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Show mWill Civiliza- - dwiwswe (Pflisti Bcginwhcrc ' n Work, Watch and Wait . J-i ' "" Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR VOL. 5 No. 28 David Keith Bldg., Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, r KlDAx, Materialism Came! Save America Our Country Must Have a Spiritual Preparedness Or Fail It was Woodrow Wilson who said: "Before the nation can be redeemed materially it must be redeemed spiritually.'" Ha spoke a great truth. The country is giving all its attention to physical and material defense, unmindful of the fact that with, out true spiritual preparedness the uatinn will remain more or less defenceless. It is high time the people let this truth take hold of their minds and hearts. Because of the lack of spiiitual preparedn ss human society is threatened with complete disintegration, if not actual chaos' Civilization is crumbling under the weight of materialism. All the evils f human relationships such as injustice, greed and selfishness, abuse of power, war, murder and destruction, only become more rampant and terrible when they are backed up by material wealth, power and armaments. Today the souls of men stand cowed and fearful before their own civilization which has crown too intricate and complex for them to guide and control. Because of the death of spiritual life and power in so large a part of the world, faith is leaving the hearts of the puople, natural joy and happiness and beauty are fading away, and all the ancient evil passions are taking their place' How long will it take for people to learn that all the wealth that is vrung from the resources of nature exists solely as a foundation or basis for the release and development of the life of the spirit America, if you would save your self you must turn to the things of the spirit faith, repentence, prayer and good works. Washington used prayer and won. Lincoln went to his knees and was given a great victory. We may not know the solution to every problem but we do know that the path that was open to and Lincoln because of their faith and their righteous purpose is still open to America Some Items Of Interest If there's a Red Cross on your paper your subscrip-tion is past due. Remember! The following is from our good friend and Neighbor, Hon. Geo. A. Christensen, a State Senator and a Stake President one of the best meD we know of. We treasure this tribute and shall keep it to the end of our days. S L. City, Aug. 1, 194 Progressive Opinion, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Lund I saw the md cross on my papertoday and am glad you reminded me that my subscr-ptio- n is past due. I am anx-ious that the paper be con tinunlly delivered to my desk I read every issue and have clipped more choice bits of sound and practical philoso phy from Progressive Opin-ion than from any other pap er or magazine. If it is necessary to i'oub!e the price of subscription please bill me. In the mean-time I enclose my1 check gladly. Success and thanks to you both. Respectfully, Geo. A. Christensen Neighbor Wm Halladay of R 241 East 6th So., praised the article on Banking in the last issue. Mr. Halladay is an ec-onomist. You can learn a lot from him about saving money on rent and living. He has ex pensesdown to a fine basis and in some ways he is as rich as Croesus, T. J. Rosser of 358 No. 3d W., was caught in the act of rolling a cart wheel up the stairway, and it sure found its place. Neighbor Rjssiter is sav ing his copies of the paper and when he gets time he will do some clipping and make a book. He is an applicant for a state job aud we most heartily recommend him in every way. Neighbor Geo. C Christen-sen has graduated from the columns of this paper into the Forums of the dailies. His moth er met, with an accident and is confined to the hospital. At their outing last week the Utah County Old Age Pension Association was organized with C. V. Hansen temporary chair-man. Thy had a fine outing. True Tales of Sage Brush Democracy One fine October morning when one of the earl cam. paigns was hot and furious in a town where nearly all were Democrats and to whom the new politics was like religion, i a good brother came rushing j to th : bish pi who was chair-on- . n of the party. "Say bish-op," he said, "my neighbor, John Jones is apostatizing." How's that?" said the bishop, " ell, he says he'd gonna vote the Republican ticket. I alius s i peclcci him of horse stealing but. I didn't think he was that b.d.' ''Yep," said the bishop, "I know its bad but remember i here's no religion in politics oidy an high churchmen put it in. I'll just ask John Henry if its the Lord's wiil that some of us should go over to the Re- - publicans and make the party look sort o respectful like " PllOGUESSIVE OPINION EDITORIALS By C. N. LUND More of the Confession of World Banker Last week we quoted from Vincent C Vickers, former governor of the Bank of England. His confessions are found in his book, Economic Tribulation. He wrote for the sole pur-pose of contributing to the welfare of humanity, and to show the existenee