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Show ' '.A LIBERAL A PAPER PAPER VOL1, No. 27 WITH VISION Address, 217 David Keith Bids Entered SUGARHOUSE, u Second Clue SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Metier et the Poet Office at Salt Ike City, FRIDAY, AUG. 6 1937." ' Utah, under the Act of March S, 1879 Published Weekly by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR ANCIENT FITS THE STORY PEOPLE ANDTIMES ttn, PERSONAL NOTES ALL ARE PRODIGALS, LED TO A Give em the Flowers Now Onr friend Web Greene was in Monday on liis 80th birthday, hale and hearty. On that day his regular work was ter minated with the Prosperity Plan and he was given a weekly pension equal to his former wage. Fine. Congratulations FAR COUNTRY DY PRODIGAL, UNTRUE, ECONMMIC LEADERS lull Editorial x (Adapted from Writings of Dr. S. R. Maxwell of wi HUMANITYS CONDITION IS VERY MUCH LIKE Dr. J. H. Paul, a man who . THAT OF THE PRODIGAL SON )ur C (Can it be that nearly all of us have missed the point of has been in the forefront of Utah politics, edneation and of THE PRODIGAL SON ? Read the economics for select the wonderful story something like following and you will get all the real meaning of Jesus. And 50 in was the other day years, not dawned on 0 what truth he sets forth - truth that hasRead and to added the and power of the think.) even a billionth part of the human family. For he was county press. years tly rig- - The permanent relationship between the I AM in man director of the old age pension and the. I AM of the universe is brought out with marvelous and with the limitdearness by the Great Teacher in his remarkable parable department, ed means his disposal did at will own free of the Prodigal Son. The boy decided of his well. He He father. studied old age his from his and very to separate himself equipment dedded that he would run his own affairs and depend upon security from every angle and his own resources. He adopted the plan of rugged indi- is one of the most qualified men vidualism. So he left his fathers house and went far away in the state. If merit was conl into a distant land. Governed by the demands of his baser sidered he should again be sedSCS instincts, he squandered all his possessions, and having no lected to direct the county welwith the source from which he obtained them, tfvJ could not replenish them. A great famine, the famine of fare department. He has been , f scarcity, spread throughout the country he lived in. He a Democrat so long and been He was compelled to so true and faithfull to the ', was reduced to complete destitution. ' taka a so was and swineherd as hungry that he was forc- - cause that he should be rememjob ed to eat husks with the swine. bered. He says that much of NoW&e condition of this boy in the far country in rags, the trouble in the old age assistance affairs comes from the destitute, hungry and a swineherd, did not change the him and his father. It did not change his fact that the settlement of all totheft love. The ring that symbolizes the unchanging cases is left to the judgement quality of his fathers love was still there. The shoes to cov- of case workers and thus there er his braised feet, and the rich robe to cover his nakedness wen still there. The home with all its equipments and opu- may be dozens of different lence bathed in his fathers love was still there awaiting judgments. Better results would him. . The parable relates that When he came to himself follow if the judgment was left to one capable and responsible he said, How many servants of my father have bread and to spare and I perish with hunger. I will arise head. and go to my father. Mr. A. L. Wilson was in and : "When he came to himself, that is, when he awakened from the mesmeric sleep, he saw himself as he always was, gave his contribution to help t JL Vi the son of a rich father - the joint possessor of a beautiful the work along. He is a home . fitted with an abundance of everything to give him missionary and a walking dele.home ncan contentment and happiness. When this vision of truth for the right kind of proof dawned upon him he said, I will arise and go to my father. gate ou 8h0UHe arose and went back home. When he returned he found gress. He carries a load of the ut a socthat everything was just as he left it. His fathers love best reading on Technocracy was unchanged. He paid no attention to his sons abject and his testimony is that the confession, but received him with joy as if nothing had ev-.- cause is moving toward a glorious climax. He Bays the master happened. j The boy was free to come and go as he pleased. For this mind of Technocracy will be reason the father could not be held responsible for the boy's here to lecture in October and sad experiences. The famine, the rags, the job of swine-Kher- he should have the biggest hall the hunger, the misery, all these were the result of and largest audience possible. 