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Show Plfl Two. PROGRESSIVE TIIK PROGRESSIVE INDEPENDENT Issued every Friday at Salt Lake City, Utah, in interest of Natural Development matter April 26. 1982, at the Entered as second-clas- s Feet Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, under the Act of March 8th. 1879. N. LUND Publisher and Managing Editor Henri C. Flesher, Advertising end Circulation Dept a This country is on the way to great prosperity." He missed it by about a thousand miles. In last week's Colliers he takes issue with the technocrats and predicts that the old world of business and competition and profits and warfare will survive and carry on. But he will be more mistaken in that prediction than he was in 193L THE RIGHT KIND OF GOVERNMENT. Thomas Paine dreamed of the proper kind of government when he said: "When it shall be said in a country, my poor are happy; neither Ignorance nor distress is found among them; my jails axe empty at prisoners, my streets at beggars; the aged axe not in want; the taxes Prices of Subscription One Year LO Bin Months Address all letters to 62 Post Office Place. DONT FORECLOSE THE SOULS OF MEN (C. N. L.) Sell the home and sell the farm, Turn them out into the storm; What does human good suffice If it cannot pay the price? Take the tribute, widows pay, Blight the children on their way. Take the roof from age away. Let King Profit have its day. Why evict and dispossess Souls that flounder in distress? Why light up rebellious fire Over Mammons filthy mire? Why should gold have place above Human welfare, life and love? Is this the Brotherhood we preach? are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend I am the friend of its liberty. Suppose it could be said of the heads of our government as follows: They have so adminstered government that love for human kind, or of human kind for one another, has been enchanced in the broadest sense. Leaders have so conducted themselves that the function of their government has ennobled and uplifted us. Through goveramet men have had examples set before them that will motivate the administrations of their private liven. We have seen in the lives of our leaders and our government such greatness and nobleness that it has inspired us not only to live for our country but to willingly die for our country. N. D. A if given power, would make the above things a matter of obligation and trust. THE HOPE WE HAVE Is this the truth the ages teach? Better seek the higher way And bring in a better day. Help your brother lift the ban, Don't foreclose the soul of man. HUMAN VALUES We hope and labor for the coming of a happy day for humanity. We hope to see children freed from the terrors and sufferings of want We hope to see women liberated from the thalldoin of poverty. We hope to see man freed from industrial bondage remedy and economic servitude, in order that he may develop With all of our talking about adjustments to evils, very little or nothing has been said about adjusting our ideas of the relative values of men and women. Thousands of people came to the United States from the peasantries of Europe, and many from what were called the Upper Classes." but too many of them, brought some of the old aristocratic notions, common to their countries. Chief among those notions was the Idea that anyone who works physically for a living is inferior and is not entitled to enjoy the richer fruits of labor. That notion is one of the blighting influences of y. American manhood and womanhood The effect of that erroneous thinking can be seen plainly in the attitude of our wealthy and professional classes toward those of supposedly inferior abilities. Farmers and laborers are useful to provide food and do the menial but very important work of the world, but they are not equals, and so need not be considered Xmus" contributed to P. L in the present crisis. present-da- y to-da- to the full limits of his capacities. We hope to see replaced by peace and happiness and joy all the sordid misery in the world today. We hope to see the realisation of the Christ dream of human brotherhood. We hope to see love supplant hate, human tenderness and kindness displace greed, and darkness dissipated by intelligence and light. We hope to see and help bring about the abundant life in which every soul shall share in fullness and equality. To help mankind in the realisation of this hope we have set our hands to a task that thall lead us like a star. BATTLE HYMN OF THE KHAKI SHIRTS F. It is imposible to have a healthy thriving flower and good rich soil and favorable atmospheric conditions. Si it is with the human family. We may teach and preach to the people from the press, pulpit and platform, devoting excessive time, thought and energies, broadcasting our codes of moral tenets, but if industrial conditions are not suited to our needs and supply the life giving nourishment, all this teaching and preaching is ineffective. What need is there of having sunshine on a plant which has had all the soil eroded away and leaves it on a barren rock? Such conditions will bring a withering and faHy death, not because of too much sunshine but because of to little nourishment. We hear statements, that we must be good and patient citixens, that conditions will right themselves and flowery promises of a brighter day, etc., but these and many more thrilling comments only serve to scorch the hungry and destitute. Brigham Young fed the Indians instead of fighting them. Then they could be taught. It