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Show Some Things Worth Thinking' About If You Know, You Live, If Not You Die Read and Ponder You can't possibly build a foundation for peace out of malignant hearts and malevolent tongues. Had Christ t ied to do it that way His mission would have failed utterly. We are reliably informed, from what is said to be the record, that the increase in manufactured articles in Utah for 1931 amounted to $157,000,000, and that out of this employed employ-ed labor received a little over $20,000,000 On wh at the labor ers received there was paid to th e state as sales tax $208,940, whereas if sales tax had been paid on theincrea e in manufacturing manufact-uring the state would have received $21,524,400, about ten times as much money. It is also said in the record that in the last ten years 34,700 people have left Utah to secure employment em-ployment or business elsewhere, after it had cost the state something like $3,000,000,000, it is said to educate them. Isn't it time to do some thinking about our beloved Utah? There is one thing we are very greatly interested in and that's slum clearence and the building of homes for the people in the lower income groups. Some facts about this matterare as follows: A survey looking toward slum clearance was made ''n this city and state at a cost of $58,000 of which the state paid ot.ly $3,000 and the government $55,000. What is there to show f or this money? Some shameful and intolerable con-dit con-dit ons were found but little or nothing has been done. The government stands ready to build any number of low priced homes at low rentals or low monthly payment on the purcha-' se, but it takes a state law to do it and this the legislatures have failed to do. A bill was passed during the previous administration ad-ministration but was vetoed by Gov. Blood. Let the state do what is necessary and let the poor get the bnefitof homes they can afford to purchase or rent. A similar lass of men as tried to hamstring Lincoln at every step are today feeding fat their grudges against democracy's leader and hating him because of personal bias and prejudice. "They charged Lincoln with prostituting men and money instead in-stead of perpetuating the integrity of the country. They charged him with incendiary declar tions that plunged the country into war. They cried out that he was violating the constitution and that he stood with those who held the constitution con-stitution as a covenant w'th death and a compact with hell They charged that he protracted the war in order to fill more j graves And worst of all they charged him with trying to destroy the Union that God raised him up to save. They j called him ape and monkey and traitor. There is no better way of judging a leader than by the implacable hate and malignity mal-ignity of his enemies, and Roosevelt's enemies are worse than those of Lincoln. As in Lincoln's time they are doing the ; things that led and may lead again to assasination and then i like Lincoln, the man raised up for the leadership of these times, will go on to immortality while they go on to oblivion to be remembered as obstructionists and defamers AS IT WAS WITH MORMONS IN MISSOURI-ILLINOIS j So it will be again in America when the above forces get into action. Race hatred will again tread the Constitution in the mire.(We saw two of their papers this week and found 'em full of vipers and serpents which, adder like are ready to sting democracy's administration to death ) Families were driven from their homes and farms and buisness. Buildings were burned. Men, women and children were massacred. Among the noble martyrs was David W. Patten, who shouted in the midst of it: "I would rather die than live under the rule of mobocracy." And then he passed on into martyrdom. 1 here are light in this city, and in every eity, scores who are on the inside, who say that at any moment such a condition will ! break out against a proscribed race in this city and country. Right in the shadow of F.B.I, offices men are planning, and rejoicing at the prospect of pogroms worse, if possible, than - ' 1 those in Germany. You don't believe it? Well, we know, as surely as we know the sun shines! But for our effort to warn the nation and help to head off or mitigate it, men will not give a dollar. What light we dispense has to come from the the corners of want and neglect, while millions are spent which only add to and incrase the danger. But we know this too: Men will lose their millions all of them in the com ing catastrophe. Better spend a little of it no w in this cause. Worse than death are the tortures of the dope victim deprived de-prived of his drug Read the revealing second installment o of "My Battle Against Our Deadly Dope Racket" by Arthur' La Roe, M D , President of the American Narcotic Defense Association, Inc , in The American Weekly, the magazine, distriduted with next week's LOS ANGELES EXAMINER. |