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Show Official National Organ of Natural Development Assn., A New Economic System FOR HUMAN VOL. 2 NO. 3 PRICE 5c. $2.00 A YEAR ABOVE MONEY WELFARE-MA- N EDITED BY C. N. LUND. 62 POST OFFICE PLACE SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 13. 1933 The Truth Should Shame State & Natl Leaders ABOLISH THE STATE SUPPORT THE PAPER THAT SUPPORTS YOU NOTED CHURCHMEN We Need The Support of Every UTILITIES It $20,000 MAT BE SAVED ANNUALLY AND THE PEOPLE SERVED BETTER ACT ON GOVERNOR'S HOW NEW SYS- ADVICE TEM WOULD Anting on the advice of Governor Blood that the eensible thing to do in these times Is to sntpend some of the leest essential governmental AFFECT UTAH ac- tivities until prosperity returns, and on the advice of Governor Ross of Idaho that property taxes he reduced 41.7 per cent, this paper will begin to outline such activities as, In Its opinion,' may he suspended In iwhole or in part, giving space to oria department in each issue. Begin With Utilities This week we begin wUh the Public Utilities Commission and ask that It be abolished and that mm live-wiman, selected by the people, take its place. Not that we have anything against the splendid personnel of the offloe as now constituted, but that we have the Interests of the people at heart. The people, believe, could pay their taxes end other debts If they were not robbed by the utilities companies, the money lenders end the profiteers. The utilities commission was originally designed to protect the Interests of the people, but in every one of its decisions of any moment It has decided in favor of the interests iwho exploit the people. We have come to a stage ' In the economic life ' trf this state when this must not longer be tolerated and therefore we do unqualifiedly. In the interest of economy and the public welfare, recommend to the legislature the abolishment of the public utilities commission. re Shull we build a city of Technocracy and me how we like It? The first thing neoeaeary is a group of cooperative and resourceful people. Second, we need a townaffe near a source of cheap and limitless power. Third, the town must be accessible to a natural flow of raw products and n market for manufactured goods. There are plenty of towns already built that could be prosperous In thirty days but for the lack of leadership among officials and unwillingness to cooperate among the people. I believe It would he easier Lo build the city than Change the frightened, selfish, skeptical attitude of the people to one of courage, cooperation and faith In technology such that a utopian city could develop. I have in mind a townalte In Carbon County, Utah that is available and Ideally situated for our Within three miles of the town are practically lnexhaustable deposits of the finest quality coal, a source of cheap power. There Is plenty of water to supply the culinary and. Industrial requirements for a town of twenty-fiv- e thousand people. Our proposed city of Technocracy would be the nearest source of supply for Duchesne and Uinta counties which produce cattle, Cheep, hogs, grains, fruits and dairy products. Facts About the Commission Lumber is available on forest reThe Public Utilities Commission serves In Duchesne County. 8uch of the state of Utah Is composed of products as iron, gllsonlte, elaterlte, and other minerals are In three men who ere appointed by the oil shale lavish abundance. Governor for a term of six years. Carbon, Emory, Grand and 8an They ere given Jurisdiction over in- Juan Counties which would also he trastate utilities end have full power closer to onr town than any other in their to fix rates or change them and to source of supply would bring In exchange ranch and farm products regulate the aervloes of state utilities' for onr manufactured foods, dothlpg E. E. Corfman Is president of the and machinery qs well as the aervte- of our professional people and commission; G. F. McGonagle and Thomas E. McKay are the other craftsmen. established and rapidly The many members. It Is significant that the increasing exchangee of the Natural fleet two men were formerly em- Development Association as also othenployees of a utility within the state, er similar organisations offer an onr both of them having been employed ormous additional market for manufactured product and a source by one of the railroads. It Is also of supply of Hiw materials. igeifieant to note that although We can operate onr own city govthey ere pledged to serve the inter- ernment under a city manager-ta- x ests of the people, public utility rates free. - Modern ideas of education where young people have the oppor-fcs have been constantly Increased. Industry tunity of participating Inwhere