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Show 1 Progressive- - Independent Unpaid Taxes . yNH,IUMS The Legislature should provide that where families are on relief and unable to pay rent, that the owner may have the unpaid rent credited on unpaid taxes. This would not cause a cash outlay, and be of great convenience to the Welfare department. " second-clas- s Publisher and Mauogiug Editor matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake Utah, under the Act of March 217 David Keith Building, Salt YoL 3, No. 43. Sugarhou.se, October 12, 1934 A return to the gold standard must precede recovery. 2. Currency of a fluctuating value is a deterrent to business. 3. A definitely stated program for balancing the budget is essential to restoration of business conditions. 4. The use of government money 1. in competition with private capital should cease. 5. The steadily mounting government debt constitutes a dangerous threat to public credit. 6. The currency and credit supply now existing are ample for an expansion of business and that demands for currency Inflation are without sound basis. 7. The history of inflation shows it ends in utter disaster for every class but one the speculators. These declarations are from a group of bankers and represent the bankers thought. No explanation is given as to why the return to the gold standard is imperative or whv the balancing of the budget is vital. Inamurh as the bankers have made predictions based on their own point of view and have been wrong, it Is possible they now Five Cents Ter Copy. $1.30 Per Year. City, Utah, FOUR TIMES MORE FOR LUXORIES THAN ALLOWED FOR EDOCATION Jly MORTON ALEXANDER The destruction o! the poor la their poverty, Proverbs, x 16. The wise old Prophet who. In the past, gave utterance to this trueiam, had neveY Jooked upon at iserican tramp or an American millionaire; he had no visionof " bur prevon, so glutted with riches that lf while of its population,. Inau. upon the bitter bread of Charity, the other half, in consternation, and alarm, were crying aloud: What shall we do to be saved from the Poor! LOOK at this mighty continent blessed beyond compare with all the materials for human happiness and welfare a storehouse of Nature, filled to overflowing with a profusion of wealth never before displayed upon the surface of the planet. Here is food for every hungry mouth: here is clothing for every naked back; here are homes for the homeless, healing for the sick, learning for the Ignorant; here is work for every idle hand and here are the elements of Plenty and Peace and Prosperity for every child beneath the flag, and for millions yet unborn. AND then behold this blessed America sunken in the mire of Poverty with all Its hideousness, its pinching pain, its degradation, its hopelessness, its impossible longings, its black disappointments, its endless dispalr! Ah,? my brother, it cannot go on! This nightmare of human wretchedness shall vanish from our presence. This monster of Poverty, spawned by Greed, suckled by Selfishness and enthroned by Ignorance, shall be vanquished from the earth. Already brave hearts are enlisting for the conflict, already their unconquerable banners bedeck the sky and their slogans are awakening the sleepy souls of men, THIS THIEVES CIVILIZATION MUST GO! LET US END POVERTY IN AMERICA, END IT NOW! I am not a prophet, or the son of a prophet but as I turn my ears to the west as I listen to the heartening words of victorious Upton Sinclair, I am aiezed by a wondrous vision:. I see a New America arising in dazzling splendor the hideous visages of hunger and despair, of poverty, Ignorance and greed are vanishing; the prison;-thpoor house, the brother are gone to virtue. And I behold a conto evil and and tgauty give place ugliness tinent of Comradship and Brotherhood a land where Truth and Freedom and Justice are enthroned and Love holds the scepter of Power. For behold! the Old Order passeth! OFFERED STATE long-forgott- For the benifit of some of our apparently deaf, dumb and blind readers, this article is re- published, because some, upon being questioned, had not read it. The poor were recently condemned for taking money from the government. Read this and see what some people are taking from the government. And this is but one of a thousand similar instances. It is alright for the big interests to take millions and billions of wealth from the government, and even to take for their private use the government itself, but let not the poor take one single dollar. Read and ponder. And for heavens sake dont come sauntering back to the office and