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Show -- T-M C. N. Lund, Editor V l&-- kJ Entered ga S.cond CIhsb Matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City. Utah. UndeYtheAct of Congrese of March 3. 1879. ' Devoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development VOLVni,No. 3. City Address, 2irDavid KeithBldg Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, February 4, 1944. Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. Timely Editorial Thoughts READ AND LEARN. HERE IS INFORMATION WORTH MANY TIMES THE LITTLE THINGS THAT ENGAGE MEN Most readers know that Prof. N. L. Nelson of Downey, Idaho, has written and published a book, "The Second War in Heaven." We read it and took exception to what he said of Russia, told him so and sent him two of the best books on that system. He acknowledges having read them and is revising his book, changing his attitude from placing that country on the side of Lucifer and now placing it on the side of democracy and freedom. A postage stamp to him will bring the explanation. Let us quote him on the war: "In the prophecy on war in the Doctrine and Covenants .there is made known a decree, by the power shaping this conflict, that the outcome is to be a "full end of all nations." "Nations" can mean only governments of the earth, all of which are built on the pattern of special privileges for the rich and therefore a merciless exploitation of the poor ... Empires must go, and all the petty tyrannies within empires which make, in every country, a few millionaires on the one hand and paupers by the millions on the other. The pre-diction was made 110 years ago, during the very fullest swing of heaven's drive to win the world to the democratic ideal. Does heaven build up on the one hand only to destroy on the other? On the contrary, the build-u-p on the vision is still with us, and forms the slogan for the armies of free-dom today. But on the achievement side God foresaw that within a hundred years the rottenness honeycombing de-mocracies would necessitate their complete wiping out so as to give the vision a new start. Let us believe that this start is toward the millenium." This supports our position which we have taken ever since the war began. The world's cup of iniquity is full and the Lord is chastening and cleansing until His predic-tion is fulfilled, that "a full end shall be made of all nations." Who is for and who is against His purposes in this war? Think! PERSONAL AND OTHER ITEMS i FOR UTAH AND THE U S. PlllllllIP , lliil i i Our Faithful Friend Emil Gammriter 0f Kenil worth Real ty Co., Phoenix, Ariz., writes: ' Pleaso find enclosed another mite to keep the press going, You are like John the Baptist jn tiie wilderness making the paths straight for the coming change The bridge is burning at both ends Better hurry with the necessary remedies."' Neighbor jJ. Everett Seely is as punetual with his visits as a human can be. Ho has often brot up books and magazines to read, and has presented us with several of the la'ter. He is a reader and thinker and lie can always give a reason for the hope within him. Russel Olsen, nine year-ol- d grandson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Evan Olaen of. Mt. Plea sant, sends out to Americans the following commendable appeal in rhyme: Americans buy a bond ' To help the boy s accross the pond. Our sincerest sympathy goes out to the Manwarings because of a war happening which can-not be published just yet. f Nephew Elmo Lund will grad-uate from a course in airplane flying this month with the rank of lieutenant. Hemay be liome for a short furlough, Dr. J.Olin King has a daugh-ter in the' serviec, Ensign E'lil h King graduate of the U. S. Na-val school in Massachussets She is stationed at Farragut. Miss Bettie Kiefer, in the service in Washington state, has promised to love, honor and obey a fine second lieulen-- ) ant, not only for the duration, but for life. Congratulations. Friend W. A. Hudson is well known to our readers and very favorably known o us. He is chairman of one of the most I important committees of the ' Old Age Group and is doing a j very good work And he is boimst and conscientious in all that he does. Neighbor S. S. Stevens, the Metropolitan barber at 30 Sc. A State, has just spent a month in the sunshine of Arizona, where he and his wife went to see their two sons who are in the service. Utah's senator, Elbert D. Thomas, chairman of the com-mittee on Education and