adults n part of their training The Cost to the People have the privilege of continuing the The member of the commission school experience can be used. We of each' receive a salary of $4000 yearly, will generate power at the month broad own radio onr so that mine the which wae affixed by law when the station will not represent any commission was created in 1017, and casting considerable cash cost. Our newswere the at when prices and lnoomes paper will find circulation every-ln "war level". There le also a staff, where that people are intereebed how things will he In the consisting of a secretary, an accoun- learning Golden Age. tant, an Inspector, and two stenogIf you would he Interested In helprapher! who jrecelvs salaries of from ing to pioneer such an enterprise into Owen Wood write Immediately $100 to $225 a month. Thejr Salt comes are regulated by the commis- ruff. 515 Judge BnHding,numberIke in Give youp age, City. itself. sion family, occupation and ability, your or Ths state appropriated, approxim- resources in cash, machinery any other inately $47,000 to carry on the work equipment. Include materials yon raw as such of the commission; traveling expen- formation and type and quantity of proneed office end salaries, ses, the staffs ducts you can make. will he answered overhead, for a two year period. Tour letter a tabulation of resources through In Must Economise available tor a technological cityWe Utalh, faced with the necessity of the Progressive Independent. building and will only go abend with the suffldMt operating on a reduced' budget,' Ideal city if there an of which of organising a commission Mople (with enough technological mawill SERVE THE PEOPLES IN- training, cooperative ability and a reaTERESTS should take drastic steps chinery of production to gwe assurance of Immediate sue-to investigate the true worth of this sonable commission's services, and sqtlng on their findings, they dhould change CANCELED the law so that one man will be LIGHT BILLS LONGMONT AT Com of office Utility elected to the mlssloner by the people at a salary becommensurate with the value f hie Longmont, Colo. A $9,000 servloee and will he free to refrain lated ChTletmae gift arrived Thursat day for the residents of Longmont, from catering to selfish Interests state The municipally owned electrie ha The all. of expense uch the and power plant made light yearly, least $20,000 year eonld save at the "depresalon money during than Let the legislature oonrtder this. of 1998 that they had more ComSecurities The (Next week. they needed. the go it has been decided that all mission.) write off company will simply light and Please let u. have December electric GREETINGS to come amonnta which bills shall gladly "Tonr Plan and we i exchange. VISITSALTLAKEIINIT Loyal Cooperator COMMISSION MARK SULLIVAN ANSWERS TECHNOCRACY Roy Burt,, recent socialist candi- to publish a paper, date for Governor of Illinois and a under the system, without money. lender In the Methodist church; acWe have struggled along for a year companied by Owen M. Geer, Secreof the Epworth League, made and more and aim to continue mak- tary a visit to several of the Balt uw is impossible ing a good paper. But we are forced to appeal to those who have money end aak them to "give ua a hand. Send in a dollar when yon oen. It goes for a good and worthy canes. Ae Mr. Woodruff says, "Ton cannot do better work for humanity than than to send the paper to your friends." Send in what you can and make all remittances to 52 Post Office Place. CALIF. UNIT IS FORGING AHEAD Oakland, Calif. The first N. D. A. Unit In California Is gradually gaining strength and we feel gratified at the progress made thus far. There la yet much to do, however, and not a day to waste If we are to prevent disaster. The state and local center at 811 to 825 Harrison St., ithls city, le busy many hours a day. We now have an active custodian for the local store In V. J. McDermott, who le our furniture specialist and repair man and le also . handling the produoe and grocery work until we get a specialist in that line willing to work on the drawing account basis. The womens department here thanks the Salt Lake womens department for their very helpful let-tpublished in a recent "Progressive Independent". This department under Miss Hentaota and Mrs. C. W. Hills la building up a nice stock of articles for home use, hut needs many more goods to be placed In the store This departfor N. D. A. credits. ment le also planning a canned foods party soon with an admission fee of not Jess than 25c worth of food for the N. D. A. store. We hope local readers ct the P. I. will watch tor the date The office work, both state and le In the hands of Henry F. Greenfield, who with the