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Show M Marca 1, .. 1B7 ? -- j state of OTjrcountry and its common tkly the New Review Foreign headj Since the notorious peaee of Munich, almost every day has seen the tars of Great Britain and France descend to new lows, torn by from within, heaped with ridicule from without Hardly had Alfred Duff Cooper resigned from the British cabinet in protest against Prime Minister Chamberlains "sell-out- " before Winston Churchill arose had Jumped to 31.7. Reasons: (1) technical and cultural changes; (2) In the house of commons to state his views. He prophesied that Engeconomic necessity. Mr. Bigger found the comer bakery and laun- land will be dependent on German dry relieved Mrs. Housewife of good will for its very existence. "We many duties, leaving her free to have sustained defeat without war, boost the familys income or re- and the whole equilibrium at he place an unemployed husband as Europe has been changed. President? Peacemaker Role Seen as Campaign Strategy i Tuesday. November 8. fte will elect an entoe 2J?of rd representative. hoat of Mover- Jmate end 8. politics awing .Storth from RepubUcen to domination, since the breadwinner. to His comment: "This is an ecoawing which began and pasaed Its nomic and social trend worthy of U33 bai reached la that consideration. the latest prediction .tart swinging will A much more blunt comment Bepubiicaniani hack into power this year. Roo-vei- n came from the Rt Rev. Msgr. FulFranklin 1. ton J. Sheen, famed radlorator and mvusly. it to stymie a Repub. ambition faculty member of the Catholic unincomeback. But his chief iversity at Washington: "The only terest in last summers primaries real success for a woman, the only the but was not Republicanism, real vocation is motherhood . . . liberal party of a coherent to tactics. Why be equal men when you are Static through totalled purge" Since purge failed, since preset ration ot New Deal gains already than made is now more Important ' superior?' t Until this year, most U. S. citizens regarded the foreign spy as a comic atrip and fiction character, although officers government intelligence have long known the nation is Infested with agents from Russia, Germany, Italy and Japan. First real action to eombat spies Is the house committee on which has heard evidence connecting espionage with everyone from Shirley Temple to unnamed industrial magnates. Incoherent though Its findings may be, the committee has enough U. S. sentiment to demand action. After reviewing the situation. President Roosevelt has laid plans for the work of auch spy seekers as the army and navy intelligence departments, federal bureau of investigation, secret service and other treasury law enforcement units. Already in operation is a new law requiring all agents of foreign principals to register with the state department Though the measure has no teeth, it will enable the U. & to keep an eye on propagandists, thereby paving the way for action against spies. Regardless of who holds power when civil service is expanded, It will create furore in the minority ranks because present will be favored. On this assumption, a furore will come in Republican ranks February 1 when 81,000 Democratic workers in emergency agencies are moved into civil service classification. Another 44,000 may be added later. summed up. That Prime Minister Chamberlain agree is shown by his insistence on d a rearmament program, a move quite contradictory to his peace pact and his treaty with Italy. R is an admission that not even Mr. Chamber-laitrusts Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini very far. Meanwhile, Franca has been quick to make peace with Italy by recognising her conquest of EtU- - all-tim- n n budget-balancin- g, Xhree points of peace: World Peace: The world may never know if President Roosevelt smooth over the Czech-Germbut his final message to Adolf Hitler and simultaneous pleas to every other world power came only a few hours before the Reichs-tuehrcalled his historic Munich parley. But, coming when It did, Roosevelt intercession looked Helped an crisis, er successful Thus, hi the ;a W fi will overlook the fact that Munichs help demoe-- i racys cause, was instead a meeting did nothing to & lew victory vr. prals-.