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Show THERE IS NO SOCIAL SALVATION WITHOUT COOPERATION. BROTHERHOOD THROUGH LOVE, NOT HATE 128192 A PAPER A LIBERAL PAPER 4 ; vV . 4. WITH VISION b v.'1 :i Editorial ITS PERSONAL EDBGATORS ARE SEEING A PROGRESSIVE ITEMS AND (C.N.L) ; bout that ii-- bn i i Give em the Flowers Now Emil Gammeter a good progressive reader, sends a dollar from the 'gold spot of America at Phoenix, Arizona where he is in the real estate business, He has been on the list ever Bince the Republicans owned the country. The Dems crushed his polital hopes but not his spirit. Success to you down there, brother Gammeter. NEW ECONOMIC LIGHT i tut in EDUCATOR ASSAILS PROFIT MOTIVES lb It r 1 ft .. ' ' : ' Leading educators and economists throughout the world JJJ have king recognized the fallacies in the present educational J,. igltnrand Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Col'mribia University, New York City, is one of them. He is 'fe qobted in the Chicago Tribune in making his report as Presi- .dent of Columbia University, as follows: Dr Nicholas Murray Butler today assailed the dominof the profit motive in society. JjJ jj y I. C. Thomson . misunderstood what we said about Sen. King and writes It should be the reverse. All his efforts have been against the president, and is betraying him. I am ashamed of him. One of the upstanding young men on our list is E. I. Applequist, a linotyper at the Tribune. He walks right in and pays up every once in a while and always leaves a word of cheer and some very good ideas. He is progressive and a thinker along spiritual and humanitarian lines. George E. Marchant pays so often that we have to make a new card every once in a while. He has been with us since Adam came into the garden and expects to be with us until he sees Zion redeemed from many of the things that are afflicting it today. He has a good progressive spirit and is not afraid to Friend his report aa president of Columbia University, he declared that if profit, and profit alone, be the end sought ' must reconcile itself to steady by buman effort, then society between HMategration, constantly increasing the conflict . groups and nations, and eventual destruction. T Moralists have been pointing out almost from the beguile inArjVif time. Dr. Butler said, that it is only when men rise abova domination by the profit motive and learn to subordinate profit to service that the social, economic, and political a orders begin to come in sight of a firm foundation and to assured the and happiness existence, with peace least. at a great mass of mankind, remained for the happenings of the generation It has the I educator added, to force these fundamental lart nast, f truths upon the attention of men everywhere and to turnL i the thought of mankind not by any means toward the elim-of profit, but toward its subordination to service. i'OVTf helpful service to ones fellow men be the dominant f. motive, Dr. Butler said, then the greater the legitimate L be applauded. Criticism profit one makes, the more will he motive disappears service ( the and resistance come when I froth and the profit motive dominates all. V con-tinni-ng sight Tuming to education, he said: of the scholars Lvr It is one of the crowning satisfactions at f all, is wholly exists it lift that the profit motive, when manifested motive through service subordinated to the d to human many-sideapplications its and scholarship evid-antl- express himself. r THE PROFIT SYSTEM IS now in many BETTEBSYSTIM a very large part of the revolutionary spirit mass could the m of pop-By E. Chase, of Ogden be quickly quelled the that in transacting certain What has private ownership feel to quite ulation be made motive comes and the service the the of world, businesses neater profit system done to elevate humanity or lessen its fimt and the profit motive is subordinate to it. V Si' burdens? Every man for himWe read in the"Bible of Hell and Damnation,weyet are and us here self and the devil take thehind-inos- t nefail to realize that they are basedamong on profitand interest, economic system is its dogma. It makes cursed by an it, "rent Perhaps you do not know, or have not recognized gamblers, robbers, drunkards, a dana bug daily we rub shoulders with tbose undergoing murderers, prostitutes, dope-fienthe And what is tk that beggars all powers of description. and everything else that eolation to all this? Universal Brotherhood, a to mental and is detrimental up private odety of people who have givenbut and it a development, physical theoryof wfeohold alTthings in common, ofirustrialeloiteto enslaves land. It the in ends devastates a practice which eventually calarmtous teilure, whfle one that the eommon man and puts his aid social robbery isofa Universal Brotherhood will be a ver- share of the nation's wealth in adheres to the ideals itable kingdom of heaven here on earth. s. control of a few and wiU con Our system of modem industry has created Voices onmue throughout the land ttane toreate sufficient products to supply rise in distribution is outjrorn praise of the home land. demand, but our archaic system