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Show Incan & for Lefauw Ago Opportunity ndEncourngeiu for Youth THE HUMAN WELFARE ADVOCATE i Way to Peace, Prosperity, Happiness PART TWO . GOLDEN TRUTHS the law brings blessings; breaking a life preserver it brings curses, A TIME a certain man Keeping ONCE j A UPON built a small the shoreline of his native country. ma Iia IfJ. with which he sailed NIK i a.. kas covered with the dross and trash of time. One day a errible storm came up and he saw that Jhe boat would sink, Pre8erver he leaped into the Bea and was 'orgctting the rowned- - The present case of humanity is he sailor. All the time, through Ijlbl The boys of the old Brigade are staying with us and sending in their renewals by the bushel. C.B Linschoten, one of our best subscribers, was in and renewed Quince Kimball brought in the coin of the realm and proved his faith by his works. I Jr. Francke of Vernal is still with J. V. Crone who has just finished a h term at the hospital had a dollar bill left which he brought in. Jos. E. Moyle, a pioneer and pillar of Utah county, has renewed and done it cheerfully. J. II. Martineau writes from Mexico that his colony is studying this paper and proceeding to put its principles into practice. three-mont- much the same as that of all the storms of depres-fioinsecurity; drouth, etc., the people poverty; war, Uve had a life preserver lying dose at hand but covered That life preserver is fcth gathered dust and forgotten. A good and prominent womhe Holy Bible- - No matter how forgotten and neglected and ejected the book is , no matter how much or how far we an subscriber says Your paper we should be in kve turned away from it, no matter how every home in Salt hay take it to be, there it is, just the same, now and forLake. She speaks the truth. mer , humanitys guide, humanitys law. Its truth is as But readers must help to you as the sunlight; its economic philosophy is as true as do it. Come on in with your because is its author law of the universe, the creator dollars, they will more divpay I the universe. We might just as well argue that the sun-rridends here than anywhere dee tis not a visible truth as to argue that the fundamenThe saving economic plan bephilosophy of the bible is not true and correct. Solution For All Ills ing put forth by this paper is I Believe it or not, it is true nevertheless ; that he who gave worthy the support of every Luikind the spiritual guide and the moral guide, also citizen. Send in your contrite live him the economic guide which is as prominently and utiona. they will do a vast amount of good The editor needs niwly set forth in the great book as are any apiritu- ' mattersThe solution help in publicising this great moral for the economic all or that now beset the world was worked out perfectly 3500 plan. By helping us forward it you will be doing something a go, but like the boatman we have forgotten or negfor yourself and your children. ated the life preserver that has been given us. Men have uversed the earth and sailed the seven seas in search of NOTICE. kowledge and wisdom and returned to find that it is all Bd in the bible. We may try plan after plan, but all will The Independent Ladies Club except this one. It is true as Howard B. Rand says: had very good success at their Basarand will give a dinner to These laws are'' the Commandments, the Statutes and the igments revealed to Moses that deal With mans relation a few of the older people Dec 27 the creator and to his fellows, that set forth the only There will lie a big time Frifeet and equitable method of administering national day the 17th Dec. at 3231-- 2 So fairs, that give the only rules that will enable a people State, Dr. Richards regular be prosperous and be happy , that lay down the only meth--thmeeting will be turned into will establish justice, equity and judgment in our Program, Floorshow, and Dance bdMoses codified these laws and made them into the all for lOct. All invited, an ok of Deuteronomy, (Read it). Only these laws in opera-cbring the relief so earnestly desired by all who Townsenders Rejoice Her- " 'Supplement these with the Sermon on the Mounc we have everything. The Townsend people here, widThe Substance of the Law the direction of Frank Stark, are er Vnd here, briefly, is the substance of the law. If we arken diligently to the economic laws laid down in that rejoicing over the new that 60 per bk and keep the commandments therein set forth we cent of the citizen of Nebnika are 111 be blessed in our homes and fields and flocks and demanding that die Towmeud Plan and even in our posterity; and literally prosper and be put into practiie. Thi ihould urish in security in All our affairs. Nature will work ihake die timber of the old order. h and for us and we shall be leaders and not followers-ndagand poverty would become nonrexistairt and life LOCAL ITEMS uld rise to a much higher plane. We would become an Pay attention to the TownMted nation. the other hand, if we keep not the commandments and send or General Welfare Plan by not the laws; we shall 1m subject to curses because we because the country needs it. k working against nature. We shall be cursed with deIt will bfing prosperity. Local The Club No. 1 meets lusions, with poverty; with wars and insecurity- every Tuesprens shall be as brass aid not give sufficient rain. The 255 East Bd wy at We day evening shall be cursed with drouth and dust storms. and Better attend join. plant much and harvest little. Locusts (insects) kll destroy our fruits and herbs- - Scourges of sick-- M The Peoples Open Forum shall rage, and men shall give themselves to work of meets every Sunday evening at Itruction and evil. All our ills are the result of violations 7:30 in the Council Chamber. the law, the plain economic law of the bible. Always a good program. Come r what you will, this is the law; inexorable and immut-D- o not treat the matter lightly- - It is the liying truth, tary Hull has just sent it broadcast to all the world, ick Henry said, The bible is the rock upon which our ublic rests. And that means economically as well as n, ned GREAT WISDOM SERMON 1 he Tobacco Trust, lineal descendant of the serpent that tempted mother Eve, got next to Ab Jenkins