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Show (7 r ' READ READ Mbscribe ;ncurage ' Still Flying and Still tha Hop of tha World he state -- Weekly News AnalyRiis- - of humanity and plans for its welfare Editorial think Weakened France To Trounce .By Joseph W. La Bine tlon; business thought it rested in less regulation. Not until last year, when an unexpected recession slapped convalescing industry in tha face, did both government and business decide it was time to faca tha problem with less bias and more objectivity. By tha end of I93S this new attitude is finding expression at Washington and on the U. S. business front, though mutual agreement is still far from realization. Washington: Governments efforts currently center around the $500,000 temporary national economic committee, which has just opened a two-yehearing under Wyoming's Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney. Though business has feared the quiz will degenerate into a "witch hunt" and drive (since the justice departments trust buster, Thurman Arnold, is a committee member) Mr. O'Mahoney has given assurances that this group seeks only "economic facts. "Facts presented thus far, by the labor department's Dr. Isador e Lubin and WPA Economist Leon Henderson, purported merely to give a background but ended with expressions of opinion which failed to harmonize. Dr. Lubin s report: That the 1929-3- 8 depression cost the U. & IDITOri tmmlrtt. tmi met W wwr. ranee quoted "Meta even that Hitler Lmpf," signs of weak. k, nation ihowaahould aeize the iinj, iu enemies demand. iporbuity to pren every iii year he hai followed that poL r mfffftiny In Auitrla, Czech Great Britain and France, nrhla Faiclit cohort, Italy, ia ua--I the Mine tactlca against France, Italy yint French capitulation to Musthe recent recognition of ing conquait in Ethiopia. Thle in-ii followed closely by French Fopu-Fnradical the when itrife, attempted to defeat Praia Edouard Daladidta drastic re-n-n program. In the midst of this nnoO, it wai strategic for Italys ifMior of deputies to launch a hii widely Adolf ar one-tim- in national income, plus 0 $119,000,000,000 in wages, in stockholder dividends, $38,000,000,000 in farm income and 43,435,000 in man hours of work. Though industry can be stepped up more important to improve the standard of living, since U. S. population is reaching a stationary stage. Durable goods industries should be stimulated to boost the average income by $750 per year. Mr. Henderson's report: Growth of U. S. economic activity has been halted, and even a return to 1929s peak (which Mr. Henderson believes should be regarded as a low base, not a peak) would leave 7,000,-00- 0 unemployed. Unlike Dr. Lubin, who believes insufficient purchasing power is the cause of our ills, Mr. Henderson places responsibility on lessening of competition. True competition, he believes, could not at low wage increases at a time when millions are unemployed. Even as Messrs Lubin and Henderson were speaking. Chairman Marriner & Eceles of the federal reserve system was offering New York bankers another U. S. idea on business. One reason for 19378 setback, he said, was a sharp withdrawal of government spending, which throttled consumer buying $30,000,-000,00- XANTE'S AFRICAN TUNISIA Cm ennetuion invites mother. lultoui for three campaign h poiseuloos which Mussolini eta: the African territory of Tu-th-e island of Corsica and the border city ot Nice, ter came a rebirth of demands French-owne- d Djibouti, which uld give Ethiopia an ocean outlet, nees answer has been a firm but this can be Clive, as finaL Therehardly is every ication that the Djibouti claim I be granted, since France was dy to make this surrender last inner. What complicates the sib iso is the friendship" pact Ich France's ally Great Britain h ai just instituted with Italy. this treaty respects a terri-ia- l status quo in the Medi terra Miniater Neville Cham-lai- n is going to Borne next month power. an apparent blank check to ease Mussolini as he sees fit If Chamberlain approves Italy's A r demands, France will be left Al-u- ne-Pri- i pleas. $W nly hope in an otherwise Plumping for looser credit befud-- I Bit-reac- h (: that Franca and Britain Italo-Germa- ap- 'nestic six-ce- nt el ket The British sale is by far tha most important transaction yet made in Secretary of Agriculture Henry A. Wallace's program to subsidize bushels of export wheat this fiscal year. By early December this program bad netted sales of 63,000,-00- 0 bushels, of which F. S. C. C. had purchased 28,430,000 bushels by November 15. Of this, 19,000,000 bushels had been sold abroad at an average loss to the corporation of 121$ cents. The British transaction alone will cost F. & C. C. about To Follow Munich Conference OBSERVATIONS ON TIMELY SUBJECTS COOPERATION. Cooperatives can cure