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PR0GR1E Official National Organ of Natural Development Assn., A New Economic System FOR HUMAN VOL. 2 No. 6 PRICE N ABOVE MONEY SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FEBRUARY 17. 1933 5c. $2 JO A YEAR A GREAT WRITER LOOKS STANDARD WILL SAVE US i FRAZIER HUNT SPEAKS OF PAST AND PRESENT & of the old drtam of tha dream that had sent ettlora aeron stormy eai to untrack ad foreata and Unknown river valleys, In search of aome mystical freedom, the dream that had puah-e- d the ploneera on westward to the rolling free land a: the dream that had raiaed common, lowly .men to a new a new eltlaenahlp: a dream that had given for the firat time In the world, universal free education, and that had aent almoit a million young men and women each year Into our eountleaa colleges the dream that and universities: had built librarian and honpltala and rant civic centers and developed a spirit of true service and help: the dream that had put twenty million families on wheels and sent them laughing 'down a (hundred thousand miles of happy roads: the dream that had given them clean, strong bodies, and comforts, and ease: the dream that' should soma tor day bring a real brotherhood Amarie i v". J . '.J . all. Something Baa Happened But something had happened to Mila dream. It had Come bo near and then, as if by magsucceeding ic, its reality crumbled Into dust. As I rode from New York to Chicago the other day, I started to count the number of smokeless facBoon I tory chimneys I passed. gave It up; I was ashamed to go on. 1 t visited country districts In the heart of the corn belt, that I have known In the dtfrs of prosperity and plenty. But now corn was selling for lie a bushel, and hogs for Taxes were not being So a pound. Interest on mortgages paid, and was being added to the already impossible principal. More than BO per cent of the farms, they told me, were already lost. I have never seen more broken-hearte- d people. In the cities I saw thousands of able bodied men walking the streets; they could find no Jobs; their reserves were gone; they were at the end of their rope. In awe, men spoke of the machine the Frankenstein monster that America' had made and that now was about to destroy her. A maker of motor cars told me that today his factory Is so Improved that he can produce automobiles with less than In 1121. Old Bream Has Felled Unemployment has passed the ten- and even If good million mark times came back, this terrible ma-chine would have reached a point y that these of such men could never get back to work. The machine would take up the slack and wed always have ten mll-lion unemployed to take care of, they told me. The old dream had tailed. And more, America had lost her nerve. Her courage tor the first time In two tundred and fifty years had slipped dethrough her fingers. And this had she pretty tact that the spite well got over the grand" days of Bha could smile now when she talked of those mad gambling days, when men made paper fortunes over night. The panto saved Americas soul," a dosen told me In different words. We can, really get bade to work ' v t V V ! one-thi- rd 'r ' ' i ' super-efflelenc- 3 7 RECIEVE PROG- RAM RECEIPTS aelf-reape- u . CHARITY TO I thought si I. K l. ' , FIRE INAUGURAL PROGRAM Production of a souvenir program more attractive and Informative than, any ever Issued In previous years has been determined upon by the Program Committee of the' Roosevelt Inaugural Committee tor the Inauguration of Franklin 'D. Roosevelt and John N. Garner. WASHINGTON, D. C. The program will not carry any advertising but will be entirely devoted to events of the Inauguration listed honr by hour. Including the ceremonies at the Capitol, the line of parade, chronologically Hating the various units, and the Inaugural Ball. It will be profusely. Illustrated by approximately forty half-- tones and pen and Ink sketches, designed to portray the historic events published, among which are "The Passing of March 4th, by J. Fred Essary Baltimore Sun; The Story of Inaugural Balls, by David Rankin Barbee, Washington Post; "The Story of Inaugural Parades, by Ernest G. Walker, Historian; Former Mistress of the White House, by Miss Eleanor Connolly, of American Red Cross; Washinytons Historic Landmarks, by George Rothwell Brown, Sketches of Washington Herald; Roosevelt and Garner, by the Publicity Bureau of the Democratic National Committee; Sketches of Mrs. Roosevelt and Mrs. Garner, by J. R. Hildebrand, Associate Editor, Naand tional Geographic Magazine; other nationally known authors. A further bidet description of the Program shows It will contain a picture of the Roosevelt family of four generations, pictures of the past thirty-on- e Presidents - of the United States, as well as airplane views of the National Capital and a map of tha metropolitan area as a guide to visitors. It will contain (4 pages, 8 H Inches by 11 Inches In also, efbound In a beautiful three-colo- r fect (red, white