Labor, is one of the ablest men in the senate, and it should be the duty of the state to keep him there. Recently he spoke be-fore a religious gathering in the Ea-t- . It was a scholarly effort on tolerance and the lights of minorities. Here is one out-standing sentence: "The gen-ius of the American constitution is not that the majority rules buttbat under it the minority is protected l'stened to and re-spected." In a radio address he gave the best thought on the General Marshal and strike re-sponsibility incident, saying that the merits of the union's claims and the cause of the gre-edy struggle for profits are of li'.tle consequence in contrast! with the national effort to win the war, being very fair to labor and honest management. Sen-ator Wagner calls him "The distinguished senator from Utah " And at home he should have equal recognition by a majority of the people. THE CHILDREN " v. V i 1 covavc n vcfc 1H1- - PRS( Orj'i-ACL- J BEHOLD YOUR LITTLE ONES Men and nations and civi-lizations may be adjudged by the way they treat little chil-dren. It can never be told how children have been treat-ed in Europe and Asia by this war. Millions torn from their parents never to see them again. Countless little ones starved to death; hundreds of thousands wilfully and brutally murdered; millions sent into a slavery indescribable; unnum-bered little girls sent to con-quering countries to be fed to brothels to serve the lusts of bestial men. Their cries have reached right into heaven where angels weep for them. How and when will the hearts of men turn to and learn the . attitude, of One . who said: "Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not, for of such is the Kingdom of Heaven?" And here is what He said and did to them among some of His other sheep: He asked people to bring all their little ones unto Him. He knelt down with them; wept for them, and prayed for them. "Behold your little ones," He said, and then the angels came down and encircled them and ministered unto them. Such is the Master's value of children. To Him they are more pre-cious than all else in the world, and "woe be unto him that offends one of these little ones." When, oh when, will nations turn to Him and be saved? HOW LITTLE HAS BEEN THE CHANGE About 3000 years ago two were walking among the people but, like all prophets they were without honor in their own country. They, Micah and Isaiah, in their prophetic role called out to their generation somewhat as follows: "Rulers, you are criminals, merci-lessly eating the people whom you should be protecting. You are haters of the good and lovers of evil. You judges and priests are corrupt and mercenary; full of hypocrisy, uttering cant about the Lord's care for yourselves even while you are plundering the poor. To you officials we say: Graft is written all over the public life. And to you wealthy we say: Lust for money has utterly destroyed the ancient manhood of Israel. There is no longer any brotherhood; love of country has become a mercenary patriotism. The one satisfaction in life is to get and hoard. He is the best and greatest man who can steal most and keep within the law. Laws are made for the benefit of you, the rich." That's Bible Talk. LINCOLN, MAN OF MEN, AND MAN OF GOD It is soon Abraham Lincoln's birthday which should be celebrated by all, not only by a party. He was great enough to rise above every other living statesman and tender and human enough to talk kindly to a little lost child and lead it gently home while the guns were firing on Fort Sumpter. Once he came upon a one-arm- lad who was being made fun of and mistreated by school boys because of his stove-polish-shoes. He made enquiry and found the lad to be the son of a widowed mother struggling to keep him and other children by doing washings. He fitted him out with new shoes, new suit and hat and had his wife fill the poverty-stricke- n home with more clothes and a supply of groceries: Never too busy to be kind. .... ... OUR HEART WEEPS FOR THE MOTHERS OF MARTYRED BOYS Since learning of the savage and cruel atrocities heaped upon American prisoners of war under control of. the Japanese, our heart weeps for and with the mothers the' mothers of the crucified sons and the mothers of all other sons in the service. Words are idle in trying to comfort and console. Mothers, may the infinite Author-o-life strengthen you to carry your cross and bear your burden. Turn for strength and consolation to that other bearer of the