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Show 246 SOUTH Maim Progressive Opinion FOR WE, THE PEOPLE." M EcHinodals. PeraomaL. OM READING THOUGHTS WORTH PERSONAL MEETINGS. The right kind of a housing law would be fine in when it is ham strung with ridiculous amendments too bad for the poor who need cheap homes. Utah, but it is just It is to be hoped that the legislature will see fit to pan the homestead exemption bill and when once passed that the governor will sign it. Mueh good legislation is being defeated by hired lobbyists and interests who hire special pleaders. Now the Chamber of of Commerce is out to defeat the Home Exemption Bill. They have wired and phoned to all county assessors, school boards, countv commissioners and others to be in Salt Lake Friday, today, to appear before the legislature and protest. Who is looking out for the people? There should be a mass parade to the cspitol and a protest entered by all the small homeowners that would shake the very dome of the building and a demand , made for the passage of the bill. , To un lerstand just how near to their doors is the American revolution people should take note of the great meeting held in New York Monday evening. One hundred thousand people Americans, hissed the names of the country's most prominent officials and cheered to the echo the names of foreign dictators while they saluted the Nasi emblem Theodore Dreiser and many others, this paper among them, have long been telling people what was coming. It is not coming IT 13 HERE! Our position is this: While we have breath we shall stand with Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln, with their principles for a platform. It will be good enough for us to stand under the flag they stood under, and to ever give to that flag the salute the millions of redblooded American children are giving to it today. Before any earthly thing should induce us to do otherwise we would prefer to immediately go down to death and forgotten dust! With their principles everything Americsn could be saved this moment and perpetuated to last a thousand years! But there are influences at work which will not let their principles save America as we have known it. The consequences will be terrible and the land will again be "rent by civil feuds and drenched in fraternal blood!" our office. He was educated and intelligent. The buffetings of fate had robbed him of about everything that goes to make life worthwhile, but he bore his burden and went bravely to meet his Maker before whom he stands as an equal of many a millionaire who in life looked coildy and sneeringly at the poor Too late to give him the flowers nowl Let us believe that the grave holds and hides forever all his poverty and that the star his hope had seen may shine on his redeemed son I as he takes the witnesst stand against the iniquitous system that so robbed him and starved him and tried to destroy both body and soul. Rest well, poor Uhrel Presents PENSION ORGANIZATION the University of Utah Debating Team The Old Age Pension and Assistance croup raett the Regular meetings are heldevery Friday, 2 P ' M ternity Hall, 323 2 So. State. 1-- on the question Resolved: TOWNSEND That the Townsend National Welfare Act Should be Adopted. Public Forum Discussion after Debate at the 430 West 8th South WEDNESDAY. MARCH 8 1 WITH TOWNSEND CLUB NO. 5 1 730 P. Admission 10c M. Townsend Club No. 5 has effected permanent orguia and is bolding meetings every Thursday evening, 7.30 Chapman Branch Library, 6th So and 8th West. A fiu gram has been arranged for next Thursday night. Jhep is invited. Program Chairman Entertainment Director-Invocati- ..Adolph Sorenson -- Mrs. Sadye Herron Joa. F. Pratt Band & Congregation on Singing of "America" PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG pledge allegiance to the Flag of tho United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands; ono Nation indivisible, with Liberty end Justice for all. Dick Jorgens1 Orchestra "My Reverie" Bart Williams That" For Reading 'Too Big Ponnman Accordion Quartet ,.F. M. Mortensen Introductory Remarks nt Our good neighbor, Peter C. Carlaton visits at our inner edabout as itorial temple-palac- e often as anyone and leaves as many good words and deeds as the next one. He is a goed speaker and an able man. He would be a good man to send out on the road to Damascus to briug light to those who love the dark because their deeds are dark. Carlstonisone of the good spirits who was sent to Sods country Sanpete county, where there are Fair views, Pleasant mounts, a tribe of Ephraim, a Green fountain, etc., Debate Affirmative David Stone Grant Pugh Negative Dick Wooden Alton Jenkens TOWNSEND CLUB NO. 6 Townsend Wasatch Club No 6. (chartered) meeting Sunday Mar.5, 2.00 p. m. Room 101 Good speakers. Public invited. PEOPLES THE UTAH hold id R City&Co. LOBBY MEETIN Reinstituted as the Utah peoples lobby, the open f a aeession Sunday at 8 P. M. in the city comoi chamber of city and county