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Show " - - ; - y This earth should be a fll'i'V O A. mmbimmmhbmmm ill i 1 ''jBPiA Man has so lived that he Parad.se of peace and hap-- l J a a fV rtM 1 4 VMrtA 'if f1 ftft'ft ftft ft rtYftft has deserted his spiritual piness for Brothers, all T H j l fj j jj ID Uk (jL j 0 f U --4 I jfj j J II j safeguards. His big job 1 1 A LIBERAL AMERICAN WEEKLY 8 1 I Entered as Second Class Matter at the Post Office at Salt Lake City. Utah. Underthe Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. .j Devoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development and Uplift. yIirJol,ityddress 217 David Keith Bldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Oct. 8, 1943 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year PERSONAL AND OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST If St. George, home of hon-est men, has a more honest soul than Neighbor Boyd Den-n- et we would like to see him We know him only by the cor respondence we've had andthat measures him to be aee high. He has caused our heart to be full of gratitude more than once. Success to him and his. He says: "I like the way you expose and talk to the selfish rich." Friend W. W. Whitney of Tremonton, a Constitutional money Fioncer, has sent his re-gards and his thoughts. He says: ' You are a most worthy person and I send you the val-ue of about two bushels of wheat. It may help you to ob-tain 60 pound loaves of bread. I took 409 pounds to the mill and got in exchauge 167 pounds of flour. So even though I raise the material for 60 loaves of bread I don't get as much for the wheat as if I sold the wheat and bought the bread." What you say about bonds in War I and now may be true but if we published it both of us would be taken into a con-centration camp for the dura-tion. What you say about mon-ey is absolutely true, but re-member how Nebuchadnezzar threw the three Hebrews into the furnace for talking against his money standard" And what they did to Lincoln when he printed constitutional money. We saw a picture of the govern ment press printing bonds.Why can't it print money ior i self that way instead of printing it for the money lenders? Ask Utah's real Prof, of money, Geo A. Startup of Provo about it. Our friend Jens Lund of 1 2160 So. 7th East, introduced us to one of his fine sons the other day who is about ready to go to war. His other son is with the military police. Lyman Petersen, nephew, and wife of Moab, were in Salt Lake this week on business. He is district clerk in the grazing office there and likes it. He is a I. so the ward clerk in the church and his wife is president of the Y. L. M. I. A. He says they have Cooperative medicine and hospitalization there of which we shall have more to say later. To Mr and Mrs. Newell Lar-se- n a son. And now they have as many kinds of children as Brigham Youug had. Our good Friend Major Fisher Harris writes us from sunny England where he is stationed and ready for action-H- e says be misses the paper and wishes he might see it. We shall try to get it to him but we have not had much success with others. You who think the Japs are good to prisoners should see and hear some of the many nurses returned from there and now at Bushnell hospital, Brig- - ham city. Never on this earth have the atrocitities been worse than these have suffered. De-cent men cannot believe it And yet these brutes have sympa-thizers here. W, The Axis Stops at Nothing. BKl Don't stop your War Bond f PayrollSavingsatlO. Every At-- soldier is a 100 percenter. Fiff-- j ore It out yourself. Personal. T We are proud that we have such men as Staynor Richards I on our list. He is one of the state's prominent citizens and one ol the best churchmen. He is in the real estate business and we are sure that the deals he puts over "are clean and hon-est He has helped in many ways to build up Salt Lake City and Utah, and expects to con-tinue for a long time. Success to him. This is now about the only paper that will publish your though s. Send them in, but send with them something with which to get the type set as the writer in today's paper has done. ! TAXES GETTING A STRANGLE HOLD ON PEOPLE Utah Tax payer. Citizens: You better wake up and get to thinking. j In the 10 years from 1933 to 1942 property taxes in Utah were increased $1,082,000 or 6: In the 3ame period county taxes jumped from $1,877,000 to $3,816,000 or 103. Cities increased from $3,363,000 to $4 004,000 or 16. Property ' taxes for state purposes in 1933 were $1,202,000 and nothing 5n 1942. It cost Salt Lake County. 