assistance of Jack Spencer, has Just finished setting up the N. D. A. complete bookkeeping system, on both a Val-land a cash basis, in harmony with the National Board of Controls accounts. Much exchanging, both outside the tore and through the store, Is being done, that would not have been possible without the N. D. A. system of cooperative credit The Oakland unit la building np all the assart possible, to strengthen Its credwhich is a most important feait, ture and one which the trustees an oarefully watching. Wa have had muoh unsoughjt hut favorable looal publicity. The Oakland Telegraph especially le forcing ' to speed up so as to live up to the record It has assigned to ns and to ths parent body. Onr first list of cooperative associates is now In circulation with no leas than 88 different classifications of business, trades and professions who are aroaptlng N. D. A. credits for goods and services in Oakland. Alameda and Berkeley. There la a strong demand (n nelgh-- ( Continued on page four) er ln-o- ar N. D. A. projects on January 5. These gentlemen arte the all aerlp dinner" and insisted oa paying cash for it. They visited the central exchange and cafw everything from cellar to top floor. They were very muoh Impressed with the way our steam fitters had solved a problem, a thing that had never been called to the attention of their guide. Not having eaah to buy fittings and no suitable Joints and reduction available, the men who Installed the heating plant bad made welded Joints just a small thing apparently but Impressive to these keen eyed visitors who are more Interested In effects on men than mere material accomplishment. In their vlait to the Independent office they met Mr. Fleeher from Iowa, end Mr. Wight from Canada, Managing the food store wee Mr. Dickerson, a former resident of Chicago and in ths general office onr auditor, Mr. Volta from Wisconsin. Our visitors were cordially invited to come and cast their lot with this American Meeting pot that Is working out in the labpratory of life the problem! of the new economic world. We were gratified beyond words to have the pleasure of a visit with such Intelligent and Independent thinkers as these leaders of Methodist youth proved to he. No doubt about the Influence of the Epworth League in the machine age, with sucfh leadership. being VICE-PRE- S. Before Mark Sullivan took over the publicity end of tho Greet Engineers eleotion campaign he wrote very intelligently on tbs current political and economic questions. Hie output Included a very able aeries of books on tho snbjeot, "Our Times. Since taking over the defense of conservative Republicans, however, he has not been np to hla old mark. A Striking example of his deterioration Is his attempt to answer ths arguments of Technocracy. The most forceful paragraph ha could manage "Nevertheless and notwithstanding, the writer of this article expects to continue to see the United States run by a president and congress In the same old way." FRUITS OF THE OLD SYSTEM The state of Texas ean give every man, woman, and child In the world about three square feet of room to live on and produce enough wheat and meat to give them two meals a day. And yet such conditions us are portrayed In the following article ere permitted to prevail. They are life. "They were miserable, filthy, hungry, wet, starving, cold, and living In the absolute lowest deprthe that a human being can exist. Boys and Girls In the Junkies I found that approximately 25 per cent were women, boys and girls, of which I should say that 15 per cent were unattached boys between the gee of 11 and 19, and 10. per eeit women and email children (children's ages; one month to ten years) I will make a very low estimate and say there are between 7,500 and boys between 11 and 19 who are living without parent! to guide them and without friends, and who are spending their formative years i flop houses. Jails, Jungles, or any available shelter, begging, and Incidentally starving part of the time, living miserably with a wholly Improper diet, no sanitation, no medical attention, and being chafed from place to place by the police of various cities. i every local leather expert who has examined It, but for lack of machinery it does not have the stretch and machthe fine finish that inery could give it. Mr. Adair haa charge of the business and his tanner la William Pritchard. te IS FEDERAL AND STATE NEED COURAGE AND STATESMANSHIP NECESSARY TO SOLVE UJ3 UPHEAVAL UNEMPLOY MENT AND The following article la not 8,-0- g. from any radical source hut was published In the Salt Lake Telegram and written by Arthur Scare Henning who le: the fruits of the capitalistic system. Ban Antonio, Texas Starvation, disease, dirt, vagrancy and destitution