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Show $1.50 PER YEAR fHE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY AND ITS COMMON PEOPLE Weekly News Review Agriculture jit Least Five Tax Measures To Get Congressional Hearing By Joseph W. La Bine gullet was NLRB's dimut of the Republic contention that many eloM to workers should not be reinstated bejncooYBuenily reports cause they engaged in violence. Anhveoma piecemealeoncernto swered NLRB: "It must be remem2 offhand prediction, When bered that the acts of fiscal aituatton. which the reBoosevelt talk, spondent (Republic) complains were 8, bo committed by strikers in the heat &m coogreu on January But right and turmoil of bitter industrial anything. hlm-- a strife, in which the threat of vio, the President can lence on the part of tha ho planning, with budget respondent fcaocaata: against the strikers was ever presraided by tocte and ent and frequently carried into exerL. Despite upswinging U. S. treaeury deficit for cution. jumped abov. ic current year , t Hi tow bull-KjM- leap-billion dollar October 20, hirward several million dollars mounting jay. Gold reserves, hit $14,-- II the European Kara, mi. Beviaed, the 1939 fiacal Now days the calamity howlera are trying to scare us about the money Franklin D. Roosevelt has put to a beneficial purpose. Forty nine thousand of our young men were kiiled in battle in the world war. fifty thousand died from disease, some 140 thousand were wounded, 22 billions of dollars was spent. It would be worse than sacrificeto figure the loss of men and woman in dollars, but it is safe to say that 19 billions of the money spent- in foreign countries will never be paid back. The calamity howlers don't say anything about that. How many mi! s of good roads, were built at that time? How many reservoirs, hospitals, school houses, bridges? How much was considered for the orphans, the widows and old age pensions? Some six years ago our country was in a worse condition than in 1918, millions of men and woman, out of employment and without means to bread themselves. We were on the verge of revolution. Millions of voices pleading for Franklin D. Roosevelt to do something. He put millions of men and women to work, built reservoirs, hospitals, schools, bridges and other things too numerous too mention that will stand as monuments to him when the calamity howlers are dead and forgotten. Of course it cost money to go to war in a foreign country, but who can figure the cost of revolution in our own country? R. M. Brandon fa ... e In-ta- K son-in-la- ' I eed. I? w y Mth 42,000 single aggression has htrto been unheard of in the Chi-" war giving rise to charges of Cantonese "sellout British, me A t . nearby crown colony of Hong- seriously damaged by the Japanese conquest claim the V jmtary governor of Canton be--i hi rurt for a handsome 1 A Communistic Chinese choose fo blame Generalissimo Chi- -i I -k for withdrawing Can-f S,i Crack trooP fofo the Hankow - sector. these squabbles have become to China' completely de-- b With both Canton Jictur' to rab bag. Japs P'mb on until an Chinese W Wition crumbles. Generalissimo ; J a Of is - Kli-he- 1 ts DO NEW MEXICOS CHAVEZ Lightning struck dote to homo. enforced political contribution on pain of discharge for noncompli-anc- e, enforced membership in po- to "I" ' Euro-tow-mu- 'l 'l Lnn-!Tt- 4- i roouc under-nourishe- Quince K. Kimball Rebellion to tyrrany is obedience to God. Trade schools should be built instead of prisons in order to give the young derelicts a chance to make a living without being forced to steal. - Hats off to the W. P. A. Educational department which has enrolled 15000 adult students and is doing a fine work. And what should Utah citizens think of the P. W. A. which has brought into the state and spent some $14, 000, 000? Zion has a lot to be thankful for if it only knew it. manufacturers, but ultimately paid by consumers. When the Supreme court ruled processing taxes invalid, a "soil conservation" program was set up to pay farmers for retiring their lend, ostensibly to give it a rest but actually to limit production. Thirty per cent of customs receipts were set aside to pay for It Last spring, with surpluses still piling up, congress passed a new form law, too late to limit production this year, which partially accounted for its failure. Under it the government may (D control production with consent of a majority of formers; (2) make payments for retiring land; (3) make additional "parity" payments as a protection against less than production - cost prices; (4) loan money against crops. If compulsory control is enas provided-wh- eat forced next year and cotton acreages must be reduced one half. Agricultural re- What Is Denounced Here Proves Godsend Elsewhere, Some one will have toraise a howl about poor distric,. unemployed people and starving children getting something for nothing over in Holland and the Scandinavian countries Why bless your souls they no Fonger have any hovels or poor districts. Why? Because their social legislation is so complete that downright poverty is practically nonand so existent. In Holland and the Scandinavian countries the child dren have not suffered from the depression; thanks to generou unemployment allowances and free meals their growth has remained normal. So