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Show Official National Organ of Natural Development Assn., A New Economic System FOR HUMAN VOL. 2 No. 4 PRICE 5c. $2X0 A YEAR WELFARE-MA- ABOVE MONEY N SALT LAKE CITY. UTAH. JANUARY 27. 1933 EDITED BY C. N. LUND. 62 POST OFFICE PLACE Natoral Government Will Solve Our Problem NEIGHBORING STATE IS N.D.A. MEN OPEN TO YOU true to your ideal Cultivate your heart and brain. Follow the light of your reason. Get all the happiness out of life you possibly can. Do not care for power, but strive to be useful. First of all, support yourself so that you may not be a burden to others. If you are successful if you gain a surplus, use It for the good of others. Own yourself and live and die a free man. Make your home a Be WITH N.D.A. PROGRESSING ARIZONANS RETURN TO BARTERING The Phoenix, Arizona Messenger, follows on the work of comment! the N. D. A., the first article being taken from Its columns and tbs latter from Its editorial column. Phoenix is keeping np with the ware of "barter" that is becoming ao prevalent over the country. With its unit of the Natural Development Association already organised and doing business, it has succeeded In finding employment for many of the jobless who are glad to accept commodities in exchange for their labor. Our plan, said Allen Cameron, president of the local N. D. A., "is to assist people to earn a living without the necessity of charity. Nobody wants charity. What they want is an opportunity to work and earn their own living. This is largely what our organisation is i doing. Any farmer, business man, or householder, who has work he needs to have done, but is unable financially to pay cash for the needed help need only to give some unemployed man a Job and pay him in produce or what have you. We will take his surplus, if any, and pay him with our trade certificates, which are good for anything in our store at 9S0 East Van Buren street. While ere are barely started we have succeeded in helping many people to Independence as far as asking for aid is concerned. If we can help to ' tide oter this depression for at least part of the great army of sufferers, I will be glad. Our men will harvest crops on shares or will do farm work for any and all kinds of farm products. We will sell quite a little for cash, and that supplies the few thing that may not be secured by u barter." Editorial Comment The Natural Development Association of Utah is an outstanding example of what such a group can do. Cooperation is their watchword. In one year the organisation has had an enormous growth in membership. They have constructed a tannery, gas refinery, brickyards, a fruit drying plant, and are developing their own coal mines. There is nothing about it related to communism, but , Its goal is purely altruistic..Other such associations forming all over the country. Including Phoenix, which has a going concern aiding immensely in the relief of the unemployed, indicate that the sin of greed is its own punishment ands that those powerful financial who have been picking the bones of the people for the past 70 yean are about to have their hoards of gold rendered useless, while the erstwhile underdog will have his means of llvllhood established on the firm foundation of the actual wealth of the nation Instead of anything that cannof be actually used in the dally life of the people. Such a plan is much better than bloodshed, even if It does topple the castles of the greedy and selfish, who have brought about this condition through their own acta Such a plan is better than a dictator. Americans would resent such government, since it is certain that a dictator would be selected by the financial powers which are responsible for the present condition of the country. Messenger. - - bus-sard- RECOGNITION heaven. COMES AT LASTTON.D.A. SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 19 Bar- ter has become big business in Utah, doing a dally business of as high as $5,000 without a cent of real money. , Utah's barter experiment, which is being watched with keenest interest by economists and sociologists throughout the west, is embodied In assothe Natural Development ciation, an organisation with 10,000 members and branches reaching into California, Arizona and southern Idaho. In slse and volume of operations the Natural Development association takes second rank in the west to the barter exchange system of Los Angeles county, but students of the new problems raised by the growth of barter find the Utah association unique in that it is organised for permanence and is not conceived by its sponsors as an emergency measure. The Natural Development elation conducts its business through the medium of its own scrip, which