and blue) cover and will retail for 25 cents. net profits of the General ural Ball receipts, will be donated to charity. . i , advance-(Continu- ed ed States has held strict ty to the (old standard. We have thereby maintained one Gibraltar of stability In the world and contributed to check the, movement to choas. That was his final plea to his countrymen at a time when tha gold standard has enabled the ln-tcause of the wreck we are floundering In. Clinging to the ogld standard has enabled the International bankers to get complete control of the money system. It has brought about the unjust and cruel centralisation of wealth. It la the cause of the scarcity of money. It has killed agriculture, crucified labor, Impoverished the people and kept hundreds of ml Hons of human beings from obtaining the necessities of life. It has paved the way to chaos and nothing can stop the descent to chaos exoept a return to a sane and natural system. The gold standard will not savu us. It Is proving our undoing even as it has undone every past civilization. The old system Is riding to Its Waterloo on the delusion of the gold standard. he ORGANIZING IN TACOMA, FRISCO AND HOUSTON In a letter dated at Tacoma, Washington, February 7th, Mr. Frank B. Hemenway writes: We had a very interesting meeting last night .with Mr. Elggren, and after his wonderful talk we have decided that we would like to Join your organisation. We would thank you to send us- a copy of your articles of Incorporas, also a supply tion, rules and of the coupon books, so that we might get started as soon as possible. We would also like a bundle of your papers, and any advertising literature that you can send us. I trust that we may have a good branch of your organisation here In a short time. It will be necessary for us to start this organisation iwtthout money, but we have a spirit of cooperation among a number of our people that we have worked with, and feel that In a short time we will be making real headway. We all believe that you are doing COMMITTEES WAIT ON UTAH GOVERNOR Powerful and organised groups, sick of existing conditions, are waiting on Governor Blood, through appointed committee and demanding that he keep the legislature In session until something substantial In the way of relief to labor and agriculture be accomplished. More power to them. who are tired and THE LEGLISLATURE EDITED BY C. N. LUND. 52 POST OFFICE PLACE CHILDREN STARVE TO DEATH IN RICHEST LAND IN WORLD In the shadow of soorea of D. men In the legislaThe two N. churches, within hearing of many ture. Mr. H. C. Pope and Warwick preachers of the gospel of Christ, Lamoreaux, are doing things as Is beside the most lavish display of foodstuffs ever seen, in the light of evidenced by two items as follows : A resolution memorallsing Conmany heaped up piles of glittering and upon the breast of a gold, convento a call constitutional gress resources tion for the purpose of revising the state richer In natural than any other place in the world, existing constitution of the United sweet and Innocent children, yet States is being prepared by RepreIn their babyhood, fresh from the sentatives H. C, Pope, D., Salt Lake presence of God, have actuaUy and accordMr. Pope calls attention to the literally starved to death, to the testimony of doctors and ing fact that In 1787 when It had been hospital attendants In Salt Lake In proved that the old articles of state the case of the Nichols family of federation were entirely Inadequate The cause; months Bingham. a constitution convention was called poverty,-thof unemployment, yean, as a means of effecting a peaceful and most crushing and wont In government. What shall killing Imaginable. The need of the hour, says the the sleek, well fed, rich people of heiolutton, "Is a drastic revision of today say to the great Judge of the constitution In order to make us all when this fact confronts possible a more efficient method of them at the Judgment of the last control of production and distribuday? What are all our faiths, our tion. professions, our words snd deeds Such procedure says Mr. Pope, Is In the face of such inexcusable and the only road by which Important Inhuman happening as this? They and changes can be made In an orderly are all as sounding brass our and hypocsymbols, manner and the American people tinckling secure themselves against violent risies will rise up to condemn us. eruption. psunorraux Active Mr. Lamoreaux hala .Introduced louse Bill No. 104, wl ksh Is an act ithorlzlng the State o Utah to ae- maiaWB aqd reernte . steam ectrlc power plants and systems for irnishing electricity for light, pow-- ; heat, smokeless fuel, gas, oil and her coal products to the state, Its dustries and Its Inhabitants: and furnish any other products of such ants to the state and Its Inhablt-it- s, and providing for the oonstruo-un- , maintenance and operation of ants and systems. He says that tab has exceptional advantages In ir natural resources and must take eps to preserve her