cross who died in Galilee. Call upon Him and He will go all the way with you. Your heroic sons suffered cruel and ignominious deaths, but they are not lost. Their spirits are gathered to eternity where they are hailed as. martyrs and crowned among the noble army of souls that went forth believing that Truth and Freedom and Right were more precious than life. For the agonies they suffered, for the fine young lives they gave, there will be ample rewards given to them where they are. They will be given everlasting life and blessings without limit, and they will surely be among those arrayed in white before the great eternal throne. Peace and blessing, mothers, to your troubled souls. May the memories of your boys be a light unto your lives, and at the last may it lead you down to the grave and shine above your resting place like a sun until the loved and lost shall come again to view and walk with you into the land where every dream shall come true. COMMUNICATION By George E, Manwaring Editor Progressive Opinion: Much has been said recently about the intense and unreasoning hatred for President Roosevelt by some news-papers, lecturers, and columnists. Here in Utah one paper and columnist Pegler have been singled out for special attention. We may not all agree with what has been said but I believe we can all agree on the damning effects of hate upon people who engage in that expensive pastime. Newspapers, for instance, suffer from a constantly decreas-ing subscription list, a loss of valuable advertising, and from the loss of respect of a circle of people who have supported them. There is another answer to why the paper gets thinner and thinner than the one advanced "that government bureaucrats have restricted us in the use of newspaper print. paper." . .. - , Three good articles on HATE have come to my atten-tion recently which are well worth reproduction in Pro-gressive Opinion. Bill Gulick in Country Gentleman for February, says: , "Hate is a strange thing. In some men it's a brief, intense flame that sweeps through them, like fire through Cellophane and then is dead. In others it's a slow, hidden poison that destroys the owner without harming its object. Occasionally, in a rare man, it's a food with which he sus-tains himself." Lieut. Jim Lucas, Marine Combat Correspondent, writes for the press under date of January 29, 1944, in part as follows: "I went to war a year ago swearing that I would not hate. Logically, sanely, I told myself that hate was a purely negative emotion, and that it destroys the man who hates and leaves his enemy strong. I cannot say that I have kept that promise, for I have seen too much of the Jap. I know too much about him. . . ." To be Continued Two good people who have beeu Friends of the paper from the beginning are Mr. and Mrs. R G.Page and they always keep4.heir accounts balanced. Mr. Page is not as strong and healthy as he used to be but has good hopes for the future. If every county assessor's of-fice was as well managed and awell carried on as is county Assessor A J. Skidmore's oftice if would be well for the people a d the state. He believes that the tax payers are always en-titled to a fair and pquare deal and he does bis best to give it. T him a public office is a pub-lic trust. THIS NATION AND WORLD MARCHING TO HIGHER DESTINY Those who are so inclined may hate and malign the government as much and as long as they please, but they can no more prevent the changes and the destiny of the United States than King Canute could sweep back the ocean with a broom. The time of change is here, has been for some time. The changing process is painful and slow but it is on the way. The evils of the old competitive system, the wrongs of individualism, the tyrannies of capitalism, autocracy and imperialism, and the faults of democracy are being forced out of the world's life never to return. Cooperation and collective effort will and must be the order of the future. Men cannot properly build upon the world-wid- e ruin under any other system. People must begin to read and think of the better world which cannot come unless it is first visioned. It must be built by the combined powers of a new knowledge, a better wisdom, and a brotherly love. Minds and hearts must be opened to the promises of the prophets and the dreams of the humanitarians. Minds that see nothing in the four freedoms but what befits a prisoner, will be worse than dead timber to the builders. Men and women must learn to use