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Show PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Of the one it held of yore. He dropped a tear for those happy days; He sighed for them in vain; And going on his heart it prays That such might be again. ON POLITICAL LEADERSHIP. TIIE PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Issued every other Friday at Salt Lake Gty, Utah, in interest of Natural Development office Entered aa Salt r M T second-clas- s matter April 1 932, at the post at 1879. Gty, Utah, under the Act of March 8. and Publisher Managing Editor TTvn PRICES OF SUBSCRIPTION One Year Sis Months 120 10 Advertising Rates on Application. Gass A and B Credits Accepted in Either Department Worth-whil- e communications invited, and your moral and financial support is solicited. Help us carry the saving message of to the world. LIFES BEST ADVENTURE. The greatest adventure that life holds for a person or a group ds to foresee, to think toward and to work for a socia state in which all should work for one another, each giving1 the best service that is in him and each receiving aH that he needs. Add to this some touches of real spirituality, which such a condition will naturally develop, and we shall have the sunlit goal to which humanity has ever been aspiring; the new earth, even the new heaven, spoken of by the Revelator. Believe it or not, the N. D. A. is the very sum and substance of this adventure. It began in a very humble way. The leaders and founders went forth without means but with the faith of cruaaders, searching, not for the Holy Grail of old, but for economic freedom and the complete emancipation of mankind; the lifting of the yoke of bondage from themselves an their fellows. They operated first as a small group like unto the little band of Christians who were keping alive the spaik of faith and hope in the catacombs while a Roman civilization was destroying itself shove them. Now they have a large following; their fruits are known far and wide, and, judged by aU human standards, they are now a leaven which is working mightily in the midst of the economic chaos all about us. THE LURE OF LOOT. wherever he came from and to whatWhatever an is he is a creature of admirable gifts, ever goal he la bound boundless possibilities and strange, exasperating frailties. Perhaps his most childlike fault, certainly the most tragic, is his primitive delight in getting something for nothing. The dawn of history found him driven by that insatiable craving for loot. In every century it has taken, a different' form, but it has never let go its hold on his imagination. When forced by circumstances, he would create what he wanted. But there was not the thrill to that like the joy of obsession. getting something for nothing. It became his great To satisfy it, be invented theft, instituted murder am TnaAft war a profession. For its sake he ravaged alien cities. At its service, he donned' priestly robesd aimed magic powers, and preyed on the terror of the ignorant. For it he devised human slavery, white slavery, compound interest and games of chance. It hoisted the black flag and spread death and terror over the seven seas. Out of his uncontrollable hanker for his neighbors property came the beginnings of barter and trade, growing at last into what we now call finance. To satisfy the greed for loot, princes and rulers devised the curse of taxes. It is not confined to the rich. It is what keeps the poor the never satisfied hope of some day getting in bondage snmgthing for nothing. It is a fearful disease, causing most of our misery. The cure is cooperation. Cooporation neither gives nor takes something for nothing. It offers only the security of owning and enjoying what we ourselves produce. Get rid of your hanker for something for nothing. It is getting out of date. It must yield now to cooperation. WE HAVE SOMETHING WORTH WHILE. When a shrewd and learned observer who has traveled the country over for the purpose of studying the various cooperative movements, comes to Salt Lake, studies the N. D. A. in actual and successful operation, and goes away saying that it is the best he has found, we must conclude that we have something very greatly worthwhile, something that is worthy of national notice and even world consideration. Yes, we have something very greatly worthwhile, something for which the world has been waiting, something toward which the race has been striving, something that will actually save people in these turbulent times. The plan of Nature Development, founded on principles of "Natural Government, is no longer a small local affair. The news of it has spread far and wide and the plan is being studied and taken up in many sections of the country. And we are still in the dim beginnings, still in the first year. The members should feel encouraged, even enthused, and should let nothing whatever come in the way of the complete success of N. D. A. Jay Fftmkiin, noted political writer and author, has put before the public, part of which are as some sensible ideas follows: "Political leadership has been practically bred out of our pubiic life by the past twenty years of economic