fore No brother. If we had the power to cause an upheaval it would be brought about in the minds and hearts of human beings. "Why don't we hear oi earthquakes, tidal waves, etc., in Germanytaly and, Japan?" ' Townsend Clubs of the sec ond congressional district will hold their annual convention at the Newhouse Hotel on July 17, announces PresidentA dolph Sorenson following a meeting of the executive board. The committee of arrangements consists of, Adolph Sorensen, Rose McNelly, Mrs. J. B Winn D. T, Davis aod Wesley Jacques Neighbor George Fox has two fine sons. One of them has recently married and the other has joined the navy to serve his country. Friend John T. Miller, who is publishing the Character Builder in California, has just tuined 74, and is hale and hear ty, working every day. For fifty years he has carried on a great work, and is still in the service of humanity. For a time we left our ninety nine sheep in the fold while we went fnit to find the other one, But we did not have to hunt long. Friend Arnold Boss found us and duly entered the fold again and we welcome him back because he. is a mighty good man who uses hisnrnd lo do his own thinking. He is progressive by nature and has faith in the future, Mrs. A. II Lund went to California Tuesday to visit her con Kenneth who is in the ser-vice and may shortly be called overseas. Her other son, How-ard has gone to Yellowstone to act as postmaster for a couple of months when he will enter the service. Personal Hems. Mrs. W. W. Winegar of Woods Cross was in Salt Lake Sunday and attended the Gos pel meeting at Quince Kimballs home, (where she delivered a very good sermon. She is a forceful speaker and always commands attention when she talks. She has long been one of our good Neighbors and takes due note of everything in the paper. Bringing Outside DOLLARS to Utah Like most of the western ' states, Utah does not have sufficient population to con- - sume all the food it pro-duces. Consequently, Utah needs all channels of distri- - bution, inside and outside the state. With their outlets in other states, chain stores provide a direct method of distribut-ing Utah products in distant ' markets. ' For example, one chain store Safeway in 1940 pur- - chased $8,031,611 worth of products from Utah farmers and livestock men. That same year, Safeway sold just 85,566,043 worth of goods to Utah consumers. - In other words, this one chain paid Utah producers $2,465,56S more than the total of its sales to Utah con- - sumer5. That kind ot business is a pretty good thing for Utah, isn't it? UTAH CHAIN STORES j, DEFENSE Some things about the war. In beauty parlors the iron that goes into a single hair dryer is enough fcr six hand grenades. In one set of brass curtain rods there is metal enough to make 80 cartridges for a rifle. In a radio phonograph there is enough steel to make a dozen bayonets. The copper from a dozen electric fans will provide a dozen bayonets. A traveling unit of the Na-val Aviation Cadet Selection Board is in S ult Lake for a m nth'sstay for the purpose of enlisting young men in Class V 5. Naval Aviation. Appli-enn- ts must be between 18 and 26, graduates of a hih school, unmarried, citizen." and able to pass physical examination. Chain Stores For All Out War Aid Pledge of All-Ou- t Aid in all phases of America's War Vict-ory drive awaits signatures of 2500 Utah Chain Store employ-ees from St. George to Logan. The pledge when signed will be sent to Donald M. Nelson, war production chief. Read their weekly AD in next column. |