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Show ' '.'. jours for a HTjn ntf fifftlW Fit ffllHVft ml rfWItf I Yours lor C. N. Lund, Editor V" i t A Liberal American Weekly. Entered g Second Class Malter at the Post Oflice at Salt lake City. Utah. Undeithe Act ol Congress ol March 3, 1879. iDevoted to the idea that Economic Salvation must come through Spiritual Development and Uplift. yolVII.No. 50 CityAddressnDavidKeithBldg. Sugarhouse, Salt Lake City, Utah, Friday, Dec. 31, 1943 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year PERSONAL AND OTHER ITEMS Is Cited for Bravery Honor and some distinction has come to Sut. Kenneth V. i Lund, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Lund, because of bravery in the face of extreme danger and saving life and equipment An army citation to this effect was received by the parents. A landing craft carrying crew and passengers became stricken and was taking a dive into the sea during maneuvers off a training base in Florida Nov 24 and 25. He was serving as boatswain at the time. He immediately assumed command amid the the near panic and ably directed the work of rescuing those on board, after which he returned to the sinking vessel to rescue the equipment. And he had the presence of mind to arrange a buoy that would remain afloat on the spot where the craft went down The citation was signed by the commanding Co lonel who said that Sgt Lund's work was worthy of high com-mendation. Friend J. 0 Waters ol remembers us. He has long been a good faithful sub-scriber. A mighty good man. He says: "I wish you a Happy New Year and good health that, you may do a lot of good and make the world and the goveen ment some better. Don't praise the President too much. He h s done some good and some bad things. Your friend J O. Waters Neighb r Frank C. Johnson has three grandsons in the war service. The youngest was homefora v sit. David Lattimer, son o Mr. and Mrs. Archie Luttirner Sr., came home on a flying rip for Christmas and spent three days here. He is a full fledged flier. EDITORIALS WORTH READING All Men Were Created to Cooperate ROCHDALE SYSTEM 100 YEARS OLD "We are made for cooperation, like feet, like hands, like eyelids, like up-per and lower teeth. To act against one another is contrary to nature." In 1944 it will be 100 years since a few and greatly un-der paid weavers started the first Rochdale Cooperative at Toad Lane, England. From this small beginning it has grown into a world-wid- e busi. ness and but for war would soon have conquered the earth. It has seventy million members in 40 countries In the U, S. today it is doing an annual business of $750,000,000. All business should be conducted according to this plan, even banking and insurance. What enormous profits might -- come to the people and benefit all instead of piling up fabulous fortunes for a few, who seek to keep the people from cooperating, and who rob with greater money power the people who support them. Every depositor in a bank, everyone who pays money to an insurance company should have his proportionate share of the profits. Man is civilized to the extent that he cooperates. How greatly life might be changed for the better by this sane and sensible plan of cooperation. Get together people and use it. READERS' COMMUNICATIONS (Send in your communications, within 275 words, and be sure to enclose a dollar for typesetting.) (Writers take full responsibility for what they say.) Editor Progressive Opinion: EARL SAYS PUBLIC SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR FOOLS Said Mark Twain: "We should be thankful for the fools, hut for them the rest of us could not succeed," which would seem to justify the conclusion that "the fools" are the primal requisite to the success of "the rest of us" and places the two factors in a position so nearly related to make it difficult to distinguish one from the other. If you have any doubt about this just try making a con-densed summary of the entire officialdom, including the Con-gress and the public in general; divide by two, then tack the proper label to "the fools" and likewise to "the rest of us." If the analysis proves the New Dealers to be "the rest of us" then the rest of us must needs be the damphools, else smething has gone haywire with the old political band wagon and the old Ship of State is floundering in the quagmire of dissolution somewhere on the coast-lin- e of nowhere. And this rule will work like magic if applied to modern leaders and politicians; to the dispensers of the creeds and insurance men; to takers of usury and the emissaries of darkness. I would call this "a house divided against itself" at least until old Lucifer puts a few more finishing touches to it, then it will be a solid unit, i And still there are millions of good, honest people in the world; God-lovin- g people; people who do not aspire to the honor of men, to the riches of the world nor to hold dominion over the earth. These are they who are soon to be gathered, from the four corners of the earth, from the isle of the seas, and this will happen just prior to the ushering in of that golden age, when "war drums