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Show That Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth" The Vol. I. Price 5c. 6 Months $1. Food For Thought ,1 Edited by C. N. Lund Murray, SALT LAKE Co., Utah, January 25, 1932 A man with a large family 1 purchased a farm with a home 011 't' He Paid $500 down, the other to be paid in installments. Old Order Con' fesses VjQOO - He and his wife and his child- "New occasions teach new duties, ren worked desperately. Every Time makes ancient good uncouth ; fall they took all their increase They must upward still and onward ' and paid it out in interest. Who would keep abreast of truth. Dont close your mind to new truth. Dont try to run an They sacrificed and toiled and airplane age with an ox team. Read and think and keep abreast worried and wept, but at pre-o- f the times. Accept the challange of change. Rev. Harry vailing prices could not reduce the principal materially. Finally Emerson Fosdick has recently said : What would any God worth believing in care for our faith they were forced off the farm, if he did not see us now concerned both with the relief or need The land, the home, the with the resolute desire to build a decent social order that chinery, the horses; cows, will prevent such human catastrophe again. swine and chickens, which the The president of Cornell University has recently spoken as family had brought there, were follows : sold under the hammer, but not "The pebple are facing a torn, confused and baffled world, enough money was realized to and it is their duty to help solve its problems. Among these pay the debt It was a pitiful problems are social, economic and political maladjustment and scene when the man, woman inequality in the distribution of wealth. You must play your and children treked away from part in the light of new conditions. The challenge to the entire their home, to go, they knew existing order has got to be met. It is not going to be met by not where, and start all over any hasty disregard of the challenge nor by a prejudiced re- - again without capital. Human liance on tradition. We must think along new lines." welfare isnt worth a thin dime Dr. Harry Elwood Barnes, one of the shrewdest American in this and several million cases analysists says, "Our system of irresponsible business enter- - like it. Money was God and prise and individualism, of which Mr. Hoover and other "great1 held the whip hand. How long, minds are incarcerations, did bring on the depression and made dear Lord, shall such a condi the national cow go dry. Nobody of their kind, be they Repub- - tion continue? The writer licans or Democrats, can ever bring us more than sporadic and would rather go penniless and infrequent periods of profusion. I am hoping for something poor and alone down to the from the new capitalism. Yet, unless the new capitalism silence of the vances beyond eloquent words and emerges into actual practice, dreamless dust, fighting for we are likely to stare Communism or Socialism in the face. something better than to live Another great national figure has said : "In time I believe on as a millionaire and endorse we shall conquer and establish a world where it will be as much such doings, of a crime for a president of a big industry to throw his workers as helpless charges on the community as it is for him to em- . , , bezzle $1,000,000 from his stockholders today. We 'have a goal eve,7 Vii week and several Jrtie following toward which we can work. week. One of the really big ones went down in Chicago the other day. Community after . You want better times, a better world with more oppor- - community is going bankrupt, tunity for you and your children. You want poverty abolished. a half dozen of them hitting the You want your community saved from bankruptcy. You want lately in New Eng-wto cease. You want bank failures and business failures to toboggan land. New York and Chicago cease. You want farmers to keep their farms, livestock men to are sure to go into bankruptcy keep or market at good prices their livestock. You want to see right soon. The army of unem-ever- y man employed. You want to see depressions done away ployed is increasing daily. You want the poor man to be equal before the law with content is spreading. Despair the rich man. You want to own a home. You want to see has settled upon millions. Ant womanhood and childhood free and happy. You want to not what are we going to do about only pursue but to obtain true liberty and true happiness. it? Is anything really substan-I- s there any assurance that you will get these things fromtial being done? If this thing the old standpat politics? None whatever. You must begin to that is upon us continues, you think about a peaceable, reasonable, constitutional change. You who are now o will see will not get anywhere by standing pat and letting politicians your possessions swept away deceive you and lead you by the nose for their, not your, inter- - and you may shortly be one ests. We are confronting a new world. The challenge of with the poorest of the poor, change is ringing down the corridors of time. We must go out Why not lend some assistance to meet it. If you men of means realized what is upon us and right now to ward off disaster? how utterly impossible it is for the old order to save us you The day may be saved if we would rush forward and help bring about the change that will unite and do our utmost, save us. Send us your ideas on these matters. One of our readers writes us ma-an- d ar Dis-wit- h. well-to-d- The Real Trouble Failure And the Remedy The following excerpts are from a paper published in the East in the interest of. Franklin D. Roosevelt. If they are not an admission of failure on the part of the major parties then we have not read them aright. "Our political machinery is out of date. "Our industrial life has attained a speed and a complexity Some say that Natural Government cannot be established because it would require such sweeping changes. Every new idea and every step of progress has had to meet opposition from those profiting from the existing order. Human nature is much unknown when the constitution