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Show Food Fr TIioiiiM world war. Looking out they might visioD 9,000,000 corpses of the flower of Europe's manhood. They might behold theawful desolation that was wrought from Calais, France, to Poland. They might even vision their whole land carpeted with the $100,000,000,000 that was spent. But they went ahead with their orgie of murder in spite of all People must learn to cooperate for believe us they will have to do it before this war is over. And they must learn how Lou s BromfielJ, famous author, said recently: "Cooperatives "Cooper-atives are an alternative to bureauocracy and agreat force for reducing waste and promoting efficiency in the use of natural na-tural resources and improve macihnery for better distribution of goods." The WPB has acted quickly to prevent a threatened run on typewriters. after the order to cease selling was given, A program to increase output of copper on a seven-day week is proposed by Sidney HillmaD. T le simplification of men's and boys' wool suits and cvar coats has been ordered notrousercutfs.no two-pant suits, no more double breasts. Auto owners must save their antifreeze for next yoar, A vast manganese production program is on foot. Utah is ure to get at least one plant. How is it the nations pav o :tors 'and expend to the limit to bring children into the world and then when they are fl iwor.n into manhood and womanhood they spend millions to destroy the males and starve the womanhood. They boast of a super race and then set out to fertilize their lands with the bodies of their finest manhood. They pretend to love children an d yet they go about to stunt and starve them and blight their lives. They spend their wealth to build great and beautiful cities and then go into the business of destroying them. They pay men to dig the iron out of the earth, transform it into steel and make it into giant ships and then spend more wealth and strength to destroy the works of theit hands. They spend vast sums to educate their young people and then turn to destroying de-stroying the products of their schools. What a mockery is theirboasted civilization. Laborers receiving as high as $21 a day, and yet discontented discont-ented and inclined to strike at the least provocation. Soldiers, Sold-iers, fine, intelligent young men giving all they have, even life itself, if neecessary, for $21 per month. Rich men silting on their piles of hoarded wealth, grasping in all directions for more, safe and secure in palatial homes and offices, while their fellows, their equals, are out there on the ramparts of the seas and the foreign lands actually giving all for their meagre pay. That wealth should be drafted just like the boys are drafted. Its mighty high time to do some thinking. Before the great war began there stood a statute on a 10,000 foot eminence near the borders of Germany, seven miles from famous Oberammergau.lt was a noble statue of Christ on an upraised cross overlooking all the surround- A tax of one per cent per month on the total appreciation in credit and credit values since nineteen hundred and forty can supply fnnds for current public expenditures and provide for a partial eventual payment of the national debt through a tax on the increane in the assets of the fractional reseive system and other private business organizations incident to the debt increase accompanied by the private creation of public credit. G.C.C. I ing cou itry. Whether it is still there we do not know. It would have been very well if the leading representatives of the warring governments had held a meeting intheshadow of that figjire before going to war, and there solemnly considered what He had to offer them and how it would compare with what the horrors of war has in store for them In place of war He offered peace; instead of hate He offer-ercd offer-ercd love; instead of poverty He offered abundance. In place of death he offered life. For crue ty He would give mercy and kindness; for despair he would give joy. He offer a plan for living that is perfect in its every detail. Why , Oh, why have they rejected Him and rushed headlong into sure death? It is not easy to determine just how insane is this insane little world. Before the agressors started it over there they had before them the night-mare spectacle of I he first |