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Show ' 9 I o' vriri'i J IT'S TIME PEOPLE WERE TOLD THE TRUTH PROGRESSIVE-INDEPENDEN- i m J rn t -- j r 4 MkAf v TfP 4& T For Fair Prices and Decent More Than 5000 Copies Service to Consumers Distributed This Issue C. N. LUND Entered aa Five Cents Fer Copy VoL 3, No. 36 ' ! C aecond-dai- a Publisher and Managing Editor matter at the Poet Office! at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March 217 David Sogarhouse. AUG. 24.1934 WHERE YOUR MONEY GOES, MR. S, 1879. Five Cents Fer Copy. $1.50 Per Year. Keith Building, Salt Lake City, Utah, STATEMENT BY MR. L. E. ELGGREN WHAT THE PEOPLE SHOIILD KNOW CITIZEN AND TAXPAYER OF U. S. ABOUT CONSUMERS WELFARE LEAGUE (Being Part of a Statement Made Before the City Commission on the Question of the Facts and Figures to Show What Might Be Done Proposedj Auditorium Purpose, Accomplishments and Program of an If Money Went for Peace Instead of War Organization That Is Working in Interest In the opinion of the vast army Of generation: then, again, a 3700,000 JONATHAN SWIFT, Jr. of Justice and Fairness consumers who are home owners and bond issue was authorized by the small property owners in Salt Lake City Commission. Our records will were TO IIP contract! CHURCHES 1934, On August 22, City, any proposal to place further show that while the law requires that Purpoee burdens upon them at this time is interest and sinking funds shall he PINCHOT RAPS let for the following addition! to the The Consumers Welfare League is navy: deserving of the most careful analy- set aside to meet these obligations, an organization composed of several 323,625,000 AND THE PRESS TO sis and consideration. 2 cruiser! that has not been done. (The City j Our Prevent Taxes has not set aside funds to meet these 6 small deatroyen ........ 22,820,000 UTILITY FIRMS thousand members residing in all 7,161,000 Announcement has been made that obligations anticipating their matur3 submarines parts of the State of Utah. It ia an both the City and the State have ity. And why?) Presumably because and incorporated, ESTABLISH PEACE authorized an Increase in the levy the current expense of operating our 353,106,000 H association with U. J ! non-prof- it, non-partis- its principal Besides these 11 small ships the upon our tangible property. When City Government required all the Consumer Have Been Overcharged office in Sait Lake City. It was orwe consider that the delinquency of revenue they were able to collect S. navy yards are ordered to build 13 Gov500 Bullion a Year, ganized in the fall of 1933, by a group It is not stating the possibilities tax payments is on the increase, the There was nothing left to take care more. If these thirteen ships are ernor Says, of public spirited citizens who saw built at the same cost as those con- too strongly to say that the churches question arises how this same prop- of our bonded indebtedness. the for an organization tracted for with private companies of the world could establish universal erty, which is unable to bear the Whether such a course is justifiable American public utilities companies whichnecessity would protect the rights of Approxi- peace aa an international Ideal within present burden, can meet an Increase. or not is beside the question. The 362,764,000. consumthe been they willonecost overcharging the people agalnat economic, politics hundred and sixteen mil- one generation if they would but di- We believe the records next year will fact remains that funds are not in erhave mately $500,000,000 a year," Governor Gifusurpation by the selfish lions of dollars will thus be the first rect toward that end of the give a negative reply and will dem the City Treasury. So that when the ford Pinchot charged in a public ad- and social g combines and monopcost of these war crafts. These costs effort which they can now employ in onstrate clearly to our public offi- date of maturity arrives the only dress. olies that exist today. cials that from the standpoint of the resources will be to refund the inwill be greatly added to for equip- opposing one another. utilities While companthey (the The purpose of the Consumers We would still be within the little taxpayer, taxes have already debtedness rather than to repay it. ment after they are launched. ies) were reducing the salaries of Welfare League le to protect the ecGeneral Economic Situation The completed cost of these 24 new bounds of conservatism if we stated reached a point bordering onto conemployes during the depression, onomic interests of the consumers one that the Christian churches, alone, fiscation. If, then, the present debt As the matter now stands an ex- their ships will probably he at ofleast some of them were increasing their through fair and reasonable adIs we dollars. submit most millions of that amination have price adwill unbearable, businesses and any sufficient to influence hundred establish fifty charges and many of them were inand through