and political administration. Today it is considered presumptuous and all but indecent for any junior in business or politics to have articn ulate ideas on national affairs and public policy. The has been exalted and coddled.. The production of civic morons to protect the political and economic interests of our business leaders has been a major feature of political administration in the U. S. for the past generation. And one must not forget that politicians have been branded in the public eye as stupid, cowardly and corrupt; torrents of mud and vilification have greeted any attempt at leadership along any but the most conventional lines. As a result no man who values his family tri enter privacy or his mental serenity has dared the great game of politics. The natural and inevitable result is that the people have been schooled to political apathy as a sort of civic virtue. Inspite of such facts let us put new blood and new leadership into our politics. yes-ma- From depressions blighting away;. But even as I knelt to pray, the voice Of a spirit seemed to say, What would you have tte Father do a thought. Help us, I answered, without a lot: and thought considered then I Should He help us with more abundant crops? drops. If He did, the market would takeformore summers need? Should He store more moisture be flooded indeed. If more were there, we'd and public health ; livestock our so And on, for making wealth; Our supplies of machinery vast. and ranges mines The forests, Our public and private buildings fine. And boundless resources in every line. To pray had never been such a task, Till I realized not one thing could I ask That God in His infinite mercy might do To bring Peace and Plenty to me and you. Son of man, get up from thy cringing knees ; Mock not the mercy of God with pleas, Vnr A hnuntv thats cast like the pearls before swine. r light-hearted- ly THE MEANS OF ESCAPE. From a Lecture on Save America. And now for remedies, for ways and means to escape the predicted calamities. There are means of escape. There is a way to save America and it is high time that we set about to find it. In fact, we have found it in Natural Development, a system that is working and succeeding grandly. There must be a swinging back to the pure, fundamental, natural and supporting government created by the inspired founders of this nation. We must get back to the sure foundations of religious faith and basic morality, which are just as essential to the perpetuity of our national life as sunshine is necessary to the life of the plant. We must listen to the great statesman, Jefferson, wtfo said, Man above money; human rights above property rights, and get back to democracy; we must listen to the Father of our country when he says, "Religion arid morality are indispensable supports to political prosperity. We must take the advice of U. S. Grant, Hold fast to the Bible for it is the sheet anchor of our liberties. We must accept the injunction of Daniel Webster, If we abide by the Bible and its teachings our country will go on prospering, but if we neglect its instructions and its authority no. one can tell how suddenly a catastrophe may overwhelm us and bury all our glory in profound oblivion. Jesus Christ is the God of this land and its government cannot succeed without Him. He must be acknowledged and worshipped. There is no security without Him. The issue of saving our government is in our own hands. We shall, as Lincoln said, Meanly lose or nobly save the last best hope of earth. 1 OUR ECONOMIC SYSTEM WRONG. . I hold that our economic, industrial and financial systems are outworn, inadequate, even wrong. They are out of date and cannot save us. For proof I rite you to the weaknesses which you may see with your own eyes. We must stand face to face with the facts, do some hard thinking and resolve, that it is high-- time we try something different, because the old system is not functioning as it should; it is not rendering sufficient service; it is not bringing forth the right kind of fruit; it does not promote the common welfare; it does not make for peace, happiness and progress. Under the old system the whole scale of human values has been overturned and the best in man is lost sight of. ' It has absorbed the whole effort of life and. set itself up as the greatest good. It makes of a man a mere tool or machine for making goods and looks upon him as an instrument for making profit. Little, if any note is taken of his higher nature, his dreams and his hopes of a better life, a better world. It has practically forced the meaning out of life for the millions who toil and struggle without hope, while it piles higher and higher the fortunes of the favored few. There is a better way. It is found in Natural Government Natural Development. ' WHY NOT ECONOMIC PROGRESS? Why is it that we have made such wonderful progress in the physical sciences and so very little, if any, in the economic and political sciences? Today there is ne opposition to progress in the realms of physics, chemistry, medicine and electricity, while .there is aX manner of opposition to progress along economic and political lines. Time was, however, when