of a world-wid- e conspiracy which has so strang-led the productive capacity of mankind wilfully and c iminally creating poverty and fomenting wars forits profit. This finan-cial power is behind all the governments of the world and its shameful enslavement of people everywhere is the real cause of all the trouble today. But a power is at work to smash this order and to dig a grave for the plutocratic loan-financ- e system. It is non up to the peoble to do their utmost to de velop a new financial economic s .'stem co take its place. Mr. Vincent goes on to state: "I', the progress of time we have permitted the money industry gradually to attain a political and sconomic influence so wide and powerful that it has actually undermined the authority of the state and usurped the power of democratic government and is entirely outside the control of the govern-ment and operaied by an outside individual section of the community, not for public good but for private profit.' The Signs of The Times-Dri- ft of World Events Why Such Terror? A Prophesy From Gray's "Habitabilis" Cambridge, 1737 Keen Polk The time will come when thou shalt lift thine eyes To watch a long-draw- battle in the skies, While aged peasants, too amazed for words Stare at the fling fleets of wondrous birds. England so long the mistress of the sea Where wind and wave confess her sovereignity, Her ancient triumph yet on high shall bear And reign, the sovereign of the conquered air. More Progress In 7 Years than in 93 Students of world history agree with the prophets that we are living at the end of an age. Every development in hu-man affairs testifies to a coming change in our civilization. The past 93 years, have wrought more, changes in the world than did the previous 20 centurie3. The next seven years will witness even more and greater changes than took place in the past 93 years. We behold the travail in the evolution of mankind when the "self" ruled supreme. The next seven I years will purge mankind of this old "self" and introduce his 1 true divine selfhood Man is even now beginning to re-alize that self can best be served in the greater self the com-munity. Man, the individual, will prosper only so far as the ) community prospers, and the prosperity of the community j depends upon the unselfish service of the individual. Self is IS best served by unselfishness Seven years that Change the on- World. .St-ir.! 2 Hitler Foreseen 2000 Years Ago Adolf Hitler was foreseen over 2000 years ago and shown to be the one who should clear the ground for the builders of a New Order, not his own order but another's. Within the 9 next 5, 6 or 7 years he will have changed the politics, econom-ic ics, governments and religions of the world and broken down' S the old system. That is his mission and destiny. then oblivion hrlnl Throw Out the Life Line-- It Will Pay We wish we might reach all the ruling powers and the wealthy people of the whole world witn a voice like unto thun-der and tell them how many millions of plain people there are on the lower levels of life who, if given a little lift of the right kind, a bit of a life line and some encouragement, would be come be able to pull through and become as good and useful as any of the more fortunate citizens. It is a social and economic crime for this or any other nation to deny them and keep them struggling, like unto a drowning man, in life-lon- g poverty. The billions and billions being spent for war should be spent for human welfare. It should be spent for.higher life, nobler living; it should be used to create ab-undance, beauty and happiness. Such should be the end and aim of all human striving. m m I Poverty and Riches Are or the Spirit Mr. R. L. Pye was quite wrought up over the article ab-out money not making happiness. He writes and says: People who make such claims don't know what they are talking about If money makes people so unhappy its the easiest thing in the world to get rid of it. Happiness comes through having enough for our needs and being satisfied. The greedy deserve to be unhappy. Money is a good servant but a bad master. H appiness or unhappiness lies in the character of 'men, and money won't buy character or moral integrity. The man who pretends to be happy with nothing attempts to deceive as much as he who pretends unhappiness with much. Hypocrisy and pretense will never lead the world to salvation, which lies neither in poverty or wealth, but in knowing the right and doing it. , Respectfully, R. L. Pye One of the editor's happy beliefs is that poverty and riches are of the spirit. Who was the happier, Jesus withjnothing, or the Roman governor with everything? - I NOW IS THE TIME To SUBSCRIBE Send or Bring Your $1.50 to the office of PROGRESSIVE OPINION 217 David Keith Bldg Enter the Building at 248 So. Main. Take elevator to 2d floor. Come in and put a dollar or two to work for a Good Causr. Intel 1 Vacation By Train I 'a. How to beat the heat on your summer trips: Leave !3Vf, your car at home, and step into the refreshing, ,nSj comfort of a Union Pacific train. 