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Show fU v ; (.' ' ' : :' . . tfiArifan W'y DJ Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Lund, Publishers C- - TTZ 77 """ "' "" Fo" "'Ce Lk Ci'T- - "'" """" Ac. oi Cong,.s. of March 3. 1879 Devoted to the idea that Economic ajrpnn 7 " No. 49. City Address. 217 David Keith Rid. Brough Spiritual Development A New System of ThoUght. A New Feeling Must Take Hold of People. - augarhouse, SalLake City, Utah, Friday December 22, 1944 Subscription, $1.50 to $5.00 a year Contributions Welcome. j SOME PERSONAL ITEMS j A poor worn and weary and besrimed soldier getting out from under some of the terror of Guadalcanal, saw Admiral fafsey coming off his ship to help relieve the beaten forces, and he remarked to a comp-anion: "It was like seeing God " We here at home little know the fierceness and terror of the fighting and the sufferi-ng in places where defeat has been the case. We need to suff-er some to appreciate, and bel-ieve us, we will. There are few better women in Salt Lake than Mrs. Annie E. Lund, widow of the late N. L. Lund. She has borne a great deal but is fighting her battle bravely. May she live long in comfort and happiness. The Townsend People at this week's meeting gave a Christ-mas dance with free refreshm-ents. The Utah Old Age Pens-ion group gave a fine Christ-mas dinner for all members. The Senior Citizens League re-membered their members with the right kind of Christmas cheer. Our grandson, Clair Duane Olsen, serving at 1c H. A. in the Pacific, came home last week for a two-wee- k furlough and is spending Christmas with the family. --He is feeling- - well and fit, but like the others who come home he is not very glai to' return. Neighbor Jacob Jensen is th kind of a Friend who come in and gives substance to thi wish for a Merry Christmas We appreciate his good wil and his kindness. His good wifi suffers with a nervous ailmen but his own health is perfect Senator L. Elggren was verj fittingly remembered by hi; company on his retirement anc presented with a fine gold watch. He retires to give serv-ice to his state and we know that he will do his utmost in the state senate to further all the interests of the people. His record speaks for him and we shall give him all the help and encouragement we can. Friends Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Waterfall send very much ap-preciated remembrances. They are good people who have the welfare of the aged at heart and do their utmost towards that end. Mr. Waterfall has written a lengthy article head-ed, "Claims Counsel Is In Con-flict With the Record," in which he takes a fine stand for the poor and needy, quoting freely from church records. He quotes a verse from a hymn: "Freedom and reason make us men, Take these away, what are we then? Mere animals and just as well, The beasts may think of heaven and hell." Mrs. DeVere Tomson has gone to join her husband at a military camp in Texas where she will remain indefinitely. Mrs. Eleanor Kjar of Manti, brought her eight-year-o- ld son to Salt Lake last week and had him operated on for a too far advanced case of appendicitis. He is doing fairly well at the hospital. Friend H. C. Flesher informs us. that his wife is still at the hospital in American Fork where she gave birth to a child nearly two months ago. He says the child has cost him $100 for every pound it weigh-ed at birth. That's one more reason why we are for social-ized medicine and hospital. HOW IT WAS BEFORE PUBLIC WELFARE AND SOCIAL SECURITY CAME We have picked up an item from our scrap book, placed there in 1931, which shows the condition of the poor at that time. Compare it with what is being done today and see how the spirit of Christ has entered into our social relations. It is the story of a poor widow who, unable longer to make the unequal struggle against soul and body-killin- g poverty, grew so desperate that she sent the soul of herself and children unbidden into the presence of her Maker, where they will be star witnesses against the cruelty of our economic system. The story of how she fought for herself and her little brood in a rude, ramshackle home can never be understood by the well-to-d- o. Day in and day out, year after year, it was the same long, hard, bitter, losing fight. Never suffi-cient food. Never enough clothing and warmth. Never any cheer or comfort. Never any sunshine. Never any hope. Great stores of food all over town, but not for her and her little ones. Warm, sunny homes, filled with love and laughter, within a stone's throw, but onlv desDair for her. Poor, lost little woman! Fate's and society's abandoned and neglected sister! May the doom of heaven, if heaven has a doom, be mild and merciful for her! And may her sinning sacrifice touch our minds and our hearts until we vow to become crusading soldiers and fight off the earth forever the barbarous curse of poverty! What are our institutions worth if they cannot heal the social wounds and heartbreaks like unto this? J ABE