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Show : (J .. ' VOL. 5 No. 46 David Keith Bklg., Dial SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH, FRIDAY, DEC 12, 194 j Published by C. N. Lund $1.50 PER YEAR '. Dracoes we Wair WMi EMTOIIIALS By C. N. LlIM) THE FIRSTCASUALTIES C. N. Lund. Those hero boys of oar love and life, The boys whom ow hearts would keep, Went downwith their ships in the pagan strut To graves in the yeasty deep. They died with their country' s flag unfurled, Their eyes wide set on its stars; With dreams in their souls of the better world Thas shall herald the end of wars. Mare Island Is Enjoying Boom Projects Under Way at Navy Yard Bring Housing Problem to Fore. VALLEJO, CALIF. This city, home of the Mare Island navy yard, is in the greatest boom of its his-tory. It has been through booms before notably the World war period which lasted from 1914 to 1921. But this boom promises to be the one that will all others for all time to come. The population has tripled, from 20,000 to 60,000 and the town has be-come a township. Federal, state and municipal au-thorities are striving in every pos-sible manner to meet the crisis in housing, feeding, schooling, sleeping and other fields. The only thing that makes their load a little lighter Is that everyone has plenty of money. Payroll Grows Steadily. The payrolls at the navy yard now carry 19,000 names and 1,000 more are being added monthly. Thrifty housewives who have a spare bedroom can make their pin money or increase the family cap-italby renting it to three men for. eight-hou- r periods of the entire 24 hours, the men coming from the day, night and early morning shifts. Those who are lucky enough to get a room for the full 24 hours pay $12.50 a week and get two meals daily for $8 a week. As they make $58 a week they can afford this out--, lay. Automobiles from 20 different states take up every inch of unused space in the city and the latest traf-fic survey shows 2,000 cars an hour streaming past one intersection. Some workers find it easier and cheaper to commute even for dis-tances of 100 miles. Federal Bousing Added. More than 4,000 federal housing units are being constructed on the outskirts of the city. The federal government will also help the state and city in providing school facili-ties in August for 7,500 children in-stead of the usual 4,500. The children from the outside at present say "life is not so hot" But one reported it was just as much fun as when his "dad" worked on defense projects elsewhere. Three-roo- m cabins rent for $60 a month and homes from $75 up. Trailers cost from $150 to $1,500. Staking space, not including gas and light bills, costs $3 a week when there is any. Trailers in all the Inhabited ter-ritory about the city keep residents supplied With ice, eggs, butter, meats, vegetables, bakery and other products without forcing anyone to have to "go to town" or "to the store" to fill their needs. Banks have had to double and triple their staffs to take care of the payrolls. Seek Aid to 'Prove' Births of Millions Standard Certificates' as Defense Move Asked. WASHINGTON. The federal gov-ernment has proposed that all the states take immediate steps to issue a new, uniform type of "delayed birth certificates" which would help make millions of native born Amer-icans eligible for defense jobs. The war, navy and commerce de-partments joined in the move, not-ing that by the census estimates, about 60,000,000 persons born in this country were without documentary proof of citizenship. In a letter to the vital statistics departments of every state, officials of the three departments urged adoption of a plan developed by the census bureau by which certificates ; would be issued on the basis of such prescribed evidence as hospital rec-ords, the family Bible and insurance policies. These certificates would have the same force as those now issued at birth by many states. A manual setting up uniform standards was submitted along with the request. One likely effect foreseen from adoption of the plan was lifting of an increasingly heavy burden on the census bureau. Requests are being received at the rate of more than 16,000 a week for proof of United States birth from the census rec-ords. The census bureau said that many states did not provide certif-icates at the time most of today's adults were born, and in other in-stances attending physicians neglect-ed to make the required reports to state officials. The joint letter to the state vital statistics departments said that "ad-mission to the armed forces depends on citizenship es does employment in most government positions. Fur-thermore, several statutes provide that on certain types of restricted defense work citizenship is a pre-requisite to employment." Will People Believe Us Now? This ,paper was the first to publish th't there positivel would be war to the hilt for the duration, and that conditions would develop that would force America to use all her resour-ces of men and means. And we said long ago that this war was in the plan of destiny and that we knew it was coming. And now that it is here we are desiio s of doing everything in our pover for this good and great country of ours. Hereafter let no one talk to us anything but simon pure Americansm. May God direct the Comman until barbarism and in-sane brutality are driven from the eartl . We wonder if people will believe us now. For a long time we have been paying that destiny would take us into the war. and that we could not avoid it Often we ha ve Quoted what was said through Joseph Smith