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Show THE IJKWI.K I'KKSS, BKAVKK, I'TAH, FRIDAY, DIM KMllKK I. 103:1 -- 4 RUSSIA 0 jBmwv $100 A not wholly unjustified tradition has grown up both Phone 24 Publisher KARL S, CARLTON PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY $2.00 Per Year SUBSCRIPTION hWall.ic.eUtfafritji First Class Publication Entered in the PostofTice in Beaver Utah, as Second Class Mail Matter, under the Act of Congress of A here and abroad, that European diplomats are pretty smooth stuff, and that American pubic men are so many babies in the woods when it comes to dealing with them. I It's possible that that thought was in the mind of Russia's shrewd experienced Litvinoff when he climbed the steps of the White House to confer with President Roosevelt ovr American-Russia- n recognition. If so, Mr. Litvinoff soon became sadder and wiser. He found himself confronted by an excellent trader a suave, m polite trader with a Harvard accent to be sure, but a trader nevertheless. Where Litvinoff had announced that so far as he; was concerned, the negotiations could be conclu- It ded in half an hour, he found them extending on through the days. breach between two of Upshot was that the the major powers was ended, with the United States on the long end of the deal so far as most of its demands were concerned. Points of the treaty include: Waiver by the Soviet of all claims growing out of the famous Siberian expedition of 1918; a guarantee against official Soviet propaganda in this country; another quarantee against 8 the formation of any group designed to change the government of the United States; fair and prompt trials for Americans erring against Soviet law; guarantee of the free exercise of religious beliefs of Americans resident in Russia. Little mention is made of trade relations and details cvoncerning them remain to be worked out. No menW tion is made about Russian debts to the United States. ) Neither the NRA nor any other system, movement or unless it has the sinproposal can succeed in this countryof the masses of the unselfish support cere honest and Administration people. The menace which the National has to fear, as affecting the success of its National Recovery Program, is the menace of distrust, insincerity and indifference on the part of the masses of the people. Perhaps too much has been expected from NRA from the start Perhaps there has been a lessening of those energies and self helping processes which have been traditionally characteristic of the American people. It is to be hoped that conditions soon may become such that the multitudes who have been leaning upon government for aid will abandon that leaning and strike out, with typical American resourcefulness, to find jobs in the old way, in private enterprise. Jobs are not so plentiful, it is true. But it also is true that many are depending upoUo on government for support who could get jobs if they of two kinds wives: One that makes a failare There would bestir themselves as is customary in normal times. of ure one and makes a a man of a failure. that man, oOo II The question of vertical drinking is now before the STARVE AND GET RICH? overlook not will American public, who, it is to be hoped, the danger of horizontal results. In the second issue of Professor Moley's Today, the question is asked, "Can we starve ourselves rich?" The TIME TO STABILIZE question is , of course, based on the various proposals for ft reducing production while there are still innumerable perResignition of Prof. 0. M. W. Sprague as economic sons in the United States without the necessities of life. advisor to the United States Treasurer is in some respects When this query has been answered to the satisfacthe most serious indication of crisis in fiscal affairs under tion of all concerned the wiseacres might take this corolthe monetary policis of President Roosevelt that has yet lary: "Can we drink ourselves rich?" Judging from the come out. Yet it does not mean that the distressful condi tone of the press and many public men the belief is com tions of unrestrained inflation and a breakdown ot gov- mon that large public income from liquor taxes, increased ernment credit, which Dr. Sprague fears, are necessarily employment for bartenders and bouncers, enhanced rents upon us. for property employed as saloons, and greatly enhanced tlx The American nation has given to its Chief Execuprofits for distillers and brewers will enrich the people. tive the responsibilty for one of the most difficult, delicate the two questions might be debated as one, II decisions an individual has ever been sincePerhaps and drink and starvation not uncommonly go hand in called upon to make, and it should be sympathetic rather hand. Christian Science Monitor. than centorious in its attitude while he seeks the answer. ooo Disagreement can be dignfied, as Professor Sprague has MRS. AMERICA made it, and not abusive. ft The issue at stake now is not whether there shall be When it comes to selling most commodities, womnn i is devaluation of the dollar, for that virtually a foregone the deciding factor. She manages the best of all markets, conclusion, but rather how far that valuation shall go. the American home. The Administration, in its drive for There has always been some question whether the Presi- higher prices, is faced with definite housewifely protest dent and his advisors did not set the mark