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Show | / \ “We are faced with the pre-eminent fact that ifcivilization is to survive, we must cultivate the sci-ence of human relationship—the ability of peoples of all kinds to live together and work together inthe same world, at peace.” — (From Franklin D.Roosevelt’s last address which he did not live todeliver.) The sum of theo whole matter is this: our civilization cannot survive materially unless it be redeemed spiritually.— Woodrow Wilson. rogressive Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post A Liberal American Weekly Vol. XII, No. 1, Jan. 9, 1948 HOW CAN CHURCHES HAVE INFLUENCE IN THE WORLD Sugarhouse GREATER TODAY? Paid Adv. by Friendship Chain The Church can and will have greater influence ‘mn the outside world when Christians—Church members—have more influence over their own personal lives. Let us stop singing one thing and living another! We have a very false notion about what joining the Church will DO TO US. “Uniting with the Church does not make one a Christian. The careful observance of all the ordinances and rules of the Church is not the only thing. There must be faith, repentance, love, good works, obedience, unselfishness, right living. . “Christ demands of His followers a high standard of morality. We are not saved by Christ’s righteousness in teh sense that we need no righteousness of our own. In place of mere external and formal obedience, Office pi at Salt Lake City, Dia! 4-7641 Utah, Underthe Act of Congress of March » % & He who shall im» troduce into public affairs the principles e of primitive Christianity will change’ the face of the world. iki —Benjamin Fr — . 3, 1879. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers ae Salt Lake City, Utah. ‘ori 217 David Keith Bldg. ___ WHAT HATE AND FEAR WILL DO The Gospel According to Elbert Hubbard So long as humans glory in the defeat of other humans, it is a perversion of the words to call this a Christian land But as clan once united with clan, and nation with nation for a mutual protection, so do a goodly number of people now recognize that humans should unite with humans—not only in deeds, but in thought—for a mutual benefit. 4 “To hold a thought of fear is to pollute the mind —prejudice poisons, jealousy is a thing to zealously avoid, and hate hurts worse than one who hates. And the argument of this: so long as the thought of rivalry is rife, and jealousy, fear, unrest and hate are in our minds, we are still in the savage state. War robs men of their divine birthright, and turns the tide of being back to chaos. You have so much life—what will you do with it? If you use it in pulling down other lives, you shall soon forfeit your own. And even though you do not do an overt destructive act, the thought of Subscription, $2.00 a year Worth Twice the Price Cash Contributions x Personal Items| GREAT SOULS FD Welcome. PTS EE) AND THEIR FAITH WITNESSES TO THE BOOK That good friend we found , long ago, B. Jarvis, Jr., of St. eorge, is again in the forefront with his renewal. We testify of him as we know him, an honest, reliable man in good standing wherever he is known. *« * # The Late and Great Preacher, Rev. T. Dewitt Tal-mage, once called to the stand a number of witnesses in support of the Bible. We name the ones he named and say that he might have added another 1000 more of the great men of the world. Salmon P. Chase, chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, appointed by President Lineoln, will. take the witness stand. “Chief Justice Chase, please to state what you have to say about the book commonly called the Bible.” The witness replies: “There came a time in my life when I doubted the divinity of the Scriptures, and I resolved as a lawyer and judge I would try the book as I would try anything in the court room, taking evidence for and M. A. Ostler, remembered against. It was. a long, serious and profound study, and from long ago, speaks up from using the same principles of evidence in this religious Richmond, Calif., and is well matter as I always do in secular matetrs, I have come pleased with the paper. He asks the law is written on the heart of the true believer, hate and fear reacts to your disadvantage, honeythis question: “How did the to the decision that the Bible is a supernatural book, and he obeys it from within. He is a small edition of combs the will and tends to destroy the tissues of control of the N. D. A.’s oil that it has come from God, and that the only safety Christ Himself. We should strive to make our obedyour body. oe plant at Woods Cross get into 3 for the human race is to follow its teachings. -Y¥ence so deep and so loyal that our lives will reflect the hands of Henry Moyle and Every school, factory, store and institution is to John Quincy Adams Next I put upon the witness McIntyre?” Brother, we wish in every feature the radiancy of Christ.” a degree a hotbed of strife, jealousy and heart-burnwe could answer you, but we stand a president of the United States— “President As Christian$ we have plenty of rules for Church ing. Plot and counterplot fill the air. There is disapcannot. We are not up on moAdams, what have you to say about the Bible and members, but they do not mean enough to the averpointment, discontent, and apprehension-everywhere. dern finance. Ask Woodruff or Christianity ?” The president replies: “I have for many age would-be Christian. The rules laid down in our The employees or helpers unite in friendships, and Stringham. : years made it a practice to read through the Bible * ® Church should be lived up to or they do not have any all exclusive friendships breed factions, feuds and once a year. My custom is to read four or five chapmeaning. That was the trouble with the religionists J. M. Cummings was in and tend in the end to separate humans. Beware of chums ters every morning immediately after rising from my helped start a happy New Year. when Jesus came into the world. He put new meaning —they only pool their weaknesses. He is strongest You will see by his article in bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and,seems into the law. As He expounded it it went far more who stands alone. Be a friend to all—stand by all— this issue what he is thinking to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day. deeply into people’s lives.