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Show 7 i Ub and laY.IL Library for Age Opportunity Encouragement for Youth 217 Keith Bldg., Phone Wag 4648 No. 40 fOL. 2 l2 Kntrl ALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. FRIDAY, NOV 4 1938 at foe Bert Ogle, at Sait LakaCitjl. UUh. to. Act of March a Second Claae Matter wr rHE STATE OF OUR COUNTRY AND Weekly New Review Reorganization Predicted Following Denial of Wage Cut Rail -- huaii- -, International By Joseph W. La IKInc At best 1. 1879 Publiihed Weekly by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR ITSCOMMON PEOPLE Editorial -- think Germany, Italy and Japan are unnatural bedfellows with NOTICE TO DEMOCRATS: The nothing in common except totalitariRepublican cartoon in anism and a grudge against the last weeks paper waa dropped in at the last moment in the beworld. Flushed by her imperialistic lief that it waf an ad. It did not at all victory at Munich, there is every represent our opinion. reason to think Germany might WIIY CANT UTAH DO AS WELL abandon Italian and Japanese if they stood in the way of The State of Nebraska is the only state in the union her march to world power. Already with no bonded indebtedness, no sales tax, no service tax, Gen. Franz Sitter von Epp point-eout that Germany demands reuse tax, luxury tax, cigarette tax, or income tax. The budturn of every pre-wcolony without get is always balanced. Her constitution does not permit exception. First step in this direction has bonded debt. While other states are breaking under burbeen taken by Reichafuehrer Adolf dens of debt and interest, Nebraska is free. And in the face Hitler In presenting African colonial . of this the state has its old-a- ge pension fund, its social Is to Great Britain and France. What HtUw wants and1 security program costing $5,000,000 a year. It has a nonProbably will get-- is return of Togo-lanpartisan unicameral legislature, 8,000 miles of hard-surfacCameroon, Southwest Africa roads, a fine public school system, and a state capitd for and Tanganyika, held under League of Nations mandate by Britain and which she paid $10,000,000 spot cash. France since the Versailles treaty. How is done? Here is the method: They decided to If they pay this price for peace, Britain and France will also agree better government for less money. Tliey forced all pubget to German arms equality. British-Frenclic officials to. cut expenses the top and the bottom. gain through such a transaction would bo German friendship They employed an honest Scotchman to make a survey of and an understanding that Italy had the tax situation, find out the cost of all supplies, and his better confine her imperialism to the were a revelation which one paper dared to pubfindings Mediterranean area on pain of comlish. As an illustration he found one set of officials bined Gennan-Fr- a h oppowooden posts while another $1.85 for ten-fo- ot sition. Moreover, II Duce would be paid $1.25 set of officials paid $12.50 for the same post. With hunforced to withdraw from Spain. dreds of other items similar to this the taxpayers were Next Der Fuehrer may turn his aroused and under the good leadership they had they set in eyes to Japan, which now controls e German islands forfeited motion a system resulted in what is stated above, and after the World war. Since Hitters which has saved the taxpayers $139,000,000 in taxes, and aggressive imperialism makes ana that in the course of a very few years. The taxpayers dont conquest merely an appetiser for endorse any ; candidates there, they make the nandirtatpa the next moreover since endorse platform or they dont get the votes. Germany looks angrily at any nation which controls larga territoUtah do as well as Nebraska? Why can, and we ries and resources, Japan may find shall proceed to show how can be done. The state must her Chinese conquest threatened. cut down expenses by at least 50 per cent must have Nor do observers overtook the chance of a German-Italia- n breach better government for less money, less graft and less cor' Hungarys Czechoslovakian ruption. SAYS REPUBLICAN SPEAKER RELIEFERS SHOULD NOT es h. HAVE BALLOT d ar . d, at h nco-Brltis- COMMITTEEMEN LANDIS, STACY AND Mll.l.ia (Seo TRANSPORTATION). would bo inofoctivo, detrimonuL tion France would never again capitulate. But Premier Daladiers promise is not bone out in fact At the Marseille convention of his Radical-Socialiparty he outlawed communists from the government plainly a move to curry favor with communist-hatin- g Reichafuehrer Adolf Hitler and Premier Benito Mussolini. Many observers believe this decision shows Premier Daladier is frantically grasping for a straw, aince by repudiating the communist party he throws away a large part of his Popular Front support Not only will the premier lose his next election, but France will probably break off her treaty with communistic Russia and thereby become isolated prey for Italy and Germany. .Rumanias shift to complete Naziflcstian marks another step in Germanys economic invasion of southeastern Europe. Acting under orders from King Carol, the Rumanian government has proclaimed 100 per cent totalitarian principles in the hope that Germany will respect Its territorial Integrity in Relchsfuehrer Adolf Hitlers "drive to the east Since Czechoslovakia , and Hungary are already Germany's economic orbit is extending Itself with little difficulty. ransportaUon of three expert, railroad have no right to ut 15 per cent from pay check of became: (1) it o 30,000 employee meaaura at rould be a itop-ga- p t, only reducing the itandard of t) Ivins at a time when busineiaraft--in eneral i coming back; (8) the financial problem 1 (till of term kapect, having been crit-cal leu than a year; (3) although ail way wagea have not fluctuated a badly wages in other indua-rie- s, not been advancing have they roportionately so fast a in other (4) a flat 15 per cent (I idustries; would not be equitable. cut '4ge smaller road which are in rone aha pe would derive less ben-li- t than the larger, more prosperous In the opinion American st 1 p u Ml. This waa the linioo which he denied gist of a handed down, by President 40,000-wor- d ooaevelfa emergency fact-findin- g munissioa after three weeks of da-- b ration. Board members: Chief lutice Walter P. Stacy of the North arollna Supreme Dean court; i me M. Landis of Harvard law ihool, once chairman of the sa- nities and exchange commission; roteuor Harry A. Minis, Univer-t-y of Chicago economist and far- member of the national labor ilations board. pro-Nazi- Utilities Though offering a !Ion, the commission gave no tip to sorely pressed railroads, nly tangible result is that some iution of Americas entire ran nblem win probably be speeded, that self-pityi- their cant The next great struggle for which mankind must prepare will be an adjustment of business relations between the serving class and the employers. All bitterness between men must be eliminated before spiritual progress can ' ... be made. h IN AFRICA Cams fmaand s iko (I) Croat Briloim boo minor interest in keifc. British Sooth Afrieo (5) holds mandate for SemJheail Afrieo (3), and Aitna a mandate for Toogonyiko (4). Angola ft) is hold by dates for Tagefaed Com-croon- ft) I g omestie Opponent of the administrations Kign policy have long criticised rotary of State Cordell Hull for rin JaP,ne,e encroachment (IaIr I Orient mean-- 1 . i n owing Mexico to expropri- u- - S owned oU Unds. Secre-HuU- ,a answer has been that ttico1! problem may best be arbilruonI not through a Jjle altitude that may destroy wjwn hemisphere peace. The step has been seizure a headquarters building occupied ' -- bi?,rd 0il ,ublldlarles, an act beM : i only foeble protest Ambassador Josephus mada representations But W- - 8- hopes to Fascism in the Western iC. 7 hr E 1U kid-glo- policy It may be doomed "PPointment Although Presi- oaca his Would sell on only to ha has Just of a con-- , u weral million dollars Mexico, ant0,Cde,, of friendly demo-cation- s, marking the trade relations d be-,n- Mlco. gives wedge into the New er h peace of Munich, Premier Edouard Dala- - l3LCS,tlV,lluti&Ing the senate and Munich s deputies. He won confl-Iurl-n Frenchmen that treaty wu a capitals- - Knotted inseparably in recent news have been Japans conquest of China and world demoeractee attmilitary-economempts to strengthen their German-Italo-Jap positions against aggression. Though England and the U. S. have been rubnebing noeea in their trade pact 1938 will be of autumn gotiations, remembered primarily aa the period when America first stood up and barked at modern imperialism. Within 34 hours two barks cams from Washington. First wa President Roosevelt' precedent-shatterincondemnation of nations employing force (Japan), exile (Germany) and repression (Italy) aa instruments of national policy. Next day, on the heels of Japans conquest of Hankow, the state department made protest to Tokyo public a against violation of Chinas "open door" policy. This wu but percuulon in the new American overture of preparedness. Chiming in are plans to strengthen military and naval forces io that "the Western hemisphere may work out its own interrelated salvation. deny Thu, if Britain and Franca haa beit, the U. S. admits Japan come the Far Ea.te No. 1 power and bids fair to dominate the Pacifla Generalis-ilm- o unleu i topped. Although continue win k Chlang his foe battling Japan In the hope ic niincr recommended reorgan-tio- n of the Missouri Pacific and nsolidution of all properties now fated aa the Missouri Pacific ays-I- n the deep South, the Quit hile A Northern line wanted mer-i- r with the Mobile A Ohio road. SECRETARY JOHNSON T bo war deportment modo peace. i Ip. . . Redprocitymust be the law by which all wrongs and misunderstandings will he adjusted and the upper classes who have not shown a spirit of reciprocity toward those who served, them, must learn the lesson that they can no longer, get something for nothing but must pay, in full, the value of what they receive. The time is here, now, when men have arrived at a point in their evolvement where justice must be done and all the old wrongs must be righted before the earth, with its load of struggling, suffering humanity, can pass out of this old cycle and enter the new one. There will be a time for Mother Earth, and she is going to leave behind her ... all the old mental and physical dust and debris that have been accumulating upon her during past ages. In the New Day, Justice, Truth and Honesty will be the so-call- ed Defense the factfinding com-J- n reported were proposals for Plwts. In the