Show The Open Forum A but bat lira It cl 1 space cm un be firm letters letter In Inthis this department writer wrIer moist confine th to tn o or too words Unless they thel C ITe T u us Ul tb lr roll foil names and letters letter will not Dot l 54 o considered No 0 o manuscript will bo be returned ho writer sends for tor that potage pur pur- owe t Tile Tle flews Ies s hr herein may mIl or may not Dot reflect the opinion of or The Herald CO COO CO O ITERATIVE I K I Editor Herald Legislation will not remedy the high cost oost o of or living problem which Is with us today toda The solution must come of oC a n operative co effort of oC the consumer and producer In a co coOperative cooperative cooperative co- co operative association with each recognizing recognizing reco the cardinal right to live lI and let live Every producer is a a. con consumer umer of oC many times the tho number of oC articles artIcleS' that he himself produces Being such we shall herein refer reCer to him as consumer Briefly ly speaking the Idea Is t to organ organ- i lie ize e a consumers purchasing an and distributing dis dis- corporation wherein these consumers can bu buy a bond In other words become st stockholders of or any amount from 30 O to and with Ith this capital buy on eu the tho open market such commodities ds as as arc are needed be beginning beginning be- be ginning with the most must essential Maintain Main Main- tam tain one general distributing center Have Havo no expensive solicitors and thereby thereby there there- by cut out all unnecessary expense The working principles o of the thc plan piau ar are arc simple In the extreme The basic Idea is profit sa That is the thc st stockholder er cr all may mar become stockholders then through his company secures his commodities com coin at the lowest possible price that a a. capable and efficient effi effi- cleat buying head or heads through h han an extended knowledge of oC market conditions conditions con con- could obtain for Cor or him This Is not an Idle dream of oC an Idealist Long experience has taught us something of ot which we speak and ad owing t to the tense conditions of the times feel it a a. duty to give It to tho the public I If It at this late lale hour any called o legislation alone shall be bo attempted by the United States before anything satisfactory can be bo accomplished wo Wu will haveS have In my op opinion In which man many concur the worst revolution of or mankind People have no faith In economIc economic eco eco- le legislation and their lack hack of lie faith Is fUll fully Justified As Miss lIss Je Jessie Haver Hayer said In your article Housewives Housewives House wives are arc rather r fed Cell up with Congressional Investigations of or the thc hl high h cost o of nf living hiving and Uti Its this feeding up that has destroyed the peoples' peoples faith Unity of Action cHon Its It's the business of or the consumer himself to act and then get set le legislation to ass assist st No doubt that Is what the Rev Rcy Elmer 1 I. Goshen had In mind when ho he had the courage to sa say Juno 23 2 tc to th tho assembled who had hall Predicted still higher prices We Vc can cannot cannot I Inot not afford attard in America to carry a mid mii middleman j on our shoulders You'll never do business on the old methods Unless Un Un- UnI I less leHs the middlemen recognize that less burden burdan Is going to be imposed business will be transformed In a night Unless tho the consumer Consume unites In doing his own business and und smokes out ut the unnecessary sary middleman who appears Ii In u a thousand guises the thing thinS will never nc be done Every producer consumes twenty to thirty times as man many things a as he produces We e take the hog raisers the cattlemen sheep men inca dairy men poultry poultry poul- poul try men and wheat growers rowers Wo We have hac six Ix of oC the vcr very Important producers I and these six produce about ten classes only of oC raw necessities of ot life liCe but each of oC them consumes from Crom twenty to fifty times a as man many articles a as he lie produces in a small but Important wa way the the arc are producers but hut In a much lar larger larg larg- or hr er wa way they arc nrc con consumers umers Should thc they not naturally belong to the lie consumers consumer organization Such a plan would not be complete without them thorn This organization org tion lion could give Sl the city man the farmers farmers' farm farm- tarm-I tarm ers ers' wheat and the farmer the shoes hoe made In the city without being Unfair un unfair un- un I tall fair fair to either of them Alter After all alt their Interests are equal lIa None of ot them cnn can be he an any larger or smaller In tho the realm I of or this l. his hit own organization h hi uI which each