says Dr. Rene Sand, and this was publish ed editorially in a local daily. The thing that has saved the civilization of those countries and lifted them out of the depression is what is denounced here as getting something for nothing. Denouncing what is being done for those in need is denouncing law and order and government because it is the law that it should be dune, and the law is part of the government, and without law there could be no order. Men should be engaged in something better than kicking the poor after they are down. bellion would result Still seeking the answer. Secretary Wallace recently tried export suiMidtes, which the state depart- This paper shall shortly take up the subject of economy in public affairs and show how expenses may be cut to half and taxes reduced by at last 50 per cent if true economy is practised in public offiees, and also show how cities may actually become and remain debtless. Walproblem and poor relief. The lace plan: surplus form products would be distributed to U..& groups instead oil being dumped abroad. Though tha federal surplus commodities corporation already distributes potatoes, prunes, milk and other minor products not affected by AAA, the new plan would Include beef, pork, wheal corn and cotton. Broadly, it would follow New York recity's method of selling milk to lief families for eight cent a quart tha city paying tha difference. If expanded to a national proposition, the U. S. would pay retailers the difference between standard price and cost price. To pay for it Secretary Wallace asks restoration of processing taxes, which theoretically foil on manufacturers but ultimately strike the consumer. Opponents argue that retail prices would rise, that consumption would drop and substitutes would be encouraged, thereby hurting the former. But since the government hopes to stabilize farm is that prices, its inproducers would have steady come and Increased purchasing power, thereby boosting U. S. prospernext ity. These are the arguments winter's congress will hear. Oar Endorsements news item appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune Oct 2". unDEMOCder the headline RATS GET LABOR BACK ING might be misunderstood by many members of affiliated bodies or groups now known as Labors Legislative Council. The said article by implication, inuendo or otherwise might be confusing as to the stand of the Utah State Old Ago Pension and Assi tance Organization which is n t in any manner on afore doming as stated in the item. news mentioned A counter-argume- People Betrothed: Sally Clark, sister-in-laof Son John Roosevelt who surrenders New York night club career to marry George X McLanahan on December 3. Women Called to Defense of America Pro America Announces Program Thinking Women Organizing w The Utah State Old Age Pension and Assistance Organisation is emphatically the only one in the state, and, as such, has endorsed four (4) Republicans, namely, Harvey Cluff and Wilford Owen Woodruff, candidates for the State Senate; and Carlos J. Badger, candidate for County Attorney; and Sid Lambourne, candidate for County Treasurer 'I he endorsement stands as previously announced in the daily press. Executive Board Member for Organization,C.lI.CAMMANS Endorsed by Faul U.ALLRED non-partisa- n, ' Fro Amarlea Is a National Organisation of womon, formod to assist tha proosnt form of our Constitutional government with Its thrso divisions, Judiciary, Legislative, and Exceutivo, SEPERATE ' and DISTINCT. In proserving To accomplish this. Pro Amerifcaa instituted a strong educational program. L School at Instruction in Political Science. 1 Round table dlieuulone. I. Active lecture bureau. 4. Tea and social gathering! where vital government ques-- 1 B tions may ha proposed and de- ca bated. Pro America Investigates carefully all pending legislation and endeavors to support the good and defeat tha bad. Pro America encourages the in- vestigation of qualifications of announced candidates, and then rapports those worthy of support. Pro America ponders means for informing the young voters of baste American principles. Members of Pro America have no political ambition nor any personal and to gala. Pro America gives its support to worthy candidates, irrespective of party and hence can Invite to its membenhlp all who cars for the preservation of our democracy. Congress and Finance X E. Smlther in the National Republic says: "If Washington, Madison, and the other great men who framed the Conetltutlon were right in creating three coordinate branches for the nations government, then Congress should reas-ram-e that complete control of finances which the Constitution and which it held until gives five years ago. "Tha right to levy taxes and to appropriate the money so collected, or borrowed on the nations credit, resides in Congress, according to Section IX of the Constitution. This power, the most Important of n free people, was assigned to Congress because Its members are the . direct representatives of tha Since this highly Important function was granted to Congreu alone, that branch of our government baa no moral or legal right to relinquish It and turn It over to tbo executive branch." Real Enemy of Democracy "The conviction of a few nasla hi Suffolk County dooant mean a thing. Americas task Is to prevent the conditions