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Show o Supprl Subscription g.nd I or promptly-r- t ijutribution YOUR Cant INAL 9 m jjjfo.22. for Standing SANE, PROGRESSIVE. (Old Ntt.371) 217 Keith "This lg the place! Utah! yr raOMOTING PEACE AND GOOITwiLl THROUGH SOClAlTANDTNnuaTRIAL SALT LAKE! flTTV tftatt TOm a v fiv CitOce at Salt lake City. Utah. udar the Act el March 2, 1271 S0CIETY Bid, Phone Was 4648 mtLIGEHT REVIEW BY RELIABLE COLUMNIST Predict New Pact With Brazil iLs U. S. Staves Off Nazi Bid ta theee crime , they fotoaewsp., a foe-ne- .Itoteusd to WasteraltoMpaptr Union. out Illegal combinations of manufac,AN.AMERICA : turers, wholesalers, retailer and labor leaden. Once Breadth uch illegal groups are smashed, when the V. 8. nay yeari ( Mr. Arnold tbinfcy business paralyued down on Immigration, mit sis caused by Ugh coats win cease. Jap-- i and Italians Germ.ni. His allegations regarding the busituned to unexplot ted BrazlL ness industry: to power he came Hitler Adolf i "Producers of building materials to Nasify i dilifent campaign Benito have fixed prices either by private r, Germana, just a Brazil arrangement or as the principal acIni tried Fascifying tivity cf trade associations. Owners . to tin decree that BraiQ'a of on building materials loyal to Tokyo, havepatents used them to establish rejui were natively of Brains major strictive structures of ft Hitler, Iton unexplored price coniron u mi trol, control of sales methods and be aome day mlfht limits upon the sold." tiii by military tore. Asafoun-Idatlo- n Begirding laborquantities unions: German crew began In recent yean they have freIp.iuiiny German airahlpa from quently been used as foe strong in establiahed German airports arm squads for collusive agreeI Brazil, an expensive commercial ments among contractors, refilling liriatton venture which could never to supply labor when foe con trie-to-n of one in But war. out Ipiy except ring wishes labor withheld . . . HRIeri mistakes was to barter In other cases foe unions themBra-Liii-m ImnamenU and machinery for selves have refused to permit the coffee, which ha then dumped use of new products pr new procu the markets to obtain badly esses because of their fear Chat the needed foreign exchange, thus un-- new method might make it possible to erect a new houae with fewer hours of labor than the old." u.fcTonwon One Joker in the campaign for VIA AZOtCA Which Mr. Arnold is not responsible 4,450 WHZS la that be seeks to tear down industrial price fixing combines which resulted directly from an earlier, less successful Hew Deal venture which MAZIL TO ILL fostered collusion by manufacturen NAVA1 BAH AT and dealers, namely, NBA. eUANTANAMQ, ait ri do-whi- T 1,500 MILES INTERNATIONAL: Russia's Gain? IMZaTO PANAMA CANAL NO MAIL 88 81 11 AFKICATO MAZIL, .MOOMUIS SHOBIHT lOLfTI SSZWfl NfMISTMEHS FLYING CP FBOM RIO It could become menace- demining world prices and damag- tag Brazil's coffee trade. Even this blunder was almost overcome, however. Early foil rear a Brazilian commercial million was about to leave for Ber-B- n when the U. S. convinced For-dm Minister Oswaldo Aranha he Aould viiit Washington. Brazil gained a loan from Reault: the U. 8., abo received aid in developing her iNourees and agreed in return to hetfn aervieing her payments to American bondholders during the ourrent summer. Alter this hairs breadth escape tame another. In Gen. Pedro May Aurtlio Goes Monteiro, Brazilian thief at staff, was about to visit for general staff consul ta-w- ni leading either to a "n at nndentanding or a military Bute. Hastily dispatched to Rio fc Janeiro was Gen George C. "nhn, newly appointed U. S. One hundred years ago a squabble between Japan and Great Britain would have caused no repercussions in Europe. But today challenge of occidental rights in foe Far Exit is tied inseparably with Britain's efforts to perfect a military alliance with Russia. Although Germany has gloated over London's failure both with the Russian pact and in foe Orient, best guesses are that not Germany, not England, not Japan, but Ruasia alone will have profited when today's international cauldron has ceased boiling. Germany has tried in two ways to hamstring the British. While William Strang of the London foreign office is conferring with Dictator Josef Stalin, foe Reichs to Russia has been ordered to york for a stalemate by offering Moscow a commercial and credit agreement. If Germany thus Joined western democracies in begging for Russias friendship, it carried the begging to itlH greater heights during the Jap incident by singing a a Iren song that went some"Why should a thing like this: great power like you care to tie or Washington, where observ-Hpccte-d