—Nannie H. Burrows, Linspeak well of all. If you lend a willing ear to any perabout—taxes, which are grindIn what light soever we regard the Bible, whether coln Heights, Washington 19, D. C. ing the faces of both the poor son’s troubles, you make them your own, and you do with reference to revelation, to history or to mortal(To Be Continued) and. the rich. not lessen his. By listening to tales of trouble you ab« * ity, it*"is an invaluable and inexhaustible mine of sorb trouble—that is to say, you take discord into knowledge and virtue.” Ti : Many thanks to Mrs. Rose THE UTAH EDUCATIONAL REVIEW — your being. And the more discord you have in your Graham* sister of Utah’s great “Chancellor Kent, what do you think of the e looked through the December, 1947, issue of life the weaker you are.” Senator Thomas, who was in. Bible?” Answer: “No other book ever addressed itself Utah’s Educational Review and found it good. It is” and presented us with a box of so authoritatively and so pathetically to the judgselect goodies and a little book the best issue we have seen. If teachers will but read PEOPLE MUST OWN POWER RESOURCES ment and moral sénse of mankind.” . of poems which he has had pubPrivate Ownership Is Robbing Them Of and think about such things as appear in it the lished. It is a fine little book. “Edmund Burke, what do you think of the Their Heritage schools will gradually be lifted to higher planes. To test it we handed it to a Bible?” Answer: “I have read the Bible, morning, t, as far _ Here in Utah we have the equi. far as.as. 12-year-old granddaughter and “INFLATION IS COMING power is concerned, of another bouluer dam on the she never stopped reading until ~ “noon and night, and have ever since been the happier and the better man for such reading. Colorado River. By harnessing the river’s waters we she came to the end. Mrs. By One Who Knows raham is a gifted writer. “Abraham Lincoln—sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, can divert them to rich but thirsty soil of the desert, ak oak who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four but returns from the soil alone cannot pay.for this. For President of these UnitThe cost of living is dizzily rising and wil lead years a greater burden than that borne by any other There must be a subsidy and that subsidy is electric ed States, James E, Yates; for man of the nineteenth century, laid down his life for power. +o THE GREATEST FINANCIAL DISASTER IN HISvice-president, W. W. Whitney the people whom, living he had served so well—built Electric power can release the phosphate in our TORY! Sooner than you think, the value of your of Tremonton. There’s a team, spend. may: You tremendously. up his entize reading upon his early study of the Bible. reduced readers. If they should get in money may be enormous deposits, pump the valuable water now goand rule for two weeks you He had mastered it absolutely, mastered it as, later, ing to waste and bring into the state numerous new in a week’s time the savings that have taken you a wouldn't know Washington, insurance the lose may he mastered onl yone or two books, notably Shakeslifetime to accumulate. You industries. and every rat hole would bepeare; mastered it so that he became almost a man People Must Own Power that may reflect years of scrimping and saving to come a hiding place for the vanof one book, who knew the book and who instinctive“We must remember this — that these dreams protect your family in case of an emergency .... The ‘dals of old line politics. haven lifetime a be * * would ly put into practice what he had been taught therein; hoped uhad yo can never be realized unless the people own and dishouse which and he left his life as part of the crowning work of tribute the power. It will be necessary for the United may be foreclosed because you can’t afford the payFriend Albert Mortensen and promso seems that job The the century.” wife have spent the holidays in States government or the state of Utah to own and ments, taxes, or interest. California and along’ the coast, operate the transmission lines.” — State Engineer ising today may be your LAST STOP before relief, returning by way of Arizona, WHY PAY TAXES THE HARD WAY? Watson. charity, or starvation. This is not idle guesswork! INand have had a wonderful time. y J. M. Cummings The average residential cost for electricity in FLATION and DEPRESSION MUST COME says Our heartfelt sympathies go . Ralph Borsodi, the nationally famous economist who No government can run without taxes but our Washington, under municipal ownership, is 1.536c out to friend Dougglas Burgess . present way of levying and collecting taxes is about and. brothers and sisters who crash. 