- $, administration's foreign pol-'c-y safeguard to world peace, Democrats hope the voting public tor Germany. Business Peace: if die admlnia-- (ration's foreign policy win helped peace, it also helped U. S. Upshot hu been a tre--- JUI stock market upturn, y plater steel and automobile higher railroad carloadings. Part of this upturn is also due iiri P fiovemmental "pump priming," 51 ut beginning to show its ' V? Nevertheleu then signs of timism came at a time when U. S. decided to quit warring on w to administration, choosing instead play ball until a Republican government throws out New Deal meas-whic-h it considers oppressive. dcnt Roosevelt has asked for aber rattling" and more between government and Charles Hook, president le National Association of s, has assured him that Mwneu is eager for lnu- nanklin Roosevelt looms as i peacemaker with business. Industrial Peace: When the Amer--n Federation of Labor convened ton, Texas, the President bis desire tor a settle-en- t of the factional war between u l John Lewis ConsIndutrtal Organization. ul,oUd abor front, thor-Ne- w Deal would be a potent ter. How It could exercise bi soUdiOcd strength against em-f- if ,n "Pteaeant thought, I'ayerage business man is In- hope a patch-u- p win bring conservatism to labor. Though Preiidents peacemaking effort e1"plet1y tailed, the nation y Well appreciate his gesture, Despite the political connotations Pfae efforts must certainly PrL df n election season, the role of arbl-wi- n favor with a u;,.pop,ac- - Whether this popu-:a-n lrld pro-tio- n, ' K-- wan-wear- y wlU overshadow Republi-- l. rtdelam on November 8 is guea. any-oa- J wnestic h be census showed SS.S per U women over 16 emPlyed. By 1937, resigning as cad'V3, min? re,ldcnt Roosevelts census, the percentage J0 sr?!? If the people wish to do away with taxes let them proceed to own the electric resources the creator cave them. I ) n't be dead to vour inter rati Read MUNICIPAL PLANTS SUCCESSFUL IN COMPETITION Present Municipal Electric Power Operation as a Guide to the Establishment of New Plants amid the Improvement of Existing Plants 2,000 Systems Two thousand municipally owned electric utilities are more than a symptom, and electric power is more than a mere commodity it is a symbol of a less physically arduous future that might well be speeded by lower rates which should encourage vastly increased consumption which in turn would stimulate the invention and production of more kinds of electrical appliances and devices. While there are the great municipally owned electric systems, such as the $10,000,000 property at Jacksonville, Fla., serving 37,000 consumers, the $23,000,000 enterprise at Tacoma, Wash., serving 35,000, and the $106,000,000 system at Los Angeles, Calif., serving 246,000 consumers, there are also some 300 plants serving fewer than 500 meters each. Of these miniatures, about 30 actually serve fewer than 100 meters each. . The big systems show what can be accomplished by the determination of a few men inspiring the many, to place in the hands of the local people the production and sale of the energy that is rapidly taking the place of human muscles. Low rates are not the sole objecte ive; sometimes it is low taxes or improvement which without the financial aid of the electric utility would not be built. A determined stride takes us from these great municipally operated electric enterprises to the rank and file of municipal plants, of which altogether there are in the neighborhood of 2,000. Most of the smaller plants, and particularly the more recently established plants, are These, too, are offering low rates, furnishing or free city service, or donating to the General Fund. Those who wish to sutdy their records will find the basic figures for 512 electric utilities presented in the Burns and McDonnell Engineering Co. (Kansas City, Mo. compilation, Results of Municipal Lighting Plants, showintr rates in effect Los Anegles charges domestic customers 4.4 cents kwh for the first 35 kwh, 2.3 for the .next 75, 1.5 for per the -TOxt ieO; kwtrtoiin "fconfrbHed fester heatprr g rate is 2.7 cents, and LI cent for ing. The other municipal purposes. The gross profit in 1935-3- 6 was They All Wonder Why Millions of little children, starved to a whisper in China, Spain and other lands, look up from their agony and ask, Why should it be bo? Frail mothers, also numbering millions, are babes to their cold breasts hugging their greatly and sinking in despair because hey cannot give them food, and are searching the deeps above them in a vain effort to find out if God has deserted his world. Millions of the aged are trudging to paupers graves, dodging bombs and fire and guns, and asking a thousand times over, Why must it be thus? No human words have yet been coined to describe all the horror and suffering that man ie heaping on man his brother. The late general conference struck some high notes on tKe world debacle and the cure for present ills. But do they realize that what is goiiig on over there is simply the rugged individualism of nations evolved