2 the boys own actions. These negative conditions were not Mr. P. J. Sanders, of 414 Kin the fathers plan for his son. The fathers plan for the to attain Atlaf and the Hlk., has had his name necessary was equipment perfection Kboy of none the and since distressing to the 1 Iltnofjjo nfn ta was added complete, perfection k conditions in the far country were in the fathers plan, copy of the paper somewhere these wwlltionn were unnatural and Counterfeits of the and immediately he received a truth. There was nothing in the fathers plan but perfec-Ktio- n in regard to its worth of everything essential for the sons perfect happiness. testimony He would not be without it KThe boy, by his own thinking and action, created a false He now. has found the big end in substitute for the truth, and so long as he persisted he so of rainbow the at the offices. of the false substitute for truth, just long and house of misery. deprivation the United Prosperity Plan in the prison E In this parable we have a symbolic presentation of the ?, real and the unreal ; of the truth and the illusion; of the Shall We People Of HI perfect spiritual universe created by God; and the false F counterfeits created by man. The counterfeit has no value ; Utah Face Facts Kit is empty nothingness. The making of the counterfeit, E the acceptance and use of it, invariably lands a man in Geo. J. Fox. He may acclaim that he did not know the coin he was e Ignor-t'ancFusing was counterfeit ; that makes no difference.. Many little children doomed of the law excuses no man. to suffer lasting ill effects of rvi iirVT K By vT"g the counterfeit, a man invests it with the quali- mallnu'rition. Many old folks fy ties of the genuine. He invests nothing with what he thinks to eke out an no- compelled S is something and then accepts that which still remains below the subsistence as something. He thinks that the lie is the truth. level. rthing, uiimfaal ? To persist in such a course invariably lands a man in jail, a IMM twwa Many fathers walk our false conclusions. Things in them- EX l, jail built out of his own we mi d streets used them j understood them and selves are all right If ter would correct Confused understanding, they steady employment. in accordance with a his own false I because of the sk" never get us into trouble. Man, through Em-Bopinions, builds his own prison house of limitation. As and door of opportuntity is closed person says, We sell the throne o f angels for a short against them. "turbulent pleasure. When deprived of an opporwhat we have is really not constitutional money. It was tunity of earning an honeBt KT rnot bora to congress; it does not flow out of the peoples heart living necessity forces a choice ET it a manufactured outside of the halls of congress in a plant of accepting charity or turning fintfiai "'which Is owned by private parties, and primarily for their to dishonest methods. Paupers .'benefit, not the peoples benefit.. It is in reality, counterfeit and criminals are considered ":mouey, an evidence of treason on the part of., the., peoples undesirables. All around us peothat representatives in congress. It is surprisinglyforstrange RS? the people, ple are sinking into the cesspool "the government, supposed to be of,soby and., as to allow the bank-Te- of an economic disorder that should arrange its financial system to load down the stream of money with a heavy burden destroyed both body and soul. "which the consumer must pay. Is this an act of loyalty or dis- S3!" (Conti mud Oa Pace Poor) fiiMld loyalty to the constitution? er d, fc pris-K.o- n. mifrUMrf exis-tan- fiw r TWH Sr x--4 rs on - d Right in the heart of the city of Washington there is a gold mine, not one in which men go down into the bowels of the earth and by sweat and toil dig it out, but a gold mine called the United States Mint. Up to December 31, 1935, the took out of this gold mine entinly for thsir own uia nins thousand million dollars in money and all they paid for it was the cost of printing. This mine does not belong to the bankers, it belongs to the pe.ple. This is a false system and bank-"T&:e- rs ab-olut- ely unconstitutional if the great charter was rightly There can be no complete recovery in this counto them their constitutry until the people have restored their own money. and distribute make to tional right ce CONGRATULATIONS TO UTAH COMMISSIONERS Commissioners of Utah county, we congratulate you on your refusal to raise the assessments 20 per cent on land and 15 to 20 per cent on homes at the command of the State Tax Commission. There is more tyranny exercised today in taxARE ation than at any time in the nations history. The powers usurped by the tax authorities are destroying the people and it is about time something drastic was done. Millions from Views liquor, millions from sales taxes tens of millions from propincomes taxes and erty Up and up they go year after year. On Productionfor All Higher and higher go the salaries of the armies of employees and elected and appointed officials. Greater and greater A monetization of value for a grows the waste. Larger and larger loom the shortages as ocial income to people over forty they come to light. What shall the people do? Utah county five yeara of age and adequate relief has done the right thing. for the unemployed. An equitable taxation ayatem to retire outatand NOTES. PROGRESSIVE ITEMS TOAT UP TO DATE rtnareisonai 1 THE NEED OF THE WORLD IS A LEADER. A VOICE. THE KIND OF LEADER HE MUST BE values may be monetized t ru accepting goods in payment of taxes and issuing a purchase medium on the resulting commodity reserve for the purchase of consumer goods. Taxation values may also bn monetized throug agreement between the ng purchaae medium beyond a taxpayer and his taxing unit dollar in circulating and depoait in which tax lein certificates are credit for each dollar unit in produc- issued as a medium of