1929 per kilowatt, or one-half of the national average. the predicted have just lost a good, faithful the most wicked and unjust system ever invented by . While in Salt Lake, under capitalistic ownership, it is and valiant mother, who was GOD INSPIRES PARLIAMENT man, because it tends to fatten the rich and impover2.95c per kilowatt. true to all the ideals of a ChrisTo Further Help The Aged ish the poor. There are many ways in which it could tian life. May her memory nevA little over three weeks ago an Act was passed be changed but the simplest and most desirable way ‘KEEPING THE SABBATH er die. * ® # through Parliament providing for the care and comwould be to completely revolutionize it as follows: Abraham Lincoln issued an order during the fort of the aged, this, in addition to Old Age Pensions, ' Civil War suspending all unnecessary work and miliMr. and Mrs... Leonard Let the government start out the year by paying Thompson and family of Ephand in spite of our grievous post-war shortages. It all of its expenses with NEW MONEY. This NEW tary action in honor of the American Sabbath, on’ raim spent the holidays in Caliwas the final coping-stone of the Webb’s Minority ReMONEY would circulate during the entire year and which our courts, our legislatures, and our Congress fornia visiting with their son, port on the Poor Law, of 1908 minority proposals, but finally come to rest in the coffers of those who acquire have never called a session. But the late Wars have Robert, and family, who are dostep by step all the Webb’s proposals have been PROFIT and INTEREST. At the end of the year the changed all this; wars have no respect for the laws of ing very well. a adopted. And this final proposal was passed without government should levy a tax equal to about 90% of man or the laws of God, and in World War I and a division. Nay more ,it was passed with acclamations the total amount of NEW MONEY it spent during World War II not only was the Sabbath forgotten A. H. Lund and Francis L. Lund, brothers, have been in of praise from the Tories as a step towards their polthe year, then proceed to collect it from only those and the armies marched and fought on the Lord’s San Francisco the past week aticy of a Basic Standard of Life for All! who were in a position to finally get it. They are the Day, and not only were munitions plants and the entending the big annual conven“. And so it goes. All countries that are at all able, only ones who should be required to pay it because gines of destruction of every kind manufactured and ‘tion of their company, The Abare doing their utmost for the aged. It is Christianity they are the ones who profited by it. No one else did. operated on the Sabbath Day, but industry and our bott Medical Company. Both in action! — They should not complain because they would be pergovernment paid double wages for working on the are doing well. & * mitted to KEEP 10% of this NEW MONEY and thereSabbath Day. It was, in effect, a premium on human Mr. Samuel Friedman sends WHAT W.P. A. DID IN UTAH fore become that much richer each year. disobedience to divine law. And so we observe that his well wishes and dues. Next A Fine Record Under this system_the only tax that would ever ancient and honorable Sabbath, God’s Holy Day, from week we shall publish one of his Here is a brief review of the acmomplishments be levied would be an INCOME TAX so adjusted as the beginning of time has became the great American articles so the public may know to produce the above results. This system would tend _ of W.P.A. in Utah: holiday. Surely the Christian American Sabbath is on his sentiments in regard to the It had a $24,000,000 program, where the first proto equalize NET PROFITS because it would tend to mentally sick people of the its way out.—C. V. Hansen. country. ject started and completed was the improvement on make everybody limit their net profits to the final x ox Highway 40, west from the airport. Since then 322 amount of 10%. All those people who received 10% HOW THE PUBLIC PAYS THE DRINK BILL Our good friend; Sam Stark, projects have been completed in this state, including or less in profits would not be taxed at all. All others Cannot This Iniquity Be Reformed? was in and did the right thing. schools, dams, water systems, bridges, roads, librarwould be taxed enough for the government to get Over 80 per-cent of those put in city and county. He goes about like a young man ies, and hospitals. The million dollar high school in back all but 10% of the NEW MONEY it put into cirjails in California are there primarily because of alcoworking vigorously at his in- | Ogden is one of them. Some others are thirteen new surance business and doing culation. Under this system, not a single dollar tax hol, according to police records. well. We know he is enjoying water systems and 65 improved systems, the half milwould be paid_except from the pile of EXCESS PROIt costs at least $4 of the taxpayers’ money to life because he looks it. lion dollar U. of U. library, the home economics and FITS, thus no poor person would ever again be taxed. take care of those in jails or hospitals because of alex commons building at the Agricultural College at a cohol for every $1 collected in tax revenue. A right good man is Friend cost of $325,000, reconstruction of the central buildNOTICE OF STOCKHOLDER’S MEETING Across the nation there are 2 bars for every 1 Piesowtzki, and he came in and ing at the state hospital in Provo, several buildings Notice is hereby given that a stockholder’s meetchurch; 8 bars for every 5 schools, according to the gave us the best New Year surprise we have had. He says he ing of the Mineral Flat Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Minat the state training school, the new boy’s dormitory American Business Research Foundation. Do we realdoesn’t do anything but work at the state school for deaf and blind, new auditorium ing Corporation of Salt Lake County, will be held at ly want that many? and he has made mighty good Americans last year spent 2% times more for 237 North First West, at. 7 P. M. on the 24th day of and manual arts training school at Ogden, new buildheadway in life. He and his ings at the Branch Agricultural school, new school liquor than for schools, it also is reported by the FounJanuary, 1948, for the purpose of attending to such good wife live happily and are matters of business as may come before the meeting. buildings and civic auditorium buildings here and dation. Across the nation, over 8 billion was spent for enjoying things in the best liquor; only 3 billion for schools. Russia spends six Quince K. Kimball, there. 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