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Show Editorials That Are W ell V orth Reading WOULD THEY BELIEVE THIS? Would the houseless and homeless people believe that it -----has been proven that their good old Uncle Sam, if left to his own judgment, can build good houses for $2500, the very same kind that the contractors are now building for $7000? They will not let Uncle Sam do it. A DRAFTEE'S LETTER TO THE EXAMINER Dear Mister Examiner: I know not wat others may do, but ez for me, I can't go. Upon a rigid eggsaminatshun of my fizzical man, I find it wood be wus ner madnis for me 2 undertake a campane, to-wit: 1. I am baldhedded and hev bin obliged to ware a wig for years. 2. I hev dandruff in wat scanty hair still hangs around my temples. 3. I hev a kronic katarr. 4. I hev lost since F. D. R.'s first order to draft, the use of wun eye entirely, and hev kronic inflamashun in the other. 5. My teeth is all unsound, my palitt anit eggsactly right, and I hev had bronkeetis 13 times last Joon. At present I hev a koff, the paroxisms uv wich is friteful 2 behold. 6. I'm holler-chestid, am short-winded, and hev alius had panes in my back and side. 7. I am afflicted with kronic diarrear and kkostiveness. The money I hev payd fur kures would astonish anybody. 8. I'm rupchered in nine places, and am entirely surround-by surround-by trusses. 9. I hev verryose vanes, hev a white swellin on one leg and a fever sore on the uther; also wun leg is shorter than tother ; tho I handle it so expert that nobody ever noticed it. 1 0. I hev korns and bunyons on both feet wich wood prevent pre-vent me from marchin. And besides my political opinions are ferinst the persekoo-shin persekoo-shin of this unconstitooshnell war. I hop these reasons, and others I keep to myself, will hev wate with you, Mr. Officer, and that I will not hev to come or be dragged to the tented feeld. Yours, Jock Sykes. P. S.: I aint ernin much but my wife gives me what she erns. But as livin is hi maybe I could git a place swattin f lys or some-thin some-thin like thet, providin.the pay is rite. J. S. In Utah 453 persons out of every 1 000 who are over 65 years of age are receiving old age assistance Only two states have a higher percentage, Oklahoma and Colorado CONTRACTORS ROLLING IN MONEY. The truth has come to light that corporations, banks, insurance in-surance companies and others are rolling in new made money. Dividends .from January to May of this year amounted to nearly one and three-quarter billion. U.S. Dept. of Labor reports that retail food prices have advanced 10 to 22 per ct. Rents in workingmen's districts have gone up 12 to 22 per cent. The big and greedy lords of capitalism are patriotic alright. "All for me and the devil take the people," is theii policy Down on all the lower levels people are called upon to De loyal and give and give until it hurts, while up at the top theghouls of finance are gathering in all the profits with which to further their power over a d control of the people. If people can be forced to give their sons at $21 a month then the takers of outrageous profits can and should be made to cut these profits prof-its to the absoluteminnimum I OUTLOOK FOR GRADUATES President Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, Chi-cago, is supposed to be one of the most capable men iri the country, and we quote what he said to this year's graduating class of that great school He said bluntly: "We are turning you out on the world at one of the darkest hours of history. The dangers that threaten you seem more me acing than any that ever overhung a graduating gradua-ting class. The equipment with which you confront them looks pitifully inadequate to the task. "We may go to war. The political, social and economic institutions under which you have been brought up may dis-sapear. dis-sapear. All the plans you have made may fail. All the hopes you have cherished may bo dissapointed." Editor Progressive Opinion: What is there about money that makes it so attractive that men and women will sell their very souls to get it? The constant council of the worldly-wise is, 1 Put money in your purse, get it honestly if you Can, but get moriey," for m;ney is the only power that is thoroughly respected in the world and we have to admit that the general aspect and aciion of society confirms the statement Ought we be surprised then if young men and young women grow up to think of money as the thing of most value in life, that they hunger for it, love it, and too often sell their souls for it. We may ask: what does money bring to you? Does it brin a message of com-. Tort, of education, of culture, ot travel" of an opportunity to serve your fellow man? Does it furnish clothes for the naked bread for,the starving, schools for the ignorant, hospitals for the sick, asylums for the orphans, or more for yourself, and none for others? Is it a measure of generosity or of meanness of breadth or of narrowness? Does it mean a broadermanhood, a larger aim, a nobler ambition, or does it mean just the op-. op-. posite? C. V. Hansen HEAP HIGH THE EXPENSES Up and up go the prices of necessities. The raise is niir ing the 30 per cent mark. Up and up go the salaries, increase increa-se here and increases there, necessitated, in some cases, by the exorbitant prices of commodities. It all adds up at the door of the taxpayer and he appears to stand there dumbly anditake it and seems to call for more no protests, no objections object-ions What about those who cannot get raises? They have to grin and bear it. If they can't get milk they take water; if they can't get butter they take margarine. If they can't get meat they take beans. God help the poor. A FINE PROGRAM The organization known as the U. S. O., has a grand program for serving the boys in the armed st-rvice-j of the country. It aims to give them friendly and wholesome personal contacts in the communities where they are; help them to attend religious reli-gious services; give them counsel and guidance; provide club house ucivities; educational and cultural services, information about recreational resources of the community, and in many other ways assist r.hetn to make life as pleasant and profitable as possible. Theirs is indeed a worthy cause. TO THOSE WHO ARE AgTnTHE GOVERNMENT. Anything built on hate cannot stand or survive. Such a foundation is laid in sand, sometimes quick sand at that. Hate cannot direct "or stay the hand of Destiny. Hate only adds f tel to the fire. Americans, cleanse your hearts of hatred. If you do not you will be burned by the fires you are feeding. And what are the fires that hate is feeding? The are the fires of rebellion, and the rebellion, once started, will turn into anarchy which will pull down every institution you are talking talk-ing about, savinjr- The words and shafts drippinir with hate being uttered today are the meanest and most vjolent forms of sabotage and worse. Fellow citizens abandon your campaign camp-aign of hate or leave hope for your republic behind. ABUNDANCE FOR ALL NOW It is high time that the robbed and plundered common people peo-ple get together and demand an abundance of the good things of life before the time comes when they will be put in concentration camps for asking for it. Who says there cannot be abundance for all? Those who say it tell a falsehood. Let us see. The great engineer, Hoover, was one of these and it was he, backed by the National Chamber Cham-ber of Commerce, who started destroying food while thirty million people were hungry. His administration ordered every third row of cotton plowed under in 1931; 12,000 acres of 1 peach trees were uprooted and 800,000,000 pounds of grapes destroyed in California. Of course the New Deal improved on this. It was not a political move but one of capitalism's trump cards and used the world over. A million cows were killed while, if fed properly, the people could easily have used 27 billion pounds of odditional milk and cream, 2 billion pounds of butter, 2 billion pounds of beef. We produced one-fourth of all the hogs in the world and because people could not buy lard and pork we destroyed nearly six and one-half million hogs. Thirty million people couldn't buy mutton chops so they killed over two million sheep. The worms and the buzzards got fed to the limit but poor, homely humans could not get what they needed. This destruction of food and cotton was capitalisms way of solving the problem. But the problem was not solved. It was proved, however, that if the people could buy all that they needed to eat and wear there would never be over production. |