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Show i THURSDAY, SEPT. 13, 133 THE LEHI FREE PRESS THURSDAY. SEPT. 13, 1934 n NOTICE Trouble Be gms at 40 By Jay Franklin are staggering along "This Struggle for Jobs Between he taxpayers burden of responsidreadful a Youth and Age What Shall jnder Men of sixty, and even fifty, bility. We Do About It 7 to are ' In the quaint days when Northern Abolitionists and Southern slave own. ers were doing their best to manufac ture a civil war in the United States It was considered highly patriotic to pretend that there was nothing wrong. A lew bold men had the courage to speak of the "irrepressible conflict'' be tween slave labor and free labor, and . Lincoln dared to point out that house divided against itself could not But he was beaten for the tan1 senate because he said so. and the others were The result was that the conflict, not having been allowed to express itself in the open through normal demo cratic channels and not having been dealt with boldly by public opinion, had to take the form of a bloody civil hush-hushe- -- d. war. lrre- - Today America faces another pressible conflict. It isn't polite to mentoin It. No politician worth his trass dares make an Issue of it. Tet unless this conflict is analyzed, de bated, and handled boldly, it threatens to dynamite our democratic Institutions and to destroy our buslnes system. For i It is the conflict beween young men and old men. an the stakes for which i that conflict will be fought are jobs. The facts are perfectly simple and . ' unanswerable: 2.500,000 Every; year nearly young Americans reach eighteen, the : age at which nature has arranged that they shall enter active economic life. 2. Every year nearly 1500,000 Amthe age at ericans reach forty-fiv- e, -- Which nature, through competition, re-quires that men begin to abandon active economic life. S. Allowing for deaths, this means that every year there are about 700,000 i more young Americans available for been vacated . Jobs than jobs have Even assuming that there has been no advance In techological unemployment 1. e. machines doing the work former ly done by men which is not the case, each year new jobs must be found sufficient to enable these 700,800 youngsters to support themselves. This is putting it mildly. 4. This process has been going on since 1929, which means that 3,500.000 . jnore young Americans are available for employment 'than there were before : the crash, and so we are creating a special class of unemployed youngsters who have never had even a toe hold ' In the business system. 5. Most of the men who had Jobs in 1929 and are still alive have been is but unemployment reemployed, humping up among the younger men and women. The Federal Emergency Relief Administration is now taking care of 3.500,000 people between sixteen and thirty-fou- r. 6.. This stiuation Is loaded with dynamite and, unless handled wisely, thoroughly, and promptly, can produce a war or a revolutoin. What do these facts mean? Men and boys, of the age when they are strongest and most active, are be ing allowed to run to waste of no use to themselves, to the society which produced them, or the nation which we are trying to create. Girls who want to marry and raise families are not allowed to do so dur ing the very years when nature has best fitted them for childbearing. This Is a profound insult to the deepest in stinct of the human race which cannot be defied safely. Men and women who are still em. ployed the wage earners, the farmers 1. this r , . support being required seventy men and women of twenty, thirty and forty; they must dip into their meager pay envelopes to pay the taxes for re d lief of their youngsters. This is such a terrific reversal of the vhole structure of society that it threatens to shatter our entire morality. Joe, on getting his engineering diploma, is lucky if he can get a job at a filling station; Louise, on graduating from normal school, can take her choice between loafing at home and streetwalking; the trained, intelligent professional classes are being starved out of the old business system and have nothing to lose by a violent change. And these figures mean race suicide. Statistics already reveal a catastrophic drop in the birth rate. With all the of means for abundant production things for people, we are halting the production of the people. This is the final vicious spiral of an economic calamity and one which is due only which will proto bad organization duce an explosion. The human race does not like to let itself be killed by an idea and can be counted upon to resist violently. France today faces an interntional crisis because for three years during the World War fewer French babies than normal were born. What crisis will we face in 1950-6What does this humanly "Irrepres. slble conflict" mean to us here and now? It means that we must find some way to use the energies and ambitions 'of our young men and women or