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Show C: A LIBERAL A WITH VISION PAPER VOL1, No. 29 Address, 217 David Keith Bldg " u At SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. SUGARHOUSE, blind u Second Clue INDUSTRY UTAHS HOPE r i ft hen us. aUr Mr. Bunt kaa victond th lou by Utah of (btlWhKdkli ... rf fe nu, pooplo nl nczaatad indiutrlollulloa u rraadr- Thl half dools ipoelftnllp with indutrialbatioa). lut ; , twa-thir- d - ,, vADORCM i mora than of them do and also because much of the ora la low grade and yields a very low margin of profit to the OF PAUL H. HUNT Te Associated Civic Clube of Southern Utah 5; and a tew 4 e.JkvV producer. metal mining The Industry, we must rememIn Utah from 1920 to with distributed In wages, sab ber, Is in severe competition counIn other states and purchases of supplies and mining In Jn Utah 1526,000.000, or tries. We are Inforcompetition the developmore than 81000 for each securing capital and child In the state. ment of our mines. If other regions offer better commissions than does The' greater part of this huge was spent within the Utah they will attract Investments Industry In Utah will slowstate at least once before tha money and theout. Utah mines must also die left the etate, which would account ly Cat more than $2000 of per capita be able to produce a pound of sell It In consuming gms.lMome, which amounts to metal and as competl- about 45 of the total gross Income centers as cheaply of ores In Utah tors. The grade been of Utah the' of having people ai7dlractiy "and lndlrectiL to mmfally lower than in com- THI non-ferro- i -- the metermining These disbursements In represented gproxlmately TIM9 ct the grosr-- alue of the mm ferrniii ores produced In the In this decade. The gross Included about 1 In and local taxes, In federal stockholders of about companies received 8.2 In net earnings and the balance was In freight charges outside , refining costs, me tall and selling expenses. U we Include the last six years In thin lhyear average, the net profits of mine stockholders have averaged slightly leu than 4 of the vitae of the ores produced. Then are two ways of Interpret One, unfortutag such figures. nately the more popular, is to protect that 8 of the 8659,000,000 of representing state and local la an Inadequate return of the wealth produced. The other, and the way we should adopt If the mineral Industry in Utah is to grow, la to compare the earnings of mine stockholders with the new wealth this Industry distributes directly and Indirectly In Utah. In tha 182040 decade the people of Utah received about 9 times as mueh from the mining Industry as did the stockholders; from 1920 to 1985 inclusive, they received mora 20 times as much Income from mining as the stockholders. If Utah can get Its natural resources converted to money wealth and have distributed in this state to 10 of this wealth for an 76 average commission, over years of prosperity and depression, iff not to exceed 4 of the wealth produced, and If those receiving the cosunisaious furnish all the capital and assume all the riska. then we have made a very good bargain Indeed. - This Is possible because mine .operator hopes to non-ferro- 2; es ss non-ferro- $1.50 PER YEAR 75he Wasatch Press GOOD PRINTING FOR To Prosperity Plan Members LESS WE TAKE THE BONDS Editorial IN GOOD COMPANY Who were the first Progressives the first watchmen on humanitys towers to denounce and warn the oppressors and plead for the people? They were the ancient prophets. They were first iu history to cry out against the injustices and to denounce the system that made the few rich and the many poor. So true Progressives are traveling in the steps of mighty good company. sit-do- t ng money-lendin- TWO-THIR- Progressive and Cooperative Ideas George C. Christensen I the possible production of wealth poverty will disaappear The undemcratic exchange and an economic democracy that results from the superiority will the existing displace of money over goods and economy. Industry and agriproduce can be largely removed culture supply goods and by accepting goods and produce while taxation and a in payment or part payment produce of public dues. Surplus produc- monetization of value can afford tion would thus be absorbed purchasing power to enable the and when a social income equal general public to produce and to the difference between consume. A past forty five incomes and prices is paid to social income system can be people over forty five years of age a social economy of employed to accomplish this. adequate purchasing power Price Discount Measure will the unsocial replace The recently introduced economy that exists at the preSocial Credit sent time. Econominie security Goldsborough for the general pnblic is a first Measure pending in the requirement in the building of National Congress provides for an economic democracy for all compensated price discounts on the people. goods sold at retail and Section 1 of the measure reads as Margin In Business is follows; It hereby declared The surplns industrial earn- to be the policy of Congress to ings of the profit system do not adjust and control the price of exist in the interest of the gen- commodities sold at retail so as eral public but do not of them- to make it conform to the selves prevent the adoption of volume of purchasing power in a system of adequate purchas- the handB of the public, and to ing power for the consumption regulate the purchasing power of all produced