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Show I I UTAH LABOR NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. JULY 8, 1938. Page 4 that an BDTOKOM. PLAY BALL (Continued from Page 1) $5,622,000,000 was advanced to them in gether the sum of vision of reality prevails because new ideas disappear upon the exodus of those who have been trained to regard the plain facts, and who are not controlled by mere affirmation under that smooth performance in thei use of words. Does our duty compel that which is an impossibility? Our average income is the outcome of toil. In a study of Salt Lake City for 1934 where the returns were below $200 per month, it was found that an average income for the family was $1332. Rut the maintenance level By I)R. CHARLES STELZLE Executive Director, Good Neighbor League loans. out-mod- ed Home owners likewise, as their mortgaged homes were placed under the Sheriffs hammer, came forward and loans It was plainly the pitcheri clusively upon personal experience aggregating $3,855,000,000 have been made to them. fault. The ball seemed to rebounc and prejudice. We cannot afford It is natural business of Government to protect the lives into his hands, as it came from the to be dogmatic until the last fact and honest property of its citizens. Is there any evidence in all bat, and it took him completely by has been presented. There are so many factors to be these cases of help of any discrimination in favor of a class? surprise. Three men were on bases rea unaccountable considered some but for that no one man has the There is none! Certainly there is no discrimination against son he stood in the pitcher's box either the wisdom or the ability to was That word includes property classes I Where in all the history of Government can with both hands over the ball pose as infallible. Also, it is going only $1243. the bare necessities over a while the crowd yelled. He was to take the whole nine to win you find a record of such great aid extended to property? number of No comforts and years. so the ball. lets play But it is objected by selfish reactionaries that the Govern- badly rattled. game, no luxuries. No life insurance. No While he hesitated, the man on trade-i- n ment has incurred a heavy indebtedness. Certainly it has. But of the old car and the old and the home made third the plate, radio. No vacation to behold our does that tell the whole story? It does not. It overlooks the player on second took his place scenic wonders of America. Just restoration of the National income which has been realized. This Then he made a wild throw to sec the plain cost of your everyday in billions 45 income had fallen from 78 billions in 1929 to ond to head off the player who was needs. 1933. It has now climbed back to more than 67 billions. running from first, with the result HELL COOPERATE And these are not depression figures It overlooks the restoration of property values, which had that still another run was scored (Imagine how they would apI Editor Utah Labor News: one man on second base. leaving pear!). They do not include un fallen from 400 billions in 1929 to 250 billions in 1933. These The whole been a reader of your paper thing was due to the have The employment. ever since 1929. I like it. It keeps property values have risen to 350 billions, which includes 50 pitcher holding the ball. At least, on was on the and his addition job, Ingetting better all the time. that was the principal reason for billions restored farm values. was increased by the occasional closed find renewal my subscrip But yet, the reactionary political critic continues to com- the bad play. tion. I will always speak a good task of some other member in the ball The the week family. plain that the Government has increased the debt by 16J4 bil- game, I saw a following man in a labor hall word for the Utah Labor News. Then how can you support two W. A. M., Salt Lake City. lions of dollars. These are figures as to which the human mind hold the ball, not because he was old people upon the difference becan form no picture, figures easily used to produce that fear of rattled, but because he wanted to tween your income and your level stop the game. Things were not HELL HUSTLE the unknown which terrified the sailors of Christopher Columof existence a difference here of going to suit his fancy, so he dea combined income of $7.42 bus. En $89 month? Editor Utah Labor News: balked. That didnt help liberately It will require just per this this How can we remove unknown factor X quantity him or anybody else. It simply closed find check for two new sub- - three and times that from the equation? Well, by simply humanizing the figures, so resulted in another k for scriptions to the Utah Labor News. amount for one person at a mainthe cause of. labor in his local. Too I hope you will continue your fine tenance level if our information is that a real picture can be formed by the mind. articles in defense of New Deal ad- correct. Let us humanize them. There are 30,000,000 people in often we meet just his kind. Of ministration. (See U. S. Bureau of LaI am going to hustle bor Statistics