a military agreement MAI loon be reached between the u- - $- and Brazil. agreements substance: The s. could use emergency air fields northern Brazil, thus perfecting . JIlericn plan to make an mean lake out of foe Carib-wit- h bates at Puerto Rico and watanamo, Cuba, serving as to small business . . . Dangers in the bill pointed out . . . Financing of TV A bed comes question . . . European dictators jolted by the reception given King George and Queen Elizabeth in Canada and the United States. four-side- IT IS 20 YEARS AGO. years since the Treaty of Versa iles was signed. Had that treaty been made as Wrodrow Wilson wanted it to be made, and had the League of Nations been run as he would have managed it, the world might have been saved from com. ing war which will all but destroy civilisation. No greater tribute was ever paid to a human being than the old Tiger of d and Clemenceau, inadvertFrance, antly paid Pres Wilson when he said to Col. House: Talking to Wilson is something like talking to Jesus Christ. The American statesman represented three powers when he stood .in the palace of mirrors and pleaded for iumapity.,-;t- he Ajqe; rican people, the comm n humanity of the world, and Jesus Christ, whose ambassador hd was as he stood above all the ruin of the World war, calling men to come and help make it different. This was "nonsense then to the uubelieving; it is nonsense today to a world without faith and vision. But as surely as the earth moves on its axis, the figu nd spirit and law of Jesds is the only hope on the horiions of a distressed world. Let the nations take it and be saved, or leave it and perish I began looking good to his Democratic colleagues, Iowas Sen. Clyde Herring end Colorado's Edwin (X Johnson, both of whom knew foe administration needed a clever eard bust- trick to soothe hard-heade- e Mr. Vandenberg had By lost the ball entirely, for Senators Herring and Johnson issued the mid-Jun- cautiously worded picture develin oped hearing on the Mead hiU to extend loans It is just 20 re-po- rt Its gist we that acme "pro dent experiments" in incentive taxation could be tried "in the spirit of exploration." Points (with crit-l- :s concensus in italics): L Exemption from ail income taxes of the payments Industrialists make to employees from accumulatg retiremmt funds ed or annuities. (Good idtt Although it would temporarily make social mcw fry a duplication, that agency would ewniueUy grew maJlar as provision for old oga raturnad to privala hondaj 1 Issuance and sale of governbonds which g ment g would be available only to funds and would be issued for the purpose of protecting investments by employee!. (Good and hod. Would ditcouraga small privala bo tattmant and tmall banking, mean-Mi- a providing new source of money for fovemmenl ipending. Mop ho But would dao lootan largo priveta capital for privala invattmani.) 2. Specific tax credits for increased employment by companies following than other work; similarly, reasonable exemption on such expenditures as plant expansion. (Good and bad. Watdd lower bnmau taxaa, hut placet capital in tka position of a child who will ho praised by a paternalistic government if ho does right and punished if ha does that profit sharwrong. ing, thus far untried on a national basis, would ha tubstantially a cure-a-ll that would permit drastic reduction in extraordinary" government expends-luresprofit-sharin- l cold-hearte- d PUBLIC OWNERSHIP. Since Los Angeles acquired the proper, ties of die lari remaining competing private power company a year or so ago, the fine municipal system has made reduction in rates amounting to $1,300,000. Salt Lake could do well according to its population if the citizens would take some interest. Municipal plants do not have to profit-sharin- profit-sharin- u pay $ 10,000 to $25,000 salaries, nor do they have to hireexperts"to misinform die people. Wake up people and support the movement that will lead to economic freedom. Have a Thought For Your America Americans who are AMERICANS have been somewhat luke warm, sleepy and careless for years while enemies of tha country from without and within have been awake and very militant until the nation is honeycombed with their evil designs. It is time to turn from materialism and have a thought for the soul of America before it is too late. Men may differ in their ideas about their country but here is briefly, what we think about true Americanism, and we are for it against any and all enemies. Essentially a successful idee In private application, profit sharing traaiSV.rrer7 aviation possibilities benrin on a U. S. pact WILLIAM STRANG should a European 0 to the draw. Brazil Csnmsqr ridicuUi hit tgortt. become an