the establishThe cost of upkeep and depreciation universal peace as a world-wid- e Ideal, ditions would only prove the law of show that they are at present operat- creasing their profits, he said. Not justments, ment of equitable and Just relationwithin three generations, if the vari- diminishing returns. It would mean ing on such margin and reduced vol- all of will run into many more millions. them, but most of them, have ships between consumer and producous sects would combine their forces an increase in the tax delinquency, j ume that they are unable to accumFederal Money the in the full sense of er. Our Bonded Debt ulate reserves or to show gains out been pirates When a man pays 3100 in taxes to for that purpose. word, and it is high time the AmeriThe Consumers Welfare combonded the of The of this 372 of which taxes these Do Can increased must A In obligations It Generation the federal government, fact and further proposes to develop League that can recognized people sound are are he costs. These which,another we While That which the leading churches of munity should all like to took again, paid. hundred go for war strong measures against any fur- and enlightened public opinion upon our interburden homes be and we all realmust he veterans, upon to war still the general religions, schools optimistic, and buccanpayments leading modern (1) all economic, political and social probrobbery by the the public press of the world could property, have increased by leaps and ists and recognize the fact that pri- ther est on war debt and upkeep of army eers. lems which affect the general interare hounds. Within vate three the last dollars that in the years Twenty-eigproperty, the accomplish ideal of and navy. earning power forcing Welcoming the establishment of the ests of the consuming public. It furwe eduadded bond burhave a consumers of 32,000,000 universal in and of business the genpeace upon both the adult president, left for congress, by the ther proposes providing facilities and den for water which was supposed eral cannot sustain at this time an Tennessee valley authority cation, agriculture, the post office,0 and the child mind of the world to the governor federal government, means for the solution of 11 proo-lecare our of needs for this additional load. take and all the valuable government agen-Ci- within a single generation, staggers the end of the utility domination. affecting the welfare of the conthe imagination. might as well make up their sumer. "They Costa Relief the of If of the Years world will not press Twenty minds the patience of the American PRODIGIOUS In setting up the ideal of for Utah Accomplishment people is exhausted and the time has would he If the federal government small universal peace, then the remedy lies come for their piracy to atop, in of this cost the The creation Consumers' of the an Welfare League is Utah to electric powIndependent give said, adding that cheap util- in full sympathy with and lends its order of war ships we could go on press that will utilize both the printed 50,000 would er employ quickly PAID a little over 20 page and the forces of the air for the and hearty support to the Federal Govpaying for relief for ity employes now out of work, fed- purpose of creating mass ernment In Its attempt to secure land In the of household not a support years. In the last two years the there is this high Ideal. The same principle because higher wages, Increased employment off eral government has given directly be not better would that and better standards of living for the about twelve millions of dollars to applies to the church and the eduwho allow their officials a paltry of it." we cational system. Eugene Grace, President masses; and it will continue consistUtah for relief. With that moneyand Bethlehem Steel Company Relic of Barbarism $100,000 a year. Of course, there are ently to oppose the exploitation of have built many miles of roads and Warfare is a relic of the barbaric THE WAR ON PLENTY the consuming public by means of : Per 31.635,753 many of these more than in the sidewalks, we have built schools , year construcmma-- V wMcfc civilization, baa failed to S?2!lPSMWLlw4- BMWonpUes. . 136,318 .improved old ones, yre have and water master. It will be blotted out when The Consumers Weirare League ted miles of sewer systems 5,450 Per day $100,000 a Year Casualty List) (Partial And these poorer salaries amount BARLEY. Canada Burned for fuel. has continually advocated lower utilPer hour systems. We have painted pictures, strong minds, and strong arms to one ity rates, and has been instrumental 681 to the following: d conducted concerts, educated college charge of the Institutions which shape 300 days) each CARROTS, Florida the minds of the young and use the G. (8W. Hill,day when in securing the initiation of a statestudents and children. We have made to President farmers Per back turned $100,000 half year and wide action for the reduction of rates numerous research and