and his Mormon Meteor and offered him $2500, it ia said, if he would just sit at his wheel and hold up a lighted cigarette, lie refused the offer. A youngster asked him I couldnt let why he didnt take it. you yonng people down," was his answer. That's about the beat Word of Wisdom sermon ever preached. NO HOPE IN WARRING NATIONS This year the world is confronting Christmas with 55,000,000 trained men ready at the word of command to spring to arms over night and begin their work of slaughter! What a mockery! There is neither hope or security in this. It will hut make an end of t e nations. The d peace and good will cannot be long delayed. It will win its way and live when the empires that make war have crumbled to dust. All of the political rulerg are following a wrong philosophy. Why not try the simple and perfect plan of mans greatest friend, the Carpenter. It will work wonders, but has never yet been tried. angel-promise- GOOD TQ SEE AGED ORGANIZING The aged people who are eligible for pensions are doing the right thing in organising. Let them become strong by uniting so they can make demands and get their dues under the law- The Trouble Is Lack of Money ht i i 1 at - - e rs ritually. PATH TO PROSPERITY to have permanent prosperity, peace, security and happiness, individually and collectively, we must desire all these good things. Desire is the mother of progress- We must desire them with all our hearts, pray Ithem with all our hearts, pray for them with a yearning rr spirit, and work untiringly for them with all the of body and mind that we possess. Who is there png the common people of the world who does desire all of these have things which are meant, and wonr meant from the beginning, for every man, . nd child on earth? Surely there are none such. Then we not have them? Because we are wandering in fd economic wilderness and there appears to be none to show PART ONE Repuluhed.- -- - i order - en-p- es so-call-ed an4 the Promised Land. World Leadership AD Wrong not have the things that would make the good life i lug because most of the leadership of the nations and a sonty of the people, are all wrong and following vain and r Philosophies; because our desires. are not sufficiently Ppg, our prayers too weak, our energies too much divided; pun of the universal disregard for the fundamental and w laws upon which Hie only true and perfect system onomics is based ; because we win not recognize e do these fundamentals are absolutely Penty and happiness- - Therefore all r of economic sin, it is this Bin 111 sword and turns us away from the ' , earthly paradise. Not Seeking in the Right Place l. r andr desperate in their search for solutions of the na fw world problems, and they are looking everywhere T . Ue right place. ..A dozen of the great economists industrialists have been asked to give the solution. No them agree on the fundamentals- - Everywhere there ; 'Wiwfon, commotion,, fear acid trembling. There are and rumors of wars, and the nations have prepared moans for destroying all twentieth century civilization, is there to tell the peoplq what and how to do? If there "individual or a group who knows what humanity should a this trembling hour of history and evolution, it Is r aolemn duty, in the interest of man and in the 'ice of God, to stand forth and declare it as boldly as (Continued on page four) 5 RE as. necessary to our the world is in a that stands with gates that lead to Allred Sorensen Progressive JEWELER Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing T5 East 2nd. South Yean In Salt Lake We can serve you S3 better than ever SHOE REPAIRING Right Thinking Brings Good Results When you think of having your Shoes Repaired THINK 0. K. SHOE SHOP Jobs at Moderate Prices 414 Ra State Street For saying the things and much more, which are said in this editorial, a man and his book were ousted from college where he was a professor. It may be safer to say it today. Democracy has no more persistent or insidious foe than the money-poye- r. $1.50 PER YEAR byC.N. Lund Publish edWeekly Simplifying Our Economy George C. Christensen A Program Restated The following requirement stability has been frequently stated in the follow- for economic stagnation will be a fixed and general feature of the economic regime. To attain this economic must be a The difference ing words material revision in the finanbetween incomes and prices cial ayctem. Government as should be paid to the people the representative of individual balance there . as a continuing established policy of public finance. It so happens that the psychology of all of us is such that we think more clearly in terms of class distinction. This is probably due to the fact that class distinctions are so glaring- and of social man mnst exer- its rights of wealth taxation and wealth monetisation to the extent required to attain this result. And until it does so a general poverty and a concentration of wealth will be the two leading cise unen-lightenc- The money question is the greatest moral, the greatest social question which mankind has ever had to consider It concerns the lives, fortunes, and happiness of every human being in society and generations yet unborn. The money system which we have means inevitable war. Nations cannot possibly excist for long under it. The children born of it are fire and sword, red ruin and the breaking up of laws. No nation can continue to survive and retain its economic supremacy or independence under such a system.. There is but one remedy for the world crisis, vis.,an increase of the money supply, not in the banks, but in the pockets of the people, enabling them to buy more goods. The state should issue paper money of full face value, guaranteed by a full cover redemption fund composed of securities issued automatically and retired automatically, never redundant, never deficient. Increased in amount when required. In the mhntof all the abundance of today, we are inundated with myriads of starving, ragged people, all because our officials have not the independence to see that old economic theories have become fallacies, the old monetary and banking systems unworkable, and that just as our productive methods to which we owe this age of plenty have been revolutionised, so our entire economic system must be reorganised. ly obvious and have been so glaringly obvious in all the years of recorded history and in all likelyhood for long years before. Whatever the reason for this class distinction psychology it may be well to reterm this nd realities of American civilisation. Early Methods Of Trading From a Short Course of Economic Science by A. Bogdonoff. When one goe to market in simple formula in a manner more obviously applicable to Bunns," related e traveler, "one provide oneself with a piece of silver, existing economic conditions. It is at least worth the effort a chisel, e hammer, a pair of scales to rephrase in the form. following end some weights. What is 4 price of these pots? 