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Show v at A LIBERAL A PAPER 'PAPER WITH VISION ftn J Address, 217 David Keith Bldg VOL 1, No. 23 on'. ? Entered SUGARHOUSE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, JULY 9 1937. Clue Matter at the Poet Office at Salt Lake City, Utah, the Act of March 1, u Second Published Weekly by C, N. Lund 1879 f 1.50 PER YEAR cet-- MOUSE, CITIZENS, AND DO SOME THINKING (eats nen cst Value of Laws FRUITS THAT HAVE POIS- ay' ONED THE LEHACY THAT Editorial P. A. Spain.Paris, Texas We might aBk what account is any law against vice and crime when we have a set of anti-laadvocates, called law yen, whose highest aim in life is not to enforce law, but to set aside the law in every case brought into court. Money of the country privately owned as it is, is always arrayed against law enforcement. It stands i n favor o f croo ed deals and the supreme aim of every young lawyer is to become a fine criminal lawyer, and that means that every lawyer puts forth his best effort to keep his paying clients, from being pinched by the law. We frame up Constitutions and and make laws and set up Governments, and then turn right around and train up the legal profession to beat down the law. We certainly are a pecul. iar people. So were the Jews. . i : . :' From Writings of Dr. S. R. Maxwell A wise teacher said, in regard to systems : Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles ? A study of the statistical abstract of the United States Government reveals the fact that just before the crasjh in 1 1929, 511 men had an average income of over $7,000.00 per each. Is it righteousness to turn over $7,000.00 per day j day j of the national income to one citizen, and at the same time deprive another citizen equally as worthy, of the opportunity of a job? The amount of the national income which went to these favored 511 men was greater than the amount of the income that went to all the wheat and cotton farmers of the nation ten million American citizens. Was such an unequal distribution righteousness in action? ' ' This same statistical table shows that 26,860 citizens more of the national income than 20,000,000 other of one per cent of the Citizens equally as worthy. One-tennational received income as 42 per as much of the population cent of the rest of the population. In other words, 144,000 persons received as much of the national income as 47,000,-00- 0 ibther persons equally as worthy. Was such a distribu- - tion righteousness in action ? jr According to the study of Berle and Means in their book, The Modem Corporation and Private Property," in 1929 - there were 300,000 corporations doing business in the United States, and 200 of these, or less than seven hundredths of of all 'one per cent, controlled and directed nearly one-ha- lf the corporate wealth of the country. As a result of this, approximately 2,000 individuals out of a population of 125,000,000 controlled and directed nearly .the entire income of the whole nation. Was this righteousness in action? ? Such a condition was reversal of the principle of equal lights to all and special privileges to none. Since this principle of equal rights to all and special privileges to none" is the principle that pervades the Constitution of the United States, the economic system that created such an unequal distribution of the national income is unconstitutional and shbuld be abolished. When the founding fathers framed the Constitution they framed it so that the application of its spirit and principles would create a commonwealth where each citizen would en- joy the right of participating in the national income in proportion to Hie amount he contributed thereto. The old system has perverted the Constitution, and we destructive effects. The ben-- t 99 r could multiply instances of its efficiaries of the old system have modified and perverted it I and made it the instrument of their own selfish greed, The Declaration of Independence was an expression of the demands of the I AM in man : First, for freedom of access to the means of life: Second, for the development and expansion of the powers that are in the I AM of man: Third: for a system of government that would guarantee ed th . - j! ' these natural rights. (Next Week, Some New Angles of the Constitution.) O :es 1 1 le. JOftl belli1 H II diP at inltW lfr im i nutf nooX atloi tc. r i stnfP d. cfltf iimtik it, if t fbfi al inof5 ell 4 rJ By the sacrifice of the life of the child in the mill, and the and the life of the worklife of the woman in the sweat-sho-p, er at the furnace, and the life of the laborer in the field ; we attempted to build a huge Babel Tower of things to reach the heaven of happiness and communicate with the eternal. Did we succeed? We did notl Our plan was an attempt to reverse the eternal order, and carried within itself the seeds of death and destruction which came on that eventful day in 1929. The true function of an economic order is to produce and distribute the national income of commodities and services to each citizen in proportion to his contribution to the total amount. The old system is not doing that. The prevailing sys of a true economic tjw can never discharge the functions order. It is prevented from doing it by its philosophy, its spirits it, and its technique. Its