Is equally Interested One cannot Sr say to the other other- I have haC no flO need ot of thee the What hat Is true of oC these producers Is true of ot m many n others Why should the they ask Hsk municipalities state or national bodies hodie to do their their 11 0 own business Its It's wron wrong to ask It and wrong wron t to le tr try to do it t and useless to exp expect ct le legislation to succeed where Individual action Is not hot behind the tho move mo Muni Iut IJo no It Let Salt Salt Lake citizens organize a I company compan will do io it and will start Jt it Lot men adVance ad- ad vanco Vance 1000 1000 to each cach Form Forma I 1 a corporation and take that much bonds or more If IC necessary Then I give SIYe every even Individual family the Privilege of subscribing 50 to I to to- buy a bond Furnish them their I own needs at cost cust plus pius expense of oC I operation Any of them could then Very ery quickly save ave enough to pay their j I bond hand and s son fon you ou will wilt have havo 50 O to bondholders enough nough to take up UI your with more interested purchasers coming coining anxious to be belong belong be- be long to an organization which is to tobe tobe tobe be run for tor their benefit JA Can AINt Ask ARk Con Congress to appropriate to for each state stale in the tho union Uso Use this appropriation to defray ex expenses eX- eX In getting a good strong organization organization or or- started In each state Have Havo a 0 national headquarters es established en- en with bl big central distributing points onn points onn at Chicago Omaha Denver Den Den- ver cr r Los An Angeles el Salt Snit Lake an and as asman man many others us as become necessary In thirty to sixty days good strong ef effective of- of or organizations can have havo been established In ever over every town of ot importance tance tanco In Utah and soon have hare the factor factory factory fac fac- tor tory and mills mills' mines' mines entire output output output out out- put flowing floing direct from producer to consumer Yes Yea direct from producer to consumer with eVer every middleman and ln unnecessary expense eliminated In a short time the United Consumers of the United States will have driven to their senses senses' the manufacturers of oC every necessary ar commodity of oC life Tho The importance of ot real operation co will let them know that a live and let live people have been heen born horn It Is the only kind o of legislation that tha t will over ever effect a cure if necessary tho the or organization or- or can capitalize and run its own factory with eVer every man maii woman and nd child chili employed owning stock In It fl it and having both a natural as os well as asa asa a n material interest In the institution Rev fey Goshen's prediction would then ho bo fulfilled Business be transformed In a night We do not at this time advocate the thc owning of ot factories only In cases whore the present day clay methods methods meth meth- of ot operation ar are too too- wasteful We WO speak authoritatively when we sa say that If IC tho the consumers of or Salt Lake owned and controlled their own coal coni coalmines mines mince that th their heir lr coal today would not cost over i 50 per ton delivered to their bins and ansi W we believe 5 will put I It there The Tho saving savin on this one item to Salt Lake Lako alone would approximately approximately I amount mount to 1000 00 per year earThe ear The rea reasons for that price toda today be being be- be ing Impossible are arc man many some of oC which have been shown and are known to many nany It Is In iii such cases where the many reasons are arc that wo We Su say Sal It would be he necessary for Cor the consumer to own his own sources o of production A Again aln when W we c s say 11 y consumer con con- sumer we wc mean tho the man mun who digs the co coal Some Rome time a ago o this plan wa was I I j presented to 10 the tho editor of oC a i labor paper and h he said ald It would absolutely solve the tho labor problem at a coal mine thus conducted If IC so wo we i would have busted husted the and 1 trust I till lU s an angry r sea it ml ma may heI be ne this kind of oC doctrine that will not I sound well to those whose hose toes toe mu may either cither be pinched or mashed hut but thc they I are arc few w. w Why h should every every fairI fair fair- I minded man or woman not be glad lad to see Justice done and economy practiced practiced d' d Why hy hy should each not be pleased I and willing to sec see made of or our glor glor- lor- lor ious lous United States Stales and Cand still more moro glorious the they would then he be a homo of Justice and quiet Instead of oC tho letting blood feeling that torIa today exIsts ex ex- and Is a growing worse hourly Over use tile Iop Top I Time