which lead men to think more highly of nother system of government than of our own. IJttle organisation like tho one which broke the laws of this state, whether they be fascist or communist, will never threaten American Institutions. The threat Is from n breaking down of our own system, leading to absolute centralization of power In n frantic effort to copo with tha situation." it The Grim Reaper is playing havoc with our subscribers. One after another is being called home. Its about like it was with the frst editor of the Deseret News. Looking out of the window he saw a funeral procession, and calling to the office boy he remarked: There goes our other subscriber, still owing us. Two old and faithful friends, Anton Christensen and C.A.Hickenlooper passed away during the week and we mourn heir kind words are still ringing in our cars and the the loss. generous support, always paid up, has often made our heart evglad. They were exceptionally good men. Peace and joy souls. erlasting to their low-inco- relIn-- d the nations amazing defense is litical dubs disguised as "social to crumble under internal organizations and diversion of WPA funds for personal use. at Great Briti .Indictment in one form or an.Cnhar8 of Cantonese "sen-- f . is almost a prerequisite for other Brjr ChhwM fcinl ee their fast-iZnomination in Pennsylvania, where directly to Great own "sellout" at Republican Sen. James J. Davis Munich, became apparent the British (once Indicted tor running a Moose Gov. . unwilUng to lottery) and Democratic help her H. Earle (Indicted for alGeorge less, distant leged graft in office) are opposing each other for the senatorial seat Although Pennsylvania tax payers or have good reason to dislike their Democratic state administration, observers are wondering whether laIJw relations board, the opulent Republican machine has 9 ordered Republic very much more political prestige. rl tor!iMP,r 5.000 workers who Reason: The five "angels" of PennTO correct pos- - sylvania Republicanism are Joseph 1 L i.:;:;:7; NLRB qulck- - N. Pew, oil millionaire; Moses L error' withdrew its (W Anncnberg, Philadelphia newspaper ehaml.hlChCrlt,C,ter,ned publisher who has purchased an improceedings. What mense Interest in the party; Ernest hb 4ilh ia.ned D7 to second five- - T. Weir of steel fame; Jay Cooke, Bi r nder,nBu, mytery, since a rich Philadelphia political leader, to and Joseph N. Grundy, a reactionnZUb,KtanUaU town recently. The ary of amazing tenacity. Without falt be an Important test of bothering to question the motives of public Steel these men, shrewd pollllcans neverMlrca.Wmr,Jfor VB. StBfcd n ,ppel wllh to theless recognize that in 1938 a curt of appeals. What quintet of ifiUlionalre sponsors is an m mato n impartial observ unpopular asset for any party. i bought readily by foreign nations. But foreign markets are now glutted. American form surpluses must either be dumped abroad at any price foreign buyers are willing to pay, or be left to rot in U. S. granaries Most people have favored the latter policy, meanwhile deploring the economic unbalance that allows many U. S, citizens to go hungry despite bountiful crops. The easiest remedy would be to let low prices drive American farmers off the land, but this is socially inhumane, politically umound and economically foolhardy. When the New Deal started in IMS, AAA was formulated to pay formers for limiting their acreage. Funds cam from processing taxes levied against g Srd .dary Sn?!0 SECRETARY WALLACE Poor people ere else o problem, Sayre condemns as the uneconomic giving away of our substance to Though U. 6. foreign nations. formers are being subsidized the difference between export prices and the domestic market price, observers consider It ridicuPny lous to sell surplus foodstuffs abroad at a loss when several million Americans are going hungry. Consequently next winters congress will be asked to adopt still another atform bill the most tempt yet made to kill two birds with one stone. The birds: form capturing TO . ments Undersecretary Francis B. troops, Japan covered miles in nine days, nton without dropping mb. Such peaceful IMCmr MIKES HIS PUN - slow-movin- fa STATE MGR. TOWNSEND WHAT DOES THIS MEAN TO YOU? In the minds of tha people throughout the United States and Canada la an imprint of four letters which spelU to them a great , people; they have conquered a great wilderness, converting deserts into beautiful fertile farms and homes, building towns and cities, the to beauty and convenience of which cannot be surpassed; forcing it rain on their lands at will through the construction of dams and lrrl- -' gatlon ditches and in general, being leaders in and of any and all things of interest and benefit of and to humanity. Now that things in general throughout this great country of ours are in such a chaotic condition, are the people from these four letters going to step down and say we care not for any beyond our four letters at a time when the help of all is so badly needed to conquer a new kind of wilderness? A bewilderness of the maaaea of the people of this great country, which has creeped upon us through the failure to distribute buying power; with our modern methods of production, only a part of man power is needed to produce and force the mechanical man to produce more than can lie