this countrys economic ills by breaking the power of monopolistic trusts, L 8. Herron, editor of the Nebraska Union Farmer told tbe 400 delegates and visitors gathered here. When we break the power of the trusts there will be greater demand for goods The greater demand for goods will make more work. More work will make more buying power. More buying power will cause tbe sale of more farm goodB and other products", the Nebraska editor declared Morris Erickson, national board member from North Dakota in a keynote address characterised as pure balony" any other program for escaping economic dictatorship than economic action through cooperatives. If we don't like economic dictatoi ship there is no law that we have to patronize that dictatorship. . . . We can build up our own cooperatives," be said. Governor Phillip La Follette welcolmed the delegates to the national convention with a warning against interests which are attempting to divide the forces of fanners and labor. Henry Ohl Jr. Jr., President .of the Wisconsin F deration of Labor, brought greetings from organized labor in state and nation. Cooperative League Nes Service. There was considerable rejoicing throughout the world after the famous Munich Conference. But how mens hopes would fade and tliei$ hearts sink within them if they fully realised the results that are to come from it if be tter methods are not used for bringing Peace. There will come wars and more wars out of that cowardly surrender. That conference a t Munich with a few forerunners, Ethiopia, Spain and China, was the beginning of the final hour of the present1 age and System. Put that in the front of your memory It was the beginning $5,000,000. of the bringing of the Nations to Judgement and the comWhat will happen to the V. S. wheat situation between now and plete diatruction of the rulers and nations and people, who next spring la anybodys guess. have been and are the instigators of war and strife and trouble Even though the export program la So we we as said several times, that those who are have out say, carried completely, a 250,000,000-bushThe Good Neighbors Are Enlisted surplus win still face farmmaking wars are but destroying themselves. The coming year A. Jil. Christophcrson Writers Project of which he is Mrs. ers when they atari harvesting next will reeveal the truth of this statement in all its g aring years crop. Latest in a series of How do we know? We know it by tbe symbolisms of has renewed for the coming a member, and sponsored by terror. suggested panaceas is that ot Dr. two years and is very glad to the Utah State Merrill K. Bennett, economist of the the Great Pyramid which gives the human story in every Department of do so. She is a good Stanford university food research inand we'know it from the sure words of the prophets iirst be able to detail, Thanks. Public Instruction. stitute, who wants the U. S. to place patron and Bhe has a kindly a floor somewhere between 55 and to last. There iB still time to make Peace, but it must be now bouI. State Attorney General JosMay she live long to en 70 cents under which wheat prices or the opportunity will pass by and leave the nations eph Ches, who is making a very could not fall. Next year, he prejoy the paper. helpless. has sent us a dicts, "the world may be literally Friend M. C. Nicholaysen has splendid record swamped with surplus wheat is which on card printed a platpresented us wit h a copy of a Townsend Plan Gets Support which form on everybody can White House fine book which (rives the orig. Dr. Townsend his thrown has behind Thanks. stand. support abillspcnsored in and meanings of tli names President Rooievelt's critics have by senator Lodge for consideration in the coming congress. and charged him with creating the curA man was in with his mind populaton of evry city, town rent rearmament campaign to make This bill is a 'modification of the General Welfare Bill and made was the in and state. It Nothe public forget his defeat in up to pay a dollar or two, county vember election. Although the proposes a ..iianaaction ..tax of 2 percent ...and a, monthly Utah but Federal the' alas, bis heart puckered up prepared by rearmament program pension of S6o for all people over sixty years of age Our has been advertised as a quick way says Dr. Townsend, will accept S60 a month to I BELIEVE IN THE TOWNSEND PLAN to put men back to work and stimuif start with that is all the tax will produce. But if the tax late business, critics further allege By the President, will produce more than that we want it distributed clear up to that it is simply a form of pumpSalt Lake Townsend Club No. 1. priming. If so, the U. S. Chamber the maximum. He goes on to show bow the I believe in the Townsend Plan because I am an Ameriof Commerce has complained that can; because I believe it to be in perfect accord