they will destroy our system of living. We are trying, through the New the sort of sys-the-m Deal, to which we had up to 1929. a system in which the young man who came of working age found his job and then was able to holl it as long as he kept his skill and his strength, and in which the young woman who came of marriageable age found her man and was able to marry and raise a family in reasonable security. It had worked more or less automatically for the last seventy years of our natoinal life and, if we are lucky and clever enough, we may reestablish It on an automatic basis. That Is the idea back of the establishment of the Civilian Conservation Corps to tide over the depression and fit for useful work 300,000 young American men by socially useful enterprises in the forests. That is the idea back of the elimination of child labor, the reduction of working hours and raising of wages through the NRA to make more jobs available at a living wage for men and women of working age. That Is the idea back of agricul able-bodie- 5? cattle government within a short time. All those havig cattle to sell are requested to list them with those in charge of the buying, with the next two weeks. LYMAN H. RICH. of which Is to take away by force the LEHI'S AMUSEMENT CENTER jobs from the old men and give them to the young. That Is what happened WEEKLY PROGRAM NOTICE in Italy and Germany. This is the irrespressible conflict. We must, through the New Deal, quickly WHO MAY VOTE AT A SPECIAL offer jobs to our young men and marriBON'S ELECTION? JEAN HARLOW, LIONEL BARRYMORE, FRANCHO TONE and LEWIS age to our young women on a demoTitle 15, Chapter 7, Subdivision T, STONE In or basis, cratic, orderly, automatic Revised Statutes of l.'tah 1933 specielse America must go to war. turn fically states, that before a city may Communist, or have a Fascist revolu- Incur an indebtedness for water, light tion. an sewers, 'The proposition to create Politicians don't like to consider this such indebtedness must be first subthe screen's most electrifying personal glamorous problem. Editors shy away from it. mitted to the vote of such qualified Golden haired o her talents! A happy screen treat. romance tailored in a Business Tories don't like to have it electors as shall have t Ity perfectly paid a property Also a Good OUR GAXO COMEDY "HOXKEY DONTCEY." mentioned. But the problem remains. tax In the year preceeding such elecWhioh shall give our young men tion." ADMISSION ONLY 10c and 15c work and our young women marriage? Who is a qualified elector? Democracy under the New Deal? Title 25, Chapter 2, subdivision 29, Communistic Or of the Revised Statutes of Utah, 1933, 'regimentation? Fascist revolution? provides as follows: "No person shaU If this be treason, make the most hereafter be permitted to vote at any of it! general, special, municipal or school election without having first been : tC Ditiveerrri registered within the time and in the CARD OF THANKS manner and form as required by this V The mad eacapades j i Chapter. Before a person can register of a Princeton senior We wish to extend our sincere and qualify as an elector he must be a three the to keep trying thanks to all those who assisted in any citizen of the United States, a resident V women in hU life from ' x i'way during the illness and death of our of this State one year, of the County finding out about each husband and father. To those who four months and of the precinct or 1 other, and the Dean i visited him in his illness assisted at the city sixty days prior to the day of elec- I from finding out : services and burial and those sendng j tlon. Valout all thrte! j flowers and cars we offer our sincere What is a Property Tax? In America, it Is a tax Imposed on gratitude. Mrs. A. B. Harris and family. property whether real or personal, as distinguished from poll taxes, and :i . -- " , , :t.l7.vJ taxes on succession, transfers, and BE MEASURED occupatons, and from license taxes. WILLIAM ASHER, FOR YOUR NEXT SUIT TOPCOAT or OVERCOAT Attorney for Lehl City. By a Factory Trained Expert MITCHELL HOLLOW Over 750 Patterns To Choose From WELL PROGRESSING Samples Displayed at My Home or Tours. Reports from the Mitchell Hollow 50 T0 well are that the drll now at the 140 foot level and that water raises to : I E. RACICER within 15 feet of the surface. The well wiil be drilled to 300 feet or more THE SUIT MAN be finished this 2nd West between Main and 1st North and will possibly week. 1 t r ' r "' i ' I r'S tffi'vi l,-, J l .f 1 f for a 2 second foot Prospects LEHI PLAIIIiinG pump well are favorable. THEATRE Friday and Saturday, Sept. 14 and 15 "The Girl From Missouri" Sunday, Monday and Tuesday September 16, 17 and 18 - XT f J - i't 5I45 J. $32 fjtsuj ' . TO WELCOME COUNTY DEMOCRATS WW! 8-- The Communists In Soviet Russia tried a diCferent system. They mobilized young men and women In labor battalions and In effect enslaved them as hewers of wood and drawers of