from individual rugged individualism? Let me take what I can and keep what 1 take; let me satisfy my greed and lust for power no matter who or what is trampled under in the quest, is the spirit of rugged individualism in men and nations, and until that is relegated to oblivion and a broad ana saving system of unselfish cooperation is' ushered in it will always be so. There is no war or revolution or dictatorship in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, where cooperation has established one of the best civilisations on earth tpday. Why not follow their example? Her parliament, by overwhelmingly approving foe Munich pact, agreed that no pries was too high for peaee even though It meant relegating France to foe position of a second-rat- e power.' "But sorely-taxe- d Frenchmen want to know why they must pay for a huge army and navy that refuses to fight. opls. There are other signs, as well The resignation of Czech President Eduard Benes In foe faee of growd ing public sentiment against democracies, indicates that Czechoslovakia is giving in to dewith the mands for Rome-Berli- n axis. It Is almost humorous to reflect that Great Britain his agreed to defend Czecho- city-own- ed far-seei- ng ed city-wid- diesel-operate- d. low-co- st well-kno- 1936-193- 7. and--ee- Last March, Just before Adolf Hitler marched into Austria, Viennas Theodore Cardinal Innitzer urged Catholics to vote for German annexation as a means of blocking Communism. Though Cardinal Innitzer knew German Catholics had suffered at the Reich's bands, he plumped for Nazi ism because Herr Buerckel Hitler's representative, had quoted the Saviour: "Render unto Caesar that which Is Caesar's and unto God that which is Gods." Criticized by the Vatican, Cardinal Innitzer moreover was to lesm that "Caesar Hitler would take all he could get, shearing every vestige of power from the Catholic church. Early in September foe cardinal protested when marriage was made a state sffair, when Catholic schools were frowned upon, when Catholic nuns were ousted from hospitals. Later he complained when priests were denied foe right of administering church comforts to political prisoners. The state, it was appsrenl Reich-fuehr- slovakias integrity. is Chancellor Even - Hitlers more-tragi- c reparations from Czechoslovakia, to be paid out of foe 3150,000,-00- 0 loan recently granted the Czechs by Great Britain. With central Europe turned over completely to dictatorship, with Russia breaking her French alliance and crawling back into silence, France and Britain apparently stand alone, friendless, merely tolerated by their "friends" Italy and for high-pressu- the State Welfare Board realise that in cutting the aged people 20 per cent they have deprived the state and its deserving eople of nearly half a million dollars And do they further realise that when they cut 20 per cent from the meager income of many aged people they actuaily stole the bread of life from them? SfSS!lhaccount securities. ductions. According to a survey by the Federal Power Commission in 1937, the lowest rates for residential service in the State of Utah were those of Logan, Murray and Ephraim ALL OWNED AND OPERATED SYSTEMS. Cleveland, O., operating a municipal light and power plant since 1914, has a top rate of 3 cents per KWH and has been making a net profit of from $750,-00- 9 to $900,000 per annum. Lodi Calif., (Pop. 7,100) with an average electric rate of per KWH made a net profit last year from the municipal water and light system of 373,150. Rochester, Minn., (Pop. 17,000 owns two light and power plants, one steam and one hydro, made a net income in 1928 of 209.388 with a gross revenue of 3400,196, and has rates lower than any privately owned plant in the The Townsend people are jubilant because it is now assured that their Welfare Plan will get a hearing before the Ways and Means Committee in congress at the coming session. Sav what you will but the demand for the passage of the Welfare Act is growing in all parts of the country. it I t1., War edral Only official Nazi answer to Vati- can protests has been but Viennas mob scene effects. Almay have ready seen la a surging German religious revival which la bound to crash headlong Into the state's domineering program. From this point, Germany might either become an state or modify Its reg, anti-Chri- ligious position. Meanwhile, church and state are girding for battle. Yes, we are for the socialization of medicine and surgery. Look at the present picture. 