with the rearmament is a cumbersome and transaction tax is working to perfection in the Hawaian islands. Declaration of Independence the cradle song of my country With support 'rom men like senator Lodge and other leaders low process, poorly adapted to declares that all men are endowed by their creator with that it begins to look like something definite will be done about certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty reasons the for outlay, Seeking this pension matter. and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these righto questioning legislates want to know if a $350,000,000 increase in next governments are instituted among men, deriving their just year's arms appropriation (the first Tax-Kille- d powers from the consent of the governed. Is State Utah a in a proposed series) is I believe in and subscribe to the Townsend Plan as I Anconditions. justified by world is killed thar The tax news state. tax a Utah It in and subscribe to the plan of natures God who believe appears other Important question is who win week is made in has the press this offithat has appeared ample provisions for all living things the beasts nothing less than handle the money, of the field, the fowls of the air, the fish of the sea. cials or political appointees. A alarming. The regular tax bill for 1938 amounts to 130,000,000 I believe in the Townsend Plan as I believe in the plan third: how much of the money would which is $60 for every man, woman and child in the state. and program of natures God that mankind is included in be spent for defense of the immediAdd the sum of $ 12,000,000 in special taxes and you have a the ate U. S. area, and how much for provisions he in his wisdom has made for the contentother parts ot Aha Western hemitotal tax bill of 42,000,000 or about $85 per capita $42,000,000 ment of the animal kingdom food in the sea for the fish sphere? to run the state for a yearl $42,000 000 to pay the public ser- of the sea, sheltering forests for the wild life of the earth Idaho's sagacious Sen. William vants that the people keep and for the work that is being done and air, feed in the grass and seeds that head in weeds and E. Borah la ona ot tew legislators thus far to comment on the bill. His The total assessed valuation of the state has increased grain that grow from the earth. ' I believe in the Townsend Plan as I believe in the Ten opinion: "U this huge armament 1938. The property tax has been increased $30,000,000 during trend continues, the people are goCommandments, the Sermon on the Mount, the Lords more than $1,000,000 The special tax levies have more than ing to demand a voice in the matPrayer, the Declaration of Independence, the declaration of ter of going to war. doubled in the past four'years. To be exact they have increased Lincoln "that no nation can exist half slave and half free." This statement once again shifts 122. 27 per cent in the short space of forty eight months! And I believe in the Townsend Plan for in it I see proper the spotlight on Indianas Rep. Louis food, So in be increased 1939. clothing, and shelter for the aged, who as soldiers of it seems that the Ludlow, whose constitutional amendthey are sure to ment calling for referendum on people are about taxed out of their inheritances in this state. the common good have served their country, state and comoffensive warfare was defeated by munity. I Bee in it a plan that will find hours of work, rest It mignt be a good idea for the people to have a strong vi- and recreation for the employables, and proper education for the last congress. Having won last month in a campaign gilance committee in the coming legislature to see that instead the youth of my country and the world. based on this issue alone, Mr. Ludof raises in taxes there is brought about a general lowering of I believe in the Townsend Plan, for in it I see a more his measlow pin to active all of We believe that the state and its institutions can taxes. staple business, industrial, financial, labor and agriure before the next congress. world where the shameful cultural Mister, can and for of be run very successfully efficiently stilled will be the dime" a by slogan truly you spare Politic $ $42,000,000, if it was used with. Wisdom and Economy and slogan of Brother, do you want a job?" It is plausible that November elec- not so much of it wasted. Let the legislators look into this I believe in the Townsend Plan because I believe it to be tion fains by the liberalized Retaxes keep on going up industry will go down and a fulfilment of Gods promise to mankind. Dr. Townsend is idea. If should five strength publican party it may be found that grass will be growing in the Main streets the spokesman of that plan as Paul was as every true e to Republicans who have a back seat in party affairs of the cities. preacher