planning stu- machinery of those institutions for American Tobacco Company houses commission Per month delivered to 8.333 the purpose of planting in these (gainst th Utah Power and Light Per Per 31,051,000 dies, improved parks, playgrounds, 333 year wholesalers. day builda rebellion against war. The 87,583 Per month Per hour Florida 30,000 crates de- Company. airports, and all sortsweof publicfed the minds 55 CELERY, The Consi-merword war will, if this sweeping rehave Welfare League 3,503 A General List Per day ings. Besides this stroyed. s iccessful in having an achas ever form furnished been detakes be clothed thousands, to 437 place, Below hour we Per Brazil have bags changed a tabulated hungry, general COFFEE, tion .pressed by the state of Utah dental and medical care to other thou- the correct word which is Murder! list of a few of some of the higher $700,000 and Over Per Year stroyed during the last six months against the Electric Bond and Share Warfare will be outlawed when 2 men extreme sands. Besides these 1933. examples salaried officials and their salaries of All these things we have done and stop writing histories which glorify there are five instances of salaries of and bonuses for 1929 as given in the CORN. United States Planting re- Company of Maine ar.d rompcled that company to pay taxes in this state. murders and replace $700,000 a year and over. These fig- report of the Federal Trade Comniis we are doing with six millions of fed- professional duced to 20,000,000 acres in 1934. The Consumers' Welfare League rebe to eral money per year and some of our the statutes of warriors which now oc- ure out as follows for each of the ex- sion and reported by the Tribune: COTTON. Egypt Planting believes in the development and conown. And we could go on doing it cupy conspicuous places in the pub- ecutive officers: Auto Electric Light Co. duced for three years. servation of public owned resources 10.500,000 C. O. Minger, president .... $337,976 for twenty years in this state if we lic parks with others which paint about 700,000 Per States, year United of the State, by the State, and for the had only the first cost of these twenty-f- war for what It really is murder. 58.333 Hughes Tool Company Per month acres plowed under last year; plant- benefit The Christian religion needs to be of all the people of all the our small war vessels. 2.333 40,000,000 H. C. from reduced Kuldell Per be to 331.888 day ing inoculated with a new ideiU to give State. 1934. Home More Things We Could Do 388 Jones St Laughlin Steel Co. in acres hour (6 each day) Per to 25,000.000 alIf we had this 3115.000.000 we it realism and potency. What more T. M. Girdler $400,000 a Year and Over 359,151 GRAPES. New York Entire crop Program Deer ideal fourteen for than and appropriate build "eduthat of could pay Besides the above there are in the Paramount Publix Corporation rot (years not specified I. to lowed 6.- -off Killed Creek projects, or we could build cating its followers to abhor war- Tribune list four instances of salaries States The United Consumers Welfare League HOGS. Zukor, Adolph president.... 887,500 that fare might it choose? And when of $400,000 a year and over. These Jesse L. Lasky, 1st. V. P. 887.500 200.000 pigs and 220.000 sows in advocates a policy that public utilities forty Pine View projects like were conditions for this change more should exist for the greatest public 1933. proposed in Ogden canyon. We could favorable figure out as follows: Sidney R. Kent, Gen. Mgr. 710.000 Program for 1934 in corn than now? dike Great Salt Lake and pay for $400,000 calls also for 25 per cent good, that such plants should be deSam Kratz, V. P Per year reduction 710,000 a great electric and chemical plant 33,333 United Air Craft Sk Tr. Corp.- -Per month reduction; also for 25 per cent In veloped for their control and owner-sh- p millions of from and still have ninety-fiv- e F. 1,333 B. that will lead to their best use Per Rentachler BARNUM WAS RIGHT day 420,674 hog farrowing: a removal dollars left for schools, homes, or 222 Auburn Auto Co., Auburn, Ind. in the interest of all. Per hour market of 2,000.000 sows cut in proThe Consumers Welfare League anything else we need to make hap$200,000 and Over Per Year P" Pear $400,000 MILK. New York Marked While looking through an old file in list seventeen in the are ordered. advocates employment Insurance as Per There pier people. duction year $400,000 his office Jaa. Homes for Battleships 200.000 quarts a means of effecting permanent recently, Boyd Hunter whose salaries amount to $200,000 E. L. Cord Los Angeles. 387,672 came across a success formula, For the cost of these twenty-fou- r Under AAA a 15 per or more, but still under Woolworth Co. for the worker. daily. dumped per year ten we could build sixty' thou- -' by P. T. Barnum. It was dated $400,000 a year. H. T. Parson, president .... 