and n again the moneyed moneyed men and women of oC Salt Lake went over the top to buy to win the thic war and reed feed our boys somewhere In France Frane Let thorn them bu buy Consumers Consumer's Bonds Douds no now to a avert art rt a more ominous appearing war ar and feed the tho boys who won the thc war Avar and whose e bon bones are not somewhere somewhere some sonic where In France have havo bodies somewhere somewhere some wh where rc In America being pinched h by the profiteering heeled oppressor and ann wondering If It you whose money was sent their comrades in their time of ot mortal task would like to se see the comrades comrades com corn rades who returned either cither starve stanc or be driven en to mob violence Jet Let Snit Salt Lake Take J Lend d The writer has been heen laughed to scorn when ho has dared to believe elleve that Salt Lake people an any of or them would bu buy these new bonds he hf may bo wrong but first must be he shown To 0 prove how sincere the tho author is ho will buy huy a Consumers Consumers' Bond Dond and knows at least two or three other citizens who will ilI also take a 1000 bond each and some 50 SO 0 to people who will take a 50 to bond The principles of the plan advocated are aro b by no means new to man many Salt Lake people peo peo- pie Dan Alexander Alexandcr of at the Stewart art Stewart Stewart Stew Stew- art Alexander Alexandcr firm says It strikes at the theer er very center of or nat wo we commonly com corn call the thc evil of oC the tho high cost o ol of lIln living It is simple and complete within itself and If It people generally general would woul take the time line to consider its possibilities there Is no limit to its expansion and influence for good in this community It is a corporation proposition and the name consumers as you ou use It it Is a fact tact and not a sham H. H S. S Tanner also attorney at lt law says I believe suc suCo n. n a a. plan If it universally cr sail sally adopted will do away with thep the p present re s e n t at monopolistic o n opol i s t Ic t tendencies e n il e n c len a and n a make mako impossible the cornering of m mar mar- Again I sa say sa legislation can not noto do o It The Tho consumer must do It or take the terrible consequences o of nc neglect J J. A. A HESS I Ol W. W So Editor Herald I If read in your our paper Sunday morning where a poor girl of ot Mass dass wants to como west vest and expresses es a desire to marr marry a n Salt Lake man I appreciate the feeling of or this young woman for I myself lived in iii the overcrowded o cast east for Cor man many mans years years- In fact I spent s all of m my girlhood days claVa In New cw ew York an and Boston I happened d to meet a young oun man at a celebration one time lime We e married and came to Utah Ulah liver Ever since I have ha always wanted to go to back to the place where I 1 spent m my girlhood laYs days and urge all girls to follow tollow in my rny footsteps I hope that Miss Frances gets her he Salt Lake husband for or I am quite sure she would make the rl right ht kind of oC a wIfe She fit it past east shows sound sense I I and aoel J LI alm almost st t feel anti and good Judgment I I like writing her myself an and telling t her herto herto I II I to start west vet feeling sure I could I have her a n prospective husband by tho the time she sho arrived d. d I do hope hop that you ou will find In space to publish this letter and that some Home young man nian will ren read It and write Miss Iss Francis and tell her to to come como west I 1 remain you ou MRS T T. T I TOO MUCH lUCH SI Ia n nl l' l Editor Herald Wo We have been so service long getting up to I between Saltair and Salt Sail Lal Lake o that I one ne must appear a aH n an au ingrate to offer i nn nfl any criticism No one is more grate i ful fut for the shortened waits walts between trains than I but nevertheless ne I 1 dc desIre I t to utter A n word or two in tho the interest I of Safety 81 Cot First T Last ast night I carnin came carn cameI I in on ono one of oi the late hate trains and weI wn Wf I were Just eJ eighteen minutes between I Saltair and Sixth West cst In the old I I cIa days It wa was a forty five minute ride i For ono one who sho desires speed first and Batet safety after atter tho the time marie made last nl night ht IN is no doubt satisfactory but hut for a man with a sized good ram family II and ani the tho minimum minimum minimum mini mini- mum amount of insurance it is not de do- do Is It not possible to provide a a. running schedule that will provide a mor more safety without bringing about a return to the provincial methods methods meth moth ode of oC transportation The time timo to prevent accidents Is before they happen hap hap- pen W W. 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