to he the course, isnt peculiar 38 Inter-cit- y Difthe United States. Of these, 50,000,000 support themselves ranks of labor, but he is there, and for several more new subscribers! ferences in Cost of Living). Alvin in normal times either by their labors or from their incomes. that is why we are concerned about or you. A. J., Ogden. Borgquist, Salt Lake City. ' Let us say that they are taxpayers of the United States. Now, if the matter. Sometimes he holds the ball OVERJOYED ENJOYS IT you divide 50,000,000 into 162 billions, it will come to just because And of misunderstanding. $330 apiece. How long would it take a person to pay this off? because he cant understand his Editor Utah Labor News: Here Enclosed find subscription. We Exact computation shows that a payment of $1.58 a month for opponent, he tries to destroy him. is my renewal subscription. I am enjoy the Utah Labor News very 25 years would discharge the 16J billions, together with three He should learn that it is far bet- extremely overjoyed over the prog- much, as always. I think pour editer to try to understand, and not ress of Labors torials are splendid. L. N. O., Salt per cent interest on the debt. silence his adversary, even when i League in Utah and throughout Lake City. Would it be a legacy of debt to their children and their to to silence him is possible. If the the nation. H. A. N., Murray, children's children, as the reactionary critics say? one who opposes him is right, he A NUMBER ONE How many workmen now unemployed would be glad to will win in the end, anyway. And AVERAGE INCOME IS it surely is better to lose graceful OUTCOME OF TOIL Editor Utah Labor News: Please pay the $1.58 a month if guaranteed their steady work? How many out of work would gladly pay it to secure a ly and manfully, than to be beaten extend my subscription to your fine out flat because of a stubborn re Editor Utah Labor News: Your paper. The Utah Labor News is steady job? fusal to study the other side of the daughter has a job, said the work- No. 1 on my list. I like Here is one question that every American should answer: question. er. But she is preparing to go to every feature inreading I read the paper. Bold and sweeping statements college, said the mother. Are you sure, quite sure, that if the Government had refused I even and read every paragraph But, replied the worker, she the ads and patronize your adver-i- s its helping hand to these helpless victims of our capitalistic sys- come more, commonly from doubt and ignorance than from convicnot obliged to go to college. It tisers. C. P., Salt Lake City, tem as they appealed for help, that the Government itself would tion. So look out for the fellow is her duty to remain at home and not have gone down beneath the iron heel of some fascist or whoclaims a monopoly of wisdom. take care of you. A Double Grievance He is simply trying to hold the communist dictator? And the worker was repeating a funny thing, said Mrs. Thats the last word of authority in Utah. Had not the laissez faire policy of Hoover and ball. Peck. have us masof not yet Many It is not that our dividends are They say in this book that the Republican leadership been fully tried out between 1929 tered even the elements of the laa bachelor is a man who has been exported, that our wealth and and 1933? What did it produce? It produced economic chaos. bor question. And this goes for our crossed in love. staremain but all population We were on the verge of revolution. the bosses as well as the workers. tionary, that our youth .must be Yes, muttered her husband, It was President Roosevelt who saved America and its Theories have been formed from educated for some task outside of and a married man is one who has, isolated facts or they are based ex-- 1 the state. It is our misfortune been people from despair and chaosl IN THE MAIL bread-winn- er one-ha- lf set-bac- 1 I Non-Partis- let-it-dri- an ft, double-crosse- (Continued next week) d. IIIMWIHIIHimiHMMWWMIHIWWItHnH.IIIHWHIimiHIIIIIWIIIMmiHIWIWHHMmmiHWIHHHIIHHWHHHHmHIWHHWMMIHHMmimHUIHIIMHflMtlW S j :,M" 1 (Next week we will touch upon the following phases: How much has New Deal Relief Cost?" "Old Deal Costs." Old Deal Lost Confidence." Save these articles for future reference. They will come handy in this year's campaign in behalf of the people.) Congratulations and Best Wishes to the m Congratulations . . . UTAH LABOR NEWS On Its Anniversary And Best Wishes to the Utah Labor News on its anniversary. May it continue in the future as it has in the past in loyal support of President Roose- velts New Deal program and May it continue to wave the New Deal Democracy for many, many years. pro- gressive Democracy. May it in the 1938 campaign, work and cooperate for the success of a Democratic party victory in Salt Lake County. Much has been accomplished for Labor, Agriculture and Business through legislation passed by a Democratic Congress and approved by a Democratic President. ..... Sincerely yours, Salt Lake County Democratic X j si Committee J. W. ROBINSON, PARNELL BLACK, Chairman Congressman from Second District of Utah. ARTHUR MARSH, Secretary i : |