726.957 The Consumers' Welfare Leag-icent reduction in milk and butter 0 advocates the establishment of e sand homes for Utah citizens that August 19, 1852, and titled, Business And then we come down to the Anaconda Copper Co.- - fat proposed, involving cut of would completely rehouse practically Rules for Young Men by P. T. BarC. F. Kelly, president out the companies number of milk cows. in officials, pensions thereby driving paid 348.600 poorer every family In the state. Further- num, Esq.'" and the code was as folORANGES, Spain 1.500,000 destroy- the existence of such unsocial instiFor Higher Economies more. the cost of operating these bat- lows : tutions as County Poor Farms. ed in August, 1933. 1. Select the kind of business that Rexford G. Tugwcll, undersecretary Tons destroyed thru-oThe Consumers Welfare League tleships would probably pay all heatGAMBLING California CHECKS CHEZ g of agriculture, pleads for an end to advocates a plan of health insurance ing. lighting and other fixed charges suits your natural inclinations and State. In one place, homes. temperament. economic cannibalism." of the sixty thousand to be established by law, whereby pile left to rot. 2. Let jrour pledged word ever be He told the Niagara County Pioneer PEACHES. United States Growers medical, dental and hospital care For what we will pay to equip these In Calif- would be made available for the masthat the A A A is attempbattleships we could furnish every one sacred. destroyed 80,000 trees. Attorney General Joseph Chez is to association 3. Whatever you do, do with all to promote neighborliness for the of the new sixty thousand homes cut from 18,000,000 ca- ses by spreading the risks and costs ting ornia, stand his pack for be highly complimented benefit of all, but "there have been a with fine carpets, electric refriger- your might. over a large group of people and a ses to 13.000,000. 4. Sobriety: Use no of crop in long period of time. ators, beautiful plumbing, radios, pidescription on gambling and his broad Interpre- few who. seeing their own specula- PEARS, Oregon ne-half of anos. tables, chairs, dish ware, and tation of the law. His efforts have tive opportunities for exploitation and intoxicating liquors. The Consumers Welfare League Rogue River Valley fed to hogs.de5. Let hope, predominate, but be dethe like. 40,000 fish a more equitable adjustAlaska a until advocates profit the officials have aroused considerably SALMON, very narrowed, There would probably be enough not too visionary. on slot ma- cried out that we are trying to deand rendered unfit for ment of tax costs. It insists that the made is termined stroyed fight 6. Do not scatter your powers. left to landscape every home, plant Bay district. tax burden should be placed upon chines and other forms of gambling. stroy civilization in general and the packing in Ketchikan 7. Engage proper employees. in it with trees and shurbs, and prepare 225,000 Chile destroyed In the shoulders of productive property, the profit system If is SHEEP. This parents particular." encouraging. 8. Advertise your business do of the community knew all about a garden. Unearned profits gained by taking 1933. June, tangible or Intangible rather than Utah could indeed be made a Gar- not hide your light under a bushel. States -- Hundreds of thou- unproductive property; and the reinfamous machines they would unfair advantage of weakness. IgnoUnited these 9. Avoid extravagance and den of Eden for the price we are gosands killed and left for the royotes. sulting revenue therefrom should he always rise up and demand more and speed- rance or necessity have never been Australia - Unknown number de- wMsely spent in the interest of all the ing to pay for a small addition to our live comfortably within your income ier action. The facts are that the regarded as sacred. Tugwcll declared. if you can do so without abso' ile machines are we see "What The fixed. is Amerinavy. that stroyed. people of all the state. today always starvation. Relief Costs are few indeed. ca can never prosper or be happy if SPICES, Dutch East Indies HundThe Consumers Welfare League for chances winning 10. Do not depend on others. Why then do we become panicky is fixed in favor of the we continue the practice of that ecoreds of tons destroyed by the Dutch unequivocally sponsors anv and ail Everything about relief costs? It Is because we East India Company. owner and, as a rule, he always wins. nomic cannibalism whirh regards man legislation that will establish greater do not know how we are now spendof these two camps should we enter, The demoralizing effects of the ma- as the proper prey of man and one STRAWBERRIES. United States - Ktinomic security, greater social sefellow citizens? 200.000 acres left fo rot. ing our money. chines on the youth of the city are individuals destruction as an advancurity, and greater political security Remember total relief costa for all Can there he anything more deplor- astounding. 