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Show f oodF0R Jl hoiigM 1 We find in the remarks of the Governor General of Can- j ada some things which we have said 1 pwards of a hundred times, and which have been a cherished belief with us for many years. Why will not all officials see the light of the truth contained in the following words? "We must place greater emphasis on the things of the spirit and less on material wealth We must see that our economic system is adjusted to the re-qu re-qu rements of the consumer rather than of the producer arid we must see that our social services produce an increasingly high minimum standard of living throughout the world." Do you know that the word sugar does not appear on the sugar rationing book, neither on the coupon or the coyer? Thus it appears that there will be a lot more rationing coming. A fine young woman, with a baby in her arn s, came to our office Tuesday and informed us that she was literally being run out of the small apartment she and her husband lived in not that she wasn't paying the rent, but because the landlord wanted to raise the rent about twenty per ceot. She had been railed at until her life was made miserable. And she is but one of a number who are thus treated. Why cannot some thing be done? Where is the law and the officials? By all means let something be done to curb the greed that is ramp, ant. What will not people do for money? Here is an ideal little family. Their good will and friendship mean nothing. Christian principles ofreligion mean nothing to the rent raisers Only the money means anything to them. Wake up, you officials. Do you know that the rationing is not affecting people half so much as the long, almost eternal waits they have to endure? en-dure? Somewhere along the line, it seems, there should be some dynamite put under officialdom. I ' I Egypt, Babylon, Greece, Persia, Carthage, Rome each grew and developed to prominence and dignity amidst the clash of arms and the din of war; and whilst their triumphant leaders led forth their victorious armies to glory and victory, their ears were saluted with the groans of the dying and the misery, and distress of the human family; before them the earth was a paradise, and behind them a desolate wilderness; their ingdoms were founded in carnage and bloodshed, and sustained by oppression, tyrany, despotism. C. V. Hansen ; Do you know how much good was said about Ex-Governor Blood? It would fill a small volume. 'The worst that we wish him in his eternal home is that he may be judged and rewarded according to what the papers and the funeral speakers speak-ers said of him. And we would wish that for every man. j We are now and always all-out for the Author of the Sermon Ser-mon on the Mount. And neither earth nor heaven could pay us any tribute that would be equal to hearing Him say at the , judgment day, "Of Me thou hast nor, been ashamed." If men as individuals and men grouped into nations have a sincere desire to come into harmony with the laws of true human and divine nature; if thev wis.) to have more abundant life more peace, security, happiness and contentment, let them turn, with their whole might, mind and strength to the great and liberating principles set forth in the plain and simple words of that perfect Sermon. These are the only principles prin-ciples that wi 1 guarantee all that humanity is lacking today Their adoption and practise will lift all burdens, break down all bonds, wipe away all poverty and war, all sin and shame. The proof will be found in the believing and doing. Do you know that Commissioner McConkie was very strongly for economy when the fire department asked for funds? But how about economy when he took $500 for one of the finest business and pleasure trips to the East? If one should go out into the business world and try literally liter-ally to live the principles taught by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount he would be called impracticalvisionary and foolish fool-ish and would soon be brushed aside by the harsh code of the street and the marts of trade. But these principles are, nevertheless, the truest,the most practical, the most scientific, the most philosophical, and the best form of religious and political poli-tical economy known to man. Do you know that the great sin of Price Administrator Henderson is that he appointed two or three capable Republicans Repub-licans while there yet were t wo or three democrats without jobs? That's an awful sin: Down in Mexico there is a population of some 15 000,000 people, the vast majority of whom live in wretched poverty and miseiy from the cradle to the grave, while the natural resources re-sources of the country are such that it could support in comfort com-fort more than 50,000,000. It has mineral wealth virtually untouched. It has one-fourth of the wordl's oil and inexhaus-table inexhaus-table coal deposits. Also rubber. Its agricultural and live stock possibilities are not developed to one-twentieth of their possibilities. And yet the average per capita wealth is about as little as it is among the savages of Borneo. Its primitive system of education leaves about nine-tenths of its sons and daughters illiterate. |