on an appalling scale In the state of Texas have been discovered by Maury Maverick, tax collector of Bexar county, who haa completed a survey of the state for Governor GLAD SHOWS Sterling. D. SHOES A. FIRST If. "I wish to report," he begins, "that there must be between 50,000 and 75,000 wholly destitute; shelterless, homeless people within the state of Texas. At the outset, I wish It understood that a careful survey which began some weeks before my appointment on Dec. 15, Indicates that 90 per cent' of these people ere good citizens who wish to work. "In tbe days gone by, the average hobo on the railroad trains was worthless and would not work; now the transient population are nearly all people iwfho are destitute, golcg to from plaoe to place attempting get work. I found these people living In railroad Jungles, under bridges, In oamps, freight ears and in every conceivable way, and It was .he lowest standard of living In any country I have ever witnessed in my An event In the history of the N. D. A. Is the exhibition of the first pair of shoes made from leather tanned In' the N. D. A. tannery by N. D A. shoemakers. The shoes are made from real calf akin leather. The leather le pronounced first class by WiSE SOLUTION TO SAVE PANIC atande four square for the old order. No graver problems of were ever faced by onr etabe and government In peace or war than those pressing for wise solution at the beginning of 1938, tho fourth year of the most devastating economic upheaval in our history. Salvation of the Country Upon the quality of statesmanship and the courage displayed In meeting a multitude of economic issues depends tbe salvation of the country. They will determine whether we are to weather the gale and recover prosperity at no distant date or plunge recklessly along Into a panic compared with which the crash of 1929 will fade Into Insignificance. The picture of the condition of the country upon which our elected and appointed public aervmnts look la one to give all beholders pause. The income of tbe American people has fellen from $85,000,000,001) In 1929 to $38,000,000 in 1982. The aggregate of public and private debts Is estimated at upwards of $200,000,-000,00- 0, the interest charge on which la about ten billions The combined cost of federal, state and local governments la still close to THE FARMER atatea-manefa- COOPERATION IS THE HOPE OF AMERICA The farmers produoe and possess the raw materials of immediate necessities, which cannot be marketed. The artisans possess the kpowledge and skill of the Industrial crafts, which also cannot he marketed. By proper cooperation and coordination of these two essential economic factors, they can live, and live well, without charity nor beggary, by their own combined efforts. By bartering among themselves the people can meet the emergency without money, which will also bring back what, in America, Is needed most, namely, the lost Neighborhood Spirit of Fellowship. Such constructive activities calling upon the spirit of righteousness, the skill, genius and courage of a dispossessed people will lay down scientific human foundations for the more permanent structures, which are bound to expand into national life. $15,000,000,000. A state of emergency exists. The BuhIucm Stagnant burden of recovery la upon the peoThe unemployed ple themselves. Business'll stagnant,' more than cannot wait upon politics. Waiting 10,000,000 persons are out of work, land starving) means violent revo- a large of them destilution. Violent revolution means de- tute; tbe proportion purchasing power of formstruction and reversion. It must not ers and wage earners haa almost be. vanished. Signs of whet appeared Demagoguery Must Go to be an upturn In business activity must cease. The last summer are now clouded in un"Demagoguery unemployed are making the struggle certainty. In many lines which of heroic humanity to maintain their seemed to he picking np there has selfrespect and their Uvea. They arc been a Blip hack in the last few being reduced to tatters and hunger. weeks. It le now strictly up to that certain The federal government la operatwhite-shicrowd, who stand afar ing for the third consecutive year off,' hesitant, nonchalant, Indiffer- with an unbalanced budget. To ent, undecided, procrastinating, and make both ends meet It is borrowing coldly watching the crucifixion going constantly Increasing sums through on, to forestall any threatening class- sale of bonds and short-tergovernification such as touohables and ment obligations, chiefly to the untouchables' from bringing about hanks. In fact, the hanks are- - cara caste system of society. rying Uncle Sam today. "Then there are thousands of that To meet the constantly recurring other great derelict element, made deficits, the treasury In three yean themthe artisans of of many up haa borrowed five billions of dollars. selves paralysed by shock of the The public debt, which had been reto for somebody depression, praying duced to $16,185,309,832 on June 30 STB them, without any intelligent 1930, haa risen to almost $21,000.