remaining assets, and that e great steam power projects which ould be built throughout the ptate, his bill becomes law, would be ealth-produd- a wonderful work, and trust that we may bea means of helping many of our people here. There is considerable activity In the N. D. A. line In San Francisco and an organisation la .under way there and will be perfected aa soon as our organiser can get there. A letter from Dr. Carl E. Lunn at Houston,1 Texas, wrjtes for Information and articles of Incorporation so that they may begin to perfect an organisation there. NATIONAL OF- FICIALS DOING GOOD WORK The Rotary Club of Brigham City, Utah Invited officers of the N. D. A. to pnsent their February IQ program at the weekly luncheon. A large group of business men of Brigham City attended. Owen Woodruff and Dr. Russell B. Petty, Trustee of the Ogden Organisation, were the speakers. Dr. Pettys account of hqw N. D. A. has built built his practice to a larger volume than he ever enjoyed during so called prosperity was particularly Interesting to the business men assembled. Many expressions were heard after the meeting of the willingness to cooperate with N. D. A. to a degree greatWith such er than ever before. support the Brigham City unit will make great progress during the coming year. a A state of emergency la here, snd will be declared to exist, when sufficient number of intelligent people oome to the realization that humanity Is to be considered, before money; when they realize that Joy and happiness are obtained thru service to humanity and not thru the acumulation of material wealth and holding It In chock so . men, women and children cannoto btaln the necessaries of life because of the greed of a comparative few. have ever thought that selfishness and greed Not many people overnment and business. In do so much dictating The millions who are now stripped of all their material wealth are wlU Impel them to taking time to do some fundamental thinking. This to handle the emergency in unite and organize the country's for the establishment of the greatest civilization the world - IF LINCOLN COULD OUT COME BACK TODAY ARTHUR BRISBANE TELLS SOME GREAT TRUTHS DIXIE WORSE preparation has ever known. were decsred to eyist tomorrow. Suppose the state of emergency j What Is What should be done to avert mob rule and bloodshed? tha distribution of great not quantity an needed most? Is It equitable of lifes necessities we have at our very doors. Then would not organization and registration be the first step? suppose every Now let us consider the following proposition: American citizen would go to Sleep tonight, and upon awakening all knowledge and evidence of the DOLLAR were removed from onr minds. Think for a moment what would happen. Would we be In a depression? The honey bee would not, the ants would not Even monkeys would not These and other sxsmpes In nature teach that man can, through organization, distribute lifes necesltles without a PRICE After we do our part In production SYSTEM or medium of exchange. ere can spend the balance of our time lu education end the graces and BENJAMIN B. 8TRINGHAM. pleasures of life OFF THAN IN PANIC OF 1890 SUNNY DIXIE, A MOST DISTRESSFUL LAND By Covington Hall In the past few months, I have traveled through five southern states, Texas, Arkansas, Missouri, Louisiana and Alabama, and everywhere I have found the farmers and workers condition desperate In the extreme and steadily worsening with every month that passed. Lately too, I find that the middle and professional classes are fast falling Into the same. Insecure snd homeless conditions. I have never seen anything to equal It, though I went through the panic of 1890-9when though casta was as sea roe in the pockers of the masses as It is today, the under-me- n mere yet fighting back at the plutocracy In powerful orfanlzations. Wliat I Found Everywhere I went I found the farmers wanting clothes, implements and everything necessary to an efficient and human standard of living and no money to buy them with, or even for taxes, much less for Interest and other grafts. On the other hand. In the alleged great cities I saw millions of workers, Idle and tramping the streets, eating the bitter bread of charity", without a cent to pcrchase the food, etc., the farmers ould raise In abundance, but could not, because the workers had produced too much" clothing, farm Implements and other good things the agrlultural districts mere perishing for need of. The ferther I went the more Insane it seemed that men. women and children, should be wanting In the midst of the .boundless plenty their labors had created and yet not 6, ORGANIZED TO END ttae "system that was destroying them and theirs. How Will It End? I do not know, but of this I am convinced from all I have seen and heard: The South is rapidly falling Into a state of disintegration, economically, politically, financially and of course, as a natural result, socially and spiritually. I am furthed convinced that nothing short of