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Show Friday, July 25, 1911 UTAH VALLEY NEWS Utah Valley News Paklbhei UTAH V ALLAY I IfaKk IM PUBLHHOfZ Oft Wat U. IMI as We etftm M taa Security Wanted: Whatever elae goes into the making of a war, this war proves that lack of security is a prime factor. It was true in Germany in the beginning, and it is true in the hearts of millions of Americans today who wonder what the future holds. By security we mean the right to have a job, the assurance of continued work, at a wage sufficient to support oneself and ones family, and the additional assurance that when old age comes we shall not be thrown out on our ears and told to shift for ourselves. : - Take all the factors in the present world struggle together and analyze them and sift them down to their basic principles and the present unrest in the world has an economic foundation in the home of the average man. He wants a decent living without the feeling or the threat of charity. He wants work as his right to earn his way, and he wants to feel he is a part of the business in which he works, not merely a cog in a machine. United States has gone a long way toward satisfying this feeling on the part of the average man but we have a lot farther way to go, and the world has hardly started on the road. These very basic wants on the part of the individual have extended .into national thinking, and crossed all international boundaries. That is why we have a world war on our hands. That is why so many nations have found Fifth Columnists in the ranks, and that is why these nations have succumbed to the wiles of Hitler and the deception of his earlier promises, first to his own people, and then in turn to conquored nations. We now know he cannot fulfill, nor ever could, his promises either to Germans or to other peoples, and we also know England and America must fulfill these desires on the part of humanity or peace will never come. New and vaster wars will follow on the heels of this one. Civilization will depart unless we can find security for mankind. . National security for any nation cannot come so long as the workis resources, its natural wealth of raw materials are locked up inside the control of some vast navy or army, whether that be the British navy or the German army. Freedom of the seas is as important as freedom of the land from aggression. America must remember when this Peace is made, whenever and however it comes about, that national security is as vital as individual security and that it involves the: right to trade and gather from all corners of the earth the materials necessary to industry and thrift within any nations borders, just as we guarantee in the future each individual to his right to work and live. This conception of the future peace following this world war includes the idea of a United States of the World. These United States of America tolerate no tarrif barriers between them. The resources of this country are available to every state, and the industry and development of every state is as much the concern and welfare of the nation as a whole as of the individual state. That must be the status of the future world. The welfare of every nation must be the concern of the No longer can we tolerate land grab. world as a whole. bing nations. No longer must we allow monopolies of vital needs or raw materials, any more than we will allow monopolies among huge trusts of the necessities of life as water or electricity or food stuffs. These things are the things by which we live, and national life must be equally free. F. B. I. Statistics: Crime statistics are gathered and used for very definite purposes by the F. B. I. but a new compilation of crime statistics just issued from the F. B. I. office contains some very revealing information of general interest, especially to brewers and distillers, who no doubt have had access to this information long before , the general public. We repealed the .18th Amendment to bring about "temperance, eliminate the bootlegger, and attain fewer violations of law, and more law observance. The records released by the F. B. L show we ought to go back and start over again, for the promises of the Moderationists . as to law obedience decreasing drunkenness and the drop in crime which would follow Repeal have not borne fruit. The very opposite is true, of which the F. B. I. records are eloquent indeed: Increase in arrests for drunkenness per 100,000 of the population in United States since 1932 has nearly doubled. In 1933, these arrests were 22.7 per cent; 1934, 79.3 per cent; 1935, 94.4 per cent; 1936, 102.9 per cent; 1937, 80.6 per cent; 1939, 61.3 per cent; 1940, 56.3 per cent. The estimated number of serious crimes in United States in 1940 was 1,517,026, an increase of 32,472 over 1939. The F. B. I. fingerprint record shows that during 1940 the percentage of men arrested for drunkenness was more than five times as great as in 1932, and for women the percentage was four times as great for the same period. The percentage for men and women both, arrested for drunken driving, was three times as great in 1940 as in 1932. Roscoe Drummond, in the Christian Science Monitor, gathers some other pertinent facts about this situ- ation which should be studied by every citizen of this country, whether he is interested in breweries and tilleries or not He quotes the American Association of Sodkl Workers as finding that "there are 45,000,000 in this country who are underfed at this very moment. "The problem in the United States at present is not lack of food. There is abundant production but great underconsumption. Department of Agriculture authoriof the population has an average ties say that cash income of only $69 per family per month, and of them can spend only 5 cents a meal for food. Now one reason for underconsumption of food is consumption of alcoholic beverages, according to the n league. This SerResearch Service of the out of their poverty, out people, that many vice points are spending more money far drink than they are spending for meals. Here is the fact: During 1940 this country spent for alcoholic beverages the sum of and to that extent the rise in living standards was prevented. What this liquor traffic means may be guaged when we learn that the brewers and distillers and liquor interests sjient in 1940 the sum of $420,000,000 in advertising. Newspapers got $160,000,000 of this money, and magazines got $150,000,000 of it. while radio chains got $95,000,000 and farm journals $13,160,000. Alcoholic beverages ranked third in amount of advertising carried in all newspapers in the country, and fifth in advertising carried in all four of the media. Aside from the loss in standard of living accruing to the nation through the spending of these millions for alcohol, the economic loss arising through accidents due to intoxication even in 1938 was estimated at That figure must be revised upwards every at our present rate of increased drunkenness. This year on the fact that 1,000,000 persons were arrestis based ed that year for intoxication. Only one conclusion can come to any person interested in the welfare of his nation and his own children who come under the influence of this sinister force in the nation. FIGHT ALCOHOL as you would fight death and disease and destruction, as you would fight to prepare against flood, and tornado, and epidemics. Patriotic citizens will not tolerate laxity in government officials on these scores. Why should we do so in the more serious matter of alcoholic beverages? dis- two-thir- PROPERTY OWNERS We Will Be Forced To Advance Prices on Paints, Varnishes and Enamels . . on All AUGUST EDGEMONT Mrs. Maxine Davis Phone tSIRl Reporter) Birthday Aaaivemary dimmer was given by Mrs. Elmer Meldrnm Sunday honoring Chris her father Thompson. Those who enjoyed the occasion ire Mr. and Mrs. Janos Thompson and tons Raeonll and Alma Mr. and of Blackfoot, Idaho; Mrs. H. C. Thompson and daughter; Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Kimball and family, all of Salt Lake; Mr. and Mrs. Chris Peterson of Mr. and Mrs. American Fork; Robert Meldrnm and children of Levan: Mr. and Mrs. Elmar Meldrnm and Miss Dorn Joan Meldrnm. MIm Ids Lea Jenson of Salt them to bo canned ae payment on the school lunch of their child next year, may do so every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at Vineyard. 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