was framed. who taught that they The fundamental principles are as sound today as ever the same as it was in the days of Taul should cease to worship gods made with hands and turn to but the machinery for carrying them into effect is the worship of the true God. Whereupon they made a great Government by and for the people has ceased to exist. The problem is to get the government back into the hands uproar because their craft was in danger. So today most of the of the people and that is a. tremendous job. to go on enslaving their fellow men in the "The task of building an organization capable of keeping capitalists prefer of mammon rather than accept a new order which will worship government in the hands of the people is tremendous. banish and selfishness and bring love, fellowship and greed The greater part of the country is gang ruled. Special is equality. privilege rampant. "Political machines control party primaries. The blessings of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness If the government is allowed to drift further out of the guaranteed by the constitution are being denied hundreds of hands of the people, liberty may be lost. thousands of citizens. Why? Is it because Americas resources The thing that is needed is an independent organization are exhausted ; because of an population ; because within the party. men have become too indolent to work? Is it because there no "There should be party committees to investigate the longer is enough food that thousands of the nations children record of public officials. are undernourished? No! The answer comes thundering from The annual crime bill is one and one quarter billion dollars. the suffering masses. We live in a land of plenty, and crime and suffering are increasing daily because of the evils in our "The cost of government is now $13,000,000,000 a year. social order. It is anything but religion to allow the few to revel in luxury while the many eke out a bare existence. How long shall we. continue uncomplainingly to let the Theer are plenty of illustrations in this country and Canada to show how property taxes may be entirely done away with. many be overridden by the few? Patience has ceased to be a In fact we have an illustration in Utah. Brigham City, which virtue. It is base and ignoble to endure it without protesting. owns and operates its own light and power plant is not levying With Abraham Lincoln we say, "Let us have faith that right any property tax this year because the municipally owned plant makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our has produced sufficient revenue to run the city government and iuty as we understand it. Lets get together in the spirit of brotherhood and work out a solution for the distressing econmore. Fine. If Salt Lake had the profits from its public utilities it woulA have sufficient money for all government expenses omic problems that justice may be meted out to all and peace and could wjipe out all the property taxes now levied. Municipal and stability preserved. If this course is not pursued then strife ownership is the solution of the tax problem. Every citizen and chaos arc inevitable. who is groaning under the tax burden should acquaint himself with the facts concerning public ownership and operation and then work and vote to the end that such a system may be ushered in at the earliest possible moment. Another way is to cut public expenses to half. out-of-da- te. over-crowd-ed How to Get the Taxes Lowered Something to Work For and Their Souls Corporations have no soul It is because the incorporators If corporations either have no souls or else they submerge the soul element. In1 times such hs these corporations should demonstrate that they do have sohiething akin to a soul. Instead of making life a nightmare fjor those who are indebted to them they might look a little more to human welfare, for if human welfare is not sustained, their profits and investments trill not be sustained very WORKERS WITHOUT RESOURCES e e Money Power Passing UShr ng . I thing we will produce to avert it is concerted effort.I With a wave of sanity, what a world we might achieve A new life is within the reach of mankind. It is there for the taking. But mankind is not taking it. Why ! Because capitalism will not let us. The Public Ownership League of America quotes We are Dr. Wallace B. Donham of Harvard as saying,world-wide most spectacular, now in the midst of the ever has that hapbreak down of the capitalistic Bystem more The to on And the League goes say, pened. economics and history of students of our discerning realize that whirlwinds of rebellion and revolution are Why? Because the old system will shaking the world. not swerve a hairs breadth out of the beaten track. shall Well, what are we going to do about it! Who us lead Who shall bring about the wave of sanity! will do old it! They politics to the new life! Will the not because they cannot. Their day is done. The aim the way of this paper is to point the way. It knows that which is lies through a svstem of Natural Government, and easy to put rational constitutional, honoRt, simple L into immediate operation. It will save the day and to bring Will you, citizen and reader, help order do to will have it in You this saving power! about conand forward Come to save all that you hold dear. tribute to the cause. Help us make the fight your fight, and your childrens fight. noth-etawil- ty pin-pos- B r DR. ALVA W. TAYLOR, Vanderbilt Inirerrity Prrfcuor. U? Despite the fnct that our generation lias been bo sunk in political and economic error we have had cycles of a wonderful progress that has been greatly worthwhile. But not yet by a long ways have all the efforts of led to a condition that makes for the happy and free expansion of the soul of the individual, nor to a state of society where everything is secure, satisfying; where nothing impedes or hampers perfect progress, and where all things work in harmony for the building of the soul of man. It is our to do all that in our power lies to usher in the (lav when sweet peace nnd tranquility shall supercede war and hate and competition; when every man will