confess that you have not read such an important article. It shows how the interests are stealing your wealth and despoiling your government. Who Blocks Recovery? During the last ten years the Dollar Lines received ships from the U. S. government at a total cost of They still owe the government 18 millions of this. In the last a tfc Dollar Lines received in mail subsidies more than 314,000,000, aim are due to receive 817,000,000 more under contracts still running. In addition to annual salaries of 326,000 to 3719.487, R. Stanley Dollar also received from the Dollar Lines are wronir. the sum of 3635.000 for his services When the federal reserve law was in buying ships from the government didire thev predicted being enacted his lines. for unand almost saster to the country Who Is the Small Body of animously condemned the measure. In Utah not one hanker approved the WUful Men? movement but all shouted anathema J. HaroldJDollar testified befpre the upon the heads of those -- who framed Senate Investigating Committee that and sanctioned the law. When it was suggested that the the unit companies comprising the United States should go off the gold Dollar Lines made a net combined standard, all eastern bankers were profit in the last 10 years of 314,- gnashing their teeth and foreeasting 365.000, the beneficiaries of which companies were: Robert Dollar, R. calamity. We ceased to worship the golden calf and nothing happened ex- Stanley Dollar, J. Harold Dollar, HerFleishacker, and H. M. Lorber. cept an improvement In the outlook bert R. Stanley Dollar testified that for our foreign trade. when the Dollar Steamship Company Dr. Hvrum Smith, one of the erst- embarked on its while tall pillars of the N. D. A., and service, it was afraid of losing money, his family have gone to Palmyra, and so organized a syndicate to take New York, where he has accepted a care of losses. Besides the Dollar the participants in this syndiposition as assistant to Willard Bean family, on the Joseph Smith memorial farm. cate were: Herbert Fleishacker, San His son Oliver followed and will enter Francisco banker; R. Kingsbury of into missionary work for his church the Standard Oil Company of California; and Paul Shoup of the SouthIn the Eastern states mission. ern Pacific railroad. None of these participants put up any money but received 3 millions In profit. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP. Who Is Drunk With Power? Reetc.. Circulation, Management, The Admiral Oriental Line, with an of Act the bv Congress quired initial Investment of only 3500, made of March 3, 1933 profits totalling almost 37,500.000. weekOf Public Opinion, published The Export Steamship Corporation Octofor Lake Utah, at Salt City, ly bought 18 ships from the U. S. at a ber 1. 1934. cost of 31.071,410. The ships "ir? ) STATE OF UTAH The ally cost the U. S. 342,000,000. 1 ss. subsidies paid the corporation each County of Salt Lake ) by the U. S. amount to more than Before me, a Notary Public in and year the entire cost to them of the 18 aforesaid, and State the for county ships. In the last 6 years the Export personally appeared C. N. Lund. who. Steamship Corporation has received to having been duly sworn according 37.000.- 000 in ocean mail subsidies. law. deposes and savs that he is the From August 1928 to June 1929 its Publisher of the Public Opinion, and ships carried precisely 3 pounds of that the following ia. to the best of mail at a cost to the government of hia knowledge and belief, a true state- 3234.980 pound. For the fiscal ment of the ownership, management, year 1931 per it carried 8 pounds of mail etc., of the aforesaid publication for for 8125.820 per pound. the date shown in the above caption, Who Keeps the American Flag reouired bv the Act of August 24. On the High Seas? 411. Postal 1912, embodied in section The International Merchant Marine Laws and Regulations, printed on the Corporation received 87.000.000 a year reverse of this form, to wit: in U. S. ocean mail subsidies, although 1. That the names and addresses most of the Corporations money was of the publisher, editor, managing invested In foreign ships. editor, and business managers are: Who Destroys the I Jvtng for 1 .600,000 Publisher, editor, manager, C. N. Residents? Washington Lund. 217 Keith Bldg., Salt Lake The Seattle Oriental Line made proCity, Utah. fits on its stevedoring operations from C. N. 2. That the owner is: Lund, 1928 through 1932 totaling 31,258,-21- 6 217 Keith Bldg., Salt Lake Citv. Utah. 82. 