throb no longer and battle-flag- s are furled, in the parliament of man, the federation of the world." Sylvester Earl. Editor Progressive Opinion: THINKS PEGLER WOULD DESTROY RELIGION The organ of the L. D. S. Church (Deseret News) is voic-ing the sentiments, and encouraging a monster (Westbrook Pegler) who would if he had his way, destroy every principle of the Church. Whenever any organization cares nothing for its patrons and officiates for its individual greedy desires and sentiments, the monsters they are encouraging will soon destroy all they hold dear. I know it's almost impossible for a Latter-da- y Saint to voice his true sentiments through the columns of the Deseret News. I know that such monsters as Westbrook Pegler is not voicing the sentiments of the' true Latter-da- y Saints. R. M. Brandon THEY SHOULD BE ON THE FIRING LINE What a pity the constitution doesn't provide that congress in a body should be on the firing line of the war, where their verbal batteries and their word-wove- n time bombs might frighten the enemv. Most of them are 9th century fossils, with no comprehension of the meaning of the present hour, and no vision of the future dumb before the moving force of destiny. - - PERSONAL Friend Harry Fetters came in and inrroduced himself ,and wished us a Merry Christmas with a card and a present. He is 12 years old and makes good selling papers He is the grand son of Mrs. Wilford Lund. An awful mistake was made last week in the artiicle from a reader in Murray. Where he meant to say Pegler was No. one enemy of mankind, we had it that he was no enemy of mankind. Sorry. It was caught in the proof but was not cor-rected. In our writeup about cheer-ful givers we overlooked the Friend and Neighbor who is giving all the time, Brother George E. Manvaring. He sur-ely has been a prince of a friend to us and the paper. Good Friend LeRoy W Irish presented us with a book, and something more. The Book is one of the best we know of, "Abraham Lincoln, Man of Gcd' while we had read it we now own it. and wi 1 read it again una again It should be the spiritual basis of every young man's education. We shall at times transmit it to our readers Brother and Mrs. Irish, we thank you. Neighbor T. J. Rosser reports that one of his sons is deep in the invasion effort in Italy and that his other son isiQ the che-mical service somewhere in England.' They" cannot tell all they would like.One more to go Our upstanding Friend fro Wall street, not New York but Utah, never fails us. He was in and proved that he had the Ciiristmas spirit. He al-ways has a good spirit. Parratt's Kin Dies Friend A.W. ParratUs daugh ter, Mildred Emerson died Tu-esday of heart trouble. Friend B. Heinrich wri'es from Salem, Utah count', that he is glad that he has been able to do some farm and dairy work to help the country. He will wait now till some one calls him. He can do landscaping, beaut ficaton work as well as general farm work. He wants to be a friend to man Friend 0. F. Gudmondsen come in the day before Christ-mas, feeling tiptop. The Christ-inas weather reminds him of many of the winters he spent in old Sanpete, and believe us t' ey used to have some winters there, when the snow was as deep as the fences were high. Friend Butler N'plsen was in end as always, did his full duty. He is a thinker and puts forth some very good ideas. He" is for and with the people and his heart is always right. Miss Belh Jensen, charming daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alon-z- o Jensen of Axtell, was united in marriage lo Mr. Verge Earl Kennedy cn Friday, Dec. 23, at the Jensen home. A recep-tion was tendered the couple on the evening of Dec. 27 Mrs Aileen Barnes of this city was in attendance. Congratulations Neighbor Harvey Marchant of Union, has a son in the serv-ice Corporal T. Marchant. He iias just been transferred from North Camp Hood, Texas, to Camp Blanding, Florida. Nephew Albert Petersen who has been in government work at Whitehorse near Alaska, is now stationed in Chicago. Friends Mr. and Mrs. David Athay were both quite sick during Christmas week GOOD OLD U.S.A. NEEDS STRONGER BONDS TO HOLD TOGETHER The country is bound and held together by money and cement and steel. These elements seem strong enough for most anything, but they are not strong enough to keep the nation united, nor to save it from the sad fate that comes from dis-union and disloyalty. It takes something stronger than any of these, or all of them together, to guarantee the perpetuity of the American Union. The strong qualities that bind a peo-ple in unbreakable bonds are the spiritual and moral forces. Possessed of these in sufficient and developed proportions a nation can stand against all the adverse winds and waves that may beat upon it, but without them it will but be the same inglorious decay that has undermined strong nations from the beginning of time. The signs of the times indicate that decline may be sure and swift. Beware, you quarreling, greedy groups, lest you pull down the house that has given you life, liberty, prosperity and happiness. Readers, help circulate the paper, send it to