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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION Economic Security In PROGRESSIVE Changing World Social security is an import- ITEMS ant topic in a changing civi (Continued from page one) speculators are endeavoring to predict for their employers when the peak will bo reached, in order tha i they may unload on someone else just before the break takes place, Mr. Bowen declared. We had only commo'iity gamdling in 1920 and onlv stock speculation in 1929, whife today we have wholesale commodity both common stock prices and prices are now going up at the same time. Relief Appropriation has passed a a appropriating millfcin and a half for employment projects and direct relief. By accepting the payment of foreign debts to the United States in goods and produce snm can be greatly mcrcas-J4De- e ed without costing theTreasury an additional dollar. Recently Finland paid another instalment of her debt to the U.S.A. but other nations are more tardy in payments since gold is scarce in those nations and goods are not accepted in payment of foreign debts Free trade associations for the unemmany ployed could chase people through a based on a comreserve built up from modity the surplus products of Btates and nations. Congress measure pur-mediu- m Private Centralism credit proposals are of vital importance to every producer for It is through sufficient available medium that costs are recovered in trabe. In deflation periods costs are not recovered m trade except dy the stronger of business combines hence the failure to increase purchasing power in proportion to the increase in wealth is the foundation of private monopoly in industry and trade, finance capitalism is the basis of private centralism in production and exchange which a system of social finance monetizing value in proportion to the increase in wealth will enable the world to remove. Social Review of Current Event C.I.O. STEEL POWER FADES A jVerr lization for social security means individual security and individual security is the basis The order. of the social assurance of individual security is the measure of progress and to the extent that this is lacking there is disorder and chaos. In the relatively changeless Thousand Back at Jobs as Companies Maintain Stand Alone . . . Congress Digs In . . . Hitler Warns Hell Act PickadT THE teJcd W. SUMMARIZES WiiUrm Xi Steel Furnaces Glow Again of the Independent steel In Pennsylvania and Ohio were once more operating as lait-minu- te ... pro-te- alone. Disgusted, Germany withdrew from the patrol of sm-ploye- rublic banking system receiving for entry a portion of the earnings of industry and exchange can assure purchasing power for the consumption of a larger production of wealth. An independent income for people over forty five years of age and a public banking sj'8tcm to increase the total in purchase medium is a progressive program that can be realized in a short period of time. Retail Discounts The following explanation of an application of the principle of retail discounts is from an article on social finance by the Bureau of Social Research, Ottawa, Canada. If, after t careful analysis of all costs it is found that there is an addi tion of twenty five per cent between the propucer and the retailer, the retailor would be paid the difference out of the national credit. For instance, if you wished to buy a hat priced at four dollars, you would pay the retailor three dollars. n With class-ideatio- n. Now! n mncniFitEni new SERini KBTHIEEII SOURIS Dont miss a single in- stallment of Beauty's Daughter1 'as it serially in this paper! Here a a powerful story with universal nds will read it! appeal-thousa- 5 11 No pains have been spared it iS providing juft the kind of Grocer. ies, Fruits, Vegetables and Meals you need for your Holiday Dinners Comeearly andget the best or Phone your Order Today Call Was. 4864 For Cooperative Goods In Cooperative Market By Cooperative People , -- V01 f B Where you earn by spending and leam to Cooperate by buying Utah Consumers 860 South Main .S reet - Diamond Thieves Steal era and act a carefully arranged Police Bait, Get Away trap. This Involved placing a parcel of supposedly stolen diamonds In South Africa is laughing at the way a gang of illicit diamond buyers turned the tables on the police and stole $35,000 worth of diamonds from them. The story came out in evidence given before a select committee of public accounts by the police commissioner. The police, he said, planned to catch a gang of Illicit diamond buy-- Alfred dia