3. That the known bondholders, Its profits in shipping were and other security holders owning or 1 more total or of cent per holding amount of bonds, mortgages, or other Small Claims Court securities are: None. 327,-000,0- around-the-wor- ld 33.994,-144.1- 3, 1879. i MAKE MILLIONS 8. one-ha- Compare School Costs, Luxury Donation of a power site on the Green river for development by the state planning committee was announced in a letter to S. R. DeBoer, federal planning consultant, at the capitnl, by L. C. Karrick, Salt Lake fuel engineer. Mr. Karricka letter stated that he was ready to donate the water rights to the state for power, industrial and agricultural uses provided the work was dune for public beneiit under the direction of Mr. DeBoer. In his letter, Mr. Karrick explains that there is a possibility of developing 110,000 horsepower at the confluence of the Minnie Maude and Green river below Jensen. He explains that the poower site was given to him by William Thumb, former mayor of Pasadena, California, and an ooutstand-in- g rhampion of public ownership of power utilities. 1929. In a feature article in the N. Y. H. Tribune of June 8. 1930, Nash makes this statement: The present average coal consumption in public utility is now less than one power plants and pounds per kilowatt hour, or only half what it was ten years ago." ... two-thir- WILL WE HUMANS EVER LEARN? Voluntary reduction of rates to conform with lowered osts of production and the adoption of a liberal policy of keeping the public informed about improvements in methods and services are the only means of saving the electric power industry from public ownership and operation . . . The utilities have it largely in their own hands how far the agitation to deprive them of control over a great and growing industry will tri- c In the earliest history of Somf very ancient peoples many thousands of years removed from us, there is Maid to appear a statement about certain religious colleges, held in temples, where the sacred mysteries were taught. The statemnt is as follows: Everyone was welcome, be he prince or slave. Directly they passed into the temple, they were equal, for they stood in the presence of the heavenly father, the father of them all, and here they became brothers in fact. No payment was charged.' All was free."' And it is further stated that the fundamental principles of their (the first) religion,' 'were the Fatherhood of Goft,"Miff the Brotherhood of Man:- Now K it be true, as some claim, that the people mentioned lived some seventy thousand years ago, reaching a high state of civilization, then there has been taught on this planet throughout seventy centuries the high principles of human equality and brotherhood. Are we any nearer to these great ideals than were the people of the lost civilization told about in the writings of Mu? How long shall these natural and eternal principles remain as obscure theories on the horizons of time and be eloquently talked about in churches and halls of state without ever being brought down and put into practice? Throughout all the ages the cunning and deviltry which has ruled the people have kept them away from the delectable mountain, the vahalla of the dreams. Kept divided and estranged from each other by the kings and czars and emperors and priests and money kings of the world, the people have been prevented from coming in sight of their heritage. But at last the light is breaking and they are beginning to find their way. Everything that stands against the day of brotherhood and equality will be swept aside. Whole systems will be driven and disrupted, and the way will be made straight and plain and easy and natural for all the children of the great father to live and move and have their being in the reign of equality and brotherhood that shall fill the whole earth even as the waters cover the great deep, great deep. ! I For many years, it has been the practice of high' officials in this state to accept positions on the boards of directors of big Industrial and utility corporations. As everybody knows, these companies are largely owned and wholly controlled in Wall Street. The local boards of directors do not really manage the businesses. They are just local Yes men. The real reason the high officials have been invited to sit on their boards is for their influence. They have no particular knowledge of the business conducted, and they have no stock owner-- , ship in their own or representative capacity to entitle them to act as directors. The big fellows in New' York know this, but they say nothing about it because they like to have some one at hand who can pull an occasional chestnut out of the fire whenever the occasion