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Show Some Things to Think About The dead on the battle fields, who were voicelessin life, are today preaching eloquent sermons, speaking loud from the dust. They are going down as martyrs, and as they lie there, the mangled victims of savagery, with their faces upturned to the stars, they are speaking as living men have never spoken, arid saying something like this: "In life we were nobodies, mere parts in a machine used for butchery of our fellows. We' had nothing to say about all this. We were flung into the flames of this hell by a few insane leaders. And now let our dust appeal to God to bring about a day when those who survive sur-vive may go about in peace to make this world a thing of beauty, where men, women and children may walk, and play arid work and laugh and siDg with a rapture that could not even be imagined by the present wave of super insanity. -Anrv : .... v,i As with ridividuals so il is with nations. They go to war over some little or imaginary thing and come out bankrupt, bank-rupt, their land Strewh with the dead, their cities' swarming with the cripples, and their country filled with sorrow and mourning. Wars for conqiiest and power are among the in-aneFt in-aneFt of all human actions. The utter senselessness of war may well be illustrated by the' recent killing of a citizen hear Marysvale. Over a water ditch dispute, which might easily have been settled amicably, one man kills another, and in killing him, also throws away his own life. Now neither of the participants has any water ditch or any water right and two families will be bowed with sorrow the rest of their lives. What a pit that men will let such little things wreck their lives. Congressman Dies, of the famous Dies committee, gives Hitler 30 days to win over Russia, and says: "If Hitler wins, he will control far more wealth and resources re-sources than all the rest of the world put together. America will be in greater danger than in any other period of her history In my judgement Hitler will be in control of Russia within 30 days. America is still aslep." Aged People, who have blazed the trails and fought the hard battle of life, and all these who, through no fault of their own, are being cared for on the relief rolls, should thank God that they live in Utah, the state whose officials and administrators admini-strators have hearts and minds big enough to work for and beat in sympathy with human needs and are not afraid to vote taxes for humanitarian purposes. The state, and the bebeficent father Uncle Sam, are doing exceedingly well. Just look west to the state of California whose hard hearted legislators legis-lators have refused to vote further funds for relief and have turned out of bfflce 451 welfare officials and thrown off the relief rolls more than 12,000 families, which represents nearly 60,000 men, women and children against whom the doors of relief are definitely closed. There were tears in the eyes of Borne of the most humanitarian workers when they1 closed their desks for the last time. Remember,' the 50,000 souls are, most of them urgent cases and now they have no way to eat or pay rent, etc. Thank God that you live in Utah. Many centuries ago a stately, dignified and radiant being stood in the brilliant sunlight on a Judean hillside and spoke a prayer which said: "Thy kingdom come, thy will be done." Nearly two thousand years have rolled away but the prayer has never been auswered. By many, then and now, Jesus was taken for a "fool." By others he was taken for a "strange fellow" fel-low" who was decidedly on the "lunatic fringe" of the status quo, and soon put out of the way. But his message is still knocking at the door ofthe hearts of men, and soon the prayer pray-er will be answered to the everlasting joy and glory of mankind. The United States of America is not aware that its very ex.stence as a nation depends upon the defeat of the totalitarian totalita-rian states. The enemies are both within and without. 'Jhe dictators would like nothing better than war on our bbor front for here they can block the possibilies of success more effectively than on the battlefield. Nothing could please our - enemies more than a general tie-up of transportation along w ith strikes tn the vital industries. We are witnessing the passing of the present world order and men are as powerless to stay this process of disintegration and St t0 6tP raVag63 0f huiricaae "iuak. One of the ever brightly burning torches of Americanism hat has pointed the way for us personally over all the wind pg trails of more than three score years is a Iir.tle spot and a httle incident that happened on the Eastern seabord of the U L t I Tr gd fath"' UPn his arrivaI as Poor immi: grant, kne t d n this halowed P mi fand Th iT 0rt,hePn'Vilege0f CminS t ProPnJed Land. That has and ever will be a shining star to our ship of hfe, and we say with Daniel Webster, "Thank God that I too am an American!" win t A-mMriCa 1S my knd' aDd 1 'Ve iL Not oe inch of it will I yield to anyone, though he come blustering with mighty Planes and sh.ps and hosts of armed men and try to take ft m 1 n x - |