Northwest, stock-ae- n of Chicago & .North Western inroad wanted merger with the go, Milwaukee, St Paul A Pa- line. In the. Southwest, an I. C. i j. y, C. C. when It In man'sdesire to possess things that were not his he brought himself into the present chaotic condition from which he must extricate himself. s, at It it NEXT GREAT STRUGGLE WILL BRING NEW DAY. New Deal dams and power plants have offered public utilities serious forcing down their Portugal. competition, prices and creating an unfriendly claims, now handed to the Rome-Bertl- n breach between electricity execuaxis for settlement, Mussonubilities: (1) Wholesale reorgan-ition- tives and the administration. One lini, Hungarys friend, wants Czechcombines and abandonment government power project not yet oslovakia dissolved, moreover wants lines to avoid duplicated service, started is the St Lawrence waterHungary to get the common border program which the interstate cam- way, which President Roosevelt with Poland which she desires. But era commission must approve, praised during September when the Hitler, temporarily angry with Hund which would probably decrease war scare first began. At that time, gary and anxious to preserve a path lflroad labor employment; (2) partly because he feared a lack of to the east through Czechoslovakia, irament with labor for a tempo-ir- power reserve, partly because such win fight partition. smaller pay cut; (3) federal uncial assistance, which would ily pile higher the Wady high in-rcharges and would offer only "Poraiy relief. Keorganlution is the most likely njtion. Already pending before the at that to one-tim- GENMANX omrtimo block) a shortcoming might be good advertising for n St. Lawrence project, the President appointed a commission under Louie Johnson, assistant secretary of war, When the commission reported recently, it failed to mention St. Lawrence waterway plans. But it made bigger and more puzzling news by drawing executive of 14 large utilities to Washington and getting their and . will eventuacoimnti military promise to start expanding. If this- economic suicide, there to Uttiainm-llhoo- d waa a peace feature, it wu overthat Chinas door will be re-shadowed by explanations that util- nations v"1 ity expansion la an important step ft. wants In the governments detenu pro- Japan healthy move toward gram and busineu recovery. ' The program: In 13 area (all east of the MlsaluippD utilities win comJ CLEAN ARNOLD. C. S. spend an Immediate $330,000,000, mercial attache at Shanghai: boosting It to 33,000,000,000 if power Unlesa Americana awaken to consumption increase! normally the next tiro years. Only government what la taking place b the function win bo Reconstruction FiOrient, this nation win loae nance corporation aid in refinancits placa as a Pacific power and alao it win lou iti lucraing securities. tive trade with China. Though generally regarded aa an of S. BEN. EDWARD R. BORER utility C. recovery, optimistic sign In minimized been on the 1940 election: "Garner has expansion ome quartcra. The 1,000,000 new has just what the country will need in 1940, loti at common kilowatta In generating capacity la & U. sense. And sentiment to put 3 in cent boost power a only per the below him in the White' House to potentiality, considerably bounds. busineu in good growing by leaps and average lncreau years. Kai-ahe- 'Quotes Salt Lake City Townsend Club No. 1. ed it 4 WHO SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT OF FRANCHISE? house-cleani- ng ruling principles which will govern men and women. Greed' and lust for possessions will be unknown. There will be no transactions of high finance; and the true standing of each individual will be known as what he has earned and actually possesses. Bank notes (and the whole banking system as now known) will be recognized as relics of a degenerate and dishonest age. Government will own the banks, and all the public utilities, and will administer public affairs without prejudice, or preferment; and reciprocity among all the people will be the accepted law governing all functions and transactions. There will be no courts of injustice in that day. Today Jesus is tolerated, even by the faithful, only insofar as he does not interfere with business. In the New Day men will take him unto themselves after they have struggled desperately to throw off their materialism and awaken their spirituality, From Fragments of Truth by Ingalese. WHERE DO CANDIDATES STAND IN REGARD TO THESE CONDITIONS A world committee, after thorough investigation, has said that in the worst year of the depression 2,400,000 humans starved to death, and 1,200,000 persons committed suicide because of economic distress. Just let the stark horror of that pass through your mind. And then think of this: In the same year there was destroyed actually dumped and spoiled according to a plan to keep up the market price level 1,000,000 freight carloads of grain, 267,000 freight carloads of coffee, 56,000 hundred weight of sugar, 50,000 hundred weight of rice, and 50,000 hundred weight of meat. All this according to a world program of big business to make scarcity and keep up prices. If such a condition existed among animals people would soon find a remedy, but among humans, thats different. Has any candidate lisped a word about a plan to perfect distribution so that the submerged and starving half of the populations of the nations might have these great surplusses for use? Not one that we know of. LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM UTAH STATE OLD AGE PENSION AND ASSISTANCE ORGANIZATION WE DEMAND 1st Sales Tax money be used for Pensions and Relief only. 2nd. State Pensions of not less than $30 per month for all without an adequate income who have reached the age of sixty years. 