Progressive JEWELER. better than ever We serve can you Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing T5 East 2nd. South 88 Yean In Salt Lake sit-do- rs PUBLICDOINGS Social Security Act are paid out to meet public expenses anb the portion not currently expended for social seurity is not retained as money but appears as deposit credits on the books of the social security system. It may here be seen how a 4-- ? pREASURY figures Indicated that the end of the fiscal year would find the President's economy program missing its mark by about Last April he warned $200,000,000. of hatred the Lev aarmeoated twv political dynasties as Mlse Ethel all departments that expenditures would havs to be drastically cut, da Font married Franklin Delane and revised his budget to $205,000,-00- 0 Roosevelt, Jr. less than the forecast in January. His revised budget estimated now for the purpose of maintaining that expenditures from July 1, 1030, 0; law and order; to protect the rights to June 24, 1037, would bo of those who want to go back to actually they turned out to work. be $7,883,000,000, or $102,000,000 above the estimate. It was believed that at that rate, there would be Looks Lika a Long Summer a difference of about $200,000,000 wUl be in session for CONGRESS in the budget and actual spending until yet, probably for the entire fiscal year. September L That was the consensus of the 240 senators and congressmen who attended President Roosethe Majority velts week-en- d outing for majority "Humaniz!ng, MAJORITY 8 members of coo- members on Jefferson island in met on Jeffasoa Island grass Chesapeake bay. In Chesapeake bay with President! Although they insisted the meetto have their relations ' ing was purely social, it was gen- Roosevelt, chief execuwith the erally accepted that attempts had humanized," been made to swing back certain tive of the New Deal lawmakers who the belief in Wadi-- 1 had been getting out of line lately. Ington circle that The result is that a heavy program the President la will-- 1 lng to accept a third of legislation desired by the administration win be attempted before term expanded to the members of congress can leave the greatest propor- tions yet known. for home. The spark which The President's court bill preoff the lat- sumably in its original form, al- touched eat cloakroom whisto seems deit face certain though feat, either through a vote or perings of a .third was the decthrough filibustering headed the term list It was closely followed by gov- laration by Gov. ernment reorganization and wage George H. Earle of Pennsylvania that he would give "unqualified and hour measures. and final support to a Roose-ve- lt - fa - President movement in Seeks Changes in Wagner Act 1940. Further report! had it that ARTHUR H. VANDENBERG John L. Lewis, chairman of the gEN. Michigan proposed three Committee for Industrial Organizaamendments to the national labor tion and leader of the relations act designed to broaden strikes that have swept the nation, was working toward the same end. the rights of The President has oily indirectly under the disavowed such an ambition. Wagner act, forbid ait -- down strikes and other unfair as Italy did likewise. Der Fuehrer warned that the Nazis would take independent action to themselves f nif un-i- protect from attacks by the Spanish government. He described how Germany had been condemned for shelling Almeria after a Spanish airplane had bombed the cruiser Deutschland, and how, when the cruiser Leipzig was attacked by a submarine while on patrol duty, the committee had done nothing about It A remedy suggested by Great Brit-si- union and France was that the patrol and practices, provide severe duty be left entirely to them, with penalties for unions Italian observers on French patrol which violated conships and German observers on Brit- tracts with employish ships to Judge the equitable, im- ers. His amendpartial working of the system. ments: 1. To give emSenator Mediation Board Gives Up ployers the s a m e of three, right which only em- - Vandenberg mediation board THE by Secretary of Labor ployes now enjoy to appeal to the Perkins to sit in Cleveland and at- national labor relations board for tempt to negotiate a settlement in an election to determine the repthe steel strike, gave up in despair. resentatives of employes. 