of nullifies tie of thee, sweet countrv My and no matter how hard we labor it luxury, revel superabounding in of land Liberty, flows from and creates one class who animals ex of necessities barest the while others possess lips both young and. old, in istence. schools, in clubs and in public gatherings of all kinds. My War Killed Capitalism Country! What significence is we witnessed the attached to those words! My and Ethopia hetween war tiia Italy ti Country is uttered by every xenresented by Italy under the guise of expansimi mgaged and mortal able to speak yet how to1 the viniac- off of a large number of the people during few can lay claim to any part war so as to enable it to exploit thoseto obtain as pn of it. Million of its citizens SJto so manipulate its natural resources never see more than a few miles toe rf of exploitation its mure than 3,000,000 through thedesire of private profit of resource natural of . manipulation square miles. They are vassals from the consciousness of the people no of the profiteers who have taken would be no conquest Or, if Ethiopia hadcon-trJyThS control of the land and its natural resources to people to exploit and no resources. They are confined in eat and manipulate there would be no war or onH densely populated cities, away and simple. It dds Capitalism is materialism, pure foundations Its from things good and beautiful, outer universe. and the man the outer s with on manipulation the based as effectually as pigs in a sty. am laid in secondary causes. It is accumulation is the and aim purpose Sweet land of liberty. Breasts of things. Its supreme profit. Its history reveals its na swell with pride as they sing to create private jpro-Otitore 2d SSTdeariy thatit existstoe these words but few ponder of many and toe the few by the exploitation their significance. They do not jpuiatfon of the natural resources of toe earth. realise that no more than ten The capitalistic big Capitali8m has reached its limits. and exploited weaker nations, percent No! Not even one have conquered the of their resources i SSr neonle and natural the manipulated per cent have their freedom, to left little is there until very those who are not slaves countries to enslave toe people and bpfcau'es is manipulating it which and large corpora, taxation, to of the people. labors contol the , to money and slaves 'V evolution of mankind tions. are Capitalism is merely a phase in toe ten Less than per cent of trombarbarlam. It ha wdl nigh exhausted With thecon-- ' greed. the people grind the otherninety its strength. It has used up its resources. last odd per cent under their heels ts swallowed up has toe Italiansit quest of Ethiopia by is morsel of food and must die. The history of capitalismand conquest; exploitation; war, toe history of competition, lesson. Man FAREWELL FOR BROWN. world-wid- e misery. Humanity had to have this o advances through suffering. c Heivcr capiWism, shall supplant The system that A grand farewell party for Hugh B. Brown will be given at the Granite Stake Tabernacle Friday, tonight, at 8 P. M. all SSmSrSl. NOTFOR PRIVATE PROFIT, BUT FOR THE friends invited, good program, Mr Brown departs next week to take the presidency of the spiritual fibres in British Mission. SOUL OF MAN. iwit would ds omnpanl over-lord- r ! - Ethi-SSswe- re 7 3l ol r or over-lord- l Srawrm , the take Prosperity Bonds and Support the great Plan. The paper Nine Months for One Dollar, Send em along W e have been in the habit, when it was necessary to prove t at prosperith was here, of sending people to one of the big banks Saturday forenoon. But now we send them over to the Atlas Building and ask them to look around and about through the seventeen office rooms of the United National COOPERATIVE NEWS the welfare of the nation, INCLUDING VIEWS ON declared the issue of the May Survey. Every unnecessary PRODUCTION FOR ALL pri e increase cuts production Prosperity Plan. and eliminates possible jobs.. George C. Christensen Cooperation in Ireland Well, well. ' The millenium is just sround the corner, even closer than prosperity was in the first year of the depres Our Economic System sion. The first old age veteran in the country to benefit from In each unit of industrial acthe governments social security for old age yras a gentleman in Wisconsin, who received his full dues in a lump sum when tivity the following costs are involved rent, dividends, the U. S. Treasury forwarded him a check for S2.60! and salaries, interest and wages Give us newspapers that teach toe virtues of life, correct expenditures for raw materials. living, correct government and less about methods that have Tha prices of goods available wrecked and are wrecking, humanity. We are traveling too for sale include these costs much and too fast in the wrong direction; traveling in ways include which a margin of we should not travel ; racing and hurrying over the earth and through toe air, when we should be going in a normal and unmonetized price value due to natural way. We transgress all the laws of God in society an increase in avjilabh promnH Government, and our minds are led to dwell upon that duction faster than the increase method of life until we know no other life.