consumed under the present system. What is going to happen to thaw who are stricken from the buying field on account of no Job? There is no new and open wilderness or deserts to which they can go and claim, conquer and develop, aa title ia now held to all lands of any present or future value in this country, regardless of location. No, don'tthlnk the end has come, nor is it even near, for there ia a simple method that can be put into effect through and by the masses of the people that will make it possible for every individual who ia willing to put forth an effort to earn a good living and to have a good home. How? So simple it is almost unbelievable, and having originated years through a common Doctor of Medicine, whose work for many had been with the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted Progressive Opinion and among whom he was loved and respected. Through his kind and I am am an independent in politics and religion. I have sympathetic nature and years of experience he developed an idea. come to the conclusion that we live on an earth where man has It may have been inspired (1 don't know), but I do know the idea very buman in its purpose, which is this: That inasmuch as almost forgotten God, using brute force and acting-- ' the hog. ia there is not enough employment for all why not divide it in a way good to the greatest number of people? Right here inXtah we see everywhere a disposition to be which will do the greatest The Doctors plan is for a National transaction tax of 2 per cent all from can refellows. their Let me they greedy and extract to become a special fund in the treasury of the U. S. A. for the fer you to an awful evil in our midst that should be outlawed. purpose of paying to all qualifying people, 60 years and over, who not gainfully employed, an amount prorated among the number are and the are radio papers Every day the teiling us, If you qualified. Any amount up to, but not to exceed $200.00 per month want money come to us. and i you borrow this is the penal-- and which amount must be spent each month, thus creating Jobs for millions of younger men, which will Increase the moral and ty, 3 per cent per month, S36 for each hundred a year, and if decrease crime. If we but stop to realize that any one Individual can only eat you have bad luck and become delinquent then, to save your so much, can sleep in but one bed, wear one suit of clothes and is debt No one can beat the game. drive one automobile at a time the great majority of people would compounded. security the It is impossible. We have a law L uat makes eight per cent the be well satisfied if they could but acquire the things they could use. legal limit, but this is ignored. Think of some taking 36 per actually And now, as a native of these four great letters, I am asking all who belong to these four letters to help retain their standing in the rent and men leagued with them denouncing poor men, destieyes of the world. Be fair with yourself study the principles of the. d children and women tute taking the mite Townsend National Recovery Plan and make these four great letters great letters, U. S. O. A.. given them by law as getting something for nothing. My eyes "UTAH" stand at the headinof four other into effect this great National of America, United 8tates putting in which have no trouble finding the groups are visited by Mr Recovery Plan. C. A. MOFFETT Santa Claus and who get large sums of money for nothing. Cullen Hotel Spit Lake City Jtah 0, ur .tiiink Dear Editor. Domestic The new wage-holaw affecting the lives of some 11,000,000 people engaged in interstate commerce yy has gone into effect with prediction aUnd at less much bluster and coercion than iccond largeat In New Deal foe NRA. Placing a floor the when 30, next June (25 cents an hour) under wages, and fctoiy. By a ceiling (44 a week) over hours, the act brings pay raises to 750,000 people with shorter hours tor 1,500,000 more. Responsible for the act's smooth inauguration has been Administrator Elmer 7. Andrews, g whose policy has left many employers puzzled over their compliance requirements, but has nevertheless been a potent force in encouraging peace between government and business. Since NRA was outlawed because it attempted to regulate intrastate as well as interstate commerce, the administration hopes each state will formulate its own fair labor act, thereby making the national-stat- e program complete. But wage-horegulation is due for headaches before its numerous bugs are removed. At Austin, Texas, where several thousand low salaried pecan shelters were thrown out of work, and In Puerto Rico, where 120,000 more workers were SECRETARY MORGENTHAU ousted, laborers wondered if low CoolrU of mil concerned wages weren't better than none. leal year end, the U. S. public Politics ibtwiil hit $40,000,000,000, compared In an organization the size of t 1 1th fit, 800,000, 000 in June, 1931. WPA, corruption will creep in refSTommc Though "pump-prim-- " will help business, the 1940 budg-1- 4 gardless of who holds the reins. will be unbalanced. Only by coo-Spasmodically pecking away at New lued a pending can the adminlatra-hol- d Deal prestige for three years, cora maaa vote for the 1940 ruption has again raised its ugly i ection, thereby loreatalling the head at the crucial election