-000,00- 0, effort to seek salvation for themwhich la little more than selves. On last Hallowe'en night four billions short of the wartime to reason civic the societies, trying In fact, peak of $25,478,592,113. and carve their way through the with dollars dearer now than in were attended present predicament, 1919, and the national Income halvby mere handfuls of people, while ed, the $21,000,000,000 debt today bewere from streets the dangerous bean far more heavily on the people ing overcrowded by thousands who than the $26,500,000,000 debt of In not have their did a dime pockets, 1919. other thousands who bed no Jobs, fund for the retireThe were ment ofsinking who and still other thousands the public debt has become, not sure of having a Job for the In effect, inoperative, inasmuch aa thirty days. This stale of emergency the treasury is borrowing to fill the now existent calls for a higher sinking fund. The deficit was thought and a greater courage than at the close of the 1931 fisAnother deficit of unprofitable bridge parties and drawing-- cal year. room teas. was Incurred in the Mobs Are Howling 1932 fiscal year. "Communistic mobs are howling around. The employed man of today la a prospect for the unemployed 136 EARTHQUAKES mob of tomorrow. Before they lose IN SEVENTEEN DAYS their Jobe, entirely too many are nee-leas militant citizens, and after A dally paper of Reno, Nevada, they lose their Jobe, entirely too that there have been 136 dismany become dangerous. The road to reconstruction commences by get- tinct earthquakes since December 20. In single day. December 31, tfoere ting together by getting together shocks, and on the In these civic meetings of the com- were forty-si- x This mon people yet in position to function 24th there were twenty-onconstructively, aiming to build np le probably the all time record. The and not to tear down. Vet, with U. 8. Geological Survey reports that these meetings going on all around It had found cracks In Nevada five them, thousands of these workers feet wide and hundreds of feet hong. call out In despair, What can I do. and then alt down, fold np their BECOMING KNOWN ABROAD hands, and do nothing at aH. "It Is now but a matter of monthi nntll there must commence the acNews about the Natural Developtual organisation of is spreading by community societies, combining and ment Association coordinating, for the first time In-In leaps and hounds and it la becoming well end favorably known in all history, the artisans and formers to a common bond of voluntary unity. quarters of the country end through- Publication after By early spring it will then be a mat- out the world. ter of actual experience that the publication le spreading the glad tid curve on the graph of the depression Inga. The latest magailne to take will still he pointing downward for it up le the New Republic of New another four yean (until 1935), York. In a splendid article Back This hateful consciousness will bring to Barter. by Murray King, formwith It despair. Something then mnat erly of Utah, mention la made of the he done In the way of actual con- organisation and Its aooomplish-ment- s. struction." From The Community The article rovers more than two pages and Is well written. Hour, Houston, Texas. The thousands of readers of tills Come, all ye faithful and let ns magazine are the els si of people, a In make life and prosperity in ourclro-le- thinkers, who will be interested N. D. A. end we are thankful tor by ordering and distributing bunths given. The magailne dles of the Progressive Independent. also publicity gives favorable editorial men- need. as yon Order today as many tion. - rt' m $902.-716,8- es Official Announcement of the National Convention of the N.D.A. Salt Lake City, Utah January A national convention for all friends, members and observers 27--28th.l9- 33 of the N. D. A. will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah on the date of the anniversary of its organization January 27 and 28, 1932. The theme of this convention will be More intelligent vision of the N. D. A. All the meetings will be open to the public. General Sessions will be held as follows: Friday, Jan. 27, 11 A. M. and 3 P. M. Saturday, Jan. 28, 11 A. M. and 3 P. M. and 8 P. M. BENJ. B. STRINGHAM, President WILFORD O. WOODRUFF, Vice President WILFORD A. GLAD, Vice President DR. HYRUM SMITH, Secretary L. E. ELGGREN, Treasurer dp .e-pn- e. 45 c |