exchange tion capacity each period of time received and in payment of that the total in credit rrvolvea once within the total of national public dues. The public develop- income. ment of natural resources thru A voice,, a voice! There are many voices in the world, even strange voices. But where is there a voice that can stir unite and lead the people to their economic salvation? Noa system of social finance can George C. Christensen where, because they will not listen. And as with the people, so with their business and political leaders. As with the also aid in increasing the total people, so with the priest. As with the buyer, so with the in purchasing power as would A Trail Of Costs seller. Very few realize just how much the voice of a true also a monetization of land shepherd of humanity is needed. It must be a kind voice, a Bureau of Social Research, values on the vast areas of the sympathetic voice, and an authoritative voice, a voice whose Ottawa, Canada, in public domain. possessor has felt the heart beats of the common people. The United Farmer Worid. Conditions In The jUnder our present system it Here are some of the conditions which obtain in the world T our today. And what conditions they are What a pity that is necessary for every one who there is not a voice anywhere that can reassure and comfort handles goods to make a profit Howard Scott, Director i n and calm all the troubled souls. What we say about condi- in order to live; therefore every Chief of Technocracy, Inc . , tions has been gleaned here and there from the remarks and time in hands the economist and engineer of interchange writings of authorities. A cloud of distress is reigning over coursegoods of distribution from national reputation, is making the world and upon every nation, both those which are o manufacturer t consumer, a lecture tour of the United threatened and those which are the aggressors. A great is there added of costs States and Canada to bring to trail a bearing-dow- n weight is oppressing humanity. Three mighty war Is us? asked w'here: which are must be the attention of the general upon questions being every Will civilization perish? Has God forgotten us? If there on the actual cost of produc- public the economic delema of could arise a man with a voice and a spirit which could re- tion. When we consider that in this age of the power machine move the awful nightmare from the people, he would be one actual of and the Technocratic analysis the amount reality of the greatest benefactors that ever lived. of these conditions and of imavailable money forthepurchase The Insane Spending. The nations are devoting one-ha-lf of all their income to of these goods by the final con- pending fundamental changes reimbursements on their internal debts, and more than half sumer was that which was paid in. the progress of our unsocial of the other half is devoted to the building of armaments. out in wages, salaries, and divi- economy. Howard Scott lectures What then, is there left to insure the normal economic life of dends, etc., in connection with in Salt Lake City on the the nations? How can the grave problems be solved? Erst- the production of goods, it will evening of October 3 giving one while great and powerful nations have lost their industrial be seen that there is nothing of the lectures of a continental supremacy. Practically all nations are given over to vanity, eft to take care of thcadditional tour arranged by Technocracy, hatred; to pride, duplicity; to violence, pleasure-seekincosts God is forgotten and the selfish and brutal materialism. adjed to . them by the Inc., with headquarters in New world The time York City. On a previous tour in take all activities. our of the first place things they reach the retailer. world is suffering with gangrene and decomposition. four years ago Mr. Scott found What actually happens The Aim of the Politicians this. The money paid out in few local units of the technois a bygone thing. Justice is a misnomer. What wages during the production of crat organization to publicise ' Honesty counts is violence mid cunning. Those who succeed in swinand sponsor his various meeta certain class of goods is dling their fellows are too often admired as great men. This ings but on this tour he is reby the evil is our whole modern structure, and is poisoning the life of nations and communities. Insidiously or goods alrear available in ceiving the cooperation of numit penetrates into public life. Political parties are only coal- the stores, and is not used for erous looal committees, or techitions of private interests, blending of personal greeds and the purchase of goods for which nocrat section or student units, business. The politicians do not mean to strengthen the af- those were paid. These throughout Loth the United fairs of state but to exploit the people. They do not think atter wages are goods purchased later and Canada. Mr. Scott is an of serving the country but of e nslaving it. They do not conon of means by money loaned informative lecturer on a topic sider that they should give the state or country something for the danks future produc- that should be more widely y must can out of for themselves. but that they it get all they tion. The final result, in the understood and continued ecoThe Cause and Cure The real cause of all the trouble in the world is in the poli- race between production and nomic distress in America