time. formal awing to Republicanism. But In New Jersey, where Fascist-likii far mm painful to pay than Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City foerely file away the bin, and next is the Democratic party's head man. Inter's congreaimen will preaent Indictments have been returned least five new method of making against 16 corporations and 32 perhn Public pay: sons. The charge: conspiracy to x defraud WPA of $250,000 in purchase j(l) A 10 per cent "one abot" levy to garner $283)00,000 of sand and stone. But a much more distasteful ease d for In ere axed armament; (3) ym .i processing tax to pay for the has arisen in New Mexico, where a crusading grand Jury returned iniriculture department's proposed lomestic dumping" program for dictments against 73 persons ,?v with making political capI op surpluses; (3) removal of tax charged WPA. Behind this wicked emption from future issues of fed-s- i, ital of state and local bonds, also on picture stands Democratic Sen. Icial salaries; (4) extension of Dennis Chavez, who, like every othrial security to include farm laer senator, has wangled every possible cent of WPA cash for his home sers, domestics, bank employees, imen, etc.; (5) state. New Mexico's indictments Kring of income tax exemptions naturally do not touch Senator Chadcr $1,000. vez, but they strike very close to Coolest of 11 concerned with fiscal home. Among indictees are his sis!airs has been and his cousin. the man in direct ter, his rge. Secretary of the Treasury The charge: use of threat and intimidation against WPA employees. imy Morgen thau Jr. Unworried I'J mounting gold reserves, he has non not to deny the hope that : vt at year's budget may be bal-- $3,984,-D.00- at mid-Octob- rkite House Editorial KEA)to One feature of the 1938 form bill for U. S. loans on crops fected by foiling prices. When crops are sold, loans must be repaid. Due November 1 were repayments on wans covering 41,000,000 bushels of ecan. But by with earn toBlng on the form from $3 to 1$ tonts, and at market for 44 cents, disgusted formers saw they would money ahead to default on loans d give Uncle 8am their eon. Thus, overnight the U. S. government became the worlds largest eon broker. This la but one phase of a Chinese puzzle known as tha American farm Problem. Since 1933 it has been the personal headache of Iowa's Henry A Wallace, secretary of agriculture, who can remember the halcyon days when all surplus wheat cotton the two basic crops wen peo-ple- - Syracuia Internal Peril When Dr. Nlcholae Murray But for, head of Columbia University, makes an address pointing out certain Internal dangers to democracy, hla remarks are of special significance. For Dr. Butter la not a conservative, but a liberal a liberal not of the New Deal but of the Jeffersonian type. In an address recently Dr. Butter named fascism and communism as two externally directed enemies of democracy and pointed out wisely that these two systems resemble one another more then either of them resemblet democracy. But van more significant were tha educators remarks aa to Internal dangers of democracy; especially when we see a tread toward theaa dangers in tha United States at this time. Of three internal dangers which Dr. Butler pointed out the first was the us of the tazlug power not for a primary purpose of raising revenue but to redistribute tho wealth of tha country and wealth redistribution is one of tha tenets of tho communist faith. The second danger mentioned was the excessive growth of tho power of tho chief executive. Here to a development which might tend toward fascism, communism, or any other form of autocracy, and wa have heard a great deal about It during the past few years. The third and teat danger mentioned Is the tendency setting up federal boards and commissions and then giving these boards and commissions tha right to issue rules and regulations which have tha power of law, tending to make them branches of an autocratic system at tha canter of the national government. Hera la another danger which has been looming grantor and greater with the passing years, despite the promises of one chief executive after another to do something about it Pressure for New Taxes Expenditures $9,000,000,000, nr-rau- e i $5,500,000,000. This record of annual finances government is evidence enough that there will bo continual pressure for new taxes at Washington. It furnishes the background to of the federal the report that Under-secreta- ry Roswell Maglll and other Treasury Department officiate are busily engaged la studying a new tax pro gram. And taxes absorb purchasing power. Today taxes era taking 25 per cent of tho nations income. If they take more, purchasing power wU bo decrer led, with n serious effect upon tha unemployment situation. Syracuse In tha face of theaa facta, then ia a place in our state for Pro America, and every thinking woman should Investigate its ldsala and purposes with a view to adding bar strength to that of its ovaral organisations; to preserve tha Conetltutlon and make tha United States a better place for ions and daughters, and to prevent the burden of taz debt from mortgaging their antiro future. Further Information may ha obtained by eomm'inicatlng with MRS. LELAND 8WANER d. : l ) I f i President 1341 Third Avonua Salt Lake City, Utah j 00. I .V : , |