philosophy is materialistic; the for and part its technique provides spirit is selfishness; instead of the whole. Systems are known by their fruits. well-place- Including Peisonal Views On Production (or All A monetization of value for a social income to people over forty five years of age and adequate relief for the unemployed. An equitable taxation system to retire outstanding purchase medium beyond a dollar in circulating and deposit credit for each dollar unit in production capacity each period of time that the total in credit revolves once within the total of national NEWS NOTES and seventy three thousand. One hundred and thirty-si- x new stores' were opened and business rose twelve per cent to a new high of more than thirty million dollars. Turnover of the cooperative w oleaale O.T.K gained twenty seven per ceut and is now over five million hollars. Statistics are not yet available for the neutral affiliated with S.O.K. which reported 252,000 mem- bers and forty two million dollars in business in 1935. Czechoslovakian came through a year of struggle and progress" with a twelve and eight tenths per cent increase in business and eighteen der cent gain in production. The LIQUOR ARTICLES SILLY income. To say that the sale of $7,Q00,000 worth of hard liquor in George C. Christensen Utah since the state took it over makes for temperence is a silly joke. People are not that blind and dumb. And to say that Dagget county has the highest per capita consumption Prices And Incomes is also silly. Why man, there isnt enough money in Dagget county to buy a round of good drinks. But such is the stuff Many plans have been out-t- o they are feeding us. bring the nation out of the TRY THE BETTER WAY which still continues It is said that there are 55 organizations prepared for vio- depression business of the p wholesale lent methods in maintaining the status quo. And it is known fr ten million unemployed dis totaled $7,800 ,000. Retail that there are just as many organizations prepared to go the placed by the instalation of affiliated with the cenlimit of force in changing the status quo. So what may we mass production machinery. tral union We to in both all this sides with the But moBt of these programs reported a memberexpect country? say force at our command: Cease thinking about using violence fail to consider a primary de- ship of 381,319 and business against your fellows because you will but destroy yourselves fect- of the present economy; totaling $35,000,000 For every scar you make on a fellow human you will make a the The Cooperative Wholesale increasing spread between greater scar in your own soul Beware, lest in killing the bod- incomes of France boosted its Society and prices during the ies of those who do not see as you do, that you do not kill business thirteen and your own soul. Take the Golden Rule in one hand and the rise of the business cycle. To per cent to a total of handclasp of brotherhood in the other and go out to conquer. close this gap between incomes and prices a monetization of $56,000,000. The French FROM WASHINGTON D. C. which have hitherto value should be had and conEditor Progressive Opinion: a tinued in proportion to the produced very small propor- One of the most important things you have increase in wealth and should tion of the goods distributed, published is in Key to solution found in the right use of all manufactured c o m m o d i ties things." But how can great spiritual truths be discovered in be paid directly to the people valued at $3,900,000 for consumer income a such gross environment as we now have? There is so much through through retail mental blindness now that the spiritual truths already dis- syBtem. A steady increase in covered are invisible to most people. I am now reading one purchasing power will increase cooperatives. British cooperative bwarfed of the best books ever written on the right use of all things incomes without advancing and the spiritual interpretation of things. It is HUMAN prices sinces an increase the continental cooperatives in in SCIENCE AND DIVINE REVELATION by J. J. Garth of volume but the perterms Wilkinson. From beginning to end Dr. Wilkinson gives the purchase medium is an increase centage gains were slightly work of Emanuel Swedenborg to show the brutalizing force in effective demand and an those behind in Scandinavian of vivisection. He shows that this barbarous practice does increase in effective demand countries where the movement millions of animals that brings larger production and a more injury to humans than to the have been vivisected. He shows how the mentally blind ex- tendancy toward a lower price is much younger. A membership gain of 330,000 was reporperimenters in the biological and psychological laboratories level. ted. This accept nothing about life that they cannot see under the mictotal memberAnd ship im brings roscope or in the test tube. And what has humanity after a Democracy British to century of such animal torture? Nothing but bankrupt, arBusiness 7,815,000. increased tificial systems of psychology. These sciences have been my specialty for more than forty Statistics just compiled by $70,000,000 placing the total years. I taught psychology and physiology for eight years the International Cooperative business for 1936 at $1,170,000 