operatioaa 2 up with people like the British, who (attar can now be kicked with Impunity rnJ.r the Atlanticbombers at Ha narrow-Wn- even by foe Japanese?" might work against the The Reichs second effort, obviGuMtanamo Puerto in desperation, has been to ,Bd CT U. 8. itself ously its projected military pact push mMpt with Japan. Although Tokyos ambassadors to Italy and Germany BUSINESS: both favor Jap participation in the front, the foreign "8 Doldrums office back home has shunned such TJ. S. Indus triallsta believe JJz! an complications for good reason-Ja-pPolicy Is bridingT ' has enough ambitions and JL thU WW la troubles in the Far East without "ent Gallup getting embroiled in Europes woes. hrr.PUlflie opinion well split Moreover, both Russia and Japan bitter enemies doubt foe sincerity A few weeks later fteelir. of a nation which tries simultaneT-- Weir to win the friendship of both. ously ?? Hence observers predict consumPrincipal re nir alliance, mation of the Anglo-Rus- a . a Hreak rested on the houl- - with Britain asking help in foe Far t- lletl eorPoraUon mtnafe- - East as well aa in Europe, thanks Beato Japan'! clamping down on Lon,hnt char gave dons interests in China. For Brith iwtiflca.Thurmn ArnW good ain this would be merely a Probing dee; into defensive alliance with e c,u- Moat nation most Englishmen dislike. uKroe that the U. S. Russia would thereby gain British JJ" comes, will begin re- - support in her projected Far Easthm,ing activiUe. Hence It war with Japan, also winning a nW that Mr Arnold will ern free hand to expand comparatively with his new $500,000 ap. westward by exercising Hitler-lik- e 2n10n ,nd enlarged on Baltic state like Finper Polic- e- American bull- - pressure land, Latvia and Estonia. Out of this, Britain may hope, will come a"''C drtv war in which Eudepart-!- , a German-Rusiia- n will slaughter each well. dictators tolnrl J ? rope's ft wlamvvlaf JBrn. SJ O J? &.' h&U last-ditc- Frrt socialistic, the idea caught fire when one witness after another told how profit sharing had worked successfully. Soon Republican Vandenberg's idee .) SnndUncouily, foe Atlantic dip-W- i inaugural trip to Lisbon with "PMamfera and 12 crew mem- - nr-.- profit sharing as e means of curing capt trouble. The bssle idea: Industrialists would get tax credits for sharing their profits or (if regarded in another light) would be penalised if they did not share prof- committee's Curious The most extensive series of cooperative conferences aver held in the United States is scheduled for this summer, accord ing to an annoucement by The Cooperative League of the USA this week. Conferences taking the consumers cooperative movement as their main theme will be held on college campuses and in vacation spots from Massachusetts to California ' and in Nova Scotia and Mexico.' ) ' et minl-Hawaii- 21 00 tal-lab- Though pointedly CARTER FIELD THE CHRISTIAN ECONOMICS the During depression the people lost $1,400,000,000 in lapsed insurance policies, all of which was velvet to the companies. A machine recently installed in a steel plant turns out 446 tons of tin plate in eight hours with a erew of six. Formerly five men could produce only ten tons of the same material in a working day .The research department of the plant reporta that the machine will eliminate 85,000 jobs in the indusiry. And now some will be cussing these men for not finding work. Two million farm workers have been driven from the land by newly invented machinery during the depression. Now let reactionaries scold them for not having work. We believe that Jesus would be ashamed of those who are managing the economics of the country Last autumn a special senate committee Inspired by Michigan's presidency-aspiring Sen. Arthur its. Reviewed by 000,000 annually. Relief each year the tremendous sum of $30, 000,000,000. Add those and we have $45,000,000,000. If the proposed two per cent transaction tax brings in the needed amount, it would require $9,600,000,000 annually to provide each of the eight million over sixty tears who would and could qualify with $100 per month. If the maximum sum of $200 was paid, the amount would - be $19,200,000,000, or much less than half the present cost of orime and poverty. TAXATION: Profit Sharing began studying : . Statistics tell us U. S crime is costing the Nation 815,000, capital-expenditu- f staff. Result: Back home e jnnud-Jimtame General Marshall Wk the bacon. On an American ir he brought General Mon- - Si"! 