3rd. All unemployables and widows with dependent children be granted an amount of not less than $30 per month each. 4th. Each dependent child to be granted an amount of at least $10 per month. 5 th. Property of Pensioners and unemploy- ables to be exempt from taxation up to an amount of $3,000. 6 th. That all case workers be abolished. YOUR SUPPORT IN PROMOTING THIS PROGRAM WILL BE APPRECIATED BY ALL NEEDY AGED PEOPLE, WIDOWS, INVALIDS AND DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN UTAH. By the President At the Republican convention of Weber County, State of Utah, an official of the Republican Btate organization made this statement I quote: I wish we had put a provision in Hie constitution that the wards of the Government would be relieved of their elective franchise." That means, take from all wards of the Government the right to vote. I dont know if the speaker was speaking of the National or State Constitution. But in either event, I feel that the suggestion would not have been well received by the Pioneers who wrote the constitution of either the State of Utah or the Government of the United States of America. I feel sure that the suggestion that the Wards of the Government be relieved of their elective franchises would not be well received even in this day by the Sons of the Pioneers except by those whose red pioneer blood has turned pink, who love a token of tin more than they do their God, their neighbor or their Country. What and who is a ward of the Government? Is it only ' he or she who receive an old age pension or old age assistance? Or does it also mean soldiers and sailors who have applied and received a pension? Do they also come under the heading of those who should be relieved of their elective franchise? Is it the intention of the leaden of the Republican party in the State of Utah to relieve the men who come home from the wars walking with the aid of canes and crutches empty sleeves making empty gestures in the breeze, sightless eyes, hearing gone, lungs affected by poisonous gas, unable to get a job or hold one? ,i Or would the party speaking through the Secretary of the State Republican organization take the right of franchise only from the soldiers of the common good? The parents and grandparents of the present generation' who had lost their farms, their flocks and herds, their homes, their jobs or positions? Men and women with bent shoulders and silver in their hair who now, at an advanced age, are by force of circumstances made to apply for old age assistance. Those of you listening to what I say here do you think Abe Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt, outstanding leaders of the Republican Party, do you think they would have endorsed the statement? the wish 'THAT WE HAD PUT A PROVISION IN THE CONSTITUTION THAT THE WARDS OF THE GOVERNMENT BE RELIEVED OF THE ELECTIVE FRANCHISES. Yet, that statement was made by one and applauded by men who claim fellowship with the great leaders of the Republican Party, in the brotherhood of with the Man of Gallilee who said, That which ye do unto tiie least of these my brethren, that also have ye done unto man-fellowsh- ip me. I am an American I have been on a mission with the man who made that statement in the great mission field of American agriculture. I know him and love him. I know him so well that I know it was his lips and not his heart that made the wish that would disfranchise a fellow human. I know him as an American and I know that as an individual he would not deprive any American of any of the rights of an American. But if the RepubI am an American and a Republican lican party would grant to the needy that which is of Caesar and deny them that which is of God, then, as an American I will take my stand with the prophet Micah 4 :12 when he said: They know not the thoughts of the Lord, for as an American neither understand they his counsel I believe the right to vote, the right of franchise, is the gift of God to every American, whether he be measured by the golden rule or the gold standard. as President of the Salt Lake Citys As an American Townsend Club No. 1, 1 am not ashamed or afraid to work for a plan that will give to humanity a greater freedom, a more stabilizing sence of security for old age, without curtailing any of the liberties or rights of American citizenship, that any American can and should claim as his own. I am OF A STATE proud to be a citizen OF A COUNTRY that has not and will not now deprive its wards of their elective franchise. I I I . i i Voters of Utah! Dont Let this State Betray Itself In Tuesdays Election. I : j- VOTE TO RETURN Sen. Elbert D. Thomas ii He Stands 100 per cent for :: the Laborers, the Farmers, the Veterans, the Aged and all the Common People. Send Him Back Dont Dissapofnt Roosevelt i i jl j; :: Paid Political Ad. . ! |