'vort You'll be "cool as a cucumber" all the way . . . oa' arrive rested, ready for business or pleasure. heat' Choice of accommodations. Delicious Dining Car ,t ant . exces meals Registered Nurse -- Stewardess service on lids' mone principal trains. TIC' I SAMPLE LOW ROUND TRIP FARES Salt Lake City to : Ehom In Cr olUiujer In Slsndird Sloc-- Los Angeles . . . $22.40 $33.33 $3.10 Chicago .... 47.00 48.60 59.35 Denver 21.25 23.3d 2o.55 Kansas City . . . 39.25 43.00 31.90 Portland .... 29.65 3o.l0 Berth xli. Similar low !aro lo olhsr po.Dl.. leSs- - Liberal return limits. Abo very low one-wa- fares. . cleal1 Ask about iruvol on cred.'l no mone cfrswn pay later "offend' I mfUl f vor furthar details consult SJi oil, Tick om. Hotel W,.h Eld .. F. 3.1! c H SALTMAR3U, General Agent Pawa.-.ge- Dopirtmont rmici i usaion Passaic sasisioni Treats Lower-grad- e Ores p : : ) ' i - " ' ' ', - 'j I ' , - I , ' A. 8. & R. plant at Garfield. During the past twenty years, two factors have greatly changed the mining Industry of Utah and the change or ore available for the smelters. During the past twenty years the direct smelting oxidized lead-silve- r ore was slowly depleted and changes In metallurgy were neces-sary. As mining developed to deeper levels, much complex sul-phide ore was developed and it was necessary to add another complete practice in the treatment of this low grade ore. This practice was selective flotation, a mill to elimin-ate the waste or gangue from the ore and separate the metals. The Murray plant of the Amer-ican Smelting & Refining company was originally equipped with eight blast furnaces, having a capacity of approximately 1G00 tons per day, the largest smolter in Salt Lake valley at that time. Today the Mur-ray plant smelts its entire tonnage through one blast furnace. While this Is due somewhat to Improvements in practice, the prin-cipal reason lies in the fact that the production of lead ores in Utah is steadily declining. This reduction has been accompanied by a decline in grade and by increased mining costs. The continuation of this trend will further reduce tonnages in the future, the only check being further economies in mining, mill-ing, transportation and smelting. During the past 50 years the Utah mining industry has been suc-cessively forced to the production of lower grade ores and success-ively has faced increasing costs inherent in deeper work. With no increase in the market value for its products, changes in mining meth-ods, milling practice, and smelting practice have been necessary for survival. The American Smelting and Refining Company, well aware of this from its past experience, is constantly endeavoring to improve its smelting practice. America Was Given to be tree There are any number of people, mostly extreme leftists, or radicals, who sneer at the idea that things spiritual were in any way concerned with the founding of this nation, or that the United States can possibly have any spiritual significence. If that were true there would not be much hop of anything about it surviving the present cataclysm. In the early days when the immortal continental congress was wrestl ng with the problems that confronted it, there was a resorting to pray-er and the bible for guidance. At the critical moment, it is said on very good authority, that a strange man, unknown to any of them, appeared in the midst of the congress and im-mediately joined in the debating. The account says, "A fierce voice rang out. The delegates turned to look upon the Stran-ger who had so suddenly appeared to them. His tall, stately form and pale face filled them with awe and his voice with admiration. His voice, ringing with a holy zeal, the stranger stirred them to their very souls. After his ringing address his closing words rang through the building God has given America to be free! He then suddenly dissapeared and vvap never seen again." Yes, America was given to be free, and free it shall remain. .... at tm .... How Hurry and Quick Lunches Kill Editor Progressive Opinion What's the matter? Where's everybody going? Perhaps when they do get to their destination providing they get there alive ninety per cent of them discover that they could have taken more time, and not taken the risk of being in such a terrible hurry. Hurry is the scourge of America. Hurry has ruined more Americans than has any other word in the vocabulary of life. Hurry is both cause and result of our high pressure civilization. "Can't wait" is characteristic of the , country, and is written on everything; on commerce, on school, on society, on churches. Mushrooms attain their full power over night; Oaks require decades to develop their growth. The old time courtecy went out when the new time hurry came in. Hurry is the father of dyspesia. The bolting of food has become a national vice. The words "Here because of Quick Lunches" might properly be placed on thou-and- s of headstones in our cemeteries. Hurry means the breakdown of the nerves. It is the roya road to nervous pro-strations. The road to distinction must be paved with years of self-deni- and hard work. C. V. Hansen Big Townsend Meeting, Eagles' Hall Tonight |