25" from him. st 40,800,-000,0- NATIONAL AFFAIRS Neighbor J, A. Ilendricksen Log&n bad a splendid article on Townsendism in the Cache Journal. We copy the following and populated by 53,500,000 Husslana, Slavs and Germans. Through Its east and central ran rich vaHeys of the Dnelper part and leister riven, which for have fed vast Ruasia. To foe yean m the Donets river basin, lie east, vast deposits of eoal, iron ore end mn. gsnese, sea cards in foe deck of any military nation. It Adolf Hitlers fascination for Ukraine was ones a puzzle, has loomed to such heights sines he captured Slovakia and thus made a path to the salt, that foe Ukraines resources are now public knowledge. Even "Mein Kempt which outlines Dor Fuehrers plans for wresting fin Ukraine from Russia, revealed far less than a new U. S. bureau of mines study. Data: The Ukraines coal reserves are 72,20000,000 tons; iron, .088,000,000 tons; ferruginous quartzite containing large iron percentage, tons; manganese, 441,000,000 torn; lignite, 510,000,000 tons. Vandenberg We most sincerely believe that it is pure Americanism in all its meanings, to hold and advocate that little further pro-recan be made, no lasting prosperity can be assured, nopermanent peace or security is possible until social and industrial justice has been established. And we further believe that it is highly American to set forth the human and divine truth that the only sure way to save and perpetuate what is good and true in Americanism is to restore God to his rightful lead, ership and set about serving him by morally and spiritually rearming ourselves. We believe that its thoroughly American to hold that Ameri cans must solve aright the staggering problem of massed and concentrated wealth on the one hand, and massed and direst poverty on the other hand. It is wholesomely American to proclaim that those who revel in their mountains of wealth' while their brother Americana starve in squalor and wretchedness will see a day when they will feel very much ashamed of letting such conditions prevail, and that it would be to the interest to change them. We maintain that it is pure and unadulterated Americanism to say that public officials, from the aoula for mamhighest to the lowest, who sell and barter their Americanism and the out undermining people mon, are selling is cent hundred one to It herded be should per jail. and to say and publish that men can never be truly free while they are enslaved economically, and that to battlo for freedom today is just as patriotic and noble as it was in 1776. Americanitm means righteousness, progress, justice, tolerance, fair dealing, and more equality among men. We hold that it is thoroughly American to believe and addetat-in- y vocate that this nation will fall far short of its duty and if citisens do not try to make their personal lives measure near to the moral and spiritual qualities that somewhere up of the founders. That unless the people characters the underlaid with high character and noblcr their democracy rebulwark can All must come to believe with a will degenerate.it nuroose moral rearmament of indivi- great writer that, Only through be ever (or security.) In the regeneration there peace can duala of the individuals lies the key to the moral regeneration of the the nation. This is Americanism! city the state and ss will probably be boosted by both Democrats and Republicans in the next campaign. Chief issue (and no one yet knows which party will taka which side) wUl be on the application of government incentive taxation. Said the report: "One school of thought insists that foe taxing power should never be used for either incentive or punitive purposes, and that one is the complement of foe other. The other alichool of thought Insists that we and that tax the have punitive ready confronting a condition rather have than a theory we should also offset the incentive tax, either as an or a substitute." . AVIATION: Students No- - 1 ah' The world's undisputed 85,000 power, Germany, can train foe contrast By annually. airmen both of fliers 23.000 but has lest a I and silages. Worried unprewar in the sir find America wU be pared. a training program 15 designed October in full swing by to for to teach 05,000 U. S. youths $5,075,000 to train Cost: 1944. by $7,000,- 15,000 in the next 12 months; to teach 20,000 more an- 000 $1.50 PER YEAR WORTH HERDING DEPENDABLE FACTS ABOUT US f OVERT Y of nllei Bpww -lyrie- Werieecliytf KOTE JUSTICE CRIME AND Russia's rich Ukraine ranges from the Carpathian mountain, of central Europe almost to the Caspian sea, embracing MO, 000 square hr Entree to South America ffEZi editorials UKRAINE: Incentive NEWS ANALYSIS BY JOSEPH W. LaBlNE rrn.y HONEST POLITICS Income , Leisure (or Age Opportunity for Youth Conservation of Human Resource , year nually until are Now underway in Washington ichool aludy offer to "ground i plans unlverai-an- d next autumn at 200 to 400 actual followed by colleges, ties 18 to 25 year flyinf. Student from foe pro--' old will be accepted end will cost the U. & about $325 mid-194- 4. gram per pupil. winter Biggest fear voiced last vbroached when foe program was To test has already been dispelled. authority aeronautics civil the It to 330 gave primary training later grant-inat 13 institutions, to 173 private Hying certificates their of them. Though officials held rfW Mifi shtrf'1!'