and tical and business leadership and in the people themselves. consumption, is that we are throughout the world is comNothing can be bettered without a deep, internal transfor- always one lap behind, and pelling thinking people in inmation, a thing which none of the politicians or states- when the time comes, as it in- creasing numbers to give men is able to direct and carry forward. The hope of the earnest consideration to his that the banks does, evitably in is and in the the world, spiritual realm, present hour, none of the leaders mentioned even conceives this. The refuse to make further loans, analysis of economic condichoice is between Christ and chaos, between unity and there is no purchasing power tions and to turn their attention death. And this choice must be made very soon or even this available for the last cycle of to that large body of techono-crati- c hope will perish. data and literature of droduction. PEOPLE CAN BE STIRRED r333a-c- 'i economic that has Under the existing system, A voice- - The glory and prestige of the worlds kingdoms in recent under we arrive condition at this grown up years might well be lost if the losing would bring THE VOICE the of Mr. Scotts when seven about auspices every years, and down human into hearts and call that could stir deep organization. lead people out of their bondage and fear. How they would we go through a period of respond if once they knew the voice, knew that it was kind readjustment, acco- Congressional Resolulion and sympathetic, that its possessor was not here to fool mpanied by unemployment, In an effort to stem the rising them or to exploit or swindle them, but to be one with them, misery, and want. o disemployment through tibe to go down into the abysses of their lives with the solb purFrom the forgoing it will be in reductions workine pose of lifting them up, to love them, and to lead them by seen that if we are to avoid force Senator W.P.A walking side by side with them and seeipg them through. Schwellenbach Such a man would be worth more than all the tine gold in these periodic cycles of and Representative Allen have the universe. Let humanity call until he comes. depression, a mears mu it be introduced the following Iteso found to bridge the gap betwpen : That it is in lution Congress We have turned away from the laws of the Creator, and the producer and the consumer. hereby declared to be the policy because we will not abide the laws these things shall come upon us, on the authority of holy writ The land shall be full Increase In Purchase of Cangrcss that in the adminof sickness and sorrow; it shall experience severe drought; istration of the 1938 Relief the destruction of crops by armies of insects; there shall be Medium Appropriation Act there shall labor troubles, violence and bloodshed; the leaders shall rob An increase in purchase me- be provided work opportunithe people by dishonesty and graft, oppressing the poor. Anc if we will not hearken to the laws individual and nations' dium may bp had through a ties through the Federal Works prosperity shall be destroyed.There will be no peace, secur- monetization of available values Progress Administration for ity, contentment and plenty. By putting ourselves under the or through the issuance of con- unemployed workers who cannot find employment in private laws the promise is that all sickness, sorrow, trpuble anc sumer credit certificates receivpoverty will be removed. able in payment, or part pay- industry. The Works Progress Admistrstion shall so adminis--( ment, of public dues. Taxation (If you like this matter send in a subscription,) Continued on page four) . Technocracy - Lecture 1 super-impos- ed g, ex-enb- ed honey-combi- wage-eirne- is ng . structure was erected by rugged indivilual- iste of the past eighty years. It was an essential part of their machine with which they oppress the people. ..Without The banking the banking system they could not have had access to the peoples money; without it they could not have built up their private fortunes. J. P. Morgan, for instance, one of the most rugged of the rugged individualists, paid $3,000000 for 51 per cent of the Equitable Life Assurance Company. Why 7 He did it in order to get control of $500,000,000 of the policy holders money which was in the banks, and to gain control of the millions that were paid the company each year by the policy holders. NEWS COOPERATIVE ed One of the supreme demands of the colonists prior to their separation from the mother country was the right to make and distribute their own money and thus to regulate their financial blood stream. ..When they later made their constitution they put into the very first article of that great charter these words: ..CONGRESS SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO COIN MONEY AND.. REGULATE THE VALUE THEREOF, In these . twelve words the American citizen given more complete protective insurance of all his rights and liberties than is afforded him in all the rest of the constitution. In fact, this right to coin and regulate money is the very heart and soul of the peoples American freedom. It is the application of the principles of democracy to finance. This kind of security is vastly superior to the kind of social security the government is now establishing. .All forms of successful social security rest on free money. The factors involved in the peoples constitutional money are: |