that peace should be taken from the earth, and that w.ar would be poured out upon all nations until an end is made of the old order. Of course most everyone knows it now, but. they did not know and would not believe it one year ago, two or threeyears ago, when we were giving out warnings We know just what will happen now that we are in it, but we must not say anything that will hamper the work of defense or discourage the defenders of democracy We stand at attention ready to serve America THE NEXT NINE YEARS An Analysis anil a Prophecy for Wing Anderson First Printing, July 1938 Humanity is being taught Communism whether it wills or not, by the Fascists. Nazis don't realize it but they are as in-strumental in teaching affiliation and community effort as is Stalin or any self-avow- Communist. The production-for-profi- t, capitalistic system will be de-stroyed by the very men who are chosen to save it. After Hitler, Mussolini, Franco, and other Fascist dictators run their course there will be no capitalistic system and no capitalists. There is a strange parallel between the capitalistic system of today and the economy built upon slavery, within our own nation, prior to the Civil War. At that time there were within the United States two schools of thought. In the north the people realized that slavery had outlived its time. A few for-ward looking individuals could see that the retention of slavery could only mean constant friction and would ultimately lead to war. It was suggested that the United States purchase the slaves from their owners at a fair market price and free' them. This wise suggestion was opposed by none so much as the slave owners who would have profited most. Their opposition led, as we know to the Civil War, the freeing of the slaves, the destruction of the economy of the South for a generation, and a cost to the United States of thousands of lives, and many times what it would have cost to purchase and free the slaves. Those who stood in the way of progress lost their slaves and other possessions. And many of them lost their lives as well. The world has arrived at a time when wage slavery must go. ' There is plenty for all with a planned economy; but the own-ers in the United States (some sixty families) of the means of production, the factories and land, oppose such suggestions as were made by the well-know- n writer, Upton Sinclair; that the government purchase, at a fair market price, the means of production, from the present owners, and convert our present system of production for profit into production for use. This opposition to progress will as inevitably lead to a civil war, within the United States today, as it did a generation ago. m Today, within the United States, the capitalists have not succeeded in getting entire control of the government. When ; m they do we will have an American Hitler and will witness in our own country all the poisonous effects of Fascism to be seen in Germany, Italy and Japan. We have entered the golden age but the dawn is not yet. Nine years of darkness are ahead and it is indeed the darkest hour. The oldwill-no- t give up without a struggle and its pass-in- g will be accompanied by weeping, wailing and gnashing of j teeth by all who love it. World Changes to Come With the birth of the Kosmon Era in 1848, we must cease 5 to consider a nation or a people as a separate entity, but must look to the world as a unit. What affects one nation will soon thereafter be evident in every other nation. We have seen Nazi-Fascis- spread like an epidemic throughout Europe un-til now 370,000,000 people have been inoculated with it. It will spread throughout the world and control most peoples for l a snort period. ) Although the terms Communist, Fascist and Nazi are to be found in every newspaper and periodical these days it is astoni-shing how little informed is the average person regarding the world forces meant by these terms. The world is in a ferment and time of revolution. Out of the past a new form of govern-ment will appear and it is the birth-pang- s of the new systems that we are witnessing now. The negative forces of reaction are opposing ths positive forces of progress not only within the various nations but by entire nations. If we look within the nations we will find the reactionary forces trying to destroy the progressive groups. Three is a holy number and will be found to run through all Bibles which have stood the test of centuries. Accord-- " jng to tradition, Three Wise Men came to the Birth, the Trin-ity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, body soul and spirit. Four is the number of the earth with its four quarters of the globe, four directions, four seasons, four' evolutionary planes of mineral, vegetable, animal and man. Five is an intermediate number. Six comprises the three-fol- d realm of spirit manifesting, through the three-fol- d world of matter. This is the meaning of the interlocked triangles, the Star of David, the Emblem of the Jewish people-Seve-appears countless times in religious literature. It includes the four earth planes, and the three planes of spirit. The Book of the Revelation is a series of sevens. There were seven days of creation, six days of activity and one of rest. Among the Hebrews seven was a sacred number par excel- - 'ence.The candleabra with seven candles is one of the most important properties of their rituals. Seven priests blew the horn at the siege of Jerico, in the seven days required to cap-ture the city. It was the number of the locks, the seven days of meditation and