75.000.000 metric for all of the people of the State of A surprisingly large tage to another. TEA, Ceylon the United States is about equal to able, more wretched than to see our number of boys and young men are India, Ceylon Utah. "What we see now is that some of pounds destroyed. fixed war costs. The big differences once glorious liberalism, with it's free- following the race track racket and our old institutions are destructive and Dutch Eaat Indies agree to 15 our lie in what we get for money. dom of thought and speech, with its are fleeced of their money. to society in the use that has tradiper rent curtailment of product. For one we get largely instruments discussion of all problems and all con- Morebeing and encouragement to tionally been made of them. They WHEAT. America and Europe Acpower of destruction which lower our stan- ditions, timidly surrender to either those officials who are trying to do are essentially cannibalistic, in that cording to work agreements wheat CONSUMERS LEAGUE dard of living, for the other we get Fascism or Sovietism? is to be reduced by all exporting their duty, and hats off to Attorney they direct us to prey on each other Shall We Give Way To Despair roads, schools, health, food, clothing, countries from 80.000.000 bushels rather than together. General Joseph Chez. Did our country rise a few generin 1932 to 50,000,000 In 1934-3housing, all the things that go to DOING GOOD WORK make a happier and more contented ations ago the hope and light of the (NOTE -- In the United States this of millions to kill Is civilized libpeople. world, only to give way to pie should timidly surrender their planned The famous Kansas editor. Wm. year it cattle, about 50 per cent; to be despair of its own self, of its own in- erty. their freedom and their Inde- Allen White says he does not know born greatness, of its manifest des- pendence to become the vassals of a how we will solve our problem, esburied on farms.! NEITHER FASCISM NOR What an organization can do was tiny to be the inspiration, the true tyranical Dictatorship whose virtues pecially the one of clinging to our In the public hearing on the shown Said: Lincoln of Abraham wideso the carrier of the are at the present time being mankind, genius ancient rights under a democracy, but auditorium. Mr. Elggren. COMMUNISM CAN EVER proposed human bond of The strongest highest humanitarian and liberal ly extolled by an ever subservient and concludes that he distrusts anyone the officially representing represident, of the family much (Ap)prrciated capitalistic press. who pretends to know. There's the sympathy, outside effort SERVE OUR AMERICA ideal? League mode a mnsterly convicWhat a pity it should be if our still hard nut to crack. People will not lation. should be one uniting all work- the Shall We Glge Way To Despair and in a speech that carried and all of so young republic should totter to obnations, tongues to claim essentialof who word to he those America was meant take the ing people, won out against opposing forWe see today two formidable camps livion because our men and women ly a Country of Freedom. That we know how to solve the problems of kindreds. Nor should this lead to a tion heMore ces. power to him and the the is In supposedly deadly antagonism to could not solve the riddle of the assert In our national songs; that is the day but will listen to and follow war on projierty. Property cltir.cn w'hose taxes League. Every is desirable, esrh other, but united in the common Sphinx, the social problem, that sits our national pride and glory. But every wind of false economic doctrine fruit of labor; property raised had not this been would have effort to force all mankind into one sinister nnd threatening by the road- we have wandered far away from that comes along. There are those is a positive good in the world. Let should been defeated, or the other, allowing no one to re- side, ready to hurl us Into the abyss the teachings of our Revolutionary who know hut they are cried down not him who is houseless pull down proposition Consumers League and its main outside Fascism, on the one unless we find the true answer to her Forefathers that cluster of fine in various ways, the worst way of all the house of another but let him labor thank the or wiring consfde with Mussolini as the typical riddle. minds and noble souls that ushered being the lack of money with which diligently and build one for himself; president by writing a forerunner of is This gratulations. and Communism on the Shull We Become YnwtnW of Tyranlc in the revolution that freed the Uni- to carry on. Because Wm. Allen other with the Russian Dictator Stalted States from the tyranical depot-Is- White does not know how he closes Dictatorship? action. in aa its undisputed head. Into which What a pity it should be if our peo- of European Intrigue. his mind to everyone who does know. built one-ha- lf profit-seekin- - - ht for-sa- w SOME OF THE SALARIES THAT ARE 'upper-- - classes. One-thir- s - te-cur- writ-battleshi- ps -- 600,-00- old-ag- ut mile-lon- -O- ... ... - 5. rep-rrjenla- m |