--Spain, Paris, in purchase medium to enable Texas. costs to be recovered in prices. The interests have no kick or complaint against the su- Hence the addition of expendipreme court 'judges pension of $10,000 a year on retirement. tures of each unit for interest Thats airtight, but $200.00 or less per month for old people, and raw materials has pcen thats something to be fought and kicked out of our scheme found to bring costs in excess of things. of the distribution of incomes Another great international conflict involving our western for present consumer purchasworld will either destroy our western civilization or so seriing power or the addition of exously impair it as to be toe greatest tragedy of all time. penditures for rent or dividends FOOD FOR THOUGHT might be given as bringing the George Washington said: Government is not reason, it total in costs to a point greater Like fire it is a dangerous ser- than the is not eloquence, it is force of vant and a fearful master; never for a moment to be left in all costs inpossible Arecovery monetizaprices. irresponsible hands. of value tion for Bocial incomes our of basis The government Thomas Jefferson said: being the opinion of the people, the yery first object should will equate purchasing power , I prefer dangerous liberty rath- with production. be to keep that right Dr. 1 Harold V Knight in Cooperative League News Service In 1934 there were 239 cooperative creameries with 55,231 members; 106 general pur- societies with 2 2,288 members, and 29 miscellaneous societies with 18,932 members, all affiliated with the Irish Agricultural Organisation Society, the educational and promotional federation established by Plunket. The Irish Agricultural Wholesale Society serves primarially the general purpo-- e societies. It broke the fertilizer cartel by importing from America, with the result prices dropped 50 percent. pose Cooperation in Iudiana Co-o- A p League News Service modern oil compounding plant designed to serve cooperatives in nine states is under construction hero and will be ready for operation early in July. The compounding plant is being built by United Cooperatives, Inc. at an estimated cost of to supplement the output of the plant buiit in 1930 by the Indana Farm Bureau CooperativeAssociation a member of the rooperative business federation. The present plant has been serving Farm in Indiana, Bureau Co-oOhio, Michigan and Pensyl-van- ia but is unable to meet the of rapidly increasing er than quiet servitude. It pevents the degeneracy of govBusiness Trends ernment and nourishes a general attention to public affairs. From 1924 to 1929 income of I hold that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, in as the storms and as necessary in toe political world phy- wage earners increased only While the people retain about ti enty per cent, while Abraham Lincoln said: sical. their virtue end vigilance no administration, by any ex- income derived from profits treme oi wic!edAes8 br folly, can seriously injure the gov- and interests rose seventy per ernment. led eent. a to That piling up of We have forgotten the very Woodrow Wilson said: excess and excess how to specusaving object principles of our origin, for we have forgotten jhow to resist, how to agitate, how to pull down and build up, lation which helped bring on even to toe extent of revolutionary practices, if it be neces- the depression. During this sary to readjust matters. recovery our businesses seem business. to be following much the same GOOD TWO ENEMIES OF ALL of the is the That Profits! More cry Profits! Profits! policy. From 1935 to 1936 Give us your chil- industrial pay rolls increased monster Tobacco and Whiskey Trusts. It is a well demonstrated ! dren, that we may polute their bodies and crucify their souls only 15.5, while the profits economic fact that a circulating Give us your daughters and wiveB that we may destroy their of medium of exchange carrying reporting corporations Give us your purity, their womanhood and their health. than more per fifty ina them turn periodic depreciation charge hqtut, that we may cripple their efficiency and instalment Meanwhile eent. booze toe is a money for use of value only criminals! to morons and Thus, comrades, Newspapers and sales have risen rapidly. Only to facilitate the exchange of and tobacco magnates of America. by juicy advertising contracts. dy dorrowing ahead on future goods and services. Whether magizines are dumb-silenutter no protests; it would income throuh instalment buy- this charge be one per eent a school teachers Preachers and cost them prestige and popularity .Humanity ing is consumption able to keep week, a month, or in three Senator Copeland made a gesture to get a bill thru congress pace with production. Appar- month periods, the principle engross) H nbspunv:rrdN ;etjecknK6 Bvbgkqj bgkqjgkq industry is no more dis- of a self liquidating medium of ently which would prohibit the wholesale foreclosure of mortgages now than it was ten exchange ie always the same. note to posed the against home and farm owners. It