goods. Profits so that the production of wealth above reasonable earnings are in this country shall be mainnot a margin in money but a tained in full measure. margin in goods, wares, merCooperative Leaders chandise, or service received by or owed to the beneficiaries To Broadcast of rent, interest, and surplus Co-o- p League Newsservice industrial earnings; hence the first time in history For industry, taxation American the public will be and a monetization of value able to hear reports directly can at all times produce sufficient in goods, produce, and from Europe of the deliberapurchase medium to enable the tions of the World Congress of people to produce and consume Cooperators. According to plans to the extent of human needs. just completed the Columbia We can begin the building of Broadcasting System will make a better world by ending an exclusive broadcast from Money and Goods agri-cultutur- e, longer living black coal fields may get a chance WE MUST NOT FORGET ROOSEVELTS WORDS PariB, Wednesday, Sept.8 , the to rehabilitate himself on farmHere are some sentences from President Roosevelts last poverty now. land!. third day of the 14 th Triennial in inaugural which we must ever keep in mind until our probThe American Friends Service Cooperation of the International Congress lems are solved. committee, a Quaker group, has Alliance. The with blessed Cooperative a nation I see a great upon great continent, purchased 200 acres of land four Pensylvania Broadcast will be carried by the miles from Brownsville to inaugua great wealth of natural resources. Its hundred and thirty rate a program that eventually may million people are at peace among themselves; they are Coop League News Service entire Columbia network, 6:15 rehabilitate thousands of PennsylTwo nations. the a yeears ago the Pensyl-vani- a to 6:30 P. M EDST. making their country good neighbor among vania coal miners now unemployed. which can demonstrate that, under States United see a I Farm Bureau CooperaConstruction work win begin soon can be tive Association was national wealth of methods democratic government, on fifty new homes for the first fifty organised translated into a spreading volume of human comforts hith- by a group of farmers who be Fayette county coal miners famiIII the lowest standards of living can be lieved that lies who will be the first to benefit erto unknown.-.n- d they could not defrom the large-scal- e rehabilitaUoa raised far above the level of mere subsistence. program. But here is the challenge to our democracy : In this nation pend on outside agencies for edsubsistence Through farming, I see tens of millions of its citizens--a substantial part of the solution of their problems ucation in new trades and the introwho at this very moment are denied but must do somethirg for duction of new industries, it is its whole population of the very lowest standards of today themselves. This month ten what hoped that these miners will enjoy the greater part a mora abundant life. call the necessities of life. county Farm Bureau cooperasee millions of families trying to live on incomes so tives arc in me nomei are to ue sola to deoperation distributntw serving families under long-terby meager that the pall of family disaster hangs over them day fertilizer, petrofeed, seed, ing American loans made by the day. by WILLIAM BYRON Friends Service committee. The I see millions whose daily lives in city . and on farm leum products, electrical applisoft coal industry was selected for polite ances, and insurance to sixty continue under conditions labeled indecent by the experiment, as the committee thousund Pennsylvania farmers. 1931-3a half ago. century carried on work commenced in society which the Quakers started at the Be sure you read dais I see millions denied education, recreation and the op- Just as the Washington County request of President Hoover. Co-o- p. portunity to better their lot and the lot of their children. completed, incorporapowerful story of the Private Industry, organized labor, .1 see millions lacking the means to buy the products in two tion other early July, Canadian Barrens government officials and philanof farm and factory and by their poverty denying work and wound up their thropic foundations have endorsed cooperatives millions. to the story of a social other many productiveness the project Among them are Anhalf year of business with one-thiill clad ill .1 nation a see of housed, drew W. Mellon, former secretary butterfly who turned 'impressive records and reports ill nourished. of the treasury; Myron C. Taylor, prospector, who made of continued progress. chairman of the U. S. Steel corporahard-bittesecn Northmen tion; Newton D. Baker, former A HUMAN CULTURE Economic Activity retary of war; Ernest T. Weir of dance to her musicl Steel corporation; Gov. know thyself. That Is the first ate p in human science. Our Man, If ptople believe In the parable of the Good Samar- National of classifications of H. The fonr Earle Pennsylvania, Youll find humor, George bodice that carry us about are made up of bones, muscles, nerves, and Lewis, chairman of the itan they should believe In the United Prospcrlay Plan and John L. fnr economic activity required 44 elementac of made appetite pathos and stark drama up primary TnHustrial Organiza- organs. The mind is here me it puts the parable Into actual practise. If you 7 of the ecostructure within the home of love love of life; reserve, friendship, energy, thrift, in this brilliant new