2. To require agreements In writIts chairman, Charles P. Taft of ing and to permit strikes oily after Cincinnati, and the other two mema majority vote of all employes. bers, Lloyd Garrison, former president of the national labor relations Any group which broke its contract and did not repair the break after board, and Edward F. McGrady, being ordered to do so by the board trouble-shootin- g assistant of Mme. would be Perkins, were unable even to per- sentation. suspended from represuade Tom GIrdler, Eugene Grace 3 and other steel officials to sit around for Establish a code of practices labor. This would: a conference table at which union Prohibit compulsory political asleaders were present The board sessments on union members. explained its failure, The only hope that all union officers, Require of settlement lies in such a meetagents and representatives be Uniting. ed States citizens. In criticizing the companies tor Forbid union organization by cotheir stand the board said, Nothing ercion. can be made clearer today than Prohibit damage to property, that management and organized la- - strikes intended to force any person or Technocrats m9et every Mon really represents the to violate a contract or federal wishes of the men, have to laws, and violations of "any perJay night at Room 206 City and learn how to live together, togot reach sons rights In real or personal propcements and to abide by them erty. ag. County Bldg. when made." Townsend Club No. 1 meets Steel officials handed Taft a writresume of their stand, that they Montagues and Capulets every Tuesday evening, 8 p. m. ten n the family blessings would not make any agreement with at 255 East Broadway. Danco Lewis' "irresponsible C.LO. those of a political They same place every Friday night. admitted that the Miss Ethel du Pont, Wagner act might force them to negotiate with the daughter of Eugene du Pont, and The Workers Alliance meets union, but declared another law pro- Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr., son President of the United every Tuesday night at 323 2 vides that no one need make a con- of the were married at Christ States, South Slate street tract he doesnt want to make. Governor Davey of Ohio revealed church near Wilmington, Del., in attended by a that after the board had given up, a "simple wedding of about 400 picked handful Secretary Perkins telephoned to ask him to subpoena steel chiefs to guests. Bitter political hatreds of the state capital, Columbus, and the older generations were buried in the protests that this was the keep them there until they sign an agreement Meanwhile state youngsters day. troops would keep the mills closed, Mme. Perkins suggested. Governor Gedeon Slayer Surrenders Davey refused, saying: ROBERT IRWIN, New York sculp treated for InsanSecretary Perkins suggestion would be the exercise of the most ity, who killed Veronica Gedeon, autocratic and dictatorial power ev- beautiful New Yak model; Mrs. BY er attempted. In private life it would Mary Gedeon, ha mother and be kidnaping. Frank Byrnes, boarder In the Until the courts have decided Gedeon home, on last Easter Sunthat the companies have to sign day, surrendered to police in Chicontracts or agreements I have no cago. He was flown back to New right to take anybody and hold York City where indictments were him. I have no right to keep plants being prepared. He prepared to declosed except In case of riot . fend himself from the electric -ir The troops are in the steel district by a plea of insanity. Spain, Meat Food-Goo- d $7,781,-000,00- consumption. Any margin Der Fuehrer Scores Neutrals between incomes and prices will It P ROM now on, Adolf Hitler told flow to the people for the 200,000 Nazis at a party rally in to purchase of produced goods and Wurzberf, "we will prefer the freedom. tain Independence, so as an does in the day that it honor and security established policy of public of our nation into our own hands and finance social security will be ouraelves attained and maintained. march of economic freedom. The servitude of industrial centers and the sharecropper serfdom of theagriculturalsoutb will be no more and the world will take a real step forward in Monetizing Tax Values social progress from the domiFifteen billion dollars in nation of man over man. taxes are collected in the If you would see that Uni ted States every year, a sum work for social security twice as large as the total of an independent income urge circulating public money and for people over forty system nearly one half as large as the five of age and adequate years total in circulating and deposit relief for the unemployed. The credit during the average busiallocation of a portion of the ness year. A large percentage of a social finance resources of these taxation values could as an independent be monetized at