'asks e purchaser. j : t aspect he will name one or another price ia a certain weight of silver. will loan the purchaer of the United States must be The merchant GREETINGS DEDICATED TO THE AGED. a small anvil, and he wiD cut off e At this good season of the year we recall several aged people enlarged by social incomes to who were here last Christmas hut who have walked the last equal eighty per cent of the piece of silver, then he will weigh the mile and gone on to their reward. As they passed and were total price value of the goods piece in his own scales, for one cannot laid away, "wrapped in flowers and tears, we were led to trust the scales of die merchant, and reflect how little they really had while they were living. Some and produce available for sale. of them walked the hard road of sacrifice and and To accomplish this it is will add a piece or take off e piece became broken and bowed by ceaseless and poorly paid toil to have and do the as is required until the weight named As literal as anything can be literal, they also bore the cross necessary has been obtained. In Urge purchases that others might live. All that anyone may now do for them following things which insofar is to breathe a prayer that in the other world they may have as they relate to statistics which are paid for in the very best made up to them in full, heaped-u- p and running over measure statistics are available at auy Silver the ptocem is still more compliall that they were denied here. Total the cated: it is necessary to cal in an But there is something that we can do for those of their time. These are kind that are living. We can remember them. We can help incomes of the eighty per cent assay to test die silver, for whose them to get more of their dues from the Welfare funds and of coune, it is necessary period, amices, dnring each work to increase the preset meagre assistance given them. cent the to pay. We can tell them that w appreciate their work and their Total to eighty per companionship. We can give them the flowers now. We can prices of goods and produce Equity Resolution walk with them down the lonesome road. We can give them available for to And sale, pay our smiles and kind words and help fill their dull, declining Cooperative League News Item each the dnring people leave will which and that with are experiences pleasant days Meeting at Greenville, III. for memories that are good and sweet. Merry Christmas to all. succeding semi annual period a purchase medium equal to their twenty seventh annual Nov. 10, members Heres a Christmas gift from and to Christian nations: An this difference between incomes convention, of the National Equity Union inferno, surpassing anything Dante visualised, is being brought and prices. out by scientists. It is a new type of shell which develops a the organisation of These payments may be urged white heat up to 4,000 degrees Centegrade and will melt any associations for made in price discount on goods cooperative tank or steel structure like enow. It will be fine over hospiand consumers. tals, orphanages and infirmaries. War lords will smile and thrill. available for sale or in social producers resolution The reads: incomra to those receiving less PROGRAM COOPERATIVE ISLAND EDWARD Be it PRINCE resolved, that this than average per capita income From Cooperative League News Item. twenty seventh annual Inspired by the role cooperatives have played in the of the people of the United convention go on record economic reconstruction of Nova Scotia, educational leaders States or to all over forty five as favoring a friendly in Prince Edward Island have launched an intensive prrgram years of age who otherwise cooperative relationship of adult education and cooperative organisation in this must live on less than this between all producer were average per capita income. province . . . . Beginning in November, study clubs and consumer And it could conceivably be organized at the rate of twenty five a week. At the end associations. cooperative of March, 19J7, there were three hundred and thirty eight paid in other ways among That the National Equity study clubs in action with four thousand three hundred which may bo noted a social Union as a producer members. Circulating libraries, newspaper articles, and a income system for all over association, seeing series of radio programs intensified the work. Twenty four forty five years of age wihout the great need of a better credit unions, twelve cooperative buying clubs and two any effort at class distinction. relationship between its a direct But whatever the means or cooperative stores have already been established as producer members and the this result of the program. A credit union law has, been enacted. avenue of paymeot consumer, believes there formed margin between incomes and A number of cooperative probuction units are being should be a cooperative for the prices, must be paid to tho and another intensive cducaton program launched program for the benefit of of people or the products 3S wawnn. 11137 all members of either typo agriculture and industry will Subscribe for the paper. Order copies sent to of association. can. what you ContribuU I jour friend. not be consumed and economic self-deni- i ;1 die The incomes of the eigty per Show me your mooey,1 replies the cent of the people who today merchant, and ia accordance with its live on less than the average per capita income of the people . al semi-annu- al !J2. i J:1 : 'i t i, ; i j j ,' ij' r ; II . . r I |