Progressive-minde- d people. Subscribe for your friends. Do what you can. The Progressive Cause needs you. What It Means Absolute Security and Permanent Security for Old Age I and Prosperity for the Country. I Better come to the meetings every Friday night at B Elks Hall, 109 West 4th South, 7:30 P.M.', and learn ' ibout this wonderful plan. A bill to make it law is now in Congress and if the people show they really want it I the lawmakers will put it over. p THE TOWNSEND PLAN IS THE HOPE FOR g ' POST. WAR PROSPERITY. I Wesley Jacques, Pres. Hazel Black, Sec'y-- I "If a country can cure unemployment when the gov-- j eminent orders guns and carriages for war, it can andH should do the same thing with baby carriagesndejjj Alfred Sorenson Progressive Jeweler 75 East Second South Jewelry, Watch. Kodak Repairing Over 40 Years In SALT LAKiS CITY, CHRISTIAN WORKERS' SUPPIES Books New-- & Used, Plaques and Scripture Statements, Gifts and Rewards Let Us Wrap Your Gifts 36 West, 2nd South I Basement, Atlas BIdg I LIBERTY HAS ITS BEGINNING WAY BACK IN MORNING OF TIME This poor checkered world was very young when, in spite of a base autocracy and a terrible despotism, there began to grow the fine flowers of human freedom, the rights of man, the duty of brotherhood and neighborliness. The seed was sown in ancient Egypt and Babylon. But alas, it fell on stony ground and soon died out. Later there were some tribes in. the wilderness of southern Palestine among whom it took root and grew under the leadership of Abraham and Jacob. Here freedom flourished for a time. They had all things in ccfmmon, equal rights and responsibilities; the chief was the servant. When liberty was threatened or endangered each man arose to put down the despots. The rights of man and the duties of man to man were expressed in definite laws and all the later forms of democracy have been largely an unfolding of what was then and there set forth. As it was with man then so should it be with nations. When despotic and war-makin- g powers arise every nation should join in a movement to put them down. That is the way to peace. Tooele Offers Weal Living for Workers ' i r v - ': J , J fm : ;-:- "Vs, IpsliiiRii ' " ' ' '"!'!r j fc1 'kM .'"'y-yyyyy- SfC'W'' - f ) I ,. . w-- - mmmtnmx smeUer workers at Tooele, Utah. Below unit buiit for min and Top: .nterior view of housing ; is a view of new office and recreation center. A feature of the project is a new Bdgomount and was known as finished by he erected with funds Federal Public Housing Authority. are designed to accom-modate workers and their families ranging rom -- 5 to at ,ow rentals fclecti ililj , s $29 ner month, bese furnace. living set aside and for wk0e,asreinst,eavaila-industry- , to son ble, according thg recreation center which has just been completed. It is provided with rooms for all types of recrea-tion for workers and their families. Children's rooms and day nurseries for younesters of age will be provided. Outdoor playgrounds have also be added. Tooele valley offers its residents room for expansion and opportunity ror hose who desire to delve mto agriculture on a small or even a scale. Driving of the Elton available water for tunnel made hunlrcds of acres of fert.le but previously semi-ari- lands of the valley. Tooele, Utah, which has had the largest population increase of any small community in the state is rapidly absorbing the newcomers aoi reaching out for additional Workers and their families. Workers are needed at the smelt-- " and at mines, which have outlets are in the valley, and there is plen-- of housing for them and their Iarnilies. The housing problem was solved with completion of the new ".OOO.OOO federal public housing Wogram for the mining industry of "e valley, which is so vital to the war. , The new housing project is PROFITEERS VERY MUCH IN EVIDENCE. WARNING AGAINST THEM FROM THE OLD BOOK The profiteers of the country are making from 34 to 989 per cent net profit from various phases of the war. This was given out by Leon Henderson. One liquor manufacturer boasted that for him one hundred dollar bills were now as plentiful as 50-ce- nt pieces were before the war. What does he care for the boys freezing, fighting and dying over seas? Noth-ing. Big business is making four times as much profit as it did before the war. Why should the cream of the country the boys, be suffering on all the battle fronts for $50 a month while greed is reaping such a harvest? In a day and time when the poor were so reduced and downtrodden that they believed that both heaven and earth were against them, there was a shepherd, Amos, the prophet, who spoke out against social injustice as should be done today. He spoke against so-cial wickedness, denounced the rich' and ruling classes, the grafters and greedy exploiters. He said the first duty of rulers was to protect the poor. Riches gained by exploiting the poor were a disgrace and menace. He preached democracy, brother-hood and the religion of kindness. He showed positively that the Lord was on the side of the downtrodden and the poor, and that any religion that does not concern itself with the wel-fare of one's