in some parts of Utah circulates almost as readily as real currency. Receiving this scrip in payment for his produce or his labor, the farmer or workman is able to exchange it for other merchandise at the aesoefo' tion's exchanges or at the stores of merchants who have agreed to cooperate with the association. , Benjamin J. Btrlngham, president of the association believes his organization will show that it is possible for society to function entirely without a "price sysem. Mr. Btrlngham is the author of a treatise called "Natural Government," which contemplates a revision of modern sodety, and asserts that an ideal reorganisation of society would make any unit of exchange unnecessary. We shall either have to do away with the present economic system, in which money is the governing factor, or do away with modern machinery and invention," he declares. "We claim we can make the machine produce for use Instead of for profit and make possible an equitable distribution of life's necesstles. Asked if he believed the association would retain its membership with a return of normal employment conditions, Stringham said: "Our members have Jobs now. They are participating in a big organisation where they are equal shareholders. We have demonstrated that people can work collectively to better advantage than individuals, with an equitable distribution of their accumulation. WHAT THE PRESS IS SAYING ABOUT N.D.A. D. A.: 1. New Outlook, Dec., 1122, Pages $S. 3$. New Republic, Jan. 4, 1983, in Salt Lake is now cooking scrip 3. Pages dinners. Wm. R. Hymas and Heber Time,. Jan. 9, 1983, Page 37. Passey didn't have a dime they had Congressional Record, Jan. 13, e. They went over to Dr. George 1983, Page 1793. Cole and sold him a meal ticket for Literary Digest, Jan. 14, 1983, $1 cash. The next day through their Page 19. own restaurant they served 66 meals. Journal of Electrical Wor. and They had borrowed $160 from the Oprs, Jan. 18, 1983, Page 16. N. D. A. unit at Ogden. The busiLiterary Digest, Jan. 31, 1938, ness grew every day and the SaturPage 36. ' day following the Monday opening Philadelphia Record, Jan. 17, one. hundred and five people were 1933. check-up served. The Saturday 311-13-1- SS$-14- th ful, forgiving and generous. Find out the conditions of happiness and then be wise enough to live in accordance with them. Cultivate Intellectual hospitality, express your honest thoughts, love your friends and be Just to your enemies. Woodruff. Marlowe Nielson and Ralph Rich amusehave opened an ment place at 138 North Main street known as the Merry Gardens, under the auspices of the Natural Devel- opment Association to supply ths dancing needs of the public holding N. D. A. coupons. With newly decorated hall and the Revelers orchestra, they plan to entertain every Thursday exclusively to N. D. A. people desiring high class entertainment. A very Interesting feature of this new enterprise Is the fact that popular prices will prevail and dancing instruction can be had to those desiring to learn modern and old time dancing. To Salt Lake Telegram, Jan. 19, 1933, Page 3. New York Times, Jan. 33, 1938, Page 811. Christian Science Monitor, Jan. 14, 133. Front page. 18. Associated Press. 13. United Press. 14. NEA Service. s. 15. 8a!nt Louis 1$. Manchester Evening Manchester, Conn. 17. Detroit News. 13. Federated Press. Star-Time- Herald, ALL First Annual National Convention of the Natural Development Association Salt Lake Tribune Auditorium Salt Lake City, Utah IS READY FOR THE which commands our highest love and loyalty; to have found a work which commands our best behav'or in Joyous enthusiasm; to have found a friend to whom we never need make an explanation; to have found a faith which no personal disappointment can shake; to have mastered the myriad of forces that surge up within our own breast; to have won the victory over each day until we have some time for meditation and soul growth; to have someone dependent upon us for their sweetest Joys; to have the calm assurance of the friendship of the Eternal THIS IB LIFE. Anon. - Miss Pearl Harris who was head 'Cook at the Union Pacific Kestaurant ev-ni- ng cheer- good-nature- d, ASSOCIATED PRESS GIVES NEWS- OF ..ORGANIZATION Following is a partial list of magand newspapers which have! NEW NDA. CAFE AT OGDEN azines carried articles lately about the N. after all costs for materials and pay for help were deducted, there was a balfnee of $6.17 and $1.10 on hand in addition, to the $150 that they borrowed from the N. D. A. There was also a nice supply of food tuffs on hsnd and paid for ready to go for next week. When you are St. in Ogden stop in at while LAverne Harris will serve you a wholesome meal In a hurry that has been cooked