the point of system income to collection thus increasing the people locating in total in purchase medium as resettlement areas will also industry and agriculture in- aid in establishing a new froncrease the production of wealth. tier of economic freedom and Goods may be accepted in paysocial progress. In a realizament of taxes against which a purchase medium may be issu- tion of the basic principles of ed and pioperty tax values economic democracy lie the monetized through tax lien cer. further progress of individual tificates issued dy public and of social man. departments in agreement with each taxpayer. The monetization of tax values for a public finance system would aid in the establishment of a social commonwealth of adequate purchasing power for the consumption of all producThe Open Forum, on Sunday ed goods. Public Banking System Evening, June 13, at 8 P. M. Funds collected under the Geo A. Udell, Chairman. Pure rrrrrkrrnfor July fact It led to the resignation of Premier Leon Blum and bla People's Front government, to be succeeded by Camille Chautomps. One ot Chautemps' first acts was to appoint Georges Bonnet, ambassador to the United States, as minister of to begin with orders finance, attempts to balance the budget. Bonnet's first moves were to close the stock exchange and suspend foreign exchange and commercial payments pending a decision on whether or not he would be made an economic dictator temporarily. France, like the United States, operates on two budgets ordinary and extraordinary. Francos deficit In her ordinary budget, as estimated by retiring Finance Minister Vincent Aurlol, is about 200,000,000, and the deficit in her extraordinary budget approximately $1,600,000,-00- 0. Rene Brunet, Barnet's undersecretary, said they could be balanced in three years. Most of the expenditures from the extraordinary budget are for Budget Trouble, U. S. d In that day wage davery will fade away before the onward Is bothering BUDGET introuble a serious way; in . pLANTS state troopers kept the peace. Vioworld of the hand labor age lence among strikers, workeri and eco police dwindled to a handful of hand people found a place in the to hand tights in which Injuries were nomics of the period and within comparatively few. With Gov. George H. Earle havtheir individual sphere they in Johnsmoved and lived. Individual ing lifted martial law It was estimated that town. Pa., served t o accomplishment nearly half the 15,000 workers of this the Bethlehem Steel corporations maintain and create on assurance of economic security great Cambria plant were back the Job. but in a period of mass proIt was apparent that the real duction and short purchasing grip of the strike had been broken. Daniel Shields declared it power it does not do so and Mayor was all over, but there were stUl is only a public or popular guar-thabout 250 pickets on hand. The day the C. L 0f production for all can before the plant to save a in attempt O., aa-ja purp0se now. its cause, promised a man meetnear Johnstown of 50,000 minIf an economic system can ing who would then aid the steel ers afford the production of a hunstrikers in keeping the plants dosed. dred million dollars a year in Only about 1,500 showed up, and to speeches by union after goods and produce it can afford leadenlistening dlspened peaceably. they the purchase medium for the Plants of flu Republic Steel corand Youngstown Sheet k and of these poration goods consumption Tube company in Ohios Mahoning extent that to And the produce. valley, when half of the total numit fails to do so there is disem- bers of state militiamen wen propeace, again wen ployment and a wasting world. tecting the public operating. Steel plants in Chicago will An economic democracy were preparing to reopen. Still none maintain among the people a of the independent steel corporahad signed contracts with CL dollar in purchase medium Ltions O. uninne- - Their refusal to sign for each dollar in goods had been the sola issue of the and produce available for strikes. purchase WORLD'S WEEK Unto. ludget Trouble, French Ill go to the sale The Mail Must Go Through pEDERAL warrants were Issued for six C. L O. leaders in the strike at Youngs- by telephone town and Warren, charging them with preventing delivery of the United States mails to loyal employees of the steel company plants ! there. Their names were not revealed. The order fa the obtaining of the warrant was given by Attorney-GenerHomer S. Cummings afta he had looked ova testimony at the senate pat office committee's hearing. Charges have been made that CL L O. leaders were censaing the mail in Ohio cities and refusing to permit delivery of parcel post packages containing. food, clothing and other irregular articles fa wak-er-a in the plants. 