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Show PROGRESSIVE OPINION teud a. Seconder Matter t th Port Office t Salt Lake City. UUh, underc Some Things to Think About Th. . destruction of food and cotton was capitalisms way of solving the problem. But the problem was not solved. It was proved, however, that if the people could buy all that they needed to eat and wear there would never be over production. HATE IS A POOR FOUNDATION. Anything built on hatp cannot stand or survive. Such a foundation is laid in sand, sometimes quick sand at that. Hate cannot direct or stay the hand of Destiny. Hate only adds fuel to the fire. Americans, cleanse your hearts of hatred. If you do not you will be burned by the fires you are feeding. ADd what are the fires that'hate is feeding? The are the fires of rebellion, and the rebellion, once started, will turn into anarchy which will pull uown every institution you are talk-ing about saving. The words and shafts dripping with hate being uttered today are the meanest and most violent forms of sabotage and worse Fellow citizens abandon your camp-aign of hate or leave hope for your republic behind. RAISE PRICES DESTROY PEOPLE Up and up go the prices of necessities. The raiseis near-in- g the 30 per cent mark. Up and up go the salaries, increa-ses here and increases there, necessitated, in some cases, by the exorbitant prices of commodities. It all adds up at the door of the taxpayer aud he appears to stand thore dumbly and take it and seems to call for more no protests, no object-ions What about those who cannot get raises? They have to grin and bear it. if they can't get milk they take water; if they can't get butter they take margarine. If they can't get. meat they take beans. God help the poor. It is high time that the robbed and plundered common peo-ple get together and demand an abundance of the good things of life before the time comes when they will be put in concentration camps for asking for it. President. Robert M. Hutchins To His Chicago U Graduates. What an Indictment. "We are turning you out on the world at one of the darkest hours of history. The dangers that threaten you seem more me acing than any that ever overhung a gradua-ting class. The equipment with which you confront them looks pitifully inadequate to the task. "We may go to war. The political, social and economic institutions under which you have been brought up may All the plans you have made may fail. All the hopes you have cherished may be dissapointed." I ABUNDANCE ' fOR ALL NOW Who says there cannot be abundance for all? Those who say it tell a falsehood. Let us see. The great engineer, Hoover, was one of these and it was he, backed by the National Cham-ber of Commerce, who started destroying food while thirty million people were hungry. His administration ordered every third row of cotton plowed under in 1931; 12,000 acres of peach trees were uprooted and 800,000,000 pounds of grapes destroyed in California. Of course the New Deal improved on this. It was not a political move but one of capitalism's trump cards and used the world over. A million cows were killed while, if fed properly, the people could easily have used 27 billion pounds of odditional milk and cream, 2 billion pounds of butter, 2 billion pounds of beef. We produced one-four- th of all the hogs in the world and because people could not buy lard and pork we destroyed nearly six and one-ha- lf million hogs. Thirty million people couldn't buy mutton chops so they killed over two million sheep. The worms and the buzzards got fed to the limit but poor, homely humans could not get what they needed. MASSES HARD HIT Down on all the lower levels people are called upon to te loyal and give and give until it hurts, while up at the top tne ghouls of finance are gathering in. all the profits with which to further their power over a id' control of the people. If people can be forced to give their sons at $21 a month then the takers of outrageous profits can and should be made to cut these prof-its to the absoluteminnimum BIG FISH WELL FED The truth has come to light that corporatioas, banks, in-surance companies and others are rolling in new-inad- e moDey. Dividends from January to May of this year amounted to nearly one and three-quarte- r billion. U.S. Dept. of Labor reports that retail food prices have advanced 10 to 22 per ct. Rents in workingmen's districts have gone up 12 to 22 percent. HE labor unions have made their demands In addition, certain of these labor unions have I upon the railways of the United States and demanded advances in their pay not included through the railways upon the PUBLIC. These in the above' figures, and more rules for the demands are vastly larger in proportion than any creation of unnecessary jobs. they have ever made. The economical and efficient , The situation, then, is this: The total cost of operation of the railways is vital to the nation s defense effort. Therefore, the Western complying with all the demands made would Railways present to the public the following facts: be approximately 900 million dollars a year! The labor unions representing engineers, fire- - The average weekly earnings of railway employees men, conductors, brakemen and switchmen are are now 15 per cent higher than in the peak year demanding a. 30 per cent increase in wages, 1929, while the cost of living is 12 per cent le:;. amounting to 190 million dollars a year , The demands of the railway labor unions are beir- - although their present rates or pay are the '" made when the entire nation has just been cskd highest in history to make a supreme effort for National Defense. Other unions representing a greater number of railway employees are demanding wage The railwaYs cannot meet these demands without V increases ranging as high as 95 per cent a 9reat increase in the cost of transportation. They averaging 47 per cent and amounting to 580 exceed by more than 700 million dollars the in- - million dollars a year although their present come that the railways had left after paying the'r rates of EH also are the highest in history. annual expenses, taxes and charges in 1940. Thus the wage increases being demanded by Tne railways have a vitally important job befor? the labor unions amount to 770 million dollars them. They need all their resources to confine a year, an average increase in excess of adequately to serve you and contribute effective' 41 per cent. toward the National Defense Program. THE WESTERN RAILWAYS Union Station, Chicago, III. I Dr. J. OLIN KING OPTOMETR- -" Complete Optical Service 1302.FIRST NAT'L BANK BLDG. PhoncR.. Alfred oreiiNen PIEroWgrEesLsEiv1e1 75 East 2nd. South p- - Jewelry, Watch, Kodak Repairing 40 Yea In Salt Lake City. f We can serve you better than evfj IF YOU WANT 0, K. SHOE REP' !Ar7 You must (10 tot m OX SHOE SII 9 tt So. State Slrrt a Copper For Defense --vv ... . Bars of Blister " Copper at Utah smelter ready for defense needs. With over half the world at war and the United States redoubling its national defense efforts, the eyes of the nation are focused upon Utah with its vast store of natural resources. The mines of Utah are responding and are work-ing their hearts and their hands that this nation may fulfill Its destiny. Utah is one of the most import- ant mining states, having an abund--. ance of the materials so necessary for modern warfare. In fact, na-tions have gone to war over less resources than exist in Utah We ; have the world's largest open-cu- t copper mine; more coal than the Ruhr valley In Germany; several of the nation's leading c mines and untold deposits ot semi or undeveloped Over a period of 15 years, Utah has produced 6.S6 per cent of all the world's supply of copper; G 8 per cent of the world's silver; 7 per cent ot the world's lead supply; 2 per cent of the zinc production and 1 per cent of the world's gold. Utah is indeed one of the most fortunate areas in the world, and the state stands with her sister states in forming a sold, unbeat-able combination. With the of her people Utah will contribute greatly to the preserva-tlo- n of democracy and freedom ' TTLE MOMENTS IN BIG LIVES ' - . J MT1)WOMDER WHAT TH' lllf OM TrlE J COMMITTEE AAAJ0V OF THE VETERAWP rJSl m W gKVteMP OLD IKJ ailLtA Ia W "E |