is hard to make a good citixen out of a hungry child. We are all children in our experiences and it is hard to expect good citisens from people that have been stripped of all their belongAmerings and left in a condition worse off than the ican Indians were when Columbus found them. "OUB INDUSTRIAL LIFE is the soil from which oar spiritual life must draw those elements necessary for Mans ECONOMIC its growth in the New Age. FOUNDATION is to the approaching age of fine arts as the SOIL is to the Blooming Bose. Our responsibility now is to supply the soil strong and seed rich, and distribute it properly. Prepare a good bed and we can realise the spiriutal and intellectual awakening which we absolutely must have, to have the this citizenry necessary to carry on the responsibility of "A man not talkers only. us be Let doers, nation. great of words and not of deeds is like a garden full of weeds. More action Less talk and criticism. Stringham. . B. OSBORNE (Copyright applied for.) Is not mankind of equal birth? Or did some diety proclaim That certain few should own the earth Control this broad domain? Ten million noble sons at toil Are begging not for riches grand. But merely right to tool and soil The heritage of man. LESS TALK MORE ACTION fruit bearing plant without INDEPENDENT -- Then strike for country, home and God; For freedom on our native sod. Weve naught to lose A world to gain! Lets not have lived in vain. The money lords heed not our woes; Their hearts aiy with their hoarded wealth; Each sordid soul more grasping grows For grandeur, power and pelf. An army of ten million strong The Khaki Shirts the boys who dare With ballots and with battle song Demand an equal share. The modem Midas tunes his ear, His only fear his just deserts; While on his horixon appear That horde of Khaki Shirts. The surge and swell of manhood power; The rumble of a land oppressed,' Lends terror to his midnight hour And robs his soul of rest. Give us the right to earn our bread As freemen should the doles you gave Are insults on each toilers head The birthright of a slave. And why should millions die, unwept, From hunger, cold and godless strife, While food lies rotting land unkept LITTLE ANSWERS TO BIGQUESTIONS s Special Rates to Members of Natural Development HOME BARBER SHOP 1018 A. Rex Hat Cleaning Shop AND SHOE SHINE PARLOR We Cleon and Block All Kinds of LADIES & GENTS HATS KEITH EMPORIUM 246 SO. MAIN ST. 50c Paramount Cleaners and Dyers Service Repairing MAGDIEL BUILDING CO Wasatch 8987-WE SPECIALIZE IN Wasatch 5889-than the fire more coot no Fim Proof Construction and these homes N. D. A. Cr. comfort trap. And they are the lest word in boauty, style, ALL WORK GUARANTEED. WaD . Paints Paper MODERN DECORATORS ASSOCIATED SOD. Street llar? ANSWERS: There is this difference: There can never be any bloated salaries nor stock dividens in the association. All profits must be used for the benefit of the members. We cannot obtain our cooperative Ideals of operation until we are stronger. QUESTION: Isnt it true that the N. D. A. is nothing more or less than a cult? ANSWER: The N. D. A. is a cult t only in the same sense that the Utah Poultry Association or the Milk Producers Association are cults. It is a cooperation of individuals from many various religious denominations, who are pooling their efforts and resources for mutual benefit. QUESTION: I paid forty cent cash and forty cents serip for meat at your N. D. A. meat counter, and found I could have got the meat down town for forty cents cash. How do you explain this? ANEWER: It might possibly have happened on the same Saturday when a down town meat market offered meat as a leader far below cost price. No legitimate dealer can sell below such occasional leaders, and the average daily price of meat over a definite period is what counts. Wasatch 2458 r WORK GUARANTEED Last October I paid your labor man $1. but have no job yet. Shouldnt you return my do- QUESTION: Why dont you join the Communists instead of appropriating their program and giving it a new name? ANSWER: The communists plan a dictatorship of one class. We plan the cooperation of all classes. They would succeed by force. We prefer education and organisation. They would siexe wealth. We prefer to create iu QUESTION: Outside of not want-i- n gto be shot, what is the N. D. A. objection to revolution? ANSWER: First the destruction o factories, mills and other machinery of production and transportation usually involved. Second, the unnecessary loss of life. The sane, sure process of evolution is actually cheaper, if slower, than the hysteria of revolution. QUESTION: Isnt it a fact that the N. D. A. is profiteering on the needs of the poor just like the capital- ReUning Delivery 902 South 1st West possible. QESTION: work. East First South Street D- - BEDFORD, Prop. Also Open jSveaings. Ladies Haireutting s Specialty I N. D. A. Credits. - ANSWER: No. No one Is guaranteed a job. The available jobs go first to qualified applicants who have paid the full $5 fee, and next to those jn the fl list, who are qualified for the Asaoristina. Acmes the street from the Holy Cram Hospital age QUESTION: In your organisation is there any profit taking middleman between the producer and the consumer? ANSWER: No. Whatever the organisation accumulates in operating its markets, etc.j is lor the entire membership of the association. QUESTION: Is a city of 25,000 inhabitants big enough for a branch of your association? ANSWER: Yes. A town of 5,000 is Mg enough QUESITON: Why doesnt your newspaper print more items of local oppression of the poor which the big dailies are hushing up? ANSWER: Our entire energy L devoted to a permanent removal of the conditions which make oppression Shoe Service Ensign 5719 Phone 1st South Was. East Call and Deliver Service East of 2nd East to 17th South. 