54 more to operate iti half of the City and County Building than it did the City. The re-spective figures are $33,057 and $21,416. The County mana-gement needs some "house Cleaning." The sheriff of Salt Lake County receives 30c per meal for feeding enemy aliens and 15c for feeding other prisoners. The cost per meal at the State Prison is under 10c. On This We Take Our Stand IN DEFENSE OF GOVERNMENT SOCIAL WELFARE AND SECURITY We Ask For the Right to Express An Honest Opinion We sincerely believe and maintain that the government way of treating the aged, the sick, the blind, the lame, the unfortunate and the widows and orphans is the best yet de-veloped, and does the least toward leaving any humiliating effects. What the government is doing along lines of social welfare is the result of years of evolution and is truly and literally Christianity in action in the field of economics. At long last, after years of effort, Christianity has put heart and soul into government and what we are experiencing is nothing less than exercising a goodly degree of the pure and undefiled religion of Jesus. Before the war all ed civilized govern-ments were granting old age pensions and such assistance as needed. But some stand against it as some have always stood against every form of humanitarian progress. We feel that it is, to say the least, cruel and unjust that those whose paths are strewn unto the end with abundance should object to this and put fear into the hearts of the poor who tremble on the brink of the grave by saying that their Maker is displeased with them for grasping at straws, or life-lines, to keep them alive. That's a harsh thing to say against a God of love and mercy. Strange that there are no objections to any of the other forms of pensions, such as postal, railroad, judges, teachers, churches, even pensions from means made out of saloons and worse. These seem to be good, but those whom the social system has so cruelly crushed and cast aside are accursed for extending their feeble hands to take what a Christian government and a Christian state gives them as a right, not as charity. All that the Lord has said upon the subject is bedrocked on the statement that His system would j make it impossible that there be any poor or any rich. "It is not given that one man should possess that which is above another, wherefore the world (and men) lieth in sin." One Down, Two to Go i oRvrro Ascoy ' O ! 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SERIALLY IN THIS PAPER -- . w $ 4r win HIT" "i mi SEE HERE, PRIVATE HARGROVE Read the book the whole nation has been talking about. You'll laugh out . loud. It's a whizz! RUNNING SERIALLY IN THIS PAPER TOWNSBND CLTTB MEETS The local Townsend Club No. 1, meets next Friday night at 7:30. I'L. D.S. designed CARDS for Service Men and Missionaries. Limited supply. Athalane Dadley, 40 So Main. OLD AGE TENSION MEETS The Utah State Old Age Pen-sion group meets Wednesday 7:30, City HaJJ, Thursday H. 41 Post Office Place. VOTE FOR 77T:::::EARL J. LsJP- - GLADE CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR 1 An experienced public leader and executive 2 A proved Friend of Organized Labor 3 A fearless exponent of "A Public Office Is a Public Trust." 4 Organizer and Builder of KSL, one of Salt Lake City's im' portant business building institutions. 5 Originator of Salt Lake City's greatest national friend-makin- g medium, namely: The st broadcast of the Salt Lake Tabernacle organ and choir. 6 A loyal friend of youth and old age. 7 Father of seven children, with three sons in the armed forces, 8 A business man with a fine record of achievement. 9 A tireless public servant and community builder, with an ex perience that shows him to be a true friend of the people. 0 An enthusiast with an abiding faith in the glorious future of Salt Lake City. Sponsored by The Citizens' Glade-For-Mayor-Commit-tee Primary Election Tuesday, Oct. 9 (Paid Political Ad) i' L. C. ROMNEY j Candidate for J t City ' I Commissioner r. "- -- His Name is on Everyon's Lips 1 City Primary Oct. 19. Registration Oct. I 2, 26. Election Nov. 2 J Alfred Sorenson Progressive Jeweler 75 East Second South Jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAKE CITY, Something to Think About A COMPARISON BY SUBSCRIBER Editor Progressive Opinion: Here is a companion piece for your editorial: "Big and Little Crimes." This was published in the Telegram of Sept. 17th under the title, "Salt Lake Man Pays $141 For 20 Cents Worth of Cheese stolen from Safeway Stores July 6th. He was also given a 15 day suspended sentence." The court costs and fine amounts to just 705 times the value of the cheese. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that the Utah Power & Light Co.