is grevious to distribute to work- The issuance of such money fur millions honest of peoworked been ago racket that has years against else in the it and land, line. the ers in this everywhere Locally, buying power that will general use throughout the ple has been a sinecure for some lawyers and some weekly pub- enable consumption to keep nation might be proportioned lications until it has seemed that the whole scheme was put pace with production. to the production of consumer over in their, the lawyers and the papers, interest. Prof. Mordecai Eiekiel in goods and the depreciation MUST HAVE PEACEFUL CHANGE Commou Sence for June. charge for redemption to the How can a firmly established status quo be changed by Progressive Program consumption of wealth. peaceful methods? This is the crucial question of toe perOur civilization can go iod on which we are just entering. Nearly all propressive groups no further until this universal humaji problem is solved. The and minority parties in Utah A MAN ANDHIS GOLD Have-no- ts internationally and within every nation are and elsewhere can cooperate to citadel of privilege and demanding at least the further the following program-- I. TheHearet Publications are the storming The mighty Haves in toe international of justice. hope bitterly opposed to relief, and fields are fighting with bitterness and fear Public ownershid of public and toe industrial indusand utilities to what Hearst terms 'boonmonopoly against a peril the magnitude of which they can not gauge income An will 2. tries. independent doggling. Hearst is reputed to If the process of making concessions once starts where Yet five over are all ? fears the for Some of their own n.OOO shares of the undoubtedly justified. forty people it stop toe alternative of making no concessions is being recognized years of age through a moneCompany of South as more dangerous. It is toe British Tories that have voted tisation of value corresponding Dakota, the largest gold mine to nationalize the coal industry. to the increase in wealth. 3. An in the world. In 1932, its stock independent income for all the was worth $87 a share. During EQUITABLE DISTRIBUTION OR CONFISCATION Dr-- Edward A. Walsh, has warned toe rich today to share people locating within state or the last year it has been worth profits more equitably or their wealth will be seized. Dr. national resettlement area to as high aa $544 a share. Last Walsh, vice president of Georgetown University, told a spread population and incomes year, Ilea rat's Homestak stock student assembly at American university. more generally throughout ths paid him a dividendof $432,000 The new conception of social justice now maturing in toe nation. An independent labor while in the past five years his mirwia of men will demand more and more of the fruits of this program has'increased 34 million adopting stock result- party industry. The net increments, which we call profit, as to would receive widespread in value. Much might be said ing as it does from a joint action, must be so spread in a short period of time about the efficiency of WPA promote toe common good of society and not be selfishly support monopolized by one of toe partners-Fo- r projects, but it would seem Federation Survey thas the work they accomplish wealth is power, in a particularly subtle form, which Co-o-p Service League News is more as experience shows can profoundly affect the destiny of of socially considerably digging gold out of society as a whole. That public authority, in consequence, The Mmthly Survey the useful thanHills f South Dakota the Black has certain moral and civil obligations with respect to the Business, published by control of that power is an inescapable truth that must be American Federvtion of Labor and burying it in the green bills faced squarely and honestly by the small minority who pos- has sounded an alarm at the of Kentucky. sess the major percentage of the nations wealth. rise of prices which can WOODBURY PAMPHLET If they shirk the clear social responsibility attaching to rapid and increase cel wage every the Either will governJohu T. Woodbury r. of St. happen. property, one of two things ment will be obliged to conscript their wealth under the gen- has called on organised labor George, has just published an to find methods of controlling excellent eral welfare, or ruthless mobs will confiscate it . This h and meritorious own our even within memory. price increases which threten to pamphlet of twelve pages on happened elsewhere Hitting the unholy lust for gold, he compared unscruH; paralixe industry. To profiteer The New C ristian Technique ulous bankers and legally incorporated buccaneers to kid- by raising prices at a time when a d ecuesion on advanced coopnappers, racketeers and other criminals-Thmore than nine million are still eration. Soon we shall publish former, he said, plunders through legal loopholes; work in private indus- the chapter on The Great the latter at the point of a sawed-of- f shot gun. Both had toe without act of treason against Ideal. try is an same objective Other peoples money ps Money for Use ced Home-stakeMini- -- a e ng |