unduly low in against advancing costs. The housewife speaks through the figures. Depart aiming at the price level of 1926. The major jusification for a commodity dollar is that it would in theory make old ment store sales, based on dollar value and not volume, debts payable at the level at which, they were contracted. have fallen steadily. Mrs. America had become accus t.5 Now, the bulk of existing unadjusted debts was contract tomed to bargains; when they disappeared she stopped ed, on an average, at a later leve1 than that of 1926. Hence buying. To offset this, the government is intensifying its it would seem that the present reduction of the gold ex- campaign to get more money into the hands of the public As for business in general, the picture is so mixed as change value of the dollar to a ILtle above 60 cents is devaluation enough to test out the theory. to be impossible to depict accurately. Some businesses are It may be granted that farm prices have not yet risen up, some are down, and some are pursuing a sedate middle so much as they should. But inflation is not the only fac- course. On the whole, industry is substantially better off II tor in the farm solution or in business recovery. More- than it was when the year opened, and heartening gains II g processes now under have been made in employment, wages, working hours, over, inflation by the trial is destined to work slowly if relied upon alone and in and in profits of many large corporations. The dark spot moderate use. in the picture still is the farm situation. 1 To effect a rapid and continuing improvement in prioOo II ces any adjustment of the dollar must enlist a reflation of TEMPERANCE EDUCATION II w credit, a rise of commerical confidence and of business activity. Neither confidence nor enterprise can exist to any Temperance, which all good citizens believe in and has The time under extent will strive to bring about, is a matter of long and patient prolonged uncertainty. great come when President Roosevelt would do well to annouce and persistent education. The education for temperance plainly a value for the dollar and a purpose to stabilize it neglected since January 1920, should be resumed at once. within reasonable limits. In this he might hitch the gold The W. C. T. U. deserves great credit for announcing that content to the commodity price level to provide for grad- it will devote its great energies to such a campaign of edual future adjustment, but if the commodity dollar theory ucation. This is an intelligent procedure, and should be is sound it should be possible to aviod extreme and erratic generally adopted. fluctuations which disrupt trade. It behooves liie governors and the legislatures of the Some have speculated that the President wishes to various states to organize the best brains at their comkeep the monetary question in a fluid state until Congress mand to set up such control of the liquor trade that the meets, in order that he may have no single program to de citizens of their states will support to the end that former fend, but may pit inflationists against noninflationists un abuses will not be revived and that the new ones of boottil he frets a nroeram tor whicn bongress will snare re legging will be abolished. Milwaukee Sentinel. oOo sponsibility. Whatever this strategy may have to commend it, Mr. Roosevelt can do more good by using his alTo estimate the tax revenue from hooch, you take the ready delegated powers to put a tangible monetary found- official figures and divide by four. ation under business recovery Chirstian Science MoniA tor. 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THE BEAVER PHESB YOUR HOME IS YOUR CASTLE Admit only clean, constructive newi by reading THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR A Daily fletctpaper for the Home constructive world but rTou not uplc'l crim tni scandal. Hat interesting feature paRet for all the f.invly on lomen's Activitiee, Horns-ma- lt in i. Gardens, Education and Books. Also page for the Children and Young Folks. Vigorous ediloiisli. an interpretation of news in the "March of the Nations" Column and "Watching the World Go By" are of especial interest to men. II givi ill th The Christian Science Publishing; Society One. Norway street, Boston, Manaachuset'i Please rnter my wibscrlptir n to The Christian Srlen: Monitor period o( One year 19 no 2 29 Three monthi Sli months IM Ona month Tt Name tot Street City Stnt? Sample Copy on Requcut oOo People don't marry one another. They marry faultless creatures they imagine one another to be. the The problem of monetary standards which in its latest stage is characterized by the start of the United States' var.t campaign will unquestionably be brought further into the limelight when Congress meets again. It has become apparent that the world's business cannot be operated wholly on gold. It may always be the backbone of money but it cannot live up t othe job of being the heart and the tissue and corpuscles, too. It needs an ally. And silver, the poor man's gold, is eminently fitted for that position. The monetization of silver, in the opinion of a great many economists, industrialists and agricultural authorities, would be a tremendous step, not only toward recovery, but toward achieving permanent stability. If that is true, the sooner it is achieved, the better. gold-buyin- "WHO?" 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