is the spokesman for the unfinished work of the since the disastrous defeat ot 1936. on the legislators we helped elect to stand like Man of Galilee. The Townsend Plan will have many spokesWe bank This very thing happened at the rewatch dogs over the treasury .Stand against increasing the debt. men in and out of the halls of the American congress and the cent national committee conference parliaments of the nations of the world; but the blue print In Washington, where confident libof the plan is in the hand of God and our duty as members Pension Organization to Celebrate erals found themselves confronted of a Townsend Club is to spin carefully, spin cheerfully faction with an unexpectedly strong iB Old and Assistance Pension leave the thread with God. I am sure that Dr. Town- The Utah but Organization Age of Hoover, duPont and Liberty would have it so. send iminvimare A fine have still and in Christmas to celebrate a Republicans. way preparing league in the Townsend Plan. I believe it to be feasable O. G. P. believe I liberal that is shift portant ted all its members o a Yuletide party in the hall on Post and workable. It will meet with much opposition as in the strength, which originated in the Office Place, on Friday evening, December 23. A splendid and days of Paul the plan and program of the Man of Galilee rural areas, has moved to metrohas been and cities supplantentertaining program has been arranged, the details of which met the opposition of big business at the hands of Demetpolitan ed in tha small towns by a stronger will appear in these eolums soon rius, a silversmith, who made silver shrine for the goddess conservative element. Having apDiana at ho small gain unto the craftsmen. (Acts of the Din-ipointed a conservative evil iseminatinz from the mouths of the of the spirit Today Apostles, chapter 19, verse 24.) O. Hastings of Delaware) and a Dragons, Beasts and False Prophets. Their evil croakings are I believe in the Townsend Plan I believe it will prove to liberal (Harvey Jewett of South Daof hour final of the for the battle nations the thiaage gathering commitbe executive the road map that will lead the churches back to the two fin kota) to where they left the Christianity of Christ for the tee vacancies, the party now finds and system which will end forever present day Communism, highway itself deadlocked on a future course. Nazism, Fascism, which will destroy themselves Put it down. religious creeds of men; where they left the Old Rugged Though much talk is heard of poCross for one of gold and platinum, studde with diatential 1940 candidates, it is believed monds; where they lost That which is of God and took up the party must first decide which which is of Caesar; where they left the Golden Rule THE that CHRIST. WANDERER'S libset-to way Its course shall be to pick up the gold standard as the only true measure of eralism or conservatism. 00 Who el 1 multi-billio- n $200-a-mon- th pump-primin- lira-ye- d, it W reducing policy loan interest to 8 per cent iss from to-wi-ll lose annual rev totaling $50,000,000. Other higher premiums the difficulty of finding sat-capital markets, and the amount of new financing now done. megf 3 tills year, depression-ridde- n did not bottier to ask why the n 1 economic cylinders had Government and bust-iw- e were more interested in machinery than in replac-- f adjusting misfit cogs. More-- i both worked from different ,: government thought the In greater U. 8. regula- - I the dl-n- lf old-lin- bill has necessb 4 nation-wid- e revision of tater-tate- s because insurance com- cannot charge different rates Cerent states. is that most companies Jot Boosting their premium charges 1 10 to 30 per cent on policies isn after January 1, although 7 firms made the change Da-- r 1. Policies in effect will not be nf-but in addition to lower in-rate and higher premiums, buowing additional revialons a made on most new pedicles: eduction of guaranteed interest to beneficiaries; (2) lower in--It rates on dividends left with Wnit: (I) Increased pro-on endowment annuity poll-withdrawal oy substantial i certain types of epo-J Piper-OBrie- rted The time has come when humanity must move down the darkest road that has ever confronted it or immediately set about to build a New social order a New World as it were of Peace, order and goodwill. There is no other alternative. The overshadowing problem is how to arrange the life of society so that its members can get their living a decent living in peace and security. Until this ia done there is no chance for decent living conditions. What then is a better and f.ner thing for mortals to do than to use and give their lives to help build a world of peace and plenty? We are in hearty accord with the President in his armament plans so that peace may be maintained on this hemisphere. It can and must