14,000 women die every year from causes connected with pregnancy and childbirth; 75,000 infants are still born; 70,000 infants die in the first month of life; 35,000 children are yearly left motherless. Thousands die from unnecessary operations and mistakes made in diagnosis. The total number of preventable deaths from the effects of pneumonia, diabetes, tuberculosis, syphilis, and cancer mount to more than 200,000 a year. 40 per cent of the counties have no registered hospitals. In the face of these facts some still say: Centralisation of medicine ie dangerous to public health - politicians Though campaigning do not speak at it, next winters congress will probably turn foe income tax headache into a nightmare. With another federal deficit in prospect, with high income brackets already taxed to foe limthe solution will be n broadening of tax base on middle and low incoma groups, e., the man making leu than 350.000 a year. Present exemptions are 31.000 for single per 32.500 for married persons, with 3400 extra for each dependent under 18 years of age. If 2,087,736 persons Died 1935 returns on that basis, an estimated 8,400,000 would yield from 3200.000.000 to 3500,000, 000 more under the proposed plan for reducing exemptions to 3500 for single persons, 31,000 for married persons and 3200 for dependents. Chief victims would be thou now paying in the low income brackets, a prospect that bodes virtual political suicide tor any coo greuman who favors the measure. federal Only alternative would be sales taxation, which horrified" President Roosevelt when he first took office and has since been n dead issue. County Assessor Skidmore walked into the office the other day and put a new foundation of silver under it. He is a zteiling young man, eapaple and efficient, and as much entitled to as any man could be. Give him your vote. He baa been a subscriber for years, Let officials follow his example Mr. Darter will give the final lecture of the tcrics Sunday night at 323 Vj South State St Subject, The Great Pyramid. lc negotiable Popuation is 24,000. The gross revenue of the Ponca City. Okla., municipal lignt lystem in 1922 was $118,000 and in 1929, $337,000. Net profits for 1932 were KS537. and for 1929-3net profits were $200,0) New I ondon. Wia, earned a net pirn, of $26,000 by it municipal light and power plant during the first ten months of 1929. Population is 4,700. Industiial power which costr 84t in Tacoma unde-- , nership costs $113 In Spokane iru-.icir- 'itHc rrt-'nt- e own. ;hip. the dpai new city halL Population is 5,00a The Seattle municipal light and power system now has foe state. Municipal ownership in Lincoln Neb., has reduced the cost of domestic current from 15 cents per KWH max., by successive stages, first to 13c; then to 9c, and finally to 5c. The municipal light and power : plant of Virginia, Minn. (Pop. 16, 000) has a lighting rate or 344 cents per KWH. The Pasadena, CaL, Muncipal Light and Power Department made a net profit of $656,000 in 1 1929. The municipal light plant at Malden, Mo., does a gross volume of business of $24,000 a year, and after giving free street and white way lighting and free lighting to the churches, netted the city a profit of $7,200 id 1929. A weird cdmbtnation of communistic-democratic government rules for Loyalist Spain, plainly holding and France democratic of sympathy foe sup England. Rebel Spain has Ger port of totalitarian Italy and team Sony. Since the totalitarian Mu beat the democratic team at Loyalist recent parley, peace nich's will not beSpain wonders if she come another Czechoslovakia, sold down the river to keep peaceta This Europe's quarreling family. out in talk borne been has theory pact of an fo whereby Italy would withdraw almove (a Rebel to Spain support Franc ready started), whereby would close her border against arm Thui shipment to Loyalist Spain. Isolated, Spain's civil warriors would eventually be brought to taw peace. Since France and Englu-are anxious to keep Italy's good will there is every reason to believe that ultimata victory would come to Premier Benito Mussolini's very good friend end ally, Rebel Gcnerallsiimt d Francisco Franco. One of our Charter subscribers, Joseph E. Moyle of Alpine, has pas sad away. Our office was always home to him for coun eel, advice and friendliness. He was a humble, honest man who hewed to the line of righteo isness. Peace to his good soul re- re ta - try is one of continued rate Taxation Viennas famed St Stephens cath- re high-pressu- Germany. THEODORE CARDINAL INNITZER After Naxiiim, he changed his mind. strovB to push Catholicism into the background, to raise Austrian ot youth in Nail ideology Instead Catholic theology. When Cardinal Innitzer protested, a mob strongly reminiscent of the Middle ages descended on his palace, made It a shambles, threw Father Johann Kravanik