- - overcharged its patrons (you and me) $1,500,000 per year for a period of 23 years, they got away with $34,500,000. Assuming further that justice is dis-tributed impartially that there is no difference between "Big and Little Crimes" Utah Power & Light Co. would be assessed a grand total of 705 times $34,500,000. It runs into astronom-ical figures. The last Bond drive is dwarfed into insignificance! If.the President and General Manager and the "Assistant to the President" had a suspended sentence hanging over their heads equal to 15 days for every 20 cents, it would take an astronomer to do the job of figuring it out, and "Time and all Eternity" would have a different meaning? The Wash-ington guide was right when he pointed out the court house with this remark: "That is where dey dispenses with justice." GEO. E. MANWARLNG. Cooperation between nations in the spirit of good neighbors, founded on the principles of liberty, equality, jus-tice, morality and law, is the most effective method of safe-guarding and promoting the well-bein- g of all. m .... Story From Great Pyramid A man by the name of Worth Smith has written a book on the great Pyramid called Miracle of the Ages. From that book we take the following concerning the Destiny of the ed States and Great Britain. Read it, as he has deciphered it from the Pyramid. Written in 1934. "1 he destiny of the United States and the British Empire is henceforth a joint destiny. Economically they are interde-pendent, and shall always be so. The present economic sys-tem under which both nations operate, is doomed to pass out of existence in th3 course of the next 17 years. The present system of economics will be immediately supplanted by an-other, howewer, isin facteven now beginning to be supplanted by another, and a far better and more equitable one. In all really great things the U. S. and the British emqire will pur sue their joint destiny together until the end of time. In a spirit of closest cooperation they will face all things together confidently and after their transition through the very troubu-lou- s times ahead, they will, in the end, the Great Pyramid most positively teaches, be the paviour-nation- s of civilization. The divine assessment and judgment of nations, period of great trial and distress of millions, will oecurover a period of 17 years, beginning Sept 16, 1936, and ending in 1953." Untangling One of Two Limited Wrecks, i ; ' - J - l Huge cranes lift battered coaches of the Congressional Limited which was wrecked in northeast Philadelphia, killing 78 and injuring 123. Eleven hours later, the ZOth Century Limited was wrecked two miles east of Canastota, N. Y., killing three and injuring seven. The first wreck re-sulted from a burned out axle journal, the second from a boiler explosion. Here is something that must be changed everywhere if there is ever to be universal peace and justice. The boy king of Egypt has an inherited fortune of $50,000,000 and an annual .,. income of $500,000, while the great mas? of people live in poverty and squalor and rarely have enough food and clothing for their minimum needs. A similar condition exists in every capitalistic country of the world and until it is changed there will never be a world fit for the common people to live in. If it is right for a man to gather all the wealth he can squeeze from his fellows then it is right for the big hog to eat the food away from the weaker ones, and the big bull to stand guard overall the hay so the weaker ones get little or none. It is cf fine game they have been playing with their brothers, the aeople, but their game is about up and there will be new pards and honest dealers. To paint a true picture of the progress that mankind ' - , has made in a single century would be too great a task for an artist. Through the physical sciences man has produced much more than all the ages have ever dreamed of. The famous Four Freedoms should be as much a part of Americanism as are the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. They are a part of true Chrisitanity. mm Senator Thomas On Jeffersen We have received from Senator Elbert D. Thomas an auto-graphed copy of his book, Thomas Jefferson, World Citizen, which was written for the occasion of the 200t,h anniversary of the birth of that great man. It is a well-writte- n and scholarly effort which proves from Jefferson's Own words that he was, besides being one of the truest and greatest Americans who did so much to lay the country's great foundations, also broadminded enough to take in all mankind and to be. in very deed a World Citizen. They misunderstand him those who try to make an isolationist of him. We thank Utah's worthy and distinguished senior senator for this book as we have, since boyhood been an admirer of Jefferson. The Devil Is No Fool If the Devil and all hip angels, with their intelligence and genius had labored and conspired for ten thousand years they could not have created a better system for themselves and their purposes than the old Russia. What need had they for another system when they' had their own perfect system with its terrible priestcraft, its uparalelled, cold and cruel tyranny, its universal ignorance, poverty and squalor. The Devil is too wise to destroy such a system. It was the grinding of the mills of the Gods that destroyed it to make way for a vastly better one. While that country's heroic sons are saving themselves and the U. S. and Britain, and fighting as large armies have never fought before, their cause, and our cause, was stabbed in the back with verbal daggers of hate It is only a few years since 10,000 ministers hammered, their pulpits and called the Lord to witness that Mormonism was from the Devil, and a eounterfit of Christianity. |