be done. POINTED an spring tae New York legls-- n Passed a bin which potential-Jfect- a every citizen in the U. S. wing from to 5 per cent the sat which life insurance corn's may charge on policy loans, I -- Many of the countrys brilliant" rich men get their wealth not so much from developing or beautifying or helping their communities as from holding up and robbing the people. And it seems the people take it and like it stand and deliver pay and obey. one-ha- t i natural result of the U. S.. British reciprocal trade agreement is that some domestic industries will gain, others lose. Tha theory is that gains offset losses, working to our national benefit First tests of fids Policy now loan ss a result of the federal surplus commodity corporations sale of 20,000,000 bushels la American wheat to British flour manufacturers. Until now, the corporation has subsidized both flour end wheat exports, but British millers thfav this is unfair in view of Englands agreement to remove its tariff i American wheat Consequently stipulation in tha 30, 000, ale is that F. 8. CL C. subsidy on flour exported to great Britain (currently $1.05 a barrel) be removed. Thus U. & wheat sales to Britain will be facilitated, but flour manufacturers will lose an export mar- army-nav- y situation is that Germany may ak with Italy. After helping into tha European grab for new territories, Italy is bating to wonder where her share omingfrom. But Germany, hap-we- r her new ity with France, may ask Musso--o look elsewhere for new colo-Th- e new crisis certainly ki no more than what sane ob-e- r have maintained since last ly whet tha n is each time they offer a READ Agriculture Italy Follows Hitler Technique 2wy Subscribe Enc'urage DE. ISADOR LUBIN HU cure: higher living slenJerd. restrictions by banks, Mr. Ecdes hinted that their failure to follow this plan would result in government credit agencies. Summing iqi statements by Lubin, Henderson and observers saw that governments efforts for business revival are still far from dear. Bnainesa: More tangible and optimistic is the reform program of U. S. Industry, heartened, by the current economic upturn and willing to make peace with government Meeting in New York, the National Association of Manufacturers keyto make noted for Its points: (l) America dick. peace with labor; (3) acceptance of zociel responsibility; (3) acceptance pf regulation, in general theory; (4) end unemployment; (5) please file consumer with higher quality, lower d oats and policies. Business' requests to government: (2) Religion (1) Wagner act modification: limitation of armament expenditures tar GerMost to avert unneceiMry diversion of beleaguered Jews, even tha many's funds; (3) no encouragement of for- official intergovernmental commiteign trade at cost to domestic tee now moating in London, have rnmdm only slight effort to secure personal contact with tha No. 1 enemy ot Jews, Adolf Hitler. Tha only People The name of Mssaryk, famous In move in this direction was made by Cxechoslovakisn history sines Thom-- i George Rubles, American member commitG, Mssaryk founded the nation of the Intergovernmental withHitler visit not will who that nations tee, will leave 30 yean ago, from But invitation. official an 1. out on officialdom forever January three Jan Masaryk, ion of tha Czech "fa- New York recently sailed who anther and minister to Great Britain Pennsylvania Quakers, sec Chan"to nounced rehoped hia they announced has 14 for years, taka up tirement in protest to his countrys cellor Hitler himself and tha whole problem. capitulation to Germany. Ee-cle- s, (ex-Se- public-minde- seekers-after-justi- ce el value. By C. N. Lund Let others call thee ord. Prince of Peace! And in fine chinches praise thy hohr word; Let me, in humble ways, unto the end Just know thee as my Comrade and my Fncnd. L O Prince of Peace! Let other walk with iKee In the high path of thy divinity: Let me hut claim thee at my Fellow Man , Who scaled the heights and broke the bondman s O ban. O Prince ef Peace! Who overcame the world. And the white flag of Peace and Love unfurled. Let me, Wanderer, share thy Brotherhood, And seal me to our Father's Fatherhood! $$44 Readers Must Give Atteotion Readers, we must have money with which to carry on. our only hope liee in an appeal to you. For years we have been serving you almost without purse or scrip. Now you must remember us.and pinnae be generous this Xmas month. To all public officials we are, as it were, passing the hat. as the paper has be n coming to you for a long, long time. So you come to our insistence now. In a little while when the crisis romes,and its nearing every moment, your money will suddenly become worthless Better spend some of it t ow helping a good cause. Please, g ood neonln. let them words sink into ynur heart, of hearts . And HW4444HHH i |