fellows is no religion at all. Silver Becomes Somsbody's Darling Again Silver a precious metal, which as been kicked about for decades, seems destined to come back into the sunlight once again. Virtually since the beginning ol recorded history it has been used for jewelry and coinage. In India and China it lias been especiallj useful as coinage because of thfl inadequate banking facilities in thi interior of those countries. For a century in this country II has been a football for politicians and headache for the ex-perts and economists that tried tfl explain it out of the monetary pio ture. First silver's reputation was re-born, by war demands. Forty-seve-thousand tons of the white metal have been made available to indus-try for use in manufacture of im-plements of war and as a substitut for scarcer metals. Second, as our associations be-come closer and closer with India and China, many who condemned silver before are now beginning tfl say a good word for it. And with many other nations depleted ol their gold, bimetallism is rapidlj rising in favor as a post-wa- r com-panion of gold. Adoption of bimetallism for the postwar period under an Inter-national agreement is advocated by Francis H. Brownell, chairman of the American Smelting & Refin-ing company, in a statement issued during the last week. The need foi monetary stabilization is clear, and international collaboration is re-quired to achieve it, Mr. Brownell. holds. Currency inflation is going on al-most everywhere, Mr. Brownell points out, and the peoples of the world will be eager to return as soon as possible to stable cur-rencies and hard-mone- standards. The greatly expanded volume of in-ternational trade that is expected In the postwar period, and the faci that most of the gold of the world is held by the United States, will make it difficult or impossible to stabilize on the gold standard alone, even if steps are taken to economize in the use of the metal through in-ternational clearing plans, he con-tends. ' ALL TOO LONG humanity has been bewildered and deceived, wandering almost chartless in the lowlands, the deserts and the swamps, un-able to come within sight of the castles of their dreams. The grand life, the transforming power, the means of re-demption, have remained on the far and dim horizons. But NOW is the appointed time to bring them down to have and to use. It can be done! Let us rouse ourselves and do our utmost to usher in a time when all the world's child-hood may sing and laugh and play in perfect freedom; when youth may love and dream unmolested, and age may be happy and secure; when war implements will be abandoned and fit only to be used as homes for nesting birds and sights for curious men. Utah Mining Industry Plans for Postwar Era No modern industry can survive rapidly changing conditions of th .present day by adhering strictly tc general rules of the past. No in-dustry realizes this better than metal mining of Utah. Extensive staffs of research en-gineers are at work first on prob-lems of winning the war and sec-ond upon the welfare of the indus-try and its workers in the postwai era. As metal mining normally em- 'ploys directly and indirectly ap-proximately one-ha- the population of the state, it can readily be seen that much of the well-bein- of the state in the postwar era depends 'upon the metal industry. Despite the progress made in the field of lighter metals, which in many instances will affect the metals, the metal mining industry is looking forward to the future with optimism. Copper, lead and zinc as well as the precious metals, gold and silver, will be greatly in demand in the postwai reconstruction period. At the present rate of production, however, there will undoubtedly be considerable copper, lead and zinc above ground and in fabricated form when hostilities cease. Even-- ; tually this metal will find its way into constructive effort, but in order to avert a complete un-balancing of the metal mining in-dustry when the fighting is over, and before the reconstruction era actually takes hold, it has been sug-gested that the government stock-pile metals against a shortage in the future. This plan is meeting wkh favor in industrial, labor and govern-mental circles, as it would permit development in an industry which has badly depleted its reserves in an effort to supply the war demand. In addition it would be good insur-ance for a nation, against the pos-sibility of not finding ore bodies for the future. HAPPY NEW YEAR C. V. Hansen Hapyy New Year to You! So are we creeled by friend". It is hoped tliese grcclinns will come true, that, '44 sha'I linve a brighter outlook, more pleasant scenes and that war may coase and peace he proclaimed, Happy Now Year! Let us say it and mean it, not in words only, but nacl! one put it into action. Abolish selfisncss, help to promote brotherly love and kind-ness, and more of equal dis'n'bul.ion of the good thing that are in the world, spread of the spirit and sentiment "Peace on earth and ijood will toward men." At (he beginning of the New Year, 1944, is a good rime to "leave the d past" to drop the yesterdays, to forget bitter memories. |