window. The from a second-stor- y Cardinal himself was cut by flying glass but appeared next morning at $7,934,347. Kansas City, Kans., population 135,000, with its munisteam plant, using cheap powdecipally owned red-coal, sells electric energy protably to its industrial plants at 4 mills per kwh, and 100 kwh to itslarge residential users at $2.80 which is the lowest rate of any steam plant in the country. Even at these low rates, this city is finjust ishing a $3,000,000 enlargement, which is being paid for entirely out of the accumulated profits. These modern steam plants, incidentally, are producing electricity at lower and lower costs. Does demand nt street-lightin- weak-knee- Religion shoulder-shruggin- WHO WAX RICH ON PEOPLES UTILITIES our subscribers, President Samuel Wilde, while speaking at the general conference, stated that in hie stake they had received a great deal of help from the Self Help Cooperatives. This is fine. We havent heard of any euch admission in Salt Lake and yet there may be some sort of Cooperation that has not come to our attention. He presides at Coalville. WINSTON CHURCHILL He, emoag other, sou ashamed, Manu-acturer- aeM-chos- FACTS THAT COMPLETELY DISARM THOSE fc f S" MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP e under-nourish- ARGUMENTS FOR CLINCHING One of crys-taliz- 4party purification, Novembers election hu resumed normal political color for the first time since 1930. As in 1938, this year's Republican candidates can base a strong campaign on New Deal failure. Unlike 1933 and 1938; this year's Democrat ic campaign becomes essentially defensive proposition. But developments of the past month show that the New Deal's defense will not feature such argumentative points as AAA, relief and will attempt instead to shift public Interest on Franklin Roosevelt's acas a peacemaker. complishments .think bank report states that there are now in the banks of the country some 47.000,000,000, dollars which makes an high And, says the report, the turnover of these deposits is the lowest on record. Here is a study for all those interested iu the money question. The dogs in the manger, are very much in evidence in all this. . FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT At eferiion time, s peacemaker. -- A federal reserve high-spee- Anglo-Germa- Editorial Vtrso When God beholds the ghastly scene Where monsters vent their bitter spleen By dropping death bombs from the air On helpless ones who follow there . The humble tenor of their toil Upon their own dear hs llowed soil; Who tear frail infants from the breasts Of mother aouls whose faith invests nobler traits the things called men Who bomb and laugh and bomb again, He should in grief and tears repent That he to life such brutes had sent. If heaven is dumb let MEN stand forth And banish war from all the earth! Uy Joseph W. La IKine Politics Editorial people Congratulations to Provo on her victory in the ILS.Supreme court against the Utah Lt. and Power Co. Now she can go ahead with her munici 'al plant, almost fought to death by the Power interests. Too bad the peopled interests were betrayed in Ogden. Forward to municipal ownership and lower taxes. . -- of Progressive Opinion Dear Sir: To merry England Shakespeare, phrased it thus: "This England never did nor never shall lie at the proud foot of a conqueror. Save when at first that ahe did w und herself. Now thcao our princes have come home again, Let the three corners of the world arise Inarms againat us and well shock them. aught shall rue, So long as Albion to itself shall prove but true. The Lord of the Admirality aaye "u0 Britain will lore it empire if Bnd. Chamberlain would Minister Prime etc. fight, aurrender and lie inert at the feet of its Whin this shall he let England find a surer ronoi Long live Albion, a place more safe for its democracy. the Cacahc, the Bohemian dynasty. 0w)IW A udoll .1 ! H 1 nt Orange City, la., operates a owned light and municipally 0 power plant costing only $72,-00which has been paid for out of profits. In 1929 with a net gross revenue of $32,000 the cent per profit was $12,00016 per annum on the investment. Pop. is 1,600. Sack-e- tt f erred to by Ambassador Conferat the World Power ence in Berlin: I know of no other industry aside from the electrical where The Sale Price of the product Is fifteen times for the AWulesburg, Colo., the mufirst nine month of 1929 excess of in earning nicipal d expense plant totalled tee) iSF w rf s J were 4 ccnta. No made for or service, and no Mich, with a llht, other municipal heSTVatcT and power system operating costa are given. IhS auroluz sm $10.-- of ' street-lightin-g, charge water-work- ta s |