! WM kW(0 stu-oen- u g Amer-canis- - m The inference taken by the coal people .of course was that TVA would build additional hydro elec-tri- e plants. That is where the coal interests come In, for obviously .every time a hydro plant la built Just that much of coal market departs forever, no matter bow the result-in- f electricity is used. Behind the scenes the private utility folks have been in a quandary. Naturally they have the same interest as the coal people In preventing, If possible, further invasion of the electric field by the government They are especially close to the coal people in their Interests since most of the private utility executives now figure that current can be produced more cheaply from coal, by using modem methods than It can be produced by water power, if due allowance is made In computing Its coat for interest on the cost of the hydro electric plant and for' i iV f i taxes. Which brings in another angle; for foe state, county and municipal gov-- , WASHINGTON. A bit of testi- emments in Tennessee were anxtana mony before the temporary national to force a provision Into tin Mil; economic committee, put together which would require the TVA end for public with President Roosevelts enthusi- the local agencies let-u-p astic endorsement of the bin of Sen- distribution of electricity to pay ator James M. Mead of New York into the state and local treasuries for loans to small business, end then the same amount of money each, added to the frequently stated doc- year which they would have paid' trine of the President that me of had they continued. the causes of the bust of 1929 was a tremendous increase in over- Dont Like to Have Public capacity by our producers, unac- Power Systems Handicapped This is a sore point with the pubcompanied by increased spending power to take up the slack, presents lic ownership advocates. They do a curious picture. not like to have the public power, It almost Justifies foe pessimism systems handicapped with this of Chairman Marriner S. Eccles, charge of taxes. Naturally foe pri-ve-to ' of the federal reserve board, aa to utility people are keen for it, -, the good that the Mead bill would contending that no yardstick" apdo if enacted. proaches fairness unless this Is incon-- , The curious part of the whole cluded. In fact taxes end thing is that Mr. Roosevelt, It would parable amount of Interest are the seem, would encourage the seme two chief advantages which public sort of increase in by electric systems have had over primeans of foe Mead bill that he be- vate ayatema in fixing low rates. gan deploring in his 1932 acceptDavid E. Lillenthal pointed out In ance speech. He spoke then of the the TVA special committee hearings in of vast profits the corporations at Knoxville last summer that the the good years, end wanted to know government could borrow money for whet had become of them. Some 2 per cent while private enterprise of them, he declared, have gone would have to pay much more. But into increases of plant, now standprivate utility men have been coning stark and idle." tending ever since this is only part His theory then, aa enunciated of the story that in fixing rites the many times since, was that if this TVA has made no charge whatever money, instead of being put into un- for the millions of dollar interest needed additions 4o- plant capacity, 'every -- year tbertwpeyevs have-t- o had been paid out in wages, or pay for the coat of the TVA project. even dividends, the discrepancy Also that in local public ownership between buying power end produc- systems 45 per cent of the cost ing power would not have loomed would be a free grant from PWA, to foe point where it produced the with the other 55 per cent at a low 1929 crash and the depression. rate of interest Reference to this testimony leads But the utility people would like to speculation aa to whether gov- to see government money actually ernment aid to foe little fellows may paid for the Tennessee properties, not work the same havoe tint greed and the stupid possibility of compeon the part of the big fellows pro- tition between private and public duced in 1929. ownership systems prevented. So they would like to aee the bill !: . i. f i i . : J over-capaci- ty Points Out Inherent Dangers in Mead Bill