by her sister Pearl in a clean kitchen. Be MODERN BALLROOM THIS IS LIFE have found an Ideal NATIONAL CONVENTION Preparations have been going all week lor the first national convention of the N. D. A. The program has been prepared, meeting SELF-HELplace arranged for In the 8alt Lake P Tribune Auditorium, accommodations for vlsilora taken care of, and now the officials assure us everything la In readiness for the sessions. Not In s spirit of boastfulness, but sensing fully the gravity of the ,eltu-ati- o and the responsibility entailed SEN. SMOOT PRESENTS the writer ventures the opinion that BILL FOR COOPERATIVES the convention will take ita plan In history as s more Important event Upon being asked by Manager than the assembling of Congress. Wllford Owen Woodruff end others. We are now in the fourth year of Senator Smoot has presented the what la called a depression. If it following bill in congress, which. If enacted Into lew will be one of the really la a depression it lz the worst beet things that ever happened, to the world has ever known. Nothing the cooperatives or self-hel- p organ- that any government or group of izations of the .country. A hill governments can do has any effect authorising the Reconstruction Fi- on It. nance Corporation to make loans Whether or not the Natural Develto associations organised for the barter of goods and services. opment Association program la to bo That the Reconstruction Finance the solution to the problem, remains Corporation is authorised to make to be seen. Its success eo for, under loans out of the funds of the cor- the most discouraging handicaps, poration to cooperative and other has been simply amazing. The reassociations (including barter exchanges) organised In sponse of the people of the nation any State or Territory for the barter has been most gratifying. Only of goods and services. Such loans three states of the nation, Rhode Isshall be made on such terms and Delaware and Georgia, have conditions as the Reconstruction land, Finance Corporation shall by regu- foiled to respond to the ware of N. D. A. publicity that has swept lation prescribe. , The Reconstruction Finance Cor- through the magazines and newspaporation is authorized to make such pers. The great stacks of lettdft on rules and regulations as may be nec- file In ths national headquarters essary to carry out the provisions of bear Just the one message: "We this sot. Let all members write to their con- have heard of the successful operagressmen and senators urging the tion of the N. D. A. and believe it is what we need in our community. passage of this hill. Senator Thomas, of Oklahoma has Will you please give us full Informaput the N. D. A. proposition before tion how to organise here? the U. S. Senate. It seems that our So not only the national headcause has had a fairly good hearing quarters, but the nation Itself Is In this country. reedy for our convention. America today is N.D.A. minded. Nothing that upholders of the old unjust system NEW EDITION OF can do will now atop society's evolution out of capitalism Into cooperation. The Natural Development NATURALGOVERNMENT Association is leading this march of progress. This national convention Is one of the milestones of progress. A notable event in the progress of N. D. A. is the printing of the second It Is N. D. A.s opportunity and lays and enlarged edition of Benjamin B. on Its leaders a vast responsibility. Stringhama book "Natural Govern- Out of todays chaos they must build ment." it was the circulation of tomorrows society. copies of the first edition that ImpelA world In the depths of economic led people everywhere to think out ways of organising societies where tnisery looks to the N. D. A. for they could live according to the guidance. This convention will in Ideals of production and distribution part be an answer to their appeal. learned from the study of nature. Out of its deliberations should come Albert Edward WIggam in his new hope for their consolation. It book "The New Decalogue of Sci- will be essentially a meeting of ence" says. Both Christ and Moses minds looking not backward but fortoday would see and would thunder ward. Ont of its discussions should it with supernal power, that we come policies of greater Import than need a new Decalogue, a new crystallisation of all the stupendous ethical anything that has come out of meanings of modern science. They would be the first to perceive that a new Ten Commandments must ha added to those on the tables of stone SAN FRANCISCO CHAMBER and that a new moral and spiritual ASKS OUTLINE OF N. D. A. dispensation must emerge from the modern Mount Sinai the laboratory "We have been very much interof science. In the person of some plane