there was a year war against scientific progress and men who three-hundr- ELIZABETH TEA ROOM CAFE WAS. STREET Well Cooked and Appetmngly Served "B Credits 50 Cash A Credit Sandwiches and Drinks C. HARRIS, Prop. ds 4 o 10230 ' 24 SO. STATE . ARTICLES WANTED Call at Survey Department part. book 1, page IS Auto parta, differential O. X. 4SSS Wander Lane; book L page IS Wanta W. H. Arlington Hy. US-to care for children during vacation; 4 or ISS under 11. Boom Suite or Living A. A. Brewer, 971 Hollywood; book 1, page J. A?hJohnonWoode Croce, Utah; book 1, page 84 Living room furniture 1 eaey chairs and couch. W. O. Scott, 1E40 E. 48th South; book 1, page 41 Scwlnp machine. Mrs. Julia Spiers, 25SS E. 48th South; book 1. page 4J Wants a Jok 44 E. J. Nelleon, HoL 115-Valley View Ava, Holiday; book 1, page Electrlo and coal stove. ,e P. J. Barney, SSth So. 27th East; book L page 48 Coal, sectional book case John T. Barlow, SOS Bed wood Bmtd; book 1, page SO Washing machine hay. P. J. Bteveneen, Riverton, B. D.; book L peg 51 Wants Ccoal. SIS Hollywood Ave. Wants good washlnr L, J. Sorenson, Hy. 1124-machine. Leslie Newton Waa. 1171, Magna Utah, box 111; book-1- . page 57 Two . milking cows1515 8b. 3rd East; book L Page SI Wants horse, 1100 t Edward Beagar, 1400, to haul coal. James Bigby, 48th So. above !7th Bast: book 1, page SI Wants cows and horse. Prank A Olsen, Hoi. 144, 4455 So. !7th East, Holladay; book 1 page 58 Typewriter wanted. Van Kllgrow, 7 J. W. K., Woods Cross; book L page It 1 horse, 1100 Iba will trade hay for horse. James Bmedley. Bountiful J, Centerville, Utah; book 1, page II Cultivate Planet Yrd. Lumber. Tri Base Lubricants, Hy. 2422, 1571 So. Main; book 1. page IS Light truck boiler. around 400.00; also Sam Barnado, Woods rose, Utah; book L page 35400 lba potatoes la fall, and wheat for chickens Mrs. Dana Ulka 4110 So. 10 Shut; book L page 75 Wanta coal. Pranels Arke, 84th So. bet. Ird and 7th East; book 1, page 71 200 bushels 1S-- one-hor- se wheat for chlckana Mra Brody, 04th So. and 7th East; book 1, page 71 200 bushels wheat for chickens. E. C. Morgan, HoL 2II-- J and Waa 1271, 1400 Murray Lane; book 1, page TS Hay, new, about I tons Ird cutting, 2 or 4 tona J. T. Larson HoL S27-- J, 4470 Wander Lane; book 1, page 71 Lumber, used or new. P. XL Boulton, Woods Croat, Utah; nook 1, page II Wants 500 Iba potatoes; 2000 Iba coal. D. S. Adams, Qrantevllls; book 1, page IS Laundry stove or good rang with water Jacket;1 electric range; kitchen cabinet; cement. C. O. Bowen, Farmington, Utah; book L page 14 Wants a bicycle at ones, a large one; 1 sack of sugar. o AVAILABLE ARTICLES ed dared to express a new idea were imprisoned, tortured and some of them burned at the stake. A man was sent to prison arid ' tortured for saying the world was round. Another was imprisoned for saying that the brotherhood of man was the only thing worth working for. Great soufo were burned to ashes for expressing the truths which are common today. This persecution, in a modified and a different form, is rampant today against those who speak or write for progress along economic and political lines. Thq established older is marshaled against change, no matter how necessary it may be. It stands like a stone wall and will not swerve a hairs breadth out of the beaten path or away from the crumbling system. It condemns the men who WHY NOT PLAN PRODUCTION? dare to preach a new doctrine. The prophets of a new order are classed as enemies of society. No greater mistake was ever The American people buy something like 300,000,000 pairs made. They are the torch bearers, the heralds of a new dawn. of shoes each year, but we have a capacity production of three They are the ones who have gone out to meet and welcome bettimes that number or about 900,000,000 pairs. In normal times ter and greater things for their kind. new factories spring up and the banks are willing to finance them. And what is the result? The existing shoe plants stand THE FIRST SCHOOL. on an average empty and the burden of the overhead forces one concern after another into bankruptcy. And this From Five minutes Inspirations. result will always follow the present system. We refer to only one kind of factories, but what we say applies to nearly all I wandered to the village Tom, and sat beneath the tree, others. Production outruns consumption and all our competitive Upon the school house playing ground, that sheltered you and me But few were left to greet me, Tom, and few were left to know warfare is the result. The sensible way to do is to plan production according to Who played with us upon the green, some forty years ago. The rid school house, the first school, to which our little consumption in all manufacturing lines. When enough factories have been constructed to supply the population with shoes, feet went scampering in the long ago, has long since disappeared further building of shoe factories should ceaed, and the labor but it can never be erased from our memories. That which has and capital and management should be transferred into other endeared the first school to us cannot be shaken by time. A lines of necessary activety. That would be the