LINCOLN'S EARLY DOUBTS AND WHAT HE SOUGHT IN RELIGION e Speaking of his troubles, the early ones, he said: "Those s 2ys of tr0UDle found me tossed amid a sea of questionings. a They piled big around me. Through it all I groped my way until I found a stronger and higher grasp of thought, one 1 ! Feacned beyond this life with a clearness and satisfaction had never known before. The scriptures unfolded before me with a deeper and more logical appeal, through these experiences, than anything else I could find to turn to, or ever before had found in them. I do not claim that all my doubts were removed then, or since that time have been r swept away. They are not. Probably it is to be my lot to go on in a twilight, feeling and reasoning my way through life, J as questioning, doubting Thomas did. But in my poor, maimed, withered way, I bear with me as I go on a seeking spirit of desire' for a faith that was with Him of the olden time. It was a spirit in the lif that He laid stress on and taught, if I read aright. I know 1 see it to be so with me. The fundamental truths reported in the four gospels as from the lips of Jesus Christ, and that I first heard from the lips of my mother, are settled and fixed moral precepts with me. If the church would ask simply for assent t( the Saviour's statement of the substance of the law, 'Thou; shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind, and thy neighbor as thyself,' that church would I gladly unite with." OUR PREDICTIONS GO TO THE WASTE BASKET For this issue, or the next, we wrote an article making our predictions for this country and the world during the near future. Then we read it and re-re- it and decided it was too bad and sad a picture to give to our readers. But we sum it all up in these few words: THE COMING THREE YEARS, 1945, 1946 and 1947, will be three of the worst years in history. Clip this out and refer to it now and then during that time. m AN INDICTMENT OF THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS We give here two rather severe indictments of the public schools. Judge Karl V. King remarks: "One of our fallacies lies in our fight that to maintain religious freedom we exclude all religious training from public schools. The very bulwark and foundation of moral rectitude is religious training regardlesss of secular beliefs." Another indictment comes from Rev. Robert J. Dyer: "For two reasons the American school system is failing to cope with the juvenile delinquency problem. First, because it does not offer to the youth of today an education which meets their actual needs, and second because it has no authority to equip the young with moral teachings based on religious principles." These are true indictments and should be remediedat the earliest possible moment B-2- 9 Bases Are j Wonder of '44 Likened to Great Wall of China, Egypt's Sphinx And Pyramids. A UNITED STATES AIRBASE IN WESTERN CHINA. When Ameri- - :an army engineers began construe- - tion of bases for 9 Superfortresses ' In western China last January, they were told they would have a vast supply of manpower but little or no ' modern equipment. They had to forget power shovels, julldozers, tractors, ditching ma- - :hines, steamrollers and other heavy machinery, They had only the la- - bor of 440,000 men; women and chil-- iren who carved the earth with j their hands and primitive tools. Yet, 90 days after the first rice paddy was broken down on one stretch of Chinese farmland, thou- - sands of laborers stood aside to al-- 0' superfortresses to land. Today, a complete network of iuperbases has been built in the Chinese plains, as a monument to this labor, likened to the effort be- - oind the raising of Egypt's pyra- - mids or China's own great wall. Monument to Labor. Just an idea of what conditions were like could be found at one base where five engineers supervised and Inspected the work of some 70,000 laborers and the only machine they lad was one overworked jeerj. : TALKING ABOUT MIRACLES - . - You don't believe in miracles? But just think of this: When this great nation, and many others, will pause and halt the every-da- y worldly activities, for a whole day of twenty-fou- r hours, to remember and pay tribute to a poor village carpenter who died what is called a criminal's death in a small, obscure village two thousand years ago! HOW MUCH GOOD ARE YOU DOING FOR OTHERS? People are doing a great deal for others especially their own, at this season of the year. But how much good do they do for others through the long work days and weeks and months of the. year? In the world today the question is of more importance than ever before. The world will keep right on asking this question and men and women will be judged by the way they answer this question. Nothing is lost by doing good for fellow humans, but a great deal is gained. Money is never wasted in an effort to help others, but it is invested in heart and spirit power. We get from life in proportion to what we give. In all our associations it is always what