passed, with certain amendments. The coal people dont care much about the amendments, but want them written in if the bill is to pass. Reception of British Rulers In Canada Jolts Dictators Whether British Prime Minister Chamberlain planned it that way may never be known, but the visit of the king and queen to Canada may easily have stayed foe hands of Mussolini and Hitler for some time to come. The reports of the tremendous ovation which their majesties received from Quebec to Vancouver and back must have surprised and startled the foreign offices of Berlin and Rome as much aa they did foe Canadian politicians. There la no speculation about this. Eminent political leaders of all parties in Canada frankly said so to visiting American newspaper men. In short, the greeting of the Canadians, no matter what was the mother country to their own fathers and mothers, put an entirely different face on foe probabilities as to what Canada would do if Great Britain should become involved in a On the stand was T. N. B. Hicks urging, on behalf of the Wyoming valley Industrial development fund, of Wilkes-Barr- e, Fa., more liberal credit He said there was a. small silk throwing company which would buy additional machines It it could borrow cheaply. Are you satisfied, inquired Senator Joe OMahoney of Wyoming (no connection with the Wyoming valley in question), that there is a market for the product of foil company if it were enabled to acquire foe machinery. The company already has the business. Senator, replied Mr. Hicks. They are already farming it out under contract "And not doing it themselves," said Mr. Hicks. They want to do it in our community. Well, if the business is being performed on contract" continued O' Mahoney, "this financing would merely mean shifting the production from one plant to another plant" "Yes, said Mr. Hicks, for all practical purposes. It means, on tiie other hand. In our particular community, three hundred Jobs, war. Senator. It is a truism in politics, certainly But retorted O'Mahoney, 'three in foe United States and probably hi your community hundred-job- s taken away from aomo other com- In Canada, that It la not the truth which Is Important; but what peomunity." This is not cited by the writer ple believe. Carrying on tha thought to demonstrate that tha Mead bill a Mt further, it is not what the peola bad, or would work harm. But it ple believe which la really Imporis cited to show that there ere cer- tant In between elections but what tain dangers in the Mead bill. Just the politicians they have elected to as there are inherent dangers in represent them think the people any government control of credit, believe. or anything rise, for that matter, It Ia as simple as that which arbitrarily changes the lives Mental Attitude of Crowds and habits of people. Jr. I I .'I i I. I f j. ' - Sometimes There Are Four Sides to a Question Sometimes there ere four sides to a question. Instead of only two. The authorization measure for foe Tennessee Valley authority to issue $100,000,000 In bonds to finance the purchase of the private utility prop- erties in Tennessee teems to be such c,,fc Introduced by Senator George W. Norris, it patted foe senate with little or no discussion, but since then fur a time has been stymied In foe house appropriations com mlttce. Actually It was held up by the eoal operators. They pointed out to com- members mittee that this was nearly twice as much mon- - T wmm Senator Norrto paying (he monwealth and Southern and the Electric Bond and Share for Ihe properties of their subsidiaries.does "What," they demanded, TVA need wlln the forty odd mil l.., Com- - lh n ipi ' Big Surprise of Visit British and American newspaper men on the "pilot train which ran always until it neared Washington trouble a little and developed ahead of foe royal train, were amazed at foe outpourings. They would be told, not only by foe Canadian officials, but by their Canadian newspaper colleagues, that thia particular town would not be worth white that It had been kept on the schedule through a mistake, and that only a few hundred people could possibly be there. Then they would arrive and the whole surrounding countryside would have apparently turned out, for there would be thousands. Even more Important, It was the mental attitude of the crowds which had been appraised even more inaccurately In advance. Their majesties had been warned not to expect too much. The people In one community, they wero told, would be mostly Scotch, and hence dour and cold, though pleasant while in another community meet of the people would be Poles, Germans. Russians, etc., who could not be expect Inst'e id In b- - ton s.- - rl . i ; i I ! ' I !t i t |