prayer, seven pillars of wisdom, seven princes of Persia, are but a few references to the number seven which may be found in the Old and New Tstaments. Eight is representative of four light, (positive) forces in opposition to the four dark (negative) forces. Nine is the number of mankind. Nine months is the time of gestation for man, there are nine orifices in the body, man is possessed with nine faculties, etc. Ten is the complete number, the sum of the two sacred numbers three and seven- - Eleven is the number of change. The war ended on th? eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. Twelve is the mystical number. In both the Old and New Testaments and in Oahspe we find the numbers, three, sever,, nine and twelve constantly recurring. Some Items Of Personal Interest Long Favored Readers. And ou forgot to answer your brother's call. Let's be human. Dear Readers With a real Christinas spirit toward you we earnestly request that you have aChristmas spirit for us in a time of need. You must send us something send any sum you ran as soon as you can We have served you well, now you serve us and make your remit-tance serve as a Christmas pre sen. And believe us we need quite a number of such piesen ' s Progressive Opinion Keith Bldg Caroline Hess, good and faith-ful wife of Friend J. A. Hess, departed this life on Wednes day of last week after long and severe suffering. Beautiful and very impressive funeraj ser-vices were held in the Rose Room of the Deseret Mortuary Saturday afternoon, with some exceptionally fine music and singing Inspirational t ks were made by Elder Thou as W Mckay and Bp. M. 0. Ash-to- There was a deep spirit-ual note in the program from beginning to end. There was a wealth of floral offerings, ana undoubtedly their perfume was wafted upward with her lovely fpirit as it went on its way to rest, "by what eiherial fountains, by what eternal streams." Neighbor N. P. Sorenson, an honest and competent, shoe-maker of 372 Coatsvillc Ave, brought in a fine pair of shoe-a- s a Christmas present. So we wont have to go to war bare-footed. He s one of ihi'ee slu,e- - makers on our list and if evei there were honest, men in Salt Lake tney are h They p.13 all their debts cheerfully ami' aM always ready to help a com rade or a friend v ho is 111 need. Vesta Crawford, (inarming and talented wile of 'Dr. A. L. Cawford. of the Uuiversit', was in and remembered us will. some Christmas money. She is a poetess who has made a name and a fame for herself as a writer, ranking among Utah,s best. In a way sh reminds of one whose name casts a halo over Greek culture Sappho, the sweet s ngerfrom the lovely Island of Lesbos. She has been a good friend to our daughter, Christie Lnnd Coles and was al-ways there in sickness with flow ers and good cheer. Judge Nephi Jensen, a Sage of the legal profession, and the tall man very often ahead of the crowd, comes in occasional-ly, and this time he helped to fill lie pot for Christmas Its a compliment to the paper to have such men on the list. Mayor Jenkins phoned us the other day to put him on the list, and he is on. We did not recognize his voice and hereby apologize. We are proud and glad to have him as a mayor who has and is making good. More power to him. Carbon on Plane Props Helps Conquer Vibration DAYTON, OHIO. Tiny carbon strips are helping the army air corps at Wright Field to eliminate propeller vibration and increase the efficiency of its sleek new fighting ships. Attached to propeller blades, the strips,'1 ranging about seven-eighth- s of an inch in length, are connected through a fine wire to a device with-in the plane which records the pro-peller variation at different speeds. The slight vibration of a normal propeller is recorded in a shallow, wavy line. , Abnormal vibration, however, results in a jagged series of peaks which increase in size as the variation increases. The story is told of serious pro-peller vibration developing in an engine-propell- combination which had been tested, approved, and put into standard service. From the Dattern of vibration lines obtained in a flight test, en-gineers determined that the trouble originated in the motor. The engine was torn down, and it was found that the original gears had been re-placed. The new gears, white satis-factory in tests, varied from the original to such an extent that de-structive propeller vibration result-ed. When proper gears were in-stalled, the trouble ceased. Told By Woman Twelve Hundred Years Ago Editor FrGgres-iv- ;' Opinion : - .. ; St CKiilia the blind daughter of a Frankish lord who be-came a nun and founded a convent About 700 A D. she wrote a letter to her brother, predicting aerial warfare and a period of terror. She u rote: "It ill be the time when Germania will he called the most bellingered nation on earth. There will spring from its womb the t. rrible warrior, who will undertake waron the world The conqu- rer will come from the banks of the Danube. . . He will win victories on land and 3ea, and even in the air. His winged uarrioiswill be ajrn iu unbdievRble attacks to ri-- e up to the firmament and to peize the stars and throw hem down on towns and light, gigantic fires. " f he conquero- - will have attained the apex of his triumphs :n tl e middle of the sixih month of the second year of hostil-ities. In the flush of victory he will say, "Accept the yoke of m deniination." But his enemie will not submit and the war n. ill continue. "The second part of the war will equal in jensth the first half. ... the third period will be of shortest duration and the victor will have lost the confidence of ,i s wmriors This will be called the period of invasion because he country of the conqueror will be invaded in all parts and laid waste in retribution for his injustices and his ungodliner., St. Oilili.