the Immediate calling of a federal constitutional convention instructed to expropriate the basic and trustified Industries, public utilities and natural resources from the Plutocracy and to the ownership of all the People In other word INSTRUCTED to the United' States an INDUSTRIAL DEMOCROCY. can noiw avert a supreme disaster to the American dec-lla- re People. STRANGE THAT LEADERS CANNOT SEE DANGER How strange that some of our national leaders cannot see the danger ahead in time to save us from plunging headlong. Into the yawning gulf of chaos. They aimply cannot see because they are so set on maintaining the status quo. The complete collapse is so near that one may feel It If he is atuned to the times wise In a few months the ones .will be aaylng, We knew It would come, while today they neither see nor hear nor feel the danger that Is at our door. The truth is capitalism will not give ground even though it might save the Amer lean system by so doing. ed In the following powerful editorworlds highest paid editorial writer pictures conditons n America and tells what he thinks Abraham Lincoln woud say and do If he returned. Read and think. ial the e Suppose We Do Some Thinking (Inaug- now. Didn't Get Back to Work Rut wo didnt get hack to work. Something fundamentally was wrong We were unhappy snd we were frightened. Whether or not wed Individually spent all our cash reserves, we had expended the last drop We'd forof our spiritual reserve We values. to proper gotten pile .bp didnt have a dollar's worth of real contentment of saneness saved tor this rainy day. Wed failed to grease our machine of material on page four) Said the president In his farewell address: The Unit- The Inside back page of the Program will he for the autograph of any Senator, Congressman, Governor or any dignitary that the respective purchaser may desire. .Through special arrangements of the Inaugnral Committee, this will be the only Program published and It la designed to cover all events of the day. Including the Inaugural Ball. All WITH N.D.A. MEN IN HOOVER THINKS GOLD UNDER THE SURFACE ?,r. WELFARE-MA- Ships tied up, freight trains Idle, twelve million men without work, business at a standstill, the Treasury bursting with gold, granaries overflowing prlth wheat, gigantic and unsalable crops, mines shut down, oil Industry in competition, farmers desparste. taking the law In their own hands In many state factories idle, an active smokestack a curiosity. Industry paralyzed, politicians, from Washington to the smallest 'hamlet, spending the public money, and taxing private resources with Insane reckeasness. That la the picture of the United States in 1938. If Lincoln could come back and see this picture today, on his 124th birthday, he would surely ask hlm-cel- f: What In heaven's name la the matter with them? Too much of everything, yet they are all weeping." And that is what we ask ourselves: What ic heavons name Is the matter with us? Nobody answers the question satisfactorily, Nobody even tries. Europe has welshed and will probaby ewlnde us out of ten thousand million dollars, stupidly lent, but what of that? It is a trifle more than ten per cent of one years Income In this country. In good times. Paying for The War We are told, and it is true: 'You are now paying for the war, into which you entered so blithely. But with brains snd courage, we should be able to pay for and come out of that foolishness with a lesson learned. The country has reached the point of facing things as they are, and taking plain truths. Deceiving ourselves is no longer fashionable, neceshary or possible. Ttae Idiotic Just around the corner perld and theory have come to an end. That theory moves out of Washington on the fourth of next month. What then? What In your opinion wil change this picture? What .wil make Uncle Sam take his handkerchief away from hla eyes straighten himself up. and do something? What will make industry and finance. oil and commerce, agriculture and mining, stop crying and get to work and do something? Must we have some kind of new system to pull us out of this deprescut-thro- at sion rut? The finest automobile In the world has to get help from a team of horses some time when it goes In the dltoh. Do we need something more prim- itive than our present altogether lov-l-y kind of government? Conceited Incompetents What la the matter (with us? What is your answer? Can the country continue to be run by the men, the Interests, the theories, the old-f- a Sbloned fallure-idea- a that have gotten ns Into the dltoh? Will politicians appointed by conceited Incompetents continue to dispose of the peope'a money, the national funds? Will the 12 mlllon remain lde, hopeless and desperate, while tens and even hundreds of millions are shoveled out to reconstruct and make happy some of the very organisations that, with their recklessness stupidity and shortsightedness, are largely responsible for the present trouble? What Is the matter with us, and (Continued on page four) |