we give that determines what we shall receive If you cannot give material things, give smiles and love and good will and do your utmost to make life better and happier for everyone around you, and then you will make your own life sweet with, the fragrance of love and joy, of poetry, music and good will. GREETINGS FROM FRIEND SYLVESTER EARL It is not so much in the life we live As it is in the spirit of giving; It is not so much in the gifts we give As it is in the grace of giving. The sacred ties of friendship, From the fountains of the soul, Are the bright and crowning jewels Of life's most precious goal. What kind of gifts would Jesus give If He were here today? Would He give us material things : In pomp and show array? Or would He give us spiritual gifts Of life eternal and sublime? Gifts of the heart of Brotherhood Transcendent and divine? We believe in God. We believe in prayer. We believe in the brotherhood of man. Ve believe in the Golden Rule: Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. We believe in the right to life and liberty safeguard-ed by justice, charity, and forgiveness. MOSIAH HALL, Rubber Rafts Now j Have Searchlights WASHINGTON. Rubber rafts are now equipped with a midget searchlight capable of projecting a beam visible for 60 nautical miles. The new lamp, with the most powerful beam ever obtained from an in- - candescent unit that small, gets ' its current from a generator. j YOUR PROMISED LAND Your Promised Land! Who has not had one? Something to which we looked forward with yearning Some need, desire, some ambition we wished to satisfy. Many times some near. We made mistakes. Bad luck came to us. We werl turned back and wandered far and long Perhaps at last we reached our Promised Land; perhaps not How many men and women have struggled and hoped for years to become great musicians, to enter some profession, business of their own-o- nly to be denied their to acquire a heartHSodweSmany fathers and mothers have built high hopes for thei7children-o- nly to see them turn into byways which kent deserts of moral failures. T?Xasure only to be found in the lush lands of milk and fcney" Greater pleasure is often found along the hard fZAs most worth while, goals often these have their own rewards. Jonn vvaw. I Every year there is a big rush on ' Long Distance telephone lines. Many men and women in service will want to call home. If you help keep the lines clear by not making unessential long dis-tance calls over the Christmas week-- end it will help keep essential calls mov ing. Thanks for remembering. THE MOUNTAIN STATES TELEPHONE MM TELEGRAPH COMPANY Would-B- e Mashers Get A Response With Sting PHILADELPHIA, PA. One sol- - dier's wife, when hailed by roman-- ' tieally inclined motorists, passes out little printed cards which say: "Maybe the gas you waste in pur- - suit of lone women could have pre- - vented one of our planes from mak- - ing a forced landing behind enemy lines. My husband is serving in the armed forces. What are you doing, ' skunk?" 1 ownsend Clnb j This group meets every Tues- - day night at 7:30 in Room 206, j City and Co B!dr MYSELF I have to live with myself and so. I want to be fit for myself to know. I want to be able as days go by Always to look myself square in ihe eye: I don't want to stand at the setting sun. And hale myself for the things I've done. I don't want to keep on the closet shelf A lot of secrets about myself. And fool myself as I come and go Into believing nobody else will know. The kind of man I really am: I don t want to dress myself up in sham. I want to go with my head erect, I want to deserve every man's respect: And in this struggle for fame and pelf 1 want to be able to like myself; I couldn t look at myself and know I was bluff and bluster and empty show. I can never hide myself from me: I see what others may never see: I know what others may never know. I never can fool myself and so. Whatever happens I want to be Selj respecting and conscience free. EDGAR A. GUEST. Old Age Pensioners The original Organixulion nf Old Age Pensioners meet at. 2 p. in every Thursday nt. Odd Fellows' Hall, Pot Office Pliice BETTER LOVE THE TRUTH THAN MISREPRESENTATION Russian army entered Bulgaria they Wrierfecilaneyeranad XSJtSJ:Sof war TfloweTs They found smiling than trembling, but ag Liberators not con-- weeping peasants ney , d the spoken word queror The ofreoev thgy was, "The 1 bTcalled Serbia where the rela-mov-into what usea d Th th were met with tions were much more Americans under Wilson flowers, jus ; like x songs and resounded met by the t- - ren and Pershing were through all the Wjfsians, Bulgarians and Serbs Then, in a very enemy Th; d, S e oy were flghtang was s ted WJt1SCi6nCe " Henry J." Kaiser says he can run off houses with conveniences never the assembly line . homes easy of Seniour Citizens Meet The newly organized Seniour Citizen's Pension Lengiip, mets every Wednesday, 2 P M. at, the Moose Hall, 161 So 2nd E. Everybody invited. Good speak ing and entertainment |