water for the state. Compulsory military service or compulsory econmlc service that Is one way out. There is already a book receiving wide attention which, under the title of Abolishing Poverty, proposes that all young Americans between the ages of twenty and thirty years should be required to work to produce the necessities of life for the rest of the population. Don't make any mistake. Such a program has a profound appeal. Men and women like to feel that they are being used and are useful. That Is why war is so generally popular among boys and young men. Then there Is the other course call It Fascism. This means that the young men get organized In a political movement, one of the principal objects V - Democratic Committeemen of Lehl are busy perfecting plans for the entertainment of Utah County Democratic Delegates when the County Convention convenes here on September 22. The covention sessions will be held In the High School Auditorium. Committees under direction of Frame Sharp are busy planning luncheon for the expected 600 visitors who will attend the convention. There will be over 400 delegates and with the guests the number is expected to total 600. Plans are underway by the various tural adjustment and the subsistence committees to make the delegates stay homestead movement to make it pos- In Lehl a one. pleasant sible for people to live on the soil and to escape from the tyranny of the In dustrial pay roll by raising their own food. But these .measures, big though they are. have not yet proved sufficient to absorb the new recruits who come into the front-lin- e trenches of our business system every year. These young men must be used, and if we can't find an automatic way of letting them make themselves useful, they PHONE will find other ways. The alternatives are plain. If the If yon have any news of inprocess of recovery Is interrupted or terest, any advertising, any does not move fast enough, society job printing or want anything must regiment the young or they will in the printing line. regiment society. There are only two ways in whch society can regiment the young: war and Communism. When we had more young men and women than we knew what to do with, in the past, we "solved" the problem by taking them out of production and out of the marri age market by the draft act and kill ing them off In an International coop erative slaughterhouse known as the "front" The buying of will be discontinued EXTENSIVE IMPROVEMENTS AT BRIGHAM YOUNG UNI. The most etxenslve program of Im provements in years will be completed at Brigham Young University by the time regitsration begins September 21. It Includes 12 tennis courts for the upper campus, the largest block of courts in the state; a large pipe organ and other improvements for College hall; a fully equipped stage and fur-the-re alterations of the Arts building auditorium; new restrooms and supply rooms housed In annexes newly con. structed on the College building; and other preparations to accomodate the record enrollment expected. Addition of new departments and faculty members is announced by President F. S. Harris for the 69th opening of the big Church university. With the new departments of Marketing and Landscape Architecture, the the total number of courses offered in the 33 departments has . been Increased to li00. This year's appointments include' Dr. Albert B. Reagan, formerly of the U. S. Indian service, as special professor of anthropology; Wilford D. Lee, and Miss Helen Candland, English; Grace Nixon Stewart, regular instructor In O. speech; G. L. Woolf, languages; Meredith Wilson, history; Barr Miller, assistant to the treasurer. Several popular professors are returning from sabbatical leaves. They ..tK,TTY;CARLISLC ALSO . Wed. and Thursday, Sept. 19 and 20 W il "DR. MONICA" BIG BAEI3AM KAY FRANCIS and WARREN WILLIAMS in Only a super-woma- n 'j could have lived this story Only a super star coult bring It to the screen. Also Chapter 9 of "Shadow of the Eagle" DON'T MISS IT! ALL SEATS 10c are Professor A, C. Lambert, who has Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Allred returned been working toward his doctorate at home Saturday from a trip to CaliStanford; Professor Emma Brown, who has been studying at Columbia; Mrs. fornia. They went by way of Las Bertha Roberts, returning from a year Vegas, Santiago and Tia Jauna where of work in France; Miss Billie they visited with their son, Fullmer, who has been working to- who who Is In the L. D, S. Mission ward her d octorate at the University field. They returned by Los Angeles of Southern California. Professor J. and San Francisco. They report FullM. Jensen, who was away most of last mer well and enjoying his missionary will be t back. labors. year, Holl-ingshe- IVAA7 P--T WW LIU GOO GI.uTG TT UVJ take all the family to the Royal FREE. All you have to do is pay 50c and y6u will receive Lehi's leading local paper for six months and a family ticket. 1 MH (MM? |