demands. Sheepmen Confronted With Threat From East NOT WITHOUT POLITICAL PROPHETS Modern Israel is not without her political prophets. One of them, perhaps more, resides at Provo. Professor Elmer Miller of the economics deaddress partment of the B. Y. University delivered a very forward-lookin- g before a political convention recently and, among many other good things, he said: A new meaning of social control, promised upon a new social phil-ospIs Imperative if we are to avoid serious retrogession or chaos. He speaks the literal truth. Whether big business and the old order wills it or wills it not the new social philosophy is upon us and those who oppose it may be compared to the ignorant king Knute trying to sweep back the ocean with a broom. Opposition efforts will be as vain as were the efforts of the deluded king. finite. Mont. sheepmen, wliu fmiKiit the cntth-mei- i fur rnnge riuliis In some of I ho lilixulii-.-- l r;mj;e wars nf I lie Old West, face a new aiviirjing to A. nr the North hy DONT BORROW MONEY Letters by the wholesale are being sent out to citizens with jobs begging them to come in and get a loan on their furniture, their salary or on a note signed by reliable parties. lVe urge our readers to pay no attention to such. Shun this kind of debt as you would shun a black plague. Better starve along and bear the ills you have than fly into these usurious debt burdens. The interest charges are so high that they are nothing short of the worst of usury. Our advice in to shun all forms of debt. If you possibly can keep soul and body together without borrowing, do it by all means. The devil is the inventor of usury and through it he means to do his part toward killing the souls of men. And Crime Costs. It costs 8300 to keep a child in jail for one year. It costs 3100 to keep a child in school for one year. Law violation cost the country one half billion dollars last year, while education cost two billion dollars for our thirty million school children. There are less than one million calendar criminals. For every 82 spent in school costs we spend for the control of 31-5- crime. Our candy, gum, and theatre ticket bills are 2.61 times our educational bill. Our total bill for luxury is four times our educational bill. Four per cent of the economic energy of the people in thia country The Irving Fisher Syndicate re- is spent for educational purposes. leased an article on January 31, 1931 ( Read that line again. ) from which we quote: The electric The easiest wey to cut costs of lopower companies increased their re- cal government is to cut school costs. venues during the depression yesr of It is also the stupidest and most 1930 to 32,500,000 from 32.106,000 in short-sighte- d means. e C. N. LUND. wil begin preparing deeds in the name of the owner after January 1, next, conveying the property to the county. UNI) POVERTY IN AMERICA? WANT TO GO BACK TO FLESH POTS as follows: take Editorial THE WORSHIPERS OF GOLD NOW The following timely article la taken from the Ogden Standard, the most liberal daily in Utah. It is worth reading. In a statement to the federal reserve board, the federal advisory council maintains there must be a return to the gold standard before any real Improvement in our economic life can be attained. Then the council proceeds to give seven lines of action to be pursued II Y TAX DEED it The last Legislature extended the to January 1, 1935, and unless Mended again the County Auditor Entered as But They Will Find There Is No Backtracking Possible. COrgTY TAKING OVER HOMES A. Evans, Anierii-ai- union. Kaslei-ulie said, were liaekini; ii turn- - sliivp ruled n(T laru'e - Slieari-rs- ' pres-iiii-- In the U. S. Daily of March 5, 1930, we find the following as part of the report of the Mass. Commission: II is clear that rates to the consume have had a tendency to become lower It is not equally clear that such re duction is commensurate with elthei the lowered cost of production re suiting from technical Improvements or with the gain resulting from thi increased volume of business." ALFRED SORENSEN i Sheep sportsmen, i to mow-un-n- irm-t- of s r lands ns s means uf i it came. Evans said dial ilini-jri-tii il sheep destroyed feed lui-tlfor came were false, ns they usually ramted on lands nusuited for wild Kutue in any considerable number. wr-di-r- The most often attacked and the least protected victim of this shortsighted threadbare policy is the school teacher. I have two pupils in the schools of the citv. I am paying about three times the amount of taxes that the average home owner pays in the city. It costs the city about times as much to care for these iwo children in school as it gets from my taxes. 