acquisitiveness, believe In the Golden Rule you should believe In this plan the mating instinct, parental love, racial instinct, the individualize-- ; form nomic order are industry, agrias saga of the Arctic! H&lved Stamps, Once Used size, weight, color, order, number, verbal memory, locality; time tune; culture, taxation and monetiIts participating members try to do to others second In the in England, Discovered speech, comparison, reason, mirth, construction, ideality, sublimity adap- sation. When each of these is they wish to be done by. If you believe In believe firmness, the d Prospertation imitation, concentration, shou commandment you London, England. Three of tha employed to the extent necesgraal hufaith, love; reverence and intuition. existence in as conscience, caution, so hope, British far rarest stamps imhitinn, Its because members, loyal to enable the general HI ity Plan, Just been discovered In a Hull When these power are used right they create peace, love, harmony, sary mans can do It, ara loving their neighbors as thamselves have to produce and consume office. public solicitors health, purity and hatplneea When they are abused they cause Lat hot grotd, avarice and ambition spoil this fins plan ' Ninety-si- x years .ego, soon after unity, hatred vice. vice; revenge; Jealousy, envy; discord, disease; tee adhesive stamp had come Into war, hate, To be sure, the emergence of man into a new world is acbootlegging, profiteering, and all other evils murder, kidnapping, theft; in apHull, clerk solicitor's a use, . of of function the The to rec-humans. powers hurtful companied of must by much pain, suffering and confusion. Imagine short we an that himself means: That liw right use of things First: parently finding twouse of social and the normal The a half existence. is to insure an animal the predicament of an animal emerging from its old world stampe, thought pgnbe the Universal Creative Principle as the sole creator penny one would servo the purpose. affections is to relate people right In tee home, in the community penny domestic into a new world of human understanding. Its old world into : that must recognize and owner of all things. Second We Curiously enough tee post office and in the world. The Intellect is used in gathering, remembering and which it was born, to which it is accustomed, and which it tor so too, to not have for seems thought dethis benign power created these things to be used, testifying the things of creation. The creative power ere used in alL The tee letters were duly accepted and imagines is the only real world, is crumbling away all around of benefit aud lu the for lu mechauism, but art, of the and iudustry. benefit . the things few, inventing signing, planning private delivered. in Everything that is supposed to be real, becomes unreal, law of use in operation will abolish private ownership of land How many stampe were cut In sir1", plauuig aud inventing things in mechanism, art, and Industry. when In moral The not but la known, leadership. fantastic, illusory. way The aspiring and governing powers give ability and its resources and they will be used for the benefit of all. this three discovered at Hull were the emotions cause one to deal Justly end make the best of life. and spiritual a as invented was in itself. It dead To be sure it will be understood by the reader that until a is , Third: Money thing brought to the notice of Hobson they will make you a good book on the true scimeans of exchanging things. In the new age the people will Lowe, London authority on postal Save these articles and of to realize the reality of the new world a ence of mind. The ait right living is so simple teat children under such being begins exercise their constitutional right to make and distribute history, he recognised It as e phiis into which it emerging and that this world is infinof the greatest imstand It frhfir own money. They will use it not for the benefit of the latelic discovery now have and the stamps more beautiful and real than the old world from which few but for the benefit of all. Banks will be service stations portance wake up. You read and enjoy itely to hie collection. will have to added been Readers, you to distribute money to the whole, not toll gates. Fourth: One of tha letters bears tha post- the paper; it is passed to hundreds other than subscribers it is departing, it will not be satisfied nor happy. So today u.i-IiIiiall over the world, men and women are emMachines are things. The tremendous energy mark, March 27, 1841, and another who read and enjoy it; it is praised from all sides. You must in America, and and teat 1841 be distribution, of old shells of past dogmas, shibboleths, theoIt machines the 11, from in may production, harnmuH January find a way to pay us something for it. Please dig up and send ergingand versions. the of benefit these two dates other cut not between the for will be private used, ries transportation the money, or call in. The need is urgent. stamps were used,-- - but so far nona few, but for the benefit of all. .m rf'."' . ' m ur times higher in Utah and our shipping costs somewhat above tha As offsets: Our ora average. bodies are generally continuous for long distances; gait Laka Valore ley is the greatest smelting center In the world and electric power and climatic con. dltlons are favorable. Mining Is In a delicate balance. Unwise legislation will not dose every mine In tha state, but It could easily slow mining down until It plays a minor