to immodern student of nature they would ested In reports of your of distribuprove the machinery behold a new prophet of righteousSan Francisco the writes tion, witha new of minister ness, grace, out robe or ritual, whose mission Is Chamber of Commerce, and would any printed matter that to teach men both what Is good and appreciate have for circulation. If how to get It, what God wants men you may etate-men- ta to do and how to do It, what the you have not prepared any this the writer of character, was spirit of Moses and Christ really appreciate a letter and how to make this spirit the or- would personally from you at your convenience exganic principle In Jhe earthly life of plaining the general plana of your man. and results Wa say that Benjamin B. String-ha- organisation la that modest student of nature and every well Informed person will be delighted with the hook Natural Government for sale at 34,797 UTAHNS EARN hook stores end at N. D. A. branches UNDER $500 YEARLY 1.00. and headquarters, A tabulation of the Income tax by Utahns shows that 84,-7CIRCULATION SOME persons reported a gross Income''' of less than $5000 each in 1111. You mak know that the Progresa total of 34,-5sive Independent has some circula- This group reports dependents. tion when It can bring Inquiries like a gross income Seven reported the following from Jerseyvllle, Illinois. $600,436 for the year. This totaling Wanted work: . 8 men, can do handle group, paying after offsets a total of form work, drive trucks, $8,318 on net Income aggregating saw, steam engine, lumber, ate. Two women who can wash, Iron, $103,389, reported four dependents. Persons whose gross incomes were quilt, sew, raise chickens or do any kind of work that can be dona In between $10,000 and $30,000 anhome. Will gladly exchange for any nually, paid the greatest amount of thing that can he used. Mrs.Charles Tapncott. Blrnlng and lnoome tax, a total of $14,847 on 386 Individual Incomes. .High St., Jerseyvllle, 111. ad SMOOT OFFERS BILL FOR LOANS ed January 27--28th.l9- 33 Public Meetings will be held Friday at 11 A. M. and 3 P. M, and Saturday 11 A- M, 3 and 8 P. M. in the Salt Lake Tribune Audito rium. (By courtesy of Tribune) Information and Registration, Thursday and Friday . 55 West Broadway. Friday, January 27, 11(00 A- - M. - Pres. B. B. Btrlngham Greeting! Bee. Hyrum 8mith Annusl Massage of the Board of Trua teea Theme: We can work only thrn the cooperative mind.. Berg Elllngson Vocal Solo Berg Elllngson Warwick Lamoreaux Our Task, Educationally C. N. Lund Gaining Friends end opening mlnde thru publicity Will Dobson Intelligent use of the hook, the pam phlet and the chart 3 P.M. Clarence Wright, Montpelier The Technique of Barter P. W. Volts Business Methods In Barter.. Scott Taggart Tenor Solo Heber Bennlon Agriculture In Barter B. 8. Stevens Cooperation in Barter Alms and Pnrpoee of the Barter Bye tem B. Garner, Vice P. Utah Aaan. Theme: The Barter System a a stepping Stone to Ideals. W. O. Woodruff, Vice Pres. 6:45 P. Bsnqnet at Square Meal Cafe for N. D. M- - A. state and local Friday, Jan. 27 9:00 A. Officers M- - Speclal meeting for managers, trustees, and organisers only. B. B. 8trlngham Report of Year's Activities W. O. Woodruff What Wa Learned - - Reports From Units Saturday, Jan. 28, 9:00 A- - M. Trustees and Organisers Objectives for 1983 Business and Accounts Projects In the Unit Both Meetings In the Tribune Auditorium Managers, P. W. Volts Civic Center Hall Friday, Jan. 27, 2 P. M- Ladles Only, under the direction of Mrs. L. E. Elggren Friday, Jan. 27 8:30 Informal Program and Entertainment at Tribune Auditorium Special Notice to Out of Town Visitors . .Members of the Board of Trustees will welcome all out of town visitors at the Roberts Hotel, 119 North Main 8t from 9 to 18 A. M., Sunday, January 29. Informal. Rooms may be had at this hotel on 25 per oent cash basis. Saturday, Theme: Realigning the ratio Converting Industry Establishing Industry Quartette Ladles In Industry Market Characteristics Cooperative Industry : , Jan- - 28, 11 :00 A. M. of producer and distributor Vice Free. Wllford A. Glad Mr. Harmon J. A. Rawson Marlowe Ndlson, director Mrs. L. E. Elggren S. A. Dunn, Pocatello A. O. Andelin, Idaho Falls 3:00 P.M. Meaning of Membership Violin and Piano Ddet Individuality in N. D. A. The Human Element Theme: Pres. B. B. Btrlngham Vice Pres-- , L. E.- Elggren Barters and Doris Bingham Gaylon 8. Young M. W. Wilkinson 8 P.M. Natural Development as a Social Economic Program, Dr. H. Smith Music World Conditions Technocracy and N. D. A. .. Resume of Convention Community Singing Farewell and Cooperation Hatch Trio L. E. Elggren W. O. Woodruff Wllford A. Glad B. B. 8tringham m tld 97 83 . |