-- c'o-- e hrr prophecy on an optimistic note, de-claring. "Men will have seen such terrible abominations in his war, 1 heir f! n rations will never wantmore of it" C V. ITfl risen Paint Now Grades Fire Hydrant for Pressure FALL RIVER, MASS. The useful but usually dingy fire hydrant is a thing of beauty in Fall River now. The prettiness of the "plugs," how-ever, is just another aid to firemen. Formerly the hydrants, were chrome yellow with black tops. Now they are painted aluminum, with green, orange, red or black spigots. John W. Moran, superintendent of the waterworks, suggested painting the hydrants so firemen would know how much water pressure they could expect. Green, he says, tells the fire de-partment to "shoot the works, there's plenty of water." It indi-cates that the hydrant is attached to 16, 20, 24 or 36 inch mains. Orange means only 10 or 12 inch .mains are beneath the street and red calls for caution, as water is supplied by only six or eight inch mains. Black indicates a dead end in the pipe, where the water supply is lowest. . On reaching a threatening fire, according to Moran, firemen can de-termine whether it would be more advisable to pump from the hydrant nearest the blaze or go to the one around the corner. Blurred Grave Marker Reveals Date of 1714 PORTSMOUTH, N. H. Five grave markers on Seavey island, site of the naval prison, long have caused speculation as to the identity of the persons buried there. Re-cently, after much scrapping, chip-ping and cleaning, the identity of one of the graves was established. The legend of the marker reads: "Here Lyes Ye Body of Elizabeth Eastwicke, Wife to Stephen East-wick- e, Aged 31 Years, 2 Months and 20 ds. Died April Ye 16th 1714." Further investigation revealed that the island's original owners were Thomas and Temperance Fer-nal- d and thatthe gravestones were on the Fernald's burial plot. Even Experts Can't Tell Why Rubber Bounces AKRON, OHIO. The B. F. Good-rich company, one of the largest manufacturers of rubber goods, which maintains a laboratory that pries incessantly into the qualities of rubber, confessed that there is one thing about rubber it doesn't know. Goodrich doesn't know what makes it bounce. The question was put to the com-pany by a man who had made a bet. As a matter of pride, the company tried to find out, interviewing its chemists, physicists and experts, but none could answer. ' Attorney Defends Self; Tripped by Own Question PASADENA. When Attorney Clark Edwin Davis was arrested for speeding, heremembered above all he was an attorney. Defending himself in police court he asked the arresting officer if he could produce a certificate of accu-racy for the speedometer of the officer's motorcycle. He could not. Police Judge Kenneth N. Newell, conducting the offense, asked Davis for a certificate of accuracy for his speedometer. Davis paid a $5 fine. The Dragon We Are At War" With The serpents, the ingrates, the venomous vultures the dark ogres of hate and cruelty, struck at their friend, their benefactor. And while they struck they smiled a sickly, sadistic, slimy smile, which touched another hideous smile in Europe, and together they set about to poison all the good life and liberty of the known world. May the God of justice and freedom damn them to inglorious de-feat and' the everlasting execrat on of all honorable and truth-lovin- g people. The United States has been peaceful and helpful to-ward Japan for 88 years. We mothered her, nurtured her and sustained her while she was in her swadling clothes and befriended her until she started her mad and diabolical crusade against China. And now she pours out her seven vials of satanic wrath upon us. We are a peace-lovin- g people and have never studied the black arts of hate and vengeance and tortures and murder andjdierefore we may be made to suffer much at the hands of adepts in these shameful arts. But give us the sense to be true to ourselves and our country and we shall put on the full armor of our strength and beat them down into the vile dust from whence they sprung and leave them in the stench dof their own decay, "unwept, unhonored and unsung." Accidents in Home Kill 33,000 Persons in Year CHICAGO. There's no place like home for accidents. The National Safety council re-ported in its latest volume on U. S. accident statistics that in 1940: 33,000 persons were killed in home accidents. Statisticians figured poor judg-ment as the personal factor most frequently involved in home acci-dents and disorders, or poor house-keeping, the mechanical factor. Ask Italy's Cafegoers To Drink Standing Up ROME. Italian cafegoers may have to drink their synthetic cof-fee standing up. Mussolini's news-paper, Popolo d'ltalia, began a campaign to requisition cafe chairs and tables for conversion into armaments, claiming that their metal parts are more valu-able on the battlefield than sup- - I porting cafe frequenters. The ' Shepherd" traced to the Sa-io- Title of Good ancients. Recent Biblical' research reveals that centuries before Jesus was born the term wis given to kindly lenders whose followers were likene 1 to well tended flock. R''al how this ideal conception of a Pastor eventually materialized in Christ's ministry Dont miss the first in.,tallment in the America n Weekly, the magazine distributed Sunday with Los Angles Examiner. |