their divinely-give- n powers to create the kind of world and the kind of life that there should be for creatures made in the image of God and who are on the way to divine destinies. OLD AGE PENSION MEETS The Utah State Old Age Pen-sion group meets Thursday 2 o 41 Post Office Place. TOWNS1END CLFB MEETS The local Townsenrt Club No. 1, meets next Friday night at 7:30. Alfred Sorenson Progressive Jeweler ' 75 East Second South Jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAKiS CITY, BONDS OVER AMERICA The homely, honest ll i ii features of Abraham noneSTADe Lincoln have provided many sculptors with a pattern for their finest njljji work. Notable among a, 1IqKA, these is the Saint Gau- - I , ' TiMW dens "Lincoln," in Chi--M Irj cago's Lincoln Park. '' Jp, A 1 Hitler and his strong- - " I arm squads are learn- - r ing today what Lin- - coin preached a cen- - Buy More War Bonds tunr can become ago: "Notjon Ond Hold 'eitl slave, half free." ' - The World's News Seen Through The Christian Science Monitor An International Daily ism Editorials Are T.mely and Instructive V Section, Make Features, Together with the Weekly Magaz.ne ,A the Monitor an Ideal Newspaper for the Home. r Yearly, or .00 a Month Price 1 1 2.00 Saturday Issue, including Magaz.ne Seccon, R6C Issues 25 Cone Introductory Offer, 6 Saturday Obtainable ac: CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM 702 Mclntyre Bldg. Salt Lake Cit Utah f U A NATIONAL LOSS C. V. Hansen Up bobs Mr. Tightwad and says: "You must remember that Andy, the saloon man, and others in the same busi-ness pay a big revenue into our public treasury Why, they pay so much that it amounts to $9,42 per capita for all people of the U. S. "Yes we charge Andy a good sum to carry on his poison selling. But there is another side to the ledger. While he is putting $9.42 into our pockets on one side, he is taking out on the other side from ligif imate business groceries, dry good., boots and shoes, etc., $31,31 per enpita. Not only so but liquor-bre- d crimes, diseasees inefficiency in production, ets. conservatively estimated, take at least $33.56 per capita annually or a total of $64.87 Quite a bad bargain for John Doe and all his breeders of registered live stock and for the boys and girls of jour farm homes. (These figures from the business Mon's Research Foundation of Chicago ) Yes, we might look again. It has been estimated that our nalinnal less to productive labor by reason of "blue-Monday- '" sickness and premature death of working all induced by Andy's poison to $5 000 dOO.000 per year. THIS SHOULD BE FOR THE ENEMY The enemy which has so savagely tortured to death so many American soldiers should be wiped- off the earth. Their homeland should be destroyed as was ancient Babylon, to be no more inhabited, to be a home for wild beasts and doleful creatures; to become a heap, a dwelling place for dragons; to remain desolate forever and forever. I " "We Are Buying Extra War Bonds Are You?" i T. ,..,.un n iiijjil. im in - mmwmrfnrfivMirmmm frw ""!' m'ow 'mwmivmnwt tw- - r- - tt - i s ; "J V ' " u ' r - xr--s . ' - l f ' A J , ' r - , , I h. r r t, t ' J , . ' ' i , I, f L ',; -I r , u-- -" ii v ' t ; jp ! it 7 ? t f ' ' I ' - H - - - v ' 3 - - , i '"''' Jones, Jr., W ilkcs-Barr- e Ta . has been a douffiiboy for four years. He was wounded during the North African cam- - puign bv enemy machine gun fire cjnee his return he has aided greatly in the sale of War Bonds and buys plenty himself. Srt Nicholas Miller. N- , won the silver star for res-cuing two comrades under Lre at P El Guita. His knee cap was brok-en and the cartilage torn out and at present cannot move his knee. Halloran Hosnital doctors are try-ing to correct this. He buys Bonds. Pvt. Louis Rieimeicr. 33, oi New York, was wounded bv arterial shell during tiie bicilian cam-paign. He hzs a brother in tin. Marines. Private Bic'mcier and his wife and brother are buying AYar Bonds regularly. Are you do-ing the same? Pvt. vlfiivnce Clark. 2!. Stamp-ers. La., has two brothers in the service, one in the Army and the I other in the Navy. lie was wcun;'. ed in the right leg and both fee. in the North African campaign and is now at Halloran General Hospital. He buys AYar Bonds. Pvt. Pamde Gaiella, New lork, went through tiie North campaign without a scratch ) at was wcuuded during the inva-,l3- n of Sicily ami is now in trac-tion at Halloran HcspUal. He has a brother in the Navy and has War Bonds and is buying more. k' |