part In our Industrial economy. We know little of the wealth of natural reaources In Utah except that they are very great A radius centering at Lund Junction Incloses a huge monsonl-tl- c bathollth which, where It has broken through the overlaying sediments, has deposited gold, sit ver, lead, sine and copper ores for which a quarter of million dollars has already been realised. Near Cedar City are the greatest deposits of aluminum ora In the tons. world at least 200,000,000 Oil drilling In southeastern Utah has disclosed huge deposits of iff to 12 salines containing 10 magnesia. Utahs coal deposits, estimated at over 180,000,000,000 tons, are six times the reserves of the great coal state of Pennsylvania. In Iron county alone the Iron ore reserves are greater than e over which those of France and Germany have fought for the last 850 years. In Utah, for a time at least we have reached the limits of our surface development We must get below the surface. We do not need, nor should wo expect rapid development of our mineral reeources. It we can expand them only a few percent a year we shall be able to care for our growing population. 1179 People suffering want in the midst of plenty under a program of scarcity may be compared to the hen that sat on a half bushel measure filled with wheat trying to - hatch it and starved to death. their time by talking about A THINKER SAID THIS methods and solutions instead When I was a boy my grandfather was a country doctor, of telling them the one result and I drove with him from farm to farm in a rural district. we want, THE POWER TO I saw farmers and their wives working from the time they CONSUME." could see in the morning until they could not see at night, and the farmers wife working on the family sewing as long Dr. J. II. Paul, on the great as she could keep her eyes open. I saw labor working for 5U question of property welfare, cents a day and living on fat meat and corn bread. I wonderand human welfare, takes a ed why it was that the people who got up early in the morndecided stand for the latter and ing, before daylight came, and strove to make others rich very ably defends it in Forum and great were always in dire poverty and always in debt, articles and elsewhere. He says: with the mortgage of the farmer being inherited along with the farm from generation to generation. Those who denouce the strikers are sih-nabout FOR SOCIALIZED MEDICINE the Chicago massacre of strike Two plans are being laid for socialized medicine. Under symphatliicers which deprived Plan Number One, for complete service dues will be $12 for the demonstrators of the right one person, $18 for two, $22 for three and $24 for four or to live, to think , to speak and more per family. Hospitalization costs $2 per day, including room, board, general nursing care, medicine and serums. Anpeaceably assemble." aesthetics and operating room fees range from $8 for minor Thomas L. Allred, a farmer to $18 for major operations. All medical service, - physical of Tal.nadge, Utah, was in the examination, treatment, surgery, deliveries are included in other day and performed the the dues for For out patients" (those not rites and ceremonies of a 100 confined to the hospital) the dues cover all medical care exX ray per cent subscriber. He is an cept medicine and serums. Free dental examination, included. are extraction and of teeth the honest, man, the kind that makes the world go WORSE THAN ANY DECLARATION OF W AR round. As a tiller of the soil he The following order was sent by the International bankers g banks in this country just prior is mora or less prosperous and to all leading of to the the panic in 1893. It has been proved begirning conti nt but thinks there should this In fiddbt and if it was sent then it is sure all case, beyond be some changes in the econo-m- c out in every other depressent was similar that a message system for the betterment sion. LEND NO MONEY TO ANYONE AFTER SEPof the lot of commen mankind, TEMBER 15. WE CAN MAKE MORE MONEY FORECLOSING THAN GATHERING INTEREST. WE CAN FARM HOMES HELP OF THE FARMS WEST FORECLOSE ON TO JOBLESS MINERS OF THE MISSISSIPPI AND A LARGE PER CENTAGE OF THOSE EAST." That was worse and more disastrous of war. It shows how planned and deQuakers Purchase Land for than any declaration liberate have been each and every depression. No wonder Rehabilitation. the people were nearly, wiped out by the financial brigands and robber barons. God pity the international bankers once Brownsville, Pa. The miner who awaken to Hie truth. the people no can make a in the hard-worki- Published Weekly by C. N. Lund 1937. OPERATING PERSONAL NOTES We have received a subscription from Mr. Bernard Rountree who resides in Carmel-b- y the Sea, California, lie writes an article which will receive attention later. In it he makes a We demand as follows: demand the power to consume all we want up to the capacity of our country to produce. There are four men who can bring this about; they are, the president of the United States, your two senators, your representative and yourself. Surely we all want this power to consume. The troub'e is we have never told them what we want. We have wasted our time and vKal FRIDAY, AUG. 20 Matter at tha Poat Office at 8alt Lake City, Utah, imdar tha Act of March 3, Give em the Flowers Now da; PAPER 1 RESURRECTION RIVER Alsace-Lorrain- Dont Let This Plan and Its X'i Great Dream Fall Away J icrfif m MOWERY so-call- ed 2, ... 1 rd heft IN e, it 8m 3 m THIS PAPER |