577 Conducted by Will Dobson. (Send your questions or your answers to questions you do not think No question correctly answered. more than twenty words. No answer more than forty.) QUESTION: If I should join your organisation, how would it be possible for me to lay up means for my old age? ANSWER: Individually it would be neither possible nor necessary. The N. D. A. plan is to lay up provision for the old age of the members, and as soon as there are assets available all members in good standing can be certain of proper cars in their old ists? And rogues enjoy real life? The subtle poison of the press; Their blandishments, the lure, the prod. Can neer atone for lifes distress Or paint a friend like God. The Khaki Shirts have reared on high That noble flag of triple hue; MACHINE WILL EMANCIPATE Unfurling justice to the sky With equal rights for you. So far as the aims and aspirations of Technocracy are concerned, they are nothing new. When Technocracy Let him of callous mind beware! tells us we shall shortly have to adopt a four hour work Take heed the call let tyrants boast! either. Indeed, The strife approaches trumpets blare day for five days a week this Is not news that has not offers that little is Technocracy there Tis Armaged dens host. very been anticipated. Lets strike these fetters from our souls; We all know that the system under which we live s Cleanse our home our native land to luck From the lust of grafting ghouls wrong. We are just mudding around trusting that something will happen that will put us on the right And this foul robber hand. track again. The present order of civilisation is highly down these battlements of gold. Tear unscientific, and when we contemplate our cycles of builded on the lust of man, Thats prosperity, followed by cycles of abject depression, every in And a finer cleaner mould we thinking individual must come to the conclusion that Erect a nobler plan. out many have failed somewhere. As I have pointed Cast off the shackles that enslave be will and it is machine beneficial, the before, times like fetters on. a weaker race: the machine which will in the end completely emancipate Be men! You have a world to save! man, Hugo Gemsback. Editor, Technocracy Bewiev. By Gods most holy grace. An organisation known as The Khaki Shirts of AmerIS ROGER W. BABSON A TRUE PROPHET? Bab-so- n, ica, composed largely of American War Veterans and There are those who have banked on Roger W. said to be over six million strong in twenty-thre- e states, eminent statistician, as being a true economic probeen organised with the following as their stated has two On June 17, 1981, nearly phet But let us see. News and aims: The Khaki shirts of America, is a published an editorial in objective nation-wid-e, years ago, the Deseret national, patriotic, militant, statement: which appeared the following organisation; a coalition of the to political afraid been never has who business prophet A to teach intelligent voting common people lanattempting in He plain speaks prophesy is Roger W. Babson. to determination firm with a help change our money now He guage and in the past has predicted truthfully. above beautiful hymn as their and with the system, and has passed states that the worst of the depression his reputation that business is on the mend . . . inspiration. -- . House Cleaners, Remodeling in All its Branches and wiH go anywhere. Estimates and Consultation Free. MODERN APARTMENTS. WeAccept N. D. A. Coupons 22 RICHARDS ST. We intend to retain your trade by deserving it ALL 351 WORK FIRST CLASS BARBER SHOPPE HEALTH DEPARTMENT A and B Credits accepted. Inclusive of all Medical, Surgical and Dental Requirements. Optometry, Chiropractic, Drugless Treatment; Chiropody, Nursing, Prescriptions and Hospitalization. For Inf onnation Apply to Wasatch 2796, Hyland 4508-or Wasatch 10347 X-Ra-y, v W. Faber, President Willy P. Henkel, Manager. Modem Woodworking Manufacturers of Bank, Office and Store Fixtures. Superior Cabinet Work. 668 South State Street Salt Lake City, Utah. Phone Wasatch 8183 ir Wanted Wool and Pelts CONSIGN OR SELL YOUR WOOL OR PELTS TO the N. D. A. W. can aecnre better price for you ainee we all wool and prepare pelta properly before wirt.g GIVE US A TRIAL. N. D. A. 55 Weet Broadway Salt Lake City, Utah Phonea: Waaatch 10S47, Hyland 6142-Mur. 235 TRY KUDZU ' THE BEST FORAGE FOR LIVESTOCK THE FINEST GREEN OR DRIED FEED FOR RABBITS If we are to keep up the splendid publicity service of this Paper we must have some Gish support from every Unit, and we don't, mean maybe. Babbitries should investigate. KUDZU TEA IS VERY APPETIZING Every dooryard should have one or more plants why duce enongh leaves to npply the family with beverage around. WORK GUARANTEED B Credits MRS. STALLINGS 261 So. 2nd East. pro- the year KUDZU MAKES A WONDERFUL FLOWERING SHADE VINE FOR PORCHES AND ARBORS Ita flower clusters resemble Purple Wisteria. KUDZU wfll grow as far North as Nova Booths, field or garden crop or as an omameatal porch shade. PLANT&-25- LACE CURTAINS LAUNDERED vUl C ead orS t- -t as a for 50c by Piucel Post Half CASH Half N. D. A, SCRIP SPECIAL PRICES ON 500 or 1000 PLANTS ;F.F. Clark ERET,Via State Line, Mississippi 35 523 |