'All mail that the post office department sms fit to attempt to deliver must be delivered, said Cummings. This did not conflict with the post office department's refusal to deliver packages to the plants, but sought to prosecute persons who would prevent the delivery of mail the department had okayed. t Ordering from the stores, making appointments, keeping in touch with the friends, running errands phone serves many uses Lly. di : Yon can enjoy telephones convenience for e few cents a day OUR HUMAN RESOURCES Rebels Again Eye Madrid taken Bilbao after pjAVING of Gen. Francisco siege, Franco, rebel commander, turned his guns ones more upon Madrid and the sector north of Guadalajara. New troops were moved into the sections about the western and southeastern limits of the city. The loyalist government set out at once to strengthen its own lines, although it was not believed Madrid was In much danger of attack before . the Insurgents have "cleaned up I the northern provinces. Since the capture of Bilbao the Basque and Asturian forces have been virtually isolated from those of the Madrid-Valencgovernment ia Hopkini Slices WPA Rods WORKS PROGRESS ADMINIS-- v TRATOR HARRY L. HOP- KINS is busy trimmipg 314,759 names off the WPA rolls, to shave the total to 1.655,477 by mid-JulThe cut waa to be effected through not replacing men simply I Nickels Lead Coin Dcmsnd The Treasury department shipped $27,939,000 worth of halves, quarters, dlmca, nickels and pennies the firit five months of the during fiscal an agreed hiding place of the veld and then waiting in hiding fa the illicit buyers to collect them. year more than the total Real diamond, owned by police ,2L"Ve fl,cal year beginning with were used as a decoy. After 1030. Largest increase waa in nichad been carefully hidden, the they pokel, meeting the demand for nickel lice turned their backs for a few games and goods venders, and momenta white they walked to their catching up with short nickel proplaces of concealment. duction during depression yean, When they looked back the diawhich reached a low ebb In 1932. monds were gone. with only $1,000 worth. address of paul h. hunt To Associated Clvio Club of Southern Utah Stanabury In hla report on a "Survey of Salt Lake" in 1847-- 8 mentions a horrible practice of the Indiana in Utah of selling their children to the Navajos to become lata slaves of the Spaniards in Mexico. This practice la unprecedented in biological history. In the lowest forms of vegetable and anlmul life, parents sacrifice themselves that their young may survive. Plants give the last drop of Juice from roots, a talks and leaves to nourish the aeeda; fish batter themselves to pieces on the rocks In ascending rivers to spawn where the young may be free from their natural enemies In the tea; the females of certain scorpions in Mexico lay their egga on their backs and are consumed alive when the young scorpions hatch. Utah with an area of 82,000 under cultivasquare mile,, 34 tion, has about 520,000 population, or slightly avrer 6 to the square mile. Coming to maturity each year an about 6,200 young men end women. Survey .show that CAPT. i who' found Jobs in private industry" and by combing the lists for lneligiblcs. WPA officials emphasized the need for economy by comparing' the estimated $2,175,000,000 spent In 1037 with the $1,500,000,000 approved by congress for relief in fiscal 1938. 1938-103- 7, , Utah as If their bodies were f Using the slopes of Cemetery R at Gettysburg. In addition to the loas o( t thirds of our young people. have between 25,000 and 30,000 employed. This fundamental serf and economic problem, which nil our other difficulties insignificant, will tend to diw pear when we are growing rate that will offer opportunity to our young people to earn a . lng. While the Industrialization Utah has been going on lor m yean, a great deal of our econnw thinking is baaed upon tho uullo of a pioneering agrarian atato. jr though the opportunities for FT neerlng in agriculture and railing have long since ceased. fear Industrialization because do not understand it and, I"1? ot these prejudices, we are I'1", toward it, although, a I sev la our only salvation. Let me point out some of benefits we all receive from great aggregations of capital call capaatlons. In 1927 I ooui" a General Motas car for $ic(111r in 1935 turned it In fa a small to .once and bouaht a for t" |