in universities. I went down into the materialistic hell after AUiuce .ho. the rotten fruits of animal experimentation. I spent many greatly elated at the gams growth of consumers coopera- which far exceeded of wilderness in material around the psywandering years the goals tives in all the democratic chology. These false experiments on bodies to the exclusion set in the five-yeplan. of minds have finally led to the Behaviorism of Dr. John B. countries in Europe in 1936. Watson who says: There is no soul, no mind, no emotion, Sweedish co operatives Relief Appropriation no consciousness, that all there is to life is bones, muscles boosted their membership by has passed a Congress and glands; that when these are stimulated, they react and 17.000 during 1936 bringing the measure appropriating a the response is mind; that when there are no more stimuli toaal number of members to million and a half for employment projects and direct relief. there will be no more reactions and no more responses, that 585.000, representing more than By accepting the will be the end of us. payment of of the families in foreign debts to the United Millions have been led astray the past few. years by this false conception of life and nowhere have the people suffered 8weeden. Cooperative business States in goods and produce more than in the Rockies. You deceive yourself when you inrrased $6,917,000 to total thU snm can be greatly increasthink and say, The scientists of the world will turn their $111,464,000 the past year. ed without costing theTreasury an additional dollar. laboratories over to the study of spiritual forces.You might Cooperatives in Norway and Finland paid anotherReeently instalas well say the profiteers will lead in the cooperative move- increased their membesship ment of her debt to the U.S.A. ment for which you are now fighting so heroically. One oi nations are more the most painful things of my life has been to see the mental 10.000 making the new total but other tardy in payments since gold is blindness that has prevented humanity from seeing the finer 148.000. approximately scarce in those nations and the nationa families goods forces of nature that were discovered long ago. It is not more are not accepted in payneed see more to we those vision but business jumped 12.4 p spiritual truths that of foreign debts. Free ment' that are already discovered. with the turnover of the retail trade associations for the unemdeAs long as our Federal Government needs to conduct a $12,400-00ployed could many are trained as rogues to catch rogues cooperatives totalaling partment where people through a purchase More 44 than of all and are trained to shoot more accurate than rogues to kill the commodities handled thru medium based on a comrogues, there is no use of talking about discovering any spir-modity reserve built up from itual truths. As long as every policeman carries a gun on his cooperative stores were produc- the surplus products of many hip not to shoot wild animals but to shoot men, spiritual ed in factories owned by the states and nations. truths will not be perceived: As long as the thieves of nations cooperatives, the total coopera kill off innocent men by the millions as they did in the World tive. production exceeding five Monetizing Tax Values Fifteen billion dollars in War and as long as all nations center upon a war as they million dollars for the firsttime taxes are now doing in Spain, there will be no demand for the spir in are collected in the itual truths already discovered. As long as parents kill their ,the historyof the Norwegian United 8tates every year, a sum children and children kill their parents as many are now dotwice as large as the total of ing, spiritual truths will be at a discount. As long as crime Finish cooperatives continued circulating public money and is tiie nations biggest business, there must be a cleaning-uto push ahead. The progressive before there will be any demand for spiritual truths. The societies, O.T.K., added eight nearly one half as large as the total in circulating and deposit burden of that work is upon education and religion such as thousand new members bringworld. credit during the average busiHorace Mann and Dr. Maeser gave the I member-shi-p to a t the ing human for ness year. A large percentage betterment, Sincerely your to two hundred (Continued DR. JOHN T. MILLER, Washington, D.C. on page four) co-o- 4 - J 0. Waters o f Duchesne, in jras Tuesday and renewed his subscription. He is a man with a strong mind, eloquent and forceful in speech. He is a Socialist and has long battled for a better world He is a mas ter at debate and likes to mix with the old politicians. Jenny Llndi Grave Lind, the Swedish ale, la buried In Malvern, England. Jenny Lewered CtUlty Rates Gov. AH Landon forced lower utility rates in Kansas that are saving the people of the state about $1,000,-00- 0 a year. Via-ee- nt ooo d A couple of bullets for the paranoic in the do the work." would House White To prove that this remark was made readers are referred to the McClure Newspaper Syndicate which reported the matter as follows: This intemperate out burst drew no rebuke from his fellow diners, all of whom worked and. voted for the defeat of Roosevelt. While they did not endorse this insane venom they appeared