1 pay, in other words, about one fourth of my children's education, and I am supposed to join this sens-les-s crusnde against school costs and for every dollar that we could equeeze out of the already too limited means for schooling our children. I would actually lose my share in the use of three other dollars. That's financing with a vengence. Most of these people who are rushing into print on this question and against school costs are .paving. less taxes than it takes to school one child for a year, and if the troth were known the name people are Bpending mort than that amount for gasoline, cheep theatre tickets, tobacco. and what not. I met a man just the other day who had five children in school. He pays 312 total tax and was on his way to the Commissioners to protest against these high school costs. The poor boob didn't realize that for every dollar Lis tax might be cut on account of school cost reduction, he would lose the use of about 316 for school purposes, for the benefit of his children. One born every minute. N. A. JENSEN. pre-s--- The Proggressive Jeweler, 33 Years In Salt take 73 East 2nd. South s i Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing DOING THEIR PART ALL RIGHT Publisher. You have noticed of course the words We Do Our Part", displayed by Sworn and subscribed before me The small claims court is a departall business houses. Some are living up to this and doing their best the ment of the city court. this ?Rth day of September. 1934. J. WALDO PARRY. The City Court can give judgment to help recovery. But there are many who are not doing their part. Here (SEAL! My commission expires May 11, 1937 for past due rent, and restitution of is an example taken right out of the heart of the business district which property. at this office. When the N. R. A. began to The smal claims court can give anyone may verify by calling in a certain store was being paid 337.50 a week. clerk certain a form take In the ever growing problem of judgment for past due rent, but canreputation and control of electrical not restore the property to the owner. Whenever he bought a sack of flour he paid around 89 cents for it. Since utilities there Is one factor that has The City Court requires an attor- the early formation of the codes began he has had four cuts in his pay and received very little attention notwith-aandin- g ney, the small claims court does not. is today receiving 819.00 per week and when he goes out to buy a sack of the fact that the utilities Many persona own homes which flour he pays just twice as much as he did when he was receiving double are using part of the truth to bolster they rent and depend on the rent motheir claims for present or even high- ney for living, and are unable to the salary. This is only one Instance taken from hundreds. er rates. The factor I refer to la that employ an attorney or pay the court of the constantly decreasing coat of costs. NOT OUR BABY The jurisdiction of the small claims generating power and servicing the court should be extended to include public. The progressive ticket put in the field last week was In no restitution of property. way connected with the cause represented by this paper. It had no more In the N. Y. II. Tribune of June 8, relation to the great Progressive cause we champion than the devil has NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC 1930, II. II. Sheldon of the N. Y. Unito holy water. L. T. Pomeroy is no longer conversity said: Forty years ago it renected can never and with to this of coal 15 to 20 paper pounds quired The next order of business in the office is to form a Star Subscriber generate one KWH of energy. Seven be. This is the only paper in the city years ago it required 2', pounds. officially representing the Consumers of our subscribers appear to be eligible. Club. About three-fourtNow it requires on an average but 1.7 Welfare League. Any other represome formula of finance might be set afoot we wish that How magic Pounds and there is still room for sentations are, to say the least, very one dollar in the pocket of each. would much greater efficiency." that put just misleading. Thia is a delightful season to visit California.. ..and the trip itself is a pleasure all the way when you travel in a comfortable Union Pacific Pullman or Coach. Its the ECONOMICAL way to gol World's Fair Ends Oct 31 ed hs Vv&-'A- V Theros still time to receive new inspiration and helpful ideas from Chicago's great World's Fair. Inquire about low round trip fares. For Full Particulars Soe Local Agent |