building, George J. Fox, chii announces. Legislative bills bills concerning criminal calism and racial discrimination will be discussed. will hold Open Forum Discussion TOWNSEND PLEDGE The Townsend Plan will succeed. I therefore pledge my allegiance to its principles, to its founder, Dr. Francis L Townsend, to its leaders and to all loyal and rededicate myself to maintain the democratic spirit and form of government in America. "Star Spangled Alfred Sorensen, Progressive JEWELER Banner11.. .....Dick Jorgens1 Orchestra Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing T5 East 2nd. South 36 Yean In Salt Lake the men all live their religion and the women are thank In our neighboring city, Murray, the municipally ownec ful for the sons of Zion. That power plant laid down a net profit of over $22,000 last year. people leave it to come to BabTbat money goes to help meet the public expenses and really ylon is a mysterv to us. helps the people. If made in a private power company plant it would just about pay the salary of one man. Here are some There was an ancient apostle facts from the city of Holland, Michigan, which has enjoyec who fought with wild beasts at nearly half a century of municipal ownership: Their light am Ephesus. But that was nothing power plant reduced rates from 8 3 to 4 4 cents. On that to the experience of and the water plant they earned net profits of $172,470 a year c'ompared Mr. John , has contributed to the city over $1,000,000; spent over a our good subscriber, half a million in plant improvement's; has paid out of earnings wild beasts the entire cost of both plants, a total of over $2,000,000; has He has fought with Zion in a in the of precincts accumulated a surplus of more than a quarter of a million; sets aside $61,000 a year for depreciation; contributed $183,000 way that would put in the toward a hospital; pays taxes up to over $16,000, and an ad- shade the Roman arena. The editor of True Story should ditional $23,000 for city, school and county; pays $1500 make straight for his door. But nually for its rent in the city hall. with all his trials he remains where 1-- CLUB NO. The Townsend Club No. 1 .holds meeting overv T evening 7 50, at 255 East 3rd So. Gives barn Danccer day night till further notice at 255 East 3rd So. Edison School Auditorium Mr. C. H. Camans, one of our subscribers, has been.elect-e- d of the Salt Lake county Workers' Alliance vict-presipe- m NOTES, Townsend Club GOOD NEIGHBORS Give em the Flowers Now The elan of people who spoke againts the bill to prohibit LATE PUlt FLOWER8 some of the married women from working hare never had as TOO Hediedinthe dumps of a mueh as a taste of the depression and eannot sympatise with class lodging, alone and fourth those who have suffered all during the past ten or more years. penniless, and was hurriedly thrown into a pauper's grave some Poor old man Ubre, fates neg headway is It appears that the Townsend Plan making soul! A hundred times session. of lected this in congess and may get on the floor he has sat down and rested in DERATE. PLAN TOWNSEND 'Tk-- 3 We can serve you better than ever 1-- SHOE Right Thinking Brings Good Results When yon think of having your Shoes Repaired a serene and calm and sends a fair lady in with a big honest-to-go- d subscription so that he who vote would to raise salaries in state offices Lrgislatora continue to have the inmay and then vote to cut down the avenge of $20 a month now of sound doctrine. spiration given to the aged men and women, should never again be electMay his troubles cease and his ed to make laws for the people. At one end of the social order life lengthen a new bureau is created to be operated by six men, each to be Neighbor J. V. Crone is one paid $12,000 a year. And they are just ordinary men, picked of the soundest thinkers on our by the administration, without any special training. On the list. And being a well informed other end the legislators begrudge needy aged people the aveman he thinks scientifically and rage of $20 a month. If our memory serves us it costs about He believes that freelogically. $50,000 each biennium to maintain one man in office in this dom and reason are among the state. And he always has his weather eye on the interests. greatest gifts. In regard to reThe public is a wise old owl alright. he cannot understand R. W Brandon of Boneta, writes on this subject: The generous ligion Providence should interwhy feeling our representatives have in proposing to inerease some vene in behalf of Balaams jack salaries from three thousand six hundred dollars to four or five ass while He is unmoved by all thousand dollars, is big doings for them. But when it is in the human suffering on earth. the meagre pensions the aged are entheir power to incr-as- e titled to, or to help theunemployed,they can make themselves mighty small. Jobs at Moderate Prii 414 So. State Sin A LESS THAN Vim r DAY BRINGS YOU A WHOLE YEAR OF GOOD . 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