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Show Selected Thoughts. In Ottawa, Illinois the Libby-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is engaged in mass production of homes and by their methods they can produce the fabricated material for a complete home in eighty minutes. Such a home consists of living room, kitchen, kitch-en, dinette and bedroom They can produce thousands, even hundreds of thousands of homes in short order and if old man profit was not standing in the way everybody that needed one might have it. We judge that the total cost should not exceed one thousand dollars Was Jesus wrong? Did he know what He was talking ab" out when He spoke to His apostles and saints as follows: "Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you, and say all manner of evil against you, falsely, for My name's sake ..But woe untoyou when all men shall speak well of you" A great man in India, says: "More than 300 years ago four different sachus and gurus predicted this war exactly and gave the date 1939. They said it would end in the 2000th year of one of the Hindu calenders, which will be in April, 1943 i There is a scarcity of homes in this city, state and nation. And such beiug the case a way should be found to build homes for all who need them. And it can be done easily, not alto, gether in the usual way of building a home where the tofa cost for ground, material and work comes to about $2,000 and the selling price put at $4,500. "A" men are created equal. The people are the guardi- ! ans of their liberties. Relations between master and slave s ; despotism. The people are to be free. Educate the people. Give them land; give them the ballot and as much individual freedom as possible. Prevent the accumulation of wealth in select families." The one enemy which he always fought was privilige. He was against special privilege by government, by wealth and by aristocracy, and he practically fought it to death in his time. In early days, as in all other periods of crisis Destiny raised up a man to stand like the Rock of Gibralter against this idea. That man, the first leader in the world to trust the people, was Thomas Jefferson. He, backed by Washinhton's sword, literally saved the American experiment and the cause of democracy de-mocracy throughout the world. He came with a program that led the reactionaries to call him a wild man. V. e believe in the people. If they remain undeceived by the privileged class, the reactionaries and the self-seekers, and if they are properly informed and fundamentally honest, they will give the best government for states, nations and churehes In the infant years of America this was a strange doctrine, more or less abhorrent to some. There was confusion confus-ion and fear and many leaders demanded a form of 'government 'govern-ment that would place all power in the hands of a small wealthy educated privileed set of men, believing that they alone were fit to lead and govern. The Sau Juan County Record publishes a prediction by one Dr. Lillian Daniels who says the war will end in August, 1943, with an Armistice, that a revolution between capital and labor will rage in America at that time, and also throughout the world; that the Catholic church will come into command, but will be overthrown by a new world Dictator; that a planetoid plan-etoid will strike the earth during the battle of Armegeddon; that many of our boys will be killed in Palestine; that Jesus will be seen by those who are ready in 1946. I ; HAS AMERICA LEARNED HER LESSON? When one reads and hears the attacks being made on the ideas and policiesof our president and vice president, also those of Mr. Hull, one wonders whether America will not. again 'Win the war and lose the peace." Have the American people, learned their lesson, or will our boys be called again to fight after another 20 or 25 years? Let us look at "The hand writing on the wall." The republican repub-lican party has always been an isolationist party. There is no doubt that the isolationists Thomas E Dewey, with Senator Taft as a second, are being considered and groomed for the presidency of the United States. Unless they learu better we shall have anheher war like this one and worse. Boyd Dennet i There is no standing still. Either America moves forward or it moves backward. It is our desire to help move' it for-; for-; ward and to push it as far as possible against the darkness o j ignorance, intolerance, poverty and sinister reaction. But j there r forces that desire to push it backward into the ; golden 20's when they reveled in wealth and pleasure much like the Babylonians. The financial and industrial powers believe that they know it all and that they can best rule the people. The truth is that they have "a standing inability to look anyway but backward." They think of nothing but profits and new ways to exploit the people. They have their great newspapers like Heart's and Mc Cormick's and Patterson's Patter-son's to support them. Columnists like the man Pegler, and j a defamer of the government like Sokolsky are used to basely deceive and betray the people and my, how they are suc-; suc-; ceeding, while people are too spineless to protest, j I . ' ! : ; True and real Christianity should never be busy render- ! ing unto Ceaser the things that are God's. It must proclaim olways that God is above the state, above governments. It should ever assert that no people are destined to rule over les. ser people without their consent. It should stand against race discrimatfon by proclaiming that God is the father of all and has made of one blood all people, with varying gift a to be developed in freedom and pooled and used for he good of all. It must maintain that each person is of priceless value and that do power has aright to make him a slave. It should extend its influence in politics to show that man finds freedomf only under laws, but that they must be just laws, freely made by commen consent. True Christianity has the only truth that will make me, I free, but it is the kind of truth that men prefer not to hear ! much less to practise Calamity is visited upon humanity be- : cause it has set aside its spiriJnal heritage.. : i |