to share the belief that it would be mighty beneficial to change the White House occupancy by most any means. This is similar to the way and manner in which Hearst publications inspired the assasination of McKinley. It show's the spirit of those who are so steeped n hatred of President Roosevelt The country may look for most anything. co-o- ps (Reprinted from last week) If our present economic system was true and natural there could not be prosperity today, depression tomorrow, poverty for the many and enormous wealth for the few. A natural system would be like the multiplication table, the same toNations Fair day and tomorrow, the same to all the people of the earth. and economics true of Follow the author in his comparison Their Objective mathematics. mid Mathematcs is a science. Its principles are universal eternal. They are not affected by any arbitrary or artifi-a- l human distinctions. They refuse to submit themselves to any attempt on the part of man to change them. The Englishman cannot change them to suit his opinion ; the German cannot change them to suit his opinions. The Episcopalian cannot have a mathematical system to suit his creed; neither can the Methodist. The Democrat cannot have a mathematical system suited to his political creed; neither can the Republican have a different mathematical system in the terms of his political belief. - Sir James Jean, the great astronomer,, said that the universe is the expression of a great mthematiidan. The Creative Principle thinks in terms of numbers, and the universe verse is the expression of a great mathematician. The Cre-S- o wnm did not create mathematics. Its principles and laws pervade the universe, and if man wishes to solve a problem in mathematics he must obey its laws. It makes no difference what his position is, or what his family is, or what his political or religious creed is, or what his occupation is, he cannot make two and two equal five, and he cannot solve a question in fractions without first finding the common denominator. If he persists in attempting to solve a question in fractions without finding the common denominator, he will never solve it. Now, in solving human problems there is a spiritual common denominator, and that commmon denominator, as we Mrs. Vlaeeel Aster Wiathrep W. AMrteh have seen, is the I AM in man. Irrespective of all surface distinctions based on family, race; nation; occupation; politic-aa- l NEW TORE (Special! Mrs Astor, sodaty teadar and civic party, religious creed; or sex; this principle I AM haa been appointed Chair on worker, based economic the order An individuals. to all mwiwoh is mn of a National Woman! needs of this common principle would automatically solve Commit! tor the New YqekAdvtaorj WesM all our problems and eliminate all further problems. . ATIVE remark: co-o- Give em the Flowers Now II. C. Pope, leading architect of Salt Lake City, chartered the United States to send us a check on his subscription for which we are very thankful. Mr. Pope is a good man. In fact if you find them better you will have to go a long distance. If the country had a million like him it would be safe from - AND SOME GOOD COOPER- PLAYING WITH DEADLY FIRE At a dinner of capitalists in Wall Street, an official of the American Cyanamid Corporation made this dastardly Personal Notes About the Faithful revolution.--- - ITEMS (C.N.L.) w WAS BEQUEATHED PEOPLE LIVE PROGRESSIVE l four-tent- hs ' dis-tributi- on co-o- ps Cooperation . ar one-thi- rd one-four- th Co-o- 0. G-m- en r - co-od- a. co-wor- An economic order that allows the few, first, to own and control the peoples land and its resources; second, to manufacture, control and use the peoples money; and, third; to control and use the peoples machines and labor all for their own private benefit is a direct violation of the eternal law of the universe, and must collapse in ruin or end in revolution. In such a system, the common denominator, which is the Universal Life Principle finding expressinn in the I AM of the individual, is utterly ignored. In such a system the energy that motivates it iq turned into a destructive channel It is the desire to accumulate things for the few instead of using things for the unfoldment of the highest qualities of life in the many. We have enthroned property rights over human rights. We have, in other words, elevated things on the throne, while life lies prostrate in chains at the foot of the throne. - to our original statement, which is that the right use of things, is to use them to unfold and bring into expression the highest attributes of the I AM in man, when an economic order is organized to do this, and does it, our problems are solved. The fractions are the parts, or the surface divisions. The common denominator is the I AM, or the common principle which unites the parts into the whole. An economic order based on this common principle and tioning to serve the needs of the whole, would put into tangible form the prayer that we have been offering up for two thousand years: Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven.. The eternal one will not answer our prayers directly. lie has supplied us with the equipment and means in abundance to answer our own prayer, and it is up to us to do it. If we do not, we must suffer the Coming back ' |