N. IX A. way of who had been away for forty odd years came back to the old home town and nearing the center of the place he beheld some doing business. It imaj seem strange that N. D, A. has to establish & tannery In order relics of the school he first attended. He recalled the rude little that feather may he produced tor making afaoee when the country haa each desk at which he Bat, the teacher and the pupils, and it gave an enormous capacity tor making the necessary footwear. But no matter how many factories there are, or how many palra of eboea are manufactured, him the thrill of his life. Memories. welled up in his mind repeople have to go without because they do not have the money with which calling the golden days, the playmates and the associates of the to boy. So we have decided to make our own, and run a factory, not for morning years of life, when the world was sweet and good. . money profit, but tor real service1 to men, women and children. Tie dreamed and he dreamed of the old school times, And his heart was tenderer and1 tenderer, THE LIQUOR QUESTION. As those dear old dreams brought soothing gleams Of Heaven away bafck yonder." It appears that the great majority of people in this state As he stood there meditating a great panorama passed beare for prohibition and against any change in the constitution. fore his minds and he was as one transfixed. He saw where They are not at all unmindful of the evils of bootlegging and he had caived eye his name; where he had read and spelled and racketeering, but they are unable to forget what the liruor traf- ciphered with the class; where he had run and romped with the fic brought about in the days of the saloon. They are not fanatand where he had stood before the little miss who ical by any means and have only the good of the city and state boys, life s first love in his heart; again he was before the inspired teacher at heart. There was never a moment in the history of saloon and the blackboard and in the corner days when it was as safe for women and children to walk the sometimes placed. He felt that it was where "bad boys were good to recall it all and streets as now. Why jump out of the frying pan into the fire? was he a man better undoubtedly after the experience. Why should the people purposely bring upon themselves greater Voices came up from the hurried past, evils than they are now enduring? Of all people on earth the The lads and lasses were there; people of Utah should be the last to retreat on a moral question. In every seat was the image cast two-thir- PRAYING AND WORKING. in God, Bring a man who believes to I went to my room pray; us out Ill ask the Father to help Apply at Survey Department Deo C. Jamea, S440 So. Ird East 8andy; book 1, page 5 Wants $40 1124 -Dodge Truk, ton; will trade for coupons; battery gone; I tires Wun truck. Clive Haney, Wan 8S14-- J, 401 L Street; book 1, page 181000 chicks; cap coal brooder, will sell for 810 Emil Qumban, Hy. 6168-- J, 1052 Bo. coupons 12th East, City; book 1, page 141 1,0 K,; Pi mill $10; 1 dos. Amplax for RUtomoDllM. O. L. Hist, Sandy; book L page 10 'Will have rabbits for exchange later on in raiL eon-jmib- PbE dIeayablV $?20per t'r--yu w & Scotch Marine Leffel boiler. Price $450.. Wj Kelly. Was. 2507, 045 So. 2nd West; book 1, page 12 Falrly rod condition. 1 eight-piec- e 1127 Ford dining y1o,ltdCUlt,Vatr: paW ButteaiuelO. tSfJripa ?nUdb.00fkor1'$,Pi?5 rang- -. $2; l&rfVdTCxJ W tSS1 th Bfc Hollady: ook 1. PKe 54 Truck, th tenth book 1, 48O10Brijl.y.n25H jgp, -1 .Feed or Bet Butter. Nothing to exchange and will h.lfrtno'modhel8wth E,t: e3BkStn K0rk C- - ,n Hr ' book WP- - Jaet, M Jhll TeamarneVa N' P but1 hn5te.Ri L. J. SoreneeiL 111 RwJw00,! Boad; book L MrtBtMn' ' bo? Holl5wJS5n.f i4? e1 book L 501 harow, page sl An farm CMh on 1 plow, Implement basis u Possible, page 58 Used car for sale new. amm, S 14 -- ton, 38 bw rakf value pa Mowing nmchlie and ; Bnlck oup Pa : an ,4 berofanylnd! SmXtiad?7irUofh bka supply lum- tee and iat? emifi' Chev. Truck .lOIS; boolE x Rage S o?b4.thhS;t: bJdy: 1 xtra tlree; ton truck, first class snaps, Ss f2S?2LbI? couch, good shape, not lees than $15. or tradeT jfg .50' a P,,IT' rl t25 M4 4Mhh.kik tentais Available to Members of the Natural Developmen 5 ! A 0 including iMPb;r- 0ondou. owner; VcVSiL KrhlMt owner: 11 - $lS-$2- UnfuraierSoiraUu.1"' Moneh A credit Purn! 10 A cr and B n $, 1.4 Kat aDrt Brockbank, owner; $17.11 Oai rae.ag5iiJ'-mitt. , 4T boao: C. B. Sorenson, owner; $10 A credit Beni Hobson?0" 171 Blrd- - owner; $1 A and $1 B era Unfurairted ,'"n" h0U,: K Hy.i.7iwwai,aco wneri 1,5 a crd,t ph 1.4 wssELSr wwsjbtT 470 E.th4thV(tauth- t 8p- - - SSI11?1 Mr ff raa -- ownp! $ aL,,onbo. R,ch owner. owner; $10 ,B A a A credit Furnl bouwi; Anna 5inle,KlC Belnap, owner; $10, Bleeping re l k one! A Bleeping room with board nyTwo: credit K,1froo owner; houae and acreage; Bk L page 8, W1 W00nson!0Mi 1S0,rr;n,1-4-J"'1pt' J- - H. Prebairn, owner; $10 A and $10 B ere 47 A and $7 B credit 2nd floor. "T011?1 122 W 8Nn'lo.PS 4r.m- - Pt; W, C Man, owner; $15 A credit Thr. A or M. B. connections, phone Weight n,aank54tt WlllMneo 414 rt,4Ughte and wiu?. Minin! r o |