have his share of wealth and property and do his share of work; when each soul shall he a happy in n great universal civilization that wiil know nothing of poverty, idleness and crime, and when those who contribute hut the humblest labor will feel a dignified pride mid joy and part in the whole scheme of things ; when all will have a better and higher understanding of the meaning and the harmony of life; when they will come to understand the universe and know that it was not meant to he brutal and blind, but a groat aspiration to ward order, beauty, freedom and goodness. And in this New World, which, as Wells says, we may take for the asking, we shall build the City of Happiness! Joy shall he its light by day and peace by night. Through it all there shall he a pervading sense of love and brotherhood, increasing, wholesome, purifying and uplifting. Love. Liberty and Happiness shall bp the sacred flames of daily life, and Human Welfare shall lie the watchwords spread all over in letters of living light. Yes, we shall have a world arranged according to all the wisdom, all the longings, all the hopes and nil the aspirations of the human heart; a world redeemed, nnd in which shall be let loose all the repressed kindnesses of the immortal soul of man ! Can we make that world ? Of course we can. Come out in the open and get behind the movement that will bring it about. lm-inani- is as well as for unemployment in the United States. The average wage the working man in the United States is $1,200 a year. This condition obtains in the wealthiest nation of the earth. Seventy-fivmillions of our people subsist on such incomes and less. What ran lhas found a petrified skull in some of the worlds jungles they buy with so little money? IIow arc they to save for times like this; Tins paper is convinced beyond the possibility of say he has been off How are they to spend $5 to end the stagnation? doubt that the clumsy, decrepit capitalistic system which ered they If the industrial leaders, who are urging the little merchant and the $500 for it. What a moun has wrought bo much havoc in the .world, will fail And tain of wealth that man might poor worker to spend $5 to end the depression, would release the vnsl we have something to take its place which is so far ahead accumulate if he searched the amounts they themselves have hoarded up, the depression might he ended of it that there can be no comparison. Our appeal to Let them spend $5,000 a week for a while. ncn nar',est maeea wouia De temporarily. people is to help bring about the change in a peaceable, I believe that 7,500,000 persons are without any means of livelihood. constitutional manner before it is too late. Now is the There is no greater tragedy, not even death, than the tragedy of an honcities, would time. Today is the day I est man in his right mind walking the streets for work and finding none. H. G. Wells, one of the greatest and most far-seeiSo long as you deny work to millions, you are sowing more seeds of minds in the world, has issued many warnings about the orators in the country. discontent and radicalism than all the soap-bo- x There are fall of capitalism, and here is his latest : are ultimately responsible for the The machine and no new jobs. Enterprise faints under a load of debts. condition. We hare given more attention to mechanical engineering than Plenty, under our system of private profit and private human engineering. We have forgotten the worker. Would it not be employment, starves the world. Our money and our wiser and more just to arrange for the employment of all workers discredit systems are not working. The mechanism has placed by a machine before it is put into use? If necessary, we should stalled. I confess see no signs of such an awakening shorten the hours nnd days of labor without reducing wages. The worker as will save us. A dark curtain is falling on our civilizahas a right to profit by the economy of the machine by more leisure. As tion. I do not see any adequate effort to prevent its fall. it is, the owner of the machine profits by the increased profit and the Human decav and disaster is plainly before us. The last worker loses his job. . No. 4. of the Progressive Independent, 206 Scott Bldg. Phone Was. 7280. Office Natural Government Association, Keith Pddg, 3rd Floor, 246 So. Main. Plfone Was. 72S0. Office MORE JUSTICE IN BUSINESS By REV. DR. DANIEL RUSSELL, New York (IVcibytrrian). Business should conduct itself so that its friends conscientiously may defend it. While the majority of young persons have no sympathy with radicalism, they find their enthusiasm curbed in defending the established order. It is said that if all injustice were to be taken out of industry there would be no danger of social strife. It is well to remember tlint it was after the injustices of the rnrist regime were done away with that the irresponsible forces of loot and murder were let loose in Husain. Because business forgets so often the fundamental human aspects of its enterprise, thousands of the rising generation find their enthusiasm curliod to the o have not the faintest vanishing point by the fact that the knowledge of how the other half lives, not in the physical sense, but mentally end spiritually. In the light of Christ's teaching of brotherhood, business must realise that its allocution of profits as lictween workmen on one hand, and stockholders and highly paid executives on the other, must be made in the fear of (lod and the spirit of Jesus; and that a profit received without adequate service rendered is ns truly an abomination in the sight of Cod n the false balances which the Scripture eonfiomu well-to-d- CHIROPRACTOR-D- r. Hyrum Smith, Specialist for Nervous, Rheumatic and Respiratory disorders. Painless. 41 E. 1st No. Was. 6147 CARPENTER AND CEMENT WORK Let us remodel Your home. You do not need money, just products. Work well done, reasonable prices. Phone Was. 7280 for information. BEEHIVE BARBER SHOP BEEHIVE BEAUTY SHOP 30 South State Street and Perfect Professional Service Complete THE WASATCH LRESS 206 Scott Bldg. Good Printing for Less Patrouize your and the peoples friend C. N. Lund |